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Volume XXIV Memphis, Tennessee, January, 1961 Number 2 A. Van Pritchartt Is The New Chairman Of Southwestern's Board These Are The People Who Govern Southwestern Succeeds Sidney Farnsworth Who Served for 19 Years A. Van Pritchartt, M emphis insurance ex ecutive who has served the past year as chair man of Southwestern's executive committee, was elected chairman of the board of direc tors at its October meeting. Mr. Pritchartt succeeds Sidney W. Farns worth, who resigned for reasons of ill he.alth after 19 years of distinguishecf chairmanship. Mr. Farnsworth became a member of the board in 193 8 and, characteristically, im mediately began to assume. important re sponsibilities. During his tenure the college endowment has been doubled, as has the number of permanent campus buildings. Dr. Peyton N . Rhodes, president, told the board in presenting Mr. Farnsworth's resig nation, "I personally shall feel the loss of his helpful and guiding hand very keenly, and I know that I speak also for President Emeritus Charles E. Diehl in this regard. "In the many years that I have experienc ed the warmth of his association w ith the college there has never. been any job too dif ficult for him to undertake if he thought it A. Van Pritchartt, foreground, sits as chairman for the first time at the October meeting of South· western's Board of Directors. Clockwise from Mr. P ritchartt are Mrs. John T. McCall of Nashville; Mrs. would be of benefit to Southwestern. He Kenneth Harper, Selma, Ala.; the Rev. Murphey C. Wilds, Oxford, Miss.; William H. Dale, Columbia, has given freely of his thought, his energy, Tenn.; William H. Mitchell, Florence, Ala.; Morton B. Howell, Jr., Nashville; Frank A. England, Jr., and h is substance." Greenville, Miss.; Dr. W. J. Millard, Memphis (at other end of table); Walker Welltord, Jr., Memphis; John M. McMillan, Stockton, Ala.; Dr. Edward V. Ramage, Birmingham; Dr. Ross Lynn, Memphis; Orrick The board, reluctant to lose him but ac Metcalfe, Natchez, Miss.; Mrs. Morgan L. Shaw, New Orleans; Mrs. W. Everarde Jones, Sr., Tchula, quiescing with his decision, named him chair Miss.; and Dr. William A. Benfield, Shreveport. man emeritus in an unprecedented move. At back left are Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes and Miss Erma Reese, assistant secretary of the board, and at back right, Dr. R. P. Richardson ' 17, shown giving his development report. Mr. Pritchartt also h~s taken an active Members of the board who were absent are A. K. Burrow, Memphis; Alden T. Shotwell, Monroe, part in the college's recent de.velopment, La.; aJl_d Judge Carlos G. Spaht, Baton Rouge, La. helping to organize the President's Council, a group of some 100 business and profession Record $36,811 is 1960 Loyalty Fund Total al leaders w ho serve in an advisory and public relations capacity, and taking a lead Tops Previous Years' by 50 Percent Leap ing role in the 1960 Annual Support Pro gram which raised more than $100,000 in Thy sons in rev'rent love unite And each his tribute brings; operating funds for the college. These words from Southwestern's "Alm a Mater" never were truer than in 1960, which The board named E. B. LeMaster, M em proved the richest of all years by far for the Loyalty Fund. The total was $36,811- more phis real estate man, president of the Cham than 50 percent above 1959's sum, which was a record breaker in its day. ber of Commerce, and a vice ch airman in N ot every son and daughter brought tribute-in fact, enly 17.8 percent did-a loss the 1960 Annual Support program, to the of one percent in participation as compared with the 1959 record and the only retrogres executive committee. Brown Burch, manager sion in a number of years. This was the only sorry sound in the merry march of sub of the M emphis office of M errill Lynch , totals and totals which brought the glad Pierce, Fenner, & Smith, Inc. was elected to word via adding machine tape. There were a total of 965 contributors- the investments committee. Goodbar M organ '31, alumni secretary, 414 from M emphis gave $21,388 and 551 New board member on page 3. attributes some of the increase to the stimu from out of town gave $15 ,423. lus of the 1960 Southwestern Annual Support "Good, but not good enough," says Barney children whom we will want to share the Program as alumni contributions to it were Gallagher, vice president of the Southwestern same educational experience that we had," credited to the Loyalty Fund. But it's im Alumni Association in charge of finances. he p oints out. "To make this possible, we possible to determine just how much increase H e expresses the hope that in 1961 alumni must support what we know and believe in is attributable to the support program, Mr. themselves will exert more leadership and -free enterprise and free thinking in our Morgan points out, for many of these are more effort on behalf of alumni giving, and educational system rather than government regular contributors and would have given ·that every alumnus will give SOMETHING. financing and government control." m any case. "Practically all of us some day will have (Continued on page 10) HOMECOMING We Inherit Many, Make Other, Good Athletes Homecoming was indeed full of many This address, written by William R. Maybry '42, Southwestern' s athletic director, was read things, with several additions this year to the for him at Homecoming Luncheon by Dean Charles I. Diehl '31 , who heads the faculty commit usual food, fun, and football formula. tee on athletics. Mr. Maybry was with the Cross Country team at Jackson, Tenn. Lawn decorations hit an all-time high At 2:00 P.M. today on Fargason Field you will see play the most important football for originality and artistic design, with Sigma team in the history of Southwestern. Today in Jackson, Tenn., the most important cross Nu and Z eta T au Alpha taking first and country team in the history of Southwestern will compete against teams from four states. Kappa Alpha and Tri Delta, second prizes Last Monday the most important basketball team in the history of Southwestern start in a difficult decision. ed practice. The Southwestern Men of Memphis Why do I say these are the most import· Basketball this year will be a real building launched a new tradition with presentation at ant?-because they are the present- they job as five of our top six men last year were the luncheon by Don A. Ramier, Jr., '53, of are now. Tradition is important- all that seniors. However, we have the finest group $100 scholarship awards to two men students is in the past is important- and should be of freshman players this year that I be representative of the "Outstanding Campus honored and remembered. This afternoon lieve we've ever had. It will be a young Citizen." These first awards, which went to immediately after the football game a me team but one that should give a good ac· Wes Busbee, a Meridian, Miss., senior, and morial will be dedicated to one of our all count of itself. Frank Weathersby, a junior from Magnolia, time great athletes and this is a wonderful T ennis will have a winning season, but Miss., are to be followed by others annually. thing. Homecoming is a tradition that is may have trouble winning the TIAC state The luncheon, emceed by president of a wonderful thing-old and not so old grads championship again. Only three men will the Southwestern Men of Memphis Burton return to the campus to recall college days be back from last year's fine team, but sev· Henry, '54, included a brief welcome address with old friends. College men and women era! promising freshmen should fill the by Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes, and others by Dr. have stayed up all night working on lawn ranks adequately. Editor's note: Maybry's pre Arthur A. Womble, '35, president of the decorations. A dance will be held-memor· dictions to date have turned out to be 100% Southwestern Alumni Association, Dean ies will flow like wine and most thought accurate. ' Charles I. Diehl, '31 , speaking for Athletic of our homecoming visitors will be on Golfers' Winning . Ways Director