University of Richmond Magazine Fall 1953

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VEPCO, A PUBLIC UTILITY Vepco stock is widely held by the Public -in fact, it is held in every State in the Union. Men hold slightly more Common stock than women, but the women hold almost twice as much Preferred stock of Vepco as do men. A breakdown of Vepco stock holdings shows the following distribution:

Men Women Joint Accounts Trust Accounts Nominees Institutions and Others Total Shares

Common Stock

Preferred Stock

1,038,822 922,011 .r57,295 464,892 1,421,538

41,767 74,617 3,797 41,871 125,504

1,436,476 5,441,034

201,915 489,471

There are about 22,000 holders of Vepco 's Common stock and 7,800 holders of its Preferred stock. Nearly 10,000 of these reside within the area served by the company, which includes

most of the State of Virginia and parts of West Virginia and of North Carolina .

These stockholders, through voluntary investment, have helped make possible the large annual construction programs of Vepco, particularly during the past seven years, during which time the company has more than doubled its generating capacity, which now totals over 1,000,000 kilowatts. And, approximately $40,000,000 more is being spent this year by Vepco for more power station capacity at its Portsmouth and Possum Point stations and on its new hydro development on the Roanoke River, where the Free Enterprise system recently won such a notable decision from the United States Supreme ¡court.

These new projects offer further opportunities to the Public to invest in them, if they see fit. Those who do not see flt will not be taxed to make the projects possible.

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copy of our Annual Report will be gladly mailed upon request .

UIRlilDIAELEETRIE ADDPOWEREOfflPADY

HOMECOMING 1953 Alumni who return to the campus for Homecoming (Page 3) after an absence of several years will be gratified with the evidences of growth. They'll see the new Student Center, the new Law Building under construction and they'll stand on the site of the old Pla yhouse and envision the magnificence of the Boatwright Memorial Library that will be erected on this commanding eminence overlooking the lake.

Later the y will participate in the brief ceremony dedicating the new Robins Field which will enable the University greatly to expand its intramural program. The field is both a memorial to a University alumnus , the late E. Claiborne Robins, Sr., '94, and a testimonial to the generosit y of his widow, Mrs. Claiborne Robins, Sr. and his son, E. Claiborne Robins, '31, a member of the University's board of trustees, a member of the Athletic Council , and one of the University's most generous benefactors.

Homecoming 1953 has all of th e ingredients that should please th e old grads and the not-so-old grads. For the latter group the Homecoming Dance Friday night, sponsored by the very active young Alumni chapter in Richmond, should be an attraction.

Football hungry alumni should see the best U of R team m a number of years do battle with a William and Mary team that probably will be favored but not overwhelmingly so. And, of course, man y alumni will feel that the gods of football warfare should smile on the Spiders who won their last Homecoming meeting with the Indians in everything but the final score.

Of course, the chief reason for coming back is to meet and greet the guys and girls who were your fellow students a few years back or a great many years back. To meet too the faculty members who will be on hand to welcome you. Men like R. E. Gaines, R. E. Loving, Garnett Ryland. Women like May L. Keller, Susan M. Lough, Isabelle Harris, Fanny Crenshaw. And the many younger faculty members who helped shape the careers of so many alumni and alumnae of this Universit y.

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TH E ALUMNI BULLETIN Published quarter ly at the U niversity of Richmond by th e General Society of Alumni, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, University of Richmo nd, Virginia, May 14, 1948. Subscriptio n price: $1.00 per year.

VOL. XVIII OCTOB ER, 1953 No. 1 Editor . ....

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E. NETTLES, JOSEPH S. BOOKER, '22 .. Westhampton Editor LESLIE L aw School Editor IVEY, '48 ......

VIRGINIA '48 .. Business School Editor WM. H. WARREN, Business Manager ROBERT M. STONE, '30 ....

SOCIETY OF ALUMNI THE GENERAL . ... President D. Nelson Sutton, '15 ........

1st Vice-President Wilbur K. Gaines, 'Z9 ....

Sidney T. Mathews, '36 ... 2nd Vice-President J. Stuart Graham, Jr., '38 .. 3rd Vice-President Secretary R. l\Ii lton Hobson, '33 ............

Executive Secretary Joseph E. Nettles, '30 ....

EXECU'l'IVE

COM)UTTEE

Henry l\I. Taylor, '12 J. Earle Dunford, '15 and the above officers OFFICERS THE ALUMNI COUNCIL President Frank G. Lout h an, '10 .. . ........

1st Vice-President R. E. Booker, '24 . .......

2nd Vice-President S . Frank Straus, '35 .....

Secretary Joseph E. Nettles, '30 .. . .. . ......

Treasurer . ..........

R. M. Stone, '30 .....

EXECUTIVE

COM:\IITTEE

W. T. Bareford, '46 G . Fred Cook, '25 James A. Payne, Jr., '51 E. Claiborne Robins, '31 and the above officers COLLEGE ALUMNAE WESTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION . ... President Frances Farmer, '31 . . . . . .

Billie Jane Crosby Baker, '44 .. Vice-President Leslie Sessoms Booker, '22, Executive Secretary and news items to 1\1:rs.

Mail all contributions R. E. Booker, Executive Secretary, West· hampton College Alumnae Association, P.O., University of Richmond, Virginia .

Ellen Doug las Oliver, '23 Members-at• Virgini~ Perkins Yeaman, '29 L rg Jane Little Gray, '32 a e Camilla Jeffries, '33 Lyle, '40 Katherine } Florence B. Decker, '17 Board of Trustees Emily Gardner, '18 Elizabeth Tompkins, '19 Harriet S. Willingham, '26

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LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION . . President Oliver A. Pollard, '16 . .........

Vice-President M. M. Long, '10 ............

Executive Secretary Virginia Ivey, '48 .......

Treasurer Thomas P. Bryan, '47 ... . .......

COUNCIL

James Wm. F letcher, '40} Three-year Term .

Catesby Jones, '15 A. Scott Anderson, '37 Burnett Miller, Jr., '31 } Two•year Term Frank G. Louthan, '10 Joseph J. Williams, '27 } Wade S. Coates, '47 One-year Term C. Lydon Harre ll, Jr., '41 David J. Mays, '24 ADMINISTRATION OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1 President 50 ........

John Archer Reynolds, W illiam C. Farmer, '50 . . .. . . Vice-President Louis A. Crescioli, '50 ... Secretary-Treasur rr SCHOOL

WHAT'SWRONGWITH FRANCE? An Alumnus Scholar Finds that the Doors Are T?o Few and Too Small

By LEWIS M. LATA N E, '17 personal experiences during a sabbatiM cal year spent at the University of Grenoble would lead me when friends ask y

"What's the matter with France?" to reply like Candide: "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." The physical characteristics, fertile, well-cared-for fields, majestic mountains, and rivers with personality are all there. The heritage of architecture, the cathedrals, the chateaux, and the walled towns are preserved with loving care and have never been displayed to an appreciative public with better taste and feeling for setting than they are today.

Nor do the sources of civilization, whether artistic or technical, show signs of drying up.

President Auriol last fall justly cited the recently completec( Donzere-Mondragon canal and hydro-electric works as proof of France's continuing vigor. New forms like the Le Corbusier group at Marseille indicate that the French can still contribute to the development of urbanism. I was particularly impressed by rebuilt Saint-Malo. The massive granite buildings of this town of some ten thousand inhabitants, which were almost totally destroyed during the war, have been replaced by stone, the reconstruction planned to endure in terms of centuries rather than years. Artistic and intellectual life shows no sign of waning. I should not wish to vouch for the permanency of the work of Roualt, Dufy, Picasso, Matisse or of writers like Camus, Sartre, Mauriac and others, but the atmosphere in which such men work cannot be devoid of intellectual stimulus. University lectures in no matter what field are models of clarity and logic. The method of Descartes is still typical of the French mind. This intellectual gift for analysis and the ability to

grasp abstract ideas I found exemplified in speakers at meetings of all sorts, political, economic, and religious.

Of lesser importance, perhaps, but of more immediate significance to me, I found that the delightful "savoir vivre" of the average Frenchman is undiminished. The hospitality of friends and acquaintances, of course, but even more pleasant, the politeness and friendliness of casual contacts, do much to smooth out the difficulties of ordinary living. The shopkeeper's "Au revoir, m' sieu et m' dame" accompanied by a friendly smile does a lot to compensate for the difficulties the shopping may have presented. Occasionally my wife and I found trains and buses crowded but we could cite hundreds of incidents of kindness and friendliness. And not least, the cafe au lait and croissants and patisserie are as delicious as ever.

Clashing with my personal enthusiasm I find a pessimism concerning France almost universal in both England and the United States. Popularly, at the moment, France is designated the sick man of Europe. The reasons for this chorus of criticisms are evident.

The ever changing governments cannot give France any dependable foreign policy. The average Frenchman is undoubtedly too complacent concerning the weaknesses of the constitution of the Fourth Republic. The difficulties in North Africa and Indo-China are even more disturbing. Strikes, becoming ever more frequent, are symptoms of serious economic troubles. The standard of living is obviously lower than ours. Housing is deplorable, both from the point of view of overcrowding and of sanitation. All too often, as in Nice, in Lyon, or for that matter in Paris itself, the old part of a city, which has

ABO UT THE AUT HO R Prof. Lalone, a native of King and Queen County, Virginia, whose boyhood was spent in Richmond, is a graduate of the class of 1917. He a lso has degrees from Pennsylvania State College and the University of Maryland. He practiced law in Virginia before going to Maryland where he is professor of modern languages in the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

In 1947 Dr. Lalone was one of six delegates to a seminar on international understanding, sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization.

While on sabbatical leave during the winter of 195253, he served as American consultant to a commission of the Federation de !'Education Nationale for a compartive study of American and French secondary school texts.

the charm of that which is picturesque and quaint, is also dirty, smelly and surely no place for families to live. The level of wages is quite inadequate. I have heard each and all of these, along with other features of current French life, blamed as the cause of all of today's evils. Each returning tourist has a prescription for the sick man of Europe.

Nor are foreigners the only critics. Last winter French newspapers expressed great resentment over an article about France published in a leading American weekly. In conversation, however, I found that most Frenchmen were in agreement with the facts, but thought it bad taste for an important magazine in a friendly country to state them in such crude terms. In January of this year the important Paris daily Figaro posed this question to its readers, "Why is French youth so little interested in public affairs?'' The response from hundreds of young men and women, which continued over several months, contradicted the implication of the question.

The trouble is that clear recognition and searching analysis of a problem is not followed by any sort of action. According to Mauriac's phrase, France is dominated by the tyranny of the immediate. Policies like governments are merely stop-gap affairs. Action when it comes is usually forced by events rather than attempting to dominate them.

One finds analysis of these weaknesses constantly in the press. Any casual acquaintance is ready to give you a clear and plausible diagnosis. During any after dinner conversation one is sure to hear that France's difficulties are due to low wages; to the excessive number of small manufacturing concerns and retail stores that are uneconomic but nevertheless maintain high prices through powerful trade associations; to the effort of the CNPF (Conseil National du Patronat Fran<;ais) to maintain. profits by price control rather than by adoption of methods of mass production; to the drain on metropolitan France by the French Union; or to any one of several other very reasonable causes. Usually such conversations are at a rather higher intellectual level and present closer economic reasoning than similar conversations among businessmen in the United States, but I fear there is very little carry over of economic theory into actual conduct of industry. AF AP ( Association Fran<;aise pour l' Accroissement de la Productivite) has sent very generally over the country exhibits designed to show ingenious devices for increasing productivity both on farms and in industries. How effective these exhibits are, I do not know, but they attract crowds and undoubted ly create a (Continued on page 12)

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Plan Now To Attend

HOMECOMING1953 ICHMOND' S SPIDERSwill be fighting for R the leadership in the State football race and they' 11also

be looking for revenge when they take on William and Mary's Indians in the featured Homecoming attraction in City Stadium on the afternoon of November 14.

