Report of the President for the Year Ended June 30, 1965

Agnes Scott College

REPORT of the PRESIDENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED
JUNE 30, 1965

REPORT of the PRESIDENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

JUNE 30, 1965

Including

The Memorial Service

November 3, 196 5 for

President Emeritus James Ross McCain

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE / / DECATUR, GEORGIA

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FOREWORD

JLhis report of Agnes Scott's operations for the year that ended
on June 30, 1965, including a brief resume of the 1964-1965 col-
lege session and the summer following, has been delayed for
two reasons. Mrs. Alston and 1 spent two months this past sum-
mer in study and travel in England and Scotland. Then, upon
our return, an unusually demanding fall program, centering in
the completion, dedication, and opening of the Charles A. Dana
Fine Arts Building, has required time and energies ordinarily
devoted to other duties. A full account of the fall's emphasis
upon the fine arts at Agnes Scott will be reported subsequently
as a part of the 1965-1966 annual report.

On Saturday, October 30, 1965, our beloved president emeritus,
Dr. James Ross McCain, died. He left detailed instructions to
his family, to his minister, and to me concerning the funeral and
interment. The burial was in the early morning of Monday,
November 1, with only members of the family present. At eleven
o'clock a service of worship ivas held in the Decatur Presbyterian
Church. There tvith congregational singing of great hymns, the
reading of favorite Scripture passages, and prayer, God was
worshiped, as our friend had urged.

A memorial service for Dr. McCain in Gaines Chapel on the
Agnes Scott campus afforded us an opportunity to give expres-
sion to our thankfulness for his life and for his contribution to
the College. It is appropriate that this memorial service be in-
cluded in full as an appendix to this delayed report, thereby pre-
serving it and making it available to alumnae and friends of
Dr. McCain and of Agnes Scott College.

WALLACE M. ALSTON

December 1965

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BOARD of TRUSTEES

Hal L. Smith, Chairman .... Atlanta, Georgia
Alex P. Gaines, Vice-chairman . . . Atlanta, Georgia
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk . . . Tuscumbia, Alabama

']. R. McCain Decatur, Georgia

J. J. Scott Decatur, Georgia

G. Scott Candler Decatur, Georgia

John A. Sibley Atlanta, Georgia

G. Lamar Westcott Dalton, Georgia

"D. W. Hollings worth .... Florence, Alabama

L. L. Gellerstedt Atlanta, Georgia

S. G. Stukes Decatur, Georgia

Marshall C. Dendy .... Richmond, Virginia

J. R. Neal Atlanta, Georgia

Wallace M. Alston, ex officio . . . Decatur, Georgia

Mrs. S. E. Thatcher Miami, Florida

George W. Woodruff Atlanta, Georgia

P. D. Miller Atlanta, Georgia

D. P. McGeachy Clearwater, Florida

Mrs. William T. Wilson, Jr. Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mrs. Leonard E. LeSourd . . . Boynton Beach, Florida

Harry A. Fifield Atlanta, Georgia

J. Davison Philips Decatur, Georgia

William C. Wardlaw, Jr Atlanta, Georgia

J. A. Minter, Jr Tyler, Alabama

Ivan Allen, Jr Atlanta, Georgia

R. Howard Dobbs, Jr Atlanta, Georgia

Ben S. Gilmer New York, New York

Massey Mott Heltzel Mobile, Alabama

Miss Sarah Frances McDonald . . Decatur, Georgia

Mrs. Joseph C. Read Atlanta, Georgia

Wilton D. Looney Atlanta, Georgia

Edward D. Smith Atlanta, Georgia

Deceased October 30, 1965
Deceased May 22, 1965

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To the Board of Trustees
of Agnes Scott College:

present herewith my fourteenth annual report as
president of the College at the conclusion of the seventy-
sixth year of the College's service in the education of
young women.

The 1964- 1965 session at Agnes Scott was the first for many
years in which we were not actually engaged in active campaign-
ing for capital funds. The Seventy-fifth Anniversary Develop-
ment Program that began on July 1, 1953, was successfully con-
cluded in the spring of 1964, adding more than $12,500,000 to
the College's capital assets. This past year has been one of con-
solidation of gains, attention to the internal affairs of the campus,
and planning for the future.

Faculty and Staff

PERSONNEL

Additions to the faculty during the 1964- 1965 session were the
following: Theodore Meyer Greene (A.B. Amherst College;
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh; LL.D. Davidson College, Hobart
College, University of Pittsburgh, Rockford College; L.H.D.
Ripon College; D.Litt. Colby College) , visiting professor of phil-
osophy; George Arthur Buttrick (Graduate Lancaster Independ-
ent Theological College, Manchester; Victoria University (honors
in philosophy) ; D.D. Hamilton College, Middlebury College,
Yale University, Miami University, Princeton University, Har-
vard University, Grinnell College; LL.D. Bethany College; Litt.D.
Albright College; D.S.T. Columbia University, Northwestern
University) , visiting professor of Bible (winter quarter) ; Cath-
erine Strateman Sims (B.A. Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D.
Columbia University), professor of history and political science;

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June J. Yungblut (B.A. Keuka College, M.A. Yale University) ,
visiting instructor in English; Odette Marguerite Morphy (Di-
plome l'Ecole des Societes Savantes, Paris; M.A. Emory Univer-
sity), instructor in French; Sue Sexton Trotter (B.A. Wellesley
College; Certificat d'Etudes Franchises, l'Universite de Grenoble),
instructor in French; Claire M. Hubert (A.B. Duke University;
M.A., Ph.D. Emory University), instructor in French; Angelika
M. P. Huber (B.A., M.A. Emory University) , instructor in Ger-
man; Beverly King Cox (B.S. East Tennessee State University,
M.S. University of Tennessee), visiting assistant professor of
physical education.

Joan Elizabeth O'Bannon (B.S. University of Maryland; M.A.,
Ph.D. University of Virginia), assistant professor of economics;
Henry Thompson Fillmer (B.S., M.Ed., Ph.D. Ohio University),
assistant professor of education; Elizabeth Ellison Chapman (B.A.
Tift College, M.M. University of Michigan), visiting assistant
professor of music; Ruth Keaton (B.A. Columbia College, M.A.
Middlebury College), assistant professor of Spanish; Shirley
Pritchett (B.S. Woman's College of Georgia, M.S. University
of Tennessee), visiting assistant professor of physical education;
William J. Donaldson, Jr. (A.B. King College; B.D., Th.M.
Columbia Theological Seminary; Sc.M. University of Tennessee;
M.A., Ph.D. Michigan State University) , visiting associate pro-
fessor of psychology; Mary Ella Hammond McDowell (B.A.
Agnes Scott College, M.A.T. Emory University), visiting in-
structor in mathematics; Betty S. McNeel (B.A. Mississippi State
College for Women, M.S. Mississippi State College), visiting
instructor in mathematics; Ronald O. Fulp (B.S. Wake Forest
College, M.A. University of North Carolina), visiting assistant
professor of mathematics; Mary Louise Stark (B.A. Duke Uni-
versity, M.F.A. Yale University), visiting instructor in speech
and drama.

