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Sewanee News, 1963 February, 1963 Sewanee News E SOUTH SEWANEE, TENNESSEE SEWANEE MOVIE-MAKERS (See Page 15) THE Gentlemen . Sewan The Vice-Chancellor NEWS we are now on the verge of starting the biggest The Sewanee News, issued quarterly by the Associated Alumni developmental program we have ever undertaken of The University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Second since the days of the Founders. The Ford matching Class postage paid at Sewanee. Tennessee. offer alone is as great as the entire Endowment Fund was in 1950. We are no longer struggling for sur- vival; we are setting out to establish ourselves among Editor Arthur Ben Chitty. '3=; the strongest and best educational institutions any- where. This we can do. The opportunity is here and Issue Editor Edith Whitesell now. In a few weeks we shall announce the organi- Associates Florence McCrory, Elizabeth Chitty zation and the first steps which we have already taken Peggy Ervin, Sue Wunderlicu in the Ten Million Dollar Campaign. Robert P. Hare, IV This opportunity could not have presented itself at this time without the successes of the last ten years. Because we raised nearly fourteen million dollars in that time the Ford Foundation judged us to have the potential to meet its challenge. We should all be CONTENTS deeply thankful for the work of Bishop Juhan and Air. Chitty, the whole Development Office, the re- 3 The 1962 Gift gents, the trustees, the Episcopal Church, the alumni and friends, who have contributed to this achievement. 4 The Decade's Gift We must also realize that this opportunity could 6 Scholars and Scholarships not have presented itself at this time without the aca- demic prestige to command such support; and for this 8 On the Mountain we are indebted to the faculty and students who have 9 Mrs. duPont Honored earned for Sewanee the scholastic reputation which it now enjoys on a national scale. 1 3 Here and There The latest evidence of Sewanee's national reputa- 15 New Movie tion was published in the Winter, 1963, issue of The journal of the Association of College Admissions Coun- 18 With Sewanee Clubs selors (Volume 8, Number 3; pages 11-13). Dr. Wil- 21 Class Distinctions --: liam Warntz reports there that the colleges which have » the highest proportion of their graduates listed in 21^ Alumni Donors (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31) ..,, February 1963 \ OLUME 29 Number 1 ON THE COVER—In an Atlanta recording studio in Janu- ary, putting the sound track on Sewanee's new movie (see p. 15 ff.), were intently gathered Bishop Frank A. Juhan, left, and seated clockwise Arthur Ben Chitty, director of public relations, Edith Whitesell, script writer, Alva Lines, director of Southeastern Films, Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady, Leigh Kelley, director-photographer of the film, and Dean Robert S. Lancaster. Standing in the picture at the right, thouph not shown on the cover, is Hinton Longino. Atlanta, host of the Sewanee contingent. Julian Maddox of Southern Bell, the film's producer, snapped the photographs. * GIFT FOR '62 TOTALS $1,762,481 $650,000 To Be Matched by Ford Foundation JL or the tenth straight year the University of the In the first two categories, the leading dioceses in South has received over a million dollars in total gift gift-per-communicant to Sewanee were Tennessee, income. The final total of $1,762,481 ranked third South Florida, Louisiana, Atlanta, Florida, and Ala- highest in Sewanee history. This impressive figure was bama. No diocese reached a dollar-per-communicant, achieved without any major bequest while the two though a number of parishes did. Parish figures will better years, i960—$1,851,406 and 1961 —$1,804,195, shortly be distributed to area chairmen and other in- each included approximately a million dollars in be- terested persons. quests. Projections in the Ten Million Dollar Campaign re- The 1962 record was led by an advance of $655,000 veal that an average of $1.60 per communicant per from the Ford Foundation on its $2,500,000 matching year must come from the owning area for the churches grant. A total of $197,508 came from the Episcopal carry Church. Some $505,000 came from alumni, almost half to their pro-rata share in the major fund-raising in the honorary classification. Corporations gave effort. All money received from parishes or dioceses $88,532 and foundations other than Ford $142,356. In- earmarked for the college or seminary or unrestricted dividual non-alumni contributed $174,024. Approxi- will be matched one dollar for three by the Ford Foun- mately $650,000 of the income above was received af- dation. ter September 1 and is eligible for the Ford matching grant of one dollar for