Bill Maybry, '42, and by Albert M. things of yesteryear. Johnson, '30, who presented to Dr. A. Golf lost only one man through gradua· From this it would seem that a speech on Theodore Johnson a gift from his former tion so should continue it's winning ways. the past would be fitting. However, my students. Mr. Maybry's and Mr. Johnson's I predict that our baseball team will be few remarks are to be on athletics and in speeches are printed in full on this and the finest team in this part of the country. athletics you must deal with the present if the following page. I don't see how it can fail compiling the best you desire any success at all. You can't record of any team in the history of the FOOTBALL DECORATIONS think of the graduated half-backs that you college. The luncheon tables were gaily decorat· might still have-you can't depend on the Track will be stronger than last year but ed, football style, with chrysanthemums large high school senior tha:t you will have next will not be able to improve on last season's and small in attractive arrangements devised year- the time is now. You have to com· unbeaten record. by Mrs. Ben D. Gilliland, Jr., (Norma Pat· pete- you have to play with what you have. We are proud of our varsity program at ricia Shelton, '48). In the next few minutes I will give a brief Southwestern but not satisfied. As athletic Hundreds of miniature "S" pennants in rundown on our seven varsity sports for director I can assure you that our coaching SW's cardinal and black accented the large the year 1960-61. staff takes what it has and tries to do the arrangements on the speakers' and the Home· Tougher Than You Know very best they can with it. We inherit many coming royalty's tables and the lesser bou· We play a much tougher brand of foot· good athletes, we make other good athletes, quets in small gilded loving cups on each ball than the general public knows. Those and by hard work turn out teams that I feel individual table. of you that go to the game today will see any Southwestern grad can be proud to Homecoming Queen Jenny Lee Yates of tackling and blocking just as hard as any support. Mayfield, Ky., Football Princess Martha one will see this Saturday. The Lynx with Not For Fun - To Win Myatt, and "S" Club -Princess Lyn M elvin, a 2· 2 record will end the afternoon with a We don't like to think that we play for both of Memphis, were introduced. 3·2 record. I predict that we will end the fun here at Southwestern. I prefer to say An enthusiastic crowd saw Southwestern season with a 4-4 record. The men I think we play to win and for the love of the beat Ouachita College in an exciting 13·7 you 'II enjoy watching this afternoon are sport and good hard competition. Playing footb~. ll game. In the stands were Mayor and Kimbro and Ashcraft in the line and Clin for fun doesn't sound like you care what Mr-S. Henry Loeb and their two young sons, ton, Harwood, Manley, and Burke in the happens, which certainly is not the case with Henry and Tommy, who were seeing their backfield. any of our teams. first game. The Cross Country team will end the How can you support the present varsity GATEWAY DEDICATION season with a 6-3 record and will go to the program at Southwestern? NCAA meet in Chi·cago. Immediately following the game a small 1. Let us know about good athletes who cr:owd gathered at the new Gaylon Smith would make good Southwestern men. Memorial Gateway, which was dedicated in 2. Come see us play. a simple ceremony. Speakers were Dr. 3. Don't miss a chance to let the general Rhodes and Frank Campbell, '39, a classmate public know what we are doing here. of the great Lynx tailback who went on to We know that we are on the right track pro football fame and died in 1958. in college athletics. Southwestern realizes Especially honored were Henry C. Nall, the value of varsity sport in the overall Jr., who was instrumental in raising funds campus picture. Our teams are made up of for the gateway, and Mrs. Walter Stewart, regular students who meet the same require· mother of the late Walter L. Stewart, '30, ments as any student in college. About one· Commercial Appeal sports writer whose edi· fourth of our male enrollment. participates torial at the time of Smith's death is quoted in varsity athletics. Our teams travel thou on the memorial tablet. Stewart also attended sand of miles yearly spreading the name of Southwestern for one year and died only a Southwestern without blemish far and wide. few months after Gaylon's death. With Mrs. We furnish our teams with the best pos· Stewart were Dr. R. P. Richardson, '17, who Frank Campbell, '39, Memphis real estate man, a sible coaching, the best equipment, and al· has headed the gateway project, Mrs. Rich· member of Gaylon Smith's class and "assistant wa ways try to go first class. We feel our ath· ter boy" for Gaylon's team, according to his own ardson, and Dr. W . ]. Millard, who gave the account, gave the dedicatory address at the gateway letic program is on a par with the excellence: dedicatory prayer. dedication. that is Southwestern. (2) •' Residence Halls Named Suggestion to A. T. J. A Gothic Vegetable Stall Townsend, Bellingrath- Speech Delivered by Albert Johnson '30, at Two names long identified with South the Homecoming Luncheon. western- Townsend and Bellingrath- will This very week, Dr. A. T . Johnson cele be perpetuated at the dedication of two new brated his seventieth birthday. This informa residence halls in the coming months. tion will, I know, come as a complete sur Mrs. C. L. Townsend, the college's first prise to you because he doesn't look it, and woman professor and dean of women, will he doesn't act it, and to the thinning ranks return to the campus for the dedication of of us who were on the campus in the fall of the freshman women's residence hall, which 1926 when he arrived, it is unthinkable that will be named in her honor, Margaret Town that wonderful, wonderful year was as long send Hall, on Alumni Day June 3. ago as it actually was. Mrs. Townsend joined the Southwestern Dr. Johnson came complete with Ph.D ., faculty at Clarksville, Tenn., in 1918 and _J.___ his wife Missy, and all the graciousness and became dean of women when the college was Dr. A. Theodore Johnson, left, receives check charm which that great finishing school in moved to Memphis in 1925. Dr. Charles L. from Albert M. Johnson. Between them are Mrs. Virginia could give him. It is no wonder that Townsend, her husband, was also a member Peyton N . Rhodes and Burton Henry. he got the job, and it is also no wonder that of the faculty for 37 years. once we had him, Southwestern never let When they retired together in 1954, him get away. Both as professor and as dean, alumni poured spontaneous contributions in Mitchell Redd Memorials Dr. Johnson has amply fulfilled the promise to a fund which provided fine oil portraits Boost Student Center Fund of those early years. of both of them for the college and a sub In June of 1961 , Dr. Johnson will join the W . H . Mitchell Redd of Florence, Ala., stantial monetary gift. They were also pre distinguished ranks of the professors emeriti. sented with a scrapbook full of letters from was a campus favorite from the time he On the occasion of the faculty picnic, devoted former students as a memento of came to Southwestern in the fall of 1957 as which is held just before commencement, Dr. their total 73 years at Southwestern. a freshman. John Henry Davis, faculty orator supreme, When he left in June, 1959, nobody sus will rise and give an address in honor of Dr. The Townsends moved to Cambridge, pected that already he was suffering from Johnson which will be beautifully compos Mass., to make their home and have con an illness which would prevent his coming tinued their lifelong habits of studying and ed, and faultlessly delivered. It will indeed back. Professors and students alike were be a great occasion. But we, who hark back reading at the Harvard Library. Their daugh saddened at the news of his death on Aug. ter, Mrs. Robert H. Sprote (Audrey Town to undergraduate days, could not wait until 22 of last year. commencement to