outJ ews N U MBER 4 Alumnus Olim, Aeternum A micus VoLU ME XXVI (At One Time a Student, Forever a Friend) MEMPHIS, TENN ESSEE jULY, 1963

Dr. Samuel H. Monk Returns to Give Commencement Address Alumni Flock to Hear Former Prof An individual can know no more than he can express in lan­ Southwestern's commencement tradition, now 11 4 years old, guage, Dr. Monk went on. " If his language is vague and imprecise, seems to grow in beauty and impressiveness by repetition. A new he is to that degree an ignorant man, imperceptive, unfeeling, un­ dramatic note was added this year as the great bronze Richard thinking. Similarly, a society can function healthfully only if it is H alliburton Bell rang for three minutes just as the academic pro­ (continued on page 2) cession started toward the Fisher Memorial Garden, proclaiming the launching of 106 new Bachelors of Art, 14 Bachelors of Science, and 10 Bachelors of Music. Dr. Ray M. Allen '44 is New Dean The garden was filled to its leafy rim with parents, fellow stu­ Dr. Ray Maxwell Allen, a Southwestern graduate of 1944, dents, miscellaneous well wishers, and scores of English majors of comes back to the college this month as dean of admissions and yesteryear who came back to hear the commencement speaker­ associate professor of Bible and religion. their beloved professor, D r. Samuel H olt Monk, who graduated Dr. and Mrs. Allen, the former Julia Wellford '47, returned from Southwestern in 1922 and taught here from 1924-42. to Memphis from Jackson, T enn., where he has been, since 1956, On the previous day, Sunday, June 2, the baccalaureate sermon a professor of religion and philosophy at Lambuth College. had been given at Second Presbyterian Church by another South­ Dr. Allen said on accepting western alumnus, Dr. W. J. M illard '20, pastor emeritus of Ever­ the new post, "I return to South­ green Presbyterian Church. western grateful for what it has Both speakers had "grandchildren" in the graduating class, sons meant to me in the past and and daughters of parents whom Dr. Monk had taught or at whose hopeful for the contribution I weddings Dr. Millard had officiated. may make to its future. M y present concern, as the new dean Along with the degrees in course, honorary degrees were awarded of admissions, is to continue the to three alumni and a prominent Memphis physician. sound policy of admissions estab­ Dr. Peyton N . Rhodes, in con­ lished by my able predecessor ferring on D r. Monk, the degree and beloved friend, Dr. Taylor of Doctor of Literature, said, Reveley." "Scholar, Colle a g u e, Warrior, The primary purpose of this ubiquitous Fellow, how shall we office, he said, is to assist the greet you at Southwestern where Presbyterian Church, the Board time cannot erase your impress or of Trustees, the president of the dim your residual glow? Though college, members of the academic you have ranged from 'The Sub­ faculty and all others concerned, to uphold the high ideals and lime to the M iscellaneous' antho­ achieve the worthy objectives of the college. logically speaking, we would "To do this, ·it is this dean's particular responsibility to help rather cite you, I think, our the Admissions Committee select those students who are most Friend." "The Sublime" is the capable of maintaining the high •quality of academic work required name of Dr. M onk's first book by the college. and the "Miscellaneous" referred "Creative learning demands that a person have a certain mental to several collections which he has ability, a willingness to pursue a course of disciplined study, and edited or written the introduction a spirit of cooperation in the academic community. Southwestern for. Burrow Library featured dur­ exists to help persons with these basic characteristics attain their ing commencement week a dis­ maximum potentialities as students, and in turn to make their play of Dr. Monk's published · maximum contributions to society. works. " It will be my happy task and privilege to help in these pur­ The citation's "Warrior" refer­ poseful endeavors, and I look forward with pleasure to the many ence was substantiated as Dr. personal relationships this new employment affords." M onk, now a member of the Eng­ D r. Allen is an ordained member of the Methodist ministry. lish faculty of the University of After graduation from Southwestern, he went to Duke University M innesota, launched a full scale and earned both B.D . and Ph.D . degrees. He served several rural attack on the "permissiveness" of churches in North Carolina and was associate pastor of St. Luke's the new Webster's dictionary and Methodist Church in Memphis and director of the Wesley Founda­ Dr. M onk the deplorable popular tendency tion at M emphis State University. He directed the M ethodist Stu­ toward lazy English. dent Movement at Duke from 1950-52 and was assistant professor Change, he said, is good for a living language. Even the occa­ of religion and director of religious life at Wofford College in sional inclusion of slang, which is often animated and picturesque, Spartanburg, S. C. has a refreshing and revitalizing effect. But he took broad swipes At Southwestern he was an outstanding campus leader, presi­ a t such "willful affronts" as the cigarette that tastes LIKE a cigar­ dent of the Student Council, a member of the Honor Council, a ette should and the "ignorant and unconscious" corruption of member of O .D .K ., and was named to Who's Who in American words which he finds conspicuous in the writings of university Colleges. He and Mrs. Allen have three children, Julia, 8, Ray, Jr., students, journalists, broadcasters, and advertisers. 6, and Katherine, 3. Commencement Addresses- real excellence (and it is into their laps that I wish the Foundations would pour their showers of gold ) is to maintain in this country ( continued from page 1) a considerable and influential body of men and women who can composed of people who are capable of perceiving and expressing and do, in however rudimentary a way, share a body of common their moral, intellectual, and emotional experiences; who, possessing culture, speak a common language, have, unlike the majority of a precise and full vocabulary, are capable of putting into words an Americans, a sense of the past and its bearing on the present, and all-but-infinite number of fine shades of distinction of thought and even know some segment of that past out of which we have feeling. Such people are really alive; to the degree that we cannot emerged to become what, as a nation, we are at present. I believe make such distinctions and express them, we are, though not ac­ that one perfectly workable definition of the average American tually dead, unliving. today is 'a man without a past.' Oh, he has one, never doubt it, "Anyone who has watched a dog eat his meal knows that he but social and commercial forces have persuaded him to erase it apparently has no very subtle sense of taste; he gulps his food, not from his consciousness. to enjoy its distinctions of flavor, but to satisfy a brute appetite. But this is not the way of human beings, and it is melancholy to Perfect Consumer- reflect on how many of that species take life in similar tasteless gulps. One of the arts of civilization (and the arts of civilization, .. I t is the goal of our society, one presumes, to convert us all alone, set us apart from brute creation and more savages ) is the into perfect consumers. Now only a man without a past can be the art of making distinctions. Yet, how often does one hear someone perfect consumer, for to become that he must constantly erase the say, helplessly, of a painting that it is 'interesting'; or at a party blackboard of his mind and accept uncritically (i.e. without mem­ that both the hostess and the wine are 'nice'; and most of my fe­ ory, experience, or comparison ) the slogan of the politicians and male students (and a few males ) believe that they have made a advertising specialists. Advertising exists, we are told, to keep our critical judgment when they write that Christopher Smart's 'Song economy alive by persuading us that this year's T.V. dinner (thank of David' is 'wonderful. ' These are stale instances of a dead vo­ goodness I have never eaten one except when I was a captive on cabulary, incapable of making distinctions." an airplane), or model of automobile, or washing machine, and so on, is better than last year's-an idea inevitably acceptable only Linguistic Cannibalism- to a man without a memory, that is to say, a past. Moreover too many of us prefer to fprget our national past, for in remote if not Linguistic cannibalism, he said, is a threat to lucid expression. too distant times, Americans have been characteristically revolu­ Many sound and vital words are being swallowed up by other tionary- politically, economically, industrially, and even, on occa­ fashionable words which may be similar in sound and come from sion, in their private lives. In the present age of conformity, many the same root but actually have significant differences in meaning. of our fellow-citizens find it distasteful to recall that we once pro­ One of these is MASTERFUL (Domineering and arbitrary. ) duced a Tom Paine, a George Washington, a H arriet Beecher It has practically obliterated MASTERLY, whose meaning sug­ Stowe, a Jefferson Davis, or a Theodore Roosevelt." gests superior skill or art. In closing he wished the graduating class, along with worldly ELEMENTARY (pertaining to first principles; rudimentary) success, pure English, total awareness of good and evil, of beauty is fast slipping away and ELEMENTAL (pertaining to the ele­ and horror, of joy and terror, and a capacity to make and express ments ; simple; pure ) is doing the work of both and therefore fine distinctions and live according to them in the "perilous pil­ neither. grimage" ahead. ENORMOUS (referring to size ) is being popularly displaced by ENORMITY (connoting exceeding wickedness or outrage. ) Honors and Awards And DISINTERESTED (devoid of self-interest) has usurped the meaning of UNI NTERESTED (lacking in interest) , and so Honorary degrees also went to Dr. W. Likely Simpson, Memphis lost much of its own self-identity. physician and surgeon (Doctor of H umanities) of whom Dr. Dr. Monk said it is the duty of all liberally educated men and Rhodes said, "Your long and dedicated medical career has been women, whether scientists or humanists, "to guard the purity and distinguished by a depth in training and study, both in this country richness of our ancient language, insuring that our most precious and abroad, which most "modern" physicians can only applaud heritage is not corrupted, and that it is available in all its fullness and envy. As a practitioner, as a teacher, and as a Christian scholar and variety for the expression of human values, with clarity, pre­ you have always been concerned with human values, as well as cision, and when appropriate, with eloquence and harmony. To with human ills." coarsen and corrupt our language is to deface our reason and imag­ Dr. Thomas Cox Duncan '42, pastor of the Shades Valley Pres­ ination, the images of God in man. The scientist must, of necessity, byterian Church in Birmingham, received the Doctor of Divinity use his so-expressive non-language of abstract sign and symbol. But with Dr. Rhodes' comment. "In your varied ministry in the Armed all of us together must learn to respect and keep pure and varied Forces and in the Synods of Alabama and Louisiana you have dem­ and rich that human language which, in the last analysis is the onstrated qualities of high leadership and responsibility. Especially only empirical guarantor that we differ in any important respect in the realm of Christian Education you have labored with dedica­ from the brute creation. To preserve the purity of the 'language tion and success." of the tribe,' however, cannot be accomplished if, in our educa­ And of Dr. Edmond Carlton Hutchinson '36 of Washington, tional institutions, the task be left to my beleaguered colleagues in D .C., assistant administrator, Bureau for Africa and Europe in the the various departments of English throughout the land ; or if the State Department's Agency for International Development, who alumni of our colleges and universities do not cooperate all their received the Doctor of Civil Law, Dr. Rhodes said, "The academic lives with the academics who face this difficult task." distinction you achieved as a student both in Southwestern and in Egregious Illiteracy- Mr. J efferson's University has served as a firm foundation on which you have built strong and varied edifices of achievement in the He congratulated the class on taking its undergraduate work at public service of our country. The War Production Board, the Southwestern, where the study of the Bible is a degree requirement: Department of Commerce, as well as the governments of Iran and "Your Alma Mater has done what it could to save you (or at least Japan and now the Bureau for Africa-Europe of the Agency for it has given you the opportunity to save yourselves ) from the International Development have been strengthened because of your especially egregious illiteracy of being ignorant of the most influen­ personal integrity and skilled participation in their affairs. tial book that our culture has produced." Dr. Hutchinson has a son, Mike, who is a junior at Southwestern. It has done more, he said, in insisting that its B.A.'s know some­ thing also of both classical and modem languages, a laboratory Mrs. Estelle R. Cone, director of Christian Service Projects at science, mathematics, a survey of English literature as well as fresh­ Southwestern, received the non-student Algernon Sydney Sullivan man English, have a proficiency in their major field, and that the Award in recognition of fine spiritual qualities practically applied B.S. be required to take certain humanities courses. to daily living, and the two student Sullivan Awards went to "All of this is to the good," Dr. Monk went on, "but it is my Beth Poe of Little Rock and William K. Potts of Mobile. conviction that the peculiar mission of the liberal arts colleges of ( Continued on Next Page) 2 Laney R. Mills of Bogalusa, Ala., was the first student ever to Citation and Prayer ... graduate with two degrees. "L. R .