Vol. XVI. No. 2 DECEMBER 1946 December Issue WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS Page Two
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ABOVE: The Planning Committee, appointed by the WFC Board of Trustees to activate the moving of the College to Winston-Salem. Seated, from left: 0. M. Mull, chmn., Shelby; Dr. Thurman Kitchin, Wake Forest; Basil M. Watkins, Durham; Andrew J. Hutchins, Canton. Standing, from left, Irving E. Carlyle and Charles Babcock, Winston-Salem; Jens F. Larson, New York, N. Y.; C. J. Jackson, Wake Forest; Gordon Gray, Winston-Salem. Not shown are Mrs. Mary Reynolds Babcock and L. D. Long, both of Winston-Salem. IN THIS ISSUE: Architect Draws Plans for the New Wake Forest Background of Gifts of the Reynolds Family : 35 WFC Men in North Carolina Legislature : Glee Club and Orchestra Give Radio Concerts : Football Round-up : Basket- ball Prospects : Alumni Meetings Held $100,000 Handshake : Ding Ho : Campus Echoes : The Scandal of the Cross, by Blanton : Medical School Doings $1,600,000 Wing to Be Added to Hospital Inside the Rock Wall : A Look at the Faculty : New WFC Trustees : What Do I Get for My $5.00? : 602 Alumni Have Relatives Now Enrolled at WFC : Necrology. Vol. XVI. No. 2 DECEMBER 1946 December Issue WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS Page Two ARCHITECT DRAWS PLANS FOR NEW WAKE FOREST Confers With Planning Committee and Dr. Thurman Kitchin and C. J. Jackson, both of Wake Forest. and Faculty The plans to be presented to the Committee by Larson will include suggested layouts indicating J ens F. Larson has been named by the Planning streets, campus areas, approaches, and buildings. Committee of Wake Forest College as architect in The type of architecture has not yet been decided charge of the preliminary plans for the construction upon, it is reported. of the new plant at Winston-Salem. A memorandum on the necessary building units Mr. Larson, whose headquarters is New York City, for a student body of 2,000 has been supplied the has designed plants for numerous American schools, architect. The list includes an administration build including Dartmouth College and Lehigh University. ing, library, chapel, auditorium, several buildings He will present an overall blueprint for the new to provide sufficient space for class instruction. Other campus and plant within nine months, he told the buildings listed are a 50-bed infirmary, gym, heating Committee which met recently in Win~on-Salem. plant, storage plant, book-store, cafeteria, student The new plant will be constructed at Reynolda, union, and stadium. 900 acre estate of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Babcock of The plans are flexible and are very tentative in Winston-Salem, who have donated necessary por nature. tions of the estate to Wake Forest, a minimum of Larson Meets Faculty 300 acres and more if necessary. Addressing the Wake Forest faculty this month, Members of the Planning Committee are 0 . M. Mr. Larson said "There is no site in America any Mull, Chairman, Shelby; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bab prettier on which to erect a new college than Reyn cock, Irving Carlyle, Gordon Gray, and L. D. Long, olda. You have the beautiful mountains to look at all of Winston-Salem; Basil M. Watkins of Durham; on one side and a lovely view of the city on the other." " What could be more beautiful than that?" he asked. Mr. Larson stated that he would exert every effort to make this new creation the most effective of any educational institution in America. The designer told the faculty members that he is anxious to get their suggestions and ideas for plan ning the new institution. He said he will return again in February for another meeting at which time he hopes to have completed the landscaping phase of the project. The actual planning of the new insti tution will take a year or two, he thinks. Editor: JASPER L. MEMORY, JR., '21 In planning the new college the New Yorker said he wants to preserve any features of history, land Published in October, December, March, and May during marks, and paintings of the present site. the college year by Wake Forest College Office, He has been a prominent advisory architect for Wake Forest, N. C. the Association of American colleges since 1928. He Office of Publication: 210 South Salisbury St., Raleigh, N.C. served as a lecturer on Architecture at Dartmouth Subscriptions $1.00 Per Year from 1926 through 1931, and is an active member Entered at the Postoffice at Raleigh, N. C., as second-class of many well known organizations, including the matter, October 20, 1935, under act of March 3, 1879 American Institute of Architects, Boston Society of Architects, Harvard Engineering Society, Dart mouth Scientific Association and the Boston Archi ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS tectural Club. President-T. Ashley Haywood '1L ...... Rockingham, N. C. Mr. Larson attended the Boston Architectural Club First Vice P1·esident-T. Settle Graham, Jr. '22 Greensboro, N. C. from 1907-10, Harvard University from 1910-12 and Second Vice President-Dr. G. M. Billings '15 received his M.A. from Dartmouth College in 1928. Morganton. N. C. He is author of a book entitled "Architectural Plan Alumni Secretary-Jasper L. Memory, Jr. '21 ning of the American College," published in 1933. Wake Forest, N. