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v^ol. XXV, No. 1
February, 1959
The Vice-Chancellor's Page
Our building program at Sewanee is rapidrjj drawing to a climax — not, I trust, to a halt, but definitely to a climax. With the complete reno- vation of Walsh Hall to what will now become Walsh-Ellett Hall, and with the final completion of All Saints' Chapel after half a century, we shall! have a central quadrangle which would grace any university, and for which we should all be pro- foundly thankful.
During literally all of my life, I and many others have looked at our unfinished Chapel and dreamed of what it could and should be. Now that it is actually rising to its full height and per- fection before our eyes, it is impossible to describe; the feelings which it invokes. And Walsh-Ellett, which externally will still look almost exactly as: old Walsh did, except for an extra cloister and some turrets which provide outside access to the classrooms and offices of the second floor, will be so completely transformed internally that we can take anyone into it gladly, without any of our former misgivings or apologies for its quaint delapidation. It will be as new and as strong and as convenient as the best of modern buildings, but it will still be the same familiar landmark on the campus.
We still need more classrooms, offices, laboratories, a completely new library, and one more dormi- tory, before we can get rid of several "temporary" buildings ; but we are rapidly approaching our goal. Only three or four more stone buildings are required to give Sewanee as fine physical facilities as those of any institution of our size anywhere; and when we remember how many we have been given in the last few years, we cannot fail to feel that the goal is near at hand.
I feel a deep personal gratitude to all of the alumni, friends, churchmen, and foundations that are making all of this possible; and I believe that this institution is at last going to have all that its founders thought it was to have had a century ago, and all that its intellectual and spiritual tradition so richly deserves.
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arillon Concerts Scheduled
Dedication Set For April 12
Sewanee's impressive fifty-six bells
ootal weight: twenty-three tons), now
ured in 134-foot Shapard Tower, are
fast becoming the musical instrument
a carillon is meant to be.
Among the first to play it in formal
concert will be Arthur Lynds Bigelow,
famed carillon designer, and Staf Nees,
the world's foremost living bellmaster.
The dedication concert Sunday, April
1 12, will be given by designer Bigelow
himself, bellmaster and member of the
engineering faculty at Princeton Uni-
I versity, who recently completed Sewa-
inee's keyboard installation. (In an im-
i promptu concert, to everyone's delight,
i the first tune to ring from the bells was
"Dixie.")
During Commencement Week on I Thursday, June 4, Staf Nees of Mech - lin, Belgium, world's outstanding con- temporary bellmaster, will appear in concert during his special U. S. tour that is being partially subsidized by the ! Belgian government.
Nees is carillonneur at St. Rombaut's
I Cathedral and director of the famous
carillon school in Mechlin, carillon
! center for several centuries. He is suc-
! cessor to Jef Denyn, considered the
most famous carillonneur of all time.
Sewanee's $65,000 set of bells, con- sidered by designer Bigelow to be one of the finest in the world, is the gift of alumnus and Regent W. Dudley Gale '• of Nashville, as a memorial to his great j grandfather, Bishop Leonidas Polk of j Louisiana, a principal University ! founder.
Several years ago he and Bigelow j made their acquaintance when the lat- ter helped install the carillon at Christ I Church, Nashville.
Interested in bells since his New I England childhood, Bigelow, during ' what was to be a year of study and travel in Europe, found himself attend - j ing the Carillon School in Mechlin and staying in Belgium for a number of 1 years as bellmaster of the town of Lou- j vain, an appointment he still holds.* He i has designed carillons for the Taft Me- morial in Washington, the Washington j Memorial at Valley Forge, and for sev- eral schools and churches in the coun- try.
Foundry for the Sewanee bells was Les Fils de Georges Paccard in High Savoie, near the French-Italian border
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at Annecy, France. It was there Bige- low spent several weeks during the summer of 1957 testing the bells with tuning forks. The foundry was too small to set up the carillon for play- ing, so the bells were moved by raft to the Isle of Swans on a nearby lake. Here, with the Alps in the background, the lake dotted with small boats, and with people gathered on the mainland coast, Bigelow gave "testing" concerts all during August. This gives real meaning to the inscription on one of the bells — "From the Mountains of Sa- voie to the Mountains of Tennessee, I sing Sol." It is the test recording made in France that provides some of the musical background for the new Se- wanee movie.
The largest bell, the bourdon, weighs nearly four tons and the smallest weighs less than a pound. The bourdon's in- scription reads: "To Polk and to Se- wanee, my Alma Mater, this carillon is dedicated." An electric motor elimi- nates bell-pulling by rope, and the mo- tor swings the bourdon. This massive bell will also strike the hour for Bres- lin Tower's clock. Clock enthusiast and craftsman Frederick R. Whitesell, who is also professor of German, will super- vise this operation.
The bells are made of bronze, the larger ones being seventy-eight per- cent copper and twenty-two percent tin. To give the small, high bells more "ring," a greater percentage of tin was used.
The keys on the double-row key- board resemble broom handles. The bot- tom row corresponds to the white keys of the piano, the top to the black keys. The four-story belfry begins with the bourdon on the bottom, then the seven other bass bells, then the keyboard, and on top the medium and high bells. At the keyboard the bellmaster is in the midst of his bells, a location of prime importance, according to Bigelow. Con- nections between keys and appropriate bells must be kept within twelve to fifteen feet "for the sake of controlla- bility," he explains.
Practicing can be done in private. The practice keyboard in the Music Studio is connected to small steel bars, with each bar carefully tuned to its corresponding bell.
"No one will ever know how much the bells will be appreciated until tra- ditional University life goes on century after century," Bigelow points out, with "percussion's most beautiful voice" ringing out over the countryside. Be- ginning with the class of 1963, every future alumnus will remember Sewa- nee when he hears a carillon.
Rhodes Scholars- Two for Sewanee
Canfill Dunlap
Sewanee made another record, this time scholastically, before the year 1958 closed. For the first time in its his- tory— and a noteworthy way to begin its second century — it had two Rhodes Scholars named in the same year.
The thirty-two winners throughout the nation were from nineteen col- leges and universities. Leading win- ners were the U. S. Military Academy and Harvard University with five, and Princeton with three. Joining Sewa- nee with two were Amherst (Massa- chusetts) College and Occidental Col- lege, Los Angeles.
Other Southern schools with one Rhodes Scholar each were Hampden- Sydney (Virginia) and Tulane Univer- sity.
Sewanee's winners, who will have two years of study at Oxford Univer- sity and who bring the grand total of the University's Rhodes Scholars to fourteen, are: J. Daryl Canfill of Me- tairie, Louisiana, and B. Bernard Dun- lap, Jr., of Columbia, South Carolina. Canfill was a Gulf District winner and Dunlap an Atlanta District winner.
Both are Baker Scholars, members of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kap- pa and Blue Key, dormitory proctors, and English majors. Canfill is presi- dent of the Pan-Hellenic Council, a past officer of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and business manager of the Sewanee Purple. Dunlap has been president of the Order of Gownsmen and of Kappa Alpha fraternity, editor of the Moun- tain Goat, and a varsity football player.
Vice-Chancellor McCrady was chair- man of the Tennessee Rhodes Scholar- ship Selection Committee that met in Sewanee in December a few days prior to the district meetings. Tennessee's representative on the Atlanta District committee is Prof. Arthur B. Dugan, head of Sewanee's political science de- partment and former Rhodes Scholar from Mississippi. South Carolina's rep- resentative is 1926 graduate and Rhodes Scholar Edgar Elliott Beaty of Charles- ton.
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Successor to the Sewanee Alumni News
The Sewanee News, issued quarterly by the Associated Alumni of The University of thk South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second- class matter Feb. 25, 1934, at the postofnce at Se- wanee, Tenn., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
FEBRUARY, 1959 Volume XXV No. 1
Member American Alumni Council
Arthur Ben Chitty, '35 Editor
Barbara Ann Tinnes Issue Editor
Edith Whitesell, Warren Johnson
Assistants
A ssociated A lumni Officers
J. C. Brown Burch, '21 President
Vice-Presidents
Dr. Andrew B. Small, '27
Church Support Bishop Girault Jones, '28 . . St. Luke's William M. Cravens, '29 . .Capital Gifts
E. Ragland Dobbins. '35 Regions
John M. Ezzell, '31 Bequests
Berkeley Grimball, '43 . . Admissions
James G. Cate, Jr., '47 Classes
Fred F. Preaus, A'56 S. M. A.
Dr. Walter M. Hart, '37 .. Rec. Secty. DuVal G. Cravens, Jr., '29 _ _ Treasurer Arthur Ben Chitty, '3'5_.Excc. Director
Church Support
Up Again
Church support of Sewanee for op- erating purposes came to $176,328 for 1958. This represented a gain of nearly $5,000 over 1957 and equaled the inter- est on over $4,000,000 of endowment. The University of the South continues to be the best supported educational enterprise in the history of the Episco- pal Church in America.
Tennessee again led the twenty-one owning dioceses with $25,259 — $1.14 per communicant — a slight drop from its all-time record of $26,127 ($1.22) in 1957. Again Atlanta placed second with $.90 per communicant. On the other hand South Florida took second place (as it also did last year) in total amount contributed, with $22,774.
The surprise of the tabulation came from the brand-new diocese of North- west Texas (raised from the status of missionary district last fall) , which came to third place with a gift of $.82 per communicant. Other leaders in this category: Alabama and Arkansas in fourth place with $.76 each; Florida $.64; Kentucky $.63; Louisiana $.61; Georgia $.55; and South Florida $.54.
Over half the dollar total came from the top five dioceses: Tennessee and South Florida (see above) ; Atlanta $14,945; Louisiana $14,628; and Alabama $12,756. A report on diocesan gifts to All Saints' Chapel will be made in the next issue.
Liberal Arts and Medicine Mix
Fourteen Sewanee seniors have been accepted by medical schools, accord- ing to Dr. H. Malcolm Owen, head of the University's biology department. Both because this constitutes 15 per- cent of the graduating class and be- cause Sewanee has no "pre-med course," this news item is a matter of interest.
In recent years it has been the fash- ion for undergraduate colleges to lure future doctors with a so-called "pre- med" curriculum. This included courses designed to make medical school easier. Courses were especially tailored to lay groundwork for the stiff grind of anato- my, advanced physiology, and so on. Unfortunately, these undergraduate courses were usually substituted for literature, history, philosophy, and other liberal arts ''core" curriculum. The result was that the "pre-med" graduate could go to medical school and locate a muscle but he couldn't write a grammatical paragraph about it.
The University of the South has con- tinued to offer majors in chemistry and biology and its graduates have contin- ued without fanfare to be admitted to
the best medical schools. Now, in 1959, medical school deans are singing praises of the liberal arts man and in highly competitive admissions situations are giving him the preference over the "pre-med." The latter, they point out, is likely to lead his class the first cou- ple of years, but in the long haul is outdistanced by the more broadly edu- cated graduate. When pressed even further they will confess that back- grounds of philosophy and religion are highly useful to the doctor when the life of a patient is at stake.
The fourteen seniors and the schools they will enter next fall are Norman E. McSwain, Jr., and Battle S. Searcy, III, (entering Alabama); Charles M. Up- church (Bowman-Gray) ; William R. Hutchinson, IV, and James S. Mayson (Duke) ; Charles B. Romaine, Jr., and Dion Smith (Emory); Everett McCor- mick (Florida) ; Donald B. Sanders (Harvard); T. John Gribble (Stan- ford) ; Andrew G. Finlay, Jr., and Howard H. Russell, Jr., (Tulane) ; Z. Andrew Coles, Jr., (Vanderbilt) ; and Robert Adams (Tennessee).
If 1 Can Do You Any Good-
There are types of paper which can ".ast over a thousand years, he was say- ing. I marveled at the breadth of his knowledge on a fairly obscure subject. He showed me Japanese paper, from a large batch of samples he had collected. I had heard him play the organ with impressive mastery and I knew that on a bassoon he was a star performer in the woodwind section of the Birming- ham Symphony. This was only because they were short on bassoons. Actually he preferred the trumpet.
His list of accomplishments in the fields of chemistry and metallurgy was astounding. He probably knew more about cast iron pipes and what happens to them in the ground than anyone else in the world.
James Tucker MacKenzie was a great
man on whom greatness sat lightly. He was not weighed down by it. His free- ranging mind was characterized equally by detailed knowledge and by broad perspective. When death came to him on November 17, 1958, the career of one of Sewanee's most loyal alumni was closed.
As far back as the alumni records go, he was a faithful contributor. With- in a few days after his death came a check for $3,000 from an insurance policy with a note that this was to be applied to the organ fund in All Saints' Chapel. Typical of his attitude was a note scrawled in 1946 across a request that he undertake an especially time- consuming job for Sewanee. "I hate to take on any more right now," he wrote, "but if you really think I can do you any good, I'd feel compelled to accept."
SAE Plan Helps Sewanee Too
Under the stewardship of Harding Woodall, '17, the SAEs have launched a campaign for funds to renovate and extend their chapter house. The plans call for an outlay of some $35,000.
SAE Sewanee Corporation has been organized under Tennessee law to hold the chapter's ground lease from the University and to contract for the building project. To supply the equity capital for the corporation, the alumni are being asked to contribute five dol- lars for each year out of Sewanee. Close to 100 have responded to this appeal with gifts and pledges in excess of $12,000.
Another phase of the campaign is an appeal to the SAE alumni for gifts to the endowment of the University. To the extent that an alumnus makes such a gift under this solicitation — which gift the treasurer of the University credits to Fraternity Loan Endowment Fund — the University will invest a like amount in notes of SAE Sewanee Corporation.
This procedure for helping the chap- ter is available to all the fraternities at Sewanee. The appeal on the part of the SAEs has resulted in gifts to the University's endowment fund of over six thousand dollars.
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A busy Quadrangle as seen from, the new Chapel roof.
On the Mountain
The Land and the Air
The Air Force ROTC Unit under the direction of Lt. Col. Joseph H. Powell began its voluntary flight training pro- gram for advanced cadets in late No- vember. Designed to familiarize the potential officer with aircraft and flying prior to his getting his Air Force wings, and also to screen out those unable to get them, the program offers an addi- tional five hours of ground school (all cadets get thirty hours) and thirty-six hours of actual flight training. Upon satisfactory completion of the course the student receives his private pilot's license and becomes eligible for a Cate- gory I (pilot) commission upon gradu- ation and then goes into pilot training. The program is being carried out by Air Force officers and the Norris Fly- ing Service, Chattanooga, and its Piper Tri-Pacers. Three cadets are now ready to solo. Sewanee's own Jackson-My- ers airfield provides the "classroom."
Mardi Gras in New Orleans once again found the University-Air Force ROTC Band and Elite Flight on hand to lead the Rex Parade. The b?.nd be- gan these annual visitations in 1953'.
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Bishop Frank A. Juhan, '11, director of development, was given authoriza- tion at the November regents' meeting to proceed promptly with the addition of another six-room unit for Sewanee Inn, thus providing additional accom- modations for guests. Present guest ca- pacity is seventy-two and the new unit will increase it to nearly 100.
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Bishop Juhan reports that a substan- tial gift has been made toward a new house for the University chaplain to be built this summer.
The Sewanee Forest Service Research Center, directed by Arnold L. Mignery, now has an advisory committee of twelve conservation leaders and fores-
ters. The group's first meeting was held at Sewanee Inn on November 25, and hereafter it will meet twice a year to review the existing research pro- gram and to advise regarding future needs. Sixteen studies are now under way in cooperation with the Univer- sity's forestry and biology departments, the Hiwassee Land Company, the Walk- er Lumber Company, and the TVA De- partment of Forestry Relations.
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The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has produced a booklet, "Opportunities Unlimited," describing careers and study programs for the for- est products industries. The Univer- sity of the South is listed in the general forestry study category.
* * * * The Kentucky -Tennessee Section of the American Foresters will hold its spring meeting and field trip at Sewa- nee June 28-30. About 150 members will attend.
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Shapard Tower reaches its 134 feet toward the sky as All Saints' Chapel nears completion.
Departments
The lead essay in the winter issue of the Sewanee Review is by Dr. Robert W. Jordan, a member of Sewanee's philosophy department from 1950-55 and now head of the department at the University of New Hampshire. Essay title: "Poetry and Philosophy — Two Modes of Revelation." The same issue also carries a review of Learned Hand's book, Bill of Rights, by Dr. Robert 3. Lancaster, '34, dean of the College, and a review of books on the composer Schubert by Review editor Dr. Monroe K. Spears.
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The Centennial Symposia talks on Christian Civilization by leading edu- cators in the fields of the humanities and the sciences are attracting inter- national attention. The talks were printed in the summer issue of the Se- wanee Review, where they came to the attention of the U. S. Information Agen- cy. Some of the articles were re- quested by offices in New Delhi and Saigon (for Vietnamese translations), and the Agency has asked and been granted permission to republish the talks in English and translation for a number of Information Service offices outside the U. S. and Canada.
A $3,300 grant from the Frederick G. Cottrell fund of the Research Corpora- tion, New York City, has been received by ""the chemistry department. The grant' is in support of a research pro- ject submitted by Dr. W. B. Guenther, assistant professor of chemistry who joined the Sewanee faculty in 1956. The money has been used to buy an ultra- violet and visible light spectrophotome- ter, an instrument for examining the composition and behavior pf solutipns,
Dr. David B. Camp, head of the chem- istry department, read a paper at the meeting of the Society of Experimen- tal Biology and Medicine at the Bow- man Gray School of Medicine, Winston- Salem, North Carolina, in November. Title: "The Use of Triphenylmethane Dyes as Gamma Ray Dosimeters."
The Sewanee Item, a small newspa- per-style publication for prospective students and high schools, and put out by the Admissions Office, made its first appearance in January. Its news cov- ers curriculum and student activities. Admissions director Ben F. Cameron, '42, hopes it will become a regular peri- odical, coming out about three times a year.
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The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, '30, bish- op of Texas, conducted the School of Theology's Ash Wednesday Quiet Day service February 11 at the DuBose Conference Center, Monteagle. The next day the Rev. E. Dargan Butt, '26, of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, discussed town and country work. Other recent seminary speakers have been the Ven. Eustace H. Wade, archdeacon of Durban City, South Africa, Bishop Theodore N. Barth, H'48, of Tennessee, the Rev. Tracy H. Lamar, '42, of St. John's Church, Knoxville, and the Rev. Rowland J. Cox of the Overseas De- partment of the National Council.
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A German club concerned with Ger- man has been formed on the campus and is officially named Der Deutsche Verein. In addition to studying lan- guage and German culture, club meet- ings feature German foods, steins of beer, and illustrated talks about Ger- many. The campus also has Spanish and French clubs.
Graduate School
"The New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls" will be among courses offered at the five-week Graduate School of Theology from July 22 — Au- gust 26. The new study, that will go into the recent discoveries in the Ju- dean desert and their bearing on the study of Christian origins, will be taught by the Rev. Dr. Peter Pierson Parker, professor of New Testament Literature and Interpretation at the General Theological Seminary, New York City.
The Graduate School, offering post- ordination study leading to the master of sacred theology degree, is directed by the Rev. Dr. Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., professor of liturgies at The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California. Dr. Shepherd will teach a church history course on the Eastern liturgies.
Other courses and teachers will be "The Reformation in Switzerland and in France" taught by the Rev. Dr. Imri Murden Blackburn, professor of ec- clesiastical history at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; "Biographical Studies (fifteen colonial and earls' American church leaders) in American Church History" taught by the Rev. Dr. Nelson Waite Rightmyer, rector of St. John's Church, Glyndon, Maryland, and former professor of ecclesiastical history at the Philadelphia Divinity School; and "The Theory of Frederick Denison Maurice" taught by the Rev. Dr. Wilford O. Cross, professor of phi- losophy of religion and ethics at Se- wanee's School of Theology.
For further information write the Dean's Office, School of Theology, Se- wanee.
Laymen s Conference
The new presiding bishop will be among the speakers at the Fourth Pro- vince Laymen's Conference at Sewa- nee June 18-21.
Guests for the conference will be: the Most Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, H'52, presiding bishop, who will preach at the Sunday service; the Rev. Martin Dewey Gable, '52, conference chaplain, rector of St. Thomas' Church, Colum- bus, Ga.; Bishop R. Randolph Clai- borne, H'49, of Atlanta; Dr. F. E. Lund, president of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; Dr. Edward McCrady, Sewanee's vice-chancellor; Henry G. Sapp of Co- lumbus, Georgia, national president of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew; and Father Stephen, Order of St. Francis, Little Portion Monastery, Mount Sinai, Long Island, New York, who will con- duct a special program on Saturday.
Also present will be the Rev. Carle- ton J. Sweetser, associate director of the General Division of Laymen's Work, New York City.
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Music Center
The Sewanee Summer Music Center will hold its third season from June 21 — July 26 on the University campus. Instrumental students primarily of high school and college age will, during the five weeks, study orchestra work, en- sembles, sight reading, theory, music background, public performance, and conducting, as well as receive private and class study.
