SOUTHWESTERN NEWS VOLUME VI MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. JULY, 1944 NUMBER 5

Entered'" , cconth:h " matter O ct. 28, 19 3'l, at the po;t office at Memphis, Tennessee, under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. Published Bi-Monthly by the College.

------PRES. DIEHL AND REP. H. W. SUMNERS THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL COUNSEL MEMBERS OF GRADUATING CLASS

Degrees Conferred on Thirty-two in Arts, Six in Science and Five in Music

Commencement exercises for the class of Dr. Diehl's Decision 1944 began with the baccalaureate sermon While announcrment of Dr. CHARLES on Sunday by Dr. Charles E. Diehl, presi­ E. DIEHL's decision to retire from the dent, at the Second Presbyterian Church. presidency of Southwestern Colleg~ President Diehl spoke on getting ahead in upon completion of the current endow­ the world and making life a success. After ment drive no doubt Rttrprised his looking at the range of material achieve· friends, his desire for r rst after long and ments, with their limited satisfactions, he arduous years in the educational field is went on to describe the moral world in readiiy understandable. which character can be at home, can have Actually, a far loftier motive than a its career, and can earn its enduring rer,ard. desire for rest has prompted Dr. DIEHL's decision. Having noticed a tendency The ceremonies of graduation were held among institutional hP.ads to retain in the Hubert F. Fisher Memorial Garden their posts after their usefulne~s has on the campus Tuesday morning, with the been outlived, he h3s a prideful a.nd graduation address delivered by the Hon. unselfish desire to avoid that p< 'rsonal Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, distinguished experience, both for his own a!'ld the Congressman and chairman of the Judiciary coltege's good. Too, he feels- that a Committee of the House of Representatives. younger man should take over direction The theme of Representative Sumner's ad­ once the endowment .campaign is out of dress was representative government. the way and the college's economic fu­ He bega~. with a look at Nature. In the ture is secure. THE COMMERCIAL APPF.AL does not pattern of orderliness set up there by the concede that any period where Dr. Creator, he said, we may see objects identi· DIEHL's usefulness to college and sec­ fying themselves with their own special proc· esses, and so representing at all times the tion would be ended is evrn in sight., and Edward W. Walthal, '04 it is very difficult to imagine South­ aspect of their own kind. President, Alumni Asociation western without him at ils head. In " . .. Government is not the one hiatus in many respects he has been and is South­ all nature where natural laws do not limit western. He took ovet the presidency The first summer "Pop" concert in the human discretion and determine sound pol· in 1917, and chiefly through his own history of Memphis Symphony Orchestra icy. We must discover those natural laws vision and labors brought it out of ob­ will be presented the evening of Tuesday, and bring governmental policy into harmony scurity to its prcsf?nt l1i gh acad~mic June 20, at the Overton Park Shell, Mem­ with them. Nowhere in all the fields of hu· standing and to fine prestige. phis Symphony Society announced today. Now that his decision has been made man endeavor, human responsibility, and hu· The orchestra is directed by Dr. Burnet C. man necessity--except one-is there now in it should be a spur to those rcsponi:iible Tuthill. for the conduct. of the endowment cam­ this age an attempt among intelligent human paign and to thos~ with opportunity to beings to go forward except as directed and contribute. The (ic>ld of ::>outhwei:li.crn It was announced April 1 that Southwest­ guided by natural law, and that is the field education owes Dr. DTEHL a considerable ern was one of 81 colleges to lose its air of human government. There we are gov­ debt, and we c:J.n think of no better, student training program. erned by the theories of man." more practical w::~y for his friendi:l to All men remaining at the college will "Whenever the people are no longer able show appreciation than to make the leave by June 30, Captain Rengstorf said, to tender themselves as instrumentalities to campaign a full success and thereby a including a new group expected within the do t~e business of government, government memorial of what he has done for Sot:.th· next 10 days for a short course. "In the western. of necessity lays its hand on a Hitler or a meantime," the captain said, "the training Mussolini or shifts its powers of responsi· will continue as usual. The men are being bility to a bureaucracy or some other non­ Dr. Peyton N aile Rhodes, professor of kept in class groups." democratic form of government." physics at Southwestern since 1926, has been "Actually the bulk of what in effect are named vice president of the college to suc· Southwestern's summer session opened on our general laws are being made not by ceed Dr. Felix Gear, who resigned last June June 5 with 125 students enrolled. Eighty­ Congress, but by bureaucracies. This cannot to accept the pastorate of Second Presby· two of these are women; forty-three are men. exist in a democracy, because the essence of terian Church. Dr. Rhodes had been acting At this time last year seventy-four men and a democracy is that laws shall be enacted by vice president since Alabama-General Chairmen: Judge D. H . Edington, Mobile; Dr. George Lang, Tuscaloosa; and James A. Thompson, Andalusia. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE Binningham Presbytery-C. L. Harris, Rev. Harold ]. Dudley, Rev. F. Marion Dick. "LET'S GO, SOUTHEWESTERN!" East Alabama Presbytery-Rev. Donald Pre-Centennial Building and C. MacGuire, D.D., JohiY Ward. Endowment Fund Mobile Presby,tery_:Rev. Ansley C. The $2;000,000 Pre-Centennial Building Moo,re, D.D., W. T. Neal, Rev. D. H. and Endowment Fund appeal for South­ Edington, Jr., John McMillan, M. S. western is under way. T. W. Lewis of Mem­ Adams, W. M. Hodgson, Miss Grace phis, Chairman of the Board of Directors Durant. and General Chairman of the Campaign North Alabama Presbytery-Rev. James Committee, has enlisted a large group of E. Graham, Rev. James Lanier Doom, representative leaders throughout the four Rev. W. W. Glass, Rev. Ivan H. supporting Synods of Alabama, Louisiana, Trusler, Percy Quinn, Turner Jones, Mrs. Thomas Glenn, Mrs. W . A . Mississippi and Tennessee. Huntley. The Mobile Presbytery in Alabama is Tuscaloosa Presbytery - Rev. Warner conducting its organized appeal throughout L. Hall, Ph.D. the churches in that Presbytery during the T. Walker Lewis month of June. This is the first Presbytery Louisiana-General Chairmen: Dr. Joel L. Chainnan, Campaign Conunittee to conduct its campaign appeal. As an­ Fletcher, President, Louisiana State In­ nounced in 'the•last issue of SOUTHWEST­ stitute; Rev. John S. Land, D.D., New D. W. Hollingsworth, D.D., Florence; ERN NEWS, the general campaign plan is Orleans; Mrs. H. D. Haberyan, Shreve­ F. S. Hunt, Decatur; Rev. ]. R. McGre­ to raise the first million dollars of the two port. gor, Birmingham; The Rev. Roland W . million required to claim the $500,000 gift Louisiana Presbytery-Rev. W . L. Mc­ Sims, Birmingham; C. G. Smith, Pratt­ offered by the General Education Board, Leod, D.D., Barton Freeland, Mrs. ville; Rev. N. ]. Warren, Selma; and outside of Memphis; and then to ask the Robert F. Perkins. Rev. A. C. Windham, Opelika. citizens of Memphis to contribute the sec­ New Orleans Presbytery-Rev. Dunbar