News of Southwestern At Memphis: students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends Vol. 6, No.6 (Pub. #780~480) Memphis, Tennessee May 1980 Plough provides fund Of one million dollars Hundreds of future Southwest­ the' $20 Million Commitment. It ern students will have business­ helped push the total 0 of gifts man-philanthropist Abe Plough and pledges over the $10.7 mil­ to thank for their college edu­ lion mark. cations. About· 20 Moses and Julia The 88-year-old Memphian re­ Plough Scholarships, averaging cently established a $1 million $1,000 per stu den t, will be fund as a perpetual source of awarded this coming academic tuition scholarships for South­ year 0980-81), a c cot din g to western students. The gift is in Souhwestern President James memory of his late parents, Daughdrill Jr. Each year the Moses and Julia Plough. amount will increase 5 percent Pool i n g $400,000 from the until 2005 when $64,500 will go Plough Foundation and $600,000 o to help students-who have dem­ on loan from Southwestern's en­ onstrated financial need along dowment fund, the Plough Foun­ with healthy academic standing. dation purchased $1 million in Under the com pIe x invest­ U.S. government bonds with a ment set-up Southwestern will yield of 12.26 percent annually. be repaid by 2006 the full 25- DE'mCATION-New Women's Residence Hall was named in honor of the late Dean Anne Marie The Plough gift, the largest year loan of $600,000 and an ad­ Williford during a recent campus ceremony. Eyeing the just-unveiled plaque for the building are endowed scholarship fund at the ditional 6 percent in interest. members of 0 Dean Williford's family (from left) Beth Williford Carson, Judson O. Williford '50; college, is part of Southwest­ That year the amount given in and Susan Williford Montgomery '77. On the right is Pres. James D;mghdrill Jr. ern's capital funds campaign, Plough Scholarships will be hik­ ed to $490,000, enough to bene­ fit hundreds of students. The gift "h 0 nor s not only Grads to hear noted CBS anchorman Sou t h w est ern, not only his (Plough's) mother and father, United Nations correspondent, Presbyterian School of Christian Veteran CBS news correspond­ can friendship and underst~nd­ but it's another proof of the chief foreign correspondent and Education. ent Charles Collingwood will ad­ ing. kinds of ideals Mr. Plough has d!ess the 131st graduating class more recently a reporter and The Rev. Vernon Hunter The Rev. Harold G. Odum stood for as an outstanding ex­ at Southwestern during the an­ anchorman for CBS News Spe­ The Reverend Vernon Hunter The Rev. Harold G. Odum has cial Reports (television) and for ample of a philanthropist in this nual commencement exercises earned his B.A. at Davidson been pastor at First Presbyter­ part of the country," President special reports on the CBS ra­ on Saturday, June 7, in the Hu­ College, bis M. Div. at Union ian Church in San Angelo, Tex., Daughdrill noted. bert F. Fisher Memorial Garden. dio network. Seminary in Richmond, Va., and since 1957. Previously he served Collingwood's add res s will Although some of the interest His talk, "Power and Influ· his D. Min. at Vanderbilt Divin­ as pastor of First Presbyterian on the bonds will be funneled in­ ence in Today's World," will be deal with the use of influence­ ity School. Church in Temple, Tex. He cur­ rather than sheer military pow­ to tuition scholarships between delivered during the 10 a.m. rently sits on the boards of the 1980 and 2005, part will be re­ ceremonies at which approxi­ er-to solve today's world prob­ He became pastor at Ever­ Texas Presbyterian Foundation lems. His assessment of foreign green Presbyterian Church in invested-presently projected to mately 200 seniors will receive and the Presbyterian Mo-Ranch. earn 9 percent-and part will go degrees. relations is backed up by years Dothan, Ala., and served there His church work includes his of co v e r i n g the international from 1961-67. His second church to payoff the Southwestern In addition to the 200 under­ current chairing of the Presby­ loan. By 2006 the balance of the graduate degrees, six honorary scene. post was as organizing pastor at tery's committee on continuing Balmoral Presbyterian 0 Church, fund will equal $5.2 million. degrees 0 will be conferred. Col­ His a~signments have includ­ education and past leadership of ed: "Italy, Lebanon and South Memphis, from 1967-78. He be­ Plough is the f 0 u n d e r of lingwood, a cum laude graduate Presbyterian Synod committees Plough, Inc., a manufacturer of of Cornell -University, will re­ Africa," a report on the inter­ gan his current pastorate at dealing with nominations, Springhill 0 