Longwood University Digital Commons @ Longwood University Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins Library, Special Collections, and Archives 11-1962 Bulletin of Longwood College Volume XLVII issue 3, November 1962 Longwood University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/alumni Recommended Citation Longwood University, "Bulletin of Longwood College Volume XLVII issue 3, November 1962" (1962). Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins. 21. http://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/alumni/21 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Library, Special Collections, and Archives at Digital Commons @ Longwood University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Longwood University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. cftoi/iqufood ALUMNAE NEWS WRITERS ON CAMPUS 1962 MOONSHOOTER CLASS NEWS NOVEMBER, 1962 Contents of Writers on Campus 1 LONGWOOD COLLEGE Dabney S. Lancaster Library 4 Alumnae Association Ciianging Patterns in the Higher Eciuca- tion of Women 6 Volume XLVIII Number 3 November, 1962 A Word From Mr. Wygal 9 Editor Elizabeth Shipplett Jones College Commentary 10 Editorial Board Mildred Dickinson Davis J. Ellington White Assistant Betty Ri'TH Stimpson The 1912 Class Typist Frances Ctriwrigljt Moore Reunion 12 MEMBER AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Your Alumnae President Speaks 13 COLLEGE LONGWOOD Our Alumnae Chapters 15 ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Execiilitf Board Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Jr., President, Longwood College Chapter Officers Named 16 Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster, President Emeritus, Longwood College Institute of Southern Culture Lectures 17 President Janie Potter Hanes, 321 In.stuute Hill. Lexington, V.i. The Alumnae Fund Appeal 18 First Vice- President Evelyn Tray/or Macon, 1110 GriHin St., Lynchburg. Va. Budget and Financial Report 18 Second ]'ice- President Rosemary £/,//« Pritchard, 6()-i E. Cawson St., Hopewell. Va. 1962 Honor Roll 19 Ex-President Founder's Day 23 Minnie Lee Crumphr Burger, 10056 Hobby Hill Rd., RithmonJ, Va. Ex-Secretary Moonshooter—College of Tomorrow , . Inset Virginia McLean Pharr, 5220 Gravelbrook Drive, Richmond, Va. Wedding Bells - 25 Director, DoRCJTHY Hudson. Route 1, Midlothian, Va. Margaret Motiley Adams, 1618 Greenleaf Lane. Charlottesville. Va. Births 26 Dorothy Davis Holland, 2259 Sewell Lane, Roanoke, Va. Helen Warriner, Route 1. Amelia, Va. We Take Pride In: 28 Chairman of Snack Bar Committee Virginia Ahemathy Courter, Box 9^, Amelia. Va. Worthy Johnson Crafts Chairman of Alumnae House Committee The Truitts Retire Elizabeth Aloiwi; Smith, 713 Second Ave., Farmville, Va. The Blue and White Cookbook Executive Secretary and Treasurer Elizabeth Shipp/ett Jotsies. Route Farmville, 2, Va. Class News 29 C/ass Representatives Patsy Powell, 318 S. Main St., Suffolk, Va. Special Honor Roll 51 Christine _/»/zf.i Ferguson. P. O. Box 322. West Point, Va. Rebecca Jones, Room 1509, 309 W.Jackson Blvd.. Chicago 6, III. Cecil Kidd, 6319 Three Chopt Rd.. Richmond 26, Va. An Adventure in Learning 52 Ann Kovacevich, 2200 S. Buchanan Street, Arlington. Va. Peggy Green, 303 Mistletoe Drive, Newport News, Va. Judy Smith, 11 Greeneland Blvd., Portsmouth, Va. In Memoriam Inside Back Cover 14J.tUet^it H. K^amMn^ ". ." . to hold a mirror up to our time would be enough to break the mirror . Curtis Harnack Hortense Callisher Stanley Kunitz David, Jenkins CURTIS HARNACK Has there been something alarming Tt was Longwood's good fortune to have on the campus happening to the novel in the last few decades? ^ this spring a number of writers—both poets and novelists complain that they can find few Readers —who have become loiown across the nation for their ' 'old-fashioned storytellers. large literary achievements. My first point is that here is an unwill- . believe ingness on the part of . readers to Curtis Harnack, Hortense Callisher, Stanley in the fiction-writer s product on the Kunit?, . times, excellence of the product itself . What was David Jenkins, all here at various visited the College . is longer granted to a writer . in the past no during March and April primarily for the benefit of the granted. "Why shotdd I willingly suspend my students on campus interested in literature and creative belief.^" asks the modern reader. "I am writing. Other students heard them, of course, either in too busy. ..."