Louisiana-Rev. Henry W. Darden, Baton ond million. H. Ogden, D.D., Rev. Warner H. Rouge; R. A. Farnsworth, New Orleans; Other Presbyteries throughout the four DuBose, Jr., Marion Wellford, Mrs. Rev. D. L. O'Neal, Homer; Louis ]. Synods are arranging their plans and de­ Maxwell L. Shepard. Stirling, Baton Rouge; B. B. Taylor, velop{ng their organizations to carry this Red River Presbytery-Rev. Hugh E. Esq., Baton Rouge; C. T. Freeland, Sr., appeal to all the members of the churches Bradshaw, D.D., A. C. Glassell, Mrs. Crowley; Rev. ]. Malcolm Murchison, either during the summer months or in the T. B. Connell, Jr. Crowley; Rev. M. M. Miller, Port Allen; fall. "It is confidently expected" said Mr. Tennessee-General Chairmen: C. W. Rev. 0 . G. Davis, D.D., Baton Rouge; Lewis, "that by the end of November .at Bailey, Clarksville, Rev. W. E. Phifer, Rev. S. N. Harris, Jennings; Rev. J. A. the latest every Presbytery and every church Jr., Nashville. Cnristian, D.D., Baton Rouge; Rev. Paul in every Presbytery will have completed its Columbia Presbytery-Rev. C. S. Ram­ B. Freeland, Covington; Rev. A. C. In­ appeal to the Presbyterians throughout the sey, D.D., Newton White, III. gram, Bogulasa. four Synods and that all will have done Memphis Presbytery-Rev. R. L. Jetton, Mississippi-Rev. ]. N. Brown, D.D., Gulf­ their full part. There is fine interest and D.D., Ridley Alexander, John Gray, port; S. C. Caldwell, Hazlehurst; Rev. general apprflval of this wonderful offer and Jr., Roy Burgess, Rev. T. S. Daniel, John B. Dickson, GGreenwooCl; Rev. 0pportunity for Southwestern. We are find­ Rev. F. B. Denton, Rev. Samuel Stan­ Stuart C. Henry, Natchez; T. P. How­ ing everywhere that alumni, church men worth, D.D., R. H. Wheeler. ard, Lake Cormorant; W. Stennis John­ and women, and all friends of Christian edu­ son, McComb; Paul T. Jones, Sr., Cor­ cation are deeply interested in this cause and Mississippi-Rev. Paul Tudor Jones, Jr." inth; Rev. W. H. McAtee, Brookhaven; are working wholeheartedly to help us win C. S. McGivaren, Clarksdale; Rev. H. a great victory at the earliest possible date. Alumni Committee Chairmen to date; in M . .McLain, D.D .• Oxford; Rev .. Jack B. We confidently expect to be able to an­ addition to Walker L. Wellford, Jr., are: McMichael, Vicksburg; Rev. Frank Al­ nounce hy the time of the next i~sue of Tennessee: E. W. Walthal, Sr. fred Mathes, Meridian; Rev. C. E. SOUTHWESTERN NEWS that a substan­ Georgia: Rev. William V. Gardner, D.D., Mount, Clarksdale; Rev. G. M. Smiley; tial amount of th.e first part of our cam­ Rev. Harry B. Wade. Amory; A. H. Stone, Jackson; D. L. paign is in hand and that the organization Florida: Rev. John Chester Frist, D.D. Sturdivant, Meridian; Rev. J. Kelly Un­ for the completion of this first phase of the East Tennessee: Dr. H . H. Thompson. ger, D.D., West Point; G. B. Walker, camoaign has heen effected and is in the Mississippi: Kirby P. Walker, Hon. T. M. Stoneville; Rev. P<.ul M . Watson, D.D., field securing gifts for this Fund.'; Garrott, Jr. Marks; and Rev. T. T. Williams, D.D., Walker L. Wellford, Jr., of Memphis, District of Columbia: Abe Fortas. Tunica. Chairman of the Alumni Committee for this Alabama: James A. (Tack) Thompson. Tennessee-Rev. Charles G. Bruce, Shelby­ campaign, announced that gifts are already ville; Rev. ]. W. Bryson, Pulaski; Rev. being received-gifts voluntarily offered by Walter L. Caldwell, D.D., Nashville; The General Campaign Committee mem­ alumni who are in the armed .forces. One ]. H. Campbell, Franklin; Rev. Walter alumnus serving in the U. S. Navy and sta­ bers, in addition to all those previously listed are as follows: R. Courtenay, D.D., Nashville; Rev. Fe­ tioned in Hawaii sent his pledge for $250 lix B. Gear, D.D., Memphis; Rev. T. K. payable $10 a month for 25 months, and an­ Alabama-R. E. Boggs, Birmingham; Rev. Young, D.D., Memphis; Rev. T . B. Hay, other former student-a two year .student W . B. Clemmons, Geneva; Rev. Henry D.D., Memphis; Rev. Otis L. Graham, hefore entering the U. S. Navy-has sent in Wade Dubose, D.~ . , Montgomery; Rev. Nashville; William Hume, Esq., Nash­ a similar gift. James M. Graham, D.D., Prattville; Rev. ville; Rev. ]. E. James, D.D., Trenton; . July, 1944 SOUTHWESTERN NEWS Page Three Rev. Laurence F. Kinney, Memphis; Rev. J Herndon McCain, D.D., Mur- , freesboro; Rev. W. L. McColgan; Clarks­ ville; Rev. W. J Millard, D.D., Mem­ $ PUTTING mone'1 INTO ENDOWMENT $ phis; Dr. Moore Moore, Memphis; C. E. Pigford, Jackson; Rev. Turney B. Roddy, D.D., Memphis; Rev. W. 0. Shew­ Partial List o/ American Colleges, With Student Enrollments of maker, D.D., Memphis. These committees throughout the four Sy­ Less Than 1,000, Showi,;g Endowment Per Student nods and the alumni groups and committees Year Number of Endowment over the country are now in process of for­ Name of College Organized Students Per Student mation, and additional members of these com­ Drew...... 1867 300 $17,575.00 mittees and groups are now being enlisted. Amherst...... 1821 840 13,704.00 General meetings have been held in re­ Bowdoin...... 1794 588 13,882.00. cent weeks in Mobile and Birmingham, at Berea...... 1855 733 13,592.00 which Mr. T. W. Lewis, General Chairman, Williams...... 1793 826 13,044.00 wa~ present and was the principal speaker. Other s·essions have been held in North Haverford...... 1833 328 12,958.00 Alabama, throughout the Synod of Missis­ Bryn Mawr...... 1855 526 11,574.00 sippi, and in Louisiana and Memphis where Wesleyan (Conn.)...... 1831 677 11,521.00 Dr. Henry H. Sweets, of the Assembly's Swarthmore...... 1864 699 11,308.00 Committee of Christian Education at Louis­ Hamilton...... 1833 447 10,179.00 ville, has been the speaker. Miss Jean Liston, Field Secretary of the Department of Chris­ Lafayette...... 1826 975 6,823.00 tian Education, is devoting one month's time Kenyon...... 1824 300 6,691.00 in Alabama in the development of the cam­ Trinity (Conn.)...... 1823 502 6,632.00 paign organi~ation and plan. Wabash...... 1832 350 5,771.00 H eadquarters for the Pre-Centennial Build­ Middlebury...... 1800 721 5,699.00 ing and Endowment Fund are estabhshed in Suite 1010 Farnsworth Building, Memphis 3, Union (New York)...... 1795 813 5,344.00 Tennessee, telephone 8·0129. All alumni, Carleton...... 1866 731 4,580.00 church members and friends interested' in Davidson...... 1836 661 4,538.00 this appeal are urged to write or visit these Colby...... 1820 600 ;4',324.00 offices whenever possible, particularly with Beloit...... 1846 582 ~.013.00 reference to securing information and ma­ terial which will be helpful in informing Knox...... 1837 528 3,925.00 others. Cornell (Iowa)...... 1833 570 3,848.00 Development of the campaign organi~a­ Villanova...... 1842 750 3,695.0Q tion and perfecting of plans are going for­ Wooster (Ohio) ...... :...... 1866 950 3,574.00 ward with the objective of having the en­ St. Lawrence...... 1856 660 3,438.00 tire amount subscribed at the earliest pos­ sible date and thus to enable Southwestern SOUTHWESTERN ...... ~...... 1848 500 950.00 to take full advantage of the generous offer of $500,000 from the General Education Southwestern, organized prior to seven of the twenty-five (25) other colleges listed Board as soon as $2,000,000 is in hand in abm,e, 1/(/.s the lowest endowment per student enrolled, being $2,488.00 less than St. cash or acceptable securities, but not later f.awrencr', the next to the last on the list. than December, 1946. An endowment of $2,500,000 on the basis of a student enrollment of 500 would give Southwestem an average of $5,000.00 endowment per student.