Appointments to the administrative staff for the 1964- 1965
session were the following: Irene Phrydas (A.B. Woman's Col-

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lege, University of North Carolina; M.D. University of Mary-
land) , consulting psychiatrist; Clara Sylvia Chapman (B.A. Agnes
Scott College) , assistant to the dean of students; Nile Moore Levy
(R.N.), manager of the alumnae house and assistant in the
alumnae office; Lebby Rogers Harrison (B.A. Agnes Scott Col-
lege), secretary to the registrar-director of admissions; Alice
Swain (R.N.), Mildred Hardy (R.N.), and Vera Elam Glosson
(R.N.), nurses in the infirmary; Lottie O'Kelley, assistant to
the supervisor of dormitories; Eloise F. Darby, secretary in the
office of the director of public relations and development; Jo-
anne Weldon (B.A. Tusculum College, B.C.E. Presbyterian
School of Christian Education) , secretary in the office of the
registrar-director of admissions; M. Jerry Shipp, assistant in the
bookstore; Joan Pruett Bunch, secretary in the office of the
dean of the faculty; Mary W. Whitley, switchboard operator;
Barbara H. Gallion, secretary in the alumnae office; Mary Car-
rington Wilson (B.A. University of North Carolina, M.A.
Northwestern University), news director.

New faculty appointments for the 1965 -1966 session include
the following: Martin L. Abbott (A.B. Presbyterian College;
M.A., Ph.D. Emory University) , visiting professor of history
(spring quarter) ; Michael J. Brown (B.A. LaGrange College;
M.A., Ph.D. Emory University), associate professor of history;
Bascom O. Quillian, Jr. (B.S., M.A. University of Georgia; LL.B.
Emory University), visiting associate professor of political science
(winter quarter) ; Arthur E. Waterman (A.B. Allegheny Col-
lege; M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin), visiting associate
professor of English (spring quarter) ; Thomas W. Hogan (B.A.
University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D. University of Arkansas), as-
sistant professor of psychology (part-time instructor during
1964-1965); Penelope Campbell (B.A. Baylor University, M.A.
Ohio State University) , assistant professor of history and political
science; Edward C. Johnson, Jr. (B.A. Kentucky Wesleyan Col-
lege, M.S. University of Missouri) , assistant professor of econom-

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ics; William Arthur Schaffer (B.S. Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology), visiting assistant professor of economics (fall quarter) ;
Ronald B. Wilde (B.S. University of New Hampshire, M.A.T.
Duke University), assistant professor of mathematics; Marta
Askew Baskin (B.A. University of Georgia, M.A.T. Emory Uni-
versity), instructor in Spanish; Molly F. Dotson (B.A. Agnes
Scott College, M.F.A. University of North Carolina), instructor
in physical education; Judith M. Giles (B.S. Milligan College,
M.A. University of Virginia), instructor in biology; Geraldine
M. Rentz (B.A. Columbia College), instructor in speech and
drama; Susan Dale Robinson (B.S., M.A.Ed. University of Geor-
gia) , visiting instructor in art; Grace Stephens Rueter (B.A. Uni-
versity of Georgia), instructor in English and German; Ronald
H. TeBeest ( A.B. Hope College, M.A. Emory University) , visiting
instructor in political science (winter quarter) ; Aley Thomas
Philip (B.A., M.A. Madras University, India), visiting scholar in
political science (fall quarter) .

New appointments to the administrative staff for the 1965-
1966 session include: Mary Louise Currie (B.A. Queens College,
M.C.E. Presbyterian School of Christian Education) and Bronna
Yvonne Willis (B.A. Woman's College, University of North Car-
olina) , assistants to the dean of students; Mary S. Lindig, secretary
in the office of the dean of students; Georgia E. Gillis (B.A. Agnes
Scott College), assistant to the director of admissions-registrar;
Karen Gerald Pope (B.A. Agnes Scott College), assistant to the
registrar-director of admissions; Evelyn Wells Wallace, secretary
in the office of the registrar-director of admissions; Mary Ann
White Morton (B.A. Tift College, M.Ln. Emory University),
assistant to the librarian; Doreen N. Coddington, clerical assistant
in the library; Barbara M. Pendleton (B.A. Agnes Scott College),
assistant director of alumnae affairs; Pattie Patterson Johnson
(B.A. Agnes Scott College), secretary in the alumnae office;
Margaret Dowe Cobb, manager of the alumnae house and assistant
in the alumnae office; Haskell L. Boyter (B.M. Furman Univer-

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sity, B.A. University of Chattanooga, M.M. Eastman School of
Music, University of Rochester) , director of the glee club.

Appointments and promotions effective with the 1965-1966
session are as follows: Raymond J. Martin (formerly associate
professor of music) promoted to professor of music; Myrna G.
Young (formerly assistant professor of classical languages and
literatures) promoted to associate professor of classical languages
and literatures; Ellen Douglass Ley burn (formerly professor of
English) promoted to professor of English and chairman of the
department; Jack L. Nelson (formerly instructor in English)
promoted to assistant professor of English; H. Richard Hensel
(formerly assistant professor of music) promoted to associate
professor of music; Florene J. Dunstan (formerly associate pro-
fessor of Spanish) promoted to associate professor of Spanish and
chairman of the department; Mollie Merrick (formerly assistant
to the dean of students) promoted to assistant dean of students.

The following faculty members have been granted leave in the
course of the 1965-1966 college session: Kate McKemie, assistant
professor of physical education; Robert F. Westervelt, assistant
professor of art; Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political
science (spring quarter) ; William G. Cornelius, associate pro-
fessor of political science (winter quarter) ; Merle G. Walker,
associate professor of philosophy (spring quarter).

Florence E. Smith, associate professor of history and political
science, retired at the conclusion of the 1964- 1965 college session.
She served the College with faithfulness and effectiveness for
thirty-six years.

Faculty salary increases for the 1965-19 66 college year have
resulted in the following scale at each rank:

Full Professor ....
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Instructor

Minimum

Maximum

Median

Mean

$9,500

$10,400

$9,900

$9,888

8,000

9,600

8,800

8,781

6,800

8,400

7,500

7,415

6,000

6,750

6,100

6,250

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. John L. Adams, assistant professor of music, continues as assistant concert-
master of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Richard C. Bahr, treasurer, is doing graduate work in business administra-
tion at Georgia State College.

Dr. Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, has been elected chairman of
the board of directors of the Presbyterian Survey.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, professor of biology, had an Agnes Scott summer study
grant to continue research at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts.

Dr. W. A. Calder, professor of physics and astronomy, taught gifted high school
students at a National Science Foundation Institute at the Hayden Planetarium
in New York during the summer. He continues as authenticator and editorial
consultant in astronomy for the New Standard Encyclopedia. Dr. and Mrs.
Calder (Dr. Frances Clark Calder) were in Europe during the latter part of the
summer.

Dr. Kwai Sing Chang, associate professor of Bible and philosophy, is a member
of the board of trustees of Central Congregational Church in Atlanta and con-
tinues to serve on the advisory committee of the DeKalb County Red Cross.

Mrs. Elizabeth E. Chapman, visiting assistant professor of music, is choir soloist
at St. Phillips Cathedral, Atlanta.

Dr. Marion T. Clark, professor of chemistry, is a member of the program com-
mittee and chairman of the accreditation committee of the Piedmont chapter of
the American Institute of Chemists. He was a reader and judge on the awards
committee for the southeastern regional division of the Ford Future Scientists of
America awards program and a judge in the state science fair in Athens. He is
also on the advance planning committee for the southeastern regional meeting of
the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Lee B. Copple, associate professor of psychology, taught at the Emory Uni-
versity summer school. He also served as consultant to the DeKalb County De-
velopmental Evaluation Clinic and to the Atlanta school system "Operation Head
Start."

