ALUMNI 'l'IN BULLE
Electric Power TipstheScale What is it that makes America so strong -stronger, for example than Russia? Is it our big population?-the Reds have millions more people! Is it our mighty armed forces and our great store of arms?-they have more soldiers; can commit to immediate action more planes, more guns, more tanks! America is stronger because she can produce more. And one big reason is because she has more electric power! An American worker uses more than four times as much electricity as the average Russian worker; produces in one hour, as much as the slave laborer can produce in a day. When present construction under way is completed, Vepco will have increased its steam generating capacity 170% over 1946. Since 1946 Vepco has spent $214,000,000 for added generating capacity,
transmission lines and new extensions of service to rural and other customers. (And not one penny of this $214,000,000 has been raised by taxation. It has come from savings and investments on the part of those who believe in the American system of Free Enterprise as the best way to build a strong and free America.) Most electricity in this country comes from business-managed companies like ours-companies that have doubled, and more than doubled, their capacity to supply adequate electric power since World War II. In Russia, the government owns and operates all electric power plants. Low cost, business-produced, electric power is a key to American production ... and production is the key to ourfreedom!
Cooperating with ... "Production for Freedom Week"
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• a,nnt Renascence
THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
Something of the new spirit which has swept across the Richmond College campus is found in the Collegian article by Seeman Waranch, '53, who frankly says "I like this place." (Page 7.) He reflects the changing attitude of Richmond College students who too frequently in postwar years focused their attention squarely on the hole m the doughnut and failed, in the words of the good old Baptist hymn, to "count your many blessings." Student government, the Collegian , the Honor Council have moved m concert and the students have been quick to follow their lead. It's no longer de rigueur to blame all ills, real and imaginary, on The Administration. From an attitude of "what's wrong with the University" they have shifted to a more wholesome attitude of "what's right with the University." Without any prompting from the administration, the students have launched plans for an Alma Mater Week preceding Homecoming, at which they will review the history, the traditions and the aspirations of their University . Outstanding alumni in the Richmond area will be invited to the campus to address student groups. Those who shed a tear for the far from perfect observance of the Honor Code will be pleased to know that not only freshmen, but every student in the University has reaffirmed his faith in the Code and has formally attached his name to a pledge to abide by all of its principles. Further, as Virginia LeSueur, '53, points out (page 8) there is a growing feeling of University solidarity. There is less thought of competition and more of cooperation among the various units of the University. The activities of the various colleges are coordinated in the University Council which had as its first project the Shakesperean play, "As You Like It," which was presented this month. Something of this new spirit will be sensed by the old grads when they return to the campus for Homecoming, November 1 (page 5). Every alumnus and alumna will find evidence of the fact that their grand old University is vibrantly alive and growing . Law alumni will gaze with satisfaction on the hole in the ground (it should be a big hole by Homecoming) marking the site of the new $400,000 Law building, another of the dreams of a great University which are becoming brick-and-mortar realities. The location of the Law School on the campus will be a boon both to the Law students who will benefit from all of the University facilities and to the other colleges which will recei ve the benefit of the maturity and leadership of the law students . For any alumnus who hasn't quite made up his mind whether to return for Homecoming, let this be a further invitation to send back that post card. You'll be glad that you did. [1]
Published quarterly at the University of Richmond by the General Society of Alumn i. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, University of Richmond, Virginia, May 14, 1948. Subscription price: $1.00 per year.
VOL. XVII
OCTOBER, 1952 No. 1
JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '30 • , , •••••.•• LESLIR S. BOOKER, '22 .•• Westhampton
Editor Editor
VIRGINIA IVEY, '48 ...... Law School Editor WM. H. WARREN, '48. , Buaine•• School Editor ROBERT M. STONE, '30 •••• Business Manager
THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNI Henry M. Taylor, '12 , .......... President Edward R. Adams, '4 1 . . 1st Vice-President Wilbur K. Gaines , '29 ... 2nd Vice-President J . Maurice Trimmer, '~7 .. 3rd Vice-President Aylett W. Goode, Jr., '42 ... . .... Secretary Joseph E. Nettles, '30 ... Execiltive Secretary EXECUTIVE
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David Nelson Sutton, '15 William Earle White, '17 and the above officers THE ALUMNI COUNCIL OFFICERS President E. Claiborne Robins, '31 ... ...... Frank G. Louthan, '10 ... 1st Vice-President R . E. Booker, '24 . . . . . . . 2n<l Vice-President Joseph E. Nettles, '30 ........... Secretary Robert M. Stone, '30 ..........•• Treasurer EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
Edward J. Fox, '17 S. Frank Straus, '35 F. Ralph Swanson, '26 William T. Bareford, '46 and the above officers W~JSTHAMPTON COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Nora Turpin Turner, '29 ......... President Louise Thompeion Chewning, '87, Vice-Preaident I.er..lie Sessoms Booker, '22, Executive SecretaT1J .:\luil all contributions and news items to Mrs. R. E. Booker, Executive Secretary, Westhampton College Alumnae Association, P.O., University of Richmond, Virginia. E llen Douglas Oliver, '23 1 V ir gini~ Per kin s ~e~ma. n , '29 J Memberl'J•a(Large Kat h eri ne Ly le, '40 Florence B. Decker, '17 } Emily Gardner, '18 Elizabeth Tompkins, '19 Board of Trustee• Httrriet S. Willingham, '26
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LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION VV. Moscoe I-Iuntley , '26 ......... President Oliver A. Pollard, '16 ....... Vice-President Virginia Ivey , '48 ...... ExecuUve Secretary Thomas P. Bryan, '47 .......... Treasurer COUNCIL
Wade S . Coates, ' 4 7 } Three-year Term C. Lydon Harrell, Jr., '41 David J . Mays, '2 4 George Abbitt, Jr., '31 } Two11ear Term William H. King, '36 A. L. Philpott, '4 7 M. Wallace Moncure, '27 } One-1100.rTerm Charles H . Ryland, '39 R. H . L. Chichester, Jr., '29 SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Walter Nelson, '50 ......... , •... President Rudolph Hetzer, '50 .•.... , .. Vice-Preaid•nt William C. Farmer, '50 ... . Secretarv-Trea811,rer
Korean War Veterans Bolster Enrollment FreshmanClassesLarger in Richmondand Westhampton Colleges
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UST as the GI's of World War II sent ¡ college enrollments to record heights, the veterans of the Korean War may halt the downward course whic h began in 1949 and touch off another enro llm ent boom. At the University of Richmond there were 80 of the vetera ns of Korea in th e first semester enro llm ent and other Korean \X/ar GI's enro llin g in February are expected to bring the total enro llm ent for the year to a figure in excess of the 3,734 of 1951-52. In both Richmond College and Westhampton College, first semester enrollm ents were above last year and the enrollm ent of 3,147 in the U niversity's six divisions was some 300 in excess of the midsummer estimates. While the total was 72 below the first semester of the preceding year, Presid ent Modlin ha s expresse d the belief that the returning veterans not only will pick up the slack but will send the combined enrollm ent for both semesters to a figure in excess of the 1951-52 total. Although the veterans are g iven the cred it for the push that started enro llment upward agai n, D ean Raymond B. Pinchbeck pointed out that the most significant factor in the wave of stud ents which is expected to br eak upon the college campus es in the years immediately ahead is the increased birth rate of the late '30's. Those post-depr ession babi es, he pointed out, first sent elementary and th en high school enro llments spiraling. He predicted that within the next decade they would send college enrollm ents throughout the country to record heights. Although college officials traditionally comment on the high quality of the freshmen enrolling in their institutions, Pr esident Modlin and D eans Pin chbeck of Richmond College and Marguerite Rob erts of Westhampton College were unusually well pleased with the high scholarship and the record of extracurricular attainment the freshmen brought with them from th eir high schools. President Modlin told the faculties that he was convinced the competitive scholarships which the University awarded were responsible, to some extent , both for the in crease in students and for their high level of academic attainment. He was outspoken in his prais e of the students who were attracted by the University of Richmond-WRV A radio quiz and the Settle Scholarships. First semester enrollments were reported by deans of the six divisions at the op ening convocation which was addressed by Dr. Henry Wade DuBose, president of the
KOREAN WAR VETERAN HOME FROM KOREA . Dean of Students C. J. Gray , '33, welcomes Charles M. Clary , a veteran of 18 months of service with the Marines, including 11 month s of action with a machine gun section in Korea. He is one of 80 veterans of the Korean War who are now enrolled in the University.
General Assembly 's Training School. D ean Pinchbeck reported 852 for Richmond College and D ean Roberts 385 for Westhamp ton, an aggregate of 96 . Dean F. Byers Miller reported an enrollment of 1098most of them part time students in th e evening division - for the School of Business Administration , a gain of 65 . The T. C. Williams School of Law declined from 112 to 104 although Dean William T. Muse said the enlarged freshman class indicated a gain in the enrollment for next year. Dean B. C. Holtzclaw reported an enrollment of 43 in the Graduate School , a decline of two, but the enro llm ent of 665 in the Summer School for which Dean Edward F. Overton reported 665 was far below the 888 for the preceding year. The upswing in enrollments of other divisions of the University from which the summer school draws to a larg e extent, coupled with the return of the veterans from Korea is expected to have a marked effect on enrollment in the 1953 summer session.
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(Fifty-nine students received degre es at Summer School commen cement as compared with 72 for the preceding year. The commencement address was delivered by Dr. J. Earl Moreland , president of Randolph Macon College.)
THE COVER The quartet with the spades, breaking ground for the new Law School building are, left to right, Dean William T. Muse, W. Moscoe Huntley, president of the Law School Association; M. Ray Doubles, former dean of the Law School and now judg e of Hustings Court, Part II, for the City of Richmond, and President George M . Modlin . The building will be located on the right of the pathway leading from the old car stop ( now bus stop) to the Administration Building.
GoodJobs,Great Pay For '52 Grads PLACEMENTSAT A PEAK By CLARENCE
J.GRAY,
'33
Dean of Students, Richmond College and the School of Business Administration OREJOBS, in more fields, with the highM est starting salaries in history, but with fewer graduates available to claim them - this
For that reason the names of some graduates are omitted from the following sections.
is the story of placement in 1952 , a recordbreaking year. Employment calls for University of Richmond graduates have increased about twenty-five per cent, reaching a new peak in the history of our placement services. Recruiting of seniors started several months ea rlier than usual and remained strong through commencement. Demands have been heaviest in the fields of sales, chemistry, accountin g, management training , and teachmg. The steady rise in defense production and employment, the manpower requirements (civilian and military) of the Government, the smaller size of the graduating classes, and the substantial group of seniors who are continuing their studies at graduate and professional schools-these factors , among others, have caused an increase in job offers on the one hand and a reduction in job applicants on the other. A corresponding increase in employment demand for women is evident again this year. Starting salaries are at a new peak, ranging from $275 to $375 a month. This compares with a rang e of $225 to $325 a month last year. The highest salaries have been for scientific personnel in industry and in posit ions with the Government. Except with some 9f the smaller organizations that recruit for a few specific vacancies, liability for military service has not been a serious factor in the employment of seniors , as it was a year ago. Most of the larger companies are willing to take on well-qualified candidates even though they may be called into the service in a few months. The draft or impending recall to service, however, has again dampened the interest of some seniors in placement activities. According to a survey of June and August graduates, half of the Richmond College group and 12 per cent of the School of Business group planned to enter graduate or professional schools. About eighteen per cent of the Richmond College class and fifty-thre e per cent of the Business School class have already taken jobs in business, industry, or as civilian workers with the Government. The military services will absorb approximately twelve per cent of the Richmond College class and twenty-three per cent of the Business class. About ten per cent in Richmond College and one per cent in Business School expected to enter the field of teaching. The remaining ten per cent and eleven per cent, respectively, had not made final plans at the time this went to press.
GRADUATEAND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS Theological studies come up with the most candidates this year, nosing out by a slight margin the number of candidates for medicine and dentistry . Our records show that a sizable group of seminary students entered the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest this year. The list includes Bobby Boggs, John Vernon Brooks , Chester L. Brown, Dick Stennett, Charles Beckett , and Roy Harris . Scheduled to join the group of alumni at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville are Kenneth Bryan, Lynn Dickerson, William Huff, Marvin Kerby, Milton Snyder, Mac Hutton, and John T. Smith. Carleton Thomas starts his theological studies at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Edward Clarkson journeys to Fort Worth, Texas, to enter the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Ernest Broske goes to the Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Seminary. Three other Seminary students have entered Crozer: Yau Wing Lee, Clarence Moore, and Charles Sinclair. M.D.'s-to-be include Anthony Deep, Page Hudson, Robert Storm, Larry Zacharias, Sam Cooke, Hugh Fraser. Panos George Hadji-Gregoriou, Daniel Kendrick, Paul Middleton (second year), F. X. Mullins, and Nicholas Poulos - all enrollees in the School of Medicine of the Medical College of Virginia. Candidates at out-of-state medical schools include Donald Spitz at Chicago , and Paul Webster at the Bowman Gray Medical School at Winston-Salem, N. C. Future dentists at MCV are Louis Blazek, Pat Colvard, Ed Hodges, and Posey McBride. Marvin Rosenberg returns to the University of North Carol ina for his second year of law, having completed the requirements for the B.A. degree here in August. First-year law students include Harold Goodman at th e George Washington Law School, John Alderson at the West Virginia University Law School, and the following students at the T. C. Williams School of Law: Bill Chaffin , Clifton Warren, Howell Lewis, Malcolm Blackwell, and Allan Bloom. Ira Druckman planned to enter the New York University Law School but may be in the Navy by th e time this comes from the press. Rodney Wells has been awarded a research assistantship in physics, and Jack Hipps a scholarsh ip in history at Duke University. Others in the field of physics are Bill Meador, who has a teaching fellowship at the University of North Carolina, and Bill Herget , [ 3}
who holds a scholarship at Vanderbilt. Our two winners of General Education Board Scholarships, Phil Snider and Julian Ward Jones, have entered Harvard in the fields of biology and Latin, respectively. Jim Beck and Ken Tobias are at the Harvard School of Business. Jess Walters has a fellowship at Emory University, in political science. Sheridan Church is a graduate student in journalism at the University of Georgia. W . B. Morgan is the holder of a fellowship in drama at the University of Virginia. Enrollees at the Graduate School of the University of Richmond are Edward War e (psychology), S. Franklin Foster ( history and political science), James Taylor (English), Richard Kruse (biology) , Andrew Richardson, and H. Jack Payne (chemistry). TEACHINGPOSITIONS Dean Edward F. Overton, professor of education, has furnished information on our new teachers . The list of graduates interested in this field has grown significantly in the past six years, and would be greater still this year if some of the prospective teachers had not entered the military services. Opportunities for teachers continue to open up, with the elementary field still showing the greatest demand . Johnny (Mac) Brown is teaching social studies and is coaching at Hermitag e High School, while Charles Heath is performing similar duties at Manchester District High School. A colleague at Manchester is Thomas Boyle, in English. Robert Cross teaches history and English at Highland Springs High School, Stanley Snead English and Spanish at Midlothian High School, and Malcolm Cadd English and social studies at Renan High School in Pittsylvania County. Byron Olson is teaching in Fluvanna County, and Clarence Ashby in Caroline County at the C. T. Smith High School. Bill Scheerer, who has been teaching and coaching at Varina High School, is back in school work in Goldsboro, N. C., after another tour of duty with the Marine Corps. James W . Payne, Jr., LLB. , continues on the faculty of the T. C. Williams School of Law, after completing his B.A. degre e in brilliant style. BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, MILITARY This section has been mad e more complete through the assistance of Professor William H. Warren , placement director of the School of Business Administration , and Dr. William T. Muse , Dean of the T. C. Williams School of Law . Careers in sales and sales promotion work have attracted the largest number of (Continued
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LIKE I KE? Since April 28, 1946, the man who is now the Republican candidate for the presidenc y of th e United States has been an honorary alumnus of the Universit y of Richmond. The degree of Doctor of Law s was conferred by the late President F. W. Boatwright.
MADLY FOR ADLAI. Samuel W . Stevenson, head of the department of English in the Universit y of Richmond , gazes lovingly at the por trait of cousin Adlai E. Stevenson in the State Democratic headquarters in Richmond.
PersonalityIn Politics AMERICANS WANT THEIR CANDIDATES TO BE HUMAN, STRONG, EFFECTIVE By FILLMORE H. SANFORD, '35
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HOSE ASSOCIATED with the University of Richmond have a closer connection than most voters with the two current candidates for the Presidency, for one candidate is the possessor of an honorary degree from the University and the other has a kinsman on its faculty. All voters, however, have a close connection with presidential candida tes-a connection involving a more or less intimate relation between the personality of the candidate and the personality of the voter. And this personality factor in political even ts may be the deciding factor in any close election. Two years ago in Philadelphia a group of colleagues and I conducted an extensive psychologica l study of leadership. Actually, we studied leadership by studying followers. We hoped to discover what it was that followers wanted of their leaders. The part of the study dealing with political leadership led to the interpretati°"n that American people want three basic traits in their national leaders. First, they want warmth and humanity. As distinct from followers in other countries, Americans put a great deal of emphasis on whether or not the leader has a genuine fondness for people, a concern for the human enterprise, . an ability to respond warmly and naturally to other people. In the second place they want something we can call strength. Mere warmth is not enough. Voters do not want to commit the nation's affairs to the hands of a weak man, however human he is. They want competence, education, intelligence. And they want that moral strength we refer to in terms of sincerity and integrity. Third, they want a leader who can do con-
crete material things for them. They want secure jobs and good incomes arid good homes and good schools. Other things being equal, they will vote for the man they see as most likely to insure these things for them. This factor, though widespread in all classes of voters, is most pronounced in the "havenot" economic classes, among the people who perhaps cannot psychologically afford a concern with big issues. While there are many factors determining the outcome of an election, our results suggest a decided edge for the candidate who
is seen by the American people as the one more likely to have great ability which can be warmly and humanly invested in the advancement of the basic welfare of the average citizen. In the present campaign there are no really good data about how the voters are reacting to the personalities of Stevenson and Eisenhower. The public opiqion polls tell us about current preferences, but they do not say much about who likes what candidate for what basic psychological reason. There is some (Continued on page 7)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fillmore H. Sanford, another of the amazing Sanfords whose talents ore as
exceptional are
varied,
as
they
is one
of the few football players of recent years to carry away
with him at graduation both a Phi Beta Kappa key and a football monogram. He is also a member
of O.D.K. When Dr. Sanford was elected executive sec • retary of the American Psychological Association, the editor of the Alumni Bulletin wrote the public information officer of the Association, asking, in effect, what does the executive secretary do?
Replied the PIO , .. Dr. Sanford is responsible for seeing to it that all 8600-odd members of the Association , plus around 2300 affiliates, are kept happy. This
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means getting them to pay their dues, keep ing their addresses up to date (around two per cent per month change their addresses), sending them the journals they want (we publish ten journals), and answering any and all questions they may have about psychology or about themselves in relation to psychology ... Before he took over what the PIO described as a .. 48-hour-a-day job," Sanford had taught at Harvard , the University of Maryland and a number of other colleges, including Haverford where he was a member of the faculty when he received
his invitation
to become executive
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retary of the Psychological Association. In addition to his Richmond B.A., he hos an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. On his alumni data blank, which Dr . Sanford ~lied out some years ago, he forgets to record among his activities at the University of Richmond his participation on football, baseball , and basketball teams and his membership on the Honor
Council . But he does record
as one of
his chief claims to undergraduate fame, " Member Mrs. Woodward 's dishwashing crew ...
HOMECOMING1952
Elizabeth Thompson Schmidt
Thomas C. Yea man
Homecoming Chairmen
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HE students are working like beavers these autumn days preparing the biggest welcome and the best Homecoming parade for the hundreds of old grads who will return to the campus on November 1st. The highlight will be the meeting of our Spiders and the Gobblers of V.P.I. in City Stadium at 2 :30 p.m ., but there will be a number of other attractions to lure the alumni and alumnae. Westhamptonites will start their week end of celebration Friday night with a dinner which will be followed by a coffee hour in Keller Hall , with skits by the University Players. Saturday morning they will have coffee and doughnuts as guests of Mortar Board and then will move across the lake to join the men for lunch.
Meanwhile the alumni , after registering on Millhiser lawn, will watch a football game between our Jayvees and Fork Union Military Academy at 10 o'clock and at 12: 15 will join the ladies for lunch in Millhiser Gymnasium . The lunch is being given by the University in honor of the Homecoming alumni and alumnae. (Alumni and alumnae who wish to bring their wives, husbands or other guests may purchase guest tickets.) Guests of honor for the luncheon and for all the events of the day will be the Home coming Queen who has been chosen by the student bodies of Richmond College , Westhampton College and the School of Business Administration. This lovely Westhampton queen will be attended by four maids of honor.
HOMECOMING CALENDAR Friday, October 31 4:30 p.m., Meeting, Westhampton Alumnae Board, Keller Hall. 6:30 p.m., Alumnae Dinner, Westhampton Dining Room. 8:00 p.m., Coffee Hour, Keller Hall.
Saturday, November 1 9: 15 a.m., Alumni Registration, Millhiser Green. 10:00 a.m., Alumnae Registration, Keller Hall. 10:30 a.m., Mortar Board Entertainment for Alumnae, Keller Hall. 12:15 p.m., Lunch, Millhiser Gymnasium . 2:30 p.m., FOO_TBALL, RICHMOND vs. V.P.I., City Stadium.
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The queen and her court will move at the head of the procession on one of the floats. At the half-tim e intermission of the football game in City Stadium, the queen will present the Homecoming Trophy to the campus organization which has the outstanding entry in the parade. In addition, the Harvey Hud son (' 42) trophy will be presented to the fraternity which has the best entry. As Homecoming alumni and alumnae know, the floats have been amazingly good and the students this year are promising to outdo themselves in putting on a great show for the old grads. Student government organizations on both sides of the lake are lending their support to preparations for the welcome, with the active participation of Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa. In addition to the University entries there will be a number of bands and other marching units, including the Mary Washington AU-Girl Band from Fredericksburg which will be a guest of the University of Richmond band as in past years. Mrs. Edward F. Schmidt, '46, heads homecoming activities at Westhampton Colleg e while the University men are making their preparations under the leadership of a committee headed by Thomas C. Yeaman, '30. Sub-committee chairmen include Edward R. Adams, '41, who is in charge of the registra tion and welcoming committee; E. Douglas Gunter, '3 0, the Jayvee-Fork Union game; Harold I. Farley, '48, the luncheon , and R. Clifton Long, '47, the parade . Mr. Long will be assisted by Dean of Students Clarence J . Gray, '33, who will serve as parade mar shal. So intensive is the rivalry on the campus and so widespread the interest in the parade that 35 campus organizations were represented at the first meeting to discuss details of the ' 52 spectacle. All have their eyes glued covetously on the handsome Miller & Rhoads trophy which will be presented to the organization adjudged to have the outstanding entry in the parade. Twelve fraternities will have their eyes glued covetously on the Harvey Hudson trophy, a revolving reward which is currently in the possession of the men of Kappa Alpha. The parade will move on wheels from the campus to Grove A venue, east on Grove to Malvern A venue, north on Malvern to Monument , and east on Monument to Allen. At Allen it will pick up several cadet corps and bands. The parad e will then move north on Allen to Broad , west on Broad to the Boulevard and, after picking up the Mary Washington Band and several other bands, will proceed to the Richmond City Stadium. After reaching the stadium, the parade will move around the oval track prior to the opening kickoff. At halftime, the Homecoming Queen will be crowned by Mayor Edward E. Haddock , '34. The queen will then award the Homecoming trophies to the organizations sponsoring the winning floats.
