EWANEE ALUMNI NEWS •vvf-»1 ..l.ji, III Mi. KE.B r ol. IV, No. I The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee August, 1937 \lumnus Otters Up to $10,000 to Help Wipe Out Deficit Would Match Dollar Board Reorganizes to Heads Board of Regents for Dollar of Give the Regents Other Gifts Wide Powers Sewanee will finish the current fiscal Sewanee again re-enforced her claim ear without an operating deficit if to leadership in the educational world lumni and other friends of the Uni- when the Board of Trustees, at the an- ersity combine to match the gener- nual meeting in June, completed a sity of one unnamed alumnus. thorough reorganization of the Univer- Announcement to this effect was sity's aministrative affairs. lade by Vice-Chancellor Benjamin F. Amending the Constitution wherever inney at the annual meeting of the As- indicated by the demands of the new Dciated Alumni, when he said that an aim for Sewanee, the Board relinquish- nonymous benefactor had then and ed to a reconstituted Board of Regents here volunteered to match, dollar for all the powers except the right to ollar up to $10,000.00, the combined amend the Constitution and the author- ifts of other alumni toward balancing ity to elect members of the Board of tie budget. Regents, a Chancellor, a Vice-Chan- The estimated budget deficit for the cellor, a Chaplain, and its own Secre- urrent year, which ends August 31, tary. iras $58,635.00 when the budget was Under the re -organization the fifteen nade up. By June this amount had members of the old Board of Regents leen reduced by $37,500.00, including were automatically retired and twelve ifts totaling $24,000.00 and operating new members—three Bishops, three conomies effected to the amount of clergymen, and six laymen of the Epis- bout $13,500.00. copal Church—were elected. Thus, Dr. Finney explained, the op- The new Board of Regents consists of rating deficit at the close of business the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor une 30 was about $21,000.00. To this the Rt. Rev. Frank A. Juhan, D.D., the unount, he said, must be added the sum Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., the Rt. i $5,300.00, representing extra-budget Rev. Charles Clingman, D.D., the Rev. xpenditures, but he expressed the con- 1 DR. WARREN KEARNY R. Bland Mitchell , D.D., the Rev. viction that if the budget deficit is Thomas N. Carruthers, M.A., the Rev. leaned up, the latter item will be taken Charles W. Sheerin, D.D., Warren are of as well. Dr. Finney Postpones Kearny, D.C.L. (Chairman), L. Kem- The Vice-Chancellor was careful to per Williams,, D.C.L., Frank Hoyt Gail- ixplain that the offer of $10,000.00 on the of Retirement or, D.C.L., Joseph E. Hart, Sr., William >art of the not out- Date alumnus was an E. Baldwin, D.C.L., and Charles E. ight one but was contingent upon the Thomas, B.A. willingness of other able alumni to give One of the most rousing demonstra- Vice-Chancellor B. F. Finney, in com- n proportion to their means. tions ever seen on the Mountain was menting upon the reorganization, said Dr. Finney was jubilant over the staged by students, members of the that it was "the greatest forward step Jrospect of finishing a fiscal year with- Faculty, and Commencement visitors undertaken by Sewanee in fifty years." )ut an operating deficit for the first time here on the afternoon of June 5, a few iince 1929. minutes after it had been announced A point to which attention was "I am confident," he told the Alum that Dr. Benjamin F. Finney, for fif- particularly drawn by Dr. Finney, « News, "that Sewanee men will take teen years Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- and one which brings Sewanee into iill advantage of this rare opportun- versity, had consented to postpone for line again with the more aggressive ty to do a real service for their Alma a year his retirement as Sewanee's ex- educational leadership, was that Mater. The timely generosity of our ecutive head. the Board of Regents, immediately : ellow alumnus, who prefers to remain Dr. Finney had proposed his own re- after receiving its new authority, monymous, is thrilling to us all. We tirement in a statement to the Board of took action granting members of the :annot fail to respond to such a chal- University Faculty a place on Trustees the year before, making it ef- the enge as he has thrown down to us." Standing Committees having to do fective July 1, 1937, and making it con- The announcement was received with with educational policies. tingent upon a sweeping reorganiza- enthusiasm by the alumni present at tion of the University's administrative ;he annual meeting. For purposes of Standing Committees were named as :oncerted effort in raising the amount affairs. follows: noted elsewhere in the Alumni •equired, a committee was appointed, As Committee on the Theological Department—Bish- insisting of J. Howell Shelton, '08, News, the reorganization was effected op Juhan, Bishop Mikell, Dr. Mitchell, the Rt. Rev. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) SEWANEE ALUMNI NEWS SEWANEE ALUMNI NEWS SEWANEE TO HAVE NEW UNION THEATR1 ALUMNI DINNER AT Sewanee Alumni News, issued quarterly by the As- Work on the new Sewanee Unioi the South sociated Alumni of the University of GENERAL CONVENTION Theatre, authorized by the Board at Sewanee, Tennessee. A dinner has been arranged for Regents at the June meeting, has begur AUGUST, 1937 Alumni of the University, includ- and the building is expected to be read; ing the Theological School, dur- for occupancy early in the Fall. THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI ing the General Convention of the The theatre will be an extension Episcopal Church, to be held in the present Union building, to the reai Officers Cincinnati. with an entrance through the presen Trammell, '19 President L. Nii.es The date announced is the lobby. Charles E. Thomas, '27 1st Vice-Pres. evening of Wednesday, October It will have a seating capacity of 41 P. A. Pugh, D.D., '05 . 2nd Vice-Pres. Rev. 13, and the place will be the Ho*el —a main floor capacity of 314, augment Harding C. Woodall, '17 . 3rd Vice-Pres. Gibson. The price per plate will ed by two balconies, one seating 5 Clark, '18 Treasurer Karry E. be $1.75. white people and one seating 40 Ne Prof. Henry M. Gass, '07 Rec. Sec'y. Alumni who attend General groes. Clark, '27 . .Organizing Sec'y. Gordon M. Convention are urged to get into There will be no stage, but there wil touch with the Rev. Harold J. be a platform large enough to accom Associated Alumni Annual Dues $3-00 Weaver at General Headquarters modate an orchestra. ( Includes one year's subscription to the at Hotel Gibson, and to make A new heating plant will heat it ii Sewanee Alumni News.) their reservations immediately winter, and an air-cooling system wil upon arrival. condition it for the Summer. The sandwich shop will also be re ALUMNI MEETINGS modeled, with a hardwood floor, a rea MARKED BY CHEER BOARD REORGANIZES counter, three booths, and new table added. (Continued from page 1) Development of local alumni organi- H. A. Griswold, '28, in addition I Tames M. Maxon, D.D., the Rev. Malcolm W. zations was one of the most important Lockhart, D.D., the Rev. Royden K. Yerkes, Ph.D. his duties as instructor in Greek an< points stressed at the annual meeting of Committee on College of Arts and Scienecs—Dr. Bible, manages the Union Theatre an< Gailor, Dr. Baldwin, Dr. Sheerin. Dean George M. Sandwich Shop. the Associated Alumni held on June 7. Baker, Ph.D., Tudor S. Long, B.A. The point was emphasized in a strong Committee on Sewanee Military Academy—Bishop Tuhan, Dr. Kearnv, Mr. Hart, Col. Harry T. Bull, appeal '13, of SPECIAL HONORS FOR by Edmund C Armes, Gen. William R. Smith. ORIGINAL S.A.E. MEMBERS Birmingham, and many others follow- Committee on the Spiritual and Religions Life of the University Bishop Mikell, ed suit in supporting it as the one great — Bishop Clingman, The part that Tennessee Omega chap the Mr. Rev. Carruthers. the Rt. Rev. James Craik ter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has playe< objective if the alumni group is to be- Morris, D.D., the Rev. Moultrie Guerry, D.D. in the life of the national fraternity wil come the force for Sewanee that it Committee on Finance, Business Management and Endowment—Dr. Williams. Dr. Baldwin, Dr. Kear- be given recognition at the Eighty' should be. ny, Dr. Finney, W. A. Sadd, D.C.L., Col. Bull, First Anniversary Convention to bi Telfair Hodgson, M.A. Col. Harry T. Bull, '01, probably held at Evanston, HI., late this month Committee on University sounded the keynote of the meeting Relations and Publicity —The Rt. Rev. Theodore D. Bratton, D.D., Dr. Three members of the original Ten- when he called attention to some of the Mitchell, Dr. Sheerin, Mr. Thomas. nessee Omega—the only three now liv- things that were acually being done by Committee on Planning—Bishop Juhan, Bishop ing—have been invited and will attenc Clingman, Dr. Williams, Dr. Gailor, and, ex-offico, as guests of the national fraternity. the University. He not only made a the Vice-Chancellor. They are the Rev. James G. Glass most encouraging report of University Committee on Buildings and Grounds—Dr.