Ten specialists on the faculty will teach violin, viola, cello (and bass), clarinet, flute, bassoon, French horn (and brass instruments), oboe, piano and composition. A series of weekly student and faculty concerts will again be offered.
The center is directed by Julius Hegyi, now in his fourth season as con- ductor of the Chattanooga Symphony.
Hegyi is also one of four Ameri- can conductors to receive the Ameri- can Symphony Orchestra League's new recognition award. The four will offici- ate at the league's first venture in re- cording compositions of young Ameri- cans.
Music Center students live in Uni- versity dormitories and enjoy the re- creational facilities of the campus. For further information write to Miss Mar- tha McCrory, Sewanee Summer Music Center, 730 Cherry Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Training School
The C. S. Lewis lectures on "Love," which have brought a storm of contro- versy in Episcopal radio circles, are to be presented at the Sewanee Summer Training School June 21-27. Commen- tary will be by the Rev. Eric S. Green- wood, '45, of Memphis.
The tapes, recorded especially for the Episcopal Hour in England last summer, were deemed "too mature" for regular broadcast, but are to be made avail- able to small groups where opportunity can be provided for full and sympa- thetic discussion. Professor Lewis of Cambridge is considered one of the half dozen most articulate laymen of the Twentieth Century.
A guest speaker for the training school will be new Presiding Bishop Arthur C. Lichtenberger.
The SSTS, established forty-nine years ago as the official Christian edu- cation conference of the Fourth (Se- wanee) Province, is today the oldest inter-diocesan conference in the Epis- copal Church. Bishpp Albert R. Stuart, H'55, of Georgia is chairman of its board and the Rev. Milton L. Wood, '43, of Atlanta will be director for the com- ing session. The program will include workshops in Race Relations, Alcohol- ism, Christian Education, Devotional Life, and the work of the Woman's Auxiliary.
The move into newly remodeled Walsh-Ellett Hall will probably be during spring vacation in March. Taken from the second-story level, this shows the cloisters that will line the Quadrangle side of the building and provide outdoor stairway entrances into second-floor classrooms. The vice-chancellor's home is in the background.
Miscellany
T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathe- dral" was a Shrove Tuesday night pres- entation in the University chapel. Chaplain David B. Collins, '43, played Archbishop Thomas Becket and Mrs. Collins directed the production. The same company will perform in the Trin- ity Cathedral, Little Rock, for the American Guild of Organists on June 15, and may give performances at Com- mencement and during the Sewanee Summer Training School. * * * #
For the third year a series of Sun- day afternoon concerts by the Chatta- nooga Symphony Orchestra and Sym- phony Chamber Ensemble are being given at Sewanee. Last of the three concerts will be on March 15. Orches- tra conductor is Julius Hegyi, director of the Sewanee Summer Music Center.
Purple Masque dramatic organization presented William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" in December. The produc- tion was directed by second-year Semi- narian Jack Bush of Childersburg, Ala- bama, pinchhitting this year for Brin- ley Rhys of the English faculty, now doing graduate work at Tulane Uni- versity. Bush will direct another play in May.
Santa Claus had special help from Sewanee in December with three U. S. Navy planes taking over for Santa's reindeer. Seminary student W. Thom- as Fitzgerald of Winter Park, Florida, who is also a lieutenant in the U. S Navy Reserve with the anti-submarine VP Patrol Squadron 671 of the Naval Air Station, Atlanta, was the chief helper. The ninety-member squadron had a routine mission coming up in the Caribbean area, decided Santa Claus might be helped at the same time, and asked Tom to find a target. He picked the Rev. Raul H. Mattei, '47, a native of Puerto Rico who studied at both the College and the Seminary and who *s now serving St. Mark's Mission near the city of Ponce on the Southern part of the island in a particularly poor, mountainous area. All of Sewanee gathered and gave until some 3,000 pounds of clothing and food were ready. Sewanee Military Academy's ROTC de- partment trucked the load to Chatta- nooga, where the Navy planes picked it and Tom up. Raul met them with his station wagon at the Naval air sta- tion near San Juan and was dumb- founded at how much there was; a week later he was still hauling car- loads of gifts back to his mission four driving hours away.
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This imaginative airport facility, designed by Alumnus Edioin A at Sewanee's Jackson-Myers Field. The small building, to ad will serve as a pilots' ready room, as a classroom for flight ins Air Patrol, and the Tennessee National Guard, Aviation Secti has appropriated $4,500, contingent on an equal amount being r propriated $1,000 and individuals have given $800. Deductib University marked for "Airport Building Fund." Keeble an long-range planning of small airports and in possibilities of us nating the designs and plans. Jackson-Myers Field is attende
Keeble, SS'23, will provide administration and hospitality room join the Huger Memorial Hangar and to be ready by next fall, truction, and for meetings of local units of Civil Defense, Civil on. Toward the facility the Tennessee Aviation Commission lised from other sources. Already Franklin County has ap- \e gifts toward the remaining $2,700 are being received by the 1 his Nashville architectural associates, who are interested in ing Sewanee sandstone in modern-type construction, are do- i at all times with service, telephone, and transportation.
Spears Completes Two- Volume Work
A signal feather in Sewanee's schol- arly cap is the publication by the Ox- ford University Press of a definitive edition of the Restoration English poet Matthew Prior. One of its two editors is Dr. Monroe K. Spears, professor of English at the University of the South and editor of the Sewanee Review.
The publication on February 19 of the two volumes (1,170 pages) in the familiar dark blue of the Oxford poets' series rewards many years of intense research. Forty-one works are pub- lished for the first time and sixty titles have been established as wrongly at- tributed to Prior.
Monroe and Betty Spears spent some months in England during the course of this major project. They were guests of the Marquis of Bath at his estate, "Longleat," in Wiltshire, examining original Prior manuscripts which had been given to the Marquis of Bath's an- cestors. Spears also worked with ma- terial in the hands of the Duke of Portland and in the British Museum.
The work was helped by grants from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, the Sewanee Research Grant Committee, and the Modern Language Association.
Sewanee Is Being Seen and Heard
The University's audio-visual mes- sages have recently been experiencing a phenomenal progression.
Most popular is the movie SEWA- NEE, 25-minute, 16 mm film in color and sound, gift of Trustee Harvey G. Booth of Atlanta and his firm, the Southern Bell Telephone Company. (See Sewanee News, November, 1958). On word-of-mouth advertising prints of the movie now available are booked through May.
Continuing to satisfy is the slide show with accompanying script, kept up to date with new color pictures and con- stantly on the road to Sewanee clubs and other groups.
Radio and television coverage has been much stepped up. A fifteen-min-
ute telecast on our athletic program, featuring Coach Walter Bryant, origi- nated on Chattanooga's Channel 12, and football shots were also featured on several other Nashville and Chatta- nooga TV programs. On a tip-off from the father of Seminary student Bill Pickels, a radio station in Pittsburgh (WWSW) gave fifteen minutes to Se- wanee sports, and doubtless there were other widespread notices not monitored by Sewanee. Special holiday broad- casts, one on Christmas Eve, were made of the University choir and new caril- lon. Tapes of these and other Sewanee shows will be happily sent by the Pub- lic Relations Office to any radio station requesting them.
Race Relations —
Atlanta Comment
A statement on the crisis in race re- lations was recently signed by more than 300 Atlanta clergymen, including thirty Episcopalians. The statement calls for obedience to the law, main- tenance of the public school system, an end to race hatred, continuance of com- munication between leaders of the races, preservation of free speech, and for the use of prayer and obedience to the will of God in finding the solution of pres- ent difficulties.
A three-point program was urged: 1. Encouragement of free and intelligent discussion of the issues by churches and synagogues; 2. Maintenance of a sound public school plan, consistent with the law of the land, the rights of all citi- zens, and the preservation of public edu- cation, by community and state leaders: and 3. Appointment of citizens' commis- sions including leaders from the various races, to preserve community and state harmony.
Alumni clergy among the signers are: Randolph R. Claiborne, H'49, bishop of Atlanta; Alfred Hardman, '46; Rai- mundo de Ovies, '00; Robert M. G. Lib- by, '58; John L. Womack, '43; Stephen W. Ackerman, '54; Edwin C. Coleman, '53; E. Dudley Colhoun, Jr., '50; Charles C. Demere, '57; Austin Ford, '53; Frank M. Ross, '51; Hugh Saussy, Jr.", '49; H. Augustus Sheppard, Jr., '58; Wilson W. Sneed, H'57; C. Harry Tisdale, '40; James B. Vaught, '47; and Milton L. Wood, Jr., '43.
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BASKETBALL BREAKING EVEN
In spite of an inexperienced squad, Lon Varnell's Tiger cagers have been able to break even on scheduled games with seven wins and seven losses; but they also dropped two more at the In- vitational Tournament in Memphis.
Only one starter returned from last season. Hugh Gelston, 5-11, of Towson, Maryland, is one of the shorter mem- bers of the Tiger team. He switched from forward to guard to fill a vacant spot on the eager starting lineup, and has looped in 109 points to date.
Sparky Edgin, a 6-4 freshman from Madison, Tennessee, is leading scorer, with 194 credits to his record. He has held the top shooting spot since the opening games, and may be known as one of the better Tigers.
Center Dick Dezell, 6-6, of Jackson- ville, Florida, is back after being out of school for a year and a half. His ability shows up on the statistics with 109 markers, and his rebounding abilhy has contributed to several victories.
Poochie Tomlin of Madison, Tennes- see, a 6-0 guard, comes to Sewanee as a transfer student. This is a Tiger gain, for he has earned 99 points.
Other valuable Tigers are Walt Wild- er, who played football with the Tiger grid squad, a galloping tailback who made a name for himself during the
last perfect season. Jim Wagoner of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, is short in height but he is always there with a surprise. Larry Varnell of Sewanee is fast and aggressive and is getting bet- ter.
Last year the Tigers improved after semester examinations. They ended the season with a slightly better than even record, but they had to fight up from a mid-season slump to do it. This year, there is no sign of that slump; and ex- pectations are that the final record will be better than that of 1958.
The scoresheet so far, with three games and one tournament yet to go:
S Opp. Nov. 29— Athens College 78 58
Dec. 2— Vanderbilt 42 71
Dec. 5— Florence State 58 65
Dec. 8 — Southwestern 69 50
Dec. 11— Chattanooga 52 44
Dec. 15— Florence State 65 63
Dec. 16-17— Tournament:
Southwestern 58 62
Ouachita 54 63
Jan. 9 — Mississippi College 66 111 Jan. 10— Millsaps 72 59
Jan. 14— Howard 72 39
Jan. 17— Lambuth 40 66
Jan. 19— Chattanooga 73 91
Jan. 22— Maryville 75 63
Feb. 9 — Florida Southern 77 <V7
Swimming Team Pulls Ahead
The Sewanee tankmen, coached by Ted Bitondo, were upset by The Cita- del, 35-51, as the Tigers were going after their seventeenth straight win. The meet was hard fought, and the Sewanee pool area in the Juhan Gym- nasium was filled to capacity with spec- tators. The Citadel took six of the ten events, with their swimmers making a new medley relay record of 4:21.3, but Sewanee's freestyle quartet made a pool record of 3:44.9, which softened the sting.
Meeting the University of Georgia two days later, the Tigers squeaked over the top, coming out from behind on the last event to mark up a narrow 44-42 victory. The season record stands at four wins and one loss, with six meets left to go.
The freestyle relay quartet has been a reliable winner, taking four wins this season. Charles Robinson of Coral Ga-
bles, Florida, Pete Bailey of Cleveland, Ohio, Ken Rast of Leesburg, Florida, Tony Veal of Atlantic Beach, Florida, and Charles North of Jackson, Tennes- see, who has substituted, make up this squad.
Captain Tony Veal has been the out- standing point winner, taking a total of 50V4 markers in five meets. He holds pool and school records for the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events. This season he broke his own records twice, once against Vandy and once against Clem- son.
Other reliable swimmers are: Bob Kring, Brazil; Pete Bickel, Dallas; Drew Meulenberg, Atlanta; James Dean, Co- hassett, Massachusetts; Fred Brown, Houston; Sam Rogers, Jacksonville; Robert Kane, Rome, Georgia; Buddy Wimer, El Dorado, Arkansas; Jordan Clement, Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Stirling Rayburn, Coral Gables, Florida.
George L. Watkins. left, former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he now lives, president of the Class of 1907, and captain of the football team of 1906, enjoys reminiscing with David A. Shepherd, '00, center, and Frederick P. Cheape, 10, at Sewanee's Southwestern game last November that gave the Ti- gers their first undefeated football sea- son since 1899.
Wrestling
Coach Horace Moore and his grap • piers are building a reputation by tak- ing Emory and Birmingham-Southern. They have five more matches ahead, and will end the se-sson with the South- eastern Regional Wrestling Champion- ship bouts at Chattanooga.
Baseball — Long Ago
Frederick R. Lummis, '03, recently told this experience.
"When I was studying in Philadel- phia, Senator George Wharton Pepper gave a dinner for General William Crawford Gorgas (Sewanee's alumnus of yellow fever fame). Senator Pep- per, a pillar of the Episcopal Church, asked the General to teli his highest moment in his illustrious career. The General thought a few moments and then said: 'The Hardees were playing the Sewanees. The score was five to six; I was playing right field for the Hardees and we were one run ahead in the last of the ninth inning. There were three men on bases. The batter hit a long one to right center field, and I got it.' "
VARNELL'S GAME AGONIES
They have giraffes!
Get that ball!
1 can't look.
It went in?
Atlanta — Sewanee Club
With Ideas and Purpose
4LUMNI, CHURCHMEN. PARENTS PARTICIPATE
The Sewanee Club of Atlanta was worth $1,000 to Sewanee as of midnight December 31, 1958. In dollars and cents that in itself is good news, but in people and interest good news has been Atlanta's story ever since the club re- organized in October 1954. The $1,000 means Atlanta exceeded its bonus offer quota of 180 gifts during 1958.
The long-standing good news is more significant. More than any other club Atlanta has shown that non-alumni Episcopalians can be among Sewanee's hardest workers, and in this the city has a triumvirate hard to beat. The names are familiar to many of Sewa- nee's friends, but the men — Hinton F. Longino, former regent and Church Support chairman, James S. Bonner, former trustee, and Harvey G. Booth, current trustee and donor, along with the Southern Bell Telephone Company, of the new Sewanee movie — only a few short years ago knew little or nothing about the University. But when they learned, they believed, and they have been acting on those beliefs ever since.
There are others of course, including hard-working alumni (among them, before his move to Kansas City, E. Rag- land Dobbins, alumni vice-president in charge of regions, and past Atlanta president and now treasurer T. G. Lin- thicum), but what's important is that they all work together, and the club and Sewanee thrive on the partnership. This makes food for thought because Atlanta has never shared the feeling of many clubs that "alumni only" should prevail until "organization" sets in. At- lanta presidents have been University alumni, a Sewanee Military Academy alumnus, and now a non-alumnus Epis- copalian— and other officers have been and are parents of students, husbands and wives, some just interested church people.
What are the secrets? Hard-working members, of course, but another might be Atlanta's business-like approach, making the organization a dignified and official "club" with substance and pur- pose.
There are membership applications, membership cards (billfold size, num- bered in red and issued annually), regular dues, club stationery. Objec- tives: to acquaint everyone with the University; to sponsor at least two club meetings a year — a Founders' Day Din- ner in October and a Christmas holi-
day party for students, prospective students, and their dates; and to start one or more scholarships for young men in the Diocese of Atlanta. (Hon- orary alumnus Wilson Sneed's St. Luke's Church has given $2,000 for a four-year College scholarship to a de- serving— as decided by Sewanee and the parish — student from the diocese. The same church, one of Atlanta's largest and that of many club members, con- tinually gives Sewanee $1 per com- municant per year.)
New trustees and alumni residents in Atlanta (found through the churches, personal acquaintances, Sewanee) re- ceive letters of welcome from club offi- cers.
Annual club dues, that include the wife if the husband joins or the hus- band if the wife joins, are $1.00 for students, $2.50 for members out of col- lege less than ten years, and $5.00 for those out of college longer than that. The money is used for processing and mailing letters and invitations (hand- somely printed on white cards) and to pay for the Christmas party to which all are invited free of charge. Last De- cember's party, featuring local musical talent, was held at the Piedmont Driv- ing Club and attended by over 250 (the first such party in 1954 attracted 75).
Club members receive lists of officers with resident and business addresses and both phone numbers. Meetings are announced in Sunday church bul- letins and in city newspapers. Officers, nominated by a three-member commit- tee and elected annually at a Novem- ber Sunday afternoon meeting that in- cludes "fun, fellowship and refresh-
Club Trophy
The Dobbins Trophy for the year's outstanding Sewanee Club will again be awarded during Commencement in June. Clubs will b& asked to send in progress reports in the spring.
The silver trophy — something use- ful for club meetings — is awarded annually by E. Ragland Dobbins, '35, Sewanee's alumni vice-president for regions. The first award in 1957 was won by the Sewanee Club of Atlan- ta, and the 1958 award went to the Coastal Carolina Alumni Chapter and the Sewanee Club of Charleston.
New Sewanee trustee from the Diocese oj Atlanta, Thomas G. Linthicum, '23, discusses his new office with former trustee James S. Bonner, H'58. Bonner and Linthicum are president and treas- urer, respectively, of the Sewanee Club of Atlanta.
ments" at one of the churches, include a twelve-member board of directors, an apprentice springboard for future leaders.
The current slate, elected last No- vember: James S. Bonner, president (last June made an honorary alumnus and cited for his example to all alumni "of a devoted Episcopal layman accept- ing leadership in the service of the Church's educational center in the South."); Dudley C. Fort, '34, first vice- president; the Rev. E. Dudley Colhoun, '50, second vice-president; J. H. Nichols, '51, secretary; and T. G. Linthicum, '23, treasurer.
For the $1,000 bonus campaign Bon- ner had his group well organized. An officers' meeting was called, campaign letters were distributed, and each offi- cer was asked to sign and address them to eight or ten prospective donors. This was followed up by telephone calls and personal visits. Atlantans made their checks payable to the Sewanee Club of Atlanta and sent them to club treasurer Linthicum, who forwarded a covering check with a list of donors' names, ad- dresses and gifts to Sewanee. Thus the club steadily watched its progress.
To Founders' Day dinners Hinton Longino urges attendance from Episco- pal friends with letters like this: "The reason I thought of you in this con- nection is your demonstrated interest in the University of the South through periodic gifts over quite a period of time. This is not a money-raising en- deavor, but an attempt to bring peopie together who are interested in (Sewa- nee) and keep them acquainted with what is happening 'on the Mountain.' "
Is it all worth it? After one such dinner attended by 110 at $5 per plate, Longino, who had worked especially hard, asked himself that question. His answer: "After seeing the success of this dinner and the large crowd which turned out, I am sold on the idea that intense effort should be put forth in every possible place to promote Sewa- nee Clubs and let everyone -possible know about the University of the South."
He still feels that way and so does Sewanee. And after all, SEWANEE'S RIGHT!
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About Sewanee Alumni
1885
Richard Rutherford Randolph, 93, died December 19, 1958, in Birmingham, Alabama, where he had lived since 1880 and had been active in early real estate development as president of Kingland Improvement Company. He was the oldest living alumnus of Sewanee Mili- tary Academy, from which his grand- son, Richard R. Randolph, III, was graduated in 1957. For many years he was a vestryman at St. Mary's-on-the- Highlands Church. Survivors include his wife, four daughters, and two sons. 1898
Dr. John Bigelow Cummins, Sewa- nee's oldest living alumnus and the oldest practicing physician in the United States, died December 31, 1958, in Fort Worth, Texas, where fifty-five of his sixty-two years of medical practice had been spent. Last November 7 he cele- brated his 100th birthday. A few days before his death Dr. Cummins had fractured a hip and ribs in a fall, but until then he kept regular office hours and made house calls day or night. He worked his way through college, earned medical degrees from both Sewanee and the University of Nashville, and began his practice in 1897 in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Dr. Cummins was a member of the Tarrant County Medi- cal Society, the Texas Medical Society (that named him its "General Practi- tioner of the Year" in 1950), and of the American Medical Society. He was an organizer, charter member and life elder of Magnolia Avenue Christian Church.
1899
Berkeley St. John Green, KS, now 82 years old, is chaplain to Spanish-Ameri- can War veterans at California's Vet- erans Home. In 1896 he left Sewanee after one year to join the Army, in which he served as a hospital steward in Cuba and the Philippines. He is a fifty-year member of Sewanee's Omega chapter of Kappa Sigma. His grand- father, the Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, was the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi and Sewanee's fourth chancellor (1866-87). Address: Adm. McCalla Camp 17, P. O. Box 614, Vet- erans Home, Calif.
1900
John McW. Ford, SAE, of Shreve- port, Louisiana, had a day celebrated in nis honor last November 9. He has been the city's commissioner of finance since 1930 and in fifty years has also served as alderman, police juror, state legislator, and mayor. He has run for political office twelve times and has never been defeated. His favorite mot- to when the going gets rough is, "Well, we've just got to keep on keeping on." Today he manages a sound municipal structure worth more than $8,000,000, and much of Shreveport's improvement, growth, and destiny found influence and guidance from him.
