HiLLTOP TUESDAY. MAT 2, 1961 VOLUME III—NUMBER U ■ '<:. I AOR ' Dr. Epps Dies at S. C, Jerri Chappelear to Reign Home Tuesday, April 25 Dr. Jennie Lee Epps, head ot As Queen of May Day Rites the Humanities department and its English section, died Tuesday Jerri Chappelear will reign as alumni. Miss Martha Sue Wood of West Point in charge- morning, April 25 at 6 a. m., at Queen of May Day this Saturday, Is faculty chairman for the event. Dean C. Lee Harwell will speak Kelly Memorial Hospital in her with Orion Hunt as King and Dale Registration for the event will on "The Case for the Liberal home town of Kingstree, S. C. Turner as Maid of Honor. begin at the Smith-Hawkes walk- Arts" at 11:30 in V^e auditorium, She was 62. The WAA has invited the par- way at 10 a. m., followed by the with the Choralaires providing the Several LaGrange faculty mem- ents of present students to the annual meeting of the Alumni As- music. A picnic lunch will be bers attended the funeral at annual event, and the alumni of- sociation in Dobbs auditorium at spread on the quadrangle at Kingstree last Wednesday after- fice has sent invitations to 2600 110:30, with Mrs. T. Scott Avary 12:30. noon. Survivors include a brother Reunions for the classes of '01, and two sisters. Miss Leila Epps '11, '36, '51, and '56 will be held and Mrs. J. R. Ritter, all of Kings- after lunch, with photographs tree. Another brother had passed made at 2 p. m. Campus tours and away last year. 3 New Faculty open house for all campus build- Dr. Epps had been on a leave ings will be held in the early af- of absence since December, though ternoon. 6he had had to be hospitalized The crowning of the May Queen several times during the fall quar- Members Named and the presentation of the pag- ter. eant, "Stairway to Paradise," will Florida State University, Mississ- She joined the LaGrange faculty By Beth Ingram be presented at 3 p. m., at Calla- way Auditorium. in 1932 as professor of English. When students return to the ippi College, and received his B. The day will be brought to a She had previously taught at Gre- Hill next fall after summer vaca- S degree at Mississippi Southern DR. JENNIE LEE EPPS tion' they will be greeted by College. He has done graduate close with a dance in the gym at nada College in Mississippi from 8. P. M. Music will be furnished 1929 to 1932 and was an instruc- conference fund committees. She three new faculty members, work in math at Kansas State appointments were announced by by the Continental Jazzmen. tor at Columbia College in South was advisor to the SCROLL and Teachers' College,, and will receive Carolina from 1918 to 1928. ne administration last week. his Master's degree at the Univer- QUADRANGLE staffs. isity of Illinois this ilimmer. He is She received her B. A. degree The professor listed her hob- An addition to the science de- partment will be Mr. Richard H. ! a member of the National Council in Latin and English from Colum- bies as gardening, sewing, knit- ! of Teachers of Mathematics. Pilgrimage bia College in 1918, at which time ting, and crocheting. She traveled Bennett, Jr., who comes to us from Clemson College in South she was named first honor grad- in Brazil (1922), Europe (1930) A native of Meridian, Mississ- including England, and Canada. Carolina, where he has been a ippi. Mr. Jolly is married and is Of Love... uate. Her M. A. was conferred by faculty member for several years, the University of South Carolina She read Latin, French. German, the father of two school-age and some Greek. lie did his undergraduate work children. Concerning Mr. Jolly's TRD3UTE TO in 1925 and her Ph. D. by the at Duke University, from which same institution in 1929. She also appointment, Dr. Henry made DR. JENNDS LEE EPPS Her Master's thesis topic was lie received the A. B. degree, and this comment: "His graduate stu- did summer work at Peabody Col- In the somber, grey hours of an "Three Literary Concepts of the at Emory University where he dies have been taken in an insti- lege, the University of Northa Ca- April morning—in the hush and Devil." The Doctor's dissertation received the B. S. He also holds tution that is considered in the rolina, Columbia University, and quiet preceding dawn—they set was on the "Influence of Milton the M. S. degree from Emory, forefront of the development o' Harvard University. out together on a pilgrimage of on the Major New England and an M. S. degree in electrical teachers of modern mathematics." love. Five of the many who knew While at Columbia College she Poets." Dr. Epps was a Milton engineering from Union College. » * » received special medals in math- and loved Dr. Jennie Lee Epps— specialist. Aside from teaching, Mr. Ben- Rev. Toombs H