Flying Petrel, Summer 1964

EDITION

Vol. 46

Published by National Alumni Association of Oglethorpe University

Summer 1 964 No. 7

E. P. Penny Jones to
Head Alumni - 1964-65

At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association held on May 16. 1964,
E. P. "Penny" Jones was elected to guide the activities of the alumni for the
coming 1964-65 year.

A native of Manning, South Carolina, Mr. Jones is a 1961 graduate of Ogle-
thorpe with a B.A. in Humanics. He is currently a District Scout Executive with
the Atlanta Area Council. Prior to this he was with the YMCA. He is a member
of the Rotary Club of Forest Park, and the American Humanics Foundation,

While at Oglethorpe, he was president of the Senior Class, listed in Who's Who
in American Colleges and Universities and Chairman of the Honor Court.

His hobby interest is archery and fishing.

Other members of the board are as follows: Marvin Lawson, '58, vice president;
Mrs. Pinkie Harris, '37. vice president; Miss Eleanore MacKenzie, '59, sec-
treasurer. Mrs. B. H. Vincent, '34. Benton Greenleaf, '63, Mr. Sam Hirsch, '49,
Mr. Howard Thranhardt, '35, and Mr. Howard A.xelbere, '40 will also serve.

J. T. Goldthwait '44 to
Head Division

John T. Goldthwait, a member of
the pre- World War II Exceptional Edu-
cational Experiment at Oglethorpe and
former faculty member there, has been
appointed Professor of Philosophy and
Chairman of the Division of Humani-
ties at the State University of New
York College at Plattsburgh, New
York.

Dr. Goldthwait left the "Triple-E"
experiment to go into the Naval Re-
serve. The Experiment, an accelerated
undergraduate program to determine
what was the actual learning capacity
of a college student under controlled
conditions, was a casualty of the war
because its members either enlisted or
left for critical war industry employ-
ment.

Goldthwait was awarded his B.A. in

E. P. "Penny" Jones '61

John T. Goldthwait. '44

Liberal Arts and his M.A. in Literature
and Journalism, both in absentia, in
1944 when he was serving on a mine-
sweeper in the Pacific. On his return
from the Navy he came back to Ogle-
thorpe as an instructor of English and
philosophy.

He left to attend graduate school at
Northwestern University in 1950, then
taught philosophy at Sacramento State
College in California. He joined the
University of California faculty at the
Davis Campus, where he has been Di-
rector of Speech for the past several
years. His doctoral degree, granted by
Northwestern in 1957, is in philosophy.

At Plattsburgh, Dr. Goldthwait will

head a division of forty-five faculty

members who are developing the newly

installed curriculum in liberal arts at

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Summer Issue 1964

Published seven times a year in July, September, Oc-
tober, January, March, April and May by Oglethorpe
University, Atlanta, Georgia.

OFFICERS

E. P. "Penny" Jones '61 President

Marvin Lawson, '58 Vice President

Pinkie Gates Harris, '34 Vice President

Eleanore MacKenzie, '59 Sec. -treasurer

DIRECTORS

Annette Vincent, '34
Benton Greenleaf, '63
Sam Hirsch, Jr., '49

EX-OFFICIO

Howard Axelberg, '40
Howard Thranhardt, '35
Joyce B. Minors, '57

Biology Department
Awarded Grant

This past spring, the biology depart-
ment was awarded a matching fund
grant of $4,460 from the National Sci-
ence Foundaion.

It is the intention to upgrade the cur-
riculum by emphasizing the interrela-
tionship of chemistry, physics and bi-
ology. More emphasis will be placed
on the laboratory aspects of biology
and a new approach to lab is to teach
the student something of the methods
of science and then let them, under the
supervision of an instructor, choose,
design, and perform lab exercises of
their own interest.

When matching funds are available,
there will be a total of $8,920.00 to
greatly expand present facilities to
achieve these objectives.

TWO NEW MEMBERS ELECTED
TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Charles Daley

Two prominent Atlanta-area busi-
ness leaders have been elected to the
board of trustees of Oglethorpe Uni-
versity.

They are Charles S. Daley, president
of the DeKalb National Bank and Har-
old R. Lilley, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of the Southeastern Zone,
Frito-Lay, Inc.

Mr. Daley is a native of Augusta,
Ga., where he attended Augusta Col-
lege. He also attended Rutgers Uni-
versity's Graduate School of Banking.
He joined the Trust Company of Geor-
gia Group in 1935, subsequently serv-
ing as vice president and assistant trust
officer of the First National Bank and
Trust Company of Augusta before com-
ing to Atlanta as president and director
of the DeKalb National Bank. He is a
director of the Trust Company of Geor-
gia Associates.

Mr. Daley had an outstanding record
during World War II, serving with the
82nd Airborne Division as a company
commander. His decorations include
the Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf
clusters, five battle stars, a presidential
citation, and the U.S. Commendation
Medal for outstanding and meritorious
service.

