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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MAY 30, 1952

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees,

Agnes Scott College :

May 30, 1952

As we close the sixty-third year as an institution, I have thr
privilege of presenting herewith my first annual report as President
of Agnes Scott College.

It is fitting that my first word to you in this annual report should
be one of appreciation of the friendly encouragement and helpfulness
of the members of the Board of Trustees as I have entered upon the
duties of ray office. I am grateful to each one of you for your letters,
your visits, and your willingness to advise with me at any time upon
matters having to do with the welfare of the College. I covet the
happiest relationship with our Board of Trustees and I assure each
one of you of my desire to have your suggestions and counsel about
all matters having to do with the administration of the affairs of
Agnes Scott.

The Inauguration

The inauguration ceremonies, held October 22 and 23, 1951, were
carefully arranged and efficiently carried out by committees of the
Board and Faculty. A large number of our alumnae and friends
were present for the occasion when representatives from colleges
and universities from many parts of America participated in the im-
pressive program of inauguration. The special addresses were given
by President Howard Foster Lowry of the College of Wooster,
President Sarah Gibson Blanding of Vassar College, and President
Theodore Henley Jack of Randolph-Macon Woman's College. On
Tuesday afternoon, October 23, the John Bulow Campbell Science
Hall was dedicated with Mr. John A. Sibley delivering the prin-
cipal address. Greetings came officially to the College from scores
of other institutions, manifesting generous evidence of good will and
friendship. This important occasion on our campus reminded us of
the unity and the diversity of our American program of higher edu-
cation, since it brought together delegates from all sections of the
nation, representing large universities and small colleges; state-
supported institutions, denominational and privately endowed col-
leges ; technological, professional and liberal arts schools. With all
the distinctive differences and eccentricities of institutions of higher
learning in America, we were made aware that there is a bond of
mutuality and comradeship that binds us to each other.

Continuity of Purpose

The history of Agnes Scott College reveals a remarkable con-
tinuity of purpose and program. In the sixty-three years of her
life the College has had but two presidents prior to the time of my
inauguration ; two deans of students, Miss Nannette Hopkins and
Miss Carrie Scandrett; and one dean of the faculty, Mr. S. Guerry
Stukes, who assumed his duties upon the retirement of Miss Hopkins.
There have been only five chairmen of the Board of Trustees Dr.
Gaines, Colonel Scott, Mr. Samuel Inman, Mr. T. K. Orr, and
the present chairman, Mr. George Winship. This continuity, in
large measure, accounts for the situation described by Dr. McCain
in The Story of Agnes Scott College: 'The College has made many
changes in physical equipment, personnel, financial status and aca-
demic achievements, but it has never faltered in the maintenance
of the foundation principles on which it was launched in its early
days."

These foundation principles are of the utmost importance to me
as I have assumed the leadership of the College. Three tenets in
Agnes Scott's academic credo are particularly impressive to me.

For one thing, throughout the sixty-three years of her life Agnes
Scott has consistently stood for the liberal arts ideal and has been
committed to liberal arts training. We have never had any intention
other than to undertake to serve as effectively as possible as a small,
independent Christian liberal arts college for women. We are con-
vinced that a liberal arts college, true to its purpose and enlightened
in the prosecution of its task, is making the most relevant contribu-
tion to practical, effective, abundant living that can be offered by an
educational institution in the contemporary world. It ought to
touch life touch it vitally and determinatively. It ought to fit
people to live with themselves ; it ought to contribute to marriage,
to vocational success and to good citizenship ; it ought to help with
the highest level of adjustment the relationship of man with God.
The type of education offered at Agnes Scott through the years has
been predicated upon the conviction that a mind trained to think
is essential if life is to be unfettered, rich and free. Moreover, the
liberal arts college tries to place at the disposal of the students
some of the accumulated wealth of the ages, all the while attempting
to guide the effort to acquire a working knowledge of the clues
and the tools essential to an appreciation of the intellectual and
spiritual treasures that so many people are neglecting.

The second fundamental tenet in Agnes Scott's academic credo,
with which I am in complete accord, is the emphasis upon quality
education. We customarily take for granted the fact that our edu-

cational system in a democracy should extend to as many students
as possible. This extensive view, the ideal of equality, is an integral
part of our American conception of both secondary and higher edu-
cation. Unfortunately we have not always recognized that the ideal
of quality is just as necessary to the health of a democracy as that
of equality. With no lack of appreciation of institutions stressing
the principle of equality, Agnes Scott has placed her emphasis
through the years upon the ideal of quality in education. This has
been done by deliberately keeping the student body small, carefully
selecting students on the basis of criteria designed to bring to the
campus students of character and intellectual capacity who are seri-
ously interested in college training.

Our democracy requires an aristocracy of intelligence not, of
course, a petted, coddled little group whom we will set free from
ordinary responsibilities in order to show favor or preferment to
them. What we do need, however, within the framework of our
democracy, is to discover ways to lay hold upon young people of
unusual endowment, then to prepare them for the tasks of our day
an aristocracy of intelligence, but one that is imbued with a
strong sense of social responsibility. The sort of leadership that is
required can only be trained adequately where quality has not been
sacrificed to quantity, mere bigness, or a preoccupation with method-
ology. Young people of capability need to be confronted with ex-
cellence. Such a confrontation may come about in a score of ways,
but never so determinatively as when truth, beauty and goodness
become incarnated in flesh and blood. Young people need the invig-
orating contagion of strong character and genuine scholarship. The
best education still is that which a great teacher makes possible to
a student when personalities touch vitally, when the channel of
admiration conveys living truth to the mind and heart of a young
man or woman.

Again, Agnes Scott has always placed a strong emphasis upon
Christian education. This emphasis has been integral to the life of
the College from the beginning. In the original statement of the
Agnes Scott Ideal drawn up by Dr. Gaines and approved by Colonel
Scott, was the provision that the Bible should be a textbook, that
thoroughly qualified and consecrated teachers should be secured, that
the institution should undertake to serve as a model Christian home,
that all the influences in the school should be made conducive to
the formulation and development of Christian character, and that
the glory of God was to be the chief end of all that was undertaken.

Although nonsectarian in every respect, Agnes Scott is un-
ashamedly Christian in her purposes and program. A simple Christ-
ian faith has characterized the leaders of the institution through
the sixty-three years of her history and a central place has always
been accorded religious practices. I do not hesitate to assert that

I would not be here if it were not for the fact that Agnes Scott
is determined to remain a Christian institution, not simply in name
but in fact.

Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette of Yale has made some significant
statements having to do with the nature of a Christian institution
of higher education: "The difference between a Christian college
or university and one which does not aspire to be Christian is not
primarily in subject matter or in the outline of the curriculum,
but in purpose and atmosphere. The distinctive purpose of a Christ-
ian college or university is the growth of Christian character. To
this every feature of its life is to be directed, the curriculum and
all extra-curricular activities. The Christian college or university
is a community bound together by a common faith in Christ and
seeking to prepare its members to serve their day and generation
according to the will of God and in the spirit of Christ. This it
does through exposing its students to the accumulated wisdom and
intellectual, aesthetic, moral and spiritual riches of the ages, through
intellectual, moral and spiritual discipline, through the quality of
all phases of its life, and through common worship. It seeks the
attainment of this purpose both by its program and by the less
tangible but even more important temper and atmosphere of its
entire campus." Through every means at my disposal, I intend to
maintain and strengthen the Christian witness which has heretofore
characterized the life of Agnes Scott College.

The decision to come to Agnes Scott in 1948 was moti-
vated by a life-long respect for its purposes and accomplishments.
This respect has been deepened as I have come to know the College
intimately as a member of the administration and faculty. The as-
sociation with Dr. James Ross McCain, my predecessor, and with
others whose lives have enriched Agnes Scott has been a rare priv-
ilege. I gladly dedicate my service to the welfare of this College
that embodies the standards and ideals in which I place my con-
fidence.

Planning For The Future

Those of us to whom the leadership of the College has been en-
trusted for the next period of its history would be lacking in re-
sponsible leadership, imagination and courage if we did not begin to
look ahead, planning realistically for the future development of
Agnes Scott. The task before us is not an easy one. The inde-
pendent liberal arts institutions throughout America, as you well
know, will have to justify their right to exist in the period ahead.
Such a College as ours will need to draw to herself her friends and
those who believe in the values for which she stands.

Agnes Scott does not belong to the State and will not receive her
support from State funds. Neither does she belong lo nor receive
budgeted funds from any branch of the Church, even though she
is known as a church-affiliated college, having been founded by
Presbyterians and having retained a close tie with the Presbyterian
Church in the United States. Agnes Scott belongs to those who
believe in what she represents and in what she undertakes to do.
From such folk must come her strength in the years ahead.

Our most urgent physical need is for a dormitory that will enable
us to care adequately for our students who now live in cottages and
that will make possible an increase in the number of our boarding
students. Obviously, our facilities for housing our students are be-
low the Agnes Scott standard. Each year that passes emphasizes
the need for the new dormitory.

Our endowment is now slightly less than three million dollars.
If we are going to do the quality work in higher education that
Agnes Scott has undertaken in this section of our country, we will
need at least ten million dollars for endowment in the next period
of the College's development. We are at the threshold of great
things as a liberal arts college for women. No college for women
in this section of America is better able to take her place with the
half-dozen leading institutions for women that are clustered in the
East. A greatly increased permanent endowment will be required in
order to make this possible.

I would like to recommend that a strong committee from our
Board be appointed to advise with me about plans for the future
development of the College, and to chart a long-range program,
possibly culminating in the seventy-fifth anniversary of the College
in 1964. I am convinced that we need the long-range view in the
light of which we may more adequately plan the specific measures
looking toward the achievement of our goals.

The Current Year

We have had a good year at Agnes Scott in academic and student
activities. Our enrollment has shown a slight decrease as has been
generally true throughout the nation ; but we have been very for-
tunate in maintaining the high standards of the College and have
not in any case enrolled students who failed to meet our require-
ments for admission. The enrollment for the 1952-53 session is
quite encouraging. We realize that there will undoubtedly be some
withdrawals, but our boarding enrollment has been at capacity since
the middle of March, and we have kept a waiting list throughout
this spring.

We are sharing with other independent colleges the problem of
meeting higher costs with decreased income. The excellent physical
plant at our disposal has increased our overhead operation expenses.
The salaries of our teachers ought to be increased substantially at
the earliest possible moment. Some salary adjustments have been
made in contracts for the 1952-53 session.

We are hopeful that it will not be necessary for us to increase
our fees to students at Agnes Scott. The total expense to a student
who boards, excluding "extras," is now $1200. This figure is quite
modest as compared with institutions similar to Agnes Scott. We
sincerely desire to keep our costs within the economic range of com-
petent and worthy young people who come from homes without
wealth. The administrative officers of the College have passed
through several years in which careful financing has been required
and a number of economies made necessary. It may become impera-
tive to increase our fees, but we are going to do everything possible
to avoid this.

Because of serious illness last summer, it became necessary to di-
vide the responsibilities that Mr. J. C. Tart has carried as Treasurer
and Business Manager. Mr. Tart continues his duties as Treasurer
of the College; and Mr. Rogers has been acting Business Manager
throughout this school year, serving very efficiently and demonstrat-
ing outstanding ability.

I am recommending through the report of the Committee on
Faculty and Staff Personnel that approval be given to the appoint-
ment of Mr. P. J. Rogers, Jr. as Business Manager of the College
and that Miss Laura Steele be given the title of Director of Admis-
sions and Assistant Registrar.

We have had as our guests on the campus during the 1951-52
session a number of important professional and educational groups.
The Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle
West and South and the South Atlantic Modern Language Associ-
ation met with us in the fall. The Southeastern Chapters of Mortar
Board were guests at the College November 16 and 17. The Georgia
Psychological Association met at Agnes Scott on December 8 ; the
Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association, March 21-22;
the All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, March 28-29 ;
the fourteenth annual convention of Chi Beta Phi, April 3-5 ; the
Georgia Academy of Science, the Association of Southeastern Biol-
ogists, and the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society,
April 18-19. Dr. Jose A. Mora and Senora de Mora, the Ambas-
sador and his wife from Uruguay to the United States, were guests
of Agnes Scott College during Pan-American Week in April. A
tea in their honor brought a large group of Spanish speaking friends
to the campus.

The excellence of our Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall was rec-
ognized last November when a merit award was presented to Agnes
Scott in the Fifth Annual Foods Service Contest.

A number of important scholarships and fellowships have been
awarded to our seniors and young alumnae in recent months. These
awards include a Fulbright scholarship for a year's study in France
that has been granted to Miss Frances Clark, a graduate of the
class of 1951 ; a scholarship awarded by the American Council of
Learned Societies to Miss Caroline Crea, an English major of this
year's senior class ; and a scholarship offered by the General Educa-
tion Board to Miss Mary Lee Hunnicutt, a Classics major in the
class of 1952.

Among the most interesting student projects of the past year has
been the establishment of the International News Center at Agnes
Scott College, in cooperation with students of other Atlanta institu-
tions. The incentive for this interesting project came from the Na-
tional Student Association Congress held last summer. The purpose
of the News Center is "to better the relationships between the stu-
dents of Latin America and the United States by exchanging news
of each other thus establishing better relations between the two
areas."

Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, professor of Philosophy at Earlham
College, was our Religious Emphasis Week speaker in February.
His addresses and conferences left a profound impression upon our
students and faculty.

The College community has been quite proud of the distinction
given to Dr. McCain at the last meeting of the General Assembly
of the Presbvterian Church, \J. S., when he was elected Moderator
for 1951-52.'

Faculty

I want to record my appreciation to the members cf our faculty
and staff for their warm-hearted and loyal friendship this first year
of my administration. If Agnes Scott has achieved educational rec-
ognition and reputation, the credit is due in large measure to those
who have served in the faculty of the College.

Since the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, two of our
honored teachers have been taken from us by death. Miss Louise
Hale, associate professor of French, passed away last June after an
illness of some months. Her service to Agnes Scott extended over a
period of thirty years. Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, associate pro-
fessor of history, died in late February. Dr. Jackson had been a

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member of the Agnes Scott faculty since 1923. The contribution
of these two teachers to the life of Agnes Scott will continue to
bless the institution through the years to come.

The work of our Art Department has been outstanding during
1951-52. Both Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, and Miss
Marie Huper, assistant professor, are newcomers to Agnes Scott,
but they have left a deep impression during the first year of their
service on the campus. Mr. Warren has been awarded within the
past year the First Purchase Prize in the Sixth Southeastern Art
Exhibition for his opaque watercolor entitled "Haystacks and Corn."
Miss Huper won a Grumbacher award for sculptur-.* for her work
"L'Ombra." Mr. Warren was featured in the February issue of
American Artist in an article written by Professor Lamar Dodd of
the University of Georgia.

Miss Roberta Winter, assistant professor of speech, returned to
her duties on the campus this year after a year's leave of absence
for graduate study at New York University.

Additions to our faculty, other than Mr. Warren and Miss
Huper, for the 1951-52 session were: Mr. Pierre Thomas, assis-
tant professor of French; Mrs. Stephen Gray, instructor in biology;
Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., assistant professor of philosophy; Mrs.
Stratton R. Story, instructor in physical education ; Mrs. David
Harris, instructor in physics; Miss Hester P. Matthews, instructor
in Spanish.

We have been very happy this past year to have Dr. Janet Alex-
ander as our college physician and professor of physical education.
Dr. Alexander has for thirty years served as physician in charge of
the Mission Hospital in Pakistan. She was formerly physician for
a brief time at Mary Baldwin College. Miss Inez Owen has been
serving this year with Dr. Alexander as associate resident nurse.

The following have been added during the past \ear in admin-
istrative work: Miss Ann Jacob, secretary to the president; Mrs.
W. D. McCracken, assistant to the dean of students; Miss Irma
Lee Shepherd, assistant dean of students; Miss Jean Cook, secre-
tary to the treasurer.

Miss Su Boney has served effectively this year as alumnae repre-
sentative and Miss Martha Weakley as assistant in the alumnae
office.

Additions to the staff of the librarian for the past year have been
Miss Polly B. Tucker, Miss Anna DaVault, and Miss Jenelle
Spear.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history, was awarded a re-
search grant of $1000 by the University Center in Georgia in Feb-
ruary for the purpose of publishing a book that will appear in the
early summer.

At the banquet of the Georgia Academy of Science and the Asso-
ciation of Southeastern Biologists in April, Dr. Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall, professor of biology, was presented with an award for
meritorious service as an outstanding biology teacher. Dr. Mac-
Dougall has long been recognized as one of the most distinguished
teachers and writers in her field. She retires from active service in
our faculty at the end of this session.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, professor of Bible, made a five-week trip
during December and January to Palestine and other points in the
Near East, stopping briefly in Europe en his way home.

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, associate professor of philosophy and edu-
cation, is the new president-elect of the Georgia Psychological As-
sociation. She also serves as chairman of the Psychology and Medi-
cine Section of the Georgia Academy of Science and as a director
of the International Council of Women Psychologists.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, professor of chemistry, attended a committee
meeting of the College Entrance Examination Board in New York
in December. He is a member of the science sub-cemmittee which
has two representatives in chemistry. In March Dr. Frierson at-
tended the meeting of the National Chemistry Society in Buffalo,
New York, where he spoke on "Paper Chromatography in Inor-
ganic Chemistry."

At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in
December Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, associate professor of his-
tory and political science, had a prominent place on the program,
serving as a commentator on a paper given by Professor E. L. Wood-
ward of Oxford University. Dr. Sims is actively associated with
the Atlanta Y.W.C.A., serving as vice president, and with the
Board of the Visiting Nurse Association of Atlanta of which she
is secretary.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, is serv-
ing as president of the Bessie Tift Alumnae Association, and is the
new president-elect of the Women's Auxiliary of the Fulton County
Medical Society. Dr. Dunstan read a paper before the University
Center Language Association in October and spoke to the Southern
Medical Association in Texas in November.

Miss Melissa Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish, is serving as
chairman of the Portuguese-Brazilian Section of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association and is chairman of the College Board

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of the Pan-American League of Atlanta. She recently presented a
paper on "Contemporary Spanish Literature" at the annual Foieign
Language Conference at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and
sociology, read a paper at the Southern Sociological Society's meet-
ing. Dr. Smith is prominently associated with the DcKalb Com-
munity Council and the League of Women Voters.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, associate professor of English, read
a paper "Satiric Allegory in Animal Stories" at the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association in November.

The Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers

of French requested Mr. Pierre Thomas, assistant professor of

French, to present a paper on "Aural Work and the Teaching of
French."

Dr. Mildred Mell, professor of economics and sociology, is serv-
ing as first vice president of the Southern Sociological Society.

Dr. Margaret Phythian, professor of French, is vice president
of the University Center Language Association.

Dr. Emma May Laney, associate professor of English, now serves
as president of the Atlanta English Club, the local chapter of the
National Council of English Teachers.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish, is a mem-
ber of the Board of the South Atlantic Modern Language Associ-
ation.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, has been serv-
ing for a number of years as secretary-treasurer of the Southeastern
Section of the Mathematical Association of America. He was re-
cently presented with a citation of honor in recognition of his dis-
tinguished service in this capacity. Dr. Robinson has given papers
this past year at the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical As-
sociation of America, the Georgia Academy of Science, and the Of-
ficers and Secretaries of the Mathematical Association of America
held in Minneapolis.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, associate professor of biology, is a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Biological As-
sociation.

Dr. Margret Trotter, assistant professor of English, is a mem-
ber of the Advisory Board of the Southeastern College English As-
sociation, and a member of the Award Committee for the Georgia
Writers Association.

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Air. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, has been
elected vice president of the Georgia Chapter of the American
Guild of Organists. He serves as staff organist for the Protestant
Radio Center which broadcasts the Sunday "Protestant Hour" for
five denominations and the summer series of the N.B.C. National
Radio Pulpit. Mr. Martin is organist-choir director of the Church
of the Incarnation (Episcopal) of Atlanta.

The following books, pamphlets, articles, etc. have been pub-
lished by Agnes Scott faculty members during the past year (in-
cluding those now in process) :

Elizabeth Barineau : "Les Orientates" de Victor Hugo : edition
critique. 2 vols. Societe des Textes francais modernes, Paris. In
press.

Josephine Bridgman: "Further Studies on Growth and the Pro-
cesses of Encvstment and Excvstment in Dileptus." (an abstract)
Biological Bulletin, Vol. 101, No. 2, Oct. 1951.

William A. Calder: "Photoelectric Observations of Lambda An-
dromedae," Astronomical Journal, Nov. 1951. "A Domesticated
Eclipsing Binary System," Sky and Telescope, March 1952.

W. Joe Frierson: "Radioactive Tracers in Paper Partition Chro-
matography of Inorganic Ions," Journal of Analytical Chemistry,
Oct. 1951. "Radio-contaminants in Biological Studies with Cop-
per," Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In press. "Paper
Chromatography of Inorganic Substances," Chemical and Engineer-
ing News. In press.

Paul Leslie Garber: "Reconstructing Solomon's Temple," The
Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Feb. 1951. "The Temple
of Solomon," a filmstrip, Atlanta, Ga., Southeastern Films, 1951.
Manual for the Filmstrip "The Temple of Solomon" based on the
Howland-Garber Model Reconstruction, Atlanta, Ga., Southeast-
ern Films, 1951. "The Pauline Letters," in the anthology, Under-
standing the Books of the New Testament, Tohn Knox Press, Rich-
mond, 1952.

Netta E. Gray: "A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. V. The
South Pacific Species of Podocarpus: Section Stachy carpus." Journal
Arnold Arboretum X X X 1 1 , 1951 (with John T. Buchholz). "A
Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. VI The South Pacific Species of
Podocarpus: Section Sundacarpus." Journal Arnold Arboretum
XXXII, 1951 (with John T. Buchholz).

Ellen Douglass Leyburn: "Swift's View of the Dutch," Publica-
tions of the Modern Language Association, LXVI, Sept, 1951.
"Swift's Language Trifles," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
XV, Feb. 1952.

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Mary Stuart MacDougall: Foundations of Animal Biology, The
McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. In Press. Revision of Bi-
ology, The Science of Life, The McGraw Hill ttcok Company,
Inc. In press.

Walter B. Posey: The Presbyterian Church in the Old South-
west, John Knox Press, Richmond, 1952. In press. The Baptist
Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In process.

Catherine Strateman Sims: "Policies in Parliament: An Early
Seventeenth Century Tractate on House of Commons Procedure,"
Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. XV, 1951. Article on L. B.
Namier, in the collection, Some Modern Historians of Britain,
Dryden Press, New York, 1951.

Anna Greene Smith: "Fifty Years of Southern Writing, Univer-
sity of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1952. In press. "The
Southern Town as Seen in Contemporary Southern Fiction," Social
Forces, accepted for October 1952 issue.

E. Chappell White: "Music and Liberal Education," Emory
Quarterly, Dec. 1951.

Agnes Scott-Emory Cooperation

Since 1939 Agnes Scott College and Emory University have been
cooperating on the basis of a plan that was approved by our Board
of Trustees and by the Administration of Emory University. The
objectives of that agreement included the strengthening of the basic
work at the undergraduate level in each institution ; economy in
operation through the elimination of duplicate courses and the con-
bining of other courses with very small enrollment; economy through
a general exchange of services between the institutions, including
faculty and students ; elimination of competition as far as possible ;
and a joint effort to secure funds for the maintenance of quality
work in higher education in the Southeast.

Some of the articles of agreement entered into by Agnes Scott
and Emory in 1939 are no longer relevant to the present situation,
and other specifications of the old agreement seem now to be un-
satisfactory to one or the other of the contracting parties. In view
of these facts, conversations were begun by the two presidents sev-
eral months ago that have led to the formation of a Joint Com-
mittee consisting of an administrative officer, the Dean of the Col-
lege and a faculty member from each institution. This Joint Com-
mittee has been working under the chairmanship of Dean Ernest
Cadman Colwell of Emory and plans to propose to the Board of
Trustees at Emory and at Agnes Scott a new form of agreement
that will more adequately meet present conditions.

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The most effective venture in cooperation that has been at-
tempted by Emory and Agnes Scott is the Teacher Education Pro-
gram. Much credit is due Dr. John I. Goodlad and Dr. Samuel
P. Wiggins.

Trustees

Since the last annual meeting of the Board, Agnes Scott has
suffered the loss of one of her most faithful friends through many
years Dr. D. P. McGeachy. Dr. McGeachy was elected to mem-
bership on the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott on May 27, 1919,
continuing his service for more than thirty-two years. His death
occurred in Atlanta on August 16, 1951. A suitable memorial has
been prepared for adoption by our Board of Trustees at this meeting.

The terms of the following trustees expire this year: Mr. Scott
Candler, Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt, Mr. John A. Sibley, Mrs. Bealy
Smith, Mrs. S. E. Thatcher, and Mrs. Annie Louise Waterman.
All of these members of our Board have rendered constructive and
helpful service to the College.

Attention is called to the fact that two vacancies exist on the
Board. The unexpired terms of Mr. Frank M. Inman and Dr. D.
P. McGeachy are to be filled.

Students

Our student body for the 1951-52 session may be classified in
several interesting ways as follows :

Geographical Distribution

Alabama 34 Oklahoma 3

Arkansas 6 Pennsylvania 1

California 2 South Carolina 22

Colorado 1 Tennessee 22

Connecticut 1 Texas 7

Florida 18 Virginia 13

Georgia 267 West Virginia 5

Illinois 1 Wisconsin 1

Kentucky 7 Africa 1

Louisiana 6 China 1

Michigan 4 France 1

Mississippi 6 Japan 1

Missouri 4 Korea 1

New York 2 Malaya 1

North Carolina 34

Total 473

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Class Enrollment

Seniors 104^

Juniors 87

Sophomores 109

Freshmen 149

Specials 25

Total 474

*One senior completed requirements in summer session ; hence
not registered this session.

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 171

Methodist 108

Baptist 83

Episcopal 28

Roman Catholic 15

Greek Orthodox .... 10

Jewish 10

Christian 7

*This does not include 25 special students.

Residence Distribution

Boarders 317

Day Students 156

Lutheran ....

4

Christian Science .

3

Congregational . .

3

Salvation Army . .

2

Church of Christ .

1

Community Church

1

No Preference . .

2

448 s

473

Respectfully submitted,

^Afc

President

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

June 5, 1953

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees
Agnes Scott College:

June 5, 1953

As the sixty-fourth year in Agnes Scott College's history closes,
I present herewith my second annual report as president.

At the outset, permit me to give expression to a conviction that
has been strengthened throughout the five years of my service in
the faculty and administration at Agnes Scott. I have reference
to the clear-cut awareness of purpose and sense of mission that lives
in the minds and hearts of those who have been and are now in
places of responsibility in the board, the administration and the
faculty of the institution. The current Agnes Scott College Bulletin
(January, 1953) states the matter succinctly: "A commitment to
the liberal arts program, insistence upon quality in education, and
emphasis on the development of Christian character are foundation
principles of the College." We are resolved to continue to be a
small, Christian, liberal arts college for women. We have deliberately
determined that our task is to offer the best possible educational
advantages under positive Christian influences. We are persuaded
that a liberal arts training such as we undertake to offer at Agnes
Scott is the most effective preparation for life. We do not hesitate
to affirm that living is our business!

Some years ago Mile. Adelina Patti, the celebrated singer, in
giving the location of her Welsh castle in the district of Brecknock-
shire, said that it was "twenty-three miles from everywhere and
very beautiful." Many people today regard a liberal arts education
as being vague, indefinite, impractical, and, in large measure, irrele-
vant. There are those who contend that a liberal arts education, like
Mile. Patti's Welsh castle, is "twenty-three miles from everywhere
and very beautiful." Our answer to that is to say that if any par-
ticular liberal arts program is visionary, vague, and unrelated to
life, it is a caricature of the real thing. We are convinced that a
liberal arts college, true to its purpose and enlightened in the prose-
cution of its task, is making the most relevant contribution to practi-
cal, effective, abundant living that can be offered by an educational
institution in the contemporary world.

We are attempting here at Agnes Scott to help our students to
become all that they are capable of being. We are concerned about
the enrichment of the whole personality. The Agnes Scott ideal
includes high intellectual attainment, simple religious faith, physical
well-being, and the development of attractive, poised, mature per-
sonality. The type of education offered at Agnes Scott is predicated
upon the conviction that a mind trained to think is essential if life
is to be unfettered, rich and full. We are trying to put at the
disposal of the student the wealth of the ages, all the while attempting

to guide the effort to acquire a working knowledge of the clues and
the tools essential to an appreciation of the intellectual and spiritual
treasures that so many people are neglecting. It is our task to
undertake to reveal, interpret, and assist the student in appropriating
some of the wealth of the mind and spirit.

We believe that the atmosphere on our campus is conducive to
the cultivation of strong, mature, useful Christian character. Hand
in hand with processes that liberate the mind and spirit of a student
go corresponding opportunities for developing self-mastery and for
making a dedication of life to great ends. Agnes Scott College is
unashamedly committed to the Christian interpretation of life, and
throughout sixty-four years has been dedicated to the glory of God.

SURVEY AND APPRAISAL

This institution has repeatedly made an impressive showing on
tests of achievement and excellence available on a national basis.
Agnes Scott College was recently included among the leading insti-
tutions in the United States in the production of scholars, in an
article in the January, 1953, issue of Mademoiselle Magazine. The
article, "Where Do the Top Students Go?" lists Agnes Scott as
ninth among the woman's colleges in the nation in sending forth
young scholars. This article was based on research financed by the
Fund for the Advancement of Education and undertaken by Robert
Knapp and Joseph Greenbaum who will issue their findings soon
in a volume entitled, The Younger American Scholar: His Collegiate
Origins. The basis for the study by Knapp and Greenbaum was a
compilation of Ph.D. and large fellowship awards from 1945 through
1951, with a tabulation from the colleges from which the awardees
had graduated. Our students at Agnes Scott have consistently shown
up well on graduate record examinations and other tests. As a
matter of fact, the report on such tests is superior to that in the
study by Knapp and Greenbaum since a large number of our superior
students marry before they have an opportunity to evidence their
ability.

Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Higher Education
of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education to colleges related
to the Presbyterian Church, our faculty assumed the responsibility
for a program of study and appraisal of various aspects of our work
at Agnes Scott during this session. Under the chairmanship of Dr.
Paul Leslie Garber, small study committees of faculty members have
been at work in the following areas of investigations: the objectives
of the educational program, the student clientele, the faculty and staff,
the physical plant and equipment, the efficiency of business manage-
ment, and the program of financial support. The study committees
have completed their work and mimeographed copies of the reports are
being made available to the entire faculty. Faculty consideration of the
reports is scheduled for the early fall. A summary of the findings
will be reported to the Board at the late fall or early winter meeting.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

Agnes Scott has recently become affiliated with the College En-
trance Examination Board. The College Entrance Examination
Board is composed of 153 colleges and universities which use, in
their admissions programs, tests devised and administered through
Board auspices. Members of the Board, including representatives
from secondary schools, meet twice yearly. Each member institution
appears in a Handbook published by the Board and distributed
throughout the country. Institutions must be elected to membership.
Use of the Board tests in colleges and universities throughout the
country is increasing although relatively few Southern institutions
have been elected to membership thus far. We hope eventually to
require the College Entrance Examination Board tests of all appli-
cants for admission.

Students from 88 high schools in 18 states and 3 foreign countries
participated in the Agnes Scott Competitive Scholarship Contest this
past year. Honor scholarships ranging in value from $1500 to $200
were awarded to students in Kansas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala-
bama, Florida, Japan, Kentucky, New York, and Virginia. The
principal items of consideration included an achievement-aptitude
test, an English test, an autobiography, a statement explaining why
the applicant wished a scholarship to Agnes Scott, the secondary
school record, participation in school and community activities, and
other data secured by the College.

Every effort consistent with the realities of our financial situation
is being made to increase faculty salaries. A number of adjustments
in salaries have been made in recent months. The contracts for the
1953-54 session reflect the following increases in minimum salaries
for each rank since 1949-50: professor, 15%; associate professor
6%; assistant professor, 19%; instructor, 31%. Compared with
other independent liberal arts colleges in the Southern Association
of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Agnes Scott's minimum salaries
are approximately at the median higher at the levels of professor
and instructor; slightly lower at the level of associate and assistant
professor. Compared with the median figures for five small private
colleges in the North Central and Pacific regions (Carleton, Mills,
Pomona, Reed and Wabash), Agnes Scott salaries are 10-15%
lower. Compared with the median of Bryn Mawr, Vassar and
Wellesley as reported in the AAUP Bulletin (Winter, 1951-52),
Agnes Scott is 15-20% below except at the level of instructor. From
the comparative studies which have been made recently it is apparent
that our salary level for professors and associate professors, particu-
larly, should be raised as soon as it is practicable to do so.

Agnes Scott's most urgent need is for increased permanent en-
dowment. I would urge the members of the Board of Trustees to
give their counsel and their full cooperation to the Committee on
Development, appointed by Chairman Winship for the purpose of
charting a long-range development program that is to culminate in

the seventy-fifth anniversary of the College in 1964. Unquestionably,
an enlarged endowment will constitute a major objective of this
program for the future.

We are making some progress in the cultivation of annual giving
to the College. The "Friends of Agnes Scott" movement has begun
modestly, enlisting men and women (other than alumnae) who
agree to undertake to include Agnes Scott in their annual benevolent
giving. The Alumnae Fund now totals more than $11,000 annually,
enabling the alumnae to maintain their Association and to render
some important services to the College. The Alumnae Fund for
1953-54 permits alumnae the opportunity of designating their gifts
to any of several specific college needs, thereby broadening the nature
of the annual appeal and stressing the fact that a contribution of
any sort to the College is an "Alumnae Fund gift." It is anticipated
that this emphasis upon college-centered giving will increase the
interest of alumnae in the Fund and augment the total amount
contributed.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

At the meeting of our Board held November 20, 1952, authori-
zation was unanimously given to construct Hopkins Hall, a new
dormitory for Freshmen. This building, named in honor of the first
Dean of Agnes Scott, Miss Nannette Hopkins, is now under con-
struction. Logan and Williams were secured as architects and Barge-
Thompson as builders on a cost plus plan. The total cost of the
building together with furnishings, the concrete driveway and land-
scaping will come to approximately $225,000. Four-fifths of the
total cost is in hand and plans are now under way to secure the
balance from alumnae and friends of the College. We have been
assured that the building will be completed for the opening of school
in September. When Hopkins Hall is completed, our housing facili-
ties will take care of 415 students. Inman, Main, Rebekah Scott
and Hopkins Hall will house approximately 335 with six cottages
accommodating a total of 80.

Due to the need of additional housing facilities for students, Ansley
Cottage on South Candler Street was converted into a student resi-
dence last summer. Faculty members who formerly occupied Ansley
now reside in McDonough Cottage on South McDonough Street.

In recent months Inman Hall, our large Freshman dormitory,
has been painted, the rooms redecorated and equipped throughout
with new tables, study and lounge chairs and bookcases. New coiled
spring beds have been placed throughout the cottages.

In compliance with the action of the Board, White House was
removed last summer and the area which it formerly occupied has
been landscaped.

Competitive bids are being received and plans are in process to
remove the old science building and to landscape the area on which
it now stands. Action previously taken by the Board has authorized

the use of this location for a large dormitory which should accommo-
date approximately 150 students. We do not have the funds for this
dormitory, but we should secure them and proceed with this con-
struction as soon as it is possible to do so.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

The Inter-Faith Council sponsored a very successful "Meet the
Ministers" Tea on the afternoon of September 19 in order that stu-
dents, particularly freshmen and transfer students, might become
acquainted with pastors of Decatur and Atlanta churches as well
as with directors of religious education. The event was judged an
outstanding success and has contributed through the year to the
effectiveness of Agnes Scott's religious program.

Among the distinguished personalities whom we have welcomed
to the campus this year for lectures and chapel addresses are the
following: Dr. Douglas V. Steere, Professor of Philosophy at Haver-
ford College; Dr. Edwin Mims, Professor Emeritus of English,
Vanderbilt University ; Professor Elio Eynard, Professor in the
Waldensian Seminary in Rome, Italy; Professor Louis Massignon
of the Sorbonne, Paris, France; Professor Lamar Dodd, distinguished
painter and Chairman of the Art Department of the University of
Georgia; Professor Moses Hadas of the Department of Greek and
Latin, Columbia University; Robert Frost, Agnes Scott's beloved
poet; Sir Gladwyn Jebb, permanent representative of Great Britain
to the United Nations; Dr. Francis G. Wilson, Professor of Political
Science at the University of Illinois; Dr. Talcott Parsons, Chairman
of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University; Dr.
Walter P. Webb, Professor of History at the University of Texas;
and Dr. Richard F. Kimball, Head of the Cytology Section of the
Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

One of the most interesting events of the fall was a mock presi-
dential campaign. On October 23 General Elbert Tuttle spoke to
the students on behalf of the candidacy of General Dwight Eisen-
hower and the Honorable James Mackay represented the Demo-
cratic candidate, Mr. Adlai Stevenson. Following a lively debate
and an exciting demonstration for the two candidates, each member
of the College community voted, using the voting machines secured
from the election officials in DeKalb County.

The Art and Music Departments have contributed significantly
to the campus community during this session through art exhibits
and occasional concerts and recitals. The presentation of the art
film "St. Matthew's Passion" was particularly appreciated. Exhibits
by seventeen Agnes Scott alumnae proved popular as did also the
showing of the work by Mr. Ferdinand Warren and Miss Marie
Huper. One of the most interesting occasions of the college year
was a tea given in honor of three renowned artists Lamar Dodd,
Howard Thomas, and Francis Chapin. In December the Agnes
Scott Glee Club featured Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of the

Carols" and at the spring concert Mozart's operetta "Bastien and
Bastienna."

At long last, the Agnes Scott faculty presented "Shellbound
1952." The students urgently requested a faculty skit and the pro-
duction in January was acclaimed by the entire campus as one of
the year's outstanding events.

Blackfriars presented a farce in the fall, "Take Two from One"
by Gregorio Martines Sierra. The spring production was "The
Choephori" by Aeschylus. It was significant that the Greek play
was produced by Blackfriars during the national Eta Sigma Phi
Convention to which Agnes Scott served as host.

Included among the enjoyable and interesting campus events of
this session was a States Banquet on October 22, "Love's Labour's
Lost" presented by Players, Inc., Tschaikovsky's "The Nutcracker
Suite" and Aaron Copland's "Rodeo" presented by the Agnes Scott
Dance Group, and the water ballet, "Under the Big Top" pre-
sented by the Dolphin Club.

The Agnes Scott News achieved an "excellent" rating from the
Associated Collegiate Press recently. The News, Aurora and the
Silhouette are publications in which we take considerable pride.

The Agnes Scott alumnae members of the Georgia Education
Association were entertained at breakfast in the Letitia Pate Evans
Dining Hall on March 6. This occasion afforded the College an
opportunity to pay tribute to alumnae who are making a valuable
contribution as teachers.

The faculty members of Emory and Agnes Scott were guests of
the two institutions at dinner held in the dining hall at Emory on
February 16. The purpose of the dinner was to further the close
relationship between the two institutions and to provide an oppor-
tunity for the members of the faculties to become better acquainted.
It is contemplated that the Emory-Agnes Scott Dinner will become
an annual event.

Our Religious Emphasis Week speaker in February was Rev. Dr.
Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of
Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Olert's ministry left a deep impression
upon the entire college community.

FACULTY

It would be difficult to give adequate expression of my appreci-
ation of the men and women who comprise the faculty at Agnes
Scott. They are in large measure responsible for Agnes Scott's edu-
cational accomplishments. In addition to their teaching responsibilities
members of our faculty are engaged in numerous scholarly, religious
and community enterprises.

Additions to our facultv for the 1952-53 session have been: Dr.

Margaret DesChamps, Assistant Professor of History and Political
Science; Mr. W. Edward McNair Assistant Professor of English;
Dr. Lorin W. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Biology; Miss Janet
Loring, Instructor in Speech; Mr. Charles Walden, Assistant Pro-
fessor of Elementary Education; Miss Anne M. Salyerds, Assistant
in Biology; Mrs. William C. Fox and Mrs. W. W. Hatcher, Assist-
ants in Chemistry. Dr. Felix B. Gear and Dr. Samuel A. Cartledge
of Columbia Theological Seminary have been with us as Visiting
Professors of Bible this year.

The following were new members of the administrative staff
during 1952-53: Miss Sybil Corbett, Alumnae Representative; Mrs.
Ela B. Curry and Miss Octavia Garlington, Assistants to the Dean
of Students; Mrs. Louise S. McDonald, Assistant to the Librarian;
Miss Dona Barrett, Secretary to the Registrar and Dean of the
Faculty; Mr. Raymond M. Jones, Assistant to the Business Manager.

Miss Mary L. Boney, Instructor in Bible, has been on leave this
year, pursuing graduate study at Columbia University and Union
Theological Seminary, New York.

Miss Nancy Groseclose, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been
granted a leave of absence for the 1953-54 session to enable her to
complete requirements for the Ph.D. degree.

Dr. Janet Alexander, College Physician and Professor of Physical
Education, has been much in demand this past year as a speaker to
religious and educational groups, interpreting Pakistan where for
many years she served as a medical missionary.

Dr. Elizabeth Barineau, Associate Professor of French, read a
paper entitled, "The Manuscripts of Les Orientales," before the
South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Miami in Novem-
ber. She will be on leave in 1953-54 as Visiting Associate Professor
of French at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, Professor of Biology, served last sum-
mer, and has been reappointed for the summer of 1953, as Research
Participant in the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Lab-
oratory.

Dr. Samuel A. Cartledge, Visiting Professor of Bible, has been
awarded a fellowship by the Board of Christian Education of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S. for a year of study at the University of
Basel in Switzerland. In the course of this leave Dr. Cartledge
will make a trip to the Holy Land.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is serving
this year as Social Chairman of the University Center Language
Association.

Dr. Margaret DesChamps, Assistant Professor of History and
Political Science, has been awarded grants from the University Cen-
ter in Georgia and Duke University for research this summer on
the Presbyterian Church in the South Atlantic States.

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Edu-
cation, is President of the Georgia Psychological Association. She
serves as Chairman of the Elections Committee of the International
Council of Women Psychologists.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, Associate Professor of Spanish, is Presi-
dent of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Fulton County Medical
Society, Secretary of the University Center Language Association,
State Chairman of Civil Defense of the Woman's Auxiliary to
the Medical Association of Georgia, and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Health Section of the Community Planning Coun-
cil.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, Professor of Chemistry, is Secretary of the
Chemistry Division of the Georgia Academy of Science. He was
recently elected Vice Chairman of the Advisory Faculty Council of
the University Center in Georgia.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, Professor of Bible, read a paper recently
before the Southern section of the National Association of Biblical
Instructors. He serves as Chairman of the Committee on Audio-
Visual Aids for the National Association of Biblical Instructors and
also as a member of the Committee on Audio-Visual and Radio
Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in Amer-
ica. Dr. Garber heads a committee that is currently studying student
work for the Presbyterian Church in the Synod of Georgia.

Mrs. Stephen Gray, Instructor in Biology, read a paper entitled,
"The Effects of Centrifugal Force on the Growth of Wheat Seed-
lings," before the Association of Southeastern Biologists at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina recently.

Miss Marie Huper, Assistant Professor of Art, exhibited her
paintings and sculpture at the University of Tennessee in March.
She serves as lecturer in the Summer Arts and Crafts Program in
the Ontario Department of Education, Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Associate Professor of English, will
be on leave in 1953-54 under a grant from the Henry E. Huntington
Library in San Marino, California, doing research on satiric allegory.

Associate Professor Raymond J. Martin of our Department of
Music serves as Organist-Choir Director of the Peachtree Road
Presbyterian Church, Organist for the Protestant Radio Center, and
Vice President of the Georgia Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, Professor of Economics and Sociology, is
a Board member of the Atlanta Urban League and serves as a
consultant on Tax and Revenue Study for the Georgia League of
Women Voters.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, Associate Professor of Psychology, is
Treasurer of the Community Council of DeKalb County and a
member of the Council of the Georgia Psychological Association.

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Miss Janef N. Preston, Assistant Professor of English, is Secre-
tary of the Greater Atlanta English Club. Her poem, "Deserted
House on Bayou Lafourche," included in the Twenty-Fifth Anni-
versary Anthology of the Poetry of Georgia, was read at a recent
meeting of the English Club.

Dr. Lorin Roberts, Assistant Professor of Biology, read a paper
entitled, "Reducing Activity in Nodal Sections of Acer spp.," at the
annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in
Chapel Hill.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, Professor of Mathematics, serves as Vice
President of Georgia Alumni of Johns Hopkins University, Treas-
urer of the Georgia Academy of Science, and Secretary-Treasurer
of the Southeastern section of The Mathematical Association of
America.

Dr. Catherine S. Sims, Associate Professor of History and Po-
litical Science, serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors
of the Visiting Nurse Association of Metropolitan Atlanta, member
of the Budget Committee of the Greater Atlanta Community Chest,
and Vice President of the Atlanta Y.W.C.A.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, Associate Professor of Economics and
Sociology, is active in the work of the DeKalb County Family Service
Society and the DeKalb County Community Council. She is Re-
search Consultant of the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Services
and Vice President and Program Chairman of DeKalb County
League of Women Voters.

Dr. Margret Trotter, Assistant Professor of English, was elected
Secretary-Treasurer of the Southeastern College English Association.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, Professor of Art, was invited to serve
on the Metropolitan Museum American Watercolor Exhibition se-
lection committee, the jury of award of the Georgia Art Association
and the jury of award of the Savannah Art Association. This year
he has exhibited his paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, in the tour of American
paintings sponsored by the American Federation of Art, at the Cor-
coran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in the National Academy
of Design Annual Exhibition in New York City, in the American
Watercolor Society's National Exhibition in New York City, in a
one-man exhibition at the Gertrude Herbert Art Institute in Savan-
nah and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Mr. Warren
has received a University Center in Georgia research grant for re-
search in encaustic painting. He will also be a Visiting Professor
of Art at the University of Georgia this summer.

Associate Professor Llewellyn Wilburn of the Physical Education
Department serves as Chairman of the Constitution Committee of

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The Southern Association of Physical Education for College Women
and as a member of the Basketball Committee of The National
Section on Women's Athletics.

Dr. Sam P. Wiggins, Associate Professor of Education, serves as
Chairman of the Teaching Fields Committee of the Georgia Council
on Teacher Education, as a member of the Georgia Accrediting
Commission, and as Chairman of the Committee on General Restudy
of Accrediting Policies. He is in demand as an educational con-
sultant and speaker.

Dr. W. A. Calder, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been
elected Vice President of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, Professor of History and Political Science,
will be on leave from the Agnes Scott faculty during the 1953-54
session. Dr. Posey will participate in the University of Maryland
overseas program, teaching American soldiers stationed in England,
France and Germany.

The following books, pamphlets, articles, etc., have been published
by our faculty during the past year (including those now in process) :

Elizabeth Barineau:

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

Josephine Bridgman:

"Radiation Studies on Tillina magna." (Paper in process)

Melissa Cilley:

"Hispanic Culture," The New Hampshire Quarterly, February,
1953.

Margaret Burr DesChamps:

"The Presbyterian Church in the South Atlantic States, 1 801 -
1861: A Bibliography," Journal of the Presbyterian Historical
Society, XXX (September, 1952), 193-207.
"Presbyterians and Others in the South," Journal of the Presby-
terian Historical Society, XXXI (March, 1953), 25-40.

Florene J. Dunstan:

"Paradox in Spain," Commission, January, 1953, 14.
"Methods Must Be Skillfully Used," The Teacher, January,
1953, 16.

W. J. Frierson:

"Paper Chromatography of Inorganic Substances," Chemical
and. Engineering News, October, 1952.

"Elution Chromatography with Thick Filter Paper," Analytical
Chemistry. In press.

Paul L. Garber:

"A Reconstruction of Solomon's Temple," Archaeology, V (Au-
tumn, 1952), 165-172, illustrated.

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Netta E. Gray:

"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. VII. The African spe-
cies of Podocarpus: Section Afrocarpus," Journal Arnold Arbo-
retum, XXXIV (1953), 67-76.

Muriel Harn :

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

Ellen Douglass Leyburn :

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

Margret Trotter:

'Agnes Scott and Emory Have a Plan of Cooperation," The
Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XXXI (Winter, 1952), 9-10.

Sam P. Wiggins:

"Improving Off-Campus Student Teaching (A Training Pro-
gram for Supervising Teachers)," Education, June, 1953.
"State Programs in Teacher Education," Educational Adminis-
tration and Supervision. In press.

ENROLLMENT

Our enrollment for the 1952-53 session has totalled 470 students
365 boarders and 105 day students. 23 states, the District of Co-
lumbia and 7 foreign countries have been represented in our student
body for the current session. The geographical distribution is as
follows:

Alabama 36 Pennsylvania 3

Arkansas 6 South Carolina 28

Colorado 1 Tennessee 25

Florida 32 Texas 6

Georgia 233 Virginia 15

Illinois 2 West Virginia 7

Kentucky 5 Wisconsin

Louisiana 6 District of Columbia . .

Maryland 1 China

Michigan 3 Congo Beige

Mississippi 9 Japan

Missouri 1 Malaya

New Mexico 1 Norway

New York 3 Sweden 2

North Carolina 35 Venezuela 1

Oklahoma 2

470

Our 365 boarding students have taxed available facilities, having
been housed in three large dormitories (Agnes Scott or "Main,"
Rebekah Scott, and Inman), and six cottages (Boyd, Cunningham,
Gaines, Lupton, Mary Sweet and Ansley). When Hopkins Hall is
completed, we will have a boarding student capacity of 415.

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Class Enrollment

Seniors 83

Juniors 83

Sophomores 121

Freshmen 171

Specials 12

Total 470

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 184 Jewish 6

Methodist Ill Congregational 4

Baptist 82 Church of Christ ....

Episcopal 23 Community Church . . .

Roman Catholic .... 13 Moravian

Christian 9 Syrian Orthodox ....

Christian Science .... 7 Union Church

Lutheran 7 No preference

Greek Orthodox .... 6

458'

* This does not include 12 special students.

TRUSTEES

Mr. T. Guy Woolford, a valued member of our Board of Trus-
tees, died in his seventy-seventh year on May 20, 1952. Mr. Wool-
ford had served faithfully as a member of the Agnes Scott Board
since 1936. A suitable memorial was prepared following the annual
meeting of the Board, May 30, 1952.

The terms of the following trustees expire this year: Mr. George
Winship, Mrs. Frances Winship Walters, Dr. D. W. Hollings-
worth, Dr. S. Hugh Bradley, Dr. S. G. Stukes, Dr. Marshall C.
Dendy, and Mr. J. R. Neal. All of these members of our Board
have proved their loyalty and interest in many ways.

The resignation of Dr. William V. Gardner, whose term expires
in 1954, has been received by the Chairman of the Board and has
been referred to the Committee on Nominations for consideration
and recommendation. Attention is called to the vacancy that exists
on the Board due to the death of Mr. T. Guy Woolford whose
term as a corporate trustee would have expired in 1955.

I have found warm friendship and helpfulness from each member
of the Board of Trustees in all matters relating to the College since
1 assumed the presidency. I am ever grateful for the fellowship
with you in this great task of molding the lives of young people
through our program of Christian liberal arts education.

Respectfully submitted,

President
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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

June 4, 1954

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees June 4, 1954

Agnes Scott College :

I am glad to present herewith my third annual report as President
of Agnes Scott College at the conclusion of the sixty-fifth year in the
life of the institution.

In a letter to his brother, dated May 20, 1890, the College's
Founder, Colonel George Washington Scott, spoke of his intention
to make a large gift to the school for girls that he had already been
instrumental in establishing in Decatur. He wrote, "It is my desire to
make it as great an institution of this kind as there is in the land."
This continues to be the intention of those of us to whom the affairs
of Agnes Scott have been committed.

It is significant that when Agnes Scott began as a grammar school
without any work even of secondary grade, its founders set down as
the first item in their ideal for the school, "a liberal curriculum fully
abreast of the best institutions in this country." When a little later
Agnes Scott Institute began to do high school work, the same standard
was lifted up. When the institute became a college in 1906, it restated
this lofty purpose. The next year, 1907, Agnes Scott College was ad-
mitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
In 1920 it was placed on the approved list of the Association of
American Universities. It was a charter member of the American
Association of University Women and of the Southern University
Conference. The College was granted a charter by the United
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa in 1926, and in 1932 Mortar Board
established a chapter on our campus. From a little school whose
annual deficits were borne by one far-sighted individual Agnes Scott
has become an institution with total assets of approximately $7,400,-
000. The most gratifying aspect of Agnes Scott's development has
been that the same fundamental purposes, the same ideals, the same
unique union of fine scholarship and genuine religious faith obtain
today that guided the institution in the early years when Colonel
Scott devoted himself to the life of the college.

The type of education offered at Agnes Scott is predicated upon the
conviction that a mind trained to think is essential if life is to be
unfettered, rich, and free. Moreover, the liberal arts college tries to
place at the disposal of the student some of the accumulated wealth
of the ages, all the while attempting to guide the effort to acquire a
working knowledge of the clues and the tools essential to an apprecia-
tion of the intellectual and spiritual treasures that so many people
are neglecting.

Willa Cather's Mr. Rosen in Obscure Destinies is characterized in
this fashion: "All countries were beautiful to Mr. Rosen. He carried
a country of his own in his mind and was able to unfold it like a tent
in any wilderness." Resourcefulness is a result for which we strive in

liberal arts training. What more significant thing can a college do
than to relate the mind and spirit of a student to the resources that
bring a deep, abiding satisfaction, not only now, but through all the
years to come ?

You realize, of course, that the task that faces such colleges as
Agnes Scott is not an easy one. The independent liberal arts institu-
tions of this country will have to justify their right to exist in the
period ahead. This college belongs neither to the state nor to any
branch of the church. Agnes Scott belongs to those who believe in
what she stands for and in what she undertakes to do. From such folk
must come her strength in the years ahead. My optimism about the
future of this college is based not alone upon a belief that such small
Christian liberal arts colleges are essential to the integrity of a demo-
cratic America, but upon a conviction that Agnes Scott College has
a unique service to perform and a mission to fulfill in the educational
life of the South and of the nation.

SURVEY AND APPRAISAL

The administration and faculty have continued during the past
year a program of self-study that was inaugurated in 1952-53, upon
the recommendation of the Committee on Higher Education of the
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education to colleges related to the
Presbyterian Church. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Paul Leslie
Garber, small study committees of faculty members have continued
to work in the following areas of investigation: the objectives of the
educational program, the student clientele, the faculty and staff, the
physical plant and equipment, the efficiency of business manage-
ment, and the program of financial support. In recent months the
faculty as a whole has heard and considered findings and recommenda-
tions that have resulted from the small committee discussions. It is
anticipated that this self-study will be concluded in the fall or early
winter of 1954.

Under the chairmanship of Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, Associ-
ate Professor of History and Political Science, and in cooperation with
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a committee from
our faculty and staff has been engaged in a study entitled, "Education
in International Relations at Agnes Scott." The purpose of this
particular self-appraisal has been to discover in what ways and to
what extent the program of the College, both curricular and extra-
curricular, contributes toward a greater understanding among our
students of the problems of international relations.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

After months of careful study by the faculty, we have inaugurated
this year, in lieu of the honors program, a program of independent
study involving concentrated work in the major field. It is possible
now in the senior year for a larger number of students who have

qualified on the basis of their general college record to participate
in this plan of independent study.

Announcement was made recently that the Fund for the Advance-
ment of Education of the Ford Foundation has made a grant of
$137,000 to finance a unique program of school-college cooperation
in which Agnes Scott is participating. This important educational
experiment, known as the "Atlanta Experiment in Articulation and
Enrichment," involves cooperation between the Westminster Schools,
Agnes Scott, Emory, and Oglethorpe. The goal of the experiment is
the enrichment of the curriculum in the last two years at the West-
minster Schools and the first two years in the colleges involved. Mr.
W. Edward McNair of the Agnes Scott faculty has been chosen as
director of the program. A Planning Committee with Dean S. G.
Stukes and Dr. Emma May Laney as our representatives, five com-
mittees on Curriculum, and a Motivation Committee have already
begun their work. The experiment is to extend over a period of seven
years. We believe the results of this experiment could be far reaching.
Representatives of the Atlanta, Fulton, and DeKalb public school
systems will meet regularly with the Planning Committee in order to
keep the public school administrators aware of the progress of the
program.

Special recognition came to Agnes Scott's Department of Chemistry
this past year in the grant from Arthur D. Little, Inc., consulting
engineers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to finance Professor W. J.
Frierson's research in paper chromatography. The arrangement has
been continued for another year in view of the significance of Dr.
Frierson's results.

Three bequests to Agnes Scott have been announced during recent
months. Mrs. John B. Waterman of Mobile, Alabama, provided for
the $60,000 balance of a pledge that she made in the 1948-51 cam-
paign to endow a chair of speech. Mrs. Letitia Pate Evans specified
in her will that the sum of $100,000 be added to Agnes Scott's
permanent funds, the income of which would be used in the perpetual
maintenance of the Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall which she made
possible during her lifetime. Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson left most
of her estate to Agnes Scott in the amount of approximately $80,000.
This sum includes "The Jackson Fund" of $56,000, an addition to
permanent endowment ; provision for an elevator in the McCain
Library; her house on South McDonough Street; furniture, dishes,
and other effects in kind.

In the Annual Report to the Board a year ago the following state-
ment was made concerning the Alumnae Fund : "The Alumnae Fund
now totals more than $11,000 annually, enabling the alumnae to
maintain their Association and to render some important services
to the College. The Alumnae Fund for 1953-54 permits alumnae
the opportunity of designating their gifts to any of several specific
college needs, thereby broadening the nature of the annual appeal and
stressing the fact that a contribution of any sort to the College is an
'Alumnae Fund Gift.' It is anticipated that this emphasis upon

college-centered giving will increase the interest of alumnae in the
Fund and augment the total amount contributed." I am glad to in-
form the Board that as this Annual Report is being prepared the
Alumnae Fund for 1953-54 totals approximately $28,000. Alumnae
have evidenced interest in many aspects of the College's program as
well as in the specific budget for the support of the Association itself.
The Administration of the College is heartily favorable to this college-
centered approach to alumnae, and we commend the leaders in our
Alumnae Association for their vision and initiative in modifying the
annual alumnae appeal.

It is with genuine reluctance and regret that I inform the Board
of the resignation of Miss Eleanor N. Hutchens, Alumnae Secretary
and Director of Publicity for the College. Miss Hutchens plans to
pursue studies in English for the Ph.D. degree at the University of
Pennsylvania. The service that Miss Hutchens has rendered to Agnes
Scott College since she assumed her duties in the summer of 1947 has
been exceptionally outstanding. Her intelligent handling of numerous
responsibilities in her dual capacity has contributed constructively to
the welfare of the College. Announcement concerning Miss Hutchens'
successor will be made at the annual meeting of the Board on June 4.

The most pressing needs of the College are for increased permanent
endowment and an additional dormitory. I respectfully urge the mem-
bers of the Board to give their counsel and cooperation in the imple-
mentation of a report made a year ago by the Committee on Develop-
ment, appointed by Chairman Winship for the purpose of charting a
long-range development program that is to culminate in the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the College in 1964. Because of the importance
of this report and its relevance to present and future needs of Agnes
Scott, I include it here for the convenience of the Trustees. The report
presented by Dr. J. R. McCain, Chairman of the Development Com-
mittee, and unanimously adopted by the Board on June 5, 1953, is as
follows :

One of the earliest resolutions passed by the Trustees of
Agnes Scott, even while it was still Decatur Female Semi-
nary, was that the institution should become "fully abreast of
the best institutions of this country." This goal has never
been forgotten and has never been lowered.

The story of how Agnes Scott has progressed from a
grammar school in 1889 to its present rank is known to most
of us. In spite of four wars and three serious depressions,
plus other difficulties too numerous to mention, the objective
has been steadily pursued.

In the early days, there were in Georgia several colleges
for women that were better known and better equipped than
Agnes Scott, and in the South and particularly in the North
and East there were scores that outranked us in nearly all
details except in our sincerity of purpose and our faith in

God.

At the present time, there are perhaps only a half-dozen
colleges for women, all in the East, which have better equip-
ment and larger endowment than Agnes Scott's. There is
none which has fuller academic recognition at home or
abroad.

As President Alston has been studying the needs of the
College, particularly with the thought of celebrating our
seventy-fifth anniversary in 1964, he has requested that a
Committee on Development be appointed to assist him in
studying the program to be sought and in suggesting ways
and means of attaining the specific objectives that may be
emphasized.

The Committee met recently and studied with Dr. Alston
the most urgent needs as they can be ascertained just now,
suggesting certain priorities to be followed if possible. The
members of the Committee unanimously and heartily believe
that every item suggested below is important and that every
one ought to be attained if possible within the next eleven
years.

The Committee hereby recommends that the Board of
Trustees approve the following long-range development pro-
gram and that Dr. Alston be assured that the Trustees will
cooperate with him in securing the items as rapidly as may
be possible:

AGNES SCOTT'S LONG-RANGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

(culminating in the observance of the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the College in 1964)

I. BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND EQUIPMENT

Hopkins Hall construction of new
Freshman dormitory to house fifty
students, furnish building and land-
scape area adjacent to Alumnae
Garden $ 225,000.00

Modernization and Renovation of
Buildings fire-proof stairs and
other improvements of Inman, Re-
bekah Scott and Main 150,000.00

Large Additional Dormitory to ac-
commodate approximately one hun-
dred fifty students, enabling us to
discontinue the use of cottages for
student housing 575,000.00

Faculty Center probably a home-
like one-story building with ample
parlor and kitchenette facilities . 75,000.00

Art Building classrooms, lecture

rooms, gallery, etc 300,000.00

Faculty Housing addition of several
houses for faculty families, im-
provement of faculty houses now
in possession of College, and erec-
tion of attractive unit of faculty
apartments 225,000.00

Arboretum, Outdoor Amphitheatre,
Landscaping improvements on
campus (i.e. removal of cottages,
old science hall, etc.) 125,000.00

Student Center with recreation
rooms, offices for student publica-
tions, student activities, snack bar,
etc 300,000.00

$ 1,975,000.00

II. ENDOWMENT

Scholarships $ 500,000.00

Lectureships 30,000.00

Frances Winship Walters Infirmary 185,000.00

Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall . . 500,000.00

History and Political Science . . . 500,000.00

Biology 500,000.00

Chemistry 500,000.00

Physics 300,000.00

* English 300,000.00

Astronomy 250,000.00

Modern Languages

French, German, Spanish .... 535,000.00

Classics 250,000.00

Economics 200,000.00

Sociology 300,000.00

Anthropology 175,000.00

Physical Education 325,000.00

Music 500,000.00

Art 500,000.00

Speech 200,000.00

Bible 300,000.00

Philosophy 300,000.00

Mathematics 300,000.00

Psychology 300,000.00

Education 300,000.00

$ 8,050,000.00

Total $10,025,000.00

* Our English Department is our largest and is the only
department for which considerable endowment has already
been secured.

