SOUTHWESTERN -LIBRARY­ ~~mphis, Tenn~ ews Volume XIII Memphis, Tennessee, October, 1951 Number 6 Nine Additions To Faculty and Staff Session of 1951-52 Promises To Be One Of Best Richardson, Gibbs, Nall, and McQuiston Are Among Seven Alumni Back At Their Alma Mater The college opened for its one hundred and third year on September 18, with every The 1951-52 college year sees a number Augusta, Georgia, and located in east-central prospect for an excellent year of work and of changes in the faculty and staff of South­ China. He served as a missionary there for progress. The student body, a few under western. There are four changes in the staff: nearly twenty-eight years, excluding the in­ five-hundred, is smaller than is desired, but the Rev. Robert Price Richardson has be­ terruption caused by World War II. somewha.t larger than was anticipated last come Vice-President in charge of the Office Upon the invasion of China by the Japan­ winter. Colleges the country over are register­ of Development; Julian Nail has been named ese, his wife, three sons, and one daughter ing a decrease in number of students, as a new Field Representative of the College; were sent to the States, but he remained at result of the large number of men of college Glenn Johnson has succeeded AI Clemens as his post until the Japanese took him prisoner. age now in the armed forces. The trend is Director of Athletics; and Miss Eleanor Bos­ For six months he remained in custody, but well indicated by the proportion of men and worth, who has been Assistant Professor of was released on the first exchange of pris­ women in the student body. In place of the History for several years, will divide her oners with the Japanese and sailed on the usual 60-40 ratio of men to women, there time between the department of history and "Gripsholm" to rejoin his family in America. are now 55 women for every 45 men in the the office of Dean of Women, in which she He served with Church World Service college. has now assumed her duties as Assistant and U.N.R.R.A. from 1945 to 1947 in China. Among the encouraging features of the Dean. In the fall of 194 7, he resumed his mission­ new session is the quality of the 200 new On the faculty proper there arc only two ary work there. Again, however, his work students. Aptitude tests given during the newcomers, Norman B. Gibbs, Assistant was interrupted, this time by the Commu­ orientation period show that the new group Professor of Bible and philosophy, and James nists, who successfully shackled missionary is slightly superior to last year's entering R. McQuiston, Assistant Professor of Eng­ endeavor in China. He returned home in the class, which was perhaps the best up to then. lish, both of whom taught at Southwestern spring of this year. The opening Convocation was on Septem­ in the recent past. Dr. Richardson succeeds the Reverend ber 22, with Professor A. P. Kelso the speak­ In the Department of Music there are David Sprunt in charge of the Office of De­ er. His address was on the subject of educa­ three additions: Robert H. Warmack, of velopment, Mr. Sprunt having been granted tion as the means of discovering one's poten­ Rosston, Arkansas, who will instruct in a leave of absence to pursue advanced theo­ tialities. He pointed out the dangers in "in­ violin, John Murry Springfield, of Memphis, logical studies in the seminary at Richmond. stitutionalized education," which he said were who will teach first year theory, and Robert The new Vice-President is hard at work, comparable to those of institutionalized re­ J. L. Matthews, who will teach band and spending much time on the field and taking ligion. True education is stirring a student brass instruments. Mr. Springfield and Mr. the measure of what needs to be done. He into a discovery of his interests and abilities, Matthews will be graduate assistants. is well aware of the importance and magni­ and Christian education is the recogmtwn Two additional gr:tduate assistants have tude of his responsibilities and is working that intelligence has a divine mission in been appointed: Mrs. W. H. Marsh, of at his job with an athlete's vitality and an human society. Laurel, Mississippi, in Biology, and Madelyn alumnus' love of his alma mater. During the second week, the regular round Richardson, of Memphis, in Physical Educa­ (Continued on page 2) of classes was begun, and the sororities and tion for Women. the fraternities held their annual saturnalia, Dr. Richardson, New Vice-President concluding with the pledging of new mem­ One of the most important additions to bers. the staff made during the last decade was Program for Nurses Introduced the recent appointment of Dr. Richardson, At least one