Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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English Department Instills Appreciation of Language Emphasizing creativity while instilling in students an appreciation of great literature of the world, the Department of English has three major purposes: to give all students proficiency in the writing of clear and correct English; to give to all who wish to pur- sue electives in this department a deep understand- ing and appreciation of selected authors and periods of literature; and to provide, for those who wish to teach or to enter graduate school, adequate prepa- ration and thorough background for specialized study. For the second year, Miss Eudora Welty has held the position of Millsaps ' Writer-in-Residence. Through her seminars and lectures, she has inspired Millsaps students in the art of creative writing and has added an intellectual outlet to the English Department. ROBERT HERBERT PADGETT; Acting Chairman of the English Department; A.B., Texas Christian University; A.M., Vanderbilt University; Advanced Graduate Work, Vanderbilt University; Fulbright Scholarship, Universite de Clermont-Ferrand. PAUL DOUGLAS HARDIN; Associate Professor of English; A.B., Millsaps College; A.M., Duke University; Advanced Graduate Work, University of Southern California. MILDRED LILLIAN MOREHEAD; Associate Professor of English; A.B., Mississippi State College for Women; A.M., Duke University. 24

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FRANK MILLER LANEY, JR.; Professor of History; A.B., University of Mississippi; A.M., Ph.D., University of Virginia. WILLIAM C. HARRIS; Assistant Professor of History; A.B., A.M., Ph.D., University of Alabama. History Emphasizes Events in Their Intellectual Light The development of democracy, from its early idealism in tfie minds of philosophers to its success- ful experiment in the United States and its dismal failure in the French Revolution, to the changes in interpretation of the meaning of the term as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt altered its practical applications— such is only one of the varied concerns of the Department of History at Millsaps. History courses have been planned so that the student may follow the causal relationship in human development. Upon a thorough factual foundation emphasis is placed on the progressive organization of social, intellectual, and moral ideas of peoples and nations. ROSS HENDERSON MOORE; Professor of History; B.S., M.S., Millsaps College; A.M., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Duke University. MADELEINE M. McMULLAN; Assistant Professor of History; A.B., Trinity College; A.M., Th Johns Hopkins University; Advanced Graduate Work, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 23

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RICHARD DEAN HATHAWAY; Associate Professor of English; A.B., Oberlin College; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Western Reserve University. MARGUERITE WATKINS GOODMAN; Associate Professor of English; A.B., Agnes Scott College; A.M., Tulane University. EUDORA WELTY; Writer-in-Residence; A.B., University of Wisconsin; Lit- terorum Doctor, Smith College; Doctor of Letters, University of Wisconsin; Doctoris in Litteris, Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio). LOIS TAYLOR BLACKWELL; Assistant Professor of English; A.B., A.M., Mississippi College. 25