... It would be unfair to suggest informal gatherings, and so did that readers alone are at fault for the blur- formal or members of the ring of the intentions offiction. faculty. Partly the times are at fault, and we are bewildered as to the nature of reality. It seems . incredible But the chief beneficiaries were students. Here are some . could presume that one man a writer of the things they said: to say . THIS . is reality. In the days the novel {l9th and early 20th — great of A creative writing student "It was wonderful to be in century) there was apparently much more the company, even for a short while, with people engaged community of agreement as to what people were like and in making the literature we read and will be reading for what might be expected of life. Think for instance of a character like Pierre in WAR AND PEACE .... years to come." A modern novel frequently said to mark the — end of the Tolstoyan type of book . is Robert Jean Pollard, speaking of Stanley Kunitz, a poet "I QUALITIES . an unfinished Musil's THE MAN WITHOUT was most impressed with his reading of his own poetry novel . almost deliberately so; that is, because he did it with so much feeling and expression." the truncation is itselfpart of the intentions of the novel. The theme dictates the — Coulter "When I first met (Mr. Kunitz), it form, in the best modern manner; here the point Sharon was is partly that our modern world is characterized by no obvious that he was a man of great intelligence and skill. completion, no cidminating chord, no However, I found him rather aloof. But after talking with rounded shapes. After the novelist has Mr. Kunitz and hearing him speak several times, I realized presented his nightmare view of the world that he was not only intelligent and talented, but also had today, what is there left for him to do? . perceive character." Clearly, to hold a mirror tip to our times would he the ability to enough to break the mirror. But a — number of today s writers are attempting some- Susan Molthrop "Curtis Harnack's two-hour session thing different from all of this I've been with us in class was, for me, one of the highlights of the in recounting. A few . are busily engaged year." enclosing their fictional worlds, forging their own chain offacts applicable Dr. Richard Meeker of the English Department felt that within terms of their works. It seems to me . that the novel as an art form is a long Stanley Kunitz "succeeded in reviving our interest in way from dying, that so?ne interesting new writing and reading poetry because he presented evidence taking place these days. developments are that poets are the only sane, orderly people we have left in The 7nodern writer . cannot count on the world." an agreed reality. But what constitutes reality for present-day writers is being another member of the same department felt that fashioned in fictional-shapes that And Callisher, a novelist, would add to any gathering are new. Hortense a luster not commonly found in the world. Hortense Callisher is the wife of Curtis Harnack and the author of False Entry, a. novel under consideration for the National Book Award, and one of the outstanding literary achievements of the year. Her short stories, appearing in such magazines as The New Yorker and Harpers Bazaar, have won wide critical acclaim. Mr. Harnack's books include two novels. Work of an Ancient Hand and Love and Be Silent. Besides writing short stories and essays, he has also served as fiction editor of Esquire and as one of the editors of the yearly O. Henry collection. During the 1961-62 academic year he was on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. He currently holds Mr. Kunitz "meets" a class a Guggenheim Fellowship and is working on a book about Alumnae Magazine his experiences in Iran as a Fulbright teacher in the city of STANLEY KUNITZ Tabriz, near the Russian border. Mr. Harnack and his wife visited the College in March Green Ways for three days. During that time they met informally with students and were entertained by Beorc Eh Thorn, the Let 7ne not say it, let me not reveal College literary society. Mr. Harnack attended a two-hour How like a god my heart begins to climh meeting of the creative writing class, criticized a student The trellis of the crystal story, talked about writing in general and in particular and In the rose-green ynoon; about the writing of the difJicult short story form. One Let me not say it, let me leave untold thing students heard him say was that today in our frag- This legend, while the nights snow emerald. mented society one of the writer's chief concerns must be with the essential uniqueness of his or her own region. Let me not say it, let me not confess "Write about your own part of the country." he urged How in the leaflight of my green-celled world them. "But write about it in such a way that you don't fall In self's pre-history victim to its cliches." The blind moidds kiss: Let me not say it, let me hut endure Mr. Harnack also lectured before another group (a class This ritual like feather and like star. in the novel but with many faculty members present) on recent trends in contemporary literature. Parts of this lecture are found in one of the side panels.