Sewanee Alumni News, 1950

ALUMNI NEWS THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH r ; : : SEWANEE, TENNESSEE V 'C- :£M Vol. XVI, No. 1 February 15, 1950 Cfhe Vice-chancellor s ^age JajT^f ESPITE my having been a resident on the Moun- As you already know, the 1949 football season was a tain for five months, this is my first opportunity real and gratifying success. We won four games and lost to address the alumni of Sewanee generally. two, tying one. To the New Year, we look with confi- dence and hope and little My first desire is to extend to you one and all a hearty with not a excitement, as we have recently concluded arrangements to invade greeting. Already it has been my good fortune to meet New Eng- land next September 30, when play Trinity many of you; but in the months and years to come, I we College at Hartford in the opening hope to have the privilege of meeting and knowing all of game of the season. you. The doors of the Vice-Chancellor's house stand ever Social life at Sewanee is still varied and colorful. Aside open, and the Green family is anxious to welcome those from the usual events, the past five months have been of you who can visit the Mountain. enlivened by the installation of the Vice-Chancellor and For me to speak too much in de- of the Dean of the School of The- tail of the University is probably an ology. To the Dean's installation came impertinence, for after all I am still a four Bishops, two deans of semi- relative newcomer. But as with other naries and a number of distinguished members of the freshman class, my guests. To me, seeing them for the education progresses. I have found first time, the fraternity parties, es- the faculty and Deans awesome in pecially the ATO Christmas Carol their wisdom, infinite in their pa- Party, and Dr. Myers' New Year's tience. Of course, as in every col- Eve Party, were truly memorable lege, much wants doing; but at the occasions. same time the situation appears well Concerning my own activities, it in hand. Dean Baker maintains his would probably be best to say little incredible serenity, Major Gass his and leave you to judge the results. warm benevolence. The students Close and joyful companionship and worry all morning about their pres- cooperation with Dean Baker, and ent and future but manage to forget your fellow alumni, Major Gass, themselves on the athletic fields in Jimmy Avent, Arthur Chitty, Charlie the afternoon and at the movies or Thomas, Douglas Vaughan, as well at fraternity parties in the evening. The faculty keeps the as members of the faculty and student body have made students and administration busy with new plans and at no task impossible, no burden intolerable. The tragic and the same time has leisure for mid-morning coffee. Se- sudden, loss of Professor Waring Webb of the Biology de- wanee's lifestream, as ever, runs full, with the inevitable partment has saddened us all, and the death of Willie Six surface swirling but also with the deep, sure currents of has severed a loving bond between thousands of alumni intellectual accomplishment and spiritual development. and the life on the Mountain. But the work of the Uni- Plans for the expansion of the department of Economics are versity has progressed, on the whole, satisfactorily. It is being matured by Mr. Kayden. The new department of a pleasure to reassure you that many improvements have Religion is apparently a great success, for Doctors Wilmer been made in operation and regulation of the University and Shafer seem already anxious to establish a major field agencies. The Guerry Memorial Campaign has quickened of study. The entire curriculum is being rigidly scrutin- under the able leadership of the Chancellor and of Wen- ized to guarantee a faithful adherence to the established dell Kline and other activities have shown like improve- principles of liberal Christian education. Courses, activi- ment under similar leadership. ties, trends incompatible with the changeless ideals that Not without reason, it might be said that the Vice-Chan- have made Sewanee great are inexorably pruned from cellor, instead of joining the Navy, came to Sewanee to see the growing that is Sewanee life. the world. Since September he has visited California and At the Academy, the situation is a source of especial Texas, Florida and Ohio, and many points between. In gratification. Under the leadership of Coach Urban, the the twenty-three weeks of his tenure on the Mountain, it SMA football team won five games and lost three, a wel- should be remembered that upon three occasions only has come change from last year's record of no victories at all. he been absent for more than six consecutive days. Fre- But of particular interest is the