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t-aGrange College LibraryHill - Top Neu/sPublished by Students of LaGrange CollegeVOLUME ILC AthleticGroups PlanIntramuralsThe faculty Athletic Committeemet last month with the Men'sAthletic Association and the Women's Athletic Association for thepurpose of organizing an effectiveintramural sports program beginning next fall. Fraternity andsorority competition will be retained.Before classes begin in the fall,these organizations will hold a fallretreat for the purpose of settingup the point system and determining the sports to be played.Each sport, under the supervisionof the MAA and the WAA, willbe completed at the end of eachquarter. One major sport, suchas basketball, Softball and volleyball and one minor sport, such astennis and ping pong will be played each quarter as set up at thefall retreat. The winning team ira sport will receive a trophy althe end of the quarter. Medalsmay be given to winners of individual sports.The E. A Bailey Award will begiven to a fraternity on the basisof leadership and scholarshipIn order for the program planned by the MAA and WAA to beeffective, however, some plan ofequalization of the sororities andfraternities must be worked outA recommendation was made tothe Panhellenic Council to consider this problem in planningRush for next fall. A PanhellenicCouncil Committee consisting ofthe presidents from each sororitymet and decided to limit thequota of bids for the two largestsororities, Alpha Kappa Thetaand Kappa Phi Alpha. Fraternities will continue to have openbidding, according to the InterFraternity Council.Another recommendation wasmade to the social calendar committee that the calendar for nextyear be prepared before the endof this semester. This will enable the athletic committees toset up the sports program well inadvance.Along the lines of sports fornext year, the IFC voted to senda recommendation to the MAAsuggesting that the representatives to the MAA come from thefraternities, providing sports areon the fraternity-sorority as planned.Portrait Fund StartedA fund for the purpose of giving a portrait of the late DeanE. A. Bailey to the college isbeing sponsored by the Hill-TopNews. Mr. Walter Forbus ofAthens, Georgia, will be theportrait artist. No decision hasbeen made as to where the portrait will be hung.Three hundred dollars isneeded to complete the fund.Contributions may be sent tothe Hill-Top News, Box 260.Any checks should be madepayable to LaGrange Collegefor the E. A. Bailey PortraitFund.MAY 21, 1959 — LAGRANGE, GEORGIANUMBER 13Largest Graduating ClassSet For CommencementThe largest graduating class inthe 128-year history of LaGrangeCollege will receive their diplomas on June 1 at the annualcommencement exercises. Forhe first time graduation will beheld in the new gymnasium, andapproximately 55 graduates willIon caps and gowns for the ocThe Curtain Raisers will prension.sent "Bell, Book, and Candle,'Henry L. Bowden, a Atlantaon Friday and Saturday, May 29ttorney and chairman of theand 30 at 8:15 in Dobbs Audiloard of Trustees of Emory UniScholarships have been award- torium.ersity in Atlanta will give theed to five outstanding LaGrange The play by John Van Druterommenoement address.College students for the year will star Nancy Anne Childs ir.1959-60.the role of Gillian Holroyd.The haccabureate service, alsoLloyd Bryant from Fitzgerald, Nancy, a senior speech and relig'o be in the gymnasium, will beentering LaGrange as a freshman ion major, is from Ideal, Georgia'Tay 31. The Rev. G. Ross Freenext year and James N. Kimsey, Among the numerous roles Nancyman will deliver the baccalauwho is transferring from Rein- has played in past years are thoseeate sermon entitled "Yourhardt College as a Junior, have of Francesco Cunningham in "Theland Holds the Plan." Rev. Freebeen awarded LaGrange College Seventh Veil" and Rosemary Sydnan is assistant to the dean andMerit Scholarships. Jimmy Mc ney in "Picnic". This year Nancydirector of field work in theDonald from Albany, Gerald has been seen in "The Late' 'ndler Srhool of Theology atBecham from Thomaston, and Christopher Bean," "Summer and*Smory University. He was a recRenfroe Watson from Forsytl. Smoke," and "Hamlet."ent visitor on campus when hehave renewed their Merit Scholar- Last summer, Nancy was a stu;poke to the Christadelphians anddent at the Pasadena Playhouseships for the year 1959-60.Se Ministerial Association. A naive of Stillmore, Georgia, Rev.The Merit Scholarships are in Pasadena, California. During'ccinan is a member of thevalued at 500 a year, and are the summer of 1957, she partici"outh Georgia Conference of the cnewable for four years. They pated in a religious drama caraMISS NANCY CHILDS"Icthodist Church.are awarded annually to men van, sponsored by the Methodiststudents who qualify by com- Church, going to churches inThe LaGrange College Chorala book about witchcraft and whe ires, under the direction cf Mr.petitive examination. The holders Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.of the scholarships may renew Other members of the cast are comes to see the Holroyds, not Walter Westafer, will sing at boththem only if they maintain at Terry Kay, Patricia McGuire, knowing that they are witches. 