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ALUMNAE NEWS BULLETIN OF LONGWOOD COLLEGE November 1957 Library Volume XLIII Number 4 Longwood College Farroville, VirgioM Bulletin of Longwood College FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA ALUMNAE NUMBER Volume XLIII November 1957 FiMishcd by TABLE OF CONTENTS THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Page Member of The American Autmni Council Message from the President Editor: Virginia McLean Pharr 1 Insights Gained From Living Abroad 2 Alumnae Suijport Institute of Southern Culture 4 Editorial Board: Helen Draper, Chairman. Rav Merchent, Tribute to a Teacher 5 Foster Gresham. Mary Clay Hiner. R. C. Si.moxini. Dean, Physician, Stu-dent Assistant: Ann Brierley Professor Retire 6 Faculty News 8 New Dormitory Under Construction 9 ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD "Rotunda Clippings" 10 Dr. Francis G. Lankford President. Longwood College Darden Addresses 18S Graduates 12 Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster President Emeritus, Longwood College Gifts Made to .Alumnae House 12 President Fifty Year Class Wins Jarman Cup 13 Elsie Stossel 3105 W. Grace St., Richmond, \'a. Retired Secretary's Portrait Painted 14 First J'iee-Presideut Dorothy Diehl 3-D Baylor .^pts,, 1019 Anne St., Si.x Graduates Receive Scliolarships 15 Portsmouth, Va. Chapters Have Busy Year 16 Seeond J'iee-Prcsideiit Virginia L. Wali Farmville, Va. Seniors, Sororities Make Gifts 17 Ex-Pi-esideuf Foreign Students 18 Margaret Robinson Simkins Farmville. \'a. Nine New Faculty Members on Campus 20 Directors Granddaugher's Club Picture 21 Frances Horton 2124 Memorial Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Va. Your Alumnae President Reports 22 Sammy Scott Tazewell, Va. Founders Day Program 23 Emily Johnson 3833 9th St., North, Arlington, Va. Pat Tuggle Miller Rt. 2, Laurel Springs, Ellerson, Va. Your Candidates, and Ballot 24 Ex-Secretary Honor Roll 25 Ruth Harding Coyner Farmville, Va. '_- Virginia McLean Pharr__ 5211 Sheridan Lane In Memoriam 28 Richmond, Va. Births 29 Chairmen of Standinc/ Committees Marriages 30 Helen Costan, Chairman, Snack Bar 1307 Oakwood Court, Lynchburg, Va. Class News 31 Maria Bristow Starke, Chairman. Alumnae House "Rustoni", River Road, Richmond, Va. Missing Persons 46 Executive Secretary and Treasurer Elizabeth Shipplett Jones Sheppards, Va. Class Representatives COVER Josephine Hillsman Martinsville, Va. The picture on the cover shows Elsie Stossel, president of the Joan Harvey Rt. 1, Appomattox, Va. Alumnae Association and Margaret Rolnnson Simkins, past Betty Davis Edwards.-.416 Joist Hite Place, Winchester, Va. president, before the statue of Joan of Arc in the Rotunda. Published quarterly by Longwood College, Farmville, Va. Second Cla liling privileges at Farmville, Va MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ' I am pure you are aware that colleges and * ' universities everywhere are facing rapidly . ^ '': increasing enrollments. In this respect. Long- •, wood is no exception. Each year since 1953 ^^^^iBt- our enrollment has steadily increased; and by .p'''"''^- conservative estimates our present enroll- * ment will double by 1970. We have a dormi- tory under construction which will be ready \ to occupy by September of 1958. .\s I write this, we are inviting bids on construction to provide more classroom space. Further addi- tions to the physical plant will be needed. But there are other even more important Francis G. Laxkford needs that increased enrollments will empha- size. One is the need to maintain the quality of faculty to which Longwood is accustomed. This must be done in the face of keen competition from other colleges and universities. To meet this competition, we must have better salaries as well as working conditions that give faculty members more time for research and other creative work. We must also tr\ to make more efficient use of the capable faculty we have. There is also the need to maintain the quality of our student body as our numbers in- crease. Here I mean quality of heart and mind, for at Longwood it has always been true that both character and intellect are respected by student body and faculty. As numbers increase, we must also be sure that each new group is taught respect for the fine traditions of Longwood. These are a precious heritage which new students must be helped to ap- preciate. In meeting all of these needs, loyal Longwood alumnae can help. Those of you who live in Virginia can be especially helpful in supporting our requests of the legislature for funds to increase faculty