express our appreciation send '36), lives with her family at Lexing "Mitch's" love for Southwestern and his ton, Mass. to Dr. Johnson. We want his last year at interest here prompted his parents, Mr. and Southwestern to be his happiest year. And Mrs. Townsend, a native of Canada, re Mrs. U. 0 . Redd, Jr., to have a small para so, it seemed that Homecoming Day-a day ceived both her B.A. and M.A. degrees at graph added to his obituary in the Florence when he is surrounded by his students and McGill University in Montreal and did grad newspaper. It read: uate study at Oxford University, Harvard his friends-would be the time when we ''The family suggests that memorials in could honor him best. College, Northwestern University, and at the the form of gifts to the Student Union Fund Universities of Colorado and Chicago. Who's Who In America gives the bare be sent to Southwestern at Memphis, Mem facts of the careers of those who are so She was awarded the honorary degree of phis, T enn." outstanding as to be included. Typically Doctor of Letters by Southwestern in 1954. This his friends have done in abundance enough, the entry for Johnson, A. Theodore The new men's residence hall now under and Mr. and Mrs. Redd and their other son, reads, "educator." While in a way, this is Uhland III, '59, have added a substantial construction will be named for the late high praise, yet for us who have known him, memorial gift themselves. A total of more Walter D . Bellingrath, famed Mobile busi it is not enough. W e are bound to add than $1,500 for the Student Center building nessman and creator, with his wife, of the "gentleman," "scholar," "counselor," "con has been received. So "Mitch" has joined Bellingrath Gardens, "The Charm Spot of fidant," and best of all "friend." the Deep South." The dedication date will be with his classmates in their extended effort to promote the building fund for this much And so, today, Dr. J.ohnson, we present announced later. to you a check for $900.00 which represents Mr. Bellingrath, a long time friend of the needed facility and so his will be a lasting memorial at Southwestern. in tangible fashion a small portion of the coll~ge , of its president emeritus, Dr. Charles love and admiration that we have for you. E. Diehl, and its president, Dr. Peyton N . Your prowess as a gardener is well known Rhodes, received an honorary Doctor of New Board Member to us all. At the conclusion of this year, when Humanities degree from Southwestern in N ewest member of Southwestern's board you will at last be free to make a full-time job 1951. of directors is Dr. Ross M. Lynn, h ead of your avocation, I should like to suggest to At his death in 1955 he left a share of the master of Memphis University School and the board of directors that they deed to you future proceeds from the Bellingrath Gardens an acti ve worker in Second Presbyterian your garden plot on the northeast end of to Southwestern, with other shares going to Church and in civic, serv1ce, and educational the campus, and that you use the money two other colleges and two churches. ?rganizations. which this check represents toward the erec Southwestern draws a number of students Dr. Lynn was for tion of a vegetable stall-stone, of course, from the Mobile area and many young men ,merly coach and dean and in collegiate gothic. Such an enterprise from that section will make their home dur of students at Dar!- will keep you on the campus, which is the ing the college years in Walter Bellingrath , ington S c h o o 1 at desire of us all, and in addition, a select Hall. Rome, Ga., and was clientele will be permitted to purchase the The two residence halls, both of Arkansas first headmaster at finest bibb lettuce in the whole world. sandstone and Vermont slate in collegiate the Presbyterian Day But however you decide to dispose of it, Gothic architecture conforming to the estab School in Memphis. spend it in good health. lished pattern of the college, accommodate As an Air Force lieu 169 students-64 women and 105 men re tenant c o 1 o n e 1 i n degrees from Presbyterian College in South spectively. Margaret Townsend Hall was World W ar II he re: Carolina and an M .A. from the University completed in 1955 and has been known since ceived the Bronze Star of North Carolina. that time as Freshman Hall. Walter Bellin for Exceptional Service and several battle He was married last year to the former grath Hall will be ready for occupancy be stars after spending 30 months in the south H alcyon Roach, who has two sons, Thurston fore the beginning of the 1961-62 session. west Pacific. H e holds A.B. and LL.D. and Richard Charlton Moore. {3) Three New Deans: Other Appointments and Retirements Are Announced body College for Teachers. Dr. Rhodes said the titles of vice presi dent for development and registrar will be replaced by the new designations, which are more descriptive of the responsibilities in volved in the changed set-up. All reflect expansion in the college's physical and aca demic growth as well as in its . community and church relationships. Also retiring at the close of this academic year will be Dr. A . Theodore Johnson, Professor of English and former dean of the faculty. Story on page 3. Two major personnel changes are an· nounced in the office of C. L. Springfield, Dr. Canon comptroller-the addition to the administra Southwestern has added two new deans and extended the title of Dr. Alfred 0. tive staff of George E. Partin, CPA, as asso Canon '44, to dean of alumni and development, Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes, president, an ciate business manager on December 1 and nounced following a meeting of the Executive Committee on Dec. 19. the forthcoming retirement at the end of this Dr. W . Taylor Reveley was named dean of admission.s and records and Dr. Gran academic year of Warren D. Howell, auditor ville D. Davis, dean of continuing education. Dr. Davis' appointment went into effect Jan. and assistant to the comptroller. 1. The other two will be effective at the begtnning of the next fiscal year July 1. ADDITION Dr. Ca.no!l., who returned to Southwestern Mr. Partin, a native of Parsons, Tenn., Dr. Reveley, professor of Bible and in 1956 as dean of alumni, has concentrated comes to Southwestern after two years audit Christian education and holder of The W . on alumni relations, initiating a number of ing experience with the Reconstruction Fin ]. Millard Chair, came to Southwestern in highly successful courses :md ~cries for ance Corporation in Washington and Detroit 1946 and has served for a number of years alumni of Southwestern and other colleges and 15 years with the Lichterman-Loewen as chairman of the important faculty Com and universities such as the Uniwrsity Lec berg interests in Memphis, serving in several turers and the American Alumni Seminar mittee on Admissions and Student Aid. - '! capacities including Dr. Reveley took his A .B. de.gree at for Public Responsibility. He has also been . comptroller for both Hampden-Sydney College, his B.D. at Union active in the formation of ·Southwestern ' Southern Leather Co., Theological Seminary in Virginia, and Ph.D. Clubs among alumni in some 10 large cities Inc., and Mills Morris from Duke University; He took a leave of from New York to Dallas and in activating Co. He is currently absence for one semester in 1956-57 to visit the college's far flung alumni in screening studying law at the and recommending for entrance to South·· many college and university campuses in the Southern Law Univer western the top ranking high school gradu South for the Board of Christian Education sity and will receive ates in their respective areas. He holds both in the interest of the Faculty Christian Fel· his LL.B. degree in M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science lowship Movement. June. Dr. Reveley will coordinate the constant from Duke University. · He attended Lambuth College at Jack Dr. Canon now will head also the college's ly expanding activities of the registrar's and son, Tenn., and received his B.S. in commerce Office of Development on the retirement of admissions