Flying Petrel, April 1962

EDITION

Vol. 44

Published by National Oglethorpe Alumni Association, April. 1962

No. 5

Dinner will be serve on the lawn
beginning at 6 p.m.

Plan now to attend. It's a wonderful
opportunity to renew acquaintances
and see the progress going on at your
alma mater.

d^ooster f roaram

1. Free Barbecue Lunch

2. Introductions

3. Induct Hall of Fame Members

4. Business Meeting

5. Baseball Game

Union College coached by former
Petrel Jack Russell vs Oglethorpe
Univ. coached bv former Petrel
Bill Carter

6. After dinner, films of the Rhode

Island game and the films shown
on the "Today" program will be
shown in the auditoriun at 7:30
p.m.

MCOm TURmUT EXPECTED FOR ALUMNI DAY. MAY 12

The largest crowd in history is expected to visit the campus on Homecoming
Day, Saturday May 12th. A full slate of activities, including the annual meeting of
the Alumni Association and the Booster Club, has been planned.

The day will get underway with a
tennis match between Oglethorpe and
Georgia State College at 9:00 a.m.
At 10:30 the Woman's Championship
rifle match will be held. Booster Club
events start with a luncheon at noon
and a meeting at 1 p.m. Immediately
thereafter will be the ceremonies in-
ducting the first five members into the
newly-established Hall of Fame.

The traditional baseball game will
begin at 2:30 p.m., followed by the
annual meeting and elections of the
Alumni Association.

DUCHESS CLUB TO

SPONSOR ART SHOW

MAY 12th

The Duchess Club cordially in-
vites the alumni and their friends to
an art show and tea on Saturday,
Mav 12th. The formal opening of
the exhibit of paintings by the late
Robert S. Roizers will be in the Art
Gallery at 3:30.

Mr. Rogers, formally a teacher at
the Atlanta Art Institute, was a
graduate of the Art Institute of
Chicago and at the American Acad-
emy of Art in Chicago. Although
primarily a watercolorist, his work
in oils and pastels is distinguished.

The members of the Duchess
Club hope to have the opportunity
to meet the alumni and to enhance
Alumni Day at Oglethorpe by dis-
playing for the first time to the
public these particular works of an
excellent painter, etcher, educator
and lecturer.

ALUMNI DAY SCHEDULE

9:00

Tennis Oglethorpe University vs

Georgia State Tennis courts

10:3C
12:0C

Rifk Match .

Champlor

Booster Luncheor

Oglethorpe

Woman's

...Field House

2:30

Baseball Gome

vs Union

Oglethorpe University

Hermance

Stadium

4:00

Refreshments served by O U
Women's Club

Great Hall

5:00

Alumni Meeting

... Auditorium

6:00
7:30

Buffet Supper ..
Let's Reminsce

lawn behind
Hearst Hal!

Films of Rhode

slond gome

and the

film of the '

Today" sho

v/ Auditorium

D

splays

Art

how 3:30

Art Gallery

Yamacraws of former
Lost Alumni files

Hearst Hall

Hearst Holl

Spor

s Gallery Hall o

Fame

Field House

rJjon t ^oraell

ALUMNI DAY
MAY 12

COACHES ANDKKSON. PATUiCk

TO ATTEND AELMM DAY

Oglethorpe's grand old man of base-
ball, Frank Anderson, and the long-
time exponent of footballs' colorful
military shift, John Patrick, will be in
attendance on Alumni Day. Both have
acknowledged invitations to be here
and exchange reminisces with and
about former Oglethorpe athletes.
Anderson, considered one of the pre-
mier college baseball coaches of the
nation, directed Oglethorpe teams
from 1916 to 1943. Patrick, one of
the finest linemen ever to play for
Oglethorpe, succedded Harry Robert-
son as head coach in 1935 and carried
on until Oglethorpe discontinued foot-
ball after the 1941 season.

Zjlie Irujing f-^ctrel

April, 1962

Published seven times a year in Ju/y, September, Oc-
tober, Jonuary, Morch, Apni ond hAay by Og/elhorpe
University, Atlanta, Georgia^

Printed by
Russell & Wardlaw

OFFICERS

Howard Axelberg '40 President

Samuel M. Hirsch '50 . 1st V. President
Philip Hildretli '34 _-.,- 2nd V. President
W. Elmer George '40 . 3rd V. President

Mrs. Betty Villegas '49 Secretary

Martin Sterling '36 Treasurer

DIRECTORS

O. K. Sheffield '53 Chairman

Joseph R. Murphy '20
Wayne S. Traer '28
Mrs. Mary Walker '34
Harry P. Wren '34
Mrs. Tommie Carper '37
Francis S. Key '38
Mrs. Mary Asher '43
Louis Wuichet '59

EDITOR

Joyce B. Minors '57

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
SEEKS OLD ISSUES OF
THE YAMACRAW

The library would like to have a
complete tile of the "Yamacraw."
They are missing the issues of 1927.
1928, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1939, and
1940. if you have an issue of any one
of the missing years and would consid-
er donating it to the library, the Uni-
versity would be most grateful.

kiu(;e selected for Sidney
lamer poetry award

The first annual Sidney Lanier Po-
etry Award was presented March 7, to
Dr. George Ross Ridge for his book
"Under the Georgia Sun."