An immediate past president of the
DeKalb County Chamber of Com-
merce, Mr. Daley is currently president

Harold R. Lilley

of the Rotary Club of North DeKalb,
member of the board of directors of the
Metropolitan Atlanta Community
Chest, Atlanta Region Metropolitan
Planning Commission and the Metro-
politan Atlanta Red Cross. He attends
Trinity Presbyterian Church, where he
is a ruling elder, and is a member of
the Capital City Club and Castle View
Town and Country Club. Mr. Daley
and his wife, the former Miss Nettie
Ragan, are parents of two daughters,
Susan 16, and Gayle 14. They reside
at 2795 Normandy Drive, N.W., At-
lanta.

Mr. Lilley is a native of Lumberton,
N. C. He attended the University of
South Carolina, and has taken special
courses for government service at
Princeton University and North Dakota
State Teachers College. Prior to assum-
ing his present position with Frito-Lay,
Mr. Lilley served as vice president and
eastern division manager of the H. W.
Lay and Co., Inc. Before that he was
president of the Capitol Frito Com-
pany, Washington, D. C.

During World War II, Mr. Lilley
served for five years with the U. S.
Army Ground Forces two years of
which were in the European Theater of
Operations. He held the rank of cap-
tain upon his discharge from the serv-
ice.

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The Flying Petrel

Merriman Smith receives Doctorate at Commencement

Merriman Smith, class of 1936 at
Oglethorpe University was awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters from Oglethorpe on Sunday,
June 7, 1964 at the 90th commence-
ment exercise of the College. The de-
gree was bestowed by Dr. George Sew-
ard, Acting President, on behalf of the
Faculty and the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Smith is the senior White House
correspondent and the recent winner of
a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Having served four United States
presidents, Lyndon Johnson as his fifth,
Mr. Smith has wide knowledge of the
highest office in the country and has
written five books on the presidential
office.

He is a member of the Industrial
Development Council of Atlanta; a di-
rector of the DeKalb National Bank, a
member of the DeKalb County Cham-
ber of Commerce, the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce, the Congres-
sional Country Club, Washington,
Peachtree Golf Club, Atlanta, Lodge
No. 204, A. F. & A. M., Bethesda,
Md., and Almas Temple, Washington,
D. C. He is affiliated with the Christian
Church.

Mr. Lilley and his wife, Ruth Louise,
are the parents of two sons, William
Ernest, 15, and James Douglas, 11.
The family resides at 3930 Tuxedo
Road, N.W., Atlanta.

40% Plus

High Percentage to attend
Graduate School

Over forty percent of the June grad-
uating class of Oglethorpe University
are planning to enter graduate schools
to work toward receiving the master's
degrees. This number is approximately
five percent higher than the national
average for schools with graduates
planning to further their education.

In addition to the liberal arts fields,
students will pursue master's degrees
in chemistry, psychology, theoretical
and nuclear physics.

Excerpts from
Address by
Mr. Smith

If you can read, hear, or watch, I
don't have to tell you that the world is
pretty much of a mess. This is not an
entirely new situation. Man has been
at war with himself and other men since
the invention of the apple. But what IS
new today is that we are able to trans-
mit our troubles much faster than ever
before. With every new development
in communications, the world shrinks.
And we must look at each other and
more, 1 speak of nations instantly.

No more packet ships no more
long-winded cables no more roman-
tic Richard Harding Davis or Webb
Miller dispatches from unheard of, far
off places. There are no far-off places
today. Given any of a number of credit
cards, 1 can walk away from this com-
mencement ceremony, be in New Delhi
in no more than a day. Our United
Press International man in Kabul can
tell our New York office in a matter of
very few minutes what is happening
across the Kyber Pass.

Underground in Omaha at the
communications center of the Strategic
Air Command I have sat and watched
and this is literal the progress of a
tiny, private airplane over the Bahama
Islands.

With the communications satelite
the development of the Mach 3 aircraft
with the increasing use of high-speed
computers to process and analyze
otherwise raw information, the world
will grow smaller and smaller in fact,
it will become what Wendell Wilkie
foresaw as one world.

How these rapidly moving develop-
ments in communication add up to me
is rather a simple lesson more than
ever, we must learn to get along in a
community of nations and perhaps
more importantly, we as Americans
must respect the rights of other men,
other nations, to emerge as we did
from the background of colonialism.
I feel we must respect their right to
revolt as we revolted. Quite naturally,
our acceptance of other revolutions
must be measured by our national in-
terests.

continued next page

Schools chosen include those from
California, Michigan, New York, Illi-
nois, Tennessee, North and South Caro-
lina, Alabama, and Georgia. One of the
graduates will study in India on a Ful-
bright Scholarship.

Summer 1964

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For example, consider the late Pres.
Kennedy's approach to the installation
of Russian long-range missiles in Cuba.
He made at the time what I thought
was an entirely proper power decision
in telling the Russians to get their mis-
siles out or else. But according to
some of my military friends, the Rus-
sian tactic was sound. The Castro gov-
ernment apparently had informed Mos-
cow however ill-informed that a
strike, an invasion, was in the making.