Respectfully submitted,
J. R. McCAIN, Chairman

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Hopkins Hall, our new freshman dormitory, was completed just
prior to the beginning of the current college session and was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies on September 30, 1953. The total cost
for architects' fee, construction, furnishings, landscaping, and engi-
neering services came to $227,205.10. Sixteen rooms in Hopkins Hall
have been furnished as "nameplate rooms" in memory or in honor of
persons designated by the donors. The donors and those who have
been memorialized and honored are as follows: Evelyn Ramspeck
Glenn (Inst.) in memory of Charlotte Ramspeck Hardeman ('08) ;
Violet Weeks Miller ('29), Margaret Glassell Weeks ('31), Olive
Weeks Collins ('32), Lilly Weeks McLean ('36) in loving tribute
to their mother, Mrs. W. G. Weeks; G. Lamar Westcott in honor
of his wife, Lulu Smith Westcott ('19) ; Frances Thatcher Moses
('17) in honor of The Class of 1917; a room dedicated by the Col-
lege in memory of Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, under whose will a
number of valuable pieces of furniture came to the College and are
used in Hopkins Hall; Lucy Johnson Ozmer (ex-'lO) in memory of
her husband, William Angus Ozmer; Mary West Thatcher ('15) in
honor of her parents, Jeannette and John Walter West ; Catherine
Mock Hodgin ('26) in honor of Dr. Emily S. Dexter; Dr. Paul
Garber and family in memory of Iva Leslie Garber ; Elizabeth Wool-
folk Move ('31) in memory of her mother, Annie T. Blackburn
Woolfolk; Mrs. Richard Louis Hull in memory of her husband,
Richard Louis Hull ; a room given by Frances Winship Walters
(Inst.); Augusta Skeen Cooper ('17) in appreciation of Dr. Lillian
Scoresby Smith; Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns ('22) in memory of her
father, Charles O. Stubbs, her mother, Anne Colquitt Mitchell Stubbs,
and her brother, Harry Donald Stubbs ; Alma Fraser Howerton
Cleveland ('32) in memory of her parents, Mabel Crosswell Hower-
ton and George Monroe Howerton ; Maryellen Harvey Newton
('16) and Henry Edgar Newton in honor of Annie Newton (Inst.).

In compliance with the action of the Board, the old Science Hall
was removed last summer and the area which it formerly occupied
has been landscaped.

Because of the need of additional student housing facilities for the

1954-55 session, Sturgis and Hardeman Cottages on South Candler
Street will soon be converted into residence halls, thus increasing the
boarding capacity of the College from 425 to 450. This means that we
will be operating four dormitories (Main, Inman, Rebekah Scott,
Hopkins) and eight student cottages.

The College has acquired three houses in close proximity to the
campus during the past year two by purchase and a third through
the will of the late Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, Associate Professor
of History from 1923 until her death in 1952. The Mack house at
333 South Candler Street was bought by the College in October and
the Lewis property at 149 South McDonough Street in April. These
houses will be completely renovated and redecorated and will be
occupied in the early fall by faculty members.

A much needed greenhouse was erected recently and is now render-
ing an important service.

The Bucher Scott Gymnasium-Auditorium was redecorated last
summer. A number of the faculty cottages and student residences
were repaired and redecorated. Coil spring beds and easy chairs have
been provided throughout the dormitories and student cottages.

In pursuance of the action of the Board, proposals are now being
received for conversion from coal to gas-firing facilities in our heating
plant. It is our intention to proceed to convert one boiler this summer
and the second boiler one year hence.

Agnes Scott's most critical need is for an additional dormitory that
will house 125-150 students. While we do not anticipate an appreci-
able increase in the total number of students to be accepted annually
at Agnes Scott, we are committed to a program of enlarging the
boarding capacity of the College. Moreover, our eight student cottages
require expensive maintenance and will not serve us adequately for
an indefinite period. The Board should become fully cognizant of this
situation and should employ definite measures as soon as possible
looking to the erection of this additional dormitory. For some time,
we have assumed that the site of the new dormitory would be that
of the old Science Hall. I would suggest that this matter needs further
study and that some definite action might well be taken by the Board
setting in process some plan for a consideration of other possible
locations. One suggestion that has received favorable comment from
members of the Board is the area now occupied by Cunningham and
Tart cottages. If this site should be chosen, the dormitory would front
on Buttrick Drive and would have an entrance to the Winship
Garden. I would further suggest that an architect be employed in the
near future with instructions to prepare plans and specifications for
the proposed dormitory. Funds are yet to be secured for the erection
of the dormitory. The College officers plan to make this program
preferred business during the next year.

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CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

A poll taken by members of Agnes Scott's Freshman class last fall,
under the auspices of the American College Public Relations As-
sociation, indicated that an overwhelming majority of our new stu-
dents chose Agnes Scott because of the high scholastic standing of the
College. The questionnaire entitled, "Why I Chose Agnes Scott,"
was distributed to the Freshmen with the request that they fill it out
on the same day, that they refrain from comparing answers, and that
they return it without signature. Second to the scholastic standing
of Agnes Scott, the new students gave "the type of student attending
Agnes Scott" as their reason for enrolling here. Other reasons promi-
nent in the list were the effectiveness of the College Catalogue, the
religious influence of Agnes Scott, the competence of the faculty, and
the social program of the College.

An International Relations Club was organized in the winter and
has been an important factor on the campus during recent months.
One of the ventures of the Club was an International Festival which
proved quite successful.

The Agnes Scott Dance Group presented Igor Stravinsky's "The
Firebird," in Presser Hall on February 26. The May Day produc-
tion, "A Knyght Ther Was," written by Katharine Hefner of our
Senior Class, was presented on May 1.

One of the past year's memorable events on the campus was the
joint Dartmouth College-Agnes Scott Glee Club concert on March
26. Each group presented selections, followed by a remarkably effective
joint rendition of Haydn's "Third Mass in D Minor," directed by
Miss Roxie Hagopian of our Music Department. Our Glee Club,
under Miss Hagopian's direction, presented the annual program of
Christmas music in Gaines Chapel on Sunday afternoon, December 6,
featuring Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," and con-
cluding with Richard Gaines' "Rex Gloriae."

Blackfriars presented Truman Capote's comedy, "The Grass
Harp," in the fall and Dan Totheroh's "Moor Born," the story of
the Bronte sisters, in the spring. In the pre-Easter season, "Family
Portrait" was read by members of Blackfriars. In addition to these
dramatic productions from our own talent, the Agnes Scott Lecture
Association presented the University Players, Inc., in Moliere's farce,
"The Miser," on Saturday evening, February 6.

Two Agnes Scott seniors were among the 25 women and 119 men
in the United States to receive Woodrow Wilson fellowships for
graduate study during 1954-1955. This fellowship program, total-
ing $268,000, is the largest in the United States and permits the win-
ners to attend the college or university of their choice for graduate
study in the humanities and social sciences. The program is jointly
underwritten by the Association of Graduate Schools, the Carnegie
Corporation, and the General Education Board. There were 1,200

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candidates this year.

Agnes Scott's debaters, under the tutelage of Professor George
P. Hayes, have been active and quite successful during the past year.
Agnes Scott received a large gold trophy at the annual Azalea Debate
Tournament in Mobile last February, taking top honors by winning
six out of a possible seven awards. In the tournament, Agnes Scott
competed with thirty teams from fifteen colleges and universities
including Emory, Auburn, University of Florida, Florida State,
Georgetown, Kansas State, Loyola, and Notre Dame. Our debaters
had previously won second place at a tournament at the University of
South Carolina and had achieved considerable recognition at the West
Georgia Tournament.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren and Miss Marie Huper of our Art De-
partment have made possible a number of exhibits during the 1953-54
session. Arrangements were made with the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York for the loan to Agnes Scott of two famous master
pieces. Rembrandt's "The Sibyl" and Tintoretto's "Portrait of a
Man" were brought to the campus for a month in the spring.

Our Agnes Scott art collection has been augmented during the
past year by two gifts. A large oil painting, "Mahatma Gandhi's
Ascension from Mount Everest," has been presented to the College
by Mr. Alfred H. Holbrook, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art.
The National Academy of Design in New York has made a gift of
seven paintings by the nineteenth century artist, William T. Richards,
and an early work of Walter Shirlaw which came to the Academy in
the bequest of Katherine Drier.

On Tuesday evening, April 20, the faculties of Agnes Scott and
Emory were the guests of the two institutions for dinner in the
Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall. This is the second time that the two
faculties have met for such an occasion. The purpose of the dinner was
to afford an opportunity for the members of the faculties to become
better acquainted. Groups from the Agnes Scott and Emory Glee
Clubs and an instrumental trio from Agnes Scott provided music ;
and President Goodrich C. White of Emory made an appropriate
address.

A busy year of activity at the Bradley Observatory was climaxed
when Agnes Scott entertained the Southeastern Regional Convention
of the Astronomical League, April 24-25. The Observatory, under the
direction of Professor William A. Calder, is the center of astronomical
interest and activity for this entire region. Numerous planned and
impromptu observing parties come to our campus. More under-
graduates at Agnes Scott study astronomy than at any other college
or university in the United States more numerically, not merely in
percentage of total enrollment. National wire services, covering major
celestial events such as an eclipse, consistently call the Bradley Ob-
servatory and include its reports in stories sent to newspapers over the
country.

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The Inter-Faith Council, for the second time, sponsored a "Meet
the Ministers" tea on the afternoon of September 18. Approximately
400 students and faculty members met with ministers, Directors of
Christian Education, and other representatives of Decatur and At-
lanta churches.

Dr. Albert T. Mollegen of Virginia Theological Seminary (Epis-
copal) in Alexandria, Virginia, was our Religious Emphasis Week
speaker in February. Dr. Mollegen is a nationally known "apologist
for classical Christianity." He left a profound impression upon stu-
dents and faculty members, not only in his addresses in Gaines Chapel
but also in the discussions and personal interviews.

Among the speakers and lecturers who have been presented on our
campus during 1953-54 are the following: Dr. Goodrich C. White,
President of Emory University and President of the United Chapters
of Phi Beta Kappa; Lady Rama Rau of India; Dr. Benjamin Mays
of Morehouse College; Dr. Albert Outler of Southern Methodist
University; Dr. Frank W. Price, Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. ; Dr. Rhys Carpenter, Professor of Classical Arche-
ology of Bryn Mawr College ; Dr. George A. Buttrick, Minister of
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City ; Professor
Edwin Mims of Vanderbilt University; Professor F. C. S. Northrop,
the distinguished philosopher from Yale; Professor Mark Schorer,
of the Department of English of the University of California; Mr.
Robert Frost, Agnes Scott's favorite poet ; Dr. Anna Rachel Whiting,
distinguished geneticist of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor
Richard H. Shryock of Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Lawrence
Clark Powell, Librarian of the University of California; Dr. Harry
Schwartz, specialist on Russia for the New York Times; Professor
Henry Radford Hope, Chairman of the Fine Arts Department of the
University of Indiana; Professor Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Chairman of
the Department of Music of the University of California; Mrs. Peter
Marshall, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. Francis Chapin, Chicago painter
and lithographer ; Professor Dorothy Robathan of Wellesley College ;
Professor Paul Weiss, distinguished biologist of the University of
Chicago ; and Professor C. F. A. Schaef fer, renowned French arche-
ologist.

The baccalaureate sermon, on Sunday, June 6, will be preached by
Dean James I. McCord of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
The commencement speaker is President Katharine McBride of
Bryn Mawr.

FACULTY

The College is most fortunate in the men and women who compose
the faculty and staff. I am glad to have this opportunity of acknowl-
edging my personal indebtedness to them for their never-failing loyalty
to Agnes Scott.

Additions to our faculty for the 1953-54 session have been: Mr.

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John Louis Adams, Assistant Professor of Music; Miss Lois E. Barr,
Instructor in English; Miss Catherine Chance, Instructor in French;
Miss Frances B. Clark, Instructor in French; Dr. Helen Jordan,
Instructor in Biology; Dr. D. R. McMillan, Professor of Physics;
Miss Dianne Shell, Assistant in Chemistry. Dr. Sterling G. Brinkley,
Visiting Professor of Education, and Dr. Joseph O. Baylen, Visiting
Associate Professor of History, served on the faculty during the fall
quarter. Mr. Roy E. Dwyer, Visiting Instructor in Education, has
been with us for the winter and spring quarters.

New members of the administrative staff this past year were: Miss
Doris Sullivan, Assistant Dean of Students; Mrs. Louise A. Gillespie,
Assistant to the Dietitian; Mrs. William B. Winter, Secretary to the
President; Miss Elizabeth Lapsley, Assistant to the Librarian; Miss
Ann Cooper, Alumnae-Admissions Representative; Mrs. Virginia
White, Secretary to the Business Manager; and Mrs. Saunders Gar-
wood, Manager of the Bookstore.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, Professor of History and Political Science,
has been on leave from the Agnes Scott faculty during the 1953-54
session. Dr. Posey has participated in the University of Maryland
Overseas Program, teaching American soldiers stationed in Europe.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Associate Professor of English, has
been on leave during this past year, working under a Huntington
Library Fellowship at San Marino, California.

Dr. Elizabeth Barineau, Associate Professor of French, has been
on leave of absence during 1953-54, teaching at the University of
Chicago as Visiting Associate Professor of French.

Miss Nancy Groseclose, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been
away from the campus during this school session, working toward her
doctorate at the University of Virginia.

Miss Mary L. Boney, Assistant Professor of Bible, returned to her
teaching duties after a year's leave of absence in New York where she
pursued graduate study at Columbia University and Union Theolog-
ical Seminary.

Miss Lois E. Barr, Instructor in English, has completed the re-
quirements for the Ph.D. degree which will be conferred by the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at the commencement exercises on June
7. Miss Barr read a paper at the Emory University Humanities Club
on April 19 entitled, "The Reading of Jeremy Taylor: an Anglican
Reader's Catholic Tastes."

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is engaged
in research concerned with the great contemporary literary critic of
Portugal, Fidelino de Figueiredo. Miss Cilley serves as social chair-
man of the University Center Language Association and as a member
of the College Board of the Pan American League.

Dr. Margaret Burr DesChamps read a paper at the South Carolina
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Historical Association in April on "Antislavery Presbyterians in the
Carolina Piedmont."

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Educa-
tion, serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of
the Elections Committee of the Georgia Psychological Association.

Dr. Florene Dunstan, Associate Professor of Spanish, has been quite
active in civic, educational, and religious circles during the past year.
She is serving as Civil Defense Chairman of the Southern Region of
the Woman's Auxiliary to the American Medical Association, and is
currently chairman of the Committee on the United Nations in the
Atlanta Woman's Club. Dr. Dunstan has made more than fifty
addresses to alumnae, civic, and church groups during the past year.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, Professor of Chemistry, serves as Councilor
and member of the Executive Committee in the Georgia Section of the
American Chemical Society. Last summer, Dr. Frierson engaged in
research at Oak Ridge involving the preparation and analysis of
targets for the nitrogen cyclotron. He is currently engaged in research
on paper chromatography.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, Professor of Bible, read a paper at the
annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors
held at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, in December. He
is doing research on the Second Century Synagogue at Capernaum.
Dr. Garber plans to study this summer at Duke University and also
to attend the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches and
the Eleventh International Workshop on Audio-Visual and Radio
Education.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, Instructor in Music, was initiated
into Alpha Kappa Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, National Honor
Society for Women Teachers, in March.

Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will
be on leave during 1954-55, completing work on the Ph.D. degree
at Yale University.

Miss Marie Huper, Assistant Professor of Art, served as Lecturer
and Instructor of Design in the Summer Arts and Crafts Program,
Department of Education of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, in the sum-
mer of 1953. Miss Huper conducted a Three-dimensional Design
Workshop in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October; served as a
Jury Member for North Carolina Scholastic Awards in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina, in February; exhibited her paintings and
sculpture at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee, in March ;
and lectured for the Atlanta Chapter of the Archaeological Society of
America in December.

Dr. Emma May Laney, Professor of English, is planning to engage
in research on James Joyce this summer. Miss Laney has been active
this past year in the English Club of Atlanta.

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Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp, Assistant Professor of Physical Edu-
cation, has taught folk and square dancing to a number of Girl Scout
and Campfire groups during the past year.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, Associate Professor of Music, is Organist-
Director of the Choir of the Peachtree Road Presbyterian Church of
Atlanta and is also Organist for the Protestant Radio Center broad-
casts. Mr. Martin has been serving as Sub-Dean of the Georgia
Chapter, American Guild of Organists and is the Dean-elect for
1954-55.

Mr. W. Edward McNair, Assistant Professor of English, has been
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army Re-
serves. He is currently head of the Quartermaster Department in the
3051 ARASU Atlanta USAR School. Mr. McNair read a paper at
the meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science at North Georgia
College in April. He teaches the Men's Bible Class of the Druid Hills
Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, Professor of Economics and Sociology, is
active in the League of Women Voters, the Atlanta Urban League,
and the Southern Sociological Society.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, Associate Professor of Psychology, has
recently read papers before the Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology and the Georgia Academy of Science. Dr. Omwake is
Chairman of the Psychology and Medicine Section of the Georgia
Academy of Science, serves as a member of the Council of the Georgia
Psychological Association and as a member of the Council of the
Georgia Academy of Science.

Dr. Lorin W. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Biology, was invited
to deliver a paper at the VIII International Congress of Botany
meeting in Paris in July, 1954, in the symposium on morphological
and physiological gradients.

Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, Associate Professor of History and
Political Science, is serving on the National Selection Committee for
Fulbright Scholarships. Dr. Sims is Vice-President of the Visiting
Nurse Association of Atlanta, a member of the Budget Executive
Committee of Metropolitan Atlanta Community Services, a member
of the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and serves
as Secretary to the Political Science Association of the University
Center in Georgia. Dr. Sims made the principal address at the annual
meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges for Women in Mem-
phis, Tennessee, last winter.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, Associate Professor of Economics and
Sociology, participates actively in the League of Women Voters, the
DeKalb County Community Council, the Southern Sociological
Society, and the American Association of University Women. Dr.
Smith is serving as chairman of the DeKalb County Advisory Board
of the Family Service Society.

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Dr. Pierre Thomas, Assistant Professor of French, teaches each
summer in the French School at Middlebury College, Middlebury,
Vermont.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, Assistant Professor of English, serves on
the Award Committee for the Georgia Writers Association and is
Secretary-Treasurer of the Southeastern College English Association.
She has spoken recently to the Quill Club of Macon and to the
Writing Group of the Atlanta A. A. U. W.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, Professor of Art, has exhibited his paint-
ings during the past year at the National Academy of Design, the
American Water Color Society, Georgia State College for Women,
Maryville (Tennessee) College, the University of Tennessee, and
the Art Association, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dr. Muriel Harn, Professor of German and Spanish, read a paper
at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting in Chat-
tanooga in November on "Elisabeth Langgasser: A Catholic Novelist
in Contemporary Germany," and at the University Center Language
Association in Athens in April on "The Novels of Elisabeth Lang-
gasser." Dr. Harn is a member of the Council of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association and serves as Secretary of the Uni-
versity Center Language Association.

Miss Roberta Winter, Assistant Professor of Speech, was recently
awarded the Doctor of Education degree by New York University.
Dr. Winter wrote her dissertation on the subject, "A Plan for a Co-
ordinated Speech and Drama Program for the University Center in
Georgia."

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Associate Professor of Physical Educa-
tion, serves as Chairman of the Committee on Constitution of the
Southern Association for Physical Education of College Women. She
is also a member of the Committee on Constitution of the National
Association for Physical Education of College Women, a Member-
at-Large of the Southern Association for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation, and a member of the Georgia Committee of the
National Section for Girls' and Women's Sports.

Dr. Margaret T. Phythian, Professor of French, is active in the
Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, American Association of Teachers of French, and the
University Center Language Association. Dr. Phythian serves as
President of the Altar Guild of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
of Decatur.

Dr. William A. Calder, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, serves
as Director of the Bradley Observatory. An extensive program for
the community is carried on under his leadership throughout the
college year.

Mr. John Louis Adams, Assistant Professor of Music, is Principal

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Violist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Violist with the
Atlanta Symphony String Quartet.

Dr. Janet Alexander, College Physician, is much in demand for
addresses on Pakistan, where she served as medical missionary for
many years.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, College Librarian, is Chairman of the
Committee on Revision of List of Periodicals for the Southern As-
sociation of Colleges.

The following books, pamphlets, and articles have been published
by Agnes Scott faculty members during the past year (including those
now in process) :

Lorin W. Roberts :

Technique for the Extraction of Chlorophyll Pigments
Turtox News 31:211, 1953 (Nov.)

The Role of Sulfhydryl Compounds in the Reduction of Tetra-
zolium Indicators, Bull, of the Ga. Acad, of Sci. 12: 13-15, 1954
(Jan.) In Vitro Reduction of Tetrazolium Indicators by Sulf-
hydryl Compounds, Stain Technology 29:63-67, 1954 (March).

Katharine T. Omwake:

"The Relation Between Acceptance of Self and Acceptance of
Others Shown by Three Personality Inventories," the Journal
of Consulting Psychology, (December, 1954).

Catherine Strateman Sims:

"Expedicio Billarum Antiquitus: An Unpublished Chapter of
the Second Book of The Manner of Holding Parliaments," by
Henry Elsynge. (This is Volume XVI of the Studies Presented
to the International Commission for the History of Represent-
ative and Parliamentary Institutions. It is being published in
Louvain, Belgium with funds provided by a grant from
UNESCO.)

C. Benton Kline, Jr.:

"Philosophy at Agnes Scott," Agnes Scott Alumnae Ouarterlv,
April, 1954.

Netta E. Gray :

"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, VIII. The African
Species of section Eupodocarpus, subsections A and E. Journal
of the Arnold Arboretum, 34:163-175, 1953.
"Long Cycles of Human Characteristics and Abilities," Cvcles
5 (4) : 133-135, 1954 (with Stephen W. Gray).

Paul Leslie Garber:

"Audio- Visual Materials for Bible Teaching," The Journal of
Bible and Religion, XXII, 2 (April, 1954), 119-121.

W. Joe Frierson :

"Elution Chromatography with Thick Filter Paper," Analytical

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Chemistry Journal.

Margaret Burr DesChamps:

"Presbyterians and Southern Education," Journal of the Pres-
byterian Historical Society, XXXI, (March, 1953), 25-40.
"The Church as a Social Center," Journal of the Presbyterian
Historical Society, XXXI, (September, 1953), 157-165.
"Letters on the Emigration of Louis and Amy Johnson," Journal
of Negro History, (July, 1953), 333-334.

"Some Mississippi Letters to Robert Fraser, 1841-1844," Journal
of Mississippi History, XV, (July, 1953), 181-189.
"Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Orator-Preacher of the Con-
federacy," Southern Speech Journal, XIX, (September, 1953),
14-22.

"A Missionary's Letters from South Georgia in 1860," Georgia
Historical Quarterly, XXXVIII, (March, 1954), 86-90.

Melissa A. Cilley:

Portuguese Reader, third printing, Oxford University Press.

William A. Calder:

"Some Demonstrations for the Classroom," Sky and Telescope,
August, 1953.

D. R. McMillan:

"Ultrasonics and Properties of Liquids," Bulletin of the Georgia
Academy of Science, XII, 37 (April, 1954).

Mildred R. Mell:

"Economic Problems Are With Us Always," Agnes Scott
Alumnae Quarterly, (Winter, 1954).

Anna Greene Smith :

Reviews of recent books dealing with Regionalism and the South,
Social Forces, (May, 1954).

Llewellyn Wilburn:

Bibliography of Basketball Publications in the Official Basket-
ball Guide of the National Section for Girls' and Women's
Sports, (September, 1953).

Josephine Bridgman :

"Biology and Religion," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, (Win-
ter, 1954).

Michael McDowell:

"Growing Noises," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, (Spring,

1954).

Ferdinand Warren :

"Bursting at the Seams," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly,
(Spring, 1954).

Edna Hanley Byers:

"College and University Library Buildings 1945-1953," an an-

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notated bibliography. Association of College and Reference Li-
braries, Monograph No. 10, Fall, 1953.

John I. Goodlad:

"As We Know, So Must We Do," Reprint from Childhood
Education for the Monograph, Guiding Children in School and
Out, pp. 9-11. Washington: Association for Childhood Educa-
tion International, 1953, p. 36.

"Some Frontier Issues in Educating Elementary School Teach-
ers," Elementary School Journal, LIV, (November, 1953), 139-
144.

"To Promote or Not To Promote," Childhood Education, 30,
(January, 1954), 212-215. Abstracted and reprinted in Educa-
tion Digest, XIX, (April, 1954), 18-20.

"Some Problems and Programs in Improving Pre-Service Teacher
Education," Elementary School Journal, LIV, (March, 1954),
391-96.

"Room to Live and Learn." Class size and room space as factors
in the learning-teaching process, Childhood Education, 30 (April,
1954).

"Authority In and Responsibility For Teacher Education in the
Liberal College," Elementary School Journal, LIV, (Mav,
1954).

ENROLLMENT

Our enrollment for the 1953-54 session has totalled 523 students
425 boarders and 98 day students. Twenty-seven states, the District
of Columbia, and six foreign countries have been represented in our
student body for the current session. The geographical distribution is
as follows :

Alabama 40 North Carolina 42

Arkansas 6 Oklahoma 3

California 1 Pennsylvania 2

Colorado 1 South Carolina 34

Connecticut 1 Tennessee 33

Florida 39 Texas 5

Georgia 248 Virginia 21

Illinois 1 West Virginia 9

Kentucky 5 Wisconsin

Louisiana ' . . 5 District of Columbia . .

Maryland 1 Cuba

Michigan 3 Japan

Mississippi 6 Malaya

Missouri 1 Norway

Nebraska 1 Sweden

New Jersey 3 Venezuela

New Mexico 1

New York 3 Total 523

Our 425 boarding students have been housed in four dormitories
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(Agnes Scott or "Main," Rebekah Scott, Inman, and Hopkins), and
six cottages (Boyd, Cunningham, Gaines, Lupton, Mary Sweet, and
Ansley).

The classification of the student body for the 1953-54 session is as
follows :

Seniors 80

Juniors 105

Sophomores 136

Freshmen 193

Specials 9

Total 523

The denominational distribution of our students for the current

session is as follows :

Presbyterian 227

Methodist 114

Baptist 81

Episcopal 38

Roman Catholic .... 10

Lutheran 7

Jewish 6

Christian 6

Greek Orthodox .... 4

Christian Science . .
Congregational . . .
Syrian Orthodox . .
Swedish State Church

Moravian

Church of Christ . .
Union Church . . .
No affiliation ....

Total 514*

* This does not include 9 special students.
TRUSTEES

The College has lost by death during the past year two faithful
and valued members of the Board of Trustees. Mrs. John B. (Annie
Louise Harrison) Waterman died on August 23, 1953, at her home
in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a trustee since 1947. Mrs.
Letitia Pate Evans passed away at her home, Malvern Hall, Hot
Springs, Virginia, on November 14, 1953. Appropriate memorials
concerning Mrs. Waterman and Mrs. Evans were prepared, read, and
adopted at a meeting of the Board on December 14, 1953.

The terms of the following trustees expire this year: Miss Mary
Wallace Kirk, Dr. E. D. Brownlee, Dr. Patrick D. Miller, Dr. J. R.
McCain, Mr. J. J. Scott, and Mrs. Allen A. Matthews, Jr. The Col-
lege has been served faithfully by each of these members of the
Board.

Attention is called to the following vacancies that now exist in
Board membership:

(a) the term of Dr. Wm. V. Gardner, Corporate Trustee (1954)
whose resignation was accepted a year ago ;

(b) the term of Mrs. Letitia Pate Evans (deceased), Corporate

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Trustee (1954);

(c) the unexpired term of Mr. T. Guy Woolford (deceased),
Corporate Trustee (1955) ;

(d) the unexpired term of Mrs. John B. Waterman (deceased),
Synodical Trustee from Alabama (1956).

May I express my personal gratitude to each member of our Board
of Trustees for the encouragement and helpfulness that I have been
accorded during the three years of my administration. I anticipate
a continuation of the same harmonious relationship in the work of
the College as we go forward with plans for the future.

Respectfully submitted,
President

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

June 3, 1955

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THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees June 3, 1955

Agnes Scott College :

I present herewith my fourth annual report as president at the
close of the sixty-sixth year of Agnes Scott's life as an educational
institution.

The events that have made 1954-1955 one of the most memorable
years in the college's history were the announcement that, through
bequests, our permanent endowment funds will be more than doubled ;
and the subsequent decision of our Board of Trustees to erect a
much needed dormitory at the conclusion of this college session.

The past year has brought evidence that seems to confirm the
predicted upward trend in college enrollment in America. The
enrollment this year is the largest in America's history, with approxi-
mately 2,500,000 students in attendance at colleges and universities
of the nation. Analysts agree that the number of college students
will exceed 3,000,000 by 1959 and may rise to 4,000,000 or even
5,000,000 by the 1960's. One of the educational problems most
widely discussed today is the responsibility of institutions of higher
education in this period of expansion. Various points of view have
recently appeared in the press and in educational publications. We
at Agnes Scott have given intensive thought to the problem and
have re-committed ourselves to the educational purpose of this College
since its inception that of emphasis upon quality in education,
integration of excellence in scholarship with the Christian faith, and
a limited and carefully selected student bod}'.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS
Bequests

Within the past year, Agnes Scott has received two bequests which
will more than double our permanent endowment one from the
will of Mrs. Frances Winship Walters and the other from that
of Dr. Mary Frances Sweet.

The will of Mrs. Walters includes a $50,000 bequest to be used
as endowment for the Frances Winship W .ters Infirmary and
specifies that Agnes Scott is the residuary ' atee of the estate. It
is probable that the total gift to Agnes Sc ,. will amount to approxi-
mately $4,500,000. The income is unrestricted and may be used
for any purposes that advance the educational program of the College.

Dr. Mary Frances Sweet, who for many years served as College
Physician, made Agnes Scott her residuary legatee ; it is probable
that this estate will amount to approximately $150,000. The College
expects to use the income to further our program of medical services.

Admissions

One of the foundation principles of Agnes Scott is a commitment
to the ideal of quality in education. This commitment guides the
policies of our admissions office in seeking students who are personally
desirable and who possess the intellectual capacity to succeed in the
program here.

Two factors are currently having increasing significance in the
admissions work : the national rise in the college-age population and
the very evident trend for Agnes Scott to be predominantly resi-
dential in character. The effect of the second factor we will meet
with the new Frances Winship Walters dormitory; the first, we
hope with even more selectivity in our admissions program. At the
present time, at least 150,000 of the students admitted each year
to college do not possess the ability to do acceptable college level
work ; this figure may well increase to an alarming degree, as the
freshman college-age group grows larger during the next two decades.

To assist us in the selection of students and also in the important
task of interpreting the college to school personnel and to candidates
for admission and their parents, we created six years ago the position
"alumnae-admissions representative" and secured a recent graduate
for the place. We have seen the scope of her work broaden from
visits primarily into neighboring states during the first year to include
this year an extensive trip to Texas, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania.
Our representative visits applicants in their homes or at their schools ;
she represents the college at high school college day programs ; and
she talks with interested school administrators and counselors con-
cerning Agnes Scott requirements and program. Approximately 115
members of the incoming freshman class have been interviewed by
Miss Mitzi Kiser this year; over one hundred high schools have
been visited; and some work has been done with approximately 160
alumnae and their contacts with interested students. All this we
feel is important and strategic work if we are to continue to select
the able students whom we desire.

Financial Aid Program

In recent years most private educational institutions have been
forced to raise their fees; and board and tuition charges ranging
from $1,500 to $2,000 are now common among colleges comparable
to Agnes Scott. An increase in charges at Agnes Scott would prevent
some very desirable students from coming at all; for others, large
scholarships would be needed to compensate for the added costs.
Thus it is the hope of the administration that the present charge of
$1,275 for tuition, fees, room, and board can be maintained. Essential
to this hope is a conservative policy with respect to grants of financial
aid.

Endowed funds have been established to provide scholarship,
student aid, and loan awards. Some of these awards are for fresh-

men and upperclassmen ; others are for freshmen alone. In cases
where the applicant's need exceeds the resources available here, the
College is often able to assist her in securing aid from one of several
educational loan foundations established for the purpose.

During the 1954-55 session, our Committee on Financial Aid
made grants as follows: honor scholarships to 5% of the student
body, student aid (work grants) to 13%, ministerial and educa-
tional discounts to 7%, and loans to less than 1% of our students.

Scholarships

1. Honor Scholarships for Freshmen. The College awards the
following scholarships to high school seniors: a maximum of three
of $1,200 each, divided over a four-year period; one of $600, for
one year; several ranging from $100 to $300, for one year. Students
from all sections of the United States may apply for these awards;
a few are designated specifically for applicants from the local Atlanta
and Decatur area. One hundred fourteen students from nineteen
states, representing ninety-one high schools, entered our competitive
program this past year. Awards were made to students in Arkansas,
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Ohio, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Tennessee and Mississippi.

All of the above scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis.
Items submitted are the high school record ; certain personal informa-
tion, including an autobiographical statement and letters of recom-
mendation ; and the results of the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the
College Entrance Examination Board. Applications for the scholar-
ships are secured from the Director of Admissions after November
1 of the student's senior year in secondary school ; announcement
of awards is made in late April.

The competitive scholarships are the only honor awards made to
high school seniors. No duties are required in return.

2. Honor Scholarships for Upperclassmen. A limited number of
scholarships are awarded at Commencement to students already in
residence who have achieved distinction in general academic work
or in music and speech. Such scholarships are not applied for by the
students themselves.

Student Aid

Certain endowed funds produce income which is used to assist
students of ability and need. These funds are listed in the catalogue
as special memorials or under the name of a donor. However, they
are not applied for under these categories or through the donors,
but by procedures explained in 1 and 2 below.

The average grant ranges from $100 to $150; the maximum for

any student in any one year is $250. Students having this type of
aid are expected to render service to the College ; this service may
involve acting as hostesses, operating the switchboard, or helping in
the library, offices, gymnasium, or laboratories. A work interest
or aptitude questionnaire filled out by the student is of assistance in
making assignments; the amount of time required ranges from three
to ten hours per week, depending upon the amount of aid received.

1. Student Aid for Freshmen. Application form for aid is
secured from the Director of Admissions; grants are made after
the competitive scholarships are announced in April. These grants
rarely exceed $100, for Agnes Scott believes that the average fresh-
man needs to use her time for study and general orientation to
college life.

2. Student Aid for Upperclassmen. Application form for aid
is secured in the spring from the office of the Dean of Students.
A detailed announcement regarding procedure is given before the
end of the winter quarter. Each student who files application has
an interview with a member of the Dean of Students' staff ; actual
awards are made in mid-June by an administrative student aid com-
mittee after final grades for the year are available. Awards are
not made to students who have failed to make class promotion or who
are on academic probation.

Loan Aid

Income from a few special funds is available for small loans. The
loan bears no interest while the student is in residence, but begins
at 6 per cent when she graduates or withdraws for other reasons.
Half of the loan is due six months after graduation or withdrawal,
and the balance one year after graduation or withdrawal. The
application procedure for loan assistance is the same as that for
student aid.

Departmental Conferences

Dean S. G. Stukes and I held a series of departmental conferences
during this school year, devoting an entire evening to each depart-
ment. This is the first time that we have had an opportunity to
consult the entire teaching faculty in departmental units; our
purpose was to become more adequately informed about the activities,
needs, and plans (present and future) of each department. We feel
that this undertaking has been significant and worthwhile.

Department of Education

Last November the Curriculum Committee of the College approved
the separation of the work in Education from that in Psychology and
created a separate department with Dr. Richard L. Henderson as

Chairman. Dr. John I. Goodlad continues in his capacity as director
of the over-all Agnes Scott-Emory Teacher Education program.
The establishment of this separate department emphasizes the signifi-
cance of teacher education in the liberal arts setting and provides
a more adequate medium for Agnes Scott's effective participation
in the program. It is not anticipated that a major will be offered
in Education.

Faculty Salaries

We are continuing to make every effort year by year to increase
faculty salaries, keeping always in mind the realities of our financial
situation. The contracts for the 1955-56 session reflect the following
increases in minimum salaries for each rank since 1951-1952: pro-
fessor, 33.3% ; associate professor, 36.5% ; assistant professor, 46.1% ;
instructor, 42.8%.

The administration is keenly aware of the fact that salaries paid
at all levels to the members of the Agnes Scott faculty must be
further increased. This must be done if we are to deal justly with
the men and women already serving on our staff and if we are to
attract and hold additional competent teachers as needs require.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Last summer one boiler in our heating plant was converted from
coal to gas at a cost of approximately $10,000. During the current
session the total cost for gas has been less than one-half the cost
of coal used in former years. Already we have saved enough in
operating costs to cover the original outlay for conversion. The
second boiler is to be equipped with gas-firing facilities in the near
future.

The J. A. Hall property at 325 South Candler Street was recently
acquired. The house has been completely remodeled and will be
used as a faculty residence.

The past year's program of plant improvement included extensive
repairs and renovation of Murphey Candler, our student center ;
the conversion of Hardeman and Sturgis houses to dormitory quarters ;
painting of Rebekah Scott dormitory; equipping of two ceramics
studios; and the purchase and installation of a new nine-foot concert
Steinway Grand in Gaines Chapel.

The large frame building located on Buttrick Drive, formerly
used as an infirmary and now known as "Mary Sweet Cottage,"
will be removed early in June preparatory to the erection on Buttrick
Drive of a new dormitory facing the gymnasium and the new
infirmary. In order to provide for the same number of boarders now
occupying "Mary Sweet," the house at 225 South Candler Street
and the second floor of Dr. McCain's home are being readied to
accommodate students while the dormitory is under construction.

By unanimous action of the Board of Trustees at the December
meeting, the erection of Frances Winship Walters Hall will begin
in June. The resolution of the Board authorizing this long-awaited
venture is as follows:

"In view of the College's critical need for a new dormitory and
Mrs. Walters' explicit desire and intention, the Finance Committee
joins with the Administration of the College in making the following
recommendations to a special meeting of the Board of Trustees called
for December 13, 1954:

( 1 ) That we proceed as soon as feasible to erect and
furnish adequately the new dormitory as planned by
the Administration working with Ivey and Crook,
Architects, and Barge-Thompson, Builders.

(2) That the new dormitory be named the 'Frances
Winship Walters Hall,' dedicated to the memory of
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Walters.

(3) That the dormitory be financed by involving part or
all of the income from the Walters' estate for the
period necessary to pay for the enterprise, and that
the officers of the College be authorized to borrow from
the Trust Company of Georgia sufficient funds to
erect the dormitory and acquire the necessary or
desirable furnishings, and to repay the same from the
income of the Walters' estate or trust."

The total cost of the Frances Winship Walters Hall is estimated
at approximately $600,000. The building has been designed to
accommodate one hundred forty-five students and several senior
residents; in addition, provision has been made for guest rooms,
lounges, and a large recreation room.

Why do we need a new dormitory? Our present facilities for
boarding students, consisting of four dormitories and eight cottages,
are taxed to capacity. Furthermore, our cottages are frame structures
requiring expensive maintenance. Because of the limitation of dorm-
itory facilities, we find it necessary to decline an increasing number
of well-qualified students who wish to board. While we do not
anticipate or want an appreciable increase in the total number of
students to be accepted annually at Agnes Scott, we are committed
to a program of enlarging the boarding capacity of the College a
commitment that is both practical and desirable. We would like
to be able to accept approximately five hundred resident students
each year. In view of the national trend in college enrollment and
our own recent experience and observations in the Office of Admis-
sions, we are convinced that this increase in the number of resident
students is a realistic expectation which will in no way affect our
present careful and selective admissions policy.

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Agnes Scott is not counting on a large number of day students
as plans are made for the future. Until recently, we necessarily
assumed the major responsibility for undergraduate women day
students in the Atlanta area. However, other educational institu-
tions in this vicinity are now sharing this responsibility. We welcome
well-prepared day students ; but we are becoming a college pre-
dominantly for resident students and the erection of a new dormitory
is practical preparation for this trend.

The Administration and Board of Trustees of the College are
convinced that the erection of the new dormitory is imperative if
we are to maintain our present position in the education of women
and to undertake with renewed confidence the mission that we believe
to be ours. We are committed to quality education and to the
integration of excellence in intellectual endeavor with the Christian
faith and the Christian philosophy of life. For the fullest realiza-
tion of this purpose, we should remain a relatively small college,
primarily residential in character.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Activities on campus this year have ranged in character from
lectures, concerts, and plays to national recognition of student
scholarship and debating; these and other items listed below have
helped make this session a rewarding one in many ways.

A number of coveted fellowships for graduate study next year
have been awarded to members of our Senior Class. These grants
include three Fulbright awards for foreign study and one Woodrow
Wilson fellowship for study in this country. This year 1,522
American and Canadian students were nominated for Woodrow
Wilson fellowships; 159 awards were made.

Mademoiselle published in its October issue a comprehensive
survey of life at Agnes Scott from the standpoint of a double tra-
dition of intellectual and social development. The article referred
to Agnes Scott as one of the "outstanding colleges" in this country
today.

The Agnes Scott Dance Group, under the direction of Miss
Eugenie Dozier, presented "The Three-Cornered Hat" in Presser
Hall on February 9. "A Mountain May Day," written by Harriet
Stovall of our Senior Class, was presented on May 7.

The Agnes Scott and Emory Glee Clubs performed in joint
concert Mozart's Requiem Mass at Agnes Scott on April 2 and
at Emory on April 15. Our Glee Club, under Miss Roxie Hago-
pian's direction, presented the annual program of Christmas music
in Gaines Chapel in December, featuring the cantata, "A Saviour
Born," by Gibbs, and "Christians, Be Joyful," from J. S. Bach's
Christmas Oratorio, and concluding with Gaines' "Rex Gloriae."

Blackfriars presented Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our
Teeth," in the fall and William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in
the spring in the Winship Garden. During the year the Druids of
Emory were presented in a reading of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk-
wood," and Blackfriars staged a series of one-act plays on March
3. "A Starry Night," a water ballet, was performed by Dolphin
Club on February 23 and 24.

Agnes Scott's debaters, under the tutelage of Professor George
P. Hayes, have been active and quite successful during the past
year. Agnes Scott again took first place at the annual Azalea
Tournament in Mobile ; among the competing teams were those
from Notre Dame, Georgetown, Kentucky, Florida State, Loyola,
and Emory. Because of these top honors, Agnes Scott was repre-
sented at Grand National. At the West Georgia Intercollegiate
Debate Tournament in Carrollton, Agnes Scott was the only unde-
feated team. In January the Agnes Scott debating society was
host to the eighth annual All-Southern Inter-Collegiate Debate
Tournament.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren and Miss Marie Huper of our Art
Department have made possible a number of exhibits during the
1954-55 session, including the loan exhibitions, "Cross Currents
in American Art" and Latin American prints, from IBM.

The third annual "Meet the Ministers" Tea was again spon-
sored by the Inter-Faith Council on the afternoon of September
24. Approximately 300 Agnes Scott faculty and students met
with area ministers and youth workers.

Dr. John Newton Thomas, Dean of the Graduate School at
Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, was our Religious Emphasis
Week speaker in February. Dr. Thomas is also Robert L. Dabney
Professor of Systematic Theology at Union.

In answer to a request from seniors who had been offered jobs
as directors of Christian education, a nine-weeks' extra-curricular
program of seminars and observations was conducted during the
spring quarter. Atlanta ministers, directors of Christian education,
the Presbyterian regional director's office, leaders at the Presby-
terian Center, and former directors on the college staff, assisted.
The group observed activities in five church schools, attended
sessions of the Atlanta Presbytery's Vacation Church School Institute,
and joined in the annual workshop of the Georgia directors of
Christian education.

Agnes Scott was represented by eight students at the annual
convention of the Associated Collegiate Press in Washington, D.C.

The first annual convention of the Georgia Music Teachers
Association was held on our campus, January 23-24. The South-

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eastern Regional Convention of the Astronomical League was again
entertained at Agnes Scott, April 16-17; Professor William A.
Calder states that approximately 150 people attended the meetings.

Agnes Scott is one of five area institutions presenting a television
program on WQXI every fifth Saturday; both students and faculty
have appeared on the half-hour programs, representing the science,
music, art, and speech departments. Other television and radio
appearances have been made during the year by faculty and students
for news and publicity purposes; and Christian Association has
been responsible for the program, "Religion at the News Desk,"
twice this spring.

Among the speakers, lecturers, and distinguished visitors who
have been on our campus during 1954-55 are the following: Alan
Richardson, Professor of Theology, Nottingham University, England,
and Canon of Derby Cathedral; Ruth Draper, actress-monologist ;
Senora Dona Maria DeLeon Ortega, Acting Dean of Women and
Member of Faculty, College of the City of Mexico; Virginie
Bianchini, French organist; Tibor Rado, Research Professor of Math-
ematics at Ohio State University; Horace W. Stunkard, Professor
of Biology at University of Illinois; Wade H. Boggs, Moderator of
the Presbyterian Church, U.S.; Joachim Wach, Professor of Soci-
ology of Religion at University of Chicago; Wolfgang Kohler,
Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College; Robert M.
Maclver, Lieber Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy and
Sociology, Columbia University ; Robert Frost, internationally known
poet; E. Power Biggs, organist; George F. McLeod, founder of
Iona Community, Scotland; R. F. Kimball, Biology Division of
Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Virginia Gray Pruitt, Missionary
of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., to the Congo; Harlow Shapley,
Director of Harvard Observatory; T. Harry Williams, Professor
of History at Louisiana State University; Woolford B. Baker,
Professor of Biology at Emory; Roland J. McKinney, artist and
author; Warren Ost, Director of a Ministry in the National Parks;
Jose Juan Arrom, Director of Graduate Work in Latin American
Studies, Yale University; Harold Henry Rowley, Professor of
Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Manchester,
England ; Clarence Gohdes, Professor of English, Duke University,
and Editor of American Literature; Ralph Gerard, Professor of
Neurophysiology and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysi-
ology and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois ; Henry T. Rowell,
Archeologist from Johns Hopkins University ; Edwin Mims, Pro-
fessor Emeritus of English, Vanderbilt University; Oscar Cullmann,
of the Faculty of the University of Basle, Switzerland.

The baccalaureate sermon, on Sunday, June 5, will be preached
by Dr. Raymond Irving Lindquist, pastor of the Hollywood Presby-
terian Church, Los Angeles. The commencement speaker is Dr.
E. Harris Harbison, Professor of History, Princeton University.

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FACULTY AND STAFF

Agnes Scott is deeply indebted to the members of the faculty and
staff who are devoting themselves so sacrificially to the work of
the College. In addition to their teaching responsibilities, these
men and women participate in numerous scholarly, religious, and
civic activities.

Personnel

Additions to our faculty for the 1954-55 session have been:
Dr. Richard L. Henderson, Professor of Education; Miss Eloise
Herbert, Instructor in Spanish ; Miss Julianne Hale, Instructor
in Speech and Dramatic Art; Miss Harriette Ashley, Instructor in
Physical Education and Assistant to the Dean of Students ; Miss
Glendora Boyce, Instructor in Physical Education; Mrs. Willis
King, Instructor in English, and Mr. J. C. Fuller, Instructor in
Piano. Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, former Instructor in French,
returned as Assistant Professor after three years' graduate study
for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Virginia. Returning after
a year's leave of absence were: Dr. Walter B. Posey, Professor of
History and Political Science; Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Associate
Professor of English; Dr. Elizabeth Barineau, Associate Professor
of French ; Miss Nancy Groseclose, Assistant Professor of Biology ;
and Miss Mary L. Boney, Assistant Professor of Bible.

On leave of absence during the current session is Mr. C. Benton
Kline, Jr., Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Mr. Kline is com-
pleting his Ph.D. at Yale University; serving during his absence
are Professors F. B. Gear and S. A. Cartledge of Columbia
Theological Seminary.

New members of the administrative staff this year have been :
Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, Director of Alumnae Affairs and
Publicity; Mrs. Edward E. Webb, Catalog Librarian; Miss Mitzi
Kiser, Alumnae-Admissions Representative; Miss Sarah Tucker,
Assistant to the Dean of Students; Miss Louise McKinney Hill,
Assistant to the Librarian and Senior Resident; Mrs. Charles Lane,
Assistant Dietitian; Mrs. Paul M. Turner, Secretary to the Presi-
dent; Miss Barbara Duvall, Secretary in the office of the Registrar;
and Mrs. Joseph Conyers and Mrs. William W. Satterwhite,
secretaries to the Business Manager.

Scholarships and Leaves of Absence

Several major scholarships and fellowships for post-graduate study
have been awarded to Agnes Scott College faculty members for
the 1955-56 session. Miss Frances Benbow Clark, Instructor in
French and a graduate of this College, is the recipient of a General
Electric Company scholarship which is one of only six given by the

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company for study in the humanities. She will use the award to
pursue studies towards the Ph.D degree at Yale University. Dr.
Margaret Burr DesChamps, Assistant Professor of History and
Political Science, has received one of two scholarships given by the
Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. She will do
research next year at the University of Edinburgh on the Scottish
background of the Presbyterian Church in America.

Dr. Elizabeth Gould Zenn, Assistant Professor of Classical Lan-
guages and Literatures, has received a grant from the Fund for the
Advancement of Education for archeological research in Rome.
Miss Marie Huper, Assistant Professor of Art, has been granted
a scholarship by the Southern Fellowships Fund and will study for
the Ph.D. degree at the University of Iowa.

Faculty Activities

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, Assistant Professor of French, is serving
as president of the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of
Teachers of French.

Miss Glendora Boyce, Instructor in Physical Education, serves as
acting faculty advisor of the Georgia Athletic Federation of College
Women.

Mrs. Noah E. Byers, College Librarian, was a visiting lecturer
in the summer of 1954 in the Department of Library Science, Rack-
ham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan.

Dr. William A. Calder, Director of the Bradley Observatory,
reports that approximately seventy-five groups have visited the
observatory during the past year ; he estimates that these groups in-
cluded a total of 3,500 people.

Dr. S. A. Cartledge, Visiting Professor of Bible, spent last year
at University of Basle, Switzerland, and at American School of
Oriental Research, Jerusalem ; since his return he has lectured
concerning his trip to a number of church groups and civic clubs
and has served as supply pastor of Central Presbyterian Church,
Athens, Georgia. His weekly Sunday School lessons appear in
The Christian Observer.

Dr. Annie May Christie, Associate Professor of English, is
serving as chairman of the committee on education and vocations
of the Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club. She is
also a member of the Board of Stewards of the Decatur First
Methodist Church.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is working
on an edition, with vocabulary, of short stories by Mario Braga,
contemporary Hispanic writer.

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Dr. Margaret Burr DesChamps, Assistant Professor of History,
read a paper at the annual fall meeting of the Southern Historical
Association entitled "Presbyterian Opposition to Westward
Migration."

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, Associate Professor of Philosophy and
Education, is vice-president and a member of the board of directors
of the International Council of Women Psychologists ; she serves as
secretary of the section on medicine and psychology of the Georgia
Academy of Science and was chairman of a section of the South-
eastern Psychological Association at its annual meeting in May. Dr.
Dexter has presented papers at a graduate seminar at Atlanta
University, at the Georgia Psychological Association's annual meeting,
and at an Agnes Scott alumnae meeting.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, Associate Professor of Spanish, read a
paper, "The Physician and His Associates in the Picaresque Novel
1550-1650," to the University Center Language Association in
Athens in April. Dr. Dunstan served as chairman of the city-wide
observance of Pan American Day and has entertained a number of
foreign visitors at the request of the State Department.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, Professor of Chemistry, is continuing his
research program on chromatography and has made an American
Chemical Society-sponsored tour to speak concerning it at the fol-
lowing places: University of Tennessee ; Kingsport ; Chattanooga ;
Decatur, Alabama; and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Frierson is a
member of the council and standing Committee on Chemical
Education and of the executive committee of the Georgia section
of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, Professor of Bible, is now working on
model reconstructions of the Synagogue at Capernaum in Palestine
and the Synagogue at Dura-Europos, Syria. A film-strip and slides
have been made of the Howland-Garber model reconstruction of
Solomon's Temple in color, and a photograph of the plan has appeared
in several publications. Dr. Garber has been elected vice-president
of the Southern Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and
Exegesis. He was appointed visiting scholar in research at Duke
University in the summer of 1954 and this summer will teach in
the Women's Training School at Montreat. He was recently elected
to membership on the Committee of Audio-Visual and Broadcast
Education of the National Council of Churches.

Dr. John I. Goodlad, Professor of Education, has addressed approx-
imately fifty groups during the past year, including the Pennsyl-
vania State Association for Childhood Education, the Southern
Association of Independent Schools, the Southern Council on Teacher
Education, and a group at Temple University, Philadelphia. Dr.
Goodlad serves, in an editorial capacity, four national publications;

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and two of his reprints have recently appeared in pamphlets. He is
active in a number of national educational organizations and serves
as chairman of various committees connected with these groups.

Mrs. Stephen J. Gray, Instructor in Biology, has received a
grant from the Georgia Academy of Science for her research in the
revision of the genus Podocarpus.

Dr. Muriel Harn, Professor of German and Spanish, presented a
paper at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting
in Columbia, South Carolina, in November on "The Use of Class-
ical Mythology in the Novels of Elisabeth Langgaesser."

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, Instructor in Piano, has been active
in the Georgia Music Teachers Association and local music groups.

Dr. Richard L. Henderson, Professor of Education, has spoken
to approximately twenty area educational groups and is engaged in
research for publication.

Miss Marie Huper, Assistant Professor of Art, again served as
lecturer and design instructor in the Summer Arts and Crafts Pro-
gram, Toronto, Canada; while in Canada she was a jury member
for the leather division of Canadian Handicrafts Guild exhibit.
Miss Huper has lectured before the art education division of G.E.A.
during the year.

Dr. Emma May Laney, Professor of English, has been active on
the Freedom Agenda Project committee of the League of Women
Voters this year.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Associate Professor of English, led
a discussion of "The Critical Paper in the Introduction to Literature
Course" at the meeting of the Southeastern College English Associa-
tion in February.

Mr. Michael McDowell, Professor of Music, has been elected
president of the Southern Division of the Music Teachers National
Association.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, Associate Professor of Music, is serving
this year as Dean of the Georgia Chapter of the American Guild
of Organists.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, Associate Professor of Psychology, is
this year a member of the local arrangements committee of the
Southeastern Psychological Association and serves as chairman of the
section of psychology and medicine of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, Professor of History and Political Science,
is one of a dozen contributors to a two-volume set of Travel Litera-
ture of the South, which is to be released by the University of
Oklahoma Press. Dr. Posey has just completed for publication a

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study on the Early Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
He is chairman of the Advisory Faculty Council of the University
Center and has been teaching an American biography course in the
community educational service of Emory University.

Miss Janef Newman Preston, Assistant Professor of English, pre-
sented a program on "Creative Writing at Agnes Scott" to the
Decatur Agnes Scott Alumnae Club.

Dr. Lorin W. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been
awarded a grant from the University Center in Georgia for his
research project: Histochemical Localization of Protein-Bound Sulf-
hydryl Groups in Plant Tissues. Dr. Roberts presented a paper
to the Georgia Academy of Science in Athens in April. He will
return to Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming, this
summer as seasonal park ranger with the National Park Service
and will gather data for a book on the common wild flowers of that
park.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, Professor of Mathematics, is serving as
director of the DeKalb County Chapter of the American Red Cross,
director of Standard Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Atlanta, secretary-treasurer of the Southeastern Section of the Mathe-
matical Association of America, and has just completed a term as
treasurer of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Miss Anne Salyerds, Instructor in Biology, read a paper at the
April meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists.

Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, Associate Professor of History
and Political Science, is engaged in research on an unpublished manu-
script on the history of the Exchequer by Thomas Madox. Dr. Sims
is serving this year as chairman of the United Kingdom Section of
the National Selection Committee for Fulbright Scholarships; she
is also a member of the board of directors of the Visiting Nurse
Association of Metropolitan Atlanta and of the Social Service
Exchange. She is a member of the Personnel Committee of the
Atlanta YWCA and chairman of the Family and Individual Care
section of the budget committee of the Atlanta Community Chest.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, Associate Professor of Economics and
Sociology, read a paper, "The South's Share of the Nation's Aged,"
at a meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science. She participated
in a panel at a Southeastern Social Workers meeting, and has been
active in Community Chest work and the leadership training program
given by the DeKalb County Health Department.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, Associate Professor of English, is serving
as associate editor of The Counselor of the Georgia Council of
Teachers of English, secretary-treasurer of the Southeastern College
English Association, and member of the book award committee for
the Georgia Writers Association.

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Mr. Ferdinand Warren, Professor of Art, has exhibited his paint-
ings during the past year at Passedoit Gallery of New York ; in
Tampa, Florida; and at the Georgia Museum of Art at the Univer-
sity of Georgia, where two of his paintings will hang in the perm-
anent collection in the University Library. Mr. Warren was invited
to judge the All-State Art exhibition, Nashville, Tenn., and the
National Art exhibition at Atlanta University. He was awarded
purchase prize for water color, Butler Art Institute annual exhibition,
Youngstown, Ohio.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Associate Professor of Physical Educa-
tion, is chairman of the recognition committee of the Southern
Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.

Research and Publications

The following books, pamphlets, and articles, including those now
in process, have been published by Agnes Scott faculty members during
the past year:

Josephine Bridgman :

"The effects of X rays on division rate and survival of Tillina
magna and Colpoda Sp. with an account of delayed death,"
Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, December,
1954 (withR. F. Kimball).

Edna Hanley Byers:

"College and University Library Buildings, 1953-1954; College
and University Library Buildings, 1939-1945." Association of
College and Reference Libraries, Monograph No. 11, (1954),
94-108.

S. A. Cartledge:

"A Basic Grammar of the Greek New Testament"
"The Gospel of Mark," Interpretation, April, 1955.

Melissa A. Cilley:

"Recent Critical Works of Fidelino de Figueiredo," South
Atlantic Bulletin, January, 1955.

Margaret Burr DesChamps:

"Union or Division? South Atlantic Presbyterians and Southern
Nationalism, 1820-1861," Journal of Southern History, XX,
(November, 1954), 484-498.

"The Free Agricultural Population in Sumter District, South
Carolina, 1850-1860," North Carolina Historical Review,
XXXII, (January, 1955), 81-91.

"Antislavery Presbyterians in the Carolina Piedmont," Proceed-
ings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 1954, pp. 6-13.

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"John Chavis as a Preacher to Whites," North Carolina His-
torical Review, XXXII, (April, 1955), 165-72.

Emily S. Dexter:

"The Measurement of Leadership in White and Negro Women
Students," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Julv,

1955.

John I. Goodlad:

"Reorganizing a Workshop: An Application of Learning
Theory," Journal of Teacher Education, V, (June, 1954),
134-137.

"Some Effects of Promotion and Nonpromotion upon the
Personal and Social Adjustment of Children," Journal of Experi-
mental Education, XXII, (June, 1954), 301-28.

"Elementary Education," (U.S. section), Encyclopedia Britan-
nica, VIII, 1954, 345-47.

"The Arts in the Elementary School: An Analysis of Function,"
Elementary School Journal, LV, (December, 1954), 230-34.

"The Education of Teachers: Two Liberal Arts Colleges
Take a Fresh Look," Proceedings of the Southern Association
of Secondary Schools, Louisville: November 29, 1954, 1-6.

"Teacher Education Significant Developments in Georgia,"
Georgia Education Journal (and other publications), XLVIII,
(January, 1955), 8-9.

"Ungrading the Elementary Grades," NEA Journal, 44,
(March, 1955), 170-71.

George P. Hayes:

"Antigone Today," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, Fall, 1954.

R. L. Henderson :

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
Selected Bibliography for Curriculum Workers, Elementary
Education Section, March, 1955 (with John I. Goodlad).

Ellen Douglass Leyburn :
"'No Romantick Absurdities or Incredible Fictions': The
Relation of Johnson's Rasselas to Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia,"
Publications of the Modern Language Association.

Walter B. Posey:

"Presbyterian Church Influence in Lower Mississippi Valley,"
Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, XXXIII,
(March, 1955), 35-50."

Janef Newman Preston:

"To a Young Dancer," Washington Evening Star, December
7, 1954.

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"Therese of Terrebonne: a Ballad of the Louisiana Low
Country," American Weave, March, 1955.

"Dr. Mary Frances Sweet," Agnes Scott Alumnae Ouarterly,
Spring, 1955.

Lorin W. Roberts:

"A Comparison of the Staining Methods for Sulfhydryl Com-
pounds in Plant Tissues."

"Maleimide Inhibition of Tetrazolium Reduction in Plant
Tissues."

Anne Salyerds:

"Simultaneous infection in white mice with two blood parasites,
Trypanosoma cruzi and Schistosomatium donthitti," A. S. B.
Bulletin, 2 (1) : 10. (abst.), with C. J. Goodchild.

Margret Trotter:

"Review of A Fable by William Faulkner," The Georgia
Review, Spring, 1955.

ENROLLMENT

Our enrollment for the 1954-55 session has totalled 538 students
455 boarders and 83 day students from twenty-six states, the District
of Columbia, and six foreign countries. The geographical distribu-
tion is as follows:

Alabama 37

Arkansas 6

California 2

Connecticut 1

Florida 41

Georgia 237

Illinois 1

Kentucky 3

Louisiana 8

Maryland 1

Michigan 1

Mississippi 6

Missouri 1

New Jersey 1

New York 5

Nebraska 1

North Carolina 42

Ohio 2

Oklahoma 2

Pennsylvania 1

South Carolina 43

Tennessee 41

Texas 11

Virginia 28

West Virginia 7

Wisconsin 1

District of Columbia . . 1

Canal Zone 1

France 1

Japan 2

Java 1

Switzerland 1

Venezuela 1

Total 538

Our 455 boarding students have been housed in four dormitories
(Agnes Scott or "Main," Rebekah Scott, Inman, and Hopkins),

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and eight cottages (Ansley, Boyd, Cunningham, Gaines, Hardeman,
Lupton, Mary Sweet, and Sturgis).

The classification of the student body for the 1954-1955 session is
as follows:

Seniors 100

Juniors 92

Sophomores 163

Freshmen 175

Specials 8

Total 538

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include
one student who completed degree requirements last summer and
who will receive her degree in June. Three students classified as
seniors will not receive the degree this June.)

The denominational distribution of our students for the current
session is as follows :

Presbyterian 232 Christian Science .... 4

Methodist 122 Independent 4

Baptist '. 75 Christian 3

Episcopalian 53 Church of Christ .... 1

Lutheran 9 Congregational 1

Roman Catholic .... 8 Moravian 1

Greek and Syrian Orthodox 5 United Church of Japan . 1

Jewish 5 Not indicated 14

Total 538

TRUSTEES

The College sustained an irreparable loss in the death of Mrs.
George C. (Frances Winship) Walters on November 14, 1954.
Mrs. Walters, vice-chairman of our Board of Trustees and active
as a member since 1937, will be remembered and honored throughout
all the years of Agnes Scott's service as a college, not only for her
generosity as a benefactor, but also for the quality of her life that
has left a permanent impress upon this College. A memorial was
read and unanimously adopted by the Board at the meeting on
December 13, 1954.

The terms of the following trustees expire this year : G. L.
Westcott, C. F. Stone, George W. Woodruff, John C. Henley, III
and Hal L. Smith. Attention is called to the vacancy in Board

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membership because of the death of Mrs. George C. Walters,
Alumnae Trustee, whose term would have expired at this time.

It would be impossible to express adequately my deep gratitude
to the members of the Board of Trustees for their confidence, their
never-failing cooperation, and their friendly, reassuring helpfulness.
I am grateful to God for fellowship with the men and women of our
Board in service to Agnes Scott College.

Respectfully submitted,
President

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

June 30, 1956

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees June 30, 1956

Agnes Scott College:

As the sixty-seventh year of Agnes Scott's life as an educational
institution is concluded, I present herewith my fifth annual report
as president.

The Office of Education of the United States Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare reports that the college-university
enrollment during 1955-56 was higher than at any time in our
nation's history. For the fourth consecutive year the number of
students in institutions of higher learning showed a marked increase ;
the 1955 fall enrollment was 221,000, or 8.8%, above that of the
fall of 1954. A 10.2% increase in enrollment was reported by lib-
eral arts colleges.

