Sewanee Alumni News, 1945-46
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^ewanee ^Alumni U^ewt (7fhc University of the ^outh (ffewanee, CJennessi e Vol A7, 'V. / tAugust, 1945 or s S5 IS to *s» 0$ E W A N E E zA L U M N I V^[e. IV S Vol. XI, No. I The University of the South, Sewanee, Ten nessce August, IS t Alumni Sponsor Campaign for Four Million Dollars Seventy-Seventh Commencement Held on Jane 6-11 Tozver of Chapel Is Designated as War Memorial Ma?'ked by Spirit Names of Men in Armed Dr. Guerry Accepts and Achievement Forces to be Recorded Post of Chairman Commencement, 1945. will long be One action taken at Commencement Tin- Associated Alumni at its annual remembered by Sewanee and friends which will move the hearts of all Se- meeting on June 9, 1945. took the most for its spirit and achieve- of Sewanee wanee men was the decision by the important stop that has ever been taken ments. It lacked some of the gala spirit alumni, trustees, and regents to desig- in the long history of that body. It of other Commencements. There were nate the tower of the comoleted All went on record unanimously as spon- no great crowds of visitors present. It Saints' Chapel as the War Memorial in soring a campaign, proposed by the was quieter, more serious, and over all honor of all Sewanee men who serve in Vice-Chancellor and endorsed by the sense that there brooded somehow the World War II. Surely no more fitting student body, the faculties, the Board great things were in the making. The war memorial could have been chosen. of Regents, and the Board of Trustees, gathering, as representative a body of In the plans for Sewanee's second to raise $3,000,000 for permanent endow- alurrmi, trustees, and regents as ever War Memorial, it is contemplated that ment and $1,000,000 or more for the assembled on the Mountain, was in the tower shall contain panels of stone purpose of completing the physical large measure a spontaneous gathering, or bronze on which will be inscribed plant of the University of the South. the government having sent forth an the names of all those who have given The plan for the physical plant as out- express wish that Commencement their lives, both in the present war and lined by the Vice-Chancellor includes alumni gatherings, class and fraternity in the last. There will also be de- residence halls to accommodate 500 stu- meetings, and all the customary as- posited in an appropriate place in the dents in the College, the completion of semblage of visitors and friends be not tower engrossed volumes which will All Saints' Chapel, the erection of the emphasized this year. carry the names of all who served in Gailor Memorial which is to be the The board meetings were especially both wars. dining hall and student center, and such well Of fourteen attended. the mem- Designed by Cram, Goodhue and Fer- other buildings as may appear to be bers of the Board of Regents, twelve guson, the chapel when completed will necessary. It further contemplates ad- were present, one being absent because be a magnificent structure in collegi- ditional buildings for the School of of illness, and another because he is ate Gothic style. The walls of the Theology and the Military Academy. serving in the Army. Forty-one mem- present building will rise another twen- This plan of the Vice-Chancellor bers of the Board of Trustees were ty feet to include clerestory windows represents the final step in the carry- present, which members included ten ing of a height of twenty-seven feet. The out of his program, defined by him bishops. Four dioceses were represented choir and sanctuary will extend an- when he first became the administrative by their full quota, and five had no other seventy-five feet at the east end head of the University, many times representation. Four of the six alum- of the present building. High above explained by him to the faculties and ni trustees were present. will rise, to the height of approximately governing boards of the University and Many events made Commencement one hundred and seventy-five feet, the the Associated Alumni, and set forth notable. There were three fine services. splendid tower which will dominate the by him in an article in the Alumni On Saturday at midday was held the Sewaree scene much as the Memoriai News of May. 1940. In this article. "Achievement Faces the Future," service of dedication of Sewanee's Roll Cross of World War I commands the he of Honor of men serving in World War valley below. proposed four stages of development, II, at which Albert Woods, the presi- following one another in logical order, The construction of All Saints' Chapel dent of the Associated Alumni, was the each to be