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Contents Longwood Faces the Future 1 LONGWOOD COLLEGE Physical Education: Skills or Frills? 3 Alumnae Association Festival of the Fine Arts 6 The Status of the Writer in the South 7 XLVII Number 3 Volume Points of Progress 8 November 1961 Foreign Language Institute 9 Editor Elizabeth Shipplett Jones Longwood's Art Conference 10 Editorial Board Mildred Dickinson Davis Richard Meeker Assistant Josephine Crowder Baker Fay Greenland's Feature 11 Typist Betty Ruth Stimpson MEMBER AMERICAN ALUMNI 77th Founders Day 13 COUNCIL From Me to You—My Report 14 Chapter Comments 15 LONGWOOD COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION The Sun Never Sets on a Longwood Student 16 Executive Board Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Jr., President, Longwood College Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster, President Emeritus, Longwood College Convocation at Longwood 18 President Alumnae Council Annual Meeting 19 Janie Potter Hanes, 321 Institute Hill, Lexington, Va. Chapter Officers 20 First Vice President Brown, 1637 Johnson Rd., Petersburg, Va. Nan Seward Granddaughters Club 21 Second Vice President Your Alumnae President Speaks 22 Carol Bird Stoops Droessler, 4733 N. Dittmar Rd., Arlington 7, Va. Ex-President Founders Day Program 23 Minnie Lee Crumpler Burger, 50 Post St., Newport News, Va. About Your Candidates and Ballot 24 Ex-Secretary Virginia McLean Pharr, 5220 Gravelbrook Drive, Richmond, Va. The Alumnae Fund Appeal 25 Directors Financial and Budget Reports 26 Thelma Croye Smith, Timberlake, Route 5, Raleigh, N. C. Mish Timberlake, 172 N. Coalter St., Staunton, Va. Margaret 1961 Honor Roll 27 Dorothy Davis Holland, 2259 Sewell Lane, Roanoke, Va. Helen Warriner, Route 1, Amelia, Va. Wedding Bells 31 Chairman of Snack Bar Committee Elsie Thompson Burger, Farmville, Va. Births 32 Chairman of Alumnae House Committee Class News 33 Virginia Leonard Campbell, 5401 Bewdley Rd., Richmond, Va. Tribute to a Teacher 53 Executive Secretary and Treasurer Elizabeth Shipplett Jones, Route 2, Farmville, Va. Special Honor Roll 53 Class Representatives Dr. Herbert Shapley, Noted Astronomer Ann Brierley, Farmville, Va. on Campus 54 Patsy Powell, 318 S. Main St., Suffolk, Va. Christine Jones, LaCrosse. Va. Miss Applebee Visiting Farmville 54 Rebecca Jones, Washington, Va. Cecil Kidd, Bon Air, Va. Anne Kovaveich, 2200 S. Buchanan St., Arlington, Va. In Memoriam 56 COVER: Physical education students shown in a tense moment during a basketball game. Published quarterly by Longwood College, Farmville, Va. Second Class mailing privileges at Farmville, Va. Printed by Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company of Roanoke, Virginia. LONGWOOD FACES THE FUTURE By Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Jr. Editor's Note- This is an abstract of the address given by Dr Lankford at Foundets Day. Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Jr. INSTITUTIONS, like individuals, have a sentimental desite to see your A second demand that is being made must adapt themselves to the demands Alma Mater resist change, or even upon American colleges and univer- of the times or they become obsolete turn backward to an earlier day, you sities is that they play an ever in- and are replaced by others more re- want what is surest to mean her decline creasing role in international affairs. sponsive to the age they serve. It is a into obsolescence. We have seen new nations created at truism that our age is one of change a frightening rate in recent months. Now what are some of these de- with profound implications for our The United Nations now contains 99 mands of the sixties, which Longwood institutions as well as for ourselves. membets, 18 of which have been ad- must be prepared to meet? An obvious Response to the changing demands of mitted in the past two years. Many demand is for the education of the times has characterized Longwood first of these nations are inhabited by more students in college. Nationally College throughout its history. It primitive and uneducated people. It college enrollments of I960 are ex- became Virginia's first state college is quite as important to us and to the pected to double by 1970. The enroll- for women in 1884. The leading rest of the western world that these ment at Longwood in 1954-55 was spirit in its establishment was Dr. people be educated as it is that they be 704. By the end of March, 1955, there Henry Ruffner. He had served as fed, clothed, and