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE T. Ashley Haywood '11, Chairman ........ Rockingham, N. C. THANK YOU Dr. Thurman Kitchin '05, ex officio ________ Wake Forest, N . C. .John A. Oates '95, ex ojjicio ____________________ Fayetteville, N. C. At this happy season of the year, the editor and T. Settle Graham, Jr. '22, ex officio ________ Greensboro, N. C. Mrs. Lura Self Talley, keeper of the alumni records Dr. Graham B. Barefoot '21 (1949) ........Wilmington, N. C. Waldo C. Cheek '34 (1949) __________________________ Asheboro, N. C. and files, wish to thank the Wake Forest College Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn '35 (1948) ---·-··-----Lumberton, N . C. men and women for their splendid cooperation and Carroll C. Wall '17 (1948) __________________________ Lexington, N. C. Dr. James B. Turner '07 (1947) ---------·----·-Laurinburg, N. C. hearty support throughout the past year. It has been S. Wait Brewer '1 0 (1947)__ __________________ Wake Forest, N. C. a good year, but you have made it so. Thank you, Merry Christmas! and come to see us. Page Three December Issue WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS THE BACKGROUND OF GIFTS OF THE REYNOLDS FAMILY By C. J. JACKSON '09 The following statement is an and respect of the Reynolds family lent men, Rev. Eugene Olive and historical account of facts sur more than thirty years ago. No Rev. R. R. Jackson, members of rounding the Reynolds gift to doubt his skill and sincerity of the Enlargement Program staff, Wake Forest College. Mr. Jackson purpose became a vital part in the have had no small part in the ac was authorized by the executive alchemy of the first links in this complishments which we are able y committee of the College to pre chain which is lengthening rapidly to report. Since July 1943, sub pare the article in order that in these last few months to the stantially more money has been if, alumni and othe1· friends might great advantage of Wake Forest pledged for the College from what have an accurate account of the College. would be classed as its normal background of this magnificent Another link was forged and constituency, in amounts below contribution. Editor. fashioned when Mr. 0. M. Mull of $100,000 than had been given by Shelby arranged a conference in North Carolina Baptists to Wake It didn't just happen. Back of 1939 which was participated in by Forest College for buildings and most things of value to humanity Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin, president endowment in the previous 109 is a chain of circumstances. So it of Wake Forest College and Dean years of its existence. But even is with the plans of Wake Foresf C. C. Carpenter, representing the so, some thought the campaign College to move to Winston-Salem. Medical School and Mr. James was moving slowly. Bigger plans Every chain has a first link. Gray, Mr. Gordon Gray, and Mr. were being developed than they Frequently, however, when this Bowman Gray of Winston-Salem. realized. first link was forged there was no Following this conference the Bow In the spring of 1945 thoughts thought of other links. Unselfish man Gray School of Medicine of began to crystallize around the idea service, devotion to duty, or hon Wake Forest College came into of a broader program of expansion esty in one's profession may consti existence. Through continued and for Wake Forest College than that tute the first link of a chain of gracious backing given this thriv previously contemplated. Winston indeterminable length and tre ing young medical school by Gor Salem as a new home for the old mendous strength. don Gray, Bowman Gray and their college in all of its departments, A case cited. mother, coupled with the fine di with the possibility of much larger In the late sixties of the nine rection given by Dean Carpenter financial support as well as an en teenth century, a Methodist and his associates, Bowman Gray larged opportunity for service, was preacher from Tennessee was is established today in Winston discussed in confidence with a few entertained in the home of a Salem as a high quality medical sympathetic friends in Winston wealthy Episcopalian family in school ranking with the best in Salem and Charlotte. Advantages New York. He expressed a forti the South. and disadvantages were honestly fied hope that some day there Then a dream of years ago about and carefully considered. But the might be established in Nashville Wake Forest was revived. Two advantages seemingly far out n an institution of higher learning former students, Basil M.