This award was set up in memory of
the Georgia poet Sidney Lanier who
was a student at Oglethorpe University
from 1857 to I860. The award win-
ning book becomes a part of the Sid-
ney Lanier Memorial Collection in
the Oglethorpe University Library.

COACH ROBERTSON DIES

Harold John (Harry) Robertson, the
inspired football coach who led the
Petrels in the mid-twenties and early
thirties, died Jan. 7 in a veterans'
hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. He was
65.

Coach Harry, often called a "foot-
ball genius", succeeded his brother
"Big Jim" Robertson as an Oglethorpe
University coach.

He boosted the Petrels to the SI A A
title in 1925. Following this triumph,
his team was invited to Miami for a
New Years Day game with Rollins.
This is believed to have been the first
genuine Orange Bowl game or at
least the precedent for the series which
came after.

Victory laurels came in abundance
to Robertson. His galloping teams beat
such grid iron giants as Georgia Tech,
Georgia and Manhattan College.

He is survived by his wife, Florence,
who still lives in Dania. Fla., Coach
Harry's retirement home; a sister Mrs.
Henrietta Lewis, also of Florida, and
Brother Jim, who now operates a store
in Cape Cod, Mass.

Lively, prankish and warmhearted.
Coach Harry will be remembered
fondly by many O.U. old grads.

t

^hh , . .

Judge Vance Custer '24 of a heart
attack Jan. 31, 1962. in Bainbridge.
Ga. Judge Custer was stricken just
four months after Gov. Vandiver had
appointed him to fill the unexpired
term in the Georgia Court of Appeals.

James W. Morrow '26 in January.
1962. He had resided at 155 Third
Street, Atlanta.

Rutherford B. McKissack '28 on

March 12, 1962. His widow resides at
3248 Casa Linda Drive, Decatur.

Georgia,

Annie May Robertson '40. She had

lived in Newman. Georgia.

Dudley Walker Engelson '53 in a

tragic fire which took his life and burn-
ed his home. His wife. Mary, was res-
cued and their daughter Kathy, 10.
was away visiting relatives at the time.
At the time of his death. Mr. Engelson
was employed as a laboratory tech-
nician in Closter, N. J.

FACULTY GRANTED
FURTHER PAY INCREASES

Oglethrope's faculty salaries will be
increased again in 1962-63. Dr. Don-
ald C. Agnew announced that the
Board of Trustees has authorized an
increase for the coming year approxi-
mating 15'; of total faculty salary
outlay. This follows a similar increase
granted in 1961-62.

Also in 1961. the Trustees initiated
a faculty retirement plan.

Oglethorpe has one of the finest
faculties in the nation. Nearly half of
the faculty members hold doctoral de-
grees or the equivalents, compared to
a national average of less than 25 'Xr .

This latest faculty salary increase is
a further step toward the Trustees'
goal of making faculty salaries at Ogle-
thorpe University higher than any
comparable insitutions.

4 NAMED TO BOARD OF
TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees of Ogle-
thorpe University named four new
members at the Annual Meeting Feb-
ruary 12th. Elected were Howard G.
Axelberg "40. Judge Thomas L. Camp
"25, R. L. Dempsey "27. and Howard
K. Thranhardt "35.

Axelberg, currently serving as presi-
dent of the National Alumni Associa-
tion, is executive vice-president of Lil-
ler, Neal, Battle and Lindsey, Inc. an
Atlanta advertising agency with offices
in Dallas. New York. Richmond and
Tampa.

Judge Camp, who received his LLB
at George Washington University, was
admitted to the Georgia Bar Associa-
tion in 1933 and subsequently served
as secretary to a congressman, as a
law clerk, on the Civil Service Com-
mission of the United States House of
Representatives, and as a Fulton
County Commissioner. He is a Judge
of the Civil Court of Fulton County.

Dempsey is the owner of Chevrolet
dealerships in Bartow and Tampa,
Florida. His wife, the former Virginia
O'Kelley, was in the Oglethorpe class
of 1929.

