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&fyt SrUtattrr Unriilr Mrs. duPont Gives The Official Organ of the Students of The Un iity of the South fJTLXXI, No. 12 SEWANEE, TENNESSEE, JANUARY 13, 1954 New Series No. 1,132 University $71,580 V-G Visits Raddin Due Donation Closes 1953 In Capital In February Fund Raising Drive A gift of $71,580 from Mrs. Alfred I. duPont of Wilmington, Del., Attends A.C.E. Will Be New and Jacksonville, Fla., closed the 1953 fund raising drive for the uni- versity. Mrs. duPont sent the contribution with a note asking that Committee Meet iAsstSPAS&T it be added to the university's permanent endowment fund and hop- ing that its income could be used to raise faculty salaries. Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady + This gift brought the total contribu- tions for the year to $716,625, 32 per will be in Washington, D. C, this week- cent higher than the average annual end, where he will attend a meeting sdue >latei gift record for the preceding six years. of the Committee on Institutional Re- Raddin will fill the position vacated Tlie Guerry Memorial Campaign, search Policy of the American Council at the end of the 1952-53 school yeear which began in Jan. 1947 and closed in on Education. He will leave Friday by Maj. James K. Holmes. Dec. 1952, brought to Sewanee slightly over and return to Sewanee Saturday night. Maj, Raddin's probable instructional §3,250,000, an average of $542,000 per In an interview the vice-chancellor assignments will include those phases year and the largest amount ever raised stated the nature of this committee of the two advanced courses which are by the university in a similar period. specific which it and the problem with primarily concerned with flight opera- "The American Council on Ed- The Rt. Rev. Frank A. Julian, Bishop deals: BOR JEWELL tions. As a new senior officer, his of Florida and chairman of ucation is a national organization with the Se- principal additional duty will be as unit wanee Centennial Fund, said of the offices in Washington. It deals with training officer, which includes sched- year's contributions, "The present major problems affecting all universi- sub- uling, instructional assignments, and stantial increase in rate of giving ties and colleges in the United States. by Bob Jewell responsibility for training programs. our friends is enough to forecast com- Since the Armed Forces, the Atomic of " Energy Commission, the National Sci- Maj. Raddin will assist the incoming The Sewanee Centennial Fund opened ence Foundation, and many large in- PAS&T, who will be assigned during on Jan. 1, 1953, and is r dustries within the last few years have Is Injured the early part of this summer. Col. "advance gifts" stage, with general started supporting scientific research on so- Gilland finishes his tour of duty with RS. ALFRED I. DUPONT Early Christmas Eve, Bob Jewell, licitation to come later. The total of an unprecedented scale. Many pro- the AF ROTC at the end of this school arisen concerning proper former Sewanee student, and his family $2,800,000 is being sought by June, blems have year, and will probably be assigned to were traveling 1957, the one-hundredth anniversary policies for universities to adopt with toward Washington, D. of an Air Force school. C, when an allegedly intoxicated the founding of the university, respect to this kind of externally driver Thorogood hit head on. Maj. Raddin, a native of Hatties- sponsored research. If allowed to ex- them Jewell's wife Ko' "Seven major structures and an in- burg, Miss., is married and has pand too much, such activities could kahlene and daughter Carol Ann wer two creased endowment are Sewanee's cen- killed, and Jewell received critical in children. He is a pilot with a World tennial objectives," seriously interfere with the teaching Is Delegate Bishop Julian sta- program. Also, the ready availability juries. His son Michael escaped un War II combat record of 78 missions, ted. The program includes completion of All Saints' of large sums of money in support of 250 combat hours, in a P-40 fighter in Dr. James E. Thorogood was Sewa. Chapel, an enlarged When informed of the wreck, Jew- gymnasium, certain kinds of industrially or mili- the European Theatre of Operations. nee's representative to the annual meet a fine arts building, new ell's father, Harold B. Jewell, was facilities for an addition tarily utilitarian projects can, unless His decorations and citations include ing of the American Economic Associ- SMA, at the strickened with a heart attack. Jewell is school of theology, a new dormitory watched carefully, steer scientists away the Distinguished Flying Cross, The ation held Dec. 27-30 at the Statler hospitalized for four to six from the more basic problems of pure months and Hotel in Washington, D. C. Dr. Thoro- and the renovation of Walsh Hall. Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters, suffers from several broken bones and research and distort the whole atmos- good reported that the meeting was i In addition to the optimistic report Distinguished Unit extreme lacerations of the face and the Badge, and other phere of our educational institutions. very intense affair with a great deal of on capital funds, Bishop Juhan an- World War II service medals plus the Another danger is that the universi- concern expressed as to the economic nounced that the budget support of Korean Service Medal and the United ties can allow themselves to lean too Because of the ill health of his father health of the United States in 1954. Sewanee by Episcopal parishes and dio- Nations Service Medal. Raddin's as- heavily on financial support from in- ind young son, Jewell and his family At the gathering were not ony aca- ceses is expected to reach a new high dustry or government and almost un- left Sewanee last year. He planned signment for the past several months demic economists, but also industrial for the year just closing. "It will be wittingly lose their independence. In return in February and graduate. has been as Director of Maintenance, and financial leaders of the nation. another month before our church sup- order to study both the dangers and 31 5th Air Division, Far astern Ail Among those present were James Q, port returns are in," the bishop said, advantages presented by these new de- Forces. Dupont, J. K. Galbraith and Edward "but we hope the total will go over Council on H. Chamberlin Harvard, all will velopments, the American Maj. Raddin was graduated from Mis- of Lester V, 580,000, of which be used for Education has assembled a committee Feb. 20 Set As Chandler, an author well known tc operating costs." sissippi State University in 1941 with of college presidents, scientists and fi- economics students, and Arthur Burns Sewanee's permanent endowment now a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, go- nancial officers, who have met several the chairman of the council of economic stands at approximately $3,500,000. The Dance Date ing immediately into the Air Force times during the last year and have ndvisors to the President. Dr. Thoro- total value of the plant is approximately For 26 months, from March, 1949, tc issued a preliminary report which ha Date for the German Club's mid good also said that he had talked to $10,000,000. been distributed to colleges, universi winter dance has been changed from May, 1951, he was a civilian instructor Erskine McKinley, class of 1940, who ties, government agencies and indus Feb. 13 to Saturday, Feb. 20. Georgi in communications and radar funda taught at the university in 1947. try for study." Plattenburg, German Club president mentals at Keesler Air Force Base ii According to Dr. Thorogood, there the Since McCrady had been connecte< explained that SMA had scheduled ; Mississippi. He re-entered the Air Force were many and varied views on Kirk Speaks economic outlook for the coming year, with the Atomic Energy Commission dance set for the weekend of Feb. 13 in May, 1951. Raddin is also a grad- and neglected to have the date re but that it was generally agreed that program of sponsored research in uate of the Air Force's pilot training At served on the university calenda: there would be an economic decli Meeting nous colleges and is also a cc program, the six-month aircraft n SMA's plans were advanced to such five to ten per cent. Great conce (Continued on page 3) On Monday, Dr. Russell Kirk, au- dances could not b focused upon the amount of cooperation stage that their thor of "The Conservative Mind," and staff school's field officer co pub- postponed. Facilities on the mountai: that President Eisenhower can obtain lished last year and now in its fourth training project dates are not sufficient to He is co-author of from his two legislative bodies, and the for housing printing, spoke on "academic freedom," outlines for the ground control Local Phone allow both dance weekends to be held outcome has been conceded to 1 at an open meeting of Sewanee's chap- simultaneously. proach operator's course. the hands of Congress. Rates Raised ter of the American Association of It was announced this week by Doui 's Growth las Vaughan, universi Publications Mark Sewanee treasurer of the On one of the principal points of his that ten cents would be charged on all speech. Dr. Kirk stated, "Freedom of journalistic impulse has always has continued publication to the pres- calls from dormitory phones. The expression and of criticism been strong among Sewanee men.