important innovation is in alumnus and former missionary to China, as progress on the cam pus. The Methodist hos· - Vice-President. He is the grandson of one pita! ,s sending all of its student nurses to of the most revered professors in South­ Southwestern for the required program of western's history, Robert Price, Professor of academic instruction. History from 1882 to 1912. Forty-three of the girls are now spending Dr. Richardson, known to everyone as most of their mornings on the campus, in "Pete" during his student days, graduated classroom and in laboratory. Thirteen of them from Southwestern Presbyterian University began their course in the summer and are at Clarksville in 1917. Dr. Diehl, who had now completing the work. The remaining recently assumed the presidency of the col­ thirty are carrying the full program of five lege, asked him to remain with h1s alma mater subjects and will complete the required six­ as coach. This was a logical appointment, teen hours this semester. since he was one of the few men in the his­ The course consists of sociology, psychol­ tory of the college who were proficient in ogy, chemistry, microbiology, and anatomy­ the four major sports. physiology. After serving two years as coach, Mr. According to the agreement with the hos­ Richardson entered Union Theological Semi­ pital, a new class will begin and complete the nary, in Richmond, where he got a degree in course of study every semester. theology and a strong desire to become a The results of the summer course proveJ missionary to China. In the summer of 1923, satishctory to both college and hospital, and he left the States with his bride of three it is believed that the project as a whole will months, the former Agnes Rowland, of Vice-President Richardson prove beneficial to all concerned. Nail Gib!Y.i McQuiston Warmack NEW FACULTY MEMBERS lowing a three-year absence at Duke Univer­ For the next three years he attended the (Continued from page 1) sity, where he has been working on his Ph. D. University of North Carolina and did part­ Julian Nall-Field Representative degree in Religion. He is an alumnus of time teaching in the English department. Last Mr. Nail, a Memphian, is an alumnus of Southwestern of the Class of '32 and of spring the University conferred upon him the Southwestern of the Class of 1943. He ma­ Louisville Seminary of the Class of '35. He Master of Arts degree. His thesis was in the jored in physics and mathematics and re­ was in the ministry from 1935 until 1943, field of early Renaissance literature. ceived his Bachelor of Science degree with holding pastorates in Natchitoches, Louisiana, At Southwestern he will be in charge of distinction in both subjects. and Rawlings, Virginia. publicity, in addition to carrying on his teach­ Following his graduation he served three In 1943 he volunteered as Chaplain and ing duties. years with the Navy, attaining the rank of went on active duty with the Army Air His wife, Dr. Elise T . McQuiston, an lieutenant, j.g. While in service he attended Forces. His principal overseas assignments alumna, is a practicing physician in Memphis. Princeton and Massachusetts Institute of were in the Philippines, Okinawa, le Shima, Warmack-Violin Technology for training in the field of radar. and Japan. He was awarded the Battle Star Mr. Warmack assumes the position made For a year and a half he saw active service in for participation in the campaigns of Luzon vacant through the resignation of Mary Jane the Pacific on the battleship New York and and Okinawa. At the time of his discharge Kirkendol, who left Memphis this summer took part in the campaigns of lwo Jima and he had attained the rank of major. to accompany her husband, Dr. E. C. Kirk­ Okinawa. During his stay at Duke he served as endol, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Upon his release from active duty he re­ Chaplain of the Presbyterian youth organiza­ he has established a new dental practice. entered M.I.T. and received his Master of tion on the campus and held several supply A native of Arkansas, Mr. Warmack Science degree in physics in 1948. pastorates in Durham and other communities earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Hendrix For the next two years he was a member near the University. College at Conway, on . a four-year music of the faculty of Southwestern as Assistant H e is the author of several articles on re­ scholarship. The University of California at Professor of Mathematics. During the past ligion and related fields which have appeared Los Angeles conferred the Master of Music year he has been associated with his father in the Christian Century, the Presbyterian degree upon him in 1949.