Thranhardt received both his AB
and MA degrees from Oglethorpe
University. He is Secretary of J. E.
Hanger. Inc. and is Secretary of South-
ern Prosthetic Supply Company.
Thandhardt is a past president of the
National Alumni Association and is
on the Board of Directors of the
Booster Club. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences.

Page

The Flying Petrel

FORWARD OGLETHORPE FUND
FORGES AHEAD OF LAST YEAR

Thanks to the interest and generosi-
ty of her loyal alumni, the school's
Forward Oglethorpe Fund has already
surpassed the totals achieved for all of

last year.

Chairman Phil Hildreth '34 an-
nounced that contributions exceed
526,000.00 compared to the .S24,-
'>77.39 received last year. There has
been a corresponding increase in num-
ber of donors from 6<S3 in 1960-61
to 763 already this year. The Forward
Oglethorpe Fund drive will continue
through June 30th in order to reach
the goal of S38, 500.00.

The progress of the Fund has been
remarkable. In 1955-56, alumni gifts
amounted to S433. The next vear'this
increased to S 1.576. In 1957-58,
alumni support began to pick up and
a total of $3,015" was received. .As
more and more alumni proved the\
wanted to build a greater Oglethorpe,
the totals moved upto S5.298 in 1958-
59 and S7,420 in 1959-60.

In 1960-61 came the biu jump.
More than 22 <> of the alumni made
contributions totalling 524,977. This
placed Oglethorpe "in 55th place
among 117 small, coeducational col-
leges. Now, in 1961-62, we bid fair to
rank among the top 25 small colleizes
who report alumni gifts. Truly, Ogle-
thorpe alumni are showing their desire
to play a part m the tremendous pro-
gress taking place today.

Top Ten Classes To Date

Class Donors .Amount

1 1940 33 51,986.00

2 1957 32 894.00

3 1954 __ 30 288.00

1958 30 706.00

41939 29 663.00

5 1930 ____ 27 1,040.00

61934 26 440.00

1953 26 235.00

71929 _ 23 437.00

1931 23 587.00

8 1 928 22 1 ,63 1 .50

1942 22 409.00

91927 _ 21 568.00

1941 _______ 21 127.00

1950 21 203.00

1952 21 241.00

1955 21 144.00

1961 _ . 21 175.00

101937 __ 20 1.653.50

April, 1962

i<M)A^.^ t (H.i.i:(;i; vu vi hi,

(idling into college, and staying
there, can he a rough proposition for
today's young people. The competition
is frantic and colleges are raising their
standards. They can afford to "be se-
lective because of the unprecendented
number of would-be college men and
women. Many aspirants are left out-
side the college gates, or fail to keep
up if they do gain admission.

What are some of the major stumb-
ling blocks to successful college ca-
reers? English, spelling, grammar,
composition, and foreign languages.
In short, reading and writing are fore-
most, according to a group of Ogle-
thorpe University students and faculty.
Science and math have been getting a
lot of emphasis since Sputnik, and
they can certainly be troublesome; far
more woe comes to the college popula-
tion because of an insufficient grasp
of the Mother-tongue. "It is possible
to plan a course of college study with
a minumum of math, but it's impos-
sible to dodge English." said Dr.
George C. Seward. Oglethorpe Vice-
president and Dean." "Good stud\
habits and strong motivation an earn-
est desire to obtain a college degree
are necessarv for success, too." he
added.

Akmmi with young sons or dauijh-
ters still in grammar or high school
might find the experiences of current
Oglethorpe students useful. Lanier
Bagwell, freshman, said he would ad-
vise young people contemplating col-
lege to be sure they "learn how to" write
a theme before enrolling. English com-
position has got me down right now.
Learn how to read, and formufate good
study habits, too," he said. Another
freshman. Chip Cowan said, "You
must learn to complete assignments
on time." He added, "And," assign
specific times for study." Latin can be
a college girl's best friend, especially if
she has studied it in high school, ac-
cording to a pair of attractive Ogle-
thorpe freshman girls. Bonnie Beck
and Mary Louise Browne put Latin
at the top of the li.st of helpful high
school subects. "Take it." they urged.
"It helps so much with your English
vocabulary. I regret not having studied
it." said Miss Beck. "The students who
had Latin seem to do so much better
than I." Miss Browne is very glad she
studied the not-so-dead langauge. "I'm
glad I took both Latin and "Spanish
as part of my high school work. They
have been wonderful aids to me since
I came to Oglethorpe." They agreed
that the study of a foreign language
"strengthens vour English."

