Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly [1969-1971]

THE ALUMNAE QUARTERLY FALL 7970 THE AGNES SCOTT QUARTERLY VOL 49 NO. CONTENTS Ann Worthy Johnson 1 The Blurred Vision— Dr. James I. McCord 4 A Time for Speaking Out: The Agnes Scott Purpose—Tyler McFadden 71 8 A Crisis of Understanding: Students and Teachers in American Society— Dr. W. Edmund Moomaw 10 Class News—Shelia Wilkins Dykes '69 and Mary Margaret MacMillan '70 15 Barbara Murlin Pendleton '40 Editor John Stuart McKenzie, Design Consultant Member of American Alumni Council Photo Credits FRONT COVER, Kerr Studio, pp. 11, 23, Back Co Rogers and Special, p. 20 Dwight Ross, Jr. Published four times yearly: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ca. Second class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia 30030. ANN WORTHY JOHNSON rHE morning of October 5 Ann the staff at Agnes Scott in 1954. Quarterly and by visits to clubs across hy Johnson died. She had gone into Ann Worthy came to the college in the the nation is hard to measure. Her lively lospital a week earlier for surgery, position of Director of Alumnae Affairs, and informal manner brought spontaneity Defore it could be performed she Editor of the Quarterly and Publicity to discussions of a serious nature. red a stroke, then another, and was Director. Her leadership in college, in She gave her time freely in volunteer iscious for the week before she the Red Cross and civic affairs qualified activities, and was a former president and She is survived by a sister Mrs. T. her for the administrative duties, her work director of the Atlanta Young Women's Christian Association, a district director i Crouch of Gainesville, Florida. as an editor of the University of North e daughter of Rockwell Worthy Carolina Press made her a professional of the American College Public Relations son and Ludie Harvey Johnson, she in the field of editing and writing, and Association and a member of the board born in Atlanta. After the death of the Red Cross position had given her a of directors of the American Alumni father the family moved to Rome, fine background in fund raising. And she Council. gia. She graduated from Agnes Scott genuinely liked all these facets of her She was chairman of the Altar Guild 38, and after a year's stint of work- work. committee at Holy Trinity Episcopal n the college bookstore she entered Warm, gay, tolerant, friendly, she may Church and a member of the Episcopal University of North Carolina and have given the impression that she was Diocese of Atlanta College Division id her master's degree in English. casual and carefree, but she was dedi- Committee. then worked as an editor of the cated to the purposes of the College, and Her faith in the college, its purpose, ersity of North Carolina Press from put integrity and truth into all she did. and its product, the alumnae was -42. She was creative and meticulous in her boundless. Of course, there were those ter the outbreak of World War II work and eagerly welcomed suggestions who disagreed with her at times, of Worthy served in the South Pacific or a new approach. course there was criticism. But sometimes :creation director of the American Ann Worthy's spiritual nature mani- her co-workers can hear her hearty laugh Cross from 1943-1945. Returning to fested itself in the depth of her under- ring out, can still see her come into the .tates, she continued her work with standing of people and her concern for office, a letter in her hand, and hear her ^ed Cross as field representative of others. How many lives she touched in begin, "Agnes Scott alumnae are wonder- ." '40 Southeastern states prior to joining her work with alumnae, through the ful. Barbara Murlin Pendleton A memorial has been established in her honor. Those wishing to contribute may make check pay- able to Agnes Scott College, and specify that it is for the Ann Worthy Johnson Scholarship Fund. — nn Worthy Remembered by Friends and Associates nly one of many who prized Ann her counterparts in other leading col- son. She was not a martyr and would be hy Johnson's friendship and can at- leges and probably taught at least as the first to relieve us of any burden of her rare personal qualities, I shall much as she learned. She visited alumnae gratitude for anything she was able to ry to write about the staunch friend clubs in and out of town, sat long and do for us personally or for the college of us has lost. In one respect, per- patiently with committees and boards, which touches us all. 1 can appreciate her in a way no and gradually nursed the Association into I think she would paraphrase Polonius else can: as my successor in the the very effective arm of the College it a bit and tell each of us—This above in : of director of alumnae affairs. is now. all, live life to the fullest and rejoice the time she gave in to our pleas She did it, I think, chiefly, by never it; you cannot then fail to love and help onsented to leave her executive post letting all the nonsense blind her to the others. '38 the Red Cross, I had struggled with very great good sense and good will of Eliza King Morrison nae affairs for seven years. I had the main body of Agnes Scott alumnae, President of the Class back to the campus in the crusading whose generosity and creative energy she of 1938 of rescuing Agnes Scott from the was able, in her genial low-keyed way, cial peril in which independent col- to summon to the support of their college stood as the sparse crop of Depres- as a matter of course. She loved and un- babies reached college age at the derstood us and Agnes Scott; and only A college is a community of many time the postwar cost spiral began, one of the fruits of her love and under- lives: lives of students, faculty, and offi- ingle aim was to convince my fellow standing is that we now give the College cers; those who still walk on the campus aae of our responsibility in this five times as much money as we did and those who have gone out from it; when she came. (So much for single- ; as a journalist, aged 27, I thought lives that seem just begun and lives of mindedness.) 1 only to put the matter to them those who once worked here, lives that y to bring them to the rescue with Ann Worthy gave her complex self have ended. for sixteen years to what I still con- Other aspects of alumnae work did It is hard to begin thinking of Ann sider of the very highest of human ppeal to me greatly. At the end of one Worthy Johnson in terms of finality. endeavors: the preservation and enlarge- ears, when I felt I had done all I She was unfailingly responsive, generous, ment of the means of liberal education. , I resigned a year in advance and and warm to all around her. She had a :gan our search for a new director. She belongs in the gallery of those who gay young enthusiasm for bright colors, have continued the creation of Agnes the short time Ann Worthy and I for travel and new experiences, and al- Scott. ed together before I left and in the ways for people. Eleanor N. Hutchens '40 n years since (during two of which I But she also had, in the face of physi- Professor of English i as president of the Alumnae Asso- cal limitation, a great deal of private University of Alabama n), I was astonished to see that she courage, and to her public life during her at Huntsville ted and even seemed to relish the sixteen years as director of alumnae of the job I had regarded as tun- affairs, she brought a strong Christian es to the accomplishment of the sense of responsibility and concern for mportant task The endless problems Writing about Ann Worthy is like writ- others, and unwavering trust in the im- ouse and garden, the social and ing about my family. Since the first day portance of our intellectual enterprise. ocial gatherings, the adverse re- of the 1934 Agnes Scott session, we Difficult as it is to think of our college es of some alumnae to anything shared the ups and downs of each other's without her, we are grateful for the con- the College or the Association did, lives—the dreams and the realities of tribution she has made which will be a nsistence of some others that the students, the dreams and realities of continuing part of it. ge change itself into an instrument adults, the joys and sorrows of each Margret Trotter lolitical or otherwise nonacademic other and of those close to each of us. >ses, Professor of English the assumption by still others As I have thought about those years, Jecause Agnes Scott College they had experienced Agnes I realize that what makes it hard to de- when they were immature the Col- scribe Worthy is that she was not a tself must be naive, and always the stereotype of anything. Long before the tation of those fastidious souls who phrase became a part of the language. d fund-raising as a breach of eti- Worthy did her own thing. She didn't Agnes Scott College and Ann Worthy- —all these burdens Ann Worthy play roles or games.

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