SpidersWallop R-M, LoseThree CloseOnes SHOW PROMISE FRESHMEN By AL COATES, '53 ,1 LTHOUGH the won-and-lost record of 3-l didn 't show it, the University of Richmond Spiders had demonstrated after four games that they have a better than average football team. After drubbing a good Randolph-Macon team, 34 to 19, with an impressive offensive outburst, the Spiders gave a courageous exhibition in the mud of Braves Field in holding highly favored Boston College to a 14 to 7 victory . In fact, the men of Ed Merrick threatened several times to tie the ball game in the second half. Next came V.M .I. which won a 28 to 14 victory which was much closer than the score would indicate. The following week another Lexington team, highly favored Washington and Lee, managed to squeak through with a 21 to 20 victory. As the BULLETIN goes to press, the Spiders are headed for Miami and what may be their worst drubbing of the season against a Miami University team which was good enough to wallop V.M.I., 45 to 0. A glance at the composite statistics pub-
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lished weekly by the Southern Conference reveals the story of Richmond's offensepassing. In Bob Tyler they have one of the best pitchers in the league. He's the reason the Spiders were second among all the Conference teams in passing offense after the first four games. In Ed Elliott they have one of the best catchers in the league, a guy who scored three touchdowns and picked up 181 yards after receiving passes. An injury to Elliott's face, suffered in the V.M.l. game killed any feeble hope the Spiders might have had of capturing the Miami contest. Sparked by veterans Bobby Tyler and Ed Elliott and freshman Lewis Wacker and Jimmy Burns, the Spiders rolled to five touchdowns in the season opener against RandolphMacon's Yellow Jackets. With Elliott and Junior Don Arey moving on the ground and Tyler directing the passing attack, Richmond scored with the game less than five minutes old. The Yellow Jackets moved into Spider territory, but Wacker intercepted a pass and raced 5 5 yards
TOUCHDOWN TWINS. These two Floridians, Bobby TylN (21) and Ed Elliott, were responsible for 600 of the 1067 yards the Spiders had gained through the air and on the ground after the first four games. Tyler, with 457 yards (369 passing, 88 rushing), was in second place in the Southern Conference in total offense. Elliott, the most versatile man in the backfield, had picked up 181 yards on pass receptions and had scored three touchdowns . He plays safety on defense.
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to the enemy 40. Seconds later Burns threw to Elliott who raced behind .the secondary to score . The first period ended with the Spiders leading 13-0. Randolph-Macon narrowed the gap at the half to 13-7. In the third quarter Elliott streaked 75 yards to th e 15, setting up the Spiders' third score. Final score: Richmond 34; Randolph-Macon 19. The Spiders moved into rain-soaked Braves Field for their second outing with Boston College. Trailing 7-.0 at the half, Richmond came back midway the third period to tie the score, Fullback Bud Thomas going over in four plays from the seven. BC tallied early in the final period and held back valiant Spider threats to win. In their third game, the Spiders, playing before a VMI hom ecoming crowd, spotted the Keydets a 14-0 halftim e lead. Tyler put on an aeria l circus in the final half, throwing TD passes to Elliott and Junior Jim Brier. VMI, however, scored twice more to win 28-14. Next an injury-riddled Richmond club played host to Washington and Lee, dropping a heartbreaking 21-20 decision. The Spiders scored first with Tyler sneaking over from the one. Then lat e in the first half, Elliott took a Tyler pass on the run and raced into the end zone to tie the score 14-14. The two teams matched scores in the second half, but the extra point proved the difference. Guard Bob Sgro, after kicking nine straight extra points, failed on his tenth try, and time ran out with Richmond in possession of the ball at midfield.
Personality In Politics
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evidence that the average American perceived MacArthur as a very powerful man but one who was stern, cold, lacking anything approximating a genuine fondness for the average man. Though some voters, because of their own personalities, prefer the stern to the warm, and object to both Eisenhower's smile and Stevenson's humor, the majority of American people do not seem to resonate to MacArthur. Both present candidates are probably perceived as much nearer the preferred pattern of humanity, strength, and practical effectiveness, but in talking about how the public sees either of them we are off into the realm of guessing. Guessing is an interesting activity, however, and one in which anyone can engage. The business of guessing about the public perception of Stevenson and Eisenhower brings us some interesting questions. It seems very clear, for example, that Eisenhower was seen by the American people as a very human general. And the very fact that he was an eminent ly successful general gives him the attribute of strength. But voters do not look at a general and a candidate through the same eyes. Candidates ask. Generals order. Generals need strength above all. Candidates can be too strong. Maybe MacArthur was seen as a little too strong. Eisenhower has stepped out of the general's role and now must relate to people on their own level. How difficult for him is this change or role? How gracefully can he take argument from his "inferiors" ? How does he react when a newspaperman heckles him' How conflicted is he by compromise, how tense and uncomfortable is he when he talks to plain American people, asking for their support? And how are his reactions perceived by his audiences? Does his infectious smile suffice to tell people he is really on their side? There are currently no factual answers to these questions, but the outcome of the election may depend on the answers-or on the answers the average man formulates for himself. In the case of Stevenson, we are equally in the dark as to how the voters really perceive his personality. What is he really communicating to his audiences in his long sentences and by his subtle points? How do people react to his humor? Why does Stevenson want to be elected? To help people or to help himselP Do people get the impression that this man is really for the little man in spite of his being relatively rich and in spite of his being an "inte llectual "? How many people will actually go to the polls without experience with the personality of this relatively unknown man? How many will vote for Eisenhower on the basis of experience with his personality as a general rather than his personality as a candidate? These are just a few of the questions currently growing out of a curiosity about personality factors in political events. All of these could be answered by sound research techniques, but at the moment all we have (Contin11e'd on page 12)
Printed below are two expressions from students at the University of Richmond, one of them written for publication in the Co!Legian,the other a letter from a son to his parent. Together they tell something of the spirit of the University of Richmond, a spirit that swells from something more vital than a winning touchdown , and finds expression in ways more subtle than the raucous rah-rah, the swallowing of goldfish , the swiping of panties and the other acts of adolescence which too often are mistaken by outsiders as the sum and substance of college life . Faculty members who have been at the University of Richmond for a long, long time are commenting on the terrific upswing in student spirit, the "I like this place " sentiment that is expressed so well by Mr. Waranch in his column, "At Random." Not only are students pitching into plans for Homecoming with their usual enthusiasm but they are planning a "University Appreciation" week during which they will review th e history, the traditions, the aspirations of this University. What they are doing should be heartening to every alumnus. What they will be in the years ahead should be heartening to those who have faith in the future and in the young peopl e who will be the guardians of this future.
AT RANDOM BY
W ARANCH
SEEMAN
I like this place. Having visited other colleges in Virginia and neighboring states, by comparison it seems evident that we take too much for granted and overlook too many of the nice things about our University. A greatly mistaken journalistic tradition is that of attack. The prime purpose of a newspaper is nejther to attack nor applaud . It is to report. If the following be applause , I add that it is also fact. We are of a complaining nature, a human frailty. We complain about the food and the dormitories. We expect service comparable to that we receive at home , an impossibility when the plan must include hundreds, not just four or five. Intent on finding fault, we fail to realize the merits of this institution. We overlook the fact that the University of Richmond has a scholastic rating equal to that of any other school in the state. And why are we here? If it be for education then we are being well repaid. If our purpose is otherwise, and we feel cheated in not attaining it, the University is not at fault. We have a tradition here of friendship and hospitality. I call it tradition, because we need not mention it or encourage it. It simply exists. The cynical will say that we are not unique in this tradition. I invite them to first make the rounds of a few other colleges, and then, if possible, to criticize and deny tradition. Our tradition is the sort of thing that is done quietly and its only gratitude is seeing a campus live in harmony. If you have been made to feel at home away from home, then its purpose has been accomplished. Each year when spirit begins to lag, someone takes aim on the day student. This thought is not entirely wrong, for too often the town student sees little of his University beyond the classroom. Most of them are here because they lack either the desire or the funds to go elsewhere. Ma1:1yof them accept scholarships from generous alumni, who proudly walked beneath the pines and over the hills many years ago. These students, (Continued
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SON? Dear Dean: Please tell me what are you trying to do to my young son, if you know . Is that the way I'm supposed to begin this letter , from a very proud papa concerning the treatment of his boy in college? Then I'm off the beat for this that is in my mind will not fit such a beginning. We , the rest of the family, are so very happy about the happiness of Joe in his work and relationships in Richmond College we wanted to thank you for your part in it. W e wish we could thank each of those who shar e, but that is impossibl e. Hav e you the tim e to read some excerpts from his first lette r home? They mad e us happy . Here is his letter: "Hi! "I have been and am almost too busy to do anything but study. The following info . I give in condensed form. I take Spanish , Biology, History and College Chorus on M. W . F. (the Chorus doesn't meet on F.) I take College Algebra, English, Phys . Ed . and Boy's Glee Club on T. T. S. (no Gle e Club on S.) This adds up to 17½ semester hours. Fairly good , I think. In fact I am elated about all except the fact that the Glee Club members perform in tuxedos. We'll see about that. "I spend about five hours per day in study and mind it less than two hours when in High School. "(Sob 1) The glasses haven't yet come though I expect them any time. The lamp , book case, and fruit did, much to my delight. I had given all the fruit away before I realized I hadn't eaten any of it! "I have been fed just enough to keep me hungry all the time and make me enjoy immensely the food I get. It's good food and I'm making out all right. "I went to Grove Ave. B. Church Sunday and was so impressed that I went forward and asked to be accepted by letter. They are very active folk, and I'm already practically in the choir. (C ontinu ed on page 11)
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son dogwood leaves and the flaming maple foliage has obscured the somewhat muddy water. But the wind begins to whistle through broken windows of the deserted playhouse now and students turn up their coat collars as they hustle across the campus. Not many weeks ago in hot September these same students, their faces damp with perspiration, were lugging suitcases up to their dorm rooms. During the first days of the semester the eight Richmond boys who went to Fort Eustis, Va., for summer training with the Transportation Corps ROTC program swapped tales of their strenuous program with the Air Force ROTC cadets who had a hot time (10S degrees, to be exact), By VIRGINIA P. LeSUEUR, '53 at Turner Air Force Base, Albany, Ga. It has been a short vacation for those year-'round received an honorary degree from the Unischolars who had attended Summer school. versity of Richmond at the 19S2 graduation. Although they stayed at the University, theirs The ratting ceremony took place during a was a cosmopolitan summer for they hob- tour of historic Richmond planned by the nobbed with students from 61 other colleges orientation committee in cooperation with the who were enrolled here. At the end of the social fraternities. Westhampton freshmen , session those who could brave the humidity not to be outdone, began "culture vulture" saw SO men and women receive their college tours of the city the next Sunday under the sheepskins and 8 grad students their master's auspices of the Alumnae Association. degree at graduation exercises. "I Like Ike" and "All the Way with In September, approximately 480 freshAdlai" chant rival groups on the campus as men arrived at the University , for their first the national election, eclipsed for a time by taste of college life. "Brother, can you spare the World Series, again becomes the major some info' " was the new word at Richmond topic of tea room and Dry Dock conversaCollege where a new Big-Little Brother sys- tion. The interest was whipped to fever pitch tem was begun by the class of '54 to lend a ¡at a meeting of the International Relations helping hand to the new students. Two im- Club when Dean Raymond B. Pinchbeck, a portant physical innovations at Richmond leader of the Veterans for Stevenson organCollege-dishes instead of trays in the refec- ization, championed the Democratic nominee tory and no more shabby barracks - greeted while Dr. Ralph C. McDanel spoke on bethis year's Spiders. A paint detail instead of half of Eisenhower. Political posters decoa wrecking crew was responsible for the bar- rated the Student Center lounge for the rally, racks improvement; they' re now an attrac- and campaign buttons proclaimed the choice tive shade of dark green. In addition, the of members of the audience . 'Mid all the parking area has been graveled and the lawn political potpourri, the disenfranchised reseeded. under-21 students rabidly shouted "I Go With the kickoff at the Randolph-Macon Pogo." Issues, instead of candidates, were football game came the kickoff of fraternity stressed by the YWCA and YMCA when rushing on the boys' side of the lake. Three they sponsored a round table discussion of groups, the SPE's, the Phi Garns, and the party platforms . All political functions on Phi Delts, point with pride at the brick-by- the campus aided students in selecting their brick progress of their lodges as bait for the favorite candidate before the mock national new men. A fresh slant on the fraternity election sponsored by the IRC. scene is provided by a chapter of Upsilon On the ladylike side of the news, WestRho, a national Greek outfit, which made hampton seniors still are feeling a bit conits debut on the campus in September. All spicuous in their caps and gowns. They did of the fraternity men are boasting their ath- tune up their song contest-winning vocal ldic prowess these days as intramural foot- cords, however, to welcome the freshmen ball reaches its competitive peak . at Proclamation Night. Another project of "Taxation without representation" was the the 'S 3ers was a South Court open house to cry in colonial days. Today through more which all underclassmen and Westhampton peaceful means the Richmond College stu- faculty members were invited. Strictly indent body has gained a new voice in affairs formal are the plans for the Senior Prom, through a House of Representatives. The new scheduled in November. A cabaret style Student Government branch was created by dance will replace the formals, but not the a constitutional amendment ratified during stardust, of earlier years. October, and it will serve in an advisory caPerhaps the newest and most important pacity to the Senate and act as arbitrator of trend on the campus is a growing feeling of interorganizational disputes. the University as a unit. This new Spider University sophomores made history in spirit is evident through the work of the September when they called Virginia's Gov- University Council in coordinating activities ernor John S. Battle a rat- an honorary Rich- on the various colleges. The Shakespearean play " As You Like It" was one project of mond College Rat, that is. It was the mortar board before the rat cap for the Governor who the Council. Alma Mater Week, a period
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during whid1 emphasis is placed on the great heritage of the University of Richmond, brought outstanding alumni back to the campus for talks to the students, From their experience during this period, Spiders gained a new understanding of the words: "University of Richmond, "Hail to our Alma Mater 1 "Hail to every fond tradition, "Memories that spur us on to victory."
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graduates who have taken jobs to date. Those who will remain in the Richmond area in sales are Joseph Binford with the Westinghouse Electric Company, G, E. Redford with the Fruehauf Trailer Company, Andrew Garnett with the American Automobile Association, Henry Smith with the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Company, Leonard Berman with the Kirby Vacuum Cleaning Company, and Harold Wright with International Harvester. The Noland Company has employed Joseph Vaden for Richmond and James Mackey for the Washington area. Earl Nelson will also operate from Washington as a sales representative of Southern Dairies . Alan Bloch is associated with Albert Bloch & Sons in New York, and Julian Clarkson has accepted a position with the V-C Chemical Company in the Cincinnati area. A retailing career will occupy Timothy Haden as he takes up department manager duties in Lexington, Virginia, with Adair-Hutton 's. William Goddard is in the retail training program of the Firestone Company in Philadelphia . Accounting positions have been accepted in Richmond by Roy Caton, who is with T. Coleman Andrews & Company, and R. Forest Persons, who has . joined the firm of Baker, Brydon, Rennolds and Whitt. Simon (Shack) Moughamian is employed in Chicago by the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson, Inc. F. Alan Dulaney is in Winchester with Yount, Hyde and Company, and James C. Atkins is with Waller and Woodhouse, in Norfolk. Management and management training programs are the choice of John Chandler, who ,is ¡with the J. W. Chandler firm. Curtis Martinis with the J. S. Archer Company, and (Continued
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A TRAMPABROAD By MURRAY BARR, '41*
SEPT. 15, 1951. Divine Corners, New York. Have received definite word which came from the Iranian Ambassador , Mr. Entezam, in Washington, that I have been invited to be the guest of Iran for a year. Air-pass age, all expenses; leave in a few days. SEPT. 22, Scotland. The weather in Edinburgh is miserably cold, but the people are warm and delightful. Staying only three days; met an old friend , Bill Archibald , an RAF pilot, whom I haven't seen since we flew together at Pensacola in 1942. . and it's not the same. And SEPT. 26. Paris I can't get to speak a word of French to save my life. The Americans have taken over the city and it is a struggle to ward off the French black marketeers along the Rue Scribe: "Pa ll Mall, Chesterfield; Change your dollars: good rate;" etc. Not a French word in a carload. Ameri cans everyw here - but Paris is wonderful. There 's a whole new crop of expatriates here, and when the sad, sad story will be written, it will be called: Paris, U.S.A. OCT. 11. Teheran. Spending ten-twelv e hours a day learning Persian is too much. I am happy that this is a holiday and I can have the day for myself. This is Ashura , the tenth of Moharram, the holiest day in the Moslem calendar. It is a day of deep mourning and lamen ting by the people. In the city there are gro ups re-enacting the Martyr 's death: they are dressed in the old costumes and sing the ancient chants . The playette begins with the assassins appearing with their faces covered; they inflict th e mortal blow upon the Martyr and then the playette is over. The people are dressed in complete black, and they march through the streets carrying black funeral banners and kerosene lamps; they chant a most mysterious and hypnotic air: "O Lord, we are unworthy of the Martyr. 0 Lord, make not the sun to shine on the morrow, for on this day did He die for us. 0 Lord , we are unworthy; smite us dumb , 0 Lord . . . " Nov. 5. Teheran. 10:00 P.M. The University is
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Author Murray Barr has seen a great , deal of this of Richmond in world since he left the University some of the islands of the Pacific 1941, including where he was stationed during part of his more than five years as a Navy flier. Later ho v i~ited Great Britain and France . He has just i-eturned to the U. S. from the University o( Teheran , Iran, where he was st udyin g on a sholars hip awarded him the by the Institut e of Int ernational Ed ucation.
Crossing Helmand River at Zahak, a couple Pretty border. miles from the Afghanistan risky. Author Barr stands disconsolately beside the Jeep, which has another flat tire.
closed indefinit ely. A student group invaded the office of the President and made outrageo us demands. Some faculty members have been locked in their offices for about twelve hours, and the entir e faculty has resigned. There is a student protest meeting going on about fifty feet from my quarters inside the Univers ity grounds where I am residing. And it will go on all night. Outside the University fences there are two thousand policemen and soldier s poised with rifles and powerful water hoses, ready to prevent the student s from marching into the city. The situation is all explosive.
Here 1s a five-hour-old river the day after a rain. Some of these streams were about four hundred feet wide, a current about 30 knots and about six feet in depth.
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DEC. 22. Desert : village of Chah Chupanan ... we stopped on the top of a hill just outside of Chupanan to watch the sunset come to this oasisvillage. Coming upon Chupanan is a thrilling sight. One moment you are in the midst of an ugly endless plain, colorless and barren, and which stretches into space and touches the sky and sandhill s in all directions. And suddenly, heading eastward, there is a black and contrasting cluster miles ahead. Space is difficult to judge out here and distance is only measured after having been traversed. We went three miles, and the darkened cluster became and blue and lovely betrees and grass-green yond the power of words to tell. Of course, the contrast is all the sharper because of the endless barren wastes we have been traveling all the day. Suddenly the scene is changed, and the potpourri of warm flushes of the sun on this fertile speck makes the scene a strange and exotic one. . . . We are the guests of the village chieftain, called "Sardor"; bis name : Tabah Tabah-ie. He is a forceful, straightforward young man of 24 (though he looks older); the Sardor thinks intelligently, clearly, directly and expresses himself in the same fashion. Supper was Persian in all respects: rice, chicken, and larg e flat breads about fourteen inches in diameter; we were seated on the floor among eighte en of the villagers who came to look us over. The after-supper tea-session turned out to be, first of all, a discussion on the history of Chupanan, the interesting dialectic differences , and the high points of the wars started by invading Balucbi tribes. At first the invading hordes plundered, raped , and murdered (hordes never do otherwise) -but when the Persians came to understand that the Baluchi was an ever-returning menace each year, then a system of defenses was undertaken. Smoke signals from village to village, fast horse-riding to warn that the Baluchi was coming, and th e like . DEC. 24. Des ert-o utside of Mezra. At six this morning temperature in the twenties. Cold, biting cold. I haven't slept out in the open like this in many years. Below freezing weather is for Boy Scouts. It's kind of rugged. Last night we Jost our way in the desert, and we drove between some treacherous sand dunes. Both vehicles sank in some 30 to 35 inches of sand. We wisely pitched camp and spen t the night; this morning the sand froze and we extricated ourselves without Terrible awful driving conditions: difficulty .... dried river beds , with 18 to 24-inch ruts. We 're all complaining of bitter aches. . . . What a way to spend Christmas Eve! But there is a strange enchantment about being here in the desert knowing that a couple of thousand years ago three other men may have passed this way. JAN. 10. Zabul. There is too much to do, so the three of us have separated for the day to do individual sight-seeing. I am the guest of the Sardor of the Narowi tribe in Baluchistan and Sistan; his name: Sardor Irani. His tribesmen number about 35,000; of this amount more than 2,000 live in Afghanistan. The Sardor and his 21-yearold son took me to see the ruins at Old Zahidan. (Note: March 7: Received a Jetter today from my friend, the Indian Consul at Zahidan, who wrot e that Sardor Irani was beaten to death by forty The trip to Old Zahidan Baluchi tribesmen.) ... is full of persona] naivete. The trip to the ruin s must be made by horse; I was given the Sardor's horse, and had trouble all the way, coming and going, keeping him in check. Being the Sardor' s horse, he is accustomed to being in front of any ~roup all the time. The guide has explained that .he horse cannot understand why he cannot be out m front. . . . I found myself heading towards some interesting ruins with a tribal chieftain his son, a guide, two servants, and a man '.with' two rifles slung across the saddle of his horse. Some (Continued on page 12)
MELTON Man of God By CLARE MARCUS
YEARSAGO a young student hopeM ANY ful of becoming a good country preacher delivered his first sermon in a small Presbyterian church. He laid before him on the pulpit a manuscript which his mother had written, but before he could read a single word of it a gust of wind swept the pages away. The young man was Sparks W. Melton , so the situation was not entirely desperate . He sm1ply decided then and there that if ever he was to be a minister he could not depend upon written pages, especially someone else's written pages, for a sermon. He began to preach. In his 44th year as pastor of Norfolk 's Freemason Street Baptist Church and on the eve of his retirement from that long association, the Rev. Dr. Melton recalled that day when he stood young and inexperienced in a pulpit searching his mind for everything he had learned about Christianity. The words began to come, and they flowed on steadily enough for him to collect eight dollars for his impromptu message . . The money seemed to solve all his problems. With it he bought a ring for a young lady's finger. But young love can pass as swiftly as the wind through a church window , and soon the ring was traded back. The eight dollars this time went for a pair of shoes, for which Sparks Melton had a more certain need. "It wasn't much money, but it wasn't much preaching either, " the retiring minister commented nearly half a century later as he sat in his Norfolk study. (Dr. Melton chanced to meet, after many years had passed, th e merchant to whom h e had returned the ring and discovered that he too had slipped it on a lady's finger only to hav e it given back. Where the jinxed band finally became permanent he does not know . But Dr. Melton survived its spell; in 1877 he married Miss Laura Virginia Nelson , of Richmond, who died in 1918. They had on e son.) Son of the late Dr. John Tisdale Melton, a country doctor of Fluvanna County, and great-great-grandson of the Rev. Elijah Sparks, a Methodi st minister, the son still has the leather saddlebag in which his father carri ed medicine. H e believes it dates back to 1874. Sparks Melton , who retired as pastor of Freemason Street Church, August 1, began to prepa-re himself for business at the Smithdeal Business College in Richmond , and then sw itched to law before turning to the min-
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istry. After three years at Richmond College, Dr. Melton enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in June of 1895 . Although he had tho ught he would be a country preacher, perhaps serving a charge of four churc hes, the Rev . Mr. Melton was called upon grad uation to the 23rd Street Baptist Church in New York City and the Franklin Square Church in Baltimore. He chose the latter for his first pastorate. From there he went to the First Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga . Nine years later, in 19.08, he came to Norfolk. Since that time Dr. Melton has become known as the city's dean of ministers. He received a numb er of calls to other churches, among them an invitation to consider succeeding Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick at Montclair, N. J., but chose to remain with the congregation in Norfolk.