Dr. William G. Cornelius, associate professor of political science, is chairman of
the University Center political science group and vice president of the Active
Voters of Georgia. He is a member of the Atlanta Citizens Committee on Crime
and Delinquency and serves on the board of directors of the Atlanta chapter,
United Nations Association of the United States. He was the Democratic nominee
from his district for the Georgia House of Representatives.

Dr. Miriam K. Drucker, professor of psychology, is a member of the policy and
planning council of the Georgia Psychological Association, and consultant and
frequent speaker for the St. Joseph's Infirmary School of Nursing in-service
training program on "Counseling as a Part of a School of Nursing." She con-
tinues to serve as chairman of the Georgia Psychological Association Liaison

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Committee with the Office of Special Education, Georgia State Department of
Education.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, associate professor of Spanish, is chairman of the pro-
gram committee for the University Center language group, area chairman for
world problems of the Georgia division of the A.A.U.W., and president of the
Pan American Club of Atlanta. She was in Mexico during the summer on an
Agnes Scott summer study grant.

Dr. Henry Thompson Fillmer, assistant professor of education, serves as pro-
gramming consultant to the U.S. Public Health project: "Development and
evaluation of programmed instruction in the teaching of verbs to deaf children
in the primary grades," conducted by the Atlanta Speech School; and as language
arts consultant to a U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity project for under-
privileged young adults, conducted by the AVCO Corporation of New York.

Mrs. Mary W. Fox, instructor in chemistry, is vice chairman of the commission on
education of the First Methodist Church of Decatur.

Dr. W. Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry, taught at a National Science Foun-
dation Institute for high school teachers at Alabama College last summer. He is
a member of the Herty Award Committee for the Georgia section of the American
Chemical Society.

Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, professor of Bible, is chairman of the University Center
Bible and Religion Teachers' group. During the past year he has given a number
of lectures, including a series of five Bible hours on "Women in St. Mark's
Gospel" for the Synodical Training School, Arkansas College, Batesville. He
has been made an honorary member of Pi Tau Chi, honorary society in religion.

Dr. Julia T. Gary, associate professor of chemistry and assistant dean of the
faculty, had a National Science Foundation grant to attend a conference on
valence theory at Tufts University in July.

Miss Leslie J. Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics, participated in a panel
discussion at the 1964 meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathe-
matics in Atlanta. She was in Europe during the summer.

Mrs. Lillian Rogers Gilbreath, instructor in music, is vice president of the Atlanta
Music Teachers' Association. The recordings she made in collaboration with
violinist Heinz Trutzschler were broadcast from Berlin over Free Europe.

Miss Elvena Green, assistant professor of speech and drama, continued her dis-
sertation research last summer under a grant from the Board of Christian Educa-
tion, Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Dr. Nancy P. Groseclose, associate professor of biology, is a member of the
executive committee of the council of the Georgia Academy of Science. In August,
she participated in the conference on histochemistry held at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.

Miss Eloise Herbert, assistant professor of Spanish, was in Spain during the
summer. She had an Agnes Scott summer grant to acquire materials for the en-
richment of instruction in the Spanish department.

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Mrs. Angelika Huber, instructor in German, has completed the work for the
master's degree.

Dr. Claire Hubert, instructor in French, attended the Yeats International Sum-
mer School in Ireland last summer.

Dr. Eleanor N. Hutchens, associate professor of English, taught at the summer
session of the Huntsville Center, University of Alabama.

Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, director of alumnae affairs, presented a paper and
participated in a panel program at the national conference of the American
Alumni Council and serves as the Council membership chairman for Georgia.
She was judge for the 1965 National Honors Competition of the American
College Public Relations Association. In May she completed a six-year term as a
member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Y.W.C.A. and a second term as
executive vice president of the Y.W.C.A.

Dr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., dean of the faculty and professor of philosophy, is a
member of the Committee on Standards and Reports for Senior Colleges, South-
ern Association of Colleges and Schools. He served as visiting professor of theol-
ogy, Columbia Theological Seminary, during the fall and winter quarters of
1964-65. He continues as chairman of the Presbyterian Guidance Program Coun-
cil, Synod of Georgia, and as a member of the Campus Christian Life Council,
Christian Education Committee, and Special Study Committee of the Synod.

Dr. Edward T. Ladd, professor of education, served on the executive committee
and leadership education committee of the Georgia Council on Teacher Educa-
tion and on the executive board planning for the new Georgia Teacher Educa-
tion Council. He was consultant on teacher education at Furman University,
attended the Northwestern University invitational conference on teacher educa-
tion, and participated on a panel at the Atlanta meeting of the National Associa-
tion of College Deans and Registrars.

Miss Kay Manuel, assistant professor of physical education, continues to serve
as chairman of the swimming examinations committee for the Division of Girls'
and Women's Sports, American Association for Health, Physical Education and
Recreation.

Dr. Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, has been re-elected presi-
dent of the Georgia chapter of the Hymn Society of America. He presented a
paper on "Psalmody to Hymnody" at the annual meeting of the organization.
He is national chairman of the American Guild of Organists' organ playing
competition for 1965-66.

Miss Kate McKemie, assistant professor of physical education, is on leave of
absence for doctoral study at the University of Tennessee.

Miss Mollie Merrick, assistant to the dean of students, has completed her work
for the master's degree in student personnel administration.

Miss lone Murphy, assistant dean of students, was re-elected secretary for the
Academy of Teachers of Occupations and the National Vocational Guidance
Association Section on Group Methods of Teaching Occupations.

Dr. Jack L. Nelson, instructor in English, was a reader for the College Entrance

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Examination Board English Achievement Test and Advanced Placement Exami-
nation in English. He was in Europe during the summer.

Miss Lillian Newman, assistant librarian and chief reference librarian, is chair-
man of the nominating committee of the College and University Section of the
Georgia Library Association. She had an Agnes Scott summer study grant to take
a course in library methods analysis at Atlanta University.

Dr. Marie Huper Pepe, associate professor of art, lectured at meetings of the
Alabama Art Association, the Atlanta Art Association, and the Milledgeville
chapter of the A.A.U.W.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and political science, gave the paper
"The Catholic Expansion in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1800-1850" for a ses-
sion of the American Historical Association meeting. In April, he lectured at
West Texas University, Amarillo College, and Wayland Baptist College.

Miss Janef Newman Preston, assistant professor of English, has been appointed a
trustee of the Georgia Writers Association. She served as one of the judges of
the poetry contest of the Atlanta Writers Club. Miss Preston was honored at
the twentieth annual Georgia celebrity breakfast of the Atlanta branch of the
National League of American Pen Women for the 1964 publication of her
volume of poems, Upon Our Pulses.

Mr. Philip B. Reinhart, instructor in physics, had an Agnes Scott summer grant
for doctoral study at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Miss Mary Hart Richardson, instructor in English, served as a reader for the
College Entrance Examination Board English Achievement Test. She attended the
British Summer School at Oxford University last summer.

Dr. Mary Rion, associate professor of English, served again this year as table
leader for reading the College Entrance Examination Board English Achievement
Test and the Advanced Placement Examination in English. She was a member of
the committee on revising the Graduate Record Area test. Last summer, Dr.
Rion travelled in Europe.

Dr. Sara Ripy, associate professor of mathematics, taught at a summer institute
for women teachers of junior and senior high school mathematics, held at Texas
Woman's University and sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics, has just completed twenty-six
years of service on the board of the Decatur and Atlanta Red Cross. He spent
part of the summer visiting in Okinawa.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of economics and sociology, is a
member of the education committee of the Georgia Social Workers. She con-
tinues as a member of the board of the Atlanta branch of the A.A.U.W.