Those same, pesky Indians spoiled the 1951 Homecoming with a touchdown in the last seconds of play-a disputed touchdown that had the newspapers full of angry headlines. Did Dickie Lewis step past the line of scrimmage before he threw that touchdown pass to Ed Mioduszewski?

The officials said the play was legal and that William and Mary had won the game.

But there were many non-partisans who sided with the Richmond complaint that "we wuz robbed."

It will be Homecoming again with the stands full of Richmond and William and Mary partisans and there will be the usual Homecoming parade with the floats lovelier than ever. Even now the fraternity members and members of other campus organizations are engaged in planning the floats that will compete for the two trophies offered by Mill er and Rhoads, for the best entry, and Harvey Hudson , for the best fraternity float.

Alumni and alumnae will reach the campus Friday night for the first events on the Homecoming program-a dinner at 6 : 30 o'clock for the ladies in the Westhampton Dining Room and a pep rally at 7: 30 o'clock on the other side of the University lake. The rally will be broadcast by WLEE with Harvey Hudson as master of ceremonies.

After the rally the old grads will gather

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R. Clifton Long, '47

at the John Marshall Hotel at 9:30 for the Homecoming Dance which will be sponsored by the. Richmond City U of R Club.

Highlights on the program the following day will include a freshman football game between our JayVees and those of George Washington at 10 o'clock and an 11 :45 o'clock luncheon in Millhiser Gymnasium which will be attended jointly by the alumni the alumnae, with the University as host.

At the intermission of the freshman football game, the University will formally dedicate the new Robins Field which was given to

the school by Mrs. Claiborne Robins, Sr., and her son, E. Claiborne Robins, '31. The field is a memorial to the husband and father of the donors, Claiborne Robins, Sr., a member of the class of 189 4. The field has been built on the once heavily wooded area just south of the gymnasium. It is 400 feet by 400 feet and is large enough for at least two regulation football fields and several tennis courts.

Alumni and alumnae will hurry from the lunch to the City Stadium where at approximately 1: 30 o'clock the giant homecoming parade , bigger and better than ever, will pass in review. In addition to the University of Richmond units, there will be a number of bands and mard1ing units, including the Mary Washington All-Girl Band from Fredericksburg and the snappy Warren County band from Front Royal.

Mrs. Thomas J . Starke III (Ruth Phillips, '43), heads hom ecoming activities at Westhampton , while the University men are making their preparations under the leadership of a committee headed by R. Clifton Long, '47. Sub-committee chairmen include W . Roland Galvin, '26, registration; William Farmer, '50, the JayVee football game; Harold I. Farley, '48, the luncheon; R. E. Booker, '24, the dedication of Robins Memorial Field; Harvey Hudson , '42, the parade, and Dean of Students Clarence J. Gray, '33, who will serve as parade marshal.

The parade will move on wheels from the campus to Grove Avenue, east on Grove to Malvern Avenue, north on Malvern to Monument and east on Monument to the Boulevard. At this point it will pick up the marching units, including a number of bands , and

HOMECOM ING CALENDAR Friday, Novembe r 13 6:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Formal dinner, Westhampton Dining Room.

Pep Rally, Millhiser Field (Broadcast by WLEE).

8:00 p.m.

After dinner coffee, Reception Room, Keller Hall. " Traveler 's Return," by Miss May L. Keller and Miss Pauline Turnbull, illustrated by pictures taken

by Miss Turnbull.

Homecoming Dance, John Marshall Hotel. Sponsored by Richmond City U of R 'Club.

9:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 14 9:30 a.m.

9:45 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

10:00 11:45 1:30 2:00

Alumni Registration and Inspection of Robins Field.

Alumnae Registration, Keller Hall.

Freshman Football, U of R vs. George Washington, and dedication of Robins Field. a.m. Coffee and Doughnuts, Reception Room, Keller Hall. (Sponsored by Mortar Board.) a.m. Joint Alumni -ae Lunch, Millhiser Gymnasium . p.m. Parade and Homecoming Spectacle, City Stadium. p.m. FOOTBALL, U of R vs. WILLIAM AND MARY, City Stadium.

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Cycling Octogenarian

Whitfield Travels

1600MILESBY!BIKE

By PAUL SAUNIE R, JR.,'40*

HIS has been an excellent summer for bicycle riding, according to SO-year-old T George Whitfield, '92, who has just completed a 1600-mile pedaling trip from Washington, D. C. to Lawrence, Kansas (via Ithaca, N. Y.).

The spring was too rainy, he complained mildly, looking thoughtfully out the window of his Washington apartment as he described his round-the-sprocket trip. In fact, it even rained the first night, and he had to hibernat e in Baltimore for two days, but after that it was easy. Just the expense, explained the slender, spry, "retired" engineer. You eat so many meals, and you spend so many nights on the way. It was four times cheaper coming back by train , he figured out, but not much fun.

Weighing in at 135 pounds on Memorial Day, the one-time Director of Public Utilities of the City of Richmond set forth on a "destination unknown" trip, equipped with a snapshot camera, raincoat, and spare shoes, socks, and underwear stowed in a gay plaid waterproof bag tied over the the rear wheel of his English-type bicycle. "I think the bag was meant for baby things," he said with a quick grin. Forty miles to Baltimore, rain, two impatient nights, and then the trip was on in earnest as the ache left his legs and the Whitfield Expedition pushed ever northward up the Susquehanna Trail. (It is now paved.)

"That's a wonderful stretch, up through Pennsylvania,' ' the 80-year-old cyclist recounted happily. "Level, level. Nice scenery, too, and I took a lot of pictures."

Mr. Whitfield had graduated from Cornell University's engineering school in 1896, and therefore decided to proceed on to Ithaca, N. Y., "to look the place over." His class was not "re uning," he said, but he wanted to go up anyway. He rolled into Ithaca June 9, and left two days later when he heard he was to be asked to make a speech. ''I've been buying some letter paper from a place in Peru, Indiana, for 30 years," he explained, "and I decided I'd go over there and see the factory."

On the westward journey, as in all his travels, Mr. Whitfield's principal problem was to find places to sleep. 'T d pedal until I was tired, maybe 40 or 50 miles a day, but *Mr. Saunier , a former Richmond newspaperman and advertising executive, is execut ive secretary to Representative J. Vaughan Gary, '12, in Washington. He took time out from his multitudinous tasks to interview U. of R.'s "cycling octogenar ian. "

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sometimes I'd have to go a lot farther before I'd find a motel or hotel. Once, I had to ride 82 miles to Kansas City,'' he said. He was infrequently stymied by hills steep enough to require him to dismount and push, and was not bothered at all by heat, cold, or laundry problems . "My shirt was nylon and I washed it out at night," he said. "It was wonderful."

The bicycle was subject to the same general rules which apply to traveling dogs, it would seem. In some places, the bicycle was relegated to a garage, while in others it slept in the room with him.

After checking up on things in Peru, Mr. Whitfield decided to visit a distant relative on the faculty of Kansas University, at Lawrence.

He crossed the Mississippi River on a bridge at Hannibal , Mo., where he had his picture taken and remained over July 4. "There are so many crazy fools on the highways on days like the Fourth of July that it isn't safe to ride," he said.

Arriving at Lawrence July 9, he had a happy visit with Dr. G. Baley Price and family. On July 11, he departed for Washington by train. His bicycle, checked on his ticket, rode in the baggage car ahead.

Mr . Whitfield, whose 80-year-old mind is as clear and sharp as his legs are agile, held his Richmond City government post from 1924 to 1938. Dr. J. Fulmer Bright , Rich[ 4

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mond's mayor at the time, says Mr. Whitfield served the city "w ith the high est degree of efficiency,'' but that he remembers him primarily "as a student and bookman, rather than sportsman." Mr. Whitfield explains that Dr. Bright didn't know him in his cycling days. " I began riding a bicycle during the Cleveland Administration (1884) ," he recounted, "but quit about 1913. I took it up again after I left Richmond in 1938."

Employed by the Federal Government for about 10 years subsequent to leaving Richmond, Mr. Whitfield began doing part-time consultant work for a Washington engineering firm three years ago, which developed into a full-time job . A widower, Mr. Whitfield also has been doing some spare-time research and genealogy and 19th Century furniture, for his two married daughters.

"I kept telling my boss all spring that I was going to take a long vacation and a bicycle trip," he said, "but he didn't pay much attention to what I was saying. Finally I got ready and went, ¡and I think he may be a little sore about it."

"I guess he didn't believe me," he added with a quick grin.

Mr. Whitfield hasn 't been back to see about the job yet. He's playing golf three days a week, riding his bicycle around Washington quite a bit, and going over to the Library of Congress.

He says he knows no secrets, and has no advice for people who want to keep their health and grow old gracefully.

GOOD SAMARITAN, 1953 A Richmond printer, W. Forbes Hotchkiss, found many friends in a time of need.

His printing firm, Mitchell & Hotchkiss, was gutted by a $60,000 fire in July at a time when a deadline was near for rush orders of railway printing .

R. McLean Whittet, '12, came to his aid.

His company nearby, Whittet & Shepperson , was closed to give employees a vacation. He offered the plant and presses to Mitchell & Hotchkiss.

"Our men carried type forms across the street and printed on their presses," Hotchkiss said. His firm got out the rush orders on time.

And, Hotchkiss added, every printer m Richmond offered help after the fire.

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'53 Grads Find Jobs Plentiful, Salaries High, ProspectsFor Advancement Bright

By CLARENCE

J. GRAY, '33

D ean of Stud ent s, Richmond College and the School of Business Adm inistration

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HE 1953 placement story is a repetition of last year's all-time high but accentuated at every point: demand greater than ever, salaries at a new peak, supply of available graduates totally inadequate. As more and more companies have competed for the smaller number of available male graduates, several things have happened. Starting salaries have reached a new high, generally estimated to be up some ten percent over last year's record-breaking figures. Large national companies that have training programs are taking the best men they can get even though these men are slated for military service. Company representatives are giving increasing attention to alumni who are returning froin the Korean Conflict. And finally, job opportunities for women have increased in proportion. It is still true that smaller companies and many local concerns with immediate vacancies to fill have concentrated on graduates who are not subject to military call.

Starting salaries have ranged from $275 to $425 per month, with the average salary in excess of $300. Not all University of Richmond graduates have been swayed by tempting salaries. A number of men have started at lower figures in jobs they hope will be their careers. Others have made some sacrifice in salary in order ot remain in Virginia. Starting salaries for teachers are up now to about $2600 a year, on the average, but still cannot compete with salaries in business and industry. The shortage of teachers, especially in the elementary schools, continues to be acute.

Shortages are also critical in the scientific fields, particularly in chemistry. We have not been able to meet the demands in these fields for several years. In addition to chemistry and teaching, the fields where the demands are greatest are: management trainees, accounting, sales, retailing, banking and finance, and insurance.

In round figures, about 58% of the Richmond College class ( an increase from our usual 50% average) and 10% of the Business School graduates are enrolled in grad uate or professional schools. About 3% of the 1953 Richmond College graduates have teaching positions. Some 20% of the Richmond College class and 65 % of the Business School have taken jobs in business or industry. Some of these job holders will be in uniform shortly but will be on military leave and will accumulate seniority while in the_service.

The figures for grad uates already in the serv-

ice are approximate ly 19% for the Richmond College class and 25 % for the Business School class. Both figures are moving upward daily, especially in the School of Business.

Since reports have not been received from all of the 1953 graduates, we have had to omit some names from the following sections.

As we think about those who have just recently left us, it might be¡ in order to pause for a moment to remark that the total enrollment in the University so far this Fall is about the same as it was last year. Increases have been noted in Richmond College, W esthampton College, and in the Graduate School.

The total enrollment in all six divisions of the Un iversity, according to latest figures available, is 3,126.

