SOUTHWESTERN NEWS

Fall 1973 · The 12Sth Session

The Seven Minutes: June 30, 1973. Since the year 1103 only one eclipse has lasted longer.

Out of 100 U.S. scientists selected for the official The day after they returned, WREC News Director American Eclipse Expedition to Africa this summer, Roger Cooper '69 interviewed Dr. Taylor on WREC's eight were Southwesterners, a point that says a lot "Rostrum" program. Dr. Taylor directed Southwest­ about Southwestern's preeminence in the field of op­ ern's expedition, is chairman of the physics depart­ tical physics. ment and has been particularly interested in studying Three June graduates and five professors made up solar eclipses - this was the fourth for Southwestern the college team: students Bill Brune, Dan Ellsworth, (others : Canary Islands '59, Alaska '63, and Perry, and Bill Vining; professors Jack Taylor '44, Allen Barn­ Florida '70). hardt, John Schmitt, Frederic Stauffer, and John Streete The following story was transcribed from the WREC '60. broadcast.

Cooper: Dr. Taylor, you've been to see another eclipse is that if we had gone there we would have had to - a thing not many can say. How many is this for you? observe the eclipse very early in the morning which Taylor: This is my fourth one. meant we had to look through more atmosphere. It's Cooper: Your latest expedition took you to a rather re­ ideal to have an eclipse take place at high noon be­ markable total eclipse which you observed from a van­ cause you look through less atmosphere. tage point in Africa in June, right? There were two sites as far as the American Expedi­ Taylor: Yes, June 30th. The remarkable thing about this tion was concerned, one in Chinguetti, Mauritania, particular eclipse was that it was one of the longest in the other in Loiyengalani, Kenya, where the South­ history - seven minutes. We will not have another one western group went. The Mauritania group had a to­ this long until 2150. The maximum duration of an tality lasting approximately seven minutes. At Lake eclipsed sun is approximately 7112 minutes, and itvaries Rudolph, or Loiyengalani, we had approximately five from that down to something considerably shorter, de­ minutes. pending on where the moon and the earth are in their Cooper: Lake Rudolph is in northern Kenya, up near orbits. the Ethiopian border in East Africa. Cooper: Why did you choose the particular site you Taylor: Yes. By going there we lost two minutes of ob­ went to? serving time as compared to the astronomers who Taylor: Well, let me review some of the geometry of went into the Mauritanian desert. But they were most­ an eclipse. Approximately every two years somewhere ly radio astronomers, not affected by sandstorms and on the face of the earth one can observe the phenom­ dust the way people doing measurements in the vis­ enon of a total eclipse as contrasted to a partial eclipse. ible and infrared are. Since our measurements were The fact that the moon and sun each subtend approxi­ in the infrared we were willing to pay the price of mately half a degree on the surface of the earth' makes two minutes in order to have clear skies. a total eclipse possible. Cooper: Tell me how you got to East Africa. That's an­ The shadow cast by the moon - as the light from other story in itself. the sun passes by - strikes the earth, and to observe Taylor: Well, let me tell you that getting ready for an an eclipse one must get somewhere in this shadow expedition is a long process! The American Expedition path. This particular eclipse started in Brazil early in was financed by the National Science Foundation the morning, swept across the AtlantiC and Africa, (Southwestern also received additional support from and finally left the earth somewhere in the Indian Research Corporation). This was the largest single Ocean. The time of totality varied, depending on scientific eclipse expedition ever undertaken. NSF where you were along this path. You might ask why asked the National Center for Atmospheric Research we didn't go to South AmeriCa to observe. The reason (Boulder, Colo.) to oversee the site selection, logistical , ~ I I

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Time out for everybody's picture crossin .. , support, etc., and those fellows did a fantastic job, of volcanic Origin, and access is over terrain that is working for about two years, to make it possible for difficult to describe. We had to climb to 9,000 feet be­ American scientists to make their measurements. fore finally gettirig over the mountains. The point is, You can appreciate the difficulty, say, of getting we got through. It was an interesting ride but it's cer­ generators into a place as remote as Lake Rudolph, tainly not one you'd recommend for your friends! building lodges for the expedition to live in, taking Cooper: Did your equipment have to survive this same care of all sorts of engineering details. They also had route? innumerable agreements to work out with the Kenyan Taylor: No, it went in the long way, up through Marsa­ government. The price tag on this operation is prob­ bit, north of Loiyengalani. Even that way the last 50 ably going to be of the order of $700,000. miles are rugged, but not as bad as the route we took. It's interesting that if you look at the total number We sent 6,500 pounds of equipment - 17 boxes - of experiments and the people involved, Souhwestern valued at $100,000, and we had one piece of broken probably had the largest participation of any group. apparatus. It was a mercury vapor tube, valued at And in addition to our four scientific experiments we about$18. . took 35mm color slides and made a 16mm color movie Cooper: So, you were lucky, considering what could with sound, which we intend to make available to the have been broken. When you got there you set up public. camp. How many days before the eclipse was this? Cooper: You're going to put together sort of a docu­ Taylor: We had approximately three weeks to get set mentary about the trip itself. up. Actually we did not need that much time, but there Taylor: That's right. Southwestern can use this in vari­ were people who might have needed this for one rea­ ous ways. An eclipse is an obvious opportunity for son or another. Our tent went up nicely and in three making scientific observations. That's the main thing. or four days we were on the line ready to go. We also look on it as a wonderful opportunity to in­ Cooper: What did you do the night before the eclipse volve undergraduate students in an experience nor­ date? How did you spend your time in preparation? mally reserved for graduate students. Taylor: Well, you know I had the advantage of having Cooper: You took some students with you to East been on previous eclipses. But some of us had not, Africa. so they did not know what to expect, although we Taylor: We took three boys who graduated this year had taken care to warn them that tension does build with degrees in physics. Two of them enter Johns Hop­ up and that there's usually a big let-down afterwards. kins this fall to pursue their Ph.D. and the third one You can't really get prepared for something like that; will be entering the University of Arkansas. Whenever you just have to experience it, and let me simply say we go on scientific expeditions we make a heroic ef­ that you get butterflies in your stomach the night be­ fort to involve as many students as we possibly can. fore and people try to maintain good conversation to This is a great virtue of a small college - you can have keep their minds off this. almost one-to-one coupling between students and From the beginning of the countdown - for most teachers. people this occurs when the moon first touches the Cooper: You took some faculty colleagues with you sun, what the astronomers call first contact - the also. show is really underway. Then it's a matter of an hour Taylor: Yes, there were five teachers. We had a total of or so until second contact. That's when the moon com­ eight in our party. pletely blocks the sun ... when the eclipse actually Cooper: So, sometime in June you flew to Africa. begins. Tensions mount at that point. An eclipse is Taylor: That's right. NSF had put us on notice last fall hard to describe. I guess anything unbelievably beau­ that we were to be part of the official American Expe­ tiful is. A total solar eclipse has often been described dition. After you find out you're going then you have as a spiritual encounter. Poets can do more justice to to get your equipment in order and you pack it up this than a physics type, but certainly it's a thing of and get it out well in advance. It left the first of April; beauty, to say nothing of the wonderful scientific op­ we left June 6. NSF chartered a PanAm flight in New portunity it offers. York and flew everybody over at one time. We flew Cooper: Do you have time to really appreciate it or are to Dakar where the group for Mauritania left us. The you too busy. next day we flew across Africa to Nairobi and spent Taylor: I got one view of the eclipse right at the be­ two nights and a day there being briefed by the Ameri­ ginning and another a minute or two later, but the can Embassy and Kenyan officials. Then we (there way to enjoy an eclipse - that is, the beauty of it - were about 65 of us) left, driving in caravan, for the is not to do an experiment. Just sit there and look at it. oasis of Loiyengalani. It took us 15 hours to drive the 300 miles from Nairobi to Loiyengalani! The road from Cooper: What's the best way to look? You can't look Nairobi to Thompson's Falls is not bad as African roads directly? go, bLit after you pass Thompson's Falls it's just un­ Taylor: Oh, yes, you can, but there's always confusion believable. Lake Rudolph is surrounded by mountains about this. What you normally see when you go out Waiting for countdown: Pro f. Taylor and Dan Ellswo rth with Telescope feeding radiometer used in their infra red study o f solar co ro na. Fabry-Perot inter­ ferometer, used in rest of the corona, the chromosphere is a brilliant red Pro f . Schmitt's ex­ - the color comes from one of the radiations given off p erimen t on solar by hydrogen atoms. As you know, the sun is rich in corona visible wavelengths. hydrogen atoms. Three of our experiments probed the physics of the chromosphere and the outer corona, reaching out to about five solar radii from the solar disk in one of the coronal experiments. Our fourth experi­ and look up at the sun is the photosphere. But once ment dealt with the earth's atmosphere. The particular that's blocked by the moon - as it is during totality­ part we were interested in was the ozonosphere, which what you see is the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The is approximately 18 miles above the earth's surface­ light from the corona is about a million times weaker not a particularly well defined layer, and many miles than the light of the photosphere, so you can look thick at that point. It's produced by highly complex with your eyes wide open, no protection at all, or you photochemical reactions taking place as a result of can look through a telescope. It's only when part of ultraviolet radiation from the sun striking the atmos­ the sun's photosphere is showing that you can't look phere. We wanted to see if we could detect a change directly. in the temperature of the earth's ozonosphere when Cooper: So it has to be a total eclipse. the short wavelength radiation from the sun gets Taylor: Right. blocked by the moon. Cooper: Dr. Taylor, what kind of luck did you have with Cooper: What about future eclipses? Any hope of one the experiments you performed? over Southwestern? Taylor: Anytime you go on an eclipse and aren't Taylor: That would be ideal, but you've heard the say­ clouded or rained out it's a success. As I said, we did ing that total solar eclipses always occur in inaccessible four experiments, three in the region of the spectrum places. If one could just occur right above our obser­ called the infrared, the fourth in the region of the vatory it would be great. spectrum known as the visible. Of the four, three went Cooper: What type of observatory do you have there? nicely. The fourth we' re going to have to look at care­ Could you tell me just for a minute about your pro­ fully to see just how much data are there. As far as gram? we're concerned it was definitely a scientific success, Taylor: The building is uniquely designed for astro­ and it was a fantastic pedagogical success as far as our physics work. Southwestern is really an academic gem students were concerned. and I sincerely wish more Memphians would come Cooper: Just the experience of all the traveling and out and visit the campus and let us show them through setting up would have been worth a lot. Can you tell the physics building. On top of the building we have me in laymen's terms what you were looking for, what a 31-inch diameter telescope which until recently was you were attempting to measure? the largest in the south. We also have a 24-inch diam­ Taylor: Basically we were trying to understand the eter telescope and others. We have a satellite tracker; physics of the sun. The sun is the closest star to the we have an elaborate coelostat and heliostat system earth. It's the only star we can study in considerable that enables us to lock onto the sun and send light from detail, the better you can understand the physics of it, or from any other extra-terrestrial object, down into the sun's atmosphere and its interior the better your any laboratory in the building. For instance, we have chances of understanding more remote stars. our ultraviolet spectroscopy and visible spectroscopy Our experiments dealt with unraveling some of the laboratory in the basement of the building. Students physics of the sun's atmosphere. Now, the sun's at­ can sit right there and take the optical signature of the mosphere consists of two parts - the outer and in­ sun or a planet and never get out of the laboratory. ner. The atmosphere is called the corona, and one Cooper: Dr. Taylor, I'd like to look more closely at your speaks of the inner corona and the outer corona. The equipment, and if you ever need anybody to come part of the inner corona that immediately touches along and be a bearer of your equipment I'll gladly do the solar disk is called the chromosphere. Unlike the it to see a solar eclipse.

