VOLUME XXII. NO. 4 Center Right- on Which Construction Wos Begun in Winston-Salem Early in June Dormitories in Foreground WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUM I EWS, June, 1952 Page Two Cost Trends Wake Forest College was engaged peace- fully with another annual commencement in the Colleges program when The New York Times of lililahe 111nrrst C!tnllrgr June 1 reached the village "in a forest of Wake" bearing on its first page an article under the ominous title, "Grave Fund Crises Confront Colleges." Benjamin Fine, educational editor of The Times, had summarized in it conclusions based upon information 1\lunttti Nrws secured from an extensive survev of 600 liberal arts colleges and universities in America. A bit on the pessimistic side, especially for the independent liberal arts colleges, the report attributed financial difficulties to mounting operating costs and, in most cases, declining Editor: EUGENE OLIVE, ' 10 enrollments MoM of the colleges were busy with efforts to obtain needed funds from private sources and a majority of them reported fund-raising more difficult than a year ago. tudents themselves were Published in October, December, M_a rch, and June. by Wake the primary source from which efforts were made to !tecure funds Forest C ollege, Office of Pubhc Relauons and Alumm Activities, to meet rising costs. Thi~ may be ~een from the fact that tuition and Wake Forest, N. C. fees have been increa~ed, on the average, about 70 per cent within Subscription Price: One Dollar a Year the la~t ten years. Students are paying more than ever before for educational opportunity, but this is true of about everything else Entered as second-class ma tter at the Post Office at \Vake Forest, they and other people are purchasing. North Carolina. Address all communications to ALU M N I N EWS, WaJ.:e Forest, North Carolina. Woke Forest's Church-related colleges. according to The Times survey, are in Je ~ · jeopardy than the ALUMNl ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Stotus Sound institutions under private control. This is true especially of \Vake Forest College and for very sound reasons. President-Addison Hewlett, Jr '33 ......... Wilmington First Vic.-President-Dr. Vernon Taylo r, Jr. '36 .................. Elkm ( 11 It is owned, controlled, supported, and patronized by people Second Vic.-President-Egbert L. Davis, Jr. '33 ......Winston-Salem who are bound together in a great religious denomination. lts Immediate Past President-Henry Lites. '32..... ........... Greensboro character and functions will be determined by the Baptists of North Carolina. A portion of every gift made through the Co-operative EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Program by any individual in any church is alJocatcd for Christian Offic ers na med above and- Education and divided among the colleges belonging to the Baptist Wake Forest Harold W. Tribble, ex officio State Convention. lt is certain that a far larger percentage than ever Hubert E. Olive '18, ex officio. ..... Lexington Judge Chester R. Morris '25 (1952) .... Currituck before of the 730 000 Baptists in the state are sharing in the support Dr. D. R. Perry '16 (1952) ..... ...... Durham of the Baptist colleges. It is reasonable to assume that the expanding Dr. J. Bivens Helms '24 ( 1953 ) .. Morganton program of the churches, as illustrated in the progre&ive Nine A. J. Hutchins '12 ( 1953) ... ... Canton Year Plan adopted by the last Convention, will strengthen greatly De .Atlanta, Ga. an Paden ( 1953) the work John Knott '23 ( 1954) ............ .. .. Charlotte of the colleges both in the matter of current support and James Mason '38 (1954 ) .. ........ Laurinburg in helping to supply their capital needs. A ma tter of tremendous Dr. J. R. Sa unders, ( 1954 ). Richmond, Va. ~ignificance is the fact that many thousands of individuals have A. Yates Dowell, (19551 \\ ashington, D. C. shared in the movement to raise through the churches $1,500,000 Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. H eath D. Bumgardner. ( 195 5 l for the building fund of the Ne" Wake Forest College in Winston­ Eugene Olive ' 10 Secretary ............... ..... Wa~e Forest Salem, and that more than S 1.000,000 of the amount has been paid already. It is a healthful situation for any institution to belong to a strong and growing constituency that believes in it, supports IN THIS ISSU E it. looJ..s to it for the training of its youth, and is committed irrevocably to the success of its high mission. The Chapel Front Cover ( 2) Loyal alumni of \Vake Forest College, many of whom are Editorials: Cost Trends in the Colleges in the group considered above, are among its Mrongest assurances Wa ke Forest's Status Sound of health for Lhe future. One was heard to say in a recent alumni Construction is Begun on the cw Campus. meeting in \Vashington, D. C .. that no influence in his life, Pre ·ident Tribble Honored 4 save that of his parents. had alfected him so tremendously for Commencement Speakers Heard 4 good as \Vake Forest. That te:,timony is no isolated one. It is Honorary Degrees Conferred. 