CHARLES WELTNER '48 SEEKS
CONGRESSIONAL POST

Charles Longstreet Weltner. (AB
"4,S) has announced his candidacy for
Congress. He will oppose incimibent
James C. Davis in the September
Democratic Primar\.

Weltner entered Oglethorpe as a
freshman in 1944. He" was elected to
Blue Key, Boar's Head. Who's Who
and Student Body President during his
stay on campus, and won a letter in
tennis.

In 1947. he was admitted to Colum-
bia University Law School under the
professional option, and received his
degree at Oglethorpe in 1948. An LLB
from Columbia followed in 1450.

A practicing lawyer in the area.
Weltner, 34, has been active in many
fields. He was president of the Nation-
al Oglethorpe Alumni Association in
1954, and taught Business Law at
Oglethorpe from 1950 through 1955.
He is presentK legal ccnmsel for the
University.

Weltner is persenting a platform that
calls attention to the needs of grow-
ing urban areas. He points out that the
Fifth District is the second largest in
population in the nation. The" Fifth
Congressional District includes De-
Kalb. Fulton and Rockdale Counties.
He vigorously opposes the County Unit
System; and promises to abolish it in
the Fifth Congressional District De-
mocratic Primary.

Weltner is the son of Dr. Philip
Weltner. former Chancellor of the
University System of Georgia and
President of Oglethorpe University.

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REMINISCING WITH THE
WENDELL BROWNS

We renienihcr with pleasure the
years (1949-1957) at Oglethorpe of
George Marion O'Donnell. a man of
deep sympathies and wisdom, warm-
ing and enlightening all the souls for-
tunate enough to serve with him or sit
in his classes. Now with grief we must
end our association, for he died in
January in New Haven, Connecticut,
where he had been living since leaving
us.

It is fitting at this time that one of
his students should voice the senti-
ments of all of us who knew him and
we are reprinting the tribute of Mari-
anne Epstein Baranan. 1957, found in
the Stormy Petrel of February 5, 1962.

George Marion O'Donnell is dead.
I have a wreath of flowers for him in
my heart.

The first flower is for George Mar-
ion the teacher. I went to many schools
and colleges, in many countries, knew
many countries, knew many people
who taught me. But only two teachers
did I meet who were teachers like
those rulers of old: By the Grace of
God. One was Professor Falck. The
other was Professor O'Donnell.

His students at college called him
"M.O.D."", affectionately. I took sever-
al courses from M.O.D., but he began
my education at the dinner table in
the school cafeteria. With short stories
taken from his life, in the mood of
Marcel Proust, and with dialogues in
the manner of Plato, he revealed the
South to me: a newcomer and a for-
eigner. And the South, baffling not
only to outsiders, became a scene of
compassionate beauty, like a great love
affair never fulfilled.

This was his greatness as a teacher:
he could draw open the curtain and the
subject of his discourse would appear
in a great flash of clarity. To stay en-
graved in the mind. That is why one
hour with M.O.D. made up for many
hours from other lecturers, those
patient repeaters of facts, facts to be
memorized for the next exam and
all contained in the textbook.

The second flower is for George
Marion O'Donnell the poet. His writ-
ing was concerned with the image and
the soul of Man. Yet his mood and his
symbols were enwrapped deeply in the
history of the South. This heritage of
thought concerned with the South was
faint like a cobweb, yet strong like
thunder, pervading all his work. And

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the Man, and the South, of whom
O'Donnell wrote, were things of great
beauty and faint sadness.

A special flower I put down now, a
flower to O'Donnell the poet of poets.
For the creator of poetry also posses-
sed the finest harp strings of sensitivity
for all poetry. He was a superb inter-
preter and unsurpassed for his reading.
His students said of him: "M.O.D, can
read the telephone directory to us
and keep us entranced." How he made
my heart bounce with his reading of
Carl Sandburg's "Chicago," and my
skin tremble with the "Voodoo."

My last flower goes to George Mar-
ion O'Donnell the man. He was of
frail physique and slight build, subject
to the many ailments of highly sensi-
tive system. The fast speed of a car, or
a haircut on a cold, windy day, would
upset him. But his moral strength and
courage were towering. He would
stand up and fight against dishonesty,
intrigue, and injustice like a giant
where the robust campus men in
tweeds took refuge in safe ambiguity.
His emblem carried not only flue and
quill: it included the sword.

George Marion the friend would
touch your shoulder kindly when you
had grief, unerringly hold you to your
best qualities, patiently and wisely
stand by you. Every meeting with him
left your mind enriched with a gracious
miniature of sensitive thoughts and
graceful manners. They are gifts 1
cherish.