~ Getting Pro/i·t On the Investment The following table furnishes a partial classification of the life pursuits of Southwestern alumni today: Accountants ...... 8 Insurance ...... ,...... 42 Air Lines ...... 24 Journalism ...... :...... 15 Architects ...... 2 Jud~es ...... 5 Army, Navy and Marine Corps...... 972 Lawyers...... 69 Artists ...... 2 Librarians ...... 16 Bankers ...... ~... 25 Ministers ...... 3 3 5 Biologists, Physicists and Research...... 5 Miscellaneous and Un\rlassified ...... 716 Chemists ...... 15 Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists...... 160 Civic Officers ...... 42 Real Estate ...... 14 Coaches, Athletic ...... 3 Salesq1en and Women...... 42 College Personnel Officers...... 7 Secretaries, Stenographers and Clerical 214 Lt. (j.g.) John Alden Pond, graduate of College Presidents...... 3 Social, Welfare and Religious Workers 2 7 1940, has shot down two Zeros. From an College Professors...... 26 Students (graduate and continuation)... 71 aircraft carrier in the Central Pacific came a Engineers ...... 21 delayed dispatch telling of eight Hellcat pi­ Executives...... 161 Superintendent of Schools...... 6 lots downing 21 of the foe to establish one High School and Elementary Teachers... 195 Technicians ...... 14 of the finest combat records of the war. Lt. High School Principals...... 10 Pond was one of these eight. Housewives ...... 7 52 Total ...... - .... 4019 "age Four SOUTHWESTERN NEWS July, 1944 0 "The Open Door policy is a correct inter­ 0USH DIPLOMATIST ADDRESSES FORUM pretation of the position of the United States ON FUTURE PLANS FOR EASTERN EUROPE in the Far East. The W-rshington confer­ ence was a success in so far as it halted a The sixth and last Forum of the series on growing rivalry between the United States 'The Next Decade of United States Foreign "We are living today on the eve of impor­ and Britain. But the Paris Peace Conference Policy" was held on Wednesday, April 26, in tant military developments. World politics was another matter. America there, and es­ iardie Auditorium, Southwestern campus. are still fluctuating and changing. Expedi­ pecially in the aftermath, by isolating herself, fhe Hon. Heliodor Sztark, Polish diplomat­ ency is sometimes the word characterizing committed the sins of omission that anar­ stand Consul-General in the United States, the best tactics of statesmen. However, it chized Europe and the world. Had ws ad­ :isiting Memphis under the auspices of the must be always held in mind that the ulti­ hered to the League and Treaty and main­ :ity's International Center, addressed the mate political strategy of this war, if it should tained a victorious association of powers, it neeting on "America and the Future Eastern initiate a period of lasting peace, must re­ is quite possible that these years would have ~urope." main incompromisingly the same as it was known fewer tears. The Consul-General, an outstanding au­ when the Atlantic Charter was written and "Today the leading members of the United hority on Polish and European politics as the four Freedoms were declared." Nations Alliance will at first be the Big Four Nell as an observant student of American Powers. They should be able to settle their ·elations with his own gallant country and PRIZE AWARDED FOR ESSAY differences at the conference table and then Jther smaller democracies of middle Europe, ON U. S. FOREIGN POLICY to present to the world a single plan backed ;aid in part: by overwhelming force. China and India "Poland, like the other nations in Cen­ In a recent public meeting called in con­ would grow into full strength within this :ral Eastern Europe, wants to live in peace nection .with the war effort, a listener rose federation. And they and other nations, in­ ,vith the world, and especially with her and said: "Every parent who loses a son in cluding our present enemies, would share in 1eighbors. She wants to have a voice in her the Pacific has our inept and fumbling for­ the government of the world. Jwn affairs and to settle any possible differ­ eign policy to thank; since prompt aid to "We must decide what is to be the fate mce according to Ia w, order and by the China would have prevented the war." of our enemies. We are, of course, in this i emocrat~c way. paper chiefly concerned with Japan. The first A supporter of the Administration's con­ thing we must do is to eliminate the mili­ "Today, after many, many centuries,­ duct of our Far Eastern relations heard this tarist. We must be firm; for to the Japanese ,vhen experiments of collective security failed, view and the applause which followed with mercy is akin to weakness. An actual mili­ Nhen the structures of such creations as the surprise and bewilderment, and being a tary occupation need not be held essential. ~eague of Nations have tumbled, and when friend of Southwestern, offered a prize of But we must for decades keep a great United he so-called 'spheres of influence' of the $25 to the Southwl:stern student writing the Nations armament, composed perhaps chiefly 19th century proved impracticable- the best essay on our country's Pacific policy of Chinese troops and American naval and Norid is of r,ecessity turning to the political since ! 898-what it was, what it should have air forces, poised within ready striking dis­ :onception of peaceful cooperation between been, what it must be in the future. Mem­ tance of Japan. By this world authority an 1ations inhabiting certain geographical re­ bers of the faculty added a second prize of iron framework of order must be established, (ions and united thereby with mutual inter­ ten dollars and a third prize of a book. Some and under it liberal government, democratic :sts and necessities. In every such region twenty-six essays were written on the sub­ in nature, could function. A program of edu­ he larcest nation would become the core ject of which ten qualified for final con­ cation handled by carefully selected Japanese tround .which the nei~hboring nations Vl(mlcl sideration. (ather and unite their efforts. This political teachers should be launched. dc~-conception-is considered by the The first prize was won by Melvin Ber­ "The hope for peace in Asia lies, as does .vorld as something new. Actually. as you tram Cooper, 1944; the second prize by the hope of the world peace, in the cooper­ 1ave seen, it is a