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BARBARA MURLIN PENDLETON 40

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY/VOLUME 52 NUMBER 1

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1 BMP- For All You Were

5 Another Whisker
by Jo Allen Bradham, Associate Professor of Engl

9 The Fund Report 1972-73

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Class News

by Sheila Wilkins '69

Inside Back Cover Greetings from the President
by Marvin B. Perry, Jr.

Photo Credits

Front Cover, Pages 3, 6 Silhouette staff

Pages 1, 3, 12, Inside Back Cover Chuck Rogers

Pages 16, 17 Memye Curtis Tucker '56

Page 23 Ray Stafford

Page 24 Richard Gunthe

Back Cover French Government Tourist Office, Dittman Tours, Inc.

Editor / Carey Bowen Craig '62
Managing Editor / Editor
Design Consultant / John Stuart McKenzie
Member of American Alumni Council

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. Second class postage paid at
Decatur, Georgia 30030

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BARBARA

For All You Were to Us

We are deeply saddened by the

death of Barbara Murlin Pendleton,
who for three rich years was
Director of Alumnae Affairs.

Barbara once autographed, at my
request, one of her essays in the
Alumnae Quarterly. Next to her
picture she wrote, "All my best,
Barbara." The words and the
smiling picture are a striking
reminder that all her best is exactly
what Barbara always gave of herself.
The high standards of courage and
excellence she set for herself
inspired those around her. Yet
Barbara did not impose her
personality upon others. Always
ready to listen, to appreciate, to
enable, she let others be themselves,
and gave them space to bloom.

She was deeply loyal, not only to
her family and friends but to her
college. Barbara's service was
resonant with her belief in
Agnes Scott. The death of our
dedicated director, our gentle
friend, is a great loss to the Alumnae
Association and to each of us who
knew her personally.

Memye Curtis Tucker '57

President of the

Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Countless times since the day in
October when I heard of Barbara
Pendleton's untimely death, I have
thought of her many warm, human
qualities. One quality, however, has
repeatedly emerged in my thoughts
more vividly than the rest her
keen wit and sense of humor. Her
delightful way of speaking in relaxed,
unguarded moments was a rare gift,
and her choice of the unusual word
rather than the ordinary one kept
friends smiling.

Although Barbara and I were
friends before she escorted the
alumnae tour to Greece in 1972, it
was on this trip that I began to
appreciate her ability to laugh in the
face of adversity and to make the

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best of any circumstance. Early in
the trip when the local travel agent
couldn't find our ship in the port of
Piraeus, Barbara quickly began to
communicate in sign language with
the Greek stevedores. It seemed they
knew something the agent didn't
know, and it took Barbara's
persistence and good humor to find
that even though our ship was not
in port, there was a substitute
waiting. She even managed to
arrange for extra lunches besides.
It was amusing and inspiring to see
someone of her small stature
measure up so well under such
circumstances.

Barbara's family was important to
her, and her children brought richly
deserved pleasure and pride. She was
a good mother, but even more
she seemed to be a strong, good
friend of her daughters and son. She
was deeply concerned about the
wellbeing of those she loved, family

and friends alike, and her loyalty was
unusually deep and steadfast.

She was a good companion, and
her wit added to her charm. I am
left with the vivid memory of a
question she asked on the telephone
prior to the last time we got
together, two days before her death,
"How about a flick and dinner?".
I shall long keep the memory of that
evening and of my loyal and witty
friend, Barbara Pendleton.

Robin Jones

Dean of Students
Agnes Scott College

In 1962 to 1964 when I was
President of the Alumnae
Association, I came to know Barbara
Pendleton well. Through the ensuing
years we worked closely together
for Agnes Scott; we played bridge,
golf, talked, laughed and traveled
together, and my love and respect
for her grew. In this period
Ann Worthy Johnson, Barbara and
Pattie Johnson ran the Alumnae
Office and all of them felt, as did
I, that they made a great team.
Ann Worthy had creativity and
idealism (sometimes to our
distraction); Barbara was the
practical one who kept everyone
on course with her questions of
exactly how these visions could be
accomplished and what the cost
would be; Pattie gave the warmth
of love, great maturity and
understanding and all of us shared
laughter at the "funnies" which
cropped up daily in the Alumnae
Office.

The old adage that to know
another human being one must
live with that person or they must
take a trip together. On the Agnes
Scott alumnae tour to Europe in
1970 1 had the privilege of rooming
with Barbara. The test was met we
returned better friends than before
for we shared the many wonderful
experiences of seeing the old

Money is being collected to
establish a special fund to
memorialize Barbara Pendleton.
Those who wish to contribute may
make checks payable to Agnes Scott
College and mark them for the
Barbara Pendleton Memorial Fund.

country; we talked and laughed, and
I came to know the true quality of
Barbara Pendleton. The measure
of her strength became more
apparent daily. She had very strong
and firm commitments to right and
wrong, but great tolerance for the
convictions of others.

One incident on this trip depicts
many things about Barbara. When
we crossed the Hungarian border
our passports were taken from us
and retained by the Police during our
entire stay. Many of us felt very
nervous to be without this valued
possession behind the iron curtain.
On the last day of our stay Barbara
was to leave us and fly to England
to visit her daughter, Bebe, and her
husband. Bo. We spent the entire last
evening trying to persuade the
authorities to return to Barbara
her passport since we were to leave
her alone in Budapest until her
plane left and we were reluctant to
leave her alone without her
passport. All our pleading was to
no avail and when our bus left the
next morning Barbara waved
goodbye standing very tall on her
crutches and waved goodbye without
any fear for herself and with a grin
on her face. Truly she feared no man.

Her friends from Agnes Scott days
called her "Flea" for she was a
tiny person, but she stood tall in the
things that counted courage,
integrity, tenacity, responsibility, and
she was a solid friend. She was the
most fiercely independent person I
ever knew, but deep down I believe
she longed to be able to lean.
She was so intent on not being a
burden to anyone that she spent her
energies on caring for others
her family, her friends and Agnes

Scott. She bore her burdens with
humor and often pointed jokes at
herself. She would never allow
anyone to share her physical pain
through a series of operations. She
just went on and did what needed
to be done, whether she was in
pain or not, and always came
back with "I'm okay".

For Agnes Scott to lose her
dedication to its purposes and ideals
is a sad misfortune. To lose such a
friend as Barbara is a heartbreak to
me and her many friends.

When her spirit left this earth a
quick vision comforted me and
brought a smile through my tears. I
could see Ann Worthy opening her
arms to Barbara and saying,
"Welcome, dear Barbara, to a
wondrous new life. Rejoice!"

Sarah Frances McDonald '36

Decatur Lawyer
Past President of
Alumnae Association

Teasingly, we in the Alumnae Office
used to call her the "mighty mite."
Although Barbara Murlin Pendleton
barely reached five feet in height,
anyone encountering her soon
learned how tall she stood and how
effectively she used all her capacities.
I remember so vividly on one
occasion how she towered over a
large postal official and glowered
him into returning a threatened
third class mailing permit that the
Alumnae Quarterly was about to
forfeit. Without it postal costs would
have been prohibitive. Her grasp

of the facts, combined with her
determination, convinced him that
he should review the case, and the
permit was retained!

Barbara brought a keen mind and
bulldog tenacity to her job, which,
combined with her sheer ability and
experience, assured a performance
of excellence as Director of Alumnae
Affairs in the tradition of Ann
Worthy Johnson. This in itself was
impressive. But the real core of her,
revealed through association and
friendship, was her humanity. She
was strong almost to the point of
invulnerability. Stoical and
uncomplaining of her own physical
pain or emotional stress, yet she had
a sympathetic and compassionate
empathy with the pains and anxieties
of others. She visited people in
need and gave shelter in her home.
She practiced friendship with a
warmth and loyalty second only
to her love for her family.

I have never known anyone with
a more delightful talent as a
raconteur. Mockingly, she used to
refer to herself as an "idiot-savant"
a person who has an uncanny re-
call of insignificant facts while not
claiming much other sense! She
would regale us with anecdotes
without missing a beat in her work
schedule While describing the white
perforated shoes she wore as a
freshman or the "souper soups"
group of day students who lunched
together on campus, she would be
planning magazine layout or
organizing student aid work
schedules. If she ever heard a good
story, she could repeat it years
later with the details essentially
correct and with enough

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Reading clockwise from top
right, Barbara surrounded by
7977 Alumnae Staff; Ann Worthy
lohnson & Barbara: Alumnae
Weekend Luncheon: Barbara
at Alumnae Reunion party

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embellishment to improve on it! Her

response to people was warm and
humorous, and her conversation
sparkled with reminiscences of her
encounters with them, both great
and small.

Although good natured and
pleasant, Barbara held strong
convictions which she would not
compromise. I remember once when
she was a minority of one in a
discussion of political opinion. After
quietly listening to all the agreement
among the majority, she delivered
herself of a very strong opposing
view and vowed that her silence did
not imply agreement. We
remembered with respect.

I remember Barbara for her
outstanding ability, her intense
humanity, her delightful talents of
personality, and her large soul. James
Russell Lowell has said, "Great souls
are portions of eternity."

Pattie Patterson Johnson '41

Former Alumnae Secretary

When Barbara Murlin Pendleton died
suddenly on October 16, we lost a
certain strength.

The College lost an administrator
who combined wisdom with
responsibility. Barbara was practical
and realistic, and after only three
years as Director of Alumnae Affairs,
she possessed an uncanny ability
to foresee individual reactions and
forestall potential problems
valuable qualifications to bring to a
job which requires informing,
cajoling, learning from and pleasing
9000, sometimes very opinionated
women. Most important, she was
deeply committed to those things,
principles and people in whom she
believed. Agnes Scott was one
of them.

The alumnae staff lost a leader.
Those who knew her well were
prone to give her nicknames, and we
were no exception. Ann Worthy
Johnson, Barbara's predecessor, had
fondly called her "Mother
Pendleton." It stuck. Perhaps it
was appropriate because she had
not only a gentle manner but the
ability to guide or even scold when
necessary. When we were negligent
or foolish, she was there to point
out the errors or facts we had
overlooked. And when we were

right, she never failed to praise.

As her Associate Director, perhaps
I enjoyed a unique relationship with
her. Barbara taught me many things,
or truthfully, she showed me things
and let me learn. As with her own
children, she fostered a sense of
independence by giving me a
project and my head. She always let
me search my work and myself for
errors and lessons.

When I would introduce Barbara
as my "boss," she always quickly
said, "No, we work together." And
we did. She never failed to include
me in decisions, plans, interviews,
meetings. She flattered (and taught)
me by asking my opinion, however
impossible or "hare-brained" the
last had been.

The alumnae lost a loyal director.
Barbara was serious about her work
with and for alumnae; she was
convinced that every alumna had an
equal voice in setting policy and
determining programs and projects
for the Alumnae Association. She
was concerned about every
complaint, however small, and
delighted with every compliment,
however casual.

When Barbara Pendleton died, we
lost a gentle but strong human
being. We lost a loyal, dedicated
Alumnae Director. And though our
sorrow must be private she
would have had it no other way
we lost a friend.

Carey Bowen Craig '62

Acting Director
of Alumnae Affairs

Barbara Murlin Pendleton was

diminutive but somehow I never
realized it. I considered her a tower
of strength and a person of such
pervasive logic that debate
seemed to dissolve.

She seemed to know so much
about the human experience.
Inordinately modest about
motherhood, she glowed quietly in
the light of her children's
accomplishments. Incredibly
independent, she was one of the
most private persons I have ever
known. Quietly, but totally
competent, she carried on the work
of the Alumnae Office with poise
and grace.

Barbara was enigmatic, that
quality which is so confusing to a

mere man. She was strong-willed
but self-effacing. Although anxiety
was an integral part of her make-up,
her sense of humor was spontaneous
and natural. She was a superb
storyteller with an appreciation for
the absurd and the ironic. The very
epitome of femininity, she was also
athletically inclined. Barbara was a
very fine tennis player and an
accomplished golfer.

She walked too much alone. So
many hands reached out to her. Her
circle of friends, and they were
legion, experience a poignant sense
of loss at her passing. She ever
remained an "Agnes Scott girl" in
the truest sense of the school's
honored tradition. And, she gave
full measure of herself in service to
her Alma Mater.

Her life, secure as a memory now,
will serve as an inspiration to those
who follow.

John Stuart McKenzie

Printer, Agnes Scott
Alumnae Quarterly

The great legacy which Barbara
Pendleton left in three talented and
accomplished children is a tribute
to which words cannot compare.
Devotion to her parents, humble
pride in her family, and loyalty to
friends also stand as a tribute,
however bittersweet.

For those of us who feel grief and
can barely realize that someone
whom we had expected to have as
a friend always is out of reach, words
as an expression of faith, are a
consolation.
Think
Of stepping on shore and finding

it Heaven.
Of taking hold of a hand and

finding it God's hand.
Of breathing new air and finding

it celestial air.
Of feeling invigorated and

finding it immortality.
Of passing from storm and

tempest to unknown calm.
Of waking up and finding it Home.
Author Unknown
In sympathy for Barbara's family
and all who share in their loss,

Virginia Brewer

Atlanta Photographer
Former News Editor,
Agnes Scott College

Another Whisker

By JO ALLEN BRADHAM

Its roots lie in a past of conflicting accounts; its
moment of origin is shadowed by what seems
part whim, part prank, part altruism; its raison
d'etre is believable only to an age more given
to compassion than ours. It is felix niger of
which I speak. To liberally educated Agnes Scott
women, I know that I do not have to translate
felix niger in homage to which we work this week.

I say that the roots of felix niger are almost
indiscernible because research produces only
fragmentary accounts of its provenance. I say
that its raison d'etre belongs to an age of good
will because the story most frequently told to
explain felix niger is that an Agnes Scott physician
Dr. Mary F. Sweet, appalled at the cruelty and
silliness of the hazing visited upon the freshmen,
suggested that instead of the usual initiation
ritual, classes join together in the presentation of
a skit depicting campus life. This production
was to be a "battle of wit," the old accounts
read, a "healthy competition," offering
"parodies." There are two versions as to why
the event has its particular name. One is that
Dr. Sweet urged that it be called "Black Cat"
because of the event's proximity to Halloween;

About the Author: Dr. Jo Allen Bradham is an
Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott.
She received her B.A. degree from the University
of South Carolina, her M.Ln. degree from
Emory University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Vanderbilt University. She delivered this
clever speech at the Mortar Board Honors Day
Banquet on October 10, 1973. It was so
well received that she repeated it on October 12,
just before the 1973 Black Cat production.

the other and more frequently cited explanation
is that the contest is known as "Black Cat"
in honor of her pet which merited that
identifying phrase.

And so, a side comment becomes a legend, a
pet becomes a symbol, and an ordinary adjective
and noun black cat or felix niger, as I prefer
to style it a myth. Such a transformation
is one of our little ironies. The ritual initiation
into the liberal arts and the community of
higher learning celebrates and commemorates,
not a figure from history, or myth, or literature';
not from the humanities or natural science
or social science; not from art or music or
drama, but a cat.

Dr. Sweet might have suggested Apollo. As
god of light and sight, medicine and music, he
would be a fit symbol of the liberal arts. Or,
with equal appropriateness, we might spend
the first month of school and mount a gala
production in celebration of Clio, goddess of
history; of Terpsichore, patroness of dance;
of Hypatia, Greek woman of letters; of the '
Muses, in hope that they would lead us too in
mspired thought and song. Neither Apollo, nor
Clio, nor Terpsichore, nor Hypatia, nor the
Muses, but a cat, is our symbol.

The cat, stalking in our midst since 1915,
has left his prints. Since critical thought and
creative processes are central to a college, it is
most fitting that our initiation symbol of letters
and learning has left artistic prints with such
mind-boggling titles as "Me-ow Comedy" of
1920. "Romeow and Julicat" of 1943, "For Him
the Bell Told or a Puss with a Purpuss" of 1944.
The following years saw the light of learning
illumine the "Caterbury Tails," "The Micato,"
"It Cat Happen Here," "Atomic Cat," and
"Pushing Boots."

Another Whisker

Continued

With all respect to cats, who can make their
way through the dark and show thereby a skill
we very much need; with all respect to Morris,
who has made being finicky a dramatic moment
of artistic import as he suffers a peripeteia in his
dilemma of To Eat or Not to Eat; and with all
respect to Hodge of whom the great Samuel
Johnson was extremely fond and whom he
pronounced a "very fine cat," I maintain that
felix niger and her tracks put us all in a somewhat
embarrassing position.

I would remind you of the characterization of
the unheroic and enervated that is wrought
in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
just by the cat imagery:

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon

the window panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle

on the window panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of

the evening.
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls

from chimneys.
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap.
And seeing that it was a soft October night.
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

An older poet, Alexander Pope, used diction
of the cat to expose the folly of aberrant minds,
debilitated taste, and conspicuous consumption.
Pope, indicting a final stupidity specifies that
the senseless spender will "Die, and endow
a College, or a Cat." This bitter linking of
college and cat gives one pause.

Worse still in a woman's college during a
time of increasing consciousness of the role of
woman, we do not even know whether Dr.
Sweet's cat was male or female. Indeed, we are
faced with the horrifying prospect that we are
not only confusing the liberal arts with the
flea collar but we are celebrating a
tom cat as well.

Time has sanctioned Tom by now, and we
conduct the introduction into the liberal arts
under the symbol of cat, not classic. The
prototype cat may explain the hissing that goes
on; it may render reasonable the scratching at
reputation, and the tendency to hunt out the

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weaker, just for the sport of the chase. It
might also explain the beauty and grace, the
total poise which one sees on occasion. But for
whatever it explains, the felix niger is ours.

This week we celebrate felix niger. At first
glance, it seems either a cruel joke or a witty
prank. It may be neither of these. Dr. Sweet
may have been directing more than a Friday
night frolic; she probably knew that felix niger
would prove infinitely richer than Apollo
and the assembled host of classical mythology.

There is an Irish story of the ninth century in
which a monk to whom a cat is dear, watches
and studies his cat named Pangur Ban. The
scholar-poet uses the cat to explain the intense
concentration and steadiness of purpose which
learning and art require:

I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words 1 sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will.
He too plies his simple skill.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
Into the hero's Pangur's way;
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den
O how glad is Pangur then!

what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!

So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,

1 have mine and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.

Tradition holds that Pangur was a white cat,

but if white Pangur and Black Cat are sisters
under the fur, felix niger, as Dr. Sweet probably
knew, is the ideal initiation symbol for a college.

Learning is not so simple as catching mice,
however; and the student, like the eager kitten,
follows colored strings. From following the
glittering thread, one may drown. Again there
is a famous cat who symbolizes the plight of
one who fails to distinguish between the
dazzling and the enduring. Thomas Gray in his
"Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned
in a Tub of Gold Fishes" explains that Selima,
a cat of more beauty than judgment, was
hypnotized by the alluring fish swimming in
a bowl.

The hapless nymph with wonder saw:
A whisker first and then a claw.

With many an ardent wish.
She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
What female heart can gold despise?

What cat's averse to fish?

Presumptous maid! with looks intent
Again she stretched, again she bent.

Nor knew the gulf between.
(Malignant Fate sat by, and smiled)
The slippery verge her feet beguiled.

She tumbled headlong in.

Eight times emerging from the flood
She mewed to every wat'ry god.

Some speedy aid to send.
No dolphin came, no nereid stirred;
Nor cruel Tom nor Susan heard.

A favorite has no friend!

From hence, ye beauties, undeceived.
Know, one false step is ne'er retrieved,

And be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts is lawful prize.

Nor all that glisters, gold.

A cat contemporaneous with the ill-fated
Selima was Jeoffry, of whom Christopher Smart
sang. Confined to an institution for the mad, the
late-eighteenth-century poet Smart wrote
Jubilate Agno, a work that more inclusively than
any other affirms the farsightedness of Mary
Sweet's 1915 bequest. Smart's cat may serve
as objective rendering of education itself or of

Another Whisker

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the genuinely educated individual. What Smart
attributes to Jeoffry the cat, one easily transfers
to a sensitive and well-trained human being,
his vi'eaknesses and limitations but also his
strengths and abilities.

For I will consider my cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the living God,
duly and daily serving him.

For he is the quickest to his mark of

any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.

For he is docile and can learn certain things.

For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness

of his attention.
For my stroaking of him I have found out

electricity.
For 1 perceived God's light about him

both wax and fire.

For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent

clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are

more than any other quadrupede.
For he can tread to all the measures upon

the musick.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.

One wonders if Dr. Sweet thought of Pangur,
Selima, Jeoffry when she made her suggestion.
Dr. Sweet's pictures do not evoke a soft or
whimsical cat lover but rather an iron will and
fierce spirit. She looks like a woman who loved
moral lessons and who would use anything,
even a cat, to instruct. A little animal diminution
would not lie outside Dr. Sweet's bag of
medical tricks. Those who knew her bear
out this interpretation. The Alumnae Quarterly
for July 1937 speaks of her "ardent temper."
Students felt she gave them "wise training for
living and working in the world." One alumna
went so far as to exclaim: "Thank God we
came to Agnes Scott in the age of Dr. Sweet."

When she was the physician officiating at the
birth of Black Cat, was she willing that felix niger

might be initiation symbol for grace, poise,
sure-footedness, a playful heart, a dignified
demeanor, a proper independence, a capacity to
love, a fondness for order, an endless curiosity,
and a loyalty to those deserving of loyalty?
I do not know that she willed us these cat
principles, but knowing that she wasted
nothing and knowing that the President of
Harvard University cited her "quick perceptions"
as a salient trait, I cannot believe that she would
have bequeathed a cat to a college without
academic purpose, that she would have offered a
jest that was not also earnest. Surely, in her
lighter moments, Dr. Sweet would have taken
as a compliment the statement: "You study
felinely."

In fact, if we may believe T. S. Eliot, the cat is
fit symbol for study itself, for philosophic
contemplation, for the life of the scholar in its
purest form, for one who sits and ponders on the
meaning of word and name.

In "Naming of Cats," Eliot notes that cats
have three different names; the first is the
ordinary one that the family uses; the second is
the particular name which distinguishes one
cat from all other cats and enables him to "keep
up his tail perpendicular."

But above and beyond there's still one name
left over.
And that is the name that you never
will guess;
The name that no human research can
discover
But the cat himself knows, and will
never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,

The reason, I tell you, is always the same;
His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the
thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
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Deep and inscrutable singular name.

Perhaps Black Cat is a sign either of our
perversity or of our uniqueness. Other schools
have rat week; we have cat day. But all cats
considered, it is not a bad thing to have, and, as
Dr. Sweet apparently knew, it is not
just tomfoolery.

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Thanks to friends, parents, businesses, faculty,
staff and especially alumnae, the 72-73 Agnes
Scott Fund reached a record high over a
million and a half dollars.

Of this, 2,746 alumnae gave almost a half
million dollars in restricted and unrestricted gifts.

Also, the efforts of the Class Fund Chairmen
and Agents have been extremely valuable. The

College owes them special thanks.

Everyone at Agnes Scott is grateful to all those
alumnae who gave time, money and moral
support. This kind of loyalty and generosity is
the key to Agnes Scott's fiscal strength. With
the on-going support of alumnae, the College
can continue to offer the best possible education
for its students.

ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM FINANCIAL REPORT
July 1,1972 -June 30, 1973

ANNUAL FUND
Paid

CAPITAL FUND*
Paid

TOTAL

Number Amount

Con- Con-
tributed tributed

Number

Amount

Number

Amount

Alumnae

2,628

$129,317.86

118

$348,033.84

2,746

$477,351.70

Parents

and

Friends

149

17,012.16

67

171,290.64

216

188,302.80

Foun-
dations

30

182,168.00

8

731,925.00

38

914,093.00

Business

and

Industry

See**
Below

42,385.90

See**
Below

13,051.00

See**
Below

55,436.90

Alston
Fund

7,207.23

7,207.23

TOTAL

2,807

$370,883.92

193

$1,271,507.71

3,000

$1,642,391.63

Capital contributions reflected in this report are new gifts received since July 1, 1972 not payments on pledges made prior to

this date.
**The gifts from business and industry have been received primarily through the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc.

PERCENTAGE

NUMBER

OF CUSS

cuss

CHAIRMAN CONTRIBUTING

CONTRIBUTING

AMOUNT

Honor

Guard

Mary Wallace Kirk

217

26

$312,384.45

1914

Annie Tail Jenkins

14

33

1,225.00

1921

Sarah Fulton

53

50

9,766.50

1923

Beth McClure McGeachy

48

36

3,130.00

1924

Frances Gilliland Stukes

37

31

2,595.00

1925

Isabel Ferguson Hargadine

50

40

6,235.13

1926

Rosalie Wootten Deck

50

40

5,613.75

1927

Louise Lovejoy Jackson

55

37

5,575.00

1928

Virginia Carrier

56

47

4,105.50

1929

Elaine jacobsen Lewis

64

42

7,091.50

1930

Shannon Preston Gumming

52

40

5,315.80

1931

Martha Sprinkle Rafferty

46

44

22,742.00

1932

Imogene Hudson Cullinan

48

40

6,369.88

1933

Gail Nelson Blain

48

38

2,587.28

1934

43

37

5,817.40

1935

Anne Scott Harman Mauldin

43

35

4,840.00

1936

Sarah Nichols Judge

46

34

1,997.00

1937

Kathleen Daniel Spicer

40

33

2,706.00

1938

Jane Guthrie Rhodes

53

37

2,654.00

1939

Lou Pate Koenig

47

35

2,050.28

1940

Katherine Patton Carssow

51

35

3,207.25

1941

46

31

2,390.00

1942

Claire Purcell Smith

50

33

3,232.94

1943

Susan Guthrie Fu

34

27

2,116.00

1944

Martha Rhodes Bennett

30

19

1,510.75

1945

Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin

55

38

2,417.00

1946

Mary McConkey Reimer

48

29

3,199.76

1947

Lorenna Ross Brown

46

29

3,264.54

1948

Rebekah Scott Bryan

47

30

2,149.00

1949

Helen Crawford White

59

35

3,434.50

1950

Ann Pitts Cobb

44

30

1,616.00

1951

Jeanne Kline Brown

51

30

1,533.00

1952

Kathren Freeman Stelzner

52

33

3,005.00

1953

Ann Cooper Whitesel

50

38

1,298.00

1954

Mitzi Kiser Law

41

33

2,392.00

1955

Yvonne Burke White

42

28

3,353.00

1956

Louise Rainey Ammons

62

40

2,498.50

1957

Jackie Rountree Andrews

69

40

3,859.00

1958

Martha Meyer

60

36

2,955.00

1959

Donalyn Moore McTier

63

36

1,616.50

1960

Nancy Duvall

63

35

2,139.00

1961

Mary Wayne Crymes Bywater

74

40

3,865.00

1962

Lebby Rogers Harrison

59

32

2,951.62

1963

Frannie Bailey Graves

58

29

1,460.95

1964

Nancy Lee Abernathy

54

26

896.00

1965

Kay Harvey Beebe

74

38

1,964.50

1966

Mary Lang Olson Edwards

67

33

5,690.00

1967

Judy Nuckols Offutt

52

29

2,201.21

1968

Elizabeth Jones Bergin

62

31

1,403.00

1969

Margaret Gillespie

67

29

1,098.00

1970

Susan Henson Frost

63

29

1,134.50

1971

Dale Derrick Rudolph

58

27

1,170.00

1972

Donna Reed

35

16

462.50

10

IlljiBSim<

General Chairman:

Eleanor Hutchens, '40
Special Gifts Chairmen:

Carrie Scandrett, '24
Betsy Dalton Brand, '61
Honor Guard Chairman:

Mary Wallace Kirk, '11

1914

Annie Tait Jenkins, Chrm.

Agent:

Martha Lillian Rogers

1921

Sarah Hamilton Fulton, Chrm.
Agents:

Thelma Brown Aiken
Eleanor Blake Carpenter
Lois Compton Jennings
Elizabeth Floding Morgan
Helen Hall Hopkins
Marlwill Hanes Hulsey
Melville Jameson
Sarah McCurdy Evans
Mabel Price Cathcart
Lucile Smith Bishop
Margaret S. Wade

1923

Elizabeth McClure McGeachy, Chrm.

Agents:

Dorothy Bowron Collins

Thelma Cook Turton

Elizabeth Hoke Smith

Viola Hollis Oakley

Lucile Little Morgan

Edith McCallie

Anna Meade MInnigerode

Susye Mims Lazenby

Rosalie Robinson Sanford

Alice Virden

Margaretta Womelsdorf Lumpkin

1924

Frances Gilliland Stukes, Chrm.

Agents:

Grace Bargeron Rambo

Helen Comfort Sanders

Sarah Frances Flowers Beasley

Victoria Howie Kerr

Barron Hyatt Morrow

Catherine Nash Scott

Carrie Scandrett

Daisy Frances Smith

Polly Stone Buck

1925

Isabel Ferguson Hargadine, Chrm.

Agents:

Helen Cause Fryxell

Sallie Horton Lay

Margaret Hyatt Walker

Annie Johnson Sylvester

Mary Keesler Dalton

Anne McKay Mitchell
Sarah Tate Tumlin
Emily Zellers McNeill

1926

Rosalie Wootten Deck, Chrm.

Agents:

Helen Bates Law

Margaret Bull

Elizabeth Chapman Pirkle

Ellen Fain Bowen

Mary Freeman Curtis

Blanche Haslam Hollingsworth

Anne Hubbard Lee

Hazel Huff Monaghan

Sarah Quinn Slaughter

Margaret Whitington Davis

1927

Louise Lovejoy Jackson, Chrm.

Agents:

Josephine Bridgman

Mildred Cowan Wright

Catherine Louise Davis

Mary Heath Phillips

Katherine Houston Sheild

Martha Johnston Wilson

Elizabeth Lynn

Lib Norfleet Miller

May Reece Forman

Evelyn Satterwhite

Emily W. Stead

1928

Virginia Carrier, Chrm.

Agents:

Elizabeth Allgood Birchmore

Lucy Mai Cook Means

Margaret Rice

Elizabeth Roark Ellington

Rosaltha Hagan Sanders

1929

Elaine Jacobsen Lewis, Chrm.
Agents:

Lucile Bridgman Leitch
Leonora Briggs Bellamy
Ethel Freeland Darden
Betty Watkins Gash
Elise McLaurin Gibson
Mary Alice Juhan
Ceraldine LeMay
Edith McGranahan Smith T
Elizabeth Moss Mitchell
Katharine Pasco
Josephine Pou Varner
Sally Southerland
Mary Warren Read
Violet Weeks Miller

1930

Shannon Preston Gumming, Chrm.
Agents:

Marie Baker Shumaker
Jane Hall Hefner
Elizabeth Hamilton Jacobs
June Maloney Officer
Mary McCallie Ware
Emily Moore Couch
Martha Stackhouse Grafton
Raemond Wilson Craig

1931

Martha Sprinkle Rafferty, Chrm.
Agents:

Sara Lou Bullock
Ruth Etheredge Griffin
Helen Friedman Blackshear
Chopin Hudson Hankins
Myra Jervey Hoyle
Katherine Morrow Norem
Martha North Watson Smith
Ellene Winn

1932

Imogene Hudson Cullinan, Chrm.

Agents:

Penny Brown Barnett

Mary Effie Elliot

Ruth Conant Green

Louise Stakely

Lovelyn Wilson Heyward

1933

Gail Nelson Blain, Chrm.
Agents:

Evelyn Campbell Beale
Frances Duke Pughsley
Margaret Ellis Pierce
Julia Finley McCutchen
Margaret Glass Womeldorf
Lucile Heath McDonald
Polly Jones Jackson
Cornelia Keeton Barnes
Marie Moss McDavid
Brownie Nash Reece
Mary Sturtevant Cunningham
Marlyn Tate Lester

1934

Agents:

Martha England Gunn
Pauline Gordon Woods
Lucy Goss Herbert
Janie Lapsley Bell
Louise McCain Boyce
Ruth Moore Randolph
Dorothy Potts Weiss

1935

Anne Scott Harman Mauldin, Chrm

Agents:

Dorothea Blackshear Brady

Jennie Champion Nardin

Alice Dunbar Moseley

Jane Goodwin Harbin

Mary Green Wohlford

Anna Humber Little
Mary Hutchinson Jackson
Julia McClatchey Brooke
Clara Morrison Backer
Juliette Puett Maxwell
Sybil Rogers Herren
Amy Underwood Trowell
Virginia Wood Allgood

1936

Sarah Nichols Judge, Chrm.

Agents:

Mary Comely Dwight

Marion Derrick Gilbert

Mary Henderson Hill

Ori Sue Jones Jordan

Mary Shelton Felt

Mary Snow Seigler

Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter

Miriam Talmage Vann

Rebecca Whitley Nunan

1937

Kathleen Daniel Spicer, Chrm.

Agents:

Virginia Caldwell Payne

Rachel Kennedy Lowthian

Florence Lasseter Rambo

Frances McDonald Moore

Ora Muse

Kathryn Printup Mitchell

Virginia Stephens Clary

Vivienne Trice Ansley

Margaret Watson

1938

Jane Guthrie Rhodes, Chrm.

Agents:

Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn

Martha Peek Brown Miller

Ellen Little Lesesne

Gwendolyn McKee Bays

Alice Reins Boyd

Mary Smith Bryan

Anne Thompson Rose

Elsie West Meehan

1939

Lou Pate Koenig, Chrm.
Agents:

Elizabeth Furlow Brown
Dorothy Graham Gilmer
Emily MacMorland Wood
Mary Wells McNeill
Marie Merritt Rollins
Mary Simonton Boothe
Mary Frances Thompson
Elinor Tyler Richardson

1940

Katherine Patton Carssow, Chrm.

Agents:

Carrie Gene Ashley

Helen Gates Carson

Lillie Belle Drake Hamilton

Anne Enloe

Annette Franklin King

Marian Franklin Anderson

Mary Heaslett Badger

Gary Home Petrey

Virginia McWhorter Freeman

Virginia Milner Carter

Ruth Slack Roach

Grace Ward Anderson

1941

Agents:

Sabine Brumby Korosy

Harriette Cochran Mershon

Doris Dalton Crosby

Dorothy Debele Purvis

Ann Henry

Sara Lee Jackson

Pattie Patterson Johnson

1942

Claire Purcell Smith, Chrm.
Agents:

Edith Dale Lindsey
Susan Dyer Oliver
Margaret Erwin Walker
Margaret Hamilton Rambo
Neva Jackson Webb
Elise Nance Bridges
Betty Robertson Schear
Jane Stilwell Espy
Olivia White Cave

1943

Susan Guthrie Fu, Chrm.
Agents:

Mamie Sue Barker Woolf
Betty Bates Fernandez
Flora Campbell McLain
Nancy Green Carmichael
Sally Howe Bell
Mary Martin Rose
Anne Paisley Boyd
Nora Percy Middleton
Helen Smith Woodward
Regina Stokes Barnes
Mary Ward Danielson

1944

Martha Rhodes Bennett, Chrm.

Agents:

Betty Burress Tucker

Anne Sale Weydert

Marjorie Smith Stephens

Marjorie Tippins Johnson

1945

Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin, Chrm.

Agents:

Elizabeth Daniel Owens

Harriette Daugherty Howard

Ruth Doggett Todd

Elizabeth Espey Walters

11

Elizabeth Cribble Cook
Emily Higgens Bradley
Jean Hood Booth
Eugenia Jones Howard
Martha Mack Simons
Settle Manning Ott
Montene Melson Mason
Jean Satterwhite Harper
Bess Sheppard Poole
Julia Slack Hunter

1946

Mary McConkey Reimer, Chrm.

Agents:

Mim Allen Wilkes

Mary Ann Courtenay Davidson

Mary Duckworth Cellerstedt

Jean Fuller Hall

Betty Hancock Moore

Elizabeth Horn Johnson

Mildred McCain Kinnaird

Marjorie Naab Bolen

Rosalind Price Sasser

Louise Reid Strickler

Elizabeth Weinschenk Mundy

Eva Williams Jamison

1947

Lorenna Ross Brown, Chrm.
Agents:

Marie Adams Conyers
Classell Beale Smalley
Helen Catherine Currie
Ruth Ellis Hunley
Mary Jane Fuller Floyd
Genet Heery Barron
Sue Hutchens Henson
Marianne Jeffries Williams
Margaret McManus Landham
Edith Merrin Simmons
Betty Jean Radford Moeller
Caroline Squires Rankin
Carroll Taylor Parker
Laura Winchester Rahm

1948

Rebekah Scott Bryan, Chrm.

Agents:

Betty Jean Brown Ray

Amelia Davis Luchsinger

June Driskill Weaver

June Irvine Torbert

Lady Major

Evelyn Puckett Woodward

Billie Mae Redd Chu

Harriet Elizabeth Reid

Mary Gene Sims Dykes

Jacqueline Stewart

Barbara Whipple Bitter

1949

Helen Crawford White, Chrm.
Agents:

Miriam Arnold Newman
Betty Lou Baker Prior
Betty Blackmon Kinnett
Susan Bowling Dudney
Betsy Deal Smith
Nancy Huey Kelly
Henrietta Claire Johnson
Caroline Little Witcher
Katherine McKoy Ehling

Mary Price Coulling
Shirley Simmons Duncan
Sharon Smith Cutler

1950

Ann Pitts Cobb, Chrm.

Agents:

Betty Asbill Anderson

Jo Anne Christopher Cochrane

Betty Jane Crowther Beall

Dorothy Davis Yarbrough

Helen Edwards Propst

Sue McSpadden Fisher

Vivienne Patterson Jacobson

June Price McCord

Mary Anne Wagstaff Richardson

Martha Warburton McMurran

1951

Jeanne Kline Brown, Chrm.

Agents:

Dorothy Adams Knight

Virginia Arnold Diehl

Noel Barnes Williams

Jimmie Lee Cobble Bangs

Virginia Feddeman Kerner

Betty Jane Foster Deadwyler

Anna Counaris

Jimmie Ann McGee Collings

Jackie Messer Rogers

Katherine Nelson Major

Elizabeth Shontz Smith

Jenelle Spear

Ruth Vineyard Cooner

Joan White Howell

1952

Kathren Freeman Stelzner, Chrm.

Agents:

Manie Boone Balch

Ann Boyer Wilkerson

Jinnie Brewer Murkett

Barbara Brown Waddell

Jeannine Byrd Hopkins

Phyllis Calphin Buchanan

Kathryn Gentry Westbury

Ann Hays Greer

Helen Land Ledbetter

Betty Moyer Keeter

Helen Jean Robarts Seaton

Adelaide Ryall Beall

Jackie Simmons Gow

Lorna Wiggins

Sylvia Williams Ingram

1953

Ann Cooper Whitesel, Chrm.

Agents:

Deche Armstrong Hamill

Ann Baxter Chorba

Mary Birmingham Timmons

Jane Crayton Davis

Frances Ginn Stark

Betty Ann Green Rush

Sarah Hamilton Leathers

Annie Wortley Jones Sims

Sarah Leathers Martin

Sue Peterson Durling

Helen Tucker Smith

1954

Mitzi Kiser Law, Chrm.
Agents:

Valeria Burnet Orr

Betty Ellington

Florrie Fleming Corley

Julia Grier Storey

Louise Hill Reaves

Jackie Josey Hall

Mary Lou Kleppinger Lackey

Caroline Reinero Kemmerer

Joanne Varner Hawks

Nancy Whetstone Hull

1955

Yvonne Burke White, Chrm.
Agents:

Susanna Byrd Wells
Letty Grafton Harwell
Ann Hanson Merklein
Jo Hinchey Williams
Mary Alice Kemp Henning
Callie McArthur Robinson
Gwen McLeroy Adams
Margaret Rogers Lee

1956

Louise Rainey Ammons, Chrm.

Agents:

Ann Alvis Shibut

Stella Biddle Fitzgerald

Judy Brown

Alvia Cook

June Gaissert Naiman

Harriett Griffin Harris

Sarah Hall Hayes
Nancy Jackson Pitts
Virginia Love Dunaway
Anne Sayre Callison
Robbie Shelnutt Upshaw

1957

Jackie Rountree Andrews, Chrm.
Agents:

Elizabeth Ansley Allan
Frances Barker Sincox
Elizabeth Bond Boozer
Margie Hill Krauth
Jean Hodgens Leeper
Cemele Miller Richardson
Mildred Nesbit Murphey
Virginia Redhead Bethune
Helen Sewell Johnson
|ene Sharp Black
Penny Smith

1958

Martha Meyer, Chrm.
Agents:
Hazel Ellis
Kathy Flory Maier
Patricia Cover Bitzer
Eileen Graham McWhorter
Catherine Hodgin Olive
Louise Law Hagy
Sue Lile Inman

12

sheila MacConochie Ragsdale
Caro McDonald Smith
Shirley McDonald Larkey
Phoebe Robert Koushanpour
Shirley Spackman May
Harriet Talmadge Mill
Carolyn Tinkler Ramsey
Rosalyn Warren Wells
Margaret Woolfolk Webb

1959

Donalyn Moore McTier, Chrm.
Agents:

Frances Calder Arnold
India Clark Benton
Marjorie Erickson Charles
Patti Forrest Davis
Carolyn Hazard Jones
Audrey Johnson Webb
Eleanor Lee McNeill
Mildred Ling Wu
Leah Mathews Fontaine
Lila McGeachey Ray
Carol Promnitz Cooper
Marianne Sharp Robbins
Annette league Powell
Barbara Varner Willoughby

1960

Nancy Duvall, Chrm.

Agents:

Angelyn Alford Bagwell
Mildred Braswell Smith
Phyllis Cox Whitesell
Peggy Edney Crigg
Frances Elizabeth Johns
Harriette Lamb O'Connor
Betty Lewis Higginbotham
Dieneke Nieuwenhuis
Jane Norman Scott
Emily Parker McCuirt
Laura Parker Lowndes
Mary Jane Pickens Skinner
Hollis Smith Barnes
Sally Smith Howard
Anne Whisnant Bolch

1961

Mary Wayne Crymes Bywater, Chrm.

Agents:

Barbara Baldauf Anderson

Harriett Elder Manley

Mary Beth Elkins Henke

Kay Gwaltney Remick

Nancy Hall Grimes

Sarah Helen High Clagett

Jo Jarrell Wood

Martha Lambeth Harris

Mary Lipscomb Garrity

Ann McBride Chilcutt

Sue McCurdy Hosterman

Anne Modlin Burkhardt

Mary Jane Moore

Prudy Moore Thomas

Ann Peagler Gallagher

1962

Lebby Rogers Harrison, Chrm.

Agents:

Sue Amidon Mount

Mary Ellen Barnes Hendricks

Carey Bowen Craig

Molly Dotson Morgan
Emily Evans Robison
Pat Flythe Koonts
Peggy Frederick Smith
Libby Harshbarger Broadus
Betsy Jefferson Boyt
Kit Kallman Anderson
Lana Mueller Jordan
Dot Porcher
Joanna Praytor Putman
Marjorie Reitz Turnbull
Robin Rudolph Orcutt
Elizabeth Shannon Hart
Ruth Shepherd Vazquez
Ann Lee Sullivan Gravatt
Rose Traeger Sumerel
Elizabeth Withers Kennedy

1963

Frannie Bailey Graves, Chrm.

Agents:

Nancy Abernethy Underwood

Virginia Allen Callaway

Becky Bruce Jones

Stokie Gumming Mitchell

Margaret Harms

Sandra Johnson Barrow

Dorothy Laird Foster

Ann Mobley Pelham

Ann Risher Phillips

Sally Ann Rodwell Whetstone

Jane Sharp Poole

Elizabeth Thomas Freyer

Margaret Van Deman Blackmon

Louisa Walton McFadden

1964

Nancy Lee Abernathy, Chrm.
Agents:
Peggy Barton
Sylvia Chapman Sager
Garnett Foster
Nina Griffin Charles
Martha Griffith Kelley
Lucy Herbert Molinaro
Judy Hollingsworth Robinson
Betty Hood Atkinson
Mell Laird Ackerman
Lynda Langley Burton
Jean McCurdy Meade
Laurie Oakes Propst
Karen Olson Paul
Elizabeth Singley Duffy
Barbara White Hartley
Florence Willey Perusse
Sally Williams Johnston
Mary Womack Cox
Maria Wornom Rippe
Ruth Zealy Kerr

1965

Kay Harvey Beebe, Chrm.
Agents:

Nancy Auman Cunningham
Sally Blackard Long
Sally Bynum Gladden
Kathryn Coggin Hagglund
Betsy Dykes Leitzes
Beth Fortson Wells
Nan Hammerstrom Cole
Lucia Howard Sizemore
Marjory Joyce Cromer
Diane Miller Wise

Barbara Rudisill
Laura Sanderson Miller
Anne Schiff Faivus
Gayle Stubbs Garrison
Sandra Wallace

1966

Mary Lang Olson Edwards, Chrm.

Agents:

Beverly Allen Lambert

Bernie Burnham Hood

Carol Davenport Wood

Martha Doom Bentley

Ginny Finney Bugg

Marganne Hendricks Price

Mary Kuykendall Nichols

Alice Lindsey Blake

Ginger Martin Westlund

Libby McGeachy Mills

Clair Moor Crissey

Portia Morrison Mummert

Sonja Nelson Cordell

Virginia Quattlebaum Laney

Louise Smith Nelson

Malinda Snow

Carol Watson Harrison

Wendy Williams

1967

Judy Nuckols Offutt, Chrm.

Agents:

Jane Balsley

Judy Barnes Crozier

Sarah Cheshire Killough

Susan Dalton Boyden

Anne Davis McGehee

Candy Gerwe Cox

Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy

Helen Heard Lowrey

Becca Herbert Schenk

Jane Keiger Gehring

Clair McLeod Muller

Sara Frances Pennigar Twine

Susan Sleight Mowry

Patricia Smith Edwards

Susan Stevens Hitchcock

1968

Elizabeth Jones Bergin, Chrm.

Agents:

Sally Bainbridge Akridge

Jean Binkley Thrower

Linda Bloodworth Garrett

Louise Bruchert

Bronwyn Burks Fowlkes

Betty Derrick

Paige Dotson Powell

Donna Evans Brown

Catherine Greer Thornton

Sylvia Harby Hutton

Rebecca Lanier Allen

Mary Ann McCall Johnson

Claire McCoy White

Mary Kay Owen Jarboe

Vicky Plowden Craig

Cathy Price Laube

Pat Stringer

Mary Ruth Wilkins Negro

Stephanie Wolfe Sidella

1969

Margaret Gillespie, Chrm.
Agents:

Anne Willis

Evelyn Angeletti

Lou Frank

Jo Ray Freiler Van Vliet

Mary Gillespie Dellinger

Lalla Griffis Mangin

Ruth Hayes Bruner

Marion Hinson Mitchell

Carol Jensen Rychly

Terri Langston

Bev LaRoche Anderson

Tish Lowe Oliveira

Polly Matthews Ellis

Mary McAlpine Evans

Mary Anne Murphy Hornbuckle

Kathleen Musgrave Batchelder

Elta Posey Johnston

Libby Potter

1970

Susan Henson Frost, Chrm.

Agents:

Marcia Caribaltes Hughes

Carol Crosby Patrick

Linda DelVecchio Owen

Susan Donald Schroder

Mollie Douglas Pollitt

Janet Drennan Barnes

Cheryl Granade Sullivan

Camille Holland Carruth

Ruth Hyatt Heffron

Dusty Kenyon

Anne Marquess Camp

Judy Mauldin

Carol Ann McKenzie Fuller

Chris McNamara Lovejoy

Marilyn Merrell Hubbard

Caroline Mitchell Smith

Cindy Padgett

Beth Truesdel Baer

Sally Tucker Lee

Ruth Wheless Hunter

Charlotte Williams

1971

Dale Derrick Rudolph, Chrm.

Agents:

Cindy Ashworth Kesler

Carol Banister Kettles

Brenda Bullard

Rose Anne Ferrante Waters

Kathy Frieze McKnight

Christy Fulton Baldwin

Carolyn Gailey

Anna Gordon Burns

Edith Jennings Black

Carlene Kirkman Duncan

Charlene Kruizenga

Linda Laney Little

Karen Lewis

Stella McDermid Haberlandt

Alexa Mcintosh Mims

Bonnie Mcintosh Roughton

Connie Morris Heiskell

Mary Morris Reid

C. G. Sydnor Hill

Dea Taylor Walker

Peggy Thompson Davis

Ellen Tinkler

1972

Donna Reed, Chrm.

13

TOWER CIRCLE

Louise Abney King '20

Maryellen Harvey Newton '16

Blythe Posey Ashmore '58

Ruth Thomas Stemmons '28

Katherine Anderson '18

Mary Hays Babcock '49

Ruth Pringle Pipkin '31

Julia Thompson Smith '31

Myrtle Blackmon '21

Genet Heery Barron '47

Marie Louise Scott O'Neill '42

Amy Walden Harrell Inst.

Ida Louise Brittain Patterson '21

Louise Hollingsworth Jackson '32

Elizabeth Shaw McClamroch '26

Mary Warren Read '29

Suzella Burns Newsome '57

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35

Marie Simpson Rutland '35

Margaret G. Weeks '31

Diana Dyer Wilson '32

Annie Tait Jenkins '14

Bettye Smith Satterthwaite '46

Violet Weeks Miller '29

Martha Eskridge Ayers '33

Mary Johnson Mallory '67

Florence Smith Sims '13

Mary West Thatcher '15

Emy Evans Blair '52

Mary Keesler Dalton '25

Lulu Smith Westcott '19

Isabella Wilson Lewis '34

Ethel Freeland Darden '29

Polly Lacy Dunn '30

Malinda Snow '66

Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye '31

Jo Ann Hall Hunsinger '55

Anne Patterson Hammes '54

Frances Tennent Ellis '25

i

COLONNADE CLUB

Sally Abernethy '28

Mildred Fiournoy de Marcellus '50

Elizabeth Jefferson Boyt '62

Mary Shewmaker '28

Josephine Barry Brown '30

Sarah Frances Flowers Beasley '24

Jean McAlister '21

Augusta Skeen Cooper '17

Dorothy Brown Cantrell '29

Elena V. Greenfield '32

Sarah McCurdy Evans '21

Willie W. Smith '27

Helen Gates Carson '40

Elinor Hamilton Hightower '34

Dorothy Peace Ramsaur '47

Marguerite Watts Cooper '19

Mildred Cowan Wright '27

Quenelle Harrold Sheffield '23

Hyta Plowden Mederer '34

Frances Wilson Hurst '37

Amelia Davis Luchsinger '48

Ann Herman Dunwody '52

Virginia Prettyman '34

Roberta Winter '27

B. J. Ellison Candler '49

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Lebby Rogers Harrison '62

Catherine Wood LeSourd '36

Dora Ferrell Gentry '26

Anne Hudson Hankins '31
Bertha Hudson Whitaker Acad.

Virginia Sevier Hanna '27

Louise Woodard Clifton '27
Til

Class of 1947
Class of 1967
Washington, D. C. Agnes Scott

Alumnae Club
Julia Abbott Neely '18
Page Ackerman '33
Marie Adams Finch '35
Elizabeth Alderman Vinson '40
Angelyn Alford Bagwell '60
Mary Allen Wilkes '46
Mary Virginia Allen '35
Vicky Allen Gardner '62
Ann Anderson Bailey '45
Ruth Anderson Stall '45
Rebekah Andrews McNeill '42
Nell Archer Congdon '60
Ruth Ashburn Kline '41
Mary Jane Auld Linker '43
Gladys Austin Mann '29
Ann Avant Crichton '61
Frances Bailey Graves '63
Jean Bailey Owen '39
Martha Baker Wilkins '46
Frances Barker Sincox '57
Evelyn Barnett Kennedy '28
Betty Bates Fernandez '43
Helen Bates Law '26
Evelyn Baty Landis '40
Ulla Beckman '54
Betty Blackmon Kinnett '49
Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn '38
Barbara Blair '48
Helen Boyd McConnell '34
Julia Brantley Willet '21

Gift Annuity
'Bequest

Frances Breg Marsden '41
Josephine Bridgman '27
Anne Broad Stevenson '61
Nancy Brock Blake '57
Betty Ann Brooks '42
Penelope Brown Barnett '32
Sabine Brumby Korosy '41
Eleanor Buchanan Starcher '22
Anne Bullard Hodges '56
Cama Burgess Clarkson '22
Helen Burkhalter Quattlebaum '2
Bettina Bush Jackson '29
Evelyn Byrd Hoge '24
Jeannine Byrd Hopkins '52
Laura Caldwell Edmonds Inst.
Virginia Cameron Taylor '29
Margaret Camp Murphy '56
Edyth Carpenter Shuey '26
Virginia Carter Caldwell '45
Anne Chambless Bateman '42
Nelle Chamlee Howard '34
Grace Chao '58

Margaret Chapman Curington '70
Mary Chapman Hatcher '69
Dorothy Cheek Callaway '29
Lillian Clement Adams '27
Mary Ann Cochran Abbott '43
Patricia Collins Andretta '28
Lucile Conant Leiand '21
Laura Cooper Christopher '16
Freda Copeland Hoffman '41
Jane Coughlan Hayes '42
Elizabeth Cousins Mozley '38
Phyllis Cox Whitesell '60
Caroline Crea Smith '52
Mary Crook Howard '60
Sarah Gumming Mitchell '63

Helen Catherine Currie '47
Julia E. Curry '57
Memye Curtis Tucker '56
Kathleen Daniel Spicer '37
Eleanor Davis Scott '46
Elizabeth Davis Johnston '40
Lucile Dennison Keenan '37
Dale Dick Johnson '59
June Driskill Weaver '48
Caroline Dudley Bell '59
Doris Dunn St. Clair '38
Madelaine Dunseith Alston '28
Lucy Durr Dunn '19
Nancy Duvall '60
Susan Dyer Oliver '42
Margaret Edney Grigg '60
Mary E. Elliot '32
Kate Durr Elmore '49
Goudyloch Erwin Dyer '38
Carolyn Essig Frederick '28
Grace B. Etheredge '27
Rebecca Evans Callahan '60
Isabel Ferguson Hargadine '25
Julia Finley McCutchen '33
Nell Floyd Hall '51
Kathren Freeman Stelzner '52
Mary Freeman Curtis '26
Elizabeth Furlow Brown '39
Jan Gaskell Ross '66
Katherine Geffcken '40
Elise M. Gibson '29
Philippa Gilchrist '23
Louise Girardeau Cook '28
Sarah Glenn Boyd '28
Susan L. Glenn '32
Pauline Gordon Woods '34
Patricia Cover Bitzer '58

Dorothy Graham Gilmer '39
Caroline Gray Truslow '41
Ruth C. Green '32
Juanita Greer White '26
Carol Griffin Scoville '35
Harriett Griffin Harris '56
Katherine Gwaltney Remick '
Martha Avary Hack '67
Jane Bailey Hall Hefner '30
Sarah Hall Hayes '56
Goldie Ham Hanson '19
Elizabeth Hanson Duerr '58
Margaret G. Harms '63
Marian Harper Kellogg '20 I
Fannie B. Harris Jones '37
Libby Harshbarger Broadus '63
Julia Harvare Warnock '44 |
Annie Hastie Mclnnis '38 |
Elizabeth Hatchett '29 .

Katherine Hay Rouse '15 |

Mary Henderson Hill '36
Carolyn Herman Sharp '57
Charlotte Hevener Nobbs '47
Louise Hill Reaves '54
Margaret Hippee Lehmann '34
Andrea Huggins Flaks '67
Ruth Hunt Little '37
Ann Hutchinson Beason '62
Eleanor Hutchinson Smith '54
Mary Hutchinson Jackson '35
Julia Ingram Hazzard '19
June Irvine Torbert '48
Corrine Jackson Wilkerson '24
Maude Jackson Padgett '27
Sally Jackson Hertwig '51
Myra Jervey Hoyle '31
Beth Jones Crabill '48

14

QUADRANGLE QUORUM

Elizabeth Alexander Higgins '35
Clara May Allen Reinero '23
Jeannette Archer Neal '22
Dorothy Avery Newton '38
Emily Bailey '61
Agnes Ball '17
Lucile E. Beaver '46
Bertie Bond '53
Leone Bovv'ers Hamilton '26
Hazel Brown Ricks '29
Omah Buchanan Albaugh '16
Lois Compton Jennings '21
Jean Corbett Griffin '61
Martha Crowell Stewart '55
Betsy Dalton Brand '61
Eileen Dodd Sams '23
Molly Dotson Morgan '62
Sally Elberfeld Countryman '68
Elizabeth R. Ellington '54

Margaret Erwin Walker '42
Elizabeth Farmer Brown '45
Louise Franklin Livingston '41
Marian Franklin Anderson '40
Annie Laura Galloway Phillips '37
Karen Gearreald '65
Frances Cilliland Stukes '24
Ann Gregory York '56
Elizabeth Harvard Dowda '44
Ann Henry '41
Doris Henson Vaughn '42
Victoria Howie Kerr '24
Katherine Hunter Branch '29
Eleanor N. Hutchens '40
Elaine Jacobsen Lewis '29
Marianne Jeffries Williams '47
Dorothy Jester '37
Mary Wallace Kirk '11
Jane Knight Lowe '23
Pearl Kummes '27

Henrietta Lambdin Turner '15
Linda Lentz Woods '62
Caroline Lingle Lester '33
Laurice Looper Swann '44
Eloise McCall Guyton '40
Sarah Frances McDonald '36
Edith McGranahan Smith T '29
Sara Mclntyre Bahner '55
Caroline McKinney Clark '27
Virginia McWhorter Freeman '40
Ruth MacMillan Jones '27
Emily Miller Smith '19
Nancy Moorer Cantey '38
Scott Newell Newton '45
Janet Newton '17
Lou Pate Koenig '39
Saxon Pope Bargeron '32
Celetta Powell Jones '46
Margaret Powell Flowers '44

Linda Preston Watts '66
Charme Robinson Ritter '61
Rosalie Robinson Sanford '23
Ruby Rosser Davis '43
Carrie Scandrett '24
Margaret Sheftall Chester '42
Gene Slack Morse '41
Julia Pratt Smith Slack '12
Belle-Ward Stowe Abernethy '30
Virginia Suttenfield '38
Mabel Talmage '34
Miriam Thompson Felder '32
Mary Turner Buchanan '45
Elizabeth Walton Callaway '47
Catherine Warren Dukehart '51
Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg '30
Nancy Wheeler Dooley '57
Lovelyn Wilson Heyward '32
Raemond Wilson Craig '30

The Tower Circle is the group of donors of $1000 or more. Colon-
nade Club is that group which gave $500 or more. Quadrangle

Quorum is the group which contributed $250 or more. The Main
liners is the group which donated $100 or more.

MNLINERS

Ori Sue Jones Jordan '36

Mary Alice Juhan '29

LaMyra Kane Swanson '32

Aileen Kasper Borrish '41

Margaret Kelly Wells '47

Sally May King '15

Jean Kirkpatrick Cobb '37

Helen Land Ledbetter '52

Barbara Lawson Mansfield '50

Janice Lazenby Bryant '65

Sterly Lebey Wilder '43

Geraldine LeMay '29

Eloise Lennard Smith '40

Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg '27

Mildred Ling Wu '59

Florence Little '37

Lucile Little Morgan '23

Marybeth Little Weston '48

Harriet Lurton Major '49

Elizabeth Lynn '27

Louise McCain Boyce '34

Mildred McCain Kinnaird '46

Eva McCranie Jones '71

Jane McCurdy '67

Mary L. McCurdy '24

Sue McCurdy Hosterman '61

Frances McDonald Moore '37

Jimmie Ann McGee Collings '51

Martha Mcintosh Nail '23

Mary Stewart McLeod '23

Marianne McPherson O'Shields '55

Carolyn Magruder Ruppenthal '58

Lady Major '48

Marjorie Major Franklin '50

Edith Merrin Simmons '47

Molly Milam Inserni '45

Diane Miller Wise '65

Virginia Milner Carter '40

Margaret Minter Hyatt '57

Sue Mitchell '45

Catherine Mock Hodgin '26

Anne Modlin Burkhardt '61

Catherine Montgomery Williamson 'If

Lillian Moore Rice '23

Lynn Moore Hardy '30

Marguerite Morris Saunders '35

Ruth Morris Ferrell '49

Susan Morton '71

Helen Moses Regenstein '39

Ann Nash Reece '33

Mary Alice Newton Bishop '37

Reese Newton Smith '49

Virginia Louise Newton '19

Sarah Nichols Judge '36

Fanny Niles Bolton '31

Lila Norfleet Davis '32

Alice Norman Pate '19

Mary Anna Ogden Bryan '51

Barbara Ann Oglesby '59

Harriet Pade Prouse '25

Dorothy Paine White '20

Emily Pancake '61

Evangeline Papageorge '28

Nina Parke Hopkins '35

Katherine Pasco '29

Julia Ann Patch Weston '42

Nancy Patterson Waters '60

Mary Spotswood Payne '17

Florence Perkins Ferry '26

Patricia Ann Persohn '49

Sarah Petty Dagenhart '55

Dorothy Potts Weiss '34

Jean Price Knapp '57

Rosalind Price Sasser '46

Joan Pruitt Mclntyre '55
Louise Pruitt Jones '42
Claire Purcell Smith '42
Marjorie Reitz Turnbull '62
Isabell Richardson Burton '37
Helen Ridley Hartley '29
Louise Roach Fuller '17
Helen Jean Robarts Seaton '52
Augusta Roberts '29
Caroline Romberg Silcox '58
Clara Rountree Couch '43
Barbara Rudisill '65
Cecily Rudisill Langford '58
Jean Salter Reeves '59
Betty Sams Daniel '39
Nannie Graham Sanders '28
JoAnn Sawyer Delafield '58
Ruth Scandrett Hardy '22
Rebekah Scott Bryan '48
Field Shackelford Blanton '33
Robbie Shelnutt Upshaw '56
Elizabeth Shepherd Green '39
Charlien Simms Miller '48
Ruth Slack Roach '40
Ruth Slack Smith '12
Sarah Quinn Slaughter '26
Harriet Smith '31
Miriam F. Smith '57
Sally Smith Howard '60
Celia Spiro Aidinoff '51
Frances Spratlin Hargrett '41
Louise Stakely '32
Nell Starr Gardner '32
Carol Stearns Wey '12
Frances Steele Finney '37
Jean Stewart Staton '46
Nancy Stillman Crais '61

Mabel Stowe Query '43
Jura Taffar Cole '32
Sarah Tate Tumlin '25
Grace Tazewell Flowers '38
Anne Terry Sherren '57
Mary Louise Thames Cartledge '30
Christie Theriot Woodfin '68
Nancy Thomas Hill '56
Anne Thompson Rose '38
Elizabeth Thrasher Baldwin '35
Marjorie Tippins Johnson '44
Harriet Todd Gallant '30
Sara Townsend Pittman '30
Vannie Traylor Knightley '56
Memory Tucker Merritt '25
Norma Tucker Sturtevant '26
Christine Turner Hand '25
Mary Ann Turner Edwards '45
Elinor Tyler Richardson '39
Mary Vines Wright '36
Magara Waldron Crosby '16
Suzanne Watkins Smith '45
Virginia Watson Logan '38
Laura Whitner Dorsey '35
Elizabeth Williams Henry '49
Harriet B. Williams '30
Martha Williamson Riggs '32
Sandra H. Wilson '65
Ellene Winn '31

Elizabeth Witherspoon Patterson '19
Katherine Wolcott '22
Margaret Wright Alston Acad.
Mary Ben Wright Erwin '25
Rosalind Wurm Council '20
Margaret Yancey Kirkman '48
Johnnie Mae York Rumble '34
Roberta Zachry Ingle '09

15

^Where it's at-./'

NEWS OF AND AROUND ASC

Financial Tips-Is Estate Planning Practical? V Prettyman Retires

A married man with an estate of
$300,000 can save as much as
$36,700 in Federal estate taxes by:

1) leaving one-half of his property
to his wife in such a way as to
qualify for a marital deduction; and

2) leaving the other half of his
property to a trust which will benefit
his wife for her life but will not be
subject to the Federal estate tax
when she dies.

But many husbands ask, "Is such
a trust practical?" Look at these
facts. A trust set up in your will
can provide that your wife is to
receive: 1) all the income for life;

2) as much principal as she needs
for her comfortable support; and

3) additional principal, as she sees
fit, up to $5,000 a year, or possibly
even more.

That's not all. Your wife can be
given the right with almost
insignificant exceptions to name
the beneficiaries to take the trust
property at her death. And by
appointing another as trustee, she
can be spared investment worries,
anxieties and details.

Estate planning can be practical.
Sure, it often saves thousands of
dollars in taxes and settlement costs.
But its real goal is practical financial
security.

Are Gifts to Agnes Scott College
Practical?

Just as your personal estate
planning can result in large tax
savings for your family, a carefully
planned gift to Agnes Scott College
can also save you thousands of
tax dollars. But in neither case is
saving taxes the primary objective.
Indeed, most planned gifts to Agnes
Scott are motivated by objectives
that are more basic and practical
than tax considerations.

An Agnes Scott alumna may make
a restricted gift which permits the

College to acquire additional
laboratory equipment. Because of
this new equipment, several students
and faculty members are encouraged
to undertake research projects . . .
and their work adds to mankind's
accumulated knowledge. This alumna
realizes a tax reward for her
generosity. No question about that.
But the personal satisfaction of
knowing she has benefited society
is far more important.

In recent years, Agnes Scott has
been able to increase financial
assistance to bright, deserving young
women who otherwise could not
afford a higher education. Surely,
all the friends of the College who
have set up gifts for scholarships
and loan funds will derive
tremendous personal satisfaction
from the future accomplishments
of these young women.

Right now, there are splendid
opportunities to make rewarding
gifts to the College. Think what you
will accomplish if you create a new
academic chair at Agnes Scott . . .
perhaps in one of the ecological
fields that are so important to
mankind's future. Or your gift may
be used to add more ecological
books to our library collection. Or
consider how much benefit you
might confer on society if your gift
results in a new building, a new
course of study, a new campus
activity, or an improved community.
The possibilities are staggering.

Gifts to Agnes Scott do give rise
to big tax rewards. But more
important, with careful planning,
your gift can be intensely practical
and satisfying.

If you would like more information
on how to plan gifts to the College,
please write to the Development
Office; Agnes Scott College; Decatur,
CA 30030.

Virginia F. Prettyman '34, Professor
of English, retired last year from
the faculty of Wellesley College,
where she had taught since 1947.
A native of Summerville, SC,
Virginia received her M.A. degree
from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and her
Ph.D. Degree from Yale in 1943.
She joined the faculty at Wellesley,
after being Assistant in English at
Agnes Scott from 1936-38 and
Instructor in English at Smith from
1944-47.

A specialist in eighteenth century
English literature, Virginia has
focused her study on the poetry and
art of William Blake, studying in
libraries in the United States and
England. She did research on the
eighteenth century poet William
Shenstone, and is the author of
"Shenstone's Reading of Spencer,"
an essay in The Age of Johnson.
During a sabbatical leave from
Wellesley in 1970-71, she spent her
time studying Shakespeare and
Marlowe, comparing their dramatic
techniques.

E. Dunlap Is Ordained

Elizabeth H. Dunlap '50, teaching
missionary to Zaire, Africa since 1954,
became the first woman in the
Presbyterian Church U.S. to be
ordained in South Carolina. The
ceremony took place on April 15,
1973, in the First Presbyterian Church
of York, South Carolina, the church
she grew up in. Elizabeth received a
M.C.E. Degree from the Presbyterian
School of Education and recently
completed her Masters of Divinity
Degree from Columbia Theological
Seminary. She has returned to Zaire
to resume teaching in the theological
training school for native pastors
at the Presbyterian mission.

16

Scott's Bazaar... Bargains Unlimited

By Christie Theriot Woodfin '68

This year several members of the
Young Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae
Club decided we would like to
do more than just meet with other
young graduates monthly and hear
a speaker. We wanted to do
something constructive for the
College. Therefore, when some
discontinued decorator fabrics
providentially fell into our hands,
the idea of having a bazaar of
hand-made items was thrust upon us.

After some tentative plans were
made concerning what articles to
make and potential committee
chairmen were contacted, it was
heartening to see how many
alumnae were willing to have
greatness (or great burdens) thrust
upon them. Only two or three
girls had to decline the chairing
of a committee. And the twenty-five
that did take on the job did so with
an enthusiasm and diligence that
was exciting.

In addition to unearthing sources

for raw materials and making items
that looked professional enough
for "Neiman's" to peddle, they also
endeavored to contact every alumna
in the Atlanta area and to press
them into service. Thankfully,
alumnae from the Decatur Club
and both Atlanta Clubs responded
to the calls for help.

The result was a fantastically
successful bazaar at Cates Center
on Saturday, October 27. The day
was lovely; the shopkeepers
hospitable; our wares, adorable.
There were Christmas ornaments
and wreaths; needlepoint of all
sorts; handsome fabric-covered
picture frames, trash cans and
albums; bean bags; shoe bags;
aprons; luggage racks; racket covers;
glass cases; decoupage stools; shell
jewelry; antique kitchen utensils;
hot pads; patchwork pillows;
photographs; painted pots; plants;
white elephants and scrumptious
baked goods. Mrs. Lewis Gaines

00 even knitted us a beautiful
afghan to sell. Raffle tickets were
sold for chances on a Spode platter
from Carol Waltz Antiques, a prayer
rug from Sharian, inc., a nursery
mural from Tricia Hargett's
Kangaroos 'n Things (Tricia Aycock
Hargett '66), and a bright yellow
ten speed bicycle. If you weren't
there, you missed some terrific buys!

When the bazaar was all over and
we were left to count our money it
added up to $3,750. We'll surely
net well over $3,000, which we plan
at this time to give to Agnes Scott's
Annual Fund.

But the benefits of the bazaar
were not solely financial. Those who
worked on committees had the
opportunity to renew old friendships
and make some new ones, and a
marvelous esprit de corps developed.
Agnes Scott got some favorable
publicity as a result of the event.
And for once, I got my Christmas
shopping done early.

17

Agnes Scott Awarded Carnegie Grant to Train
Young Women of Academic Administration

Agnes Scott College is the only
southeastern institution among
sixteen colleges awarded a Carnegie
Corporation grant of $290,000 to
fund a new program of college and
university administrative internships
for young women.

The two-year program, beginning
in 1974, is designed to encourage
young women to undertake careers
in college and university

administration that have traditionally
been largely restricted to men.
According to a recent report of
the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Colleges,
less than two percent of women in
academic administration are found
in top-level positions at state
universities and land-grant colleges.

If the internship program is
continued as long as five years, it

Alumnae Daughters, Fall 1973

(These include Freshmen, Sophomores, and Transfers in 1973)

Evelyn Elizabeth Babcock m ... .Mary Elizabeth Hayes Babcock '49

Susan Street Balch '76 Marie Street Boone Baich X-52

Carolyn Ann Bitter '76 Barbara Whipple Bitter X-48

Elizabeth Holland Boney '76 Betty Holland Boney '52

Elizabeth Brandon Brame '76 ... .Martha Warlick Brame '49

Anne Davis Callison '77 Patricia Ann Lancaster Callison X-52

Margaret Marie Carter '76 Betty McLellan Carter '53

Virginia S. Carter '75 Virginia Miiner Carter '40

Sharon Ann Collings '77 Jimmie Ann McCee Collings '51

Mary Annette Cook Janet Van de Erve Cook X-48

Marianna Elizabeth Edwards '76 . .Mary Ann Elizabeth Turner Edwards '45

Anne Coile Estes '77 Anne Hagerty Estes '47

Susan Lee Floyd '76 Helen Peterson Floyd '50

Evalyn Mackay Gantt '76 Mildred Knight Derieux Gantt X-47

Susan Heriot '74 Harriet Gregory Heriot '48

(Visiting senior fall quarter from Oberlin College)

Nancy Anne Hull '77 Nancy Whetstone Hull '54

Mildred Frazer Kinnett '76 Betty Blackmon Kinnett '49

Alice Elizabeth Knight '76 Dorothy Elizabeth Adams Knight '51

Jane Elizabeth Maas '76 Myree Elizabeth Weils Maas '42

Georganne Elizabeth Major '77 . .Harriet Ann Lurton Major '49

Susan Wheeler Mitchell '76 Mary Russell Mitchell '46

Patricia Louise Pearson '76 Lillian Lasseter Pearson '50

Susi Lang Pedrick '77 Dale Bennett Pedrick '47

Eleanor Noble Phelps '76 M. Primrose Noble Phelps '38 (deceased)

Julie Florine Poole '77 Bess Sheppard Poole '45

Ecta Ann Ramsaur '77 Dorothy Peace Ramsaur '47

Jo Lynn Schellack '76 M. E. "Billy" Walker Schellack '44

Shari Lynn Shufelt '76 Gwen Hill Shufelt '44

Jacquelin Kay Smith '76 Mary Elizabeth Flanders Smith X-49

Bonnie Stoffel '77 Betty Williams Stoffel '44

Laura Eleanor Underwood '76 ... Eleanor Compton Underwood X-49

Anne English Walker '76 Margaret Erwin Walker '42

Dorothy Ann Wilkes '76 Mary Lillian Allen Wilkes '46

Elizabeth Knox Williams '76 Eunice Knox Williams '39

should add over 150 women to
the pool of potential top-level
administrators for colleges and
universities in areas where women
are grossly under-represented, such
as financial and business affairs,
admissions, financial aid, academic
affairs, public relations and
development.

The sixteen colleges cooperating
in the program include fourteen
women's colleges and two former
women's colleges whose student
bodies are still predominantly
women. The women's colleges are
Agnes Scott, Cedar Crest, Chatham,
Goucher, Hollins, Mary Baldwin,
Randolph Macon Women's, Salem,
Scripps, Sweet Briar, Wells, Wheaton
and Wilson. Elmira and Skidmore
are the two coeducational colleges.

The administrative Interns must be
young women under age 30 who
are recent college graduates, or are
completing programs leading to
appropriate advanced degrees, or
are young faculty members with
an expressed interest in administration
in higher education. Candidates,
nominated by the sixteen colleges,
will be screened by the program
coordinator at Cedar Crest College
and selected by a five-member
advisory board composed of the
presidents of the participating
colleges.

In the ten-month program, one or
two graduates from each institution
will be assigned, following a
two-week workshop, to work
directly with a senior administrator
at a cooperating college, and will
undertake special projects to
broaden their understanding of
issues in college management.

As part of the internship plan,
a placement service will provide
guidance and assistance to interns
as they seek positions of further
training. In addition, the interns will
be listed on professional rosters and
their availability advertised in
appropriate academic media.

Cedar Crest College, Allentown,
PA, will administer the administrative
internship program for the sixteen
colleges and is designated recipient
of the Carnegie Corporation
grant funds.

^\

Alumnae Council Meets^
Meets New President

The second annual Agnes Scott Alum-
nae Council met on November 1-2,
1973. The two-day meeting began at
1:00 with a brief memorial service
to Barbara Pendleton, led by Pattie
Patterson Johnson '41. Memye Curtis
Tucker '56, President of the Alumnae
Association, welcomed the group and
discussed the purpose of the Council

to inform alumnae of new pro-
grams and curriculum changes, to ex-
change ideas and excitement and to
meet Dr. and Mrs. Perry.

Following the general meeting, the
group broke up into three workshops

class presidents and secretaries,
club presidents and officers and
alumnae admissions representatives

where they discussed problems re-
lating to their areas of responsibili-
ties. Later that afternoon alumnae
met with faculty members in the
Alumnae House for informal discus-
sions and coffee.

Dr. and Mrs. Perry joined the
group for dinner in the Dining Hall
and then led the parade down to the
President's Home. Mrs. Perry enter-
tained with coffee from antique pots
and homemade delicacies for dessert.
Dr. Perry spoke briefly and informally
of his hopes and plans for Agnes
Scott, after which alumnae asked and
answered questions for almost two
hours.

Friday morning session opened
with a general discussion led by
Memye Curtis Tucker and Carey
Bowen Craig '62, Acting Director of
Alumnae Affairs. Questions were
raised and discussed concerning the
alumnae role in boosting Agnes
Scott's enrollment, the problems of
"selling" the liberal arts education
and the woman's college to young
people today, the responsibilities of
an alumna to her college as opposed
to the services the college can offer
the alumna.

After a short talk by Mr. Alex
Gaines, new Chairman of the Agnes
Scott Board of Trustees, and a panel
during which students talked about
Agnes Scott today, the group ate a
basket lunch catered by Anita Moses

Shippen '61 and the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Alumnae Club, and the meeting
was adjourned.

Agnes Scott English
Department Publishes
That Subtile Wreath

In November, Agnes Scott
announced the publication of the
book That Subtile Wreath: Lectures
Presented at the Quatercentenary
Celebration of the Birth of John
Donne. Edited by Dr. Margaret W.
Pepperdene, Chairman of the
Department of English at Agnes
Scott, the book features the lectures
given at the Donne Symposium held
at Agnes Scott College, February
24-25, 1972, inaugurating the James
Ross McCain Lecture Series.

The Subtile Wreath contains the
lectures: "Formal Wit in the Songs
and Sonnets," by Professor Frank
Manley of the English Department
of Emory University; "Donne's
Anniversaries Revisited," by
Professor Louis L. Martz of the
English Department of Yale
University; "The Role of
Autobiographical Narrator in the
Songs and Sonnets," by Professor
Patricia G. Pinka, English Department,
Agnes Scott College. It also contains
an exclusive feature by Professor
Martz, "A Selected Bibliography of
Writings on Donne's Anniversaries,
an annotated bibliography prepared
especially for this volume. That
Subtile Wreath begins with a
foreword by Dr. Pepperdene and
includes an introduction by Dr.
Wallace Alston describing the
James Ross McCain Lectureship.

Another interesting feature of the
book is a reprinting of the
Symposium song program with notes
by Professor Margret Trotter of
Agnes Scott's English Department.

The College is printing 1,000
copies of the first edition. Reprints
will be made if there is enough
demand. That Subtile Wreath will
be available in the Agnes Scott
Bookstore for $4.50 or may be
ordered by mail, using the form on
page 22.

