Sewaneethe Edith Whitesell, Editor John Bratton, A'47, C'51, Alumni Editor Gale Link, Art Director MARCH, 1973 VOL. 39 No. 1 CONTENTS: 3 Limit the Church's Role? 4 On and Off the Mountain 7 Alumni on Camera 8 Alumni Affairs 9 Class Notes 13 Matching Gifts 14 Deaths 16 Feedback 18 Student Opinion 22 Sports 23 Calendar John Chancellor, Moderator 24 Summer ON THE COVER: The Delegate Assembly in a session observed by Ogden Robertson, C'52. Photos: 2, NBC, Morton Broffman, Blackstone and Shelburne; 5, Portrait by Jassa Salgenick, photo by Coulson; 7, Wide World; 8, The Piedmont Churchman, Diocesan Press Service; 24, Cap and Gown Published quarterly by the Office of Information Services for the UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH including SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Bishop John T. Walker The Rev. Robert Parks SEWANEE ACADEMY FOR SPARKS IN WASHINGTON Free distribution 13,000 Second-class postage paid at Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 Limit the Church's Role? SEWANEE CONCLAVE IN WASHINGTON One of the functions of a university should be to The format will include an objective statement of identify and clarify issues which beset man and the the case—a review of the importance of the problem. world. The church university, with its special com- This will be followed by a protagonist and an antagon- mitment to moral and ethical values, has a perspective ist, telling why the church should be and should not which the secular institution might not have. be involved in social action and politics. At this point in mid-morning, ten workshops will take off, each Seeking ways in which it could use its formidable directed by a leader and supported by three resource human resources for the good of society, the Univer- persons who will have been pre-involved in two meet- sity of the South has designed a symposium on an ings at the College of Preachers earlier in the month. issue described by many as the most divisive among Each of the workshops will deal with a pre-assigned churches in America today. Calling largely upon its aspect of the overall theme. alumni, but not restricting participants either to the Exploring grave issue alumni group or to Episcopalians, the Sewanee Club After lunch at St. Alban's School on the Cathedral of Washington, in cooperation with the administration grounds, the assembly of 250 registrants will recon- of the University of the South, has arranged a sym- vene for reports from the workshops. Each leader is posium on "The Church's Involvement in Social and to present in fifty words a consensus, a split, or a ques- Political Issues." tion from his group. The panelists will be invited by The venture in problem-solving will begin at the moderator to attack the workshop reports and 9:30 A.M. Saturday, April 28, and will last all day. then each panelist will have an opportunity to make A closing service in the National Cathedral at 4:00 a declarative statement or to take issue with anything P.M. Sunday, April 29, will feature the Presiding which has been said. Bishop, John E. Hines, '30, as preacher and the Se- At 4:00 P.M. John Chancellor and Dr. Allison will wanee Choir. give a summation based on the developments of the day. The entire symposium will be recorded and John Chancellor, NBC news commentator, will be made available to parishes and other groups. moderator of the symposium. Master of ceremonies Sewanee alumni in the Washington area will be given will be Bishop Girault M. Jones, '28, Chancellor of first choice for the limited seats in St. Alban's School the University of the South. Speakers and panelists auditorium. The cost of registration will be $20 for a will include Bishop John T. Walker, suffragan of single person and $30 for a couple. '49, Washington; Harry McPherson, who was Special Dr. J. Jefferson Bennett, Vice-Chancellor and presi- Counsel to President Johnson; Smith Hempstone, '50, dent of the University of the South, says: "This ex- chief editorialist and Washington Star syndicated col- ploration of a grave issue affecting not only the umnist; Hart Mankin, '54, General Counsel for the church but our entire society should demonstrate to U. S. Navy; the Rev. C. FitzSimons Allison, '49, au- our friends everywhere that the University is deeply thor and theologian; Wallace Westfeldt, '47, NBC concerned about our world's problems. We feel that news executive; the Rev. Robert Parks, '49, rector of focusing the formidable talents of such people as have Trinity Parish, Manhattan; Howard Baker, '43, U. S. been assembled for this occasion upon these problems Senator from Tennessee; and the Rev. Carroll E. Sim- will have a reconciling effect both within the church cox, editor of the