One of the highlights of his ministry came in 1926 when h e was invited to deli{,er the address at the l 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which was commemorated at the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello . As a result of the coast-to-coast broadcast many friends in faraway places resumed contact with Dr . Melton. One of these, a fellow student at the seminary, couldn 't believe he was hearing his old friend speaking at such an important occasion. He wrote Dr. Melton later that he was "th rill ed when your name was announced ." Numerous honors have been conferred on Dr. Melton through the years. In 1929 the University of Richmond elected him to honorary membership in Omicron Delta Kappa for his outstanding service to the institution and a year later conferred upon him the hon(Continued on page 11)
CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY OF LIFE
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HEN SPARKS MELTON delivered his first sermon at Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfolk forty-four years ago, he undertook to tell the congregation what manner of man he was, what he believed , what and how he wou ld preach. Christianity, h e told his church members, is not so much a matter of dogma as it is a way of life. He proposed, he said, to "present the truth of God in tangible form." He told them of a God they could "love, trust and obey," not a God "wi th the rough encrustme nts of paganistic conceptions, not a God which some systems of theology have sought to foist upon human credu lity , not
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God as I once thought of Him, nor as some of you have thought of him, but the God of Jesus Christ-whom he loved, whose will he sought, and in whom he found his delight." As for Jesus, Dr. Melton "never felt the necessity of trying to prove his divinity." The young preacher told the Freemason Street congregation that " I would sooner try to prove by syllogism the love of my mother. " He then talked to them of Him who "speaks to the human heart in a voice that is not human, but divine," of one who "touches the human life with a touch that thrills like the touch of God Himself." For forty-four years he told the story of
Jesus and his love to the congregation of his church and to the people of Norfolk, where he was universally known and admired. In l 938 he was given the award which annually goes to "Norfo lk's First Citizen." His fame and influence spread, however, far beyond the bounds of Norfolk. His was an authoritative voice in the councils of the Baptist denomination in Virginia. Many thousands of Americans heard him when he preached on the topic, "A Godless Age," on Columbia's "Church of the Air." As Editor Joseph A. Leslie, Jr., '16, of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, a member of the freemason Street congregation and a colleague on the University's board of trustees, wrote on the occasion of Dr. Melton's retirement: "As a minister, and as a man, he has risen above denominational lines. In his memorable preaching there has been nothing that would shut men out, but everyth ing that would encourage and persuade them to enter the fellowship of which he is so strikingly an exemplar. His ministry has been based upon a creed free of all narrowness and constriction. Tt has derived its power from a broad humanity and a kindliness and tolerance and respect for the beliefs of others which have by influence and examp le enriched the lives of countless men and women both inside and outside his church. He has drawn men and women to him by the power of an unfaltering faith made manifest in kindly services and the humility which always marks the great heart and the lofty spirit. And men have been drawn to him, too, because of an heart which always has understanding reached out with equa l compassion to the sinn ing and the sinned against." A devoted alumnus of the University of Richmond, Dr. Melton has been a member of the board of trustees since 1928. For nine years he was vice rector and for a brief period following Dr. Douglas S. Freeman's resignation as rector, Dr. Melton served as acting rector. In add ition to his official duties which drew him to the campus, Dr. Melton returned as often as he could to participate in University and alumni functions and in the annual pastors' school in June. At the end of the day, when the school's formal program had ended, Dr. Melton would invariably be the center of an admiring group of his fellow ministers who were drawn by the warmth of hi s personality, his genia l good humor , his sage counsel. l11ey found in him the proof of his assertion in his sermon to the Freemason Street congregation forty-four years ago: "Christianity is a Way of Life."
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orary degree of doctor of divinity. A similar degree was awarded him by Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1908. Dr. Melton's ministry has never been confined within the limits of th e pulpit. He will always be remembered in Norfolk for
his leader ship in organizing the Church Relief Association during the depression years. That agency, formed by a group of ministers in the city, saved many a family from starvatio n during the time it was in operation after Federal relief funds ran out. What he recalls most clearly about that venture was the way persons not acutely stricken by the depression personally carried baskets of food to the hom es of the poor, so that in a way the relief served a double purpose. In 1927 he began the first of what came to be annual joint Thanksgiving services between his church and Ohef Sholom Temple. Since that year the services have been held each fall, alternating between the two congregations. They began while his old friend, Dr. Louis Mendoza, was rabbi of the synagogue, and have continued into Rabbi Malcolm Stern's service. At a banquet celebrating the completion of Dr. Melton's 41st year as pastor of the church, 500 members of the congregation and visiting ministers honored him in 1949. A shower of felicitations descended upon him, including telegrams, letters, flowers, songs and poetry. "What I am, what I have done, what I have been is due more to the Freemason Street Baptist Church than to myself. . . . " Dr. Melton said. On his retirement from the active pastorate, Dr. Melton probably will spend much of his time at his log cabin in Flu', as his friends hav e come to call the country home in Fluvanna County. His faithful friend, Hattie, will be waiting for him. But further than that Dr. Melton has no plans. He will attend to any preaching calls made on him and no doubt will spend some time in Norfolk with his son Carroll.
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rather than realize their fortune, live a fouryear life of resentment and often go away with nothing more than a sheepskin to hang on a wall. There is more to be had. Among our many fortunes is the fact that we are supported by a religious denomination. Many outsiders feel that this would force emphasis on a particular belief. On the contrary, the emphasis is placed on belief in general and understanding. This goes a long way towards eliminating narrowmindedness and the silly "antis" that have confused and ravaged the world since the beginning of time. As a member of a minority group, I know the joy of understanding. The University of Richmond has eliminated a problem that has plagued the world for centuries. We take a back seat in size but not in progression. Last year saw the completion of the Alumni-Student Center Building. Plans for building a business school, a law school, and a new library on campus are already under way. If you feel that you hav e missed the boat, take another look . A little elementary accounting should bring you to realize that our assets are numerous and rich at the University of Richmond. [ 11 ]
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"We have organized the second floor of E into a group. I am chairman. "Must go to bed now ... but would love to write volumes. "There's that much to write. "I am fine. All's wonder/11I. Excuse procrastination. Me." The underscorings, greetings, everything are as he fixed them. His ability as a letter writer maybe should improve before he begins writing models in the Student Paper but we are grateful for an atmosphere that is conducive to such an attitude. To you and each of your associates who are responsible for his happiness, and we trust the happiness of the other boys, as well as for ours, again a very hearty Thank you.
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LaSanda Bowden with the Albemarle Paper Company. Frank Skinner and Ted Adams are on the staff of the C. and P. Telephone Company, but both are already on military leave. Office administration in the Richmond area will occupy Robert Gollwitzer with the Virginia Highway Department, Charles Kelly with the V-C Chemical Company, and Herbert Nichols with the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Richard Newell is doing actuarial work with the same company . H. C. Jones has entered the field of casualty insurance with the Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Company. One of our law graduates, Elmer Nochta, is with an insurance firm in Richmond. Murray Dick has embarked on a banking career with the Irving Trust Company, in New York. Carl Leach is an investigator with Dun and Bradstreet. The investment field has been chosen by Thomas Armistead, who is with Scott, Horner and Mason, Inc. Gil Armbrecht is in the claims department of the Brooks Transportation Company, Inc., Richmond. Andrew Richardson has resumed full-time duties as chief chemist with the Poythress Company, while Donald McGuffin has gone to Indiana as a chemist with Du Pont. Dalton McCoy is a pharmacist with the Ace Pharmacy, in Norfolk. Federal and state employment continue to attract our graduates. William Hayes, James Judson, and Robert Spiers are engaged in aeronautical research with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at Langley Field, Va. Clint on Felton is an examiner with the U. S. Patent Office in Washington. Charles Shutt has returned to Steubenville Ohio, for emp loyment in the U. S. Post Of'. fice. J. Richard Ashby is with the State Department of Public Welfare, in Richmond. Two of our lawyers have taken positions in Richmond: Richard Ryder with the Office of Price Stabilization, and J. Mercer White, Jr., with the State Tax Department. Other lawyers who have returned to their.
homes to p'ractice law are: Kenneth Covington to Ridgeway, William Harris to Norfolk, Joseph Johnson, Jr. to Bassett, William Flesher to Huntington, West Virginia, Arthur McDonald to Durham, N. C., Ray Norvell to Valdosta, Georgia , and Frank Rejevich to Shamokin, Pa. Ministers include Rolen Bailey in Huddleston, and Parker Hooper at the Woodlawn Baptist Church, Colonial Heights. Richard Florin is in Newark, N. J., with Philip Florin, Inc., while E. Lewis Rehberg remains in Richmond with Bill's Barbecue. ¡ The list of men in the military is necessarily incomplete. To date, we know that Bill Deane and Don Jacobs have started their Army service at Indiantown Gap, Pa.; Major Lewis Waid, U. S. Army, is in a special graduate program in petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Other Army personnel include Ted Adams, Norman Dodi, Frank Skinner, and Richard Whitmer. Second Lieutenant Robert Rosenbaum, U.S.A.F.R., is at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Wellford Haddon and Julio Rive are aviation cadets at Columbus, Miss., and the Marana Air Force Base, Arizona, respectively. Rewel (Buster) Bynum and Jack Parcell are also in the Air Force. The following men are in the Navy : James Morrison, Franklin Edmonds, Milton Leonard, and Bill Wheeler. Other graduates who are reported to be in the service or who are contemplating service are: David Abrams, George Bruce, D. G. Burnette, Eston Cosby, Thomas Currie, Newton (Corky) Fowler, Robert Gooch, Charles Goodrich, Amos Hawkins, George Via, Harry Whitt , and Norman Woerner. That's the story for now- a year of placements at a record peak. With your help we can make the story complete and up to date.
back and camel-riding about 200 feet behind us -a ll of them with rifles. And from various directions, there were about forty additional riders approaching us; all of them carrying rifles and wearing cartridge belts across their shoulders to their waists. . When the various tribesmen approached and realized that I was not their chieftain, they laughed and made friendly jokes; they had seen the white horse belonging to the Sardor, and they had supposed it was their chieftain. To say that all this was quite an adventure for me-to be riding on the one white horse leading this array of Baluchi and Afghan tribesmen is an understatement of wild proportion. This experience of being whisked into a Prokosch novel is an adventure I have read about: one that I hardly expected to have. JAN. 12-Below Zahidan: on way to Khwash. A drizzling rain in the mountains around us is causing small floods and ground washouts. Shortly after sunset we reached a high point of a hill , and when we passed it, the ground seemed to give way suddenly and we crashed into the rushing water of a Jive-hour-old river. For seconds we were dazed-not knowing what happened. The water was coming into the vehicle; the hood and fenders were dented by the contact with the water, and the right rear end of the vehicle seemed to be in about Jive feet of water. Fortunately, our front wheels were high - almost out of the water only about Jive or six feet from the bank in front of us. We managed to get some heavy items out and the other Jeep arrived in a few minutes; our chauffeur managed to find a low spot to make the crossing and towed us out before the swift current washed us away down the mountain. From this point , we had to be towed. An hour later we were in difficulty again; this time we were stuck in some forty inches of mud. We waited until morning to get help to extricate ourselves. . . . Cold, cold, bitter cold all night. ]AN. 16. Baluchistan . .. . Kahcoohst is a miserable, poverty-stricken village. All the people are idle and very poorly dressed. There are obvious opium addicts in the village; and to my question concerning the number of opium smokers here , the local chieftain said: "Enough . There is not much opium smoking now; in fact , much less than there used to be. The people have less money these days." . . . Much trouble with the tires on the vehicles: at least a couple of flats a day. . . . Iranshahr: we are guests of Esau Khan , the Sardor here. We were visited by a Persian official in the evening who asked us why 20,000,000 Americans are unemployed and living off the Personality In Politics dole ; why that poor farmer from the West, Wendell Willkie , was murdered ; why American gang(Conti11tted from page 7) sters are forcing everyone in the big cities to buy are personal impressions and intere~ting and smoke opium. We asked the direct question: guesses. There is good reason to believe, "How often each day do you listen to Radio Moscow?" Hjs answer: "I try to listen each evening, however, that the way American people re- but I'm too busy and have not much time now ." act to the basic personalities of Eisenhower Dick and I tried to break down some of his trite and Stevenson will have an important bear - ideas of America: mass unemployment , lynchings , clubs . He could not believe that we do ing on determining which one occupies th_e night not go to night clubs, and he said, " If you do not White House next January. And perhaps this go to night clubs- then why are you living' " W e is as it should be, for American people are tried to explain that lif e in America was not a pretty keen in sizing up personality and they hazard and a trial-that we are having our problems, but that we are working them out-and that probably know , even if t?ey _do not say, that what he said about the United States was not true a President who has a baste distrust of human in the smallest iota. But it was to no avail. Hi s answer was that we had been hoodwinked by beings, who is more interested in personal power than in the commonweal, _wh? _puts effective . . . propaganda. . . . JAN. 20 . Zahidan. Accident today. I was drivorderliness and efficiency above md1v1dual ing the Je ep some forty miles out of Zahidan in human worth and the common welfarethe dir ection of Kerman when the Jeep had a such a President can~ot with real effective- blowout and turned over a couple of times. I ness carry out policies, however piously blacked out for a short while. I was taken back stated, affirming a concern with human dig- to' Zahidan to the Indian doctor there ; he treated me for shock and said that I did not suffer any nity, fundamental democracy and the ad- broken bones in spite of the extreme chest pains I vancement of human freedom. have. Oddly enough, no damage to the Jeep. JAN. 23. We decided to go on to Kerman as there is no x-ray equipment here. Still have bad A Tramp Abroad chest pains. Spent the night at a halfway point: Barn. We had a lukewarm invitation from our (Continued from page 9) host to see the town of Barn-and we accepted. We walked to the outskirts of the town and we ten minutes later when I looked behind me to were pleased that we had not rushed off. The say something to my host, I found that our retmountains surrounding Barn were peaked with _inue had grown to about twenty people on hor se-
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snow and the rose colors of the mountainsides sparkled in the sunlight. The green tops of the date trees presented an odd scene: oasis and snow. We were making slow progress towards the old fortress which was standing aloof and proud on a summit east of Barn (I am still having considerable difficulty in walking) when we touched on th e subject of the current elections now taking place in Iran. Dick had just asked the question whether or not there was any trouble at all in Barn, and our host answered emphatically that there was not. . . Just as soon as he made this denial, there was a series of gunshots behind us-coming from the center of town . . . . When I investigated the shooting, I found the cause to be a slight case of electioneering. ]AN. 25. Yezd .... We arrived in Yezd at seven-thirty in the evening. A half hour earlier there had been violent rioting in the city. At least three people have been killed and eight seriously wounded . More election trouble. . . . More trouble is expected here. JAN. 28. Isfahan. We are the guests of the American Consul in Isfahan. The Paxtons are interesting and intelligent, and for us, it is a vast pleasure to be with them. . . . I am going straight back to Teheran and hospital facilities. I have been walking about with two broken ribs. I was x-rayed by Dr. Wild of the British Hospital who does not advise any more traveling. George and Dick will spend a day in Shiraz and then return to Teheran. JAN. 30. Teheran. Back at my quarters at the University Club. Spending the next two ¡ weeks in bed. Now begins the task of putting notes together for the book . Film seems okay and it is expected that we'll have an hour movie to show . MARCH 21. Teheran. The Persian New Year began today; it is a thirteen-day holiday with constant _excursions to the country. All of the people JOm m a mass exodus from the city. Spring is a lo:veiy bit of business here , and it comes sharply with the first day of spring. This could be such a_fine place to live if only there was less corruption. MAY 14. The University of Teheran. All goes well and quietly. The students are deep in study for their examinations which begin in about a week and last for nine weeks. Most classes have come to an end about the month ago , and the students are left to work by themselves. You can see them in the gardens walking up and down, from six in the morning to hours after dark. It is all the more difficult for them this spring because of the long rainy season we have been having; they huddle along the windless, rainless sides of the buildings learning their lessons by rote; or else they stand in doorways and wait until the rain lets up before they begin walking the gardens again. Most of the students who study in this fashion live in a single room dwelling with a half . dozen other people , and the only place for study are the university gardens in the daytime, and along the streets, close to the street lamps at night. JULY 17. Riots all over the city. Mossadegh has resigned and Qavam has taken over. But all this for a day only. Qavam has been forced to flee the country and Dr. Mossadegh is back in power. Almost a hundred people were killed in the city, and several hundred were wounded. Ju!.Y 29. Have started homeward but the long way and slowly . Today in Khoi , Azerbaijan. Am the guest of a university friend. When I arrived at the home of his parents, the fatted calf was killed as I was entering the courtyard. It is a Persian custom; in effect, the host is telling his neighbors that he is entertaining . AUGUST 12. Interlaken, Switzerland. Have come here to see Jungfrau and to listen to some music. Switzerland is all green and serves as a wonderful contrast to Iran. SEPT. 16. Divine Corners, New York. Arrived this morning by air from Scotland after a most pleasant six-weeks tour of Europe. Tomorrow morning I begin feeding chickens and milking cows for five weeks. My plans are still unsettled but in all probability I will return to the University of Teheran which has been kind enough to renew my grant for another year.
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1901_ "The young man of Ashland " is the nam e given J . Hall Moor e who , at 86, still covers a five-county territory selling insurance . Mr. Moore , the second oldest agent in point of service with the Equitable life Assurance Society of the Unit ed States, sells enough new insuranc e to put "young whippersnappers " in the shade, too. H e belong s to the Century Club, a group of agents whose new sales amount tu around $ 100,000 a year.
1914Th e experiences of Dr. E. Norfleet Gardner as a memb er of the 1951 Preaching Mission to the Orient have been recorded in Journey to Japan. The book is in the form of note s from the authors diary , letters home, and reports for the church bulletin.
1915lieut enant Colonel executiv e officer of Rochell e, Franc e. The of the U. S. Army in
George M. Percival is now the Station Hospital , l a hospital ¡ is an organization Europe .
1919Dr. William I. Knight, whose collection of butterfli es and moths includes every specimen ther e is to be caught, blames his hobby on the University of Richmond. "My son was taking zoology, botany , bugology -a ll that sort of thing . He had to have a collection of insects. I started helping . well, that"s how I began. " Now him , and that he 's exhausted the butterfly busine ss, Dr . Knight has swi tched to Hepplewhit e- he's now making furnitur e in his spare time .
1922Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke is now commanding officer of the Key West , Florida Naval Base. Admiral Duke , who captained the 45,000 -ton battleship Mi ssouri in Korean wat ers, served as commanding officer of the D ah lgren, Virginia Proving Grounds before his assignment to Key W est. Th e Rev. Jos eph Rotella has a two-tracked mind and heart. For the thirty years since his college graduation, he has served as pastor of the Corinth Baptist Church in New Kent County. He has also been active in schoo l administration during this period, and today he is princip al of Dumbarton School, near Richmond . Memb ers of his church recently honored the pastor and his wife for their years of service.
The appointment of Waverly S. Green , '15, to the Virginia State Board of Agricultur e and Immigration gives further recogni tion to a man who knows both the theory and practice of farming. He 's a down-to-earth dirt farmer with 400 acres and a dairy herd of 160. At the same time he is serving with distinction as director of the Farm Credit Administration for th e Baltimore District. His job is principally one of organizing Producer Credit Associations and employing personnel to operate them, and then supervising their activities.
Mr. Green , who is a graduate of both the University of Richmond and V.P.I., taught at Hargrave Military Academy and later was principal of Gretna High School. H e served as principal and agricultural instructor at Burkeville High School before accepting th e position of district supervisor of vocational agricu ltur e in 1928. He served successively as educational expert for the federa l farm board, and as field representativ e for th e Farm Credit Administration, before becoming Farm Credit Administrator for the Second District. Both of Mr. Green 's sons, Waverly, '41 , and Tom, '42, are alumni of the University of Richmond. Both received Phi Beta Kappa keys, as did Louise who was graduated thi s year from Randolph-Macon Woman 's College .
me and I have enjoyed working with them durin g these tw enty years, " Mr. Robertson write s.
signed to Harvard University for 1952-53 as an associate Niema n Fellow. He is the second Naval officer ever to be selected for thi s assignment of outworking with the Nieman Fellows-twelve standing newsp apermen from all sections of the country chosen for advanced stud y in fields of their ow n choosing .
1926Horace H. Edwards , ex-Richm ond mayor , ha s been appointed assistant to State Democrati c Chairman T. Nelson Park er in organizing Virginia precincts for the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket.
1929Dr. Nevitt Sanford, of Berkeley, Calif. , a research psychologist, has been appointed Coordi nator of the Mary Conover M ellon Foundation for the Advancement of Education . Dr. Sanford is the co-author of The Auth oritarian Personality.
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B. Leake, vice president and sales mana ger of Universal M otor Company in Richmond will attend the Ford Motor Compa ny's Merchandising School at Dearborn , Michigan , classes to begin on October 6. Mr. Leake is a veteran of 20 years with Universa l.
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1925On his twentieth anniversary as pastor of the Park View Baptist Church, The Rev . Emmett Y . Robertson was presented a handsome, solid gold wrist watch as one token of his congregation's love and esteem. "My peop le have been good to
1938Captain Donald E. Trump , former Army chap lain at the Fort l ee WAC Training Center, has
Dr. Samue l Wilc ox has been appointed associate profe ssor and acting head of the department of econom ics and busin ess administr ation at Centr e College in Kentucky . Forme rly Dr. Wilcox was 1923a member of the facu lty at Stetson U nivers ity, ' servpublic Arthur W. James has retired from D eland, Florida . ice and is making his home in Chatt anooga , T enn . Born: a son, M arbry B. Hopkin s, III , to Mr. Dr. Addison M. Duval, of St. Elizabeth 's Ho sand Mrs . Hopkin s, Jr., September 19th , in Baltipital , Washington , is also teaching psychi atry in more . the medical schoo l of Georg e Wa shingt on University.
Elton C. Cocke seems as excited about his new grandson, Thoma s Bennett Van Pool e, III , as about his promotion from associate professor to full prof essor of biology at W ake Forest College. Prof. Cocke was elected as an honorar y member of Omicron Delt a Kappa , leadership frat ernity , in the spring .
1937Aft er 12 years with the F.B.l. as a specia l agent , Books P. Shetter has resigned to accept a position with the First Federal loan and Savings Association of Richmond as an attorn ey and loan consult ant.
Harold W. Van All en has taken hi s new position as technical engineer in the production engineering departm ent at Int ernational Business Machines Company , in Endicott , New York .
1935Gary A. Bousman has been called to the Fir st Church of Alexandria, Minn. , Congregational where he took up his duties in September. Bousman has been mini ster of the Plymouth Congregationa l Church , Buffal o, N. Y. , since 1948. J. Westwood Smithers , Richmond attorney and Jaw professor at the T. C. Williams School of law, has been elected supreme vice-justice of Phi Alpha D elta law Fraternity. Command er Beverley 1. Britton has been as-
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LEEREPORTON ALCOHOLICS PUBLISHED Encouraging eviden ce that a large percentag e of chroni c alcoholics can be successfully treated is found in the Vir ginia State D epartm ent of H ealth program for the study, treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholic addicts. Thi s is th e optimistic report of Kenneth F. Lee, '27, director of division of alcohol studies and rehabilitation in the Virgi nia D epartment of Health. His study has been pub lished in the United States Public H ealth Report. "Virginia 's problem on alcoholism is the culmination of the efforts of a number of citizens of the State," says Mr. Lee. They have been aided and advised by nationall y recognized authoriti es on the treatment of alcoholism. A recent evaluation of 816 treated patients showed that more that half had been help ed to attain sobriety; about one-fourth showed marked improvement; and less than onefourth show ed no improvement. '
for two months, Elmore had formerly served as principal budget and management officer in the Richmond office since October 1, 1950, and had been second in command for more than a year . Captain A. J. Phaup, Jr., met alumnus Tom Vaiden on, of all places, Guam. Vaiden is Adjutant of the 19th Bomb Wing there, but expects to come to the States soon for discharge from the service. Phaup will be stationed on Guam for approximately eighteen months.
1941William L. Kirby, Jr. , is now principal of Louise High School and lives at Cuckoo , Va. Commander S. Joseph Wornom has been recent• ly transferred from Los Angeles to Washington where he is head of the Radio-TV Branch, Office of Information, Navy Department. The Wornoms are living near Falls Church, Virginia. Married: Miss Joan Hughes Rodrian to th e Rev. Charles William McNutt , Saturday , August 9th, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Bluefield, W. Va. Captain l'vfartin Markowitz is chief of surgery at an Army hospital in the Orient. "These Buddist priests are pretty slick with their brand of football," writes Markowitz . He proved his point by a picture post card showing th em knocking a ball about.
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DOBSON COMMANDS ARMORED CAVALRY UNITS Lt. Col. John W. Dobson, '35, commanding officer of the 4th Armored Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion in Linz, Austria, is well able to pass on some pointers in baseball to the battalion team, the Sabers. The Colonel rolled up some sort of a record himself when he was at the University of Richmond; he was a letterman in five
been assigned to the Medical Replacement Training Center at Camp Pickett.
MINOR HEADS NEW WELFARE AGENCY Carroll R. Minor, ' 30, who believes that "there are no delinquents, just misguided fellow beings," will have a new chance to put his theory in practice. Mr. Minor will head the Division of Youth Services, a new division of the Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions. This division will integrate the whole program for maladjusted children under one head . The University alumnus who is now director of the Child Care Bureau will supervise that bureau , the four State training schools, and the Bureau of Juvenile Probation and Detention Services. Mr. Minor and his wife have two daughters, one of whom is now a sophomore at Westhampton.
sports! Later at West Point he received letters in football, baseball and track. It's just doing what comes naturally for Colonel Dobson, whose father, Frank M. Dobson, was a professional athlete and later a coach. Dobson Sr. coached football at the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson and at his son's Alma Mater, Richmond.