offices, Dr. Rhodes said. degree from Athens College, Ala., was Dr. R . P . Richardson '17, vice president for OTHER CHANGES graduated from the USNR Midshipmen's development, next June 30. Malcolm Evans, regi-1 School at Columbia University and served Dr. Richardson, who served as a misston strar, will retire at with the amphibious forces in the Pacific ary to China for 28 years and has headed the close of the cur during World War II. He was recalled tci the Office of Development since 19 5 l, was rent fiscal year and service during the Korean War and served appointed to serve become registrar emer-' in communications in the far east. next year as associate itus, remaining avail M r. Springfield said he will be in charge in church relations. able for consultation. of the college's accounting and bookkeeping Dr. Rhodes said, "Dr. Mr. Evans, an Ark department. Richardson will visit ansas College graduate Mr. Partin is married and has one young churches and church and bursar there for Mr. Evans daughter. The family lives at 2096 Benton. people in the four several years, came to Southwestern in 1945 RETIREMENT synods of Alabama, after four years in Memphis as an accountant. T h e still boyish looking Warren Louisiana, Mississippi, ...... __~.....:.~ During his years here he has been active ("Doc") Howell has trouble convincing any and Tennessee of the in the college's joining the College Entrance one that his years have Presbyterian Church, U.S., with Examination Board and subscribing to the earned him retirement. Southwestern is affiliated, seeking ways in College Scholarship Service. There has also But the record actual which the college can serve its constituency been installed an I.B.M. system for compil ly shows that he's better· and securing investments in the col· ing statistics and records and printing grades given 35 of them to lege involving annual gifts, large capital for students. ' Southwestern. His sen fund gifts, wills, and bequests." Mr. Evans, who has retained farming in· ior citizenship is also Dr. Davis' appointment, Dr. Rhodes said, terests near his home in Batesville while liv documented by two "was in recognition of the Adult Education ing in Memphis, is a collector, too, of classi years service in the Center, now 15 years old, and its programs cal records and English and American first U. S. Navy during as an integral part of the college as it serves editions. World War I. Memphis and Mid-South communities." Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy A native of Bolton, Tenn., he was edu Dr. Davis, who holds an A.B. from the and a quiet, bubbling sense of humor have cated at Mississippi State University and University of Arkansas, A.M. and Ph.D. become his campus trademarks. he came to Southwestern in O ctober, 1926, from the University of Illinois, has been at John C. Turpin, Jr. '55, assistant to the the college's second year in Memphis. Southwestern since 1954. He is professor of registrar, will become associate registrar. A story in The Sou'wester a decade ago American history as well as director of the Mr. Turpin is a Southwestern graduate and said, "Throughout his years at Southwestern Adult Education Center. holds an M.A. degree from the George Pea· (Continued on page 6) (4) Southwestern Grandchildren Sons and Daughters- Bolster 1960 Freshman Class This year, as every year, Southwestern welcomes the sons and daughters of students who once walked its hallowed halls. These "alumni chillun" come from all directions. It's not unusual for roommates to find that their parents were of the same class, sorority or fraternity. The upper classes are sprinkled with second generation Southwesterners. Those named here are new students, either fresh men or transfers this year. Memphis contributes a goodly number to the roll with Mrs. Susan Hyde Boone, daugh ter of Mr. ('32) and Mrs. Joseph R. Hyde (Sue Hightower '32); George Edwards, son of Mr. ('35) and Mrs. B. A. Edwards (Ka therine Stratton '35); James M adison Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Foster (Ciau· dia Yerger '39); and Caroline Gage, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bartlett Gage '39. Also from Memphis are Morris H eins, III son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris G. Heins, Jr. ''35; H orace H . Hull, son of Mrs. Sara Po well Hull '41; Margaret Louise Livaudais, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guernsey D. Li vaudais (Hilda Duncan '33); Diana Mann. A partial showing of the 1960's new crop of sons and daughters of Southwestern alumni and of Pres daughter of Mr. ('36) and Mrs. Jesse R. byterian ministers includes- Row one, left to right: Anne Crowell, Caroline Gage, Ann Evans, Rita Ed Mann (Dorothy Morgan '38); Priscilla ington, Virginia Bornman. Row two, L-R: D iana Mann, Ann Autry, Joyce Foushee, Martha West, Priscilla Strickland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Strickland, George Early, Jr. Row three, L- R: Jim Foster, Jeanette Elliott, Bill M cColgan, Li~ Currie, H 3yden Kaden, Cy H endricks. Ruw four, L-R: Bill \Vilwn, Morris H ei ns, John Wilkins, Howard Strickland '36; George Goodloe Early, son Edington, Doyle Cloud, Rocky Ward. of Mr. and Mrs. George Early (Priscilla Pain Anne Crowell is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John M. Crowell of Mobile; Joyce Foushee is the ter ' 36); Robert James Byrd, son of Mrs. W. daughter of the Rev. and M rs. Clyde Foushee, M emphis; Martha West is the daughter of the Rev. and H. Byrd (Charlotte Stanage '35); and Joshua Mrs. Charles C. West, Louisville, Miss .; Jeanette Elliott is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William M. Elliott, Goodlett Brown, son of Mr. ('33) and Mrs. D all as; Bill McColgan is the son of Rev. and Mr, . 'N. L. McColgan of Pine Bluff, Ark.; Li~ Currie is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas \\' hite Currie, Houston; H ayden Caden is the son of the Rev. Goodlett Brown (Katherine Reid '32). and Mrs. C. Rodney Sunday of Houston; John W il kins is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Lewis L. Wilkins, Birmingham sends Nancy Jeanne Gregory, Sr., San Saba, T ex.; Howard Edington is the son of Dr. and Mrs. David H. Edington, Mobile; Doyle daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James M. Gregory Cloud is the so n of the Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Cloud, Itasca, Tex., and Rocky Ward is the son of Dr. '33, and William M . Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Ward, Richmond, Va. For parents of alum ni children see story in left column, ('33) and Mrs. William M. Wilson, Jr. (Vir this page. ginia Reynolds '34), while Mobile is repre sented by John Edington, son of Dr. and Mrs. David H. Edington '34. From Arkansas come Ann Elizabeth Autry, daughter of Mrs. D. H. Autry (Ellie Powell '37) of Little Rock; and from Mississippi, Virginia Coro ner Bornman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed gar F. Bornman, Jr. '29, of Clarksdale. All the way from Texas comes Rita Edington, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Edington '34, of Kerrville. H ailing from Bogalusa, La., is Catherine Ann Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Evans, Jr. (Mary Catherine Ellis '39). From further east is Ruth Ann Decker of Fort Bragg, N. C., daughter of Col. and Mrs. Jo seph F. Decker '31. Finally from the other side of the Mason-Dixon line are Cyril Mehrle Hendricks of Caruthersville, Mo., son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Hendricks (Mary Mehrle '36), and Charles Clinton Loop of Stamford, Conn., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Loop {Eleanor Clinton '30). ANDY EDINGTON SPEAKS Dr. Andrew Edington '34, president of Schreiner Institute at Kerrv.ille, Tex., was guest speaker at Southwestern's football ban ~ · ------~ quet January 17 . ;:;;1 - -- ·- i ...( • ~ Awards went to 28 members of the 1960 r:::;..., r'"- ol.J 1- -~ squad and Grady T ollison and Robert Echols, Pictured at a recent Southwestern dinner in Nashvme, left to right, are Mrs. Alfred Q. Campbell (Dorothy Schoolfield '35), M rs. Edwin Albright, rr.oth er of a current student, Ed Al!Jright, M aurice E. both of Memphis, were elected co-captains Miller, Jr. '42, Dr. Jack H oward T aylor '44, head of SW's physics department, Mrs. Thomas E. Strong for the 1961 Lynx. (Peggy Louise Crocker '55), and Mr. Albright. (5) Dr. C. Scott Fletcher Southwestern Singers Plan Tour Will Address Council J.(IJ. Dr. C. Scott Fletcher of White Plains, N.Y., president of the Fund for Adult Ed ucation a n d an honorary Southwestern alumnus, will address the President's Council at a dinner meeting at 6:15 Monday night, February 6, in Catherine Burrow Hall. Dr. Fletcher gave the commencement address in 1955, at which time he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Before entering the field of education Dr. Fletcher had a wide and varied career in the automobile business, including the post of export sales manager for the Studebaker Corporation in Australia and South Africa. The Fund for Adult Education, an in dependent organization established by the Ford Foundation in 19 51, has been the source of substantial grants which have enabled Southwestern's Adult Education Center to become one of the nation's leaders in thns I