The Russian general staff, after first
sending Mr. Castro some rather small
missiles, decided that if Cuban intelli-
gence was anywhere nearly accurate,
that high-powered, long-range weapons
were indicated. As one American gen-
eral said to me during that somewhat
jittery period, "If I had been in the
Russian's shoes, I would have played
it the same way if they were even half
convinced an invasion was coming,
there was no use whatever in playing
around with cap pistols."

Then, of course, Mr. Kennedy got
tough the Russians realized the Cuban
intelligence was wrong and they pulled
out. This brings us in sort of wander-
ing way back to the subject of increas-
ingly high speed communications in our
world, not only of today, but more im-
portantly, tomorrow. If Mr. Kennedy
had not been able to slam Havana and
Moscow rapidly and hard with his de-
termination to get those USSR missiles
off their Cuban pads, we well could
have had a nasty situation.

I hope I would not be so presumpti-
ous as to lecture a class of graduates
on history. For one reason, I cannot
remember Abagail Adams or where she
hung her laundry.

My world my journalistic world
is one of almost instant history. I've
been living with this split-second his-
tory at the White House since prior to
Pearl Harbor. More times than not,
I've thought those of us regularly as-
signed to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
have done a superficial job of reporting,
but there is not a reporter assigned to
the White House who does not wish he
had more time to be reflective, intro-
spective and scholarly.

This we must leave to the Lippmans,
the Restons, the Dnimmonds who in
addition to their own probing, must, of
necessity, depend to a great extent on
the raw product of what we call spot
reporters men who are on the scene
when it happens.

To have men on the scene when it
happens involves a tremendous amount

Dana Lou Howe, '61

Miss Dana Lou Howe, '61, who is

serving with Special Services in Europe,
has recently been promoted from GS 6
Program Director of the Heilbronn
Service Club to GS 8 Club Director in
the Kornwestheim Service Club. She
has been in the Special Services pro-
gram since June of 1963. Miss Howe
was selected to represent the Stuttgart
Area at a European Recreation Con-
ference in Berchtesgaden recently.

Mrs. Roger C. Howe, also a gradu-
ate of Oglethorpe, will visit her daugh-
ter in June and July of this year.

Miss Howe was employed by St. Pius
X Catholic High School before she was
selected by the Department of the
Army for Special Services.

She plans to return to her teaching
when her tour in Europe is finished in
June of 1965. She feels that her travels
will be of great benefit to her future
students.

of manpower, money, transmission fa-
cilities, transportation and some rela-
tively new gadgets such as portable
short wave radios and cars equipped
with similarly portable equipment.

With all this rather complicated
equipment and use of manpower, the
American people probably are better
informed than any other national group
in the world. Flooded, drenched in in-
formation, the question to me then
becomes a matter of assimilation.

The world into which this group of
graduates moves today is complicated
and as I said at the start messy. A
number of voices in fact, millions of
hitherto unheard voices want to be
heard. I conclude with only one bit of
profundity please listen.

Liberty Has Its Price

An address to the Annual Alumni
meeting May 16, 1964
by Dr. George Seward,
Acting President

"As you all know, during this past
year Oglethorpe went through a period
of indecision a period of considera-
tion of the future. This involved the
consideration of an offer from a re-
ligious organization to assume control
of Oglethorpe. The decision was made
that Oglethorpe's future was to be that
of an independent institution. This is
wise and courageous. I think it would
be a disaster for Georgia to lose its
independent colleges.

"Liberty has its price. One of the
reasons which weighed with the Board
of Trustees was that the Alumni would
prefer not to have the institution
changed. Just as the Trustees have
undertaken to do their part to sup-
port the school, the Alumni must re-
new their interest and support.

"Generally the independent schools
in this part of the country are not
supported by alumni as they are in
other parts of the country. None of
the private institutions in the south-
east receive much support from their
alumni. The State institutions receive
in excess of $800.00 per student in
addition to the fees the student pays.
The tuition at the private institutions
never pays the bill, only about 60%
of the cost. Education here is being
subsidized by the faculty. Deans of
other colleges often express their ad-
miration of our faculty and ask how we
keep them. They say there is not one
that they wouldn't like to take back to
their own institutions.

"We have to subsidize education
at Oglethorpe from other sources. One
of these sources is the Alumni. The
situation is not critical, but the Alumni
must recognize its obligation. Talk to
other Alumni, and get them to sup-
port the institution of which they are
forever a part."

You Just Do
Move Around

Please let us have your change of ad-
dress PROMPTLY when you move. We
need both your old and new address.

It may be simpler just to cut off the
old address, paste it on a post card and
add the new address. Or use the change
of address card the post office furnishes
you.

Please don't forget the zip code. Thanks.

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The Flying Petrel

Three Elected to the Sports Hall of Fame

Wendell Crow. Tom Barlenleld and H. M. "Monk" Clement

Three of Oglethorpe University's
finest alumni and boosters have been
initiated into the Oglethorpe Athletic
Hall of Fame, joining a select body of
people whose service to the University
has been primarily responsible for the
resurgence of athletic prominence in the
school's recent program.

The three Wendell Crowe, Tom
Bartenfeld and H. M. (Monk) Clement
were inducted in special ceremonies
on Homecoming Day, May 5. They
were numbers 9, 10 and 11 in the
group.