4 On Being an Educated Person lOday

by Bernice Williams Associate Professor of English

The educated person "possesses the capacity to th clearly: he can approach a problem without confusir one issue with another."

What does it mean to be educated? To most people, I suppose, it means having possession of a certain body of knowledge - an acquaintance with certain works of art in literature, painting, music, sculpture; with the history of one's culture and of the human race; with scientific developments; with current events. In the Renaissance, the ideal man was one who had a com­ mand of all knowledge, who knew something substan­ tial about everything, who could write and appreciate poetry and drama, read the latest scientific treatises (in Latin, of course), perform experiments on his own, discourse easily on educational theory, and converse comfortably with theologians. In 1973, obviously, the Renaissance ideal is out of the question: there is no way for a single individual to know everything an "ed­ ucated" person should probably know. But he probably does try to keep up as best he can with the latest in his own field and in certain other fields of particular' interest to him as well as - and here my prejudice as a teacher in the Humanities comes through - with the latest in the arts. Furthermore, the educated person even today is in possession of certain skills, as Alan Simpson suggests in "The Marks of an Educated Man" (1961). He pos­ sesses the capacity to think clearly: he can approach a problem without confusing one issue with another. He retains a degree of skepticism in his approach to everything he hears, sees, and reads that protects him " ... the educated person seeks to remain open to change and to opportunities for growth, both in the possession of knowledge and in the awareness of self in relation to others."

from unthinking acceptance of what may turn out to others, I believe, is also one of the marks of an edu­ be wrongheaded ideas and opinions. He strives to be cated person. honest in all he says and does and at the same time to But there is more yet: In 1837, addressing a Phi Beta train his capacity for spotting dishonesty in the ideas Kappa convocation at Harvard, Emerson spoke of liThe and opinions of others. He also seeks to improve his American Scholar," whose duties he described as ability to express himself clearly with style. The heavy, follows: pedantic, "scholarly" style of the nineteenth century Th e office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide will no longer do in dealing with his subject: he ought men by showing them facts amidst appearances . He plies th e slow, unhonored, and unpaid tas k of observation ... in his to be able to express himself with flair, with an ear private observa tory, cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars and eye to the receptivity and attention span of his of the human mind, which as yet no man has thought of as audience. And, finally, the educated person seeks to such - watching days and months sometimes for a few facts; remain open to change and to opportunities for correcting still his old records; (h e) must relinquish display growth, both in the po"Ssession of knowledge and in and immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular the awareness of self in relation to others. arts, incurring the disdain o f the able who shoulder him aside. But it is fairly obvious that these skills are not all Long he must stammer in his speech ; often forego the living there is to being an educated person. There is the mat­ for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept - how often' - ter of what Ralph Waldo Emerson called " Self-Reli­ poverty and solitude. ance." In the essay of that title, Emerson points out What Emerson is saying, in his metaphoric way, is that that "imitation is suicide": self-identity is destroyed the scholar - whom we can identify with the educated when we merely imitate what others are doing. Emer­ person - has to practice self-denial as well as self­ son was deeply concerned about the effects of con­ reliance. Obviously, such self-denial, such acceptance formism upon the quality of life in America: he was of the responsibility of being educated, requires tre­ worried that we would become a nation of mediocre mendous courage. No one wants to be unpopular or conformists and that America would never amount to poor or alone, but sometimes the educated person has much if her people fell into the suicidal habit of follow­ to accept that fate because his insight and his honesty ing whatever leader was out in front at the moment or demand that he speak out against the ills he has ob­ if she failed to grow and change with time: "A foolish served in society or that he pursue his clue to a new consistency," Emerson wrote, "is the hobgoblin of little truth despite the ridicule and neglect of his fellow men. minds .... With consistency a great soul has simply Such names as Galileo, Darwin, Freud, and Martin Lu­ nothing to do." ther King come most readily to mind when one con­ siders those who, taking seriously the responsibility that their knowledge and honesty and clarity of thought have imposed, have dared to face the closed minds "The idea of responsible freedom is crucial to the life of their contemporaries and hold out for what they of an educated person, who soon learns that com­ believe to be the truth. And there are less well-known promise is not really a dirty word . . . " people who do the same thing in less obvious ways: newspaper reporters who go to jail to protect their sources, senators and congressmen who pursue what However, the importance placed on self-reliance in they have learned to be the right despite barriers to American culture - the great notions of the individ­ their search; city councilmen and public-minded citi­ ualist, the nonconformist, and the self-made man - zens who use their advantages as educated individuals does not mean that being ourselves, relying upon our­ to protect the rights of their fellow citizens or to se­ selves, can express itself in an equally foolish defiance cure the best life possible for them. of the society in which we live. A friend of mine ob­ Ten years ago, on July 15, 1963, Adlai M . Stevenson, serves frequently that "My freedom ends where yours whom many of us no doubt remember as an educated begins." The idea of "responSible freedom" is crucial man who laid his principles on the line and sought the to the life of the educated person, who soon learns presidency of this country only to meet ridicule as an that compromise is not really a dirty word: the grace­ "egghead," spoke to the graduating class at Radcliffe. ful compromise, the thoughtful giving part-way to Among his remarks are the following sentences, which

6 1/ ••• the motivating force behind the educated person is, quite simply, love: love of truth and knowledge and our fellow men."

seem to me peculiarly pertinent to my point: This is what provides us with the power to deny our­ this world exists for people before it exists for anything selves, accept our responsibilities and pursue human else .... welfare and truth and knowledge wherever they may Therefore, this world must be made safe for people. And it must be made fit for people .... lead. And that is where you come in. For nowadays trained in­ And, oddly enough, despite such a gloomy image telligence is the nation's greatest weapon in the battle for a as that which Emerson gives us of the lonely, neglected world fit for people and safe for people. We can no longer be scholar, there are rewards for our efforts, for our self­ content ... to educate a few supremely well. We have to cherish and expand every "erg" of brain power our society reliance, self-denial, and shouldering of enormous re­ can uncover. Our gravest social evils now spring from the sponsibility. Emerson reassures us himself: the edu­ neglect of training and opportunity. cated person "is to find consolation in exercising the Mr. Stevenson's remarks to Radcliffe graduates fit highest functions of human nature. He is one who every single one of us who makes any claim to being raises himself from private considerations and breathes educated, no matter how we define the word. Educa­ and lives on public and illustrious thoughts. He is the tion, after all, is a gift to us from others: our years in world's eye. He is the world's heart." We find our re­ school are given over to the passing on to us of the ward in the service we render to our fellow men. And most important tools and ideas man has developed. there's another reward, expressed by the Greek Epic­ True, those who pursue education on their own after tetus: "Only the educated are free." That, I believe, is high school or college or graduate school might be both our greatest challenge and our reward for pur­ said to have acquired what they know and what they suing education and for living up to the responsibili-, can do by their own efforts - but it seems to me that ties that our education places upon us: we ourselves what they have, in the end, is still a gift from mankind. are freed from the bondage of ignorance in order to And that gift imposes a responsibility: we are respon­ have the privilege and the joy of leading others into sible for educating our fellow men; we are responsible the same freedom and to secure for all human beings for the future of our community, our country, our the promise of the future. world. We are responsible for the survival and de­ velopment of all that is best in man. Today that responsibility is enormous: there are so many things to fix, so many ills to cure: to begin with, there is the ecological situation, including the popula­ tion and pollution explosions. Then there are politics and all the problems that have arisen recently to sug­ gest that there is something rotten in the city of Wash­ ington. There is war, despite the end of the fighting, in Viet Nam: the Middle East simmers constantly; the Un ited States' mil itary-pol itical interest in Southeast Asia has not ceased. There is the energy crisis, too. And every day, it sometimes seems, there are further demands upon us to find ways to mend the world. But as educated people, we cannot, we dare not, panic before the tasks facing us. We must act: that is our duty. That we must act selectively - that we must pick and choose among all the causes that scream for Excerpts from Bernice Williams's talk, "On Being an Educated Person Today," made in July to a group of alumni and their high­ support, all the ills that must be cured - should not school-age children, comprise the accompanying articlE!. Dr. Wil­ prevent us from acting. We can pick a cause, give it liams, who earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Queens our all, and, when we have done our best, we can College, New York, and her PhD. at the City University of New pick another cause and begin the struggle again. But York, has been a member of the Southwestern faculty since 1966. we can't quit - because, as I see it, the motivating Her academic interests, alter the art of teaching itself, are the mechanics 01 poetry, the poetry of lohn Donne, and American force behind the educated person is, quite simply, Literature. She also participates in the Freshman Colloquium pro­ love: love at truth and knowledge and our fellow men. gram and in an interdepartmental course in Women's Studies. ~

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What does existentialism mean? by Dan Ross Professor of English

8 Or. Ross's article is the outgrowth of courses he has taught at Southwestern since 1955 and of his book in manuscript form, on existentialism in fiction and drama.

