Montgomery Bell Academy - Bell Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Scien ce and History MR. LEE MERIWETHER, Jacksonville State, B.S.; Peabody, M.A. “I think the average M.B.A. student is proud to be here — but some of them would not be proud to be in heaven !” MR. JOHN RIGGINS, SewAnee, B.A. “The stu- dent is no more blind to the outside world than others of his own age and generation.” MRS. HOPE MARLOW, Vanderbilt University, B.A.; Peabody, M.A. MR. THOMAS O. OWEN, Vanderbilt University, B.A., M.A. “Some students’ loyalty and support of the school’s activities is a matter of convenience to the student”

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MR. TERRY HOLCOMB, Vanderbilt Univer- sity, B.A. English MR. SAM B. TURNER, Vanderbilt University, B.A. a6 MRS. ROWLAND LOWRY, Vanderbilt University, B.A., M.A. “The difficulties of communication rest on the fact that each individual is a cosmos unlike any other. ... On an in-class theme day, a student is as electrified as Hamlet fencing for his life in a duel.” MR. PHIL CONDRA, University of the South, B.A.; Southern Methodist University, M.A. “The academic climate should be one which allows a free exchange of re- sponsible ideas. The freedom should never extend to license.” MR. THOMAS YOUNG, JR., Vanderbilt University, B.A.

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MR. DONALD FAIRBAIRN, Peabody College, B.S., M.A. “The small classes, especially in mathematics, do much to encourage an individual to identify with a subject and participate actively in discussion and study, rather than adopt a more passive role.” MR. WILLIAM COMPTON, Davidson University, B.S.; Uni- VERSiTf of North Carolina. “The environment at M.B.A. lends itself to a constructive, personal contact between teacher and student. This relationship can become very close as long as the student does not take advantage of his position with the teacher for selfish purposes. Mathematics MR. JOHN BENNETT, Vanderbilt University, B.A. “Athletics gives the three basic qualities that I feel are lacking in a ma- jority of schools today: pride in the individual as well as in the school; discipline within a team and within the individual; competition in preparing the student to meet the many challenges of the future. ’ 18 DR. R. L. SAGER, Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., Litt.D. ; Peabody, M.A. “The biggest change in M.B.A. over the years is Mr. Carter.’’