Ld Q W Ld u o u Id ^ THE ONCE UPUN A-TIME (on the Cover) Sewanee A fine photographer likes to explore unfamiliar NEWS aspects of familiar objects. What could be more familiar than the clock on Brcslin Tower? So The Sewanee News, issued quarterly by the Joque Soskis, '66, photographed it from inside. ASSOCIATED ALUMNI The clock—which is really the Douglas clock, of The University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennes- given by George W. Douglas of Tuxedo Park, see. Second Class postage paid at Sewanee, Tennessee. New York, in memory of his mother, Charlotte Ferris Douglas of Rochester, and the clock's curator, Professor of German Fritz Whitesell (below), feels quite strongly about this—has had February 1966 Volume 32 Number 1 many extollers, none more lyrical than Thomas Dabney, 1905: "More than sixty years had passed since Breslin's hortation had made me R. Morey Hart, '34 jump while preparing for my degree, and here President of the Associated Alumni were these same bells talking to me in the same old tones, a symbol of Sewanee's permanence and Editor Arthur Ben Chitty, '35 the clanging vigor of its ideals and purposes." Managing Editor Edith Whitesell Dr. Whitesell's kibitzer is Thomas L. Rust, '66. Associate Editor Albert S. Gooch, Jr. (See also p. 4, col. 1) Soski: The Triumphant Year Over $5.5 Million in Gifts 180 140 By Robert S. Lancaster ' on De remembered -g f\ f ?* may o by ^t§~*\^\ Sewanee alumni and friends. The -*- V>^V_/ ^ ycar produced an astonishing 60 $5,507,470.15 of new funds for the University. The 1964 total gift income of $3,114,345 was itself unprec- edented, but 1965 exceeded this figure by the huge rppp rrr sum of $2,393,125. The year marked the successful II 'II s i completion of the three-year $10,000,000 campaign. 95° 1957 1950 '959 i960 1961 1962 1963 1964. 1965 Beyond money, and the Jessie Ball duPont Library, CHURCH SUPPORT IN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS and the Malon Courts dormitory, and all of the other THE GRAY BARS REPRESENT THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION SUNDAY achievements, including new recognition for academic OFFERINGS, THE RED BARS SEWANEE-IN-THE-BUDGET. excellence, lie the united effort and the ceaseless ener- Church support for the University consists of Sewanee- gy and generosity of our alumni and friends who gave in-the-Budget and the Theological Education Sunday Offer- themselves and prodded others into giving and tri- ing. The progress of a decade is here presented for both umphed. in thousands of dollars. Of great significance is the soaring rise in 1965. The owning dioceses and A comprehensive report on the three-year campaign the Church at large were unwilling to see Sewanee fail in her campaign to has been prepared and mailed. A study of this report match the Ford Foundation offer. We hope the coming dec- will reveal that from 6,400 alumni nearly 4,000 gifts ade may see this support which goes each year into the were received. In many instances a single alumnus operational budget rise even above this high level. The gave many times. goal is $l-per-communicant-per-year from each parish in the owning dioceses. This small sum from each communi- If Sewanee were to achieve her long-cherished first- cant giving through his church can assure the continual century goals of a gracious and modern plant, as a set- development of the University of the South. ting for her academic excellence, and a certain mini- mum financial security, it was necessary that the Ford matching campaign succeed. It did succeed, and it has office or the registrar's office in the Cleveland Memo- added a new dimension to our corporate life. The rial without realizing this new dimension? Or drive library alone opens up opportunities for growth and along the faculty circle by Running Knob Hollow Lake service never before possible. One cannot enter it without feeling an exquisite exhilaration of new ac- without realizing the coming of a new age, not neces- complishment? sarily better, but with more potential and greater in- The new century is before us. In its initial years stitutional freedom. Who can enter the admissions must come the new college to keep us small whiie growing, to preserve the intimate best of the old Se- Robert S. Lancaster is dean the College Arts of of wanee, and a new and yet old method of tutorial in- and Sciences and acting director of development. He struction to liberate and sharpen our scholars' minds is teaching a course in his department of political sci- and make them powerfully articulate, and still keep ence this semester, possibly to get out of his character them aware of the mission of civility. Almost immedi- as development director, who has been generically described: ately must come the new science building. All of this will require courage and generosity and administra- "A single-minded chap, his task tive talent and sure support. A foundation has been Is but to ask and ask and ask."