Our enrollment during the 1955-56 session has totaled 562 stu-
dents 483 boarders and 79 day students representing twenty-three
states, the Canal Zone, and five foreign countries (Japan, Jordan,
Korea, Malaya, Venezuela).

Our enrollment for the 1956-57 session will, with the new dormi-
tory, bring the boarding registration slightly over the five hundred
mark the number predicted in last year's report to the Board. Also
discussed in that report was the national rise in the college-age popu-
lation and its effect on enrollment. Never in the history of our college
has the pressure for enrollment been so great. Of necessity, admission
to Agnes Scott has become quite competitive and, as a consequence,
more selective than ever. Thus we, as a small college committed to
quality in education, are confident that the future will bring an un-
paralleled opportunity to make to the Christian education of young
women a contribution consistent with our principles and purposes.
We covet the understanding of our Board as we face many pressures
from alumna; and others who are interested, or become interested,
in particular applicants. We are determined to be honest in dealing
with those who apply and to make our selection on the basis of merit.

President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton University, in his report
to his Board, dated December 15, 1955, made some statements that
are relevant to our situation at Agnes Scott as we face the future :

"It is a mistake, I believe, for any college or university to base its
decisions on the assumption that the national pattern of higher edu-
cation twenty years hence will be the same as it is today that what
we have to plan for in 1975 is just for more of the same. It seems
inevitable that, in the overall national total, the proportion of college
students who will be pursuing the traditional liberal arts program
of studies will decline, and that the percentage in training for voca-
tions and skills will increase. This has been the trend as enrollments
have risen throughout the past generation and there is every reason

to expect that it will continue. America's college pattern has been
quietly adapting itself for a good many years to the diversity of edu-
cational values which have come to characterize our public high schools
as many have modified their programs to serve increasingly large num-
bers of our youth. Indeed, planned diversity within our system of
higher education should be the keynote for each institution as it seeks
to fit itself into a new era of truly massive enrollment. Nothing
would be more disastrous than that each should seek to be like all
the others for any reason whatsoever. As individual tasks, incentives,
aptitudes and traits of personality vary, so should educational oppor-
tunities vary if we are to escape the unfortunate consequences of
resort to mass methods for mass education.

"What will be the place of the liberal arts in the future educa-
tional mosaic? I have suggested that the numerical proportion of
college students following traditional liberal arts curricula will
decline as the total number of students throughout the nation mounts.
But this in no wise suggests that the social significance of the liberal
arts will decline. Indeed it will be just the opposite, for our society
will require more than ever a strong infusion of the values of mind
and spirit for which they stand.

"From this it follows, it seems to me, that the service that col-
leges and universities which continue to stress liberal learning will
render is to be reckoned more in respect to the excellence of their
performance than merely to the numbers they educate. Not that
numbers of liberally educated people are unimportant by any means,
but to debase the coinage of the liberal arts in any single institution
for the sake of numbers will defeat the very values which they pro-
claim. Surely a nation as rich as ours will be able to reconcile quantity
and quality if liberal educators keep faith with what they profess."

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS
Faculty Salaries and Retirement Program

The broad policy of the Board, and the determined purpose of the
Administration, is to make every effort year by year to increase faculty
and staff salaries (certainly until they have reached a level that can
be considered adequate in the context of the general economic situa-
tion). Increases of from 4% to 10% have been made in salaries for
the next college year. The contracts for the 1956-57 session reflect
the following increases in minimum salaries for each rank since 1951-
52: professor, 41%; associate professor, 46%; assistant professor,
57.7%; instructor, 54.7%.

It is important that we realize that, with all the efforts that
we have been making to bring our salary level up, the men and women
who teach and administer the work at Agnes Scott are not adequately
compensated for their contribution to this college. During the past
five years we have concentrated upon the efforts to raise the minimum

level for each rank. Within the next few years, I am hopeful that we
may show considerable improvement in the median and maximum
salaries at each level. To undertake to do so is not only to deal fairly
with our faculty and staff; with the anticipated acute shortage of
qualified teaching personnel, we will be compelled to offer salaries
comparable, at least, with other private institutions, or suffer the
consequences. The heart of our college is our faculty. I pledge myself
again, with the understanding that the members of the Board of
Trustees share my concern, to do everything possible to increase sal-
aries at Agnes Scott, of necessity keeping in mind the realities of our
financial situation.

The Finance Committee of the Board, at a meeting held August
29, 1955, took action authorizing some much-needed adjustments in
the Retirement Program of Agnes Scott faculty and staff members.
This matter was entrusted to the Finance Committee, with power to
act, at the meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 5, 1953. The
Finance Committee requested the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company to submit a plan whereby salary increases to faculty and
staff members may be reflected in additional benefits in the Pension
Plan. A sub-committee of the Finance Committee made a careful
study of the matter and reported to the Finance Committee last
August. The plan adopted by the Finance Committee provides that
the 1956-57 salary for each faculty and staff member enrolled in the
Connecticut Mutual Program shall become the base salary for such
participation, and that hereafter, the formula submitted by the Con-
necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for periodical adjustments
shall operate automatically in adjusting the Retirement Program
to future increases in salary.

Academic Freedom

One of the intangible inducements to teach at Agnes Scott is the
freedom that our faculty members have here. Each year it is my duty
as President of the College to make a full report to the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools the accrediting
agency for educational institutions in this section of the United
States. In this last report, we were asked to summarize our policy
regarding academic freedom. This is the answer that I sent in my
report: "We are proud of a tradition that assumes and safeguards
the freedom of faculty members to think, to speak, to write, and to
act. It is expected that faculty members will exercise this freedom
with due regard for the purposes and ideals of the College, with
common sense, and with a maturity that discriminates between the
irresponsibility of license and the responsibility of true liberty."

The faculty and staff members at Agnes Scott support whole-
heartedly the Christian ideals of the College and the religious pro-
gram that is integrated with the whole academic procedure. The
long-time policy of the College is to choose only those who are sin-

cerely committed to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, encouraging
them to affiliate actively in the church of their choice in this com-
munity. While this is true, there is absolutely no theological or
ecclesiastical requirement of a member of our faculty or staff. It
seems to me that this practice is in line with the ideals and purposes
of the College.

Student Accident and Health Insurance

For some time, the administrative officers of the College have been
considering students' accident and sickness insurance programs. Upon
the recommendation of the Administration, the Board has approved
an arrangement with the North American Accident Insurance Com-
pany of Chicago, serviced by Higham, Neilson, Whitridge, and Reid,
Inc., whereby a program of accident and sickness insurance for our
students will be made available to our patrons for the 1956-57 college
session. The above company will deal directly with the families of
our students ; the College assumes no responsibility beyond furnish-
ing names and addresses, and collaborating with the agents in the
preparation of the material that will be issued. All payments of
premiums, filing of claims, and payment of claims will be handled
through the Atlanta office of the company. It is the judgment of the
Administration of the College that a policy of this sort is needed and
desired by a sufficient number of our patrons to justify the adoption
of a specific program adapted to our particular requirements (as a
supplement to the health services now rendered by the College).
Participation in the insurance plan is entirely voluntary.

Industry and Foundation Grants

We have been closely in touch with the Council for Financial Aid
to Education and other agencies that have led in the movement to
inform and interest American business in our independent colleges
and universities. We have informed ourselves as fully as possible and
have made contacts with a number of corporations that have set up
foundations or special agencies for making annual grants to higher
education. Agnes Scott received grants during 1955-56 from the U. S.
Steel Foundation, the Esso Foundation, the Colgate-Palmolive Com-
pany, and the Ford Foundation.

Agnes Scott received word on Monday, December 12, 1955, that
the Ford Foundation has made two grants to the College, totaling
$285,300. This splendid gift is for our endowment fund, the income
to be used for increasing faculty salaries.

The Ford Foundation's gift to private colleges and universities,
totaling $210,000,000, is the largest of its kind in the history of
American philanthropy. Under this program each of 615 fully ac-
credited private four-year colleges and universities is to be given an
amount approximating its 1954-55 payroll for full-time teachers in

the Arts and Sciences. In addition, 126 carefully chosen colleges and
universities are being given Accomplishment Grants. Agnes Scott is
one of these institutions selected for an Accomplishment Grant
(there are only 34 in the South). The Ford Foundation makes the
following statements concerning the 126 institutions selected for the
Accomplishment Grants :

The colleges and universities offered grants under the
latter (Accomplishment Grant) program are those which
appear, among the institutions of similar type in their
regions, to have made outstanding effort throughout the
period since World War II to raise the economic level of
their teachers and to recognize in other ways the central
importance of the faculty in the educational process.

The Ford Foundation grants are to be paid in two equal install-
ments, one before July 1, 1956, and the other before July 1, 1957.

Finances

The audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1956, shows the
following cash receipts and expenditures for current operations:

Receipts from student charges $608,807.00

(room, board, tuition, fees)
Income from permanent invested funds . . . 169,038.95

(exclusive of Walters and Sweet funds)
Prepaid tuition 32,900.00

(registration fees for 1956-57)
Sundry receipts (gifts, etc.) 42,953.04

Total receipts $853,698.99

Total expenditures 859,394.82*

The Mary Frances Sweet estate has now been settled and, by
recent authorization of the Board of Trustees, will be used to endow
the salary of our College Physician and other medical and health
services. The Sweet Fund totals $183,898. The portrait of the late
Dr. Mary Frances Sweet, painted by Ferdinand Warren, chairman
of our Art Department, was unveiled at the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association.

Our endowment assets (including the Walters Trust Fund, but
exclusive of the Ford grant which will be paid in full by July 1,
1957) total $7,728,914.71.

* There was actually a net profit of $41,387.81 in the year's current
operation. The following expenditures from current funds have been
capitalized and are shown as permanent assets of the College:
"Kennedy" 341 S. Candler Street, $35,100 47; furnishings for
Kennedy, $1,212.38; installation of a new hot water tank at the
power plant, $10,568.02; permanent equipment, Buttrick Hall,
$2,604.44.

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Development Program

Agnes Scott is engaged in a long-range development program that
will culminate in the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of
the College in 1964. The development plans, adopted by the Board
of Trustees in June, 1953, have as their objective the addition of
$8,050,000 to the permanent endowment funds of the College, and
the expenditure of $1,975,000 for buildings, grounds, and equipment.
To date, a total of approximately $6,060,000 has been raised toward
the development goal of $10,025,000. The Development Committee
of our Board of Trustees is making tentative plans for an intensive
financial campaign which is to begin in 1959-60.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

The past year's program of plant improvement included the repair
and renovation of a number of cottage-dormitory units; painting of
Presser lobby and halls, Gaines Chapel, and the McCain Library
reading room ; painting and installation of new lockers in the gym-
nasium ; extensive alterations in Main Building to meet fire regula-
tions; the complete renovation of Buttrick lobby; and the installation
of a new hot water storage tank in the power plant.

The property at 341 South Candler Street, known to the college
community as "Kennedy House," was acquired and is being used
as a residence for six faculty members. This property adjoins the
campus and is a valuable addition to it.

Work on the "Frances Winship Walters Hall," to be dedicated
to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Walters, is progressing
quite satisfactorily. We are assured that the dormitory will be com-
pleted and fully equipped in ample time for the beginning of the fall
session in September. The latest estimated cost of the entire enter-
prise is approximately $700,000. As of this date, payments totaling
$556,278.10 have been made, leaving an estimated balance of $143,-
721.90 to be paid. Acting on the authorization of the Board (Decem-
ber 13, 1954), the officers of the College have borrowed to date
from the Trust Company of Georgia the sum of $200,000. There is
at present in the development account the sum of $16,124.30. With
an income check from the Walters Fund, estimated at approximately
$35,000, due in July, we believe it will not be necessary to borrow
more than $100,000 additionally in order to cover fully all of the
costs of Walters Hall. It is my hope that by careful financing, it
will be possible for us to liquidate this entire loan with the income
from the Walters Fund and trust fund within a period of 2Vi or 3
years. This, at least, is our objective.

With the completion of Walters Hall, the following disposition
of the frame houses heretofore used as dormitory units is planned:
Boyd and West Lawn will be razed this summer, in line with the
long-range plan of campus improvement; Alexander and Cunningham

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will be used for much-needed faculty residences ; Ansley, Hardeman,
and Sturgis will continue to serve as student dormitory units; the up-
stairs of McCain will be used for students who are accelerating and
who will be in residence for less than the whole year, and for day
students who need to stay overnight on campus from time to time;
Lupton will be renovated and equipped as a faculty club; and Gaines
is to be appropriated as headquarters for our Department of Educa-
tion.

As previously reported to the Board, and fully authorized by
Board action, we are working with the Fire Marshal of the State of
Georgia and with our architects, Ivey and Crook, in a plan designed
to bring Main, Rebekah Scott, and Inman dormitories up to the
standards required by the Fire Marshal's office. We are planning this
summer to complete the work begun a year ago in Main, and to do
approximately one-half of the task of alteration that will be required
in Rebekah Scott. It is to be noted that this program is really a part
of the plan set forth by our Development Committee in the campus
improvement objectives. This is a major undertaking, expensive and
time-consuming (and one that can be done only in the summer, when
the dormitories are vacant).

We have delayed the conversion of the second boiler in our power
plant from coal to gas until Walters Hall and other development
program objectives are completed and their heating requirements
determined.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Among the lecturers and other distinguished visitors who were
guests on the Agnes Scott campus during the 1955-56 session were
the following: Dr. J. McDowell Richards, Moderator of the Presby-
terian Church, U. S., and President of Columbia Theological Semi-
nary; Dr. Howard Foster Lowry, President of the College of Woos-
ter; Dr. Alan Sterling Parkes, of the National Institute for Medical
Research, London ; Professor Brand Blanshard, head of the Depart-
ment of Philosophy, Yale University ; Professor Alfred L. Rowse,
distinguished historian of Oxford University ; Professor Henri Peyre,
head of the Department of French, Yale University; Mr. Randall
Jarrell, poet and literary critic; Mr. Robert Frost, poet; Colonel
Francis Pickens Miller, Christian statesman and leader; Dr. Richard
Hartshorne, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin; Dr.
Lily Ross Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Latin and former Dean of
the Graduate School, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. Margaret Mead,
anthropologist and author ; Dr. Johanna J. van Dulleman, executive
officer for the United States Educational Foundation in Holland;
Mr. Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution; Senora Maria
de Leon Ortega, Mexico City College; Dr. Edward Mims, Professor
Emeritus of English, Vanderbilt University; Dr. Achille Deodato,
Moderator of the Waldensian Church and President of the Federated
Council of Evangelical Churches of Italy.

The baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 3, was preached by Dr.
Nels F. S. Ferre, Professor of Philosophical Theology, Vanderbilt
University. Dr. Theodore A. Distler, Executive Director of the As-
sociation of American Colleges, gave the Commencement address on
June 4.

Dr. Rachel Henderlite, member of the faculty of the General
Assembly's Training School for Lay Workers, Richmond, was our
Religious Emphasis Week speaker in February. Dr. Henderlite was
helpful to our students, not only in the messages that she brought,
but particularly in personal and group conferences.

The fourth annual "Meet the Ministers" Tea was again sponsored
by the Inter-Faith Council at the beginning of the 1955-56 session.
Approximately four hundred Agnes Scott faculty members and stu-
dents met with ministers and )oung people's leaders from Greater
Atlanta.

The Athletic Association sponsored this year several events for
the entire student body, faculty, and their families, including an ice
skating party in April, a community picnic in May, and, in coopera-
tion with Christian Association, an all-day outing at Fritz Orr's
camp. In cooperation with the Physical Education Department of the
College, the Athletic Association publicized some of the newer sports
through fencing and tumbling exhibitions during the winter quarter,
and a horse show in May. A water ballet presented by Dolphin Club
gave emphasis to synchronized swimming.

Blackfriars dramatic group presented Sophocles' Antigone last
fall and in the spring The IVould-Be-Gentleman, an adaptation by one
of our seniors from Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. During the
winter quarter, student directors were in charge of two one-act plays
which Blackfriars gave with assistance from Drama-Tech players.

In February, Players, Incorporated, brought by the College Lecture
Association, performed in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Other productions during the year included the Agnes Scott Dance
Group's presentation of "La Boutique Fantasque" and the May Day
pageant, "A Harlequinade May Day," written and directed by two
of our seniors.

The Agnes Scott Glee Club sang for its Christmas program Bach's
"Magnificat." The featured work of the April concert was "Seven
Choruses from the Medea of Euripides," a modern arrangement from
Greek mythology.

Members of Pi Alpha Phi debating society participated in the
Azalea Tournament in Mobile, the West Georgia Tournament in
Carrollton, and several others. Our affirmative team won first place
in the Carolina Forensics at the University of South Carolina. In
December, two Agnes Scott debaters opposed a team from Cambridge
University ; this college was the only college for women included in
the Cambridge tour. In January, teams from twelve colleges and
universities met on our campus for the ninth annual All-Southern
Intercollegiate Debate Tournament.

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The annual charity drive was climaxed traditionally in January
with Junior Jaunt. The entire student body raised $3,501.40, with
the seniors averaging $8.84 per person. Later in the spring the stu-
dent body participated in a neighborhood canvass for the Multiple
Sclerosis Drive and collected over $1,053.00. A project in December
was the trimming of Christmas trees in the wards of Atlanta's Grady
Hospital.

In April, Mortar Board, the College leadership group, sponsored
a leadership conference for all newly-elected campus officers. Miss
Mamie K. Taylor, well-known Atlanta business woman, participated.

A survey of our senior class, made shortly before graduation, indi-
cated over twenty-one fields of vocational interest. The largest single
number, twenty-two, are planning to teach; thirteen will do ad-
vanced study (four of these in medicine and related fields in science) ;
three will do government work ; three will do general office work.
Other interests include church work, public relations, Red Cross,
welfare, fashion design, and general personnel. Six seniors were
already married at time of graduation, and thirty-five plan to be
married soon.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Personnel

Additions to our faculty for the 1956-57 session have been:
Dr. Miriam Howell, Assistant Professor of Education; Dr. Miriam
E. Koontz, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Miss Mary L. Rion,
Assistant Professor of English; Miss Chloe Steel, Assistant Professor
of French; Mr. Richard Drake, Visiting Instructor in History and
Political Science; Miss Marianna van Hoogendyk, Visiting Instruc-
tor in Art; Dr. William H. Jones, Visiting Professor of Chemistry;
Mrs. Frank A. Sewell, Visiting Instructor in French; Dr. Myrna
Goode Young, Visiting Instructor in Classical Languages and Lit-
eratures ; and Senora Maria de Leon Ortega, Visiting Lecturer in
Spanish Phonetics and Speech.

On leave of absence during the 1955-56 session were: Dr. Eliza-
beth Zenn, who has been doing post-doctoral work in Rome, Italy;
Miss Marie Huper, who is working toward the Ph.D. degree at
State University of Iowa ; and Miss Frances Clark, studying toward
the Ph.D. degree at Yale University.

New members of the administrative staff this past year have been :
Dr. M. Virginia Tuggle, College Physician; Mss Jo Ann Horn,
Resident Nurse in charge of the Infirmary; Mrs. Sarah Douglass
Tatum, Assistant Dietitian; Miss Harriette Stovall, Assistant to the
Librarian ; Miss Barbara Northey, Assistant in Admissions ; Mrs.
William Ray, Secretary to the Treasurer; and Miss Jo Ann Dodson,
Secretary to the Business Manager.

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Faculty Activities

With the close of the 1955-56 session, Miss Emma May Laney,
Professor of English and one of the truly great teachers in the history
of Agnes Scott, retired from active service having reached the man-
datory retirement age under the rules of our Board. Miss Laney
came into the Agnes Scott faculty in the fall of 1919. Her reputation
is known and her influence felt wherever there are Agnes Scott
Alumna?. In her honor, a group of her associates and former students
have established the Emma May Laney Library Fund as a part of
our permanent endowment. The income from this fund is to be used
for the enrichment of the library in enlarging and preserving the
Robert Frost Collection ; in providing for the display of Miss Laney's
gift of a number of letters from such people as Carl Sandburg and
John Galsworthy ; and in acquiring rare books in English literature.

Mr. John Louis Adams, Assistant Professor of Music, is a mem-
ber of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta "Pops" Orches-
tra, and the Atlanta Symphony String Quartet.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, Assistant Professor of Bible, received the
Ph.D. degree from Columbia University at the June commencement.
She serves as secretary of the Southern Section of the National Associ-
ation of Biblical Instructors.

Miss Glendora Boyce, Instructor in Physical Education, is Faculty
Advisor for the Georgia Athletic Federation of College Women. She
is pursuing graduate study during the summer at Florida State Uni-
versity, Tallahassee.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, College Librarian, serves as Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the University Center Librarians. Last
summer, Mrs. Byers was Visiting Lecturer in the Department of
Library Science, Rackham School of Graduate Studies of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, Professor of Biology, is engaged in re-
search on drying cysts of ciliates. She is spending her summers at the
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Dr. William A. Calder, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and
Director of the Bradley Observatory, served as Visiting Professor of
Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University in the summer
of 1955. He is presently at Wisconsin State College where he is
directing the Summer Institute on Astronomy, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation.

Dr. Annie May Christie, Associate Professor of English, is a mem-
ber of the Board of Stewards of the Decatur First Methodist Church.
She is active also in the Decatur branch of the Business and Profes-
sional Women's Club.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is contin-
uing her research in Spanish and Portuguese contemporary literature.

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Miss Cilley is particularly interested in the life and works of Mario
Braga, the distinguished Hispanic novelist.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Crigler, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is active
in the work of the Georgia State Academy of Science, the American
Chemical Society, the League of Women Voters, and the United
Lutheran Church.

Miss Eugenie L. Dozier, Instructor in Physical Education, has re-
ceived the M.S. degree in dance education from Springfield College,
Springfield, Massachusetts. The history and program of Agnes Scott's
Dance Group received detailed treatment in Miss Dozier's master's
thesis, "Ballet in Education in a Liberal Arts College."

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, Associate Professor of Spanish, is chair-
man of the Foreign Student Committee of the United Church
Women of Georgia, and chairman of Public Relations of the
Woman's Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Georgia. Dr.
Dunstan is touring the Far East at the present time.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, Professor of Chemistry, spoke at the Inter-
national Symposium on Trace Analysis, held in New York last
November, using as his topic, "Inorganic Paper Chromatography."
Dr. Frierson is a member of the Council of the Georgia Section of the
American Chemical Society, and serves as a member of the Standing
Committee on Chemical Education of the National Council of the
American Chemical Society. He was recently elected a Deacon in the
Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, Professor of Bible, is a member of the
Board of Managers of the Broadcasting and Films Commission of tht
National Council of Churches. He serves on the Council of the
National Association of Biblical Instructors. During the summer of
1956, Dr. Garber is participating in the Professorial Workshop on
the Land of the Bible at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. As a recipi-
ent of a Southern Fellowships Fund, Dr. Garber is engaged in re-
search in the course of a six weeks' itinerary in Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

Miss Leslie J. Gaylord, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is a
member of the Diocesan Division of College Work of the Episcopal
Church.

Dr. M. Kathryn Glick, Professor of Classical Languages and
Literatures, is president of the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological
Institute of America and is vice-president for Georgia of the Classi-
cal Association of the Middle West and South.

Dr. John I. Goodlad, Professor of Education, is currently sur-
veying the national practice in elementary school organization with a
view to compiling data for a publication (with Robert H. Anderson,
of Harvard). Dr. Goodlad has been requested to write two chapters
for the 1958 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Edu-
cation, reviewing (a) curriculum theory as expressed in practice

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(elementary, secondary, and college levels) and (b) forward-looking
practice in elementary schools. Dr. Goodlad is chairman of the Edi-
torial Advisory Board of the New Standard Encyclopedia, and is a
member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Child's World.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, Instructor in Biology, was recently elected a
Fellow in the Georgia Academy of Science. She serves as chairman
of the Biology section of this organization.

Miss Nancy P. Groseclose, Assistant Professor of Biology, is con-
ducting research in the field of experimental embryology.

Dr. Muriel Harn, Professor of German and Spanish, spent the
summer of 1955 traveling in Germany, Spain, and Italy.

Dr. George P. Hayes, Professor of English, has been serving as an
interpreter of literature to several adult reading groups in Atlanta.
One of Dr. Hayes' hobbies is his service as scoutmaster of a Boy
Scout troop.

Dr. Richard L. Henderson, Professor of Education, is continuing
his research in "Discipline and the Child in Modern Society." Dr.
Henderson is a consultant to the Georgia Committee on lnter-racial
Cooperation through the Greater Atlanta Council on Human Re-
lations.

Dr. Miriam M. Howell, Assistant Professor of Education, is en-
gaged in the preparation of a studv in the area of beginning reading
which is to be carried on in one of the Atlanta public schools. Dr.
Howell is also participating with Virgil E. Herrick and Leland B.
Jacobs on a book of readings in language arts, What Research Tells
Us About Language Arts.

Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is
completing a manuscript entitled Realism, Naturalism, and Theism:
A Study of Samuel Alexander and George Frederick Stout.

Dr. Miriam E. Koontz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has
participated in the Emory University Career Clinics for high school
students, and in the Atlanta Board of Education testing program of
high school teachers and students. Dr. Koontz recently addressed the
Georgia Association of Speech Teachers on the subject, "Play Ther-
apy."

Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp, Assistant Professor of Physical Edu-
cation, has assisted local Campfire and Girl Scout groups in their
programs of folk and square dancing.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Associate Professor of English, read
a paper last fall at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
meeting at Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Leyburn is traveling in
Europe at the present time.

Mr. Michael McDowell, Professor of Music, served as the first
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president of the Southern Division of the Music Teachers National
Association.

Dr. W. Edward McNair, Assistant Professor of English, serves
as part-time Director of Development for the College. He received
the Ph.D. degree from Emory in June. His doctoral dissertation :
John Bunyan's Use of Symbols in The Pilgrim's Process.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, Professor of Economics and Sociology, is
chairman of the University Center Sociology Group. Dr. Mell was
requested by the League of Women Voters to re-write the section
on public finance for their publication, Georgia Government. She
also wrote the introduction for the League's report on foreign trade.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, Associate Professor of Psychology, is
a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Psychological
Association and of the Council of the Georgia Academy of Science.
She serves also on the Advisory Committee in connection with the
Educational Testing Services Study of the Atlanta Public Schools.

Dr. Margaret T. Phythian, Professor of French, is chairman of the
program committee of the University Center Language Association
and is active in the Altar Guild of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
in Decatur.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, Professor of History and Political Science,
has been engaged in research on "The Baptist Church in the Lower
Mississippi Valley." He was awarded an honorary L.H.D. degree by
Birmingham-Southern College in December.

Poems honoring the late Dr. Mary Frances Sweet and Dr. Emma
May Laney were recently written by Miss Janef N. Preston, Assis-
tant Professor of English. Miss Preston's poem dedicated to Dr.
Sweet was read at the unveiling of the .Sweet portrait at the annual
meeting of the Alumnae Association.

Miss Mary L. Rion, Assistant Professor of English, is actively
engaged in a program of research on early Kentucky literature.

Dr. Lorin W. Roberts has been promoted to the rank of Associate
Professor of Biology. He is continuing his research on the histo-
chemical localization of enzyme systems in plant tissues. During the
summer he will be the park ranger with the National Park Service
in Olympic National Park, Washington, where he plans to make a
preliminary study of the temperate rain forest of that region.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, Professor of Mathematics, has been elected
a director of the DeKalb County Chapter, American Red Cross. He
serves as a Deacon in the First Baptist Church of Decatur. Dr. Rob-
inson is the long-time secretary-treasurer of the Southeastern Section
of the Mathematical Association of America.

Miss Anne Salyerds, Instructor in Biology, attended the American
Institute of Biological Sciences at East Lansing, Michigan, in Sep-

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tember, and the Association of Southeastern Biologists at Duke Uni-
versity in April.

Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, Professor of History, is engaged
in research on an edition of a British Museum manuscript on the
mediaeval British Exchequer. During the past year, Dr. Sims has
filled a number of speaking engagements for civic and educational
groups in Atlanta and elsewhere.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, Associate Professor of Economics and
Sociology, is pursuing research on problems of economic and social
development of the South. She is active in the DeKalb County Plan-
ning Council, the DeKalb County Board of the Family Service
Society, and the Georgia League of Women Voters.

Miss Chloe Steel, Assistant Professor of French, is engaged in
research on the influence of Balzac on Proust. Miss Steel attended
the meeting of the Modern Language Association and the American
Association of Teachers of French in Chicago last December.

Dr. Pierre Thomas, Assistant Professor of French, is a member
of the faculty of the French Summer School, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, Associate Professor of English, appeared
in a panel discussion on the short story at the annual Georgia Writers
Association Conference last November. Miss Trotter is a member
of the choir of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of Decatur.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, Professor of Art, has been elected presi-
dent for 1956-57 of the Association of Georgia Artists. Mr. Warren
has recently won first awards in water color in the Atlanta Water
Color Society and the Association of Georgia Artists. In recent
months he has exhibited his paintings in the University of Georgia
Museum, at Oglethorpe University, at the Regional Gallery, Atlanta,
at the Massillon Museum of Art, Massillon, Ohio, at Birmingham
(Alabama) Museum, at the Sarasota Art Association Annual Ex-
hibition, and on the year's tour by the American Federation of Arts,
New York.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Associate Professor of Physical Educa-
tion, is a member of the Legislative Board of the National Section
for Girls' and Women's Sports, a member of the Board of the South-
ern Association for College Women, and is chairman of the Recog-
nition Committee of the Southern Association for Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation.

Dr. Roberta Winter, Associate Professor of Speech and Dramatic
Art, is active in the work of the Southern Speech Association, the
Georgia Speech Association, and the Speech Association of America.
She is traveling in Europe this summer.

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Research and Publications

The following books, pamphlets, and articles, including those now
in process, have been published by Agnes Scott faculty members during
the past year :

Mary Boney :

Devotionals for Conference Edition of Thy Will My Will,
youth publication for Presbyterian Church, U. S. (Summer,
1956).

Edna Hanley Byers:

The Classified List of Reference Books and Periodicals for Col-
lege Libraries, 3rd. edition. The Southern Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools, Commission on Colleges and Uni-
versities, (1955), (Chairman of the Periodicals Committee).

William A. Calder:

"A Luminance Meter With Small Cone of Acceptance," Amer-
ican Journal of Physics, (to be printed in the near future).

S. A. Cartledge:

Basic Grammar of the Greek New Testament, Zondervan Pub-
lishing House, (third prize in their textbook contest), (to be
printed in the near future).

Weekly comments on the Sunday school lessons in the Christian
Observer.

Book reviews in Interpretation and the Journal of Biblical
Literature.

Annie May Christie:

"Bill Arp as a Civil War Humorist," Civil War History (to be
published in the near future). (Mr. Walter Blair, Chairman of
the English Department of the University of Chicago, will use
article in a special issue to be devoted to articles on the humor
of the Civil War period.)

Melissa A. Cilley:

Contos Modernos Portugueses, with vocabulary, (in mimeo-
graphed form), Oxford Univ. Press, (April 1956).

W. Joe Frierson :

"Inorganic Paper Chromatography," Trace Analysis, John
Wiley Publishing Company, (in press).

M. Kathryn Glick:

"Homer, Teacher of the Liberal Arts," Agnes Scott Alumnae
Quarterly, XXXIV (Fall, 1955), 1.

John I. Goodlad:

"More About the Ungraded Plan," NEA Journal, XLIV (May
1955), 295-296.

"In Reply to Rudolph Flesch," Atlanta Journal, (September
12, 1955).

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"The Wonderful Adventures of Flesch in Wonderland," At-
lanta Journal, (September 13, 1955).

"A Reading Program for Today's Schools," Atlanta Journal,
(September 14, 1955).

"More About Reading in Today's Schools," Atlanta Journal,
(September 15, 1955).

"When to Begin: Dimensions of the First Grade Entrance Age
Problem," Childhood Education, XXXII (September 1955),
21-26 (with Margaret P. Ammons).

"The Individual School and Its Principal: Key Setting and Key
Person in Educational Leadership," Educational Leadership,
XIII (October 1955), 2-6.

"Review of Public Education in the South Today and Tomor-
row by Ernest Swanson and John A. Griffin," The Emory Uni-
versity Quarterly, XI (December 1955).

"Your Child at School," Hoiv to Live With Your Children,
Young Mothers Study Club, Inc., (Chicago, 1956).
"Review of Frontiers of Elementary Education II (edited by
Vincent E. Glennon)," Educational Leadership, XIV (March
1956).

"Time, Space, and the Developing Child," Childhood Education,
XXXII (April 1956), 374-379 (with Margaret P. Ammons).
Educational Leadership and the Elementary School Principal,
New York (Rinehart and Company), 1956. (with Charles R.
Spain and Harold D. Drummond).

The Elementary School, New York (Prentice-Hall, Inc.), 1956.
(with Virgil E. Herrick, Frank E. Estvan, and Paul W. Eber-
man).

Netta E. Gray:

"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, IX. The South Pacific
Species of Section Eupodocarpus, Subsection F," Journal of the
Arnold Arboretum, XXXVI (1955), 199-209.
"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, X. The South Pacific
Species of Section Eupodocarpus, Subsection D," Journal of
the Arnold Arboretum, XXXVII (1956), 160-172.

Richard L. Henderson :

"The Double Entrv Log in Student Teaching. " Journal of
Teacher Educational (September 1955), 184-188.

"Do Teachers Profit from Self-Directed Child Studv?," The
Elementary School Journal, LVI (December 1955),' 152-157.
Miriam M. Howell:

"The Control of Mechanics of Expression and the Quality of
Preceding Experiences as Differentiating Factors in Certain
Aspects of Compositions of Seven-Year-Olds," Summaries of
Doctoral Dissertations, XV (Madison: University of Wiscon-
sin Press, 1955), Abstract.

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"Differentiating Variables in the Compositions of Seven-Year-
Olds," The Elementary School Journal, LVII (to be printed
in the near future).

Ellen Douglass Leyburn :

Satiric Allegory: Mirror of Man, New Haven (Yale University
Press), 1956.

"No Romantic Absurdities or Incredible Fictions: The Relation
of Johnson's Rasselas to Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia," Publica-
tions of the Modern Language Association, LXX (December

1955), 1055-1068.
Walter B. Posey:

"The Lower Southern Frontier, 1806-1815" in Travels in the
Old South, A Bibliography, Vol. II, Edited by Thos. D. Clark.
Norman, Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press), 1956.
"The Baptists and Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley,"
The Journal of Negro History, XLI, (April 1956), 117-130.
Book reviews in Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography, Church History, and The-
ology Today.

Janef Newman Preston :

"Feud," Epos, a Quarterly of Poetry, (Summer, 1955).
"Drought," The Country Poet, (Summer, 1955).

"To the Patron Saints of Animals," Quicksilver, (Autumn,
1955).

"Song for Michaelmas," Quicksilver, (Spring, 1956).

Lorin W. Roberts:

"Sulfhydryl Localization and Tetrazolium Reduction. 1. Re-
versible Inhibition of Its Reduction by N-ethyl Maleimide,"
Stain Technology, XXX (1955), 291-298.

Henry A. Robinson:

"Report: The March Meeting of the Southeastern Section,"
The American Mathematical Monthly, LXII (1955), 526-533.

Catherine Strateman Sims:

"Behind the Scenes" (on the selection of candidates for Fulbright
awards), News Bulletin of the Institute of International Edu-
cation, XXXI (February 1956), 6-8.

Margret Trotter:

"The White Sands of Carrabelle," The Georgia Review, VIII
(Winter, 1954), 406-412.

ENROLLMENT

Our enrollment for the 1955-56 session has totaled 562 students
483 boarders and 79 day students from twenty-three states, the Canal

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Zone, and five foreign countries. The geographical distribution is as
follows:

Alabama
Arizona

Arkansas

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4

California 3

Connecticut 2

Florida 47

Georgia 234

Illinois 2

Indiana 1

Kentucky 2

Louisiana 6

Maryland 2

Mississippi 9

New Jersey 3

New York 7

North Carolina 51

Ohio 1

Pennsylvania 3

South Carolina 51

Tennessee 38

Texas 13

Virginia 35

West Virginia 10

Canal Zone

Japan

Jordan

Korea

Malaya

Venezuela

Total 562

The classification of the student body for the 1955-56 session is as
follows:

Seniors 93

Juniors 127

Sophomores 160

Freshmen 176

Specials 6

Total 562

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include
one student who completed degree requirements last summer and
received her degree this June. Four students classified as seniors did
not receive the degree this June because they withdrew before the
close of the session.)

The denominational distribution of our students for the current
session is as follows:

Presbyterian 263

Methodist 120

Baptist 83

Episcopalian 55

Lutheran . . .
Christian . . .
Moravian . . .
Christian Science
Independent . .
Church of Christ

Congregational 3

Greek and Syrian Orthodox 3

Roman Catholic .... 6

Jewish 3

United Church of Japan . 1

Salvation Army 1

Union Church 1

Non-Denominational . . 2

Non-members 2

Total 562

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ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

In this, its sixty-third year, the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
is headed by a part-time director and governed by an elected board
of sixteen members, plus the presidents of five local alumnae clubs
who serve ex-officio. There are a total of thirty-three alumnae clubs
in the nation. Of the 9,000 living alumnae, 3,500 are graduates.
Membership in the Association is limited to those alumnae who
make a financial contribution to the College through the annual
Alumnae Fund. The 1955-56 Fund totalled $20,370.71, represent-
ing contributions from 1,729 alumnae, or 26% of those solicited.

The Association programs fall into two categories, those serving
alumnae and those serving the college community. The most signifi-
cant program of the year is on February 22 in celebration of
Founder's Day. This year's program, featuring a talk by alumna
trustee Catherine Marshall, was heard over twenty-nine stations
the largest number in the history of our Founder's Day broadcasts.

TRUSTEES

Mr. George Winship, beloved Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
died on June 20, 1956, after an extended illness. The loss that Agnes
Scott College has sustained in Mr. Winship's death is incalculable.
He was elected to the Board in 1931, and succeeded Mr. J. K. Orr
as Chairman in 1938. During all these years Mr. Winship served
the College diligently and effectively.

The terms of the following trustees expired with the annual meet-
ing of the Board: Mr. G. Scott Candler (Corporate) ; Mr. John A.
Sibley (Synodical Georgia) ; Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt (Corporate) ;
Mrs. S. E. Thatcher (Synodical Florida) ; Dr. J. C. Frist (Synod-
ical Alabama) ; Mrs. Edward Wallace Owen (Alumnae).

At the meeting of the Board, held on May 11, 1956, Mr. G. Scott
Candler and Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each. Mr. John A. Sibley, who has
previously served as a S> nodical Trustee from Georgia, was elected
to fill the vacancy that exists in the Board in a Corporate Trustee-
ship expiring in 1958. Mrs. S. E. Thatcher and Dr. J. C. Frist were
re-elected for terms of four years each, subject to ratification re-
spectively by the Synods of Florida and Alabama. Dr. J. Davison
Philips, pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian Church, was elected for
a term of four years as a Synodical Trustee from Georgia, subject to
ratification by the Synod of Georgia. Mrs. Joseph C. Read, retiring
President of the National Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, was
elected as an Alumnae Trustee for a term of two years, replacing
Mrs. Edward Wallace Owen, whose term has expired.

The association with members of the Board of Trustees becomes
increasingly meaningful to me as I face the problems, commonplace

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and extraordinary, requiring attention at Agnes Scott. I am grateful
for the intelligent, cooperative, and loyal service of the men and
women who constitute our Board.

Respectfully submitted,
President.

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July 1, 1957

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees July 1, 1957

Agnes Scott College:

At the conclusion of the sixty-eighth year of Agnes Scott's service
in the education of young women, I present herewith my sixth annual
report as president.

I read recently a booklet issued by the American College Public
Relations Association in which the statement is made that out of the
more than 1,800 institutions of higher learning throughout the United
States, only a relatively few are yet making an adequate effort to
achieve greatness.

I have been pondering this statement as I have prepared the final
draft of this report of the year's activities at Agnes Scott. What con-
stitutes a "great" college? What is involved for a college such as ours
in "making an adequate effort to achieve greatness"?

The pamphlet to which I have referred placed emphasis and
properly so upon the necessity of adequate financial support, quoting
Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton's inaugural address at the University
of Chicago to the effect that while the possession of extensive funds
and resources does not insure the greatness of an educational insti-
tution, it is nevertheless a fact that there are few great institutions
of learning which lack these resources.

As the trustees and administrative officers have thought of Agnes
Scott's place in the educational scene, we have come to the conclusion
that our financial resources must be increased substantially if the col-
lege is to maintain her present status and continue to deserve the
reputation as an institution offering academic work of high quality.
We are not content, however, merely to maintain a position that has
been earned through many years. We want to increase the effective-
ness of the service that we undertake to render ; we are concerned
for a richer quality in our academic work -for more integrity in the
intellectual and spiritual quest in which both faculty members and
students are engaged ; in other words, we deeply desire, as an educa-
tional community, "to achieve greatness." This will mean dealing
with the need for adequate financial support, not spasmodically nor
by an occasional campaign or emergency effort, but on a continuous
basis through a development program that is realistic, intelligently
aggressive, and integral to the administrative structure of the college.
To secure the money to finance a first-class college is, then, impera-
tive if Agnes Scott is to deserve to be called a great college.

But, what else? Money, much as we need it, is not all that we
need at Agnes Scott. To be a great college, we must keep alive the
great motives and purposes that have been responsible for the estab-
lishment and the growth of Agnes Scott to her present stature. The

college's founder, Colonel George Washington Scott, wrote of his
intention for the institution in a letter to his brother, dated May 20,
1890: "It is my desire to make it as great an institution of this kind
as there is in the land." Dr. Frank Henry Gaines, first president of
Agnes Scott, formulated the Agnes Scott Ideal which has guided all
subsequent labors in behalf of the institution :

1. A liberal curriculum, fully abreast of the best institu-
tions of this country.

2. The Bible as a textbook.

3. Thoroughly qualified and consecrated teachers.

4. A high standard of scholarship.

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

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

Dr. James Ross McCain, second president of Agnes Scott, magnifi-
cently built upon the foundations firmly laid by Colonel Scott and
Dr. Gaines. More lasting than the physical and material gains
achieved under his leadership will be the intellectual and spiritual
structure of Agnes Scott with which he has had so much to do
and which he has guarded so persistently against every menacing en-
croachment. He has accurately written: "The basic principles of the
founders have furnished a continuity of aim and endeavor throughout
the existence of Agnes Scott." We are aware of the power of these
purposes today and in the light that they shed upon our work, we
labor now and we look ahead with confidence.

Moreover, the effort to be a great college requires clear thinking
about our present task. Again and again, the administration and
faculty of Agnes Scott have re-examined and re-evaluated the edu-
cational assignment and allocation that we have long since accepted
for ourselves. We are convinced that our educational responsibility
is to continue to offer the bachelor of arts degree to young women
in a relatively small student body; to provide a rich curriculum,
integrating the Christian interpretation of life with a high quality
of academic work in an environment where personal relationships
between members of the educational community obtain. In such a
situation, we are trying to offer a liberal arts training that touches
life vitally and determinatively. We are convinced that, far from
being visionary, vague, and unrelated to life, a liberal arts education
ought to fit young people to live with themselves; it ought to con-
tribute to marriage, to vocational success, and to good citizenship ;
it ought to help with the highest level of adjustment the relation-
ship of man with God. The type of education offered at Agnes Scott
is predicated upon the conviction that a mind trained to think is
essential if life is to be unfettered, rich, and free. Moreover, the
liberal arts college tries to place at the disposal of the student some
of the accumulated wealth of the ages, all the while attempting to
guide the effort to acquire a working knowledge of the clues and

the tools essential to an appreciation of the intellectual and spiritual
treasures that so many are neglecting.

Thus, we at Agnes Scott are undertaking to confront students
with what is first-rate (to use Sir Richard Livingstone's phrase)
the "habitual vision of greatness" (A. N. Whitehead). President
Howard Foster Lowry, of Wooster, describes this as the task of
putting excellence into young people until it becomes "the integrity
of their lives."

Quite relevant to this conception of our educational task is the
necessity of enlisting and retaining a strong faculty, if Agnes Scott is
increasingly to "achieve greatness." This is, I think, the heart of the
whole problem. There is no substitute for dedicated, competently
trained men and women of Christian character and scholarship who
look upon teaching in a college such as ours as a calling. To discover
them, to bring them into our faculty, to compensate them adequately
(even generously, I trust), to offer intangible inducements that will
make their work challenging and pleasant, and to be able to retain
them at a time when a shortage of teachers and an increase in student
enrollments combine to provide a "teachers' market" this is the
administrator's first and most pressing responsibility. The account of
Agnes Scott's rise to distinction as a college is the story of Agnes
Scott's faculty a story of loyalty, commitment to high purposes and
ideals, professional excellence, faithful and sacrificial service to young
people. If this college is to deserve to be called a great institution in
the decades to come, men and women must be found who are worthy
of the great succession of McKinney, Armistead, Dieckmann, Tor-
rance, Sydenstricker, Holt, Alexander, MacDougall, Laney, Stukes,
and others like them who have invested their lives in Agnes Scott.

The outreach and the impact of the college must be cumulatively
vital if Agnes Scott is to lay claim to greatness. Our careful program
of selective admissions is basic. The students who then go from our
campus to hundreds of communities throughout the world are our
product and the validity of our effort as a Christian liberal arts
college is ultimately determined by the value of their lives. The im-
portance of Agnes Scott as a college cannot be estimated by number-
ing our alumnae; the number, of course, will always be relatively
small. Nor can the contribution of this institution be measured accu-
rately merely by determining the wealth or the renown of our grad-
uates. The ultimate test is the intrinsic worth of Agnes Scott students,
here and after college days are over, in the homes that they establish
the professional and business careers upon which they enter the
church, civic, educational, and social relationships that they maintain.
I am quite willing for Agnes Scott's contribution to be measured in
such terms ; that it should be so measured is, at any rate, inevitable.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

Freshman Admissions and Scholarships

An American Council on Education survey indicates that college
enrollments have increased for the fifth consecutive year, with enroll-
ment figures ten per cent higher this year than last. This national
picture is reflected in our situation at Agnes Scott, where by Novem-
ber of 1956 sixteen per cent more applications had been filed than at
the comparable date a year ago.

As admission becomes even more competitive, increased selectivity
is a natural and desirable consequence. Our admissions committee con-
tinues to make every effort to be fair to all who apply and to give
preference to the best qualified applicants as nearly as we can judge
them. Each applicant's credentials are studied individually and in
comparison with those of other applicants. We study high school
records, College Entrance Examination Board results (which have
proven to be one of our best predictors of academic success), estimates
from teachers and counselors, and other personal and confidential
information which we secure for our files. It is our hope always to
admit only those who give promise of succeeding in the program here;
the exceedingly low rate of failures in academic work would seem to
justify our careful admissions procedure.

With the rise in admissions standards comes a rise in classroom
achievement another national trend that is reflected at Agnes Scott.
To meet the challenge of the increasing number of superior students,
special curricular provisions in several fields, including English, his-
tory, and mathematics, are being made ; and greater attention to
proper placement is given through the use of the College Entrance
Examination Board achievement tests (which we now require of
every applicant).

Closely related to the admissions picture is the matter of scholar-
ship awards for able students. In line with what has come to be a
basic principle in current national scholarship programs, Agnes Scott
is selecting scholarship recipients on the basis of ability, achievement,
and promise, and determining the amount of aid on the basis of need.
We are joining for 1957-58 the College Scholarship Service, which
is a cooperative effort among institutions to curtail scholarship com-
petition and to foster the policy of the distribution of funds on the
basis of actual need.

It is increasingly evident that the task to which we are committed
is no easy one that of maintaining a small institution which stresses
quality in education and the integration of excellence in scholarship
with the Christian faith. More than ever, we are convinced that these
emphases constitute our particular mission in undergraduate education.

Development Program

The long-range Development Program, adopted by the Board of
Trustees in June, 1953, and expanded at the 1957 annual meeting

of the Board, has for its total goal the sum of $10,475,000. Included
in this total objective is $8,050,000 to be added to the permanent
endowment funds of the college, and $2,425,000 for buildings,
grounds, and equipment. This Development Program will culminate
in the seventy-fifth anniversary observance of the college in 1964.
Tentative plans are being made for an intensive financial campaign
in 1959-1960; three-fifths of the goal has already been attained.

The completion of our seventy-fifth Anniversary Objective will
mean that the college's endowment will be increased to $10,000,000,
and that several much-needed buildings (in addition to Hopkins and
Walters dormitories, erected since the Development Program was
begun) will be made possible. The new buildings will be: (1) an
additional dormitory, with capacity of eighty to one hundred students ;
(2) a modern student activities building that would be the center of
student life on the campus; and (3) a fine arts building with ade-
quate provision for art classrooms, studios, and galleries and with
classrooms, studios, and possibly a small theatre for Speech and Dra-
matic Art.

Within the past year, the Charles Loridans Foundation of Atlanta
has established the Adeline Arnold Loridans Chair of French at
Agnes Scott. The Chair is a memorial to Mrs. Charles Loridans,
a graduate of this college and for many years a teacher in the public
schools of Atlanta.

The total of the Endowment and Accomplishment Grants received
from the Ford Foundation is $363,500. The sum of $330,000 (the
entire Endowment Grant of $224,500 and $105,500 from the Ac-
complishment Grant) has been added to our endowment assets as
the "Ford Fund," the income to be used for faculty salaries. The
balance of the Accomplishment Grant ($33,500) is being used for
faculty housing.

Other foundation and corporate business grants and gifts came to
Agnes Scott during 1956-1957 from Research Corporation; The
Fund for the Advancement of Education ; Arthur D. Little, Inc. ;
United States Steel Foundation ; Plantation Pipe Line Foundation ;
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation ; Twentieth Century Fox
Film Corporation ; Time, Inc. ; Addressograph-Multigraph Corpo-
ration ; Babcock and Wilcox Co.; Graybar Electric Company; Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. ; National Dairy Products Cor-
poration ; Esso Education Foundation ; Atlas Finance Company ;
Barge-Thompson, Inc.; Zep Manufacturing Company.

In the will of the late George Winship the sum of $10,000 was
left to Agnes Scott as an addition to the college's permanent funds.

A recently inaugurated bequest program has as its purpose the pro-
motion of wills which will benefit the college in years to come. A
folder of pertinent information about the college has been placed in
the hands of lawyers and trust officers who have some tie with or
who have expressed interest in Agnes Scott. The contents of the
folder are kept up-to-date ; and the lawyers and trust officers are

requested to use the material when in their judgment it seems appro-
priate as they consult with clients interested in making philanthropic
bequests. We believe that this procedure not only will add to our
financial assets, but also will strengthen our tie with a group of at-
torneys and trust officers as they cooperate in a program of advance-
ment for Agnes Scott.

The nine four-year, accredited, independent liberal arts colleges
in Georgia have organized this year to form the Georgia Foundation
for Independent Colleges; their purpose is the solicitation of monetary
gifts to be shared by member institutions on a fixed formula basis
(sixty per cent on an even basis, and forty per cent prorated on the
basis of enrollments at the individual institutions). The first solici-
tation by the nine presidents will be in the fall of this year. Appeals
will be aimed at business and industry, rather than at individuals;
and member institutions will be allowed complete freedom to con-
tinue their own separate fund-raising activities.

The Georgia Foundation is the fortieth such state organization in
this country. The type of fund-raising which it represents has proven
successful ; many industries now contribute solely to state groups
rather than to individual institutions. Headquarters for the Georgia
Foundation are in Macon; Executive Director is Mr. Luther Smith.

In recognition of the fact that the parents of students are a major
source of support to any college, Agnes Scott is undertaking to have
each year a special week-end when the parents of sophomores will be
invited to visit the campus. Other institutions have made very
effective use of week-ends of this kind ; it is our hope that our first
program, which is planned for next winter, will strengthen the ties
already existing between these patrons and the college and that a
better understanding of our ideals, aims, and activities will result.

Finances

The audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1957, shows a
net operating profit of $23,432.59. The following is a summary of
receipts and expenditures in the 1956-1957 current operations:

Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds . . . $177,634.05

(Exclusive of Walters Fund and Walters

Trust Fund. The income from these two

Funds was used in financing the construc-
tion of the new dormitory, Frances Winship

Walters Hall.)
Receipts from student charges 728,697.00

(Room, board, tuition, and fees)

Gifts and grants 48,511.51

Miscellaneous 24,201.07

(Rents received, book store, etc.)

Total $979,043.63

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Expenditures

Plant and facilities expense $387,615.03

General administrative expense 560,069.82

(Including salaries to faculty and

administrative staff)

Total $947,684.85

Our fixed assets, as shown by the audit for 1956-57, are as
follows:

Buildings $3,846,588.75

Furnishings and equipment 960,128.31

Land 250,691.10

Total $5,057,408.16

Our permanent fund assets, as shown by the audit for 1956-1957,
are as follows:

Permanent Endowment Fund $2,105,852.78

Frances Winship Walters (B) Fund . . . 2,497,380.36

J. Bulow Campbell English Fund .... 575,629.70

Special Memorial Fund 388,009.29

Samuel M. Inman Endowment Fund . . 183,649.56

Mary F. Sweet Memorial Fund .... 189,569.17

The Ford Fund 170,937.50

(The second installment of the
Ford grant is not included)

Waterman Fund 133,258.16

J. Bulow Campbell Stamp Collection . . . 22,397.00

Loan Fund 8,455.49

Walters Trust (A) Fund 1,739,870.46

Total $8,015,009.47

During the past year, additions to the Development Fund amounted
to $273,051.13, including income from the Walters Fund and the
Walters Trust Fund of $162,741.13. Expenditures from the Devel-
opment Fund totalled $288,429.75, leaving a balance in the Devel-
opment Fund as of June 30, 1957, of $745.68. The funds from this
account were used almost exclusively in financing the completion of
the Frances Winship Walters Hall.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Our new dormitory, the Frances Winship Walters Hall, was com-
pleted in the early fall and has been in use throughout the current
college session. Dedication exercises were held at a convocation on
September 26th, with President-Emeritus J. R. McCain delivering
the address.

Walters Hall accommodates 146 students and several senior resi-
dents. The building has three floors devoted to dormitory rooms and

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a ground floor used as a recreational hall. The total cost of Walters
Hall was approximately $700,000. The Board of Trustees authorized
the officers of the college to borrow the sum of $300,000 from the
Trust Company of Georgia for the purpose of supplementing the
funds that were in hand at the time of Mrs. Walters' death. To date,
a total of $150,000 of the amount borrowed has been paid back. We
are ahead of schedule in the program that we set for ourselves in
the effort to liquidate the loan from the income received from the
Walters Trust Fund and the Walters Fund (Parts A and B of the
Walters Will).

Two pieces of property have been acquired by the college for
faculty and staff housing purposes during the past year the property
at 127 South McDonough Street and at 312 South McDonough
Street. The total investment in this property amounts to $21,255.26.

Under the direction of our capable business manager, Mr. P. J.
Rogers, Jr., an ambitious program of plant and campus improvement
has been carried on within the past twelve months. Extensive altera-
tions in Rebekah Scott Hall and in Main have been made in pursu-
ance of our program of improvement in the old dormitories. Boyd
cottage on South Candler Street and West Lawn on South McDon-
ough Street were razed ; Lupton was converted into a faculty club ;
and Gaines was renovated for use by our department of education.
Ansley, Sturgis, and Hardeman were redecorated for the purpose of
housing students. Additional furnishings were provided for the dorm-
itory units and for the parlors of several buildings.

Plant improvements to be made this summer include the continu-
ation of alterations already begun in Rebekah Scott and the beginning
of an extensive program of renovation in Inman Hall; the removal
of the house at 206 South McDonough Street; and the sectioning
into faculty offices of a large area on the ground floor of the library.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Among the speakers, lecturers, and distinguished visitors who have
been guests on the campus during the 1956-57 session are the follow-
ing: Lamar Dodd, regents' professor of art at the University of
Georgia; Katherine Ann Porter, short story writer; Hanson Baldwin
and Harrison Salisbury, of the New York Times staff; Immanuel
Ben-Dor, deputy director of antiquities of the government of Israel,
and currently a lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School; W. Talia-
ferro Thompson, of Richmond, Virginia, moderator of the Presby-
terian Church, U. S. ; Charles B. Templeton, world famous evange-
list; Halford E. Luccock, professor-emeritus of homiletics, Yale
University Divinity School; Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution; Maria de Leon Ortega, Spanish teacher in Corpus
Christi University; Emmett Bennett, fellow in the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study, Princeton University; John S. Whale, noted English
theologian; Robert Frost, Agnes Scott's favorite poet; Paul Tillich,

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philosopher-theologian of Harvard University; Carlos Baker, chair-
man of the English department, Princeton University; Flannery
O'Connor, young Georgia author; George P. Murdock, professor of
social anthropology, Yale University; Frank M. Cross, Jr., of the
faculty of McCormick Seminary, and authority on the Dead Sea
scrolls; Paul Clyde, professor of history, Duke University; Frederic
Melcher, editor of Publishers' Weekly.

The speaker at the Honors Day Convocation in October was Dean
Martha Stackhouse Grafton, of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton,
Virginia. Dean Grafton is an Agnes Scott alumna who has made a
distinguished contribution to the Christian education of women in
the South. Her Honors Day address was on "Being above the
Average."

Dr. Warner L. Hall, pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church,
Charlotte, North Carolina, was our Religious Emphasis Week speaker
in February. Dr. Hall's ministry was stimulating and helpful to the
entire college community.

The Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 2, was preached by
Dr. James A. Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary, Rich-
mond, Virginia. President Lynn White, Jr., of Mills College, Oak-
land, California, delivered the Commencement address on Monday
morning, June 3.

One of the important features of the religious program of the early
fall was the fifth annual "Meet-the-Ministers" tea, sponsored by the
Inter-Faith Council in September. Approximately 400 Agnes Scott
faculty members and students met with ministers and other repre-
sentatives of the various local churches in Greater Atlanta.

The annual Christmas concert, presented by the Glee Club under
the direction of Miss Roxie Hagopian, included music of varying
moods, both traditional and modern. The campus carol "sing," fol-
lowing the Glee Club's Christmas musical service, has become an
important annual event ; it was particularly festive and vital on last
December 8th.

A significant music event of the spring was the Agnes Scott-
Princeton University Glee Club concert. The featured work, sung
jointly by the two musical groups, was Mozart's "Davidde Peni-
tente K. 469."

An occasion of unusual interest this year was the debate between
Agnes Scott and the Combined British Universities team, held on the
campus in March. In January, Pi Alpha Phi debating society spon-
sored the tenth annual All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tourna-
ment on campus; thirteen institutions were represented.

An annual award in debating, to be known as "The George P.
Hayes Debating Trophy," has been established by two Agnes Scott
alumnae of the class of 1947, who were former debaters: Mrs. Pres-
ton Mcintosh (Louisa Aichel), of Atlanta, and Mrs. Larry E.
Pedrick (Dale Bennett), of Louisville, Kentucky. The trophy, an
engraved silver tray, was awarded for the first time at a convocation

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in May. The recipient was Miss Margaret Benton of Monticello,
Georgia.

Agnes Scott students won three major awards in the Christmas
tree decoration competition at Grady Memorial Hospital last Decem-
ber. Forty trees were decorated by Atlanta college students.

As a parting gift to the college, the class of 1956 purchased a
terra-cotta sculptural piece, "Girl and Cat," by the well-known con-
temporary American sculptor, William Zorach. The farewell gifts
to the college from the class of 1957 were a Stromberg Carlson
Hi-fi set and records for the dining hall, a fund to be used for voca-
tional guidance, and a book fund for the purchase of library books
in history and philosophy.

Agnes Scott was the scene of another movie during the past year
when the Protestant Radio and Television Center produced a tele-
vision show about President-Emeritus James Ross McCain. The
fourteen and a half minute film is entitled, "Dr. McCain, Christian
Witness," and features an interview with a young girl who is choos-
ing her college.

A mock political campaign and election, sponsored by Mortar
Board, was an event of the fall. Speakers featured at the political
rally were Mr. James Mackay, democrat, and Mr. Randolph
Thrower, republican candidate for Congress.

Blackfriars' fall production consisted of scenes from six famous
plays: "Pygmalion," "The Glass Menagerie," "The Taming of the
Shrew," "Blythe Spirit," "Cyrano de Bergerac," and "Our Town."
The spring play was Enid Bagnold's "The Chalk Garden."

The Associated Collegiate Press has announced that The Agnes
Scott News, the college's weekly newspaper, has received a first class
rating for 1956-57.

The Agnes Scott Dance Group's presentation of "Les Saisons" in
February, and the May Day pageant, "The Marriage of a Mouse,"
were memorable events of the past college year.

Fulbright grants were awarded to Mary Ashford Oates for his-
torical study next year at the University of Lyons, France, and to
Dorothy Rearick for post-graduate work in analytical chemistry at
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Mary Beaty
received both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and an award from
the Southern Fellowships Fund. A number of additional fellowships
and grants were extended to members of the senior class for graduate
study.

For the first time, the annual alumnae luncheon, class reunions, and
homecoming program were held in April instead of during Com-
mencement. This change in the scheduling of alumnae activities at
the college was made following a careful study of the situation by
the executive board of the National Alumnae Association, with the
approval of the faculty and administration of the college. One of the
most enjoyable aspects of the occasion was the alumnae-faculty coffee
in Walters' Recreational Hall.

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A reception honoring Mr. Hal L. Smith, the new chairman of the
Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Smith was an important event of the
late spring. A guest list of more than four thousand included a num-
ber of friends of the Smiths and of the college from the Greater
Atlanta area, as well as the college community.

FACULTY AND STAFF
Personnel

With the close of the 1956-57 session, Dean S. Guerry Stukes,
for forty-four years a valuable and beloved member of the Agnes
Scott official family, retired from his active duties at the college. Dr.
Stukes has served as registrar, dean of the faculty, and chairman
of the psychology department. He has rendered a service of incalcul-
able value to the cause of southern education, to the Christian Church,
and particularly to Agnes Scott students of the past and present.
Dean Stukes terminates his duties with the profound respect, love,
and admiration of all who have known him and whose privilege it
has been to be associated with him in the work of the college.

Additions to our faculty for the 1956-57 session have been:
Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history and political
science ; Charles B. Vail, associate professor of chemistry ; Kwai Sing
Chang, visiting assistant professor of philosophy and Bible; Charles
L. Cope, visiting assistant professor of mathematics; Margaret W.
Pepperdene, assistant professor of English; Kate McKemie, assistant
professor of physical education ; Judith B. Kase, instructor in speech
and dramatic art; Margaret L. Whatley, instructor in art; and Marie
Woods, instructor in English.

New members of the administrative staff this past session include:
lone Murphy, assistant dean of students; Patsy Kilpatrick Keyser,
resident nurse in charge of the infirmary; Katherine M. Swint, catalog
librarian ; Anne Smith Johnson, assistant dietitian ; Rubye Lanier,
assistant to the dietitian ; Nancy Burkitt and Louise Rainey, assistants
to the dean of students; Alvia Cook, manager of the bookstore;
Angeline Evans, secretary in the office of the registrar and director
of admissions ; Dorothy Weakley, secretary in the alumnae office.

The following faculty promotions become effective with the 1957-
58 session : C. Benton Kline, Jr., chairman of the philosophy depart-
ment and dean of the faculty; Ellen Douglass Leyburn, professor of
English; Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible; Mary Virginia
Allen, associate professor of French ; Marie Huper, associate profes-
sor of art ; Eloise Herbert, assistant professor of Spanish ; Laura
Steele, registrar and director of admissions.

On leave during part or all of the past session have been Frances
Clark, Margaret W. Pepperdene, and Janef Preston. Paul Leslie
Garber will be on leave during the fall quarter of the 1957-58 session ;
Frances Clark will continue her study for the Ph.D. degree at Yale
University; and Chloe Steel will spend the next college session in

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Paris, France, where she will be completing her doctoral disserta-
tion.