Dept. of History and Political
Science Offers Trip to Africa

In cooperation with LSU,
Penelope Campbell, Associate
Professor of History and Po-
litical Science at Agnes Scott,
is offering a three-week study
program to Egypt, Kenya, and
Tanzania. Focusing on matters
of human and animal ecology,
participants will study land-
scape and life in North and East
Africa. The course may be taken
for non-credit or for three
semester hours credit from LSU.
The dates for the trip are June
9 June 30, 1974. Total cost,
excluding $90. tuition for those
who desire academic credit, is
$1189. from New York. For a
brochure and more details,
write Dr. Penelope Campbell;
Agnes Scott College; Decatur,
Georgia 30030,

BSA Responds to
Student Requests

On October 18 and 25, the Board
of Student Activities (BSA) sponsored
the first in a series of short practical
courses "Women on Wheels."
Taught by Mr. Henry Harris, who
teaches at Clayton Junior College
and the YWCA, the class dealt with
automobile mechanics.

The BSA is planning to offer
courses in Income Tax Filing,
Consumer Information, Self Defense,
Medical and Health Care and other
topics that students request in the
future. All of these courses will be
taught on Thursday evenings from
7:30 to 8:30 throughout the year.

Responding to student interest
in learning to solve everyday
problems, the BSA seems to have
found an effective way to meet
student needs. According to Sara
Barrett, Chairman of BSA, over 500
students signed a petition requesting
practical courses in several specific
areas.

19

Architecture of Neel Reid in Georgia Announced by Alumna

Laura Whitner Dorsey '35, Agnes
Scott alumna and Chairman-Trustee
of the Peachtree-Cherokee Trust,
announces the publication of a new
book, Architecture of Neel Reid in
Georgia by James Grady, Professor
of Architecture at the Georgia
Institute of Technology.

The study of Reid's work presents
a survey of his contribution to the

architecture of Atlanta and other
Georgia towns in the early
twentieth century. The author has
chosen a representative selection
of homes and a few public buildings
to show the range of Reid's talent.
These homes, which are pictured
throughout the book in 61 color
plates and 134 photographs, include
mansions, villas, small city houses

Shadow Program Proposed For 1974

In the spring of 1973 Adelaide Ryall
Beall '52, Chairman of the Career
Advisory Committee, met with
Miss lone Murphy, Director of the
Office of Career Planning, and a
core group of Dana Scholars,
which acts as an advisory and
co-sponsoring group on programs
of the Career Planning Office, to
discuss programs that might be
undertaken to provide a larger
dimension of understanding of
various career fields than the
traditional career literature or career
program permits. Some students had
observed an alumna at work in a
career field that interested them
and had found the experience
meaningful. From this grew the idea
of a "Shadow Program." Considerable
enthusiasm was generated for the
prospect of such a program. The
student group urged the organization
of a career program that would

permit a student to follow or
"shadow" an alumna in a career
field that interested her.

Another meeting of this group
came in the fall of this year, and
enthusiasm for the "Shadow
Program" had not diminished. At this
time students urged the establishment
of the program offering varying
options about the period of time
that students might shadow an
alumna in her career field, as well
as the option of visiting an alumna
in another part of the country for
the purpose of shadowing her in
the pursuit of her job.

In establishing the program, it
would be helpful to have an
indication of the degree of
participation alumnae might be
able to give to the program. If
you can help, would you respond
on the form below.

and cottages.

James Grady states in the
introduction to the book, "A sense
of quality is evident in all of Reid's
work. The character of a house is
stated at once and kept throughout
the design. . . . Reid was a master
of scale; it is the indefinable essence
of his style. He must be accepted
as a gifted, intuitive designer who
produced excellent architecture from
the beginning of his career."

The Peachtree-Cherokee Trust has
been established as a joint effort of
the Peachtree Garden Club and
Cherokee Garden Club to accomplish
"an educational purpose of each
Garden Club by compiling and
making available for the
enlightenment of the public, as
well as the members of each, a
record of certain outstanding
buildings and gardens in the Atlanta
area and in Georgia." The aim of this
Trust is to fulfill the literary and
educational purposes of the Clubs
by producing an accurate,
comprehensive and scholarly record
of the architectural techniques
of the late Neel Reid.

Architecture of Neel Reid in
Georgia will sell for $29.75 plus
tax, a price set only to cover the
expense of the project and not to
make a profit. It can be ordered
from the Peachtree-Cherokee Trust;
P.O. Box 27517; Station No. 7;
Atlanta, Georgia 30327.

Name

Job

Indicate the period of time that your
job would permit a student to
shadow:

Indicate whether you would be
willing to have a student as a guest
in your home during spring holiday

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or some other mutually agreed
upon time:

Please clip and mail this form to:
Miss lone Murphy; Director, Office
of Career Planning; Agnes Scott
College; Decatur, GA 30030.

DEATHS

Institute

Amelie Adams Harrington (Mrs W Eugene).

date unknown

Mary David McWilliams (Mrs Thomas E ).

July 9, 1973

Willie Park Goss Gardner (Mrs James M ).

date unknown

Lillian Johnson HunnicutI (Mrs. M Reese).

date unknown

Bertha Lewis Buford (Mrs Curtis S ). date

unknown

Mary McWhorter Champion (Mrs W P ). date

unknown

Anne Lulie Morrow Croft (Mrs R M ),

date unknown

Mayme Parrott Wood (Mrs W P ) date

unknown

Jessie W. Smith Young (Mrs Will W ]. date

unknown.

Academy

Ellie Mae Archibald Haley (Mrs Frank W

Sr 1, July 16. 1973

Martha Sparks, date unkrown,

1912

Mary Bacon Duncan (Mrs ). Dec 11.1972

1919

Mary H. May Harrison (Mrs Thomas D),
June 18, 1971

1920

Margaret Berryhill Reece (Mrs ). date

unknown

Robert S Mann, husband of Sarah Davis

Mann. Dec 28. 1972, (The Quarterly

apologizes for erroneously listing Sarah

Davis Mann in the DEATHS m the last

edition )

1924

Gwynne Cannon Perry (Mrs J McDonald),
date unknown

1925

Marguerite Harris Garrard (Mrs William).
July 18, 1973

Or Eugene Maier. husband of Floy Sadler
I Mater, July 24. 1973

1927

Lora Lee Turner Bostwick (Mrs W E J. July
26. 1973

1929

Sara Mildred Farris, April 4. 1973
Josephine Pou Varner (Mrs Robert J,). Aug,
15. 1973

1930

Mary Patricia Flint Archibald (Mrs Thomas
G ), date unknown

1931

Mrs WT Thompson, mother of Juiia
Thompson Smith, Aug 25. 1973.

1934

Amelia O'Neal Nuessle (Mrs William E ).
July 18, 1973

1938

Mrs W T Thompson, mother of Ann
Thompson Rose, Aug 25.1973

1940

Barbara Murlin Pendleton (Mrs E Banks. Jr ).
Oct 16. 1973

1941

Marion Phillips Richards (Mrs William T ).
July 29, 1973

1945

Mrs John Hood, mother of Jean Hood Booth.

June 23, 1973

Juanita Lanier Porter. May 9 1973

William Todd Harper, son of Jean Satterwhite

Harper, June, in auto accident

1946

Col George H Schumacher, father of Mary
Jane Schumacher Bullard. June 27. 1973

1954

Josephine Pou Varner, mother of Joanne
Varner Hawks, Aug 15. 1973

1959

Josephine Pou Varner, mother of Barbara
Varner Willoughby, Aug 15. 1973

1964

James Clay Davenport, father of Dale
Davenport Fowler, July 16, 1973
David E Laird, father of Mary Lou Laird
April, 1973

1967

James Clay Davenport, father of Marsha Lee
Davenport, July 16, 1973

1972

Ella Griffm Kemble, mother of Anne Kemble
Collins, June 17. 1973
Walter Earl Thomas, father of Barbara
Thomas Parker, June 30, 1973

From left, Betsy, President Perry, Mrs. Perry, and Margaret in their new home.

Greetings from the President

For Mrs. Perry and me, and our daughters, our first Agnes Scott Christ-
mas is a very special one. We are grateful for the privilege of living on
this campus, knowing the fine people students, faculty, and staff
who live and work here with us, and coming to know and admire in-
creasingly the concerned and capable women everywhere who make
up the Agnes Scott alumnae family. I am grateful for the opportunity
to serve as your president in these crucial times.

It is a particular privilege to greet you all at Christmas. Despite the
ills and troubles of a weary world, this holy season still remains a time
of renewal and joy and love. Enduring through the years, and transcend-
ing all our differences, the Christmas message of peace and service and
love continues to give us blessed reassurance that, even in this confused
and suffering world, mankind can, with God's help, continue to hope
and work and care.

On behalf of Agnes Scott, I send you warm Christmas greetings from
the College, and pray that Christ's richest blessings may be yours in
the New Year. May your holidays be merry and joyous, but also grateful,
thoughtful, and bright with Christian hope and love.

RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED BY ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030

THE ACNES SCOTT ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION proudly announces
TWO wonderful tours for summer 1974.

The deluxe four-capital tour of

London, Paris,
Vienna, Copenhagen

July 29-August12, 1974

Visit

Westminister Abbey

Buckingham Palace

Stratford-on-Avon

The Eiffel Tower

Chartres

Versailles

Vienna Opera House
Schonbrunn Palace
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
Christianborg Palace

all on one fabulous European Tour
Price $1095 for alumnae, friends,
families, faculty, staff.

Another exciting tour to

Malaga^ Spain

June 12-19, 1974

8 days-/ nights on the Spanish Riviera

Time for relaxing on the beautiful beaches,
strolling or shopping for leather, clothes,
wrought iron, touring Granada, Torremolinos,
or even Tangiers.

Price only $399. plus $3.00 airport
tax for alumnae and their immediate
families.

ALUMNAE QU/

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Alumnae Quarterly Volume 52 Number 2

The Agnes Scott student, reflecting the
search ot young women everywhere,
prepares her mind and chooses her path.
(The photographer. Bill Crimes, caught
the reflection of an Agnes Scott student
in a bookcase, as she studied in
the hbrary.

contents

1 Virginia Brown McKenzie Appointed Alumnae
Director

2 'It's a Pretty Good Job -For a Woman'

by Wanda Roark Ledbetter
6 Five Ways to Go

by Cynthia Wilkes 73, Nancy Duvall, Ph.D. '60, Beverly Kenton

Mason '62, Dorothy Porcher '62, Letitia Young '73
1 Career Planning: Helping Students Help Themselves

by Carey Bowen Craig '62
1 2 Agnes Scott Needs to Know You Better
1 3 Agnes Scott in the World

Aboard Ship with Barbara Symroski Culliney '66

by Susannah Masten '59
1 4 The 1974 Atlanta Environmental Symposium Had

Them in the Aisles

1 8 Donne as an Agnes Scott Experience

review by Eleanor Hutchens '40

2 1 'The Sum of Living'

review by Adelaide L. Cunningham '11
2 2 News of and about ASC

2 6 Class News

by Shelia Wilkins Harkleroad '69

3 6 Fortune, Friends and Future

by Carey Bowen Craig '62

Alumnae Office Staff
Alumnae Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Associate Director

Carey Bowen Craig '62
Fund Coordinator

Deborah Arnold Fleming '71
Student Aides

Taffy Stills '74,
Linda Woodward '75,
Donna McV^horter '75,
Phyllis Devane '76

Alumnae Association Officers

President,/Memye Curtis Tucker 56

Vice Presidents

Region I/Dorothy Porcher '62
Region ll/Nancy Edwards '58
Region lll/|ane King Allen '59

Secretary/

Margaret Benton Davis '57

Treasurer/

Caroline McKinney Clarke '27

Photo Credits

Front Cover, Pages 1, 3, 36A, Back Cover-Bill Crimes; Artwork Page 3-Christie Theriot
Woodfin '68: Pages 5, 11, 30-S/;fiouette; Page 7B Abbey Photo Studios, Boston, MA.; Page 7C
-Guy Hayes; Pages 14, 15, 16, 17-Ron Sherman; Page 23 Leo Cozbekian; Page 24-Memve
Curtis Tucker '56; Page 33 Chuck Rogers.

Editor/Carey Bowen Craig '62 Class News Editor/Shelia Wilkins Harkleroad '69 Design
Consultant/John Stuart McKenzie Member of American Alumni Council

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Ca. Second class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia 30030

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Dr. Marvin Perry and Virginia Brown McKenzie look forward to an
exciting future for the Alumnae Association.

Virginia Brown McKenzie Appointed Alumnae Director

Virginia Lee Brown McKenzie '47 has been
named Director of Alumnae Affairs at Agnes
Scott by President Marvin Perry, with the
approval of the Executive Board of the Alumnae
Association. She began her duties on
April 10, 1974.

A native Atlantan, Mrs. McKenzie served as
president of the student body both at Bass Junior
High School and at Atlanta Girls High School.
She vk'as graduated from Agnes Scott College
in 1947 with a major in journalism and a minor
in political science. But her association with
the College did not stop there. She has been
active in alumnae work as Atlanta Club officer,
serving two terms as president (1958-59,
1963-64), as member of the Executive Board,
as team captain in the 75th Anniversary
Campaign, and as club hostess many times over.

She has four grown children, Carol Ann
McKenzie Fuller '70, Craig, Nancy Lee and
Heather. Her husband, John Stuart McKenzie has
been a speaker, critic and judge for the American
Alumni Council and the American College

Public Relations Association. Mr. McKenzie has
long been associated with Agnes Scott and
other college alumni associations as printer
and design consultant.

Mrs. McKenzie has been active in church
work, community chest and girl scouts as a
volunteer and has taught school at Westminster
and O'Keefe Middle School.

Since the death of Barbara Pendleton last
October, Dr. Perry and an alumnae committee
of officers of the Executive Board have conducted
a search for a new director. After a careful
study of applications and personal interviews,
Mrs. McKenzie was selected and unanimously
approved by the Executive Board. President
Perry says, "We're delighted to have Mrs.
McKenzie on the Agnes Scott staff. We
believe we have found in her a Director of
Alumnae Affairs who combines the qualities
of personality and devotion to Agnes Scott
with the energy and managerial ability so
necessary for this important position." A

A How-to for job Hunting

'Ifs a Pretty Good job-

For a Woinan'

Wanda Roark Ledbetter, the author, is
Federal Women's Program Coordinator,
Region IV, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare. A candidate
for the Ph.D. degree in Recent
American History at the University of
Georgia, she is writing a dissertation
entitled, "The Women's Rights Move-
ment in the 1920's." Mrs. Ledbetter has
taught history at Stephen F. Austin
State University (Nacogdoches, Texas),
Alvin luniorCollege (Alvin, TX), DeKalb
junior College, the University of
Georgia, and Georgia State University.

By Wanda Roark Ledbetter

First of all, this is not written to try to convince
you that you should or should not have a career;
the decision of whether to work is a distinctly
personal one, and not one for anyone else to
make for you.

This is directed to those of you who have made
the decision to work you who are still in
school and planning to have a career, you who
are already in the workforce and want to
consider changing jobs, and especially you who
are considering joining or re-joining the
paid-workforce after a career in your home. If it
is your choice to work outside the home (and
most often, this automatically means a career in
conjunction with your household duties), this
article is intended as a "how-to" help for you.

I hope you noticed the deliberate distinction
I made between using the terms "non-paying
careers in the home" and "just being a
housewife." I have never liked the implication
that because you are not on a regular salary,
you are not performing work. So the first thing
you need to do is to brainwash yourself into the
attitude that all work is work whether paid
or unpaid. When you are applying for a job, list
all of your pertinent work experience, paid
or unpaid. A marvelous example of this is the
"housewife" who described herself on a resume
as a "household manager," with duties and
responsibilities in areas such as finance
("prepared annual budget, developed accounting
system to accommodate joint-check banking
activities of partners," etc.), public relations
("handled community relations, daily travel
arrangements," etc.), personnel management,
purchasing, nutritionist, etc.; you get the idea. Also

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Woman, in her indomitable wa
takes off in a new direction.
Rejecting the stereotyped role,
she begins a new life-style;
she recognizes her multitude o
options and walks confidently
with her new freedom.

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remember that volunteer work in clubs or civic
groups is experience (running the fund-raising
campaign for a community organization, or
being an officer in the PTA are certainly
experiences which could be relevant
to a paid job).

The second important thing to remember is
that you do not have to limit yourself to those
areas which are traditionally thought of as
"woman's work." Career opportunities for
women ought not to be any different from career
opportunities for men. You need to be aware
of the many areas where women now work which
were closed to them only a few years ago. It
may be necessary for you to take some specific
training in order to get into some of these
fields, but there are others which require no
special prerequisites. All you really need to do is
to be realistic about the area you choose.

This is not to say that you can't choose one of
the traditional occupations for women indeed,
"choice" is the whole idea now but also be
aware that in many of the traditional fields,
supply exceeds the demand.

All of us, employers and employees, need to
change our ideas about "woman's work."
Woman's work is and should be whatever work
will be satisfying, meaningful and challenging to
any individual woman. Whatever career field you
choose should be one which you will enjoy.
It is both unrealistic and ridiculous to spend
half of your waking hours in a job
you don't like.

You need to be aware of the legal protection
and assistance which are available to you.

There are strong laws which prohibit
discrimination in employment based on sex
or on age. However, laws are not always strictly
adhered to, so you must be prepared to insist
on adherence. It is not enough to have laws
protecting women's rights if women do not
actively seek their enforcement.

In your search for the right job, consider local,
state, and federal government as prospective
employers. They cover an amazingly wide range
of occupations. Most government jobs do require
a test of some sort, so check with your State
Merit System or the Civil Service
Commission for requirements.

Consider employment agencies, both private
and state agencies, as good aids when you are
looking for a job. Most private agencies charge
a job-finding fee, so be sure you understand
exactly what the charge will be. One warning: Do
not tolerate an agency, public or private, which
automatically assumes that every woman
applicant is to be referred to traditional position
openings. Not only is this illegal, it is also
imminently unfair to women who may not choose
to pursue a traditional career field. (It's a dead
giveaway if, when you have reeled off your
training in chemistry. Master's degree in
Mathematics, and Ph.D. in nuclear physics, the
agency representative asks, "Well, can you type?")

There is valuable assistance in printed materials.
The Women's Bureau of the Department of
Labor has some excellent pamphlets, such as
"Careers for Women in the 70's," and "Job
Finding Techniques for Mature Women." These
have good suggestions on writing resumes and

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surviving interviews. Another excellent resource
is Caroline Bird's recent book Everything A
Woman Needs to Know to Get Paid What She's
Worth. It is full of tips on how to get a job, and,
once you have the job, how you get the pay you
deserve, instead of what someone has arbitrarily
decided is "a pretty good salary for a woman."

I began this article by stating that the
decision of whether to work is a personal one,
and I would make no attempt to sway your
opinion on that subject. Yet I very sincerely
believe that every woman should give careful
consideration to career planning. This is
important not only for women who intend to
stay in the Labor Market, but also for women who
plan to have a career in the home. Although
none of us likes to consider the possibility,
circumstances death, divorce, disability, etc.
often dictate that the woman must become the
breadwinner for her family. So whether you think
you will have a career in the home or outside,
plan and train as though you will be working
outside the home.

One last rule to follow: Learn to believe in
yourself and your abilities. Most women are
victims of our cultural environment, which has
taught us to doubt our contributions. We must all
learn that we do have something to contribute,
and that we must emphasize these abilities in a
positive manner, not in a negative way.

Good luck, good job-hunting, and may
you have an exciting, satisfying career,
whatever it is.

Cynthia Wilkes '73

Staff
Coordinator

I am the staff coordinator for an

interagency governmental task force.
The task force is composed of
representatives from several state
agencies, including the Departments
of Human Resources, Education, and
the Governor's Office. Their common
interest is the problem and effects of
emotional disturbance in Georgia's
children and adolescents. These
people have pooled their
interdisciplinary resources in the
development of the Outdoor
Therapeutic Program, a statewide
program to serve troubled youth
through small group experiences in
a primitive outdoor setting.

Through the Georgia Intern
program, a state program which
places students and graduates in
state government projects for a
specific, short period of time, I
was assigned to serve as staff
member of the task force recently
formed by the Commissioners of
Human and Natural Resources.
Originally, the job was to be only
for the summer internship, and I
had planned to teach school in the
fall. However, as the project
developed and I became more
involved, I was eager to continue
working on it and was pleased to
become an employee of the
Division of Mental Health in the
Georgia Department of
Human Resources.

I was a psychology major at Agnes
Scott and had planned to teach
school for a few years before going
(continued on page 8}

Nancy Duvall, Ph.D. '60

Clinical
Psychologist

what do I do for a career, to
provide bed and board, to satisfy
my need for actualization? On the
spaces titled "Occupation," I
describe myself as a "Clinical
Psychologist." With other
professionals, I think of myself as
a psychotherapist. To children, and
sometimes older persons whom I
feel might be frightened by the
above designation, I simply say,
"I talk to people about their
problems." I don't think that in a
few sentences my words could
describe the heart of my work, that
deep changing or transformation
that challenges me daily. Only
the poet can condense all that
meaning and depth into a few
words. But the poet has expressed
it, with greater truth and perceptivity
than any psychology or
psychotherapy textbook:

This is the use of memory:

For liberation not less of love
but expanding

Of love beyond desire, and so
liberation

From the future as well as the past.

History may be servitude,
History may be freedom.
See, now they vanish.
The faces and places, with the self
which, as it could, loved them.
To become renewed, transfigured,
in another pattern.

T. S. Eliot "Little Gidding"
My task is to help persons change
into another pattern, and possibly
to become renewed and transfigured.

This task began when, after being
a history major and having taught
high school social studies, and
while working as a librarian, I had
to decide how I wanted to spend
(continued on page 8)

Beverly Kenton Mason '62

Real Estate
Agent

Exciting . . . Disappointing . . .
Consuming . . . Flexible . . .
Exhausting ... As I begin to discuss
my career as a real estate agent, all
these adjectives fill my mind. A
complete job description could till
the pages of this issue, so I w\\\
stick to basics.

For starters, we agents must learn
street names, subdivisions, short-
cuts, expressway exits, shopping
centers, school districts, and
recreation areas. Now bring on the
customer, the intangible element of
our business. At this point, we
become amateur psychologists. We
understand the frustrations and
insecurities that come with a move.
We listen. We try to see what
motivates people, what excites them,
what pleases them. We struggle to
learn what their needs really are. If
we know the market and understand
our customers, we should produce a
sale. Back to the tangibles
contracts, conventional interest
rates, VA loans, termite bonds, and
closing attorneys. We enjoy the
variety of our duties, but we must be
flexible and organized to maintain
our sanity. There are few dull
moments for a real estate agent.

What is a math major who thrives
on routine doing in a field like this?
Like most children of the fifties, I
planned to graduate from college,
get married, join clubs and raise
beautiful children. I will admit that
real estate had occurred to me as a
diversion 1 might pursue when my
(continued on page 9)

Dorothy Porcher '62

TraiTiiTig
Director

For the entirety of my working life,
I have been blessed and/or cursed
with a job title which is almost
completely nondescriptive of the
work actually performed. It is a
blessing when one wants to retire
quietly behind the title and catch
up on paperwork. Or, to have fun
with distant relatives I travel so
much that one cousin still asks
regularly, "How are things with the
airline these days?" It is a curse
upon meeting strangers, when the
question "What do you do?" failing
to receive a satisfactory explanation,
is followed by "Well, what is your
title?" whereupon all further
conversation is completely stifled.
The title is also a curse when trying
to write an article for the
Alumnae Quarterly!

In my job as Director of
Supervisory Training for a large
insurance company, the title is only
the tip of the iceberg. I am
responsible for directing the training
of our supervisors throughout the
United States and Canada. In
addition I travel to assist our field
supervisors with management
problems; I administer clerical
salaries and assist in the
administration of our
personnel policies.

The path to my present career
began in pre-school days when my
burning ambition was to see the
world as a WAVE. Having mastered
reading and writing, I became
interested in being an author. This
was followed in succession by
desires to be a housewife, jazz
pianist and cowboy. The one career
I was determined not to follow
was that of a teacher.

As I busied myself avoiding
(continued on page 9}

Letitia "Tish" Young '73

Newspaper
Reporter

in the eight months I have been
a reporter, I have discovered that
newspaper reporting is neither all
fires and robberies thank
goodness nor all front page
scoops. Rats! But since I've been with
The Constitution in Atlanta, I've had
my share of both. And it's been
quite an experience to walk into the
office in the mornmg and be told to
go either to, say, Cleveland, Georgia
80 miles away or right down
the street to a meeting at Georgia
State University. There seems to be
no limitation to the variety of
assignments which crop up on a
regular basis.

How I managed to wangle a job
on the largest newspaper in the
region is pretty complicated. But
It shows thai in this business, you
have to go out of your way to make
yourself known, journalism is
becoming more and more of a
prestigious field, in a peculiar sort
of way, and there are would-be
reporters knocking on the door of
every newspaper in the nation. Most
prospective ace reporters are told
that they must have a minimum of
two years' experience on a small
newspaper before they can hope to
have a desk on a metropolitan
publication. I was too. But much of
journalism, I'm convinced, is a matter
of being in the right place at the
right time, and it worked for me last
spring, when Reg Murphy, the editor
of The Atlanta Constitution, came to
speak at Agnes Scott.

(continued on page 9)

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Cynthia Wilkes 73

(continued)

Nancy Duvall, Ph.D. '60

on to graduate school, but the
project was more important and
exciting to me at that time than my
original plans. It was an opportunity
to see a program from its beginnings
as a common concern among a few
state employees to its full
development as a service for
troubled young people. Also,
because of the multi-agency
composition of the task force, I
have been allowed a broad exposure
to state government and some
of its services.

My liberal arts degree has been an
asset for me. I believe that the
ability to analyze situations, to look
in the right directions for answers,
and to work hard finding the
solutions was developed at Scott.
No specialized training or skills are
necessary to do the wide range of
things involved in this particular
job, but my psychology major has
been very helpful in understanding
the treatment concepts involved
in the program.

The suggestion I would make for
the Agnes Scott curriculum is the
inclusion of more intern programs,
in more fields. I believe that with
careful planning, internships could
provide extension to classroom
experiences and would help to orient
students to the working world.

The only "discrimination" I have
faced is the general assumption by
so many people that any female
under thirty must be a secretary. And
the only serious problem with
working for a government agency
is that when a project is federally
funded, there is a certain amount of
insecurity involved. This is a reality,
but the fears are offset by my belief
that the Outdoor Therapeutic
Program would provide a valid
service for many Georgia youths who
have problems and need help, and
that the program would therefore
continue to be funded.

my life grading papers, cataloging
books, or talking with people. It
came to me after great thought and
deliberation that the rumblings
of my unconscious broke through
and 1 knew in an instant what I
wanted. It was to know of love and
to share with persons and help
them be free, even as I had come
to know freedom. Part of me knew
the "aha," light-bulb phenomena
when the light is turned on in the
mind and all seems clear and
comprehensible, and part of me
laughed almost in disbelief. Mel?

Yes, me! So, after a long bout
with preparation and training (what
does a course in analysis or variance
have to do with anxiety? a
statistics course can generate a great
deal of anxiety!), I sit in my office
and talk to people about their
problems. And sometimes if a
client won't come into the office,
such as a 10 year-old girl who
refused to go to school, we walk
in the park near the office.

One of my greatest difficulties
upon getting my union card,
otherwise known as the Ph.D.,
involved more decisions about how
I wanted to utilize my training for
research, teaching, practice, or new
areas of development such as
community psychology,
neuropsychology, or parapsychology
but my own interests have
settled upon teaching and clinical
practice, though my present position
involves being directly related to
my patients, rather than in teaching.
My work predominantly involves
adults whom 1 see individually
and sometimes in group therapy.
(continued on page 25)

Beverly Kenton Mason '62

Letitia "Tish" Young '73

Dorothy Porcher '62

hair was gray and my car was
Cadillac. That I am in the business
now is quite by accident. From a
part-time public relations job with
a developer, I stumbled into exam
preparation classes. I happened to
pass the real estate exam, got my
license to sell, enrolled my baby in
the first grade, and set out on this
great adventure.

What a fantastic business this is!
We agents become so consumed by
the market that we forget we are
working. We enjoy maximum
flexibility along with an unlimited
opportunity to earn. We are involved
in a business that intrigues our
friends. If there is discrimination, it
is anti-male.

Incidentally, thai math major
comes in handy at times, and
especially is my Agnes Scott degree
a boon for business. A liberal arts
degree is probably the only degree
that would provide the variety of
studies and range of knowledge
necessary for the real estate agent

Of course, every rose has its thorns.
The most unpleasant aspect of this
business stems from the resentment
of the general public developed
through a few bad experiences with
agents. We are NOT all greedy. We
work extremely hard for what we
earn. We are trained to perform a
service in a professional manner and
need not be feared or mistrusted. A
minor drawback of the real estate
business is the tremendous influx
of new agents each year. There are
many courses offered which
"guarantee" a passing grade on the
licensing exam, but none which can
guarantee success. Atlanta's market is
booming, but the great numbers of
people entering the field make real
estate highly competitive. Only the
true professional will survive.

teaching, I worked during high
school and college vacations in office
situations. I listened to the advice
of a businessman relative who
gradually convinced me to consider
a business career. Through a
combination of positive and negative
reinforcement, I moved toward the
choice of a job in management.

I first heard of our company
through a recruiting flyer
distributed to the Agnes Scott
Vocational Office. The flyer described
the beginning of a new program to
hire recent college graduates directly
into supervisory positions in
clerical operations.

Most of the problems I
experienced early are those common
to many college graduates entering
the job market. These included
gaining acceptance as an "outsider"
from those who had come up
through the ranks and my own
problems adjusting to the world of
business after four years in the
academic world.

As I too moved through the ranks
to my present job, "problems ' came
more in the form of choices to be
made. The choices are typical of
what women will face with
increasing frequency as we gain the
right to equal employment:
whether to relocate to pursue an
interesting job offer or to find
a niche and stay in it for the sake
of familiar landscapes and old
friends; whether to sacrifice my
lifestyle for my work or, happily
to discover a way to arrive at a
compromise; whether, indeed, to
choose to make choices, to move
in a definite direction, rather than
(continued on page 25}

1 "collared" him afterward and
told him I wanted an interview. I
brought out my two summers of
experience on my hometown paper,
proofreading, writing, and told
Murphy I would do ANYTHING.

I still don't know whether it was
my nerve or my eagerness which
affected Murphy. But three weeks
later, after an interview with him
and the managing editor (who
handles hiring and firing on my
paper), I had a job.

So here I am. And here I plan to
stay, barring any unforeseen
complications like. . . . Recently we
did away with the women's
department as such, and instituted in
its place a "features department"
which we have yet to christen
formally. Some of us who had been
working on the City Desk, as the
headquarters for all city and area
reporters is called, moved over to
the erstwhile "women's section" of
the newsroom, and together with the
reporters who were already there,
have begun to create what we hope
will be an imaginative and
unconventional approach to
all sorts of topics.

It will take time, we know. But
everything that is worth doing takes
time. We're prepared to have to
fight for what we want lots of
paper space, the freedom to write
what we want the way we want to.
And in the real sense, that's what
journalism is all about. A

CAREER PLANNING:
Helping Students Help Themselves

by Carey Bowen Craig '62

Fifty years ago, most women prepared themselves
to teach, to nurse, or to make a comfortable
loving home for their husbands and children.
Usually, these careers were mutually exclusive;
married women were seldom employed
outside the home unless there were a pressing
financial need. However, during the last decade
especially, attitudes and opportunities have
changed. In 1974, a young woman can plan a
career in any field she chooses; in many
instances, this plan may include a family and a
full-time career outside the home.

Of course, there is still prejudice against
women in many fields. The myth remains among
employers that women are poor risks: women
work only temporarily, until they "find a man";
they are absent more than men; they work
only for "pocket money." However, according to
the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department
of Labor, of the 33 million women in the labor
force in 1972, more than half were single,
widowed, divorced, or married to men whose
incomes were less than $5,000. They were
working because of serious economic need, and
yet because of prejudice about their abilities,
they were restricted to low-paying, less rewarding
jobs. The nature of most of these jobs also
could have some influence on employee
absenteeism and loyalty.

Nevertheless, progress has been made. Equal
employment legislation, pressure from women
and changing social opinion have contributed to
the change. Now women must help themselves by
taking advantage of the broader opportunities.

One important factor is their effort to assess
their interests and talents, which includes greater
personal awareness as well as better career
counseling. The latter is the place the
college can help.

Agnes Scott's liberal arts curriculum is not
preparation for a trade but for a well-rounded,
self-aware individual. In 1974, that must include a
greater consciousness of future direction and
career plans. To that end, the administration
has created a Career Planning Office with

Miss lone Murphy as Director.

The office was formerly called the Vocational
Office, but as such was responsible for many
other duties, including student services
the administration of the work-study program.
Miss Murphy and her secretary, Wanda
Stevenson, are now able to work full time on
career problems for students and alumnae.
According to Miss Murphy, the functions of the
office are four-fold: 1) career counseling
including testing and personal interviews; 2)
providing sources of career information;
3) working with the Agnes Scott Dana Scholars,
who co-sponsor career programs designed to
meet expressed needs and interests; and 4)
creating and maintaining relationships
with potential employers.

The Career Planning Office has published a
brochure about the College and has sent it to
every potential employer in the Atlanta area. Last
summer. Miss Murphy began a series of visits
to Atlanta businesses and organizations in
order to establish a base of cooperation
and to update her personal information about
the opportunities involved.

In the fall, she sponsored a Career Week on
campus, which featured outstanding speakers,
seminars and question and answer sessions. And
this spring, she has initiated a Shadow Program
which involves matching a student with an
alumna in a certain occupation for a day or
longer. The student is, therefore, able
to see first-hand the nature of the job she
is interested in.

Is all this work necessary? Are Agnes Scott
students really interested in careers? Miss Murphy
believes it is worthwhile and that students
really are looking forward to careers. The career
aspirations of last fall's freshman class are
broader and more varied in terms of fields of
interest even than the class just before them.

She believes that the difference in plans
between the classes of '76 and '77 suggests that
our students are moving with the national trend.
As women have wider choices and exhibit

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more varied interests in the labor force, Agnes
Scott students will reflect this development. Like
the rest of the nation, they will become even
less predictable and more of a challenge
for the counselor.

The following lists are reports gathered from
information on freshmen application forms:

Freshmen Career Interests

Recap on Class of 1976 (172 approximately
in entering class)

Number indicating interest in single

major or mentioning vacillation

between two areas 65 (38%)

Number indicating a specific career

field of interest 95 (557o)

Career fields indicated

Number

Archeology

1

Design

5

Christian Education

4

Counseling

4

Ecology

3

Politics

7

Journalism

5

Law

6

Library Science

1

Linguistics

4

Medicine (including para

professional

but excluding nursing)

23

Merchandising

1

Nursing

4

Public Relations

1

Teaching

23

Television

1

Sixteen career fields mentioned.

Recap on Class of 1977 (140 approximately
in entering class)

Number indicating interest in single

major or mentioning vacillation

between two areas 70 (50%)

Number indicating a specific career

field of interest 95 (68%)

Career fields indicated

Number

Accounting

1

Advertising

1

Anthropology

1

Archeology

2

Art & Design

10

Business

1

Christian Education

5

Counseling

2

Dance

1

Data Processing

1

Dentistry

1

Government/Politics

5

journalism

10

Law

11

Library Science

1

Medicine or Health related fields

excluding nursing

18

Merchandising

2

Music, Performance

2

Music Therapy

Nursing

Pharmacy

Social Work

Speech Therapy

Teaching

23

Television

2

Twenty-five career fields mentioned

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Can you write small?

Agnes Scott Needs to Know You Better

Those of you who have met Agnes Scott's new
president know that one of Dr. Perry's primary
objectives is to relate Agnes Scott to the local
community and to the world at large.
Especially relevant is this mission in times when
the value of the liberal arts, single-sex
college is being questioned.

The best, perhaps the only way to create a
picture of the College in its entirety is to profile
the products. The effectiveness of the College
must be measured in part by the quality of
its graduates an intangible but important factor
and in part by the activities of its graduates.

Therefore, you can help by filling out the
following questionnaire and sending it to the
Alumnae Office where it will be tabulated and
filed permanently as part of your record. Within
the next year, the Alumnae Office will make a
report from this study both to print in the
Quarterly and to use to tell our story to
prospective students. Just as you represent
Agnes Scott in your community, a total look at
all alumnae can reflect all of Agnes Scott to
those who do not know us.

Will you please help? The image of the College
is reflected in the achievements and interests of
its products; we need to know about YOU.

1. Name . .

2. Class

First Maiden Last

-. If you received an

undergraduate degree from another
institution, please indicate the institution
and year you were graduated:

3. Your major was

4. Have you earned or are you in the process of
earning graduate or professional degrees?

Degree Field Institution Year

5. Your volunteer work has been (include
church work, civic work, and offices held)

6. Your principal paid occupation has been

Title or position

Name of company or organization

7. A previous occupation has been
Title or position

Name of company or organization

8. Please list any honors you have received
since graduation (this should include any
special achievements which you think the
Alumnae Office should have recorded)

9. What sort of creative activities or hobbies
are you interested in (publications, artistic
endeavors, drama, music, photography,
gardening, children's programs, etc.)

10. Check any alumnae activities in which
you have participated:
a. Executive Board (Positions):

b. Club Officer (Office;

c. Admissions Rep g.

d. Class President

e. Class Secretary

f. Fund Chairman

g. Fund Agent
h. Other

12. If married, please give your husband's name
and occupation

13. What college(s) did your husband attend?

14. If you have children, please indicate names,
sex and birthdates

Thank you very much for helping us!

gnes Scott in the World

Aboard Ship with Barbara Syrnroskl Ciilllney '66

By Susannah Masten '59

Not everybody gets to wear blue jeans and
pigtails on the job. But then, '66 graduate
Barbara Symroski Culliney has a job which is
not exactly ordinary.

As research assistant at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod, a 30-day
oceanographic expedition is just part of the
routine. Recently she took such a cruise to
Bermuda, barely missing a hurricane and fighting
a battle with seasickness along the way. One
of four women of a scientific crew of 20, her
special study that trip was oceanic phytopiankton.

Barbara's interest in marine biology began
as a little girl, when she visited her grandmother
on Sanibel Island, Florida, known for rare
shells that wash ashore on its beaches. She
became fascinated with the strange and
beautiful creatures she found there.

Her family encouraged her interest in the
outdoors. Somehow, the old idea that girls
were not expected to like frogs and bugs never
entered the picture.

She studied biology in high school, and by the
time she entered college, she had already decided
to major in biology and study marine biology
in graduate school. After a year at Northwestern
University, which she found too large, she
transferred to Agnes Scott.

Several special study opportunities came her
way in college. She spent a summer studying
introductory marine biology at the University of
Miami in Florida and another summer
doing research at the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science as a National Science Foundation
participant. For her senior independent study
project at Agnes Scott under the late
Dr. Doerpinghaus, she made a nine-month survey
of the phytopiankton in Avondale Pond. "It
certainly wasn't the ocean," Barbara says, "but I
learned basic research techniques and something
about basic seasonal cycles."

After Agnes Scott, she graduated from Scripps
Institute of Oceanography in San Diego,
California, with a Masters Degree in marine
biology. Next came her job at Woods Hole,

where she sees much opportunity to
do interesting research.

Barbara's husband John, a Ph.D. research
biologist, is enthusiastic about her having a
rewarding job. Since both of them work, they
share the important household tasks "and
overlook the others."

As for the children they hope to have soon,
"They will get all of our love and lots of our
time," Barbara says. She plans to work half-time
when they are young, then return to a
full-time job later on.

On the subject of women and their changing
role, Barbara reports she encountered blatant
discrimination in graduate school. For example,
she and another girl were once told that, as
women, they would not be allowed to take
an oceanographic cruise.

But lately, in casual conversations over coffee
at Woods Hole, she has noticed that a growing
awareness of women's capabilities is replacing
stereotyped thinking.

"We must continue to broaden the definition
of 'the woman's role' to include anything we
want to do," she says. It seems that Barbara
Symroski Culliney is doing her bit. A

Barbara begins September cruise on board the
Research Vessel Knorr of the Woods Hole
Oceanography Institute.

Held at Agnes Scott College

The 1974 Atlanta EnvlroTiTneTital

President Nixon, the energy crisis, and big
business, especially the oil industry, were
criticized and defended in the 1974 Atlanta
Environmental Symposium on National Land Use,
held at Agnes Scott College, April 2 and 3. The

meeting opened with Ian McHarg, professor
of landscape architecture and regional planning
at the University of Pennsylvania, speaking on
"Urban Land Use." There were 1100 people
gathered to hear him speak.

Environmentalists and interested citizens filled the aisles an(

SyinposiuTn Had Thein in the Aisles

The Symposium also brought Russell
Peterson, Chairman of the White House Council
on Environmental Quality; Ralph Nadar,
popular founder of several public interest
groups; Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the

Interior; Alfred Heller, author of "California
Tomorrow Plan"; and Earl Starnes, director
of the Florida division of State Planning.

Speaking on "The Politics of Land Use,"
Peterson claimed that although some industries

talcony of Gaines Auditorium to hear Symposium speakers

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have used the energy crisis to fight against
anti-pollution legislation, the Nixon
administration has not de-emphasized its
support of the environmental movement.

Conversely, later in the day, Nadar blasted
the major oil companies for creating a "false"
energy crisis to raise prices and gain public
support for eliminating pollution controls.
He went on to accuse the President of working
with big industry at the expense of the consumer
because Nixon is in such a weak position
after Watergate.

Despite these obvious contradictions, the
speakers implied that the United States must
become more aware of its environmental
problems and, in many cases, must change its
policies and attitudes. Stewart Udall said, "It
means a major change in direction, back to
old-fashioned conservatism, thrift and efficiency.'

One of the most ambitious programs of this

kind to be held at Agnes Scott, the Symposium
drew about 2000 people from environmental
organizations, governmental agencies and
colleges and universities as well as concerned
individuals. The 1974 Symposium was the
second to be held here, and according to Dr.
David Orr, Assistant Professor of Political
Science and co-director, it was "sort of an
accident." He said, "Bob (Dr. Robert Leslie,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and
co-director) and I were talking over a cup
of coffee and decided we would give it a try."

They approached some of the local industry
and banks and found that "getting the money
was easy." Then after a year of hard work, they
produced the first Atlanta Environmental
Symposium, "Limits to Growth."

That was 1973. This year they repeated their
efforts "because it was a shame not to do it
again" and because they are concerned

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In h/i/'rf sleeves. Udall strikes note of informality.

individuals and care enough to do
something about it.

Orr maintains that despite the time and effort
involved, "they had a good time doing it."
He feels that the purpose of the Symposium
was to increase public information and
awareness. He also believes that "it is good
for environmentalists to get together and good
for the College to have hosted it."

He is modest. The crowds, the newspaper,
TV and radio coverage and the exciting roster
of speakers would seem to leave no doubt
that it was an informative, impressive occasion.

Co-sponsors for the Symposium were Citizens
and Southern National Bank, First National
Bank of Atlanta, Trust Company Bank, Fulton
National Bank, Decatur Federal Savings and
Loan Association, Phipps Land Company and
the Georgia Conservancy. A

Peterson shows serious face as he defends
Nixon administration-

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Book Review by Eleanor Hutchens '40

DoTiTie as aii

THAT SUBTILE WREATH

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Lliii'.i^'Lir.ifirii^ Ihi' .ianu'.-; lioi;s Mi-('Hin Lecture Series

Agnes StoH C:ollepc-
1972

That Subtile Wreath will join other volumes of
Donne scholarship in the great libraries, having
been duly and I am sure favorably reviewed
by Donne specialists, of whom I am not one. It is
worthy of its subject and it will make its way
among its peers as a contribution to the
understanding of a major and more than
ordinarily difficult poet. I review it here not
with any authority in Donne studies but as an
Agnes Scott graduate who relished intensely the
Quatercentenary celebration it records and
who seriously recommends the book
to fellow alumnae.

My fellow veterans of English 211 go back
through the recent decades of emphasis on
Donne to the dim times when he was represented
in the anthology by perhaps one poem, and that
the not very representative "Go and Catch a
Falling Star." As a somewhat recalcitrant 211
student in those earlier times, then a teacher of
211 in the same Buttrick classroom in the later,
I have known Donne at Agnes Scott in the last
years of his two-century eclipse and in the
full sunlight of his revival not only in 211 but
in George Hayes' scintillating advanced course,
which came too late for me but shone through his
students to his colleagues. Finally 1 have enjoyed
the high noon of the Quatercentenary two years
ago, when Donne scholars gathered on the
campus to celebrate the four hundredth
anniversary of his birth.

For me, then. That Subtile Wreath is Agnes
Scott's garland for John Donne. It is pleasant to
think that some alumna in a distant graduate
school, at Oxford or Stanford or Yale, may in her
researches open it unawares and suddenly
find herself at home again, among the familiar
names of Alston, Hayes, McCain, Pepperdene,
Pinka, and Trotter. The book is edited and
introduced by Professor Pepperdene; it includes
President Alston's welcoming speech at the
Quatercentenary, inaugurating the James Ross

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Agnes Scott Experience

McCain Lecture Series; the first of its three
lectures begins with a vicarious recollection of a
trick Professor Hayes used to play on his Donne
students, one of whom later became the wife
of the lecturer, Frank Manley, and told all;
Professor Pinka is the third lecturer; and
Professor Trotter appears with great credit as
producer and annotator of a performance of
Donne's songs by an Agnes Scott student
soprano, Sally Martin, and a lutenist, Louis Auil,
whom Professor Trotter resourcefully found in
Atlanta after summoning copies of the rare
17th-century music, some of it still in manuscript,
from libraries abroad. A page of the music is
reproduced in the book. The concert, directed by
Professor Theodore Matthews of the Department
of Music at Agnes Scott, was a radiant success,
and I wish its sounds could reach us through the
book as well as do the intelligent voices of the
lecturers. Crowning the Agnes Scottery of it
ail is a drawing of Donne, on jacket and title
page, by Erin Sherman '73.

My experience of Agnes Scott alumnae who
have devoted themselves to family and civic
enterprise has shown me many who would like
to go deeply into some intellectual project alone.
1 have known several who have succeeded
in finding some subject, fascinating entirely for
its own sake, and have won years of pleasure
mastering every available detail of it in blissful
solitude without neglecting home or community.
The life and work of Donne, both of them
mysterious and complicated even for his curious
time, offer such a subject, and this
Quatercentenary book offers a starting point
for its study. The three lectures are scholarly,
of course, but accessible to the amateur because
they were prepared for a broader audience than
the readership of the Journal of English and
Germanic Philology and because they were
written to be spoken and heard. Their variety in
approach gives a fair idea of the state of Donne

studies today, and finally they are excellent
criticism in that they handle the poetry with the
tact it demands. Donne can make monkeys
of some critics, especially the kind who bring a
grid of preconceived poetics and lay it over
his work to make an example of him. Mercurial
and protean, never writing the same poem twice,
he can't be caught that way, and these three
critics know it.

Donne's sensibility was a mass of recondite
learning and intense personal experience, fused
as the two have been in no other writer. It
takes learning to keep up with him. Frank
Manley's scholarship ranges through classical
precedent and Renaissance convention to revive
the givens (would you forgive les donnees?) of
Donne's poetry, in particular the then-familiar
forms he used in reverse, the reversal providing
the central torque of his irony in some poems.
For instance, Manley sees in "The Sun Rising" the
traditional lover's dawn-song, or alba, or aubade,
which laments the inexorable coming of day, but
here turned around to deny the power of earthly
time over love. He analyzes this and
other lyrics to reveal the contribution of the
purported form itself, which Donne's
contemporaries would have recognized and
greeted with a certain set of expectations, to the
wit of the poem, which proceeds to trip up these
expectations, landing the reader in a mood and
a mode he has not foreseen. The modern reader,
unequipped with the formal expectations in
the first place, misses the pleasure of this
particular ironic turn. He also, and this is more
important as Manley shows, misses the full
grandeur of Donne's ascents from literary
convention into the realm of the absolute.

A friend of mine, not in academic life, once
asked me whether I planned to teach the
Shakespeare course at the university while the
regular teacher of it was on sabbatical leave.
I answered no, because I hadn't taught it in about

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DoTiTie

(continued)

ten years and didn't have time to catch up.
She said with amusement that she didn't imagine
Shakespeare had changed in the last decade. Here
opened between us one of those crevasses that
suddenly divide the workman in any craft from
his fellow outside it. I tried to shout across
it that a course in Shakespeare was a course in the
understanding of his work, which understanding
gradually accrued, year by year, as scholars
and critics worked away, so that a Shakespeare
course in 1972 ought to be different from one
taught in 1962; but I saw her receding from
me, thinking "Poor Shakespeare" or something
like that. If I could remember now who she
was, I'd like to give her Louis Martz's lecture in
That Subtile Wreath to read.

Louis Martz has been on the Yale faculty since
1938. I suppose he occasionally runs into a
student of a quarter of a century ago who asks,
"Are you still teaching Donne?' and looks at
him speculatively, wondering how so vigorous a
mind can go on repeating itself year after
year. "Donne's Anniversaries Revisited," his
lecture at Agnes Scott, would clear up the
question. His mind has not ceased to probe, nor
has it gone unprompted by the work of other
minds probing Donne. In this lecture, he recounts
the changes in his understanding of the
Anniversaries since he published his well-known
essay on them in 1947. His genial
acknowledgment that other scholars have
successfully opposed him, correcting his views
of the poems in certain ways, is a lesson in
professional poise; and the bibliography he
appends opens the reader's eyes to the
possibilities of liveliness in such a debate. The
evolution of his own synthesis, which merges the
two poems into a complex organization of forms
and themes culminating in a religious vision,
shows us how and how far literary study does
move in a generation. Taking us along with him,
giving credit at each stage to the other scholars
(including Frank Manley) whose discoveries and
arguments have mingled with his own new
insights to carry him forward, he covers the
twenty-five years from a comparatively crude
earlier apprehension to the mellow
comprehensive view he has now attained. He is,

yes, still teaching Donne, but if his 1947
student has a son or daughter in his class today
their notes must read very differently.

As critical voices resound in this age of
criticism, deep calling unto deep (and, it must be
admitted, shallow unto shallow), a way of
discussing one genre spreads to others. The
approach of the New Critics to poetry, for
example, has fostered close reading and
delicate explication of prose as well. Patricia
Pinka, in "The Autobiographical Narrator in the
Songs and Sonnets," the last of these three
lectures, examines some of Donne's poems in a
way that has been used most productively by
twentieth-century critics of prose fiction. She
very carefully calibrates the shifts in degree of
credibility Donne gives the putative speaker; the
speaker's shifts of position in relation to his
listener; and his shifts from the present to past or
future. The purpose of this process of fine
measurement is to show how the meaning
of the poem is modified by the shifts. One of the
obvious difficulties in reading Donne is to keep
from being left behind as he passes from one
attitude to another which is perhaps the opposite
of the preceding one. The Pinka lecture shows
that if we react sensitively to the autobiographical
narrator, through his tentative posturings and on
to his final declaration, we can follow the real line
of the poem through ail its convolutions,
enjoying the wealth of contradiction and multiple
meaning that makes Donne's poetry the
complicated experience it is.

"The Relique" happens to be the first and the
last poem studied in this volume. Manley opens
with it, Pinka closes with it; and the ways it
yields to their very different techniques are
instructive both to the student of Donne and the
student of critical method. The relic in the
poem, "A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,"
is the same as "That subtle wreath of hair which
crowns my arm" in another poem that is, a
lover's keepsake imagined as circling the wrist of
the speaker after death and sanctifying his
remains. Good criticism, embodying as it does the
enduring bond between a poet and his readers,
weaves such a garland for him. That Subtile
Wreath is well named. A

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The SuTTi of Living'

A review by Adelaide L. Cunningham '11

Miss Adelaide Cunningham '11,
author of the review of The Sum of
Living, died April 3, 1974, just
after the magazine had gone to
press. We are saddened by the loss

of this outstanding lady and faithful,
loving alumna and extremely sorry
that she did not live to see the
article she was kind enough to
volunteer to write. Adelaide

Cunningham was a classmate and
friend of Mary Wallace Kirk whose
book she reviews here. Alert and
active to the end, she finished the
article only a few weeks ago.

Mary Wallace Kirk has scored again this time
with a collection of poems, printed in Ireland,
1973. The Sum of Living consists of eighteen
poems and one original etching. The story of its
publication is unique.

During the Christmas holidays in 1972 Mary
Wallace entertained two house guests at
Locust Hill, her home in Tuscumbia, Alabama:
Derek Hill, an English artist who has a second
home in Ireland, and Maynard Walker of New
York, retired, former owner of Maynard Art
Galleries. One morning while their hostess went
marketing, the guests browsed in the library.
They found a silver loving cup which had been
presented to Mary Wallace Kirk in 1937 by
the Poetry Society of Alabama, and an Anthology
of American Women Poets containing one of her
poems. When the hostess returned, she was
greeted with, "Now we've caught up with you."
Copies of more poems were demanded, but
no further word was heard about them until a
year later when a large Christmas package arrived
from Ireland containing copies of a green
paperback brochure entitled The Sum of Living,
A Collection of Poems by Mary Wallace Kirk.

The first poem in the collection is "Sum of
Living." Artistically perfect, it describes a day in
the life of a farmer, yet is universal in its appeal
to all who work and love and herd together. This
was the poem for which the silver loving cup
had been awarded and the Poetry Society of
Alabama included "Sum of Living" in its
1945 volume, Alabama Poetry. The poem by
Mary Wallace in American Women Poets was
"Saint," which describes a "self-canonized"
individual who parades righteousness by
collecting other people's sins:

And thereby claims the prying right.
To persecute in guise of light,
That shines upon the annointed horde.
This alter ego of the Lord.

A few of the poems are about real people.
"Miss Puss Cooley" and her brother happily
sacrifice the necessities of life not for
white hyacinths but for tobacco:

In the silent house that the cold creeps through.
Miss Puss will dip and William chew.
With only a dime and not enough of bread in
the house; she's spent it for snuff I

And life's compressed, queer paradox.
In a quid of tobacco, a round tin box.

"Miss Julia" sought solace for a blighted romance
by making beautiful bouquets of feather
flowers. One night she died

And left these flowers once her pride
And recompence.

Since Mary Wallace Kirk was graduated in
1911, she has been a visitor many times on the
Agnes Scott campus. In 1931 she was on the
program for the first alumnae weekend, giving
an exhibit of her original etchings. She is still a
trustee of the College, having served in that
capacity for more than fifty years. She is a
past president of the national Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association, and during her two
terms as president she spearheaded the drive and
organized the building of the Anna Young
Alumnae House. Now chairman of the Honor
Guard Division of the Alumnae Fund
organization, Mary Wallace is an example
of loyalty, talent and love for all
Agnes Scott alumnae.

Editor's note: The Alumnae Office has several
copies of The Sum of Living, graciously donated
by Miss Kirk. Anyone interested in obtaining
a copy should write the Alumnae Office; Agnes
Scott College; Decatur, Georgia 30030.

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abmit

ASC

Agnes Scott Professor Named
in Who's Who in the World

by Dr. W. Edward McNair
Agnes Scott has recently learned
that the name of Professor Florene
J. Dunstan, Chairman of the
Department of Spanish, has been
included in the latest edition of
Who's Who in the World. This sort
of achievement is nothing new for
Dr. Dunstan. For a number of years
she has been listed in Who's Who in
America as well as in The Dictionary
of International Biography, The
International Scholar's Dictionary,
The Dictionary of American Scholars,
Who's Who in the South and
Southwest, and Who's Who of
American Women.

In addition to her teaching
responsibilities at Agnes Scott, this
versatile professor has found time
for a multitude of other activities.
The wife of Dr. Edgar M. Dunstan,
a well-known Atlanta physician, Mrs.
Dunstan is both a mother and a
grandmother. Organizations in which
she has been and is a leader include
the American Association of
University Women (President of the
Atlanta Branch, 1961-1963), the

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Dr. Florene I Dunstan

Modern Language Association, the
South Atlantic Modern Language
Association (Chairman of the
Departments of Foreign Languages,
1972-1973), the American Association
of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese (President of the Georgia
group, 1965-1967), the English
Speaking Union to name just a
few. Dr. Dunstan is a deacon in the
Baptist Church and has occupied
numerous posts of responsibility in
her denomination. She has also been
active in the Women's Auxiliary of
the Fulton County Medical Society.
In 1972 she was named the Vice
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of Tift College.

Dr. Dunstan is living evidence
that a woman can head a home,
have a career and be active in many
civic, religious, and professional
groups. It is not surprising, therefore,
that in 1963 she was named
Atlanta's Woman of the Year in
Education. Agnes Scott proudly
salutes this gifted lady who has
been a member of the faculty for
thirty-three years.

Tour of Bible Lands Set

by Marene Emanuel '75

(From an article appearing in The

Profile, Feb. 8, 1974)

The Bible Lands have traditionally
been visited by those interested in
the origin of religion, ancient relics,
and the whole inspirational
atmosphere of the area. Most tours
have emphasized trips to Israel and
a few excursions to surrounding
historical lands. This summer there
will be a new and more
comprehensive visit offered to those
interested. Mary Aichel Samford '49,
Bible executive for the Jacksonville
High Schools, has put together a
tour of seven Bible lands.

This tour will include trips to
Italy (Rome), Greece (Athens,
Corinth, islands), Iraq (Babylon, Ur,
Reveveh) Lebanon (Tyre, Sidon),
Jordan (Mt. Nebo, Petral, and Israel
(Galilee to Beersheba, and climb up
Mt. Sinai). The group leaves from

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New York on June 27 and will return
22 days later on July 18. Total cost
of the trip is $1625.

Mrs. Samford will serve as
organizer for the tour, which will
include archeological excavations
and stops at such famous museums
as the Acropolis, the Museum at
Corinth, and the Egyptian Museum
at Cairo.

Professional guides will be
provided in every country to point
out matters and places of interest
and to answer questions.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, Professor of
Bible at Agnes Scott, will act as
coordinator for the tour, offering his
travel experience in the Bible lands.
The tour will be superior to others
offered because it is more
comprehensive; in addition, in Dr.
Garber's words, it is planned
specifically "for people who have
similar interests."

For further information, please
contact Dr. Paul Garber, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, GA 30030.

Agnes Scott Welcomes
New Vice-President

Agnes Scott College's first vice
president for business affairs,
R. James Henderson, was recently
appointed and began his duties in
March, 1974.

Mr. Henderson has overall
responsibility, under President Perry,
for the business office, treasurer's
office, buildings and grounds,
purchasing, security, and such
auxiliary services as the dining hall,
bookstore, mail room, telephone
service and general housekeeping
and maintenance.

Previously at Agnes Scott a
business manager directed the
activities of the business office,
buildings and grounds and auxiliary
services. From 1951 until his death
in 1970, P. J. Rogers, Jr. was business
manager under president emeritus
Wallace M. Alston.

Mr. Henderson comes to Agnes
Scott from serving four years as vice

Vice-President R. lames l^endcrson

president for business and
administrative affairs at Newton
College near Boston, Massachusetts.
His other posts have included
assistant vice president and business
manager at Ohio University where
he also held various positions in the
area of student affairs.

A 1960 graduate of Kansas State
University, Henderson holds a master
of education degree from Ohio
University and a certificate from the
Institute of Education Management
at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Henderson's wife, the former
Betty Sykes of Manning, South
Carolina, is a graduate of
Converse College.

Agnes Scott and Harvard Sing

The Agnes Scott College Glee Club
performed in joint concert with
the Harvard Glee Club on Friday,
April 5, 1974, in Presser Hall. The
Agnes Scott Glee Club began the
program with a few selections for
treble voices after which the Harvard
singers provided both heavy and
light selections for men's voices.
The concert concluded with the
Te Deum of Joseph Haydn performed
jointly by both groups.

Art for Everybody's Sake,
Non-Credit Courses Planned

Agnes Scott will offer two non-credit
courses in art this summer. One is
a painting course in oil and acrylic,
which begins on )une 15 and runs
eight weeks through August 3, 1974.
Classes will meet for two-hour
sessions in the Charles A. Dana Fine
Arts Building, Saturday mornings
from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. The
classes are open to both beginning
and advanced students who wish to
work with still life and landscape
subject matter; it is limited to
twenty students. The course will
stress the technical aspects of the
various media as well as organization
of compositional elements and
visual awareness.

Instructor for the course will be
Charles Leonard, a new member of
the Department of Art at Agnes
Scott. Mr. Leonard came to Scott
from the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga in 1973. He holds an
MFA degree in drawing and painting
from the University of Georgia; he
has taught similar programs at the
Chattanooga Art Institute and the
Dalton (Georgia) Creative Arts
Guild as well as at UTC. As a painter,
Mr. Leonard's work has been
included in many state and regional
exhibitions throughout the Southeast.
He has had one-man shows in
Georgia and Tennessee and his
work is included in private
and state collections.

Highlighting the eight-week course
will be a special session conducted
by visiting artist, George Cress. A
native Georgian, Mr. Cress is
presently head of the Department of
Art at the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga. A graduate of the
University of Georgia, he studied
with Lamar Dodd, former head and
founder of the University of
Georgia's Department of Art. Mr.
Cress's work has been included in
many national and regional
exhibitions. He has had numerous
one-man shows throughout the

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(continued)

Art for Everybody's Sake

(continued)

United States and his work is
included in many collections, among
those being the High Museum of Art
in Atlanta. He is listed in "Who's
Who in American Art."

Tuition for the eight weeks is
$75.00. For further information and
application forms, please contact:
Mr. Charles Leonard; Department of
Art; Agnes Scott College; Decatur,
GA 30030; Phone 373-2571, Ext. 327.

The second workshop is entitled
"Stoneware and Raku Pottery" and
runs eight weeks, beginning June 17,
1974. Concentrating on wheel-thrown
pottery design, glazing and firing,
the classes will be limited to ten
students and will meet twice weekly,
Monday and Wednesday or
Tuesday and Thursday, mornings
or afternoons.

Dr. Robert Westervelt, Associate
Professor at Agnes Scott, will teach
the summer workshops, which will
be offered at beginning, intermediate
and advanced levels. Classes will
consist of demonstrations of wheel-
throwing techniques, decoration and
glazing operations, stacking and
firing both electric and gas kilns, and
exploring Japanese Raku pottery. One
session will be devoted to creation
of original glazes by each student
and how they are made.

Tuition for the course is $125,
including materials, and a $25.00
deposit is required at the time of
registration. For detailed information,
please call Mr. Robert Westervelt
at Agnes Scott College,
373-2571, Ext. 330.

Fund Council Meeting
Stresses College Needs

Alumnae leaders met again at Agnes
Scott for a workshop and a day of
speeches, questions and answers. The

Fund Cliairmen and Agents adiourn tor tuncli

Left-right: Florne Fleming Corley '54. Edith Tritton White 59 and Svlvia Williawi Ingram
52 d/scuss financial needs of the College

Fund Council, on February 8, 1974,
brought Class Chairmen and Agents
together to discuss the financial
needs and aims of the College and
their place in realizing these goals.

The schedule for the day went
as follows:

9:30 A.M. Coffee
10:00 Opening Session,

led by Memye Curtis
Tucker '56
President of ASC
Alumnae Association
10:30 Workshop on Fund

Raising, led by Dr.
Paul McCain
Vice President for
Development
11:30 Student Panel, led

by Susan Skinner '74
Student Body
President

12:30 Luncheon in Dining

Hall and Informal
Discussion with Dr.
Marvin Perry and Dr.
Paul McCain
2:30 Afternoon Coffee at

the President's
Home, hostessed
by Mrs. Marvin Perry
The most important points arising
from the discussion included the
specific needs of the College: more
money for the Library, to meet the
$50,000 challenge offer; increased
percentages of giving by alumnae;
and the need for unrestricted money
to meet the ever-increasing costs of
daily operation. Also significant was
the sense of camaraderie among the
almost 100 alumnae who were joined
together in their common loyalty
and concern for the College.

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(Continued from page 9)

I confess I had to protect my
commitment to adults, because I
found the children so appealing
and rewarding. It is a fantastic
experience when a 5 year-old
autistic child, who has refused to
speak and often worked at blocking
out the world, finally says her first
word to you. Even now, my day
is often refreshed by those
occasional children and adolescents
I see for evaluation and
sometimes, therapy.

Did I make the right decision to
become a therapist? I've never
doubted it. And to the rich rewards
of freeing persons, there has been
one inestimable fringe benefit
greater freedom for myself, including
more freedom to make commitments
to persons. Because of one central
commitment, to the Lord Jesus
Christ, I'm working in a particular
setting here in Decatur. My work
involves seeing persons who come
for psychological help, but often
persons come specifically to our
clinic because they want
psychological help from someone
who is a Christian. The Counselor's
Clinic was started by another
Agnes Scott graduate. Dr. Penny
Smith ('57), who extended her
psychiatric practice. We first met
at Agnes Scott and our paths
overlapped at the University
of North Carolina, again in Atlanta,
and professionally as she went into
psychiatry and I went into clinical
psychology. There was enough
overlap to provide a commonality
and enough difference to be
stimulating. We both are involved
in therapy, and she handles
medication while 1 have been
trained to do psychological testing.

Being at the clinic was my first
opportunity to have a full time

practice. Before coming to The
Counselor's Clinic I had worked
for LSU Medical School in New
Orleans and in a community mental
health center and the tasks there
were much more varied teaching
medical students, supervising
psychology students, testing and
evaluations, community consultation
with a school for retarded boys,
plus the therapy that I love. Persons
are often amazed that I can sit
hour after hour listening. The
problem is never boredom, for
each one is very definitely an
individual though there are
commonalities to problems; each
person and problem is unique.
There was the young woman in
New Orleans whose decision to go
to the hospital was the turning
point in her therapy. She had been
hospitalized on many occasions,
and always against her will. I will
never forget her opening words to
me in our first interview, "I just
ran away from DePaul Hospital."
As calmly as I could, I asked her
why, and then I was impressed that
she was finally seeking therapy
of her own choice. After many
crises, great and small, she became
very disturbed and I brought up
the subject of hospitalization,
and we discussed it as two rational
persons. I knew in my heart she
needed to be hospitalized, but I
didn't want to force her, at which
point she herself concluded that
she ought to go into the hospital.
She admitted herself. In the course
of our work her view of herself
began to change, especially after
this decision which was virtually
her first decision; always she had
been forced into the hospital.
Then there was the middle-aged
depressed woman who wanted to be
hospitalized to avoid her
responsibilities and I stood firmly
against it. Eventually she chose
a week's vacation in the mountains
with her husband rather than
going to the hospital and she
began to return to her previous
self. This was her first decision
for responsibility. The persons and
situations are unique. May I repeat,
I am never bored!

In addition to the very direct
benefit of seeing persons change,
I am having increasing satisfaction
in attempting to understand how
and why persons change and grow.
In my search I have found what I
know makes for the most complete
and satisfying transformation a
commitment to the person of
Jesus Christ. Professionally and
personally I have had great
excitement in theoretically relating
principles of emotional healing
and growth to an understanding of
Scripture. At present this is my
dominant academic interest and one
that I want to pursue in terms of
writing and teaching. A

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be swept along entirely by
outside influences.

The liberal arts education which
I received at Agnes Scott was
definitely a helpful factor in my
career. To say that a liberal arts
program teaches the graduate how
to think sounds trite and simplistic.
The simple truth is that it provides
a strong base upon which to build
a career in business with countless
options for those with the ability
to think. We hear a great deal about
the needs for a college to provide
its students with technical skills.
Technical skills can be acquired as
one progresses. It does not work
as easily in the other direction.
The technician without liberal arts
exposure is very often locked into
a narrow career path. In the long
run, the liberal arts graduate who
has learned flexibility and has the
basic ability to think will find more
options open. The questioning
methods which one learns in a
liberal arts program will be used
for a lifetime.

In short, my liberal arts education
at Agnes Scott has prepared me to
make those necessary choices. A

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Dr. Emily S. Dexter, associate professor
emeritus of philosophy and education
at Agnes Scott, died April 12, 1974, in
Whitewater, Wisconsin. A graduate of
Ripon College, she received her M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Wisconsin.

Miss Dexter retired from Agnes Scott
in 1955, after teaching here for 32
years. A respected, forceful teacher,
the students admired her insight and
understanding.

Deaths

Faculty

Elizabeth Barineau, October 2, 1973.

Institute

Henry B. Harris, husband of Maria Park
Harris, December 31, 1973.

Academy

Elizabeth Candler Earthman (Mrs. H. B.),

November, 1973.

Mary Phillips Goodwin (Mrs. Herbert E.),

August 24, 1973.

Emmie Willingham Reese (Mrs. Paul P.),

Augusts, 1973.

1907

Lucy Dillard Ficklen (Mrs. Boyce),

December 11, 1972.

1909

Irene Newton McGeachy (Mrs. David M.),

December 24, 1973.

Mattie Newton Traylor (Mrs. L. H.),

January 23, 1974.

1912

Louise Darneal, Fall, 1973.

1913

Rebie Harwell Hill (Mrs. L. J.),

February 3, 1974.

Sara Williams Baker (Mrs. D. C),

date unknown.

1914

Charles Dickert, husband of Mildred
Holmes Dickert, November, 1973.

1919

Margaret Miller Childers (Mrs. E. Roy),

October 23, 1973.

Nina Murrah Passmore (Mrs. J. E.),

December 12, 1972.

Kathrina Penn Ince (Mrs. Richard),

June 15, 1973.

1920

Harry L. Hardy, husband of Romola
Davis Hardy, December 31, 1973.
Reva DuPree, Fall, 1973.

1921

Mabel Price Cathcart (Mrs. T. F),

January 10, 1974.

Susan Russell Rachal (Mrs. F. H),
August 18, 1973.

Nell Upshaw Gannon (Mrs. A. F.),
February 20, 1974.

1924

Kathleen Denney Young (Mrs.),

January 1, 1974.

Birdie Rice Meisel (Mrs. Herman),

July 13, 1973.

Mary Emily Stewart, December 25, 1973.

1925

Mary Jarman Nelson (Mrs lohn).

Fall, 1973.

1927

Frances Dobbs Cross (Mrs. Howell),

October 16, 1973.

Dr. Henry F. Lilly, brother of Elizabeth

Lilly Swedenburg, October 18, 1973.

1928

Margaret E. Rice, January 1, 1974.

1930

Mary Tucker Goodfellow (Mrs.

Joseph W.), September 9, 1973.

1931

Martha Theobald Duval (Mrs. O. F.),

Fall, 1973.

1932

Dr. Crawford F. Barnett, husband of
Penny Brown Barnett, November 5, 1973.

1933

Catherine Happoldt Simpson (Mrs.),

date unknown.

Marie Moss McDavid (Mrs.),

November 14, 1973.

1935

Marjorie Carmichael Kontz (Mrs.

Ernest C), December 7, 1973.

1941

Frances Breg Marsden (Mrs. Robert D.),

August 11, 1973.

Dr. Hugh Cochran, father of Harriette

Cochran Mershon, October 15, 1973.

1943

Florence J. Paisley, mother of Anne
Paisley Boyd, December 25, 1973.

1945

Hiram Chester Martin, father of
Rounelle Martin, November 8, 1973.
Randall C. Satterwhite, father of Jean
Satterwhite Harper, November 23, 1973.

1947

David Rogers, son of Betty Crabill
Rogers, July, 1972.

1949

Dr. Hugh Cochran, father of Barbara
Cochran Vaughn, October 15, 1973.
Robert Earl Henry, son of Elizabeth
Williams Henry, date unknown.

1950

Peggy Penuel, December 25, 1973.

1952

Lt. Col. Charles Tritton, father of Helen
Tritton Barnes, January 22, 1974.

1953

James A. Blakeney, father of Frances
Blakeney Coker, October 31, 1973.
Lt. Col. Charles Tritton, father of
Charline Tritton Shanks, January 22, 1974.

1957

Leon A. Brock, father of Nancy Brock
Blake, January 20, 1974.

1959

Lt. Col. Charles Tritton, father of Edith
Tritton White, January 22, 1974.

1960

Samuel A. Brewton III, son of Dian
Smith Brewton, June 26, 1973.

1961

George M. Bevier, father of Pamela
Bevier, October 11, 1972.
Elizabeth Davis Towler (Mrs. John C),
November 26, 1973.

1964

C. A. McCanless, father of Juanita
McCanless Trent, March 7, 1972.

1969

Grace Heffelfinger, date unknown.

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Editorial

Fortune, Friends and Future

"When Fortune is fickle,
the faithful friend is found."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

First, I want to misquote Cicero and say that
faithful friends are plentiful when fortune
is fickle. In these last few weeks, when the
mail has been piled to the ceiling, the only
way we could "dig out" was to set fire to the
Alumnae Office or ask some alumnae to
help. We did the latter, and the response has

Virginia Carrier '28, Gene 5lacl< Morse '47, Caroline McKinney
Clarl<e '27 and Annie iohnson Sylvester '25 staple alumnae

n'cr/vrnr/ hrochures-

Annie Iohnson Sylvester '25, Frances Cilhland Stakes "24,
Betty Henderson (Mrs- lames], Edith Tritton White '59
(seated), Memye Curtis Tucker '56, young Miss Coker (future
A5C alum?), Caroline McKinney Clarke '27, Frances Blakeney
Coker '53, Elizabeth Weinschenk Mundy '4b and Nellie
Richardson '26 seem rather happy despite their long day.
Not pictured helpers: Nell Allison Sheldon '38, Vivian
Cantrall White '56, Donna Dugger Smith '53, lane King Allen
'59, Eleanor Lee McNeill '59, Mary McAlpine Evans '69,
Lila McCeachey Ray '59, Margaret Phythian '76, Call Savage
Clover '66 and Carrie Scandrett '24

Memye Curtis Tucker '56, Curt Tucker, Frances Gilliland
Stukes '24 and Jonathan Tucker join the troops stapling and
folding brochures

been fantastic. Memye Curtis Tucker '56
and Caroline McKinney Clarke '27 got on the
telephone and mustered the troops at Callie's
house to stuff, staple, lick and fold. They even
asked the wife of the new vice-president for
business affairs, Betty Henderson, who graciously
accepted even after a thunderstorm the night
before had blown her chimney into her house.

The names of the alumnae who chipped in
during these busy days is too long to list
here so I have named and pictured most of
them below.

At the risk of sounding maudlin, I want to
say one more thank you to all of you who
have been so patient lately. Obviously, since the
death of Barbara Pendleton, we have been
short-handed. I've been happy to fill-in, but
two heads and two pairs of hands are always
better and all that sort of thing. I have enjoyed
working even more closely with alumnae than
I had before, and I especially appreciate the
vote of confidence you have given me and
the Alumnae Association by not panicking or
deserting the ship. The support you have offered
leads me to believe that the future holds
exciting prospects for bigger and
better things.

And that brings me to leaders and directors.
President Perry, with the approval of the
Executive Board, has appointed Virginia Lee
Brown McKenzie '47, Director of Alumnae
Affairs at Agnes Scott, and an exciting new
era has begun. Virginia has been associated with
the College for many years and in many ways.

Virgina's credentials are discussed in more
detail below, but I would like to be the first to
say that Agnes Scott is lucky to find a person
as gracious, as poised, as warm and as strong
in character as the woman who is about to
take the leadership of a rather formidable
group of alumnae. During times when the
College really needs our loyalty, our time, our
money, and our prayers, a strong, resourceful
leader can mean the difference between an
adequate program and a progressive, creative
Alumnae Association. I do not doubt that you
will be as quick to give your wholehearted
support as am I. Carey Bowen Craig '62

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Alumnae Quarterly/Volume 52 Number 3

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Main Tower looms in the
background as alumnae return,
reflecting Womankind in her
many attitudes and roles.

contents

1 Alumnae Weekend Reunion and Renewal

by Carey Bowen Craig '62

5 Ten Years After

by Mary Womack Cox '64

6 Remarks By The President, Alumnae Weekend 1974

by President Marvin B. Perry, Jr.

l2 Writing Festival Attracts Young Authors to
Agnes Scott College

14 News of and about ASC
18 Clubs Far and Near
20 Class News

Inside

Back

Cover

A View from the Alumnae House

by Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

Alumnae Office Staff
Alumnae Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Associate Director

Care\ Bowen Craig 62
Fund Coordinator

Deborah Arnold Fleming 71
Secretary

Frances Strother
Student Assistant

lo Anne DeLavan Williams 75

Alumnae Association Officers
President lane King Allen '59
Vice Presidents

Region I / Dorothy Porcher '62

Region II ' Nancy Edwards '58

Region III /Mary Duckworth Cellerstedt '46

Region IV / Margaret Gillespie '69
Secretary/ Eleanor Lee McNeill '59
Treasurer/ Caroline McKinney Clarke '27

Photo Credits

Front Cover, Pages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 17-Bill Crimes; Pages 12, 13, Back Cover-Chuck
Rogers; Page 14 Kent Leslie; Page 19A Robert lohnson {The Tennessean); Page 19B Vic
Tutte (Columbia. S.C. newspapers)

Editor/Carey Bowen Craig '62, Design Consultant/John Stuart McKenzie.

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ca. Second class postage paid at Decatur,
Georgia 30030.

Alumnae Weekend -Reunion and Renewal

by Carey Bowen Craig '62

Alumnae Weekend, like happiness, is different
things to different people. To the reunion
chairmen, it is a challenge to find the right place,
the right time, menu and helpers for class
functions. To the distant alumna, it is the
opportunity to return to the campus and maybe
just "to get away." To the nearby alumna, it is
a chance perhaps to introduce her husband to
those classmates she has talked about for so long.
To the College administration, it is the time to
explain changes and policy and to learn the

wishes of alumnae. But primarily, it is a time
for reunion getting together again after being
apart. And if a few gray hairs, a few more pounds,
a walking cane or even some unexpected
bitterness shows up on a classmate, that is part
of the knowledge of change.

It may mean rehashing twenty years of life
before midnight with a former roommate the
expected but still unprepared-for shock of
learning how far away you've been. It may be
clasping the heart and hand of a beloved

ALUMNAE WEEKEND (continued)

professor and discovering how close you are
despite the years. It may be the sight of the
Hub, the Library, your old room, the remembered
footsteps and voices. It surely is the joy and pain
of remembering what you were and what you
dreamed of then.