Two distinctions mark all the men:
All were outstanding athletic figures in
their school days at Oglethorpe and all
have become forceful figures in organ-
izing and administering the Booster
Club, which is the major part of the
athletic success story on campus.

Crowe, now a successful Ford dealer
in Covington, was grauated in 1925.
During his career at O.U., he played on
some of the Petrels' most outstanding
teams as a strong, swift tackle and full-
back. He, like Bartenfeld and Clement,
currently serves on the board of di-
rectors of the Boosters Club.

Bartenfeld, a graduate of 1924, was
a tackle on the powerful teams of

Coach Harry Robertson. His speed
and strength helped establish him as
one of the original hard-nosed players
of his time and he became a feared
performer in the eyes of the opposition.
At present, he is the owner of the Bar-
tenfeld Electric Co., which, in itself, is
a success story.

Clement was Mr. Four Letter at
Oglethorpe. He participated superbly
in football, basketball, baseball and
track, a talented participant in each.
His help was instrumental in helping
organize the Club, though he lives in
St. Louis and works as an executive in
the Cole Chemistry Co. Too, Clement
has displayed an excellent flair for art,
having held his own exhibits and sold
many paintings.

The three men, it should be stressed,
are not merely good boosters. They
also actively support all phases of the
school's program, giving time, money
and encouragement.

The induction ceremony added the
three names to a list of top personali-
ties in Oglethorpe Hall of Fame history.
The charter members are Garland Pin-
holster, Harry Robertson, Adrian Mor-
row, Cy Bell, Luke Appling and Frank
Anderson. The second year the names

I Remember . . .

How beautiful the Oglethorpe campus
looked to a lowly Freshman.

How envious the other co-eds were of
the Girl's High graduates who were
exempt from Freshman English.

Dr. Routh winding his watch at the
start of his first class each day and
how much noise it made.

The boys answering roll call for miss-
ing students in Dr. Nick's Bible class.
When there was no parking problem
on the campus because few students
had cars.

When the Petrel Shop was in the base-
ment of the Administration Building.
When the Co-ed basketball team wore
bloomers and long wool socks.

How long dresses were in 1923 and
how short in 1927.

The Oglethorpe Players and the origi-
nal one act plays they presented.

That the Oglethorpe baseball team was
Dixie Champion in the Spring of 1924
and the football team SIAA champion
in the fall of the same year.

The thrill of being recipient of a Coat-
of-Arms sweater.

Oglethorpe's wonderful faculty and its
sincere interest in each student.

Attending the reunion of the Class of
1927 in 1952 and what fun it was to
see so many of the old Grads.

by Virginia O'Kelly Dempsey '27

of Steve Schmidt, Clay Parrish and Dr.
L. N. (Chief) Turk were added, and
then the three this year.

If there needed to be an example of
the loyalty of the three new inductees,
the story could be told of two years
ago, when the Flying Petrels were com-
peting in the national basketbal ltourna-
ment (NCAA). All three men left
their business committments to travel
to Louisville (Ky.) and Evanston (111.)
to support the team.

And that is the calibre of the three
who have been added to the Hall of
Fame. They not only gave their best
during competitive days, they give their
best now.

Summer 1964

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Russian Education Described

Recently, the Science Division of
Oglethorpe University had a special
seminar with Mrs. Rose Jermain, a
Russian born and trained engineer as
the guest speaker.

Mrs. Jermain, now an American citi-
zen, was graduated from Odessa Uni-
versity as a mining engineer and from
the University of Tennessee where she
specialized in languages. She is pres-
ently with the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion at Oak Ridge as a specialist in
Russian technical data.

Her topic was "The Molding and
Education of Russian Scientists."

In speaking of the education received
today in Russia, Mrs. Jermain com-
mented that the process generally is to
mold and indoctrinate rather than to
educate. The individual as a person is
worthless to the Russian government.
The education of persons is for the
need of the State and it is the State that
decides who goes where and in what
numbers. A Russian's destiny is de-
cided by the government.

Briefly, the history of Russian educa-
tion since the Revolution is as follows:
From 1918-35 education was poor.
There was too much interference from
the Communist party. In 1935, a re-
naissance began and lasted until 1955.
Education in college during this time
was put on a competitive basis in that
the highest honor high school students
were permitted to enter college with
no testing by the State, others had to
pass State exams.

In 1958, the school systems were re-
organized to resemble an educator's
nightmare. Beginning as low as the 1st
grade, a student was required to spend
as much as 1 /3 of his time in a shop or
factory. What time was left over was
devoted to academic subjects very
heavily directed to math, science,
physics. The pupils are trained to be
an integrated part of the factory. After
the required 1 1 years of schooling, the
student must now enter either a voca-
tional school or a semi-professional
school. After this training, the student
now must work for two years. This is
obligatory. After this four year period,
the student can now enter college. (A
Russian college requires from 5 to 6
years to complete.) A dissertation must
be written and publicly defended which
adds another 2 years to the college
period. Now the student is ready for
his diploma, but it is not always easy to
get as the diploma is sent directly to

his job assignment. If the student does
not care for either the job assignment
or the location, he does not receive the
diploma.