5 repeated frequently in one way or another. These devoted sons Jim Turner Retires .. 6 and daughters of the College are discovering in greater numbers Activities of the Facully......... 7 that they can find no surer way to prove both their gratitude for Admini ~ trativc Offices Opened in Win~ton - Salem ... 7 what they have received and their desire to make the wiseM The Challenge of a Liberal Education possible investment in a brighte1 and better tomorrow for man­ By Roy E. Snell, '52 .... 10 l-ind than to share their material possessions for the health of Among the Alumni II their alma mater. By special and regular gifts, through bequests Inside the Roc~ Wall 13 and 15 mtlde by will, out of trust funds, business profit , and othcr\\ise L. Y. Ballentine Makes Headlines. 13 the alumni are building monuments 11 more lasting than bronze." Bennett Becomes Chief of Chaplains. .. 14 (3) Another and growing group upon which Wake Forest Football Schedule .. 17 College leans with confidence is composed of individuals, families, Thc ~ e Were Married ... 18 corporations, and foundations other than tbo~e previously men­ Information About Alumni 18 tioned who are keenly aware of the values of Christian education ecrology 23 and of the wisdom and soundness of generous support of it. Future \Vake ForcMers 24 According to The Times survey, the sources of contributed funds Second of tbe new buildings to be slsrted this SlllllJller is tbe library, (center), adjacent are classroom buildings. Construction Is Begun on the New Campus Robert C. Deyton Months have passed since the ground a trustees' room, ventilating equipment. the Vice-President breaking ceremonies of October 15 when master clock for the campus and space for and Controller thousands witnessed the spading of dirt at carrilons. Re) nolda symbolizing the beginning of con­ Library to be Erected Vice-President and Controller Robert C. ::.truction of the new Wake Forest College. Deyton assumed Within a few weeks construction will be­ his new duties early in ow, however, vi;itors to the site where gin on the four-floor library building, ac· May and is located in Winston-Salem where the celebration was held will find workmen cordmg to architect, J. F. Larson who has administrative offices have been set up in the Amos Cottage at Graylyn. busily engaged with materials which are drawn plans for several such buildings on being assembled from day to day looking to­ campuses of leading colleges in the country. Mr. Deyton is • Baptist, a graduate of ward the erection of tbe Chapel and class­ This structure will be in many respects an Duke University and of the Harvard School room building. improvement over any existing college li­ of Business. He is best known in North This structure will cost a little less than brary, he states. lt will house as many as Carolina as Assistant Director of the Budget 1,500,000 and will provide a seating space 800,000 volumes. The contract price, ap· for the State for about 16 years prior to for 2,500 people. The educational section of proved by the trustees, is $1,691,567. the present administration. In recent years the building will contain a meditation George W. Kane of Greensboro is to be tbe he was held an import'*nt executive position chapel, quarters for the school of religion builder of both tbese structures. with the Ecusta Paper Corporation and and all other student religious activities. Details of plans for tbe science building comes to his Wake Forest post with an ex­ Here also will be housed on Sundays tbe are practically completed and authorization cellent background of training and experi­ various educational departments of tbe Col· bas been given by the trustees to the archi· ence. lege Church which is to be organized on tbe teet's committee to approve this contract as The new official will represent !be College campus. soon as satisfactory details can be com­ in all business matters connected with the The tower will include a reception room, pleted. construction program in Winston-Salem and to non·tax·supported colleges are listed in Ibis order: general word "Christian" to "privately supported education." Because this subscriptions, alumni, business and industry, and foundations. is true, generous benefactors of Wake Forest College are to be Educators generally are agreed !bat private and church schools found among the ablest business and professional men outside tbe must not receive financial aid from government, except in the ranks of Baptists and alumni. They are investing liberally in form of scholarships paid to individual students. One of tbem trust funds for its permanent support and in buildings which will expresses an opinion that seems general: "Privately supported stand for generations as memorials to their wisdom and to tbeir .educational institutions must look more to industry and business sense of mission.