How can it be that he is gone? Only
yesterday, it seems, he sent a let-
ter and an invitation with an outline of
the street plan, so I would not fail to
find his house, sent two pictures of the
beautiful, great tree which lived in his
backyard. One taken in summer, and
one in winter, so that I could envisage
his view. George Marion O'Donnell
has gone, but he left me many images
as gifts. The greatest of them is his
image of Man, struggling through
history, striving to fulfill his highest
visions.

T V

THE

BIG DAY IN MAY

IS THE

12th

Mr. John Crouch '29

MEET YOUR CLASS
REPRESENTATIVE

Mr. Crouch is a practicing Certified
Public Accountant; has his own prac-
tice and has been located in Albany,
Ga., for the past twenty-three years.

Married on March 1, 1935 to the
former Estell Anderson of Barnesville.
Ga., deceased October 15, 1960. Has
one son. Tommy, who is now president
of the Freshmen Class at Oglethorpe
University.

Is a member and an Elder in Cove-
nant Presbyterian Church, Albany;

Past Master of Doughtery Lodge
No. 591, F. & A.M.

Past Commander of St. Paul's Com-
mandery No. 24, K.T.

32nd. degree Scottish Rite Mason

A Shriner, Member of Hasan
Temple and Trustee

Trustee and Treasurer of Knights
Templar Educational Foundation, a
student loan fund.

Elected and served one term on City
Commission of Albany, Ga.

Is Chairman of Dougherty County
Welfare Board

Member of Albany Rotary Club
Hobbies: Cooking, flowers, and col-
lecting old clocks.

The Flying Petrel

REPORT ON THE
BASKETBALL SEASON

"We have learned to wade in deep-
er waters," Coacli Garland Pinholster
said as he glanced over the 1 96 1 -62
record book. "Now we hope to ven-
ture in water just a little deeper. We
are searching for and feel we are ready
for a slightly tougher schedule."

The schedule Oglethorpe played last
season was the toughest in the school's
history, no doubt of that. Teams such
as Rhode Island, Mississippi South-
ern, Belmont Abbey, Carson-Newman,
Georgia Southern. Chattanooga, Jack-
sonville, and Stetson presented a 24-
game challenge that was met with
much success.

Some probably feel that failure
would be a better word failure
simply because the last game, that
against Jacksonville in the District 2.'^
play-off, ended in defeat.

The Petrels didn't go to the nation-
als this year. But make no mistake
about it, the Petrels have their finest
season ever. They have won more and
they have lost fewer. They had a better
defensive average and they have gone
higher. But this was the best season.

They played the best they have ever
played and they won 20 games and lost
foui .

"Those victories were sweet," Coach
Pinholster said. "They were most
satisfying to us primarily because our
seniors were the hardest working mem-
bers on the squad. Boys like Tommy
Norwood and Jay Rowland and John-
ny Guthrie showed tiie younger boys
how to go 100 per cent.

"It will be almost impossible to re-
build at some positions this next sea-
son. Norwood was elected captain of
the Atlanta Journal's All-State team
and many coaches in the NAIA told
me personally the only thing that cost
him Ail-American honors was the fact
we didn't make it to the nationals.
Glenn Wilkes, the fine coach at Stet-
son, told me there was no finer guard
at Kansas City and the nationals than
Norwood."

All you had to do was see Norwood
in the last game. Then you would
wonder how he can be replaced.

"We are moving real slow with our
recruiting," Coach Pinholster explain-
ed, "for a reason. We have a small
number of grants and we do not want
to waste any. If we make a mistake
that means our squad is simply cut
bv one. We have sinned Walker Heard,

Oglethorpe Universi
ty's three basketball
seniors pose with theii
coaches. The four iin-
gers symbolize t h e
players' rank as fourth-
year men. Left to right
are Jay Rowland.
Gainesville, Fla.: as
sistant basketball coach
Billy Carter; Tommy
Norwood, Decatur, Ga.;
Coach Garland Pinhol
ster, and Johnny Guth
rie, a Murphy High
graduate.

of Druid Hills, a fine boy and a fine
student. We just hope we can fill all
our vacancies with boys who have as
much piitential as Walker."

One encouraging aspect of the Pe-
trels for next season is the return of
the front line Morris Mitchell, Bobby
Nance, and Bobby Sexton, with back-
up duty being filled by Billy Parker.

Darrell Whitford also returns as do
Ray Thomas. Jimbo Hartlagc. Joe
Carter, and Bill Stewart.

The Petrels' four losses came at the
hands of Georgia Southern, Chattano-
oga, Mississippi Southern, and Jack-
sonville. They beat Chattanooga,
Southern, and Jacksonville in the oth-
er games played with those teams.