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL

SCHOOLS

Again this year theological studies claim the attention of the largest number of graduates who are pursuing advanced studies. The group at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary includes Phi Beta Kappan Thomas A. Jackson, Coan G. Agee, Johnnie Bradley, Philip L. Cumbia, C. L. Dodson, H. L. Dupree, Jr., Russell T. Hunt, Bruce Rockwell, R. L. Stevens and Carroll Welch. At the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, the list includes two ODK's, Robert S. Alley and Cecil Marsh, as well as G. C. Martin, L. P. Richardson, Jr. and Rufus R. Spence. Another ODK, Tom Pollard is at the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Paul Logan is in Fort Worth, at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Robert E. Creasy is in Gambier, Ohio, studying theology at Bexley Hall of Kenyon College. Here in Richmond J. R. King has started his second year at Union Theolog ical Seminary after receiving his B.A. degree at the Summer School Commencement. Also enrolled at Union for first-year studies is Robert G. Parrish III. A somewhat smaller group than usual has started medica l studies. Future M.D.'s include Ph i Beta Kappan Charles R. Pitts, Jr., Charles M. Baird, Jr., J.M. Bishop, Jr., Richard L. Robertson and Sidney H. Zuber-all at the Med ical College of Virginia. Roy Cohn is at the College of Medicine of the State Univers ity of New York. Starting out in the School of D entistry of the Medical College of Virgin ia are Bob Beasley and Melvin R. Morrison. Richard L. Fisher continues there after earning a Phi Beta Kappa key and a B.A. degree in Summer School. [ 5]

Dick also won the Garnett Ryland Award in Chemistry. Two of our graduates are taking advanced work in hospital administration: Jesse W. Reel at MCV, and John F . Imrie, Jr., at Columbia's School of Public Health in New York.

Lawyers-to-be who are enrolled at the T. C. Williams School of Law include ODK F. Ward Harkrader, Jr., Jim Gahagan, Fred J. Dean III, John W. Edmonds III, Seymour Horwitz, Mandel Saslaw and Stephen G. White, who received the J. Taylor Ellyson Medal in History .

Other 1953 graduates who are taking graduate work at the University of Richmond are: James M. Anderson, Jr., Charles J. Arrington, Jr., Thomas A. Couch, Gerald A. Ezekiel, Jr., Frank A. Lowman, Robert C. Markham, Philip L. Oglesby, Stuart W. Omohundro, Larry Pinneo , Emmett Poindexter, Ronald S. Price and Charles Tulloh, ODK. Ex-Prexy Tulloh, by the way, was a projec~ supervisor during the summer at the Beaumont Industrial School.

Bill Carter, winner of the Miller and Rhoads Scholarship in Retailing, is at New York University. Thomas J . Little, recipient of the James D. Crump Prize in Mathematics, holds a graduate assistantship at the Univer sity of Maryland in the Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics . L. T. Caruthers, Jr. is a Fellow in radiological physics under the Atomic Energy Commission at Vanderbilt University. John J. Greever III, an August newlywed, has a teaching fellowship at the University of Virginia. Ray T. Oglesby has a fellowship at William and Mary for work at the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory. Emory University has inherited two of our PBK-ODK's: Charles F. Wiltshire and Linwood C. Matthews, Jr., both of whom received fellowships.

Richard B. Eaton, PBK and winner of the Charles T. Norman Medal in English, is at the University of North Carolina. Also enrolled there is Edgar W. ("Bill") Jordan. Sidney E .

Brown is at V .P.I. Other graduates who were planning to go to graduate or professional schools include Benjamin W. Bruce, H. M. Richardson, Jr., J. T. Scott, Jr. and Louis P. Smith.

TEACHERS

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Dean Edward F. Overton, '31, professor of education and placement representative for teachers, has reported on graduates who are (Continued

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INNOCENTSABROAD

By DR. MAY L. KELLER*

HEN Miss Fanny G. Crenshaw and W Miss Pauline Turnbull were the happy recipients of the first Sabbatical leaves ever granted to members of the Westhampton College faculty, they realized that they must plan for an unusual trip, which would be educational and at the same time they hoped a little spectacular. And I, always ready for a new adventure, decided to join them if they would go to Egypt which I had never visited.

We sailed on the Exochorda in January, and on going to our cabin we were sure it must belong to a honeymoon couple, for it was filled with baskets of roses and fruit, boxes of orchids, and pounds and pounds of candy, not to mention the many telegrams and letters. A goodly number of friends, among them several Westhamptonites living in and around New York, had also arrived to give us a wonderful send-off.

After seventeen days of rough seas, the harbor of Alexandria was a welcome sight.

King Farouk's private yacht was still on exhibition in the harbor but this was the one place where no photographing was allowed. Jerry Paul's ['53] father and mother met the boat and piloted us through the customs. After a drive and luncheon at their house, they put us on the train for Cairo . This was certainly an auspicious beginning for the Egyptian trip, *As everybody knows, Dr. Keller served as dean of Westhampton College from 1914 until 1946.

Her companions on her trip to Europe and Egypt were Mis s Fanny G. Crenshaw, director of the department of physical educatio n, and Miss Pauline Turnbull, for many years registrar and now associate professor of Latin.

CAMEL TAXI. Author Keller sits atop her ca mel while in the background Miss Fanny G. Crenshaw prepares to mount hers. Beside Miss Crenshaw, his face hidden by the black scarf, is her camel man. The picture was taken by Miss Pauline Turnbull at Giza near Cairo, Egypt.

which was supposedly dangerous on account of unrest created by the expulsion of Farouk and the taking over of the government by Naguib. Egypt is a land of contrasts. Where water can be obtained it is green and fertile, a few feet away is desert sand, with not a green leaf visible. The same is true of the climate and people, one day brilliant sunshine, the next fog and clouds, people living

THE WAITERTOOK THIS ONE. Miss Turnbull (right) sits with her travel companions beside beautiful Lake Como in northern Italy.

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in pa laces with beautiful gardens, out in the rural districts peasants in poor garments with crude mud huts for shelter and the most primitive sanitation. We were fortunate to meet at luncheon some graduates of the Presbyterian College for Girls, who had married Egyptian officials close to Naguib, and in the course of the conversation, prolonged to late in the afternoon, we learned how much these women were doing to improve conditions among the Moslem women and children, and the great effort being made by Naguib and his advisers to improve sanitary conditions among the rural population and to decrease the appalling rate of illiteracy.

At Giza we rode camels and climbed the Great Pyramid.

Our Physical Director climbed onto her camel, but I was picked up bodily by the camel man and thrown up onto the beast, after which the camel raised himself first on his hind feet and then his front feet, the sensation being similar to the tossing of a boat on a rough sea. Leaving Cairo, we sailed on the Nile at Assuan where we saw the Great Dam, we photographed Pauline Turnbull at the entrance to King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, enjoyed the full moon on the Nile with palm trees in the foreground. Leaving Egypt by plane for Athens, we looked down on a ribbon of fertile fields irrigated by the Nile, and on a vast expanse of sand, the Libyan Desert, and realized the truth of the statement that the Nile is the life line of Egypt.

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Merrick Has A Winner As

SPIDERGRIDSTERS MAKEIMPRESSIVESTART

By ALF GOODYKOONTZ

OW about those Spiders? With the 1953 season at the halfway mark, Richmond followers could look to the best year since 1948 and foresee new triumphs in the upsurge of the school's football prowess.

On paper, the first half of the season showed four victories against one defeat.

That record provided Spider faithful with these observations: Here was a team that in its first five games came out on the front end of the score more times than the 1952 and '51 squads. The football drought was over.

Here was a team sports writers throughout the Southern Conference generally acclaim as the most improved in the realigned college circuit of 10 schools.

Here was a team that ranked second in the nation on pass defense.

Here was a team that won't quit. Best example: The 27-19 thumping of Washington and Lee's Generals after Richmond was down two touchdowns at the halftime intermission .

Besides the W&L triumph, Richmond victories came over Randolph-Macon, 28-0; Davidson , 16-0, and Virginia Military Institute, 13-7. Th e one loss was to Virginia Tech, 21-7, after Spider defenders repelled eight of Tech's ten major scoring threats.

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In brief , the first half action of the 1953 season went thusly: Richmond -Washington and Lee

Rolling up 168 yards on the ground, the Generals hustled into a 19-7 halftime lead : Then came the Spider triumph on a strong second half charge which saw Richmond control the ball offensively while the Merrickmen , on defense, kayoed the W&L offense.

The Generals had only 38 yards net rushing after intermission.

Down two TDs , th e Spiders started their comeback in the third period with a 68-yard march climaxed on the second play of the fourth quarter when Quarterback Tom Th eodose eased over from the one. Bobby Sgro's fine kicking toe added the conversion and Richmond was down only five points, 19-14.

Came the payoff: Ed Elliott set it up by hauling a W&L punt 20 yards to the Generals' 28. With Elliott , Lewis Wa cker and Frank Scarpa doing the ball carrying, Richmond moved quickly to the deciding touchdown . Wacker went the final 13 yards on a burst over right guard.

The icing: Fullback Ciro Barcellona 's fumble on the W&L 33 was recoved by Wacker.

A methodical ground game carried the Spid-

ers the remarnmg distance, with Elliott driving over from the two for the final score witb just one minute and 10 seconds remaining.

First half scoring went thusly: W&L moved 63 yards to score the first time it had possession of the ball. Carl (Thunder) Bolt scored from the thr ee, but Bob Lafferty missed the conversion try.

Richmond came back immediately with a 64-yard parade led by Wack er, Theodose and Ralph Scarpo. Scarpa plunged across from the thre e and Richmond went into a shortlived lead when Sgro converted.

W&L took just four plays to travel 51 yards en route to TD No. 2 midway in the second period. Bolt, who sparked the advance with a 33-yard run, scored from the one.

A weak kick from the one to the Richmond 20 set up the third General scoring thrust in the first half. Aft er Eddie Landis went six yards, Connie Flanders covered the remaining 14 on gathering in Joe Lindsey's pitchout.

Post game note: Walt Drewry , writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch , noted that "his players rushed up to Coach Ed Merrick at the close of the game an.cl hugged and kissed him, but this was a team victoryvictory for a fighting ball club that refused to concede defeat ."

Richmond-V.P.I.

A LL STARS. Each week the Richmond Times-Dispatch selects, on the basis of performance in Saturday 's games, a Back of the Week and a Lineman of the Week from among the Old Dominion 's football players. After four games three Spiders-two linemen a nd a back-had been chosen to this "hall of fame ." A Richmond back-Lewis Wacke r who played magnificently on offense and de fe nse-and Co -Captain Al Pecuch, the scrappy little center who did a g reat job of backing up the line- we re â&#x20AC;˘ honored a fter Richmond 's 13 to 7 triump h over V.M.I. The fol lowi ng week Erik Christensen, a 6-4, 230-pound end, won the nod on the basis of b rillian t p lay in the Spiders ' losing effort agains t V.P.I.

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Spider defenders, with Erik Christensen, Red Kevill e and Bob Sgro doing yeoman work, held off eight Gobbler scoring threats, but in the fourth period a fumble and a pass interception paved the way for two late Tech scores and the 21-7 victory.

Defensive gem of the day came shortly after the halftime intermission when Tech rolled to the Richmond one-foot lin e and a first down at that point. The Gobblers didn't score-a fourth down field goal attempt missed .

How ever, minutes later, Tech punched over its second and deciding six-point er after recovering a Richmond fumble on the Spider 16. Doug Creger went 10 yards in two carries and later bolted across the payoff stripe from two yards out.

The final tally came in the last two minutes when Te ch Fullback Don Booth intercepted a Tom Theodose pass and ran 40 yards for the touchdown.

Theodose , driving into the clear on his favorite keep play, went 57 yards for the Spiders' only TD late in the second quarter.

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Lawyers Elect U. of R. Alumni

VIRGINIABARASSOCIATIONPRESIDENTS T

AKE your statistics, consider the vast efforts of the men who made them, and you come up with this picture: Four of the last six presidents of The Virginia State Bar Association have been University of Richmond alumni. Five other alumni, including two in recent years, also have headed the State organization.