'he baccalaureate service andThe production crew u-der the Traduation.least a B average in their studies Jim Raum, and Malone Dodson.directionof Miss Irene E. Arnet'Theplay,acomedy-fantasty,ifThe recipients of the Nationalincludesstagemanager, Margi A special highlight of comMethodist Scholarships for the concerned with a family ofMcDonald;lights.Pat McGuire mencement will be the receivingyear 1959-60 are Nancy Mitchell witches, the Holroyds. The mainmusicandsound,GailWoodruff if honorary degrees by the Rev.of Jonesboro, Delores Lester of theme is the story of Gillian Holproperties,LuanneHaysand G. Freeman, the Rev. W. EarlTucker, and Mary George Dean royd, a young woman who is theStrickland, pastor of the FirstMaryAnnWages;setconstrueof Douglas. The National Metho- proprietor of an apartment house!'Icthodist Church of College Parktion,JimRaum,NancyGibsondist Scholarships in the amounts in New York. Although witches! Rose Elliot, Virginia Stafford " nd chairman of the Board ofof 500 each are provided annual- are not supposed to fall in love.Andy Owen, and Bryan Dobbs Education of the North Georgialy to students in the top 15% of Gillian meets Shep Henderson,Conference, the Rev. J. W?lkertheir class. The students must be who falls in love with her and she publicity, Ray Barfield.Childsey, superintendent of theMethodists who demonstrate abil- with him. When Gillian falls inDecatur-Oxford District, and theity, character, church service and love with Shep, she loses all herRev. T. Cecil Myers of Carterspromise of future usefulness. The witch's powers. An interesting ille who recently visited thescholarships may be held for two sidelight of the story concernscampus as speaker for ReligiousSydney Redlitch, who is writingyears only.Emohasis Week. All four menwill receive honorary bachelor ofdivinity degrees.On Saturday, May 30, the annual meeting of the NationalAlumni Association will take placeon campus. Included in this meetThe LaGrange College faculty Kay Ferrell of Sandersville, Georing will be the installation of thisnext year will include five new gia. Mrs. Ferrell received heryear's seniors into the gia State College for Women. The 1959 Quadrangle has been and the election of alumni officersMrs. Mildred W. Robinette has She has done post-graduate work dedicated to Dr. Weston L. Mur- for the coming year. The Rev.been named associate professor at the University of Georgia and ray, a long-time professor at La W, Earl Strickland will be theof Business Administration. Mrs. Oxford University in England. Grange College and presently speaker at an alumni luncheon inRobinette received her Bachelor She is now a candidate for a head of the Social Science De- the banquet room of the gymof Arts degree from LaGrange Master of Arts Degree from partment. The dedication was an- nisium.College and will receive her Mas- Emory University.nounced by Editor Anne Dorris Other snecial events to taketer of Arts Degree from the Uniof Douglasville and Business place graduation week-end are aversity of Georgia in June. She Mr. Osmos Lanier, a former Manager Nancy Gibson of Frank- Student Art Exhibit which willhas been a member of the La- LaGrange College graduate, will lin at a short program in the open at 4:00 p. m. on May 30,a garden party at the home ofGrange College staff previously, be associator professor of social college dining hall on May 8.as she served as secretary to science next year. Mr. Lanier is A Texas native. Dr. Murray Dr. and Mrs. Henry on May 31,President Quillan and assistant from Charleston, Alabama. He re- received his bachelor of science and the traditional graduationprofessor in the Secretarial Sci- ceived his Master of Arts Degree and bachelor of arts degrees from play which will be presented onNorth Texas State College. His May 29 and 30 in Dobbs Audience Department. She later be- from Auburn.came secretary to Dr. Henry. She Mr. Joe A. Copeland has been masters degree was earned at torium.has been at the University of named athletic coach and director the University of Texas and his Tnose expected to graduate acGeorgia for two years.of physical education for men. doctor of philosophy at the Uni- cording to the Dean's office are:Ida Myrle Messer Allen, MaryThe newly appointed associate Mr. Copeland received his Bache- versity of North Carolina.(Continued on Page Five)professor of English is Mrs. MaryContinued on Page Five)(Continued on Page Five)Merit, Church Childs, Kay Have Leads InScholarships Commencement ComedyAre AwardedCollege Announces Five NewAdditions To '59-'60 FacultyDr. MurrayHonored ByStudent Body