Kay, Jr., a na- ematics, English composition, cre- to whom she had been variously Besides her teaching, Dr. Epps nett has held the position of en- tive of Royston, Ga., will assume related as teacher, friend, and ative writing and general scholar- did civilian service in the Navy gineer and production supervisor his new duties on the faculty of ship. She was a member of Phi professional associate—journeyed Department in the summer of for the Tennessee Power Compa- the Religion Department beginn- to Kingstree, South Carolina, to Beta Kappa, Dr. Epps held many J944. ;» ny. He belongs to the American .ng Summer Quarter. He is a student offices during her under- bid a last farewell to one whom Institute of Engineers and has had member of the North Georgia they admired and held in deep af- graduate career. a paper published in the journal Conference of the Methodist Con- fection. She was a member of the Meth- of that organization. Of Mr. Ben- ference, and has served several Their conversation, on the way, odist Church. Among professional nett's appointment, Dr. Henry pastorates. At present, he is pas- ranged among many topics but in- organizations, she held member- Martha Green has this to say, "Mr. Bennett tor of a church in Jamaica, New evitably returned to one subject, ships in the Modern Language As- comes to LaGrange to strength- York. Continued on page 3 en the teaching force of the sociation, the National Council of R.-v-. Kay graduated 'r-m Rein- Science Department. Whereas his Teachers of English, the American Sings Friday Continued on page 4 BELOW: Jerri Chappelear will Association of University Women, primary interest is in physics, he reign Saturday as May Queen. and the Southeastern College For the first time in two years will also teach some math cours- English Association. a student voice recital will be gi- es." At LaGrange. Dr. Epps served ven on the LaGrange campus. Mr. Bennett is married and has on. the Advisory Council, library, On May 5, at 8:15 p. m., Martha one grown son. He is a native of Green, a native of Summerville. curriculum, self-study, student Norfolk. Va. publications, teacher training, and will present her senior recital. * * * Martha studied for three years Mr- Richard D. Jolly will be under Mist Elizabeth Gilbert and another addition to the science the present year under Prof- Sid- NEWS BRIEFS .. faculty. He has served on the fac- ney Murray. CHAPEL AND HOUR OF Martha's program will include ulty of the Colorado Academy in Denver, has taught high school POWER . . . ■selections from such composers as Handel, Pasquini, Caccini, Cavalli, math in Missouri, and has also On May 4, Dr. Waights G. Hen- taught electronics at Keeslcr Air Schubert, and Saint-Saens. ry, Jr., will speak at 10:00; this Force Base in Mississippi. will be his first time to speak in The singer has had leading roles chapel this quarter. The chapel in Puccini's "La Boheme" and. He did undergraduate work at speaker for May 11, is the Rev. two weeks ago, Mozart's "The Sam C'ark, pastor of the Brook- Impresario." She has been a mem- field Methodist Church, near ber of the Choralaires and the Tifton. Rev. Clark was here last girls' ensemble for four years, and Curtain Raisers year, and his original interpreta- hns fcpen a soloist for two years in tion of a current play was a pop- the First Presbyterian Church Set New Officers C.hAr. ular part of his talk. On April 20 the Curtain Rais- May 3, Ed Nelson, a senior pre- Martha is a member of Kappa Phi Delta sorority. ers elected officers for the coming ministerial student from Augusta, year. Heading the group as presi- will preach at the Wednesday dent will be Gail Woodruff. OTfier night worship service. On the fol- Charlie Banks, who transferred officers are Billy Hearnberg. vice- lowing Wednesday, Ed Cook, a to LaGrange from Reinhardt Coll- president; Mike Lane, correspond- freshman pre-ministerial student ege last fall, was critically injured ing secretary; and Cindy Bennett, from Marietta, will preach. The by a hit-and-run driver while re- treasurer. Christadelphians will be in charge turning to school Saturday night. of the song service. He is in an Atlanta hospital. • • • STAMMER SCHOOL . . . Officers for the junior class Dean Harwell has stated thai Miss Julie Haydon left this have been elected and are as fol- students considering coming to morning after a week's stay on lows: president, John Gipson; vice- summer school should come to a the campus. She presented an out- president, Helen Herd; secretary. Jane Mathews; treasurer, David decisior soon- Pre-registration for standing feature oTthe Fine Arts Continued on pace S Festival. Turner; chaplain, Muland Beckum. |PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 