Born: a son, Richard Dale , to the Rev. and Mrs . Harold W. Parker , August 27. The Parker s live in Ringgold , Virginia . Mark S. Willing has been elected as Assistant Vice-President of the Chicago National Bank. Formerly Willing was assistant cashier of the bank.
1943Dr. Wyndham Bolling Blanton, Jr. , has joined his father and Dr. H. Wallace Blanton in the practice of medicine in Richmond. Married: Miss Patricia Sidell Garth to Meredith Watkins Rhodes, August 23, in the University of Virginia Chapel , Charlottesville. Born: a son, Mark Addison, to Mr. and Mrs. H. Addison Dalton, September 9th, in a Richmond hospital. Dr. B. Judson McClanahan, recently discharged from service in the Navy where he was a flight
1939Brown is now in the real estate business in Virginia Beach , Virginia. John Sharp Harris is now assistant professor of political science at Wayne University, Detroit. Since the completion of his graduate studies, Harris has taught at the University of Southern California and at the University of Tennessee. David Meade White, Jr ., Richmond 's "Outstanding young man" in 1950 , has been named substitute associate judge of the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. The 34-yearold attorney, who is past-president of the Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce and of the James River Sertoma Club, will fill a post created by the 195~ Virginia General Assembly. Oscar B. Edd leton who finished the seminary at Alexandria in June is now Deacon in charge of \'(/estover Episcopal Church and St. Peter's in New Kent, Virginia. Lieutenant Henry H. Dickinson is a professor rn the Army School in San Antonio, Texas. C. Bernard
1940Robert F. Ripley was elected to the Norfolk City Council in June . Juliette Loving and Carlton Whitlach are celebrating the arrival of Stephanie Paige . The Whitlatches live in Philadelphia, where Carlton is pastor of the Congregationa l Church. Robert B. Elmore is the new ly appointed budget director for Richmond. The acting budget director
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BRANDIS RAPS OPS Dr. Buford Brandis, '37, economist for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, argued in a recent Georgetown University Radio Forum that the fairly stable price level of the last 18 months has be.en achieved "not because of the Office of Pnce Stabilization, but despite it." Brandis took the negative side in a debate with the deputy director of OPS on "Do We Need Tighter Controls Now?" "Government interference in the workings of the free market through price control and wage control has thrown the economy out of gear," Brandis said. He added that federal deficit financing and "runaway credit" have been responsible for inflation. The accord reached by the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury on a debt-financing policy, he said, was a major reason in slowing the inflationary spiral. Brand is' opponent credited OPS with checking inflation and called for a Defense Production Act with stronger controls.
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SHOTWELLDIRECTSRELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES An alumnus who was active in religious activities during his student days has returned to his Alma Mater as Director of Religious Activities. He's the Rev. Ralph Shotwell, '46, who will also serve as an assistant professor of religious education. Mr. Shotwell resigned as pastor of the Union Avenue Baptist Church, Paterson, N . J., to accept his new post. While a student at the University, h e served as assistant minister in charge of youth work at the Second Baptist Church. He married the former Virginia Lambeth, who was graduated from Westhampton in 1946. Mr. Shotwell continued his education at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School where he earn ed his bachelor of divinity degree.
surg eon and senior medical officer aboard the Aircraft Carrier Mindoro , is now a resident in surgical pathology at Memorial Hospital, New York City. George W. Sadler, Jr. , is now associated with the law firm of Florance , Florance and M oore, Richmond. Lieutenant David Edward Satterfield , III, spent two weeks on active duty at the Naval Air Station , Anacostia, Maryland , during August. Richard H. Kraft , a member of th e Tennesse e State planning staff since 1947 , has been named director of local planning services for Virginia. As chief of local planning, Kraft will dir ect the deve lopment of comprehensive subdivision plans and ordinances.
1944Charles F. Gindhart, Jr. , has been appoint ed assistant manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at Montgomery, Alabama.
1945The Rev. J. Powhatan Cox became pastor of the First Baptist Church, Dadeville, Alabama , the first of August. J. Hundley Wiley, Jr. , has taken a position in the research laboratory of the Bell Telephone Company, Murray Hill , N. Y.
HADDOCK, RICHMOND'S MAYOR Two University alumni, Dr. Edward E. Haddock and Thomas P. Bryan, Jr., will pilot Virginia's capital city for the next two years. "Captain" Haddock was elected Richmond's Mayor while First Mate Bryan , '47, in his post as Mayor pro tem will preside over the council and serve as ceremonial chief of the city in the absence of his captain. Dr. Haddock, the president of the Virginia Academy of General Practice of the Medi cal Society of Virginia, was appointed to fill a council vacancy last winter. Bryan, a University of Virginia alumnus, received his LLB. degree from T. C. Williams School of Law in 1947 .
Dr. David J. Greenb erg has opened his office for the pr actice of internal medicine in Richmond. Th e Rev. Philip R. Hart received his master's degree from Co lumbia University in June.
1946Solon B. Cousins, Jr., has been elevat ed to the position of employment manager for the 15 bran<:h stores of Goldblatt Departm ent Stores in and around Chicago. H e was formerly assistant to the wage administrator. In addition to his Richmond degre e, Cousins has an M.A. from the U niversit y of Chicago. Born: a daughter, Anne Willis, to Mr. and Mrs. William T. Bareford, July 7. The Barefords live in Saluda, Virginia.
COUCH WITH UN CONSTRUCTION AGENCY Construction , not destruction , is the Korean mission of Samuel C. Couch , ' 33. Mr. Couch, who served three years in the Army during World War II, is now a training officer for the United Nations Korean
1947Dr. John R. Burton has opened his office for the practice of dentistry in Richmond. Married: Miss Kathryn Louis e Mumma , of Bryn Mawr, Pa., to John Atkin son, Jr. , of Richmond, September 6 in the Bala-Cynwyd Methodist Church in Bryn Mawr. Married: Miss Alice Ma e Verra to George Patteson Williams , Jr. , both of Richrnorid , August 16 in the Boulevard M ethodi st Church , Richmond. The couple will make their home in Richmond. The Rev. Roy B. Wyatt reports that his son, Roy Michael, a hefty seven-months-old lad, will make a good end for the UR football team some day. Father Wyatt is working on his Th.D. at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Born: a son, Doug las Claiborne , to Mr. and Mrs. R. Clifton Long , July 21 in Richmond . Scholar turned professor is Harry Lamont Snead. Mr. Snead, who had one of the highest scholastic records in the 82-year history of the T. C. William s School of Law, returned to his Alma Mater as a member of the faculty this fall. He will teach classes in constitutional law , equity procedure , sales, legal bibliography , and legal accounting.
1948Rev. Kenneth Crumpton, Jr. , was married September 27 to Miss Katharine Templeton Moseley of Kinston , N. C. They will make their home in Norfolk. Born: a son, James Dean , to Mr. and Mrs. Liebman , July 25 in Frankfort , Ky. Married: Miss Elizabeth S. Delany , of Princeton, N . J. , to Carroll 0. Alley , Jr. , of Richmond , August 16 in Princeton. Mr. Alley is now working on his thesis in physics, and his wife is curator of slides and photographs in the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. Double-barrel honor has come the way of Howard Graham Turner who , in June, was elected Mayor of Clarksville and who, in July, was appointed Clerk of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appea ls. As clerk, Turner also becomes secretary of the State Board of Law Examiners . In this capacity he will arrange and conduct semiannual examinations for candidates for licenses to practic e law in Virginia. Born: a son, Clarence Philip Avery, III, to Mr. and Mrs. Avery , Jr. , May 26 in Richmond. Lieutenant Dan C. Wa lker, Jr. , a marine who served as a forward observer and assistant operations officer in an artillery batta lion, instructed in a regimental artillery school, and took part in the first helicopter assau lt landing in Korea , visited his Richmond home on a leave during July. Married: Miss Elizabeth McNair, of WinstonSalem, N. C., to Dr. William Edward Holladay , Jr. , of Gordonsville , Va. , June 21 at the First Presbyterian Church, Winston-Salem. They will make their home in Augusta, Georgia. Roy E. Yeatts has taken a position in the developmental program of the Reynolds Metals Company. Yeatts, who was formerly employed by Froehling & Robertson, Inc. , took up his new duties September 2. Harold I. Farley resigned as purchasing agent for the Hamilton Paper Company to join the Richmond branch of Acacia Mutual Life Insuranc e Company.
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Reconstruction Agency. In this capacity he will assist the chief of the plans, training and orientation section of the Agency and take full responsibility in the absence of th e chief. After reporting to the United Nations building in New York, Mr. Couch left September 4 for Pusan , Korea. An airplane flew him to Tokyo by way of Seattle . He spent some six days in Tokyo before being transported to Korea. Mrs . Couch, and four-year-old Allan Andre, plan to go to Japan some time this winter. Father Couch will be able to visit them in Tokyo at least once each month.
1949J. Mil es Sharpley and his wife are now living in Memphis, Tenn., where Sharpley is a microbiologist for Buckman Laboratories. His job is pure research, Sharpley writes , and deals with the evaluation of synthetic organic chemicals. William D . Gresham has received his bachelor
HARRISON ELEVATED Arthur W. Harrison, '29, has been appointed assistant vice-president on the staff of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia . Mr. Harrison joined the telephone company as a traffic student the month following his graduation. He served as a traffic inspector in Alexandria and later as traffic supervisor. His next move was to Richmond as commercial sales supervisor. H e later served successively in Norfolk, Hampton , Lynchburg, Portsmouth and Roanoke before returning to Richmond in 1942 as special representative and later as general commercial manager. He ha s been active in civic enterprises and 111 work of the Alumni Society.
THREEVIRGINIA SPIDERSSEEK SEATSIN CONGRESS It's a lead-pipe cinch that University of Richmond alumni will represent Virginia's Third and Fourth Congressional districts in the next session of Congress. In the Third, Walter R. Gambill, '42, the Republican nominee, is challenging J. Vaughan Gary, '12, the incumbent. In the Fourth, the incumbert, Watkins M. Abbitt, ¡ 31, is unopposed. But there's plenty of opposition in the Ninth where State Senator M. M. Long, '10, the Democratic nominee, is fighting it out with William Wampler, the Republican candidate. Virginia 's junior Senator , A. Willis Robertson, '07, another of the Spider contingent in the national capital, is not up for re-election at this time.
of theology degree from Harvard University. Lloyd G. Smith has accepted the position of minister of music and education in the Columbia Church at Falls Church, Va. Smith is a graduate of both the University and of the Westminster Choir College of Princeton , N. J. The Rev. William Lee Alford is now pastor of the Vesuvius Baptist Church, Vesuvius , Virginia. Married: Miss Lillian Miller Mitchell to Warren E. Rowe, September 20 in Mangohick, Va. The Rev. Edward T. Clark , Jr., is now pastor of the Sawyer Memorial Congregational Church and the Jonesboro Union Church, Jonesport and Jonesboro, Maine. The Rev . William T. Smith, Jr., and his wife , June, are now working in a newly developed residential area in South Boston that is unchurched. Engaged: Miss Ruth Harper, of Buckner, to Ensign Gildo Louis Suffrendini, of Richmond. The wedding date is October 25. Married: Miss Roberta Edna Clarick , of Elizabeth , N. J., to Philip Arnold Rosenfeld, of Washington , June 29 , in the Hotel Essex House, Newark, N. J. The couple will make their home in Richmond. Lieutenant Paul B. Beverly is now stationed
CAPLAN PRESCRIBES NOISE Noise-ambiguous noise- may soon be as much a part of the psychiatrist approach as the use of ink blots. And it will be the result of a 12-month study by Nathan Caplan , ' 51, a 22-year-old psychology student. The idea is to delve deep into the subconscious mind of the psychiatric patient by the simple expedient of playing for him a series of recorded sounds and then analyzing his impressions or interpretations of them. A paper outlining the new method was presented by Caplan to the American Psychological Association in Washington. To a sane person, explained Caplan, the ambiguous noises resemble traffic or a child at play. The emotionally unstable might come up with the same answer-then go on to give some fanciful elaboration of his response. "The theory is that man hears as selectively as he sees," said Caplan.
just outside Frankfurt, Germany , with the United States armed service. Born: a daughter, Claudia Gibson , to Mr. and Mrs. Claude G. Thomas, August 29, in Richmond. Engaged: Miss Ellen Boyd Duval to William Read Miller, both of Richmond. Born: a son, Stephen McGee, to Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Garren. The Garrens Jive in Hartford, Conn. Born: a son , Hubert Heustin Updike, III , to Mr. and Mrs . Updike, Jr., October 1, 1951. The Updikes Jive in Glen Allen, Va. Born: a daughter, Shelly Anne , to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Bowman , March 11, in Richmond. Born: a son, Leo Rosser, Jr ., to Mr. and Mrs. Garrett, March 25, in Richmond. Born: a son, Robert Masse II, to Mr. and Mrs . Daniel H. Kruger, June 16 in Madison, Wis.
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1951Married: Miss Katherine Mae Pierce to Edmund Ralph Graves, Jr., both of Richmond, in August. Mr. Graves is now serving in the United States Marine Corps. Engaged: Miss Marjorie Lois Brooks, of St. Stephens Church , King and Queen County, Virginia, to William M . Claytor. Mr. Claytor is attending Officers ' Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. The wedding is planned for this fall . Married: Miss Audrey Low , of Ridgewood, N. J., to Robert George Proctor , of Richmond, June 28 in Ridgewood. Mr. Proctor is attending the Medical College of Virginia. Engaged: Miss Barbara Ann Rouse to William Ross Rollings, both of Richmond. Mr. Rollings is now a student of pharmacy at the Medical College of Virginia. Married: Miss Jean McPhail Barksdale, of Randolph, Va., to Wayde Marshall Geoghegan , Jr. , of Chase City, Va. Married: Miss Helen Clark, of Winchester , Ky., to David Robert Hensley , Jr., of Martinsville , June 21 in Winchester. Mr. and Mrs. Hensley are mak ing their home in Louisville , Ky., where Mr, Hensley is attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Edwin T. Communale was commissioned a second lieutenant by the Officers ¡ Candidate School at Fort Sill , Oklahoma, this summer. Corporal L. H. Neff is seeing the world-in the Army. Recently Corporal Neff , who is stationed at Stuttgart, Germany, had the opportunity of viewing scenic points of the Alpine area in southern Germany. The occasion was a tour sponsored by a Stuttgart group whose aim is bringing the U. S. soldiers closer to the German people. Corporal Charles L. Knott, Jr., who entered the Army in February , 1951 , is now serving in Germany with the 2d Armored "Hell on Wheels " Division .
Second Lieutenant Blackwell B. Evans is in uniform now, but he"s back at school-this time the Armed Forces Information School , Fort Slocum, N. Y. Edward H. Radcliffe was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army in September, at Fort Riley , Kansas. Back in civilian life is Louis A. Crescioli who was released from active duty with the Marine Corps in July . Former First Lieutenant Crescioli visited Paris, Rome, Athens, and Damascus, Syria, during a six-months Mediterranean Cruise with the Marine Corps. "It was great, " writes Crescioli. Thomas G. Harper , Jr., and Henry Ward , '49, are assistant principals this year at Varina High School in Henrico County, Virginia. Married: Miss Susan Bowman Peters, of Radford, to Jesse Bernard Hall, Jr. , of Richmond, August 30 in Saint Jude's Church , Radford. Mr. and Mrs . Hall are making their home in Richmond. Born: a daughter, Susan Anita , to Mr. and Mrs . Winfred J. Kohler, May 28, in a Plainfield , N. J., Private First Class Robert N. McKenney was hospital. recently assigned to the Rhine Military Post in The Rev. Kent L. Kiser, who received his deGermersheim, Germany. gree of bachelor of divinity from the ColgateJames T. Edmunds is now attending the Jaw Rochester Divinity school in May, assumed duties school of Columbia University, New York. as minister of the First Baptist Church of Ontario , N. Y., in June. Married: Miss Harriett Priscilla Seeley to Stuart Emory Atkinson, of Crewe, Va., July 3 in Louis Born: a daughter, Deborah Kay, to Mr. and ville , Ky. The couple are attending the University Mrs. Andrew S. Wright, July 15 in Milwaukee , of Louisville, and are living in Louisville. Wisconsin. Born: a daughter, Kathleen Moore, to Mr. and Mrs. Richmond L. Crawford, Jr. , August 26 at a Richmond hospital. Father Crawford is a photographer for Richmond Newspapers, Inc. Julien C. Picot is now serving in the Army as CROSS-COUNTRYTEAM a Master Sergeant. Born: a son, Scott Lewis , to Mr. and Mrs. Carl STARTSSTRONG Shires, June 27 in Richmond. The diligent work that Fred Hardy has Married: Miss Bette Davis Rowe to James Ernest Powers, August 2, in Richmond. done toward the restoration of track to its Carroll W. Morrow is now associated with th e once lofty level at the University of Richresearch laboratories of the Bendix Aviation Cormond is beginning to pay dividends. poration , Detroit. This was demonstrated when his crossBorn: a son, Charles Rodney, to Mr. and Mrs. country team defeated V.M.I.'s defending Quentin R. Jones, May 30, 1951, in Richmond. Big Six champions, 28 to 30, in the opening The Rev. Letcher H. Reid is now attending the meet at Lexington and then followed with a Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky. thumping 23 to 32 triumph over Virginia, Engaged: Miss Bettie Burton Jones to George In defeating Virginia, the Richmond harAlbert Davis , both of Richmond. riers ran Mike Burns, the Cavaliers' defendJames H. Young, formerly deputy Richmond treasurer, is the new city sheriff. ing Big Six and Virginia AAU champion, In announcing his appointment , Judge Harold into the ground. Vance Thiede, a very promF. Snead, of the Circuit Court, praised particularising freshman from Arlington, came in first, ly Young's work with boys' organizations in Richa few paces ahead of Bill Jordan, captain of mond. The new sheriff is a judge of boxing for the Spider team. the Virginia State Boxing and Wrestling Commission and a member of the Police and Fire Boys' Burns finished third, some 200 yards back Club. and only a few steps ahead of Richmond's Jack Martin Stroud received his master of arts Ned Baylor who was closing fast. degree from Marshall College, Huntington , West Virginia, at the end of the summer term.
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Secretary
MRS. WILBUR RYLAND(Sallie Adkisson) 4107 W. Franklin Street , Richmond, Va.
This piece of "news .. is old, but I'm sure all of you will be interested any way-Lillian Rob_er_tson Livesay, ex-'20, was_ one of two VHgrnia women who was recognized as an outstanding home demonstration agent at the annual meeting of the National Home Demonstration Agents ' Association in Fort Worth , Texas last November. There were only fifty-eight women so honored , so we have every right to be proud of Lillian. Shippie has had two additions to her family recently, a grandson, Nelson Sutto1;1, III, and a son-in-law. Frances Sutton was marned rn August to Raymond Eugene Oliver, who was graduated in June from Ya le Divinity School. . Kitty Vaughan Willis ' daughter , Juha , was married in the late spring. I've lost my notes on the groom's name and two telephone calls have proved fruitless. We extend our sympathy to Marie Crowder Anderson who lost her mother in the spring. Mrs. Crowd~r was always so interested in meeting Marie 's friends when she came to visit her at college.
1923
Secretary
MRS. EVANH. LACY (Camilla Wimbish) 1324 Wilkerson Street, South Boston, Va.
Another summer is past, and Leslie is calling for news for the fall BULLETIN. I hope you have had a pleasant and restful summer. Even though it is fall and there is frost in the air, football, and favdrite candidates to be elected , there are some spring doings that I have not told you about. Nine of us met back at school for commencement. They were Dorothy Sadler Corprew, Ada Arthur Deacon, Ethney Selden Headlee, Jo Tucker , H~nnah Coker, Altha Cunningham, Glenna Lovmg Norvell , Elizabeth Hill Schenk and I. We talked about you. You should have been here to join in the happy chatter. Early in June , Evan and I attended the State Bankers' meeting at the Hotel Roanoke. Evelyn Sanford Wamsley and her husband were there. It was such fun to see Evelyn again. She is still as charming as ever. She and Hubert are living in Staunton. They play good gol f, and are busy with church and civic activities. We enjoyed seeing Bob Marsh and R. W. Nuckols "Nuck" at the same gathering. Ruth Powell Tyree had an interesting letter from Kate O'Brien this summer. Kate has been librarian at Farmville High School since 1940. She was writing of her plans to sail for Europe on July 11. She said: "I am planning to stop in New York for a few days in July, prior to my sai ling to Europe. I have my fingers crossed about the wonderful-sounding trip to six different European countries on my itinerary - England, Belgium , Germany, Switzerland , Italy , and France. A cousin and I are going on an independent tour. We will visit a cousin who works at the American Embassy in Bonn, Germany ... Wouldn't it be fun to hear Kate tell of her experiences? A few weeks ago, as we were returning from a delightful vacation trip to Gettysburg , and the Delaware and Maryland beaches, we came down the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and spent several days at "Whispering Pines ... Eastern Shore always makes me think of Rennie Parks Rue and Catheryn Johnson Gunn. I called Rennie and we had a goo_d visit over the phone. She told me that Catheryn is living in Milford , Del. We had passed through Milford the day before. Had I known Catheryn was there I certainly would have called her. Ethney writes that she and a friend went anti-
q uing in Petersburg recently and she went to see Lelia Doan. Lelia has been busy this summer teaching in summer school. She still plays go lf as often as time permits. She has been promising me a week end, and I am still expecting her. Ethney said also that Olivia Hardy spent her vacation in the Poconos visit ing her brother, Charlie. I went to see Virginia Kent Loving one Sunday afternoon this summer. She called me later and declared it was the on ly Sunday afternoon in a year that she had been away from home. I went through her lovely home calling her with each step. Finally I wrote her a note on her blackboard in the kitchen . I wish I could recall the quotation that was on her blackboard. It was so "Kentish." I loved it. I was pleased to get a letter from Mary Burt Beale recently . I have not seen Mary since she and I roomed -together in our freshman year. We lived on the first floor near the front arch, just across the hall from Leslie and Mrs. Sessoms. Mary has two children, Kay and Dick . Kay is president of College Government at Westhampton. She is editor of the Messenger, a freshman counselor member of Mortar Board, and president of the Personal and Campus Affairs commission of the YWCA. She is also on the Dean's list. Mary says: "You can see from the clipping that she is much better college material than her Mother-to put it mildly ." "Dick married Kay's roommate over a year ago, and now I am a grandmother . R .L.T. Beale, IV, called 'Ricky,' was born August 2. Needless to say, he is simply remarkable in every way." Mary's husband , Dick Beale, is a Richmond Alumnus, '13. They are living in Sparta, Virginia. As I came through Waverly recently, I talked to Dora Ransone Hartz . I was so distressed to hear that Aggie Taylor Gray's sister, Alice, is ill. We send our love to Aggie and to Alice. Gladys Wright Cocke and I had an interesting time at the meeting of the League of Virginia Municipalities held at the Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, September 14-17. She is a Councilman , and I have served on the Town Planning Commission here for severa l years. We were both there representing our respective Municipalities. Glady's brother married Mildred Campbell Broome's sister, so the conversation revealed that Mildred and her husband are living in Eng land. He is a British Cable Engineer. They have their young son, Dan, with them. Barbara , the oldest child , is married and living in Richmond. Judith, the second daughter , is concert master at Thomas Jefferson High School. She recently received a scho larshi p to study in New York. My best wishes to you. Please send me some news, and remember our anniversary is coming. See you in June.
