LUMNI NEWS 7* SEWANEE TRIPS GA.TECH; TECH BEATS KENTUCKY U / 1I The Vice-Chancellor's Page No message is more important at the moment than an appropriate acknowledgment and a sincereh thanksgiving for the substantia! increase in the support which the owning dioceses of the Episcopal j Church have given their University. Last yearH at this time they had contributed $81,851,891 against a quota of $80,000 in regular budgeted \ support. The recently completed total for 1954j amounts to $95,308 against a quota of $90,000. Im addition to this the Church gave $22,839.37|] through Theological Education Surday Offerings, bringing the total Church Support to $1 18,147.371 or approximately 37 cents per communicant for, the year. This represents a remarkable step forward, and| Dr. McCrady and jamily: Waring, Sarah, Mrs. McCrady, and John, with Taffy. Ned, who will graduate from the I want to express my profound gratitude to Mr.l College in June, is not pictured. Hinton Longino, who has so triumphantly carried; on the high tradition established by Dr. Alex Guerry and Mr. Edmund Orgill. I also want to thank alii of the Dioceses, and to call special attention to those which have contributed more than 50 cents perl 1 communicant for the year. They are Tennessee, Florida, Atlanta, Kentucky, and Arkansas, with aver- ages of $1.00, 66 cents, 66 cents, 59 cents, and 54 cents, respectively. Last year Tennessee at the suggestion of Mr. Louis Farrell, Jr., started a new movement by adopting : a goal of one dollar per communicant per year for Sewanee. In June the Board of Trustees recommended, this goal to all of the owning dioceses. In November the Synod of the Province of Sewanee, which in- cludes 1 5 of the 22 owning dioceses, adopted this same goal. Tennessee is the first actually to reach it. The significance of all of this is that The University of the South is no longer struggling for survival. (J The struggle now is for the highest possible excellence. I have always believed that if America really valued education, it would pay its best professors salaries commensurate with their value to civilization; I and it would provide its universities with all of the buildings and books and equipment which they need ' best possible still go. for the performance. We are making rapid progress, but we have a long way to We i should put ourselves in the position where, without embarrassment or apology, we can ask the best pro- fessors in America to come to Sewanee. Is there any other way of making it the best school in America? I And is there any reason why we should set our goal any lower than that? Sincerely yours, £ E H/ A N E E ^A L U M N I ^(j: W S New Commander Building and Miss Johnnie For Air Force Endowment Is Dead Miss Johnnie Tucker, matron at Lt. Col. Sam Whiteside will succeed Gifts in Balance Lt. Col. W. Flinn Gilland as professor Tuckaway Inn from 1913 to 1945, died of air science and tactics and com- With the completion of the Centen- at Sewanee on December 9, 1954, after manding officer of the Air Force ROTC nial Fund goal to increase the Univer- several years of failing health. Alumni unit in June. Col. Gilland will com- sity's endowment to $5,000,000, emphasis served as honorary pall bearers at her plete a four-year tour at Sewanee, is turned to the building needs of the funeral in All Saints' Chapel and an having remained through the 1954-55 University, the completion of All "S" blanket was used as her pall. Stu- session at the urgent request of the Saints' Chapel, the expansion of the dent members of the Red Ribbon So- University. gymnasium and library, the erection of ciety bore her to the University Ceme- Col. Whiteside is commander of an a Fine Arts Building, the renovation tery air transport squadron ^t McChord Air of St. Luke's and Walsh Halls, and the In the words of Dr. Guerry, "Since Force Base, Washington, and has more expansion of facilities at Sewanee Mili- 1890 every Sewanee man has known than 7,000 flying hours to his credit. tary Academy. Miss Johnnie. To many she was their He has served in transport operations Dr. Edward McCrady has said that, dearest friend. The stream of the in India, Burma, Korea, and now flies "Eternal vigilance must be used in or- University's life and the stream of Miss missions to Alaska and the Pacific. der to maintain balance between an Johnnie's life have been so mingled Col. Whiteside comes to an Air Force institution's building program and its that it has seemed the two always must ROTC urit which has a remarkable rec- invested endowment. Sewanee has flow on together." She came to Se- ord. Concealed beneath the