had long since replaced it for EHS, but it still is a loss. Dick Boyd served in the U.S. Army’s Security Agency after schooling, and then entered his family’s hardware business in North Carolina. Dick and his wife have two children – no grandchildren yet. He stays in shape with tournament tennis, during which he ran into Frank Meade ’48, another tennis star. Dick remembers fondly his early days of athletics in track and field events at EHS. Lou Benedict left EHS and moved with his family to South Africa, where he completed his education as an engineer. Lou returned to the U.S. after flight school to serve in Tucson, Ariz., as a pilot in the Air Force for three years. After service, he got into the mining business and then the manufacture of construction machines. Lou married his college sweetheart; they have four children, who produced 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren! Lou drove through the EHS campus 20 years ago and was surprised – I told him he should see it now! Lou keeps up with Gordon Leggett ’50 and sees him often. Dick Hobson was in the Virginia Legislature after finishing Princeton and Harvard Law School. After his legislative service, Dick did some lobbying at the Virginia Legislature. Dick and Kay are impressed by the School’s facilities, especially the Callaway Chapel. Son Lee Hobson ’83 formerly worked with Julian Robertson ’51 and now has his own hedge fund in Dallas. My son, Winston ’82, worked with him previously and stays in touch. Kay and Dick have a daughter, Huntley. The Hobsons now are proud grandparents of eight total! Doug Mackall is trying to retire as a successful “country” lawyer but stays active as the Commonwealth’s attorney for Clarke County. Doug has a son and daughter and sees a lot of Eddie Leake ’47, Judge Jack Clarkson ’48, and Charlie Gamble ’50, all former football teammates at EHS. Doug tells a wonderful story of the EHS-VES football game in 1948 in which, backed up on his own goal, the VES center, in punt formation, snapped the ball over
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the punter, who was standing on his goal line. The situation precipitated a hard rush for the ball by both Doug and Buck Boxley ’50 in the end zone. An “altercation” between the two stalwarts ensued, whereupon the referee threw a flag but immediately reversed the call when the combatants turned out to be teammates, giving the ball and the “jealously guarded and won” six points to Doug! John Ball Nichols is in the insurance business in Louisville, Ky. His wife is from Gallatin, Tenn. He served as county clerk for 32 years and has three children – two boys and one girl – no grandchildren yet. A son teaches at the Episcopal School in Jacksonville, Fla. Bodley Stites earned an M.D. at Columbia University after college at Williams in Massachusetts. He has two boys and a girl, plus several grandchildren. Bodley has retired from practicing internal medicine, but spent some “hard” years in the late ’50s at Camp St. Barbara in South Korea in I Corps, U. S. Army. The going was rough there, but Bodley loved Japan, where he took some leave. Along with an active family, Bodley has a Labrador dog, who is “raising hell” all the time – a true dog whose actions are well-known to us other canine lovers! Lou Showalter spent three years after U.Va. as an officer in the U.S. Navy, after which he received his M.B.A. from Harvard. Lou then worked for the Young President’s Organization, then for W. R. Grace in petro-chemicals at its Waynesboro plant. Lou’s busy business life then embarked into the wholesale hardware business, then the Old Virginia Brick Co. in Salem that sold brick to U.Va. for restoration projects. Lou keeps his considerable mind active by stock trading online with several firms. He and his wife have five grandchildren, and they live in Roanoke. Lou’s younger brother, Nelson, went to Virginia Episcopal School and then Hampden Sydney. Jimmy Massie stays busy as a gentleman farmer in cattle and grain at his farm in Goochland County. His namesake, Jimmy III, is active in the Virginia legislature; son Alex is in real estate;
and daughter Sarah is married to Stuart Grattan, whose father, George, many of us remember a very good hurdler at WFS and U.Va. There are 10 Massie grandchildren. Hulett Sumlin, the “Count,” knows my wife Lulee’s older brother in Atlanta and was CEO of Piedmont Hospital in that city. Hulett received a pharmacy degree at the University of Georgia, after which he spent several years in the Air Force and then got a master’s degree in hospital administration from Georgia State University. He has three sons, all in Atlanta, with five grandsons and one granddaughter. Hulett last saw EHS in 1985 – needless to say, I told him of the great growth since then. John S. Warner is a retired neurologist, with both undergraduate and medical degrees from Vanderbilt University. He knew my wife, Lulee, while she was in the college and he was in medical school. Johnny is a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt School of Medicine and gives four lectures a year to the medical school senior neurology class. He and his wife, Peggy, have six grandchildren, and they have a lawyer and two doctors of medicine amongst their children. Son-in-law Paul Goldstein works at Maverick, a hedge fund run by Lee Ainslie ’82 and my son, Winston ’82. Pete Whitlock is heavy into horses and cattle on his western Virginia farm with wife Susan, who is a fellow financial advisor at the Charlottesville office of Davenport and Co. LLC. Pete enjoys fox hunting and many outdoor activities. We remember Pete as a track star at EHS. He only ran one year at W&L University, after which his track coach was drafted into the Korean War. Pete has one stepdaughter at W&L now. Fred Miller took the large corporate road by joining IBM, from which he retired as a strategic planner for the company. Fred graduated from Dartmouth and then joined the Air Force as an officer. His first wife died in 1988. He then moved to California in 1992 where he met his second wife. Fred is working on a family history, and tells me he and his wife each have a son and daughter with several grandchildren. A grandson is a Presidential
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