new form of the Polish Florence Sample Swepston, 194 7; and the ation of those powers linked now in battle lagiellonian idea, one of those great political, third by Walter James Wade, 1946. All three against the Axis. It must be the policy of ·conomic and cultural ideas, which Poland students are residents of Memphis. America in the future to seek such cooper­ 1ad contributed to mankind without blood­ Excerpts from Mr. Cooper's conclus~ons ation, now and after the war, in Asia and ;hed. follow: throughout the world." -\DDITIONS TO ROSTER OF SOUTHWESTERN MEN IN THE ARMED FORCES La~t Abernathy, x'40 S.K. Arlington Fant, x'40, USCG 1st Lt. James Tate, x'36, USA A.S. Gaylon Smith, x'39, USNR Martin Edward Agan, x'33, USNR A.S. J. Emmett Farrar, x'34, USNR Marshall Lewis, x'39, USN Samuel Powel"Raines, x'29, USA Lt. lames E. Atkins, x'28, USA James Edwin Freeman, x'38, USA Chaplain William 0. Lindsey, sp. '27, AIS Wm. Tannen Reid, sp. ' 37, AAF A.S~ Robert Avcrwater, x'47, USNR Drury Fisher, '42, USA USA Pvt. Hiram Lee Roberts, x'31, USA Cartain Arthur Terry Bill, x'31, USA Perrin Clayton Hailey, x'39, Pvt. Capt. C. Eldridge Lilly, Jr., x'32, Capt. George Ramsey Russell, x'30, USA l>t Lt. Andrew J. Boots, x'31, USA USA AAF A.S. William M. Lapsley, '37, USNR Cpl. William Edwin Sayle, x'45, USA William C. Bradford, x'32, USMM Lucien M. Garrett, x'37 Lt. {j.g.) H. M. Minniece, x'31,• Pfc. Robert D. West, x'44, USA Ensign Barbara Brown, x'42, WAVES A.S. Twain Giddens, x'45, USNR USNR lst Lt. Davis LeMay Brown, ' 34, D.C., Cpl. John P. Henry, Jr., '40, AAF Pvt. Leon Stuart Mapes, x' B, USA Irvin Sachritz, x'43, USA USA Ralph E. Hill, Jr., x'37, USA Frank Tom Mitchell, sp. '43 P. H. Shaffer, x'34 Pvt. Grover Cleveland Broadwater, John Hopkins How, x'39 A/C Henry Mobley, Jr., '39, AAF C. R. Skinner, x'42, USN '40, USA Cpl. Walter B. Hunter, '39, USA Pfc. Robert Franklin McCrary, '42, Pvt. Edward B. Sloss, x'35, USMCR Gordon S. Buchanan, sp. '39, USA 2nd Lt. Thomas Bowman Hall, x'32, MC, USA G. R. Stanton, x'34,· USA Crl. Lyle Robert Bulkley, spl. '40, USA 1st Lt. William Edward McCormick, William James Watson, x'39 USA Major Mac Reynolds Hanner, x'23, x'38, 'ATC J. T. Wilkinson, Jr., x'41, USA Pfc. C. R. Cash, summer '43, USA MC, USA ' 0. J. Norris, x'30, USA Robert H. Will iams, '36 Pfc. Bland ~annon, '41, MC, USA Pvt. Frances Higginbotham, x' 44, Lt. (j.g.) William Robert Neill, x'39, 1st Sgt. Robert M. Scott, x'39, USA Hazel Elizabeth Corley. '33, 0/C WAC USNR Harvey Thompson, x'36 WAVES Pfc. Rowland Dale Hawkins, x'44, J?fc. J. J. O 'Hearne, '44, MC, USA Capt. Walker Marshall Turner, x'35, Ensif(n John King Crenshaw, x'42, USA Pfc. David Pattison, x' 39, USA MC, USA USNR John A. Jordan, Jr., x' 36 Pfc. Henry Clay Patten, x'45, USA H. Raymond Thompson, '29 2nd Lt.Oma Grier Davis, jr., x'44, Lt. {j.g.) Richard Wilmer Jones, x' 41, Pvt. Van Buren Philpot, Jr., x'44, Pfc. Edmund P. Toumlin, Jr., x'40, AAF USN USA USA T I 4 Harry Downs, x '38, USA Pvt. Hilliard Earl Johnson, '36, USA Thomas Russell Price, x'39 Lt. Comdr. Harry Pelham Trevathan, Pvt. R'chard Dunlap, '36, USA Pfc. Henry Grover Kuri:., sp. '40, John Henry Payne, x'38 x'29, USNR \adet Thomas H. Durham, Jr., x'46, USA John R. Pepper, x'37 Pfc. Charles E. Shivler, x'40, USMCR AAF M/Si:t. LeRoy Kirby, Jr., -x'40, USA Sgt. William F. Lanier, x'41, USA Ernest Beach Sawrie, x'36, RCAF T /S~t. Justus H . Edrington, x'41, Julian Kiersky, x'45 Paul B. Stron.;, x'H, USA Lt. Charles Madison Rucker, x'43, AAF Chester E. Lacy, x'31 A.S. W. C. Rasberry, '30, USNR AAF . Lt. Richard B. Elliott, x'34, USNR Sgt. G . 0. Pete Leird, x'42, USA S/Sgt. Sam Rutherford, x'42, USA Pvt. James K. Williams, x'46, USA July, 1944 SOUTHWESTERN NEWS Page Five Class of 1884 w~ Mr. Hugh Stewart Hayley was the oldest alumnus present at commencement exercises WI.,B :!lk .,BE this year. Mr. Hayley, who was a member of ., 4 . Alpha Tau Omega at Southwestern, is a re­ tired lawyer, and has been present at many Southwestern events. Class of 1914 AI.UMNI The Rev. 0. W. Buschgen, D.D., pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Eliz­ Mrs. LeRoy Dubard (Dorothy Vanden) William Clausde Montgomery, Jr., of abeth, N. ]., has been elected president of the now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her husband, Franklm, Tenn., is a radio engineer with Elizabeth Rotary Club for the coming year. Leroy Nickle Dubard, is with the Ccmmer­ National Life & Accident Co. and Station Class of 1917 cial Credit Co. there. WSM in Nashville. Dr. John W. Thompson has been working Lt. Elmer Sidney Eddins is with the Medi­ Commander Moore Moore, Jr., of the U. S. along the lines of cancer control almost ex­ cal Corps at Keesler Field. Naval Reserve is stationed at the Naval Hos­ clusively since receiving his Ph.D. at George­ Mrs. C. J. Farquharson (Eleanor Hunter pital in New Orleans. town University in 1930. He is general super­ Beckham) lives in Memphis and is the new Helen Boone Northcross·of Corinth, Miss., intendent of cancer work at .the National In­ president of the Alumnae Association. is a teacher. stitute of Health at Bethesda, Maryland. He Thomas M. Garrott of Tunica, Miss., is a Elizabeth Mitchell Patterson lives in Wash­ ington, D. C. has charge of breeding seven colonies of rats planter, .automobile dealer, and member of and mice that supply about 1000-1500 animals the State Legislature. He was president of the Malcolm Perry is a reporter with Mer­ chants Credit Ass'n. in Memphis. per month to the other workers in the Insti­ Alumni last year. tute, as well as those that are used for the Dr. Abraham Prostkoff is practicing med­ William Johnson Garrott recently received eight strains of transportable tumor strains icine in Brooklyn, N. Y. a medical discharge from the Army and has for which he is responsible, and that are used Hattie Mildred is with. the U. S. Engineer returned to Sledge, Miss., and his duties as a Office of the War Department in Chicago. experimentally there and elsewhere through­ pla·nter. out the United States. Mrs. James T. Rhea (Louise Ralston) lives Dorothy Fisher Green is a teacher in tht in Knoxville, Tenn. Class of 1926 Memphis city schools. Dr. Charles William Robertson is associ­ William Henry Oliver is principal of the John Lindsey Gunn is Manager of Swift ate professor of biology at Eureka College