official been very fortunate in receiving funds wanee in the 1870's with her mother, language of formal reports from in- for both purposes with a fair amount of who became matron at old Palmetto. specting officers is an unofficial opinion the highly prized 'unrestricted money' Miss Johnnie was matron there before that Sewanee's unit is in the strato- to divert to either." the Cotten House became Tuckaway. sphere of the nation's officer-training The two largest gifts for the perma- The first Tuckaway burned in 1926 groups. Problems in the "grave" cate- nent endowment fund have come from and was replaced in 1929 by the pres- gory on other campuses are not pro- Mrs. duPont (about $1,000,000) and ent stone structure. There Miss John- blems at Sewanee. There have been from the General Education Board nie was hostess to students, parents, and no intra-faculty conflicts, no civilian- ($300,000). other visitors. She was sponsor in 1941 cadet demonstrations: rather there has Eighteen building projects and their for the fiftieth Sewanee-Vanderbilt been mutual admiration and genuine approximate costs are listed in order game. pleasure in association between the of their completion since 1951: pedi- Upon her retirement in 1945, she was military and the non-military. His- atric wing at hospital $32,000. nurses' guest at the Alumni Dinner, the only torically, nothing less would be tenable home $160,000; theatre $45,000; Emery woman ever thus honored. The silver at Sewanee. outpatient clinic $15,000; laundry $97,- tray presented to her then is at the He is a graduate of Wake Forest 000; St. Luke's addition $44,000; for- Alumni Office. Her scrapbooks are in College, where he earned varsity letters estry building $11,000; Gorgas Hall the University Archives where she in football and track. He had graduate (SMA dormitory) $460,000. Gailor Hal! previously placed her invaluable files work in agricultural economics at North (college dormitory and dining) $550,- of the Sewanee Times, the Purple, and Carolina State College. He was a high 000; four miles of road (paved by the Cap and Gown. A number of gifts school teacher, county farm administra- county) $40,000; airstrip (built by gov- for a memorial have been received by tor, department of agriculture econom- ernment) $70,000; sewage disposal plant the University. ist, and pilot for Eastern Air Lines be- $235,000; deanery $45,000; Alabama She is survived by her sister, Mrs. fore being commissioned in the air House $25,000; two Florida Houses $50,- Ellery Channing Huntington, who will force in 1944. 000. dry lumber kiln $15,000; and Hunter continue to reside in the white cottage Hall (college dormitory) $250,000. behind Tuckaway. Theological Education Theological education in general was discussed in many Episcopal churches on Theological Education Sunday, Jan- uary 23, and St. Luke's in particular was mentioned in many sermons. No- where was the response as dramatic as at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. That congregation has been served for some time by the Rev. V. O. Ward, profes- sor of homiletics in the seminary, while a permanent rector was being sought. On the Tuesday following Dr. Ward's description of the problems facing theological students, a check for $20,OOC for scholarships at St. Luke's was presented anonymously in memory At the head table with Miss Johnnie at the 1945 Alumni Din- of the late rector of the parish, the ner were Nile? Trammell, '17, J. Albert Woods, 18, Vice- Rev. William W. Shearer, who died Chancellor Alexander Guerry, '10, and Chancellor Frank A. earlier in January. Juhan. '11. February, Nineteen Fifty-Free ^Alumni Zh(ews o^swanee Wheless Heads Sewanee Clergy Sewanfe Alumni News, issued quarterly by tn» Associated Alumni of The University or the $100,000,000 Bank South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second- class matter Feb. 25, 1934, at the postoffice at Se- The consolidation of two banks in wanee. Tenn.. under the Act of March 3. 1879. Shreveport, the Commercial and the FEBRUARY 15, 1955 Continental-American, has made N. Volume XXI, No. 1 Hobson Wheless, '13, head of a hundred Member American Alumni Council million dollar institution. The banks merged in October under the name of the Commercial. Mr. Wheless was The Associated Alumni Officers named board chairman of the new John B. Greer. '08 President bank. is of Michaux Nash. '26 1st Pice- Pres. He president the Whe- less Drilling ]. C. Brown Burch, '21.... 2nd Pice-Pres. Company, managing part- Moultrie Burns, '31 3rd Pice-Pres. ner of N. H. Wheless Oil Company, and '40. Rev. Al P. Chambliss, .