Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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briskly walking to hi! Agnes Scott ' s President, Dr. James Ross McCain . . . friendly nod and smile for everyone on the campus . . . genial person- ality and ever-open office door typify the close connection be- tween the administration, faculty and students . . . calm, un- hurried air almost a campus tradition anecdotes of past college events bring delightful informality to conversation a senior coffee or to talks in chapel . . . outstanding leader i college and university circles ... in frequent demand as speaker . . . travels a great deal . . . takes with him the ideal of a liberal education ... has manner of a true Southern gentle

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The campus does not always look spring-like at Agnes Scott. Winter comes, and with it tall bare trees. The thin, curving branches of a tree reach out for the top of Main. On front campus the bare trees are seen silhouetted against the sky. They cast their shadows in grotesque patterns on the ground below. Look- ing up to the tower of Main we see bare branches, silvery in the sun-light. Winter brings a beauty all its own.

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S. G. Stukes . . . Dean of Faculty . . . Registrar . . . becomes friend from first meeting . . . helpful to students from their entrance through frenzied search for jobs at gradu- ation . . . brimming over with good spirits, old-fashioned com- mon sense . . . offers advice about schedules, personality, everything . . . aviator in World War I . . . studied for min- istry . . . famous for illustrative stories. Other party on Dr. McCain ' s office party line ... Mis Laura Steele . . . one time editor of Agnes Scott newspape . . . handles ail her work with rapid accuracy. First Lord of Exchequer ... Mr. J. C. Tart . . . manages finances of college and students . . . gives information from amount of lab fees to overdrawn accounts . . . combines banter with bustle. Proud of being pure Scotch from way-back . . . Mr. Howard M. MacGregor . . . Assistant Treasurer and Business Manager . . . Flashing smile . . . proud father of campus ' youngest spectators. Always scurrying on official business . . . Miss Martha Rae Lasseter, Secretary to Mr. Stukes ... of class of ' 44 . . . could not stay away. Miss Margaret Ridley . . . really lives up to the title Re corder . . . knows whether merits are A ' s or C ' s . . personal counsellor for students . . . genuinely interested. Also usually hurrying . . . Miss Helen Finger, Secretary to Mr. MacGregor . . . assistant mail mistress . . . does not mind answering telephone. Mr. Stukes— Dean and Registrar extraordinary. Miss Ridley and Miss Steele examine a student ' s personal record. Miss Lasseter and Miss Finger— secretaries select. '