BERRY COLLEGE BULLETIN
THE SOUTHERN
HIGHLANDER

Photograph by Leviton-Atlanta

Cabin Log '65: `to someone worthy'

Shortly before leaving Elizabeth Cottage one evening in May to attend the student yearbook dedication and recognition banquet in Ford Dining Hall, Miss Alice Barnes, guest cottages hostess on the Log Cabin Campus, re marked to a colleague, "Oh, I hope the yearbook is dedicated to someone worthy this year."
Two hours later, when the dedica tion of Cabin Log 1965 was announced, Miss Barnes found herself the object of a sustained standing ovation, and there was no doubt in the minds of those applauding that the book had indeed been dedicated to "someone worthy."
The Cabin Log tribute, written by Editor-in-Chief Camilla Hale Miller, reads, "To Alice Barnes . . . who per sonifies the spirit of dedication and the Berry tradition of loyalty and service.
"Miss Barnes has served Berry for

forty-six years. She first came to Mount Berry from her home in Saluda, South Carolina, as a student in 1915, and a year after her graduation in 1918, she returned to the campus to serve as hostess and supervisor in Berry's guest cottages on the Log Cabin Campus.
"Miss Barnes is a professional in her field, and among those who have praised her hospitality, her beautiful table and her excellent food have been the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, the famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart, the gracious Mrs. Emily V. Hammond and countless other well known friends of Berry.
"Alice Barnes has inspired and stim ulated hundreds of Berry College women who have gained their work experience in the guest cottages, and the fortunate students who have sat down to a meal prepared by Miss Barnes and `her girls' can attest to her culinary talents."

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THE BERRY SCHOOLS BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAIRMAN WILLIAM McCHESNEY MARTIN, JR., Chairman,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D. C.
VICE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM R. BOWDOIN, Vice Chairman of the Board,
Trust Company of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
MEMBERS HARMON W. CALDWELL, Chancellor Emeritus, Uni
versity System of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia VIRGINIA CAMPBELL COURTS, Atlanta, Georgia RICHARD EDGERTON, President, Buck Hill Falls
Company, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania ALEX P. GAINES, Alston, Miller and Gaines, attor
neys at law, Atlanta, Georgia JOHNSON HEAD, Branch Manager, Remington Office
Machines Division, Sperry Rand Corporation, At lanta, Georgia INEZ W. HENRY, Assistant Vice President, Berry College and Berry Academy, Mount Berry, Georgia HOWELL HOLLIS, Foley, Chappell, Young, Hollis and Schloth, attorneys at law, Columbus, Georgia JOHN W. MADDOX, Matthews, Maddox, Walton and Smith, attorneys at law, Rome, Georgia WALTER MANN, Trustee, Charles A. Dana Founda tion, New York City, New York MILTON S. McDONALD, Superintendent of Schools, Rome, Georgia JOHN J. McDONOUGH, Chairman of the Board, Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, Georgia JULIAN F. McGOWIN, Pomeroy and McGowin, Mobile, Alabama ARTHUR N. MORRIS, Chairman of the Board, NewthMorris Enterprises, Baltimore, Maryland JOHN A. SIBLEY, Honorary Chairman of the Board, Trust Company of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia JOHN C. WARR, General Manager, Georgia Baptist Children's Home, Hapeville, Georgia G. L. WESTCOTT, Chairman, Hardwick Bank and Trust Company, Dalton, Georgia R. W. WOODRUFF, Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
HONORARY TRUSTEES CHARLES A. DANA, Chairman of the Board, Dana
Corporation, Toledo, Ohio GROVER M. HERMANN, Honorary Chairman of the
Board, Martin Marietta Corporation, Chicago, Illinois NELSON MACY, JR., Tmwtee, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foun
dation, Southport, Connecticut
JOHN R. BERTRAND, President and Secretary
Vol. 52 / June 1965 / No. 3
BERRY COLLEGE BULLETIN is published five times yearly--in March, April, June, September and December--by The Berry Schools, the corporate name of Berry College and its affiliate, Berry Academy, Mount Berry, Georgia. Second-class postage paid at Mount Berry, Georgia 30149.