Dr. Elizabeth Stack, professor of education, taught at Emory last summer.

Miss Laura Steele, registrar and director of admissions, served on the Selection
Committee for the 1965 National Merit Scholars.

Dr. Koenraad W. Swart, associate professor of history, taught at Atlanta Uni-
versity last summer.

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Dr. Margret G. Trotter, associate professor of English, is president of the choir
of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Decatur.

Dr. John A. Tumblin, Jr., professor of sociology and anthropology, is chairman
of the University Center sociology group for 1965-66. He was a visiting profes-
sor at Columbia Theological Seminary during the fall quarter of 1964 and a
visiting professor at Emory University during the summer quarter. Dr. Tumblin
is chairman of the board of directors of the DeKalb County Red Cross Advisory
Board and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of the
Metropolitan Atlanta chapter, American Red Cross.

Mr. Ferdinand Warren, professor of art, had a one-man exhibition of paintings
at Georgia State College and has also exhibited recently at the Atlanta Southeast-
ern Annual Exhibition and at the Callaway Gardens' Annual Exhibition. He was
commissioned to enamel an altar cross for St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Atlanta
and to execute a painting as a memorial to Laurie Bane of the class of 1967.
In May, he was presented the Mayor's Award by the Atlanta Beautiful Commis-
sion for his thirty foot mural in the lobby of Foote and Davies Printing Company
of Atlanta.

Mr. Robert Westervelt, assistant professor of art, is treasurer of the Georgia
Designer Craftsman. He is on leave of absence for study at the Institute of
Liberal Arts, Emory University.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of physical education, received the
honor award of the Georgia Association for Health, Physical Education and
Recreation. She served on the visiting committee for the evaluation of Marietta
High School. Miss Wilburn was in Europe during the summer.

Dr. Elizabeth Zenn, associate professor of classical languages and literatures,
travelled in Greece and the Near East last summer. She had an Agnes Scott
summer grant to acquire materials for the enrichment of instruction in the classics
department.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

1964-1965

Josephine Bridgman

Research in progress: Effects of the rare gas helium on ciliate cysts.

Kwai Sing Chang

Research in progress: Chinese language and thought.

Marion T. Clark

Research in progress: Investigation of the scope and mode of action of the
Fehling's reagent.

Lee B. Copple

Research in progress: The effects of rigidity on teachers' attitude change to-
ward mental health issues.

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William G. Cornelius
Research in progress :
"Southen Political Change," a book-length inquiry into recent evolution in

Southern politics.
"A Legal Basis for World Order," a book-length examination of necessary
steps in the development of international law.

S. Leonard Doerpinghaus

Research in progress: Some physical and chemical properties of selected organic
compounds (herbicides).

FLORENE J. DUNSTAN

Research in progress:

Revising translation of Gonzalez Pena's Historia de la Literatura Mexicana.
(Accepted for publication during 1965-1966 by University Press, Dallas.)
Contemporary Mexican novel, particularly Rosario Castellanos and Agustin
Yanez.

H. T. FlLLMER

"A Comparison of Teaching Machines and Programmed Texts in the Teaching

of Algebra I," The Journal of Educational Research, LVIII, 5 (January, 1965),

2 1 8- 2 1 , with Paul W . Carpenter .
"Programmed Instruction in Elementary Arithmetic," The Arithmetic Teacher,

XII, 1 (January, 1965), 19-23, with Glen E. Fincher.
"Research in Programmed Instruction," Ohio Schools, XLIII, 2 (February,

1965), 24, 40-41.
"Linguistics and Reading Comprehension," Education, (in press) .

Research in progress :

Analysis of the learning pattern of underprivileged young adults.
Effectiveness of linguistics in the teaching of language and reading with
underprivileged adults.

W. J. Frierson

Research in progress: A study of the composition and structure of some
metallic complexes of a trioxime.

Paul L. Garber
"A Letter from a Paul in Rome," Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, XLIII (Fall,
1964), 10-12.

Six articles for the revised edition of The International Standard Bible En-
cyclopedia.
Research in progress :
The age of Solomon.
Archaeological aids to understanding the Bible.

Netta E. Gray

Research in progress: "A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. Section Nageia.
XIV."

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Elvena M. Green
"John Rich's Art of Pantomime as Seen in his The Necromancer, or Harlequin
Doctor Faust us: A Comparison of the Two Faustus Pantomimes at Lincoln's-
Inn-Fields and Drury Lane," Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research,
IV, 1 (May, 1965), 47-60.

Thomas W. Hogan
Research in progress :

Discrimination of probabilistic reinforcement schedules.
Absolute light reinforcement thresholds in the white rat. (Research sup-
ported by a summer grant from Agnes Scott College.)

Claire M. Hubert
"The Still Point and the Turning World: A Comparison of the Myths of
Gerard de Nerval and William Butler Yeats" (doctoral dissertation, Emory
University).

Research in progress: Comparison of the thought of William Butler Yeats and
Albert Camus.

Eleanor N. Hutchens

Irony in Tom Jones, University of Alabama Press, 1965.
"The Control of Quality," Mortar Board Quarterly, XXXXI, 4 (April, 1965),

26-29.
"Why Mortar Board?" Mortar Board Quarterly, XXXXI, 4 (April, 1965),

68-69 (reprinted from the Mortar Board Quarterly of January, 1949) .
"The Complexities of Choice," Agnes Scott Alumnae Ouarterly, XLIII, 3

(Spring, 1965), 5-7.

C. Benton Kline, Jr.
"Building the Faculty at Agnes Scott," Agnes Scott Alumnae Ouarterly, XLIII,
3 (Spring, 1965), 2-4.

Edward T. Ladd
"Public Education and Religion," Journal of Public Law, XIII (1964), 310-342.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn
"Norms in Satire: A Symposium," Satire Newsletter (Fall, 1964), 2-25.
Research in progress: The relation of comedy to tragedy in the fiction of Henry
James.

Joan Elizabeth O'Bannon
"Payments from Tax Exempt Property" (to be published in a book on prop-
erty taxes in the United States) .

Margaret W. Pepperdene
"Beowulf and the Coast-guard," (accepted for publication in English Studies).
Research in progress :

A Germanic survival in Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers."
The imagery of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.

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Walter B. Posey

Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier, Louisiana State University Press,
1965.
"Ecclesiastical Hankerings," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, XXIII (June,
1964), 136-44.

Accepted for publication fall of 1965: Religion in the Trans- Appalachian
South to 1861, by University of Kentucky Press.

Erika Meyer Shiver

Research in progress: Revision and expansion of Elementary German. (Second
edition to be published in January, 1966.)

Catherine S. Sims

Research in progress: Collecting and editing of unpublished fragments of
House of Lords' Journals for the reign of Henry VIII.

Anna Greene Smith

Research in progress: Study at the University of North Carolina and at the
Population Commission of the United Nations in summer of 1965 on social
change and population. (Supported by a grant from the Board of Christian
Education, Presbyterian Church, U.S.)

Chloe Steel

Research in progress: Continued research on Balzac and Proust.

Koenraad W. Swart

Research in progress: Book-length study of nineteenth-century individualism.

Margret G. Trotter
"Donne's Sonnets Full of Fervor," Diocese, II (May, 1965), 5.
Book Review: "Robert Frost, Selected Letters," ed. Lawrance Thompson,
Atlanta Times, August 30, 1964, p. 4.