housed. I suspect were 347 applications for admission. Virginia's first State Superintendent of that there is a much larger role to be Next session our capacity will limit Public Instruction. With great cour- played by Longwood College in the us to an enrollment of 1,125. Approxi- age, dedication, and vision, he had realm of international affairs than it mately 400 of these will be new stu- launched Virginia's public school has played in the past. Some of our dents. They will, for the most part, system created in 1870. He became sister institutions are enrolling many come from the top quarter of their acutely aware of the need for qualified more foreign students than we are, high school graduating classes. teachers and set about to establish either with scholarship help or on here at Farmville an institution to meet Looking ahead, we have assumed some exchange basis. This proves this demand of post Civil-War Vir- in our estimates for the Governor's valuable both to the foreign students ginia. This was first a normal school Capital Outlay Commission an en- as well as to our American students. with two years of high school work rollment of 1,900 for Longwood by Still other institutions are sending and two years of college. Then, in 1970. I know that many of you wish their students abroad to study in a the Farmville Female 1924, Normal your Alma Mater could remain its foreign college or university for a School became the four-year Farmville present size. Many of our faculty and whole year. Some of our Virginia col- State Teachers College. These changes present student body have the same leges have created programs in Asian in name only symbolize other changes wish. I admit that it must would be studies, recognizing how important of greater significance. For example, a great satisfaction to me if we did it is for our American college students the curriculum is vastly different now not have to build another building. to know more about the people of than in earlier days—tending toward But I ask you seriously to reflect on Asia, their cultures, and their am- a greater emphasis on academic fields the question, "Can we rightly relax bitions. One of the specific recom- as well as more formal study of psy- and enjoy for ourselves the comfort mendations we read in several sources chology and philosophy in the pro- of a stabilized enrollment when the today is the insistence that offerings in fessional courses. young people of our state and nation teacher education include courses in But it is not my purpose to detail are desperately seeking a college comparative education. This field is these changes. I merely want to point education? Can we refuse to share out that Longwood has, throughout with them the traditions and good likely to receive more attention in the its history, changed and prospered in name of Longwood?" I don't believe years ahead than ever before. Surely, response to the demands of the times. we can. I believe we must do our there is a peculiar obligation for Long- It must continue to do the same today share to respond to this pressing de- wood to help out own students gain a and in the years ahead. If any of you mand of our times. broader understanding ofother nations. Here we have a student body that is women college graduates ate in pro- much needs to be done. I think fitst 959» Virginian. We must consciously fessional or kindred work, and the of the teaching of religion as an aca- seek to avoid the subtle deterioration leading profession for women con- demic discipline. Some of the most that comes with excessive provincial- tinues to be teaching. Moteover, the highly respected departments of re- ism. Yes, somehow, we must stand prospects are that this will continue ligion are located on the campuses of ready to share our talents and facilities as fat into the future as we can see. state universities. The Univetsity of with the people of other nations— The U. S. Office of Education esti- Virginia and the University of Iowa particularly those that are backward mates that we must produce 200,000 are good examples. At Longwood we in their development. new teachets each year to meet our have made a small beginning in this national needs. At present ratios, direction. Fortunately, we have in Dr. Near the end of I960, there appeared this means 150,000 new women teach- Ruth Wilson, our Dean of Women, a a report of a committee of able scholars ers each year. person whose doctorate is in religious and statesmen in this country created education.