For extra measure, a faculty member from The T. C. Williams School of Law once was picked to lead the Virginia State Bar Association.

Latest to join the select group of presidents was T. Justin Moore, '08, who became president of the association numbering more than 1,900 lawyers at the bar group's sixty-third annual meeting in August at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The five living past presidents are Robert 0. Norris, '19; Christopher B. Garnett, '02; David Nelson Sutton, '15; W. R. Broaddus, Jr., '20 and Alex W. Parker, '27.

Three others, now deceased, were Wyndham R. Meredith, '80; George Bryan, '81; and James W. Gordon, '95. The faculty member was John Randolph Tucker.

Mr. Moore, a native of Liberty Hall, La., received his bachelor of arts degree from Richmond College before going to Harvard University to study law. Upon his graduation there in 1913, he was admitted to the Virginia bar and began his practice in Richmond.

Three years later he joined the law school faculty as an associate professor, with his teaching career extending over a 12-year period.

In 1931, Mr. Moore became a partner in the Richmond law firm of Hunton, Williams, Anderson, Gay and Moore. Specializing in public utility and labor law, he is general counsel for Virginia Electric and Power Company and Virginia Transit Company, serving on the board of directors of each corporation.

Long active in the American Bar Association, he also is a member of the Richmond Bar Association. Mr. Moore, a Phi Beta Kappa, is rector and a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the University of Rid1111011d.

Mr. Parker, president of the bar association in 1951-52, received most of his law training at the University of Virginia, but he also was a student at the University of Richmond.

A member of the Richmond firm of Christian, Barton, Parker and Boyd, he has been active in both the civic and professional life of his city and State. He is a past president of the Richmond Bar Association.

Elected in 1950, Mr. Broaddus served the association as president during the ensuing year. He took his pre-law work at Richmond College before receiving the LLB degree from T. C. Williams School of Law in 1921.

That year he was awarded the 0. H. Berry Medal as the best all-around law graduate.

Since he was admitted to the bar, Mr .

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Garnett

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Broaddus has engaged in general practice in Martinsville, Va., where he now heads the law firm of Broaddus, Epperly and Broaddus.

He represents his district in the Virginia House of Delegates and is a past president of the General Alumni Association and the Law School Association.

Mr. Sutton, who received the bachelor of arts degree from Richmond College in 1915, was president of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1948-49. After service as a first" lieutenant in World War I, he studied law at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Sutton, who was admitted to the bar in 1920, since has practiced at West Point , Va., where he is senior partner in the firm of Sutton, Causey and Sutton.

In 1924, he married Miss Frances Lillard Shipman, a graduate of Westhampton College. Their son and daughter each hold a bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond.

For 17 years, Mr. Sutton was Commonwealth's attorney for King William County, and from 1946 to 1948 he served as associate counsel in the prosecution of the Japanese war lords. Active in educational circles, he is a trustee of Lynchburg College and is currently president of the General Alumni Society of the University of Richmond.

Mr. Garnett was honored with the presidency of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1943-44. A native of Mathews County, he was awarded BA and MA degrees from the

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University of Virginia before becoming a teacher in public schools and colleges. He received his LLB degree from the University of Richmond in 1902.

From 1906 to 1909, he was a member of the law faculty of Richmond College. After 14 years' law practice in Richmond, Mr. Garnett moved to Fairfax, Va., where he is now senior member of the firm of Barbour, Garnett, Pickett and Keith.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Garnett has served his State as Assistant AttorneyGeneral and in other important posts.

Mr. Norris served as president of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1939-40. He has enjoyed a long, successful career as a State ¡legislator in his post -college days¡.

He received his BA degree from Richmond College in 1899 and two years later was awarded the LLB degree from The T. C. Williams School of Law. One of the deceased alwnni, Mr. Gordon, was president of the bar group in 1932-33.

Following graduation from the U. of R. law school he practiced law in Richmond for nearly 57 years until his death in 1952. A former president of the Richmond Bar Association, he was one of the last surviving members of the Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 .

The late Mr. Bryan, a graduate of the law school, headed the Virginia State Bar Association in 1923-24. Considered an expert in (Continued on page 30)

SOJOURNIN MEXICO

By BARBARA TAGGART, '50

HE American Friends' Service CommitT tee's mission is to help establish peace in the world. Realizing that one of the causes of war is misunderstanding and ignorance among the various nations, they try to promote peace by personal contact. The purpose of our group in Jalacingo, Veracruz, was to be friends. We did not intend to impose United States culture on them. We have many friends in Jalacingo, but other groups have accomplished more materially: the group in Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit worked with the Mexican Pilot Project of the United Nations to help rearrange houses and streets to form a well-organized village; the group in El Salvador is also cooperating with the U. N., helping to build a model town; and several girls are assisting in a W.H.O. study of superstitions and remedies among the rural people.

Our sponsor in Veracruz was Dr. Jose Bustos, head of the State Health Department , who wanted us to work with the public health nurse whom he had sent to Jalacingo in the summer. Several of us took turns accompanying her when she went out into the rural areas vaccinating and injecting against diphtheria, typhoid, and whooping cough. I found these trips very interesting because they gave me a glimpse of the lives of these people who do not live in town or on the road .

Often there was just a small path among trees and flowers which led from one thatchedroofed, one-room hut to the next, half-hidden by the foliage. In some sections the women would hide themselves or their childr en because they were afraid the result of our visit would be death; in other areas they understood that the shots were to prevent them from getting sick and so would come out eagerly to meet us, carrying their babies and calling to the older children. Many of these people are dirty, but what can you expect when they sleep on a petat ( straw mat) on the bare earth floor next to the chickens, have to carry all their water in heavy clay jars on their shoulders or heads from a distant spring? On the other hand, the houses are often very neat and trimmed with flower pots on all sides. The dirt path to the house is usually well-swept and bordered with geraniums, roses, carnations, calla lilies, and many other kinds of flowers.

Sometimes we made permanent friends on these visits with the nurse. This was how we became acquainted with dona Esperanza and her husband , don Alfonso, who makes serapes from start to .finish and is one of the local judges, and their family of eight. On our first visit don Alfonso invited us to return the next day to learn how to card wool. Much to dona Esperanza's surprise we did go, arriving

during their breakfast time. According to the usual hospitality we, too, were served-warm milk with sugar and cinnamon and bunuelos , a kind of delicious pastry fried in oil or fat.

Then followed the lesson in carding and spinning . But this was men's work, and dona Esperanza insisted that we girls spend our time learning to make tortillas so that we could get married ! This proved to be a harder task for us: tortillas must be thin and round like the holy bread the priest breaks for communion and not triangular nor oblong like mine usually were; they must not tear along the edges; and they must puff up in the middle while they are on the comale over the fire. Like the other women, dona Esperanza takes her corn every morning to the molino de nixtamal to be ground, instead of grinding it herself on the metate; but it is still a task of many hours to make enough tortillas for the day. Since the tortilla often serves as knife, fork, and spoon, anyone can easily consume as many as seven or eight in one meal.

We announced our arrival at the friend's house in Magueyitos by covering him, his family, and ourselves with confetti and flowers instead of gifts. As soon as we were all seated on every available chair, bed, and box, the men began serving each other tequila while the women indulged in a little nut and apple wine. A few minutes later we were carefully arranged around the table, and the usual fiesta meal began: first, sopa de pasta served complete with spoons (when these were removed with our dishes, we weren't given more and didn't want to ask), then sopa de arroz ( somewhat like Spanish rice) which wasn't too hard to eat with tortillas-much easier than with chopsticks, I'm sure; then came the mole poblana, a piece of turkey swimming in a rich sauce of many ingredients, including bitter chocolate, chili peppers, and many spices. To our unaccustomed mouths it was very picante, hot, and what a time we had trying to tear off bits of meat and fishing them out of the mole, using pieces of tortilla to protect our .fingers and trying to avoid the sauce as much as possible.

Our mouths were on .fire inside and out ; and when we tried to follow the example of the others and use a tortilla to clean our hands and faces, we just made matters worse.

Our hosts thought we are very unmannerly and kept looking in surprise at our ignorance .

Our technique improved a little with each .fiesta, as we learned to eat all the mole first, scooped up on triangular bits of tortilla, until now we can eat a complete meal without silverware and keep comparatively clean.

After the mole we were served the frijoles , beans, usually mashed and fried , and then the

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duke, in this case candied figs, and .finally the cafe, strong coffee prepar ed with brown sugar. During the meal we gringos were given refrescos, soft drinks of apple juice, while the others each consumed several glasses of pulque, a whitish-looking drink made from fermented maguey juice.

Our plans for projects often didn't materialize as we hoped. The boys were going to help finish the basketball court, but the town's Committee on Material Improvements never bought enough cement for more than one day's work during the year. In November arrived the new doctor sent by Dr. Bustos to open the clinic. We whitewashed the walls, painted the furniture , lettered a sign over the door, and were anxiously looking forward to helping care for the patients.

So far, the clinic has been used on only three occasions-as a morgue. Due to rain and lack of paint, we spent almost a month painting the kiosko in the plaza, which should have been a few days' job . In the fall the boys also helped build sidewalks, which was a more successful project since they were working with the villagers on something they really wanted. Almost always our projects were just bridges between us and the community, affording us opportunities to know the people better.

The girls' projects were more time-consuming. We made visits to each of the six grades in the central school and to seven rural schools and held a kindergart en in town and one in a rural area. With each teacher we decided on a varied program of recreation, art ( exchanging drawings with children in the States) , handicrafts , a little English, songs, and dances. At one school we helped the teacher and pupils build a flower garden in front of the school. The boys cooperated with the agent municipal (the head of the rural community or congregacion) and the Associacion de Padr es de Familia (P.T.A.) to help install latrin es near several schools. Th e children looked forward to our coming: they liked to learn new songs and to draw-many had never seen crayons befor e. The rural schools varied in size from 30 to 60 on roll, all first and second graders, and in condition from excellent to very poor, where rickety boxes and stones served some children as seats and desks, while others stood. Most weren't too far from Jalacingo, but about four were each a good two-hours ' walk through lovely countryside. We usually preferred to walk all the way by the caminos instead of taking the bus as far as possible along the highway.

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yards on a punt return for his third TD of the night. Key blocks by Sherwood Fosdick, T heodose and Christensen helped spring him loose.

Theodose, going back to pass as the final seconds ticked off, threw to Halfback Frank Pajaczkowski, who grabbed the ball on the 7 and went into the end zone after the final gun had sounded.

They Neve r Had (Continued from page 5)

TOUCHDOWN BOUND. Corky Johns, Spider fullback, pulls Davidson's Frank Broughton across the goal line with him as he scores on a three-yard advance.

Grid sters M a ke Impressive Start (Continued from page 7)

The reliable Sgro converted to make it 7-7 at that point.

In statistics, V.P .I. had a wide edge. In first downs, the Gobblers led, 18-9, and in rushing yardage, 254-162. Richmond, with four completions in eight tries, outgained Tech in the air, 78 yards to 45 for the winners, who had six successful aerials out of 12 attempts.

Richmond-V.M.I. With the defense keeping flying Johnny Mapp bottled up most of the night, the Spiders, on offense, marched 71 yards in five plays and later used a 50-yard pass play for the clincher to gain their first triumph since 1947 over the Keydets .

Th e payoff punch came in the third period on Quarterback Bill Band er's long aerial to Halfback Lewis Wacker on the Keyd et 10.

Wacker eased over for the score.

Single first half TDs were matched by the two clubs. Sgro set up the Spiders ' 71-yard push by recovering a fumble, and Th eodose contributed the damaging blow, a 51-yard scoring run on the bootleg play.

Mapp, the Keydet speedster from Norfolk, broke loose for a 44-yard gain in the second period to spark V.M.I.'s only point-producing drive. Di ck Fencel later scored from the thr ee-yard lin e, with Royce Jones adding the conversion that put the City Stadium visitors out front temporarily, 7-6.