Appointments for the 1957-58 session include: George E. Rice, Jr.
(A.B. Dartmouth, M.S., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University), pro-
fessor and chairman of the psychology department; S. A. Cartledge
(A.B., M.A. University of Georgia, B.D. Columbia Theological
Seminary, Ph.D. University of Chicago), visiting professor of Bible;
Rosamond McMillan (A.B. Mundelein, M.S., Ph.D. Northwest-
ern), visiting associate professor of biology; Myrna Goode Young
(A.B. Eureka, M.S., Ph.D. University of Illinois), assistant professor
of classical languages and literatures; Robert F. Westervelt (A.B.
Williams, M.F.A. Claremont Graduate School), assistant professor
of art; Julia Gary (A.B. Randolph-Macon, M.A. Mount Holyoke),
assistant professor of chemistry; Timothy Miller (A.B. Harvard,
B.Mus., M.Mus. Yale, Ph.D. Indiana University), assistant pro-
fessor of music; Marlene T. Carruth (A.B. Mercer, M.A. Uni-
versity of Mississippi), instructor in speech and dramatic art; Thelma
Richmond (B.A. Agnes Scott, M.A. Stanford University), visiting
instructor in French; Judith Berson (B.A. Oberlin), instructor in
physical education; Martha Colquitt (B.S. in Nursing, Emory Uni-
versity), resident nurse in charge of the infirmary; Louise Harley
(B.A. Agnes Scott, 1956), assistant to the registrar; Nancy Brock
(B.A. Agnes Scott, June 1957), assistant to the dean of students;
Nonette Brown (B.A. Agnes Scott, 1956), assistant to the librarian;
Frazer Steele Waters (B.A. Agnes Scott, June 1957), manager of
the bookstore ; and Anne Stapleton, secretary to the dean of the fac-
ulty and the director of development.

Faculty Activities

Friday, March 29th, was a memorable day in the past college year.
This was "Stukes Day" at Agnes Scott an occasion that afforded
the entire college community an opportunity to pay tribute to Dean
Samuel Guerry Stukes, who retired on June 30th after forty-four
years of service. The plans for the day had been a closely-guarded
secret for many months. At a Convocation at noon, alumnae, trustees,
and friends joined students, faculty, and administration in honoring
Dean Stukes. In a "This Is Your Life" skit, the events of an inter-
esting and fruitful career were reviewed. A number of Dr. Stukes'
relatives and close friends put in their appearance at the appointed
time as Penny Smith, president of the student body, narrated the
skit. Then followed a buffet luncheon for the large group, with Dean
Stukes and his family as guests of honor. The festivities of the day
were climaxed with the presentation of a new Oldsmobile to the
beloved dean as an expression of appreciation and affection.

Mr. John Louis Adams, assistant professor of music, has con-
tinued his active service as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Or-
chestra and the Atlanta Symphony String Quartet. Mr. Adams

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teaches a Sunday School class and is a member of the building cam-
paign committee in the Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, associate professor of French, is an
active member of the Decatur Business and Professional Woman's
Club and sings in the choir in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of
Decatur.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, read a paper on
"Natural Law and the Teaching of Paul" at the annual meeting of
the southern section, National Association of Biblical Instructors,
in Berea, Kentucky. Dr. Boney was re-elected secretary of this organ-
ization. She serves as Bible teacher of the Business Women's Circle
in the Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Miss Glendora Boyce, instructor in physical education, is chairman
of the Southern Division of the American Association for Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation. Miss Boyce teaches a Sunday
School class in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, is engaged in a
program of research, supported by an Atomic Energy Commission
grant, on the effects of radiation on wet and dry protozoan cysts in
air, oxygen, and nitrogen. Dr. Bridgman was recently elected to
alumnae membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, college librarian, is currently president
of the Library Section of the Presbyterian Educational Association
of the South.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and astronomy, and
director of the Bradley Observatory, directed the National Science
Foundation's Institute on Astronomy at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, last
summer. He has read papers during the past year before the South-
eastern Section of the American Physical Society and the Georgia
Academy of Science. Dr. Calder's special research interest in recent
months has been on measurement of the reflectivity of the moon.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, assistant professor of philosophy and Bible,
has spoken to a number of religious and civic groups during the year.

Dr. Annie May Christie, associate professor of English, is a mem-
ber of the Career Advancement Committee of the Decatur Business
and Professional Woman's Club, and is active as a member of the
Board of Stewards of the Decatur First Methodist Church.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish, is American
secretary of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. She is active in
church and civic affairs, and is continuing her research in Spanish
and Portuguese contemporary literature.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Crigler, associate professor of chemistry, was a
Visiting Scholar at Duke University last summer. She continues to
serve actively in the United Lutheran Church, the American Chemical
Society, and the League of Women Voters.

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Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, is a mem-
ber of the budget committee of the Metropolitan Atlanta Community
Services, and is on the executive board of the Atlanta Pan-American
Club, the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, the United Church
Women of Georgia, and the Woman's Auxiliary to the Medical
Association of Georgia. Dr. Dunstan teaches a large Bible class for
young married women in the Decatur First Baptist Church.

Dr. W. J. Frierson is a member of the council and of the standing
committee on chemical education of the American Chemical Society.
He also serves as councilor of the Georgia section of the American
Chemical Society. Dr. Frierson is an active deacon in the Decatur
Presbyterian Church. He is continuing his research on the application
of organic reagents to paper chromatography.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber spent three months last summer touring the
Middle East. His experiences included: "The Professorial Workshop
in the Land of the Bible" (July 1-August 10) ; a trip through Tur-
key and Greece; a tour of the archaeological sites in Lebanon, Turkey,
and Syria with Professor Dimitri Baramki of the American Uni-
versity in Beirut (August 13-17) ; special study of the Dura Europos
synagogue reconstruction in Damascus (August 19-22) ; and studies
at the American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem (August 22-
31), with emphasis on the Dead Sea scrolls. Dr. Garber is president
of the southern section of the Society of Biblical Literature, and
holds membership on the Broadcasting and Films Commission of the
National Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

Mrs. Lillian Rogers Gilbreath, instructor in piano, has completed
her twentieth year as director of the Decatur Piano Ensemble one
of the most competent musical groups of its kind in the South.

Dr. John R. Ginther, acting director of the Agnes Scott-Emory
program in teacher education, has been working on a research project
dealing with 'Academic Grades and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude
Inventory as Criteria for Selecting Prospective Teachers." Dr. Gin-
ther is quite active in the Grace Lutheran Church of Atlanta, where
he sings in the choir and teaches a young adult Bible class.

Dr. M. Kathryn Glick, professor of classical languages and litera-
tures, is vice-president for Georgia of the Classical Association of the
Middle West and South.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, instructor in biology, presently is engaged
in special studies on species of Podocarpus in Asia and land areas
in the South Pacific. Mrs. Gray served in March as a member of the
judging committee for the Third Annual Atlanta Science Congress
(in junior and senior high schools) for the Biological Sciences.

Miss Nancy Groseclose, assistant professor of biology, continues
to do research in experimental embryology. Miss Groseclose has been
designated loan officer for the Methodist Student Loan Fund.

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Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, directed the
Agnes Scott Glee Club in a number of off-campus engagements this
past year, including the Atlanta Music Club Salon Series, the Burns
Club of Atlanta, and the Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish, is vice-presi-
dent of the Classical and Modern Language Association, Georgia
Education Association.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, instructor in piano, conducted weekly
broadcasts of "Piano Portfolio" over radio station WSB from Sep-
tember through December. Mrs. Harris gave a two-piano recital with
Mr. Michael McDowell at Wesleyan College (Macon), in the
Atlanta Music Club Salon Series, and during the Commencement
season.

Dr. Richard L. Henderson, professor of education, acted as con-
sultant to Sarasota County (Florida) public schools in October and
November. He has served in the same capacity to DeKalb County
evaluation committees, to the Greater Atlanta Council on Human
Relations, and to the Englewood (Florida) public schools.

Dr. Miriam M. Howell, assistant professor of education, is engaged
in research dealing with the generalizations of young children. She
is also at work on a National Education Association booklet concerned
with research in speaking and listening.

Dr. Marie Huper, associate professor of art, was granted the Ph.D.
degree last summer by State University of Iowa. She serves as presi-
dent of the Fifth District of the Georgia Art Education Association.
Dr. Huper's present research interest is architectural monuments in
the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., assistant professor of philosophy, is
continuing his research on "Theism and Naturalism." Mr. Kline is
chairman of Atlanta Presbytery's committee on Campus Christian
Life.

Dr. Miriam Koontz, assistant professor of psychology, is teaching
in the summer session at Emory University and is serving as a
counselor in Emory's Career Clinic. Dr. Koontz teaches a Sunday
School class of high school students at the Columbia Presbyterian
Church of Decatur.

Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp, assistant professor of physical edu-
cation, is assisting a number of community groups in programs of
folk and square dancing.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, professor of English, has done edi-
torial reading during the past year for the Huntington Library Quar-
terly and for publications of the Modern Language Association.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, was the
organ recitalist in November for the Georgia Music Teachers Asso-

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ciation meeting in Columbus. Mr. Martin is organist-choir director
for the Peachtree Road Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, and is staff
organist for the Protestant Radio and Television Center.

Mr. Michael McDowell, professor of music, is minister of music
of St. Mark Methodist Church, Atlanta, and serves as chairman of
the talent committee of the Atlanta Music Club.

Dr. W. Edward McNair, assistant professor of English, has repre-
sented the college on a number of occasions this past year at inaugu-
rations, church meetings, and educational conferences. Dr. McNair
teaches the large Men's Bible Class at the Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church of Atlanta.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, professor of economics and sociology, is
making a helpful contribution to her profession and to the com-
munity through such groups as the Southern Sociological Society, the
DeKalb County Community Council, the League of Women Voters,
the DeKalb County Advisory Committee of the Family Service So-
ciety, and the Georgia Conference on Social Welfare.

Students from the class in experimental psychology, taught by Dr.
Katharine T. Omwake, associate professor of psychology, presented
papers before the Georgia Academy of Science. Dr. Omwake is a
member of the council of the Georgia Academy of Science and of the
council of the Georgia Psychological Association.

Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, assistant professor of English, was
awarded a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship (March-September,
1957) for studies of the Christian elements in the Anglo-Saxon poem
Beowulf.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science,
was elected vice-president of the Southern Historical Association last
November.

Johns Hopkins University conferred the Ph.D. degree on Miss
Mary L. Rion, assistant professor of English, in February. Dr. Rion's
dissertation dealt with early (pre- 1830) Kentucky literature. She
has been serving as reader and group supervisor for the English
composition test of the College Entrance Examination Board, Prince-
ton, N. J.

An unusual research problem was undertaken this past year by Dr.
Lorin W. Roberts, associate professor of biology. Dr. Roberts worked
with Dr. Bela Jambor, director of the Institute of Plant Physiology,
L. Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary, on the localization of en-
zyme activity in certain plant tissues. The results of this research
were presented to the Georgia Academy of Science and to the Hun-
garian Biological Society. This cooperative work was described last
March in the Atlanta newspapers and was subsequently broadcast
to Hungary by the "Voice of America."

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, for the twenty-
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fifth year was elected executive officer of the southeastern section
of the Mathematical Association of America. Dr. Robinson serves as
a vice-president of the National Alumni Association of Johns Hopkins
University and as president of the Georgia Society of this Association.
He is a deacon in the Decatur First Baptist Church.

Miss Anne M. Salyerds, instructor in biology, was chairman of
biology exhibits at the Georgia Academy of Science meetings in the
spring.

Mrs. Margaret B. Sewell, instructor in French, is actively affili-
ated with the Alliance Franchise and the American Association of
Teachers of French. Mrs. Sewell is on the executive committee of
the Georgia Council on Human Relations.

Dr. Catherine Strateman Sims, professor of history and political
science, is chairman of the political science group of the University
Center in Georgia, and serves as vice-chairman of the Center's history
group. Dr. Sims is a member of the alumnae council of Barnard
College, the board of directors of the Marian Howard School of
Special Education, and the board of directors of the Metropolitan
Atlanta Community Services.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and
sociology, is continuing her research in southern regional development.
Dr. Smith is active in the Southern Sociological Society, the American
Sociological Society, the DeKalb Community Council, and the Family
Service Society.

Miss Chloe Steel, assistant professor of French, is doing special
research on the influence of Balzac on Proust. She serves as secretary
of the Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
French.

Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history and political
science, is working this summer at Duke University on a study of
decadence in nineteenth-century France. In the summer of 1956, Dr.
Swart worked as a representative of the Dutch government in the
classified sections of captured German World War II documents in
the possession of the Department of the Army in Washington. As a
result of his investigations, original papers and microfilms, all per-
taining to the history of the Netherlands during the Second World
War, were presented by the United States government to the govern-
ment of the Netherlands.

Dr. Pierre Thomas, assistant professor of French, teaches each
summer as a member of the faculty of the French Summer School,
Middlebury College (Vermont).

Dr. M. Virginia Tuggle, college physician, is engaged in research
on a modified glass heart pump mechanism and cardiac catheteriza-
tion methods.

Dr. Charles B. Vail, associate professor of chemistry, has been

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associated with Dr. W. J. Frierson in contract research (for the
Arthur D. Little Company, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts) in paper
chromatography.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, is president of the Asso-
ciation of Georgia Artists. Mr. Warren received awards during the
past year from the Atlanta Water Color Society, the Association of
Georgia Artists, and the Southeastern Artists Exhibition. His paint-
ings were exhibited in the American Water Color Society National
Exhibition and at a one-man exhibition at the Columbus (Georgia)
Museum of Art.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical education,
is a member of the governing board of the Southern Association for
Physical Education of College Women, and of the legislative board
of the National Section for Girls' and Women's Sports. Miss Wil-
burn participates actively in the work of the Glenn Memorial Meth-
odist Church, serving as a member of the religious drama committee
and as chairman of the membership committee of the Christian Forum
Class.

Dr. Roberta Winter, associate professor of speech and dramatic
art, has conducted a speech workshop for nurses in the community.
She is active in speech and drama organizations, particularly the
Southern Speech Association, the Georgia Speech Association, and the
Speech Association of America.

Research and Publications

The following books, pamphlets, and articles, including those now
in process, have been published by Agnes Scott faculty members during
the past year:

Josephine Bridgman:

"Studies on Dried Cysts of Tillina Magna" Journal of Proto-
zoology, 4:17-19.

William A. Calder :

Book reviews in American Journal of Physics and Scientific
Monthly.

Annie May Christie:

"Civil War Humor Bill Arp," Civil War History, (Septem-
ber, 1956).

Melissa A. Cilley:

"Mario Braga, Critic, Short Story Writer, Editor," South At-
lantic Bulletin, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (January, 1957).
"Mario Braga, Contos Serranos, Notes and Vocabulary," (in
process).

Florene J. Dunstan:

Articles on travels in DeKalb New Era.

Paper on Juan Ramon Jimenez, Nobel Prize Winner (in

process).

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Paul L. Garber:

"Workshop in the Land of the Bible," America-Israel Bulletin,
I, 6 (April, 1957).

"Reconsidering the Reconstruction of Solomon's Temple," (sub-
mitted for publication).

John R. Ginther:

"Putting Scholarship to Work Today and in the Future," Edu-
cational Leadership, (February, 1957), Vol. XIV, No. 5, pp.
273-79.

Netta E. Gray:

"Podocarpaceae," (with J. T. Buckholz), in Contributions to the
Flora of Venezuela, by Julian A. Steyermark. Fieldiana: Botany,
Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 759-772, 1957.

Richard L. Henderson:

"Creativity for What?" Educational Leadership, XIV, (Octo-
ber, 1956), 45.

"This We Believe But!" Educational Leadership, XIV, (No-
vember, 1956), 111.

"A Case Reopened," Educational Leadership, XIV, (March,
1957), 370.

Miriam M. Howell:

"Differentiating Variables in Compositions of Seven-Year-Olds,"
The Elementary School Journal, (December, 1956), pp.145-149.
"Attempts to Break Down Grade-to-Grade Barriers within In-
dividual Schools," (to appear in the 1958 Association for Super-
vision and Curriculum Development Yearbook).

Margaret W. Pepperdene:

"Grendel's Geis," Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of
Ireland, Vol. LXXXV, Part II, pp. 188-192.
"Browning's Era Lippo Lippi, 70-75," Explicator, Vol. XV,
No. 5.

Walter B. Posey:

"Bishop Asbury Visits Tennessee, 1788-1815: Extracts from His

Journal," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, XV, (September,

1956), pp. 253-268.

"Adiel Sherwood: Georgia's First Gazetteer," Emory University

Quarterly, XIII, (March, 1957), pp. 17-26.

The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, (scheduled

for early fall printing by University of Kentucky Press).

Lorin W. Roberts:

"Histochemical Evidence of Protein-Bound SH Groups in Plant
Tissues with 4-Iodoacetamido, 1-Naphthol," Science, 124:628,
(October 5, 1956).

"Eliminating Technically Induced Variations of the Tetrazolium
Indicators in Plant Material," Stain Technology, 32:98-99,
(March, 1957).

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"Experiments on the Penetration and Reduction of TTC in
Plant Tissues. I. Accumulation of TTC by Yeast Cells," (with
B. Jambor and M. Devay). Presented Georgia Academy of
Science annual meeting (May, 1957), and Hungarian Biologi-
cal Society.

"Experiments on the Penetration and Reduction of TTC in
Plant Tissues. II. Sulfhydryl Content of Tissues and TTC Re-
duction," (with B. Jambor and M. Devay). Presented Georgia
Academy of Science annual meeting (May, 1957), and Hun-
garian Biological Society.

Henry A. Robinson :

"The March, 1956, Meeting of the Southeastern Section of The
Mathematical Association of America," The American Mathe-
matical Monthly, Vol. 63, No. 7, (August-September, 1956),
pp. 522-530.

Catherine Strateman Sims:

Editing a British Museum manuscript on the medieval English
Exchequer.

Anna Greene Smith:

Book review, Social Forces, (May, 1957).

Charles B. Vail:

Edited The Filter Press (monthly publication of the Georgia
Section, American Chemical Society).

ENROLLMENT

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 602 students
525 boarders and 77 day students representing twenty-five states
and seven foreign countries (Belgium, Germany, Japan, Jordan,
Korea, Malaya, and Venezuela). The geographical distribution is as
follows:

... 68
... 1
... 3
... 56
... 42
... 12

Alabama 32

Arizona 1

Arkansas 5

California 2

Connecticut 2

Florida 58

Georgia 217

Illinois . . .
Indiana .
Kentucky . .
Louisiana . .
Massachusetts
Maryland .
Michigan . .
Mississippi .
New Jersey .
New York .

North Carolina . . .

Ohio

Pennsylvania . ...
South Carolina . . .

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia 53

West Virginia 8

Belgium

Germany

Japan

Jordan

Korea

Malaya

Venezuela

602

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The classification of the student body for the 1956-57 session is as
follows :

Seniors 123

Juniors 134

Sophomores 164

Freshmen 177

Specials 4

Total 602

(Note: Three students classified as seniors did not receive the
degree.)

The denominational distribution of our students for the 1956-57
session is as follows:

Presbyterian 284 Greek Orthodox .... 3

Methodist 129 Salvation Army .... 2

Baptist 89 Jewish 2

Episcopal 58 Christian Science .... 2

Roman Catholic .... 9 Moravian 2

Lutheran 5 Non-denominational . . 2

Church of Christ ... 5 United Church of Japan . 1

Christian 4 No affiliation 2

Congregational .... 3

Total 602

TRUSTEES

Mr. Hal L. Smith, of Atlanta, was elected to succeed the late
George Winship as chairman of the Board of Trustees at a called
meeting of the Board on November 16, 1956. The Nominating Com-
mittee had this to say in presenting Mr. Smith's name: "Needless
to say, the Committee on Nominations has been aware of the re-
sponsibility of presenting to the Board a nominee who will be worthy
of the position as a successor to the great leaders who have served in
the past. We -believe that Mr. Hal L. Smith, of Atlanta, is such a
man. Mr. Smith is a young man who has already distinguished him-
self in church and civic life. We believe he has the qualifications to
make an excellent chairman of our Board. He has already manifested
keen interest in the work of the college, and we predict that his
service will be marked by intelligence, devotion, and good judgment."

The terms of the following trustees expired with the annual meet-
ing of the Board: Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth (Synodical Alabama) ;
Dr. S. G. Stukes (Synodical Georgia) ; Dr. Marshall C. Dendv
(Synodical Florida) ; Mr. J. R. Neal (Corporate) ; Dr. S. Hugh
Bradley (Corporate) ; Mrs. Peter Marshall (Alumnae).

At the annual meeting of the Board, held on May 17, 1957, Mr.
J. R. Neal and Dr. S. Hugh Bradley were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each. Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth,

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Dr. S. G. Stukes, and Dr. Marshall C. Dendy were re-elected as
Synodical Trustees for terms of four years each, subject to ratifica-
tion respectively by the Synods of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Mrs. Peter Marshall was re-elected as an Alumnae Trustee for a
term of two years, subject to ratification by the National Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association. Mr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr., of Atlanta,
was elected as a Corporate Trustee, for a term of four years, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. George Winship.

In concluding this annual report, I would record my sincere ap-
preciation to the trustees of the college for their loyal and cooperative
support, and for their friendly and helpful counsel. I am grateful
that Agnes Scott's present and future are entrusted to men and women
of such caliber.

Respectfully submitted,
President.

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July I, 1958

July 1, J.958
Board of Trustees
Agnes Scott College:

I present herewith, at the conclusion of the sixty-ninth
session of Agnes Scott College, my seventh annual report
as president.

As I complete ten years of service in the faculty and
administration at Agnes Scott, I can state to you that one
fact about the college looms for me above every other
impression. I refer to the genuinely exciting sense of dedi-
cation to great ends that I have found in those who are
concerned for the welfare of Agnes Scott. Those who plan,
administer, teach, and contribute time and means in the
ongoing progress of this institution seem to me to be con-
scious of being involved in a task relevant, on the one hand,
to living issues of our day, and, on the other, to the will
and purpose of Almighty God.

In the Special Studies Project Report on Education,
recently issued by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, those of
us who are engaged in the educational task are reminded:
"It is essential . . . that we enable young people to see them-
selves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in
history and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
It is essential that we enable them to see that they are living
out in their own lives in their own convictions and fears
and tensions one of the gravest crises that has ever
occurred in man's relationship to man. And they must see,
too, that it is a time of great opportunity for man if
he has the wisdom and the courage to profit by it." 1

In the section entitled "Motivation and Values," the
Rockefeller Report includes some up-to-the-moment char-
acterizations of our contemporary life and a ringing
challenge that merit quotation and contemplation by all
who believe that higher education should concern itself
with something more than routine communication of infor-
mation and skills. The statements to which I refer are as
follows :

The kinds of greatness which our society produces over the years
ahead will be the kinds of greatness we inspire, and will have to be
securely rooted in our values.

If we ask what our society inspires in the way of high performance

1 The Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America, Special
Studies Project Report V, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. (New York, 1958),
p. 46 (Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc.)

we are led to the conclusion that we may have, to a startling degree,
lost the gift for demanding high performance of ourselves. It is a point
worth exploring.

There is no good reason to believe that the American people are any
less capable of devotion or courage or response to challenge than they
ever were. Everyone knows a parent, a teacher, a doctor, a friend who
has acted with spirit and dedication in the service of our society's
highest values. But there is some reason to believe that American life
today is not such as to call forth these qualities on a wide scale and in
their highest form. There is reason to believe that we have lost some of
our talent for evoking these qualities.

The characteristic picture of the citizen-as-consumer has taken a firm
grip on the national imagination; and the consumer is, almost by
definition, a creature devoted to self-gratification. He must be constantly
and ingeniously served milder cigarettes, softer mattresses, and easier
driving cars. If his dollars are to continue flowing, he must be endlessly
catered to, soothed, anointed, protected, healed, cajoled, and generally
babied. Add to this the fact that we get on with our national life through
the mediation of representatives, agents, or delegates of various sorts;
and that whether these are congressmen serving their constituents, cor-
poration executives representing their stockholders, labor leaders serving
union members, or lobbyists representing their various employers, they
are all committed to protecting and nourishing the interests of those
by whose sufferance they hold their posts. It is their professional role
to be selfish for their constituents, to defend them from incursions on
their comfort and convenience.

We would certainly not wish to have businessmen who cared nothing
for the wishes of the consumer, nor representatives who cared nothing
for the interest of their constituents. The only point to be made is that
the images of citizen-as-consumer and citizen-as-constituent may have
led us to think of the man in the street as guided only by his self-gratify-
ing impulses. We may have fallen into the habit of thinking that the
citizen's resources of devotion are slight indeed, and that to seek to tap
these resources would be, if not indecent, then politically dangerous,
or at the very least futile. The result may be a national habit shared
by political leaders, teachers, social and cultural leaders of under-
rating the capacity of the American people for devotion to anything but
the more and more luxurious furnishing of their private worlds.

This cult of easiness is a wholly inadequate guide to understanding
the springs of human action. What most people, young or old, want is
not merely security or comfort or luxury although they are glad
enough to have these. They want meaning in their lives. If their era
and their culture and their leaders do not or cannot offer them great
meanings, great objectives, great convictions, then they will settle for
shallow and trivial meanings. "Our chief want in life," said Emerson,
"is someone who will make us do what we can." People who live aim-
lessly, who allow the search for meaning in their lives to be satisfied by
shoddy and meretricious experiences have simply not been stirred by any
alternative meanings religious meanings, ethical values, ideals of
social and civic responsibility, high standards of self-realization. 1

On the wall in my office hangs a framed photostatic

1 Ibid., pp. 47-48.

copy of a letter written on May 20, 1890, by Colonel George
W. Scott, the founder of the college. The letter tells in
simple fashion of the gratitude to God that led a Christian
gentleman to meet, with a generous gift, the need for a
school for girls. Wrote Colonel Scott of this school: "It is
my desire to make it as great an institution of this kind as
there is in the land." And, having made every effort to
provide a building and to set the school in operation on a
self-sustaining basis, he adds that he will "trust the future
for better things." Colonel Scott's succession through sixty-
nine years has undertaken to keep alive both his intention
and his faith, giving flesh and blood reality to the initial
commitment.

In the conclusion of the Rockefeller Report, Thornton
Wilder is quoted as saying that "every good and excellent
thing . . . stands moment by moment on the razor-edge
of danger and must be fought for." 1 Agnes Scott is in no
doubt of the truth of this! It is reflected in the college's
persistent commitment to truth, to integrity in the educa-
tional process, to excellence as the goal that we set for
ourselves as an academic community, and to the integration
of intellectual achievement and vital Christian faith.

As the day-to-day problems of the college are faced,
we are encouraged by the understanding that Agnes Scott
has been set apart from the beginning to purposes that are
worthy of our utmost loyalty and devotion.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

Admissions and Scholarships

As admissions and scholarship problems have become
more complex with the increasing number of students ready
for college, several new policies have been put into effect in
the admissions office at Agnes Scott.

In order to help alleviate the multiple application prob-
lem and to lessen tension among able high school seniors,
the college is inaugurating an Early Decision Plan which
will result in sending notice of acceptance to a few very
well qualified students before the end of the first semester
of the senior year in high school. These students will be
assured of admission provided they qualify (on the basis
of entrance examinations taken during the junior year and

1 Ibid., p. 49.

other criteria) and provided Agnes Scott is their first choice.
Many secondary schools have requested the colleges to
adopt such a plan of Early Decision, and a number are
doing so.

Another plan of increasing interest to the admissions
office and to the college as a whole is that of Advanced
Placement for qualified freshmen. This plan recognizes,
on the basis of Advanced Placement examinations, compe-
tency in college-level courses that have been well taught
and well learned in high school. Through such recognition,
it is hoped to avoid duplication and boredom in freshman
work. Many of the better high schools are now offering
advanced level instruction for certain students and many
colleges are honoring such preparation through advanced
placement and/or advanced standing. The Advanced Place-
ment Program is sponsored by the College Entrance Exam-
ination Board.

This year, we have joined the College Scholarship Ser-
vice, a cooperative undertaking among 171 colleges in this
country to foster the distribution of financial aid on the
basis of actual need. An activity of the College Entrance
Examination Board, the Service is in its fourth year of in-
creasingly successful operation among both colleges and
certain national scholarship programs (including the Na-
tional Merit Scholarship Corporation). Colleges participat-
ing in this Service use a common set of standards for
determining the existence and extent of a scholarship appli-
cant's need. The Service operates on two major premises:
( 1 ) that parents have an obligation to make reasonable
financial sacrifices in order to help their children obtain a
higher education, and (2) that colleges should not provide
more financial aid of any kind than the difference between
the judicious maximum which the family can spare and
the total expense of the student in college.

Development Program

The long-range Development Program of the college,
adopted by the Board of Trustees in June, 1953, and ex-
panded at the 1957 annual board meeting, has for its total
goal the sum of $10,475,000.00. This Development Pro-
gram, with objectives for both endowment and additional
buildings, will culminate in the seventy-fifth anniversary
of Agnes Scott in 1964. In the five-year period from June

30, 1953-June 30, 1958, the fixed assets of the college
have increased in the amount of $1,141,734.41, and the
permanent funds $5,431,546.93 making a total increase
of $6,573,281.34 in the college's permanent assets. The sum
of $3,901,718.66 remains as our objective in order that
we may successfully complete our Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Development Plan.

The Development Committee of the Board of Trustees
is authorized to proceed with plans for an intensive financial
campaign that has been tentatively scheduled for 1960-1961.

Finances
Current Operations

The audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1958,
shows a net operating profit of $39,727.42. The following
is a summary of receipts and expenditures in the 1957-1958
current operations:
Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 192,647.60

(Exclusive of Walters Fund and Walters Trust
Fund. The income from these two Funds was used in
financing the construction of the new dormitory,
Frances Winship Walters Hall.)

Receipts from student charges 855,091.50

(Room, board, tuition, and fees)

Gifts and grants 60,430.45

Miscellaneous 31,044.01

(Rents received, book store, etc.)

Total $1,139,213.56

Expenditures

Plant and facilities expense $ 448,536.63

General administrative expense 650,949.51

(Including salaries to faculty and
administrative staff)

Total $1,099,486.14

Fixed Assets

Our fixed assets, as shown by the audit for 1957-1958,
are as follows :

Buildings $3,925,888.75

Furnishings and equipment 986,871.69

Land 250,691.10

Total $5,163,451.54

Permanent Funds

Our permanent fund assets (book value) , as shown by the
audit for 1957-1958, are as follows:

Permanent Endowment Fund $2,261,940.71

Frances Winship Walters (B) Fund 2,699,654.54

Walters Trust (A) Fund 1,533,139.54

J. Bulow Campbell English Fund 577,441.22

Special Memorial Fund 405,814.16

Samuel M. Inman Endowment Fund 185,840.50

Mary F. Sweet Memorial Fund 187,159.44

Ford Fund 330,987.50

Waterman Fund 132,194.92

J. Bulow Campbell Stamp Collection 22,397.00

Loan Fund 8,611.02

Total $8,345,180.55

Development Fund

During the past year, additions to the Development Fund
amounted to $204,005.49, including income from the
Walters Fund and the Walters Trust Fund in the amount
of $158,331.53. Expenditures from the Development Fund
during 1957-1958 totaled $203,983.43, leaving a balance
in the Fund as of June 30, 1958, of $767.74. The funds
from this account were used largely in financing the comple-
tion of the Frances Winship Walters Hall, and in the pur-
chase of additional property for faculty housing.

As of June 30, 1958, a balance of $25,000.00 is due on a
note at the Trust Company of Georgia; the payment of this
note will complete all obligations in financing the construc-
tion of Walters Hall. The following action with respect to
the future disposition of income from the Walters funds
("A" and "B") was taken by the Board of Trustees at the
annual meeting on May 9, 1958 :

That when the loan from the Trust Company of Georgia, secured
to complete the construction of Walters Hall, has been paid in full, the
income from the Walters Estate be used for the total college program,
in accordance with her (Mrs. Walters') expressed wishes; and that
this income be reported in the annual audit with other income from
permanent funds. It is the intention of the Board, however, to include
in each annual budget the maximum amount for plant development
which may be possible while keeping up first with the requirements of
the educational program.

One of the encouraging developments in the financial
program at Agnes Scott has been the increase in the number
of contributions from individuals, business firms, and foun-
dations. The Alumnae Fund enlisted a larger proportion

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of givers than heretofore. The year-end letter to friends
of the college brought gifts in excess of $10,000 for
scholarships. The first full year of activity of the Georgia
Foundation for Independent Colleges was responsible in
large measure for the contributions from corporate busi-
ness. The presidents of the nine non-tax-supported in-
stitutions constituting the Georgia Foundation for In-
dependent Colleges devoted approximately three weeks
each during 1957-1958, visiting more than 400 leaders
of Georgia industry and corporate business. A number
of the leading business enterprises in this state have
either made contributions toward the support of the
Foundation during this past year, or have indicated their
intention to do so subsequently. We are convinced that,
with hard work and a continuing program of interpretation
from us, a substantial source of financial support can be
developed in corporate business for the independent insti-
tutions of higher learning in Georgia.

Among the much-appreciated gifts and grants to the
college during the past year are the following: a bequest
in the will of Mrs. DeLos L. Hill; the final payment on the
Ford Foundation Endowment and Accomplishment Grants;
two grants from Research Corporation; grants for research
in chemistry and biology from Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, and the Atomic Energy Commission;
a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education
to enrich our curriculum for unusually well-qualified fresh-
men and sophomores; a gift from the Lewis H. Beck Foun-
dation for the purchase of scientific books; a grant from
the Presbyterian (U. S.) Board of Christian Education for
the library; a grant from an anonymous donor for use dur-
ing the next college year in taking much- needed steps to en-
large and enrich the work of our department of History
and Political Science. Scholarships have recently been es-
tablished at Agnes Scott by the Arts Festival of Atlanta,
Inc.; by the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Atlanta; and
by the family and friends of the late Louisa Jane Allen,
of the class of 1956.

Other foundations and corporate businesses that have
contributed to Agnes Scott during the past year are the
following:

Albany, Georgia: The Albany Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Albany Savings
Bank; Southeastern Mortgage Corp.
Americus, Georgia: Marlette Coach Co.

Atlanta, Georgia: W. D. Alexander Co., Inc.; Atlanta Newspapers,
Inc.; Auto-Soler Co.; The Bank of Georgia; Beck and Gregg Hard-
ware Co.; The Colonial Stores Foundation; Continental Can Co., Inc.;
Curtis 1000, Inc.; John B. Daniel, Inc.; Dwoskin, Inc.; Georgia
Power Co.; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; John H. Harland
Company Foundation; Arthur Harris Foundation, Inc.; Charles Loridans
Foundation, Inc.; Lovable Brassiere Co., Inc.; Mead-Atlanta Paper
Co.; Sigmund Montag Foundation; Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.;
Plantation Pipe Line Foundation ; Retail Credit Co. ; Robert & Co., As-
sociates; Kate and Elwyn Tomlinson Foundation, Inc.; Roy D. Warren
Co., Inc.; R. H. White Foundation; Zachry; W. F. Ingram Charity
Fund; Gertrude and William C. Wardlaw Fund, Inc.; H. M. Patter-
son and Son; White Provision Co.; Boiler Equipment Service Co.;
Brown-Wright Hotel Supply Corp.; Sophie Mae Candy Corp.; Barge-
Thompson, Inc.; Atlas Auto Finance Co.

Augusta, Georgia: Cullum's, Inc.; First Federal Savings & Loan
Assn.; The First National Bank & Trust Co.; Georgia-Pacific Plywood
Co.; Marbut Foundation; Murray Biscuit Co.; Slusky Builders' Supplies,
Inc.; Southern Finance Corp.; Standard Bag Co., Inc.

Brunswick, Georgia: The First National Bank of Brunswick.

Columbus, Georgia: Bickerstaff Clay Products Co.; W. C. & Sarah
H. Bradley Foundation; Jordan Mills, Inc.; Kinnett Dairies; Martin
Theatres Benevolent Fund; Muscogee Iron Works; Muscogee Manu-
facturing Co.; Schwob Manufacturing Co.; Southern Foods, Inc.

Dalton, Georgia: American Thread Co.; Cabin Crafts, Inc.; Hard-
wick Bank & Trust Co.; Patcraft Mills, Inc.

Decatur, Georgia: Decatur Lumber and Supply Co.

Gainesville, Georgia: J. D. Jewell, Inc.

Glennville, Georgia: The Glennville Bank.

Grantville, Georgia: W. N. Banks Foundation.

Griffin, Georgia: Griffin Garment Co.; Griffin-Jaco Mills, Inc.;
Pomona Products Co.

LaGrange, Georgia: J. C. Penney Co., Inc.

Macon, Georgia: Barnes and Barnes, Inc.; Burns Brick Co.; First
National Bank & Trust Co.; Georgia Kraft Co.; Georgia Timberlands,
Inc.; Inland Container Corp.; Macon Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; The
Procter & Gamble Fund.

Milledgeville, Georgia: Exchange Bank of Milledgeville ; Oconee Clay
Products Co.

Newnan, Georgia: Habersham Mills.

Rome, Georgia: Fox Heyman Foundation; Rome Kraft Co.; South-
eastern Mills, Inc.

Sander sville, Georgia: Thiele Kaolin Co.

Savannah, Georgia: John & Emma Derst Foundation; Colonial Oil
Industries; Espy Paving & Construction Co.; Union Bag-Camp Paper
Corp.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Foundation.

Shannon, Georgia: Burlington Industries Foundation.

Statesboro, Georgia: Statesboro-Rockwell Corp.

Summerville, Georgia: Farmers & Merchants Bank.

Waycross, Georgia: Monroe Welfare Foundation.

W est Point, Georgia: Neighbors Fund, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois: International Harvester Foundation.

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Bluff ton, Indiana: Franklin Electric Co.

Springfield, Massachusetts : Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Detroit, Michigan: Parke, Davis and Co.

New York: Amoco Foundation; The Babcock & Wilcox Co.; A. S.
Beck Shoe Corp.; The Best Foods, Inc.; E. W. Bliss Co.; The General
Foods Fund, Inc.; Graybar Electric Co.; National Dairy Products
Corp.; Philip Morris, Inc.; Sterling Drug Co.; United States Steel
Foundation.

Cleveland, Ohio: Addressograph-Multigraph Corp.; Bailey Meter Co.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in May,
unanimous approval was given to the following recommen-
dations as to the location of buildings that we hope to con-
struct in the course of our present Development Program :

1. That, in view of the necessity of locating the pro-
posed Student Activities Building in the dormitory and
dining hall area, the present gymnasium be converted to such
purposes, when funds become available.

2. That the proposed Fine Arts Building (for art, and
for speech and dramatic art) be located in the area next to
the John Bulow Campbell Science Hall, fronting on South
McDonough Street and approximately in line with the
front entrance of Presser Hall.

3. That a new gymnasium be constructed in the area
to the south of the proposed Fine Arts Building, with a
front entrance on South McDonough Street (and approxi-
mately in line with the entrance of Campbell Hall), and
with an eastern entrance to the athletic field and the tennis
courts.

4. That the proposed dormitory be located in the area
where Cunningham and Tart Cottages now stand, the
building to extend north and south, it being understood
that the building will be placed as far as possible from
South Candler Street, with entrances upon Buttrick Drive
and Winship Garden.

Under the direction of Mr. P. J. Rogers, Jr., our Busi-
ness Manager, an extensive program of plant and campus
improvement has been carried on during the past year. This
program has included the following: continuation of altera-
tions previously begun in Rebekah Scott; installation of
small utility and refrigerator-stove units on the second and
third floors of Rebekah and Main dormitories; the begin-
ning of an extensive program of renovation in Inman; the

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refurnishing of the end parlor in Main; the razing of the
house at 206 South McDonough as a part of our plan for
clearing the entrance to Campbell Hall; the sectioning into
seven faculty offices of the large area on the ground floor
of the Library; the painting in Presser of classrooms, prac-
tice rooms, halls, and Maclean Auditorium; and the con-
struction of an additional ceramics room on the ground
floor of Campbell Hall. Gaines Cottage was converted to
a fifteen-student dormitory unit. East Lawn was prepared
for the use of our department of Education.

Four additional residential units for faculty and staff
were provided during the past year by the purchase of
property at 128 and 349 South Candler Street, and at 119
and 351 South McDonough Street.

Plant improvements in progress this summer include a
major renovation and the installation of an elevator in In-
man Hall; the removal of the house at 204 South Mc-
Donough Street; landscaping of the approach to Campbell
Hall; and a number of repairs to buildings and cottages.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

During the 1957-1958 session, a varied program of
campus activities was offered to the college community.
Among these activities were the following:

September

Georgia Tech-Agnes Scott freshman picnic supper and dance on
our campus.

Sixth annual "Meet-the-Ministers Tea," sponsored by the Inter-faith
Council. Approximately 450 Agnes Scott faculty members and students
met with ministers and other representatives of the various churches
in the Atlanta area.

October

Honors Day address by Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr., on 'Aims of a
Liberal Education."

World-wide Communion vesper service on campus, led by Dr. Kwai
Sing Chang and President Alston.

Annual "Black Cat" community day.

Alexander Schreiner, organist of the Salt Lake City (Utah) Taber-
nacle, brought by the University Center visiting scholar program.

Dr. Jose A. Mora, secretary-general of the Organization of American
States, brought by Lecture Association to speak on inter-American affairs.
Dinner for Dr. Mora, attended by members of the consular corps.

University Center lecture on "The Rights of Man" by Dr. Paul Weiss,
professor of philosophy, Yale University.

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International Festival sponsored by Christian Association to climax a
week of United Nations emphasis.

Dr. Nathan Rotenstreich, Israeli philosopher and author, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, speaking in Convocation on "The Culture of
Israel between the West and Asia."

November

Investiture address, "Wisdom and Knowledge," by Dr. Kwai Sing
Chang, assistant professor of philosophy and Bible. Sermon on Investiture
Sunday by Dr. Hunter B. Blakely, Secretary of the Division of Higher
Education, Presbyterian Church, U. S.

Convocation speaker, President John A. Mackay, Princeton Theological
Seminary.

"Achilles and the Structure of the Iliad" University Center lecture
given by Dr. Cedric H. Whitman, associate professor of Latin and
Greek, Harvard University.

University Center lecture, "Educational Problems in England Today,"
by Dr. Denis W. Brogan, professor of political science, Cambridge
University, England.

University Center lecture on Hamlet by Dr. Clifford P. Lyons,
Shakespearean scholar and professor of English, University of North
Carolina.

"The Monarchy in Politics," Convocation address by Dr. William N.
Medlicott, specialist in European history, University of London (a
University Center lecturer).

Blackfriars' presentation of The World We hive In, an expression-
istic play by Josef and Karel Capek of Czechoslovakia.

Miss Fanny Crenshaw, well-known hockey coach, on campus for
special hockey clinic.

Fall Frolics, campus-wide dance.

December

"We Speak for Christmas," a chapel program of choral reading
(carols, poems, and Christmas stories) presented by the department of
speech and dramatic art.

Annual Christmas Carol service presented by the Glee Club, featuring
Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," followed by a community
Christmas party in Walters recreation room.

January

Lecture Association's presentation of the Marionette Theater of
Braunschweig in "Dr. Faust," a sixteenth century puppet play.

Annual Southeastern Inter-collegiate Debate Tournament, sponsored by
Pi Alpha Phi.

Senora Maria de Leon Ortega on campus as visiting lecturer in
Spanish phonetics and speech.

Robert Frost, distinguished American poet and four-time Pulitzer
Prize winner, on campus for annual visit and lecture.

Junior Jaunt skits, dance, and annual campus-wide charity drive.
February

"The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man," address by Arnold J.
Toynbee, eminent British historian.

Lecture by Enrique Anderson-Imbert, professor of Spanish, the Uni-

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versity of Michigan, at a dinner meeting on campus of the University
Center Language Association.

Religious Emphasis Week led by Dr. Edmund A. Steimle, professor
of practical theology, the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

Master organ class conducted by E. Power Biggs, world-renowned
concert organist.

Professor Alexander Cambitoglou, noted classical archaeologist of
Bryn Mawr College, in a slide lecture on the Francois vase, which dates
from 6th century B.C. Greece.

Art department exhibit of silkscreen prints and pottery by contem-
porary California artists, including Millard Sheets and Rupert Deese.

Exhibition of wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, chairman of the
department of graphic arts and illustration, Pratt Institute.

Sophomore Parents' Weekend, during which parents visited classes,
attended chapel, and joined their daughters in special programs planned
for the occasion.

Modern dancers, Katherine Litz and Ray Harrison, with David
Tudor, pianist, in campus recital sponsored by the dance departments of
Agnes Scott, Shorter, Georgia State College for Women, and the Uni-
versity of Georgia in cooperation with the Georgia Dance Association.

March

Lecture on "Virgil's Golden Age" by Dr. Inez Scott Ryberg, Uni-
versity Center visiting scholar and professor of classics, Vassar College.

Convocation address on "The Nature of Gnosticism" by Dr. Robert
Grant, University of Chicago Divinity School (University Center
lecturer).

Agnes Scott Glee Club in joint concert with the Men's Glee Club
of Ohio State University.

Tea for parents of local students to meet faculty and administration.
April

Dr. Pitirim A. Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist and emeritus
professor at Harvard University, brought by the University Center
to lecture on "The Crisis of Our Age."

Chamber music concert presented by Richard Osiier, Roger Drinkall,
and James Wilson, and sponsored by Concert Artists of Pittsburgh
New Friends of Music.

Fine Arts Festival, held in conjunction with Alumnae Weekend. Three
student organizations Blackfriars, Dance Group, and May Day
Committee combined resources to present Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Musical productions included La Serva Padrona, Pergolesi's comic
opera. An art exhibit and a special Festival issue of Aurora, college
literary magazine, featured contributions from students in southeastern
colleges and universities. A lecture, "The Holy Game: The Creation
of a Poem" by May Sarton, contemporary poet and novelist, and
creative writing and art panels were other features of the Festival.

Establishing on campus of Gamma Eta chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota,
national professional music fraternity for women.

May

Associated Collegiate Press First Class Rating won by the Agnes Scott
News on the basis of content, make-up, and style (1957-58 session).

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Convocation address by President S. Walter Martin of Emory
University.

Dedication of the Rogers Cabin (named in honor of Mr. P. J. Rogers,
business manager) to be used for campus recreational purposes. Athletic
Association and other campus organizations raised funds for the cabin.

Original opera presented by the senior class: // Vomo con la Zapetta
(The Man with a Hoe).

June

Class Day exercises and presentation of Senior class gift of $600, to
be used for the purchase of sculpture or mosaic when the proposed
Fine Arts building is completed.

Baccalaureate sermon, "Two Points in the Adventure," by Dr.
Merrimon Cuninggim, dean of the Perkins School of Theology, Sou-
thern Methodist University.

Commencement address by Dr. John R. Cunningham, president-
emeritus of Davidson College and executive director of the Presbyterian
Foundation.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Personnel

Upon the retirement of Dean S. Guerry Stukes on July 1,
1957, Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., became Dean of the
Faculty, and Miss Laura Steele became Registrar.

Additions to the faculty for the 1957-58 session have
been: Dr. George E. Rice, Jr. (A.B. Dartmouth, M.S.,
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University), professor and chair-
man of the psychology department; Dr. S. A. Cartledge
(A.B., M.A. University of Georgia, B.D. Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary, Ph.D. University of Chicago), visiting
professor of Bible; Dr. Rosamond McMillan (A.B. Mun-
delein, M.S., Ph.D. Northwestern), visiting associate pro-
fessor of biology; Dr. Myrna Goode Young (A.B. Eureka,
M.S., Ph.D. University of Illinois), assistant professor of
classical languages and literatures; Mr. Robert F. Wester-
velt (A.B. Williams, M.F.A. Claremont Graduate School),
assistant professor of art; Miss Julia Gary (A.B. Ran-
dolph-Macon, M. A. Mount Holyoke), assistant professor
of chemistry; Dr. Timothy Miller (A.B. Harvard, B.Mus.,
M.Mus. Yale, D. Mus. Indiana University), assistant
professor of music; Mrs. Marlene T. Carruth (A.B.
Mercer, M.A. University of Mississippi), instructor in
speech and dramatic art; Miss Thelma Richmond (B.A.
Agnes Scott, M.A. Stanford University) , visiting instruc-
tor in French; Mr. John Paul Strain (B.A., B.D. Phillips
University, M.A. Vanderbilt), instructor in education at

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Emory and Agnes Scott; Mrs. Judith Berson (B.A. Ober-
lin), instructor in physical education.

New members of the administrative staff this past session
include: Miss Martha Colquitt (B.S. in Nursing, Emory
University), resident nurse in charge of the infirmary; Miss
Louise Harley (B.A. Agnes Scott), assistant to the regis-
trar; Miss Nancy Brock (B.A. Agnes Scott), assistant to
the dean of students; Miss Mary Carter (B.A. Mary
Baldwin, M.Ln. Emory University), assistant to the librar-
ian; Miss Nonette Brown (B.A. Agnes Scott), assistant
to the librarian; Mrs. Frazer Steele Waters (B.A. Agnes
Scott), manager of the bookstore; Miss Anne Stapleton,
secretary to the dean of the faculty and director of develop-
ment; Mrs. Christine C. Dunlap (B.A. Whitworth), assis-
tant to the dean of students; Miss Jacquelyn Rountree
(B.A. Agnes Scott), secretary, office of the president and
registrar; and Mrs. Marie S. Lewis, secretary to the
treasurer.

On leave during all of the current session have been
Miss Frances Clark, who is completing her study for the
Ph.D. degree at Yale University, and Miss Chloe Steel,
who is completing her doctoral dissertation in Paris, France.
On leave for the fall quarter were Dr. Paul Leslie Garber
and Dr. Richard L. Henderson, and for part of the winter
and spring quarters, Dean Carrie Scandrett. Miss Eloise
Herbert, assistant professor of Spanish, will be on leave
during the 1958-59 session, completing the requirements
for the Ph.D. degree at Duke University. Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, chairman of the physical education department,
will be away during the winter quarter of the next session,
and Dr. George P. Hayes and Dr. Margaret Phythian will
be on leave in the spring quarter.

Faculty appointments for the 1958-1959 session include:
Dr. William G. Cornelius (B.A., M.A. Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, Ph.D. Columbia University) , associate professor
of political science; Dr. Edward Taylor Ladd (B.A. Har-
vard University, M.A., Ph.D. Yale University), associate
professor of education and director of the Agnes Scott-
Emory Teacher Education program ; Dr. Leonard Doer-
pinghaus (B.S. College of the Ozarks, M.A. Smith College,
Ph.D. Louisiana State University), assistant professor of
biology; Dr. Sara Ripy (B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman's
College, M.A., Ph.D. University of Kentucky), assistant
professor of mathematics; Miss Kathryn Manuel (B.S.

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Purdue University, M.A. New York University), assistant
professor of physical education; Mrs. Ruth McDaniel
Banks (B.S. University of Alabama, M.A. University of
Havana), visiting instructor in Spanish.

Administrative appointments for the 1958-1959 session
include: Dr. Rosemonde S. Peltz (B.F.A. Newcomb Col-
lege, M.D. Louisiana State University Medical School) , col-
lege physician; Miss Merilyn Medernach (R.N.), resident
nurse in charge of the infirmary; Mrs. Nancy R. Ivey
(R.N.), associate nurse; Miss Sallie Greenfield (BA.
Agnes Scott College), assistant in admissions; Miss Nancy
Edwards (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant director of
public relations and development; Miss Anne McWhorter
(B.A. Agnes Scott College) , assistant to the librarian; Mrs.
Eileen Graham McWhorter (B.A. Agnes Scott College),
secretary, office of the registrar and president; Miss Cecily
Rudisill (B.A. Agnes Scott College), manager of the book-
store; Miss Harriet Talmadge (B.A. Agnes Scott College),
assistant to the dean of students; Mrs. Dorothy Hull Tur-
ner, assistant to the supervisor of dormitories.

The following faculty promotions become effective with
the 1958-1959 session: Dr. Miriam Koontz Drucker, as-
sociate professor of psychology; Miss Frances Clark, as-
sistant professor of French; Mrs. Mary Walker Fox, in-
structor in chemistry.

Faculty Activities

Mr. John Louis Adams, assistant professor of music, has,
as principal viola with the Atlanta Symphony and string
quartet, played in the regular concert series this year, in the
Modern Music Series at Emory University, for "NBC
Orchestras of the Nations" broadcasts, and in concerts
given for colleges throughout the Southeast.

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, associate professor of French,
serves as chairman of the international relations committee
of the Decatur Business and Professional Women's club,
and is secretary-treasurer of the Georgia chapter of the
American Association of Teachers of French. She is travel-
ing in Europe this summer.

Mrs. Judith Berson, instructor in physical education, has
been elected president of the Georgia Dance Association.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, con-

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tinues as secretary (southern section) of the National As-
sociation of Biblical Literature, and as a Bible teacher of
the Business Women's Circle of Decatur Presbyterian
Church. She is traveling in Europe and in the Near East
this summer.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, spent
last summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, where she is engaged in a research
program. She plans to return there this summer after a trip
to Europe.

Miss Nancy Brock, assistant to the dean of students,
teaches a Sunday School class at Decatur Presbyterian
Church.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, college librarian, is a member
of the building and equipment committee of the Association
of College and Research Libraries and of the committee
to award the Library Binding Institute Scholarship for
1958-59 (a national competition). She serves as chairman
of the library section of the University Center in Georgia
and has been elected to Beta Phi Mu, international library
science scholastic honor society.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and astron-
omy, was visiting professor of physics at Louisiana State
University last summer, and is on the staff there again this
summer. As director of the Bradley Observatory, Dr.
Calder is host to the Atlanta Astronomers Club, which
meets regularly at the Observatory.

Mrs. Charles Carruth, instructor in speech and dramatic
art, teaches a Sunday School class and advises a young
people's group at the First Baptist Church of Atlanta.

Miss Mary Carter, assistant to the librarian, is on the
staff of the Sunday School primary department of the Peach-
tree Road Methodist Church.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, assistant professor of philosophy
and Bible, read a paper on "Confucianism" at the spring
meeting of the Association of Biblical Instructors (southern
section). He has spoken to various civic and religious
groups during the year.

Dr. Annie May Christie, associate professor of English,
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is co-chairman of the international relations committee of
the Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish,
has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Georgia Chapter
of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. She is a member of the faculty of the Univer-
sidade de Coimbra in Portugal this summer.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Crigler, associate professor of chem-
istry, continues to serve as secretary of the Beta of Georgia
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Miriam Koontz Drucker, associate professor of
psychology, participated in programs for Emory law stu-
dents' wives, for a local PTA, and for the annual meeting
of the regional directors of Boys Clubs of America. She
is a member of the policy and planning committee of the
Georgia Psychological Association and of the local arrange-
ments committee of the Southeastern Psychological Associa-
tion.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish,
continues to serve on the state boards of the United Church
Women of Georgia, the Women's Auxiliary to the Medical
Association of Georgia, and the Georgia Federation of
Women's Clubs. She is chairman of the committee on inter-
national affairs of the Atlanta Woman's Club and is a
sponsor for the committee on international economic growth
(a committee headed by Eric Johnston at the request of
President Eisenhower). Dr. Dunstan is a trustee of the
Carver School of Missions and Social Work.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, is an
active member of the American Chemical Society, and pre-
sented a research paper at the southern regional meeting of
this group. He is also a member of the council of the
Georgia Academy of Science. Dr. and Mrs. Frierson are
sponsoring a student group in Europe this summer.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, professor of Bible, is vice-presi-
dent of the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological Institute
of America and adviser to the program committee (sou-
thern section) of the National Association of Biblical In-
structors. Last summer Dr. Garber was enrolled in a
Brandeis University seminar in Biblical Archaeology and
continued to do research in this field at Harvard Divinity

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School from July through December. He is president of
the Beta of Georgia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Miss Julia Gary, assistant professor of chemistry, is
sponsor for the Agnes Scott-Emory chapter of Student Af-
filiates of the American Chemical Society.

Miss Leslie Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics,
serves as faculty adviser to the Canterbury Clubs of the
Diocese of Atlanta and is a member of the Diocesan
Division of College Work of the Episcopal Church.

Mrs. Lillian R. Gilbreath, instructor in music, continues
to serve as director of the Decatur Piano Ensemble. She
spent several weeks last summer at the Aspen Music School
in Colorado.

Dr. Kathryn Glick, professor of classical languages and
literatures, continues to serve as vice-president for Georgia
of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, instructor in biology, is currently
serving as vice-president of the Georgia Academy of Science
and as the biology section representative on the executive
council of the Academy.

Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, is
chairman of the public affairs committee of the Pilot Inter-
national Club and is co-chairman of the summer workshop
of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is
traveling in Europe this summer.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish,
continues to serve as vice-president of the Modern and
Classical Language Group of the Georgia Education Asso-
ciation. She is in Europe this summer.

Mrs. Irene L. Harris, instructor in music, gave a two-
piano recital with Mr. Michael McDowell, professor of
music, at the annual meeting of the Georgia Music Teach-
ers Association in November. She studied piano at the
Aspen, Colorado, Music School last summer.

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor of English, is scout-
master of a troop at Columbia Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Richard L. Henderson, professor of education,
speaks frequently to PTA groups and is consultant for the
Venetian Hills elementary school faculty. He is a member

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of the education committee of the United Liberal Church
of Atlanta.

Dr. Miriam Howell, assistant professor of education, is
an active member of the committee on kindergarten educa-
tion of the Georgia Teacher-Education Council committee
on revision of programs. She serves as consultant for Cobb
County classroom teachers who are revising report cards,
and is a member of the Emory University graduate school
council.

Dr. Marie Huper, associate professor of art, was visiting
lecturer last summer (and again this summer) at the On-
tario Department of Education summer arts and crafts
program, Toronto. She is president of the Fifth District
of the Georgia Art Education Association, and is on the
state executive committee of the group. She is also on the
executive committee of the Atlanta Society of the Arch-
aeological Institute of America. Dr. Huper read a paper
on "Archaeological Monuments of the Hypnerotomachia
PoliphiW at a joint meeting in Washington of the College
Art Association and the Society of Architectural Historians.

Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr., continues to serve as chair-
man of the Campus Christian Life sub-committee of the
Atlanta Presbytery. He is adviser to the Westminster
Fellowship Council of both the Atlanta Presbytery and the
Synod of Georgia.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, professor of English, spoke
before the librarian's section of the Presbyterian Education
Association of the South on "What the College Professor
Expects of the College Library."

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music,
continues as organist and choir director at the Peachtree
Road Presbyterian Church of Atlanta and as staff organist
of the Atlanta Protestant Radio and TV Center. He is a
member of the executive committee of the Atlanta chapter
of the American Guild of Organists. Mr. Martin studied
organ last summer at the School of Sacred Music, Union
Theological Seminary, New York.

Mr. Michael McDowell, professor of music, is president-
elect of the Atlanta Music Teachers Association. He con-
tinues as minister of music and organist at St. Mark
Methodist Church, Atlanta.

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Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of education, is
state chairman of the division for girls' and women's sports
of the American Association for Health, Physical Educa-
tion and Recreation.

Dr. W. Edward McNair, assistant professor of English
and director of development, was chairman of the standing
committee on Christian education of the ninety-eighth Gen-
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., and has
been appointed to membership on the permanent nominating
committee of the Assembly. He is also a member of the
committee on Christian education of the Synod of Georgia.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, professor of economics and socio-
ology, continues to serve with the League of Women
Voters and the DeKalb County Community Council.

Dr. Timothy Miller, assistant professor of music, was
director of the American Friends Service Committee work
project at the Bethlehem center in Atlanta.

Miss lone Murphy, assistant dean of students, is re-
cruiting chairman on the Board of Directors of the YWCA.
She is the southern representative for the National Voca-
tional Guidance Association's Newsletter.

Miss Lillian Newman, assistant librarian, was awarded
the M. Ln. degree from Emory University in December.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, associate professor of psy-
chology, continues to serve on the board of the Georgia
Psychological Association and is a member of the Com-
munity Council of DeKalb County.

Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, assistant professor of
English, has been appointed a member of the general
advisory board of the Foundation for International Cul-
tural Integration.

Dr. Margaret T. Phythian, professor of French, has
been elected president of the University Center Language
Association for 1958-1959.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political
science, is president of the Southern Historical Association
for 1958. During the past year he has presided at sessions
of the Southern Historical, the American Historical, and
the Mississippi Valley Historical associations.

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Miss Janef Preston, assistant professor of English, is
traveling in Europe this summer.

Dr. George E. Rice, professor of psychology, is scout-
master of a troop at the Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Mary Rion, assistant professor of English, is in
Europe this summer.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, con-
tinues to serve actively in the Johns Hopkins Alumni As-
sociation and in the Mathematical Association of America
(southeastern section). He is a director of the DeKalb
County chapter of the American Red Cross and of the
Standard Federal Savings and Loan Association. Dr. and
Mrs. Robinson are visiting their son and daughter in
Europe this summer.

Miss Anne Salyerds, instructor in biology, is scout leader
of a Decatur troop.

Dr. Catherine S. Sims, professor of history and political
science, is a member of the standing committee on inter-
national relations of the American Association of Uni-
versity Women. In May, she represented the Association
at a conference on foreign affairs held in Washington, spon-
sored by the U. S. Department of State. Dr. Sims is vice-
president of the Atlanta Community Chest, and is chair-
man of the budget committee, a member of the scholarship
committee, and a member of the steering board of the
planning division. She is also a member of the Atlanta
Legal Aid Society's advisory committee. She and Mr. Sims
will spend a part of this summer in Europe.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics
and sociology, is a newly-appointed member of the Georgia
committee on recruitment for social work, and serves as a
consultant for the YWCA and the Fulton Juvenile Court.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Southern
Sociological Society.

Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history
and political science, acted as discussion leader last fall of
a World Politics group, organized by the American Foun-
dation for Political Education.

Dr. Margret Trotter, associate professor of English,
is a member of the choir of the Holy Trinity Church in
Decatur.

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Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, has exhibited
paintings this year at the University of Georgia Museum
of Art; in the Southeastern Museum Directors choice ex-
hibit held in the Gibbs Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina;
and in the Southeastern College Faculty Art Exhibition at
the University of Georgia Museum, Athens. He has held
one-man exhibitions at the Masillon Museum, Masillon,
Ohio, and at the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia.
Mr. Warren is a board member of the Atlanta Arts
Festival, Inc.

Mr. Robert F. Westervelt, assistant professor of art,
has had exhibits in the Miami National Ceramics Exhibition
(work selected by the Smithsonian Institute for circulation
throughout the Southeast) and in the National Decorative
Arts Exhibition.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical
education, is a member of the legislative board of the
division for girls' and women's sports of the American
Association for Health, Physical Education and Recrea-
tion. She is also a member of the planning committee for
the fourth annual swimming pool workshop (sponsored
by the Georgia Recreation Society) . Miss Wilburn is
traveling in Europe this summer.

Dr. Roberta Winter, associate professor of speech and
dramatic art, is a member of the choir of the Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church in Decatur.

Research and Publications
19574958

Mary L. Boney:

"What Will You Work For?," Presbyterian Youth, XXXIII

(April-June, 1958), 49-62.
Josephine Bridgman:

"Lethal Irradiation of Tillina magna in its Active and Encysted

States," Biological Bulletin, CXIII (October, 1957), 336.

Research in progress: an investigation of radiation effects on

ciliate cysts (project supported by the Atomic Energy Commission).
William A. Calder:

Research in progress: a study of the reflections of the moon.
Kwai Sing Chang:

Research in progress: article on "Miracles" for Children's Religion

Magazine.

