ALUMNI NEWS February 15, 1952 Volume XVIII, No. 1 ti / r / V \ Ofhe Vice-chancellors Vage The University extends sincerest thanks to the nine hundred seventy-six alumni who have con- tributed during 1951 to the Alumni Fund, or to the Guerry Memorial Campaign, or to both. According to the latest tabulation your total contribution to these two funds for the year was $214,879.39 in cash and pledges. This is ex- tremely encouraging. You will be interested to know that a total of $725,000 in cash and pledges was raised for the building fund toward $900,000 needed by De- cember thirty-first, in order to obtain a bonus of $100,000 from an anonymous donor. The donor has been good enough to extend his time limit until Easter Day, which is April thirteenth this year. We must raise $175,000 between now and then in order to take advantage of his offer and provide for the cost of the two buildings now going up—Gailor Memorial and Gorgas Hall. The latter, which is the new dormitory at the Academy, has just had its name chosen in honor of the Academy's first Superintendent, the Uni- versity's second Vice-Chancellor, and his son, who has become, perhaps, Sewanee's best-known alum- nus. We all have reason to be extremely thankful for the many blessings which have come to Se- wanee during the year 1951. We have obtained stone dormitory (Shapard Hall), and virtual as- an Air Force ROTC which is working out splen- surance of money enough for a new stone deanery didly. We have a student body of more nearly for the theological school. normal size than we might have expected during We have considerably farther to go before we, this period of international tension. We have a can consider our needs adequately filled, but we new wing, completed and functioning, at St. are definitely on the way, and we are most grate- Luke's, a restored Union, a new Nurses' Home, ful. a new (though temporary) auditorium, a new laundry, and the two big new stone buildings under construction which were previously men- tioned. We have the promise of another new — \ ~<j SI 3U ] } £e w a n e e ^Alumni V^e w s Vol. XVIII, No. 1 The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee February 15, 1952 Campaign Nearing Three Million Dollar Mark Stressing the need for new build- construction for use next fall, and Enrollment 4Q4 ings, the University in 1951 passed the costing nearly a million dollars, are $2,700,000 mark in its Guerry Me- Gailor Memorial Dining Hall for the morial Campaign, reported Bishop College and Gorgas Hall for the For Second Term Frank A. Juhan of Florida, chairman Academy, both stone buildings. Com- of the fund-raising effort. pleted and paid for last year were a Second semester classes began Jan- "Sewanee raised over $725,000 in the new wing of St. Luke's Hall in the uary 29 with 413 students in the Col- last 13 months," said Bishop Juhan, Seminary, the new Student Unon, the lege, representing a net loss of 19 and "a remarkable bid for physical ade- new nurses' residence, the new pedi- a gain of 21, according to Director quacy and for a bonus of $100,000 atric wing of the hospital, the new of Admissions Ben F. Cameron. offered by an anonymous donor." On steam laundry, and a new temporary The School of Theology saw two November 1 this man declared, "If auditorium, the two latter replacing students leaving and two coming in Sewanee will raise $900,000 for new fire losses. making a total enrollment of 81 for buildings, I'll make it a million." Commenting on the new progress the second semester. So good was the effort made by Dr. Edward McCrady said: "It is diffi- Of the 432 young men enrolled the alumni and friends of the College, cult to overemphasize the importance first semester in the College of Arts Seminary and Military Academy, that to the University of our present cam- and Sciences, 29 states and four for- the donor has extended his generous paign for building funds. There is no eign countries were represented, fresh- challenge to Easter Day, 1952. way to get a necessary new building men outnumbered all other classifica- "Within the Campaign total of $2,- but by a large capital outlay. In the tions, veterans were down to 21 com- 728,000 at the end of 1951," reported past, when we had only 300 students pared to 1947 when they claimed over Bishop Juhan, "is a new gift of $52,000 in the College, all were housed in half the student body, and English and from Mrs. Alfred I. duPont of Jack- stone dormitories of the highest quali- economics held the lead in major fields. sonville, long a leading and generous ty. Now nearly 200 live in temporary Registrar Mrs. R. G. Dudney re- backer of