John A. Tumblin, Jr.
Research in progress :

Continued study on role conflict and status discontinuity in the missionary
profession.

Continued study on racial and "racial" attitudes in missions.
Conflicting evidence in the literature of sociology in the United States con-
cerning racial attitudes in Brazil.

Robert F. Westervelt
"Form Without Function ?" Aurora, 74, 2 (Winter, 1964), 4-6.

Campus Activities

During the 1964- 1965 session, the following program of campus
activities was offered to the college community:

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September

Music program, followed by formal reception for new students.
"Meet-the-Ministers Tea" sponsored by Interfaith Council.
Honors Day Convocation: Theodore Meyer Greene, visiting professor of phi-
losophy, Agnes Scott College.

October

World-wide Communion Sunday vesper service led by Dean Kline and
President Alston.

On campus for lectures: Archibald MacLeish, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
in poetry and drama; former professor Harvard University, librarian of Con-
gress, and assistant secretary of state.

Annual "Black Cat" community day, followed by campus dance.
On campus for master class: Alec Wyton, organist and choirmaster of The
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, and president of the American
Guild of Organists.
Chapel: Eugene Patterson, editor of The Atlanta Constitution.

Chapel: Debate on the presidential campaign issues between James A. Mackay,
Democratic congressional candidate from the fourth district, and Glenville
Haldi, campaign manager for the Republican congressional candidate from the
fourth district.

Panel discussion sponsored by the Decatur Alumnae Club: William G. Cor-
nelius, Agnes Scott College; William Eckbert, president, senior class, Emory
University Medical School; Dillard Munford, chairman of the board, The
Atlantic Company; Eugene Patterson, editor, The Atlanta Constitution; Ray
Moore, news director, WSB-TV.
Mock election.

On campus for lecture: Sir Bernard Lovell, professor of radio astronomy,
University of Manchester, and director of Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Fall meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Tennis clinic and exhibition game: Davis cup winner Don Budge and Lloyd

Budge.

Continuing education program for alumnae and their husbands during the

period October 19-November 16. Dr. Eleanor Hutchens, Dr. Catherine Sims,

and Dr. Paul Garber of the Agnes Scott faculty taught courses (five sessions

each) on James Joyce, modern Turkey, and the contribution of archeology to

Bible study.

November

Organ recital: Raymond J. Martin, associate professor of music, Agnes Scott

College.

Senior Investiture: Eleanor N. Hutchens, associate professor of English, Agnes

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Scott College. Sunday sermon: The Rev. Thomas H. McDill, Jr., professor of
pastoral theology and counseling, Columbia Theological Seminary.
On campus for lecture-concert and master class: Pauline Koner, dance artist.
Honor Emphasis Week.

Presentation of Hermann Gressieker's "Royal Gambit," by Agnes Scott Black-
friars.

University Center Visiting Scholar in political science: Hiram M. Stout, pro-
fessor of international affairs, George Washington University.

December

Chapel: The Hon. Herman E. Talmadge, Senator from Georgia.

Chapel : Christmas program presented by the Agnes Scott Contemporary Dance

Group.

Glee Club Christmas concert, followed by annual community Christmas party.

January

Chapel: Rabbi Harold L. Gelfman of Congregation Beth Israel, Macon,

Georgia.

Eighteenth annual All-Southern Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, sponsored

by Pi Alpha Phi.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: Dumas Malone, former professor of history

at Yale, Columbia, University of Virginia; authority on Thomas Jefferson and

author of Jefferson the Virginian.

Religious Emphasis Week: George A. Buttrick, visiting professor of Bible,

Agnes Scott College.

Annual dance, sponsored by Social Council and Athletic Association.

February

On campus for lecture: Professor Jacques Hardre, chairman of the department

of romance languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dramatic reading of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" presented by Arts

Council.

Sophomore Parents' Week End.

Dolphin Club water show.

Art exhibition: water colors and drawings by California artist, Phil Dike.

On campus for lecture: Professor Bernard M. W. Knox of Yale University

and the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington).

On campus for meeting: Georgia Philosophical Association.

Founder's Day Convocation: Dean Susan P. Cobbs, Swarthmore College.

Presentation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" by the National Players.

Concert presented by the Florida State University Glee Club.

Junior Jaunt.

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March

On campus for lecture: Viktor Pdschl, professor ordinarius of classical philol-
ogy, University of Heidelberg, and visiting professor of classics, Yale Univer-
sity.

University Center Visiting Scholar in German: Liselotte Dieckmann, professor
of German, University of Washington.

On campus for lecture: Ambassador Sivert A. Nielsen, permanent representa-
tive of Norway to the United Nations and twice president of the Security
Council of the United Nations.
Agnes Scott-Spelman student exchange.

On campus for lecture: Gilles Quispel of the University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands.

On campus: Dr. Sripati Shridevi, principal of the University College for
Women, Hyderabad, India, and Mrs. H. M. Parvathamma, principal of
Mahrani's College for Women, Bangalore, India.
Concert: The Ceciliennes, madrigal singers from William Woods College.

April

University Center Visiting Scholar in physical education: Marion R. Broer,
University of Washington.

Harvard University debating team vs. Agnes Scott's Pi Alpha Phi.
Tennis matches : Florida State University and Agnes Scott.
Musicale presented by members of Sigma Alpha Iota from Wesleyan College,
Woman's College of Georgia, University of Georgia, and Agnes Scott.
Special Holy Week services.

University Center Visiting Scholar in sociology: Paul F. Lazarsfeld, professor
of sociology, Columbia University.

On campus for lecture: Paul Tournier, psychiatrist-theologian, Geneva, Swit-
zerland.

On campus for lectures: Klaus Mehnert, authority on Sino-Soviet relations;
professor of political science, Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University,
Aachen, Germany.

Phi Beta Kappa Convocation: Klaus Mehnert.

Blackfriars' presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara."
Alumnae Day.

Recital: John Adams, violinist; Michael McDowell, accompanist.
Meeting on campus of Georgia Association of Women Deans and Counselors.
Mortar Board Convocation: Mary L. Boney, associate professor of Bible, Agnes
Scott College.

May

On campus for lecture: David E. Bell, administrator of the Agency for In-

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ternational Development, Washington, D.C.

Spring dance concert, Agnes Scott Contemporary Dance Group.

Senior opera.

Community picnic, sponsored by Athletic Association.

Annual meeting of the Agnes Scott Board of Trustees.

Agnes Scott Glee Club spring concert.

June

Baccalaureate sermon: Harold A. Bosley, Christ Church Methodist, New York,

N.Y.

Commencement address: Frank G. Dickey, director of Southern Association

of Colleges and Schools and director-elect of the National Commission on

Accrediting.

Buildings and Grounds

Campus and plant improvements undertaken in the summer of
1964 and during the 1964- 196 5 session were as follows:

Four cottages (123, 125, 129, 131 College Place) were razed in order to pro-
vide additional space for parking.

Extensive alterations were made in the lower dining hall area, enlarging and
improving food service facilities and relieving the crowded conditions in the
main dining room.

A culvert was installed in the stream bed south of the power plant, and the
entire area was filled with dirt.

The athletic field was reconditioned.

Four tennis courts were resurfaced and an additional court was constructed.

In an area 30' by 30' east of the power plant, a substation was provided to
enable the Georgia Power Company to increase and improve their facilities to
the campus.