MAY 21, 1959HILL-TOP NEWS - LAGRANGE COLLEGEPAGE 2Dean E. A. BaileyIS85* \Art StudentsShow Work"My life is mine to live ." and Dean Bailey livedjhis in the finest way possible. His death brought a proiifound shock to all of us who admired, respected, andSeven LaGrange College art.loved him.studentshad their work exhibitedThe Dean's last day was spent tending to thein the annual Atlanta Arts Festi;duties of his office wth his usual thoughtful consideraival in Piedmont Park last week.tion. He left his papers neatly stacked on hs desk andStudents of Agnes Scott, Geormet his 5 p. m. math class, happily announcing thatgia Tech, Georgia State, the At"today we finish the course." About 6:30, Dean Baileylanta Art Institute, Spellman Colpassed Turner Hall on his way home, waving to thoselege, University of Georgia, Weswho sat rocking on the dorm porch. About 7:20, heleyan College, and Shorter Colheaded up the hill once more, this time to attend alege also participated in themeeting of the Newspaper Advisory Board, but had toexhibit, which was designed toreflect the best paintings, drawturn back because of feeling ill.ings, and designs currently beingAt 8:10 the news reached the newspaper meeting,produced in Georgia colleges.which was quickly adjourned. News spread fast. StuThe LaGrange students aredents left their books and collected in quiet littleworkingin the visual arts undergroups on the quadrangle. Many could not reach a fullthe instruction of Professors Ezrarealization of what the words meant at first: "DeanSellers and Jarrel Hethcox.Bailey has just passed away." Dean Bailey? OURThose exhibiting in Atlanta wereDean? How can it be? NOW, when LaGrange CollegeBlanche Flanders (two oils andneeds him so much?a wash drawing), Linda Woodson(a pastel and a watercolor), SusanWhile some of those on the quadrangle sat aloneWilliams(individual drawingsin quiet grief or spoke to each other in a whispered"E xam (-everand a joint design project), Sherreverence, newspaper staff heads tried to adequatelyrie Ftrrar (drawing and jointexpress the grief of the campus in writing. Words ofdesign), Faye Cosby (a waterhonor and praise seemed, for the first time, inadequate.color), Janice Cole (a drawing),"Things like this make me believe all the more in Godand Mrs. Ida Myrle Messer (anand in a ixeaven," the editor remarked as she began theoil painting). These works wereBy RAY BARFIELDaccepted after review by the exwork of revising the proofs of the paper.With finals and graduation -ind Faye, who found it rather hibition's jury.Student-mourners. Tears on the faces of long-time loomingand nearer. I difficult to explain why they werefriends and fellow faculty-members. A crowd collecting think thatnearera statement made by in the hall in night clothes holdon the lawn of the house at 621 Broad Street, the home Mrs. Myrle Messer's cook some- ing a trash can containing paper,students of LaGrange College used to lovingly refer to time ago has a peculiar approp- used hairpins, and the offender,as "the Little White House." The news filtered in to riateness; "Yesterday's tired a roach. (Maybe it was midnightthe state's great newspapers. Word of the Dean's pass- done caught up wif me." Espec- and their horses had just turneding was broadcast by radio and television. Outsiders ially now that John Hampton has back into roaches or some such,Newly elected officer-; f thewouldn't understand, but all who had come under his drafted me for action on the ten- huh?)CircleK club on the campus areniscourts,itsurehas!influence in years past would know and deeply regret.Miss Epps offered Honey Allen Charles Jones, preside '; JohnThe pulsebeat of the campus stopped almost to a standsage advice after the Alpha Hampton, vice-president Jimmystill. The man who had contributed so much to the Dr. Melson had an over-anxiouF somePsi Omega initiation at the homewatchtheotherday.ourBibleguiding and care of LaGrange College for thirty-sevenTrice, secretary; p.nd Bryancorrespondent says. He let his of Miss Arnett and Miss Milleryears had passed on.Dobbs, treasurer. Jonen and Tricerecently.Honeywastellingtheclass out at eleven o'clock and,In their dorm rooms, students began to think of believing that it was one o'clock, group that she would have to are from Columbus,. Hampton isall of the kindness and understanding Dean Bailey had "raced" his class to the dining leave soon because she had to from LaGrange, and Dobbs is ashown them as an advisor on matters great and small. hall. Seems that not only the stu- drive home to Hogansville alone. native of Conley.Many had identifed this great gentleman with fathers dents but also the professors dis- "Well," said Miss Epps, "drive Circle K is an honor serviceand grandfathers who were no longer living. It took like those noontime classes. Oh fast!"organization which is internamany a long time to go to sleep that night. Some wond- well, you know the old "Time Note Malone Dodson's Confucian tional in scope. The Kiwanisered what LC would do without him. Everyone thought and tide wait for no man . . ." advice to the lovelorn: "Wash affiliated group, under the leadof how he would be missed.face in the morning and ership of president George Pullen,Janice Townley momentarily yourhas carried out a number of proneckatnight."His last day was, like all days for the Dean, full j alarmed her group at supper thejects including the purchase of aof small tasks done in a great way. The Dean was not , Other night when she exclaimedtelevision set for Turner Hall thislarge of physical stature, but he was a giant in every j"Oh! I just found a bean in my Hamlet said "Time is out of year.other aspect of his life and in the eyes of others.j strings!" Oh, well, you know the joint." For Liz Garner the localTo follow the standard Dean Bailey lived by is to old "Time and beans wait for situation is out of joint, too. It's The Scroll, LaGrange College'sa mercenary world, but thingsplan a great life. He was kind, considerate, thoughtful. 