Three other Richmond thrusts were halted insid e the Virginia Military 15.

For his brilliant linebacking performance, Co-captain Al Pecuch drew this praise from M errick : " If there's ever been a better job done by a Richmond center, I've never seen or heard about it."

Richmond -Davidson The Wildcats, who rang up 38 points in their' decisive romp a year ago, got no farther than the Richmond 40 -yard stripe as the Spiders moved to their second straight shutout.

Offensively, Richmond had a slow start similar to the opening game with Randolph Macon , and a scoreless first half appeared in prospect until the last 60 seconds before the intermission.

Theodose , hauling in a long punt on his own 20, sprinted 59 yards. Then Bauder moving in at quarterback, hit Ed Elliott with a perfect toss back of the Davidson secondary for a touchdown .

A bad pass from center sailed out of the end zone for a safety in the fourth period, and a final touchdown was added in a relentless march sparked by the running of Wacker, Fullback Corky Johns and Halfback Ralph Scarpa.

Richmond-Randolph-Macon Thre e touchdowns in the final eight minutes of the fourth period pushed the final count to 28-0 as the Spiders came through with the fifty-third win in the long series dating back to 1881.

Ed Elliott, the West Palm Beach, Fla., ace, was the big gun. He drove over from the one-yard lin e in the only scoring march of the first half, a 60-yard effort, after an earlier Randolph-Macon push was stymied by a fourth down fumble inches away from the Richmond goal.

Then , in the final period, Elliott scored again to cap a Richmond attack sparked by Johns' 35-yard run . The Florida speedster didn 't slow up after that touchdown-produc ing thrust.

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teaching. Wi ll iam W. Eudailey is at the Bolling Junior High School in Petersburg, Jesse H. Parker is teaching English in Fred ericksburg, Robert B. Moore is at the Alexander Park Junior High School in Norfolk, an d Bill Browne is teaching English at Tappahan nock High School. A half-dozen or so of the prospective teachers will not be available unti l they complete their military service. A number of others will teach after they get their Master's degrees .

Dean Wi lliam T. Muse, '28, of the T. C. Wi lliams School of Law tells us that five of the new LL.B.'s are starting their law practice out-of-state, three of these in West Virginia: L. Walter Given and William M. Sloan, in Charleston ; and Truman L. Sayre, in Beckley. Kenneth W . Turner will practice law in North Carolina , and Jacob H. Kelly III , in Florida . Practicing in Virginia are : J . Albert Ellett, in Roanoke ; Harrison C. Eacho, Jr., in King William; Willard R. Finney, in Rocky Mount ; William E. Land, in Danville; Jesse R. Overstreet , Jr. , in Clarksville; and Charles H . Winberg, in Arlington.

T he largest group of lawyers, of course, will practice in Richmond: Richard H. Catlett, Jr., recipient of the Charles T. Norman Medal in Law, Sidney L. Berz, Charles A. Blanton II, C. C. Connelly, Jr ., Herndon P. Jeffreys, Jr., William H . Martin , Jr.Michael W. Moncure III, Lewis S. Pendleton, Jr ., Lawrence J. Redding III, Richard E. Smith, and A. L. Winchester . Clyde M. Weaver is associated with the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court here in Richmond.

Other law graduates who are doing legal work with business organizations or who are serving in the military are included elsewhere in this summary .

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The demand for scientific and technical personnel has again exceeded the supply of candidates. Whil e our list is incomplete at this writing, we have learned that Robert L. Keefe is in Portsmouth , Ohio, with the Goodyear Atomic Corporation; Bill Sadler is doing research for Philip Morris here in Richmond ; Donald Sheap is with the Virginia Department of Highways; and H. McIntyre Smith is doing chemical research with the Allied Chemical and Dye Corp., in Hopewell. "Mac" is another of the newly married graduates. Marshall Soghoian made the Richmond newspapers recently as a designer and builder of scientific apparatus for research.

The field of sales continues to attract a large number of graduates. Constantine ("Gus") Matchunis has been with C. W. Antrim and Sons since February, when he finished up his degree requirements. Bobby Tyler is engaged in sales work in Richmond with Eichel & Co.; Ernest S. Sneed is with Lockvent, Inc.; John E. Nye is with Bur roughs Adding Machine Co.; and Byron D. Peterson started with the Richmond Dairy Co. but by now has probably reported for duty with the Navy in an officer candidate program. Donald B. Coddington is devoting his time to real estate sales with Thomas J. Massey & Co., William J. Fleming is in the Western Division of Procter and Gamble and is expecting a call into the service.

Management and management training programs have been selected by some of our top student leaders. J. Sydnor Phillips, Jr. , PBK-ODK and winner of the Alumni Council Medal , is on the staff of the C. and P. Telephone Co., until he is called into the service. Jimmy Frye, ODK and recipient of The Charles T. Norman Medal in Business Administration, is with Philip Morris . Ronald H. Davis, ODK, is a work standards analyst with the Ford Motor Co., in Dearborn , Michigan. E. H. ("Dick") Jones, ODK, is with Acme Steel. Also at the C. and P. Telephone Co. is Donald B. Williams. Carl P. Dickey is in a training program with the General Electric Corp. in Louisville, Ky. Accounting positions have been accepted in Richmond by Phi Beta Kappan Edward 0.

Witt, who is with Mitchell, Wiggins and Smith; Robert C. Dickerson, with the Miller Manufacturing Co.; Randolph L. Dunham, with the A. & P. Tea Co.; Clisby B. Hart, with the Southern Biscuit Co.; Robert K. Neale, with the Virginia Electric and Power Co.; and John H. White, with DuPont.

Other accountants elsewhere are Dilbon V. Beall, in Atlanta, who is with the Arthur Anderson Co., and G. H. Poffenberger in D earborn, with the Ford Motor Co. The job of internal auditor for the Life Insurance Co. of Virginia is held by James W. Teabo, and that of auditor reporter for Dun and Bradstreet by Sam W . Parker. James S. McCormack is accounts payable manager, Southeastern Division, Kraft Foods Co., in Atlanta. Warren L. Flannagan is assistant cred it manager with W. S. Peebles & Co., in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Helen Aebli is office manager of Drake, Startzman, Sheahan & Barclay, a management consulting firm in New York. Aubrey M . Williams, Jr., is business manager of the Emrick Chevrolet Co., in Richmond; and Harry S. Stone is senior clerk for Metcalf, Hamilton, Smith and Beck, a construction company in Iceland.

Part-time jobs have expanded again into full-time jobs for Joseph T. Moore, at the State-Planters Bank, and for Clyde D. Nuckols, PBK, at the Federal Reserve Bank. Newcomers in the insurance field are larger in number this year. William K. Roberson, Jr., is with the Union Central Life Insurance Co. ; James Edwin Brown, with the George Washington Life Insurance Co.; and Charles T. Lane, with the Mutual Benefit Health and

Editor, The Alumni Bulletin Sir: Dr. George W. Sadler, '10, in his address at the joint Alumni-Alumnae dinner, June 6, 1953, printed in the Summer 1953 edition of the ALUMNI BULLETIN,went beyond the necessities of the context of his address to insert an unnecessary and untrue paragraph which can be lift ed from his address for antisemitic purposes by that clique of humanity which specializes in such activities.

Dr . Sadler said: "In Transjordan a hotel manager said the Arab Christian was in a precarious position-like a man between a door and a wall, pressed on one side by Moslems and on the other by Jews-both trying to liquidate him." (italics are mine.)

Dr. Sadler could have made the point of his address completely without the unfortunate remark . The source of his information was one biased individual, a hotel manager in Transjordan, where British Colonialism alone has caused a government to rule its peoples and where there is deep chagrin over the democracy which nearby in Israeli sprang from the hearts of human suffering to kindle a government "of the people, by the people and for the people " not unlike the spirit of 1775 on these shores.

From my studies of Israeli, that country has all it can do, simply to survive, so that it has no other present aspirat ions save ( 1) the creation of a wholly independent economy (2) the ability to absorb Jews who may flee from their plight anywhere (3) the eventual restoration of the traditional boundaries of Israeli by peaceful means ( 4) preservation of the same sort of human rights and freedoms as guaranteed in America.

In my opinion , from my memory of a

Accident Association of Omaha. William D. Sawyer is a special agent for the Lincoln Life Insurance Co., in Fort Wayne, Indiana ; and Richard N. Moseley is a service representative for the Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America. Lawyers who are engaged in legal work with the Travelers Insurance Co. are Beverly B. Bowers, in Roanoke; and here in Richmond, James M. Dugger, Richard R. Smouse and Kenneth S. Wilhoit. William C. Young is doing similar work with an insurance company in Pulaski. G. Mason Connell , Jr., is assistant director of the Life Insurers Conference here in Richmond. J. Owen Lindley, Jr., has gone to Greensboro, N. C., where he is doing legal work for Crawford & Co. Opportunities in retailing and store management have increased noticeably this year.

Miller and Rhoads has selected Fay L. Russell; Thalhimers, Hunter B. Stewart; S. S. Kresge Co., David W. Hartz; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Russell L. Cheatham; and Firestone Stores, Henry G. Whitehorne, Jr. Russ and Henry were expecting an early call into the service, however. Jerry C. Wither[ 11 J

summer course in Comparative Religions at the University of Virginia, neither the Moslem nor the Jewish religions are proselyting religions. In my 41 years I have known no Jew who attempted to convert one non-Jew to his faith unless and until the non-Jew voluntarily asked for conversion. No Jew whom I have ever met has ever attempted to liquidate any other religion . Our faith has always been that we were God's Chosen People, who first found the Unity of God and to whom He first revealed His law. But our faith has always required us to respect the dignity of all other religions because we have always asked those who believed in other faiths to allow us to enjoy the dignity of our faith.

I cannot believe the hotel manager who spoke to Dr. Sadler and I cannot believe that Dr. Sadler would mean to publish an untruth. So, unless Dr. Sadler would publish supporting evidence of any liquidation of the Arab Christian by Jews, I feel that this humble protest should grace your pages.

Without a shred of evidence in my possession save the faith of my forefathers I believe that from the date when this country recognized Israeli until today that the number of Arab Christians in Israeli has grown and prospered and been respected in all their freedoms including the freedom of participating in the government of that land.

Respectfully yours, ATTORNEYHAROLDB. YUDKIN,L37, David Humphreys Road, Derby, Connecticut. â&#x20AC;˘ We know that Dr. Sidler meant no disrespect to the people of Israel but was simply citing one example of many "pres sures."

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ington is with the A. & P. Tea Co. George R. Aldhizer , Jr. , is a new field secretary for the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Benjamin B. White continues with the Reynolds Metals Co., where he has been employed since 193 7. John C. Alsop is a marketing agent for the Virginia State Department of Agriculture. B. Nolting Rhodes is with the Pure Oil Co. in Richmond; and Richard M. Anthony is in Bassett with Anthony Brothers Lumber Co. Up the line are Bill Abronski, who is with Quigley Shipyard, Inc., Camden , N. J.; and Allen B. Kinzey, with the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass .; Donald B. Beaman is Associate Director of Boys Work at the Central Y.M.C.A. , Norfolk, Virginia. Henry E. Rubin is with the Norfolk Packing Co. ; and Marvin Dollin is down in Miami, with Nason and Gans, a wholesale furniture house. All three are awaiting military call.

Others who were expecting to be called into service, and who may already be in uniform when this comes from press are: Donald B. Beaman , Thomas 0 . Beane, Edward

M. Blechman, Algar H. Cosby, William Dawson , Jr., John H. Geiser, Harold M. Goldston, Thomas J. Harlan, Jr., V. Sale Houston, John F. Hurd, Jr., Joe C. Philpott, James R. Savedge, Joseph S. Spivey, Jr. , and Seeman Waran ch.