Living Church. and in society at large." March 1973 ON AND OFF THE MOUNTAIN Storm Clouds Banking and Yoga Once again Sewanee has found itself student statement presented by Lana- "Anybody can do anything as Ion beset by the stresses engendered when lee (Cissy) Lewis in a college meet- as it's not what he's supposed to t a popular teacher is not retained. ing and signed by an estimated five doing." The Academy faculty wei With the retirement of Andrew hundred petitioners. "His courses in along with this ancient Greek adag Lytle, editor of the Sewanee Review, the College have been full to over- in establishing the masters-studenl next fall, the position of associate edi- flowing every semester they have been term between semesters, giving th tor, now held by the Rev. William offered, and his students have valued whole student body a chance to d Ralston, will no longer exist. The new them highly. Surely this evidence of their thing and learn it too. The ii editor (assuming his confirmation by his excellence and popularity as a novation was so successful last ye£ the board of regents) chooses to be- teacher is more important than any that it was lengthened the second tim " gin his work without an associate. 'paper credentials.' around. Instructor Jim Scott's cav< Some such eventuality was foreseen The championship of Mr. Ralston cliff rescue project was incorporate and two years ago it was suggested to has been advanced with fervor, elo- into the regular physical educatio Mr. Ralston that if he wished to join quence and dedication, but with un- curriculum. This year students, si the faculty on a regular basis he failing civility. Some few have been pervised by faculty or faculty-at would be given leave to go to graduate equally articulate in support of the proved adults, worked at ballet an school for professional studies. This college's position. To this reporter gunsmithing, on an oil rig, in a ban] he chose not to do. most of the faculty appear to agree forestry lab, weather station, hospita When Mr. Ralston joined the Re- in that position. recording studio, and as teaching aide view staff in 1965 to assist Andrew in schools. They got intensive tutoi Speaking by student invitation at Lytle, he continued to teach first in ing in computer science, guitar, Yog; the same college meeting, Dr. Ben- the seminary and then in the college. mountaineering techniques, chess an nett, the vice-chancellor, said: "I do Part-time teaching in the English de- bridge. One boy worked with a dot not initiate faculty appointments. partment has normally been expected tor studying artificial kidneys. Ar They are initiated by the department of Review editors. Mr. Ralston's un- other was on an archaeological dig i concerned and the dean, in turn, dergraduate major was classics and Mexico, and a lucky few were i recommends an appointment to me. his in theology. graduate work was Yucatan with the Spanish teacher. Upon my recommendation the person He was, however, a gifted amateur in is elected to the assigned rank by the several fields and his editorial work board of regents. Any other system gave him increasingly professional fa- He Had a Friend would imperil the academic integrity miliarity with contemporary litera- Lest anyone think only millionaire of the faculty." : ture. He taught courses in the Bible, are involved in bequests, attention Plato, masterpieces in translation and To this he added later: "In this called to the many relatively sma contemporary poetry, attracting a de- instance, in spite of my respect for ones that help keep the Universit voted student following. Father Ralston, I cannot find suffi- afloat and cresting, and to the area c The news of his forthcoming de- cient reason to disagree with the rec- influence that anyone can enter. parture has been interpreted by many ommendation of the department head A letter to the treasurer dated D( students and alumni, among them and the dean. Mr. Ralston has not cembcr 13, 1972 shows how two alurr of the best brightest, as been dismissed. has even been some and He ni (Harrison and Huckins) brought i showing an un-Sewaneean attach- urged by me to request a leave and a bequest from someone not associate ment to an arbitrary criterion—the some financial support from the Uni- with the University: Ph.D. degree. "Father Ralston's in- versity while doing graduate work in fluence on students and the communi- English if he desires to pursue a teach- Pembroke S. Huckins and I, as execv cutors of the estate of John L. Ro as a teacher, a priest, a ing career in field. is ty and person that There am- Jr., who died May 10, 1972, have d< is unquestionably a positive force in ple precedent for this at Sewanee cov- termincd to make a gift to Sewanee Mr.