Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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it that Mr. Mathis performed several ballet move- ments dressed in red tights and that Miss Greenhoe had blue hair and eyebrows and that Miss Jones wore a mourning veil! Winter quarter began with deep snow — as win- ter quarter should . . . En Garde became a reality . . . the wood butchers cut down the magnolia in front of Ritter Hall so the grass will grow but the courageous efforts of Mrs. Coe saved the one by the flag pole . . . the KD ' s Hootenanny was a major success with hitherto undreamed-of tal- ent being uncovered . . . Martha Whatley invented the 20c game . . . Mr. Coble produced Fumed Oak to the delight of visiting high school seniors . . . Brooks Hays came — accompanied by Look photographers (don ' t forget to clip your picture out of Look and paste it on the blank spot on the right) . . . leopard was rather obviously the fash- ion fur of the year on the Wesleyan campus . . . Mary Walker seems at home with leopard duster, slippers, and pillow. Mrs. Gulley — always just right — adds the final touch to this picture as she does to any Wesleyan function which she attends. 1 I ij i j,viyv : ' i!? ' ;. ' iXti . : -?. 14

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card from the Marine Biological School? Did you miss the Archers and Mr. McClary when they were at Rugby cataloging the Hughes Public Library? September brought new faces — both faculty and students . . . Mr. Blazier . . . Miss Hedley . . . Miss Jones . . . Mr. Ketron . . . Dr. Lacy . . . Mr. Senn . . . Dr. Schafer ... on leave — and much missed Mr. Sallis and Mr. Alton Smith . . . un- happily a recurring illness kept Mrs. Myers out of the library most of the quarter . . . President and Mrs. Mohney went to Europe with a group of Methodist Educators (see Mrs. Mohney, opposite page, bottom, among the ancient ruins of Athens, Greece) . . . they were welcomed back by a giant sign across the back of Blakeslee Hall . . . Brown and Dana, folk-singers, twisted the nose of the Student Body, which loved the pain ... an active concert series included Jose Molina ' s Spanish Ballet and the Kaleidoscopes . . . President Kennedy ' s assassination brought academic life to a standstill as the College sponsored an impressive memorial service on November 2 5... the flag flew at half- mast until students returned in 1964 . . . Basket- ball started with all of its accompanying excite- ment . . . John Lee, it was noted, had grown even taller . . . And the faculty got ready for a Christ- mas party to end all Christmas parties: rumor has

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... r Concerts continued: Robert MacDonald, pian- ist, and Marilyn Dubow, violinist . . . Mr. Ugly was Jack Edmonds . . . The Lettermen came to Wesleyan and were as good as they were expected to be . . . Dr. Harry Merrill of L.S.U., who will head Wesleyan ' s English Department next year, read a paper on Machiavelli to interested Wesleyan Scholars . . . Bishop Short and the Trustees had a two-day meeting on campus . . . R. V. Jennings did another television program of the Roundtable . . . And we mustn ' t forget the Debate Tourna- ment in Cookeville . . . This being Leap Year a Twirp Queen was elected . . . sadly the College marked the departure of the Shillings as he went on to work on a doctorate in Administration . . . happily the College welcomed the able new Assist- ant to the President, Jack King ... If you haven ' t already heard about it, get Joe Bowden to tell his dinosaur story. He might even draw a picture for you on the blank space to the left. The Neic Ex- ponent pulled a real April Fooler: can you forget Division I with the Beatle bobs? And what about Mr. McClary burning his Harbrace Handbook! (Confidentially it was really Buzz Beach ' s.) 15