At th e time this was written, the following were reported to be or about to be in the Navy: PBK-ODK John B. Wooldridge, Jr., Curtis B. Copeland, Frank Gragnani, Robert S. Somers, and Walter D. Tucker. In the Marine Corps were two members of ODK, Second Lt. Sammy Taylor (another newlywed) and N. Andre Nielsen, along with John W. Alber, Frederick M. Haden, William K. How ell and J. A. Moody . New Army second lieutenants from our R.O.T.C. program are Andrew G. Adams, Jr., and Bobby G. Holden . Jerald P. Bourne , William C. D enny, Henry M. Harris, Arthur G. Reid and Robert W. Walker are also in the Army as well as 0. Warren Long and Jack Mallory , who completed his degree requirements while in the service. Going into Air Force pro grams are Hugh 0 . Curran, in radar observer training; and in flight training, Joseph W .

Porter and John H. Gale, Jr. There are undoubtedly others whose names have not been brought to our attention. Will you keep our story alive with a note now and then to Joe Nettles?

William H. ("Rusty") Warren, '48, and his successor as Placement Director in the School of Business Administration, Dr. Thomas S. Berry, have assisted us greatly in compiling the information on the Business School graduates.

What's in store for '54? Two contrasting early signs, either of which may turn out to be significant. On the one hand, some companies are recruiting on our Campus earlier and with greater enthusiasm than ever before; on the other, we have word from several companies that they will not recruit at all this year. The sobering question for our graduates now is "Will they ever have it so good .. . ?''

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great deal of interest. The blueprints and maquettes of mod ern farms and conveyor belt industrial plants are magnificent, but examples in use are almost non-existent.

All of this criticism, both inside and outside of the country, so adds up that an American, even if he wishes to express enthusiasm with no buts, must willy nilly face up to the question , "What's wrong with F ranee? " Without fully admitting the implications of the question, I am going to hazard an answer: Doors.

To begin with, the doors are nearly always too small. There is a constant jostling as people enter and leave stores and office buildings .

Especially the post offices have difficult doors .

The recent Rene Clair film, Belles de Nuit, poked fun at the bottleneck caused by post office doors and when the hero started de-

molishing them the roar from the ¡audience Sojourn indicated to me that according to the old (Continued from page 9) literary theory of purgation the picture was carrying out the desire of each member of the became friends with the bakers, who invited audience. Even the beautiful new post offices us to learn to shape the dough into rolls and at Bourges, at Tours, and at St.-Malo have pan duke, sweet bread . We spent many hours not been able to get away from the small discussing life in the U. S. and exchanging doors with a confusion of "Tirez" aad English lessons for lessons in Nahault , the "Poussez." This has not always been a French Indian language spoken in that area . When characteristic. There are magnificent older the men who work in one of the stores in buildings, with wide portals, but they are town found out that I was interested in frequently closed and one must use a wicket Mexicano, as they call it, they always addoor or some narrow side door. There are dressed me in this language. I always left often double doors that open and close in the the store in a daze, wondering if I had most confusing manner. Customers at shops, bought the right amount. Jim played his acstudents at the University, and the general cordion with the Happy Boy Orquestra, while public most anywhere invariably stand around Sky was a regular member of the baseball in doorways, thus making any egress or team. Just before we left Jalacingo, a delegation headed by the presidente (town mayor) ingress a litany of ''Pardon, monsieur (or) madame." Also, for some obscure reason, and the sports manager petitioned that anthe French shopke eper feels that stock to other ball player and an accordion or saxomove must be located on a table as nearly as phone player be sent with the summer group! possible in the center of the doorway .

Our group was an unusually happy one.

My peeve at the blocked doorways in shops Although most of us were from the States, may be frivolous, and my comment on it seem several nationalities were represented . There facetious, but it is the symbol of a very real was Johanna, a medical technician from Holsituation which is the heart of the matter , I land , who was always making hot coffee or believe. The employers' organization CNPF , cocoa and candy for us to snack on at night which is very strong, has in postwar France , and who called everybody Schatzie. We felt by maintaining high costs, priced France out very concerned when the dikes broke in Hol of the competitive World market and at the land, and many of her friends and relatives same time, by holding down wages, curtailed lost their lives or their homes . Incidentally , the domestic market for manufactured goods. she had never heard the story of the little This is a doorway to a better standard of liv- Dutch hero who saved his country by keeping his hand in the crack in the dike all night ing that is certainly blocked . Unreasonably high tariffs and all sorts of complicated trade until she came to the U. S. Thomas was a restrictions prevailing in most of the nations tall blond Swede who had majored in math, of the Atlantic Pact are barriers to free ex- which probably accounts for his being so change of goods and services. There has been systematic. He was very quiet, spoke excelmuch talk recently of "Trade not Aid '' and it lent English with a slight British accent, and is a good slogan, but we have been all too was famous for his Swedish pancakes. Saul was the Mexican who stayed with us three slow in the postwar world in re-establishing the interchang e of goods between nations as months. He was very likeable but would a basis of prosp erity. The Schuman Plan, rather spend his time carrying on business or known in France as Le Pool Noir, has started chatting than actually working on projects with the other fellows . Among others were Wini , to function, but it is only a beginning . There is talk of a similar "Pool Vert" for agricul- a Negro girl from New York, who changed tural products and even a "Pool Blanc" for to the group in El Salvador; Barry, who left all sorts of goods and services relating to us to look for buried treasure in Sonora; Gor public health . To an individual traveling in don, a conscientious objector; Schuyler, the Europe, frontiers are a nuisance; to sound youngest of the group and the one who grew development of the prosperity of the various a long beard until his mother arrived; Liz, a countries, they are impassable road blocks. trained dietician; Joan and Wanda, the artists These and other developments would seem to of the group; our jefes, Jim and Norma, who indicate that European Unity is not a Utopian . kept everything running smoothly; and many ideal impossible of realization. In any case, others who came and went.

We lived cooperatively, sharing the houseFrench stability is dependent upon some sort of unity among the nations of Western Eu- hold duties of cooking, dishwashing, and rope. Wider doors and open doors are house-cleaning. At first it seemed very strange to our Jalacingo friends to see the boys preneeded . paring meals, but some of them were our best I feel that I am being very presumptuous cooks, especially Sky, who had attended a in suggesting any answers to the question: What's wrong with France? I am on surer progressive school and delighted in pork ground, however, when I state that France, breakfasts. Sometimes even the boys from sick or sound, because of her geographical lo- town would help fix a meal or help with the cation, because of her political importance in dishes after they had eaten with us. One the world, and because of the intellectual morning we had a big discussion as to leadership that she still exercises, is essential whether the boys should do some of the to the Western democracies. Her contribu - housework or go to work at 8 :00 with the tions to our civilization are not limited to the masons. Finally we girls agreed to do the past and I have full confidence that she will boys' tasks; they went off to work only to meet her responsibilities.

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THIS I BELIEVE 1908T. Justin Moore of Richmond, rector of the University of Richmond, has been elected president of the Virginia State Bar Association, an organization whose membership includes more than 1,900 lawyers .' He was elected without opposition at the association 's sixty-third annual meeting at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va ., in August.

1909Dr . J . B. Hill , of Richmond, has been presented a $2, 100 check of gratitude for his 20 years' service as secretary of the Sunday School Department of the Virginia Baptist Convention. The presentation was made in August at the Massanetta Baptist Assembly following announcement of Dr. Hill 's retirement.

1910Dr . George W . Sadler, secretary for Africa , Europe and the Near East, has been named interim executive secretary for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board . Dr . Sadler's appointment was made at the July meeting when the board deferred action on naming a successor to the late Dr. M .

Theron Rankin until the annual full session of the board in October.

1911The Rev. A. L. Shumate, a Baptist clergyman for the past 40 years, will retire from the fulltim e ministry November 1. Now living in Bedford County , he plans to move to Roanoke following his retirement.

1912Judge Q. C. Davis, of South Norfolk, has a daughter whose debut in South Carolina politics was auspicious. Mrs. W. L. McDermott, the judge 's daughter and wife of the head of the Fine Arts Department at Winthrop College , topped the field of York County candidates for seats in the lower house of the South Carolina legislature.

1913John J. Wicker, Jr., a Richmond attorney, has been elected to the executive council of the American Bar Association, Section of Insurance Law, for a four-year term.

Two llniversity of Richmond faculty members told of their personal philosophies of life in appearances on successive days on the widely broadcast Edward R. Murrow program, "This I Believe."

In their remarks Athletic Director Malcolm Pitt, '18, cited the Golden Rule as a valuable fundamental for living and Dean Raymond B. Pinchbeck termed his faith in inspired youth "almost boundless.''

Pitt expressed hope that "someday I will be a strong enough leader to exert an influence that will make all boys with whom I am associated feel that the Golden Rule is just as important a fundamental as shooting a basket, hitting a baseball, running with a football or mastering the art of skillful and unselfish camping."

His experiences with youth, he added, have meant "fa r more to me than it has to them."

Pitt told of.a basketball game in which he once told a defeated team that "God didn't count failures but he did count how we got up and carried on after each failure . I was just talking to myself through the players."

Dean Pinchbeck, in his August broadcast in the "This I Believe" series, said he feels daily the influence of his mother's calm resignation and his father 's restless, undisciplined spirit "engaging in a tug of war in my personality. I thank God for those inherited traits in their precise proportions."

Describing his faith in youth as almost boundless, Dean Pinchbeck said he had sought in his teaching career to inspire students to learn the requirements for true human brotherhood, to develop their talents for the service of God and mankind and to learn "more of the art of becoming better parents who make better spiritual and moral homes.''

In conclusion, he emphasized his belief that "Godfearing men and women can attain the Kingdom of God here on earth, and in the life hereafter."

1915Colonel George M. Percival and his wife recently took a month-long tour of France , Germany, Holland and Belgium in celebrating their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. Colonel Percival is assigned to the Twenty-eighth General Hospital in France.

David Nelson Sutton, of West Point , president of the General Society of Alumni , has been elected to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association for 1953-54. He was an associate counsel during the trial of the Japanes e war lords in Tokyo between 1946 and 1948.

1916Dunton J. Fatherly , of Eastville, was elected vicepresident of the Tidewater region of the Virginia State Bar Association at the group's annual meeting in August. There are five vice-presidents representing as many geographical divisions in the State.

WAVERLYGREENCITED A Crewe, Va., peach grower and Guernsey cattle breeder long active in agricultural fields has been awarded a 19S3 certificate of merit for outstanding contributions to agriculture in the State.

Waverly S. Green, '15, received the award at the annual Institute of Rural Affairs held on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg. He was named by a VPI committee, whose endorsement was approved by the State school's board of trustees.

In presenting the certificate to Green, Dr. Walter S. Newman, VPI president hailed his active part "in promoting scientific developments which improve farming."

Since 1944 the Richmond alumnus has represented farm members of production credit associations on the board of directors of a five-state district of the Baltimore Farm Credit Administration.

1919The family of the Rev. Chester R. Wag staff, now in his twelfth year as pastor of Red Bank Baptist Church in Marionville, Va., is a strong University of Richmond group . His daughter , Edna Adelaide , attended Westhampton College last session. Earlier, Dr. Chester lee Roy Wagstaff, '44, received his BA degree from Richmond College and Susie Virginia Wagstaff earned her BS from Westhampton in 1947.

1921A onetime agriculture instructor at Burkeville, Va., Green has been credited with influencing agricultural production practices, marketing outlets, credit facilities and other agricultural developments in Virginia .

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Benjamin H. Burgess , of Phoenix, Ari z., recently returned to the campus for the first time since he was a student during part of the 1917-18 session.

1923Dr. Joseph R. Johnson , former minister of Pocahontas Baptist Church at Bassett, Va., has started his duties as chaplain of the Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg.

1928SMALLWORLD, HUH? It's a Small World Department : In Geneva, Switzerland, last July, the conversation went like this after a man tapped a woman on the shoulder: " Ar en't you Frieda Di etz? " "Aren't you Lewis Latane? '' Sure enough, in each instance the answer was yes. Thus Miss Dietz , Westhampton College, and Latane, '1 7, met for the first time since 1916.