Dr. Sam Henry Cook, right, dean emeritus and advisor to the president, provides the narration for
the circa 1920 movie which also uses Miss Berry's voice, taken from a 1935 NBC recording.
The film, available from the president's office,
captures in sight and sound. . .

A LOOK AT BERRY'S EARLY HISTORY
by Richard Krepela

At the flick of a projector switch, the clock jumps back nearly a halfcentury. Miss Martha Berry's actual voice describes the founding of the famous schools which bear her name while the pictures on the screen show the campus as it actually appeared in the early days.
The film, reinforced by a memorystrewn narrative added last year by Dr. S. H. Cook, dean emeritus and ad visor to the president, is a rare and authentic glimpse into the past. The old films depict the people's dress, the isolation of the mountain farmsteads and the rustic flavor of the early cam pus with a fidelity and accuracy im possible to duplicate today.

In a sense, it took 44 years to pro duce the movie now being shown to interested groups across the country. The pictures were taken in 1921. Miss Berry's voice was recorded in 1935. Only last year were they brought to gether and converted for use on modern sound motion picture equip ment.
There is no way to tell how many people actually worked on the film. Certainly the students and teachers who appear in the scenes must be in cluded in the total figure. The camera man (or men) who made the pictures must be included, as must the engi neers who recorded Miss Berry's voice. Add to the list the modem laboratory

technicians who took the brittle old silent footage and carefully transform ed it into fresh sound film which may be shown anywhere.
Some people deserve special men tion, however. These include Dr. John R. Bertrand, president of Berry, who first conceived the idea of reissuing the old movies in modern form, and Dr. Cook, who contributed not only a fact-filled narration, but also under went the tedium of recording much of the sound track in his own voice. And Miss Alice Barnes, supervisor of the guest cottages at Berry, discovered the recording of Miss Berry's voice locked in a dresser drawer at one of the cottages.
Many of the scenes are authentic reenactments of early Berry anecdotes. An ox-drawn cart pulls up before the Hoge Building. The driveway is un paved and the overalls the boy is wear ing are obviously worn and dusty. The famous incident of the boy who traded his oxen for his schooling is realisti cally portrayed a few years after it actually happened.
Amateur actors, 1921 vintage, also recreate what Miss Berry herself re fers to in the sound track as "the battle of the washtubs." This was the incident in which the mountain boys refused to do their own laundry, and Miss Berry embarrassed the boys by offering to do the work for them. The washtubs and buildings that appear on the screen are authentic.
Other scenes depict the actual events. The 1921 graduation appears on the screen. Dr. Inez Wooten Henry is one of the girls seen receiving her diploma. Miss Berry, somewhat camera shy, appears in several sequences; she is shown, for example, as she greets Mrs.

Emily Vanderbilt Hammond during the 1921 "pilgrimage." There are fas cinating views of the early mountain farm people; their dress and mode of living is brought forcibly into focus in a way no written account can ever portray.
Work on the selection of scenes from old footage was nearly completed when Miss Barnes made her dramatic discovery. As far as is known, the recording she found is the only one-- with the exception of a short March of Time film segment--ever made of Miss Berry's voice.
The event was a 1935 speech Miss Berry made in New York. With spark ling good humor she recounted the founding of The Berry Schools before an audience at the Hotel Roosevelt. NBC broadcast much of the speech and, fortunately, recorded the affair on a fragile master disc.
It was uncanny the way portions of Miss Berry's speech fitted the films made 14 years earlier. Could Miss Berry narrate portions of her own story?
The engineers went to work. They rerecorded the disc onto tape, filter ing out the "hiss" and scratches from the original. Careful scissor work snipped and rearranged both the film and tape recording so the two would match perfectly.
The result? Miss Berry, in her own voice and words, narrates two large segments of the film while the actual scenes are flashed on the screen.
The remainder of the narrative was no less painstakingly done. Dr. Cook viewed the old footage over and over, recalling names, events and anecdotes associated with each scene. These his torically accurate recollections were then refined into a precisely timed narrative script.

