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ews Volume XVII Memphis, Tennessee, December, 1954 Number 1 MALLORY GYMNASIUM DEDICATION DECEMBER 10 Students Rewarded For Delay Edwin F. Blair, New York Attorney, Will Speak; Lynx Will Meet Of Twenty-Nine Years Sewanee; Basketball School, Basketball Doubleheader December 11 Although the entire college community will join wholeheartedly in celebrating the A two-day celebration will mark the dedi­ ily will occupy seats of honor during the dedication of the new Mallory M emorial cation of the William Neely Mallory Memo­ ceremonies. Gymnasium, the happiest of the celebrants rial Gymnasium. At eight o'clock on the eve­ Immediately after the conclusion of the will be the students. Ever since Southwestern ning of December 10, the formal dedication formal part of the program, basketball will came to Memphis in 1925, they have used ceremonies will be held, followed by a basket­ take over, with Southwestern meeting the the Fargason Field House, a wooden struc­ ball game. And on the following afternoon University of the South (Sewanee) in the ture with steel frame, which from the be­ and evening a basketball clinic and a basket­ Dedicatory Game. ginning was regarded as makeshift. During ball doubleheader will be staged. The public is cordially invited to attend recent years in particular it proved too an­ A crowd of some fifteen hundred is ex­ these festivities. No admission fee will be tiquated and too small to serve its purpose pected to attend the ceremonies on the eve­ charged. effectively. It was designed for basketball, ning of December 10. The principal event The celebration will be continued on Sat• but the playing floor was smaller than it on the program will be the address of Mr. urday, December 11 , when a Coaches' School should have been, and there was never room Edwin Foster Blair, prominent attorney of and an Officials' Clinic will be held on the to seat even the entire student body at the N ew York City. playing floor of the gymnasium from two to games. Mr. Blair and N eely Mallory were room­ four-thirty p.m. When the $2,500,000 Building and En­ mates during their college days at Yale, and Basketball officials of the Mid-South and dowment Campaign was launched in the there began a friendship which continued college and high school coaches and players middle forties, one of the great needs adver­ until Mr. Mallory's death in 1945. Mr. Blair have been invited to attend this Clinic as tised was a gymnasium. U pan the death of is known in M emphis, since he was a fre­ guests of the college. Coach Danny Miller, of Major M allory in the crash of an airplane in quent visitor in the M allory home. Davidson College, will discuss the various 1945, a group of his friends, headed by The program will get under way promptly techniques of the offense in basketball, and Col. Robert B. Snowden, of Memphis and at eight o'clock with music by a Southwestern Coach Lon V arnell, of the University of the Hughes, Arkansas, sponsored a special drive band. Following the Invocation by Dr. Paul South, will discuss the defense. Basketball for funds to be used to construct a memorial Tudor Jones, '32, who has recently become clinics are a familiar experience to Coach gymnasium which would be named in honor pastor of the Idlewild Presbyterian Church Varnell, since during a tour of Europe with of Major Mallory. in Memphis, President Peyton N . Rhodes will the Sewanee basketball team three years ago It was most appropriate that he should be deliver a brief address of welcome and will he gave numerous talks on the sport in sev­ memorialized in this way. Since his college introduce Mr. Blair. eral different countries. In the course of his days at Yale, where he was captain of the Then following his address and the sing­ remarks he will relate some of his European football team and all-America fullback, he ing of the Alma Mater Hymn, President­ experiences. The speakers will welcome ques­ had been deeply interested in sports. Not Emeritus Charles E. Diehl will pronounce the tions and comments from players and guest long after his return to Memphis he coached benediction, and the dedicatory ceremonies coaches during this session. at Southwestern the greater part of one will conclude. Members of the Mallory fam· A discussion of basketball rules will follow, season without pay when Southwestern lost led by the Mid-South Basketball Officials its coach early in the season. In later years Association. The Southwestern freshman and until his death he was Treasurer of the team and one of the high school teams of College and one of its loyal friends. this area will then demonstrate various kinds The Building and Endowment