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The President's Annual Report

to the

Board of Trustees

May 26, 1944

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

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Board of Trustees',
Agnes Scott College :

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-first
Annual Report as President of the College. We are closing our
fifty-fifth year as an institution.

Impact of War

The Agnes Scott campus is probably as free from the strain and
stress of war as any other place in our country. The activities of
both faculty and students are largely routine. The session has
been unusually free from war tragedies among the kinspeople of
the college community. The students are very busy with their
educational and social life and do not take much time for reading
the newspapers or listening to radios. There are minor incon-
veniences of all kinds which remind us that something unusual is
in progress, and there are some difficulties as to travel ; but, on
the whole, we have had a very quiet and peaceful year.

We have been somewhat disturbed lest the students become too
oblivious to international affairs and so we have had a series of
discussions in chapel ; we have brought speakers from many war
activity centers ; and we have had representatives of the WAC,
WAVES, and other groups to offer enlistments to our students.
Our religious services have also kept in mind the sufferings of
people in other lands and our responsibilty for some type of
ministry.

The Agnes Scott faculty have been giving serious study to the
impact of the war on our curriculum and on the College as a
whole, and they have had more study groups among themselves
this year than at any time since I have been connected with
Agnes Scott.

In other sections of this report, references will be made to some
of the problems, that are involved ; but, on the whole, we feel deep
gratitude to God that Agnes Scott has been so little burdened and
so little upset by present-day world events.

Post-War Problems

We cannot foresee the specific difficulties or opportunities
which peace may bring, but there are several tendencies concern-
ing which we need to give careful attention.

There has been in recent years a decided drift toward federal

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support for education of all types, including private and denomina-
tional colleges. This has. taken various forms. Agnes Scott shared,
with some misgivings, in the National Youth Administration,
which provided funds for needy students. None of this money
came to the College, but it was indirectly being subsidized by the
national government.

During the present war, most private colleges for men have
been in large measure supported through government contracts for
military units.. Strong pressure is being exerted for the United
States Government to continue such subsidies under various
disguises.

It is a very serious question as to whether our colleges can
afford to expose themselves to the temptations of such support.
We have hitherto enjoyed an independence and freedom which
have made American education distinctive. We cannot receive
government support without conforming to many requirements
and limitations. I would like for us to feel at Agnes Scott that we
will prefer to suffer some hardships and to reduce our program, if
necessary, rather than to look forward to support through sub-
sidies, when hard times come in the post-war period.

It is expected that the Federal Government will undertake to
give a college education to all men and women in the armed forces
who wish to do some further college or university study after the
coming of peace. It is thought that these young people will be
interested primarily in vocational subjects or in quick preparation
to take some kind of a job. Those of us who are accustomed to
think of college planning look with apprehension on what may
happen to the curriculum, to the general objectives, and to the
practical adjustments, in many of our colleges where pressure will
be exerted in this direction.

1 hope very much that Agnes Scott will not be swept by the
urge to supply what may be temporary needs. We have never
planned to meet the calls of "our day". We have always tried to
think in terms of the long future and to establish programs which
will be good for our children and our children's children, as well
as for tomorrow or for next year. It may take some steadfastness
of purpose to hold fast to our established program, but I hope that
we may be able to do so.

University Center Campaign

As you have already learned informally, Agnes Scott College
and Emory University have been able to report the completion of
the objectives which we jointly undertook in 1939. As you will
remember, this was featured in our institution as the Semi-Cen-
tennial celebration. The results have been very gratifying.

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It has been helpful to have the cooperation of Emory University
and the other units of the University Center group in the difficult
war days which are upon us, and I believe that all institutions
have been more successful than they would have been if we were
not cooperating so heartily.

In raising the funds which Agnes Scott was required to show by
way of collection during the current year, we were encouraged by
several gifts which have been most useful and greatly appreciated.
These include a $10,000 addition to the Frances Winship Walters
Foundation, the adding of $5,000 to the Joseph Kyle Orr Founda-
tion, another addition of $5,000 to the Asa G. Candler Library
Fund, the collection of the balance of $2,500 from the estate of
the late Mrs. Annie Scott Cooper (which was added to the Cooper
Foundation), a gift from Mr. Thomas K. Glenn of securities
valued at approximately $15,000 with which to establish the Agnes
Raoul Glenn Foundation, and substantial additions to the Anna
Irwin Young Fund and to the Mary Scott Scully Fund. All these
gifts and many other smaller ones have been valuable not only in
winning the campaign, but in helping to establish more securely
the effective service which Agnes Scott can render to its students.

We still have uncollected quite a number of subscriptions which
are being paid and which will provide additional funds for the
erection of Hopkins Hall.

One of the interesting gifts which helped to complete our
campaign was the royalty for the first year on the sale of "Betty
A Life of Wrought Gold". This amounted to $350 and is to be
used as the nucleus of a scholarship in memory of Betty Hollis.
Mrs. E. R. Kellersberger (who was known to many of us as Julia
Lake Skinner) arranged to donate any royalty for this purpose
rather than to receive it herself. Any income from this source for
the future will be used for increasing the scholarship.

The Current Year

There have been a great many problems which had to be faced
during the current school year. The most difficult of these has been
the securing of adequate Negro help for the operation of our
plant. We usually have about 70 to 75 servants, and most of these
through the years have been experierccd and almost veterans in
the Agnes Scott service. It has been impossible for us to compete
with the government programs about us, and we are not surprised
that most of these trained and efficient people have left us for
better jobs.

As you have already learned, it became necessary for us to
consider the unifying of our dining room program so as to
eliminate the White House service of meals and to concentrate on

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the Rebekah Scott dining hall and kitchen. Through the very
earnest efforts of Mr. Tart and his assistants, we were able to
secure cafeteria equipment and to set up our program so that all
the students who live on the campus and all the faculty who wish
meals in the dining hall can be served with reasonable comfort.
We have not been able to do the entertaining which we have
enjoyed in other years, and at the Commencement season we will
not be able to have the formal alumnae luncheon as heretofore. If
the Trustees stay for lunch on May 26th, as we hope you will do,
you will probably share in the lowly cafeteria program.

For the first time in our experience, we have used student help
in the dining room, and the girls have really enjoyed the work. I
think it has been the most popular branch of our student aid
activities.

For the next year, we are planning to ask each student who
boards on the campus to give one hour per day of service to the
College in whatever phase of work may be most needed. This
plan has been accepted very loyally by our girls. It will involve a
great deal of work on the part of the Dean of Students and her
assistants because it is no easy matter to organize untrained helpers
into satisfactory workers, but we think the experiment will be
successful.

Mr. Tart has been successful again in collecting 100% the
current charges for students, and I think the record is an impres-
sive one. On account of the added expenses for next year, we
have found it necessary to increase the boarding charges by
$25.00; but there has not been a single complaint from the patrons
regarding this.. They really feel that we would be justified in
charging a great deal more.

Trustees

When Agnes Scott is able to afford a department of research, I
would like to assign as one of the first projects the summarizing
of the activities of our Trustees. We certainly have a very busy
and effective group. It would take quite a volume to tabulate the
activities and achievements of our Chairman, George Winship, if
he alone were considered. We appreciate the interest and loyalty
of such busy people and we will try not to put any more burdens
upon you than may be needful.

The terms of the following Trustees expire with this meeting:
H. T. Mcintosh, Scott Candler, Warner DuBose, Francis M. Holt,
John A. Sibley, and Mrs. Crawford F. Barnett.

We have had resignations from Dr. William M. Elliott, Jr., who
has moved outside the bounds of the Synod of Georgia, which he

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represented; and from Colonel W. J. Rushton, who is very much
absorbed in war activities.

All of these Trustees have been valuable to Agnes Scott in
many ways.

Faculty

We have had a larger number of additions of major importance
to our staff during the current year than in any other period of
our history. We were blessed of God in being able to find strong
people with high ideals who have been able to make contributions
to the work of the College.

Professor Walter B. Posey came to us from Birmingham-
Southern College and is Professor of History and Political
Science.

Professor Paul Leslie Garber is the new Professor of Bible,
succeeding Mrs. Sydenstricker. He came to us from the pastorate
of the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Durham, N. C.

Professor Howard Thomas has reorganized the work in Art
and has been ably assisted in this, on a part-time basis, by Pro-
fessor Lamar Dodd of the University of Georgia. Before coming
to us, Mr. Thomas was the acting head of the department of Art
at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Johnnie Armstrong McCullough, a daughter of Dr. John I.
Armstrong, formerly a professor at Agnes Scott, has served this
year as College Physician and as head of the department of
1 hysical Education.

Mr. Howard M. MacGregor, who was business manager of
Queens College for several years, has taken the place of Mr. R. B.
Cunningham here with the title Assistant Business Manager-
Treasurer. He could hardly have come at a more difficult time,
but he has proved to be an excellent addit'on to the administrative
staff.

Miss Margaret Ridley, the President of our Alumnae Associa-
tion and for several years one of the strong teachers at Girls High
School in Atlanta, has been added to our staff with the title of
"Recorder". She will have general supervision of the records of
the College and will assist in the office of Dean Stukes, particularly
with the counselling with girls who wish some assistance.

Other additions to our staff include Mrs. Laliah C. Runyon, in
Biolo r y ; Miss Ruth Domincovich, in Spanish; Robert S. Low-
rance, in Music; Miss Ruth Dabnev Smith, in Violin ; Miss Lewis

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Lipps, in Biology ; Miss Abbie Rutledge, in Physical Education ;
Miss Emma McGinty. in Chemistry ; Miss Joella Craig, in the
bookstore; and Miss Helen Finger, in the business office.

Students

This has been a very active year in student affairs. There has.
been some agitation to change our Student Government set-up and
to experiment with something akin to political elections in the
choice of our student officers. The students, themselves decided
that the program which we have followed is the wisest one, and I
think the entire campus is better satisfied since the issues have
been faced and decided very much in line with previous custom.

The enrollment for the current session is. somewhat larger than
normal. The prospect for attendance in 19441945 is really
embarrassing from the standpoint of boarders. We had so manv
applications that we could have completed our list about February
15th. We have been trying and are still trying to make a selection
of students who will be the very best possible and through whom
the College may be able to render a greater service to the com-
munities for which we have some special responsibilty.

( )ur students for this session may be classified in various ways
as follows :

Geographical Distribution

Alabama 16

Arkansas 2

District of Columbia 2

Florida 34

Georgia 332

Indiana 1

Kentucky 13

Louisiana 3

Minnesota 1

Mississippi 8

Missouri 2

New Jersey 1

New York 8

North Carolina 26

Ohio 4

Pennsylvania 2

South Carolina 43

Tennessee 20

Texas 5

Virginia 23

West Virginia 6

Africa 2

Peru 1

Puerto Rico 1

Total

556

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Class Enrollment

Seniors 100

Juniors 101

Sophomores 159

Freshmen 176

Special students 20

Total 556

Residence

Boarders 339

Day students 217

556

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 194

Methodist 107

Baptist 93

Episcopal 58

Jewish 19

Catholic 13

Christian 12

Greek Orthodox 4

Lutheran

Christian Science

Congregational

Quaker

3
2
1

1

Army Protestant. . . .
Brethren

1
1

Non-members

. .. 27

Total

. . . 536 *

This does not include 20 special students.

Religious Life

The spiritual tone of the campus continues to be surprisingly
satisfactory under present world conditions. In most parts of our
country and among many institutions, the students have shown a
restlessness and a tendency toward delinquency which have been
alarming. We do not doubt that problems will arise on our own
campus, but we feel that there is good leadership among both
students and faculty in handling the religious life, and we hope

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that Agnes Scott may prove to be a gr.eat power for good in
stabilizing the thinking of our young people.

We experimented this year with having a Sunday morning
service on the campus in connection with our Investiture program.
It proved to be very popular, and there are requests that it should
be planned again from time to time ; but, on the whole, we feel
that it is wiser for our faculty and students to attend the local
churches in Decatur and Atlanta. Our Religious Emphasis Week
services were held this year by Dr. Kenneth J. Foreman of
Davidson College. He aroused much interest through both his
public lectures and his discussion groups.

We still have more non-church members in college than in the
period before the war ; but, so far as we can tell, this is due to the
lack of emphasis in such matters in Sunday Schools, churches,
and homes in the communities from which the students come.
It is a condition which gives us some concern and about which we
have faculty and student groups organized for prayer and personal
work.

Respectfully submitted,

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JUNE 1, 1945

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THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Decatur, Georgia
June 1, 1945

Board of Trustees,
Agnes Scott College.

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-second
Annual Report as President of the College. We are closing our
fifty-sixth year as an institution.

Frances Winship Walters Infirmary

The most encouraging event of the current session has. been
the gift of $100,000 by Mrs. Frances Winship Walters for the
erection of a new infirmary. Last summer I sent to the Trustees
a, brief statement regarding this. There are many features about
it which are most satisfying. It will adequately meet one of the
great needs of the College for a long time. It is. given by one
of the best friends Agnes Scott has had, an alumna and a
trustee. It came wholly as a surprise without any solicitation or
urging of any kind. The funds are available for proceeding with
the construction as soon as our government opens the way.

The Trustees will recall that this is not the first gift which Mrs..
Walters has made. She first contributed $1,000 to begin the
George C. Walters Scholarship fund, and subsequently brought
that up to $5,000. She then contributed $50,000 in our Semi-
centennial campaign which is used as the Frances Winship
Walters Foundation in helping worthy young women, and she also
gave $5,000 toward the erection of Hopkins Hall. These gifts
place her along with Colonel George W. Scott and Miss Jennie
D. Inman as the top individual contributors to Agnes Scott.

It is planned for this new building to be erected across the
driveway from our present infirmary. A picture of the general
plan is on the opposite page of this report. The architecture will
be in general keeping with our other new buildings and will be
suitable for the purpose. We have had landscape plans made for
a sunken garden on each side of the proposed building so that
the outlook from any part of the infirmary will be interesting
and attractive. We cannot immediately remove the houses adjacent
on Candler Street, but it is planned that these will be taken down
as soon as they can be replaced.

The proposed building will have ample quarters for girls who
may be sick and will provide for three or four contagious diseases
to be treated at the same time. It will have ample quarters for
the physician and trained nurses and for the handling of the whole

health program of the College. There is no institution in this
part of the country which has any building comparable to it in
its attractiveness and adequacy.

We hope very much that construction may begin on it in 1946.
Other Gifts

During the year we had a gift of $15,000 made toward the
erection of a new dining hall. This brings the total of money
accumulated for this purpose to approximately $80,000. So far
as we are now able to judge, a new dining hall and kitchen of
the type which we ought to have will cost approximately $300,000,
so that we have yet a good deal of money to obtain for this
purpose. As you will recall, this building is to be located on the
site now occupied by Gaines and Ansley cottages.

Our endowment funds were increased by several gifts, including
a bequest from the estate of Mr. Ernest Woodruff of $6,750, an
addition to the Asa G. Candler Library Fund of $5,400, an addi-
tion to the Lindsey Scholarship Fund of $2,000, an addition of
$200 to the Anna Irwin Young Fund, and of $600 to the Mary
Scott Scully Fund.

We had the rare experience of receiving $15,000 from an
anonymous source for current funds, and also a gift from the
General Education Board of $5,000 for the same purpose. I do
not recall that in recent history we have had any gifts toward
current expenses. They have nearly always been for endowment
or permanent improvements. These particular gifts have been
of unusual value, as may be mentioned later.

We have also had an unusual number of gifts for current
scholarships. This is not for the endowment of student aid, but
for funds which can be used for the immediate session. Included
in these gifts are $1,100 from two alumnae, $315 from Mr. C.
Alison Scully, $250 from the Presser Foundation, and $1,150 from
an anonymous source.

In addition, we have received books on Old Testament litera-
ture and Jewish history from the Hillel Foundation and the
Jewish Publication Society, the cost of which would run into
several hundred dollars.

Only one of these gifts was actually solicited, and most of them
came as surprises to us. In almost every case interest in Agnes
Scott was aroused when we were having our last active campaign.

The Alumnae Fund

The trustees will remember that at the last meeting of the
Board the alumnae requested that the College underwrite an

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experiment which they wished to adopt in dropping charges and
dues for membership in the Association in order to go on the
plan for voluntary gifts. At that time it was voted that the
College contribute $2,000 from our current funds and advance
$3,000 from our campaign account, with the understanding that
the latter item would be repaid by the alumnae from their gifts,
if possible.

From a financial standpoint the time is favorable for such a
change, but no more difficult time in the history of Agnes Scott
could have been found for reaching our alumnae. They are
scattered over all the earth and are moving frequently and rapidly,
and the mailing list is a very changeable factor.

We regard the alumnae fund as a distinct success and we
believe that the $3,000 which we advanced from the campaign
fund will be repaid and that the alumnae will have a substantial
sum for their own development.

A full statement of this fund will doubtless be presented and
a request that the College continue to underwrite the plan. I
think there is no doubt about the wisdom of our encouraging the
program for another year, with the details to be worked out
somewhat later.

Mrs. Holcombe T. Green (Katharine Woltz, 1933) is president
of the Alumnae Association, and she will doubtless wish to speak
on this subject at the meeting of the Board.

Portraits

For two years the students have been saving money with which
to paint the portrait of Miss Carrie Scandrett, Dean of Students;
and there have been numerous other requests from alumnae,
faculty, and students that we have painted portraits of Dean
S. G. Stukes, of Miss Louise McKinney, and of Mr. George
Winship. At a meeting of the Executive Committee held in
January, approval was given for making arrangements for this
work. After consulting numerous authorities both in this section
of the country and in the East, there seemed to be general agree-
ment that Mr. Sidney E. Dickinson, who previously did some
work for the College, is one of the best known and most depend-
able portrait painters in America. He has recently been painting
the portraits of the family of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

We were able to secure his services, and during the month of
April he has been engaged in this work. The portraits are com-
pleted and will be on exhibit during the commencement season.

Funds for this work came from the students, from alumnae,
and from the development fund.

University Center

The General Education Board, through whose generosity and
encouragement the University Center in Georgia has been largely
developed, has recently made available somewhat more than
$40,000 to continue the activities of the Advisory Faculty Council
and to provide funds for research which may be given to the
faculties of the cooperating institutions. These are two of the
most important phases of the University Center program, and
they will be much more active and effective as soon as the present
emergency has. passed.

