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

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16 ijuildi inas iplui ..J4l ouse Last year proudly referred to by the Sleep and Eat boys as a mansion, this year the roomy white house back of the gym becomes Goon Castle. Last spring the SAE ' s sold their house, bought a war bond with the money. During the summer the house was painted, redecorated, pre- pared for feminine occupation. At the beginning of the summer quar- ter thirteen lassies trouped up the front steps, unpacked their bags, placed pictures of vou-know-who on the dresser. Girls made their own house rules, enforced them with the aid of Dean Webb and Housemother Helen Boyd. Coopera- tion and honest girl-to-girl candid- ness prevail; also bull sessions, hot bridge games, ordering from the drug store at all hours. They say, during visiting hours, there are just as many SAE ' s around the house as there used to be. kt J4c oiiie The neighbors used to complain about the Lambda Chi ' s when that estimable frat occupied the house on the hill, said they made too much noise, didn ' t ever, ever, ever pull down the shades. Then came the advent of the feminine element, and the neighbors only complained about the noise. Mrs. Booker as- sumed the difficult role of house- mother and confessor, found her task pleasant and interesting. The houses shelters fifteen girls, all kinds and sizes. During finals girls hung easily dislodged shoes over the doors to insure privacy for study, made tea in the kitchen to keep awake, probably made good grades. Most often heard: Hurry up and get through with the phone!

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ke unqer It ' s a busy building, Munger. Students stream into Munger for classes, cramming the days lesson, hailing friends, nodding respectfully to professors. They rush out. toward the book store for a coke, or to the library to leave a book, or to Ramsay or Stockham or bimpson tor a class, or to the quadrangle just to loaf. Students trudge wearily up the marble steps ot Munger, and trip merrily down, and few of them know tliat sixteen years ago Ir. and Mrs R S Munger gave a bequest of $250,000 to build Munger Memorial Hall for the Hilltop. ' And on a dav when the sky is blue and the grass is gree a j ay is much too nice to stay indoors, thev might even doubt the worth of $250,000 worth of marble and Indiana limestone. But they know that without Munger the campus would lack somethmg, for it has come to be a Southern tradition, one of which all Hilltoppers are justifiably proud. 10

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and lU J uitder6 [■ feiident Ljeorae r . Stuart f feiiaent ana ex-f- reiident When the University of Alabama called Dr. R. R. Paty to act as its president last Au- gust, automatic choice for a new president of Birmingham-Southern was George R. Stuart, Jr. Usually known as Jack , the genial president always has time for a coke and bull-session in the Bookstore, never seems rushed, yet gets an amazing amount of work done. When President Stuart moved into the presidential mansion, he brought with him a first family that was cjuickly accepted and loved by Hilltop students. Smiling Eloise Harris Stuart has graced all Southern functions during the year, added charm to everything in which she has participated. George, HI, and Sullins, the little Stuarts , have ])econie as much a part of the campus as Munger or the library. Mr. Stuart is an alumnus of Southern, having finished here in 1924. He received his Master ' s degree from Emory University. For several years he practiced law in Birmingham, and joined the faculty of Southern in 1939. He served first as assistant to the president, and became Dean of Men in 1941. I Vi 1