Lucien Memminger. 79, ATO, who served with the U. S. Consular Service for thirty-seven years before his re- tirement in 1944, died November 20, 1958, in an AsheviLe, North Carolina, hospital after a prolonged illness. His foreign service included thirteen con-
The University Cross, erected in 1922 as a memorial to Sewanee men who served in World War I, now has a special bronze plaque identifying its engineer, Ralph; P. Black, Oil, DTD (inset). Among those present for the recent placement of the marker were left to right, Mrs. Oscar N. Torian, Bishop R. Bland Mitchell, 'OS, PDT, Dr. George M. Baker, Mrs. Frank A. Juhan, and Mrs. Telfair Hodgson.
The Smiths— Herbert E., Sr., '03, PDT, right, and son Herbert E., Jr., '36, PDT. look over their plant Birmingham's Vulcan Rivet & BoH Corp., which the elder Smith organized in 1919 with $60,000. The plant, of which father is now chairman of the board and son is president, is now a million dollar opera- tion, hast fall Smith, Jr., was elected president of Associated Industries of Alabama. Behind them above is Da- vid Pitts, "boltmaker" operator.
£ular and diplomatic posts in nine countries and he was stationed abroad during both World Wars. His posts included investigating the Congo Free State of Africa, now the Belgian Congo, being in charge of Consulates General at Beirut, Syria, and Smyrna, Turkey, during the period (1910-13) leading to the Italian-Turkish War, then Consul at Rouen, France, where he assisted in evacuation of Americans stranded in Paris at the start of World War I, and then from 1920-23' in Italy during the rise to power of the Fascist Party. He was Consul General in Copenhagen during occupation by German forces and until such officials were evacuated by the U. S. government. From 1941- 44 he was First Secretary of the Le- gation at Pretoria, South Africa, and later Consul General at Paramaribo Surinem. In Asheville he participated in Episcopal Church and civic affairs during his more active years. Survi- vors include a daughter and a son.
1901
William Blackburn Wilson, Sr., 80, prominent Rock Hill, South Carolina, attorney, died December 8, 1958, after a year of declining health. Since 1901 he had been associated with Wilson and Wi.son, law firm founded by his grand- father, retiring two years ago. He was Rock Hill's first city recorder, an office he held thirty-five years. From 1909- 13 he was a member of the state's House of Representatives and for thirty vears served as York County's state executive committeeman in the Demo- cratic Party. In law he was known for his facts and fighting spirit. As a cor- poration lawyer he helped organize several of the community's textile plants. At Sewanee, weighing 130 pounds, he was quarterback of the un- defeated and untied football team of 1899. The famous five games in six days saw Wilson play forty-five min- utes of the last game with Mississippi with a fractured leg. Midway through the first half (no quarters then) his leg had been injured. He had no sub- stitute, so taped up his leg and con- tinued to play. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, and one son.
February, Nineteen Fifty-Nine
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1905
J. Monroe Jones, KA, retail coal company operator in Birmingham, Ala- bama, for many years, died January 18 in a Florida hospital. Survivors in- clude two sons.
Dr. Robert Jackson Perry, 91, who practiced medicine in Henry County and Manleyville, Tennessee, for fifty- seven years, died November 1, 1958. 1907
Dr. Lawson A. Hankins in January 1958 completed fifty years of medical practice, the past forty of them in Bay- town, Texas, where twenty-six years ago he and two other doctors estab- lished the city's first hospital. He still heads the forty-two-bed hospital, staffed now by four doctors. Other activities include being a deacon in the Memorial Baptist Church, a Shriner, and a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club.
Arthur M. Michael of San Antonio, Texas, now chairman of the board of the Travis Savings and Loan Associa- tion, which he organized in 1927, has much to keep him busy. He is presi- dent emeritus of the city's Boy Scout Council, with which he has been active for forty years, is a member of the Board of Governors of St. Mary's Uni- versity, of the executive committee of the Taxpayers League, and is vice- chairman of a committee advising the city about the purchase of a right-of- way on which a new speed way will be built. Good fortune has smiled on him. On some land he owns seventy- five miles southwest of San Antonio, and never sold because it was a good hunting ground, there are now sixteen oil wells. Another tract of 640 acres is under lease to Cities Service.
The Rev. Alexander C. D. Noe, SAE. retired for six years and now 78, is still well and active in Bath, North Carolina, helping the other ministers with their programs, and giving much time to writing and restoration work. "Bath is North Carolina's oldest town, ' he writes, "with its oldest church, St. Thomas, of which I was rector for sev- enteen years, and we are now restoring the Church and the town, and I am president of Colonial Bath, Inc., which is sponsoring the program, similar to the work being done in Williamsburg, Virginia." Youngest son, William S. Noe, '54, is now studying at Sewanee's seminary.
1909
Reginald Irving Raymond died No- vember 25, 1958. He was associate pro- fessor of biology at Sewanee from 1908- 16 and more recently had been an ac- countant with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans. Survivors include his widow and a daughter. 1910
Dr. Marion Franklin Dickinson, 79, a physician who also delved success- fully in politics, farming, journalism, banking, and education, died May 18, 1958, at his home in Little Rock, Ar- kansas. His early manhood he spent as a farmer and school' teacher and directed teacher training institutes at various places in Arkansas. In 1904 he helped organize the first local of the
Edwin I. Hatch, '33, ATO, brought home about $4,700 in "loot," including a Ram- bler sedan, a trip for two to the Ba- hamas, a gold coffee maker, and dining room furniture, from his holiday vaca- tion in New York. For three days he appeared on TV's "The Price is Right" daytime show, having been picked from, the studio audience, and was cheered on by Mrs. Hatch and daughter Caro- lyn. Hatch is executive vice-president of the Alabama Power Company, Bir- mingham.
Farmers Union in the state and later moved up to county president and state secretary. He resigned to start prac- ticing medicine in 1909, but three years later Farmers Union members per- suaded him to run for the legislature and he was elected. He managed Ar- kansas Governor Hays' campaign and filled an unexpired term as state audi- tor. He continued with medical studies but kept a finger in politics, managing campaigns for the U. S. Senate and the state. After banking positions in the early 1920s he entered the real estate and insurance business in St. Louis and was caught by the depression. He re- turned to Arkansas and the Farm Credit Administration and in 1933 was elected president of the Arkansas Farmers Union. He later was an or- ganizer for the National Farmers Union in Eastern and Southern states. In 1943 he became editor of the Union Farmer, magazine of the Arkansas Farmers Union. Survivors include his wife and a daughter.
1911 Dr. James T. Mackenzie, 67, DTD, nationally recognized authority in met- allurgy, died unexpectedly in Birming- ham November 17, 1958. Before his retirement in 1956 he was technical di- rector of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, with which he began work- ing in 1912. Since 1956 he had been a consultant for the Southern Research Institute. During his career Dr. Mac- Kenzie was honored by many profes- sional and technical groups. In 1951 he received the Herty Medal from the Georgia Section of the American Chemi- cal Society for outstanding contribu- tions to chemistry in the Southeast,
and in 1938 he was awarded the John H. Whiting Gold Medal of the Ameri- can Foundrymen's Association and was made an honorary life member of the group. He received the Patriotic and Civilian Service Award from the U. S. Army in 1952. He was a vestryman of St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands Church in Birmingham and from 1947-49 had been a Sewanee regent and alumnus trustee. Sewanee awarded him the honorary doctor of science degree in 1930 and he held another awarded by the University of Alabama in 1948. Sur- vivors include his wife, one son, James T. MacKenzie, Jr., '37, SAE, and a daughter.
1922 Winfield S. Crownover of Miami, Florida, has died, the Alumni Office recently learned. Mr. Crownover had been in the wholesale grocery busi- ness before his retirement in 1953.
Mortimer H. Jordan of Greenwood, Mississippi, where he headed the Jor- dan Furniture Company, has died.
1924 Hugh W. Fraser, KS, vice-president and comptroller of the Citizens & South- ern Bank, Atlanta, in January was named executive vice-president of the C & S Holding Company.
1932 John Benton Cole, Jr., SAE, of Birmingham, Alabama, who in 1933 be- gan a two-truck trucking business, driving one of them himself and solicit- ing business as he could, today is presi- dent of Jack Cole Company, one of the major truck operations in the South. In 1957 the company trucks traveled almost 14 million intercity miles in ten states to pull more than 234,000 tons of freight and to bring in a gross revenue for the year of over 7% million dollars. Headquarters are on a twenty-acre tract in Birmingham.
1933 Dr. DuBose Egleston, SN, has opened offices for the practice of ophthalmology at 560 Oak Avenue, Waynesboro, Vir- ginia.
1934 Thomas A. Claiborne, KA, has been appointed sales manager of the new Southwest sales district of Tennessee Products & Chemical Corp. and its sub- sidiary, Tenn-Tex Alloy Corp. of Houston, Texas. From Houston head- quarters Claiborne, who has been closely associated with the iron and steel in- dustry more than twenty-five years, will direct sales of ferroalloys, pig iron and coke in the states of Texas, Ar- kansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Born: Twin girls, daughters of the Rev. George J. Hall, SAE, recently in Santa Barbara, California, where their father is rector of All Saints' Church.
1937 Aaron W. Cornwall, Jr., is now man- ager of the photographic department of Bocock-Stroud Company, Winston-Sa- lem, North Carolina. He has done commercial photography since 1950.
1938 Dr. William Finley Wright, ATO, is president of Wright Instruments, Inc., Vestal, New York. New home address: 601 Winston Drive, Vestal.
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1939
Alexander Guerry, Jr., SAE, in De- cember was named president of the Chattanooga Medicine Company, with which he has been associated since 1945. He was also recently elected a director of Chattanooga's American Na- tional Bank & Trust Company.
Born: Eric Wood, son of the Rev.
Russell W. Turner, PDT, on December
9, 1958, in Donora, Pennsylvania, where
his father is rector of St. John's Church.
1942
William C. Coleman, SAE, was re- cently named senior officer in charge of the Charleston offices of the South Carolina National Bank. He has had more than eleven years of banking ex- perience.
Louis R. Lawson, Jr., DTD, of Charleston, South Carolina, has been named Richmond regional manager of the Hinde & Dauch Division of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and will assume his duties April 1. His re-
CoL Lawrence M. Watson, '43, promoted to his present rank last April, is assist- ant chief of staff, J-3 Division, assigned to Headquarters, Joint Task Force Sev- en, Arlington Hall Station, Arlington, Virginia. A West Point graduate, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps in June 1943. During World War II he served in the European Theater with the 370th Fighter Group, Ninth Air Force, and received the Purple Heart and the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with eight Oak Leaf Clusters for his leadership and brilliant tactics dur- ing sixty aerial combat missions. From 1948-52 he was at headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe, Weisbaden, Germany, and became chief of organi- zation and plans officer. Later he was executive officer, Flying Training Di- vision, Headquarters U. S. Air Force, a staff officer in the Air Force Academy planning operations, deputy group com- mander of the 3626th Combat Crew Training Wing, Tyndall AFB, Florida, and was graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, before assuming duties in Arlington.
gion will cover the Richmond, Balti- more and Gastonia, North Carolina, box factories and sales territories. 1943
Capt. W. Armistead Boardman, ATO, recently became the first Episcopal chaplain to serve in Spain and is lo- cated in the Madrid area. During De- cember he and his family were at their home, "Xanadu," at Sewanee. New ad- dress: 3970th Air Ease Group, APO 283, New York, N. Y.
James Gregg, Jr., 39, PGD, sports his- tory enthusiast and sports writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, died No- vember 23', 1958, of injuries sustained when his car collided with a truck four days earlier. His attorney father, hos- pitalized by illness shortly before the accident, died the same day. Young Gregg, author of Sewanee's Sports His- tory of 1949, was known by newspaper- men as "a walking encyclopedia." His specialties were the Civil War and in- tercollegiate football history. His mem- ory was such that he could recall the year, month and day of insignificant games and he was an authority on long- forgotten personalities. His sports writ- ing was authoritative, witty, and often blunt. Only three days before the fa- tal accident he wrote for the Pitts- burgh paper a column about Sewanee's undefeated football season, sprinkling it with witty sports history. Before join- ing the Post-Gazette last September he worked four years in the news depart- ment of the Pittsburgh Press. During World War II he served with the Navy in the Pacific. After the war he was on sports staffs of Newark and New York papers and then from 1949-54 switched to the figurine business ("Military Miniatures") in New York. Survivors include his wife, the former Eileen Fifer, and two daughters, Jean 9, and Elizabeth, 7.
Dr. Charles H. Knickerbocker, ATO, of Bar Harbor, Maine, a physician by profession, a writer by avocation, and on the side an expert in the history of piracy and addicted to bridge, hi-fi mu- sic and electronics, has had his second novel, Juniper Island, published by Random House. The jacket describes it as "the loves, the hates, the alliances and mesalliances that develop between the native fishermen and the summer millionaires on a Maine coast island." 1944
The Rev. Charles J. Child, Jr., last fall returned from a six-week European tour highlighted by his observing the carved glass windows of his church — St. Bartholomew's in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey — b eing prepared by master craftsmen in Tilburg, Holland. Child's church will be one of the few in the United States to have carved rather than stained glass.
Married: The Rev. John D. Worrell,
KS, to Vivian Price on October 4, 1958,
in Magnolia, Mississippi. He is rector
of St. Philip's Church, Beeville, Texas.
1945
Born: Peter Ross, son of the Rev. R. Lansing Hicks on October 19, 1958, in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father is professor in Old Testament at Berkeley Divinity School.
Westfeldt A broad
On Study Grant
Wallace O. Westfeldt, Jr., '47, PDT, on February 1 left for a year's residence in Scandinavia as one of five Ameri- can newsmen to receive a $5,000 grant from the Reid Foundation Fellowship committee for study abroad. With him went Mrs. Westfeldt and thsir four- month-old daughter, Erica. The awards now in their eleventh year, were made possible by the late Ogden Reid, editor of the New York Herald Tribune.
Westfeldt, who plans to headquarter in Stockholm, will study the strategic importance of small nations in the cur- rent international situation. "The inter- esting thing to me," he states, " is that these nations are weak militarily, but exert a strong influence on world af- fairs through moral sanctions. Their influence is felt particularly before world crises, when both the United States and Russia compete for the ap- proval of their actions by the small neutral nations. If you look at the map of Europe, you see that their good will is important to us from a military point of view, too, because if Communism came into Scandinavia, it would out- flank the line of the NATO nations."
Since April 1953 Westfeldt has been a member of the Nashville Tennessean staff and he has also been a corres- pondent for the Southern Education Reporting Service. He collaborated with other members of this organization in writing the book With All Deliberate Speed, published in 1957 and giving a factual analysis of developments in the segregation-desegregation story in the South since May 1954. He has also worked with Time Magazine in its New York, Dallas, and Atlanta offices.
Dr. W. Albert Sullivan, SAE, is head of continuation medical education at the University of Minnesota, where he is also assistant professor of surgery. 1947
Born: Betty, daughter of Roy H. Brock, Jr., in November 1958 in Win- chester, Tennessee, where her father is manager of the Franklin County Coun- try Club.
Roy F. Francis, DTD, is teaching mathematics in the Donelson (Tennes- see) High School.
1949
George C. Connor this month joined the University of Chattanooga faculty as assistant professor of English. He formerly had been executive director of Chattanooga's Adult Education Council since its establishment in 1952, the only surviving independent council among thirteen units throughout the nation begun through the Fund for Adult Education's "Test Cities Project." He has authored a six-year history of the Chattanooga unit.
John P. Guerry, SAE, is now with the commercial banking department of Chattanooga's American National Bank & Trust Company. He will serve as a vice-president and administer the bank's overall program of business de- velopment.
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Born: Nana Blackburn, daughter of Dr. Edward McCrady Peebles, on Au- gust 28, 1958, in New Orleans, where her father teaches in the department of anatomy at Tulane University.
Born: Thomas Allen, son of Myles L. Vollmer, KS, on July 10, 1958, in Lewisburg, Tennessee. The baby is named for Thomas Allen Morder, '49, KS. His father is sales engineer for Dearborn Chemical Company, Chicago. Home address: Route 3, Lewisburg, Tenn.
1950 The Rev. Elmer M. Boykin, KA, in November became rector of St. John's Church, Johnson City, Tennessee. He was formerly assistant rector of St. George's Church, Nashville. Address: F. O. Box 300, Johnson City.
Harry L. Hughey has been appointed business manager of the Pensacola Dons baseball team.
J. Addison Ingle, Jr., ATO, of Charleston will be running for his first political office in the June Democratic primary when he seeks election to the City Council as Ward I alderman. Since 1950 he has been a partner in the gen- eral insurance firm of Middleton Ingle & Company.
Born: Anson Adams, III, son of An- son A. Mount, director of Playboy Magazine's college bureau, in late Jan- uary in Chicago.
1951 The Rev. James B. Bell, Jr., PDT, is serving St. James' Church, Taos, and St. Stephen's Church, Espanola, New- Mexico. Last June he received his B.D. degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he was president of the student body.
The Rev. Jack W. Cole in January became rector of the Church of St. Matthias in Nashville.
The Rev. James C. Fenhagen, SN, is now rector of the new St. Michael and All Angels' Church in the fast-growing North Trenholm suburb of Columbia, South Carolina.
Born: Mary Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of the Rev. Alexander Frasek, on November 16, 1958, in Crowley, Louisiana, where her father is rector of Trinity Church and also of St. Luke's Church, Jennings.
Born: Anne Elisabeth, daughter of the Rev. R. Alan McMillan on October 22, 1958, in Knoxville, Tennessee, where her father is chaplain to Episcopal stu- dents at the University of Tennessee.
Francis M. "Cotton" Richardson re- cently became physical director of the YMCA at Greenwood, South Carolina, not far from his family home in Green- ville, and where he was boys' work secretary in 1950-51. Most recently he was physical director of the YMCA in Gloversville, New York.
Philip H. Smith, who was graduated from the University of Alabama law school last May, has entered into a law partnership with his uncle, recently re- tired Alabama Probate Judge D. Hardy Riddle, in Talladega, Alabama.
The Rev. J. Willard Yoder, GST, in September became associate professor of psychology and education at Pater- son (New Jersey) State College, and in
James Robert Carden, '48, PDT, has joined the advertising sales staff of Sports Illustrated Magazine. The past few years he worked in advertising sales with Progressive Farmer. He re- sides at 39 Plymouth Road, Port Wash- ington, New York.
December added the rectorship of Pat- erson's St. Luke's Church to his duties. He was formerly at St. John's Church, Montclair. Address: 420 Knickerbocker Avenue, Paterson 3.
1952
E. Clayton Braddock, Jr., SAE, is in charge of the new full-time news bu- reau the Huntsville (Alabama) Times has set up in Guntersville to provide daily local news coverage for Times readers in the Marshall County area.
Born: Philip Myles, son of the Rev. Edmond L. Browning, PGD. on Septem- ber 7, 1958, in Eagle Pass. Texas, where his father is rector of the Church of the Redeemer.
Dr. J. Howard McClain has opened an office for the practice of general dentistry at 3097 Barron Avenue, Mem- phis, Tennessee.
Robert G. Mullen, SN, wife Aline, and London-born youngsters Alice and Robin are back in Florence, Alabama, after Bob's Navy service abroad. Bob and Aline are both studying at Florence State College, with Bob brushing up on French (and German on his own at home), geography and history, and Aline on. sewing so she can put to- gether suits, coats and jackets with the woolens they bought during a snow- bound vacation in Dublin, Ireland. Bob hopes for a career with the State De- partment.
Born: Johnson Bransford, Jr., son of Johnson Bransford Wallace, PDT, on December 8, 1958, in Nashville. 1953
Married: Charles T. Allen, PDT, to Juanita Prince of Pulaski, Tennessee, and Nashville on October 10, 1958. She attended Middle Tennessee State Col- lege. He is a salesman with the Steel City Lumber Company of Birmingham.
The Rev. Thomas A. Roberts, rector
of Christ Church, Greenville, South Carolina, recently has been at the Col- lege of Preachers, Washington, D. C, as one of three Episcopal clergymen in the United States awarded fellowships to the college. While there he did re- search work for a thesis and also par- ticipated in the installation service of the new presiding bishop. He returned to his parish duties February 10.
Charles M. Sample, PGD, is now of- fice manager of the Oak Ridge, Tennes- see, office of the Southern Bell Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, with which he has been affiliated for three years. He and Mrs. Sample, the former Peggy McBride of Murfreesboro, have an eight-month-old daughter, Jane.
Married: Dr. John Sloan Warner, BTP, to Margaret Overton Smith on December 27, 1958, in Nashville. They are living in Minneapolis, where he is a fellow in the post-graduate school of medicine at the University of Minne- sota. She attended Sweet Briar Col- lege and was graduated from Vander- bilt University.