1925
Secretary
MRS. DAVIST. RATCLIFFE (Idaline McVeigh) 6 Hillside Road, Baltimore 10, Maryland
Sallie Gordon Willis (Mrs. Dillard Glenn) ha s a daughter , Margaret Hart Glenn, who is now a Sophomore at Westhampton. Billie Gordon Atwill's daughter, Pat, was married in June to Corporal William Wright Schwarz and they are living in Huntsville , Alabama , wher e Corporal Schwarz is stationed as a research chemist with the United States Army. Susie Blair is head of the department of drama at Hollins College. She wrote that her department had increased to the extent of two young men assistants and that they are now planning to offer a major in drama. Kwan Fong Cheung (Mrs. Walter W. S. Ling) wrote such an interesting letter that I am quoting it, as I know many of you will enjoy it as I did :
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"No wonder you have not been able to get in touch with me, for during all these trying years I have been moving from one place to another, always in a state of fright . I must not talk too much about my past hardships and tribulations , but I am going to tell something about my present. " I have three children-a son and two daughter s. Samuel, 23 years old, graduated last year in physics from Taiwan University and with the help of Dr. G. M. Modlin and many other friends, is now on his way to enter the graduate schqol of Baylor University in Waco , Texas. Waylia , the elder daughter , age 22, is a sophomore majoring in English at the University of Taiwan. The youngest child, Teenian, who was eighteen last month , will finish her high school this summer. She is very fond of music and is hoping to enter the Teachers College-the only school in Taiwan where she can obtain some training in music. My husband , Walter, is with the Central Trust of China. As for myself , I have very little to tell you. When I came back to China I taught Modern European History in Pooi To Girls School (a Baptist High School for girls in Canton), and later I taught the same subject at Chung Shan Univer sity, Canton. But after my youngest daughter was born , I was an invalid for a number of years , and on account of the continued war between Chin a and Japan I suffered a great deal physically. In spite of that, the Lord has been with me and has greatly blessed our home . At present , I do not hold a cash job, for I want to serve our Lord while I can . So I spend much of my time in our Baptist Church at Taipeh. I am now a deaconess of the church and also the president of the B.W.M .U. Besides, I conduct Bible study in English. The young people in Taipeh are very fond of learning the English language , so I take the chance to teach them both - English and the Bible lessons. "Yiu Fong is in Hong Kong, but I don't have her address. She has three children-a boy and two girls. 'T d lik e very much to hear from Emelin e Stearns, Margaret Taylor , Lucille Jones and the others. "I certainly would like to attend our next class reunion. Were there many present last time? Please write me again." Kwan Fong's address is 13 Ren Ay Road , Section 2, Taipeh, Taiwan, China. Evelyn Boatwright Lynch and her two children, Frederica and Donna , have moved into their own home at 23 Clarke Road, Richmond.
1926
Secretary
MRS. H. I. WILLETT (Betty Ballard) 6430 Roselawn Road , Richmond , Va. Betty Ballard Willett says son Henry is teach ing in Martinsville and waiting for the draft board to call him . He started work on his Master's at University of Virginia this summer . She and young Tommy spent the summer at Virginia Beach with the rest of the family as week end visitors. Bye's younger boy attended a boy¡s camp specializing in water fetes. Her older boy went to ROTC camp. Louise Mattern Coleman is teaching at Collegiate again this year. Her son Bill is with the army in Munich and has had some grand trips around Europe. The family spent a week end this summer with Mary Virginia Daughtrey. Allene Booker Richmond 's daughter , Claudia, graduated from W and M with a Phi Beta Kappa key and i, to teach in Norfolk this year. Daughter Patsy is in her second college year as a music major, which is as it should be. Harriet Willingham Junior worked with the Indians in Las Vegas this summer and is now
heading for Dayton, Ohio to do Girl Reserve Work. Mary ·woodward Pilcher's daughter, Betsy, was married this summer at the completion of her second year at Westhampton. We were so glad to have reports of Nellda Anderson Cotton through a letter she wrote Lila . She has moved with her husband to Bayboro, N. C., Box 136. She is teaching and her husband is principal of the Pimplico County High School. She bas a son 13 years old. Mary Payne Smith bas returned to the teaching field and after a summer's work at Duke is now teaching Spanish and English in the Martinsville High School. As usual, Marion Marsh Sale's son, Fred, led the two sect ions of his form at St. Christopher's Schoo l last year. Marion met Evelyn Abrams on the street in Richmond one day this summer and was delighted to see her. Evelyn reports that she still teaches in Dinwiddie but has recently reopened her old homeplace and spends all her week ends and vacations there. She took severa l classes at the University of Richmond last summer. Ne lid a gave us a little news of Lila Dedm on Sma llw ood who lives only 18 miles from her. Lila had a grand visit to Honolulu this ·summer. Those of you who were here at our last reunion will be glad to know that Dorothy Campbell is back at work, has gained weight, and is looking forward to being with us at our next reunion. I visited the new offices of the Bureau of Vital Statistics where she works last week, and was most impressed by its size, air conditioning, and the vast amount of work which goes on there. Social Security has, of course, added an enormous amount of detail to their duties. Miss Lough reports that Ione Steussy Wright and husband have recently adopted their fourth child. Ione is associate professor of hi story at the U niversity of Miami. Ruby Sale Bullman bas now moved to Williamsburg , we understand, although st ill maintaining her Norfolk address too. Ruby, please send us your Williamsburg address and also some news about yourself. A happy foll to all of you. Be sure to send Betty news about yourselves for the winter issue of the ALUMNI Buu .ETIN. LOUISE FRY GALVIN.
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Secret ,1ry
Miss DOROTHY KELLY 2600 Hawthorne Ave., Richmond 22, Va.
We bad a fine reunion in June and missed. all of you who cou ld not be with us. Margaret Powell Armstrong came down from Rhode Island bringing along with her Maude Everhart Tremper from Long Island, Margaret Saunders Haile and Dorothy Knibb from Washington, D. C. They had a gay trip with plenty of time to bring each ot her up-to-date on the new s of the last twenty-five years. By the way, Maude wrote the other day thal
after all these years she has decided to teach again. She has accepted a position as a study hall teacher in a Long Island high school near her home. Maude says she is no disciplinarian and found the job pretty ups ettin g at first. Now that she's had a few weeks of it , she has the situatio n well in hand and is enjoying being a teacher again. H er two older boys are in college this year. Margaret Powell Armstrong has three in college this year; a daughter at Westhampton and a daughter and son at Rhod e Isl and University . Margar et Saunder's children are still at hom e in schoo l. She keeps busy w ith Cub Scouts, a weekly trip to her cottage on the Potomac and all the other activities a mother of three liv ely youngsters can become involved in . Virginia McDaniel Cone and Eleanor Waters Ramsay came down together. Virginia is interested in getting into socia l work of some sort and was considering the possibilities of two or three jobs when she was here. She lives in Syracuse, and her youngsters are in schoo l there. Edith DeWitt came from Cincinnati, where she has been for almost two years . Edith is still interested in her music and sings in the church choir of a large Episcopal church. Her choir does a number of special programs in addition to the week ly church program. D orothy Head Thomas and Dorothy Daughtery Anderson came for the supper on Friday night. Dottie Bagwell McDannald came for the Alumnae luncheon on Saturday. She, too , is teaching again now that her youngsters are in school. Mae1de Motley and Edna Myers Laurie were at Miss Harri s' tea Saturday afternoon. From Richmond we bad Kitty Bell, Molly DuVal, Jean Wright Woodlin, Anna Massey De Vilbiss. Jean's son is a freshman at Richmond this fall. Molly's son is a senior in my homeroom at H ermitage. He plans to enter University of Richmond next fall, I believe. Anna did a line job of planning the reunion in addit ion to her_community activities. You know already the plans that were made for the reunion. We followed those plans and enjoyed every minute together. I am sorry I can't write a fuller account for those of you who were not here. If you can ima gi ne trying to keep up with the reminiscences of five or six groups at once, you'll app reciate my predicament now. We're in anot her schoo l year now and you 'll probably be hearing from me soon concerning pla ns and alumnae activities for the year. I hope the spir it of th e reunion will carry us through to a banner year for '27.
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MRS. W. S. SIMPSON (Violet Cervarich) 4413 Wythe Avenue, Richmond, V a.
We have severa l changes of addresses, so please note them on your class registe r. Helen Orpin W enzel wrote to say that she is in the same house but her mailing ad dr ess ha s been cha nged to Route 2, Box 14, Winter Haven, Fla.
STAN MARTIN 513 North Boulevard
RICHMOND
1931
Secretary
Miss MARGARETLEAKE 408 N. Meadow Street, Richmond 20, Va. l ancye Buxton Cowan was a vis itor in Richmond during the summer. It 's a long way from Sault Ste. Marie, but it certainly wou ld be nice to have Na ncye back for o ur next reunion. Selma Rothschild Mann has a daughter, born this past spring. Another prospective W estbamptonite. A card from Louise Schmidt comes from Munich. She is touring Germany with friends in a German Ford. Honor s have come to both Laura Thornhill and Frances Farmer. The Senior Class at Culpeper High dedicated its Annual to Laura. Frances was elected secretary of th e Law Librarians section at a meeting held in Canada, ear ly this year. If you won't send news about yourse lf , write me abo ut someone else. Th ere is no point in being modest about someo ne else's achieveme nts. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Homecoming dinner this year.
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Hel en Moon, after living in the same house for thirty-four years, is moving. You can imagin e the colossal task of assorting and packing the accumulations of thirty-four years, but she is doing splendid ly- show ing real pioneer sp irit , in fact! Helen and her sister have built a lovely home in Windsor Farms from plans they've been collecting, adding to, changing, etc., for years, and now it is completed and they are moving October 7th. The address is 111 Tonbridge Road . I had such an inspiring letter from Elizabeth Hale who is returning to her missionary work this year after being in this country for severa l years. H er address is: Elizabeth Hale, c/o Kampong Silat Road. Singapore, Malaya. I do hope that many of you will write to her because I know your letters will mean so much to her in her new home. Bless Billye Williams Thomas for her interesting and newsy lette rs. H er husband, George, ha s been in ll'' ho's ff/ ho ju American Art for years, and this year be has made IF' ho's 111/ho in America, too. Congratulations, George, we are all very proud of this new honor you have received. Jane , Mildred Pope and Ernest Andersen's da ughter, was elected May Queen at Granby High Schoo l in Norfolk this year. She is also Treasurer of the Senior Class. Sincere sympathy to Annie Boyd Morecock in the death of her father. Mary Richardson Butterworth was in the hospita l this summer for an operation, but is out and looking very we ll, indeed. I sti ll hope to hear from you during the year.
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Secretc11·y
MRS. CHARLESW. SCARBOROUGH (Zephia Campbell) 5109 Sylvan Road, Richmond, Virginia
First, please note that you have a new secretary.
I promised Mary that I would help out for a while so write me all the news you hav e, or call me at 4-5861. Our big news, of course, is our Reunion in June. From th e first glimpse of each other at Phyllis's on Friday night, until we said "Good-bye" at Miss Lutz's on Sunday, it was wonderful I Mi ss Lutz you know , agreed to serve as our Class Sponsor since we had lost our beloved Miss Woodfin . The buffet supp er ( with tasty and tempting food prepared by the Richm ond girls) was held at the hom e of Phyllis Perkinson on North Boulevard . Although it was quite a hot night, we forgot the heat in th e fun of seeing each other again. We all agreed that the twenty years had been very kind and that , after a ll, a few gray hairs are "q uite becoming ." How I wish you all could have seen Miss Lutz 's entrance that night I She looked you ng er and more radiant than ever as she came gaily in, primarily holding the orch id that the class had sent. The years seemed to fall away for all of us as we looked at the pictures of "Rat Day , 1928" in the Scrapbook . Saturday morning, as part of the day's program at the Co llege, our Betty Burn s Gaylor gave a mos t
en joyabl e talk on her old love, the theatre . The largest single group from the class attended the luncheon that day and Katherine Hesby got some grand pictures. We feel we owe a vote of thanks to Katherine for the efficient way in which all phases of the Reunion were plann ed and carried out. I didn't attend the joint banquet on Saturday night, but I understand from those who did that they heard a most entertai nin g talk by Dr. Stevenson of the faculty. Sunday morning we were guests of Miss Lutz at her apartment for a "coffee hour." "Fanny G." poured coffee and other members of "Our " facu lty who were there were Misses Lough, Harris, Turnbull and Wright. Miss Keller and Miss Ross cou ld not come. We also had the pleasure of meeting Dean Roberts and Miss Tucker. In response to the questionnaire that we sent out , we heard from all but sixteen of our class in one way or anoth er. In the next BULLETIN we' ll have a list of these " lost"" members. Maybe you can help us to "find" them. The following gi rls were at some part of the Reunion: Geneva Bennett Snelling, Betty Burns Gaylor, Zep hia Campbell Scarborough, Ruth Coen Powell, Janet Forsyth Kelly, Eve lyn Gardner Ward, Frances Gottlieb De Dan , Inez Hauke Hartley, Mary Hodnett Mathews, Virginia Jones Pharr, Jessie Miller Jones Turner, Muriel Jones, Helen Le Grande Butler, Jane Little Gray, Almarine Mont .i;omery Franklin, J ean Peatross Thomas, Phyllis Perkinson, Valerie LeMasurier Jones, Eleanor Pillow Ewell, O lga Pitts De Shazo , Helen Pollard Deck, Elise Reaguer Miller , Katherine Roberts Hesby, Mary Ryland Babcock, Mary Ryland Fessler, Virginia Tabb Moore, Carolyn Thompson Broaddus, Mary Lou Trice Mitchell, Betty Newcombe, and Juanita Bush Glover. Our Baby Cup winner, Pat Ewe ll, daughter of Eleanor Pillow Ewe ll, was our guest at the Reunion. Pat has made qui te a name for herse lf as an outstanding student at Thomas Jefferson. Valerie and I put the scrapbook together from al I the interesting facts and pictures that you sent in. The scrapbook wi ll stay at my house and any class member wishing to borrow it can just let me know. We also have a set of Reunion snapshots. Anyone who wants a set can get them by sending a do llar to Mrs. J. Marshall Sne lling, 3019 Griffin Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. A few other items complete our news for th is time. Liz Cone Brauberger moved back to Richmond in June. Her address is now 1913 Elms mere Avenue. The Scarboroug hs moved in August to 5109 Sylvan Road after a frantic summer of house hunt;ng and selling. Alice Sallee Lyons has a son , Garrott Low, who was born in the late spring. The Lyons live in Nashvi lle, Tennessee. Helen LeGrande Butler has a brand new son, Clyde Rittenhouse Butler, Jr. , who arrived on September 18. J ean Peatross was married short ly before our Reunion to William I. Thomas , who is with the Department of Agriculture. They live here in Richmond. Jean has a step-daughter, Martha Ann, who is eleven. We extend our sincere and heartfelt sympat hy to Mary Ryland Babcock in the loss of her hu sband, Alvin Judson Babcock, in June, and to Helen Pollard and Jim Deck, who lost an infant son late in August.
son-was born last Jun e . Catherine Geoghegan Trulock, with her two children, was in Richmond at the Jefferson H otel for a few days last summer. Must have been a rather disappointing trip as no one from '33 saw her. Our loss 1 • Place a large red circle around the first week end in June, next. Line up a baby sitter-refuse dessert , and so prepare for our specia l reunion! More of this later.
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Secretary MRS. LUTHER WELLS ( Grace Rowland) 400 Beechwood Drive , Richmond 26, Va.
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Virginia (McIntosh) and Charlie Puckett and their four daughters have moved int o their beautiful new home at 3405 Moss Side Avenue. Katherine (Brown) and Harold Van Allen and their three daughters and baby son, have moved to 2732 Robins Street, Endicott, New York. Helen Hulcher and her mother toured Canada and Nova Scotia during the past summer. On August 5, H elen Hulcher entertained in honor of Katherine Brown Van Allen. Among Westhamptonites present were: Erma Gay Ceci l, Frances Lundin van H euveln , Frances Gee, Virginia McIntosh Puckett, Virginia Watkins E llenburg, and Lyndele Pitt , '36.
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Secr etary MRS. C. M. TATUM (Gladys Smith) 2105 Rosewood Avenue, Richmond, Va.
Hazel Weaver Fobes and her family left in September for Paris, where her husband is with the State Department, with the NATO administrative staff. Hazel was busy relearning her French from lingu aphone records before sailing. Her children, Pattie, 9, and Geoff, 4, will probably attend French schools. It sounds exciting and we look forward to hearing more from Hazel. Editor & Publisher, th e trade magazine of newspapers, carried an article on Rhea Ta lley in one of the summer issues. Sue Whittet Wilson and her family had an enjoyable vacation at Niagara Falls. Connie Vaden Rupel and her small son are living with her mother at 1124 \Xfest Grace Street in Richmond. Mary Anne Guy Franklin has been awarded a fellowship by British-American Associates and wil l leave in January for a six months ' speaking to ur of Eng land . We are proud of Mary Anne and congratu late her.
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Dot Chewn ing left her real estate office in August for a month 's vacation in Canada and on Nan tucket Island. Bev Bates made the front page of the Richmond News Leader, when her picture was used in connecti on with her therapeutic work. I'm attend ing a class, Business Theory for Secretaries, at the University of Richmond Evening Schoo l of Business; and although the course is interesting, I shudder to think of taking an examination again. Secretar y Miss LYNDELEPITT 4303 New Kent Avenue, Richmond , Va.
"Boo" and Sidney Gay Page, Jr., returned to Richmond on September 20 . They spent six weeks touring Europe. Their last week abroad was spent attending , in London , an international meeting of pra ctitioners of internal medicine. Margaret Bowers, '36, and Elizabeth "Angel" Angle, '37, spent several weeks in Europe. Mary Ellen Stephenson, '36 , ( with Nancy Reveley (W&M), '36, and Franklin Woodson), vacationed in Europe. Margie and Ranny Tabb have moved their family to Richmond. Anna Ferrell Hoge is improveing after a very serious illness. Libba Conwe ll has been transferred by the Y.\X' .C.A. from Richmond to Hartford , Conn. Christine (Vaughan) and Bi ll Troxell and their family moved to Richmond from Ashland. Sarah Covey Bradford studied at Wood 's Hole , Massachusetts (Marine Bio logical Laboratory) this summ er. Sarah Poole Batkins is on the staff of the Baptist Book Store in Richmond. Recently "Bumps" Marston Harvey came up from Norfolk for a visit. Virginia Kirk Weeden is planning to leave Syracuse for a visit in Richmond within the next few weeks. This summer we met 0. T. Custa loro, Chief of the Mattaponi Indians. We (The Smitheys and I) have enjoyed exchanging visits with him and his family . The chief is collecting exhibits and facts about the history of his people and has already started a museum for the preservation of both. He wi ll be very gratefu l for any help (historical or otherwise) that any of us can give him. Dot Harrison Enslow was in Richmond for part of her vacation.
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MRS. ALBERTL. JACOBS(Scotty Campbell) 807 H enri Road, Richmond , Va. Our class is really moving around. H ere are th e latest new addresses that I have: Elizab eth Ashbrooke Jackson, 4 106 Cary Street Road, Richmond , Va.; Virginia Britt Austin, 905 Libbie Avenue, Richmond, Va.; Martha Elliott Deichler 121 Red Field Place , Syracuse, N. Y.; and Ma;ian Wiley Ellett , Aiken, South Carolina. Anne Gregory Brooke s arrived September 22nd. This makes three girls and a boy for Garland and Greg . . Elizabeth Mitchell Driscoll is moving early 10 November to a new ranch-type house on an acre lot overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains in Waynesboro, Virginia. Evelyn and Ken Angus took their three boys to Miami for ten wonderful days of vacat10n recent ly. Helen Saltzman married a Roanoke boy and lives there now . I was in Roanoke one day this summer and wanted to call her but I couldn't remember her married nam e. Please drop me a card, Helen , and maybe I can see you next summer. Petey , the boys and I had a glorious summer at Camp Virginia , where he has been a Counselor for fourteen years . Whil e everyone from Richmond was bringing complaints about the .extreme heat , I could tell them that I didn't miss a single night this summer without a blanket! W ell, girls, my year as class secretary_is finished and I feel that I've given you very little news. Also, our class had only 17 per cent contributing to the Alumnae Fund. Surely, someone else can do a better job than I've done; so let's have a volun teer-either in Richmond or outside the city. I'll be glad to attend the meetings and mail to you whatever materia l is given out. How about it' Either write to me or to Mrs. Booker, or else '39 news will be missing. That just doesn't sound like our class. There are some members of the class not heard from in years, and I'm positive these antique addresses are wrong. How about it-Ellen Warner , Hermine Hoen Phillips, Virginia Shuman Marchant, Mary Ann Brockenbrough , Jane Straus Frank and probably others? D on't wait for someone else to volunteer. Why don't )OU do it'
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KITTY LYLE 2920 Noble Avenue , Richmond, Va . Fall is here again, and even as I write this, I've an ear peeled to the telephone, hoping that I'll get some last-minute news. _ Always of supreme importance and 10teres t are the new babies. First to arrive was James Rudd Mercer on July 29. Harriett (Y eaman s ) and I. J. Merc er' are the proud parents of littl e "Jim" as they call him. Ann Bailey Gill was born on _Septem~er 9t_h to Frances (Bail ey) and Harv ey Gill. She 1s their third child and second girl. The Al Dickin sons ( Elsie Mattingly) now
boast a family of four-two boys and two girls , Little Mary Bridgers Dickin son, who is to be called "Po lly," was born on September 26. I don't think I ever told you about Vista (Robinson) and Straughn Gettier's second child, a littl e boy, born last April , I believe . Dell and Tony Smith went north this past summer to visit Tony 's parents in Vermont, and D ell had a telephone chat with Vista , and with Mary Sue Carter Patterson. New York has certain ly lured the Class of '40 this summer. Patsy Joblin, who you will remember lived there a few years ago, went back for a visit. Janet (Gresham) and Bill Manson also vacat ioned there . Charlotte Ann (Dickinson) and John Moore visited New York to see John's sister . They also took in the Catskill and Berkshire Mountains and then came south to Front Royal to see Char'lotte Anne 's family. Charlotte Anne is a prominent person in the W esthampton Club in Washington this year , being none other than "Madame President. " And spea kin g of the travelers above reminds me that Pauline Cortopassi is certainly getting to be a seasoned one. She's leaving this week for a trip to Detroit , Minneapolis , and Chicago . In November she will probably visit New Orleans. I hear that Dot Roberts has had the wanderlust agai n. I believe that her latest trip was to Hawaii. We'll like to hear more about your travels and about yourself , D ot. Alice (McElroy) and Emerson Smith vacationed this past summer at Montreat, North Carolina, where Alice's sister, Jessie , and her family had a cottage. Alice said it was a wonderfu l v~cat!on in spite of the bedlam caused by the comb10at10n of Jessie's four children, her own tw10s, and a few extra "small fry." Did you know that Dot Duke Madden has moved to Washington , or rather to Falls Church, Virginia? Her hu sband, Frank , is associated with the State Department in Washington. Their new address is 536 Leesburg Pike, Culmore Apt . 8, Falls Church, Virginia. It was nice to see Lucy Baird's picture in the paper last week as a new member of AAUW . Incidentally , there are three other members _of our class in Richmond who belong-Dell Smith, Doris Kibler , and myself. Lucy said she saw Byrd Boisseau Perkinson and "Perk" at the "Ik e" rally 10 Capitol Square . Byrd is a garden enthusiast an;I is president of her local garden club 10 Lawrenceville. Lucy's interest this fall is in nurses' aid work, and she is beginning a class to train for it. I_ hear that Connie Atkinson Holloway ,s deep rn Jumor Club work and is now Civil Defense Chairman for Fifth District Junior Women. And perhaps some of you saw Dimple Latham Gravatt's picture in the paper recently in regard to Lancaster County's T ercentennial celebration in Kilmarnock. And now I want to tell you that you're to have a new class secreta ry beginnin g next issu e- Doris Hargrov e Kibl er-and I know she' ll be an especially good one, because she always does everything she undertakes so well. I' ve enjoyed serv10g as class secretary thes e past ·few years, but think
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MRS. S. G. HARDY (Bitsy Epes) Blackstone , Virgini a Frazier Drumright Catron has written that she and Stuart are nearing completion of their new home in Abingdon, Virginia , after spending severa l years dreaming and planning for it. They will have lots of room and will be glad to have any of their friends pass ing that way. Sarajane Payne Arkedis , her husband and two children visited Frazier when they went to see Sarajane 's parents in Marion this summer. It was wonderful to hear from Josephine Moncure Flexner (Mrs. Kurt) , 2 Winchester Avenue , Yonkers 2, New York to get up-to-dat e on the news of her. After graduating from Westhampton, she received her M.S. in piano at Juilliard School of Music , then a certificate in piano from Peabody Conservatory. She has taught piano at Peabody and in public schools in Baltimore, and also at Manhattanville College of Sacred H eart, Henry Street Music School, and Carroll Club in New York . She is now devoting full time to private piano teaching in New York. Charlotte Dudley Patteson is second vice-president of the Junior League's Children 's Theater in Richmond . In June, Jeanne Neasmith Di ckinson, Mary Owen Bass, and Dr . Marjorie Rivenburg, our class sponsor, were among those attending th e three-day convention of the South Atlantic region of the American Association of University Women at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. Among the highlights of their trip was a reception at the White House and a "briefing session " at the Department of State . It was good to see Mary , Kenneth, and Kenny Bass recently at a football game. Mary is chairman of the legislative and status of women committee for the Richmond branch of AAUW . Recently she presided over a panel discussion of four political leader s representing Dem ocratic and Republican parties in Virginia who discussed the November presidential candidates and their platforms. Carolyn Gary Hugo had a baby boy, Larry , Jr., in July. Larry 's play " Stalag 17," has closed in New York and has gone on tour to California. This fall it's to be in Chicago for three months. Carolyn and their two children will join him there. While in Virginia, Carolyn drove up to their place in Ne lson County which they bought sometime ago for a summer home . Virginia Lee Ball Glover and LeRoy have been having an exciting time sailing. They were in Norfolk for the Governor's Cup Races. A friend of theirs in Gloucester has a " thistl e" and LeRoy crewed for him in three races. Vir ginia Lee even crewed one race on a Hampton One. Virgini a Lee saw Marion Yanc ey Petroff a?d baby, Martha , in Norfolk over Labor D ay. Whil e the Petroffs are hopefully waiting to move int o their new home , their address is 7601 Sheryl Drive , Norfo lk, telephone 62-2820. Chris had just been out for two weeks as Executive Officer on a De stroyer. _ Virginia Lee called Helen Martin Laugh?n. She and Fred had just gotten back from tab ng their Sunday School children , 100 Junior s and 60 Hi gh Schoo l children , to their annual camp at Virgini a Beach. Helen has been elected to the Norfolk School Boa rd. Congratulations , H elen 1 Tinsy Garr ett Buckler 's hu sband , Phil , has returned from almost two years duty in Japan and Korea. He is stat ioned at Camp Pick ett, and they are making their home in Blackstone . _ Kitty Spencer Philpott 's husband, A. L., 1s Commonwea lth 's Attorney in H enry County. Pl ease write!
