Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/silhouette198582agne 1985 Silhouette Agnes Scott College Decatur, Georgia Contents " Student Life ^ttt4 if. Academics °Ji Organizations jL Classes l,i^ jno Sponsors ' • ^^^ Closing Staff Editor: Glenda Smith Student Life Editor: Beth Webb Faculty and Administration Editors: Gillian Sikes & Ronda Deas Organizations Editors: Sheryl Daniel & Margaret Luke Classes Editors: Ellen Grant & Catherine Pakis gf^f^^^/f^9^^^>g^^^!?^>^f^^»^F^^^ :j6H^. ",^ football coach who was not happy After twenty-nine years of doctorate." "Really? Oh, okay." to see his star linebacker leaving teaching at Agnes Scott, Dr. She received a Fulbright practice to go drive a truck. Margaret W. Pepperdene, the chair fellowship in 1950 to research her In 1954 Dr. Pepperdene was of the English department from dissertation at The Queen's named a fellow by the Dublin 1967 until 1984 and the Ellen University of Belfast, Northern Institute for Advanced Studies and Douglass Leyburn professor of Ireland, and the next year she granted a fellowship by the English, retires this year. received a Ford Foundation Graduate American Association of University She never expected to make a Fellowship to teach at Vanderbilt. In Women. Two years later Walter career of teaching college. "If 1952 she joined the faculty of Clyde Curry recommended her for a anyone had told me that I would Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. position at Agnes Scott. When she end up in the academic world I She recalls some of her early came to Atlanta to interview she would have laughed in their face," met professors who impressed her she comments humorously. with their attitude toward their She earned her undergraduate students and their subjects. "They degree at Louisiana State University were students also," she recalls. and them took some time to play. Drawn to this atmosphere, she "You can't do that your whole life joined the faculty that fall, the same or people call you a bum, but year that she was awarded the everyone should take that time coveted John Simon Guggenheim when they're young. I've never Fellowship. regretted those years," she tells her Dr. Pepperdene is painstakingly students, who frequently appall her prepared for every class she teaches, with their deadly serious career from freshman and sophomore plans. She illustrates her paint as English to The Canterbury Tales, she reminisces about the time she Old English, and Troilus and lived in San Francisco. "Everybody Criseyde. All her lecturese are fully took care of us. The director of the typed out and delivered with an Symphony-Orchestra would take us elegance and grace that is difficult all home after the concert and his to depict. She is quick to interject examples from daily experience, to recount anecdoted, and to tell stories, all of which convey to her students the immediate relevance of the poetry. Her ready humoir lends a freshness to every class that enhances the serious purpose of coming to terms with the text. Dr. Pepperdene is asn anxious to learn from her students as they from her, and therefore each class is a pilgrimage that teacher and students make together. Each class is distinguished by the unaffected love that students and teacher share for each other and for the poetry. And, as Dr. Pepperdene has so often observed, where there is love, there is always a quest. wife would feed us dinner. I think teaching experinces with a certain he knew that that was the one good wry humor. "I was teaching this meal we ate!" reverse English class, which meant During the war she served as a DUMB! Most of my students were naval communications officer in football players who were obviously New Orleans. After the war she never going to pass this class." She worked on her Masters at caught one student plagirising and Vanderbilt, and at the suggestion of called him in to see her. "Bart," she her major professor, Walter Clyde queried, "what do you really want to Curry, she went on to earn her do with your life?" "I wanna drive a doctorate. She laughingly recalls TRUCK!" he replied eagerly. She that momentous conversation: "Jane, encouraged him, and was shortly I think you ought to go fro your thereafter visited by a highly irate ! Glee Club, London Fog, Madrigals. These chor- some of the avy men and Agnes Scott women together on the uses and ensemble groups feature in the South. For those inter- same stage. What an event! Well-trained voices best musical talent take your pick from tradi- collaborating in song. Melody and harmony nev- ested in music you can religious music to jazz to age- er sounded so good! Both groups professional tional choral and is a hobby for some, a organizations trained and