Westminster Schools Atlanta - Lynx Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Mr. Donn Gaebelein Director of Westminster School for Boys A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Columbia University; Teacher of Bible; Adviser of Honor Council. Mrs. Walter C. Herbert Principal of Westminster School for Girls A.B,, Converse College; M.A., Emory University; Teacher Bible; Adviser of Student Cabinet. Mr. John Elliott Galloway Principal of Westminster Middle School B.A., Wake Forest College; B.D., Union Theological Seminary; Graduate Study, Columbia University, Emory University; Com- mander U. S. Navy, 1942-45, 1951-58; Teacher of Bible and mathematics. Mrs. Thomas H. McDill Principal of Westminster Lower School Erskine College; B.S. in Education, Oglethorpe University; Mas- ters in Education, Emory University.

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ADMINISTRATION Dr. William L. Pressly The President of the Westminster Schools Under the leadership of Dr. WiOiam L. Pressly, The Westminster Schools have achieved national eminence among independent schools. With indefatigable energy, he has created hete a climate which demands academic excellence with spiritual and emotional maturity. In 1951 Dr. Pressly came to the then small Westmin- ster campus with every promise of developing an out- standing institution. Having been graduated from Prince- ton with honors in English, then the recipient of the Master of Arts degree from Harvard University, Dr. Pressly became head of the Department of English of the McCallie School of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Named Associate Headmaster of the school in 1947, the follow- ing year the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him by Washington and Lee University. Before coming to Westminster Dr. Pressly served as Co-Headmaster of McCallie. During his years of service in the field of secondary education, Dr. Pressly has held, with enthusiasm and ability, voluntary posts with many organizations each dedicated to the promulgation of the finest principles of education. Dr. Pressly ' s hand has helped to guide the lives of the students on this campus from the first uncertain steps into the unknown and unexplored to the world of ma- turity and understanding. To Dr. Pressly ' s unceasing eflForts each student who has had the privilege of asso- ciation with this school, owes his opportunity to learn to deal with the threatening world of tomorrow. In a sense, each student who attends the Westminster Schools is placing his future in the hands of. Dr. Pressly. This act is a powerful challenge, but Dr. Pressly has made an equally powerful response. Beginning his busy day with an early morning hike. Dr. Pressly can often be seen rushing from one school to the other. However, he is always ready with warm and practical advice for any anxious student, parent, or faculty member. At this breathtaking pace. Dr. Pressly still maintains time in his schedule for his family: his wife, the former Alice McCallie, and their two sons: Paul, a sophomore at Princeton, and Bill, a senior at Westminster. Constantly striving to send from this school the finest of young Christian men and women, Dr. Pressly has come to have a pride in the school which feels such a deep pride in him. Dr. and Mrs. William L. Pressly

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FACULTY The Westminster School for Boys and The Westminster School for Girls offer a program of parallel education supplemented by access of pupils of one school to classes of the other school, especially in language, mathematics, and science. The faculty of each school works directly under the leadership of a principal and teaches in coopera- tion with the departmental programs of the other faculty. Advanced placement work and regular classes are taught at all grade levels. Each of the five classes, Sub-freshman, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior, in each school has a faculty adviser who leads a guidance program for the individual boy or girl. All student organizations are provided the leadership of a faculty adviser. The LYNX presents the two faculties together in order to congratulate them on their splendid leadership and to show the combined academic program of the school. Miss Outler typifies the W estminster faculty. BIBLE DEPARTMENT Beginning in the eighth grade each student is required to study five semesters of Bible. Both the Old and the New Testament are taught on a non-sectarian basis. The Bible Department provides a Spiritual Emphasis week in the fall during which time an outside speaker is heard, and a similar week in the spring during which the speakers are members of the student body. Mr. James Branch Bible, Public Speaking. Head of Bible Department A.B., Berry College; Graduate Study, Mercer Uni- versity; B.D., Candler School of Theology at Emory University; Chaplain Intern, Georgia Bap- tist Hospital Adviser of Junior Class Mrs. Glenn Dudley Bible, Head of Bible Department Maryville College; A.B., Huntington College; Graduate Study; Auburn University; M.C.E., Pres- byterian School of Christian Education Adviser of Quest Club Mr. Horace Holden Bible A.B., Emory University; Graduate Study, Univer- sity of Edinburgh; B.D., Union Theological Seminary