in East Nashville High School in Nashville, & Co.'s oil mill in Blytheville, Ark. Eureka, Illinois. Tennessee. Katherine Reid Hall teaches at Humes Mrs. I. G. Scharff (Lilli~ Rowena Po­ Class of 1927 lasky) lives in Memphis. Wesley P. Adams, graduate of 1927, and High School in Memphis. Luther Southworth has been in newspaper former coach and physical education teacher Mrs. Warner Hall (Lucy Hendricks Far­ row) and her husband, Rev. Warner L. Hall, work since 1929 and is with the Press Scimi­ at Southwestern, is now an American Red tar in Memphis. Cross assistant field director in Australia. For live in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he is pastor Louise Stratmann is Physical Education fourteen years, until his Red Cross appoint­ of the First Presbyteriart Church. Director of Women at Southwestern. ment, he was with the Owens-Illinois Glass Dr. Artye Lynn Herring is located in Mem­ phis. Charles 0. Terry is an insurance adjuster Company in New York City; Toledo, Ohio; in Louisville, Ky. and Philadelphia. His wife is making her Mrs. Karr Hinton (Catherine Farrow Edward F. Thompson has just been elected home in Philadelphia during his absence. Richey) is a housewife in Collierville, Tenn. Assistant vice-president of the Union Plant­ Class of 1929 Will White Holloman lives in Buffalo, ers Bank & Trust Co. in Memphis. This· was the fifteenth reunion year of the N. Y. H. Raymond Thompson is in military class of 1929, and for the benefit of those William Frierson Hughes is ·an insurance service. who were not able to be present, here is a salesman with the Mass. Mutual Life Ins. Co. Fred W. Underwood is a broker in Mem­ brief, and we hope a fairly accurate sum­ in Memphis. phis. mary, of what the class of '29 is doing these Richard Orr Hunsaker is in Miami, Florida. Lee Boxwell Wailes is general manager of days. Charles Yerger Katzenmier, Jr., is in the the Westinghouse Radio Station, Inc., in Mrs. Jacob Alperin (Rubye Sebulsky) cotton seed products business and lives in Narbeth, Pa. lives in Memphis and classifies herself as a Leland, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Walker L. Wellford, Jr. housewife. Albert Henry Keller is with Young & (Minnie Lundy) live in Memphis where he Samuel Armstead Anderson of Forest Hill, Vann Supply Co. in Birmingham, Ala. is with Chickasaw Woods Products. He is Tenn., is a teacher in the high school. Lt. David William Kennedy is with the Alumni chairman of the Endowment Fund Lt. Col. Donald Danby Bode of the Medi­ Medical Corps. Campaign. ical Corps, is stationed at the Third Army Air Mrs. J. C. Jayroe (Virginia Clift~n) is a Thomas G. Weiss of Leland, Miss., is man­ Base in Birmingham, Ala. housewife in Indianola, Miss. ager oJi the Barrow-Agee Lab. Katherine Boots is doing Red Cross and The Rev. and Mrs. John K. Johnson Mrs. W. T. Whitley (Sara Esque Moore) Social Service work. (Katherine Griffith) live in Lexington, Ky. is a housewife. Edgar F. Bornman, Jr., lives in Clarksdale, Mrs. A. Frank Hord (Pauline Jones) Virginia Locke Woodfin is a teacher. Miss., and has the Bornman Paint & Supply teaches in the city schools f Memphis. Class of 1931 Co. Cpj. Earle McGee is serving with the Army Jean Claire Wilon was married to Lt. John William Bornman also is in Clarks­ Air Forces with a New Orleans A.P.O. Andrew J. Boots, January 22, 1944. They lhle with the Bornman Lumber Co. Crawford McGiveran of Clarksdale, Miss., are at home in Boise, Idaho. Paul Lanier Caldwell is. designer and head is a high school principal. Class of 1932 of the pattern department with the General Mrs. Wallace E. McMillan (Christine The Rev. Paul T. Jones of Greenville, Shoe Corporation in Nashville, Tenn . . Merle Reese) lives in Atlanta, Ga. Miss., recently christened the baby daughters Mrs. James J. Challen (Linnie Sue Gary) Mrs. N. F. Meacham (Catherine Under­ of two other former Southwestern students. keeps busy with her two children. wood) is mother of two lovely little girls and They were the children of Mrs. Bill Link Mrs. John B. Coleman (Janie Elizabeth is a feature writer on the Memphis Press (Minna Deen Jones) '40, and Mrs. Ted Cobb) is a housewife in Whitehaven, Tenn. Scimitar. Smith (Minnie Byrd Lockhart) x'35. Lambert Caulfield Dial of Brinkley, Ark., is Lt. Col. James Henry Melvin, Jr., is with Lt. Col. James G. Hughes writes from in the wholesale grocery business. the Medical Corps in the Pacific somewhere. Italy that he is commanding officer of a Mrs. B. M. Draper (Anne Elizabeth Gilli­ Mrs. Robert Montgomery (Mary Gertrude station hospital where his twin brother, John, land) is ,keeping house in Evanston, Illinois. Arthur) lives in Como, Miss. is Chief of the Medical Service in his unit. Page Six SOUTHWESTERN NEWS July, 1944 There is great confusion in differentiating mander of an armed guard unit on a mer­ Mrs. L. M. Woolwine, Jr. (Elizabeth the two, now t'hat John has also been ad­ chant ship involved in violent action against Markham) lives in Memphis and has one vanced to the rank of Lt. Colonel, and James aircraft in the Mediterranean in August son. wears a shoulder patch as an 'aid to identifi­ 1943. His citation reads in part: . Class of 1935 cation. "Coolly countering the surprise attacks by Born to Lt. Col. and Mrs. Vernon Pettit, a Class of 1934 enemy planes which converged on the con­ daughter, Betsy Ann, March 2, 1944. This was also reunion year for the class voy and raked the ships by machine gun Grace Waring is driver for Brig. Gen. W. ,of 1934. From a nurp.ber of sources came fire, the gun crew under your excellent A. Danielson at the Army Service Depot in news of members of the class. So, for those leadership promptly opened fire, scoring sev­ Memphis. who could not attend the reunion itself, we eral. direct hits in a concentrated barrage. Class of 1936 gathered the following about the class of '34. which downed one hostile plane, damaged Maurice Carlson, manager of the Mem­ Herschel W. Banks of Memphis is with another and effectively diverted enemy phis Branch of Acacia Mutual Life Ins. Com­ the State Rationing office as a commodity planes from their course." ... He defended pany, has been transferred to the home of­ specialist. his ship with "such success that no casu­ fice in Washington, D. C., into the Field Department. . Rev. James Branson Breaseale is a classi­ alties were sustained, and the vessel's precious Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fay (Zelda fication analyst with the U. S. Engineers cargo of war materials was delivered safely." O'Brien) a daughter, Susan Margaret, April Office and also serves as a supply pastor. :}Villiam Hunt is a captain ~ith the. medi­ cal Corps and is now in the South Pacific. 