disciplined to make old madrigal tunes. Music others, and more often than beautiful music — technically and feelingly. Did budding career for from studies for audience you ever think singing could be this much fun?! not a welcome respite participants alike. And all those men in uniform . and rt appears in many forms at Agnes Scott. Campus women are creative in the mode of their expression. We express ourselves through color and form ... in the written word ... in the laboratory ... on the computer . through sound and music ... by re- creation on the stage . through movement. We are imaginative and artistic as a collective body and as individuals. Each of us has her own way of capturing this feeling, this time, this place. Dedication and talent. These are what the Agnes Scott Blackfriars bring to the stage of Winter Theatre. Long hours spent in Dana. Night after night of concentrated, tedious re- hearsals. To what end? Fine performances. Thought-provoking productions. Entertain- ment. Blackfriars introduce an amalgam of in- triguing plays to the Agnes Scott Community, such as The House of Blue Leaves, Getting Out, Chinaman, and Dee Moore's one-woman show about the woman scorned throughout the history of drama. The house lights are down, and the stage lights illuminate the set. An evening of theatre begins. As audience we are made part of the experience. There is a discernable exchange of emotions between actors and audience. We re- spond. We are entertained, challenged, moved. This, too, is part of the Agnes Scott experience. 10 ,?' <t-fr > p^ « ; s students at Agnes Scott we share an intellectual life — a life of discovery and experimentation. We take our minds and our bodies to the limit. During our four years here we expand and extend our ability to think critically and to reason. We become conscious of ourselves without becoming self-centered. At Agnes Scott we are changing — day by day and week by week. We are growing toward the illusive womanhood we want so much to attain. Concentration, struggle, and countless beginnings and endings are the signs of such growth — the growth of the "self." stage, they display some of Agnes Scott's best Onmusical exper- tise, grace, and power. Back stage, they are examples of rigorous training and diligence — from the top of the larynx to the tip of the pointed toe. Dedication of this sort makes an ordinary stage come alive — humanity expressed through the most beautiful sound and movement. That's entertain- ment! Agnes Scott Or Bust One Box After Another "Only twelve more boxes Dad. Then we can start unloading my clothes." Moving day at Agnes Scott — the one day in the year when parents wish they had raised small animals instead of children. But then Mom and Dad drive away and the boxes magically empty, the stereos begin to crank, and posters appear on the wall. The curtains go up and suddenly a room looks a little more like home — at least until the boxes reappear in June, and another year is packed away in memory. Oh no. I've done it again. I've made two dates for the same night. Do you know how many times I have done this? Do you know how many times I swore I'd never do it again? Millions of times!! And yet, here I sit, once again, torn between two loves, vainly scheming to see if there is any way to see them both. I can't, and I know I can't. Now comes the moment of decision. Who will it be tonight? P.J. Haley or William Shakespeare? That is the question. Torn between Two Loves Z^!Z^' ' 'n ' 1 FRITZ AND SCH MIDT Whistle Stop At Agnes Scott Students were greeted on the first day of fall '84 by President Schmidt and Mr. Mondale are both canceled classes and television crews as Presidential Minnesota natives, and the candidate jokingly candidate Walter Mondale paid Agnes Scott a commented that he had hopes the nation would follow whirlwind visit. He was greeted by a dining hall full of ASC's example and elect a Minnesota President. (mostly) cheering students, many wearing Unfortunately the country didn't take the hint. Mondale/Ferraro placards. Many local and state officials Maybe he should have put President Schmidt on the were also present to greet Mr. Mondale. ticket instead of Ferraro. Fritz & Schmidt sounds better President Schmidt presented the candidate with an than Mondale/Ferraro on anyday!! Agnes Scott sweatshirt as a momento of his trip to the campus, and also gave him one for Ms. Ferraro. After Sam Nunn and Bert Lance introduced him, Mr. Mondale spoke about the campaign issues which he believed were crucial, and then spent some time fielding students' questions. 1 _..aatfig^'TatgaJI' I Hi I 111 LOOK, UP IN THE SKY! It's a bird; it's a plane, NO! IT'S THE PILOTS! There they go, into the wild, blue yonder .