1954
R. Thad Andress, SN, is working with his father in the latter's automobile dealership in Minden, Louisiana. He received his master in business admin- istration degree from Harvard Univer- sity last June.
Drury S. Caine, III, KA, is working toward a doctorate in chemistry at Em- ory University, where he has a fel- lowship and an assistantship. Address: 1579 Emory Road, N.E, Atlanta 6.
The Rev. Paul David Edwards, PGD, is an Army chaplain stationed at the U. S. Army Garrison, Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Born: Margaret Ellen, daughter of the Rev. Roye M. Frye, on October 21, 1958, in West Palm Beach, Florida, where her father is director of Chris- tian education at the Church of the Holy Trinity. Address: 218 Trinity Place.
Born: George Ellsworth, son of the Rev. George E. Hall on July 14, 1958, in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, where his father is rector of St. James' Church.
Born: Mary Frances, daughter of the Rev. Ralph Patston, DTD, on January 6 in Waukegan, Illinois, where her father is curate of Christ Church.
William D. Tynes, IV, PDT, on Janu- ary 16 was crowned emperor of Bir- mingham's 1959 Festival of Arts and king of the Beaux Arts Ball. After three years as an Air Force navigator, Tynes returned to Birmingham last year to enter the family business, Tynes Brothers, a steel products concern. His Air Force career inspired his now fa- vorite pastime — flying — and he has put in 500 hours of it during the two years he has had his own Cessna four-seater, used for both business and pleasure.
1955
Dr. Sam Jones Albritton, Jr., ,PGD, who received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Tennessee in Decem- ber, is practicing dentistry in McMinn- ville, Tennessee, "until the Air Force calls me."
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Born: David, son of Francis B. Avery, Jr., ATO, on November 16, 1958, in Tunstall, Virginia, where his father is with the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company of Virginia. Others in the family are Laura, 6, and Frank, III, 4%. Father has received his M.S. de- gree in business administration from the University of Richmond.
The Rev. Malme Clarke Baker, KA, is vicar of St. James' Church, Union City, Tennessee.
Married: John Ward Boult, ATO, to Jimmy Lou Foster of Scottsboro, Ala- bama, on July 5, 1958. Both were graduated from the Vanderbilt Univer- sity School of Law last June. In De- cember he received his lieutenant ju- nior grade commission at the Officers Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Is- land, where he is now attending Justice School.
Frank C. Bozeman, PDT, currently studying law on a tuition scholarship at Washington and Lee University, is also this semester teaching a history course in the college.
Ben B. Cabell, KS, is a senior medi- cal student at Tulane University. He comments: "Hope to intern at Flor- ence, South Carolina, and include Se- wanee in my itinerary on the way over in June." Address: 5018 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans 15.
Herbert T. D'Alemberte, ATO, study- ing this year at the London School of Economics and Political Science on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship (awarded to 113 outstanding graduate students from thirty countries), re- cently wrote: "It compares very fav- orably with any of the other fellow- ship programs, and I am proud of the other fellows I have met. Rotary is doing a good job of selection, I think, for the people that I have met from several countries are uniform in one way at least — their capacity for un- derstanding a foreign country and their ability to get along with others. One of the finest things about the program is the opportunity to visit English Rotary Clubs. My liaison officer estimates that I should speak to over thirty clubs dur- ing my stay in England." Address: c/o Columbia Club, 95 Lancaster Gate, London, England.
Army Capt. Francis M. Fesmire, ATO, is a pathologist with the Third Army Medical Laboratory, Fort McPherson, Georgia, and is receiving credit toward membership requirements in the American Board of Pathology. Daugh- ter Carolyn Lee is now four months old.
Charles S. Glass, KA, will remain in the Air Force for the rest of 1959 and then plans to work for General Electric.
Robert P. Glaze, PDT, is studying as a graduate fellow in biochemistry at the Strong Memorial Hospital, Ro- chester, New York.
Lt. Edward T. Hall, Jr., is an Air Force physiological training officer at McCoy Air Force Base, Florida.
Married: Dr. William C. Kalmbach, Jr., KA, to Sara Joyce Berwald on February 7 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
J. Payton Lamb, ATO, is now pro-
duction supervisor with the Lamb Printing Company, Beaumont, Texas, after serving as a basic pilot instructor in the Air Force.
The Rev. Carl E. Nelson since Octo- ber 1 has been rector of the Church of the Incarnation, East Orange, New Jersey.
Born: Jared Norris, son of J. Walter Parker, SAE, on January 10 in Waco, Texas, where his father is store man- ager of Eastland Toyhouse. His sister, Janice E., is 14 months old. Address- 2301 Richter Street, Waco.
Claiborne W. Patty, Jr., BTP, is studying law at the University of Ar- kansas. Address: 1721 Gaines Street, Little Rock.
Dr. A. Thomas Richards began in- terning at Chattanooga's Erlanger Hos- pital February 1.
Married: The Rev. Richard N. Walk- ley to Patricia Dysart on January 16 in Fayetteville, Tennessee, where he is rector of St. Mary Magdalene Church.
Robert R. Webb, KA, is vice-presi- dent of Webb Transfer Line, Inc., and of the W. P. B. Oil Company in Shel- byville, Kentucky.
1956
Dick Dowling Briggs, Jr., ATO, is a junior in the School of Medicine of George Washington University, where he is a member of Phi Beta medical fraternity.
Burrell O. McGee, SAE, is stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Missis- sippi in August.
Paul Morris, Jr., PDT, recently re- leased from the service, has a position with the Provident Life Insurance Company in Chattanooga.
William M. Phillips, PDT, finished his degree at Vanderbilt as a Navy ROTC student and is now a lieutenant (jg) at Los Alamites Naval Air Station, Long Beach, California, where he is assistant fiscal officer.
A. Brooks Parker, Jr., '57, KS, in Janu- ary became public relations 7nanager for the Clarksville, Tennessee, district of Southern Bell Telephone and Tele- graph Company. He had been assigned to the Nashville district commercial de- partment the past year.
1957
W. Robert Campbell, ATO, since leaving Sewanee in 1955, received his B.B.A. degree from Emory University in 1957 and is now working on his master's degree at Georgia Tech. He is also employed at Buick-Olds-Pontiac Assembly Division of General Motors in Atlanta. In June 1956 he married Virginia de Normandie of Decatur, Georgia, and they now have a son, Charles Mark, born April 28, 1958.
Ens. George L. Chapel in December completed Officers Candidate School training at the U. S. Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island, and is now on temporary duty in Jacksonville.
The Rev. Robert E. Lenhard was in- stituted as the first rector of the new St. David's-by-the-Sea Parish, Cocoi Beach, Florida, on September 21.
P. Eugene Smith, PGD, received his Air Force navigator wings November 5 and is on temporary duty at Ran- dolph Field in Texas in KC-97 crew training, Strategic Air Command, Aerial Refueling. In March he will go to Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kansas, for per- manent assignment.
1958
The Rev. Lorraine Bosch was or- dained to the priesthood December 14 by Bishop Claiborne of Atlanta at Trin- ity Church, Columbus, Georgia.
The Rev. Sidney G. Ellis was or- dained priest by Bishop Gray of Missis- sippi on December 14 at St. Paul's Church, Corinth, Mississippi, where he is rector. After the ordination a new parish house was dedicated.
L. Franklin Sharp, Jr., BTP, com- pleted his M.A. requirements in De- cember and entered Naval OCS on January 3. Home address: 619 West "G" Street, Elizabethton, Tennessee.
The Rev. Johannes G. J. van Moort was ordained priest in December in Rochester, New York. He is priest-in- charge of St. Paul's Church, Angelica, and St. Andrew's Mission, Friendship, New York.
1959
Married: Allan Douglas Shackel- ford, PGD, to Peggy Ann Oswalt on December 23, 1953, in Carrollton, Mississippi. He is now a senior at the University of Mississippi.
Married: Woolsey Allen Morrow. KA, to Dolores Elizabeth Mantia on December 28, 1958, at St. Simons Is- land, Georgia. Morrow was graduated from Sewanee Military Academy in 1955 and is now a senior in the College 1962
Charles Elmo Watson, 23, of near Huntland, Tennessee, freshman trans- fer student from Flint (Michigan) Ju- nior College, died January 16 at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Nashville of injuries sustained in an automobile accident the day before. Watson and his younger sister were driving to Sewanee to visit their mother, Mrs. John R. Watson, a patient at Emerald-Hodgson Hospital, when on Highway 64 between Cowan and Win- chester Watson apparently lost control of his car and crashed headon into a tree. The sister was critically injured but is improving.
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Contract for the carved chairs in the chancel of All Saints' Chapel has gone to Charles James Shell, Jr., '51, whose firm, Wolfe Brothers Company, Piney Flats, Tennessee, specializes in church pews and other carved wood furnish- ings. The firm is manufacturing the Sewanee order at cost as a gift to thz University. Shell and a craftsman here study the diocesa7i designs which will mark the twenty-one bishops' chairs in the sanctuary. Each chair will ulti- mately be marked in memory of some bishop connected with Sewanee's his- tory.
People
Mrs. Albion Williamson Knight, wid- ow of Sewanee's seventh vice-chancel- lor (1914-1922), died January 25 in Jacksonville, Florida. Her husband af- ter leaving the University was bishop coadjutor of New Jersey from 1923 un- til his death in 1935. Mrs. Knight was the former Mrs. Miriam Powell Yates. Survivors include her son, H. Powell Yates, '25, of Baby.on, New York, and a grandson, William S. Yates, now a
freshman in the College.
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Dr. P. M. Dawley, author and pro- fessor of ecclesiastical history and sub- dean of General Theological Seminary, New York City, is spending the spring semester at Sewanee during his sab- batical leave. The Dawleys are resid- ing in the home of Dr. Joseph A. Bry- ant, Jr., associate professor of English, now writing in Patzcuaro, Mexico, on a Sewanee Review grant.
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Jack R. Moore, '58, new alumni sec- retary for Sewanee Military Academy, was elected to the committee on mem- bership of the American Alumni Coun- cil District Three at its January meet- ing in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Reverberations from Sewanee's un- defeated football season, the first since 1899, were heard around the world. Richard E. Gathings, '49, with the United Geophysical Company, S.A., in Tripoli. Libya, North Africa, read about it "in the Rome paper."
1958 Sewanee "Classwork
Officers Use
Originality,
Perseverence
This story, in case you fail to read between the lines, is not about money, although "contributors" and "$1,000 winners" persistently crop up. Its source is full of statistics — plain num- bers, fancy percents, charts — but that still isn't the heart of the story, for the cold statistics come from warmth. Th>i story is really about people — people called alumni in a "class society," for whom Sewanee is Alma Mater, and who last year, however overused the term has become, practiced "together- ness."
The end of 1953 and the beginning of Sewanee's second century found class officers taking their jobs more seriously than ever before and doing their "classwork" well.
It might be said the class officers were "worth their weight in gold" be- cause of the challenge put to them by an anonymous benefactor willing to give $1,000 for each class that had half or more of its living members sending a gift of any size to Sewanee in 1958. Twenty-two classes out of the sixty- four were thousand-dollar winners (see back cover)! And many classes that didn't make the grade did show marked improvement in their gift rec- ords. The grand total of alumni con- tributors— the highest ever — was 1,830, an increase of 816 over 1957!
Only seven classes failed to improve on their 1957 contributors' record, and twenty-three classes, twelve of them among the high scorers, doubled, trip- led, and more in pulling in 1958 donors over the 1957 count.
The record picture is good almost any way you look at it. Taken in groups each decade of classes had more than 25% of its potential living alumni con- tributing. The old timers from 1894- 1899 had 59.4% of its collective 69 alum- ni giving. The 1900-1909 group had 47.9% out of 349; 1910-1919 had 39.7% out of 330; 1920-1929 had 41.6% out of 826 (an increase of 224 contributors over 1957); 1930-1939 had 40.27c out of
879 (an increase of 184 over 1957); 1940-1949 had 27.8% out of 1,020; and 1950-1958 had 26.3% out of 1,860 (an increase of 192 over 1957).
Many class officers took the time to write each class member personally, or, on the bottom of printed or mimeo- graphed letters, penned personal notes. Among these were 1906 president Col. William G. deRosset, 1912 leader E. L. Scruggs, and Col. Henry T. Bull, '01, | who took over the leadership of the class of 1900 this year as well and sent handwritten letters to all members.
On postcards 1918 president Malcolm Fooshee said, "The amount is not im- portant— You Are!", and the Rev. John N. Atkins, '02, in an "Extra!" declared, "NOW IS THE TIME for all good men to come to the aid of ALMA MATER. NOW IS THE TIME to show SEWA- NEE SPIRIT."
The Rev. William S. Stoney, '20, sent Christmas cards handmade with post- card pictures of the completed All- Saints' Chapel. Coleman Harwell, '26, set up a special class committee (Hodge Alves, Hollis Fitch, Dan Hamilton, P. P. Hebert, Michaux Nash) which helped; write letters. Ralph Speer, secretary of> 1927, sent out over sixty night letters' urging contributions before the Decem- ber 31 deadline. The '29ers heard from j all three of their officers — President William C. Schoolfield, Secretary Stan- yarne Burrows, and a long newsy letter from Editor Frederick F. Freyer. Also! helping was William Cravens.
Joe Earnest, '28, to each member senti names and addresses of five others fon the recipient to write. "In this way," Earnest figured, "each member of the class will get a number of cards urging him to make his contribution. He might; disregard my letter, but when he gets reminders from five other members ofi! his class, then he may do something; about it." 1928 didn't make 50%, but;1 it more than tripled the number of its* 1957 contributors.
R. Morey Hart, '3'4, sent marked class lists to appointed helpers asking them to call class members in their areas, and he himself sent letters to most of the class. J. F. Cravens, class secre- tary, sent personal (each one different)
John D. "Red" Bridgers, Sewanee's football line and track coach from 1947- 53, with an interruption for military service, and most recently defensive line coach of the National professional Champion Baltimore Colts, has been named head football coach and athletic director at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. He left Sewanee to coach at Johns Hopkins University.
Two Sewanee ladies have been listed: in the new edition of Who's Who Among American Women. They are Mrs. Sarah Hodgson Torian, University archivist and wife of Dr. Oscar N. Tor- ian, '96, and Mrs. Joan Payne Dicks, author and illustrator of children's books and wife of physics professor Dr. John B. Dicks, '48.
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»nk-yous to each contributor. G. wdoin Craighill, Jr., '36, added on ; card: "As a minor additional in- ltive, I am giving Sewanee $1.00 for ;ry classmate who joins this effort." 7. Hutcheson Sullivan, '44, began op- itions early in November and wrote rsonal and mimeographed letters urg- 5 gifts toward an annual class schol- ;hip — "If thirty members would give > each year, this would give as ough for a full scholarship." tVith his letter and revised class list, Uiam Nelson, '45, added a request it each class member write the man low him on the list reminding him meet the December 31 deadline. \mong the big classes — those since Drld War II that have swelled to al- >st and sometimes over 200 — con- rted efforts brought definite results en though there were no $1,000 win- rs. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, '53, while idying at Johns Hopkins, found time write personal postcards, sent out a ter in October with a fill-in news -m enclosed, then went through the turned forms and compiled a witty ir-page newsletter. Helping him .>re the Rev. Duncan M. Gray with 3 '53 seminary group, and the Rev. hn C. Fletcher, class secretary, rhe Rev. Allen Bartlett, president of 51, and George B. Elliott, secretary, imed up after their class, sending out total of five class letters. For the ass of 1952, Secretary B. Ivey Jackson rried the ball with a series of color- . cartoon-illustrated letters. Secre- •y Frank C. Bozeman did the ball- crying for the Class of 1955. 1954 ssident John W. Woods sent out a inted postcard in November and will following it with a letter giving ws gleaned from the replies. For 50, Richard B. Doss sent a newsletter out Sewanee, enclosed a class list, d asked, "Why not call your neigh- ring classmates and remind them that i percentage is the thing?" rhese are just some of the hard- irking officers.
rhe year 1959 has a fine record to itch and break, but with "classwork" adily improving, it gives promise of better-than-passing grade.
\bbott C. Martin, associate professor English, found his Sewanee Found- s' Day address (see November 1958 wanee News) liberally quoted on the itorial page of the Ring-Turn Phi, ident newspaper at Washington and e University. The editor comment- : "We believe his conception of the pirations of Sewanee might well be plied to W&L."
1958 Alumni Gifts to Sewanee Arranged by Glasses
NO. LIVING CONTRIBUTORS
CLASS PRESIDENT ON CLASS LISTS 1957 1958
Early Classes 9 8 7
*1894 Soaper 5 5 4
*1895 Weed 14 7 11
*1896-97 Blacklock 15 12 8
*1898 Shields 17 2 9
*1899 Jemison 18 8 9
*1900 Bull 28 10 26
*1901 Bull 26 8 25
*1902 Atkins 18 7 15
1903 Smith 39 13 11
1904 Lewis 45 8 10
1905 Pugh 34 6 11
1906 deRosset _ 29 2 13
*1907 Watkins 51 24 28
1908 J Greer 36 6 10
*1909 Ellis 33 15 18
*1910 Cheape 24 7 13
1911 Juhan 41 10 8
1912 Scruggs 34 9 14
*1913 Armes (deceased) 16 7 10
*1914 Gerhart 19 9 12
1915 Hamilton 24 8 11
1916 Ossman 48 10 14
1917 Morris 43 10 13
*1918 Fooshee 47 11 27
1919 Chisolm 34 6 9
*1920 Stoney 62 12 33
*1921 Burch _. 59 15 33
1922 Witherspoon 66 8 9
1923 Rather 87 18 29
1924 Short _ 73 8 11
1925 Jones 72 6 9
*1926 Harwell 95 12 69
1927 Turner 74 12 35
1928 Earnest 104 12 38
*1929 Schoolfield 134 17 78
1930 Parker 84 21 26
*1931 Ezzell 116 20 61
1932 Patton 113 17 36
1933' Ames 87 15 21
*1934 Hart 81 16 54
1935 Ruch 82 19 35
1936 Craighill ._ 77 14 32
1937 Graydon _. 75 20 27
1938 Wilkerson 86 10 29
1939 A Guerry _. 78 17 32
1940 Snowden 79 17 15
1941 DeWolfe 82 16 20
1942 Sutherland 104 23 27
1943 F Greer 120 28 34
*1944 Sullivan 96 8 49
1945 Nelson 88 10 21
1946 Karsten 71 8 13
*1947 Cate 96 31 48
1948 Hughes 83 17 23
1949 J Guerry 201 32 34
1950 Doss 236 30 64
1951 Bartlett 213 18 59
1952 Patterson 170 47 64
1953 Wyatt-Brown 184 15 59
1954 Woods .243 36 32
1955 Doswell 177 25 54
1956 McGee 246 40 36
1957 Palmer 206 86 42
1958 Evans 185 79
Later Classes 10 14
5,342 1,014 1,830
Honorary 110 37 30
5,452 1,051 1,860 ♦Classes that won $1,000.
PERCENTAGE
1958
80% 787o 53% 53%
50% 92% 96%. 83% 28% 22% 32% 33% 54% 27% 54% 54% 19% 41% 62% 63% 45% 29% 30% 57% 27% 53% 54% 14% 33% 15% 12% 73% 47% 36% 58% 30% 52% 31% 24% 66% 42% 41% 36% 33% 41% 18% 23% 25% 28% 51% 23% 18% 50% 28% 16% 277r 28% 37% 327o 13% 31% 15% 20% 43%
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1,830 Alumni Gifts— Record High
* Deceased
EARLY CLASSES
*H A Jones '80 *J A Lanier '84 *A R Mitchell '85 *T D Bratton '87 *W D Cleveland '93 *A S Cleveland '93 *T C Moore
1894
80% R W B Elliott H T Soaper J C Watson *W E York
1895
78% *J Beean A J Bird *C Bruning S Burford Jr *A Crownover S K Johnson *N Joyner R M Kirby-Smith L Peters *J J Potts C B K Weed
1896-97
53% A G Blacklock *S Guignard *R W Hogue *R Maxey *T P Noe R J Pickett O N Torian W Weston
1898
537c J B Adoue R S Barrett *J B Cummins *W E Dakin *T Hodgson *M G Johnston B B Shields *P L Stacker A S Thomas
1899
50% H W Benjamin *C Galleher
B St J Green
*W M Green
R Jemison Jr
C S Partridge
H G Seibels
H Thomas
W P Witsell 1900 92%
*T E Ashley
S M Bird
*E H Blount
*J A Bull
J Z Cleveland
R P Daniel
C Dewey
J McW Ford
*R S Glasgow
J G deR Hamilton
J M Harrison
*B B Hogue
*H Jervey
O H Johnson C S Maxwell C McBee
*L Memminger W E Middleton *R Nesbitt Jr V Parr D A Shepherd J A Walkup C N Watts J E Wilkinson *T B Yancey *J U R Young 1901 96% A H Abernathy *J C Avery R P Black *P S Brooks Jr *W B Bruce H T Bull G H Caffey *W S Claiborne *M P DuBose *G P Egleston *G H Harrison *C W B Hill J H Jernigan *J W Jones C N Keatts *R F Kilpa trick
Glasses Leading in No. of Gifts
1958 Evans 79
1929 Schoolfield 78
1926 Harwell -69
1950 Doss 64
1952 Patterson 64
1931 Ezzell 61
1951 Bartlett 59
1953 Wyatt-Brown ...59
1955 Doswell 54
1924 Hart ..-54
1944 Sullivan 49
1947 Cate 48
Over one-third of the total number of alumni donors came from these twelve classes.
