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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY FALL 1976

THE

A L UMNA E QUAR TERL Y/ VOLUME 55 NUMBER 1

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY STAFF:
Editor / Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Managing Editor / Peggie Miller Chamblee '76
Class News Editor / Frances Holt '77
Design Consultant / John Stuart McKenzie

ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF:

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

Associate Director

Betty Medlock Lackey '42

Assistant to the Director

Peggie Miller Chamblee '76

Secretary

Frances Strother

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:
President / Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt "46
Vice Presidents

Region I / Cissie Spiro Aidinoff '51

Region II / Margaret Ward Abernethy Martin '59

Region III / Lou Pate Jones '39

Region IV / Ruth VanDeman Walters '66
Secretary / Mary Jervis Hayes '67
Treasurer / Lamar Lowe Connell '27

Member / Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.

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

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Fund Report
President's Report
Opportunities Unlimited:

Administrative Intern Program

Alumnae Events:

Calendar, Tour, Back-to-College Vacation

Class News

Beat Christmas Rush

Nominations

Letters to the Editor

From the Director

PHOTO CREDITS:

Pages 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 27,
32 Bill Grimes; Page 2 Marty
Lovvom; Page 34 Bill Holt.

The

1975-1976

Agnes Scott Fund

Report

Alumnae Fund Chairman Lib Flinn '38, Vice President for Development Paul McCain, and Alumnae Association President Mary
Gellerstedt '46 plan 1976-77 alumnae solicitations.

Alumnae Support is Vital to Growth

Today as never before in American higher education
the support of alumnae and friends provides the
vital factor that adds quality to a college's academic
program. This has certainly been true for Agnes
Scott during the past year. More than 500 volunteers
donated time and effort to enlist support for the
Agnes Scott Fund. The results were most gratifying.

During the 1975-76 year the College received
$1,331,967 in gifts and grants to be used for the
College's operation, endowment and campus
improvements. This represents the gifts of 2,697
alumnae and 1,063 other donors, including the 644
firms that gave through the Georgia Foundation for
Independent Colleges. In addition, two annuities
totalling $87,375 were received and have been
earmarked for endowed scholarships at a later date

The General Chairman of the 1975-76 Agnes Scott
Fund was Julius A, McCurdy, Chairman-Emeritus of
the Decatur Federal Savings and Loan Association.
Sis Burns Newsome '57, Alumnae Chairman, Diana
Dyer Wilson '33, Special Gifts Chairman, 56 Class
Chairmen and 396 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, 1975,
through June 30, 1976; gifts received after the latter
date will be shown in the report for 1976-77.

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 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

Mary Wallace Kirk
Annie Talt Jenkins
Sarah Fulton
Alice M. Virden
Frances Gllliland Stukes
Mary Keesler Dalton
Rosalie Wooten Deck
Louise Lovejoy Jackson
Virginia Carrier
Elaine Jacobsen Lewis
Shannon Preston Cumralng
Martha Sprinkle Rafferty
Vamelle Braddy Ferryman
Gail Nelson Blain
Nelle Chamlee Howard
Julia McClatchey Brooke
Sara Frances McDonald
Kathleen Daniel Spicer
Nell Allison Sheldon
Lou Pate Jones
Helen Gates Carson
Gene Slack Morse
Claire Purcell Smith
Clara Rountree Couch
Betty Williams Stoffel
Bess Sheppard Poole
Mary McConkey Reimer
Betty Crabill Rogers
Harriet E. Reid

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AMOUNT

125

17

$ 15,063.50

9

26

1,355.00

42

44

9,767.50

36

26

2,935.00

32

29

132,540.50

44

37

4,211.38

50

43

3,690.00

45

31

4,288.00

38

32

4,668.75

66

44

6,328.00

47

38

4,900.28

37

36

5,058.00

48

39

3,365.00.

49

39

3,181.58

39

35

3,090.00

35

29

4,445.00

43

31

1,307.00

45

39

2,457.00

48

34

2,205.00

46

34

1,845.00

56

38

7,931.25

40

27

7,455.00

50

33

3,224.06

35

27

2,626.00

42

28

1,808.50

55

37

1,799.00

50

30

3,032.50

45

29

1,796.00

47

32

2,097.00

1949 Nancy Huey Kelly

1950 Pat Overton Webb

1951 Jeanne Kline Brown

1952 Barbara Brown Waddell
1953

1954 Jacquelyn Josey Hall

1955 Sarah Petty Dagenhart

1956 Louise Rainey Anmons

1957 Elizabeth Ansley Allan

1958 Carolyn Tinkler Ramsey

1959 Eleanor Lee McNeill
1960

1961 Mary Wayne Crymes Bywater

1962 Lebby Rogers Harrison

1963 Louisa Walton McFadden

1964 Lucy Herbert Mollnaro
Marion Smith Bishop

1965 Anne Schiff Faivus

1966 Anne Morse Topple

1967 Anne Davis McGehee

1968 Bronwyn Burks Fowlkes

1969 Julie Cottrlll
Mary McAlpine Evans

1970 Carol Crosby Patrick

1971 Christy Fulton Baldwin

1972 Claire Hodges Burdett

1973 Beth Winfrey Freeburg

1974 Lib McGregor Simmons

1975 Debbie Shepherd Haraby

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AMOUNT

51

30

3,295.23

37

26

1,312.00

39

24

1,800.00

53

34

1,981.55

45

34

1,367.32

36

29

2,465.00

39

26

2,732.00

53

34

4,755.00

53

30

4,470.75

53

32

6,045.00

62

36

1,787.00

56

31

2,145.00

65

36

2,628.60

46

24

5,063.00

39

20

1,232.00

59

29

1,215.00

62

31

1,724.00

55

27

2,019.50

55

31

1,195.00

60

29

1,691.50

62

26

1,237.00

64

30

1,098.00

62

30

1,810.55

44

20

907.50

46

24

763.50

31

15

410.00

27

14

783.77

Tower Circle

Anonymous

Myrtle C. Blackmon '21
Ida Brittain Patterson '21
Suzella Burns Newsome '57
Helen Gates Carson '40
Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt '46
Ethel Freeland Darden '29
Frances Gllliland Stukes '24
Jo Ann Hall Hunsinger '55
Polly Hall Dunn '30
Quenelle Harrold Sheffield '23
Elizabeth Harshbarger Broadus '
Maryellen Harvey Newton '16
**Kate Higgs Vaughan '24
Louise Hill Reaves '54
Nancy Holland Sibley '58
Louise Hollingsworth Jackson '3
Dorothy Holloran Addison '43
Betty Lou Houck Smith '35
Eleanor N. Hutchens '40
Betsy Jefferson Boyt '62

Annie Tait Jenkins '14
Nancy Kamper Miller '33
Mary Keesler Dalton '25
Mary Wallace Kirk '11
Virginia Mllner Carter '40
Blythe Posey Ashraore '58
Marie Scott O'Neill '42
Ruth Slack Roach '40
Julia Smith Slack '12
Lulu Smith Westcott '19
Nancy Thomas Hill '56
Ruth Thomas Stemmons '28
Julia Thompson Smith ' 31
Mary Warren Read ' 29
Margaret G. Weeks '31
Violet Weeks Miller '29
Mary West Thatcher '15
Virginia Wing Power '26
Louise Woodard Clifton '27
Agnes Scott Faculty Wives Club
Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club

Young Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mr. Thomas H. Broadus, Jr.
Byron K. Brown
Carlyle Fraser

John A. Garber
R. C. Gary

L. L. Gellerstedt, Jr.

Ben S. Gilmer
Martha C. Huntington

and Mrs. Paul M. McCain
Mr. J. A. Mlnter

Dr. and Mrs. Marvin B. Perry, Jr.
Mr. George Power
Mr. Oscar Schmidt, Jr.
Mr. Hal L. Smith
Mr. P. L. Bealy Smith
Dr. William C. Warren, Jr.
Mr. G. L. Westcott
Mr. George W. Woodruff

Mrs

Mrs

**Mr.

Mrs

Mrs
Dr.

*Deceased

Agnes Scott Income
1975-76

Agnes Scott Expenditures
1975-76

Administration
& Plant

Miscellaneous
10.4''/o

Instruction &
Library
34.8%

Scholarships
8.1/o

Endowment
40.7'/o

Auxiliary
Enterprises

21.5%

Alumnae Donors

ACADEMY

Lillian Beatty Cory
Mildred Beatty Miller
Elise Crouch Maxwell
**Rebecca Green Hinds
Ruth Green

Bertha Hudson Whitaker
Susie Emma Johnson
Jean Robson Rooney
Elolse Steele Ellis
Caroline Wllbum
Anna Willingham Young
Margaret Wright Alston

INSTITUTE

J. Meta Barker
Carrie Morgan Orr
Gertrude Pollard
Bonner Simms Turner
Annie Wiley Preston

'06

Ida Lee Hill Irvin

'08

Sophie Drake Drake
Lizzabel Saxon C
Rose Wood

'09

Lutie P. Head

'10

Mary Edith Donnelly Meehan
Eva Towers Hendee
Keturah White Marshall

'11

Berta David Farrar
Mary Wallace Kirk

12

Annie Chapln McLane
Julia Smith Slack
Carol Steams Wey

13

Mathilde Brenner Gercke

Kate Clark

Margaret Roberts Graham

14

Mary Brown Florence Q
Theodosia Cobbs Hogan
Nell DuPree Floyd
Mary Harris Coffin
Mildred Holmes Dickert
Annie Talt Jenkins
Kathleen Kennedy
Linda Miller Summer
Hazel Rogers Marks

15

Mary E, Hamilton C
Sally May King
Isabel Norwood
Grace Reld

Almedla Sadler Duncan
Mary West Thatcher

16

Elizabeth Bogle

Omah Buchanan Albaugh CC

Maryellen Harvey Newton
Katherine Hay Rouse C
Margaret T. Phythlan C
Mary Katherine Pope
Mary Glenn Roberts
Janie Rogers Allen
Jeannette Victor Levy
Clara Whips Dunn

'17

Virginia Allen Potter C

Gjertrud Amundsen Stqueland

Julia Anderson McNeely C

Agnes Ball Q

Gladys Gaines Field

Willie Belle Jackson McWhorter

Janet Newton C

Mary Spotsuood Payne

Regina Pinkston C

Louise Roach Fuller C

Katharine B. Simpson

Mary Etta Thomas Stephenson

Frances White Oliver

'18

Hallle Alexander Turner
Katherine Anderson C
Elva Brehm Florrld
Martha Comer
Ruby Lee Estes Ware
Olive Hardwick Cross
Virginia Haugh Franklin

Sus

Hecker

Margaret Leyburn Foster
Mary Lyle Phillips
Sarah Patton Cortelyou
Katherine L. Seay C
Evamaie Willingham Park

19

Cora Mae Bond LeVert
Blanche Copeland Jones
LaGrange Cothran Trusse

Lucy Durr Dunn C
Lois Eve Rozler
Helen Ewing
Louise Felker Mlzell
Dorothy Mitchell Ellis
Virginia Newton
Alice Norman Pate C
Mary K. Parks Mason
Frances Sledd Blake
Lulu Smith Westcott
Marguerite Watts Cooper C
Llewellyn Wllburn
Elizabeth Wltherspoon Patte

'20

Margaret Bland Sewell C
Eloise Buston Sluss
Romola Davis Hardy
Sarah Davis Mann
Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
Marian Harper ICellogg C
Cornelia Hutton Hazelhurst
Elizabeth Lovett C
Lois Maclntyre Beall
Margery Moore Tappan
Louise Slack Hooker
Margaret Woods Spalding

'21

Margaret Bell Hanna
Myrtle Blackmon
Julia Brantley Wlllet C
Augusta Brewer Groome
Ida Brittain Patterson
*Thelraa Brown Aiken
*Eleanor B. Carpenter
*Loi9 Compton Jennings C
Luclle Conant Leland
Marguerite Cousins Holley
Virginia Crank Everett
Frances Dearing Hay
Elizabeth Enloe MacCarthy
Virginia Fish Tigner
*Elizabeth Flodlng Morgan

S. Louise Fluker
Sarah Fulton C
Sophie Hagedorn Fox
Helen Hall Hopkins
Frances Hamilton Lambeth
Mariwlll Hanes Hulsey
Dorothy Havls McCuUough

*Melville Jameson
Eugenia Johnston Griffin
Anna Marie Landress Gate
Ruth Laughon Dyer
Jean McAllster Q

*Sarah McCurdy Evans C
Gladys HcDaniel Hastings
Charlotte Newton
Eddith Patterson Blair
Adelaide Ranson Balrnsfather
Edith Roark Van Sickle
Julie Saunders Dlckerson
Elizabeth Smith DeWltt
Lucile Smith Bishop
Josephine Telford
Julia Tomllnson Ingram
Evelyn Wade Harwood

*Margaret S, Wade
Marguerite Watkins Goodman
Ellen Wilson Chambliss

'24

'22

Sarah Alston Lawton
Helen Barton Claytor
Eleanor Buchanan Starcher
Helen Burkhalter Quattlebau
Cama Burgess Clarkson C
Mary Richards Golvin
Hallie Cranford Anderson
Eunice Dean Major
Caroline Farquhar
Catherine Haugh Smith
Genie Howard Mathews
Julia Jameson
Juanlta H, Kelly
Roberta Love Brower
Anne Ruth Moore Crawford
Carolyn Moore Gressette
Ruth Pirkle Berkeley
Mary Roberts Parramore
Ruth Scandrett Hardy C
Harriet Scott Bowen
Laurie Stubbs Johns
Frances White Weeins

'23

Martha Ballard Webb
Dorothy Bowron Collins
Margaret Brenner Awtrey
Mary White Caldwell
Louise Crosland Huske
Rebecca B. Dick
Eileen Dodd Sams C
Christine Evans Murray
Maud Foster Stebler
Helen Faw Mull
Estelle Gardner Baker

*Phllippa G. Gilchrist Q
Emily Guille Henegar
Quenelle Harrold Sheffield
Elizabeth Hoke Smith
Viola Hollls Oakley C
Lucie Howard Carter C
Ruby Hudson Baker
Jane Knight Lowe Q

*Lucile Little Morgan C
Josephine Logan Hamilton

*Beth McClure McGeachy
Martha Mcintosh Nail C
Mary Stewart McLeod C
Anna Meade Mlnnigerode
Elizabeth Molloy Horr
Caroline Moody Jordan
Fredeva S. Ogletree
Elizabeth Ransom Hahn
Rosalie Robinson Sanford C
Dorothy Scott
Nancy Tripp Shand
Alice Virden
Jessie Watts Rustln
Mary Lee Wilhelm Satterwhlte
Margaret Yeager Brackney

Elizabeth Askew Patterson

*Grace Bargeron Rambo
Rebecca Blvings Rogers

*Helen Lane Comfort Sanders
Martha Eakes Matthews
Sarah Flowers Beasley CC
Katie Frank Gilchrist C
Frances Gllllland Stukes
Ann Hatton Lewis
Elizabeth Henry Shands
**Kate Hlggs Vaughan

Victoria Howie Kerr CC

*Barron Hyatt Morrow C
Corinne Jackson Wilkerson
Marguerite Llndsey Booth
Mary McCurdy C
Margaret McDow HacDougall
Sarah McDowell Joiner
Annie Will Miller Klugh
Cora Morton Durrett C
Catherine Nash Scott
Louise Pappenheimer Flnsterw
Weenona Peck Booth
Margaret Powell Gay C
Cora L. Richardson
Carrie Scandrett CC
Isabelle Sewell Hancock
Daisy Frances Smith
Polly Stone Buck
Augusta Thomas Lanier
Clara Louise Waldrop Loving
Helen Wright Smith

'25

Frances Alston E^rerett

Frances Bitzer Edson

Mary Bowdoin

Louise Buchanan Proctor

Mary Caldwell McFarland

Catherine Carrier Robinson

Margaret Dabney Leming

'Evelyn Eastman Beck

Isabel Ferguson Hargadine C
*Luclle Cause Fry^iell

Alice Carolyn Greenlee Grollman

Eleanor Hardeman Cain

Ruth Harrison McKay

Gertrude Henry Stephens

Sallie Horton Lay
*Margaret Hyatt Walker
*AnnIe Johnson Sylvester

Mary Keesler Dalton

Eunice Kell Simmons

Georgia Little Owens

Martha Lin Manly Hogshead

Josephine Marbut Stanley

Anne McKay Mitchell

Mary Ann McKlnney

Mary Middlebrooks Smears

Harriet Fade Prouse C

Eugenia Perkins Harlow

Mildred Pitner Randall

Julia Pope

Ruth Pund McCanless

Jacqueline Rolston Shires

Floy Sadler Maier

Josephine Schuessler Stevens

Mary Stuart Sims Dickson

Carolyn Smith Whipple C

Ella Smith Hayes

Emily Ann Spivey Simmons
*Sarah Tate Tumlin C

Memory Tucker Merritt C

Mary Belle Walker

Virginia Watts Beals

Mabel Witherspoon Meredith

Mary Ben Wright Erwin CC
*Emlly Qulnn Zellars McNeill

'26

Helen Bates Law C
Hary Louise Bennett
Lois Bolles Knox
Virginia Boone Whitt
Leone Bowers Hamllto
Margaret G. Bull
Esther Byers Pitta

Katharine Cannaday McKenzie
Edyth Carpenter Shuey C
Elizabeth Chapman Pirkle
Isabelle Clarke Morrison
Edythe Coleman Paris
Margaret Debele Maner
Louisa D. Duls
Gene Dumas Vickers C
Jeffie Dunn Clark

*Ellen Fain Bowen
Dora Ferrell Gentry CC

*Mary Freeman Curtis
Edith Gilchrist Berry
Gertrude Green Blalock C
Juanita Greer White C
Eleanor Gresham Stelner
Olive Hall Shadgett
Mary Ella Hammond McDowell
Helena Hermance Kilgour
Charlotte Higgs Andrews
Hazel Huff Monaghan
Pilley Kim Choi
Mary Elizabeth Knox Happoldt
Dessie Kuhlke Ansley
Elizabeth Little Meriwether
Margaret Lotspelch Whitbeck
Catherine Mock Hodgln C
Grace Ogden Moore
Virginia Peeler Green
Florence Perkins Ferry C
Allene Ramage Fitzgerald
Nellie B. Richardson
Susan Rose Saunders
Susan Shadburn Watkins

*Sarah Qulnn Slaughter
Evelyn Sprinkle Carter
Olivia Ward Swann C
Norma Tucker Sturtevant C
Margaret Tufts

*Margaret Whitington Davis
Maud Whlttemore Flowers
Virginia Wing Power
Rosalie Wootten Deck

'28

'27

Evelyn Albright Caldwell

Reba Bayless Eoyer

Maurlne Bledsoe Bramlett

Josephine Hridgman C

Adelaide Cannaday Van Voorhies

Annette Carter Colwell

Dorothy Chamberlain

Susan Clayton Fuller

Lillian Clement Adams

Willie May Coleman Duncan C
Mildred Cowan Wright C

Martha Crowe Eddlns
Catherine Louise Davis

Mabel Dumas Crenshaw

Katharine Gllllland Higgins

Elizabeth Hart Houston
*Mary Heath Phillips

Katherine Houston Shelld

Elaa Jacobsen Morris

Martha Johnston Wilson

Leila Joiner Cooper

Pearl Kunnes CC

Louise Leonard McLeod

Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg C

Louise Lovejoy Jackson
Elizabeth Lynn C

Kenneth Maner Powell

Caroline McKlnney Clarke CC

Ruth McMillan Jones C

Elizabeth Norfleet Miller

Miriam Preston St. Clair

Douglass Rankin Hughes
*May Reece Forman

Edith Richards
Evelyn Satterwhlte C

Mamie Shaw Flack

Sarah Shields Pfeiffer

Carrie Sinclair Sinclair

Willie Smith Q
Emily Stead

Edith Strickland Jones

Elizabeth Vary

Roberta Winter CC

Louise Woodard Clifton

Grace Zachry McCreery

Sally Abernethy CC
Elizabeth Allgood Blrchmore

Leila Anderson
Miriam Anderson Dowdy

Evolyn Barnett Kennedy C

Virginia Carrier

Patricia Collins Dwinnell Q

Nancy Crowther Otis

Mary Cunningham Cayce

Sarah Currie Harry
Carolyn Esslg Frederick

Irene Garretson Nichols

Louise Girardeau Cook C

Sarah Glenn Boyd C

Olive Graves Bowen

Elizabeth Grler Edmunds

Muriel Griffin

Rachel Henderlite

Mary Mackey Hough Clark

Alice Hunter Rasnake

Mary King Fowler C

Virginia May Love

Irene Lowrance Wright

Katherine MacKinnon Lee

Mary Bell McConkey Taylor

Elizabeth McEntire

Sarah McFadyen Brown

Frances New McRae

Evangeline Papageorge C

Lila Porcher German
Elizabeth Roark Ellington C

Nannie Graham Sanders C

Mary Sayward Rogers

Mary Shepherd Soper C

Mary Shewmaker CC

Mary Stegall Stipp

Ruth Thomas Stemmons

Edna Volberg Johnson

'29

Per

Ada

Margaret Andreae Collins

Gladys Austin Mann
Therese Barksdale Vinsonhaler
Lillie Belllngrath Prultt
LaRue Berry Smith
Martha Bradford Thurmond
Vlrglna Branch Leslie
Lucile Bridgraan Leitch C
Miriam Broach Jordan
Dorothy Brown Cantrell Q
Hazel Brown Ricks CC
Bettlna Bush Jackson C
Virginia Cameron Taylor C
Dorothy Cheek Callaway
Sally Gothran Lambeth C
Sara Douglass Thomas C
Mary Ellis Knapp
Mary Ficklen Barnett
Nancy Fitzgerald Bray

Ethel Freeland Darden
Lenore Gardner McMillan

Betty Watkins Gash

Ellse Gibson C
Helen Gouedy Mansfield
Marlon Green Johnston C
Mildred Greenledf Walker
Pearl Hastings Baughman
Elizabeth Hatchett C
Cara Hinman
Ella May Holllngsworth Wllker

Hazel Hood
Katherine Hunter Branch Q
Dorothy Hutton Mount
Elaine Jacobsen Lewis C
Evelyn Josephs Phifer
Sara Johnston Hill C
Mary Alice Juhan C
Evelyn Knight Richards
Isabel Jean Lamont Dickson

Geraldine LeMay C
Mary Lou McCall Reddoch

*Edith McGranahan Smith T C

Elizabeth Moss Mitchell
Esther Nlsbet Anderson
Eleanor Norris MacKinnon
Katherine Pasco C
Mary Prim Fowler
Helen Ridley Hartley

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Sarah Mae Rikard

Augusta Roberts

Louise Robertson Solomon

Rowena Runnette Garber

Martha Selman Jacobs

Helen Sisson Morrison

Sally Southerland

Mary Gladys Steffner Kincaid

Clara Stone Collins

Susanne Stone Eady
*Mary Warren Read
*Violet Weeks Miller

Frances G. Welsh

Effie Mae Winslow Taylor

Hazel Wolfle Frakes

Katherine Woodbury Williams

Ruth Worth

'30

Sara Armfield Hill

*Marle Baker Shumaker
Josephine Barry Brown C
Eleanor Bonham Deex
Elisabeth Branch Johnson
Emily Campbell Boland
Gladney Cureton
Elise M, Derickson
Clarene U, Dorsey
Anne Ehrllch Solomon
Alice Garretson Bolles
Jane Bailey Hall Hefner C
Polly Hall Dunn
Alice Jernlgan Dowling
Carlton Jones Bunkley
Katherine Leary Holland
Ruth Mallory Burch

*June Malcney Officer
Sarah Marsh Shapard
Marian Martin Walnwrlght
Mary McCallle Ware
Frances McCoy
Ruth McLean Wright
Frances Messer Jeffries

* Emily Moore Couch
Lynn Moore Hardy C
Carolyn Nash Hathaway
Margaret Ogden Stewart
Shannon Preston Gumming
Helen Respess Bevier
Lillian Russell McBath
Nancy Simpson Porter
Dorothy Smith
Jo Smith Webb C

*Martha Stackhouse Grafton
Belle-Ward Stowe Abernethy
Mary Terry Cobb
Sara Townsend Pittman
Mary P, Trammel 1
Anne D, Turner C
Crystal Wellborn Gregg Q
Evalyn Wilder
Harriet B. Williams C
Pauline Willougbby Wood

*Raeijiond Wilson Craig CC
Hlssonrl Woolford Raine
Octavla Young Harvey

'31

Margaret Askew Smith
Eleanor Castles Osteen
Harjorte Daniel Cole
Lora Lee DeLoach Allums
Mildred E. Duncan

*Ruth Etheredge Griffin
Marion Fielder Martin

*Helen Friedman Blackshear
Dorothy Grubb Rivers C
Sarah Hill Brown
Octavla Howard Smith
Anne Hudson Hanklns C
Ellse C. Jones
Helen Manry Lowe
Ruth G. McAuliffe
Anne McCallie
Shirley McPhaul Whitfield

*Katherlne Morrow Norem
Frances Musgrave Prierson
Fanny Nlles Bolton C

Tom Simpson meets introductory biology class. One-third of the student body receives scholarship aid

Mary Potter Ross
Ruth Pringle Pipkin C
Katharine Purdie
Alice Quarles Henderson
Jeannette Shaw Harp
Elizabeth Simpson Wilson
Harriet L. Smith C
Martha Sprinkle Rafferty
Laelius Stalllngs Davis C
Cornelia Taylor Stubbs
Julia Thompson Smith
Martha Tower Dance
Cornelia Wallace
Louise Ware Venable
Annee Zillah Watson Reiff
*Martha Watson Smith
Margaret Weeks

'32

Miml O'Beirne Tarplee
Mary Claire Oliver Cox
Bell Owens Livingston
Betty Peeples Brannen
Saxon Pope Bargeron C
Margaret Ridgely Jordan
Flora Riley Bynum
Jane Shelby Clay
Sara Lane Smith Pratt
*Louise H. Stakely C
Nell Starr Gardner C
Jura Taffar Cole
Miriam Thompson Felder Q
Martlne Tuller Joyner
Sally Williams Steely
Lovelyn Wilson Heyward Q
Louiae Winslow Taft
Grace Woodward Palmour

Virginia Allen Woods
Catherine Baker Evans
Sarah Bowman
Pat Boyles Smith
Varnelle Braddy Ferryman

*Penny Brown Barnett C
Louise Cawthon
Mary Elliot C
Grace Fincher Trimble
Mary Floyd Foster Sanders
Marjorie Gamble

*Susan Love Glenn C
Nora Garth Gray Hall
Virginia Gray Prultt

*Ruth Conant Green C
Julia Grlmmet Fortson

*Louise Hollingsworth Jackson
Sara Hollis Baker

*Anne Hopkins Ayres
Elizabeth Howard Reeves
Alma Fraser Howerton Hughes
Imogene Hudsoo Culllnan C
Elizabeth Hughes Jackson
La Myra Kane Swanson
Pansey Kimble Matthews
Martha Logan Henderson
Clyde Lovejoy Stevens
Louise McDanlel Musser
Mary Miller Brown
Llla Norfleet Davis C

'33

Roberta Kilpatrick Stubblebine

Blanche Lindsey Camp

Caroline Lingle Lester C

Margaret Loranz

Vivian Martin Buchanan

Mattie Lou Mason Burns

Elisabeth Moore Ambrose
*Eulalia Napier Sutton

Ann Nash Reece C

Gail Nelson Blain

Betty Preston Pratt

LaTrelle Robertson Duncan

Letitia Rockmore Nash C
*Mary Sturtevant Cunningham C

Marlyn Tate Lester

Margaret Telford St. Amant

Johnnie Turner Helvin

Rosalind Ware Reynolds

Amelia Wolf Bond

Katharine Woltz Farinholt

Page Ackerman

Mary Alexander Parker

Maude Armstrong Hudson

Bemlce Beaty Cole

Wllla Beckham Lowrance

Margaret Bell Biirt

Julia Blundell Adler

Elizabeth Grier Bolton
*Nell Brown Davenport

Alice Bullard Nagle

Evelyn Campbell Beale

Josephine Clark Fleming

Elizabeth Cobb Boyd C

Sarah Cooper Freyer

Porter Cowles Plckell
*Frances IXike Pughsley

Eugenia Edwards Mackenzie
*Margaret Ellis Pierce

Helen Etheridge Griffin

l^uise Farley Killebrew

Julia Gwyn Flnley McCutchen C

Mary L, Garretson
Margaret Glass Womeldorf

Virginia Heard Feder
*Lucile Heath McDonald

Anne Hudmon Reed

Mary Hudmon Simmons

Nancy Kamper Miller
*Cornella Keeton Barnes

'34

Sarah Elizabeth Austin Zorn
Alae Rlsse Barron Leitch
Helen Boyd McConnell
Laura Buist Starnes
Nelle Charolee Howard C
Carrie Eidson Hooper
Martha Elliott Elliott
Martha England Gunn

*PaulIne Gordon Woods C

*Lucy Goss Herbert
Mary Dunbar Grist Whitehead
Alma Elizabeth Groves Jeter
Elinor Hamilton Hightower CC
Elaine Heckle Carmlchael
Lillian Herring Rosas
Elizabeth Johnson Thompson
Marguerite Jones Love
Margaerlte Kennedy Griesemer
Margaret Martin Schrader CC
Marion Mathews

*Loulse McCain Boyce C
Mary McDonald Sledd
Carrie Lena McMullen Bright
Ruth Moore Randolph
Sara Moore Cathey

*Prances M. O'Brien C

*Dorothy Potts Weiss C
Florence Preston Bockhorst

Virginia Prettyman C

Gussie Rose Riddle List C

Carolyn Russell Nelson

Louise Schuessler Patterson

Rosa Shuey Day

Mary Sloan Laird

Mabel B. Talmage C

Dorothy Walker Palmer C

Martha Elizabeth Walton Berry Q

Eleanor Wllllains Knox

Johnnie Mae York Rumble C

Mary Walker Fox
Carolyn White Burrlll
Virginia WilUams Goodwin
Irene Wilson Nelster

35

*Eli2abeth Alexander Hlgglns Q

Mary Virginia Allen C

Vella Marie Behm Cowan

Mary Borden Parker

Marian Calhoun Murray

Virginia Coons Clanton

Alice Dunbar Hoseley

Willie Florence Eubanks Donehoo

Betty Fountain Edwards C
*Jane Goodwin Harbin
*Mary Green Wohlford
Anne Scott Hannan Mauldin

Katherine Hertzka

Betty Lou Houck Smith
Anna Humber Little
Josephine Jennings Brown
Frances McCalla Ingles
Carolyn McCallum
Julia McClatchey Brooke C
Marguerite Morris Saunders
Clara Morrison Backer
Nina Parke Hopkins Q
Alleen Parker Sibley
Nell Pattillo Kendall
Juliette Puett Maxwell
Martha Redwine Rountree
Grace Robinson Hanson
Sybil Rogers Herren
Marie Simpson Rutland C
Mary Summers Langhome
*Elizabeth Thrasher Baldwin C
Susan Turner White
Amy Underwood Trowell
Laura Whitner Dorsey Q
Elizabeth Young Hubbard

'36

**Elizabeth M. Baethke
Catherine W, Bates
Jane Blair Roberson
Sarah Brosnan Thorpe
Meriel Bull Mitchell
Elizabeth Burson Wilson
Mildred Clark Sargent
Hary Cornely Dwight
Sara Cureton Proweil
Martha Edmonds Allen
Sara Frances Estes
Mary Elizabeth Forman
Mary Marsh Henderson Hill
Lucie Hess Gienger C
Jean Hicks Pitts
Marjorie Hollingsworth
Ruby Button Barron
Frances James Donohue
Agnes Jamison HcKoy
Lonise Jordan Turner
Augusta King Brumby
Ruth King Stanford
Carrie Latimer Dtivall
Alice McCallie Pressly
Josephine McClure Anderson
Sarah Frances McDonald C

*Dean McKoin Bushong
Frances Miller Felts
Sadie Frances Morrow Hughes

*Frances Napier Jones
Sarah Nichols Judge
Hary Richardson Gauthier
E^7elyn Robertson Jarman

*Hary Alice Shelton Felt

*Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter
Miriam Talmage Vann
Jane Thomas Tilson
Marie Townsend
Mary Vines Wright C

'37

*Eloiaa Alexander LeConte C
Lucile Barnett Hirman
Miriam Bass Butler
rrancea Belford Olsen
Louise Brown Smith
Virginia Caldwell Payne
Frances Gary Taylor
Cornelia Christie Johnson
Kathleen Daniel Spicer C

*Luclle Dennison Keenan C
Elizabeth Espy Hooks C
Jane Estes

Charline Fleece Halverstadt
Michelle Furlow Oliver
Annie Galloway Phillips C
Mary Garland Selser
Neliie Gilroy Gustafson
Alice Hannah Brown

*Fannle Harris Jones
Martha Head Conlee
Barbara Hertwig Meschter
Dorothy Jester C
Ellender Johnson Jones

*Sarah Johnson Linney
Catharine Jones Malone
Rachel Kennedy Lowthlan
Mary Jane King Critchell
Jean Klrkpatrick Cobb C

*Florence Lasseter Rambo
Vivienne Long McCain C
Mary Malone Martin
Mary Catherine Matthews Starr
Katherine L, Maxwell
Isabel McCain Brown

Frances McDonald Moore C
Ora Muse

*Mary Alice Newton Bishop C
Elizabeth Perrin Powell
Kathryn Printup Mitchell
Marjorie Scott Meier

^Frances Steele Finney C
Virginia Stephens Clary
Vivienne Trice Ansley
Betty Willis Whitehead
Frances Wilson Hurst C

'38

Anonymous

*Jean Adams Weersing
Nell Allison Sheldon
Jean Austin Meacham
Nettie Mae Austin Kelley
Dorothy Avery Newton CC
Mary Alice Baker Lown
Tommy Ruth Blackmon Waldo

Elizabeth Blackshear Fllnn
Katherine Brittlngham Hunter
Martha Brown Miller
Elizabeth Cousins Mozley C
Lulu Croft

Doris Dunn St. Clair
Goudyloch Erwln Dyer
Mary Galloway Blount
Nell Hemphill Jones
Catherine Hoffman Ford
Sarah Hoyle Nevin
Winifred Kellersberger Vass
Ola Kelly Ausley
Mary Anne Keman
Eliza King Morrison
Ellen Little Lesesne
Martha Long Gosline
Ellen McCallie Cochrane
Elizabeth Lee McCord Lawler
Lettie McKay Van Landlngham
Gwendolyn McKee Bays
Jacquelyn McWhlte James
Bertha Merrill Holt C
Nancy Moorer Cantey C
Margaret Morrison Blumberg
Tamlko Okamura
Helen Rodgers Dopson
Joyce Roper McKey
Beatrice Sexton Howard

*Mary Smith Bryan
Virginia Suttenfield Q
Grace Tazwell Flowers

*Anne Thompson Rose C
Jane Turner Smith
Ellen Vemer Scoville
Virginia Watson Logan
Zoe Wells Lambert C
Elsie West Meehan
Margaret Wright Rankin

*Loulse Young Garrett C

'39

Mary Allen Reding

Jean Bailey Owen C

Ethelyn Boswell Purdie

Esther Byrnes Thames

Alice Caldwell Melton

Rachel Campbell Gibson

Sarah Joyce Cunningham Carpen

Jane Dryfoos Bljur

Catherine Farrar Davis

Elizabeth Furlow Brown C

Susan Goodwyn Garner

Dorothy Graham Gilmer

Eleanor T. Hall

Jane Hamilton Ray C

Emily Harris Swanson

Ruth Hertzka

Mary Hollingsworth Hatfield

Cora Kay Hutchlns Blackwelder

Katherine Jones Smith

Elizabeth Joan Kenney Knight

Kathleen Kennedy Dibble

Jenny Kyle Dean

Helen LIchten Solomonson

Emily MacMorland Wood

Ella Mallard Ninestein

Emma McMullen Doom
*Marie Merritt Rollins

Helen Moses Regenstein C

Mary Elizabeth Moss Slnback

Annie Newton Parkman

Lou Pate Jones Q

Julia Porter Scurry

Mamie Lee Ratllff Finger C

Jeanne Redwine Davis

Virginia Rumbley Moses

Betty Sams Daniel

Miriam Sanders

Hay die San ford Sams

Alleen Shortley Whipple

Alice Sill
*Mary P, Slmonton Boothe

Helen Simpson Callaway
*Mary Frances Thompson

Virginia Tumlin Guffin
*ElInor Tyler Richardson C

Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons

'40

Betty Alderman Vinson

Grace Elizabeth Anderson Cooper
Margaret Barnes Carey
Evelyn Baty Landis C

Marguerite Baum Muhlenfeld

Susan Blackmon Armour

Joan Br in ton Johnson

Ruth Ann Byerley Vaden

Helen Gates Carson

Ernestine Cass Dickerson

Margaret Christie Colmer

Elizabeth Davis Johnston
Llllie Belle Drake Hamilton

Anne Enloe

Ruth Eyles Lewis

Carolyn Forman Piel

Mary Francis Ault C

Annette Franklin King

Marian Franklin Anderson C

Mary Lang Gill Olson

Florence Graham

Sam Olive Griffin McGInnis

Polly Heaslett Badger

Bryant Holsenbeck Moore

Margaret Hopkins Martin
Gary Home Petrey

Louise Hughston Oettlnger

Eleanor Hutchens

Mildred Joseph Colyer

Jane Knapp Spivey

Sara Lee Mattlngly
Elolae Lennard Smith C

Sarah Matthews Blxler

Eloise McCall Guyton Q

Virginia HcWhorter Freeman C

Virginia Mllner Carter

Sophie Montgomery Crane

Julia Moeeley
Nell Moss Roberts
Beth Paris Moremen

Katherine Patton Caresow

Irene Phillips Richardson

Nell Pinner WIsner

Mary Reins Burge C

Isabella Robertson White

Eleanor Rogers McCann

Ruth Slack Roach

Edith Stover McFee

Louise Sullivan Fry

Mary Mac Templeton Brown

Henrietta Thompson Wilkinson

Emily Underwood Gault

Poiiy Ware Duncan

Willomette Williamson Stauffer

Jane Witman Pearce

Margaret Yancey Klrkman

'41

Anonymous

Mary Arbuckle Osteen

Ruth Ashbum Kline C

Elizabeth Barrett Alldredge

Miriam Bedlnger Williamson

Nina Broughton Gaines
Sabine Brumby Korosy

Gentry Burks Blelaski
Harriette Cochran Mershon

Freda Copeland Hoffman

Virginia Corr White

Doris Dalton Crosby

Jean Dennison Brooks

Martha Dunn Kerby

Ethelyn Dyar Daniel

Louise Franklin Livingston Q

Lucile Gaines MacLennan

Caroline Gray Truslow C

Nancy Gribble Nelson

Florrie Guy Funk
Ann Henry

Roberta Ingles Steele

Alleen Kasper Borrish Q

Helen Klugh McRae

Julia Lancaster

Sara Lee Jackson

Anne Martin Elliott

Margaret Murchlson Rudel C

Mary Oliver Mertel

Sally Parker Lawton

Pattle Patterson Johnson

Elta Robinson Posey

Lillian Schwencke Cook

Gene Slack Morse Q

Frances Spratlin Hargrett C

Elizabeth Stevenson

Carolyn Strozier C
Dorothy Travis Joyner

Jane Vaughan Price C

Grace Walker Winn

'42

Martha Arant Allgood
Jean Beutell Abrams
Elizabeth Bradfield Sherman
Betty Ann Brooks C
Martha Buffalow Davis
Harriett Caldwell Maxwell
Anne Chambless Bateman C
Elizabeth Clarkson Shearer
Sarah Copeland Little
Jane Coughlan Hays
Gay Currie Fox
Edith Dale Lindsey
Mary Davis Bryant
Dale Drennan Hicks
Carolyn Dunn Stapleton
* Susan Dyer Oliver. C

CC, Colonnade Club, SSOttormoru Q, Quadrannlf Qu(5rum, SJSOi

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Margaret Erwln Walker Q
Lillian Glsh Alfrlend
Margery Gray Wheeler
Margaret Hamilton Rambo
Julia Harry Bennett

*Margaret Hartsook Emmons C
Doris Henson Vaughn C
Elizabeth Ann Jenkins Willis
Ila Belle Levie Bagwell
Caroline Long Armstrong
Mary Dean Lott Lee
Susanna McWhorter Reckard

*Betty Medlock Lackey
Virginia Montgomery McCall

*Elise Nance Bridges
Jeanne Osborne Gibbs
Mary Louise Palmour Barber
Julia Ann Patch Weston C
Louise Pruitt Jones C
Claire Purcell Smith C
Tina Ransom Louis
Elizabeth Robertson Schear
Marie Scott O'Neill
Myrtle Seckinger Llghtcap
Margaret Sheftall Chester C
Marjorie Simpson Ware
Eleanor Elise Smith Bischoff
Rebecca Stamper
Jackie Steams Potts
Jane Stillwell Espy
Jane Taylor White
Mary Olive Thomas
Frances Tucker Johnson
Myree Wells Haas

'43

Emily Anderson Hightower

Mary Jane Auld Linker C

Florence Elizabeth Bates Femande

Anna Black Hansell
*Flora Campbell McLain

Mary Ann Cochran Abbott C
*Jane Dinsmore Lowe

Betty DuBose Skilea

Jeanne Eakin Salyer

Ann Frlerson Smoak

Nancy Green Carmlchael

Susan Guthrie Fu

Helen Hale Lawton

Swanna Henderson Cameron C
*Dorothy Holloran Addison

Dorothy Hopkins McClure

Mardia Hopper Brown

Sally Sue Howe Bell C

Imogene King Stanley

Sterly Lebey Wilder C

Bennye Linzy Sadler

Elizabeth Moore Bohannon

Anne Paisley Boyd

Betty Pegram Sessoms

Frances Radford Mauldin
*Ruby Rosser Davis Q

Clara Rountree Couch C
*Helen Virginia Smith Woodward

Aileen Still Hendley

Pat Stokes Barnes
*Mary Ward Danielson

Marjorie Welsmann Zeldman

Barbara Wilber Gerland

Kay Wilkinson Orr
*Katherine Wright Philips C

'44

Bettye Ashcraft Senter C
Betty Bacon Skinner
Virginia Barr McFarland
Clare Bedinger Baldwin
Claire Bennett Kelly
Yolanda Bemabe Montealegre
Louise Breedin Griffiths
Mary Carr Townsend
Margaret Cathcart Hilbum

*Frances Cook Crowley C
Barbara Jane Daniels
Margaret C, Druramond

*Mary Duffee Philips
Elizabeth Edwards Wilson

Patricia Evans Hampton
Ruth Farrlor
Sara Agnes Florence
Mary Pauline Garvin Keen
Elizabeth Harvard Dowda
*Julla Harvard Wamock C
Mia Hecht Owens
Martha Ray Lasseter Storey
Laurice Looper Swann Q
Mary Maxwell Hutcheson
Quincy Mills Jones
Katherine Philips Long
Margaret Powell Flowers C
Virginia Reynolds Ewald
Martha Rhodes Bennett
Betty Scott Noble C
Margaret Shepherd Yates
*Marjorie Smith Stephens
Katheryne Thompson Mangum
Marjorie Tippins Johnson C
Martha Trimble Wapensky C
Nell Turner Spettel
Betty Vecsey
M. E. Walker Schellach
Mary Walker Scott
Mary Frances Walker Blount
Betty Williams Stoffel
Oneida Woolford

'45

Carol Barge Mathews
Elizabeth Blincoe Edge
Frances Brougher Garman
Ann Campbell Hulett
Betty Campbell Wiggins
Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin
Virginia Carter Caldwell
Marjorie Cole Rowden
Mary Gumming Fitzhugh
*Beth Daniel Owens
Harrlette Daugherty Howard

Betty Davis Shingler

Mary Anne Derry Trlplett

Ruth Doggett Todd

Ann Equen Ballard

Pauline Ertz Wechsler

Jane Everett Knox

Elizabeth Farmer Brown C

Joyce Freeman Martlng

Barbara Frink Allen

Betty Glenn Stow
*Ellzabeth Gribble Cook

Betty Jane Hancock Moore
*Emlly Higgins Bradley

Jean Louisa Hood Booth

Mary Alice Hunter Ratliff

Eugenia Jones Howard

Klttie Kay Pelham

Beverly King Pollock

Susan Kirtley White

Jane Kreiling Mell

Genevieve Lathem Gray
*Hartha Jane Mack Simons

Bettie Manning Ott

Rounelle Martin

Sylvia McConnel Carter
*Montene Melson Mason

Molly Milam Insemi

Sue L. Mitchell C

Scott Newell Newton C

Jeanne Newton McCord C

Mary Norrls King

Ceevah Rosenthal Blatman C

Marilyn Schroder Timmerman

Bess Sheppard Poole C

Bnily Slngletary Gamer

Julia Slack Hunter

Lois Sullivan E^y

Mary Turner Buchanan

Suzanne Watklns Smith

Dorothy Webb McKee

Patricia Ann Webb Johnson

Martha Whatley Yates

Frances Wooddall Talmadge

Louise Almon Riddles

'46

Jeanne Addison Roberts

Vicky Alexander Sharp

Mary Lillian Allen Wilkes

Martha Baker Wllkins C

Margaret Bear Moore

Emily Bradford Batts

Kathryn Burnett Gatewood
*Mary Ann Courtenay Davidson

Joan Crangle Hughey

Edwina Bell Davis
*Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt
*Conradine Eraser Riddle

Harriet Frlerson Crabb

Nancy Hardy Abberger

Elizabeth Horn Johnson

Betty Howell Traver

Peggy Jones Miller

Anne Lee Mitchell

Stratton Lee Peacock

Betty Long Sale

Mary Elizabeth Martin Powell

Harriett McAllister Loving

Mildred McCain Klnnaird C

Mary McConkey Relmer

Mary McEver Lester

Anne Murrell Courtney

Marjorie Naab Bolen

Ann Noble Dye

Anne Noell Wyant

Betty Patrick Merrltt
*Celetta Powell Jones C

Rosalind Price Sasser

Anne Register Jones
*Louise Reld Strlckler

Eleanor Reynolds Verdery

Claire Rowe Newman

Mary Russell Mitchell

Carolyn Jane Ryle Croxson

Margaret Scott Cathey
*Betty Smith Satterthwaite C(

Martha Stevenson Fabian

Jean Stewart Staton

During library renovations books are boxed, then reshelved.

