University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Dr. Alexander Guerrv, Chairman Mr. J. Albert Woods, V ice-Chairman Mr. Charles E. Thomas Vice-President for Endowment Gailor Memorial Dining Hall and Commons Gailor Memorial Dining Hall and Commons, New Science Hall, completed All Saints ' Chapel — these and the others must grow from sketch to stone. The ideals of a great university are not new to this place, the plan is sound and inspiring, and this year the campaign for fulfillment has gone forward with great power. The direct aim of the plan is the realization of a top-rank in- stitution with facilities for 500 undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences, 250 Sewanee Military cadets, and 75 Theological students. Physics 7 (Atomic Physics) was not offered in 1912 when the Carnegie Science Hall was erected. That year the total enrollment was 128. When Cannon Hall dormitory was built in 1925, it won a national prize for architectural excellence, and that year the stu- dent enrollment numbered 342. Today, with 500 undergraduates, ami with many qualified applicants regretfully turned away, Se- wanee faces a great challenge. Plant and instructional problems confront the University. The need is compelling. Part of the problem has been met by the re-erection of war sur- plus housing units. Palmetto Hall, a frame building rushed to completion last year, has made available more classroom and office space, but these temporary buildings do not provide enough space, and their life is most limited measured against Sewanee ' s traditional stone buildings. Efficient operation of the University will depend upon the new building program for which $2,000,000 of the total $5,000,000 will be allocated. Gailor Memorial Dining Hall and Commons will fill a need of first importance as one large dining-hall accommodating the entire student body, while the new Science Hall will release Carnegie Hall for much- needed administrative office space and additional classrooms. The abiding devotion of great teachers is no less today than yesterday the solid ground- work of Sewanee ' s genius. Not without personal sacrifice have many of these men come to Sewanee. Better salaries should be paid; a career of high service to the idea! of Christian education merits a comprehensive retirement plan, and academic grants for research and writing are mainsprings of academic excellence. Progress toward the realization of high ideals has been the central element in the development of the University. Three frame buildings made up the entire University plant for the students of 1868, and St. Augustine ' s Chapel was one of them. The completion of All Saints ' Chapel could not be undertaken in 1910, but in that year it was brought to its present stage of development. The site had been selected with great wisdom, for within a few hundred yards of where St. Augustine ' s stood, stands All Saints ' Chapel today, and the War Memorial Tower of completed All Saints ' Chapel will survey the same vista of beauty. Past progress has been slow, but it was carefully planned and is part of a grand design. Excellent buildings that now contribute so much to Sewanee ' s beauty are the heart of the plan, and not one stone building need be torn down. The present library needs an addition, but its architectural integrity remains. The service Sewanee gives is broader than that to undergraduates. Emerald-Hodgson Hospital ' s out-patient clinic treats 10,000 patients each year. Need for more space in the School of Theology is acute. While the College of Arts and Sciences through temporary housing has been able to take 500 undergraduates, the School of Theology

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BISHOP CHARLES T. QUINTARD First rice-Chancellor BISHOP FRANK A. JUHAN Present Chancellor iaer-i94r To The University of the South the years between 1867 and 1947 have been years of growth and progress. They have also been years of adversity and uncertain survival. But however dark the hour may have been, Sewanee has never lacked the two elements most essential to her genius — men and ideals. Her high ideals have inspired some of the ablest men of our times; and in turn, these men have seen to it that the source of those ideals was sustained. 1867 and 1947 are mile posts in the life of The Uni- versity of the South. At both times her magnificent spirit and idealism have been reflected and symbolized in the lives of two great bishops of the Episcopal Church in this country. Then it was Bishop Charles T. Quintard — now it is Bishop Frank A. Juhan. Together with Bishop Cling- man of Kentucky, Bishop Mitchell of Arkansas, Bishop Carruthers of South Carolina, and Bishop KirchofFer of Indianapolis, our Chancellor is now undertaking the most extensive solicitation by bishops in behalf of Christian education since Bishop Quintard ' s historic tour of Eng- land in 1867. From the time of the official opening of the Five Million Dollar Campaign for Buildings and Endowment in February, 1947, they have visited groups and individuals in towns and cities throughout the eastern United States, unselfishly giving of themselves in the service of Sewanee. Through personal devotion and sacri- fice, these men are bringing to fulfillment those plans whose very endurance through the years has been possible only because of an equal devotion in those who have gone before. A comparison between the services to The University of the South of Bishop Quintard and Bishop Juhan serves not only as a tribute to the work of these two men, but also as unmistakable e vidence of the remarkable single- ness of purpose in the unswerving pursuit of a great ideal which has characterized Sewanee from the first to the last. When Bishop Quintard became the Vice-Chancellor in 1867, The University of the South had as its assets the land on this mountain and the dynamic ideals of Bishops Otey, Polk, and Elliott. Nothing more remained of the work of these illustrious founders. All had been lost in the maelstrom of Civil War. The impoverished South was incapable of providing the financial resources neces- sary to put the University into operation. It was logical then that Bishop Quintard should take advantage of the opportunity to solicit funds offered him by his attendance at the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in London the same year. Following the conference, with the as- sistance of a committee of prominent English clergymen and laymen and encouragement from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Quintard made an extensive tour of English parishes and cathedrals. He was well received everywhere, obtaining generous donations and creating an interest in The University of the South which remained a source of great value to Sewanee long after his return. But the immediate result of his efforts, a sum of $10,000, indispensable though it was to the University in its straitened condition, is pitiable when compared to the $5,000,000 confidently being sought today. The beginnings of the University were insignificant indeed in the light of its founders ' magnificent dreams — dreams which all Sewanee men hope will find their consummation in the not too distant future. Today, as in the past, success i? dependent upon those men who have had the vision to see Sewanee ' s great fundamental ideals and the courage to fight for them, even at great personal sacrifice. It is most fitting that the Campaign should be in prog- ress at this time. It will not only enable Sewanee to become physically the great institution it has always been spiritually, but it will also meet a very real and pressing need of today. The University of the South now finds itself with the largest enrollment in its history heavily taxing its existing facilities, both academic and physical. It is able to meet year to year expenses only with the support of alumni and friends through the Living Endow- ment. Its faculty and staff are underpaid, and its class- rooms and dormitories are overcrowded. The future ability of The University of the South to continue effectively its program of a liberal, Christian education, so vital to the disillusioned world of today, may well depend upon the success of this campaign.

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St. Augustine ' s Chapel All Saints ' Now Carnegie Science Hall has not been able to reach its authorized strength t 75 students. The goal is $5,000,000 — an additional $3,000,000 for permanent endowment, the annual income from which will assure for the University the finest faculty and staff, and $2,000,000 for new construction. This is our challenge. When Bishop Polk of Louisiana, laying the cornerstone of The University of the South in i860, said to the 5,000 devoted persons gathered on this mountain, An institution . . . that thereby God may be glorified and the happiness of man advanced, we cannot think that he meant less than the University envisaged in the plan, which can be actualized by the campaign effort. We who are finishing our education at Sewanee feel the need because we live with it. We know the opportunity because the work of Sewanee has become a part of us. JfllH t New All Saints ' ¥■ - New Science Hall Dr. Oscar N. Torian in Clinic Present Library