They also whipped Rhode Island.
Pikeville, Cumberland, Peru Olym-
pians, Stetson, Carson-Newman and
other excellent representatives of the
small college field.

They rose as high as eighth in the
nation in the Dunkle Ratings and fin-
ished 16th in the final United Press
International poll and 18th in the final
Associated Press poll. These were
firsts for Oglethorpe. This was a suc-
cessful season the best ever for the
Petrels.

"It was certainly my most pleasant
season," Coach Pinholster said, "ex-
cept for the Jacksonville game."

He doesn't mention that most ex-
perts would have taken even money
the Petrels wouldn't bat .500 before
the season started.

They hit 20 times in 24 appear-
ances.

And that's iiood.

OGLETHORPE

UNIVERSITY

BASEBALL

SCHEDULE

1962

Date Opponent

State

Location

March

21 David Lipscomb

Tenn.

Oqlethorpe

22 David Lipscomb

Tenn

Oqlethorpe

23 Kalamazoo Colleqe

Mich,

Oqlethorpe

27 Pfeiffer Colleqe

N C

Oqlethorpe

28 Pfeiffer Colleqe

N.C

Oqlethorpe

31 Shorter

Go

Rome, Go.

2 Piedmont

Ga

Oqlethorpe

4 Berry

Ga

Rome, Ga.

7 West Georqia

Ga

Carrollton,

9 University of

Ga

Kentucky

Kv.

Oqlethorpe

13 Berry

Ga

Oqlelhrope

14 Shorter

Go-

Oqlethorpe

18 St- Bernard

Alo,

Oqlethorpe

19 Wheaton

III.

Oqlethorpe

20 Wheaton

Ill

Oqlethorpe

30 West Georqia

Go

Ocilethorpe

May

1 Mercer

Go

Oqlethorpe

5 Mercer

Go,

Macon, Ga

8 Piedmont

Go.

Demorest,

11 Union

Tenn.

Oqlethorpe

12 Union

Tenn.

Oqlethorpe

All home qomes b

eqin

Ol 3:00 P.M.

OGLETHORPE

UNIVERSITY

TENNIS SCHEDULE

1962

Date Match

Location

Time

March

23 Moryville

1:30
1:30

1:30
1:30

1:30
1:30
1:30
9;30 AM,

Oqlethorpe

Berry, Ga.
Rome, Go

April

4 Berry ...__ Mt.

6 Shorter

12 Southwestern

13 Berry

Oqlethorpe

14 Georqia Southern
17 Shorter

Stafesboro

18 St Bernard

Oglethorpe

21 West Georqia

28 Georgia Southern

Oglethorpe
Oqlethorpe

May

1 Emory

2 Emory at Oxford

Oglethorpe
Covinqton

1:30
2:00
2:00

9:00 AM
1:30

12 Georgia State
15 West Georqia

Oglethorpe

19 Emory at Oxford

Oqlethorpe

April, 1962

Page 5

Mr. Boisieuillel Jones
as he spoke to the
Alumni on March 23.

KIMSEY STEWART '38 ELECTED
TO PREP HALL OF FAME

Kimsey Stewart, an outstanding
guard under Coach John Patrick, has
been inducted into the Georgia Prep
Sports Hall of Fame.

He beizan his coaching career in
1938 at Spalding High School in Grif-
fin. Georgia, and over a span of eight-
een years his team won 125 games, lost
38 and tied 5.

Kimsey coached at Spalding. La-
Grange. Georgia Military College,
Americus. and Spalding again. His
teams at LaGrange and Spalding
both won championships. During his
career he was named Football Coach
of the Year, served on the Board of
Directors and as President of the
GACA. In 1955, he left the coaching
ranks to begin a highly successful ca-
reer with United American Life Insur-
ance Company.

Kimsey was born March 4. 1917, at
Ashburn, Georgia. He graduated from
high school in Ashburn and attended
Abraham Baldwin College there. He
received an AB degree from Ogle-
thorpe University.

Election to the Hall is restricted to
individuals "who by their achievement
or service have made an outstanding
contribution to prep sports in Geor-
izia."

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To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. (Nancy
Tarrant '60) Calhoun, a daughter,
Tracy Leiszh. The Calhouns live at
1108 Tumlin St., N. W., Atlanta 13,
Georgia.

To Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Shore
'56 a daughter, Jaimee Hann. on Jan.
25, 1962 in New York City.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tom (Jeanette Se-
ward, 64) Deacon '60, a daughter,
Leslie Elizabeth, on Feb. 5, 1962, in
Oak Ridee, Tenn.

