Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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Tennessee Wesleyan College is pleased to serve as a con- ference center for the work of the Methodist Church and for purely civic enterprises. During the recent year two out- standing youth conferences attracted attendance from the limits of the Holston Conference. Many Wesleyan students gave up portions of their holidays to take part in the confer- ences. A seminar entitled Christianity Confronts Communism was held during the Thanksgiving holidays. Guest speakers included Miss Mary G. Kesler, who was for years a missionary m China; Professor Creighton Lacey, a prolific writer on the conflicts between Christianity and Communism; and Robert Regan, Jr., Director of Education and Organizational Activi- ties for the General Board of Christian Social Concerns of the Methodist Church. Immediately after Christmas an important Church-related Vocations Conference met to help orient young people who are interested in a life of church work. Featured speaker was Dr. E. Stanley Jones, distinguished missionary, evangelist, and author. His work is felt throughout the world, but it is espe- cially evident in India where he was a personal friend of Gandhi and Nehru. 15

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Tennessee Wesleyan College ' s Art Collection, housed for the most part in Moffitt Hall, offers an opportunity for careful study. Among the paintings on exhibition are two works by internationally famous Walter MacEwen. Born in America, MacEwen nevertheless made his reputation in Europe where he lived much of his life. Paris, London, Berlin, Antwerp, Munich, Vienna, and Liege were the scenes of his greatest triumphs, for all of these cities gave his work official recognition. The Dutch bourgeois and Greek myth- ology were his favorite subjects, and Tennessee Wesleyan College owns his unique treatment of these combined themes. It is his well-knoviTi Judgement of Paris, pictured above. Better known in Europe, however, is his Woman of the Em- pire, which was the major success of the Paris Salon of 1903. The original of this painting hangs in the main lounge of Sarah Merner Lawrence Hall. Mrs. Martha B. Hale, head of the Art Department, is herself a painter with an international professional reputation, which included an invitation to hold a one-man show in Ankara, Turkey, three years ago. One of Mrs. Hale ' s paintings is the focal point of the decor of Assembly Inn, Montreat, North Carolina. 14

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