Usually, if a person wishes to go to
graduate school, he is now about 28
years old. This is considered genius in
Russia. The graduate school is on two
levels. After another three year work-
ing period, the student enters the first
level of graduate school. This takes
four years. He spends another three
years working and then another four
years to finish school. At this time, the
student has a much higher degree than
the PhD degree that is given in the
United States but the student is now
anywhere from 45-47 years old with
his more productive years behind him.
There is not much future for a person
just beginning at this age.

In conclusion, Mrs. Jermain stated
that the "liberal arts" degree is un-
known in Russia. There are no hu-
manities, history or economics taught
as we know it.

Goldthwait

Continued from page 1

the institution, formerly a college of
teacher education. He will apply a
broad past experience in educational
planning, including contact with the
development of the Oglethorpe Plan.

The Plattsburgh college, presently
enrolling about 2000 students, is one of
eleven four-year campuses of the State
University of New York, which also
has three graduate centers and other
units.

Dr. Goldthwait has published articles
in philosophy, verse, and a translation
of the book by Immanuel Kant, Ob-
servations on the Feeling of the Beau-
tiful and Sublime, the latter in a paper-
back edition by the University of Cali-
fornia Press.

Mrs. Goldthwait is the former Betty
Benefield, who received her B.A. in
Literature and Journalism from Ogle-
thorpe in 1941. The two were married
in Atlanta in 1946. Mrs. Goldthwait
was postmaster of the Oglethorpe Uni-
versity Post Office from 1948 to 1950.
She has been an elementary teacher
both in Atlanta and in California. The
Goldthwaits have one son, Christopher,
aged 15.

Alumni Director given first
Senior Class Award

Joyce B. Minors '57

Mrs. Joyce Minors, Executive Sec-
retary of Alumni Association, and
1957 Oglethorpe Graduate, was sur-
prised at the 1964 graduation cere-
mony by a plaque presented by this
year's Senior Class. It read: "In appre-
ciation of her sincere interest in Ogle-
thorpe University and her continued
support of the students and their ac-
tivities, the 1964 Senior Class recog-
nizes Joyce B. Minors. June 7, 1964."

Mrs. Minors, who has held her
present position since the Fall of 1961,
was running off a stencil of Mr. Mer-
riman Smith's address at the time her
award was given and learned of it only
after the applause had died down.

Earning a double major in History
and Biology, Mrs. Minors taught one
year at Chamblee High School before
returning to her Alma Mater.

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The Flying Petrel

MARSHALLING ALUMNI

RESOURCES FOR

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY

On January 29, 1963, former Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy said, in his edu-
cation message to congress:

"Nothing has contributed more to
the enlargement of this Nation's
strength and opportunities than our
traditional system of free, universal
elementary and secondary education
coupled with widespread availability
of college. For the Nation, increas-
ing the quality and availability of
education is vital to both our na-
tional security and our domestic well-
being."

He then went on to say:

"Our present educational system was
founded on the principle that oppor-
tunity for education should be avail-
able to all not merely to those who
have the ability to pay. In the past
this has meant free public elementary
and secondary schools in every com-
munity; thereafter land-grant state
and municipal colleges and voca-
tional education
"Now a veritable tidal wave of stu-
dents is advancing inexorably on our
institutions of higher education . . .
The future of these young people
and the nation rests in large part on
their access to college and graduate
education."

A college education of from two to
four years is clearly becoming a goal
for a growing proportion of our popu-
lation. A conservative extrapolation of
past trends leads to the conclusion that
the percentage of college age people
actually in college can be expected to
grow from 24% now to 40% in 1985.

With increased enrollments, Ogle-
thorpe's administrative cost as well as
the accompanying complexing prob-
lems will surely follow. Financial prob-
lems are at the top of the list of any
college, especially an independent col-
lege. As alumni of Oglethorpe Univer-
sity, we can assist in many ways. Some
of us can give directly while others are
in positions of being able to secure
grants, scholarships, etc. for the col-
lege. Your ideas and suggestions will
be appreciated. Please let us hear from
you.

An area of great concern to me is
this matter of faculty salary supple-
ments. Our scholarship and foundation

J. D. Mosteller, '41
Awarded Fellowship

James D. Mosteller, B.A., 1940;
M.A., 1941, who is presently dean and
professor of church history at the
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of
Chicago, has been awarded a Lilly
Post-Doctoral Fellowship for study in
England, from March to September,
1965. He will be appointed an Hon-
orary Fellow of Regent's Park College
of Oxford University, and attend lec-
tures and do research in Puritanism at
the university.

Following graduation from Ogle-
thorpe, where he was the only min-
isterial student on the campus at that
time, Mosteller taught English and lit-
erature for two years at Oglethorpe,
then English and Bible at Brewton-
Parker Junior College in Mt. Vernon,
Georgia, in addition to serving several
Baptist Churches in southeast Georgia.

In 1947, he was appointed to the
faculty of Northern Baptist Theological
Seminary as professor of church his-
tory. In 1949 he received the B.D. de-
gree and in 1951 the Th.D. degree
from the seminary. Since 1956 he has
been dean of the seminary.

