Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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Crucifixion The world stopped. Three-fingered hands of the oak Dropped half-grown green to the ground Brown heat a blanket Crushed buds unborn white. Greener, browner, heavier The world stopped. Clouds haltingly brilliant Blackened with the sun. The hHill crimson bare Groaned with its load. Blacker, redder, heavier The world stopped. Wind winter white Swept the land. Blue streams of rain Shaped the red hill. Whiter, bluer, higher Three-fingered hands of the oak Lift full-grown to the sky. — Susan M. McCann A poetry workshop held in January stimu- lates interest and creativity. The culmination of this effort was a great response in entries to be judged in a contest. Larry Rubin, a poet and English professor at Georgia Tech; Vir- ginia Finney, the poetry editor of the Agnes Scott Aurora; and Margaret G. Trotter, as- sociate professor of English at Agnes Scott, choose Crucifixion by Susan McCann for first ' place and indicate a tie for second place — Bonnie Jo hHenderson ' s Infirmed and Linda Marks ' if there were a word. 27

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Eudora Welly, Southern creaflve writer from Mississippi, lectures in Gaines audltorlunn on the night of April the twentieth. Mark Van Doren, Professor Emeritus of Columbia University and well known literary critic and poet, lec- tures for the second time at Agnes Scott during Convocation on May the eleventh. 26

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The Art of Fiction is the correlation of pro- bable language to the possible situations be- tween men and demons. Demons are false prophets, false prides, and, more truly, false progresses. The willful imagination lifts the false into true performance, lops off the de- mon ' s head, and stands a story in its own good stead. — Bonnie Jo Henderson 28