Presbyterian Church such household items as st. Jos­ ceive the Doctor of Laws degree. nal events of those countries and church ext ens ion and inter­ in Mobile, Ala., in March, 1978. eph Aspirin, Solarcaine, Copper­ The Reverend Vernon R. Hun­ how those events affect A.mer­ church relations. He also has ter, min i s t e r of Spring Hill ica's position in the world (July, The Rev. Hunter has partici­ tone and Maybelline products. served as moderator of Presby­ In 1970, Plough, Inc., merged Presbyterian Church in Mobile, 1976); and "Who's Ahead-the pated in many church and edu­ tery and commissioner to the (Continued on page 4) Ala., and the Reverend Harold Debate Over Defense," a study cational activities. He has been General Assembly of the Pres­ G. Odum, minister of First of the military preparedness of a commissioner to 0 the Presby­ byterian Churcn in 1956, 1962 Presbyterian Church, San An­ the U.S. and U.S.S.R. (April, terian General Assembly twice, and 1976. gelo, Tex., will receive Doctor 1977), among others. chairman of the campus minis­ The Rev. Odum earned his of Divinity degrees. In addition, Collingwood cov­ try board of the Presbyterian bachelor's degree in 'philosophy Doctor of Humane Letters will ered the war in Indochina from Church at Memphis State Uni­ from the University of Texas at be awarded to writer Eudora the 1960s 0 on. He was the first versity from 1973-75, and presi­ Austin and his bachelor of di­ Welty, and C. Lamar Wallis, di­ American network newsman to dent of the board of the Institute vinity degree from Austin Pres­ rector of libraries for the Mem- be admitted to North Vietnam. of M e d i c i n e and Religion in byterian Theological Seminary o phis/Shelby County Public Li­ More recently, he completed a Memphis. He is a trustee of in Austin, Tex. brary System. Francis Robin- 0 special report "Salt II: A Great Eudora Welty son, tour director and consult­ Debate Begins" (June, 1979). Eudora Welty is a native Mis­ ant for the Metropolitan Opera Collingwood has also covered sissippian well-known for her Association, will r e c e i v e the a wide range of domestic issues m'astery of the short story and Doctor of Fine Arts degree. over the years-from the ener­ her rich portrayal of the South The baccalaureate service will gy crisis to busing to inflation. , and its inhabitants. take place at 3:30 p.m., Friday, He took a two-year leave of ab­ Besides winning the Pulitzer June 6, at Idlewild Presbyterian sence in the 1950s to act as spe­ Prize for her most recent novel, Church, with the Rever end cial assistant to Averell Harri­ "The 0 p tim is t's Daughter," Wayne P. Todd, minister of man, then director for mutual Miss Welty has been heaped First Presbyterian C h u r c h, security in Washington, D.C. with an assortment of awards Florence, Ala., delivering the A law and philosophy gradu- including six O. Henry Memorial baccalaureate sermon. o ate of Cornell, Collingwood was Contest Awards, the William CommEmcement speaker Col­ awarded a Rhodes Scholarship Dean Howells Medal of Ameri­ lingwood has been a CBS re­ to study at Oxford University. ian Arts and Letters and the porter for almost 40 years, cov­ Durlng his career he has re­ Gold Medal for Fiction as well ering both international and na­ ceived many journalistic awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship. tional news. Since joining CBS' for news reporting and inter­ The 1979 Artist in Residence London bureau in 1941, he has pretation, as well ' as an award for Southwestern's British Stud­ been a CBS war correspondent, from Britain's Queen Elizabeth ies at Oxford program, Miss W hit e H 0 use Correspondent, II for promoting Anglo-Ameri- Charles Collingwood (Continued on page 2) . Sbuthwestern Today May Page 2 Hosteling tradition captures :.Lively crowd aged 60-p/us Probably no segment of the homemakers to world travelers. S tan for d University, studying population suffers more from 'They came from as far away as language and linguistics. She rampant inflation than retirees Readsville, Mass., and as near­ will discuss the current state of on fixed incomes. And one of by, as Germantown, Tenn. the language and verbal misuse the first luxuries they eliminate Although Southwestern is the prevalent in the American way is travel. ' Yet that doesn't have only West Tennessee Institution of speaking. to be the case. in the Elderhostel network, else­ Ms. Baer noted that optional Elderhostel, offered this sum­ where in the State the program workshops, films and lectures mer by Southwestern and other is being offered at East Tennes­ were being pia nne d for the colleges and universities nation­ see State University, King Col­ week.