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[caption]
ABOVE: First of the four six-foot-wide windows depicting scenes of Sewanee's history. Bishop
Polk write to fellow-bishops. Nine southern bishops join in the plan. At founding meeting
of board of trustees, July 4, 1857, a breeze wraps American flag around Bishop Otey, just as
he declares that university will be national, not sectional, in character. Lay leaders with
Bishop Polk survey vast university domain. Last two panels show planning of campus and
laying of cornerstone. BELOW: Last panel of fourth window shows centennial procession in 1957:
In foreground is Mrs. Alfred I. duPont, leading benefactor, with Bishop Juhan of Florida. [/caption]

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Charles Todd Quintard of Tennesse gathered
a few persons (in stark contrast to
the large and festive cornerstone assemblage)
around a wooden 12-foot cross
and with a brief religious service declared,
"I hearby re-establish the University of
the South."

English Churchmen came to the aid of
the project which the south could no
longer support. Bishop Quintard's trip to
the first Lambeth Conference, from which
he returned with [symbol pounds]2,500 and with 2,000
volumes from Oxford and Cambridge,
and the opening service in 1868, seven
days before the expiration of the grant of
land, were essential steps in the survival
of the university. Immortalized in stained
glass is the plasterer who, according to
Bishop Quintard's journal was still at
work when the first procession of nine
students and four professors entered the
chapel. In this period came Sewanee's famous
graduate, William Crawford Gorgas
(U.S. army surgeon, who by introducing
mosquito control to prevent yellow fever
and malaria, made possible building the
Panama Canal), shown in establishment
of Order of Gownsmen. The name "University
of the South" bestowed by the
first high-visioned founders, became more
of a reality with the next scenes: the
establishment of the School of Theology
in 1878, the founding of the Sewanee
Review, now the oldest literary-critical
quarterly in America, and the opening of
the medical school (which, with the law
department, closed in 1909).

Chronicled are Sewanee's great days in
athletics, the celebration of the semi-
centennial in 1907, the visit of a president
of the United States. Here are wars in
which Sewanee men served and the memorials
that were raised to them. Here
is the citation of the Sewanee Military
Academy as an Army "honor school."

The last windows show the chancellors
and vice chancellors of the past two
decades.

The varied influences which have made
Sewanee the thriving institution of today,
contributing leadership and vision to the
new south, are symbolized by small seals
at the top of the four windows: The University
of North Carolina and the Confederate
States of America in the first window;
over the second window, Oxford and
Cambridge, representing the academic tradition
upon which the university was refounded
after the civil war; over the third
window, a symbol of the classical tradition
of ancient Greece and Rome, and of
the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church; and over the fourth, the seals of
Sewanee Military Academy and of West
Point, representing the tradition of military
service.

The installation of the stained glass
represents long painstaking work on the
part of many persons. The windows
were designed by Arthur F. Erridge of
J. Wippell and Co., Ltd., of Exeter, England,
in connection with the Studios of

The Living Church