Sewanee News, 1983

^^N» MARCH 1983 hewSqee Ngw§ York Gains NCAA Graduate Scholarship Michael Jonathan "Jon" York, an He anticipates being in medical English and pre-med major from school next fall and perhaps prac- Atlanta and a three-year starting of- ticing medicine someday in home- fensive guard for the varsity foot- town Atlanta. Jon is the son of Dr. ia)l team, has been awarded a and Mrs. C. M. York of Atlanta. $2,000 NCAA Post Graduate Schol- Three 1982 graduates received arship. NCAA scholarships last year, and York was one of only twenty-five all three are now in medical school. ootball players across the country Jim Sherman, a leader on the 1982 to receive the coveted award but is basketball team, is at the University the fourth Sewanee athlete so hon- of Georgia School of Medicine. D, ored in just over a year. J. Reina, a record-breaking running- The University has now graduated back, and Greg Worsowicz, who. fourteen NCAA scholar athletes, considered briefly an offer from a and in this regard has moved ahead professional football team, are both if California Institute of Technol- in medical school at the University igy into first place in Division III of Florida. and into the top ten among all col- Sewanee 's other previous NCAA leges and universities. scholar athletes are Dudley West, York was an all-conference per- CT7, an attorney in Nashville; Har- former for the Tigers who finished ry Hoffman, C'76, a doctor in Io- this past season with a 7-2 record wa; Steven F. Hogwood, C'74, a and a championship in the College Houston, Texas, attorney; Randy Athletic Conference. A four-year Love, C'70, vice-president of manu- ietterman, Jon had also served as facturing for Love Box Company in varsity captain. Wichita, Kansas; John Popham, Coach Horace Moore and Jon York front ofJuhan Gymna While compiling an outstanding C'70, a Nashville attorney; Jack C. (Photo: Lyn Hutchinson) record on the football field, York Baker, C'69, a contractor in Alaska; as making an impressive academic James R. Beene, C'69, a research cord. A Wilkins scholar, he was al- physicist at Oak Ridge; the Rev. Friends of duPont i elected to Omicron Delta Kappa Thomas R. Ward, C'67, also a honor society. He is a member of Rhodes scholar, the rector of Christ A group of University alumni and ests, and to celebrate a love of the Order of Gownsmen and has Church in Nashville; Douglas Pas- Sewanee residents have joined to- books. been a proctor for two years. In ad- chall, C'66, also a Rhodes scholar, gether to form a support organiza- More specific to duPont Library, dition, York has been a member of the associate dean of the College, tion for duPont Library. Friends of the Library would help the Honor Council for three years, and Frank Stubblefield, C'65, at The initial meeting of Friends of locate materials and attract books year as vice-chairman. He was a Brookhaven, National Laboratory the Library was held in November, and rare manuscripts of interest to Rhodes scholar nominee as well as a Association in Upton, New York. and an additional organization the School of Theology as well as nominee for the National Football meeting is scheduled for April 23. the College, while local members Hall of Fame Scholarship. For three Mrs. Edward McCrady chaired the might assist with exhibits, sales, he was a member of the Stu- initial meeting and agreed to lead tours, and processing of gifts. Mr. dent Assembly, and, among a num- the group in its organizational Kearley said that fund raising ber of committee and organization stages. Frederic C. "Deric" Beil, would not be one of the functions mberships he has had, he is a C'70, a New York publisher, and A. of the Friends organization. Jk member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Franklin Gilliam, C'46, a San Fran- Tom Watson, former librarian and fraternity and is a representative to cisco bookseller and appraiser, are now administrative assistant to the the Interfraternity Council. national co-chairmen and will for- V ice-Chancellor and Provost, said Recalling how he had narrowed mulate plans to develop a national the initiation of a friends group had his choices to Sewanee and Vander- membership. always been one of his goals while bilt four years ago, Jon said his de- Each of them spoke at the Novem- librarian, but he said the assistance volunteers is essential. i to come to college at Se- ber meeting as did Edmund Berke- of pointed out that Sewanee has e was the most important of ley, C'54, curator of manuscripts He of the top three libraries among his life. and associate professor at the Al- one forty of