One of the interesting developments of recent months is an
agreement between the University of Georgia, Emory University,
Georgia School of Technology, and Agnes Scott for the training
of teachers. This is one of the responsibilities which we have
neglected at our own institution, and we have done very little to
help the teachers already in service to improve their training and
efficiency. Under the proposed plan, the University of Georgia
will take the initiative in promoting the whole program ; but the
other institutions will cooperate by furnishing faculty members
for instruction and will also furnish students for the program.
A good deal of the work, however, will be done during the sum-
mer when Agnes Scott is not in session.

It is proposed that Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theolog-
ical Seminary cooperate in special training in the Bible. The
Seminary is now giving the M.A. degree in the English Bible to
those who have completed college work. It is felt that if these
students have access to Bible work on our campus their program
may be enriched and the Bible work of both institutions may be
improved. We see no difficulties in the way of such an arrange-
ment.

We have felt that it would be advisable for us to secure a bus,
if possible, so as to facilitate the transportation of our girls, to
Emory or to other institutions involved in the University Center
program. We have not been able to do this, and some of the
activities which would go forward must be delayed until better
transportation arrangements can be developed.

Library Improvements

Agnes Scott is blessed with an unusually fine library building.
After using it for nearly ten years, we would make very few
changes if it were to be rebuilt. I doubt whether any building in
the country has had more favorable comment or regarding which
there have been more requests for detailed plans, and specifications.

At the same time, we have not been keeping pace with the first-

class institutions of the country in the expenditures which we
make for books and periodicals, and we are far behind on the
total number of books which we have. The accompanying figures
will indicate some comparative data :

Annual Expenditures for Number of Volumes in

College Books and Periodicals Periodicals Taken Library

Agnes. Scott $4,000 175 42,062

Amherst 22,026 1,244 227,612

Bryn Mawr 18,382 788 166,000

Connecticut 11,939 587 83,341

Dartmouth 50,371 1,490 497,059

Haver ford 8,031 400 144,000

Mt. Holyoke 14,398 700 160,000

Swarthmore 15,000 690 115,000

Vassar 23,400 1,157 218,269

Wellesley 21,083 694 189,728

Williams 14,726 520 171,400

Agnes Scott is smaller than most of these institutions listed and
does not offer any graduate work. It has decidedly improved in
recent years. Twenty years ago it had only 9,500 volumes in the
library, and its. budget for purchases was only $1,500 per year.
Agnes Scott students do have access to the books and periodicals
of twenty-one other libraries in this vicinity, though it is very
inconvenient to make use of some of these materials.

Some of our friends have realized our great need in this par-
ticular, and two of the gifts recounted above for current expenses
were made largely on this account. The result has been that we
have had about $15,000 available for the purchase of books and
periodicals, and our faculty and librarians have had a very exciting
time in trying to decide what should be bought and how needful
books may be obtained. Many of these are out of print and
others are of European manufacture and cannot be imported at
the present time. While the work is not yet complete either as to
purchases or as to cataloging the books which have been bought,
we have had a very stimulating and helpful experience in this
field for all of our departments.

Lectures

Agnes Scott is. so blessed every year in having many speakers
and lecturers that we have not undertaken to recount the names
and subjects of those who come to entertain and instruct us.
This year, however, has been quite unusual in the opportunities
which we have had to bring distinguished people for a consider-
able length of time. One part of the anonymous gift for current
expenses was designated for bringing lecturers, who would be of

special interest to the department of English. Our regular lecture
association, under the leadership of Miss Laney, has always pro-
vided unusual people. Through the collaboration this year of
Professor Hayes in the English department and Miss Laney, we
have had on our campus, usually for several days, the following:
Professor Edwin Mims of Vanderbilt University, an authority in
English ; Howard Mumford Jones, recently dean of the graduate
school of Harvard University, an expert in American literature ;
Mary Ellen Chase, professor at Smith College and an authority
on the English Bible as. literature ; Robert Frost, the distinguished
poet ; Theodore M. Greene of Princeton University, an expert in
harmonizing the humanities ; Will Durant, author of "The Story
of Philosophy" ; and Maurice Hindus, an authority on Russia.

We have had many other distinguished preachers and speakers
who came without remuneration.

Post-War Plans

A year ago we called to your attention some of the problems
which may face colleges, particularly independent and denomina-
tional ones, when peace comes again. Our faculty has been giving
careful study to the situation as. it may affect Agnes Scott. From
a curriculum standpoint, we feel that there need to be very few
changes in order to carry on a successful program. There are
almost innumerable needs and gaps in our educational offerings,
but the war has not particularly affected these.

Most of the Agnes Scott girls who have entered the armed
services had graduated before they enlisted. There will be com-
paratively few who will need to take work with us for the com-
pletion of their degrees. Within the scope of our present regula-
tions, we can handle such cases as may arise.

We believe that there will be need for a considerable number of
mature people who do not wish college degrees and yet who will
need some type of special training. We think that the University
Center group of institutions will be able to meet these specialized
adult education programs jointly and that very likely Georgia
School of Technology in the Atlanta area and the University of
Georgia at Athens will be centers through which we may work.

So far as. I am able to judge, the great danger in the whole
field of education is that there will be a let-down in standards
and in the fine quality of work. The pressure of numbers, the
weariness of many faculty members who have been working
overtime during the emergency, and the general looseness of
enforcing standards which follows nearly all wars may tend
toward poor educational performance.

I regard it as a solemn duty for a small group of privately

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controlled institutions,, and for Agnes Scott in particular, to stand
out as pace setters in educational performance. Our faculty and
officers recognize that this is an unusudl opportunity for us, and
we expect to utilize to the fullest the resources which may he
available for us.

The Current Year

Various aspects of this topic have been already mentioned.
Some of the special grants already made have helped to develop
an alertness, and enthusiasm among the faculty and students, and
in many respects it is the best session which we have ever had.
There have been fewer failures and generally a higher level of
performance than at any previous time.

We have had more applications for admission than in previous
years. We were able to close our list for next September in
February if we had been willing to do so, and we have a long
waiting list that is really a problem to us.. We will certainly not
be able to take all of them, and there are many very fine students
among those who are not willing to register elsewhere as long as
there is any chance to come to Agnes Scott. We are sure there
will be some withdrawals between now and the opening of college,
but we cannot tell how many.

Last year we had some cancellations within two or three weeks
of the opening of college, and it was so late that we were not
able to fill the places without a great deal of difficulty. In order
to obviate this problem, it has been decided to collect $100 from
each boarding student on August 10th, and this is not refundable.
We feel that this will bring to a final decision all who have paid
registration fees.

Mr. Tart has succeeded for the twenty-seventh consecutive year
in collecting all fees from students before the end of the college
session.

We have found that the cooperative plan of having all boarding
students to share in the work of the campus life has worked
satisfactorily, and the students themselves feel that it ought to be
continued for the coming session. It has required many extra
duties in the office of the Dean of Students, but the staff has
handled the details exceedingly well.

Building Plans

As the Trustees are well aware, we have important building
needs and have been making careful preparation for construction
as soon as the way may be clear. It is generally thought that it
will not be possible to begin serious building plans during the
current calendar year. We do hope that we may be able to start

work during the spring of 1946 so that we may have the use of
at least two structures hy September, 1947.

You will recall that in 1941 we received a grant of $200,000
toward the erection of a science building. An enormous amount
of study and work has been given by our faculty members, admin-
istrative officers, and the architects, with a view to planning a
building which will be distinctive and as near perfect for our
purpose as possible. Quite competent experts, without any bias
so far as we know, tell us that there is not anywhere in the world
better buildings for their purpose in an institution of this size
than our library, music building, and classroom-administration
building. We would like for the proposed science hall to be one
which will be widely imitated because of its efficiency and attrac-
tiveness.

So far as we can now make estimates, the building will cost
$350,000 plus furnishings. By December of this year we will
have earned $14,000 of interest on the donation which we have
already received ; and this, with other funds in hand, will probably
take care of the furnishings, besides the $200,000 of capital funds.
This leaves us $150,000 yet needful for the completion of the
building, and this is giving us real concern.

As has been mentioned earlier in this report, the other building
which we hope to begin is the Frances Winship Walters Infirmary,
and we see no reason why there should be any delay of any kind
in proceeding with our plans, so that it will probably be the first
one of our new buildings to be occupied.

The collections on the subscriptions for Hopkins Hall, the
proposed new dormitory, have proceeded very satisfactorily, and
we already have on hand more than the $100,000 which was orig-
inally set as a goal f r the building. We believe that it will take
more money than this and we think that additional funds will be
forthcoming. We will not be able to erect this particular unit in
our plans until the new science hall is erected and the old one can
be dismantled, since the site of the latter is to be used for our new
residence hall.

As mentioned above, we have secured about $80,000 toward
the building of a new dining hall and kitchen. Plans are being
worked out for this much needed addition to our plant, and we
hope that work can proceed on this project soon after building is
permitted at all. It is only fair to say, however, that we do not
know where the remainder of the money can be secured.

I would like to remind the Trustees that we still have docketed
the renovation and modernizing of Inman Hall and Rebekah
Scott Hall, according to pre-war programs ; but this work will
need to wait until we can secure much better material than is
now on the market.

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Plans for a New President

In one more year I will attain the age of sixty-five and will
automatically retire under our general program, unless the
Trustees desire to re-elect me for a year at a time until the age
of seventy. The College therefore has from one to a maximum
of six years for making plans for a new president. This is one
of the most important jobs which trustees can have, and responsi-
bility for it cannot be shifted to any other people.

We have had a remarkable continuity in the administration of
Agnes Scott. As you realize, I am only the second president, and
I had the opportunity of serving with Dr. Gaines for eight years
before taking over my present responsibility. Miss Scandrett is
our second dean of students, and she had the privilege of being
associated for an even longer time with Miss. Hopkins, our first
dean. Professor Strikes, our dean of the faculty, and Mr. Tart,
our treasurer, were connected with Agnes Scott before I came
thirty years ago ; and they, as well as quite a number of the faculty
members, were closely associated with both Dr. Gaines and Miss
Hopkins. These associations have resulted in a unity of purpose
and a steadfastness in adhering to our early ideals which may be
found in few other institutions.

I would like very much to give to the person who will become
president, whether man or woman, the opportunity of knowing
something of the friends of the College, the sources of our possible
support, both financial and otherwise, something of the projected
plans, for the institution in the future, and a good deal of our
heritage from the past. If a choice can be made in the near future,
I think it will be advantageous ; and I hope that a special com-
mittee of the Trustees may be appointed for a consideration of
the matter.

Each member of the Board may have his own or her own
opinion of the sort of person to be needed, and I am making some
suggestions purely from my own standpoint and not at all as
representative of the Board or of other interested groups.

When I became president, I felt that it was very important that
our campus, be enlarged, a suitable building program inaugurated,
increased endowment provided, wider recognition of Agnes Scott
as a first-class institution obtained, and more contacts on a regional
and national basis made. These objectives have been kept steadily
in mind while we undertook to maintain on the campus a strong
faculty and a well selected student group, with a view to main-
taining our physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual activities,
which have meant much through the years.

So far as I can judge the future, I believe that the new presi-
dent ought to be gifted in maintaining a strong spiritual atmos-

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phere, since this is at the heart of our whole program and will be
difficult to keep alive and to improve in quality. I think he ought
to do more extensive work in personal relations with the students
and in the development of the social life on the campus. I hope
that it will not be necessary for him to give quite so much time
to the raising of money and to the development of educational
contacts. I hope that he will be able to give a good deal of time to
working with the faculty in the development of the educational
program on the campus.

This matter has been talked extensively with the faculty, who
naturally have a very keen interest in any change which is made,
and also with alumnae groups. Various suggestions have been
made in former meetings of the Board of Trustees, so that the
matter has not been neglected during the past five years.

Trustees

The terms of the following Trustees expire with this meeting:
Mr. George Winship, Dr. J. A. McClure, Mrs. Frances Winship
Walters, Mr. Robert Strickland, Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth, Dr.
S. Hugh Bradley, Dean S. G. Stukes. All of these have been quite
valuable to Agnes Scott in many ways and all are eligible for
re-election.

The work of the current year has been carried on very largely
through committees. Our Trustees are so busy that it is not fair
to call them into group meetings unless there is something urgent.
In spite of the unusual times, our program has worked rather
smoothly and most of our business could be handled through the
consultation plan. It may be necessary to have more frequent
meetings as post-war problems develop and as building may be
possible.

Staff Changes

Dr. Margaret V. Burns of Asheville, N. C., has replaced Dr.
J. A. McCullough, last year's college physician who resigned to
give full time to her private practice. Dr. Burns graduated at
Duke University and has had extensive training in other insti-
tutions.

Miss Margret Trotter, Amelia, Ohio, has been added to the
faculty as an assistant professor in English. She took her under-
graduate work at Wellesley, received her M.A. degree from
Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Ohio State. She has
had extensive teaching experience.

Miss Elizabeth Peeler and Miss Virginia Humphries have been
serving in the library in the positions left vacant by the resigna-
tions of Misses Emily Philips and Lucy Cline.

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A new assistant in the physical education department is Miss
Barbara Ames, Sheffield, Alabama. She replaces Miss Abbie
Rutledge, who is working in the graduate school of Texas State
College for Women.

Because of the resignations of Misses Frances McCalla and
Lewis Lipps in the Biology department, Miss Martha Aiken is
serving as an assistant and Miss Betty Jo Davis, a senior, is serv-
ing as a fellow.

Three members of the class of 1944 have returned as assistants
in various departments of the College : Miss Martha Ray Lasseter
as secretary to the Dean of the Faculty ; Miss Anne Ward as
secretary to the Dean of Students ; and Miss Katherine Philips,
in charge of the bookstore.

Two members of the present senior class who have already
completed their degree requirements are assisting in laboratory
work : Miss Jodele Tanner in Chemistry and Miss Eloise Lyndon
in Physics.

Visitors to the campus who really stay long enough to become
acquainted nearly always comment on the fine cooperation which
is evident among the members of our staff and the congenial
atmosphere which prevails. This grows out of the fact that our
faculty and officers are fine Christian people as individuals, and
their love for the College and loyalty to it bind them closely to
one another wherever its interests are involved.

Students

A fine spirit has prevailed on the campus this year, and it is
due not only to good leadership among the girls, but also to the
good quality of the individual members of the campus community.

On account of the enlarged space for students in Main Build-
ing, we have been able to take more boarders, this year than at any
other time in the history of the institution. While the total enroll-
ment is not the highest in our history, the College has certainly
been full enough for the working out of our best plans. There
has been a slight sense of being crowded.

The applications for the next session indicate clearly that we
will be able to secure as many students as we are willing to accept.

Our enrollment for this session may be divided into various
classifications as follows :

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Geographical

Alabama 22

Arkansas 5

Colorado 1

District of Columbia 1

Florida 31

Georgia 306

Indiana 1

Kentucky 15

Louisiana 5

Maryland 1

Minnesota 1

Mississippi 7

Missouri 2

Distribution

New Mexico 1

New York 5

North Carolina 31

Ohio 1

Pennsylvania 2

South Carolina 43

Tennessee 20

Texas 4

Virginia 30

West Virginia 7

Africa 1

Total 543

Class Enrollment

Seniors 94

Juniors 132

Sophomores 147

Freshmen 147

Special students 23

Total 543

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include
five students who completed degree requirements last summer and who
will receive their degrees in June. Two students now classified as juniors
may also receive the degree.)

Residence

Boarders 343

Day students. 200

Total 543

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 205

Methodist 106

Baptist 93

Episcopal 53

Christian 12

Jewish 9

Roman Catholic 7

Greek Orthodox 4

Christian Science 3

Lutheran 3

Quaker 3

Brethren 2

Christ Evangelical 1

Non-members 19

Total 520*

* This total does not include 23 special students.

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Religious Life

We believe that the war and other serious world events have
sobered our campus community perhaps more than in any other
year. There have been many anxieties, and quite a number of
casualty reports among members of families or close friends.

Our religious services have been given careful study by the
various groups conducting them, and they have proved to be
helpful and interesting. Our voluntary basis for attending services
has continued to prove very satisfactory.

Our Religious Emphasis Week services were held this year
by Dr. John A. Redhead of Second Presbyterian Church, Char-
lotte, N. C, and they were stimulating and interesting.

This year we have only nineteen girls who are not members of
some denomination or religious group. Of these, two express no
preference, one is inclined to the Unitarian church, one to the
Christian Science, two to the Presbyterian, five to the Methodist,
seven to the Baptist, and one to the Episcopal.

Special Assistance

Agnes Scott is so nearly a partnership that whatever is accom-
plished here should go to the credit of almost all on the campus.
For anything that I may seem to accomplish I am indebted to
many students and faculty, but I would like to mention some of
the administrative officers on whom I particularly rely. These are
Dean Stukes, Dean Scandrett, Mr. Tart, Mr. MacGregor, Miss
Ridley, Miss Hunter, and Miss. Steele. For all these I am very
grateful in carrying on our work.

Respectfully,

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MAY 31, 1946

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Decatur, Georgia
May 31, 1946^

Board of Trustees,

Agnes Scott College.

1 have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-third
Annual Report as President of the College. We are closing our
fifty-seventh year as an institution.

Specific Needs

This is certainly a great period for taking an inventory of what
we have as an institution and for outlining the things which ought
to be done very promptly. We have passed through similar periods
during the life of the college, and it is interesting to look back and
see how our needs have grown. We have met our specific objec-
tives several times during the past years only to find that newer
and better ones were lying ahead for us to undertake.

Because prices and general conditions are very uncertain just
now, it is impossible to make accurate estimates of our needs, but
I am outlining some that seem very important to me, and which
are listed on a conservative basis. Some of these items are as
follows :

New Science Hall $ 450,000

Infirmary 125,000

Hopkins Hall, Dormitory 225,000

Central Dining Hall and Kitchen 350,000

Faculty Apartments 100,000

Repairs on Inman and Rebekah Scott 100,000

President's House, when a new one comes. . . 35,000
Campus Improvements, Tennis Courts, May

Day Grounds, Gateways 65,000

Additional Land 50.000

Total Buildings and Improvements $1,500,000

Endowment for Raising Salaries 750,000

Endowment for Additional Faculty 500,000

Further Scholarship Endowment 100,000

Most Important Needs at This Time $2,850,000

Some of these proposed objectives may need some additional
details. We have on hand $350,000 for a Science Hall, but it
evidently is not enough. Mrs. Walters generously gave us $100,000

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for an Infirmary, and it ought to be an ample sum in normal
times, but we believe that we should add at least $25,000 in order
to get an adequate building now. During the Semi-Centennial
campaign, the Alumnae contributed $100,000 for the erection of
Hopkins Hall, but it is now quite evident that it will take more
than twice that much in order to get the type of building which
we need.