•" as he is known to his class­ mates, came to Southwestern in 1958 as an engineering student. This photograph of Dr. Laurence F. Kinney appeared on the After taking both "Man" and physics his freshman year he em­ dedication page of the 1963 Lynx annual, with the following barked upon the two-track program, a major in physics leading inscription, hand lettered in old English style, on the page opposite. to the B.S. and a major in philosophy, in which he earned the Dr. Laurence F. K inney B.A. "with distinction." H e has also received an assistantship to Who, holding in his hands an work on his master's at L.S.U. next year. ancient manuscript, is the scholar L.R. is the fifth Bogalusa Mills to attend Southwestern, the other to find its treasures and the four being his first cousins. One of these, Marion Mills '31, who teacher to impart its modern sig­ is now a visiting teacher and social worker for the Bogalusa school nificance. system, was present for his graduation. Who, as mznzster and author has reaffirmed the faith of our DR. MILLARD-Baccalaureate Sermon fathers for thousands within and beyond our walls. Dr W. J. Millard told the sen­ Who, as friend and mentor, ior class how to live a full life-­ gives of himself and invites a by developing the capacity to "see similar response. the invisible, hear the inaudible, Who, for his love and de votion, touch the intangible and under­ is the subject and inspiration to stand the incomprehensible." Dr. K in ney whom we dedicate this book. ., This isn't quite as impossible as To the senior class which published this book, Dr. Kinney it sounds, he said, when one con­ gave a memorable prayer at the baccalaureate services on June 2, siders the invisible and intangible printed in full below. force of hearing music, the won­ "Eternal God, and God of our forebears who forged a lasting der in seeing a flower, the aes­ link between this congregation and Southwestern college, we ex­ thetic delight experienced in see­ press our gratitude for thy guiding providence across the years­ ing a work of art, or the silent for 'the divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we communication inherent in the will.' We are assembled now especially to give Thee thanks for 'the exchange of wedding bands or the fate that linked the lives' of these now graduating to their alma gestures we make for friends in mater: 1) for learning experiences won, 2) for friendships formed times of sorrow. and developed, 3) for values gained through struggle, 4) for family "Everyone should have a vision faith and devotion, 5) for the service of those who could 'only stand of God and once you have seen and wait,' and 6 ) for gateways now opening to new horizons. Him, you will never lose sight of "Let these sacred moments be an occasion for withdrawal from Dr. Millard Him," Dr. Millard continued. the recent field of action that we may gain perspective for new Christ came to reveal God to men, and both God and Christ are activities. May these moments be a lookout from a tower for seeing revealed through the supreme spiritual gift of love. To compre­ the road ahead in the light of the academic path just travelled. hend this and walk with God is to become a stranger to fear. Give us the oarsman's view to move forward with an eye to guide­ However, "there are certain by-products to such a vision of God points on the course traversed. which are first a blessing but frequently degenerate into a curse." "But we acknowledge our need for more than past and future Speaking particularly to the graduates, Dr. Millard warned against vistas. We need the upward look. Give us, we pray, a sense of dead­ the delusions of materialism, that man, the creature, frequently reckoning, that we may gain our bearing not by a horizontal view thinks that he becomes greater than God, the creator. Another by­ alone, but by the stars and the Maker of the stars. Give us direction product is intellectualism. Intellectual pride can lead one to a which will be worthy of our best efforts; grant us a sense of mission falsely-founded conflict between science and religion. "Without which springs from the divine purposes for men; give us dedication God, there would be no science. Science is but the discovery of of powers to match the desperate demands of our time. His handiwork and it should be utilized for man's wellbeing and "Let the purposes which we form be born both of the head and for pushing the horizons of ignorance further into the background." of the heart, th£t we may devote the skills burnished during days Faith in God, and the appreciation of His miracles which we often of preparation to the achievement of good for men and fulfillment take for granted can open up a new heaven and a new earth. of the purposes of God for all mankind. Through J esus Christ, Our Lord, Amen." The third by-product and peril is a sense of personal independ­ ence and freedom. "Wherever Christianity has been preached it has been the fire under the melting pot of humanity. Unfortu­ Top Student Honors Announced nately the dignity of liberty frequently gets out of hand and over­ Student Council officers and commissioners for the 1963-64 ses­ laps the bounds of order, resulting in chaos, and the image of God sion were elected by Southwestern students in April. Cyril Hollings­ is completely lost sight of. worth of Little Rock is the new president, H enry Pope of Mont­ "The greatness of God," concluded Dr. Millard, "lies in His gomery, Ala., is vice-president, and secretary-treasurer is Anne ability to relate the absolute qualities of His nature to each other Crowell of Mobile. in such a way as to bring about His benign purpose. Toward this The six commissioners, who are all juniors, include Winton end, we too must strive. We can only do it by hearing the inaudible, "Smitty" Smith of Jackson, Tenn., athletic activities; Roger Hart seeing the invisible, and understanding the incomprehensible. H e of Gainesville, Fla., educational activities; Judy Moody of Nash­ ville, publicity and publications ; Jacquelyn Dowd of Pauls Valley, is all about you; closer than breathing, nearer than hands and Okla., religious activities; Lynn Conrad of Memphis, social activ­ feet/' ities; and Didi H ale of Memphis, commissioner of undergraduate Dr. Millard is vice-chairman of Southwestern's board of directors. women. Honor Council officers were chosen prior to the student council Class of 1963 Gift- elections. K . C. Ptomey of Birmingham is the new president and Stanley McNeese of Memphis is vice-president. The Class of 1963 presented to Dr. Rhodes a cash gift to be The H all of Fame for the Class of 1963 honors James Riley used in the new Student Center building as a memorial to one Crawford of Jonesboro, Ark., Margaret Johnson of Mobile, Beth of its members, Janice D oyle, who died in April from injuries Poe of Little Rock, Bill Potts of Mobile, Stephen Richardson of sustained in an automobile accident. Shreveport, and David Watts ·of Memphis. 3 Hundreds Enjoy Events of Alumni Day, Elect O fficers Six Class Reunions- George M. (Smoky) R ussell '56, who had run a good race Alumni Day was different this year-a sun filled afternoon of against him on Alumni D ay, was sports-seven large and jolly class reunions- a gay luncheon where unanimously named president­ the Class of 1938 got together for the first time in 25 years-and elect at the J une m eeting of the the great Alumni Supper in the gym, replete with appearances of new executive council. two Southwestern favorites, Dr. Peyton N . Rhodes and Dr. John George, who was president of Henry Davis, both filmed and live. the Honor Council, captain of the The day ushered in a bright new tradition-that of celebrating football team, and elected to the the annual reunions and the mass get-together of alumni while the Hall of Fame as a student, has college year is in full swing, rather than on the Saturday before continued with marked success to commencement, when most of the undergraduates have gone home. demonstrate the same leadership There were other firsts, too, both large and small- inaugura­ abilities since graduation. H e has tion of an Alumni Hall of Fame- the initial showing of a South­ spent two years as an officer in western movie-and for the first time, a seated supper instead of the Marines, entered the insur­ the former cafeteria style, adding markedly to the general comfort ance business through association and tone of the occasion. with the D enby Brandon '50, By and large, the alumni appeared to enjoy the spectator agency, and recently was named sports more than they did the alumni competitions of former years, agency supervisor of the K raus­ and the student track meet, baseball game, and tennis matches, all nick Agency of the Connecticu t drew enthusiastic galleries. Only one note of disappointment was George M . Russell M utual Life Insurance Co. heard on abandonment of the horseshoe pitching contest, and that George is married to the former Carolyn Robison and they from Maj. Eldridge Armistead '38, of San Diego, Calif., who said have three little girls. he'd been practicing for it for 25 years. Still another m ember of the 25th reunion class of '38, Elizabeth Both John B. Ricker, Jr., and Lewis R . Donelson III of the Cobb (M rs. M. K. H orne, Jr. ) was elected secretary of the AIum ni class of '38 had dual honors. John, chairman of his class reunion, Association in the a ll day voting. Elizabeth and her h usband, D r. was named president-elect of the Southwestern Alumni Association Horne who is chief economist for the National Cotton Council, were and Lewis, who was the luncheon speaker, was elected to the receiving comments and congratulations during the dinner on their Alumni Hall of Fame. son Don, a Central High School senior who was named Press­ Scimitar T een Ager of the Year and had taken off with much fan­ Two Named to Hall of Fame fare the day before on his winner's tour of Europe. Named with Lewis Donelson as the first two members of the Serving with R obert A. Elder '40, the new president of the new graduate H all of Fame was Janet Tucker (M rs. Downing ) Alumni Association, George Russell, and Elizabeth Horne during the Pryor, also of the class of '38. Other members will be added on each coming year will be three new council members, also chosen on future Alumni Day. Alumni D ay-J ohn B. Maxwell, Jr. '57, of Memphis, John P. K. Cavendar '40, of Grand J u nction, T enn., and Hays O wen '47, of Janet, one of M emphis' lead­ Covington, Tenn. ing art collectors and sponsors and head of a lively home where she Frenches Receive Thanks shares the activities of a busy First official act of R obert A. Elder as he became president husband and three children, was was to present to Dr. W. Edward F rench '39, retiring president, cited for her work in the Brooks with thanks for his outstanding leadership, one of the handsome Art League, the Memphis Sym­ Southwestern chairs with the college seal imprinted on the back phony League, Art Today, Les in gold and red, and with a small brass plate inscribed with his Passees, and St. Mary's School. name, given by the executive counci l on behalf of the association . The Pryors also are avid travelers, Recognition also went to Mrs. French (Betsye Fowler '39 ) for have made 12 trips to M exico, the evening's table decorations-no small task dressing the tables motored through England a nd for more than 500 persons. All were decked wi th full length red Scotland last year, and took off and black streamers and alternating down the center lines were the week following •Alumni Day cl usters of carnations and large standing "S's" all in the South­ for a motor trip over Europe. western colors. Members of her committee were Mrs. Arthur Janet's activities are all the Womble, J r. (Mary Frances Aydelott '39) , Mrs. Irby Seay, J r. more remarkable as she has (Ann R agsdale '39 ) , and Mrs. William P. Caldwell (Mabel Francis traveled about by wheel chair and '44) . in her especially equipped auto- Stella J ones (Mrs. H ylton ) N'eill '40, of Seattle, Wash ., took mobile since she suffered a crip­ the prize for having come the greatest distance of anyone present­ pling attack of polio a number of Jan Pryor a pair of framed pencil sketches of Palmer H all and the Science years ago. Building. Lewis, one of M emphis' leading a ttorneys, a member of the firm of D onelson Adams O 'H earn Grogan and Edwards, has Dinner Program played an active role in the city's political and civic development. Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes expressed presidential greetings, brought H e is currently president of the R epublican Association of Memphis the assemblage up to date on recent developments at the college, and Shelby County and of Shelby United eighbors. H e served as and gave a brief look at things to come. state chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower in the 1956 election After dinner speaker, D r. J ohn H enry Davis, kept studiously and has twice been president of Travelers' Aid. H e also is m arried wi thin his allotted (indeed, widely advertised, he said ) 10 minute and has three children. Lewis is treasurer of Southwestern's board limit, which in no way inhibited his fun-poking jabs at the academe of d irectors and executive committee and a member of its Presi­ nor shortened his verbal swats at doti ng and dear former studen ts. dent's Council. (T ext of his address on page 7.) Exactly 10 minutes from the time he arose to speak the new 0 fficers are Elected Sou thwestern fil m began to roll-backwards for the first fe w sec­ Soon after Alumni Day John Ricker, who was manager of the onds, then forwards-for a full 20 m in utes during which the alumni Memphis office of Cotton Fire & M arine Underwriters, was named en joyed seeing many splendors of their college depicted in beautiful executive vice-president of the M arine Office of America, and he color photography and sound, which included a pleasant narration is moving this month with his family to ew York. ( continued on page 5)

4 Members of the class of 1938, celebrating their 25th anniversary reunion at the Alumni Day Luncheon, are pictured at right. Front row, left to right, are I rene M ore­ house Haas, Ardelle Livesay Sink, Dorothy R oberts Mad is on, Elizab eth Cobb H orne, Betty Foley, "Sis" Owens Draughon, R ose Lynn Barnard Watson, and Betty H unt Arm­ strong. Center row, Irene Battle Fort, Marietta M orris Watt, Charlotte Drake Chappell, Bernadine Taylor Goshorn, Jean Dolan, Margaret England Wilkes, N ell Thompson Goshorn, and Martha M oore Woodard. Back row, W ells A wsumb, Erskine Falls, Murrah Gattis, Jim Breytspraak, John R icker, Jr., James Watt, Maj. Eldridge Armistead, and L ewis R . Donelson III . Alumni Day- (continued from page 4) plus music of the Southwestern Singers, Madrigal Singers, one of the student combos, and the resonant Richard Halliburton bell. I t's a lively film showing many college activities and relating the serious aims of this kind of institution. It is available for show­ ing to church, alumni, prospective students, or other interested groups, and can be obtained by writing to Dr. Alfred 0 . Canon, Office of D evelopment, at Southwestern. A special guest at the supper was Wesley Halliburton, who received a large and spontaneous round of applause as he was intro­ duced. It was Mr. H alliburton's first appearance at an alumni gathering since October, when he presented to the college for dedication the beautiful Richard Halliburton Memorial Tower in memory of his son. Following the supper, the reunion classes continued their cele­ bration at separate parties on and off campus. Class of 1938 Thirty-four members of the 25th anmversary reunion class gathered for the major get-together of the day, met at luncheon for reminiscing and reorientation to the college by Dr. Rhodes. The tables in Catherine Burrow Hall were beautifully decorated with spring bouquets and butterflies by Dorothy Roberts (Mrs. L ewis R. Donelson III, left, was speaker and John B. R icker, James Jobe) Madison. Many just happened to have along photos Jr ., was emcee at the Class of 1938 luncheon on Alumni Day. of spouses, sons, daughters, and grandchildren, and a good 12- hour gabfest got under way. Following the supper they adjourned to the U niversity Club, where they held forth until after midnight. Among the group were two class couples-Mr. and Mrs. James T. Watt (Marietta Leath Morris) of Humboldt, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. Shelton H enderson, Jr. (Sara Carter )-and two class merti.bers who later became sisters-in-law- ell Thompson who is now Mrs. James Oliver Goshorn of Memphis and Bernadine Taylor who married Robert Goshorn of Sardis, Miss. Some came from afar-Murrah Gattis from Pico Rivera, Calif. ; Maj. Eldridge Armistead, Jr., from San Diego; Erskine B. F alls of Wynne, Ark.; Irene Morehouse (Mrs. R. J. ) Haas from Wash­ ington, D. C.; Olive Owens (Mrs. Robert M. ) Draughon from Tu~ica , Miss. ; Margaret England (Mrs. B. B. ) Wilkes from Green­ ville, Miss.; Irene Battle (Mrs. James Harvey) Fort from Colum­ bus, Ga. and Martha Moore (Mrs. Bryan) Woodard of Kingsport, Tenn. Other Memphians present were class chairman John B. Ricker, J r. , Charlotte Drake (Mrs. Porter H. ) Chappell, Rose Lynn Barnard (Mrs. Lauren ) Watson, Betty Foley, Janet Tucker (Mrs. Downing) Pryor, Betty Hunt (Mrs. Robert K. ) Armstrong, William N. Wilkin­ son, Dr. Wendell L. Whittemore, Macon Smith, McKay Boswell, Fred Dickson, Dr. Wayne S. Paullus, Dorothy Roberts (Mrs. James Jobe) Madison, Jim Breytspraak, Jean Dolan, Ardelle Livesay Mrs. M . K. H orne (Elizab eth Cobb '38) and John B. Max­ (Mrs. Curry Atherton) Sink, Elizabeth Cobb (Mrs. M . K. ) Horne, well, Jr., '57, were elected to the Executive Council of the South­ Wells Awsumb, Jane Leavell (Mrs. Clough) Eaton, and Lewis R. western Alumni Association. Also chosen but not present for the Donelson III. picture were John P. K. Cavendar '40, of Grand Junction, T enn., (Continued on Next Page) and H ays Owen '47, of Covington, T enn. 5 15th reunion, among them H arriet Causey (Mrs. H erman B. ) DeCell of Yazoo City, Miss., Janie V. Paine, Nancy Lee Robinson, Carolyn Cuningham (Mrs. John D.) Ivy, and Peggy Baker (Mrs. Ray Russell ) Cannada. Class of 1953 Movies made at their graduation, at their senior party, and at the Chi Omega Pirate Party during their senior year regaled the 21 members who celebrated their lOth class reunion in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. (T ed ) Fox, Jr. Mrs. Fox is the former Jane Swaim '53, and T ed was in the class of '51. T he film was furnished by Betty Martin (Mrs. YI. A. ) Daniel, a member of the class. There was one class couple present-Don and Joan (Smith) Ramier-and other members of the class on hand were W. B. Allen, Betty J o Carter (Mrs. John A.) Doyle, Ann Collins (Mrs. J. Morris) Elliott, Zoe T heodore ( Mrs. Steve C.) Futris, John W. Gray, Jr., Joe B. H obbs, Mary Nell Wendt (Mrs. D. 0 .) Hardin, Katherine Hinds (Mrs. W. Hamilton) Smythe, Charles C. Sullivan III, Dr. \Villiam C. Threlkeld, and Nancy Carroll (Mrs. Aubrey) Whitley, all of Memphis. George \V. Wilson III and his wife, atalie, who live in Lex­ ington, K y. , "lent" their offspring to his fond uncle and aunt, who had been wanting such an opportunity for getting acquainted, and came to the reunion with the most secure feeling that everyone was happy about the whole thing. Others from far and near made various plans about baby sitters and the goodly gathering made for one of the gayest reunions in town. Also from out of tO\vn came Horace Kitchell of Green­ Dr. W. Edward French '39, center, retmng president of the wood, Miss., Dr. Karl Rhea of Somerville, Tenn., Betty Johnson (Mrs. Frank ) Roark of Dallas, Jen Covi ngton (Mrs. Allen ) Smith Southwestern Alumni A ssociation, was presented with a South­ J. of Mayfield , Ky., Elizabeth Collins (Mrs. Richard) Swaim of western chair by members of the Exec utive Council. Dean Alfred J. Jackson, T enn. -. 0 . Canon '44, right, announced that similar chairs, both with and without arms, are on sale in the Office of Development. Mrs. Class of 1958 French ( Betsye Fowler '39) received recognition for the effective table decorations in the gym. David and Beth (LeMaster) Simpson and Billy and Sue (Robinson ) McLean hosted the fifth reunion party at the A.T.O. Class of 1933 House on the Campus. Billy was graduated a year earlier, but the other hosts were from the class of '58. This group also had a picnic All very YOUTHFUL to be celebrating their 30th commence­ lunch on the campus, stayed around for the afternoon events, and ment anniversary, ten from the class of 1933 foregathered follow­ attended the dinner. ing the supper at the home of Tom ('33 ) and Emily (How '34) In the group also were three other former "campus couples" Holloway. There were two members present who had missed the -P. W. (Buddy) and Mary Ada (Latta) Whiteaker, who are 25th reunion, G. L. "Dutch" Bornman of Clarksdale and Harvey living now in Pine Bluff, Ark., John and Neville (Frierson) Bryan Creech, who lives in Memphis but was out of town at the time of of West Point, Miss., and Walker and Diane (McMillan ) Wellford. the 1958 meeting. Erma Reese was a special guest of this group and others present Also present were Jeanne Scott (Mrs. Daly) Thompson, John were Emma Frances Robinson (Mrs. Byron ) Coleman, Mary Allie R. Dunlap, Betty Russell, W. J. Michael Cody, Chuck Blake, Sue Taylor, Dr. Dan Ross, Franklin Kimbrough, ell Sanders (Mrs. Williams ( Mrs. James E. ) Winslow, Emory Johnson (Mrs. H arry Anthony) Aspero, Pud Mahan (Mrs. E. G.) Ballenger, and Dr. T. ) Edwards and William E. Carrell. ( photo on page 12) William W. Taylor, whose son Bill, a Southwestern senior, had This class, looking forward to many fun filled reunions to carried off several trophies in the invitational track meet during come, made photographs and has started a class scrapbook which the afternoon. will be kept in the Alumni Office and added to over the years. Russell Perry, the class president, fl ew in from a Florida vaca­ tion toward the tail of the evening and called by phone to send his greetings to the group.

Class of 1943 Dear Alumnus: Mr. and Mrs. John Whitsitt hosted his classmates, after the As a part~ng gesture as Pr e sident of the Alumn L supper, in their home, 5507 S. Angela. Their 1943 class chairman Assoc1ation oE Soutnwester n, I would like to t ake is Jim Collier and they' re thinking ahead already to their 25th th1s oppor tunity to thank each member. not only for reunion five years hence. electing me President, but for the cooperation each Others present were Lewis D. Wellford, Roberta Wellford of you gave 1n mak1ng my task easier . (Mrs. Waddy) West, James C. McNees, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., Please let me request you to cont inue to s uppor t Georgeanne Little Beaumont, Allen H . Hilzheim, Mary Virginia Sou hwestern in every way you c an. Smith, Mary Hunter ( Mrs. Dan) Printup, H ervey Conway, Morgan You have elected a most cap able Preside nt 1n C. Fowler, the class couple, Tanner and Dale (Botto) Davis, Bob Elder. and I hope our organ~zat~on will g r o w Louise Howry (Mrs. Robert M .) McRae, Mary New ( Mrs. John u1 enthusiasrr. and suppor t.

R .) Cawthon, Winnie Pritchartt (Mrs. Cecil A.) Tew, Minna Your s for Southwester n, Potts ( Mrs. Sam ) Thompson, Rosella H ill ( Mrs. Barnett G. ) H all of Covington, Tenn., Jane Peete (Mrs. Wilson I. ) Osborne, and Cecilia Hill (Mrs. Donald) Calhoun of Jackson, Tenn. W. Edward French, M. D.