C D Lindley *J T Mann W J Maxwell H J Savage A R Scott J T Williams Jr *L G H Williams *L M Williams *W B Wilson Jr 1902 83% J N Atkins *P Beale A A Carrier * W E Cox H F Crandell *K G Finlay *J C Goodman *C P Johnson Jr W Mitchell *R F Shelton *H Stringfellow J C Thomas *V S Tupper *H Werlein *G J Winthrop 1903 28% R W Barnwell Jr *R E Co wart
G B Craighill
J B Daggett
W P Ezzard
R L Lodge
C Phinizy
H E Smith
J B Snowden
F L Wells
*W D Yancey 1904 22%
G F Floyd
J G Gaither
R E Key
R D Knight
W W Lewis
W W Serrill
G B Shelby
J R Sheldon
J L Suter
C E Wheat
1905 32%
*R Colmore
T E Dabney
*W G Eggleston
W N Gilliam
E S Harper
H L Hoover
J M Hull Jr
L S Munger
W S Poyner
P A Pugh
*H Wyatt-Brown 1906 33%
S H Boren
R E Bostrom
E W Daly
W G deRosset
*B M DuBose
*J F Finlay
F R Lummis
J W Parrish
J K Phares
*J L Sykes
D G Walker
C B Welch
R E Wheless 1907 54%
B W Barnwell
L P Brooks
J R Brown
W G Clark
J L Cobbs Jr
E P Coppedge
D R Dunham
F P Fuller
*H M Gass
M V Hargrove
*A H Hoff
L E Hubard
T Knight
M B Lanier
*D L Lynch
A M Michael
G B Myers
G E Porter
E Powell
*C McD Puckette J W Scarbrough J J Shaffer S M Sharpe H B Sparkman H W Ticknor G L Watkins D G Wettlin M S Whaley 1908 27% J B Greer B F Huske S Jemison *A Lear *J F McCloud R B Mitchell PRE Sheppard A H Wadsworth L K Williams K R Winslow 1909 54% *A B Claypool T A Cox Jr *B A Cross C J Ellis Jr *B H Frayser *C Gray *E P Guenard *R C Herndon F C Hillyer *J H Ilsley *K Lewis *M W Lockhardt K M Lyne N Middleton *J W E Moore *L C Palmer *J O Spearing *S W Williams 1910 54% G W Baltzell F P Cheape *T M Evans G M Feild *A Guerry
C A Landrum
B D Lebo
E A Marshall
C S Moss
P N Pittenger
W B Sharp
*J J Taylor
H J Whitfield 1911 19%
B F Cameron
F M Gillespie
*W A Jonnard
F A Juhan
'J T MacKenzie
B M Miller
T P Stoney
*J A Thorn
1912 41%
J H Baskette
J E Beattie
P G Bell
A C Gillem
V S Gray
F N Green A H Nolle P J Sawrie E L Scruggs R N Staggers W L Staggers J R Swain E P Vreeland *P B Whitaker 1913 62% *E C Armes S P Farish *E Finlay F V Hoag J R McClung G L Morelock J E Puckette N H Wheless A R Williams G W B Witten 1914 63% H D Bull G Cheshire B W Cobbs *D G Cravens J Gass W P Gerhart D B Griffin C U Moore *M H Noll H N Taliaferro *R N Ward *J S Williams 1915 45% E M Bearden P C Dinkins J J Gillespie W B Hamilton C H Horner E A Miner W M Reynolds' COW Sparkman *L B Swiggett R L Tolley F L Wren
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1916
29%
W O Baldwin
D T Beatty
P D Bowden
C C Chaffee
*H C Cortes
G B Coykendall
J N Dalton
W B Hinman
E L Jones
A G Murphey
G Ossman
J W Russey
B R Sleeper
H N Tragitt 1917 30%
H C Bethea
W R Brewster
M K Bruce
L C Chapman
R D Farish
E S Holmen
D Leatherbury
G E Mclver
F M Morris
J R Murphy
T D Roberts
J M Scott
H C Woodall 1918 57%
J C Bennett
T O Buchel
H E Clark
R L Crudgington
J S deGraffenried
M Fooshee
AWL Forsyth
C L Gamsby
L B Harr
E B Harris
G V Harris
G L Inge
M E Johnson
W G Leftwich
D Murphy
N E Paton
H W Pearce
J Y Perry
F B Pyle
R R Roseborough
*V R Stover
*I C Swanman
N Trammell
J R Walker
P F Williams
E A Wortham
J A Woods
1919 27%
J M Avent
F Byerley
O B Chisolm L S Estes L B Howard J E McGehee J K Moore L B Paine E M Pooley
1920 53% H E Bettle L L Carruthers J C Carter J Chipman W H Cooper J G Dearborn J E Deupree H K Douglass J W Ellis W D Gale W C Greet J B Herring J R Hickerson D E Holt J W Howerton Q Joyner W C Kalmbach *W R Knoefel *C K Lewis C V Lyman D B Lyman D L Madiera *R C Matson *C L Minor J E Nash *C R Parkerson H J Quincey L C Rountree B B Sory W S Stoney J W M Thomas *J Whitmore C L Widney 1921 54% W C Atkinson E A Bancker G K Bradford F D Brown J C B Burch R S Carney T N Carruthers R A Clark R W Covington A J Dossett W B Dossett D StP DuBose S A Gates M Guerry W R Hagan J B Harbison T E Hargrave S W Heath J R Helms L P Hoge
Glasses Leading in Percentage
1901 Bull 96%
1900 Bull 92%
1902 Atkins 83%
1894 Soaper 80%
1895 Weed 78%
1926 HarweU 73%
1934 Hart 66%
1914 Gerhart 63%
1913 Armes* 62%
1929 Schoolfield 58%
1918 Fooshee 57%
I H Hollingsworth W M Hughes L W Koch Z R Lawhon C C Satteriee *C K Schwing S P Schwing C E Traweek W W Vaughan H Wallace H H B Whaley G C Woods C M Woolfolk
1922
14% A A Bonholzer J R Cravens W B Cunningham P G Davidson C F Hard R H Helvenston W I McCarty R Phillips J A Witherspoon
1923
33%
W M Brown
W T Cobbs
L H Collins
J B Frierson
E B Guerry
R E Harwell
J F Hunt
H F Johnstone
E A Keeble
T G Linthicum
S C Litton
J B Matthews
C R Milem
J A Milem
R H Mitchell
B A Moore
M A Moore
R G Murray
W B Nauts
W L Nichol
F H Parke
J W Ramsey
G S Rather
E B Schwing
P L Sloan
T D Snowden
M E Turner
F B Wakefield
C C Wilkes
1924 15%
S G Bailey
G Benton
E M Claytor
H W Fraser
*E B Freyer
F C Jones
R J Kendall
T S Long
K Short
W J Wallace
W Yandell
1925
12% P P Claytor W J Hamilton R Jones L C Minor D P Murray E W Poindexter E B Tucker J E Woodley H P Yates
Twenty-three Classes That Doubled
And More the Number of 1958
Contributors Over 1957
|
1958 |
INCREASE |
||
|
CLASS |
PRESIDENT |
CONTRIBUTORS |
OVER 1957 |
|
*1898 |
Shields |
9 |
7 more |
|
*1900 |
Bull |
26 |
16 more |
|
*1901 |
Bull |
25 |
17 more |
|
*1902 |
Atkins |
15 |
8 more |
|
1906 |
de Rosset |
13 |
11 more |
|
*1918 |
Fooshee |
27 |
16 more |
|
*1920 |
Stoney |
33 |
21 more |
|
*1921 |
Burch |
33 |
18 more |
|
*1926 |
Harwell |
69 |
57 more |
|
1927 |
Turner |
35 |
23 more |
|
1928 |
Earnest |
38 |
26 more |
|
*1929 |
Schoolfie.d |
78 |
61 more |
|
*1931 |
Ezzell |
61 |
41 more |
|
1932 |
Patton |
36 |
19 more |
|
*1934 |
Hart |
54 |
38 more |
|
1936 |
Craighill |
32 |
18 more |
|
1938 |
Wilkerson |
29 |
19 more |
|
*1944 |
Sullivan |
49 |
41 more |
|
1945 |
Nelson |
21 |
11 more |
|
1950 |
Doss |
64 |
34 move |
|
1951 |
Bartlett |
59 |
41 more |
|
1953 |
Wyatt-Brown |
59 |
44 more |
|
1955 |
Doswell |
54 |
29 more |
*$1,000 Winners.
Note: Only seven classes failed to increase the number of 1958 contributors over the number in 1957.
1926
73% *J W Airey J H Alves G Andrews W A Barclay G H Barker T Benton A N Berry J E Bushong E D Butt N H Cobbs *H M Conner G B Dempster *M D Dickerson D S DuBose *J H Eagle R F Evans E D Evins W H Fitch P C Folse F H Garner A Gerner E C Glenn R D Gooch D H Hamilton *P G Hanahan *W R Hankins C Harwell J L Haynes P P Hebert H B Hodgkins C H House C E Hunt E C Isaac W E Jervey *W C Kent V W Knox *A Loaring-Clark *F B Lowry G R Miller J C Moores W M Nash T P Noe Jr
B V Pearman A H Pegues C M Plummer *G H Powers C B Quarles *H T Riddle H C Rush H E Sames D D Schwartz *S Y Seyburn H T Shippen W Stansell J H Stroop G W Thorogood *J T Turnbull H M Wadsworth W P Ware M C Webb J E Weed *T W Wheatley C R Willcoxon M R Williams N B Williams L A Wilson T H Wright C F Wulf W T Young 1927 47% *J G Abernathy A H Allen *0 J Aucoin *T S Beckwith *M J Bennett R I Brown F H Bunting *W W Capers *F L Cirlot R P Cooke C S Gooch D B Hardin Q T Hardtner W L Hebert G B Jones
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H T Kirby-Smith
W S Knott
W P Knox
R Leach
N Lindgren
B H Parrish
M A Payne
C B Romaine
A B Small
*F H Smith
B S Snowden
J R Sory
R J Speer
A Stansel
C E Thomas
A R Toothaker
W S Turner
T R Waring Jr
*J T Whitaker
E Woods
l^S 36%
*A C Adamz
E G Arnall
F L Bartholomew
R M Bowers
*J C Burroughs
*G L Byers
R L Collins
J L Daggett
W H Davis
*M deMartino
*L A Douglas
J Earnest
K Finlay
J K Freeman
C P Gray
P M Greenwood J W Hammond H G Heaney
C F Hickerson
*H S Hopkinson D F Howe
*E T Jackson C J Johnson H K Johnson
*L A Johnston G M Jones J T Jordan R W Pearman J B Snowden A B Spencer E Tartt J I Teague V S Tupper J C Turner G Tyler G W Wallace H O Weaver T A Young
1929 58% A T Airth M Alexander J S Autin *G W Bancroft Jr W P Barton H H Baulch R C Bean C E Berry R A Binford C M Boyd *E D Brailsford M V Brooks M C Brown J C Bruton W C Bryant F G Burroughs S Burrows C C Chattin H W Clark
J H Cleghorn D H Clement *C R Clow G W Coulter D G Cravens W M Cravens W H Daggett F P Dearing J R deOvies W B Dickens *T E Dudney *B C Eastwood *W Egleston *C H Es'dorn F R Freyer F Gilliam W O Gordon J F Griswold *S D Gwin J S Hamilton *W D Hampton K M Hartsfield R C Hauser J C Herndon J J Hone E M Johnston A Jones
*L G Kilvington *C K Marshall L W McCalley T O McDavid W C McGehee F A McNeil E N Merriman *B R Moeser *J C Morris Jr *W W Nichols F C Nixon *T Patton A Peteet *J W Piatt *W Priestley *G P Rice D H Rotroff *A E Sanderson W C Schoolfield G D Schuessler R P Shapard Jr J T Simms *P E Sloan C H Sory
E A Stewart
M Tolley
W C Twitty
J L Warren
W W Way
H P Williams
J N Williams
L J Williams 1930 30%
W J Ball
C G Brown
N K Burger
F N Burke
J P Buzard
B M Craig
W B Craig
J Cross
J S Davidson
C C Dudley
G H Edwards
C E Faulk
E R Finlay
F P Glen
T N E Greville
J E Hines
M S Hitchcock
W S Jordan
J S King Jr
T Parker
C A Poellnitz R S Ponder R L Sturgis F M Thigpen E W Watson R A Way
1931 52% H T Anderson K T Anderson C F Baarcke *H F Bache W M Ball C H Barron J O Bass J S Bean H C Boazman W T Braun *R L Brenizer J W Brettmann M B Burns C W Butler T D Bvrne *W F Chamlee J H Cobbs G H Copeland J S Counts *N Crawford A P Dearing *J M Dent W D Dossett R R Eason J M Ezzell *J E Gayden G W Goodson D C Green *H S Greene S H Hamilton A C Hannon R D Harwood W F Holmes *L Kattache C R Kellermann *W P Kelly H G Lyman *F C MacDonald *W Matthews P H Merriman E C Nash J H Quincey H C Robertson J W Rodgers J W Sayles E C Simkins C D Snowden M V Spencer G A Sterling R B Stimson T F Taylor R W Thomas H M Thompson J P Thompson M C Trichel R F Vaccaro *J B Walthour *W E Ware *H D Westmoreland L S Whitaker D W Yates
1932 31% C G Biehl R D Blair W A Blount F N Bratton S L Burwell J S Butler W B Carper E B Crosland D H Crump F M Crump
W H DuBose C C Eby F V D Fortune J G French B W Glover C L Hawkins E L Landers W E Leech W O Lindholm J L Mann C S Page W T Parish J D Patton T L Peacock F B P.ummer W G Priest J L Redding W P Richardson F M Robbins R K Sanford J M Soaper J Stras D Taylor J P White T P Wilhoite W T Wilson 1933 24% D G Adair C C Ames
0 G Beall C B Burns
J D Campbell
R C Charles
B M Cole
F T Cooke
T P Devlin
D Egleston
H L Graham
F C Gray
R H Green
J B Harvey
E I Hatch
T B Henderson
D M Hobart
H E Jackson
J A McSpadden
J W Morton
F D Whittlesey 1934 66%
J A Adair
E R Anderton
1 R Ball
*C A Carpenter J P Castleberry W L Castleberry J D P Cheek T A Claiborne *D E Clark K K Clark St G Cooper J F Cravens C H Douglass D T Duncan *C A Fasick W S Fast *J G Forgy D C Fort R M Gamble J M Gee G W Glass G J Hall J E Hart R M Hart *F L Hawkins *J F Hayes T L Herbert J Hodges P B Huntley *T A Kauerz
F Kellermann W F King J P Kranz R S Lancaster W W Lumpkin W W McKee M J Morison D T Myers S W Ogan *L M Perrin S M Powell A B Rittenberry C F Schilling H P Starr M C Stone *W H Sylvester H C Templeton T R Thrasher J W Tilford
J L Tison *E T Turner
C W Underwood
A W Wellford
*T J Wagner
1935
427c
I C Beatty
L A Belford
E H Bixler
A B Chitty
J A Collum
J J Daggett
R W Daniel
E R Dobbins
W H Drane
J C Eby
F W Gaines
E H Harrison
J W Johnson
J A Johnston
S C King
A S Lawrence
S B Lines
Q B Love
F F Lucas
C S Miller
F R Morton
P R Phillips
J A Pratt
J P Ragland
W M Rosenthal
P D Ross
R H Ruch
C M Seymour
P T Tate
C O Thompson
L F Thompson
J E Thorogood
D L Vaughan
C T Yancey
F G Yerkes 1936 41%
F J Chalaron
H S Chamberlain
G B Craighill Jr
R L Dabney
W M Daniel
R E Dicus
J R Franklin
J D Gibson
T E Haile
*A H Hoff
F H Kean
E Kirby-Smith
J C Lear
W D Lewis
E E Murrey
A H Myers
J F Pabst
C F Pearson
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Percentage Leaders 1900-1909
1901 Bull 96%
1900 Bull 92%
1902 Atkins -83%
1S07 Watkins .54%
1909 Ellis ..54%
Percentage Leaders 1910-1919
1914 Gerhart 63%
1913 Armes* 62%
1918 Fooshee 57%
1910 Cheape ..54%
1915 Hamilton 45%
1912 Scruggs 41%
Percentage Leaders 1920-1929
1926 Harwell 73%
1929 Schoolfield ..58%
1921 Burch 54%
1920 Stoney 53%
1927 Turner .47%
Percentage Leaders 1930-1939
1934 Hart -66%
1931 Ezzell _ 52%
1935 Ruch -..42%
1936 Craighill 41%
1939 A Guerry 41%
Percentage Leaders 1940-1949
1944 Sullivan -51%
1947 Cate 50%
1943 Greer 28%
1948 Hughes 28%
1942 Sutherland 25%
Percentage Leaders 1950-1958
1958 Evans 43%
1952 Patterson 37%
1953 Wyatt-Brown 327o
1955 Doswell 31%
1951 Bartlett 28%
1950 Doss 27%
J E Reynolds M N Richard D S Rose C Shropshire J D Simpson H E Smith Jr *J B Snowden Jr S T Speakes B D Tabor L O'V Thomas W H Wheeler R B Wilkens H Wintermeyer S H Young
1937
36% J R Anschutz F M Arnall R W Boiling G M Chattin R Colmore Jr W G Crook B C Dedman H Eustis W S Fleming A T Graydon R E Gribbin W M Hart T C Heyward Jr F H Holmes J F G Hopper N F Kinzie
C P Lewis
J T MacKenzie Jr
B A Meginniss
T D Ravenel
T Sneed
A Stockell
S B Strang
J H Tabor
M S Turner
E B Vreeland
H Wyatt-Brown
1938 33%
G M Alexander
G G Bean
C W Bohmer
D F Cox
H Ephgrave
F M Gillespie Jr
D R Gray
N C Harrison
W B Harwell
W R Haynsworth
W W Hazzard
J W Hill
*L G Hoff
V King
L Lyon-Vaiden
T V Magruder
W S McGuire
H B Milward
J M Packer
T T Phillips J B Ragland J E Savoy T M Stewart R C Stoney S B Walton W N Wilkerson J H Williams W F Wright C Wyatt-Brown
1939
41% C Best H G Boesch S Boykin A B Clarkson H F Cooper H C Cortes R R Cravens W H Crozier J P DeWolfe Jr B P Donnell J L Duncan G G Edson J R Ehrsam J H Frasier W H Gage A Guerry Jr O M Hall F C Lightbourn W S Mann A C Maxted L McLaurin Jr E M McPherson W F Milligan R S Quisenberry G B Scott E H K Smith R W Turner J P Tomlinson Jr G N Wagnon J R Welsh J A Whitley T G Williams
1940
18% W P Barrett W R Belford J W Coleman Jr W C Duckworth W M Edwards P W Evans F N Howden A D Juhan R A Kirchhoffer Jr R G Snowden M D C Stockell T D Stoney P C Talley B W Wing R H Workman
1941
23% D O Andrews F J Ball W E Cox P W DeWolfe M J Ellis J V Gillespie N Haskin W L Jacobs R C Kilbourn G M McCloud L McGriff G C Merkel D Myers
D C Scarborough S H Smith
W H Steele W B Stehl C H Vale C F Wallace R H Woodrow
1942
25% H H Brister P D Burns R T Crownover A G Diffenbaugh T T Edwards S E Elmore E C Fox C R Gass J A Hamilton L O Ison H P Jackson O M Kochtitzky B McP Kuehnle L R Lawson C C Marks J S Marshall R R McCauley J W Moody R B Park F H Phillips G G Potts J B Ransom A P Spaar L O'H Stoney A M Sutherland B Turlington T K Ware
1943
28% J M Allin H A Atkinson W A Boardman A W Boyer G W Carter D B Collins H B Cotten H Crawford L T Dark C L Dexter W T Donoho R W Emerson W C Grayson F W Greer J S Gresley B Grimball J Hammond H W Havens E I Hulbert R C Judd O R Ludlow C G Mullen G W Pickens E G Roberts H F Seaman E Sellers W W Shaver A A Stone C B Thomas F M Walker C E Watson J L Williams W S Wilson M L Wood
1944
51% M Y Aldridge J E Boatwright Jr W M Bosworth A C Bowen R E Calder O W Cameron R V Campbell
E W Carpenter C J Child G K Cracraft W R Daniel H A Elebash T R Ford J P Fort D B Fox J C Fuller P G Gourdin S L Grier W L Hays H K Herpel H M Hewson L B Hicks J J Hobson W C Johnson F T Kyle W N Lloyd W McClelland Jr J W McDonald J F O'Brien B R Payne N W Platter R Reid E K Sanders H E Scott R E Steiner J P Stephenson C H Sullivan W W Swift G J Sylvan D M Trapp C T Trippe W B Wagner J E Waller V B Whiteside C C Wiley D J Williams S Williams P H Wood G A Woods
1945 23% K P Adler A M Bowles \V C Brown G D Clark F F Converse R M Cook P C Douglas E R Dunsford J A Geisch E S Greenwood D L Maris D McQueen T H Morris W Nelson T D Nevins C L Noble C H Russell *W H Sartwelle R T Strainge W A Sullivan R A Tourigny
1946
18% E L Bennett VV B Ferguson G B Fox M A Frazell *G W Gillespie J H Hall A Hardman *C J Juhan C E Karsten H McDonald *G C Myers R M Shaeffer E T Williams
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1947
50% L P Arsnault S F Bailey J C Ball O'N Bardin P G T Beauregard C H Blakeslee B S Boyle A P Bridges J G Cate C T Chambers K E Clarke J S Collier M M Cragon J B Cumming R M Deimel R F Francis .1 N Grant W M Guerry P M Hawkins J M Haynes W C Henderson J L Hobson J B Johnson G W Leach K A MacGowan J C Marshall R H Mattei M H Mcintosh A B McNeill W R Nes W R Nummy *A F O'Donnell P O'Donnell F D Peebles B P Percy W P Perrin J M Phillips J S Pitts
Mrs M F Schneider W J Shaw J Stirling G E Stokes R P Thomas I R Walker J F Waymouth W O Westfeldt C A Wiley G C Woods Jr
1948
28% C B Annandale J A Benton W H Blackburn W N Bolton J R Brumby J P Carter G C Estes J M Fourmy J Gass W D Hail W F Hays B Huddleston B Hughes G Q Langstaff C E McWhorter F N Mitchell E R Pinson T B Rice H K Seibels M R Tilson R J Warner A N Wartman C Winton
1949
16% C F Allison G D Arnold L G Barr
H E Barrett K M Barrett J W Caldwell A M G Crook J D Cushman C W Davis W R Davis H F Dodge R L Evans J P Guerry G E Haynsworth E W Hine R H Jackson J R Lodge J S Martin B H McGee J F McMullan G R Mende C H Morgan M H Morgan Jr R R Parks L S Parr S E Parr F A Pope S E Puckette F, D Putman G A E Rowley B F Runvon W S Watkins B E M Watson J P Williamson 1950 27% J M Abernathy J T Alves W A Babin F C Bailey W H Blake F J Bush R F Cherry H C Clayton E D Colhoun Jr D H Corey J T Daves C J Dobbins R B Doss E H Eckel L J Ellis P F Enwright C J Garland C P Garrison J W Gentry M W Hainlin E H Hamilton G H Hamler T J Hartford G E Hazlehurst H G Head G S Henry L H Hill R J Huffman H C Hutson H M Irvin J E Jarrell W T Jervis E M Jones W W Kennedy M W Lawson T A Lear D G Lee J H Lembcke J S Light J H Marchand D W McClurken C H McNutt L C Morehouse W M Morgan L B Murphy J H Nichols W B Parker C R Perry
H L Rhorer
A Roberts
J H Ruth
R E Simmons
S L Simons
F H Smith HI
G F Smith
J A Sperry
W S Stoney Jr
J R Thul
W G Webb
W A Willcox
E C Winstead
D G Wiseman
J C Worrell
W L Worrell 1951 28%
C B Bailey
W E Bailey
E R Ball
A L Bartlett
J B Bell
G P M Belshaw
B Bethea
W S Bradham
J G Bratton
H D Bull
O M Cheeseman
W T Cocke
J M Cunningham
G A Dotson
J P Eaton
G B Elliott
W T Engram
J C Eyster
A Fraser
F E Glass
C B Grinnell
W D Haggard
C W Hall
L R Harwell
H D Hawthorne
M K Heartfield
G W Hopper
D H Irving
J D Irwin
A E Joffrion
S G Jones
W B Key
A C King
T K Lamb Jr
R W Leche
C A Loop
M S MacDowell
T M McKeithen