Marguerite Toole Scheips
Peggy Trice Hall
Lucy Turner Knight
Vema Weems Macbeth
Elizabeth Weinschenk Mundy
Winifred Wilkinson Hausmann
Eva Williams Jemison
Elizabeth Woodward Ells

'47

Anonymous

Marie Adams Conyers

Mary Frances Anderson Wendt

Virginia Barksdale Lancaster

Glassell Beale Smalley

Marie Beeson Ingraham

June Bloxton Dever

Marguerite Born Hornsby

Virginia Brown McKenzle
*Eleanor Calley Cross
*Charlotte Clarkson Jones

June Coley Loyd

Jane Cooke Cross

Betty Crablll Rogers C
*Helen Catherine Currle C
*Mary Fuller Floyd

Dorothy Galloway Fontaine

Mary Katherlne Glenn Dunlap

Gene Goode Bailey
*Mynelle Grove Harris

Anne Hagerty Estes

Genet Heery Barron C

Charlotte Anne Hevener Nobbs C

Peggy P3t Horne Martin

Ann Hough Hopkins

Louise Hoyt Minor

Sue Hutchens Henson

Anne Hill Jackson Smith

Marianne Watt Jeffries Williams

Kathryn Johnson

Rosemary Jones Cox

Joan Knoch Fulghum

Marguerite Mattlson Rice C

Margaret McManus Landham

Dorothy Ann Peace Ramsaur Q
*Betty Radford Moeller C

Ellen Rosenblatt Caswell

Lorenna Jane Ross Brown

Betty Anne Routsos Alexander

Esther Sloan Lewyn

June Thomason Lindgren

May Turner Engeman C

Ann Clifford Wheeler Timberlake

Mary Williams Winegeart

Barbara' Wilson Montague

'48

Dabney Adams Hart

Rose Ellen Armstrong Sparling

Martha Ellen Beacham Jackson
Barbara Blair C

Elizabeth Blair

Lela Anne Brewer

Barbara Coith Ricker

Mary Alice Compton Osgood

Martha Cook Sanders

Edna Claire Cunningham Schooley

Amelia Davis Luchsinger CC

Susan Daugherty

Nancy Deal Weaver
*Adele Dieckmann McKee C
*June Drisklll Weaver

Anne Elcan Mann

Anne Ezzard Eskew

Josephine Faulkner James

Nancy Geer Alexander

Harriet Gregory Herlot

Martha Hay Vardeman

Kathleen Hewson Cole C

Caroline Hodges Roberts

Amanda Hulsey Thompson
*June Lewis Irvine Torbert C

Anne Elizabeth Jones Crabill

Marybeth Little Weston

Sheely Little Miller

Lady Major C

Mary Manly Ryman

Lou McLaurln Stewart

Margaret Plrtle Rudlslll

Blllie Mae Redd Chu
Harriet Reld
Jane Rushln DeVaughn
Marian Rutland Sanders
Zollie Saxon Johnson
Rebekah Scott Bryan C
Anne Shepherd McKee
*Mary Gene Sims Dykes
Jacqueline Stewart
Anne Treadwell Suratt
Page Vlolette Harmon
Barbara Waugaman Thompson
Barbara Whipple Bitter
Sara Catherine Wilkinson
Margaret Yancey Kirkman

'49

Rita Adams Simpson

Caroline Alexander Bryan

Dorothy S. Allain C

Mary Jo Ammons Jones

Betty Lou Baker Prior

Beverly Baldwin Albea
*Betty Blackmon Kinnett C
*Susan Bowling Dudney

Frances Marion Brannan Hararick

Roberta Cathcart Hopkins

Lee Cousar Tubbs

Alice Crenshaw Moore

Josephine Gulp Williams

Marie Cuthbertson Faulkner

June Davis Haynie

Bettie Davison Bruce
*Betsy Deal Smith

Jane Efurd Watklns

Kate Durr Elmore

Evelyn Foster Henderson

Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler

Katherlne A. Geffcken Q

Louise Gehrken Howie

Joyce Hale McGlaun

Mary Hays Babcock CC

Nancy Huey Kelly
Henrietta Johnson

Nancy Johnson Reid

Mary Frances Jones Woolsey

Ruby Lehmann Cowley
*Caroline Little Witcher

Katherlne McKoy Ehllng C

Ruth Morris Ferrell

Nancy Parks Anderson

Patty Persohn C

Lynn Phillips Mathews

Georgia Powell Leinmon

Mary Price Coulling

Sharon Smith Cutler

Miriam Steele Jackson

Edith Stowe Barkley

Doris Sullivan Tippens

Wlllene Tarry

Newell Turner Parr

Martha Warlick Brame

Julia Weathers Wynne

Olive Wilkinson Turnipseed

Jeannette Wlllcoxon Peterson

Elizabeth Williams Henry

Harriett Winchester Hurley

Elizabeth Anne Wood Smith

'50

Louise Arant Rice

Hazel Berman Karp

Jo-Anne Christopher Cochrane

Betty Cole Houten

Betty Jean Combs Moore

Mary Annelle Cox Smith

*Dorothy Davis Yarbrough
Helen Edwards Propst C

*Jean Edwards Crouch
Elizabeth Flowers Ashworth
Ann Gebhardt Fullerton
Mary Ann Hachtel Hartman C
Anne Haden Howe C
Sarah Hancock White

*Jessie Hodges Kryder
Anne Irwin Smith Q

Marguerite Jackson Gilbert
Lillian Lasseter Pearson
Norah Anne Little Green

Marjorie Major Franklin
AlUne B. Marshall
Todd McCain Reagan
Harriot Ann McGuire Coker
Carolyn Sue McSpadden Fisher
Miriam Mitchell Ingman
Jean Niven Baker
Pat Overton Webb
Vivienne Patterson Jacobson
Ida Pennington Benton
Helen Joann Peterson Floyd
Joann Piastre Britt
Emily Pope Drury
Emily Ann Reid Williams
Alberta Joyce Rives Robinson
Virginia Skinner Jones C
Sally Thompson Aycock
*Isabel Truslow Fine

'51

Dorothy Elizabeth Adams Knight

Gail Akers Lutz
*Mary Barber Holmes

Noel Barnes Williams

Su Boney Davis

Nancy Cassln Smith
*Jlmmie Lee Cobble Bangs

Julia Cuthbertson Clarkson

Virginia Dunn Palmer

Luverne Floyd Smith
*Nell Floyd Hall

Freddie Hachtel Daum CC

Cornelia Hale Bryans

June Harris Hunter

Nancy Lu Hudson Irvine

Margaret Hunt Denny

Mary Page Hutchinson Lay

Sally Jackson Hertwig

Amy Jones McGreevy

Geraldine Keef Moreland

Charlotte Key Marrow

Mary Lindsay Ford

Eleanor McCarty Cheney C
*Jimmie Ann McGee Collings C

Sarah McKee Burnside

Jackie Messer Rogers

Julianne Morgan Garner

Monna Morrell Bryant

Mary Anna Ogden Bryan

Barbara Quattlebaum Parr

Caronelle Smith Landiss

Ruth Jenelle Spear

Celia Spiro Aidlnoff Q

Marjorie Stukes Strickland
*Ruth Vineyard Cooner

Catherine Warren Dukehart C

Martha Weakley Crank

Joan White Howell

Ann Marie Woods Shannon

'52

Margaret Andes Okarma

Lillian Beall Lumpkin
*Ann Boyer Wllkerson

Mary Jane Brewer Murkett

Barbara Brown Waddell

Jeanne Cone

Sybil Corbett Riddle

Patricia Cortelyou Wlnship

Landis Gotten Gunn

Theresa Dokos Hutchison

Clairells Eaton Franklin

Eray Evans Blair CC

Shirley Ford Baskin

Kathren Freeman Stelzner C

Phyllis Galphln Buchanan

Kathryn Gentry Westbury

Barbara Grace Palmour

Ann Hanahan Banks
*Ann Hays Greer

Shirley Heath Roberts
*Ann Herman Dunwody C

Betty Holland Boney

Kathryn Howard Mahlin

Jean Isbell Brunle C

Louise Jett Porter

Margaret Ann Kaufmann Shulman

Helen Land Ledbetter

Mary Jane Largen Jordan

Margaretta Lumpkin Shaw

Mary Martin Rolader
Wynelle Melson Patton
Sylvia Moutos Mayson
Margaret Nelson Bowman
Ann Parker Lee
Hilda Privlteri
Lillian Ritchie Sharlan

*Jean Robarts Seaton C
Adelaide Ryall Beall
Betty Sharpe Cahaniaa

*Jackie Simmons Gow C
Katherlne Jeanne Smith Harley
Winnie Strozier Hoover
Pat Thomason Sraallwood
Marie Underwood Schulherr
Frances Vandiver Puckett
Alta Waugaman Miller
Carolyn Wettstein Radford
Ruth Whiting Culbreth

*Lorna Wiggins
Sylvia Williams Ingram
Anne Winnlngham Sims
Jeanne Winters Walker
Florence Worthy Grlner

'53

Charlotte Allain Von Hollen

*Allardyce Armstrong Hamill
Geraldine Armstrong Boy

*Mary Birmingham Tiramons
Mary A. Bond Q
Georganna Buchanan Johnson
Julia Clark Williams
Sarah Frances Cook
Ann Cooper Whitesel
Virginia Corry Harrell
Margaret Cousar Beach
Jane Crayton Davis
Jane Dalhouse Halley
Anne DeWitt George
Donya Dixon Ransom
Susan Dodson Rogers
Rene Dudney Lynch
Carol Edwards Turner
Patricia Fredriksen Stewart

Frances Glnn Stark
Catherine Goff Beckham

*Betty Ann Green Rush
Florence Hand Warren
Virginia Hays Klettner
Keller Henderson Bumgardner
Jane Hook Conyers
Carol Jacob Dunn C
Anne Jones Sims
Jacqueline King Bozeman

*Sarah Leathers Martin
Betty McLellan Carter
Margaret McRae Edwards
Marion Merrltt Wall
Belle Miller McMaster
Carlene Nickel Elrod
Martha Norton Caldwell
Mary Beth Robinson Stuart
Rita May Scott Cook
Dlanne Shell Rousseau
Priscllla Sheppard Taylor
Llndy Taylor Barnett
Margaret Thomason Lawrence
Anne Thomson Sheppard
Charline Trltton Shanks

*Vlvian Weaver Maitland

'54

Harriet Durham Maloof C
Martha Duval Swartwout
Joen Fagan

Florence Fleming Corley
Virginia Lee Floyd Tillma
Chor Jee Goh Chow
Julia Grler Storey
Ellen Griffin Corbett
Martha Gulllot Thorpe
Nancy Hall Bond
Katharine Hefner Gross
Louise Hill Reaves
Barbara Hood Buchanan
Eleanor Hutchinson Smith

Carol Jones Hay C
Jacquelyn Josey Hall
Mitzi Klser Law C

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*Mary Lou Kleppinger DeBolt

*Jane Landon Baird
Caroline Lester Haynes
Sara Longino Dickinson
Helen McGowan French C
Mary Louise McKee Hagemeyer
Clara Jean McLanahan Wheeler
Joyce Hunger Osborn
Selma Paul Strong

*Judy Promnitz Marine
Sue Purdom Arnall
Mary Rainey Bridges
Carolyn Randolph De Lay
Caroline Reinero Keramerer
Anne Sylvester Booth C

* Joanne Varner Hawks
Nancy Whetstone Hull C
Gladys Williams Sweat
Chlzuko Yoshimura Ko j ima

'55

Carolyn Alford Beaty
*Ann Allred Jackson

Susanna Byrd Wells

Georgia Christopher

Carolyn Crawford Chestnutt

Jane Gaines Johnson C

Lib Grafton Hall

Grace Greer Phillips

JoAnn Hall Hunsinger

Harriet Hampton Cuthbertson C

Ann Hanson Herklein
*Vlvian Hays Guthrie

Jeanne Heisley Adams

Ann Hemperley Dobbs

Helen Jo Hinchey Williams C

Anne Hoover Gulley

Beverly Jensen Nash

Mary Knight Swezey

Sallle Lambert Jackson

Jeanne Levie Berry

Catherine Lewis Callaway C

Mary Love L'heureux Hammond

Callle McArthur Robinson

JoAnne McCarthy Bleecker

Donna Lee McGlnty

Sara Mclntyre Bahner Q

Gwendolyn McLeroy Adams

Margaret McMillan White

Patricia Paden Matsen

Sarah Petty Dagenhart C
*Louise Robinson Singleton

Anne Rosselot Clayton

Dorothy Sands Hawkins

Agnes Scott Willoch

Clif Trussell

Sue Walker Goddard C

Pauline Waller. Hoch

Carolyn Wells
Elizabeth Wilson Blanton

'56

Lowrle Alexander Fraser

Ann Alvls Shlbut

Paula Ball Newklrk

Barbara Battle
*Stella Blddle Fitzgerald

Juliet Boland Clack

Martha Bridges Traxler
*Judy Brown

Nonette Brown Hill

Ava Caldwell Averett

Margaret Camp Murphy

Mary Jo Carpenter

Mary Clark Rollins

Carol Ann Cole White

Alvla Rose Cook

Meyme Curtis Tucker

Sarah Davis Adams

Frances Earnest Waters

Barbara Fleshman Mitchell

Claire Flintom Bernhardt C
*June Gaissert Nalman

Nancy Gay Frank

Prlscilla Goodwin Bennett

Guerry Graham Myers

Sallle Greenfield Blum C

Ann Gregory York Q
*Harrlet Griffin Harris C

*Sarah Hall Hayes C
Louise Harley Hull
Emmie Hay Alexander C
Helen Haynes Patton
Elinor Irwin Peeler
Nancy Jackson Pitts C
Evelyn A. Jamhoor
Jane Johnson Waltes

Virginia Love Dunaway C
Lois Moore Lietz
Jacqueline Plant Fincher
Louise Rainey Ammons
Betty Regen Cathey
Rameth Richard Owens

*Anne Sayre Calllson C
Marijke Schepman De Vrles

*Robble Ann Shelnutt Upshaw
Sarah Shlppey McKneally
Justine Stinson Sprenger
Jane Stubbs Bailey
Nancy Thomas Hill
Sandra Thomas Hollberg
Mary Curry Ward
Dorothy Weakley Glsh
Dora Wilkinson Hicks
Eve Young Brandon

'57

Lillian Alexander Balentlne
Elizabeth Ansley Allan
Susan Austin McWhlrter
Peggy Beard Baker
Mary D. Beaty
Nancy Brock Blake C
Joyce Brownlee
Suzella Bums Newsome
Bettye Carmichael Maddox
Elizabeth Crapps Burch
Catharine Crosby Brown
Margery DeFord Hauck
Laura Dryden Taylor
Harriet Easley Workman
Virginia Ferris Hodges
Margaret Foskey
Catherine Girardeau Brown
Patricia Guynup Corbus C
Hazel Hall Burger
Helen Hendry Lowrey
Carolyn Herman Sharp C

*Margle Hill Truesdale

*Mary Jones Helm
Rachel King

Carolyn Langston Eaton
Helene Lee

Elaine Lewis Hudglns
Marilyn McClure Anderson
Virginia McClurkin Jones
Mollle Merrick

*Ceniele Miller Richardson
Katherlne Miller Nevlns

Margaret Mlnter Hyatt C
Jacquelyn Murray Blanchard
Barbara Myers Turner
Mildred Nesbit Murphey
Nancy Nixon McDonough
Frances Patterson Huffaker

*Jean Price Knapp C
Dorothy Rearlck Malinin
Martha Rlgglns Brown
Jacquelyn Rountree Andrews
Helen Sewell Johnson C
Ann Norrls Shires Penuel

Nellie Strickland McFather
Eleanor Swain All
Emlko Takeuchl
Anne Terry Sherren C
Sara Townsend Holcomb
Lavlnla Whatley Head
Nancy Wheeler Dooley Q
Peggy Wilson Are
Eleanor Wright Linn

'58

Hazel Ellis
Kathryn Flory Maler
Patricia Cover Bltzer C

Eileen Graham McWhorter
Nancy Grayson Fuller
Ann Gunston Scott
Frances Gwinn Wolf
Jo Hathaway Merriman

Catherine Hodgin Olive

Nancy Holland Sibley
Nora A, King
Eugenie Lambert Hamner
Carlanna Lindamood Hendrick
Sheila MacConochle Ragsdale
Carolyn Magruder Ruppenthal
Maria Martoccia Clifton C
Janice Matheson Rowell
Louise McCaughan Roblson
Lucille Lee McCrary Bagwell
Caro McDonald Smith
Shirley McDonald Larkey
Anne McWhorter Butler
Martha Meyer
Nancy Nlblack Dantzler

Phia Peppas Kanellos C
Blythe Posey Ashmore
Gene Allen Reinero Vargas

Grace Robertson McLendon
Caroline Romberg Sllcox C
Rita Mae Rowan Pierce

Cecily Rudlslll Langford C
Joan St. Clair Goodhew
Joan Sanders Whitney
Frances Sattes
JoAnn Sawyer Delafleld C
Ramona Segrest Peyton
Portia Strickland Frazler
Katherlne Sydnor Plephoff
Langhome Sydnor Mauck
Harriet Talmadge Mill C
Carolyn Tinkler Ramsey Q
Marilyn Tribble Wlttner

Rosalyn Warren Wells
Mary Ruth Watson
Catherine Williams Stall
Frances Wilson Burson
Margaret Woolfolk Webb

'59

Nancy Alexander Johnson Q

Anna Avll Strlbllng

Mary Byrd Davis

Jeanette Clark Sparks

Mary Helen Collins Williams

Martha Davis Rosselot C

Charlene Bass Riley
Jeanette Bealrd Jones

Martha Bethea
Mary Clayton Bryan DuBard
Helen Burkitt Evans
Charlotte Caston Barber
Nancy Christian Hetrlck
Elizabeth Cobb Rowe
Helen Culpepper Stacey
Ruth Currie McDanlel
Anne Dodd Campbell
Mary Dunn Evans
Elizabeth Edmunds Grlnnan

Marjorie Erickson Charles
Peggy Fanson Hart
Jan Lyn Fleming Wllletts

Gertrude Florrld van Luyn
Patricia Forrest Davis
Sara Anne Frazler Johnson

Katherlne Jo Freeman Dunlap
Elizabeth Garrard Saba
Judy George Johnson
Marianne Glllls Persons
Suzanne Goodman Elson Q
Charlotte Henderson Laughlin
Mary Ann Henderson Johnson
Martha Holmes Keith C
Sidney Howell Fleming C
Wynn Hughes Tabor
Audrey Johnson Webb
Rosalind Johnson McGee
Hazel King Cooper
Jane King Allen C
Jane Kraemer Scott
Eleanor Lee McNeill
Mildred Ling Wu C
Helen Maddox Galllard
Leah Mathews Fontaine
Martha McCoy
Runlta McCurdy Goode
Llla McGeachy Ray
Martha Mitchell Griffin
Anne Moore Eaton

Donalyn Moore McTler
Mary Morris Hurlbutt
Ann Rivers Payne Thompson
Sara Lu Perslnger Snyder
Paula Pllkenton Vail

Carol Promnitz Cooper
Emily Caroline Pruitt Hayes
Lucy Ann Puckett Leonard
Susanne Robinson Hardy
Carol Rogers Snell
Jean Salter Reeves
Anne Selph MacKay
Marianne Sharp Robblns

Edith Tritton White
Nancy Trowell Leslie
Barbara Varner Wllloughby
Mary Walters Tatum

Susie White Edwards
Pauline Wlnslow Gregory

'60

Angelyn Alford Bagwell

Lisa Ambrose Hudson

Nell Archer Congdon C
Nancy Awbrey Brittain

Lois Barrineau Hudson

Gloria Branham Burnam

Mildred Braswell Smith

Cynthia Butts Langfeldt

Phyllis Cox Whitesell Q

Celia Crook Richardson

Shannon Gumming McCormick

Carolyn Ann Davies Preische C

Mary Ann Donnell Pinkerton

Nancy Duvall

Margaret Bowen Edney Grlgg

Rebecca Evans Callahan
Anne Eyler Clodfelter

Louise Feagin Stone

Sally Fuller Ten Eyck

Myra Glasure Weaver

Margaret Goodrich Hodge
Katherlne Hawkins Llnebaugh

Dana Hundley Herbert
Frances E. Johns

Linda Jones Klett

Julia P. Kennedy

Charlotte King Sanner

Harriette Lamb O'Connor

Katherlne Lamb Ruark

Elisabeth Lunz

Helen Mabry Beglln

Ellen McFarland Johnson

Ashlin Morris Burrls

Anita Moses Shippen
Everdina Nieuwenhuis
Emily Parker McGulrt

Diane Parks Cochran

Nancy Patterson Waters

Mary Jane Pfaff Dewees
Mary Jane Pickens Skinner

Rosemary Roberts Yardley

Jerre Roper Jones

Sylvia Saxon C

Martha Sharp Smith

Susan Shirley Eckel

Carolyn Smith McCurdy

Sally Smith Howard C

Camllle Strickland Reed
Sybil Strupe Rights

Marcla Tobey Swanson

Raines Wakeford Watkins

Judy Webb Cheshire
Anne Whisnant Bolch

Martha Williamson Dodd

Carrington Wilson Fox

Grace Woods Walden C

'61

Susan Abemathy McCreary
Judith Albergottl Heller
Ann Avant Crlchton C
Emily Bailey Q
Barbara Baldauf Anderson
Nancy Batson Carter
Pamela Bevier C
Nancy Boothe Higglns
Nancy Jane Brlnghurst Barker
Polly Brooks Simpson

10

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c summer.

Cornelia Brown Nichols

Sally Bryan Mlnter

Margaret V. Bullock
*Joan Falconer Byrd

Kathryn Chambers Elliott

Mary Clark Schubert

Jane Cooper Mitchell

Jean Corbett Griffin C

Mary Wayne Crynies Bywater

Betsy Dalton Brand Q

Lucy Davis Harper

Julia Dear Grubb

Harriett Elder Manley

Mary Beth Elkins Henke

Rachel Fowler Haynes

Alice Frazer Evans

Marion L. Greene

Myrtle Guy Marshall
*Katherlne Gwaltney Remick C

Nancy Hall Grimes

Janice L. Henry C

Jo Hester Patterson

Harriet Higglns Miller

Sarah Helen High Clagett

Judy Houchlns Wlghcman

Annie Hughes Peabody

Linda Ingram Jacob
*Harriet Jackson Lovejoy

Sarah L. Kelso

Rosemary Kittrell

Margaret Anne Lipham Blakely

Nina Louise Marable
*Eugenla Marks Espy

Ann McBrlde Chilcutt

Mildred McCravey Clarke

Martha McKlnney Ingram

Mary Ann McSwain Antley
*Mary Jane Moore
*Prudy Moore Thomas

Barbara Mordecal Schwanebeck C

Grace Lynn Ouzts Curry

Emily C. Pancake

Ann Peagler Gallagher

M. Virginia Philip

Mary Rhodes Woody
*Joanna Roden Bergstrom

Elizabeth Alice Shepley Underwood

Page Smith Morahan

Nancy Stone Hough

Virginia Thomas Shackelford

Patricia Walker Bass C

Jane Weltch Milligan
Florence Winn Cole

Ann Womeldorf Noland

Marian Zimmerman Jenkins

'62

Anonymous

Sherry Addlngton Lundberg

Nancy Bond Brothers
*Carey Bowen Craig

Martha Campbell Williams C

Gail Carter Adkins

Vivian Conner Parker

Carol Cowan Kussmaul

Madelyn C. Eve
*Patrlcla Flythe Koonts
*Peggy Frederick Smith

Kay Gilliland Stevenson
*Elizabeth Harshbarger Broadus

Jean Haynle Stewart

Jan Heard Baucum

Ann Gale Hershberger Barr

Margaret Holley Milam

Amanda Jane Hunt White

Ann Hutchinson Season C
*Betsy Jefferson Boyt

Norris Johnston Goss

Isabel Kallman Anderson

Beverly Kenton Mason

Milling Kinard

Lynne Lambert Bower

Letltia Lavender Sweltzer

Laura Ann Lee Harris

Linda Lentz Woods C

Dorothy Lockhart Matthews

Linda Locklear Johnson

Mary Ann McLeod LaBrie

Ellen Middlebrooks Davis

Ann Middlemas Johnson

Nancy Jane Nelms Garrett

Ethel Oglesby Horton
*Dorothy Porcher
*MarJorle Reitz Turnbull C

Lebby Rogers Harrison

Robin Rudolph Orcutt
*Ruth Shepherd Vazquez

Sandra J. Still

Angelyn Stokes McMillan

Bebe Walker Relchert

Katherlne White Ellison C

Jan Whitfield Hughen

Ann Wood Corson

Lynne Cole Scott

Patricia Conrad Schwarz
*Sarah Gumming Mitchell C

Janle Flncher Peterson

Betty Ann Gatewood Wylle
*Lucy Gordon Andrews

Christine Griffith Box

Jane Hancock Thau

Margaret G. Harms

Judith Hawley Zollicoffer
*Sue Heinrich Van Landingham

Mary Louise Hunt Rubesch

Sandra Johnson Barrow

Shari Anne Kelly Dickerson

Dorothy Laird Foster

Carolyn Lown Clark

Deal McArthur McKlnney

Page McGavock Kampmeier

Patricia McLaurin Meyer

Anne Miller Boyd

Nancy Miller Phillips

Lucy Morcock Mllner
*Laura Mobley Pelham

Robin Patrick Johnston C

Lldie Ann Risher Phillips

Colby Scott Lee

Suzanne Smith

Maxime Stubbs Warllck

Nell Tabor Hartley

Elizabeth Thomas Freyer

Cecilia Tumage Garner

Margaret Van Deman Blackmon C

Louisa Walton McFadden

Jane Womack Gibson

Mariane Wurst Schaum

Kay Younger

'64

'63

Cantey Bryan Mills
Nancy Butcher Wade
*Lucie Callaway Majoros

Eve Anderson Earnest

*Nancy Barger Cox
Karen Baxter Harrlss
Ann Beard Darroch
Mary Evelyn Bell
Susan Blackmore Hannah
Sylvia Chapman Sager
Carolyn Clarke
Charlotte M. Connor
Dale Davenport Fowler
Judith Eltzroth Ferryman

*Anne Foster Curtis

*Garnett E. Foster
Elizabeth Gillespie Miller
Nina Griffin Charles

Martha Griffith Kelley
Judith Hlllsman Caldwell
Judith Hollingsworth Robinsoi
Betty Hood Atkinson
Dianne Hunter Cox
Susan Keith-Lucas Carson
Martha Kissinger Gadrlx
Mary Louise Laird
Jan LaMaster Sorlero

*Lynda Langley Burton
Eleanor Lee Bartlett
Nancy Lee Abemathy
Shirley E. Lee
Muriel Lindsey Edwards
Martha MacNalr McMullen
Frances Mahon Howard
Carolyn May Hester

*Jean McCurdy Meade
Daryle McEachern
Joanna McElrath Alston
Susan McLeod Holland
Crawford Meglnnls Sandefur
Anne Mlnter Nelson
Mary Mitchell Saunders
Kathleen Morrell Muller
Laurie Oakes Propst
Sandra Shawen Kane
Catherine Shearer Schane
Lila Sheffield Howland C
Marian Elizabeth Smith Long
Marion Smith Bishop
Nancy Smith Kneece
Margaret Snead Henry
Pamela Stanley McCaslin
Judith Stark Romanchuk
Nlnalee Warren
Nancy Wasell Edelman
Mary Lynn Weekley Parsons
Frances Weltch Force
Barbara Ann White Hartley
Christine Williams Duren
Mary Womack Cox
Maria Wornom Rippe
Ruth Zealy Kerr

'65

*Sally Abemethy Eads
Betty Armstrong McMahon
Nancy Auman Cunningham
Brenda Bargeron Hudson
Roberta Belcher Mahaffey
Margaret Bell Gracey
Dorothy Bellinger Griimn
Sarah Blackard Long
Pauline Boyce McLean
Jane Brannon Nassar
Margaret Brawner Perez
Betty Brown Sloop
Patricia Buchanan Masi
Sally Bynum Gladden
Margaret Calhoun Shaffer
Nancy Carmlchael Bell
Kathryn Coggin Hagglund
Katherlne Cook Schafer
Jean Crawford Cross
Helen Davis Hatch
Molly Dominy Herrlngton

*Ann Durrance Snead

*Elizabeth Dykes Leltzes
Doris El-Tawll Krueger
Molly Gehan Garrison
Nancy Hammerstrom Cole
Kay Harvey Beebe
Jean Hoefer Toal C
Carol Holmes Coston
Bettye Johnson McRae

*Marjory Joyce Cromer
Jere Keenan Brands
Kenney Knight Linton
Mary Lemly Danewitz
Marilyn Little Tubb
Elisabeth Malone Boggs
Elizabeth W. McCain
Marcla McClung Porter
Linda McElfresh DeRoze
Jane McLendon Edwards

*Diane Miller Wise
Brandon Moore Brannon
Margaret Murphy Hunter
Elaine Nelson Bonner

*Nina Nelson Smith

*Elaine Orr Wise

CC, Colonnade Club, SSOOormore Q, Quadrangle Quorum, S2Sl)ormore C. Century Club, SlOOormore ', Fund Agent **, Deceased

11

Sandra Robertson Nelson

Dorothy Robinson Dewberry
Harriette Russell Flinn

*Laura Sanderson Miller
Anne Schiff Falvus
Peggy Simmons Zoeller

*Catharlne Sloan Evans
Elyene Smith Thompson
Margaret Smith Sollars
Nancy Solomonson Portnoy
Sue Taliaferro Betts
Sallie Ann Waikart Clement

*Sandra Wallace
Charlotte Webb Kendall
Judith Weldon Magulre C
Sandra H. Wilson C

'66

Beverly Allen Lambert

Elizabeth Ann Allgeier Cobb

Nancy Bland Towers C

Ingeborg Bojsen

Marilyn Breen Kelley

Barbara Brown Freeman

Mary Brown Bullock C

Nancy Bruce Truluck

Emily Anne Burgess

Bernie Burnham Hood

Julia Burns Culvern

Vicky Campbell Patronis

Eleanor Cornwell C

Alice Elizabeth Davidson

Jenny Dillion Moore

Martha Doom Bentley

Virginia Finney Bugg
*Jan Gaskell Ross C

Susan Goode Douglass
*Marganne Hendricks Price

Diane Hendrix

Suzanne Holt Lindholm

Frances Hopkins Westbrook

Mary Eleanor Kuykendall Nichols

Susan Landrum

Alice Lindsey Blake

Connie Magee Keyser

Helen Mann Liu

Katherine McAulay Kalish

Patricia HcConaughy Myers

Frances McKay Plunkett

Barbara Minor Dodd

Clair Moor Crlssey

Anne Morse Topple C

Sara Caroline Moseley Junkln
*Mary Lang Olson Edwards

Margaret Peyton Stem
*Linda Preston Watts Q

Virginia Quattlebaum Laney

Betty Rankin Rogers

Kay Roseberry Scruggs

Deborah A. Rosen

Stephanie Routsos Peppas

Lynn Rubens Wolf

Gail Savage Glover

Suzanne Scoggins Barnhlll

Lucile Scovllle
*Louise Smith Nelson
*Mallnda Snow C

Susan McGill Thomas

Martha A. Thompson

Sarah Uzzell
*Carol Watson Harrison

Nancy Whiteside
*Loul3a W. G. Williams C

'67

Jane Watt Balsley
Judy Barnes Crozler
Mary Barnett Tennaro
Grace Brewer Hunter
Margaret Calhoun
Suzanne Campbell McCaslin
Sara Cheshire Killough
Linda Cooper Shewey
Marsha Davenport Griffin
Anne Davis McGehee
Jane Davis Mahon
*Anne Dlseker Beebe
*Gayle Doyle Viehman
Anne Felker Cataldo
Alice Finn Hunt

*Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy

*Martha Avary Hack C
Gale A. Harrison
Donna Hawley Pierson
Ann W. Hunter

Elizabeth Hutchison Cowden
Judith Jackson Mozen
Linda Jacoby Miller
Jo Jeffers Ulngfield
Mary Jervis Hayes

*Jane Keiger Gehring C
Karen Kokomoor Folsom
Dudley Lester Tye
Linda Marks Hopgood
Clair McLeod Muller
Jennifer Meinrath Egan

*Mary Audrey Mitchell Apple

*Sandra Mitchell
Martha Moncrief Seeger
Judy Nuckols Offutt
Anne Overstreet Tolleson
Susan M. Phillips
Ann Roberts Divine
Eliza Roberts Lelter
Jane Royall Anderson

*Carol Scott Wade
Pamela Shaw Cochrane

*Susan Sleight Mowry
Patricia Smith Edwards

*Susan Stevens Hitchcock
Katherine Stubbs
Sallie Tate Hodgea
Sheila Terrlll Hayden
Susan Thompson Stevens
Nancy Tilson Loop
Vicki Wells Reddick
Theresa Wiles Blalock
Louise Wright Daniel
Virginia Yager Baxley
Julie Ann Zachowski

'68

Judith Almand Jackson

Lynne Anthony Butler

Lucie Barron

Marjorie Baum Pearsall
*Jean Blnkley Thrower

Kathleen Blee Ashe
*Linda Bloodworth Garrett

Louise T. Bruechert

Bronwyn Burks Fowlkes

Jan Burroughs Loftis

Mary Thomas Bush

Laurie Carter Tharpe

Carol Cole Renfro

Gretchen Cousin Autin

Kate Covington

Lee Davis Blackman

Rebecca Davis Huber
*Betty Derrick

Katherine Doster Stoddard

Paige Dotson Powell

Sarah Elberfeld Countryman

Donna Evans Brown

Louise Fortson Kinstrey

Ethel Ware Gilbert Carter

Joy Griffin Lesley

Gabrielle Guyton Johnson

Lucy Hamilton Lewis

Sylvia Harby Hutton

Olivia Hicks

Sara Houser Scott

Janet Hunter

Barbara Jenkins Hines
*Su2anne Jones Harper CC

Victoria Justice

Mary Lamar Adams
*Rebecca Lanier Allen

Gail Livingston Pringle

Mary Ann McCall Johnson

Susan McCann Butler

Katherine McCracken Maybank

Becky McRae McGlothlin

Margaret Moore Hall
*Mary K. Owen Jarboe

Gue Pardue Hudson
*Nancy Paysinger Hove

Susan Philips Moore

Mary Rogers Hardin

Georganne Rose Cunningham

Lucy A. Rose

Maslln Russ Young

Angela Josette Saad
Johanna Scherer Hunt
Dale Steele Hegler
*Patrlcla Stringer
Ann H. Teat

Christie Theriot Woodfln
Nancy Ellen Thompson Beane
Ann Wilder

Mary Ruth Wllklns Negro
Stephanie Wolfe Sidella

'69

Anonymous

Anonymous

Patricia Auclair Hawkins

Catherine Auman DeMaere

Carol Lee Blessing Ray

Mary Ellen Bond Sandridge

Martine Brownley

Joetta Burkett Yarbro

Julie Cottrill

Janie Davis Hollerorth

Barbara Dye Gray
*Lou Frank Guill C
*Jo Ray Freiler Van Vllet

Pam Gafford McKinnon
*Anne Gilbert Potts

Margaret Gillespie

Sally Gillespie Richardson

Glenda Goodman McKinnon
*Lalla Griffis Mangin

Nancy Hamilton Holcombe
*Diane Hampton Flannagan

Ruth Anne Hatcher Howze
*Ruth Hayes Bruner

Carol Hill Hightower

Nancy Holtman Hoffman

Holly Jackson

Sara Jackson Chapman
*Carol Jensen Rychly

Dera Jones Wallace

Kay Jordan Sachs

Beverly LaRoche Anderson

Beth Mackle

Johnnie Gay Martin

Mary McAlplne Evans

Martha Nell McGhee Lamberth

Dianne McMillan Smith

Kathryn Morris White

Minnie Bob Mothes Campbell
*Mary Anne Murphy Hombuckle

Jean Noggle Harris

Carolyn Owen Hernandez

Virginia Pinkston Daily

Elta Posey Johnston

Libby Potter

Patsy Rankin Jopling

Flora Rogers Galloway

Carol Anne Ruff

Adelaide Sams Probst

Lennard Smith Cramer

Anna Eliza Stockman

Tara Swartsel Boyter

Jeanne Taliaferro Cole

Sally Thomas Evans

Elizabeth Thorne Woodruff

Jane D. Todd

Sarah Walker Guthrie

Sheryl Watson Patrick

Martha Wilson Kessler C

Rose Wilson Kay

Sally Wood Hennessy

Sherrle Yandle Rogers

Betty Young von Herrmann

'70

Anonymous
Lynn Birch Smith
Diane Bollinger Bush
Bonnie Brown Johnson
Mary Bullock Shearon
Lynn Carssow Shinkoskey
Deborah Ann Claiborne Williams
Carol Cook Uhl
Carol Crosby Patrick
Barbara L. Darnell
*Linda DelVecchio Owen
Susan Donald
Mary Douglas Pollitt
Sharron Downs Landers

Catherine DuVall Vogel
Sherlan Fitzgerald Hodges
Nathalie FitzSlmons Anderso
Marlon Gamble McCollum
Lynne Garcia Harris
Hope Gazes Grayson

*Cheryl Granade Sullivan
Edith Guyton Edmlston
Sharon Hall Snead

Martha Harris Entrekln
Mary-Wills Hatfield LeCroy
Susan Head Marler
Susan Henson Frost
Camllle Holland Carruth
Harriette Huff Gaida