Campaign of fouls, near-fouls, and correct play. was brought to a successful conclusion in At five p.m. the coaches who have at• 1947, but because of the inflation that fol­ tended the clinic will be guests of the Col­ lowed the war, the sum earmarked for the lege at dinner. Glenn Johnson, Director of gymnasium proved insufficient to erect a Athletics at Southwestern, will be in general $700,000 building. There was deep disap• charge of the Clinic. pointment among the students when it was At seven-thirty o'clock in the evening a realized that the contract could not be let basketball doubleheader will be staged, with for the gymnasium until additional funds had Sewanee meeting Davidson, and Southwest­ been provided. ern meeting the University of Mississippi. By the autumn of 1952 sufficient funds The admission fee will be one dollar for were on hand, and an announcement was adults and fifty cents for students. Visiting made that construction would begin about coaches and teams from the Mid-South area the first of January 1953. The contract was will be guests of the College at the double­ let on December 18, 1952. It was found nee• header and will sit in a special section re­ essary to eliminate from the plans the east served for them. wing of the building, which was to house, The public is invited to inspect the build­ among other things, the swimming pool. This ing at any time Friday and Saturday from wing, costing an additional $300,000, will be nine in the morning until ten-thirty in the constructed as soon as that sum has been evening, except during the dedicatory cere­ (continued on page 3) Edwin Foster Blair monies. Concerning Mr. Blair, Speaker Football Hy, Association, in which he is a World War II Heroes Honored director and of which he has been president. At the Exercises He has also acted as director on the board In New Gymnasium Mr. Edwin F. Blair, prominent attorney of the University and has 'held positions of The new gymnasium is a memorial ~t of New York and member of the firm of importance during campaigns for funds. In onl~ to the distinguished man whose na e Hughes, Hubbard, Blair, and Reed, holds recognition of his various contributions to it bears, . but also to the forty men and o e two degrees from Yale, the B.A. and the his alma mater he was given the Yale Medal woman who gave their lives for thei1 country LL.B. He received the latter cum laude and for Service in 1953. while serving in World War II. is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In the field of finance he has been very In the foyer of the building is a large metal He is regarded as one of Yale ,s most loyal prominent, having served as director of vari .. plaque bearing the following names: sons, largely because of his distinguished ous corporations and foundations, such as the James S. Allman, '42 service on at least a dozen important com.­ Packard Motor . Company, which he now Carl A. Arnoult, '42 mittees and organizations which have fur.­ serves, and the Stster Kenny Foundation, to Roy D. Bachman, '1 0 name only two of many. Hays Brantley, Jr., '41 thered the interests of the University. Among E. Reed Brock, '35 these are a number concerned with athletics, He is a member of the New York Bar As.­ Charles G. Carter, Jr., '44 including the Yale Board of Athletic Control, sociation and has served on its Executive W. Richard Chauncey, Jr., '39 on which he now serves as chairman, and the Committee. Kenneth G. Clemens, ·'30 Herman M. Davis, '38 Albert R. · Da~son, Jr., '42 James G. Dougherty, '40 Robert J. Douglas, '45 William C. Doyle, '44 Dolive Durant, Jr., ' 38 William C. Edington, '38 Charles W . Floyd, '40 Robert M . Foley, '38 Charles D. Forman, Jr., '42 W. Stephen Goodwyn, III, '44 Dixie G. Griffin, '43 Robert F. Henington, '44 Logan W. Hughes, '36 William I. Hunt, '34 Curtis B. Hurley, Jr., '42 William K. Little, '40 Clifford F. Moriarty, Jr., '44 Martin F. O'Callaghan, Jr., '44 Adolph Ornstein, · '40 John F. Outlaw, '14 Ernest A. Powell, Jr., '40 Sara E. C. Ransom, '32 Carl J. Roth, '39 James D. Sasser, '38 R. Henderson Stovall, '43 Neumon H. Taylor, '44 Joseph W. Vance, Jr., '40 Robert E. White, Jr., '39 Walter E. Wilgus, '43 B. O'Neal Williams, '44 William B. Williams, '44 Charles F. Work, Jr., '34 (2) Gymnasium Marks New Day In Vocational Guidance Center For Intercollegiate Sports High School Students Followers of the Lynx, young and old, be­ A Christian Vocational Guidance Center lieve that the opening of the Mallory Memo­ is being established this fall on the campus rial Gymnasium heralds the beginning of a of Southwestern under the sponsorship of new era in athletics at Southwestern.

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