field. I Dr. Rhodes said in his letter of invita The Southwestern Singers will hit the road again on their annual tour Feb. 26 ·March tion to the dinner, "It is expected that Dr. 1, carrying with them an instrumental ensemble to augment the choral music. Fletcher will make an announcement of un Dr. Vernon H. Taylor, the new director of the music department, a distinguished usual significance for Memphis and the Mid musician, composer, and educator, will travel with and direct the group. Dr. Taylor has South" added to the Singers' repertory a number of delightful ballads and other secular music. The Singers' itinerary includes concerts at Grenada, Miss. (11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 at First Presbyterian Church); Jackson, Miss. (7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at Fondren "Doc" Howell Retires Presbyterian Church); Laurel, Miss., (7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at First Presbyterian (Continued from page 4) Church); New Orleans {7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at First Presbyterian Church) ; and Vicksburg, Miss. (7:30'"p.m. Wednesday, March 1, at First Presbyterian Church). Mr. Howell has held his position not just as They will also sing at several high schools along the route. an employee, but as a man deeply interested in the students he has served." That this feeling has only been reaffirm COSTUMES? Dial Ray Hill Parents' Day Speakers ed and strengthened during the past ten years is evidenced by Doc Howell's selection Prof. Raymond Hill makes a plea for A parent, speaking to parents on Parents' as recipient at commencement, 1959, of the outmoded clothing in good condition which Day Nov. 12, gave his reasons for choosing Algernon Sydney Sullivan Non-Student he can add to the growing costume collection Southwestern for his son's education. Award. In the presentation Dr. Peyton N . of the Southwestern Center Players. Rhodes said, "Many generations of students Ray wants not only period costumes, but The speaker was Prof. Louis Johnson, Jr., as well as faculty and staff count him a true any good clothing from the early part of the from Tennessee Tech at Cookeville, Tenn. friend." The award is given each year to a century or the twenties-especially men's. His son, Louis III, is a Southwestern senior person who is related in some essential way It's much easier to whip up a dress than it and a fullback on the Lynx squad this year. to .the college in recognition of his love for is to produce a credible man's suit circa 1915, "My wife and I looked first for a college and service to mankind. he points out. which enjoys a high reputation for scholar Doc Howell and his wife are noted for You may have several rare pieces in your ship-small-co-educational-with a good their hospitality, both in their Memphis attic that you never thought of as costume balance between scholarship and social rela home, 916 Meda, and at their week-end material-and rarity doesn't necessarily tions. We wanted one that participates in cottage at Hardy, Ark. In retirement he will mean antiquity. athletics, but one that plays by the rules and have more time to devote to his hobbies of One dress from the flapper age has been not under pressure--one that likes to win friendship and flowers, his lodge work used 15 times by the players and other Mem but, if it loses, doesn't hang the coach in (Masonic Order) , and his church work. He phis theatre groups, and a recently acquired effigy or fire him the next year." Also, he has been a member of Galloway Methodist W orld War I uniform is a treasured gem. said, they wanted a college that was church Church for 40. years and on the board for 20 Ray also seeks out-of-date accessories related, though not necessarily of their own years. and hand props such as fans, handbags, denomination. feather boas, hats, shoes, etc. Other speakers at the morning parents' . ASSISTANT ENGINEER assembly, which replaced the usual student Roy Twaddle, Jr., a licensed engineer Religious Speakers assembly, were Dr. R. P . Richardson, Parents' with 20 years of experience in the navy, has Dr. W. A. Benfield, Jr. of Shreveport, Day originator and chairman, Dr. Peyton N. been named assistant college engineer, Dr. a member of Southwestern's board of di Rhodes, and Bill Davidson, son of June Peyton N . Rhodes h as announced. Head en rectors and father of freshman William A. Davidson '32, and Mrs. Davidson, a South gineer is ]'ohn 1\. Rollow '26. Benfield III, will be the principal speaker at western junior. Mr. Twaddle has been with the Meth the spring progtam of Religious Evaluation Musical numbers were given by freshman odist Hospital maintenance staff for the past M arch 6-8. Roy Twaddle, III, who sings ballads to his two years. His navy service has carried him Fall speaker was the Rev. James A . own guitar accompaniment, and Mrs. John all over the world and his family has lived Cogswell, Southwestern alumnus of the class Quincy Wolf, admissions counselor, who with him in N ewfoundland and Honolulu. of 1942, who teaches Bible in Japan. H e plays Christmas carols on her priceless group He is married and has two sons, Roy III, a and his family are in M emphis on furlough of antique glassware which rings out . an freshman at Southwestern, and Rob, a this year. They will return to Japan in octave and a half scale, with each note true student at East High. August. and clear. (6) Research Grants for Seven Gifts and Bequests to Southwestern Members of Faculty Include Fine Scientific Equipment Seven Southwestern professors currently are working on research grants which will Southwestern recently has received a George operates the Schulte Plastic total more than $1 25,000 when completed. number of major gifts and bequests from Sales and E quipment Co. of Coral Gables, T wo in biology and two in chemistry are individuals, including a scholarship fund of which represents sev· from the National Institutes of Health uf some $40,000 from the late Mrs. Alice Bani· era! 1a r g e plastics the U .S. Public H ealth Service. ster Buell of Birmingham. firms and engages in Dr. Robert L Amy and Dr. Clinton L. Mrs. Buell, a cousin of the late Gordon , both plastics develop· Baker each have $20,000 grants for three White for whom one of the men's residence ment and sales en· year periods, Dr. Amy studying the effects halls is named, died in February, 1959. She . gineering. of ultra-violet radiation on the embryomc had visited the Southwestern campus several · He purchased the development of insects and Dr. Baker study· times. H er bequest provides that income gift equipment from ing the biology of amphiumae ~el s , both from the fund be used for scholarships for the estate of the late with the aim of making discovenes wh1ch needy students. Roderich M . Boeh· may be applied to other forms of living mke, a German re· Another scholarship fund of $10,000 was matter and ultimately, perhaps, to humans. fugee who died re· set up in the will of the late Douglass Johns· Dr. Helmuth M . Gilow is working on the ~---...... , cently at the age of ton, who died Dec. 10. Mr. Johnston, a life Mr. Schulte 81 and whom George synthesis of potential cance.r agents uncle ·