Rebekah Scott recreation room was partitioned to provide additional date
parlors.

A new telephone cable was laid from Main to the Dana Fine Arts Building
to take care of additional telephones.

Landscaping in the alumnae garden, previously in progress, was completed.

Alexander Cottage (225 South Candler Street) was renovated for use as a
student dormitory during the 1964-1965 session.

Major renovations were made at 212 South Candler Street, 302 South

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McDonough Street, 321 South McDonough Street, and a room was added at
184 South Candler Street. (These houses are all used for faculty residences.)

General repairs, maintenance, and painting were done in a number of college
buildings.

During the 1964- 196 5 fiscal year, the College acquired the fol-
lowing property:

114 South Candler Street

212 South Candler Street

219 East Hancock Street

207 South McDonough Street

Lot south of 207 South McDonough Street

301 South McDonough Street

321 South McDonough Street

The following improvements, authorized by the Board, con-
stitute the program of repairs and maintenance from July, 1965,
through June, 1966:

Raze cottages at 114 South Candler Street (Bell), 165 South Candler Street
(McKinney), and 201 South McDonough Street (Waller).

Provide offices and meeting areas for major student organizations by partition-
ing and reconditioning two large areas on the first floor of Rebekah Scott Hall,
previously occupied by the department of speech and drama.

Move the language laboratory from the ground floor of the library and install
itinButtrickHall.

Remove faculty offices from the ground floor of the library to Buttrick Hall,
partitioning and reconditioning the third floor, north wing, offices and class-
rooms formerly used by the art department.

Improve the lighting in classrooms and offices in Buttrick Hall.

Redesign and recondition Room 103 Buttrick Hall for the president's office
and study and for the office of the president's secretary.

Convert the offices now occupied by the president and his secretary to a recep-
tion and small administrative conference area for Buttrick Hall.

Routine repairing and painting in college buildings.

The following capital improvements, recommended by the ad-
ministration and approved by the Board, are to be undertaken
as soon as funds become available:

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A concrete block addition to the present carpenter's shop in order to provide
much needed warehouse space for a storage area and a central maintenance
complex (estimate $10,000).

Extension of power plant southward by an addition adequate to house two
new boilers, gas-fired, with oil stand-by (estimate $250,000) .

Air conditioning of the library, dining hall, and Presser (estimate $60,000 for
each building).

Finances

CURRENT OPERATIONS

The following is a summary of receipts and expenditures in the
1 9 64- 1 965 current operations, as shown in the audit of June 30,
1965:

Receipts

Income from permanent invested funds $ 600,777.74

Receipts from student fees 760,570.08

(tuition and student activities)

Gifts and grants 58,701.83

Receipts from students

(room, board, laundry, and infirmary) 684,027.35

Auxiliary and miscellaneous 127,026.60

Total receipts $2,231,103.60

Expenditures

General administration $ 444,117.85

Instruction and department expense 657,978.57

Library 82,414.23

Organized research 5,440.66

Operation and maintenance of physical plant and campus . . . 349,113.79

Development 124,219.93

Auxiliary enterprises

(dining hall, infirmary, bookstore, etc.) 556,892.42

Total Expenditures $2,220,177.45

Excess of income over expenditures $ 10,926.15

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CAPITAL ASSETS

Agnes Scott's capital assets, as shown in the audit for 1964-1965,
are as follows:

Fixed Assets

Buildings $6,179,031.09

Furnishings and equipment 1,424,274.70

Land 421,991.50 $ 8,025,297.29

Permanent Plant Fund 10,818.84

Permanent Fund Assets

General Endowment Fund $2,450,321.38

English Fund 639,474.51

History and Political Science Fund .... 950,089.30

Walters Fund 5,751,056.68

Memorial Endowment Fund 752,040.80

Memorial Scholarship Fund 749,525.32

Ford Fund 330,973.75

Loan Funds 44,808.02

Other Non-expendable Funds 31,940.16 $11,700,229.92

Total capital assets $19,736,346.05

Enrollment

The enrollment for the past session has totaled 724 students
(668 boarders, 56 day students). Thirty-five states, the District
of Columbia, the Canal Zone, and nine foreign countries are
represented in the following geographical distribution of student
residence:

Alabama 49 Georgia 206

Alaska 2 Hawaii 1

Arkansas 8 Illinois 5

Connecticut 1 Indiana 1

Delaware 1 Kansas 2

District of Columbia 3 Kentucky 24

Florida 99 Louisiana 14

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Maryland 2

Massachusetts 1

Michigan 1

Mississippi 10

Montana 1

Nebraska 1

New Jersey 5

New Mexico 2

New York 4

North Carolina 63

Ohio 3

Oklahoma 3

Pennsylvania 7

Rhode Island 1

South Carolina 83

Tennessee 49

Texas 10

Utah 2

Virginia 45

Washington 1

West Virginia 2

Wisconsin

Canal Zone

England

Germany

Greece

Israel

Japan

Korea

Pakistan

Sweden

Turkey 2

724

The classification of the student body for the 1964- 196 5 ses-
sion is as follows:

Seniors 142

Fourth-year Juniors 4

Juniors 159

Third-year Sophomores 3

Sophomores 185

Second-year Freshmen 2

Freshmen 223

Specials 6

Total 724

note : The total number of seniors and fourth-year juniors given above includes
four who failed to meet graduation requirements and three who withdrew during
the session. It does not include three students who completed degree requirements
during the summer and were not in residence during the 1964-65 session. The
total number awarded the degree was 142. The total number of juniors does not
include one who was studying on the junior year abroad plan.

The denominational distribution is as follows:

Presbyterian 300

Methodist 142

Baptist 105

Episcopal 102

Roman Catholic 20

Lutheran 15

Christian 11

United Church of Christ 7

Jewish 6

Church of Christ 2

Greek Orthodox 2

Unitarian 2

Moravian 1

Mormon 1

Moslem 1

Society of Friends 1

Protestant preference 3

No indication 3

Total 724

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Trustees

The terms of the following Trustees expired with the annual
meeting of the Board on May 21, 1965 : Mr. William C. Wardlaw,
Jr. (Corporate), Mr. J. R. Neal (Corporate), Mr. Ivan Allen,
Jr. (Corporate), Dr. J. Davison Philips (Corporate), Mrs.
Leonard E. LeSourd (Alumnae), Dr. S. G. Stukes (Synodical,
Georgia), Dr. Marshall C. Dendy (Synodical, Florida), and Dr.
D. W. Hollingsworth (Synodical, Alabama).

By action of the Board at the annual meeting, Mr. Wardlaw,
Mr. Neal, Mr. Allen, and Dr. Philips were re-elected as Corporate
Trustees for terms of four years each; Mrs. LeSourd was re-elected
as an Alumnae Trustee for a term of two years, subject to ratifi-
cation by the National Agnes Scott Alumnae Association; Dr.
Stukes was re-elected as Synodical Trustee for a term of four years,
subject to ratification by the Synod of Georgia, Presbyterian
Church (U.S.) ; and Dr. Dendy was re-elected as Synodical
Trustee for a term of four years, subject to ratification by the
Presbyterian Synod of Florida. Because Dr. Hollingsworth had
been ill for some time and unable to participate actively in the
work of the Board, he and his family requested that he not be
re-elected as a Synodical Trustee from Alabama. The Board
agreed not to fill the vacancy left by Dr. Hollingsworth at the
annual meeting in order that the Committee on Nominations
might have more time to make a recommendation.