A reunion brings nostalgia, sentiment and
surprise, with all the accompanying feelings. And
these emotions suggest that Alumnae Weekend
is also a time for self-appraisal and renewal. It
will probably inspire a revitalization of friendship:
"Let's really do keep in touch this time"; a revival
of ideas: "The lecture this morning has
encouraged me to do some study of my
own . . . "; and perhaps a reinvestment of loyalty
to the College which engendered the friendships
and personal growth in the first place.

And what took place during Alumnae
Weekend, 1974? The events began on Friday
night with an informal reception sponsored by
the Biology Department, the Spanish Department,
the Classics Department and the Speech and
Drama Department, spearheaded by Miss Nancy
Groseclose, Professor of Biology. It was given
in honor of four respected, loved professors
who are retiring this year Miss Josephine
Bridgman '27, Mrs. Florene Dunstan, Miss
Kathryn Click and Miss Roberta Winter '27.

On Saturday, April 20, the activities followed
the usual routine with one exception: the student-
faculty lectures were followed by a get-
acquainted speech by Agnes Scott's new
president, Marvin Perry, in Caines Auditorium.
Dr. Perry told alumnae, many of whom were
hearing him for the first time, of his hopes and
dreams for Agnes Scott.

After Dr. Perry's speech, alumnae and special
guests gathered for the luncheon and annual
meeting. Alumnae President Memye Curtis
Tucker '56 presided and things went smoothly
even though there was more to say than usual.
The events of the past year were reviewed and

future activities were reported such as a
needlework show, the Golden Needle Award
Show, to be sponsored by the Atlanta Club next
Alumnae Weekend and the second annual craft
sale, Scott's Bazaar, to be sponsored by the
Young Atlanta Club. The new alumnae association
officers were elected. They are: Jane King Allen
'59, president; Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt '46,
vice-president, region 111; Margaret Gillespie '69,
vice-president, region IV; Eleanor Lee McNeill
'59, secretary; Nell Allison Sheldon '38, class
council chairman; Charlotte Webb Kendall '65,
club chairman; Vivian Cantrall White '56,
entertainment chairman; Betty Medlock Lackey
'42, publications chairman; Christie Theriot
Woodfin '68, projects chairman; Betty Smith
Satterthwaite '46, nominations chairman.

Then Carrie Scandrett '24 gave an interesting,
moving "toast" to the retiring faculty members.
And for the highlight of the meeting, Memye
introduced the new Director of Alumnae Affairs,
Virginia Lee Brown McKenzie '47, who
immediately revealed her insight by putting
aside her speech because "it's already late."

Following the luncheon, a busload of alumnae
went on a tour of alumnae homes, sponsored
by the Atlanta Club as a money-raising project for
the College. Even though the bus was 45 minutes
late leaving the campus, causing some to be late
for their class reunion functions that evening and
many to be simply exhausted, alumnae seem to
be in favor of adopting the Tour of Homes as an
annual Weekend event.

And so it went, the same round of meetings,
of conversations, of reunion parties, just as it
has for many years. Was it different in 1974?
Of course it was, because each year is different,
each group, each class, each alumna is different.
And every reunion, large or small, individual or
600-strong, is a new uniting, a new emotion and
another renewal. And that's what Alumnae
Weekend was.

Pictured at top are retiring professors Click
and Bridgman witti Gene Slacl< Morse '41:
at left is Roberta Winter: and above can be
seen Florene Dunstan: all are enjoying the
Friday night reception.

lilt ^'b Cilliland Stukei '24 greets Dr. Hayes.

jrRXfyA:
/e Chamlee Howard '34 chats with Memye.

ast rvinute registrants sign in betore lunch.

Mrs. Perry (left), Donna Duggar Smith '53
and Virginia.

President lane King Allen '59
(center) supervises registration.

Dr. Patricia Pinka, Assistant Professor of English, lectures animatedly on John Donne.

Patricia McGuire'74 speaks Dr Lee Copple and Paullin Ponder '74 lead the discussior

to alumnae about biology on "Like Parents. Like Daughters? "

during lectures.

VP for Region IV, Margaret Gillespie '69
en;ovs seeing old friends.

Maryellen Harvey Newton '16 greets
Dr. Marge Amnions.

The following poem is a reunion poem written
by Mary Womack Cox '64 to celebrate tine Class
of 1964's tenth reunion. Although she read the
poem at their get-together, the editor wanted
to share it with all alumnae, especially those who
have already celebrated at least ten reunions.

Ten Years After

what can be said about Jello ten years old?

That it quivers less, can bear the kitchen's heat

Without dissolving, sways but remains complete

When poked, and is no longer cold?

And that, when they made this batch, they

broke the mold.

Long gone (if indeed they ever did exist)

The makers of the formula for us.

Long gone their hinted-at experiment.

Our paranoia and our discontent

At thinking ourselves puppets in some hand.

Long gone are Hermes and Apollo grand;

It seems we really followed Proteus,

And changing, vanished e'er we were dismissed.

Who would have known us, hidden in this life.

The dailiness of office, home or school.

Our collective sparkle fragmented and dark?

Who would have recognized our erstwhile

spark,

Pushing the shopping cart, the stroller, or the

pen

From weary day to night and back again?

Like others, we have warred on war, have wed,

And got degrees, borne babies, toiled, and

so to bed.

And waked to wonder at the social rule

Which smoothes a prickly person into wife.

We have had causes and careers, have won

And lost, have studied, painted, written, sung.

Sought God and ourselves in just as many

ways

As we are persons. For ten years of days.

Oblivious of shared, preposterous past.

We have moved out, each one, both far and fast

From that experiment, which here begun,

Upon an unsuspecting world was flung.

Then did the experiment succeed, have we

In coming here again some theory proved?

Surely our several worlds we've shaped and

moved;

Together we shine again quite brilliantly.

But ultimate results? Ten years won't show.

And it will always be too soon to know.

Mary Womack Cox

The Class ui 1^)4'-) returns for its 25th minion

Sixty-fourers return in record numbers for their tenth

Seniors also attend the Alumnae Weekend luncheon

REMARKS BY THl

Dr. Marvin Perry addresses alumnae in Gaines Auditorit

Ladies of Agnes Scott:

This is indeed a momentous, as well as a most
pleasant, occasion for me my first formal
appearance at an Agnes Scott reunion. I am
honored to be here, just as I was honored to
be called to the presidency of this great college.
Let me say at the outset that Mrs. Perry and
I have been overwhelmed with the kind and
gracious welcome which the College family
has given us here on the campus, in Decatur
and Atlanta, and in the ten alumnae clubs I
have visited so far throughout the country in my
first year here. I look forward to visiting all
the others at the first opportunity.

As you well know, Agnes Scott has been
blessed through 85 fortunate years and has
prospered with the loyal support, the high
hopes and dreams, and the sacrificial labors of
thousands of fine men and women both
prominent and humble who have loved and
served the College. 1 cannot today begin
to pay tribute to them by name, but I would
like to single out my distinguished predecessors
in the presidency at Agnes Scott: Frank Henry
Gaines (1889-1923), James Ross McCain
(1923-1951), and Wallace McPherson Alston
(1951-1973). They and their colleagues have
left to Agnes Scott, to this community, and
especially to me a rich legacy indeed. It is a
humbling experience to try to follow them, but
one is helped tremendously by the pervasive
influence which their labors continue to exert
on the life of Agnes Scott. I did not have the
privilege of knowing Dr. Gaines or Dr. McCain,
but I have had both the privilege and the pleasure
of knowing Wallace and Madelaine Alston, and
Mrs. Perry and 1 cherish and love them as
friends while quaking at the very idea of trying
to fill their shoes. They are indeed "a tough
act to follow."

! am sure it is unnecessary to remind you
of the splendid character of the people who have
been associated with this college over the
years faculty, students, and staff; alumnae
and trustees, and countless friends far and
near. My expectations were high when I came
here last summer, but I have been touched
time and again by the thoughtfulness and
courtesy, the kindness and concern, and the

'RESIDENT, ALUMNAE WEEKEND 1974

high intelligence of those who are associated
with this college in so many different ways. It
is a humbling experience, and a great joy, to
work with and for them.

Speaking of fine people, I am glad to welcome
officially to Agnes Scott two newcomers who
have recently joined our staff in key positions:
Mr. R. James Henderson as Vice President
for Business Affairs and Mrs. Virginia Brown
McKenzie as Director of Alumnae Affairs. I sent
you news of Mr. Henderson's appointment
in my Founder's Day newsletter. We are happy
to have him, and he is already hard at work.
Many of you already know Virginia McKenzie,
and you will be hearing more about her. I am
delighted that she will be heading the very vital
area of alumnae affairs at Agnes Scott
in my administration.

As you doubtless know, four of our most
distinguished and beloved faculty colleagues
are retiring this year: Professors Josephine
Bridgman (biology), Florene Dunstan (Spanish),
Kathryn Click (classics), and Roberta Winter
(speech and drama). They represent the highest
calibre of Agnes Scott's traditionally strong
faculty. We owe them a tremendous debt of
gratitude for their long and loyal service here.
We shall miss them, and we wish them many
years of happy, active retirement.

We are losing another key member of the
Agnes Scott family with the resignation of Dean
of Students Robin Jones, who is leaving us
for matrimony. I have enjoyed working with
her here this year, and we wish her and her
fortunate fiance a happy life together in Athens.
Let me add that a search for a new Dean of
Students is already underway. An advisory
committee of faculty, students, and administrators
is assisting me in the search, and I shall be
happy to receive suggestions from our alumnae.

if I sound rhapsodic in praise of Agnes Scott
and its wonderful people, please forgive me and
attribute it to my enthusiasm and faith in the
College the enthusiasm and faith of a new
convert. In this connection I am reminded of
the story about Mrs. Clair Booth Luce, the
author, playwright, and Congresswoman. As you
may know, Mrs. Luce was a most articulate
and gifted talker, as well as a writer. In her

middle years she became a convert to Roman
Catholicism and shortly thereafter had an
audience with the Pope at the Vatican. She
talked with His Holiness animatedly at some
length of her experience, especially her
conversion. Finally, the Pope was able to break
in briefly and said, "But Mrs, Luce, 1 am
already a Catholic."

In my remarks today, I would like to suggest
what I consider to be Agnes Scott's great
strengths, strengths we shall need as we face the
problems and challenges of the difficult days
which lie ahead. I shall point out some of these
problems and challenges, and indicate, in
general terms, how I believe we should move
to meet them in the immediate future. Indeed,
if you have read our publications this year,
you will know that we are already moving in a
number of ways to meet the most pressing ones.

What are Agnes Scott's main strengths today?
By way of answering this question, let me
mention those qualities and characteristics of
this college which were of chief importance in
influencing me (and my family) to leave a
very happy life at another fine college and to
join you here at Agnes Scott. I think of at least
five such strengths.

First, as an educator and teacher, I have long
known and admired Agnes Scott's tradition of
academic excellence and quality. Second, as a
Presbyterian, I was aware of Agnes Scott's
Christian commitment and of its loyal but
vigorous and independent Presbyterian heritage.
To both of these characteristics, our tradition
of academic excellence and our Christian
commitment, let me say right here that I
wholeheartedly subscribe and I intend to support
and enrich both of them! In these desperate
times of cheapened and uncertain values in so
many areas of our national life, our commitment
to high standards of teaching and scholarship
and to Christian principles of love and service
are more important than ever before.

High also among Agnes Scott's great strengths
is certainly the quality of the people who have
loved and served this college through the
years: its loyal and capable faculty and staff,
its gifted and courteous students, a supportive
and dedicated Board of Trustees, and its loyal.

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT (continued)

generous, and intelligent body of alumnae
whom you represent here today.

A fourth great strength of the College, in
my judgment, is its enviable location in the small
and pleasant city of Decatur adjacent to one of
the nation's most dynamic and exciting
metropolitan areas, Atlanta. We can enjoy here
the best of both worlds: the character and
charm of an old Georgia community together
with the bustle and excitement and myriad
opportunities cultural, recreational, social
of one of America's most vibrant and vital great
cities. We must take advantage of the cultural,
educational, and social opportunities offered
by our location.

Finally, as a college president wrestling with
college budgets and inflationary times, I would
be less than honest if I neglected to admit that
I was also impressed (and still am) by Agnes
Scott's strong financial resources and its record
of sound fiscal management.

All of these traits which I have just mentioned,
together with others, contribute to an intangible
but very real atmosphere which, even as a
newcomer, I sense increasingly at Agnes Scott.
The quality of Agnes Scott people and of the
life in this academic community a quality
compounded of intelligence and friendliness,
of loyalty and devotion to the College, of
sincere human concern and a sense of
community all these work together to
make a way of life which is unique and precious.
It must be our chief concern to see that this
quality is preserved and handed down, shaped
to our changing times and revitalized by our
efforts and contributions, to those who come
after us.

Before I grow too lyrical, however, in praise
of Agnes Scott, let me turn now to mention
briefly some of the problems which confront
us as a small, private, liberal arts college for
women in these difficult and confusing times.
There are many problems, to be sure, but many
of them can best be regarded as challenges
and opportunities.

First, of course, are the problems which we
share with American society in general: most of
them engendered by the times we live in
times of high costs and spiraling inflation,
of rapid and revolutionary social and political
change, of confused and even declining values
both national and personal in our homes,
in our schools, in our government. Taken
together, these problems add up to a national

economic and moral crisis. The historic function
of educational institutions through the
centuries has involved not only intellectual
but moral development, preparing young
people to meet the moral and intellectual
dilemmas, both private and public, which exist
in every age. We can certainly argue as to the
success which our colleges and universities in
America have had in carrying out this purpose
since their founding. On the whole, I think their
record is a very creditable one; and if we are
to judge from Agnes Scott's alumnae and the
impact they and the College have had on
their communities, I believe Agnes Scott's record
is a most positive one indeed.

In addition to the larger issues which confront
us as a nation, and which we experience as a
college, there are other problems which we
share in common with our sister colleges and
universities, especially those in the private
or independent sector. A few years ago, these
problems were complicated and intensified by
unprecedented unrest, tumult, and even violence
on many American campuses. Today's college
climate is far more peaceful and positive; and,
despite some inevitable scars, we have all
learned much of value from those traumatic years.

Now, in 1974, the chief problem for most
educational institutions is a financial one.
Some 60% of our private colleges, for example,
are operating in the red (not Agnes Scott, I am
happy to say). The situation is critical, and the
future of our private institutions is more
precarious than it has been in this century.

We in the private sector are largely dependent
for our sound operation on the income derived
from the fees paid by our students. Only a
handful of the most well endowed institutions,
colleges like Agnes Scott, receive-as much as a
quarter or more of their annual operating income
from endowment. Consequently, we must charge
fees which are considerably higher than those
levied by public institutions, which are largely
supported by public funds, i.e., your tax moneys
and mine. We must also try to convince students
(and their parents) that we are worth the
difference. We know we are! But that
is no easy job today.

I am not attacking or denigrating our great
public institutions of learning; we need them
urgently, and we must support them. We also
need our great private colleges and universities,
and we must also support them as well. Our
dual system of private and public education in

this country is one of the strengths of our
democracy and must be preserved. If our private
schools and colleges go under, along with
our private museums, hospitals, and orchestras,
our society will be much the poorer.

It is obvious that private colleges must charge
more for their services than the public
institutions. Even with their higher fees, however,
our students and their parents still pay
considerably less than it costs the private
college to educate them. The difference must
be made up by income from endowment and
from gifts of friends, individual and corporate
(foundations, churches, business, etc.). For
example, as I tell Agnes Scott students, they
pay today only about one-half of what it costs
us to run the educational program which they
enjoy. That is to say, someone other than they
(or their parents) contributes one-half of the
cost of their Agnes Scott education. Each Agnes
Scott student today, therefore, is the recipient
of the generosity of numerous past and present
donors to the College (many of them in this
audience), people who have believed in the
College and the kind of educational experience
it offers.

As I have indicated, Agnes Scott is blessed
with comparative financial strength even for
these inflationary times. Thus, our financial
problems are not as acute as those of many of
our sister institutions, a number of which I feel
will not survive the very difficult years ahead
of us in private education. But our financial
problems are real, and they are deserving of
your increased support.

Agnes Scott's chief need today is only
indirectly financial. It is the need to seek out
and attract to the College in sufficient numbers
the kind of young women of ability and character
who have made Agnes Scott the fine college it
is. You in the alumnae body can be of
tremendous help to us in this exciting and
necessary job of student recruitment. You will
be hearing more about such opportunities
from our new Director of Admissions, Ann
Rivers Thompson, and from others of our staff
during the coming year.

What has brought about the present
enrollment crisis in our private colleges and
universities? It is not only the relatively high
cost of private college education which has
resulted in falling enrollments in many private
colleges today, including Agnes Scott, but
also a number of forces at work in addition to

the economic ones. For one thing, our country's
rate of population growth has reached
zero today. This means that there will be
fewer young people going to all colleges in
the years just ahead, and understandably fewer
going to private colleges with their higher fees
and often more demanding standards. Indeed,
the shift from private to public colleges has
been underway at an increasing rate for a
number of years. In 1950, for example, about
half of the young people in college in this
country were in private colleges; today only
one-quarter of them are in private colleges.

There is also today a certain disenchantment
with the kind of liberal arts education which
colleges like Agnes Scott have traditionally
offered. Understandably, in a time of inflation
and unemployment, of an overcrowded job
market, young people are concerned that their
educational training equip them directly for
entering the job market or the professions.
The danger here is that young people expect a
liberal arts education to give them immediately
the kind of marketable skills and vocational
training which the liberal arts college, even at
its best, has never pretended to offer. Today
more than ever, it is impossible even for a
vocational or technical school to keep up with
the rapid changes which are occurring in industry
and in the professions. This makes all the more
important the kind of liberal arts education
which Agnes Scott College has always offered
a program which involves a thorough grounding
in the long history of our race (its achievements
and its dreams) and in habits of disciplined
thought and clear, articulate expression in
speaking and writing; in the ability to make
intellectual, aesthetic, and moral judgments,
and to discriminate among values. I am glad
to report that our best business and professional
firms are still showing preference for that kind
of graduate of liberal arts colleges. Such
businesses prefer to train their young employees
themselves in the specific skills needed for
their jobs. They do not want to have to teach
them what they should have learned in college
to think clearly and independently, to read
and write intelligently, to know how to solve
problems and how to find the information they
will need in specific jobs. These are the aims
and at our best the achievement of liberal
arts colleges like Agnes Scott.

I am not suggesting for a moment that young
people do not need specific skills and

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT (mnunued)

professional training for their work. These
must and should be acquired not only on the
job, but, if possible, during college years as
well, both on and off the campus. We shall
continue to experiment at Agnes Scott with the
addition of new programs and courses which
young people will need as they enter today
in greater numbers both the job market and
graduate and professional schools. We shall
offer such courses and programs not in lieu of
but in addition to the strong liberal arts core
which we continue to believe is the indispensable
base not only for a successful professional career
and the responsibilities of citizenship but also
for a happy and satisfying personal life as an
intelligent and concerned human being.

A final factor in our recruiting problems
today is the current trend to coeducation.
All women's colleges have been seriously
affected by it; indeed, I believe only the
strongest of us will survive. Until recently, this
trend to coeducation assumed the proportions
of a veritable band wagon parade. I am glad
to note that it has slowed down markedly
in the last year or two, but I hasten to add that
I am convinced that women's colleges will
constitute the minority, although a strong and
selective one, in American higher education
of the future. From the beginning I have
opposed this band wagon rush to coeducation
among our colleges. It has meant, in my
judgment, not the liberation of young women
and a bettering of their situations, but rather
an extension to even more campuses of
women's traditional demeaning role as "coed,"
(i.e., second class) citizens in an aggressively
male environment. Historically, if we look at
the position of women in our society, even
today, more than a century of coeducation in
American colleges cannot be called a success.
There is still discrimination in coeducational
colleges as there is in business, the professions,
and government. Until such discrimination is
much less than it is today, I am convinced
that our best women's colleges still have a
most important role to play.

Certainly, it is natural that some young
women will prefer a coeducational experience.
It is equally natural, and perhaps even more
valuable in some cases, for a number of
young people to prefer an educational experience
offered by a good women's college or men's
college. People are different, and they should
have the option of different educational
experiences to choose among. Today especially,

when opportunities for young women are
opening up as never before, there is a great
need (in my judgment) for colleges which can
offer young women a quality educational
experience designed for them, an experience
in which they will be first class citizens, and
will have leadership opportunities and
individualized programs which a strong women's
college like Agnes Scott can offer them. So
long as young women want this kind of
educational experience to prepare them for
later life, Agnes Scott intends to offer it. In
short, we intend to remain a woman's college
of the highest quality, in company with a
few other women's colleges which are among
America's strongest of any type.

So much for this brief review of some of our
problems and challenges. As I am sure you
can see, our alumnae can be of tremendous help
to us in meeting these challenges. You can
help us in our recruiting and admissions
efforts not only by organized committees
in your clubs and in key cities throughout the
country but also by "talking up" Agnes Scott
in your own communities and by actively
seeking out able and attractive young women
who are college bound, and making sure that
they know about Agnes Scott and its great
programs today. You can also help us, and
your college, by keeping us informed of
yourselves and the achievements and interests

Dr. I. Davibon Philips, Pdstor of the Decatur
Presbyterian Church and member of Agnes Scott's
Board of Trustees, introduces Dr Perry to alumnae.

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of your busy and varied lives. Don't be modest;
send us news of yourself, your family, and
your activities. Send us your criticisms too as
well as your suggestions for making this a
stronger and better college. Our energetic and
capable new Director of Alumnae Affairs,
Virginia McKenzie, is anxious to hear from you!
I know she is going to bring even greater
vitality and scope to our alumnae activities.

I would be hypocritical if I did not urge
you also to increase your financial support
of Agnes Scott and to urge your fellow alumnae
to do so. Our alumnae fund record is already
a creditable one, with about 30% of our
alumnae contributing, with an average
gift of some $47 last year, in my judgment, our
immediate goals should be to have at least
50% of Agnes Scott's alumnae supporting
the College through annual giving, with an
average gift of $60 to $75 per year. Let's aim
for these goals now!

I shall not take up your time today with a
further recital of some of the activities and
changes here at Agnes Scott in the past year.
I attempted to summarize them in my
President's Letter which was sent to you this
past Founder's Day. I can report now, very
briefly, that we are making significant progress
in the three areas which I singled out in that
letter as calling for immediate action: student
recruitment and retention, improvement of
faculty and staff salaries and benefits, and
renovation of the physical plant and grounds.
I am happy to say that the volume of applicants
for next year's freshman class continues to run
somewhat ahead of that of last year at this
time. Faculty and staff salaries have been
increased for next year, and we expect also to
add an insurance and total disability benefit to
the fringe benefits which our employees now
enjoy. A strong faculty and a capable student
body are my chief concerns. As for the physical
plant and grounds, you have already noticed
(if you have not actually tumbled into them) the
trenches which we have opened up around the
campus. These represent the first, and muddiest,
stage of our renovation of the wiring and
electrical system of the campus in order that we
can safely air condition three additional
facilities: the auditoriums in Presser, the Library,
and Winship dormitory. These will be not only
for the comfort and increased efficiency of our
own students and faculty but also to give us
more attractive facilities for the conferences
which will be meeting here in the summers

ahead, indeed, we have seven such conferences
scheduled for this summer, consisting mostly
of school-age young people, church groups, and
educators. By this summer we also hope to
have attractive and helpful new signs throughout
the campus, and a new and uniform lighting
system for increased usefulness and safety.

I shall not go further into the events and
changes of the year now drawing to a close.
This summer I shall attempt to summarize them
fully in an annual report to you which will be
published in the fall issue of the Alumnae
Quarterly. I hope very much you will read it
and let me have your reactions and
suggestions then.

There is much more I would like to tell you
right now about Agnes Scott and our hopes and
plans for the future. But already I am running
too long; and 1 shall conclude, therefore, with a
brief listing of some general principles or aims
which I would like to propose as guidelines
for Agnes Scott as we attempt to offer young
women a sound and stimulating educational
experience in the last years of this tumultuous
twentieth century. First, let me assert with
confidence that, despite the problems and
difficulties of our times, Agnes Scott intends to
survive as a superior liberal arts college for
women. Agnes Scott indeed is looking beyond
survival and is educating for more than
survival. We shall continue to stress at the
College a strong liberal arts program, which
combines traditional academic excellence
with sound experimentation, a policy reflecting
a consciously chosen middle way (or Golden
Mean) between tradition and innovation. We
shall also continue to stress concern for the
individual by trying to keep our programs
flexible enough to be adaptable to individual
needs and tastes at the same time that our
students share also in a common (or community)
experience. Thus, we shall continue to emphasize
the individual's responsibility to the
community here at Agnes Scott now and
later in the larger society. Finally, we shall
continue to remember that we are concerned
at Agnes Scott for more than mind (or intellect)
alone but with Christian character and
personality, with the whole person as a
human (and humane) being and a child of God.

We want and need your support and your
prayers and we shall also ask for your active
help in our great work. You may be sure, too,
that we shall continue to try to be worthy of your
affection and your pride!

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Writing Festival Attracts Young Authors to

The Agnes Scott Writing Festival was held on
campus, April 18 and 19, sponsored by the staff
of the Aurora, Agnes Scott's literary magazine,
with assistance from the Arts Council, a
committee composed of representatives from all
art activities on campus. Poet Larry Rubin of the
English Department at Georgia Tech, and poet-
novelist Hollis Summers, of the English
Department at Ohio University, were the critics
and lecturers.

The Festival was open to students of all
Georgia colleges and universities. These students
were invited to submit poetry and/or short
stories to a selection committee made up of
Agnes Scott students and faculty members with
Dr. Margret Trotter as chairman. The best
examples of the entries were then published in
the Aurora, and from the thirteen published
works, Mr. Rubin and Mr. Summers selected the
winning poem and story, the authors of which
won $25 prizes. Marta Powell Harley, ASC '74,
won the poetry division with "Afterlife" (her
poem is printed below), and Robert Carl Giles,
from the University of Georgia, won the fiction
prize with "Homecoming."

Over 200 poems and 22 short stories were
submitted to the Festival committee; the entries

Larry Rubin (left) and Hollis Summers (right), with
moderator Nat FitzSimons Anderson 70. Visiting
Instructor at ASC, lead workshop during Festival.

came from approximately fifteen Georgia schools,
including Agnes Scott, Armstrong State, Atlanta
Christian, Berry, Clark, Clayton Junior, DeKalb,
Emory, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Georgia
Tech, Kennesaw Junior, Wesleyan and West
Georgia.

The activities of the Festival included workshop
discussions of the poetry and prose published in
the Aurora, led by Mr. Rubin and Mr. Summers,
a lecture-reading by Mr. Summers and a poetry
reading by Mr. Rubin. Also, each student whose
work was published was eligible for a personal
interview with one of the critics during the
two-day Festival.

Larry Rubin, the author of two books of poetry.
The World's Old Way and Lanced in Light, has
published in several periodicals, including Poetry,
The Sewanee Review and Harper's. He received
the Annual Award of the Poetry Society of
America in 1973.

Hollis Summers has served on the staff at a
number of writers' conferences, has written on
the short story and has published both poetry
and fiction. His fiction includes How They Chose
the Dead and The Weather of February.

The 1974 Writing Festival was the third
consecutive event of its kind to be held at Agnes
Scott. The first writing conference was a Writer's
Workshop, in 1958, during the Spring Arts
Festival. Students from southern colleges were
invited to participate and attend a conference
which offered a panel of outstanding writers,
including May Sarton, Elizabeth Barlett, Hollis
Summers and James Dickey. Nancy Kimmel
Duncan '58 was the leader of that Arts Festival.
After that, however, interest, time or money was
lacking for there was only one Writer's
Conference until 1972 when the faculty and
students revived interest in the event.

According to Dr. Trotter, faculty chairman for
the Festival, the students who came are serious
writers. She says, "The general idea is to serve
Georgia colleges with a place to publish their
best material and to come together as students
and to get acquainted with others interested
in the writing field."

The winning poem, written by Agnes Scott
senior Marta Powell Harley, is reprinted here by
permission of the Aurora and the author.

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\gnes Scoti College

Afterlife

a tall

slate

fish spine

with ribs disturbingly

slanted is

crumbling

and climbing still

in crippled

crosses ladderlike

through the blue

mists,

dying

picked clean of

greengrowth

and rising still

in the greenlush

forest life fed

on the stripped limbs;

hollow-veined and

hovering,

the deadlife yet

claims the landscape

piercing the sky

a frail

unfailing

shadow

Marta Powell Harley

Winning poet Marta Powell Harley 74 meets short story winner Robert Carl
Giles on the Colonnade.

Critics and students visit informally on the Quadrangle.

y

efand
about

ASC

Bioethics Conference to be
Held at Agnes Scott

A Bioethics Conference financially
assisted by the National Endowment
for the Humanities will be held at
Agnes Scott College on November
6, 7 and 8,1974.

The Bioethics Conference is
designed to provide a forum for
exchange of ideas among scientists
and non-scientists on the topics of
technological capabilities in genetics
and bioengineering, ethical and
sociological problems associated
with those capabilities, human
experimentation and legalistic
aspects in the formulation of public
policies in those areas. The
conference is expected to attract
a large audience from the medical,
legal and academic communities
throughout Georgia, as well as the
general public.

Among the conference speakers
will be Dr. Daniel Callahan, Director
of the Hastings Center, Institute of
Society, Ethics and Life Sciences,
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; Dr.
Bruce Wallace, Professor of Genetics,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
Dr. Jonas Robitscher, Henry R. Luce
Professor of Law and the Behavioral
Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia; and Dr. William J. Curran
of the Harvard School of Public
Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
President C. Benton Kline of
Columbia Theological Seminary will
be the moderator.

The Bioethics Conference is
funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities through the
Georgia Committee on Public
Programs for the Humanities. No
registration fee will be required for
the conference, which is open to the
public.

Local directors for the conference
are three Agnes Scott College faculty
members chemistry professor Dr.
Alice Cunningham, biology professor
Dr. Sandra Bowden and philosophy
professor Dr. Richard Parry. For more
information about the conference,

call these professors at Agnes Scott
College, 373-2671.

Third Faculty Wives Craft
Fair Set for September 12

The Agnes Scott College Faculty
Wives Club will sponsor the third
annual Craft Fair on the first day of
fall quarter classes, September 12,
1974. The Faculty Wives, who
originally designed the event for
students but were always happy to
have alumnae involved, now
cordially invite all alumnae in the
area to shop the Fair and bring
friends. The items for sale will
include Westervelt pottery, wall
hangings, posters, children's toys and
clothes, potted plants and hanging
baskets, stained glass windows,
baked goods, pillows, bedspreads
and bulletin boards. And for the first
time, a boutique with smocks, hats,
pants and shirts will be featured.
Proceeds from the Fair will go to
the Martin Luther King Scholarship
Fund at Agnes Scott, the income
from which goes to help black
students.

The Fair began in 1972 and netted
$1500 that first time. The second
Fair in 1973 beat the record with
$1600 for the Scholarship Fund.
They hope for an even bigger
selection and wider audience this
year and more money for the Fund.

_lennie Leslie, daughter of Robert
Leslie, Assistant Professor of Math,
and Kent Leslie, Craft Fair Chariman,
sits among the plants which will be
sold at the third annual Craft Fair
sponsored by the Faculty Wives.

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The Class of 1924 Returns for 50th Reunion

The Class of 1924 returned to
Agnes Scott with a great deal of
enthusiasm for their fiftieth reunion.
After many months of work by Carrie
Scandrett, President, Frances Cilhland
Stukes, Fund Chairman, Polly Stone
Buck and others, twenty members of
the class, a few assorted husbands
and some close friends from other
classes came to the weekend
activities.

On Friday night, those who had
arrived in Decatur attended the
informal reception given in Winship
in honor of the retiring ASC faculty
members Josephine Bridgman '27,
Professor of Biology; Florene
Dunstan, Professor of Spanish;
Kathryn Click, Professor of Classical
Languages and Literature; and
Roberta Winter '27, Annie Louise
Harrison Waterman Professor of
Speech and Drama. The party was
cheery and pretty and provided an
opportunity for alumnae to meet Dr.
and Mrs. Perry as well as to chat
with the faculty members.

After the alumnae luncheon, where
the class was especially honored,
receiving fifty-year pins from the

Alumnae Association, they were
invited to the Perry's home for coffee,
dessert and fellowship. The class
held their business meeting at the
Perry's, during which they re-elected
Carrie Scandrett President and
elected Isabelle Sewell F^ancock
Secretary, both for the next five
years. Also discussed were plans to
publish a newsletter about the
reunion to send to all 24ers,
especially designed to inform those
who were not able to come. Polly
Stone Buck agreed to write up the
reunion and Lucy Rhyne Walker, to
assist with publication.

The highlight of the evening was
a delightful dinner, decorated by
Frances Gilliland Stukes with her
own flowers, at the Sheraton Emory
Inn. The Class was joined by the
grown-up class mascot. Dr. Paul
McCain, Vice President for
Development at Agnes Scott, and his
charming wife Eleanor and by
Quenelle FHarrold Sheffield '23 and
Frank and Mary Ben Wright Erwin '25
and George. Toward the end of the
evening, Margaret McDow
MacDougall joined the rest of the

class for after dinner coffee.

Some familiar faces were missing
from the group, but many sent
messages and news by phone and
letter which Polly read at the dinner.
(Most of the news will appear in
the '24 Class News column in this
and the next issues of the Quarterly).

It was a warm, fun, nostalgic
weekend. Perhaps "Speedy" Kmg
Wilkins summed it up best in her
note to Dick Scandrett, "It was just
grand to get back to Agnes Scott
again and see my good friends. Time
really goes by, but it is good to see
that good friends stay the same. The
luncheon and our "24 Dinner" were
ones that I shall long remember."

Games Mothers Play, or,
I Thought I Would Never
Treat My Kids That Way

"What you should do is to feel OK,
then you can attribute 'okayness' to
others. If you're happiest at home,
with voluntary activities or in a career,
do it! You'll be better for yourself,
your husband and children." That
statement was part of the final
session led by Dr. William Neville,
during a unique continuing
education program this spring. The
course, entitled "Games Mothers
Play," was a lecture / discussion
group, held at the home of
Continuing Education Chairman
Ellen Middlebrooks Davis '62. The
sessions, which met each Tuesday
morning, from April 23-May 14,
were scheduled to run an hour and
a half, 9:30-11 :00, but the group of
more than 55 alumnae and non-
alumnae (including one alumna
husband) often asked and answered
questions until 11 :30 and talked
with Dr. Neville individually until
12:00 or 12:30. The group was
interested in the topic and though
frequently in disagreement with
him or with each other, they
seemed stimulated by their
interaction and verbalization of
ideas, problems and solutions.

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eivs

(continued)

Dr. Neville is an individual and
family counselor with special
training in transactional analysis. He
is a consultant for the Decatur
Pediatric Group and Community
Child Care Program. A warm,
friendly man, he first apologized for
being "a man coming to talk with a
group of women about women" but
never presumed to know all
the answers.

The four sessions were cleverly,
almost flippantly titled, but the
topics were never approached glibly
by Dr. Neville or the group. The
first session was called "The Myth
of Supermom: The Cultural
Expectations of the Fertile Woman,"
where he explained that women have
been programmed to accept the
role of The Perfect Mother / Wife,
whether i^ fits or not. He went on
to say that there is nothing wrong
with the role, in fact, "parenting is
the most important job anyone, man
or woman, can perform." However,
society's interpretation of that job,
the Supermom, may not fit every
individual.

The second session, labeled "What
Do You Mean, 'We,' White Man?
The Relationship of the Marriage to
Parenting," dealt with the marriage
relationship and how to keep it
good. He maintained that two
people, raised differently, who are
"whole people" before they come
to marriage, can remain whole only
if there is commitment to each
other, real trust and honesty.

The next session, "I Was OK, Will
I Ever Be That Way Again? The
Mother's Growth as an Individual
Person," discussed the problem that
many women began voicing in the
1950's the lack of fulfillment they
felt in household duties, the cry
"Is this all?" Dr. Neville discussed
the stereotyped behavior that
children are taught when they are
young, the programming which can
be so ingrained that it keeps women,
and men, from being free to choose
the life-style best suited for them
as individuals.

The final session was entitled
"The Energy Crunch: Me, My
Regular Customers, or IBM Uber

Alles? To Whom Does My Time
Belong?" which dealt with the
question of who gets a woman's
energy herself? her children?
or her husband's job? Dr. Neville
recommended that the use we
make of energy should be an
individual decision, made after
re-evaluating our early learning,
getting in touch with our feelings
and choosing the paths we wish
to follow.

Charitable Gift Annuities

When Agnes Scott College began,
more than eighty years ago, there
was a real need for institutions
dedicated to the education of young
women. Happily, Agnes Scott has
been able to play an important part
in filling this need. This has been
possible because people who
believed in its aims provided the
necessary financial support.

Today the need for well educated
women is perhaps greater than ever.
Trustees of Agnes Scott believe that
this demand will continue. They have
developed "deferred gift"
arrangements by which friends and
alumnae of the College during the
next ten, twenty or forty years can
conveniently have a larger share in
assuring that the quality of Agnes
Scott's education will continue.

What Is a Deferred Gift?

The bequest to Agnes Scott
College that you may have in your
will is, in a sense, a "deferred" gift.
It is a present, existing arrangement
that provides no immediate benefit
for the College, but will result in
property passing to Agnes Scott at
some future time. This kind of
deferred gift is popular for two basic
reasons; First, Agnes Scott can plan
today to receive your "gift" at some
later time as a memorial of your
lifetime interest in Agnes Scott's
accomplishments. Second, you can
know the individual pleasure of
making the future accomplishments
of Agnes Scott College possible.

There are other forms of "deferred
gifts" which offer the donor more
advantages than the simple bequest.

For example, the charitable remainder
trust or the gift annuity involves the
transfer of property for the future
benefit of the College while
providing the donor a lifetime
income. Another deferred gift may be
the transfer of an insurance policy
on your life to the College.

Agnes Scott has just received
approval for its Pooled Income Fund
from the Internal Revenue Service.
Through a transfer of cash, securities
or other property to this Fund a
donor can receive both a lifetime
income and a charitable deduction
for a part of the value of the property
transferred. The amount deductible
depends upon the age of the donor
and that of any other beneficiary.
Since the investment goal of this Fund
emphasizes income and since there
is no capital gains tax to pay upon
the transfer, many people will find
this form of giving quite attractive.

The Charitable Gift Annuity

The charitable gift annuity is a
unique plan for satisfying both
philanthropic and financial needs.
Yet it is a remarkably simple plan.
In exchange for a gift of cash,
securities or real property, Agnes
Scott College will pay you a certain
fixed dollar annuity for the rest of
your life. Or, if you wish, the College
will pay the annuity to another for
life ... or to you and another for
your respective lives.

The exact amount of the annuity
will depend on your age, the size of
your gift and whether or not there
are other beneficiaries. In most
cases, the annuity will be from
5.5% of the amount of the gift
to as much as 10%. But there's more
than just guaranteed payments for
life. You can generally expect these
other financial advantages:

A large, immediate income tax
deduction (often 25% to 40% of
the gift).

Favorably taxed income (as
much as 60% or more of the annuity
payments can be tax free).

Minimized capital gains taxes
when you give appreciated property
(the capital gains tax on your paper
profit is partially avoided and the

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balance can be spread over the
period you will be receiving
the annuity payments).

The particular facts of each gift
determine the extent of these
advantages. The Development Staff
of Agnes Scott will be happy to
provide you with specific figures
for whatever gift annuity arrangement
you may want to consider. But a
glance at the financial results of a
$10,000 gift annuity for Mrs. R will
give you an idea of the dollar-and-
cents advantages involved in a
typical gift annuity plan.

Mrs. R. is 75, and the College
promised to pay her $700 a year in
semi-annual installments for the rest
of her life. On her income tax return
she can immediately deduct about
$4,190 as a gift to the College. And
only about $211 of her annual
annuity will be taxable income.

Other gift annuity arrangements
are possible as well. Indeed, one of
the most attractive features of the
gift annuity is its flexibility. Some
examples are:

Miss A, at age 55, makes a gift
of $10,000 to Agnes Scott for an
annuity that will not start until she
reaches age 65. Such an arrangement
is called a deferred gift annuity and
offers the donor extremely favorable
tax benefits.

Mr. and Mrs. B make a $20,000
gift to Agnes Scott, and the College
agrees to pay an annuity to him for
his life and then to his wife for her
life. The financial benefits from such
an arrangement are substantial . . .
and Mr. and Mrs. B. can have the
immense personal satisfaction that
comes from making a lifetime gift.

Mrs. C, locked into a low-yield
security, gives the security to the
College in exchange for an annuity.
She can substantially reduce her
capital gains tax and at the same
time increase her spendable income.

The Development Office invites
you to consider a gift annuity
arrangement with Agnes Scott
College. In addition to the possible
financial benefits you may derive,
you'll have the satisfaction of
knowing you have helped the
College provide a better education

for future generations of young
women. For more information about
the charitable gift annuity or any
other type of deferred gift, please
write the Development Office, Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
30030.

Pioneers of Modern Painting

From April 23 through May 28, 1974,

Agnes Scott presented a series of
color films entitled Pioneers of
Modern Painting, written and
narrated by Sir Kenneth Clark. The
films dealt with the lives and
contributions of painters who were
important to the history of art. The
films were shown weekly and featured
Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Claude
Monet, Georges Seurat, Henri
Rousseau, and Edvard Munch.
Filmed mainly in France and Norway,
the series was presented by Time-

Life Films and made available to the
College at no cost by the National
Gallery of Art.

College Housing Available
for the Summer

Agnes Scott plans to make
available certain College-owned
cottages for students who wish to
live on campus during the summer
of 1974. Only students enrolled
during the 1973-74 session are
eligible for residence on the campus
this summer. They will pay $150 for
housing from June 12 through
August 31, 1974. This is the first time
College housing has been available
for students during the summer, the
program being initiated in response
to a number of inquiries and requests
from students who will work or
attend school in the area.

Oops, a photographer! But modesty prevails...

When spring arrives, a familiar scene on campus is one of contemporary young
scholars studying Milton and Kant under the sun.

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CLUBS FAR AND NEAR

Agnes Scott alumnae do not always
demonstrate their loyalty by
joining or sparking alumnae
clubs. Indeed, many of them are
so busy leading the various civic,
educational, or religious activities
of their town, state, or country that
they truly have no time for another
club meeting. However, in the
last few years, more and more
alumnae are discovering that clubs
are valuable tools for meeting
women who have an instant
common bond, for providing an
opportunity to help the College in a
way other than financial, and for
maintaining or reviving open
communication with and about
Agnes Scott.

The Alumnae Association
Executive Board and the Office
staff are delighted to find that
Agnes Scott women are interested
in keeping a tangible tie with the
College in the body of an alumnae
club. They are eager to help any
alumna organize one by sending
up-to-date lists and an Alumnae
Club Handbook, by arranging for
speakers from the College, or
by mailing out invitations to a
meeting.

Anyone interested in starting a
club or seeking information about
the nearest club should contact
either the Alumnae Office or the
Vice-President for her region. For
those who do not know their
Vice-President or the region they
live in, they are:

Region I

Conn. N. J.

Del. N. Y.

III. Ohio

Maine Penn.

Mass. R. I.

Mich. Vermont

N. H. Wise.

Dot Porcher '62
101 Western Ave., #75
Cambridge, MA 02139

Region II

Indiana S. C.

Kentucky Va.

Maryland Wash., D.C.

N. C. W. Va.

Nancy Edwards '58
1032 Pierson Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28205

Fla.
Ca.

Region III

Tenn.

Mary Duckworth Cellerstedt '46
(Mrs. L. L. Cellerstedt, Jr.)
3129 Rockingham Dr., NW
Atlanta, GA 30327

Region IV

Ala. Montana

Alaska Nev.

Ariz. N. M.

Ark. N. D.

Calif. Neb.

Col. Okla.

Hawaii Oregon

Idaho S. D.

Iowa Tex.

Kansas Utah

La. Wash.

Miss. Wyoming

Mo. APO

Minn. Foreign

Margaret Gillespie '69

3975 1-55 North

H-3 Vieux Carre Apts.

Jackson, MS 39216

Dallas

by Lucy Hamilton Lewis '68

An enthusiastic group of alumnae
met on Saturday, February 23 for a
Founder's Day luncheon at the S & S
Tearoom in the Highland Park Village
The "program" consisted of a
discussion of the formation of a club
here in Dallas. There was unanimous
approval of the idea.

We decided that the first thing
to do was to write the Alumnae
Office at the College for the names
of alumnae in a few of Dallas'
suburbs before we "get the show
on the road" since lots of other
alums are almost surely living in
the vicinity.

Then we elected to organize
formally in the fall with all alumnae
from surrounding towns informed of
the meeting. We decided, however,
that we would be glad to gather in
the meantime for a meeting if there
is a special reason such as helping
Bryce Burgess Beasley '63, Dallas
alumna admissions representative,
entertain prospective students or

meeting with a representative from
the College.

We do want to be useful and
helpful to the College. Generating
lots of alumnae interest in this area
can be beneficial in fund-raising,
and we believe that it can help with
recruiting students. One would be
amazed at how well-known names
like Bryn Mawr, Sweet Briar,
Randolph Macon and Mary Baldwin
are here and Agnes Scott is not
so well-known. With a little alumnae
activity around these parts, I think
we could eliminate that problem and
at least make Agnes Scott a
"household word"!

Potential members present at the
meeting were: Sherry Addington
Lundberg '62, Virginia Feddeman
Kerner '51, Virginia Cray Pruitt '32,
Lucy Hamilton Lewis '68, Jerry Kay
Foote '72, Winnie Kellersberger Vass
'38, Martha "Teeka" Long Baldwin '51,
Helen Patterson Johnson '68, Louise
Sullivan Fry '40, Anne Sylvester Booth
'54, Ruth Thomas Stemmons '28,
Susan Watson Black '72.

Marietta

The Agnes Scott College Alumnae
Club of Marietta observed the 85th
birthday of their alma mater during
their February 16 meeting. Dr.
Margaret P. Ammons, Agnes Scott
Associate Professor of Education and
Chairman of the Education
Department, talked to the club
about Agnes Scott today, with
special emphasis on the
Education Department.

The Alumnae Club's luncheon
meeting was held at 12:30 p.m.
in the home of the club's president,
Mary Kirkpatrick Reed '42.

Middle Tennessee

The Middle Tennessee Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club met to celebrate
Founder's Day at the home of Nancy
Bowers Wood '59, in Nashville, on
February 23, 1974. The meeting
began with a social hour, followed
by luncheon and a brief business
meeting. The highlight of the day
was an informal speech by Carrie
Scandrett '24, who spoke on the
College past, present and future.
Accompanying her to Nashville and

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Carrie Scandrett 24 (right) discusses
t/ie meeting with Mrs^ Ela Q/rry (left),
Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger '39, Vice
President and Program Chairman,
and Nancy Bowers Wood '59,
Secretary-Treasurer and hostess for
the Founder's Day meeting.

to the meeting was Mrs. Ela Curry,
manager of the Alumnae House. Dr.
Philip Davidson, former history
professor at Agnes Scott, also joined
the group for a short visit.

Officers elected for the next year
are: Katherine Hawkins Linebaugh
'60, president; Mamie Lee Ratliff
Finger '39, first vice-president;
Cornelia Stuckey Walker '42, second
vice-president; and Nancy Bowers
Wood '59, secretary-treasurer. Nancy
reports that "Miss Scandrett was
the greatest 'hit' we've had here in
years! We enjoyed her so very 1

much and Mrs. Curry too, of
course."

Washington, D.C

The Washington, D.C. Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club celebrated Founder's
Day with a dinner party in the
Plantation Room at Evans Farm Inn,
Alexandria, Virginia, on the evening
of Saturday, March 2, 1974. Dr.
Marie Pepe, Professor of Art at Agnes
Scott, was the principal speaker
and was presented by Barbara Duvall
Averch '58, who is co-president
with Dot Weakley Gish '56.

This meeting was the second
meeting for the Washington Club
in less than a year; they had a
reception for alumnae and husbands
to meet Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Perry
before they arrived at Agnes Scott.
Reports have it that the Club was
delighted with the Perrys and Dr.
and Mrs. Perry have said that they
were certainly impressed with the

alumnae in that area, as they have
been with all the Agnes Scott
alumnae they have met.

Connecticut

The Fairfield-Westchester
(Connecticut) Agnes Scott Alumnae
Club met at the home of Dr.
Virginia Suttenfield '38 on March 23,
1974 for their spring meeting.
Thirteen alumnae attended the
luncheon, where news of the College
and personal activities were reported.
The president of the club is Charme
Robinson Ritter '61 and the
secretary-treasurer is )ean Crawford
Cross '65. Jean sent a report on the
past activities of the club, saying that
they have had three meetings since
March, 1972 and that they "enjoy
getting together but haven't been
extremely active due to the fact
that the group isn't large enough
to tackle a tremendous project and
that we are spread over a wide
geographical area."

The club, however, has shown
their concern and loyalty for the
College in a special way. Jean sent a
check for $100 to the Agnes
Scott Fund from the Fairfield-
Westchester Club as their
contribution, making them a
Mainliner Club.

Columbia

The Columbia (S.C.) Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club met for a luncheon
on February 23, 1974 to celebrate

Dr Perry is greeted by Catherine
Eichelberger Krell '55 before the
Founder's Day luncheon.

Founder's Day. Catherine
Eichelberger Krell '55, chairman
of the Columbia Club, asked
President Marvin Perry to address
the club. Dr. Perry spoke on the
private woman's college its
problems, its fears, its hopes and
its challenge; namely, the best way
to educate young women who
will be living most of their lives
in the twentieth century.

Birmingham

The Birmingham Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club held its annual
luncheon meeting on February 23,
1974 at the Kopper Kettle Cafeteria.
Dean Julia Gary was the speaker
for the meeting.

Mary Vines Wright '36 was
elected president of the club and
Betty Young von Herrmann will be
the new secretary.

There were twenty-six alumnae
to attend the meeting.

ROBERT FROST CENTENNIAL:
A CELEBRATION OF THE POET

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
October 15-16, 1974

Speakers
Cleanth Brooks Richard Wilbur

Lesley Frost Bailantine Wallace M. Alston

The public is cordially invited to attend.

Inquiries to: Margaret W. Pepperdene, Department of English,
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia 30030

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Deaths

Faculty

Emily S. Dexter, Associate Professor

Emeritus of Philosophy and Education,

April 12, 1974.

Institute

Amanda Caldwell Holt (Mrs. William E.),

October 24, 1973.

May Goss Stone (Mrs. M. I.), date

unknown.

Leila Hardeman, August, 1973.

Ardeile Mills Farnsworth (Mrs. F. W.),

date unknown.

Mary Elizabeth Quillian Harrell (Mrs.

L. A.), April 13, 1973.

Mamie Shipley Ware (Mrs. John W.),

November 13, 1972.

Academy

Hazel King Fish (Mrs. Carl), 1969.
Sallie Mae Walker Zetterower (Mrs.
F. R.), December 22, 1972.

1910

Amanda Caldwell Holt, sister of Lida

Caldwell Wilson, October 24, 1973.

1911

Adelaide L. Cunningham, April 3, 1974.

1913

Nancy Gillespie Steele (Mrs. E. C), date

unknown.

1918

Faith Burt Fox (Mrs.), date unknown.

1921

Harry Huber, husband of Julia Watkins
Huber, February 19, 1974.
Julia Watkins Huber (Mrs. Harry), April
17, 1974.

1923

Ellen McLean Buffington (Mrs. A. W.),

October, 1973.

1924

Kate Higgs Vaughn (Mrs. James Henry),

May 7, 1974.

1925

Mary Jarman Nelson (Mrs.), December
23, 1973. She was the niece of Dr.
James R. McCain, the late President
Emeritus of Agnes Scott College.

1929

Lucy Elizabeth Oldfield Cheek (Mrs.
B. B.), "Miss Lutie," mother of Dorothy
Cheek Callaway, February 16, 1974.

1933

Catherine Happoldt Simpson (Mrs.),

November 28, 1973.

1946

June Thomann McEntee Johns (Mrs.

Rhys), September 16, 1971.

1949

Barbara Cochran Vaughn (Mrs. Sam, Jr.),

April 5, 1974.

1959

Frances Broom Haskew (Mrs. E. S.),

April, 1971.

Ernest H. McCoy, father of Martha

Elizabeth McCoy, April 11, 1974.

1972

Susan Daley Smith, sister of Gayle Daley,
February 9, 1974.

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Cayle Shute Rankin 74 gives her mother. Caroline Squircf Rankin '47. a thankvou hug after four great vears and a diploma.

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly / Vol. 52 No. 4

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Ga. Second class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia 30030.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALAN DAVID AND RON SHERMAN

THE INAUGURATION OF

Marvin Banks Perry, Jr

AS FOURTH PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1974
DECATUR, GEORGIA

President Emeritus Wallace M. Alston giving the invocation as the inaugural ceremonies begin

INTRODUCTION

Fortunately Agnes Scott's presidents have had long
tenures in office the first three presidents averaged
twenty-eight years each. Thus, inaugurations are rare and
very special occasions. Such was indeed the case when on
May 18 of this year Dr. Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., was
officially inducted into office as fourth president of the
College. Months of planning and work, under the able
leadership of Mr. Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr., Vice Chair-
man of the Board of Trustees, preceded the celebration
itself.

President Perry very much wanted the intellectual life
of the College to be high-lighted in the total inaugural
happenings. Consequently, on Wednesday, May 15, the
College presented as convocation speaker Mrs. Josephine
Jacobsen, poet, short story writer, critic, and a form-
er consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Mrs.
Jacobsen was exceedingly well received, and her ad-
dress, entitled "Beginnings," occasioned much applause
and praise.

Two days later on May 17, a second convocation speak-
er was presented this time a distinguished Agnes Scott
alumna. Dr. Jeanne Addison Roberts, "46. Dean of the
Faculties and Professor of Literature at American Univer-
sity in Washington. D. C. Dean Roberts' topic was "Shake-

speare's Prince Hal as a Model for Career Women." She
too was received and applauded with enthusiasm.

On Friday evening the inaugural celebration continued
with "Invitation to Music," a concert presented by the
music faculty and Glee Club of Agnes Scott, assisted by
the Glee Clubs from Spelman and Georgia Tech.

Saturday. May 18, Inauguration Day, dawned clear and
sunny. The first event was a brief inaugural chapel con-
ducted by Dr. J. Davison Philips. Minister of the Decatur
Presbyterian Church and a member of Agnes Scott's Board
of Trustees.

Meanwhile, representatives from approximately two
hundred colleges, universities, and learned and professional
societies were assembling for the actual inauguration itself.
All their academic panoply, combined with that of the
faculty, made the campus alive with color.

Mr. Alex P. Gaines, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
and grandson of Agnes Scott's first president, presided
over the inaugural ceremonies and inducted Dr. Perry into
the presidency. Greetings were brought from various con-
stituencies of the College, and President Emeritus Wallace
M. Alston returned to the campus for the first time since
his retirement and led the invocation and pronounced the
benediction.

Of course, the high point of all the inaugural events was
President Perry's address entitled "To What Green Altar
. . . ?" a speech scholarly in quality, perceptive in ap-
proach, and highly relevant to Agnes Scott at this time.

A gala luncheon followed the inauguration, and then
in the evening came the inaugural ball, one of the happiest
Agnes Scott events to occur in a long time. Everybody
came trustees, visitors, faculty, students, employees
all; and everyone had a good time! It was a fitting con-
clusion to a glorious day a day which will be remem-
bered as a high water mark in Agnes Scott's remarkable
history.

BEGINNINGS

by Josephine Jacobsen

One of the reasons why I am especially happy to be
where I am this morning is that I feel in being here,
I am part of something which has come to Atlanta from
Baltimore, and which I saw at work there a spirit of
warmth, of human and personal involvement with the
people of a community, which was a beautiful contribution
of the Perrys to my city, for which they are remembered
and loved, and so very much missed. In a desperately har-
rassed age, it was a joy to see how rapidly and generously
they became part of, and contributed to, the cultural and
social and, above all, human life of the city; and though
I frankly envy Atlanta, I am delighted to be here in this
first year of your happy acquisition of Marvin and Ellen
Perry. Baltimore loved them and misses them and watches
with interest the beginning of their fresh opportunities.

I want to talk for a very few minutes about be-
ginnings. It is a marvelous and terrifying topic.

Last autumn when I was working as a Resident Fellow
at the MacDowell Artists' Colony, a young poet who had
had a rough day's work inasmuch as he had had no
work to show for his day said something to me which
made a great impression. He said, "You know, the thing
that is so awful about writing poetry is that you are always
beginning." He was envying people who wrote novels, or
history, or biography, because they had, as he saw it, a
continuity going for them; each day they picked up the
thread and carried it a little further into the pattern, with
the momentum of yesterday's work to help. But a poem is
always a beginning, pushed by no plot or history but spun
from poetic faith and skill. The awful moment of moving
from heavy immobility into motion is the price of the
poem.

I thought of how true that was and of how much we
rely on inertia that continuing motion that goes on

until something stops it. And I think that perhaps the
ability to begin is peculiarly hard to hold onto in times of
discouragement and certainly these are times of dis-
couragement. The ogre of pessimism is armed with the fact
that things seem more than ever to be circular on and
on go the same dreadful and bloodthirsty and sordid prob-
lems, and there seems no new point of beginning, no place
at which one can say, "Now really begins a fresh start."
The old platitudes are dusted off sometimes they aren't
even dusted as we choke on them ;the old lies are told;
the old failures multiply.

I don't know how many of you followed the adventures
of Arabella, the space spider. I did to the point of writ-
ing a poem; I was absolutely fascinated by Arabella, be-
cause she was unique. She was the first spider in the earth's
history to try to spin a web under completely new condi-
tions. Nothing applied. All her vast Arachnean intuition
and her inherited skill told her how to spin that marvelous
construction, a web, under normal conditions, that is, the
conditions of gravity. Time and time and time again, she
struggled against the unheard-of behavior of her own body,
of her material, of the laws of balance, dependency, con-
struction. Several times she gave up in exhaustion. Also, I
imagine, in fury, wondering whether the world had gone
crazy, or she had. Then she spun a web, a new web, a web
different from any ever spun. She manipulated herself,
her thread; she fastened her web and redesigned it in ac-
cordance with a pragmatic necessity. Because she had a
web to spin, she began.

I think an interesting aspect of the problem of beginnings
is how beginnings are related to the past. Auden told us,
"We stand on the shoulders of the dead." Arabella's space
web was a beginning; but she brought to it centuries of
spider lore. And oddly, or perhaps naturally, the very
enthusiasm, energy, and plain guts that help us to begin,
often seem to include the impulse to jettison as much his-
tory as we can get rid of. If there weren't this urge to
jettison, perhaps we would never begin anything truly
new. But the real danger, the sad and deadly danger, is
that in our casting away, we may rid ourselves of the
capacity for admiration. If I had to choose one loss we have

Josephine Jacobsen. poet, short
story writer, critic, and a former
consultant in poetry to the '"^

Library of Congress

sustained in recent years which seems to me the most
damaging, it would be the weakening of our capacity for
admiration. God knows that loss is natural. When we see
the highest ideals cynically betrayed, our apparent incapac-
ity to stop slaughter, organized or spontaneous there is
no use in trying to detail the long and sorry list we in
our turn become unwilling cynics. Because we have been
betrayed by language on the puffy lips of demagogues,
con-men, hypocrites, betrayed by commitments broken and
hope deferred, we have settled, I think, into an attitude of
profound skepticism, our greeting a chronic, "Show me!"
And it seems to me that this is not altogether bad; a healthy
skepticism is often the protection against the malignancy of
cynicism. If we don't believe too easily, perhaps we can
save our belief. But when we say, "Show me!" I do believe
that there have been, and are, those who show us, who help
us to begin. Their solutions will not be ours; they have not
met our exact problems. But any beginning is necessarily
against certain odds; and they began.

The necessity to begin has always had the same things
to struggle against. In the Metamorphoses, Ovid describes
the Iron Age:

whose base vein
Let loose all evil; modesty and truth
And righteousness fled earth, and in their place
Came trickery and slyness, plotting, swindling.
Violence and the damned desire of having.

And he describes, too, marvelously, the opposite of ad-
miration: Envy, who longs for men to be base:

Pale, skinny, squint-eyed, mean, her teeth are red

With rust, her breast is green, with all her tongue

Suffused with poison, and she never laughs

Except when watching pain; she never sleeps.

Too troubled by anxiety: if men succeed, she fails. . . .

As we lose our capacity for admiration, we take a step
toward this sad monster.

Perhaps the hardest part of beginning is that there is no
clean break; seldom are we, like Arabella, taken clean out
of our world. Our beginning is the beginning of a constant
realignment, of a resistance to the straight line of inertia.
Part of the newness of that realignment seems to me to be
a wariness of the package message, the group reflex. It
seems to me possible to say that if we find we are never
questioning the motion of the most congenial group with
which we move, if we never stop and say, "Yes, but" . . .
and veer off, we are already rejecting the painful effort
freshly to begin, to start again, more directly, toward our
own objective. Fashion is a deadly thing, imposed upon us
from without, so far from style, that individual shaping
from within. The herd instinct penetrates the arts as it
penetrates everything else, sometimes causing priorities so
ludicrous as to seem, a little later, incredible to us. 1 think
I was alerted permanently to this when, at the age of ten,
1 learned Edward Lear's immortal lines:

There was a young man from Peru,

Who cried, "There's a mouse in my stew!"

Said the waiter, "Don't shout.

And wave it about.

Or the rest will be wanting one too!"

I believe, then, that no matter how impeded or impossi-
ble a new beginning may seem, it will be easier if we are
generous in our admiration for those who began, and
continued to begin, in the bogs of immobility or the trap
of inertia. And because I am by profession a poet, and
that is really what I am doing here, I would like to read
the words of another poet, the English poet, Stephen
Spender who incidentally was the only non-American

poet to serve as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Con-
gress. This is, I suppose, his most famous poem, and I think
that perhaps May of 1974 is a good time in which to read
it.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history

Through corridors of light where the hours are suns.

Endless and shining. Whose lovely ambition

Was that their lips, still touched with fire.

Should tell of the spirit, clothed from head to foot in song.

And who hoarded from the Spring branches

The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields,

See how their names are feted by the waving grass

And by the streamers of white cloud

And whispers of wind in the listening sky.

The names of those who in their lives fought for life.

Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.

Born of the sun, they traveled a short while toward the sun,

And left the vivid air signed with their honor.

Cojfee was served prior to the inaugural ceremonies.

Return of official inaugural delegates was a busy time.

PRINCE HAL AS A MODEL FOR PROFESSIONAL WOMEN

By Jeanne Addison Roberts, "46

I SHOULD, perhaps, admit from the outset that the title of
this talk is a Httle fraudulent. When President Perry asked
me to come to Agnes Scott, he said that I might talk either
about my academic interests or about being a professional
woman. I felt instantly moved to affirm in my own mind,
and to you, a genuine relationship between these two ap-
parently disparate topics. As I pursued this desire, I felt a
certain misgiving a misgiving which I think all women
students of literature are likely to share at the fact that
as students we spend most of our time reading literature
by and about men. Until recently we were never even much
bothered by this fact; and I suppose that other women read
the classics as I did, blithely assuming an identity with
Odysseus, and Dante, and Hamlet, without the least regard
for slight discrepancies in anatomy. It is hard for me to
imagine that even my most domestic, docile, or deluded
sisters were ever able to sustain a prolonged or profound
sense of oneness with the faithful Penelope, the beatific
Beatrice, or the mad Ophelia.

And yet, in reading or watching Shakespeare in particu-
lar, it is true, I think, that the shocks of recognition which
one feels so strongly are not strictly confined to one char-
acter. In some really universal sense the members of the
audience can be Hamlet and Ophelia, and Gertrude and
Claudius, and the doting Polonius, the foppish Osric, and
even, as Tom Stoppard has so vividly demonstrated, the
indistinguishable Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As women
students we may console ourselves in reading Shakespeare
by the complacent thought that the characters are universal
and that sex roles are almost irrelevant. The nagging, in-
escapable fact remains, however, that the great majority of
Shakespeare's women are professional wives, or would-be
wives, or widows. A girl who is seriously looking among
these women for a role model for some career other than
marriage will have to fall back on Doll Tearsheet or Mis-
tress Overdone, or perhaps Cleopatra; and, although their
vocation or in the case of Cleopatra, avocation is an
ancient one, it is hardly one that I can seriously propose
for your adoption.

The question of role models is a genuinely puzzling one.
Believing as I do that literature is urgently related to life
and that Shakespeare's plays are our greatest literature, I
felt somewhat hard-pressed to discover and demonstrate
how the author does indeed offer some insights into the
development of modern women. Subscribing deliberately
to the Romantic heresy of treating dramatic characters
as if they were real people, I have chosen not wholly
facetiously to focus on Prince Hal in the Henry IV plays
as a pattern of growth which may apply especially to the
women of our time. Quite honestly, I think that the prog-
ress of Hal through Henry IV. I and // and Henry V
shows the successful negotiation of certain developmental
stages which apply to men, professional women, women
who want to make a career of marriage in short to
people in general; and it is for this reason that I admit to
some fraud in my title. My real subject is Prince Hal as a
model and he is a model of particular interest to modern
women but the limitation suggested is actually an arbi-
trary one.

With post-Freudian hindsight we can give a name to
Prince Hal's problem at the beginning of Henry IV. He is
troubled by an inability to identify with the parent of his
own sex. Or, to put it even more modishly, he has difficulty
in finding a role model whom he wants to copy. It is a
problem current in every age. but one greatly multiplied
and exacerbated in our own time by our growing insistence
on destroying stereotypes and providing variety in choices
of roles. For a boy and I am frequently using the terms
"boy" and "father" in this paper because of the play I am
discussing, but I hope you will substitute "girl" and
"mother" in your own minds as you listen for a boy
to want to grow up to be exactly like his father may not
represent for him the best choice of life, but it is certainly
the simplest choice of life. In our own time girls in partic-

ular are presented with a variety of possibilities. If they
decide to be like their mothers, they must be sure that their
choice is a real choice, and they must withstand the pres-
sures which propel them in other directions. If they decide
not to be like their mothers, they must cast about for other
guides to help them negotiate the labyrinth of alternative
paths.

The situation of each group has something in common
with Prince Hal. The young Prince does come eventually,
of course, to accept his destined role as King of England.
He follows his father, however, with some significant dif-
ferences; and it is the process by which he comes to ac-
ceptance that I find of particular interest, and not the
outcome of the struggle.

Henry IV, I and // details for us in some depth Prince
Hal's journey toward the acceptance of Kingship. The con-
flict between father and son at the start leads Hal to an
emotional rejection of his real father. He searches for a
new spiritual father in Falstaff. and he finally accepts a
permanent surrogate father in the form of the Chief
Justice. He is able to become reconciled with his natural
father, to reject his temporary father, and to grow into his
new role as a father to the people of his kingdom. The
process is rot easy; the gap between intellectual under-
standing and resolution and emotional acceptance is only
slowly narrowed; and the outcome is, in some ways, very
painful. The process is worth examining rather closely.

King Henry IV, father of Prince Hal, has not come
easily or naturally into his role as King; and, like many
modem women, he is beset by guilt and uncertainty at his
own accomplishment a guilt and uncertainty which
greatly complicate his relations with his offspring. Henry
has become King only after deposing the weak and in-
effectual Richard II; but weak and ineffectual as he was.
Richard was capable of great charm and great poetry; and
there is a hint that he was something of a hero to the
young Hal before the latter became the heir apparent. The
son then is resentful of his father's prowess, and the father
is terrified lest his son turn out to be like Richard
failing thereby to justify Henry's hopes for improving the
kingdom. Henry has been responsible for the terrible act
of overthrowing a King, ultimately for the King's murder
and all possibly for no permanent gain. Small wonder
that it is King Henry who coins the famous line:

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. (2H4,UI.i.'il)^

Henry's initial fears about his son are revealed at the
end of Richard II. He says to his court,

Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?
'Tis full three months since I did see him last.
If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.
I would to God, my lords, he might be found.
Inquire at London, "mongst the taverns there.
For there, they say, he daily doth frequent.
With unrestrained loose companions.
Even such, they say. as stand in narrow lanes
And beat our watch and rob our passengers.
Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy.
Takes on the point of honor to support
So dissolute a crew. (V.iii. 1-12)

His words are a very accurate description of Prince Hal as
we first see him in Henry IV. He seems to have rejected
his father in part because of doubts about his father's
behavior, and surely in part because he senses, quite cor-
rectly, that his father has rejected him. When he hears
about the glorious exploits in battle of Hotspur, King
Henry shows his true feelings very clearly:

Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin

In envy that my Lord Northumberland

Should be the father to so blest a son

A son who is the theme of honor's tongue.

Amongst a grove the very straightest plant.

Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride.

Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him.

See riot and dishonor stain the brow

Of my young Harry. O that it could be prov'd

That some night-tripping fairy had exchang'd

In cradle-clothes our children where they lay.

And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!

Then would 1 have his Harry and he mine. (I. i. 78-90)

Hal's rejection of his father is also, however, a rebellion
against the imposed world of order and discipline, the
world of concern for consequences, of destiny, the world
in which the frightful sense of responsibility for the future
paralyzes the enjoyment of the present moment. Quite
understandably, the young Hal turns away from a cold,
distant, and disapproving father to one who seems to offer
affection, support, and freedom. Part of Falstaff's great
appeal for Hal and for us is a result of the old man's
total rejection of the conventional sense of time and of the
patterns of society. In order to create a new pattern Hal
must experiment.

When we first see Falstaff, he has innocently asked Hal
the time of day. Hal replies in a torrent of language which

shows very clearly his realization that for Falstaff this is
a totally meaningless question.

Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack,
and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon
benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand
that truly which thou wouldest truly know. What a devil
hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours
were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the
tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses,
and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-color'd
taffeta; I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous
to demand the time of the day. (IH4, I.ii. 2-12)

Falstaff replies in similar vein, giving his own perverse, but
enchanting, vision of Hal's future kingship.

Marry, then sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us
that are squires of the night's body be call'd thieves of
the day's beauty. Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of
the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men
of good government, being govern'd, as the sea is, by
our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose
countenance we steal. (1H4. I.ii. 23-29)

Throughout this scene, while Hal is patiently sustaining
a close emotional harmony with Falstaff, his temporarily
adopted father, and while the two of them are actually
plotting a robbery, the Prince maintains an intellectual
awareness of his future role as King. His much-analyzed
soliloquy at the end of the scene announces a curiously
facile rationalization for his present behavior. He says of
his companions,

I know you all, and will a while uphold
The unyok'd humor of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun.
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world.
That when he please again to be himself.
Being wanted, he may be more wond'red at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. . . .
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised.
By how much better than my word I am.
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes.
And like bright metal on a sullen ground.
My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault.
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend to make offense a skill.
Redeeming time when men think least I will. (1H4, I.ii.
195-217)

We believe in the honesty of the Prince's intention in
this speech, but we sense none of the passion compelling
commitment.

The most important revelation of the plays as they pro-
gress is of the tortuous and uncertain process by which Hal
moves to the genuine emotional commitment necessary to
put in force this initial intellectual insight. At this point
again I would suggest the plays offer wisdom to modern
women. The process described involves a considerable
amount of role-playing ostensibly in jest: and it involves
a peculiar, but psychologically accurate, repetition of cer-
tain stages of development before they become final. Thus
in an uncannily vivid tavern scene, which approaches
psycho-drama, Falstaff and Prince Hal actually play overt-
ly at being father and son. In the beginning Falstaff is the
King, rebuking the Prince in jest for his many excesses
and commending him only for keeping company with the
goodly, portly, corpulent, cheerful, virtuous Falstaff. He
ends by advising his "son" to keep Falstaff and banish all
the rest. This joke so annoys the Prince that he "deposes"
the King and reverses their roles. As he "plays" at being
King, he attacks Falstaff with more-than-necessary vigor
and considerable truth. The dialogue sounds like this:

Prince. Thou art violently carried away from grace. There
is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man,
a tun of man is thy companion. Why dost thou converse
with that trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastli-
ness, that swoll'n parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard
of sack, that stuff'd cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Man-
ningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverent
Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity
in years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink
it? Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and
eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but
in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein
worthy, but in nothing?

Fal. I would your Grace would take me with you. Whom
means your Grace?

Prince. That villainous abominable misleader of youth, Fal-
staff. That old white-bearded Satan.

Fal. My lord, the man I know.

Prince. I know thou dost.

Fal. But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more
the pity, his white hairs do witness it, but that he is, saving

Jeanne Addison Roberts, '46, Dean
of the Faculties and Professor of
Literature, American University,
Washington, D.C.

your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack
and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old
and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is
damn'd. If to be fat be to be hated, then, Pharaoh's [lean]
kine are to be lov'd. No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish
Bardolph, banish Poins, but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind
Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and
therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff,
banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy
Harry's company banish plump Jack, and banish all the
world.
Prince. I do, I will. UH4 II. iv. 446-81 )

The end of the scene, spoken in jest, is a chilling preview
of the final scene of Henry IV. II, where the real banish-
ment takes place. There is one more false parting before
that final scene, when Hal takes his leave of Falstaff on
the battlefield at Shrewsbury, supposing him dead. He
says,

What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh

Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!

I could have better spar'd a better man.

O, I should have a heavy miss of thee

If I were much in love with vanity!

Death hath not strook so fat a deer to-day.

Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.

Embowell'd will I see thee by and by.

Till then in blood by noble Percy lie. (1H4. V.iv.102-10)

From this farewell like the earlier threat of farewell
Falstaff rises undaunted, a "true" and perfect image of
life. In the mind of the audience, as in Hal's own ex-
perience, Falstaff remains a vivid and compelling figure.
None of the trial rejections prepares us for the violence of
the real one. Before Hal can become in actuality King over
himself and his people, he must reject the temporary father
who has given him acceptance, humanity, humor, enjoy-
ment, perhaps even love, but at the expense of order.

responsibility, and concern for the future. It is extremely
painful. Perhaps the new King's very ruthlessness is in-
dicative of his difficulty. As Falstaff approaches the
coronation procession saying.

My King, my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart.

The King replies in one of the most shocking speeches in
Shakespeare,

I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

I have long dreamt of such a kind of man.

So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;

But being awak'd, I do despise my dream.

Make less thy body (hence) and more thy grace.

Leave gormandizing, know the grave doth gape

For thee thrice wider than for other men.

Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,

That I have turn'd away my former self;

So will I those that kept me company.

When thou dost hear 1 am as I have been.

Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast.

The tutor and the feeder of my riots.

Till then I banish thee, on pain of death.

As I have done the rest of my misleaders.

Not to come near our person by ten miles. (2H4, V.v. 46-65)

This time the banishment is final, and Falstaff is never
seen alive again.

Just as Prince Hal must banish his temporary father, it
is essential for his future success that he achieve a
reconciliation with his real father. Like the banishment,
the reconciliation recurs several times before it be-
comes really effective. The threat of war is enough to
drive Hal into his father's presence. The King, however,
instead of welcoming him, spells out for him, as 1 suppose
parents always do, the long list of his offenses. He says
that Hal's behavior must represent a judgment of God
against his father, that he, Henry, never behaved so as a

young man, and he actually expresses overtly his fear that
his son will turn out to be like the deposed Richard. His
final accusation that Hal will probably fight on the
side of the enemy is enough to elicit Hal's strong
disavowal.

Do not think so, you shall not find it so.
And God forgive them that so much have sway'd
Your Majesty's good thoughts away from me!
I will redeem all this on Percy's head.
And in the closing of some glorious day
Be bold to tell you that I am your son. . . . i,lH4, Ill.ii.
129-34)

A reconciliation is effected; but it is not from the heart, and
recriminations continue. On the battlefield Prince Hal
actually saves his father's life, leading the King to say,

Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion.
And show'd thou mak'st some tender of my life
In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
(1H4, V.iv. 48-50)

But even this is not the end. The role-playing and the
games continue. In a final grotesque scene, the King is
dying and the young Prince comes to sit by his bed. Think-
ing that his father has stopped breathing, he picks up the
crown from the pillow, puts it on his head and walks out
of the room. Like Falstaff, the King comes back to life,
and, thinking his son overly-hasty, pours out once again
a stream of vituperation against him. Hal protests,

I never thought to hear you speak again.

But the King is skeptical, and still doubtful of Hal's
ability,

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honors
Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth.
Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee.
(2H4, IV.v. 91-97)

Hal answers back vigorously, expressing at last his genuine
love for his father, and his sense of the terrible burden

that the crown has brought him. He is now, we feel,
finally ready to accept this burden as his own. Even the
King is convinced, saying at last, of Hal's borrowing of
the crown,

[O my son,]

God put [it] in thy mind to take it hence,

That thou niightst win the more thy father's love.

Pleading so wisely in excuse of it! (2H4, IV.v. 177-80)

The doubt, hesitation, and uncertain stages by which Hal
approaches the Kingship are typical of a man trying on a
new style of life. By contrast his final steps are strong and
confident. They are convincing to us and to the dying
King. Hal refuses to accept his father's guilt and here the
analogy with the modern woman is perhaps not too
strained but he does accept the power and the respon-
sibility of the crown. He acknowledges his father as his
human flesh and blood, but never, I think, as his spiritual
model.

As his true spiritual father, the new King Henry V
adopts the rather shadowily developed figure of the Chief
Justice, who has stood throughout the two plays as an
almost abstract symbol of justice and truth. He is an
ideal, perhaps even the suggestion of an absolute; and it
is Hal's announcement of allegiance to him that makes
his real emancipation possible. He has been a presence
since the beginning. We first hear of him from Falstaff,
who says, with seeming inconsequence, to Hal,

An old lord of the Council rated me the other day in
the street about you, sir, but I mark'd him not, and yet he
talk'd very wisely, but I regarded him not, and yet he
talk'd wisely, and in the street too.

Wisdom is not heard until the hearer is ready. At this
point the Prince treats the Justice as a joke, replying to
Falstaff,

Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the streets,
and no man regards it. (1H4, I.ii. 83-89)

We are later told that the Justice has not only rebuked
Prince Hal, but has actually sent him to prison. The
Justice hears of the succession of the new King with
understandable trepidation. Their conversation on the eve
of the coronation is filled with father-son images. Hal,
recognizing the fears of his court, says to them.

This new and gorgeous garment, majesty.

