Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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William J. Kimball, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Associate Professor of English, has received grants-in-aid for research on the Civil War and for post-doctoral study. He has pub- lished a source history, Richmond in Time of War, and has contributed to several professional historical magazines. English Department .A.. Ben H. Smith, Jr., Ph.D. (University of North Carolina), Assistant Professor of English, has continued to study the traditional aspects of the Middle Ages and the seventeenth-century meta- physical poets. His interest in music of the eighteenth century and before has been complemented by his study of several keyboard instruments. Andrew J. Mahler, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina), head of the English Department, is immediate past president of the North Carohna-V ' irginia College English Association. Dr. Mahler is recognized for his comprehensive understanding of language and literature and for his ability to communicate to his students an individualized appreciation of English. His time is devoted to intensive reading and to his students. Dr. Mahler is a scholar ' s scholar, and his service to Mary Baldwin College has been in- valuable. Marshall M. Brice, Ed.D. (University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Clemson College, Columbia University), Professor of English, is the co-author, with Dr. Ullin Leavell, of How To Study with Success and Satisfaction, and the author of numerous published poems and essays. Dr. Brice has represented Mary Baldwin College at annual meetings of the National College English Association for many years. He sponsors the Class of 1963. 27

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Faculty Emeriti Herbert S. Turner, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy, was cited by the Laurel Society as an inte- gral part of a student ' s conception of MBC. He was for a number of years vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees and led the College during critical formative years. His latest book, concerning his native Scotch-Irish community, Mebane, N. C, was pubhshed last fall by the University of North Carolina Press. As college chaplain, Dr. Turner continues to be in charge of the chapel serv- ice and is available for counseling with students, a function he has always fulfilled with deep understanding and insight. Fannie Barth Strauss, Associate Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, was a member of the first organized class of Mary Baldwin College, 1912. For 30 of her 44 years at MBC, she was supervisor for the Bluestocking, and she was given an award by the National Scholastic Press Association for her work. She is listed in Who ' s Who in the South and Southwest and in Who ' s Who Among American Women. Since her re- tirement last year. Miss Fannie has been engaged in bringing up to date the history of tlie College and in visiting nearby alumnae chapters. 26

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Julian E. White, Jr., Ph.D. (University of North CaroHna; The Sorbonne, University of Paris), Assistant Professor of French, was a Fulbright scholar and is a member of the Medieval Acad- emy of America. He recently translated a Regnard play for performance by the Mary Baldwin College drama department, . t present he is compiling an anthology of medieval French literature and writing a comparative study of Voltaire, Swift and Cyrano de Bergerac. Language Department: French and German Vega M. Lytton, M.A. (Drake University; Uni- versity of Chicago; Middlebury College; Al- liance Francaise; The Sorbonne, University of Paris), studied at the Sorbonne under a grant from the Christian Education Board of the Pres- byterian Church, U.S. She has traveled exten- sively in Europe and conducts European tours for college students. Gerda L. Dippman, M.A. (New York University, Friedrich Alex- ander Universitaet, Erlangen, Universidad de Madrid, Univer- sidad de Barcelona), Assistant Professor of German, is at pres- ent working on her doctoral dis- sertation, which deals witli Schiller ' s aesthetics. 28