situation in the School of quently he is asked if he gets homesick for Sewanee: in- Theology. Blessed indeed are we to have the services of evitably he replies in the negative, for wherever he goes, our new Dean, the Very Rev. F. Craighill Brown, who he carries some of Sewanee with him and is at home with has already demonstrated his capacity and vision. Sixty- Sewanee men. three candidates make up the student body, the largest in Faithfully yours, the history of the Seminary. To the excellent teaching tiaditionally given by the St. Luke's faculty, new zest and flavor have been added by the Rev. Lansing Hicks and the ^&oyAAXt+*- {^X**j*-4+. Rev. Howard Johnson. Life in St. Luke's today is stimu- lating and exciting. £e wa n e e ^Alumni D\(jl iv s Vol. XVI, No. 1 The University of the Siouth, Sewanee, Tennessee February 15, 1950 duPont Gift Raises Campaign Total to $1,500,000 Vice- Chancellor Seminary Dean General'Education Board Extended to Meets Many Installed January 25 Offer ICJJO The year's end brought to Sewanee Alumni Chapters The Very Rev. F. Craighill Brown, thirty gifts which raised the Guerry $1,492,"- '22, officially became Dean of the Memorial Campaign Fund to School of Theology at a choral even- 855.62. Several new gifts were ob- Since school opened this fall, the song service in All Saints' Chapel on tained by alumni solicitors in order has traveled that $50,000.00 in Vice-Chancellor more January 25. Dr. Boylston Green in- matching funds might in than Polo granted General miles four months Marco stalled the new head of St. Luke's, be by the Education travelled in a similar number of years. the Rev. George B. Myers was pre- Board, which had already matched did not Although Dr. Green return as senter, and the Rt. Rev. Edwin A. funds for permanent endowment with $150,000.00. addition, did Polo with gunpowder, he came Penick. '08. Bishop of North Carolina In the Board to the almost explod- allowed an extension through 1950 of back Mountain and Vice-President of the House of ing with enthusiasm for Sewanee Bishops, was installation preacher. their offer to contribute one dollar alumni. for every four dollars secured for In his sermon, Bishop Penick de- endowment, for a total of $300,000.00. After California, Atlanta, and Nash- clared that the theological seminary ville there the Largest gifts to the campaign at the meetings, came me- at Sewanee is the lengthened shadow end of December were a share in a morable trip to Texas. It all began of the beloved late Dean William trust fund established by Mrs. Alfred on November 13 in Beaumont where Porcher DuBose, whose influence up- the par- I. duPont of Jacksonville, Florida, and arrangements were made by on the men he taught and whose ents of two students, Mssrs. T. Kelsey a generous gift from the Kemper and impact upon theologians throughout Lamb and J. L. C. McFaddin. Aided Leila Williams Fund of New Orleans. the world was incalculable. should by their charming ladies and by the We The close of the Alumni Fund fiscal Rev. and Mrs. Charles Wyatt-Brown, be grateful, said Bishop Penick, that year revealed that during 1949 alumni they planned a dinner for forty at the influence of so great a man is gave $219,298.40 to the campaign, while the Hotel Beaumont, followed by a still alive among us. Of Dean Brown, contributing $18,228.50 to the Alumni reception for one hundred at the par- he said, "How greatly we trust him." Fund. ish house of St. Mark's Church. There Among those present were the Mrs. duPont's Gift were Sewanee movies, a talk by Dr. Bishops of Western North Carolina, Green, many questions, much conver- Mrs. Alfred I. duPont gave to the Tennessee, and of Minnesota, retired, sation, and refreshments served by University of the South on December the Deans of Virginia Seminary, Epis- ladies of the parish. 16 an interest valued at $140,000.00 copal Theological School at Cambridge, in a living trust established by her The next day, while Captain and the Vanderbilt School of Religion, and on that date, according to a statement Mrs. Wendell Kline continued to representatives from General and Uni- by the Chancellor, Bishop Frank A. Houston in a plane lent for the trip Juhan. In the deed of gift, Sewanee's John C. Bennett, '18, of Louisville, on Seminaries, Bexley Hall, Seabury- by distinguished and generous friend said Dr. and Mrs. Green and your editor Western, the Divinity School of the that she intended to make from time were driven in state from Beaumont Pacific, Princeton Department of Re- to time during the next three years in the sleek Chrysler Imperial of ligion, and a number of Episcopal other assignments to the University, Sewanee Trustee John C.

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