Sits not so easy on me as you think.

Brothers, you [mix] your sadness with some fear:

This is the English, not the Turkish court.

Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,

But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers.

For by my faith it very well becomes you.

Sorrow so royally in you appears

That I will deeply put the fashion on

And wear it in my heart. Why then be sad.

But entertain no more of it, good brothers.

Than a joint burden laid upon us all.

For me, by heaven (I bid you be assur'd),

I'll be your father and your brother too.

Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.

Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I,

But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears

By number into hours of happiness. (2H4, V.ii. 44-61 )

When confronted with the fact that he has chastized and
imprisoned the Crown Prince, now King, the Justice replies,

I then did use the person of your father.
The image of his power lay then in me.
And in th' administration of his law.
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth.
Your Highness pleased to forget my place.
The majesty and power of law and justice.
The image of the King whom I presented.
And strook me in my very seat of judgment;
Whereon (as an offender to your father)
I gave bold way to my authority.
And did commit you. (2H4, V.ii. 73-83)

And the new King now publicly acknowledges the au-

thority of the Justice, and specifically declares him a
father:

You are right. Justice, and you weigh this well.

Therefore still bear the balance and the sword,

And I do wish your honors may increase.

Till you do live to see a son of mine

Offend you and obey you, as I did. . . .

You did commit me;

For which I do commit into your hand

Th' unstained sword that you have us'd to bear. . . .

There is my hand.

You shall be as a father to my youth.

My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear.

And I will stoop and humble my intents

To your well-practic'd wise directions. (2H4, V.ii. 102-21)

Hal ends, then, by following not one role model, but
several. His mature identity is freer than his father's and
more responsible than Falstaff s. The final consolidation of
character is due perhaps more to a principle than to a
single real figure, but principle has clearly worked for him
through persons.

One further important step remains in the development
of King Henry V. It is suggested at the end of Henry IV,
II, and expanded in the play called Henry V. Having
succeeded in becoming a man as is symbolized by his
accession to the kingship it remains for the man to
become himself a father. This is accomplished not in a
literal sense but metaphorically, as Henry V becomes in
fact the leader of his people in war and peace.

The prospect is not altogether a cheering one. A woman
looking for models will find in Henry V a bloody play,
filled with the glorification of a "just war," and marvelous
patriotic pre-battle speeches which may be as exciting
to a girl as to a boy, but are, nonetheless profoundly
disquieting to an anti-war generation. In the world of
Shakespeare's plays, although conflict is inevitable and
sometimes glorious, the author maintains a keen sense of
the high cost of battles. The King who has taken the
responsibility of leading must bear the burden. On the eve
before the battle of Agincourt, the King overhears one of
his subjects saying.

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy
reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms, and
heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join together at the
latter day and cry all, "We died at such a place" some
swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their
wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they
owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeared
there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can
they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their
argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be
a black matter for the King that led them to it. . . .
(H5. IV.i, 134-45)

The King's later musings on the burdens of responsibility
sound in essence like those of every father, of every
mother, or of every business executive, male or female:

Upon the King! let us our lives, our souls.

Our debts, our careful wives,

Our children, and our sins lay on the King!

We must bear all. . . .

What infinite heart's ease

Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!

And what have kings, that privates have not too.

Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

[For "ceremony" a modern reader might substitute "status"]

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? , . .

I am a king that find thee: and I know

Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball.

The sword, the mace, the crown imperial.

The intertissued robe of gold and pearl.

The farced title running 'fore the king.

The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp

That bears upon the high shore of this world

No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony.

Not all these, laid in bed majestical.

Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave:

Who, with a body fill'd and vacant mind.

Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread.

Never sees horrid night, the child of hell:

But like a lackey, from the rise to set.

Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night

Sleeps in Elysium (H5, IV.i. 230-73)

Hal has rejected one kind of guilt only to be forced to
assume another; and for him, as for his father, kingship is
a solitary and uneasy condition. Even having achieved a
measure of success in his own generation, he cannot
guarantee that it will continue in the next. Shakespeare
undoubtedly regarded Henry as a great King, but his
epilogue to the play is therefore doubly poignant in its
recognition of the ephemeral quality of his greatness:

Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen.

Our bending author hath pursu'd the story.

In little room confining mighty men.

Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.

Small time, but in that small most greatly lived

This star of England. Fortune made his sword;

By which the world's best garden he achieved.

And of it left his son imperial lord.

Henry the Sixt, in infant bands crown'd King

Of France and England, did this king succeed;

Whose state so many had the managing.

That they lost France, and made his England bleed;

Which oft our stage hath shown and for their sake.

In your fair minds let this acceptance take.

1 hope I have not bewildered or lost you in attempting
to trace the stages of Prince Hal's development without
insisting point by point on parallels for modern women.
I think the parallels are there, and I hope you may find
them illuminating. Self-definition comes, of course, from
many things that I have not even touched on. Thinking
in terms of this play, however, I hope for you that in
your own lives you will be able to make peace with your
parents, that you will find Falstaffs and Chief Justices and
that you will discover how to deal with them. And I
should like to add one small personal footnote.

For me it is a very special pleasure to talk about the
Henry IV plays at Agnes Scott. I first read Henry IV, I
with Professor George P. Hayes in English 211, and be-
cause of him I had some idea even then of what an exciting
play it is. And although it would have embarrassed and
probably appalled her to hear me say it, I found at Agnes
Scott, in a very real sense, a spiritual mother in the form
of the late Professor Ellen Douglass Leyburn. My pro-
foundest wish for my own children, now in college, and
for you, is that they and you may find among college ex-
periences the excitement of discovering such works with
such teachers.

'All quotations from William Shakespeare are taken from The Riverside
Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1974.)

INVOCATION

"O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to
come," we invoke Thy blessing upon this extraordinary
occasion. Grant, O Lord, that we may be conscious of
Thee as we come to this high hour in this College's life.
May Thy special blessing rest upon this Institution just
now, upon the President, his family, upon the members
of the Board of Trustees, the advisors, the faculty, and the
student body. We thank Thee for these friends who have
gathered for this occasion. May this be for us all a signal
time an hour of blessing and an hour of privilege. In a
very special way may Thy blessing, we pray Thee, rest
upon Marvin and Ellen Perry and their family. Grant to
them strength and a deep peace and a sense of the Tight-
ness of this relationship. Give them success in their en-
deavors, and grant that the College family may give a
united support to all that they undertake. And now guide
us and keep us and use us through this service, for we ask
it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord of this College and
the Lord of our lives. Amen

Wallace M. Alston
President Emeritus
Agnes Scott College

President Emerttus Alston, President Perry, and Board
Chairman Gaines check the inaugural program.

Top Left: Faculty Marshal Mary
Virginia Allen, '35, conducts the
platform party into position.
Bottom left: Members of the Board
of Trustees lead the academic
procession.

GREETINGS TO THE PRESIDENT:

FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA

FROM THE CITY OF DECATUR

PREsroENT Perry. Dr. Alston, distinguished guests, revered
officials of this great college ladies and gentlemen:

I am very honored and happy to be here on this mo-
mentous occasion with Mrs. Lillian Carter, the mother of
Governor Jimmy Carter, and with my wife, a 1952 gradu-
ate of this great institution; and I am delighted to come to
bring official greetings and congratulations and best wishes
to you. Dr. Perry, on behalf of the State of Georgia. We are
very fortunate to have you come to Georgia as president
of this truly remarkable institution. It has been a source of
great pride to our state since 1889, and it has always been
blessed with great presidents. As we were talking earlier as
we awaited the ceremony, I was acutely aware of how pro-
vidential has been the history of this College, particularly
in the persons of its presidents. Beginning with Dr. Frank
H. Gaines, the grandfather of Chairman Alex P. Gaines, to
Dr. James Ross McCain and Dr. Wallace M. Alston and
now with you. Dr. Perry, we know that Agnes Scott's great
traditions will remain and that under your leadership the
College will continue to rank at the top of any list of great
educational institutions. Georgia is extremely proud of
Agnes Scott and the unusual contribution her graduates
make wherever they may choose to live in the world. Geor-
gia is also proud of you, Dr. Perry; and on behalf of Gov-
ernor Jimmy Carter and all our citizens in this state, I
congratulate you and this great college upon this historic
occasion. The clear light of scholarship and integrity shin-
ing from this campus will illuminate the light of our state.

It is a real pleasure to be here for such an important
occasion officially to represent the City of Decatur. We
all know that without the great leadership qualities of Dr.
Gaines, Dr. McCain, and Dr. Alston. Agnes .Scott would
never have gained the respect and the esteem with which it
is held today.

One does not have to be in contact with Dr. Marvin
Perry for very long to know that those responsible for the
selection of a new president have again chosen a man with
those same strong leadership qualities.

As a life-long resident of Decatur and someone who
grew up in close proximity to this campus, it has been my
pleasure to observe Agnes Scott closely through the years
and 1 might add that it is a rather pleasant place to
observe.

On behalf of the City of Decatur, 1 want to re-affirm
our commitment to working hand-in-hand with this fine
institution to make our community a richer and more satis-
fying place in which to live and to pledge our support to
Dr. Perry as he officially assumes the duties of President of
this great College.

Wiley S. Ansley
Mayor

G. CoNLEY Ingram
Associate Justice
Georgia Supreme Court

Dr. Perry with fellow presidents from Atlanta-area
institutions: first row, l-r, Sanford S. Atwood, President,
Emory University; President Perry; C. Benton Kline,
Jr., President, Columbia Theological Seminary; second
row, l-r, Joseph M. Pettit, President, Georgia Institute
of Technology; George L. Simpson, Jr., Chancellor,

University System of Georgia; James H. Hinson, Jr..
President, DeKalb Community College; Paul K. Vonk.
President, Oglethorpe University; third row, l-r, Hugh
M. Gloster, President, Morehouse College; Fred C.
Davison, President, University of Georgia

FROM THE ALUMNAE

FROM THE STUDENTS

PREsroENT Perry, I bring you greetings from the alumnae
of Agnes Scott College.

A word used often in connection with alumnae is
"loyal." Certainly, Agnes Scott alumnae are loyal. Their
loyalty is expressed in specific words and deeds and in the
ways in which through their lives some of the life of the
College flows out into the world.

Alumnae are grateful that Agnes Scott, too, has been
loyal to the vision at its heart. This commitment to a lib-
erating education for women in a Christian atmosphere has
helped Agnes Scott to be both with the times and timeless,
to draw upon both mind and spirit, to maintain in the true
sense a community of learning. Led through the years by
great presidents, in you. President Perry, this college is
again blessed. We are grateful for your wisdom and for
your wit, your enthusiasm and warmth, your humanity,
your qualities of intellect and spirit.

At a moment like this, we are reminded that as an insti-
tution this college has a life of its own, that all who have
ever been part of it form "one great society." To Agnes
Scott, to those who will be part of its future, and to you.
President Perry, who will lead it so well into that future,
we pledge our continuing loyalty.

On behalf of the students of Agnes Scott College I
would like to welcome our new president. Dr. Marvin
Banks Perry, Jr. We welcome the fresh spirit which he
brings to this office, the new ideas, and the hopes he has
for the College and its future. We wish. Dr. Perry, to join
you, and we offer our support, encouragement, and active
participation in a program of continuing and accelerating
academic excellence. We join you also in your plans to
improve and strengthen an environment which fosters
intellectual, social, and spiritual growth. We would remind
you that on March 22, 1973, when the college community
gathered in Gaines Chapel to learn the name of our new
president, we all stood and cheered in our applause when
your name was announced. We continue to stand with you
for the good of Agnes Scott.

Mary Gay Morgan, '75
President, Student
Government Association

Memye Curtis Tucker, '56
President, Agnes Scott
College Alumnae Association

President Perry with his daughter Elizabeth and his
father-in-law James R. Gilliam. Jr. Miss Perry
represented Sweet Briar College, and Mr. Gilliam
represented the Virginia Military Institute.

Dr. Perry and Alumnae Association President
Memye Curtis Tucker, '56

Professor M. Kathryn Click congratulates the new President. In the background are Trustees Ben S. Gilmer and Hal L. Smi

FROM THE FACULTY

I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE of representing the Agnes Scott
College faculty in welcoming you to the inauguration of
our new president. Dr. Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., and his
wife, Ellen Gilliam Perry. I think we are very lucky to
have the Perrys, largely because they have some under-
standing of what a small liberal arts college for women is
all about he has had experience as president of one
she as a student in one. In my brief acquaintance with the
Perrys, I have found Dr. Perry a reasonable man, and Mrs.
Perry a reasonable as well as a charming woman. I am
using the term reasonable in a Platonic sense. Plato, in
discussing his Guardians, says, "If a sound education has
made them reasonable men, they will easily see their way
through troublesome matters of administration of a com-
monwealth"! for commonwealth substitute college. By
a sound education, Plato means education in Music and
Gymnastic, as the Greeks called it. Music is not used in
the narrow sense in which we use it, but they meant all
those areas over which the Muses presided. That education
is the basis, and almost the equivalent, of what we call
Liberal Arts.

We are, and have been from our beginning, a liberal
arts college for women. "A liberal arts curriculum, aca-
demic excellence, and individual development in a Chris-
tian context" are the very foundation stones of this
college. We believe that a liberal education with its empha-
sis on training in the use of the mind, pursuit of truth for
its own sake, and critical analysis offers certain values that
are important for the development of the individual, and
through the individual, for the welfare of society. I am
more and more convinced as I encounter our alumnae in
various walks of life that our daughters justify our type of
education.

The need for such an education is certainly obvious all
around us, when we see Truth prostituted. Morality sick.
Justice crippled, and Excellence so out-moded that she has
been largely replaced by Shoddiness.

Many years ago, the Roman poet Horace, on the oc-
casion of the dedication of the great temple of Apollo,
asked

Quid dedicatum poscit Apollinem
Vates? Quid oral, de patera novum
Fundens liquorem?

After dismissing various things which would enhance his
own materialistic resources and physical pleasure, he prays

Frui paratis et valido mihi.
Latoe. dones et precor Integra
Cum mente nee turpem senectutem

Degere nee cithara carentem. Odes I, 31.

What shall we pray for on the occasion of the inauguration
of our new president?

I think we can pray for the same things, both as indi-
viduals, and as a college, which Horace prayed for. Per-
haps we should add one thing, namely, a rededication to
those ideals which we profess to honor. Dr. Perry by com-
ing here seems to me to have demonstrated his commit-
ment to our ideals. Let us be reasonable women, and men,
and grant our honest, whole-hearted support to Dr. Perry
in his effort to carry on his responsibilities. It is not an
easy task at the moment.

If we fail, you know, it will be largely because of our-
selves. As Pericles said to his fellow Athenians (he has
claimed that they yield to none ... for independence of
spirit, many-sidedness of attainment, and complete self
reliance in limbs and brain), "Fix your eyes on the great-
ness of Athens as you have it before you day by day. fall
in love with her. and when you feel her great, remember
that this greatness was won by men of courage, with
knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honour in
action. "-

M. Kathryn Glick
Professor of Classical
Languages and Literatures

iPlato. The Republic of Plato, trans, with intro. and notes by Francis M.
Cornford, London, 1945. Page 114.

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. ed. in trans, by Sir
R. W. Livingstone. London, 1943. Page 115.

FROM THE TRUSTEES

On behalf of the Board of Trustees it gives me great
pleasure to bring greetings to President Perry. It was my
privilege to be a member of the Search Committee that
nominated Marvin Perry to the Board. From our very first
contacts with him, we knew that he was the person we had
to get for Agnes Scott. Ours was not an easy task. To se-
cure a president to follow in the succession of Frank Henry
Gaines, James Ross McCain, and Wallace McPherson
Alston was an awesome task. Yet, as soon as we met Mar-
vin Perry, we knew that our search was ended if we could
persuade him to come to Agnes Scott. That we were able
to persuade him is happily evident today in this inaugu-
ration.

So, Dr. Perry, as you begin your administration here,
the Board of Trustees greets you and welcomes you. Our
satisfaction in your presence on this campus is unbounded.
We firmly believe that your being here is the answer to
earnest prayer, and we are convinced that Almighty God
Himself led you to this place and to this hour.

On behalf of the Trustees, I assure you that we have
every confidence in your leadership. We pledge to you our
active support and understanding. Historically, the Presi-
dents of Agnes Scott have personified the ideals, the
hopes, and the dreams of this College. They have set the
pace; they have pioneered the new paths; they have in-
spired and led. Thus, in a real sense, we are today placing
the future of Agnes Scott in your hands, and we are de-
termined to back you up and sustain you in your dreams
and plans for the College.

We rejoice that you are here!

Hal L. Smith
Chairman, Board of
Trustees, 1956-1973

Members of the President's Advisory Council
consult the inaugural program. L-r: Evangeline
Papageorge, '28, Margaret G. Weeks, '31 ,
and Julius A. McCurdy

Inaugural Committee Chairman Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. (c) chats with Trustees John A. Sibley and Mary Wallace
Kirk, '11, and Georgia Tech President Joseph M. Pettit.

Trustees Neil O. Davis and Harry A. Fifield congratulate President Perry.

Board Chairman Alex P. Gaines inducts Dr. Perry into the presidency .

CEREMONY OF INDUCTION

Chairman Gaines:

As Chairman of the Agnes Scott Board of Trustees, it
is now my privilege officially to induct Marvin Banks
Perry, Jr., into the presidency of this College.

First, let me say that Dr. Perry's election was by unani-
mous action of the Board of Trustees.

And now, sir, I have two questions to ask you.

1. Are you willing to undertake the responsibilities of
the presidency of Agnes Scott College?

2. Do you promise to support, defend, and carry out
the provisions of the Charter of this College and the
bylaws of the Board of Trustees?

As a token of your office it is my responsibility to place
in your hands the Charter of this College. You, by receiv-
ing this Charter, become, in a real sense, the custodian of
the ideals and purposes of Agnes Scott.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I declare that Mar-
vin Banks Perry, Jr., has been installed as the fourth Presi-
dent of Agnes Scott College, with all the rights, privileges,
responsibilities, and authority thereunto appertaining.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of Agnes Scott
College.

President Perry:

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of Agnes .Scott:
With a deep sense of the honor conferred, I accept the
presidency of Agnes Scott College, and I pledge my en-
ergies to her advancement.

I solicit your continuing support and counsel, and I pray
God to give me the guidance and strength to discharge my
duties with wisdom, courage, and grace.

"TO WHAT GREEN ALTAR...?"

INAUGURAL REFLECTIONS ON BASIC
LOYALTIES AND ULTIMATE GOALS

Marvin Banks Perry, Jr.

The President delivers his inaugural address.

On this glad and festive morning, let me first welcome
our visitors who have come to Agnes Scott to participate
with us in these ceremonies. We are honored by the pres-
ence here of a significant portion of the leadership of this
state and community in government and business, in the
professions and the arts. We welcome you and in so
doing acknowledge the diverse activities of our society
which nourish each other and work together to sustain our
national life.

We are also honored by the representatives of our sister
colleges and universities, and of learned societies and
educational bodies throughout the country, who bring
greetings in person to Agnes Scott today from their organi-
zations. The color and pomp of their traditional academic
regalia symbolize not only the rich variety of our educa-
tional heritage but also its unity in diversity. A warm wel-
come to you. Ladies and Gentlemen, our colleagues in the
ancient and universal company of scholars. May scholar-
ship and good learning continue to flourish and abound!

With deep gratitude, I wish now to acknowledge the pro-
found debt we owe to all who, over the years, have led us
to this fair place today. We are grateful to the countless
individuals whose prayerful planning, generosity, and lead-
ership have caused Agnes Scott to grow and flourish in this
community, and in the hearts of its alumnae and friends
everywhere.

It is manifestly impossible today for me to pay tribute,
individually or by name, to even a fraction of those who
have worked to make and keep this college great. But I do
wish to record on this occasion my gratitude to all those
who have labored here before us. And I wish to express
especially my admiration for all segments of the present
Agnes Scott family students and faculty, administration
and staff, trustees and alumnae. Their loyal support in my

first year here has been matched only by their gracious
welcome.

I am especially pleased that my distinguished predeces-
sor. President Emeritus Wallace Alston, is participating in
the ceremonies this morning; and I am happy to acknow-
ledge, with thanksgiving, the wise. Christian leadership he
has given Agnes Scott through a crucial quarter-century of
her history.

Let me conclude these introductory remarks on a per-
sonal note of welcome and gratitude to the many loyal
friends, old and new, who have gathered here today to
wish me well; and to my immediate family -those who
are here this morning, some who could not be here, and
those who did not live to see this day but whose devotion
and support have never failed me.

In times as torn with tumult and revolutionary change
as ours continue to be, when our very survival as a nation,
and a civilized society seems in question, it is difficult
indeed to see issues clearly and whole, to maintain the bal-
ance and perspective necessary for analysis and decision.
In such times, and on such occasions as this, we bookish
men, especially if we are teachers of history or literature,
like to turn for solace (sometimes as much for our egos as
for our anxieties!) to writers of an earlier day, in whose
works we find passages strikingly prophetic of our own
dilemma, sometimes with detailed solutions offered, more
often merely reminding us by implication that "this, too,
shall pass."

Listen, for example, to portions of a letter written in
1849 by Matthew Arnold, one of the most perceptive and
clear-eyed commentators on the troubles of his own day:
". . . These are damned times [he wrote] everything is
against one: the height to which knowledge is come, the
spread of luxury, our physical enervation, the absence of
great men, the unavoidable contact with millions of small
ones, newspapers, cities, light profligate friends, moral
desperados . . . , our own selves, the sickening conscious-
ness of our own difficulties." Consider also Shelley's blunt
warning, developed in his Defense of Poetry (in 1821)

that "man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself
a slave." Or Wordsworth's concern in 1789 at "the increas-
ing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of
their occupations produces a craving for the extraordinary
incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence,
hourly gratifies." (Preface to Lyrical Ballads)

How much more bewildering and frightening today is
"the height to which knowledge is come," how much more
apparent "the absence of great men" and the proliferation
of small ones (including no lack of "moral desperados").
How much more explosive are the tensions generated today
by "the increasing accumulation of men in cities" (or sub-
urban sprawls). How much more frightful is the prospect
of man's failure to use for peace and true progress the
elemental powers of the universe which he has in large
measure now "enslaved."

Most telling, perhaps, for my theme this morning, is
Matthew Arnold's well-known observation just over a cen-
tury ago (in Culture and Anarchy, 1867) that "faith in
machinery [i.e., in mechanical means rather than moral
ends] is our besetting danger ... in machinery as if it had a
value in and for itself." How much more deadening, more
unhuman, is today's frightening "faith in machinery," in the
depersonalized, amoral mechanization which characterizes
so much of the organization and operation of today's big
business, big government, and big education.

It is my concern about these growing threats to our so-
ciety and to what we once called humane learning
that prompts me to call your attention this morning to the
role a revitalizing role which liberal arts colleges like
Agnes Scott can and must play if higher education in the
United States is to remain a liberating and humanizing ex-
perience worthy of free men.

I have entitled my remarks this morning "To What
Green Altar. . . ." Many of you will recognize it as a phrase
from a well-known poem by one of our greatest English
poets, whose work I have come to know and love. In John
Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," written just 155 years
ago this month (when the poet was only 23 years old) he
recalls (you remember) the classic scenes depicted on an
ancient urn and is moved to reflect on the nature and
meaning of great art its permanence and changeless per-
fection as opposed to the transience and imperfections of
real life. (Yet he seems to conclude that art, too, has its
limitations, for it is after all a "cold pastoral," a lifeless
perfection.)

Among the pastoral scenes on the urn is one of a relig-
ious procession, apparently on its way to a ceremonial ob-
servance in the leafy Arcadian woods. Keats is moved to
ask (in stanza four) :

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?

To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies.

And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore.

Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore

Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

The image of the green altar, standing in the cool primal
wood of Keats's imagination, has long been a compelling
symbol for me: the quiet retreat away from the noise and
tumult of everyday cares and duties, the green altar to
which we bring our deepest beliefs and ultimate loyalties,
a repository for the basic articles of our faith, the sub-
stance of our fairest dreams. To be sure, it is an imaginary
altar, only "a green thought in a green shade," but it is for
me, especially on this green and shady morning at Agnes
Scott, a fitting symbol to serve as the focal point for my
brief consideration on this occasion of some basic articles
of faith and purpose for private liberal arts colleges like
Agnes Scott as they face, in the waning years of this cen-
tury, perhaps the most crucial period of their existence.

What is or should be the nature of these basic
articles of faith and purpose? What is the context educa-
tional, national, world-wide in which we must formulate
them? In undertaking to suggest answers to these large
questions, I am acutely aware that there are many in this
audience whose knowledge of higher education, as well as
of society's ills and the solutions for them, is far superior
to my own. In this regard, I am reminded of a story told
recently by my old friend President Edgar Shannon of the
University of Virginia. It concerns a survivor of the
Johnstown flood, who died and went to heaven. He at once
began regaling a number of his new associates in heaven
with stories of his experiences during that great flood. He
dwelt at length upon the depth of the water, the terrors of
the current, the extent of the destruction. He found his
listeners so sympathetic and encouraging that after a while
he approached St. Peter and said that he believed there
were many people in heaven who would like to hear his
account of the Johnstown flood, and that perhaps it would
be well if they could set up a time and a lecture platform.
St. Peter readily agreed and arranged for a platform and a
podium to be constructed, sent out the news of the event,
and at the appointed hour a huge crowd assembled. Just as
the speaker ascended the platform to describe his experi-
ences in the Johnstown flood, St. Peter tapped him on the
shoulder and said, "Remember, Noah is in the audience."

Ours indeed are desperate times. For most of the world's
peoples today, the overwhelming needs are still those of
mere physical survival. Even the most fortunate nations
have many material needs and economic problems which
will require for their solution not only wealth and tech-
nology but also moral concern and a national determina-
tion to work together to eliminate the economic ills, social
injustices, and political corruption which still plague us.

The American dilemma, in my judgment, is chiefly a
moral one, not only in the political and socio-economic
spheres but also in the educational. For the most part, we
have the material means and the technical knowledge, but
we have yet to summon up the will and the moral fervor
to do what our conscience tells us must be done.

Despite discouragements and set-backs, however, we
have made significant progress in a number of areas. But
we can all agree that our society is not yet what it should
be and that, as citizens, we must plan and act to change it
for the better.

In this complex task, there is certainly a role for our
colleges and universities; but it is not always easy to agree
on just what that role should be. I remain strongly con-
vinced, however, that our role must continue to be an
educational, not a political one. We in the academic com-
munity students as well as faculty cannot, and should
not, ignore the great social issues of our time; but teaching
and study, not social action, must remain at the top of our
agenda. As educational institutions, our chief role must
continue to be, not an attempt at direct resolution of social
and political ills, but rather the effort to help students to
identify such ills, study them, and develop the necessary
wisdom, sensitivity, and moral determination to do some-
thing about them.

Colleges like Agnes Scott, which are chiefly concerned
with the liberal arts, have been historically a seminal force
in American higher education, but their humanizing influ-
ence will not continue without a strong rededication to
their historic role. From their beginnings and at their best,
liberal arts colleges in this country have been centrally con-
cerned with morality as well as mind, with wisdom as well
as knowledge. They have sought first of all to help young
people to discover themselves and develop themselves as
informed, disciplined, concerned individuals and responsi-
ble members of society. Ideally, the liberal arts college
should be itself a model society, a community of liberal
learning directing its energies and activities to inculcating
in all its members students, teachers, administrators
an understanding of what it means to be a human being.
(Some of us would add, " and a child of God.'")

Our chief concern, as communities of liberal learning,
therefore, must continue to be with values rather than in-
formation, with the strategy rather than the tactics of
human living. We must continue to seek not only the re-
covery and revitalizing of our human past but also the
nurturing in our members of the capacity to survive and
grow with change. The challenge is to maintain a viable
and dynamic balance, a healthy tension, between change
and stability, tradition and innovation.

The task will not be easy. For example, there is abroad
today a new manifestation of the impatience or disenchant-
ment with traditional liberal arts education which has been
a recurrent phenomenon of American social history. Un-
derstandably, in a time of inflation and unemployment, of

an overcrowded job market, students tend to seek educa-
tional training which promises to equip them for entering
the job market or the professions. The danger here is that
some young people expect a liberal arts education to give
them immediately the kind of marketable skills and voca-
tional training which the liberal arts college, even at its
best, has never pretended to offer. Today more than ever,
it is impossible even for a vocational or technical school to
keep up with the rapid changes which are occurring in
industry and in the professions. It is therefore all the more
important that our undergraduate colleges continue to
offer a program which involves a thorough grounding in
the long history of our race (its achievements and its aspi-
rations); in habits of disciplined thought and clear,
articulate expression; in the ability to make intellectual,
aesthetic, and moral judgments, to discriminate among
values.

I am not suggesting for a moment that young people
do not need specific skills and professional training for
their life's work. These must and should be acquired, not
only on the job, but during college years as well, both on
and off the campus, as a valuable supplement to traditional
programs. We shall therefore continue to experiment at
Agnes Scott with the addition of new programs and courses
which young people will need as they enter today in
greater numbers both the job market and graduate and
professional schools. We shall experiment with such courses,
however, not in lieu of but in addition to the strong liberal
arts core which we continue to believe is the indispensable
base not only for a successful professional career and the
responsibilities of citizenship, but also for a happy and sat-
isfying personal (or private) life as an intelligent and
concerned human being.

For education is a private as well as a public matter, a
preparation not only for responsible citizenship and public
service but also for personal satisfaction and fulfillment.
Indeed, until one has formulated a personal set of values
for living, has attained an emotional stability, has learned
how to live happily and entertainingly with oneself, only
then is one fitted fully to lead and educate others.

Let me turn now to another concern, that of academic
innovation and change. In this area America's liberal arts
colleges have traditionally been leaders. Here we have the
advantage over our larger sister institutions, which of ne-
cessity move more slowly because of their size and com-
plex structure as well as the higher cost of experimentation
in a large and complicated organization. Some of us have
been leaders in sound experimentation, accompanied by
continuing self-study. Yet, despite our traditional role as
agents of change, it must be admitted that others of us,
while calling attention to the changes we consider neces-
sary elsewhere in society, have ourselves been slow to ac-
cept change in our own academic communities. To be sure,
we have come a long way from the attitude expressed by
the Yale faculty when it voted in 1828, after a year's study
of its curriculum, never to teach anything that had not
already been taught at Yale or uttered by God! (It appears
that William Buckley is not the first to have held forth on
God and man at Yale!)

Our liberal arts colleges must continue, then, to be
leaders in academic experimentation and innovation in
varied curricula; in new study patterns and opportunities
both on and off the campus; through independent study;
by field work and internships in business, government, and
health fields; in fresh evaluation and self-study procedures;
through greater opportunities for student-faculty-trustee
communication and partnership. With respect to curri-
culum, and other kinds of study opportunities, we must be
alert to maintain a proper balance between the more formal
disciplined study of the classroom (and the laboratory)
and the "real life," experiential learning situations of the
world beyond the campus. The right rhythm between
theory and practice, withdrawal and return, contemplation
and experience is very difficult to find, but each com-
ponent is a valuable and proper part of what John Milton
called "a complete and generous education."

Today, also, as perhaps never before, our liberal arts
colleges must actively reaffirm the commitment to aca-
demic quality which has from their beginnings been a chief
reason for their existence. The egalitarian pressures in

much of our society today are already resulting in a shal-
low mediocrity in some sectors of our educational system,
a general leveling down to the lowest common denomi-
nator, with a consequent failure to cultivate and honor
superior academic achievement. An insistence on excel-
lence is not a popular stance in many quarters today, but
it is vital if we are to produce the intellectual and moral
leaders essential to our national survival. I am not advocat-
ing a snobbish, intellectual elitism but rather what Thomas
Jefferson called an "aristocracy of talent." We must seek
out and attract to our strong institutions the most capable
young people in our society, regardless of their social,
racial, or economic backgrounds, and see that they have
opportunities for the kind and degree of education which
can best fit them for useful and satisfying lives.

But what do we mean by "the most capable"? How do
we determine academic ability and promise in a time when
our traditional standards and measurements of such quali-
ties are themselves under attack. I would concede that in
the recent past we may have stressed too much such
measuring tools as the IQ and Scholastic Aptitude tests,
but taken in conjunction with other kinds of assessment of
learning interests and abilities, I believe they are still valu-
able.

At the same time, we must realize that we are dealing
today with a very different kind of student generation
one accustomed to receive most of its knowledge from
visual and auditory images rather than written symbols,
hence one not as skilled in the older medium of the writ-
ten word. It is a generation also which is in school in a
period of unparalleled propaganda and polemic, at home
and abroad; in school at the same time that the schools
themselves are undergoing revolutionary educational and
social changes, like the society they seek to serve. Many of
these changes are in the direction of broader opportunities
and greater social justice for larger numbers of our people.
But they make for a difficult and unsettling educational
climate.

Yet our young people today are a gifted, serious, and
socially concerned generation a generation not without
youth's foibles but uncompromising in their admiration of
integrity, honesty, and compassion for human needs. We
can help them most, in my judgment, not only by con-

tinuing to seek out "the most capable" as measured by
traditional standards but also by welcoming those who may
not at first appear so promising by conventional measure-
ments but who evidence in other ways the traits of imagina-
tion, energy, and perceptiveness which are never in
over-supply even in our most prestigious colleges. I would
urge us to be increasingly concerned today, especially in
our selective colleges, not only with the calibre and past
achievements of our entering students but with how the
educational program we offer them can change for the bet-
ter their minds and lives. I have the uneasy feeling that
our lesser known, even marginal colleges, not our prestige
ones, have often had the greater impact on their students,
have done more with what they had to work with in open-
ing minds and changing lives. All too often, I fear, some
of our top colleges have done little more than pin blue rib-
bons at commencement on students who were already win-
ners when they entered and whose collegiate experience
has not vitally changed their lives and values. I suggest that
we must measure ourselves in the years just ahead not only
by the number of outstanding students we admit but by the
number whose minds and spirits have been opened and
enriched, whose consciences have been kindled, by their
experience as members of our academic community.

In addition to their historic role as pace setters in aca-
demic quality, our best liberal arts colleges have added
significantly to the diversity which has historically char-
acterized American higher education. They have also con-
tributed more than their share of leadership to all areas of
our national life. The pressures for conformity and medi-
ocrity in our society today have never been stronger: thus
the diversity and leadership which we can and must offer
are more important than ever before.

Agnes Scott, together with its sister women's colleges,
has a valuable and particular kind of role to play in serv-
ing as a contributor of diversity, leadership, and quality to
American higher education. I speak, of course, of our role
as a college for women. In a time of widespread and seduc-
tive pressures for coeducation, Agnes Scott and other
strong women's colleges continue to offer young women
the genuine option of a quality educational program in
which they are first-class citizens, in which leadership op-
portunities abound, in which young women find unique op-
portunities for individual self-discovery and development.
Until recently, the trend to coeducation was assuming the
proportions of a veritable band-wagon parade. I am glad

to note that it has slowed down markedly in the last year
or two, but I am well aware that women's colleges (like
men's colleges) will constitute a minority, ahhough a
strong and selective one, in American higher education of
the future. From the beginning I have opposed this band-
wagon rush to coeducation among our colleges. It has
meant, in my judgment, not the liberation of \oung women
and a bettering of their situations, but rather an extension
to even more campuses of women's traditional demeaning
role as "coeds" (i.e., second class citizens) in an aggres-
sively male environment.

Historically, if we look at the position of women in our
society even today, more than a century of coeducation in
American higher education cannot be called a success.
There is still sex discrimination in coeducational colleges
and universities, just as there is in business, the professions,
and in government. Until such discrimination is much less
than it is today, I am convinced that our best women's col-
leges have a most important role to play. So long as women
find this kind of educational experience valuable and satis-
fying, Agnes Scott intends to offer it. We do not see it as
a threat to academic quality but rather a concomitant to it.
fn short, we intend to remain a woman's college of the
highest quality, in company with a few other women's col-
leges which, today as in the past, are among America's
strongest of any type.

Finally, and of utmost importance, the liberal arts col-
lege must continue to stress the overall roncern of "a
complete and generous education" with the whole person,
with the relevant past as well as with the ephemeral present,
with service and sacrifice as well as with personal achieve-
ment. We must keep reminding ourselves and our students,
by precept and example, of the abiding relevance and value
of our human experience as recorded in the history, lit-
erature, and art of our past as well as our present. We must
remind ourselves and our students that, while contempo-
rary problems can be highly relevant to education, the cur-
rently relevant is not likely to prove relevant in the future.

In this connection, we might do well to remember that
the most revolutionary and continually relevant experiment
ever undertaken in this country, the one which began
officially in 1776, was conceived and carried out by men
whose ideas and values, although shaped by 18th century
philosophies, were even more firmly rooted in the ideas
and values of Athens, Rome, and the Hebraic-Christian
City of God. These two great traditions, the classical and
the Hebraic-Christian, have been central to education in
the Western world since its beginnings.

Agnes Scott, while founded by Presbyterians and dedi-
cated to Christian values and the Christian faith, has al-
ways been an independent college, free of any public or
sectarian control but proud of its vigorous and independent
Presbyterian heritage and firmly committed to Christian
principles. The College has no sectarian restrictions on
faculty or students, and in the years ahead I believe we
should encourage breadth of background religious as
well as economic and ethnic in our student body, fac-
ulty, and governing board. At the same time, the College
expects those who join us here of their own free will to be
aware of the historic commitments of Agnes Scott and sup-
portive of our aims and values.

In these inaugural remarks I have voiced some lofty
aims and implied perhaps not a few impossible dreams.
There is no one best way, in my judgment, to carry out
these lofty aims, to make these impossible dreams come
true. Indeed my own teaching experience convinces me
that the human components, the people and their commit-
ment to the task, are far more important than any specific
curriculum or mechanics of instruction or any one system
of academic governance. This conviction will be the basis
of a fresh study of our academic programs and governance
which I plan to inaugurate next session.

In my first few months here I have tried to learn, by
observation and study, something not only of the organiza-
tion and activities but something also of the spirit and aims
of Agnes Scott. I have been greatly impressed, and I look
forward with high hopes to the years just ahead. As I have
already tried to indicate, these years will be difficult ones
for American colleges and universities, especially our
private liberal arts colleges. But these will also be exciting
and challenging years, and I believe our strongest colleges
will not only survive but flourish. Agnes Scott intends to
be among them. We welcome the future. If we remain true
to our heritage yet receptive to imaginative innovation and
change, if we continue to stress the primacy of the teaching
and learning function based on concern for the individual
student and teacher, if we continue to maintain a learning
community which acknowledges social and civic responsi-
bility as well as individual freedom, then we shall indeed
deserve a future. My faith in the energy, wisdom, and
loyalty of this academic community is strong. With your
continuing counsel and support, I am confident we can
continue to move this college forward in the high spirit of
its historic motto: to faith adding virtue, and to virtue
knowledge. It is to such an undertaking that I gladly com-
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Congratulations from Dr. Fred
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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY/VOLUME 53 NUMBER 1

The new lampposts exemplifv the
contemporary look on campus
coinciding with innovations in

curriculum

contents

I Lampposts and Liberal Arts

by JoAnne DeLavan Williams 75 and Carey Bowen Craig '62

4 A Week With ASC at Stay and See Georgia

by Martha Whatley Yates '45

8 Opening the Door to Academic Administration

by Connie Henderson

10 Clubs Far and Near

1 1 The President's Report for 1973-1974

by Dr. Marvin B, Perry, |r.

19 Golden Needle Award Festival

19 Readin' 'n' Writin' n'Mailin' Help Needed

by Andrea Helms

20 Pictorial Story of Alumnae Council, 1974

21 Letters to the Editor

22 Class News

Inside It's a good time to be an Agnes Scott Woman!

Back by Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Cover

Alumnae Office Staff

Alumnae Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Associate Director

Carey Bowen Craig '62
Coordinator of Club Services

Beth Sherman Moodv '72
Secretary

rrances Strother

Alumnae Association Officers

President/ lane King Allen '59
Vice Presidents

Region 1/ Dorothy Porcher '62

Region 11/ Nancy Edwards '58

Region III/ Mary Duckworth Cellerstedt '46

Region IV/ Margaret Gillespie '69
Secretary/ Eleanor Lee McNeill '59
Treasurer/ Caroline McKinney Clarke '27

Pholo Credits

Front Cover, Pages 18, 19, 20 Bill Crimes; Page 2 Silhouette: Pages 4,6 Georgia
Chamber of Commerce, Page 8 Cedar Crest College; Page 8 Dr. Paul McCain; Page 10
Nelson Harris; Pages 16, 19 Chuck Rogers; Page 27 Southern Bell.

Editor/ Carey Bowen Craig '62, Design Consultant/ John Stuart McKenzie.

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ca. Second class postage paid at Decatur,
Georgia 30030.

Lampposts and Liberal Arts

by JoAnne DeLavan Williams '75 and Carey Bowen Craig '62

For 1974, "change" is the best word to describe
the landscape of Agnes Scott College. Returning
to the campus after even so little as a year's
absence, an alumna would be surprised, if not
shocked, at the change apparent in the external
landscape of the College. The two massive elms
that used to shade Buttrick Drive are gone and
have been replaced by modern lighting fixtures.
(It turns out that the trees were incurably
diseased.) In fact, there is an entire new lighting
system, uniform and more effective than the old
light fixtures, of which there were as many as
thirteen different designs. The new mercury-vapor
globes appear in single or in multiple groupings
for dark areas.

Two of the cottages, Hardeman and Sturgis,
have been torn down and grass is now growing
where these two houses stood, to the side of
Hopkins Dormitory, on Candler Street.

There are also many new green and white
signs around campus and in Decatur. The signs,
which carry a modern, arched ASC logo, indicate
directions to buildings, offices, parking and
reserved areas and special instructions.

At first glance, change is everywhere apparent
on the campus, and a longer look reveals that the

change also reaches a more important level the
internal "landscape" of the College, the
classroom. In addition to the already broad
selection of courses, there are now courses
offered in such areas as "Grief and Death: A
Psychological Study," "Introduction to Writing
Poetry," "The Art of Africa," or "The Sociology of
Women," to mention only a few.

There are curriculum changes, new legislative
intern programs in Washington and Atlanta
tutorial, social work and study abroad programs.
A student may elect a pass-fail grade in courses
outside her major, or she may receive a double
major, an interdepartmental major or an
intradepartmental major. She may even design
her own major.

However, it is not only the subject matter and
the curriculum that alters the face of the 1974
ASC classroom; the student "scenery" itself is
different. The look of the class is a bit more
"mature," for Agnes Scott has initiated an
expanded educational program for Atlanta area
women beyond the usual college age. Designed
especially for women whose formal education
has been interrupted, the program is also open to
graduates who want to broaden their academic

Professor Mary Virginia Allen 35. Chairman ot the
Department oi French, enjoys having more experienced
students in her classes.

Lampposts (continued)

interests or even begin again in a new field.

Although Agnes Scott has had special students,
including mature women, for a few years, the
program has now been enlarged and emphasized.
As the school year began in September, ten
such students had been accepted from eighty
inquiries generated by a newspaper advertisement.
The impetus for this increase has perhaps come
in part from the College's offer of generous
financial aid for any qualified applicant who
demonstrates her need. Moreover, the College is
realistic in its attention to these financial requests,
realizing that a family even with a substantial
income will normally consider the children's
educational expenses and family necessities more
important than Mother's B.A.

The program will allow any woman with the
proper qualifications to "go back to school," to
continue work for the B.A. degree, to prepare for
a career or for graduate work, or to study for
her personal educational enrichment. Full or
partial academic schedules are being arranged
according to the individual needs of each woman
and each particular program of study is
personally designed.

The appearance of mature women as serious
students is not unique to Agnes Scott; continuing
education programs are being embarked on in
colleges and universities across the country. The

increasing awareness of the woman's vital role in
society, along with the expansion of educational
and vocational opportunities for women of all
ages, has prompted women with the desire to
broaden, if not complete, their formal education.
Temple University's Continuing Education for
Women (CEW) has doubled and tripled in the last
few years. More important than quantitative
statistics is that the quality of the returning
student is, in most cases, high. Temple reports
that "CEW students get consistently higher grades
than the average student. Last year, the women
had an average cumulative grade point of 3.0 out
of a possible 4.0."

The presence of these women on the campus
and in the classroom has had a positive effect
on younger students and faculty alike.
The students admire their ambition and learn
from their experience. According to
Dr. Margaret Pepperdene, Chairman of the
Department of English, "These women have
thrown themselves into their studies with a desire
to learn and the kids believed them."

The faculty are delighted with the interest and
motivation these women have demonstrated.
They have found that it is stimulating for a class
and for a teacher to have students with more
years and enough experience to be able to
conceptualize ideas and to articulate reactions.
They have been impressed with the seriousness
of the student who returns to college over the
obstacles of child-care arrangements, financial
sacrifices and sometimes even lack of
encouragement, or worse, from their husbands.

Agnes Scott's expanded educational program
reflects not only the changing image of women,
who now believes that they are important enough
to educate, even at age 55, but it also builds
strength for the College. If Agnes Scott is true to
her claim that the liberal arts experience educates
the whole woman, the College must be ready to
accommodate the needs of the woman after she
gains her mature self-image, often after her
child-bearing years. If she can find her sense of
self within the academic community, then

Agnes Scott is the richer for providing her
the opportunity.

These changes are some of the many on the
Agnes Scott campus internal and external.
Agnes Scott will never change for change's sake,
but she must adapt to a world which is itself
evolving rapidly. To alter slightly a recent quote
by a Decatur alumna, "So that's what's going on
over here at St. Agnes by the railroad."

/ expected changes (going hack to Agnes Scott)
and I found them. But the big surprise was how
little had really changed And Im not talking
about the superficial things like bare feet in the
classroom. I mean things that matter. Like
attitudes. And atmosphere. While the atmosphere
is infinitely more relaxed, and there is. I think,
more enthusiasm about almost everything,
basically Agnes Scott still "feels" the same the
quiet kind of place where anyone who is really
serious about learning something can get the
job done.

If Agnes Scott hasn't changed much. I have.
For one thing. I'm so terribly much more absent-
minded than I was twenty years ago! At least
once a week, when I parked my car in the lot
behind Presser. I locked my keys up in it. And
it's hard to memorize irregular verbs after forty.
But there are compensations for hardening of the
ol' arteries. Increased motivation for one (you'd
be surprised how motivating it is when you're
paying for this sort of thing out of the grocery
money!). Twenty extra years of living is a definite
advantage. Unless you've been asleep for two
decades, you've got to know more at forty than
you did at twenty. Patterns are easier to see.
There's no pressure the second time around,
lust fun. I loved every single minute of it

Helen McCowan French X-54, 74, an
alumna who tinished her degree
twenty years later

She was an ('\(c//('(H sUuh'nt,
fascinated b\ ivUlton. In siu(l\ing
Milton's Divince Tracts. Ilu-
D(K trini' cind Discipline of
Divorce, she was the only person
in the classroom, other than
myself, who had had the
experience of marriage. She
could conceptualize the
profLindit\ of the poet's ideas
of love in Paradise Lost, and the
other students welcomed this
experience.

Women are coming back with
a freedom that they never had
before, even as younger
undergraduates. What's more,
they are usually coming back
with the approval and support
of their husbands.

Ptitricui Pinka, Assistdnt Professor of
English. A^nes Scott College, about a
mature student in her 1973-74 "Milton
anti Donne course

Helen learned beginning French
in 7950-57, finishing the course
with a "C." Twenfy-fwo years
later she appeared in my
intermediate French class. She
wore a wedding ring, claimed to
be the mother of five children,
was prettier, more animated and,
as her "As " proved, more highly
motivated than she was as a
teenager. In her oral and written
French she held her own and
often surpassed the "younger
generation," who mistook Helen
for an upperclassman. They
treated her like one of their peers.
Helen was a joy to me. both in
intermediate French and during
the /o//ou'/ng year, when she took
three quarters of French literature.
In June, 1974, she received her
.A.B. degree from Agnes Scott. I
hated to see her leave!

Mary Virginia Allen '35, Chairman of the
French Department, Agnes Scott College,
about a mature student

stay and See Georgia Week, a project sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce as one of Georgia's American
Bicentennial programs, began July 29 and ran through
August 3. One of the alumnae hostesses writes the
following story of her participation.

Martha Whatley Yates '45 is an author herself, presently
writing a book based on her experiences during the past
four years since her husband died. It will be a guide to
survival for the widow, offering practical advice on how
to cope with everything from "sex to social security." The
working title for the book is "Coping: A Handbook for
Widows." When Martha is not writing, she does free-lance
public relations work.

A WEEK WITh

Standing by entrance of dramatic Agnes Scott display are Martha Richardson Higgins '57 and Judy Maguire 73.

ASC AT "STAY AND SEE GEORGIA'

by Martha Whatley Yates '45

When Alumnae Director Virginia Brown McKenzie
called to ask if I would work in the Agnes Scott
booth at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
exhibition at Lenox Square in July, I jumped at
the chance, and signed up, not for one two-hour
shift, but for four!

Let me hasten to assure you that my
enthusiasm did not stem from my eagerness as an
alumna. Oh goodness, no! As the Alumnae Office
and I can attest, my apathy has been tempered
only by my indifference. To put it as charitably as
possible, I've not been an exemplary alumna,
in the too many years than I care to remember
since my graduation, I have contributed,
financially and socially, only sporadically. But
over the years, the Alumnae Office and I have
developed our own splendid version of laissez
faire I've left them alone, and, to their credit,
except for an occasional discreet reminder that
my contributions would be welcome, they've
left me alone.

So why did I respond by volunteering to serve
on four different days during the exhibition?
From selfish reasons, of course. I was deeply
involved in writing a book, and in preparing
notes for an evening course I was to conduct at
Emory this fall, so I leaped at the opportunity
to leave my typewriter and to get my mind away
from my work for a few days. Virginia Lee was
noticeably startled by my response, but gallantly
kept the shock from her voice as she invited me
to attend one of the briefing sessions to be held
in the Alumnae House before the Week began.

I elected to attend the very first session, and
was welcomed back into the fold by everyone
present. (As a matter of fact, my self-consciousness
notwithstanding, I'm almost certain that no one
actually realized or cared that here was a
black sheep within the gates, so any possible
awkwardness was avoided.) The session,
conducted by Dr. Edward McNair, Assistant to the
President, consisted of possible questions we
might be asked by curious passersby, and in the

answers I learned things I confess that I had
forgotten or had never known. For example, we
all learned who Agnes Scott was. Right?
Of course you remember; she was the mother of
George Washington Scott, our founder. But did
you know that she was born in Ireland, in
County Down, in 1799, and settled in
Pennsylvania, and never got to Georgia at all?
(Didn't know we were named for an Irish
immigrant, did you?) And did you know that a
man may attend classes for credit even though he
will not be granted a degree? (Fie can transfer
the credits, of course.) And did you know that
there are approximately 9000 alumnae, and that
2000 of us live in the Atlanta area? Well, I didn't
either, but I came away from the briefing armed
with facts and figures and ready for any question
thrown at me while on duty. (The fact that
we would be working in shifts of two, with
someone from the Admissions Office didn't hurt
my self-confidence any.)

My initial work shift was the first two hours
of the first day, so I went to Lenox Square a little
early so that I could stroll the Mall and see what
the other booths looked like. The term "booth"
is misleading because most of the exhibitors used
an open "U" plan, while some of the exhibitions
consisted of pylons with posters displayed on
the four sides. Dr. McNair had not told us much
about our booth except that this would be the
first time we had been invited to participate, so I
had no idea what to look for as I approached
our location midway in the Mall, directly in front
of Allen's Department Store. It didn't take me
long to spot the Agnes Scott booth, however, for
there, amid the hand-lettered posters and rather
tacky appearances of some of our neighbors,
stood the unmistakable Gothic arches
of the campus.

Laid out in a rectangle measuring about 10x20
feet, the exhibit was airy, effective and lovely.
In a word, it had style. The floor was covered in
wood chips, and there, incredibly, was a flagstone

Alumnae, who manned the SSC Exhibit, accept the first place
award from the Chamber of Commerce judges: Betty Rankin
Rogers '66 (c. ) and Carolyn West Parker '60.

STAY AND SEE GEORGIA

(continued)

path ambling from one front corner to the other.
At these corners were the arches, and casually
scattered about the area were stands surmounted
by photographs framed in the same Gothic arch,
some painted white and some purple. In the
right back corner was a small round table draped
in white, and surrounded by three chairs for the
workers, while in the center back, lighted from
below, was a tall arch framing a picture of
students coming through the doors of Buttrick.
The back left corner was filled with potted plants;
other plants were placed strategically about the
floor, and there was even one plant hanging
from an open arch behind the table.

1 was impressed by the overall effect of the
display, and felt inordinately proud as 1 walked
for the first time beneath a corner arch. I learned
later that the exhibit was designed by Ed Sims,

a graphics artist, and that the arches were all
built by the campus carpentry shop. And
beautifully, too.

it wasn't long before my shift-sharers arrived
and we settled down to becoming acquainted
and with watching the feverish activities around
us. The exhibitors far outnumbered the shoppers
and "askers" at this point, so it gave us a chance
to watch, a little smugly, I'll admit, those
exhibitors who were putting the finishing touches
on their booths. We were right next door to
the Fitzgerald exhibit, and the town was
advertising its upcoming "Yank-Reb Day,"
celebrating its founding by veterans of both
Civil War armies, and also, for some unfathomed
reason, displaying live snakes. If so inclined,
visitors to the display could have their pictures
taken with a snake, or, for the squeamish, with a
puppy. The lady in charge of the booth was intent
on informing anyone within sound of her
microphone of these facts, so that any talking the
three of us in the ASC booth did was at the top
of our lungs. We didn't do much talking.

Beyond the Fitzgerald booth was the
Frontierland exhibit, and their piece de
resistance was the firing of a long-barreled rifle.
The noise was too loud and too frightening
for an enclosed area, so they were stopped after
the first ear-shattering blast. To our left was a
display extolling Carroll County (quietly, thank
heaven!) and to our right was an audio (extremely
audio) display telling us more than we really
wanted to know about the Okefenokee. "The
Okefenokee Swamp, with its 435,000 acres ..."
That first day, I'll admit, was pretty hectic,
and not conducive to visitors' lingering inquires
about the academic life, and I welcomed my
replacement at 12:00. I wasn't signed for another
shift until Thursday, so my ears and voice had a
chance to recover before facing that Babel again.

Things had changed by Thursday, however,
and the first thing with which I was greeted
was a proud announcement by the admissions
representative with whom I had worked on
Monday, that we had won first place in our
category, and there was the big blue ribbon
award pinned to the table to prove it! The ribbon
read "1st Place, Stay and See Georgia Week,
Business Category, 1974." I was a little surprised
to find us in the business category, but I learned
that the Chamber had divided the exhibitors into

four groups: Local Communities (Andersonville,
our Fitzgerald friends, various Chambers of
Commerce), Georgia Attractions (Callaway
Gardens, Six Flags, and so on). Government
Agencies (such organizations as the National Park
Service) and Business, a catchall category
including all colleges, MARTA, Georgia Power,
etc. We were in good company, and could be
doubly proud of our award, because the
competitors in our group had exhibits distinctly
above the average. Another big difference
was in the noise level. The Fitzgerald lady
no longer broadcast; there was no evidence
of the snakes or unhappy little puppy for the
rest of the week, and the stilled gun of Frontierland
could only be called a blessing. We could still
hear the various daily attractions presented
farther up the Mall on a wooden stage (can you
even imagine the sound of the tap-shod feet of
two dozen enthusiastic doggers on a resounding
wooden stage in an enclosed Mall?), and the
recording at our side was still going on and on
and on ("The Okefenokee Swamp, with its
435,000 acres . . ."), but the overall effect was of
that nice, muted hum bespeaking earnest activity.

The last three days were much alike, and I
thoroughly enjoyed them all. The whole week
blends together the cacaphony of sounds,
the shoppers hurrying past, the atmosphere of a
small town midway at the county fair. And from
this montage of impressions emerge vignettes
I'll always remember with warmth, humor
and pleasure.

I'll not soon forget the camaraderie shared
with the other alumnae of whatever years,
and, among us, we represented every decade
since the Twenties. And I noticed that, unlike
most other groups of women, we discussed ideas,
not things or people. Instead of the stereotyped
female conversations dealing with trivia, I found
that we were discussing the myriad political
problems of our era, and, excitingly, we were
delving into the ever-expanding realms of
Women's Liberation. The views were as varied as
we were, but there was an unexpressed, recurrent
theme of an awareness that for too long women
have been used, and that the time for change
is now. All of this without the red-eyed militancy
of the more radical feminists, but with a calm
determination revealing many thoughtful hours
devoted to the entire area of the problems of

women in the Seventies. It was exhilirating and
comforting to see that the conclusions of the
young women in their twenties were identical
with those of women twice their age, and it
gave us a common ground of congeniality.

Not all of our discussions were so deep, of
course. There were excited exchanges of "Do
you remember?" and "Is Dr. So and So or Miss
Such and Such still there?", and "Do they still
do this or that the way we used to?" We all
remember our college years as halcyon, and
they were. The majority of our problems were
limited to studying for an exam or wondering
what to wear on our next date. And even those
students attending college during the war years,
whether World War II or Vietnam, suffered
mainly in spirit, so that we can treasure
our days at Agnes Scott as the last truly carefree
times of our lives. How does the song go?
"The days of our youth"? How golden they were!

And we noticed, sitting in our booth,
the slender skeleton of all our memories,
how proudly other alumnae would drop in to
identify themselves with "1 went to Agnes Scott
too." And they all seemed to have a certain elan,
a distinction, whether they were trailing toddlers
like a comet's tail, or wearing their old age
with dignity. There's something about an
Agnes Scott "girl" of whatever era.

And during the entire week, I was constantly
impressed by the young women from the
Admissions Office. They were, without exception,
personable, knowledgeable and attractive
representatives of our college. I had met our
Director of Admissions, Ann Rivers Payne
Thompson, at my briefing session, and had been
delighted with her appearance, attitude and
obvious capability. She and her assistants are
assets to Agnes Scott, and I urge any alumna
visiting the campus to drop by the Office to
meet them. I'm sure you'll be as impressed as I
was, and will wonder, as I did, if we were ever
that young and smart and effortlessly slender.

I ended my week steeped once more in the
sights and sounds of Agnes Scott, wishing that
1 lived closer to the campus so that I could
see all of my old friends more often and could
expand my acquaintance with my new ones,
and determined to try to be a better alumna.
But don't send up any skyrockets, Virginia Lee
... I don't promise a thing!

Dr Williaii) Kvll\ I'n-^ident ot Mars Baldwin College,
chats with Carnegie Administrative Interns (I. to r.) Ann
Roberts Divine. Agnes Scott '67, and Sally Dillard.
Mary Baldwin 74. at Cedar Crest College Workshop.

Dean lulia Gary discusses Agnes Scott s Self Study
Report with Administrative Intern Connie Henderson.
Randolph-Macon hh. who is working in Dean
Carv's office.

OPENING THE DOOF

by Connie Henderson

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a
college president or a dean? Are you interested
in academic administration? If so, the
Administrative Intern Program for Women in
Higher Education may be for you.

Now in its second year, the three year program
is funded by the Carnegie Corporation and a
group of sixteen liberal arts colleges. It is
designed to introduce young women to academic
administration while they are still making plans
about their future careers and to give them the
training and experience necessary to take
entry-level positions in a variety of areas
student services, academic affairs, finance and
business and public relations and development.

The young women who are interns this year
come from a wide variety of backgrounds. They
range from a thirty-year-old teacher who is
married and has a Ph.D. in history to a new B.A.
whose most recent job was working with a zoo,
to a young mother who has been teaching
English in a community college and selling
real estate. Most have had several years of
teaching or counseling experience but others
have held jobs in banks, travel agencies, health
organizations or construction firms. Their college
majors include such diverse fields as international
relations, art, religion, psychology, history and
English.

What does the internship include? All interns
begin in August by participating in a one week
seminar at Cedar Crest College, where they are
introduced by experts to the issues in higher
education and discuss such topics as faculty
development and tenure, finance and budget
procedures, governance and curriculum planning.
Major guests this year were Mr. Richard Sullivan

rO ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

from the Carnegie Corporation, who led the
discussion of foundations and grants and Dr.
Juanita Kreps, Vice-President and Professor of
Economics, Duke University, who explained
the impact of inflation on college enrollment
and budgets.

After the seminar each intern goes to the
college to which she is assigned to work with a
senior administrator in her area of interest.
Together they work out the specific
responsibilities she is to have while considering
the background, needs and strengths of the
intern and the character and needs of the college.
In addition, each intern undertakes a major
project of research and study on a topic of
interest to her and of use to the college.

Ann Roberts Divine, a 1967 Agnes Scott
graduate with a major in English, is interning in
the office of the president at Mary Baldwin
College. During the first months she has worked
on several projects. First, she researched and
wrote a series of articles for a local newspaper
interpreting the college to the community
its purposes and future plans, finances and
enrollment. Secondly, she is working closely
with the Development Office as it launches a
major fund-raising campaign, first in Virginia
and then nation-wide. Finally, she is preparing
a five year report on changes in the college
to present to the board of trustees at its
November meeting.

Who is eligible to apply for the program?
Applicants must be nominated by one of the
participating colleges. Young women who are
recent college graduates or are completing
advanced degrees or are teachers with interest
in administration may apply. They may be

married or single, but they must have a certain
degree of mobility since they may not intern
at their alma mater. Each intern receives a stipend
of $6,875.00. Applications must be completed
by December 1, 1974.

Colleges participating in the program include
Agnes Scott, Cedar Crest, Chatham, Elmira,
Goucher, Hollins, Mary Baldwin, Mills,
Randolph-Macon Woman's, Salem, Scripps,
Skidmore, Sweet Briar, Wells, Wheaton
and Wilson.

For more information or an application, please
fill out the form below and mail to Dean Julia T.
Gary, Dean of the Faculty, Agnes Scott College,
Decatur, Ga. 30030 or call 404/373-2571, ext. 240.

Name_

First Maiden

Last

Class.

Address_

Last degree.
Institution

Present Occupation.

n Please send an application.

n Please send more information about the
program.

CLUBS ..^AND^'f^AR

Dr. Wallace Alston, Mary Lamar Adams '68, Mrs. Alston (Madelaine Drmseith Alston 28)
and Sylvia Moutos Mayson '52 reminisce at Augusta reception

Augusta

President Emeritus Wallace M.
Alston was honored at a reception
and dinner on Saturday evening,
August 24, 1974, hosted by the
Augusta Area Agnes Scott Alumnae
Club. The affair, which drew
twenty-one local alumnae and
guests, was held at the Alan Fuqua
Center of Reid Memorial
Presbyterian Church, where Dr.
Alston was guest minister the
next morning.

Mary Lamar Adams '68, President
of the Augusta Club, made the
arrangements for alumnae to attend
the dinner and reception. The other
club officers are Sylvia Moutos
Mayson '52, Vice-President, and
Kay Bailey Cook Schafer '65.

Boston

Thirteen Agnes Scott alumnae,

including, three representatives
from the College, met at 12:00 noon
on July 18, 1974, in one of Boston's
fine restaurants, Joseph's, for

dutch-treat lunch. Virginia Brown
McKenzie '47, Director of Alumnae
Affairs, spoke of recent changes on
campus and new programs planned
by the Alumnae Office. She asked
the alumnae for their ideas on ways
the Alumnae Office staff can serve
them. Ann Rivers Payne Thompson
'59, Director of Admissions,
outlined the admissions picture
throughout the country and
specifically at Agnes Scott. She
informed the Boston alumnae of the
need for more qualified students
to make up the applicant pool and
urged them to help publicize the
excellent qualities of Agnes Scott.

Not yet a formally organized
club, the group of alumnae attending
the meeting came from Boston
and the surrounding area. The
gathering was planned and
conducted by Dot Porcher '62,
Vice President for Region I. Local
alumnae and college representatives
attending the luncheon included:
Angelyn Alford Bagwell '60; Carey
Bowen Craig '62, Associate Director
of Alumnae Affairs; Virginia Brown
McKenzie '47, Director of Alumnae
Affairs; Mary Byrd Davis '58;
Barbara Futral Turner '51; Marguerite

Kennedy Criesemer '34; Ann Rivers
Payne Thompson '59, Director of
Admissions; Sally Pockel Harper '65;
Dot Porcher '62, Sylvia Pruitt '62;
Lee Shepherd '63; Eleanor Swain All
'57; and Harriet Talmadge Mill '58,

Greenville

Twenty-two alumnae gathered at the
Poinsett Club in Greenville, S.C., for
a luncheon meeting May 2. Speaker
for the occasion was Virginia Brown
McKenzie, new Director of Alumnae
Affairs, who discussed improvements
in salaries and benefits for faculty
and staff, physical changes to the
grounds and buildings, and summer
institutes scheduled at the campus.

Diane Parks Cochran '60 is
president of the group.

Roanoke

Fifteen alumnae in the Roanoke,
Virginia, area met at the home of
Louise Reid Strickler '46 for a
pot-luck luncheon Saturday, May 11.
President Nancy Hammerstrom Cole
'65 introduced Virginia Brown
McKenzie, who brought reports
from President Perry, Dean Gary,
Dean Jones and Ann Rivers Payne
Thompson, new Director
of Admissions.

The group viewed the Frost
slide presentation.

Madison

Mary Hart Richardson Britt '60

invited the Agnes Scott alumnae of
Madison, Wisconsin, to her home
Wednesday, July 31, for dessert and
coffee to meet Virginia Brown
McKenzie, who was attending an
institute on alumni/alumnae
administration at the University of
Wisconsin. Virginia reported on the
latest developments at the college
and presented the Robert Frost slide
film show.

Several alumnae asked for
brochures to distribute to local
high school students to inform them
of Agnes Scott and Atlanta.

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THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT

FOR 1973-1974

INTRODUCTION:

THE NATIONAL CLIMATE

After a quarter century of college teaching and
administration, one is tempted increasingly to look back,
to survey and compare (or reminisce!), to seek for
patterns and significance in the multitudinous changes
which have characterized American higher education
since World War II.

In the late I940's, inspired and supported by "the
G.I. bill," former service men flooded our campuses,
creating for the most part a mature and exciting learning
atmosphere and contributing, along with post-war
prosperity and a surging birthrate, to the phenomenal
growth of American higher education in the 50's and early
60's. Those were the halcyon years, when, despite growing
pains and some social complacency, American colleges
and universities enjoyed the highest national prestige and
priority in their history. Enrollment soared; college plants
expanded; new institutions sprang up and seemed to
flourish. There was considerable discussion of the ends
and means of "higher education," but little serious
questioning of its overall value to the good life social,
economic, or cultural. In retrospect, the times appear no
doubt to have been more prosperous, complacent, and
unproductive than they actually were.

As the 60's waned, our national failure to make
significant progress in ending the war in Vietnam and in
eliminating social injustices, crime and environmental
pollution brought about increasing frustration and unrest.
Protest, confrontation and violence spread to include not
only the ghetto and the inner city, but the college campus.
In early May of 1 970, with President Nixon's decision to
enter Cambodia and resume the bombing of North
Vietnam, the situation reached crisis proportion,
highlighted by the tragic shootings on the campuses of
Kent State in Ohio and lackson State in Mississippi.

These bloody events seemed to wake us from our
national nightmare of irrational confrontation, emotional
excess, and violence. On the college scene, American
students, dramatically confronted with the tragic
consequences of passion and violence, appeared to reject
them deliberately in favor of a gradual return to rea.soned
and peaceful means of solving national as well as academic
problems. To be sure, there were elements of emotional
exhaustion, frustration, and ever-present apathy in the
changed mood of American campuses. But I believe that
the change was largely a deliberate rejection of passion
and force in favor of reason and honorable compromise.

The relatively peaceful and constructive atmosphere
which began to be apparent on most American campuses
in the 1970-1971 academic year has continued to the
present. The past four years were a far cry from the
easygoing and prosperous 50's and early 60's. but they
were also remote, in temper and tempo, from the
militant and explosive period of 1967-1970. In retrospect,
these three tumultuous years already seem unreal and
distant, although the scars and the confusion still remain
as disturbing reminders that we must continue our
efforts at evaluation and improvement not only in
academe but throughout American society if we are to
avoid a recurrence of revolt and violence in the future.

As we enter the mid-70's, this new era of good or at
least better feeling continues to characterize most of
American higher (now called "postsecondary"!)
education. But if it is a new Pax Academica. it is an uneasy
and uncertain one, in which a multitude of problems
educational, social, financial still beset us. Their
solution, even in this period of comparative calm and
mutual trust, will require ail the energy, patience, and
skill we can muster.

By all odds, the most immediate, and most threatening
problem for private higher education is the financial
crisis which has been with us now for several years.
Unlike the crisis of student unrest and confrontation, the
financial situation shows few signs of lessened intensity
but rather indications of increasing gravity. So far in the
70's. scores of private colleges have closed their doors or
have been absorbed by stronger (usually public)
institutions. More than half of our private colleges are
reported to be operating at a deficit today. (We are
thankful that Agnes Scott is not one of them.) In my
judgment, the long-term effect of this current financial
crisis will be far more damaging to private higher
education than all of the student dissent and violence.

Fortunately, Agnes Scott's problems today, though
pressing, are not insoluble. We continue to operate in the
black, with a strong faculty and an academic program
which is sound and demanding but responsive to the needs
of a changing society. We have been able, as this report
will indicate, to increase faculty and staff salaries and
benefits, to begin major improvements to our physical
plant, to expand a strong financial aid program for our
students, and to resume with fresh impetus (following
our recent periodic re-accreditation) the continuing
evaluation of our curriculum and our student, faculty, and
administrative machinery of governance. We are also
moving to deal decisively with what is today the most
pressing problem of small, private, liberal arts colleges
(and especially women's colleges) like Agnes Scott: the

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recruiting of sufficient numbers of qualified students in a
period of inflationary costs and growing competition from
tax-supported institutions. In this area, too, we are
making encouraging progress, thanks to an able and most
enthusiastic young admissions staff. A summary of our
recent progress and future plans in these and other areas
is the substance of the report which follows.

THE AGNES SCOTT YEAR

To attempt even a brief chronicle of the rich mixture
of academic, administrative, and extracurricular events
which make up any college year is always a frustrating
task. It is especially so when the year is one's first, when
both traditions and expectations are still new, and when
even daily routine is exciting.

Only in retrospect, and not always then, do past events
assume a pattern, much less any order of significance.
Few members of the Agnes Scott community would
select the same events in trying to list the highlights of
the 1973-1974 year. But there are some which most of us
would agree have contributed to the quality and vigor
of the learning community we seek to maintain here. They
will be mentioned in this report.

From 1971 to 1973, Agnes Scott was engaged in a
college-wide self-study in anticipation of the ten-year
renewal of our accreditation by the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools. This exhaustive and exhausting
self-study resulted in a comprehensive report to the
Southern Association, submitted in advance of their
accreditation team's visit to the campus in 1973. To no
one's surprise, Agnes Scott's accreditation was renewed
wathout qualification following the team's visit and their
study of our report. No major changes in college purpose
or procedures were called for in the Southern Association's
report to us, but a number of valuable suggestions were
made for the improvement of administrative procedures
and academic organization. Many of these were in process
of adoption as a result of our own self-study; others have
been considered and some adopted in the course
of the past year. An example is my reorganization of
the college administrative structure, with all offices
reporting to one of five administrative officers responsible
directly to the President: Dean of the Faculty, Dean of
Students, Vice President for Business Affairs, Vice
President for Development, and Director of Admissions.

Shortly after arriving at Agnes Scott, at my first
meeting with the Board of Trustees in September of 1973,
I announced that my chief continuing concern here would
be Agnes Scott's human resources her students,
faculty, and staff. I singled out at that time three areas
which I felt called for immediate action. First, the
strengthening of our programs for student recruitment
and retention in order that we can have again the number
of qualified students necessary to maintain the academic
program and faculty and the student financial aid
resources which will enable Agnes Scott to preserve
and even improve its high quality as a demanding
undergraduate liberal arts college.

A second urgent priority was the improvement of
faculty and staff salaries and benefits in order that we

can retain, and support fairly, the able and loyal personnel
who have always been a key element in the quality of
the Agnes Scott experience.

TTiird among our needs calling for immediate action
was the renovation of much of our physical plant,
grounds, and equipment in order that we can continue
to furnish students, faculty, and staff the necessary
facilities and equipment to carry on their work effectively
in surroundings which are attractive to both present and
prospective members of the Agnes Scott community.

I am pleased to report that in the 1973-1974 year we
have made significant progress in each of these areas of
priority. I hasten to add that we have given attention also
to other areas of equal, if less urgent, importance: the
academic program, faculty and student government,
business and plant management, fund raising, and
long-range planning, to name only a few.

Like most private colleges, Agnes Scott has suffered
a gradual decline in enrollment over the past several years.
Retention of upperclassmen has remained steady, with
about 60% of each entering class receiving degrees,
but successively smaller freshman classes have reduced
the overall size of the student body. It is most heartening
to note, therefore, that this September's entering class,
for the first time in several years, is larger than its
immediate predecessor. Correspondingly, applications
for admission were about 12% above those of last year.
As recent reduced freshman classes proceed through the
College, we shall probably not see an increase in the size
of the total student body for another two or three years.
But an expanded admissions staff, composed largely of
recent alumnae who were themselves student leaders, and
an intensified recruiting program should show significant
results in the near future.

Let me say again how great is our debt to Laura Steele,
our Registrar-Director of Admissions since 1957, who
relinquished her admissions duties on July 1 to Ann Rivers
Thompson. Miss Steele continues as Registrar, more than
a full-time job in these difficult days! Mrs. Thompson,
with an enlarged staff, has already launched some exciting
projects for the future, including a program involving
alumnae admissions representatives in key areas
(complete with a most instructive handbook and periodic
workshops), recruiting efforts in Central America and

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Europe, and a day program for Atlanta area women
beyond normal college age (featuring individually tailored
programs and generous financial aid). The enthusiasm
and energy of our young admissions staff is truly
infectious and augurs well for our total program!

In the important area of faculty and staff salaries
and benefits, this past year has seen significant progress.
As a result of studies involving the business offices of
the College, a faculty-staff advisory committee, and the
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, the
College began on January 1, 1974, an increased pension
program for present retired faculty and staff. AH faculty
and staff, including hourly workers, received salary
increases for 1974-1975, with emphasis upon upper
faculty ranks, where our national ranking is least favorable.
The top of our faculty salary scale for 1974-1975 will
be $2,000 above the top of 1 973-1 974's scale. The
average faculty salary in 1974-1975 will be approximately
$1,000 greater than last year's average.

In May, thanks to a most supportive Board of Trustees,
I was able to announce significant additions to our
faculty-staff benefit program, effective July 1, 1974.
These included long-term disability insurance for all
full-time faculty and administrative personnel (at no
charge to them), a group life insurance plan for all
full-time employees (at no cost to employees), and the
extension of a retirement benefits program to hourly
employees. These new features, when added to present
retirement and medical benefits, now give Agnes Scott
a generous and comprehensive benefits program for
all our employees.

No one at Agnes Scott this year, nor any who visited
us, could fail to see or hear the evidences of renovations
in progress throughout our buildings and grounds. Under
the professional planning and supervision of Clyde
Robbins Associates of Atlanta, the campus improvement
plan adopted last year by the Board has resulted in
immediate commitments of more than half a million
dollars. Chief among these improvements are the
renovation (and air-conditioning) of McCain Library,
the air-conditioning of Winship Dormitory and the two
auditoriums in Presser Hall, a brighter (and hence safer)
outdoor lighting system, a network of attractive
identification and directional signs throughout the
campus, and new walks, planting, and general landscaping
in key areas. Under the Robbins plan, emphasis in the
coming year will be on roofing repairs to major buildings,
the continued renovation of the Library, and improving
the appearance and upkeep of the grounds.

It is pleasant to recall events of this past year at Agnes
Scott a year rich in educational and social events which
have benefited both the college family and the larger
Atlanta community. It is my hope that Agnes Scott can
become recognized increasingly as one of the chief cultural
centers of the Atlanta area, with an annual offering of
programs in music, art, drama, and public affairs which
will attract visitors here who are anxious to share with us
the rewarding experiences of a concerned and lively
academic community. Space forbids anything approaching
a complete listing here of the events of 1973-1974, but
the list which follows is a fair sample of what
may be considered

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1973/74 COLLEGE YEAR

SEPTEMBER

17 Registration and orientation open Agnes Scott's

85th session. One hundred seventy-five new
students (145 freshmen) from 20 states, D.C.,
7 foreign countries.

1 8 Faculty Wives Fair raises over $ 1 ,600 for the

College's Martin Luther King, Jr.
Scholarship Fund.

OCTOBER

10 Honors Convocation. Speaker: Dean Jacquelyn
Anderson Mattfeld, Associate Provost,
Brown University.

12-14 Black Cat: bonfire, picnic, productions, and
a memorable dance!

27 Atlanta Alumnae Bazaar raises over $3,500.

27-28 Senior Investiture. Speaker: Professor Geraldine
Meroney. Preacher: Trustee Lee Stoffel.

29-3 1 Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate Gallery,
London, visiting scholar.

NOVEMBER

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15-17-

JANUARY

20-23-

That Subtile Wreath published. Lectures
presented at Agnes Scott in February, 1972,
celebrating the quatercentenary of the birth of
John Donne and inaugurating the James Ross
McCain Lectures. Edited by Professor Margaret
Pepperdene.

Blackfriars' production of Ibsen's "Lady from
the Sea."

Focus on Faith. Speaker : Dr. Davie Napier,
President, Pacific School of Religion,
Berkeley, California.

FEBRUARY

15-16 Sophomore Parents Weekend: classes, panels.
Dolphin Club Water Show, Creative Arts
Production, luncheon and reception.

20 Founder's Day. Speaker: Professor James G.
Leyburn, Dean Emeritus, Washington and
Lee University.

MARCH

4-6

APRIL

2-3

Sir John Eccles, Nobel Laureate, visiting Phi
Beta Kappa lecturer.

Atlanta Environmental Symposium. Sponsored
by Agnes Scott under the direction of Professors
Robert Leslie and David Orr. Speakers and
panelists: Alastair Black, Alfred Heller, Ian
McHarg, Ray Moore, Ralph Nader, Russell
Peterson, Bobby Rowan, Earl Starnes, Joe
Tanner, Stewart Udall.