2, 1961 - THE HILLTOP NEWS Dr. Jennie Lee Epps Confetti The bustle in a house By Ray Barfield The morning after death It was a pleasant night on the Is solemnest of industries quadrangle. Enacted upon earth,— The breeze of an early spring The sweeping up the heart, evening was in T And putting love away evidence- T h el We shall not want to use again lights from the| Until eternity. library lent a \ —Emily Dickinson. flourescent glow* THE SHEET OF paper stayed in the editor's typewriter for to the scene On;i a long time before the words began to come. The realiza- this Friday night \ tion that death had claimed her was slow to sink in. there was activi-j Dr. Jennie Lee Epps was so much a part of this place ty else where,j that one cannot help but think that an age in the college's ex- so most of the I istence has passed on with her. As with a work of art, the windows -in the] world cannot yield up a replacement for Dr. Epps. girls dorms were] "They ought to name a building for her," someone said dark. In Hawkes] when the news of the great teacher's death was reported. But the lamp with' the green glass covering shed a a building is not enough. Her monument will stand In the soft, reluctant glow beneath the hearts of many students and fellow professors. half-drawn shade On the north For almost thirty years Dr. Epps gave of her life to La- end of Smith, another flourescent Grange College and to her students. For most of those year light illuminated Matthew, Mark, she carried the burden of the English instruction almost single- Luke, and John. Behind the vine- handedly. In addition, she kept a watchful eye on each new enclosed porch, two lovers talked. SCROLL and QUADRANGLE The night watchman made his Two years, ago, when Dean E. A. Bailey passed away, rounds. Dr. Epps sat on the quadrangle and quietly wept into a small Later came the high-heeled handkerrchief. When asked to write her feelings at the time clatter of the time for the girls of the Dean's death, she compared, in her characteristic brevity "Would the person who threw that firecracker please 10 be in. The breeze played hide- come end help me revive my roommate!" and-seek with the leaves of the and meaningfulness, certain aspects of his life to a "lost art." large trees. It was the kind of a Certainly the making of her life was also an art now lost to nignt for horseplay to create hap- a rude and blundering world. SYLVIE SAPPHO . . . py shouts from Turner. From She liked to tell with pride that graduates of many years j'itts a Johnny Mathis record gave past would come back and greet her with the "Whan that the wind a voice. Mr. Overcash Aprille ..." they had struggled over as sophomores. traced the route from Dobbs to And the end came to her life last week in the springtime, Enter Lady Macbeth the girls' dorms to the gym to in a Chaucer kind of April. Turner and oack again. It was that kind of night. Noth- Among the more or less major cans at 6:00 a. m. ing special, nothing significant problems that one encounters I have often heard that a word transpired. It was just one of when living in a dormitory is the those beautiful spring nights on IheL. C. Contribution to the wise is sufficient. If you "How can I sleep late?' problem. the Hill. are among the said wise, heed my • • • TWENTIETH-CENTURY America has become, in the pro- After making it through three word before you are rudely arous- Otherwise. Circle K members cess of growing into world leadership, has found itself years of dorm life with some ed from sleep early some morning. turned garden specialists on that to be in a place of leadership in the arts, too. slight degree of sanity, I should like to warn those, who have been Each night before going to bed, surmy Monday afternoon last A new excitement and spirit of experimentation has per- don dark glasses and ear plugs, sheltered, of the hazards th"at week, with Mom Stambaugh wrap the radiator in sound proof vaded the American scene since the Ashcan school of Philadel- they may encounter when trying calling the plays and George Cok- material, put down towels to phia artists first began to break from European romanticism to get a few extra hours of "shut- er, ace Student Council official, and the techniques of Arnold Schoenberg were enlarged on by eye." catch the rain, and then flop a pulling up the "weeds" . . . Prof. American composers. pillow over your head and dare Exra Sellers reminded his art As strange as it may seem, the anyone, and I mean ANYONE, to students that fame and sunglasses America has added new dimensions to all the arts in the weather can alter to a great ex- wake you up. DO mix . . . Ann) Knight impart- present century. She has contributed Martha Graham to the