On May 22, 1965, Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth died in Florence,
Alabama. He had been a faithful and enthusiastic member of the
Board of Trustees since 1941. His service through the years has
meant much to Agnes Scott College, and he will be missed.

At the annual meeting of the Board on May 21, 1965, Mr. Hal
L. Smith was re-elected as chairman, Mr. Alex P. Gaines as vice-
chairman, and the President of the College as secretary.

The success and progress of Agnes Scott College in the years
that lie ahead depend to a large extent on the wisdom and fore-

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sight of the Trustees. I am grateful for the men and women who
make up our Board and for their encouragement and support.
I look ahead with confidence as we plan together for the future.

Respectfully submitted,

PRESIDENT

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MEMORIAL SERVICE for JAMES ROSS McCAIN

Agnes Scott College
November 3, 1965

PRELUDE (Great Hymns of the Church)

HYMN: "God of the Marching Centuries"

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 103 Dean Emeritus S. Guerry Stukes

MEMORIAL PRAYER

Dean C. Benton Kline, Jr.

TRIBUTE from the BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mr. Hal L. Smith, Chairman

MEMORIAL MESSAGE
DOXOLOGY
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE

President Wallace M. Alston

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MEMORIAL PRAYER

Almighty God, our heavenly Father:

Who hast made the world and set men in it to live lives of
creativity and service to Thee;

Who dost guide and direct the ways of men in the world and
who dost number the days of every man;

Who hast sent Thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to bring
life and immortality to light through the Gospel;

We give Thee thanks for this institution, for its founders
who dedicated it to Thee, for those who through the years have
as officers, teachers, students, and workers shared in its life
under Thy guidance and direction, and who have sought to
serve Thee by serving Agnes Scott.

We thank Thee particularly for Thy servant, James Ross McCain,
who for more than fifty years made this institution his life and
his service to Thee. We thank Thee for his wisdom and
foresight, his courage and resolution, his dedication to the cause
of learning, his quiet, steady witness to Thy presence and
direction in his own life, and his ever seeking Thy guidance
for this college.

We thank Thee for his service beyond the campus in the cause
of education, in constructive community endeavor, and in the
work of the church in this community and around the world.

We thank Thee for his life as husband and father, for the
radiant witness of his home, for his family. And we pray for
them the comfort that comes from trust in Thee and the
assurance of the reality of the unseen world where there is
neither suffering nor sorrow.

Renew our own confidence in Jesus Christ who by His death
destroyed the power of death, and by His resurrection opened
the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

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Grant us assurance that because He lives we shall live also and
that neither death nor life nor things present nor things to come
nor height nor depth nor anything in all creation shall be able
to separate us from Thy love which is in Christ Jesus Our Lord.

AMEN

Tribute from the Board of Trustees

It is my privilege to pay tribute to one of the most remarkable
men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, Dr. James Ross
McCain.

He had been a member of the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott
since 1923. After his retirement in 1951 as president of the
college, he had served as chairman of its executive committee.

He shall be missed by many people in many areas of life, but
none shall miss him more than we of the Board of Trustees. His
loyalty, wise counsel and deep understanding could always be
depended upon.

A short time ago he came by my office, and we discussed various
matters relating to the college. I was impressed with the fact
that, as always, he was looking and planning ahead. He was
not one to look backward this was one of the elements of his
greatness.

In all the relationships and institutions of life he made a sig-
nificant and permanent contribution. His sense of values both
moral and material was unerring. His courage was steadfast
under all of life's stresses, strains and emergencies. He answered
every call of duty. He made this community and our lives richer
by his presence. Few men's lives have been so valuable and
counted for so much.

The imprint of his life was strong in the church he loved. He
was one of its outstanding leaders.

In educational circles he had no peer. Agnes Scott, of course,

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was his first love; however, his broad interest in education is
substantiated by the fact that he served on the Board of Trustees
of Columbia Theological Seminary, Erskine College, Rabun Gap-
Nacoochee School, The Westminster Schools, Darlington, and
as a member of the Board of Visitors of Davidson College.

The City of Decatur, DeKalb County and metropolitan Atlanta
were close to his heart as evidenced by his interest and service
in so many humanitarian activities. He had the full confidence
of the business leaders. They trusted him and followed him. He
was a strong man full of good works, led by the Hand of God.

He had a zest for life and lived it to the fullest, as illustrated
by his recent trip around the world. A short time ago he said,
"My anticipation in making a trip around the world cannot
compare with my excitement about my trip to Eternity." He
often said, "The first fifteen minutes in Heaven will be the most
exciting and glorious thing I can imagine."

Dr. McCain towered above his peers in a unique way. He
towered above us because he had found the simplicity of faith
"in the all prevailing name of Jesus Christ," which left him free
to dedicate his life in service to others.

The memorial service held at the Decatur Presbyterian Church
Monday left us all conscious that not many can measure up to
his stature, but it left us with the determination to try harder
to follow in the footsteps of the Master that he followed so well.

We thank our Heavenly Father that occasionally He sends a
rare and choice spirit to walk the earth with strength of purpose
and dedication; to inspire the lives of all. Such a man was our
beloved Dr. McCain.

Memorial Message

I stood by last spring as Dr. McCain at the age of eighty-four
set out alone to make a journey around the world. The occasion
for the trip was a request from the Board of World Missions of

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the Presbyterian Church, U. S. that he study two mission colleges
one in Japan and one in Korea. He left us with no fear, but
rather with anticipation, having prepared in his characteristic
methodical and careful fashion for the experiences that awaited
him. There was work to be done for His Lord, and he was ready
to answer the summons. Last Saturday evening I stood by again
as my long-time friend set out on another journey one for
which he had made meticulous preparation and upon which he
entered quietly and confidently. Once again, there was something
required of him, and he was ready. God was good in that there
was no lingering illness, little or no pain. Dr. McCain was at
his desk in his home at the time of the heart attack, fully dressed,
and with a son and daughter at his side. He died a little while
later in the hospital that he had been largely instrumental in
bringing to this community. His was a complete life. You won't
misunderstand me when I say that the services Monday seemed
to me more in the nature of a celebration than an occasion of
mourning. There was thanksgiving and praise to God in it all.
I am not underestimating the loss to his family, the church, the
college, and the community. Outside of his immediate family
circle, there are few people who will miss him as Mrs. Alston
and I will. He has been our next-door neighbor for nearly eigh-
teen years. I have known him since I was a small boy living
across the street from him in the early years of his long service
to Agnes Scott. His son, Martin, who died at the age of thirteen,
was my close childhood friend. Our baseball diamond was the
plot of ground on which Dr. McCain decided to build the
President's House into which the Alstons moved in 1951. Our
lives have been closely linked. He has been to me as much a
part of the college environment as Main Tower! The impact of
his life upon Agnes Scott and upon those of us who have known
him well is deep and permanent.

James Ross McCain, son of John I. and Lula Todd McCain,
was born near Covington, Tennessee, on April 9, 1881. His father

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was for many years professor of English at Erskine College in
Due West, South Carolina. There most of his boyhood was spent.
Much of the pre-college preparation was received in his home and
with the help of his parents and other relatives. The young boy
entered Erskine College at the age of fourteen, graduating with
a straight A record when nineteen with the B.A. and M.A. degrees.
Then followed a law course at Mercer University where James
Ross McCain received the LL.D. degree in 1901. He entered the
law firm of Johnson and Nash in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
where he practiced for two years. Trying to settle disputes over
estates and wills was by no means satisfying to him. Dr. McCain,
looking back upon this period in his career, said, "No one comes
to a lawyer unless he is in trouble or planning to get someone
else in trouble. I decided that teaching would be a more con-
structive life work."