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MAY

3-4

Junior Jaunt: talent show and assorted

happenings! Applicants Weekend, sponsored by

Mortar Board.

Joint concert: Agnes Scott and Harvard

Glee Clubs.

Easter Sunrise Service; Christian Association

and President Perry.

Phi Beta Kappa Convocation.

Writers' Festival, sponsored by Aurora.

Speakers: Larry Rubin, HoIIis Summers.

Alumnae Day: class reunions, meetings,

luncheon.

Spring Dance

Blackfriars' production of Noel Coward's
"Blithe Spirit." President Perry announces at
final performance naming of the theater in the
Dana Fine Arts building The Roberta Powers
Winter Theater, in honor of retiring Professor
Winter.

Inauguration of Agnes Scott's fourth president :
Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (See Alumnae
Quarterly inauguration issue. )

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JUNE

9 Agnes Scott's 85th Commencement: 124 seniors
awarded degrees. Baccalaureate preacher: Dr.
Edmund Steimle, Union Theological Seminary,
New York.

16 Summer conferences begin on campus.

In addition to the so-called "highlights" listed above,
there were scores of other events of interest and
significance. Furthermore, any college year is also
marked by changes or developments which are of a less
public nature but may well be even more significant in
the ongoing life of the institution. Let me recall, in
concluding this review of 1973-1974 at Agnes Scott, some
of these developments which appear to me at this point
to have been noteworthy.

People are the richest resource of a human institution,
and Agnes Scott has been blessed through the years with a
host of able and devoted teachers and administrators. The
close of this year brought the retirement from active duty
of four distinguished faculty members whose aggregate
service to Agnes Scott totals 127 years: Professors
Josephine Bridgman (Biology), Florene Dunstan
(Spanish), Kathryn Giick (Classics), and Roberta Winter
(Speech and Drama). Also retiring were veteran Chief
Security Officer Robert Mali Jones, after 39 years of loyal
service, and Virginia S. Hall, since 1968 an Assistant to
the Dean of Students. To all these fine people we owe a
tremendous debt of gratitude. We shall miss them!

The college community was saddened by the deaths
of several of its members during the year, among them
Trustee J. Robert Neal, Trustee Emeritus Patrick D.
Miller, Associate Professor Emeritus Emily S. Dexter,
Director of Alumnae Affairs Barbara Murlin Pendleton,
'40, and Assistant to the Dean of Students Virginia S. Hall.

Several key administrative appointments were made
during the year. Following Barbara Pendleton's untimely

death last fall, an alumna committee undertook with me
a comprehensive search for her successor as Director of
Alumnae Affairs. We were most fortunate to secure
Virginia Lee Brown McKenzie (Mrs. John S.), '47, who
was enthusiastically approved by the Executive Board of
the Alumnae Association and assumed her duties in April.
Already her energy, loyalty, and ability are in evidence in
alumnae affairs. Carey Bowen Craig, '62. who served
splendidly as Acting Director after Barbara Pendleton's
death, will continue as Associate Director.

Since the death of Mr. P. J. Rogers, Jr., in 1970, Agnes
Scott's business and plant staff had been at less than full
strength. After a careful search in late 1973, Mr. R. James
Henderson was appointed in January to the new position
of Vice President for Business Affairs, assuming his duties
here in March. Mr. Henderson has overall responsibility,
under the President, for the Business Office, the
Treasurer's Office, building and grounds, purchasing,
security, and such auxiliary services as the dining hall,
the bookstore, the mailroom, telephone service, and
general housekeeping and maintenance. A 1960 graduate
of Kansas State University, Mr. Henderson also earned
a Master of Education degree at Ohio University and a
certificate from the Institute of Educational Management
at the Harvard Business School. From 1961 to 1965 he
served on active duty as an officer in the Navy Supply
Corps, and from 1965 to 1969 he held various positions
in the area of student affairs and business management at
Ohio University, becoming Assistant Vice President and
Business Manager there in 1967. From 1969 until he came
to Agnes Scott. Mr. Henderson was Vice President for
Business and Administrative Affairs at Newton College
near Boston. Massachusetts. His wife, the former Betty
Sykes, of Manning, South Carolina, is a graduate of
Converse College. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have already
made a place for themselves in the college community, and
the new Vice President's skill and energy are impressively
apparent in the comprehensive reorganization and
innovations underway in the area of business and plant
administration at Agnes Scott.

This past spring, with the announcement of Miss
Roberta Jones' resignation as Dean of Students because of
her marriage and consequent move to Athens in the
summer, it became necessary to institute a search for her
successor. An advisory search committee representing
faculty, students, and administrative officers assisted me
most conscientiously in a widespread survey (involving
over 300 applicants) which culminated in the appointment
this past summer of Martha C. Huntington (Mrs. William
R.) as Dean of Students. A graduate of the University
of Illinois, with an M.A. from George Washington
University, Dean Huntington comes to us from Mount
Vernon College in Washington, where she was successively
chairman of the Department of Physical Education
(1965-1969), Dean of Students (1969-1971), and Dean
of Student Affairs (1971-1974). She served also as an
advisor on graduate programs at American University
and George Washington University, has been active in
national professional organizations, and is listed in the
forthcoming edition of Who's Who in American Women.
Especially impressive in Dean Huntington's record is the
very evident rapport she has enjoyed with individual
students in all phases of her duties. A widow, Mrs.

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Huntington has three children: Lisa (16), Jeffrey (11),
and Michael (8). Dean Huntington assumed her duties
at Agnes Scott on September 1 ; she has already begun to
demonstrate the warm personal qualities and administrative
talents which made her the enthusiastic choice of our
selection committee.

My admiration for Agnes Scott's fine people is by no
means limited to our students, faculty, and staff; it
includes most emphatically our alumnae. In addition to
meeting many here on the campus and in the community,
I have also visited "officially" with alumnae clubs or
groups this past year in the following cities: Albany,
Atlanta (both clubs), Columbia, Columbus, Decatur,
Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Marietta, Memphis, New
York, Savannah, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
Everywhere I have been impressed with the lively
intelligence and civic concern of Agnes Scott alumnae,
as well as with their affection for the College and interest
in its future. In 1974-1975 I hope to extend my alumnae
visits to other cities, not only in Georgia but in our
neighboring states and throughout the South and East.

I have enjoyed working with Alumnae Association
President Memye Curtis Tucker, '56, and her very
responsive staff, and 1 am grateful for their loyal leadership
throughout a busy year. I look forward to working with
our new Alumnae Association President Jane King Allen,
'59, in the next two years.

Once again our alumnae contributed generously in
time, effort, and gifts to our fund-raising efforts this past
year. All forms of alumnae gifts amounted to $205,013,
of which $195,500 was contributed to the Annual Fund
by some 2,925 alumnae (about 32% ) for an average gift
of $66.84. This is a most creditable showing nationally,
but it does not yet compare favorably with the alumnae
giving of other leading women's colleges. With the present
enthusiasm and energy of our alumnae, I believe that 50%
alumnae participation in the Annual Fund is a realistic
goal for us.

In addition to our alumnae, many other friends
individuals, corporations, foundations made 1973-1974
a good fund-raising year for Agnes Scott. Under the
leadership of Dr. Paul McCain, Vice President for
Development, total gifts and bequests amounted to
$1,182,220, well over the goal of $1,110,000 set at the
beginning of our 1973-1974 campaign.

Space forbids the individual acknowledgment here of
the thousands of gifts to Agnes Scott during the year,
although we have sent our personal thanks to every donor.
I should like to make specific mention, however, of several
of the most significant gifts and grants received by the
College in the 1973-1974 year. In December of 1973 the
Charles A. Dana Foundation made a gift of $250,000
toward the establishment of four Dana Professorships.
The College will match this gift, and the income from the
combined total will be used to supplement the normal
remuneration of four Dana professors, the new chairs to
be established within the next three years. The first Dana
Professorship under this new program, announced this
past spring, will be in the Department of Art, and the
incumbent is Professor Marie Pepe, chairman of the
department and one of Agnes Scott's outstanding teachers.
Although Dana professors need not be appointed from

within the present faculty, it is most appropriate that this
initial appointment deservedly recognizes one of

our colleagues.

In 1969 the Kenan Chair in Chemistry was established
by a $400,000 grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr.
Charitable Trust. Professor W. J. Frierson was appointed
to the new chair. This past spring we were delighted to
receive word that the Kenan Trustees were making an
additional grant of $100,000 to Agnes Scott, thereby
increasing the Kenan endowment here to one-half
million dollars.

Two anonymous foundations also made notable gifts
to the College this past year, one of $200,000 for the
acquisition of additional property adjacent to the campus,
the other of $50,000 for equipment for the Department of
Biology. A trustee gave $59,820 toward the Library
renovation project. With respect to this project, I am
glad to report that we received the necessary $350,000 for
Library renovation by September 15, 1974, thereby
qualifying for the $50,000 challenge grant for the
Library from the Kresge Foundation.

In my first year of acquaintance with it, the Agnes
Scott curriculum has seemed to me a sound and
comprehensive one for a small liberal arts college of
demanding standards. Our institutional self-study,
completed in 1973. while advocating some changes in
both course offerings and structure, made no
recommendations for drastic curricular change. Each
year a number of new courses are customarily added,
others are revised, some are alternated or dropped. Today
Agnes Scott offers more than 300 named courses plus
independent work and other special programs from
which 25 departmental, inter-departmental, and special
major programs are administered by 1 8 academic
departments. We shall continue to stress the strong liberal
arts core which has long been the heart of our curriculum,
at the same time emphasizing flexibility and breadth of
choice in order that Agnes Scott students may combine
the basic knowledge and intellectual discipline supplied
by the liberal arts with the opportunity to explore
contemporary fields and acquire some of the skills needed
today in business and the professions. For example,
among the new courses offered in 1974-1975 at Agnes
Scott are "Accounting and Decision-Making"
(Economics), "The Arts of Africa." "Grief and Death"
(Psychology), "Improvisation" (Speech and Drama).
"South and Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century,"
"Studies in World Order." We shall continue to offer such
courses and to experiment with new programs, not
in lieu of but rather in addition to the strong liberal arts
core which we still believe is the indispensable base not
only for a successful professional career and the
responsibilities of citizenship but also for a happy and
satisfying personal life.

In 1974-1975 we shall begin a two-year experiment with
a new academic calendar. The first quarter will begin
immediately after Labor Day and end with examinations
at Thanksgiving. Students will combine the traditional
Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, returning after
New Years for the opening of winter quarter. Winter and
spring quarters will remain unchanged, with spring recess
in late March and commencement in early June. It is
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quarter only slightly, will give students opportunity for
Christmas holiday employment, will result in savings for
students in travel expenditures, and will provide a
class-free period in early December when faculty and
administrative officers may meet for discussion and
long-range planning.

The new academic year will see the beginning of another
experiment at Agnes Scott. In cooperation with fifteen
other leading women's colleges, and with Carnegie
Corporation support, we are inaugurating an intern
program to prepare young women for positions in
academic administration. A recent Agnes Scott graduate,
Ann Roberts Divine (Mrs. Jay), '67, will serve her
internship this year at Mary Baldwin College; and Conway
Y. Henderson (Mrs. A. J.), a Randolph-Macon alumna,
will be at Agnes Scott. Mrs. Henderson will be attached
officially to Dean Gary's office but will also spend time
during the year in several other administrative offices of
the College. This new program is further recognition,
especially by women's colleges, of young women's need
today for opportunities for training and experience in the
professions, especially in those traditionally dominated
by men.

Self-study and evaluation continue in a number of
other areas. For example, the Temporary Executive
Committee of the Faculty worked throughout the year
with the President and Dean Gary on a proposed revision
of the role of the faculty in administering the academic
program of the College. Greater faculty participation,
through increased authority and a revised committee
structure and new faculty legislation, appears likely in
1974-1975. Student government officers, with responsible
leadership and enviable energy, are continuing to examine
student roles in such areas as evaluation of teaching,
social regulations, and the Honor System. It has been a
busy and productive year for all of us; 1974-1975
promises to be the same!

LOOKING AHEAD

The present climate of comparative calm and
reasonableness which has succeeded the years of unrest
and devisiveness on most American campuses is a welcome
one one which, I hope, will enable us to deal
thoughtfully and deliberately with the serious problems
which confront American higher education in the last
quarter of this century. The present mood does not
portend a return to "the good old days." We cannot
return, nor should we. Instead, we are entering, I believe,
a period of far-reaching reorganization as institutions
endeavor to meet the new and different learning
expectations of their students without sacrificing, at
least in colleges like Agnes Scott, high academic standards
and a coherent program.

As I have asserted more than once during my first year
here, our chief problems at Agnes Scott will continue to
be those with which we have been dealing since the '70's
began: (1) attracting sufficient numbers of qualified
students, (2) combining traditional standards of excellence
and coherent structure with flexibility and imaginative
concern for the individual student's needs and interests,
(3) maintaining financial stability.

With encouraging support from our alumnae and other
friends, we at Agnes Scott have been working on these
problems, and others, for some time. We shall continue to
do so in the years immediately ahead not only through
the agency of appropriate College offices, but also,
beginning in 1974-75, through a college-wide committee
which will spear-head and coordinate a long-range study
of Agnes Scott's various needs as we approach our
centennial year (1989). We shall ask ourselves just what
kind of college Agnes Scott should be in the future if we
are to serve young women and our society as effectively
as we have in the past. What do the next 5, 10, 25 years
require of us? What is Agnes Scott's proper mission
for her second century?

These are not new questions; they are asked and
answered implicitly if not vocally as we carry out our
daily College duties and plan for each succeeding day's
work. Nor do I foresee radical changes in purpose or
procedures coming from these studies; rather, I would
predict, a reaffirmation of our heritage and our historic
purpose in terms appropriate to the climate and needs
of today's and tomorrow's young women whom we
seek to prepare for useful and satisfying lives in
the future.

You may be sure that as we undertake these longer
range studies, in which representatives of all segments
of the College (trustees, faculty, students, administration,
alumnae) will be involved, we shall not be distracted
from the demanding duties of everyday. We have no
intention of slowing down to wait for long-range directives
from an anticipated master-plan. Our present tasks are
clear; we know where we have come from and what
guide posts academic and spiritual we have been
following. We are proud of our past, grateful for our
present, and confident (but not complacent) about
the future.

As all of us know, the years just ahead will be
difficult ones for American colleges and universities,
especially our private liberal arts colleges. It will not be
an easy period for Agnes Scott. There is little question
that we shall continue to experience increasing competition

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from public institutions with their much lower fees, that
the popularity of coeducation for young women will
continue, and that the costs of operating a quality liberal
arts college will not diminish. But there are also hopeful
signs: this year's freshman class (for the first time in
several years) was larger than its predecessor; there
appears to be a revival of interest in women's colleges;
our faculty continues strong, our students capable and
spirited, our staff able and loyal, our finances sound.

By considered and deliberate choice, Agnes Scott is
commited to perhaps the most difficult role of all in
American higher education today, that of a small, private,
liberal arts college for women committed to Christian
values and high academic standards. Consider each of
these characteristics. In our confused and troubled times
socially, economically, morally none of them is
widely popular. Some are neglected or given only
lip-service; others are under suspicion or open attack.
But we believe in them, and we believe there is compelling
need for colleges which profess and practice them not
smugly or fearfully, but gladly and with quiet confidence.
We intend to follow such a course.

Speaking at Agnes Scott's baccalaureate services in
June, 1973, the distinguished teacher and theologian,
Elton Trueblood, said, "This College [Agnes Scott]
demonstrates the possibility of joining Christian
commitment with intellectual vitality. The two together
are immeasurably more valuable than is either one alone.
. . . Unfortunately, the dream has already faded in many
institutions originally inspired by it, but it has not faded
here. I come partly to encourage you to prize something
of ineffable value which can be lost and which will not be
retained except by conscious care."

As president of Agnes Scott, I am proud to have been
chosen at a crucial time to lead this great College in our
common efforts, through "conscious care," to preserve
and enrich our heritage. 1 am deeply grateful to all who
have worked with us in my first year, and whose help
and prayers support us. Relying on such support, we shall
continue our work here, with confidence and thanksgiving.

//0%flx.^*,J ^'^^

GIFTS, GRANTS AND BEQUESTS

RECEIVED 1973-74

USES

For current operations

$ 253,466

For endowment

424,416

For plant (including library remodeling)

478,789

For student loan funds

9,603

For restricted purposes

15,946

TOTAL

$1,182,220

SOURCES

Alumnae

$ 205.014

Trustees

(not including $11,985 from Alumnae)

70,010

Parents and friends

42,425

Foundations

797,154

Business and industry

67,617

TOTAL

$1,182,220

SUMMARY OF CURRENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURES

I

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL

Student Tuition & Fees
Endowment
Gifts and Grants
Other sources

STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

Endowment
Gifts and Grants

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES

Student Fees
Other Sources

i TOTAL INCOME

INCOME

EXPENDITURES

1972-73

lAL

1973-74

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL

1972-73

1973-74

es $1,297,614

1,058,561

180,007

63,400

$1,239,788

1,588,236

92,263

108,037

Instructional

Library*

Administration & General

Plant

$1,170,067
164,200
812,892

232,422

$1,219,383
171,921
950,047
252,781

$2,599,582

$3,028,324

$2,379,581

$2,594,132

STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

$ 250,822

$ 253,142

$ 65,719
185,103

$ 91,939
161,203

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES

$ 941,183

$1,012,950

$ 250,822

$ 253,142

CURRENT EXPENDITURES

$3,571,586

$3,860,224

$ 666,043
213,482

$ 879,525
$3,729,929

$ 619,519
230,665

$ 850,184
$4,131,650

EQUIPMENT & PLANT

IMPROVEMENTS CAPITALIZED

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

EXCESS OF INCOME
OVER EXPENDITURES

65,000
$3,636,586

$ 93,343

260,000

$4,120,224

$ 11,426

TOTAL

$3,729,929

$4,131,650

^Includes expenditures for library books of $39,406 in 1972-73, and
$45,473 in 1973-74, which were capitalized.

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In October. 1965. the Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building was
dedicated. In May. 1974. after the final performance of "BIythe
Spirit." Dk Perry announced that the open-stage theatre would be
named The Roberta Powers Winter Theatre, in honor of retiring
Professor Winter

PERSONNEL CHANGES

BOARD OF trustees:

Elected to Board, May, 1974 Mary Curtis Tucker,
for a term of four years

ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1973:

Dale F. Luchsinger (M.A.L.S.), Librarian
Marvin B. Perry, Jr. (Ph.D.), President

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1973:

Benjamin C-P Bao (M.A.), Instructor in French and

Director of the Language Laboratory
Lyn Kilgo Gates (M.Ed.), Visiting Instructor in

Education (fall quarter)
Augustus B. Cochran (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of

Political Science
William H. C Evans (M.A.), Instructor in Speech

and Drama
Jacqueline N. Hill (Ph.D.), Visiting Assistant Professor

of Psychology
Constance Anne Jones (M.A.T.), Instructor in

Sociology (fall and winter quarters)
Charles A. Leonard (M.F.A.), Instructor in Art
Raphael Molho (Docteures Lettres) Visiting

Professor of French (fall quarter)
Jacqueline D. Thornberry (M.A.T. ), Visiting Instructor

in Education (winter and spring quarters)

ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS
EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1973:

Margaret M. Copple (B.S.), Nurse in the Infirmary
Jean W. Davis (B.S.), Secretary to the Registrar-
Director of Admissions
Robert I. Day, Assistant to the Supervisor of Buildings

and Grounds
R. James Henderson (M.Ed.). Vice President for

Business Affairs (March, 1974)
Chantal Hupe (Licence d'anglais). Assistant in the

French Department
Mary T. Kelly (B.A.), Assistant in the Biology

Department
Judith H. Maguire (B.A.), Assistant to the Director of

Admissions
Virginia Brown McKenzie (B.A.), Director of

Alumnae Affairs (April, 1974)
Robert F. Poss, Assistant to the Supervisor of

Buildings and Grounds
Katherine L. Potter, Secretary to the Registrar

(May, 1974)
Brenda G. Pritchett (B.S.), Technical Services Assistant

in the Library
Barbara S. Richardson (R.N.), Nurse in the Infirmary
Melissa Holt Vandiver (B.A.), Assistant to the

Director of Admissions

PROMOTIONS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1973:

Elvena M. Green to Associate Professor of Speech

and Drama
Geraldine M. Meroney to Professor of History

LEAVES OF ABSENCE DURING 1973-1974:

Miriam K. Drucker. Professor of Psychology and
Chairman of the Department (full year)

John L. Gignilliat. Associate Professor of History
(fall quarter)

Constance Shaw-Mazlish, Associate Professor of
Spanish (spring quarter)

RETIREMENTS EFFECTIVE JUNE. 1974:

Anna Josephine Bridgman. Professor of Biology
Florene J. Dunstan, Professor of Spanish and

Chairman of the Department
M. Kathryn Glick. Professor of Classical Languages

and Literatures and Chairman of the Department
Roberta Winter, Professor of Speech and Drama and

Chairman of the Department
Virginia S. Hall, Assistant to the Dean of Students
R. Mell Jones, Chief Security Officer

deaths:

From the Trustees J. Robert Neal, May 31, 1974

Patrick D. Miller, Trustee-
Emeritus. June 3, 1974

From the Faculty Emily S. Dexter, Associate

Professor of Philosophy and
Education, Emeritus, April 12,
1974

From the Staff Barbara Murlin Pendleton.

Director of Alumnae Affairs,
October 16, 1973
Virginia S. Hall. Assistant to the
Dean of Students, July 3, 1974

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It's sooner than you think

Plans set for Golden Needle Awards Festival

On April 17, 18, 19, 1975, the

Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
will sponsor what is probably the
most ambitious project any club
has ever tackled the Golden
Needle Award Festival. With six
judging categories canvas work,
embroidery, needlecraft for church,
needlecraft by men, needlecraft by
professionals, best in show a
great variety of needlework will
display the creativity of participants.
Judges for the contest are Louis ].
Gartner, Hope Hanley, both authors,
designers and lecturers, and Virginia
Maxwell, lecturer and designer of
United Nations Peace Rug. The
winners will receive a 14-karat gold
needle pin.

The Golden Needle Award Festival
is particularly appropriate for
woman's college alumnae in that
needlecraft has long been a
manifestation of woman's talent
and ingenuity. Downtown Rich's
will host the Festival.

Committee chairmen for the Golden
Needle Award Festival are Betty Lou
Houck Smith, (Mrs. Bealy), Chairman;

Committee chairmen for the Colden
Needle Award Festival display a piece
of original needlepoint inspired by an
antique oriental urn. They are (I. to r)
Beffy Smith Satterthwaite '46. Publicity:
Betty Lou Houck Smith 35, Chairman.
Anita Moses Shippen 60, Co-Chairman

.Anita Moses Shippen (Mrs. Joseph
J.), Co-Chairman; Betty Smith
Satterthwaite (Mrs. Joseph W.) and
Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt (Mrs.
L. L., Jr.), Publicity; Flizabeth Thomas
Freyer (Mrs. Fred), Programs; Donna
Dugger Smith (Mrs. Robert L.),
Tickets; Penny Brown Barnett (Mrs.
Crawford F.), Contact Coordinator;
Martha Ann Williamson Dodd (Mrs.
Hallman), Treasurer; Anne Scott
hiarman Mauldin (Mrs. John T.),
Notification and Mailing; Gene Slack
Morse (Mrs. Chester), Entry-handling;
Betty Ann Gatewood Wylie (Mrs.
James), LHostesses; Mary Dunn Evans
(Mrs. Coley), Posters; Ruby Rosser
Davis (Mrs. Ovid), Heirloom and
Celebrity Entries; Barbara Specht
Reed (Mrs. S. John), Ballot Box and
Ballots; Vivian Cantrall White (Mrs.
Richard S.), Secretary.

For further information and entry
blanks, please write Mrs. Bealy
Smith, 4308 Club Drive, NE,
Atlanta, Ga. 30319.

Readin W Writiri n Mailin Help Needed

The Agnes Scott News Office needs
your help. As News Director 1 need
to know whether or not the
hometown newspapers of Agnes
Scott students and alumnae are
using news releases that I send about
students, faculty, alumnae and
activities at the college.

I would appreciate receiving clip-
pings about Agnes Scott students,
faculty and administrators, grants
and awards given the college and
any future articles about liberal
arts education or women's colleges
that include Agnes Scott. I am
interested in stories about alumnae,
especially those that specifically
state that they attended Agnes Scott.

Stories about students may include
announcements about Honors Day
scholarships and honor roll
(October), "Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities
and Colleges" (October or
November), student government
elections (April), Mortar Board
selections (April), Phi Beta Kappa

by Andrea Helms

elections (April), Awards Day honors
such as Dana Scholars (May and
June), and graduation (June). Stories
about faculty and administrators
giving Founder's Day speeches to
alumnae clubs throughout the

Agnes Scott News Director Andrea
He/nis works at her desk.

country will be released about
February 1.

Other possible local news might
be stories about students studying
abroad, in Washington, D.C. or in
the Georgia legislature; student or
faculty research; faculty honors and
students' participation in
extracurricular activities such as
Blackfriars dramatic performances,
dance group, glee club or volunteer
community work. Alumnae news
would include feature stories about
outstanding women who are
alumnae and alumnae club
activities and officers.

These types of stories or any
stories that mention Agnes Scott
alumnae, facility or students would
be extremely helpful for the News
Office and for the alumnae files.
So, when you have time, read your
newspapers with scissors in hand
and send the clippings to: News
Office, Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Ga. 30030, Attention: Andrea Helms.

Thank you very much.

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Deans Julia Carv (pictured above) and Martha Huntington
addressed the 1974 Alumnae Council- Over 700 people attended
the two-day seminar of workshops and talks by key
administrators and students

Over 100 Attend

Alumnae Council Meeting

October 4,5

club Pres- Annie lohnson Sylvester '25; Virginia Carrier 28,
Fund Chairman; and Caroline McKinney Clarke '17, National
Treasurer, chat over coffee-

Linda Kay Hudson McGowan '65, Class Pres.; Betty
Hutchison Cowden 'b7. Club Pres: and Mary Lamar
Adams '68, Alumnae Admissions Rep-, exchange ideas

Past Alumnae Pres Mary Wallace Kirk 7 7 chats with
Betty Floding Morgan 27, Fund Agent

Pres. lane King Allen 59, who planned and led the
Council, relaxes with Eleanor Lee McNeill '59,
National Secretary,

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To the Editor:

Has Agnes Scott considered
writing graduates' own first and
middle names or initials rather
than their husbands' initials on
correspondence and on copies of the
Alumnae Quarterly? The University
of Wisconsin at Madison, and
Simmons College, both of which
I attended when married, regularly
address me as "Ms. Mary B. Davis."
Therefore, it seems strange to me to
see "Mrs. R. M. Davis" on material
from the college which I attended
while single. I hold no brief for
"Ms.," although it is a convenience
in certain situations, such as in ,
seeking employment. However, '
Agnes Scott's use of the husbands'
initials, together with its request for
these initials on envelopes for the
alumnae fund and its request for
details about the husband on the
new alumnae questionnaire, remind
me of the fifties' attitude that women
attend college in order that they
may marry well.

I enjoyed the articles on careers
and the book reviews in the
Winter-Spring issue of the
Quarterly.

Mary Byrd Davis '58

Durham, NH

To the Editor:

In the future please address my
Alumnae Quarterly to Harriett H.
Caida rather than to Mrs. Joseph W.
Caida. My own identity is more
important to me than a point of
etiquette.

Harriette Huff Gaida '70

Murfreesboro, TN

To the Editor: !

I look forward to reading the
Quarterly as soon as it arrives, and
I have especially enjoyed the articles.
Runita McCurdy Goode '59
I Texas City, TX

To the Editor:

Thank you for the blurb in the
Quarterly about the Charlotte
Hunter Memorial Fund. Would
you let me know its results in a
month or two? Also, if any further

mention is made of it in the
Quarterly please include the name
of Edith McGranahan Smith T who
was chairman for the project.

Many thanks for everything. I
think the current Quarterly is
stunning!

Helen Ridley Hartley '29

Boca Raton, FL

To the Editor:

Thanks for the many nice articles
in the Alumnae Quarterly.

Buford Tinder Kyle '34

Norfolk, VA

To the Editor:

I want to let you know that I've
been very impressed with the
direction in which the Quarterly
is going. Your articles are speaking
about some very current issues, as
well as keeping up with interesting
scholarship and honors coming to
our faculty. I was particularly proud
of the last issue it contains some
thoughtful articles. Eleanor Hutchens'
book review was a stand-out. I hope
that you will keep up this
good work!

Pat Stringer '68
Warner Robbins, GA

To the Editor:

As usual my notes for the
Quarterly are 11th hour. I hope
they are not too late for the next
issue. Is the plan now to publish
only twice a year, and, if so, what
are the deadlines for entries? Does
anyone else feel that the news
notes have lost all personality with
the severe cutting policy? I find
it difficult to get any responses to
requests and I wonder if that
is the reason.

Anne Hopkins Ayres '32

Staunton, VA

We're still planning to publish four
times a year. The deadlines for Class
News appear at the beginning of the
Class News section. These changes will,
we hope, help us get the Quarterly
out more quickly.

The Editor

To the Editor:

Congratulations on an excellent
Quarterly issue (Winter-Spring,
1974). I think it is one of the best
yet abng with the issue last year
featuring articles by alumnae such
as Lynn Denton. I would like to see
more issues such as these:
life styles/careers, how alumnae
see themselves in the contemporary
world.

I would like to see more about
interesting work being carried on by
current ASC students; perhaps
besides an occasional in-depth
article in the Quarterly on this
subject, there might be a page
summarizing student activities during
the previous quarter. I guess, in
short, my slant seems to be towards
a more personal approach, be it
from students or alumnae.

Anne Foster Curtis '64
Atlanta, GA

To the Editor:

Congratulations! The Quarterly
is getting better.

Mary Day Folk Shewmaker '66

Washington, D.C.

To the Editor:

Enjoyed meeting Virginia
McKenzie in Boston earlier this
summer. Hope she will be back in
our area soon. It's always wonderful
to visit with a Southerner and
especially an A.S.C. one! I do
hope Dr. and Mrs. Perry make it
up here this fall. I was very
impressed with his Alumnae
Weekend Remarks in the Quarterly.
1 think you're doing a great job
with the Quarterly.

How about putting Dr. Alston's
new address in the Quarterly?

Angelyn Alford Bagwell '60
Milford, MA

Dr. and Mrs. Wallace M. Alston's new
address is Woodhlll, Lake Drive,
Norris Lake, Lithonia, Georgia 30058.

The Editor

The proceedings of the 1974
Atlanta Environmental Symposium
entitled "Land Use: Georgia and
the Nation," featuring speeches by
Ralph Nader, Stewart Udall and
Ian McHarg, are available through
the Agnes Scott Bookstore
at $1.50 each.

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Deaths

Trustees

Patrick D. Miller, Trustee Emeritus,

June 3, 1974.

J. Roberts Neal, Trustee, May 31, 1974,

Faculty

Mrs, Robert B. Holt, wife of former
Agnes Scott professor, Robert B. Holt,
May, 1974.

Staff

Mrs. Virginia S. Hall, former Assistant
to the Dean of Students, luly 3, 1974.

Institute

Annie Kirk Dowdeil Turner (Mrs. W. A.),

August 14, 1974.

Alice McMillan Hogeboom (Mrs.
Herbert F.), August 12, 1972.

Rebie Workman Stewart (Mrs.
Andrew P.I, June 22, 1974.

Academy

Lillian Burns Chastain (Mrs. Troy C),

December 1, 1973.

Gussie Lucille Minor Lyie (Mrs.
George B.).

1906

Anne Hill Irvin Prince, daughter of
Ida Lee Hill Irvin, February 5, 1974.

Hettye McCurdy.

Lucy Watkins Kimbrough (Mrs. P. R.),

jDecember 21, 1973.

1908

Mary Fogartie Hill (Mrs. W. H.),

June 24, 1974.

1910

Edith O'Keefe Susong (Mrs David

Shields), June 17, 1974.

1913

Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. James Samuel),

September 9, 1974.

1915

Marion Black Cantelou (Mrs. Archibald

L.), summer, 1974.

1916

Dr. William C. Brawley, son of Eloise
Gay Brawley, August 13, 1974.
Richard G. Smith, husband of Ray
Harvison Smith, Summer, 1974.

1917

Charles H. Newton, brother of Janet
Newton, June 19, 1974.
Samuel Inman Cooper, husband of
Augusta Skeen Cooper, June 6, 1974.

1919

Charles H. Newton, brother of Virginia L.
Newton, June 19, 1974.

1920

Louise Abney King and her husband,

John H. King, spring, 1974.

Agnes Irene Dolvin, June 2, 1974.

1921

Charlotte Bell Linton (Mrs. William A.,

Sr.), May 1, 1974.

Charles H. Newton, brother of Charlotte

Newton, June 19, 1974.

Arthur L. Bairnsfather, husband of

Adelaide Ransom Bairnsfather,

April 26. 1974.

1923

Carrie King Nye (Mrs. R. J.), July

23, 1974.

T. Howard McKey, Jr., husband of

Ethel Miller McKey, May 9, 1974.

Catherine Shields Potts (Mrs. Albert

Lamar, Sr.), September 10, 1973.

1926

Blanche Haslam Hollingsworth (Mrs.

Thomas Edwin), August, 1974.

Martha Sterling Johnson, June 10, 1974.

Mrs. T. Clifton Perkins, mother of

Florence Perkins Ferry, August 31, 1974.

1927

Roy Sexton Jones, husband of Ruth
McMillan Jones, May 10, 1974.

1930

Charley Will Caudle Carter (Mrs. Thomas

Carlton), May 1, 1974.

Annie Kirk Dowdeil Turner, mother of

Anne D. Turner, August 14, 1974.

1934

The Reverend F. C. Talmadge, father of
Mabel Talmadge, April, 1974.

1935

Annie Kirk Dowdeil Turner, mother of

Susan Turner White, August 14, 1974.

1936

Lulu Ames, June 28, 1974.

The Reverend F. C. Talmadge, father of

Miriam Talmadge Vann, April, 1974.

1938

Virginia Ruth Hale Murray, sister of

Carol Hale Waltz, May 14, 1974.

Allie Candler Guy, mother of Florrie
Guy Funk, September 9, 1974.

1942

Virginia Ruth Hale Murray (Mrs

George P., Jr.), May 14, 1974.

1954

Charles H. Newton, Jr., father of

Sidney Newton Moorhead, June 19, 1974.

1962

Mr. Hugh Edward Nelms, father of
Nancy Nelms Garrett, January 17, 1974.

1964

Virginia S. Hall, mother of Mae Hall
Boys, July 3, 1974.

1969

Mrs. Wallace Fridy, mother of Prentice
Fridy Weldon, December 26, 1973.

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It's a good time to be an Agnes Scott Woman!

When is a majority a minority? When we are
talking about women. According to the 1972
census in the U. S., women numbered
106,782,000; men, 101,650,000. Baffling statistics
indeed when one views the limitations in career
opportunities open to women.

Alumnae write to us weekly remonstrating
that women not only need the opportunity to
prepare themselves for a greater variety of
careers but they also should seek more
counseling along the way, in high school, and
in college. In response to these demands Agnes
Scott has added two new courses in accounting
and economic decision-making. These branches
of knowledge, according to Dean Julia Gary,
are as necessary to an economist as math is to a
physicist. And more and more Agnes Scott
graduates are seeking careers in sectors of
finance and industry, lone Murphy is here in
the career counseling role and offers assistance
to alumnae who write in, as well as to the young
women now in college.

Because of our contemporary concern over
the role of women, the women's college gains
importance as a place to provide leadership
opportunities, role models, greater expectations,
and a time for development. There are 120
women's colleges in the U. S. Sixteen of these
colleges are participating in an intern program
to train women at entrance level for
administrative positions. Agnes Scott belongs
to this farsighted group, and you can read more
fully about the program in this issue in the story
by Connie Henderson, who has been assigned
to our college.

As we contemplate the increasing general
importance of women's colleges and Agnes

Scott, specifically, we can shout, "What a joyous
time to be a woman!" and how fortunate we are
to be alumnae of Agnes Scott!

The purpose of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association, according to our constitution, is the
"furtherance of the aims of Agnes Scott College,
intellectually, financially, and spiritually." The
recurring theme in the definitions of college
alumnae associations is supportive service.
Wellesley alumnae state their purpose is:

... to extend the helpful association
of student life, and maintain such
relations to the college as will aid
in her upbuilding and strengthening,
to the end that her usefulness may
continually increase.
Bryn Mawr's alumnae association lists as
its purpose:

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Displaying an antique imari
plate design, this needlepoint
canvas over plaster of Paris
symbolizes the creative and
ambitious goal of the Golden
Needle Award Festival

Alumnae Office Staff
Alumnae Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Associate Director

Carey Bovven Craiji 'b2
Coordinator of Club Services

Beth Sherman ^Ul()dv 72
Secretary

Frances Strother

Alumnae Association Officers

President |,i(ir Kmn Allen S')
Vice Presidents

Region 1/ Dorothy Porcher 62

Region 11/ Nant_y Edwards 58

Region Ill/Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt 46

Region IV/ Margaret Gillespie 69
Secretary Eleanor Lee McNeill '59
Treasurer/ Caroline McKinney Clarke '27

The quest for future
Agnes Scott students

Mary Margaret McLauchlin 74, Judy
Maguire 73 and Melissa Holt Vandiver 73
are three members of the hard-working
admissions staff team. With their efforts and
the help of alumnae, freshman enrollment
has increased.

Excellence

by Dr. James Graham Leyburn

James Graham Leyburn, brother of Agnes Scott's
late Ellen Douglass Leyburn, delivered the
Founder's Day address on February 20, 1974. A
distinguished sociologist, Dr. Leyburn retired in
1972 from Washington and Lee University where
he had been both professor and dean. It was Dean
Leyburn who, in 1951, engaged young Marvin
Perry to be a member of the Department of
English at W. and L. Prior to going to W. and L.,
he was for twenty-two years in the Department
of Sociology at Yale where he rose through the
ranks to a full professorship. In retirement
Professor Leyburn lives at "Spring Hill," his
ancestral farm near Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Twenty-five centuries ago Plato profoundly
observed that "the unexamined life is not
worth living." His observation makes us realize
how many millions of people experience decades
of mere existence. Because their lives are
unexamined, they have small perception of
rich possibilities they are missing. They know
few exaltations of the human spirit. They do
not see the worlds that lie beyond the horizon
of dailiness.

If the individual who aspires to a life worth
living must examine that life, it is all the more
imperative that our great institutions come under
examination. They provide the stage on which
we play our parts; they are the background
and setting for the enactment of our roles; and
like other theatres, they have lives of their
own. We readily acknowledge that we are
personally responsible for our own individual
lives; and if we are thoughtful, we examine
ourselves, especially in times of crisis. Our
institutions, on the other hand, are impersonal
and abstract; they seem to perpetuate
themselves, while we participants in them
come and go. They are there, indeed, even
before we are born, and they will exist when,
having played our parts, we leave the stage.

Who, then, will examine the life of an
institution, to see whether it is worthy? Who
checks and guides it, and who holds it to its
professed purposes? Our recent history has
shown us the peril of leaving government
unexamined for even a few months. We know,
too, what can happen to the life of a corporation,
a church, a city, when its policies and its
methods are not constantly checked against
the realities of changing circumstances.

Our colleges and universities, more than
any of our other institutions, need to follow
Plato's admonition, for they are, more than
most institutions, protected from critical
surveillance because of sentiment and affection.
Whose duty, whose privilege, is it to examine
the life of Agnes Scott College, to be sure that
it keeps its ideals vivid and that all the means

of attaining those ideals are provided? Is
this examination the perquisite of your
administrative officers and trustees, of your
faculty, of the students, of the thousands of
alumnae? As one who has spent five decades
in academic institutions, and who has been
not only student and alumnus, but faculty
member, administrator, and trustee, I have
often pondered this question of responsibility.

The glory of a college consists in the fact
that it inspires loyalty in almost everyone
connected with it. One is born into a nation
and a local community, perhaps even into a
church; our economic institutions, like our
social and political ones, are externalities that
are, for most people, simply "there," to be
accepted. But one chooses his college. Almost
every person identified with Agnes Scott, from
president to freshman, from professor to
dowager alumna, selected this particular
institution and loves it. The college thus
requires, for its well-being, the constructive
concern of everyone connected with it.

If this be so, we are confronted with the
fundamental question of self-examination: why
does this college exist, and how does it
justify itself? Has the vision of the founders in
1889 validity for Agnes Scott eighty-five years
later, or do ideals change with the times?
Such questions lead to larger ones. Agnes Scott
is a liberal arts college; but what is the value
of liberal arts in 1974? Do we merely say we
believe in higher education because that
affirmation is an accepted part of the American
convention, and that liberal arts colleges are
traditional for women?

To me, the one criterion that justifies the
existence of any college is excellence; and
therefore my reason for fifty years of advocacy
of the liberal arts, for men and women alike,
is that these conduce to excellence. Such a
generalization, however much agreement it
may elicit, is nebulous unless we say precisely
what we mean by excellence in a college. In my
opinion, we follow Plato's counsel, and discover

whether the college's life is worth living, by
examining the nature and uses of the liberal arts.

If I tell you the personal answers 1 have
arrived at in my reflections on the excellence of
a college, I do so, not to try to impose my
answers upon you, but to invite your own
self-examination, your own justification for the
life of this college. Let me begin by a brief
account of the people who probably lived the
richest and fullest and happiest lives the
world has ever known.

By common consent, the Greeks of the fifth
century B.C. reached a pinnacle of civilization.
For ages they have been held up as an example
of what can happen when people try to live
life to the fullest in all its aspects. Within a
few decades actually only two generations
the small city of Athens, about the size of
St. Petersburg or Richmond, produced such men
as Themistocles and Pericles, Socrates and
Plato, Aeschylus and Sophocles and Euripides,
Herodotus and Thucydides, Phidias,
Aristophanes, and dozens of others whose
names ring down the centuries. How could
all this happen?

First, I think, because the Athenians had a
clear ideal to strive for. They called it arete,
which means "excellence in all that is admirable."
They never thought it enough to be pretty good;
from the time a youth started to school he
was inspired to excel. Another part of the ideal
was versatility. They trained their bodies; they
exercised daily and strenuously (in fact, they
invented the gymnasium); they played constantly
(once again, they started the Olympic games,
and were the first people in the world to
have competitive sports). More than that, they
all participated in the public affairs of Athens,
as soldiers, jurors, officials chosen by yearly
lot, as voters deciding public policy. It was
the Athenians who first of all discovered and
daily practised democracy. They loved beauty
and creativity, and were supreme artists and
architects: they built the Parthenon during
this time.

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But what makes them most memorable
and admirable is the way they used their minds.
They seemed to have infinite curiosity, and
they discovered that intellectual exercise was by
all odds the most stimulating and rewarding
part of life. They were always eager to learn
something new. When Herodotus came back
from Egypt and Persia, the Athenians gathered
daily in the agora to ask him about how
these other people lived and thought. When
Socrates showed up in the gymnasium, young
boys left their exercise and games to query
that wise man: "What really is truth, Socrates?
What is beauty? What is worth living for?"
Their curiosity and imagination made them the
first scientists the world had known, the first
men to work on the hypothesis that there
might be law and order everywhere in the
universe, with regularities that could be
discovered and then counted upon. They also
had tremendous courage of mind: they dared
to be skeptical and questioning in an age of
faith, and went to witness the great tragedies
that challenged what had always been regarded
as eternal verities.

One could go on and on about these great
Greeks; but you can see why Edgar Allan Poe
spoke of the glory that was Greece. It was
glory because these Athenians lived in a
perfect ferment of the mind and found it
exciting. Now for my point: I do not for a
moment believe that these Athenians had any
better minds than ours. I am certain that
Agnes Scott students are quite as intelligent
as Athenians of the fifth century, quite as quick
and as capable; and surely you actually know
far more than they did. They made an
imperishable name for themselves and their
little city because they exercised their minds
and creative imaginations to the fullest, not
content to be merely good; and because they
had an ideal that inspired them to live rich
personal lives, but to dedicate themselves to a
superb institution, their city, their polis. And so
they discovered the joy of excellence.

It is disappointing, of course, to recall that
Athens had its flaws, some of which proved
fatal slavery, subordination of women, and,
worst of all, susceptibility to the sin of hubris,
the kind of arrogance that tempts one to
believe in his own infallibility and superiority.
We should like our heroes to be perfect, of
course. Our immediate point, however, is not
to account for the decline of Athens but to
examine the causes of its greatness.

To me, the phrase "liberal arts" is a synonym
for arete. Explore the varied meanings of the
adjective "liberal" and the richness of the
noun "arts," and we have the justification
for higher education. More than that, we have
the idea for the college: excellence in all
that is admirable. Let us pursue our Platonic
self-examination a bit further, however, by
asking a specific question. If you were called
upon to name the qualities that most notably
characterize the "execellent" people you
know, the ones who come nearest to arete in
their personal lives, what virtues would be at
the head of your list? Those qualities would,
I think, be the ones inherent in the liberal arts
and in the college that is dedicated to these arts.

Before we name the paramount components
of arete, we must make a few disclaimers.
First, we recognize the fact that geniuses, saints,
and heroes are endowed by their Creator with
special gifts, and that not even the liberal-arts
college can improve upon their endowments.
Next, it would be redundant to suggest that
high devotion to scholarship should be the
mark of a college's excellence. We take that
commitment for granted in every reputable
institution of learning. Still another disclaimer:
little is to be gained by suggesting such an
ideal as wisdom, for that admirable quality is
abstruse and so subject to cultural definition
that it eludes our academic cultivation.

I take the liberty of suggesting three qualities
which characterize the men and women I
most admire, three qualities which, therefore,
I should wish upheld by any college of which
I am a part. To me, these qualities are liberal
and are truly arts; and they can most certainly
be stimulated by higher education. My
suggestions may not be yours; indeed, the
cause of arete may be furnished by disagreement
and argument. With proper diffidence, then,
I offer my suggestions of the irreducible
minimum of admirable qualities inherent in the
pursuit of the liberal arts.

First, versatility. We have suggested the range
of mind and spirit among the great Greeks,
and we marvel at the sheer delight they took
in cultivating all that they regarded as excellent.
Consider other periods of history that likewise
make our hearts leap with excitement, the
Renaissance, for example. (Note, parenthetically,
how Wordsworth's summary springs to our
minds when we think of Periclean Athens or
the Renaissance or any other period when
the liberal arts flourish: "Bliss was it in that

dawn to be alive.") We use a complimentary
phrase, "the Renaissance man," to epitomize
the ideal of versatility. We expect the Florentine
lady and gentleman, or the Elizabethan, to
respond to poetry, painting, sculpture, and
drama, to ponder the great issues of religion and
philosophy, to play an instrument and sing
a part, to speak several languages with grace, to
play games and engage in sports with vigor,
to seek adventure in new worlds (both
geographical and intellectual).

Perhaps most of us have known the delight
of companionship with a person whose
conversation ranges and stimulates, who is
always ready to explore new continents of
the mind, who delights in symphonies and
ballet and sports, whose very personality beguiles
because of its unending surprises. Such people
of versatile minds seem, at least in my experience,
to flourish on university campuses. Some of
them are professional scholars, but many of
them are drawn to the college community
because of the invigorating atmosphere in
which darting minds strike brilliant sparks
from spirits of men and women of wit, insight,
and reflection. It has been my good fortune
to know a number of persons who possess
in abundance this quality of arete Arnold
Toynbee, for example, and Thornton Wilder,
Richard Niebuhr, and Dame Myra Hess. And
certainly your own campus, with which I have
been familiar for decades, has been rich in such
personalities, resident and non-resident such
remarkable people as May Sarton, Robert Frost,
Davie Napier, and Marvin Perry. An evening
with any one of these persons may mean
vicarious visits with Bach and Theocritus, Tallulah
Bankhead and Kierkegaard, Gertrude Stein and
Petrarch, Camus and Boulez; it may produce
discussions of contemporary international
politics, the last Beethoven quartettes, abstract
expressionism, classical archaeology, or any
number of other inspiriting subjects. With old
Terence, any one of these versatile people
would say, "Nothing human is alien to me."

Next to versatility in my canon of excellence
as a product of the liberal arts is responsibility.
The Athenians gladly shouldered all the
exigencies of citizenship in their dear city,
their polls, because they gloried in it; but also
they saw it as the arena in which they might
display their arete. Here was something bigger
than self to live for; and the more honor one
achieved personally, the more brilliant the
reputation of the city, and the prouder one was

of being an Athenian. There may be higher
motives for assuming responsibility. I think there
are. Yet I believe that the mark of admirable
persons, from the beginning of history, has
always been the willing acceptance of duties, the
generous assumption of obligations that
need to be borne. One has only to ask whether
one's true heroes are not chosen chiefly
because they went far beyond the call of duty.
By assuming responsibilities not actually
required of them they sometimes changed the
course of history, and always lifted the human
spirit. Think of Abraham, of Jesus, of Luther,
of Gandhi, of Martin Luther King; think
of Joan of Arc, Robert E. Lee, Gautama the

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(continued)

Buddha; think, indeed, of any true hero and
of why you consider that person heroic.

We who are college students and graduates
are an educated minority; by that fact we
are the persons best able to deal with the
complex problems of the disturbed era in
which we live. Our very presence in these halls
of Academe should be our announcement to
the world that we accept unusual responsibilities.
As the educated minority we are especially
equipped to shoulder the problems of our
communities, our nation, even our world. We
have a special duty, whether we like it or not.
Like Shakespeare's Prince Hal, who through
no choice of his own was born to be king, we
are compelled by a profound obligation to
pay the "debt we never promised." Matthew
Arnold's phrase, "the saving remnant," for the
cultivated few, may have to our ears a slightly
arrogant, mid-Victorian sound; but this is in
fact what we are or what we can be if we will
set ourselves to the task of being saviors of
the time and not just a little self-complacent
enclave of culture isolated from the agony
of the world.

The third quality which to my mind is inherent
in arete and in the liberal arts is magnanimity.
That sonorous word, a favorite of Milton's,
means literally being great-hearted, large of
soul and mind. It means having compassion; it
means showing consideration and being
courteous; it means having the grace of
sensitivity to the needs of others. To me it
suggests the quality displayed by noblemen
who were truly chivalrous and that quality
has for many years persisted in my mind as a
concomitant of a liberal education. The motto
of the authentic nobleman was "Noblesse
oblige" nobility obligates! No enacted law
required privileged aristocrats to take
responsibility for those less fortunate, for
the welfare of their immediate neighborhoods
and communities, for going forth from their
strongholds to right wrong: only the intangible
code of generations of aristocracy reminded a
well-born person of his compelling obligation.
Noblesse oblige and of him who hath,
much shall be required. In our democratic age.

we college and university people know ourselves
(and surely the world knows us) to be
privileged: we are rich in personal endowments,
in knowledge, in creative ability. More than
that, we have not only idealism, but a realistic
eye to see clearly what is evil and to know
what is good. Therefore, noblesse oblige. If
our democracy is to work it will be because
we we the privileged of this earth accept
our obligation and show magnanimity.

All our cherished phrases inspire constant
reflection because of their richness; and each
re-examination rewards us with new insights.
Who can say the last word about "faith, hope,
and love," or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness"? So with the words of our educational
commitment, the "liberal arts" to which we
have dedicated ourselves. How resonant those
two words, "liberal arts," prove to be! "Liberal"
means free, ranging, generous, liberating,
befitting a free person. As for the "arts," the
long story of man's awakening mind is his
history of discovery of the boundlessness of the
human spirit: the arts are whatever enhance
the human personality; the arts range from
theology to the music of the spheres, from
poetry to philosophy, from the quickening word
to the perception of order never before
perceived.

Our devotion to the liberal arts is at once a
commitment of the spirit and a high moral
dedication. As James Russell Lowell once
put it [in Among My Books, 1st series, p. 177],
"[Our study] is fitly called a liberal education,
because it emancipates the mind from every
narrow provincialism, whether of egoism or
tradition, and is the apprenticeship that every
one must serve before becoming a free brother
of the guild which passes the torch of life
from age to age."

Versatility, responsibility, magnanimity and
if there be other qualities of arete, think on
these things. From the first day of our entrance
into the realm of higher education, our
hearts exult, as if we heard the words of King
Henry V on the eve of Agincourt: "We few,
we happy few, we band of brothers . . . will
stand a-tiptoe when this day is named!"

Robert Frost Centennial

A Celebration of the Poet 187"

It is appropriate that a tribute to
Robert Frost on the 100th anniversary
of his birth would be a celebration
of the poet. The most important gift
Frost gave to Agnes Scott, from
1935, when he began his visits, until
1962, when he made his last, was
a glimpse of the man who is one of
America's best-loved poets. During
the centennial celebration, the
college community spent two days
reminiscing about the man who
loved Agnes Scott and reliving the
experience by studying his poetry
and the poetry of another
outstanding poet, Richard Wilbur.

The Robert Frost Centennial
opened on Tuesday, October 15,
with an introduction by Mrs.
Margaret W. Pepperdene, Professor
of English and Chairman of the
Department of English, and opening
remarks by President Marvin B. Perry.
The first speakers were Frost's
long-time friends, Kathleen and
Theodore Morrison, who reminisced
about the poet. Frost's secretary and
recent biographer, Mrs. Morrison
related anecdotes about Frost and
talked of the book she had vowed
never to write, Robert Frost:
A Pictorial Chronicle. Her book was
pjblished last summer by Holt,
Rinehart and Winston. Mr. Morrison,
who is himself a poet and Harvard
Professor of English, Emeritus, read
and discussed some of his favorite
Frost poems. When he read, in a
vo're surprisingly like Frost's, the
spirit of Mr. Frost seemed to pervade
the room. One could close his
eyes and see Frost, with his shock of
white hair and twinkling eyes,
reading his own poetry.

Tuesday night, Mrs. Linda Woods,
Associate Professor of English,
introduced Cleanth Brooks, renowned
critic and Yale Professor of English,
who gave a paper entitled "Nature in
the Poetry of Robert Frost." Written
especially for the Celebration,
Mr. Brooks' paper is his first critical
essay on Robert Frost. Perceptive

Margaret W. Pepperdene.
chairman of the Eriglish
Department, opens the
program.

Crowd assembled for
reminiscences of Frost by
Kav and Ted Morrison.

Robert Frost

Dr Wallace Alston, Mrs. Alston and Dean lulia Car\ en/m the Muiii^.dns u.ion
mformal talks. Dr. Alston spoke the following day about Frost s visits to the campus.

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and lively, the essay was interesting
and enjoyable even for the layman.

The Wednesday morning activities
began at 10:30 a.m. with Agnes Scott
speech and drama students and
DeKalb College Singers speaking
and singing Frost's poetry. Miss
Margret Trotter, Professor of English,
was responsible for arranging that
part of the program.

At Convocation, President Perry
introduced Dr. Wallace M. Alston,
who gave a delightful, moving talk
about Frost, the man and poet.
Dr. and Mrs. Alston had the rare
privilege of knowing Frost as a friend
who obviously felt comfortable
and relaxed in their home.
Dr. Alston spoke especially of Frost's
late hours, of his habit of walking
the campus alone at night and of
the poem "Acquainted with the
Night," which came out of those
solitary nocturnal treks.

On Wednesday afternoon the
activities continued as Mr. Jack L.
Nelson, Associate Professor of
English, introduced Mr. Brooks and
Poet Richard Wilbur. They talked
informally about Frost and his poetry
from the point of view of the
critic and the poet.

That evening, Mrs. Pepperdene
introduced the final event of the
Ceiebration Richard Wilbur
reading his own poetry. Wilbur, who
has won numerous prizes for poetry,
including the Bolingen and
Pulitzer Prizes, is Professor of
English at Wesleyan University in
Middletown, Connecticut.
Mr. Wilbur's reading was an
appropriate way to close the
Centennial. He was, as he made
clear in his conversation of
the afternoon, a great admirer of
Mr. Frost; Mr. Frost, in turn,
once named Wilbur as one of
America's most important young
poets. It was even more appropriate,
however, to end the celebration
with the poet saying the poem, with
this poet affirming in his poetry,
the sense of "known life" that is the
essential ingredient of poetry. A

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Two oi the featured speakers chatted intormallv
on Dana stage At top left is Yale Professor and
critic Cleanth Brool<s; at lower left are three poses
of Poet Richard Wilbur

Students and visitors request autographs from Mr. and Mrs. Morrison,
who opened the Centennial Celebration on Tuesday. October 76

Mr. Brooks and Mr. Wilbur answer questions after their informal talk
entitled "Conversations on Frost," on Wednesday afternoon, October 76,

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Thirty-One Banana Leaves

Winifred Kellersberger Vass '38
John Knox Press, November, 1974
341 Ponce de Leon Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30308, $3.95

"Thirty-one sketches celebrate the
exuberance of rugged African life.
Winifred Vass views Zaire's dynamic
native culture with loving delight
tempered by profound respect. She
admires the adaptability of the
crusty old tribespeople coping with
Western technology. She smiles at
a pompous chieftain regally pouring
his lemonade on her living room
floor. She accepts her church choir's
appetite for raw termites and
cooked rats. Thirty-One Banana
Leaves opens windows to a potpourri
of customs, childhood pastimes,
missionary outings, and life's
tragedies. Pleasure and pain shape
African life as sun and rain give
a banana leaf its battered beauty."
(from a review in the John Knox
Press promotion brochure)

Winifred Kellersberger Vass was
born in Africa, to missionary parents.
After she was married to the
Rev. L. C. Vass, they went to the
Congo, as missionaries for the
Presbyterian Church. In 1971, they
returned to this country to live in
Dallas, Texas.

Poodles are People

Molli Oliver Mertel '41
Exposition Press, 1974
Jericho, New York 11753, $3.50

In Poodles are People, Molli
Oliver Mertel writes with great love
of life from the point of view of
a toy poodle named Ginger.
Accustomed to the good life. Ginger
eats chicken and liver from sterling
silver plates, wipes his mouth on
Grand-mere's antique Sarouk rug and
travels with his Army family over
the United States and Europe.

Ginger's life is disrupted when
Coco, a baby poodle, is brought into
the family circle. Soon, however,
they become fast friends as the
responsible, well-mannered Ginger
shows him the ropes. They prance
and explore together until tragedy
strikes and Coco dies. Ginger then
must follow again his mother's advice
to "take courage" and resume his
job of frolicking about the house,
supervising the preparation of
his nightly chicken and loving and
guarding his family.

Molli Mertel was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated
from Dana Hall, Wellesley, and
Agnes Scott. She has worked for
WRBL-TV, Columbus, Georgia, and
has been a reporter for the
Wellesley Townsman, the Boston
Globe, the Worcester Evening
Gazette and the Frankfurt-American,
Frankfurt, Germany. Poodles are
People is her second book.

Confederate City: Augusta, Georgia,
1860-1865

Florence Fleming Corley '54
University of South Carolina Press,
Second Printing, 1974
Columbia, South Carolina 29208,
$9.95

The reprinting of Florence Fleming
Corley's Confederate City: Augusta,
Georgia, 1860-1865 makes this
interesting account available again
to readers who would like to learn
more of this city or period. The
author's account traces the effects of
the war years on life in one of
Georgia's important cities. The reader
can sense some of the pressures
war brought and can almost feel a
part of the community's life. Her
well-chosen illustrations add to the
value of this volume.

Florrie Fleming Corley was
born and raised in Augusta, Georgia.
She received her M.A. degree from
Emory University, where she studied
under Dr. Bell I. Wiley, celebrated
Civil War historian, who writes the
introduction for this book. Florrie
is teaching American History at the
Westminster Schools, in Atlanta, and
serving as co-chairman of the
history department. A local historian
and lecturer, she lives in Marietta,
Georgia, with her husband,
James Weaver Corley, Jr., and their
five children.

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VHfi Golden^eedle Award festival

"A thinking person is a creative person never
more so than in the arts. That the alumnae of
an institution of higher learning should choose to
sponsor a festival of the art of needlecraft seems,
then, most appropriate. ALL the proceeds from 'The
Golden Needle Award Festival' will be applied to
student needs at Agnes Scott College, toward the
building and nurturing of MORE creative thinkers
in all fields of endeavour."

This statement expresses the purpose of The
Golden Needle Award Festival, opening at Rich's,
Thursday, April 17, and running through Saturday,
April 19, 1975, coinciding with Agnes Scott's
Alumnae Weekend. Led by Betty Lou Houck Smith
'35 and Anita Moses Shippen '60, the steering
committee is made up of Atlanta and Decatur Club
members who have already spent almost a year
making plans and setting the wheels in motion for
this sensational event.

The Festival will feature, along with the
needlepoint and embroidery entries, a display of
heirloom pieces and an exhibition of needlecraft by
celebrities. The celebrity show will include works
by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, who plans to send the
covers of her book and Mr. Johnson's book done
in needlepoint; Mrs. Herman Talmadge, who is

sending a needlepoint canvas of the seal of the
state of Georgia; Mrs. Howard (Bo) Callaway; and
Mrs. Ernest Vandiver.

Another interesting aspect of the Festival is the
"V.I. P. Program." Penny Brown Barnett '32, Contact
Coordinator, has been in touch with club officers
and interested alumnae in almost every town within
a 150-mile radius, requesting that they organize a
bus-load of local alumnae to attend. As a part of
Rich's "Spend-the-Day" Party Program, the alumnae
will attend the Golden Needle Award Festival,
shop in the store and enjoy a tea and fashion show
before they board the bus for home.

The exhibition is open to ANY interested
needlecrafter who wishes to enter his or her work;
therefore, the Festival committee asks Agnes Scotters
to tell all their non-alumnae friends about the
event. And certainly all alumnae are urged to attend
the Festival, whether they enter or not. Not only
will alumnae enjoy what may be the most exciting
show ever staged by the Atlanta Alumnae Club, but
they will contribute to the education of young
women at Agnes Scott.

Exhibition entry forms have been printed on
tlie following two pages for your convenience.
Please clip them and present them to your
needlecrafting friends.

AWARDS

The Golden Needle Award will be given in each of
the following categories:

1. Canvas Work

a. Original design

b. Commercial design

c. From a kit

2. Embroidery

a. Original design

b. Commercial design

c. From a kit

3. Needlecraft for Church

4. Needlecraft by Men

5. Needlecraft by Professionals

6. Best in Show

a. Judges' choice

b. Popular vote

JUDGES

Louis J. Gartner
Author, Designer, Lecturer

Hope Hanley

Author, Designer, Lecturer

Virginia Maxwell

Lecturer, Designer of UN Peace Rug

TICKETS $2.00

Available at the door

Advance tickets may be ordered from

Mrs. Robert L. Smith

3910 Club Drive, N.E.

Atlanta, Georgia 30319

Make checks payable to
The Golden Needle Award Festival

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The Renaissance ldea[

by Carey Bow(

Kathenne Wolti Fannholt, '33

When Kitty Woltz Farinholt retired from The
Westminster Schools in June, 1974, she retired
from only one phase of her multi-faceted life. For
she is truly a Renaissance woman. Scholar,
teacher, leader and alumna extraordinaire, Kitty
has that rare combination of energy, talent,
leadership and femininity which has allowed her
to be a volunteer worker, a career woman, a
wife and a mother.

The 1972-73 edition of Who's Who of American
Women lists the biography of Katharine Woltz
Farinholt, counselor and Principal of Girls' Junior
High School at Westminster. She had also been
elected an Honorary Director of the Child
Service and Family Counseling Center of
Metropolitan Atlanta, in recognition of twenty
years of service as a member of the Board of
Directors and a former President of the Child
Service Association.

In 1967, Mortar Board, Natonal Honor Society
for Senior College Women, honored her
achievements and years of service as a national
officer, section director and member of the
National Council, with a certificate of recognition
at their fiftieth anniversary celebration. Kitty was
the President of the Metropolitan Atlanta Girl
Scout Council in 1953, and following her term of
office, she was awarded the highest honor offered
adults in national Girl Scouting, the "Thanks
Badge." Another national honor came from
Phi Beta Kappa who elected her to honorary
membership in 1949.

Kitty has also distinguished herself as an Agnes
Scott alumna, having served as President of the
Alumnae Association from 1944-45. During her
term, the Alumnae Association changed its
development approach from that of membership
dues to an actual fund drive. She and President
James Ross McCain wrote letters published in the
Quarterly, appealing to alumnae to make
contributions to the college. Later, Kitty was the

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\itty Woltz Farinholt '33

raig '62

general chairman of the Greater Atlanta Agnes
Scott Alumnae Campaign in 1949.

As an intgeral part of Agnes Scott and her
heritage, Kitty walked in the academic procession
of the Inauguration of Dr. Marvin Perry, as the
representative of the National Association of
Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors
(N.A.W.D.A.C), just as she had represented
Mortar Board at the Inauguration of Dr. Wallace
Alston. Of her college, she says, "I am deeply
indebted to Agnes Scott for giving me a rich
heritage, and I shall always use my best efforts
in her behalf."

Kitty has been prominent in church and civic
affairs too, having served several years as a
member of the Board of the Atlanta Music Club,
as President of Women of All Saints' Episcopal
Church and as a Trustee of the Appleton Church
Home for Girls in Macon, Georgia.

After many years of extensive volunteer service,
her career began in earnest, in 1964, when, after
receiving a master's degree at Emory University,
she became principal of the Girls' Junior High
School at Westminster, where she had been
teaching English. She had the longest tenure of
any principal in Westminster's history. When she
retired. President Emeritus William B. Pressley
wrote to her, "Your grasp of the academic
program of the total school, and particularly of
the Junior High, made it possible always for you
to make an outstanding contribution to the
intellectual development of each student under
you and, ultimately, to each student in the entire
High School. I shall always consider you as one of
the chief motivating forces in bringing
Westminster to its academic preeminence."

Despite her staggering list of accomplishments
and honors, Kitty is a very human, down-to-earth
person. As petite and feminine as her nickname
suggests, she is a warm, courteous woman easy
to talk to and joyful to be around. In fact, she

KittY Farinholt chats with lane King Allen 59, president of
the Alumnae Association, during 1974 Alumnae Council

appears to embod\' all the positive traits of
traditional womankind, without sacrificing her
identity and personal goals.

Also, it is obvious that Kitty was always very
involved in the life of her children. Her daughter,
Caroline Green jervis attended Sweet Briar
College and was graduated from the University
of North Carolina. Her son, Holcombe Green, jr.,
was graduated from the Taft School, Yale
University and the University of Virginia
Law School. Her stepson, Lewis Farinholt, whom
she has had since he was seven years old, was
graduated from Virginia Tech in June, 1974,
and is now working for General Electric in
Charlotte, N.C.

In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the ideal
was the person who was interested in learning, in
the arts, in spectacular achievements and in the
reaffirmation of life, hence, the individual. In
every sense of the word, Katharine Woltz
Farinholt is a Renaissance Woman.

15

Conference on Bioethics

It's a Matte

Dr C Benton Kline. Ir , President Columbia Seminary and Conference Moderator, sits
(at left) on panel following lecture by William I. Curran (to right of Dr. Kline).

Genetic manipulation and the right to
die were among the topics discussed
at the Conference on Bioethics
sponsored by Agnes Scott College,
November 6, 7 and 8, 1974.
Directed by Agnes Scott professors
chemist Alice Cunningham,
biologist Sandra Bowden and
philosopher Richard Parry the
Conference was financially assisted
by the National Endowment for
the Humanities through the Georgia
Committee on Public Programs
for the Humanities.

Over 1,000 off-campus lay persons
and professionals in law, medicine,
theology, public health and
government, as well as Agnes Scott
students, attended the two-day
symposium. Housewives,
professionals, college students and
retired persons from nine
southeastern states attended sessions
on current genetic technology
and genetic counseling, the right to
die, human experimentation, medical
ethics and legal problems connected
with these issues.

Prior to the Conference,
Agnes Scott faculty in biology,
religion and philosophy held
brief seminars to acquaint students,
faculty and staff with issues
discussed at the symposium.

At the Conference the keynote
speaker was Dr. Daniel Callahan,
Director of the Institute of Society,
Ethics, and the Life Sciences at
Hastings Center in New York. A
philosopher and psychologist,
Dr. Callahan stated that technology
in all fields, including medicine
and biology, seems always to carry
with it undesirable side effects.
Thus, he said, a public ethic is
needed to balance the beneficial and
the detrimental effects of medical

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of Life and Death

by Andrea Helms

research and biological technology
for society and the individual.
He questioned the value of the
Western ethic of individualism in
dealing with this technology that
can affect future generations of
mankind.

Another speaker, Dr. Bruce
Wallace, Professor of Genetics at
Cornell University, spoke on current
technological capabilities and
theories in genetic research. He
considers the goal of genetic
manipulation to be the control and
eradication of genetically caused
diseases, rather than the production
of the ideal human.

The right to die and the quality of
death were the topics of a speech
by Dr. Jonas B. Robitscher, Henry R.
Luce Professor of Law and the
Behavorial Sciences at Emory
University. He and a panel made up
of a chaplain, a hospital psychiatrist
and an attorney discussed whether
the right to die, when and how one
chooses, is as inalienable a right
as those of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.

Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, President
of Mount Sinai Medical Center
and Dean of Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in New York, sent his
taped speech, which was played for
the audience along with his slide
presentation. His talk dealt with
ethical contrasts between clinical
research and medical practice and
the patient's right to know all
possible side effects of drugs and
medical treatments administered in
a clinical trial or in medical practice.
To ensure the safety of patients
participating in clinical trials for
testing new drugs and the
comparative effectiveness of
treatments, Chalmers proposed the

Dr. Kline discusses with conference directors, Richard Parry and Alice Cunningham, the
symbol created for the conference by Leiand Staven, Assistant Professor of Art.

establishment of a board of
impartial examiners to review the
studies before and during their
implementation.

The last session of the Conference
was a talk by Dr. William J. Curran,
Frances Glessner Lee Professor of
Legal Medicine in the faculties of
Medicine and Public Health and
Lecturer in Legal Medicine at Harvard
University. He spoke to the legal

problems surrounding medical
practice and research, especially in
cases of euthanasia and in clinical
trials. He sees a basic conflict
between legal regulation of medicine
and medical ethics which demands
that the physician will not be the
instrument of his patient. A balance,
he said, is needed between too
little and too much legal interference
in the patient-doctor relationship. A

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Bazaar 1974

A Christmas Remembered

Panorama view of Young Atlanta Alumnae Club Bazaar ihowi tint shoppers.

Handmade Christmas wreaths and
ornaments, childrens' clothes and
toys, flower pots, art works, original
design needlepoint, decorator items,
home-baked cakes, breads, brownies
and pickles were just a few of the
items offered for sale at the Young
Atlanta Alumnae Club's 1974 Bazaar.
Drawing on the nostalgia theme so
popular today, "A Christmas
Remembered" called on old-
fashioned memories on Saturday,
November 2, at Phipps Plaza, from
10:00 a.m. until the merchandise ran
out in the afternoon.

They attracted many alumnae who
were interested in doing their
Christmas shopping and in helping
Agnes Scott, as well as non-alumnae
who had heard of the bazaar on TV
or in the paper or who happened by
as they shopped in Phipps. Also
the alumnae, from all three Atlanta
clubs, who had served on production
or planning committees, came to give
more time and to buy a few
Christmas gifts themselves.

The results? They grossed over
$5000, and after their bills are paid,
they plan to give all the proceeds
to the college.

Thanks, Young Atlanta Club and all
Atlanta alumnae who helped. Agnes
Scott is proud of you!

Activity begins early at Bazaar.

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Christie Theriot Woodiin 68, president
Young Atlanta Club

Mary lervis Hayes '67, chairman of the
1974 Bazaar

Handmade toys attract children and
mothers.

Ethel Ware Gilbert Carter '68, Christmas
items chairman

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CLUBS FAR AND NEAR

Macon

On September 25, 1974, at 7:30 p.m.,
Agnes Scott alumnae from the
Macon, Georgia, area met in the
home of Patricia Walker Bass for
the fall meeting of the club. There
were seventeen members and four
guests present.

Patricia introduced Virginia Brown
McKenzie '47, Director of Alumnae
Affairs. She offered program
suggestions and spoke of the value
of alumnae clubs to the college.
Then after a business meeting,
President Marvin Perry spoke to the
group about Agnes Scott today and
answered questions about the
college.

Officers for the Macon club are:
Sara Elizabeth Jackson Hertwig,
president; Joan Simmons Smith,
vice president; Bebe Walker Reichert,
secretary; Ann Herman Dunwoody,
treasurer; Patricia Walker Bass,
alumna admissions representative.
Leila Anderson has been the
publicity coordinator.

Members attending the Macon
meeting were Leila Anderson '28,
Elizabeth Ansley Allan '57, Ruth
Bastin Slentz '48, Leonice Davis
Pinnell '59, Lillian Ray Harris
Lockary '65, Ann Herman Dunwoody
'52, Marty Jackson Frame '65, Sara
Beth Jackson Hertwig '51, Joanna
McElrath Alston '64, Diana Oliver
Peavy '67, Eugenia Pou Harris '23,
Dannie Reynolds Home '57, Carmen
Shaver Brown '61, Joan Simmons
Smith '54, Pam Slinkard Stanescu
'69, Bebe Walker Reichert '62, and
Patricia Walker Bass '61. Guests
included Dr. Perry, Mrs. Perry,
Virginia McKenzie and Mr. McKenzie.

New York

President Marvin Perry, Ann Rivers
Payne Thompson '59, Director of
Admissions, and Angle Jarrett '71,
Assistant Director of Admissions,
were the guests of honor at a
cocktail party given by Cissie Spiro
Aidinoff '51 and her husband,
Bernard, on October 1, 1974, at 6:30
p.m. Twenty alumnae and several
husbands from the New York City
area attended the party.

Dr. Perry spoke to the group about
recent changes on the campus and
in the curriculum and about his
hopes for the future of the college.
Afterward, he, Ann Rivers and Angie
answered questions.

Alumnae who attended the party
were: Barbara Battle '56, Alice
Beardsley Carroll '47, Bernice Beaty
Cole '33, Pam Bevier '61, Louise
Brown Smith '37, Katharine Cannaday
McKenzie '26, Joan Dupuis '66,
Louise Hertwig Hays '51, Jean
Isbell Brunie '52, Mary Ann Kennedy
Snyder '64, Katherine Lott Marbut
'29, Lee Murphy '67, Augusta Roberts
'29, Margaret Rodgers '64, Barbara
San Holbrook '42, Cissie Spiro
Aidinoff '57, Virginia Suttenfield '38,
Sandra Tausig Fraund '64, Mary Louise
Thompson '70 and Pat Welton
Resseguie '57.

Dalton

The alumnae in Dalton, Georgia, met
for the first time as a formally
organized club on October 7, at
10:00 a.m. Twenty-four members and
six guests were present.

Speaking to the group assembled
in the home of Mary Manly Ryman,
President Marvin Perry discussed
recent improvements made on the
Agnes Scott campus. He noted that
"tradition and innovation are being
blended to create an exciting
atmosphere for academic and
personal growth" at the college.

A slate of officers for the club was
named, with Mary Manly Ryman as
president. Other officers are Cindy
Current Patterson, vice-president;
Mary Rogers Hardin, secretary; Ida
Rogers Minor, treasurer; and Mary
Gene Sims Dykes, alumnae
admissions representative.

Members attending the first
Dalton meeting were Jane Barker
Secord '48, Patricia Bradley Edwards
'68, Cindy Current Patterson '72,
Willa Dendy Goodroe '59, Kay Gerald
Pope '64 (from Calhoun), Henrietta
Jones Turley '67, Barbara Kinney '70
(from Chatsworth), Laurice Looper
Swann '44, Sigrid Lyon Swenson '67,
Gertrude Manly Jolly '20, Martha Lin
Manly Hogshead '25, Mary Manly
Ryman '48, Jamie McCoy Jones '55,

Dr Perry. Mary Manly Rynian 48. club
president, and Carey Bowen Craig 62,
Associate Alumnae Director, meet in
Dalton

Eulalia Napier Sutton '33, Frances
Napier Jones '36, Carol Rogers Snell
'59, Ida Rogers Minor '55, Mary
Rogers Hardin '68, Mary Gene Sims
Dykes '48, Mary Stuart Sims Dickson
'25, Lulu Smith Westcott '19,
Roberta Williams Davis '53,
Margaretta Womelsdorf Lumpkin '23,
loanna Wood Zachry '49. Guests in
addition to Dr. Perry were Virginia
Brown McKenzie '47, Director of
Alumnae Affairs; Carey Bowen
Craig '62, Associate Director of
Alumnae Affairs; two husbands and
Maribeth Ryman, Mary's daughter.

Griffin

On October 17, 1974, seventeen
Griffin, Georgia, alumnae gathered
for "renewing pride in Agnes Scott"
in the home of Nancy Brock Blake to
meet Dr. Perry and elect officers.
News of college developments and
encouragement to inform prospective
students about Agnes Scott came
from the President, Director of
Alumnae Affairs Virginia Brown
McKenzie '47 and Assistant to the
Director of Admissions Judy
Maguire '73. Special guests included
the Griffin Assistant of Schools, Ben
Christie; Headmaster of the Griffin
Academy, Walter Welsh; the senior
counselor of Griffin High School;
newspaper editor, Quimby Melton;
and sixteen high school juniors and
seniors.

Presiding over the club for the
coming year is Nancy Brock Blake,
'57 with Mary Russell Mitchell
'46 as vice president and Edith Dale
Lindsey '42 as secretary/treasurer.

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To the Editor:

One Saturday night, several of us
Agnes Scott alumnae found ourselves
together talking about Agnes Scott.
We had one common complaint
about the Alumnae Quarterly:
finding too little about "real" people.
The composite picture painted
therein is not at all realistic.
Consequently, we know little about
the minor triumphs or
disappointments of our classmates.

In answer to this problem, we have
composed an appeal which we
would like printed in the Quarterly.

We invite your criticism and response.

* * *

When far from the reach of thy
sheltering arms. . . . We still want to
hear from you despite the fact that
you may not have enriching or
challenging experiences to relate.
Not everyone is married to a brilliant,
successful, oft-promoted man. Not
everyone has a lucrative, exciting job
she deems imminently necessary. Not
everyone has a scheme for and the
dedication to serve the world. Not
everyone has made a pilgrimage to
the Holy Land or even seen the
recent shows in New York. Not all of
you have children who are National
Merit finalists and can select their
own colleges and scholarships.