L B Mead
M C Miller
J P Pace
E B Patton
J B Pratt
W Ragland
W H Ralston
R M Searson
C J Shell
J H Sivley
C C Smith
P H Smith
J C Stewart
F C Stough
H Pride
B S Tynes
F H L Varino
A A West
R H Wheeler
J M White
L E Wright
1952 37%
G C Ayres
J W Anderson
G Y Ballentine
J G Beavan
A P Bell
S N Boldrick
J H Bratton Jr
H C Brown
J B Davis
G W Dexheimer
N T Dill
R A Duncan
C R Ernst
F W Erschell
J R Foster
R D Fowler
P G Fulton
S Garner
J W Gibson
R W Gillett
C Goatley
C E Guthrie
G W Hamilton
R S Harris
J H Haselton
E W Heath
L Hodgkins
W C Honey
H D Hooper
C K Horn
S E Huey
W R Insko
B I Jackson
R D Logan
J H McClain
J L C McFaddin Jr
D G Mitchell
E H Monroe
J E Mulkin
R G Mullen
JED Murdaugh
F C Nelms
E G Nelson
W B Patterson
W E Pilcher
M H Poe
W M Price
M A Rohane
R L Saul
C R Sayles
E P Seagram
T H Setze
E S Shirley
C B Sledge
A A Smith
R W Storie
A T Sykes
G M Thurmond
W H Truesdell
E B Tucker
T T Tucker
D W Wall
W G Ward
K Wheelus
1953
32% A C Anderson D D Arthur P R Bailey G L Barker A H Bayes E E Benoist W K Bruce D B Carter E P Chambers W R Clark D S Clicquennoi W A Creswell W B Dickerson REM DuBose R L Durning J A Elam W C Ellis
J P Figh
J C Fletcher
F C Ford
N L George
D M Gray Jr
D W Gray
W A Gresh
E P Helvenston
S Henning
R H Hogan
W C Honey
W E Hunter
D M Irvin
P S Irving
C H Johnson
R G Johnson
R L Johnson
K H Kerr
D B Kippenbrock
W H Langhorne
J H Mcintosh
F C Medford
R S Moise
E L Myers
D C Nash
A M Pardue
R O Persons
P C Robinson
3 H Schroeter
W A Spruill
W W Stearly
R H Steilberg
T Taggart
I M Thomas
W B Trimble
D H Van Lenten
J P Wahle
P P Werlein
H Whitman
J A Witherspoon Jr
B Wyatt-Brown
W P Zion
1954
13% S W Ackerman R T Andress B G Baker L C Balch E G Bierhaus H W Camp R B Clark E C Conklin B E Crowley G P Eyler A T Farmer C H Fulton P J Greeley D P Hassell S E Jenkins C C Keller R B Kemp J W Kilpatrick C M Lindsay H T Mankin G Y Marchand W E Nance C C Pope R A Rowland W C Rucker L S Snelling G S Sorrell J H Tidman M H Voth T M Whitener J B Winn J W Woods
1955
31% J D Anthony M C Baker A E W Barrett
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Benefactors
In November the University received $50,000 in payment of the specific cash bequest in the will of Mrs. Caroline A. Johnson of Birmingham. Mrs. John- son was the widow of the late Craw- ford Johnson, donor of Johnson Hall. The University is also a residuary legatee in the Johnson Estate at the expiration of certain life interests. Mr. Johnson, life-long friend of Sewanee, was an executive of the Coca-Cola Company. His son, Crawford Johnson, Jr., has been a member of the Board of Regents.
Mrs. Fanny Lee Gunther Huston of Memphis, who died November 22, 1958, in her will left $10,000 to the Univer- sity as a memorial to her late brothers, George John Gunther, '06, and Julius Aroni Gunther, Academy alumnus.
A gift of $5,000 was received by Se- wanee in December from the Crossett Lumber Company, lumber firm of Cros- sett, Arkansas, and a frequent Sewanee contributor in the past. The firm, headed by Peter Watzek, an honorary Sewanee alumnus, has received na- tional recognition for its reforestation practices as well as for its "model lum- bering town" and its employee rela- tions.
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In December Mrs. Mary Brandon Wood from Weyanoke, Louisiana, sent the following note with a gift to the area Church Support chairman: "St. Mary's Church has seemingly been abandoned for a good many years, but since my son is still on its books as a member and I was christened there, I felt that I would like to contribute the enclosed check as coming from St. Mary's." She added that her ancestors helped to build the church.
Mrs. Annie Robinson Glazebrook of Kentucky, who died last fall, remem- bered both the church and Sewanee in her will. She left a $10,000 legacy to St. Mary's Mission, Bolton, Mississippi, where her parents had once been pa- rishioners, and $10,000 to Sewanee, as well as legacies to various church in- stitutions in Kentucky. Sewanee's gift will be received this spring. In charge of St. Mary's Mission is the Rev. How- ard B. Kishpaugh, '55.
Sewanee recently was among 600 colleges in the nation to share in $170,000 in grants distributed by the Gulf Oil Corporation. Gift amounts were based on annual current expendi- ture per student and the percentages of contributing alumni. Sewanee's share is $846.04.
S A Boney
J W Boult
W H Brantley
W M Brice
R C Brown
R T Cherry
C G Cobbs
E W Conklin
B J Crawford
J G Creveling
H T D'Alemberte
W W Deadman
R L Ewing
F M Fesmire
K Fort
R B Foster
C S Glass
R P Glaze
C C Green
E T Hall
H A Hornbarger
J B Jeffrey
R W Jordan
E P Jowett
W C Kalmbach
H B Kishpaugh
W L Ketcham
J P Lamb
A J Lee
R Little
T D McCrummen
J W Muir
E W Mullen
C E Nelson
J W Parker
W O Patton
C W Patty Jr
G S Plattenburg
G M Pope
A T Richards
S D Rudder
J T Russell
L B Sayre
W C Shields
F S Stuart
C B Teskey
G Weaver
R R Webb
R L West
P B Whitaker Jr
A J Worrall
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T H Owen |
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T M Wade III |
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G B Wheelus |
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R H Wright III |
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H W Allen |
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M M Benitez |
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E J Berkeley |
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J L Budd |
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A B Carmichael |
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C P Craig |
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J M Crowe |
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E H West B S Williams J R Wright Z H Zuber
1959 W R Frisbie Jr R D Gooch Jr C S Scarritt W D Upchurch W P Young R I zumBrunnen
1960 R H Flynn R K Doughty P Goddard R T Owen J B Richardson
1961 A D Elliott
1962 A S Boyd III S N Meinberg
HONORARY
27% Dr George M Baker Dr A J Bedell James S Bonner Bp C C J Carpenter Hodding Carter William W Crandall Bp E P Dandridge Mrs A I duPont Hon James A Farley Robert E Finley Dr Lewis B Franklin Dr Hugh Hodgson Bp H H Kellogg Bp R A Kirchhoffer Dr William A Kirkland Wendell F Kline ffinton F Longino Dr A H Lucas Dr Edmund Orgill Bp C G Marmion Bp A R McKinstry Rev James R Sharp Rev Wilson W Sneed Dr Adolph Steuterman *Rev M B Stewart Bp A Y Tsu Mrs G A Washington Rev Holly Wells *Victor R Williams Bp J D Wing
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Honor Roll of Classes and Clubs
One thousand dollar winners each are the following classes and clubs. Sewanee's anonymous bene- factor, who agreed to give $1,000 to the University for each class that had at least fifty percent of its listed members sending a contribution of any size to Sewanee during 1958, and also $1,000 for each club that sent individual gifts (from any members) equaling the total number of alumni living in the club city, has given Sewanee $26,000 ($1,000 each for twenty-two classes and four clubs) — and all because of Sewanee's wealth in hard-working people.
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Rev. Willis P. Gerhart, 1914
Malcolm Fooshee, 1918
Rev. William S. Stoney, 1920
J. C. Brown Burch, 1921
Coleman A. Harwell, 1926
William C. Schoolfield, 1929, Pres.
Stanyarne Burrows, Jr., Secty.
Frederick R. Freyer, Editor John M. Ezzell, 1931 R. Morey Hart, 1934, Pres.
J. Fain Cravens, Secty. C. Hutcheson Sullivan, Jr., 1944 James G. Cate. Jr., 1947
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Andrew J. Dossett, '21 Los Angeles
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E. Cress Fox, '42 Chicago
Stanley G. Jones, '51
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May, 1959
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Shapard Tower
Now that All Saints' Chapel is approaching final comple- tion after a century of planning and half a century of in- terrupted efforts at construction, it seems worthwhile to give a brief summary of its history.
We do not know exactly what sort of chapel was planned at the very beginning, because the War Between the States interrupted the original building programme and destroyed all vestiges of it. The only plan chosen for a building was in early English style. After the war, a simple, gothic, wooden chapel called St. Augustine's was constructed which with various additions and extensions served as the spiritual cen- ter of the University for forty-three years (1867-1910).
During this interval all of the stone buildings constructed were gothic (based largely upon prototypes from Oxford): and plans for a permanent stone chapel of gothic design were continually under discussion.
In 1886 under the administration of Dr. Telfair Hodgson plans were prepared by Mr. William Halsey Wood, architect, for a stone chapel 100 feet long and 40 feet wide connected by a cloister to a chapter or convocation house and gym- nasium. The convocation house had a tower modeled after Magdalen Tower, Oxford, and the chapel, which was to seat 900 people, had a tower based upon that of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Several gifts, the largest of which was $10,00 d from Mr. Thomas Breslin of New York, combined to a total of $29,250, and made possible the building of the convocation hall, gymnasium, and tower; but no beginning was made on the chapel. The Trustees considered it too small and asked Mr. Wood to revise the plans so as to provide seats for 1,500 people; but they were never satisfied with its location, which was to have been where Walsh-Ellett Hall is now, and finally in 1888 they definitely turned it down.
In 1890 Mr. Silas McBse (uncle of the late Vice-Chancellor Alexander Guerry) in partnership with Mr. A. McC. Nixon, an architect from Atlanta, submitted plans for a complete quadrangle. After a lively controversy over whether we should follow the Oxford plan, or separate our buildings widely on our ample domain, the Trustees finally adopted the proposal of Messrs. Nixon and McBee and gave their beautiful perspective engraving wide publicity.
This new design accepted the Convocation Hall (now the library) and Breslin Tower as they were; replaced Wood's chapel with an administration and classroom building (reminiscent, both in location and form, of the Chapel of Magdalen College) on the north side of the quadrangle; added a copy of Foundar's Tower (Magdalen) flanked by class rooms, on the east side; placed the chapel, still based upon St. Mary the Virgin, on the south; and closed the west side with an extension of the cloister from Breslin Tower to the chapel.
A gift of $20,000 from Colonel V. D. Walsh made possible the construction of the north side of the quadrangle in 1890-'91. We still have the massive stone walls erected then, but the interior has been completely rebuilt and the cloister added on its south face at a cost of $360,000, made possible by a substantia] bequest from an alumnus, Dr. E. C. Ellett of Memphis.
However, no money was in hand for the chapel part of the project until twelve years later when Chaplain (later Bishop) William Alexander Guerry undertook to travel about the country in 1904 soliciting funds for it. He raised about $26,825 and plans were made to carry out the construction of what they then decided to christen All Saints' Chapel in time for the cele- bration of the University's Semi- Centennial in 1907.
Meanwhile Mr. Nixon having died and Mr. McBee having moved to New York as editor of the Churchman, Vice-Chan- cellor Wiggins and the Board employed the firm of Cram, Go odhue, and Ferguson as architects in 1905. This firm revised the design in a way which led Dr. Wiggins to refer to it as based upon King's College Chapel at Cambridge, but that com- parison was not very accurate. The only resemblances to King's College Chapel were in certain omissions — the elimina- tion of the tower and all windows in the aisles. The most famous feature of King's College Chapel, the elaborate pendant and fan- vaulted ceiling, was never considered for All Saints' at all. Cram's ceiling design was of wooden trusses much more like those of Santa Maria in Florence, Italy.
Not only did Cram propose to strip the Chapel of its tower and aisle windows, but he redesigned the Science Hall- side of the quadrangle to include a great tower there which would have made it the dominant feature of the plan, and shifted the architectural emphasis away from the Chapel. Mr. McBee and Mr. Aiken (a Sewanee alumnus and architect living in New York City) had been retained as architectural consultants to the Chapel Committee, and they entered into quite a controversy with Cram, which finally resulted in the restoration of the tower to the chapel and the begrudging (Continued on page 11)
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Two Alumni Take Spotlight At Commencement Exercises
Commencement 1959 will feature, for the first time in twenty-five years, bac- calaureate preacher and commencement orator who are both Sewanee alumni. The Rev. Cotesworth P. Lewis, '37, rec- tor of old Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, will deliver the sermon on Sunday, June 7, at the great opening service in All Saints'. Dr. W. Cabell Greet, '20, English professor at Barnard College, will speak on Monday to the graduating class.
All Saints' Chapel will be used al- though only a few of the half-hundred stained glass windows will be installed. The Class of 1959 will be the first to go forth from a full-sized chapel.
The Polk Memorial Carillon will peal on Thursday, June 4, under the hands of Belgian Staf Nees, considered by many to be the world's outstanding bellmaster. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday it will be played by Sewanee's own Albert Bonholzer, '22, shortly af- ter noon.
The regular year-end format will be followed with variations. On Wednes- day, June 3, the regents will meet un- der the chairmanship of J. Albert Woods, '18, for the last time before he retires from the board upon completion of a six-year term. On Thursday, June 4, St. Luke's alumni will have their annual business meeting, Evening Pray- er service in St. Luke's Chapel, and dinner at Claramont. The evening brings forth the first dramatic use of the new chapel — Murder in the Cathe- dral by T. S. Eliot, produced by Vir- ginia Collins.
On Friday the altar and reredos will be dedicated to the glory of God and in memory of Calvin Kendrick Schwing, '21, at the trustees' corporate com- munion at 9 a.m. The largest college governing board in America will spend the day in business sessions and will elect regents to replace those whose terms have expired, the Rt. Rev. H. I Louttit, GST '37, of South Florida, the Very Rev. Alfred Hardman, '46, of At- lanta, Albert Roberts, Jr., of St. Peters- burg, and Mr. Woods. Friday evening there will be a dinner for the members of the Red Ribbon Society at the home of Dr. George Myers, '07, buffet for the Greens at the home of Walter Bryant, '49, and a reunion for the Old Timers, preceding the traditional Vice-Chan- cellor's reception at Fulford Hall.
Saturday's schedule includes the Alumni Corporate Communion and Me- morial Service at St. Augustine's Stone, and the annual business meeting with biennial election of national officers. J. C. Brown Burch, '21, heads the list
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of retiring officers. Class reunions have been scheduled by 1934 for a twenty - fifth anniversary luncheon and by 1949 for a tenth reunion during the after- noon. The classes of 1937-1940 and 1918-1921 are to have reunions also this year. At the Alumni Dinner Saturday night at least one surprise is promised.
On Sunday after the dedication of St. Augustine's Chapel, a tribute to Bishop R. Bland Mitchell, '08, attention shifts to the graduating class. Baccalaureate service will include the formal opening of All Saints' Chapel, fodowed by the dedication of Shapard Tower. The Vice- Chancellor and Mrs. McCrady will re- ceive parents and guests of seniors in the late afternoon. The University choir will be heard in concert in the even- ing.
On Monday after the commissioning of Air Force and Marine second lieu- tenants, the Commencement service will begin at 10 a.m. Honorary degrees will be conferred upon Mr. Lewis, Dr. Greet, the Rev. Samuel Capers, rector of Christ Church, San Antonio, Texas, and grandson of the University's sev- enth chancellor, the Rev. Junius Mar- tin, rector of Christ Church, Frederica, St. Simon's Island, Georgia, and brother of Sewanee's associate professor of English, Abbott C. Martin, the Very Rev. William E. Sanders, '45, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral, Memphis, the Rt. Rev. David S. Rose, '35, suffragan bish- op of Southern Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. George Cadigan, bishop of Mis- souri.
Alumni wishing a detailed program of the weekend will be sent one on re- quest to the Alumni Office.
$100,000 Given For Endowment and
Scholarships
A gift of $100,000 has come to the University from an anonymous donor, it was announced by Bishop Frank A. Juhan, director of development. Halt of the amount will go into the Uni- versity's permanent endowment fund and the other half will be divided be- tween two scholarship funds which presently serve students of the College and of the School of Theology. The total now in each of these scholarship funds is $151,775.
Progress Report
In April Walsh -Ellett Hall was ready for use, though finishing touches are stLl going on. Professors moved into offices on the upper two floors, classes met, and administrators settled in the completely-rebuilt first floor, while ma- sons constructed the cloister along the south side of the building.
On April 12, a cold and rainy day, thousands gathered for the dedication of the Leonidas Polk Carillon in Shap- ard Tower and a concert by Arthur L. Bigelow. Programs of the occasion will be sent on request.
