Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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Editor Hubert Grissom Assistant Editor Mary Ann Griffin Copy Editor Howell Raines Business Manager Mac Moncus Circulation Manager Diane Copeland Pageant Director Marianne Hitchcock contents DEDICATION 14 IN MEMORIAM i 6 ADMINISTRATION 18 ACTIVITIES 38 BEAUTIES 70 GREEKS 98 SPORTS 126 ORGANIZATIONS 152 CLASSES 190 ADVERTISEMENTS 226 1 4 . r u

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Life here, though, is set within boundaries of time: September and May, Christmas and Spring, and when the threads of continuity and rapport are broken by absence, short or long, you may never find that same person again. Neither is this the place for permanence nor the time in your life for lasting, and the sadness lies in knowing that the difference from the way it was before is really within yourself. It isn ' t very hard to figure out what to do then; follow the old routine. Everything has waited, conspiring, knowing that you would come full circle back to yourself alone again. Then draw yourself up into the smallest space onto the most easily defended ground. There, still, are the books and the long, long walk across the quad, past the concrete circle where the sun dial used to be, between two ugly build- ings made bearable by the night. I. '

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dedication Who is he, this man of many faces? A fifty-vear-old boy wonder who . . . plays tennis two hours every day looks at home in a heavy fog with damp cigar and his hands in his pockets fears nothing except bats in a dark room can step onstage and into any character can make a girl smoke a cigar and pretend to like it continually receives top halves for his glasses plays first trash can, last chair in the symphony of the absurd can give a 98-pound girl courage to climb a 60-foot ladder and hang curtains on non-existent rods collects more disciples daily — and deserves them dares to present the new and often misunderstood stops what he ' s doing to chase moths demands the impossible — and gets it manages to be the forboding professor and still keep his classes laughing understands both tragic and comic, the reasonable and the absurd Who is this man? His many faces demand many names: Arnie . . . The Great White God . . . Dr. A mold Powell. 14