We also serve who only stand and
wait ... on tables.

Ann Teat '68

Anne Wilder '68

Betty Derrick '68

Virginia Williams Nicholson '41

To the Editor:

Much praise must go to the
Alumnae staff for the recent
Quarterly. It is beautifully done as to
format, illustrations and content.
After reading it I wished that I
could become young again and apply
at once for admission to ASC! It had
lure. Also, the design consultant
must share in the praise and
appreciation for it is a periodical of
which all alumnae can be very
proud. It's alive, alert, relevant.
Dr. Perry's Report says it all.

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Tuscumbia, Alabama

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To the Editor:

The Alumnae Quarterly is always
great, but Fall, 1974, is excellent. I
look forward to receiving it and my
friends are impressed that it is so
informative and personable. The
photographs are an added bonus.

Thanks for keeping us in touch
with ASC. Wishing everyone well.

Melisha Miles '74

Athens, Ga.

To the Editor:

It's probably just touchiness, but I
can't love being a "mature student!"
I'm sure you had the phrase thrust
upon you by someone whose job it
is to find names for things, but
"mature" has just go to be the most
painful euphemism going. Couldn't
we just be "older students" or even
"middle-aged" ones?

I'm only joking, really. I truly
enjoyed the article, "Lampposts and
Liberal Arts," and the whole
Quarterly.

Helen McGowan French,

X-54, '74

Atlanta, Ca.

Deaths

Faculty

Nplttc Terrill \U>orc, AdjuncI Prolessof
of Romance Languages, Agnes
Scotl College. 1914-1917, October
15, 1974.

Institute

Bertha Brawner Ingram (Nirs

Wilh.im Franklml

Pearl Estes Cousins (Mrs. R.C.).

October 13, 1974.

Academy

Marie Johnson Fort (\Us tcsse Thomas)

1910

Jennie Eleanor Anderson, November

1. 1974.

1914

lessica Daves Parker (Mrs Robert

Allerlon]. F.ill. 1974.

1915

Martha Brenner Shryock (Ntrs

lames Nnblel, lune 23, 1974.

1916

Nell Grafton Frye lohnston (Mrs. I.

Bertraml. October 24. 1974.

1918

Pearl Estes Cousins, sister of Ruby Lee

Estes Ware. October 13, 1974

1920

Mary Guerrant Burnett Thorington

(Mrs. W L.). November 14. 1974
Nines L. Hill, husband of Elizabeth
Marsb Hill, November 19, 1974

1921

Pearl Estes Cousins, mother of

Marguerite Coirsins Holley, October 13,

1974.

("icrald R (Mad NtacCarlhy, husband of
Eltzabelb Fnloe MacCarlhy. October
31. 1974.

1924

Gertrude Fambrough Gullatt (Mrs.

Gertrude F 1. October. 1974.

1925

Dr Hubert Edward Merritt, husband of
.Memory Tucker Merritt, October

28. 1974.

1930

Mary Louise Thames Carlledge

(Mrs. Emmelt HI. November 3 1*^71,

1935

Suzanne Smith Miller (Ntrs. lames

Martini, October 21, 1974.

1938

Pearl Estes Cousins, mother of Elizabeth

Co.isins Mozley, October 13, 1974.

19J9

Artyehill Boyd, October 17. 1974.

George H. Kasper, father of Aileen
Kasper Borrish, lune, 1974.

1954

Dr. B Russell Burke, father of Mar>'
Burke Hood. September 18. 1974.
The Reverend Mr. I.imes C. Crier, father
ot lulia Grier Storey, Februar\' 18. 1974.

1957

lohn Uraselton, husband of May
I.Ktjueline Chism Braselton, October
29. 1974.

23

We're at Your Service

what is an alumnae office? Last spring after
being appointed the new Director of Alumnae
Affairs, I was startled when a friend inquired, "Is
your position honorary, or do you put in regular
office hours?" The Alumnae Office is open
from 8:30 to 4:30 Mondays through Fridays. There
are four of us in the office, and we are there
to be of service to you.

The College has a few more than 9,000 living
alumnae. We keep records of names
and addresses of all these alumnae. Did you
know that you have an individual file folder in
our collection of records? These folders hold
correspondence, news items and pertinent
information on your life. To make these files more
complete we respectfully solicit all newsworthy
items about you or other alumnae.

The Office disseminates information about the
College and alumnae through The Alumnae
Quarterly, through letters by Executive Board
Officers and Chairmen, Class Presidents and
Reunion Chairmen. Copy for these letters
is stenciled, mimeographed and mailed from
the College. By the way, all Class Presidents who
haven't yet sent out their annual letters to
classmates will receive speedy assistance from
us whenever they are ready to communicate.

The Alumnae Association, organized in 1895,
having as its purpose the "futherance of the aims
of the College intellectually, financially, and
spiritually," is composed of those former
students who have earned academic credit
at Agnes Scott College. Many of these Association
members work actively to assist the College.
The Director of Alumnae Affairs is liaison
between College and Alumnae.

This year we are striving to strengthen the
national structure of the Alumnae Association
by assisting in the formation of new clubs. In
Georgia new Alumnae Clubs have commenced in
Dalton, Gainesville and Griffin. The Macon
alumnae have regrouped. Other new Agnes
Scott alumnae groups to elect officers and begin
functioning are in New York City, Boston
and Philadelphia.

When informal groups of alumnae say
ten or more get together in distant cities, they
should elect officers and send us a report or
minutes of their meeting with a list of officers
and those present. We have a Coordinator
for Services to Clubs who will send you helpful

information for programs and projects. She
will also send invitations and provide you with
a list of alumnae in your area if you are
planning a meeting.

If there is an Alumna Admissions
Representative in your city, we would like
for her to be on the Executive Board of your club;
for we want all alumnae volunteer work to be
coordinated. The Alumnae Admissions
Representatives will receive special instructions
from the Admissions Office about recruiting.
We are hoping the Alumnae Clubs will be
supportive of this quest by the College for
prospective students and that the Clubs will
publicize Agnes Scott College. Really well-
organized groups will raise funds to help
send good students from their communities
to attend Agnes Scott.

Clubs can make money simply by being agents
for salable items from their regions: Boston
rockers, Georgia pecans, Florida citrus fruit,
Philadelphia historical merchandise. What is
typical or representative of your region? At the
Alumnae Office and available to clubs for
sale are the crewel kit of Main Tower and the
Agnes Scott cookbook, Food for Thought.

Of course an objective of the Alumnae Office
is to cooperate with the Development Office
in seeking to obtain increased participation by
alumnae in annual giving. Last year 33% of our
alumnae gave financial support. Large gifts
are needed and are gratifying; but do not be
embarrassed if your gift is small, for the
percentage of participation by alumnae is an
important guideline to foundations when they
are judging a college as a possible beneficiary.

To complete a discussion of the Alumnae
Office we should mention that we are located in
the Anna Young Alumnae Ftouse which is the
international headquarters of the Alumnae
Association and the guest house for the College.
Alumnae are encouraged to patronize the guest
house when coming to Decatur or Atlanta
for visits.

In wishing you a happy New Year 1 would
remind you that 1975 is International Women's
Year, and we urge you to join with educated
women throughout the world to effect
enlightenment and equality for womankind.

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

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Agnes Scott

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY
SPRING 1975

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Agnes
.Scott

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY/ VOLUME 53 NUMBER 3

Students at Agnes Scott
who are daughters of alumnae.
For identification see inside
back cover.

Alumnae Office Staff

Alumn.if Director

^iruiiii.i iirdun \U Kcii/ii' -17
Associale Director

C.iri'N IJowt-n Cr.iiu liJ
Coordinator of Club Services

lk-ll\ Mi-dliHl, 1,11 ki'\ 4J
Secretary

Fr. trues StrothiT

Alumnae Association Officers

Presittent/ l.inf Kmy -Mien '.M

Vice Presidents

Region 1/ Dordthv Puriliir hj
RcKion 11/ \.ini \ tilw.irds iK
Region III/ \l.ir\ Due l.\vi.rtll CrlliTslr
ReRion IV/ W.iru.iri-I Clik'spri' h')

Secretary/ Elf.inor Lff M( \eill SO

Treasurer/ C.iroliiic Mi Kinnc\- Clarke '27

Alumnae Day 1975
News of and about ASC

13 Leaves from Our Books

14 What She Was Doing Always Got Done
Margaret Whitton Ray '64

by Randy Norton Kratt '58

15 Barbara Caldwell Perrow '54 All Education is Continuing

b\' Care\' Bowen Craig 'b2

16 Clubs Far and Near

19 Class News

Inside "What's Past is Prologue"
Back by Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Cover

Photo Credits

Pages 1, 6, 1. 10 Bill Crimes; Page 2 lucly Thompson Vi: Page 5 Chuck Rogers;
Page 14-Kriight Publishing Co., Page lb-Lucy Hamilton Lewis bS: Page 18-1- T, Phillips
(The TennesseanJ; Page 18 Margie Erickson Charles '59; Page 20 Compliments of
Caroline McKinney Clarke '27.

Editor/Carey Bowen Craig '62, Design Consultant/lohn Stuart McKenzie

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ca. Second class postage paid at Decatur,
Ca. 30030.

A Personal Note

I dislike sentimental good-byes
almost as much as I dislike cleaning
ovens and ironing shirts. And, generally,
I avoid them just as diligently. But "ends
of things" always seem to offer irresistible
opportunities to express hitherto
Linspoken feelings and thanks.

As many of you know, I am
retiring" this summer, at least
temporarily, from alumnae work. Despite
my rapidly advancing years and appalling
lack of maternal instincts (children
scare me to death), I'm about to
embark on the adventure of parenthood.
Although I look forward to the "little
one, ' I'm very sad to leave the
Quarterly, the Alumnae Office and the
special excitement I ve had in getting to
know so many Agnes Scott alumnae.

Nevertheless, it's time to go and I
want to say three thank yous. Thanks
for your support and guidance when
things were busy and decisions
difficult. As the Letters to the Editor
Column shows, you have cared enough
about Agnes Scott and the Alumnae
Association to have opinions and
suggestions. If sometimes they proved
the Editor wrong, so much the better. I
worried much more when you didn't
write land probably didn't read).

Thank you for the opportunity to
edit the Quarterly. I have felt personally
stretched in the process. I will be forever
grateful to the alums, students, faculty
and staff who were good enough to
guest write many fine articles and to
those faithful readers who continued
to follow the progress of the magazine
quarter after quarter.

Finally, I want to say thank you for
being the finest body of women I have
ever met. Aware, involved, sensitive and
open, you seem to make the world you
are part of more vital. Because of what
the College helped you become, you
are part of what she is and can become.
1 am proud to be an Agnes
Scott alumna.

Carey Bowen Craig '62

To the Editor:

I am still a very loyal Agnes Scotter.
The year 1 was allowed to stay at
ASC as a German Exchange Student
has proved to be the most fruitful
of my life. 1 went on studying when
1 returned to Germany in 1936 and
passed my exams as "philologist" in
1940/1941. I'm convinced that I owe
the good results at the Uni\'ersit\' of
Ttibingen, as well as when teaching
foreign languages in a German
college, to a very large part to the
good academic training I got at ASC.

My best wishes to the College
growing in importance.

Lucie Hess Gienger '36

Remstalstrasse. Germanv

To the Editor:

The air-conditioning of VVinship,
the library and Presser Hall
auditoriums reveals an appalling
lack of concern for today's
energy priorities.

Kathy Triplet! '71

Cashiers, North Carolina

To the Editor:

I thoroughly enjoyed the Winter
Quarterly. The letter concerning the
Quarterly's unreal composite picture
of us IS interesting. However, we all
live lives filled with sorrow as well
as joy and I guess in a publication
one wants to share the joy and keep
the sorrow for close friends.

Kay Toole Prevost '39

Anderson, South Carolina

To the Editor:

I have moved from Savannah,
Georgia, to Atlanta, Georgia. The
Quarterly was forwarded to me here.
I always thoroughly enjoy it. It is a
fine magazine. I loved my years at
Agnes Scott and always like to
hear about it.

Cornelia Hutton Hazlehurst '20

Atlanta, Georgia

To the Editor:

I am ever gralcftil for the qualils
of education provided at Agnes
Scott, but most of all for the strong
Christian influence made possible
by dedicated faculty, administration
and student leadership. I count my
years at Agnes Scott among life's
greatest blessings.

Maurine Bledsoe Bramlett '27

Asheville, North Carolina

To the Editor:

The Quarterly gets better all the
time. I read every word of the one
just received, and even though I
don't know the people I scan the
names under all the pictures. And
as I am a very busy person, this
should demonstrate my continuing
interest in ASC.

Lucile Little Morgan '23

Heflin, Alabama

To the Editor:

I received my Winter Quarterly
last week and the special btilletin
this morning. As alwavs, I enjoved
them and the other correspondence
from Scott.

It has occurred to me that
ptiblications, etc. from Scott are the
sole items that come to me now that
are still addressed to Mrs. Donald S.
Hauck. It's laughable to me, and I
would like to request that from now
on everything sent to me be
addressed to Mrs. Margery D. Hauck.

Frankly, I find it a little absurd to
have to make the request. Have \'oli
not considered automatically
changing all your addresses to their
names instead of their titles''

Margery DeFord Hauck '57
Austin, Texas

Thank you so much for your interest. The
Alumnae Office staff will change with
pleasure any name upon receiving a
written request from the alumna. Please
include whole name first, maiden
and married (if desired) and class in
these communications.

The Editor

/Agnes Scott students interested in teaching
are involved in a tutoring program
vv/th nearby Beacon Elementary School

Gladly Lerne and Teche

Right: Agnes Scott senior
Howell Hampton explains
the lesson to elementary
school student Below.
Beacon elementary students
recite during their tutoring
session. Below right: A
happy atmosphere prevails
as lane Brawley 76 listens
to her students.

Beacon School

by Carey Bowen Craig '62

Perhaps the best things a person can give away
are his heart if he truly cares and his
knowledge of books, of ideas, of experience,
of love and hate, of joy and sorrow. At least
these may be the only things that matter.

If this is true, the greatest philanthropist of all
is the teacher. He gives the gift that allows
another person to become more than he is or
at least to develop his potential; and in the
giving, the giver himself may grow.

Because Agnes Scott women have been
nurtured in the liberal arts tradition, the tradition
of concern for human beings, they are natural
teachers, either casually or vocationally. They
may teach their children, their fellow workers,
their acquaintances or their pupils. They may
teach by the book or simply by example.

In the spirit of this heritage, Agnes Scott has
begun a program designed to give the Agnes
Scott student practical teaching experience while
it helps youngsters who need more help than
they can receive in overcrowded classrooms. This
is a cooperative tutoring program sponsored by
Agnes Scott College and the Decatur Public
Schools, in which Agnes Scott students tutor
elementary students at Beacon School.

The seeds for this program were sewn a couple
of years ago when, in the winter of 1973,
Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Education Margaret P. Ammons and Assistant
Professor of Education Lawrence R. Hepburn
discovered nine unused classrooms at Beacon.
They met with Mr. Henry Brown, Principal of
Beacon School, and with his direction and the
cooperation of the Decatur Schools, they
planned a new program. It was a no-cost
program designed to offer remedial and
enrichment help to the elementary school
student and pre-student-teaching experience to
the college student. The program would receive
no funds from the College only human
resources and no funds from Beacon only
the cooperation of the teachers and the raw
material, the students.

In the fall of 1973, Agnes Scott students
enrolled in education, child psychology and
physical education began tutoring fifth and sixth
graders both in the classroom with the teacher
and separately in the renovated rooms. They
helped especially with math, science, social
studies and communications, including all
aspects of language development, although the
tutors were prepared to deal with anything the
child or the teacher needed.

That first quarter, 135 children were involved.
There were tutors every hour during the school
day. The children, the college students, the
teachers and the administration were pleased.
And that was almost two years ago.

The form the tutoring takes is as varied as the
imaginations of the tutors and the responsiveness
of the children. They work on an individual
basis, in small and large groups, sometimes
entire classes, depending on the subject and the
kinds of problems the children have. One
example of a project in the communications
area is a film directed by the Beacon students
and supervised by the Agnes Scott tutors, using
the movie equipment owned by the College. The
tutors are free to use, on a rotating basis, any
instructional material in the education lab.

Another exercise which Marsha Thrift, a senior
music major, has used to help her students at
Beacon involves the use of the telephone
directory. She asks them questions which can be
answered by looking through the directory. This
process teaches the alphabet, helps with spelling
and seems to foster a sense of community,
says Marsha.

If the exercises seem a bit unconventional to
those outside the field, the whole approach is
rather unorthodox. The students are usually free
to move about as they please, even to sit on the
floor. In fact, they use little conventional
classroom furniture. In one room, there is an
automobile set up with all working parts. But,
after all, isn't a car an appropriate desk
for a young American?

Beacon School (continued)

Each Agnes Scott student keeps a log of her
activities with the children; therefore, she can
make specific evaluations at the end of the
quarter. Also, the tutoring is conducted as a
laboratory: they plan their exercises or
mini-lessons, conduct their "experiments" and
bring their notes and problems to the classroom
the next day for critique or explanation. In this
way, the students are able to test the theories
and facts themselves, rather than merely
absorbing them from the book. Marsha
compares the program to the work-study co-op
program at Georgia Tech, where the students
work a quarter and go to school a quarter.
She believes that the Beacon School program is
"very good field experience."

In the same way that practical experience
supplements classroom learning, it also provides
an excellent screening ground. Because any
Agnes Scott student can volunteer for one or
more hours a week. Beacon School offers a place
to "try one's hand" at teaching before signing up
for practice teaching or even for an education
course. And because the tutor frequently works
with a child in the classroom with an
experienced teacher, she cannot do very much
damage if she is unable to cope with a child's
problems or if she simply does not like the work.
Perhaps this kind of "trial run" will eliminate
some of the people who enter the profession,
only to find, sometimes too late, that they are
unhappy, ill-suited teachers.

And what have been the results of this
program for the Beacon students and the Agnes
Scott students? For many years, tutoring,
especially on a one-to-one level, has been
recommended for students having difficulties.
Now, authorities are beginning to feel that the
teaching process is just as beneficial for the
teacher as it is for the learner. According to the
magazine American Education, statistics have
shown that both "teacher" and "pupil" profit

from a tutoring experience, even when the tutor
is young and untrained. Both learn more about
the subject and more about themselves.

Principal Henry Brown believes that the
program has been quite beneficial to the
elementary students at Beacon. He is especially
pleased that the Agnes Scott students have
worked so well with the children.

As for the tutors themselves, Marsha Thrift says
that the program has not only given her the
opportunity to learn about teaching, it has also
changed her attitude about it. Now she definitely
plans to enter the teaching field. She maintains
that she "never realized before how exciting
it can be."

Junior history major Barbara Clark is very
enthusiastic about the program. Although she
needed no convincing that teaching was her
calling (she has "always wanted to teach"), she
feels that the Beacon program has given her a
great deal of necessary experience, especially
with "slow learners" and children with discipline
problems, both of whom she particularly enjoys
working with. The excitement of the challenge
lighted up her whole face as she said, "No matter
how bad I feel, I always come out smiling."

According to Professor Ammons, the program
will continue. It is now a course requirement
for Elementary Education and Child Psychology,
although many girls work more than the
necessary one hour a week, and students who
are not enrolled in either course continue to
volunteer their time for the program. The
premise appears to be that not only do they want
to learn something how to teach and whether
or not they like it but they also want to give of
themselves and their knowledge. These Agnes
Scott students seem to be saying to the Beacon
youngsters, "I care enough about you to help
you." And like Chaucer's virtuous Clerk,
"gladly wolde [they] lerne, and gladly teche."A

The Atlanta

Agnes Scott Alumnae

Clubs

and Richs

Present the Rrst Annual

Golden^eedle
AuMrd^FBStival

for the benefit of
Agnes Scott College

Rich's Ptua Floor Auditorium. Downtown

April 17,18,19

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Lfirgv :^ign jttrdcts \ /s;f(j;> fo the Co/f/en \eecllv Fi'stix ,1/ in Kich \
PLt/h Aiiditoriiim.

A smashing success

t>

Golden Needle Festival
draws thousands

Festival Chairman Bett\ Lou Hmirk bnuth JT en/tns
an infrequent rest in her emhroidered wini; chair, one
oi the outstanding entries in the Festnal.

The distinguished judges tor the Festival were (left to right i L(niis I Gartner.
Virginia Maxwell and Hope Hanlev In the left background are disi-)la\ed the
celebrity and heirloom entries.

Abu\e: The Fiest in Show position
was won b\ \ir Erie Fl . Fo\. of
Atlanta, for this needlepoint land-
scape adapted from a water color
and entered in the \eedlecraft by
Men categorv

Far left Christie Theroit Woodiin h8.
in her original needlepoint chair, and
Bettv .Ann Catewood Wvlie '(i3. hold-
ing her original needlepoint Christ-
mas stocking, were two members of
the Festi\al Committee.

Left The heirloom categorv featured
the spinning wheel belonging to
Agnes Scott, the founder's mother,
whose picture is at the bottom In
the right background can be seen an
'mbroidered panel used in the wed-
ding dress of Mrs. lames R Cilliam.
Ir . mother of Mrs \lar\in Perr\ \/rs
Perrv incorporated the panels into
her own wedding dress.

7776 Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Report of th

April, 1974, Jane King Allen '59 was
elected president of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association. Her two-year
term of office began July 1, 1974.

As national head of the Agnes
Scott alumnae, Jane is responsible
for leading and coordinating the
work of the Executive Board, the
elected board of officers and
committee chairmen who serve as
spokesmen for the entire alumnae
body. She represents the Alumnae
Association on special occasions,
presides over alumnae gatherings
and, along with the other members
of the Executive Board, works
closely with the alumnae office staff
to implement Association policy and
acts as a liaison between the College
and the alumnae.

Since graduation from Agnes Scott,
where she was a philosophy major
and a member of the executive
committee of student government,
Jane has been active in alumnae
work. She served from 1972-1974 on
the Executive Board as vice president
for region III (Georgia, Florida and
Tennessee). She is also past president
of the Nashville Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club.

An elder in St. Luke's Presbyterian
Church in Dunwoody, Georgia, Jane
is coordinator of their college
group, former chairman of the
Christian Education Committee and
has served as a commissioner of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church m the United States. She
is a member of the League of
Women Voters in Georgia.

lane and her husband. Bona, live
in Dimwoody, a community about
twenty miles from Atlanta. They
have two children. Bona King, 14,
and Frances Elizabeth, 11.

Being leader of 9000 plus alumnae
might seem overwhelming for the
pretty, petite Jane, but anyone who
knows her realizes that crowds,
concerns and responsibilities are
"right up her alley." The poise and
confidence as she conducts a
meeting, the ease and good humor

lanv /)m/n('s ,1 i)uicl\i',e jt the Young Atlanta Club Bazaar.

when she plans a conference and the
understanding and warmth with
which she approaches her friends

and tamily all reveal the qualities
which make her an excellent choice
to lead the Agnes Scott alumnae.

Jumnae President

Jane King Allen '59

I welcome this opportunity to report to you,
the alumnae of Agnes Scott. As a preface to my
report, I wish to share with you a view of our
alumnae which I have heard Dr. Perry express on
several occasions. He has remarked how very
impressed he has been with the Agnes Scott
alumnae whom he has met both in Atlanta and in
his travels around the country. He believes that
the quality of the lives and the achievements of
these women bear a strong testimony to the
excellence of the liberal arts education which
they received at Agnes Scott. This education, in
an atmosphere of Christian commitment, has
very obviously played a significant role in making
our alumnae what they are today. You, therefore,
provide one of the means by which we can most
effectively advertise Agnes Scott as the very fine
liberal arts college which it is. You can see how
valuable you are!

Virginia McKenzie, who is the director of
alumnae affairs, the alumnae office staff and the
Executive Board of the Alumnae Association act
as liaison agents between you and the College.
Our purpose is to serve you and the College, to
keep you informed and involve you in alumnae
activities. The Executive Board is comprised of
the officers of the Association, chairmen of
standing committees and the two alumnae
trustees of the College. The presidents of alumnae
clubs, the alumnae fund chairman and executive
members of the alumnae staff serve as
ex-officio members.

The Executive Board holds three meetings each
year. The fall meeting was held in October, 1974,
in conjunction with the Alumnae Council. The
Alumnae Council provides an opportunity for
alumnae leaders to return to campus, to hear
from Dr. Perry, various administrative heads and
students and to participate in workshops led by
board members and college personnel involved
with alumnae in fund raising and the alumnae
admissions representative program.

The officers of the Association are the
president; secretary, Eleanor Lee McNeill '59;
treasurer, Caroline McKinney Clarke '27; and four

regional vice-presidents: Dorothy Porcher '62,
Nancy Edwards '58, Mary Duckworth Cellerstedt
'46 and Margaret Gillespie '69. The standing
committee chairmen are career advisory
chairman, Adelaide Ryall Beall '52; class council
chairman, Nell Allison Sheldon '38; club
chairman, Charlotte Webb Kendall '65;
education chairman, Ellen Middlebrooks Davis
'62; entertainment chairman, Sarah Cheshire
Killough '67; house chairman, Nelle Chamlee
Howard '34; nominations chairman, Betty Smith
Satterthwaite '46; projects chairman,
Christie Theriot Woodfin '68; and publications
chairman, Betty Medlock Lackey '42. The
alumnae trustees are the two past presidents of
the Association, Gene Slack Morse '41 and
Memye Curtis Tucker '56. The alumnae fund
chairman is Sis Burns Newsome '57.

The treasurer of the Association has procured
books for the Agnes Scott library in honor of
last year's retiring faculty members. She is also
working with the projects chairman to conceive
ideas for use of the money raised from the sale
of the crewel kits. The possibility of national
projects is being considered.

The four regional vice-presidents, the club
chairman and the alumnae office have been hard
at work establishing new alumnae clubs and
encouraging those already in existence.
Virginia McKenzie, Dr. Perry and faculty
members have traveled to many of these clubs
to talk with them about the College. We are
proud to inform you that there are now 27 active
alumnae clubs. The club chairman is currently
involved in the revision of the club handbook
which will be very beneficial in organizing and
sustaining our alumnae clubs.

The clubs in the Atlanta area have worked
cooperatively on the Bazaar, sponsored by the
Young Atlanta Club, and the Golden Needle
Award Festival, sponsored by the Atlanta Club.
Alumnae attending Alumnae Weekend this year
were able to benefit from both of these projects
because items from the Bazaar were on sale
in the Hub and the Golden Needle

Alumnae President (continued)

Award Festival was Ineid during this very
eventful weekend.

The Shadow Program sponsored by our career
advisory committee, the career planning office
of the College and the Dana scholars provides
opportunities for Agnes Scott students to shadow
people in various professions in order that they
might see first-hand what those particular jobs
entail. Last year 90 students requested this service,
and there have been 64 requests this year.

The class council chairman heads class officers
in their work for the Association and the College.
She has written letters to all class presidents
reminding them to write annual letters to class
members. She also reminded reunion class
presidents to appoint reunion chairmen. Her job
further involved introducing reunion classes at
the luncheon in April.

There have been four continuing education
courses offered for alumnae and friends in the
Atlanta area. These are non-credit short courses
taught by members of the Agnes Scott faculty
and people of the Atlanta academic and
professional community. There have been
courses on the United States Government,
motherhood, modern woman and modern
poetry. Clubs in other areas may want to explore
the idea of providing similar educational
experiences for local alumnae. They perhaps
could be led by professors from colleges in their
towns or by other people in the community.

The entertainment chairman has worked this
year to plan refreshments and meals for the
Alumnae Council, the Executive Board meetings
and Alumnae Weekend. She makes arrangements
to secure any necessary tables and equipment
for these affairs.

We hope that any time you are in the Atlanta
area you will avail yourselves of the opportunity
to vist the Agnes Scott campus. I know that you
are aware of many physical changes which have
been made. We also want to call your attention

to the hard work that has been done in the
alumnae garden. The results which you will see
have been accomplished by the efforts of a
garden committee of the alumnae under the
direction of the house chairman on the Board,
who has agreed to serve as garden chairman.
There are also improvements planned for
the alumnae house.

Each year the nominations chairman selects a
committee comprised of representatives from
four decades and, if possible, the last three
presidents. This year the chairman sent a
questionnaire asking for suggestions of persons
qualified to fill the necessary positions. The
chairman met with her committee and the
director of alumnae affairs and drew up a slate
of officers which was presented at the annual
meeting of the Alumnae Association in April.

The publications chairman acquired books by
alumnae which were exhibited for the Alumnae
Council. She continues to work on this project
and would appreciate any help from you.

One interesting duty that I, as president of the
Association, have been asked to perform is,
along with three other alumnae, to serve on the
Long-Range Planning Committee for the College.
This committee, comprised of people from the
Board of Trustees, the President's Advisory
Council, the administration, faculty, students and
alumnae will be making plans for Agnes Scott's
second century. There are three subcommittees
academic program, student life, and finance and
development. I have been placed on the student
life subcommittee whose chairman is
Dean Martha Huntington.

It is my hope that this report has been
beneficial in acquainting you with the activities
of the Alumnae Association. We would welcome
and appreciate any ideas, suggestions and
concerns which you may want to share with us.
We are anxious to know of ways that we may
better serve you and Agnes Scott. A

\nne Di^eker Beohc h7 (right, fore-
ground) pins, a ilower on Elizabeth
Marsh Hill '20 during registration for
Alumnae Day. On right. Margery
Moore Tappan '20 also wears a flower
signifying members of classes earlier
than 1925.

.\nna Case '75. senior psychol(>g\ ;i7,i/or. f//.s-
ciisses the attitudes of Atlanta area elders and
ministers toward women in the ministry in her
paper. What Would You Say to a Lady
Preacher^' Dr. Lee Copple. her mdependent
stud\ adyisor. looks on.

I)r Mnhacl lUown Professor
()( History and Chairman of the
Department, spoke to alumnae
on the .ymencan Revolution
ironi an Fnglishman\ point of
\ lew . in a speech entitled
May ir

Alumnae Day attracts a record number

Aboye: kleanorLee McNeill '59,
Secretary of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation, reads the minutes dur-
ing the annual meeting. Memye
Curtis Tucker 56, Alumna
Trustee, sits at left and Betty
Smith Satterthwaite '4b, Nomi-
nations Chairman, sits at right.

Left: ,-\lumnae begin the
annual meeting in Gaines
by singing Agnes Scott's
favorite hymn "Cod of the
Marching Centuries''

Alumnae Day

(continLU'd)

At the call of the dinner bell, alumnae leave the
informal gathering in the Quadrangle and head
for the luncheon.

In a special presentation during the annual meeting, Catherine Baker
Matthews 32 (left) acknowledges the outstanding contributions to
Agnes Scott College of Mary Wallace Kirk '11 (right) as she presents
her the first Distinguished Alumna Award, jane King Allen '59 (center),
President of the Alumnae Association, watches as alumnae give Mary
Wallace a standing ovation.

Above: Faculty members and alumnae con-
gratulate Mary Wallace as she crosses
campus. Left to right: Virginia Brown
McKenzie '47, Alumnae Director: Mary
Wallace Kirk '11: Ferdinand Warren, Pro-
fessor of Art, Emeritus; George P. Hayes,
Professor of English, Emeritus; and John A.
Tumblin, jr.. Professor of Sociology and
Anthropology.

Right: Three generations of Agnes Scott
women visit during Alumnae Day. They are
Carolyn Smith Whipple '25, Carolyn Ann
Bitter 76, and Barbara Whipple Bitter '48

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<3^%x)s of and about ASC

New courses, guest professors and
research projects are expanding
learning opportunities for Agnes
Scott students this year and next.

Economics

This year Dr. William M. Vandiver,
a visiting professor from the
graduate faculty of the Georgia State
University School of Business, is
teaching a two-quarter course in
accounting and economic decision-
making. Students from diverse
disciplines are taking the course,
which introduces them to basic
concepts and procedures of
accounting, the language of business
and its application to all types of
economic entities.

Dr. Vandiver emphasizes the
interpretation of information and its
use and limitation in making
economic decisions. Students learn
an orderly approach toward analyzing
and solving economic problems in
general, whether they involve
personal and household management
or organizational finance.

History

In history, Dr. Bell I. Wiley, world
renowned American Civil War
historian and professor emeritus of
Emory University, is historian-in-
residence at Agnes Scott. A
recognized author of numerous
histories of the Civil War, including
Confederate Women, he is teaching
a Civil War course in which he
emphasizes the social and economic
life of women on the home front
during the war years. The military
history of the war is being illustrated
with a two-day field trip over
General Sherman's route through
Georgia to Savannah, where the class
will visit Fort Pulaski and other
significant war sites.

Sociology

In an urban sociology course taught
by Dr. Paul Mills, chairman of the
economics and sociology
department, students are helping the
City of Decatur develop a plan for
improving a poor neighborhood.

The students are interviewing the
adult residents to determine Iheir
needs and interests in housing,
recreation, sanitation, education,
medical care, transportation, day care
centers and other possibilities for
federal funding, which the City has
requested for neighborhood
development. The students will
analyze their data and present a
report to the City Planning Board on
improvements the residents would
support.

In the classroom, after having
attended a City Planning Board
meeting and having visited a planned
city, the students will draw up their
own plan for effectively improving
the neighborhood. By the end of
the course, the students will have
participated in, or observed, the
steps invoked in urban planning.

Biology

This summer eight students will
study desert biology in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and southern
California under the supervision of
Dr. Harry Wistrand, assistant
professor of biology. Camping out
along the way, the group will travel
the 7,000 mile roundtrip in the
College minibus.

For 25 days they will study plant
and animal adaptations to desert
condititons. They will study with
guest lecturers at the University of
Oklahoma Biological Station and
Arizona State University. They will
conduct field work in the Chihuahua
Desert at Big Ben National Park,
Texas, and in the Sonora Desert of
Arizona in the Madeira Canyon and
around Phoenix. In San Diego,
California, the group will visit
Scrlpps Institution of Oceanography
and hear lectures at the University of
California. On the return trip they
will visit the American Museum of
Natural History Field Station in
Portal, Arizona.

Political Science

Next fall the history and political
science department will offer a
course in politics and the

environment. The instructor, Dr.
David Orr, assistant professor of
political science, has planned five
field trips within a 100-mile radius
of Atlanta to sites of environmental
problems or on-going projects. At the
sites, the students will make first-
hand observations and evaluations of
the problems. In the classroom, the
students will studv the political
[process in environmental policy
making.

Chemistry

One or two ASC chemistry
students will have the opportunity
this summer to work with faculty
researchers at Agnes Scott and
Georgia State University. Aided by
an $11,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation's Undergradiiate
Research Participation Program, the
two institutions will involve six
undergraduates in laboratory
research in progress in the two
chemistry departments. The grant
provides, in addition to materials and
overhead expenses, an S800 stipend
for each student.

Each student will choose the
research problem on which she
wishes to work and will be carefully
oriented to that research and the
methodology being used. Then,
according to Dr. Marion Clark,
project director for the program and
chairman of the Agnes Scott
chemistry department, each student
will be encouraged to plan her own
experiments on some aspect of the
on-going research problem and make
her own interpretations of the data.

Fine Arts Department

In the art department this spring,
visiting lecturer Mrs. Evelyn Mitchell
is teaching an art history course,
"The Arts of Africa." An artist herself,
her drawings and wall hangings are
on display in the Dalton Galleries of
the Dana Fine Arts Building, along
with an exhibit of pieces from the
William and Robert Arnett Collection
of African Art. Mrs. Mitchell, who

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ews

(continued)

was director of the Afro-American
Cultural Center and assistant
professor of art at Cleveland State
University, Ohio, is now slide
librarian for the Georgia State
University art department and a guest
lecturer at the Atlanta High
Museum of Art.

Music

in addition to its annual fall and
spring concerts, the Agnes Scott
Glee Club has sung a pops concert
with the Georgia Tech Glee Club, a
concert with the Davidson College
Male Chorus and a concert at the
Decatur Presbyterian Church, in
April the Club performed for the
state convention of the Georgia
Association of Eduactors. The
Madrigal Singers shared a concert
with the Duke's Men of Yale in
March at Agnes Scott.

Dance

The Agnes Scott Dance Group,
directed by Mrs. Marylin Darling,
dance instructor, performs in May
with the Emory University Consort
and the Emory University Chamber
Chorus. Dance group members are
choreographing the dances, some of
which will be accompanied only by
the Consort (instrumental group)
and others only by the Chorus. The
work, "Carmena Burana" by Orff,
will be a combined effort by singers,
dancers and instruments. Also,
together, the three groups will
perform Bach's "Cantata No. 78."

Drama

The Agnes Scott Blackfriar's
musical production of The Grass
Harp was selected this winter as first
alternate for the southeastern
regional competition of the American
College Theatre Festival. The
Blackfriars' production of the
Truman Capote play was selected
along with six winning plays from
among 38 college and university
productions. Agnes Scott was the
only woman's college represented
among the winners and alternates.
Director of the play was Dr. Jack
Brooking, visiting professor of speech
and drama from the University of
Kansas.

Also honored was Agnes Scott
actress Susan Stigall, who played a
character role in The Grass Harp.
She was one of eleven students
selected by the American College
Theatre Festival to compete for a
$500 scholarship awarded on the
regional level. Susan is a senior
biology major from Columbus,
Georgia.

SUMMER IN ENGLAND

On-site learning in England, Scotland
and Wales awaits 32 Agnes Scott
students who will take a six-week
course this summer in the "Social
Ffistory of Tudor and Stuart England."
Teaching the course will be Dr.
Michael ). Brown, a native of
England and chairman of the Agnes
Scott history and political science
department.

The first two weeks the students
will study and sightsee in London,
where they will stay at University
College. Then the course will move
successively to other cities, where
the group will stay at universities,
including the University of Exeter,
Oxford University, York University
and the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Distinguished British
historians will serve as guest
lecturers and conduct tours of
historical sites related to their
lecture topics. Tours will be made
of Parliament, Stonehenge, Stratford-
on-Avon, art museums, famous
palaces and cathedrals and other
historically significant sites.

According to Dr. Brown, the
students will also have time "for
getting to know another country and
people in ways that cannot be
duplicated in the distant classroom
or by the hurried summer
tourist's trip."

They will have time to attend the
theatre, including two performances
at the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre, and they will have time for
walking in the countryside and
exploring new places.

The course has no prerequisites,
so any Agnes Scott student in good
standing academically is eligible.

DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM
IN ENGINEERING

Training in engineering is now open

to Agnes Scott students through a
dual degree program in engineering
with the Georgia Institute of
Technology. In this program, a
student may combine three years of
liberal arts studies at Agnes Scott
with two years of specialized work
in an engineering field at Georgia
Tech. Upon completion of this
five-year liberal arts/professional
program, she will have earned a
bachelor's degree in engineering
from Georgia Tech and a bachelor
of arts degree from Agnes Scott. A
highly qualified student may
complete a master's degree from
Georgia Tech rather than the
bachelor's degree.

One advantage of the dual degree
program for the Agnes Scott woman
is the opportunity to learn in an
environment focused on women and
their needs, before entering the
professionally-oriented classroom
on a coeducational campus.

A second advantage is the freedom
to explore other interests before
beginning specialized technical
studies. At Agnes Scott, a student
can take courses oriented for the
liberal arts major in fine arts,
literature and languages, philosophy,
history and the social sciences, in
addition to math and the
natural sciences.

A third advantage is the breadth
and depth of knowledge about
mankind earned through a liberal arts
education that will make the engineer
more sensitive to the effects of her
decisions on society. Her liberal arts
education will also prepare her to
hold management positions requiring
innovative thinking and sensitivity
to other people.

The engineering fields included in
the dual degree program at the
bachelor's level are aerospace,
ceramic, chemical, civil, electrical,
industrial, mehanical, nuclear and
textile engineering, textiles, textile
chemistry, engineering science,
engineering economic systems and
health systems.

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Leaves from Our Books

THE STORY
of
DECATUR

1823-1899

The Story of Decatur: 1823-1899

Caroline McKinney Clarke '27
Higgins-McArthur/Longino &

Porter, Inc., 1973

Atlanta, Georgia 30344, $6.50

Written for Decatur's
Sesquicentennial Celebration,
The Story of Decatur is, in the
author's own words, "an informally
told story of some of the people
who participated in its life, and of
some of the incidents and events
which have occurred." It is, indeed,
an interesting, very readable account
of the pioneers and the happenings
of the years between 1823, when the
country town of Decatur was born,
to 1899, when the town began to
emerge from the horrors of a
devastating war.

The Story of Decatur is composed
of many delightful, small portraits
of people, chronologically displayed,
which fit together to give a realistic
picture of events and atmosphere
of the times. For example, there
is a report of a Decatur woman and
her servant walking through the
night behind the retreating
Confederate cavalry from Atlanta
to her home and then of the
destruction of her property by the
"Yanks." This and other individual
accounts combine to make an
excellent description of the effect
of the destruction of Atlanta and
Decatur by Sherman's army. The
author describes the hunger, the
fear, the horror of Sherman's
"scorched earth policies."

The book is not filled with
sorrow, however; there are

light-hearted stories too. And like
herself, the author's anecdotes are
clever, funny and yet insightful. She
writes with love of the everyday
life of people in her town.

Caroline McKinney Clarke is
herself a native Decaturite, still
living in the house in which she was
born. As a member of two of
Decatur's oldest pioneer families

the Candlers and the McKinneys

and as a scholar and lover of
history, she is well-qualified for the
task of writing the book which was
published to commemorate
Decatur's 150th birthday.

Until her retirement in 1972,
Caroline was the director of the
DeKalb County Department of
Family and Children's Services. She
had been with the department for
28 years. She has one daughter,
Louise Hill Reaves '54, who lives in
Marion, South Carolina.

SOMETHING

MORE

IN SEARCH OF.
A DEEPER FAITH

?;;/

Something More: In Search of
a Deeper Faith

Catherine Wood Marshall '36
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974
New York, New York, $6.95

In Something More, Catherine
Marshall again reveals to her readers
the insights she has gained through
her struggles with some of the most
difficult questions the Christian can
ask. She explores the problems of
suffering and death; the reality of
evil, the "unholy spirit"; the
conquering of fear and the

effectiveness of prayer for spiritual,
physical and material help from God.

She writes candidly of her
personal battles with doubt and
grief, especially after the death of
two of her grandchildren. The
chapter, "The Golden Bridge of
Praise" describes her realization that
praising God in every situation,
good or bad, is "faith in action."
Another subject comes from her
personal knowledge of the
"generation gap"; her step-
daughter's involvement with the
"Youth Revolution." "Forgiveness:
The Aughts and the Anys" and
"The Law of Generations" offers
advice for parents and children and
husbands and wives who have
become estranged in today's
uncertain, fear-ridden world.

Finally, she deals with the
presence of the Holy Spirit in the
world. From her acquaintance with
many young "Jesus Freaks" and her
knowledge of the Pentecostal
Movement, Catherine is not afraid to
examine the causes even as they
reflect negatively on the modern
church as well as the pitfalls of
the emotional approach to
Christianity.

Because of her many experiences,
her constant research and her faith
in God, Catherine Marshall is able
to write convincingly of the results
of her search for a deeper faith. She
continues to believe that God "holds
out to us the exciting promise
of something more."

One of Agnes Scott's best-known
alumnae, Catherine Marshall has
shared with her vast public the
experiences of her life since she
published A Man Called Peter.
Author or editor of twelve books,
she has written of her late
minister-husband and of her struggle
to regain life after his death.
To Live Again offers good, healthy
advice to widows. Recently, she has
written of her spiritual "self" In
Beyond Our Selves and of her
delightful mother in Christy. But
always she writes of her faith in God.

Catherine is now married to
Leonard LeSourd, editor of
Guideposts magazine. They live in
Boynton Beach, Florida. C.B.C.

13

Agnes Scott in the World

What She Was Doing Always Got
Done-Margaret Whitton Ray '64

I3v Randv Norton Kratt '58

She should have known better than
to get involved. It certainly wasn't
the safe thing to do. But then
Margaret Whitton Ray never was
one to sit by and watch while her
city was sliding into a thicket of
dissent and negativism. So, she did
an extraordinary thing which is
why she, at 33, was named
Charlotte, North Carolina, Woman
of the Year in January, 1975, and
her face has become a familiar
feature of everyday's newspaper.

In many American cities, the
matter of school desegregation is a
tangled and potentially stormy issue.

It was no different in Charlotte. The
court had ordered a plan to be
submitted by May, 1974. The plan
that the school officials had devised,
however, included massed busing,
which was not acceptable to many
concerned citizens. After meeting
to make their views known to the
School Board, the spokesmen for
mdividual groups decided to
combine forces to draw up an
alternative plan for the Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County public
schools.

Margaret took on the thorny job
as Chairman of the CAG with its

Al)u\e left. Margaret
Whitton Ray
curitemplatei the
enormous task before
her. Above right:
Margaret relaxes with
her children. Betsv
and Will Right:
Margaret and
colleague on the
Citizens Advisor\
Croup listen to
varying opinions

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widely divergent countywide
representation. Feelings were so
high she wasn't sure the committee
could even communicate, let alone
come up with any recommendations.
So her idea was to meet first over
dinner where "Southerners have
been taught to be polite." It worked.
They began to talk and began an
arduous month's long effort of
meeting day and night to hammer
out inequities, problems and their
own attitudes. One of the chief
problems was coming to a proposal
which would satisfy the Federal
Court of Appeals Judge James B.
McMillan's order for desegregation
in actuality, yet not shift children
from school to school yearly across
town to maintain balance. Working
with the staff of the school system,
Margaret and her committee made
recommendations to the School
Board which they, and later Judge
McMillan, endorsed. Their
recommendations were put into
effect in the fall of 1974.

There still remain problems, but
the community consensus is that the
plan Margaret and her committee
worked out is infinitely fairer and
more stable than the chaos which
preceded it.

Margaret admits that during this
grueling time her family suffered.
Her toddler son, three-year-old
daughter and lawyer husband did
not see much of her. But now she
is resting until something else comes
up, no doubt.

Earlier Margaret spearheaded the
founding of a Street Academy for
teenage public school dropouts, a
casual creative skill-building place
for students who are discipline
problems and cannot seem to make it
in conventional classrooms. This
project too is alive and well in
Charlotte, thanks in part to
Margaret's energies.

Betty Hutchison Cowden '67,
1974-75 president of Charlotte's
Agnes Scott alumnae club remembers
Margaret from Agnes Scott days. "She
seemed very quiet, but what she was
doing always got done." That must
be Margaret's secret.

Barbara Caldwell Perrow '54-
All Education is Continuing

Barbara Caldwell Perrow '51 is one

of those rare people who has
developed an interesting job and a
concern for the community into a
full-fledged career. Working in
community agencies, such as the Girl
Scouts and the Y.W.C.A., she became
interested in public administration.
Now, two degrees and a few years
later, she has been appointed
Executive Director of the Summer
Session and Evening College in the
College of Continuing Education at
the University of Southern California.

Barbara's responsibilities include
directing the operation of the
on-campus credit programs duirng
the summer and evening. The
students are the regular USC students
who want to accelerate or to take
some particular summer offering and
special students, such as professional
groups returning to summer school,
or part-time students studying while
they work.

In the 70's, most universities and
colleges are looking beyond their
walls for better ways to relate to a
greater public. Continuing education
programs are very important to this
end. According to Barbara,

"Continuing Education is the arm of
the university that allows it lo
penetrate its environment and go
out into the community to fill
needs there." Presently, she and her
staff are in the process of developing
an innovative extended degree
program for upper division
Lmdergraduate degrees for full-time
working people.

Even before she became director,
Barbara was searching for educational
systems designed to meet community
needs. While she was a faculty
member in the School of Public
Administration, she directed a
program which made possible the
earning of a master's degree by
minority students who were at
middle and upper management
levels of neighborhood health
centers across the country. The
program had an intensive semester
format, supplemented by her visits
to each student on the job.

Previously an assistant professor in
use's School of Public
Administration, Barbara received her
Master of Public Administration
degree and her Ph.D. from USC.
Between college and graduate

school, she worked for the Girl
Scouts, the YWCA and the
Volunteer Bureau.

Barbara has authored and
co-authored papers for the Alfred
Sloan Foundation and the
International Congress of
Gerontology. (Her doctoral study
included a minor in Gerontology.)
She is an Associate of the Danforth
Association, whose members are
selected for their concern for
quality of teaching and human
relations.

As have other Agnes Scott
alumnae, Barbara has excelled in a
largely male-dominated field. When
she first began her studies, she was
one of the very few female students
in the School of Public
Administration. Although the
situation has changed somewhat, as
more women move into typically
men-oriented areas, she has been
regarded as "a little bit strange."

Barbara has not only proved herself
in a "man's world," she has
combined her "oLitside" career with
that of wife and mother. Her
husband. Maxwell V. Perrow, holds
his Ph.D. in TelecommLmications
from USC and is a Presbyterian
minister. They have one seven-year-
old child, Douglas. She maintains that
although there are problems with
three roles professional, wife and
mother mainly because one is
always tired, she is rarely bored.
"Having too many roles can be
frustrating, but so can having too
few. On balance I guess I'm
recommending the combination."

Barbara Caldwell Perrow likes her
work; she enjoys the challenge of
devising educational systems
pertinent to today's needs, and
she likes working with the university
administration. Her philosophy
about continuing education is that
all education is continuing. "In order
to survive, we as individuals, as well
as our institutions, must continuously
learn. If we can develop a system
that encourages continuous learning
for individuals and organizations, we
can perhaps create a society that
can renew itself."

15

CLUBS FAR AND NEAR

Dallas

Dallas alumnae have shown great
enthusiasm, meeting twice in the
span of three months. On November
16, 1974, thirteen met together in a
luncheon-planning session.
"Illustrious but modest" alumnae in
their midst were authors Winifred
Kellersberger Vass and Virginia Gray
Pruitt, Jerry Kay Foote with a Master
of Music degree and Bonnie
Prendergast, a C.P.A. with her own
accounting practice.

More than doubling their
attendance in honor of college
speaker Dr. Nancy Groseclose,
professor of biology and chairman
of the department, twenty-eight
alumnae attended a luncheon on
Founder's Day, February 22, 1975.
Alumnae from as far away as Texas
appreciated the first-hand information
about the College. Professor emeritus
Henry Robinson visited the club
meeting as their "male alum."
Officers of the club for 1975 are
President Lucy Hamilton Lewis,
Secretary Susan Watson Black and
Treasurer Bonnie Prendergast.

Suellen Beverly Hamler '60, Marlin
Day Cwach '61, Patricia Fdwards
Hight '71, Virginia Feddeman Kerner
'51, Jerry Kay Foote '72, Betsy Fuller
Hill '69, Virginia Gray Pruitt '32,
Lucy Hamilton Lewis '68, Jane
Hancock Thau '63, Agnes Harnsberger
Rogers '47, Betty Hutcheson Carroll
'63, Winifred Kellersberger Vass '38,
Harriett Lamb O'Connor '50, Joan
Lawrence Rogers '49, Norah Anne
Little Green '50, Judy Markham
Harbin '71, Mary Munroe McLoughlin
'45, Helen Patterson Johnson '68,
Helen Pope Scott '47, Bonnie
Prendergast '69, Joan Scott Curtis
'73, Nancy Sibley Rempe '63, Louise
Sullivan Fry '40, Anne Sylvester Booth
'54, Ruth Thomas Stemmons '28,
Sarah Watson Emery '33, Susan
Watson Black '72 and Penny Williams
Tongate '61 were the alumnae in
attendance at the meetings.

Dr Henry Robinson, gueit at the Dallas luncheon, converses with Virginia Cray Pruitt 32
and Winitrcd Keller<,berger Vass 38.

Dallas Club members are lett to right trunt row: jerry Kay Foote 72, Susan Watson Black
72, Tricia Edwards Hight 77, Louise Sullivan Fry '40, and Winifred Kellersberger Vass 38;
back row: Sarah Watson Emery '33, Helen Patterson Johnson '68, Bonnie Prendergast '69,
Anne Sylvester Booth '54, Mary Munroe McLoughlin '45, Helen Pope Scott '47. and lane
Hancock Thau '63.

16

Birmingham

In celebration of Founder's Day,
fifty-seven alumnae and guests
gathered in Birmingham, Alabama, on
February 22, 1975. The program
featured Dr. Perry as speaker,
emphasizing the greater need for a
woman's college due to new roles
for women in today's society.
Admissions Office representatives
were there to spark enthusiasm for
the College. According to club
president Mary Vines Wright, the
personal touch of telephone calls as
well as mailed invitations "created a
diffusion of interest and made some
'drop-outs' return to the fold."
Pauline Willoughby Wood, serving
as vice president, Betty Young
von Flerrmann, as secretary, and
Grace Brewer Hunter, as treasurer,
complete the Birmingham slate of
officers. Plans for the future include
helping admissions representatives
entertain high school seniors at
an October tea.

Attending the meeting were
Marilyn Abendroth Tarpy '67,
Margaret Batton Terry '49, Frances
Bitzer Edson '25, Dorothy Bowron
Collins '23, Bunny Brannan Hamrick
'47, Grace Brewer FHunter '67, Lela
Anne Brewer '48, Lucy Chapman '69,
Pamela Coffey '74, Jane Davis Mahon
'67, Lucy Durr Dunn '19, Kate Durr
Flmore '49, Florrie Erb Bruton '36,
Rose Anne Ferrante Waters '71,
Elizabeth Forman '36, Christine
Fulton Baldwin '71, Louise Cehrken
Howie '49, Mildred Goodrich '20,
Julia Harvard Warnock '44, Jessie
Hodges Kryder '50, Gary Home
Petrey '40, Sallie Horton Lay '25,
Genie Blue Howard Mathews '22,
Florence Kleybecker Keller '33,
Gretchen Kleybecker Chandler '36,
Sara Lee Jackson '41, Eloise Lennard
Smith '40, Margaret Loranz '33,
Myrtice Marianni Donaldson '48,
Margaret McRae Edwards '53, Anna
Meade Minnigerode '23, Suzie Miller
Howick '72, Mary Anne Murphy
Hornbuckle '69, Betty Noble

Bosworth '71, Virginia Ordway '24,
Polly Paine Kratt '64, Jenny Pinkston
Daily '69, Allene Ramege Fitzgerald
'26, Saphura Safavi Long '72, Nellie
Scott Pritchett '47, Olivia Swann '26,
Eugenia Thompson Akin '25, Lucy
TLirner Knight '46, Mary Vines Wright
'36, Dorothy Lee Webb McKee '45,
Barbara West Dickens '53, PaLiline
Willoughby Wood '30, Mary Madison
Wisdom '41 and Betty Young von
Herrmann '69.

Central Florida

Renewing old ties and establishing
new ones. Central Florida alumnae
gathered for the first time in
Winter Park, Sunday, February 23,
1975. Most important of the business
tunctions was the election of officers:
Mary Love L'heureux Hammond,
president; Jane Woodell Urschel,
vice president; Libby Wilson Blanton,
secretary; Carroll Rogers Whittle,
treasurer. After the organizational
matters, guest of honor Virginia
Brown McKenzie, alumnae
director, brought the Agnes Scott of
1975 closer for those at the meeting
by means of a slide show and
personal notes of information.

Alumnae and guests attending the
meeting were Grace Bargeron Rambo
'24, Mary Virginia Brown Cappleman
'40, Virginia Brown McKenzie '47,
lune Carpenter Bryant '52, Beverly
Carter Brim '61, Trustee, Dr. Marshall
Dendy and Mrs. Dendy, Vivienne
Drakes McKinney '74, Virginia Fisher
Seifert '34, Margaret Glenn Lyon '50,
Mary Ann Gregory Dean '63, Patty
Hamilton Lee '55, Catherine Haugh
Smith '22, Virginia Haugh Franklin
'18, Ori Sue Jones Jordan '36, Mary
Love L'heureux Hammond '55,
Jacquelyn Palmer Underwood '51,
Carroll Rogers Whittle '62, |an Roush
Pyles '71, Elisabeth Ruprecht Boyd
41, Estelle Webb Shadburn Inst.,
Sarah Helen Williams Johnston '64,
Libby Wilson Blanton '55 and Jane
Woodell Urschel '64.

Tidewater

Alumnae from the southeastern
corner of Virginia met to
commemorate Founder's Day in the
home of Sara L. Bullock in Hampton,
February 22, 1975. Generating
interest m the current scene at
Agnes Scott, Virginia Brown
McKenzie, alumnae director,
presented the Frost slide show and
campus news items. Presiding over
the club for the year 1975-76 is
Nancy Barrett Hayes, with Margaret
Hartsook Emmons as secretary/
treasurer. Working with prospective
students under the auspicies of the
Admissions Office and establishing
an annual fund contribution rank as
priorities in the plans of these
Virginia alumnae.

Akimnae and giiests present at (he
k.ncheon were Nancy Barrett Hayes
'62, Maryanne Brown Farley '49,
Virginia Brown McKenzie '47,
Sara Lou Bullock '31, Otto Gilbert
Williams '22, Margaret Hartsook
Emmons '42, Mary Margaret
Hartsook, Staff 1938-42, Carolyn
Haskins Coffman '60, Carolyn Hazard
lones '59, Kitty Hotiston Sheild '27,
Peggy Irvine Allen '50, Chee Kludt
Ricketts '68, Betty Lockhart Anglin
'59, Mary Maxwell Hutcheson '44 and
daughter Lynn Hutcheson, Susan
McCann Butler '68, Ruth McLean
Wright '30, Mollie Oliver Mertel '41,
lean Price Knapp '57, Sandy Shawen
Kane '64, Carrie Curie Sinclair
Sinclair '27, Helen Sisson Morrison
'29, Martha Warburton McMurran
'50 and Flise West Meehan '38.

Boston

The Boston area alumnae have been
busy: they gathered for the third
time since April on October 29, 1974,
to meet Dr. and Mrs. Perry, to
organize formally and elect officers.
Husbands and families were invited

17

Boston (continued)

to the dinner in the Harvard
Faculty Club.

Dr. Perry talked of his plans for
Agnes Scott, and alumnae were very
impressed with both Perrys. Melissa
Holt Vandiver '73, assistant to the
director of admissions, was also
present to answer questions about
the admissions situation at the
College.

Officers elected for the coming
year are Charlotte Hart Riordan '68,
president; Betty Whitaker Wilson '68,
vice president; and Milling Kinard
'62, secretary/treasurer. Alumnae
admissions representatives for
Massachusetts are Harriet Talmadge
Mill '58 and Jane Parsons '73.

Gainesville

On Tuesday afternoon, October 8,
1974, the alumnae of Gainesville,
Georgia, gathered at the home of the
president, Caroline Romburg Silcox
'58, to meet President Marvin B.
Perry and Alumnae Director Virginia
Brown McKenzie '47. Twenty-two
alumnae and three guests enjoyed
the informal tea. Dr. Perry spoke of
life at Agnes Scott today, including
campus improvements, curriculum
changes and new academic programs.

Other officers elected for the
1974-75 year are Lavinia Whatley
Head '57, vice president; Lucy
Puckett Leonard '59, secretary; Ruth
Hayes Bruner '69, treasurer. Susan
Henson Frost '70 is the alumna
admissions representative.

Akimnae and huibandi pose with Dr. Perry during the party in Nas/iv/7/e They are (left
to right) Weldon White jr., Claire McCoy White '68, President Perry, Katherine Hawkins
Linebaugh '60 and Mack LInebaugh.

Nashville-Middle Tennessee

Macon

The Nashville-Middle Tennesse

Alumnae Club entertained at a
cocktail supper on the evening of
Monday, November 11, 1974. The
party was given in honor of Agnes
Scott President Marvin Perry, who
spoke about the college and

New Mexico

Although they are 1400 miles away,
the alumnae in New Mexico are a
loyal group. Ten alumnae (almost
half the number living in the whole
state) gathered on November 6, 1974,
in Albuquerque, in the home of
Margie Erickson Charles '59, for
dessert and coffee and talk about
the College. Assistant Dean of
Students Mollie Merrick '57, who
was attending a professional meeting
in Albuquerque, showed the Robert
Frost slide show and told the

answered questions from the group.
Claire McCoy White '68 and her
husband were hosts for the party,
which was held at their home.
Katherine Hawkins Linebaugh '60,
president of the club, was chairman
for the party.

alumnae firsthand some of the
exciting new programs at Agnes
Scott.

Margie, with the help of Mary
(Sissy) Daniel Finney '59, who called
the alumnae in Santa Fe, called the
alums, planned the meeting and
furnished refreshments. The other
alumnae attending were: Cynthia
Bailey Pyle X-57, who brought her
two daughters; Celia Crook
Richardson X-60; Mary Ray Dobyns
Houston '28; Ann Scoggins Patterson
'58; Nina Sneed de Montmollin '41 ;
Sara (Tuck) Tucker Miller '50; and
Mary Ruth Wilkins Negro '68.

In February, 1975, club officers and
the alumna admissions
representative met for lunch at the
home of the president, Sara Beth
Jackson Hertwig '51. They talked
about ways of letting prospective
students know what Agnes Scott is
like. Money-raising projects were
considered and rejected. Everyone
seemed to like the idea of sponsoring
a seminar open to all who wished
to come, and it was agreed to have a
club meeting in the spring to get
the members' reactions to a
seminar next winter.

18

The New Mexico party was held at the home of Margie Erickson Charles '59. The guests
are left to right: Cynthia Bailey '57, Mary Ruth Wilkins Negro '68, Mary Ray Dobyns
Houston '28, Ann Scoggins Patterson '58, Mary Daniel Finney '59, Delia Crook Richardson
'60, Mollie Merrick '57, Sarah Tucker Miller '50 and Nina Sneadde Montmollin '41 (standing).

On Saturdav. February 1. J975, Net! Sctiff Candler died A member of the Acadeniy. she was
the granddaughter of Colonel George Wa^hmgton Scott, the founder of Agnes Scoff
College Nell is pictured above (^.tandtng in center) with her mother. Nellie Scoff Candler
(ird adult from left), her sister. Eliza Candler Earthman. Acad, (child on bicycle), and her
grandparents. Col and Mrs George Washington Scott (center, standing behind her), about
the time she attended the Academy (T-)00-02) The picture was taken at Col. Scoff's
Clearwater. Florida, home. Culfhaven

Deaths

Faculty

Mary Westall, Associate Professor of
Botany, 1926-1935, )arn. 24, 1975.

Institute

Ethel Enna Moore, Aug. 26, 1974.

Academy

Nell Scott Candler, Feb. 1, 1975.

1907

Clyde E. Peltus, Dec, 1974.

1909

jean Powel McCroskey (Mrs. William

Henry).

1914

Lott Blair Lawton (Mrs. Sumter C),

March 1, 1975.

1917

Mary Louise Ash, Nov. 28, 1974.

1920

Clifford Virginia Holtzclaw Blanks

(Mrs. James W.), Feb. 4, 1975.

1921

George Maier, husband of Elise
Bohannon Maier, Sept. 14, 1974.
Nathaniel A. Thornton, husband of Rose
Chambers Thornton, Jan. 9, 1975.
Estelle McCormick.

1923

Ethel Enna Moore, sister of Sara Olive
Moore Kelly, Aug. 26, 1974.
Robert Brown Cunningham, Jr.,
husband of Eva Wassum Cunningham,
Dec. 13, 1974.

1924

Alberta Bieser Havis (Mrs. Edward

Hodge), Jan. 1975.

1925

Frances Lineweaver Hill (Ntrs. Lewis

Hamilton), Dec. 10, 1974.

Isabelle Midgley Exum (Mrs.

Charles Eugene).

Eva Moore Sandifer (.Mrs. T. N.),

Ian. 24. 1975

1926

Martha Jane Smith, Feb. 12, 1975.

1929

Katherine Kirkland Geiger (Mrs.

George F), Dec, 1974.

1931

The son of Kay Morrow Norem,
summer, 1947.

Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye (Mrs. Everett
P.I, Dec, 15, 1974.

1932

Herbert W. Ridgely, father of Margaret
Ridgely Jordan, Aug. 4, 1974.

1936

Hazel Ellen Johnston Hammett

(.Mrs. Edward).

1937

Barbara Massey Arnold (Mrs.

Norman Kellogg).

1941

Margaret Eiseman Beiersdorf (Mrs.

Myron), Dec. 2, 1974.

Marjorie Gregory Robertson, mother of
Betly Robertson Schear, Jan. 11, 1975.

1950

Robert Brown Cunningham, father of
Martha Cunningham Riordan,
Dec 13, 1974.

1953

Ann Potts Winters (Mrs. Robert

Russell), Dec 18, 1974.

1954

lune A. Broxlon, Ian. 10, 1975.

1956

Robert Brown Cunningham, father of
lerelyn Cunningham Foster, Dec.

13, 1975.

1958

Ichn H. Davis, father of .Martha Davis
Rosselot, March, 1974.
Ann Potts Winter, sister of Louise
Polls French, Dec. 18, 1974.

1964

Dennis Hodge, father of Janet Hodge,
Dec. 20, 1974. ^^

'What's past is prologue'

The alumnae, having received the academic
and spiritual heritage of Agnes Scott College, go
their separate ways to achieve greatness, to
serve the community, to teach another
generation or to procreate and nurture new
lives for perpetLiity.

There is no greater testimony to the Agnes
Scott experience than an alumna's sending lier
own daughter to alma mater. We are the
daughters of Agnes Scott College; therefore,
our daughters who attend are "granddaughters."
On campus this spring were 55 eligible
members of the Granddaughters Club.

Recently we invited these "granddaughters"

to visit us at the Alumnae House L^nd lined
them up on the front steps for a photograph.
Below, you see those who were able to appear
at the appointed time. The most often repeated
exclamation was: "I didn't know your motlier
went to Agnes Scott!"

How many of you tan look at those bright,
spirited young women and recall the
achievements of their mothers when they
were on campus? The "granddaughters," in turn,
may want to save this picture to show someday
to their own Agnes Scott daughters.

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

~^ 'jNG rv:y'

A i

FRONT COVER PHOTO:

Assembled at the front entrance of the Anna Young
Alumnae House are the "granddaughters" of Agnes Scott
College. (Mothers' or grandmothers' names and classes are
in parentheses.) From left to right, first row are: Sharon A.
Collings '77 (Jimmie Ann McGee Collings '51), )ane Maas
'76 (Myree Wells Maas '42), )an Fleischman '78 (Rebecca
Anne Lacy Fleischman '48), Betty Philips '78 (Virginia
Dickson Philips '42), Melinda Porter '78 (Martha VVilmoth
Humber Porter '48), Elizabeth Stuebing '78 (Betty Jean
Barnes Stuebing '46); second row: Eva Gantt '76 (Mildred
Knight Dcrieux Gantt '47), Brandon Brame '76 (Martha
Reed Warlick Brame '49), Susi Pedrick '77 (Dale Bennett
Pedrick '47), Madelyn Redd '78 (Aria Bateman Redd '70);
third row: Anne Walker '76 (Margaret Erwin Walker '42),
Mary Jones '75 (Quincy Marshall Mills Jones '44), Margaret
Samford Day '75 (Mary Payne Aichel Samford '49), Lyn
Satterthwaite '75 (Betty Smith Satterthwaite '46): fourth
row: Rose Ann Cleveland '75 (Alma Howerton Hughes
'32), Allyn Fine '75 (Isabel Truslow Fine '50), Marguerite
Booth '78 (Anne Sylvester Booth '54), JoAnne DeLavan
Williams '75 (loan Reaves DeLavan), Elaine Wilburn
'78 (Patricia Cooper Wilburn '51); fifth row: Nancy Oliver
'75 (Jane Meadows Oliver '47), Mary Brown '78 (Mary
Templeton Brown '40), Patty Pearson '76 (Lillian Lasseter
Pearson '50), Coile Estes '77 (Anne Hagerty Estes '471;
sixth row: Laura Underwood '76 (Eleanor Compton
Underwood '49), Sue Jordan '78 (Mary Jane Largen
Jordan '52), Beth Boney '76 (Betty Holland Boney '52),

NOT PICTURED ARE:

Evelyn Elizabeth Babcock '77 (Mar\' Elizabeth Hays
Babcock '49), Susan Balch '76 (Manie Street Boone Balch
52), Carolyn Bitter '76 (Barbara Whipple Bitter '48),
Catherine Shaver Brown '78 (Carmen Shaver Brown '49),
Mary Louise Brown Forsythe '75 (Isabel McCain Brown '37),
Margaret Lynn Buchanan '78 (Bonnie Mary Turner
Buchanan '45), Anne Davis Callison '77 (Patricia Ann
Lancaster Callison '52), Shelby White Cave '75 (Olivia
White Cave '42), Eugenia Collins '78 (Alia Eugenia Wilson
Collins), Mary Annette Cook '77 (Janet Van de Erve
Cook '48), Marianna Elizabeth Edwards '76 (Mary Ann
Elizabeth Turner Edwards '45), Mary Elizabeth Ellis '78
(Elizabeth Woodward Ellis '46), Virginia Ann Etheridge
'75 (Mary Elizabeth Jackson Etheridge '48), Shari L\nn
Shufelt Himes '76 (Owen Hill Shufelt '44), Nancv Ann

Hull '77 (Nancy Whetstone Hull '541, Frazer Kinnett 76
(Betty Blackmon Kinnett '49), Elizabeth Knight 76 (Dorothy
Elizabeth Adams Knight '51), Mary Margaret Lamberson
'78 (Margaret Summers Lamberson '371, Susan Landham
'75 (Margaret McManus Landham '471, Vail Macbeth '75
(Verna Vail Weems Macbeth '46), Beth Mason '75 (Sarah
Cooley Mason '47), Julie Florine Poole '77 (Bess Sheppard
Poole '45), Ecta Ann Ramsaur '77 (Dorothy Peace Ramsaur
'47), Lynn Schellack '76 ("Billy" Walker Schellack '44),
Jackie Smith '76 (Mary Elizabeth Flanders Smith '49), Mar\'
Ellen Stuebing '75 (Jean Barnes Stuebing '46), Bonnie
Stoffel '77 (Betty Williams Stoffel 441, Sally Wall Turner
'75 (Sallie Mae Walker Zetterovver Acad.), Becky Weaver
'75 (Nancy Deal Weaver '48), Laurie Dixon Williams '75
(Julie Dixon Clark Williams '53).

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, ACNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030

Daughters of Agnes Scott alumnae met informally in the Alumnae House before portrait was made.

THE

Agnes Scott

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

THE

Agnes Scott

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY/ VOLUME 53 NUMBER 4

CONTENTS

Agnes Scott Fund Annual Report 1

President Marvin B. Perry's Annual Report 13

Calendar 28

Admissions Office Report 29

Class News 31

Letter from the Director of Alumnae Affairs 37

Front cover:

Dr. Marvin B. Perry, |r., fourth president in
Agnes Scott's 86 years, before Main, oldest
building on campus.

Photo Credits:

Cover, pages 8, 12, 16, 21, 23, 28, 33-Bill
Crimes; Pages 2, 9, 18, 24, 26, 27-|udy
Thompson 75; Page 31 Courtesy of ASC
News Office: Page 31 Courtesy of E. B.
Cartledge.

Editor/Martha Whatley Yates '45, Design Consultant/John Stuart McKenzie

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia. Second class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia 30030.

ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Assistant to the Director

Martha Whatley Yates '45
Coordinator of Club Activities

Betty Medlock Lackey '42
Secretary

Frances Strother

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President/Jane King Allen '59

Vice Presidents

Region i/Cissie Spiro Aidinoff '51
Region ll/Dot Weakley Gish '56
Region Ill/Mary Duckvi/orth Gellerstedt '46
Region IV/Margaret Gillespie '69

Secretary/Eleanor Lee McNeill '59

Treasurer/Lamar Lowe Connell '27

Member, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education

The

1974-1975

Agnes Scott Fund

Report

Paul McCain. Vice President for Development, goes over current Fund fit>ures with Dr. Perry.

A special word of gratitude. . .

... to the alumnae and friends who have
strengthened the programs of the College with
their generous contributions of time and
gifts to the Agnes Scott Fund. During the 1974-75
year the College received $890,849 from 2,853
alumnae and 1,001 other donors, including the 642
firms that gave through the Georgia Foundation
for Independent Colleges.

Dedicated volunteer leadership is responsible
for the success of the Agnes Scott Fund. Led
by Biythe Posey Ashmore '58, General Chairman,
and Sis Burns Newsome '57, Alumnae Chairman,
61 Class Chairmen and 455 Class Agents contacted
their fellow alumnae on behalf of the Fund.

Except for those who preferred to give
anonymously, all individuals, foundations, and
businesses who made their gifts directly to Agnes
Scott are listed on the following pages. These
donors made their gifts to the College from July 1,

1974 through June 30, 1975; gifts received after the
latter date will be shown in the report for 1975-76.

The Tower Circle is that group of donors whose
gifts were $1,000 or more. Symbols after the
other names indicate membership in the other
special donor groups: the Colonnade Club (CC) for
those who gave $500 or more, the Quadrangle
Quorum (Q) for donors of $250 or more, and the
Century Club (C) for donors of $100 or more.
The asterisk (*) in the class listings indicates an
alumna who served as a Class Agent for the Fund.
The double asterisks (**) indicate donors who
are now deceased.

Please let the Agnes Scott Fund Office know
of any corrections which may be needed, so that
we can be sure our records are accurate.

To worker and donor alike, our appreciation
for your response; the entire College community
welcomes this opportunity to thank you.

Summary Report by Classes

CLASS CHAIRMAN

Honor

Guard Mary Wallace Kirk

1914 Annie Tait Jenkins

1921 Sarah Fulton

1923 Alice M. Virden

1924 Frances Gilliland Stukes

1925 Mary Keesler Dalton

1926 Rosalie Wooten Deck

1927 Louise Lovejoy Jackson

1928 Virginia Carrier

1929 Elaine M. Jacobsen Lewis

1930 Shannon Preston Cumming

1931 Martha Sprinkle Rafferty

1932 Imogene Hudson Cullinan

1933 Gail Nelson Blain

1934 Nelle Chamlee Howard

1935 Anne Scott Harman Mauldin

1936 Sara Frances McDonald

1937 Kathleen Daniel Spicer

1938 Nell Allison Sheldon

1939 Lou Pate Jones

1940 Helen Gates Carson
1941

1942 Claire Purcell Smith

1943 Nancy Green Carmichael

1944 Betty Williams Stoffel

1945 Bess Sheppard Poole

1946 Mary Frances McConkey Reimer

1947 Marie Adams Conyers

1948 Harriet E. Reid

1949 Nancy Huey Kelly

1950 Helen Edwards Propst

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$49,839

1951

Jeanne Kline Brown

37

23

1,246

10

26

1,365

1952

Barbara Brown Waddell

49

32

2,145

48

47

4,802

1953

Ann Cooper Whitesel

49

37

1,380

35

27

36,975

1954

Jacquelyn Josey Hall

33

28

6,908

33

31

3,052

1955

Sarah Petty Dagenhart

49

33

2,975

46

39

4,852

1956

Louise Rainey Ammons

50

34

2,406

42

36

2,260

1957

Elizabeth Ansley Allan

57

33

4,551

49

34

4,904

1958

Carolyn Tinkler Ramsey

52

32

3,733

48

39

4,380

1959

Eleanor Lee McNeill

63

36

1,724

59

39

7,782

1960

Nancy Duvall

59

33

2,280

53

43

4,354

Phyllis Cox Whitesell

40

39

9,168

1961

Mary Wayne Crymes Bywat

;r 67

36

2,435

49

41

6,003

1962

Lebby Rogers Harrison

59

32

2,303

46

36

2,353

1963

Louisa Walton McFadden

48

24

1,148

40

34

3,200

1964

Lucy Herbert Molinaro

60

31

1,264

36

29

3,400

Marion Smith Bishop

40

30

974

1965

Nancy Auman Cunningham

71

36

1,389

40

34

2,030

Anne Schiff Faivus

47

33

2,815

1966

Linda Preston Watts

57

28

2,104

40

30

1,943

1967

Anne Davis McGehee

56

32

1,062

53

37

3,571

Patricia Smith Edwards

46

31

2,220

1968

Mary K. Owen Jarboe

59

30

1,934

47

32

3,065

Bronwyn Burks Fowlkes

39

31

1,675

1969

Julie Cottrill

86

37

1,424

45

31

1,793

Mary McAlpine Evans

47

33

1,890

1970

Carol Crosby Patrick

75

36

1,379

56

34

3,513

Susan Henson Frost

51

32

1,848

1971

Christy Fulton Baldwin

75

37

1,706

46

30

2,328

1972

Claire Hodges Burdett

60

28

1,031

51

31

2,552

1973

Beth Winfrey Freeburg

61

33

888

41

29

1,767

1974

Lib McGregor Simmons

39

19

1,063

Tower Circle

Anonymous

**Louise Abney King '20

Clara May Allen Reinero '23
Ruth Anderson O'Neal '18
Ida Brittain Patterson '21
Suzella Burns Newsome '57
Helen Gates Carson '40

**Adelaide L. Cunningham '11
Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt '46
Diana Dyer Wilson '32
Martha Eskridge Ayers ' 33
Ethel Freeland Darden '29
Jo Ann Hall Hunsinger '55

**Anna Rebecca Harwell Hill '13
Louise McKinney Hill Reaves ' 54
Louise Hollingsworth Jackson '32
Betty Lou Houck Smith '35
Mattie Louise Hunter Marshall '10

**Annie Irwin Freeman '15

Annie Tait Jenkins '14
Suzanne Jones Harper '68
Mary Keesler Dalton '25
Mary Wallace Kirk '11
Polly Hall Dunn '30
Anne Rutherford Patterson Hammes
Blythe Posey Ashmore '58
Virginia F. Prettyman '34
Marie Louise Scott O'Neill '42
Louise Scott Sams Inst.
Julia Smith Slack '12
Lulu Smith Westcott '19
Frances Tennent Ellis '25
Ruth Thomas Stemmons '28
Julia Thompson Smith '31
Mary Warren Read '29
Margaret Weeks ' 31
Violet Weeks Miller '29
Mary West Thatcher '15

'54 Mrs,
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Louise Woodard Clifton '27
Agnes Scott Athletic Association
Agnes Scott Faculty Wives Club
Young Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
Mr. E. L. Bothwell
Ethel S. Cady

L. L. Gellerstedt

Ben S. Gilmer

Sartaln Lanier
Mrs . Paul Launius
Mr. Alex McLennan

and Mrs. Joseph H. McNinch

J. A. Mlnter, Jr.

H. G. Pattillo

Joseph C. Read
Mr. Hal L. Smith
Mr. G. Lamar Westcott

George W. Woodruff

Mr.