A Central Dining Hall and Kitchen would add as much to the
comfort and cultural education of the campus as any addition
which we could make. We have very beautiful plans for the
structure, but it will take a very large sum for the erection of a
suitable building.

Most of the faculty who live on the campus find it impossible
to have more "than one room, and it is not possible, for faculty
members to be comfortable under such circumstances. We need
some apartments which would have at least two or three rooms in
order to take care of some of our most valuable staff members. I
think this apartment building would probably best be erected on
McDonough Street where there is quiet, and where there is more
room than on most parts of the campus.

I think the other items on the list for buildings, additions, or
improvements, will be sufficiently clear for no additional details
to be needed.

The Agnes Scott salaries are lower than those of any other
college of our rank. We have excellent teachers and they deserve
increased remuneration. Whenever a replacement is necessary,
we are impressed anew at the devotion and sacrifice of those who
have been staying with us through these years.

Agnes Scott has a small faculty in comparison with most Phi
Beta Kappa institutions. We need some important additions, and
this is increasingly true if we are to fulfill our part of the Univer-
sity Center agreement.

Unfortunately it is necessary for us to increase our charges
from time to time, and it is highly important that we have adequate
scholarship funds to help us with worthy and needy girls so as to
enable them to meet our financial requirements.

A Campaign?

Economic experts believe that we will have "good times" for
two or three years while inflation is prevailing and while many
people are relatively prosperous. We will certainly seem to miss
an opportunity for presenting our needs, and getting some of them
met. if we postpone until later a campaign for them. We ap-
proached the Carnegie Corporation to see whether they would
help us with a campaign for $2,500,000. and two of our Trustees
visited both the Carnegie Office and the General Education Board.

We have not received much encouragement for so large an objec-
tive immediately, but we do feel that a smaller one might secure
some aid from at least one of the foundations.

I would recommend that we undertake as vigorously as possible
the finding of some support from individuals or foundations with
a view to formulating a little later the specific campaign objectives
which we would be willing to announce to the public. We have
had seven major campaigns for the college, all of them sparked
by grants from the General Education Board, and we certainly do
not wish to fail on any program which we present to the public.
It is my personal feeling that perhaps $1,500,000 of new money
might be obtainable during the next five years. This is perhaps
the most important item which will come before the Board for
consideration, and we hope that all members may be willing to
express themselves frankly about it.

Building Prospects

We had hoped very much that with the ending of the war we
might be able to proceed at once with the erection of the Frances
Winship Walters Infirmary and the John Bulovv Campbell Science
Hall. We secured tentative estimates on the Infirmary, for no
firm bids were available. The estimates indicated a cost of about
$212,000 with no guarantee of any sort as to the length of time
which might be needed for erection. Since that time, the Govern-
ment has sharply restricted the use of material for school build-
ings, and it is evident that we must wait for a while in order to
do our building.

We hope very much that conditions will improve and that ma-
terials will become more plentiful so that by June of 1947 we
may be able to make a beginning. I am sure it has been wise for
us to collect our money in advance, so as to have it immediately
available when building progress may be possible.

We are going ahead with the plans and specifications for other
items as outlined earlier in the report. We hope to find some
friends who will be interested in undertaking one or more of the
projects on which we are working.

Comparative Growth

I think it is worthwhile for Trustees as well as Officers of the
College to stand off, as it were, and look at the place of Agnes
Scott in comparison with other institutions of our general class.
With this end in view, we are presenting two diagrams and a table
of statistics. I think these will indicate more clearly than words
that we have much cause for thanksgiving and happiness over
what has been accomplished, and at the same time a realization
that there is yet a great deal which must yet be done if Agnes Scott

AGNES SCOTT HAS GROWN

Million
7

889

1899

1909

1919

1929

939

m

The gronth of the College in recent years has been paced by condi-
tional offers which challenged the support of local friends and alum-
nae. JVe believe that such aid ivould again be fruitful at this time.

AGNES SCOTT SHOULD STILL GROW

Agnes Rad- Bar- Mount Bryn

Scott cliffe nard Holvolce Mawr

Smith Vassar

Welies-
ley

Agnes Scott is smaller and younger than most of these, and it has
made rapid progress during the last twenty years. In 1919 it had
only $186,000 of endowment, and its entire assets were only one-ninth
of the present figure. The supporters of the College take pride in
its development.

is to reach the top place of leadership among institutions for
women in this country and in the world.

Comparative Data for Colleges for Women
(Compiled from 1945 "The Americana Year-Book")

Institution Plant Endowment Books

Sophie Newcomb $2,605,820 $2,727,187 370,000

Agnes Scott 2,186,748 2,427,958 41,000

Randolph-Macon 2.097,000 1,258.000 59,906

( ioucher 2,515,946 2,132,660 80,310

Bryn Mawr 5,164,633 7,563,614 190,000

Barnard 4,301,598 4.920,646 65,080

Vassar 10,198.000 11,300,000 243,587

Wells 1,938.033 1,418,198 96.050

Smith 9,814,042 6,721,782 305.133

Alt. Holyoke 6,307.778 5,901,919 190,949

Welleslev 13,085,561 12,332.706 220,000

Radcliffe 3,338,402 5,552,699 95,000

Notes

While Agnes Scott ranks near the hottom on this comparison,
it has improved more rapidly than most of die others. In 1919 it
had only SI 86,000 of endowment, and it has increased more than
1,200 per cent in 27 years. It had plant assets in 1919 of only
$455,000, and has increased 380 per cent in that item.

Recognition and Influence

In preparing the material for the Carnegie Corporation, we had
occasion to summarize a few points about the usefulness of Agnes
Scott in the educational world, and I am taking the liberty of
reminding the members of our Board as to some of the details.

We believe that Agnes Scott is unusual among colleges of its
size in the recognition given to it and in the influence exerted.

It did not become a college, granting degrees, until 1906, and
it was admitted to full membership in the Southern Association
the very next year, showing unprecedented promptness and con-
fidence in its work. It was placed on the approved list of the Asso-
ciation of American Universities in 1922 on the record of its
graduates without a formal inspection. It was a charter member
of the American Association of University Women and also of
the Southern University Conference. It was the first institution,
of any size, to be awarded (in 1925) a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
on the "invitation" plan.

Officers and faculty members of Agnes Scott have held impor-
tant positions in educational organizations. In the Southern

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Association, it has been represented for more than thirty years
on such committees as the Executive, Standards (the present
standards were drafted in their entirety by Agnes Scott faculty
members), Reports on Members, or Admission.

The College has been represented in all the offices of the
Southern University Conference, and has held the presidency and
vice presidency of the Association of American Colleges. For
several years, it has been represented in the Phi Beta Kappa
Senate and on the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation. For several years
it has furnished a trustee for the General Education Board. It is
represented on the boards of several Southern funds, including
John Bulow Campbell Foundation, the E. Rivers Fund, and
Student Aid Foundation. Its president is the chairman of the
Board of Visitors for Presbyterian educational work.

The College was the chief promoter of the University Center
in Georgia, and has been active in helping the Negro colleges.

Trustees

The terms of the following Trustees expire with this meeting:
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, Dr. D. P. McGeachy, Dr. R. O. Fl'inn,
Mr. J. J. Scott, Dr. E. D. Brownlee, Dr. William V. Gardner, and
Miss Margaret Ridley.

All of these have been quite helpful to Agnes Scott in many
ways.

The Trustees are always valuable to the college in lending their
fine standing and prestige to the institution, and in this way con-
fidence in the college has been built up through the years. This is
quite aside from any active duties which vary a great deal from
time to time.

At this time, when changes in the life of the institution will be
made in the next few years, it is particularly gratifying to have so
many loyal and devoted men and women on our board of Trustees.

Staff Changes

Dr. Henry Chandlee Fornian is heading our Art Department
this year instead of Mr. Howard Thomas, who went to the
University of Georgia. Dr. Forman took his undergraduate work
at Princeton and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has written a number of important books and has had a great
deal of experience in allied fields. We have added an instructor
in Art, Mrs. Leone Hamilton, who gives special attention to the
practical side of the subject.

Dr. Walter B. Posey was absent during the first two quarters
of the current session in order that he might teach in the American
Universities operated by the United States Army in England and

in France. During his absence, the work of the department was
carried on satisfactorily by the other teachers.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson has been away on military duty for
several years. During the current session his place has been taken,
in some measure, by Dr. J. F. Messick, who has retired from the
Mathematics Department of Emory University, but who is still
a very effective teacher. We are pleased that Dr. Robinson is to
be back at Agnes Scott by September.

Dr. L. D. Flaskew, who has been supervising Practice Teaching,
both for Emory and Agnes Scott, has been on leave of absence
for the session, and his place has been taken by Dr. Rachel S.
Sutton, on a part-time basis. She is a member of the staff of the
University of Georgia.

Miss Margaret L. Buchner, who holds a Ph.D. degree from
Johns Hopkins University, has been serving this year as assistant
Professor of Spanish.

Miss Anne Turner, who holds a Master's degree from Duke
University, and has practically completed the work there for the
doctorate, is instructor in Classical Languages and Literature,
taking over part of the work formerly done by Miss Cobbs. Other
instructors for the current session are Miss Claire Buckmaster, of
the Eastman School of Music, who has been added to the Music
Department, Miss Gertrude E. Natusch, from Radcliffe College,
who is an addition in Economics, and Miss Marian H. Blair, a
graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, who is
an addition in English.

In our Science Department, there have been some changes for
the year. Mr. Hiden T. Cox, who will soon have his Ph.D. degree
from the University of North Carolina, has come to take charge
of Botany instead of Dr. Runyon, who has resigned. Miss May
Lyons and Mrs. Ruth Gray Walker are assistants in Biology.
Miss Martha Jean Gower has been added as an assistant in
Physics.

We have two new dietitians this year, Miss Florence B. Kitchin
and Miss Mary Anne Lambert.

Mr. J. R. McAuley, formerly of Queens College, has become
the college engineer, instead of Mr. Armistead, who resigned.

Other administrative assistants include Miss Betty Bowman,
who is secretary to the Dean of Students, Mrs. Willis E. Binford,
who is serving as secretary to the President, while Miss Laura
Steele is on leave of absence, and Miss Elizabeth Carpenter, who
is manager of the Book Store.

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The Current Year

We continue to have a very large number of applications for
admission and these have been coming early in the session for the
next September. We had enough applicants early in February to
fill our dormitories for the next session. Dean Stukes and his
associates are trying very hard to find the girls who are best suited
for Agnes Scott and who can profit most by our program. We
would be able to fill every space on the campus with the girls
who would gladly pay the full charges, but we have found it de-
sirable to help quite a number of students because we need the
ideals and standards of many girls who would not be able to pay
our entire fees.

We regretted the necessity of increasing our charges for the
next session so as to bring the total for boarders to $900.00 and
for day students to $350.00. We are using some of the income
from this increase for scholarship aid, and a good deal of it has
gone, and will go, for increased living expenses. A part of the
increased income will be used to raise salaries for our teachers,
but we are disappointed in the proportion of it which can be
used for this purpose.

Last year it worked well to collect $100 each from the boarding
students on August 10th so as to give us assurance of a stable
registration. We are planning to continue this idea for the
next year.

Mr. Tart has succeeded for the 28th consecutive year in collect-
ing all fees from students before the end of the college session.
It is a remarkable record.

Somewhat to our surprise the cooperative plan of having all
boarding students to share in the work of the campus life is still
popular with the girls, and the plan is really needed in order to
carry on many of our activities. Servants are very scarce and
not dependable.

We have succeeded in buying the Hutcheson house on Mc-
Donough Street, but it was necessary to pay a high price of
$10,000 for the place. We will need it for one or more of our
teachers when we can get possession of it. We have also pur-
chased a vacant lot on South Candler Street where we hope that
we can move a house from the campus when we are read}' to
expand with our larger buildings.

During the war when Emory University was in great need of
civilian students and when transportation facilities were negligible,
we ordered a bus which we planned to use for transporting our
students to Emory and back. It took us more than a year to get
delivery on the order, and when the bus arrived, veterans were so
crowding the Emory campus that they do not need our girls. In
the meantime we have been able to make arrangements with the

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city of Decatur and with the Georgia Power Company for very
satisfactory transportation facilities between Emory and Agnes
Scott and other institutions around us so that we have been able to
sell the bus without loss.

All during the period of the war we have found it necessary to
use the cafeteria plan of serving meals, and we are very unhappy
over the results which may come if the plan is continued. We are
hoping for the next session to take over the old chapel in Rebekah
Scott Hall and to equip it as an auxiliary dining room, so that the
evening meal, at least, can be served according to the Agnes Scott
tradition. For the sake of convenience, we may continue the
cafeteria plan for breakfast and for lunch.

Students

During the war period, there was some sense of strain on the
part of many of our students because of the dangers to which
loved ones were exposed and because of the uncertainties that
seem to lie ahead. While there is still a reasonable concern about
the making of a just peace, and about world and national condi-
tions, the girls go about their campus duties much more happily
than before. The fact that men are becoming more plentiful and
that the customary social activities, such as the Junior banquet,
for example, can be resumed, makes life more interesting for the
students.

We have fewer students who are not professing Christians
than in recent years and there are quite a number of the girls who
are thinking of full time Christian work.

( )ur enrollment for this session may be divided into various
classifications as follows :

Geographical Distribution

Alabama 28

Arkansas 5

Colorado 1

District of Columbia. ... 1

Florida 28

Georgia 311

Indiana 1

Kentucky 12

Louisiana 5

Minnesota 2

Mississippi 7

Missouri 1

Xew Mexico 1

Xew York 3

North Carolina 38

Ohio 1

South Carolina 41

Tennessee 18

Texas 3

Utah 1

Vermont 1

Virginia 32

West Virginia 8

Africa 2

Total 551

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Class Enrollment

Seniors 118

Juniors 120

Sophomores 128

Freshmen 162

Special Students 23

Total 551

{Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include
tzvo students who completed degree requirements last summer and
who will receive their degrees in June. Four students note classi-
fied as juniors may also receive the degree.)

Residence

Boarders 351

Day Students 200

Total 551

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian

Methodist

224

109

95

50

7

6

6

5

4

Lutheran

4

Ouaker

2

Baptist

Episcopal

Christian

Roman Catholic

Jewish

Creek Orthodox

Christian Science

Brethren

Unitarian

2

1

Congregational

Non-members

Total

1
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.... 528'

* This total does not include the 23 special students.

Services and Lectures

This year we tried a new plan for the emphasis on Christian
work. Instead of having a single minister to lead our services, we
arranged for a team of five members to hold intensive services
for three days. The program was directed by Dr. Harry G.
Coodykoontz, director of student work for the Presbyterian
church. Other members were Dr. Joseph M. Garrison, Presby-
terian Church of the Covenant, Greensboro. North Carolina,
Dean Martha S. Grafton, Mary Baldwin College, Secretary Wil-
liam Hall Preston, Baptist Sunday School Board, and Dr. James
A. Jones, Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North
Carolina. As an experiment, we regard the Campus Christian

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Mission as very interesting and helpful. 1 think we would not
wish to have it every year. Most of us felt that it would be more
effective if it were continued over a longer period.

The Agnes Scott Lecture Association has continued its excel-
lent work under the leadership of Miss Emma May Laney, anu
it has furnished a fine series of lectures, most of which were open
to the public for a small charge.

We have also had a gift from an anonymous friend of $2,500.00
for the providing of lectures which would be of special value to
the English department. Professor Hayes and his associates have
made good selections, and this series also, which has been entirely
free to the public, has provided some very stimulating lecturers,
most of whom have stayed on campus for a few days.

All the departments and organizations bring speakers from time
to time who are ordinarily not paid fees, but who come for stim-
ulation and good fellowship. In the course of a year I think we
would average a hundred outside speakers, and these make a real
contribution to the college.

It is impossible to express in this brief report the appreciation
which we feel for the excellent service rendered by officers and
faculty, as well as by our trustees, in the operation of the year's
program. ( )ur people take responsibility and carry through all
their activities with thoroughness and effectiveness and in fine
spirit.

Respectfully,

*^

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

May 30, 1947

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Decatur, Georgia
May 30, 1947

Board of Trustees,
Agnes Scott College.

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-fourth an-
nual report as President of the College. We are closing our fifty-
eighth year as an institution.

Trustees

During the past year we have lost by death two of our very
valuable trustees. Mrs. Samuel Martin Tnman was serving her
thirtieth year as a member of the Board and had been for many
years its vice-chairman. The College has never had a more loyal and
cooperative trustee.

Mr. Francis M. Holt, a distinguished lawyer of Jacksonville,
Florida, had served as a trustee for more than thirteen years as a
representative of the Synod of Florida. He gave freely of his time
and thought for the College and never fa'led in any duties which
were assigned to him. Memorials for both these friends will be pre-
sented at the meeting.

Announcement has been made in the papers that Dr. Ansley C.
Moore, pastor of the Government Street Presbyterian Church, Mo-
bile, Alabama, and a representative of the Synod of Alabama on our
Board since 1944, has accepted a pastorate in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania. This means that we will lose him as a trustee, though we can
st 11 count on him as a friend and adviser.

The terms of the following trustees expire with this meeting:

Frank M. Inman, T. Guy Woolford, Mrs. George C. Walters,
G. Lamar Westcott, Charles F. Stone, and Dr. John E. Bryan. All
of these have been consistently helpful to the College in many ways.

The responsibility of the trustees during the next few years will
be very great, and it is earnestly desired by all who are connected
fvith the administration of the College that each trustee keep as fully
informed as possible about the work of the institution.

Development Plans

If I am to continue as President for four more years, elected an-
nually, as the trustees at the last meeting indicated to be your pref-
erence, I am very anxious that these years be productive and fruit-
ful. If we are to lose ground in any phase of our work or even to
stand still, I would feel it an injustice to the College to continue as
President.

Our greatest single need is for stable income. Since we are now
charging as high rates as we ought to have, our only recourse for
larger income is through annual gifts, sometimes called "living en-
dowment," or through capital funds in real endowment. I much
prefer the securing of permanent endowment if at all possible. It is
true that interest rates are low and that few people can make large
gifts, but endowment gives undoubted stability and inspires confi-
dence on the part of future donors. I am hopeful, therefore, to in-
crease our endowment substantially, perhaps by $1,000,000, within
the next four years.