*Ruth Hyatt Heffron
Amy Johnson Wright
Hollie Kenyon
Susan Ketchln Edgerton

*Hollister Knowlton Jameson
Judy Lange Hawks
Mary Margaret HacMlllan Col
Diana Marshall Faulkner
Judy Mauldin Beggs
Eileen McCurdy Armistead

*Carol Ann McKenzle Fuller
Christine McNamara Lovejoy
Jane McMullan Howe
Melanle Meier Abernathy
Marilyn Merrell Hubbard

Cathe

Ollv

Cynthia Padgett Henry

Sandra Parrlsh Tate

Martha L. Ramey

Nancy E. Rhodes

Gall Rogers

Betty Sale Edwards
Beverly Shepherd Oxforc

Sally A. Skardon

Martha Mlzell Smith

Sally Stanton

Pamela Taylor Clanton

Carol Watitlns Fisher

Laura Watson Keys

Sue Weathers Crannell

Kathryn Whitman
Charlotte Williams

Sandra Wilson Harris

Norrls Wootton

Sue Wright Shull

'71

Deborah Arnold Fleming C
* Cynthia Ashworth Kesler

Deborah Banghart Hulllns

Carol Banister Kettles

Evelyn Young Brown

Vicki Brown Ferguson

Candy Card Slaton

Jane H. Carlson

Mary Carolyn Cox
*Sallle Daniel Johnson

Dale Derrick Rudolph

Karen Derrick Moon
*Carol Durrance Dunbar

Jane Duttenhaver Hursey
*Rose Anne Ferrante Waters

Sandra Finottl Moses

Frances Folk Zygmont

Annette Friar

Christine Fulton Baldwin
Margaret Funderburk O'Neal

Carolyn Galley

Dolly Garrison
*Gayle Gellerstedt Daniel C
Janet Godfrey Wilson
Anna Gordon Burns
Paula Hendricks Culbreth
Susan Marie Hopkins Moseley
Deborah Hyden Camp
Mary Alice Isele Johnson C
Ann Jarrett
*Edith Jennings Black
Elizabeth Jennings
Melinda Johnson McChesney
Beulah Kasselberg
Carlene Kirkman Duncan
Candy Lang

Rebecca Martin Gllbart
Eva McCranie Jones C
Lee Horton McDavid
*Stella McDermid Haberlandt

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CC, Colonnade Club, iSOOor more Q, Quadrangle Quorum, $250 or more C, Century Club, *100or more *, Fund Agent

Tyler McFadden C
*Alexa Mcintosh Mims

Bonnie Jean Mcintosh Roughton

Susan E. Morton C

Eleanor Nlnestein

Betty Noble Bosworth

Barbara Paul

Mimi Pease Chllds

Jo Ann Perry

Mary Katherine Powell Hobley

Susan Propst

Kathy S. Smith C

Jane Stambaugh
*Granvllle Sydnor Hill
*Dea Taylor Walker
*Margaret Thompson Davis

Bemle Todd Smith

Caroline Turner

Wimberly Wamock Everltt
*Ellen Willingham

Linda Wilson Bohrer

Vickl Yandle Dunbar

72

Harriet Amos

Candace Apple Holbrook
*Sally Barron LaBadie

Mary Beaty Watkins

Susan Correnty Dowd
*Cindy Current Patterson C
iiCayle Daley Nix

Madeleine delPortillo Smith

Barbara Denzler Campbell

Ellen Flynn
*Jerry Kay Foote
*Dianne Gerstle

Janet Golden

Faye Hamlin Thompson

Julia R. Hixon

Patricia Johnston Feuillebois
*Sharon Jones Cole C

Deborah Jordan Bates
*Anne Kemble Collins

Sidney Kerr

Mary Jane King

Mary Kirchhoffer Porter

Sally Lloyd Proctor

Deborah Long Wingate
*Llnda Maloy Ozier

Lucinda Martin Schreeder

Martha Jane Martin Wright

Mary Jane Morris MacLeod

Susan D. Parks

Leigh Ann Peterson

Mary Ann Powell Howard

Gretchen Smith

Margaret Smith Alexander

Belita Stafford Walker

Susan Steagall

Nancy Thomas Tippins

Katrina Van Duyn

Susan Watson Black

Lindsey Watt March

Pam Westmoreland Sholar

Susan Williams Gornall

Glgi Wilson Mulrheid
Muliana Winters
*Ann Yrwing Hall

73

Carolyn Arant Handell
Marilyn Barger Johnson
*Cala Boddie Senior

Sally Bryant Oxley

Eleanor Bussey Bennett

Kathleen Lois Campbell
*Nancy L. Carter

Anastacia D. Coclln
*Deborah Corbett Gaudier

Ann Cowley Churchman

Deana Craft Ellison

Ivonne del Portillo

Deborah Gantt Mitchell

Penny Gilbert

Ellen Gordon

Karen Griffith McLeod
* Judith Hamilton Grubbs

Pamela Sue Hanson

Elizabeth Barry Haynes

Debra Anne Jackson Williams

Julia LaRue Orwig

Brenda Little Murphy

Margaret MacLennan Barron

Judy Maguire Tlndel
*Jerrllyn McBride Berrong

Mary McMartln

Janlfer Meldrum Buce

Louise Hoyt Minor

Carol Anne Moxley
fc Deborah Newman Mattem

Jane Parsons Frazier

Elizabeth Rhett Jones

Pamela Rogers

Verdery Roosevelt

Susan Rudolph Blrdwell

Martha C. Schabel

Judy Sharp Hickman
fcClare P. Smith

Patricia Steen

Laura Tlnsley Swann

Joy Trimble
fc Bonnie Troxler Graham

Cynthia Wilkes
*Eugenia Williams Collins
Lady Louise Womat Emrlch
Tlsh Young

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Elizabeth Abbott
*Sara Barrett

Elizabeth Evert Bean
*Diane Beeler Cormanl

Marianne Bradley

Camilla Brannen
*Patsy Cook
*Teressa Dew

Davara Dye Potel
*Lynn E. Ezell
^ary Gay Banks ton

Judy Greene

Tania Gumusgerdan

Rosanne Harkey Prultt

Beth Holmes Smith

Rebecca Ann King

Amy Ledebuhr Bandl
i^eresa Lee Echols

Lib McGregor Simmons

Ann McMillan

Mellsha Miles

Lucy Moss

Claire Owen
*Ann E. Patterson

Deanna Penland Ramsey
*Ellnor Perkins Daniel

Ann Poe Mitchell

Diane Roever Atchley
*Martha Rutledge Munt

Jane Marshall Simons
*Martha Stephenson Kelley

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Students use refurbished library during first week of classes.

Mary Louise Brown Forsythe
Victoria Burgess Stephan

Lou Anne Cassells McFadden

Rose Ann Cleveland
*Indla Culpepper

Susan DuVernet Logan

Allyn B. Fine

Deborah Garfield
*Robbie Goodall Boman
*Motte Legare Hay

Denise Hord

Lynne Jameson Gorgorlan

Jill Jean Johnson
*Susan Landhara Carson

Frances A. Maguire

Susan McLarln Johnson

Rebecca McSwaln Reynolds

Mary Gay Morgan

Marie Henderson Newton

Jean Patton Preston

Catherine Pirkle Wages

Sandra Sheridan Bennett

Carol Townsend Holllngshed

Rebecca M. Weaver

Frances S. Weston

Elizabeth Wlckenberg

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Jeanne Jones CC
Judy Sapp Harris
Martha Smith

Special

Mary Elizabeth Power Smith

Alumnae Clubs

Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
Cobb County Alumnae Club
Dalton Alumnae Club
Decatur Alumnae Club C
Tidewater, Virginia Alumnae Club
Washington, D. C. Alumnae Club C
Young Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club

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Friends of The College

New paint restores original color to Rebekah and Colonnade.
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Mrs, Henry W. Adams

Mr. and Mrs. Leroy R. Adams

Agnes Scott College Faculty

Wives Club
Mrs. Belle C. Aldrich C
Mr. Hooper Alexander, III
Mr. Julian R. Alford
Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr.
Miss Margaret P. Ammons
Dr. Frank P. Anderson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Baker
Mr. Asbury Q. Baldwin
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Balsley, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Murphey W. Banks
Mr. and Mrs. Dean D. Barger
Mr. Thomas L. Bass C
Mr. W. A. Bethune Q
Mr. David Behan
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Benson C
Mrs. George M. Bevier Q
Mr. Karl A. Bevins
Mr. Peyton Bibb

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Birdsong Q
Rev. and Mrs. W. K. Borden
Mrs. William Hugh Boswell
Mr. E. L. Bothwell Q
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L, Bowden C
Mr. B. M. Bowen
Mrs. Jere Boze
Miss JoAllen Bradham
Mr. and Mrs. Grover H. Bradley
Rev. Tinsley P. Bradley
Mr. Harllee Branch, Jr. Q
Mr. Ininan Brandon C
Mr. and Mrs. J. Lehmon Brantley
Mrs. Henrietta F. Breen
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Briley, Jr. Q
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bringhurst, Jr.
Mr, Thomas H. Broadus , Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Brock
Mrs. Louise 0. Brock
Dr. Jack T. Brooking
Mrs. Byron K. Brown
Mr. G. Thompson Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Martin P. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bryant, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Elmer Buechler, Jr.
Mr, and Mrs. John L. Burnworth
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Burton
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Caldwell, Jr.
Ms. Ruth L. Caldwell

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R. Campbell, Jr.
Mr. Scott Candler, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Carlson
Mr. Emmett B. Cartledge, Jr. Q
Mr. and Mrs. Kwai Sing Chang
Mrs. Marjorie S. Cheatham
Dr. and Mrs. Marion T. Clark
Mr. Francis Clarkson C
Mrs. Susan S. Cofer
Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Copple
Mr. and Mrs. Robert 0. Cox
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Cribbs, Jr.
Rev. and Mrs. James R. Crook and

Polly, Catherine and Frances Crook
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Curd C
Mr. and Mrs. John Cecil Currie
Miss Mary L. Currie
Mr. and Mrs. Macon M. Dalton C
Mr. Charles L. Davidson, Jr.
Mr, and Mrs. James F. Davis
Mrs. Jean M. Davis C
Mr. Neil 0. Davis CC
Judge and Mrs. William T. Dean
Dr. and Mrs. Lorenzo del Portillo
Rev. and Mrs. Marshall D. Dendy
Mr. Russell E. Denker
Rev. Ludwig R. Dewitz
Rev. and Mrs. B. Herman Dillard
Mrs. Frances S. Diseker
Mrs. Elsie P. Doerplnghaus
Miss Mary F. Doom
Dr. F. William Dowda
Dr. Tom W. Duke C
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Dunbar
Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Dunstan
Mrs. Ruth G, Early
Mrs. Bessie M. Ebaugh

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Echols C
Dr. William Graham Echols
Mr. Earl H. Elberfeld Q
Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Elsas
Mr. Edward E. Elson C
Mr. George E, Erwin CC
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Earl G. Ezell
Faculty Flower Fund of Agnes Scott Colle
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Faiola Q
Mrs. William E. Fayssoux
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Ferst C
Mr, Harry A. Fifield
Mr. Walter S. Flory
Mr. George Folsom
Mr. and Mrs. Michel A. Ford
Mr. William C. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Francis
Mr. and Mrs. DeJongh Franklin C
Mrs. Carlyle Eraser
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Frierson
Mr. and Mrs. James Galley
Mr. Alex P. Gaines CC
Mr. Dave W. Garber C
Mr. and Mrs. John Garber
**Mr. John A. Garber

Mr. John Carter Garber CC

Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Garber Q

Mr. W. A. Garber

Mrs. R. C. Gary

Miss Leslie J. Gaylord

Dr. Fellz B. Gear

Mr. L. L, Gellerstedt, Jr.

Mr. John L. Gignilliat

Mrs. Melanie S. Giles

Mr. James R. Gilliam, Jr. C

Mr. Ben S. Gilmer

Mr. and Mrs. John Gledhill

Miss M. Kathryn Click C

Mrs . Lois J. Goodman

Mrs. Rachel Riches Gordon

Mr. and Mrs. W. Madison Gordon

Mrs. Esther A. Graff Q

Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Graves

Miss Nancy P. Groseclose C

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Hale

Mrs. Arch Haley

Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh G. Ham

Mrs. Katherine Ewing Hara

Dr. and Mrs. Lauren Harper

Mr. J. Robin Harris

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Harrison C

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Haskins

Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Bumey Hay, Sr,

Mr. George P. Hayes

Mr. and Mrs, Robert W. Hayes

Dr. Massey Mott Heltzel

Mr. and Mrs. Andre Herviou

Miss Harriet Higgins

Dr. Thomas W. Hogan CC

Mr. and Mrs. George K. Hood C

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Howell

Mrs. Claire Hubert

Mrs. Martha C. Huntington

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Husted

Rabbi S. R. Ichay

Mrs. Richard S. Ihley C

Mr. James Jackson

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Jackson

Mr. Charles L. Jacob

Dr. Sidney Q. Janus

Mr. and Mrs. Nesblt Johnston

Dr. Huguette Kaiser

Mrs. Mani Kamerkar

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Keith-Lucas Q

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Kenimer

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H, Kite

Mr. and Mrs. J. Leland Kennedy

Dr. C. Benton Kline, Jr.

Mr. John Daniel Knox

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lane

Mr. C. R. Lawrence

Mr. Spencer Lawton

Mr. and Mrs. W. Talmage Leak

Miss Beverly Leak

Rev. F. McM. Legerton

Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Lengerich

Miss Susan F. Leonard

Mr. Walter W. Leroy C

Mrs, Edwin L. Levy, Jr.

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OLDER THAN THE REPUBLIC

As WE CELEBRATE this year the bicentennial of our
Declaration of Independence and the formal beginnings
of our nation, it is worth recalling that one of the
shaping forces of the American experience, our
educational system, is at least 150 years older than
the Republic. Even before the founding of our first college,
Harvard, in 1636, book learning had begun in the
homes, churches, and modest school houses of
the colonies and the frontier. In its beginnings a
function largely of the colonial churches and their
ministers, American education had its deep and vigorous
roots in the Graeco-Roman and Hebraic-Christian
traditions as they were transmitted through the trivium
and quadrivium of the Seven Liberal Arts of
medieval Europe.

A chief early purpose of education in America, as
it had been in England and Europe, was the training of
an educated ministry for the church. This purpose
continued strong and was a major force not only in the
rapid spread of Christian churches but in the establishment
of private colleges and schools throughout the Colonies.

In the past three centuries, however, the purposes
and functions of American education have expanded,
with varying emphases in different periods. According to
Professor R. Freeman Butts, in a recent comprehensive
article The Search for Purpose in American Education *
there have been at least seven historical purposes
"proclaimed or sought for American education," all
of which have been reaffirmed in varying degree since
the turn of the twentieth century.

The College Board Review, Winter 1975-76, 3-19.

Four of these purposes or functions, according to
Professor Butts, compose "the modern American
quadrivium," and they dominated public discussion
of education in the first three or four decades of this
century. These four purposes, like four roads turning off
from a main highway, lead in four different directions:
"one leading to academic discipline, a second to social
efficiency, a third to individual development, and the
fourth to vocational competence."

In the last forty years, a new trivium has come forward
in American education, joining the modern quadrivium,
a trio perhaps more complicated and more basic, and
certainly more controversial than the new quadrivium
above. The new trivium is exemplified by, but not
limited to, our recent national efforts at almost all levels
of American society to realize more widely and speedily
our traditional goals of freedom, equality (or equal
justice), and community. In a sense, this three-fold search
reminds us that our Revolution is not yet over inasmuch
as the American people are calling once more upon
education to aid in the quest for what have been perhaps
their three most cherished ideals.

It is worth recalling in this connection that our
nation's founders saw both the Revolution itself and
the kind of education needed in the new Republic
chiefly in political terms rather than in terms of
academic achievement, social adjustment, personal
fulfillment, or occupational training. In other words,
they were mainly concerned with education as "a bulwark
for liberty, equality, and the public good," functions
which for them took precedence over the uses of
knowledge, over individual effort, over occupation.
Repeatedly the founders stressed that the welfare of the
new nation depended upon an educated citizenry and that
the nation's schools had the primary purpose "of educating
the citizenry in the values, the knowledge, and the
obligations of everyone in a democratic
republican society."

This primary emphasis on education for the public
welfare began to wane in the early nineteenth century,
and. although the Revolution's civic goals for education
continued to be expressed and pursued, they began
by 1900 to be enlarged to include other interests as the
nation turned increasingly from a rural to an urban
society, from agrarian to industrial pursuits, from fervor
for the public good to aspirations of individual
achievement and economic success. Thus, in the
first third of our century, the emphasis was upon
the more private and individual purposes of education
stressing (1 ) academic discipline, i.e. the cultivation of
the mind, (2) social efficiency and responsibility,
including ethics and the teaching of "values,"
(3) individual development as a unique personality,
and (4) vocational competence for jobs and careers.
Today, and increasingly since the end of World War II,
the search for our original goals of freedom, equal
justice, and community more societal and political
in nature has once again become a major concern of
the American educational enterprise as it is of our
current economic and political efforts.

As our bicentennial year draws to a close, it should
be noted that our national concern with education as a

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Student Government President
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force for the public good has by no means overshadowed
our continuing insistence that education is also a
personal and individual matter, whether it involves
cultural pursuits and moral values or the acquisition
of marketable skills, or both. No history of educational
purposes or goals can be all-inclusive, nor can any one set
of goals completely satisfy the diverse interests and
aspirations of the millions who make up our endlessly
diverse society.

Although it is tempting in this bicentennial year to
ask ourselves how well we have carried out our
lofty educational aims, to inquire into the effectiveness
of today's vast American educational enterprise, this
is not the place for such broad evaluations. Any answer
would involve totting up a balance sheet of both successes
and failures, always in the light of the various and
shifting purposes which Americans have historically
set for education. There is room for much satisfaction
jf we consider our material development as a people
in the last two hundred years; there is reason for
grave concern if we look candidly at the present
disintegrating state of moral values, at our widespread
social ills, at our lack of national agreement over
the proper ends of education for a society still very
much in ferment.

A report such as this a review of the year's activities
and developments in a particular institution cannot,
and should not, attempt an evaluation of the whole
American educational undertaking. Justified and
appropriate, however, is some attempt to place in context
the events of a single college year as they have been
played out against the backdrop of the larger scene.
Especially is this true today, when the larger scene is so
chaotic and fast-changing and when our particular
institution, Agnes Scott College, is palpably moving to
the beat of "a different drummer." Indeed, no part
of the Agnes Scott family whether students, faculty,
administration or alumnae has ever, to its great
credit, marched in lock-step to the beat of a single local
drum, much less to the rhythms of the dominant natFonal
bandwagon. That individuality, and the freedom and
encouragement to exercise it, are central to our purpose
and function as a college committed to liberal arts
education and Christian values. The review of a given
year's activities at Agnes Scott should serve as reassurance
to its alumnae and friends, explicitly and by implication,
that our College faculty, students, and administrators
continue true, and freshly responsive, to the historic
mission of the College. It is my belief that the following
brief review of the 1975-76 year will once again
supply that reassurance.

THE 1975-76 YEAR

Each succeeding college year this was Agnes Scott's
87th has much in common with its immediate
predecessors; but there are always differences. The
one constant, for the would-be chronicler of such years,
is a recurrent sense of frustration in attempting to
give anything like a complete and balanced picture
of the rich and variegated life created by several hundred

young people, and more than 100 of their teachers
and administrators, living and working together for nine
months on end. There are always familiar repetitions, and
there are always surprises. In looking back, one who
attempts a history of a college year is bound to see it
through the lens of his own concerns and preferences,
his hopes and even his anxieties. The recorder is
fortunate if he can truly say, as I have no hesitancy
in doing about 1975-76, "On balance it was a good year
a year of more achievement than frustration, of more
pleasure than failure, of some solid and fruitful successes
in carrying out previously announced goals." The year
began on a high note with an excellent entering class
some 12% larger than its immediate predecessor, almost
four-fifths of whom ranked in the top quarter of their
graduating high school classes. Some 21 states were
represented, as well as Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Turkey,
and West Germany. Sixty percent of the class were from
states other than Georgia. Their enthusiasm and energy
equaled their excellent secondary school records,
and their high spirits were a major factor in getting us
all off to a good start.

Academically, the year saw no major changes in
curriculum structure although the usual number of new
courses were offered. Notable were the increasing
popularity of double or combined majors and the growing
desire among students for additional opportunities for
off-campus learning experiences, whether in Atlanta,
Washington, or overseas. On the campus, academic
innovations included a very effective freshman chemistry
course offered by a newcomer. Assistant Professor
Alan White, for exceptionally well-prepared students
in chemistry. New courses in philosophy and in economics
sparked an increase in enrollment in those disciplines.
The Department of English, in response to the growing
need among students for more practice in writing at
the college level, sought to meet this need at Agnes Scott
through the restructuring of certain elementary courses
in English. It is too early to judge the success of such
efforts, but Agnes Scott intends to see that its graduates,
in the future as in the past, know how to write with
clarity and skill.

Dean Julia Gary and many of our faculty are very
much aware of the growing student interest in
opportunities for learning experiences beyond the
campus, with or without college credit. Agnes Scott
has a number of such opportunities already, and we are
exploring additional paths. Our offerings in this area
are not insignificant, but we can do a better job of
presenting and "selling" them, especially to prospective
students. Many of these opportunities are related to
actual paying jobs; others are largely for academic credit;
some are already parts of existing courses. For example,
two students in the Department of Art worked during the
past year with local commercial firms in the Atlanta
area; biology offers two summer programs; a Washington
semester is available to students in economics, pohtical
science, and natural science and technology; two students
in chemistry worked this past summer with Professors
Marion Clark and Alan White on a National Science
Foundation program, doing supervised research for pay.
Our summer credit programs in England, Germany, Italy,
and Spain continue to attract students, and they have
recently been complemented by the opportunity for desert

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biology and marine biology in the United States. There is
certainly room, however, for further development in
such areas as legislative internships and exchange programs
in appropriate American cities in the fields of art,
politics, and urban affairs. I am hopeful that our Long-
Range Planning Committee will have specific suggestions
to make during the coming year regarding these needs.

Our Non-Traditional Program, designed chiefly
for women who wish to return to college after some
years out, continues to grow. It is altogether likely that
almost 10% of our total enrollment will be registered in
this program during the coming year.

Our excellent faculty continues to do far more than
teach students, although this function remains at
Agnes Scott its chief concern. Additional time
is consumed with counseling students, with research
and other creative activities, and with administering the
academic program through the network of committees
established by the new faculty bylaws hammered
out during the 1974-75 academic year. This new faculty
committee structure has on the whole proved workable and
effective. Much of it is involved with consideration of
new programs and courses, possible changes in the
academic calendar or in degree requirements, and with
broader academic planning for the future.

Recent developments in two specific departments
may be cited as examples of the kinds of innovation and
change characteristic of today's Agnes Scott curriculum.
In the Department of Music, under the leadership of
its new chairman. Professor Ronald Byrnside, a planned
expansion of music offerings is underway. To our
traditional instruction in piano, organ, voice, and violin,
we added during the past year training in flute and
recorder. A baroque instrumental ensemble was also
organized, and in the coming year we shall have
in residence at Agnes Scott a professional chamber
music group which will offer both instruction and concerts
at the College. Our music program was further
strengthened this past year with the inauguration of
the Nannette Hopkins Scholarship Program in Music.
Through the generosity of Frances Smith Sims, of
the class of 1913, and to honor the memory of Miss
Hopkins, Agnes Scott now offers four $1,000 scholarships
annually to promising entering students in music
(instrumental or voice). These scholarships are awarded
chiefly on the basis of talent and ability and are renewable
for four years if performance is satisfactory. We were
most gratified last spring by the amount of interest shown
in the first competition, and our first four winners
enter the College this September together with several
other competitors.

In another field, that of modern foreign languages, the
past year saw the approval of a Spanish residence corridor
like that already in operation for students of French. A
native speaker from Spain will be in charge of the
corridor, and there will be a Spanish table in the dining
hall in addition to those already in operation for
French and German.

The close of the 1975-76 academic year marked the
retirement of two of Agnes Scott's able and devoted senior
professors: Professor Chloe Steel, Adeline Arnold
Loridans Professor of French, and Professor Paul Garber

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Students return for eighty-eighth session, September 23, 1976.

of the Department of Bible and ReHgion. Professor
Steel came to Agnes Scott in 1955 and served as
Chairman of the Department of French from 1964-1972.
A most effective teacher and a strong committee worker
in the faculty. Professor Steel is greatly respected by
her colleagues as well as by a host of Agnes Scott students
who have been in her classes over the years. Professor
Paul Garber joined the Agnes Scott faculty in 1943
and was Chairman of the Department of Bible and
Religion from that time until 1970. He is the author
of numerous publications in his field, including some 19
articles for the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible.
The combined service to Agnes Scott of Professors
Steel and Garber totals 54 years. Their impress on
the College and its students has been great, and they
will be greatly missed.

A two-year experiment with the new academic calendar,

begun in the 1974-75 year, ended this past June. Under
the experimental calendar the first quarter began
immediately after Labor Day and ended with examinations
at Thanksgiving. Students were thus able to combine
the traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,
returning after New Year's for the opening of the winter
quarter. Although the experimental calendar had certain
advantages, it was our considered judgment that the
more traditional calendar, in which students remained,
after a brief Thanksgiving holiday, until just before

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Christmas, offered greater academic advantages than
the experimental schedule. Accordingly, in 1976-77 the
College will return to its traditional calendar, with
the fall quarter ending just before Christmas. While
the experimental calendar gave students a longer winter
vacation and resulted in certain savings in fuel and
maintenance for the College, it is our conviction that
the traditional calendar makes for a stronger academic
year. The experiment has been beneficial, however,
in giving us some experience with an economy calendar
if fuel and energy shortages in the future should make such
economies necessary. We are fortunate to be able to
make our decisions today in the light of academic rather
than economic advantages.

Perhaps the most dramatic events of the 1975-76 year
were those in connection with our observance of the
50th anniversary of the establishment of Agnes Scott's
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The observance occurred in
late April and was highlighted by the return to campus of
many of the members of the Beta of Georgia Chapter
and by distinguished women speakers from the field of
education. Agnes Scott's own Professor Catherine S. Sims,
who is also a senator of the United Chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa, launched the celebration with a fitting convocation
address on April 21. On the evening of April 22,
Professor Rosemary Park, former president of Barnard
College and immediate past president of the United
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, delivered a most stimulating
and imaginative anniversary address. On Friday, April
23, Professor Juanita M. Kreps, James B. Duke Professor
of Economics and Vice President of Duke University,
led two seminars and spoke with great effectiveness at
a college convocation. The gala anniversary dinner was
held on Thursday evening, April 22, at which Dr.
Kenneth M. Greene, Secretary of the United Chapters
of Phi Beta Kappa, brought greetings from the national
organization. A very attractive anniversary brochure
carried the names of all persons who had been initiated
into Phi Beta Kappa by the Beta of Georgia Chapter
since its founding. The brochure was given to all present
and sent by mail to those members who were unable
to attend the festivities in person.

Also celebrated at Agnes Scott in 1975-76 was our
national bicentennial. A number of outstanding lecturers
visited the College to speak on various aspects of
American life and thought, with special reference to
our nation's founding and its first 200 years. (For the
names of these speakers see "Highlights of the
1975-76 Year.") In November of 1975, Agnes Scott
also participated in the celebration of International
Women's Year. Under the sponsorship of our chapter
of Mortar Board, Elizabeth Janeway, nationally recognized
social historian, critic, and author, came to the campus
for a public lecture and for informal discussion with
students. Prior to Mrs. Janeway's arrival. Mortar Board
hosted a banquet honoring women members of the faculty,
with Professor Catherine Sims as speaker. Other activities
included a convocation address by Professor Marie
Pepe, Dana Professor of Art, and a panel discussion led
by four outstanding alumnae: Evangeline Papageorge, '28,
Associate Dean Emeritus of the Emory University
School of Medicine; Mary Curtis Tucker, '56, Agnes
Scott trustee; Harriet King, '69, Assistant Dean of the
Emory University School of Law; and Cynthia Wilkes, '73,

special assistant in the Office of State and Local
Coordination, Georgia Department of Human Resources.

Since coming to the College three years ago, I have been
eager to have the experience of teaching a course myself.
During the spring quarter of this past year, I had the
pleasure of offering English 322, which is the College's
regular course in English poetry of the Victorian period,
chiefly Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. It was a most
pleasant and stimulating experience, and I found that
Agnes Scott students are every bit as capable and
responsive as I had been led to believe! I hope to
continue to offer a course in the Department of English
from time to time.

For the past several years student admissions and
enrollment have been one of our top priorities at Agnes
Scott. It is good to be able to report, therefore, that we
continue to make steady if modest gains in the area of
recruitment and total student enrollment. Each of our last
three entering classes has been larger than its predecessor.
The quality of each of these classes continues to compare
favorably with that of other recent classes. Thanks to the
continuing energetic and very capable efforts of our
splendid admissions staff, under the leadership of Ann
Rivers Thompson, '59, we expect to have an entering
class of more than 170 freshmen, plus some 20 or more
returnees and transfers. These figures do not include
students in our Non-Traditional Program, which will bring
the number of new students for 1976-77 to over 200. We
are tremendously grateful for the efforts and enthusiasm
of the many alumnae who have aided in our recruitment
efforts through the newly developed Alumnae Admissions
Representatives program. There is still no room for
complacency, for our goal is an entering freshmen class of
at least 200, with no sacrifice in quality. The success we
have so far experienced, however, in very difficult times, is
most gratifying; and we intend to continue our efforts not
only through intensifying recruiting but also by giving
increased publicity and "attractive packaging" to our
excellent academic program and to the many other
features of an Agnes Scott experience.

One of the chief factors in maintaining strong
enrollment at Agnes Scott is the availability of financial
aid for those students who cannot otherwise afford the
full cost of an Agnes Scott education. Even in these
inflationary times of rising prices of goods and services, we
have increased our financial aid budget dramatically.
Indeed, our financial aid commitment has increased at a
greater rate than has that of any other item of the College
budget. Since 1967, for example, our financial aid to
students has increased 200% while other expenditures
have increased 68% and enrollment has actually dropped.
Even though we have found it necessary to raise charges
almost every year, we have increased our financial aid
budget by at least the same or a greater percentage.
Tuition and fees for the coming year will total $4150, up
$200 from the year before, but Agnes Scott's total charges
continue to be the lowest of those of any of the major
women's colleges today. We are still able also to meet the
full computed financial aid, through scholarship, loan, and
on-campus job, of any student admitted. Approximately
40% of our student body receives some form of financial
aid from the College.

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Another area of our continuing concern is salaries and
benefits for our faculty and staff. In this area, also, I am
glad to report that we have been able to continue our
progress in strengthening Agnes Scott's position, in terms
of salaries and benefits, among its sister institutions. A
supportive Board of Trustees has approved annual
increases in faculty and staff salaries throughout these
times of inflation and rising costs. Today we have an
excellent and very competitive fringe benefit package for
our faculty and staff, and our salaries are at last
approaching what they should be in comparison with
those of other liberal arts colleges of our stature and
resources. Specifically, we have steadily improved our
position in the faculty compensation ratings published
annually by the American Association of University
Professors. This past year we moved up to a #2 rating
(approximately 70th percentile) in all academic ranks.
Salaries and wages of administrative officers and staff
employees have also improved over the past several years
and now are, we believe, competitive with those of similar
educational institutions.

In the area of student life, the 1975-76 year was a
productive and cooperative one. Dean of Students Martha
Huntington's continuing efforts to work more closely with
more students, as individuals and organizations, bore fruit
in a number of ways. An increasing number of students,
faculty, and alumnae are now using the services available
in the various offices under the jurisdiction of the Dean of
Students, especially career counseling, student counseling,
and financial aid.

Proposals for the reorganization of various aspects of
student government were considered during the year and
a number of beneficial changes made or planned. The
Honor System was again studied carefully, and reports and
discussions as to its spirit and operation involved both
students and faculty throughout the year. It is good to be
able to report that the Honor System remains strong at
Agnes Scott, thanks chiefly to its widespread acceptance by
students and faculty and to the devoted and energetic
efforts of the members of Honor Court. We continue to be
most fortunate in the caliber and commitment of students
who hold offices in various areas of student government.
These student leaders, with the support of Dean Gary,
Dean Huntington, and their respective staffs, are
responsible for a student government at Agnes Scott of
unusual effectiveness and integrity.

In last year's President's Report, I announced two
decisions in the area of student affairs which I considered
especially worthy of note: the establishment of a new
College health program in cooperation with the Emory
Community Nursing Service and a new policy permitting
the limited use of alcoholic beverages at specified student
social events on the campus. I am pleased to report that
in their first year of operation each of these policies has
been effective and well received.

Students feel that they are receiving good health care
at Agnes Scott, and they are using the Health Service in
increasing numbers. The Health Service staff has been
extremely helpful and efficient and has unquestionably
gained the confidence of our students. We shall continue
this program in cooperation with the Emory Community
Nursing Service during the 1976-77 academic year.

The new alcoholic beverage policy was most
conscientiously administered by student government
leaders with the cooperation of the Dean of Student's
office. Some dozen activities were successfully sponsored
by various student groups, open to the entire student body,
at which beer or wine was served, always with
non-alcoholic drinks available. I believe the new policy
has made for a more popular and better supported social
activities program here on the campus. Early in the
coming year, the Administrative Committee will consider
suggestions from student government as to possible
improvements or modifications in the policy and will make
recommendations with respect to its continuance.

This past spring, in response to a request from student
government, the Administrative Committee of the College
considered a modification of our rules with respect to
opening students' rooms to male visitors for a limited time
on certain days of the week. Specifically, the proposal
called for allowing men to visit students' rooms on Sunday
afternoons from 1 : 30 to 5:00. Each student would be
required to sign in her guest and accompany him to and
from the lobby of the dormitory, and male visitors would
be expected to abide by all college policies with respect to
alcohol, drugs, fire drills, quiet hours, etc. It would be the
responsibility of the host student to inform her guest of
these policies and see that he cooperated. Violations of any
rules would automatically result in consideration of the
case by Dormitory Council. Representative Council had
polled the student body before submitting its request to
the Administrative Committee and had received a largely
favorable reaction. After thorough discussion the
Administrative Committee approved the recommended
policy. It was submitted to the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees at its February meeting. The
Executive Committee referred the matter to the Student
Affairs Committee of the Board, which, after careful
study, recommended its adoption. The Executive
Committee then sent it to the Board of Trustees with a
recommendation for its adoption, to become effective with
the 1976-77 academic year, subject to annual review by
appropriate college authorities. At the May meeting of the
Board, after further discussion, the recommendation of the
Executive Committee of the Board was approved, and the
new policy will go into effect as stipulated. Like the
alcoholic beverage regulation, this new policy for male
visitation is a modest one by comparison with policies in
force at most colleges today. I am confident that our
students will accept responsibility for its conscientious
administration.

Increasing student concern in recent years with respect
to career opportunities has resulted on almost every
campus in fresh and increasing attention paid to college
offices which deal with career counseling and planning.
At Agnes Scott the Office of Career Planning is under the
jurisdiction of the Dean of Students, and it has been
efficiently and effectively managed by Miss lone Murphy
for a number of years. There is little likelihood that this
new interest in Career Planning will wane in the near
future, and Agnes Scott is making plans already to see
that its present service is even more effective. Assisting
Miss Murphy during the coming year will be Mrs. Melissa
Holt Vandiver, '73, one of our capable assistants to the
Director of Admissions, who will devote half of her time
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Intern. Miss Barbara Knickerbocker, will also be serving
chiefly in the Office of Career Planning during the coming
year. With this larger team. Career Planning can be
emphasized, as it should be, from the time of a student's
initial admission to the College until she is ready to
graduate.

Another area of increasing interest to students and
their parents is that of financial aid. The Office of
Financial Aid. under jurisdiction of the Dean of Students,
is ably administered by Miss Anne Stapleton. Agnes Scott's
financial aid budget has doubled in the past five years and
in 1975-76 will require some half million dollars of College
funds. In most cases, students on financial aid in the
future will be expected after the freshman year to accept
a three-part package consisting of outright grant, college
loan, and on-campus job.

Two years ago in this report I announced the
inauguration at Agnes Scott of an intern program to
prepare young women for positions in academic
administration. In cooperation with fifteen other leading
women's colleges, and with Carnegie Corporation support,
this program has had marked success in its first two years,
and I am pleased to announce that the cooperating colleges
have secured additional funds from the Carnegie
Corporation to extend this undertaking through at least
1977-78. Under the program, an alumna of each
cooperating college spends an academic year at another
college in the program, chiefly in a single administrative
department although opportunities are given for some
acquaintance with all aspects of academic administration.
Agnes Scott's first two interns have been Ann Roberts
Divine, '67, who spent her year at Mary Baldwin College,
and Patricia Ann Stringer, '68, who spent last year at
Goucher College. Agnes Scott's intern for the coming year
will be Mary Margaret MacLauchlin, '75, formerly of our
Admissions staff, Vho will be at Salem College. Our intern

here will he Barbara Knickerbocker, a graduate of Mills
College, who will work in the office of the Dean of
Students, chiefly in Career Planning and Financial Aid.
It is gratifying to report that our first two Agnes Scott
interns are today actually in college administration, Ann
Divine in St. Louis and Patricia Stringer at Emory
University as Assistant Dean of the Graduate School.

No review of an Agnes Scott year would be complete
without some attempt to list the main events, academic
and extra ciirricular. of the College program from
September to June. Space forbids anything approaching a
complete record here of the events of 1975-76, but the list
which follows may be considered a fair sample. Once again
it is noteworthy that the great majority of these events,
plus many not listed here, were open to the public in
keeping with our purpose of making available Agnes
Scott's rich cultural offerings to our neighbors in Decatur
and creater Atlanta.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1975-76 YEAR

SEPTEMBER

5 Registration and orientation open Agnes Scott's

eighty-seventh session
8 Faculty Wives Fair again raises funds for student

financial aid

OCTOBER

1 Honors Day Convocation. Speaker: Dean Mary P.
McPherson at Bryn Mawr College

14 Concert: Guarneri String Quartet

25-26 Investiture. Speaker: Professor Jo Allen Bradham

(English ). Preacher: Dean James T. Laney, Candler
School of Theology. Emory University

NOVEMBER

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Blackfriars production: "The Rope Dancers"

International Year of the Woman banquet honoring
women in the Agnes Scott faculty and staff. Speaker:
Professor Catherine S. Sims

Lecture: "International Women's Year: Token or
Opportunity." Mrs. Elizabeth Janeway, Social
Historian and Critic

Concert: Agnes Scott and Georgia Tech Glee Clubs

JANUARY

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Focus on Faith. Speakers: Mrs. Elisabeth Elliot

Leitch. Visiting Professor, Gordon-Conwell

Theological Seminary. Hamilton. Massachusetts; and

Dr. Albert Curry Winn, Pastor. Second Presbyterian

Church. Richmond. Virginia

Agnes Scott Students art show opens in Dalton

Galleries

FEBRUARY

Lecture: "Writing the Biography of Faulkner,"
Joseph Blotner. University' of Michigan

Master dance class conducted by David Roche,
Director of the Florida State University Dance
Touring Theatre

4 Black History Week. Speakers: Mr. Clifford Chandler,
Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, and Ms. Emma I. Darnell.
Concert by Morehouse College Glee Club

Founder's Day. Speaker: President Pauline Tompkins,
Cedar Crest College

Augusta Opera Company presentation of Gaetano
Donizetti's The Elixir of Love

8 Sophomore Parents' Weekend: Classes, lectures and
panels, creative arts, parties. President's reception

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MARCH

3 Bicentennial lecture: Professor Pauline Maier of the

University of Massachusetts
5-6 Foreign Language Drama Contest
7 Invitational sculpture show opening in Dalton

Galleries
9 Joint concert: Agnes Scott and Columbia University

Glee Clubs
31 Lecture: 'Politics and Anti-Politics," Garry Wills

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JUNE

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Agnes Scott Writers" Festival. Speakers and Judges:
Reynolds Price and Michael Mott

Concert by Agnes Scott Glee Club, Madrigal Singers,
Recorder Society, and the Opera Workshop

- Applicants' Weekend, sponsored by Mortar Board.
Over 100 prospective students on campus

Bicentennial/McCain Lecture. Speaker: Professor
Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale University

Mortar Board tapping

- Phi Beta Kappa fiftieth anniversary. Speakers:
Professor Catherine S. Sims, Professor Rosemary
Park, Professor Juanita M. Kreps, and Dr. Kenneth
M. Greene

- Golden Needle Award Festival

- Concert by the Agnes Scott Studio Dance Theatre

Blackfriars' production: "The Milk Train Doesn't

Stop Here Anymore"

Senior art majors' show opens in Dalton Galleries

-Agnes Scott's 87th Commencement: 124 seniors
awarded degrees. Baccalaureate preacher: President
Donald W. Shriver, Jr., Union Theological Seminary,
New York.

Our third season of summer conferences was most
successful. We were hosts to eight educational and
religious groups, with a total attendance of approximately
700 people. During the academic year our facilities were
also rented to some twenty other outside groups. With
characteristic thoroughness and good humor, Dr. Edward
McNair, Director of Public Relations, administered this
valuable new extension of Agnes Scott's resources and
influence.

During another busy year I have enjoyed tremendously
knowing and working with the outstanding women who are
our alumnae, especially Alumnae Association President
Jane King Allen, '59, and her colleagues of the Executive
Board. Virginia Brown McKenzie, '47, in her second year
as Director of Alumnae Affairs, continues to increase the
range and effectiveness of alumnae activities in service to
the College. With the end of this academic year, Jane
Allen's term as President of the Alumnae Association came
to an end, and she has been succeeded by Mary
Duckworth Gellerstedt, '46, of Atlanta. From early
indications, Mary Gellerstedt's administration gives bright
promise of continued wide-ranging progress in alumnae
affairs: in organization, in the recruiting of prospective
students, in social and educational activities, in fund
raising and alumnae publications. Planned for the coming

year is the publication of an Agnes Scott Alumnae
Directory, our first in almost thirty years.

