Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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SOME MEN OF THE YEAR STUART Better known as Jack, George Iv. Stuart, Jr., has in his three years at ' Soutiiern made more friends and (next to Mr. Hunt) told more stories than anyone else around. Giving up a good legal practice and political future because he likes to be around college students, the Assistant to the President and general liaison officer of the College keeps the wheels turning smoothly. To him goes the honor of making friends because he likes to make friends, not because he can use them for stepladders to something else. ABHRNETHY This fastest-talking, fastest-moving man on the campus has, as you probably suspect, accomplished things in a hurry. Between teaching English, American Lit, South Today broadcasts, and collabora- tions on Trial Bv Jur . he has brought the College Theatre to a high place among such workshops in the South with this year ' s productions of Night Must Fall and Craig ' s Wife. In addition to getting married within the last year, he received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. ANDERSON With a College Choir noted over the South for its ability to make real music, Mr. Raymond F. Anderson this year branched out and produced Sullivan ' s operetta. Trial By Jury. That was in the Fall. Winter brought him the distinc- tion of leading the Birmingham Music Club Chorus and the Choir with the Bir- mingham Civic Symphony for the second straight year. Spring brought the an- nual tour ; this time they went East and broadcast over a national hook-up from Washington.

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HONORING I ' oSEY Returning from his year ' s sabbatical in Hawaii, where the sentiment was about (Hvicled as to whether the students should or should not wear shoes to the University, Dr. Walter Brownlow Posey reassumed his chairmanship of the Division of Social Sciences. Noted for his long-winded but thought-provoking method of questioning students, a keen mind, and a wife who should have been a writer, he scares Fresh- men to jitters by brandishing class-cards, be- fore them each time one bobbles an answer. POOR Although he will tell you that in his opin- ion there is no oil in Alabama, Dr. Russell S. Poor this year condescended to lead a group of experts in search of the liquid. He came back with an I-told-you-so smile. The head of the Division of Natural Sciences covers a lot of ground in his geological rock- liunting, but students usually toss bouquets instead of pebbles at his classroom method because he can keep them awake without their regretting it. McWILLIAMS The big subject in the mind of Mr. Mc- VVillianis is no longer Chaucer ' s astrological computations or the power of the comita- tus in Beazvulf. No. Richebourg Gaillard, Junior, sends him to class these days with such astounding statements as : A child cannot focus its eyes until it is several weeks old. Between such statements, Richebourg. vSr., heads the Humanities Division. [«]

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s. La r ROM the President to the lowhest janitor; from Doctors of Philosophy down to Shine who makes the best waffles in the country, the men who make the College are a smoothly tunctiuninti ' organism. To them we go to pay our bills, api eal for morato riums, and receive the awful news about grades. The3»lanMu ' course s, te ach our classes, and disj ense every- thiiwl fn th| n dbi es mM)SGmidni as to such advice her shoes or lavendar to accent her skirt. They hide our foibles, encourage our originality, and act as safety valves for our hairbrained ideas. Under them the student bodies of succeeding generations flow past, leaving these men to observe and draw conclusions from the mobile stream of maturing human beings whose attitudes today fore- cast America ' s trends tomorrow. The entire group is devoted to the single ideal of the liberal arts college : to teach enlightenment and independence in order that enlightenment and independence may help the student learn for himself the joy of living.