20, 1944. Goodlet Brown is with Joyner & Heard Mary Elizabeth O'Dell was married to Margaret Hyde is working at the Psycho­ Real Estate in Memphis. Capt. Clifford N~wton Mabie. Jr., April 28, logical Service Center in Memphis. Davis LeMay (Jack) Brown is a first Lt. 1944, in Memphis. stationed at an Army Hospital in California. Mrs. Alvin Ingram (Catherine Davis) is Born to Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. William Chloe Burch is teaching. with her husband in Utah. Walker, a son, May 1944. Dr. Charles C. Castles is in Caruthersville, Jack Kelly is an investigator with Travelers Born to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Eustis Mo. Insurance Co. in Memphis. (Kate Galbreath), a daughter, May 1944. James Carroll Cloar of Earle, Ark., was Roland Killcreas operates a plywood mill Born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Moser Black. ... warded a travelling scholarship for study at Stockton, Ala. well (Bernice Cavett) a son, May 1944. in Europe in 1940-41, but because of the Charles Robert Layman is General Agent Class of 1938 -var has continued his musical work in the for the .American United Life Insurance Co. Elizabeth Wyche was married to Capt. United States. in Memphis. Eldridge Armistead, Jr., April 8, 1944, at Mrs. S. G. Collins (Dixie Mae Jennings) Shreveport, La. Mrs. Walter Lee Lewis, Jr. (Virginia is the mother of a young son and lives in Class of 1939 West) lives in Cleveland, Miss. M~mphis. The first reunion of the class of 1939 Lucius Pinckney Cook, Jr., is the father of Warren Maddox is in Montgomery, Ala. found the majority of its men graduates and a baby girl, and is in the seed and feed busi· Joseph Moss is located in Washington, non-graduates in the service. There were, ness. D. C. however. about a dozen members of the Charles M. Crump, now an Ensign, is sta· Mrs. W. R. Moyers, Jr. (Mary Kennedy class present. Below are some of the facts tioned at the Naval Air Station, Quonset Hubbard) has two boys and lives in Cov­ and figures gathered about the class of '39. Point, R. I. ington, Tenn. · Henry Bergfield is a 1st Lt. with the Mrs. Dabney Crump (Mary Laughlin) has Herbert Newton, is assistant manager of Army Air Forces at Ellington Field, Tex. a daughter. the Commercial Credit Co. in Greenville, Herbert Bingham is in military .service. William Dueease is a corporal with the Miss. Lt. Selby Bobzein, Jr., is with the Army Ferry Command. Louis Nicholas is a member of the faculty in Colorado. Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap (lucille Logan) of North Texas State Teachers College in Ralph Brown is in Memphis. lives in Cleveland, Miss. Denton, Texas. He wrote a letter to his class­ Mrs. Leslie Buchman (Annie Rose Wal­ Grover Allen Durant is with the Timber­ mates which was read at the reunion. lace) is at home while her husband IS m lake Grocery Co. in Macon, Geo,rgia. Lt. (j.g.) Henry Oliver is serving in the service. Clough Eaton is with a Fence and Wire Pacific. Frank Campbell is a Lt. with the Army and Company in Memphis. The Rev .. Robert Pfrarigle is a Navy Chap­ is in a tank battalion. Andrew Edington has the rank of Lt. (jg) lain stationed in Alaska at a Coast Guard Chester Carden is with Western Union in in the Naval Reserve. Base. Orlando, Florida. The Rev. David Edington is pastor of the Ensign Paul Herbert Pierce is with the James Carpenter is stationed .at Camp Monroeville, Ala., Preshyterian Church. Navy Supply Corps. Rucker, Ala., and has his wife and young The Rev. John Fischbach is pastor of the Robert S. Pond, Jr., does chemical sales son with him. Westminster Church at University, Virginia. work. Mrs. David S. Carroll (Mary Kathryn Mc­ Gordon Fox is with the Coast Guard in Clark Porteous is a private stationed at Guire) has a small daughter. Galveston, Texas. Camp Shelby, Miss. Ewing Carruthers is an Ensign with the William Arthur Glover is a lawyer in New Mrs.· James Ries (Julia Marie Schwinn) is Navaol Air Corps. Orleans. with her husband in Pensacola, Fla. Dr. Sam Carter is assistant resident in Dr. loseph Tyree Gordon is practicing in Mrs. Philip H. 'Slaughter (Maline Brad­ surgery at John Gaston Hospital in Mem- Lewishurg, Tenn. ford Lyon) lives in Fayetteville, N. C. phis. · Mrs. Eric Haden (Gladys Warren) lives Dr. C. Scudder Smith, Jr., is a rectifier in 1st Lt. Richard Chauncev is with the in Kansas City. Kan. the engineering department of the P. N. Army in Sioux City, Iowa. Mrs. C. S. Hamilton (Ella Kate Malone) Mallory Co. in Indianapolis. · Mrs. William B. Cole (Vera Ulrich) is in has three children and lives in Bronxville, John Streete is with the Miss. Power & Memphis. N. Y. Light Co. in Tunica. Rev. Bruce Crill, Jr., lives in Lucy, Tenn. ·Mrs. J. H. Hancock (Lillias Louise Chris­ Harte Thomas is an ensign in the Naval Willard Dawson lives in Atoka, Tenn., tie) has recently returned from the Canal Reserve. where he works for Greyhound Bus Co. 7one where she was a medical technician at James T. Wadlington is a magazine and Dr. Mac DeMere, now a 1st Lt., was pres".. Gorr.:as Hospital. newspaper circulator. ent at the reunion while en route to his new Mrs. Fred Harned (Mary McCallum) lives L. T. Webb, Jr., Pfc. is at San Luis Obispo, station at O'Reilly General Hospital in in Hopkinsville. Ky. Cal. Springfield, Mo. Lt. Harold W. High, USNR, has heen Mrs. W. M. Wilson (Virginia Reynolds) Mrs. W m. Lockwood Ensminger ( Geor­ <~warded an official commendation from the has a small son and at present is making her gianna Awsumb) has a son, born Nov. 17, Secretary of the Navy. "Chicken" was com· home in Memphis. 