Dr. W. M. Kennedy (top of page 12) is a member of the class of 1942. Others listed immediately after him are members of the class of 1951. The first eight names listed at the top of page 13 are members of the class of 1942.
The Editor CLASS OF 1945 · Edward C. Boldt, second vice president of the Memphis Sales Executives Ch;b, is the newly ap pomted natwnal chairman of the distributive educa tion committee of National Sales Executives Inter• national. Ed is a vice president of The First Na- tional Bank. · Anne Howard Bailey, who has been recogni~e d for some time as one of the nation's top TV drama wnters, saw production of her first opera on New Year's Day. "Deseret," produced in color, is based on the story of Ann Eliza Webb, who was the 25th wife of Morman leader Brigham Young. Leonard CLASS OF 1917 Castle did the music. Anne has written, in the Dr. Robert Price Richardson, vice president for H erman W. Bevis, CPA, class of 1930 , past 10 years, more than 500 TV dramas that development, represented Southwestern at the in was r ecently elected as one of four vice have been shown on networks, including scripts for auguration of President Wilfred Charles T yler at presidents of the American Institute of Circle Theatre, National Velvet, and Surfside 6. Blue M ountain College, Miss., last fall. Certified Public Accountants at the 73rd CLASS OF 1947 D eceased: Dr. Harry B. Wade on Oct. 20. ;neeting of the 3 7 ,000-member national Class baby: To Dr. and Mrs. William T. Wind· CLASS OF 1929 ham (Westy Tate), William Thomas, Jr. on Sept. D eceased : Thomas S. 'Jodie' Watson, of Slidell, professional organization in Philad elphia. 17 at Rutherford hospital, Murfreesboro, T enn. La., died Sept. 20 of leukemia. He was salesman Mr. Bevis, a part They have a daughter also, Diane Elaine, 8. with Paramount Pictures and one of a group of n er in the New CLASS OF 1948 about 20 members of old Beta Sigma Chapter, Married: Mrs. Edith Snowden Baker and Craft which is now Sigma Nu Fraternity. He leaves his York office of the accounting firm of Dewey, D ec . 2 in a home ceremony. wife, Mrs. Lillian Watson; his son, Thomas Rogers Class baby: To Dr. and Mrs. John C. Broderick Watson; and his mother, Mrs. Mattie C. Watson. Price W aterhouse (Katheryn Lynch '47), John C., Jr., on Sept. 9 in CLASS OF 1930 & Co., is currently Winston-Salem, N . C. Jeanette Spann, who is director of the Blood Bank of Memphis city hospitals, made a special servin g as a mem CLASS OF 1949 George A. Chauncey has resigned as associate flight this fall with the A me rican Blood Ba~k As \ (: ber of the Insti- sociation to Honolulu, and before returnmg to ,} tute 's governmg secretary of the Division of Evangelism, Board of Church Extension, to become pastor of the First Memphis she had circled the globe. She fl ew from council and execu- Hawaii to T okyo to attend the Internatwnal Blood -..~...-~- il;:t Presbyterian Church of Danville, Ky. Mr. Bevis tive committee. A Transfusion Congress and to spend two weeks Jack Hall has joined the fa culty of Stetson Uni sight seeing. From there she went to Hong Kong, native M emphian now a r esident of Con ve rsity, Tampa, Fl a., as associate professor of Eng Bangkok, Calcutta, Benares, New Delhi, Bombay, necticut, h e is chairman of the Institute's lish. Since 1957, he has served as chairman of the Department of English and a,:s istant to the presi and Agra to see the Taj Mahal; then she wen~ to committee on lo n g-r ange objectives. Cairo and to Athens. Rome was her next destma• dent at Athens College, Athens, Greece. tion, then Madrid ar,d Spain for two weeks before H e was a member of the executive com Married: Mrs. Alma Van Hook Connors and Gardiner (Ted) Cox at Second Presbyterian the flight home. mittee of the Commission on Standards of Abe Fortas, a partner in the Washington law Education and Experience of CP As. Church. Class babies : firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter, has been elected From 1952 to 1958, Mr. Bevis was con a director by the Federated Department Stores, Inc., To Mr. and Mrs, James B. Hassell (Jo Ann Han which now owns Memphis' Goldsmith's in addition sultant on financial managem ent to the cock), Bettye Jane, Sept. 5, in Memphis. The Has to a number of other widely scattered outlets. Abe, Assistant Secretar y of the Air Force. H e se ll s have three other children, Susan Bowe, James who lives with his wife, Carolyn A gger Fortas in is a past president of the Green wich Com Bowe, Jr., and Sarah Ann. Washington, got his law degree and also has taught munity Chest. CLASS OF 1950 at Yale, has been Under Secretary of Intenor (1942- D enby Brandon ea rn ed the Natio nal Quality 46) and held several other important government Award for 1960, one of the highest honors which posts. CLASS OF 1932 The National Association Of Life Underwriters can William C. ("Razz") Rasberry assumed, on D ec. Deceased: William T. Puddephatt, Oct. 26 in bestow. 6 Shreveport's top civic post-presidency of the Memphis. H e was a member of Kappa Alpha fra Class babies: Chamber of Commerce. This honor grew naturally ternity at Southwestern. To Mr. and Mrs. Forrest W. Flaniken (Joanne out of years of distinguished leadership as a ~ember Mrs. Mary Gardner Patterson Phillips and Char Zahner), Jeffrey Zahner, June 23 . in Louisv ille, of the Caddo Parish School Board, . whtch he les W. Phillips were remarried Aug. 27 in Alex Ky . The Flanikens have another son, Forrest \Vil served as president last year; as a past president andria an d are liYing in Philadelphia. Thei r ad liam , Jr. , and a daughter, Eleanor Anne. T hey live and long time supporter of the Norvella Coune1l dress is Apt. 3 C, 309 S. 15th St. at 3026 Radiance Road in Louisvill e. of Boy Scouts; as past commander o~ the world's CLASS OF 1933 To Mr. and Mrs. Pete J. Vergas, Alex Pete, largest American Legion Post; and 1':1 n~merou s Harvey Creech has been made ,·ice president for Sept. 6, in Mem phis. Pete and his wife han two business, civic, and welfare enterpnses m hts ho~e sal es of the E. L. Bruce Co. He is chairman of the other ch ild ren, John and Fi,.;a. area. "Ra~ ~." who also holds honorary memb ershtp research committee of the National Oak Flooring in Southwestern's ODK chapter, is the father of Manufacturing Asso ciation, a member of the steer Louis Chenault ' 37, sales m a nager for Mrs. Jack Caskey, Jr., of M emphis, the former ing committee of rh c trade promotion committee the H o u ston division of Bemis Bro. Bag of the Southern Pine Asso ciation, and active in : 'Siss~~:as~.r:::;t:~h~ :~s ::o a rc:::::;e::~r. ~ other trade aswciations such as the National Retail Company, b ecame manager of the 3 0 Lumbe r Dealers Association. He and his wife and company's Houston plant and sales turned from a tour of the Soviet Union, so n live at 4809 Barfield Road. division on N ovember 1. Louis joined described his visit to Russia in the Dec- CLASS OF 1935 I Bemis as a trainee I Jessie Richmond was married Decem bcr 21 to ember, 1960, issue of The R ead er's Digest. I in .the H o u s t o n Matthew Stinson Hooper of Buckport, Me., a i Condensed from the Christian Science Boston College alumnus, at the Patrick H enry t sales o f f i c e 2 2 M onitor, of w hich Mr. White is business Vill age Chapel in H eidelberg, Germany. where years ago. H e serv and financial editor, the article describes they will live. She is librarian of U.S. Army Special -...t ed as a salesman in Service Library and he is an engineering consultant treatment given American tourists in the with T echnical Services. Both have served with the company's H ar Soviet Union. the army in Japan al so. lingen, T ex., and The American visitor, says Mr. White, CLASS OF 1937 H ouston o ffice un "becomes a prisoner of Intourist , the Deceased: Josephine Barry. til 1951 , when he state travel agen cy, as soon as he sets CLASS OF 1940 was m ade H o u