February, 1965 Sewanee News THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE. TENNESSEE ,«! mM V«SB B^^**^ " J/ee. — THE Sewan BEST HOPE NEWS by Arthur Ben Chitty Regional peaks of excellence are essential to nationwide intellectual vigor. This assumption The Sewanee News, issued quarterly by the was one of several which governed awarding ASSOCIATED ALUMNI of Ford Foundation challenge grants to forty-seven liberal arts colleges between 1961 and the end of 1964. of The University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennes- Overall purpose of Ford's $218.5 million Special see. Second Class postage paid at Sewanee, Tennessee. Program, according to a just-published Report from Foundation, has reach levels of aca- John Guerry, '49, President of the Associated Alumni the been to "new demic excellence, administrative effectiveness, and fi- Editor Arthur Ben Chitty, '35 nancial support." Ford sees as a distinctive feature of our pre-2000 half century a worldwide commitment Managing Editor Edith Whitesell to education destined perhaps to be the most important Consulting Editor Elizabeth N. Chitty social movement of our time. A fourth of the nation is in school. Expenditures for Class Notes Peggy Ervin education exceed $30 billion a year as America drives citizen high- Frederick R. Freyer, '29, Fice-President for Bequests; Dr. L. toward the goal of educating every to the Spires Whitaker. '31, rice-President for Capital Funds; Dudley est level of his ability. Undergraduate enrollments in C. Fort, '34, Fice-President for Regions: R. Morey Hart, '34, the nation have risen 40 per cent since 1950. Corres- Fice-President for Church Support; Rev. Tracy H. Lamar, Fice- ponding increase at the graduate level has been 48 President for St. Luke's; W. Sperry Lee. '43, Fice-President for per cent. At Sewanee the student body has increased Classes: William E. Ward III, A'45, Fice-President for SMJ; James \Y. Gentry. Jr., '50, Fice-President for Admissions; Philip by ^6 per cent in that period. B. Whitaker, '55, Recording Secretary; F. Clay Bailey, '50, The liberal arts college has been subjected to special Treasurer; Executive Director. Arthur Bex Chitty. '35, stress. Individual instruction has been a keystone for nine-tenths of its history and its disappearance is traumatic. Content of academic disciplines has ex- CONTENTS panded. Xew knowledge is newly synthesized, radically reorganized. The drive toward specialization pushes 3 1964- Gift Breaks Records downward past the senior year, into the junior and sophomore years. The academic marketplace, long 4 The Jessie Ball duPont Library raided by the wealthier megaversities, now loses shin- from Rags to Riches ing faces to corporations and government as well as 6 Small Classes—Are They Worth It; rival professions. by Arthur Ben Chitty The private institution declines in relative popula- 7-9 On the Mountain tion. In 1900 some 61% of all students were in private (continued on page five) 10 Winter Sports 12 Off the Mountain WASHINGTON DC FEB 19 1965 MR AR- THUR BEN CHITTY EXECUTIVE DI- 14 Class Distinctions RECTOR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SE- 21 In Memoriam WANEE TENN PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT UNI- 23 Gifts by Classes VERSITY OF THE SOUTH HAS BEEN 29 Remembrances of 1964 NAMED TO AN HONOR CITATION (HONORABLE MENTION) AAC ALUMNI 30 Campaign SERVICE AWARD COMPETITION. MORE INFORMATION ON THE AWARD AND ITS PRESENTATION WILL BE SENT BY LET- TER NEXT WEEK. SINCERE CONGRATU- February 1965 Volume 31 Number i LATIONS- Front Cover: Drawing by Jean Tallec AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Back Coyer: Photo by Howard Coulson 1964 Gifts Top $3,000,000 Bishop Frank A. Juhan, '11, at his ravine garden home. Ke is volunteer director of development. Records fell in 1964 as Sewanee's Campaign for $10,000,000 entered its final quarter. Year- San Antonio Robert Ayres, '49 117% end gifts brought the total to #5,599,674, leav- Montgomery George Bliss Jones, '27 101% ing $1,900,326 to be raised by August 31. When Ford Greenville Robert Oliveros, '49 100% Foundation matching funds are added, the total (cash Jacksonville Thomas McKeithen, '51 97% and pledges) comes to Adding January $7,466,232. Huntsville/Decatur Merritt Wikle, '56 89% gifts, almost per cent of the goal has been realized. 75 John C. Eyster, '51 Total gift income for 1964 $3,114,345—was far — St. Louis William C. Honey, '54 83% above the previous record of $1,800,000 in i960. The Jackson, Miss. William G. Wills, '24 83% 1964 total includes some gifts to the hospital and to Beaumont Thomas K. Lamb, Jr., '51 76% Sewanee Military Academy which were not matchable. Atlanta Ken Kinnett, '56 75% and from the Ford Foundation. $395,235 Morgan Hall, '39 The surge of gifts in December, totaling $1,097,045, In total funds raised, the leading areas and their encouraged Campaign leaders more than any develop- respective chairmen are: New York Area (including ment thus far. (December, total: $656,262). 