every three. The largest alumni gift in dollar value came from Bishop Frank A. Juhan's class of 191 1, followed by DIOCESES IN ORDER OF TOTAL GIVEN IN 1962 president C. Brown Burch. Leading in per- 1921, J. SEWANEE-IN THEOL. EDUC. TOTAL centage of donors was 1894 with only one of five pos- THE-BUDGET OFFERING Tennessee $19,409 $23,020 sible donors not on the list. Of the larger classes 1929 $3,611 South Florida 9,612 5,661 15,273 outdistanced all others with 48 percent, a record made Louisiana 11,852 3,064 14,917 possible by the determined effort of Fred Freyer, who Atlanta 11,638 3.044 14,683 Fiorida 8,798 4,081 12,880 a offer. made personal matching check Alabama __ 10,486 1,969 12,455 North Carolina The largest number of donors came from the class 5,481 3,524 9,006 Texas 8,490 413 8,906 of 1929, with sixty-three contributors, followed by the Kentucky 6,411 1,434 7,845 Misrissippi large class of 1950 (251 members, forty-two contribu- 4,469 3,251 7,720 Dallas 4,571 2,680 7,251 tors). A complete listing of alumni gifts by classes Arkansas 6,047 802 6,849 West Texas 6,227 188 6,415 is on page 31. Upper South Carolina 3,914 1,853 5,767 Church Support South Carolina 3,154 999 4,153 Georgia 1,897 1,311 3,208 Sewanee's Church Support program is divided into Lexington _. 2,700 245 2,945 Northwest Texas 1,519 1,096 2,615 three divisions: (1) Sewanee-in-the-Budget, (2) The- East Carolina 1.467 1,132 2,600 ological Education Offerings, (3) other gifts (hospital, West North Carolina . _ 1,205 1,078 2,283 Missouri 255 1,269 1,524 theological housing, etc.), and (4) gifts from outside the owning dioceses. February 1963 Ten Tears — $13.6 Million The University of the South's gift record of the past Mrs. Louis W. Alston, whose three quarters of a mil- decade—over a million dollars each year—was a major lion dollars went to the endowment of the School of factor in the decision of the Ford Foundation to include Theology. Sewanee in its program for twenty-nine significant col- The Episcopal Church in the past decade has given leges which were capable of continuing regional lead- to Sewanee more than $2,500,000, which is coinciden- ership. Sewanee, while the smallest in enrollment on tally the amount of the Ford matching grant. The the list, received the largest amount of challenge funds. church gifts came primarily through the annual pro- What were the University's leading sources of gifts? gram for Sewanee-in-the-Budget and the Theological The total for 1952-1961 was #13,635,000 from all Education Sunday offering, but there also were large organizations and individuals. Nearly $5 million came gifts to the All Saints' Chapel Completion Fund. There from individual donors who were neither matriculants was $100,000 from the national Episcopal Church nor members of the boards of regents and trustees. The through the Builders for Christ program, and gifts to principal benefactor of the University, not only in this theological housing from Alabama, followed by Flori- period but in its first century, was Mrs. Alfred I. da, South Florida, Upper South Carolina, Louisiana, duPont. Some other very generous donors included and Tennessee. Mrs. A. S. Cleveland of Houston, Texas, who built A. Foundations were responsible for nearly two million Sessums Cleveland Hall in memory of her husband, dollars in benefactions. Some of the larger foundation who had been alumnus, regent, and trustee; Mrs. gifts included the George F. Baker scholarships, the Frank P. Phillips of Columbus, Mississippi, who made final $150,000 from the General Education Board on the Nurses' Home at Emerald-Hodgson Hospital a me- the Guerry A^emorial campaign, anonymous gifts for morial to her husband, an alumnus of the Class of George T. Hunter Hall and the Alexander Guerry Me- 1893; and the anonymous donors who were responsi- morial Building, grants from the Rockefeller Founda- ble for the Sewanee Inn development. In the decade tion to the Seivanee Review, and more than $400,000 the Robert P. Shapard family completed their gift for from the Ford Foundation. Shapard Tower. Living alumni and members of the governing boards The next largest source of gifts, more than $3 mil- together gave one million dollars in the decade. They lion, came through bequests from alumni and friends. greatly influenced other gifts which were credited to The smallest was less than fifty dollars; the largest their widows or family foundations. was more than a million dollars from the estate of Miss Sewanee has not had the response of some institu- Georgia Wilkins of Columbus, Georgia, who endowed tions from industry and corporations; only one-third scholarships to enable Sewanee to admit outstanding of a million dollars has come from this source.
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