Class of 1948 '.;EF: am Mr. and Mrs. James M . J;:lumphries, Jr. (Dorette Storn '48 ) entertained a few members of her class at their home for their 6 ]. H. Davis Pushes Medicare, will then be unable to afford the estimable services of our success­ ful alumni phys icians." Deplores Balding, Full-Blown Grads I fear my eagerness to accept this topic betrayed me in the Dr. Davis' address at the Alumni Supper is printed below in full . end. Goodbar had requested me to "give an address," and I had A few weeks ago as I entered my office, now located in one graciously accepted. But soon I discovered that perhaps Dr. French of the highest spheres of Southwestern's celestial hierarchy (I am was not actually as eager for socialized medicine as his choice of in the circle familiarly known as that of "thrones, dominions, and last year's speaker led me to assume. Thus I had just started some powers," since I am on the same level with Goodbar Morgan, Dr. preliminary researches for my talk, when my wife- who by virtue [P. N.] Rhodes and Miss [Erma] Reese), I met Goodbar Morgan. of attending a class under Dr. Townsend, and one of Dr. Samuel And here let me interject parenthetically, that we have a rather Monk-is now considered a bona fide alumni and subject to all strange hierarchical arrangement here, for above us in the highest appeals for alumni donations-showed me her invitation to these level of our stratified "tower society" space is reserved for-of all festivities. I was both horrified and astounded. For there con­ people-the scribes and Pharisees, namely for Mrs. (E. G.) Ballenger fronting me in bold clear type• was a definitive statement that I and Dean (Alf) Canon; while important people like Presidents, was definitely not to make a speech-in fact it was a clear order Deans, Bursars and Registrars are located on lower floors. forbidding it. I quote verbatim, Thus for some strange reasotl could your gaze but penetrate No Long Speech the solid stones of Halliburton Tower, you would find, ( 1) at the fourth floor top, publicity and planning; ( 2) next, the administra­ "Dr. John "history" Davis has been asked to enlighten us tion, (or President Rhodes) flanked in the wings, (i.e. in Palmer) for a few moments (No LONG SPEECH)" by "the establishment" MacQueen, Laura Robinson and Wolf, You can easily imagine my sense of deflation, disillusionment, and by Goodbar. (3) Then on the second floor you only encounter and discouragement. My role had suddenly changed from that of deans, and ( 4 ) finally on the ground level, the bursar and registrar. the faculty oracle, delivering profound utterances on a difficult ·I would have thought there were enough R epublicans on the Board and timely subject to one of jester whose duty was to kill a few to see to it that money should be placed at the top and allowed to passing moments, and to furnish a slight digestive interlude be­ trickle and filter down to the lower orders. tween the serious business of dinner and the serious viewing of a But if you will excuse this digression on angelology, I will movte. proceed. As I was saying, some four score and seven days ago, I The next day I rushed posthaste to Goodbar's office to inform was entering my office. As usual, I received the cheery greetings him of how my hopes had been dashed, and to offer him other of Goodbar and Mrs. (Arthur) Birge. But I noted-with some and more agreeably conservative subjects. But somehow Goodbar trepidation-that they seemed to be converging upon me. They had had a change of heart. H e was adamant, but frank, "Talk about had such conspirationallooks and such determined treads that when anything you like," he said, "just so it's not a speech, and not over they entered my office and closed the door, and in sombre tones ten minutes long." enquired, "May we consult with you?" I felt greatly alarmed, and Thus the bitter truth finally seeped into my consciousness, I was certain that they were about to report the sudden demise of was to be allowed no message, but was to act only as the "pause President Rhodes or at least were bringing news from him of my that refreshes" or as a substitute for the seventh inning stretch. I dismissal. then suddenly recalled that this was not the first time in which I You can imagine my relief when they said they only wanted had acted as "an interlude." I was reminded of the feeling I had to find out my opinion of their new plan for an early alumni day, years ago in my halcyon days, when I was sometimes requested that they had wanted to shift it from June-when all the bright­ to make commencement speeches at graduations. I had experienced eyed undergrads had flown, and when buildings stood empty and the same feeling. Parents sat eagerly awaiting the moment when deserted-to a balmy April when you alumni could witness the their hopefuls would step forward and grasp the diploma ; washed vivid panorama of students at play, and remind yourselves of the and polished students were impatiently awaiting the moment to "dear dead days beyond recall." grasp the "skin you love to touch," and there the speaker was, My sense of relaxation, however, was quickly dissipated, when killing .their time and prolonging their agony. No one dreamed of I learned that this ostensible "opinion-taking" was only a sham, listening, or of considering the words of wisdom. The thought and that having exhausted all possible sources of speakers for this uppermost in . the minds of graduates and parents alike could occasion, and having failed to secure a one, they were grasping at easily be sensed, "When is that fool going to quit?" me as their final straw, (though I must confess this is a rather inapt ( continued on page 12) metaphor for one of my build) . Though I sympathised deeply with their desire to economize, I tried desperately to avoid the gaff. At first I suggested numerous highly distinguished members of the class of 1938, those great reminiscers like Bob Johnson and Alvan Tate; then outstanding national figures ; and finally movie stars-but to no avail. Goodbar would not be diverted, and I felt the net drawing ever tighter and tighter around me. Nothing Banausic " We want," he insisted, "nothing of a banausic nature. Instead we want an address which both implicitly and explicitly possesses a distinctly apotropaic quality. However we want nothing pejorative or inclined to obfuscate the minds of the alumni." This fervent appeal won me over completely, and I replied, " I don't intend to be apodictic, Goodbar, but if I remember correctly you and Dr. Edward French went to considerable, trouble and expense last year to bring to our shores an English MP, to uphold and speak in defense of socialized medicine. since this is such an immarcescent topic, and since I highly fa vo~ the idea, I am willing to make the supreme sacrifice and give the alumni a fine free speech in favor of socialized medicine, especially (I continued) since Dean Canon has brought so many of our alumni doctors to the campus during the past winter to propagandize against Medicare. I thank you Dr. Peyton N . Rhodes, right, is pictured at the Alumni Supper for giving me this opportunity of combatting these propagandists, with John C. Whitsitt '43, left, and Shepherd Tate '39, whom he and smoke-screenists, and I accept, especially since I am soon to presented with Southwestern briefcases in recognition of their lead­ join the ranks of the retired and unemployed senior citizens, and ership in the 1963 Annual Sponsors Program. 7 HEMIS TRY, "A study of the properties of matter and its re­ organic, and physical, there is a continuity in the study of funda­ arrangement," is basic in that it touches every form of mental concepts. Several advanced courses of a more specialized human activity including life itself. Since chemistry has nature also are available. C no limitations, he who labors in this field may choose any An awareness of the unknown and the challenge it presents part of the universe or its inhabitants for his workshop . H is studies is observed at an early age in the dedicated science student. This may vary from the chemical composition of outer space to the awareness usually manifests itself in a desire to investigate-to seek chemical reactions which sustain life in a microscopic organism. out that which is unknown-to do research. This tendency is en­ It is essential that a chemistry curriculum provide the background couraged and developed in several ways at Southwestern-through basic to individual study in these diverse areas whether they be laboratory experiments which are designed so that they become included in other sciences and professions or remain as a field of investigative; through opportunities for students to work as assist­ chemistry. ants on the research projects of various faculty members; through R ecognizing this need, the curriculum for the chemistry major the H onors Research Program in which the most competent stu­ at Southwestern is designed to provide four years of study in the dents may carry on original investigation during their senior year; fundamental principles, theories, reactions and techniques of chem­ and through participation in the Undergraduate Research Pro­ istry. Although the courses are designated as inorganic, analytical, gram of the National Science Foundation which affords selected students each summer 10 weeks of work on original research prob­ lems under supervision of a faculty member. Each participant currently receives a $600 stipend. The student who has participated in one or more of the research programs available is well oriented for graduate research and qualified to continue the study of chem­ istry at any major university. The department hopes to be able to offer the master's degree in the near future. Recent grants totaling more than $40,000 from various foun­ dations and major industries have provided equipment which has made possible the upgrading of the curriculum. Since the purchase of additional analytical balances, quantitative analysis is now taught at the freshman level. Other equipment available to the student includes ultra-violet and infrared spectrophotometers, an emission spectograph, gas chromatograph, a polarograph, electroanalyzers, etc.-all essential in modern research. The department is approved by the American Chemical Society for the professional training of chemists and its graduates are qualified, if they choose, to go immediately to work as indus­ trial chemists. With increased emphasis on research both at the faculty and student levels, with the growing enrollment and the continuing acquisition of additional research equipment, space limitations in the present Science Building are becoming a critical problem. An additional building is urgently needed. By Dr. Raymond T. Vaughn, Chairman Department of Chern

Dr. Raymond T. Vaughn • Dr. Raymond T. Vaughn, a native of M issouri who received his A. B. degree from Culver Stockton College a nd both A.M. and Ph.D . from the University of Missouri, visited Southwestern while he was in Memphis attending a national meeting of the American Chemical Society. H e was offered a faculty appointment and re­ turned to stay in 1942. H e has been chairman of the chemistry department since 1945. His major fie ld of interest is physical chemistry, especially in thermodynamics and chemical kinetics, and his principal research projects have been in reaction kinetics as applied to the mechanism of isomerization and disproportionation of the alkylbenzenes. Other areas of research include anodic oxidation of fatty acids and their H erb ert S. Emigh salts and derivatives of fatty acids. Dr. Vaughn is acting director of the Southwestern R esearch H erbert S. Emigh came to Southwestern in 1955 as Institute which he helped to organize, and has served for several Instructor in Chemistry and Supervisor of Laboratories after years as a chemical consultant to local industry. several years of teaching in Memphis high schools. He re­ Titles of his published works include "Spectroscopic Analysis of ceived both B.A. and M .S. degrees from the University of Isomeric Xylene Mixtures," "Kinetics of X ylene R earrangements," Mississippi. and "H eat Capacity of Methyl Chloroform." Mr. Emigh is' married and has three daughters. One is through school and two are in high school. The whole Dr. Vaughn is married and has two sons, one of whom is a family shares his hobby of camping out on week-ends and sophomore at Southwestern. H e is a deacon at Central Christian vacations, and Mr. Emigh also enjoys carpentry as an avoca­ Church, has been an interested leader in scouting, little league base­ tion. The family moved its membership this year to Evergreen ball, and church youth work, and last year initiated at Southwestern Presbyterian Church from Buntyn Presbyterian Church, the annual chemistry competition for high school students. where he was an elder and clerk of the Session for three years.

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Dr. Harold Lyons Dr. M. Foster Moose Dr. Harold Lyons, Professor of Chemistry, did research work Dr. M. Foster Moose, Professor of Chemistry, has been a for several national chemical companies before joining the South­ member of the faculty since 1946. A native of Tipton County, western faculty in 1958. He is a graduate, with the B.S. degree, Tennessee, he took his B.S. degree at Memphis State University of City College of ew York and holds the M.S. and Ph.D. and both A.M. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He studied from Oklahoma State University. His specialties are analytical during 1940-41 as a General Education Board Fellow and last chemistry, instrumentation, and biochemistry. summer received a National Science Foundation grant to study He is carrying on independent research at Southwestern in inorganic chemistry during the summer at Reed College in Port­ the chemical causes of slipped discs and other diseases of the land, Ore. His major interest is in inorganic chemistry. His connective tissues, and in the basic chemistry of the process of published works include "Preparation of Diammonium Dihy­ aging; under a grant from the U. S. Public H ealth Service. drogen Pyrophosphite" and "A Study of the Properties of Diam­ Articles which he has written about his original research have monium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphite." appeared in several of the standard chemical journals. He is married, has a son and a daughter who is a South­ Dr. Lyons is married and has three sons, one a Southwest­ western graduate, and enjoys gardening and fishing as hobbies. ern sophomore, enjoys photography as a hobby, bowling, golf, He is a member of the board of stewards at St. Luke's Method­ and bridge. He is a member of Evergreen Presbyterian Church. ist Church.