We are sorry to lose Martha Whatley Yates, '45, as
editor of the Alumnae Quarterly. Her issues were lively
and informative, and she has set a high standard for her
successor. Martha Yates plans to return to business and
will continue her writing and counseling in the area of
women's affairs.

In addition to enjoying my association with alumnae
here on the campus and in the Decatur-Atlanta area, I
have enjoyed seeing alumnae friends on visits during the
past year to the following cities: New York, Philadelphia,
Tide Water Area (Virginia), Washington, Jacksonville,
and Winter Park, Florida. I am deeply grateful for the
warm hospitality and genuine interest in Agnes Scott
which I enjoyed on every occasion.

Agnes Scott alumnae continue to support us loyally and
generously in numerous ways. Almost 3000 alumnae
(about 32% ) contributed over $309,000 to the 1975-76
Agnes Scott fund, which totaled $1,331,967. This fine
support involved not only money but the time and energy
of hundreds of Class Chairmen and Agents for the Fund,
of Alumnae Admissions Representatives, and of active
members of local, regional, and national elements of the
Alumnae Association. It is most heartening indeed to have
such tangible evidence of support throughout the country
for our efforts here on the campus.

In addition to the gifts of her alumnae, Agnes Scott
again received the support of over a thousand other friends
individuals, corporations, foundations and their
gifts have literally made the difference between a sound
and balanced fiscal operation here and one which would
be otherwise decidedly in the red. The accompanying table
indicates the sources of these gifts and the uses to which
they were allocated in 1975-76. But tables do not convey
the depth of our gratitude for such inspiring support.
Space forbids the individual acknowledgement here of the
thousands of gifts to Agnes Scott during the year although
letters of appreciation have been sent from the college to
every donor. A number of gifts and grants are worthy of
special mention, however, and I am glad to acknowledge
them here. From three anonymous foundations we
received munificent grants of $300,000, $100,000, and
$25,000; the first two were for capital improvements, the
third for scholarships. From the Sarah Graham Kenan
Foundation we received an unrestricted gift of $163,500,
and from the Kate Higgs Vaughan Trust a partial payment
of $1 15,000. A very generous trustee made an
unrestricted gift of some $84,000, and a generous friend
contributed another unrestricted gift of more than $59,000.
From the David, Helen and Marian Woodward Fund and
from the Kresge Foundation we received gifts of $50,000
each. Our share this past year of the contributions made by
Georgia business firms to the Georgia Foundation for
Independent Colleges was almost $37,000. The Charles
Loridans Foundation added $25,000 to the Adeline
Arnold Loridans chair of French. In memory of the late
Dean Samuel Guerry Stukes we received $15,000 from
his wife, Frances Gilliland Stukes, '24, an annuity of
$10,000 and a gift of $5,000. Largest of the many
additional gifts received for scholarship purposes was that
of $160,000 from the Charles A. Dana Foundation for

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the ongoing Dana Scholars program. (Only $40,000 of
this amount was for 1975-76. The remainder was prepaid
to be used in the next three years.) No words can convey
our adequate thanks for these magnificent expressions of
faith in Agnes Scott and its future, and we are grateful
as well to the thousands of contributors of smaller amounts
to the College for the confidence in Agnes Scott which
their gifts likewise attest.

Because of such support and the efforts of those who
planned and administered our various development efforts,
Agnes Scott has again had a most successful fiscal year.
While operating "in the black" we were able to continue
our programs of improvement in academic areas, in our
library collections, in financial aid to students, and in
ongoing renovation of our buildings and grounds. We
were also able again to increase compensation for all of our
faculty and staff. Our special thanks go to Vice President
Paul McCain and his hard-working staff in the Offices of
Development and Public Relations. We are profoundly
grateful for our good fortune.

In the area of Business Affairs, the 1975-76 fiscal year
saw substantial progress in the continuing development
and improvement of our business, financial, and physical
plant programs and services. Among major developments
in the Business Affairs division should be cited the
far-reaching and thorough reorganization of the Physical
Plant Department under the leadership of our new
Director of Physical Plant, John J. Hug. who assumed his
duties last summer. Mr. Hug's vigorous and conscientious
leadership has resulted already in a substantial rise in the
level of plant services and a marked improvement in the
management and maintenance of Agnes Scott's plant
resources. Along with the general improvement in physical
plant maiiagement and maintenance has been the growing
competence of our professional staff personnel throughout
the area of Business Affairs and Plant. This growth is all
the more noteworthy inasmuch as it was achieved in the
face of a number of pressures upon us, including worn-out
bookkeeping machinery, which was replaced during the
year, and the growing proliferation of government
mandated programs and related reporting requirements.
Even for Agnes Scott, which receives very little federal
money, the attempt to deal with reports and studies
required by federal and other agencies is an increasing
financial and personnel burden. We are more than ever
grateful to the dedicated and hardworking members of
our business and plant staff for a year of notable
achievement in the face of frustrating pressures.

Several major plant improvements were made in
1975-76, as we continued to follow our long-range plan
for a general plant renovation. The exterior cleaning of
McCain Library, Presser Hall, and Buttrick Hall was
completed and silicone waterproofing was applied to the
buildings. Major roof repairs were accomplished on these
three buildings during the summer, following the
preparation of a comprehensive report on the condition of
all roofs on campus buildings. The completion of this
project will result in an outlay of more than $150,000.

For the third consecutive summer, work has been going
forward on the complete renovation and modernization of
McCain Library, and virtually the entire project is
expected to be finished by the opening of the 1976-77

Professor Miriam Drucker and senior Christa Cline embark
on independent study. Agnes Scott's favorable faculty-student
ratio provides individual attention for all.

academic session. Work has understandably been
hampered by the fact that it had to be limited to
vacation periods, chiefly the summer months. After the
air-conditioning of the building in the summer of 1974,
1975 saw the completion of exterior cleaning and
waterproofing, roof repair, and the installation of a new
stairway (required by fire regulations) from the ground
stacks to the topmost level. A new elevator shaft was also
constructed in order to accommodate a larger elevator
which now reaches to the top floor of the building. This
past summer has seen extensive alterations and
improvements to the interior of the building, including the
installation of new lighting, new furnishings, carpeting;
new facilities for multi-media materials, rare books,
Agnes Scott records; and additional display areas. Stack
capacity has also been considerably increased and should
take care of our growth in volumes for the next 10 to 15
years. The "new" McCain Library will be an even more
useful and attractive building and should serve more than
adequately for many more years as the academic heart of
the College. It is good to be able to report that all of this
renovation and expansion has been accomplished without
using any funds from the College's normal sources of
income but rather with gifts specifically designated for the
library renovation project. In addition to Messrs. R. J.
Henderson and J. J. Hug of our own staff we are greatly
indebted to the good taste and careful supervision of our
architect in this project, Mr. Henry Howard Smith, of
Atlanta.

Worthy of mention in this report on business area
improvements is the creation last summer of the
Department of Office Services, headed by Mrs. Emma
Zell, which now provides typing assistance and
reproduction facilities for the academic and administrative
departments of the College. The acquisition of a small
offset press in 1975 resulted in savings in reproduction and
other printing activities. In another area of our business
activities, it should be noted that the Bookstore for the
first time exceeded $100,000 in sales during the fiscal year.

In 1967 a long-range planning study of Agnes Scott was
completed by the firm of Clyde Robbins of Atlanta. In
April, 1976, the Executive Committee of the Board
recommended that a fresh planning study be undertaken
to assess changes and developments in the Agnes Scott
neighborhood since the completion of the Robbins study.

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After considering a number of planning firms, the
Executive Committee recommended that Arkhora
Associates of Atlanta be appointed to carry out this study.
The Arkhora planning team worked closely with Mr.
Henderson and me and with members of the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees during the
past spring and summer, and their completed report is due
in September, 1976. It will assess the impact upon Agnes
Scott's properties and prospects of the many changes which
have occurred throughout the entire Decatur area since
1967. Such changes include not only the normal
developments in a given neighborhood over a decade but
also the future effect of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit system now under construction, with a major
subway stop scheduled for early completion in Decatur,
only a few blocks from the campus. This new planning
study should supply us with invaluable source material
and recommendations as we plan Agnes Scott's campus
needs and growth patterns for the ne.xt ten years or more.

Our administrative intern this year. Miss Harriet
Higgins, a graduate of Wells College, was assigned to the
Office of Business Affairs. She quickly became a
participating member of the College community and was
a most cooperative and able assistant to Mr. Henderson
as she learned something of the complexities of academic
business management. Her chief project was the
preparation of a five-year Agnes Scott budget projection.

In closing this part of my report, which deals with
Agnes Scott's business affairs, I want to pay grateful
tribute to the conscientious and capable service rendered
by Mr. R. James Henderson, who has been Vice President
of Business Affairs since 1974 and who leaves us this fall
to become Business Manager of Duke University. The
improved appearance of the campus and buildings, and
many less visible improvements in our financial and
management operations, are largely the result of his
unceasing efforts during these past two and one-half years.
As an able and loyal administrator and as a person
he will be greatly missed. We wish him and his attractive
wife Betty much pleasure and satisfaction in their new life
at Duke.

As Mr. Henderson's successor, we welcome to Agnes
Scott this fall Mr. Doyle M. Dillard, who becomes Vice
President of Business Affairs. Mr. Dillard's appointment
is the culmination of a wide and thorough search, involving
more than 100 applicants. A native of Eastman, Georgia,
Mr. Dillard received the B.B.A. degree from Georgia State
University in 1957, and earned a Master's degree in
Education, majoring in College Business Management, at
the University of Kentucky in 1962. Earlier, from
1951-1954, he served in the U.S. Navy. Following
experience in business, he served as Assistant Controller
and Assistant Professor of Economics at West Georgia
College during 1962-63; and from 1963 until 1966 was
Business Manager at Mobile College, Alabama. From 1966
until 1971, he was on the staff of the Medical College of
Georgia at Augusta, serving first as Assistant Controller
and later as Budget Director. Since 1971 he has been Vice
Chancellor for Business Affairs at Western Carolina
University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. Mr. Dillard has
been active in professional and civic affairs and has served
on ten visiting committees of the Southern Association of

Colleges and Schools evaluating institutions for
accreditation or reaccreditation. Mr. Dillard's wife, the
former Shirley Ann Brown of Mobile, Alabama, is a
graduate of Auburn University and also holds a Master's
degree in chemistry from that institution. They have three
children: Diana 14, Matt 11, and Jeannie 9. We feel most
fortunate in securing the services of a man of Mr. Dillard's
strong personal qualities and wide experience in college
administration.

"A HEIGHTENED AWARENESS"
OF OUR LEGACY

In the opening section of this report, I raised by
implication at least two questions about current higher
education the one general, the other local and left
each of them largely unanswered. First, having referred
briefly to several of our historic purposes and goals for
education in America over the past two hundred years, I
refrained from any assessment of the overall effectiveness
of American higher education in fulfilling these purposes
and attaining these goals. Second, in asserting that Agnes
Scott has characteristically moved, in Thoreau's phrase, to
the beat of "a different drummer," I offered no analysis of
that different rhythm. In concluding this report, some
brief consideration of these questions here may serve to
put the events of the 1975-76 college year in a larger and
more general perspective and at the same time reaffirm
what I conceive to be the central elements of Agnes Scott's
particular mission in the total American educational effort.

Unending analyses and evaluations of our national
educational enterprise continue to appear, even, or
perhaps especially, in these times of relative
disenchantment with the influence of education in our
society and of general disagreement as to its proper ends.
Most of the current studies have been modest in their
claims for the effectiveness of American education in
fulfilling such historic purposes and functions as those
enumerated in the opening section of this report. A
comprehensive and influential recent study is that
sponsored in 1970 by the Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education and published in 1973.* As to how well the
purposes of higher education have been achieved, the
Carnegie Commission rated national results in academic
and technical training as good to excellent; training in the
arts, fair to good; personal development, often inadequate;
and general education for citizenship, pass to failing.
Many college teachers today would question, I believe, the
relatively high rating given to our national achievement in
academic training, if by that term the Commission meant
mastery of general knowledge and intellectual disciplines.
At the risk of immodesty, I would submit that Agnes
Scott's recent self-studies and observations indicate that
we can claim a "good to excellent" rating in each of these
areas. Certainly, the evidence I have noted among our
students and alumnae reinforces this conviction. But the
more important point is that we must continue not only
our self-studies and observations but also our planning for
the necessary changes and innovations which will insure

*The Purposes and Performances of Higher Education in the United
Slates: Approaching the Year 2000 (New York: McGraw Hill, 1973).

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similar positive "ratings" for Agnes Scott students of the
future.

As for Agnes Scott's moving to "a different drummer,"
I recalled Thoreau's familiar image chiefly to emphasize
my conviction that Agnes Scott's historic insistence on
adherence to its own stated purposes and principles,
sometimes against the current of strong and tempting
fashions in education, has been the essence of its stature
and character as an educational institution. Chief among
Agnes Scott's purposes and principles I would list the
following: a strong commitment to liberal arts education,
i.e. to the joys as well as the uses of learning; an abiding
faith in the humane values of our Judeo-Christian heritage;
maintenance of academic and personal standards of
excellence as exemplified in our Honor System; concern
for the individual's two-fold search for self-fulfillment and
service to others.

The fact that we seek as a community of learning to
hold up these commitments as our institutional purposes
and principles does not in itself make us unique. But I
submit that the extent to which we put these ideals into
practice in today's world is a measure of our difference.
The point is the extent and sincerity of our practice, not
merely of our profession, of these purposes and principles.
There are many educational institutions throughout our
society today which profess such principles and give
lip-service to such ideals. But, in varying degree, all of us
fall short in practice. Indeed, ours is everywhere an age of
actively unpractised idealism!

In her outsanding Founder's Day address delivered at
Agnes Scott this past year. President Pauline Tompkins of
Cedar Crest College, acknowledging the educational
pitfalls of our perilous times, asserted that the vital need
in every college is "a clear-cut and continually evolving
sense of mission." President Tompkins continued, "From
my limited knowledge of Agnes Scott I sense you have
one. Realization of this should be immensely significant
to each of you. ... It means, to begin with, that you have
a goodly heritage, a sound foundation to build on. . . . If
I could give each of you a birthday gift in celebration of
Founder's Day, it would be a heightened awareness of
your Agnes Scott legacy."

Recalling a similar sentiment expressed by Dean-
Emeritus James G. Leyburn, of Washington and Lee
University, in his memorable 1974 Founder's Day address
here. President Tompkins went on to discuss three aspects
of the Agnes Scott legacy as she conceived it: an
appreciation of the capacity of individuals for greatness,
preparation for significant living, and a recognition of the
holiness of life. "Surely," she concluded, "these are among
the most prized legacies of a liberal arts education."

In concluding this annual report, I want to emphasize
the third of President Tompkins' legacies for Agnes Scott:
the holiness or sanctity of life. Since its founding, Agnes
Scott has aspired to be "a Christian college." That
phrase, in my judgment, has been cheapened by those who
confidently claim such a distinction; and, as President
Tompkins pointed out, the ambiguousness of the phrase is
thereby "painfully evident in contemporary society." But
if the moral state of contemporary society shows us
anything today it is, in Miss Tompkins' phrase, "the

proven inadequacy of education which ignores the
relevance of values to learning, and equally ignores the
search for the sanctions which give values validity."

To combine the life of faith with the life of the mind, to
fuse the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of the life of
learning this is the goal wc seek. It does not need a
particular curriculum; it shuns indoctrination. Rather the
individual student sees it in the lives of those who teach
and otherwise participate in the college community, in the
way those lives are lived and in the values such living
reveals. It is the quality of this living, day by day and
through "the passing years," that makes our legacy indeed
a goodly heritage.

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GIFTS, GRANTS AND BEQUESTS
RECEIVED 1975-76

USES

Current Operations

Endowment

Plant (including library modernization)

Other restricted purposes

$ 301,252

195,608

783,419

51,688

TOTAL

$1,331,967

SOURCES

Alumnae

Trustees (not including $14,160 from

alumnae trustees)
Parents and Friends

$ 309,427

91,063

78,457

Foundations
Business and Industry

797,533
55,487

TOTAL

$1,331,967

PERSONNEL CHANGES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

Elected to Board for terms of four years effective
September, 1975:

Katherine A. Geffcken, '49

Donald R. Keough

Nancy Holland Sibley, '58

Samuel R. Spencer. Jr.

Thomas R. Williams
Elected to Board May, 1976, for a term of four years:

Jane King Allen, '59

Gwen M. Bale (Ph.D.), Visiting Assistant Professor of

Psychology
Ronald L. Byrnside (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Music

and Chairman of the Department
Emanuel Feldman (Ph.D.), Lecturer in Bible and Religion

(part-time, spring quarter)
Rebecca Fleischman (Ed.S.), Lecturer in Education

(part-time, winter quarter)

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SUMMARY OF CURRENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURES

INCOME

1975-76

1974-75

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL:

Student Tuition and Fees

$1,406,673

$1,287,153

Endowment Income

1,980,899

1,909,162

Gifts and Grants

301,252

276,745

Sponsored Programs

68,870

3,324

Other Sources

91,097

106,111

$3,848,791

$3,582,495

EXPENDITURES

ALTXILURY ENTERPRISES:

Student Fees
Other

TOTAL INCOME

$ 678,568 $ 635,898

343,468 345,744

$1,022,036 $ 981,642

$4,870,827 $4,564,137

1975-76

EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENSES
AND TRANSFERS

$ 29,135

1974-75

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL:

Instructional

$1,351,459

$1,241,264

Sponsored Programs

67,355

1,432

Library/Academic Services

209,584

184,889

Student Services/Institutional

Support

1,218,676

1,089,712

Operation/Maintenance of

Plant

443,513

455,695

Student Financial Aid

381,916

318,788

$3,672,503

$3,291,780

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES:

$1,006,199

$ 962,990

Transfer for Capital, Endowment

and Plant Purposes

162,990

292,806

TOTAL EXPENDED AND TRANSFERRED

$4,841,692

$4,547,576

16,561

PERSONNEL CHANGES (continued)

Lynn Ganim (M.A., Ph.D. Candidate), Lecturer in English

(part-time)
Catherine G. Lance (B.M., Masters Candijiate), Lecturer in

Music (part-time)
Aleida G. Martinez (M.A., Ph.D. Candidate), Lecturer in

Spanish (part-time)
Carol G. Miller (M.F.A.), Instructor in Art
Sharon V. Radford (M.A.. Ph.D. Candidate), Lecturer in

Biology (part-time, winter quarter)
Ann M. Salisbury (M.Ed.), Lecturer in Physical Education

(winter quarter)
Catherine S. Sims (Ph.D.), Visiting Progessor of History

(part-time, fall and spring quarters)
Janet Stewart (M.M.), Lecturer in Music (part-time)
George E. Taylor, Jr. (B.S., Ph.D. Candidate), Lecturer in

Biology (part-time, spring quarter)
Alan J. White (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of Chemistry

ADMINISTRATIVE AND STAFF APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE
DURING YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1. 1975:
Benedicte Boucher, Assistant in the Department of French
Jane 1. Cane (B.A.), Assistant to the Dean of Students
Kate B. Goodson, formerly Accountant and Assistant to the

Treasurer, appointed Supervisor of Accounting effective

July, 1975
John J. Hug (B.S.), Director of Physical Plant
Mary T. Kelly (B.A.), Assistant in the Department of

Biology (part-time)
Elizabeth M. Lackey (B.A.), Assistant to the Director of

Alumnae Affairs (part-time)
Allen Osborn (B.A.), Supervisor of Custodial Services
Mildred L. Petty (M.A., Ph.D. Candidate), Assistant Dean of

the Faculty (part-time)
Mildred Stibgen (A.A.), Assistant to the Dean of Students
Gail Weber (A.A.), College Hostess (part-time)
Martha W. Yates (B.A.), Editor of the Agnes Scott Alumnae

Quarterly and Assistant to the Director of Alumnae Affairs
Emma A. Zell, Secretary to the Faculty

PROMOTIONS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER, 1975:

Huguette D. Kaiser to Associate Professor of French

Kathryn A. Manuel to Associate Professor of Physical

Education
Patricia G. Pinka to Associate Professor of English
William H. Weber, III, to Associate Professor of Economics

APPOINTMENTS TO ENDOWED CHAIRS:

Jack T. Brooking to Annie Louise Harrison Waterman

Professor of Theatre and Chairman of the Department
Marion T. Clark to William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of

Chemistry
Nancy P. Groseclose to Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology

SABBATICAL LEAVES DURING 1975-76:

Gunther Bicknese, Professor of German and Chairman of the
Department (winter quarter)

Sandra T. Bowden, Associate Professor of Biology (full year)
Michael J. Brown. Professor of History and Chairman of the

Department of History and Political Science (fall quarter)
Paul L. Garber, Professor of Bible and Religion (spring

quarter)
Thomas W. Hogan, Associate Professor of Psychology

(full year)
Geraldine M. Meroney, Professor of History (winter and

spring quarters)
Richard D. Parry, Associate Professor of Philosophy and

Chairman of the Department (fall quarter)
Margaret W. Pepperdene, Professor of English and Chairman

of the Department (spring quarter)
John A. Timiblin, Jr., Professor of Sociology and

Anthropology (winter quarter)

RETIREMENTS EFFECTIVE JUNE, 1976:

Paul L. Garber, Professor of Bible and Religion

Chloe Steel, Adeline Arnold Loridans Professor of French

DEATHS:

J. J. Scott, May 6, 1976

Member of the Board of Trustees
S. G. Stukes, October 23, 1975

Dean of the Faculty, Registrar, Professor of Psychology,

Emeritus; Trustee, Emeritus

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Friends of the College

Mr. and Mrs. C. Oscar Lonp

Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Love C

Mr, and Mrs. Dale Luchsinger

Mrs. E. M. Malcolm

Miss Kathryn Manuel Q

Mr, and Mrs. Raymond J. Martin CC

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Maso

Mr. Ferrln Y. Mathews

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E, Maynard

Mr, Jaraes Ross McCain Q

Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. McCain

Ms. Joan 0. McCausland

Mr. J. A. McCurdy Q

Dr. and Mrs. Marlon W. McCurdy

Mr. Michael McDowell

Mrs. Virginia G, McGaha and Chris

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mcintosh C

Mr. Dean G. McKee

Miss Kate McKerale Q

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. McLauchlin

Mr. C. B. McLeod

Mr. and Mrs. Marion E. McLeod

The Charles McMillan family

Dr. W, E. McNalr C

Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. McPherson

Mr, and Mrs. R. R. Meador, Jr.

Men's Bible Class of the Decatur

Presbyterian Church C
Miss Flora Marie Meredith
Mr. J. A. Minter
Mr. C. B. Mitchell
Miss Elisabeth Mitchell
Mr, Robert L. Montgomery
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Montgomery
Dr, and Mrs. Harmon D. Moore
Mrs. Isabella M. Morris
Dr. Chester W. Morse Q
Mrs. A, L. Moses
Mr. Thomas G. Mundy, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Murphey, Jr.

(contimied)

Miss lone Murphy

Miss Lillian Newman

Mr. Henry E. Newton

Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Obert

Mrs. W. H. O'Kelley

Miss Katherine Omwake

Mr. and Mrs. William B, Owens

Parents Class of the Decatur

Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Faye P. Parks
Mr. J. G. Fatten
Mrs. Harry T. Paxton
Mrs. H. N. Payne
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Payne
Mr. Richard B. Penuel
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Pepe C
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin B. Perry. Jr.
Rev. J. Davison Philips
Ms. Janet S. Piatt
Mr. Harry F. Plemons
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace W. Plowden
Mrs. Margaret G. Posey
Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Posey
Mrs. Margaret McKay Powell
Mr. George Power
Mrs. Richard H. Pretz C
Mr. Milton P. Puterbaugh
Pythagoras Lodge No. 41, F. & A. M.
Dr. Julian K. Quattlebaum C
Miss Frances C. Query
Dr, and Mrs. Will lam F. Quillian, Jr
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Rabens
Dr. Joseph L. Rankin
Dr. Joseph C. Read
Mr. J. McDowell Richards
Mrs. Mildred Garber Robey
Col. Henry A. Robinson C
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Robinson
Mrs. Corinne Lee Royall
Mr. Joseph M. Rubens, Jr.

Mr. Hansford Sams, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack T. Sandow

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sargent

Mr. Joseph W. Satterthwalte CC

Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Schabel

Mr. C. Oscar Schmidt, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred H. Schrader

Mr. and Mrs. Burton A. Scott

Mr. B. M. Sharlan

Miss Eugenie Sheats

Mrs. F. B. Sheats

Mrs. Francois L. Sheats

Mr, John A. Sibley CC

Mr. and Mrs. Roff Sims C

Mr. and Mrs. Jaraes Skardon and girl

Mr. and Mrs. Edmond H, Smith

Mr. Glenn B. Smith

Rev. and Mrs. George Hoffman Smith

Mr. Hal L. Smith

Mrs. J. Holmes Smith

Rev. and Mrs. J. Murphy Smith

Mr. P. L. Bealy Smith

Mrs. Carolyn B. Snow C

Rev. John H. Soper

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Spencer, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Stamper

Miss Anne Stapleton

Miss Chloe Steel C

Mr. Augustus H. Sterne C

Mr. and Mrs. Les Stlyer

Dr. E. L. Stoffel

Mr. W. W. Stribling Q

Dr. C. W. Strickler, Jr.

Mrs. Frances W. Strother

Mr. I. J. Strumpf

Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Stukes

Mr. Joseph T, Stukes

Mrs. Lionel C. Stukes

Mrs. Taylor H. Stukes

Mr. Craig E. Sturkle C

Dr. P. N. Symbas

Mr. Jack M. Teed

Mr. and Mrs, Pierre Thomas

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Thompson

Mr. James H. Topple C

Mr. and Mrs. R, M. Travis

Mr. G. H. Traylor C

Mr, Harry C. Uhl

Mr, and Mrs. William Veale

Mrs. Lou H. Voorhees

Mr. Charles E. Wallace

Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Wallace, Jr.

Mr. Ronald Wallace

Mr. William C. Wardlaw Q
3 Dr. William C. Warren, Jr.

Dr. Tyre Watson

Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Welnburgh

Mr. Robert L. Wendling

Mrs. Isabel Orme Werleln C

Mr. and Mrs. Byron W. West

Mr. H. C. West C

Mr. G. L. Westcott

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Westmoreland

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A, White C
C Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Whitton

Mr. Ronald B. Wilde C

Mrs. Aretha W, Wilkes

Mr. Willis B. Wilkinson

Rev. and Mrs. Donald E. Williams

Rev. and Mrs. R. Murphy Williams

Mrs. Ruth D, Williams

Mr. John C. Wilson C

Mr. Bert F. Winston, Jr. CC

Women of the Church, Decatur
Presbyterian Church C

Mr, George W. Woodruff

Mr. and Mrs. Wendell F. Wren

Mrs. Joseph B. Wyatt

Mrs. Louis J. Yelanjtan

Miss Elizabeth Zenn C

Businesses and Foundations

Anonymous

Alcoa Foundation

American Can Company Foundation

American Red Cross

American Telephone and

Telegraph Company
The Atlanta Foundation
Atlanta Gas Light Company
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
Walter Ballard Optical Company
Lewis H. Beck Foundation
Chevron Oil Company
The Citizens and Southern Fund
Clifton Presbyterian Church
Walter Clifton Foundation, Inc.
The Coca-Cola Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Connecticut Mutual Life

Insurance Company
Container Corporation of

America Foundation
Bing Crosby Youth Loan Fund
Harry L. Dalton Foundation, Inc.
The Charles A. Dana Foundation, Inc.
Decatur Federal Savings and

Loan Association
Deerlng Milllken, Inc.
Florence C. and Harry L. English

Memorial Fund
Exxon USA Foundation
Firemen's Fund American Foundation
First and Merchants Corporation
Ford Motor Company Fund
General Electric Foundation
The Georgia Foundation for

Independent Colleges
Greater Charlotte Foundation, Inc.
Griffin Hardware Company
GTE Sylvanla Inc,

Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation
Harris Foundation
The Hartford Insurance Group

Foundation, Inc.
Hercules Inc.

Household Finance Corporation
Integon Life Insurance Corporation

International Business Machines Corp.

Jefferson-Pilot Corporation

Johnson and Higgins

The Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation, Inc.

The Kendall Company Foundation

The Kresge Foundation

Lanier Brothers Foundation

Charles Lorldans Foundation, Inc.

Harriet McDanlel Marshall Trust

The Merck Company Foundation

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith

Metropolitan Foundation of Atlanta

Mutual of New York

Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New Yor

The National Bank of Georgia

The 1P07 Foundation

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation

Pitney-Bowes

The Presser Foundation

Pullman Inc. Foundation

Reliance Group Inc.

R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.

The Rich Foundation, Inc.

Sun Oil Company of Pennsylvania

Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich

Memorial Foundation
Rohm and Haas Company
The Sears-Roebuck Foundation
The S & H Foundation, Inc.
John Sexton Company
Shell Companies Foundation, Inc.
Smithkline Corporation
Southern Bell Telephone and

Telegraph Company
The State Mutual Life Assurance Company
J, P, Stevens and Company, Inc,
Trust Company of Georgia Foundation
Union Oil Company of California Fdn.
United Technologies Corporation
United Virginia Bankshares
Gertrude and William C. Wardlaw Fund
Western Electric

Westinghouse Educational Foundation
West Point-Pepperell Foundation, Inc.
David, Helen and Marian Woodward Fund
Xerox Corporation
The Arthur Young Foundation

illlllli .

Penny Wistrand and Paul McCain total
contributions to The Agnes Scott Fund.

CC. Cokinnade Club, $S00or mort? Q. Quadrangle Quorum, $25U or more C, Century Club. $100 or more *. FunrH Aj^ent

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Barbani Knickerbocker, graduate of Mills College, is
welcomed by Dean of Students Martha Huntington and
Career Counselor lone Murphy.

Dean Divine now at Meramac, Mo..
Community College

Dean Stringer now at Emory University

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Administrative Intern Program

Opportunities Unlimited

Mary Margaret MacLauchlin is
Agnes Scott's third participant in the
Administrative Intern Program for
Women in Higher Education. Spon-
sored by the Carnegie Foundation with
15 women's colleges, the program is a
young endeavor, entering its third year
this fall.

Ann Roberts Divine "67 and Patricia
Stringer '68 were Agnes Scott's first
and second representatives in the plan.
Within a few months after completing
the internship each moved into a chal-
lenging college administrative post.
Both feel that their internships gave
them the on-the-job training that
clinched their coveted positions.

The participating colleges exchange
graduates. Each school hosts an ap-
prentice from a sister institution and
sends its own graduate to a new situa-
tion. This year while Barbara Knicker-
bocker from Mills College gains practi-
cal experience in the dean of students'
office at Agnes Scott College, Mary
Margaret MacLauchlin will serve at
Salem College, working with the direc-
tor of development in many areas in-
cluding college publications. She will
also assist the college's new president,
Dr. Merriman Cuninggim, who former-
ly headed the Danforth Foundation.
Her special project will be in the field
of career planning for Salem students,
helping them make their summers more
useful.

Funding for this administrative intern
program has been extended for the
1977-78 academic year, and Dean Julia
Gary, who supervises the selection of
our participant, urges all interested
Agnes Scott College graduates to con-
tact her immediately to get the appli-
cation process underway. Deadline for

submission of applications is December
I, 1976.

These alumnae are eligible to apply
for a Carnegie Foundation administra-
tive internship: recent graduates who
received their degrees at least three
years ago; graduates evidencing an in-
terest in administration in higher educa-
tion; graduates free to move to an
assigned host campus other than their
home institution.

The 10-month internship provides an
S8000 stipend and stresses training in
such areas as student services, academic

affairs, finance and business, and pub-
lic relations and development.

Colleges participating in the program
include Agnes Scott, Cedar Crest,
Chatham, Goucher, Hollins, Mary
Baldwin, Mills, Randolph-Macon Wo-
man's, Salem, Scripps, Skidmore, Sweet
Briar. Wells. Wheaton, and Wilson.

Candidates should fill out the form
below and mail before December 1 to
Dr. Julia Gary, Dean of the Faculty,
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
30030, or telephone 404-373-3571, ext.
280.

Name-

First

Maiden

Last

Class-

Address-

Last degree-
Institution

Present Occupation.

Please send an application form.

Please send more information about the program.

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Calendar

1976

October 10 Deadline for class news for winter November 16

Alumnae Quarterly

October 21 Atlanta Alumnae Club Meeting; November 20 -

Speaker: Mrs. Marvin B. Perry, Jr.

October 23 St. Louis Area Alumnae Meeting December 1 -

October 26 Bus Trip to Washington, Wilkes

October 27 Cobb County Alumnae Club Meeting December 2 -

October 28 Decatur Alumnae Club Meeting; January 10 -

Speaker: Dr. John Tumblin

November 1 Dalton Alumnae Club Meeting; January 12 -

Speaker: Dr. Michael Brown

November 4 New York Alumnae Club Meeting January 15 -

honoring Dr. Marvin B. Perry, Jr.

November 6 Toledo-Detroit Alumnae Club Lunch-
eon

- Young Atlanta Alumnae Club Meet-
ing; Speaker: Mary Louise Rheay
Delaware Valley Alumnae Club Meet-
ing; Speaker: Dr. Mary Boney Sheats
Deadline for returning applications for
Administrative Intern Program
Decatur Alumnae Club Meeting
Deadline for entering Art Majors'
Exhibition of Works
Young Atlanta Alumnae Club Meet-
ing

Deadline for entry forms and fees for
Golden Needle Award Festival

Alumnae Tour
To Hawaii

ALOHA KAKOU!

Save eight days in early June to travel
with the Alumnae Association to Hawaii
in time for Kamehameha Day. Dr.
Kwai Sing Chang, Professor of Bible
and Religion, has helped plan the
itinerary and will give two lectures in
May on the history, customs, and re-
ligions of Hawaii.
A hui hou kakou.

Back to College
Family Vacation

The Alumnae Association announces
Agnes Scott's first Alumnae College, a
campus seminar on "The Family" June
23-26, 1977.

Tuition, room, and board for each
person will be $75.00. Families will
live in an air-conditioned dorm, eat in
the College dining hall, have access to
the library and other College facilities.

Registration will begin at suppertime
Thursday, June 23. Later that evening
the keynote speaker will officially open
the seminar by addressing the group in
Gaines Chapel. There will be classes
with lectures on Friday and Saturday
mornings; graduate students will assist
in conducting workshops both after-
noons.

Children will be supervised in campus
recreation. For trips to Six Flags and
Stone Mountain there will be an addi-
tional charge.

Families can study and play together
in a college setting. And for this alum-
nae event we have planned the perfect
ending: a Sunday morning worship
service in Gaines Chapel followed by
Sunday dinner together in the College
dining hall.

Those who wish to commute from
nearby cities may enroll for a $30.00
fee. This amount will cover for one
person the cost of lectures, workshops,
and the midday meals Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday.

Agnes Scott Chairs
Now Available

BOSTON ROCKER $60.00

CAPTAIN'S CHAIR $70.00

(plus 4% Georgia Sales Tax)

This price is for the chair only. The cus-
tomer will also assume shipping charges.

Send your check payable to:

Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Agnes Scott College

Decatur, Georgia 30030

Your chair will be shipped freight collect
from Boone, N. C.

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DEATHS

Institute

Laura Caldwell Edmonds,

June 18, 1976.

Academy

Elizabeth Wallis Shippen
McWhorter, October 10, 1976.
ElUe Mae Archibald, 1973.

1909

Margaret McCallie, May 24,

1976.

1910

Lucy Marian Reagan Redwine,

May 12, 1976.

1911

Katherine Brown

Rhetta Evers Fund Stelling,

March 15, 1976.

1939

Lucy Marian Reagan Redwine,
mother of Jeanne Redwine
Davis.

1940

Mrs. Morton Hutchens, mother
of Eleanor Hutchens.

1943

Jane Coffer Buckley, November

11, 1975.

1944

Dr. Lewis Townsend, husband
of Mary Carr Townsend, 1976.

1947

Valeria Virginia Brown Lee,

May 7, 1976.

Mrs. Morton Hutchens, mother

of Sue Hutchens Henson.

1921

Judge Early Stark, husband of
Mary Hood Stark, June 20,
1976.

1926

Frances Marbut, June 26, 1976.

1930

Elizabeth Dawson Scofield,

June 20, 1976

1935

Lucy Marian Reagan Redwine,
mother of Martha Henrietta
Redwine Roundtree.

1936

Mrs. Irving S. Bull, mother of

Merield Bull Mitchel, January,

1976.

Gertrude Lozier (Mrs. I. N.,

Sr.), mother of Gertrude Lozier

Hutchinson, January 13, 1976.

1948

Mrs. J. A. Little, mother of
Mary Beth Little Weston.

1950

Mrs. J. A. Little, mother of
Norah Anne Little Green.

1953

Harriette MitcheU Walker, May

19, 1976.

1957

JuUa Curry, May 10, 1976.

1960

George Archer, father of Nell
Archer Conglon, 1974.
Elizabeth Dawson Scofield,
mother of Evelyn Scofield
Rowland, June 20, 1976.

1975

Margaret Hodge, sister of
Glenn Hodge, June, 1976.

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Nominate Alumnae Association Officers Now

AGNES

scon

: OLLECr ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION /

October, 1976

Dear Alumnae :

The Nominating Committee of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion would welcome any suggestions you might have as to possible
nominees for the offices listed below. Please indicate for each
nominee the qualifications and any biographical information which
would be helpful to the Committee.

These offices carry two-year terms beginning July 1, 1977.
Elections will be held at the Annual Meeting April 30, 1977.

Please return your signed nomination sheet by the deadline
dated December 1, 1976, to:

Mrs. Joseph W. Satterwaite, Nominations Chairman,
c/o Alumnae Office, Agnes Scott College,
Decatur, Georgia 30030

Sincerely,

tdtvJ J'TtuJcA. sJalCAzA.u>ou^ ^6

chairman. Nominations Committee

The Vice President serves as leader and re-
source person for clubs, projects, and other
activities of her region. (Nominee for Region
I must be from Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Wisconsin.
Nominee for Region II must be from Indiana,
Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., or West
Virginia.)

The Treasurer is responsible for handling and
collecting funds not otherwise provided for by
the College or the Alumnae Office. She is re-
sponsible for receiving and disbursing project
funds which come to the Alumnae Association.
She is responsible for collecting money for the
luncheon on Alumnae Weekend, appointing
such helpers as she deems necessary to do the
job.

The Career Advisory Chairman assists the Col-
lege Career Planning Office in setting up a
helpful program in career guidance using as
resource persons the large group of qualified
alumnae in various fields of interest.

The Education Chairman works with the Di-
rector of Alumnae Affairs on programs of
interest for continuing education.

The House Chairman serves as resource person
in decoration and management for the Alum-
nae Guest House. Her advice and assistance in
keeping the property adequately maintained
and attractive is desirable.

The Nominations Chairman appoints a com-
mittee to present a slate of officers for ap-
proval of the Executive Board and election at
the Annual Meeting.

For Alumnae Association Officers, I nominate the following:

Vice President, Region I

Vice President, Region II

Treasurer

Career Advisory Chairman

Education Chairman

House Chairman

Nominations Chairman

Letters

The Golden Needle Festival
More Discussion

When I read Frances Wilson Hurst's
remarks about the Golden Needle
Festival. I thought "Amen." For I'd
had the same negative reaction when it
was first publicized. I cringed at the
crinoline associations of the words, was
embarrassed to see the name of Agnes
Scott linked with a pastime perhaps
popular in her Institute days but hardly
today. The "golden" age when women
had little else but needlework to do in
their leisure time had lost its luster
for today's women caught up in the
e.xcitement of the myriad vocations
and avocations opening up for them. A
good public image of the alumnae of
a woman's college an image already
distorted by sexist notions the needle-
work contest was not.

Then I bethought mc of a brief time
in my life when crocheting during a
period of convalescence proved to be
an unsuspected source of quiet pleasure;
of my surprise in learning in the mu-
seums of Europe that stitchcry is a
legitimate art form; of my appreciation
of the Bayeux tapestry which, though
centered in the story it unfolds, was
dependent on needlework to tell that
story.

Also, the festival did raise money for
the College, and through the efforts of
a sizeable number who do enjoy plying
the needle.

We can think on these things, those
of us whose tastes run to more vigorous
physical or mental activities.

Helen Ridley Hartley '29
Boca Raton, Florida

... I WAS IMPRESSED by the emphasis
on creativity, believing the festival
would be a show of original needle-
work pieces created by thinking in-
dividuals. My disappointment came,
however, when I read the categories for
judging. Awards were to be given for
needlework done from kits and com-

mercial designs. Where is the thought.
the creativity, in following instructions
of another person? What professor at
Agnes Scott would give a passing grade
for copying someone else's work?

... I had great enthusiasm for a
progressive show that would allow
others to see that Agnes Scott is also
progressive. I had hoped that the
G.N.A.F. would give a view of the
creative original needlework done to-
day surface stitchcry, applique, can-
vas work. etc.

. . . There is no reason why needle-
work should not be included in more
American college art department cur-
riculums as a creative art. I would
have enjoyed a class in creative needle-
work at Agnes Scott, for I am sorry
I only discovered creative needlework
three years ago. Interest from the art
department in needlework and the
G.N.A.F. could be sparked by having
our art professors comment on this
festival of fine arts and by having one
of them serve as a judge for the next
festival. Why shouldn't we continue to
grow with the help of their expertise?

. . . Mv hope for future festivals is
that the\' continue to make money, in-
volve people, but also project the image
of Agnes Scott as nurturer of "MORE
creative thinkers."