tent, sleeping conditions. Cold ed the awful secret that the "fath- dance, George Stevens and Otto Preminger to the motion pic- winter mornings are absolute er of our country" had wooden ture art, Edward Steichen to photography. murder to anyone wanting to PHIL FLYNN . .. teeth ... the melodies of step- snuggle down in the covers for a Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams have contributed singing floated across the quad- lew extra winks before facing the rangle at sundown and, a little la- masterpieces to the world stage in their "Death of A Sales- world. But just as I get comfort- 1 ter, a beautiful girl became Pi man", and "Streetcar Named Desire." Off-Broadway is a total- able my radiator begins to make a Arm In Arm Delt sweetheart at a jukin' dance ly new concept in drama within itself. sound that bears a definite resem- ... the boys on the porch of The list of American composers of world repute is a volu- blance to army tanks plowing Another step toward the long Turner joined JFK in the Great minous one, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Howard Hanson. through the middle of the room- Rocking Chair revival ... Dr. awaited student - admnistration and Samuel Barber are a very few among the many American Rainy mornings present another Melson gallantly yielded to Geor- problem—that is, if you have a composers in the repertories of every symphony orchestra. understanding of one another has ge Sargent's higher bid for Mrs. leaking window. Let it rain for been taken. Melson's cake at the WUS auct- Leading composers of foreign birth have found a haven and ar only a few minutes and my room- acceptable creative climate here. Igor Stravinsky, perhaps the With the new ion ■ . . Miss Sue Fuller proved mate is driven, insanely, from her student govern- world's greatest living composer, now lives in California, for that famous people can be very, bed by the steady drip of water ment having only very nice," .. and the campi broke instance. in her face. Even fair days pre- been in office a out in a rash of shirttails and Native poets Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg have cap- sent a problem. When the sun little less than a sunburns. tured Americanism in their lines, e. e. cummings has contribu- dawns bright and clear (right in month, the La- » » • my face) I have the feeling that ted a poetic form as unique as his signature. American-born Grange C ollege Al Pinson to Richard Carlton, I'm living in Sun Valley and per- T. S. Eliot, probably our greatest living poet, has enlarged the a d m i nistration when the former learned that the haps I shoud sleep in sunglasses. has pledged full latter had been chosen to take dimensions of poetry. One morning in the dead of win- support and the reigns of the HILLTOP In other literature, this country has given forth the beauty ter I was awakened in the we" backing. This is NEWS for next year: "You'd bet- of Thomas Wolfe's four novels, the roughness of Hemingway, hours of the morning by someone a gesture which ter watch out for cannibals. If the wit of James Thurber, the individuality of H. L. Mencken, trying to beat my door down. Af- all student gov you don't you might be editor-in- the depth of William Faulkner. ter mumbling, "come in," three e r n ments have! chief!" Can the creative surge continue? We think so. Every day or four times and receiving no been given an • • • answer, I dragged myself from there are evidences of creativeness, even on the LaGrang:e which no student government of Andy Owen has a disturbing campus. An art student approaches his canvas . . . the practice the bed and slowly pulled the door situation with the short story he's open, bracing myself on the re- this college could ever get along room piano responds to an authoritative touch . . . the Dobbs without. writing as a term project in Cre- stage is traversed by the rehearsing actors. Something signifi- cord player. ative Writing: it's turned into a cant come out of THIS school? Why not? A challenge. Much to my surprise there In the years gone by, the school novelette. stood Mr. Overcash campus cop. administration has done every- • * * I have faint recollections of his Over and out x telling me some sad story about a thing in its power to help in every HILLTOP NEWS visitor in the dorm whose boy- way, the undertakings of the stu- EDITOR RAY BARFIELD friend was waiting downstairs to dent government. Needless to say Editor-elect - Richard Carlton take her to a 4:30 a. m. train. this help has been more than Associate Editors Harrietts Kuhr, Marianne Whelchel Why didn't the girl hear her useful and necessary it has been SEND THE News Editor _ — Joel Dent alarm? Why did he insist on pick. of the