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Melissa A. Cilley:

Research in progress: life and works of Fidelino de Figueiredo.
Florene J. Dunstan:

Research in progress: Jose-Camilo Cela, Spanish writer.
W. Joe Frierson:

"Separation by Paper Chromatography and Spectrophotometric
Determination of Trace Amounts of Cobalt, Nickel, Copper and
Zinc," Analytical Chemistry, XXX (April, 1958), 468. (Project
supported by the Research Corporation and the Pratt Trace
Analysis Fund.)

"Chromatography and Electrochromatography," Trace Analysis,
by John H. Yoe and Henry Kock, ed. John Wiley (New York,
1957), pp. 27-32.
Research in progress:

A new colorimetric reagent for the determination of aluminum
(project supported by the Research Corporation and the Pratt
Trace Analysis Fund).

The application of organic reagents to paper chromatography
(project supported by A. D. Little).
Paul L. Garber:

"Reconsidering the Reconstruction of Solomon's Temple" (presiden-
tial address, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Southern
Section, 1957; accepted for publication by Journal of Biblical
Literature, June, 1958).

"Bible Study through Family Vacation Travel in the U. S. and
Canada" (accepted for publication by Counsel, Presbyterian USA
publication for parents and teachers of junior high school youth,
Summer, 1958).

Research in progress: a reproduction in scale model of the two
synagogues at Capernaum and Dura Europos (with E. G. Howland,
Troy, Ohio).
Julia Gary:

Research in progress:

The application of organic reagents to paper chromatography
(with W. Joe Frierson).

Polarographic reduction of aromatic nitro and carbonyl com-
pounds (doctoral dissertation, Emory University).
Netta E. Gray:

"Evidence for a 400- Year Cycle in Human Ability" (with Stephen
W. Gray), Journal of Cycle Research, VII (April, 1958), 43-48.
"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. XI. The South Pacific
Species of Section Eupodocarpus, Subsection B." (In press, Journal
of the Arnold Arboretum.)
Research in progress:

Ibid., XII. Microcarpus: a monotypic section.
Ibid., XIII. The South Pacific Species of Section Polypodiopsis.
Nancy P. Groseclose:

Research in progress: the field of experimental amphibian embryology
(doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia).
Richard L. Henderson:

"A Council at War," Educational Leadership, XV (October, 1957),
31-37.

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"Conversation," Educational Leadership, XV (March, 1958),
370-375.

Eloise Herbert:

Research in progress: a study of the "saintly" character in the
Novelas Contemporaneas of Benito Perez Galdos (doctoral dis-
sertation, Duke University).

Miriam Howell:

"Promoting Steady Progress Between Grades and Within Grades,"
Chapter 13, A Look at Continuity in the School Program (Wash-
ington, D. C, 1958), pp. 199-214.

Marie Huper:

Research in progress: "Architectural Monuments of the Hypnero-
tomachia Poliphili."

C. Benton Kline:

Research in progress: "Naturalism and Theism: A Study of Samuel
Alexander and George Frederick Stout" (doctoral dissertation, Yale
University).

Ellen Douglass Leyburn:

"The Theme of Loneliness in the Plays of Synge" (accepted for
future publication in Modern Drama).

Rosamond McMillan:

"Morphogenesis and polymorphism of Ankistrodesmus spp.," Journal
of General Microbiology, XVII, 658-677.

Research on nuclear staining of Ankistrodesmus (Louisiana State
University, summer, 1957 ; grant from the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences).

Mildred R. Mell:

"Dean S. G. Stukes," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly (Fall, 1957),
pp. 6-7.

Timothy Miller:

"Music Educators' Round Table The Piano Teacher," Music
Journal, XV (September, 1957), 41-42.

Margaret W. Pepperdene:

"Impressions of Agnes Scott," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

(Winter, 1958), pp. 1-2.

Research in progress: critical study of the Old English poem

Beowulf.

Walter B. Posey:

"Kentucky, 1790-1815: As Seen by Bishop Asbury," Filson Club

Historical Quarterly, XXXI (October, 1957), 333-348.

"The Public Manners of Ante-Bellum Southerners," Journal of

Mississippi History, XIX (October, 1957), 219-233.

The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1776-1845

(Lexington, Kentucky, 1957).

Research on the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ churches in the

Lower South (grants from Duke University and the Southern

Fellowships Fund, summer, 1957).

Research on the Roman Catholic church in the South (grant from

the Southern Fellowships Fund, summer, 1958).

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Janef N. Preston:

"How Like a Cleaving Blade," Poetry Digest (February-March,

1957).

"So Pledged to Faith," Poetry Digest (June-July, 1957).

George E. Rice:

"Behaviour Variability and Reactive Inhibition in the Maze Be-
haviour of Planaria Dorotocephala" (with Richard H. Lawless),
The Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, L
(September, 1957).

Thelma E. Richmond:

Research in progress: "Parallels and the Treatment of Similar
Subjects in the Works of Balzac and Baudelaire" (doctoral dis-
sertation, University of North Carolina).

Henry A. Robinson:

"Report of March Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the
Mathematical Association of America," The American Mathe-
matical Monthly, LXIV (June-July, 1957), 457-464.

Catherine S. Sims:

A critical edition of an unpublished portion of The History of the
Exchequer by Thomas Madox (accepted for publication by the
Huntington Library Quarterly, 1959).
Anna Greene Smith:

Research in progress:

Community leadership and organization
Southern regional cultural factors

Chloe Steel:

Research in progress: "The Influence of Balzac on Proust" (doctoral
dissertation, University of Chicago; exchange fellowship for re-
search in Paris, 1957-1958).

Koenraad W. Swart:

Research in progress: the decadence in nineteenth-century France
(grant from Duke University, summer, 1957).

Pierre Thomas:

Elements of Oral Practice (to be published, Decatur, 1958).

Margret Trotter:

"The Time Sheet," Perspective, X (Autumn, 1957-Winter, 1958),
33-40.

"You Have to Do Everything Yourself," Georgia Magazine, I
(February-March, 1958), 24-25.

"William Faulkner, 'The Town,' " Review (accepted for publica-
tion in Georgia Review, XII, Summer, 1958).

AWARDS FOR GRADUATE STUDY

Several seniors, members of the faculty, and alumnae
have been awarded fellowships for study during this
summer or the coming session.

Three graduates of the class of 1958 will, as recipients
of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, study philosophy, history,

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and biology at Yale University, the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and Columbia University. Two, as recipients of
College Teaching Career Fellowships from the Southern
Fellowships Fund, will study history and English at Duke
University and the University of North Carolina. One
holds a Carnegie Fellowship in Teaching to study psy-
chology at George Peabody College for Teachers. Two
have been awarded assistantships in chemistry and history
at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Ten-
nessee.

Three members of the faculty have been awarded special
grants for research: Miss Eloise Herbert (Southern Fel-
lowships Fund Grant for Advanced Study) ; Dr. Walter B.
Posey (Southern Fellowships Fund Grant-in-Aid) ; and
Dr. Anna Greene Smith (Presbyterian Board of Christian
Education Grant-in-Aid) .

Fellowships awarded to four alumnae have been re-
ported: one a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for study in
chemistry at the University of Virginia; one a Rome Prize
Fellowship and Fulbright award for study at the American
Academy in Rome; one for study in classics at Bryn Mawr
College; and one a J. M. Tull Fellowship for study in bio-
chemistry at Emory University.

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

As of June 4, 1958, the Alumnae Fund totaled $20,-
461.75 for 1957-58, with contributions from 1760 alumnae
(25% of the 6600 alumnae contacted, and 43% of the 3500
graduates contacted).

A recently inaugurated policy of decentralization is an
important development in the alumnae program; in line
with this policy the Association has, in the past two years,
created the positions of regional vice-president in four
areas: New York, North Carolina, New Orleans, and
Atlanta. It is believed that these new officers will help make
possible a closer affiliation with all club groups, the forma-
tion of new clubs (a total of 35 now exist), and a more
personal and comprehensive fund appeal.

A second important development in the alumnae pro-
gram is the conversion of the position of Director of Alum-
nae Affairs from a part-time to a full-time basis. For some
years the Director has given part of her time to publicity

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for the college. Beginning with the 1958-59 session, how-
ever, this responsibility is being assigned to the develop-
ment office in order that the Director of Alumnae Affairs
may devote her full time to the work of the Association.

ENROLLMENT

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 603 stu-
dents 543 boarders and 60 day students representing
twenty-six states and seven foreign countries (Belgium,
China, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Korea, and Malaya). The
geographical distribution is as follows:

Alabama 32 New York 6

Arizona 1 North Carolina 67

Arkansas 2 Ohio 2

California 1 Pennsylvania 4

Colorado 1 South Carolina 65

Connecticut 1 Tennessee 35

Florida 55 Texas 15

Georgia 201 Virginia 59

Illinois 1 West Virginia 15

Indiana 1 Belgium 1

Kentucky 7 China 2

Louisiana 7 Germany

Massachusetts 1 Israel

Maryland 5 Jordan

Michigan 3 Korea

Mississippi 6 Malaya

New Jersey 2 503

The classification of the student body for the 1957-58
session is as follows :

Seniors 127

Juniors 1 14

Sophomores 163

Freshmen 197

Specials 5

Total 606

(Note: The total number of seniors given above includes three stu-
dents who completed degree requirements in the summer of 1957 and who
were not, therefore, in residence during the 1957-58 session; and three
students who, although classified as seniors, did not receive the degree
this June.)

The denominational distribution of our students for the
1957-58 session is as follows:

Presbyterian 273 Episcopal 71

Methodist 122 Christian 7

Baptist 96 Jewish 7

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Roman Catholic 6 Salvation Army 2

Greek Orthodox 5 Christian Science 1

Congregational 4 Independent 1

Lutheran 3 Non-denominational .... 1

Church of Christ 2 Total ^

Moravian 2

TRUSTEES

The terms of the following trustees expired with the
annual meeting of the Board on May 9, 1958 : Miss Mary
Wallace Kirk (Synodical Alabama) ; Dr. D. P. Mc-
Geachy, Jr. (Synodical Florida) ; Dr. Patrick D. Miller
(Synodical Georgia) ; Dr. J. R. McCain (Corporate) ;
Mr. J. J. Scott (Corporate) ; Mrs. William T. Wilson, Jr.
(Corporate) ; Mr. John A. Sibley (Corporate) ; Mrs. J. C.
Read (Alumnae).

At the annual Board meeting, Dr. McCain, Mr. Scott,
Mrs. Wilson, and Mr. Sibley were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each. Miss Kirk, Dr. Mc-
Geachy, and Dr. Miller were re-elected as Synodical Trus-
tees for terms of four years each, subject to ratification
respectively by the Presbyterian (U.S.) Synods of Alabama,
Florida, and Georgia. Mrs. C. Dixon Fowler, immediate
past president of the National Agnes Scott Alumnae Asso-
ciation, was elected to serve as an Alumnae Trustee for a
term of two years, succeeding Mrs. J. C. Read. The resigna-
tion of Mr. John C. Henley, III, Synodical Trustee from
Alabama (whose term expires in 1959), was regretfully
accepted; the selection of a successor to Mr. Henley was
postponed until the 1959 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

I am indebted to the chairman and vice-chairman of the
Board, Mr. Hal L. Smith and Mr. George W. Woodruff,
and to each of the Trustees of the college for their help-
fulness, cooperation, and warm friendship in the responsi-
bilities of administration at Agnes Scott. The loyal support
of the Board in every undertaking is a constant source of
encouragement and strength.

Respectfully submitted,

/&B^fa.tiLz

President
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A LOOK AHEAD

Agnes Scott's long-range Development Program, adopted
by the Board of Trustees in June, 1953, and expanded at
the 1957 annual meeting of the Board, had for its total
goal the sum of $10,475,000. Included in this total objec-
tive was $8,050,000 to be added to the permanent endow-
ment funds of the college and $2,425,000 for buildings,
grounds, and equipment. The permanent funds of the
college have shown a total increase of $6,573,281.34 since
the Development Program began in 1953. Included in this
total is an increase of $1,141,734.41 in fixed assets and
$5,431,546.93 in endowment.

A balance of approximately $3,902,000 is yet to be se-
cured in attaining the development goal. Plans are being
made for an intensive financial campaign in 1960-61. The
long-range Development Program will culminate in 1964
with the seventy-fifth anniversary observance of the found-
ing of the college.

Growth of Assets .

(Audit, June 30, 1958)

$14,000,000
$13,000,000
$12,000,000
$11,000,000
$10,000,000
$ 9,000,000
$ 8,000,000
$ 7,000,000
$ 6,000,000
$ 5,000,000
$ 4,000,000
$ 3,000,000
$ 2,000,000
$ 1,000,000

1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1958

THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July 1, 1959

THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July 1, 1959

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE DECATUR, GEORGIA

July 1, 1959
Board of Trustees
Agnes Scott College :

I present herewith my eighth annual report as president
of Agnes Scott. The college year that came to a close on
June 30 was the seventieth in this institution's history.

This is inevitably a period when we take inventory of
the past session and make plans for another year in the
operation of the college. I have been giving considerable
thought to the trends in the current educational situation
that need to be understood as we chart Agnes Scott's im-
mediate and long-range course. It is important to identify
some of these factors that exert pressure upon us and
vitally affect our decisions.

To undertake to administer the affairs of a private, non-
tax supported institution of higher education in this country
at the present time is to be painfully aware of the difficulties
posed by continued economic inflation. The recently publi-
cized flurry of resignations of college and university presi-
dents has dramatized the widespread sense of pressure that
educational leaders are feeling as they face the task of
adequately financing and effectively operating their institu-
tions in an inflationary economy, with scores of attendant
problems requiring intelligent solution.

The burden of the inflationary factor upon us at Agnes
Scott is glimpsed as one considers some comparative figures.
The student body anticipated for 1959-1960 is 36% larger
than in 1951-1952 (my first year as president of the
college). Our total charges for room, board, tuition and
fees are 39% higher for 1959-1960 than in 1951-1952.
The total operating budget of the college in 1959-1960 will
show a 114% increase over the 1951-1952 budget. The
increase for faculty and staff salaries for the eight-year
period is 110% and for the operation of the dining hall,
74%. As compared with 1951-1952, we will spend this
next session three times as much on the library, twice as
much in maintaining the laundry, five times as much in
infirmary expense, and four times as much in meeting depart-
mental needs in our educational program.

When due account is taken of the effort that we have
made to enlarge and enrich the work of the college in the

period studied, the fact remains that inflation has unceas-
ingly plagued us. Here is a menace to the health of our
independent institutions for which there appears to be no
early relief.

It will come as no surprise to perceptive people that, in
our work at Agnes Scott, we are constantly aware of the
deep crises in human affairs that so largely constitute the
climate of our lives.

October 4, 1957, will be remembered as the day when the
space age was ushered in and the day when a new era
of hypertension and nerves began in this country. It was
then that, from somewhere deep in Soviet Russia, the first
space satellite was launched. Sputnik I was followed shortly
by half-ton Sputnik II with a dog aboard! The world was
stunned by the news of Russia's success in hurling mechani-
cal moons an unbelievable distance into outer space where
they travelled in their orbits at incredible speed. Then came
the pitiful fiasco of December 6 when at Cape Canaveral
our much publicized effort to launch a satellite fizzled, sput-
tered, and ended in a burst of flames. Subsequently, stung
by our humiliation, we called each other bad names, blam-
ing the Democrats, the present administration, the Com-
munists, the army, the navy, the air force, the colleges and
universities, the president and Almighty God for our
deficiencies. Our pride was hurt (even though we had suc-
cesses at Cape Canaveral a little later). We were gripped
by fear and by an awareness of the seriousness of the crisis
that had come upon us.

Speaking at the Thirteenth Annual National Conference
on Higher Education in Chicago in March, 1958, President
John W. Gardner, of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, gave this interesting account
of the impact of the new crisis upon American education:

No one can say that life has been dull for American educators
since the dawn of the space age on October 4, 1957. The clamor
has been deafening. And a good deal of the uproar has been
produced by individuals who never had two consecutive thoughts
on education before that fateful day. Characters we had never
heard of went into orbit and started beeping. But those of us
who are professionally involved in education are not exactly taciturn
types and we have cheerfully added to the racket.

Looking back on it I think we would all agree that nothing
really surprising has come out of all the commotion. The wise
men said some wise things ; men who were not very well in-

formed said some uninformed things; and silly people said silly
things. The proportions of wise, uninformed and silly contribu-
tions were probably not very different than they usually are. The
chief difference was that the spirit of the times turned up the
volume control considerably, or to put it another way, there were
many more people listening. To those of us with a lifelong concern
for these matters, it often seemed that the foolish comments rang
more loudly, but that may have been an illusion. 1

The administration and faculty at Agnes Scott are (I
make bold to say) alert to the studies that are coming from
various quarters studies recommending far-reaching cur-
ricular changes, new teaching procedures and devices, the
extended use of the full calendar year for the academic
program, a twenty to one ratio of students to members of
the faculty, etc. In addition to the studies continually being
made by the curriculum committee of our faculty, several
special committees have been assigned tasks of research
and appraisal, dealing with aspects of the current concern
about educational matters which is being evidenced through-
out the nation.

All of this is stimulating and worth while. Let it be said,
however, that Agnes Scott has never been addicted to aca-
demic faddism. I predict that the changes that are adopted
here will not be emotionally hurried through, but will come
about only after the most careful consideration by a faculty
that is exceedingly competent for such a task.

To live in the Deep South at this time is to understand
that we face a cultural crisis unlike anything that we have
experienced in our lifetime. The painful public school
situation that is literally on our doorstep just now focuses
one of America's most dangerous domestic problems. A
college like Agnes Scott, located here in the heart of the
South, occupies a position of grave responsibility and chal-
lenge. We are acutely conscious that we are a part of the
culture of this region and therefore of the problem. It is
our earnest desire, with the help of God, to become a part
of the solution. We offer no neat little panaceas. We intend
to be in fact a Christian liberal arts college where young
people may find liberation from ignorance, prejudice and
fear a center where academic freedom is a reality, where
young people can face all of the facets of controversial

1 John W. Gardner, "Quality in Higher Education," Current Issues
in Higher Education, 1958, ed. G. Kerry Smith (Washington 6, D. C.,
1958), p. 8.

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issues, and where the Christian insights and purposes are
taken seriously.

Another tendency in American higher education has been
'laid bare by the much publicized "Jacob Report." I have
reference to the apparent failure of many American col-
leges and universities to contribute in a vital and determi-
native way to the education of the whole person. The mind
of the student is being informed but the person as a whole is
largely unaffected by the experience, if recent research is
reliable.

The most comprehensive study in our time of the values
of American college students is that carried out under the
auspices of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation by Dr.
Philip E. Jacob, Professor of Political Science at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jacob and his associates made
an analysis of three main types of data, obtained from more
than one hundred institutions: (1) studies of student
attitudes conducted during the last fifteen years; (2) recent
evaluations of the outcomes of general education and other
courses and of various methods of teaching; (3) a number
of comprehensive self-studies by particular institutions. The
full report is contained in a volume with the title, Changing
Values in College, but an excellent summary of his findings
was presented by Professor Jacob to the Problems and
Policies Committee of the American Council on Education.
He reported to this group his conclusion that the college
experience

. . . barely touches their (the students') standards of behavior,
quality of judgment, sense of social responsibility, perspicacity of
understanding;, and guiding beliefs.

This means that if institutions of higher learning are expected
to fulfill the historic humanistic mission of what we have called
liberal education, they will have to learn how to do it. They are
not doing it now with most of their students. 2

Two further statements from Philip Jacob's summary
of his findings in the study of the influence of higher educa-
tion upon student values deserve to be quoted and pondered :

Similar as the patterns of student values appear on a mass view,
the intellectual, cultural or moral "climate" of some institutions
stands out from the crowd. The response of students to education

2 Philip E. Jacob, "Does Higher Education Influence Student
Values?" Spotlight on the College Student, ed. Margaret L. Habein
(Washington, D. C, 1959), p. 3.

within the atmosphere of these institutions is strikingly different
from the national pattern. 3

In short, college can contribute to the growth of a student's
values only when it penetrates the core of his life and confronts
him with fresh and often disturbing implications, which are differ-
ent from those which he and his society have taken for granted.
This can hardly occur as a by-product of a curricular assembly
line. It requires a highly personal relationship between the college
community and the individual student a relationship that is
warm and considerate, but at the same time mutually aggravating. 4

The major premise in all that we are attempting to do
at Agnes Scott is our concern with the whole person her
mind, her physical welfare, her social development, and
her spiritual life. We consider that we have failed a student
when we merely provide information without insight, facts
with little increase in wisdom, fragments of knowledge with
no real help in forming a whole view of reality, and stimula-
tion of the intellect with no compelling motivation of will
and molding of character. We believe profoundly in the
validity of offering an academically demanding program of
liberal studies in a community of Christian concern where
personal relationships are both creative and satisfying.

Despite the fact that the curriculum appears to be so
rich and varied, serious students of American higher educa-
tion are increasingly concerned that many institutions either
exclude religion altogether as an area of learning that yields
bona fide truth, or else treat it with such casualness (or
flippancy!) as to relegate it to the periphery of academic
interests where it is assumed to he relatively unimportant.
This is often a subtle thing, but it is, I am convinced, an
undeniable phenomenon of much of our higher education
in this country.

In a recent address at Drake University to the American
Baptist Education Association, Dr. Harold K. Schilling,
Professor of Physics and Dean of the Graduate School of
the Pennsylvania State University, made a penetrating
statement of this tendency. He said:

. . . when we look out upon our culture and upon higher educa-
tion, we note thought patterns prevailing that seem to take for
granted that there is no objective reality beyond that contained in
the atom and photon. We further note that these patterns employ

3 Philip E. Jacob, Changing Values in College (Harper and Broth-
ers, New York, 1957), p. 9.

4 Jacob, "Does Higher Education Influence Student Values?" p. 5.

predominantly scientific, discursive language that predisposes us to
think that anything it cannot express such as the basic insights
of religion must necessarily be without meaning. Thus whole
areas of the world and experience are almost automatically ex-
cluded from thought and study and therefore from the purview
of higher education as ordinarily conceived and practiced. 5

Dean Schilling expressed the judgment that basic concepts
fundamental to religion are virtually nonexistent in much
of contemporary academic conversation and discussion.
This, he holds, signifies much more than "a semantic shift
to the use of other words." Instead, it "represents a loss
of basic insight and an impoverishment of life. It points
to a vast void in the aggregate of knowledge, method, and
understanding available ordinarily in the college and uni-
versity of today." 6

We at Agnes Scott would wholeheartedly associate our-
selves with Dean Schilling in his conclusion :

No student anywhere should go through college seeking truth and
a meaningful philosophy and way of life without being confronted
in a college setting with the insights offered by the Christian mes-
sage. Whatever his personal reaction to it may be, he should not
remain ignorant of the existence of a kind of life and thought
that comes out of and is centered in love of God and love of
neighbor, and of the incomparable richness claimed for it by those
who have experienced it. 7

This confrontation of a student with Christian truth,
in an atmosphere where academic excellence is cherished
and where intellectual interests are dominant, is so integral
to Agnes Scott's purpose that those who know the college
can scarcely conceive of a valid reason for its existence if
this should ever seem improper or unimportant.

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

Development Program

At the special meeting of our Board of Trustees on
March 13, 1959, unanimous action was taken authorizing
an intensive capital funds campaign, under the direction
of Marts & Lundy, Inc., New York. A goal for the period

5 Harold K. Schilling, "The Role of the Church in Higher Educa-
tion" (Chicago, 1958), p. 5.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid., p. 6.

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between now and 1964 was set at $4,500,000. The Board
at the meeting on March 13 received official word of an
offer in the amount of $500,000 upon the condition that
$4,000,000 be raised by January 26, 1964. The successful
completion of this effort will mean that our capital assets
will have been increased by $ 1 1 ,000,000 from the time when
the development program was inaugurated in 1953.

The present plan for the intensive phase of the capital
funds effort will begin in January, 1960, when the director
from Marts & Lundy will set up an office on the campus.
A national Convocation is scheduled on April 1 and 2, fol-
lowed by the campus campaign. The period beginning in
May, 1960, will be devoted to approximately thirty-five
area campaigns for the solicitation of alumnae, parents of
students, and special friends of the college. The Atlanta
area campaign is scheduled for March and April of 1961.

The task facing us is a stupendous one. However, we
are united in the conviction that we ought to undertake it
and that we must not allow the effort to fail. In their report
to our Board, Marts & Lundy have said:

A college's financial needs are very definitely related to the
educational level at which it should operate. Requirements in
endowment and plant facilities rise when a college is among the
leading educational institutions, and therefore the responsibilities
which go with educational leadership. Agnes Scott College has
undoubtedly achieved a place among the outstanding women's
colleges of America, which makes large plans imperative, and pre-
sents a very great challenge to its friends.

Academic Progress

Changes in the academic administration and program
over the past two years have resulted in more rigid require-
ments for the degree, an expansion of the program of
Independent Study, and strengthening of certain depart-
mental offerings, particularly in political science, education,
and foreign language.

An increasingly selective admissions program is enabling
us to operate on a greatly tightened set of academic require-
ments for progress toward the degree; the result is a
strengthening of the entire instructional program and the
elimination of those few students who are manifestly unable
to carry the kind of program which is the aim of Agnes
Scott.

The increase in the number of students doing superior
work, has expanded our program of Independent Study.
Fifteen per cent of the class of 1959 participated in the
program, engaging in projects which included literary criti-
cism, historical study, research in analytical chemistry, musi-
cal composition and performance, and artistic production.
Twenty-three per cent of the rising senior class has been
invited to take part in this program.

Addition to our faculty of specialists in political science
and secondary education has strengthened two important
and growing areas of the curriculum. The development of
skill in speaking knowledge of modern languages is being
encouraged by the increased use of records and tapes in the
departments concerned. We look toward still more ade-
quate equipment for this work.

The interest of many members of the faculty in enriching
their offerings is evidenced by the number who are studying
this summer. Another section of this report indicates those
who are doing further research, including nine who have
been awarded special grants from the Southern Fellow-
ships Fund, the Presbyterian Board of Christian Educa-
tion, and the Danforth Foundation.

Admissions and Scholarships

Last year's report to the Board of Trustees indicated
two new policies in admissions and scholarships: (1) the
adoption of an Early Decision Plan which would affect
students entering as freshmen in 1959; and (2) participa-
tion in the College Scholarship Service, which first affected
students entering in September of this past school year.

The Early Decision Plan is, we think, serving two im-
portant purposes : alleviation of the multiple application
problem and lessening of tension among able candidates
by giving them early assurance of admission to the college
of their choice. Agnes Scott is one of twenty-four women's
colleges which have followed a formal program of Early
Decision this past year; we, like others in the program,
have stressed that only competent students with good junior
year entrance examination results should apply on this
plan. The plan follows the same general pattern among the
twenty-four colleges : the filing of the application by early
fall of the senior year; the certification by the candidate

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that she has made a single choice of college and that she is
applying only at that college until informed by December 1
of the action of the admissions committee; and the deposit
by mid-winter (usually February 15) of a substantial non-
refundable fee which represents a portion of the expenses
of the freshman year and which, at Agnes Scott, takes the
place of the July 1 payment required of all other candidates.

Agnes Scott has accepted about seventeen per cent of
next year's freshman class on the Early Decision Plan; the
range among the twenty-four colleges has been from ten
per cent to twenty-five per cent. Seventy-six per cent of those
applying to Agnes Scott on this plan were accepted, and
the remainder were advised to apply on the regular plan;
this percentage seems to be in line with the experience of
other colleges. The Early Decision Plan cannot take the
place of the regular plan of admission, for most candidates
need the supporting evidence of senior year entrance
criteria, and many candidates are not ready to make a single
choice of college so early in the senior year.

Our second new program in effect is our affiliation with
the College Scholarship Service, which now numbers in its
membership some two hundred colleges and universities,
plus several nationally sponsored scholarship programs. Col-
leges in this Service require scholarship applicants to file
a financial need form (the Parents' Confidential State-
ment) and follow standard computation procedures which
take into account such factors as family income and assets,
number of dependents, educational and medical expenses,
student savings and summer job earnings. Scholarships are
then awarded on the bases of academic promise and achieve-
ment, with actual stipends determined according to need
and within the limits of available college funds.

Agnes Scott is one of seventeen southern private institu-
tions in the Service which have signed and published for
distribution to scholarship applicants and high schools an
agreement of philosophy and procedure in making awards.
The agreement states that the award of large "prize"
scholarships to individuals who are not in need is educa-
tionally unsound and that no publicity should be given to
financial awards since they reflect the financial status of the
applicant.

As we work in admissions and the related area of schol-
arships, we, together with other private colleges, feel in-

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creasingly the need for more effective liaison with the
schools that send us our students. In addition to represen-
tation at meetings which bring together school and college
personnel, we are broadening the scope each year of the
work of our admissions assistant, who spends much of her
time in school visiting. In 1956, she visited fifty-five schools
in nine states; during the past school year, she visited 129
schools in twelve states and the District of Columbia. To
us, the purpose of such visits is not recruitment of students,
but interpretation of Agnes Scott to school counselors and
principals who may then do a more effective job of counsel-
ing their college-bound juniors and seniors. Admissions
officers are having to cope with too many applications from
students who are making an unwise choice of college.
Better exchange of information between colleges and
secondary schools is, we think, a partial solution to the
problem. As stated previously to the Board, we want at
Agnes Scott students who can succeed in and profit by our
program. We have an obligation to give careful considera-
tion to every candidate who applies and to be fair in our
decisions; if we can reduce the number of rejections by
encouraging only the properly qualified to apply, we can
prevent tension and misunderstanding among our con-
stituency and continue to select the able students whom we
desire and whom our faculty expect.

Vocational Guidance and Placement

Increased emphasis on vocational guidance and place-
ment has been evident over the past two years. An Assistant
Dean of Students works closely with the Dean of the Faculty
in a program of guidance, information, and placement. A
special room in Buttrick Hall serves as a reference library
for vocational information and a conference room for
special interviews and counseling. Through cooperation
with the department of psychology, a series of vocational
preference tests has been given to sophomores.

The vocational information program also brings to the
campus visitors who discuss careers available in their fields.
Coordinated with this aspect of the program are the Career
Coffees sponsored by the Alumnae Association.

We have many inquiries from employers, who are fur-
nished material from our placement office and with whom

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arrangements for interviews with seniors may be made.
A file of references and college activities is maintained for
each graduating senior and available for immediate use in
seeking employment, as well as for future use in changing
employment.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Personnel

Additions to the faculty for the 1958-59 session have
been: William G. Cornelius (B.A., M.A. Vanderbilt Uni-
versity; Ph.D. Columbia University), associate professor of
political science; Edward Taylor Ladd (B.A. Harvard
University; M.A., Ph.D. Yale University), associate pro-
fessor of education and director of the Agnes Scott-Emory
Teacher Education program; S. Leonard Doerpinghaus
(B.S. The College of the Ozarks, M.A. Smith College,
Ph.D. Louisiana State University), assistant professor of
biology; Sara Ripy (B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman's Col-
lege; M.A., Ph.D. University of Kentucky), assistant pro-
fessor of mathematics; Kathryn Manuel (B.S. Purdue Uni-
versity, M.A. New York University), assistant professor
of physical education; Ruth McDaniel Banks (B.S. Uni-
versity of Alabama, M.A. University of Havana), visiting
instructor in Spanish; Merle G. Walker (B.A. Hollins Col-
lege; M.A., Ph.D. Radcliffe College), instructor in English.

New members of the administrative staff this past session
were: Rosemonde S. Peltz (B.F.A. Newcomb College,
M.D. Louisiana State University Medical School), college
physician; Merilyn Medernach Kendrick (R.N.), resident
nurse in charge of the infirmary; Nancy R. Ivey (R.N.),
associate nurse; Sallie Greenfield (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), assistant in admissions; Nancy Edwards (B.A. Agnes
Scott College), assistant director of public relations and
development; Anne McWhorter Butler (B.A. Agnes Scott
College), assistant to the librarian; Eileen Graham Mc-
Whorter (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary, offices of
the registrar and president; Cecily Rudisill Langford
(B.A. Agnes Scott College), manager of the bookstore;
Harriet Talmadge (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant
to the dean of students; Dorothy Hull Turner, assistant
to the supervisor of dormitories; Mollie Merrick (B.A.
Agnes Scott College), assistant to the dean of students;

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Dorothea Markert, secretary, offices of the president and
the registrar.

The following faculty and staff promotions become effec-
tive with the 1959-1960 session: Kwai Sing Chang, associate
professor of philosophy and Bible; Margaret W. Pepper-
dene, associate professor of English; Merle G. Walker,
assistant professor of English; Louise Harley, assistant
registrar and assistant director of admissions; Dorothy
Weakley, assistant director of alumnae affairs; Nancy Ivey,
resident nurse in charge of the infirmary.

On leave during part or all of the past session have been
Eloise Herbert, assistant professor of Spanish, who has
been engaged in doctoral work at Duke University; Miriam
Howell, assistant professor of education; Llewellyn Wil-
burn, associate professor of physical education; Margaret
T. Phythian, professor of French; and George P. Hayes,
professor of English.

Faculty appointments for the 1959-1960 session are:
Elizabeth Cole Stack (B.A. Greensboro College, M.Ed.
University of North Carolina), assistant professor of edu-
cation and acting chairman of the department; Martha
Jane Cauvel (B.A. The State College of Washington,
M.A. University of Hawaii), assistant professor of phi-
losophy; Margaret Bland Sewell (B.A. Agnes Scott College,
M.A. University of North Carolina), instructor in French;
Maria Clara Kane (graduate study, Universities of Berlin
and Vienna; M. A. University of Pennsylvania), instructor
in German; Elvena M. Green (B.A. Mills College, M.A.
Cornell University), assistant professor of speech and
dramatic art; and Hendrik R. Hudson (B.S. Georgia Insti-
tute of Technology), assistant professor of physics and
astronomy and associate director of the Bradley Obser-
vatory.

Administrative appointments for the 1959-60 session
include: Cynthia Marise Ponder, associate resident nurse;
Ethelyn Johnson Roberts (B.A. Agnes Scott College, M.A.
Emory University), assistant to the librarian; Barbara Ann
Oglesby (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant to the
librarian and senior resident; Ann Rivers Payne (B.A.
Agnes Scott College), assistant to the dean of students;
Annette Teague (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary to
the registrar and director of admissions; Mary Louise

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Dodson, secretary to the business manager; and Runita
McCurdy (B.A. Agnes Scott College), manager of the
bookstore.

Professional Activities

Mr. John Louis Adams, assistant professor of music, is principal
viola with the Atlanta Symphony and string quartet and has played in
the regular concert series this year. He is vice-president of the new
Georgia chapter of the American String Teachers Association. This
summer Mr. Adams is teaching at Emory University.

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, associate professor of French, read a paper
entitled "Marie de France's Lanval and Thomas Chestre's Launfale"
before the University Center Modern Language group in February.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, continues as secre-
tary (southern section) of the National Association of Biblical Instruc-
tors and is a member of the U. S. Presbyterian General Assembly's Ad
Interim Committee to Prepare a Brief Statement of Belief. In February
she participated in a seminar on college teaching at a conference on
religious vocations for college women at Union Theological Seminary,
New York. In March she led the Bible hour of the Town and Country
Pastors' Institute at Columbia Theological Seminary.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, attended the Inter-
national Zoology Congress in London last summer.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, college librarian, serves on the member-
ship committee of the American Library Association and on the statistical
committee of the Southeastern Library Association. She is chairman of
the special library committee for Florida Presbyterian College.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and astronomy, is teach-
ing astrophysics at Emory University this summer in a program for
high school students sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He
served this year as chairman of the physics, engineering and mathematics
section of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish, continues
to serve as secretary-treasurer of the Georgia chapter of the American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. She is a compiler of
contemporary Portuguese writings for the South Atlantic Bulletin and is
a member of the American Board of Vertice, a Portuguese cultural and
literary magazine. Miss Cilley is corresponding secretary to the Director
of Curso de Ferias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

Dr. William G. Cornelius, associate professor of political science, is
vice-president of the University Center Political Science group. He
participated in the Emory Institute on State Government. This sum-
mer Dr. Cornelius is teaching at Emory University.

Dr. Miriam Koontz Drucker, associate professor of psychology,
participated in the Georgia Psychological Association workshop on
mental health and serves on the local arrangements committee of the
Southeastern Psychological Association.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, attended
the Middlebury Spanish school last summer.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, is Georgia councilor

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to the American Chemical Society and chairman of the analytical sec-
tion of the Southeastern Regional Section of this organization. He also
serves as chemistry division councilor of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, is president of the Atlanta
Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and read a paper
at the May meeting of the group. Last summer he spoke at the Bible
conference at Montreat, North Carolina. Dr. Garber delivered the bacca-
laureate sermon at Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this May.
He is visiting professor of religion at the University of North Carolina's
summer session, 1959. #

Dr. Julia T. Gary, assistant professor of chemistry, is chairman of
student activities for the Georgia Section of the American Chemical
Society.

Mrs. Lillian R. Gilbreath, instructor in music, continues to serve as
director of the Decatur Piano Ensemble and conducted its annual concert
at Glenn Memorial auditorium last fall. She spent several weeks last
summer at the Aspen Music School in Colorado.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, instructor in biology, presented a paper on
"Differences in Habit and Foliage Exhibited in the Podocarpus" at the
annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science.

Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, serves on the
membership committee of the College Music Association.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish, continues as
vice-president of the Modern and Classical Language Group of the
Georgia Education Association.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, instructor in music, led a program for
the Decatur Music Teachers Association and gave a piano recital for
the Franklin (North Carolina) Music Study Club. She assisted in re-
organizing the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, a national
honorary music sorority.

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor of English, traveled in England and
Italy while on leave during spring quarter, 1959.

Dr. Miriam M. Howell, assistant professor of education, is a mem-
ber of the kindergarten committee of the Association for Childhood
Education International; at the April meeting of this group she pre-
sented a paper on "How the Kindergarten Program Can Be Furthered."

Dr. Marie Huper, associate professor of art, was program chairman
for the state meeting of the Georgia Art Education Association. She has
designed a processional and altar cross for Holy Innocents Episcopal
Church, Sandy Springs, Georgia, and has also designed publications,
processional candles, and an ambry door for Holy Trinity Church of
Decatur.

Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs, is a south-
eastern district officer of the American Alumni Council and was chair-
man of a panel on alumni magazines for the 1959 national conference
of this group. She is chairman-elect of the Southeast District of the
American College Public Relations Association. Miss Johnson serves as
consultant on alumnae clubs to the Florida State University's 1959
Alumni Council.

Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr., led the religious emphasis week at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute last winter.

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Dr. Edward T. Ladd, associate professor of education, served as chair-
man of the visiting committee in the re-evaluation study of Decatur High
School.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, professor of English, is studying this
summer at the American School in Athens, Greece, under a grant from
the Danforth Foundation.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, is a member of
the executive committee of the Atlanta chapter of the American Guild
of Organists and was recitalist for the regional convention of the
American Guild. This summer Mr. Martin is using a grant from the
U. S. Presbyterian Board of Christian Education to take courses toward
the doctorate in church music at Union Theological Seminary in New
York and will serve for a period as guest organist in the First Presby-
terian Church of New York City.

Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of physical education, con-
tinues to serve as state chairman of the division for girls' and women's
sports of the American Association of Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation. This summer Miss McKemie is taking courses toward
the doctorate in physical education at the University of Colorado
under a Danforth Summer Study Grant.

Dr. Timothy Miller, assistant professor of music, is first vice-president
of the Georgia Music Teachers Association. He appeared as piano
soloist with the Atlanta "Pop" Concert Orchestra in a performance this
summer.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, associate professor of psychology, con-
tinues to serve on the board of directors of the Georgia Psychological
Association.

Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, associate professor of English, de-
livered the keynote address at the April meeting of the Mid-South
Association of Independent Schools. The title of the address was
"Chaucer in Our Time."

Dr. Margaret T. Phythian, professor of French, has been spending
the spring quarter and summer in France, studying contemporary French
drama.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science,
serves on the executive council of the Southern Historical Association
and is a member of the program committee for the Mississippi Valley
Historical Association. He delivered the annual address for the South
Carolina Historical Association last October. Dr. Posey is teaching at the
1959 summer session of the University of Alabama.

Dr. George E. Rice, professor of psychology, is a member of the pro-
gram committee and the committee on legal affairs of the Georgia
Psychological Association. This summer Dr. Rice is teaching at Emory
University.

Dr. Mary L. Rion, assistant professor of English, acted as group
leader for the English Composition Test of the College Entrance
Examination Board. She was honored at a banquet for readers who had
taken part in twenty or more readings.

Dr. Sara L. Ripy, assistant professor of mathematics, is attending a
computer programming school at Duke University this summer.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, is at Vanderbilt

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University teaching high school and junior college teachers of mathe-
matics in a summer program sponsored by the National Science Founda-
tion.

Dr. Catherine S. Sims, professor of history and political science, was
honored in January by being named Atlanta's 1958 Woman of the
Year in Civic Service. Dr. Sims has been appointed chairman of the
international relations committee of the American Association of Univer-
sity Women and this summer will go as a voting delegate to the thir-
teenth triennial conference of the International Federation of Univer-
sity Women in Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and
sociology, continues as a member of the executive committee of the
Southern Sociological Society and serves on the recruitment committee
for the Georgia Conference of Social Work. Dr. Smith is active in work
of the Atlanta chapters of the Family Service and Child Welfare Service.

Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history, read a paper
on "The Idea of Decadence in the Second Empire" at the Southern
Historical Association meeting last fall.

Mr. Pierre Thomas, assistant professor of French, spent the summer
of 1958 teaching at Middlebury College in Vermont and has returned
there this summer.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, completed last summer a
mural symbolizing the development of printing. This mural was com-
missioned by Foote and Davies of Atlanta for the reception room of
the firm's new plant. On commission from the Agnes Scott library, he
painted during the past year a portrait of Robert Frost which was
unveiled at the time of Mr. Frost's January visit to the campus. Mr.
Warren has exhibited his paintings this year at the museum of art in
Columbia, South Carolina; at the state exhibition in Columbus, Georgia;
and at two five-state regional art exhibitions in Atlanta. He was invited
to participate in the opening exhibition at the new museum of art in
Birmingham, Alabama.

Mr. Robert F. Westervelt, assistant professor of art, won with his
stoneware pottery design a Purchase Prize in the 1959 Artists Annual
Exhibition at the Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans. He also
exhibited work at the McBurney gallery of the Atlanta Art Association.
Mr. Westervelt is a founding member of the Southeastern Designer-
Craftsman Group, Atlanta, and the Contemporary Arts Center of At-
lanta. This summer he is teaching at Emory University.

Research and Publications
1958-1959

Mary L. Boney:

"School as a Vocation," Presbyterian Youth, XXXIII (July-
September, 1958), 22-33.

"Let the World See Christ in You," Presbyterian Youth, XXXIV
(January-March, 1959), 16-25.

"Middle East, Past and Present," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly
(Fall, 1958), pp. 10-11.

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Josephine Bridgman:

Research in progress: radiation effects on ciliate cysts (project
supported by the Atomic Energy Commission).

Kwai Sing Chang:

"Miracles in the Bible," Children's Religion (May, 1959).

Melissa A. Cilley:

"O Conto nos Estados Unidos de America," Diario de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal. July 27, 1958.

Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of Fidelino de Figueiredo.
Imprensa de Coimbra, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. August
28, 1958.

Frances B. Clark:

Research in progress: "The Heart in Pascal's Pensees" (doctoral
dissertation, Yale University; continued under a grant from the
Danforth Foundation, summer, 1959).

William G. Cornelius:
Research in progress:

"The County-Unit Voting System of Georgia."

"The Supreme Court and the School Integration Crisis."

"Latin American Voting in the United Nations."

S. Leonard Doerpinghaus:

Study at institute conducted by the Botanical Society of America
at Indiana University under a National Science Foundation grant,
summer, 1959.

W. Joe Frierson:

Research in progress:

The application of organic analytical reagents to paper chroma-
tography (project supported by A. D. Little, Inc.). Chroma-
tographic separation and spectrophotometric determination of
trace amounts of metallic ions (project supported by the
Research Corporation).

Investigation of new organic reagents for the spectrophoto-
metric determination of cobalt and aluminum.

Paul L. Garber:

"Bible Backgrounds by Family Summer Travel," Counsel, Presby-
terian USA publication for parents and teachers of junior high
school youth (July-September, 1959).

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coming Interpreter's Bible Dictionary (Nashville).
Research in progress: synagogues at Capernaum and Dura Europos.

Julia T. Gary:

"The Polarographic Reduction of Aromatic Nitro and Carbonyl
Compounds," with R. A. Day, Jr. (doctoral dissertation, Emory
University).

Netta E. Gray:

"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, XL The South Pacific
Species of Section Podocarpus, Subsection B," Journal of the Arnold
Arboretum, XXXIX (1958), 424-477.

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Research in progress:

Contributions on the morphology and anatomy of Podocarpus

ustus Brongn & Gris.

Taxonomic studies in Section Polypodiopsis of Podocarpus.

Nancy P. Groseclose:

Research in progress: radiation effects on amphibian development
(doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia).

Eloise Herbert:

Research in progress: a study of the "saintly" character in the
Novelas Contemporaneas of Benito Perez Galdos (doctoral disser-
tation, Duke University).

Miriam M. Howell:

Research in progress: "School Entrance Age" (part of a book of
cases being developed by Edward T. Ladd).

Marie Huper:

Research in progress: "Some Fifteenth Century Italian Influences
on Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonial Architecture in Mexico"
under a grant from the Southern Fellowships Fund, summer, 1959.

C. Benton Kline, Jr.:

Research in progress: "Naturalism and Theism: A Study of Samuel
Alexander and George Frederick Stout" (doctoral dissertation, Yale
University).

Edward T. Ladd :

"The Problem of Keeping Order: Theoretical Help from Two
New Fields," Harvard Educational Review, XXVIII, 2 (Spring,
1959), 136-149.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn:

"The Theme of Loneliness in the Plays of Synge," Modern Drama,
I (September, 1958), 84-90.

"A Modern Saint," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly (Winter, 1959),
pp. 8-11.

W. Edward McNair:

"The Lifeline to Greatness," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly
(Spring, 1959), pp. 4-5.

Margaret W. Pepperdene:

"Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica: A New Perspective," Celtica, IV
(1958), 253-262.
Research in progress:

Method of characterization in Beowolf.

Nature of the Christian elements in Beowolf.

Walter B. Posey:

"The Protestant Episcopal Church: An American Adaptation,"
Journal of Southern History, XXV (February, 1959), 3-30.
Research in progress: "Religion in the Lower Mississippi Valley"
under grant from the U.S. Presbyterian Board of Christian Edu-
cation, summer, 1959.

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Janef N. Preston:

"A Feather," Midwest Chaparral, Tucson, Arizona (Winter, 1959).
"Disquieted," Wings, A Quarterly of Verse, Mill Valley, Cali-
fornia (Spring, 1959).

"To a Liberal Giver" (accepted for publication in American Weave,
University Heights, Ohio).

"Ceremony" (winner of the Society Prize of the Poetry Society of
Georgia, April, 1959 to be published in the Yearbook of the Georgia
Poetry Society, summer, 1959).

Henry A. Robinson:

"Life Annuities," Mathematics of Finance, comp. by Committee on
Mathematics of Finance (Pitman Publishing Corp., August, 1959).
"Life Insurance," Business Mathematics, comp. by Committee on
Business Mathematics (Pitman Publishing Corp., in press summer,
1959).

"Report of the March Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the
Mathematical Association of America," The American Mathematical
Monthly, LXV (June-July, 1958), 476-482.

Catherine S. Sims:

Research in progress: records of the House of Lords (before 1547).

Anna Greene Smith:

Research in progress:

"Changes in Southern Cultural Patterns."

"Population Changes in Southeast Asia: A Cultural Approach"
(grant for study at the University of California at Berkeley
from the U.S. Presbyterian Board of Christian Education,
summer, 1959).

Chloe Steel:

Research in progress: "L'Influence de Balzac sur Proust" (doctoral
dissertation, University of Chicago; continued under Danforth
Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant, summer, 1959).

Koenraad W. Swart:

"The Idea of Decadence in the Second Empire" (accepted for
future publication by The Review of Politics).

Research in progress: The decadence in nineteenth-century France
(continued at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris under a Danforth
Foundation grant, summer, 1959).

Margret Trotter:

"Green Valley," The Christian Herald, LXXXII (May, 1959),
24-25, 63-68.

FINANCES

Current Operations

The following is a summary of receipts and expenditures
in the 1958-1959 current operations, as shown in the audit
of June 30, 1959:

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Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 365,198.97

Receipts from student charges

(Room, board, tuition, and fees) 889,820.50

Gifts and grants 67,770.86

Miscellaneous

(Rents received, bookstore, etc.) 35,502.53

Total Receipts $1,358,292.86

Expenditures

Educational expense

(Faculty salaries, library, etc.) $ 440,178.11

General administrative expense

(including dining hall, infirmary operation, etc.) . . 544,441.92

Plant, facilities, and development 369,309.56

Total Expenses $1,353,929.59

Net Operating Profit $ 4,363.27

Fixed Assets

Our fixed assets, as shown by the audit for 1958-1959,
are as follows:

Buildings $3,943,888.75

Furnishings and equipment 1,010,111.82

Land 250,691.10

Total $5,204,691.67

Permanent Funds

Agnes Scott's permanent fund assets (book value), as
shown by the audit for 1958-1959, are as follows:

Permanent Endowment Fund $2,558,529.67

Frances Winship Walters (B) Fund 2,711,975.71

Walters Trust (A) Fund 1,534,458.58

J. Bulow Campbell English Fund 630,593.65

Special Memorial Fund 442,690.85

Samuel M. Inman Endowment Fund 185,881.13

Mary F. Sweet Memorial Fund 187,164.69

The Ford Fund 330,987.50

Waterman Fund 132,737.90

T. Bulow Campbell Stamp Collection 22,397.00

Loan Fund 8,974.33

Total $8,746,391.01

Development Fund

The balance in the Development Fund as of July 1, 1958,
was $767.74. During the past year, additions to the De-

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velopment Fund amounted to $152,679.47. Expenditures
from the fund totaled $41,927.28, including a balance of
$25,000.00 paid to the Trust Company of Georgia to
complete all obligations in financing the construction of
Walters Hall. The Development Fund account on June 30,
1959, amounted to $111,519.93.

Gifts and grants to the college during 1958-1959 include
the following: grants for research in chemistry and biology
from Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and the Atomic Energy Commission; a grant from the
Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc., for the department of
French; a grant from the Presser Foundation for music
scholarships; a grant from the Fund for the Advancement
of Education for Agnes Scott's participation in the Atlanta
Experiment in Articulation and Enrichment in School and
College; a grant of $5,000 from the Danforth Foundation
for faculty summer study; a grant of $24,500 from an
anonymous donor for use in enlarging and enriching the
program of the department of history and political science;
two grants from the Esso Education Foundation, totaling
$8,500; grants of $1,000 each from the U. S. Presbyterian
Board of Christian Education, the H. L. Dalton Founda-
tion, the U. S. Steel Foundation, and the Wilbur F. Glenn
Memorial Foundation, Inc.; a gift of company stock by
Mr. J. M. Tull, of Atlanta, establishing a scholarship in
the amount of $20,000 in memory of his wife. Scholarships
have been established (to be maintained on an annual basis)
by the Decatur Federal Savings and Loan Association,
by the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and by the Atlanta
Music Club.

Other foundations and corporate businesses that have
contributed to Agnes Scott during the past year (many
of them through the Georgia Foundation for Independent
Colleges) are the following:

Albany, Georgia: Albany Savings Bank; The Bank of Albany; First
State Bank; Lilliston Implement Company; Southeastern Mortgage
Corporation ; Earl L. Speer Company.

Americas, Georgia: Americus Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Marlette
Coach Company; New Moon Homes, Inc.

Athens, Georgia: Angus Manufacturing Company.

Atlanta, Georgia: W. D. Alexander Co., Inc.,; Allan-Grayson Realty
Company; Allen Foundation; Anderson, Clayton & Co.; Atlanta Oak
Flooring Co.; Atlanta Stove Works, Inc.; Auto-Soler Co.; Bank of
Georgia; Barge and Co.; Barge-Thompson, Inc.; Beck & Gregg Hard-

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ware Co.; Bostrom-Brady Manufacturing Co.; Bressler Brothers; Brown
Distributing Co.; Capitol Fish Co.; The Colonial Stores Foundation;
Conklin Tin Plate & Metal Co.; James M. Cox Foundation of Georgia,
Inc.; Curtis 1000, Inc.; John B. Daniel, Inc.; Davison-Paxon Co.;
Decatur Lumber and Supply Co.; DeKalb National Bank of Brook-
haven; The Dillard Foundation, Inc.; Dixie Wholesale Co.; Dwoskin,
Inc.; Electrical Wholesalers, Inc.; Foote & Davies, Inc.; Fulton Paper
Co.; Genuine Parts Co.; Gordon Foods, Inc.; The Great Atlantic &
Pacific Tea Co.; Green Brothers Nursery; Hotel & Restaurant Supply
Co., Inc.; W. F. Ingram Charity Fund; International Harvester Foun-
dation; Irvindale Farms Dairy; King Hardware Co.; Lay Company
Foundation; Lovable Brassiere Co., Inc.; Miss Georgia Dairies, Inc.;
Sigmund Montag Foundation; National Linen Service Corporation;
Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.; Park & Shop Garage; Plantation Pipe
Line Foundation; Public Finance Corporation; Retail Credit Co.; S. P.
Richards Paper Co.; Rich's, Inc.; Robert & Company, Associates; The
Sears-Roebuck Foundation; John Sexton & Co.; Sockwell Co.; The
Southeastern Elevator Co.; The Southeastern Ford Tractor Company
Foundation; Southern Mills, Inc.; Standard Oil Co.; Steel Heddle
Manufacturing Co.; Walter R. Thomas, Inc.; Kate & Elwyn Tomlinson
Foundation; Trust Company of Georgia; Gertrude and William C.
Wardlaw Fund, Inc.; R. H. White Foundation; Will Corporation of
Georgia ; Zachry.

Augusta, Georgia: Cullum's, Inc.; First Federal Savings & Loan
Association; Georgia-Pacific Corporation; Georgia Railroad Bank &
Trust Co.; Marbut Foundation; Maxwell Brothers; Murray Biscuit
Co.; Slusky Builders' Supplies, Inc.; Weathers Transfer & Storage Co.;
WJBF-TV.

Cedartown, Georgia: The Goodyear Foundation, Inc.; Liberty Na-
tional Bank.

Columbus, Georgia: Bickerstaff Clay Products Co.; W. C. & Sarah
H. Bradley Foundation; Buck Investment Co.; Cen-Tennial Cotton Gin
Co.; Columbus Bank & Trust Co.; The Fourth National Bank; The
Jordan Foundation, Inc.; Kinnett Dairies, Inc.; Martin Theatres Bene-
volent Fund; Maxwell Brothers Co.; Muscogee Iron Works; Muscogee
Manufacturing Co.; The Walter Alan Richards Foundation; Southern
Foods, Inc.

Cor dele, Georgia: First State Bank in Cordele.

Dalton, Georgia: American Thread Co.; Cabin Crafts, Inc.; Hard-
wick Bank & Trust Co.; G. H. Rauschenberg Co.

Forsyth, Georgia: Monroe County Bank.

Fort Valley, Georgia: Woolfolk Chemical Works, Ltd.

Gainesville, Georgia: J. C. Penney Co., Inc.

Grantville, Georgia: W. N. Banks Foundation.

Griffin, Georgia: Griffin Garment Co.; Griffin-Jaco Mills, Inc.;
Pomona Products Co.

Hampton, Georgia: Southern States Foundation, Inc.

LaGrange, Georgia: C. & S. Bank of LaGrange ; Lucy Lanier Nixon
Foundation, Inc.

Macon, Georgia: Armstrong Cork Co.; Barnes & Barnes, Inc.; Bibb
Manufacturing Co.; Burns Brick Co.; Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.;

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Georgia Kraft Co.; Georgia Timberlands, Inc.; B. L. Register Co.;
Maxwell Brothers Furniture Co.; The Procter & Gamble Fund;
Southern Crate & Veneer Co.; Willingham Sash & Door Co.

M tiled geville, Georgia: Exchange Bank of Milledgeville; Hodges
Knitting Mills, Inc.; Oconee Clay Products Co.

Newnan, Georgia: Beavers Packing Co., Inc.; International Latex
Corporation.

Rome, Georgia: Fox Heyman Foundation; Ledbetter-Johnson Co.;
Maxwell Brothers Co.; Rome Kraft Co.; Southeastern Mills, Inc.

Sandersville, Georgia: Thiele Kaolin Co.

Savannah, Georgia: Bradley Foundation, Inc.; The Chatham Founda-
tion; Colonial Oil Industries; John & Emma Derst Foundation; Max-
well Brothers.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Foundation.

Shannon, Georgia: Burlington Industries Foundation.

Statesboro, Georgia: Bulloch County Bank.

Summerville, Georgia: Farmers & Merchants Bank.

Toccoa, Georgia: McNeely Foundation, Inc.; The Citizens Bank of
Toccoa.

Vidalia, Georgia: Achenbach Foundation, Inc.; Piggly Wiggly Sims
Stores, Inc.

Waycross, Georgia: Monroe Welfare Foundation; Waycross Journal-
Herald, Inc.; First National Bank in Waycross.

West Point, Georgia: Georgia-Alabama Supply Co., Inc.; West Point
Foundation, Inc.

Bluff ton, Indiana: Franklin Electric Co.

Boston, Massachusetts: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Detroit, Michigan: Parke, Davis & Co.

Rahway, New Jersey: The Merck Company Foundation.

New York, New York: Amoco Foundation; The Babcock & Wilcox
Co. ; Continental Can Co., Inc. ; The General Foods Fund, Inc. ; Graybar
Electric Co.; International Business Machines Corporation; National
Biscuit Company Foundation; National Dairy Products Corporation;
New York Life Insurance Co.; Philip Morris, Inc.; United States
Steel Foundation.

Cleveland, Ohio: Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation; Bailey
Meter Co.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Gulf Oil Corporation.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Under the direction of our business manager, a number
of plant and campus improvements have been made in recent
months. These include the completion of the renovation of
Inman Hall to meet fire requirements (enclosing of the
stair well, enlarging of stairs in one wing, and installation
of new stairs in the other) ; installation of a new elevator

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in Inman, small utility and refrigerator-stove units on
fourth-floor Main and first-floor Inman, washing machines
in Rebekah Scott and Inman, and a new stage lighting
panel board in Gaines Chapel; complete interior painting
of Hopkins Hall; redecoration of Alexander House (for
use as a dormitory unit this past session) ; new furnishings
for one small parlor in Main Building; the redecoration of
four parlors in Main; razing of McDonough Cottage, mak-
ing possible the landscaping of the entrance to Campbell
Hall; landscaping of the rear of Inman Hall; laying of
new brick walks to the entrances of Hopkins, in front of
Evans Dining Hall, and at the rear of Inman; provision
for additional faculty housing through the purchase of two
houses one at 351 South McDonough Street and the
other (a duplex with a small cottage in the rear) at 349
South Candler.

Plant improvements being made this summer include :
the erection of an extension south of the college laundry to
provide for a carpenter's shop and maintenance room; the
removal of the carpenter's shop from the basement of Re-
bekah Scott and the use of this area for storage facilities;
the renovation of the south wing (old kitchen area) in Re-
bekah Scott in order to provide additional business offices;
the construction of additional date parlors in the area of
the recreation room on the east side of Rebekah Scott; the
construction of three additional faculty offices in the base-
ment of Buttrick Hall; and the renovation of East Lawn
and the Harn-Omwake house for use as two student housing
units during the 1959-60 session. The usual painting and
repair in cottages and buildings is going forward as in the
past. Extensive wiring repairs are to be made in Buttrick
Hall. The overhead wires from Buttrick Hall to the power
plant are being removed and placed underground.

Preliminary plans for the proposed new dormitory are
being prepared by the architectural firm of Ivey and Crook.
Extensive studies and preliminary drawings of the new
gymnasium and fine arts building are being made by
Toombs, Amisano and Wells.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

A varied program of campus activities was offered the
Agnes Scott community during the 1958-1959 session. Many
of these events were largely attended by alumnae and

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friends of Greater Atlanta. Among these activities were the
following:

September

Georgia Tech-Agnes Scott freshman picnic supper and dance on our
campus.

Seventh annual "Meet-the-Ministers Tea," sponsored by the Inter-
faith Council. Approximately 450 Agnes Scott faculty members and
students met with ministers and other representatives of the various
churches in the Atlanta area.

Honors Day address by Dr. C. Ellis Nelson, professor of religious
education and psychology, Union Theological Seminary, New York.

October

World-wide Communion vesper service on campus, led by Dr. Kwai
Sing Chang and President Alston.

Annual "Black Cat" community day.

"Lost in the Stars," a choral reading adapted from Maxwell Anderson's
musical based on Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. The
presentation was a contribution by the speech department and the glee
club to African Emphasis Week.

Sir John Gielgud in "Shakespeare's Ages of Man." Lecture Associa-
tion presentation.

Exhibition of water color paintings by west coast artist Phil Paradise,
A.N.A., former director of fine arts, Chouinard Art Institute.

November

Investiture address by Dean Emeritus S. Guerry Stukes. Investiture
Sunday sermon by Dr. Charles E. S. Kraemer, president of the Presby-
terian General Assembly's Training School in Richmond, Virginia.

Convocation speaker: Dr. Markus Barth, professor of New Testa-
ment, University of Chicago, on "The Authority of the Bible."

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, film featuring the Shakespearean Festival
Players of Stratford, Ontario.

"Musical Projection," chapel program given by members of Sigma
Alpha Iota, national women's professional music fraternity.

University Center lecture, "The Christian Doctrine of Man," by
Dr. John Marsh, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, England.

Convocation talk by Mr. Philip F. Howerton, moderator of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Lecture by Dr. Gertrude E. Smith, chairman of the department of
classical languages and literature at the University of Chicago. Spon-
sored by the University Center in Georgia.

Blackfriars' presentation of "The Enchanted" by Jean Giraudoux.

Fall Frolics week end, including the championship hockey game and
a dance.

Exhibition of oil paintings by Edward Ross, leading Atlanta artist.

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December

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, visiting lecturer in political
science, in a series of lectures and discussion sessions on the place of the
United States in world affairs.

Dance Group presentation of "The Christmas Story."
Traditional Christmas carol service by the Glee Club, followed by a
community Christmas party in Walters recreation room.

January

Annual Southeastern Inter-collegiate Debate Tournament, sponsored
by Pi Alpha Phi.

Professor Harry Levin, distinguished literary critic and chairman
of Harvard's department of comparative literature, on campus as visit-
ing lecturer in English. Public lectures on "Literature in Exile" and
"Modernism."

"Southern Culture in Change," University Center lecture by Dr.
Thomas D. Clark, professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

Several lectures by Professor Frank B. Freidel of Harvard University,
visiting lecturer in American history: "The Splendid Little War,"
"Franklin D. Roosevelt: Georgian," "The New Deal: Twenty-five
Years Later," and "Roosevelt and the South."

Junior Jaunt week end skits, informal dance, formal ball with music
by Graham Jackson's orchestra climaxing campus-wide charity drive.

Chapel talk on the "Ministers' Manifesto" by Dr. Harry A. Fifield,
minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

"The Status of Public Schools in the South," convocation address by
Mr. Eugene Patterson, vice-president of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc.

Robert Frost, distinguished American poet and four-time Pulitzer
Prize winner, on campus for annual visit and lecture.