From 1903 to 1905, James Ross McCain served as principal of
the high school in Covington, Tennessee. Then came one of the
important decisions of his early years. He was invited to Rome,
Georgia, in 1905 to launch the now well-known Darlington
School for Boys. The young man worked tirelessly, organizing
the boarding school, raising money, teaching, and even coaching
the football team. Dr. McCain once said that his career as a
football coach came to an abrupt end when the McCallie School
in Chattanooga sent a team to Rome and defeated his boys 69 to 0.
After this defeat, an athletic director for Darlington was em-
ployed!

It was in 1906 that the young headmaster persuaded Miss
Pauline Martin to be his wife. They had previously met when
she was a junior at Erskine College for Women and he a law
student at Mercer.

During the Darlington years, James Ross McCain received an
M.A. degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in history
from Columbia University. Interspersing the work at Darlington
with graduate studies, Dr. McCain remained in Rome until 1915

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when President Frank H. Gaines and Mr. J. K. Orr, Chairman of
the Board, persuaded Dr. McCain to accept the position of reg-
istrar and part-time teacher of economics at Agnes Scott College.

In 1919, Dr. McCain was made vice president of Agnes Scott
and was placed in charge of the financial development of the
college. Under his leadership, two grants from the General
Education Board (one for $175,000 and another for $100,000)
were matched in a highly successful campaign.

When Dr. F. H. Gaines died on April 14, 1923, Dr. McCain
became the second president of Agnes Scott College. Dr. Gaines
had laid a solid foundation. Dr. McCain in the years from 1923
to the date of his retirement in 1951 remarkably developed Agnes
Scott, lifting it into the front rank of colleges for women in
America. With courage, unselfishness, and clear-headedness, he
did more than any one person to shape the character of the
college. He was brought to the college to lead and he led!
How he enjoyed a financial campaign! Most college adminis-
trators endure them; Dr. McCain dearly loved them! During
his administration, the permanent assets of the college, largely
through a succession of financial campaigns, were increased from
slightly less than $900,000 to $7,023,000. The academic and
spiritual character of the college reflects the quality of Dr.
McCain's lifelong purposes and convictions.

Let it never be forgotten that Dr. McCain set enviable standards
in higher education, not only for Agnes Scott College but for the
southern part of this country as well. He was regarded as a
leader in education in the South. He, with men like Chancellor
Kirkland of Vanderbilt and President Theodore Jack of Ran-
dolph-Macon, fought the early battles for standards of excellence
and academic freedom in institutions of higher education. Dr.
McCain received regional and national recognition for his leader-
ship, serving as President of the Association of American Colleges,
President of the Southern University Conference, Senator of the
United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Trustee of the General

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Education Board of New York. Honorary degrees were conferred
on him by Erskine, Davidson, Emory, University of Chattanooga,
and Tulane.

Dr. McCain's family has been and, indeed, continues to be a
truly remarkable one. I wish each one of you might have known
Mrs. McCain. She was an invalid for much of the time that I
knew her. Though she seldom came to college events, she knew
all about them and about the faculty and students their names
and their accomplishments. Dr. McCain's tenderness and thought-
fulness in dealing with her constitute one of my most vivid
impressions of their home. She, in turn, was a major source of
his effectiveness. What a prayer life she led! She majored in the
fine art of intercession as her contribution to Agnes Scott. As
many of you know, three sons and three daughters, their wives
and husbands, and twenty-two grandchildren constitute the im-
mediate McCain family.

No distinction that ever came to Dr. McCain was more richly
merited than his election in 1951 as Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States. His service to his local church, to
his denomination, and to the whole Body of Christ has been
faithful, constructive, and sacrificial.

It would be impossible even to mention the innumerable
channels through which Dr. McCain has served his community.
I cannot think of any important cause in Greater Atlanta or in
the State of Georgia with which he has not been helpfully as-
sociated. I would not dare to appraise his contribution to the
schools and colleges (Westminster, Darlington, Rabun Gap-
Nacoochee, Columbia Seminary, Erskine, and others ) ; to the
Protestant Radio and Television Center; to the DeKalb General
Hospital; nor to any one of a dozen other worthwhile enterprises.

When Dr. McCain retired as president of the college in 1951
and became our president emeritus, he entered upon a new phase
of his service to Agnes Scott. Although relieved of administrative
responsibilities, he continued as a member of our Board of

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Trustees, serving for the past fourteen years as chairman of the
executive committee. For fifty years he has given himself to
Agnes Scott College. The impact of his life upon this institution
is simply incalculable.

If I were asked to select the most impressive qualities in Dr.
McCain's character and in his service to this college, I think I
would choose four:

( 1 ) Self -discipline was one of the secrets of Dr. McCain's ef-
fectiveness. His was one of the most orderly, habitual, regularized
lives that I have known. If he was ever late for an engagement,
I never heard of it. We went many places together, early and
late. He was always ready and waiting, usually on his front porch,
sometimes on mine. He had learned self-control, self-manage-
ment, self-discipline; he was thereby enabled to focus his enor-
mous energies, even when past eighty, upon the task to which
he had given himself.

(2) A second quality of Dr. McCain's life that will stand out
in my remembrance of him was his faithfulness to his commit-
ments. It mattered not what they were, whether the weekly round-
robin letter to his family, Rotary attendance, some one of a score
of committee meetings that he scheduled almost every week of
his later life, or some duty undertaken for the church or the
college Dr. McCain did what he had agreed to do. I have never
known a person who surpassed him in this respect.

(3) Another aspect of Dr. McCain's life that I have partic-
ularly valued was the yonthfulness and flexibility of his mind.
He had the ability to think, to face contemporary issues, even to
change his mind. In the past fifteen years, he and I have talked
about every conceivable thing concerning the present and the
future of the college. I have never seen him run for shelter in
some shibboleth about "the good old days." His mind had a grow-
ing edge. I came to realize that he was probably as youthful, as
receptive to change, and as realistic a person as any who serve
on the Agnes Scott Board of Trustees.

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(4) The heart of the matter, when all else has been said, is
that Dr. McCain was a devout man, a genuinely dedicated Chris-
tian gentleman. He doesn't make sense unless this is understood.
God was real to him. His faith was quite simple and uncompli-
cated. It was Biblical to the core, with a strong Presbyterian
accent. He believed it and tried with every power of his being
to live it. How many times those of us who knew him have heard
him close a prayer with a phrase that to him was no cliche but
rather a summary of his faith: "in the all-prevailing name of
Jesus." Dr. McCain made everything he faced, all that he did,
a matter of prayer. When I came to Agnes Scott, I was shocked
at first by the legend that it never rained on May Day, or on one
of the other days when Agnes Scott scheduled out-of-doors events,
because Dr. McCain and the Almighty were working things out
together. I once asked him about this. He didn't claim to have
anything to do with the fact that we always had good weather
on such occasions but he didn't deny that he might have been
in on itl He simply shrugged his shoulders in typical fashion,
took a tug at his trousers, smiled and answered: "Well, I think
the Lord will do what He thinks is best."

A life of great consequence has been lived in our midst. This
college has been the residuary legatee of wealth the wealth of
character, conviction, consecrated service, and faith. Let us thank
God that we have been thus favored and blessed. Let us thank
God and take courage for the days ahead!

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