salaries and to enlarge our physical facilities. Loyal alumnae everywhere can help in directing to Longwood young women who possess the qualities to succeed academically, to make a contribution to campus life, and to reflect credit on the good name of Longwood. Such young women do constitute our student body today. I wish all of you could have the rewarding experience that is mine in working with these bright, resourceful, and dedicated young people I am keenly aware that local alumnae chapters have helped with scholarships and in our recruiting of able high school graduates. Indeed, whenever we have asked new stu- dents how they were influenced to choose Longwood, contact with alumnae has always had high frequency. I am sincerely grateful for this help. I hope you will write us any time we can support your efforts in this direction. Sincerely, F. G. L.A.NKroRD, Jr. — INSIGHTS GAINED FROM LIVING ABROAD Founders Day Address by Mary Douglas Finch, '22 Often I found it ver}- frustrating in the Japanese schools not to be able to maintain the language standards either for myself or for my students instilled by Miss Rice and Miss Smithe}-, nor to have my pupils' compositions in high school and college e^'en faintly resemble those ap- proved by Mr. Grainger and Miss Hiner, but at least each year I could make a new start with the new students, Mar}' Dougla- I im 1 Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Mildred holding up the high standards received here. Dickinson Da\i^, ami .\ancy Lea Harris, student body presi- Post-w'ar Japanese schools rebuilt, many of them with dent, (in tile platfurm at Founders Day. American aid, had many U.S. Army of Occupation re- It has been exactly four months since I returned to forms superimposed upon them, many of which have America, and two months since my arrival in Virginia. been discarded today. The minister of Education (edu- After seven years' absence, I believe you can understand cation is controlled by a National Bureau of Education) that adjustments are necessary. Yet in spite of all this in early post-war Japan, Mr. Tamon Maeda, in a recent time and the startling changes around us, I feel com- copy of the Japan Quarterly comments as follows: "Some forted today in this meeting as I come with ^ou to pav of the striking innovations introduced into the Japanese tribute to our Alma Mater on this seventy-third Founders educational system after the war have much to commend Day. I feel comforted because we have the same mem- them. Of primary importance and basic to all of them ories, the same deep gratitude, for our student experiences was the emphasis upon the democratic spirit. Others here, for the lasting friendships formed, for our STC included the extension of the period of compulsor\' edu- Longwood educational heritage and the cultural and cation, the basic principle of co-education, the establish- spiritual advantage which the years at our Alma ^Mater ment of a social science course, and the adoption of group brought to each one of us in large measure. discussion instructional methods." !Mr. Maeda points In voicing again as I do with you today our apprecia- out the difficulties involved in implementing these educa- tion of the leadership we had in Dr. Jarman and the tional policies, among them the complete lack of under- faculty of our day, and of our present leadership, we are standing of the Japanese situation on the part of too many simply saying in words the thanks we've tried to express U.S. Aniiy officers, as well as the Japanese tendency to in our lives through the years. conformism. Perhaps I have had more privileges than some, because In spite of western clothes, gadgets, the most up-to-date I have been teaching and learning most of my professional buildings in all the large cities, radio, television, in fact life abroad. At least I have gained some different in- the introduction of all forms of mass media, the icy hand sights. I say a privilege because I consider it just that of feudalism still has a strong hold upon the Japanese to live and work in another culture, not mv own, under way of life. All too often, it wipes the smile off the faces the impact of different social and religious customs against of some of my students as they go obedientl}- to the an ancient Oriental background. Shinto Shrines to be married to men whom the profes- I quote from a recent number of "Japan Speaks to sional go-between has introduced briefly only a short time America" in Allantic Monthly: "The best way to learn before. The arranged match pleases the two families con- about a country is, of course, to go there.