Mr. James Sibley and Mrs. Ernest Vandiver
compare awards presented them at the Break-
fast Meeting held March 23rd.

OGLETHORPE ALUMNI HONOR VANDIVER AND SIBLEY

Over 110 teacher alumni attended the annual breakfast held during the
GEA convention in Atlanta last month.

Mr. Boisfeuillet Jones, a native of Macon, Ga. and formerly of Emory
University, now a special assistant in the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, was the featured speaker.

Governor Vandiver and Mr. John Sibley received this year's Oglethorpe
.Alumni School Bell Award for the roles they played last year in preventing the
cessation of public schools in Georgia. \'andiver was lauded for his courage in
advocating legislation that enabled the public schools to stay open and Mr. Sibley
for heading a commission that toured the state sampling opinion on the school
se^reaation issue.

IP 14 PER CENT
ENROLLMENT HITS 418

Oglethorpe University is filled to
capacity with 418 students the larg-
est number of regular students in the
college's history. This is a 14 per cent
increase over the previous year's en-
rollment.

As early as last Christmas, res-
idence hail space for women had
been filled. This situation resulted
in many qualified coeds being refused
admission.

Studies are currently in progress
concerning additional facilities; how-
ever, a schedule for actual construc-
tion has not been completed.

The enrollment is about equally
divided between women and men with
students come from 1 3 states and five
foreign countries.

CHARLES JACKSON NEW
FIELD REPRESENTATIVE

Charles O. Jackson is the new field
representative for Oglethorpe Uni-
versity.

He is a graduate of Hapeville High
School, a summa cum laude graduate
of Oglethorpe and is completing his
thesis for the M.A. degree in history at
Emory University, where he held a
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship.

Mr. Jackson replaces Mr. T. Mi-
chael Murphey who has accepted a po-
sition with Mercer University.

At Oglethorpe, Mr. Jackson will
work with the Dean of Admissions and
will conduct talks and personal inter-
views with prospective students.

Page 6

The Flving Petrel

Miss Joyce Gravel
Captain of the Riflettes.

RIFLE CLUB DEFEATS COLORADO,
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE
HELD ON MAY 12th

One of the more unusual features of
Alumni Day will be a Mateh for the
WtMncn"s Championship of Ogle-
thorpe's ""Riflettes" to be held at the
rifle range behind Lowry Hall. The
Riflettes, led by Joyce Gravel of Lake
Wales, Florida, is one of the few small
college rifle teams in existance. They
recently defeated a team from the Uni-
versity of Colorado to continue their
two-year unbroken record of victories.

In the postal match with Colorado,
both Miss Gravel and Katie Patton of
Atlanta scored 100. Miss Gravel's sea-
son average is 99.8 out of 100 and the
lowest average on the team is 97.

Besides the Alumni Da\ Champion-
ship match, the team from Oglethorpe
will compete twice more with North
Georgia, and once with Texas Wo-
men's University and Middle Tennes-
see State College. An Interclub
Championship Match will end the
season.

The Riflettes are only one branch
of Oglethorpe's Yamacraw Gun Club
which was first organized on the camp-
us in 1958. SeweH ("Chief") Edwards,
security officer for the University, is
the founder and coach of the team.

Most of the guns used by the club
were loaned to them by the department
of Civil Defense, but recently, equip-
ment including two 22 automatic target
pistols, was given to the group by the
Student Council.

GEORGE KOLOWICH '43 FEATURED
ON COVER OF BUSINESS WEEK
MAGAZINE

A face familiar [o all Oglethorpians
of the 1939-43 era greeted the readers
of Business Week Magazine, March
17, 1962. George Kolowich, Jr., hefty
e.\-tackle of the Petrels and now Presi-
dent of Denver Chicago Trucking
Company, warranted the cover feature
because of his unique and successful
operation of that company.

1 he article pointed out that "Den-
ver Chicago Trucking Company is
hitting the jackpot by minimizing its
short haul business in favor of long-
distance toting of high-value car-
goes. . . these policies have given
eighth-ranking Denver Chicago one of
the highest if not the highest profit
margins in the industry."

In IM61 Denver Chicago grossed
S42.3 million dollars, up from 40. 6
million in ]'-)60. For the latest year,
its net operating income before fed-
eral taxes amounted to practically
S4.2 million.

Kolowich has continued his interest
in sports. The company has hired golf

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pros as salesmen, and supports a host
of employee teams including bowling,
basketball and skeet shooting. George
is an active member of the Oglethorpe
Booster Club.