February

Religious Emphasis Week led by Dr. David H. C. Read, minister of
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.

"The Next Hundred Years," address by William Laurence, science
editor of the New York Times. Lecture Association presentation.

Convocation message by Dr. Edmund A. Steimle, professor of prac-
tical theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

Chapel talk by Miss Daisy Parker, Mortar Board national officer
and professor of political science at Florida State University.

Chapel talks and group discussions led by Mrs. Evelyn Millis Duvall,
family life consultant.

Lecture by Dr. James M. Dent, chairman of the biology department
at the University of Virginia, on "The Relation of the Thyroid and
Pituitary Glands."

Address by Dr. Howard Becker, professor of sociology at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and president-elect of the American Sociological
Society.

Dolphin Club water festival presentation of "The Wizard of Oz."

Sophomore Parents' Week End, during which parents visited classes,

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attended chapel, and joined their daughters in special programs planned
for the occasion.

March

Dr. John Baillie, noted theologian and teacher, of Edinburgh Uni-
versity, on campus with Mrs. Baillie for four-day visit. Lecture topics:
"None Other Name," "The Mainspring of Christian Action," and "The
Philosophical Status of Christian Faith."
Art department exhibit on "The Cross in Christian Art."
"Fascism in Spain," lecture by William Ebenstein, professor of politics
at Princeton University and University Center Visiting Scholar.

April

Dr. Louis R. Gottschalk, professor of modern history at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, at Agnes Scott as visiting lecturer in European history.

Agnes Scott and Harvard glee clubs in joint concert, featuring "A
German Requiem" by Brahms.

Illustrated lecture on "Eleusis: Her Sanctuary and Cemetery,"
by Professor George Mylonas of the department of archaeology, Wash-
ington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Alumnae Week End with luncheon, lectures in a "Back to College"
series, and the Blackfriars' spring production.

Chapel talk on "The New Testament and Its Environment," by Dr.
Werner G. Kummel, professor of New Testament at the University
of Marburg, Germany.

Dr. Kenneth Franklin, of the Hayden Planetarium of the American
Museum in New York City, in public lecture at Bradley Observatory.

Visit from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.
tours of the campus, picnic supper, evening service in Gaines chapel
where Warner E. Sallman discussed his famed "Head of Christ."
Reception in Rebekah Scott Hall, honoring Dr. E. C. Scott, retiring
Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Chi Beta Phi convocation led by Dr. William G. Pollard, executive
director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

May

"Backstage at the Opera," chapel talk by Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.

Original opera presented by the senior class My Fair Carmenov.

May Day production drawn from the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice

Athletic Association Community Day with volleyball, tennis, a picnic,
and awards.

"Some Aspects of Radiation Biology," seminar led by Carolyn Wells,
'55, radiation research biologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

June

Class Day exercises.

Baccalaureate sermon by Dr. James T. Cleland, dea.i of Duke Uni-
versity Chapel. Commencement address by Dr. Kenneth I. Brown,
executive director of the Danforth Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri.

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ENROLLMENT

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 629
students (568 boarders, 61 day students) representing
thirty states, the District of Columbia, and six foreign
countries (Cuba, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Korea, and
Malaya). The geographical distribution is as follows:

Alabama 36

Arizona 1

Arkansas 1

California 4

Colorado 1

Connecticut 1

Delaware 1

Florida 53

Georgia 196

Illinois 1

Indiana 2

Kansas 1

Kentucky 9

Louisiana 6

Maine ....
Maryland . .
Massachusetts
Michigan

1

5

1

3

Mississippi 6

Missouri 1

New Jersey 2

New York 7

North Carolina 77

Ohio 1

Pennsylvania 3

South Carolina 71

Tennessee 35

Texas 16

Virginia 64

West Virginia 16

District of Columbia ....

Cuba

Germany

Great Britain

Italy

Korea

Malaya

Total 629

The classification of the student body for the 1958-59
session is as follows :

Seniors 109

Juniors 127

Sophomores 180

Freshmen 204

Second-year Freshmen 4

Specials 5

Total 629

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include one
student who was not in residence during the 1958-59 session; it does
include two students who withdrew during the session and did not gradu-
ate. The total number awarded the degree was 108.)

The denominational distribution is as follows:

Presbyterian 275

Methodist 123

Baptist 113

Episcopal 74

Christian 8

Roman Catholic 7

Jewish 7

Congregational 5

Lutheran 5

Greek Orthodox 4

Moravian 2

Salvation Army 2

Church of Christ 2

Christian Scientist 1

Non-denominational .... 1

Total "629

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TRUSTEES

The terms of the following trustees expired with the
annual meeting of the Board on May 8, 1959: Mr. G.
Lamar Westcott (Synodical, Georgia) ; Mrs. Peter Mar-
shall (Alumnae); Mr. Hal L. Smith (Corporate); Mr.
C. F. Stone (Corporate) ; Dr. Harry A. Fifield (Corpo-
rate) ; Mr. George W. Woodruff (Corporate).

By action of the Board at the annual meeting, Mr. West-
cott was re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a term of four
years, subject to ratification by the Synod of Georgia, Pres-
byterian Church (U.S.) ; Mrs. Marshall was re-elected as
an Alumnae Trustee for a term of two years, subject to
ratification by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association; Mr.
Hal L. Smith, Mr. C. F. Stone, Dr. Harry A. Fifield, and
Mr. George W. Woodruff were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each. Mr. James A.
Minter, Jr., of Tyler, Alabama, was elected as a Synodical
Trustee for a term of four years, subject to ratification by
the Presbyterian Synod of Alabama.

In concluding this annual report, I wish to express my
gratitude to the members of the Board of Trustees for their
intelligent interest in the work of the college. Their loyalty
to Agnes Scott is a major source of encouragement to those
of us who administer the affairs of this institution.

Respectfully submitted,
President

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July 1, 1960

THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

July I, I960

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE DECATUR, GEORGIA

July 1, 1960

Board of Trustees
Agnes Scott College:

I present herewith my ninth annual report as president
at the conclusion of the seventy-first year in the life of Agnes
Scott College.

Colleges and universities, like individuals, have distinctive
personality. They have divergent backgrounds, traditions,
ideals and purposes, standards, requirements, and proce-
dures. Some of the more obvious differences may be deduced
from recent statistical summaries for 1959-1960 published
by the U. S. Office of Education.

Institutions of higher learning differ in function, for
example. Of the total of 2,011 colleges and universities
listed by the U. S. Office of Education, 1 585 are junior
colleges, offering at least two years of study but less than
a four-year degree program; 718 offer the bachelor's degree
(or the first professional degree) ; 462 offer programs
including the bachelor's and the master's degree; 205 offer
the doctor of philosophy degree (or degrees of equivalent
status) ; while 41 institutions are not classified according to
level of offerings because of the irregular nature of their
programs.

Colleges and universities differ widely in the manner of
operation and control. The Federal Government controls
12 institutions of higher learning (such as the United States
Military Academy at West Point) ; 375 are operated under
the direction of state governments; 311 are controlled by
local government units such as cities, school districts, or
counties; 520 are independent and under private control;
793 are church-related institutions, controlled and financed
wholly or partially by a church body (494 are Protestant,
294 Roman Catholic, and 5 Jewish).

Practices of institutions differ with respect to the students
who are admitted. Of the 2,011 accredited colleges and
universities in this country, 228 are for men only, 252 for
women only, while 1,531 are coeducational. Institutions

1 The list published by the U. S. Office of Education does not pur-
port to be complete. It includes institutions that are accredited by a
recognized agency, or that operate under state control, or that have
effected plans to have their credits accepted on transfer by at least
three fully accredited institutions of higher education.

attended predominantly by Negroes number approximately
100. An increasing number of colleges and most of the
universities are open to people of all races. Admission
standards vary considerably among institutions; most of
the rigorous programs of selective admissions are found in
non-tax-supported colleges and universities.

So far as the size of institutions of higher education is
concerned, the range is from less than 100 students in a
college to a vast student population in a university (for
example, the University of California reports 44,816, the
University of Minnesota 35,882, and New York University
32,631).

Admittedly, many of the factors that contribute to the
personality of a college or university cannot be discovered
through statistical comparisons. Such factors are often of
determinative importance if the image of the institution is
to be identified and appraised. Considerable interest is being
shown in a study supported by the Carnegie Corporation,
entitled A Criterion Study of College Environment by
C. Robert Pace and George G. Stern of Syracuse University.
It is an attempt to "differentiate various college environ-
ments in both academic and psychological ways." In his
57th Report to the College Entrance Examination Board,
President Frank H. Bowles has this to say about the Pace-
Stern research :

Undertaken originally in an effort to isolate factors relating to
student performance in college, this inquiry established, at least
for the several institutions studied, that academic and psychological
differences do exist between institutions, that they can be identified
and in a sense quantified, and that they are of a nature which
must inevitably affect student performance by reason of the
differing weights and values assigned in different institutions to
various forms of academic and nonacademic achievement. 2

Educators will welcome, to be sure, the results of investiga-
tions that help them in understanding the impact of their
institutions upon students and upon the community at
large.

I suppose it is generally assumed that the administrator
of a college such as Agnes Scott is scarcely the person to
delineate the "profile" or "image" of the college. His evalu-
ation will inevitably be discounted somewhat, no matter how

2 Frank H. Bowles, Admission to College: A Perspective for the
1960's, 57th Report of the President, College Entrance Examination
Board, page 89.

objective he undertakes to be in his assessment of assets
and liabilities. However, he can and I believe, should
state at intervals what he wants the college to be, what
"image" of the college he aspires and labors to actualize,
and what impact he would have the college make upon the
lives of young people. If, with this assumption, I should
be required to state the elements that I most covet for Agnes
Scott's "image," the following would assuredly be included:

I

Our educational responsibility is to continue to offer the
bachelor of arts degree to young women in a relatively
small student body (presently 640 students).

II

We are trying to provide a rich curriculum integrating
the Christian interpretation of life with a high quality of
academic work in an environment where personal relation-
ships among members of the educational community obtain.

Ill

We undertake to offer a liberal arts training that touches
life vitally and determinatively. We are convinced that,
so far from being visionary, vague, and unrelated to life, a
liberal arts education ought to fit young people to live with
themselves; it ought to contribute to marriage, to vocational
success, and to good citizenship; it ought to help with the
highest level of adjustment the relationship of man with
God. The type of education offered at Agnes Scott is pred-
icated upon the conviction that a mind trained to think is
essential if life is to be unfettered, rich and free. More-
over, as a liberal arts college, Agnes Scott tries to place at
the disposal of the student some of the accumulated wealth
of the ages, all the while attempting to guide the effort to
acquire a working knowledge of the clues and the tools
essential to an appreciation of the intellectual and spiritual
treasures that so many are neglecting.

IV

Agnes Scott has always valued integrity in education.
We have little faith in pedagogical gadgetry and novelty.
We are interested in better teaching methods, new equip-

ment, and certainly in improved library and laboratory
facilities; but we are convinced that there is no substitute
for the well-prepared student and the dedicated, com-
petently trained teacher in the educational process. The
account of Agnes Scott's rise to distinction as a college is
the story of a faculty characterized by loyalty, commitment
to high purposes and ideals, professional excellence, faith-
ful and sacrificial service to young people. Good teaching is
the indispensable heart and core of a great college.

In all of the procedures at Agnes Scott, academic and
extracurricular, we are concerned with the whole person
her mind, her physical welfare, her social development, and
her spiritual life. We consider that we have failed a student
when we merely provide information without insight, facts
with little increase in wisdom, fragments of knowledge with
no real help in forming a whole view of reality, and stimula-
tion of the intellect with no compelling motivation of will
and molding of character. We believe profoundly in the
validity of offering an academically demanding program of
liberal studies in a community of Christian concern where
personal relationships are both creative and satisfying.

VI

The confrontation of a student with the insights of the
Christian faith, with no effort at coercion but with respect
for the personality of the student (which is an essential
tenet of the Christian faith), is, we believe, an integral
part of our purpose as a college. Christian thought and
action constitute a live option for intelligent people in a
bewildering world. For a college with Agnes Scott's back-
ground and history to be indifferent to the task of making
possible an acquaintance with classical Christianity and an
encounter with God in Christ would be unpardonable.

VII

We believe that truth is of God and is imperious; that
it transcends all attempts to codify and delimit it, all forms
of partisanship, professionalism, and propagandizing zeal;
and that it requires humility, honesty, courage, and patience
of all who are concerned to discover it (even in approxi-

mation), understand it, and follow where it requires them
to go in their thinking and living. Freedom of inquiry in the
college community is a sine qua non. We are proud of a
tradition that assumes and safeguards the freedom of
faculty members to think, to speak, to write, and to act. It
is expected that faculty members will exercise this freedom
with due regard for the purposes and ideals of the college,
with common sense, and with a maturity that discriminates
between the irresponsibility of license and the responsibility
of true liberty.

Agnes Scott was host last October to a group of visiting
educators from colleges of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States. At the conclusion of the visit, a report was
prepared by the Visitation Team and forwarded to the
Division of Higher Education of the Presbyterian church.
We are gratified and humbled by the following expression
of judgment included in the report:

The Visitation Team concluded that the overall effectiveness
of the college program was not due to the use of special techniques
or devices, but rather to the honest administration of a simple
basic curriculum dealing with fundamental matters of learning.
As one member of the team put it, "There are no gimmicks or
frills here." An observer hoping to find some unusual educational
device responsible for the educational success of Agnes Scott would
be disappointed. At heart it is the harmonious and effective com-
bination of three elements: a dedicated and well trained faculty
and administration, a very carefully selected student body, and
the advantages of a splendid physical plant, including a 'fine
collection of library books and scientific equipment. It was evi-
dent in all of the discussions that the faculty and administration
of Agnes Scott College believe in a liberal arts education within
the Christian context and are dedicated to providing it for their
students in a full and rich measure. The Team was impressed
with the intelligence of the planning and the essential soundness
of the constructive measures taken by administration and faculty.
The students seemed unusually responsive to the challenge of
becoming liberally educated ; those with whom members of the
Team talked were aggressive in their attitude toward the academic
program in contrast to the passivity which is felt on other
campuses. For the Agnes Scott student, "going to college" seems
to have a significantly positive and genuine meaning. The care
and foresight with which the construction of the campus buildings
had been undertaken was clearly evident. Unusually good pro-
vision has been made in past years for equipping these buildings
in the form of ample budgets for library and scientific materials.
The present richness and variety of these collections is an eloquent

tribute to the continuing and patient efforts of those in charge
of the college program. The character of the physical plant was
impressive, but the Visitation Team came to the conclusion that
in the final analysis the real strength of Agnes Scott College
rested in the character and intelligence of those who have been
responsible for administering the policies of the school. It is to
do no more than to state a simple fact to declare that they
have done a splendid job. 3

ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PLANS

Development Program

Agnes Scott's Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development
Program enters an intensive phase this fall, with plans
under way for campaigns in Atlanta and in various centers
throughout the United States. This phase of the program
has as its objective the raising of $4,500,000 by 1964. The
successful completion of the effort will mean that our capital
assets will have been increased by $11,000,000 since the
inauguration of the development program in 1953.

Mr. William C. French of Marts & Lundy, Inc., New
York, arrived at Agnes Scott on January 1 to establish his
office as director of the campaign. This intensive effort that
is to extend through June, 1961, was launched with a campus
campaign last April which resulted in a total of $106,823 in
cash and pledges (a goal of $75,000 had been set), and
continued with six area campaigns in North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Tennessee.

During the next ten months, campaigns are planned for
approximately forty centers in the District of Columbia
and seventeen states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Califor-
nia, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Vir-
ginia. On February 7, 1961, the Atlanta campaign will be
launched at a dinner with President Milton Eisenhower of
The Johns Hopkins University as principal speaker. Three
suburban campaigns (Decatur; Atlanta Suburban North,
centering in Marietta; and Atlanta Suburban South, center-
ing in College Park) will take place in the fall.

The audit dated June 30, 1953 (the date when Agnes

3 Report of the Visitation to Agnes Scott, submitted to the Division
of Higher Education, Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian
Church, U. S., p. 2.

Scott's development program began) showed Agnes Scott's
total capital assets in the amount of $7,034,903.96. The
audit for the past year, dated June 30, 1960, showed the
total capital assets as $14,382,030.75. We have been able
to add $7,347,126.79 to our fixed assets and permanent
funds since 1953, leaving, as of July 1, 1960, a balance of
$3,652,873.21 to be raised by 1964.

The seventy-fifth anniversary campaign leadership has
been approved by the Board of Trustees :

Honorary National Chairman Robert Frost

Honorary National Co-Chairmen Catherine Marshall LeSourd

John A. Sibley
National Chairman Hal L. Smith

National Vice Chairmen Ivan Allen, Jr.

R. Howard Dobbs, Jr.

J. R. McCain

The Campaign Steering Committee

Ivan Allen, Jr. Mrs. Joseph C. Read

D. Brantley Burns John A. Sibley

Marshall C. Dendy Hal L. Smith

R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr.

Miss Eleanor Hutchens G. Lamar Westcott

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk Mrs. William T. Wilson, Jr.

Mrs. H. Clay Lewis George W. Woodruff

J. R. McCain Wallace M. Alston (ex officio)

J. R. Neal

Academic Progress

Upon recommendation of the Academic Council, the
Board of Trustees at its meeting on May 13, 1960, author-
ized the establishment of a department of speech and
dramatic art. The work in speech and drama was formerly
offered as a part of the English department. This action
of the Board enables us to place proper emphasis upon
speech and dramatic art as an area in our curriculum com-
parable to music and the visual arts.

Important changes designed to strengthen the depart-
ment of education include the addition to the staff of a full-
time faculty member, the adoption of a careful selection
procedure for admission to the teacher education courses,
and the enrichment of these courses by concentrating in one
quarter the instruction in methods of teaching and appren-
tice teaching. Through our membership in the Cooperative
Program for the Master of Arts in Teaching at Duke Uni-

versity, able graduates will have an opportunity to prepare
for secondary school teaching in a program combining pro-
fessional education and subject field instruction.

Addition to the department of economics and sociology
of two full-time faculty members will increase the offerings
in that department. New courses in basic economics, eco-
nomic theory, and social anthropology will be offered this
session; other new courses in these areas will be introduced
the following year.

Three Fulbright Awards and three Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowships have been granted members of the
class of 1960 for study in Germany, Wales, France, and
this country. One of these students also received the Eta
Sigma Phi Scholarship for summer study at the American
Academy in Rome, Italy. Eight other members of the class
were awarded fellowships, scholarships, and assistantships
to Duke University, Emory University, University of Flor-
ida, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton Theological
Seminary, Washington University, and the Woman's Medi-
cal College of Pennsylvania.

Admissions and Scholarship Policies

The practice of multiple applications continues to be
foremost among problems in admissions over the country.
Other problems that are becoming more acute have to do
with the timing of the admissions and scholarship process
and the necessity, from the point of view of high schools,
applicants, and colleges, for some uniformity in procedure.
These problems are topics for discussion at admission and
scholarship meetings. Apparently there is no immediate
solution, but remedies are being suggested and are already
in effect in some institutions.

Because of multiple applications, it has become increas-
ingly difficult to estimate the number of students to be
accepted in any one year, with the danger of over-registra-
tion as pressing as that of under-registration. We accepted
students for the 1959-1960 session in line with our exper-
ience (in terms of over-registration and withdrawals) of
the preceding session; we found by September that we had
had fewer cancellations than anticipated and thus opened
with an over-capacity enrollment. We had set 568 as our
maximum boarding capacity, and we opened with 585. It

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was necessary to convert a small faculty house on campus
into a dormitory unit and to rent rooms in the alumnae
house. An unusually large return of students already en-
rolled and the unexpected stabilizing effect of the new
Early Decision Plan were, we feel, major reasons for the
situation in which we found ourselves last fall. This exper-
ience has made us more conservative in over-registration for
the coming session, although the graduation of our largest
senior class will result in a larger new student enrollment.
In an attempt to stabilize registration earlier, we have
moved the date for payment of our non-refundable $200
room-retaining fee from July 1 to June 15.

This past session was the first in which formal Early
Decision Plans were inaugurated in thirty-four independent
women's colleges in the country. The plan, which permits
assurance of admission by December 1 of the senior year
to certain well-qualified candidates who have made a single
choice of college, is still in an experimental stage. The
colleges were unanimous in reporting, however, that they
felt it has caused some reduction in multiple applications
since candidates accepted by their first-choice institutions
do not have to file "insurance" applications elsewhere. Some
objectors to the plan feel that it may become a highly com-
petitive one and thus defeat its purpose; we and other
colleges in the group stress the non-competitive, non-pressure
aspect of the plan and believe that it can serve a useful
purpose for all concerned.

The lack of uniformity, or order, in the timing of the
admissions and scholarship process has been more apparent
this year than ever before. We belong to a group of 160
colleges and universities that have agreed upon one date
before which no candidate (with the exception of those
accepted on early decision) is required to accept an admis-
sion or scholarship offer, or to make a large non-refundable
payment. This date, known as the Candidates Reply Date,
permits students to give consideration, without pressure for
early commitment, to all admission and scholarship oppor-
tunities open to them. All colleges in the group announce
their decisions before the Candidates Reply Date but some
necessarily later than others, particularly those requiring
March achievement tests or those having unusually large
numbers of applicants. Many colleges not subscribing to the
Candidates Reply Date are setting earlier dates by which

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student commitments must be made and are in most cases
requiring immediate payment of large non-refundable fees.
The result is unfortunate pressure upon the applicants, who
sometimes feel forced to commit themselves because they
are afraid they may not be admitted later to the colleges
of their choice.

We joined the College Scholarship Service in order to
make more equitable allocation of financial aid and to help
reduce competitive scholarship practices; we know that
some order out of chaos has resulted from this program.
We feel that more cooperation among institutions is needed
in the matter of time schedules permitted students for
scholarship and admission commitments. This need was
recently recognized at a conference of southern colleges in
June a meeting called to discuss what the chairman
described as our "seemingly impossible situation." We
believe that one solution could be the wider adoption of the
Candidates Reply Date and the strengthening of the prin-
ciples of the College Scholarship Service.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Personnel

Additions to the faculty for the 1959-1960 session have
been: Elizabeth Cole Stack (B.A. Greensboro College;
M.Ed., Ph.D. University of North Carolina), assistant
professor of education; Martha Jane Cauvel (B.A. The
State College of Washington, M.A. University of Hawaii),
assistant professor of philosophy; Maria Clara Kane (grad-
uate study, Universities of Berlin and Vienna, M.A. Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania), instructor in German; Elvena M.
Green (B.A. Mills College, M.A. Cornell University),
assistant professor of speech and dramatic art; Hendrik
R. Hudson (B.S.M.E. Georgia Institute of Technology),
assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and associate
director of the Bradley Observatory; Nancy Morse Camp-
bell (B.S. University of Oregon; Connecticut College
School of the Dance), instructor in physical education;
Virginia Ryan Klaus (B.A. St. Joseph's College for
Women, M.A. University of Minnesota), instructor in
psychology (winter quarter) ; and Ross H. McLean (B.A.
Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan),

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visiting professor of history and political science (spring
quarter).

New members of the staff for the 1959-1960 session
were: Ethelyn Johnson Roberts (B.A. Agnes Scott College,
M.A. Emory University), assistant to the librarian; Bar-
bara Oglesby Jones (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant
to the librarian and senior resident; Ann Rivers Payne
(B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant to the dean of stu-
dents; Annette Teague (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secre-
tary to the registrar and director of admissions; Cynthia
Marise Ponder, associate resident nurse; Mary Louise Dod-
son, secretary to the business manager; Runita McCurdy
Goode (B.A. Agnes Scott College), manager of the book-
store; Johanna Gerke, assistant to the dietitian; Gay R.
McCleskey, secretary, office of the president and registrar;
Suzanne P. Essam and Elizabeth Rabe Stevenson, secre-
taries, office of development.

The following promotions become effective with the
1960-1961 session: Julia T. Gary, associate professor of
chemistry; Elizabeth Cole Stack, associate professor of
education; and Timothy Miller, associate professor of
music.

Faculty and administrative appointments for the 1960-
1961 session include: Charles F. Martin (B.A. Wayne
State University, M.A. University of Mississippi), assis-
tant professor of economics; Fred K. Parrish (B.A. Duke
University, M.A. University of North Carolina), instruc-
tor in biology; Marion T. Clark (B.A., M.A. Emory Uni-
versity; Ph.D. University of Virginia), visiting associate
professor of chemistry; John A. Tumblin (B.A. Wake
Forest College; M.A., Ph.D. Duke University), visiting
associate professor of sociology and anthropology; Sarah
Evelyn Jackson (B.A. King College, M.A. University of
North Carolina, Ph.D. Emory University), visiting instruc-
tor in English; Michael J. Brown (B.A. LaGrange Col-
lege, M.A. Emory University) , visiting instructor in his-
tory; Mary B. Williams (B.A. Reed College, M.A. Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania), instructor in mathematics and
senior resident; Merle Walker (B.A. Hollins College;
M.A., Ph.D. Radcliffe College), assistant professor of
philosophy (previously a member of the English faculty) ;
Marlene Baver (B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College; M.S.M.
Union Theological Seminary, New York) , visiting instruc-

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tor in music; Margaret McKelway (B.A. Agnes Scott
College), assistant to the librarian and senior resident;
Grace Woods Walden (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assis-
tant to the librarian; Annette Teague (B.A. Agnes Scott
College), assistant in admissions and in the registrar's office
(previously secretary in this office) ; Joyce Thomas Pack
(B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary to the registrar
and director of admissions; Marjorie Erickson (B.A.
Agnes Scott College), assistant to the dean of students;
Sandra Holman (R.N. Crawford Long Hospital School
of Nursing), associate resident nurse; Juanette C. Boone,
assistant dietitian; Suzanne Ware McGinty (B.A. Agnes
Scott College), secretary in the development office.

Miss Mildred Rutherford Mell, professor and chairman
of the department of economics and sociology, retired at
the close of the 1959-1960 college session, after twenty-two
years of devoted service to Agnes Scott College. Miss Mell
was honored at a faculty meeting on March 25, when she
was presented with a silver tray. Her associates on the
faculty and her friends in the community have established
the Mildred Rutherford Mell Lecture Fund as an appro-
priate means of honoring her for her service to Agnes
Scott.

Faculty members on leave during the 1960-1961 session
include: Elizabeth A. Crigler, associate professor of chem-
istry; Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music;
Frances B. Clark, assistant professor of French (fall quar-
ter only). Miss Crigler holds an appointment as Research
Fellow in Chemistry, Harvard University; Miss Clark
will continue her doctoral studies at Yale University, and
Mr. Martin at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Professional Activities

Mr. John Louis Adams, assistant professor of music, is principal viola
with the Atlanta Symphony and string quartet and has played in the
regular concert series this year. He has served as vice-president of the
Georgia chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, associate professor of French, represented
Agnes Scott on the team which visited Austin College in Sherman,
Texas, in February, under the program of Intercollege Visitation of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S. Dr. Allen was also responsible for preparing
the elementary and intermediate French competitive tests sponsored by
the Classical and Modern Language Association for the secondary schools
in Georgia.

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Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, has served as vice-
president (southern section) of the National Association of Biblical In-
structors. She is a member of the executive committee of the Faculty
Christian Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and continues
as a member of the General Assembly's Ad Interim Committee to
Prepare a Brief Statement of Belief.

Mrs. Edna Hanley Byers, librarian, is listed in the 1960-1961 edition
of Who's Who in America.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and astronomy, and
director of the Bradley Observatory, has taught astronomy at Emory
University in a summer institute sponsored by the National Science
Foundation. He will teach in a similar institute at Virginia State College.

Mrs. Nancy Morse Campbell, instructor in physical education, has
served this year as secretary of the Georgia Dance Association. Mrs.
Campbell is spending the summer in New York City, where she is
studying dance with Martha Graham.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, associate professor of Bible and philosophy, is
studying Chinese this summer at Yale Language Institute under a grant
from the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Christian Education.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish, continues as
secretary-treasurer of the Georgia Chapter of the American Association
of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. She is a member of the
American board of Vertice, a Portuguese cultural and literary magazine
and serves as corresponding secretary to the Director of Curso de Ferias
(summer session), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

Dr. William G. Cornelius, associate professor of political science, is
vice-chairman of the University Center Political Science Group. He
participated in a panel on Soviet foreign policy at the annual meeting
of the Southern Political Science Association.

Dr. S. Leonard Doerpinghaus, assistant professor of biology, is study-
ing desert biology at a National Science Foundation institute held at
Arizona State College.

Dr. Miriam K. Drucker, associate professor of psychology, has served
as chairman of the policy and planning council of the Georgia Psychologi-
cal Association.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, led a panel
discussion on "Language Workshops" at the fall meeting of the
Georgia Education Association held at Wesleyan College. As a sponsor
for the Committee for International Economic Growth, Dr. Dunstan
attended a dinner in Washington honoring President Eisenhower and
fifteen nations he visited this year.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, is a member of the
council of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Frierson is teaching at
Emory University this summer.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, continues as president of the
Atlanta Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Dr. Julia T. Gary, associate professor of chemistry, taught chemistry
at Emory University this summer in a program for high school students
sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. M. Kathryn Glick, professor of classical languages and literatures,

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is vice-president (Georgia section) of the Classical Association of the
Middle West and South.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, instructor in biology, attended the IX Inter-
national Botanical Congress in Montreal last August, where she presented
a paper on "A Report on the Morphology and Anatomy of an Unusual
Parasitic Gymnosperm from New Caledonia." Mrs. Gray is a biology
section council representative in the Georgia Academy of Science.

Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, participated in a
panel on "What is Musicianship and How Can It Be Taught?" at the
convention of the Georgia Music Teachers Association. This summer
Miss Hagopian is studying Russian at Colby College under a Danforth
Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant. She serves as regional
chairman of the membership committee of the College Music Association.

Dr. Muriel Ham, professor of German and Spanish, prepared the
state contest examinations in elementary and intermediate Spanish for
the Classical and Modern Foreign Language Association in March.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, instructor in music, and Michael Mc-
Dowell, professor of music, presented a two-piano recital in Jacksonville,
Florida, in April. Mrs. Harris is vice-president and program chairman
for the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary
music sorority.

Dr. Miriam M. Howell, assistant professor of education, worked
during the 1959-1960 session as a consultant with the faculty of the John
Carey School in Atlanta, helping them organize their first three grades
into an ungraded primary school the first such school in the Atlanta
area.

Mr. Hendrik R. Hudson, assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
and associate director of the Bradley Observatory, was elected president
of the southeast region of the American Astronomical League at the
1960 regional convention in April. Mr. Hudson was also elected to
membership in the Georgia Academy of Science. This summer Mr. Hud-
son is teaching astronomy at Murray State College in Kentucky and
will participate in a National Science Foundation conference on "Astro-
geophysics" at Georgetown University.

Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs, serves as
district director for the southeast district of the American College
Public Relations Association.

Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr., was a member of a Visiting Team for
Evaluation appointed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secon-
dary Schools. Dean Kline is a council member of the Southern Associa-
tion of Colleges for Women and serves as vice-chairman of the Univer-
sity Center Faculty Advisory Committee. He is listed in the 1960-1961
edition of Who's Who in America.

Miss Kay Manuel, assistant professor of physical education, served
as state chairman of aquatics for the division of girls' and women's
sports, American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recrea-
tion. Miss Manuel has recently received a national rating as a basket-
ball official. This summer she is studying at the summer physical educa-
tion camp of New York University under a Danforth Foundation
Faculty Summer Study Grant.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, continues as
staff organist for the Protestant Radio and TV Center and as a member

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of the executive committee of the Atlanta chapter of the American Guild
of Organists. This summer, while studying at Union Theological Semi-
nary, Mr. Martin is again serving as guest organist in the First Presby-
terian Church of New York City. He will play an organ recital in
August at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.

Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of physical education, has
received a national rating as a basketball official. Miss McKemie is the
state chairman of the division of girls' and women's sports of the
American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
This summer she is director of the Girl Scout Camp Juliette Low at
Cloudland, Georgia.

Dr. W. Edward McNair, director of public relations and develop-
ment, and assistant professor of English, serves on the General Assem-
bly's permanent nominating committee, Presbyterian Church, U. S.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, professor emeritus of economics and sociology,
has been chosen to serve on the executive committee of the Southern
Sociological Society during 1960-1961.

Dr. Timothy Miller, associate professor of music, is currently editor
of the Georgia Music Teachers Association's Newsletter.

Miss Lillian Newman, assistant librarian, was chairman of the
nominating committee for the Library Resources and Technical Pro-
cesses section of the Georgia Library Association which met in Atlanta
in December. Miss Newman has been elected first vice-president of the
Atlanta Library Club. This summer she is reference librarian at Emory
University.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science, is
teaching at the University of Alabama this summer.

Miss Janef Newman Preston, assistant professor of English, was
one of the judges for the poetry competitions conducted in the
magazine Quicksilver and for the poetry contests of the Georgia
Writers' Association.

Dr. Mary L. Rion, assistant professor of English, again served as
group supervisor at the reading of English composition examinations
for the College Entrance Examination Board. In June she read the
Advanced Placement English Examinations of the College Board.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, has been selected
chairman of the southeast section of the Mathematical Association of
America for the year 1960-1961.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and sociol-
ogy, is visiting professor of sociology at Oglethorpe University this
summer. She served on the nominating committee and arrangements
committee for the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting in 1960.

Dr. Elizabeth C. Stack, associate professor of education, was a mem-
ber of the planning committee for a conference at Emory University in
April concerning "The Teaching of History." Dr. Stack is a member
of the Georgia Council of Teacher Education and serves on that council's
Committee on Criteria for Teacher Certification. She is on the advisory
board of Social Education, journal of the National Council for the
Social Studies. Dr. Stack is teaching at Emory University this summer.

Miss Laura Steele, registrar and director of admissions, served as
secretary of the Women's Independent Colleges of the College Entrance
Examination Board during 1959-1960.

Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history, is teaching
at Emory University this summer.

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Dr. Margret G. Trotter, associate professor of English, was on the
book award committee of the Georgia Writers' Association for 1959.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, had a one-man retrospective
exhibition of paintings at the Kansas City (Missouri) Art Institute. Mr.
Warren lectured on "Point of View" at the Atlanta Art Association
and was one of the association's featured artists of the month during
the year.

Mr. Robert Westervelt, assistant professor of art, has exhibited his
work in the Del Gado Museum in New Orleans and in the McBurney
Gallery of the Atlanta Art Association. Mr. Westervelt gave a lecture
and master class in stoneware design craftsmanship at Shorter College.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical education,
spoke at the meeting of the Georgia Association of Physical Education
for College Women on "The Contribution of Physical Education to
College Women."

Research and Publications
1959-1960

Mary L. Boney:

"Literature of the Underground," Presbyterian Youth, XXXIV, 4
(October-December, 1959), 64-74.

"Our Highest Court," Presbyterian Youth, XXXV, 1 (January-
March, 1960), 45-55.

"Christian Symbols," Presbyterian Youth, XXXV, 2 (April-June,
1960), 31-47.

Josephine Bridgman:

Research in progress: radiation effects on ciliate cysts (project
supported by the Atomic Energy Commission).

William A. Calder:

"Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy"; book review, Sky and
Telescope (May, 1960).

Kwai Sing Chang:

Research in progress: "The Problem of Religious Knowledge."

Melissa A. Cilley:

"Trends in Contemporary Portuguese Literature," South Atlantic
Bulletin, XXV, 3 (January, 1960).

"The Short Story in the United States," Diario de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal (September, 1959).

Research in progress :

"Spanish Literature of the Golden Age."
"Contemporary Portuguese Literature."

Frances B. Clark:

Research in progress: "Pascal's Concept of Heart" (doctoral dis-
sertation, Yale University, continued in summer, 1960, under a
Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant).

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William G. Cornelius:
Research in progress:

"The County-Unit Voting System of Georgia."
"Southern Political Society."

W. Joe Frierson:

Research in progress:

A new colorimetric reagent for the determination of cobalt.
Study of a new colorimetric reagent for beryllium (project
sponsored by the Pratt Trace Analysis Fund).
Separation by paper chromatography and the quantitative
determination of trace amounts of iron, aluminum, magnesium,
and manganese (project sponsored by the Research Corporation).

Paul L. Garber:

"4,000 Years Ago on Route 66," Counsel (Philadelphia), II, 4

(July-September, 1959), 5-9.

Final preparation for publication of 19 short and longer articles

for the forthcoming Interpreter's Bible Dictionary (Nashville).

Research in progress:

Continuing work with Mr. E. G. Howland, Troy, Ohio, on a
new model reconstruction of the synagogues at Capernaum and
Dura-Europos.

Related general study of the earliest Christian art in all forms;
extensive work scheduled for summer, 1960, under a Danforth
Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant, with the aid of the
Christian Art Index at Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey.

Julia T. Gary:

Research in progress: the polarographic reduction of certain func-
tional groups in organic compounds.

Netta E. Gray:

"Podocarpus pallidus Gray, sp. nov.," "Plants of Tonga," T. G.
Yuncker, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin, CCXX, 46 (July,
1959).

"A Report on Morphology and Anatomy of an Unusual Parasitic
Gymnosperm from New Caledonia," Proceedings of the IX Inter-
national Botanical Congress, II (August, 1959), 141 (abstract).
"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, XII, Section Microcarpus,"
Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, XLI (1960), 36-39.
Research in progress: "A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, XIII,
Section Polypodiopsis."

Nancy P. Groseclose:

Research in progress: "The Effect of X-irradiation on Developing
Xenopus laevis."

Muriel Ham:

Research in progress: a study of the poetry and shorter prose works
of Elizabeth Langgasser (paper to be read at SAMLA meeting
November, 1961).

Eloise Herbert:

Research in progress: a study of the "santos" in the contemporary
novels of Benito Perez Galdos.

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Miriam M. Howell:

Research in progress: "School Entrance Age" and "The Ungraded
Plan" (part of a book of case studies being edited by Edward T.
Ladd).

C. Benton Kline, Jr.:

Research in progress: "Naturalism and Theism: A Study of Samuel
Alexander and George Frederick Stout" (doctoral dissertation,
Yale University).

Ellen Douglass Leyburn:

"Virginia Woolf's Judgment of Henry James," Modern Fiction
Studies, V (Summer, 1959).

"Review of J. M. Synge, 1871-1905 by David H. Greene and
Edward M. Stephens," Modern Drama, III (Summer, 1960).

Raymond J. Martin:

Research in progress: began work toward Doctor of Sacred Music
degree, Union Theological Seminary, New York, summer, 1959;
continued under Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer Study
Grant, summer, 1960, and under a grant from the Presbyterian
Board of Education for the academic year, 1960-1961.

Margaret W. Pepperdene:

"Chaucer in Our Time," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly,

XXXVIII (Winter, 1960), 4-10.

Research in progress: "The Methods of Characterization in

Beowulf."

Walter B. Posey:

"The Challenge of the Heroic," Filson Club History Quarterly,
XXXIV (April, 1960), 140-155.
Research in progress:

"Alabama in the 1830's," to be published in forthcoming issue
of the Emory Quarterly.

"Ecclesiastical Hankerings," to be published in forthcoming
issue of Journal of Southern History.

Janef Newman Preston:

"Twentieth Century Incident," Quicksilver, A Quarterly Magazine

of Poetry (Autumn, 1959).

"And Now Good Morrow," The Oregonian (Autumn, 1959).

"This Shadow on My Threshold," The New York Herald Tribune

(October 30, 1959).

"Mimosa Tree in Bloom," The Writer (November, 1959).

"On Leaving Familiar Places," Wings, A Quarterly of Verse

(Winter, 1960).

"Peach Orchard," The Writer (winner of award, March, 1960).

"Invisible Sun," Georgia Magazine (April-May, 1960).

"In an Old Graveyard Where a Birdbath Has This Inscription: for

all birds from Elizabeth Montgomery who is buried here." (winner

of the Society Prize of the Poetry Society of Georgia, I960- to be

published in the Yearbook of the Society, autumn, 1960).

George E. Rice:

"Effects of Acceleration Forces on Maze Behavior of the White

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Rat," with John H. Hollis and Raymond D. Engstrand, Psychologi-
cal Reports, VI (1960), 185-186.

"Altruistic Behavior in Albino Rats," with Priscilla W. Gainer
(paper presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association
meeting, April 1, 1960).

Research in progress: "Reactive Inhibition in a Stylus Maze in
Humans."

Henry A. Robinson:

"The March Meeting of the Southeastern Section," The American
Mathematical Monthly, LXVI, 6 (June-July, 1959), 535-542.

Anna Greene Smith:

Research in progress: "Population Changes in the South."

Elizabeth C. Stack:

"The Philosophical and Psychological Antecedents of the Core Cur-
riculum in Educational Theory: 1800-1918" (doctoral dissertation,
University of North Carolina).

Chloe Steel:

Research in progress: "L'Influence de Balzac sur Proust" (doctoral
dissertation, University of Chicago).

Koenraad W. Swart:

Research in progress: preparation of an article on French individual-
ism for publication.

Katherine Moon Swint:

Research in progress: analysis of procedures of book selection,
ordering, cataloging and processing in the library of the Division of
Librarianship, Emory University.

Robert F. Westervelt:

Research in progress: pictorial survey of masterpieces in the Boston
Museum and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (under a
Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant).

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

An extensive program of plant and campus improvement
has been carried on during the past year. This program has
included the following:

The erection of an extension south of the college laundry to provide
for a carpenter's shop and maintenance room;

the removal of the carpenter's shop from the basement of Rebekah
Scott and the use of this area for storage facilities;

the renovation of the south wing (old kitchen area) in Rebekah Scott
in order to provide additional business offices;

the construction of additional date parlors in the area of the recreation
room on the east side of Rebekah Scott;

the installation of acoustical tile on the ceiling in the recreation room
of Walters Hall;

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the replacement of the freight elevator with a passenger elevator in
Rebekah Scott Hall;

the paving of the parking lot in the area south and west of Rebekah
Scott;

the construction of three additional faculty offices in the basement of
Buttrick Hall;

the renovation of East Lawn and the Harn-Omwake house for use as
two student housing units during the 1959-1960 session;

the usual painting and repair in cottages and buildings;

extensive wiring repairs in Buttrick Hall and the overhead wires
from Buttrick Hall to the power plant removed and placed underground.

The College has recently purchased for faculty housing
property at 315 S. McDonough, 302 S. McDonough, and
184 S. Candler streets.

Campus and plant improvements in progress this summer,
in addition to the usual painting and repair work in housing
units and other buildings, are as follows:

Further clearing of the entrance to Campbell Hall by the razing of
the faculty house at 214 S. McDonough;

the construction of five additional faculty offices (four on the ground
floor of Buttrick and one on the ground floor of Presser) and of three
storage areas for administrative offices (ground floor of Buttrick) ;

the construction in the amphitheatre of permanent concrete seats a
gift in honor of his parents by Mr. Robert R. Snodgrass of Atlanta;

installation of a new water line from S. McDonough to College
Avenue, crossing the quadrangle between Main and the library, and
of new fire hydrant connections;

the construction of a rest room for colored male employees in the
basement of the dining hall;

the installation in all student cottages of automatic fire alarm systems,
and the addition of fire exits for Ansley and Alexander cottages;

the conversion of one of the large wards on the second-floor infirmary
into two isolation rooms, and the installation of a new bath ;

the installation in each cottage of a refrigerator for student use.

FINANCES
Current Operations

The following is a summary of receipts and expenditures
in the 1959-1960 current operations, as shown in the audit
of June 30, 1960:
Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 437,881.63

Receipts from student charges

(Room, board, tuition, and fees) 1,020,818.75

Gifts and grants 19,712.15

Miscellaneous

(Rents received, bookstore, etc.) 48,732.46

Total Receipts $ 1,527,144.99

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Expenditures

Educational expense

(Faculty salaries, library, etc.) $ 584,925.07

General administrative expense

(including dining hall, infirmary operation, etc.) 544,569.68

Plant, facilities, and development 379,877.95

Total Expenses $ 1,509,372.70

Net Operating Profit $ 17,772.29

Capital Assets

Our capital assets, as shown by the audit for 1959-1960,
are as follows:
Fixed Assets

Buildings $3,993,792.50

Furnishings and equipment 1,046,668.59

Land 263,391.10 $ 5,303,852.19

Permanent Plant Fund 266,060.59

Prepaid Architects' Fees 15,212.00

Permanent Fund Assets (Endowment and Scholarships)

Permanent Endowment Fund .... $2,558,646.96

Frances Winship Walters

(B) Fund 2,811,975.71

Walters Trust (A) Fund 1,453,188.47

English Fund 630,796.70

Special Memorial Scholarship Fund . 473,062.23

S. M. Inman Endowment Fund . . . 185,881.13

Mary F. Sweet Memorial Fund . . . 187,986.81

Ford Fund 330,987.50

Waterman Fund 132,737.90

J. Bulow Campbell Stamp

Collection 22,397.00

Loan Fund 9,245.56 8,796,905. 97

Total $14,382,030.75

Foundation and Corporate Business Support

Foundations and corporate businesses that have con-
tributed to Agnes Scott during the past year (many of them
through the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges)
are the following:

Albany, Georgia: Albany Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; First State Bank of
Albany; Lilliston Implement Co.; The Merck Co. Foundation;
Rosenberg Brothers; Southeastern Mortgage Corporation; Watkins'
Lumber Co., Inc.

Americus, Georgia: Americus Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; New Moon
Homes, Inc.

Athens, Georgia: Angus Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia: W. D. Alexander Co., Inc.; Allan-Grayson Realty

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Co.; Allen Foundation; American Investment Co. Foundation; Amilsco
Charitable & Educational Fund, American Associated Companies, Inc. ;
Arthur Anderson & Co. Foundation; Atlanta Federal Savings & Loan
Association; Atlanta Gas Light Co.; Atlanta Oak Flooring Co.; Atlanta
Stove Works; Atlantic Steel Co., Inc.; Atlas Finance Co., Inc.; Auto-
Soler Co.; Barge-Thompson, Inc.; Beck & Gregg Hardware Co.;
Bostrom-Brady Manufacturing Co.; Bressler Brothers Manufacturing
Co.; Brown Distributing Co., Inc.; Capitol Fish Co., Inc.; Colonial
Stores Foundation; Conklin Tin Plate & Metal Co.; James M. Cox
Foundation of Georgia; Curtis 1000 Inc.; Davison-Paxon Co.; The
Dillard Foundation, Inc.; Dixie Wholesale Co., Inc.; Dwoskin, Inc.;
Electrical Wholesalers, Inc.; Foote & Davies, Inc.; Genuine Parts Co.;
Georgia Power Co.; Wilbur Fisk Glenn Memorial Foundation; The
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; Green Brothers Nursery; John H.
Harland Co. Foundation; Arthur Harris Foundation, Inc.; W. F.
Ingram Charity Fund; Irvindale Farms Dairy; King Hardware Co.;
The Kroger Charitable Trust; Lanier Brothers Foundation; Lay
Co. Foundation; Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.; The Garson Fund,
Inc.; Sigmund Montag Foundation, Inc.; George Muse Clothing Co.;
National Linen Service Corporation; Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.;
Park & Shop Garage; Plantation Pipe Line Co.; Retail Credit Co.;
Rich's, Inc.; Robert & Co. Associates; Sealtest and Kraft Foods Division,
National Dairy Products Corporation; Sears Roebuck Foundation; John
Sexton Co., Inc.; Shower Door Co. of America; Ray Smith Co.; Sock-
well Co.; Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Southern Mills,
Inc.; Standard Oil of Kentucky; Steel Heddle Manufacturing Co.;
Stockbridge Stone Co.; Trust Co. of Georgia; Roy D. Warren Co.;
R. H. White Foundation, Inc.; Will Corporation of Georgia; A. L.
Zachry Co.; Zep Manufacturing Co.

Augusta, Georgia: Castleberry Food Co.; Cullum's, Inc.; First
Federal Savings and Loan Association; First National Bank & Trust
Co. of Augusta; Georgia Pacific Plywood Corporation; Georgia Rail-
road Bank & Trust Co.; Marbut Foundation; Maxwell Brothers, Inc.;
Arthur H. & Ernest B. Merry Foundation; Murray Biscuit Co.; Slusky
Builders Supply, Inc.; Southern Finance Corporation; Weathers Transfer
& Storage Co.; WJBF-TV.

Brunswick, Georgia: The First National Bank of Brunswick; Seaboard
Construction Co.

Carter sville, Georgia: First National Bank of Cartersville.

Cedartown, Georgia: Goodyear Foundation, Inc.; Liberty National
Bank.

Columbus, Georgia: Auto Supply Co.; Bickerstaff Clay Products;
W. C. & Sarah H. Bradley Foundation; Buck Investment Co.; Colum-
bus Bank & Trust Co.; Fourth National Bank of Columbus; Golden's
Foundry & Machine Co.; Hardaway Motor Co.; Jordan Foundation,
Inc.; Jordan Mills, Inc.; Kinnett Dairies; The Ledger Enquirer; Martin
Theatres Benevolent Fund; Morton Machine Works; Muscogee Iron
Works; Muscogee Manufacturing Co.; The Walter Allen Richards
Foundation, Inc.; David Rothschild Co.; Southern Foods, Inc.; Swift
Spinning Mills Foundation, Inc.

Commerce, Georgia: Blue Bell Foundation.

Cornelia, Georgia: Cornelia Bank.

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Dalton, Georgia: Cabin Crafts, Inc.; First National Bank; Hardwick
Bank & Trust Co.; Patcraft Mills, Inc.; G. H. Rauschenberg Co., Inc.

Decatur, Georgia: Decatur Federal Savings & Loan Association.

Eastman, Georgia: Eastman Cotton Mills; Stuckey's, Inc.

Eatonton, Georgia: The Peoples Bank.

Elberton, Georgia: First National Bank in Elberton.

Forsyth, Georgia: Citizens Bank of Forsyth; Monroe County Bank.

Fort Valley, Georgia: Woolfolk Chemical Works, Ltd.

Gainesville, Georgia: Gainesville National Bank.

Grantville, Georgia: W. N. Banks Foundation.

Griffin, Georgia: Dundee Community Association, Inc.; Griffin
Garment Co.; Griffin Grocery Co., Inc.; Pomona Products Co., Inc.

Hampton, Georgia: Southern States Foundation, Inc.

Jackson, Georgia: Jackson National Bank.

Jonesboro, Georgia: Bank of Jonesboro.

LaGrange, Georgia: Citizens & Southern Bank of LaGrange;
LaGrange Banking Co.; Lucy Lanier Nixon Foundation, Inc.

McDonough, Georgia: Dowling Textile Manufacturing Co.

McRae, Georgia: Roydon-Wear, Inc.

Macon, Georgia: Armstrong Cork Co.; Barnes & Barnes, Inc.; Bibb
Manufacturing Co.; Empire Furniture Co.; First National Bank &
Trust Co.; Georgia Kraft Co.; Georgia Timberlands, Inc.; Inland
Container Corporation; Lowe Electric Co.; Procter & Gamble Manu-
facturing Co. ; B. L. Register Co.

Manchester, Georgia: Bank of Manchester.

Milledgeville, Georgia: Exchange Bank of Milledgeville ; Oconee
Clay Products; J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc.

Newnan, Georgia: Beavers Packing Co.

Rome, Georgia: Fox Heyman Foundation; Rome Kraft Co.

Roys ton, Georgia: Tri-County Bank of Royston.

Sandersville, Georgia: Thiele Kaolin Co.

Savannah, Georgia: Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Bradley
Foundation, Inc.; The Chatham Foundation; Colonial Oil Industries,
Inc.; John & Emma Derst Foundation; Liberty National Bank & Trust
Co. of Savannah; Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation; Wesson Oil &
Snowdrift Co., Inc.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Foundation, Inc.

Shannon, Georgia: Burlington Industries Foundation.

Social Circle, Georgia: Social Circle Bank.

Statesboro, Georgia: Rockwell Charitable Trust.

Summerville, Georgia: Farmers & Merchants Bank.

Toccoa, Georgia: The Citizens Bank of Toccoa; McNeely Foundation,
Inc.

Vidalia, Georgia: Achenbach Foundation.

Waycross, Georgia: First National Bank in Waycross; Monroe
Welfare Foundation; Waycross Journal Herald.

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West Point, Georgia: Georgia Alabama Supply Co., Inc.; West Point
Foundation, Inc.

Bluff ton, Indiana: Franklin Electric Co.

Boston, Massachusetts: New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.;
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Chicago, Illinois: Aldrich and Aldrich, Inc.; General American Trans-
portation Foundation; International Harvester Foundation; Zurich
Insurance Co.

Cleveland, Ohio: Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation; Cleveland-
Cliffs Iron Co.

Detroit, Michigan: Parke Davis & Co.

New York, New York: Amoco Foundation; Babcock & Wilcox Co.;
Bristol Myers Co.; Continental Can Co.; Esso Education Foundation;
Graybar Electric Co.; General Foods Fund; International Business
Machines Corporation; National Biscuit Co. Foundation; New York
Life Insurance Co.; Philip Morris, Inc.; National Dairy Products
Corporation; United States Steel Foundation, Inc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Presser Foundation.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Gulf Oil Corporation.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Wilmington, Delaware: Central Shares Corporation.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

During the 1959-1960 session, a varied program of
campus activities was offered to the college community.
Among these activities were the following:

September

Georgia Tech-Agnes Scott freshman picnic supper and dance on our
campus.

Eighth annual "Meet-the-Ministers Tea" sponsored by the Interfaith
Council.

Exhibition of drawings by Mr. Joseph Amisano, of Toombs, Amisano,
and Wells architectural firm, and designer of Lenox Square.

Convocation speaker: Mr. L. L. Youngblood, Jr., political economist
and former aide to President Eisenhower, on "Recent Impressions of the
Middle East."

Tea honoring the Atlanta Chapter of the American Association of
University Women. Speaker: Dr. Catherine Sims of Agnes Scott.

October

Honors Day address: "The Young Intellectuals," President Hollis
Edens, Duke University.

World-wide Communion Sunday vesper service led by Dr. Kwai Sing
Chang and President Alston.

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Annual "Black Cat" community day.

Lecture: "India's International Obligations," Madame Vijaya Lakshmi
Pandit, India's High Commissioner in London.

Dr. Theodore M. Greene, Henry Burr Alexander professor in the
humanities, Scripps College. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

Convocation speaker: Mr. Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta
Constitution, giving impressions of Russia from his trip with Vice
President Nixon.

Lecture: "Greek Religion and Greek Art," Professor Francis Walton,
Florida State University. Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of
America.

November

Convocation speaker: Dr. Ernest Trice Thompson, moderator of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S., on "Love Plus Knowledge."

Senior Investiture: "The Time of Your Life," Dean C. Benton Kline,
Jr. Sunday sermon: "Faith for Your Day," Major General Frank A.
Tobey, chief of chaplains, U. S. Army.

Two weeks' course in Basic Radiation Physics and Radio-isotopes
Research given on our campus by a mobile laboratory unit from Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

Lecture: "The Historical Roots of Supreme Court Behavior," Carl
B. Swisher, Thomas B. Strain professor of political science, The Johns
Hopkins University. University Center Visiting Scholar.

Lecture series: Dr. Reynold E. Carlson, professor of economics and
director of Graduate Program in Economic Development, Vanderbilt
University.

Blackfriars' production of "The Heiress."

Chapel: "Interreligious Relations in America, a Jewish Perspective."
Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, director of religious affairs, Anti-Defamation
League, New York.

Chapel: Dr. Wei-Ping Chen, former Chinese ambassador to Australia
and pastor for President and Madame Chiang Kai Shek.

December

Lecture: "Greek Classics at the Court of Justinian," Dr. Glanville
Downey, associate professor of Byzantine literature at Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library, Washington, D. C. University Center Visiting
Scholar.

"The Sacred Story in Dance," Christmas presentation by Dance Group.

Glee Club Christmas Carol service, followed by the community
Christmas party in Walters recreation room.

January

Thirteenth annual All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tournament
sponsored by Pi Alpha Phi.

"The Oresteia" of Aeschylus, a film produced by Randolph-Macon
Woman's College, sponsored by Blackfriars and Pi Alpha Phi.

Color slide lecture: "Russia and the Far East," Lamar Dodd, Regents'
professor of art, University of Georgia.

Convocation speaker: Dr. Nasrollah Saifpour Fatemi, Iran's former
delegate to the United Nations.

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Chapel speaker: Dr. E. Stanley Jones, missionary, evangelist, and
writer.

Lecture: "Medieval Change vs. Modern Progress," Dr. Robert
Sabatino Lopez, professor of history, Yale University. University Center
Visiting Scholar.

Robert Frost on campus for his annual visit and lecture.

Chapel: "The Newly Discovered Gospel of Thomas," Dr. Claus-
Hunno Hunzinger, University of Goettingen, and member of the inter-
national team translating the Dead Sea Scrolls.

February

Religious Emphasis Week led by Dr. B. Davie Napier, Holmes
professor of Hebrew literature, Yale University.

Lecture and master class in organ, Dr. Heinrich Fleischer, professor
of organ at the University of Minnesota.

Chapel: "How Does God Call to Full Time Church Vocations?" Dr.
Charles E. S. Kraemer, president, Presbyterian School of Christian
Education, Richmond, Virginia.

Sophomore Parents' Weekend, February 5-7.

Dolphin Club presentation of water pageant, "Symphony in Sea."

Art exhibition featuring works from the Taos Artists Association in
Taos, New Mexico.

Chapel talks and informal discussions with Mrs. Evelyn Duvall,
family life consultant. Sponsored by Social Council.

Canadian Players in "Taming of the Shrew."

Convocation: "Poetry and People," Paul Engle poet, professor of
English, and director of the Writers' Workshop, State University of
Iowa.

March

Convocation: "The Fictional World of Albert Camus," Mile. Germaine
Bree, head of the romance language department in the graduate school
of New York University. University Center Visiting Scholar,

Lecture: "The Revolution in the British Theatre," Glynne Wickham,
head of the department of drama, University of Bristol. University
Center Visiting Scholar.

April

Alumnae Day, April 2.

Brown University-Agnes Scott Glee Clubs in joint concert featuring
Praetorius' "In Dulci Jubilo" and Brahms' "Schicksalslied."

Kick-off luncheon, April 5, launching the campus campaign for the
Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development Program.

Seminar: "Is It Too Late to Attend the Battle of Waterloo?" Dr.
Donald Williams, chairman, department of philosophy, Harvard Uni-
versity. University Center Visiting Scholar.

Seminar: "Electron Microscopy as Applied to Embryology," Dr.
C. H. Waddington, professor of zoology and embryology, University of
Edinburgh. University Center Visiting Scholar.

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Special Holy Week chapel programs, morning watches, and vespers,
culminating in the Easter Sunrise Service. Sponsored by Christian
Association.

Chapel: Dr. John S. Whale, Cambridge University. University Center
Visiting Scholar.

Faculty Revue: "The Devil to Pay."

May

Chi Beta Phi Convocation: Dr. Arthur W. Ziegler, professor of botany,
Florida State University.

Sophocles' "Electra," presented by May Day Committee, Blackfriars,
and Dance Group.

Lecture: "The Woman Criminal," Dr. Mabel Elliott, professor of
sociology, University of Pennsylvania; visiting professor, University of
Georgia.

June

Class Day exercises and senior opera.

Baccalaureate sermon: The Reverend John F. Anderson, Jr., First
Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Florida.

Commencement address: The Honorable George V. Allen, director,
United States Information Agency, State Department, Washington, D. C.

ENROLLMENT

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 647 stu-
dents (585 boarders, 62 day students) representing twenty-
eight states and eight foreign countries (the Belgian Congo,
France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Newfoundland,
Turkey, and Venezuela). The geographical distribution is
as follows :

Alabama 36 North Carolina 80

Arkansas 3 Ohio 3

California 3 Pennsylvania 3

Colorado 1 South Carolina 72

Connecticut 1 Tennessee 3

Delaware 1 Texas 1

Florida 51 Virginia 66

Georgia 199 Washington

Indiana 1 West Virginia 1

Kansas 1 Belgian Congo

Kentucky 16 France

Louisiana 7 Germany

Maryland 7 Hong Kong

Massachusetts 1 Korea

Michigan 3 Newfoundland

Mississippi 11 Turkey

Missouri 1 Venezuela .

New Jersey 2 Total 64

New York 4

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The classification of the student body for the 1959-1960
session is as follows :

Seniors 129

Juniors 141

Third-year Sophomores 7

Sophomores 163

Second-year Freshmen 5

Freshmen 198

Specials 4

Total 647

(Note: The total number of seniors above includes one student who
withdrew at the end of the fall quarter; the total number awarded the
degree was 128. The total number of juniors does not include one who
was studying in Edinburgh on the junior year abroad plan.)

The denominational distribution is as follows:

Presbyterian 278 Jewish 4

Methodist 117 Church of Christ 3

Baptist 113 Moravian 3

Episcopal 89 Christian Scientist 1

Christian 13 Church of England 1

Lutheran 7 Non-denominational .... 1

Roman Catholic 6 Salvation Army 1

Greek Orthodox 5 Total 647

Congregational 5

TRUSTEES

The terms of the following trustees expired with the
annual meeting of the Board on May 13, 1960: Mrs. C.
Dixon Fowler (Alumnae), Dr. J. Davison Philips (Synodi-
cal, Georgia), Mrs. S. E. Thatcher (Synodical, Florida),
Mr. G. Scott Candler (Corporate), and Mr. L. L. Geller-
stedt (Corporate).

By action of the Board at the annual meeting, Dr.
Philips was re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a term of
four years, subject to ratification by the Synod of Georgia,
Presbyterian Church, (U.S.) ; Mrs. Thatcher was re-elected
as Synodical Trustee for a four-year term, subject to ratifi-
cation by the Presbyterian Synod of Alabama; Mr. G.
Scott Candler and Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt were re-elected as
Corporate Trustees for terms of four years each. Mrs. H.
Clay Lewis, immediate past president of the National Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association, was elected to serve as an
Alumnae Trustee for a term of two years, succeeding Mrs.
C. Dixon Fowler. The Corporate Trustees, elected at a

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called meeting of the Board on November 19, 1959, were
assigned to classes as follows :

1961 Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr.

1962 Mr. R. Howard Dobbs, Jr.

1963 Mr. Alex P. Gaines

1964 Mr. Charles E. Thwaite, Jr.

Dr. J. Chester Frist, Synodical Trustee (Alabama) since
June, 1954, died on December 31, 1959. Dr. Frist was
pastor of the Government Street Presbyterian Church of
Mobile, Alabama, at the time of his death. Our Board,
at the annual meeting, heard the reading of a memorial to
Dr. Frist and approved a resolution including the following :

As a Synodical Trustee of Agnes Scott College since June, 1954,
Dr. Frist has given interested and constructive leadership. He has
given all of us an inspiring example of courage and faith during
the time of his last illness. As members of this Board, we record,
therefore, our gratitude for his life and ministry and extend to
his family our deep sympathy.

The selection of Dr. J. Chester Frist's successor was
postponed until the 1961 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Hal L. Smith was re-elected chairman of the Board,
and the president of the college, secretary. In view of Mr.
George W. Woodruff's request that he be relieved of the
vice-chairmanship, Mr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr. was
elected to succeed him in this capacity. Mr. Woodruff will
continue to serve as chairman of the Finance Committee.

I am grateful, indeed, to Chairman Hal L. Smith and
the members of the Board of Trustees for their loyalty,
intelligent cooperation and helpfulness in every undertaking.