It was the second chance meeting for M iss Di etz in a year's time. While visiting the ruins of Pomp eii the previous Summer , she ran into William Hugh Bagby, '17, a friend she hadn't seen since 1916.

1926Mark Lutz who is associated with the Philco Corporation has acquired an old house which has been moder~ized completely. Ag e of the Philadelphia dwelling, he writes, is uncertain " beyond the fact that the original half is an old stone dwelling dating to at least the early part of the last century."

H orace H . Edwards, a Richmond attorney, has been named chairman of the speakers bureau for State D emocra tic candidates during the Fall campaign. He served in the same capacity in the successfu l primary campaign of Thomas B. Stanley, D emocratic gubernatorial nomin ee.

Captain Charles L. Melson , of Richmond, has been named chief of staff to the commander of battleships and cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet. At the time of his new assignme nt in August, he was commander of the battleship New Jersey. H e attended the University of Richmond for one year before ent ering the Naval Academy in the class of 1927.

1927Sidney J. Hilton is th e new manager of the claims' division of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Formerly counsel for the company, Mr. Hilton was named to the new post in August.

H e has been with the insurance firm since 1922.

Dr . Francis T. Willi amson has been appoi nted polit ical officer of the American Embassy in Rome, Italy .

COURT CLERK HONORED Jurists , lawyers, county officials and citizens of King William County turned out to pay honor to a man who has completed 30 years in a job which started when he was named to fill the unexpired term of his father.

For Benjamin Camm Garrett, Jr., '2 1, the recent ceremonies at King William Courthouse brought recogni tion for his work as clerk of the Circuit Court in his native King William County since July , 1923 . Previously , he had served as deputy clerk.

Heading the group of speakers paying trib ute to Garrett's accomplishments was Justice Willis D. Miller, of the Virginia Suprem e Court of Appeals .

Garrett, D emocratic committee chairman for Virginia's Eighth Congressional District, is married to the former Ella T. Robins and has one son, Benjamin C. Garrett , III.

The Rev. H. Otis Mayhew, formerly pastor of Loch Raven Boulevard Baptist Church in Baltimore , became minister of Fishersville Baptist Church at Fishersville, Va ., on October 1.

1929Dave Buchanan , of Yonkers, N. Y. , has been made planning engineer for the Conso lidated Edison Company of New York . In his new job , he will direct engineering planning for the company's electric, gas and steam systems.

1930Edward S. Harlow has assumed his duties as vice-president of the Southern Association of Science and Industry. Before starting work in July with the nonprofit organization aimed at promoting industrial and techno logical progress in the South, Mr . Harlow was co-ordinator of research for the American Tobacco Company.

Dr. E. K. Ritter has been named head of the Computation and Ballistics Department at the Navy Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Va . His 13-year-oldson, Kerfoot, was one of two Boy Scouts from Dahlgren attending the national jamboree for Scouts in California in July.

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KENT HEADS GUIDANCE BUREAU Clarence L. Kent, '34, of Richmond, has assumed his new duties as supervisor of the Bureau of Guidance for the Virginia State Department of Education.

His appointment as chief of the bureau, a part of the Division of Instruction, was effective September 1.

Kent, who has been with the State agency for the past 12 years, was directing counselor of the State Consultation Service and a personnel administrator until July, 1952, when he became assistant supervisor.

The bureau assists local public schools in the development of guidance services.

The new director succeeds Dr . Francis W .

Sisson, who resigned to become personnel director for Richmond public schools. Kent, who is married to the former Alice Blair Clarke, is the father of two daughters, 6 and 14 years old .

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Congressman Watkins M. Abbitt , of Virginia's Fourth District, presented his views of "The Future of the Farm Program" at the October 16 breakfast session of the Virginia State Poultry Federation's twenty-third annual convention.

1933Henry Vranian , of West Point, Va. , has been named sales manager of the Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia. H e has been with the pulp and paper company since 1934.

1934" Looking Ahead " is the title of an article by 0. B. Falls, Jr. , manager of electric utility sales for the Genera l Electric Company, which appeared in the September issue of the GE publication, Load. He was product sales manager in Seattle for GE's Pacific Northwest District three years before his recent appointment as manager of electric utility sales in Schenectady , N. Y. Born : A son, Edward George, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Tiedemann, of Philadelphia , on May 2.

Mrs. Madge Wright , wife of the Rev . W . W .

Wright, pastor of Irvington , Va., Baptist Church , was killed when their car collided with a tractor trailer four miles north of Upper M arlboro, Md. , June 12. Mr. Wright was injured in the accident.

1936Dr . William J . Fallis, book editor for the Bapâ&#x20AC;˘ tist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tenn ., was one of the principal speakers at the Internationa l Conference of Baptist Authors , Editors and Publishers held in Zurich, Switzerland, in July.

E. Starke Farley, secretary of Richmond Engineering Company since 1938, was promoted to vicepresident August 5. He will be in charge of sales and public relations for the concern.

1937Dr. John M. Butl er has been promoted to section leader in the Central Research Department of Monsanto Chemical Company in Dayton , Ohio .

Dr. Butler, who received his Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University in 1940, joined Monsanto in 1941 as a research chemist and was made a group leader in 1947.

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Dr . Leonard D . Policoff , of Richmond , has been awarded a United States Public Health Service fellowship for a two-year 'period of research and training at the Medical College of Virginia's Baruch Center of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation . He is the first local recipient of such a grant.

A hobby that was started in 1938 remains a hobby for the Rev. C. Ralph Arthur, although he has found photography useful in his work. As executive secretary of the Commission on Town and Country Work of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church, he uses sequence photos to develop lectures for church and civic groups.

The Rev. Alfred B. Montgomery , Jr., received a doctor of philosophy degree in July from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Montgom ery, pastor of Tazewell Presbyterian Church in Ta zewell County , completed his residency requirements at Edinburgh in July , 1951. Two months later he went to Tazewell where he completed the thesis required for the doctorate besides handling his regular ministry.

1939Corbin B. White has been appointed co-chairman

IT'S MANAGER PHAUP Richmond alumni and baseball are synonymous in at least one respect: Both get around.

Captain Allan J. Phaup, Jr., '40, is an Air Force Information and Education officer at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam where his duties include instruction of classes in English and criminology.

Baseball gets into the picture thusly: Besides his regular duties, Captain Phaup is coach and officer in charge of a baseball team that took second place during the Summer in a 16-club Guam league and later participated in the Far East Air Force tournament in Japan .

Incidentally, the coach-teacher at the Guam base is coming home. He has orders assigning him to Virginia Military Institute on December 20.

OOLEY RUNS FOR HOUSE John Doley, '34, who was student government president as well as varsity quarterback during his undergraduate days, is back in politics again. He's embroiled in a hot race with Lewis McMurran for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates from the Newport News-Warwick district.

Doley's interests are twofold. He 's president and treasurer of the Eastern Broadcasting Corporation which recently went on the air with WACH-TV and also operated WHYU, and is manager and secretary of Warwick Laundry. He's a past president of the Virginia Association of Launderers and Cleaners.

of the Men 's Di vision of the 1954 Norfolk Comâ&#x20AC;˘ munity Chest drive.

The Rev. Oscar B. Eddleton is pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in New Kent County, which observed its 250th anniversary September 22.

The external restoration of the historic church is well advanced, although much work in this project remains to be done.

Jame s L. Meacham has been appointed district superv isor of the Vocal Rehabilitation Service of the State Board of Education. He is making his home in Richmond.

Still a radio man but with a different stationthat's Harold W. Phillips, who has left the staff

ALWAYSOUTSTANDING. Warren Long, '53, who was the best second baseman in the Old Dominion when he played baseball for the Spiders, was chosen as the outstanding trainee of Service Battery of the 46th Field Artillery Battalion, 5th Infantry Division. Private Long is being congratulated by Colonel William W . Alker, commanding officer of the Division.

of Richmond Station WRNL to take a new post with WRY A, also a Richmond station.

Dr. Clyde T. Francisco, professor of Old Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is spending his sabbatical year in Berkeley, Calif., where he is studying at the University of California and the Pacific School of Religion . Dr . Francisco, who will be visiting lectur er in Old Testament prophecy at the Golden Gate Seminary, also plans to do some writing during the 1953-54 session.

1940Active in Chicago legal circles 1s Franklin M.

CONNOR: ONE MAN GANG Talk about time: W. Bruffie Connor, '43, produces a weekly radio program using student talent, teaches a full schedule of classes, coaches the college players and still finds time, with his wife, to keep an almost constant open house for students.

He is director of the Department of Dramatics and Speech at Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tenn.

His radio series, presented at 9 :05 P.M. each Thursday on Greeneville Station WGRV , will feature student authored scripts during the 1953-54 session, with the programs to include stories of college interest, children's stories and works with a religious theme.

The college dramatics group, the Pioneer Players, last year carried off first honors in campus competition for the organization do. ing the most for Tusculum College. Among their plays, which were presented in wide sections of East Tennessee, was a three-act drama, "Craig's Wife ."

Of the open house, an administrative official at Tusculum said "it is one of the rare privileges a student has in a small college -sitting in front of the fireplace in a faculty home and talking over the problems of life."

The Rev. Mr. Connor, who received his bachelor of divinity degree from ColgateRochester Divinity School in 1946, was award a master of arts degree from the University of Chicago August 28. [ 15 )

Crouch, who has been with the law firm of Carlson, Fitzner , Hubbard and Wolfe since 1945 . Besides his regular duties with that firm, he is a member of the legal education committee of the Chicago Bar Association and the younger members committee of the Chicago Patent Law Association.

A budget officer in a city government has two great needs , Robert B. Elmore, who holds that job in Richmond , told a newsman in an interview.

He "needs to be patient and to have a sense of humor." Undoubtedly, Elmore has those qualifications and more because Charles Houston, of the Richmond News Leader, wrote that "City Hall possesses a governmental curiosity-a budget officer who is popular."

A Saluda, Va., attorney, John M. Bareford, has been elected president of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Bar Association.

Born: A son, Richard Booth, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Gillette, of Fair Haven, N. J., on May 1.

Dr. T. Stanley Tutwiler, of Route 1, Plainfield , N. J., is co-author of a paper presented in June at an informal symposium of the American Society of Testing Materials' annual meeting in Atlantic City. Dr. Tutwiler, a chemist in Standard Oil Development Company 's Linden, N. J., laboratories, and his colleague described design factors of the modern passenger car engine which affect its 1ubricating oil requirements.

Harold J. Gordon , Jr., who received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Yale University in June , is now an intelligence research analyst for the Defense Department in Washington .

Philip D. Lawrence , Jr., an assistant research chemist for seven years at Merck and Company, In c., Elkton, Va., became processing engineer for the Chemstrand Corporation in Decatur, Ala., in April.

1941Harris W. Grimsley , special assistant to the United Stales Di strict Attorney in Richmond since J an uary, 1946, left that post August 14 to join the legal staff of Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation. His new assignment is in the Maryland department of the Washington branch office.

Baritone Tivis Wicker is teaching voice in the music department of Richmond Professional Insti-

of Richmond, in Winston-Salem , September 12.

They make their home at Hampton, Va . Lieutenant Hart is assigned to the Chaplains' Corps, United States Air Force, at Lang ley Field, Va. Born: A son, William Warren, II , to Mr. and Mrs. William Warren Walthall , Jr., of Queens Vi llage, Long Island, N . Y., on June 7.

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Manageri a l strategy to be used in the Far East Air Forces ba seb all tournam e nt in Jap an is mapped by three perso ns in char ge of the twe nty man All-Star team from An derso n Air Force Base o n Gua m. Fro m lef t to rig ht are A/l c W illie Wi llia ms (26), Ca pt. Alla n Pha up , '40, and A/l c Fra nk Fa rley (c). The G ua m All-Sta r te a m pla ce d seco nd in th e sixtee n tea m All- Island League d uring the regu lar se a son, missing th e to p spo t by on e g am e.

tute Evening College during the current session.