Since existentialist thinkers vary in their conception tion and you make a choice. You have existential of what existentialism means, I will simply speak of awareness and you have also exercised existential what, through my reading and other experience, exis­ choice. tentialism means to me at this moment. I will do so You are a girl in a nineteenth century Russian city, by addressing an hypothetical you. a member of a genteel but poor family. Your father You are a stone. You are inert. You do not exist loses job after job and your family becomes desperate. biologically. You do not have the possibility of exis­ You have a choice between a respectable job that will tential awareness. support only one person and of making enough money You are a tree. You have life. You grow. You change. through prostitution to support your family. You re­ You exist but you do not experience sensations. You flect upon your problem and decide to sacrifice your do not have the possibility of existential awareness. own self-interest and respectability by becoming a You are a cow. You do all that the tree does, but whore and giving the money to your family. You have you also see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. Your re­ existential awareness and have made an existential actions to experience are instinctive. You mate in­ choice. You change your mind at the last minute and stinctively, you give birth, you nurse your calf. If it decide against self-sacrifice. You still have existential dies you express frustration, you keep coming back awareness and have chosen existentially. to it, but eventually you go away and do not return. You grow up a member of a middle-class nineteenth You do not have the possibility of existential aware­ century Russian family and of the Russian Catholic ness, though you are closer to human life than the Church. You receive a good education and become a tree and more apt to evoke human sympathy than lawyer, eventually a judge. You make a marriage of the tree. (Perhaps no longer true in this ecologically convenience to a girl a little better off economically oriented age!) than you are. You have children. You become bored You are born an idiot. Like the cow you experience with your wife. You press for advancement and become all five sensations and perhaps, unlike the cow, you a higher judge. You build a fine house. Your chief seek in a frustrating way to organize your sensations pleasure is playing bridge. You keep yourself detached in time, space, and cause-effect patterns. But your from people, uninvolved in their lives. idiocy binds you to ineffectiveness. You do not have Suddenly you become critically ill. As you begin to the possibility of existential awareness. recover, you have the curious feeling of being in a new You are born a normal baby in a Calcutta slum. Like world. You are aware of your sensations as you have the cow and the idiot child you experience all five not been aware of them since you were a child. You sensations and in addition you have the capacity to are aware that during the years in between you have organize these sensations in time, space, and cause­ grown stale. You wonder whether you have been real­ effect patterns. But this capacity is only latent in you. ly alive. Your increasing material success now seems to You die from starvation before you are old enough to you a movement toward death. You reflect further and develop it. Yow have existed physically as the animal you realize that you have taken your coloring from the exists physically, but as a human being you are still­ world around you. You have been molded into con­ born. You die without having achieved existential formity. You are jolted by a sudden awareness of the awareness. nothingness of your existence. At this moment you You are a normal baby in a Calcutta slum and you have existential awareness. You exist as a person alone do survive to an age when you organize your sensa­ in society and independent. You are also confronted tions in time, space, and cause-effect patterns. You with existential decision. You are getting well physical­ learn to speak but you are brought up uneducated. ly. Where do you go from here? What kind of life do You are a girl and are driven from one starvation-wage you choose now? Suddenly you are afraid. You see a job to another. You die young or eventually drift into chasm yawning before you. You are going to return to prostitution and prolong your life a few years. You die the rut from which you have momentarily emerged. without having achieved existential awareness. You sigh. This is the way it has to be. You do return, You are this same girl of the Calcutta slums, but at but now at least you have made an existential choice, some point in your life you reflect upon your condi­ not a choice society has made for you. Existential tion. You are aware of a choice between doing menial awareness has forced you into a choice. jobs or of becoming a whore. This is your only choice, However, you may be more afraid of returning to but you weigh the pluses and minuses of each occupa- your old life than of making a significant change. You decide to love people. You have really spent your life for you. But if they betray their responsibility, ultimate taking; now you will give of yourself. You turn to your r~sponsibility still resides in you. wife and children with loving heart. You become a Is it possible to live an entire life without existential judge involved with people, not cut off by keeping awareness, to keep dodging the moments of confron­ people at a distance. You become more than a mere tation with yourself? If so, you live a comic life, a life member of the chutch. without vitality, without authenticity. There are crisis Suppose you choose a still more radical change in moments in everyone's life. Confrontation with death your life. You feel it impossible to make peace, on is the most inescapable. But even a vacation can bring your own terms, with the existing institutions of society. such a moment. If you carry your old life with you, You feel the necessity for new institutions. You make a then it is only a vacation from your job. The word commitment to new institutions and you seek to pro­ vacation, however, has a deeper meaning. It may mean mote them. You become a revolutionary. a complete break with your old life for a limited period, Or you are so radical that you feel suspicious of all a period of looking around, of taking stock. It may also institutions, old ones or new ones. To make a com­ confront you with a completely different culture than mitment to institutions is to be trapped by them. You your own. If you shut yourself off from the alien culture, become a Thoreau, rejecting all connection with so­ nothing happens. But if you expose yourself, you may ciety, living a life according to the dictates of your have an existential awakening. own private conscience. Or, feeling greater confidence Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis's conformist business man, in your sensations than in your conscience, you aban­ questions his conformism when on vacation and at don yourself to a life of sensation. Or you make a other critical moments in his life but doesn't know commitment to a sub-culture that divorces itself from what to do with his moments of existential awareness conventional society. and never really escapes conformism. Whatever your choice, you now make it with exis­ Christ can be interpreted existentially. He leaves his tential awareness. This does not mean that you cannot human family to go into the temple of God. Mary, have help from others, guidance from others. In the treasuring her son and not wanting to lose him as a commitment that you yourself make, you set an ex­ member of the family, finds him in the temple and ample for others. You are responsible for yourself and asks why he has dealt with his parents in this way. for everyone. In the same sense others are responsible Christ answers, "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" He has made an existential choice. The examples I have given suggest different levels of choice and the opposite. The man who forsakes a selfish life for a life of human brotherhood would seem to make the higher choice. Christ would seem to make a still higher choice when he chooses obligation to God over obligation to family. But how are we to in­ terpret the man who loses faith in human institutions and chooses a life of sensation? Some existentialists would answer by saying that existentialism propounds no body of principles or truths. The only truth it pro­ pounds is that man first exists and then he chooses. Existence precedes the choice of how he lives. It puts its money on commitment and has nothing to say about right or wrong commitments. Feeling that so­ ciety is rotten, you may make a commitment to violence against society rather than remain an uncom­ mitted robot within society. Because of your commit­ ment, according to this view, you are superior to the uncommitted robot and may commit sadistic acts at will. Although most eXistentialist thinkers would re­ ject such an extreme position, existentialism does leave us with unanswered questions about ethics. A Southwestern graduate, Dr. Ross holds a master's degree from To me the value of existentialism is its method of Vanderbilt and the Ph.D . from the University of Minnesota. He analysis. It starts with the subjective center of life, the has just returned from a year's sabbaticaf leave spent traveling in individual you, and demands that you examine your­ Europe and working on a collection entitled STORIES OF THE self. It helps you to define and choose' your life. It DEPRESSION. His short story, " The Cloud," has appeared in THE SEWANEE REVIEW, and he is also the author of a pamphlet, asserts that you have the freedom to choose; not only THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY, and other articles and stories. that, you must choose. 10 Bulletin Board Fall '73 - The 125th Anniversary Administrative Appointments Marshall P. jones was appointed Vice-president for Fiscal Affairs and Treasurer by action of the board of trustees at its spring meeting. Formerly Associate Dean and Assistant to the President, Dr. jones is a Phi Beta Kappa and Honors graduate of Southwestern and holds the Ph.D. in mathe­ matics from the University of Virginia. He returned to Southwestern as assistant professor of mathematics in 1963 and subsequently became full professor and acting chair­ man of the Department of Mathematics. He continues to teach a course in mathematics, and is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical As­ sociation of America. His appointment to the new post followed several months during which he served as Acting Treasurer. Susan Smith, who joined the cOllege staff as Assistant Busi­ ness Manager in February, has been named Business Man­ ager effective October 1. A 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Southwestern, she majored in economics, was selected for the Hall of Fame, Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and Mortar Board. She was one of the first three student representatives on the board of trustees, and following graduation worked as a manage­ ment trainee in the catalog division of Sears. Ron A. Yarbrough has been named Director of Develop­ ment to direct the college's long-range development pro­ gram and coordinate the offices for deferred and annual giving. A graduate of Millsaps College, where he held an administrative position in external affairs, he joined the Southwestern staff early in 1972 as Director of Annual Giving and served as Acting Director of Development for several months orior to his appointment to the post. Opening Convocation, a tradition missing for several years, Josh Brown is the new Director of Annual Giving. He will marked the beginning of the 125th academic session as coordinate the various phases of the Annual Fund drive, the great Halliburton bell pealed out the hour, 10 o'clock, which includes the Alumni Loyalty Fund, Memphis Com­ on the morning of September 10th. munity Campaign, Parents' Fund, Board of Trustees Cam­ President James H. Daughdrill, speaking to a packed paign and that of the faculty and staff. A 1965 Southwestern audience in Frazier jelke amphitheater, set the pace and graduate, he returns to Memphis from Mobile where for invigorating tone for the months to come. His theme was the past six years he was District Sales Representative for one of Beginnings, looking ahead to the opportunities in­ herent in living in a community such as Southwestern, Union Carbide. further enriched by those offered in the larger commun­ Edmund Orgill, retired business executive and former ity, Memphis. Memphis mayor, will serve as Special Consultant to the That the outlook is bright for the months ahead there Development Office. Mr. Orgill served as chairman of can be no doubt. Southwestern's successful Memphis Community Campaign Enrollment is high, residence halls filled, and a large during the past year. freshmen class and number of transfer students have been recruited, all at a time when attendance is waning in pri­ vate colleges across the country. (Attendance stood at 1,050 as the News went to press; final figures were unavailable because late registrations were still underway.) ,In the academic area, the 1973 edition of Where The Colleges Rank, published by College Rater, Inc., ranks Southwestern higher than all colleges and universities in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky; in Tennessee, second only to Vanderbilt Uni­ versity, and in Texas second only to Rice. In the fiscal area Southwestern finished in the black for the first time in six years, and faces 1973-74 with a balanced budget. In the area of development the Annual Fund was the largest in history.