Frances Folk Zygmont '71
Bethesda, Maryland

Since my friend, Julia Weathers
Wynne '49 knew of my interest in the
Golden Needle Award Festival, she
showed me the letters in her Alumnae
Quarterly. As I read, two questions
came to mind. First, how many en-
trants were Agnes Scott alumnae? This
was open to the public, and I suspect
that only a small percentage was done
by Agnes Scott women. This is good
in that the name and purpose of the
school was heard by people who might
not otherwise be aware of the ex-
cellent educational facility that it is.
Second, why didn't my own alumnae

club come up with the idea first? My
Alma Mater could use the money and
publicity you received from this project.
I enjoyed seeing how creatively men,
women and children from all walks of
life have used their leisure time. How-
ever, the thing I like best about it is
the golden needle I won for my rug
in the commercial design category. I
love it. Thanks!

Margaret Duckworth Sewell
(Mrs. Roy B., Jr.)
Bremen. Georgia

Though more letters about the
Golden Needle Award Festival, pro and
con. shower the Alumnae Office, the
Quarterly cannot devote more space to
the topic. The editors emphasize that
the Festival is not part of the academic
area of the College; rather, it is a fund-
raising project sponsored in good taste
by loyal and talented alumnae of the
Atlanta Club with the assistance of all
the other local clubs. And we urge
alumnae everywhere to seek entrants
for the Festival as well as to support
all other fund-raising efforts for Agnes
Scott College. To learn of other alum-
nae projects see pages 37 and 38. V.B.M.

Would Like to Come Back

The Quarterly came yesterday and
. . . the best thing in it for me was the
photograph of Miss Margaret Phythian.
I loved her the best of all the teachers
I had. . . . The older I get the greater
becomes my appreciation for Agnes
Scott.

... I particularly enjoyed the article
"Bible and Religion." ... I wish I were
closer and could enroll in some courses.

Clara Morrison Backer '35
El Paso, Texas

40

From the Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie 47

New Staff Appointments

With the approval of the President
of the College and the Executive Board
of the Alumnae Association, I am
happy to annovmce some new appoint-
ments in the Alumnae Office.

Betty Medlock Lackey '42. who has
been Coordinator for Services to Clubs,
is now Associate Director and will be
a full-time member of our staff. She
will assist in all areas of alumnae work
but will continue her prime concern
toward alumnae clubs and regional
organization.

Before she began working part-time
in the Alumnae Office nineteen months
ago. Betty had been involved con-
tinuously since graduation in some kind
of volunteer work for the Alumnae
Association. She has been an active
member of the Decatur Club, having
served as its president and on various
committees through the years. For ten
years she was treasurer of our national
Alumnae Association. Those were the

days before we received a budget from
the College, and it was during her term
of service that the annual giving pro-
gram was initiated.

In addition to her volunteer work for
Agnes Scott College Betty has logged
hours of service as a board member of
the national Multiple Sclerosis Society
and other civic associations.

Professionally she was employed for
ten years as executive assistant to a
utility company chief.

I first learned of her talents when
she was a college student leader. Having
won an academic scholarship to Agnes
Scott from her high school. Betty con-
tinued to be an achiever majoring in
Latin and French. She was named to
Eta Sigma Phi, honorary classics so-
ciety, served as an officer in Christian
Association, was day student repre-
sentative on Student Council, and was
elected secretary of Mortar Board.

Need I say more? Betty is as artistic

and gracious as she is intelligent and
industrious, and it is with justifiable
pride that I announce her promotion.

Another alumna, a very new one,
who has just joined our department is
Assistant to the Director Peggie Miller
Chamblee "76, who was president of
the senior class last year. Phi Beta
Kappa, and Dana Scholar among other
honors.

We observed Peggie's organizing and
leadership talents at our meetings with
her last year and are pleased that we
have lured her to our office. She will
focus attention on alumnae-student re-
lations, young alumnae activities, and
our over-all organization by classes.

With these competent additions to
our staff we plan to engage Agnes Scott
alumnae everywhere in a meaningful,
rewarding relationship with the College.
We have exciting plans for tours, con-
tinuing education, club programs, and
reunions!

Betty Medlock Lackey '42

Peggie Miller Chamblee '76

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY/ W/NTER 1977

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY STAFF:
Editor / Virginia Brown McKenzie "47
Managing Editor/Jan Brisendine Funsten '76
Class News Editor /Jennifer Driscoll '78
Design Consultant / John Stuart McKenzie

ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF:

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

Associate Director

Betty Medlock Lackey '42

Assistant to the Director

Jan Brisendine Funsten '76

Secretary

Frances Strother

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:
President / Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt '46
Vice Presidents

Region I / Cissie Spiro Aidinoff '51

Region II / Margaret Ward Abernethy Martin '59

Region III / Lou Pate Jones '39
Secretary / Mary Jervis Hayes '67
Treasurer / Lamar Lowe Connell '27

Member / Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.

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

Seeing Things As They Are

Junior Year Abroad

2 They Shake Our Air

Sculptured Devices on Campus Buildings

6 Departmental Update

Department of Biology

9 Estate and Gift Tax Reform

10 Club News

Decatur . . . Young Atlanta . . . Augusta . . .
Atlanta . . . Barrow/Gwinnett/Newton . . .
Cobb County . . . Columbia . . . Dalton . . .
Delaware Valley . . . New York . . . Roanoke
St. Louis. . .Shreveport. .. Toledo/Detroit

14 Alumnae Council Report

1 5 Washington/Wilkes Tour

16 Alumnae Trip to Hawaii

17 Class News

1 8 Book Reviews

20 Alumnae Calendar

22 Report on Career Week

23 Alumna Profile

Betty Ann Gatewood Wylie '63

PHOTO CREDITS

Pages 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Bill Brimes: Pages 4,5

Marty Lovvorn; Page 2 Bill Holt: Page 11

Urry Marchant; Page 12 - RICHLAND NORTHEAST:

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Junior Year Abroad

Seeing Things as They Are

By ELLEN FORT 77

One of the challenges of life at
Agnes Scott may, paradoxically, involve
a period of life away from Agnes Scott.
For those of us who choose to partici-
pate in Agnes Scott's Junior Year
Abroad program, the challenge does
not end with the nine months we spend
in a foreign country, but extends into
the next year as we find ourselves back
in an environment that is at once fa-
miliar and very unfamiliar. With so
many new faces and names to learn, so
many old friends to become comforta-
ble with again, so many memories of
"life abroad" to shelter and to share,
it is yet another opportunity for learn-
ing that Agnes Scott offers.

I had the good fortune to spend my
junior year at the University of Exeter
in Exeter, England, and to study Eng-
lish literature under the professors there.
The chain of events leading up to my
arrival in Exeter was not uncomplicated.
Unlike some colleges, Agnes Scott has
no exchange program with foreign uni-
versities, nor does an Agnes Scott pro-
fessor accompany his students as is
sometimes the case with other setups.
Instead, the student who expresses in-
terest in the idea of study abroad, and
whose academic record is approved
by the Committee on Academic Affairs,
has the freedom to apply where she
will. This involves some research, a
great deal of letter-writing, and a bit of
good luck, but the result is a very per-
sonalized and satisfying program.

I chose the University of Exeter both
on the reputation of its English courses
and because its location in the south-
west of England seemed to offer what
I considered an ideal climate (i.e.,
warm). Nothing, however, had pre-
pared me for the perennially-green
beauty of the Devon hills or the ever-
changing pageantry of the Devon skies.
The University, perched as it was on
one of the highest hills, had breath-
taking views no matter what the weather.
I soon decided that the combination of a
Dickens course, taught in a beautifully-
modulated British voice, with the view
out the classroom window had to be
one of life's ideal situations.

My own day-to-day living situation
was interesting rather than ideal. Be-

cause of a lack of space in the Uni-
versity's residence halls, I was placed
with a young family in the city. Here I
had a tiny unheated room on the
second-floor landing, where I learned
to study in bed, fully-dressed, for
warmth. I took my meals with my fam-
ily, played with the baby, and walked
the mile or so to class each day. After
Christmas break I moved into one of
the residence halls nearer the Univer-
sity, where I stayed a good deal warmer
("warm" in England still not being
quite the same as "warm" in Georgia)
and could mix more easily with the
other students. Most of these, of course,
were English, but there was quite a
sizeable population of international stu-
dents Germans, Orientals, Norwe-
gians and Americans.

The year like all years, whether
spent in England or at Agnes Scott
was not completely happy or easy. There
were times of homesickness, times of
frustration when we boarded the wrong
train to London or missed the last bus
after a party or had a week without
a single letter from "over there." Still,
the opportunities for positive expe-
riences were great. Among other things,
I learned English folk dance in Wells,
sat on top of Cheddar Gorge, saw
King Arthur's grave at Glastonbury,
and walked along the streets of London.
There was the six weeks' tour of
Europe that I took at Christmas,
backpacking with friends through Hol-
land. Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
and Greece, and the quiet strolls I took
through the ancient cathedral at Exeter.
I spent the sprina term in my own flat
(SI 0.00 a week for three rooms, elec-
tricity, and telephone) and learned to
cook, buy groceries in the market, and
tangle with household disasters; I was
"adopted" by the family next door and
found that cultural barriers disappeared
quickly over a cup of tea. I studied
Dickens. Austen, D. H. Lawrence, and
Hardy, wrote my best poems, learned
to think more creatively. I soon agreed
with Samuel Johnson that "the use of
travelling is to regulate imagination by
reality, and instead of thinking how
things may be, to see them as they are."

I have found recently that my travel-

t,iien consults Dr. Pepperdene.

ling did not end when I arrived back in
America. Here at Agnes Scott, I am still
travelling, both physically and emotion-
ally. I have found the close relationship
between Scott's professors and students
to be comforting and enjoyable, unlike
the more formal English attitudes. I am
glad to be back with people who under-
stand my colloquialisms, my back-
ground, my jokes and stories; I am
happy to be eating American food
again, which I find institutionalized
or not to be infinitely better than
most English food. The magnolias on
the Agnes Scott campus have never
been more beautiful, nor the lights of
Atlanta more exciting.

Still, there are times when I dream
I am back in Exeter. I long to hear a
British accent, drink some "real" tea,
sit in the Long Lounge at the University
and read week-old American papers. I
miss the trains, which made travel so
easy, and the pleasures of my daily
walks to town; I sometimes miss the
easy comaraderie of a large coed uni-
versity and wish that I had more of the
English unscheduled, self-disciplined
academic life. I am a bit more solitary
that I used to be, fidget at rules and
regulations a bit more than before. Still,
while it was good to have the oppor-
tunity to study abroad, it is also good to
be back where it all began. The true
merit of my experiences will be proved
bv the way in which I allow England
to enhance Agnes Scott, and by the
manner in which I continue to travel
physically, emotionally, and intellectu-
ally through all situations I find my-
self in. To me, there can be no higher
praise of the many learning opportuni-
ties that Agnes Scott offers than to say
that I am learning to travel, and travel
well, because of them.

Doves ensconced in crown molding of Bullrick lobby promise green new world.

Sfjdke Our Air

By JEANNE OSBORNE GIBBS '42

Pelican nestled between Buttrick doors
symbolizes religious charity.

Lightly, lightly hangs over our
heads! Eagles, doves, and owls soar
tnotionlessly over Agnes Scott College,
whether we, alumnae, students, and vis-
itors, are conscious of them or not.
Insignia, coats of arms, and devices en-
rich entrances, oriels, and walls of
many buildings on campus.

Like the birds on the beams in
Buttrick lobby, these visions and poetry
in stone, wood, and metal wait petrified
in time until their full symbolic rich-
ness fills our lives. Appropriately to
their aura of mystery, local birdwatch-
ers seem not to know quite how to
identify those Buttrick flocks. Each bird
carries a twig in its beak, as if return-
ing to the Ark with the promise of a
greening new world after the Flood.
Dove, quail, pigeon, or whatever, the
birds seem to hover until the proper
moment to come down and enlighten,
warm, and lift our spirits to soar with
them to probe the unknown, shake the
known, and set them both right. Like
thoughts eluding words but leading
tantalizingly onward, they resemble the
birds in these verses;

They perch along the blade of the

church's roof;
Only breezes give their rockers

muscle
Always waiting, silent and aloof.
Except for forays to the city's

bustle.

They languished in Capernaum's

marketplace
And sold two for a farthing.

Struggling higher.
Their wings were carved into the

stony face
Of great cathedrals for men to

admire.

Freed once more, they space

themselves together.
Through no intent to keep the

church top pearled.
But hovering to scout for proper

weather
To shake the air above a creeping

world. (J.O.G.)

Yet, like most winged creatures, they
must sometimes forage on the ground.
Buttrick's birds have had their share of

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earthy jokes made about them. Accord-
ing to Dr. W. Edward McNair, Associ-
ate Professor of English and Director
of Public Relations, the birds were
labelled as pigeons in the fifties and
sixties. This was because more corpo-
real pigeons nested over the doors of
Buttrick, and people hardly dared
to step outside. Long since routed, "the
pigeons" have relapsed into their orig-
inal esoteric state, where they exude
only mystery.

Many devices other than birds hang
suspended over us by wires of light.
Dominating all is the Agnes Scott seal,
a theme recurring in varied forms.
Used in 1893. and changed slightly
over the years, it appears on the
facade of Buttrick on a shield as an
open book, surmounted by a torch and
stretched between keys, with A. S.
worked into the top. Also between the
arches of the doors, the book and star
are mounted on a mandorla over a
pelican. The open book is the focal
point of the glass windows over Mur-
phey Candler entrance and above the
central doors to Gaines Chapel. The
seal flanks the masonry entrance to the

Jeanne Osborne Gibbs '42 has written
some 200 published poems, featured in
state, national, and international publi-
cations. Awards for her work include
the Eunice Thomson Memorial Prize
of the Poetry Society of Georgia.

college grounds on East College Ave-
nue, symbolically lit by torches on the
four columns. It is depicted on a bas-
relief pedestal in the foyer of Evans
Dining Hall. The book and A. S. ap-
pears on each side of the McCain
Library entrance. Also in the recessed
pediment over the doors the horn of a
unicorn holds the seal on either side
with the added thought, "Nutrimentum
Spiritus" nourishment of the spirit.

The version of the seal which has
most captured the attention of President
Marvin B. Perry, Jr., stands above the
fireplace in the library, not encircled
bv a shield and with the college motto
below it: "In fide vcstra virtutem; in
virtute autem scientiam." This is II
Peter 1:5: "...add to your faith vir-
tue; and to virtue knowledge."

Just as the seal embodies elements of
the Agnes Scott ideal, so lion, amoeba,
winged shoe, and lyre are representative
of other emblems, which may be
roughly classified according to the four
parts of the Agnes Scott ideal: religious
faith, intellectual attainment, physical
fitness, and personality development.
This ideal was formulated by the
founders in the early days of the Insti-
tute and revised in 1925, according to
Dr. James Ross McCain, second presi-
dent, in his college history. And indeed
these aims can motivate all the reaches
of human life and growth.

The ideal of religious faith, stressing
the childlike and not the childish, is
clearly symbolized in the Christian star
and the six-pointed Star of David above
the Gaines Chapel doors. What better
symbol of the Christian faith could
there be than the star? It shines through
the creation in the book of Job. stands
over the manger at the birth of Christ,
and jewels the book of Revelation.

The Star of David, also called the
Star of Creation, though not used as a
Jewish emblem prior to the third cen-
tury A. D., was a compound Trinitarian
svmbol. According to tradition, David's
shield was of this shape, and Solomon
was said to have worked miracles with
a hexagon. The eight-pointed mosaic
star within an eight-pointed star in the
ceiling of Presser lobby is called a Star
of Baptism or Star of Regeneration,
because the number eight is symbolic of
rebirth. According to Bishop Durandus
of the thirteenth century, as seven days

were used by God in creation, the
eighth day was significant of "the' new
creation," or regeneration.

A detailed Christian device appears
on the pediment over doors in the foyer
of Evans Dining Hall. A shield, flanked
by a kneeling man and woman, is
decorated with a sword in the shape of
a cross and drops of blood, representing
the passion of Christ. According to
Z. A. Snipes, a young architect with
the firm Logan and Williams, at the
time Evans was built, the cross was
here used as a weapon to conquer the
non-Christian world. Perhaps this was
a medieval attitude stemming from the
era of the Crusades. A poignant mod-
ern counterpart is seen in the life of
Fritz P. Zimmer, a sculptor who made
clay models for the emblems in Evans
and in many of the other buildings on
campus. Having come to the United
States from Germany in 1928, at the
time of World War II, he was viewed
with suspicion and somewhat ostracized
by the communty. He was befriended
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Dramatic variation of the traditional
College seal stands above Library fire-
place.

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by the late Robert B. Logan, the archi-
tect who designed many insignia. Mor-
ris A. Hall, also with the firm, drew
working drawings from which Mr.
Zimmer made his models. These were
in turn sent to craftsmen in Indiana,
who carved them into the limestone
that we know. These anonymous work-
men are reminiscent of those who built
the Parthenon and the great cathedrals
of Europe, described in Anderson M.
Scruggs' poem, "Glory to Them:"

Glory to them, the toilers of the
earth.

Who wrought with knotted hands,
in wood and stone.

Dreams their unlettered minds
could not give birth

And symmetries their souls had
never known.
Another distinctly Christian concept
takes shape in the pelican between the
entrance doors of Buttrick. According
to the Bestiary, a natural history book
popular in the Middle Ages, the Pelican
in her Piety slew her importunate
young and then restored them to life
with blood from her own wounded
breast. This represented man's redemp-
tion from the Fall through the blood of
the Redeemer.

Confronted eagles over the entrance
arch of Buttrick, on the East side of
Campbell, and on the front of Evans are
suggestive not only of the zoological
creation but of the Gospel according to

Confronted eagles guarding Buttrick,
Campbell, and Evans denote keenness
of vision, grace, strength, and power.

St. John, the writer of which was the
messenger of the soaring Word of God.
The eagles on Campbell grasp a writh-
ing snake in their talons, perhaps
thereby symbolizing the crushing of
evil and temptation. The Gospel ac-
cording to St. Mark begins with the
voice of the lion roaring in the desert,
"Prepare ye the way of the Lord." So
Mark's symbol is the lion, portrayed to
the left of the intricate coat of arms on
the facade of Evans and in vigorous
grace on either side of the west end of
Presser.

Two doves alight on opposing turrets
on the west side of Presser and on the
sword and shield in the foyer of Evans,
represent the Holy Spirit, source of wis-
dom, truth, and comfort. Also, as
images of innocence and constancy,
thev picture Christian souls.

The Library interior above the desk
and catalogue section abounds in object
portrayals among such trenchant say-
ings as, "The fear of the Lord; that is
wisdom," and "The truth shall make
you free." Among printers' marks are
an anchor and cross combination and
two fish and an anchor. Found in the
Catacombs, the anchor was used by the
early Christians as an allegorical form
of the cross, meaning hope and safety.
The Greek word for fish, ichthus. can be
made into an acrostic meaning Jesus
Christ, God's Son, Savior. One of the
fish twined about the anchor resembles
a dolphin, which often represented the
great fish in the story of Jonah and so
was a symbol of resurrection and sal-
vation.

Tudor roses and fleur-de-lis are
frozen in delicate curves in and on
m-inv bui'dings on campus, notably
above recessed windows on the north
side of Buttrick. The devotion of the
Middle Ages to the Virgin Mary linked
her name with the rose, the five petals
of which were seen as the five joys of
Mary. The rose also symbolized the
wounds of Christ and, as the Christian
rose the nativity. It was an emblem
of the Tudor sovereigns of England,
who reigned from 1485-1603. The
fleur-de-lis, a heraldic device of the
Middle Ages, was associated with the
royal house of France from the twelfth

century until the Revolution of 1830. It
symbolized also the purity of the
Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity.

Added to the symbols of religious
faith are representations of intellectual
attainment. The artists and architects
did not neglect to put this goal in
visible form on the college buildings,
which contain as many worlds as there
are pairs of eyes.

The owl is found in several places
on campus, fittingly because it sym-
bolizes wisdom and solitude, without
which one cannot get wisdom. It
perches in big-eyed solemnity above the
windows at the front entrance of
Buttrick and doubled, above the in-
tricate coat of arms at the front of
Evans. Associated with Athene, the
goddess who personified wisdom in
ancient Greece, it is found on the re-
verse of coins bearing her image.

The John Bulow Campbell Science
Hall displays that gorgeous irregularity
that rescues art from placidity. The
eight round panels dramatizing mitosis,
or cell division, contain a minor error
in numbers two and three. It came
about in a world where scientific
progress is so rapid that today's doubt
is tomorrow's fact. Dr. Josephine Bridg-
man. Professor of Biology Emeritus,
suggested mitosis as a fitting decoration
for the entrance of the new science
building of 1951. Mr. Logan, the archi-
tect, looked up the illustrations in a
biology book since updated. Later, ac-
cording to Nancy Groseclose. Dana
Professor of Biology, a visiting biologist
observed that in the cell division shown,
the chromatin should not be in one
continuous coil, because the chromo-
somes never lose their identity.

Buttrick, with its classrooms and

The owl is found in several places on
campus, fittingly because it is identi-
fied with wisdom.

Panels over Ctmtphell entrance dra-
malicully depict mitosis.

Gymna.siiim hears image of Hermes
and winged shoe.

offices, flies appropriate emblems on
both sides. Above the arch of the west
side is a tri-panel depiction of a lyre,
a book and crossed quills, and a palette
and brushes representing the liberal
arts of music, literature, and art. On
the east oriel is a contour with scales,
retort, test tubes, and beaker, illumi-
nated by stone torches, the symbols of
knowledge. Below a window is a meta-
phor from Plato's Republic. According
to Elizabeth Gould Zenn, Professor of
Classical Languages and Literatures, a
runner in a relay race in ancient Greece
carried a torch, passing it at the end
of his course to the next runner. In
this context, the quotation reads,
"Having torches, they pass them to one
another."

The library is a storehouse as full of
learning as the acorns stored up by
squirrels depicted over the fireplace.
"Read not the times; read the eterni-
ties." "Read, mark, learn, and inwardly
digest." "Beholding the bright counte-
nance of truth in the quiet and still air
of delightful studies." Epigrams such as
these are blueprints of such concrete
objects here as grapes, the cycle of
human life: the tree of life, widespread

throughout the East before the time of
Christ; and frogs, the things of the
world.

The world and the physical body
were not forgotten in the Agnes Scott
ideal. Above the door to the Bucher
Scott Gymnasium is a helmetcd head
with a winged shoe on a shield below it.
Hermes, a deity in Greek mythology,
was credited with the invention of gym-
nastics as well as music, mathematics,
and astronomy. As the Roman god,
Mercury, he was the deity of merchants
and commerce and travelled with a hat,
or petasos, a staff, or caduceus, and
winged sandals. He supposedly presided
over gymnastic games.

Physical fitness is also called to mind
by Latin words on an Evans interior
coat of arms: "Retine et abstine" ^
retain and abstain. Also in the dining
hall are the words from Shakespeare's
Macbeth: "Now good digestion wait on
appetite and health on both." Another
coat of arms in the dining hall is a
combination of bird, crown, portcullis,
and motto, "Jour de ma vie" day of
my life. The portcullis, a grating raised
and lowered in the gateway of a me-
dieval fortress, symbolized defense,
protection, and security. Mrs. Evans,
trustee from 1949-1953, and donor,
was fond of heraldic devices, and Mr.
Logan, a sculptor at heart, was inven-
tive in combining a conglomerate of
good symbols into a pleasing work of
art in the Gothic style, which he
favored.

The fourth Agnes Scott ideal, rather
indefinable, includes development of
personalities with charm, poise, dignity,
sincerity, and simplicity and is more
than the sum of the other three.

Many of the insignia in Presser Hall
seem to draw music out of the very
air. "Music does all our joys refine,"
and "God said, 'A praise is in mine
ear.' " The letters in wood greet the
opener of the west doors. Above the
arch of the east lobby are two young
women playing the lyre. Terpsichore,
the muse of choral poetry and the
dance, is often portrayed with the lyre.
On the west side are two young women
with organ pipes, sounding the inaudi-
ble music of their life forces. Above the
eastern doors is a wood carving of
cherubim, one playing a flute, one
blowing a horn.

Mr. Logan, the lover of the Gothic,
made an innovation of his own in de-
signing women instead of gargoyles for
Evans, and, according to Mrs. Logan,
delighted in doing so. Thinking the

human body the supreme work of art,
he had designed the young women,
sitting-kneeling around the four round
windows at the sides of Evans, to be
nude from the waist up. "When Dr.
McCain saw that," recalls Mrs. Logan,
"he ordered clothes to be put on those
girls at once." They appear now to be
ilraped with graceful veils.

Circles, the symbols of eternity, seem
to round out all the ideals, as they ap-
pear in the tracery at the top of Evans'
huge window. Mr. Snipes coordinated
the limestone tracery and the concrete
arches, a very precise and delicate job,
inasmuch as the Indiana stonecutters
"worked to close tolerances." The draw-
ings for half of the arch tracery, from
spring line to crown, came in a roll
eight or nine inches in diameter. "Our
office had no area big enough to lay it
out," he recalls, "so we had to rent a
hall in the restaurant next door." Asked
about the significance of the squirrels
above Evans entrance, he replied that
from an artistic viewpoint, the agile
animals have a graceful shape with
which to work.

As elusive as the fourth ideal, dozens
of symbols fly over us night and day,
year in and year out, comprehending
an infinite variety of meanings and
relationships. A Midsummer Night's
Dream states something of this magic:
". . . and, as imagination bodies forth
the forms of things unknown, the poet's
pen for sculptor's chisel] turns them to
shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local
habitation and a name. . . . ' However,
like dreams scarcely remembered, we
cannot completely define them. A uni-
verse of history and mystery hangs over
our heads like stars. Their light is un-
reachable and unfathomable, but to-
ward it we move and stretch and yearn.

Tri-panel hears lyre, honk and crossed
quills, and palette and brushes, illus-
trating; music, literature, and art.

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Departmental Update:

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BIOLOGY

By NANCY GROSECLOSE, Chairman

The 1912 Agnes Scott Bulletin car-
ries the name of Miss Gertrude Savin
as Professor of Biology and Geology.
In the Silhouette of 1915 she was said
to "masquerade biological wisdom un-
der youngish appearance." Miss Sevin
taught at Agnes Scott from 1911 to
1915. The following note is a direct
quotation from a letter received from
her in September, 1976: "In order to
achieve rating as an A 1 college Agnes
Scott was required to divide its then
General Science Department into sepa-
rate Departments of Biology. Chemis-
try, and Physics. It was my challenge
to establish and develop the Depart-
ment of Biology." The courses listed in
the 1912-1913 catalogue are Physiol-
ogy, General Biology, General Botany,
General Zoology, Comparative Anat-

omy of Vertebrates, Technique, Histol-
ogy and Embryology. The 1913-1914
catalogue carries additional courses:
Invertebrate Zoology, Plant Anatomy,
Plant Physiology and Microbiology.
Three courses in geology were offered.
Little wonder that Miss Sevin states,
"After four strenuous years I requested
a leave of absence and returned to
Syracuse to complete work for a mas-
ter's degree."'

In 1916-1917 Ruth J. Stocking,
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, was Acting Pro-
fessor of Biology. In 1916-1917 Helen
Bourguin, A.B., M.S., Colorado College
and the University of Chicago, was
named Professor of Biology, and Isabel

1 Miss Sevin still resides in her home town of
Erie. Pa. Following a six-year teaching tenure
at Adelphi College, she took over the family
art store in Erie.

Dr. Simpson, who teaches advanced invertebrate
zoology, shows student shells collected by alumna
Betty Lou Houck Smith '35.

Dr. Bowden teaches microbiol-
ogy and cellular physiology.

Dew, Undergraduate Assistant in Biol-
ogy. Evolution and Heredity and Plant
Ecology were the two new courses
offered. The following year, Patsey
Lupo, B.A., Mt. Holyoke, became In-
structor in Biology and Chemistry;
Experimental Physiology was added to
the list of courses in biology.

Mary Stuart MacDougall, B.A., M.S.,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College and
the University of Chicago, came to
Agnes Scott in 1919 as Professor of
Biology. Miss Lupo continued as In-
structor. A course in Local Flora was
offered for the first time in the spring
of 1920.

Another Mt. Holyoke graduate, Julia
Rothermel, was Instructor for the 1920-
1921 session: Fannie McCaa and Ruth
Pirkle were undergraduate assistants.
Miss MacDougall was on leave from
the College for the 1922-23 session and
for part of the following year. Dr.
Woolford Baker of Emory University
served the department as Acting Profes-
sor. The undergraduate assistants,
McCaa and Pirkle, in turn received
degrees and became Assistants. (Miss
Pirkle was named Instructor in 1925.
Later she received the master's degree
from Emory University: she became
an Assistant Professor and is so listed
in the 1933-1934 catalogue. Ruth Pirkle
Berkeley received an Nf.D. from Cor-
nell Medical School in 1938.)

Professor MacDougall returned to
Agnes Scott in 1924 with the Ph.D.
degree from Columbia University.
Eugene Schofield Heath, B.A., M.A.,
Ohio Wesleyan and the University of
Nebraska, was named Acting Associate
Professor of Botany, and Alice Brown,
B.A., Goucher, Assistant in Biology.
About this time Willie W. Smith's name
appeared in the catalogue, first, as an
undergraduate assistant in biology; and
later, as an undergraduate assistant in
physics. Josephine Bridgman was an
undergraduate assistant in the Library.
These two ladies, last named, have

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Dr. Grosedose is pictured yvith her vertebrate embryology class
in the department's Josephine Bridgman Library. Miss Grosedose,

department chairman, was named Charles A. Dana Professor of
Biology in 1975.

served their Alma Mater well as pro-
fessional scientists. Dr. Bridgman be-
came Chairman of the Biology Depart-
ment at Agnes Scott following Dr.
MacDoiigall's retirement in 1952 and
served in that position until 1971. She
retired in 1974."

Dr. Evangeline Papageorge, who was
an undergraduate assistant in 1927, has
recently retired from Emory Univer-
sity's School of Medicine. She was
Executive Associate Dean, a position
she held with distinction. Dr. Betty
Fountain Gray, ASC Class of 1937,
is currently Assistant Professor of Anat-
omy, Emory University. Betty was one
of the illustrators for MacDougall and
Hegner's BIOLOGY, The .Science of
Life, a popular textbook in the 1940's.
She serves still as Chairman of the
Mary Stuart MacDougall Museum
Fund.

3 Dr. Bridgman and her caim terrier, "Kirby."
reside al 715 Kirk Road, Decatur Visit Miss B.
when the azaleas are in bloom in her lovely
garden.

3 Bill is Associate Professor of Biology at David-
son. Bill's wife, Nancy (nee Glasure, ASC
biology major, Class of 1957), writes ta.ry stories
about children and their animal friends. We
look forward to the publication of these stories.

Helen Norwood Lammers, B.A.,
Central College, was Fellow in Biology,
1928. Mrs. Lammers' son. Bill, was the
recipient of the manuscript of "Miss
Mac's" textbook.'

Other people have served the de-
partment well during the ensuing
years,^ and alumnae have distinguished
themselves and the College in personal
and professional ways. In a count back
over the past fifteen years there have
been 145 graduates with majors in
biologv. Among these are 10 M.D.'s, 15
Ph.D.'s, and 25 masters' degrees (not
including those preceding the doctor-
ates). Would that this report could
include a listing of all of the profes-
sional and community services en-
gaged in by these 145 majors and all of
the other graduates since 1915! Miss
Sevin met her challenge well. The pro-
gram she established was conservatively
basic; and so it has continued to be
through these vears of its ongoing.
Onlv up-datinc has been necessarv. Two
courses required of our majors of 1977,
Cytology and Cellular Physiology, have

Some of you knew Netta Gray and Leonard
Doerpinghous.

emerged since 1912. The compound
light microscope has been supplemented
by other forms. The old hand-driven
iron centrifuge we still own is an in-
teresting contrast to the electrically
controlled refrigerated centrifuge pur-
chased in 1974. The purchase of this
centrifuge and other important pieces
of equipment was made possible by a
$50,000 grant from the Woodruff
Foundation. The good fortune of this
grant allows the department to feel up
to date with our present equipment for
in-depth studies in biology.

The department now offers two sum-
mer field courses: Desert Biology was
given for the second time in the summer
of 1976; Marine Biology will be given
for the first time in the summer of
1 977. These two courses will be offered
in alternate years. A course in Animal
Behavior will be given for the second
time in the spring of the current year.
The biology program includes a basic
course. Introduction to the Biological
Sciences, prerequisite to all other
courses in the department; the entire
staff assists with this course. TTien there
is a botany survey course and a zoology
(Continued on next page)

Dr. Taylor instructs students in the general concepts course, which
is prerequisite to all other biology courses.

Dr. Wistrand describes chromosomes of fruit flies.

Jasmine Choy, biology major from Hong Kong, dem-
onstrates use of spectophotometer. Large cylinder in
background is a Warburg apparatus.

BIOLOGY

(continued)

survey course. Other courses are:
Ecology, Plant Taxonomy, Histology,
Microbiology, Evolution, Genetics,
Comparative Chordate Anatomy, Em-
bryology, Invertebrate Zoology, Plant
Physiology, Plant Diversity and Evolu-
tion, and The Biology of Man, a seminar
course open to junior and senior biology
majors. Special Topics in Biology is
a seminar course required of all senior
biology majors. In the time allotted for
this course we attempt to acquaint the
majors with some of the professional
areas open to them; also, each student
makes a formal presentation of some
topic she has researched. More than
one staff member participates in this
seminar. Course 410 allows individual
students to make an intensive study of
some area of biology not covered by a
regularly scheduled course. Readings
for this course and the preparation of
a paper are under the supervision of a
staff member. TTie independent study
program is open to all students whose
scholastic attainment and interests lead
them to seek permission for independ-
ent research under the direction of a
professor.

An innovation of the fall of 1976 is
the participation of senior biology
major Sue Jinks of Panama City,
Florida, in a program known as the
Washington Semester in Science and
Technology under the sponsorship of
the National Institutes of Health. Sue
and 13 other college students are study-
ing the role of scientists in govern-
mental policy making. She will return
to Agnes Scott for the last two quarters
of this session and be graduated in
June.

The biology staff at the present time
numbers five, all of whom have com-
pleted doctoral degrees: George E.
Taylor, Jr., ASC since spring 1976
(Emory University); Harry Wistrand,
Assistant Professor, ASC since fall
1974 (Arizona State University);
Thomas E. Simpson, Associate Profes-
sor, ASC since fall 1972 (Florida State
University); Sandra T. Bowden, Asso-
ciate Professor, ASC since fall 1968
(University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill); Nancy P. Groseclose,
Professor, ASC since fall 1947 (Uni-
versity of Virginia). A

Recently Enacted Laws

Estate and Gift Tax Reform

For millions of American families,
the recently enacted estate and gift tax
reforms present new opportunities to
place the fruits of a lifetime's work be-
yond the reach of the estate tax. Un-
derlying the basic changes made in the
way estates will be taxed is the fact
that the time-tested methods of estate
planning will continue to be the most
effective way of minimizing the total
tax paid on the death of both husband
and wife. The basic planning that served
well under the old law will continue to
be valid under the new.

The system has been substantially
overhauled. The present separate struc-
tures for estate and gift taxes have been
merged into a unified system that will
tax gifts on the same basis as transfers
made at death. The former exemptions
($60,000 estate tax and $30,000 gift
tax) have been replaced by a unified
credit which will gradually rise from
$30,000 in 1977 to $47,000 in 1981.
The credit will be equivalent to an
exemption of $120,000 in 1977, in-
creasing to $175,000 by 1981. The
marital deduction will be enlarged from
half of the adjusted gross estate to the
greater of $250,000 or half the estate.

Let's translate these legal changes
into practical results for the estates of
three different families. The first con-
sists of assets amounting to $300,000;
the second, $500,000; and the third,
$1,000,000. In each example the hus-
band is assumed to have died in 1981,
with his wife surviving him by at least
ten years. The examples also reflect
the maximum credit for state death
taxes.

If our $300,000 estate owner's will
were simply to leave his widow as out-
right owner of all his assets, no federal
estate tax would be due at his death.
This results from the $250,000 marital
deduction no tax on assets up to that
amount passing to a surviving spouse
and the fact that the tax on the re-
maining $50,000 would be wiped out by
the $47,000 credit. (Tax on $50,000 =
$10,600 minus $47,000 credit = zero.)
However, the entire $300,000 could be
exposed, unnecessarily, to taxation on
the wife's death, when it wouldn't be
shielded by the marital deduction. This
could result in a tax of $37,200 on her

death. The $37,200 could be shielded
from the estate tax collector if a two-
trust will were used. This could be ac-
complished by dividing the estate into
a marital deduction trust and a residu-
ary trust of $150,000 each. On hus-
band's death the marital deduction trust
would pass to the wife tax free, while
the tax on the residuary trust would be
absorbed by the $47,000 credit. On the
wife's death only the marital deduction
trust would be exposed to tax, and her
$47,000 credit would offset the estate
tax. The residuary trust would remain
untaxed since it is not part of her
taxable estate and would pass intact to
other members of the family. Net re-
sult with a two-trust will: a tax saving
of $37,200.

In the case of a $500,000 estate, an
all-to-wife will would result in taxes of
$21,400 on husband's estate and $92,-
209 on wife's a total of $113,609
or more than 20% of the estate. But
with a two-trust will, total taxes could
be cut by over $70,000. For the $1,-
000,000 estate, the total tax saving via
the two-trust plan comes to $133,801.
(In the case of an individual who dies
during the phase-in period before 1981,
the tax figures won't be quite so favor-
able.)

The unification of gift and estate
taxes into one schedule points to the
advantage of annual gifts up to $3,000
by an individual or to $6,000 by a mar-
ried couple. The number of these gifts
to different persons is not limited nor
are they taxed normally.

When a person's property passes at
the time of her death, its basis for
measuring future gain will be, in es-
sence, "stepped up" to its value on

December 31, 1976 (but not above its
estate tax value when the owner dies).

Thus all value appreciation between
the time when the decedent acquired
the property, up to the end of 1976,
escapes the potential of being taxed as
gain when it is sold by the estate or
heir.

As to listed securities, the December
31, 1976, value will be fixed by market
quotations. As to other property, it
will not be necessary to obtain an ap-
praisal as of December 31, 1976. In-
stead, the law provides, generally, for
a determination of the overall increase
in value from the time the property was
acquired to the time of decedent's death.
Then that total increase will be pro-
rated to the period from acquisition to
December 31, 1976, and added to her
original cost or other basis.

The upshot of this is that only such
growth in value as takes place in 1977
and after is vulnerable to gains tax at
the time inherited property is sold. Gen-
erally, therefore, it will be many years
before the tax pinch of the carryover
basis is felt.

Records of actual acquisition costs
must be retained for all assets; these
are necessary for loss transactions and
some gain transactions. Also it's neces-
sary to record the date acquired, in the
case of assets for which market quota-
tions are not available.

The holding period to qualify for
capital gains will be increased from six
months to nine months in 1977 and 12
months in 1978. The amount of ordi-
nary income against which capital losses
can be deducted will increase from
$1,000 to $2,000 in 1977 and $3,000
in 1978.

Agnes Scott College provides a wide
range of booklets and other free ma-
terial regarding income tax savings and
estate planning. This information should
assist you in your planning; however,
you should consult your attorney as to
its application in your own situation.

You may obtain these helps by con-
tacting the Development Office, Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Georgia 30030.
The telephone number is (404) 373-
2571. A

Portions of this article are reprinted by
permission of the Trust Company Bank.

With the Clubs

Associate Director Betty Lackey and Direc-
tor Virginia McKenzie present Agnes Scott
rocking chair to Decatur Club President
Betty Mundy.

Mary McConkey Reimer and Pattie Patterson Johnson read proof.

Amateur photographer snaps a few of the Directory volunteers alphabetizing addresso-
graphed cards. Left to right, Margery Moore Tappan, Louise Girardeau Cook, Elizabeth
McEnlire, Betty Weinschenk Mundy, Emily Stead, Annie Johnson Sylvester. Directory
volunteers not pictured are: Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler, Nancy Carter. Caroline
McKinney Clarke, Lcnnar Lowe Council, Beth Jones Crahill, Mary Ben Wright Erwin,
Pattie Patterson Johnson, Elizabeth Floding Morgan, Gene Slack Morse, Mary
McConkey Reimer, Betty Wood Smith, Nancy Dodd Tomlinson.

Decatur

Members of the Decatur club have
given many hours this fall toward the
completion of the Agnes Scott Direc-
tory, available to alumnae contributors.
The endless chores of alphabetizing,
proofing, checking, rechecking, and
mailing have been done in the Alumnae
Office by cheerful and tireless club
members, supervised by club president,
Betty Weinschenk Mundy '46.

In addition to working on this project
the club has enjoyed three regular
meetings featuring President Marvin B.
Perry, Jr., Dr. John Tumblin, professor
of sociology and anthropology, and
William Evans, instructor in the theatre
at Agnes Scott. Other officers of the
club are: Bella Wilson Lewis '34, first
vice president/programs; Dorothy Travis

Joyner '41, second vice president/
membership; and Eleanor Williams
Knox '34, secretary-treasurer.

Young Atlanta ^ugusta

^^ Dr. Linda Lent2

and Margaret Funderburk O'Neal '71,
social chairman.

The Young Atlanta Club sponsored
two meetings this fall. On September 14
a "Dialogue on the College" was pre-
sented by President Marvin B. Perry,
Jr., Dean of Students Martha Hunting-
ton, and on November 16 a program
on "Trends in Children's Literature"
was presented by Mary Louise Rheay,
director, Cobb County Library. Officers
for the club are: Gayle Gellerstedt
Daniel '71, president; Gayle Doyle
Viehman '67, vice president/programs;
Jenny Reid Pomeroy '70, vice presi-
dent/projects; Tinsley Swann '73, secre-
tary; Mary Gay Bankston '74, treasurer;

Dr. Linda Lentz Woods, associate
professor of English at Agnes Scott, was
the guest speaker at the annual spring
luncheon meeting of the Augusta Alum-
nae Club. Dr. Woods, an alumna of the
class of '62, spoke on the problems of
lowered standards in elementary and
high schools and the effect on an
institution such as Agnes Scott. She
emphasized the "great need to reflect
on pure study and learning."