New Trustees Named
Among trustees newly-elected to the Sewanee board are the Rev. Mssrs. Jack T. DeForest, '49, of West Texas, Hun- ley A. Elebash, '44, of East Carolina, M. Dewey Gable, '52, of Atlanta, and George W. Morrel, '37, of Northwest Texas. New lay trustees include D. C. Green, '31, of Mississippi, Thomas G. Linthicum, '23, of Atlanta, Dr. Albert Spaar, '42, of Northwest Texas, B. All- ston Moore, '23, of South Carolina, a former member of the board, and Gou- venor Nixon of Kentucky. Other trus- tee elections have been held in the past few weeks.
Balloting is in progress for three trustees representing the Associated Alumni. One clerical and two lay trustees will be elected from the fol- lowing candidates: Rev. Richard S. Corry, '41, Rev. A. Malcolm MacMillan, '45, Congressman Richard W. Boiling, '37, John M. Ezzell, '31, Q. T. Hardtner, Jr., '27, and Robert G. Snowden, '40.
Class Presidents
Study Work
Seventeen class presidents or their representatives were at Sewanee April 10-11 for an intensive study of their work. They were guests of Bishop Frank A. Juhan at the Sewanee Inn. On the agenda were tours of the Alum- ni Office and of new construction on the domain, sessions with Dean Robert S. Lancaster and Dr. Ben F. Cameron en admissions and scholarships, and with Dr. Edward McCrady on the Uni- versity's academic outlook, and discus- sions led by Bishop Juhan and Arthur Chitty.
Social events of the weekend included tea on Bishop and Mrs. Juhan's terrace, luncheon with the coaches and their wives, a party at Harding Woodall's home, "Woodwinds," and dinners at Claramont. Most of the presidents re- mained at Sewanee for the dedication of the Polk Carillon on April 12.
o^ewanee D^ews
Successor to tlie Scwance Alumni News
Race Again
By Arthur Ben Chitty
The Sewanee News, issued quarterly by the Associated A'umni of The University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. Entered as second- class matter Feb. 25, 1 93+. at the postoffice at Se- wanee, Tenn., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
MAY, 1959
Volume XXV
No. 2
Member American Alumni Council
Arthur Ben Chitty, '35 _ Editor
Elizabeth N. Chitty _ . Associate Editor
Associated Alumni Officers
J C. Brown Burcii, '21 President
I'ice-l'resiclenli
Dr. Andrew B. Small, '27
Church Support Bishop Girault Jones, '28 .. St. Luke's William M. Cravens, '29 ..Capital Gifts
E. Raglanu Dobbins, '35 Regions
John M. Ezzell, '31 Bequests
Berkeley Grimball, '43 . . Admissions
James G. Cate, Jr., '47 Classes
Fred F. Preaus, A'56 S. M. A.
Dr. Walter M. Hart, '37 .. Rec. Secty. DuVal G. Cravens, Jr., '29 . . Treasurer Arthur Ben Chitty, '3'5_.Exec. Director
Giving is a Two- Way Street
"Giving is a two-way street," one Se- wanee alumnus told his diocesan con- vention in January. He went on to say that although the Episcopal Church is giving very generously to Sewanee, the University is also giving to the Church. By training over 20 percent of all the clergy in the South, by having sent at least one priest to nearly every church or mission in the South over ten years old, by having served as Alma Mater to an impressive cadre of the Church's lay leadership, the University of the South has vindicated the hopes of its founders.
Delay Justified
A rampaging Allegheny River held up an offering to St. Luke's. The Rev. William M. Bayle wrote Dean George M. Alexander that the customary gift of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kittan- ning, Pennsylvania, would be late this year because the river "moved in on the Church, the Rectory, and the new Parish House . . . money you would have gotten has gone to . . . families. . . . Sometime later this year I shall take up an offering. . . ."
With such concern for seminaries on the part of churches, clergy, and people, great educational enterprises can be built.
The Sewanee Purple, enjoying one of its great years under the editorship of Battle Searcy of Tuscaloosa, showed up to excellent advantage in its April Fool edition. It took as its theme the re- cent controversy at Highlander Folk School and poked some gentle fun at the tempest caused by it.
For the benefit of readers not living in Charleston or in Tennessee, where the incident had a highly responsive press, some explanation must be made. There are at least two versions of what happened in February. According to one, the long-suffering citizens of Grundy County made massive com- plaints to the Tennessee legislature about Communist-inspired activities at the so-called Highlander Folk School, located between Monteagle and Tracy City. The legislature voted an appropri- ation of $5,000 and appointed a com- mittee to rout out the subversives.
The other version of the story runs like this. A group of white suprema- cists, seeking to duplicate in Tennessee the educational denouement of Little Rock, approached the law-makers in Nashville with some such proposal as this. Here is your chance, boys, to get solid with your segregationist consti- tuents without the embarrassment of having your school laws voted uncon- stitutional a la Virginia. We want you to put out of business this Highlander school because it permits racially inte- grated meetings but we will say that you are investigating it for Red activi- ties.
Take your choice as to which version to accept.
At any rate, the legislature did pass a resolution to investigate and the bill was sent to Governor Buford Ellington for signature. At this point we revert again to two versions of the story.
According to the first, a group of addle-pated professors at Sewanee, having no loyalty to the University by which they are employed or considera- tion for its administration, and taking a bull by horns pointing in the opposite direction, wrote a letter to the governor endorsing the character and purposes of the "school" (which is really a con- ference center with no faculty of its own) and suggesting that the investi- gation be called off. Such action could come only from persons irresponsible or systematically brainwashed.
Not so, says the other version. Actu- ally fourteen Sewanee professors felt that rank injustice was being done a neighbor institution already repeatedly investigated by the FBI without charges being preferred. On the contrary, the Bureau of Internal Revenue last year restored its tax-exempt status. They thought too that academic freedom was at stake, spoke their mind in restrained terms, certain that the cold perspective of history would credit them and Se- wanee for having the courage to speak out against thought-control and Mc- Carthyism. Their real point, they said,
was that people who have scruples against segregation are being branded Communists. That is unfair, dishonest, and detrimental to the long-term best interest of the South, they alleged.
Immediately everyone took sides. The Chattanooga News Free Press, Nash- ville Banner and Charleston News ayid Courier expressed varying degrees of dismay at the Sewanee professors. The Chattanooga Times, the NashvLle Ten- nessean, and the Living Church said nice things about the speakers-out. Some students, encouraged by con- cerned alumni, sponsored a petition condemning the professors for con- demning the legislative investigation for condemning Highlander Folk School but the petition never materialized.
It was at about this point that the Purple, followed by a rollicking Sewa- nee Follies, put the whole business in perspective.
Has anyone noticed the state of af- fairs at Sewanee, they inquired? Let us investigate our own Red Dean (Robert S. Lancaster of the crimson locks), the Red Ribbon Society, and the subversive color of the Vice-Chancellor's robes. There is a student organization known as the Highlanders whose members have been seen on the road to Mont- eagle! And what about this emphasis on the bloodmobile — a red activity if ever there was one!
And so went the spoofing.
Whereas in all the wrangle no bones were broken, the fact was made clear that Sewanee views with mixed feel- ings the subject of race. And, whereas there are those who feel Sewanee's mission should be that it serve as a final stronghold for white supremacy, there are others who are just as convinced that it should not.
Fortunately the educational process goes on and a national first place in the proportionate production of Rhodes Scholars seems to indicate at least that students and professors are meeting their classees.
Summer At Sewanee
Provincial Laymen's Conference
(Episcopal Laymen and Families)
June 18-21
Sewanee Summer Training School
(Clergy, Laymen and Families)
June 21-27
Sewanee Summer Music Center
(High School and College)
June 21— July 26
Graduate School of Theology (Clergy) July 22— August 26 '
National Symphony Orchestra League August 1 — 15
Request folders from Alumni Office
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The Sewanee News
Humanities versus Science
By H. Malcolm Owen
An irony of our time is that communication between individuals of dissimilar ideas is being reduced during an era of expanding scientific knowledge. I have found this irony to be true in the academic community, especially between the humanities and science. And as Robert Frost has said, "Ironies do not iron out anything."
Recently, I had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Dr. Randall Stewart, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University. As an able representative of the humanities, Dr. Stewart gave the impression that on his campus a line between humanities anl science had been drawn. In the existing interdisciplinary struggle he gloried in that humanities were "emerging victorious despite the Sputniks." Douglas Bush in his essay, Education and the Humanities, pursued the same defensive position in writing on "the plight of the humanities." He lists "Science" as the third major foe of the humanities, just below mass civilization, whatever that is. Dr. Stewart and Dr. Bush, I think, speak for the majority of the "Humanitists." They acknowl- edge that Science has a place in the Liberal Arts curriculum, but certainly they do not admit its equality with the humanities!
If these scholars are representative of the humanities, then we may ask the question, '"Why are the humanities on the defensive?"
I think the question might be answered, in part, by an analysis of the situation on our own campus. The liberal arts college of Sewanee is essentially a humani- ties college. The requirements for the B.A. degree may be satisfied by a student presenting a minimum of 14 semester hours in Science. It is estimated that 75 percent of Sewanee's humanity student graduates of the past ten years have been graduated with these minimum requirements (128 semester hours are required for graduation) .
Whether we like it or not, this is an age of science. The scientist has replaced the lawyer as the dominant contributor to our civilization, the lawyer previously having replaced the clergyman. Humanitists were able to adjust to this latter transition and the contributions of the age were reflected in the literature of the times. Communication lines were open. The rigorous mental effort which Science demands was not a requirement of the clergy-law transition.
Now we must ask the second question, "How can an age of science be accurately expressed in our Art or Literature if our poets are scientifically illiterate? Each age has its particular problems, the solutions of which are facilitated by the con- tributions of its artists and its poets. The problems of our age, problems created by Science, are not even recognized by our artists and poets. Communication be- tween two groups requires a common pool of knowledge. It is my contention that a Liberal Arts curriculum of today, that does not have Science at its core, fails in its obligations to humanity. Our future poets, artists, historians, philosophers, clergymen, politicians — the "communicators" of our age — can communicate only hollow words, unless they understand the contributions of Science.
So, the answer to the question, "Why are the Humanities on the defensive?" is that they are unable to communicate and to express the age in which they find themselves. They are unable to establish guide lines for a scientifically-motivated civilization to follow. The social studies group have made an effort to break with the Humanities and join with the Sciences. But the linking of the word "science" to "social" does not constitute Science as understood by the scientist
The answer to the second question, "How may an age of Science be expressed by Humanitists who are scientifically illiterate?" is that more Science should be a requirement for the Liberal Arts degree.
This simple answer could lead to a widening of the gulf between Humanities and Science. But it may not. As more of our young people understand the language of Science and appreciate the problems of the age, the greater is the probability that a new and natural literature will evolve to express hitherto recalcitrant ideas. The minimum expectations resulting from more Science in the Liberal Arts curriculum would be, in my opinion, at least the broadening of communication lines between the Scientific Specialist and the Humanitist.
H. Malcolm Owen, Ph.D., is head of Sewanee's three-man department of biology and adviser to pre-medical students.
News Briefs
J. Bayard Snowden, '03, of Memphis has added another $2,000 to the forestry scholarship fund. Mr. Snowden is the major benefactor of the nationally- known forestry and conservation pro- gram at Sewanee.
Two shipments of books — about a thousand pounds — have recently gone to Asia from Sewanee. The first, ten boxes culled from duplicates in the theological library and packed by Ko- rean student Chang Choi, was shipped in the fall to the Rev. Archer Torrey, '45, for his school library in Seoul. The second batch, about the same size, was collected in February by Blue Key and sent to the Books for Asian Students Foundation in California.
A fourth unit for Sewanee Inn motel has been made possible by an anony- mous gift. The new building will be similar to the other three, having six rooms of the same size, and raising to twenty-three the number of rooms available. Construction will be started within the month.
James S. Bonner of Atlanta, chair- man for Theological Education Offer- ings, was able to announce a substantial increase in his department of Church Support at the end of April. For the first four months of 1959, the total of approximately $24,000 was only $2,000 short of the total for the entire year 1958.
J. Kimpton Honey, '59, was named cadet commander of the Sewanee Air Force ROTC unit for the second se- mester. Kim is the third of three St. Louis brothers to attend the Univer- sity.
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Dr. Robert S. Lancaster, MA'34, dean of the College, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa by his undergraduate alma mater, Hampden-Sydney. Lancaster came to Sewanee Military Academy in 1931 and while there took his master's degree in the College. He is in equally heavy demand as a speaker on political science and as a hillbilly musician.
Glass Gift For 1959
The members of the Class of 1959 have endorsed the idea of an INSUR- ANCE-ENDOWMENT PLAN as a cor- porate gift of the Class to the Univer- sity of the South. Under its provisions, each member of the class is urged to purchase an insurance policy of any size or type, with the annual dividend assigned to the University. It is un- derstood that the purchaser — the mem- ber of '59 — may select any beneficiary and that he retains his full interest in the cash value of the policy, its loan provisions, and all other privileges of policy-holder except the annual divi- dend.
May, Nineteen Fifty-Nine
Early in the morning of March 20, several hours after the last students had left the house, the ATO house burned to the ground. Only a jew walls now are standing. Plans for reconstruction are well under way, restoring many features of the old house, but lost in the fire were the mantel carved by Miss Dora Colmore, Martin Johnson's spiral staircase, stained glass windows, a complete collection of annual ATO pictures, and the hand- somest collection of scholarship trophies on the Mountain.
Cheek Trophy
Goes To Delts
A gift of $1,500 made to Sewanee years ago is still hard at work. It is busily producing $60 per year interest which is used for the purpose of stag- ing an annual "help week" contest among the fraternities. The Sewanee Woman's Club sponsors the affair and the Leon T. Cheek fund purchases the trophy. A set of civic-spirited projects is outlined, the fraternities draw for their job, and the work begins.
This year Delta Tau Delta won first and Sigma Nu second on a highway beautification contest. On both sides of the road to Monteagle, between the new Sewanee Inn motel and the domain gates, some 400 fraternity men poured gallons of perspiration into raking, trimming, and planting. A silver tray was retired last year by Kappa Sigma s having won three times. This year a new tray was awarded to the indus- trious Delts.
away but to have them blank was a challenge to his mural-loving soul.
Armed with clearances and permis- sions from every level of the hierarchy, he began work on four large paintings which he called The Seasons. Blazing in primary colors, the works were revealed to the public on April 5. Several hun- dred of the arty and the curious ap- plauded the painter and his work. All agreed that the murals did something for the room which needed doing. Some even speculated that they might some: day be worth more than the building housing them. A beautifully printed booklet with explanatory plates com- memorates the gift by the artist and will be mailed to any alumnus asking for one.
All Saints' Fund Lags
A combination of increased costs and s^ow payments has brought concern to Sewanee's development office. Accord- ing to Bishop Frank A. Juhan, diocesan objectives are $600,000 behind on funds for the completion of the chapel. The university meantime is borrowing mo- ney in order that the construction can proceed.
Originally the owning dioceses ac- cepted goals, based on diocesan appor- tionments, coming to a total of $650,000. Inflated construction costs forced a 50 percent upward revision to $975,000 on which the twenty-one dioceses have now paid $372,890. As yet no diocese has paid in full its revised objective. Arkansas is nearest the goal, lacking less than $1,000.
The returns to date are as follows:
GIFTS RE- CEIVED TOWAHD DIOCESE OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE
Alabama $ 62,850 $ 20,818.00
Arkansas 21,600 20,846.71
Atlanta 47,400 33,494.73
Dallas 59,250 6,790.20
East Carolina . . 22,950 9,931.16
Florida 36,300 28.791.00
Georgia 25,800 18,839.22
Kentucky 39,150 26.320.00
Lexington 21,000 345.00
Louisiana 58,200 31,795.41
Mississippi 31,500 6,258.50
Missouri 56,400 341.40
North Carolina . . 69,000 37,389.00
Northwest Texas 15,150 2,610.00
South Carolina .. 33,300 18,428.66
South Florida __ 89,550 1,851.00
Tennessee 75,150 42,888.94
Texas 103,950 25,227.27
Upper S. C. .. 45,200 28,759.40
West Texas 46,500 10,250.21
Western N. C. . . 18,150 915.00
$978,350 $372,890.91
The figures above do not include gifts more than $100,000 from dioceses for specific memorials (such as stained glass windows) which are not consid- ered part of the basic construction cost.
Gailor Receives
Fieschi Murals
This fall the too long and too narrow dining room at Gailor Hall began subt- ly to oppress a delightful and urbane visitor from Italy. Professor-on-loan Giannetto Fieschi, heading Sewanee's fine arts program through the courtesy of the Fulbright act and the imagina- tion of the dean of the College, eats regularly in Gailor, his family having remained in Genoa. It was bad enough, he reflected, to have the walls so far
Dr. Werner Von Braun, world famous missileman, and his family flew into the Sewanee airfield from nearby Huntsville for a Sunday dinner at Claramont Res- taurant and a tour of the campus. The Von Brauns are shown here being greeted by air field manager Wendell F. Kline as they arrived in their Piper Comanche.
The Sewanee News
Sewanee Clubs and Chapters
From Chicago to New York to Wash- ington to Kansas City to Mobile to Houston, and points between, Sewanee Club activity advanced within the past few months.
Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady was guest speaker in NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, and TAMPA. The an- nual reunion of the John H. P. Hodgson Alumni Chapter, New York City, was held February 16 with a reception and dinner at the Harvard Club. Harding CI Woodall, '17, former New Yorker now of Sewanee and a member of the board of regents, was also a guest. The vice-chancellor next spoke at the re- ception and dinner meeting of the Se- wanee Club of Washington on Febru- ary 20 at the Army-Navy Club.
Most recently Dr. McCrady was the honor guest at the Tampa Bay Area Sewanee Club dinner meeting April 22 at Tarnow's Country House. A report from Charles G. Mullen, Jr., '43, states there were sixty-nine present. "By strange coincidence," he writes, "the University of North Carolina, with over 400 alumni in the area, had a dinner at the same time to honor the president of their school. Also, just by chance, Joe U. Moore, who is president of the U. N. C. alumni club here, is an old SMA man (A'23)! He felt pretty bad about the conflict, especially when we had a larger crowd than they did."
New clubs sprang up in Chicago, Kansas City, and Mobile. The new Se- wanee movie or colored slides were features of all three organizational meetings.
CHICAGO got under way with a din- ner meeting April 2 at the University Club. E. Cress Fox, '42, who arranged the meeting with much help from C. Carter Smith, Jr., '51, was appointed acting chairman to set up committee work. Among the dozen alumni at- tending were Dr. I. Croom Beatty, III, '35, who flew his plane up from Mat - toon, Illinois, 200 miles away, where he manages the airport and conducts a fly- ing service, and attorney Horace Rus- sell, awarded an honorary D.C.L. de- gree in 1937, who studied at other uni- versities and who is recognized as one of the founding fathers of present home loan agencies, but who told the group he came because cf his devotion to the principle of Christian education and particularly the smaller college or uni- versity. Other alumni present were the Rev. Chester D. Boynton, '53, Donald S. Clicquennoi, '53', O. Morgan Hall, '39, the Rev. Paul M. Hawkins, Jr., '47, Oliver W. Jervis, '57, Wayne T. Jervis, Jr., '50, Robert Critchell Judd, '43, and the Rev. Richard Young, '50.
KANSAS CITY got started on March 8 with an afternoon meeting at St. An- drew's Church chairmanned by E. Rag- land Dobbins, '35, alumni vice-presi- dent in charge of Sewanee Clubs. About forty attended. Officers elected
were: William F. Milligan, '39, presi- dent; Wylie Mitchell, '37, vice-presi- dent; and J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., '49. secretary-treasurer. On the board of directors are Newman R. Donned, Jr., '31, John A. Adair, '34, Mrs. Gardner Rapelye, the Rev. John Henry Lembcke, Jr., '50, and Dobbins. After the meet- ing the officers were entertained at dinner at the Newman Donnell home and made plans for a business meeting on March 22. A get-together dinner of club members is to be held May 16 at the Carriage Club in Kansas City.
MOBILE began with a dinner meet- ing April 21 at All Saints' Church, where the Rev. Francis B. Wakefield, Jr., '23, is rector. Officers elected were: Paul T. Tate, Jr., '35, president; Julian R. deOvies, '29, vice-president; and Charles B. Bailey, Jr., '51, secretary- treasurer. Despite the threat of a wind- storm, some fifty people attended. De- Ovies presided and was assisted in showing the slides by the Rev. William S. Mann, '39. The Rev. Leighton P. Arsnault, '47, reported on the George H. Dunlap, IV ('33, killed in action in Southern France in 1944), Scholarship Fund, Francis B. Wakefield, III, '57, spoke on Sewanee's intercollegiate ath- letic policy, and the Rev. Holmes Ir- ving, Jr., '57, presented a Centennial Medallion to Miss Olive Moss in recog- nition of her generous support of Se- wanee.