the best liberal arts colleges "The faculty here is very suppor- derman Library at the University of and is among the top seven in the tive. That is what makes this place Virginia. They described their own of books per student. Mr. o special," he said. "I'm not sure experiences with friends' groups number also noted that less than that teachers anywhere else would around the country. Watson 350,000 volumes in du- have given me the individual help David Kearley, University librari- half of the were purchased. and encouragement that kept me an, said there are about 2,000 Pont Library a report will going. Without that, I'm not sure I friends organizations in academic At its next meeting, committee would have been in pre-med my and public libraries. Their purposes be presented by a constitution and senior year." are generally to encourage an un- formed to draft a ThaCcommittee consists of Fifteen members of the 1982 derstanding of the importance of li- bylaws. C'30, the Univer- ootball team had "B" averages or braries, to attract books and manu- Edward Watson, legal counsel, and Professors setter, and York remarked that al- scripts over and beyond those sity's Jack Gessell and Gerald Smith, in though athletics is time-consuming, which can be purchased from regu- to Mr. Beil, Mr. Gilliam, t creates discipline that helps in the lar budgets, to provide a meeting addition Mr. Kearley. place for those with similar inter- Mrs. McCrady, and . I On &Offthe Mountain know the substance of their civiliza- I honored to be one of "his Once again the Sewanee News is Thursday morning coffee hour at was tion. boys" and I treasure those years filled to overflowing, and if it were the Bishop's Common for students, association. Second, we are thankful that Se- not for the constraints of the press faculty, and staff of both the Semi- and our close Later teaching, coaching, and wanee has given our children a we use, we could easily publish nary and College. It was a student's in now administering a school, I use place to study where broad philo- more than thirty-two pages an is- idea. Students also initiated a week- dialogue {one of many of his motivating methods. sophical ideas in general, and reli- sue. -It seems that a judicious use of ly student-faculty The sign of a successful leader is gion in particular, are still consi- scissors and red pen is becoming them, a series on morality) under his influence-on oth- dered not only intellectually accept- progressively difficult. the direction of Professor James measured by ers. Coach White's influence contin- able but fundamental. Vanderbilt, At least three events occurred Peterman for since wife's and ues daily with all "his boys" where- example, my since the Advent holidays which are Then Mr. Ayres spoke "about a days there, has introduced a ever they are. I a better man be- my not mentioned elsewhere in this edi- very special quality of our life here am kind of cafeteria-line system of they should be. together." That quality is servant- cause of W. C. White and Sewanee— tion. And education there are many like me. "Yo- elective courses so that First, for a week in February, Se- hood. He said an executive of one but can reduce to an accumulation of wanee played host to author Made- of the nation's leading companies Ho!" secular recently de- incoherent specifics. Maybe leine L'Engle, who has achieved a visited the campus and education is inhibited from trans- phenomenal following among both scribed what he had found. He had J. M. Seidule, C'54 mitting values? At any rate Se- young people and adults through found, Mr. Ayres said, a concern Mobile, Alabama - wanee avoids giving its students the her fantasy fiction and non-fiction for others and a willingness to notion that values do not exist or books. She gave two public lec- would like to call to your atten- We irrelevant education. uni- Mr. Ayres said: are to A tures, met and talked with student A moment later tion that in your captions under the versity that does not transmit val- last Sunday groups on two or three occasions, "It was early morning Homecoming float pictures in the serves its students and their par- service at ues visited the public school, preached that again the subject of issue of the Alumni News recent ents ill, and in this respect we grate- in All Saints' Chapel, and led a re- Sewanee was made so clear to me as also the names of the sororities who fully say that Sewanee serves them fire depart- treat for Seminary spouses, who I watched our volunteer It was built the floats were left out.

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