11 Prof. Farris to Occupy Charles R. Glover Chair of English Studies Thomas K. Young Chair Establishment of the Charles R. Glover Chair of English Studies was made possible by the bequest of the late Mrs. Charles R. Glover of Evanston, Illinois, as a memorial to the late Mr. Glover. Mrs. Glover visited the campus in 1950, following her husband's death. Feeling that the quali­ ties of excellence and genuineness exemplified by South­ western would have appealed strongly to her husband, she named Southwestern the beneficiary of a trust fund for the establishment of the Glover Chair. The endowment is valued at over $300,000. Mrs. Glover died june 26 at the age of 93. She was the aunt of Mrs. john Quincy Wolf, who retired in May after many years on Southwestern's administrative staff.

/I ••• and justice for all./1 ?? ? jack D. Farris, Professor of English, ha s been named to the Thomas K. Young Chair of English Literature. He succeeds A Look at Criminal Justice in America Professor Emeritus john Benish to the Chair endowed by The present crisis in criminal justice, casting doubts on Idlewild Presbyterian Church in honor of the late Thomas the whole system, affects every American. For a look at K. Young, Idlewild pastor. Following naval duty during changes being proposed to deal with the problem - and WW II and teaching at colleges in Vermont, New Mexico, their effect on the criminal justice system - Southwestern Arkansas, and Tennessee, Mr. Farris joined the Southwest­ offers a provocative new program bringing national au­ ern faculty in 1961. He holds degrees from Ouachita Col­ thorities and local officials to the campus for seminars and lege and the University of Michigan and is the author of lectures from October to May. two novels published by Lippincott: Ramey, 1953; and A Robert Crew, head of the Minnesota State Crime Com­ Man To Ride With, 1956, also published in German and mission, is the lead-off speaker. His topic: Can public pro­ Dutch. Ramey, retitled Holvac, is scheduled for future grams reduce crime? Other speakers are Memphis Police production as a t-v film by Universal Studios. Prof. Farris Commissioner j. W . Hubbard; Paul Wice, Political Scien­ spent the past summer in Montana, working on a screen­ tist, Washington and Jefferson College; Memphis Criminal play based on the Vigilante Movement of the 1860's. Court judge Otis Higgs; Stephen Wasby, Political Scien­ tist, Southern Illinois University; William Henshell, Direc­ tor of Project de Novo, Minneapolis; Madison (Wisc.) Police Chief David Couper; Memphis Juvenile Court Judge Annual Fund Sets New Record Kenneth Turner; Norvall Morris, Director of the University As the college completed the most successful Annual Fund of Chicago Law School's Center for Studies in Criminal in its history Pres. Daughdrill remarked, "We are on our justice; Richard Borys, Director of Memphis Pretrial Re­ way to setting a new record and I am deeply grateful to lease; and Shelby County Attorney General Phil Canale. our alumni and pledge that we shall live up to their faith Prof. Michael Kirby and Southwestern's political science in Southwestern." Annual gifts for the year totaled $353,000 department are coordinating the program, which is open surpassing the $345,000 goal. Alumni Loyalty Fund co­ to the public without charge. Call the Department of chairmen, julia Marie Ries and Ed Hamlet, were assisted Continuing Education, 274-6606, for a brochure listing by 25 area chairmen, 48 class agents, and over 200 vol­ speakers, topics, time, and place. unteers. In other divisions of the Annual Fund, Edmund Orgill was Memphis Campaign chairman with Dr. Peyton Rhodes, E. B. LeMaster, Walk jones III, and james Collier, Jr. as co­ chairmen. Lt. Gov. William Winter was chairman of the Rare Gift for Physics Department Parents Fund, Prof. Richard Batey of the Faculty and Staff One of man's most powerful tools for investigating the Campaign, and Mrs. David K. Wilson of the Trustees universe, a ruling engine, is a gift to the physics depart­ Campaign. ment from Dr. John Donovan Strong. The most precise The record-breaking Annual Fund follows a year in which mechanisms ever made, ruling engines produce diffraction Southwestern ranked sixth in the nation in percentage of gratings (breaking light down into its various colors) used alumni participation among all colleges of its size category, in spectographs. Because of severe demands in designing, moving up from 10th place. only a few engines exist. The engine will be on display in the physics tower where students can watch diffraction gratings being ruled (15,000 two-inch grooves per inch of grating). Let Them Eat Cake Dr. Strong, one of the world's leading authorities in the A special occasion cake puts a smile on a student's face . design of ruling engines, received an honorary degree For that extra touch on birthdays and other big (or little) from Southwestern in 1962. Emeritus professor of physics days, Southwestern's Woman's Club has the answer. Club at Johns Hopkins, he now teaches at the University of members will bake and deliver cakes on the day you specify, Massachusetts Astronomy Research Facility. Three South­ and proceeds go to the club's scholarship fund. To order, western alumni received Ph .D.'s in physics under him: J. H. specify desired flavor and icing - and send $4 .00 to Mrs-. Taylor, Robert MacQueen, and William Mankin. Professor Fred Pultz, 1431 Hayne Rd ., Memphis 38117. Frederic Stauffer also worked under Dr. Strong.

12 J. R. Hyde Scholarships Ten scholarships covering full tuition plus stipends for ad­ ditional expenses have been established by the J. R. Hyde Foundation. Recipients of the scholarships are to come from each of the four college classes and are selected by directors of the Foundation from nominations made by the Admissions Committee. Awards are made on the basis of academic record, extra-curricular activities, college en­ trance examination scores, general achievements, geograph­ ical residence, and financial need. To continue as a Hyde Scholar throughout the college years a recipient must remain in good standing and must not be on academic or discipli­ nary probation. The ten Scholars for the current academic year include three freshmen, two sophomores, two juniors, and three seniors. The freshmen are George (Todd) Underhill of Louisville, Ky., Lynda Jo Freeland of Memphis, and Eric Burkhardt of Wichita. Sophomores are Virginia Harrison of Memphis and James Graves of Oak Ridge. Juniors se­ lected are Mary Sue Morrow of McKenzie, Tn., and Wil­ liam Landolt of South Charleston, W. Va. Seniors named are John Sites of Clarksville, Tn., David Hesi of Worden, III., and Brant Copeland of Lake Charles, La. Noting the friendship and generosity of the Hyde family over the years and what it has meant to the college, President Daughdrill commented, "Establishment of the Football Schedule J. R. Hyde Scholarships is further testimony of their un­ Septem ber 15 Millsaps College Home' selfish support of the students Southwestern seeks to Septem ber 22 Austin College Sherman, Texas serve. We are grateful to the Hyde Foundation and proud September 29 Washington University Home' of these outstanding students as the first Hyde Scholars." October 6 Principia College Elsah , Illinois October 13 Rose-Hulman Terre Haute, Indiana MacQueen Design Aboard Skylab October 20 University of the South Home' Rooert M. MacQueen '60 designed the White Light Corono­ October 27 Centre College Home' graph being used aboard Skylab to study man-made (arti­ November 3 Washington & Lee Univ. Lexington, Va. ficial) eclipses of the sun. Dr. MacQueen, who graduated November 10 Maryville College Home' from Southwestern with honors in physics, is a staff mem­ • All home games are at Fargason Field, at 2:00 p.m ber of the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colo. He holds the Ph.D. from John Hopkins and is the son of Dr. M . L. MacQueen '19, professor emeritus of mathematics, Basketball Schedule and Mrs. MacQueen '27. November 30 Belhaven College Home December 3 Centre College Away Alumnus Elected to Board of Trustees December 5 Oglethorpe Home Jere B. Nash, Jr. has been elected to the board of trustees January 3 Open by the Synod of Mississippi. An Elder of First Presbyterian January 5 Univ. of Ark-Little Rock Away Church, Greenville, and former Clerk of the Session, he is January 7 Lambuth College Home a 1950 Southwestern graduate. Mr. Nash, vice president and January 10 Dixie Tournament: Bethel, Home secretary of Delta Implement Company, is a director of Lemoyne-Owen, Belhaven Mid-South Farm Equipment Association, First National January 11 Dixie Tournament Home Bank of Greenville, and of the Washington County Federal January 15 University of the South Home Savings and Loan Association. He is a member of the January 17 David Lipscomb Away Greenville School Board and past president of the city's January 19 C. B. C. Away Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, United Givers, Washington January 21 T revecca College Away County Cancer Society, and Delta Music Association. Mrs. January 26 Millsaps College Home Nash, also a Southwestern graduate, is the former Margaret January 29 Trevecca College Home Boisen of Memphis. They are the parents of three sons, January 31 Tennessee Wesleyan Home Jere III, 19, Louis, 17, and Joseph, 14. February 1 Univ. of Ark.-Little Rock Home February 4 Lambuth College Away February 5 University of the South Away Gardner Ruffin February 9 C. B. C. Home Southwesterners were saddened by the death of Gardner February 12 Union University Home Ruffin, who died of a heart attack September 1. Mr. Ruffin February 15 Bel haven College Away was a machinist in the physics department from 1957 until February 16 Millsaps Colleg~ Away his retirement, due to poor health, three years ago. He February 19 David Lipscomb Home leaves his wife, Mrs. Betty Ruffin, Acting Chairman of the February 20 Centre College., Home Department of Communication Arts; a son, Gardner Jr.; February 25 Open and a daughter, Amanda, a student at Southwestern. February 28 Union University Away