ston foot on Soviet soil. H e is controlled, dir Returning to Memphis after 20 years of distin Mr. Chenault plant m erchandiser. guished military se rvice to take his first civilian job ected, d ictated to, d eceived , lied to, sub as vice president in charge of plans and develop H e was appointed sales m anager in 1955. jected to M arxist propaganda, all in the ment at Allen Bros. &1 O'Hara Constructi on Co., is H e is a m ember of the H ou sto n Sales guise of tourism." Robert Elder. He was rated as ''ace" in \Vorld War Association, Farm & R an ch Club, Cham D escribing Into urist as an agency "set II, flew 116 combat hours, and received other mili ber of Commerce, Braes H eights Civic tary honors. He and his wife and their four child up to· watch foreigners, to r e port on them ren are living at 1316 Rolling Oaks Drive. Club, and University of T exas Dads' As and to hide from them the true conditions CLASS OF 1941 sociation . Louis· and his wife (Effie Ola of the Soviet Union," Mr. White said it William P. Murphy received the degree of Doc Anthony, '38) and their family are now does not exist to promote travel in Russia, tor of Juridical Science tn June from the Yale Law living at 3806 Drummond Ave. in Hous but "to ch annel and control tourists." School and is currently visiting professor of law ton. 'at the University of Kentucky. ( 14) To Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hitt, Robert D ailey, received his Ph.D. in organic . chemistry from Oct. 28 in Memphis. Flagbrag, a kind of "operation patriot M assachusetts Institute of Technology. The Gil CLASS OF 1951 ism" which has taken Memphis and is lioms have two daughters, Laura Rhea, 2 years, James F. Springfield, who is with the trust depart now spreading its contagion over the na and Andra Lee, 7 months. ment of the Union Planters National Bank, has pas Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gilmer (Sara Strong) sed the T ennessee state bar exams and is licensed tion, was all the idea of Judson Williford, are now stationed at Brookley Air Force Base in to practice law. Jim and his wife, the former class of 1950. Mobile, Ala. Shirley Jean Burdick '52, live at 172 N . Yates Road Last summer, Judd, a Memphis insur The Rev. Robert Dickey is now the minister of and have a two-year-old daughter, Sidney Lee. ance man, went to Hawaii to attend the the First Presbyterian Church at Aransas Pass, Tex. CLASS OF 1952 His address is 308 West Wilson Avenue. The Rev. Lee Anderson Orr has accepted a call Million Dollar Roundtable Meeting. He Married: Jack Parke Bugbee and Barbara Ann as assistant 'pastor to Calvary Episcopal Church in was astonished by the amount of patriot Kirk, Oct. 23 at Second Presbyterian Church. Memphis. Until recently he has been assistant pas ism displayed by the people of H awaii. At Class babies: tor of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Frank · sunset, these people perform an elaborate T o Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Flaniken, Andrew furt, G ermany. He received his B.M. in 1952 from ceremony to honor the American flag. As Smart, Oct. 6, in M emphis. The Flanikens have Southwestern and also his B.A. in 1953. two other children, Keith Jamar, and Gwendolyn When promotions were announced recently by the fl ag is lowered, a girl, without any Sue. First National Bank, Edward T. Hamlet was named accompaniment, sings the Star Spangled T o Mr. and Mrs. Pete M. Robinson, Jr., Randall an assistant cashier. Ed, his wife, daughter, and son Banner. He was also impressed with the Balton, on May 17 in Memphis. The Robinsons are now living at 5295 Quince Road in Memphis. ceremony during a boat trip to P earl Har have three other children, Lynn, 4; Brian, 3; and Thelma Nichols, former assistant director of per Catheri ne, 2. sonnel for the city school board, was named bor. As the boat passed the sunken USS T o The Rev. and Mrs. George D. Gracey, Jr., assistant principal of Kingsbury. She has a master's Arizona they raised the flag to salute the (Ruth Annelle Gandy '60), Angela Ruth, Oct. 24, degree from the University of Mississippi and seven . American sailors who went down w ith at Lexington, Ky. Angela has an older brother . years of experience in education. the ship. The captain asked everyone on George D ennis Gracey III. · Class Babies: board to salute the fl ag. CLASS OF 1957 To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Mallory Carruthers George A. Morris III received his M .D. from the (Iolis Robbins), Carol Robbins, Oct. 26, in Mem When Judd came home to M emphis, University of T ennessee in September. phis. Carol has a sister, Susan Iolis, 2, and three he was keenly aware of the contrast Dick Crawford has received a degree in law from brothers, Louis Leavell , 5, Charles Robbins, 7, and extremely disappointed to realize by com Vanderbilt and is now in the Coast Guard O.C.S. Wilson M allory, Jr., 9. parison that Americans had almost forgot Class Baby: To The Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Shawhan of T o Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Schaefer, Scott Winter, Mason, T enn ., Stephen Frederick, Aug. 24 in ten how to express their patriotism. Some on Sept. 12 in M emphis. The Schaefers have an· Memphis. Ben and his wife have another son, had even considered it corny. H e decided other son, Dudley, Jr. , 2. Christopher Andrew, 15 mos. to bring this matter before the Phoenix To Dr. and Mrs. Herman Ray Stallings (Mar CLASS OF 1958 zette Smith), Benjamin Clay, on Oct. 16 in Hum Club of M emphis, which voted to pro· John R. Dunlap, who is attending Vanderbilt bolt, Tenn. The Stallings have a daughter, Jan, 4 mote the sale of flags and popularize U niversity Law School, graduated last summer from the Junior Platoon Lead ers Class at the Quantico, and another son, Ray 2. "bragging" about the national standard. Va., Marine Corps School. When he finishes at CLASS OF 1953 Proceeds from the sale will go to the The Rev. Robert H. Crumby, minister of West Vandy he will get his commission and go back minister Presbyterian Church, Florence, Ala., for club's fund for building a Boys' Club in to Quantico for an additional six months training. the past three years, is the new pastor of South M emphis. Married: Gloria Lee Smith and Raleigh Eugene Louisville Presbyterian Church, Louisvill e, Ky. Drennon III, Sept. 24 at Trinity M ethodist Church. Married: Richard Brankstone and Emily Cason, Ordained in 1956, he has served churches in Rich Nov. 7. Rob has an old er brother, Ian. mond, Grafton, and Yorktown, Va. He and his Dec. 7 at Whitehaven Presbyterian Church. They Mr. and Mrs. Bland Whitesell (Emily McKay), are living at 1060 Chambliss R oad. wife have a young daughter, Melissa Lynne. and their two daughters are now livi ng in Costa CLASS OF 1954 Class baby: M esa, Calif., where he is regional manager of T o Dr. and Mrs. William Stanley Myers, William A black mark against this journal for the mis Southern Sash of California, largest manufacturer Stanley, Jr., Aug. 30, in Memphis. spelling in a recent issue of the name of Prof. and of Lifetime Aluminum Windows. Their new address Mrs. John W. Burch's infant daughter. It's is 303 Princeton Drive. CLASS OF 1959 D -E-I -R -D -R-E (as in Yeats) Karen Burch. The Joanne Cunningham of Cottontown, T enn., re Joan F. Waggoner, who received her M .A . degree Burches live in Syracuse, N. Y., where Daddy is ceived her M . A . on Aug. 19 from George Peabody from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy a member of the faculty of Syracuse University. College for Teachers at Nashville. at Tufts University in M edford , Mass., is currently The by-line of Margaret McKee is b ecoming a Class babies: working toward an advanced degree at the school familiar one in The M emphis Press-Scimitar, T o Mr. and Mrs. H . R. Johnson (Elizabeth under the Joan Gillespie Fellowship. though Margaret only joined the paper's editorial Price), Robert Price, Aug. 15, in Cherry Point, Pem Kremer finished her M .A . in American staff a few months ago. A fter Southwestern, she N.C. literature in June at Duke on a Woodrow Wilson