Officers elected for the 1977-78 year
are: Jacquelyn Murray Blanchard '57,
president; Jane Weltch Milligan '61,
vice president; and Louise Fortson Kin-
strey '68, secretary-treasurer.

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Atlanta

El 1 IN Pi RRY was the guest speaker at
the fall meeting of the Atlanta Alumnae
Club at the home of Anne Equen
Ballard '45. Club president Martha
Arant Allgood '42 presented to Mrs.
Perry a $2,500 check for the College.
This sum was raised from the club's
special project, the Golden Needle
Award Festival, held in April, 1976.
All clubs are invited to participate in
the '77 Festival to be at Rich's, down-
town Atlanta, February 23-26. Other
officers of the club are: Ruby Rosser
Davis "43, first vice president; Mary
Ann Turner Edwards '45, second vice
president; Scott Newell Newton '45,
secretary; and Ethelyn Dyar Daniel
'41, treasurer.

Barrow/Gwinnett
Newton

An enthusiastic group of alumnae,
led by Mary Alice Juhan '29, met May
15, 1976, at the restored Female Semi-
nary in Lawrenceville, Ga., to organize
a club for alumnae in Barrow, Gwin-
nett, and Newton counties. A nominat-
ing committee presented a slate of
officers, and the B.G.N. Club became
official!

At the second meeting in September

Atlanta Agnes Scott Club PrcaiJeiu Martha Aruni Alli;i>od presents S2.500 check, pro-
ceeds from second Golden Needle Award Festival, to ^^r.s. Perry. Also shown are left,
Anne Equen Ballard, Ruby Rosser Davis, and Mary Ann Turner Edwards.

the following officers were elected:
Mary Alice Juhan '29, president;
Rachel King '57, vice president and
program chairman; Carolyn Alford

Bcaty '55, recording secretary; Cecily
Rudisill Langford '58, treasurer; Peggy
Jordan Mayfield '56, projects chairman;
Patricia Conner Tucker '57, communi-
cations chairman; and Paula Hendricks
Culbreth '71, hospitality chairman.
Betty Medlock Lackey, Associate Di-
rector of Alumnae Affairs, spoke about
the College and the overall organization
of the Alumnae Association.

On November 20 the club enjoyed
a program presented by Dr. Ted
Mathews, associate professor of music
at Agnes Scott, and the Madrigal Sing-
ers. Dr. Mathews' talk included a slide
show of the Glee Club's trip to Austria.

^Pictured at recent B.G.N, meeting are, seated
left to right, students Patty Tucker and Anna
Bryan, alumnae Grace Anderson Bowers
and Mary Alice Juhan, president: standing
left to right, Madelaine Dunseith Alston,
Eileen Graham McWhorter, Carolyn Alford
Beaty, Harriet Stimson Davis, Margaret
Smith Alexander, Kalherine Setze Home,
Melinda Johnson McChesney, and Kay
Parkerson O'Briant.

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Dalton

Memye Curtis Tucker and Cobb County
Club President Liza Roberts Leiter chat
with Becky Davis Huber.

Cobb County

Fourteen members of the Cobb
County Alumnae Club met for coffee
and a brief business meeting on October
27, 1976. Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt
'46, national president of the Alumnae
Association, was a special guest at the
meeting. Eliza Roberts Leiter '61, presi-
dent of the club, reports that the
members enjoyed getting together, hear-
ing about activities at the College, and
finding out what other alumnae had
been doing.

Columbia

The annual back to school Coke party
for new and returning students from the
Columbia area was sponsored by the
Columbia, S. C, Club September 11 at
the Quail Run Apartments Club House.
Jackie Roundtree Andrews '57, presi-
dent of the club, says the two '76 grad-
uates, Eva Gantt and Ann Carpenter,
were of special help to the current
students at the party.

12

Dr. Michael Brown, chairman of the
Agnes Scott department of history and
political science, presented to the Dal-
ton Alumnae Club a slide show of the
alumnae trip to England and Scotland,
which he conducted this summer.
Twenty members and guests enjoyed
this November meeting at the home of
Mary Manly Ryman '48. Newly elected
officers for the year 1977-78 are Cindy
Current Patterson '72, president; Mary
Rogers Hardin '68, vice president; Mary
Gene Sims Dykes '48, secretary; Ida
Rogers Minor '55, treasurer. Alumnae
admissions representatives are Mary
Rogers Hardin '68, Carole Rogers Snell
'59, and Hollis Smith Gregory '60.

Delaware Vallej

Bryn Mawr College's Wyndham
House was the scene of a buffet lunch-
eon and the fall meeting of the Dela-
ware Valley Alumnae Club. Twenty-
four alumnae gathered to hear the
guest speaker, Dr. Mary Boney Sheats,
chairman of the Agnes Scott depart-
ment of Bible and religion. Those at-
tending were: Johnetta Wright Mathyer,
Acad., Patricia Gover Bitzer '58, Helen
Sewell Johnson '57, Jeanne Heisley
Adams '55, Melissa Stretch '75, Louise
Huff '74, Lucy Maud Davis Harper '61,
Caroline Reinero Kemmerer '54, Ann
Hendry '69, Rose Ann Cleveland '75,
Cindy Goldthwaite '74, Cornelia Hale
Bryans '51, Inge Probstein '45, Nancy
Jane Boothe Higgins '61, Angelyn
Alford Bagwell '60, Margaret Murphy

Milton and Mary Ryman welcome Dr.
Michael Brown to November meeting of
Dalton Club.

Hunter '65, Karen Montgomery Crecely
'66, Rachel Kennedy Lovythian '37;
Mitzi Kiser Law '54, Modesta Hance
Dalgliesh '42, Ruth Hunt Morris Ferrel!
'49, Virginia Drew Blankner Patterson
'58, Molly Snead Henry '64, and
Frances Drake Blass '48.

New York

Agnes Scott President Marvin B.
Perry, Jr., was honored at a party on
the evening of November 4, 1976, at
the home of Cissie Spiro Aidinoff '51,
Alumnae Association regional vice
president. Alumnae in New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania
were invited to meet Dr. Perry.

Students entertained by Columbia Club are Caroline Marchant, Margaret Trotter,
Sharon Smith, and Sallie Paysinger.

With the Clubs

Roanoke

In honor of Founder's Day the Roan-
oke Alumnae Club met for a luncheon
on April 3, 1976, at the Top of the
Catch Restaurant in Salem, Virginia.
Sixteen members attended the luncheon
with guest speaker Virginia Brown
McKenzie, director of alumnae affairs.
Co-President Louise Reid Strickler '46
reports that Virginia's talk bringing
alumnae up to date on Agnes Scott
made the meeting a big success! Other
officers for the 1976-77 year are Betty
Patrick Merritt '46, co-president; Fran-
ces Sholes Higgins '47, vice president;
and Ann Quekemeyer '69, secretary-
treasurer.

St Louis

October 23, 1976, marked the first
meeting of the new St. Louis Alumnae
Club. Seventeen alumnae, including
Virginia Brown McKenzie, director of
alumnae affairs, gathered for tea at the
home of Florence Preston Bockhorst
'34, whose efforts have promoted this
group. Says Florence, "I was grateful
for the help of mother (Annie Wiley
Preston, Inst. ) and mv two sisters
(Miriam Preston St. Clair '27 and
Shannon Preston Cumming '30) who
came from Georgia and northern
Missouri just to help with the party
also enjoy the fun of being together!"
Officers for this new club are: Vir-
ginia Andrews Trovillion '48, president;
Ann Roberts Divine '67, vice president;
Anne Felker Cataldo '67, secretary; and
Julia Doar Grubb '61, treasurer.

Shreveport

Sara Margaret Heard White '58,
president of the Shreveport Club, was
hostess to a Founder's Day Luncheon
on February 22, 1976. Eleven members
attended and enjoyed hearing Alumna
Admissions Representative Ann Merk-
lein '55 report on her visit to the Agnes
Scott campus. At the business meeting
the club voted to contribute $25.00 to
the scholarship fund honoring the late
Dean Guerry Stukes. Stewart Nelson
Mead '71 is the new president for the
year 1976-77.

Attcndiiifi Rounoke Club April luncheon are, lefl to right, Jessie Carpenter Holton, "Mac"
Craig Link, Neva Delagado, Virginia Brown McKenzie. Betty Patrick Merritt, Frances
Sholes Higgins. Louise Reid Strickler, Paula Pilkenton Vail, and Ann Quekemeyer.

Toledo/Detroit

The recently organized Toledo/
Detroit Alumnae Club met twice in
1976. On May 15 nine members met
at the Atrium Restaurant in Bingham
Farms, Michigan. The following alum-
nae were present to lunch together,
view the Robert Frost slide show, and
discuss Agnes Scott, past and present:
Julia LaRue Orwig "73 (president),
Bronwen DuKate Cameron '68 (vice
president), Betty Wirgman Duncan '66,

Camille Watson Hospadaruk '52, Mary
Bell McConkey Taylor '28, Frances
Howerton Lucas '50, Rebekah Andrews
McNeill '42, Sue Snelling DeFurio '70,
and Julie Maclntyre Gates '16. In
November the club met again for lunch-
con at St. Clair Shores Country Club.
The members of this group feel that
they can best help the College with
publicity in their area and assistance
to the admissions representatives. A

Golden Needle Award Festival Feb. 22-26

The THfRD Golden Needle Award Festival sponsored by the Atlanta Alumnae
Club, in conjunction with the other metropolitan area clubs, anticipates a
record attendance at the show during store hours in the Downtown Rich's
Plaza Auditorium Feb. 23-26.

Tickets are available from all Atlanta area alumnae clubs and the Alumnae
Office. Price of admission is $2.50 at the door; or $2, advance ticket purchase.

Alumnae are invited to attend the gala Champagne Preview Party to meet
celebrities at the show on Feb. 22. Price of the champagne buffet is $10 a
person. Reservations should be made with Mrs. Jack Ashmore, 200 Blackland
Rd.. N.W., Atlanta 30342.

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Alumnae Council Sparked by Students

Gloria Howard, Kate Kussrow, Evelyn Babcock, and Anne Callison

The fifth annual Alumnae Council
met on October 1, 1976, for a day of
workshops, panels, and fun. Alumnae
leaders: class presidents, secretaries,
fund chairmen, agents, club presidents,
alumnae admissions representatives,
past presidents of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, and members of the Executive
Board are invited to participate in the
day's activities and bring questions and
suggestions. The meeting is designed to
send them home with new insight and
enthusiasm about the College.

Perhaps the most exciting event of
the day was the student panel dealing
with the "Diversity of Student Experi-
ence" at Agnes Scott. Anne Callison,
who spent her junior year in Scotland
at St. Andrews, explained the pros and
cons, both to the College and to the
individual, of sponsoring an exchange
program here at Agnes Scott. She con-
cluded that the current method of
allowing the student to apply and carry
out her own program through other
schools was best for all concerned.
Anne described life at St. Andrews
which includes wearing academic rega-
lia to class! Anne concluded her talk
by explaining that her time away from
Agnes Scott had given her a much
deeper appreciation for the College
upon her return.

Evelyn Babcock discussed the oppor-
tunity of "double majoring." Many
students have juggled hours, taken over-
loads, lost sleep, and managed to grad-
uate with a "double major." But Evelyn
is unique in that she has chosen to
combine the disciplines of music and
chemistry. The sheer number of hours
involved in labs and practice are stag-

gering! Evelyn explained that the indi-
viduality of experience afforded by
Agnes Scott was the factor which drew
her to the College. She enumerated the
academic and extra-curricular activities
in each of her fields of interest and
praised the departments and the College
for the flexibility which allowed her to
pursue both of her diverse areas of
interest.

Kate Kussrow, Chairman of Arts
Council, discussed all of the extra-
curricular activities open to Agnes Scott
students. She told of clubs ranging from
those with a foreign language orienta-
tion to drama and music groups. Kate
explained about student boards and
governing bodies on campus, and their
relationship to both students and ad-
ministration. Organizations fostering
social activity also abound. Kate
acknowledged that academics remain
the chief concern for Agnes Scott stu-
dents, but she enumerated organiza-
tions, trips, and activities that are
available for recreation and balance.

Gloria Howard, a recent grand-
mother, discussed life at Agnes Scott
from a "non-traditional" viewpoint.
Gloria returned to college in 1975 and
is working toward her life goal of a
college degree. She said that she chose
Agnes Scott for a number of reasons,
with its academic reputation and its
Christian ideals at the top of the list.
Gloria explained that she finds the work
stimulating and fun, that she thoroughly
enjoys her classmates, and that her ex-
perience, although exacting sacrifices
from both herself and her family, has
enriched her whole life.

Plan to Attend Your
Class Reunion

ALUMNAE
WEEKEND

April 29-30, 1977

Music Scholarship

The music department is now accept-
ing applications for Nannette Hopkins
Scholarships in music. These $1,000
scholarships are awarded primarily on
the basis of merit and musical promise;
need is a secondary consideration. The
scholarships are renewable through four
years at Agnes Scott, subject to satis-
factory progress.

1976-77 ushered in the first freshman
class of Hopkins scholars (four winners
and two alternates). We are delighted
with the progress thus far of these prom-
ising and talented young musicians.

Alumnae are urged to bring the Hop-
kins Scholarships to the attention of
gifted high school seniors. Interested
students should apply to the Admissions
Office as soon as possible as the com-
petition will be closed during the sec-
ond week in March. A

Agnes Scott Chairs
Now Available

r

BOSTON ROCKER $65.00

CAPTAIN'S CHAIR

(Black arms) $70.00

CAPTAIN'S CHAIR

(Cherry arms) $75.00

This price is for the chair only. The cus-
tomer will also assume shipping charges.

Send your check payable to:

Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

Agnes Scott College

Decatur, Georgia 30030

Your chair will be shipped freight collect
from Boone, N. C.

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Firsl bus arrives a! Washington/ Wilkes.

Residenl Ida Lee Hill Irvin '06 attends luncheon.

Alumnae Visit Historic Washington/Wilkes

Washington, Georgia, in historic
Wilkes County was the site of a recent
continuing education study-tour for
Agnes Scott alumnae. Mary Ficklen
Barnett '29, a native of Washington,
was hostess for nearly 90 Agnes Scott
alumnae, husbands, and friends. She
had arranged a tour which began at
the Washington Wilkes Historical Mu-
seum, wound through the streets of
Washington, and concluded with trips
through several historic homes.

Beginning with a tour of the Wash-
ington Museum, the group moved
through the streets of the town viewing
the Robert Toombs Home Restoration
Project, the library, the Masonic Tem-
ple, and numerous beautiful old homes.

Alumnae from the surrounding area
joined the group for a box lunch at
the Methodist Church where a slide
show was presented, giving the visitors
a synopsis of the history surrounding
Wilkes County and a preview of the

homes they would be visiting in the
afternoon.

Following lunch, the group began its
tour of homes. They visited a restored
Victorian home, a house typical of the
"Country Federal" style, and Mrs.
Barnett's home which is on the National
Register. The day concluded with a trip
to the Callaway Plantation.

The Atlanta group traveled in two
large buses to make the Washington-
Wilkes Tour.

loin Us for the Alumnae Tour to

Beautiful Hawaii

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Alumnae, the College community, and friends are invited to reserve
eight days in early June to travel with the Alumnae Association to Hawaii.
We will arrive just in time to celebrate Kamehameha Day on June 11, a
state holiday honoring former king of Hawaii, with magnificent parades and
pageants.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, Professor of Bible and Religion, has helped plan
the itinerary and will give two lectures in early May on the history, customs,
and religions of Hawaii.

We are pleased that President and Mrs. Marvin B. Perry, Jr., will ac-
company the group on this trip.

GENERAL INFORMATION

ITINERARY

Cost:

Cost Includes . . .
Transportation:

Hotel
Accommodations:

Meals:

$778 per person, based on double occu-
pancy. Price is subject to a possible 4.5%
increase in airfare.

Roundtrip airfare on United Airways
between Atlanta and Honolulu.

Four nights at the beautiful new Ala
Moana, two nights at the Maui Sunset,
and one night at the Kona Inn.

Three meals are provided: an American
breakfast the first morning in Honolulu,
a lunch at the famous Volcano House
on the rim of Kilauea Crater, and a
farewell Luau in Kona.

Extra money will be needed for all other
meals as much as $150 (depending on
your tastes and if you wish to include
a show with the evening meal).

SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS

March 1, 1977 $100 non-refundable fee to accompany
application

June 9

June 10
June 11-12
June 13

June 15

June 16

Departure from Atlanta and flower lei greeting

upon arrival in Honolulu

Four nights in Waikiki at the Ala Moana Hotel

Welcome briefing party with Hawaiian enter-
tainment, including American breakfast

City/ Punchbowl Tour, visits to Buddhist Tem-
ple and University in Honolulu

Two nights in Maui at the Maui Sunset
Tour of Lao Valley and the whaling village
of Lahaina

One night in Kona at the Kona Inn, Oceanside
Cross-island tour of Hawaii from Hilo to Kona
via the Volcano National Park, and lunch at
the famous Volcano House on the rim of
Kiauea Crater

Fabulous evening luau in Kona

Departure from Honolulu for return trip to
Atlanta (if you request in advance, a stopover
may be arranged in either Las Vegas, San
Francisco, San Diego or Los Angeles with no
additional air travel charge.)

May 1, 1977 $678 balance

If you wish to join us for this exciting tour, fill out the application below, and mail it to the Alumnae Office with your
non-refundable check for $100 per person made out to: Alumnae Association Tour.

Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Decatur, Georgia 30030

Please reserve ( ) place(s) for myself ( ), spouse ( ), children ( ), friends ( ).

Name,
Street

-City .

Spouse's name

Children's names and school grades.

Friend's name

Street

_Class (if ASC alumna)

State Zip

_City .

State

-Zip

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DEATHS

Institute

Ida Sherwood Bettis (Mrs.
Eric T.), Aug. 8, 1976.
Lucy Brumby Hilsman (Mrs.
Agnew H.). March 16, 1976.
Marguerite Cousins Holley,
daughter of Pearl Estes Cousins
(deceased). Sept. 12, 1976.

Academy

Rebecca Green Hinds (Mrs.
J. H.), sister of Ruth Green.
April 29, 1976.
Maccie Haas Harrison (Mrs.
Roy B.), May 31, 1976.
Martha Sliippen Snyder (Mrs.
M. Allan), Sept. 30, 1976.
Son of Jessie Milner
Williamson, Sept., 1976.

1919

Bess McConnell, June 28, 1976.

1921

Adelaide RansoD Baimsfather

(Mrs. Arthur L,), June

17, 1976.

MarKUcrite Cousins Holley

(Mrs. KirkT,), Sept. 12, 1976.

Clarence Miracle, husband

of Mary Anne Justice Miracle,

June 18, 1976.

1923

Mary Lee Slaughter Emerson

(Mrs. Harvey M.), Aug.
6, 1976.

1926

Mary Lee Slaughter Emerson,
sister of Sarah Slaughter,
Aug. 6, 1976.

1927

Isabelle Breitenbucher Fulghum,

spring, 1976.

1930

Colonel William Murtha
Wilder, father of Evalyn
Wilder, June, 1976.

1933

Julia Blundell Adier (Mrs.

Eric M.), July, 1976.

1937

Charline Fleece Halverstadt

(Mrs. James A.), Oct. 20, 1976.

1938

Marguerite Cousins Holley,
sister of Elizabeth Cousins
Mosley, Sept. 12, 1976.

1939

Jane Carithers Goodrich (Mrs.

John F.), March, 1976.

1942

Rev. Woodfin Harry, father
of Julia Harry Bennett,
Oct., 1976.

1946

D. J. McConkey, father of
Mary McConkey Reimer, Aug.
11, 1976.

1949

Mother of Betty Blackman
Kinnett, summer, 1976.

1958

Jack P. Ashmore, Jr., husband
of BIythe Posey Ashmore,
Aug. 13, 1976.

1962

Marguerite Cousins Holley,
mother of Margaret Holley
Milam, Sept. 12, 1976.

1965

Father of Sandra Robertson
Nelson, March, 1976.

1966

Benjamin Pierce Towers, son
of Nancy Bland Towers,
June 16, 1976.

1970

Stephen Douglas Thomason,
husband of Barbara Cecil
Thomason, Sept. 24, 1976.

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Yes, VirginiaThere Is a Santa Claus!

Whhn our children were pre-schoolers
and neighbor children told them there
really wasn't a Santa Clans, I used to
say, "Santa Claus comes to the little
children who believe in him." Those
few make-believe years are as magic for
parents as they are for children: for
adults like to believe in miracles. Many
of us still hope for our Guardian Angel
or the Tooth Fairy to help us through
impossible assignments. This winter I
have to believe Santa Claus visited the
Alumnae Office!

The last day before our Christmas
holidays a bearded bootshod man pulled
a package from his delivery truck and
rang our Alumnae Office doorbell. Like
the true Christmas Messenger, he had
delivered our dream materialized, our
long desired Alumnae Directory, at
least, the proof or blueline copy for our
corrections and approval.

The real Christmas spirit of loving
giving was exemplified by Betty Wein-
schenk Mundy, president of the Decatur
Alumnae Club, and her committee of
alphabetizers, arrangers, and proofread-

ers, who worked all fall to help us get
the names and addresses in the right
places. Another nod of thanks goes to
Deborah Fleming in the Development
Office for providing from the addresso-
graph machine the thousands of cards
for us to arrange for the printer, to
Dr. McCain for moral support and
using the Directory in his development
program, and to President Perry for re-
questing an aliminae directory when I
first came to work at Agnes Scott and
for supporting the project. All these
people believed.

Although this undertaking has some
of the magic I've alluded to. it is mainly
the product of hours, days, and months
of labor of those loyal volunteers who
spent the fall at the Alumnae Office
helping us. Information had to be ar-
ranged and sent to the printer, page
proofs sent to us for corrections, those
corrections sent back for revision, a
blueline copy sent to us for proofread-
ing, more changes sent back for cor-
recting. Then followed that final long
wait here while the books were actually

printed, bound, wrapped and shipped to
us. To allow time for all these opera-
tions we had to begin in September; so
the cutoff date for changing addresses
for this directory was August 31, 1976.
We all earnestly endeavored for ac-
curacy. However, should you find an
error, please send the correct informa-
tion for our records.

And join with us at the Alumnae
Office in expressing appreciation for
the faithful band of alumnae directory
vokmteers who made Santa Claus come
to the Alumnae House this year. Those
volunteers are: Betty Jeanne Ellison
Candler. Nancy Carter, Caroline Mc-
Kinney Clarke, Lamar Lowe Connell,
Louise Girardeau Cook, Beth Jones
Crabill, Mary Ben Wright Erwin, Pattie
Patterson Johnson, Elizabeth McEntire,
Elizabeth Floding Morgan. Gene Slack
Morse, Betty Weinschenk Mundy, Mary
McConkey Reimer, Betty Wood Smith,
Emily Stead, Annie Johnson Sylvester,
Margery Moore Tappan, and Nancy
Dodd Tomlinson.

A New Beginning: jan Brisendine Funsten 76

There is joy in the Alumnae Office
over the presence of Jan Brisendine
Funsten '76, who will be Managing Edi-
tor of the Alumnae Quarterly. Jan is an
honor graduate of Agnes Scott College.
She majored in psychology, minored in
elementary education, and authored an
independent study project entitled,
"Fear of Success in College Women
with Regard to a Number of Variables."

Jan evidently has no fear of success,
for she has already capably assumed
the responsibilities of her position and
will be a real asset to our office organi-
zation. She will also devote special at-
tention to alumnae-student relations,
young alumnae affairs, class activities,
and reunions. Jan assumes the duties of
Peggy Miller Chamblee '76 who re-
ceived a call to be Director of Christian
Education at the First Presbyterian
Church of Marietta. We wish Peggy
well and welcome Jan!

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY STAFF:
Editor / Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Managing Editor/Jan Brisendine Funsten "76
Class News Editor/Jennifer Driscoll '78
Design Consultant / John Stuart McKenzie

ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF:

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Virginia Brown McKenzie '47

Associate Director

Betty Medlock Lackey '42

Assistant to the Director

Jan Brisendine Funsten '76

Secretary

Frances Strother

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:
President / Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt '46
Vice Presidents

Region I / Cissie Spiro Aidinoff "51

Region II / Margaret Ward Abernethy Martin '59

Region III / Lou Pate Jones '39
Secretary / Mary Jervis Hayes '67
Treasurer / l^mar Lowe Connell '27

Member / Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.

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

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College Assists In Job Search

Class of '76 Profile

The Windows of Wonder

by Dr. Edward McNair

Student's View

Honor System Prevails
by Lynn Wilson '77

Departmental Update

Chemistry

by Dr. Marion Clark

Our Women In Washington
Obituary: Dr. Margret Trotter
On The Campus
With The Clubs
From The Classes
Summer Pottery Workshop
Agnes Scott Is Calling In April
Alumna Profile

Memye Curtis Tucker '56

22 Alumna Writes From Indonesia

PHOTO CREDITS

Front cover, pages 8,9 Bill Grimes; pages 2, 1 1
Silhouette; pages 4, 7, 12 News Service; pages
6, 19, back cover Jan Funsten; page 10 George
Clark; page 12 Bradford Bachrach.

Here Comes Help!

College Assists in )ob Search

To FIND CAREERS related to her needs
and goals, an Agnes Scott student can
utilize the resource center in the Career
Planning Office. lone Murphy, director
of Career Planning, maintains the re-
source center and helps students gather
information from hooks, phamplets.
and guides published by the federal
and state governments, professional
associations, educational institutions,
corporations, and publishing houses.
Barbara Knickerbocker, an administra-
tive intern working with Ms. Murphy,
gives vocational interest tests, counsels
students who take these tests, and con-
ducts Life Planning Workshops.

Opportunities for on-the-job ex-
periences are offered by the Career
Planning Office through the Shadow
Program, simimer jobs, and internships.
Melissa Vandiver coordinates the Shad-
ow Program, which matches students
with Agnes Scott alumnae working in
careers that the students want to ex-
plore. A student may spend several days
or weeks "shadowing" an alumna on
the job in such fields as accounting,
art museum administration, chemical
engineering, law, medical research, mer-
chandising, architecture, journalism,
theatre, special education, or interna-
tional trade.

Once a student has determined a
career field she wants to pursue, she
can turn her attention to the job hunt.
The Career Planning Office actively
seeks out businesses and other organi-
zations to come to the campus to re-
cruit employees. Students arc assisted
in their preparation for interviews
through workshops given by the Career
Planning Office. Workshops are held
on resume writing, role playing in mock
interviews, assertiveness training, and
the structure and vocabularies of some
occupations such as banking, insurance,
and retailing.

Class of 76 Profile

The Alumnae Office, in conjunction with the Office of
Career Planning, contacted the graduates of the class of
1976 in the fall in an effort to determine their situations.
Several class members were pursuing professions as well

as beginning graduate study. Each has been classified by
her fulltime committment at that time. Following is a
summary of the results:

FALL REPORT ON THE CLASS OF 1976

Number of Graduates working
Number of Graduates studying
Number of Graduates not working
Number of Graduates looking for work
Number of Graduates on whom information
could not be collected

obs:

63
30
II

9

121 total

63 total

Business and Finance 21 total

Banking and Finance

Secretarial

Insurance

Sales

Management

College Staff

Admissions Representative

Assistant to Registrar

Assistant to Director of Alumnae Affairs
Communications

Radio-station announcer

Graphic artist

Translator

Airline stewardess

Public relations for bank

Newspaper lay-outs artist

Laboratory Technology and Research

Lab Technician

Research

total

total

Library Work 3 total

Librarian I

Cataloguer 2

Teaching 14 total

Primary 9

Secondary 5

Other 8 total

Assistant to Probate Lawyer 1

Computer Operator 1

Houseparent, Children's Home 1

Intern for State Senator 1

Mapper for engineering firm 1

Medical Assistant 1

Temporary Work 2

Further Studies: 30 total

Social Work 1

English & Journalism 4

Foreign Languages 4

Business 3

Law 1

Paralegal 3

Art 2

History 2

Theology 2

Classics 1

Medicine 2

Nursing 2

Biology 3

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The Irish short story writer Bryai
MacMahon in his collection of tale
entitled The Red Petticoat includes oa
story which has the intriguing title "Thi
Windows of Wonder." In this accoun
Mr. MacMahon tells of a young womai
who goes as a substitute teacher to i
school where, strangely for Ireland, th
children have no sense of humor, ari
grave beyond their years, stolid, un
imaginative, almost somber. The youn]
teacher uses every strategy she cai
think of to get through the grim barrie
that separates her from her childrei
but with no success until one day quiti
by accident she realizes that these par
ticular young people know nothing o
the legends of their land, are completel;
unaware of the marvelous realm of thi
fabulous, of the thrill that comes fron
the supernatural. Dismayed and ye
overjoyed that she has at last founc
the key to the inner life of her pupils
we hear her say:

Listen, children, ... I don't know
if you can understand me or not.
But you must try: It's the only
way. Someone has robbed you of
a very precious thing. I will not
have you cheated. This thing I
speak of is neither gold nor silver,
neither a red or green jewel. It is
something a great deal more valu-
able. The other things I teach you
the figures, the words, the lines
and the letters are not so im-
portant .... How shall I begin
to tell you of the treasure you have
lost? Your minds are like rooms
that are dark and brown. But
somewhere in the rooms, if only
you can pull aside the heavy cur-
tains, you will find windows these
are the windows of wonder.
Through these you can see the
yellow sunset or the silver stars or
the many colored wheel of the
rainbow. . . .'

So writes Bryan MacMahon.

Some years ago one of the Atlanta
papers ran a daily single panel cartoon
in which a Chinese named Ching Chow
gave sage or whimsical admonitions on
a wide variety of subjects. Under the
date of November 5, 1955, here is what

lA/indows of Wonder

By DR. EDWARD McNAIR

'hing Chow said: "Let your mind
/onder not wander." And in the same
ein E. E. Cummings has written:
. . . as surely as each November has its
ipril, mysteries only are significant."-

All of which brings me to the thrust
f what I want to say today. Many of
s have become so pragmatic, so prac-
cal, so earthbound in our whole out-
3ok on and altitude toward life that we
ave lost the capacity to wonder. Our
alues have been polluted by the com-
lonplace and the pedestrian. We no
jnger stand wide-eyed in awe before
le beautiful as our imaginations take
light and excitement runs riot through
ur blood.

To put this idea another way, many
f us have in our own estimation, at
;ast, become so contented, so smug
lat we have closed our windows of
'onder in our self-sufficiency. The
;ook of Job in a passage of soaring
oetic grandeur and splendor addresses
self to this human weakness. Listen:

Where wast thou when I laid
the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures

thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hath stretched the line upon

it?

Hast thou commanded the morning

since thy days;
and caused the dayspring to know

its place;

Hast thou entered into the springs

of the sea?
or has thou walked in the

search of the depth?

Where is the way where light

dwelleth?
and as for darkness, where is the

place thereof.

Hast thou entered into the treasures

of the snow?
or hast thou seen the treasures

of the hail.

By what way is the light parted,
which scattereth the east wind upon
the earth?3

Thus, on and on for four chapters this
remarkable passage continues nurturing
man's wonder and kindling his sense of
awe.

In my judgment one of the chief
glories of man is his capacity to imag-
ine, to marvel, to reverence, and in this
wonder of the imagination to become
Ihrillingly alive in a way that the plod-
ding realist or pragmatist never knows.

Oscar Wilde has observed that a
cynic is a "man who knows the price
of everything and the value of noth-
ing."'' Indeed, if the truth be known,
this epigram may well be the watch-
word of our times. In the eyes of all
too many that which is not utilitarian
has no place in contemporary society.
And thus, we are fast on the way to
becoming like those Irish children
whose windows of wonder were dark
and closed.

But must this circumstance be so?
Amid technology and technocracy can
we not have our windows of wonder
open both to the glories of the past
and to the challenges of the present
and future? Let me mention three con-
siderations that brings us up short in
our complacency that we can under-
stand everything and therefore should
wonder at nothing.

First, I submit that the creative
genius of the mind of man is a source
of constant and continual wonder. It
has ever been so. Perhaps a few ex-
amples will suffice. Several years ago
we at Agnes Scott had the privilege of
seeing the distinguished series of films
entitled "Civilisation," prepared and
narrated by Kenneth, Lord Clark. In
one of the films the matter of the origin
of Florentine Renaissance architecture
was treated and the question was posed,
"Where did it come from?" to which
the answer was given "that it was really
the invention of [one] individual
Brunellesco,"'' the same man who also
was probably the first to give perspec-
tive to painting thereby enabling an
artist to "render on a flat surface the
precise position of a figure in space.""
This creative genius cannot be ex-
plained, but it is palpably there to ex-
cite our wonder.

Two centuries later there appeared in
Rome another artist to elicit our won-

der the "dazzlingly precocious" Gian-
lorenzo Bernini. "In 1664, while in
Rome, John Evelyn wrote in his Diary:
'Bernini . . . gave a public opera wherein
he painted the scenes, cut the statues,
invented the engines, composed the
music, writ the comedy, and built the
theatre.' "' When this artist was only
"sixteen one of his carvings was bought
by the Borghese family, and by the
time he was twenty, he was already
commissioned to do a portrait of the
Borghese Pope, Paul V. In the next
three years [or before he was twenty-
five] he [in the opinion of one eminent
critic] became more skillful in the carv-
ing of marble than any [other] sculp-
tor has ever been, before or since."*
Amazingly this creative force continued
throughout his life, and he lived to be
more than eighty. Do we explain Ber-
nini, or do we wonder?

Still two centuries later in another
field of human achievement, the young
Frederic Chopin burst fully formed
into the musical world of Paris during
the second quarter of the nineteenth
century. Harold Schonberg, the dis-
tinguished music critic of the New York
Times, speaks of Chopin's "evolving
from nowhere the most beautiful and
original piano style of the [nineteenth]
century.-'" Evolving from nowhere"
sheer unadulterated creative genius
unexplainable a source of wonder.

How does the pragmatic mind ac-
count for the scintillating subtlety of
Chaucer's wit after all he was greatly
occupied as a civil servant in the em-
ploy of the government, writing poetry
as his avocation. Or how do we under-
stand the probing insight and superb
metrical repertoire of William Shakes-
peare, a man whose background was
a rural market town in central Eng-
land. Or what of Milton at age twenty-
one writing what many consider to be
the greatest Christmas poem in our
language or later composing Paradise
Lost in the unending dark of his blind-
ness.

Indeed, the creative genius of the

mind of man whether in art, music,

literature, science or technology can

seldom be explained. It is through our

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Institutions are the vehicles of culture,
the preservers of all that we treasure.. .

Windows of Wonder

(continued)

windows of wonder that these achieve-
ments become meaningful and signifi-
cant.

In Hke manner, the rational, analyti-
cal, and synthesizing power of man's
mind is cause for wonder, awe, and
mystery. From Archimedes and his
fulcrum through Galileo with his tele-
scope and Newton with his genius in
deductive reasoning to contemporary
intellects dealing with nuclear fission
and fusion, the powers of the mind
have themselves defied explanation and
analysis. Linguistic scholarship, a rela-
tively recent development, is one ex-
ample of how mankind by painstaking
research and meticulous comparative
analysis is realizing whole areas of hu-
man achievement for the first time, and
intellectual horizons are stretching end-
lessly. We can in many instances prag-
matically understand processes and
elements and can in the laboratory by
predetermined combinations bring about
results that are consistently the same,
but how do we explain the mystery of
the intellect which first developed a
formula or discovered a new element
or invented a new instrument. John
Masefield has spoken of the "glory of
the lighted mind.""' It is this glory,
whether it be creative and imaginative
or analytical and rational, that we can
approach only through our windows of
wonder.

Perhaps what I have been saying
suggests that well-known passage from
the eighth Psalm:

What is man that thou art mindful
of him? or the son of man, that
thou visitest him? For thou hast
made him a little lower than the
angels, and hast crowned him with
glory and honour.*'

The second major consideration to
which I would direct your attention as
another source of wonder may surprise
you. It resides in that better part of
ourselves which is manifest in the de-

sire to be helpful. Admittedly, we are
all fundamentally selfish, and like Haw-
thorne's Parson Hooper we carry on
many activities of our lives behind
impenetrable black veils. Yet, there is
in each of us that which can transcend
selfishness the capability of each
person to love and be loved to care,
to succor, to support that almost di-
vine dimension of human beings which
is utterly unexplainable. How otherwise
than through wonder do we approach
the outpouring of material treasure to
victims of hurricanes, earthquakes, or
other natural disasters? Following the
devastating flood that inundated Flor-
ence in 1966, thousands of people from
everywhere rushed in to help. The same
circumstance obtained in recent earth-
quakes in Central America. Spotted,
pock-marked, unlovely as most of us
are, characterized by complacency,
prejudice, jealously, self-seeking, or
jaundiced bitterness, we, nevertheless,
can and do rise above this stagnant fen
of pettiness and to the amazement of
those around us perform acts of altruis-
tic concern. In a word, wonder of won-
ders, we each have the capacity to love
someone. And just as surely -is the re-
verse true the almost soul-shattering
realization that there are those who can
and do love us. Mystery of mysteries
unfathomable, but so very real and
wonderful.

In a letter to his friend Benjamin
Bailey, John Keats has written:

I am certain of nothing but the
holiness of the Heart's affections
and the truth of Imagination. *-

Finally, there is still a third dimen-
sion of wonder to which I would direct
your attention this dimension being
in the realm of paradox, an area which
the dictionary defines as the "seemingly
contradictory." Of course the Christian
religion is the supreme manifestation of
this wonder in that one saves his life
by losing it or finds real freedom by
surrendering. This morning, however,
the "seemingly contradictory" proposi-
tion that I want to single out as a
source of wonder is that the ultimate
realization of self-hood can result from
completely identifying one's purposes

Dr. Edward McNair, Director of Public
Relations and Associate Professor of Eng-
lish at Agnes Scott (1952-1977), will re-
tire this spring after 25 years at the
College. After his retirement he will con-
tinue his work on the College liistory. Dr.
McNair, a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
was a summa cum laiide graduate of
Davidson College and earned his M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Emory University.
He is an active member and elder of the
Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, Atlanta,
Ga. Dr. McNair is currently a lieutenant
colonel, QMC-USAR (Ret.) having served
in the European Theater from 1943 to
1946.

and ideals with a cause or institution
greater than oneself. Last June Presi-
dent Donald W. Shriver of Union
Theological Seminary in New York in
his baccalaureate sermon here at Agnes
Scott observed that institutions are the
vehicles of culture, the preservers of all
that we treasure from the past and the
conveyors of what we hope to pass on
to the future. Thirty years ago last
June in 1946, it was my privilege to be
in this room and to hear the commence-
ment address of that year delivered by
President Francis Pendleton Gaines of
Washington and Lee University. His
topic was "On Lengthening the Radius
of Your Loyalties." Now combining the
ideas of these two addresses given here
in this Chapel thirty years apart, we
are confronted with the significance for
the individual of developing loyalties
and the importance for society of strong
institutions. I submit, therefore, that
one of the contemporary paradoxes
one of the sources of wonder is the

Ai>nes ScoU atlribLilcs: inlcllccUial and moidl inlci^rily... and
conlimiini^ coniniUnicnl to hii^h puiposcs.

ircumstance that many persons have
ound themselves by giving their loyalty

a great institution and becoming
ompletely identified with it. Illustra-
ions of this sort of identification, this
seemingly contradictory" circumstance,
:an be found in many places, but for
IS this morning I know of no better
ilace to look for such supportive evi-
lence than here at Agnes Scott itself,
ivery great person whom I have ever
;nown or known of at this College is
me for whom wonder of wonders
his institution has virtually become a
vay of life and not just a place to work
ir study. More than any other indi-
idual I have ever known at Agnes
icott. Professor Ellen Douglass Ley-
urn personified the union of the great
eacher with the constantly productive,
lublishing scholar. As the result of be-
ng an alumna of the class of 1927 and

faculty member for thirty-two years
rom 1934 to 1966, Professor Leyburn
nderstood this place, its ideals, and its
eople. Near the end of her life, she
elivered a Founder's Day address in
I'hich she spoke of what she called the
most cherishable" qualities of this
'ollege all of which are inseparably
ound up with people faculty, stu-
ents. alumnae who have realized and
re realizing themselves through this in-
;itution. Listen to what Professor Ley-
urn said these Agnes Scott attributes
re: ". . . largeness of vision . . . wisdom

1 planning . . . indomitable courage . . .
jyal devotion . . . willingness to do
ard and self-sacrificing work . . . intel-
;ctual and moral integrity . . . [and]
ontinuing commitment to high pur-
oses."!'' She concluded her address by
xpressing the hope that the whole
ignes Scott family and that means
lose of us here today might be "a
/orthy part of what Wordsworth calls
)ne great society on earth, the noble
ving and the noble dead.' "'^ And in-
eed there are in this noble Agnes Scott
ompany countless students, faculty,
dministrators, and alumnae who rise
p as one in their love for and loyalty
a this place and who wonder of
onders - have paradoxically through
lis devotion found themselves. Miss
Jannette Hopkins, as many of you

know, was the first teacher employed
in 1889 when Agnes Scott was still a
dream. She came to Decatur with the
intention of remaining one year. In-
stead, she stayed on this campus forty-
nine years the longest tenure in the
history of this institution. When Dean
Hopkins died in 1938, the faculty
adopted resolutions in tribute to her
and her long devotion to Agnes Scott.
Let me read a few sentences from these
faculty resolutions:

Miss Hopkins' long association
with this college is the moving
record of mortal life putting on
immortality through the identi-
fication of personal hopes and
satisfactions with the large imper-
sonal aims and achievements of a
great cause. The college was Miss
Hopkins' very life; it was the
channel of her creative energy; it
nourished her spirit with joy and
disciplined it to fortitude; it deep-
ened and enriched the experience
of maturing life; it was her being's
heart and home. She gave herself
to the college, and she took its
high ideals and its far-reaching
purposes for her own.'"'

