SEWANEE ALUMNI NEWS Vol. IX, No. I The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee December, 1942 Living Endowment Campaign To Be Launched In February Vice-Chancellor Will University Enters Seventy-Fifth Session General Be Chairman Gen. Patch Guest Speaker At Opening Service $75,000 Needed Annually To Meet Deficit In this fateful year of 1942-1943, when all the world is at war, alumni everywhere are doubtless wondering According to plans presented by the "How go things on the old Mountain?" Vice-Chancellor at the annual meeting The News is glad to report not only of the Associated Alumni in June, 1941, that the University has entered its and again in June, 1942, a campaign for seventy-fifth session with no disastrous a Living Endowment for the University loss in enrollment, but that, in spite is scheduled to begin on February 9, of many difficulties, the University 1943. These plans were endorsed by opened on September 23 under very the association at both meetings and the favorable auspices. Vice-Chancellor was authorized to pro- Statistics that in the College ceed with them. show there are 264 students, and in the Sem- The goal of the campaign is $75,- inary, 49. Deducting those counted OCO.CO annually, needed for operating twice, we have a total of 309 as com- expenses because of lack of adequate pared with 360 at this date last year. permanent endowment. The sum of A considerable portion of this loss is $50,000.00 will sought be from alumni due to the falling off in the entering and friends of Sewanee, will who be class which numbers this year 97, as asked to sign statements of willingness compared with 127 last year. An over- and desire to contribute annually to flowing enrollment of 230 cadets at the University as lcng as they are able the Academy brings the student popu- to do so, or, if they prefer, for a period lation of the Mountain to the very re- of five years. The remainder, $25,- Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, D.D. spectable total of 539. 000 .00, is to be sought from the dio- Even with the smaller enrollment, ceses and parishes cf the Episcopal the residential halls are full to the Church which own the University. Bishop of Mississippi limit. Ambler Hall, occupied last year Commitments amounting to $22,950.00 by the students of the college, accom- as a continuing annual obligation have modates an overflow of 20 cadets from already been made by the Sewanee Dies of Heart Attack Quintard. Van Ness has been renovated dicceses. and made the very attractive home of The procedure in this campaign is to The Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, the overflow from the Seminary and be the same as that of the campaign for D.D., '99, Bishop of Mississippi, died the college and the ten students en- the Sustaining Fund in 1939. It will be suddenly in Columbus, Mississippi, on listed in the CPT program. all-alumni an enterprise. The Vice- November 12. In his death Sewanee A large proportion of the students in Chancellor, an will alumnus, be the loses a distinguished alumnus and a the College is or will be in the enlisted general chairman. The Alumni Office, faithful friend and supporter. reserves. Old students to the number through its records files, and will pro- Born in Greenville, Mississippi, the of 46 are enlisted in the Naval pro- vide the information necessary for the son of the Rev. Duncan Cameron grams V-l, V-5, and V-7; in the Army organization of the work. Alumni Green, Bishcp Green received his early there are 41; and in the Marines, 13. throughout the country will be called education in the schools of that city In November officials from the various upon to serve as local chairmen and to and because of intimate associations services visited Sewanee for the pur- the do work of solicitation. came to Sewanee in 1891 for his further pose of enlisting freshmen and others Alumni will make their contributions education. His grandfather, the Rt. desirous of entering the various pro- direct to the Alumni Fund, which will Rev. William Mercer Green, first Bish- grams. be that part of the Living Endowment op of Mississippi, had moved to Sewa- Faculty changes, as is to be expected, given by the former students of the nee in 1867 and built the home, now are numerous. Five members who University. standing, known as Kendall Hall, for leave the University this year bring to Although many Sustaining Fund sub- many years presided over by his the number of eight those who have scriptions run through 1943, there will daughter, Miss Lily Green, and home to left to enter the Armed Forces. New- be no conflict with the new campaign, many generations of Sewanee students. comers who fill their places will be in- as all Sustaining Fund contributions The elder Bishop Green was the fourth troduced to the alumni elsewhere in for 1943 will count as the first contribu- Chancellor of the University, serving these columns. tions to the Living Endowment. from 1867 until his death in 1887. The keynote of the year was struck The Vice-Chancellor is now laying Tne members of the Green family by the Vice-Chancellor at the opening his plans for the campaign and pre- who have been students at Sewanee service of the University when in his (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 3) a S E WA NEE ALUMNI NEWS SEWANEE ALUMNI NEWS Sewanee Aluuni News, issued quarterly by the As- An Open Letter to Sewanee Alumni in the Armed Forces sociated Alumni of The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second-class This is a message from no individual, from no one in authority, but from matter May as, 1Q34., at the postoffice at Sewanee, the heart of all Sewanee to each and every one of you, alumni of Sewanee, Tenn., under the Act of March 3, 1879. who have gone forth and are going forth to the far corners of the world to DECEMBER, 1942 fight the battle for freedom; who, in a very real sense, therefore, are fighting Sewanee's fight; who are risking your lives for all that Sewanee represents, THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI for liberal culture, for Christian manhood, for the peace and beauty of this Officers towered city. Frank M. Gillespie, '11 President Sewanee would have you know that we who are left behind are not un- Albert Woods, '18 1st Vice-Pres. mindful of you. In our concern for all that comes to you, in our solicitude Herbert E. Smith, '03 2nd Vice-Pres. for your safety, we are paying a heavy price—a price made heavier than Emmett H. Baker, '17 3rd Vice-Pres. you realize by the very intimacy of those years spent together here on this D. L. Vaughan, '35 Treasurer Mountain, in the classroom, in the fraternity houses, in our homes, and in M. A. Moore, '23 Rec. Sec'y the pleasant ccmradeship of our daily lives. We eagerly exchange all news Gordon M. Clark, '27 Alumni Sec'y that comes to us and pass it on to the Purple and to the Alumni News that it may go out to the wider Sewanee public. THE ALUMNI AND THE Sewanee would have you know that as you are in our thoughts, so are you LIVING ENDOWMENT in our—prayers. Each day in Chapel the prayer arises for all of you every- where "our soldiers, our sailors, and our airmen." Sewanee's service flag —your flag— hangs in All Saints' Chapel as a companion to the service In the campaign for the Living En- flag of World War I which you remember. Already the stars on that flag dowment that lies before us, the details indicate that you number five hundred. The figure is now approaching six of which are set forth elsewhere in hundred and is changing constantly as we learn of men who have entered these columns, alumni are called upon or are entering the service. There are also six gold stars on that flag— once more to give to Sewanee and to constant reminder that Sewanee men have already made the great sacrifice. work for Sewanee. If some are faint Finally, Sewanee would have you know that we are proud of you, Sewa- hearted in the matter of giving, they nee alumni, as you rise like men to meet the mighty challenge of your might take a lesson from one of Se- generation; that we have every confidence in your power to carry this war wanee's most distinguished and beloved to victorious conclusion; and that we await with eager hearts the day when alumni whose response to the Sustain- you will come back home with courage as strong to win the great victory ing Fund was, out of his little, ten of peace as you have won the great victory of war. dollars a month to Sewanee as long as he lives. His spirit is a challenge to all who call themselves Sewanee alum- ni. Or they might take a lesson from a HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE very young alumnus of the Class of At its fall meeting, the Board of Regents passed resolutions paying high '42 who, having just read the last issue tribute to Dr. and Mrs. Guerry and ordered the resolutions, engrossed and of the Alumni News, wrote as follows, framed, to be presented to them with due ceremony as an expression of the from the U.S.N R.