13 ADVANCED DEGREES Henry Hury, Jr., M.A., Memphis '46 Roberta Fisher, M.Ed., Memphis State State U. ALUMNI NEWS U. Fred O ' Bryant, M.S., U. of N.C. '50 Sarah Ann Novarese Peeler, B.Bus. Stephen Snow, A.M., U. Mich. Ed ., Memphis State U. Kittie Johnson Stauffer, M.Ed., Mem­ '53 Robert Crumby, D.Min., Vandervilt. phis State U. '60 Virginia Roberson Conley, M.Ed., '72 Elaine Van Auken Atkinson, M.Ed., Memphis State U. Memphis State U. Linda Henson Fleeman, M.A., Van­ Jacqueline Taylor, M .Ed. , Memphis derbilt. State U. '64 Challace M cMillin, M.Ed., Memphis WEDDINGS State U. Henry Tuech , M.Ed ., Memphis State '52 Mariah Jane Parker to Dr. Prentice Grady Fulton . LI. '65 John H. Davis III, Ph.D., U. Ala. '59 Gayden Rasberry Caskey to Walk C. Jones III. '66 Elbert Gentry, M.A., U. South Fla. '66 Irene Virginia Hatton to Donald Gay Knight Gentry, M.A., U. South Windham. Fla. '67 Margaret Aitken to Hollis Irwin Bill Weber, JD., U. Tenn. Moore. '67 Joe Brady Anderson, JD., U. Ark. Margaret Appleton to William How­ Larry Churchill, PhD., Duke. Arthur Klein, M.S., Eastern New ell Brooks. Mexico U. '68 Jennifer Fey to Oscar Humes Ed­ monds III. '68 Betty Wray Anderson, JD., U. Ark. Janelle Hood, MAT., U. of N.C. Annette Lloyd to Richard L. Straut­ man. Jack Taylor, Jr, M.A., Memphis State Virginia Smith to Leslie U. Davis. '69 Sue Abernathy to Joseph Michael Thomas Young IV, M.S., MemphiS Hilliard. State U. Margaret Lucile Boothe to Majid '69 Donna Bishop, M.Ed., Memphis State Paydar. U. Catherine Fitzwater to Dr. John Rich­ John Crowell, JD., U. Ark. ard Nichols. Janet Emery, M.A., Southern Meth­ Courtland Mobley to Richard Lewis. odist U. Douglas Fleeman, M.Div. , Vander­ Marilyn Roberts to Bill Washburn. '70 Susan McClure to Charles Slaton. bilt. '71 Ann Dewey to Beecher Smith, Jr. Jack Lassiter, JD., U. Ark. Charles Lemond, PhD., Vandervilt. Sylvia Friedman to Ronald Fred Eis­ ner. Kenneth Phelps, MD., U. Tenn. Laurel Hume '75 to Ken Redding. McLaurin Smith, M.S., Memphis State Rebecca Kidd to Alva Bowen Wier U. III. Bill Washburn, M.S. , Georgia Tech. Michael Webb, PhD., Notre Dame. Patricia Knowles to Jeff Williams III. David Wheat, M.Ed., Memphis State Harriet Van Dusen to Robert Wayne Meinecke. U. Claude Workman, M.D., Vanderbilt. '72 Lola Cowan to Kenneth King. '70 Carole Bandy, M .S., Memphis State Susan Eschenbrenner to Steve Hitt. Joanne Glover to Glenn Sowell. U. Steven Barrett, M. Div. , Columbia Susan Carolyn Workman to Henry Theo. Sem. Alexander Yeilding. Charles Hart, M. Div., Columbia Charlotte Anne Yancey to David Lee Theo. Sem. Maybry. Causaundra Owens Keller, M.S., ' 73 Margaret Anne Bailey to John Evans '71. Memphis State U. Bill Lyons, M.A., U. Okla. Kathryn Brown to Tommy Cobb. Neva Gibson Lyons, M.A., U. Okla. Kathy Jorgensen to Ed Davis '74. William Ro y Patterson, M.A., Mem­ Nancy Carol Schaeffer to Leonard phis State U. Roger Harris. Emily Scarbrough, JD., Vanderbilt. Lucinda Slack to Gary Lee Murray '71 . '71 James Douglas Anderson, M.A., BIRTHS Memphis State U. '3 4 Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClure, Jr., a Mike DeSalvo, M.B.A. , Washington daughter, Leslie Elizabeth, March 6.

14 '59 Mr. and Mrs. David Toenes (Sandra '11 John Lrsl ie Marshall, date unknown. Calmer), a son, Douglas Alexa nder, '18 Benton Lamar Boykin , August, 1972. Oct. 10, 1972. '29 Maury Wade, Jul y, 1973. '60 Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Rumph (Jean '34 Dr. Douglas F. Heuer, Jr ., April 2B. Stock), a so n, Gregory Ev an, May 11, '38 Phillip A. McCarthy, Jun e 14. 1972. '49 Marvin H. Hawks, August '10. '61 Mr. and Mrs. George Awsumb (Betsy '51 Mrs. Peter W. Dwyer (Louise Ja ck- Breytspraak '63), a daughter, Lisa son), March 2'1 , 1972. Caroline, Jun e 23. '53 The Rev. Robert Stewart, August 13. '62 Mr. and Mrs. Walt Roberts (Jeanne '72 William Ehlers , Jul y 6. Ligon), a daughter, Jenn y. '75 Regina Jill Patterson , July, 1973. '63 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rich (Gretchen Smith '62), a daughter, Meredith CLASS NOTES Milton, June 22, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Stewart (Susan '26 Smith). a so n, Craig Ashley, Jul y 24. Correction: Harold Wise is pastor of First '64 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Blackstone Presbyterian Church in Bennington, Kan­ (Delia Dunlap) , a son, Donald Scott, sas, not Illinois. May 9. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Liles (A label '29 Louisville. She comments that she wishes May), a son, Andrew Martin, March 1. A trip to Spai n was a gift to Martha (Tabb SW's courses in Arabic had been of(rred Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Martin, Jr. '33) and Charles Su lliva n from their so ns during her undergrad uate days. (Larrie D el Dan iel), a daughter, Marie Charles '53 and Joe '59, Martha and Char­ Hester, Jan. 11 . lie spent more than a month at their for­ '36 '66 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M . Brooks mer home in Malaga. A cruise through th e A. B. Baskin is a hydro logist with th f' N,\ ­ (Danna Edmonds '68), a so n, Greg­ Greek Isl es an d visits to Tu rkey and Aus­ tional Weather Servicf' of Co lumbia (S.C). ory Thomas, Sep t. 27 , 1972. tria completed the trip. Charles III is presi­ His main hobby is ca mping in so m e of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rich (Becky dent of Plough Ltd. in Canada; Joe is a America's fin es t campgrounds. Smith), a daughter, Sarah Gretchen, doctor. Feb. 10. '37 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Weber (Melinda '31 Our deep sympathy to Mary Giuliani Gates '70), a so n, Robert Kossuth, Mary Moorf' Sm ith, San Diego, joined a Bretz, whose husband, Dr. Jo hn M. Bretz, May 29. "World Eva ngelism" tour to London, Je­ died severa l months ago. Mary lives in '67 Mr. and Mrs. C. Ray Henley (Jennifer ru sa lem, Rome, and Athens this summer. Huntingburg, Ind ., w h f' re she teaches Bird), a son, Robert Tren t, Jan . 27, Spanish. She is working on a master's 1972. '33 degree and studied in M ex ico City this Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Reynolds III Nell Sanders Aspero is th e first woman at­ summer. (Ellen Woodruff), a son, Richard IV, torney to sit as a judge in a Memphis Virginia Hoschall Em ery will join her hu s­ June 6. General Sess ions Court. band John in Singapore this fall - hes '68 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Borleske Harry Champlin is the full-time Protes tant been trans ferred th ere as Far Ea stern Sa les (Barbara Les h), a daughter, Juli e Ch aplain at Purdy Treat ment Center for Manager fo r Arunco Steel. Their daugh­ Margarette, Apri I 1. Women in Gig Harbor, W ash., near Ta­ ters are also on the move : Judy '65 and Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Phelps (Aud­ coma. Th e Center is not a hospital, but her husband, Joe H owrll '64, to Ihe rey Kennedy '68), a son, Kenneth rather th e only penal instituti o n in th e Chicago area (see class of '64); Jan et Jackson, Jun e 21, 1972. state for women who have been com­ '69, w ho earned a master's degree in '69 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Glassell, a mitted for a felony. In existence for only publiC administration at S.M. U ., to Sa n daughter, Graceanne Park, March 13. 2V2 years, it is a new concept in penal or Fran cisco where she's a consultant for Mr. and Mrs. Barry McDonald (Kit correctional institutions in that it looks Booz, Allen, Hamilton; and NarlC)' ' 70, Jones), a daughter, Nesbitt Quinlan, like a modern community college cam­ from Dallas to Houston. Feb. 18. pus. The women have a great deal of Carro ll Sm ith is education dir'ector of a Lt . and Mrs. Roy R. Rhea, a son, freedom, no uniformed guards or barbed Memphis elementary sc hool opened this David Rascoe, Feb. 19. wire. Th e Center has had a highly suc­ fall by Woodland Pr esbyterian Church . He '70 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lyons (Neva Gib­ cessful work/training release program was fo rmerl y principal of Sea Isle El emen­ son), a daughter, Laura Kristin, June and has awarded 175 high school or GED tary School for 14 years. 27. diplomas since it opened, It also provid es '71 Mr. and Mrs. James Pet er Beck (Rose­ an active religious program and has a '38 mary Hodson), a son, Michael Mar­ choir that avera ges three or four outings Col. Eldridge Armistead, Rf't., is now busi­ shall, April 17. a mo nth singi ng for clubs, churches, and ness manager of Austin Chemical Co. in schools. Austin, Tex. DEATHS Margaret Eng land Wilkf's (Mrs, B. 8.) has 1899 Robert Burns Eleazer, August 8. '34 earned nationwide recognition for her '10 Edward Randolph White, date un­ Mary Fant Gerard (Mrs. Victor) is an assis­ artistic talents. Featured in an issu e of known. tant reference libarian at the Univ, of Na t ional Gardner is a bronze bas -reli ef