1943. July, 1944 SOUfHWFSTERN NEWS Page Seven Mrs. James Foster (Claudia Yerger) lives Palmer Simpson is an assistant professor at fleets great credit upon himself and the in Memphis. Hampden-Sydney College. armed forces of the United States." Charles Freeburg is in the Real Estate busi· Carl Stark is in Memphis. Born to Lt. and Mrs. James T. Houts ness in Memphis. Joseph P. Stuart is with Cooper Typewriter (Margaret Jones) a son, June 4, 1944. Ensign Steve Frazier is with the Navy at Co. Oass of 1941 Bainbridge, Md. Mrs. James Stewart (Erin Gary) has two Mary Elizabeth Thoman was married to 1st Lt. Ed French is with the Medical children and lives in Germantown, Tenn. A/C Wi.ll¥un Tannen Reid in Lansing, Corps somewhere overseas, and his wife, Lt. (j.g.) Shepherd Tate is in the Naval Mich., May 6, 1944. Betsey Fowler French is at home with her Reserve. Jac Ruffin received his B. D. degree from family. T /5 Fred Thomas is with the 15th Cavalry Louisville Presbyterian Seminary in May, George Gage is a lawyer in Memphis. Band at Camp Maxey, Texas. 1944. I Charles Gardner is a Lt. (jg) with the Dr. W. T. Tyson is an assistant resident Born to Capt. and Mrs. James Winchester Navy in the Pacific. at John Gaston Hospital. (Frances Manire) a son. Mrs. David Gibson (Helen Young) has a Lt. Henry Walker has been at home on Born to Lt. and Mrs. Ralph Pearson (Eve­ young son. leave after being overseas. lyn Belcher), a son, March, 1944. 1st Lt. James Gladney is on foreign serv· Lillie Roberts Walker is working in Mem· Anne Ogden was married to Master Sgt. ice with the Medical Corps of the AAF. Memphis. Tracy Plyler, Jr., May 16, 1944. Mrs. William Glover (Mary Elaine Lips­ Sgt. Harry Waring is in Atlantic City, Oass of 1942 comb) lives in New Orleans. N . ]. Dr. RothrOck Miller will be assistant resi· Lt. George Griesbeck is stationed in Hugo, . 1st Lt. Robert Watts is in the AAF school dent in surgery at the U. of Michigan hospital Okla. of Applied Tactics at Orlando, Fla. at Ann Arbor. Mark Hammond has three daughters and is 1st Lt. P. S. Weaver, is with the Army Dr. Robert Ackerman will be assistant res· entering the Army. Dental . Corps and has just been married to ident in Internal Medicine at Presbyterian Mrs. R. M. HasseUe (Anne Williford) has Anne Leggett x'45. Hospital in Chicago. a son and is in Memphis. Lt. Waddey West, USNR has just been at Born to Capt. and Mrs. Pat Davis (Ruth .Pvt. Sam Hill, Jr., is at Kennedy Hospital home on leave. Mitchell) '41, a daughter, Ruth, April 11, in Memphis. Mrs. Tom White (Sara Boothe) is in 1944. H. R. Holcomb is at Colgate-Rochester Little Rock, Ark., with her son. Her husband, Born to Dr. and Mrs. Geo. W . Straight Divinity School in Rochester, N . Y. Flight Officer Tom White, is with the Ferry (Frances Ann Chase), a son, March 1944. Val Huber is with the American Snuff Co. Command. Miss Mary Calvin Keene was married to in Memphis. Lt. Alvin Wunderlich is with the Army · Lt. Charles Collins, April 1944, in Mont· 1st Lt. George Humphrey is at Keesler overseas. gomery, Ala. Field. Miss., after being in Alaska for many Mr. Fontaine Johnson and Mrs. Johnson Midshipman P. H. Wood was married to months. are parents of a daughter, born May. 1944. Nancy Meriwether Tate, January 1944, at Cnl. Walter B. Hunter is with the Army Lt. C. D. (Red) Fonnan, sp. 38-39, was Garrett Park, Md. in Philadelnhia. married to Barbara McCleary, April, 1944. Oass of 1943 Billy Kelly is with the Navy· at Clarksville, Oassof 1940 Dorothy Gill was married to Ensign Don­ Ark. Geralyn ADen was married to Lt. Lawrence ald Code Gordon, May 13, 1944 in Memphis. Edith ·Kelso is doing graduate work at the L. Gresham, April 6, 1944, at Harding Field, Frances Gregg was married to Lt. Wrede University of Chicago. La. Petersmeyer of Berkeley, Cal., April 12, Mrs. William Lapsley (Mariorie DeVall) Irma Sabin was married to Lt. George 1944. io a ~c::~.l e clerk v-rith the Buckley Cotton Oil Sheats, Jr., May 8, 1944, in Memphis. Born to Pfc. and Mrs. W. D. Diamond Co. in Uniontown, Ala. Florence Vinton was married to Capt. (Boyce Warr), a daughter, May 1944. Mrs. Henry Lee (Rachel Beasley) is a so­ Judson McKellar, April 27, 1944. They are Marifred Vaughan was married to Pfc. cial service worker. living at New River, N. C. Thomas Jackson March 25, 1944 in Mem· B. D. Lewis is with the Army. Born to Lt. Jack Pilkington and Mrs. Pil­ phis. . Randall Mcinnes is with Bemis Bag ·eo. in kington, a daughter, Juliet Elizabeth, Janu· Born to Ensign Roland Jones and Mrs. Pe0ria. Ill. ary 13. 1944. Jack is now "somewhere in Jones, a son, Roland, April 1944. En•ign Thomas McLemore is now in the England." Oaire Stanley Leavell was married to Pacific. Capt. William S. (Billy) Craddock has Thomas M. Futtrell. Ca-pt. Sam Mays is attached to Paratroops been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, NeU Wright was married to Marino Lara and is now in Enr.-land. after completing 40 missions and nearly 200 of Mexico City in Memphis, March 31, A/C Henry Mobley is at the Cedar Cen­ combat hours as pilot of a B-26 Marauder. 1944. ter in San Antonio. but has applied for trans­ The citation presented to him reads: Oass of 1944 fer to the Chaplain's Corps. He is also father "Thruout the Sicilian and Italian cam· Virginia Joyce Cooper was married to of a son horn. March 1944. paigns. Capt. Craddock has distinguished Ensigr1' Robert Fletcher Hennington in Mem· Sgt. Robert Montgomery is with the Army himself thru his determination and aggres· phis, May 12, 1944. at Fort McLellan, Ala. siveness. Serving as flight and formation Seaman 1/c Virginia Ann Collins, Mrs. Joe Patten (Betty Wells) is with her leader on many combat missions, his con· WAVES, was married to Milard Miller, May hushand, Pvt Joe Patten, at Fort McLellan, stant alertness and resourcefulness in the 1944. Ala. face of great danger have been of hi~h in· Margaret Battaile was married to Lt. E. A. Lt. Harry Phelan is an instructor at the spiration to those serving with him. On De­ Hall, May 24, 1944 in Memphis. Flving school in Hohbs, N. M. cember 23, 1943, Capt. Craddock led a 36- ·Born to Lt. and Mrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick Lt. Hylton Neill has received the Purple plane formation in an attack upon the rail­ (Julia Twist) a son May 8, 1944. Heart f0r havins< heen wounded at Salerno. road viaduct at Antheor, France. Displaying Oass of 1945 Mrs. Albert McLean (Harriet Pond) has superior tactical skill a& he expertly maneu· Jane Wielenman was married to Lt. Henry joined her husband who is in the service. vered thru heavy anti-aircraft fire upon the 0. Head, AAF, April, 1944. Jane Bray was married to Lt. Ralnh Piper approach of the target, Capt. Craddock made Oass of 1946 Anril 22. 1944. in W. Dearborn. Mich. a perfect run over the objective, enabling his Mary Jane Howell was married to Ensign Lt. Warren Prewitt is stationed at Chanute bombers to destrov the railroad tracks and S. S. Hargraves, Jr., May 27, 1944. Field. Ill. . heavily damage the viaduct. Despite re· Jane Mitchell was married to Lt. ]. 0. Lt. E. B. Rogers is with the Navv. peated attacks from enemy fighters, Capt. Bonner, January 17, 1944. They will live in George Scott lives in Ponlar Bluff, Mo. Craddock returned all bombers safPly to their Fresno, Cal. Mrs. Irby Seay (Anne Ragsdale) is home hase. His steadfast devotion to duty and out· Martha Wheeler was married to Lt. Rich· after seeing her husband off in California. standing proficiency as a combat pilot re• ard E. Donner, May 18, 1944. SOUTHWESTERN NEWS MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE Return Postage Cuar;l!1tccd