Dr. Cook, who may now add to his long list of accomplishments that of experienced film narrator, then spent the better part of a day recording the sound track. The work was not easy.
"We need three seconds less on that paragraph," the director said at one point. "May we try it again?"
Dr. Cook nodded agreement, patient ly rerecorded the section: taking up precisely the correct amount of time. Ten seconds more required for the farm school segment? Dr. Cook read the portion again, inconspicuously hold ing a pause here and there until the total time was stretched to the exact second.
Dr. Cook adapted to the technical requirements, the inflexible time blocks and the inevitable retakes as though he had been making motion picture sound tracks all of his life.
Obtaining the final release prints was largely a matter of mechanics. Picture and sound were "wedded" on to a single film.
A S TECHNICAL COORDINATOR for this unusual project, I often had difficulty in selecting scenes from the available footage. Several sequences were omit ted because the original film had de teriorated too much for satisfactory reproduction. At that, imperfect scenes were included because of their his torical interest. In places blotches and scratches were impossible to remove.
But the technical imperfections only heighten the authenticity of the film. This is film that has survived largely through accident, and the preservation onto modern film stocks was accom plished just in time.
Fortunately, Hermann Hall has ade quate facilities to store such valuable Berry memoirs. The vaults in the new

administration building should keep such films, papers, pictures and re cordings intact for an indefinite period.
Which brings up some interesting questions. The recordings of Miss Berry's voice came to the attention of college authorities through a chance discovery. Are there other such re cordings tucked away and forgotten in attics?
Hundreds of old photographs, per haps even reels of motion picture film predating the 1921 movies we worked with, might still lie forgotten in dress er drawers or chests somewhere.
VV'here are they? The college is in terested in collecting these items and storing them in the fireproof vaults at Hermann Hall.
We were most fortunate to have found the films and recordings we did; and fortunate, too, in having the first person recollections of so knowledge able a person as Dr. Cook.
Interested groups who borrow a screening print from the president's office will be transported in time to the beginning of Berry's history. These are no actors going through the mo tions, no narrators reading a rehash of published accounts. The images are real, photographed at or close to the time they actually happened. And the voices are real too.
Who better than Dr. Cook and Miss Berry could recount the story of Berry's early days?
COPIES of the 1921 film are available for showings to interested groups in your community. Send your request to the Office of the President, Berry Col lege, Mount Berry, Ga. 30149. The film will be sent to you with preaddres sed label and postage for easy return.

SIXTY-SIX young men proudly wend their way to the Frost Memorial Chapel to re ceive their diplomas from Berry Academy.

A DAY OF CAPS AND GOWNS, OF DIPLOMAS AND DEGREES

RECORD NUMBER of 167 seniors enter the Berry College Chapel at the end of the academic procession for commencement ex ercises and conferring of bachelor's degrees.
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Koji yoda of Yokohama, Japan, and Glenda Huggins of LaFayette, Ga., received their bachelor's degrees with highest honors and high honors, re spectively, to lead a field of 22 honor graduates among the record 167 grad uates in the Berry College Class of 1965.
At Berry Academy graduation exer cises the same day, Sunday, June 6, Dennis Schulz of Cedar Bluff, Ala., was valedictorian in a class of 66 young men.
Commencement speaker for both ex ercises was Dr. Charles N. Shepardson of Washington, D. C., a member of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors.
Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of At lanta's Druid Hills Baptist Church and long-time friend of the late Miss Berry, gave the baccalaureate sermon at the college, and academy alumnus Rev. Fred Linton Murray of Kelton, S. C., delivered the academy baccaulaureate address.

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DR. INEZ HENRY and Herman Davis, pres ident of the Rome - Floyd County Berry Club, place flowers on Miss Berry's grave following the college baccalaureate service.

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DR. LOUIE D. NEWTON, r, college bacca laureate speaker, greets old friend Tracy Byers as alumni president M. S. McDonald and Chaplain Harold McDaniel look on.

ROSS MAGOULAS directs the Berry Col lege Concert Choir in a special anthem at the graveside services next to the chapel.

BERRY PRESIDENT John R. Bertrand, l, and commencement speaker Dr. Charles N. Shepardson of Washington, D. C., relax mo mentarily before the academy processional.

COLLEGE honor graduate Kofi Yoda, l, of Yokohama, talks with Reba Nichols, fel low graduate Carl Goodman and cousin Yasuhiro Kasai of Tokyo at graduation.