1963, Connecticut and New Jersey), Edward B. Crosland. Some 1.434 g'ft transactions were tallied in December '32 —$40,629; Nashville, Dudley C. Fort, '34—$35,700; alone. As recently as 800 gifts in a full year 1946, and Atlanta, Ken Kinnett, '56 and O. Morgan Hall, was normal. '39—$29,384. J\.t a recent meeting of the Campaign Executive B attle plan for the Campaign in its final months Committee, a Commencement goal of $6,500,000 was will hinge, for the most part, on two levels of strategy. set. Said Co-chairman Cecil Woods, '21, "Only major Cecil Woods, in overall charge with Bishop Frank effort in many key areas will raise another million A. Juhan, calls for first emphasis on Major Gifts—gifts dollars by June, but to insure success it must be done." of $10,000 and up. Incidentally, gifts in this category Woods urged each Campaign worker to review his accounted for 92 per cent of the final total in Stanford's prospects as soon as possible, and to have a realistic recent $100 million campaign. appraisal of his local situation when queried by Cam- Assisting Woods in the large gift area will be \ ice- paign staff men in the next few weeks. Chairman Hinton Longino, already with a full travel John P. Guerry, Alumni president and national schedule. Dr. McCrady will also be focusing his chairman for the Alumni and Friends committee, had attention on this area. high praise for his chairmen and workers. With the John P. Guerry will continue as chairman of the $500,000 goal oversubscribed by approximately 15 per Alumni and Friends campaign, but there will be a :ent. he reported the mid-January standings of the shift in the backstopping. Up to now, the servicing of various A and F areas as follows: twenty-nine organized areas has been done primarily Louisville Ralph Ruch, '35 150% by the Chattanooga office. For the remainder of the George Wagner, '53 Campaign, such help will come from the development David Gray, '53 office at Sewanee. Since the A and F campaign is al- Nashville Dudley Fort, '34 130% ready 15 per cent over quota, there will be only a few Morse Kochtitzky. '42 new areas opened, but campaigning will continue in Chattanooga Phil Whitaker, '55 1 19% practically all cities presently organized. February 1965 Coulson Corinne Burg, head cataloguer, looks over the new quarters for her department which are larger than the old main reading room. She had been operating fiom part of one desk. The duPont Library PLANS FOR THE MOVING OF THE UNIVERSITY Nashville." Library from its tradition-glamoured but crowd- Planning by William Harkins and, before he came, ed habitat to the splendid new Jessie Ball duPont by John Hodges, now associate librarian, over a period building have a large "If the creeks don't rise" notation of ten years and more will bear fruit in the new struc- on them. A tidy academic hope to make the move ture. Hodges, who was forced by a heart attack to between semesters and not delay the use of the active step aside from the major responsibility for the move collection a single hour was frustrated by the failure but who is able to contribute his experience in his of all the doors to arrive on schedule. The next target present position, looks down from a balcony to the acre date, February 12, was postponed by the repose of a of floor space below and says he feels like Keats' shipment of plastic table tops on a siding somewhere Stout Cortes, Silent upon a peak in Darien. Total in Georgia. A glazier's strike further complicated the floor space covers over three acres, and nine and a "Why librarians get gray" saga. half miles of shelving have already gone in, with plenty Librarian William Harkins is totally gray, but bears of room for expansion. none the less a cheerful smile, activated, no doubt, by "We plan to offer every important intellectual ac- a glorious dream of things to come all but unpredictable tivity which a student or professor might want." There in Sewanee's past. Once the duPont Library is open will be discussion rooms, audio-visual aids on call, and funds are in hand for the planned expansion of music listening rooms, soundproof typing cubicles, 300 the book collection the University will have to set aside carrells with forty-eight-inch desks, and twenty-eight its long history of broken-field running around ob- locked cubicles for faculty members. A Xerox re- stacles to achieve the first rank, and set about living production room will also provide for photographing, up to reasonable expectations of unhampered ac- developing, and microfilming.