Dr. Richard D . Gilliom was graduated from Southwestern in 1956, received his Ph.D. from Ma~achusetts Institute of Technology, worked for a time in the Esso Research Labora­ stry tories, and returned to Southwestern as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1961. H e holds patents, or has them pending, on three of his published research discoveries, "Method of Cross-Linking Polymers," "Rhodium Recovery," and "Preparation of Trifunc­ tional Compounds." H e has also published another paper, and has one forthcoming, in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Dr. Gilliom is married to a Southwestern graduate, the former Patricia Hastings. They have three children and are members of Evergreen Presbyterian Church. Dr. R ichard D. Gilliam

Dr. H elmuth M. Gilow Dr. H elmuth M. Gilow, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is a Wartburg College graduate and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of Iowa. While teaching he also is engaged in research under a grant from the National Institutes of Health on the preparation of pyrimidothiadiazines, which are later tested for anticancer activity, and on the prep­ aration and reactions of highly substituted sulfonyl ethylenes. H e has directed for four summers Southwestern's student research program sponsored by the ational Science Foundation. Dr. Gilow has had three articles published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and another will be in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is a bachelor, a tennis, golf, bowling, and hi-fi enthusiast, and is treasurer of the Ascension Lutheran Church. 9 T his institution was founded for the glory of God and is From the Ivy-Covered Tower dedicated to the service of the L ord Jesus Christ. I t is to be an ideal lib eral arts college where knowledge shall By Alfred 0. Canon, '44, Dean of Alumni and Development be exact and complete, character robust and gracious, and Christianity not only a welcome guest, but the On -:--Iarch 21 , 1963, the Board of Directors of South\Yestern at ruling spirit w ithin its walls. I t is a cooperative under­ -:--Iemphis declared without dissenting vote the follm,·ing to be the taking on the part of several Synods of the Presbyterian admissions polio; of the college: Church in the Unit ed States, their agency for advancing the Kingdom of God through educational processes. Beginning with the fa ll semester of I964, Southwestern The purpose of the institution is the promotion of will accept for entrance those students best qualified by Christian higher education. T o this end it is essential chara cter, demons/ rat ed ability, and seriousness of pur­ that the members both of the Board of Directors and pose without regard to race, provided that Negro appli­ of the Faculty be in manifest sympathy with the re­ cants will be accepted only as day students . ligious spirit and aim in which the college was founded. In view of the important nature of this decision and the conse­ quent interest of alumni in such a change in college admissions The Ad I nterim Committee subsequently made the following practice, it is thought that friends of the college might be brought observations from their investigation : up to date concerning the eYents which preceded the ·'action taken. The reaso ns for faculty desire of change ranged fr om a For over fifteen months various deep sense of Christian conviction to an urge to keep members of the faculty of South­ pace with the over-all changing conditions, both in the western at Memphis had dis­ country generally and in the fi eld of education specifi­ cussed the question of a change cally; the policy of accepting N egro students on so m e in admissions policy and debated basis has been approved by the majority of colleges sup­ the issue on an informal basis. In ported by our Church; although the bases of integration September, 1962, a statement of and the m ethods of its accomplishment vary from col­ principle signed by an overwhelm­ lege to college, there is unanimity in the care and delib­ ing majority of the faculty was era teness with which the move has bee n made; no co­ presented to President Rhodes re­ educational institution in comparative circumstances has questing the Board to consider a undertaken a program of integration; and the expe­ change in the existing administra- rience of M emphis State University in this fi eld prevents Dr. Can on tiYe policies of the college r~lat- any fear of upheaval in the community if a so und ing to admissions. President Rhodes presented this resolution to the program is adopted. October, 1962, meeting of the Board, which appointed an Ad I nterim Committee composed of se,·eral members of the Board The Ad Interim Committee summarized its investigation a nd and headed by Dr. \V. J. ~- fill ard , '20, vice-chairman of the Board conclusions to the Board of Directors with the following comments: and one of the representatives on the Board from the Synod of Mississippi. In our decision there must be recognized also these T he Committee subsequently worked out a questionnaire to be basic concepts of Southwestern's mission and future: sent to some sixteen Southern colleges which face a similar situa­ I . As a private institution Southwestern can choose its tion with respect to admissions. I t ,,·as ascertained that nine regis­ students with more discrimination than can a public tered all qualified students without regard to race and seven did college and thereby can attain a higher level of instruc­ not enroll :\Tegroes. Of the latter group, three were in Virginia, two tion in a higher calibre student body. H er duty to in Yfississippi, and one each in Alabama and South Carolina. herself, her constituency, and her nation is to create an Following the questionnaire the Committee interviewed five fac­ atmosphere conducive to study, and to attract students ulty members who signed the petition to the Board of Directors and faculty who contribute to high academic standards. and four professors who had not signed it. At a later meeting the 2. A s a church-rela ted institution Southwestern not only Committee also im·ited se\·eral representative students from the can emphasize in its curriculum courses of study and college for an inten·ie,,· with respect to their vie,,·s and that of the practices of life that teach the principles of Christian­ student body on the question of non-discrimination in admissions. ity but also must create an atm osphere in which these Further it ,,·as thought, since Southwestern ,,·as related to four principles may bear fruit . Synods of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., that the position of the dwrch on this matter under studv should be carefullv considered. 3. T o paraphrase other church thinking at the moment, O ne of the pertinent documents' relating to the pr~blem is the Southwestern is both a witness and an instrument. A s an report of the Committee on Christian Relations dealing with higher instrument of Christian education she is a witness to education ,,·hich was issued at the 94th General Assembly meeting Christ. I f her value as such instrument is impaired so in Montreat in 1954. The General Assembly in that year, aft er will be her value as a witness. I t cannot be doubted that hearing the report, adopted the following recommendations: sane integration embodies a Christian principle and serves as a w itness. But also does the sound academic I. T hat the General Assembly affirm that enforced seg­ education in a broad curriculum by the church of any regation of the races is discrimination which is out of student, w hite or Negro, stand as a witness. I t is in harmony with Christian theology and ethics and that this latter sense and through the Christian m en and the Church, in its rela tionship to cultural patterns, women who have been trained here that Southwestern should lead rather than follow. has been a continuing witness to Christ through the 2. T hat the General Assembly, therefore, su bmit this re ­ generations. The importance of broadening that witness port for careful study throughout the Church and that in the futu re by broadening the area of st udent selection it es pecially urae: does not justify impulsive change which could injuri­ (a) That the trustees of institutions of higher education ously affect the institution's witness and influence belonging to the General A sse mbly adopt a policy of throughout the country. T he desire to witness by inte­ opening doors of these institutions to all races. gration must not destroy the witness of education and ( b) T hat the Synods consider earnestly the adoption of thereby destroy S outhwestern's use fulness both to the a similar recommendation to trustees of institutions un­ fi eld of education and to the Christian community. der their control. The Ad I nterim Committee also considered the basic documents 4. It is in this framework of ideals that S outhwestern relating to the gm·ernance of the college." From the By-Laws of the should gradually seek the most qualified students avail­ college under the caption of " Purpose" there is the following able to her without regard to race . statement: ( continued on page 1 I ) 10 F':om The Ivy Covered Tower Ex-Students Eulogize Dr. Kelso ( co ntinued from page 10) Several thousand former students and colleagues of Dr. Alex­ It is in the spirit of this report that the Board of Directors ander P. Kelso fe lt a profound sense of personal loss at his sudden subsequently apprO\·ed the policy indicated above. death following a heart attack a t his home on Sunday, ~I ay 19. T"·o ,,·ho nO\,. are M emphis The public response to this announcement has been fa,·orable. Press-Scimitar columnists ,,·ere President Rhodes informed the parents of current students, as " ·ell mO\·ed to comment in terms that as parents of applicants fo r 1963-64, of this decision in April by " ·ill be readily appreciated and letter. One or two parents indicated that they might " ·ithdraw understood by his many other the application of their son or daughter. M any parents of current pupils. students have written President Rhodes to praise the decision and Ed"·i n H o,,·ard \\Tote: '·It \\·as to indicate their support of it. thru Prof. Kelso that the \mrld of philosophy ,,·as opened up to Four or fi ve alumni have written or called to protest the de­ me, and under his keen probing cision, and two indicated that they were withdrawing financial and prodding that my mind began support from the college. On the other hand, one alumnus sent in to Yenture out among the ideas a pledge for a substantial gift indica ting that he was delighted that haYe shaped the ,,·orld. H e with the "progress" reported. A number of telephone calls, letters ,,·as one of those rare teachers and personal comments have been recei,·ed expressing pleasure at " ·ho are able to inspire and to the Board's decision. There has been Yirtually no adverse reaction challenge as well as to inform. If as far as the Annual Sponsors' Program or other activities of the he had not chosen to teach he college are concerned other than the t\m alumni who haYe " ·ith­ could haYe become a great actor. drawn their pledges amounting to a total of $110.00. The change in policy has been announced to the four Synods which support "In the best sense, he \\'AS an the college, with no specific reaction from them at this \\Titing. actor. H e enabled his students to There has been virtually no comment on the decision from the D r. Kelso see that life itself is a great student body, and the faculty has responded in an extremely fa­ drama; that like drama it poses great questions and proYides few vorable way with a resolution of appreciation and approval being answers. passed by the faculty at its April meeting. "As part of us goes with him in death, much of him stays aliYC This policy change may not have any impact on the student with us, still posing the great questions, and challenging us to find body for months or years. The Committee on Admissions will the answers." continue to evaluate and select students who are best suited men­ tally, physically, morally and emotionally to meet the standards of R obert J ohnson, in his column, wrote: ·'His intellect and under­ the institution. As Dr. Diehl once expressed the basic purpose of standing ,,·ere a\\·esome. H e stretched minds. H e made us look at Southwestern's admission policy: matters from not just one angle, but from around the circle. H e had a brooding, solemn face, but there was a lightness of spirit W e seek not the rich or the socially prominent, but the behind it. H e used to needle me with com·ersational bait." worthy-those who are morally sound, and who are intellectually fit, and w ho have the desire to excel. D r. Kelso, " ·ho came to teach at South\\·estern the year it moYed to M emphis-1925-and remained until his retirement in 195 7, There are undoubtedly others who will disagree with the Board's was one of the architects of its tutorial system, its honors courses, decision. They are certainly entitled to their opinion. On the other and the '·);fan" course for which it is famous. hand there may be many other alumni, parents and friends ·who will feel as did the majority of the faculty that the actions of the H e " ·as born Dec. 10, 1886 in Saharanpur, India, " ·here his institution will now more adequately refl ect the purpose for \\·hich parents ,,·ere miss ionaries, and educated in the C nited States and the college was conceived and planned and the principles " ·hich a t Oxford Cni,·ersity in England, ,,·here he " ·as a Rhodes Scholar. it has incorporated into its teaching. On his reti rement a group of his former students presented him ,,·ith a surprise gift-a trip for him and ~f rs. Kelso back to Eng­ Regardless of possible differences of opmwn about the Board's land, her home, and Scotland, his ancestral land. carefully considered action, it is to be hoped that all 4lumni " ·ill continue their loyal support of and interest in the college. It has Dr. Kelso is su n ·iyed by his " ·ife, the former M iss Clarice Ridley a noble heritage, a distinguished reputation for genuineness and \\ haran, by n m daughters " ·ho both are South\\·estern alumnae, excellence, and can have a brilliant future. At this turning point Edith Kelso '39, and ~f rs. Perrin Lowery (Janet Kelso '44 ) ot in its growth toward greatness, it would be well to recall the \I"O rds Chicago, and by two grandchildren. of Dr. Diehl when he "opened the doors" of the college on o­ vember 27, 1925, on the new campus in Memphis: Two Get Honorary O.D.K. The institution we were planning for was not a state or a municipal or an independent institution, but a Pres­ T wo M emphis busi n essmen- William D. Galbreath and byterian inst itution; an institution which is avowedly T homas \ V. Briggs-were named honorary members of South­ Christian, and which as such is shot through with that ,,·estern's Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity at passion for honesty and that hatred for al{ sham which the annual dinner April 24. is really fundamental in any interpretation of Chris­ tianity, and without which no institution can be re­ Mr. Galbreath, president of Percy Galbreath & Son, Inc. , garded as Christian, whatever be its claims, its forms mortgage bankers, and a partner in \·Vi lson-Galbreath Co., realtors, of government, its courses of study, or its ceremonies. is president of the M emphis School Board. H e is the husband of . . . The institution we had in mind was one which was Mary Powel Abbay Galbreath '34 . vitally concerned with scholarship, but which was even more concerned with character and manhood; an insti­ Mr. Briggs, president of \Velcome Wagon International " ·hich tution which believes in the life eternal, and, as a co nse­ he fo unded in 1928, ,,·as cited for his support of higher educatio n. quence, in real moral values; an institution which stands H e announced this spring a gift to Southwestern inYoh- ing a tract for the essential permanence of truth, beauty and of land which will provide funds for building the college a student goodness. center. 11 NEWS NOTES FROM THE CAMPUS Eight faculty members have received grants from the college Ill varying amounts to assist them in summer research programs. Prof. Lawrence K . Anthony is producing sculptures involving the use of arc-welding. Prof. Jack D. Farris is working on a novel. Prof. Leonard W. Frey is engaged in a project entitled, "Richard Strauss and the Greeks." Dr. Richard D . Gilliom '56, is investigat­ ing "Oxidation of Free Radicals by M etal Salts" at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. John M. Hemphill and Prof. Charles G. Oakes both are doing final work on their doctoral dissertations. Prof. James E. Roper '48, will use his grant to obtain color slides and other suitable materials for teaching Greek literature as he travels through Greece and the Aegean islands and Crete. Dr. John Q uincy Wolf will enlarge his folklore collection, looking specifically for American Play-Party Songs. H e will record and transcribe the songs and describe the games associated with them. This is the 17th year that Southwestern has made grants to certain faculty members for research on various subjects.