Respectfully submitted,
President

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Agnes Scott College

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
JUNE 30, 1961

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
JUNE 30, 1961

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE < i DECATUR, GEORGIA

To the Board of Trustees
of Agnes Scott College:

T the close of the seventy-second year in the life of
Agnes Scott College, I present herewith my tenth annual
report as president. A backward glance recalls to memory
the gamut of experience that has marked the past decade as
the most interesting and rewarding in my personal career
and, I trust, one of the most important periods in the history of
the College. These "hurrying years" have brought bristling diffi-
culties and stubborn problems; they have compelled us to rethink
our basic philosophy as a college and to revalue our entire program.
These have been years of rising costs and threatened inflation.
There have been disillusionments, disappointments, and failures,
to be sure. Nevertheless, my dominant impression of the past ten
years is that they offer fresh evidence of the providence and good-
ness of God in the affairs of Agnes Scott College. I am grateful
beyond measure for the progress that we have been able to make
during this period. I am increasingly aware of the contribution
of individuals whose dedication to the purposes of this institution
has been determinative in these accomplishments.

Some of the memorable events of the period from 1951 to
the present are the following:

The College honored President Emeritus James Ross McCain
upon his retirement at the close of the 1950-1951 session,
establishing the "McCain Library Fund" and naming the
library in his honor.

The Board approved the President's appointments of Mr. P.
J. Rogers, Jr., as Business Manager and Miss Laura Steele as
Director of Admissions.

The Knapp and Greenbaum research, financed by the Fund
for the Advancement of Education, listed Agnes Scott among
the top ten colleges for women in the production of young
scholars receiving large fellowship awards leading to higher
degrees (1952).

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In the period 1952-1954, our faculty engaged in a program
of study and appraisal of various aspects of the work of the
College.

In 1952, Agnes Scott was elected to membership and became
affiliated with the College Entrance Examination Board.

The Agnes Scott Trustees, in June, 1953, inaugurated the
Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development Program that will
culminate in the spring of 1964, augmenting the capital
assets of the College by $10,500,000 (this total objective
was later increased to $11,000,000 as the result of an anony-
mous offer of a final conditional gift of $500,000) .

Hopkins Hall, named in honor of the first Dean of Agnes
Scott, Miss Nannette Hopkins, was built in 1953 with con-
tributions from alumnae and friends.

Our program of independent study was inaugurated in the
college session of 1953-1954, replacing the honors program
formerly in operation.

The Fund for the Advancement of Education made a grant
of $137,000 in 1953, setting in motion the "Atlanta Experi-
ment in Articulation and Enrichment," a program of school-
college cooperation involving Agnes Scott, Emory, Ogle-
thorpe, and the Westminster Schools.

Announcement of three bequests to the College was made
in the spring of 1954: $60,000 from Mrs. John B. Waterman,
$100,000 from Mrs Letitia Pate Evans, and $80,000 from
Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson.

Mrs. Frances Winship Walters, honored alumna and Trustee,
died in November, 1954, leaving Agnes Scott $4,250,000 for
endowment. This was the largest bequest ever received by
the College and one of the most generous in the history of
higher education in the South.

Dr. Mary Frances Sweet, beloved long-time college physician,
died in the late fall of 1954, leaving an estate of $183,898
to Agnes Scott.

In 195 5, our Board of Trustees created a separate depart-

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ment of education for the purpose of emphasizing the signifi-
cance of teacher education in the liberal arts setting and of
providing a more adequate medium for participation in the
Agnes Scott-Emory Teacher Education Program.

The Board of Trustees adopted in 1956 this brief, meaning-
ful statement on academic freedom: We are proud of a
tradition that assumes and safeguards the freedom of facility
members to think, to speak, to tvrite, and to act. It is ex-
pected that faculty members will exercise this freedom with
due regard for the purposes and ideals of the College, with
common sense, and xvith a maturity that discriminates be-
tween the irresponsibility of license and the responsibility
of true liberty.

The Ford Foundation, in December, 195 5, made two grants
to Agnes Scott, totaling $363,500.

Frances Winship Walters Hall, our largest dormitory, was
erected in 195 5-1956 at a cost of approximately $700,000.

In the summers from 1955 to 1961, we engaged in a program
of capital improvement designed to bring our three oldest
dormitories (Main, Rebekah Scott, and Inman) up to the
standards required by the Fire Marshal of Georgia. This
major undertaking has been part of the long-range develop-
ment program.

Mr. George "Winship, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
since 1938, died on June 20, 1956, after an extended illness.
His will included a bequest of $10,000 to the College. At
a called meeting November 16, 1956, Mr. Hal L. Smith was
elected to succeed Mr. Winship as Chairman.

In 1957, Agnes Scott joined the College Scholarship Service,
a cooperative effort among institutions to curtail scholarship
competition and to foster the policy of the distribution of
scholarship funds on the basis of actual need.

In 1956-1957, the Charles Loridans Foundation of Atlanta
established the Adeline Arnold Loridans Chair of French at
Agnes Scott as a memorial to Mrs. Charles Loridans, an
honored alumna.

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The Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges had its
beginning on our campus in May, 1956. The first solicita-
tion of Georgia business and industry was conducted by the
presidents of the nine member institutions in the fall of 19 57.

Dean S. Guerry Stukes was honored by the entire campus
community when he retired at the close of the 1956-1957
session. The Stukes Scholarships were established by the Board
in recognition of Dean Stukes' service of forty-four years
to Agnes Scott. Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr. became Dean of
the Faculty in the fall of 1957, and Miss Laura Steele suc-
ceeded Dean Stukes as Registrar.

Effective with students entering in 1957, quality standards
for graduation were raised from a requirement that at least
one half of the work taken at Agnes Scott be of C grade or
higher to the requirement that the average on all work taken
at Agnes Scott be C or higher.

In order to help alleviate the multiple application problem
and lessen tension among able high school seniors who have
chosen this college, Agnes Scott inaugurated an Early Deci-
sion Plan of admissions in 1958.

In February, 1958, Sophomore Parents' Week End was inaug-
urated at Agnes Scott. This event has proved highly success-
ful and is now included in our calendar each year.

In May, 1958, the Board adopted a building program in-
cluding the erection of an additional dormitory, a fine arts
building (for art, and for speech and drama), a physical
education building, and the conversion of the present gym-
nasium into a modern student center.

An intensive phase of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary De-
velopment Program was directed by Mr. William C. French
of Marts & Lundy, Inc., New York, who began his work on
January 1, 1960, and remained on campus until July 1, 1961.
This phase included a campus campaign, thirty area din-
ners and solicitations, including the Greater Atlanta effort
in the spring of 1961.

Under the leadership of Dr. W. Edward McNair, director

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of public relations and development, a comprehensive pro-
gram of annual giving has gradually evolved during the past
six years. When the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development
Campaign concludes, it is planned that the full-orbed Agnes
Scott Fund will offer an annual opportunity of support to
alumnae, parents, business and industry, foundations, and
other friends of the College.

During the past decade, the following veteran members of
the faculty have retired: Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall
(June, 1952) ; Dr. Emily Dexter (June, 195 5) ; Dr. Emma
May Laney (June, 1956); and Dr. Mildred R. Mell (June,
1960).

Our Board of Trustees in May, 1960, authorized the establish-
ment of a department of speech and drama, thus enabling
us to place emphasis upon speech and drama as an area in
the curriculum comparable to music and the visual arts.

Permanent concrete seats were constructed in the amphi-
theatre as a gift from Mr. Robert R. Snodgrass of Atlanta
(1960-1961).

Twelve members of the present faculty completed doctoral
degrees while serving at Agnes Scott during the period 1951-
1961: Mary Virginia Allen, Mary L. Boney, Annie May
Christie, Julia T. Gary, Nancy P. Groseclose, Marie Huper,
C. Benton Kline, Jr., W. Edward McNair, Mary L. Rion,
Elizabeth C. Stack, Chloe Steel, Roberta Winter. In 1951-
1952, 51% of the faculty held earned doctoral degrees; 60%
of the current faculty hold earned doctoral degrees (and
another 10% are in the final stages of work for the degree) .

A comprehensive program of self-study was begun by the
faculty during the 1960-1961 session. This appraisal of every
aspect of the College will involve students, trustees, and
alumnae.

During the past ten years, the total assets of the College have
been increased from $6,878,717.19 to $14,942,647.89 117%.
Our budget for current operations has increased from $610,500
in 1951-1952 to $1,682,600 in 1961-1962 175%. The per-

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manent funds of the College (endowment and scholarship) have
grown from a total of $2,838,467.10 in 1951 to $8,952,121.05
in 1961215%.

One of the most gratifying aspects of our development dur-
ing the last decade has been in salaries for faculty and staff mem-
bers. Our budget for salaries in 1951-1952 was $295,000; the
salary budget for 1961-1962 is $739,500 an increase of 150%.
The Board of Trustees has given carefvil attention to the matter
of retirement benefits, effecting some changes in our program that
are advantageous to faculty and staff members. In addition, an
excellent major medical program, largely financed by the College,
is now available to members of Agnes Scott's faculty and staff.

The academic life of the College has been strengthened and
enriched in many respects during the past decade. The enlarge-
ment of several departments through faculty additions has re-
sulted in a better balanced academic program. High standards in
course work are upheld by a faculty of men and women who
are maintaining and enhancing the reputation that Agnes Scott
has achieved through the years.

The commitment of the College to Christian education is of
fundamental importance to the present administration of Agnes
Scott. The concern here to be a Christian institution is, in my
judgment, genuine. Moreover, there is integrity in the program
that has as its purpose to effect and maintain a vital union of
academic work of high quality and life motivated by Christian
faith. Even if moving against the current continues to be neces-
sary, I earnestly hope that Agnes Scott's course in this respect
will be steadfastly steered through decades to come.

Administrative Policies and Plans

SELF-STUDY

In 1957 the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools initiated a program of periodic self-study and visitation

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as an integral part of its effort to maintain standards of higher
education in the South. Under this plan colleges agree to engage
in a period of intensive and comprehensive self -study and to re-
port the findings. A visiting committee then comes to the campus
for a study of several days and makes its report to the Southern
Association.

Agnes Scott agreed to undertake a self-study which would
begin in January of 1961 and be completed by the fall of 1962.
In January a steering committee of faculty, administration, and
students was appointed, with representatives of alumnae and the
Board of Trustees to be appointed later. Sub-committees for the
various areas of the self -study were organized and set to work.
The areas of the self -study are: purpose of the College; adminis-
trative organization; physical plant and financial resources; ed-
ucational program; student personnel; faculty; and library. Con-
currently the Alumnae Association is conducting a self-study of
its own activities.

During the winter and spring much of the effort has been
directed to organizing the work and to gathering factual material.
Each department has been asked to survey its offerings, and
senior majors in the departments have evaluated their programs.
Appraisals of teacher education, independent study, and special
uses of the library have been made. Questionnaires for use in inten-
sive study this next year have been prepared for faculty, students,
and alumnae.

From this study should come a clearer understanding of the
present status of all the various activities of the College and of
directions in which development should occur in the next decade.
Such an understanding will be of great importance to Agnes
Scott's continued growth as an institution.

ACADEMIC PROGRESS

During the year important developments in a number of depart-
ments have taken place. The recently constituted department of
speech and drama has studied its program thoroughly, reorganiz-

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ing the work in speech and expanding the offerings in drama.
The department of economics and sociology has completed a major
review of its curriculum. An enlarged faculty has enabled the
department to introduce a number of new courses in economics
and in sociology and to initiate work in cultural anthropology.

The department of music has reorganized its entire program.
History of music has been established as the introductory course
for all students. Junior and senior level work has been regrouped
into five-hour courses with some new work offered. Seniors are
now permitted to receive nine hours of credit for applied music,
so that talented performers may devote more time to this aspect
of their training.

In the departments of mathematics and of psychology faculty
additions will make possible the offering of new courses at the
advanced level. In mathematics several advanced courses already
offered have been expanded.

As a result of a recent visitation by a committee for the
State Department of Education, our teacher education program
has been reapproved for a five-year period for certification in
the following areas: elementary education and secondary English,
social studies, mathematics, science, and languages. We are con-
tinuing our joint relationship with Emory in the teacher educa-
tion program.

An important curricular development over the past eight
years has been the independent study program, permitting select-
ed seniors to do advanced work on an individual basis in their
major subjects. Students who have earned a general B average by
the end of the junior year are invited to participate in this pro-
gram, which involves study and research on an advanced level
and culminates with a paper or some creative project. During the
eight-year period 138 students about 16% of the seniors grad-
uating have engaged in independent study. The faculty com-
mittee on independent study is now considering possibilities of
expanding the program to enable more students to participate.

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Two members of the class of 1961 received Fulbright awards:
one in biology to Belgium and one in French literature to France.
Twelve other members of the class were awarded fellowships,
scholarships, and assistantships to Columbia University, Duke
University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio
State University, University of Oregon, University of Pennsyl-
vania, Tulane University, and Vanderbilt University.

SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
In 1953, the trustees of Agnes Scott adopted a long-range de-
velopment program designed to culminate in the spring of 1964
with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the College. Successful
completion of the goal (originally $10,500,000; now $11,000,000
because of an anonymous offer of an additional $500,000 if con-
ditions specified by the donor are fulfilled) will result in in-
creased endowment, the construction of several much needed
buildings (an additional dormitory, a fine arts building, and a
physical education building) , and the conversion of the present
gymnasium into a modern student center. Already erected as a
part of the program are Hopkins and Walters dormitories.

In January, 1960, Agnes Scott began an intensive phase of
the development effort in order to raise the final $4,500,000
needed to complete the eleven-year program. During the period
January 1, 19 60 -June 30, 1961, the College increased its assets
by $2,500,000 in cash and pledges, leaving an additional $1,500,000
to be raised by January 26, 1964 in order to claim the anonymous
pledge of $500,000 which will complete successfully the entire
$11,000,000 objective.

Since January 1, 1960, a campus campaign and thirty area
campaigns have been conducted in Alabama, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, and the District of Columbia. Plans for the
months immediately ahead are: (1) to organize fourteen area
campaigns for centers in Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Arkan-

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sas, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, California, and Kentucky; (2)
to solicit a number of prospective donors who have not been seen,
or who have asked to be contacted again; and (3) to revisit in-
dividuals and businesses who have given on a one-year basis and
who have asked to be contacted again.

Mr. William C. French of Marts & Lundy, Inc., New York,
completed on July 1 eighteen months as director of the campaign.
Dr. W. Edward McNair, director of public relations and develop-
ment, is in charge of the remaining phases of the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary Development Program.

Faculty and Staff

PERSONNEL

Additions to the faculty during the 1960-1961 session have been:
Charles F. Martin (B.A. Wayne State University, M.A. Univer-
sity of Mississippi) , assistant professor of economics; Fred K. Par-
rish (B.A. Duke University, M.A. University of North Carolina) ,
instructor in biology; Marion T. Clark (B.A., M.A. Emory Uni-
versity; Ph.D. University of Virginia), visiting associate professor
of chemistry; John A. Tumblin (B.A. Wake Forest College; M.A.,
Ph.D. Duke University), visiting associate professor of sociology
and anthropology; Sarah Evelyn Jackson (B.A. King College,
M.A. University of North Carolina, Ph.D. Emory University) ,
visiting instructor in English; Michael J. Brown (B.A. LaGrange
College, M.A. Emory University), visiting instructor in history;
Mary B. Williams (B.A. Reed College, M.A. University of Penn-
sylvania), instructor in mathematics and senior resident; Merle
Walker (B.A. Hollins College; M.A., Ph.D. Radcliffe College),
assistant professor of philosophy (previously a member of the
English faculty) ; and Marlene Baver (B.A. Gustavus Adolphus
College, M.S.M. Union Theological Seminary, New York) , visit-
ing instructor in music.

New members of the college staff for the 1960-1961 session

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were: Margaret McKelway (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant
to the librarian and senior resident; Grace Woods Walden (B.A.
Agnes Scott College), assistant to the librarian; Annette Teague
(B.A. Agnes Scott College) , assistant in admissions and in the
registrar's office (previously secretary in this office) ; Joyce Thomas
Pack (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , secretary to the registrar and
director of admissions; Marjorie Erickson (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), assistant to the dean of students; Sandra Holman (R.N.
Crawford Long Hospital School of Nursing) , associate resident
nurse; Juanette C. Boone, assistant dietitian; Suzanne Ware Mc-
Ginty (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary in the development
office; Dorothea S. Markert, secretary in the development office;
Mary Alverta Bond (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary to
the president; Martha O. Coker (B.A. LaGrange College), sec-
retary to the director of public relations and development; Jerry
J. Ford, secretary in the office of the president and registrar;
and Faye Robinson (B.S.H.E. Berry College) , assistant dietitian.

The following promotions become effective with the 1961-
1962 session: Edward T. Ladd, professor of education; Nancy P.
Groseclose, associate professor of biology; C. Benton Kline, Jr.,
associate professor of philosophy; Mary L. Rion, associate pro-
fessor of English; Chloe Steel, associate professor of French; S.
Leonard Doerpinghaus, associate professor of biology; and Sara
L. Ripy, associate professor of mathematics.

Faculty appointments for the 1961-1962 session include: Lee
B. Copple (B.A. University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D. Uni-
versity of Michigan; Ph.D. Vanderbilt University), associate pro-
fessor of psychology; Eleanor N. Hutchens (B.A. Agnes Scott
College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), associate pro-
fessor of English; Frances Harrold (B.A. Radcliffe College, M.A.
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College), assistant
professor of history; H. Richard Hensel (B.M., M.M. American
Conservatory of Music), assistant professor of music; Robert E.
R. Nelson (B.A., M.A. University of Virginia) , instructor in

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mathematics; Kay Marie Osborne (B.S. Texas Woman's Univer-
sity), instructor in physical education; Edithgene Sparks (B.S.
Oglethorpe University, M.Ed. Emory University), visiting in-
structor in education; June J. Yungblut (B.A. Keuka College,
M.A. Yale University) , visiting instructor in English (spring
quarter) .

Administrative appointments for the 1961-1962 session in-
clude: Betsy Hopkins Fancher (B.A. Wesley an College), director
of publicity; Emily Pancake (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , secre-
tary in the alumnae office; Helen Everett (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), manager of the bookstore; Mary LaFon Brooks (B.S.
Georgia State College for Women, M.A. Columbia University) ,
assistant to the librarian; Katherine Sidney Williams (B.A. Mary
Baldwin College, M.L.S. Emory University) , assistant to the
librarian; Aileen S. Hendley (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , assistant
to the librarian; Nancy Jane Higgins (B.A. Agnes Scott College) ,
assistant to the librarian; Patricia Forrest (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), assistant to the dean of students; Gail McCracken (R.N.;
B.S. in Nursing Education, Florida State University) , associate
resident nurse.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. John Louis Adams, assistant professor of music and member of the Atlanta
Symphony String Quartet, participated recently in the Southeastern Composers
Forum at the University of Alabama.

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen, associate professor of French, serves as secretary of the
University Center Language Association and as secretary of the Beta of Georgia
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, is serving as president (southern
section) of the National Association of Biblical Instructors. She continues as a
member of the executive committee of the Faculty Christian Fellowship, Presby-
terian Church, U. S. and of the General Assembly's Ad Interim Committee to
Prepare a Brief Statement of Belief.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, attended by invitation the Atomic
Energy Commission sponsored Research Conference on Recovery of Cells from
Injury in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in April. She had previously attended the
National Science Foundation sponsored conference on The Role of the Physical
Sciences in the Biological Sciences in Miami in December.

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Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the
Bradley Observatory, has given a series of television lectures for Emory University
during the past college year.

Miss Mary Carter, assistant to the librarian, serves on the library committee of
Peachtree Road Methodist Church.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, associate professor of Bible and philosophy, is continuing
his study of Chinese at Yale University this summer under a grant from the
Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. He has been
serving as leader of an adult seminar study group at Central Congregational
Church, Atlanta.

Miss Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish, is assistant editor of
Vertice, a Portuguese cultural and literary magazine. She serves as corresponding
secretary to the director of Curso de Ferias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
Miss Frances Clark, assistant professor of French, is secretary-treasurer of the
Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French. Miss Clark
is also president of the Atlanta-Decatur Agnes Scott Alumnae Club.
Dr. William G. Cornelius, associate professor of political science, is chairman of
the political science group of the University Center in Georgia. He is chairman
of the state council of the Georgia Democratic Forum for 1961-1963. Dr. Cor-
nelius is doing research this summer under a Danforth Foundation Faculty
Summer Study Grant.

Dr. Elizabeth Crigler, associate professor of chemistry, has been on leave during
the past session, serving as a research fellow in chemistry, Harvard University.
Dr. S. L. Doerpinghaus, associate professor of biology, read a paper at the annual
American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting held at Oklahoma State Uni-
versity last August. He is studying this summer at the National Science Institute
of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon.

Dr. Miriam K. Drucker, associate professor of psychology, serves as treasurer
and as a director of the Georgia Psychological Association. In collaboration with
her husband, she has given a number of talks this year on various aspects of child
psychology. She recently participated as a group leader in the Georgia Psycho-
logical Association Workshop on Learning Theory.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, read a paper at the
University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. She was recently elected
president of the Atlanta branch of the American Association of University
Women and was the luncheon speaker for the state meeting of that organization.
Mrs. Mary W. Fox, instructor in chemistry, serves as chairman of the leadership
education committee of the Decatur First Methodist Church and as a specialist
in primary teaching for the North Georgia conference of the Methodist Church.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, is a council member of the American
Chemical Society. He is teaching chemistry at Emory University this summer.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, has recently completed a two-year term
as president of the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Dr. Garber is a member of the stewardship committee of the Presbytery of Atlanta.
Dr. Julia T. Gary, associate professor of chemistry, is chairman-elect and secretary
of the chemistry section of the Georgia Academy of Science. Dr. Gary is co-

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chairman of the committee on higher education of the Atlanta branch, American
Association of University Women. This summer she is teaching chemistry at the
National Science Foundation Institute for high school students held at Emory
University.

Miss Leslie J. Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics, is a member of the
Diocesan division of college work of the Episcopal Church. This summer, Miss
Gaylord attended in Lawrence, Kansas, an advanced placement mathematics con-
ference sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board.

Mrs. Lillian R. Gilbreath, instructor in piano, has just completed her twenty-fifth
year as director of the Decatur Piano Ensemble.

Mrs. Netta E. Gray, instructor in biology, served as a judge of secondary school
science projects in the final competitions of the Atlanta Science Congress and the
Future Scientists of America (southeastern area).

Miss Elvena M. Green, assistant professor of speech and drama, participated in a
panel discussion at the joint meeting of the Georgia Speech Association and the
National Thespians Regional Conference. Miss Green is the recipient of a grant
from the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., for
summer study toward the doctorate in dramatic art at the State University of Iowa.

Miss Nancy P. Groseclose, associate professor of biology, completed in May the
requirements for the doctorate in biology from the University of Virginia. She
was elected to membership in Sigma Xi by the Virginia chapter. Dr. Groseclose
has received a grant from the National Institute of Health to attend a summer
conference on developmental biology at Brevard College, North Carolina.

Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, has been appointed a Fellow
of the National Institute of Vocal Pedagogy. Miss Hagopian serves as president
of the Atlanta Alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota (national music fraternity)
and is a member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Music Club.

Dr. Muriel Ham, professor of German and Spanish, serves as chairman of the
University Center Language Association.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, instructor in piano, is vice-president of the Atlanta
Alumnae chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music sorority. In April she served
as a judge in the district high school music competitions.

Miss Eloise Herbert, assistant professor of Spanish, is chairman of the nominating
committee for the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr. Hendrik R. Hudson, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and asso-
ciate director of the Bradley Observatory, attended the national convention of the
Astronomical League at Haverford College in September as delegate and chair-
man-elect of the southeast region. Mr. Hudson is again serving as visiting lecturer
in astronomy at the National Science Foundation Summer Science Institute at
Murray State College, Kentucky.

Dr. Marie Huper, associate professor of art, is the recently elected treasurer of
the Association of Georgia Artists. She served as chairman of the panel on
sculpture for the conference of the Georgia Society of Education through Art
held in Athens in November. This summer Dr. Huper is again lecturer in art
for the Ontario, Canada, Department of Education.

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Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs, is a member of the
executive committee for the southeast district of the American College Public
Relations Association. She was recently elected vice-president of the Atlanta
Young Women's Christian Association.

Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr., associate professor of philosophy, received the Ph.D.
degree from Yale University in June. Dr. Kline is a member of the council of
the Southern Association of Colleges for Women, is chairman of the advisory
faculty council of the University Center in Georgia, and is president of the Beta
of Georgia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. During the spring, Dean Kline served as
chairman of a visiting team for evaluation appointed by the Southern Association
of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Dr. Edward T. Ladd, professor of education, served as chairman for 1960-1961
of the Georgia Council on Teacher Education. He visited Harvard University,
The Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and Duke University on a
grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to study fifth-year pro-
grams of teacher preparation. Dr. Ladd presented a paper at the annual meeting
of the American Council on Education's Council on Cooperation in Teacher
Education.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, conducted a portion of
Handel's "Messiah" at James Chapel, Union Theological Seminary, New York,
in February. While in residence at the seminary during the academic year on a
grant from the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U. S.,
Mr. Martin served as a field work supervisor on the staff of the seminary's School
of Sacred Music.

Mr. Michael McDowell, professor of music, is a member of the executive board
of the Music Teachers National Association and a member of the scholarship
board of the Atlanta Music Club. Mr. McDowell was piano soloist with the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the performance of Ernest Bloch's Concerto
Gross o.

Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of physical education, is faculty adviser
for the Georgia Athletic Recreation Federation of College Women. She served
on the planning committee for the convention of the Southern Association of
Physical Education for College Women.

Dr. W. E. McNair, director of development and public relations and assistant
professor of English, is a member of the Christian Education Committee, Synod
of Georgia and of the Atlanta Presbytery's Council of the Presbyterian Church
in the U. S.

Miss lone Murphy, assistant dean of students, has collaborated with Dr. Robert
Carver of the University of California in a survey of colleges and universities
having formal vocational orientation courses.

Miss Lillian Newman, assistant librarian, is serving as president of the Atlanta
Library Club.

Mr. Fred K. Parrish, instructor in biology, presented papers at the Fifth South-
eastern Developmental Biology Conference and at the meeting of the Association
of Southeastern Biologists.

Dr. Rosemonde S. Peltz, college physician, is clinical instructor in medicine at
Emory University School of Medicine and serves as chairman of the medical
section of the medical records committee, Crawford Long Memorial Hospital.

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Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, associate professor of English, is vice-chairman of
the English group of the University Center in Georgia.

Dr. Margaret T. Phythian, professor of French, is vice-president of the Beta of
Georgia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science, is a member of
the executive council of the Southern Historical Association. Dr. Posey lectured
in the Distinguished Professor Series at Birmingham-Southern College in January
and gave the Phi Beta Kappa address at the University of South Carolina in May.

Miss Janef Newman Preston, assistant professor of English, was a judge for
poetry contests sponsored by the Atlanta Writers' Club and by Quicksilver, a
quarterly magazine of poetry.

Dr. George E. Rice, professor of psychology, is chairman of the legal aspects
committee of the Georgia Psychological Association. He is director of the South-
eastern Railway Museum, a project of the Atlanta chapter of the National Railway
Historical Society.

Dr. Mary L. Rion, associate professor of English, is a group supervisor for the
reading of College Entrance Examination Board English achievement tests and
continues to serve as a reader of advanced placement English examinations of
the College Board.

Dr. Sara L. Ripy, associate professor of mathematics, is an instructor this summer
in a workshop for mathematics teachers at Texas Woman's University.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, has been serving as chairman
of the southeast section of the Mathematical Association of America. He is a
member of the National Committee on Sections, Mathematical Association of
America, and of the State Committee on High School Mathematics Tests (spon-
sored by the Mathematical Association of America and the Society of Actuaries).

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and sociology, is the
chairman of the Committee on Higher Education, Atlanta branch, American
Association of University Women, and is a member of the research committee
of the Southern Sociological Society. She is visiting professor in sociology at
Emory University this summer.

Dr. Elizabeth Cole Stack, associate professor of education, is a member of the
executive board of the Georgia Council on Teacher Education. She has been a
member of the editorial committee of the Georgia Council on Social Studies,
which has prepared a scope and sequence guide for the social studies in the
public schools of Georgia.

Miss Chloe Steel, associate professor of French, recently received the Ph.D. degree
from the University of Chicago. Dr. Steel has been serving as acting secretary
and treasurer of the Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers
of French.

Miss Laura Steele, registrar and director of admissions, is secretary-treasurer of
the Independent Women's Colleges of the College Entrance Examination Board.
She is serving this year as a member of the Committee on Entrance Procedures of
the College Board.
Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history, is a member of a com-

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mittee of the Southern Historical Association for the awarding of a prize for the
best seminar paper in the field of European history.

Miss Harriet Talmadge, assistant to the Dean of Students, and Miss Annette
Teague, assistant in admissions and in the registrar's office, are studying at
Harvard University this summer.

Mr. Pierre Thomas, assistant professor of French, gave two lectures on the
method of teaching conversation at die French Institute of Emory University.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, associate professor of English, was a judge for the
Atlanta Writers' Club Byron Reece Award poetry contest. She served this year as
scholarship chairman for the Atlanta Wellesley Club.

Dr. John A. Tumblin, Jr., associate professor of sociology and anthropology, is
speaking this summer at a number of conferences, including the Foreign Missions
Conference at Ridgecrest, North Carolina; the orientation conference for newly-
appointed missionaries at Mars Hill, North Carolina; the conference of Young
Women's Auxiliary to the Women's Missionary Society, Southern Baptist Con-
vention at Glorietta, New Mexico; and the Baptist Assembly at Eagle Eyrie,
Virginia.

Dr. Merle Walker, assistant professor of philosophy, taught an adult study group
in religious drama at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Atlanta.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, recently exhibited his paintings, draw-
ings, and water colors at the New Arts Gallery in Atlanta, Oglethorpe University,
and LaGrange College. His painting "Bonaventure" was included in the annual
exhibition of the National Academy of Design (New York) .

Mr. Robert F. Westervelt, assistant professor of art, executed the exterior archi-
tectural decoration in stoneware tile for the new visual arts building at the
University of Georgia.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical education, presided at
the third general session of the Conference of the Southern Association of
Physical Education for College Women.

Dr. Roberta Winter, associate professor of speech and drama, was president of
the Atlanta Area English Club for 1960-1961.

Dr. Elizabeth G. Zenn, associate professor of classical languages and literatures,
is chairman of the classical group of the University Center in Georgia. She is a
member of the executive committee of the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological
Institute of America.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
1960-1961

Mary Virginia Allen
Research in progress: "The Posthumous Poetry of Rene Leynaud."

Mary L. Boney

Living in Christ (Circle Bible Study of Philippians), (Atlanta, Georgia: Board
of Women's Work, Presbyterian Church, U.S., I960) .

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Research in progress: book on the Bible for seventh and eighth grades for
Covenant Life Curriculum, Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Michael J. Brown

Research in progress: "Roving Ambassador: The Life and Career of Sir
Thomas Roe" (doctoral dissertation, Emory University).
Kwai Sing Chang

Research in progress: "The Gospel, the World and the Teacher."
Melissa A. Cilley

Research in progress: Hispanic literature (Spanish and Portuguese).
Frances B. Clark

Research in progress: "Pascal's Concept of the Heart" (doctoral dissertation,
Yale University) .
William G. Cornelius
Research in progress:

"The 'Latin-American Bloc' in the United Nations," to be published in
Journal of Inter-American Studies, July, 1961.

"The County Unit System of Georgia: Facts and Prospects," to be published
in Western 'Political Quarterly, December, 1961.
"The Evolution of Southern Political Behavior," under a Danforth Founda-
tion Faculty Summer Study Grant.
Miriam K. Drucker

Research in progress: "Relationships between School Phobia and Procrastina-
tion in College Students."
Florene J. Dunstan
Research in progress:

The influence of Spain on American Literature.

Society as it is reflected in the contemporary Spanish novel.

W. Joe Frierson
Research in progress:

Spectrophotometric determination of cobalt with 1, 2, 3-cyclohexanetrione
trioxime (supported by National Science Foundation).
Investigation of a new spectrophotometric reagent for nickel and iron (sup-
ported by National Science Foundation).

Quantitative study of fluorescence resulting from reactions between organic
compounds.

Paul L. Garber

Revision and reprinting of "A Reconstruction of Solomon's Temple," Archae-
ology, V, 3 (Autumn, 1952), 165-172, at the request of the Archaeological
Institute of America.

Evaluation reading of manuscripts for the John Knox Press, Richmond,
Virginia.
Research in progress:

Continuing work with Mr. E. G. Howland, Troy, Ohio, on model recon-

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structions of the earliest known synagogues, those of Capernaum and Dura
Europos.

Related general study of the earliest Christian art in all forms.
Julia T. Gary
"Polarography of Some Aromatic Nitro and Carbonyl Compounds," Journal of
the Electrochemical Society, 107 (July, I960), 6l6, with R. A. Day, Jr.

Netta E. Gray

Research in progress: the cultivated podocarps in the United States.

Eloise Herbert

Research in progress:
"The Saintly Character in the Contemporary Novels of Benito Prez Galdos,"

(doctoral dissertation, Duke University).
"The Use of the Redundant Pronoun in Spanish."

Hendrik R. Hudson

Research in progress: the design and construction of science teaching aids and
demonstration equipment, especially in the fields of astronomy and optics.

Edward T. Ladd

Book review of F. Vigdorova, Diary of a Russian Schoolteacher, in Social Edu-
cation, XXV (May, 1961), 260-262.

Research in progress: development of a new form of teacher examination (sup-
ported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) .

Ellen Douglass Leyburn
"To Listen and to Understand," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XXXLX (Fall,
I960), 7-9.

Charles F. Martin

Research in progress: "The History of the Labor Movement in Georgia,"
(doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State University, continued in summer, 1961,
under a grant from the Shell Foundation).

Raymond J. Martin

Research in progress: "The Transition from Metrical Psalmody to Hymnody
in The Presbyterian Church in the United States," (doctoral dissertation, Union
Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music, New York, continued in sum-
mer, 1961, under a Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant).

Fred K. Parrish
Research in progress:
"Cellular Differentiation," (doctoral dissertation, Emory University, con-
tinued in summer, 1961, under a Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer
Study Grant).

Studies on spatial differences in plasma membrane permeability.
The developmental effects of centrifugation during early cleavage on the
eggs of Nassarius.
Culture methods for animals.

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ROSEMONDE S. PELTZ
"Adrenal Cortical Steroids in the Treatment of Complications of Infectious
Mononucleosis," J.M.A. Georgia, 49 (I960), 543-547, with H. B. Stillerman.

Margaret W. Pepperdene

Research in progress: "The Character of the Coastguard in Beowulf."

Walter B. Posey
"Alabama in the 1830's," Emory University Quarterly, XVI (Fall, I960),
129-38.

Research in progress: "Religion in the Mississippi Valley before the Civil
War."

Janef Newman Preston
"A Canticle of Cities," American Weave, XXV (Autumn, I960), 7.
"Worn Steps," The Poetry Review, LII (January-March, 1961), 22.
Research in progress: compilation of a volume of poems.

George E. Rice

Research in progress:
"Altruism in the Albino Rat," with Priscilla W. Gainer, soon to be pub-
lished in the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology.
"Behavior variability and reactive inhibition in human stylus maze behavior,"
with Richard Lawless, soon to be published in The Psychological Record.
"Variables in Altruism," supported by a grant from the National Institute of
Mental Health, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Margaret B. Sewell

Musical version of one-act play, The Party Dress, Samuel French (New York) .
Research in progress: "Analyse de la piece, Les Vieux, Eugene Ionesco."

Anna Greene Smith
"The Southerner as American," to be published in Social Forces (October,
1961).
Research in progress: "Population Shifts in Georgia, 1950-1960."

Koenraad W. Swart

"The Idea of Decadence in the Second Empire," The Review of Politics, XXIII
(January, 1961), 77-92.

"The French: Are They Individualists?", accepted for fall publication in the
South Atlantic Quarterly.

Research in progress: continued study of the ideas of decadence and individual-
ism in nineteenth-century France.

John A. Tumblin
"Responsabilidades e Oportunidades Sociais da Igreja," Expositor Teologico,
III, 2 (December, I960), 3-12.
Research in progress: "Racial Attitudes in Brazil."
Ferdinand Warren
"An Intimate Mural," American Artist (February, 1961), 48.

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Robert F. Westervelt

Research in progress: continuation of research project involving pictorial
survey of outstanding art works in eastern United States museums and private
collections, under a Danforth Foundation Faculty Summer Study Grant.

Buildings and Grounds

Campus and plant improvements undertaken last summer, in ad-
dition to the usual painting and repair work in housing units and
other buildings, were as follows:

Further clearing of the entrance to Campbell Hall by the razing of the faculty

house at 214 South McDonough;

the construction of five additional faculty offices (four on the ground floor

of Buttrick and one on the ground floor of Presser) and of three storage

areas for administrative offices (ground floor of Buttrick) ;

the construction in the amphitheatre of permanent concrete seats a gift in

honor of his parents by Mr. Robert R. Snodgrass of Atlanta;

installation of a new water line from South McDonough to College Avenue,

crossing the quadrangle between Main and the library, and of new fire

hydrant connections;

the construction of a rest room for colored male employees in the basement

of the dining hall;

the installation in all student cottages of automatic fire alarm systems, and the

addition of fire exits for Ansley and Alexander cottages;

the conversion of one of the large wards on the second-floor infirmary into

two isolation rooms, and the installation of a new bath;

the installation in each cottage of a refrigerator for student use.

The College has purchased for faculty housing in recent
months the Gibson home (134 South Candler Street) and the
Medlock home (206 South Candler Street).

Campus improvements for this summer include:

The installation of new stage curtains, reupholstering of seats, and the laying

of new carpeting in Gaines Chapel;

the installation in the library of equipment for a language laboratory;

the repainting and repairing of the exterior of Rebekah Scott dormitory;

the completion of fire protection requirements in Rebekah Scott;

the repainting of the interior of Walters Hall;

the conversion of Cunningham Cottage from a faculty duplex to a student

housing unit;

the steam-cleaning and painting of student cottages and of the faculty club

on South Candler Street;

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extensive renovation and repairs at 341 South Candler Street, now Dean

Kline's residence; and at 311 South Candler Street, now Dean Scandrett's

residence;

the razing of the faculty house at 230 South McDonough Street as a part of

the program for clearing the area south of Presser Hall the site of the

proposed fine arts building;

the acquisition and renovation for faculty and staff housing of the Ramspeck

home (176 South Candler Street) ;

the installation of air conditioning units in the administrative offices of

Buttrick Hall;

the redecoration of offices and classrooms in Campbell Hall;

the conversion of Dean Scandrett's former home on College Place into offices

for student publications, releasing for study purposes the space in Murphey

Candler formerly occupied by the publications;

rewiring of the Alumnae House and repapering and repainting of the upstairs

bedrooms;

the installation of a new dishwasher in the infirmary;

the installation of additional trunk lines on the college switchboard.

Finances

CURRENT OPERATIONS

The following is a summary of receipts and expenditures in the
1960-1961 current operations, as shown in the audit of June 30,
1961:

Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 436,457.49

Receipts from student charges

(Room, board, tuition, and fees) 1,043,927.50

Gifts and grants 57,705.69

Miscellaneous (Rents received, bookstore, etc.) 64,311-95

Total Receipts $1,602,402.63

Expenditures

Educational expense (Faculty salaries, library, etc.) $ 612,086.32

General administrative expense (including dining hall,

infirmary operation, etc.) 642,107.89

Plant, facilities, and development 344,703.64

Total Expenses $1,598,897.85

Net Operating Profit $ 3,504.78

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CAPITAL ASSETS

Our capital assets, as shown by the audit for 1960-1961, are as
follows:

Fixed Assets

Buildings $4,109,483.56

Furnishings and equipment 1,092,685.19

Land 263,391.10 $ 5,465,559.85

Permanent Plant Fund 509,754.99

Prepaid Architects' Fees 15,212.00

Permanent Fund Assets (Endowment and Scholarships)

Permanent Endowment Fund $2,657,634.42

Frances Winship Walters (B) Fund . . . . 2,814,411.60

Walters Trust (A) Fund 1,453,719.69

English Fund 633,962.79

Special Memorial Scholarship Fund .... 507,720.25

S. M. Inman Endowment Fund 196,466.61

Mary F. Sweet Memorial Fund 188,941.83

Ford Fund 330,987.50

Waterman Fund 132,737.90

J. Bulow Campbell Stamp Collection .... 22,397.00

Loan Fund 13,141.46 $ 8,952,121.05

Total $14,942,647.89

FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE
BUSINESS SUPPORT

Foundations and corporate businesses that have contributed to
Agnes Scott during the past year (many of them through the
Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges) are the following:

Albany, Georgia: Albany Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Albany Savings Bank;
First State Bank & Trust Company; Giles Builders Supply, Inc.; Golden Glow
Dairies, Inc.; Lilliston Implement Company, Inc.; The Merck Company Foun-
dation; Merts Equipment Company; The National Bank of Albany; Oxford
Construction Company; Rosenberg Brothers; A. C. Samford, Inc.; South-
eastern Mortgage Corporation; Taylor-Cleat Company.

Americus, Georgia: Americus Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Americus Seed &
Feed Company; Elias Attyah; Glover Wholesale Company; Marlette Coach
Company.

Athens, Georgia: Angus Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia: Abco Builders; Adair Realty and Loan Company; Akers Motor

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Lines; Alexander Auto Company; Allan-Grayson Realty Company; Ivan Allen
Company; American Art Metals Company, Inc.; American Can Company;
American Investment Company Foundation; Aristocrat Ice Cream Company;
Arthur Andersen & Company; Atlanta Envelope Company; Atlanta Federal
Savings and Loan Association; Atlanta Flooring Company, Inc.; The Atlanta
Foundation; Atlanta Gas Light Company; Atlanta Newspapers, Inc.; Atlanta
Oak Flooring Company; Atlanta Stove Works; Atlantic Steel Foundation, Inc.;
Auto-Soler Company; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; The Barge
Foundation; Barge-Thompson, Inc.; Beck & Gregg Hardware; Breman Steel
Company; Bressler Brothers; J. C. Brown; Brown- Wright Hotel Supply Cor-
poration; Capitol Fish Company; Chattahoochee Brick Company; Colonial
Stores Foundation; Conklin Tin Plate & Metal Company; Continental Can
Company; Crown Candy Company, Inc.; Curtis 1000 Inc.; D'Arcy Advertising
Company; DeKalb National Bank of Brookhaven; The Dillard Foundation,
Inc.; Dixie Wholesale Company; Dwoskin, Inc.; Electrical Wholesalers, Inc.;
The First National Bank of Atlanta; Foote & Davies, Inc.; Fulton County
Federal Savings and Loan Association; The Fulton National Bank; Fulton
Paper Company; Genuine Parts Company; Georgia Marble Company; Georgia
Power Company; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company; John H. Flarland
Company; Haverty Furniture Company; International Harvester Foundation;
Jackson Plumbing and Heating Company; King Hardware Company; Frank
G. Lake Lumber Company; Lanier Brothers Foundation; Larkin Coils, Inc.;
MacDougald Construction Company; MacDougald-Warren, Inc.; Maclntyre
and Company; Mead Corporation Foundation; Montag Brothers; National
Biscuit Company; National Linen Service Corporation; Orkin Exterminating
Company, Inc.; Otis Elevator Company; Park & Shop Garage; Pepin Interiors;
Plantation Pipe Line; Redfern Sausage Company; Retail Credit Company;
Rhodes, Inc.; Richards Paper Company; Rich's, Inc.; The Walter H. and
Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund; Robert & Company, Associates; The
Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc.; Sealtest Foods; Sears, Roebuck Founda-
tion; John Sexton; The Sherwin Williams Company; Silver Bear, Inc.; Sock-
well Company; Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; Southern
Mills, Inc.; Southern Spring Bed Company Foundation; Standard Oil Com-
pany; Steel Heddle Manufacturing Company; Stockbridge Stone Company;
Walter R. Thomas, Inc.; Robert K. Thrower, Inc.; Trust Company of Georgia;
Roy D. Warren Realty, Inc.; R. H. White Foundation; The Zaban Foundation;
A. L. Zachry Company; Zep Manufacturing Company.
Augusta, Georgia: Augusta Bag & Burlap Company; Castleberry Food Com-
pany; Claussen's & Sons, Inc.; Cullum's, Inc.; First Federal Savings & Loan
Association; First National Bank & Trust Company; A. A. Friedman & Com-
pany; Georgia Iron Works; Georgia Railroad Bank & Trust Company; John P.
King Manufacturing Company; The Marbut Foundation; Marbut Milling Com-
pany; Maxwell Brothers, Inc.; Murray Biscuit Company; Slusky Builders'
Supply Company; WJBF-TV; Weathers Transfer & Storage Company; J. B.
White & Company.

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Avondale Estates, Georgia: Brand Electric Company.

Blakely, Georgia: First State Bank.

Brunswick, Georgia: The First National Bank; Lewis Crab Factory; Seaboard
Construction Company.

Cairo, Georgia: W. B. Roddenbery Company, Inc.

Cartersville, Georgia: First National Bank.

Cedartown, Georgia: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Liberty National Bank.

Chamblee, Georgia: E. T. Barwick Mills, Inc.; H. W. Lay and Company.

Columbus, Georgia: Columbus Bank & Trust Company; Bickerstaff Clay Products;
W. C. & Sarah H. Bradley Foundation; Buck Investment Company; Cen-
Tennial Cotton Gin Company; A. & M. L. Illges Memorial Foundation; John
P. and Dorothy Illges Foundation; Kinnett Dairies, Inc.; J. A. Kirven Com-
pany; The Ledger Enquirer Company; Maxwell Brothers Company; Morton
Machine Works, Inc.; Muscogee Iron Works; Muscogee Motor Company;
Tom Huston Peanut Company; David Rothschild Company; Royal Crown
Cola Company; Schwob Manufacturing Company; G. Mote Williams Memorial
Foundation.

Commerce, Georgia: Blue Bell Foundation.

Cor dele, Georgia: Cordele Sash, Door & Lumber Company; First State Bank;
Roobins, Ltd.

Cornelia, Georgia: Cornelia Bank.

Dalton, Georgia: American Thread Company; Bank of Dalton; Cabin Crafts,
Inc.; First National Bank; Hardwick Bank & Trust Company; Proffitt Manu-
facturing Company.

Decatur, Georgia: Bailey and Anderson, Inc.; Bradford Sales Company; The
Campus Grill; The Casual Corner; City Hall Service Station; Decatur Army
and Navy Surplus Store; Decatur Auto Parts; Decatur Branch, Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company; Decatur Cake Box; Decatur Lumber and
Supply Company; Fairview Flower Shop; Georgia Magazine; Glenco-Belvedere
Animal Hospital; Hills Insurance Agency; Sam L. Holcombe, Inc.; R. L.
Mathis Certified Dairy; Mike's Hair Dressers; North Decatur Pharmacy; Ray's
Tailors and Cleaners; The Schun Company, Inc.; Marguerite Smith Cleaners;
F. D. Stephens, Inc.; Stone Mountain Abstract Company; Watson's Pharmacy.

Forsyth, Georgia: Citizens Bank; Monroe County Bank; Trio Manufacturing
Company.

Gainesville, Georgia: Gainesville National Bank; J. D. Jewell, Inc.; Pacolet
Manufacturing Company.

Grantville, Georgia: W. N. Banks Foundation.

Griffin, Georgia: Commercial Bank & Trust Company; Dundee Mills, Inc.;
Griffin- Jaco Mills, Inc.; Pomona Products Company, Inc.; The State Bank.

Hampton, Georgia: Southern State Equipment Corporation.

Jackson, Georgia: Jackson National Bank.

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LaGrange, Georgia: LaGrange Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Citizens and South-
ern Bank.

McRae, Georgia: Roydon-Wear, Inc.

Macon, Georgia: Armstrong Cork Company; Bankers Health & Life Insurance
Company; Barnes & Barnes, Inc.; Bibb Manufacturing Company; Burns Brick
Company; Cherokee Brick & Tile; Empire Furniture Company; First National
Bank & Trust Company; Georgia Kraft Company; Georgia Timberlands, Inc.;
A. S. Hatcher Company; Inland Container Corporation; Lowe Electric Com-
pany; Maxwell Brothers Furniture Company; Snyder's Ready to Wear.

Marietta, Georgia: Cobb Exchange Bank; Holeproof Hosiery.

Milled geville, Georgia: Exchange Bank of Milledgeville; The Merchants & Farm-
ers Bank; Oconee Clay Products; J. P. Stevens & Company, Inc.

Moultrie, Georgia: The Friedlander Foundation; Moultrie Cotton Mills.

Newnan, Georgia: Beavers Packing Company.

Rome, Georgia: Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Association; First National
Bank; Fox Manufacturing Company; General Electric Company; Hardy Trust
Company; Maxwell Brothers; National City Bank; Owens Hardware Com-
pany; Rome Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Rome Kraft Company; Rome Manu-
facturing Company; Simpson Grocery Company; Southeastern Mills, Inc.

St. Simons, Georgia: St. Simons State Bank.

Sandersville, Georgia: Thiele Kaolin Company.

Savannah, Georgia: S. A. Allen, Inc.; Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Company;
The Chatham Foundation; Colonial Oil Industries; John & Emma Derst Foun-
dation; Liberty National Bank & Trust Company; Maxwell Brothers; Reynolds
& Manley Lumber Company; Savannah Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Savan-
nah Electric & Power Company; Savannah Machine & Foundry Company;
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation; Wesson Division, Hunt Foods.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Foundation, Inc.

Shannon, Georgia: Burlington Mills Corporation.

Stateshoro, Georgia: Bulloch County Bank; Rockwell Statesboro Corporation.

Summerville, Georgia: Farmers & Merchants Bank; Georgia Rug Mills.

Toccoa, Georgia: The Citizens Bank; Toccoa Casket Company; Trogdon Furni-
ture Company; Wright Manufacturing Company.

Waycross, Georgia: Monroe Welfare Foundation; Waycross Journal-Herald.

West Point, Georgia: Georgia Alabama Supply Company, Inc. ; Neighbors Fund,
Inc.; Wehadkee Foundation, Inc.; West Point Manufacturing Company.

White, Georgia: Kingston Mills, Inc.

Bluff ton, Indiana: Franklin Electric Company, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company; Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company; New England Life Insurance
Company.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Telephone Answering Service, Inc.

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Chicago, Illinois: General American Transportation Foundation; Zurich Insur-
ance Company.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Procter & Gamble Fund.

Cleveland, Ohio: Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation; Bailey Meter Com-
pany.

Detroit, Michigan: Parke, Davis, & Company.

Evanston, Illinois: The Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship Program; Na-
tional Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Long Island City, New York: Standard Motor Products.

New York, New York: America Fore Loyalty Foundation; Babcock & Wilcox
Company; Bristol-Myers Company; Harry L. Dalton Foundation, Inc.; Esso
Education Foundation; General Foods Fund, Inc.; Graybar Electric Com-
pany; Gulf Oil Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation;
The Katz Agency; Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.; National Biscuit Company; New
York Life Insurance Company; Philip Morris, Inc.; The Sperry & Hutchinson
Company; Standard & Poor's Corporation; United States Steel Foundation, Inc.

Spartanburg, South Carolina: General Supplies, Inc.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Washington, D. C: Atomic Energy Commission.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

GROWTH OF ASSETS
(Audit, June 30, 1961) !

$15,000,000
$14,000,000
$13,000,000
$12,000,000
$11,000,000
$10,000,000
$ 9,000,000

$ 8,000,000
$ 7,000,000
$ 6,000,000
$ 5,000,000
$ 4,000,000
$ 3,000,000
$ 2,000,000
$ 1,000,000

1891

1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961

Campus Activities

During the 1960-1961 session, a varied program of campus ac-
tivities was offered to the college community. Among these ac-
tivities were the following:

September

Ninth annual "Meet-the-Ministers Tea" sponsored by the Interfaith Council.
Honors Day address: President David A. Lockmiller, Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity; president, Association of American Colleges.
Georgia Tech-Agnes Scott freshman dance on our campus.

October

World-wide Communion Sunday vesper service led by Dean Kline and Presi-
dent Alston.

Chapel: Dr. D. J. Cumming, educational secretary, Board of World Missions,
Presbyterian Church, U. S.

Seminar: "The Congo and Cuba," Mrs. L. C. Vass '38, Presbyterian mission-
ary to the Congo; Mr. and Mrs. Olin Ivey, Cuba.

Lecture: "Reporting America to Britain," Alistair Cooke, U. S. correspondent
for the Manchester Guardian.

Palestinian archaeological exhibition from the Pacific School of Religion.
Annual "Black Cat" community day.

William F. Albright, professor emeritus of Semitic languages, The Johns
Hopkins University, on campus as visiting lecturer in Biblical archaeology.
Campaign dinner for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development Program in
the Decatur area.

November

A. L. Rowse, professor of history, All Souls College, Oxford University, Eng-
land, in a series of lectures, including "British Foreign Problems" and "The
Elizabethans and America."

Chapel: The Reverend James M. Coleman, college chaplain, All Saints Epis-
copal Church, Atlanta.
Exhibition of paintings by graduate students, The University of Georgia.

Senior Investiture: Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, associate professor of Eng-
lish, Agnes Scott College. Sunday sermon: Dr. Marion A. Boggs, pastor,
Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas; moderator, Presbyterian
Church, U. S.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: Kirtley Mather, professor emeritus of
geology, Harvard University.

Chapel: "Agnes Scott's Project in Korea," Mrs. Paul S. Crane '40, medical
missionary to Korea.

Chapel: "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy," Dr. C. S. Shoup, chief of biology

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branch, Research and Development Division, Atomic Energy Commission,

Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Presentation of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Agnes Scott

Blackfriars and DramaTech (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Photographic exhibition of sculpture. Sculpture Society of America.

Chapel: Georgia Institute of Technology Glee Club.

University Center Visiting Scholar in art: Mrs. Marguerite Wildenhain,

Guerneville, California, noted craftsman.

Convocation: The Reverend Fred R. Stair, Jr., Central Presbyterian Church,

Atlanta.

December
"L'Office de L'Etoile," an eleventh century liturgical drama presented by Le
Cercle Francois.

Christmas Convocation, presented by Dance Group.

Glee Club Christmas Carol service, followed by community Christmas party.

January

Fourteenth annual All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, sponsored

by Pi Alpha Phi.

Convocation: Dean Judson C. Ward, Emory University.

Chapel: Mr. Ralph McGill, publisher, The Atlanta Constitution.

Annual visit and lecture by Robert Frost.

Chi Beta Phi lecturer: Dr. William Jones, Emory University.

Junior Jaunt week end, climaxing campus-wide charity drive.

February

Sophomore Parents' Week End, featuring Dolphin Club pageant "Alice in
Wonderland" and a reading by speech students of Christopher Fry's "Boy
With a Cart."

Chapel : The Reverend Allison Williams, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta.
University Center Visiting Scholar in political science: President Lawrence
Pelletier, Allegheny College.

Convocation: The Reverend J. Davison Philips, Decatur Presbyterian Church.
Presentation by Blackfriars of three films: "Universe," "The Surrealist
Hamlet," and "The Eye of the Beholder."

Religious Emphasis Week led by Dr. Edmund A. Steimle, professor of prac-
tical theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; Brown professor
of homiletics elect, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Exhibition of Joachim Probst's paintings, on loan from The Collector's Gallery,
New York, for Religious Emphasis Week.
State convention of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity on campus.

University Center Visiting Scholar: J. Fred Rippy, professor emeritus of
American history, University of Chicago, "Present State of Latin- American
Affairs."

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Founder's Day Convocation: Dr. Eleanor Hutchens '40, president, National
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association.
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on campus.
Art exhibition, Paula Wilson, '61.

Chapel: Dr. Thomas J. J. Altizer, department of Bible and religion, Emory
University.

Atlanta dinner, Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development Program. Address:
"The Unique Role of Agnes Scott College in Education Today," Mr. John A.
Sibley, chairman, executive committee, Trust Company of Georgia; Honorary
National Co-chairman of the Development Program; Trustee of Agnes Scott.
University Center Visiting Scholar: G. M. A. Grube, professor of classics,
University of Toronto.

March

Lecture: "Is Christian Statesmanship Possible?" The Honorable Charles

Malik, former president, United Nations Genera! Assembly.

Georgia Tech- Agnes Scott glee clubs in joint concert, featuring Gabriel Faur^'s

"Requiem."

Special Holy Week emphasis, culminating in the Easter Sunrise Service.

Sponsored by Christian Association.

April

University Center Visiting Scholar in art history: James H. Breasted, Jr., Kent

School, Connecticut.

Phi Beta Kappa Convocation: Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr.

Fine Arts Festival, April 14-22:

DRAMA

Exhibition of stage designs and light plots by Arch Lauterer.

Lecture: "Crisis in the American Theatre and Drama," John Gassner,
Sterling professor of playwriting, Yale University School of Drama.

Premiere performance: "Uncle Sam's Cabin," Pat Hale '55, resident play-
wright, Barter Theater of Virginia. Presented by Blackfriars.

Two one-act plays: "Refutation of an Old Theme," Molly Schwab '61, and
"Something That Lasts," Beth Crawford '62.

Playwriting panel composed of John Gassner; Robert Porterfield, founder
and managing director, Barter Theater of Virginia; Leighton Ballew, chair-
man, department of speech and drama, University of Georgia; and Margaret
Bland Sewell, playwright and instructor in French, Agnes Scott College.

ART

Exhibition of drawing, painting, pottery, and sculpture by Atlanta students,

teaching artists, and Agnes Scott faculty members.

Art auction of student and faculty work.

LITERATURE

Lecture: "How Does a Poem Mean?" John Ciardi, poetry editor, Saturday
Review; professor of English, Rutgers University.

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Convocation: Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, Agnes Scott
College, speaking on Hebrew poetry.

Panel discussing festival issue of Aurora, college literary magazine: John
Ciardi; Flannery O'Connor, novelist and short story writer, Milledgeville,
Georgia; and George P. Hayes, chairman, department of English, Agnes
Scott College.

MUSIC AND DANCE

Lecture: "A Curious Era in Chamber Music," William S. Newman, pro-
fessor of music, University of North Carolina. University Center Visiting
Scholar.

Program of contemporary music and dance by Agnes Scott speech students,
glee club, dance group, and Sigma Alpha Iota: Robert Sterling Beckwith's
"Magnificat Fauxbourdon," Virgil Thomson's "Medea of Euripides," and
William Butler Yeats' "The Only Jealousy of Emer."
Lecture and master class in contemporary dance : Bettie Jane Wooten, editor,
National Section of Dance, American Association for Health, Physical Edu-
cation, and Recreation.

Master class in organ technique: George Faxon, organist, Trinity Church,
Boston; associate professor of church music, Boston University.

Alumnae Day, April 22.

University Center Visiting Scholar: Robert M. Thrall, professor of mathe-
matics, University of Michigan.

Mortar Board Convocation : Dr. Julia T. Gary, associate professor of chemistry,

Agnes Scott College.

Lecture: Dr. Thomas Parham, University of Tennessee School of Social Work.

Agnes Scott host to Georgia Academy of Science, April 29.

May

University Center Visiting Scholar: Herbert H. Farmer, professor of divinity,

Cambridge University, England.

Convocation : North Fulton High School Special Choir, directed by Mr. Robert

S. Lowrance.

Chi Beta Phi Convocation: Dr. Charles T. Lester, dean of the graduate school,

Emory University.

University Center Visiting Scholar: Robin Williams, Jr., chairman, department

of sociology and anthropology, Cornell University.

Convocation: Dr. Joen Fagan '54, clinical psychologist, Child Guidance Clinic,

Atlanta.

Senior opera.

June

Class Day exercises.

Baccalaureate sermon: Dr. Marcel Pradervand, general secretary, World Alli-
ance of Reformed Churches, Geneva, Switzerland.

Commencement address: The Honorable Eugene R. Black, president, Interna-
tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, D. C.

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Enrollment

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 647 students
(584 boarders, 63 day students); this figure is seven over the
anticipated capacity. Twenty-seven states and eight foreign coun-
tries are represented in the following geographical distribution
of student residence:

Alabama 47

Arkansas 4

Colorado 1

Connecticut 2

Delaware 2

Florida 49

Georgia 205

Illinois 2

Indiana 1

Kentucky 13

Louisiana 6

Maryland 5

Michigan 2

Mississippi 10

Missouri 3

New Jersey 4

New York 6

North Carolina 71

Ohio 4

Pennsylvania 2

South Carolina 75

Tennessee 34

Texas 16

Virginia 57

Washington 1

West Virginia 15

Wisconsin 1

Ecuador 1

Germany 1

Hong Kong 2

Italy 1

Japan 1

Netherlands 1

Newfoundland 1

Venezuela 1

Total

647

The classification of the student body for the 1960-1961
session is as follows:

Seniors 126

Fourth-year Juniors .... 2

Juniors 113

Third-year Sophomores ... 6

Sophomores 175

Second -year Freshmen ... 2

Freshmen 216

Specials 7

Total 647

note: The total number of seniors above includes two students who withdrew during the
session and one who jailed to meet graduation requirements; the total number awarded the
degree was 123. The total number of juniors does not include four who were studying on
the junior year abroad plan.

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The denominational distribution is as follows:

Presbyterian 276 Greek Orthodox 2

Methodist 128 Jewish 2

Baptist 106 Christian Scientist

Episcopal 85 Church of England ....

Christian 12 Church of God

Lutheran 12 Dutch Reformed

Roman Catholic 6 Moravian

Church of Christ 5 No preference 4

Congregational 4 To(al ~^

Trustees

The terms of the following trustees expired with the annual
meeting of the Board on May 11, 1961 : Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth
(Synodical, Alabama), Dr. Marshall C. Dendy (Synodical, Flor-
ida), Dr. S. G. Stukes (Synodical, Georgia), Mrs. Leonard E.
LeSourd (Alumnae) , Mr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr. (Corporate) ,
Dr. S. Hugh Bradley (Corporate) , Mr. J. R. Neal (Corporate) ,
and Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr. (Corporate).

By action of the Board at the annual meeting, Dr. Hollings-
worth was re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a term of four
years, subject to ratification by the Synod of Alabama, Presby-
terian Church (U.S.) ; Dr. Dendy was re-elected as Synodical
Trustee for a term of four years, subject to ratification by the
Presbyterian Synod of Florida; Dr. Stukes was re-elected as Sy-
nodical Trustee for a four-year term, subject to ratification by
the Synod of Georgia; Mrs. LeSourd was re-elected as Alumnae
Trustee for a term of two years, subject to ratification by the
National Agnes Scott Alumnae Association; Mr. Wardlaw, Dr.
Bradley, Mr. Neal, and Mr Allen were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each.

Dr. Massey Mott Heltzel, pastor of the Government Street
Presbyterian Church, Mobile, Alabama, was elected to serve as
Synodical Trustee in the Class of 1964, to complete the unexpired

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term of the late Dr. J. Chester Frist, subject to ratification by
the Synod of Alabama, Presbyterian Church (U.S.).

The Board in the annual meeting re-elected Mr. Hal L. Smith
as chairman, Mr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr., vice-chairman, and
the President of the College, secretary.

I want to record again my appreciation of the men and women
who serve on Agnes Scott's Board of Trustees. I am greatly in-
debted to the members of the Board for the effectiveness with
which they perform their duties and for the helpful counsel,
encouragement, and support that they offer consistently to the
administration and faculty of the College.

Respectfully submitted,

PRESIDENT

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gnes Scott College

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

JUNE 30, 1962

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

JUNE 30, 1962

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE * * DECATUR, GEORGIA

To the Board of Trustees
of Agnes Scott College:

present herewith my eleventh annual report as presi-
dent at the conclusion of the seventy-third year of Agnes
Scott's service as an educational institution.
As we approach our seventy-fifth anniversary, planned for the
late spring of 1964, we are working prodigiously to complete the
eleven-year goal of an addition of $10,500,000 to the capital assets
of the College. This task, essential as it is, must not prevent us
from looking ahead now to the next twenty-five to fifty years as
a college. The time has come for some careful and constrvictive
thinking, not only about next steps but about long-range develop-
ments in our work at Agnes Scott. As a preface to this review of
our 1961-1962 session, let me pose some of the issues that ought to
receive the most thoughtful consideration of all of us who are in
any measure responsible for the welfare of the College.