It is an old story to you that we still have acute building and
equipment needs, but we must keep these before ourselves and before
our Agnes Scott supporters. It will take not less than $1,000,000
for these needs and possibly more. I will not amplify the discussion
of building needs at this point in my annual report, but I do wish
to give some further attention to specific endowment opportunities.

Agnes Scott ought by all means to make a general increase in the
salaries of our teachers. We have been able to make only nominal
increases since depression days. Other institutions are taking forward
steps, and there is a nation-wide movement for the improving of
the salaries of teachers. I would like for our first increase in endow-
ment income to be used for this purpose.

It is hard to think about specific needs in departmental develop-
ment, but I wish to mention a few items simply as illustrations of
what we would like to do. A complete catalogue of our needs for
the future would be too shocking at this time for even our loyal
trustees.

Our English department is the largest and has more majors than
any other, and in that field we ought to have another instructor in
freshman and sophomore work. Some of our class sections have more

than forty students, and this is unreasonable in a college of our size.
Some years ago our English department did a fine piece of stimulating
students for creative writing. Our staff members have been so busy
that this important phase of our English work has been neglected.
We would like very much to bring some outstanding teacher in
creative work for at least a period of years.

Our work in Speech is done under the auspices of the English de-
partment, and there is an increasing need of an additional teacher
for this work. We would like to make it possible for all of our
students to have some training in Speech, and for those with any
speech defects to have individual and special attention. Agnes Scott
should certainly take the lead for higher standards in this important
field.

A department as large as English ought to have a central office
and some secretarial assistance. There should be a sharp increase
in the books, periodicals, and supplies which are provided year by-
year. It would take the income on at least $600,000 to provide fully
for this one department, which is already good and regarded by many
as well provided. We cannot expect to secure all that is needed in
one four-year period, but I think we ought to keep constantly in
mind that every department on the campus is in need of further de-
velopment and equipment.

In addition to our departments which are already well organized
and doing good service, we need to expand our offerings in certain
areas where we are doing very little or nothing at all. This would
include Philosophy, which is an exceedingly important subject,
Astronomy, Geology, Anthropology, Home Making, and perhaps
others.

Campaign?

A year ago we raised the question as to whether it was advisable to
undertake a financial campaign. No formal action was taken by
the Board at that time. The advice of individual trustees and of
some alumnae and faculty members is that a general campaign would
perhaps be regarded as burdensome. Our joint University Center
campaign with Emory University did not officially close until July
1, 1944, and we still have some unpaid subscriptions. This campaign
was so widely publicized and so thoroughly presented that it may
be too early to go to the public again with a general appeal.

I think that we can proceed with our money raising in a quiet way
without any formal announcement and without a specific objective
on which we must stand or fall. Since 1944 we have received some
encouraging gifts, and within recent weeks two items of considerable
interest have developed.

When Miss Jennie Inman died in 1922, she left to Agnes Scott
the residuum of her estate for the establishing of the Samuel M. In-
man Endowment Fund. This was in honor of her brother, who had
been the distinguished chairman of the Agnes Scott Board of Trustees
for many years. Miss Inman also left a life estate to her sister, Mrs.
Emma Inman Bell, which was eventually to come to Agnes Scott.
We have just received the principal of this addition to her original
bequest, and it amounts to $47,819.13. This makes Miss Inman one
of the largest individual donors Agnes Scott has had, and we are ex-
ceedingly grateful to her.

As was reported at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, we
have been making a special request for the General Education Board
of New York to make us a substantial challenge offer for our raising
additional funds. Our case was ably presented in person by Chairman
George Winship and Mr. John A. Sibley. The General Education
Board funds are very much reduced now, and they did not feel that
they could make a large offer. They were very anxious to encourage
the development of Agnes Scott and have offered us $50,000 on con-
dition that we raise a total of $500,000. Their money may be used
for the building and equipping of the proposed science hall if it is
needed for that purpose.

Shortly before the making of this offer to Agnes Scott, Dr. Albert
R. Mann, who had been director of the Board, died suddenly. Almost
immediately after the grant was voted, Dr. Jackson Davis, the new
director, also died quite suddenly. Agnes Scott has never had better
friends than these two officers of the General Education Board.

Building Prospects

As the trustees well know, we are very anxious to proceed with
the erection of some new buildings; but the experience of others
who have gone ahead with building plans is discouraging. Both archi-
tects and contractors who would themselves profit by expensive build-
ing costs advise that we wait for a while longer on actual opera-
tions.

Our own Mrs. Frances Winship Walters has been gracious enough
to give us freedom in going ahead with the infirmary which will bear
her name ; but we feel that we can get better materials and a better
completed job by waiting until a little later. We are hopeful that
we may be able to start on this building during the next school year.

The John Bulow Campbell Science Hall and the Hopkins Dormi-
tory can be started only during the summer, as our living arrange-
ments and the moving of cottages which will be involved would be
too complicated. It will not be poss ble, therefore, for us to con-
sider actual work on these buildings until the summer of 1948. We
have some funds on hand for the new dining room and kitchen, but
we will need to raise additional money before detailed plans and
specifications can be undertaken.

I would 1 ke exceedingly well to see the building program as we
have projected it actually constructed before my retirement, but at
the present time I am not at all sure that this can be wisely done.

Current Expenses

For the first time since I have been President, Agnes Scott showed
a deficit in its current operations, at the close of the fiscal year 1945-
1946. We did not go "into the red" because we had a balance left
from the previous year, but we were sharply reminded of the fact
that we need to watch our budget operations quite closely. Since we
spend approximately $2,000 per day during our time of actual school
operations, it is exceedingly difficult to forecast the necessities for the
whole year.

Our cash balance showed a decrease of $16,235.89, but our in-
ventories, especially in the supply of coal, account for approximately
one half of this amount.

Our net loss was $8,129.20. We could have prevented th's from
showing as a deficit if we had charged our new stokers (which cost
somewhat more than $12,000) to permanent improvements and used
money from our development fund to pay for them. This would
have been the normal procedure for most colleges, but we have always
tried to pay for such improvements out of current funds, if possible.

The actual loss in our operations came through extra expenses in
our dining room. As we checked up on this in detail, we found that
during 1945-1946 we served 33,000 more meals than in any previous

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year. Most of these were free meals, as we have encouraged our
alumnae to return and stay with us as guests ; and we have allowed
our students to bring in faculty members and oftentimes other guests
without extra charge. In view of the greater expenses both for food
and servants, we have omitted this year the free meals unless par-
ticularly authorized for college guests. This has decidedly reduced
our expenditures in that particular area.

As our costs have continued to rise and as it was necessary to
make some slight increase in remuneration for teachers, we secured
the approval of the Finance Committee and of the Executive Com-
mittee to increase our charges for next year. For a day student,
the charges will be $400; for boarding students, they will be $1,000.
These items seem very high, and they are much more so than we
ever thought would be necessary ; but they do include a good many
services for which extra charges are generally made at other colleges.

For the current year, we have arranged to serve the evening meal
with some formality on the family plan and with Negro servants.
We still maintain the cafeteria program for breakfast and lunch. We
feel that the change, while more expensive, is serving an educational
purpose.

Mr. Tart continues his fine record of collecting 100% all fees
which are due the College.

Graduate Record Examinations

Agnes Scott has always earnestly desired to have its work tested
in some objective way so as to be sure that the results are satisfactory.
It has taken advantage of tests or examinations on a national basis
when these might be available, and its students have always done
quite well.

Last year the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach-
ing offered to largely finance the taking by our seniors and sopho-
mores of the Graduate Record Examinations. Forty-two other col-
leges of liberal arts participated as to seniors and 28 other such insti-
tutions for sophomores.

Our girls made a fine showing. The tests given last year are very
similar to those given for a ten-year period in graduate schools both
in the east and in the mid-west, and so results are comparable to a

considerable extent not only with the colleges in 1946 but with grades
over a longer period in other institutions.

Authorities agree that this testing is the best criterion now available
for measuring ourselves by others. I believe the Trustees will be
glad to have the accompanying charts on this subject.

Comparative Grades
Graduate Record Examinations

Soc Fine

Groups Involved Math. Phys. Chem. Biol. Stud. Lit. Arts Verbal

Grad. Students in

Eastern Universities

Men 494 492 486 500 498 502 509 514

Women 423 383 408 464 454 522 531 513

Grad. Students in

Mid-West Univs.

Men 481 509 505 493 407 397 407 412

Women 381 373 396 461 388 449 457 427

Seniors at

Eastern Colleges

Men 474 472 466 460 443 431 437 423

Women 417 370 409 465 400 461 482 433

Sophomores at

Eastern Colleges

Men 501 483 493 458 403 410 402 394

Women 444 377 445 480 380 431 438 408

Results 1946 Edition

Phys. Biol. Soc. Effec. Gen.

Math. Sci. Sci. Stud. Lit. Arts Verb. Exp. Ed.

Seniors at

Agnes Scott ...499 501 518 510 554 549 538 537 536

Seniors at

43 Colleges ...500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500

Sophomores at

Agnes Scott ...491 517 521 468 523 517 489 541 512

Sophomores at

29 Colleges ...485 495 495 455 475 465 455 475 465

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Staff

Mr. Howard M. MacGregor, assistant business manager-treas-
urer, resigned during the session, and his place has been filled by
Mr. P. J. Rogers, Jr., for several years a member of the business
staff at Georgia School of Technology.

Since the retirement of Mr. Robert B. Holt as professor of Chem-
istry, this position has been filled by Dr. W. J. Frierson, who came
to us from Birmingham-Southern College and who previously taught
at Hampden-Sydney College.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, who has been on leave of absence in the
army for several years from our Mathematics department, returned
last fall, but was not well and has been given leave of absence during
the current session. His place has been taken by Dr. Floyd Field,
formerly head of the Mathematics department at Georgia School of
Technology.

Miss Philippa Gilchrist, for many years associate professor in
Chemistry, resigned in order to take a place at Wellesley College,
and the position has been filled by Miss Elizabeth A. Crigler, who
took her doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and has been teach-
ing at MacMurray College.

Dr. L. D. Haskew, who supervises our work in apprentice teach-
ing, has found it necessary to be away most of the time this year, and
the work has been carried on by Dr. Floyd Jordan of the University
of Georgia and Dr. Karl C. Garrison of Georgia State College for
Women.

Dr. J. T. Gillespie, who has been associate professor of Bible for a
long time, resigned in order to take a pastorate. His work has been
carried on by Dr. Samuel A. Cartledge of Columbia Theological
Seminary and Rev. Donald B. Bailey, pastor of Emory Presbyterian
Church.

Miss Isabella Wilson, who has been away for graduate study and
for administrative work in the Woman's College of the University
of North Carolina, has come back to us as Assistant Dean of Students.

Other new staff members include Miss Elizabeth M. Barineau in
Spanish; Miss Priscilla Lobeck in Art; Mrs. Rebekah M. Clarke in
Music; Mrs. Isabel M. Bryan in Piano; Miss Louisa V. Heeth in
the Library; Miss Lillian Douglas, Miss Mary Ann Courtenay,

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and Mrs. E. O. Thomas in Chemistry; Miss Victoria Alexander in
Biology; Miss Anne Register in the bookstore; and Mrs. Jemmie
Wise Plowden in the housekeeping department.

Students

We continue to have a large number of applications for admission
as boarding students. We probably could have filled our space for
next September with applications which were available early in Janu-
ary. However, students are enrolling in several institutions at one
time with the fear that they may not be admitted to the college of
their choice, and they wish to have alternative possibilities. Such en-
rollment practices make for some confusion among the colleges, and
it means that the withdrawals are likely to be heavier than under
normal circumstances. In order to safeguard against this tendency,
Agnes Scott has been requiring an advance payment of $100 after
August 1st (increased to $150 for the coming session). This has
been a very helpful provision in giving us a stable enrollment, but
we are considering the possibility of advancing the date on which
the payment is to be made. Probably it should be about July 1st.

During the war period, our students have been most helpful and
cooperative in doing without remuneration many of the services for
which we could not find regular employees. It would have been im-
possible for us to operate happily and effectively without this student
aid. We are not requiring it for the next session, but we believe that
the students themselves will probably suggest the carrying on of the
cooperative program in at least some phases of student life.

Our enrollment for this session may be divided into various classifi-
cations as follows:

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Geographical

Alabama 28

Arkansas 5

California 1

Florida 28

Georgia 297

Illinois 1

Kentucky 12

Louisiana 4

Minnesota 2

Mississippi 10

Missouri 1

New Jersey 1

New Mexico 2

New York 3

Distribution

North Carolina 38

Ohio 2

South Carolina 50

Tennessee 11

Texas 2

Utah 1

Vermont 1

Virginia 30

West Virginia 9

Wisconsin 1

Brazil 1

Canal Zone 1

Congo Beige 1

Total 543

Class Enrollment

Seniors 112

Juniors 114

Sophomores 145

Freshmen 145

Special Students 27

Total 543

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include three
students who completed degree requirements last summer and who will
receive their degrees in June. Four students now classified as juniors
may also receive degrees.)

Residence

Boarders 351

Day Students 192

Total 543

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 205

Methodist 106

Baptist 92

Episcopal 60

Christian 10

Roman Catholic 8

Jewish 6

Lutheran 5

Christian Science .

Greek Orthodox . .

Associate Reformed

Presbyterian . . .

Brethren

Congregational . . .
Non-members ....

4
4

2

1

1

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Total 516*

*This total does not include 27 special students.

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Religious Life

The services of our week of special religious emphasis were led this
year by Dr. Donald M. Miller of Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond. They were helpful in every way.

The Christian Association does effective work through student
organizations and includes various denominational groups as integral
factors in the religious life of the community.

This year we had a new experience in religious emphasis. Through
the generosity of the Hazen Foundation, Dr. Albert C. Outler of
Yale University was brought to our campus for two days for the
specific purpose of talking with faculty groups and with individual
faculty members about the importance of religion in the life of the
College. His services were helpful, and he expressed the belief that
Agnes Scott is almost unique in its emphasis on simple religious faith
along with high intellectual endeavor.

A similar opinion about the unique religious life of Agnes Scott
was expressed by President Emeritus Henry Noble MacCracken of
Vassar College, who spent two weeks with us in February and who
was particularly impressed by the general interest of our entire com-
munity in the religious life.

Appreciation

We are very grateful to officers and faculty members for the ex-
cellent work which is uniformly done through the year in all phases
of our college life. I do not know of any college whose major officers
and teachers work together more harmoniously and effectively than
here.

We are likewise grateful to every member of the Board of Trus-
tees for interest and cooperation in the work for Agnes Scott.

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MAY 21, 1948

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Decatur, Georgia
May 21, 1948

Board of Trustees,

Agnes Scott College.

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-fifth annual
report as President of the College. We are closing our fifty-ninth
year as an institution.

The Expansion Program

As the trustees are aware, Agnes Scott has recently received a
conditional offer of $500,000 for endowment. The donor wishes us
to raise $1,000,000 as a matching fund, half to be used for endow-
ment and the other half for general permanent improvements. The
date for the expiration of the offer is December 31, 1949.

Agnes Scott has been blessed more than any other college of my
acquaintance in having had such conditional offers in the past. The
first of these was for $100,000 in 1908 on condition that $250,000
additional be raised by December 31, 1911.

The second was in 1919 for $175,000 if $325,000 additional
could be collected by July 1, 1924.

The third offer was in 1921 for $100,000, provided the college
would raise $150,000 by March 31, 1926.

Offer No. 4 was in 1929 for $300,000, provided an additional
sum of $600,000 be raised by July 1, 1932.

A fifth offer of $200,000 was also made in 1929 on condition that
$400,000 be collected by July 1, 1934.

A sixth offer was made in 1934 of $100,000 additional if the
college would collect in full the outstanding pledges by July 1, 1935.
An extension of a year had been given on this particular campaign
because of the very strenuous economic conditions at that time.

Our seventh offer was in 1939 for $500,000 on condition that
Agnes Scott and Emory jointly collect $5,000,000 by July 1, 1944.
Our part of that effort was $1,000,000.

All of these numerous campaigns were successfully completed. The
subscriptions were secured within the specified time, and the collec-
tions were also made according to the terms of the offers.

These previous experiences lead us to believe that we will be able
to meet the offer which now lies before us. We have a comparatively
short time within which to work. This may not be wholly bad for
us, as it may bring to a climax the whole effort and thus keep it

from being dragged out over a considerable period. It will be neces-
sary for us to secure a few large gifts and a great many small ones.

All of our previous campaigns have started on the campus with
faculty and student subscriptions, and we are hoping that this may
be possible again, perhaps in October. We hope that the alumnae
will make a general response during the fall and winter; and it is
our purpose to conduct a quiet campaign among our friends and
patrons, not only in Atlanta, but wherever they may be located.

We hope very much that the trustees will make suggestions as
to how the program ought to be handled, will give us the names of
prospects who should be contacted, will include our cause as a mat-
ter for prayer, and will help in any other way that you may find
possible.

Twenty- five Years

It was at the annual meeting in 1923 that the present incumbent
was elected President of Agnes Scott, and of course twenty-five
years have passed since that time. Five years ago, some comparisons
were made between the audits of June 30, 1922, and of June 30,
1942, since these would reflect official figures for twenty years. At
the risk of being very tedious, we are supplying for the record some
comparisons between the audits of 1922 and 1947. We will have
made considerable improvements during the current year, but it
will still be some weeks before the audit of 1948 will be available.

Our total assets in 1922 were $889,968. They are now $5,198,130.

Our invested funds, including unrestricted endowment, scholar-
ships, development funds, and funds subject to annuity, were
$183,804 and are now $2,935,186. In 1922, there were twenty-one
buildings of all kinds and approximately twenty acres of land. We
now have forty-two buildings and forty-five acres. The values in
1922 were $551,731 for buildings, grounds, and equipment, and
now are $2,144,347.

As Decatur Female Seminary and later as Agnes Scott Institute,
the school did not give degrees. It was in 1906 that the first B. A.
awards were made. By June, 1922, we had 438 degree graduates.
Through last commencement we had awarded a total of 2,720
degrees.

Twenty-five years ago our total expenses for the year were
$211,870. Last year they were $471,372. Our charges for a day
student have increased during that period from $150 to $400; and,
as a boarder, have increased from $550 to $1,000.