The Mostellers have a son Don, who
is a senior at Kalamazoo College, and
a daughter Lynn entering Willowbrook
High School in September. His wife and
daughter will join Mosteller in England
next June for the summer.

programs are not as strong as they
should be. Many of you could assist
us in overcoming some of these situa-
tions.

It is my hope that you will be in-
formed of the activities, progress, and
plans being made at the college. Edu-
cation is something that will directly or
indirectly affect each of us. I would
hope that we can marshall the resources
that we have to benefit Oglethorpe
University.

Jefferson put it this way. "If a nation
expects to remain free and ignorant is
a state of civilization, it expects what
never was and never will be." Ours,
therefore, must be the realization that
education is not something that you go
through and are done with. Education
is not a destination. Education is a
journey. Always we are en route.

Texans Contacted

On a recent trip to Texas, Si Tygart,
'30 contacted the alumni in the Dallas
area. This is the news from our folks
out West.

Moss S. Causey, Jr., class of '45 is
Assistant Secretary of Y.M.C.A. of
Dallas, Texas. In conversation with Si
Tygart May 22nd, 1964 stated he had
not seen Oglethorpe since graduating.
When advised of the wonderful prog-
ress made since 1945 (many of you will
remember Oglethorpe almost closed its
doors back then as they only had 65
students so stated Moss), he states he
will visit campus on his next visit to
Atlanta this year. WILL HE BE SUR-
PRISED to see the Field House and
the new dormitory about where the old
ALT Frat house use to sit.

Si Tygart also visited with Mrs. Mel-
vin Hill (Angela Clarke, '28, also from
Atlanta). Angela and her husband,
Mclvin, graduate of Ga. Tech, operate
a very successful insurance agency,
Melvin T Hill, Insurance, Praetorion
Bldg., Dallas, Texas. Angela will try to
get the alumin (all seven of them) in
Dallas together for a talkfest sometime
soon.

Si also tried to reach Paul Rainwater,
2nd but was only able to talk with
Paul's Mother. Paul is a successful
Electrical Engineer in Dallas and his
Mother states he is quite busy with his
hobby of growing orchids and is most
active in the local Dallas orchid society.
Nice going Paul. Hope you and some
of those Atlanta Petrels get together
soon. Maybe you will have some of
your most beautiful orchid specimens
you can show them.

Si tried to contact Mrs. Harris Wynn,
Jr. (Bertha Banks, '34), another
Petrel in Dallas and was only able to
talk with her beautiful daughter, Har-
riet. Mrs. Wynn was in New Orleans
on a trip with her husband.

Just a little side note of interest.
Angela Clarke, '28 states she and her
husband (both single in 1926) attended
the game when Oclethorpe finally beat
Ga. Tech the fall of 1926. If you will
recall Monk Clements was playing
halfback in that game and on a pitch-
out by Tech, Monk intercepted the
pitchout from Tech Quarterback to
Tech halfback and Monk ran it some
60 yards or more for a touchdown only
to have it called back because the ref-
eree said Oglethorpe was offside. An-
gela recalled this incident and what a

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lot of fun it was teasing her husband to
be that "little ole Oglethorpe" had
taken the mighty Georgia Tech's meas-
ure 7 to 6. How many of you remem-
ber this game. Caruso Hardin played
guard in this game at a weight of about
145 pounds. Nutty Campbell must
have weighed soakin' wet at least 140.
Old Bill Perkins, Jimmy Sims, and
Major Guthrie made up for some of
these lightweights in the line. However
these lightweights made up for lack of
weight with a determination not to quit
and really gave it to Tech for 60 long
minutes that Tech never has forgotten.

Oglethorpe Sports

Both the immediate and long-range
future of Oglethorpe University basket-
ball is resting, in great degree, on the
young shoulders of three boys just out
of high school and one who has com-
pleted his tour of duty in junior college
competition.

The Flying Petrels have signed the
four to basketball grants-in-aid for the
1964-65 season, getting two Illinois
boys and two Georgia boys for their
bargaining.

Signed from Edwards County High
School in Albion, 111., were forwards
Bill Carson (6-4, 190) and Jerry Sams
(6-5, 185). The Petrels also acquired
the services of guard Doug Alexander
from Cross Keys High School. Alex-
ander is 6-1 and weighs 175. And the
final signee is Wayne Johnson of Young
Harris Junior College. Johnson, who
played high school ball at Headland, is
5-9, but served as captain of the Young
Harris team last year.

"We're extremely pleased with the
signees thus far," said Coach Garland

Pinholster. "These boys are not only
fine athletes, but boys who want to play
basketball. And, frankly, that's what
I'm looking for. Boys who want to
play.

"We still have a couple of grants to
fill, but I think it's best not to just give
them to be giving them. We want to
select the boys carefully."

The four already given will represent
a lot in the aspirations of the Ogle-
thorpe fans, for they must take up the
slack of a greatly depleted team. Out
of the 12 boys on the team last year,
only five are returning and among those
missing are captain Bobby Sexton and
speedster Bobby Dalgleish.