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the i-eunion in June. Those of us who did make it had a wondei-ful time seeing each other and catching up on the past ten years. All of us from out of town really owe the Richmond girls a vote of thanks for their efforts and hospitality which made the week end such a success 1 At our class dinner-meeting at Nancy Davis Parkerson 's we decided to start a memorial for Rosalie Clary, whom, as you all know, we Jost in January, 1951. Since Rosalie was especially fond of art it was agreed we would make this memorial a collection of art books, to be chosen with the help of Miss Turnbull. Ada Moss Harlow is chairman of the committee and wanted me to thank all of you who contributed. Any others who would like to have a part in this tangible memory for Rosalie, please contact Ada at 3123 Garland Avenue, Richmond. May Thayer Holt, chairman of our scrapbook , received several very interesting letters from some of you who were too far to get back in June. Pat Abernathy Riley wrote from Birmingham how sorry she was, not to be able to come. Her husband's_ cas_t wasn't t_o be removed from his righthand :n time for hun to take charge of the children. She sent her best to everyone. Lila Wicker Hunt was planning a trip from California, but at the last minute they discovered Ed couldn't get his vacation as originally hoped, and they had to change their plans to a Richmond visit in July. .Frances Badenoch Seitas also wrote from California. She is assistant to the supervisor of physical educat10n m the elementary schools in Richmond , California. She's been attending graduate school at the University of Southern California and should finish her Master's degree this summer. Clarine Cunningham Bergren is in the Azores where she finds life very full and interesting. Sh; has done everything from teaching school to designing and building a house . She wrote it was all fascinating and she and David were looking forward to traveling through Europe this summer on David's thirty-day leave. Allene Jones Patteson, another service wife finds herself in .Florence, Italy. She is completely captivated by Italy. They have a nice home in the country and, although Pat travels a Jot, Allene wrote she 1s never at a loss for something to doshe has three children, enough said? Rosellen Hoffman Via wrote she was so sorry prev10us plans had kept her away. She is kept busy rn Newport News with her two children. While we're on the subject of the scrapbook , May wrote a few weeks ago that she was starting a new one for the next :five-year period and is most anxious for news, snaps, etc., all of which make for a fuller, more informative book for the next reunion. Incidentally, if any of you away from Richmond would be interested in seeing the book, write May and she will be glad to send 1-t to you. Just be sure, please , that it gets back to her again. May and Doug moved into their new home September lst-1701 Westhill Road Richmond . Very best of luck in it, May. During the· summer they . took a week away from the preparat10ns of movrng and went to Virginia Beach where a good time was had by all, especially Doug, Jr., aged a year and a half. Ethel Levine Bass wrote that Emma Waldrop S½, and Cruickshanks took the children-Doug, Jeanne Bruce, 1, to the country this summer where little Doug had the thrill of his life driving a tractor. Ethel and Milton spent two weeks at Miami Beach and had a truly marvelous vacation. She didn't say, but reading between the lines I gathered they did not have their children with them-S(ephanie Lynne, 6; Howard Mitchell, 2½ ; and Robrn Marcia, 1. They are all happily settled in their new home in Westham, 7202 University Drive. Marylou DuVal Sawyer wrote that her hll5band Dick, is from New Hampshire, and they spent several wonderful weeks in New England this summer. She received a delightful letter from Dee Hall full of the news of her forthcoming marriage on October 4th, to David Tuttle Schenk of Chappaqua, N. Y. They will make their home in Mo-
bile. Best wishes for a very happy life from us all, Dee . Wendy and "B.G." Cline are busy on plans for their new house, which they hope to start in the near future. Wendy claims her difficulty is too many ideas and too little time. Sounds like her, doesn't it' They are kept busy in the window business-a good one, I'd say, with all the building boom in Washingaon. They spent their vacation at Virginia Beach the beginning of Augll5t. We have five new births to announce this issue. Betty (Mac Murtry) and Frank Clark are the proud parents of a son, Jay , born in .February-a leap year baby, in fact. They are living with Betty's mother in Beverly, Mass., looking for a house large enough for Frank to have his office. Housing is pretty rugged in these parts. .Frances Williams Garnett and Henry welcomed a third son , "Doc, " during the winter. I'm sorry I can't give you his full name , but this bit of information came via Marylou Sawyer who also added that she and Frances see quite a bit of one another through their AAUW work. Frances , Henry, "Doc ," and their other two sons, "Dunk, " 8; and Jeff, 4, are now in their new home, 208 Parkway Drive, Hilton Village, Virginia. Anne Frank Patterson and Harvey are proud of their new daughter , Anne Bemis ( called Nan) , who was born in February. Laura (Jenkins) and George Cornell received their second son in March. They're living in Ghent, N . Y . The newest addition to our growing '42 family is Nancy (Davis) and Bill Parkerson's third child , their first daughter, Susan, born in August. Congratulations to you all! I've started sending out a list of the names and addresses of our class members. I had hoped to have the mailing list completed by this time, but we' ve had a fairly busy summer. After the reunion we finished out the month of June at Virginia Beach. Since then we've had a lot of house guests and just ended the season with a trip through New Hampshire, Vermont , Canada, and Maine. Now I'm busy getting Pam and Wanda ready to start school. But I will buckle down and get it finished. Many thanks to all of you who helped me out with news. If it weren't for all of you contributing your assistance , we'd never be able to get a column together. Please, won't you all keep up the good work?
children in Cincinnati. Then she spent two nights with Barbara Lewis Talbott at Annapolis. Both Helen and Barbara have lovely new homes and attractive children. Pepper and Bob also took a vacation trip to the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains , leaving the children here. They took time out to see three Mountain Folk Dramas and bad a wonderful time. Elise (Allman) and Norman Cage are hoping to build on their farm in Beaver Dam , soon. The sympathy of the class goes out to Maxine Williams Rogers in the recent loss of her mother. Congratulations are in order for Louise ( Cardozo) and Robert Long on the birth of a second son, Douglas Claiborne, on July 21. Louise says that Robert , Jr., loves the baby brother, and would like for her to spend more time rocking him . Barbara Krug Evans had her third boy June 14 -Robert Taylor Evans. They are now settled again in Wilmington, Delaware. Anne Byrd (Tucker) and Don Moore have recently finished a " cabin in the woods" not far from Coats, where they expect to spend their spare time this winter hunting and enjoying the warmth of a huge fireplace. Rose Koltukian Wallace and her husband spent two weeks in Richmond in June. They have moved into their new home in Wilbraham, Massachusetts where Jim is with the Monsanto Chemical Company. While in Richmond they spent a wonderful day with the Moores at Pocahontas State Park (in spite of the 104 ° heat 1). As for me, Charles has been doing a lot of traveling this summer in connection with his work as Director of Audio-Visuals. Charles Allen and I spent two weeks with him at Montreat, N . C. It was work for him, but a nice vacation for us. This week we plan to go with him to Green Lake , Wisconsin. He is to be there attending a meeting of Audio-Visual Directors. Before the next issue of the BULLETIN is due, please, each of you drop Anne Byrd, or me, a line about where you are and what you are doingso that the rest of us can keep up with you! EVELYN ALLEN KRAUSE 6929 Dartmouth Avenue Richmond , Virginia.
1943
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had a long telephone conversation with June Hargrove Ruble. She is in Richmond with her mother at the present time. I talked to Mrs. Zehmer and she gave me the following information: Evangeline :finished the physical therapy course at the Medical College in Richmond and took her internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She is now in West Haverstraw, New York , at the New York State Hospital as head Physio-Therapist. This fall she plans to go to Columbia to take an advanced course in Physio-theraphy . . Virginia Delp Ogg and her family bad just returned from a week end down on the Potomac when I talked to her. Virginia said that they had a good time and added that she was "here as usual and busy with four children. " .Frances Beazley Bell and her family are moving back to Richmond . Bob will be with the Richmond Guano Company. As yet they have not found a place, and so they plan to live with Frances ' family for a while. Jean Bowers McCammon tells me that they attended the Bible Conference at Massanetta during their vacation. They also went to Florida earlier this summer. Lelia Gardner Hathaway has been doing quite a bit of travelling this summer. She and her two children had a very interesting trip to Kentucky while Bob was having his two weeks' annual duty with the Navy. During the course of the trip she had lunch with Helen Herrink Fix and her three
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new car during the summer and vacationed in Georgia . Nell is now vice-president of the Westhampton Alumnae in Halifax County. The Claytons , Barbara Gray, Dave and Holly traveled to Cleveland to visit relatives, and flew back. "As a result, Holly is now a junior stewardess on United Airlines and has wings to prove it plus a certificate of her first flight." Holly was one year old in August. Gloria Tyler Robertson and Clayton have bought a boat and vacationed aboard for two weeks. Mary Alderson Graham's family spent a week end at Nags Head and a week at Virginia Beach. Mary Lee Smith seemed more agog about the excitement around her office than she was over a steamer trip to Virginia Beach. She wrote, "My office in the State Department has been popping with preparations for the visit of young King Feisal of Iraq. It is fun being on a political desk for Near Eastern countries and seeing our ambassadors and lesser foreign service officials when they return from the field. " Dot Monroe Hill and Stonie enjoyed a carefree jaunt to New York. They also visited Molly \1(/arner over the 4th of July. Later Molly repaid the visit and they had a good old get-together with all the 路44路s in the Tidewater area. Lois Kirkwood North and Walter were back in Virginia for their vacation. Walter taught summer school at William and Mary. The Norths are going back to Knox next year and live in a new boys' dorm where they will serve as advisors for the students.
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Secre/a,-y Miss CONNIE SUTTON Box 165, Bon Air , Virginia Dear Class of '45: It appears that I'm getting off to a bad start in my new job. However , I promise to contact each one of you before the next BULLETIN is published. Here goes with what news I have. Doris Mills had a wonderful trip abroad this summer. She traveled in Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and France. One of the highlights of the trip was spending a week with Lydia Crabtree Love in Frankfurt, Germany. Lydia is still working at the American Consulate-General. She and Bill have a beautiful , modern apartment complete with housekeeper I Doris is in Denver, Colorado now , living at 1171 Yosemite Street. Virginia Nichols Babcock is back in Richmond now. She is living at 3320 Kensington Avenue. And I hear that Ann Clark Howe has moved to Elkton, Virginia. Ann, what's your new address) Jen lea and Scott Yancey had double excitement this summer. Scott, Jr., arrived August 3rd , and shortly afterwards they moved into their new house on the outskirts of Culpeper. Audrey G. and lester Fixell have a son, Daniel , born on June 15. Nancy Grey and Linton Stables have a new son, a !so. Linton is stationed at Fort Meade now , and Nancy Grey is here in Richmond at 3902 Delmont Avenue. Ruth and Ti vis Wick er have a daughter, Maris, wh o arriv ed July 15th. Ruth says the baby has her bl onde hair and powerful lungs like her daddy. E. P . and Roy Blackw ell are back in the States and living in Indi anapolis. Their second son, Roy Barrow. wa s born June 27th, and tipped the scales at 10 lbs. , 3 ozs. I know Gin Friddtll is proud of Guy. He was picked to cowr the political conventions this summer for the Richmond papers. Mariann e J ones路s hu sband , Fred , has been called back into the service. Marianne is still in Phoenix, but her plans are indefinite. Lillian Youell is happy now that Mac is stationed here in Richmond for three years. He's with the Inspector-Instructor Staff of the Marine Reserve Battalion and hopes to pass the Bar examination while he's here. Mary Ellen was married to Stewart Lowry on September 20. They will live in Camden, S. C. Kathy Mumma married Jack Atkinson on September 6th, in Bryn Mawr, with Eulalia E. Pitts as one of the attendants. Kathy and Jack will live in New York City for awhile.
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Betty Dillard wrote me that Liz Parker Cone dropped by to see her this summer. Liz reported that Nancy Leslie has been teaching at Martinsville High School and likes it a lot. Jane Wray McDorman located the class scrapbook for me. There are lots of empty pages, so please send me pictures of your families. And speaking of pictures, I have the negatives of the group picture taken in Lillian's living room at our fifth reunion, and also of the snapshots taken at our luncheon last spring. I'll be more than glad to order reprints for any of you who wish them. The reunion picture will be ten cents, and the other is 7 cents . Any of you who have address changes, please send them to me. That" s all for now.
1946
Secretary MRS. DOWELL J. HOWARD, JR. (Alta Ayers) 3001 Bellwood Ave., Cincinnati 13, Ohio
I suppose you all wondered why we did not have a column in the last BULLETIN. Well, Procter and Gamble sent Dowell to their Portsmouth, Virginia plant in March for about three months and when we came back to Cincinnati, I found I had just missed the deadline. Hope you weren't too disappointed. \X'e had a wonderful time in Virginia and I had an opportunity to see a good number of our class while visiting in Norfolk and Richmond. One Saturday I lunched with Frances Ann Beale, who's at the Richmond Public Library in the Chil<lren路s department and Bev Ryland, who at the time was doing substitute teaching at Dumbarton. I dropped in on Cora Lynn Chaffee one afternoon while she was hard at work on her thesis. Incidentally, she has received her Master's degree from R.P.I. Dowell and I had a chance to visit Nancy Todd Lewis and Biggy, near Hobbsville, N. C. We saw just how Biggy is cutting timber from the swamp and savored the atmosphere of that old, old house 1 have previously described to you. Nancy and Biggy had decided not to spend another drafty winter there , and were building a house right m Hobbsville, which should be done by now. Nancy said they had had many a grand square dance in their large house, and had enjoyed being there. Jean White Robeson and Andy came to a Science meeting at the Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point Comfort this spring and came on over to Norfolk , where we were living, to have dinner with us. They had their three-months-old daughter, Cathy, with them but had left Martha in Culpeper with Grandmother White. It was fine to have an opportunity to visit with them. Andy is working on his doctor's degree at the University of Virginia on an ultra centrifuge. They say life in their trailer with the two girls is a real experience. Jeanne and Charlie Gammon brought their daughter Allison by to meet our son. Charlie is going to V.P.I. part of the time and working at the Shipyard in Portsmouth part of the time under a new cooperative education plan, so the Gammons have purchased a trailer to live in during that period. They apparently initiated it by taking a camping trip to Fairy Stone State Park in Patrick County, Virginia, as we recently had a post card from them there. Calley Goode came to see us in Richmond and brought Greer Jackson, her liance, to meet Dowell and me. They were married June 14th in the Calvary Episcopal Church in Dinwiddie and with their children, Greer and Nancy are making their home in Chester, Virginia. Greer is a pharmacy graduate of the Medical College of Virginia and is a pharmacist in Chester. The Richmond Times-Dispatch in May carried the engagement announcement of Julia Willis. She was to be married in June to J. Van Ness Philip, Jr., a graduate of St. Albans School, Washington, and Princeton University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration and served with the Marine Corps in World War II. We all wish them every happiness. Joyce Eubank wrote me this summer while on a
23-day trip through the Scandinavian countries. She and two other teachers had been to Oslo and Bergan and were on a four-day boat trip through the fiords up the coast of Norway to the Arctic Circle. From there they would go down the coast of Finland to Sweden and Denmark. In August they were to bicycle through the British Isles. Cora Lynn Chaffee went out to Madison, Wisconsin to visit her sister this summer, and on her way home stopped at Chicago for a special workshop at the University of Chicago. The workshop was on Rorschach, and it was given by one of the top men in the world on it. The Republican convention was in full swing at the same time, and she very fortunately obtained a seat in a box the night Herb ert Hoover spoke. She said she was impressed particularly with the seriousness of the delegates and the lack of boisterousness usually associated with such gatherings. With shopping and seeing a couple of the most popular current plays she really had a fine trip. Isabelle Gunnels Snyder had a fleeting visit with Cora Lynn in June. She seemed to be enjoying her teaching and was contemplating trying to go to Europe as an exchange teacher. From her photographs, Susan, Isabelle's daughter, is a real dear, so Cora Lynn said. There are four new children in our class that you may not have heard of as yet. First, Nooky Richardson Phipps and William had a daughter March 31. She weighed almost seven pounds, has dark blue eyes and dark hair. They named her Rebecca Whitmell and will call her Becky. Jeanne Sassar Thombley and Joe had a second baby boy on June 27th, a real bouncing 8 pounds 3½ ounces. They named him John Sassar. Mary Lou Willis Bareford and "T's" baby girl arrived on July 7th. She was a 7-pound 4-ounce little one, and they gave her the name of Anne Willis . Mary Lou's . announcement was postmarked Culpeper, but I've heard from her since and now that "T's" out of the army they are back again in Urbanna . The latest arrival is Gale and Don Abbott's son. l called the hospital last Tuesday , September 23rd to find they had a son but learned the particulars yes1erday from Gale's mother who came to Cincinnati to keep house for Don and Donna Gale when the baby was born. They named the boy Paul Thirlwell, his middle name being a family name on the maternal side. That about covers all the news that has come to me since last time . I've written the group leaders hoping to have something about each of you for the next BULLETIN, and I'm sure they'll appreciate hearing from you. Good luck with your Christmas shopping and don't forget to be a "Santa " to the Alumnae Fund if you haven't already done so.
that "J.B. III or 'Rock' as we call him is a honey -the best born I'm sure." She and J.B. were planning a trip to New England and Canada in August. Our sincerest sympathy goes to Carolyn Marsh on the death of her father, this summer. We have several new addresses for you. Believe it or not, we did mimeograph a list of addresses of everyone in '47 in April. We sent out a few then, but there have been so many changes (24 since April 15), that we didn't want to send it out until it was more correct. We're working on a new list now, so if your address has been, or will be changed, please let us know right away. Howie Bingham Kiser and Kent have moved to Ontario, N . Y. Kent finished Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in May, receiving his B.D . degree. On June 8th he began his duties as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Ontario. Howie writes that they have a nice home just four miles from Lake Ontario. Betty Tinsley Andrews and Dick are living in Williamsburg in a new house , and seem to like the old capital very much. They have been having quite a time with carpenters, plasterers, and the like. It seems that Restoration, who owns the house, is very particular about the workmanship and is constantly having things done over. Betty wrote about preparing for a dinner party with umpteen workmen in the kitchen and elsewhere taking off doors, plastering cracks, etc. Their address is 707 Mosby Drive, James Terrace, Williamsburg, Virginia. Dottie Hughes and Dean Freitag were married in June in a lovely wedding at St. Stephen 's here in Richmond. Mary Cox was her maid of honor. Dottie and Dean are now living at 2200 Frederick Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi . Ollie Menefee Stirling, Hank , and the three children were to move to Camp Lejeune, N. C., in September and hoped to be there for three years . Let us have your address, Ollie. Margaret Goode has left Richmond and has gone back home to Henry , Va. Doris Pitman Rainey and Oris should be in their new house by now. What is your address, Doris? Marie Walthall and Claude LeSieur were married July 26th, and Marie was a lovely bride. Ann Wiley Kelley and Betty O'Brien were two of her attendants. Marie and Claude are now living at 4300 Old Brook Road, here in Richmond. Peggy Hawthorne Charleton was down for Marie's wedding, and it was good to see her. Her son was christened the next day in Buckingham. That's all the news till next time and remember to send in your contributions to the Alumnae Fund and your news ( and addresses) to your new group leader.
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Secrettll"y Miss ISABELAMMERMAN 6000 Crestwood Avenue, Richmond , Va .