Page Eight SOUTHWESTERN NEWS July, 1944 Class of 194 7 An interesting and interested alumnus at­ Emmett McCultoch, who attended South­ Dellynne Cole Owen was married to Lt. tending was Mr. Hugh Hayley of the class western from 1892 to 1896, died' in Clarks­ W. L. Catchings, Jr., Dec. 24, 1943. They of 1884. He was introduced as the oldest ville, Tenn., February 16, 1944 _ For twenty­ are living in Columbus, Ga. alumnus at the exercises of ·1944. Also intro­ five years he was head office man with a duced as long loyal to their Alma Mater wholesale grocery firm. Since then and un­ Alice Lee Thompson was married to Lt. were Mr. Duncan Martin of the class of til his death, he had been a book keeper in Paul Davidson Feb. 1, 1944. 1887, Dr. W. S. Anderson who graduated Clarksville. Jean Wroten was married to Pvt. William in 1897, and The Rev. Homer'McLain gradu­ Rev. James Young McGinnis, who grad­ Dixon, May 7, 1944. ate of 1901 who came up from Oxford, uated from Southwestern in 1892, and re­ Mississippi, to attend. ceived his M.A. a year later, died April 22, 1944, in Hammond, Minnesota. He was or­ ALUMNI DAY NECROLOGY dained In the ministry of the Presbyterian George I. Briggs, who graduated from Church and sailed for China in August Alumni Day, May 22, 1944 Southwestern in 1907, died in Franklin, 1893 with his mother and two older sisters. Tenn., on May 3, 1944. Mr. Briggs was a He met his wife in Nanking and they la­ bored together in different fields of service Alumni Day festivities began with the tea native-of Franklin and received his education at Williamson County public schools and in various parts of China for forty-seven years given by the Alumnae Association for the until they were evacuated and retired in De­ Women graduates of 1944 and their mothers. Battle Ground Academy before attending Southwestern. After graduation he began his cember, 1940. · Since then, they had resided Annah Lee Early, president of the Associ­ in Hammond. ation, and Mrs: David Shields Carrol were in career as an educator and became a mem­ ber of the faculty at McCallie School. He Alexander G. Payne of the class of 1887 charge of the party, which was held in the died December 2, 1943, in New Orleans, Cloister. became head coach before leaving the school. Following his seven years there he accepted Louisiana. At the time of his death he was Following the tea a reunion of the classes a position as headmaster at Darlington School DiNision Freight Agent for the Louisville of 1929, 1934, and 1939 was held in Hardie for three years. He then returned to Chatta­ and Nashville Railroad Company. Mr. Payne Auditorium. nooga as history and Bible teacher at Baylor ~ attehded Southwestern from 1879 to 1887, receiving his B.Ph. at the end of that time. A buffet supper in Neely Hall at 6:15, School unttl he became headmaster at Battle was attended by 230 Alumni and their Ground Academy. He remained there in that KILLED IN ACTION guests. T. M . Garrott, '29, president of the capacity until his death, having become re­ First Lieutenant Clifford Francis Moriarty, Alumni Associattion presided. He introduced spected throughout the South for his edu­ Jr. (;"''44), who was first reported missing Dr. Diehl who welcomed the former stu­ cational work. He was a Methodist. in action over Germany on March 15, 1944, is now known to be killed, the War Depart­ dents and friends. Crawford McGiveran, '29, Alfred Orville Canon, who attended of Clarksdale, Miss., was toastmaster, Mabel ment has informed his family. Cliff was born Southwestern in 1905 and 1906, died April in Memphis and had graduated from the Francis, '44, president of the senior class, in­ 10, 1944, in Memphis, after an illness of a troduced the seniors. E. W. Walthal, '04, in­ High School of Christian Brothers College. year. Mr. Canon was born in Collierville and He attended Southwestern from 1940 to coming president of the Alumni, gave a came to Memphis to make his home in 1915. report on the 1022 Southwestern hays, in 1942. He left school to enter the Army Air He was an agent for the Metropolitan Life Forces in 1942 and graduated at Big Springs, service. William F. Hughes, '29, reported on fnsurance Company at the time of his death. the contributions to the Alumni Fund. Wal­ Texas, early in 1943. He had been overseas He was the father of Alfred Orville Canon, for five months. lace Johnston_, '29, gave the report of the Jr., who was a member of this year's gradu­ WOUNDED IN ACTION nomination committee. Walker L. Wellford, itting class itt Southwestern. Mr. Citnon was The War Department announced this '~9, Alumni chairm:tn of the pre-centennial it member of the Christian Church. Endowment Campaign and Rev. W. ]. Mil­ month that Pvt. Malcolm V . Hinson, class brd, '].!), were the principal speakers. Dr. William Fountain, who was a student at of '43, was wounded in action in the South­ Millard showed the progress that South­ Southwestern from 1927 to 1929, died April west Pacific. Mac left school in April, 1943, western has made since the tiays of S.P U. 2Rth, 1944. His home was in Greenwood, to join the Army and had been overseas for Gene Dickson, '45, led the group in songs Mississippi. Mr. Fountain was a partner in about four months. At Southwestern he was and in the Alma Mater. The Benediction was the W. T. Fountain Depai:tment Store in outstanding in athletics and a member of said by the Rev. C. E: Mount, '23. Greenwood. Kappa Alpha.