got her master's degree at Vanderbilt and later T o The Rev. and Mrs. Lane W. Erwin, of Barn fellowship and has an $1800 grant, awarded by the worked for a travel agency fo r two years. well, South Carolina, Frank Bradley, Sept. 16. Kentucky Research Foundation, for this year at Christmas letter from Patsy Braswell (Mrs. Cecil) T o Mr. and Mrs. T. Rogers Menzies, Jr., Virginia the University of Kentucky to Ha rt on her Ph.D . Culverhouse tells her friends of their move from Biggs, Oct. 30, in Memphis. The M em; ies arc Married: Sandra Fay Andrew~ to Lt. William Nashville to Fulton, Mo., where her husband is the living at 5 160 P eg Lane. new minister at the First Presbyterian Church. CLASS OF 1955 Eleanor Richmond, class of 1927, played Patsy's o t h ~ r big news is a second son , R ob , born Class babies: to an enthusiastic crowd of 160 as she T o Mr. and Mrs. Owen L. Norment, Jr. (Rachel James M . Turner , Jr., of Hurley, N . L. Gobbel), Marcia Lynnette. Sept. 12. in Sanford, gave a program of " American Christmas Y. , class of 1949, was appointed as a N.C. Stories" N ov. 19 at the Brooks Memorial T o The Rev. and Mrs. David Kaylor (Dorothy Art Gallery. development engineer and manager of Henning ' 56), Cathryn Ann, D ec. 2. in Birming diagnostic engineering at IBM's Federal Miss R1chmond, principal of Maury ham, Ala. The Kaylors alw h'ave another daughter, School, included in her program a re Systems Division laboratory in Kingston. Maril yn Lee. telling of Roark Bradford's popular, "How Jim joined IBM in To Dr. and Mrs. E . Jeff Justis (Louise Mayo 1956 as a program Rollow) , Jeff Rollow, Sept. 28 , in Wilmington, Come Christmas." The program, spon Ohio. Jeff has a a sister, Catherine Ann. sored by the Association of Childhood mer at the. Kings T o Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henderson Weed, Jr., of Education of Memphis, was followed by ton plant. H e was Iowa City. Iowa, Robert Henderson, Sept. 28. a tea. n a m e d methods CLASS OF 1956 This Southwestern alumna has had a p r o g r a m mer in Mrs. W. C. Sallis (Harrylyn Graves) was named to t he facul ty at T ennessee Wesleyan College at full and busy life since her graduation, 1 9 5 7 and project Athens after receiving her Master of Music degree going on to get her M .A. from the Uni engineer in I ?58, a from the University of Kentucky this year. H arry versity of Wisconsin, doing further gradu post he h:- held lyn, who has taught piano and voice privately , and se rved as accompanist for the Unive rsity of Ken ate study at Cambridge University, being until his present tucky Opera Association and for the University an outstanding teacher and principal in appointment. He is of Kentucky 'Nomen's Chorus, will serve as an in· the city schools, and accelerating her al a member of the Institute of Radio En structor in the music department. Mr. Sallis is ready busy pace the past two years by gineers and chairman of the Kingston assistant professor of history at the same college. The couple have a son, Charles. serving as state president of the A.A.U.W. chapter of the Association for Computing Dr. Richard Gilliom has joined the technical This post has taken her to many con Machinery. staff of the Esw Research Labo ratories at Baton ferences in N ashville, Washington, and He and his wife (Sue Henry, '49) have Rouge, La., where he is wo rking with petrochemi other cities. She will complete her term two children, Suzanne, 9, and Jimmy, 7. ca ls. Dick received his B. S. degree from South of office this spring. western, graduating with honors in chemistry, and
(15} Roy Robertson of Saginaw, _M ich., in September, CLASS OF 1961 Oct. 27 in a home ceremony. They are now living at the First Baptist Church m Memphis. Among Married: Martha Anne Mobley and Ronald at the Parkview. · the bridesmaids was Thirza Mobley '59. The Rob Sullivan Baumann, Sept. 10 at Evergreen Presby· Married : Gwendolyn Bell and D onald Lee Riley ertsons are now living in Bainbridge, Ga., where terian Church. The maid of honor was the bride's Sept. 24 at the Whitehaven Presbyterian Church. he is undergoing Air Force Pilot Training. sister, Thirza Mobley '59. Bridesmaids included CLASS OF 1963 Class babies: Bette Baumgarten. Married: Mary Gardner Phillips and Lt. David T o Mr. and Mrs. Glenn T. Batten (Elizabeth CLASS OF 1962 Ann Williams '60) , Curtis Gray, Aug. 7, in M em· Vl illiam Saxon, Jr., Sept. 24 at St. P eter's Catholic phis. Glenn and Ann also have a son, Glenn, Jr._ Jane Allen was crowned U niversity of North Church. Maid of honor was Frances Andrews '61. T o Mr. and Mrs. William R. Luckett, Wilham Carolina's Homecoming Queen this year. Bridesmaids included Mrs. Robert Booth (Beverly Thompson Martin II, Nov. 13 , in Memphis. Married : Jocelyn Dan and Richard Wurzburg Faye Dotson '60) and Kay Saunders '62. CLASS OF 1960 Paul Hollingsworth, who was co·captain of Southwestern's 19 59 fo otball team, is now in the Southwestern graduates are situated in Joe Rhodes '58 also has an apartment in navy's O .C.S ., Newport, R . I. cities all over the U.S., doing interesting the Village, is studying voice under Mme. Anne Ford received her B.S. degree in medical and exciting things and carrying over the M arcia Kurenko, and taking coaching technology from the University of T ennessee. Married: Woodrow 'Woody' Forbes, Jr., and Southwestern tradition of never-ending lessons, too. Linda Rice, Sept. 30 at First M ethodist Church in education into the commercial world, and Soon Ki Kim '60 is studying for his Savannah, T enn. Groomsmen included Harrison N ew York is no exception. Ann Rust '60 M.A. in International Affairs at the Herron and John Crews. and two current seniors, Fay Quinn and School of International Affairs at Colum· The Southwestern News bids goodby to Ann Rust who recently has been inducted into the Air Bette Baumgarten, encountered several bia University. Force Officer Trai ning program, and is now at grads during a recent week-end in Man· John Farris '58, already recognized for Lackland Air Base in San Antonio, T ex. For the hattan. Harrison High and other novels, has a past two years Ann has been compiling the Alumni Becky Davis '60, Elizabeth Rodgers '58, sumptuous river view apartment in upper Notes while a student at Southwestern. Out m and Mary Frances Files '57 share an apart· M anhattan. He divides his time between the bier world she hopes to be shipped overseas ao so on :'s her basic training is finished. She was in· ment in Greenwich Village. Becky is sell· there and Memphis, where he also has ducted over WHBQ·TV, D ec. 28 on the RusE ing dresses and training for executive a home at Whitehaven. Hodge show, and said that she would probably work in an exclusive department of Lord Susan Richardson, although not an not fly in her duties, but would work in personnel, and Taylor. Elizabeth is working for a alumna, is one of Southwestern's child psychological testing, interviews, etc. Ann is the large bank on W all Street, and Mary ren. She is the daughter of Southwestern's first woman from West T ennessee to be accepted into the program. Frances is working for Mademoiselle vice president for ·development, Dr. R . P. At press time Allen Reynolds and Gene Bots· magazine. N eedless to say they are ex· ('17) and Mrs. Richardson. Working ford, along with D ickey Lee of M.S.U., were creat• tremely happy in their exciting surround· for the Vermont Chamber of Commerce ing quite a national ripple with their first record· ings. Nor is any challenge too great for during the winters, she has recently been ing, "Tupelo County Jail" on the Felsted label. them. They fixed Thanksgiving dinner The three have dubbed themselves the "Jon named public relations director. In the Deaux" and hope to rival the Kingston Trio's for the visiting M emphians over the holi· summertime she is business manager for national fame with their folk songs and informal days-their first turkey, which was a the Caravan Theatre. N ew York is her singing. At present Allen is under contract with tasty success. winter home. RCA and Dickey records for DOT.
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