Returning to shoulder the major load
will be Ray Thomas, who missed al-
most half the season last year due to
injury, Bill Garrigan, Walker Heard,
Jimbo Hartlege and Bill Parker.

With only five available from the
team which posted a 15-11 record last
year (it was the second worse season in
Coach Garland Pinholster's history at
O.U.), the new boys will be pressed
hard for early duty, but it is expected
that they will be ready to respond.

Carson and Sams were two of the
finer athletest in the basketball rich
empire of Illinois last year. Both are
capable of challenging the regular re-
turnees in rebounding and shooting,
and just to confuse things, Sam does
his firing from the left side.

"These are two impressive lads,"
Coach Pinholster commented. "The
night we scouted them, they defeated
Cobden High and Cobden eventually
went to the finals of the state tourna-
ment. We are confident they can do
the job, and they love to play.

"Getting Alexander from Cross Keys
was a fortunate thing for us," Pin-
holster continued. "I've found that he

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loves to work and I love to see a
worker. Too, he is a talented boy. We
rate him high among last year's grad-
uates in Georgia."

Johnson, the junior college transfer,
is another who caught the fancy of
Pinholster. "He's only 5-9, but he has
spunk and fight, and serving as cap-
tain at Young Harris last year tells
something of his ability and the caliber
of player he is. We believe he will help
our floor game a lot and we will be
planning to utilize his talents."

Coach Pinholster also revealed that
he will be changing his game strategy
to fit the personnel.

"It's hard to teach a new boy a sys-
tem as complicated as ours in a short
time," he said. "We'll simplify the of-
fense, probably run more, and we'll
simplify the defense. What the fans
will be seeing will be a more basic ver-
sion of the wheel offense and we think
it will be interesting. Really, we're
going to use our boys the best way we
can, and that we'll have to see when
work begins this fall."

The tradition facing the 1964-65
team is a challenging one. Now into his
ninth year as athletic director and head
coach, Pinholster has had only one
losing season, his first, when the team
finished 8-12. For five consecutive
years, the Flying Petrels won 20 or
more games before slipping last year.
The success clearly marked Pinholster
as the top college basketball producer
in the state and it revived a lost and
proud athletic spirit at Oglethorpe.

Alumni Fund
Progress Report

The 1963-64 Forward Oglethorpe
Fund as of July 13, 1964 is as follows:
Donors: 699

Income:

Unrestricted . $ 9,311.10

Library (not listed

for 1963-64) . 33.00

Endowment 288.00
Faculty Salary

Supplements 363.00

Woman's Dorm 340.50

Athletic Booster Club __ 8,245.75

In-kind Gifts ._ 1,717.75

Total ...$20,641.60

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Pictures From Alumni Day

Dan Duke '33 with Judge Thomas Camp

Bob Booker 'GO

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Mr. Sidney Holderness '20 is served punch at
Art Tea

Steve Schmidt '40. Wendell Crowe. '24 and Dr. George Seward

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Lee Barrett

Si Tygart '30. Tommie Carper '37, Virginia Beazley '37 and husband Bob '35 with
Virginia Dempsey '27

Pinkie Gates Harris and "Nappy" Thranhardt

Jim Holliday, Marge Holliday. Mary Asher and Mary Walker

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Annette Vincent '34

Nappy Thranhardt '35 with Jim Hinson '49

Penny Jones

Dave Therrel '31. John Crouch 29. and Eddie Anderson '34

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Col. Frank Shiplon. '58 with Lew DeRose. '57

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H. M. "Monk" Clement in the Art Gallery with his paintings

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Sidney Holdemess '20 with O. C. Walton '22

Howard Axilbery '40
Benton Greenleai '63

War Memorial
Planned

A plan to perpetuate the memory
of Oglethorpe University alumni who
have given their lives in the service of
their country has been announced by
the school, and the Alumni Office is
soliciting names of those who might
be included in the list.

According to officials, the plan
would be to establish a War Memorial
recognition in the O.U. gymnasium,
where the upstairs wall has already
been divided into graduating classes,
with pictures and resumes of those who
have attributed outstanding service to
the school and community especially
in athletics.

Members of any of the classes who
were killed in service in any of the war
conflicts World War I, World War
II and the Korean conflict would be
enshrined under the section of their
graduating class.

Already six names have been estab-
lished in the War Memorial. They are:
Ernie Sheffield, '41; Henry Horton,
'37; Lathan (Bo) Denning, '40; Jim
Pope, '42; Jim Branyon, '37, and Ben
Faulkner, '39. All were killed in action

Largest Class Received
Diplomas

On Sunday, June 7th, 1964 the larg-
est class ever graduated from Ogle-
thorpe University. Some seventy-nine
men and women received diplomas in
this 90th commencement exercise.

as armed service members, with the ex-
ception of Branyon, who was killed
while serving as a war correspondent.

The Alumni Office asks anyone who
may know of an Oglethorpe alumnus
killed in service, to please write the
University, giving the name of the fam-
ily of the deceased and how they may
be reached in order that pictures and
a resume of the person may be ob-
tained.