CC, Colonnade Club, $500 or more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, $250 or more C, Century Club, $100 or more *, Fund Agent **, Deceased

Agnes Scott Income

1974-75

Agnes Scott Expenditures

1974-75

Instruction
& Library

33.5%

SchoUr^^'P^

Administration

& Plant

Operation

31.4<'/o

Endowment
41.9''/o

Auxiliary
Enterprises

Alumnae Donors

Academy

1910

Lillian Beatty Cory

Mildred Beatty Miller

Julia Green Heinz

Rebecca Frances Green Hinds

Ruth Green

Mary Louise Haygood Trotti

Bertha Hudson Whitaker C

Susie Johnson

Helen Sandusky

Nellie Klser Stewart Dean

Ruth Thompson Cannon

Carolina Wilburn

Anna K. Willingham Young

Margaret Wright Alston CC

Institute

1906

Ida Lee Hill Irvln

1908

Lizzabel Saxon
Rose Wood

1909

Louise E. Davidson
Letitia Greene Gillon
Lutle P. Head
Roberta Zachry Ingle

Flora Crowe Whitmire
Mary Edith Donnelly Meehan
Emma Eldridge Ferguson
Allie Knox Felker Nunnally
Mattie L. Hunter Marshall
Llla Evans Williams Rose

1911

**Adelaide L. Cunningham
Mary Wallace Kirk

Meta Barker

Anne Bruce Bell

Jewell Gloer Teasley

Annie Kate Green Chandler

Margaret Hobson

Gertrude Pollard

Louise Scott Sams

Louise Van Harlingen Ingersoll C

Vera M. Reins Kamper C

Annie S. Wiley Preston

1912

Antoinette Blackburn Rust
Fendley D. Glass Stewart
Martha Hall Young
Annie Chapin McLane
Julia Smith Slack
Carol Lakin Stearns Wey

1913

Kate Clark

Frances Rountree Dukes Wynne
**Anna Rebecca Harwell Hill
Janie W. McGaughey
Margaret Roberts Graham
Lavalette Sloan Tucker

1914

Mary Brown Florence Q
Theodosia Cobbs Hogan
Nell DuPree Floyd
Mary M. Harris Coffin
Mildred Holmes Dickert
Annie Tait Jenkins
Kathleen Kennedy
Linda Miller Summer
Hazel Rogers Marks
Martha L. Rogers Noble

1915

1918

Beverly Anderson Chanutin
Mary B. Hyer Dale
**Annie Irwin Freeman
Sally May King C
Grace Re id

Almedia Sadler Duncan
Frances Louise West
Mary West Thatcher

1916

Omah Buchanan Albaugh Q

Laura Irvin Cooper Christopher

Margaret Phillips Fields Wilkinson

Maryellen Harvey Newton C

Katherine F. Hay Rouse C

Louise Hutcheson Q

Ethel Pharr

Margaret T, Phythian C

Mary Glenn Roberts

Janie Rogers Allen

Jeannette Victor Levy C

Magara Waldron Crosby

Clara Elizabeth Whips Dunn

1917

Gjertrud J. Amundsen Siqueland

Julia Anderson McNeely

Agnes Ball Q

Ailsie M. Cross

Gladys Gaines Field

Jane W. Harwell Heazel C

Janet Newton Q

Mary Spotswood Payne

Regina P. Pinkston C

Maria Louise Roach Fuller C

Katharine Baker Simpson

Augusta Skeen Cooper

Mary Etta Thomas Stephenson

Mildred Lucile Williams Bedgood

Alice Zachry

Hallie Alexander Turner
Emma Katherine Anderson C
Ruth Anderson O'Neal
Elva M. Brehm Florrid
Martha Howard Comer
Ruby Lee Estes Ware
Olive Hardwick Cross
Virginia M, Haugh Franklin
Susan B. Hecker
Alvahn Holmes
Margaret K. Lyburn Foster
Mary Rogers Lyle Phillips
Dorothy Moore Horton
Fannie Oliver Pitman
Sarah Patton Cortelyou
Katherine L. Seay C
Wessle Marie Shlppen Hoppe
Evamale Willingham Park

1919

Cora Mae Bond Le Vert

Blanche Copeland Jones

LaGrange Cothran Trussel

Elizabeth Dimmock Bloodworth

Lois Eve Rozier

Helen E. Ewlng

Louise Felker Mizell

Goldie Suttle Ham Q

Emily Jameson Miller Smith Q

Virginia Louise Newton

Alice Norman Pate C

Mary Katherine Parks Mason

Elizabeth Pruden Fagan C

Frances Sledd Blake

Lulu Smith Westcott

Marguerite Watts Cooper CC

Llewellyn Wilburn

Emily Elizabeth Witherspoon Patterson C

CC, Colonnade Club, $500 or more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, $250 or more C, Century Club, $100 or more *, Fund Agent

, Deceased

1920

**Louise Abney King
Margaret Bland Sewell
Eloise Buston Sluss
Romola Davis Hardy
Sarah Davis Mann
Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
Marian Stewart Harper Kellogg C
Cornelia Hutton Hazelhurst
Eunice Legg Gunn
Lois Maclntyre Beall
Marion Louise MacPhail
Gertrude Manly Jolly
Margery Stuart Moore Tappan
Louise Slack Hooker
Margaret Winslett CC
Margaret Woods Spalding

1921

Margaret Bell Hanna

Myrtle C. Blackmon C

Julia Brantley Willet C

Ida Brittain Patterson
*Thelma Eloise Brown Aiken
*Eleanor B, Carpenter
*Lois Compton Jennings C

Lucile Bradford Conant Leland

Marguerite Cousins Holley

Virginia Crank Everett

Frances Dearing Hay

Elizabeth Enloe MacCarthy

Mary Finney Bass C

Virginia Fish Tigner
*Elizabeth Floding Morgan C

S, Louise Fluker

Sarah Fulton

Eleanor Gordon Elliott

Sophie Hagedom Fox

Helen Hall Hopkins

Mariwill Banes Hulsey

Dorothy Havis McCullough

Julia Heaton Coleman

Margaret Hedrick Nickels
*Melville Jameson

Eugenia Johnston Griffin

Anna Marie Landress Gate

Ruth E, Laughon Dyer

Jean McAlister Q
*Sarah Carter McCurdy Evans C

Gladys McDaniel Hastings

Frances Charlotte Markley Roberts

Charlotte Newton

Eddith Patterson Blair

Isabel Pope
**Janef N. Preston C

Edith Roark Van Sickle

Eula N. Russell Kelly

Edith Shive Parker

Elizabeth Smith DeWitt

Lucile P. Smith Bishop

Mary Strong Longley

Josephine Telford

Julia Tomlinson Ingram

Evelyn Hope Wade Harwood
*Margaret Stuart Wade

Marguerite Watkins Goodman

Ellen G. Wilson Chambliss

Lucia Murchison

Mary Remer Roberts Parramore

Ruth Scandrett Hardy C

Louie Dean Stephens Markey

Laurie Stubbs Johns

Esther Joy Trump Hamlet

1922

1923

Clara May Allen Reinero

Martha Nell Ballard Webb

Dorothy Bowron Collins

Margaret Brenner Awtrey

Mary White Caldwell

Thelina Cook Turton

Louise Evans Crosland Huske

Rebecca B. Dick

Eileen Dodd Sams

Helen A. Faw Mull

Maud Foster Stebler

Philippa Garth Gilchrist C

Emily Guille Henegar

Quenelle Harrold Sheffield C

Elizabeth Johnston Hoke Smith

Lucie Howard Carter C

Jane Marcia Knight Lowe Q

Lucile Little Morgan C

Elizabeth Lockhart Davis

Josephine Logan Hamilton
*Beth McClure McGeachy

Martha Mcintosh Nail C

Mary Helen Mack Wiraberly
*Anna H. Meade Minnigerode

Susye Margaret Mlms Lazenby

Elizabeth Washington Molloy Horr

Caroline Moody Jordan

Sara Olive Moore Kelly

Fredeva S. Ogletree

Elizabeth Ransom Hahn

Rosalie Robinson Sanford C
*Dorothy A. Scott

Nancy K. Tripp Shand

Alice Virden

Mary Lee Wilhelm Satterwhite

1924

Agnes Maude Adams Stokes

Sarah Alston Lawton

Mary Barton

Eleanor Fairmon Buchanan Starcher

Cama Burgess C larks on CC

Helen Burkhalter Quattlebaum Q

Mary Richards Colvin

Hallie Cranford Anderson

Eunice Dean Major

Caroline Farquhar

Otto Gilbert Williams

Catherine W, Haugh Smith

Genie Blue Howard Mathews

Julia Jameson

Juanita M. Kelly

Lillie Maril Jacobs

Anne Ruth Moore Crawford

Carolyn Dean Moore Gressette

Elizabeth Askew Patterson
*Grace Bargeron Rambo

Rebecca Blvings Rogers

Sara Patterson Brandon Rickey
*Helen Lane Comfort Sanders

Martha Eakes Matthews C

Eunice P. Evans Brownlee

Eirnnie B. Ficklen Harper
*Sarah Elizabeth Flowers Beasley CC

Katie Frank Gilchrist C

Frances Gilliland Stukes CC
**Margaret Griffin Williams

Ann E. Hatton Lewis

Elizabeth Henry Shands
*Victoria Howie Kerr CC
*Elizabeth Barron Hyatt Morrow C

Corinne Jackson Wilkerson C
**Mary Kelly Luten

Marguerite Lindsey Booth

Margaret McDow MacDougall

Annie Will Miller Klugh

Frances Myers Dlckely

Catherine Emery Nash Scott

Weenona Peck Booth

Margaret Powell Gay

Cora Richardson

Carrie Scandrett Q

Isabelle Sewell Hancock

Daisy Frances Smith

Polly Stone Buck
' Augusta Thomas Lanier

Clara Louise Waldrop Loving
*Helen Wright Smith

1925

Anonymous

Frances Alston Everett

Frances Bitzer Edson

Mary Bess Bowdoin

Lulawill Brown Ellis

Mary Phlegar Brown Campbell

Louise Buchanan Proctor

Mary Palmer Caldwell McFarland

Catherine Carrier Robinson
Evelyn V. Eastman Beck
Isabel Ferguson Hargadine C

*Frances Gardner Welton

*Lucile Cause Fryxell
Alice Carolyn Greenlee Grollraan
Ruth Harrison McKay
Sallie Horton Lay

*Margaret Leyburn Hyatt Walker

*Annie Barnes Johnson Sylvester
Mary Keesler Dalton
Georgia May Little Owens
Martha Lin Manly Hogshead
Anne L. McKay Mitchell
Mary Ann McKinney
Josephine Marbut Stanley
Lillian Middlebrooks Smears
Mildred Pltner Randall
Julia F. Pope
Ruth Fund McCanless
Floy Hilda Sadler Maier
Josephine Schuessler Stevens
M. Priscilla Shaw
Mary Stuart Sims Dickson
Carolyn M. Smith Whipple CC
Charlotte Smith
Ella Smith Hayes

*Sarah Tate Tumlin C
Frances Tennent El 1 is
Eugenia Thompson Akin
Memory Tucker Merritt C
Christine Turner Hand C

*Ellen Axson Walker Cuyler
Frances White
Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
Mabel K. Witherspoon Meredith
Mary Ben Wright Erwin Q

*Emily Zellars McNeill

1926

Helen Bates Law C

Mary Louise Bennett

Lois Bolles Knox

Esther Katherine Byers Pitts

Katharine Cannaday McKenzie

Edyth Carpenter Shuey C

Elizabeth Julia Chapman Pirkle

Isabelle Louise Clarke Morrison

Edythe Coleman Paris

Gene Inman Dumas Vickers C

*Ellen Fain Bowen
Dora Ferrell Gentry CC

*Mary Emmie Freeman Curtis
Edith Gilchrist Berry C
Gertrude Green Blalock C
Juanita Greer White C
Eleanor S. Gresham Steiner
Olive Hall Shadgett
Mary Ella Hammond McDowell
Charlotte Higgs Andrews

*Hazel Huff Monaghan
Martha Ivey Farrell
Elizabeth Little Meriwether
Margaret Lotspeich Whitbeck
Catherine Slover Mock Hodgin C
Elizabeth Moore Harris
Florence Moriarty Goldsmith
Grace Augusta Ogden Moore
Virginia Peeler Green
Florence Elizabeth Perkins Ferry C
Allene Ramage Fitzgerald
Nellie Bass Richardson
Susan Murphy Rose Saunders
Lydia Ryttenberg Hirshberg
Mildred Scott
Susan Shadburn Watkins

*Sarah Quinn Slaughter
Olivia Ward Swann C
Norma Tucker Sturtevant C

*Margaret E. Whitington Davis C
Maud Whittemore Flowers
Rosalie Wootten Deck

1927

Evelyn Albright Caldwell
Virginia Burnett Baird Ravenel
Reba Bayle&s Boyer
Blanche Berry Sheehan

Maurine Bledsoe Bramlett

Josephine Bridgraan C

Charlotte Buckland

Annette Carter Colwell

Dorothy Chamberlain

Susan Clayton Fuller

Lillian Clement Adams

Willie May Coleman Duncan C
*Mildred Cowan Wright C

Martha Crowe Eddins

Marion Sterling Daniel Blue
*CathQrine Louise Davis

Mabel Dumaa Crenshaw

Katharine King Gilliland Higgins

Belle Grant Jones
*Mary Elizabeth Heath Phillips

Mary Hedrick

Ann Keys Buchanan

Katherine Houston Sheild

Elsa Jacobsen Morris

Martha Johnston WHson

Lelia Joiner Cooper

Louise Leonard McLeod

Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg C

Louise Lovejoy Jackson

Frances Lamar Lowe Connell C
*Elizabeth Lynn C

Caroline McKinney Clarke CC

Ruth McMillan Jones C

Elizabeth Norfleet Miller

Miriam Preston St. Clair
*May Irene Reece Forman

Edith Richards
*EvQlyn Fischer Satterwhite C

Virginia Love Sevier Hanna C

Mamie Shaw Flack

Sarah Shields Pfeiffer

Carrie Sinclair

Willie Smith Q
*Emily Stead

Edith Strickland Jones

Elizabeth A. Vary

Roberta Winter CC

Louise Woodard Clifton

Grace Zachry McCreery

1928

Sally Abernethy CC
*Elizabeth Allgood Birchmore
*Leila W. Anderson
*Miriam Anderson Dowdy

Alice Evolyn Barnett Kennedy C

Myrtle Amanda Bledsoe Wharton

S, Virginia Carrier

Patricia Collins Dwlnnell Q

Lucy Mai Cook Means

Nancy Crowther Otis

Mary Cunningham Cayce

Sarah Currie Harry

Betsey Davidson Smith

Madalaine Dunseith Alston Q
*Carolyn Hall Essig Frederick

Irene Garretson Nichols
Louise Girardeau Cook C

Sarah Glenn Boyd C

Myra Olive Graves Bowen

Elizabeth Crier Edmunds

Muriel Griffin

Dorothy Harper Nix

Rachel Henderlite

Mary Mackey Hough Clark

Alice Louise Hunter Rasnake

Kathryn Kalmon Nussbaum C

Anna Knight Daves C

Virginia May Love

Katherine MacKinnon Lea

Mary Leigh McAliley Steele C

Mary Bell McConkey Taylor

Elizabeth McEntire

Sarah L. McFadyen Brown

Frances New McRaa

Martha Lou Overton

Evangeline Papagaorge C

Lila Porcher German G
Elizabeth Roark Ellington

Nannie Graham Sanders Q

Rosaltha H. Sanders

Mary Sayward Rogers

Mary Waller Shepherd Soper

Mary Shewmakar CC

Ruth Thomas Stemmons
Edna Marshall Volberg Johnson
Josephine Walker Parker
Georgia Watson Craven
Sarah White Jackson

1929

Pernatte Adams Carter

Margaret Andreae Collins

Therese Barksdala Vinsonhaler

Lillie Ballingrath Pruitt

La Rue Berry Smith

Martha Rebecca Bradford Thurmond
*Lucile Bridgman Leitch C

Miriam Broach Jordan

Dorothy Brown Cantrall C

Hazel Brown Ricks CC

Virginia Cameron Taylor

Sally Cothran Lambeth C

Sara Douglass Thomas C

Mary Ellis Knapp

Berdie Ferguson Hogan

Nancy Elizabeth Fitzgerald Bray
*Ethel Freeland Darden
*Betty Watkins Gash
*Elise M. Gibson C

Helen Gouedy Mansfield

Marion Green Johnston C

Amanda L. Groves

Pearl Hastings Baughman

Elizabeth Hatchatt C

Ella May Hollingsworth Wilkerson
*Hazel Hood

Katharine Quintard Hunter Branch

Dorothy Button Mount

Elaine M. Jacobsen Lewis C

Evelyn Josephs Phifer
*Mary Alice Juhan C

Louise Kelly Crowder

Genevieve Knight Beauclerk

Isabel Jean Lamont Dickson
*Geraldine LeMay C

Mary Lou McCall Reddoch
*Edith McGranahan Smith T C

Julia McLendon Robeson
*Elizabeth Moss Mitchell

Esther Nisbat Anderson
*Eleanor Norris MacKinnon

Katharine Pasco C

Rachel Paxon Hayes

Mary Prim Fowler

Florida Elizabeth Richard Davis

Helen Ridley Hartley

Augusta Roberts

Rowena Runnette Garber

Martha Riley Selman Jacobs

Sally Southerland

Olive Spencer Jones

Mary Gladys Steffner Kincaid

Clara Stone Collins
*Susanne Stone Eady
*Mary Warren Read
*Violet Weeks Miller

Hazel Wolfle Frakas

Katharine Woodbury Williams

Ruth Worth

1930

Pauline Frances Adkins Clark C
Sara P. Armfiald Hill
*Marie Baker Shumaker
Josephine Barry Brown C
Eleanor Bonham Deex
Mary Brown Armstrong
Emily Campbell Boland
Lucille Coleman Christian
Margaret Crowell Hines
Gladnay Cureton
Clarene H, Dorsey
Elizabeth Flinn Eckert
Alice Garretson Holies
Jane Bailey Hall Hefner C
Polly Hall Dunn
Elizabeth Hamilton Jacobs
Elizabeth Hoyt Clark
Alice Jemigan Dowling
Leila Carlton Jones Bunkley
Mary McCallie Ware
Frances McCoy

Ruth McLean Wright
*June Maloney Officer

Ruth Mallory Burch

Sarah Neely Marsh Shapard

Frances Ellen Medlin Walker

Frances Messer
*Emily Moore Couch

Carolyn Nash Hathaway

Margaret Ogden Stewart

Sallie Willson Peake

Shannon Preston Gumming

Mary Eldridge Quinlan Seaborn

Helen Eudora Respess Bevier

Elise W, Roberts Dean

Lillian Russell McBath

Dorothy Daniel Smith

Jo Smith Webb C
*Martha C, Stackhouse Grafton

Belle-Ward Stowe Abernethy C

Mary Aiken Stull Carson

Mary Norris Terry Cobb
**Mary Louise Thames Cartledge CC

Sara Townsend Pittman C

Mary P, Trammell

Anne D. Turner CC

Crystal Wellborn Gregg Q

Evalyn Wilder

Harriet B. Williams C

Pauline Willoughby Wood
*Ra6mon<3 Bingham Wilson Craig CC

Missouri Taylor Woolford Raine

Octavia Young Harvey

,1931

Margaret Askew Smith

Laura Brown Logan

Eleanor Castles Osteen

Marjorie Daniel Cole

Mildred E, Duncan
*Ruth Etheredge Griffin

Marion Fielder Martin
*Helen Friedman Blackshear

Dorothy Grubb Rivers

Sarah Hill Brown

Anne Hudson Hankins
*Myra Jervey Hoyle

Caroline Jones Johnson

Elise C. Jones

Dorothy Kethley Klughaupt C

Ruth G. McAuliffe

Anne Elizabeth McCallie

Jane McLaughlin Titus

Shirley McPhaul Whitfield

Helen Manry Lowe
*Katherine Morrow Norem

Frances Musgrave Frierson

Fanny Niles Bolton C

Katharine Purdie

Martha Ransom Johnston

Laura Robinson

Jeannette Shaw Harp

Elizabeth Simpson Wilson

Harriet Smith C

Martha Sprinkle Raffarty

Laelius Stallings Davis

Cornelia Taylor Stubbs

Julia Thompson Smith

Martha Tower Dance

Cornelia Wallace

Louise Ware Venable

Annee Zillah Watson Reiff
*Martha North Watson Smith

Margaret G. Weeks
*Ellene Winn C

1932

Virginia Allen Woods
Catharine Baker Matthews
Sarah Bowman
Lela Maude Boyles Smith
Varnelle Braddy Ferryman C
Harriotte Brantley Briscoe
*Penelope Brown Barnett C
Susan Carr Emerson
Louise Cawthon
Mary Dunbar Waidner
Diana Dyer Wilson
Mary Elliot C
Grace Finchar Trimble

Fund money bought several thousand new books last year

Mary Floyd Foster Sanders

Marjorie Gamble

Nora Garth Gray Hall

Virginia Gray Pruitt
*Ruth Conant Green C

Julia Grimmet Fortson

Louise Hollingsworth Jackson

Anne Pleasants Hopkins Ayres

Martha Elizabeth Howard Reeves

Alma Eraser Howerton Hughes

Betty Hudson Clayton

Imogene Hudson Cullinan

La Myra Kane Swanson

Pansey Elizabeth Kimble Matthews

Martha Logan Henderson

Louise McDaniel Musser

Margaret Johnson Maness Mixon

Lila Norfleet Davis C

Mimi O'Beirne Tarplee

Mary Claire Oliver Cox

Betty Peeples Brannon

Saxon Pope Bergeron C

Margaret C. Ridgely Jordan

Flora Riley Bynum

Jane Shelby Clay

Sara Lane Smith Pratt
*Louise Staklay C

Jura Taffar Cole

Velma Taylor Wells

Charlotte Teasley Rice

Miriam Thompson Falder Q

Sally Williams Steely

Martha Williamson Riggs C

Lovelyn Wilson Heyward Q

Louise Winslow Taft

Grace Woodward Palmour

1933

Page Ackerman
Mary Alexander Parker
Maude Armstrong Hudson
Willa Beckham Lowranca

Margaret Bell Burt

Elizabeth G. Bolton

Mary Boyd Jones
*Nell Brown Davenport

Evelyn Campbell Beale

Josephine Clark Fleming

Sarah Cooper Freyer
*Frances Duke Pughsley

Eugenia Edwards Mackenzie
*Margaret Amelia Ellis Pierce

Martha Eskridge Ayers

Julia Gwyn Finley McCutchen

Thelma Firestone Hogg

Mary L. Garretson
*Margaret Glass Womeldorf

Virginia Heard Feder
*Lucile Caroline Heath McDonald

Anne Hudmon Reed

Mary Hudmon Simmons

Polly Meriwether Jones Jackson
*Cornalia E, Keeton Barnes

Roberta Kilpatrick Stubblebine

Blanche Lindsey Camp

Caroline Lingle Lester C

Margaret Loranz

Elizabeth K. Lynch

Vivian Martin Buchanan

Rosemary May Kent

Elisabeth Moore Ambrose
*Eulalia Napier Sutton

Gail Nelson Blain

LaTrelle Robertson Duncan

Letitia Rockmore Nash

Laura Spivey Massie
*Mary Sturtevant Cunningham C

Marlyn Tate Lester

Margaret Telford St, Amant

Johnnie Frances Turner Melvin

Rosalind Ware Reynolds

Marie Whittle Wellslager

Amelia Wolf Bond

Katharine Woltz Farinholt

CC, Colonnade Club, $500 or more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, $250 or more C. Century Club, $100 or more *, Fund Agent

, Deceased

1934

Sarah Elizabeth Austin Zorn
Ruth Barnett Kaye
Alae Risse Barron Leitch
Helen Boyd McConnell
Laura Buist Starnes
Nelle Chamlee Howard C
Martha Elliott Elliott
Plant Ellis Brown
Martha England Gunn

*Pauline Gordon Woods C

*Lucy Goss Herbert
Mary Dunbar Grist Whitehead
Alma Elizabeth Groves Jeter
Elinor Hamilton Hightower CC
Mary Hamilton McKnlght
Elaine Hackle Carmichael
Lillian Louise Herring Rosas
Marguerite Jones Love
Janie Lapsley Bell
Sara May Love

*Louisa McCain Boyce C
Mary Eloisa McDonald Sledd
Carrie Lena McMullen Bright
Marion Mathews C

*Frances M, O'Brien C
Hyta Plowden Mederer CC

*Dorothy Potts Weiss
Gladys Pratt Entrican
Florence Preston Bockhorst
Virginia Prettyman
Carolyn Russell Nelson
Louise Schuessler Patterson
Rosa Shuey Day
Mary Sloan Laird
Rudene Taffar Young C
Dorothy Walker Palmer C
Mary Elizabeth Walton Berry Q
Eleanor L. Williams Knox
Isabella Wilson Lewis
Johnnie Mae York Rumble C

1935

*Eli2abath Alexander Higgins Q

Dorothea Blackshear Brady

Marian Calhoun Murray

Sarah Cook Thompson

Virginia Coons Clanton

Alice Dunbar Moseley

Fidesah Edwards Alexander

Frances Espy Smith

Willie Florence Eubanks Donehoo

Betty Fountain Edwards CC
*Jane Goodwin Harbin
*Mary Green Wohlford

Carol Griffin Scoville

Anne Scott Harman Mauldin

Elizabeth Heaton Mullino C

Katherine Hertzka

Betty Lou Houck Smith

Josephine Sibley Jennings Brown

Frances McCalla Ingles

Carolyn McCallum

Julia McClatchey Brooke C

Marguerite Morris Saunders

Clara Lee Morrison Backer

Virginia Nelson Hime

Nina Parke Hopkins Q

Alleen Parker Sibley

Nell Pattillo Kendall

Juliette Puett Maxwell

Martha H, Redwine Rountree

Grace Robinson Hanson
*Sybil Rogers Herren
*Elizabeth Thrasher Baldwin C
*Amy Underwood Trowall

Laura Whitner Dorsey C

Jacqueline Woolfork Mathes C
*Elizabeth Young Hubbard

1936

Elaine Ahles Bloomberg
Elizabeth Baethke
Mary Beasley White
Jane Blair Roberson
*Sally Brosnan Thorpe
Meriel Bull Mitchell
Elizabeth Burson Wilson

Margaret Cooper Williams

Sara Cureton Prowell
*Marion Derrick Gilbert

Emily Dodge

Sara T. Estes

Mary Elizabeth Forman

Mary Marsh Henderson Hill

Jean Hicks Pitts

Marjorie Hollingsworth

Ruby Hutton Barron

Frances James Donohue

Louise Jordan Turner

Augusta King Brumby

Carrie Latimer Duvall

Alice McCallie Pressly

Josephine McClure Anderson

Sarah Frances McDonald
*Dean McKoln Bushong

Frances Miller Felts

Frances Napier Jones

Sarah Nichols Judge

Mary Richardson Gauthier

Reba Frances Rogers Griffith

Emily Rowe Adler
*Mary Alice Shelton Felt
*Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter

Gary Strickland Home

Marie Townsend

Mary Henderson Vines Wright C

Mary Walker Fox

Carolyn White Burrill

Rebecca Whitley Nunan C

Irene Wilson Naister

1937

Eloisa Baker Alexander LeConte

Frances Connor Balkcom

Frances Croswell Balford Olsen

Louise Brown Smith

Millicent Caldwell Jones

Virginia Caldwell Payne

Frances Gary Taylor

Cornelia Christie Johnson

Kathleen Daniel Spicer C
*Lucila Dennison Keanan C

Annie Laura Galloway Phillips C

Mary Garland Selser

Nellie Gilroy Gustafson

Alice Hannah Brown
*Fannie Harris Jones

Barbara Hertwig Meschter

Ruth Hunt Little C

Dorothy Jester

Martha Johnson

Sarah Johnson Linney

Catharine Jones Malone

Jean Kirkpatrick Cobb C

Florence Lasseter Rambo

Vivienne Long McCain

Isabel McCain Brown
*Frances McDonald Moore C

Mary Malone Martin

Ora Muse

Mary Alice Newton Bishop C

Mary Pitner Winkelman

Kathryn Printup Mitchell

Marjorie Scott Meier C

Marie Stalker Smith

Frances Steele Finney Q

Virginia Stephens Clary

Martha Summers Lamberson

Vivienne Trice Ansley

Margaret Watson

Betty Willis Whitehead

Frances Wilson Hurst Q

1938

Anonymous

*Jean Barry Adams Weersing
Nell Allison Sheldon
Jean Austin Meacham
Nettie Mae Austin Kelley
Dorothy Avery Newton CC
Louise Bailey White
Ganavive Baird Farris
Mary Alice Baker Lown
Tommy Ruth Blackmon Waldo

*Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn
Katherine Brittingham Hunter
Martha Peak Brown Miller

*Jean Chalmers Smith Q

Lulu Croft

Doris Dunn St. Clair

Goudyloch Erwin Dyer

Mary Lillian Fairly Huppar

Mary Elizabeth Galloway Blount

Jane McAfee Guthrie Rhodes

Sarah Pauline Hoyle Nevin

Winifred Kellersberger Vass

Mary Anne Kernan

Eliza King Morrison

Ellen Little Lesesne

Martha Long Goslina

Ellen McCallie Cochrane

Elizabeth Lee McCord Lawler

Lattie Warren McKay Van Landingham

Gwendolyn McKee Bays

Jacqualyn McWhite James

Mary Jeanne Matthews Darlington

Bertha Merrill Holt

Nancy Moorer Gantey Q

Margaret Morrison Blumberg

Olivia Root Edmonson

Joyce Roper McKey
*Mary Venetia Smith Bryan

Virginia Suttenfield Q

Grace Tazewell Flowers
*Anne Thompson Rose C

Mary Nell Tribble Beasley

Elizabeth Warden Marshall

Zoe Wells Lambert

Elsie West Meehan

Margaret Wright Rankin
*Louise Young Garrett C

1939

Jean Bailey Owen CC

Ethelyn Boswell Purdie
*Alice Caldwell Melton

Alice Frances Cheeseman

Sarah Joyce Cunningham Carpenter

Jane Dryfoos Bijur

Catherine Alberta Farrar Davis

Virginia Farrar Shearouse

Elizabeth Furlow Brown C

Susan Brooks Goodwyn Garner

Dorothy Graham Gilmer

Eleanor T. Hall

Jane Hamilton Ray C

Emily Harris Swanson

Ariel Ruth Hertzka

Mary Hollingsworth Hatfield

Cora Kay Hutchins Blackwelder

Katherine Jones Smith

Elizabeth Joan Kenney Knight

Virginia Kyle Dean

Helen Elaine Lichten Solomonson

Emily MacWorland Wood

Mary Walls McNeill

Ella Hunter Mallard Ninestein
*Marie Merritt Rollins

Mary Elizabeth Moss Sinback

Carolyn Myers King

Anne Houston Newton Parkman

Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger C

Virginia Anne Rumbley Moses

Batty Sams Daniel

Haydia Sanford Sams Q

Aileen Shortley Whipple

Alice Sill
*Mary Pennel Simonton Boothe
*Mary Frances Thompson

Virginia Tumlln Guffin
*Elinor Tyler Richardson C

Florence Wade Crenohaw C

Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons

1940

Betty Alderman Vinson
Grace Elizabeth Anderson Cooper
Betsy Banks Stoneburner
*Margaret Barnes Carey
Evelyn Baty Landis C
Marguerite Baxim Muhlenfeld
Anna Margaret Bond Brannon
Ruth Ann Byerley Vaden
Jeanette Carroll Smith
Helen Gates Carson

Ernestine Cass McGae

Mary Elizabeth Chalmers Orsborn

Margaret Christie Colmer

Fllzabeth Davis Johnston
*Lillle Belle Drake Hamilton

Ann Enloe

Carolyn Forman Piel C

Annette Franklin King

Marian Franklin Anderson C

Mary Lang Gill Olson

Florence Graham

Wilma Griffith Clapp

Mary Todd Heaslett Badger

Bryant Holsenbeck Moore

Margaret Hopkins Martin
*Elizab6th Gary Home Petrey

Louise Hughston Oettinger

Eleanor Hutchens Q

Mildred Joseph Coylar

Jane Knapp Spivey
*Elolse Lennard Smith C

Eloisa McCall Guyton C

Sarah Matthews Blxler

Virginia Milner Carter Q
*Nell Moss Roberts
*Beth Paris Moremen

Irene Phillips Richardson

Nell Pinner Wisner

Mary Reins Burge

Eleanor Rogers McCann

Hazel Solomon Beazley

Edith Stover McFee

Ellen Vereen Stuart Patton

Louise Sullivan Fry

Mary MacTempleton Brown

Henrietta Thompson Wilkinson

Emily Underwood Gault

Grace Ward Anderson

Mary Ware Duncan

Violet Jane Watkins

Eugenia Hill Williams Schmidt

Willomette Williamson Stauffer

Claire Wilson Moore

Class of 1940

1941

Anonymous

Frances Alston Lewis

Mary Stuart Arbuckle Osteen

Ruth Ashburn Kline C

Elizabeth Barrett Alldredge

Miriam Bedinger Williamson

June Boykin Tindall
*Sabine Brumby Korosy

Gantry Burks Bielaski
*Harriette Cochran Mershon

Beverly Coleman Jones
*Virginia Corr White

Doris Dalton Crosby

Martha Dunn Kerby

Betty Embry Williams

Louise Claire Franklin Livingston C

Lucile Gaines MacLennan

Grace Goldstein Goldstein

Nancy Gribble Nelson

Sarah Hand ley

Roberta Harris Ingles Steele

Aileen Kasper Borrish Q

Helen Klugh McRae

Julia Neville Lancaster

Sara Lee Jackson

Margaret Lentz Slicer

Marcia Mansfield Fox

Anna Louise Meiere Culver

Louise Musser Kell

Molli Oliver Mertel

Pattie Patterson Johnson

Georgia Poole Hollis

Elta Robinson Posey

Louise Scott Sams Hardy

Lillian Schwencke Cook

Hazel Scruggs Ouzts C

Gene Slack Morse C

Frances Spratlin Hargrett C

Elizabeth Stevenson

Carolyn Strozier C
*Dorothy Travis Joyner

Jane Vaughan Price

Betty Alden Waitt White C

Grace Walker Winn

Cornelia Watson Pruett
*Mary Madison Wisdom C

1942

Elizabeth Bradfield Sherman
Betty Ann Brooks C
Martha Buffalow Davis
Harriett Caldwell Maxwell
Anne Chambless Bateman C
Elizabeth Clarkson Shearer
Sarah Copeland Little
Jane Coughian Hays
Gay Currie Fox
Edith Dale Lindsay
Dale Drennan Hicks
Carolyn Dunn Stapleton

*Susan Dyer Oliver C
Francis Ellis Green Wayt C
Margaret Erwin Walker Q
Lillian Gish Alfriend
Margary Ellen Gray Wheeler
Margaret Kirby Hamilton Rambo
Julia Harry Bennett

*Margaret Hartsook Emmons C
Neva Jackson Webb
Elizabeth Ann Jenkins Willis
Mary Kirkpatrick Reed
Ila Belle Levie Bagwell
Caroline Long Armstrong
Mary McQuown Wynne

*Betty Madlock Lackey
Dorothy Miller
Virginia Montgomery McCall

*Elise Nance Bridges
Jeanne Osborne Gibbs
Mary Louise Palmour Barber
Julia Patch Weston C
Louise Pruitt Jones C
Claire Purcell Smith C
Clementina Ransom Louis

*Elizabeth Robertson Schear
Mary Robertson Perry
Marie Scott O'Naill

*Margaret Sheftall Chester C
Marjorie Simpson Ware
Ruth H. Smith Wilson
Jane Taylor White
Mary Olive Thomas
Frances Tucker Johnson
Myree Wells Maas

*01ivia White Cave

1943

Emily Anderson Hightower
Mary Jane Auld Linker C
Mamie Sue Barker Woolf
Florence Bates Fernandez C
Anna Branch Black Hansell

*Flora Campbell McLain
Alice Clements Shinall
Maryann Cochran Abbott C
Joella Craig Good

*Jane Veazey Dinsmore Lowe
Betty DuBosa Skiles
Jeanne Eakin Salyer
Nancy Fellenz Affeldt
Anne Friarson Smoak C
Nancy Green Carmichael
Susan Guthrie Fu
Helen Hale Lawton
Nancy Hirsh Rosengarten
Dorothy Holloran Addison
Bryant Holsenbeck Moore
Dorothy Hopkins McClure
Sally Sua Howe Bell C
Frances Kaiser
Imogene King Stanley
Sterly Lebey Wilder C
Bennya Linzy Sadler
Anne Paisley Boyd
Frances Radford Mauldin
Ruby Stafford Rossar Davis C
Clara Rountree Couch C

*Helen Smith Woodward
Martha Ann Smith Roberts
Susan Spurlock Wilkins
Aileen Still Hendley
Mabel Patrick Stowe Query C
June Strickland Brittingham

*Mary Ward Danialson

Barbara Wilber Garland
Katharine Wright Philips C

1944

Betty Bacon Skinner
Virginia Barr McFarland
Clare Bedinger Baldwin
Claire Bennett Kelly
Mary Bloxton English
Louise Breedin Griffiths
Frances Cook Crowley C
Barbara Jane Daniels
Elizabeth Edwards Wilson
Ruth Farrlor

Mary Pauline Garvin Keen
Martha Jane Gray Click
Elizabeth Harvard Dowda C

*JuHa Harvard Warnock C
Mia-Lotte Hecht Owens

*Gwendolyn Hill Shufelt
Sarah Johns Anderson
Catharine Kollock Thoroman
Martha Ray Lassater Storey C
Laurice Looper Swann Q
Mary Maxwell Hutcheson
Quincy Mills Jones
Aurie Montgomery Miller
Flaka Patman Jokl
Katharine Philips Long
Margaret Powell Flowers C
Martha Rhodes Bennett

*Anne Sale Weydert
Betty Scott Noble
Julia Scott Rogers

*Marjorie Smith Stephens
Katheryne Thompson Mangum
Anne Elise Tilghman
Johnnie M, Tippen
Marjorie Tippins Johnson C
Martha Trimble Wapensky C
Betty Vecsey

Mary Cromer Walker Scott
Mary Walker Schellack
Mary Frances Walker Blount
Anne Ward Amacher
Anne Sale Weydert
Betty Williams Stoffel

Oneida Woolford
Sara Ann Wright

1945

Ruth Anderson Stall
Carol Barge Mathews
Mildred Claire Beioan Stegall
Frances Brougher Garman
Ann Campbell Hulett
Betty Campbell Wiggins
Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin
Virginia Carter Caldwell C
Marjorie Ann Cole Rowden
Geraldine Cottongim Richards
Mary Gumming Fitzhugh

*Beth Daniel Owens
Harriette Daugherty Howard
Ruth Doggatt Todd
Anne Equan Ballard
Pauline Ertz Wechsler
Jane Everett Knox
Elizabeth Farmer Brown Q
Betty Franks Sykes
Mary Joyce Freeman Marting
Barbara Frink Allen
Martha Jean Gower Woolsey

*Elizabath Gribble Cook

*Emily Higgens Bradley
Jean Hood Booth
Eugenia Jones Howard
Beverly King Pollock
Jane Kreiling Mell
Marion Leathers Kuntz

*Martha Jane Mack Simons
Dorothy Rounalle Martin

*Montana Melson Mason
Molly Milam Inserni
Sara Milford Walker
Sue Mitchell C
Scott Newell Newton C
Mary Neely Norris King
Ceevah Rosenthal Blatman C
Bess Sheppard Poole C
Emily Singletary Garner
Julia Slack Hunter
Lois Sullivan Kay
Mary Ann Turner Edwards C

Suzanne Watkins Smith
Dorothy Lea Webb McKee
Martha Elizabeth Whatley Yates
Frances Wooddall Talmadge

1946

Jeanne Addison Roberts

Vicky Alexander Sharp

Martha Baker Wilkins C

Margaret Bear Moore

Lucile E, Beaver Q
*Helen Beidelman Price

Emily Bradford Batts

Kathryn Burnett Gatewood

Jean Chewning Lewis
*Mary Ann Courtenay Davidson

Joan Crangle Hughey

Edwina Bell Davis
*Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt

Nell Elkin Bowen
*Conradine Eraser Riddle

Harriet Frierson Crabb

Shirley Graves Cochrane

Jeanne Hale Shepherd

Batty Jane Hancock Moore

Elizabeth Horn Johnson

Betty Howell Travar

Barbara Ireland Beckett

Peggy Jones Miller

Barbara Kincaid Trimble

Harriett McAllister Loving

Mildred McCain Kinnaird C

Mary Frances McConkey Relmer

Mary Elizabeth Martin Powell

Anne Murrell Courtney

Marjorie Naab Bolen

Jane Anne Newton Marquess

Ann Noble Dye

Anna Noall Wyant
*Celetta Powell Jones C

Mary Harding Ragland Sadler
*Anne Register Jones
*Louise Noall Reid Strickler

Eleanor Reynolds Vardery

Jean Rooney Routh

Claire Rowe Newman

Mary Benson Russell Mitchell

Dean of Students Martha Huntington and Dr. Perry anticipate the pleasures and problems
of increased student enrollment.

Carolyn Jana Ryla Croxson

Mary Jane Schumacher Bullard

Margaret Scott Cathay
*Batty Smith Satterthwalte CC

Martha Stevenson Fabian

Jean Stewart Staton

Martha Sunkes Thomas

Peggy Trice Hall

Lucy Turner Knight

Maud VanDyke Jennings

Verna Weems Macbeth
*Elizabeth Weinschenk Mundy

Winifred Wilkinson Hausmann

Eva Lee Williams Jemison

Elisabeth Woodward Ellis

1947

Marie Adams Conyers

Elizabeth Andrews Lee
*Glassell Beale Smalley

Alice Beardsley Carroll

Joanne Benton Shepherd

Marguerite Born Homsby

Virginia Brown McKenzle

Kathleen Buchanan Cabell
*Eleanor Galley Cross
Charlotte Clarkson Jones

June Coley Loyd
*Jane Cooke Cross C
*Helan Catherine Currie C

Anna George Dobbins Q

Anne Eidson Owen
*Mary Jane Fuller Floyd

Dorothy Galloway Fontaine

Gene Goode Bailey

Mynelle Blue Grove Harris

Anne Hagerty Estes

Genevieve Harper Alexander

Genet Heery Barron C

Charlotte Anne Havener Nobbs C

Ann Hough Hopkins

Louise Lallande Hoyt Minor

Sue Hutchens Henson

Anne Jackson Smith

Marianne Watt Jeffries Williams

Kathryn Johnson

Rosemary Jones Cox

Margaret Kelly Wells

Theresa Kemp Setze
*Margaret McManus Landham

Mary Manly Ryman

Ann Hagood Martin Barlow
*Mary Ann Martin Pickard

Marguerite Mattison Rice

Edith Merrin Simmons C

Virginia Owens Watkins

Mary Nell Ozment Pingree
*Betty Jean Radford Moeller C

Jeanie Rentz Schoelles

Ellen Rosenblatt Caswell

Lorenna Ross Brown

Nellie Scott Pritchett

Esther Sloan Lewyn

Barbara Smith Hull

Sarah Estelle Smith Austin

Mary Walker Williams Winegeart

Barbara Wilson Montague

Laura Winchester Rahm

1948

Dabney Adams Hart

Virginia Andrews Trovillion

Martha Beacham Jackson

Barbara Blair C
Lala Anne Brewer
Mary Alice Compton Osgood
Louise Cousar Pattison
Edna Cunningham Schooley
Susan Daugherty
Amelia Davis Luchsinger CC
Nancy Deal Weaver
Adele Diechman McKee C
Betty Jo Doyle Fischer

*June Driskill Weaver
Anne Elcan Mann
Mary Faulkner James
Martha Hay Vardeman
Jean Henson Smith
Kathleen Hewson Cole
Caroline Hodges Roberts

Nan Honour Watson

Amanda Hulsey Thompson
*June Irvine Torbert C

Anne Elizabeth Jones Crabill C

Marybeth Little Weston

Sheely Little Miller

Emily E. Major

Louise McLaurin Stewart
*Betty Powers Crislip

Billie Mae Redd Chu
Harriet Elizabeth Reld

Margaret Anne Richards Terry

Ruth Richardson Innes

Marian Teressa Rutland Sanders

Zollie Saxon Johnson

Rebekah Scott Bryan C

Anne Shepherd McKee

Charlien Simms Miller
*Mary Gene Sims Dykes

Dorothy Stewart Gilliam C

Anne Treadwell Suratt

Anne Page Violette Harmon

Barbara Waugaman Thompson

Barbara Whipple Bitter

Sara Catherine Wilkinson

Margaret Yancey Kirkman C

1949

*Rita Adams Simpson

Mary Jo Aramons Jones

Beverly Baldwin Albea
*Betty Blackmon Kinnett C
*Susan Bowling Dudney

Lee Cousar Tubbs

Helen Cranford White

Alice Crenshaw Moore

Josephine Gulp Williams

Marie Cuthbertson Faulkner

June Davis Haynie

Elizabeth Davison Bruce
*Betsy Deal Smith

Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler CC

Elizabeth Flanders Smith

Evelyn Foster Henderson
C Barbara Franklin Brannen

Katherine Allston Geffcken

Joyce Hale McGlaun

Anne Hayes Berry

Mary Hays Babcock CC

Nancy Huey Kelly C
Henrietta C, Johnson

Nancy Johnson Reid

Winifred Lambert Carter

Charlotte Rhett Lea Robinson

Ruby Lehmann Cowley
Caroline Adams Little Witcher

Katherine McKoy Ehling C

Ruth Hunt Morris Ferrell

Mary Frances Perry Johnson

Patty Ann Persohn C

Virginia Lynn Phillips Mathews

Peggy Pittard Bullard

Georgia Powell Lemmon

Mary Price Coulling

Frances Robison Amsler

Betty Jo Saver Mansur
Carman Shaver Brown

Shirley Simmons Duncan

Annie-Charles Smith Harris

Edith Stowe Barkley

Doris Sullivan Tippens

Sue Tidwell Dixon

Newell Turner Parr

Valeria Von Lehe Williams

Martha Warlick Brame

Jeannatte Willcoxon Peterson

Elizabeth Williams Henry

Harriette Winchester Hurley

Betty Wood Smith

1950

Louise Arant Rice
Jessie Carpenter Holton
Catherine Chance Macksey
Jo Anne Christopher Cochrane
Betty Jean Combs Moore
Betty Jane Crowther Beall
Dorothy Davis Yarbrough
Martha Jane Davis Jones
Elizabeth Henry Dunlap

Helen Edwards Propst C
Jean Edwards Crouch

Gussie Foster Moore

Ann Gebbardt Fullerton

Mary Ann Hachtel Hartman

Anne Haden Howe C

Sarah Hancock White

Louise Harant Bennett

Julia Marie Hang Ho
Jessie Hodges Kryder

Anne Irwin Smith C
Marguerite Jackson Gilbert

Lillian Lassater Pearson

Barbara Lawson Mansfield Q

Marjorie Major Franklin

Allina B. Marshall

Miriam Mitchell Ingman

Jean Niven Baker

Jean Osborn Sawyer

Pat Overton Webb

Vivienne Patterson Jacobson

Helen Joann Peterson Floyd C

Joann Piastre Brltt

June Price McCord

Alberta Joyce Rives Robinson

Ann Sartain Eramett

Mary Virginia Skinner Jones C

Martha Stowell Rhodes

Sally Thompson Aycock
Isabel Truslow Fine

Sarah Tucker Miller

Faye Tynes Dick

Class of 1950

Anna Gounaris
Freddie Marylin Hachtal Dawn
Cornelia Hale Bryans
Nancy Lee Hudson Irvine

Mary Hunt Denny
Mary Page Hutchison Lay
Sally Jackson Hertwig
Geraldine Keef Moreland
Charlotte Key Marrow
Jeanne Kline Brown
Batty Libbey
Mary Lindsay Ford

Jimmie Ann McGee Ceilings C
Sarah Allen McKee Burnside
Jackie Sue Messer Rogers
Julianna Morgan Garner
Mary Anna Ogden Bryan C
Mary Roberts Davis
Annelle Simpson Kelly
Caronelle Smith Landiss
Celia Spiro Aidinoff C
Martha Ann Stegar Deadmora
Marjorie Stukes Strickland
Ruth Vineyard Cooner
Catharine Warren Dukahart C
Joan White Howell
Ann Marie Woods Shannon

1952

1951

Mary Hayes Barber Holmes

Noel Barnes Williams

Nancy Cassin Smith

Julia Cuthbertson Clarkson C

Anna DaVault Haley

Anne Virginia Dunn Palmer

Harriett Bruce Everett Olesen

Nell Floyd Hall C

Betty Jane Foster Deadwyler

Charlotte Allsmiller Crosland

Lillian Beall Lumpkin

Manie Boone Balch
Ann Boyer Wilkerson

Mary Jane Brewer Murkett

Barbara H. Brown Waddell
June Carpenter Bryant

Jeanne Cone

Sybil Corbett Riddle

Catherine Crowe Dlckman

Emy Evans Blair CC

Shirley Ford Baskln

Kathren Freeman Stelzner C

Phyllis Galphln Buchanan C

Kathryn Gentry Westbury

Repairs are made to broken underground pipes.

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CC, Colonnade Club, $500 or more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, 4250 or more C, Century Club. JlOO or more *, Fund Agent **, Deceased

Mary Ann Goolsby Fund
Barbara Joyce Grace Palmour

*Ann Tiffin Hays Greer
Ruth Waldo Heard Randolph
Shirley Heath Roberts
Ann Herman Dunwody C
Betty Holland Boney
Margaret Inman Simpson
Louise Monroe Jett Porter
Helen Land Ledbetter
Mary Jane Largen Jordan C
Margaretta W. Lumpkin
Mary Frances Martin Rolader
Margaret Nelson Bowman
Ann Parker Lee
Edith Petrie Hawkins
Hilda L. Prlviteri
Catherine L. Redles
LaWahna Dawn Rigdon Smisson
Lillian Ritchie Sharian

*Jean Robarts Seaton C
Adelaide Ryall Beall

*Jackie Simmons Cow C
Katherine Jeanne Smith Harley
Winnie L, Strozier Hoover
Patricia Anne Thomason Smallwood
Marie R. Underwood Schulherr
Jo Camille Watson Hospadaruk
Ruth Whiting Culbreth

*Lorna A. Wiggins
Sylvia Williams Ingram
Catherine Anne Winningham Sims
Florence Worthy Griner

1953

Charlotte Allain Von Hollen
*Allardyce Armstrong Hamill

Geraldine Armstrong Boy

Anne Evelyn Bassett Fuqua
*Ann Baxter Chorba
*Mary Birmingham Tiramons

Mary Alverta Bond C

Eunice Turner Connally

Ann Cooper Whitesel

Virginia Corry Harrell

Margaret R. Cousar Beach

Jane Crayton Davis

Jane Dalhouse Halley

Anne DeWltt George

Susan Walton Dodson Rogers

Rene Dudney Lynch

Donna Anne Dugger Smith

Patricia Ann Fredriksen Stewart

Mary Anne Garrard Jemlgan
*Frances Ginn Stark

Catherine Goff Beckham
*Betty Ann Green Rush

Florence Hand Warren

Virginia C. Hays Klettner

Keller Henderson Bumgardner

Peggy Hooker Hartweln

Ellen Earle Hunter Brumfield
*Anne W, Jones Sims

Betty Louise Lam Mann
*Sarah Leathers Martin

Betty McLellan Carter

Margaret McRae Edwards

Belle Miller McMaster
*Patricia Marie Morgan Fisher C

Diane Morris Black

Carlene Nickel Elrod

Katherine Oakley Llnd

Sue Smith Peterson Burling

Mary Beth Robinson Stuart

Nancy Ruffner Anderson

Rita May Scott Cook

Priscilla Sheppard Taylor

Lindy Taylor Barnett

Frances Anne Thomson Sheppard

Charline Trltton Shanks
*Vivian L. Weaver Maltland

Barbara Elizabeth West Dickens

Jane Williams Coleman

Mary Ann Wyatt Chastaln

*Julia Grler Storey

Martha Gulllot Thorpe

Virginia Hancock Abemathy
*Louise McKinney Hill Reaves

Barbara Hood Buchanan
*Carol Jones Hay

Jacquelyn Josey Hall

Patricia Ann Kent Stephenson

Mitzi Kiser Law C
*Mary Lou Kleppinger DeBolt

Jane Landon Balrd

Nancy M, Lee Riffe

Caroline Lester Haynes

Sara Longino Dickinson

Helen McGowan French C

Mary Louise McKee Hagemeyer

Clara Jean McLanahan Wheeler

Joyce Munger Osborn

Anne Rutherford Patterson Hammes

Selma A. Paul Strong

Judy Proranitz Marine

Ellen Prowty Smith

Caroline Relnero Kemmerer
*Betty Stein Melaver

Ann Sylvester Booth
*Joanne E. Vamer Hawks

Gladys Cotton Williams Sweat

Chizuka Yoshimura Kojima

Barbara Yowell Schwind

1955

Betty Akerman Shackleford

Carolyn Alford Beaty
*Helen Ann Allred Jackson

Margaret Bridges Maxwell

Susanna May Byrd Wells

Georgia B, Christopher

Constance Curry
*Carollne Cutts Jones

Sara T. Dudney Ham

Helen Fokes Farmer

Jane McMahon Gaines Johnson

Letty Grafton Harwell

Lib Grafton Hall

Wilma Hachtel Fanz

Jo Ann Hall Hunsinger

Patty Hamilton Lee

Harriet C. Hampton Cuthbertson C

Ann Hanson Merkleln C
*Vivlan Hays Guthrie

Jeanne Heisley Adams

Jane Henegar Loudennllk

Helen Jo Hlnchey Williams C

Mary Hood Gibson C

Beverly Anne Jensen Nash

Mary Evelyn Knight Swezey

Sallie Lambert Jackson

Mary Love L'heureux Hammond

Callie C, McArthur Robinson

JoAnne McCarthy Bleecker

Sara Mclntyre Bahner Q

Peggy Anne McMillan White

Elizabeth McPheeters Yon

Helen Moutos Seps

Sarah Petty Dagenhart C

Joan Pruitt Mclntyre C
*Louise Robinson Singleton

Ida Rebecca Rogers Minor

Anne Rosselot Clayton

Dorothy Jean Sands Hawkins
*Agnes M. Scott Willoch
*Harriet Ann Stovall Kelley

Patricia Athlene Tooley Wiley

Cllf Trussell

Sue Walker Goddard

Pauline Davis Waller Hock

Lillian Beverly Watson Howie
*Carolyn Wells

*Margaret Williamson Smalzel
*Elizabeth Wilson Blanton

1956

1954

Ulla Eleonora Beckman C
Jean Drumheller Wright
Martha Duval Swartwout
*Florence Fleming Corley

Lowrie Alexander Fraser
Margaret Ann Alvis Shibut
Paula Ball Newkirk
Barbara H. Battle
*Stella M. Biddle Fitzgerald
Juliet Boland Clack
Barbara A. Boyd Beasley
Martha Lee Bridges Traxler

*Judy Brown

Nonette Brown Hill

Martha Anne Bullard Hodges

Margaret Stowe Burwell Bamhardt

Margaret Camp Murphy

Mary Jo Carpenter

Mary Edna Clark Hollins

Carol Ann Cole White
*Alvia Rose Cook

Meyme Curtis Tucker Q

Jane Frist Harms

June Elaine Gaissert Naiman

Nancy Lee Gay Frank

Priscilla Goodwin Bennett

Guerry Graham Myers

Sallie Greenfield Blum C

Ann Lee Gregory York Q
*Harrlett Griffin Harris C
*Sarah E. Hall Hayes C

Emmie Hay Alexander C
*Nancy Jackson Pitts

Jane Johnson Waites

Peggy Jean Jordan Mayfield
*Vlrglnia Love Dunaway C

Lois G, Moore Lietz

May Muse Stonecypher

Jacqueline Plant Fincher

Louise Ralney Ammons

Betty Claire Regen Cathey

Rameth Richard Owens

Betty Richardson Hickman
*Anne Sayre Callison C

Marjorie Schepman deVries
*Robble Ann Shelnutt Upshaw C

Sally Shippey McKneally

Jane Stubbs Bailey

Nancy Thomas Hill C

Sandra Lou Thomas Hollberg

Vannie Traylor Keightley

Dorothy Weakley Gish

Dora Wilkinson Hicks

Sally L. Wilt Clifton

1957

Jene Sharp Black
Ann Norris Shires Penuel C
Joyce Skelton Wimberly
*Mlriam F. Smith C
Eleanor Swain All
Anne Terry Sherren C
Mary Easterly Thacker Cohen
Sara Townsend Holcomb
Nancy Lee Wheeler Dooley C
Eleanor Wright Linn

1958

Elizabeth Trice Ansley Allan

Susan Austin McWhlrter

Peggy Ann Beard Baker

Susanne Benson Darnell

Margaret Benton Davis

Marti Black Slife

Patricia Blackwood West

Elizabeth Lee Bond Boozer

Nancy Louise Brock Blake C

Suzella Burns Newsome

Bettye Carmichael Maddox

Mary Elizabeth Crapps Burch

Catharine A. Crosby Brown

Julia Eberly Curry C

Becky Deal Gelger

Margery DeFord Hauck

Laura F. Dryden Taylor

Dede K. Farmer Grow

Virginia Ferris Hodges
*Margaret Foskey

Catherine Cox Girardeau Brown

Marian Hagedorn Briscoe

Sherrill Hawkins Todd

Helen L. Hendry Lowrey
*Carolyn Isabel Herman Sharp C
*Margaret T. Hill Krauth

Jean Hodgens Leeper

Jacqueline Johnson Woodward

Rachel King

Carolyn E. Langston Eaton

Helene Sheppard Lee

Marilyn McClure Anderson

Dorothy P. McLanahan Watson

Mollie Merrick
*Cemele Miller Richardson

Margaret Mlnter Hyatt C

Jane Zwlll Moore Keesler Q

Barbara Myers Turner

Mildred Nesbit Murphey

Nancy Nixon McDonough

Frances St. Clair Patterson Huf faker

Jean Price Knapp C

Billie Ralney Echols

Dorothy Rearlck Mallnln

Martha Jane Rigglns Brown

Jacquelyn Rountree Andrews

Helen Sewell Johnson C

Nancy Alexander Johnson
Anna Fox Avil Stribling
Mary Byrd Davis
Grace Y. Chao C
Mary Clapp Garden
Betty Hughes Cline Melton
Mary Helen Collins Williams
Anne B, Corse Cushnie
Martha Davis Rosselot C
Nancy C. Edwards C
*Sara Hazel Ellis
*Rebecca Reld Fewell DuBose
*Kathryn Flory Maler

Patricia Cover Bitzer C
*Eileen Graham McWhorter
Ann Juliet Gunston Scott
Joann Hathaway Merriman
Sara Margaret Heard White
Catherine Hodgin Olive
Nancy Holland Sibley CC
Susan Hogg Griffith C
Carlanna Llndamood Hendrick
Mary Louise McCaughan Robison
Lucille McCrary Bagwell
*Anne H. McWhorter Butler C
*Shella M, MacConochie Ragsdale
Martha Carolyn Magruder Ruppenthal
Maria Martoccia Clifton
*Janice Matheson Rowell
Martha Meyer

Mary Randolph Norton Kratt
Phla Peppas Kanellos
Carol Pike Foster
Blythe Posey Ashmore
Gene Allen Reinero Vargas
*Grace Robertson McLendon
Mary Celeste Rogers Thompson
Caroline E. Romberg Silcox C
Cecily Rudislll Langford C
Jo Ann Sawyer Delafield C
Ramona Segrest Peyton
Jeanne H. Slade Berry
Shirley Spackman May
Deene Spivey Youngblood
Ann Stein Alperin
*Kit Sydnor Plephoff

Langhorne Sydnor Mauck
*Harriet Talmadge Mill

Carolyn Tinkler Ramsey
*Rosalyn Warren Wells
Mary Jane Webster Myers
Margaret Woolfolk Webb

1959

Margaret Ward Abemathy Martin

Charlene Bass Riley

Martha Clarke Bethea

Mary Clayton Bryan DuBard

Helen M. Burkitt Evans

Charlotte Caston Barber

Nancy Ruth Christian Hetrick

Elizabeth Ann Cobb Rowe

Melba Cronenberg Bassett

Mary Daniel Finney

Willa Dendy Goodroe

Barksdale Dick Johnson

Mary Dunn Evans

Elizabeth Edmunds Grinnan
*Marjorle Erickson Charles

Jan Lyn Fleming Willets
*Gertrude Florrid van Luyn

Patricia Forrest Davis

Mary Anne Fowlkes

Sara Anne Frazier Johnson

Katherine Jo Freeman Dunlap

Betty Garrard Saba

Marianne Gillls Persons

Nancy E, Hale Johnson

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Harriet Harrlll Tisinger

Maria Winn Harris Markwalter

Mary Ann Henderson Johnson

Martha Holmes Keith C

Sidney Mack Howell Fleming C
*Wynn Hughes Tabor

Audrey Johnson Webb

Rosalind Johnson McGee

Hazel Thomas King Cooper

Jane King Allen

Jane Kraemer Scott

Eleanor Elizabeth Lee McNeill
*Patricia Ann Lenhardt Byers

Mildred Ling Wu C

Betty Lockhart Anglin

Runita McCurdy Goode

Lila McGeachy Ray

Helen Scott Maddox Gaillard

Martha Jane Mitchell Griffin

Anne Louise Moore Eaton

Donalyn Jane Moore McTier

Mary Joan Morris Hurlbutt

Barbara Oglesby Q

Ann Rivers Payne Thompson

Sara Lu Persinger Snyder

Paula Pilkenton Vail
*Carol Elizabeth Promnitz Cooper

Emily Caroline Fruitt Hayes

Sylvia Anne Ray Hodges

Susanne Robinson Hardy

F, Carol Rogers Snell

Jean Salter Reeves

Lillian Moore Shannonhouse Weller

Marianne Sharp Robbins

Linda Todd McCall
*Edith Tritton White

Nancy Elizabeth Trowell Leslie

Annette Whipple Ewing
*Susie Evelyn White Edwards

1960

*M. Angelyn Alford Bagwell C

Nell Archer Congdon C
*Nancy Awbrey Brittain

Lois Ann Barrineau Hudson

Marion Barry Mayes

Gloria Ann Branham Burnam

Mildred Braswell Smith

Cynthia Adair Butts Langfeldt

Phyllis Jean Cox Whitesell Q

Celia Crook Richardson

Carolyn Sue Cushman Harrison

Carolyn Ann Davies Preische C

Mary Ann Donnell Pinkerton

Nancy Duvall

Lydia Dwen Stover

Margaret Edney Grigg

Rebecca Evans Callahan
*Anne Eyler Clodfelter

Myra Jean Glasure Weaver
*Katherine Hawkins Linebaugh

Ann Hawley Jones

Louise Healy Restrepo

Suzanne Hoskins Brown

Dana Hundley Herbert

Jane Imray Shapard
*Frances Johns

Linda Mangum Jones Klett

Charlotte King Banner

Harriette Lamb O'Connor

Jane Law Allen

Ellen C, McFarland Johnson

Helen Mabry Beglin

Helen Milledge

Ashlin Morris Burrls

Anita Moses Shippen

Warnell Neal
*Everdina Nieuwenhuis

Jane Warren Norman Scott
*Emily Parker McGuirt

Diane Parks Cochran

Mary Jane Pfaff Dewees
*Mary Jane Pickens Skinner

Mary Richardson Britt

Jerre Deane Roper Jones

Martha Forbes Sharp Smith

Susan Shirley Eckel

Carolyn B. Smith McCurdy

Sally Smith Howard Q

Martha S. Starrett Stubbs

Camille Strickland Reed
*Sybil Strupe Rights

Dean of the Faculty Julia Gary, Director of Admissions Ann Rivers Payne Thompson '59,
and Registrar Laura Steele '37, work in close cooperation to offer Agnes Scott students a
superior college experience.

Marcia Louise Tobey Swanson
Raines Wakeford Watkins
Jody Webb Custer C
Judy Webb Cheshire C
*Anne Whisnant Bolch
Martha Ann Williamson Dodd
Mary Carrington Wilson Fox
Grace Woods Walden C

1961

Susan Ann Abernathy McCreary

Ann Avant Crichton C
*Ana Maria Aviles

Emily Bailey C

Barbara C. Baldauf Anderson

Nancy Saunders Batson Carter

Pamela Bevler C

Alice Boykin Robertson

Nancy Jane Bringhurst Barker
*Cornelia Persons Brown Nichols

Sally Bryan Minter

Margaret V. Bullock
*Jean Falconer Byrd

Edith Conwell Irwin

Jane Hoffman Cooper Mitchell

Jean Marie Corbett Griffin C

Mary Wayne Crymes Bywater

Betsy Dalton Brand Q

Lucy Davis Harper C

Sandra Davis Moulton

Julia A. Doar Grubb

Harriett Louise Elder Manley

Mary Beth Elkins Henke

Mell Alice Frazer Evans

Nancy Ellington Glass Little

Hope Gregg Spillane

Myrtle Estelle Guy Marshall
*Katherine Gwaltney Remick C

Jo Hester Patterson

Harriet Hlgglns Miller
*Sarah Helen High Clagett

Judith Winston Houchins Wightman
*Harriet E. Jackson Lovejoy

Sarah Kelso

Rosemary Kittrell

Martha Lair McGregor
*Martha Lambeth Harris

Mary Taylor Lipscomb Garrity

Ann McBride Chilcutt

Sue Ayers McCurdy Hosterman

Martha McKinney Ingram

Dinah McMillan Kahler

Mary Ann McSwain Antley

Nina Marable
*Eugenia Marks Espy

Betty Mattem York

Anne Leigh Modlin Burkhardt
*Mary Jane Moore

Nancy Adams Moore Kuykendall
*Prudence Anne Moore Thomas

Barbara Diane Mordecai Schwanebecl

Martha Anne Newsome Otwell

Grace Lynn Ouzts Curry

Emily Pancake

Virginia Philip
*Joanna D, Roden Bergstrom

Lucy Scales Muller

Elizabeth Alice Shepley Underwood

Page Smith Morahan

Nancy Ada Stone Hough

Virginia R. Thomas Shackelford

Patricia Walker Bass

Mary Ware

Jane Weltch Milligan
*Florence C. Winn Cole

Lafon Zimmerman

Marian Zimmerman Jenkins

1962

Anonymous

Sherry Addlngton Lundberg
Vicky Allen Gardner
F, Sharon Atkins van Dyck
Sally Blomquist Swartz
Nancy Bond Brothers
*Carey Bowen Craig
Clara Buchanan Rollins
Martha Campbell Williams
Malissa Gail Carter Adkins
Vivian Conner Parker
Carol Cowan Kussmaul
Molly Dotson Morgan
Judy Duncan Sather
Emily Evans Robison
*Pat Flythe Koonts
*Peggy Frederick Smith
Elizabeth Gillespie Proctor
Kay Gilliland Stevenson

Judith Halsell Jarrett

Edith S- Hanna Holt

Mary Agnes Harris Anderson
*Elizabeth Harshbarger Broadus C

Jean Haynie Stewart

Janice Heard Baucum

Ann Gale Hershberger Barr

Margaret Holley Milam

Elizabeth Hopkins Stoddard

Amanda Jane Hunt White

Ann Hutchinson Season C
*Betsy Jefferson Boyt CC

Isabel Kallman Anderson

Lynne Lambert Bower

Laura Ann Lee Harris

Linda Lentz Woods Q

Dorothy Lockart Matthews

Linda Locklear Johnson

Peggy McGeachy Roberson

Mary Ann McLeod LaBrie

Ellen Middlebrooks Davis

Nancy Jane Nelms Garrett

Catherine Norfleet Sisk

Jean Orr Bruce
*Pauline Page McReau

Betty Pancake Williams
*Marjorie Reitz Tumbull C

Lebby Rogers Harrison

Robin Rudolph Orcutt
*Elaine Sayers Landrum

Joanne Scruggs Rossomanno
*Ruth Shepherd Vasquez

Jo Allison Smith Brown C

Renee Spong Buice

Sandra J. Still

Angelyn Stokes McMillan

Anne Thomas Ay a la

Rose Marie Traeger Sumerel

Bebe Walker Reichert

Jan Whitfield Hughes

Ann Wood Corson

1963

Nancy Abernethy Underwood
Virginia Allen Callaway
Frances E, Anderson
Leewood 0. Bates Woodell
Sarah Jeannette Bergstrom Jackson
*Becky Bruce Jones

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Workmen prepare to convert a high-ceilinged basement room' in the Library into rooms on
two different floors.

Susan Cantey Bryan Mills
Cornelia Anne Bryant Q
Nancy Butcher Wade
Lucie Callaway Majoros
Lynne Cole Scott
Patricia Conrad Schwarz

*Sarah Gumming Mitchell C
Jane Dills Morgan
Susan Favor Miller
Janle Fincher Peterson
Betty Ann Gatewood Wylie
Christine Griffith Box
Jane Hancock Thau

*Margaret G, Harms
Helen Beatrice Jones Robin
Dorothy Laird Foster
Jane Lancaster Boney

*Irene Lavinder Wade
Carolyn Marie Lown Clark
Betty McMullen Harrigill
Anne Miller Boyd

*Laura Mobley Pelham

*Lucy Morcock Milner
Linda Plemons Haak
Lidie Ann Risher Phillips
Katherine Robertson Skidmore

*Colby Scott Lee

* Suzanne Smith
Eugenia Stovall Heath
Nell Tabor Hartley
Elizabeth Thomas Freyer
Mary Troup Rose

*Cecilia Tumage Garner
Edna Vass Stucky
Louisa Walton McFadden
Elizabeth Webb Nugent
Ann Williams Wedaman
Miriam Wilson Knowlton
Flora Jane Womack Gibson
Mariane Wurst Schaum
Kay Younger
Louise Zimmerman Austell

1964

Eve Anderson Earnest
*Nancy Barger Cox

Karen Baxter Harriss

Ann Beard Darrock

Mary Evelyn Bell

Sylvia Chapman Sager
*Charlotte Connor

*Judy Conner Scarborough

Frances Dale Davenport Fowler

Anne Foster Curtis
*Garnett Foster

Nina Griffin Charles

Martha Griffith Kelley

Lucy Herbert Molinaro

Judith Hillsman Caldwell

Judith Hollingsworth Robinson

Elizabeth Hood Atkinson

Evelyn Dianne Hunter Cox

Harriet King Wasserman

Mary Louise Laird

Jan LaMaster Soriero
*Lynda Langley Burton

Andrea Lanier Craig

Nancy Lee Abernathy

Carolyn May Hester
*Jean McCurdy Meade

Daryle E. McEachem

Joanna McElrath Alston

Catherine Susan McLeod Holland

Crawford Meginniss Sandefur

Anne Minter Nelson

Mary Mac Mitchell Saunders

Julia Norton Keidel

Laurie Oakes Propst

Polly Paine -Kratt

Mary Pittman Mullin
*Becky Reynolds Bryson

Susan Richards Allen C

Polly Richardson Crolley

Geneva Parks Ritchie Gruber

Carol Roberts Collins

Sandra Shawen Kane

Brenda Simonton Purvis
*Elizabeth Singley Duffy

Marion Smith Bishop

Nancy Smith Kneece

Margaret Snead Henry

Pamela Stanley McCaslin

Sandra Tausig Fraund

Jennie E, Temple

Nancy Wasell Edelman

Mary Lynn Weekley Parsons

Frances Weltch Force

Snellen Wheless Jelks

Barbara Ann White Hartley

Margaret Whitton Ray

Christine Williams Duren

Sarah Williams Johnston

Mary Womack Cox

*Maria Womom Rippe

1965

* Sally Abemethy Eads

Betty Hunt Armstrong McMahon

Nancy Jane Auman Cunningham

Roberta Belcher Mahaffey

Margaret Bell Gracey

Dorothy Bellinger Grimm

Rita Bennett Colvin

Rebecca Beusse Holman

Sarah Alice Blackard Long

Betty Brown Sloop

Patricia Buchanan Masi

Evelyn Burton Whitman
*Sally Bynum Gladden

Nancy Carmichael Bell

Virginia Clark Brown
*Kathryn Coggin Hagglund

Molly Dominy Herrington

Ann Durrance Snead
*Elizabeth Dykes Leitzes

Doris El-Tawil Krueger

Elizabeth Feuerlein Hoffman

Susan Floore

Elizabeth Fortson Wells

Patricia Gay Nash

Nancy Hammerstrom Cole

Kay Harvey Beebe

Cheryl Anne Hazelwood Lewis

Carol Jean Holmes Coston
*Lucia Howard Sizemore

Linda Kay Hudson McGowan

Mary Truett Jackson Frame

Bettye Neal Johnson McRae
*Marjory Elizabeth Joyce Cromer

Kenney Knight Linton

Carolyn Lee Beckett

Mary Lemly Danewltz

Marilyn Little Tubb

Elizabeth W. McCain

Marcia Hunter McClung Porter

Linda McElfresh DeRoze

Alice Jane McLendon Edwards

Elizabeth Malone Boggs

Marilyn Mayes Bradbury
*Diane Miller Wise

Helen Marie Moore Gavilo

Nancy Brandon Moore Brannon

Margaret Murphy Hunter

Elaine Kay Nelson Bonner

*Nina Nelson Smith
*Elaine Leigh Orr Wise

Terry Phillips Frost

Sandra Prescott Laney

Sandra Robertson Nelson

Dorothy Louise Robinson Dewberry

Barbara Rudisill

Harriette Russell Flinn
*Laura Sanderson Miller

Anne Elaine Schiff Faivus

Peggy Brownell Simmons Zoeller
*Catharine Sloan Evans

Margaret Smith Sollars

Meriam Elyane Smith Thompson

Nancy Solomonson Portnoy
*Sandra Wallace

Charlotte Webb Kendall

Judith Weldon Magulre

Chi Chi Whitehead Huff

Sandra Hay Wilson C

Sue Wyatt Rhodes

Margaret Yager Dufeny

Nancy Yontz Linehan

1966

Judith Ahrano

Beverly Allen Lambert

Barbara Bell Terhune

Harriet Biscoe Rodgers

Nancy Bland Towers

Barbara J. Brown Lockwood

Mary Brown Bullock

Emily Anne Burgess

Bernie Bumham Hood

Julia Burns Culvem

Vicky Campbell Patronis

Eleanor Cornwell

Alice Elizabeth Davidson

Ruth Van Deman Walters C

Jenny Dillion Moore

Martha Doom Bentley

Susan Dorn Allen

Laura Dorsey Rains

May Day Folk Shewmaker C

Louise Foster Cameron
*Jean Ann Gaskell Ross C

Mary Jane Gilchrist Sullivan

Susan Howard Goode Douglass
*Marganne Hendricks Price

Sue Ellen Hipp Adams

Suzanne Holt Llndholm

Julia Jean Jarrett Milnor

Ellen King Wiser

Mary Eleanor Kuykendall Nichols

Alice Lindsey Blake

Katherine McAulay Kalish

F. Ellen McDaniel

Elizabeth McGeachy Mills

Frances McKay Plunkett

Connie Magee Keyser

Helen Mann Liu

Margaret Marion Ryals

Jo Eugenia Martin Westlund

Barbara Minor Dodd

Julia Murray Pensinger
*Mary Lang Olson Edwards

Margaret Peyton Stem

Linda Preston Watts Q

Elizabeth Rankin Rogers

Beverly Kay Roseberry Scruggs

Stephanie Routsos

Gail Savage Glover
*Louise Smith Nelson
*Malinda Snow C

Yvonne Stack Steger

Karen Stiefelmeyer

Barbara Ann Symroski Culliney

Susan Thomas

Martha Thompson

Ruth VanDeman Walters C
*Carol Watson Harrison
*Louisa W. G. Williams C

1967

Marilyn Abendroth Tarpy
Louise Allen Sickel
Jane Watt Balsley
Judy Barnes Crozier

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AMERICAN EDUCATION

ENDS AND MEANS

1975:

The decade now ending has seen in the United States
as searching and dramatic a questioning of the basic
assumptions and institutions of our society as has any
decade in our history. The sum of the consequent changes
still underway in American social, political, and cultural
life can only be described as a revolution. We may
deplore the term revolution as overly dramatic or
over-worked but the questioning and the calls
for change continue.

Much of the discussion and the action have had to do
with the setting of priorities and the distribution of power
in the social and political areas of our national life. It is
not surprising that much of the debate, with its
accompanying pressures for change, has centered in our
schools and colleges. For educational institutions from
their founding and by their nature have been, and
should be, seedbeds and centers of change. Sometimes,
indeed, they have served not as the agents but rather
as examples of the need for change, or even as
victims of change.

For several years now, American campuses have
been almost totally free of the unreason and violence
which convulsed many of them during 1967-70.
Nonetheless, on our relatively peaceful and even
apathetic campuses today, the questioning and the
debate still go on. Today's atmosphere, however, is
rarely one of confrontation and polemic, but rather
of quiet, and in some quarters, despairing crisis.

Let me say at once that, in my judgment, there is
abundant reason throughout American education for a
sense of urgent concern, even of crisis, but not for despair.
I do not discount the very serious financial problems
which threaten many school systems and many colleges

and universities. Indeed, the financial crisis in education
has been with us for several years; and, despite current
signs of recovery in the national economy, the educational
sector shows few signs of imminent relief. Most of us
in the colleges and universities expect this crisis to continue
for at least another decade, and our plans for dealing
with it are shaped accordingly.