M embers of the Class of 1958 at their fifth reunion are pic­ Summer Travel tured above. Front row, left to right, are Sue Robinson McLean, Beth L eMaster Simpso'n, Sue Williams Winslow, Emery Johnson Following another Southwestern custom, Dr. John Henry Davis Edwards, N eville Frierson Bryan, and Betty Russell. Back row, left is attending in Israel the Land of the Bible Workshop jointly spon­ to right, are Mike Cody, David Simpson, John Dunlap, Walker L. sored by New York University and the Hebrew University. For W ellford III, John H. Bryan, Jr., P. W. (Buddy) Whiteaker, Mary almost a decade now Dr. Rhodes has arranged for one member of Ada Latta Whiteaker, Chuck Blake, and William Carrell. the Bible or "Man" faculty to spend each summer in the Palestin­ ian area, Greece and Italy, studying the classical cultures. John Henry Davis- Dr. Davis and Prof. Roper will meet in Athens in mid-August and sail together on the Stella Maris on the 16th for a week's tour ( continued from page 7) of the Greek Isles. Jim Roper will make his way home by way of I am in just such a position tonight. I am here to prolong Copenhagen, Edinburgh, and Oxford, where he attended the uni­ your suspense, to bore you for (I quote) "a few moments," so that versity as a Rhodes Scholar. you will enjoy the movie more when you do finally get to see it. Yet I will slip in a few serious words. You, our loyal and noble Also traveling abroad this summer is Albert M. Johnson '30, alumni, represent us-the college-as our end product. It is you, librarian at the Burrow Library, who is visiting England, Belgium, not the towers and buildings that will make this a great or a Germany, Luxembourg, France, and Italy while on a buying tour trivial place, even though we may sometimes say of some of you, with James Ruffin, a Memphis antique collector. "You have certainly exceeded our fondest hopes and expectations." Mathematic professors Dr. Marion L. MacQueen ' 19, and Dr. Jack U. Russell are teaching at a mathematics institute this Dominus V obiscum summer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Our hearts swell with pride when we read of your accomplish­ In June, before taking off for Alaska, Dr. Harvey Hanson of ments, or when we see your pictures in the paper (even though if the physics department presided at a meeting of the Symposium only on the society page. ) I am even glad that I never gave way of Molecular Spectroscopy, held annually at Ohio State University to the insane impulse at commencement time-when I was hooding and attracting leading physicists from the United States and Europe. you-of pulling that hood tightly around your necks as you descended from the stage. As you know, for the successful, we always take credit; and say, "we made you what you are today." Spring Events- And about the unsuccessful-and fortunately I see none present Southwestern held its first Spring Festival of the Arts April 21 - tonight-we usually say "Poor so-and-so failed to profit by the May 12, opening with a chamber music concert and closing with golden opportunities we presented to him." And I have no doubt the Faure "Requiem" performed by the Southwestern Singers and that quite a few of you noble alumni have the feeling, "we suc­ Orchestra. Included in the three-week program were appearances ceeded in spite of the college and the professors." In either case, of the ew York String Sextet, a visiting lecturer, Southwestern Dominus vobiscum. drama productions, the student art show and three other art Goodbar proposes to put your pictures in an Alumni Hall of exhibits. Fame 25 years after graduation. I can't say I'm 100 % enthusiastic The second annual Chemistry Competition for high school for it-unless you promise to use your senior annual pictures-for juniors drew 135 entries who competed for prizes and scholarship I don't want to be reminded of my age by what might be called awards April 27. The annual event helps to stimulate interest in you mementi mori, the pictures of you balding and full-blown chemistry among the high school students of Memphis and Shelby successes lining the walls. I love the students' Hall of Fame for County and to introduce some of the city's best students to the there you remain "forever young and still forever fair," as the young Southwestern science program. Mark Lipsey, a Kingsbury High cherubs who looked like you did when I knew you. But I fear I S~hool junior took top honors and prizes also went to nine other shall be wary of 25 year "successes" as I am of golden wedding wmners. pictures. Five Memphis firms who cooperate in furnishing prizes are The sands of my 10 minute hourglass have long run out. I Buckeye Cellulose Corporation, Buckman Laboratories, Inc., W. R. am getting as indignant at "that old fool speaker" as you are, and Grace & Company, Humko Products Division of ational Dairy, perhaps more so, since I have now become a movie actor. And and Plough, Inc. I feel sure that I am far more anxious to see myself in action than you are to see me or listen to me. So farewell, the interlude is An awards dinner was held on May 13 in Catherine Burrow 0\·er: "on with the show." Dining Hall. 12 $25,000 Grant to SW PHYSICISTS OFF TO ALASKA The physics department, headed by Dr. Jack Howard Taylor From Ford Motor Co. Fund '44, after a whole year of preparation, is now sitting at a remote Southwestern was one of 10 colleges and universities in the camp site at Gulkana, Alaska, nervously awaiting a 37.8 seconds' nation selected by the Ford Motor Company Fund as recipients of peek at the sun's atmosphere during the July 20 total solar eclipse. $25,000 unrestricted grants to further their educational programs. They're nervous because of the weather, for if it's cloudy at Two officials of the fund flew to Memphis on May 29 to the moment of eclipse, the whole effort will be fruitless as far as present to Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes the check which was earmarked gathering scientific data is concerned. for "the president's discretionary use." They were Ray C. Kooie, assistant director of the fund, and Dr. William C. Pine, director of Only when the sun is blocked out by the moon's passage this its Scholarship Program. side of it can scienti~ts probe the secrets of its corona and chromo­ sphere, explains Dr. Taylor. Hence the excitement over this half Also present to receive the officials were J. J. DeGeorge, chair­ minute span. man of the Memphis Ford Community Relations Committee, Larry Lewis, chairman of the Ford Dealers Community Relations Com­ Dr. Taylor took a smaller crew to Colorado's High Altitude mittee, and three long time local dealers in Ford products, Horace Observatory last fall to study the sun's atmosphere during man­ H. Hull, James J. Corbitt, and Oscar Oakley. made eclipses, which is good, but not quite as good as the real thing.

Dr. Pine was no stranger to the Southwestern campus, having The Southwestern group in Alaska has a superstition-flaunting been commencement speaker at Southwestern in 1961, at which complement of 13-the 13th member being Dr. Peyton N . Rhodes, time he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Southwestern president. The remainder of the group went up a month ahead of time to ready the camp site and equipment, leav­ The Ford Motor Company Fund gives support to educational, ing Dr. Rhodes to fly up just in time for the action. charitable, and scientific work and is in no way related to the Ford Foundation. Dr. Rhodes has served for six years on the selection With Dr. Taylor are four members of the physics department, committee of its Scholarship Program, which is headed by Dr. Pine. Dr. Harvey Hanson and Robert MacQueen '60, professors, and A. C. Emery and Gardner Ruffin, research associates; Jack Streete '60, who is now working on his Ph.D.; Keith Watson of the TWO MAJOR SCIENCE GRANTS Colorado High Altitude Observatory; and five students-Charles Southwestern received two major grants to science depart­ Brandon of Memphis, Charles Robertson of Evansville, Ind., Jack ments during June. Aldridge of Mobile, William S. Boyd of Munford, Tenn., and Shannon Ball of West Memphis. The first, an $8,500 grant from the National Science Founda­ tion, was earmarked for the purchase of scientific teaching equip­ They sent ahead of them overland and by ship 25 tons of ment for the biology department, and is contingent on the college's scientific equipment valued at $200,000 loaded in the college's two raising a similar amount from other, non-federal, sources, to put mobile units, the laboratory and observatory. A grant from the Air into the same instructional equipment pool. The grant was an­ Force Cambridge Research Center furnished the major part of the nounced by Frank C. Sheppard, acting director of N.S.F. funds for the expedition. The second is a $12,000 unrestricted grant from Research Corporation of New York to the chemistry department, which was The group is living in tents, fighting mosquitoes and some­ delivered in person by Dr. Alfred Kelleher of the corporation's times frezing temperatures, sleeping by daylight (there's practically division of grants June 19. no darkness in Alaska during the summer) and preparing its own meals from canned foods which were also shipped ahead. Iotification of the award stated that the corporation was "impressed by the significant strides which the college has made Two Memphis firms contributed the food and camping equip­ in recent years to improve its academic program in the sciences ment. Malone & Hyde, Inc. sent a whole truck load of canned and by its evident determination to continue in these efforts." foods and candy bars, paper products, aluminum foil, etc., and the Research Corporation is a foundation established in 1912 by M emphis Sears operation contributed the tents, air mattresses, Frederick Gardner Cottrell, scientist, teacher and inventor, with blankets, shovels, picks, cook stoves and utensils, flashlights, and other useful items. th ~ gift of his patent rights in electrostatic gas cleaning and has been added to by subsequent patents and patent rights assigned to it by other public-spirited inventors and institutions, for the pur­ The department hopes to come home with new scientific data pose of fostering scientific research and teaching. recorded, but ~ven if they don't get a good look at the eclipse, its other objective will have been accomplished-that of teaching a Dr. Peyton N. Rhodes, president, said both grants will enable bright group of future physicists, preparing them for the studies the college to do an increasingly effective job. and training them in research techniques.

National Science Foundation Grants Ten Southwestern students received $600 each in grants from in seeking a suitable solvent for the catalytic rearrangement of the ational ·Science Foundation undergraduate research partici­ dimethyl benzines in petroleum chemistry, and Alfred Todd of pation program for this summer and are working with professors on Memphis is working with Dr. Harold Lyons on his research on various research projects. possible chemical causes of slipped discs.