Christian education at the units entirely out of keeping with the ported that Tennessee led the state college level." rest of Sewanee. New permanent representation list with 95 students, 19 Also within the total, the chairman stone dormitories are absolutely es- of them being from Sewanee's Frank- reports receipt of over $154,000, Se- sential. It is a most encouraging and lin County. Following in line were wanee's share so far from the Sewa- thrilling thing to see Gailor Memorial Florida with 57, Alabama with 49, nee-All-Saints' Foundation, campaign- Hall and Gorgas Hall going up, and Texas 45, Georgia 31, and New York ing jointly for the two colleges of to have plans for another new stone 22. Non-Southern states represented which Episcopalians in Arkansas, Lou- dormitory (Shapard Hall) underway, included California, Illinois, Kansas, isiana and Mississippi are part owners. but it is only the beginning, and we Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsyl- All Saints' Junor College is in Vicks- must keep behind the movement until vania and Wisconsin. Ecuador, the burg, Miss. Chancellor R. Bland Mit- all Sewanee men have equal and Netherlands West Indies, Puerto Rico, ihell, bishop of Arkansas, is chairman proper facilities. For this reason if I and Venezuela were also represented of the foundation. were offered a choice between $200,- with one student apiece. Progress in the capital funds effort 000 for a new dormitory, which we The top three cities in enrollment for Sewanee, although remarkable, is need, or $250,000 for endowment, I were Nashville with 21, Birmingham barely keeping pace with new build- should not hesitate to accept the with 18 and Tampa with 10. All others ings on the 10,000-acre domain. Under former." had less than 10. Summer School Scheduled For June 11 —August 19 Courses in 15 departments, includ- ing a complete freshman program and second-year basic Air Science classes will be offered at Sewanee's 1952 summer session, Dr. Gaston S. Bru- ton, dean of administration and the summer school, has announced. The ten-week term will run from June 11 through August 19 with se- mester courses offered in all depart- ments and a year's credit available in some cases. Last summer's session attracted 88 students, and, as before, the summer school will be open to coeds. The second year of Air Science planned by Sewanee's Air Force ROTC Unit will enable present sophomore students, now enrolled in the fresh- — it man course, to go on a pay- contract How can a calf achieve immortality? This one—and others like it do by being their basis a year earlier, since they would branded with the cross of the Sewanee Calf Club, so that proceeds from be enrolled as juniors for the next sale are added to funds for the permanent improvement of the University. Joe '17, Tex., recently presented fall term. M. Scott, Jr., ATO, prominent rancher of Dalhart, Summer school bulletins will be out Sewanee with a Christmas present of $557.55 proceeds from the sale of the 1,890- in a March 1 and inquiries should be ad- pound steer shown above. The Sewanee Calf Club, founded May 1950 by dressed to Dean Bruton. group of cattlemen, all members of the Episcopal Church, now boasts 65 members. February, Nineteen Fifty-Two — — — — g^wanse r^Alumni U\£ews Want to Join a Treasure Hunt? Dr. Frierson Recalled To Active Naval Duty Sewanee Alumni News, issued quarterly by the An appeal for material about Sewa- Associated Alumni of The University of the nee's 95-year history comes from Ar- South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second- thur Ben Chitty, alumni class matter May 25, 1934, at the postoffice at Se- secretary and wanee, Tenn., under the Act of March 3, 1879. director of public relations, who is starting work on a new "History of FEBRUARY 15, 1952 the University of the South." On Member American Alumni Council leave of absence this year to do graduate work in history at Tulane THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI University, Mr. Chitty is now writing Officers a history of Sewanee during Recon- struction Days, 1865-78. It is hoped '08 John B. Greer, President that the complete work, dealing with Edmund C. Armes, '13 ..1st Vice-Pres. the University's history since its found- '26 Coleman A. Harwell, 2nd Vice-Pres. ing in 1857, will be ready by 1957 in Rev. R. L. Sturgis, '30 -3rd Vice-Pres. time for Sewanee's Centennial cele- Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr., '35 . .Treas. bration. Arthur Ben Chitty, '35.. Alumni Sec'y Alumni and friends of the Univer- Barbara Ann Tinnes, Editor (acting) sity are urged to search attics and Dr.