Serious as it is, the lack of money is only one of
several conditions which threaten American education
today at all levels. A number of forces in recent years
war, racism, poverty, campus unrest, inflation and
recession, declining moral values, to mention the most
obvious have together resulted in a widespread
questioning of the aims and effectiveness of our entire
educational system, and especially of traditional collegiate,
i.e. liberal arts, education. The result has been a loss of
education's credibility among students, parents, and the
general public: a confusion as to educational aims and
values among both academics and the public; a weakening
of our sense of purpose and our faith in education as the
best and surest route to individual fulfillment and a
better society. Taken together these several current
conditions can well be called higher education's crisis
of identity and purpose.

It is deeply gratifying to be able to report that Agnes
Scott has so far largely avoided most of the problems
which beset a majority of our sister institutions in 1975.
Blessed with strong resources, which have been
administered with both prudence and imagination by a
wise Board of Trustees, the College continues to operate
with a balanced budget which annually has provided
for salary increases, larger allotments for library and
instructional equipment, an enviable student-faculty ratio,
and needed improvements to buildings and grounds. With
careful planning, we have reason to face the future
with cautious optimism.

Like all educational enterprises in these troubled times,
we have shared in the current concern as to our own
proper institutional purposes and the effectiveness of
the total educational experience we seek to offer at
Agnes Scott. Yet among students, faculty, and staff, I
sense no weakening of our commitment to the liberal
arts, to strong academic standards, to superior
undergraduate teaching, to our Christian heritage and
the Honor Code, and to our ideal of a lively and caring
community of learning. Rather, I sense a .strong
willingness to reaffirm our traditional commitments and
to continue the self-study and self-evaluation of our
programs and policies in order that they may have
new strengths and a fresh appeal and relevance for today's
young women. The reaffirmation of such aims and the
implementation of procedures and programs for realizing
them with fresh action and renewed dedication have
consumed a major share of our time and energies
during the past busy year.

THE 1974-75 YEAR

To most of us in college communities, every year
seems busy and full, usually too much so. All of us
lament the pace of activities, the pressure of deadlines.

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the lack of time for creative thinking, and even creative
loafing! Yet, in retrospect, we remember many days
and evenings of fun and achievement, much shared
happiness, some treasured hours of quiet thought for
reminiscence and for dreams. The 1974-75 year, even for
these demanding times, was an unusually full and busy
one: a rich academic and cultural program, continuing
changes in policies and procedures, much discussion
and debate, some misunderstandings and frustrations,
but withal much hard work, much solid achievement, and
all in an atmosphere of courtesy and reason. On balance,
it was a good year; and I am especially grateful to my
colleagues on faculty and staff, and to our students,
who made it so. Their support was loyal and generous;
their dissent, when voiced, was constructive, courteous,
and equally loyal. I am grateful also to the Board
of Trustees and to our alumnae, whose continuing
leadership and support have also helped significantly to
make 1974-75 a sound and positive year.

In reporting to the Board of Trustees at our November,
1974 meeting, I listed five key areas of continuing concern
in my hopes and plans for Agnes Scott. They were, and
are, the following: (1 ) an educational program, in
keeping with our Christian heritage, which combines
traditional liberal arts strengths and disciplines
with flexible and imaginative opportunities for young
women interested in further training and in careers; (2) an
enlarged student body of 650-700 undergraduates with
no sacrifices of academic quality: (3) faculty and staff
salaries and benefits commensurate with Agnes Scott's
resources and stature; (4) a student financial aid program
sufficient to maintain a student body of character and
ability regardless of means; (5) equipment, physical plant,
and grounds adequate for a superior educational program
and for efficiency, comfort, and beauty. In each of these
important areas, I believe we have made progress
this year.

Agnes Scott's academic program continues to be
comprehensive and demanding. Degree requirements
still include satisfactory work in each of the three
traditional areas of the liberal arts: humanities, social
sciences, and natural science and mathematics. Evidence
of competence in composition and reading, knowledge
of at least one foreign language, and some understanding
of the Judaeo-Christian dimensions of Western civilization
(through a course in Biblical literature) are also
required. Increasingly in recent years, students have
been allowed greater flexibility, a larger selection of course
offerings, and more opportunities for independent work
and interdepartmental programs; but the Agnes Scott
degree is still built around a liberal arts core. For
example, this year the Faculty reduced the maximum
number of hours allowed in the major field (from 80 to
72), thereby encouraging a student to range even more
broadly beyond her major field; but work in at least one
of the fine arts (art, creative writing, music, theatre) was
added as a degree requirement.

Among other academic program changes this year
let me mention two of special note. Last fall, the Faculty
approved a combined degree program with Georgia
Tech, whereby young women interested in engineering
may obtain both an Agnes Scott liberal arts degree

and a Georgia Tech engineering degree in five years.
The program will be supervised by members of both
faculties, and candidates will meet each institution's
degree requirements. While we do not expect a rush of
Agnes Scott students to engineering, we do consider
this new program a significant broadening of our
curricular offerings in a day when young women are
increasingly interested in career opportunities. We also
welcome this closer academic relationship with an
old friend and outstanding educational neighbor.

A second curricular development I wish to report is
our recently expanded program for "women beyond the
usual college age," now known as the "Non-traditional
Student Program." We launched this venture last fall with
about a dozen women, and by year's end there were 26
enrolled. We expect at least 50 in the program during
1975-76. These women range in age from the mid-
twenties to the sixties, their academic backgrounds vary
from high school equivalency to a Ph.D., but most have
had some previous college work. Most have children and
are juggling babysitters and car pools in order to return
to college, and a few are employed full-time and have
worked out arrangements which enable them to come to
campus for a course. Half of them are receiving financial
aid from Agnes Scott in the form of work scholarships
or tuition grants. They are taking a wide variety of courses
for academic credit, all are in regular college courses,
and some are degree applicants. Although most were
apprehensive about "returning to college," all have done
well so far. In addition to the benefits they receive, they
have made real contributions in maturity, motivation, and
spirit. Faculty who teach them and students in their
classes have responded to their presence with enthusiasm.
The Non-Traditional Student Program has had a most
successful first year, and we look forward to its growth
as an opportunity to serve the educational interests of
Atlanta-area women of all ages.

No mention of the Non-Traditional Student Program
would be complete without an expression of appreciation
to this year's Administrative Intern, Conway Henderson
(Mrs. A. I.), a Randolph-Macon alumna, who, with
the able assistance of Dean Julia T. Gary and Director of
Admissions Ann Rivers Thompson, developed and
directed the program through its initial year.

As for the Administrative Intern Program for Women
in Higher Education, which I announced in last year's
President's Report, it has had a most promising initial
year. Launched by Agnes Scott and fifteen other leading
women's colleges, with financial support from the
Carnegie Corporation, the program has placed a young
alumna of each college on another member campus as
an administrative intern to gain in-depth exposure to a
variety of college administrative responsibilities. Our
intern, Ann Roberts Divine (Mrs. Jay) '67, worked in the
President's Office at Mary Baldwin College, while Connie
Henderson worked at Agnes Scott in Dean Gary's office.
Each intern also had opportunities to learn something of
the general operation of other administrative offices,
including admissions, student affairs, business, and
development. We have enjoyed having Connie Henderson
here and have benefited from her stay with us. She will be
succeeded at Agnes Scott this fall by Harriet Higgins, a

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Wells College alumna, who will work chiefly in the
Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs. Our
own alumna intern, Patricia Ann Stringer '68, will be at
Goucher College.

In addition to class preparation, teaching, and
counseling with students, much of the Faculty's remaining
time this past year has been absorbed in more than the
usual number of faculty meetings, in which, with
exemplary patience and goodwill, the Faculty discussed,
revised, and finally adopted a completely new set of
Faculty Bylaws, based on those recommended by a
Temporary Executive Committee of the Faculty which had
been at this demanding task for about two years. Through
appropriate committees responsible to the Faculty, the
new Bylaws provide for the administration of Agnes
Scott's academic program, under the President and the
Dean of the Faculty, by those who are most intimately
concerned with it, our full-time teachers. The Faculty
Bylaws conform with the revised College Bylaws adopted
by the Board of Trustees last fall. Together these two
instruments provide a current and comprehensive statement
of administrative organization and procedural rules and
policies for both administrative and faculty operation.
Like any such instruments, our Bylaws will undoubtedly be
adapted and clarified as experience with them may
require; but they represent a sound base for action, and
I am most grateful to all who shared the arduous task of
putting them together and working for their adoption.

Despite the pressures of a period of heightened
uncertainty and change, in education and throughout
our national life, teaching and learning remain top
priorities at Agnes Scott; and both, in my judgment,
are continuing at a high level of dedication, competence,
and concern. Both Faculty and students have resisted
the temptations to follow dubious new vocationally
oriented programs, voicing instead a renewed commitment
to the liberal arts and, at the same time, a receptiveness
to sound innovation and experiment. Some of the latter
I have already mentioned; space forbids a complete
listing, but a few others may be noted here as
characteristic. The courses in Accounting and
Economic Decision-making introduced this past year
were well received and enjoyed full registrations.
Historian in Residence Bell Wiley's course on the
Civil War and Reconstruction was deservedly popular, as
were his public lectures and field trips. Our summer
seminars in Europe continue to be a value adjunct to
the campus curriculum, with the summer of 1974 featuring
trips to Germany under Professor Gunther Bicknese
(German) and to Spain under Professors Constance Shaw
(Spanish) and Marie Pepe (Art). In 1975, Professor
Michael Brown conducted a seminar in Britain on
Tudor-Stuart England (with more than 30 students),
and Professor Theodore Mathews took the Agnes Scott
Glee Club for a symposium and study in Vienna, with
side trips and appearances in several neighboring
countries. A new trip this past summer was Professor
Harry Wistrand's Desert Seminar, in which he and several
Agnes Scott biology students, traveling in the new
College mini-bus, explored desert areas in Arizona,
California, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

With the close of the 1974-75 academic year, Agnes
Scott lost through retirement the full-time services of two

outstanding faculty members. Professors W. Joe Frierson
and Michael A. McDowell. Professor Frierson taught in
the Department of Chemistry from 1946 until his
retirement, serving for twenty-seven of those years as
Chairman of the Department. A dedicated and popular
teacher, he is also a recognized research chemist and
author. When the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professorship
of Chemistry was established at Agnes Scott in 1969, Dr.
Frierson was its first incumbent. Professor Frierson can
never be replaced, but he has been succeeded by his able
colleague Professor Marion T. Clark as Kenan Professor
and Chairman of the Department.

Professor Michael McDowell, Chairman of the
Department of Music, joined the Agnes Scott faculty
in 1950. An accomplished pianist and organist, and a
skillful teacher, he has not only enriched the cultural
life of our campus but of the entire Atlanta community.
I am glad to report that he will continue to teach piano
students here in the coming year. Succeeding Professor
McDowell as Chairman of the Department of Music is
Dr. Ronald L. Byrnside, who arrived this past summer
from the University of Illinois. He received his musical
training at the Cincinnati Conservatory and Yale before
earning his doctorate at Illinois, where he was recently
recognized as one of the University's most popular
undergraduate teachers. Combining many talents in both
classical and contemporary music, Professor Byrnside
has composed and written in a number of musical fields.

The college-wide Long Range Planning Committee,
with representatives from the trustees, faculty,
administration, students, and alumnae, has been meeting
periodically since January. Its three sub-committees on
the academic program, student life, and finance and
development have been collecting information and
eliciting suggestions from the College community through
open hearings and discussion groups. Plans now call for
an accelerated pace in the coming year, culminating in
the drafting of a report in the summer of 1976.
Suggestions are still welcome and may be addressed
to the Committee in care of the President's Office.

In another major area of our concern, that of student
admissions and enrollment, we continue to make
encouraging progress. Like most American colleges,
especially those in the private sector, Agnes Scott
experienced a gradual decline in enrollment in the early
70's. While the rate of student attrition remained constant
in this period (1969/70-1972/73). with more than 60%
of each entering class graduating four years later, freshman
classes were successively smaller. In September. 1974.
however, that trend was reversed, with an entering class
which was slightly larger than its predecessor. It is most
gratifying to report that this year's freshman class will
in turn be larger than its predecessor by about ten per
cent. There is further reassurance in the additional fact
that, even in these restless and peripatetic times, attrition
in the upper classes approximates the percentages of those
of the past five years. Also encouraging are the recent
national indications of a renewed interest in
women's colleges.

We are tremendously grateful to Director of Admissions
Ann Rivers Thompson and her imaginative and hard-
working staff, as well as to our faculty, students, and

Investiture brings families to campus.

alumnae who have shared in various ways in the search
for new Agnes Scott students. There is reason for
satisfaction, but none for complacency. Rebuilding our
student body to its average size of recent years
(approximately 650) will be a slow and difficult job
in the face of a still declining national applicant pool
and of our determination to keep standards high. But
we are on the way!

Adequate financial compensation of faculty and staff
continues to be a major priority, and in this important
area the past year has also seen progress. Despite current
economic uncertainties and the increasing cost of
almost everything (food, utilities, supplies) indeed,
in recognition of such conditions the Board of Trustees
has approved increases in faculty and staff salaries and
wages for 1975-76. Individual increases are based on a
combination of across-the-board and merit adjustments,
and average better than 8% for faculty (where our
national ranking is still least favorable) and about 6%
for staff. Increases of 10% have also been approved for
retired personnel receiving pensions from the College.
The average faculty base salary for 1975-76 will be
more than $ 1 000 above last year's average, and the top
of our faculty salary scale will again show an increase
of $2000 over the top of the preceding year. Fringe
benefits for faculty and staff will average more than
15% of base salary in 1975-76.

Adequate financial aid to students who need it remains
another high priority at Agnes Scott. Rising costs affect
students and their families as well as faculty and staff.

Along with virtually all colleges and universities, public
and private, Agnes Scott has found it necessary to increase
tuition and fees in recent years. Three facts should be
emphasized, however, with respect to these increases:
first, our increases have been less than the upward rate
of inflation; second, our total tuition and fees are still
the lowest of all the top-ranking women's colleges; and
third, we have each year increased our student financial
aid budget by a larger percentage than our increases in
tuition and fees. As our catalog and recruiting publications
emphasize, "the College meets the full computed financial
need of all students who are accepted for admission."
Such a policy is an indication of our continued
determination to see that no qualified student is denied
an Agnes Scott education for lack of funds. No single
item or area of expenditure has increased more in recent
years than our financial aid commitment. Approximately
40% of our students receive some form of financial aid
directly from Agnes Scott; other sources of federal,
state, and private aid increase this figure to some 60%.

A chief function of the college president and his
administrative staff is to facilitate the coming together
of student and teacher in the experience of learning. In
addition, administrators have the corollary duty of seeing
that teachers and students have adequate tools (books,
equipment, laboratories) for teaching and study, and a
congenial atmosphere in which the process may flourish.
Fortunately, Agnes Scott's library, laboratories, and
other material resources for learning are, in general,
superior. But they require constant maintenance
and renewal.

Improvements begun last year on buildings and grounds
are continuing as scheduled. The exteriors of Presser
Hall, Buttrick Hall, and the McCain Library have been
weather-proofed and steam-cleaned. Work on the
interior renovation of the Library is underway, including
much-needed additional stack areas, a fire-stair in the
stacks, a new elevator serving all floors, new facilities
for storage and use of audio-visual equipment, new
lighting and furnishings for more comfortable study. The
Library project, when completed in the summer of 1976,
should give us an efficient and comfortable center for
study and for the housing of our growing collection
(now over 140.000 volumes) through our centennial year.

A very rainy summer has pointed up our need to
complete roof repairs, begun last spring, on most of
our buildings. Repainting and general renovation and
upkeep continue on a planned schedule. Our much-loved
Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds, Joe B. Saxon, retired
this year after almost twenty years of loyal service to
Agnes Scott. Coming to the College in 1956, he worked in
a number of maintenance areas until named Supervisor
of Buildings in 1968. With the sudden death of Business
Manager P. J. Rogers in 1970, Mr. Saxon assumed even
broader duties and until his retirement was responsible
for much of the day-to-day non-academic operation
of the College plant. As fridnd and congenial co-worker,
he will be greatly missed. In July Mr. Saxon's successor,
Mr. John J. Hug assumed his duties as Director of
Physical Plant. With previous experience at St. Bernard
College in Alabama and at the University of Wisconsin-
Parkside, Mr. Hug has already shown himself a most
knowledgeable and energetic worker in this important post.

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12 Faculty Wives' Fair raises over $1800 for the

College's Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund.

President Perry contemplates a busy schedule during the
College's 87th session.

In the area of business affairs, both the College and
the Decatur community suffered a loss when Mr.
William M. Hannah, Treasurer of the College since 1967,
resigned in May to accept the position of Vice President
for Business Affairs at Millsaps College in Mississippi.
For almost eight years Bill Hannah and his lovely wife
Marie contributed much in service and friendship to
many areas of our local life. We shall miss them, and
we wish them much happiness at Millsaps.

Every Agnes Scott year sees a rich variety of offerings
in concerts, lectures, art shows, theatre, and ceremonial
occasions which mark traditional milestones in the
College year; 1974-75 was no exception. It is my hope
that our neighbors in Decatur and Atlanta are increasingly
aware of Agnes Scott's numerous cultural offerings, most
of which are open to the public. Space forbids a complete
recording here of even the major events of 1974-75, but
the accompanying list affords a fair sampling.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1974/75 COLLEGE YEAR

SEPTEMBER

9 Registration and orientation open Agnes Scott's

86th session. One hundred eighty-two new students
(152 freshmen) from some 20 states and
several foreign countries.

OCTOBER

4-5 Alumnae Council's annual meeting.

9 Honors Convocation. Speaker: Catherine S. Sims,

former Professor of History at Agnes Scott and Dean
Emeritus of Sweet Briar College.

12 Concert: Guarneri String Quartet.

15-16 Robert Frost Centennial: A Celebration of the Poet.
Directed by Professor Margaret W. Pepperdene and
the English Department. Participants: Wallace M.
Alston, Cleanth Brooks, Kathleen and Theodore
Morrison, Richard Wilbur, DeKalb College Singers,
Agnes Scott theatre students.

27 Women's Invitational Art Show opens in
Dalton Galleries.

NOVEMBER

2 Young Atlanta Alumnae Bazaar at Phipps Plaza
raises some $4000 for the College.

2-3 Senior Investiture. Speaker: Professor

Kwai Sing Chang (Bible and Religion). Preacher:
The Reverend Lawrence Bottoms, Moderator of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

6-8 Conference on Bio-Ethics. Directed by Professors
Sandra Bowden (Biology), Alice Cunningham
(Chemistry), Richard Parry (Philosophy). Featured
speakers: Dr. Daniel Callahan, Dr. Thomas
Chalmers (Mount Sinai School of Medicine),
Professor William J. Curran (Harvard), Dr. James
Robitscher (Emory), Dr. Bruce Wallace (Cornell).
President C. Benton Cline, Jr. of Columbia
Seminary served as Conference Moderator.

8-10 Biackfriars production: 'The Grass Harp."

14 Concert: Agnes Scott and Spelman College
Glee Clubs.

26 Experimental Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday begins.

JANUARY

13-15 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: Professor Hazel
E. Barnes (Classics), University of Colorado.

19-23 Focus on Faith. Speaker: Dr. Joseph Sherrard
Rice, First Presbyterian Church, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.

FEBRUARY

2 Pops Concert: Agnes Scott and Georgia Tech
Glee Clubs.

10-14 Black History Week. Speaker: Judge Romae T.

Powell (Juvenile Court, Fulton County). Dramatic
sketches of outstanding black American women by
Agnes Scott black students.

19 Founder's Day. Speaker: President John D.
Maguire, State University of New York at
Old Westbury.

21-22-

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Sophomore Parents' Weekend: Classes, lectures and
panels, creative arts, parties, President's reception.

Concert: Agnes Scott Glee Club and Davidson
College Male Chorus.

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MARCH

10 Informal Concert: Agnes Scott Madrigal Singers
and the Duke's Men of Yale.

14-15 Foreign Language Drama Contest, sponsored by
Agnes Scott for Georgia high school students.

APRIL

10-11 Junior Jaunt: "Country Store," talent show,

raffles, auction, and banquet. Proceeds to Duvall
Home (Florida).

10-12 Applicants' Weekend, sponsored by Mortar Board.
Almost 150 prospective students on campus.

15 Mortar Board Tapping: 12 juniors recognized for
scholarship, leadership, and service.

17-19 Golden Needle Award Festival: sponsored by

Atlanta Alumnae Clubs and Rich's. Some $4000
contributed to Agnes Scott.

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MAY

1-2

Alumnae Day: record number return for reunions,
discussions, annual meeting, gala luncheon.

Phi Beta Kappa Convocation: Historian in Residence
Bell I. Wiley speaks on "Women of the Lost Cause. "

Art exhibit opens in Dalton Galleries: Arnett
Collection of African (West Guinea) art.

Agnes Scott Writing Festival. Speakers and Judges:
Richard Eberhart, Josephine Jacobsen.

17-25 Blackfriars production: "Earnest in Love."

JUNE

Agnes Scott's 86th Commencement: 126 seniors
awarded degrees. Baccalaureate preacher: President
Emeritus Wallace M. Alston.

In the area of student life, I am pleased to report
that Martha Huntington's first year as Dean of Students
saw a number of significant developments and a discernible
growth in cordial relations between students and the
Dean of Students Office. Two matters are especially
worthy of note : our new College-wide Health Service and
new regulations with respect to the use of alcoholic
beverages on campus.

Throughout much of last year Dean Huntington
conducted a study of our College Health program,
consulting not only with Dean Gary, Vice President
Henderson, and student leaders, but also with officials
of the Emory Community Nursing Service, a private
non-profit corporation sponsored by the Woodruff
School of Nursing at Emory University. The result of
our studies was the adoption of a cooperative health
care program for the College community (students and
employees and their dependents) administered by the
Emory Community Nursing Service. The program will
begin on an experimental basis in the 1975-76 school
year. It will involve no additional cost to students but
will offer them a broader health program. Our Health
Center (formerly called the Infirmary) will be staffed
24 hours a day by Nurse Practitioners (Registered
Nurses with masters degrees) who will be qualified and
prepared to carry out medication and treatment at any

hour. Patients in need of specialized services will be
referred to a staff of consulting internists, psychiatrists,
and other specialists in the area. In addition to service
to students, the Health Service will make available to our
faculty and staff and their dependents, for a modest fee,
such services as allergy and immunization shots, blood
pressure measurement, nutrition guidance, and screening
diagnostic tests.

In recent years. College policy with respect to student
use of alcoholic beverages possession or use heretofore
prohibited on campus has been an issue of recurrent
concern. Last year the Representative Council of Student
Government again examined the policy, distributed a
questionnaire to students and faculty, and, in response,
recommended a revised policy which would permit beer,
wine, and alcoholic punch to be served, in compliance
with state and local laws, at campus-wide social functions
in designated campus areas as coordinated and evaluated
by the Board of Student Activities and as approved by the
Dean of Students. No College funds would be used for
the purchase of alcoholic beverages, and their possession
or use in dormitory rooms would still be prohibited.

After thorough discussion the Administrative Committee
of the College approved the recommended new policy in
November, and it was submitted to the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees at its December
meeting. The Committee considered the proposal
carefully, listened to both assenting and dissenting
representatives of the Administrative Committee, and
voted to recommend to the full Board the adoption of the
new policy, to become effective with the 1975-76 academic
year. At the May meetmg of the Board of Trustees, the
Executive Committee's recommendation was submitted
for action and, after full discussion, adopted by a
majority vote of the Trustees.

Let me add that I was impressed and pleased by the
unfailing courtesy and mature concern of our students,
pro and con. throughout the period in which this
emotion-charged issue was under consideration. I believe
they will exercise a similar maturity and cooperative
attitude in administering the new policy under
supervision of the Dean of Students. At the end of its first
year of operation, the policy will be reviewed and
evaluated by the Administrative Committee.

The coming session will be the second of our two-year
experiment with a modified academic calendar. As in the
past year, first quarter examinations will be held in
November, and students will leave just before
Thanksgiving for a combined Thanksgiving-Christmas
holiday, returning to begin second quarter classes in
the first week of the new year. The experiment was
undertaken to offer students savings in travel (by
eliminating one round-trip home) and opportunities to
find employment during the holiday season. In order
to minimize the slight loss of class-time meetings in the
fall quarter, classes were begun earlier in September.
Many have expressed a liking for the new schedule, but
overall Faculty and student reactions to the calendar
experiment have been mixed, with no clear-cut preference
evident at this time. A decision will be reached early in
1975-76 as to our academic calendar for the
immediate future.

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Dean of the Faculty Julia Gary reviews the newly adopted Faculty Bylaws with the President.

Again in this past year I have enjoyed knowing and
working with the splendid women who are our alumnae,
especially Alumnae Association President Jane King Allen
'59 and her colleagues of the Executive Board. Virginia
Brown McKenzie "47, has demonstrated great energy and
organization in her first year as Director of Alumnae
Affairs, and developments .underway should insure
substantial growth of our Alumnae clubs throughout
the country, with resultant increase in Alumnae activity,
especially in such areas as student recruitment and the
enhancement of Agnes Scott's general reputation as a
leading women's college of national stature. We were
sorry to lose Associate Director Carey Bowen Craig '62,
who left us in early summer because of the imminent
arrival of Bowen Butler Craig, who was born on July 22.
Carey's many talents will be missed, and we shall hope
to have her back again on the College rolls in the
near future. She has been succeeded as editor of the
Alumnae Quarterly by Martha Whatley Yates '45, who
has had wide experience in writing, editing, and
public relations. A widow, Mrs. Yates is the author of
a forthcoming book. Coping: A Survival Manual for
Women Alone.

In addition to greeting and working with alumnae
on campus and in the Decatur-Atlanta area, I have
enlarged my circle of alumnae friends through most
pleasant visits during the past year in the following cities:
Augusta, Dalton, Gainesville, Griffin, Macon, Birmingham,
Boston,' Charlotte, Nashville, New Orleans, New York,
Philadelphia. Roanoke, and San Antonio.

The Anna Young Alumnae House underwent some
interior renovations and exterior painting during the
past year. Of special note is the fine work of beautification
done in the alumnae gardens during the winter and spring
by several intrepid volunteer alumnae gardeners:
Caroline McKinney Clarke "27, Nelle Chamlee Howard
'34, Bella Wilson Lewis '34, Betty Wood Smith '49, and
Frances Gilliland Stukes "24. We are grateful for their
work and for the example it has set!

Indeed, Agnes Scott alumnae everywhere continue
to support us loyally and generously in numerous ways.
Almost 2900 alumnae (some 32%) contributed $242,452
to the 1974-75 Agnes Scott Fund, which totaled just
under $900,000. Hundreds of alumnae contributed not
only money but time and energy as Class Chairmen
and Agents for the Fund, as Alumnae Admissions
Representatives, and as active members of local, regional,
and national elements of the Alumnae Association. To
all of them we are deeply grateful; we can be proud of
both the volume and the quality of our alumnae support.

As always, many other friends individuals,
corporations, foundations added their gifts to those
of our alumnae. The accompanying table indicates the
sources of these gifts and the uses to which they
were allocated in 1974-75. Space forbids the individual
acknowledgment here of the thousands of gifts to Agnes
Scott during the year although we have tried to send
our personal thanks to every donor. A number of gifts
and grants are worthy of special mention, however, and
I am glad to record them here. From three anonymous

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foundations we received munificent grants of $200,000,
$100,000, and $45,000; the first two were to be used for
capital improvements, the third for scholarships. A very
generous trustee made an unrestricted gift of $97,000. A
grant of $12,000 from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation, together with additional unrestricted gifts,
was used to purchase some $50,000 worth of new and
advanced equipment for our chemistry laboratories. For
scholarship purposes the following were received :
$40,000 from the Charles A. Dana Foundation for the
ongoing Dana Scholar Program; $35,000 from Clara
May Allen Reinero '23; $25,000 from Mr. Alex McLennan
for a graduate fellowship in medicine; a bequest of
$13,300 from the estate of Louise Abney King '20;
a gift annuity of $10,288 from Virginia F. Prettyman
'34, and a bequest of $10,000 from the estate of
Anna Rebecca Harwell Hill '13.

Thanks to the generosity of many friends, the
foresight and judgment of the Board's Investment
Committee, and the careful planning and sound
management of our administrative staff, Agnes Scott has
again completed another fiscal year "in the black." At the
same time we were able to continue improvement of
our programs and facilities, and to increase
compensation for all our staff. We are grateful for our
good fortune and are determined to maintain our
momentum in the difficult days ahead.

In a special summer issue of the President's Newsletter
it was my pleasure to introduce five outstanding new
members of the Board of Trustees, elected at the annual
meeting in May. Inasmuch as the Newsletter carried
pictures and biographical sketches of these new trustees,
I shall merely identify them here and welcome them to an
enterprise to which I know they will add fresh vision and
strength. They are: Katherine A. Geffcken '49, Professor
of Greek and Latin, Wellesley College; Donald R.
Keough, President of Coca-Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta;
Nancy Holland Sibley (Mrs. W.A.L., Jr.) '58. Charlotte:
Samuel Reid Spencer. President of Davidson College;
and Thomas Rice Williams, President of the First
National Bank of Atlanta.

Again this past summer Agnes Scott has been host to
a number of conferences held on the campus. They
included several groups which were here last summer
when we first opened the campus to such meetings.
Church groups, a dance camp, and school administrators,
numbering in all some 700, participated in these activities
here in June, July, and August. Virtually all of these
groups have asked to return in 1976.

THE FUTURE:
PROMISE

REAFFIRMING THE

Caught up as all of us are in the immediate concerns of
our own particular lives and communities of Agnes
Scott it is easy to lose sight of the larger scene and the
inevitable influence of the total society, its climate and
problems, upon our local situation. Many of the troubles
and the challenges now facing higher education generally
are very much a part of the broader malaise and ferment

of our whole society. Business and government, as well
as education, are undergoing the formidable adjustments
necessary in the aftermath of the Asian war and
Watergate, of recession and inflation, and in the face of
continuing unemployment and the energy crisis. In
education some of the most visible current troubles are
the slowing rate of increase in enrollments (with the
prospect of actual decline in the 1980's), the confusion
and lack of agreement over the purpose of college
education, the uncertainty of many qualified young
people as to whether college is actually worth the time
and money, the "crisis managemeht" mood of
administrators faced with the immediate need of
short-term answers for today's survival.

A disturbing result of current conditions, in education
and throughout our national life, has been a widespread
mood of disenchantment and even despair, of loss of
credibility and of faith in ourselves and our larger
purposes as individuals, as institutions, as a society.
If this is a simplistic diagnosis, the answer I propose for
our ills may seem equally so: we must recapture the
sense of meaning and purpose in our individual lives
and hence in our institutions and our society. Or we
must evolve some new code of values which will give
fresh meaning and purpose to our individual and
corporate lives. In short, we must reaffirm the promise
of human life.

In such a reaffirmation education should play a central
role, as it has throughout man's history, reasserting its
own historic commitment to the search for wisdom as well
as knowledge, for the discovery of values and meaning
as well as facts and phenomena. To those of us in
colleges like Agnes Scott, such seeking and such
discoveries are what liberal education is all about.

We are tremendously fortunate at Agnes Scott that,
for a number of reasons, we have avoided, or been
spared, the crippling shock and the resultant confusion
and hurt which recent national events and conditions
have caused on many American campuses. We have not
been untouched nor should we wish to remain aloof
from the currents and even the problems of our times.
But our somewhat more fortunate lot has given us the
opportunity and indeed the obligation to assess
our own needs and purposes, to plan for our future, to
reanimate and reaffirm the promise which is Agnes
Scott at her best.

It is all too easy to catalog our troubles in higher
education and in our society. Let us not forget at such
times that there are also hopeful as well as discouraging
signs, and many records of modest successes as well as
failures. Among hopeful signs in higher education we
may cite the following: recent studies and polls indicate
that students are generally satisfied with their colleges
and their education and that faculty like their institutions
and their profession; alumnae also express satisfaction
with their college experience, and private contributions
continue high; federal and state support of education,
direct and indirect, continues strong; for the first time
black high school graduates are entering college at the
same rate as whites. Even enrollment rates, which are
disappointing to many, are the results of some historic
and demographic changes which are themselves good, i.e.

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the slowdown in population growth, a rise in the college
"stop-out" rate, a renewed interest in varying the
forms of "post-secondary" education.

As in the past, this present winter of our troubles
and discontent in higher education will be succeeded,
I am convinced, by a new spring of fresh growth and
vigor. There will be changes, but I am confident that,
working together, we can meet them at Agnes Scott
without any sacrifices of our essential character and
purpose. To help us in this task an exciting, not a
depressing one we have a number of assets, among
which I would single out three at this particular time.
First, there is strong and widespread agreement
throughout the Agnes Scott family students, faculty,
staff, trustees, alumnae as to our proper institutional
values and purpose. Second, we are in a sound financial
condition with an adequate physical plant and strong
material resources. Third, our recently revised machinery
of faculty and student governance gives to each of these
essential groups a clearer and more significant voice in the
determination of College policy and procedures.

At Agnes Scott we shall continue to try to maintain a
teaching and learning community dedicated to Christian
values and the disciplined development of the whole
person. How we teach and learn here are of vital
importance: of equal importance is how we live, how we
exemplify in our lives the values and disciplines we teach,
the wisdom and the good we seek. Values are exemplified
better than they are taught: the word is buttressed by the
deed. We must live our precepts if we are to affirm

effectively the promise inherent in humane and liberal
learning. This is the kind of living and learning which
Agnes Scott will continue to pursue for today's most
insistent needs and tomorrow's larger hopes.

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GIFTS, GRANTS AND BEQUESTS
RECEIVED 1974-75

USES

For current operations

$275,745

For endowment

186,369

For plant (including library modernization)

409,017

For other restricted purposes

19,718

TOTAL

$890,849

SOURCES

Alumnae

$242,452

Trustees

(not including $16,770 from Alumnae)

111,795

Parents and Friends

53.289

Foundations

441,560

Business and Industry

41,753

TOTAL

$890,849

SUMMARY

INCOME

EXPENDITURES

1973-74

1974-75

1973-74

TOTAL INCOME

$ 850,184 S 981,642

$4,131,650 $4,564,137

TOTAL EXPENDED AND
TRANSFERRED

EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENSES

AND TRANSFERS $ 11,426

1974-75

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL:

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL:

Student Tuition and Fees

$1,239,788

$1,287,153

Instructional

$1,219,383

$1,242,696

Endowment Income

1,680,175

1,910,162

Library /Academic Support

171,921

184,889

Gifts and Grants
Other Sources

253,466
108,037

$3,281,466

275,745
109,435

$3,582,495

Student Services/Institutional

Support
Operation/Maintenance of

Plant

950,047
252,781

1,081,008
253,174

Student Financial Aid

253,142
$2,847,274

318,788
$3,080,555

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES:
Student Fees
Other

$ 619,519
230,665

$ 635,898
345,744

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES:

Transfer for Capital, Endowment
and Plant Purposes

$1,012,950
260,000

$1,174,216
292,806

$4,120,224 $4,547,577

S 16,560

Dr. Perry and his Administrative Assistant, Bertie Bond '53,
discuss some of the many details witli which their office must
cope each day.

Dawn A. Lamadc (M.Ln.), Technical Services Librarian
Mary Margaret MacLauchlin (B.A.), Assistant to the

Director of Admissions
Janet A. Sanders. Technical Services Assistant, Library
Frances W. Stroiher, Secretary to the Director of Alumnae

Affairs
Gloria Maxine Wyatt {B.A.), Assistant to the Registrar

ADMINISTRATIVE AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE
SEPTEMBER. 1974:

Fransoise Chaze. Assistant in the French Department
Cue Pardue Hudson (M.A.T.). Assistant to the Dean

of the Faculty and Lecturer in Education
Martha C. Huntington (M.A.), Dean of Students
Sidney J. Kerr (B.A.), Assistant to the Dean of Students

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1974:

David p. Behan (Ph.D.). Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Mary Lucille Benton (B.A.). Instructor in Chemistry
Jack T. Brooking (Ph.D.), Visiting Professor of Speech

and Drama
Gail Cabisius (Ph.D.). Assistant Professor of Classical

Languages and Literature
Frances Clark Calder (Ph.D.), Visiting Associate Professor

of French
William Wayne Hutchins (M.F.A.), Lecturer in Music

(part-time)
Ann E. McConnell (M.S.), Instructor in Physical Education
Adele Dieckmann McKee (M.S.M.). Lecturer in Music (fall

quarter)
Gerald John Miller (M.S.), Instructor in Biology
Robert S. Miller (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of

Psychology
Evelyn M. Mitchell (M.A.), Lecturer in Art (spring quarter)
Margaret Van Antwerp Norris (M.A.), Lecturer in

Spanish (part-time)
Lydia A. Oglesby (M.M.), Lecturer in Music (fall quarter)
M. Lee Suitor (M.S.M.), Lecturer in Music (fall quarter)
William M. Vandiver (D.B.A.), Lecturer in Economics

(winter and spring quarters)
Harry E. Wistrand (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of Biology
Viola G. Westbrook (M.A.), Lecturer in German

(part-time)
Bell I. Wiley (Ph.D.), Historian in Residence

PROMOTIONS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER. 1974:

Margaret P. Ammons to Professor of Education and

Chairman of the Department
Linda L. Woods to Associate Professor of English
Myrna G. Young to Professor of Classical Languages and

Literature

PERSONNEL CHANGES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

Marshall C. Dendy, elected Trustee Emeritus, May. 1975
George W. Woodruff, elected Trustee Emeritus,
November. 1974

ADMINISTRATIVE AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 1974:

Mary Kathryn Owen Jarboe (B.A.), Administrative Assistant

in the Office of Admissions
Marcia K. Knight (B.A.), Assistant to the Director of

Admissions

LEAVES OF ABSENCE DURING 1974-75:

Alice J. Cunningham. Associate Professor of Chemistry

(full year)
Claire M. Hubert, Associate Professor of French, (full year)
Raymond J. Martin. Professor of Music (fall quarter)
Philip B. Reinhart. Assistant Professor of Physics (winter

quarter)
Marie H. Pepe, Dana Professor of Art and Chairman of the

Department (spring quarter)

RETIREMENTS EFFECTIVE JUNE. 1975:

W. Joe Frierson, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of

Chemistry
Michael McDowell, Professor of Music and Chairman of

the Department
Concepcion P. Leon, Assistant to the Dean of Students
Joe B. Saxon, Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds
Roberta C. Sullivan, Assistant to the Dean of Students

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Alumnae Donors

1967 (continued)

Mary Lynn Bamett Tennaro
Grace Lanier Brewer Hunter
Suzanne Campbell McCaslln
Cynthia Carter Bright
Sara Cheshire Killough
Linda Louise Cooper Shewey
Cheryl Dabbs Loomis
Marsha Davenport Griffin
Anne Davis McGehee
Jane Davis Mahon
Anne Dlseker Beebe
Diane Dixon Burrell
Anne Felker Cataldo

*Mary Helen Gocdloe-Murphy
Gale Harrison
Donna Hawley Pierson
Ann W. Hunter
Betty Hutchison Cowden
Judith Jackson Knight
Jo Jeffers Thompson

*Mary Coley Jervis Hayes
Lucy Ellen Jones Cooley
Penelope Katson Pickett

*Jane Keiger Gehring C
Karen KokoiDOor Folsom
Caroline Dudley Lester Tye
Jane McCurdy Vardaman C

*Clair McLeod Muller

*Linda Marks Hopgood
Jennifer Meinrath Egan

*Mary Audrey Mitchell Apple
Sandra Mitchell
Day Morcock Gilmer
Doris Morgan Maye
Judy Nuckols Offutt
Diana Oliver Peavy
Linda Richter Diinmock
Judy Roach Roach,
Ann Roberts Divine
Pamela Shaw Cochrane

*Susan Sleight Mowry
Patricia Smith Edwards
Isabelle Solomon Norton
Susan Stevens Hitchcock
Katherine C. Stubbs
Susan Swaim Kirkpatrick
Sallie Tate Hodges
Sheila Terrill Hayden
Susan Thompson Stevens
Nancy Tilson Loop
Vicki Wells Reddick
Grace Winn Ellis

1968

Judy Almand Jackson

Lynne Anthony Butler

Lucie Barron

Patricia Bell Miller
*Jean Binkley Thrower

Louise T. Bruechert

Bronwyn Burks Fowlkes

Mary Thomas Bush

Laurie Carter Tharpe

Ann Cates Buckler

Gretchen Cousin Autin
*Betty Derrick

Katherine Doster Stoddard

Paige Dotson Powell

Sarah Elberfeld Countryman

Louise Fortson Kinstrey

Diane Gray Kurtz

Nina Gregg Bush

Deborah Stevens Guptil Brennah

Lucy Hamilton Lewis

Sylvia Harby Button

Mary Elaine Harper Horton

Charlotte Hart Riordan

Olivia Hicks
Candace Hodges Bell

Edith Holler Hlnes

Janet Hines Hunter

Barbara Jenkins Hines

Marilyn Johnson Hammond
Suzanne Jones Harper

Adele Edith Lynn Josey
Victoria Justice
Mary Lamar Adams

*Rebecca Irene Lanier Allen
Gail Livingston Pringle
Mary Ann McCall Johnson
Susan McCann Butler
Claire McCoy White
Becky McRae McGlothlin
Margaret Garrett Moore Hall
Mary K, Owen Jarboe
Patricia Parks Hughes
Helen Patterson Johnson
Nancy Virginia Paysinger Hove
Susan Philips Moore
Nancylee W, Rast Cater
Georganne Rose Cunningham
Lucy A, Rose
Maslin A, Russ Young
Angela Josette Saad
Johanna Scherer Hunt

*Patricia Stringer
Christine Theriot Woodfin
Nancy Ellen Thompson Beane

*Jane Weeks Arp
Sarah E. White Bacon
Ann Wilder

*Mary Wilklns Negro

*Stephanie Wolfe Sldella

1969

Anonymous

Frances Ansley Schluessel

Patricia Auclair Hawkins
*Catherine Auman DeMaere

Margaret Barnes Carter

Mary Ellen Bond Sandridge

Martine Brownley

Carey Burke Jones

Joetta Burke tt Yarbro

Lucy Taylor Chapman
*Mary Chapman Hatcher

Julie Cottrlll

Jan Cribbs

Janle Carmen Davis Hollerorth

Virginia Davis Delph

Barbara Dye Gray

Christine Engelhard Meade

Helena Fllckinger
*Lou Frank Guill C
*Jo Ray Freiler Van Vliet

Prentice Frldy Weldon

Elizabeth Fuller Hill

Pam Gafford McKinnon

Mary Frances Garlington Trefry
*Anne Elizabeth Gilbert Potts
*Mary Gillespie Dellinger

Carolyn Gray Phelan

Margaret Green Berkowitz
*Lalla Griffis Mangin

Nancy Hamilton Holcombe
*Diane Hampton Flannagan

Kathleen Hardee Arsenault

Ruth Hatcher Howze
*Ruth Hayes Bruner

Mildred Ann Hendry

Carol Hill Hightower

Marlon Mitchell Hinson

Nancy Holtman Hoffman

Jean Hovis Henderson

Lee Hunter Else

Holly Jackson

Sara Jackson Chapman
*Carol Jensen Rychly
*Kathy Maria Johnson Riley

Margaret Johnston Nesblt

Kay Jordan Sachs

Beverly LaRoche Anderson

Tish Lowe Oliveira

Mary McAlpine Evans

Dianne Louise McMillan Smith

Myra Beth Mackie

Clyde W, Maddox

Paula Matthews Ellis

Suzanne Moore Kaylor

Katherine Moorer Robinson

Jane E. Morgan

Kathryn Morris White

Minnie Bob Mothes Campbell
*Mary Anne Murphy Hornbuckle

Jean Noggle Harris

Kathleen Pease Cunningham

Virginia Pinkston Daily
*Elta Posey Johnston

Libby Potter

Bonnie Prendergast

Anne B. Quekemeyer

Patricia Rankin Jopllng

Flora Bethea Rogers Galloway

Carol Anne Ruff

Dorothy Schrader

Lennard Smith Cramer

Anna Eliza Stockman

Jeanne Taliaferro Cole

Ann Bumette Teeple Sheffield

Sally Thomas Evans

Elizabeth Throne Woodruff

Jane D. Todd

Rebecca Wadsworth Sickles

Sarah Walker Guthrie

Joan Warren Ellars

Sheryl Watson Patrick

Jean Wheeler Redfeam
*Anne Willis

Rosie Wilson Kay

Sally Wood Hennessy

Betty Young Von Herrmann

1970

Janet Allen

Susan Atkinson Sliranens

Lynn Birch Smith

Diane Bollinger Bush

Margaret P, Boyd

Bonnie Brown Johnson

Patricia Louise Brown Cureton

Leslie Buchanan New

Mary Agnes Bullock Shearon

Mary Bowman Calhoun

Deborah Ann Claborne Williams

Charlotte Coats Moses

Carol Cook Uhl

Carol Crosby Patrick

Barbara L. Darnell

Terry deJarnette Robertson
*Linda Lee DelVecchio Owen

Susan Donald Schroder

Mollie Douglas Pollitt

Catherine Lynne DuVall Vogel

Sherlan Fitzgerald Hodges

Marion Gamble McCollum

Lynne Garcia Harris

Hope Gazes Grayson
*Cheryl Ann Granade Sullivan
*Bebe Guill Williams

Sharon Eunice Hall Snead

Kay Harlow
*Martha Harris Entrekin

Mary Wills Hatfield LeCroy

Susan Henson Frost

Barbara Hobbs Partin

Camille Holland Carruth

Harriette Lee Huff Gaida

Beth Humienny Johnson

Ruth Hannah Hyatt Heffron

Amy Johnson Wright

Randolph Jones

Hollie Kenyon

Susan Cathcart Ketchin Edgerton

Barbara Elawyn Kinney
*Hollister Knowlton Jameson

Judith Lange Hawks

Judy Kay Markham Harbin
*Carol Ann McKenzie Fuller

Helen Christine McNamara Lovejoy

Anne Nichols Marquess Camp

Diana Mae Marshall Faulkner

Judy Mauldln Beggs

Melanie Elizabeth Meier Abernathy

Marilyn Merrell Hubbard

Gail Miller

Caroline Mitchell Smith

Catherine B. Oliver C

Freida Cynthia Padgett Henry

Christine Pence Guerin

Martha L. Ramey

Nancy E. Rhodes

Betty Sale Edwards

Carol Sharman
*Beverly Nicole Shepherd Oxford

Sally A. Skardon

Martha M. Smith

Sally Stanton

Linda Carol Stokley Langley

Paula Swann Pllcher

Jane Tarver Drewry

Pamela Taylor Clanton

Laura Watson Keys
*Ruthie Wheless Hunter

Mellnda Whitlock Thorsen
*Charlotte Williams

Sandra Wilson Harris

Norrls Wootton

Sue Wright Shull

1971

Trudy Allen

Janace Anderson

Deborah Arnold Fleming
*Cynthia Ashworth Kesler

Deborah Banghart Mullins

Marylu Benton

Evelyn Young Brown

Vicki Brown Ferguson

Swanna E. Cameron

Candy Card Slaton

Jane H. Carlson
*Karen Conrads

Mary Carolyn Cox
*Sallie Preston Daniel Johnson

Karen Lenore Derrick Moon

Sara Dale Derrick Rudolph
*Carol Durrance Dunbar
*Jane Duttenhaver Hursey
*Rose Anne Ferrante Waters
*Sandra Finotti Moses

Dianne Floyd Blackshear
*Frances Folk Zygmont

Annette Friar

Betheda Fries Justice

Christine Fulton Baldwin

Margaret Funderburk O'Neal

Carolyn Galley
*Gayle Gellerstedt Daniel C

Janet Godfrey Wilson

Anna Gordon Burns

Deborah Haskell Hurley

Paula Hendricks Culbreth

Susan Marie Hopkins Moseley

Susan Hummel Phillips

Deborah Lee Hyden Camp

Ann A. Jarrett
*Edith Jennings Black

Elizabeth K, Jones

Beulah D. Kasselberg

Carlene Klrkman Duncan

Genie Klingner Brady
*Linda Laney Little

Margaret Lee Hively
*Karen Lewis Mitchell

Eva McCranie Jones C

Lee H. McDavid
*Stella Brice McDermid Haberlandt

H. Tyler McFadden
*Alexa Gay Mcintosh Mims

Bonnie Mcintosh Roughton

Marti McLemore Boyce

Mary Morris Reid

Margaret Morrison Hamilton

Susan E. Morton C

Eleanor Nlnestein
*Betty Scott Noble Bosworth

Barbara Herta Paul

Mildred Pease Childs

Jo Ann Perry
*Jan Elizabeth Roush Pyles

Laura Sears Buckner

Kathryn Lee Sessions

Kathy S. Smith

Jane Stambaugh
*Granville Sydnor Hill
*Dea Taylor Walker
*Margaret Thompson Davis

Bemie Todd Smith

Janet Truslow Isaacs
*Caroline Turner

Wimberly Warnock Everltt
*Ellen Willingham

Linda Wilson Bohrer

Rosalind 0. Womack

CC, Colonnade Club. S500 or more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, $250 or more C, Century Club, 5100 or more *, Fund Agent **, Deceased

25

1972

Linda Gail Adams

Harriet E. Amos

Candace Apple Holbrook
*Sarah Barron LaBadie
*Mary Jane Beaty Watkins

Melissa Carman Carter

Patricia Carter Patterson

Susan Correnty Dowd
*Cindy Current Patterson C

Gayle S. Daley

Lynn Davis

Madeleine del Portillo Smith

Barbara Denzler Campbell

Jerry Kay Foote

Louise Gates
*C. Dianne Gerstle

Margaret Guirkln Reid

Rosalie S. Haley

Louise Roska-Hardy

Becky Hendrix

Julie Hixon

Claire Hodges Burdett
*Patricia Jean Jennings Cornwell

Sharon Lucille Jones Cole

Deborah Jordan Bates

Anne Kemble Collins
*Sidney Kerr

Mary Jane King

Susan Landers Burns

Amy C. Lanier
*Sally Lloyd

Deborah. Long Wingate
*Linda Maloy Ozier

Yvonne McLemore
*Mary Jane Morris MacLeod

Susan D. Parks
*Sybil Feet Margaritls
*Mary Ann Powell Howard

Patricia Ray Sjostrand

Virginia Rollins Austin

Elizabeth Seymour
*Beth Sherman Moody

Barbara A. Shuman

Katherine Sloan Barker

Gretchen Smith

Sandra Smith Herrington
*Belita Stafford Walker

Susan Steagall
*Sus^ Stimson Peak

Linda Story Braid
*Nancy Thomas Tippins

Mary V. Uhl

Katrina Van Duyn

Susan Watson Black

Pam Westmoreland Sholar

Nancy Weaver Willson

Paula Wiles Sigmon

Susan Williams Gomall
*Julianna McKinley Winters

Ann Yrwing

1973

Faye Ann Allen Slsk
*Frances R, Amsler

Karen Atkinson Schwinger

Patricia Bartlett

Ruth Ann Bennear

Donna Bergh
*Cala Marie Boddie Senior

Sally Campbell Bryant

Eleanor Bussey Bennett

Kathleen Lois Campbell

Nancy L, Carter

Deborah M. Corbett

Ann Cowley Churchman

Deana Craft Ellison

Deborah L. Dalhouse

Ivonne del Portillo

Martha Forman Foltz Manson

Laura Landon Galley

Ellen Gordon

Mary E. Gray

Judith Hamilton Grubbs

Mary Lucy Hamilton

Pamela Sue Hanson

Cynthia Harvey Fletcher
*Carolyn Hassett

Elizabeth B, Haynes

Debra Anne Jackson Williams

Janet K, Jackson
*Susan Jones Musser

Marcia K. Knight
*Julia LaRue Orwig

Anne MacKenzie Boyle

Margaret MacLennan Barron
*Jerri McBride Berrong

Mary McMartin
*Judy Maguire
*Deborah Neuman Mattem

Prlscilla H. Offen

Cindy Percival

Elizabeth Rhett Jones
*Pamela Rogers

Verdery A, Roosevelt
*Susan Rudolph Birdwell

Martha Schabel

Harriett Schneider Williams
*Nadja Sefcik

Judy Sharp Hickman
*Janet E. Short
*Clare Purcell Smith

Laura Tlnsley Swann
*Joy Trimble
*Bonnie Troxler Graham

Eleanor Anne Vest Howard

Lee Walker

Nancy Wallace Davis

Edith Waller Chambless

Helen Elizabeth Watt

Cynthia Wilkes

Eugenia Williams Collins

Laura Jocelyn Williams

Lady Louise Wornat Emrich

1974

Anonymous

Elizabeth Mo Abbott
*Barbara Diane Beeler Cormani

Julie Bennett Curry

Betty Binkley
*Marianne Bradley
*Patricia Ann Cook

Ethel Celeste Cox
*Teressa Stephens Dew
*Vivienne Ryan Drakes McKinney

Davara Jane Dye Potel
*Ann Early Bibb

Lynn Ezell

Mary Gay Banks ton
*SaHy Harris Thompson

Ann Cordes Harvey

Cecilia Anne Henry

Beth Holmes Smith

Calie L, Jones
*Mary Jane Kerr
*Rebecca Ann King

Leila W, Kinney

Mary Frances Lawless Luke
*Teresa Lee

Karen Lortscher
*Lib McGregor Simmons
*Melisha Miles
*Melanie Moore

Suzanne Newman Bauer

Ann E. Patterson

Deanna Penland Ramsey
*Ellnor Perkins Daniel

Paullin Holloway Ponder
*Martha Rutledge Munt

Mary Starling Inman
*Martha Stephenson Kelley

Sandy Stogsdill
Mercedes Vasilos
Debbie Walker
Class of 1974

1975

Rebecca Pickett

1976

Mary Gemma Jemlgan

Buttrick receives weatherproojing and roof repairs.

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Friends of The College

Anonymous

A.A.U.W., Atlanta Chapter C

Agnes Scott College Athletic

Association
Agnes Scott College Faculty

Wives Club
Mrs. Henry W. Adams
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Adams C
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy R. Adams
Mr. Tom Adams
Mr. Bona Allen, III CC
Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr. Q
Mr. James L. Alston
Dr. Wallace M. Alston Q
Mr. and Mrs. Bevil T. Amos C
Mrs. J. M. Baird
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Baker
Dr. and Mrs. Murphey W. Banks
Mr. and Mrs. Dean D. Barger
Miss Mary M. Bamett
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Barritt
Bayshore Baptist Church Round

Table
Bayshore Presbyterian Residents

Association
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beaird
Mrs. H. E. Benson C
Mrs. George M. Bevier Q
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bigby, Jr.
Mr. Braxton Blalock, Jr. C
Mr. Everett Bond Q
Mr. E. L. Bothuell
Mrs. Henrietta Fulton Breen
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Briley, Jr. Q
Mr. and Mrs. John Bringhurst
Mrs. S. B. Brinson
Ms. Elaine Brinson

Dr. and Mrs. Rufus K. Broadaway CC
Mrs. Louise 0. Brock
Dr. Jack T. Brooking
Ms. Hazel T. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Martin P. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bryant, Jr.
Mrs. Lillie B. Bullard
Mr. and Mrs. Otis B. Burnham C
Mrs. Ethel S. Cady
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Candler
Mr. G. Scott Candler CC
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Candler
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Carlson
Miss Mary Carter
Mrs. Gus G. Casten

Cedars of Lebanon Health Care Center
Mr. and Mrs. R. Flake Chambliss
Mrs. C. Boyd Chapman
Dr. and Mrs. Marion T. Clark C
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cline C
Mrs. R. C. Colbert
Mrs. S. B. Colvard
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Conrad, Jr. C
Mr. and Mrs. William Frank Cox
Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Craft
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Cribbs, Jr.
Ms. Anniel Cunningham
Mr. William M. Curd C
Miss Mary Louise Currie
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dameron, Jr.
Mrs. Jean M. Davis C
Decatur Presbyterian Church,

Women of the Church C
Dr. and Mrs. L. del Portlllo
Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Dunbar
Mrs. W. M. Duncan
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Echols C
Mr. Earl H. Elberfeld Q
Dr. John D. Elmore C
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Faiola Q
Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Fancher
Rev. Harry A. Fifield
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Ford
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Francis
Mr. and Mrs. DeJongh Franklin
Mr. and Mrs. W. Joe Frlerson
Mr. Alex P. Gaines CC
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Galphin C
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Leslie Garber Q

Ms. Almeda J. Garland

Miss Julia Gary CC

Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt

Mr. John Germany

Mr. John L. Gignilllac

Ms. Helen V. Gilbert

Mrs. Lillian R. Gllbreath

Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Gillespie C

Mr. James R. Gilliam C

Mr. Ben S. Gilmer

Miss M. Kathryn Gllck C

Mrs . John Goodman

Mrs. Esther A. Graff Q

Colonel F. F. Groseclose C

Miss Nancy P. Groseclose C

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Guirkin

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hackl C

Mr. Harry C. Hannah

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hannah

Mrs. Evalyn R. Harbaugh

Mrs. Cecile H. Hardy

Mr. and Mrs. L. James Harmanson

Mrs. Lauren Harper

Miss Ruth M. Harris

Mrs. Katherine S. Heam

Dr. M. M. Heltzel

Mrs. T. N. Henderson

Miss Mary Eloise Herbert

Mrs. Margaret B. Hickey

Mrs. H. L. Hitchcock

Mrs. May K. Hoge

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hoppe

Mrs. R. E. Huggins

Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibson Hull

Mrs. Richard S. Ihley C

Mrs. Margaret Moody Iwamoto

Mr. Charles L. Jacob

Miss Gunnel M. Jansson C

Miss Elizabeth Jordan

Miss Dorothy Jordan

Miss Carol Keller

Mr. Angus Laird

Mr. Sartain Lanier

Mrs. Paul Launius

Mr. C. R. Lawrence

Mrs. Sarah B. Leland

Miss Susan F. Leonard

Mr. Walter W. Leroy C

Mr. Gaston Lockhart

Mr. Harry M. Love C

Mrs. Wood W. Lovell

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Luchsinger

Mr. J. D. Luten, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McArthur, Jr

Ms. Hazel McCabe

Mr. James Ross McCain Q

Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. McCain CC

Ms. Joan 0. McCausland

Mrs. Rayburn E. McCulloh

Mr. J. A. McCurdy C

Mrs. Marion W. McCurdy

Mr. and Mrs. John R. McDavid

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. McDonald

Mrs. Louisa W. McEachern

Miss Kate McKemie C

Mr. Alex McLennan

Dr. W. E. McNair Q

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. McNinch

Mrs. Fitzhugh L. McRee

Mrs. T. C. McSwain

Mrs. E. M. Malcolm

Mrs. Chester E. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Martin

Mr. William Minor Mason

Mrs. Martha C. Maxwell

Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. Meaney

Miss Geraldine M. Meroney

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Merrltt

Mr. S. C. Mlckler

Mr. J. A. Minter

Monday French Class

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Moody

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Moreland

Mr. W. T. Morgan

Mrs. A. L. Moses

Mrs. Chris Moutos

MisB lone Murphy
Mrs. E. A. Murray
Ms. Patricia N. Nagel
National Historical Society CC
Mr. and Mrs. K. Ed Necly, Jr. C
Miss Lillian Newman
Mr. Henry F. Nlchol
Mrs. Merle Norton
Mr. Dean S. Paden
Mr. W. A. Parker
Mr. Richard D. Parry
Mr. H. G. Pattlllo
Mrs. Harry T. Paxton
Dr. and Mrs. William J. Pendergras
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Pepe C
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin B. Perry, Jr.
Mr. J. Davison Philips
Mr. Harry F. Plemons
Mrs. W. W. Plowden
Dr. and Mrs. Walter B. Posey C
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Price, Jr.
Mrs. W. B. Quilllan, Jr.
Mrs. J. R, Rankin C
Dr. Joseph C. Read
'- Mr. G. L. Reeves

Ms. Katheryn W. Reeves

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Reeves

Mrs. Allison M. Rice

Mr. Robert S. Rice

Ms. Patricia Ann Richardson

Mrs. Faye Robinson

Colonel Henry A. Robinson Q

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Robinson

Mrs. P. W. Rowan and Bridge Club

Mr. Joseph M. Rubens, Jr,

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Salter

Mr. Hansford Sams, Jr. Q

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Saseen C

Mrs. Barbara F. Saunders

Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Schabel

Mrs. Irene L. Schneider

Mrs. W. H. Schrader

Mr. B. M. Sharian

MlIss Eugenie Shears

Mrs. F. B. Sheats

Mrs. Francois L. Sheats

Miss Rose D. Sheats

Mrs. M. E. Shepard

Mr. John A. Sibley CC

Mr. and Mrs. John Sleker

Mr. and Mrs. Roff Sims CC

Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Slsson, Jr.

Ms. Margaret S. Skinner

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn B. Smith

Mr. Hal L. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Smith, Jr.

Mr.

Mrs.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mrs.

Dr.

Mr.

Dr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mrs.

William Recce Smith, Jr.
Carolyn B. Snow Q
Eloise D. Sowder
George A. Specr, Jr.
and Mrs. Eugene L. Splnadel
and Mrs. L. C. Stafford
R. L. Stamper
HlBS Anne Stapleton
Mr. Austin L. Starrett
Hiss Chloe Steel C
Mr. A. H. Sterne C
E. Lee Stoffel
W. W. Strlbllng CC
C. W. Strickler

Frances W, Strother
S. G. Stukes CC
Julia R. Sullivan
The Surgical Group of Miami

Cedars North
Mr, and Mrs. Pierre Thomas C
Mrs. Ruth F. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Trnylor C
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Miss Margaret C. Trotter
Mrs. Arthur C. Tuggle

and Mrs. Walter C. Vlck

Lou H. Voorhees
and Mrs. H. B. Wallace, Jr. C
William C. Wardlaw q

Perry M. Warner
and Mrs. John A. Wnyt, Sr. C
and Mrs. Clarke B. Weeks, Jr.

J. Parham Werleln C
G. Lamar Westcott
and Mrs. E. R. WestiDoreland

Thomas J. Wharton
and Mrs. Earl B. Whipple
and Mrs. Kenneth E. Whipple
and Mrs. Wendell K. Whipple, Jr. C
and Mrs. William M. Whipple

Childs White
and Mrs. F. S. Whiteside
Professor Bell 1. Wiley Q
Rev. and Mrs. Donald E. Williams
and Mrs. J. H. Williams, Jr.

Ruth D. Williams
and Mrs. Frank C. Wilson C
John C. Wilson C
Winsome Sunday School Class
Mrs. J. McKlnley Winters
Mr, George W, Woodruff
Mrs. Clara C. Wyatt
Dr. and Mrs. Hogan L. Yancey
Mrs. Jane Hurt Yarn C
Mrs. James Harvey Young
Miss Elizabeth Zenn

Mr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Dr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mr.

Rev.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mr.
Mrs.
Mr.
Mr.

Practicality yields to the inevitable, uiid a beaten path be-
comes another of Apnes Scott's well-known brick walks.

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Businesses and Foundations

Dr, Edward McNair, Director of Public Relations,
thanks Virginia Brown McKenzie, Director of Alumnae
Affairs, for the cooperation of alumnae in representing
the College at the annual Stay and See Georgia exhi-
bition in Atlanta,

Anonymous

Abbott Laboratories

American Credit Fdn, of

North Carolina, Inc.
Alcoa Fdn.
American Telephone and

Telegraph Co.
Aristocrat Ice Cream Co.
The Atlanta Fdn. - Peters Fund
Atlanta Gas Light Co.
Atlantic Richfield Fdn.
Ballard Optical Co.
Lewis H. Beck Fdn.
Cities Service Fdn.
The Citizens and Southern Bank
The Citizens and Southern Fund
Walter Clifton Fdn., Inc.
The Coca Cola Company
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Blng Crosby Youth Fund
Harry L. Dalton Fdn,
The Charles A. Dana Fdn., Inc.
Decatur Federal Savings & Loan Assn.
Deering Mllliken Service Corp.
Dresser Fdn.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus

Fdn., Inc.
Exposition Fdn., Inc.
Exxon USA Fdn.

Firemen's Fund American Fdn.
First & Merchants Fdn., Inc.
Ford Motor Co. Fund
John and Mary Franklin Fdn.
General Cable Fund
General Electric Fdn.
General Mills Fdn.
The Georgia Foundation for

Independent Colleges
Gould, Inc.

Stella and Charles Guttman Fdn., Inc.
Eugene and Amelle Harrington Fdn.

Charitable Trust
Harris Fdn.
Hart ford Ins , Co ,
Haskins & Sells Fdn.
Hercules Inc.
Houghton Mifflin Co,
Household Finance Corp.
IBM Corp.
INA Fdn,

Johnson & Hlgglns
The Kendall Co, Fdn.
The Malloy Fdn.
Marsh and McLennan
The Merck Co. Fdn,
Metropolitan Fdn. of Atlanta
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, of

New York
Mutual of New York
National Bank & Trust Co. of

Columbus
Olin Corp. Charitable Trust
Owens-Corning Flberglas Corp.
Pitney Bowes
The Presser Fdn,
Reliance Group, Inc.
Reliance Ins. Co., Fdn.
R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.
The Rich Fdn., Inc.
Walter H. and Marjory M, Rich Fdn.
Rlegel Textile Corp, Fdn.
Rockwell International
SCM Fdn. , Inc.

Glidden-Durkee Division
S & H Fdn., Inc,
The Sears-Roebuck Fdn.
John Sexton Co.
Shell Companies Fdn,, Inc.
Southern Natural Gas Co.
The State Mutual Assurance Co.
J. P. Stevens & Co. Fdn., Inc.
Stone & Webster, Inc.
Student Aid Fdn.
Sun Oil Co. of Pennsylvania
Tenneco, Inc.
Transamerica Corp.
Trust Company of Georgia Bank
Trust Company of Georgia Fdn.
The J. M. Tull Fdn.
D. A. and Elizabeth B. Turner

Fdn., Inc.
Union Oil Co, of California Fdn.
United Aircraft Corp.
United Virginia Bankshares Fdn.
The Gertrude and William C, Wardlaw

Fund, Inc.
West Point- Pepperell Fdn., Inc.
Westlnghouse Education Fdn,
Xerox Corp.

Calendar

Oct. 1 Honors Day Convocation: Dean Mary P. McPherson,
Bryn Mawr College

Oct. 3 Alumnae Council annual meeting

Oct. 4 Alumnae Association Executive Board meeting

Oct. 13* Young Atlanta Club meeting

Oct. 14 Ciuarneri String Quartet

Oct. 15 Cobb County Club meeting

Oct. 16 Atlanta Club meeting

Oct. 23 Decatur Club meeting

Oct. 25-26 Investiture Weekend

Oct. 26-Nov. 26 Art show: James Yarbrough

Oct. 30 Deadline for Class News for Winter Quarterly
Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 6, 7, 8 Blackfriars production

Nov. 5 International Women's Year lecture by historian
Elizabeth Janeway

Nov. 10 Deadline for obtaining application materials for
the White House Fellows Program (The White
House, Washington, DC), open to persons ages
23-35 who are interested in spending a year
of work and study in Washington

Nov. 16 Holiday Pops Concert: Agnes Scott and Ca. Tech
Glee Clubs

Nov. 25 Christmas vacation begins

*Club presidents, please send future meeting dates to
"Calendar."

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Attention all alumnae. . .

Admissions Office wants to add 9000 to staff!

A president's report is an analysis of
the past year; a fund report is economic
data; but the report from an admissions
office is like science fiction it
extrapolates in order to describe what
the future will be and the preparations
it should make for that future. The
Agnes Scott Admissions Office works
today but studies tomorrow.

Like some writers of science fiction,
some college recruiters have bad
reputations. They are called
"roadrunners," "headhunters," or
"hustlers" because they have resorted
to questionable admissions tactics
(give-away trinkets, hollow promises,
undeserved scholarships) that foster
suspicion and mistrust among the
college-bound audience. But in the
same way that sensitive science fiction
writers are genuinely concerned about
the quality of the world of tomorrow and
the role of education in that world,
some admissions representatives try
to define future leadership and to
assure sound education by projecting
today's high school student into
tomorrow's college and next year's
world. Agnes Scott believes in her
future, and the Admissions Office is
busy selecting the cast for that future.

It is right that alumnae help in this
task, because the College has been
a part of each alumna's past and has
helped shape her present. An alumna,
unlike some admissions representatives,
does not lack credibility when she
speaks for an institution. More than
ever before, the voices of Agnes Scott
alumnae are needed to sustain the
College's rise in enrollment and to
ensure a future for liberal arts education.

The Agnes Scott Admissions staff
wants and needs the help of each
alumna in shaping tomorrow's college.
The staff believes that if you know
something of the organization of the

office in the present, you will be better
able to join it in affecting the future. The
staff consists of the Director of
Admissions, Ann Rivers Thompson
'59, and five travelers Angle Jarrett
'71, who is Assistant Director of
Admissions, Marcia Knight '73, Mary
Margaret MacLauchlin '74, Judy Maguire
'73, and Melissa Vandiver '73. They
will travel to approximately 23 states
during the year, visiting 650 high schools
and talking with more than 2,000
students. Although the Southeast is
their primary territory, they travel as
far as Dallas, Detroit, Boston, Miami,
Puerto Rico, and parts of Europe. They
keep their travel bags packed from
September through April, but there are
always areas and prospective students
they fail to reach. That's how
you can help.

There is a cross-country network of
9,000 Agnes Scott alumnae, and each of
you could make a significant difference
in the College's future by helping
in various ways. Consider what would
happen if each alumna sent to the
Admissions Office the name of just
one qualified prospective student; our
mailing list would triple! Of course, it
would also increase the number of
applications we'd receive, and, ultimately,
the number of students enrolled.

What can you, an mdividual alumna,
do to help? You can become an
unofficial member of the Admissions
staff, and can advertise and communicate:
advertise the College, and communicate
to us the names of likely candidates
for admission. There are various ways
to accomplish these objectives.

You are the best advertisement the
College can have, of course, and you
can talk up Agnes Scott at ever>'
opportunity. Tell people why you chose
It, what it stands for, and the importance,
in today's world, of a woman's liberal

arts college that is still dedicated
to academic excellence. Offer to help
the local Alumna Admissions
Representative in your area. She
is an alumna who acts as liason
between the Admissions Office and
those people in her community who
are interested in the College. You can
find out who is serving as AAR in your
area through your local alumnae club,
the Alumnae Office, or Admissions.

Be alert for information about any
prospective student, through news
stories about honor students, or through
any community college, youth
director or church group interested
in education, and, in cooperation with
your AAR, plan a get-together for
the prospects. Send their names to
the Admissions Office, and send the
names and addresses of any new
high schools or community colleges
in your area.

Your support is essential in
maintaining the quality of college
that is synonymous with Agnes Scolt.
The high academic standards, the
broad geographical distribution of the
students, and the warmth of the college
community are not accidents but
results of the hard work of many who
cared enough to build and shape
an institution worthy of support and
respect. As an alumna you are the most
valid proof that Agnes Scolt is an
outstanding academic institution
dedicated to the liberal arts and to
the liberating education of women.

Please clip out the section below
and send us the names and addresses
of prospective students, of new high
schoo's and their counselors, and
of community or junior colleges in
your area. And please let us know if
you have any further suggestions
for recruitment. Join our staff; you
can make a difference!

Admissions Office
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030

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Itep into the past..

next summer,

on a walk/study tour of England and Scotland.

The trip, sponsored by the Alumnae Association and
guided by Professor Michael J. Brown, Chairman of Agnes
Scott's Department of History, will last for 22 days, and
will include a week in London.

Housing will be available in England's venerable
universities, and there will be free time for day
trips of your choice.

Interested? Watch for further details in the Quarterly.

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Deaths

Institute

Dr. lohn F. Preston, husband of Annie

W'llev Preston, June 6, 1975.

Academy

Lucile E. Smith Eldridge (Mrs. Lewis W.),

May 29, 1973.

1913

Allie Candler Guy (Mrs. I. Saml.

Sept. 8, 19:-).

1914

Ruth Hicks Porter IMrs. Lester L.I, Feb.

27, 1975.

1915

Hugh Turner, husband of Henrietta
Lanibdin Turner, April, 1975.

1917

Emma Louise Ware, Way 1. 1975.

1918

Caroline Larendon, ,^pr. 3, 1975.

1919

Clifford Judkins Durr. brother of Lucy
Durr Dunn. .May. 1975.

Frances Glasgow Patterson (Mrs. C. H.),
Ianuar\', 1975

1920

William Reynolds Cuthbertson, husband
of lulia Hagood Cuthbertson, Mar.
31, 1975.

1922

Emma Louise Ware, sister of Ethel

K. Ware, May 1, 1975.

1923

Erskine Jarntgan Forgy (.Mrs. 5. Waltoni,

May 27. 1974

1924

Mary Kelly Luten (Mrs. I. D.J,

\ov. 14. 1974.

1927

J. Elliott ("Jock") Cooper, husband of

Leiia Joiner Cooper, Dec. 23, 1974.

Thomas Howard McKey, Jr., husband of

Ethel Miller.

Hubert Bradley, husband of Emily Nelson

Bradley, May 8, 1975.

Dr. John F. Preston, father of Miriam

Wiley Preston St. Clair, June 6. 1975.

1928

Harriet Alexander Kilpatrick i.Mrs. A. J.I,

Nov. 1, 1974

1930

Dr. John F. Preston, father of Shannon
Preston Cumming, June 6. 1975.
Robert Sidne>' Abernethy, husband of
Belle Ward Stowe Abernethv, (Mar.
31, 1975.

1931

Dr. Thomas S. Logan, husband of .Adele
Arbuckle Logan. February, 1975.

1934

Dr. lohn F. Preston, father of Florence
Preston Bockhorst, June 6. 1975.

1935

Mrs. Edwards, mother of Fidesah Edwards
Alexander, May 8, 1975.

1937

Dr. Theodore S. George, husband of

Luniii- Ciirns George. Feb. 15, 1975.
Strs. Royston lesler. jr., mother of
Dorothy Jester. Feb. 23, 1975.
W. L. Johnson, father of Sarah Johnson
Linney, Ianuar\', 1975.

1939

Hill (Martin, husband of Caroline
Armistead Martin, Feb. 12, 1975.

1940

C. W. Sullivan, father of Louise
Sullivan Fry, Mar. 8, 1975.

1941

.Vtrs. Royston Jester, Jr., mother of Helen
Jester Crawford. Feb. 23, 1975.

1942

Ntrs. iVtary M. Hartsook. mother of
Margaret Hartsook Emmons, (May
17, 1975.

1945

Mrs. Randall G. Satterwhile, mother of
Jean Salterwhite Harper, Apr. 19, 1975.

1949

\V. R. Cuthbertson, father of .Marie
Cuthbertson Faulkner, Mar. 31, 1975.
C. W. Sullivan, father of Doris Sullivan
Tippens. Mar. 8. 1975

1950

Ann Ashley Page, Sept, 8, 1971.

Ann Windham Hancock (Mrs. David),

Apr. 25, 1975.

1951

W. R Cuthbertson. father of Julia
Cuthbertson Clarkson, Ntar. 31, 1975.

1952

Marilyn Cox Ellioll (,Mrs. James H.),

November, 1974.

1954

Frances GJasgow Patterson, '19, mother
of .-Xnne Pat" Patterson Hammes,
January, 1975.

1957

Margaret Schilling Marshall (,Vlrs. S.E.),

Mo\ 16. 19"3

1958

Mrs. John Winn, Sr., mother of Mary
Fleming Winn Venable, Mar. 1, 1975,

1959

Robert Sidney Abernethy, father of
.Margaret Ward Abernethy (Martin,
Mar. 31, 1975.

1962

.Mrs. H. J. Hagler, mother of Jackie
Hagler Hopkins, Oct. 31, 1974.

1965

Robert Sidney Abernethy, father of Sally
lohnston Abernethy Eads, .Mar. 31, 1975.

1967

Edith Hunter, mother of Ann Wellington
Hunter, May, 1975,

1973

W illiam Wmfrey, father of Beth Winfrey,
Ian. 6. 1975.

Staff

Mrs. Barto Bufford, 108 years old, former
Alumnae House tea room maid,
Mav, 1975.

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Director's Letter

Author Joins Alumnae Office Staff

Agnes Scott is indeed fortunate to have acquired
the services of a truly professional v^riter to serve as
editor of The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly.

She is Martha Whatley Yates '45, who comes to us
well-qualified for her job.

In college she majored in English and physics
and amassed enough hours to minor in five other
subjects, journalism being one of them. She has
always been involved in writing and public relations
from the time she was reporting for The Agnes Scott
News until she wrote her own book. Coping: A
Survival Manual for Women Alone, which is to be
presented to the public early in 1976 by
Prentice-Hall.

in the interim she has had many articles
published in broadcasting, architectural, and
educational journals. While she served as assistant
news director of a local radio station, her news
team won the coveted Green Eyeshade Award
presented by Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic
society, for outstanding broadcast journalism.

In addition to her professional competency she
comes to us with an enriched living experience.
She was the very first Agnes Scott student who,
after marriage during her sophomore year, was
allowed to continue her course work and receive
her B.A. degree. Her husband, George Yates, had
his own architectural firm. Together they raised

four fine children. Following George's untimely
death in 1970, just before the children were college
bound, she and the children have worked together
to cope. The oldest child, George Scott, 24,
named after Agnes Scott, lives in Nashville, Tenn.
The other three are at home: Mark, 22, a botanist;
Elaine, 20, a published poet; and John, 18, entering
the honors program in music as a freshman at
the University of Georgia.

While Martha studied at Agnes Scott, she was
also a student aide and still found time to participate
in extra-curricular activities: Student Government,
International Relations Club, the debating team, and
the school newspaper. After college she continued
her multi-faceted life by adding presidencies of
PTA's and garden clubs to her roles as homemaker
and career person.

We expect Martha's professional ability and
creative talent to make a positive contribution in
many areas of alumnae work; for she is also
Assistant to the Director of Alumnae Affairs and in
that capacity will contribute to ongoing alumnae
programs.

Since this is a special issue of The Quarterly,
containing the President's Report and the Fund
Report, the only evidence of Martha's ability is
shown in the picture captions; watch for more
of Martha in the next issue.

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Director of Alumni Affairs

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