Twenty-five years ago our attendance was 465 students, the
largest in our history up to that period ; and now it is 550 and has
been held to that number for a considerable period of time. In 1922

we had fifty-six white officers or faculty members, and now we
employ eighty-one.

Twenty-five years ago our volumes in the library numbered almost
exactly 10,000. Today we have 54,400 volumes. In 1922 we had only
one librarian, and now it is needful for us to employ five in order
to care for the volume of our business.

Many other comparisons might be made; but the statistics given
are already tedious enough. The measurements of growth given
above are largely in regard to material things. We feel that the
intangibles and imponderables have also developed to a marked de-
gree. The chief purpose of the college has always been to develop
Christian women with interesting personalities and with a willing-
ness to serve. We feel that steady progress has been made in the
democratic ideals of student life. A much larger percentage of our
girls go on for graduation now than was true twenty-five years ago,
and they are more successful in the various professions or other
lines of life work than was true of our earlier classes.

Such progress as has been attained would not be possible without
a high degree of cooperation on the part of our trustees, alumnae,
patrons, students, and other Agnes Scott groups, and without the
fine relations which we have with other institutions in our own
community and throughout the South.

Plans for the Future

As has already been indicated, we have a very large assignment
of work for the next two years in winning the campaign for expan-
sion. If this is successful, as it surely must be, it will give quite an
impetus to our progress in building and also in our educational and
intellectual development.

We are hoping very much that within the next few weeks it may
be possible to let a contract for the Frances Winship Walters In-
firmary. Three times in comparatively recent months we have taken
tentative bids and have found that the cost was excessive. We have
now modified our requirements so that I hope the figures will not
be too discouraging, and yet at the same time we will have a very
beautiful and attractive infirmary which will serve our purpose
for at least another generation without enlargement.

We need very much indeed a new dining hall and kitchen, a
science building, a new dormitory, a president's home, and faculty
apartments ; but these must wait until we receive more money or
until prices become more reasonable.

We are proceeding right away with the renovation of Inman
Hall. Many of the trustees will remember for how long a time
we have planned this. The costs are still very excessive, and yet
we need the improvements so much that we are planning to go ahead

on the very day that school closes. The cost will be at least $60,000
without any new furnishings or equipment, and this is more than
the entire building originally cost. We will get an entirely new
system of electric wiring and lights, new tiled bathrooms with
modern equipment, new plumbing throughout the building, new
hardwood floors, new acoustical ceilings, fresh painting throughout
the building, improved quarters for the student counselor, and other
improvements. We will lose space for at least seven students and
thus reduce our income by $7,000 a year in addition to the direct
expenditures for the work itself.

If we are successful in our campaign, we certainly hope to increase
the salaries of teachers as one of our important items of advance.
We plan to set up a department of philosophy, which has been one
of the greatest educational needs of the college for many years. We
hope to expand other departments which could not be promoted
because of our relatively small endowment.

During the last twenty-five years, the influence of Agnes Scott
has been extended a great deal on a national and international basis.
We are very anxious that it be intensified in our own state and
community and in the realm of our supporting synods. We feel that
the election of a vice president will give an opportunity for this very
important work.

Trustees

Since the last annual meeting of the Board, Agnes Scott has suf-
fered the loss of one of its ablest and most faithful trustees Dr.
Richard Orme Flinn. He died March 25, 1948. He was elected
to membership on May 25, 1920, and for nearly twenty-eight years
has been one of the most devoted trustees. He had been chairman
of the Committee on Faculty and had served on numerous other
important ones. A suitable memorial is being prepared for adoption
by the Board of Trustees.

The terms of Scott Candler, John A. Sibley, L. L. Gellerstedt,
Mrs. S. E. Thatcher, Mrs. Annie Louise Harrison Waterman, and
Mrs. Robert L. MacDougall expire this year. They have all proved
to be helpful members of the Board and devoted to the best interests
of the college.

It is always important to have a board of trustees composed of
able Christian men and women, but it is of particular importance
to have one through the transition period between the close of one
administration and the opening of another. I am profoundly thank-
ful that we do have such a fine group of trustees for these next few
years.

Faculty

Dr. William A. Calder has been elected professor of physics and
astronomy to succeed Dr. S. M. Christian, who resigned. He is
particularly interested in astronomy, and we are hoping to develop
cooperative work between Agnes Scott, Emory University, and
Georgia Institute of Technology in this field.

Dr. Eugenia C. Jones has returned to us as college physician after
an absence of several years. She is a mother as well as a physician
and is able to render a very useful service.

Mr. Floyd Hunter, executive secretary of the Community Plan-
ning Council of Atlanta, has been serving as a part-time lecturer in
sociology for the current session. The position has been filled on
a permanent basis for next year.

Dr. Daniel James Cumming has served as acting associate pro-
fessor of Bible during his enforced absence from missionary work
in Korea. He has proved a useful member of the department.

Others who have served in the instructional department of the
college include Miss Elizabeth Zenn, who has her doctorate from
the University of Pennsylvania, in classical languages and litera-
tures; Miss Nancy Groseclose in biology; Mrs. Lillian Rogers Gil-
breath in piano; Mrs. Rebecca Heckard in chemistry; Miss Mary
Landrum Johnson in French ; Miss Margery Lyon in physical edu-
cation; Misses Betty Jean Radford and Genet Heery in biology;
and Mrs. Eloise Lyndon Rudy in physics.

We have been fortunate to have again on the campus Miss
Eleanor Hutchens as director of publicity. She is also serving as
executive secretary of the Alumnae Association.

Others who have assisted in administrative work include Misses
Marjorie Karlson, Phyllis Downing, and Virginia Dickson, and
Mrs. Eleanor Calley Story and Mrs. Katherine Philips Long in the
library; Miss Marie Adams in the office of the Dean of Students;
Mrs. Christine H. Sanders, assistant dietitian; Mrs. Marie P. Webb,
assistant to the supervisor of dormitories; and Miss Carroll Taylor,
manager of the bookstore.

The faculty have been interested in the improvement of teaching,
the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education, the
relation of our work to UNESCO, and numerous other problems
in the realm of general education. We certainly have a very alert
and cooperative faculty group.

Our major officers, including Dean S. G. Stukes, Dean Carrie
Scandrett, Mr. J. C. Tart, and their associates, are among the best
leaders in southern education in their respective fields.

We are hoping to announce before many weeks one of the most
important administrative and faculty additions we have had in

many years. I feel that this will give a notable impetus to all of our
work.

Students

Our enrollment for the current session is gratifying. We have had
so many more applications for admission than we were able to take
that we have been able to make a very careful selection of students,
and on the whole they are making good records.

It is always gratifying when the senior class is a large one and
when they have shown good leadership on the campus. We can give
a good report for the class of 1948.

Our students for this session may be classified in various ways as
follows:

Geographical Distribution

Alabama 26 North Carolina .... 47

Arkansas 4 Ohio 4

California 1 Pennsylvania 3

District of Columbia . . 1 South Carolina .... 40

Florida 27 Tennessee 20

Georgia 294 Texas 6

Illinois 1 Utah 1

Kentucky 7 Virginia 32

Louisiana 6 West Virginia .... 5

Massachusetts 1 Brazil

Minnesota 1 Canal Zone

Mississippi 10 Congo Beige

Missouri 1 England

New Jersey 2 Mexico

New Mexico 1 Norway

New York 4 Puerto Rico

Total 552

Class Enrollment

Seniors 113

Juniors 125

Sophomores 124

Freshmen 168

Special Students 22

Total 552

(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. Two students
now classified as juniors may also receive the degree.)

Residence

Boarders 361

Day Students 191

Total 552

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 197 Christian Science ... 5

Methodist 113 Greek Orthodox .... 4

Baptist 93 Asso. Reformed Presbyterian 2

Episcopal 61 Brethren 1

Roman Catholic . . . . 13 Community 1

Christian 11 Quaker 1

Lutheran 8 Unitarian 1

Jewish 7 Non-members , ... 12

Total 530*

*This total does not include 22 special students

Religious Life

Since Agnes Scott was founded for the glory of God, we feel
that the religious life on the campus each year is one of the acid
tests of our success. On the whole, we have had a successful year
from this standpoint, if we may judge from human standards. Fac-
ulty and students have taken a commendable interest in the Christian
life and Christian service. Our chapel attendance during the spring
quarter has not been as gratifying as we would like, but we wish
still to experiment with it on a voluntary basis before taking steps
to make it compulsory. We have a great many services more than
almost any other college of my acquaintance ; and I think they are
generally profitable.

We brought Dr. Donald G. Miller of Union Theological Sem-
inary to the campus for a second consecutive time for our Religious
Emphasis Week, and his messages were of a very high order and
commanded the attendance and interest of almost all the college
community.

We would like to repeat the request which has been frequently
made that we have the constant prayers of all our trustees for the
institution.

The following prayer covenant was drawn up and signed by some
of the most influential trustees and faculty members in the very early
days of Agnes Scott Institute:

"We the undersigned, believing the promise of our Lord

concerning prayer (Matt. 18:19), and having at heart the

largest success of the Agnes Scott Institute in its great work
for the glory of God, do hereby enter into covenant with each
other to offer daily prayer in our 'closets' for the following
specific objects:

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

2. For the Board of Trustees and Faculty.

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

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

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted,

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JUNE 3, 1949

MRS. FRANCES WINSH1P WALTERS

Her contribution of $180,000 made possible the beautiful new Infirmary which
iv ill be dedicated on June 4th.

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

June 3, 1949.
Board of Trustees,

Agnes Scott College.

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-sixth
annual report as President of the College. We are closing our
sixtieth year as an institution.

Our Campaign

As the trustees will remember, Agnes Scott has been earnestly
trying during the past year to meet the terms of an anonymous
offer of $500,000 for endowment. It was agreed that we would
undertake to raise $500,000 for endowment and an additional
$500,000 which might be used for general permanent improvements
or for endowment.

We have certainly had an interesting time since the last meeting
of the Board of Trustees. Our own Mrs. Walters was of great
assistance in the beginning by insisting that we go ahead with the
erection of the Infirmary which she had planned, even though it
would cost her $80,000 more than she had expected. This amount
would, of course, be a credit on the campaign.

Our effort was officially launched by a campus drive the 28th of
last October. Some of you had the privilege of attending the
inaugural luncheon at which the goal for the campus was set at
$20,000. When the results were tabulated some ten days later more
than $40,000 had been pledged. It was a wonderful achievement.
The campaign was handled by a group of faculty members and
students. The chairman for the faculty was Dr. Henry A. Robinson,
and for the students Miss Doris Sullivan, president of Mortar
Board. It has been customary for the College to grant a holiday
if one of our campus campaigns reaches its objective, and this time
we granted two holidays, much to the satisfaction of both faculty
and students.

By January 1st we had secured subscriptions for approximately
half of our campaign total, but we had called upon most of our
outstanding prospects and the campaign was dragging badly. Some of
our even optimistic people felt that it would be impossible for us
to secure the balance of the money.

Just at this time our own Mrs. Waterman came to the rescue
with a subscription of $100,000 which will eventually be applied for
the development of the Speech Department. This help was not

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the encouragement needed just at that time to go forward.

Another thrilling development in the campaign was under the
leadership of Mrs. Allen A. Matthews, Jr., (Catherine Baker 1932)
president of the Atlanta Alumnae Club. She and her able staff
decided that they would organize teams of alumnae and call on
all of those in the Atlanta area. The other clubs and groups in
the Atlanta area joined in the effort, and a thorough organization
was developed under the campaign leadership of Mrs. Holcombe
T. Green (Katharine Woltz 1933). More than 125 alumnae volun-
teered for this strenuous work and they paid about 1200 personal
calls. Their cooperation and support were of great importance,
particularly at that period of the campaign.

Another interesting and valuable development has been the organi-
zation of a Committee of Husbands under the leadership of Mr.
Henry E. Newton, of Decatur, who married Maryellen Harvey,
1915. This committee has sent literature and letters to all the
husbands of Agnes Scott alumnae and they have organized regional
chairmen who might follow up the appeal with personal letters
or work.

At the last meeting of this Committee of Husbands, it was voted
that they would like to organize several teams among the husbands
of Decatur and Atlanta alumnae who may do some intensive work
in the metropolitan area among business firms toward the end
of this year.

One of the most encouraging features of our whole campaign
has been the interest and support of Mrs. Lettie Pate Evans, of
Hot Springs, Virginia. She has become interested in seeing that
Agnes Scott has a really first-class dining hall and kitchen. Through
her generous support and that of some of her friends, who wish
to be anonymous, funds will be made available for the erection of
this much needed dining hall-kitchen building, and it is hoped that
work can be started on it very soon.

In our campaign agreements in the beginning it was specified
that we were to secure $500,000 for endowment. We still lack
at least $225,000 of reaching this objective. The money is urgently
needed to help in endowment for faculty salaries and for providing
scholarship funds for worthy girls. We will use our best efforts
to raise this balance by the end of the year.

We will need very much to enlist more alumnae and we would
like also to enlist quite a number of the business firms of Atlanta
and Georgia in this effort. We will need to find some large gifts
as well as many smaller ones.

MRS. ANNIE LOUISE HARRISON WATERMAN

Her gift of $100,000 was made on Founder's Day and helped to stimulate
Alumnae interest in winning the campaign.

While it is required that we raise the money for endowment,
we have some other very important needs which we must try to meet
during the campaign. We will need at least $20,000 to furnish
our beautiful new Infirmary in keeping with the building itself.
We need not less than $50,000 to furnish in adequate fashion the
dining hall and kitchen. We have not yet secured funds for the
purchase of our telescope and for the erection of an observatory,
although we feel that we must have these.

Frances Winship Walters Infirmary

So far as we are able to learn after careful inquiries, Agnes
Scott now has the most beautiful and the most adequate infirmary
of any college in this country. It is well planned and well built. If
Agnes Scott should double its student body we believe the facilities
would still be adequate.

In order to furnish adequate heat at all times in the new location,
it was necessary to run new steam lines to the central heating plant.
We are also doing extensive grading and landscape work around
the building and providing for a sunken garden as a front approach
to the building. The total investment will be somewhat more than
$200,000, not including the furnishing of the building which must
yet be arranged.

The building will be dedicated at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
June 4th. The exercises will be held in the building itself and
will be very simple.

Mr. Robert W. Woodruff has given the College a very beautiful
painting of Mrs. Walters, by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, and this will
be hung in the building and be unveiled at the dedication exercises.

The Dining Hall

There are a great many things about the College that we do
not bring to the attention of our guests and visitors. I think we
have had more need to be apologetic about our kitchen and dining
room facilities than about most other things. We have made very
earnest efforts to keep the quarters neat and clean, even though
they might be inadequate in many respects.

The opportunity to get really beautiful and adequate facilities
is very exciting. We plan to locate the building on the site where
Gaines Cottage now stands. We need the Cottage too much to
tear it down, at least for the present, and so we are moving it to
face on Candler Street. It will still be necessary to use it for
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people in the main room and to have two auxiliary rooms which
may seat 50 persons each.

The sketch which accompanies this report has been somewhat
modified but gives a general idea of the type of building which we
are going to erect. It is planned to have a basement in which vesper
services may be held and where groups may assemble for small
parties or picnic meals.

It is hoped to have an open terrace on the north side of the
building which will open on the alumnae garden and give a beautiful
setting for outdoor gatherings or parties.

It is hoped to have this building ready for use in September 1950.

Observatory and Telescope

For more than 25 years, Agnes Scott has had a good deal of
interest in astronomy, and the classes have been large when courses
were offered. All the institutions in the University Center in Georgia
have felt that astronomy ought to be developed in this area, but that
it was unnecessary to have it done in more than one institution.

Last November it was officially voted to ask that Agnes Scott
College undertake the securing of a first-class telescope and a
suitable observatory. The plan was endorsed by the presidents of
the cooperating institutions, and President Van Leer, the chairman
of the Presidents' Council, and Dr. J. H. Purks, Jr., Executive
Secretary of the University Center, were authorized to cooperate
with Agnes Scott in trying to raise the funds.

We have bargained for one of the best telescopes in the country.
It was previously owned by Mr. Henry C. Gibson, a wealthy
amateur in the vicinity of Philadelphia. On account of heart trouble
he had to move to Florida and was willing to sell.

The instrument was widely sought by institutions and by others
who were interested in research. The Russian Government was
a persistent applicant for it. Mr. Gibson agreed to let Agnes Scott
buy it at a much lower price than others would pay because of the
fact that this area needs development in astronomy and that several
institutions would have the use of it here.

It is a 30-inch reflecting telescope and it is equipped with a
remarkable group of auxiliary instruments. The entire outfit was
valued by competent scientists as worth between $55,000 and $60,000.
Mr. Gibson agreed to let Agnes Scott have it for $20,000.

The entire equipment has been transmitted to the noted telescope-

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Agnes Scott has bargained for this 30-inch reflector, and it will soon he ready for
delivery. It is important that the funds for it be provided.

builders, The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Glenbrook, Connecticut,
who are making the whole outfit to look and serve as new and
who will correct the latitude equipment for Atlanta, instead of
Philadelphia. The telescope will be ready for delivery in the
early fall.

Plans are being drawn for an observatory which will be simple
but adequate, and it is planned for this to be located about a quarter
of a mile south of our main campus on one of the highest spots of
land under our control. We hope to know just what this building
will cost by the time the Trustees meet.

We do not yet have the funds with which to make these im-
provements, but the opportunity is so pressing and the interest of
people in Atlanta as well as in the local institutions is so great
that we feel that we must proceed as rapidly as possible with the
providing of these excellent facilities.

Rebekah Scott Hall

After planning for a long time, we are at last arranging to do
over the interior of Rebekah Scott Hall. This work will apply
particularly to the second and third floors which are used for
residence purposes. We are not sure at this time about the future
use of the first floor, and it will not be much disturbed.

We are planning to put hardwood floors on top of those already
existing, to install entirely new electrical wiring throughout the
building, and new plumbing and fixtures, to provide tiled bathrooms,
to install sound-reducing ceilings, and to paint the interior.

Before making these improvements it was necessary for us to
build a new elevator shaft and to provide a new elevator. This
will be used for freight only. With the heavier floors, bathrooms,
and the like it will be necessary to have additional support for the
building, and so we are arranging to use heavy steel beams to
reinforce the present floors.

We are trying again the plan which Mr. Tart used so successfully
last year in regard to Inman. Instead of providing a single con-
tractor to arrange all the details, Mr. Tart himself will serve as
the coordinator, and separate contracts are being made with individual
firms for the various services which will be required. This saved
us last year at least $10,000 in the overall cost, and I think will be
equally economical and satisfactory this summer.

