Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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— IN MEMORIAM- • JOHN MAGRUDER SULLIVAN Dr. Sullivan ' s life spanned almost a century of service to God and the Church, not only in local and statewide connections, but in its ecumenical sweep. He was a charter member of the General Board of Lay Activities, and as a Conference Lay Leader for a quarter of a century, an outstanding leader in all Methodism, in this area of service. He was a delegate to many of the larger assemblies of the Church, such as: General Con- ferences, Jurisdictional Conferences and General Boards. But he found his metier in Christian Education. He organized a class of Millsaps College boys in connection with the Sunday School of Galloway Church early in the century. He taught Chemistry and Geology as phases of God ' s Divine Revelation to many genera- tions of college students, quoting to them our Lord ' s saying, Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, as proof that science and religion are equally facets of the great body of Truth. One of his old students says of him: Dr. Sullivan endeared himself to us because he took a personal interest in his students. He shared his moral and spiritual inspirations with us. He inspired our confidence. He was a great Christian and a great teacher.

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MRS. MARY B. STONE Mrs. Mary B. Stone, Associate Professor of English, and for many years Dean of Women at Millsaps College, died on December 19. 1956. Mrs. Stone was a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman ' s College where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. From George Peabody College in Nash- ville, she received her Master of Arts degree in English in 192S. She came to Millsaps College in 1931 as Dean of Women, and as a member of the Depart- ment of English. She served as Dean at Millsaps until 1952. After that date, she devoted her full time to teaching. Her students of many generations testify to her gracious manner, her scholarship, and her sympathetic interest in their educational growth. Her President says of her that she was known and admired by students and faculty alike for her devotion to high principles, her strength of conviction, her intolerance of mediocrity, her impatience with slothfulness, and her insist- ence on excellence. Her refreshing frankness and her pointed observations on any matter under consideration will be missed. Mrs. stone was a person of wide learning and of keenly intelligent mind. Her genuineness won the love of many and the respect of all. She was frank and honest in expressing her opinions, and impatient of all unreality and pre- tense. Her many friends found her unfailingly generous and loyal. She was a person of integrity, and of great strength of will. Knowing full well the precarious state of her health, she refused to husband her waning strength. She was careless of the prospect of death, and chose to live full - and usefully to the very end. At eleven o ' clock on the final day of recitations before the Christmas holidays, she taught her last class. Before that hour next day she was dead. Her brave and independent spirit had dreaded helplessness and dependence far more than death. I am sure it was as she would have wished it.

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CLASSES STUDENT GOVERNMENT SAM JONES President GRAHAM HALES Vice President NANCY PEACOCK Secretary ROBERT MINIS Treasurer SENIOR CLASS LARRY TYNES President JOHN McEACHIN Vice President IUNE STELLWAGON . Secretary-Treasurer CLASS OF ' 58 JIM WAITS President TOM FANNING Vice President PEGGY PERRY Secretary-Treasurer CLASS OF ' 59 JON ED WILLIAMS President CLIFTON WARE Vice President CLARA SMITH .... Secretary-Treasurer CLASS OF ' 60 GAYLE ERWIN President JOHN SHARP GATEWOOD . Vice President BETTY RARTLING . . Secretary-Treasurer