* laid; a success has been achieved; but the future will •From GOING AROUND IN ACADEMIC CIRCLES by require a constant effort of the kind that made 1965 Richard Armour. Copyright by Richard Armour. Used 1965 the triumphant year. by permission of the McGraw-Hill Book Company. February 1966 16th Rhodes Scholar—Other Honors THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF SeWANEe's SIXTEENTH Rhodes Scholar sounded the first note in the 1966 tattoo of graduate honors. Douglas Duane Paschall of McKcnzie, Tennessee, a scholar-athlete squarely in the tradition of Rhodes selections, will go to Oxford in the fall. An alternate captain of the foot- ball team and president of the Order of Gownsmen, he also was one of twenty-two men in the nation to ' Rt. Rev. Frank y\. Juhan, i i, retired bishop The win a $1,000 post-graduate scholarship awarded by of Florida, former undergraduate athlete, SMA the National College Athletic Association. The Uni- chaplain, Chancellor, director of development, and versity of the South was the only college to win NCAA present athletics consultant for the University, was scholarships in both of the two years since the grant named Sewanee's Man-of-the-Year by the commu- was initiated. Last year's honoree was Frank Stub- nity's Civic Association in December; was to be in- blefield, Phi Beta Kappa end. ducted, with Sewanee football coach Shirley Majors, into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame February 24; t\. twenty-year study by the Woodrow Wilson and was still in the running for the national Football Foundation on fellowships awarded with a view to Hall of Fame, as one of four finalists in the senior college teaching showed Sewanee, with fifty fellows division. between 1945 and 1965, in seventh place among all Young Frank Juhan played center on the team of the colleges and universities in the nation in percent- 1909, which whipped all its Southeastern Conference age rated against number of liberal arts degrees opponents and lost only to Princeton. granted in the year 1961-62. In the same analysis "The only problem about declaring Bishop Juhan Sewanee was first in the South and fourth among the Sewanee's Man-of-the-Year," Vice-Chancellor Mc- nation's men's colleges. Crady said when the honor was conferred, "is the Thirteen of Sewanee's fifty winners were actively diifficulty of deciding which year. engaged in college teaching and another twenty-one "Bishop Juhan's association with Sewanee began were in graduate school working on higher degrees in 1907, fifty-eight years ago, when he enrolled in the with that end in view.* University. From that day to this he has been iden- tified with this institution and this community in so O ther national graduate scholarships as well as many ways that it would be difficult to find a more the Woodrow Wilson fellowships entered into a sur- representative Sewanee man." vey made for the American Council on Education, in which Sewanee, ranking ninth, was the only southern X he Commencement preacher as well as featured institution among the top twenty colleges and univer- speaker for the second Sewanee Synod meeting of the sities in the nation. Fifteenth Province will be the Primate of Canada. *The thirteen men already engaged in the profession are: Archbishop of Rupert's Land, the Most Reverend Joseph Righton Robertson, Jr. '54, Ph.D. Emory, assistant Howard Hewlett Clark. A graduate of the Univer- professor of history, University of Maryland; Henry F. Ar- nold, Jr. '57, Ph.D. Harvard, instructor in English, Univer- sity of Toronto, he has been awarded twelve honorary sity of the South; John Maurice Evans '58, M.A. Yale, in- doctorates. Born in Macleod, Alberta, in 1903, he structor in English, Washington and Lee University; David Hal Evett '58, Ph.D. Harvard, assistant professor of English, spent five years in the insurance business before enter- University of Wisconsin; Eric Woodfin Naylor '58, Ph.D. ing theological training. The Synod, meeting June 8 Wisconsin, instructor in Spanish, University of the South; Robert Dale Sweeney '59, Ph.D. Harvard, instructor in and will also hear the 9. Rt. Rev. Francisco Reus- classics, Dartmouth College; Jan Alan Nelson '60, Ph.D. Froylan, Bishop Coadjutor of Puerto Rico. North Carolina, instructor in romance philology, State Uni- versity of Iowa; Charles Austin Powell '60, M.A. Emory, assistant professor of political science, Temple University. Robert James Schneider '61, D.S.M. Notre Dame, assistant professor of classics, University of Southern California; Robert Judson Snell, Jr.