Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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D A L Dr. Jones with Nurses Hagy and Bastin at the Infirmary. A newcomer to the Facultv this year was Dr. Eugenia C. Jones, resident physician and Professor of Hygiene. Having received her degree from Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, Dr. Jones has been a practicing physician for a number of years before coming here. She has proved herself exceedingly level-headed and capable, has seen the bewildered campus through a scarlet fever scare, one of the largest flu epidemics in the history of the college, and a series of measles cases. Her hearty laugh and keen sense of humor are as good as a tonic, and they were both sorely needed when Agnes Scott stu- dents had a phenomenal number of appendectemies before Christmas. Dr. Jones ' husband is as popular an addition to the college community as she is, and those who have heard him agree that his rich baritone voice would be a welcome addition to the Glee Club Opera Chorus. Assisting Dr. Jones in the Infirmary are Registered Nurses Mildred Hagy and Ruth Bastin. Miss Hagy, who received her training at Emory University Hospital, taught obstetrics there at one time. Miss Bastin, a Cum Laude graduate of Atlanta Girls ' High, is a student as well as a nurse. During the time she is not kept busy in the Infirmary she is attending classes or studying for them. Both nurses are efficient and popular with their patients. an 1 P H y S I C A L E D U C A T I n The Physical Education Department, headed by Dr. Jones, is largely handled by Associate Professor Llew- ellyn Wilburn. A grand sport, Miss Wilburn enjoys golf in her spare time, spent the spring vacation in Florida at a big golf tournament. She is an excellent referee of hockey and basketball games, and enjoys her work so much that students are inspired to come out more for class teams. Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp, Assistant Professor, is best known for her classes in natural dancing. In flimsy flit costume, she leads her classes with graceful, nat- ural movement, encourages them to better posture, freer motion in dancing. Miss Elisabeth Mitchell, popu- larly known as Mitch, instructs in tennis, archery and swimming and referees basketball games. She is lots of fun, corrects faulty tennis in a terse, business-like tone of voice. A beautiful dancer is Miss Eugenie Dozier, whose classes in modern, social and folk danc- ing are ever popular. She is a good planner, a tireless worker, and to her goes the responsibility of May Day. Physical Education Department lays care- ful plans for May Day — Miss Wilburn, Miss Mitchell, Miss Dozier, Mrs. Lapp.

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P H I L S P H y . EDUCflTIOn The Departments of Philosophy and Education are headed by versatile Professor S. Guerry Stukes, who is also Dean of Faculty, Registrar, and a teacher of Psy- chology. His classes are informal, and conducive to lively discussions into which every student feels free to enter. Lectures are spiced with pertinent illustrations from current history and from any number of subjects in which he has familiar interest. An excellent and very popular speaker, he is frequently called upon to make talks in Atlanta and Decatur and is regular teacher of the Men ' s Bible Class of the Decatur Presbyterian Church. At the Conference of Southern Universities this year he read a paper on Standards of Teacher Training. He is one of the college ' s best-known personalities, his chief characteristics being his hearty laugh, his friendly manner, and his sincere interest in all campus activities. Philosophy Professor Stukes is noted for his grand sense of hun an i p s y c h o l o g y Miss Emily Dexter is Associate Professor of Psychology and Education and as such she spends much of her time in the Psychology laboratory. She has a lively sense of humor, many tales to tell about people she has known, her relatives among them. Greatly inter- ested in research work, she likes to give Intelligence tests and Vocational Guidances tests to students, and regu- lar Psychology tests to young delinquents in the Juve- nile Courts of Atlanta and Decatur. She is co-author with Assistant Professor Omwake of a widely-used col- lege textbook, An Introduction to the Fields of Psy- chology. She is a provocative thinker, inspires students to hard work. Miss Katharine Omwake as Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education is able to help upper-class- men considerably in choice of vocation. She brings speakers to her classes from widely varying vocational fields, stresses the practical side of teaching as a career in her Education courses. Her lectures are always care- fully outlined, easy to follow. A recent traveler in Mex- ico, Miss Omwake enters enthusiastically into any dis- cussion of the country, loves to show her collection of Mexican weaving and silver. Misses Omwake and Dexter don ' t really need to look over this Psychology book —they wrote it. 25

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Although a degree in science is not given at Agnes Scott, the college offers a well-rounded program in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy. Professor Mary Stuart MacDougall, head of the Biology Department and a noted zoologist in her own right, has her doctor ' s degree from Universite de Montpellier, boasts the loudest academic robe in the Faculty procession. Quite recently she has completed a college textbook, Biology of Living Things, in collaboration with Mr. Hegner. Working with Miss Mac as Associate Professor of Botany is Mr. Ernest Hocking Runyon, who handles the study of plant life in the biological field. His hothouse is of constant interest to Freshmen Botany classes, his Local Flora field trips the envy of science students whose labs are held more formally inside. Instructors in Biology are Miss Blanche Miller and Miss Frances McCalla. Since they were students at Agnes Scott not so very long ago, Bee and Frank are sympathetic, understanding the Fresh- man ' s perplexity in a mass of technical terms. The Department of Chemistry is headed by able, good-natured Professor Robert B. Holt. An excellent teacher, he believes in explaining Chemistry so sim- ply and clearly that any girl can understand it. His lectures are full of comparisons, and humorous tales; he creates an atmosphere of informality in class by calling all students by their first names. • Mr Holt enjoys a 900c! laugh with Miss Gilchrist and Mrs. Fox. • The search under the microscope never ends for Miss MacDougald, Miss McCalla, Miss Forman, and Miss Miller. T H E sciences Miss Philippa Gilchrist, Associate Professor of Chemistry, works with advanced students, spending much of her time in the research laboratory. She is systematic and calm; she understands her work and knows how to explain it to others. To the bewildered first-year Chemistry student, Mrs. Mary Walker Fox is the guardian angel of the laboratory. Her clear, direct explanations and her insistence on good work are characteristic of her thoroughness in all her work. Mr. Schuyler M. Christian is Professor of Physics and Astronomy. His lectures are clear, spiced with frequent jokes, illustrated by innumerable sketches and charts on the blackboard. On a fellowship from the General Education Board, he is doing research work in the history of Science in the South, devotes his summers to this work at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Miss Loetta Willis, Instructor in Physics, does most of her work in the laboratory. She has taught Mathematics this year in addition to her work in the Physics Department. • Dr. Christian and Miss Willis take some measurements on the globe. • Are you sure it has stamens, Mr. Run- yon? ■If .