utmost value in aiding the Sports Editor - - Jimmy Trice ing on my room, out of all the student government to help the Society Editor - Julia Massey others in the dorm, to find out student. The administration is Religion Editor - - Andy Owen where the girl was staying? always on the ready or the be HILLTOP Reporters: Ollie Sue Gainous, Paul Kendall, Mike Lane, Mum An- My final warning to my shelt- prepared stage when it comes to derson, Ben Fladger, Suzanne Cooper. Beth Ingram, Cindy ered friends concerns the kitchen helping the student by himself or Bennett. help. I am positive that LaGrange through the student government. Typists: — Sandy Messer, Beth Ingram College is the only institution Last year's student government, NEWS BUSINESS MANAGER - ANDY BORDERS whose kitchen help arrives at 5:30 so I am told, undertook many Business Manager-elect Bob Van Landingham a. m. I shall never understand things in the line of help to the Business Staff: Edna Lee Thompson, Hardy Tippitt, Virginia their ability to yell as loudly as student and to the school as a Newspaper Advisory Board — Alan Thomas, Dean G. Lee Harwell, whole. Each time they undertook HOME Dr. J L. Kovar, Ray Barfield. Andy Borders, Andy, ^Owen, they do at such an unearthly Marianne Whelchel, Harriette Kuhr. -■ ■■ hour. Nor shall I ever know why Contained on page 3 they insist on emptying garbage // TIIE HILLTOP NK\V?i - Tuesday, May 2, 1961 PAGES "Leo" Returns PILGRIMAGE OF LOVE . . . Eppsian terms. SGA iVEoves^To Continued from page 1 They couldn't talk about Miss By Richard Carlton Miss Epps. Chatting happily for Epps long, of course, before they In the early part of April, a the most part, tney spomaneousi> mentio-ied her very real love of mysterious man walked into the recalled fond memories of La- nature— »rd especially of its sim- office ol Dean of Students. He Clarify Rules Grange College's beloved teacher. ple beauties. Foi ex-mple, one re- carried a bundle wrapped in news- And as they did, they were un- called how on a trip to AtTafita papers; these he discarded while The Student Council meeting of Girls who sunbathe on the consciously revealing the many Miss Epps had called attention to relating a story to Mrs. Margaret April 25 was chiefly devoted to Hawkes fire escape must have on facets of Miss Epps- personality some delicately shaped weeds Talbot. He muffled his name; the clarification of several rules shorts rather than other forms of and character that made her a which the heavy morning frost however, he said Chattanooga, and policies concerning social sports attire, it u&s moved. teacher whom students loved and had turned to rich shades of pur- Tennessee intelligibly. matters, according to President The council decided to recom- cherished—yes, and stood in awt ple. The visitor placed on Mrs. Tal- Andy Owen. mend lo the administration that of—long after their college days In the same veil?, when they bot's desk a carved lion which The council ruled that no the parlor of Hawkes be open to were over; the kind of person discussed the flowers at Miss had been "confiscated" several sports clothes may be worn on the girls and their dates at any whose friendship was of incalcu- Epps' funeral-—and there were years ago by an embittered young the campus on Sundays except in- lime. lable worth. many large, expei.s\e, and im- suitor. The young man had called side the dormitories and in the The freshman girls' rule con- T.iey chuckled as a member of pressive wreaths and sprays—one upon a girl, but he was asked to restricted sunbathing areas. cerning single-dating was trans- the group retold a favorite story remarked, "Yes, they were beauti- leave by. the school officials. A move was made to impose a ferred to the permission sheets. of Miss Epps—the one about her ful, but you know, Miss Epps Not being allowed a date from stricter check on those girls who In other action, a long-term trip home in rainy, icy weather would have loved best of all the the school, he decided to take might come in 'late. A double as- restriction was removed from a that almost equalled the ice storm large vase of homegrown pink ros- some property from the school. He terisk was placed on the rule list- mile boarding student on the in LaGrange this year. Ice was es and that pot of geraniums," saw the lion, and it was soon ing for girls, indicating that in- grounds of his good behaviour forming so fast on the windshield How well he knew her taste. gone. This act before long weigh- dividual cases will be tried as such si.ice the restriction was imposed of her car that the wipers had They all agreed "that the old ed heavily on his conscience and ty the Student Council.
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