Dear '47ers: News is rather scarce this time, but we hope that with the end of vacations, hot weather, etc., you gals will once again take pen in hand and let your group leaders hear from you. Please-on bended knee-we ask you to write us. Remember, your writing makes this letter possible. has been a Speaking of group leaders-there change. Since Betty, Nancy, and Betsey have moved away from Richmond, we're giving them wellearned rests and Marion Huske Moomaw and Betty O'Brien have been good enough to say they'd take over. You'll be hearing soon from one you of us-Marion , Betty, Mimi or me-telling who your new group leader is. We have several new babies to report-Helen Cole Richardson and Straughan have another daughter, Nancy Susan, who was born this summer. Helen Lee will be two this November. Straughan is now working for the FHA here in Richmond. John Robert Monroe Robertson arrived June 11, Pat Guild and Robbie being the proud parents. She and Robbie were planning to fly to Canada in August for several weeks . Copie writes
engineering department and will coml,lete his college requirements by correspondence , according to Bish . Diety's new address is 230 W. Tennessee Avenue, Oak Ridge , Tennessee. Another new youngster is Joe and Sugar (Carlton) Bowman 's daughter, Shelley Anne; also , Florence (Lide) and Bill Snider's Mary Alice, who was born June 29. Renie (Barbour) Fenlon , at last report, was expecting Betty Wood (Woody) for a visit this fall. Woody is still working at Harvard and her address is 45 Hancock Street , Boston , Massachusetts. Bish also reports she talked with Bobby (Deane) Kolcum who is back in Richmond, living at 14 Granite Avenue. Jack has been back in the States several months now , and this year is counselling at Hermitage High. I heard from Ellen Chambliss and in one letter she told me of three vacations she was going to take I She was to spend one week in Pennsylvania , another week at home with her family, and then a third week at the beach with two other girls. Sounds like a nice summer, doesn 't it? Beth (Chambliss) Holcomb and Charlie have a daughter now. She arrived in July and her name is Kathryn Ellen. A wonderful letter came from Hannah Barlow upon completion of her first year in Japan. She divided her letter into sections, giving some of her observations about the Japanese and their customs, as well as some of her accomplishments. In the latter category she says she has studied 564 Kanji now, finished one year of study at language school , studied some of their culture ( even attending a tea ceremony) , and told some stories to the children in their language. This winter she hopes to have an opportunity to go to Hokkaido, to try skiing. When Hannah has finished another year of study at school , she will work with the W.M.U. young people's organizations, which pleases her a great deal. We shall have to have a special reunion when Hannah comes home to hear many of her interesting and informative experiences. Frances (Stuart) Bailey and Rolen are living in Huddleston, Virginia , where Rolen is pastor of two rural churches. Anne (Brunner) Woo says that Frances ' wedding on May 31 was beautiful. Anne, herself , and Tommy had a trip to New York at the close of summer before returning to Louisville for Tommy's third and final year at the Seminary . This year their address is 329 Judson Hall , Godfrey Avenue , Louisville. Another
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The \Xl est Virginia hills have once more become riotous in their coloring and remind me that summer is over for all of us and vacation time is gone. That is, unless you are smart as Bish and Jack Wilbourne, who have saved their vacation to enjoy during the nice cool weather of football season, while most of us sweltered through July and August travelling, determined to become a part of the migration . . . easterners to the west, westerners to the east, and so on, tfd infinitum. Speaking of Bish, she and Jack had quite a scare in the early part of summer when their youngest daughter spent some days in an oxygen tent, the result of bronchial pneumonia . Now , long since fully recovered , Bish says she is absolutely the picture of health. Enclosed in Bish's letter were two announcements of interest to us . One told of the marriage of Joan Johnson to John Dennis last March. Johnnie called Bish two days after the wedding when she and John were en route to Augusta, Georgia . How about letting us have your new address, Johnnie' The second announcement brought news of the arrival of Troy Noel Burklow, III, to Diety and Troy on May 3. Troy is now working for Carbide and Carbon in the
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one who took her vacation north to New York was Wilma Lum. Alice Goodman wrote that she went to Blue Ridge, North Carolina, in July for a Christian Endeavor Conference. She returned through the Smokies, so I know she enjoyed the lovely scenery . Another week of Alice 's summer was spent at Massanetta. She passed on the news that Pat Adams went back to the campus this summer , takrng two more education classes at the Univer sity of Richmond. Betwe en summer school and her teaching job, Pat had several week s at Cape Cod. Arleen (Reynolds) Schaeffer had writt en her that she, Joe , and Peggy were returnin g to Richmond after August 15, Joe 's graduation date. Helen Condyles will be teaching again this year , but has made a chang e to Highland Springs School. Doris Moore was busy with wedding preparations so Emily (Smith) Powers forwarded news from that sector this time. Dori s is now Mr s. Jarvis Ennis and as soon as I have her address I will pass it on to you. Millicent (Hutcherson) Taylor was Doris' matron of honor. Millicent , by the way, received her M.A . in Education this August from Columbia. Isn 't that wonderful ? She and Sim live in a duplex in Alexandria and this summer bought all their furniture. Virginia Kreyer graduated in June from Union Theological Seminary with a B.D. degree, and on June 8 had her service of ordination into ·the Gospel Ministry. She has a job now working at the new Cerebral Palsy Centre at Roosevelt , where she does some counseling, desk work , and has been helping in the general organizing of the Centre. Also, this summer she has taken driving lessons and bought a new car. Congratulations, Virginia' Emily and Jack Powers were in Newport News during the summer months while Jack worked in the shipyards , then spent a few ,lays at the beach before football season took over once more. Jean (Brumsey) and Johnny Biscoe have an apartment in Richmond ( 3131 Hanover Avenue, Apt. 12) now _that Johnny is out of the service and is working at the C&P Telephone Company . Frances (Orrell) Dunn and Bob took their vacation with Bob and Jo (Hoover) Pittman , down at Nag's Head. Bob Pittman has been working in Martinsville for several months now. Flip also passed on news of Boo (Koltukian) Cowles' son , born in July. He is Sidney , Jr. Additional baby news came from Virginia Beach . Bob and Faye (Hines) Kilpatrick have a little girl whose name is Kathleen Spencer. She was born in May, and at last report , Fay said she was cute but didn't resemble anybody. Phy! (Harfield) and Bill Doss ace living in Jackson, Mississippi ( 1315 W. Capitol, Apt. No. N-2) , where Bill is a district manager with Pontiac. Margaret (Elliott) Ownby and Ralph are settled in Richmond now (seems as though lots of girls ace getting back there) , and Monty has a job with the law firm of Parker, Fairbank, Neal and Horner. Says she really stays busy all the time and loves the work. At last we have an address for Pat (Parlow) Daniel I She told Monty that after th ey left Yonkers, New York, they were in Chicago for eight months , and then moved to Mt. Vernon , New York. (25 Chester Street) Pat (Fuller) Gatlin has moved to Kansas City , but I have no details. Judy (Barnett) Seelharst had a vacation at Avalon Beach, New Jersey. Judging from the number I have heard of going to the beach , there should be an abundance of suntans around this fall. Of course, I couldn ' t let this chanc e slip by to tell you a little about my vacation this summer. Once again Ginna Herndon, two other girls, and I took off on a lengthy jaunt. I went over to Fredericksburg late in Jun e and we left from th ere, going south through Carolina , then through Tennessee and Arkansas , finally reaching our first obj ective, Dallas. We spent several days there , getting a taste of Texas hospitality , and sight-seeing enough to find that those Texans really do have something to brag about! In New Mexico , we took a tour through Carlsbad Caverns which was very interesting. From the time we entered the first room of the cave and found that it was more
than a mile in length and still not the largest room, until we emerged four-and-a-half hours later , we were agape. We had our lunch that day more than 700 feet below the surface in a wellequipped lunchroom. We thought for several hours that we might be in the original deep freeze , but finally decided it was because we were such uninformed tourists that we went in in shorts , only to find that th e temp erature th e year round is 56 degrees! We spent one night in El Paso, Texas , and had a short time in old Mexico , going across the bridge into Juarez. I must hav e been seeing too many western movies though, because I was certainly disillusioned when I saw th e Rio Grande River , resembling at that particular point a muddy creek. W e visited a very interesting mission there which was built several centuries ago , but the remainder of our visit across the border was spent looking at the "tourist-getters "- leather goods , silver jewelry, etc. We all agreed in classifying Arizona as one of our favorite states with its wid e variety of scenery-flat lands, mountains , canyons carved from colorful rock, beautiful lakes, deserted silver and copper mining towns, and most any other thing that you would like to see. Lois' greatest wish was to see some Indians , so she was quite pleased when we passed through Flagstaff at the time an Indian pow-wow was being held and about 3,000 were there . We drove through their encampment of tents, trailers , and trucks and saw many of them cooking their meals in large kettles over open fires, completely oblivious of the pouring rain. We arrived at Grand Canyon in the cloudy weather , also , and saw a thunderstorm coming up the canyon, which was quite a sight. Then after dinner, we saw the sunset reflected on the canyon . We crossed the desert at night, all taking our turns at the wheel and hoping we wouldn't fall asleep. Needless to say, we arrived in Los Angeles more than slightly whipped the next day. We felt like real Californians , staying for a week in a luxurious motel, complete with swimming pool. That week was crammed full of seeing all we could-Farmers ' Macke.t, Knott's Berry Farm , Hollywood, Santa Anita, Rose Bowl, Art Gallery, Griffith Observatory, etc. We were fortunate enough to have friends there who kept us busy trying to see a small portion of the available sights. We spent one day seeing some of the nearby beaches. We stayed two days by the ocean in Santa Barbara, and then went on to San Francisco. We took an all-inclusive tour of that oty , even to a boat trip in the bay under both the huge bridges and around Alcatraz! After three days of freezing in S. F., we turned eastward , across Nevada and the salt flats of Utah to Salt Lake. We were anxious by that time to reach Colorado where we had such a marvelous time last year.' To reach Estes Park , we crossed Trailridg e Road, the highest continuous highway in the country ( 11 miles of it above timberline) surrounded by mountain peaks and snow. At this point I always have to resist _the temptat10n_ to launch into a lengthy descn pt10n of rnountarns, wild flowers, etc., but suffi.ce it to say that staying at a ranch 9,500 feet up in the Rockies is a perfect way to spend a vacation . Horseback riding in the mountains every day and squaredancing every night. I am sure that our attempts at square dancing, however, must have given t_hose people something to talk about on long , wrn_ter evenings, since we didn't know wh~t was gorng on about half the time! Ginna, Lois and Mary Ellen stayed about four days, one of w~ich was spent going to Cheyenne, Wyomrng , to Frontier Days," and what an experience that was I Where rodeos are concerned , that is the "granddaddy of them all. " Ginna and I came to the parting of the ways in Colorado . . . they left for Virginia and I stayed about a week-and-a-half longer with my mother and daddy who came west to meet us there. It was really a grand summer. I hope I haven 't bored you with too much talk of my vacation , but it's hard to telescope eight weeks of fun into a couple of paragraphs so you'll have to forgive me! I am now back in the working world though. Since September 1st, I have been work-
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1949
Attorney General of West don 't want me to fill the own news had better write have a wider variety next
Secretary Miss HATHAWAY POLLARD 239 South Hawthorne Road , Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Fall again - back to school again - and I was just thinking, "Four years since we were th e Senior Class, and now the class that entered after we graduated are seniors." Surprising , isn 't it, that so much time has passed since the ·49ers were all together ? Well , I know your . reply to that , "What ha s become of us- ?" So here 's what I heard during the summer. Jane Norris was married in July to Ray M . Knutson. Jane and Ray are living in Max Meadows , where Jane is teaching. Ray is a geologist for New Jersey Zinc Company, in Austinville . Mitzi Verra and Jack Williams were m arried in August and are living in Richmond. Betty Ann e Allen Doub was a bridesmaid. Anne Wilson Bryant has a daughter, Jane Randolph, born August 28. The "Jane part, " Anne commented , is for her sister Jane, who is now a senior at Westhampton . Nancy Berry Hulcher wrote me in May to catch us up on the longmissed news of Nancy and Buddy-and now Dicky , born September 10, 1951 , and named Richard Thomas. The Hulchers are living in Richmond, where Buddy is a special agent for Royal Liverpool Insurance. Martha Hall sent news of several '49ers. Laura Saunders James has a daughter , Lavinia Ann, born May 2. The James are still living in Crozet, and Joe is working at the University of Virginia Hospital. Joyce Roberson Goforth-my apologies to her for giving her the wrong husband! Frosty is Douglas B., not George W. Joyce and Frosty are still living in Alta Vista. Frosty is a sanitation officer in Pittsylvania County; Joyce is teaching second grade. Flo Gray Tullidge and Tommy had toured England in the spring, with plans for a trip to Italy in August. Jackie Smith Hagen and John have moved into their new home. Peggy Reynolds Nolan (Rennie) had been in California while Jimmy was in Service there, but had returned home anticipating Jimmy's transfer to Long Island. Mary Copeland , now Mrs. J. R. Hogue , is living in Louisville , Kentucky, where her husband is a ministerial student. Martha's news of herself was both perturbing and pleasing . Martha developed pleurisy and pneumonia in the spring, bringing with it two months leave of absence from work and a few weeks in Florida. The Florida part Martha recommends as a ··cure for any ails. " I do hope it is a cure , Martha , and that you're now better than ever. From Betty Dick came word that Frances Hix has begun her last year at the W.M.U . Training School in Louisville and seemed quite happy at the prospect of returning. Betty and Fred are still in Baltimore, and in lieu of news Betty sent a picture of her young son. Most charming young man. How about some more baby pictures? Vacation news from Cornelia Ayr e-!. a motor trip to Montreal and Quebec , and touring many historical sites therein. Vacation news also from Jean Harper Sellars , who had just returned from Virginia Beach (complete with sunburn), and was anticipating a trip to Allen's home in Pine Bluff , Arkansas. Jean told also of Betty Evans Hopkins· vacation in Chicago which included attendance at part of the Convention ( I don't know which one). Betty attended summer school at R.P.I. to renew her teaching certificate and planned to return to Fox to teach this year. Bert McCullough wrote of her engagement to Arthur Palmer, with plans to be married sometime in the fall. Bert is still teaching in Rich-
mond, and is filling in her spare time with piano lessons from her new landlady-a piano teacher. Bert also had news of a few other classmates. Alda Marlin Noftsinger has a baby boy, born August 15. Jessica Niblet MiJJer has a son, born in the spring. Jessica, AJJen and son were living at Virginia Beach for the summer. Hazel Jennings Walker's husband, Dan , had returned from Korea, but Bert did not know whether he was still in service. Barbara Rhodes Barker and Bill are still living in Athens , Georgia, where Bill is a junior in the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia, and Barbara is teaching math in an Athens school. Barbara commented that they are now living in an apartment on the campus and have added to their family a brindle English bulldog-" Wide Winston of Rek Teck"-who has the distinction of being mascot of the Georgia football team. Barbara was in Danville for Kitty Wyatt 's wedding in June, as were Betty Evans Hopkins , Rosie Calhoun McCarty, and Jane Sanford Jennings. Jane and Bill are still living in Martinsville, and Jane continues to teach physical education in the high school there. Rosie also commented on Kitty's wedding , describing her as one of the loveliest of brides, and remarking how nice it was to see so many classmates again. Unfortunately, I still don 't know who Kitty married. Rosie had seen Carolyn Bonham Thompson and reported Carolyn's daughter to be a most attractive young lady who looked more like Carolyn. Virginia Otey Dickinson had been a secretary at the Radford Arsenal during the summer, but planned to teach sixth grade in Christiansburg again this fall. Ann Bing Abbit was continuing to work in the payroll department of the Arsenal, while John combined working at the Arsenal and studying at V.P.I. Rosie 's news from Mary Clare Dougherty-her marriage last spring to Bill Nohlford. Mary Clare has continued to teach at Marion High School, including the summer session, while Bill is in the Army. Martha Kenney worked in a store in her home town, Aiken , South Carolina, for part of the summer , then toured New England before returning to Falls Church to teach seventh grade. Martha had reported Mag Knapp Howe and Joe living now in Aiken, with a new son, Joe, Jr. Rosie gave no news of herself except plans to continue substitute teaching this year. Anne Carter Kraft wrote that Julie Moller worked in the Pathology Department at M.C.V . during the summer, with plans for a trip to Ohio and one to New Jersey to visit Kit Vander Schalie Pedersen. Julie is now a senior at M.C.V . Anne's only news of herself was that she was busy moving into a new apartment at the time of her letter . Audrey Bradford told of a leisurely summer at the beach, with plans to teach in Richmond again this fall. She wrote that Harriet Smith would be in Richmond this year and would be living near her. Mimi Anderson Gill planned to continue teaching in the same school with Audrey, while Bill interned at M.C.V. Audrey reported that Cyn Patrick Lawson would be Jiving in Arlington while Jack interned in Washington . Lou Winn McCutcheon and Ben are in Cincinnati, where Ben is interning at Cincinnati General Hospital. Mary Beth Turner is working in Washington, with Tommy interning at Bethesda . Beth Wilburn Hooker and Raymond are still living in Richmond. Beth is teaching; Raymond is a senior at M.C.V. Abie requested a special flash to Betsy Bullock to find out her current address-so Betsy, if this BULLETIN reaches you, please contact Audrey Bradford at 412 North Allen Avenue, Richmond, because we'd all like to know your whereabouts and what's new with you . Speaking of "lost sheep," I had a Jetter from Gloria Reid Jensen in May assuring me that she had not been lost , just misplaced. At that time Gloria was private secretary to the Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Labor Standards, and Larry was Placement Officer for the U.S. Patent Office. Gloria told of attending the wedding of Shirley Armstrong and Howard Sutton in May , which Ruth Gouldin and Dorothy Richwine Korb also attended .
May Lee Y ook and Peggy Hassell were among our delight£ ul -sounding-vacation -in -the-summerers. They visited the Florida beaches-including St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm , and Miami , plus St. Petersburg, Tampa, Winter Haven , and Coral Gables. They also stopped along the way in Savannah, Georgia; Columbia , South Carolina; and Burlington , North Carolina. And, not to let vacation interfere with business, May Lee took color slides of the trip to show her students this fall. After vacation May Lee attended summer school in Harrisonburg. Peggy spent part of the remaining summer attending a church workshop in Pennsylvania. Caroline Lynn Doyle sent a correction in her address-Haymarket, Virginia. Caroline reports her activities to be "st rictly a farmer's wife's doings "-ca nning, having company, and looking after her son-but also mentions that they have a lake to swim and fish in. Sounds great I Shall we all accept her cordial invitation to Westhamptonites to visit them) Izzy Taylor and Rover dashed me a note to say that the fish business is great , but they are being somewhat disturbed by a Cocker Spaniel who came to visit, his favorite sport being hide-and-seek with Rover ( chiefly he hides under Rover) . Ruby Patterson Weber and Nelson are settled in Richmond now. Ruby is continuing with the State Agriculture Department; Nelson is in business for himself giving psychological tests, chiefly for businesses and industrial concerns in Richmond. Libby McNeal Claybrooke is no longer working for the State Library, but is devoting full time to her son, Richard Allen, Jr., who was born in May. Rip will teach at Glen Allen this fall. As for me, by the time you receive this BULLE· TIN , I shall be Jiving and, I hope, working in Richmond. Shall have to give you my address later , but I do have several new addresses which I shall now list for you. Bert McCullough, 33 Maxwell Road , Richmond, Virginia; Alda Marlin Noftsinger (Mrs . Robert), 42 3 Becker Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware; Mary Copeland Hogue (Mrs. J. R.), 836 Rice Hall, Godfrey Lane, Louisville, Kentucky ; Gloria Reid Jensen (Mrs. Lawrence), 1125 North Kenilworth Street, Westover Apts . No. 3, Arlington , Virginia.
1950 Secretary Miss PEGGYWELLS 214 West 30th Street , Richmond, Va. The ole swimmin' hole is officially closed for the summer , and it seems the Class of '50, in its true style, has been most active (in one way or another). Vacation itineraries have included points from Champs-Ellysses to Bosher's Dam. Mary Sullivan Tinder and Cecil met a fellow classmate , "Teeny" Huff, in Gay Paree. "Teeny" toured Europe for two whole months this summer . Aggie Feild, while swimming in the turquoise waters of Bermuda, made the observation that, "Though we felt like Esther Williams, no one seemed to notice that we looked like her." She is planning to stay in Alexandria this winter and work for the government. Joanne Waring also went Calypso and visited Nassau and Cuba . Fran Chandler spent the summer in Albuquerque , N. M. , and brought back glowing reports when we saw her at Fran Sutton's wedding. Fran C. is planning to teach math this year in the high school in Pocahontas, Va. Vivian Betts Lewis and W. P. vacationed in Canada, New York, and Pennsylvania this summer. Ellen Largent also went to New York for a visit with her sister , after spending a month as counselor at a Girl Scout Camp . She is planning to teach the third grade in Win chester this year. Gene Hart Joyner and Hal enjoyed the first part of September at Ingleside Hotel in Staunton. Tucky Bellows Morrissett, Basil, and "Tody" spent ten days in Elkhart, Indiana, and spent fabulous week ends at Virginia Beach and Washington. Louise Lynham Gravitt and Bill had a wonderful time at the Chamberlin and also enjoyed a week on the Potomac. Marianne Beck, who is Assistant Director of Health Information and
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Public Relations for the T. B. Association , took a training course in New York State this summer, and planned a vacation that extended from Main e to Florida. Emma Tilman Kay and Leslie vacationed in New England. Margie Canada finished her Clinical Training as an Occupational Therapist at Boston State Hospital and took off for home (Lynchburg) , and then went to Florida . This fall she is returning to Boston where she is a part of a research project on insulin shock patients . Hilda Moore Hankins, Deck , and Laura Lee spent July visiting families in Altavista and Halifax , and they spent the rest of the time preparing for a big part in Rudy Hetzer' s wedding. Hilda was matron of honor and Deck was best man. Louise Covington spent th e summer counseling at a camp at Virginia Beach. Ginny Sims counseled at a camp in North Carolina. Barbara Coleman spent a week at Nags Head, N. C. "Piggy " Wells, in the city of Brotherly Love for the annual convention of the American Physical Therapy Association, made the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer by sitting in one of th e latest model examining tables on exhibition there. Before she knew it, she was on exhibition. Friend s as far south as Richmond read about it. From the looks of the above vacation news , everybody should either be well rested or all pooped out. Those who didn't spend their time running around this summer, used it to good advantage by becoming engaged or getting married. From California we hear that Libby Rowse has prospected and struck gold. She plans to be married sometime next spring. Rosa Lou Soles and Mandley Ray Johnston plan to be married as soon as Mandley returns from Korea . . . November, they hope . Dot Maddox, who is a Child Welfare worker in Richmond, will be married on November 29th to Neal Sykes. Barbara Beattie and "Skip " Fanney are checking on the stephanotis supply for a wed ding November 1. The Class of '50 practically had a reunion at the wedding of Betty Gray Finney and Arthur Tuttle. Jane Pitt Robinson was matron of honor. Mary Lee Rankin and Mokey Rounds Holloway were among the attendants. Frances Sutton and Raymond Oliver were married August 16. Rosa Lou Soles, Vivian Betts Lewis, Gene Hart Joyner, and Terry Noble Vawter attended her. So much for the rose-covered cottages. Now is an opportune time to thank all the group leaders and the whole class for the wonderful response we received for this Jetter. It is a grand way to keep up with each other, and that's the important thing. A vote of appreciation goes from the class to Libby Givens Pierce who did such a splendid job as Alumnae Secretary. Many thanks to the group leaders who have stepped down this time, those who are remaining in that capacity, and the brand-new ones who have moved in for awhile . Ludie Hickerson Wiley and Doug are now living in New Haven, Conn. , while Doug is doing further study at Yale. Josephine Martens writes that she is a private secretary for five men in the sales-service department of the General Dyestuff Corporation in New York City and thoroughly enjoys her work ( and who wouldn't 1). Nancy Chapin Phillips says that she and the kitchen are going ·round and 'round, but she is still floating on the proverbial pink cloud of recent matrimony. She and Alex are living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mary Bowles Flanagan was up Richmond way from Florida in June, and she wants to get back in December, if possible. The class extends its sympathy to Mary Sue Mock and her family in the death of her father. She is stationed in Arlington, Virginia now , and is living not too far from Maryanne Bugg Lambert . Lenore Greenberg Siegel and George are planning to improve their minds with courses at Syracuse University. Lenore is now secretary of the Nursing School at the University. We hear that Emily Ann Mintz is going into foreign service with the State Department. Jean Rainer Rowe, Bill, and the baby have moved to New York City where Bill is working for an oil company. Marty Arnold Dunn and family
moved to Richmond this summer. Welcome ba(k, Marty. Jane Pitt Robinson is living in Fries, Va., where Heiter is practicing the art of "tooth-pulling." The baby is a potentia l customer with her two brand-new teeth .. Clarice Ryland Price and " Fuzzy" are now living in Newport News where " Fuzzy" is working. Mokey Rounds Holloway finds life rather routine while Dick is in Okinawa. He hopes to be home by December and out of service in January. Sue Peck House and Jack are living in Wilmington , N. C. while Jack is stationed at Camp Lejeune. We finally found out exactly what Jeanne Schanen is doing at the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute in Newark, Delaware, and for all the fancy terms it ent ails, we still sorta' wonder what kind of a master-mind position she has. Ruth Morriss ey has also gone more scientific on us and is instructing general biology to the Pharmacy Stud ents at the Medical College of Virginia. Nancy Adam s Shields and her husband , Bruc e, are living in Edgewood , near Pittsburgh , where he is with Duqu esne Works of U . S. Steel. Marty Lowry Greene and Jack are living in St. Mary's City, Md. , where he is pastor of a church. They have a brand-n ew Victoria-not Ford , but a baby girl. September still means school bells for a lot of the girls. Louise Triplett Fridl ey is teaching at Lakeside Elementary School. Lorraine Chapman is Physical Education instructor at Collegiate School. She is wrestling with vivacious three-year-olds on up to the sophisticated eighteen-year olds. Maude Tyler, after completing courses in education at R.P.I. , is teaching second-graders at Highland Springs . Barbara Jones Jones ( and we aren 't stuttering) plans to continue teaching at Berryville , Virginia. She and Harry are proud of their handiwork on their home . A new addition to our fair city is that of Jean Bishop. She is learning documentary film work in the daytime, and commercial art at night. She is in the Education and Promotion Department of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board . Audrey Lynn Moncure is still thrilled about her new hom e in Willow Lawn. She is taking an active part in the Richmond Juriior Women's Club. Doris Lee Reeves is planning to learn a littl e theory at night in the graduate school of social work at R.P.J ., while she gets her practical experience from the children in the daytime. We have increa sed the prospective Westhampton popu lation by two. Betty Sims Loving presented Robert with a baby girl , Mary Elizabeth, on August 16. Since June 29th , a red-headed, blueeyed little beauty is now residing with Carol Siegel Taub and Melvin. Caro l Sidlovsky Glicksman and Paul want to give the girls a break in the future , and now have a new "young man" in the household. Libby Giv ens Pierce and "Bucky " likewise have done their part in keeping the young ladies from being "dat eless" years hence. Their proud presentation took place July 14 in the form of one, \X' alter Blanton. Just one reminder don't forget to send your dollar to Piggy Wells to keep the treasury replenished until our next reunion. The cost of living has shot up , but we still only ask a dollar to keep the class rolling in its basic needs. This is the first issue under the new system of all "in-town" group leaders getting together with the Alumnae Secretary to compose the report , and from the looks of things , it appears that it will work out successfully . and it surely was a lot of fun. Thanks again for everyone 's splendid cooperati on we ' ll keep on "putting them in a spin ."