I ') Brooks recently earned accreditation from '47 the American Association of Museu ms , President of Checks, Inc. of Memphis, one of the 251 out of 5100 in the U.S. Toof Brown received the 1972 Small Busi­ Martha (Small) and Lester Deason live in nessman of the Year Award for Tennessee. Salem, III., where Martha teaches in jr. As state winner, his Small Business Ad­ high. Their son finished college last year, ministration application became one of and they have a daughter who's a senior three submitted by the Southeast region at U. of III. and one who's a high school for national honors in SBA competition. sophomore. Betty (Webb) and Bob Utter '49 accom­ panied the Greater Ft. Worth Youth Or­ '42 chestra on its recent European tour that Jim Cogswell holds an administrative po­ brought excellent reviews for the 101- sition with the General Executive Board of member symphony group. Bob spoke at a Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) in Rotary meeting in Germany and they Atlanta. Former missionary to Japan and saw June (Morrow) and Gene Schaeffer Board of World Missions area secretary '49 in London, where Gene is with the for the Far East, he has also directed the American Embassy. Bob is vice president Church's Task Force on World Hunger. As of World Service Life Ins. Co. in Ft. Worth. reported in the August issue of Presby­ Betty, executive secretary and manager of terian SURVEY, official magazine of PCUS, the Youth Orchestra, is on the voice fac­ "he will identify world-wide human needs ulty of Tarrant County Jr. College. and suffering; challenge the Church to respond with resources; administer spe­ '48 cial programs for alleviating suffering; Graphics specialist June Camp, a for­ provide responsibility for disaster relief mer Downtown Association of Memphis and international development; and pro­ award-winner as outstanding woman for vide assistance to national churches achievement in the arts, won the Mem­ abroad." Southwestern awarded him the phis Toastmistress Club's council speech honorary D.D. degree in 1961; in addi­ awards up to the regional division. tion, he holds B.D. and Th.D. degrees Dorothy Barnhart Crawford's husband is from Union Theological Seminary and the director of the Department of Radiology Th.M. from Princeton. at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont, Tex. John Flaniken, San Diego, recently com­ Their son is studying medicine at U. Tex., pleted tenure as Chief of Medical Staff Galveston, and their daughter has a mas­ she presented to National Garden Coun­ at Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa. His ter's in speech pathology from S.M.U. cil Headquarters in St. Louis, "Ornate daughter returns to SW as a sophomore Joan Cogswell Hall (Mrs. S. A.) is legal Hawk Eagle of the Andes." A member of this year. secretary in the (Memphis) law office of the National Sculpture Society, she spe­ Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams and cializes in bas-reliefs of birds; her most '43 Wall. recent art medium is painting in water As coordinator of the Dallas County Mu­ Robert Wherritt is Associate Professor of colors. seum Program for Youth Activities, Jes­ Mathematics at Wichita State University. samine Grimes Younger (Mrs. W. M.) is '39 essentially an educational consultant pro­ '49 Walter Hunter, Alexandria, Va., is assis­ viding liason between Dallas County George Chauncey, appointed to the ad­ tant director of the U.S. General Account­ teachers and the eight museums in the ministrative staff of the General Executive ing Office and active in Mount Vernon program. Knowing museums' collections Board of the Presbyterian Church in the Presbyterian Church where he is a Dea­ she can help teachers enrich their work U.S. (PCUS), will head the Washington, con. through using those community re­ D.C. office where he will direct Church sources. She's now in a second Master's communications to national, internation­ '40 Program (MLA), having received an M.A. al, and ecumenical structures. A former Dr. Hubert Turley is president of the from SMU in 1969. member of the Board of Church Ex­ Southeastern American Urological Asso­ tension, he has directed the Board of ciation. He has been in private practice '44 Christian Education Office of Church and in Memphis since 1950. Cham Canon, former assistant rector of Society for the past several years. He St. Mary's Cathedral, Memphis, is now earned the B.D. degree from Yale Divinity '41 rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in School and holds the Th.M. and D.Min. Among the new officers of Brooks Art Tupelo (Miss). He and Eileen have three from Union Theological Seminary. Gallery League are Diana Wallace Crump children, Kate, a SW senior, Nancy, 19, James Tharpe is the new judge of Division (Mrs. Charles M.), president, and Cather­ and Chris, 17. III, Memphis Circuit Court. He was ap­ ine Moore Freeburg (Mrs. Charles '40), pointed in June by Gov. Winfield Dunn treasurer. Wilh a lolal patron membership '46 after winning a bar primary election in of 530, the league begins its 41st year of William Ramsay is Professor of Philoso­ May. His daughter Anne Marie is a SW service to Brooks Memorial Art Gallery. phy and Christian Thought at King Col­ freshman this fall. Since January, 75 docents have guided lege in Bristol (Tenn.). Bob Utter, June (Morrow) and Gene 6000 school children through the gallery. Betty Webb Utter, see under Class of '47. Schaeffer, see under Class of '47.

16 '50 The Memphis Alumnae Chapter of Delta George Huntworth teaches instrumental Delta Delta sorority named Ann Hender­ music at Greenfield (Ind.) Middle School. son McCallen its Woman of the Year for He formerly taught at Greenfield High, her outstanding service to the sorority where he developed a pace-setting, prize­ and to the community. A past president winning band. of the Tenn-Ark-Miss Girl Scout Council, Earl Quinley is treasurer of Tipton Co. Tri-Delta Alumnae, two garden clubs, and Federal Savings and Loan Association of two PTA's, she was chapter president of Covington (Tenn.) and has recently been the sorority while at SW. promoted to Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Ham Smythe is the new president of Reserve. Memphis Arts Council, which funds eight arts organizations. john Thomason '51 is '51 the outgoing president. Bill Aldridge has been elected president of the Memphis Ministers Association . '56 Vice president in charge of recruitment '53 joan (Womack) and Troy Bentlage, Co­ and planning for Memphis Theological Mary (Myers) and Morton McMillan and lumbia, Mo., have moved into a new Seminary, he was formerly associate min­ their familv have moved from Richmond home they planned and built themselves. ister at Idlewild Presbyterian Church . to Tupelo,'where Morton became senior They invite visits from SW friends. Anne Caldwell is the new Administrative minister of the First Presbyterian Church jack Bugbee returns to Memphis State Assistant to the President at Centre Col­ in July. He had been with the social mis­ Univ. as sports information director, a lege. She' s finished requirements for the sion office of the Presbyterian U.S. Board pOSition he held from 1958-64. Since then M.Ed. from the U. of N.C. at Charlotte, of Christian Education since 1968, where he has worked with Early Maxwell As­ majoring in guidance and counseling, he most recently served as associate direc­ sociates, Memphis advertising and public and will receive the degree at commence­ tor of the Office of Church and Society, relations firm. ment next year. Pomona College President David Alex­ jimmie Fortune has joined the faculty at Charles Harwood, pastor of Chu rch of the ander announced plans several months Virginia Tech's College of Education as Savior, Mesa, Arizona, is a member of the ago for a faculty-student Commission on professor and consultant in research and American Baptist Church of the Pacific Women's Education at Pomona, designed evaluation. He was formerly a senior re­ Southwest board of managers, coordina­ to improve the education and employ­ search psychologist with Educational Test­ tor of Ministers' Continuing Education of ment of women and probe ways of ing Service. Arizona American Baptists, and chairman broadening opportunities for serious Monte Robinson is president of Robinson of the American Baptist Day Care Center study and discussion of woman's place & Co., Inc., real estate investments firm . in Phoenix. in society. The commission also has au­ He's been a member of the Memphis Pol ice Dept. Reserve Division for three Martha Ellen Davidson Maxwell (Mrs . thority to explore specific proposals and john Rex) is one of 12 new directors of make recommendations leading to an years. the American Symphony League elected increase in women on the Pomona fac­ at the League's national conference in ulty. '57 Washington. She's vice-president and a john Crabtree has been promoted to director of Memphis Orchestral Society, Senior Vice President of American Bank which wil be host for the League's 1974 '54 & Trust Co. in Baton Rouge. conference of which she will be chairman. jean (McLean ' 55) and Bob Goodson have Hal Lewis is one of four new vice presi­ Bob and Pat (Cooper) Richardson have moved to Rohnert Park, Calif., where dents of Cotton Incorporated. Heading moved to Atlanta, where he joins the Bob is Coordinator of Community De­ agricultural research in Raleigh (N .C.), he permanent staff of the General Executive velopment at Sonoma State College, is responsible for cotton research pro­ Board of the Presbyterian Church in the Robert and Elizabeth Ann (Carter) Lips­ grams worth $6 million in production, U.S. He will help congregations and pres­ comb have been transferred to Los Altos, pest control, harvesting, processing, serv­ byteries develop year-round stewardship Calif., where he is Advisory General Sys­ ices and implementation. programs and serve in an advisory capac­ tems Development Analyst for IBM. james Smith is one of four outstanding ity for developing new materials and joanne (Cunningham) and Leslie Sanders teachers named by a student-facu Ity com­ leaders in stewardship. Before accepting have a new home in Huntsville, Ala., and mittee at Georgia Tech. An associate pro­ the new appointment, Bob was pastor of Joanne is teaching small music classes on fessor of English, he receives $1000 as Bon Air Presbyterian Church, Richmond. a limited basis at home. part of the award. He is an expert on He was formerly director of youth work Peggy Fitch Witherspoon (Mrs. E. D ., jr.) the works of James Joyce and has taught on the Board of Christian Education. works part- time in a religious bookstore at Georgia Tech since 1960. and is a volunteer Pink Lady in a Hunt­ Walter Streuli is new general manager of '52 ington, W, Va., hospital. Her husband the North Carolina division of Varco jean Norment Gould teaches English at is minister of Beverly Hills Presbyter­ Pruden, manufacturers of metal building Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro ian Church in Huntington, They have a systems. His headquarters will be in Ker­ (Tenn .). daughter, 15, and a son, 12. nersville (N.C.). He is a former vice presi­ james Lapsley's book, Salvation and dent in charge of marketing for Bruce Health; the interlocking processes of life, Flooring division of Cook Industries, Inc., has been published by Westminster Press. '55 Memphis. Written primarily for ministers and theo­ Carolyn Williamson has moved from Classical guitarist Bunyan Webb gives logians, it is an introduction to theological Brookline to Wenham, Mass., where she concerts before diverse audiences in anthropology. has bought a home. such settings as PTA meetings, factories,