achieved before the succeed- was begun during the chaplaincy of speaker. ing one was to be undertaken: The Commencement service the Rev. William Alexander Guerry. on Sunday will be long remembered 1. The Sustaining Fund, a campaign late bishop of the diocese of South for the magnificent sermon delivered for $100,000 a year for five years, to Carolina. A tablet, erected in 1943 in by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, D.D., S.T.D., pay off debts, to improve the physical the Chapel to his memory, bears wit- bishop of the diocese of Washington. plant, to raise salaries, and to give the ness to this fact in these words: "Who The exercises held Un.versity security for that period of Commencement on by his vision and his labors brough' Monday morning were distinguished by years. All Saints' Chapel to its present state the Chancellor's tribute to 2. splendid Se- of completion." The Living Endowment, to follow wanee's War Dead and by the Com- the Sustaining Fund, a campaign for The funds were collected by Chap- mencement address delivered by Cap- a reliable, continuing minimum income lain Guerry from alumni and friends tain Arthur S. Adams of the Bureau of of $75,000 per year. $50,000 a year to all over the country, and it was a part Naval Personnel, Washington, D. C. Af- come from gifts from alumni and r f his original intention that the chapel ter the sermon on Sunday, a tablet was friends, $25,000 a year to come from was to be built, not by the gift of one unveiled in All Saints' Chapel in mem- the Southern dioceses sharing in the to the memory of one but by the gifts ory of Dr. John Bell Henneman, Pro- ownership of Sewanee of many as a memorial to all of Se- fessor of English in the University from 2. A net productive permanent en- wanee s saints. The cornerstone was 1900 to 1908. The Class of 1895, repre- dowment of $4,000,000. laid in 1905. sented by three of its members, one 4. Funds to complete All Saints' of whom has been class leader for fifty In 1909. the roof was placed on the Chapel and to build the Gailor Me- years, held its fiftieth reunion. incomplete structure which represents morial and a complete plant for a col- There was the usual outflowing of the unfinished nave and a small por- lege of 500 students, and a theological (Continued on page 32) (Continued on page 32) (CoNfitiKcr/ on page 33) SEWANEE ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Fund Essential ENROLLMENT ONE OF MAJOR ewafiee vf/<um?n' fwj $ "\5 to University's Budget PROBLEMS FACING UNIVERSITY Sewanee Alumni News, istued quarterly by the The University faces an immediate Associated Alumni of The University or the The headlines in this issue of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second- Alumni News announce the proposed problem which alumni particularly can class matter May 25, 1934, at the postoflice at Se- rampaign of $3,000,000 for permanent help in solving. It is the problem of wanee, Term., under the Act of March 3, 1879. endowment and $1,000,000 or more for building up again the enrollment of the a building program. That is big news University which in the war years has 1945 AUGUST. for Sewanee alumni and marks a cru- necessarily fallen off greatly. The V-12 cial moment in Sewanee's history. The program will end on November 1, and THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI Associated Alumni unanimously en- the student body will become once more Officers dorsed the campaign and undertook to exclusively civilian. From present in- it. dications the enrollment in fall will J. A. Woods, '18 President sponsor The Vice-Chancellor, an the alumnus, asked serve number appoximately 75. This number W. Dudley Gale, '20 1st Vice-Pres. was to as the chairman. The campaign will certainly includes some veterans, both old Se- R. C. Williamson, '22_ __2nd Vice-Pres. be carried to a successful conclusion wanee students and others who have John G. Dearborn, '20 3rd Vice-Pres. and the responsibility for its ultimate chosen Sewanee. The number 75 is less '23 Rec. Sec'y Gordon S. Rather, success rests squarely upon the alum- than one-fourth of the maximum pre- '04 W. W. Lewis, ._ ..Treasurer ni, individually and collectively. war enrollment of 350, less than one- H. M. Gass, '07 Alumni Sec'y It must not be concluded, however, fifth of the present capacity enrollment by any alumnus that this campaign in of 400, much less than one-sixth of the "FOR THE VALIANT IN SERVICE, any way takes the place of or in any contemplated enrollment of 500 which way is to allowed to has been decided upon as the ideal PRAISE THEE, O LORD" be interfere with WE the Alumni Fund, the annual gifts of number of students for Sewanee.