Science Hall?

As the trustees have realized for a long time, it is highly im-

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portant for us to erect a new and adequate science hall. The cost
on this has seemed prohibitive. We are having careful studies made
for a simpler and less expensive structure. You will find in this
report a picture which illustrates the type of building which we
are now considering.

If the money which has been contributed for the building will
be nearly sufficient for the construction of it, we will certainly
hope to proceed with the plans later in the summer. It would
necessitate the moving of at least four cottages, and it involves a
good deal of expense other than that of the building itself. It may
be a few weeks before we can have accurate estimates of what
the cost may be.

Smaller Items

In the development of our grounds there are several improvements
which are much needed. The new Infirmary occupies the place
where our best tennis courts were located. We are proposing to
build six first-class courts at the south end of the athletic field
and to provide if possible an all-weather surface for these, so that
our girls for the first time will have really adequate facilities for
this interesting sport.

It is necessary for us to do a good deal of grading and to build
some new roads in connection with all the improvements which
we are making. We will want to do this work on as economical
a basis as will be at all satisfactory, and detailed plans are now being
worked out so as to get a good estimate of the cost.

We need to have attractive entrances for the front walk which
leads to Main Building and for the entrances to our drives. We
have had quite a number of suggestions as to how these can be
arranged, but no plans which are entirely satisfactory have yet
been submitted. We are hoping to make some definite plans regarding
this program before the end of the current year.

We are expecting to prepare the old infirmary for use as a
dormitory for the next session. In the remodeling of Main, Inman,
and Rebekah Scott, we have lost a good many student spaces
because we have used these for improved comfort and facilities.
The use of the old infirmary will not materially increase our
number of boarding students beyond what it has previously been.

We will need to buy new furniture for the old infirmary, and
we need very much to replace some of our dressers, beds, and chairs
in other buildings.

Trustees

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Dendy expire this year. They have all proved to be helpful members
of the Board, devoted to the best interests of the college.

The support and the high standing of the members of our Board
have been of the greatest value in the promotion of our campaign.
To have such men and women in charge of an institution inspires
confidence on the part of the public and is our best asset in gaining
generous support.

Faculty

It has been a great satisfaction this year to have Dr. Wallace
M. Alston as Vice-President and Professor of Philosophy. He has
visited some 35 alumnae groups from Massachusetts to Texas, has
gotten acquainted with most of the faculty and students, and is
already becoming a valuable member of the faculty.

On account of the retirement of Miss Lucile Alexander as
Professor of French. Miss Margaret Phythian has been promoted
to take this work. Miss Elizabeth Barineau has been transferred
from the Spanish to the French Department since the latter is her
major subject. Miss Lillie Belle Drake has been secured for work
in Spanish, and Miss Mary Virginia Allen for assistance in the
departments of French and German.

On account of the illness of Dr. Eugenia Jones, our College
Physician, we have employed this year Dr. Chester W. Morse on a
part-time basis, and he has rendered very helpful service.

Miss Laura Steele, who for several years has been secretary to the
President, has been promoted to the position of Assistant Registrar,
and her place has been taken by Miss Jane Bowman who also
serves as secretary for the Vice-President.

Miss Anna Greene Smith, who has her Ph.D. from the University
of North Carolina, has been secured as Associate Professor of
Sociology. On account of a late resignation in the Department of
Bible, it was necessary to employ some part-time assistance, and
the College has been very fortunate to have Dr. Felix B. Gear and
Dr. Samuel A. Cartledge, from Columbia Theological Seminary,
for this work.

Others employed in administrative work include Miss Joyce Fryer
as nurse, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter as secretary in the Office of the
Dean of Students, Misses Lillian Newman and Susan Pope in the
Library, Mrs. Jayne Conner as secretary to the Dean of the Faculty,
Miss Jennings Payne as secretary to the Treasurer, Mrs. Marguerite
Hornsby in the Bookstore.

Other members of the teaching staff include Miss Helena Williams
in Physical Education, Miss Anne Treadwell in Chemistry.

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Dean S. G. Stukes, Dean Carrie Scandrett, and Mr. J. C. Tart
have rendered conspicuous service this year. Miss Eleanor Hutchens
as Alumnae Secretary and Director of Publicity has had an unusually
busy and successful season.

Every officer and faculty member subscribed to our Campus
Campaign, and many of these did so on a sacrificial basis.

Students

Our enrollment for the current session continues to be gratifying.
We have had many evidences of their loyalty and interest. Every
student made a contribution to our Campus Campaign, and many
of them have helped to secure donors both from their own families
and from other sources.

I think we will graduate this year the largest class that we have
ever had. It is also a good one in quality, and we will miss very
much the girls who leave us at Commencement.

Our students for this session may be classified in various ways
as follows:

Geographical Distribution

Alabama 32 Ohio 3

Arkansas 4 Pennsylvania 3

California 1 South Carolina .... 34

District of Columbia . . 1 Tennessee 24

Florida 20 Texas 3

Georgia 306 Utah 1

Illinois 1 Virginia 26

Kentucky 10 West Virginia .... 3

Louisiana 6 Canal Zone 1

Massachusetts 1 China 1

Minnesota 1 Germany 2

Mississippi 12 Greece 1

New Jersey 1 Korea 2

New Mexico 2 Puerto Rico 2

New York 3

North Carolina .... 43 Total 550

Class Enrollment

Seniors 122

Juniors 110

Sophomores 137

Freshmen 161

Special Students 20

Total 550

(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.)

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Residence

Boarders 358

Day Students 192

Total 550

Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 196

Methodist 116

Baptist 100

Episcopalian 51

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Jewish

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Greek Orthodox .
Quaker ....
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*This total does not include 20 special students.

Religious Life

Both faculty and students have given a good deal of study and
thought to the ways in which we may best promote the religious life
of the College.

As the chapel attendance seemed to fall below the percentage which
would be regarded as successful, the students themselves petitioned
that attendance at chapel be made compulsory for a period of two
weeks. This was arranged and supervised by the students themselves,
and the results were quite remarkable. All of us hope that the chapel
attendance may be retained on a volunteer basis, but it is gratifying
that the students feel that this can be permitted only if chapel is ap-
preciated and attended by good numbers.

We had arranged for Dr. Peter Marshall to lead our Religious
Emphasis Week in February. He died a short time before he was
scheduled to come, and we were fortunate in being able to secure
again Dr. Donald G. Miller, of Union Theological Seminary. This
was his third consecutive year, and he proved to be a stimulating and
helpful leader.

We earnestly seek for the prayers of all our trustees for the best
growth and development for our beloved College.

Respectfully submitted,

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JUNE 2, 1950

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Board of Trustees,
Agnes Scott College :

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-seventh
annual report as President of the College. We are closing our
sixty-first year as an institution.

Our Campaign

When the Board of Trustees met a year ago, we were in the
midst of a campaign to raise a total of $1,500,000. At that time
we lacked approximately $225,000 of being able to claim a complete
victory, and we were puzzled as to how the remainder of the money
might be secured. We had already exhausted our list of donors for
large contributions. The foundations whom we could enlist had
already made their gifts.

At this point the Husbands' Committee (which had been prom-
ised in the beginning that they would not be asked to do campaign
work) volunteered on their own initiative to organize teams of
Atlanta business men and to present our cause to some 600 firms
and professional men in Atlanta. It was necessary to wait until
after the Community Chest Program had been completed, and so
this phase of the campaign was initiated in December. About
$65,000 was secured in this program.

Another volunteer effort was headed by Mr. Thomas C. Law,
Mr. Lawrence L. Gellerstedt of our own Board, and Mr. Harllee
Branch, Jr. They wrote personal letters, signed by the three of
them, to a number of friends and secured approximately $6,000 for
helping to furnish the Infirmary.

Early in December we got a splendid lift in our efforts when the
W. C. and Sarah H. Bradley Foundation of Columbus, Georgia,
contributed $50,000 for the endowment of cur observatory. This
was really a life-saver just at that time.

Our alumnae have always been a main stay in any time of need,
and it was hoped that in this particular campaign we might ap-
proach them in a "relaxed" attitude, so that there would be no
feeling of pressure. Unfortunately, we found that we could not
win without a real effort on their part. This program among the
alumnae was ably directed by Miss Eleanor N. Hutchens, Alumnae
Secretary, and Mrs. Bealy Smith, President.

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As the 31st of December approached and it was realized that this
was the very last day of the campaign, our friends were much in
prayer and very active in work. Dr. Wallace M. Alston, who had
been most active all the autumn campaign, in spite of a heavy teach-
ing schedule, made a trip to Alabama and was able to bring back
two subscriptions of the total amount of $11,000. An anonymous
donor pledged $10,000 about noon of the closing day. More than
400 alumnae gifts came in that day, and by three o'clock in the
afternoon the final goal was reached. It was a time of very great
rejoicing on the part of all of us who had been working in the
campaign.

This was the eighth major campaign that Agnes Scott has had
since 1909, and all of these have been entirely successful in getting
the money pledged and in collecting each time the required amounts
for complete victory.

Special Funds

As a part of our general campaign, we have had established sev-
eral new trust funds, particularly for scholarships, and some increases
in funds already established. Among these are The Kate Durr
Elmore Fund of $25,000 ; The John A. and Sallie Burgess Schol-
arship Fund of $1,000; The Annie Ludlow Cannon Fund of
$1,000; The James Ballard Dyer Scholarship of $1,000; The Mary
Livingston Beatie Scholarship of $5,375 ; The Augusta Skeen
Cooper Scholarship of $2,000; The McKowen Fund of $1,000; The
Lucile Alexander Scholarship of $1,500; Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cun-
ningham Fund, $1,500; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Paulev Fund, $1,000;
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lanier Scholarship, $1,000; Gallant-Belk
Fund, $1,000; The J. O. Bowen Fund, $3,000; The Leonard and
Katherine G. McMillan Bellingrath Memorial, $1,000; Jodele
Tanner Memorial, $2,000; and increases for the Agnes Raoul Glenn
Fund of $5,000 additional and the Anna Irwin Young Fund of
$1,000 additional. All these are valuable not only for the money
itself, but for the association with Agnes Scott through the years
to come of names and of families who have been very dear to us.

Frances Winship Walters Infirmary

As many of the trustees will remember, this building was dedi-
cated on June 4th of last year. On account of weather conditions,
it had not been finished at that time.

By the opening of school in September the building had been
entirely completed and had been very nicely furnished. Thanks to

Mrs. Walters and to quite a number of other friends, the furnish-
ings are adequate and in good taste.

Hundreds of visitors from all over the country have inspected
this building and have expressed great satisfaction in its design
and in its appointments. The health of the community has been
unusually good this year, and it has not been necessary to use the
infirmary to its full capacity, but the girls who have been sick have
greatly enjoyed it.

The grounds around the building and between it and the main
driveway of the College have been developed into the "Winship
Garden". This name has been used in honor of Mrs. Walters her-
self and also in recognition of the fine services of our Chairman,
George? Winship. The Garden will be increasingly used for recre-
ation and relaxation.

The Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall

The finest building to be erected on the Agnes Scott campus is
now in process of construction and is to be named for Mrs. Lettie
Pate Evans, of Hot Springs, Virginia. It is our new dining hall
and kitchen.

As you will realize, Mrs. Evans is our newest trustee. She has
been interested in Atlanta institutions and in Agnes Scott for many
years. In appreciation of what she has meant to this vicinity, some
of her friends suggested the erection of the building, and its being
named for her. At first she was reluctant to have this done, but she
finally consented and has been most generous herself in helping to
provide funds.

The building with its furnishings will cost in excess of $500,000.
We are planning to have completely new equipment both in the
kitchen and in the dining rooms. We believe there will be no diffi-
culty in having everything ready by the opening of college.

The main dining room will seat approximately 500 people. On
the south side there will be a faculty dining hall which will seat
fifty. On the north side there will be a combination lounge and
dining room which will take care of perhaps twenty-five. On the
ground floor provision has been made for a banquet room which will
take care of special occasions and will probably seat about 200.

The banquet room will be used ordinarily for vesper services and
will also serve for recreation purposes.

On the north side of the building, an open terrace has been
arranged which will provide good accommodations for outdoor par-
ties and gatherings.

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John Bulow Campbell Science Hall

One of our major needs for a long time has been the improvement
of our facilities for our important science departments. A recent
gift of $136,130 toward the erection of a science hall will seemingly
make possible the erection of this important addition to our plant.

We now have on hand or in sight about $560,000 toward the
building and equipment of the science hall. We feel that this will
put up an excellent structure, but we will probably need to secure
some additional funds in order to furnish the building in adequate
fashion.

It is to be named for Mr. John Bulow Campbell, who was for
many years a trustee of the College and the chairman of the Finance
Committee. The foundation which bears his name and the General
Education Board have been our largest donors in providing funds
for this purpose.

In our annual report for 1949 a picture was shown of the build-
ing as it was planned at that time. We finally decided that we
could not erect so plain a structure on our campus in the midst of
beautiful Gothic surroundings. The sketch which accompanies this
report will show the revised program which we think will be quite
satisfactory.

The first floor of the building will be devoted to biology, the sec-
ond to chemistry, and the third to physics. There will be joint fa-
cilities and activities for the basement.

Detailed plans and specifications are already being prepared, and
it is hoped that we can let a contract for the building at some time
during June.

Bradley Observatory

This building is now practically complete and its equipment is
being installed. We have never had a development at Agnes Scott
which aroused more general interest and enthusiasm at the College,
in the Atlanta community, and among our friends in general, than
the erection of this building and the installation of our big telescope.
From various sections of Georgia and from outside the State, re-
quests have come for visits from groups ranging from 5 to 200
people.

As previously mentioned, the largest gift toward this project was
made by the W. C. and Sarah H. Bradley Foundation and the
building will bear the Bradley name. A bronze tablet will call

attention to the philanthropic work of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley while
they were living.

The Beck Foundation in Atlanta donated $10,000 toward the
purchase of the telescope, and it will have a bronze tablet in recogni-
tion of the life and work of Mr. Lewis H. Beck, who for a long time
was a resident of Atlanta.

The Aluminum Company of America has donated the material
necessary for the manufacture of the dome, and this Company will
probably feature the dome in national advertising as a new use for
their metal. A large part of the work in manufacturing and install-
ing the dome has been donated by the R. D. Cole Manufacturing
Company of Newnan, Georgia. The Research Corporation of New
York has contributed $2,400 for a two-prism slit spectrograph and
$700 for a photoelectric amplifier which will be used in connection
with the telescope.

Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Observatory has made a
gift of the Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension, a monumental
work of many volumes, largely due to the activities of the late Annie
J. Cannon of the Harvard Observatory.

Many others have made contributions of smaller items, and we are
grateful to all friends who have helped.

We do not have sufficient funds for the equipping of this build-
ing, especially the class rooms and offices, but we hope that progress
can be made before college opens.

Rebekah Scott Hall

The plans for the renovating of this building were outlined at
the last meeting of the Board of Trustees. They were carried through
with promptness and excellent results.

Instead of letting one general contract for the whole job, it was
decided to make ten separate and distinct ones, each under the gen-
eral supervision of Mr. Tart. While this was quite a burden for
him and his assistant, Mr. P. J. Rogers, Jr., the whole job was
accomplished more promptly and economically than could possibly
have been otherwise arranged. The cost was $74,425, distributed
as follows:

Steel girders $ 5,076

Plumbing 11,226

Electrical work 9,454

Ceiling 5,221

Elevator 6,111

Tile baths 7,370

Hardwood floors 11,728

Painting 7,915

Furniture 9,232

Shades 590

Milton A. Candler Memorial

One of the strong friends of Agnes Scott in its early days was Col.
Milton A. Candler of Decatur. He became a trustee in 1896 and
continued until his death in 1909. At the time of his death the
Trustees paid the following tribute:

"Resolved, that this Board hereby expresses its high appreci-
ation of Col. Candler as an able and faithful trustee. His
interest in the institution was deep and abiding. As long as
his physical condition permitted he was present at every meet-
ing, and no sacrifice was too great for him to make to advance
the welfare of Agnes Scott. He was a member of the first
meeting held to establish the institution and one of the most
liberal contributors. He drew its first charter and all the
amendments thereto. From the very first up to the time of his
death he continued one of its staunchest friends and supporters."
In 1913 a group of his relatives and friends headed by his brother
Judge John S. Candler provided funds to erect a memorial gateway
for Col. Candler. This was very attractive and served quite effective-
ly for more than twenty years. When College Avenue was widened
about 1934, we expected to move the whole gateway about twenty
feet to the south and keep it intact. We found, however, that rust
had weakened the insides of the upright supports, and the structure
could not be moved if the gates were to continue to operate. By
1936 none of the gates would swing freely, and that year the Board
of Trustees voted to erect a more suitable entrance but to keep a
memorial of Col. Candler.

There was no difficulty in arranging with Judge Candler and

other donors still surviving to name the main driveway in front of

the campus for Col. Candler and to provide suitable markers to
indicate the memorial.

We have not had the money with which to erect an entrance, and
we have had a great deal of discussion as to the type of markers
w T hich might be used. These difficulties have at length been re-
solved, and I believe that all will agree that a suitable and lasting
memorial has been arranged.

The gateway has been stored, and it is believed that we may be

able to use the framework, without the heavy gates, as a ,very
attractive entrance to our proposed Arboretum on the south side
of the campus.

College Avenue Entrance

The funds for a new entrance have been provided by Mrs.
Frances Winship Walters, who on her own initiative has so often
helped us here at the College.

The new entrance is suggestive of a famous one at Yale Univer-
sity. The materials will be brick and limestone.

The construction is already under way, and it is hoped that the
entrance will be completed early in June.

Individual Contracts for Minor Items

In a rapidly developing program such as we have had this year,
it is hard to realize how many individual contracts must be signed
and administered. Simply for the sake of illustration, I am giving
some itemized details of improvements which we have made during
the past year.

Winship Garden 13,414

Grading and terracing 5,951

Brick and stone work 6,250

Shrubbery 1,600

May Dav and tennis courts 14,230

Grading 2,300

Drainage pipe 3,000

Retaining wall 3,816

Driveway 1,814

South of Dougherty Street 13,938

Crossing Dougherty Street 1,635

Draining 2,745

Pipe 2,900

Grading College Place 2,792

Engineering 2,792

Moving Power Co. poles 1,184

Miscellaneous 14,500

Campus lighting 1,250

Moving Gaines Cottage 3,250

Moving three Cottages on

Science Hall Site 10,000

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A House for the President

Agnes Scott has never had much social life on the campus con-
nected with the home of the President. As an institution it has
become so large and important that more attention to this aspect of
our work should be given.