'ho man . . ."are going TOO FAR. It has been literary magazine, has completedHe was a gentleman and a great leader of human beingsexplained to Liz, you see, that its staff for the coming year.in church, civic life, and on the campus. He was a The afternoon of May 12 you have to rent book space on Working under the editorship ofscholar of the first order. He had a firmly-based relig- brought a. crisis to the second the shelves in the hall of Hawkes. Donna Hiers, a former associateious faith and was a worthy follower of the way of floor of Hawkes. Marion Free- When "well - meaning" friends editor of the Hill-Top News, willman, Julia Jones, and Suzannebe Luanne Hays, associate editor:Jesus Chrst.Cooper were doing some last- connived to bring Mr. Cook into Faye Combs, business manager;thedeal,shebegantothinkofTo follow the thought line of Tennyson, in his minute cramming for a historyJanice Townley, circulation man"In Memoriam," it is better that Dean E. A. Bailey test, you see, and things weren't transferring. The Hill-Top News ager; Janet Sutherlin. exchangecongratulatesLizGarneronherlived and that we knew him than if he had never come going any too well. To remedy graduation and for this auspicious editor: Dottie Mann, review ediinto our lives and the life of this campus at all. Yet, the grave situation, they lit a occasion gives her a present of a tor; Susan Williams, art editor;we shall miss him more and more as time moves on. memorial candle, (memorial to one-year free book space rental and Frances McKinney and Sylviatheir lost cause) and ceremonCowan, typists.(RB)on the shelves of Hawkes.iConfettiCampus GroupsElect OfficersThe Next DeanWho will be the next dean? Where will he comefrom ? Should he be from this campus ? What qualifications should he have? These questions are withoutend, and they are all facing Dr. Waights G. Henry Jr.as he assumes the unenviable task of trying to finda new dean.Dr. Henry is not out soliciting suggestions fromeveryone on campus for the obvious reason that hewould get as many suggestions as people he asked, buthe is open to all nominations or discussions concerningthe job.The dean must possess several qualifications.First, he should have the academic background. Secondly, he must command the respect of the faculty andthe student body. He must be progressive yet conservative. His personal life must be above reproach.And lastly, he must be man enough to endure, for awhile, anyway the inevitable comparison to DeanBailey.iously placed it in their window.Seemed to work, 'cause all threecame out of the test unscathed. The staff of the Hill-Top News APPRECIATIONBetter watch 'em during finals, joins me, now that we have The family of E. A. Bailey,though, or they'll burn the whole reached the end of volume one of Sr., wishes to express their deepthe campus paper, in wishing youcampus down.a very pleasant summer. To the gratitude to each member of theseniors, our congratulations and LaGrange College Family forCarolyn Babb tells me that best wishes, plus our thanks for your many expressions of kindthere was some mysterious mov- contributing so much to life and ness, and love, and sympathy.ing around in Pitts the other times on the Hill. To the soonnight. Faye Combs and Mar- to-be graduated and to othersHill-Top Newsian Chapman, who live next door who will not be returning to LCLuanne Haysto Mrs. Talbott, heard an animal next year, we say "Come back Editor . shuffling around in their trash often." To the classes of '60, '61. Associate Editors —Ray Barfield, Paul Buggcan. "Is it a rat?" They decided '62, and now '63, we'll be lookingthat it was. "What shall we do for you in the fall. We plan to Reporters—with it?" About the time Marian greet your bright and shining Sylvia Cowan, Jeanelle Pearson,and Faye decided that they should faces with an Orientation Issue, Ann Gower, Marianne Whelchel,slip the trash can into the hall. a big start on a bigger, better Marilyn Neal, Liz Garner, AnneO'Bryant, Mavis Sprayberry,Mrs. Talbott began to hear Hill-Top News, Volume Two.noises coming from her neigh- (Guess I'll be ianging around Jane Nixon, Janice Townley,bors' room—no
College ommenoementstudents for the year 1959-60. Lloyd Bryant from Fitzgerald, entering LaGrange as a freshman next year and James AmongN. Kimsey, who is transferring from Rein- hardt College as a Junior, have been nanawarded LaGrange College Merit