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WITH THE American and Christian flags leading the way, Berry Academy seniors begin the march to Frost Memorial Chapel.

Our newest building should become a reality within the year. Mr. Charles A. Dana of New York and Connecticut has pledged $315,000 toward the construction of the multi-purpose classroom build ing if the Board of Trustees and friends match his pledge with $635,000.
So far, we have received a very promising series of pledges and quite a number of cash gifts. Support from the members of the Board of Trus tees has been fine and their leadership in securing the help of other people leads us to believe we will have the matching money by the end of the year.

Dr. Thomas W. Gandy
Vice President and Director of Development Berry College and Berry Academy

The building being contemplated will house four academic departments: Education and Psy chology, English and Speech, Foreign Languages and Mathematics. It will be equipped with many of the latest and most useful devices, particularly the new advances in the use of electronics in teach ing. We want the building to continue to be as useful in 1976 as it will be in 1966.
I have had the pleasure of writing in this space for two years. In each issue, the words growth and progress have been stressed. Berry is in the midst of a tremendous burst of energy and carefully planned growth. We want to help meet the expand ing college student enrollment load, but we are desirous of remaining a "small" college.

Challenge Gift for
Classroom Expansion

Our president, Dr. John R. Bertrand, has pro vided the kind of leadership under which Berry is able to reach more students, to become stablized as a strong educational institution, and to grow according to a long-range master plan which should keep the college abreast of our rapidly changing times. Those of you who know the difficulties in herent in administering a college will understand the hope and confidence that such leadership in spires in each of us.

The Board of Trustees has planned well and the leadership is present on campus to carry out the goals set. Therefore, the feeling which we have tried to project in this column from time to time, a feeling of enthusiasm and confidence in the future of Berry, is well .founded. The next decade will be one of progress and quality unequalled in the past.

Dr. Inez Henry
Assistant Vice President Berry College and Berry Academy

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Projected Growth: 1,500 Students

Dear Friends of Berry,
The summer program at Berry is progressing nicely. We have a large group of teachers from this area taking special courses as well as a large num ber of our own students attending classes and another group of students working to earn tuition for the fall quarter.
There are many interesting projects we would like to share with you. Even though the plan is for Berry to con tinue in the role of an outstanding small institution, there is need for en larged classroom and residence hall space to serve the anticipated enroll ment of 1,500.
A generous friend has volunteered a challenging contribution of $315,000 to enlarge classroom space if trustees and other friends will double that sum. We know many of you will want to help us in meeting this challenge. Any amount will be gratefully received.
There are other building needs, how

ever, and the day-to-day work, study and worship program continues to be of major concern. You have responded to this need again and again, and Berry has grown in a remarkable way for 63 years.
Today thousands of men and women hold places of responsibility in our world because friends have invested in Berry's unusual program in edu cating the hand, head and heart. Noth ing brings the lasting joy and satisfac tion that comes from investing in some worthwhile work that other lives may be blessed.
Thank you for your help in days past. We need your continued support for the on-going of Berry's programs; and, more importantly, we need your friendship.
With warm personal regards.
Faithfully yours,

BERRY COLLEGE BULLETIN
THE SOUTHERN
HIGHLANDER
Mount Berry, Georgia 30149
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DR. GARLAND M. DICKEY, marshal for the academic procession at the 1965 Berry College commencement exercises, goes over his checklist as the graduating seniors get into marching order. A record number of 167 received degrees at the college Sunday, June 6, and 66 young men received their diplomas from Berry Academy the same afternoon. See pages six and seven inside for more photographs of commencement weekend.

Enclosed is my contribution of $_______ for the continuing programs of Berry College and Berry Academy.

$150.00 provides a Work Experience Supplement to a student for one quarter. $450.00 provides a Work Experience Supplement to a student for one year. $10,000 endows a permanent Work Experience Supplement in your name.

The names of my friends who will be inter ested in the Berry program are as follows:

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I will be happy to have you use my name in writing the individuals listed at left.
I prefer that you do not use my name in your letter.

Please make checks payable to The Berry Schools and mail to Mount Berry, Ga. 30149. Your contributions are deductible in accordance with Federal Income Tax provisions.