Dr. and Mrs. Alston take a great interest in promoting social life,
and they have real gifts in this field. It will be very advantageous
for faculty, students, alumnae, and other friends if an adequate
home can be built before Dr. Alston assumes his larger duties.

We have made several efforts to secure the funds for this im-
provement which we did not feel that we could include in the
general campaign. We have made some progress in this direction,
but we still lack a considerable sum of money before we can proceed
with detailed plans and specifications.

Trustees

Since the last meeting of our Board, we have lost our oldest
member in point of service. Mr. Frank M. Inman was elected to
membership on January 26, 1915. It was on the same day and at
the meeting that I was elected to come to Agnes Scott as registrar
and professor of Bible. He had served more than 35 years at the
time of his death.

He served almost continuously on two of the most important
committees of the Trustees, the Executive Committee and the
Finance Committee. He served as chairman of both of these.

A suitable tribute of appreciation will be presented at our meet-
ing, but I do wish to express my own sense of loss at his passing.
He was cooperative and helpful in all that concerned the welfare
of the College.

The terms of the following trustees expire this vear: Miss Marv
Wallace Kirk, Dr. D. P. McGeachy, J. J. Scott, E. D. Brownlee,
William V. Gardner, Wallace M. Alston, Mrs. Lettie Pate Evans,
and Mrs. Walter G. Paschall. These have all been interested in
the work of the College and helpful in many ways.

In behalf of those of us who are active in the campus work, I
wish to thank all of our Trustees for your interest and prayers in
connection with our campaign. Your connection with Agnes Scott
was a real factor in enlisting the interest and gifts of many people.

As I will soon be laying down the responsibilities of my office and

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as these will be assumed by Dr. Alston, both he and I appreciate
having you to whom we may turn for advice and guidance in all
that lies ahead.

Faculty

At the end of the current year two of our best known faculty
members will retire. Professor Christian W. Dieckmann has been
head of the Music Department for many years. He came to Agnes
Scott in 1905 as a teacher of piano and so is completing forty-five
years of continuous service. He was born near Columbus, Ohio,
and received the principal part of his music education at the Cincin-
nati College of Music.

Mr. Dieckmann is best known as an authority in theory, harmony,
and other theoretical music subjects; but the College Community
loves him for his leadership at the organ of all chapel services for
more than a quarter of a century. In addition to his administrative
duties, he has given personal lessons in both piano and organ, and
he has organized and directed the string ensemble. He is also an
author of note. He is one of the relatively few Fellows of the
American Guild of Organists in Georgia. He will be greatly missed
by the entire College Community.

Mr. Lewis H. Johnson came to Agnes Scott in 1910 and is com-
pleting forty years of service. He is a graduate of the Pomona
College of Music; studied at the New York Institute of Musical
Art ; and had private lessons from distinguished teachers in New
York, Boston, and Berlin.

During his forty years at Agnes Scott, he has trained many singers
who have become quite successful, and his glee club and choir work
has been widely recognized.

Both Mr. Dieckmann and Mr. Johnson married Agnes Scott
alumnae, and their families as well as the individuals themselves are
much beloved.

There have been a number of changes in our faculty and staff,
including some additions. Among the new members are those listed
below.

Dr. Margaret Vance is serving as College Physician and Professor
of Physical Education. She is assisted in the Frances Winship
Walters Infirmary by Mrs. Cleo B. Robertson and Mrs. A. D.
Bray, who are trained nurses.

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Miss Harriotte Brantley, who was formerly Alumnae Secretary
here, has been made Assistant Dean of Students. Miss Molly
Milan, a graduate of recent years, has also been Assistant to the
Dean in that office.

Miss Mary L. Boney, formerly Director of Religious Education
at the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, has been made Instructor
in Bible. She has also proved to be a very helpful advisor in the
religious activities of the College.

Miss Doris Sullivan, of the Class of 1949, has been representing
the College and the Alumnae Association in visits to churches, high
schools, and alumnae groups in several states.

Mrs. E. L. Hawthorne is Assistant to the Librarian, with special
charge of catalogue work.

Misses June Davis, Alice Flournoy, and Octavia Garlington have
been Assistants in the Biology Department, and Miss Billie Wright
in Chemistry.

Miss Billie Mae Redd has been Instructor in Physics, and Miss
Anne Webber an Instructor in Art.

On the business side, Mrs. Ethel J. Hatfield is chief Dietitian,
and Mrs. Helen Hooper is her assistant. Mrs. Johnny Flynn
Stephens is Assistant to the Supervisor of Dormitories.

Mr. Raymond M. Jones is now Engineer; Mrs. Barbara Scheeler
Kimberly is Manager of the Bookstore ; and Miss Rebecca Willard
is Secretary to the Registrar.

Students

Our enrollment for the college session is somewhat smaller than
for the previous year. It is still larger than what we would regard
as our normal quota.

Our students show a fine sense of honor and of responsibility in
the management of the affairs of the College. Excellent young
women are elected to places of leadership in all the organizations.
Students, faculty, and trustees may well be gratified at the mainte-
nance of our honor system.

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Our students of this session may be classified in various ways as
follows :

Geographical Distribution

Alabama . . .
Arkansas . . .
Connecticut . .
Florida . . . .
Maryland . .
Michigan . . .
Minnesota . .
Mississippi . .
New Mexico . .
New York . .
North Carolina
Ohio . . .
Pennsylvania .
South Carolina

25
4
1

19
1
1
1
9
2
3

39
3
1

36

Georgia 302

Illinois 1

Kentucky 9

Louisiana 8

Tennessee 23

Texas 2

Virginia 21

West Virginia 5

Canal Zone
China

Germany .
Korea
Puerto Rico

Total 522

Class Enrollment

Seniors 109

Juniors 112

Sophomores 130

Freshmen 141

Special Students 30

Total 522

(Note: The total number of seniors given above does not include
three students who coinpleted degree requirements last summer and
who will receive their degrees in June. One student now classified'
as a junior may also receive the degree.)

Residence

Boarders 321

Day Students 201

Total 522

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Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 158 Congregational .... 3

Methodist 122 Salvation Army .... 3

Baptist 88 Christian Science ... 2

Episcopal 43 Asso. Reformed

Christian 16 Presbyterian .... 1

Roman Catholic .... 10 Church of Christ ... 1

Lutheran 9 Non-members .... 21

Greek Orthodox .... 9

Jewish 6 Total 492*

*This total does not include 30 special students.

Curriculum Study

The academic life of a campus like that of Agnes Scott is never
static. Our faculty represent in their degrees more than fifty leading
institutions, and their training and experience lead them to work
over the best methods cf good teaching and the best educatioinal pro-
gram which we can offer.

A good deal of attention has been given this year to the question
of specialized study. Agnes Scott has been well known for requir-
ing basic work in most important fields in order for a girl to
graduate. On the other hand, we have permitted a good deal of
concentration of study, so that a student might become a specialist
in one or more fields. Our present tendency is to restrict the con-
centrated work to one field or area of emphasis.

Another subject for study has been the Department of the Home,
which the Trustees authorized a good many years ago but which
we have never established. Our investigations this year have been
with a view to advising the Trustees about the extent to which
homemaking should be credited toward the degree and the extent
to which it ought to be elected as an extra-curricular activity.

At some later time, it is likely that suggestions will be put into
definite form.

Religious Life

There would be no excuse to maintain Agnes Scott as an institu-
tion if it does not have a vital Christian atmosphere for its students.
From the very first day of its organization, it has been dedicated to
the Glory of God.

Our services for Religious Emphasis Week this year were con-

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ducted by Dr. John W. Rustin, pastor of the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church, Washington, D. C. He was ably assisted by
his wife, as soloist. She w T as the former Miss Jessie Watts, an
Agnes Scott alumna. The chapel exercises and the discussion groups
proved to be very helpful.

Our Staff

No President could be more fortunate than I am in having de-
pendable and able associates to head our important divisions. Dr.
Wallace M. Alston has many responsibilities as a teacher and yet
he is ready at all times to take on administrative duties, however
burdensome these may be. Dean S. G. Stukes also carries a heavy
teaching and administrative load, and, in addition this year, he
has been taking the responsibility of our entire University Center
program. Both as Registrar and Dean he is invaluable. Miss
Scandrett is responsible for student relations and the general social
life of the campus. These duties take long hours and a great deal
of personal attention. Mr. J. C. Tart combines the work of Treas-
urer and Business Manager and is one of the most hard working
members of our entire group.

I cannot be grateful enough to all these and to their associates and
helpers in making Agnes Scott a really great college.

Respectfully submitted,

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THE ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JUNE 1, 1951

White House

Agnes Scott College, under the name of "Decatur Female Seminary",
started in this building in 1889. It was then known as the "Allen House",
and it stood on the present site of Main Building. Later it was moved to
the location it now occupies and was doubled in size, then being desig-
nated as the "White House". It was rented for some years by Agnes
Scott Institute and purchased by the College in 1906. When other storage
space is available, this building will be torn down, and that area of the
campus landscaped.

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

Board of Trustees,
Agnes Scott College:

I have the privilege of presenting herewith my twenty-eighth
annual report as President of the College. We are closing our
sixty-second year as an institution.

Historical Development

Since a change of administration is at hand, it seems an appropriate
time to review some of Agnes Scott's growth through slightly more
than six decades of service. No attempt is made to limit the study
to the years of my own administration. The development of Agnes
Scott is definitely the result of cooperation on the part of many
people. Its leadership has never been limited to that of the President.
The five men who have served as chairman of our Board of Trustees
have done outstanding work. This has been shared by many other
trustees, by officers and faculty members on the campus, by alumnae
and many other friends. My own connection with Agnes Scott
began on July 1st, 1915, when I came as registrar and professor
of Bible. I served eight very profitable years, for me, under the
presidency of Dr. Gaines who died in 1923. Since that time I
have been President.

Our institution started as Decatur Female Seminary in September,
1889. It had four teachers and sixty-three students, all of grammar
grade rank, including seven little boys.

Through the generous gift of a new building by Col. George W.
Scott, the new school was organized as Agnes Scott Institute and
it moved into its new building in 1891. It was now doing college
preparatory work.

By 1901 the graduates of Agnes Scott Institute were able to
enter the freshman class of strong colleges for women, and prepara-
tions were being rapidly made for changing the Institute into a
college.

By 1911 Agnes Scott College had been chartered and the B. A.
degree had been recognized by the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools since 1907. Agnes Scott was the first
institution in Georgia to receive membership in this Association.

By 1921 the College had been put on the approved list of the
Association of American Universities and had become a charter
member of the American Association of University Women. By

this time it had passed the other colleges for women in Georgia
both in educational recognition and in financial assets.

In 1931 a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa had been established
in the College and also a chapter of Mortar Board. Both in prestige
and in endowment and equipment Agnes Scott had moved to the
front of Southern colleges for women.

By 1941 the honors program had been initiated on the campus
and was proving successful. By this time Agnes Scott had become
the best known and the best equipped of all the institutions for
women related to any of the Presbyterian denominations in this
country or abroad.

By 1951 there are only a half dozen colleges for women in the
United States which outrank our own institution in financial strength
and none have higher educational rating than our own college. With
the support of our friends we think the time may come when Agnes
Scott may be able to equal any colleges for women in the many
areas of service in which we have yet to go.

Growth by Decades

In order to indicate graphically the financial growth of the Col-
lege, we are giving herewith some compact information as displayed
in charts. These indicate the growth and total assets in buildings,
grounds, and equipment, in invested funds, in annual income, and in
salaries. It will be noted that in all of these items the last ten years
have been particularly fruitful, and this is largely due to the personal
interest and loyal support of some of our own trustees and of local
friends.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

Total Assets

$6,684,000

$3,865,000

$2,764,000

$822,000

$499,000

$113,000 . $ 150 ' 000

1891

1901 1911 1921 1931

1941 1951

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

Buildings and Grounds

$3,873,500

$2,117,000

$922,000

$445,000

$455,000

$85,000

$110,000

1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

Invested Funds

$2,766,900

$1,620,000

$1,200,000

$194,000

$84,000

$24,000

None

1891 1901 1911 1921

1931

1941

1951

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

Annual Income

$600,000

$351,000

$295,000

$230,000

$97,000

$45,000

$26,000

1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

Salaries

$298,000

$174,000

$152,000

$81,000

$31,000

$15,000

$17,000

1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951

Campaigns

Much of the progress in material things at Agnes Scott has been
the result of a series of notable campaigns. The first of these was
in 1909, and Dr. Wallace Buttrick of the General Education Board
visited the College and on his initiative offered to the College
$100,000 if it would raise $250,000 additional. Part of this would
be for the payment of debt and part would be used for buildings
and improvements. The balance would go for endowment. This
was the first general educational campaign in Atlanta, and it was
ably led by Mr. S. M. Inman and Mr. J. K. Orr. It was com-
pletely successful.

In 1919 the General Education Board offered $175,000 if we
would raise $325,000 additional. It was just at the time when
the boll weevil was quite active in the South, and it was a difficult
campaign, but was completed with the aid of some twelve thousand
donors, many of whom would not be able personally to send
daughters to Agnes Scott.

In 1921 the General Education Board offered $100,000 if the
College would raise $150,000. It was the best proportion in the
form of a conditional offer that the College had received, and the
matching was promptly and effectively done. This particular amount
was for the purpose of providing endowment to increase the salaries
of teachers.

In 1929 the General Education Board offered $300,000 if the
College would secure $600,000, all of which would be used for
endowment. Times were fairly good at the moment and the sub-
scriptions were obtained without serious trouble.

The Board then offered to give $200,000 additional if Agnes
Scott would raise $400,000 more. This was in 1930 when times
were quite hard, and this particular campaign was one of the most
difficult we ever undertook. The subscriptions were finally secured
in 1932, and the final payments were to be made by 1934.

The depression had become so widespread and so discouraging
that for the first time Agnes Scott was not able to collect in full
and on time the supplementary sum which we were supposed to
furnish. We proposed to the General Education Board that they
give us an extra $100,000 if we should by 1935 collect in full the
amounts which we ought to have. They graciously acceded to our
request, and by July 1st, 1935, we were completely successful. This
winning of such a battle during such times made a very great
impression on our supporters.

In 1939 the General Education Board offered to Agnes Scott
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$500,000 and $2,000,000 to Emory University if the two institutions
would jointly raise at least $5,000,000. This wonderful offer stirred
Atlanta and other areas of our supporters, and a very impressive
campaign organization was set up. Nearly two thousand workers
participated in the soliciting, and more than twelve thousand people
made gifts. The results were entirely satisfactory. Agnes Scott
secured in the campaign more than $1,500,000, and we made many
new friends.

In 1949 a verv generous donor who wished to be anonymous
offered $500,000 'if we would undertake to raise $1,000,000 for
matching it. In all our campaigns we had launched the initial
efforts on the campus with faculty and students and then extended
the effort to trustees and alumnae and then to our friends and
supporters in other areas and finally back to Atlanta for the con-
cluding amount. This same program of enlistment was carried out,
and somewhat more than $2,000,000 was added to the assets of the
College in this latest campaign. In most of our earlier efforts,
Mr. J. K. Orr was the official chairman of the campaign, and since
1938 George Winship, our present chairman, has headed most
efficiently all of our drives.

The College has tried never to oversell its constituency. All of
our subscriptions have carried a proviso whereby any donor might
cancel his pledge at any time. We are astonished to note how few
have taken advantage of this wide-open opportunity for cancellation.
We have never failed to get our subscriptions by the appointed time,
and only in 1934 did we fail (and then only by the delay of one
year) to secure in full the necessary payments by the appointed
termination date.

The success of our earlier efforts has been a great asset in later
campaigns because our friends have had the confidence that the
college would not undertake any program which could not be
achieved. We cannot be grateful enough to our friends of the
General Education Board and to those of other foundations who
have helped in times of need. The Carnegie Corporation has assisted
five different times.

Buildings and Grounds

When Decatur Female Seminary started in 1889 it had only a
rented house and no land at all. When Colonel Scott erected Main
Building he had bought the White House which then stood on that
site and had moved it to its present location near the railroad.
Before his death he had rented the White House to the College
because it needed rooms, and had also bought for the institution

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West Lawn which then stood on the present site of Rebekah Scott
Hall. At the time of his death a science hall was being erected and
also a combination gymnasium and recitation building. These two
structures stood in the middle of the quadrangle between Main
Building and what is now Buttrick Hall. They have since been
torn down in the development of the College.

The old infirmary, now known as Mary Sweet Cottage, was
purchased in 1904. It stood then on the present site of the Lowry
Science Hall. Since then it has been moved four times and now
occupies a site just east of the Science Hall and is used for students.

Rebekah Scott Hall was an important addition in 1906. Funds
for it were raised largely from the family of Colonel Scott and it
was named for his wife.

In the same year were purchased quite a number of other cottages
and some additional land. These included the White House (which
had been previously rented by the College), East Lawn, Gaines
Cottage, and Cunningham Cottage.

The period 1909-1911 was a very active one in the campus
development. At that time Inman Hall, the Lowry Science Hall,
and the old library were erected simultaneously. Three contractors
were handling these buildings, and all three failed in their jobs,
so that the buildings were completed with difficulty.

Soon after this, a number of cottages on Candler Street were
acquired, including Boyd, Lupton, Ansley, the home now occupied
by Dr. Sweet, and the house now used by Mr. Tart. In 1922 the
Anna Young Alumnae House was erected largely with funds pro-
vided by the College, but including also some gifts from alumnae.
This was the first such house on the campus of any college for
women in the country, and it has served our own college exceptionally
well.

In 1925 the Bucher Scott Gymnasium was put into service and,
to that date, was the most expensive building hitherto erected by
Agnes Scott. It was the first building in which the faculty and
students were very largely enlisted both for gifts and for planning.

In 1928 the steam plant and laundry were modernized and the
present substantial buildings provided. Immediately after that,
Buttrick Hall was erected for administration and classrooms. It cost
$300,000, and the total amount was provided by the General
Education Board.

In 1936 the new Library was completed, and it is perhaps the
most used structure on the campus. It was largely planned by Mrs.
Byers, our librarian, and we have had a great many requests for
the plans used for it from institutions all over the country.