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Secr et"rJ MRS. ROBERTM . JONES (Charlotte Herink) 214 South Boulevard, Richmond , Va. Another September has come around , and I _guess the most important news is that a large number of girls have joined the teaching profession. It seems that we just can't stay away from school. There are so many new teachers that I hardly know where to begin , but the beginning of the
alphabet is as good a place as I know. Paula Abernethy will be teaching this winter in Greensboro Senior High School. Paula is teaching English and she says that the schoo l is the biggest place she has ever seen. She is also sponsoring the high school newspaper, and it's quite a job. Other girls teaching high schoo l are: Frances Allen Schools, Betsy Bethune and Helen Blackwelder. Frances is teaching English at John Marshall High School in Richmond. She's had quite a busy time recently. On August 29th Frances and Bill Schools were married and they are now Jiving in Richmond. Betsy Bethune is teaching English and Speech at Hermitage High School in Henrico County , and Helen Blackwelder is also teaching freshman English at the same high school. As I mentioned in the last issue, Pat Smith is teaching music at St. Catherine 's School. Pat also received a diamond this past summer and plans to be married next summer. Sti ll teaching at the same schools as last year are Joyce Gladding and Gwen Priddy . Teeny Mitchell is still teaching at the deaf schoo l in Staunton and has moved from Roanoke to Staunton. I recently received a most interesting letter from Pat Atwill Schwarz. Pat is now living in the deep, deep South. She and Bill are in Huntsville , Alabama, and will be there at least until November 19th. They are both deeply involved in Little Theater work. Bill is Vice-President of the group and Pat has been doing some acting plus working on dialogue. Pat has also been keeping up with her radio work. Although she has not had a regular job, Pat has been helping out at the Parish Office of the Episcopal Church. Quite a busy life she's been leading. I reported on most of the summer marriages in the last issue, but there are a few that I didn't know about. Millie Wright Outten was married in early August . After a honeymoon at Sea Island, Georgia, she returned to Alabama to receive her Master's Degree. Millie and Joe are now living in Richmond and Millie is teaching the seventh grade in Henrico County. As far as I know Helen Clark and Dick Hensley were married this summer and are living in Louisville while Dick is at the seminary there. Also in Louisville are Jane Slaughter and Beulah Johnson. Jane is studying music and Beulah is at the Baptist Training School. Since her marriage this summer , Ann Marie Hardin Bailey has been in Albany, Georgia, and is now in Savannah. She seems to love keeping house . Getting back to teaching, there are several girls in elementary schoo ls. Jeanne Goulding is teaching a first and second combination grade in Henrico County. Others teaching in Henrico are Charlotte Houchins , Mary Lee Moore Vinson , Joan Dalve Madison, and yours truly. This teaching business certainly isn' t easy but we all enjoy it, I'm sure. Jane Ellis Babb has had a busy summer. She and Emerson were in Indiana for two months, Wisconsin for two months, and then returned to Petersburg . Emerson has gone to Germany, so Jane will be at home until he returns. We now have a new president of the Roanoke Alumnae Club. Mary Ann Hubbard Dickenson has taken over that job . Helen McCarthy Hopkins was married in June . Her bridesmaids were Jolo Jones Ferguson, Barbara McGehee, and Helen Pence. Helen and John are building a house in McGaheysville, Va. It seems as if I'll never get through with all the schoolteachers in our class . Marilyn Montague Harper is teaching at Varina wher e T. G. is the assistant principa l. Maryglyn Cooper is teaching in Florida this year. She was in Richmond this summer for about six weeks while going to school again. Maryglyn took remedial reading from Mr. Grigg. Ann Rogers Crittenden is teaching again this year in a private school in Wilmington, Delaware. Ann has only about ten first grade pupils. Betty Tredway is still at the same school as is Betty Munsey. Kitty Bunting Bowman and Ann Plunkett Rosser keep awfu lly busy being minister's wives. Ann and Buddy were in a church in South Boston this summer and have now returned to Wake Forest.
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Kitty and George are still in Richmond where George is in his last year of seminary. I was sorry to hear that Piret Koljo has had a relapse from her illness last winter. I'm sure you will all join me in hoping that she is much better now. We're all thinking of you, Piret. Millie \Xi'aters Harford is having quite a time in France. She has been visiting the museums and art galleries and all in all seems to be enjoying herself. I don't see how she does it, but Millie has been cooking on a wood stove and has an ice box instead of a refrigerator. Among those who have changed jobs recently are Edith Hutzler, Shirley Robertson, and Sue Pitts. Edith is now secretary to the Governor's Aide, and Sue is now privat e secretary for Dr. Adams at First Baptist Church. Shirley is also in church work but I'm not sure exact ly what she is doing . Bobbie Brown Yagel has changed jobs and is now with Cabell Eanes Advertising Agency. Lea Thompson Osborn and Will have moved back to Stuart, Virginia since Will got out of the Navy. They are renting a house and are planning to build as soon as possible. Plus her regular job in Mr. Nett les' office, Bookie Maroney is also helping out at the Eisenhower Headquarters here in Richmond. I guess that¡s about all for now. I hope I haven't left anyone out. It would be such a help if everyone would keep in touch with your group leaders, so if you should have any news, pleas e send it in.
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Secretary KATHLEENCOLE 30 Lexington Road, Richmond 26, Va.
First of all , let me thank all the group leader s for their excellent co-operation in collecting the news about everyone. Keep up the good work 1 And remember , 52-ers, be sure to let your leaders knov-' if you change your address. Lelia Adams became Mrs. J. Wilton Anderson in a beautiful wedding on June 21. Addie Eicks and Sue Easley were bridesmaids and Nancy Ayer s was maid of honor. Lee says that Tides Inn is a wonderful place for a honeymoon. She and Wilton are now living in Richmond , and Wilton is working whi le awaiting orders from the Air Force. Nancy Ayers changed roles from maid of honor to bride the week following when she became Mrs. Carl McClees, Jr. , on June 28. Again Addie and Sue wer e bridesmaids, and Lelia was matron of honor. Nancy and Carl are now apartmenting in Norfolk. Barbara Cawthorne had a fascinating summer south of the border. She and Ruby Vaughan spent six weeks in Saltillo, Mexico learning to "hab la espano l" native style. Upon her return home Barbara became pinned to John Lynch, a Phi Kap at Richmond . Anne Gibson and Barbara are living together in Richmond this winter. Barbara is taking a business course at Pan American, and Gibson is a sort of receptionist and jack-of-all-trades with an insurance company. During the summer she had a very nice trip through parts of Canada and Chautauqua , N. Y . Sue Easley and Harriet Stubbs had quite an exciting summer serving on the student staff at Western State Hospital in Staunt on. Sue is teaching in Hopewell this winter, and Stubbs is working wit h the Girl Scout Council in Wilkes-Barre, Penna. Addie Eicks had a nice summer touring Cape Cod, Montreal, and Quebec. At present she is doing graduate work at Radcliffe learning how to be an efficient businesswoman. Jackie Jardine's engagement to "Bo" (J. Barrye) Wall of Farmville was announced during the summer. Her ring is lovely. She gave up her job at Sweet Briar and has a good position as office manager to a business firm in Farmville. She and "Bo " will be married on November 1. Harriet Willingham in her search for all sorts of lights found her work in Las Vegas this summer very illuminating. She worked with a D. C. Baptist group and they travel ed to different parts of Nevada to have Bible School. This winter she is working for the Y .W.C.A. in Dayton , Ohio.
Jeanne Hootman is teaching elementary school music in Ale-xandria this winter. During the summer she got some experience with this age group working as a counselor in a day camp near her home. Becky Cumby will be teaching in an elementary schoo l in Roanoke; and Margaret Henderson, after a vacation in New Orleans, is teaching sixth graders in Chesterfield County. Another schoolteacher is Catherine Fowler who has the third grade at Marvin Bass School in Lynchburg. Both Nancy Clement Edmonds and Caro l Melton Sinclair will be going back to school this fall. Carol , who married Charlie Sinclair on August 23rd is attending Crozer Seminary in Chester, Penna. Nancy is studying at the training school in Louisville , Kentucky while John is study ing there at the Southern Baptist Theological Semi- · nary. Nancy and John were married on July 19. Aileen Cunningham Huff and her husband , Bill , are living in Waynesboro this year while be is preaching there. Clarice Underwood is living at home in Danville and is putting her chemistry to work in the research lab at Dan River Mills. Jackie Vaughan is livin g at home in Ashland, and is a case worker for the Hanover Department of Public Welfare . Betty Edmonds , Monty Wiley, Charlotte Babb, and Marian Lacy have an apartment in Richmond, and from all reports they are having a great time. Charlotte spent the summer as a counselor at Camp Appalachia, and this winter she is working for the Children's Horne Society. Monty is with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation. Betty is teaching one of the elementary grades at Highland Springs and seems to like it a lot. Mary Ann Coates and Don Edel were married on August 9th. Monty Wiley , Jo Sales, Charlotte Babb , and Betty Edmonds were bridesmaids. They went to the Pocono Mountains on their honeymoon , and are now living in Newport News. Sue Peters became Mrs. J. B. Hall, Jr. , on August 29th. Grace Collins , Georgia McTeer and Eleanor Bradford were attendants. Sue and J.B. are now living in Richmond. Georgie is teaching the second grade at Beaufort, N. C., this winter ; and Eleanor, who was pinned to Teddy Adams in August, is teaching in Portsmouth. Grace Collins spent five weeks in Pensacola , Florida this summer, and she highly recommends it to any single girl I This winter she is working for the State Planters Bank in Richmond. Bettie Snead had a fabulous time touring Europe this summer, and is now teaching third grade at Chester, Virginia. Nina Landolina married Ray Byrd of Martinsville on July 26th. They went to the Smokies on their honeymoon, and are now living in Camp Lejeune , N. C., where Ray is stationed. Lou Glading was married on September 20th to Bud Shelton of Martinsville, and they are living near Quantico where Bud is stationed. Janie Tune received a diamond from Jimmy Sease the latter part of August. As this is being written I know of no definite wedding plans. Janie is living at home in Halifax this winter and will teach in the high school at Scottsburg, Va. Jane Ozlin also received a diamond, hers from Fred Given of Chase City. She is living at home in South Hill, and teaching the third grade in Lawrenceville . Jane and Fred haven·t made definite wedding plans either. Betty Crews is marrying Earl Watkins of South Hill on October 18th, and they will live in Franklin, Va., where he is a pharmacist. Joy Selby was married to Calvin Scollin on September 13, and they are living in Hawaii where Calvin is attending the Un iversi ty of Hawaii. Sophie Zea is teaching the fourth grade in Suffolk, Va ., and Bobbie Beckner is teaching genera l science in Hampton . Barbara Ferre is attending Eastern Seminary in Philadelphia. Lucile Hedley attended business school in Richmond this summer, but I don't know what she's doing now. Lucy Dearing acted as a Girl Scout counselor in Pleasantville, N. Y. , during the summer. She hoped to work in a hospital this fall until she enters
Pennsylvania Stale in February. Helen Want is teaching at home this fall and will be married sometime this winter. Frances McEver spent a week visiting Barbara Ferre in Miami this summer. This winter she is teaching in Blacksburg. Dorothea Mallau traveled over the State during the summer helping in Baptist camps. She is now attending the Louisville Training School in Kentucky. Jill Lobach and Betty Hurt are teaching music in Norfo lk where they have an apartment together. Betty was maid of honor in Joy Selby's wedding. Lou Tull traveled in Europe this summer with a group of eighteen girls, including Ginny Hunt. She will return to the States the middle of October and will work in a medical lab at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Janet Storm has also been abroad and missed seeing Lou in Switzerland by a hair. We don't know her plans for the winter. "Doc" May was living in Richmond this summer, and is now attending graduate school at Smith College. Ann Tharpe McCann and her husband are settled in an apartment near Hyattsville, Maryland. Tharpie is teaching the second grade there . Jo Soles and Jane Ratcliffe have an apartment in Richmond. Jo is working for the City Health Department Laboratory. Jane was a receptionist for an insurance company this summer, but is now teaching English literature and social sciences at Manchester High School in Chesterfield County. Fannie Craddock did some work this summer in connection with "I ke" for president campaign. She is studying in New York this winter on the Miller and Rhoads scholarship. Bev Gilbert worked during the summer and was married on September 13th to Bud ( we don't know his last name). No la and Dizzy were bridesmaids. Ann Holmes is secretary to a Colonel in Newport News. Fred Lee Watson is an organic chemist at the National Heart Institute. She is now sporting a new car in which she and Murf drove to Joy Selby's wedding. Nola Texley and Dizzy Stuart-Alexander are sharing a large four-room apartment in New York with a Norwegian girl whom they met through the want-ad section of the New York Times-still as zany as ever you see. Nola is working in a personnel office in an airline company and Diz is working with figures at the American Metal Company. Joyce Bell and Claire Carlton are living together and working in Hartford, Conn. Joyce worked in Portsmouth during the summer in a politician's office. Claire took a speedwriting course in Richmond during the summer to prepare herself for the business world. Marilyn M<:Murray started to work on June 23 as one of the two probation receptionists at the Juvenile Court in Washington. The other receptionist is Liz Latimer, · 51. She says they have a great time flashing their WC rings and singing ' "Persian Kitty." Dru Marshall became Mrs. Marshall Waring in July. Lu Angell sang at the wedding . Dru and her husband are now living in Ashland where he is in school. Dru is teaching the sixth grade at Robert E. Lee School in Richmond. Nancy Judges spent the summer in Canada and is now in graduate school there. June Bostick has been working for a business firm in Richmond doing some journalistic work, but is considering changing, perhaps for graduate school. Anne Brehme is working in a research lab at M.C.V. with JoLo Jones Ferguson, ex-'52. Nancy Gouger had a good time loafing during the summer and was considering going to M.C.V . for some graduate study this fall. Jane Camlin is working in Atlanta for the Department of Public Health. She likes both her job and Atlanta. Bettie Jarrett is working at McGuire Hospital in a research lab, but more interesting than that is the fact that she has become engaged to Phi
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Garn John Nye , a senior at Richmond. After a nice trip during the summer, Lu Angell is teaching fourth grade at Patrick Henry School in Richmond. Bertha Cosby received a beautiful diamond from Lt. Hobson King , formerly a Richmond College student. She hopes to be married this winter. Since June , Bertha has been working as a chemist for Du Pont in the analytical lab of the Rayon Research Division. Betsy Phillips is continuing her work at Tucker Hospital in Richmond, making brain wave tests and also doing lab work. After having visited England , France , Italy, and Germany, Mary Jean Ivey has decided to stay in Germany this winter. Diane Evans worked in an office in Richmond this summer and then went to hockey camp in Pennsylvania with some other W.C. girls . She is. now attending business school. Isabel Sanford and Beverley Randolph are both teaching at Glen Allen School in Henrico County , Isabel the second grade and Beverley, the third. Isabel had a wonderful trip to South America during the summer. Beverley worked as a hostes s at Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company , with Charlotte Houchins , ' 51, and Mary Lee Moor e Vinson , '51. Jeannine Williams had a wonderful trip to Eu rope and is now studying nursing at the U niver sity of Rochester. Alice Subley has retired from the Virginia State Highway Department after writing its history this summer. She is now working on her master's at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kathleene Cooke started her lab technician work at Du Pont in August. Her parents have recently bought a home in Richmond and she is living with them and getting lots of practical experience in housekeeping. Marjorie Sparer Fiorino has moved to a new apartment in Poughkeepsie. She is "just a very ordinary housewife and enjoying it, " she says. Marianne Shumate was in Vermont a month this summer for her first experience as a camp counselor. She is now teaching the fifth grad e at Fishersville and living at her home in Waynesboro _ Eleanor Persons married Bob Haye s August 2, in ,vesthampton Baptist Church in Richmond. They have many U. of R. alumni neighbors in Louisville, Ky., where Bob is attending Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Deannie Dungan is working in Richmond for the State Highway Department and living with Betty Lear. Paralee Neergaard started to work on her M.A. , September 22, at the University of Massachusett s in Amherst. She is majoring in clinical psychology and hoping to get a job in Boston eventually. Jo Frieda Hull has had a red letter year with graduating , getting married and moving into a new home, all in the course of two months. She graduated on August 29th and was married to John D. (Jack) Mitchell at Northside Baptist Church on September 27th. Deannie Dungan , Barbara Warren, and Ginny LeSueur were bridesmaids. Jo is practice teaching this fall in preparation for a teaching job in February . Thelma Childers was married to Phil Snyder on June 10th. Lee Persons, Alice Gardner, and Velta Erdmanis were attendants. Thelma attended summer school and graduated in August. She and Phil are now living in Boston where he is doing gradu ate work at Harvard. Sarah Barlow is teaching the sixth grade at Albert H. Hill School in Richmond and living on Monument Avenue. She likes it, but she says she's "abso lutely pooped" when she gets home every afternoon. Jackie Gerson Lowenstein and her husband , Murray have been living in Manhattan, Kansas , and having a grand time. Murray will be discharged from the army October 17, and they will go to Danville to set up permanent residence. As for me, I worked in the same office with Diane this summer but have now given up the business world for school teaching. I'm teaching . junior primary at Westhampton School and sim ply love it.
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New York Club P.-esident: MRS. JULES F. DE DAN ( Frances Gottlieb), 137 Walker Court, West Orange, New Jersey Our next meeting is set for Schrafft"s Restaurant, 200 West 57th Street (between Broadway and Seventh Avenue), New York, on Saturday, October 18, 1952. A private room has been set aside for our meeting at 2:00 p.m., while tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Our guests of honor will be Miss J. Josephine Tucker, Dean of Students, and Miss Caroline S. Lutz, Professor of English. Miss Tucker will exp lain to us her duties as Dean of Students ( we had no such official in our day!), and Miss Lutz will tell us about her experiences in the field of puppets. Our journey to Westchester County was such a success that we hope to arrange meetings in New Jersey, Long Is land, and Westchester County. In this way, we hope to interest many who cannot make the trip into New York . Watch THE ALUMNI BULLETIN for announcements concerning these meetings.
Richmond Club P.-esident.: MRS. BOATWRIGHTLYNCH (Evelyn Boatwnght), 2 3 Clarke Road, Richmond, Va . The year began successfu lly for the Richmond Club with the annual tea in honor of all new students entering Westhampton from the Richmond area. Always schedu led a few days before college opens, the affair was directed by the vice-president, Ann Seay Jackson, and held at the home of Evelyn Boatwright Lynch . Its purpose is to introduce these local girls to each other or give them a chance to renew first-grade friendships and, in such a way, to help awaken the important feeling of class solidarity which usua lly develops later. This year, the tea was on September 12, the sun shone, about fifty girls came, and with the Westhampton deans and freshman class advisors from the faculty on hand to welcome them, they seemed to have a rousing good time and, more important, to appreciate the opportunity. The first meeting of the Club's members took place on Saturday, October 11, with a wonderfully well-attended luncheon at the Tuckahoe Tearoom. Dr. Ralph C. McDanel was the big drawmg card-he, that is, together with his subject, an analysis ( in his own inimitable style) of the present political situation' Officers of the Club, members of the board and committee chairman for this year were introduced by the president, following the brief business meeting. The Club expects attendance at its next important event, the annual card party , also to push out the walls-partly due to the great interest and prodigious efforts of Mary Lou Massie Cumby and her vast committee working on membership, and partly to the beautifully developing p lans for the card party itself, engineered by Margaret Mitchell Meador, as chairman , and Nancy Chappell Pettigrew as co-chairman. The event has been changed to the fall as a more suitable time, and will be held in the Westhampton gymnasium on November 14th at 8 p.m. Come and play bridge or canasta, win a door prize if you can or at least a table prize, be prepared to hold your sides when the pause for entertainment comes, and chat with all the friends you·ve missed seeing who will be there! These and the later activities on the Club's calendar have been planned under the able direcion of Lillian Belk Youell, program chairman, and all the events are being well publicized by 'Sally Van Dyck Wood, publicity chairman. Vir_ginia Perkins Yeaman and her Student Relations Committee wil l be on call this year whenever the Richmond Club may assist with student activities.
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Carter Ashton Jenkens, Sr., 70, a former Baptist minister in Richmond, died July 23 in Louisville, Ky. Born in Oxford, N. C., Mr. Jenkens was educated at Rutgers University, the University of Richmond, and Crozer Theological Seminary. A founder of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he lectured often at the organization's conclaves. Mr. Jenkens was minister at Calvary Baptist Church in Richmond from 1913 to 1926 when he accepted a pastorate in Louisvi lle.
Tidewater Club P.-esident: Mrss CHARLOTTEBEALE, 415 Riverside Drive, Wate1-view, Portsmouth, Va. The Tidewater Chapter of the Westhampton Alumnae Association entertained at a tea on Thursday afternoon, September 4th, for the students of this section attending West hampton for the 1952-53 session . It was he ld at the home of Helen Caulfie ld Ballard and there were about forty alumnae and students calling between the hours of four and five-thirty. It was a most pleasant occasion and we are all looking forward to another one next year. At present we are planning our fall meeting during the month of October. If there are any Alumnae who have recently moved to Norfolk or Portsmouth please call me at 2-2186 and let me have your ;ame and address so that you can be notified about our meetings-you certainly wouldn't want to miss them, nor would we want to miss seeing you. MILDREDPOPE ANDERSON(Mrs. E. w .)' Sec.-etary.
Washington Club President: MRS. J. P. MOORE ( Charlotte Ann Dick inson), 2858 Florence Drive, Alexandria, Virgin ia Our chapter is sending to each alumna in the area a Directory containing the names and addresses of all our members. We are looking forward to an active and interesting year, beginning with a luncheon at the High lands Restaurant, with Miss Tucker and Mrs. Booker as our special guests. As a member of the Associated Alumnae Clubs of Washington, with the president and Mary Brock Clevinger, Sclwlarship Chairman, as representatives, we are going to participate in their annual College Night on October 27. This program is for the purpose of acquainting interested high school students with the leading women's colleges, by means of exhibits and interviews . Our college will be represented by Dean Roberts and some of our local alumnae, headed by the Scholarship Chairman. A lice Garnett Thomas and Frances Burnette are serving as Westhampton's representatives on other committees of the Associated Alumnae Clubs.
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1900The Rev. Alan Pressley Wilson, m1111ster of the Community Church, Santa Rosa, Fla., died June 15. Mr . W ilson and bis wife were independent missionaries serving a community church with members of ten different denominations. Mrs. Wilson will continue in her work at Santa Rosa. Willis C. Pu lliam, 74, ret ired judge of Hustings Court, Part II , Richmond, died Aug ust 5 at a hospital in Stau nton after a lengthy illness. Mr. Pu lliam received both his college and his Jaw
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1909Dr. Kenley J. Clark, 63, superintendent of the Mobi le County, Ala., public school system, died July 18, at a Mob ile hospital. Dr. Clark, who received his master's degree from Harvard University, was with the Mobile County public schoo ls for 26 years and bad been superintendent for the past eight years. During his administration, a $7,000,000 building program was launched and largely completed. The entire school administration of the county was modernized and reorganized. Dr. Clark had served as president of the National Association of Secondary School Principa ls and vicepresident of the Virginia Teachers' Association as we ll as holding office in several Alabama education associations.
1912The Rev. Alfred Baxter Montgomery, 68, Presbyterian pastor in the Richmond area for many years, died Ju ly 1 at his Richmond home. A grad uate of Richmond College and of U nion Theo logical Seminary, Mr . Montgomery had been pastor of the St. James· Presbyterian Church in King Wi lliam County for the past four years.
1915Ciement Wi lson Hudson, Sr., 57, clerk for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rai lway for 20 years, died August 24 in Huntington, W. Va. A graduate of the University of Richmond, Mr. Hudson had lived in Richmond unti l he moved to Huntington in 1927.
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1905A. Brantley Bristow, 68, who was principal of Maury High School, in Norfo lk, from 1920 until his retirement in 1950, died July 4 while visiting in Urbanna. Since his retirement, Mr. Bristow, who received an M .A. degree from the University of Virgin ia and a M.E. degree from Harvard University, has been assistant to the superintendent of schoo ls in Norfo lk.
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The Rev. Wi lliam Emory Trainham, 55, a Baptist minister, died September 1 in a Richmond hospita l. A graduate of the University of Richmond, Mr. Trainham attended the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary and received his B. D. degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1924. He was awarded the master's degree at Union Theo logical Seminary in 1920. He had served in the Baptist ministry for more than 30 years.
1922Marion H. King, 52, died July 12 at his home in Emporia. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, two sons, one sister, and one brother.
1927James Lawrence Bartol, 48, died August 21 at his home in Chattanooga, Te nn. Surviving are his w ife, his mother, a sister and a brother.
1928Dorsey R. Fick, former ly of Richmond, died August 17 at his home in Pomona, Calif. A graduate of Augusta Mi lit ary Academy and a student at Richmond College for one year, he made his home in Richmond for a number of years before moving to Ca lifornia.
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