He and his wife, the former Claudia
Johnson '43, will attend Alumni Day,
May 12th.

MAKE YOUR PLANS

NOW!

TO ATTEND

ALUMNI DAY

MAY 12

Jim Hinson shown ad-
dressing the assembled
guests at the recent
Faculty Appreciation

FACULTY APPRECIATION DINNER

Seventy-seven members of the facul-
ty and Alumni Association attended a
dinner at the college cafeteria on the
evening of February 12th to honor the
Oglethorpe faculty. Four members of
the Board of Trustees, Messers Mil-
ton, Foreman, Perkins and Dorough,
joined the Executive Committee of the
Alumni Association to honor the
Oglethorpe faculty. Mr. Jim Hinson
and Mr. Virgil Milton made brief talks
and Dean Seward introduced each of
the facult\ members with humorous

thumb nail sketches. Mr. Glenn
Rainey, professor of English at Geor-
gia Tech whose son is an Oglethorpe
freshman made the principle address
of the evening in which he combined a
sound academic theory of education
with pertinent amusing anecdotes.

Personal book plate stamps and
golden Booster Club rulers, gifts from
the Alumni Association and Booster
Club, were presented to faculty mem-
bers at the close of the program.

April, 1962

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THROUGH THE YEARS

Jack McNeelj '35 has been elected
president of the Toccoa Merchants As-
sociation.

Ed. W. Hiles '36 recently was elect-
ed president of the Savings Association
Trade Executives at a recent meeting
in Washington of the United States
Saving & Loan League.

Mrs. Charles B. McCarity '40 of
Dallas, Georgia, has the distinction of
being included in the 1961 edition of
"Who's Who of American Women"
and also having her daughter, Mrs.
Mac Barber of Commerce, Georgia,
included in the same edition.

While a professor at Upper Iowa
University, Philip J. Lorenz '49, pub-
lished a book, "The Research Function
of American Colleges: A Physicist's
View". The book was published last
August. Mr. Lorenz now resides in
Syracuse, New York.

Ken Steele '49 has just received his
MBA degree from the University of
Southern California. His major was
in finance. His address is 1753 Greve-
lia St., South Pasadena, Calif.

Married: Bob IVloskowitz '52 to
Jo An Setzer, a high school teacher of
drama and speech, in St. Joseph, Mo.,
in August. Bob has been a sports writer
on the Newport News Press for five
years.

Married: Marianne O'Neil '52 to

William S. Howland in Miami, Flori-
da. Their address is 5243 SW 63,
Miami 55, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. David B. (Jocelyn
Furey) Fischer '53 were in Atlanta
recently visiting the Wendell Browns.
David is at Columbia University where
he will receive his PhD in European
History.

Mrs. T. J. (Mary Jane Holt) Weed-
en '56 is residing in California
where her husband is a pastor of the
Asbury Methodist Church. He is also
working toward his PhD degree. The
couple now have four boys, Scott, Ted-
dy, Michael and Brian. Their address
is 2455 Sichcl St., Los Anseles 31,
Calif.

Married: Miss Ann Klein '57 to
Gary Wenger '61 in March 1961. The
couple is now living in New York
City.

L{.(jg) Gordon Hiles '57 is mainten-
ance officer at the U.S. Naval Under-
water Swimmers School, U.S. Naval
Base, Key West, Fla. A recent photo-
graph in the Key Outpost, the base
newspaper, showed him preparing an
underwater escape exhibt for visiting
members of the Uruguayan Naval War
College class.

Married: Alice (Kitty) Kincaid '58

to S Sgt. Harvey D. Braswell of Or-
lando, Fla. The couple is presently
residing in Atlanta while Sgt. Braswell
is stationed at Dobbins Air Force Base
at Marietta.

A. R. "Atu" Faruquee '60 plans to
study at Columbia University. He re-
ceived his MA degree from Emory
University in July, 1961. "Atu's" ad-
dress is 231 W. 96th St., Apt. 6-A
New York 25, N.Y.

James Calhoon '60 has received his
MA degree at Emory University in
Speech Pathology, Audiology and Ed-
ucation of the Deaf. He married
Beverly Wakeland of Hattiesburg,
Miss, on August 13, 1961.

Jan Mundorff, '60 has transferred
to Emory University. He is interning
in the psychiatric wards of Emory Hos-
pital as partial requirement toward his
master's degree in psychology.

Mrs. James D. (Carol Campbell)
Reed '61 has been transferred by the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration to the new Manned Space-
craft Center in Houston, Texas. She
is working on the "Gemini", the two-
man earth orbital project, while her
husband is connected with the "Apol-
lo" lunar manned flight project.

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