1. Is our commitment as an educational institution valid and
significant? We have frequently re-examined and re-evaluated
the educational task that we have accepted for ourselves. We have
repeatedly said that our educational responsibility is to offer the
bachelor of arts degree to young women in a relatively small
student body, providing a curriculum that integrates a high qual-
ity of academic work in the liberal arts with the Christian inter-
pretation of life in an environment where personal relationships
among members of the educational community play an impor-
tant role. A program of this nature is exceedingly difficult to
guide and sustain. It is expensive, make no mistake about it. Is
Agnes Scott's kind of education worth what it costs in human
effort and in money? How genuinely convinced are we that our
purpose as a college is relevant to the lives of young people and to
the public welfare? Obviously, the answers that we give to such
questions will determine the effectiveness with which we under-
take every task confronting us.

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2. Has a separate woman's college, such as Agnes Scott, a
vital place in higher education in America? Are we right in as-
suming that there are advantages in such a program that justify
us in making long-range plans to continue our service as a college
for women?

3. Are we proceeding upon sound presuppositions in the edu-
cation of women? We assume that a carefully conceived liberal
arts curriculum is basic to the education of a young person, re-
gardless of sex. We are not unmindful that women have special
intellectual, physical, social, and spiritual problems and needs.
Our college program, particularly in extracurricular activities,
undertakes to provide such guidance and help in many areas
of special importance to young women in our contemporary
world. Our primary assumption, nevertheless, is that women are
competent to deal with any issue and to undertake any intellectual
task that men face. We decline to offer a Pablum diet to young
women who need strong meat and who have the potentiality to
develop into mature, independent, constructive persons. Are we
justified in this position?

4. Are xue right in assuming that education deals with the
development of the whole person? Such recent studies as the
"Jacob Report," undertaken by the Edward W. Hazen Founda-
tion, point up the apparent failure of many American colleges
and universities to contribute in a vital and determinative way to
the student's "standards of behavior, quality of judgment, sense
of social responsibility, perspicacity of understanding, and guiding
beliefs." 1 The mind of the student is being informed but the
person as a whole is largely unaffected by the experience, if these
recent studies are reliable.

In my Annual Report for 1958-1959, I stated Agnes Scott's
position in these words:

The major premise in all that we are attempting to do at

'Philip E. Jacob, "Does Higher Education Influence Student Values?" Spotlight on the
College Student, ed. Margaret L. Habein (Washington, D.C., 1959), p. 3-

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Agnes Scott is our concern with the whole person her mind,
her physical welfare, her social development, and her spiritual
life. We consider that we have failed a student when we
merely provide information without insight, facts with little
increase in wisdom, fragments of knowledge with no real
help in forming a whole view of reality, and stimulation of
the intellect with no compelling motivation of will and mold-
ing of character. We believe profoundly in the validity of
offering an academically demanding program of liberal studies
in a community of Christian concern where personal relation-
ships are both creative and satisfying.

Will this basic assumption continue to be important to us as we
make our plans for the future?

5. Are xue prepared to reaffirm and to implement our commit-
ment to Christian education as we prepare to enter upon the last
quarter of our century of service as an institution of learning? I
have been convinced in my fourteen years at Agnes Scott that one
of the unique aspects of the College lies in its purpose to effect
and maintain a vital union of excellence in academic work with
life motivated by Christian faith, even when this seems to require
moving against the current in contemporary higher education.
This can be achieved only through men and women of strong
Christian character and purpose who have thought their way
through to a philosophy of education in which they profoundly
believe. The relationship with the Presbyterian Church, meaning-
ful as it has been, will not be adequate to hold Agnes Scott to a
Christian commitment. No elements in our program will of
themselves assure this. Only persons intimately related to the
College men and women of the Board of Trustees, administra-
tion, and faculty can do it. My own conviction that Agnes
Scott must take a strong position as a leader in Christian higher
education has been previously conveyed to you in this statement:

This confrontation of a student with Christian truth, in an
atmosphere where academic excellence is cherished and where
intellectual interests are dominant, is so integral to Agnes
Scott's purpose that those who know the College can scarcely

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conceive of a valid reason for its existence if this should ever
seem improper or unimportant. 2

6. What of the size of our student body in the next five, ten,
twenty-five years? We have said many times that we can accom-
plish our task most effectively with a relatively small student body.
What is a "relatively small" student body? When I became presi-
dent, we had 473 students. We anticipate an enrollment of ap-
proximately 665 students for the 1962-1963 session. We have
denied admission each year to some students who, no doubt, would
have succeeded admirably here. With a new dormitory under
construction (and the opportunity to eliminate several old houses
as living units) , we will probably permit the enrollment to rise
to 700 within the next few years. What then? How large may
we become, assuming that we have the necessary facilities and
personnel, without seriously diminishing the factor of personal
quality in relationships?

7. Will we need to rethink and perhaps revise otir academic
calendar in the years ahead in order to meet the educational needs
of our students? As you realize, educators are giving serious
thought to the value of the traditional pattern in which under-
graduate college work is offered over a period of four years, with
long summer vacations of more than three months. More and
more students are concerned to accelerate undergraduate pro-
grams. Summer schools are frequented by large numbers of
undergraduates who request degree credit for work done. Agnes
Scott offers no summer program and has no plans for inaugurating
a summer session. Should we have our own summer school? Should
we consider seriously a trimester scheme or some other time sched-
ule that will enable us more adequately to adapt our undergraduate
program to the needs and desires of young people? Or, are there
advantages in the present plan that ought to be conserved as long
as it is possible to do so?

Annual Report of the President of Agnes Scott College to the Board of Trustees, July,
1959, p. 8.

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8. Should we not further explore, and possibly exploit, new
possibilities in relationships with other educational institutions in
our community and region? For many years we have been coop-
erating through the University Center in Georgia with Emory
University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State Col-
lege, the University of Georgia at Athens, Columbia Theological
Seminary, Atlanta Art Association, and Oglethorpe University.
This cooperative program has included reciprocity in library serv-
ices, exchange of instructors, provision for visiting scholars, con-
sultation at departmental levels in matters of academic concern,
and the avoidance of duplication and overlapping in certain areas
of instruction. Perhaps the time has come to undertake new edu-
cational ventures with our colleagues of neighboring institutions.

9. What financial goals shall we set for ourselves in the next
decade? the next twenty-five years? The time has come, in my
judgment, to formulate a program embodying our hopes and
aspirations for the years ahead. Such a program should be based
upon a careful study of our needs, reflecting our faith in God and
our confidence in His leadership in our affairs. It should be realis-
tic, imaginative, and challenging. I respectfully recommend that
our Board of Trustees take appropriate steps at an early date to
determine the objectives for which we shall strive in the ten-year
period from our seventy-fifth anniversary in 1964 to our eighty-
fifth in 1974.

Administrative Policies and Plans

OFFICE OF THE TREASURER

Mr. J. C. Tart retired as treasurer at the conclusion of the 1961-62
college session after completing forty-eight years of service to
Agnes Scott. His successor, Mr. Richard C. Bahr of Dallas, Texas,

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assumed his duties on July 1. Mr. Bahr, a native of Missouri, is a
graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and the husband of
an Agnes Scott alumna. He is a young man well equipped for his
new responsibilities. With the assistance of our auditor, Mr. W. W.
Stribling, and a special committee of the Board headed by Mr.
R. Howard Dobbs, Jr., Mr. Bahr is presently engaged in the task
of installing a system of machine bookkeeping in the treasurer's
office.

COLLEGE SELF-STUDY

We have entered upon the final phase of a self-study which was
begun in January of 1961 as a part of a plan of periodic institu-
tional appraisal fostered by the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools. The program has involved members of the faculty
and administration, students, trustees, and alumnae in a study of
all areas of the College. It is expected that the entire report will
be completed in the fall quarter and that the visiting committee
from the Southern Association will come to the campus in the
winter. When the report of the visiting committee is filed with
the Southern Association, the self-study will be officially com-
pleted. Its effects, however, will be felt in the program of the
College for years to come.

REAFFIRMATION OF ADMISSIONS POLICY

At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees (February 22,
1962), action was taken reaffirming Agnes Scott's long-standing
policy that all applicants for admission to the College will receive
equal consideration, and that the best qualified will be admitted.
The official statement of the Board is as follows:

Applicants for admission to Agnes Scott College are consid-
ered on evidence of the applicant's character, academic ability
and interests, and readiness for effective participation in the
life of our relatively small Christian college community that
is largely residential. Applicants deemed best qualified on a

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consideration of a combination of these factors will be admit-
ted without regard to their race, color, or creed.

The Trustees issued this clarification of the College's policy as
the result of an application filed last December by a Negro student.
This action by the Board is, of course, permissive, not mandatory.
In the Board's action, the responsibility for carrying out this
reaffirmed policy, including the timing, was left to the adminis-
tration. Announcement was made by the administration imme-
diately following the Board's action that Negro applicants would
not be considered for the 1962-63 session in view of the policy of
the College to give notice well in advance of any major changes
in practice or procedure. The registration for the fall of 1962
was virtually completed at the time the Board made the policy
clarification.

CURRICULUM CHANGES

Several departments have recently enriched their academic offer-
ings by the addition of courses. The English department has added
courses in American literature, in the contemporary novel, in
Chaucer, and has introduced a new course in the English language.
The French department has introduced a new sequence of courses
in the Renaissance period and seventeenth and eighteenth century
philosophy. Other new offerings are a course in the dance in the
department of speech and drama and a course in Southern politics
in the department of history and political science.

Departments offering courses for freshmen have been giving
careful study to the relation of beginning college work to high
school preparation. A number of experiments are being made in
the placement of unusually well-prepared freshmen in more ad-
vanced courses or advanced sections.

COURSES FOR ALUMNAE
After more than a year of exploration, study, and planning by the

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Education Committee of the National Alumnae Association and
the Faculty Committee on Alumnae Affairs, a pilot project in
continuing education for alumnae will be presented during the
fall quarter of the 1962-1963 college session. There will be two
courses offered on five consecutive Tuesday nights, beginning in
late October, for alumnae and their husbands from the Atlanta
area. The courses available in the fall are "Aspects of Life in Latin
America" and "The Nature of the Self." Dean C. Benton Kline,
Jr., and Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs,
will coordinate the program.

SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Agnes Scott's Seventy-fifth Anniversary Development Program,
projected by the Board of Trustees in 1953, has as its objective
the addition of $10,500,000 to our capital assets by the spring of
1964 when the College's seventy-fifth anniversary will be observed.
In 1959 an anonymous donor offered Agnes Scott a grant of
$500,000 on the condition that the eleven-year objective be suc-
cessfully completed by January 26, 1964. Much is at stake for
the College, therefore, in the current opportunity afforded to
augment our capital assets by $11,000,000 in the period from 1953
to 1964. As of July 1, 1962, Agnes Scott's assets have been in-
creased by $9,417,848.81 in cash and pledges since 1953, leaving
$1,082,151.49 to be raised by 1964. More than two-thirds of this
total goal is for endowment. The remaining amount will be used
for much-needed buildings: an additional dormitory on which
construction will begin in the early fall, a fine arts building to
enhance the College's teaching program in art and in speech and
drama, and a new physical education building that will provide
more adequately for this important aspect of the College's pro-
gram. The program also includes the conversion of the present
gymnasium into a modern student center.

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THE AGNES SCOTT FUND

At the annual meeting last February, the Board of Trustees heard
a carefully-drawn report of plans for establishing and developing
the Agnes Scott Fund. The purpose of the Fund is to provide a
specific means through which everyone interested in the College's
progress can participate through annual giving. It is planned to
organize divisions of the Fund to reach alumnae, parents, friends
of the College, business and industry, and foundations.

The alumnae division of the Agnes Scott Fund takes the place
of the former Alumnae Fund which was in operation from 1944
to 1960, when it was merged with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Development Program. An alumnae fund chairman is already in
general charge of this division, ably assisted by fund agents repre-
senting their respective classes.

At an early date the parents' and friends' divisions of the Fund
will be activated. The parents of both former and present Agnes
Scott students will function under their own chairman to promote
the work of the College. Subsequently, the friends' division, em-
bracing those who are neither alumnae nor parents but who are
interested in Agnes Scott, will be constituted. In appropriate geo-
graphical areas, both the parents' and friends' divisions will be com-
bined with the alumnae division for personal solicitation efforts.

The business and industry division, headed by a business leader
in Atlanta, will synchronize its activities with those of the Georgia
Foundation for Independent Colleges and will augment the work
of this organization. The foundations' division will, for the time
being at least, remain a responsibility of the president of the
College, in cooperation with trustees and members of the adminis-
tration.

In due time a coordinating "fund council" will be formed and
will include the chairman and vice-chairman of the Board of
Trustees, the president of the College, the director of public rela-
tions and development, the director of alumnae affairs, and the
chairman of each of the divisions of the Agnes Scott Fund.

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Faculty and Staff

PERSONNEL

Additions to the faculty during the 1961-1962 session were:
Lee B. Copple (B.A. University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D.
University of Michigan; Ph.D. Vanderbilt University), associate
professor of psychology; Eleanor N. Hutchens (B.A. Agnes Scott
College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), associate pro-
fessor of English; Frances Harrold (B.A. RadclifTe College, M.A.
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College), assistant
professor of history; H. Richard Hensel (B.M., M.M. American
Conservatory of Music) , assistant professor of music; Robert E. R.
Nelson (B.A., M.A. University of Virginia) , instructor in mathe-
matics; Kay Marie Osborne (B.S. Texas Woman's University),
instructor in physical education; Edithgene Sparks (B.S. Ogle-
thorpe University, M.Ed. Emory University) , visiting instructor
in education; June J. Yungblut (B.A. Keuka College, M.A. Yale
University), visiting instructor in English (spring quarter).

New members of the college staff for 1961-1962 have been:
Betsy Hopkins Fancher (B.A. Wesleyan College) , director of
publicity; Emily Pancake (B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary
in the alumnae office; Helen Everett (B.A. Agnes Scott College),
manager of the bookstore; Mary LaFon Brooks (B.S. Georgia
State College for Women, M.A. Columbia University) , assistant
to the librarian; Katherine Sidney Williams (B.A. Mary Baldwin
College, M.L.S. Emory University), assistant to the librarian;
Aileen S. Hendley (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , assistant to the
librarian; Nancy Jane Higgins (B.A. Agnes Scott College), as-
sistant to the librarian; Patricia Forrest (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), assistant to the dean of students; Gail McCracken (R.N.;
B.S. in Nursing Education, Florida State University) , associate
resident nurse; Charlotte Henderson Laughlin (B.A. Agnes Scott
College), secretary to the registrar and director of admissions;
Lydia Essich, assistant to the dietitian.

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The following promotions, effective with the 1962-1963 col-
lege session, have been announced: C. Benton Kline, Jr., professor
of philosophy; Julia T. Gary, assistant dean of the faculty; Miriam
Koontz Drucker, chairman of the psychology department for
1962-1963; and Annette Teague, assistant director of admissions.

Faculty and staff members who retired at the close of the 1961-
1962 session were: J. C. Tart, who served as treasurer for forty-
eight years; Annie May Christie, associate professor of English;
Eloise H. Ketchin, alumnae house manager; and Alice B. Bray,
associate resident nurse.

Members of the faculty and staff who will be on leave during
the 1962-1963 session are: Elizabeth Zenn, who will serve as
visiting associate professor of classics at Haverford College during
the winter and spring quarters; Josephine Bridgman and Roxie
Hagopian, who will travel and study abroad during the spring
quarter; Elvena Green, pursuing studies leading to the Ph.D.
degree at the State University of Iowa, and lone Murphy, continu-
ing her doctoral studies at Columbia University for the entire year.

Faculty appointments for the 1962-1963 session include:
Margaret Williams Powell (B.A. Franklin College, M.A. Univer-
sity of Chicago, Ph.D. Indiana University), visiting professor of
classical languages and literatures (winter and spring) ; Erika
Meyer Shiver (B.A., M.A. State University of Iowa; Ph.D. Uni-
versity of Wisconsin), visiting professor of German; Marion T.
Clark (B.A., M.A. Emory University; Ph.D. University of Vir-
ginia) , visiting associate professor of chemistry; Everett T. Keach
(B.A. University of Maine; M.Ed., Ed.D. Harvard University),
assistant professor of education; Jack L. Nelson (B.A. University
of Kentucky, M.A. Harvard University), instructor in English;
Mary Hart Richardson (B.A. Agnes Scott College, M.A. Emory
University), instructor in English; Robert Edward Singdahlsen
(B.A. Dickinson College, M.A. Western Reserve University) , in-
structor in speech and drama.

Appointments to the administrative staff for 1962-1963 are:
Richard C. Bahr (B.S., B.Arch. Georgia Institute of Technology) ,

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treasurer; Nancy Jane Hlggins (B.A. Agnes Scott College), sec-
retary in the alumnae office (formerly assistant to the librarian) ;
Patricia Rogers Dufeny (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , assistant to
the librarian; Elizabeth D. Smith (B.A. Roanoke College, M.Ed.
Presbyterian School of Christian Education), Nancy Bond (B.A.
Agnes Scott College) , Jo Claridy (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , and
Elizabeth K. Moore, assistants to the dean of students; Harriett
Elder Manley (B.A. Agnes Scott College) , secretary to the regis-
trar and director of admissions; Delia Cook Ray, manager of the
bookstore; Hendrica Schepman, manager of the alumnae house;
Marie Lewis, mailroom manager and assistant in the business man-
ager's office (formerly secretary to the treasurer) ; Louise C.
Altman, bookkeeper; Miriam Y. Smalley, secretary to the treas-
urer; and Jerrye Foreman (R.N.), associate resident nurse.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. John L. Adams, assistant professor of music, was recently elected a deacon
in the Decatur Presbyterian Church. He is also superintendent for leadership of
the Decatur church.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, is teaching in the summer session
of King College, Bristol, Tennessee.

Miss Frances Clark, assistant professor of French, was awarded the Ph.D. degree
from Yale University in June. Dr. Clark is serving as secretary-treasurer of the
Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.

Dr. Lee Copple, associate professor of psychology, read a paper at the September
meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York. He has served
this year as consultant to the Cobb County Child Guidance Center in Marietta,
Georgia and this summer is on the staff of Emory University, where he is teaching
and serving as counselor in the Career Clinics for high school students.

Dr. William G. Cornelius, associate professor of political science, participated in
a panel at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association and
was a panel moderator at the University of Georgia Conference on Higher Edu-
cation in a World of Conflict. He read a paper on "Miami Metropolitan Experi-
ment" at the Emory University Conference on Metropolitan Problems.

Dr. S. L. Doerpinghaus, associate professor of biology, is chairman of the biology
section of the Georgia Academy of Science. He serves as secretary of the District
Committee on Parish Education, Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod).

Dr. Miriam K. Drucker, associate professor of psychology, is treasurer and a

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member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Psychological Association.
This summer she is a counselor at the Emory University Career Clinics.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, is president of the
Atlanta branch of the American Association of University Women. She is a
member of the Executive Board of the United Church Women of Georgia.

Mrs. Betsy Hopkins Fancher, college news director, is Georgia editor of the
American College Public Relations Newsletter.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, was re-elected Georgia representa-
tive on the Council of the American Chemical Society. He is studying this sum-
mer at a National Science Foundation Institute for College Teachers at Emory
University.

Dr. Julia T. Gary, associate professor of chemistry and assistant dean of the
faculty, serves as chairman of the chemistry section, Georgia Academy of Science,
and treasurer of the Georgia section, American Chemical Society. During part
of this summer, she is at Emory University as a member of the faculty of the
National Science Foundation Institute for high school students.

Miss Leslie J. Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics, assisted in the prep-
aration of the mathematical affidavits instrumental in the recent federal court
decision declaring the Georgia county unit system unconstitutional. She continues
to serve as a member of the diocesan division of college work of the Episcopal
Church.

Mrs. Netta Gray, instructor in biology, taught at Emory University this summer.

Miss Elvena M. Green, assistant professor of speech and drama, has been
awarded a graduate fellowship from the Board of Christian Education of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S., and a tuition scholarship from the State University
of Iowa for study during the 1962-63 college year. She is working toward the
doctorate in dramatic art.

Dr. Nancy P. Groseclose, associate professor of biology, has a National Science
Foundation grant to attend the Institute for College Teachers of Comparative
Anatomy at Harvard this summer.

Miss Roxie Hagopian, associate professor of music, taught a folk-song class in
the Emory University Adult Education series during the past session. She con-
tinues to serve as president of the Atlanta alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota,
national music fraternity.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Spanish, was the 1961-62 chairman
of the University Center Language Association.

Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris, instructor in piano, was in a two-piano concert for
the Atlanta Music Teachers Association in March.

Mr. H. Richard Hensel, assistant professor of music, was awarded a Founders
Membership in 1961 by the Southeastern Composers' League.

Mr. Hendrik R. Hudson, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is a guest
lecturer in astronomy at the Summer Science Institute sponsored by the National

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Science Foundation at Murray State College, Kentucky. He will conduct a sum-
mer seminar in space science at the Lovett School in Atlanta.

Mrs. Louise Harley Hull, assistant registrar and assistant director of admissions,
is chairman of the Southern College Scholarship Group for the 1962-63 college
year.

Dr. Marie Huper, associate professor of art, is treasurer of the Association of
Georgia Artists. She read a paper at the Southeastern College Art Conference
held at the University of Tennessee in April.

Dr. Eleanor N. Hutchens, associate professor of English, has just completed her
term as president of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association and has been elected
to membership on the Board of Trustees of the college for a two-year term as an
alumnae representative. She is vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ran-
dolph School in Huntsville, Alabama.

Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs, read papers last July at
the national conference of the American College Public Relations Association in
Denver and at the national conference of the American Alumni Council in Holly-
wood, Florida. At the southeastern district meeting of the American Alumni
Council in January, she organized and presented a panel on special problems of
women's colleges in alumnae work.

Dr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., dean of the faculty and professor of philosophy, was
chairman this year of the Advisory Faculty Committee of the University Center
in Georgia. He was a member of two visiting committees of the Southern Asso-
ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Dean Kline has also served as chair-
man of the sub-committee on Campus Christian Life of the Presbytery of Atlanta
and chairman of the Christian Vocations Council of the Synod of Georgia.

Dr. Edward T. Ladd, professor of education, addressed the annual meeting of the
Georgia Teachers and Education Association in April, and was keynote speaker
at the semiannual meeting of the Georgia Committee on Teacher Education in
April. In May, he was a participant in the Harvard and Ford Foundation con-
ferences on Master of Arts in Teaching programs.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, professor of English, was elected a fellow of the
International Institute of Arts and Letters in August of 1961.

Miss Kay Manuel, assistant professor of physical education, was an instructor at
Sargent College Summer School in June, 1961. She was visiting assistant pro-
fessor at New York University Graduate Camp in July and August of 1961
and has returned in that capacity during the current summer. She has served
this year as state aquatics chairman for the division for girls' and women's sports,
American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Mr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, is vice-president of the
Georgia chapter of the Hymn Society of America.

Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of physical education, is director of
Camp Juliette Low during the summer of 1962.

Dr. W. E. McNair, director of public relations and development, and assistant
professor of English, is a member of the public relations committee of the
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the radio program Sunday School of the Air for January, February, and March of
this year. He is giving a course on The Church and Contemporary Culture at the
Presbyterian Women's Conference, Montreat, in July, and serving on the teaching
staff of the Third Army Area Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia, in
August.

Miss lone Murphy, assistant dean of students, is studying at Columbia University
during the summer of 1962. She served this year as a member of the committee
on citations of the National Academy of Teachers of Occupations.

Mr. Robert E. R. Nelson, instructor in mathematics, is teaching at Emory Uni-
versity during the summer session of 1962.

Miss Lillian Newman, assistant librarian, is secretary-treasurer of the College and
University Section of the Georgia Library Association.

Dr. Katharine T. Omwake, associate professor of psychology, represented the
Georgia Psychological Association on the Council of the Georgia Academy of
Sciences.

Miss Kay M. Osborne, instructor in physical education, is studying dance at
Connecticut College during the summer of 1962.

Mr. Fred K. Parrish, instructor in biology, is teaching at Emory University this
summer.

Dr. Margaret W. Pepperdene, associate professor of English, was interviewed
on WSB-TV "Today in Georgia" on behalf of the Annual Book Fair sponsored
by the A.A.U.W. in September. She lectured on T. S. Eliot at North Avenue
Presbyterian Church and at several alumnae meetings.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science, served on the
Executive Council of the Southern Historical Association during 1961.

Dr. George E. Rice, professor of psychology, is teaching at Montana State Col-
lege during the summer quarter of 1962.

Dr. Mary L. Rion, associate professor of English, was in Princeton, New Jersey,
in November as a reader for the Law School Admissions Test and in June as a
reader for the Advanced Placement Examination in English.

Dr. Sara L. Ripy, associate professor of mathematics, is teaching this summer at
a Summer Institute for Women Teachers of Junior and Senior High School
Mathematics, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and held at Texas
Woman's University.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, attended a National Science
Foundation conference for teachers of mathematics at Oklahoma State University
last summer.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and sociology, is
chairman of the Education Committee of the Atlanta chapter of the A.A.U.W.,
chairman of the sociology group of the University Center in Georgia, and a mem-
ber of the Board of the Georgia League of Women Voters. Dr. Smith's biogra-
phy is included in the volume, The Social and Behavioral Sciences, of the 1962
American Men of Science.

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Dr. Elizabeth Stack, associate professor of education, is vice-chairman of the
Georgia Council on Teacher Education, chairman of the Criteria Committee for
Preparation of Social Studies Teachers, a member of the President's Advisory
Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies, and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Georgia Council for the Social Studies. She gave
the major address at the annual state meeting of the Council and serves as editor
of its official publication. Dr. Stack is teaching at Emory University this summer.

Miss Laura Steele, registrar and director of admissions, is chairman of the
Women's Independent Colleges of the College Entrance Examination Board and
a member of the Board's Committee on Entrance Procedures. She served on the
judging committee for the scholarship program of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Dr. Koenraad Swart, associate professor of history, taught a graduate course in
seventeenth century Europe at Emory University this past session.

Miss Annette Teague, assistant director of admissions, is doing summer study
(German) with Classrooms Abroad, Inc., in Vienna.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, associate professor of English, judged poetry manu-
scripts for the Atlanta Writers Club and appeared on radio station WSB's
"Witness" program. She edits the monthly newspaper of Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church in Decatur.

Dr. John A. Tumblin, Jr., associate professor of sociology and anthropology, has
a National Science Foundation grant to participate in a Summer Institute in
Anthropology at the University of Colorado this summer. During the year he
lectured at the fall meeting of the sociology group of the University Center in
Georgia, participated in a TV panel on human relations, and served as a member
of the Steering Committee of the DeKalb chapter of the Georgia Council on
Human Relations.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, was awarded the Edwin Palmer Me-
morial Prize of $1,000 by the National Academy of Design, New York. During
the year he exhibited his work at the Georgia Association of Arts annual exhibi-
tion in Atlanta, the National Academy of Design's 137th annual exhibition in
New York, the Atlanta Southeastern annual exhibition, and the Mead Paper
Company annual exhibition in Atlanta. He is a member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Atlanta Arts Festival, Inc. and of the Committee on the Fine Arts
Program for the University Center in Georgia.

Mr. Robert Westervelt, assistant professor of art, received the first Purchase

Award for stoneware pottery design at the Atlanta Arts Festival. He had a

one-man exhibit at the Signature Shop, Buckhead.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical education, was a speaker

at the meeting of the Georgia Physical Education Conference for College Women

held at Wesleyan College.

Dr. Roberta Winter, associate professor of speech and drama, directed the

Georgia Speech Association program "Speech Arts for Enrichment in Teaching"

for the fifth district meeting of the Georgia Education Association in September.

She was a member of the casting committee for Edith Russell Children's Theater

of Atlanta production of Rip Van Winkle.

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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
1961-1962

Mary L. Boney

Bible Study Guide on Jonah for Thy Will My Will, Board of Christian Edu-
cation, Presbyterian Church, U.S. (February 5-10, 1962).
Research in progress: God Calls, book on the Bible for seventh and eighth
grades for Covenant Life Curriculum, Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Josephine Bridgman

Research in progress: Continuing investigation of radiation effects on ciliates.

William A. Calder
"Props for the Prof," Sky and Telescope, XXIII (February, 1962), 75-76.

Kwai Sing Chang
Research in progress:
"The Gospel, the World, and the Teacher" (series of articles for Children's
Religion Magazine).
The Chinese language.

Melissa A. Cilley
Research in progress:

New edition of the play Moza de Cdntaro by Lope de Vega, at the invitation
of the Modern Language Association of America (to be published in 1962).
Bibliography of Portuguese and Brazilian literatures for library reference.

Martha O. Coker
"Songs to Apollo," Seydell Quarterly, XIV (Summer, 1962), 33.

Lee B. Copple

Research in progress:
"A Semantic Differential Study of Student Attitudes toward the Honor
System."
"Motor Self-Concept as a Correlate of Reading Achievement."

William G. Cornelius
"The 'Latin American Bloc' in the United Nations," Journal of Inter-American
Studies, III (July, 1961), 419-435.

"The County Unit System of Georgia: Facts and Prospects," Western Political
Quarterly, XIV (December, 1961), 942-960.
Research in progress:
"Southern Political Change," a book-length inquiry into recent evolution of
Southern politics.
"A Legal Basis for World Order," a book-length examination of one phase
of international law.

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Miriam K. Drucker

Research in progress: "Relationships between School Phobia and Procrasti-
nation in College Students."

FLORENE J. DUNSTAN

Research in progress: Literary values in the pre-Columbian civilization with
special emphasis on the Incas.

Betsy H. Fancher
"How Caldwell Hit Pay Dirt on Tobacco Road," Atlanta Journal-Constitution,

September, 1961, Magazine Section.

Blue River (Rome, 1961). (U.S. edition published in 1956.)
"Atlanta's Religious Boom," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December, 1961,

Magazine Section.
"Tobacco Road Is Now Paved," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XL (Winter,

1962), 16-17.

"I Was an Instant Mother," Redbook Magazine (March, 1962), 8-14.

"Scott's Honor," Presbyterian Survey, 52 (April, 1962), 31-32.

"Are College Students Conservative?", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May, 1962,
Magazine Section.

Mary W. Fox
"Prayer for the Commission on Education at the Beginning of the New Year,"
The Church School, 15 (October, 1961), 11.

W. J. Frierson
"Spectrophotometric Determination of Cobalt with 1,2,3-Cyclohexanetrione
Trioxime," Analytical Chemistry, 33 (July, 1961), 1096-1098.

"Spectrophotometric Determination of Nickel with 1,2,3-Cyclohexanetrione
Trioxime," Analytical Chemistry, 34 (February, 1962), 210-212.

(Both projects supported by National Science Foundation.)
Research in progress:
"The Use of Paper Chromatography and Spectrophotometry in the Analysis
of Brass."

"Investigation of New Organic Compounds as Colorimetric Reagents for
Metallic Ions."

Paul L. Garber

Research in progress: A model reconstruction of the Capernaum Synagogue.

Articles for the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (to be published by the
Abingdon Press, October, 1962).

Julia T. Gary
"Tension and Equilibrium," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XXXIX (Sum-
mer, 1961), 6-7.

Research in progress: The use of radioactive isotopes in the undergraduate

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chemistry curriculum (continued during August, 1962, at Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies under a grant from the Board of Christian Education,
Presbyterian Church, U.S.).

Netta E. Gray
"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, XIII. Section Polypodiopsis in the
South Pacific," Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, XLIII (January, 1962),
67-79.

Research in progress :
"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus, XIV. Section Nageia."
"The Cultivated Podocarps in the United States" (in press).

Frances Harrold
Research in progress:

Jefferson's ideas on state government, book-length manuscript in progress.
Editing of the Civil War letters of Theodore Fogle, Confederate soldier.

H. Richard Hensel

Research in progress: Doctoral dissertation, "The Tonal Design of Nine First
Movements of Paul Hindemith," and project, Symphony No. 1, from the
University of Illinois, continued summer of 1962 under a grant from the
Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Eloise Herbert

Research in progress: Continuing study on contemporary novels of Benito
Perez Gald6s (doctoral dissertation, Duke University) .

Hendrik R. Hudson

Research in progress: Continuing study on improving effectiveness of lecture-
demonstrations in physics and astronomy by devising improved demonstra-
tions, apparatus, and projection methods.

Eleanor N. Hutchens

"Gray's Cat and Pope's Belinda," Tennessee Studies in Literature, VI (1961),
103-108.

"Verbal Irony in Tom Jones," Publications of the Modern Language Associa-
tion of America, LXXVII, 1 (March, 1962), 46-50.

"Gulliver Now: The Exceptional Woman," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly,
XL, (Spring, 1962), 7-9.

C. Benton Kline, Jr.
"Commitment to Learning," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XL (Fall, 1961),
4-5.
"Survival," Atlanta Journal, October 28, 1961.

Edward T. Ladd

Social Aspects of Education: A Casebook (Englewood Cliffs, 1962), co-editor
with William C. Sayres.

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"After Desegregation at Southville High," Ibid., 53-82.

"The Ups and Downs of the A-B-C Affair," Ibid., 357-388.

"Improving Public Education: Some Reflections on Strategy," Emory University

Quarterly, XVIII (Spring, 1962), 15-28.

Research in progress: Construction of a new form of teacher examination

under a grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science,

with D. R. Green.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn

"A Note on Frost's A Masque of Reason," Modern Drama, IV (February,
1962), 426-428.

Review of The Life of ]ohn Dryden by Charles E. Ward, Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, April 1, 1962.

"Two Allegorical Treatments of Man: Rasselas and La Peste," Criticism, IV
(Summer, 1962).

"Animal Stories," reprinted from Satiric Allegory: Mirror of Man in Modern
Satire, ed. Alvin B. Kernan (New York, 1962), 213-221.

Charles F. Martin
"God and Mammon," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XL (Winter, 1962),
12-15.

Research in progress: "The History of the Labor Movement in Georgia,"
(doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State University).

Raymond J. Martin

Research in progress: "The Transition from Metrical Psalmody to Hymnody
in the Presbyterian Church in the United States" (doctoral dissertation, Union
Theological Seminary, New York, continued in summer, 1962, under a grant
from the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.).

Robert E. R. Nelson

Research in progress: Work on compact mappings with Dr. Robert Kasriel
of Georgia Institute of Technology.

Fred K. Parrish
"A Method of Determining Spatial Differences in Plasma Membrane Perme-
ability," Experimental Cell Research (in press, 1962), with Joanna W. Par-
rish.

"Comparative Observations on the Behavior of Marine and Fresh Water
Turtles," Association of Southeastern Biologists Bulletin, LX (April, 1962),
39. (Abstract)
"Demonstrating Gregarines," Turtox News (in press), with Joanna W. Parrish.
Research in progress:

Investigations of possible differences in plasma membrane permeability.

Developmental effects of centrifuging early cleavage stages of Nassarius

obsoleta.

Observations on turtle behavior as background for physiological studies.

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Margaret W. Pepperdene
"Trouthe is the Hyeste Thyng that Man May Kepe," Mortar Board Quarterly,
XXXVIII (March, 1962), 8-11. (Text of talk given during Honor Empha-
sis Week at Agnes Scott, November 8, 1961.)
Research in progress: "Critical Studies on Beowulf."

Walter B. Posey
"The Shakers Move West," Emory University Quarterly, XVIII (Spring, 1962),
38-45.

Research in progress: "Religion in the Lower South Before the Civil War,"
book-length manuscript.

Janef Newman Preston
"Dirge for the Young," Georgia Magazine, V (October-November, 1961), 21.
"Now I Cherish and Call Good," to be published in The Poetry Society of
Georgia (Autumn, 1962), as winner of the Society's Popular Prize for the
year.

George E. Rice
"Altruism in the Albino Rat," Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psy-
chology, 55 (February, 1962), 123-125, with Priscilla Gainer.
"Behavior Variability and Reactive Inhibition in Human Stylus Maze Behavior,"
The Psychological Record, 11 (October, 1961), 333-338, with Richard H.
Lawless.

Research in progress:
"Emotional Relationship and General Extrasensory Perception," with Joyce
Townsend, to be published in The Journal of Parapsychology.
"Aiding Behavior or Altruism in Animals."

Henry A. Robinson

Revision of chapter on "Permutations, Combinations and Probability" for the
new edition of College Algebra, Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York.

Margaret B. Sewell

Research in progress: Second part of a study on Le Theatre d'Eugene Ionesco.

Anna Greene Smith
"The Southerner as American," Social Forces, 40 (October, 1961), 92-93.
"A Voyage and not a Harbor," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XL (Sum-
mer, 1962), 8-10.
Research in progress:
"A Decade of Change in Southeastern Population."
"Consumer Changes in College Women's Budgeting."

Chloe Steel

Research in progress: Summer, 1962, study in France on literary reputation of
Balzac between 1900-1910.

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Koenraad W. Swart

"The French: Are They Individualists?", South Atlantic Quarterly, LXI (Win-
ter, 1962), 1-12.
"Individualism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Journal of the History of Ideas,
XXIII (January-March, 1962), 77-90.

Research in progress: Decadence in nineteenth-century France.
Margret G. Trotter
Book Reviews:
"A Marianne Moore Reader, by Marianne Moore," Atlanta Journal-Constitu-
tion, May 13, 1962.
"This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound, by Eustace Mullins," Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, December 10, 1961.
"Willa Cather's Gift of Sympathy, by Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom,"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 6, 1962.
"William Butler Yeats: The Lyric of Tragedy, by B. L. Reid," Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, March 11, 1962.

John A. Tumblin, Jr.

Research in progress: "Sociology and Brazilian Literature," paper in Portu-
guese to be presented at meeting of South Atlantic Modern Languages Associa-
tion, November, 1962.

Robert F. Westervelt

Research in progress: Study on European sculptor, Waldemar Raemisch.

Campus Activities

During the 1961-1962 session, a varied program of campus ac-
tivities was offered to the college community. Among these ac-
tivities were the following:

September

Tenth annual "Meet-the-Ministers Tea" sponsored by the Interfaith Council.
Georgia Tech-Agnes Scott freshman picnic and dance on the Agnes Scott
campus.

Piano recital by Michael McDowell, followed by formal reception for new
students.

Honors Day address: President William F. Quillian, Jr., Randolph-Macon
Woman's College.

Danforth Visiting Lecturer: Dr. Paul Ricoeur, professor of metaphysics, the
Sorbonne, in a series of lectures including "The Meaning of Tragedy" and
"Modern Criticism of the Sense of Guilt."

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October

World-wide Communion Sunday vesper service led by Dean Kline and Presi-
dent Alston.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer: Dr. George B. Cressey, professor of geog-
raphy, Syracuse University.

Art faculty exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and pottery.

Organ recital by Raymond J. Martin.

Annual "Black Cat" community day.

Convocation: Dr. Immanuel Ben-Dor, distinguished archaeologist.

Chapel: Miss Freda Gwilliam, educational adviser to the British Colonial
Office.

Conference: Georgia Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women.

November

Senior Investiture: Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, Agnes
Scott College. Sunday sermon: the Rev. Neill R. McGeachy, First Presbyterian
Church, Statesville, North Carolina.

Seminar: Erskine Caldwell, novelist and journalist.

Lecture: "Castles in Spain and Portugal," Dr. Juan Castellano, professor of
Spanish, Duke University.

Presentation of Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba," by Agnes Scott
Blackfriars.

December

Chapel : Christmas program presented by Dance Group.

Glee Club Christmas Carol service, followed by annual community Christmas
party.

January

Lecture: "The Asia America Does Not Know," General Carlos P. Romulo of
the Philippines, president of the University of the Philippines and former
president of the United Nations General Assembly.

Fifteenth annual All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, sponsored
by Pi Alpha Phi.

Junior Jaunt dance and carnival, climaxing campus-wide charity drive.

Twentieth annual visit and lecture by Robert Frost.

Organ clinic: Pierre Cochereau, organist, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

Winter Frolics dance.

February

Sophomore Parents' Week End.

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Religious Emphasis Week led by Dr. William B. Oglesby, Jr., professor of
pastoral counseling, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond.

Alumnae Class Agents' workshop.

Lectures and writing workshop: Miss May Sarton, poet, novelist and play-
wright.

Founder's Day Convocation: "Sense and Sensibility in the Education of Wom-
en," President Anne Gary Pannell, Sweet Briar College.

University Center Visiting Scholar in classics: Dr. E. T. Salmon, professor of
classics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Presentation by Blackfriars of two one-act plays: "The Affected Young Ladies"
by Moliere and "At Liberty" by Tennessee Williams.

March

Presentation of Shakespeare's "Richard III" by National Players, Inc.

Joint Glee Club concert: Agnes Scott College and Virginia Military Institute.

Agnes Scott Glee Club on tour for concerts at V.M.I, and Davidson College.

Convocation: "Robert Frost: A Biographer's Approach," Dr. Lawrance Thomp-
son, professor of English, Princeton University.

April

University Center Visiting Scholar in sociology: Dr. Gardner Murphy, director
of research, Menninger Foundation.

Dr. Eduard Schweizer, professor of New Testament, University of Zurich, in a
series of lectures and seminars.

Phi Beta Kappa Convocation: "The Dialogue of Learning," Dean C. Benton
Kline, Jr.

Panel discussion featuring exchange students from Smith College.

University Center Visiting Scholar in political science: Dr. David Easton, pro-
fessor of political science, University of Chicago, "The Child's Political
World."

Special Holy Week services.

Viola concert by John L. Adams.

Presentation of "Ring Round the Moon" by Agnes Scott Blackfriars.

Annual Alumnae Week End.

May

Agnes Scott host to Southeast Regional Astronomical League.

Dr. John A. Mackay, president emeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary
and adjunct professor of Hispanic thought, The American University, in a
series of lectures and seminars.

Lecture: "Ireland and America," Dr. E.R.R. Green, professor of economic his-
tory, University of Manchester, England.

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Convocation: North Fulton Special Choir.

Community picnic and presentation of Athletic Association awards.

Spring dance concert by Agnes Scott Contemporary Dance Group.

June

Exhibition of student paintings, drawings, and ceramics, featuring work by
seniors.

Class Day exercises.

Senior Speech program.

Baccalaureate sermon: President Alston

Commencement address: Dr. Logan Wilson, president, American Council on
Education.

Buildings and Grounds

A completely renovated, air-conditioned bookstore with new
lighting, equipment, and management is one of the major projects
of the summer. In addition to textbooks and stationery, the book-
store will carry various educational supplies, paperback editions,
and displays of current and standard books of general and depart-
mental interest. This year, Mrs. Delia C. Ray, bookstore manager,
will have as consultant Mr. William Hooper, manager of the Pres-
byterian bookstore in Atlanta. The bookstore will be under the
general direction of a Board of Managers composed of the dean
of the faculty as chairman, the college treasurer, the business man-
ager, the librarian, three members of the faculty, with the book-
store manager and the president of the College, ex officio.

Other improvements this summer, in addition to the usual
painting and repairing, include the following:

Renovation of the treasurer's office.

Soundproofing of the visual aid rooms in Buttrick Hall.

Installation of food and drink dispensing machines on the ground floor of

Buttrick, in the area below the lobby.

Razing of Cunningham and Tart houses in order to clear the site for a new
dormitory; installation of sewerage mains in the new dormitory area.
Renovation of college houses at 220 and 226 South McDonough Street for use
as living units during 1962-1963.

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Construction of three parking areas: one south of Presser and in front of
Campbell Hall; one between Hopkins Hall and College Avenue; one in the
area behind two college houses at 184 and 206 South Candler. These parking
areas are designed to alleviate the present crowded conditions, particularly
when special events bring visitors to the campus.

Installation of fluorescent lighting in the reserve book room, and of additional
lamps on the tables in the main reading room of the McCain Library.

Soundproofing of language laboratory.

Plans and specifications for the new dormitory are now being
prepared by the architectural firm of Ivey and Crook. A con-
tractor is soon to be chosen on the basis of competitive bidding.
The dormitory, accommodating 146 students and three senior resi-
dents, will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1963.

Finances

CURRENT OPERATIONS

The following is a summary of receipts and expenditures in the
1961-62 current operations, as shown in the audit of June 30,
1962:

Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 455,818.14

Receipts from student charges

(room, board, tuition and fees) 1,171,882.50

Gifts and grants 18,158.63

Auxiliary and miscellaneous

(rents received, bookstore, etc.) 79,070.17

Total Receipts $1,724,929-44

Expenditures

Educational expense (faculty salaries, library, etc.) .... $ 702,573-52
General administrative and auxiliary expense

(including dining hall, infirmary operation, etc.) .... 528,148.83

Plant, facilities, and development 454,679-18

Total Expenditures $1,685,401.53

Excess of Income over Expenses $ 39,527.91

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CAPITAL ASSETS

Our capital assets, as shown by the audit for 1961-1962, are as
follows :

Fixed Assets

Buildings $4,184,142.13

Furnishings and Equipment 1,127,393.13

Land 268,391.10 $ 5,579,926.36

Permanent Plant Fund 756,195.68

Prepaid Architect's Fees 17,295.00

Permanent Fund Assets

Permanent Endowment Fund $2,815,297.85

Walters (B) Fund 2,814,411.60

Walters (A) Fund 1,454,062.19

English Fund 638,704.18

Special Memorial Scholarship Fund . . . .561,813-53

Inman Endowment Fund 196,466.61

Sweet Memorial Fund 188,983.29

Ford Fund 330,987.50

Waterman Fund 132,737.90

Campbell Stamp Collection 22,397.00

Loan Fund 44,478.15 9,200,339. 80

Total $15,553,756.84

FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE
BUSINESS SUPPORT

Foundations and corporate businesses that have contributed to
Agnes Scott during the past year (many of them through the
Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges) are the following:

Albany, Georgia: Albany Coca-Cola Bottling Company; First State Bank and
Trust Company; Golden Glow Dairies, Inc.; Haley Motor Company; Keenan
Auto Parts Company of Albany; The Merck Company Foundation; The Na-
tional Bank of Albany; Oxford Construction Company; A. C. Samford, Inc.;
Southeastern Mortgage Corporation; Earl L. Speer Company; Wakeford In-
surance Agency, Inc.

Athens, Georgia: Angus Garment Manufacturing Company; General Time Cor-
poration; The McGregor Company.

Atlanta, Georgia: Abrams Foundation, Inc.; Adair Realty and Loan Company;
Adams-Cates Company; W. D. Alexander Company; Allan-Grayson Realty

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Company; Allen Foundation (Ivan Allen Company); American Art Metals
Company; American Can Company; American Investment Company Founda-
tion; American Oil Company; Aristocrat Ice Cream Company; Arthur Ander-
sen and Company; Associated Seed Growers, Inc.; Atlanta Flooring Company,
Inc.; Atlanta Gas Light Company; Atlanta Stove Works; Atlantic Steel Foun-
dation, Inc.; Atlas Finance Company, Inc.; Auto-Soler Company; Babcock and
Wilcox Company; Bailey Meter Company; The Bank of Georgia; Barge-
Thompson, Inc.; Beck and Gregg Hardware Company; Berman-Lipton Com-
pany; Mary Allen Lindsey Branan Foundation; Bressler Brothers; Brown-
Wright Hotel Supply Corporation; Capitol Fish Company, Inc.; The Citizens
and Southern National Bank; Colonial Stores Foundation; Conklin Tin Plate
and Metal Company; Continental Can Company; James M. Cox Foundation of
Georgia, Inc. (Atlanta Newspapers, Inc.); Crawford and Company; Curtis
1000, Inc.; John B. Daniel, Inc.; Davis Brothers, Inc.; Davison-Paxon Com-
pany; DeKalb National Bank; The Dillard Foundation, Inc. (Dillard Paper
Company); Dixie Wholesale Company, Inc.; Dwoskin, Inc.; Electrical Whole-
salers, Inc.; Ernst and Ernst; First National Bank of Atlanta; Ford Motor
Company Fund; Fulton County Federal Savings and Loan Association; Fulton
National Bank; Fulton Paper Company; The Garson Fund, Inc. (Lovable
Brassiere Company); General Electric Company; General Foods Fund, Inc.;
General Motors Corporation; Genuine Parts Company; Georgia Blueprint Com-
pany, Inc.; The Georgia Consumer Finance Association, Inc.; Georgia Power
Company; The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company; John H. Harland
Company Foundation; Higgins-McArthur Company; Hill Manufacturing Com-
pany; Hotel Restaurant and Supply Company; International Harvester Founda-
tion; Irvindale Farms, Inc.; Jackson Plumbing and Heating Company; Ken-
nedy-Dennis Foundation, Inc.; King Hardware Company; S. S. Kresge Com-
pany; Lanier Brothers Foundation (Oxford Manufacturing Company, Inc.);
MacDougald Construction Company; MacDougald- Warren, Inc.; Mead Cor-
poration Foundation; Merck-Sharp and Dohme Division of Merck and Com-
pany, Inc.; Metropolitan Fund of Atlanta; Sigmund Montag Foundation, Inc.;
George Muse Clothing Company; National Biscuit Company Foundation; Na-
tional Linen Service Corporation; Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc.; Otis
Elevator Company; Park and Shop Garage; Piedmont Southern Life Insurance
Company; Plantation Pipe Line Company; Redfern Sausage Company; Retail
Credit Company; S. P. Richards Paper Company; The Rich Foundation, Inc.;
Rich's, Inc.; Robert and Company, Associates; Scripto, Inc., Foundation;
Sealtest and Kraft Foods Division of National Dairy Products Corporation;
Sears-Roebuck and Company; The Sears-Roebuck Foundation; John Sexton and
Company; Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.; The Sherwin-Williams Company; Ray Smith
Company; Sockwell Company; Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany; Southern Mills, Inc.; Southern Spring Bed Company Foundation, Inc.;
The Sperry and Hutchinson Company; Standard Oil Company of Kentucky;
Stockbridge Stone Division of Vulcan Materials Company; Southeastern Ele-
vator Company; Southeastern Meat Company, Inc.; Robert K. Thrower, Inc.;
Trust Company of Georgia; Gertrude and William C. Wardlaw Fund, Inc.;
Western Electric Company, Inc.; R. H. White Foundation, Inc.; A. L. Zachry
Company.

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Augusta, Georgia: Blanche Cotton Mills, Inc.; The Clement L. Castleberry Foun-
dation; H. H. Claussen's and Sons, Inc.; Claussen-Lawrence Construction Com-
pany; Cullum's, Inc.; First Federal Savings and Loan Association; First Na-
tional Bank and Trust Company of Augusta; Fiske Hollingsworth Trust (Fine
Products Corporation) ; A. A. Friedman and Company; Georgia Iron Works;
Georgia Railroad Bank and Trust Company; John P. King Manufacturing Com-
pany; Lansing B. Lee, Sr., Foundation (Georgia-Carolina Warehouse and
Compress Company, Inc.); The Marbut Foundation; Marbut Milling Com-
pany; Maxwell Brothers, Inc.; Arthur H. and Ernest B. Merry Foundation
(Merry Brothers Brick and Tile Company) ; Clarence Mobley Contracting Com-
pany; Murray Biscuit Company; Slusky Builders' Supplies, Inc.; WJBF-TV.

Barnesville, Georgia: Aldora Mills, Division General Tire and Rubber Company.

Blakely, Georgia: First State Bank.

Brunswick, Georgia: First Federal Savings and Loan Association; The First Na-
tional Bank of Brunswick; Glynn Concrete Company; Leotis and Company,
Inc.; Lewis Crab Factory; Seaboard Construction Company.

Carrollton, Georgia: Douglas and Lomason Company; Harrison Engineering; H.
W. Richards Lumber Company; Southwire Company.

Cartersville, Georgia: Chemical Products Corporation; First National Bank of
Cartersville; Thompson-Weinman Company.

Cedartown, Georgia: The Commercial National Bank; Goodyear Foundation, Inc.;
Liberty National Bank; Wright and Lopez, Inc.

Chamblee, Georgia: American Hospital Supply Corporation; E. T. Barwick Foun-
dation, Inc.; William E. Honey Foundation, Inc.; Lay Company Foundation;
H. W. Lay and Company; Premier Autoware Company; Write Right Manufac-
turing Company.

Columbus, Georgia: Bickerstaff Clay Products; W. C. and Sarah H. Bradley Foun-
dation; Buck Investment Company; Cen-Tennial Cotton Gin Company; Colum-
bus Bank and Trust Company; Columbus Fibre Mills Company; The Concrete
Company; Fourth National Bank of Columbus; Gas Light Company of Colum-
bus; Bill Heard Chevrolet Company; The Hollis Foundation, Inc.; A. and M.
L. Illges Memorial Foundation, Inc.; John P. and Dorothy S. Illges Founda-
tion, Inc.; The Jordan Foundation, Inc.; Kinnett Dairies, Inc.; J. A. Kirven
Company; Maxwell Brothers Company; Morton Machine Works, Inc.; Musco-
gee Iron Works; Muscogee Manufacturing Company; The Walter Alan
Richards Foundation, Inc.; David Rothschild Company; Royal Crown Cola
Company; Schwob Manufacturing Company; Southern Foods, Inc.; Swift
Spinning Mills Foundation; G. Mote Williams Memorial Foundation.

Commerce, Georgia: Blue Bell Foundation; Roper Hydraulics, Inc.

Cordele, Georgia: Cordele Sash, Door and Lumber Company; First State Bank in
Cordele; I. Pedis and Sons.

Cornelia, Georgia: Cornelia Bank; Standard Telephone Company, Inc.

Cumming, Georgia: Otwell Motor Company, Inc.

Dalton, Georgia: Belcraft Chenilles, Inc.; Cabin Crafts, Inc.; Dalton Latex and
Chemical Company, Inc.; First National Bank; Hardwick Bank and Trust

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Company; Jolly Textile Company; Latex Corporation; Patcraft Mills, Inc.; Prof-
fitt Manufacturing Company, Inc.; The Pruden Insurance Agency.

Decatur, Georgia: Adam Sales and Service; Bailey and Anderson, Inc.; Bowen
Press, Inc.; The Campus Grill; The Casual Corner; Decatur Cake Box; Elling-
ton Grocery; Fairview Flower Shop; Georgia Magazine; Glenwood Paint Cen-
ter; New Era Publishing Company; North Decatur Pharmacy; B. M. Sharian;
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; Watson's Pharmacy.

East Point, Georgia: Colonial Stores, Inc.

Elberton, Georgia: First National Bank in Elberton.

Fitzgerald, Georgia: M. M. Fletcher Buick-Rambler Company.

Forsyth, Georgia: Citizens Bank of Forsyth; Monroe County Bank.

Fort Gaines, Georgia: Fort Gaines Banking Company.

Gainesville, Georgia: The First National Bank; Gainesville National Bank; J. D.
Jewell, Inc.; Pacolet Foundation; J. C. Penney Company, Inc.; Tev, Inc.

Griffin, Georgia: Commercial Bank and Trust Company; Dundee Community As-
sociation, Inc.; Goode-Nichols Furniture Company, Inc.; Griffin- Jaco Mills,
Inc.; H. V. Kell Company; Pomona Products Company, Inc.; The State Bank.

Hampton, Georgia: Southern States Foundation, Inc.

Jackson, Georgia: Jackson National Bank.

LaGrange, Georgia: Citizens and Southern Bank of LaGrange; LaGrange Binking
Company; LaGrange Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Lucy Lanier Nixon Founda-
tion, Inc.

McDonough, Georgia: Dowling Textile Manufacturing Company.

McRae, Georgia: Roydon-Wear, Inc.

Macon, Georgia: Anderson Chemical Company; Armstrong Cork Company;
Bankers Health and Life Insurance Company; Barnes and Barnes, Inc.; Belk-
Matthews Company, Inc.; Bibb Manufacturing Company; Cotton States Fer-
tilizer Company; Delta Tank Manufacturing Company, Inc.; Empire Furniture
Company; Fickling and Walker; First National Bank and Trust Company;
Georgia Kraft Company; Inland Container Corporation; Institutional Whole-
salers, Inc.; Lowe Electric Company; Maxwell Brothers Furniture Company,
Inc.; Procter and Gamble Manufacturing Company; Snyder's, Inc.

Moultrie, Georgia: The Friedlander Foundation; Moultrie Cotton Mills.

Newnan, Georgia: Beavers Packing Company.

Ocilla, Georgia: A. T. Fuller Lumber Company; Ocilla Oil and Fertilizer Com-
pany, Inc.

Rome, Georgia: Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association; First National
Bank of Rome; Fox Heyman Foundation; General Electric Corporation; Hardy
Trust Company; Maxwell Brothers; National City Bank of Rome; Owens
Hardware Company; Rome Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Rome Kraft Com-
pany; Rome News-Tribune; Southeastern Mills, Inc.; J. L. Todd Auction
Company.

Royston, Georgia: Tri-County Bank of Royston.
St. Simons, Georgia: St. Simons State Bank.

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Sandersville, Georgia: Burgess Pigment Company; Carr and Boatright; Holmes
Canning Company; Sandersville Railroad Company; Thiele Kaolin Company;
United Clay Mines Corporation; The George D. Warthen National Bank.

Savannah, Georgia: Leopold Adler Company, Inc.; S. A. Allen, Inc.; American
Can Company; Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Beverage Sales Com-
pany, Inc.; Bradley Foundation, Inc.; The Chatham Foundation; Colonial Oil
Industries, Inc.; John and Emma Derst Foundation; Levy's of Savannah, Inc.;
Liberty National Bank and Trust Company of Savannah; Maxwell Brothers
of Savannah, Inc.; Savannah Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Savannah Electric
and Power Company; South Atlantic Gas Company; Southern Fertilizer and
Chemical Company; Southern Nitrogen Company, Inc.; Union Bag-Camp
Paper Corporation.

Scottdale, Georgia: Scottdale Mills, Inc.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Foundation, Inc.

Shannon, Georgia: Burlington Industries Foundation.

Statesboro, Georgia: Bulloch County Bank; Rockwell Charitable Trust.

Summerville, Georgia: Farmers and Merchants Bank; Georgia Rug Mills.

Toccoa, Georgia: The Citizens Bank of Toccoa; McNeely Foundation, Inc.; Trog-
don Furniture Company; Wright Manufacturing Company.

Vidalia, Georgia: Achenbach Foundation.

Waycross, Georgia: Commercial Bank; First National Bank in Waycross; Monroe
Welfare Foundation; Waycross Journal-Herald.

West Point, Georgia: Batson-Cook Company; Georgia Alabama Supply Company,
Inc.; Neighbors Funds, Inc.; Wehadkee Foundation, Inc.; West Point Foun-
dation, Inc.

Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Chicago, Illinois: American Oil Foundation; General American Transportation
Foundation; International Harvester Foundation; Zurich Insurance Company.

Bluff ton, Indiana: Franklin Electric Company, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company; New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Motor Company Fund.

Detroit, Michigan: General Motors Corporation.

St. Louis, Missouri: Pet Milk Foundation.

Camden, New Jersey: Campbell Soup Company.

Long Island City, New York: Standard Motor Products.

New York, New York: America Fore Loyalty Foundation; American Can Com-
pany; American Thread Company; American Tobacco Company; Bristol Myers
Company; Esso Education Foundation; General Foods Fund, Inc.; Graybar
Electric Company; Gulf Oil Corporation; Kayser-Roth Foundation; Kenyon
and Eckhardt, Inc.; Lane Bryant Malsin Foundation, Inc.; National Biscuit
Company Foundation; National Dairy Products Corporation; National Merit
Scholarship Corporation; New York Life Insurance Company; Otis Elevator

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Company; Philip Morris, Inc; Standard and Poor's Corporation; Sterling Drug

Company; United States Steel Foundation, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina: Telephone Answering Service, Inc.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Akron, Ohio: General Tire and Rubber Company.

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Kroger Charitable Trust; Procter and Gamble Fund.
Cleveland, Ohio: Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation.
Youngstown, Ohio: Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Rockwell Manufacturing Company.
Spartanburg, South Carolina: General Supplies, Inc.

Enrollment

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 650 students
(592 boarders, 58 day students) ; the boarding capacity was 590,
but withdrawals during the fall quarter permitted the return of
two former students in January. Thirty states, the Canal Zone,
and thirteen foreign countries are represented in the following
geographical distribution of student residence:

Alabama 43

Arkansas
California .
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware

6

1

1

4

1

Florida 59

Georgia 204

Illinois 2

Indiana 1

Kansas 1

Kentucky 17

Louisiana 8

Maryland 2

Massachusetts 1

Michigan 1

Mississippi 9

Missouri 3

New Jersey 2

New York 3

North Carolina 63

Ohio 3

Oklahoma 1

Pennsylvania 3

South Carolina 69

Tennessee 36

Texas 16

Virginia 58

West Virginia 13

Wisconsin 1

Canal Zone 3

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

Pakistan

Switzerland

Turkey

Venezuela

Total

650

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The classification of the student body for the 1961-62 session
is as follows:

Seniors 114

Fourth-year Juniors .... 2

Juniors 123

Third-year Sophomores ... 1
Sophomores 187

Second-year Freshmen ... 3

Freshmen 213

Specials 7

Total

650

note: The total number of seniors given above does not include two students who completed
degree requirements during the summer of 1961; it does include one student who failed to
meet graduation requirements. The total number awarded the degree was 115. The total
number of juniors does not include four who were studying on the junior year abroad plan.

The denominational distribution is as follows:

Presbyterian 272

Methodist 119

Baptist 99

Episcopal 93

Lutheran 16

Roman Catholic 11

Christian 10

Church of Christ 5

Christian Scientist .... 4

Congregational 4

Jewish

Church of God

Dutch Reformed

Greek Orthodox

Moravian

Moslem

Unitarian

Protestant preference . . .
No preference 2

Total 650

Trustees

The terms of the following trustees expired with the annual
meeting of the Board on February 22, 1962: Miss Mary Wallace
Kirk (Synodical, Alabama) , Dr. D. P. McGeachy, Jr. (Synodical,
Florida) , Dr. P. D. Miller (Synodical, Georgia) , Dr. J. R. McCain
(Corporate) , Mr. J. J. Scott (Corporate) , Mrs. William T. Wil-
son, Jr. (Corporate), Mr. John A. Sibley (Corporate), Mr. R.
Howard Dobbs, Jr. (Corporate) , and Mrs. H. Clay Lewis (Alum-
nae) .

By action of the Board at the annual meeting, Miss Kirk was
re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a term of four years, subject to
ratification by the Synod of Alabama, Presbyterian Church
(U.S.) ; Dr. McGeachy was re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a

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term of four years, subject to ratification by the Presbyterian
Synod of Florida; Dr. Miller was re-elected as Synodical Trustee
for a four-year term, subject to ratification by the Synod of
Georgia; Dr. McCain, Mr. Scott, Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Sibley, and
Mr. Dobbs were re-elected as Corporate Trustees for terms of
four years each.

Miss Eleanor N. Hutchens, retiring president of the National
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, was elected as an Alumnae
Trustee for a term of two years, succeeding Mrs. H. Clay Lewis.

The Board in the annual meeting re-elected Mr. Hal L. Smith
as chairman, Mr. William C. Wardlaw, Jr., vice-chairman, and
the President of the College, secretary.

This past year has brought to me an increased appreciation
and respect for our Board of Trustees. I am continually aware of
the intelligent concern and loyalty of our trustees. Moreover, I
am grateful to be associated with men and women who have the
courage to face facts honestly and to shape the College's policies
realistically.

Respectfully submitted,

PRESIDENT

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