There is a definite period of interest,
the World War II years of '43, '44
and '45. During this time, there were
no athletics at Oglethorpe, but there
were a number of O. U. boys who
served in the war. Any knowledge of
boys killed during this time should be
passed on the school.

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THROUGH THE YEARS

Jim Anderson, '31, has been elected
national director from the state for the
Georgia Association of Independent
Insurance Agents. Mr. Anderson has
had his own insurance agency in De-
catur since 1946. He is also a past
president of the National Alumni As-
sociation of Oglethorpe University.

Major General Carl T. Sutherland , '31,

civilian personnel director for the City
of Atlanta and one of the nation's lead-
ing Army reservists retired June 25,
1964, after 35 years of service.

General Sutherland commanded the
81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division since
1947.

A retirement review was held at Ft.
McPherson.

He is married to the former Miss
Alma Cook Shaw, '32.

Mrs. Annie B. Averett, '40 and Miss
Irene Dover, '40 were honored recently
at the Anne E. West school at a recep-
tion held in their honor. The two teach-
ers retired at the end of the spring
term. Mrs. Averett taught 17 years at
the school and Miss Dover 41 years.
The school was named in honor of the
mother of Dr. Paul West, '25.

Mrs. Luke (Lillian Broward, '40)
Greene's husband Luke Greene has
been appointed the Editor of the new
daily, THE ATLANTA TIMES.

Mrs. Bertha Mae Bowen, '42, and her

husband W. Grady, were honored at a
reception held on their golden wedding
anniversary recently. Mrs. Bowen is a
past president of the Atlanta Woman's
Club.

Dr. E. Ross Roberton, '44, has been
appointed vice president for develop-
ment and planning of John Marshall
University in Atlanta. Dr. Robertson
previously served as a minister in Geor-
gia and Alabama.

Maxwell (Red) Ivey, '46 has been ap-
pointed the new athletic director of the
Atlanta city schools. He was formerly
principal at Brown High School here in
Atlanta, and before that the head coach
at Murphy High School.

Dr. Olie Sherman Bandy, '47, will be
an instructor of French and Spanish in
the new DeKalb Junior College be-
ginning in 1964. Previously, Dr. Bandy
was with the Dade City Florida Board
of Education.

Jim Holliday, '49 has recently been ap-
pointed South Central District Manager
for The Kendall Company in St. Louis,
Missouri. Mr. Holliday is the immedi-
ate past president of the National
Alumni Association of Oglethorpe and
is married to the former Marjorie
McClung, '49.

Clare Isenhour, '50 received the Master
of Arts degree in Political Science from
the University of Georgia this past
June, 1964.

Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Sheffield, '53/'54,
announce the birth of a daughter, Pam-
ela Laurie, on May 1, 1964. ' Mrs.
Sheffield is the former Ava Hart.

Homer S. Chapman, '54, died this past
June. Mr. Chapman was a teacher at
Forest Park Hism School.

Mrs. C. A. Deck, '54, died last April,
1964. Mrs. Deck made her home in
LaFayette, Georgia.

Mr. Vernon Burke '56, is teaching the
6th grade at Mt. View Elementary
School. He also is engaged in coach-
ing basketball and baseball.

Joeseph Hilbert, '57, has been ap-
pointed Instructor of Anatomy and
Physiology at Diablo Valley College,
near San Francisco, California. Also,
as Medical Technologist, he owns and
operates a Clinical Laboratory which
includes being cancer cytologist for
Contra Costa County.

Shirley Benefiel Geoghan, '58, has just
returned from a tour in England with
her husband Thomas, an Air Force
Captain. They are the parents of a son
and are presently residing in Lubbock,
Texas.

Ernest Stone, '58 has been appointed to
the position of assistant professor of
physics at Southern Tech in Marietta,
Georgia. Mr. Stone is married to the
former Katherine Reid, '61.

Wayne Dobbs, 61, has been appointed
the new director of intercollegiate
sports and head basketball and baseball
coach at Belmont College, Nashville,
Tenn., effective June 1st. He previously
had been director of athletics, physical
education instructor and head basket-
ball coach at Brewton-Parker college
at Mt. Vernon, Georgia.

Mr. Dobbs was the recipient of
academic as well as athletic scholar-
ships to Oglethorpe, was elected Lord
Oglethorpe, won several academic and
athletic awards, was nominated for a
Rhodes Scholarship, named to Who's
Who in American Colleges and Uni-
versities, achieved the dean's list. He is
presently working toward his MA de-
gree in physical education at Peabody
College.

Miss Frances O. Bradley recently be-
came the bride of Russell Eiseman '62.

The couple will reside in Milledgeville
where Mr. Eisenman is interning at
Milledgeville State Hospital. He is cur-
rently working on his Ph.D. in clinical
Psychology from the University of
Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Ingerson, '63 an-
nounce the birth of a son, Terry Brian,
on March 25, 1964.

Thomas Phillips, '63 and Mary York,

'66 were married recently. The couple
will reside in Augusta where Mr. Phil-
lips is attending Georgia Medical
School.

Mrs. Dell Aldrich (Joanne Vanderbyl),
'63, is residing in Schweinfurt, Ger-
many where her husband is stationed
with the U.S. Army.

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