In the biology department, Bill Taylor of Memphis, a June In physics, four of the students on the Alaska solar expedition graduate, and David Cooper of Chattanooga are working with (above) are working under similar grants-Charles Brandon of Dr. C. L . Baker on problems related to the urogenital systems of Memphis, Charles Robertson of Evansville, Ind., Jack Aldridge of salamanders and Reba Wright of Memphis and James Fall of Mobile, and William S. Boyd of Munford, Tenn. Painesville, Ohio, are studying with Dr. Robert L. Amy the effects of radiation on insect development. Several other students are assisting professors in other phases In chemistry, Charles Calhoun of Memphis and Guilford of research which they are carrying on under grants fro:m U. S. Jones of Jackson, Tenn., are assisting Dr. Raymond T. Vaughn Public Health Service and other agencies and foundations. 13 Two New Coaches Named Next Season Holds Bright Promise By Michael Simmons '65 Southwestern has finished one sports era and is straining at the bit to start a new one--one which could well prove a revolution in accomplishment and in the attitude of fans and press. Class of 1919 H ospital in the Artibonite Valley, Ushering in the new phase is appointment of Jesse L. Johnson Decease d: Houston Lane Marable where T om helped to provide med· and Donald ]. Duckworth, the latest additions to the athletic direc­ of Clarksville, Tenn., died Jan. 28, ical care for 210,000 people served tor William R. Maybry's ('42 ) coaching staff. Johnson, six-year 1963. by the hospital and conducted re· Class of 1926 search at the same time. member of the coaching staff at Arkansas State College, will as­ H e worked with Dr. Larry Mel· sume duties as head football coach, and Duckworth, assistant bas­ Dr. John A. Redhead has re· cently published a new book, "Ser· Ion, who was a cattle rancher in ketball coach and head golf coach at Washington University, St. mons on Bible Characters," in Arizona until, at the age of 38, he Louis, is the new head basketball coach for the Lynx. which he draws parallels between decided to become a doctor. Tom's career has followed a similar course. The new appointments came after the resignation of Woody the struggles of biblical figures and problems which confront modern H e first went into the cotton busi· ness with his father, later went to Johnson as football mentor, and Winfred May, cage coach. Both man. Abingdon Press is the pub· new coaches came highly recommended by prominent sports fig­ lishing company. law school at night, and also in John is pastor of the First Pres· his late 30's, he decided to become ures, and promise perhaps an even more intense interest in sports a doctor. Still plays a good game activities by players and incoming students. byterian Church of Greensboro, . C., and is well known for his of tennis, too! Sarah and T om have Duckworth was spoken highly of by Bob Vanatta, head foot­ sermons on the National Radio a son, Thomas J. III, who grad· uated from Southwestern last year. ball coach at the University of Missouri, and formerly the grid Pulpit, the Columbia Church of teacher at Southwest Missouri State, where Duckworth took his the Air, and the Protestant H our. Class of 1940 H e is the author of five previous T. H. "Bill" Smith, Jr. has B.A., lettering in basketball and golf all four years. He later at­ widely circulated books. joined H ornblower & Weeks, tended lVIemphis State, where he received his master's, and was at Class of 1932 Memphis stock brokers, as a reg· one time freshman basketball coach. Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan is the istered representative. His new of· author of "The Alabama Con· fice is in the Commerce T itle Johnson, who is the third Johnson to have coached at South­ Building. western (no family relationship ) , lettered in baseball, football, and federate Reader," published in the spring by the University of Ala· Class of 1941 basketball at Arkansas State, and then became assistant football bama Press. Malcolm has been a Dr. Bland W. Cannon, Memphis coach there. He is 35, married, and the father of two girls. history professor at Auburn since neurosurgeon, was recently installed Campus interest in the new coaches and anticipated step-up in 1948 and for the last ten years as president of the T ennessee Medi· has been engaged primarily in re· cal Association. H e is also an as· the sports program, has been running high, indicating greater stu­ search. H e has conducted a weekly sistant professor of surgery at the dent participation in the program itself, and the long awaited television program, "Civil War Ala· University of T ennessee M edica l increase in fan interest. bam a" and edits releases to state· School, past president of both the wide newspapers and radio stations Memphis and Shelby County Medi· Conference Tournament on events of "One H undred Years cal Society and Congress of Neuro· A go." His historical interests have logical Surgeons, and is a diplo· The most outstanding feature of the spring sports season was also led him to publish another mate of the American Board of participation in the first College Athletic Conference Tournament book, "The Auburn Presbyterian: Neurological Surgeons. One Hundred Years." In ceremonies this spring Bland held at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., where Class of 1933 and Harold N. Falls '40 of Wynne, Southwestern \\·on the golf championship. Coach Maybry's linksters D eceased: James Allen High, in Ark., were awarded Alpha Tau took a first round lead of seven strokes, and staved off all retalia­ Tupelo, Miss., in March. His ad· Omega's Silver Circle citations, for tory efforts from the field. dress was 640 Jefferson St. 21 years se rvice to the fraternity. Bland's address is 149 Goodwyn. The other teams tasted lesser successes. The thinclads finished Class of 1936 Class of 1946 fourth, the baseballers came in third, and the tennis team took the D eceased: Mrs. Andrew N elson Lytle, the former Edna Barker of Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Sol S. cellar post. Washington University, with first place in track, base­ Memphis, April 26 in Monteagle, Hargraves (Mary Jane Howell) ball, tennis, and basketball, won the overall conference trophy, the T enn. She and her husband met have a new so n, R ichard Warren, giant locomotive bell, which they will hold for one year. while he was teaching at South· born D ec. 20 in Atlanta. With western and she was a student. H e their two older children the Har· In track, the Lynx were unable to capture a single first place in is presently an English professor graves live at 1103 Vancouver Dr., the final , but nevertheless managed to compile 29 points. at the University of the South and Tucker, Ga. The tennis team, composed mostly of inexperienced freshmen editor of the "Sewanee Review." Class of 1947 and sophomores, did not qualify a man for the finals competition, She is survived by three daughters Class Baby: Dr. ('48) and Mrs. and two sisters, including Mrs. William L. Bowden ( Carol Morris) but the season was not a total loss. Coach Derrick Barton, lively James Hughes '32, and a brother. are the parents of their fourth former English Cup champ, considered this a building year from Class of 1937 child , Joseph Craig, born Dec. 21, the outset, and is looking for a more impressive record next season. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Glass (Mary 1962. The family lives at 613 5 Walton Sohm) have moved to Bridgewood V alley Road, Sandy Conference Results Knoxville, T enn., where their new Springs, Atlanta 1, Ga. address is 7901 Knoxville Rd. Class of 1949 Below is a summary of the CAC results: Maxine Halliburton has been 0 . F. "Fred" Frye received the GOLF named " Businesswoman of 1963" Ph.D. degree in January from the Southwestern 612; W & L 615 ; Centre 631 ; Sewanee 635 ; Wash­ by the 17 clubs of the Women's University of Mississippi in educa· Executive Council of M emphis. A tion administration and is teaching ington 650. successful insurance agent, Maxine for the second year in the educa· TRACK is the only woman agent in the tion department of Concord Col· city who has a Chartered Life Un· lege at Athens, W. Va. Washington 85 ; Sewanee 62 ; W & L 52; Southwestern 29; derwriter degree from the Ameri· Centre 11. can College of Life Underwriters Class of 1950 BASEBALL at Bryn Mawr, Pa. Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H er additional interests include M. Potter (Betty Lee) are the par· Washington, W & L, Southwestern, Sewanee, Centre. music, and she currently serves as ents of their first daughter, Mary TENNIS president of the Memphis Sym· Ann, born Oct. 30 in M emphis. The family, including five·year·old Washington 40; Sewanee 33; W & L 31; Centre 18 ; South­ phony Guild and is past president of the Women's Council and Quota David, lives at 4212 Z elda Lane western 13. Club of East M emphis. She is an in M emphis. accomplished horsewoman. H er ad· Class of 1951 Over-All Conference Standings dress is 3 66 3 Central. Dr. Colin H. Threlkeld, Jr., re· First, Washington with 110 points; second, W & L with 105; third, Class of 1939 cently retired as president of the Dr. and Mrs. Tom White (Sarah Tennessee A ssociation of Osteo· Sewanee with 95; fourth, Southwestern with 75 ; and. fifth, Centre, Boothe) have spent two months pathic Physi cians and Surgeons, with 65. in Haiti, at the Albert Schweit~er after serving a year's term. Colin 14 and his family live at 41 Bendel tically simultaneously with the pro· Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Al­ ment of duPont Co., as a technical I Circle in Memphis. motion came the birth of the T an· fonso Episcopo (Clara Ann M ar­ representative. They have moved ners' fourth child, Julie M orson, mann) have a son, Nicholas John, from Orange, T ex. , to 1011 Wilson Class of 1952 who is now six months old. Mrs. born D ec. 23 . T he family li ves at Rd., Graylyn Crest, Wilmington 3, Martha Beggs has moved to T anner is the fo rmer Margaret 5143 Oakcrest Dr., Apt. 202, D el. The Rod gers have one Jacksonville, Fla., from Richmond, (Kakky) Whitsitt '57. Washington, D . C. daughter, two·year·old Lynn. Va., to become Director of Chris· Married: William Thomas Cun­ The Rev. Paul M. Thompson tian Education in the Riverside ningham, Jr., and Ruth Alexander, Class of 1958 was ordained to the diaconate of Presbyterian Church. June 15 in Forsyth, Ga. T ommy's Mr. and Mrs. Jack Abernathy the Episcopal church in July, 1962 Class Baby: Dr. and Mrs. Fred­ groomsmen included Roscoe Feild, (Lorraine Rayburn) and their two and is serving two mission ch urches erick Link have a son, John Frank· Jr., and James C. McLin, Jr., both small daughters have moved to in Columbia and Picayune, M iss. lin, born Oct. 22, 1962 in Brook· members of the class of 1952. Laurinburg, C., where Jack is H e was graduated fro m the Epis· li ne, Mass . Fred will be on the T ommy and Ruth are living in the new director of news and pub· copal T heological School in Cam· faculty at the University of N e· Memphis, where he is with Allen licity at St. Andrews Presbyterian bridge, Mass., in 1962 and in braska during the 1963-64 sessiOn . Bros. and O'Hara, Inc. College. T hei r address is Box 189-B, February of 1963 was ma rried to Class of 1953 Class of 1955 Route 1, in Laurinburg. Sallie H ews McCle nahan of Lon· Juanita G oodman was elected in Richard Baldwin has been elected don, England. Paul's address is St. Albert Hart Boyd has graduated secretary of the student body of Stephens Episcopal Church m from Southern Law University in the spring to se rve a one·year term as secretary-treasurer of the Phi Union Theological Seminary in Columbia. Memphis and passed his T ennessee Richmond for the 1963·64 aca· Married: H enry Richard Crais Bar examination in February. H e Beta Ka ppa Alumni Association of Memphis. Juanita is director of demic session. The rising middler and Nancy Martin Stillman, on lives at 15 8 5 H umber in Memphis. is married to Mary Allie McColgan March 9 in Atlanta. Their address Emily Jefferson is living in God· youth work at Evergreen Presby· terian Church in addition to teach· '61. I n the Seminary elections, Rob­ is 233 Kinsey Court, N.E., Atlanta, frey, Ill., and is the director of ert S. Maclin III was appointed a Ga. the Alton, Illinois Children's ing Christian Education at South· western. committee chairman for ecumenical Married: Elizabeth Jean Payne Theatre. H er temporary address affairs and James Lindenberger, the in Godfrey is 37 D 'Adrian Dr. Mary D evlin (Mrs. William T .) and James Franklin D orris, D ec. Sullivan was recently na med head· fellowship chairman. Both men are 30 in Greenwood, M iss. They are Married : Barbara Mann and members of the class of 1962. T emple McGee 'Mack' Montgom· mistress at St. George's D ay living at 719 Bell A ve. in Green· ery, June 28 in M emphis. Barbara School in Germantown. Mary has Gertraud ( Trudy) Kracher wrote wood. has done graduate work at Mem· been teaching for several vears at to Sue Robinson McLean (Mrs. Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. John phis State and taught at Spring· Presbyterian D ay School and Bill W . H.) that she was sorry to miss A. DuPre (Janice Boyden) are the dale Elementary School. Mack is is head of the Bible department at the class reunion, but looks fo rward parents of their second daughter, president of American· Dixie Auto Memphis U niversity School. to seeing some of her old fri ends, D orothy Anderson, born Feb. 12 Parts Co. of Memphis. Class of 1956 classmates and professors, this sum· in Memphis. T he family lives at mer, when she returns to the states Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Charles D r. Richard G illiam, who is now 211 Mary Ann Drive. C. Sullivan III are the parents of for the fi rst time since she left Class Baby: To Mr. and Mrs. a chemistry professor at Southwest· Southwestern. Charles Cannon IV, born March ern, is spending the summer at the Robert Sanford, a daughter, Sharon 18 in Memphis. They live at 348 Case Institute of T echnology in Back in her native Germany, Rae, born M arch 4, in Memphis . Greenway Rd . Grandparents are Cleveland, Ohio, doin g research in Trudy has kept up well with ·her With their two sons, James and Mr. ('29) and Mrs. ('33) Charles free radical chemistry. Southwestern friends. Several have Christopher, the Sanfords li ve at C. Sullivan, Jr., 3779 Central. George M. Russell has recently visited her, and she gives her new 4720 Wooddale in Memphis. address for the use of those who Class of 1954 been appointed Agency Superviso r Class of 1959 of the E. C. Krausnick A gency of will be touring Europe in the com· Paula R ich a rdso n B e rns t ein the Connecticut Mutual Life I nsur· ing years. It's 85 Nurnberg, Bis· Dr. Benny Bethea Ferdon, wh o ( Mrs. A llan ) is planning to resume ance Co. in Memphis. H e has been marcustrasse 52, where she occu· received the M .D. degree from a student's career in addition to in the insurance business si nce 1958. pies the top floor of her grand· Tulane University in 1962, will pursuing her current interests, George is a past president of the father's house. complete his internship at Duval which include free-lance writing of Southwestern Men of Memphis and She teaches in Nuremberg, and M edical Center in Jacksonvill e, magazine articles and children's present vice-president of the O.D.K. her students are preparing to be Fla., in July and will enter the books, civic club work, and raising Alumni Association. H e and wife, kindergarten teachers or teachers avy. His permanent address is four-year-old Richard and Aline, Carolyn, and three daughters live of homemaking and needlework. Box 343, orco, La. who is two. Paula plans to enter at 5237 Quince Rd. H er subjects cover German Ian· Se Jin Kim is teaching at Eastern Columbia University to work even· Edgar Crisler, formerly of Port guage and history, history of Eu· Kentucky State Coll ege in Rich· tually towards a doctrate in philos· Gibson, Miss., now living in H e!· ropean art, art appreciation, and mood, Ky. H e received his Mas· ophy. ena, Ark., has signed a contract civics, also the history of children's ter's degree in 1961 from the H er husband Allan is a television with a New York publisher to books and the use of books in kin· University of M assachuse tts and ex· news announcer and is with the issue in the autumn a volume of dergarten and nurseries (day pects to have his Ph.D. by 1964. College Bowl program. The family his ori ginal verse entitled "The schools for children up to 14.) On April 13 he was married to lives at 495 Quaker Rd., Chap· M olten Phrase ." Covering so much ground, she says the former H easun Kim. Their paqua, N. Y. Since graduation Edgar has been she never stops studying. address in Richmond is 238 S. W illiam V . Lawson, Jr., was in the newspaper fiel d and al so has Trudy arrives in N ew York on 2nd A ve. selected to attend the N ational Life served as an officer in the navy July 28 and plans to come to Dr. Dowen Ervin (Buck) Snyder Insurance Company of Vermont's for three years. Dr. John Quincy Memphis for a few days. was graduated from the University educational conference this spring Wolf, his fo rmer professor, said of T ennessee College of M edicine in Hollywood, Fla. H e received Also from Sue McLean comes in March and received the Charles even Edgar's friends we re surprised news of Jack and Jane Alexander membership in the 1963 President's to learn of his turning to writing D. V erstandig A ward for the class ('59) Biedenharn who have been member with the most determina· Club for his outstanding client· poetry. living in Bowling Green, Ky., service and sales records. His wife tion in becoming a physician. In Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph where Jack is working on a mas· is the former Carolyn T ownes '57. W . Bruce, Jr. (Corinne Waite), April he began his internship at ter's in education. H e fi rst attended Memphis' M ethodist H ospital and They have three children and live 1 510 E. Keirn Dr., Phoenix, Ariz., a professional art school in Colum· at 19 S. A shlawn Rd. in Memphis. have a daughter, Lisa Louise, born also began married life with the bus, Ohio., and worked in an ad· forme r Carol Joy Johnson of Mem· Margaret McKee was the subject April 13. The Bruces also have a vertising agency, but went back fo r of a feature article in the M ay daughter, Leslie 8, and a son, Jo· phis. a degree after deciding that he'd Class Baby: Mr. and Mrs. Joe issue of the Junior League's Vol­ seph W. III, 4. rather teach. They have a two· unteer V oices written by Marnee Bowen (Donna H udson) have a Class of 1957 year-old son, Jack, Jr., who IS son, Alan Lee, born March 31 in H arding '48, director of programs called "Jubby." for the Adult Education Center. Joseph Scott Byrd , part-time in· Memphis. T he Bowens' address is Margaret is educational news editor structor and student at the graduate D r. John H . Gay sends an 2879 Lagrue in Memphis. and feature writer for the Memph is school of the University of N orth "Aloha!" to his stateside friends Class Baby: T o Mr. and Mrs. Press-Scimitar, in addition to work· Carolina, has added another ac· from H onolulu, where he is fin· William R. Robertson (Sandra ing at the educational television complishment to his expanding ishing his internship in pediatrics Andrews), a son, Blake William, station as a League volunteer. Be· career- playwright. His first play, at Tripier General H ospital. John Nov. 14, 1962. The family lives fore joining the newspaper staff a comedy entitled " Pity H as a is married to the former Frances on Deacon Rd., R .D . 2, Mt. H olly, Margaret ran a travel agency, made Human Face" opened the Carolina "Frankie" Herring, whom he met N. J., and recently vacationed in a couple of trips to Europe, and Playmakers' 200th Bill of N ew in summer school at Southwestern, Bermuda; they toured Europe dur· obtained the M.A. at Vanderbilt. One-Act Plays this spring. H e re· and they have one daughter, Cath· ing the summer of 1962. She lives at 3563 Poplar, No. 1. ceived the M .A. in Engli sh at the erine Elizabeth. T he Gays' ad· Ray U . T anner is doing some university in 1960 and lives at 131 dress is U. A . A rmy T ripier Class of 1960 traveling now, since his promotion orth St., Chapel H ill, N . C. General H ospital, APO 428, San Lt. '62 and Mrs. William 0 . at the National Bank of Commerce Married: Barbara Jean Barrix and Francisco, Calif. Browder (Margaret Darden) are to assistant cashier in the national James Lynn Langford in an April Mrs. Robert Gordon Rodgers living in Idaho, where Bill is sta· accounts department. Business takes wedding in M emphis. Barbara and (Lola Lynn Lyles) writes that hus· tioned as an A ir Force base supply him over the eastern part of the James are living in the Shelbourne band Bob has been transferred from officer. Margaret writes that the country and occasionally to cities Apartments, 141 N. Manassas, in the research section to the market· Pacific Northwest is a sportsman's in Texas and the mid-west. Prac· M emphis. ing section of the plastics depart· paradise which she and Bill are 15 enjoying to the fullest. M argaret Mr. and Mrs. John H . Suda Married: Susan Chalfant and Ed­ couple is living in Memphis, where adds that her father, the Rev. (Nancy Ellen H eath) are living at win W. Albright '62, June 8 in H oward is a student at the Uni· Henry W. Darden '26, has resumed 434 W. 120th St., Apt. 6·L, N ew V icksburg, Miss., at the First ve rsity of T ennessee Medical his ministerial duties following a York 27 , N. Y., and they have a Presbyterian Church. Members of School. h eart attack almost a year ago. baby son, Kenneth John Suda. the bridal party included Joy Ann The Browder's address is Box 171, Howard '62, maid of honor, and M arried: John Chester Frist, Jr., and M ary Corrine Brothers of 822nd Radar Sqdn., Cottonwood M arried : Barbara Savage Bell bridesmaids Beth Poe, D andy Mc­ N ashville, June 15. Johnny at· AFB, Idaho. and Paul Walker Lawrence, Jr., Innis, both members of the class Feb. 16, at St. John's M ethodist of 1963, and M ary Man sell '64. tended Vanderbilt and is now a Richard Korsakov received the Church in Baltimore, Md. Paul is Serving at the reception were student at the University of T en· master's degree in international attending Johns H opkins and Bar· Margaret Johnson, Dandy Mcinnis, nessee College of M edicine. studies from Boston University last bara is an IBM trainee. They are and Bette Stephens Cloar, who Married: Blair Gilmer and Mer­ fall and a month later was mar· were also Susan's classmates. Ed's at home at 9 13 E . 30th St. in rill Douglas Meeks, June 5 at St. ried to the former Elise Routon of Baltimore. groomsmen were all classmates, and M emphis. T he couple is now living Luke's M ethodist Church in M em· included Richard Brown , Charles phis. Barbara Yost and Sarah Pick­ at 1800 Withers No. 7, M onterey, Married: Susa n Work and Landreth, Pete Cornish , W illiam Calif., where Richard is attending ens were bridesmaids and Jerry Dwight H erschell Short II, March Birge, and John Kimbrough. Brady Manley was a groomsman. Durin g the A rmy Lan guage School for a 9 in Jellico, T enn. Susan received Puryear '63 sang at th e ceremony. the summer Blair and D oug are 47 week course in Russian. the B. A. from the University of Susan and Ed have set up house· living in Clifton Forge, V a., and Cincinnati and Dwight will grad· keeping in Louisville, where he is will go to Durham, N. C., in th e Robert S. Brown, who com· uate there in June. T heir address in se minary, at 1044 Alta Vista Rd. pleted his first year at Louisville fall,. where D oug will attend Duke IS 563 Lowell in Cincinnati. Presbyterian Theological Seminary M arried: Sarah Mitchell Cun­ semmary. in June, is teaching basic Greek Married : Marcia A. Fentress of ningham and Robert Laird Gay '62, Married: Lynnette Humphreys there this summer for ministerial Fayetteville, N . C., formerly of June 8 at St. John's M ethodist students who had no Greek in col· William Aubry Campbell '62, June Memphis, and William S. D onovan Church in Memphis. Bridesmaids 29 at the First Presbyterian Church lege. Bob's from H untington, W. of Boston, June 10 in N ew Delhi, included Liz Currie '64, Jeannette Va. in Fulton, M o. Bette Carol Thomas India . Marcia last year went to Elliott '64, and Anne Smi~h '64, was Lynette's maid of honor and college in India and this year was and se rving at the reception were Thomas C. Scott was a grooms· Married: Corwinna McCharen Carolyn Brasher '63 and Alabel and James Barnette, June 1 5 in graduated from Barnard College. man. Lynnette and Bill will live in Mr. D onovan is a graduate of the May '64. Bob's groomsmen were Nashville in the fall, where h e will Jackson, T enn. The couple is liv· Joe Duncan '63, Tommy Clinton in g in Midland, T ex., where James Stockbridge School of Agriculture begin his second year in V ander· of the U niversity of Massachusetts '62, and Robert Echols '62. Sally hilt Law School. is employed by the Robert H . Ray and Bob will live in D urham, Geophysical Co. and is an associate director in the Peace Corps in Punjab; India. This N. C. for the next three years Married : Robert Berley Moseley Married: W illiam McKay Mcin­ summer they are tourin g Europe while he completes the Ph.D. de· and Faye Nan Brisendine, June 29 tosh and Ellen Patricia Larkey, and Asia in a 19 31 Ford truck, gree in chemistry at D uke. at the Galloway M ethodist Church April 27. at St. Mary's Cathedral. and they will return to the states in Memphis. Bob attends M emphis in 1964 to enter graduate school. Married: Susan Sanders D ay and State. Billy and Ellen are living in Mem· Gene Arthur Lan gley, Jr., Feb. 9. phis. Married : Virginia Ann Fumbanks Susan graduated from the Univer· Married: Sharon Elizabeth Gor­ M arried: 2nd Lt. John Edward and Charl es Wynn Mayo of Milan, sitv of Mississippi. T he couple is don and Michael John Stoakes '59, Hixon and M argaret Fitton, April T enn., on June 9 at M cKenzie, living in Jackson, Miss., at 429 June 29 at Idlewild Presbyterian 27, at the N avy Chapel in Wash· T enn. Mrs. B. D. Webb (Patricia Fias Chapel D r. Church in M emphis. Michael works at Sears- Roebuck and Co. ington, D . C. John has received Hall) and Anne Burdick, Ann's M arried : Helen Vander Horst a master's degree from George former classmates, were her at· and th e Rev. Peter Gaines Keese, Deceased : Jan ice Kay D oyle of Washington University in Wash· tendants. A nn and Charl es will live May 3 at St. Mary's Episcopal Ca· Brighton, T enn., in Memphis April ington and is stationed with the in Milan, where he teaches at the thedral. T he couple is livin g at 19, following injuries suffered in loca l high school. U. S. M arine Corps in Albany, Ga. 7674 Krosp Rd., Millington, where an automobile accident the day be· Peter is priest-in-charge of St. fo re. H er brother W illard is a Class Baby: T o M r. and Mrs. J. Class of 1963 Anne's Episcopal Church. R. Redus (Ann Myers), a son, member of the freshman class. Robert H ansen, born April 26. M arried : Anne Nelson Archer Married : Laura Myna Smith and Class of 1965 The family lives at 306 W est Clin· and John Baird Callicott, June 7 D avid Attwood Pierson, Jr., June ton A ve., H untsville, Ala. in Frankfort, Ky. Katie Bartels '63 4, at St. John's Episcopal Church Married : Mary Chilton " Ching" • was Nancy's maid of honor. D ur· in Memphis. Laura and David are Chapman and Samuel Lynn Reid, Class of 1962 ing the summer Nancy and Baird living in Memphis. April 19 in the Episcopal Church are living at 3395 Stage Road in of the H oly Communion in Mem· Sally Rieves is teaching 9th grade M emphis and in the fall they Married: Janice Lowi and H ow· phis. Martee W eatherford '63 was English at Jackson H igh School in will go to Syracuse, N . Y ., where ard Ralph H orn, June 2 3 in Gads· a bridesmaid. They are living in Albuquerque, N . Mex. H er ad· Baird will attend the university as den, Ala. Jeanne Ritcherson '64 the garden house at 2220 Union dress is 1510 Coal Ave., S. E. a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. was one of Jan's attendants. T he A ve. in Memphis.

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