Presser Hall, our music building, with Gaines Chapel and Maclean
Auditorium, was dedicated in December, 1941. Both the Presser
Foundation of Philadelphia and the General Education Board con-
tributed liberally towards it. This building now houses the Protestant
Radio Center at the courtesy of the College.

Mrs. Frances Winship Walters, who has been a generous donor
on many occasions, provided funds for our excellent infirmary, for
the Winship Garden, and for the new entrance on College Avenue.

The last two years have been exceedingly busy from the standpoint
of our building program. The Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall,
the gift of Mrs. Evans and her friends, is one of the most attractive
of all our buildings. The Bradley Observatory, with its 30-inch
Beck Telescope, has created a great deal of interest in the entire
community, and we are overwhelmed with visitors whenever we
will open it for the public.

At the present time we are in process of erecting the John Bulow
Campbell Science Hall, which will be the largest and most expensive
of all our buildings, and the President's Home on Candler Street.
Both of these are to be ready for occupancy during the summer.

The recounting of these steps of progress is somewhat tedious in
reading, but it has been a very exciting program in actual operation.

University Center

Agnes Scott had a leading part in the organization of the University
Center in Georgia. This is composed of Agnes Scott College, Emory
University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of
Georgia, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Atlanta Art Asso-
ciation. While retaining their separate identities, these institutions
are cooperating for the improvement of quality in education and for
the extending of many educational services which they would not
be able to provide separately.

These institutions have provided a union catalog, showing more
than 1,500,000 volumes. Agnes Scott or any other institution can
requisition any of these books from any of the other libraries on
short notice, and thus not find it necessary to purchase rare or
expensive books ourselves.

The University Center has provided extensive funds for our
various faculty members that they may do research or that they
may take refreshing courses in order to provide for better teaching.
The institutions of the University Center have brought jointly dis-
tinguished visiting scholars and they have also provided for joint
training of teachers for Georgia and for other states.

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The united program has enabled all the institutions to raise funds
individually, and grants have been made from several foundations
for the University Center itself.

This cooperative enterprise has been widely recognized throughout
the United States as a forward and very encouraging sign toward
better education.

Faculty Service

The faculty and officers of Agnes Scott number more than eighty
men and women of unusual training and personal qualifications,
revealing always a remarkable loyalty to the institution and for
the ideals which it represents. They have received their academic
training in nearly fifty colleges and universities and represent a
variety of experience and training which gives a cosmopolitan spirit
to the campus. The members of the faculty have received grants
for research or further study from the Guggenheim Foundation,
Rosenwald Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation,
Carnegie Peace Foundation, Columbia University, the University of
Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Wisconsin, Michigan, Johns Hopkins,
Cornell, the General Education Board, and the University Center
in Georgia.

Faculty or officers of the College have held important posts in
regional or national education. In the Southern Association they
have served on the Committee for the Admission of New Members,
the Committee on Standards, the Committee on Reports, and others
of similar nature.

Agnes Scott was one of the organizers of the Southern University-
Conference, which has accomplished much in the way of better
standards for the South, and its officers have served as president and
as secretary-treasurer for the organization.

The College has been active in the Association of American
Colleges, having a membership of about 800 universities and colleges,
and its officers have held the vice-presidency and also the presidency
of that organization.

College representatives have served on the Senate of the United
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and also on the Phi Beta Kappa
Foundation.

A College officer has served for some years as a trustee of the
General Education Board and also as a trustee of the John Bulow
Campbell Foundation.

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Alumnae Activity

More than 9,000 students have been enrolled at the College
and have been drawn from all states of the Union, the District of
Columbia, and twenty-six foreign countries. The great majority
of the students are from the Southeastern states, but they are well
distributed among these. The attendance of some of the nearby
southern states would include the following :

Alabama 851

South Carolina 835

Tennessee 763

Florida 778

North Carolina 760

Virginia 695

Mississippi 615

Agnes Scott graduates have been successful in more than sixty
of the leading occupations and are found all over the United States
and in many foreign countries, but their influence has been particu-
larly significant in the South. It is impossible to secure accurate
statistics about the numbers of alumnae who have been engaged in
specific occupations, but careful estimates will give some general
indications of the principal activities which have appealed to Agnes
Scott alumnae.

The figures will necessarily overlap considerably because some
alumnae have had careers and have also married, and some have
had experience in more than one career.

More than 6,000 have married and established homes of their
own. Approximately two-thirds of the graduates marry within ten
years after leaving college. There has been a remarkably small
percent of divorces or broken homes, and the percentage of children
in the homes is rather large when compared with those of most
colleges for women.

About 2,560 alumnae have gone into educational work. Most of
these have been teachers, but some of them continued graduate and
research studies and others have been librarians.

The third largest group have been attracted by social service
in some of its various forms, including Y. W. C. A. employment,
Red Cross positions, service with various governmental agencies
in the humanitarian field and family welfare activities. These
number more than 1,000.

Approximately 800 have chosen business careers, including secre-
tarial work, office management, advertising, personnel service,
merchandising, insurance, and like occupations.

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More than 350 have undertaken religious work of various types,
including foreign missionaries in all the fields of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States and in most of the stations of those
fields, including also foreign missionaries for several other denomi-
nations. This group will also include church secretaries, home mission
workers in mountain mission fields, directors of religious education,
teachers of Bible in the public schools, and other self-sacrificing
positions.

Professional careers have claimed a smaller number, perhaps 150,
including physicians, lawyers, journalists, authors, technicians, and
ireveral other callings.

Agnes Scott alumnae have been very active and efficient in volun-
teer, non-profit services of the Church and of the various communities
in which they live. The Executive Secretary of the Women of the
Church in the Southern Presbyterian denomination is an Agnes Scott
graduate, and many members of the various church boards and
committees as well as leaders in local groups received their training
at Agnes Scott. In club work, civic life, social service agencies,
garden clubs, and the like, representatives of the College have
rendered cheerful and effective service throughout the country.

Acquaintance with our alumnae has been the greatest single
inducement for parents to wish their daughters to come to Agnes
Scott.

Spiritual Ideals

In the very early days of Agnes Scott Institute, before it became
a real college, the Agnes Scott ideal was formulated as follows:
"1) A liberal curriculum fully abreast of the best institutions of
this country. 2) The Bible a textbook. 3) Thoroughly qualified
and consecrated teachers. 4) A high standard of scholarship. 5) All
the influences of the College conducive to the formation and develop-
ment of Christian character. 6) The glorv of God the chief end
of all."

In the early days also the following prayer covenant was signed
by six trustees and two faculty members.

"We, the undersigned, believing the promise of our Lord
concerning prayer (Matt. 18:19), and having at heart the
largest success of the Agnes Scott Institute in its great work
for the glory of God, do hereby enter into covenant with
each other to offer daily prayer in our 'closets' for the
following specific objects:

"1. For each other in our work in and for the Institute.
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2. For the Board of Trustees and Faculty.

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

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

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

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

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

All who signed either the Agnes Scott Ideal or the Prayer
Covenant have passed away, but other names have been added to
the list and united prayer continues to be a fundamental part of
the program of the College. In my judgment, the spiritual life
of the campus has never been more satisfactory than at the present
time. This does not mean that we have reached our spiritual
objectives. This is far from true. It does mean that we draw
students from homes which are seriously concerned with high moral
standards and with Christian faith. It does mean that most of the
girls who come to Agnes Scott are professing Christians. It does
mean that we have a good proportion of those who participate
actively in the religious life on the campus and go out into their
various communities with a willingness to serve the Church and
Christ.

I would like to bear this testimony. I have had many opportunities
to study efforts which have been made for wise philanthropic giving.
For several years I was on the Executive Committee of the General
Education Board (Rockefeller) and saw all kinds of applications
for aid, local, regional, national, and international, and the ones
which received gifts. For several years I served on the Gifts
Committee of the John Bulow Campbell Foundation and had an
opportunity to review hundreds of applications of all kinds in the
South. I have served as chairman of the Stewardship Committee,
of the Presbyterian Program of Progress, and of the General Council
of our denomination. I am intimately acquainted with all the
causes to which our gifts are made. In the light of all the informa-
tion I have or have been able to get, I believe that an investment
of life and of time and of money in Agnes Scott College will do
more to advance the Kingdom of God than any other investment
which can be made. I would like for our Trustees and all other
friends of the College to believe with me that we are engaged in
a truly great and important work.

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Trustees

I do not know of any college or university which has a stronger
board of trustees than has Agnes Scott. Whether we are considering
educational or spiritual or financial or other types of problems we
have men and women who are accustomed to making important
decisions and who can help us in all phases of college life. It is a
great satisfaction to me that Dr. Alston will have this particular
Board to whom to look for guidance and for inspiration as he will
soon take over his duties.

Terms of the following trustees expire this year: Mr. T. Guy
Woolford, Mrs. Frances Winship Walters, Mr. G. Lamar Westcott,
Mr. Charles F. Stone, Mr. George W. Woodruff, and Mr. John H.
Henley, III. All of these have been much interested in the work
of the College and helpful in many ways.

There will be two vacancies on the Board. Mrs. Robert W.
Woodruff, who was elected to serve the unexpired term of Mr.
Frank M. Inman, was not able to accept. With my retirement,
Dr. Alston becomes a member of the Board ex officio and so his
unexpired term may be filled.

Faculty Changes

For the session 1950-1951 the greatest changes have been in
the department of Music. Mr. Michael A. McDowell, Jr., former
head of the Music department of the University of Georgia's Atlanta
Division, is head of the department. Mr. Raymond J. Martin,
former head of the department of Music at Brenau College, is
associate professor here and in charge of Organ. Miss Roxie
Hagopian, formerly of Southwestern University in Texas, is in
charge of Voice. Mrs. Irene Leftwich Harris has been added in
piano, and Mr. Chappell White is in charge of violin.

Dr. Chester W. Morse, who has served with us previously, is
the new head of the medical service.

Mrs. Florence Bishop is Instructor in Art; Madame Adele Brot,
in French; Miss Amelia J. Wier, in English; and Mrs. Neva
Jackson Webb, in Speech.

There have been two additions to the staff of the Dean of Students
this year, Miss Anita Albright and Miss Nellie Scott.

Misses Patty Overton and Hunt Morris are assistants in the
Library. Miss Julia Goode and Mrs. W. W. Hatcher are assistants
in Chemistry.

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Mrs. Martha Ann Howell is in charge of the Book Store. Mrs.
Clara C. Skelton is assistant to the Dietitian, and Mrs. Nada Rhodes
Wynn is assistant to the Supervisor of Dormitories. Miss Betty
Jean Smith is secretary to the Business Manager-Treasurer.

STUDENTS

Our enrollment for the college session is somewhat smaller than
for last year. In common with nearly all other educational institu-
tions, we may expect a somewhat smaller number of students during
the next two or three years.

Our students of this session may be classified in various ways
as follows :

Geographical Distribution

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Georgia 284

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Alabama ....
Arkansas ....
Colorado ....
Connecticut .
District of Columbia
Florida ....

Illinois
Indiana .
Kentucky .
Louisiana .
Maryland
Michigan .
Mississippi
Missouri .
New Mexico

New York . .
North Carolina .
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina .
Tennessee
Texas ....

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. . 36

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. . 21

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Virginia 13

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. . 1

. . 1

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West Virginia
Africa
China .
Korea .
Malaya . .
Puerto Rico .
Scotland .

Total 482

Class Enrollment

Seniors 103

Juniors 112

Sophomores 115

Freshmen 132

Special Students 20

Total 482

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Denominational Distribution

Presbyterian 168 Congregational .

Methodist 101 Lutheran . . .

Baptist 84 Christian Science

Episcopal 33 Salvation Army

Christian 12 Protestant

Roman Catholic ... 11 Church of Christ

Greek Orthodox ... 8 Non-members

Jewish 6

Total . .

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Residence

Boarders 320

Day Students 162

Total 482

For the Future

While progress has been made at Agnes Scott and many things
have been accomplished during its sixty-two years, we are now
impressed more and more with things which have been planned and
which we have not been able to do.

In the physical plant we had hoped to provide many improvements
which are yet to come. Among these will be the erection of Hopkins
Hall, a dormitory in memory of Miss Nannette Hopkins. In our
campaign about ten years ago the alumnae subscribed $100,000
for this purpose. We have since added approximately $25,000 and
the total sum is being held as a reserve for this particular building.
The plans call for its location on the site of Lowry Science Hall
which is to be removed.

We had earnestly hoped that modern faculty apartments could
be erected before this time. The fact that we have not been able
to get donations for the purpose, and the further fact that building
costs are so high that we felt it unwise to do the work on an
investment basis, caused the delay. Our general development program
would call for this building to be on Candler Street where Cunning-
ham Cottage and the residence of Mr. Tart are located. It would
thus form a quadrangle with the Infirmary and the Gymnasium.

We hoped that the Murphey Candler Building (formerly the
library) might have been moved before this time. You will

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remember that it is planned to locate it at the corner of Candler
Street and our main drive so as to get it way from our big quadrangle.
This should be done before Hopkins Hall is started.

For many years we have considered the establishment of the
Department of the Home. This could not be done until our new
Science Hall might be erected and it cannot yet be done until we
have a building of reasonable size for the department itself and
endowment for the operation of the teaching program. This is an
important development which still lies ahead.

We have had tentative plans for an art gallery and a teaching
program in art. This will presumably be located on McDonough
Street just across the main drive from Presser Hall. We have been
very anxious to get a fine collection of paintings and other art
objects. We believe support can be secured for this development
if and when we can bring it about.

Land has been purchased and plans have been drawn to move
seven of our residences which ought to be discarded on the main
campus to a location on the east side of Candler Street just across
from the new home for the President. It may be found that it is
not economical to establish such a residence court, but it is well
worth consideration.

We have a fine area south of the campus for the development of
an arboretum, and it has long been contemplated that this should
be started. Small experimental beginnings have been made but not
of great consequence. In this area we have a fine location for a
lake which might be used for boating and perhaps for fishing. Plans
for this will some day doubtless be drawn.

At considerable expense we have laid foundations for the building
of at least five first-class tennis courts with hard surfaces and also
for the extending of our May Day grounds, perhaps fifty percent.
I hope that these developments may come in the relatively near
future.

The Trustees have approved the tearing down of the White House
and the landscaping of that northeast corner of our campus. We
had hoped also to enlarge the Alumnae Garden so as to occupy all
the space immediately east of Inman Hall. In this connection we
have had dreams of beautifying the entire campus with shrubs and
flowers so as to enhance the beauty of our natural surroundings.

On the educational side of the College we have also dreamed of
many developments which must come in the future. One of these
has been the fixing of salaries on a really adequate scale. When I
came to Agnes Scott in 1915, the best paid women were getting
$1,000 per year and the best paid men $1,500. We have equalized
salaries and improved them, but on a purely financial basis they

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are still inadequate. There are still quite a number of ways in
which we assist teachers in making ends meet. The rental on our
rooms and houses and the charges for board are much lower than
standard rates in Decatur. We do contribute toward two pension
plans for our staff. For most of them who have applied, we have
been able to get grants for research or for refreshing courses. We
do have relatively short hours of work and remarkable freedom for
teachers in planning and handling their work. We could pay higher
salaries by requiring longer hours, by giving fewer electives, and
thus reducing the size of our staff. 1 hope that this will not be
necessary.

We have presented to several of our friends the request that
Agnes Scott be given a grant of $10,000,000 for endowment. This
would enable us to do everything needful for teachers and staff,
including sabbatical leave, retirement at earlier years, and many
ether advantages. Such a grant of endowment would enable us
to rank with many of the colleges for women in the entire world.

There are certain areas of emphasis in our curriculum which we
had hoped to make effective, but which will need to be studied for
the future. The College is relatively weak in the educational
offerings in political science, and in physiology, and we need offerings
in geography, geology, and perhaps anthropology.

We would like to enlarge the work in astronomy to such an
extent that it may become a separate department, and then the
work in physics would need to be extensively developed.

We have not succeeded very well in our health education and
instruction. A study is now in process to determine whether this
work can best be done in the classroom or in supplementary extra-
curriculum activities.

In the field of community service we have plans for Agnes Scott
to do more effective work than has been possible^ We have hoped
to extend our influence into the high schools of Georgia and
especially in the area of Decatur and Atlanta, so as to promote
scholarship and to arouse an interest of the strong students in
taking really first-class college work. We believe that this can be
done and will help the College as well as the community.

At the present time many Agnes Scott students serve in the
churches of the community in Sunday School work, in choir activities,
and in helping young people. We believe that church service may
be extended and that the College may make valuable contacts both
for the students and for the people served.

For a great many years the College community has supported a
missionary in the foreign fields. Jut now it is our own alumna,

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Miss Emily Winn. We believe that the interest of the College
in world affairs and particularly in furthering Christianity may
well be increased.

We are doing reasonably well in life enlistment, but in that field,
too, there is yet much to be accomplished for the future.

Personal

There is no way in which I can give adequate expression of my
gratitude for the friendship and support of the Trustees and of
other Agnes Scott friends. This fine support has been evidenced
through all the years, but has become more pronounced and perhaps
more sympathetic as I have grown older. I am sure that the Trustees
have often cooperated not because they were thoroughly convinced
that the program must be carried out but rather because they wished
to support the President who was advocating it.

My feeling of inadequacy in expressing gratitude certainly culmi-
nated in the recent celebration of my birthday. This was handled
with a delicacy of feeling and with a heartiness in the expression of
friendship that impressed all who were present. Most of the program
was a surprise to me. I have been honored far beyond any possible
deserving in having the library named for me and in having a library
fund established also. The "books of remembrance" will be cherished
through all the years to come. The beautiful car which is a personal
gift to Mrs. McCain and to me will give us satisfaction for a long
while. Every detail, including the program, place cards, the students'
song, and the recording of the program for Mrs. McCain, was
perfect. I am humbly grateful.

I cannot close this report without making special mention of the
major officers of the College who have served long years with me.
They are Dr. S. G. Stukes, Miss Carrie Scandrett, and Mr. J. C.
Tart. No president has ever been blessed with abler or more devoted
friends and fellow-workers.

One of the truly great blessings that has come to Agnes Scott
during its sixty-two years is Wallace Alston, who will take office
as president on July 1st. We expected him to be a good teacher
and an able administrator, but he has exceeded our best expectations.
He has shown fine leadership in every area of college life. It will
be a real joy to turn over to him the leadership of the College, with
the confidence that you will join with me in praying God's richest
blessings on him and on Agnes Scott.

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