Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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BOOK I: THE COLLEGE VIEWS FACULTY BOOK II: THE CLASSES SENIORS JUNIORS SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN BOOK III: FEATURES SUPERLATIVES SNAPS BOOK IV: ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNING BODIES PUBLICATIONS STAGE CLUBS BOOK V: ATHLETICS SOCCER BASKETBALL OTHER SPORTS ADVERTISEMENTS

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To serve as a record of a year at Wesleyan in which hope, faith, loy¬ alty, and action have combined to offer triumph to the educational world, and to preserve this spirit of attainment, we present this volume.

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•m ■ Ol)£ Scarlet From THE very earliest DAYS, more than a hundred years ago, when t he idea of equal education for women first dawned upon the world, Wesleyan College has inspired in the hearts of men and women a deep feeling of selfless devotion. It has always been so. Wesleyan has never been wealthy; never, for long at a time, free of hardship; yet a scarlet thread of sacrifice on the part of those who loved her has been woven into every year of her history. It is unique among colleges, this brave, sacrificial loyalty that Geok ;k Foster Pierce has carried the college through so many trying periods. Many great and wise and influential people have given their devotion to this college; a few of them have been wealthy, a great many of them humble. The urgent desire to fight to the death for Wesleyan was born even before her charter was granted. The handful of men who appealed to the state legislature for the charter had already argued themselves hoarse with those who said “the female mind was incapable of development and “all that a woman needed to know was how to read her Bible and paint a daisy in water colors. No doubt they were al¬ most too exhausted to think of their best points as they spoke to the legislature on December 23, 1836 a legislature tired and eager to get home for Christmas and not at all interested in woman’s education anyhow. hen the bill seemed lost, esleyan’s first champion outside of that little group of founders sprang to his feet. Alexander Stephens, then a young lawyer, was so moved that he made an impromptu speech. It was delivered in so fiery and eloquent a manner that his hearers were convinced, and the charter granted. It is unfortunate that we have no record of his speech, hut it was made from the heat of his convictions and he had no notes. We do know that he said later he considered his efforts on behalf of woman ' s education among the most important things he had ever done. As soon as the charter was granted, there began for the founders a period of - 8 -