Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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W . Q E I I ' gi 'i is ' Glnnavruatnrg Eliarnltg Jos Director of Mi1.ric, XVILLIAM S. BAILEY Professor of Piano and Theory LOUISE LIN, A.B., B.M. Professor of Piano LOULIE BARNETT, A.B., HAI. Professor of Piano and Theory R,-XY BALLARD, AB., BQXI. Professor of Piano ZILLAH HALSTEAD, B.M. Professor of Piano ESTHER RHODES, A.B. Professor of Piano LOUISE C. TITCOMR Professor of Pipe Organ GLENN PRIEST IMAERZ Professor of Violin MRS. SALLIE WILSON CROCKETT Professor of Voice EPH M.1XERZ Pianofo rte, llliisical Histors' MRS. WANDEEN WEBBER Professor of Voiee LEVVIS G. THONIAS, A.R., AAI. Professor of Piano ANNE CHENAULT WALLACE Professor of Oral English ROSETTA RAULSTON RIVERS Professor of flrt CALLIE IRVIN COOK Professor of Ceramic dr! EDGAR H. HOW'ERTON Ifeazl of Vocal Department Professor of Voice H.ARRIET EVANS, AB. Professor of French LEON PERDUE SMITH, JR., A.B. Professor of French and Italian MRS. MONROE OGDEN Professor of Piano and Solfeggio RIILDRED MCCRORY, A.B., B.M. Seereiary to the Director F f QF 'iii Ii i W..-,.,,, v ,, -, , !13E - ., - - Q-.75 1273

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4 - , ' J '-w --- . -- Y -- axxv ' - f- - Lg ..- ,-, ,. mdlllli NIU 'WIFI' V' ,if wi 19ete1r1'n,pI 'Si e 4222 .1 u g -all mealvgan-152151, Igrearnt sinh Fllutnre The 0111 order ehangeth, yielding place to new. Frilled hoopskirts, flowered bonnets, gentle voices, soft laughter, delicate perfume of lavender and scent of summer flowers, the blending of the spirit of youth with the spirit hovering over the towers and walls-such was the scene when the first graduating class-the class of 1840-went out from Wesleyfan College, fo'ur years after its opening. The founding of Wesleyan was the result of toil and effort on the part of far- sighted ones who felt, rather than saw, the great emancipation of woman looming in the coming years. On the now historic walls of the college hangs, faded and wrinkled and quaint, in its frame of old gilt, the first diploma granted to a woman. Bearing the date 184.0 and the name of Bliss Catherine Brewer-later the mother of Admiral VV. S. Benson, of lllacon, it hangs there, a memorial to the struggle which has at last resulted in victory, the struggle of the womanhood of the world for freedom from the irksome bonds of ignorance and repression. Since those first years of Bishop George F. Pierce's administration, when Wesleyan was surrounded by a high wall, when there were few students, when there was much opposition and many drawbacks, VVesleyan has become a standard institution recognized by the world as the first chartered college to grant a degree to a woman. Its curriculum has been raised, the endowment fund increased and the faculty and student body enlarged to such an extent that it has received membership in the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the Southern States, the American Association of Colleges, and the American Association of University VVomen. All VVesleyan graduates are now eligible to membership in this latter organization. At about the time when this class of '26 goes forth from the old chapel, equipped with a hard-won diploma and the indomitable spirit which is wafted vaguely to all who come within the historic portals of the institution, work of construction will be begun on the magnificent new plant at Rivoli. Here, on one hundred and thirty-two acres of rolling land, will rise the enlarged structures from which new names will constantly be added to the list of already more than three thousand graduates. These graduates have gone out, and will continue to go out, honoring the name of the Oldest and Best and contributing a share, however small or great, to the progress of the world. The dream of a Greater Wesleyfan at Rivoli was a far more gigantic one than the iirst dream of the college on the hill, but the same spirit was the basis of both visions. The same courage which constructed the first old buildings at the present site will carry through to its completion the program of advancement embodied in the plans for Greater VVesleyan. And now? Tailored skirts, short-cut hair, gay young voices, girlish laughter, delicate perfume of Coty, and scent of summer flowers, blending with the spirit hovering over the walls and campus-such is the scene when the latest graduating class-the class of 1926- goes out from VVesleyan College, ninety years after its foundation-perhaps the last class to ever receive diplomas from the college on the hillfl A new campus, a new life, but a continuation of the same indomitable, loyal spirit of VVesleyan, will be found out at Rivoli. Dreams really do come true. The Wesleyfan of old will be truly the Greater VVesleyan f tomorrow. EVELYN AVEN. Ti :- I ce A I L., 'P'--tr ' -36-7 gg ,, ,L i 5 tb - g 2,33 C295