17 and hospitals. He is part of Affilate Art­ Bill and San Andrews Robertson and their and Regional Planning, at the U. of N.C, ists, Inc., a program in which professional three sons have moved from Charlottes­ Chapel Hill, worked in Washington this artists appear in various communities ville, where Bill graduated from the Univ. summer as a consultant to the Office of under sponsorship of local institutions. of Virginia in August with a Ph.D. in Water Planning, U.S. Environmental Pro­ Designed to encourage artist-audience Engineering Physics, to Colorado Springs, tection Agency. communication, the program provides where he'll again be on the physics fac­ After serving the Diocese of Colorado guaranteed annual incomes so artists have ulty at the Air Force Academy. In Char­ for four years, David Wessell and his wife more time for developing th~ir talents. lottesville, San was chairman of an Emer­ have made the Diocese of Botswana their gency Food Bank for families in crisis lifetime commitment to the Anglican situations and helped initiate a kinder­ church. They arrived in August, to stay 6 '58 garten and day care center for children months at the Cathedral parish, of which jane (Alexander '59) and jack Biedenharn, of migrant workers. David is in charge; then will go to an Ft. Pierce, Fla., are both teaching - Jane Sandy Calmer Toenes (Mrs. David), Mo­ African village in the center of the coun­ in high school, Jack at Indian River Com­ bile, has temporarily retired from work try. Fr. Wessell was ordained in South munity College where this fall he is an (as Family Counselor and Counselor to West Africa in 1966 and served 3 years assistant professor of art. Families with Learning Disabilities Chil­ there. His wife is a former missionary to In Nyack (N .Y.), Mara Bowlin and her dren and/or Cerebral Palsy) until the boys Zaire and New Guinea. partner have created the town's first thea­ (Christopher, 5; Douglas, 1) are older. Gary Wright, Brooklyn, has been teaching tre for children, " The Marshmallow The­ julia Bates (Peacock) and Ed Toone moved Spanish and English in N.Y.C public atre," which offers a new production back to Fremont (N.C) last year, where schools but planned last spring to go every six weeks. Mara is a classical bal­ Eci is in the lumber business. In addition back to school this fall to study linguistics lerina who, with partner Cindy Fisk, has to taking care of the children, Julia Bates and Russian . a concert tour which includes colleges is doing Christian Education consulting and universities. work at St. Stephen's and St. Francis Epis­ '61 Mark Coleman and John Taylor, a fellow copal churches. Mary Alice Morton Adams has just fin­ Sellers Corp. employee, are partners in a ished a term as president of the League new corporation, AGI, Inc. Mark is former of Women Voters in Altamonte Springs, president of Sellers' subsidiaries, Ameri­ '60 Fla. , and is on the Board of Christian Ed­ can Graphics and Jamison & Associates, Diana (L'heureux) Allen earned an M.Ed. ucation. She and Bill have three children, which he and John have bought from from U. of Ga . in 1969 and since then 8, 6, and 2. Sellers, a Memphis-based financial hold­ has been teaching at Trinity School in At­ jocelyn Agnew Camp (Mrs . james) con­ ing company. AGI, the new parent com­ lanta. (She and Richard live in Marietta tinues to teach in New York; she's now pany, deals in typesetting, printing, and and have three sons, 11, 10, and 7 years an assistant professor at Kingsborough graphic arts. old.) Other SW alumni associated with the Community College, City Univ. of N.Y. William Edward Horton has joined Cook school or with Trinity Presbyterian Church Industries (Memphis) as industrial chap­ during that time include Frank Weathers­ Emma Young Thompson (Mrs. j. L., III) lain and counselor. by '62, Trinity pastor, Ham Kimzey '67, was chairman of the Women's Division California State University, L.A. has ap­ and Eddie Hart '70. of Nashville's symphony support drive poin'ted jerry Tate Chairman of the Dept. Nancy (Koehn) and Tom Bond have been this year and is also vice president of of Psychology. He has been at Cal State transferred.from San Diego to Gales Ferry, the Symphony Guild, a group of 850 since 1965. Conn., where Tom is executive officer on women volunteers who support the sym­ the FBM submarine U.S.S. Sam Rayburn. phony association. In addition, she is They have three children, 12, 11, and 3 '59 active in the Nashville Bar and Barrister's years old. Club Auxiliaries, Monroe Harding Chil­ Nora (Petersen) and Keith Buckley took Sally (Cross) and John .Co/eman live in dren's Auxiliary, and Tri Delta Alumnae. up cross-country skiing last winter in St. Wilmington. John is with DuPont and She and jack have two boys, three and Paul, where Keith is completing work on Sally's volunteer work includes guiding six years old. a Ph.D. in counseling, He's Counselor­ school children at the Art Museum, do­ Instructor in the Continuing Education cent work at fabulous Winterthur, church and Extension Dept. of the Univ. of Min­ '62 board membership and teaching. Sally (Cunningham and Robert Gay nesota. '63) Correction : The last News reported that Martha Heinemann is a research chemist are still in Portland, where Robert has a new job, in environmental research, as Richard Ferguson had been elected Judge in the Endrocrinology and Metabolism Project Consultant of the Oregon Dept. of of the Ala. Court of Civil Appeals and labs of a Memphis hospital. that he and jacqueline (Ferguson '60) live Samuel Kim, professor of history at Mon­ Environmental Quality. jeanne Ligon Roberts (Mrs. Walt) is re­ in Montgomery. In calling the error to mouth College, West Long Beach, N.J., a our attention, judge Richard L. Holmes was instrumental in establishing a Peace search scientist (seismology) in Dallas. writes, in part, "While I would· be the Studies Certificate Program inaugurated (See Births.) first to admit and the last to deny that at Monmouth this fall. Chinese foreign Gretchen (Smith) and Charles Rich '63 whatever small success I might have policy is his special area of interest. He and Becky (Smith '66) and John Rich are achieved was largely due to my wife, I has a Ph.D. from Columbia and has been in Monroe (La.), where Charles and John have not, as of this date, taken her maiden at Monmouth since 1966. have formed a civil engineers firm, name. I should inform you that my wife Margaret Lowe's job with the National Smith & Rich, with Gretchen and Becky's has authorized me to make the above Council of Negro Women, Inc. centers father. (For more news see Births.) statement for use as you deem appropri­ around home ownership opportunities to ate." Editor's note: Thank you for setting low income families. '63 the record straight and for your high good (Dr.) David Moreau, professor of Environ­ Anne (Edwards '64) and Bill Claytor are humor, judge Holmes. mental Systems Analysis, Dept. of City back in Charlotte, where Bill is with the 18 Haynes, Baucom & Chandler law firm. County Attorney of Benton County. Their A former IRS estate tax attorney in Char­ first child, John Stannard Farese, was born lotte, he later practiced law in Salisbury, in Dec., 1971. N.C. Gay (Knight) and Elbert Gentry, Largo, joe Duncan is secretary of the Young Fla ., both teach social studies. Each re­ Lawyers of Memphis. ceived an M .A. from the U. of So . Florida Bill Hall is out of the army and he and (see Degrees) and are department heads Jane have moved to Shreveport, where he - Elbert at 16th st. Junior High in St . is practicing dentistry. Petersburg, where he teaches American Paul Hicks is organist-choir director at history, and Gay at Largo Jr. High, where First Methodist Church, Memphis. she teaches 8th grade American I nstitu­ james johnston has received the USAF tions. Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding Melinda (Gates '70) and Bi/l Weber (see duty performance as a supply officer at Births and Advanced Degrees) are in Oak Lindsey Air Station in Germany. He pre­ Ridge, where Bill is with Union Carbide viously served a tour of duty in Vietnam. in the field of labor negotiation and in­ He and his wife Ann now live at Randolph dustrial relations after getting his law de­ Air Force Base in Texas, where he is as­ gree. Melinda teaches (high school) part­ signed to the Personnel Center. time.