Dean Hopkins lost herself and through
doing so found herself and she is
just one of many. I once heard Pro-
fessor Samuel Guerry Stukes say that
he had given his life to Agnes Scott,
and yet he was at the same time a de-
voted husband and father, a respected
and effective citizen of the community,
and an actively participating member
of his church. Indeed, this wonderful
devotion to a great institution does not
preclude other devotions. In fact, it en-
hances them. Thus, one confronts a
"seeming contradiction" which is pat-
ently unexplainable but which is so real.
Again one says mystery of mysteries
unfathomable, but so wonderful!

The late Janef Newman Preston, my
friend and colleague here at Agnes Scott,
has in her volume of poetry entitled
Upon Our Pulses a sonnet which in a
remarkable way epitomizes what I have
been trying to say. Listen:

In this exalted hour I live again
In joy I died to, walking stony

ground;
And every haunting why and

weary when
Is plummet-sunk in rapture newly

found,
For beauty once beheld and clearly

heard
In all the flames and voices of the

earth
Has spoken her eternal, inward

word.
And lo! my spirit comes to a new

birth.
Knowing that darkened eyes can

yet behold
The golden atoms in the running

sand
Knowing that love is a shelter from

the cold
And courage is a sword within the

hand.
Roused by a living voice, I wake

to feel
Sun on my frozen mind, wings on

my heel.i''

Our windows of wonder through
them the sun can shine on our frozen
minds. I can ask nothing better for this
senior class than that each member will
ever keep these windows open open
to the fabulous, to the beautiful, to the
paradoxical, to the wonderful. A

' Bryan MacMahon. "The Windows of Wonder,"
The Red Pellicoat (New York; E. P. Dutton
and Company, Inc., 1955). p. 64.

- E. E. Cummines, Six Non-Lectures (New York:

Atheneum, 1963). p. 11.
'Job. XXXVIll, passim.

' Oscar Wilde. "Lady Windermere's Fan,"
Comedies hv Oscar Wilde (New York: The
Book League of America, 1932), p. 128.
Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (New York: Har-
per and Row. 1969), p. 94.

" Ihid.. p. 98.

Rudolf Witlkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Lon-
don; The Phaidon Press, 1966), p. 1.

Clark, p. 182.

" Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), p. 134.

'" John Masefield. "The Everlasting Mercy,"
Poems (New York: The Macmillan Company,
1929), p. 88.

II Psalm VIII: 4-5.

'- John Keats, The Complete Poetical Works
<Bo.ston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899),
p. 274.

'3 Ellen Douglass Leyburn, "One Great Society,"
The Alines Scott Alumnae Quarterly, 42, No. 2
(1964). 35.

' ' Ihid.

'J. R. McCain. The Story of Agnes Scott Col-
lege. 1889-1939 (Agnes Scott College Bulletin,
ser. 36, no. 3. 1939). 50.

"Manef Newman Preston, "Sun of My Frozen
Mind," Upon Our Pulses (Francestown, New
Hampshire: The Golden (juill Press, 1964),
p. 84.

Students View

Honor System Prevails

By LYNN WILSON 77

In a day when larger institutions are
finding it increasingly difficult to govern
social and academic life on their
campuses by means of an honor sys-
tem, Agnes Scott's administration, fac-
ulty, and students still enjoy the
privileges and responsibilities of an
honor system. Students still pledge their
work, enjoy self-scheduled examina-
tions, leave dormitory doors unlocked,
and trust their fellow students.

In writing an article about the Honor
System which will be read by alumnae
who instituted the system, lived under
it, and served on various judicial
boards, I wish first to express my ap-
preciation to you who have given to us,
the current students, a unique and en-
joyable form of community life. When
we as students tell friends at other
schools how Agnes Scott uses its honor
system on a daily basis and cite our
freedoms, they are generally impressed.
There are those, however, who respond
in disbelief, or who find such a com-
munity "PoUyannaish" and incompat-
ible with "the real world'" (however
one chooses to define that phrase).
These are perhaps the sorts of reactions
alumnae encounter in talking with
friends and prospective students and to
these I would like to respond.

If one reads the Honor Pledge, it is
clear that, in a paraphrase by a David-
son College administrator, things at
Agnes Scott are not as they are in "the
real world," things are as they should
be, for the pledge states.

As a member of the Student Body
of Agnes Scott College, I consider
myself bound by honor to develop
and uphold high standards of hon-
esty and behavior; to strive for full
intellectual and moral stature: to
realize my social and academic re-
sponsibility in the community. To
attain these ideals, I do therefore
accept this Honor System as my
way of life.
To believe that every student is a per-
son of integrity is an idealistic stance
that many colleges are not able to
take. The Honor System, based on this

Lxnii Wilson meels with Dean Kirkland

concept, is a reality at Agnes Scott for
at least three reasons. First, the com-
munity governed by this system is
composed of young women who have
chosen to come to Agnes Scott and to
accept its way of life. These young
women have, in addition, been selected
to join the commimity because of their
past achievements. They are capable
and willing to accept the responsibilities
inherent in an honor system. Second, as
you know, the college is a small one
where students know the other students
and the professors personally. To vio-
late the honor system, therefore, is to
take advantage of a friend. Third, the
regulations that are a part of the honor
system are only those deemed essential
to the functioning of a community of
people who are living together and
working toward common goals. Thus,
the honor system is both idealistic and
realistic in its expectations.

Admittedly, we as members of Amer-
ican society today do not have the op-
portunity to experience mutual trust
and respect among all citizens or self-
government through "responsible free-
dom." It is, perhaps, an adjustment to
leave Agnes Scott and many of us find

it hard to remember to lock everything
and keep a careful watch on our hand-
bags in public. Yet, the experience of
living within a community where one
can trust one's peers and can respond
to positive expectations of personal con-
duct is significant. It encourages stu-
dents to respect themselves and to ex-
pect the best in themselves and in
others. The honor system is a part of
the purpose of Agnes Scott, for it "cul-
tivate[s] in the student a sense of re-
sponsibility to the society in which she
lives both within the college com-
munity and beyond" (Student Hand-
book p. 10).

Winston Churchill in the House of
Commons, 1940, stated:

The only guide to a man is his
conscience; the only shield to his
memory is the rectitude and sin-
cerity of his actions. It is very im-
prudent to walk through life with-
out this shield, because we are so
often mocked by the failure of our
hopes and the upsetting of our
calculations; but with this shield,
however the fates may play, we
march always in the ranks of
honor.

Departmental Update:

CHEMISTRY

By DR. MARION CLARK, Chairman

In the years just after the public dis-
closure of the principles and mechan-
ism of nuclear fission, as dramatized by
the atomic bombs of 1945, it was not
unusual to hear the suggestion that the
chemistry books would all have to be
rewritten and courses changed to ac-
commodate these new findings to keep
in step with the "Atomic Age."

As a matter of fact, certain chapters
in the texts did have to be rewrit-
ten. Some were expanded to include
atomic fission, more about radioisotopes
and the potential for nuclear power.
Where possible, laboratories were ar-
ranged to include at least a demonstra-
tion of radiation from unstable iso-
topes. However, compared to its impact
on international politics, the direct
effect of the advent of atomic energy
upon the undergraduate chemistry cur-
riculum was remarkably small.

Nevertheless, the intensive research
activity, both fundamental and de-
velopmental, which arose in response to
wartime needs of the early forties gave
the whole body of science a tremen-
dous momentum. The theory of the
nature of matter at both the atomic and
the rpoleeular level was becoming more
self-consistent, more accurate and more
predictive. Because of this there emerged
a recognition of properties of matter so
subtle that only a few years earlier they
had either not been identified or, if
identified, had not been measured satis-
factorily for lack of adequate instru-
mentation.

It has been, in fact, the developments
in the realm of instrumentation, par-
ticularly the innovations and improve-
ments in electronics which have made
possible the great changes in the me-
thodology of chemistry and have ne-
cessitated corresponding changes in the
teaching of chemistry.

Some of the same kinds of advances
in electronics which have made the
pocket calculator available have been
applied to instruments for the chem-
istry laboratory. As a result, certain
pieces of equipment that seemed too
expensive ten years ago or too esoteric
for an undergraduate laboratory have

Dr. Clark and Dr. White assist students i4sing tlie N.MR spectrometer and IR spectro-
photometers. Dr. Clark, department chairman since 1973 and member of the faculty
since 1963, earned his B.A. and M..4. degrees from Emory and his Ph.D. from the
University of Virginia.

become virtual necessities at the level
of a good college.

Fortunately, funds from the College,
heavily augmented by grants from in-
dustry, governmental agencies, and
foundations, particularly a grant of

fifty-thousand dollars in 1974 from one
of the Woodruff foundations, have
made it possible for the Chemistry De-
partment to keep fully abreast of the
developments in chemical instrumenta-
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CHEMISTRY

(continued)

Dr. Clark chcckx / r,7\ ;i ISuhcock'.s
technique with the high performance
liquid chromatograph.

Jasmine Choy and Dr. Alice Cunning-
ham observe Beth Doscher demon-
strating her program on the computer.

tion appropriate for a strong under-
graduate program.

Long before I came here to teach,
one of the impressive things I had
heard about chemistry at Agnes Scott
was that even the freshmen in chem-
istry weighed their samples to the
fourth decimal place! After getting to
know Dr. Frierson, who headed the de-
partment from 1946 to 1973, I knew
why and after seeing that beautiful ar-
ray of Christian Becker Chainomatic
balances in the freshman balance room
I knew how it was done.

In 1964, with a grant from NSF, Dr.
Frierson replaced those chainomatics
with "automatic" single-pan balances
because they are much faster and be-
cause this is the type of balance a stu-
dent is most likely to encounter in a
research laboratory. In 1976, Dr. Alan
White, who now teaches this first
course, brought those chainomatics out
of storage and began to require that in
the introductory analytical course each
student do a certain number of her ex-
periments with the "old fashioned"
balance. Although he recently finished
his doctorate at M. I. T., he believes,
along with some other more established
chemical educators that experience with
the older balance provides an unusually
effective way to develop a person's
"touch" with any delicate instrument.
(I have to add that this learning ex-
perience is acutely enhanced when it is
performed with Mrs. Mary Walker
(Wm. C.) Fox looking over your shoul-
der and threatening to reward any faux
pas with multiple extinction.)

The laboratory work for the first
three quarters of chemistry now in-
cludes experiments in which the student
has "hands on" experience with radia-
tion counters, pH meters, spectrophoto-
meters and the department's mini com-
puter. In the introductory organic
laboratory students use the basic gas
chromatograph to monitor the purity of
liquid samples they produce and, with
supervision, they run simple unknowns
on the nuclear magnetic resonance
spectrometer.

NMR spectroscopy depends upon the
fact, first reported in 1951, that the
exact radiofrequency absorbed by an
atomic nucleus held in a magnetic field
is dependent to a small, but measurable,
extent upon its electromagnetic environ-
ment within the molecule of which it is
a part. With an instrument "tuned in"
for hydrogen atoms, it makes possible a
straightforward correlation between the
(hydrogen) NMR spectrum of a mole-
cule and the exact location of the
hydrogen atoms within that molecule.
Thus, it has become a powerful tool for
organic chemists for the recognition of
compounds which are already known
and for the elucidation of structures of
new compounds which have never been
described before.

The early NMR spectrometers were
monsters which required a room or a
suite for adequate housing but, thanks
to high-flux permanent magnets and
solid-state electronics, our model is bet-
ter than the early ones and is about the
size of a console TV. The students in
the Organic Qualitative Analysis course
love the NMR but they still have to
make those derivatives. We try to give
them the best of both worlds by com-
bining good technique and careful ob-
servation at the bench with the power-
ful insights into molecular structure
available through instrumental methods.

Dr. Frierson brought international
recognition to the department in the
fifties with his work on the paper
chromatography of inorganic com-
pounds. Through outside support of his
work he brought into the department in
1958 the first really modern analytical
instrument, the Beckman DU spectro-
photometer, still regarded as one of the
best for certain applications and still in
very good condition.

After a year's temporary appointment
in 1966, followed by a year of post-
doctoral experience at the University of
Texas, Dr. Alice Cunningham (Ph.D.
1966, Emory) joined the faculty on a
permanent basis and began a vigorous
effort to bring modern instrumentation

to the Advanced Analytical and Phy-
sical Chemistry courses which she came
to teach. The laboratories of these
courses now include instruments for
polarography, controlled potential elec-
trolysis, cyclic voltammetry, recording
UV-Visible spectrophotometry, spectro-
fluorimetry, infrared spectrophotometry,
high precision conductimetry, gas chro-
matography (one with thermal conduc-
tivity detector and one with FID and
programmed temperature controls), and
atomic absorption spectrometry. In ad-
dition these labs use the departmental
computer, Digital Equipment Com-
pany's PDPS/s, which has been modi-
fied for on-line data acquisition, analog
plotting and has been equipped with a
magnetic tape cartridge attachment for
extra storage.

Our majors usually take the second
and third quarter of Physical Chemistry
and the two-quarter course in Ad-
vanced Analytical Chemistry concur-
rently. Since most of these instruments
are all in the same physical space it is
virtually impossible for the casual ob-
server to tell whether, at any given
time, a student is doing a lab in Phy-
sical or Advanced Analytical. Here the
students see for themselves that the
divisions in the discipline, however con-
venient for purposes of administration,
are by no means real at the level of
fundamentals and applications.

In addition to those already men-
tioned, the department acquired in
1975 one more instrument, the High
Performance Liquid Chromatograph
with both refractive index and vari-
able wavelength U.V. -Visible detectors.
While an introduction to this instru-
ment is included in the advanced
analytical course, it is finding tremen-
dous usefulness in the investigation of
organic reactions.

While the basic sequence of required
courses is designed to give students
knowledge of the principles of opera-
tion and applications of all of these
instruments, any major having the de-

sire to gain a deeper knowledge of them
and special expertise in their use can
usually arrange for this by requesting
departmental approval to register for
"Directed Study," Chemistry 410. In
other cases, the student taking "Inde-
pendent Study" may find herself using
one or more of these instruments ex-
tensively in her research.

Dr. Alan White (Ph.D. 1974, M.I.T.)
joined the department in 1975 and, in
addition to teaching General Chemistry
and Introductory Analytical Chemistry,
he has expanded the course in In-
organic Chemistry from one to two
quarters and has included laboratory
work in both quarters to introduce stu-
dents to the special techniques of that
field. This lab is located in the room
that for many years served as Dr. Frier-
son's laboratory for research in paper
chromatography. Returning alumnae
will be surprised to see the array of
vacuum lines and other special appar-
atus for conducting reactions in the
absence of air or at very low tempera-
tures. Here students experience some of
the newest methods of synthesis. Along
with this they reinforce their knowledge
of fundamentals by returning to the
UV, IR and NMR spectrometers for
structural information.

Any account of changes in the depart-
ment would be incomplete without tak-
ing specific note of the retirement of
Dr. W. Joe Frierson in June 1975. At
a dinner in his honor that spring the
establishment of the W. Joe Frierson
Fund for the support of student re-
search in summers was announced and
appropriate but inadequate tributes
were paid him in recognition of his
years of service to the college and his
remarkable record of achievement in
teaching, departmental administration
and research. Much of the progress
detailed in this update can be attrib-
uted, directly or indirectly, to his own
effort and to the inspiration he has
given those whom he chose to work
with him.

Mrs. Fi>.\ and Lesley Garrison look
on as Diane Bcaiuloin uses the pH
meter.

Dr. White lectures to his General
Chemistry class.

OurWomer

A NUMBER of Agnes Scott alumnae
were active in the Jimmy Carter cam-
paign for the Presidency and attended
the recent Inauguration in Washington.
Two of them are, indeed, members of
the Carter family. Judy Langford Car-
ter x'71 is the wife of Jack Carter, the
President's oldest son, and Laurie Car-
ter Tharpe "68 is the daughter of Hugh
Carter, Sr., the President's first cousin.
Another alumna, LaBelle David Lance
x'52, is the wife of Bert Lance, the new
Director of the Office of Management
and Budget. Susan Ratchford Granum
'72 recently married Carter's Deputy
Press Secretary, Re.x Granum.

Some other alumnae who cam-
paigned for Carter are now living in
Washington and working with the new
Administration. Becky Hendrix '72,

Carter family: standing (I to r). Chip,
Caron, Jack, Judy x'71; seated, Roselyn,
Jimmy, Annette, Jeff, and Amy

Labelle David Lance x'52

Cynthia Wilke

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n Washington

Becky Hendrix '72

Susan Ratchjord Granum '72

ho has been the receptionist for the
al Office in the White House, has
new job as an aide to Presidential
Vssistant Hamilton Jordan. Cynthia
Vilkes '73 is the youngest assistant to
ack Watson, Secretary to the Cabinet.

retta DeWald "50 was a delegate to
he Democratic Convention and Juliana
Vinters '72 was an alternate delegate;
oth were members of the "Peanut
irigade." Juliana now travels with Judy

arter to some of her speaking engage-
lents.
Also attending the Inauguration were

arolyn Bitter "76, who works for U.S.
enator Sam Nunn, Sylvia Williams
ngram '52, Education Chairman for
he Alumnae Association, and Mary
Duckworth Gellerstedt '46, President of
he Alumnae Association.

Gretta Moll DeWald '50

Juliana Winters '72

Laurie Carter Tharpe '6

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Professor of English Dies

Dr. Margret Trailer (1908-1977)

Dr. Margret Trotter, beloved pro-
fessor of English at Agnes Scott, died
March 28, 1977. Miss Trotter was a
member of the Agnes Scott faculty
from 1944 until her death. A native of
Staunton. Virginia, she was educated at
Wellesley College and Columbia Uni-
versity and received her Ph.D. from
Ohio State University. She had pub-
lished a number of short stories, articles
and book reviews and had edited one
book, "Robert Frost: Read and Re-
membered." She was a member of the
Modern Language Association, the
American Association of University
Professors, the Atlanta Wellesley Club
and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
The entire campus community is
deeply saddened by her passing. An
appropriate tribute is planned for the
summer Quarterly at which time the
Writers Festival honoring Miss Trotter
will be reported.

Fund Established to Aid Students with Ph^/sical Disabilities

Among the Agnes Scott graduates in
1919 Julia Ingram demonstrated that
perseverance could overcome hardships.
At an age of 28 she was the oldest
member of the class. Hampered by
poor eyesight she had not entered
college until she was past the normal
age of graduates. In fact, her mother
had to read to her many of her assign-
ments.

Because her mother was a diabetic
prior to the discovery of insulin for its
treatment, the daughter chose chemistry
for her major and later served in that
department as a teaching assistant to
Professor Sam Guy.

Although she was born in Columbus,
on March 2, 1891, her family soon
moved to Atlanta where she lived until
she graduated from Agnes Scott. She
then moved to New York to study
dietetics at Bellevue Hospital Clinic and
to earn her M.S. degree from Teachers'
College, Columbia University. She then
served as an instructor in the Phila-
delphia Womens Medical College.

In 1921 she married Linwood B.
Hazzard, an insurance adjuster whose

family had been neighbors in Atlanta.
For almost a half century they lived in
or near New York from where he was
accessible for frequent assignments
throughout the world. She became a
leader in many volunteer causes, many
of which, such as the Red Cross and
hospital service, dealt with human need.
For two decades she served as a trustee
of the historic Association Residency
for Women. As a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
she was called upon to lead many of
its projects. As a Republican, she was
active in politics on different levels and
served for several years as a State Com-
mitteewoman.

In 1974 the Hazzards returned to
Georgia and had lived in Columbus.
Prior to her death on February 14,
1977, Mrs. Hazzard had provided in
her will for the establishment of the
Julia Ingram Hazzard and Linwood B.
Hazzard Scholarship Fund at Agnes
Scott. Preference in these awards will
be given to students with physical
disability.

Julia Ingram Hazzard '19

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On The Campus

Applicants Weekend

Students from throughout the United
States who have appHed to Agnes Scott
were invited to Applicants' Weekend at
the College April 14-16. Guests lived
in the dormitories with Agnes Scott
students, attended classes in academic
fields of their choice, attended the an-
nual spring concert of the Agnes Scott
Glee Club and Music Department, and
met informally with faculty members.

Black History Week

Students for Black Awareness at
Agnes Scott sponsored several events
for Black History Week in February.
Monica Kaufman, a black television
news anchorwoman, spoke to the Col-
lege community about the present
struggle of blacks and advised the black
students to work to eliminate the subtle
forms of discrimination still operating
in American society. Students for Black
Awareness presented "Creations in
Ebony." their own program of poetry,
dance, and music by black artists.

Guest Speaker

Ms. Ann Av.\nt Crichton. 1961 grad-
uate of Agnes Scott and newly elected
Mayor of Decatur spoke on campus in
January on the topic, "Women in
Politics and Public Office."

Faculty-Student Groups

Representative Council of the Stu-
dent Government Association is spon-
soring informal interest groups lead by
faculty who have volunteered to share
their hobbies with students. Students
may join faculty for gardening, dance
concerts, antique shopping, spelunking,
backgammon and bridge, furniture
making, fencing, jogging, tennis, golf,
and hiking, German conversation, non-
fiction writing, flying, and other
interests.

Chimo

Chimo, a club of foreign and American
Agnes Scott students, sponsors informal

gatherings such as a dessert party for
freshmen. United Nations Day activi-
ties, and a party with foreign students
from Georgia Tech, Georgia State and
Emory Universities, and the Villa In-
ternational conimimity in Atlanta. For-
eign students at Agnes Scott this year
are from Nigeria, Indonesia, Korea,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Turkey, France,
Spain, Germany, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerland, Niccaragua, Guatemala,
and Panama.

Assertiveness Training

The Acnes Scott chapter of Mortar
Board lead a seminar winter quarter in
assertiveness training for all interested
students. A film was shown of vignettes
of various situations in human relations.
After each vignette student groups lead
by Mortar Board members discussed
how they could have responded asser-
tively in that situation.

Energy Crisis Discussion

The Economics and Sociology Depart-
ment and the History and Political
Science Department have planned for
May a day-long, campus-wide discus-
sion of the national energy crisis.

Political Science

Students in the fall quarter political
science course on American political
parties, taught by Dr. Gus Cochran,
worked two hours a week in campaigns
of their choice.

Interdepartmental Course

The philosophy and the political science
faculty next year offer an interdepart-
mental course entitled "Mar.x and the
Varieties of Socialism."

Bible and Religion

The Bible and Religion Department has
added to its curriculum the seminar,
"Woman in the Bible and in the Judeo-
Christian Tradition," to be taught by
Dr. Mary Boney Sheats, department
chairman.

German

In April the German Department and
the Goethe Institute Atlanta, the Ger-
man cultural institute, co-sponsor the
exhibit Die Fran. The exhibit, which
will be shown in the Agnes Scott li-
brary, is composed of 900 books in
German and three German films with
English subtitles.

Economics

The Winter quarter economics class
in "Theories of Economic Organiza-
tion," taught by Dr. William H. Weber,
visited several corporations to observe
how production is organized and super-
vised. The department has added to its
curriculum a new course entitled "Corp-
orate Finance."

Biology

The ecology class spring quarter will
take a field trip to the sandhills of
south Georgia, the Hatch Nuclear
Power Plant, the Okefenokee Swamp,
and to the estuaries and coastal areas of
northeast Florida. This summer the
Biology Department offers, for aca-
demic credit, under the direction of
assistant professor Tom Simpson, a
field trip course in marine biology that
will take students to research sites in
Florida and the Bahama Islands.

Education

Dr. Lawrence Hepburn, assistant pro-
fessor of education, visited schools in
Liningrad, Moscow, and Talinn in De-
cember as a participant in a professional
seminar.

History

On-site learning in England and
Scotland awaits Agnes Scott students
who take a six-week course this sum-
mer in the "Social History of Tudor
and Stuart England." Teaching the
course will be Dr. Michael J. Brown,
a native of England and chairman of
the Agnes Scott History and Political
Science Department.

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With The Clubs

Barrow/

Gwinnett/

Newton

President Emeritus Wallace Alston
was the guest speaker at the B.G.N.
(Barrow/ Gwinnett/ Newton) February
meeting and covered-dish luncheon. Dr.
and Mrs. Alston now reside in this
area, and Madelaine is a member of
the club.

Birmingham

The Founder's Day Luncheon of the
Birmingham Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
was held on February 19, 1977, at "The
Club" atop Red Mountain with thirty-
seven alumnae present. Newly elected
officers are: Jane Davis Mahon '67,
president; Florrie Lee Erb Bruton '36,
vice president; Caroline Mitchell Smith
'70, secretary; and Pauline Willoughby
Wood '30, treasurer.

Dr. Michael Brown, chairman of the
history department, presented a slide
show and gave an entertaining account
of the alumnae trip to England last
summer.

Columbia

The Columbia Agnes Scott Alumnae
Club gathered for its annual Founder's
Day Luncheon at the Gate House
Restaurant in Columbia on February
12, 1977. Fifty-seven reservations were
made for the occasion. Following the
social hour, luncheon, and brief busi-
ness meeting. President Emeritus Wal-
lace Alston spoke on the founder and
history and uniqueness of ASC. Bonnie
Johnson of the Admissions Office spoke
about today's campus, and led a brief
question and answer period.

Club President Jackie Rountree An-
drews reports that the speakers were
most informative and enjoyable.

Dallas-Fort Worth

Dr. Michael Brown, of the Agnes
Scott Department of History, presented

a delightful slide show of the 1976
alumnae trip to England and Scotland
to the Dallas-Fort Worth Alumnae
Club on February 25, 1977, at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Jack Ed-
wards, the parents of Tricia Edwards
Hight '71. Twenty-six members, their
husbands, and friends attended the pro-
gram and dessert-coffee. New officers
elected at the meeting are Anne Sylves-
ter Booth '54, president, and Lucy
Hamilton Lewis "68, secretary-treasurer.

Decatur

The Decatur Agnes Scott Club ob-
served Foimder's Day on February 23.
After gathering for coffee in Rebekah
Reception room, the group joined the
College community in Pressor Hall to
hear President Emeritus Wallace Alston
deliver the Founder's Day Address to
an appreciative audience.

Florence, S.C.

The Florence, S.C, Agnes Scott alum-
nae, now an "official" club, met Feb-
ruary 27 at the home of Elinor Tyler
Richardson '39 for an annual get-
together in honor of Foimder's Day.
The club selected as its officers: Carl-
anna Lindamood Hendrick '58, presi-
dent; Elinor Tyler Richardson, vice
president; and Llewellyn Bellamy Hines
'59, secretary. Other members present
at the meeting were: Leonora Briggs
Bellamy '29, Elizabeth Hammond Stev-
ens '61, Lucy Goss Herbert '34, Willa
Jeanette Hanna x-74, Mary Wells Mc-
Neill '39, and Ruth Brody Greenberg
x-41.

Jacksonville

During the Christmas holidays the
Jacksonville Alumnae Club entertained

prospective students at an informal
gathering at the home of Club President
Deedie Merrin Simmons '47. Deedie
says that the Agnes Scott students who
assisted were bright and enthusiastic.

Tidewater

The Tidewater Agnes Scott Alumnae
met Saturday, February 26, 1977, for
a "Bring Your Own Salad Luncheon,"
at the home of Molli Oliver Mertel '41.
Members enjoyed a discussion of ways
the College has influenced their adult
lives.

Toledo-Detroit

On November 6, 1976, the Toledo-
Detroit Agnes Scott Alumnae Club met
at the home of Mary McConkey Taylor
'28, and afterwards enjoyed lunch to-
gether at the St. Clair Shores Country
Club.

Tri-Cities

Virginia Brown McKenzie, Director
of Alumnae Affairs, was the guest
speaker February 19 when alumnae in
the Tri-Cities area gathered for a cov-
ered dish luncheon at the home of
Laura Dryden Taylor '57. Club Presi-
dent Sue Wright Shull '70 says "It was
good to hear news of the campus and
to get suggestions about ways we can
help the College." The club plans a
dinner meeting in Abingdon, Va., next
year and will invite husbands and
friends to meet Dr. and Mrs. Perry.

ASC Club News

More Founder's Day meetings will be
reported in the summer issue of the
Alumnae Quarterly.

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Alumna Fashions Lifestyle FromTwo Cultures

Dr. Winifred L. Wirkus ('69)
transferred from Agnes Scott
in her junior year to pursue
studies in Asian history. In
1974 she was awarded a Ph.D.
from Cornell in economics and
Asian studies. While at Cornell,
she met and married Subandl
Djajengwasito, a Ph.D. candi-
date in linguistics from East
Java, Indonesia. The Djajeng-
wasitos and their three children
are now living in Malang, East
Java. Winnie is preparing to
begin work as economic con-
sultant for the Brantas River
Multipurpose Project (the Indo-
nesian equivalent of TV A) and
as guest lecturer in economics
at the IKIP. Here she writes of
lier life in Indonesia.

Middle-class life in a small
city in East Java bears little
resemblance to the ethereal
scenes you see in National
Geographic. We live in a house
in the suburbs and have pri-
marily Javanese neighbors. Our
home is, by local standards, a
curious combination of luxury
and privation. The side and
back walls of our house also
serve as the side and back
walls of our neighbors' houses.
We have a TV, an electric
refrigerator and an LPG stove.
But the "stove" bears more re-
semblance to a Coleman camp-
ing stove than to the American
idea of burners on top of an
oven. If the refrigerator is
running when we want to watch

TV, we have to turn off all
the lights in the house. Other-
wise, the initial surge of the
TV will overload our 500-watt
allotment of electricity. We
have a flush toilet (definitely a
Western luxury) but no running
water. Instead, we have a hand
pump. We have a maid who has
taught both the children and
me quite a bit of Indonesian.

Credit purchasing is almost
non-existent for the middle
class because interest rates are
prohibitive. Few families can
afford a lump-sum payment for
a car, so we use bicycles, motor
scooters, or public transporta-
tion.

Here there are no "grocery
stores" as we know them in the
U. S. Instead, there are three
ways to shop. There are small
"tokos" for staples, canned
goods, and imported foods.
Then there is the "pasar" for
perishables. For me, used to
American packaged foods, the
first times at the "pasar" were
traumatic. Vegetables come with
roots and dirt still attached.
Meat is cut in hunks off a leg
or quarter of beef, and chick-
ens are sold live. You have to
bargain but, everybody knows
the appropriate prices. The
third way of shopping makes it
possible for a housewife to
manage her house without ever
leaving it, through the use of
itinerant peddlars. Each day
men and women come around

with baskets of perishables,
rice, cassava, or fruits, carried
on their heads or over a yoke
on their shoulders.

My husband is a dosen
(lecturer) in linguistics and
English at the IKIP (Govern-
ment Teachers' College). So,
many of our social contacts
are with other academic peo-
ple, who tend to be much the
same anywhere. Here, no one
seems to entertain at small, in-
formal dinners. Either you
drop in (without calling first)
or go to a formal party. With
our neighbors, contacts are
primarily chats over the fence
in the evening, while the chil-
dren are all playing together in
the street (nobody at our end
of the street owns a car, so it's
safe). If there is an "event"
in a family, like a marriage,
birth, serious illness, or death,
however, all the ladies of the
neighborhood assemble and
call en masse.

Our life is not entirely "typi-
cal" Javanese, but neither is it
typically expatriate American.
We are trying, as we did in
America, to find the best in
both cultures from which to
fashion a lifestyle that is mod-
eled solely on neither. I find
that many of the values most
important to me now, in fac-
ing my new situation, are
those to which I was exposed
during my years at Agnes
Scott.

Deaths

1929

1949

Dorothy Brown Cantrell (Mrs. Ann Carol Blanton Howard

John H., Jr., October 21, 1976. (Mrs. Dean), April 10, 1976.

Dorothy Kethlcy Klughuupt,

M.D., November 16, 1976.

Doran W. Hess, husband of
Mary Duke Hess. October 20,
1976.

1933

Mrs. George M. Napier, mother
of Eulalia Napier Sutton, No-
vember, 1976.

1935

Hester Anne Withers Boyd

(Mrs. Harwell, Jr.), October
28, 1976.

Samuel W. Norwood, husband
of Ida Lois McDaniel Norwood,
March 4. 1976.

1936

Mrs. George M. Napier, mother
of Francis Napier Jones, No-
vember, 1976.

1942

Allie Leonora Malone, mother
of Allie Malone Pate, January
3, 1977.

1945

J. Kenneth Brown, husband of
Elizabeth Farmer Brown, No-
vember 22, 1975.
Martha Jean Gowcr Woolscy
(Mrs. W. Warren), November
24, 1976.

Mrs. George M. Napier, No-
James T. Heery, father of vember, 1976.
Genet Heery Barron (Mrs.
Lindsey), November 15, 1976.

1952

Lois Maclntyre Beall, mother
of Lilliam Beall Lumpkin (Mrs.
Murray B.), and mother-in-law
of Adelaide Ryall Beall (Mrs.
Daniel M.), November 22,
1976.

1956

Reid Erwin, husband of Alice
Ann Klostermeyer Erwin, Oc-
tober 26, 1976.

1957

D. Brantley Burns, father of
Suzella Burns Newsome (Mrs.
James D., Jr.), January 1,
1977.

1959

Cecil Johnson, father of Rosa-
lind Johnson McGee (Mrs. Zell
A.), December 31, 1976.

1964

Julius Anderson, father of Eve
Anderson Earnest (Mrs. Wil-
liam M.), October 27, 1976.

1966

Benjamin Pierce Towers, son
of Nancy Bland Towers, June
16, 1976.

1973

Dr. R. F. Burch, father of
Margaret Sue Burch, October,
1976.

Special

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From the Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie 47

Becauseyou are special to us

The alumnae are the finest resource the College has for
promoting the name and purpose of Agnes Scott College,
for helping with the recruiting of new students, for assist-
ing with the shadow program, and for providing funds
for scholarships, for endowment, and for campus opera-
tion. The College knows this well. And because the Col-
lege continually calls on her alumnae to give time, talent,
and legal tender, the College knows it has an obligation
to reciprocate. It must evince appreciation and provide
services. For alumnae are like all living things. They
require cultivation and nutriment.

I'd like to point out to you three really outstanding
Alumnae Association services which must be utilized
before the end of this coming June. They are the Alum-
nae Association Trip to Hawaii, The Family Seminar on
:ampus, and the Alumnae Directory which will be mailed
to you upon receipt of your contribution to the College.

The trip to Hawaii is not only a pleasure trip. It offers
a special learning experience to its participants, for we
asked advice from our own Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, who
suggested that the celebrations on Kamehameha Day are
sspecially beautiful; so we have scheduled our trip for
that festive time. Furthermore, the Agnes Scott alumnae
and their friends will have the best company possible, for
we have persuaded busy Marvin and Ellen Perry to take
this trip with the alumnae. We are planning to invite our

alumnae from Hawaii to have lunch with us one day
while we are there. A brochure has been mailed.

Another Alumnae Association service is the Family
Seminar scheduled for this June 23-26. Alumnae and
their friends may live on campus or commute. This semi-
nar can be planned for a short family vacation. Where
else can you get three meals a day, a place to stay,
recreational facilities, a fine library, lectures, and mean-
ingful discussion groups for $25.00 per day per person?
Remember that we are near busy cosmopolitan Atlanta
in case you want to do some sightseeing. Complete in-
formation with a registration form will be mailed to each
alumna during the month of April.

Then the Alumnae Directory, the first in twenty-nine
years, is now printed and available to all alumnae who
contribute to The Agnes Scott Fund during this fiscal
year (July 1, 1976-June 30, 1977). We hope this publi-
cation will be of service to you and help us increase
the percentage of alumnae giving this year. We have
received commendations for this effort. After circulation
of the Directory one alumna said she had received calls
from old friends and had called many former classmates.
She wrote, "TTie Directory is the best thing since hot
grits!"

We invite you to participate in these programs and
welcome your suggestions for new services. The Alumnae
Office phone is (404) 373-2571, ext. 207.

Letter to the Editor:

Dear Editor,

Reading the class news has prompted
me to write and express feelings that have
been smoldering for a long time. One per-
son wrote "No exciting job or grad de-
grees just the usual round of Cub
Scouts, Little League, PTA ..." I am a
teacher of exceptional children and can
think of no greater degree or more de-
manding or exciting job than that of being
involved with your children and other
children. Reflecting on the number of
children who come from one-parent homes
or from homes where there is no interest
in the child, or there is illness or trouble.

and knowing that such people as our
alumnae are influencing some of these chil-
dren makes me feel good. . . .

Many classmates have made outstanding
contributions to society and these people
should be commended. Some of our class-
mates have the personality, stamina, drive,
devotion, and intellect to write, obtain
higher degrees, hold public offices, do
outstanding social work. This letter does
not in any way mean to criticize these
people. All 1 am trying to say is thank
you to those of you whose circle of in-
fluence is smaller.

God gives us different gifts and as a
teacher 1 would like to say thank you to
mothers. Their job is not easy and thank
yous come very rarely. Often it is years

before you mothers see the fruits of your
labor. But those of us who work with
children daily do see the result of the
small things you do. . . .

I read with interest and pride the ac-
complishments of our graduates and wel-
comed the change to describing their
achievements rather than those of their
husbands. But it also gives me a very
special feeling of comfort and reassurance
to know some of these same gifted people
are using their gifts in other ways. Ways
that may lead a little child to become the
best man or woman he or she can be-
come. . . .

Sincerely,

Ninalee Warren '64

Atlanta, Georgia

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030

^ouNoev<^

ABOUT THE COVER:

Glass bottle of the first century, A.D.,
from Pompeii, acquired by the late Pro-
fessor of Classics Lillian Smith.

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY STAFF:
Editor / Virginia Brown McKenzie '47
Managing Editor/Jan Brisendine Funsten "76
Class News Editor /Jennifer Driscoll '78
Design Consultant / John Stuart McKenzie

ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF:

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Virginia Brown McKenzie "47

Associate Director

Betty Medlock Lackey '42

Assistant to the Director

Jan Brisendine Funsten '76

Secretary

Frances Strother

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:

President/ Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt "46

Vice Presidents
Region I/Caroline Reinero Kemmerer '54
Region II/Margaret Ward Abernethy Martin '59
Region III/Lou Pate Jones '39
Region IV/Peggy Hooker Hartwein '53

Secretary/Mary Jervis Hayes '67

Treasurer/Julia LaRue Orwig '73

Member/Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.

Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter,
Spring, and Summer by Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Office, Decatur, Georgia 30030.

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In Memoriam:

Laura Mayes Steele, 1915-1977

An Appreciation by W. Edward McNair

Classical Languages and
Literatures, 1977

by Dr. Elizabeth Zenn, Chairman

Eudora Welty Reads
to Full House

by Randy Norton Kratt '58

Margaret Trotter Remembered

by Nathalie FitzSimons Anderson '70

1977 Alumnae Weekend

Washington and Lee
Honors President Perry

Two Buses Roll to
Historic Columbus

With the Clubs

Bookcase

From the Classes

IN MtMORIAM

Laura Majes Steele

1915-1977

An Appreciation by W. Edward McNair

For approximately forty years Agnes
Scott and Laura Steele have been al-
most synonymous terms. The College
was a principal element in her life, and
she in turn left an indelible impress on
hundreds of people who knew her as a
key member of Agnes Scott's adminis-
tration. After she graduated from Agnes
Scott in 1937, she became in 1938
secretary to President James Ross Mc-
Cain. In time, she was named assistant
registrar to Professor Samuel Guerry
Stukes. President Wallace M. Alston
in the first year of his administration
appointed Miss Steele to be director of
admissions, and when Dean Stukes re-
tired in 1957, she became registrar as
well; thus for many years thereafter, she
simultaneously filled two full-time ad-
ministrative posts. When her unexpected
and sudden death occurred on June
17, 1977, Laura Steele was still Agnes
Scott's highly efficient registrar.

Miss Steele and I worked together at
Agnes Scott for a quarter of a century,
and during those years I came to know

her very well. As I think back about
her. three sterling qualities come im-
mediately to mind. First, Laura Steele
was a person wholly devoted to duty.
Whatever job she was called upon to
do she did it completely and well. The
word "overtime" was not a part of her
vocabulary. If she was responsible, she
staved with her work until it was
finished. Early in the morning and late
in the evening, she was busy at Agnes
Scott. For years one could find her in
her office almost every Sunday after-
noon. During the time that she was
director of admissions, she even had a
dictaphone at home and departed in
the evening with a stack of correspond-
ence to be handled and returned the
next morning with dictabelts ready for
her several secretaries. She seemed to
thrive on work, and she never shirked
her duty to Agnes Scott.

Secondly. Laura Steele was the
epitome of high standards. Excellence
was a hallmark with her. She despised
gadgetry and sham and gave such short

cuts a wide berth. If an academic re-
quirement made certain demands. Miss
Steele was always insistent that these
demands be fully met. In many ways
she served as Agnes Scott's academic
conscience, and by so being she won
the respect of faculty, students, and
alumnae alike.

Finally, she was the most accurate
person I ever knew. The precision with
which she kept the College's academic
records is legendary. No detail was too
insignificant for her scrutiny. Around
Agnes Scott it was general knowledge
that she was the best proofreader on
the campus. Someone has said that
"trifles make perfection and perfection
is no trifle." Certainly Laura Steele
aimed for perfection, and the constant
excellence of her work attested to her
unceasing attention to detail.

Such was Laura Steele. For four dec-
ades she served her alma mater. So
effective was her service that Agnes
Scott may never see her like again. A

Contiihiitions may be sent to The Laura Steele Fund, Agnes Scott College. Decatur. Georgia 30030.

At Agnes Scott College

Professor Elizabeth Zenn earned her B.A.
from Allegheny College and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Two MILLENNIA have distinguished and
preserved the best in Classical literature
and obscured the ephemeral so that the
student of Classics more than many
others has the assurance that what he
has studied will endure. Consequently
even the casual reader would be suit-
ably appalled if he were to discover that
Homer, or Vergil, or Plato had been
displaced to make way for some gim-
mick.