HOUSTON had alumni Executive Di- rector Arthur Chitty, '35, and the new Sewanee movie on the program at the Forest Club April 28. Seventy alumni and friends attended. Officers elected were William M. Bomar, '52, president; Rutledge J. "Jack" Rice, '23, vice- president; John A. Cater, Jr., '53, secre- tary; and Jess B. Cheatham, Jr., '51. treasurer. On the board of directors are Richard B. Wilkens, Jr., '36, the re- tiring president, Henry O. Weaver, '28, and Curtis B. Quarles, Jr., '26. The executive committee meeting at the Houston Club the following day de- cided on church support for Sewanee in the Houston area as a major pro- ject during the coming year. A pro- gram was outlined, calling for a com- mittee of key men representing each of the thirty-one parishes of the city. They will see that Sewanee posters are displayed on bulletin boards, that Se- wanee folders appear in tract racks, that a talk is made to each vestry, that Sewanee programs are given before ap- propriate parish clubs, and that the new Sewanee movie is shown to on 3 or more groups in each parish. To the latter end, the club voted to purchase its own special print of the movie for $175.
In CHARLESTON the Coastal Caro- lina Chapter and the Sewanee Club of Charleston arranged an early Decem- ber visit from Admissions Director Ben F. Cameron, '42, to give high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to
discuss their educational plans with a man who could give specific answers. Interviews with prospective students and parents were arranged at the Fort Sumter Hotel by Henry C. Hutson, '50, and John Gass Bratton, '51, chapter president and secretary, respectively.
In WEST PALM BEACH Joel T. Daves, III, '50, president, and the Rev. J. R. Knox Brumby, III, '48, secretary - treasurer, are helping distribute Sewa- nee material to area high schools. In ST. LOUIS William C. Honey, '53, and Stanley G. Jones, '51, are showing Se- wanee slides this month to young peo- ple's groups in area churches.
Alumni and others interested in Se- wanee also got together recently in JACKSONVILLE and SARASOTA. For the former the occasion was a Lenten sermon March 17 preached by Sewanee Chaplain David B. Collins, '43, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, followed by a reception in his honor arranged by the Rev. L. Valentine Lee, H'47, rec- tor. In Sarasota Col. William G. deRos- set, '06, assisted with arrangements for showing the Sewanee movie at the Men's Club dinner meeting February 25 at the Church of the Redeemer. Alum- ni were especially invited to both oc- casions.
Movie Has
Wide Circulation
In the first six months of its circu- lation, the Sewanee movie has been shown to 115 audiences, approximately 6,000 people, plus television showing on WSIX, Nashville, and WRGP, Chat- tanooga. The demand for the movie has so far exceeded expectations that it has been necessary to request Se- wanee's friends to book it two or three months in advance.
An example of an effective use of the film is given by E. Ragland Dob- bins, alumni vice-president, who or- dered a print for Kansas City. In a period of five days he showed the movie four times to over two hun- dred people. His audiences included the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Andrew's Church, the Sewanee Club of Kansas City, the Men's Clubs of St. John's Church and of Christ Church, Spring- field, Missouri.
Jim Moody of Nashville arranged a television showing over WSIX-TV. Channel 8, and it was very well re- ceived throughout the Nashville and Sewanee area. Station WRGP-TV, Channel 3, in Chattanooga also showed it to good effect. Other alumni are following suit, telling their local tele- vision stations about the film and some extremely interesting possibilities are under negotiation. This is a good way for alumni in far-flung parts to ac- quaint their neighbors with their alma mater.
May, Nineteen Fifty -Nine
About Sewanee Alumni
Joseph C. Fargo, '£4, ons of the founders of the Sigma Nu chapter at Sewanee, left $3,000 in his will for Se- wanee. A check for that amount was received by Bishop Frank A. Juhan late in April. Fargo, who also attended Washington and Lee and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, was the retired president of Globe Cotton Mills in Au- gusta, Georgia.
The Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed, '95, PDT, was honored by the diocese of Louisi- ana on the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on April 6.
The educational building of St. James' Church in Perry, Florida, is to be named in honor of George E. Porter, '07, church school superintendent for more than thirty years.
George L. Watkins, '07, PDT, ha.. been made chairman of the Tulsa County Excise Board, being named by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
Bishop Frank A. Juhan, '11, has been installed as chapter advisor to Beta Theta chapter of Delta Tau Delta.
A book fund has been established in St. Luke's Library in memory of th<; late Rev. Sidney L. Vail, 11, of New Orleans, by his wife and two sons who have contributed $1,600 for the purpose.
The only Sewanee alumnus known to be breeding registered Arabian horses is Jackson A. Milem, '23, SN, of Ar- lington, California, who continues to operate a pharmaceutical business in Los Angeles sixty miles away. ,
Coleman A. Harwell, '26, KA, editor of the Nashville Tennessean, on March 5 began a ten-week journey to Greece,
To every alumnus who correctly identifies each man in this photo and also names the group of which they were members will be sent, free, a bronze Sewanee Me- dallion.
Israel, Afghanistan, Ceylon and Indo- nesia to conduct journalism seminars sponsored by the S;rte Department.
Thomas R. Waring. Jr., '27, ATO, edi- tor of the Charleston Neivs and Courier. will receive an honorary degree from the Citadel on June 6. In February he appeared on a national TV program, speaking in opposition to racial inte- gration of schools.
Ewing Y. Mitchell. '33, PDT, por- trays the sheriff on the Sky King TV program.
Herbert E. Smith Jr., '36, PDT, is president of the Associated Industries of Alabama.
The Rev. Richard H. Kirchhoffer, '40, SAE, continues to find his work chal- lenging at St. Timothy's Church in Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii, and wou'd like to hear from his friends (P. O. Box 532).
William R. Nummy, '47, ATO, as- sistant director of the Physical Research Laboratory of Dow Chemical Company, read a paper on polymerization at the San Francisco meeting of the American Chemical Society.
M. Eugene Morris, '49, SN, has begun the general practice of law in McLean, Virginia, after several years of public relations work for the trucking associa- tions.
Sgt. Richard D. Conkling, '57, is seeking $3,000 for water supply and building at the Heimyung Children's Home in Korea, which is receiving aid from his military unit, M/C Co. 304th Sig. Bn., APO 301, San Francisco, Calif.
The Rev. A. C. D. No?, '07, is the author of Above the Rim and Other Poems, just published by Exposition Press, New York, $3.50. He and three bro- thers have served almost tioo hundred years in the ministry. Now retired, he is president of Colonial Bath (N. C), restorers of a colonial town.
Cook Book Is A Success
The Sewanee Cook Book has paid for itself. The ladies responsible for this epicures' delight — Miss Charlotte Gailor and her corps of editors, con- tributors, and proofreaders, and Mrs. M. F. Jackson and Mrs. Frank Fortune, who spearheaded the sales effort — now report that all additional income will go to the Chapel Completion Fund for St. Augustine's Guild room.
About half of the original order of 2,5€0 volumes has been sold. The re- maining volumes will bring to the All Saints' fund approximately $3,000. All persons having a part in the editing and promotion of the book and all shops distributing it contributed their services.
Sewanee s White
Hunter
Harold M. Prowse, '50, ATO, is a businessman but a very unusual one. He is a white hunter in East Africa with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. He first went to Africa after complet- ing post-graduate studies at Harvard, and with him went two friends from Birmingham, one Ed Seaeram, '51, ATO. The trio hoped for a Cape Town to Ceiro venture, but on reaching Nairobi, personal problems at home in- terfered and they decided to finish with a two-week hunting trip. Prowse couldn't afford it and persuaded their white hunter escort to take him along as a non-hunting, unpaid, truck driver- photographer, and kter he became his assistant.
On a special elephant-hunting trip Prowse proved so good (he killed two charging elephants at a range of less than fifteen yards) that he earned his full hunter's certificate in less than a year. Then came an opportunity to join up with White Hunters, Ltd., the largest safari company (sixteen hunt- ers) operating out of Nairobi and handling a tremendously growing busi- ness, seventy-five percent of which is American.
Most of his pleasure on safaris comes from exploring new country and seeing game. He likes to hunt and kill cleanly and quickly with no guesswork or luck involved. If dangerous game is wounded, he goes after it himself, leaving his client behind. "If I'm clawed by a wounded leopard," he explains, "it's a few weeks in the hospital. If the client's hurt, it costs me and the firm money. He stays behind."
Only about a fourth of his safari time is spent on hunting. The rest involves camp management, maintenance of equipment, and keeping his boys healthy and straight. "When I do get into Nairobi, most of my time is spent in refitting for the next safari, making bookings with the Game Department, and corresponding with prospective cli- ents," he says.
When his hunting days are through, he'd like to do some ranching in the Pacific Northwest. Address: P. O Box 3624, Nairobi, Kenya, C. E. Africa.
The Sewanee News
Alexander Wellford
Alexander White Wellford's under- graduate career at Sewanee very ac- curately foreshadowe 1 the quality ol leadership he has been giving to civic, commercial, and spores enterprises ever since. He entered the University of the South from Memphis in the fall of 193') largely because of his interest in Se- wanee's sports program, particularly football. Besides freshman numerals he won three varsity letters in football and in tennis, serving as captain in bo;h during his senior year. He also led SAE fraternity to campus champion- ships in handball and he played var- sity basketball for three years, as he modestly puts it, 'without distinction.'"
He was a member of the student ves- try, president of the Gsrman Club, president of his sophomore class, vice- president of his senior class, a member of ODK and Blue Key. The high point of his athletic career took place in his sophomore year when Sewanee upset an undefeated LSU team 12-6 in the last winning season (6-3-1) which Se- wanee ever was to enjoy in conference football. In that game halfback Well- ford played all over the field, passed 46 yards to Andy Stimson for one TD and ran the other over from the four-yard line.
In 1933, his last year of football, he was moved by Coach Harry E. Clark from half to fullback at midseason. Wellford made five touchdowns to be- come one of the leading scorers in the Southeastern conference and to win a place on Bobby Dodd's all-star team in the Great Smoky intersectional game.
After leaving college he went into the business he has followed ever since — lumber and stave manufacturing. Starting at $50 per month in Stevenson, Alabama, he spent a year each there and in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Still on a precarious depression salary, he was married in 1935 to his high schcol and college sweetheart Peggy Walker. Their friends then and now consider th<; match ideal. Wellford moved back to Memphis awhile and then to Arkan- sas, going to Missouri in 1938 for two years. During these moves he capi- talized on the botany and forestry he had studied at Sewanee, but found him- self on a limb in 1946 when the firm he was with, Chickasaw Wood Products Company, sold out to National Dis- tillers.
Wellford went with the latter cor- poration for a year, then resigned, liv- ing for a season on his savings. He then organized two companies, Wellford Brothers and Klepsig and H. H. Mabry and Company, becoming president of both. He also became partner and di- rector of the firm J. E. Dilworth Com- pany. In the past decade the position of the firms has steadily improved.
Alex and Peggy have three children: Margaret, a senior in Connecticut Co! - lege; Alex, Jr., in the eleventh grade; and Christina, in the first. Young Alex is a top-flight student, a good basket- ball player, and in tennis won the state Junior Jaycees tournament as well as the Tennessee Valley boys' tournament last year.
This snapshot of the Wellford family is incomplete without Christina, Queen of Grade One. But the four-fifths minority shown here includes Alex, Jr., Margaret, Peggy Walker, looking just as she did at Sewanee dances in the early thirties, and the Champ himself. Class of 1934.
Wellford's post-graduate sports ca- reer is remarkable. He laid off tennis for twelve years — his travels wouldn't allow it. Then in 1939, in his late thir- ties, he went back to the courts. Since then he has been Mississippi Valley Champion (1952), Tennessee Open Men's Champion (1953), and has played (and lost) at Wimbledon. He won the national doubles senior championship with Slew Hester of Mississippi last year, when he was rated eighth nation- ally in the senior division, having held tenth spot in 1956. Last fall he got to the semi-finals at Forest Hills, where he lost to Gardner Mulloy, 6-3, 6-3. Wellford has played golf in some fact company — the Southern Amateur championships — but has never brought horn; the trophy.
It is as a civic leader that Wellford has found the most satisfying outlet for his abounding energy. With his weight within three pounds of what it was in college, the youthful looking Memphian is a familiar figure in his hometown when challenging jobs are being handed out. Besides a long list which includes cctivity in the Presbyterian Church, presidency of the Memphis University Club, and leadership in numerous charitable drives, he has made his most significant contribution as founder of a prep school. Wellford is the first chairman of the board of trustees of the five-year-old Memphis University School and has headed the succession of drives which have raised for it over $800,000. Today the School still owes $195,000 but it owns ninety choice acres worth about $4,000 each, has a new classroom building and gym, boasts an enrollment of 165 and has a record en - vied and respected by Memphis edu- cators.
Of Wellford, Mayor Ed Orgill said, "I regard his leadership in the reestablish- ment of the Memphis University School as a civic achievement of the first mag- nitude. . . . He has shown a willingness
throughout his busine;s career to give his time, money, and talents to worth- while causes. He is certainly an out- standing asset to our community. Be- cause of his sportsmanship and clean life, he is a fine example to our young people."
The most convincing evidence of Wellford's worth as a citizen app2arecl in the unanimity of enthusiasm ex- pressed by the score of persons intar- viewed in the course of writing this article. "Wellford? He's the best . . . you just can't beat him . . . never knew a finer sportsman . . . never knew a more nearly ideal mm. Playing ball with him was a priceless experience . . . courage, perspective, mo:lesty, spirit . . . has them all!"
Theodore C. Heijward, Jr., '37. DTD, is the new president of the North Caro- lina Society of Engineers and a trustee of the University from the diocese of North Carolina.
May, Nineteen Fifty-Nine
Births
Felix Campbell, III, son of Felix C. Dodd, '43, on March 14, 1959, in Nash- ville.
Jefferys Hobart, son of Dr. Calhoun Winton, '48, PDT, and Elizabeth My- ers Winton, SS'45, and grandson of the Rev. George B. Myers, '07, DTD, on February 7, 1S59, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Miller Smith, son of Dr. Stephen E. Puckette, '49, ATO, March 26, 1959, in Chattanooga. The young man is named for his mother's brother, the late G. H. Miller Smith, SMA'36.
Melissa Marie, daughter of Robert Cherry, '50, PDT, on March 24, 1959, in Nashville. Mr. Cherry is now a stu- dent at St. Luke's at Sewanee.
Francis Crittenden, Jr., son of F. Crit Currie, '50, PDT, on March 31, 1959, in Memphis.
Lilian Parker, daughter of Douglas M. Wright, '50, PDT, in March, 1959, in Nashville.
Richard Dorsey, III, son of Lt. Rich- ard Dorsey Boult, Jr., '51, ATO, on February 1, 1959. His father is a naval aviator now attending postgraduate school at Monterey, California.
Francis Harrison Inge, son of Thai) G. Holt, '51, PDT, on March 12, 1959, in Mobile, Alabama.
Jane Dunbar, daughter of the Rev. John G. Arthur, '52, on December 15, 1958, in Slidell, Louisiana.
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Desmond P. Wilson, '53, SAE, on October 24,
1958, in Calcutta, India.
William Jeffery, son of William F. Bridgers, '54, ATO, on February 5, 1959, in St. Louis, where Mr. Bridgers is a senior in medical school at Washing- ton University.
Jorn Ward, Jr., son of John W. Boult, '55, ATO, on March 16, 1959, in Arling- ton, Virginia, where his father is sta- tioned with the navy's judge advocate general's office.
Peter Fletcher, son of Fletcher S. Stuart, '55, ATO, on February 23, 1959.
Anne Kathleen, daughter of John A. Lever, '56, on January 28, 1959, in Wies- baden, Germany, where he is in the army.
Charles Josiah, son of the Rev. John A. Pedlar, '56, on April 9, 1959, in Oklahoma City, where Mr. Pedlar is in charge of St. John's Church.
Elizabeth Maury, daughter of Bur- rell O. McGee, '56, SAE, and grand- daughter of James Joseph Gee, '28, on December 14, 1958, in San Angelo, Texas, where Lt. McGee is on duty with the air force.
Elizabeth Theresa, daughter of the Rev. Herman B. Huff, '57, on Febru- ary 21, 1959. He is in charge of St. An- drew's Church, Douglas, Georgia.
Lori, daughter of John M. Stuart, '58, ATO, granddaughter of Thomas Hawkins of Sewanee, on February 3,
1959, in Mobile, Alabama.
Young Mary Lawrence Hicks, now al- mos: five months old, and father, the Rev. William L. Hicks, '49, SN, rector of Christ Church, Lancaster, South Caro- lina.
Marriages
Stewart Phinizy Hull. '36, BTP, to Lilian Whitman Hamilton on January 17, 1959, at St. Simons Island, Georgia.
David C. Tallichst, Jr.. '44, KA, to Cecilia Ann Dennis on March 21, 1959, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
The Rev. Richard Robert Cook, '49, to Patricia Ann Young on November 10, 1958, in Monroe, Louisiana.
Kyle Wheelus, Jr., '52, PGD, to Mar- garet Earle Collier on February 14. 1959, in Jasper, Texas. He graduated in January from the University of Texas Law School and is practicing in Beaumont.
John Jay Hooker, Jr., '53, PDT, to Eugenia Wimberly Fort on April 11, 1959, in Nashville. Mrs. Hooker is a granddaughter of the late Dr. Rufus Fort, '94, SN.
James H. McIntosh, Jr., '53, PDT, to Cornelia Belle Ladd on April 4, 1959. in Garden City, New York.
Edward Scruggs Criddle, Jr., '54, ATO, to Mary Brandon Quails on Jan- uary 31, 1959, in Springfield, Tennes- see. He is an I.B.M. electronic com- puter programmer in Nashvide for the state of Tennessee.
Gene Eyler, '54, SN, to Cynthia Ing- leson on April 24, 1959, in Cranbrook, Michigan. He is a steel salesman for Bliss and Laughlin, Detroit, Michigan.
The Rev. John S. Power, '54, to Mrs. George Allingham on January 4, 1959. He is assistant rector of St. Mark's Church, Medford, Oregon.
Ross I. Evans, Jr., '55, PDT. to Pat Camp on January 20, 1959, in Chatta- nooga.
Lt. Glenn M. Cooper, '55, SN, to Marilyn Hudson in January, 1959, m Little Rock. They live in Monticello, Arkansas, where he is president of M. L. Sigmon Forest Products, Inc.
Thomas Howard Ellis, Jr., '58, PGD, to Judith Bishop on February 28, 1959, in Asheville, North Carolina. He is with the U. S. Forestry Service in New Bern, North Carolina.
Deaths
George Henry Williams, '92, SAE, died September 2, 1958, in Duarte, Cali- fornia. Most of his life was spent in Monrovia, California, where he was mayor for sixteen years and a banker for forty years.
Dr. William E. York, M'94, died De- cember 7, 1958, in Giddings, Texas. He attended the medical school at Sewa- nee in its second year, graduating from Tulane University in 1894. Mrs. York survives.
Robert Maxey, '96, died May 12, 1958, in Austin, Texas, at the age of 84. An alumnus of the Grammar School and the College, he came to Sewanee from Austin. For a number of years he was associated with the Department of In- ternal Revenue and later was an in- vestment broker. He was a benefactor of a number of Texas schools and of the University of the South, and in his will he left to Sewanee and to the University of Texas properties of con- siderable value.
An official of the University of Texas has written about Mr. Maxey as fol- lows: "No straight news story would be likely to catch his personality. A member of one of Austin's most dis- tinguished families, he was the com- plete aristocrat; but like most true aris- tocrats his sense of importance focused on ideas and ideals, not on himself. He did a great deal of good. His better- known philanthropies had to do with the Episcopal Church; many years of friendly kindness, however, touched the lives of students and faculty and resi- dents."
Dr. Robert South Barrett, '98, DTD, died February 24, 1959, at the National Elks Home in Bedford, Virginia. He had been national head of the Elks and was much interested in their charities and in the Florence Crittenton Homes. He had been an international banker and publisher and served for a time in governmental posts abroad. He served as chairman of Sewanee's Expansion Fund Campaign Committee in 1927- 1928, and in 1930 was Sewanee's Com- mencement orator, receiving a D.C.L. degree at that time. His survivors in- clude Mrs. Barrett, sister of the late Vernon Tupper, '02, three sons, and a daughter.
The Rev. Jesse McVeigh Harrison, '00, KA, died January 27, 1959, at West Park, New York, after an illness of several years. He was salutatorian at Sewanee in 1900, then a law student at Washington University, before en- tering the General Theological Semi- nary. In 1910 he became a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. He served for a time as missionary to Liberia.
The Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, '08, ATO, died April 6, 1959, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The senior active bishop of the Episcopal Church, he had announced plans for retirement in July. He was salutatorian of his college class, then received an MA. from Harvard before entering the Virginia Seminary. He was ordained deacon at Sewanee in
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1912. In 1922 he was elected bishop coadjutor of North Carolina, becoming diocesan in 1932. He served as presi- dent of the Province