'64 Dawn Henderson Grohs is now coordina­ '67 tor of all intermediate education for the jeanne Hope (Jacobs) and Peter Anderson Wichita Public Schools. hope to move sometime this fall into the Edwin Hankins is doing his residency in house Peter has been building in the ophthalmology in Houston. country. Jeanne Hope is a psychiatric so­ judy (Emery '65) and joe Howell moved cial worker at Eastern Maine Medical to Naperville (111.), in the Chicago area, Center. last April following his promotion to Op­ A news release from the National Endow­ erations Analyst for the National Opera­ ment for the Humanities announces a si x­ tions Division of Sears. They look forward month fellowship for $8,400 to Larry to visiting Judy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, to study the language of the john Emery (Virginia Hoschall '37) who medical community with emphasis on in­ now live in Singapore (see class of '37). vestigating the metaphors, analogues, fig­ ures of speech, and models through which value systems are expressed in '65 doctor-patient conversations. The study jerry Black is a professor at Vanderbilt will be carried out at N .C. Memorial Hos­ Law School, with special interests in ju­ pital, Chapel Hill. Larry will also teach venile law, children's rights, and legal part-time in the Department of Religion problems of the poor. He and judy at Duke, where he earned the Ph.D. in (Wood) have a 3-year-old daughter. Religion and Culture in May. Lou Ellyn (Hindman) and Gerald Griffin jennifer (Bird) and Ray Henley moved to moved from California to Boston in Aug-· Jacksonville last summer when Ray was ust. He' s attending Harvard Business assigned a larger territory - he's with School. Arrow Shirt Co. They have three children, Anne Partee Lorenz (Mrs. Philip) directs Andrea, 5, Trevor, 3, and Trent, 1. the Sewanee Learning Center, dealing Dick jennings is vice president of G ris­ with leaning disabilities, and is a consul­ wold-Eshleman Company, Cleveland ad­ tant in psychology at the University of vertising and p.r. firm. the South, where her husband is physics \CdPt.) Arthur Klein, weapons controller department chairman. with the 609th Tactical Control Squadron, Bob McLean is Professor of Russian at Cannon AFB , N.M., recently took part in Adlai E. Stevenson College of the U. of the U.S. Readiness Command maneuvers California at Santa Cruz. His translation, at Ft. Hood, Tex. Commissioned since from the Russian , of Mozart and Salieri, 1969, he earned an M.s. degree last year an Essay on Osip Mandelstam and Poetic from Eastern New Mexico Univ. (see Ad­ Creativity by Nadezhda Mandelstam, has vanced Degrees). been published by Ardic ($6.95 in hard­ Linda (Robinson) and john Overly are in back, also available in paperback). Knoxville where John's in his second year of graduate work in architecture at U.T. Linda's a language, speech and hearing '66 cliniciiln in the Oak Ridge schools; they john and Vivian (Stannard '69) Farese have a four-year-old son, Jonathan. have built a new home .near Ashland, Chip Reynolds has finished his internship Miss. John is a partner in the law firm in Shreveport and is now in the Navy, Farese, Farese, Jones & Farese, and is shipping out of San Diego. (See Births.) '68 in the parish; he'll return to Princeton '71 Ellen Plants Massey teaches in elementary next fall to do doctoral work in Inter­ Fred O 'Bryant is Reference and Serials li­ school and her husband, Dr. james Mas­ testamental History. brarian at Carl A. Rudisill Library, Lenoir sey, is Dean of Students at a private col- Marilyn and Bill Washburn (see Wed­ Rhyne College, Hickory, N.C. (See Ad­ lege in Houston. /, dings) are in Atlanta, where Bill's in com­ vanced Degrees). Dana (Adams) and Davis Powell '69 have puter programming with Delta Air Lines Susan Van Dyck returned from Europe moved to Houston since his promotion (see Advanced Degrees) and Marilyn is in time for August in-service training for with Lone Star Steel. Dana is writing her enrolled in med school at Emory. her job as Orff Music Specialist with thesis for a master's degree in psychology Nancy (Buchanan) and Mike Webb have Memphis City Schools. from Texas Woman's Univ. been in Texarkana since he got his Ph .D. Bo Marley is a junior at U. of Miss. medi­ Bill Robertson has finished his surgical from Notre Dame last summer. Mike is cal center; his wife, Gayla, teaches 5th internship at U. of Cal., San Diego, and an ass I. prof. of mathematics at E. Tex. grade. is stationed at Camp Pendelton (Cal.) State U. Harry Ogden became an ex-teacher as of with the Navy Medical Corps. Cindy (Vincent) and Bill Wehling are in June 1 and planned to study law at U. of Watertown, Mass., where Bill has finished Tenn., Knoxville, this fall. Susan Lucas Updyke is with her parents two years as a conscientious objector and Stephen Snow entered the Foreign Serv­ in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., while her hus­ enters school in marine biology this fall. ice in March and is Vice Consul at the band, an Air Force Captain, is on a re­ Cindy has a master's in special education American Consulate in Adana, Turkey. He mote assignment in Saudi Arabia. She and is teaching. earned an A.M. in political science from hopes to join him in Europe next spring. Claude Workman graduated in May from the U. of Michigan in August and is en­ John Williams has moved from San An­ Vanderbilt Medical School, where he be­ gaged to Betty Van Eyck, Grand Rapids. tonio to Portland, Tex., where he is pas­ longed to the AOA honorary medical fra­ Genyth (Smith) and Mike DeSalvo live in tor of First Presbyterian Church. ternity. Shortly before graduation he and St. Louis where Mike (see Advanced De­ Janelle (Hood) and joe Haseman live in his wife, Elizabeth, toured Europe by car grees) is with the Burroughs Corp. and Raleigh (N .C.), where she teaches Span­ for a month. He is now doing a surgical Genyth is doing hospital work as a regis­ ish . internship at Johns Hopkins University tered technologist. '69 Hospital and Elizabeth is working for the Donna Bishop, Bolivar, Tn., coordinates University. '72 the Child Mental Health Services at West­ John Crowell, Jack Lassiter, Betty (Wray Bettye Dale is a psychometrist with the ern State Child and Adolescent Unit. ' 68) and Joe Brady Anderson '67 gradu­ Memphis Board of Education. George Elder, chairman of Memphis Uni­ ated together from the Univ. of Arkansas Susan (Eschenbrenner) and Steve Hitt (see versity School's drama department, con­ School of Law in Fayetteville (see Ad­ Weddings) are living in N. Little Rock. ducted a high school drama workshop vanced Degrees). john and Ann (Millsaps Susan's with the commercial loan depart­ this summer that ended with a week­ 70) Crowell have moved to Columbus ment of Block Mortgage Co. long tour of Broadway. (Miss.), where he is with the law firm Gary Goodman, a theology student at Linda (Henson '70) and Doug Fleeman Burgin, Ghelson, Hicks and Nichols. Louisville Presbyterian Theo. Seminary, both earned master's degrees from Van­ worked this summer as a chaplain at derbilt in December - Doug, M. Div., '70 Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, and Linda, M.A. in English. Doug is an Neva (Gibson) and Bill Lyons (see Births Ga. architect's assistant in Nashville and Lin­ and Advanced Degrees) are completing After a six-week training session at Mon­ da is working toward a Ph.D. Doug plans requirements for their Ph.D.'s at Okla. treat (N.C.), Dan and Molly (Enloe '73) to get his Ph .D. in philosophy. Univ. Bill's a research assistant for O .U.'s Hieber entered missionary service for the Kit (jones) and Barry McDonald have Bureau of Gov't. Research and Neva is a Presbyterian Church and are both in been at Scott AFB for four years whi Ie teaching assistant in the English depart­ Contributed Service Education in Hiro­ Barry ran the Gastro-Enterology Lab and ment. shima, japan. served in the Internal Medicine Clinic. Following graduation from law school Nancy Hottel is working on an MAT in He gets out of the Air Force in November (see Advanced degrees), Emily Scarbrough English as a Second Language at the U. and they plan to return south with daugh­ is in Mass. Mutual's legal department, of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and ter Nesbitt (see Births). Barry is in line Springfield, Mass., and is living in Agawan serves as house director for a girls' co-op for an M .S. in Counselor Education from (Mass.). house. the U. of S. III. at Edwards. Larry Woodard, minister of music at Cen­ Sylvia Thomas is now a stewardess with Kevin Nicholas is out of the Navy and he tenary United Methodist Church, worked Delta Air Lines. She's based in Houston. and Susan (McNeely '71) are in Nashville, with Met star Mignon Dunn '49 this sum­ where he is working for IRS . mer on Berlioz' Les Troyens. He will ac­ Roy Rascoe Rhea, D .D .S., is a Naval Lt., company the Memphis Symphony chorus '73 stationed at Naval Air Station, Millington, this fall as well as play Monday-Friday Duke Cain and Mark Lester spent the Tn. (See Births.) cocktail hours at Sheraton Airport Inn. summer in Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Leb­ Pam Smith Richardson, based in Denver, Carole and Gary Clark live in Buffalo anon, and Egypt. In Egypt they were royal­ is a Frontier Airlines stewardess. where he teaches creative writing at ly entertained for two weeks by Prof. Jim Roper is the new pastor at Pickwick Rosary Hill College, psychology and phil­ Wasfy Iskander and his family. Mark is at United Methodist Church near Counce osophy at Erie Community College, and the Center of Mid-Eastern Studies, Har­ (Tenn.) . He invites any alums who might is working on his third novel, The Greene vard; Duke has joined the SW staff as be vacationing in the area to visit the Lyon, and a manuscript on creative admissions counselor. parsonage in Counce or attend a Sunday thought. Their daughter Stephanie, born Pat Jones works for the Atlanta Chamber worship service. This is jim's final year the day Gary graduated, is now three. of Commerce as a Research Associate. 20

Note: The December issue of the News will carry a full report on Homecoming October 20 and the inauguration of James H Daughdrill, Jr. as the eighteenth president of the college.

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