But the approach to literature does
alter. There was a time, not beyond the
memory of some readers, when a Greek
and Latin department was popularly
regarded primarily as purveyor of big-
ger and better irregular verbs; and the
nasty reputation may not have been
completely undeserved. Unfortunately
no one has been able to suspend the
use of verbs in the interest of the mod-
ern student but grammar has been re-
duced to the ancillary position which is
its due. Seriously, I do think that we
read much more richly now than even
twenty years ago. This may be partly
the result of the New Criticism, how-
ever impossible this in its pure form
may have been for ancient literature.

Classical Language

where disregard of the historical ele-
ment could easily lead to erroneous,
even ludicrous explications; yet the
method did force us to go beyond the
traditional philological approach and
consider the author's words more imagi-
natively.

The most striking change in those
courses in the original languages is that
elementary Latin, which formerly we
offered only on demand, has become a
regular part of the curriculum, as it is
in all the other colleges where Latin is
taught. The reason is simply that many
students have had no previous oppor-
tunity to study Latin at all. It even
appears likely that the department will
shortly find itself designing a program
whereby a student may major in Latin
if she enters the elementary course in
her freshman year. This may astound
some readers; but consider that it is
being done in other colleges and that
perforce Agnes Scott has always done
exactly the same thing with Greek.
There is some positive advantage in the
added maturity of the student, which
in Greek has always permitted us to
approach Plato and certain of the pre-
Socratics in elementary Greek.

The remaining courses in Greek and
Latin are substantially the same, al-
though the sequence is somewhat al-
tered and Petronius has returned after
an absence of a quarter of a century.

The department continues to offer a
major substantial enough to provide
basis for graduate school; and there are
perhaps six alumnae now in various
stages of graduate work in Classics.
Others are now teaching^Classics, some
in college, some in secondary school;
several have used Classics as a basis
from which to enter history or English;
several are librarians; two are musi-
cians; and finally some have applied
it to pursuits too varied to classify. The
last provide the clearest demonstration
of the value of the Classics as education
for diversity.

The department has always differed
from other departments of literature in
two respects: that it embraces all as-
pects of Classical antiquity (history.

by Dr. Eliza

philosophy, art, etc.) and that we offer
courses in these as well as in literature
in translation for the general student.
The presentation in all of these has
changed in response to contemporary
trends: in philosophy, for example,
modern interest in causality has gen-
erated a new attention to the pre-
Socratics; consideration of military ac-
tions has been nearly eliminated from
ancient history in favor of increased em-
phasis upon intellectual history; mythol-
ogy, as Prof. Cabisius treats it, includes
not only the Classical but comparable
material from other civilizations and
takes stock of current theories of the
origin of myth.

The reason we presume to encompass
such a broad area is that the inevitable
approach to all of these .fields lies
literature. The source material for an-
cient history, partly literary, partly
cpigraphical, partly archaeological, is
so far unlike that of later periods that
it is scarcely accessible for serious use
to uninitiated. Aside from literature the
only access to antiquity lies in the
remnants of its material world, of

Dr. Myrna Young

id Literatures, 1977

Chainiun

which the archaeologist is constantly
increasing our knowledge. By them-
selves, buildings and artifacts afford a
much less comprehensive view of an-
cient accomplishment than literature,
but they do illuminate what the Greeks
and Romans wrote and have added
mmeasiirably to the historian's fund of
sources.

In this department the material aspect
of ancient ci\'ilization has never been
ignored. As a legacy from Prof. Lillian
("Latin") Smith there remains some
memorable equipment, e.g., four
Roman mannequins, all with accurateh
styled Roman wardrobes, elegant toys
of yesteryear. She also collected several
hundred glass slides, in all likelihood
for a course entitled "Roman Private
Life," a usual curricular offering of
forty years ago. Many of the slides are
outdated, others, a little tired, but much
of their content together with much that
is new we now present in three courses,
"Classical Civilization," "Classical Art
and Architecture," and "An Introduc-
tion to Classical Archaeology." In addi-
tion, every third summer there has been
a six-week course in Roman art and
architecture in Rome itself. Study
abroad is imderstandably favored by
students and in this case is most appro-
priate because the subject is ideally
pursued on historical sites and in mu-
seums. We are very fortunate in being
able to use the living and library facili-
ties of the Intercollegiate Center for
Classical Studies; no matter how avail-
able the visual material, a library re-
mains an academic necessity.

Some readers may be surprised at the
enlargement of the curriculum in the
direction of archaeology. It results from
two factors: first, the fact that students
are much more visually oriented than
previously and find this aspect of an-
tiquity more inviting than others; sec-
ond, the growing activity in archaeology
which has indisputably a romantic at-
traction undiminished by the considera-
tion that the object of attention is
probably a trash accumulation from
antiquity.

(conliniied on next piif;c)

Rinnan art and arcliitcctiirc is studied in Rome itself.

classical Languages and Literatures .

niuiniicd)

Classicists are not usually dependent
upon elaborate equipment; we do need
adequate library resources. Former stu-

dents would be agreeably surprised at
the increments to the library's Classical
collection. The library has acquired

/)/ Gail ( ni'i-<iiis (left) listens to student's comment.

some of the major reference works,
such as Pauly-Wissowa and the Corpus
Inscriptioniim Latinanmi, and bought
complete files of several significant
journals, including Tlie Journal of
Roman Studies. The Journal of Hellenic
Studies and Hesperia.

Of the faculty. Prof. Kathryn Click
retired three years ago; her legacy is a
very active department and lasting in-
fluence upon many of the readers of
this report. To her place has come Prof.
Gail Cabisius who brings the experi-
ence of a student at Smith College
(B.A.), Texas, and Bryn Mawr (M.A.,
Ph.D.) and of four years' teaching at
Boston University. It would be super-
erogatory to introduce Professor Myrna
Young (B.A., Eureka College; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Illinois), who first
came in 1955. As the representative of
modernity, Prof. Cabisius will offer
next year a course entitled "Women in
Antiquity." The fact that ancient ma-
terial lends itself to such a contempo-
rary topic is simply further attestation
of the timelcssness of Greece and
Rome.

Sally Echols '76 poses with statues on opera stage
of the Baths of Caracalla.

Students ikni'n on ancient opera stage.

/Vritcrs Festival

Eudora Weltj^ Reads to Full House

rm; 1977 AiiNi-s Scott Writurs' Fes-
TIVM., spon.sorct! by the Dept. of Enf>-
lish. featured Pulitzer Prize winner,
Eudora Welly, and honored the late
Professor of English. Margret Trotter.
Josephine Jacohsen and Guy Davenport
were also on campus April 7 and 8 for
a panel discussion and special work-
shops with \isiting student writers
from all over Georgia. Two one-
hundred-dollar prizes were awarded for
poetry and fiction.

The following article is an excerpt
from a report written hv Randy Norton
Kratt '.>>! about her meeting with Welty.

\'i i-.xprcTi.D, Wclty was superb. She
illcd Presser to overflowing the night
he read "The Petrified Man" and a
Family reunion scene from Losing Bat-
tles. Her timins: honed to match her

Eudora Wettv

ciilorfiil prose, she rivalk\l any comedi-
enne currently performing. Like a
gradual warming before a fire, her
listeners created a rhythm of laughter
rocking to her soft conversations from
Leota's beauty parlor.

Finished reading, she bowed gracious-
ly in her elegant navy evening suit and
left. No questions. No comments by
the Mississippi lady from Jackson. She,
like Robert Frost in my day, preferred
not to explain. Let the work stand on
its own two feet. They knew perfectly
well it could.

Earlier that afternoon, I had mis-
chievously asked her, "Did you have a
special meaning in your use of birds in
Optimist's DaughterT'

She smiled. "Oh, I use things I know
well. Birds, flowers." That was all.
In other words, figure it out for vour-

self.

(conlinued on page 14)

Margret Trotter Remembered

Editor's Note: Dr. Margret Trotter,
whose specialty was creative writing,
was the first director of the Writer.i'
Festival in 1972. It was because of her
great admiration for Miss Trotter thai
Eudora Welty agreed to appear at this
year's Festival.

Margret Trotter died March 28,
1977. The Writer.';' Festival honored
her; she was also memorialized by the
College community at a special service
in Maclean Chapel: and the Board of
Trustees designated $2000 to begin a
scholarship fiutd in her name.

Following is an excerpt from the
Alumnae Day Tribute to Dr. Trotter
given April 30, 1977 by Nathalie Fitz-
Simons Anderson '70.
Margret Trotter was fascinated by
life's irony, the discrepancy between
the surface of things and their reality.
She enjoyed surprising people, shaking
them into an awareness of that reality;
she surprised students by punctuating
her lectures with puns, surprised her
colleagues by challenging them in
her sixties to tennis matches, or by
quoting in a demure, scholarly manner
from the rather pornographic plays of
Sam Shepard. Her quirky sense of
humor was all the more startling in
contrast to the soft-spoken, reticent,
dignified self she presented to the

world. Even her teaching style was self-
effacing, never flamboyant; her strategy
was to lead students to their own dis-
coveries and understandings. She never
coddled her students, but she was al-
ways gentle with them.

She herself lived by the high stand-
ards she set for others. Her early
critical work on Faulkner and her
perceptive reviews so impressed the
literary community that she was able
to use her influence to help Flannery
O'Connor get her first writer's grant;
throughout her life, editors of little
magazines continued to ask her advice
on the work of young writers. Her own
creative work was neglected for what
she felt were the duties of her profession
as a scholar and a teacher, and her
duties toward her family. She cared for
her parents during their long and diffi-
cult illnesses, working as a librarian
and teaching at other colleges during
the summers to support them, putting
off writing, travel, personal desires.
She published her first short story when
she was forty; in her entire career, she
published perhaps ten stories. Pro-
gressively less sentimental, more clear-
eyed and ironic, all of them illustrate
ways in which people assert their dignity
in an increasingly demeaning world.

Margret Trotter was never strident.

Whatever the situation literary, poli-
tical, academic she assessed the facts,
came to a reasoned, moderate conclu-
sion, and then took calm but determined
action. She wrote purposeful letters for
students and colleagues, often without
their knowledge, and gave her quiet
support to causes she believed in. Her
work for the Humane Society is almost
legendary she placed dozens of cam-
pus dogs with appropriate families,
often keeping the animals for months
imtil a suitable home could be found.
Bo Ball, a colleague in the English
tiepartnient, has called her "the friend
of injured squirrels and three-legged
dogs."

Although she apparently lived with
cancer for perhaps twenty years, she
refused to stop teaching, and many of
her colleagues did not know of her ill-
ness until the very end. Margret
Trotter taught English because she
loved what could be done with words.
This fall, teaching Modern Poetry for
the last time, she discovered that one
ot her students was reading Yeats for
the first lime in her life. "I envy you
so much," she said.

Friends nuiy contribute to the Mar-
gret Trotter .Scholarship Fund.

OUTSTANDING ALUMNAE AWARDS PRESENTED

Mary Gellersttdt dies Rachel Margaret McDow MacDougall is

Henderlite for distinguished ca- recognized for service to the com-

reer. miinity.

Mary West Tluitcher receives cerlijicate for
service to the College.

Back to Campu:

Husbands of alumnae compete for the Con
sort Cup.

More than foriy incnibers of Class of '52 return for 25th reunion.

Members of fiftieth anniversary Class of '27 pose with f;uests
at Druid Hills Cliih wliere tliey began festivities.

77Alumnae Weekend

I ASC students babysit with children while mothers attend
lal meeting.

About the Campus

Washington and Lee
Honors President Perr^^

President Marvin B. Perry, Jr., was
awarded an honorary LL.D. (Doctor of
Laws) degree by Washington and Lee
University during graduation exercises
on the Lexington, Va., campus May 26,
1977. Dr. Perry's receipt of the Wash-
ington and Lee degree was. in a way, a
return to home for him. He taught
English at the University from 1951 to
1960 and served as chairman of the
English department for the last four of
those years. His ties to Lexington are
even closer through Mrs. Perry, whose
father, James R. Gilliam, Jr., lives in
the town.

After teaching at Washington and
Lee, Dr. Perry went to the University
of Virginia as professor of English and
dean of admissions. From 1967 to
1973, before coming to Agnes Scott, he
was president of Goucher College in
Maryland.

In addition to his duties at Agnes
Scott College, President Perry holds
responsible positions with numerous
other organizations. He is president of
the Association of Private Colleges and
Universities in Georgia and of the
Georgia Foundation for Independent
Colleges. He is a trustee of the Atlanta
Arts Alliance, a member of the Atlanta
Rotary Club and past director of the
DeKalb Chamber of Commerce.

While earning his B.A. degree from
the University of Virginia and his M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard Uni-
versity, he was awarded membership
in Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta
Kappa. In 1967 he received an honor-
ary degree from Washington College.
At the time this recent honorary
degree was awarded to President Perry
the following citation was read:
During his nine years on the faculty
of Washington and Lee, Marvin Perry
made imaginative contributions of
lasting value to this University. As
principal author of the Seminars in
Literature series, as innovative head
of the Department of English, and as
originator of the Glasgow Endow-
ment Program, he has enriched the
cultural and intellectual life of the
entire community. His departure in
1960, though a loss to Washington
and Lee, was fortunately not a loss
to education in the South but a new

/)/'. Perry receives dei^ree.

beginning in an illustrious academic
career, continued in positions ever
more demanding of his administrative
skill and dynamic leadership: first as
Dean of Admissions at the University
of Virginia, and later as President of
two distinguished colleges, Goucher
and Agnes Scott. Although he has
given generously of his talents in
many ways as teacher, scholar,
trustee, churchman^ concerned citizen
his achievement of widest and most
enduring significance lies in the com-
mitment that he and his remarkable
wife have made to the increasingly
important work of women's educa-
tion. Washington and Lee cordially
welcomes their return today, and in
gratitude for his vision as educator
confers upon Marvin Banks Perry, Jr.,
the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Dr. W. Edward McNair, Di-
rector of Public Relations and
Associate Professor of English,
retired this lune after twenty-
five years of service to the
College.

The Board of Trustees ap-
proved a recommendation that
$2,000 be provided to establish
a fimd in his honor.

Friends may contribute to the
W. Edward McNair Scholarship
Fund.

Julia Ingram and Linford B.
Hazzard have established a
scholarship fund to assist stu-
dents with physical disabilities.

Seniors Feted

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion sponsored a pizza supper for the
senior class on May 23, following their
graduation rehearsal. Approximately
eighty seniors turned out for pizza,
cokes, and brownies. Sarah Cheshire
Killough, entertainment chairman,
served as a hostess.

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Two Buses Roll to Historic Columbus

On March 23 seventy alumnae and
friends traveled in two buses to Colum-
bus. Georgia, for a one day study tour
of the city's historic area, now being
restored. At hinchtime the group met
with eighteen Columbus alumnae in the
courtyard of the Goetchius House. This
1839 home was moved in 1969 to the
Historic Columbus district and estab-
lished as a fine restaurant.

The afternoon tour was directed by
Mrs. James W. Biggers, Jr., Exectitive
Director of Historic Columbus Founda-
tion. Inc.. and member of the Georgia
Heritage Trust. The planned tour in-
cluded the restored Victorian Springer
Opera House, the Greek Revival Illges
House, the French Empire style Rankin
House, the Walker-Peters-Langdon
House, built in 1828 and considered to
be the oldest house in Columbus, and
the Dr. John S. Pemberton House and
Apothecary Shop, the home of the
originator of the formula for Coca-
Cola. In addition to seeing these struc-
tures on the National Register, the
group entered a private residence typi-
cal of those being restored in the his-
toric area and walked along the banks
of the Chattahoochee, at the site of the
Chattahoochee Promenade, an outdoor
historical museum. Columbus' perma-
nent observance of the National Bi-
centennial.

Walkcr-Pctcrs-Liiiii^don

The Columbus trip was the third
alumnae stud>'-tour planned by Sylvia

Will
tion

lanis Ingram '.'^2. continuing educa-
hairman.

Goetchius Hniisc ( IS39j is site for coiirlyurd liiiiclteon.

This Itoiise at 13 Sevcntli Street is one residence visited.

With the Clubs

Cobb County

Newly cicited Cohh County officers:
seated, Ann Diirrunce Snead '65, president;
standing, left, Anita Sheldon Barton '59,
vice president: and Rebecca Davis Huher
'68, secretary -treasurer

Twenty-seven alumnae and several
prospective students gathered for a
Founder's Day Luncheon at the home
of Eleanor Compton Underwood '49.
Dr. Ted Mathews, associate professor
of music at Agnes Scott, gave a slide
presentation, "Sights, Sounds, and Soci-
ology: The Agnes Scott Glee Club in
Europe," assisted by the Madrigal
Singers.

Newly elected officers are: Ann
Durrance Snead '65, president; Anita
Sheldon Barton '59, vice president: and
Becky Davis Huber '68, secretary-
treasurer.

Middle Tennessee

Joyce Skeltoii Wiinhcrly '57, Director of
Admissions Ann Rivers Hutclicson '59,
speaker, and Ann Shires Fennel '57 at
Middle Tennessee meeting

The Middee Tenne.ssee Alumnae Club
met for luncheon at the University Club
on February 19, with twenty-si.\ pres-

ent. After an enthusiastic talk by the
Agnes Scott Director of Admissions,
Ann Rivers Thompson, the following
officers for the 1977-78 year were
elected: Nancy Bowers Wood '59,
president; Margaret Havron '60, vice
president; and Ann Shires Penuel '57,
secretary-treasurer.

Washington

The U.S.S.R. Since 1945 Perspec-
tives and Prospects" was the subject of
Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims' talk at
the Founder's Day luncheon of the
Washington, D.C., alumnae club on
February 26. Forty-eight alumnae
gathered to welcome Dr. Sims.

In the fall of 1976 three area coffees
were held at the homes of Josie Rodin

Houston

Josie Rodin Bergslroin '61. Speaker, Dr.
Catherine Sims, and Barbara Diivall
Averch '58 greet eacli other at the Wash-
ington luncheon.

Bergstrom '61 (Virginia), Nancy
Thomas Hill '52 CVirginia), and Lynn
Weekley Parsons '64 (Maryland and
the District). President Nancy Thomas
Hill reported on Alumnae Council; and
news of the College and club programs
were discussed.

The club held an evening meeting
May 25 to elect officers and to hear a
career panel of six area alumnae: Pris-
cilla Sheppard Taylor '53, writer/editor;
Hannah Jackson AInutt '55, high school
guidance coimselor; May Day Shew-
maker Taylor '66, general manager,
buying service; Mary Garlington Trefry
'69, children's librarian; Carolyn Cox
'71, general law practice; and Ellen
Flynn Giles '72, systems analyst.

Cherry Wood '73, vice president: Speaker
Dr. Michael Brown: and Fran Amsler
Nichol '73, president, pose at the Houston
meeting.

In celebration of Founder's Day the
Houston Alumnae Club met for kmch-
con at Stouffers on Saturday, February
26. Dr. Michael Brown, chairman of
Agnes Scott's Department of History
and Political Science, presented a slide
show of the alumnae trip to England
which he directed in the summer of
1976. Club president Fran Nichol re-
ports that the program is delightful and
reconiniends it to other clubs.

Charlotte

Dr. Mary Boney Sheats. chairman of
Agnes Scott's Department of Bible and
Religion, was the guest speaker for a
kmcheon meeting of the Charlotte
Alumnae Club on February 26 at the
Charlotte Country Club. Sixty alumnae
and friends gathered to welcome Dr.
Sheats on this Founder's Day occasion.
At the business meeting the follow-
ing officers for 1977-78 were elected:
Sue Heinrich Van Landingham '63,
president; Sallie Daniel Johnson '71,
vice president; Mary Corbitt Brockman
'68, secretary; and Miriam Steele Jack-
son '49, treasurer.

Augusta

Members of the Augusta Alumnae
Club met for their annual Founder's
Day Luncheon on February 26 at the
Augusta Country Club. Guest speaker
Dr. Margaret Pepperdene, chairman of
Agnes Scott's Department of English,

10

Dr. Margaret Pepperdene talks with Jac-
quelyn Murray Blanchard '57, president,
Augusta Club.

spoke on liberal arts as a point of view
toward learning and life and as the
best single preparation for any profes-
sion.

The club plans a late summer party
for current and prospective students.

Florence, S.C.

A GROUP of alumnae in Florence, S. C,
gathered to celebrate Founder's Day on
February 27 at the home of Elinor
Tyler Richardson '39, with Ruth Brody
Greenberg '41 co-hostess. Those present
were: Llewellyn Bellamy Hines '59,
Leonora Briggs Bellamy '29, Elizabeth
Hammond Stevens "61, Carlanna Linda-
mood Hendrick '58, Lucy Goss
Herbert '34, Willa Jeanette Hanna '74.
Elinor Tvler Richardson '39, and Mary
Wells McNeill '39. Elinor says. "We
made up for the small number by our
enthusiasm. We had a good time and
we do love Agnes Scott!'

Officers for the coming year are:
president, Carlanna Lindamood Hend-
rick '58; vice president, Elinor Tyler
Richardson '39; secretary, Llewellyn
Bellamy Hines '59.

Athens

Four Newton sisters, Janet '17, Virginia
'19. Charlotte '21. and Catherine, en-
tertained alumnae in Athens, Georgia,
at a buffet kmcheon at their home on
March 5. The occasion was especially
in honor of Janet, who is a member of
the 60th reunion class. Twenty-one
alumnae were present to congratulate
Janet and to hear Melissa Holt Vandi-
ver '73, guest speaker from the College
admissions office.

Dr. Wallace .4htan addresses Central
Florida Club.

The second annual luncheon of the
Central Florida Club was held March
12 at the Dubsdread Country Club in
Orlando. Fifty-five alumnae and guests
were present, including Dr. Marshall
Dendy, a Trustee Emeritus of the Col-
lege, who asked the blessing. President
Emeritus Wallace M. Alston was guest
speaker. "We all enjoyed talking with
him and catching up on news of the
college. His speech about the history of
ASC and what it meant to us as it
formed and guided us was excellent and
just what we needed to remind us of
our 'roots,'" reported club president
Mary Love Hammond.

Two new officers for the 1977-78
term were elected: Melba Cronenberg
Bassett '59, president; and Margaret
Glenn Lyon '50, secretary. Mary
L'heureux Hammond will continue to
handle the citrus fruit project for the
club.

Chicago

Athens luncheon at Newton home, facing
(I to r), Amanda Hutsey Thompson '48,
Claire Eaton Franklin '52, Maureen
Williams '72

Seventeen alumnae from the greater
Chicago area met for coffee at the
home of Patsy Luther Chronis '62 on
Saturday, March 5. Virginia Clark
Brown '65, who helped get the group
together, reported that they enjoyed
exchanging news about the College and
other classmates.

Alumnae who attended were: Polly
Heaslett Badger '40, Virginia Clark
Brown '65, Adrienne Haire Weisse '62,
Jane Robinson '70, Lily Chan '75,
Mary Gay Morgan '75, Carolyn Gray
Phelan '69, Nancy Gheesling Abel '63,
Kay Greene Gunter '42, Ruth McDon-
ald Otto '27, Patty Morgan Fisher '53,
Pat McManmon Ott '48, Miff Jones
Woolsey '49, Sally Kelly Clancy '52,
Ann Stine Hughes '47, Julia Murray
Pcnsinger '66, and Patsy Luther Chronis
62.

Richmond

Grace W.^iLker Winn '41 and Dusty
Kenyon '70 arranged a luncheon meet-
ing for Richmond alumnae on March
5 at the Presbyterian School of Chris-
tian Education. Twenty-two alumnae
gathered to exchange news, browse
through old annuals, and hear a talk
by Virginia Brown McKenzie, director
of alumnae affairs.

Members of the Steering Committee
for 1977-78 are: Mary Evelyn Knight
Swezey '55, chairman; Callie McArthur
Robinson '55; Katherine Gwaltney
Rcmick '61; Mary Louise Laird '64;
Rebecca Thompson Helton '75; and
Cecilia Turnagc Garner '63.

Roanol\e

On APRn_ 2 the Roanoke Club met for
lunch at the Top of the Catch, West
Salem Square. The guest speaker. Dr.
John Gignilliat of the Agnes Scott
history department, spoke on "General
Lee, the Humorist." Betty Patrick
Merritt '46 attributes the success of the
meeting to Dr. Gignilliat and his topic,
the beautiful weather, and the oppor-
timity for each alumna to speak briefly.
Co-presidents for 1977-78 are Kath-
ryn Amick Walden '53 and Nancy
Hammerstrom Cole '65.

Triangle

R.aiLEiGH-DuRH.\M-CH.\PEE HiLL area
alumnae have a new Agnes Scott alum-
nae club! Polly Page Moreau '62 ar-
ranged a luncheon meeting on April 2
at the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, and
thirty attended. Virginia Brown McKen-
zie, director of alumnae affairs, was
guest speaker for the occasion.

A steering committee was appointed
for the selection of officers. The group
plans to meet twice a year.

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Barrow/Gwinnctt/Ncwton Atlanta

Birmingham

Two MFMBERS OF THE ATLANTA ClUB,

Adeie Dieckmann McK.ce '48 and Betty
Glenn Stow '45, presented the January
program, "Growth in the Professions,"
discussing their work on the hymn,
"Prayer for Our Nation," for the Bi-
centennial Task Force of the Presby-
terian Church in the U. S. Mr. James
Peck spoke on "Growth Toward
What?" at the concluding meeting in
April.

The following officers were elected
for next year: Ruby Rosser Davis '43,
president: Scott Newell Newton '45,
first vice president; Jackie Simmons
Gow '52, second vice president; Nita
Hewell Long '46, secretary; and Betty
Floding Morgan "21, treasurer.

their luncheon.

Some of the BGN Cliih members: back
row, Mary Evelyn Davis, Rachel King.
,\'orii Kini;, Brentlii Purvis. Joyce Pack,
Paula Cnlbreth: center row. Jean John.s-
ton, Norris Wootton, Mary Cohen, Cecily
Langford. Peggy Mayfield: front row,
Maude Padgett, Patricia Tucker

YoungAtlantLi

Greenville

President and Mrs. Marvin B. Perry,
Jr., were special guests at the Founder's
Day Luncheon meeting of the Green-
ville Alumnae Club on February 26 at
the Colonial Court Motel Restaurant.
Rose Marie Traeger Sumerel '62. presi-
dent, reports that 45 members attended
and enjoyed the Perrys and hearing
current campus news and plans for the
Collece.

In March thirty-five members of the
Young Atlanta Club enjoyed hearing
Leland Staven, assistant professor of art
at Agnes Scott, present a program on
"Today's Art," using slides and some
of his recent paintings. The club's final
meeting for the year was the annual
cookout in May at the home of club
president Gayle Gellerstedt Daniel '71.

Decatur

The Social Role of Women of
Knowledge, presented hy Constance
Jones, instructor in sociology at Agnes
Scott, and "Home From Down Under",
presented by Frances Gilliland Stukes
'24 and Nelle Chamlee Howard '34,
concluded the Decatur Club's series of
interesting programs this year.

Officers for the coming year are:
Eleanor Lee McNeill '59, president;
Mary Ben Wright Erwin '25, program
vice president; Dot Travis Joyner '41,
membership vice president; and Eliza-
beth Mclntire '28. secretary-treasurer.

Huntsville

The first meeting of the newly-
organized North Alabama Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club took place on May 2.
The occasion was an organizational
luncheon, held in the Mooreland Room
of the Huntsville Hilton. Director of
Alumnae Affairs Virginia Brown Mc-
Kenzie was guest speaker.

President Carlene Nickel Elrod '53
says Virginia helped them get off to a
good start: "We think we have a great
group of alumnae here and we're all
excited about our Agnes Scott Alumnae
Club! We now have eighteen dues-paid
members."

Carlene Mckel Elrod '.'^.^. Eleanor Hut-
chens '40. and Antie Bottoms Woiiters '52
allend Huntsville Club meeting.

Dr. Perry with Greenville Club President
Rose Marie Traeger Sumerel

NEW GIFT ANNUITIES
now provide greater income to donors.

For information write or call

Paul McCain, Vice President for Development

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Telephone (404) 373-2571

12

Bookciisc

"Park }
cMaker

Park-Maker: A Life vf Frederick Law

Olinsteil

By Elizabeth Stevenson '41

Maeniillan. New ^ork. 1977, S17.'J5

Exactly vmiat ciood biography should
be. Elizabeth Stevenson's newest book
is an accurate, carefully researched ac-
count of a person whose historical im-
portance has only recently been recog-
nized. It is also a superbly written, en-
grossing account of a man of many
talents and wide experience.

Frederick Olmsted, known as the
father of American landscape archi-
tecture, saw as early as the 1850's that
the growing .American cities might soon
become uninhabitable if land was not
set aside for the recreational and con-
teniplati\e needs of their inhabitants.
He also realized that this park land
should preserve as much as possible the
natural terrain, providing relief from
the monotony of paved streets and
massive buildings.

.Among his landscape designs arc
New York's Central Park. Prospect
Park in Brookhn. the Capitol grounds
in Washington, D.C., the Boston parks
svsteni, the Chicago World's Fair and
Mt. Royal Park in Montreal. He was
also the designer of university cam-
puses, schools, asylums, private estates
and suburban areas, including Chi-
cago's beautiful Riverside area and
Atlanta's Druid Hills.

"If Olmsted had not been known for
his landscaping, he would still be re-
membered for his writing on the ante-
bellum South," Miss Stevenson said,
explaining that his accuracy and lack
of bias have made his writings also
published as books a trusted source
of information for historians of the
South.

"In the shaping of this book. I was

interested in Olmsted as a human being

(continiieJ on piii:e 14)

(oaist 'J I'm

Copiiiii: A Survival Manual For Women

Alone

By Martha Whatley Yates '4-S

Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,

1976, $9.95

M\RiHA Yates lived the einiable life
of a well-to-do wife of an architect,
mother of four children and creative
suburbanite until that tragic morning
when her husband died of a heart at-
tack.

From that moment on, the author
was dealt such quick blows in so many
instances, that she decided to turn her
experiences into something that would
help other people in a similar position.
She wrote a book of well researched
and articulated advice to benefit women
and men alike when they are faced with
(.Iccisions about life insurance, major
purchases and raising children.

There are 23 million single women in
the U.S., and more than 15 million
must alone fulfill the job meant for two.
Most widows cannot withdraw from
life in seclusion. They must go on with
the complicated business of bringing up
children and coping in the business
world.

Using this book as quick reference,
one can find answers to many daily
problems. From alimony or estate
setting, through sex or sublimation one
finds ad\ice in this book that would
otherwise take a lot of time and money
to obtain. The material is thoroughly
researched, well written and contains
so much factual information on all
phases of economic and emotional
problems that one cannot afford not to
own this book. Eve Silver
Excerpt from Sunday Ati anta Jour-
NAi -CiiNsiiTUTiON. Fchruarv 22. 1976.

Locust Hill

By Mary Wallace Kirk '17

The Universitv of .Alabama Press,

University, Alabama. 1975. $7.95

Wiii;th[:r the reader has grown up in
the Southern heartland or in other
regions, Locu\i Hill evokes an era of
gracioLisness and charm for which even
the youngest feels a nostalgic longing.

Graced with photographs and Miss
Kirk's own delightful sketches, this
book of memories of her childhood and
family is just the right selection for
leisurely reading. It mustn't be hurried
through, but must be sa\ored for the
expressions and phrases that trigger a
flood of memories of one's own past
of however many years ago.

Locust Hill, the place, was the
family homestead of the Rather/ Kirk
families, and is an ante-belkim mansion
built in the Victorian instead of the
more familiar neo-classical style usually
associated with Southern plantations.
The mansion is not only the "hero" of
the hook, but the obvious recipient of
generations of loving care and concern.
In inter-weaving the story of her family
with that of the house. Miss Kirk has
meshed the two inextricably into a
fabric of charm, warmth, and beauty.

Miss Kirk has been for many vears
a member of the .ASC Board of
Trustees; she still lives at locust Hill,
Alabama, and is a frequent visitor on
campus.

// \<ni liave written a book, or if you
liave or know of (me written by an
ainiuiui. please donate a copy for
the Alumnae House inscribed to the
Alumnae Association and send it to
" .Ahonnae Bookcase." Ai;nes Scott
Alumnae Office. Decatur. Ga. .^0030.

13

Granddaughters Visit Alumnae House Bookcase

Some daughters of aliimnnc gather at the
their lienor.

Alumnae House following luncheon in

ALUMNAE COUNCIL SET FOR OCTOBER 7 1977

All Alumnae Council members should circle October 7, 1977,
on their calendars. At that time council members are invited back to
the campus to see Agnes Scott as it is today and to bring their
questions and suggestions. The meeting is designed to send partic-
ipants home with new insight and enthusiasm.

Meals and room will be furnished for anyone who wishes to stay
on campus overnight.

The Alumnae Council is comprised of the following groups of
alumnae volunteers: past presidents; executive board members;
class presidents; class secretaries; fund chairmen and agents; club
presidents; and alumnae admissions representatives.

The fall meeting of the executive board will be held on the
following day, October 8.

(continued from page 13)
a pugnacious, often intemperate man
who was also a man of great integrity
and vision," Miss Stevenson said. But
Park Maker is also a survey of nine-
teenth-century America, for to follow
Olmsted's long and varied life is to
follow the story of America's growth
and change.

According to Miss Stevenson, she
became interested in Olmsted because
of her own interest in conservation.
She began work on the biography of
Olmsted nearly ten years ago, shortly
after the publication of her fifth book.
Babbitts and Bohemians, the American
1920-s.

Miss Stevenson began writing her
first book, a study of Henry James,
published in 1949, shortly after she
graduated from Agnes Scott. Her other
works include, Henry Adams. A Biog-
raphy. (1955), for which she received
the Bancroft Award; and Lafcadio
Hcarn, (1961). She has also edited an
anthology of the writings of Henry
Adams.

Eudora Welt}'

{continued)

Other questions followed:

Do you write about specific people?
"Never. But about very human things
always."

Do you keep a journal and write
every day? "No. I write only when I
have something to write about. I store
things in my head, then sort them out
into something that builds."

Your stories sometimes read like
poetry with wonderful similes. Have
you ever considered writing poetry?
"Never wanted to."

All this emanated from her in a
genteel, unassuming manner, like a
charming lady down the street who
grows prize roses and is willing to talk
a little about them.

I felt that silver-haired Welty, like
everv other important author I remem-
ber at Agnes Scott, was awesome yet
approachable. She was patient, warmly
kind, and very aware. A deceptively
calm, keen edge.

In one sense it was unfortunate I had
read everything of hers available to me
before I came. When I stood beside her
at last, I was in danger of being over-
taken by awe. I wished for clairvoyance.
She probably wished for Jackson.

14

DEATHS

Insliditc

May^ie Hanson Feacin, March

1977.

Academy

Lucy Bush Barnes, October 30,

1976.

Anneyrene MtCurdy, February,

1977.

Caroline VVilbum, February 2,

1977.

Emily Anderson Winn, January

20, 1*977.

19U

Rilma Wilson, daughter of Lida
Caldwell Wilson, December 24,
1976.
1916

Leila Johnson Moore, March 4.
1977.

Mary Bryan Winn, February.
1977.
1918

Annie White Marshall, Decem-
ber. 1976.
1919

Anna Harrell Ballard, October
31. 1976.
1920

Nell Caldwell Heard, February
10. 1977.
1921

A. L. Enloe, brother of Eliza-
beth Enloe MacCarthy, 1977.
Edith Shive Parker, February
14. 1977.
1922

l.illie Maril Jacobs, February
4. 1977.
1925

Edith Shive Parker, sister of
Rebecca Shive Rice. February
14, 1977.
1927

Alma G. Crowe, mother of
Martha Crowe Eddins. April,
1977.

Edith Shive Parker, sister of
Mary Shive. February 14. 1977.
1928

Elsie Davis Gary, May 26.
1976.
1929

Anne Moss Mitchell, March 20.
1977.
1930

Ann Nash Reece. sister of
Carolyn Nash Hathaway, Jan-
uary 2, 1977.
1933

Ann Nash Reece, January 2.
1977.
1934

Juliette Kaufmon Cutrufelli, De-
cember 20, 1976.

1935

George Nicholson, husband of
Eva Constantine Nicholson,
March 10, 1977.
1936

A. L. Enloe, husband of Myra
O'Neal Enloe, February, 1977.
1937

l.aura Mayes Steele, June 17,
1977.

Gordon Taylor, husband of
Frances Cary Taylor. January
19, 1976.
1938

DuBose MacDowell. husband
of Dorothy Kelly MacDowell.
December 8, 1976.
King Meehan. husband of Elsie
West Meehan. August 26, 1976.
1940

Anne Moss Mitchell, sister of
Nell Moss Roberts. March 20.
1977.
1941

James Boyce Elliott, husband
of Anne Martin Elliott. January
31. 1977.
1945

Mrs. Forester, mother of Helen
Forester Beutell. January 1977.
1952

William H. Williams, father of
Sylvia Williams Ingram. Febru-
ary 16. 1977.
1953

Sue Dugger Tarbox. sister of
Donna Dugger Smith. April 4.
1977.
1956

Oscar Lee Bridges, father of
Martha Bridges Traxler, March
25, 1977.
1958

Arthur F. MacConochie. father
of Sheila MacConochie Rags-
dale. March 15. 1977.
1959

Robert C. Bosvvell. father of
Archer Boswell Parsons. No-
vember. 1976.
1960

Anne Moss Mitchell, mother of
Bettv Mitchell Miller. March
30. 1977.
1962

William Neill Roberson. son of
Peggy McGeachy Roberson.
iuW'l. 1976.
1967

Mrs. George Claxton Scott,
mother of Carol Scott Wade.
November 4. 1976.
1969

.Allen Bowman, brother of Sara
Bowman, November. 1976.

23

From the Director

Virginia Brown McKenzie 47

1977 Award Winners in Profile

fHE REWARDINC, PRiviLrdii of working with Agnes Scott
iliimnae is one's association with well-educated and capable
leople whose accomplishments are acclaimed in academic,
eligioiis, cultural, and civic affairs wherever they live and
vork. The impact of our former students on their respective
lommunities is evidenced by written reports which steadily
low into the Alumnae Office.

Wc need to know of these accomplishments for class news
n the Aliiiniuw Quarterly, for the personal files of our alum-
lae, for finding career resource people for the students to
shadow," and for nominations for the Outstanding Alumna
iwards. In January each year, the Executive Committee of
he Alumnae Association Executive Board consider outstand-
ng alumnae in three categories: distinguished career, com-
nimity service, and service to the College. Some alumnae
voiild qualify in all three fields. Three aliminae are chosen
o be cited for outstanding performance, and the press
innounccmcnt is made in April just before Alumnae Week-
:nd. Hand inscribed certificates are presented to the honorees
it the Annual Meeting on Saturday of Alumnae Weekend.

The recipients of our Outstanding Alumna awards this
'ear were: Rachel Henderlite Distinguished Career; Mar-
;aret McDow MacDougall Commimity Service: and Mary
Vest Thatcher Service to the College.

Rachel Henderlite '28 transferred to Agnes Scott from
mother college. After she received her B.A. here, she went
in to graduate studies at Biblical Seminary in New York
ind New York University. She received her Ph.D. in Chris-
ian ethics (studying with Richard Niebuhr) at Yale Uni-
'ersity Divinity School; she has also studied at Garrett Theo-
ogical Seminary and Oxford University.

Dr. Henderlite is the author of at least six books; is a
nember of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma, the
\merican Academy of Religion, and the Religious Education
\ssociation; and she holds an honorary doctorate of hu-
nanities from Queens College.

In 1965 she was ordained to Gospel Ministry the first
voman to achieve this status in the Presbyterian Church,
Jnited States. Now professor emerita of Austin Presbyterian
fheological Seminary, she has been elected president of the
ronsultation on Church Union.

Rachel Henderlite is compassionate and soft spoken, yet
brceful. She listens well, then expresses her views with
lumility and humor. Her teaching and administrative career
las been distinguished by trailblazing and diplomacy.

The citation for Outstanding Alumna in community service
jiven to Margaret McDow MacDougall '24 mentioned her
Host recent contribution to the City of Atlanta as an appoin-
ee of former Mayor Sam Massell to the Atlanta Charter
rommission, which produced the 1973 City Charter. As far
Jack as 195.'! she served on the Ivy Committee studying the
mprovement of the Atlanta Public School System.

She was the first woman to be elected chairman of the
rity Executive Committee, which conducted elections for
Tiunicipal offices. As a result in 1964 she was chosen At-
anta's Woman of the Year in Civic Service for "her tireless

effort to clarify and strengthen city election policy and
procedure."

Mrs. MacDougall has been a leader in the Atlanta and
Georgia Leagues of Women Voters, was founder and or-
ganizer of The Community Council of the Atlanta Area, Inc.,
and was appointed by former Gov. Carl Sanders to serve on
the executive board of the Georgia Commission on Women.
She has taught school, has worked in the Presbyterian
Church to involve it in community affairs, and has served
as president of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association and as
alumna member of the College's Board of Trustees. No more
dedicated commimity organizer could have been chosen.

For service to the College the committee chose Mary West
Thatcher '15 who after graduation stayed several years at
the College to be an assistant in the chemistry department.

She was elected president of the Alumnae Association and
served in that capacity in 1926-27.

From 1947 until 1971 she was an active member of the
Agnes Scott Board of Trustees, serving on five standing com-
mittees and chairing one of them. Since 1971 she has been
trustee emerita. In expressing deep gratitude for what she has
meant to the College, the Board of Trustees recorded:
During the entire history of the College, Agnes
Scott has never had a more loyal or supportive trus-
tee than Mary West Thatcher. She seldom ever
missed a Board or committee meeting. She has
given generously of her means. She has always been
a tower of strength to the President of the college.
Honest, direct, articulate, energetic, and concerned
these terms characterize Mrs. Thatcher.
Many of our alumnae need to be recognized. Won't you
help us by listing your nominations on the printed form on
this page and on a separate sheet give a brief biographical
sketch of each. Send it to the Alumnae Office, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia 30030. A

NOMINATIONS
OUTSTANDING ALUMNA AWARDS

Alumnae Association
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia 30030

Service to Agnes Scott College

Service to the Community

Distinguished Career

Your name and class

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA 30030

Library-Ao-nes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030

Class of 1977 joins ranks of alumnae

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