In the past two seasons, he has given more than 30 concerts in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky .

1942Married : Miss Patricia Stewart, of Jacksonville, Fla ., to Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock , of Richmond, June 27 at Jacksonville.

Robert C. Cotten, a partner in the law firm of Moyle , Nelson & Cotten, now has his offices in the Perpetual Building, 1111 E Street , NW, in Washington, new address for the firm.

Ralph E. Kinsey, a real estate salesman for Schmidt and Wilson, Inc., in Richmond since 1950, is a candidate for master appraiser of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers .

Clarence E. Major has become principal of Middlesex, V a., High School, where he taught social studies during the 1952-53 session. His new appointment was effective July 1. Holder of two degrees from Oxford University, he taught at Battlefield Park High School in Hanover County before going to Middlesex.

Born: A daughter, Elisabeth Hunt, to Mr. and Mr s. P. B. Mason , of Middletown, Ky., on March 28. H er father recently joined E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Inc. , as an industrial relations counselor.

Born: A son, Allen Bryan, to Mr. and Mrs . R. Braxton Hill , of Norfolk, on August 21. Several months before Allen Bryan arrived, his father, a certified public accountant, addressed the Middle Atlantic States Accounting Conference at Blowing Rock, N. C. His subject was "Income Tax Practices and Economies."

1943William S. Kirk has organized Kirk & Co., a Richmond concern specializing in the management and sale of industrial and commercial properties.

He launch ed the new business September 1 after four years' experience in management and sale of real properties.

H. Addi son Dalt on bas entered into a partnership for the practice of accountancy. The Richmond business, Dalton & Penzer, Certified Public Accountants, is located in the Central National Bank Building.

Born: A daughter, Janet Allison , to Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Pace, of Yonkers, N. Y. , on February 7. Mr. Pace, agency director of the Guardian Life Insurance Company, and his wife

have two other children, Warren , Jr., and Judith Alan.

Born: A daughter, Nancy Caro l, to Dr. and Mrs. Carl K. Dvorschak, of Wallington , N. J., on June 3. Her father started his second year of residency in internal medicine at Jersey City, N. J., Medical Center July 1. The Dvorschaks also have a son, Thomas James, who is 2 years old.

Moreland R. Irby, Jr., and his wife, the former Lila Louise Howard, toured the western part of the United States during August and September after visiting Mrs. Irby's home in Des Moines, Iowa. He is associated with a Richmond rea l estate firm, Pollard and Bagby.

William E. W. Frayser, former assistant treasurer and comptroller of Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association of Richmond, was adva nced to treasurer by the financial institution's board of directors in July. He is deputy governor of the American Savings and Loan Institute in Virginia.

David E. Satterfield, III, former assistant United States Attorney, has entered a law partenership in Richmond operating under the firm name of Satterfield & Anderson .

1944Herbert A. Atkins, former sales office supervisor with Southern Biscuit Company, joined Cabell Eanes, Inc., a Richmond advertising agency, as office manager in September. He was a bomber pilot during World War II. Leland H . Waters, Jr., has accepted a pos1t10n with Panagara Air Lines operating out of Lima , Peru. The line is a division of Pan American Airways.

Born: A son, John L., Jr., to Dr. and Mrs . John L. Read , of Richmond , on August 11.

James S. Johnson is now a member of the technical staff of the radar laboratory at Hughes Research and Development Laboratories, Culver City, Calif . He formerly was associated with Rutherford Electronics Company.

Married: Miss Barbara Virginia Carter of Atlanta, Ga., to William F. Scheerer , formerly of Pottsville, Pa., and Richmond, in Atlanta, July 11.

They are making their home in Goldsboro, N. C. Born : A son, C. F., III , to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Gindhart, Jr. , of Montgomery, Ala., on February 14.

1945Married: Miss Nancy Jean Padgett, of WinstonSalem, N. C., to First Lieutenant Phi lip Ray Hart,

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The Rev. Paul Strickland assumed the pastorates of three rural churches in the South Hill , Va ., area September 1. He is minister of Bethany, Union Level and Tabernacle Baptist Churches.

Robert S. Downs has been promoted from account executive to sales manager of Advertising Associates , Inc., Richmond affiliate of the New York firm of Hilton and Riggio. His promotion in August came only four months after be joined the agency. Previously, he was associated with Richmond Hotels, Inc. Born: A daughter, Harriett Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. L. Moncure, of Richmond, on September 29.

Louis D. Rubin , Jr., has been awarded a $3,500 fellowship by the Sewanee Review to do a study of modern Southern poetry. While doing the study during the 1953-54 school session, he will continue his teaching in the Department of Writing, Speech and Drama at Johns Hopkins University.

1947Born: A son, Ted Carleton, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Wa lton Mallory, Jr., of Richmond, on September 27.

Born: A son, William Carlyle, III, to Dr. and Mrs . William C. Gill, Jr., of Richmond, on August 11. The baby arrived on his dad's thirtieth birthday .

Born: A son, Donald Frederick , to Mr. and Mrs .

Wi llard V . Korb, of Richmond, on March 27.

Married : Miss Barbara Jane Moss, of Columbus , Ga ., to Marvin Jackson Null, of Staunton, in Staunton, Ju ly 10.

Dr. William D. Garvey is head of the psychological research section of ,the Naval Research Laboratory's psychology branch in Washington.

1948Ronald G. Spector has been appointed an associate in the Richmond office of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Dr. Randel Q . Little, Jr., has joined the staff of Whiting Research Laboratories of Standard Oil Company (Indiana} in Whiting, Ind .

Married: Miss Mary Elizabeth Vosburgh, of Durham, N . C., to Wallace Braxton Gordon, of Bon Air, Va. , in Durham September 5. They are making their home in Bon Air. James W . Payne, Jr., assistant professor in the T. C. Williams Law School, has been awarded a $2,600 fellowship for graduate study in the Harvard Law School for the 1953-54 session. At Cambridge, Mass., he is pursuing courses leading to a graduate degree in law .

Nicholas J. Diemente, of Richmond , has been appointed to the newly created position of chief accountant for Cliff Weil, Inc. The appointment was made in August.

William H. (Rusty) Warren joined the staff of Richmond Dairy Company in August as administrative assistant. Prior to his position with the dairy, he was placement director and assistant professor in the University of Richmond's School of Business Administration . The Warrens are the parents of a baby daughter, Constance Shaw , born in August.

Born: A son, Caleb Guy (Pete} , III, to Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Guy Campbell, Jr., of Richmond, on May 22.

Married : Miss Jane Carroll Redd , of Hanover County, to Junius Earle Dunford, Jr. , of Richmond, October 1 7 in Richmond where they are making their home .

John Ossea is an attorney in the criminal division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington.

Walter L. Carson, Jr., is a sanitarian for the Department of Public Health in Danville, Va. Robert J. Thalman has joined the athletic staff of Hampden-Sydney College where he will coach the track team and the back field in football. He formerly was assistant coach at Benedictine and Norview High Schools.

1949Married: Miss Nancy Lee Walters, of Purcellville, Va., to the Rev. Oscar L. Emerick, Jr. , of Route 7, Richmond, in Richmond June 8.

Married: Miss Nancy Jane Wagner , of Altoona, Pa., to Charles A. Peachee, Jr., of Richmond, August 8 in Richmond. They are making their home in Petersburg.

Richard C. Whitehead has been transferred from Minneapolis to Washington for a new assignment with the Federal Bureau of Investigation .

Born: A son, Robert Minor, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jones, of Richmond, on August 7.

The Rev. Lawrence J. Seyler is doing graduate work at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he received his bachelor of divinity degree last May. Mr. and Mrs. Seyler are parents of a daughter, Cheryl Marie, who was born April 6.

The Rev. William Edwin Winn launched his work as pastor of Greece Baptist Church, Rochester, N. Y., in September.

Gold bars of a second lieutenant and silver wings of an Air Force pilot have gone to Roland C. Starke, of Route 1, Richmond. The recognition was accorded in July at graduation ceremonies at Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla.

Married: Miss Margaret Melville Wood, of Richmond, to Robert Mabry Doss, of Norfolk, June 26 in Richmond, where they are making their home.

Married: Miss Joan Marie Holm, of Madison, Wisc., to Peter Byrd Smith, of Warrenton, Va., in Madison June 20.

Born: A son, Robert Morton, to Mr. and Mrs. Morton Marks, Jr., of Richmond, September 5.

Joseph A. Jennings was promoted from assistant cashier to assistant vice-president of State Planters Bank and Trust Company, effective July 1. He had been elected assistant cashier in January, 1951.

Dr. Bernard Dolsey has entered the practice of dentistry in Richmond. His offices are in the Lee Medical Building.

Dr. William C. Day, who received his doctor of dental surgery degree from the Medical College of Virginia in June, has been awarded a fellowship for graduate study at the University of Nebraska. He has begun his graduate study in Lincoln, Neb., where he also has received a residency in a hospital.

Richard Flax was married in June to Miss Evelyn Cansino in Richmond.

1950Recipients of degrees from Harvard University in June were William B. Astrop, master of business administration, and Lewis T. Booker, bachelor of laws. Bill Astrop was one of 180 men who were commissioned on September 11 at Newport, R. I., as officers in the I avy's supply, civil engineering and medical corps.

Born: A daughter, Nancy Lynn, to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Menkes, of Deal, N. ]., on July 3.

Married: Miss Janie Elizabeth Tune, of Halifax, Va., to James Richard Sease, of Richmond , June 20 in Richmond. They are making their home in Richmond.

Married: Miss Maryglen Cooker, of Jacksonville, Fla., to Walter John McGraw, of Richmond and Long Island, N. Y., August 15 in Jacksonville, Fla. They are making their home in Lexington, Va. The Rev. Ernest L. Harris, III, became pastor of Bybee's Road and Beaver Dam Baptist Churches in Fluvanna County July 21.

Edward L. Dunford has accepted a position with United Paper Company in Richmond since his discharge from the Navy after a two-year tour of duty.

Married: Miss Sharon Jean Chandler, of Adairsville, Ga., to Julien Carlton Picot, Jr., of Richmond, July 18 in Adairsville. Mr. Picot was discharged from the Army September 19.

Married: Miss Shirley Mae Minnick, of Union Bridge, Md. , to John A. Reynolds, of Richmond , June 13 in Union Bridge. They are making their home in Richmond.

Myron Yagel and Mrs. Yagel (Bobbie Brown , Westhampton , '50) are having a second honeymoon in Europe. Bobbie said " This blue, blue Mediterranean, with its rocky coast, seems like something out of a picture book. " Kenneth William Easley, who is now doing chemical research at the Chemical Corporation, Decatur, Ark., has collaborated on several articles which have appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Chase S. Decker has been awarded a William Emlen Creson Memorial Traveling Fellowship by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts of Philadelphia which entitles him to four months travel in France, Italy, and Spain. He has had two paintings with the Virginia Artists' Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and received his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in June.

Ensign Thomas L. Howard , USNR, was aboard the Baltimore, the ship that represented the U. S. in England during the coronation. Since then his ship has been all over the Mediterranean, where he has visited Cannes , Algiers, Trieste, Venice, Istanbul , Athens, Sicily, Rapallo, Naples and Mallorca. They have also participated in naval and amphibious exercises with other units of the Sixth Fleet and NATO forces.

Edward L. Dunford is now employed by the United Paper Co. after serving a two-year tour with the Navy.

William B. Astrop and Lewis T. Booker have both received degrees from Harvard University at commencement exercises on June 11. Astrop won a Master of Business Administration and Booker was awarded a Bachelor of Laws.

1951Robert Richard Hutchison is scheduled to marry Anne Morrell Gibson (Westhampton, '5 1) in October.

Welford Lee Harris is now employed at Southern States Cooperative as a Staff Auditor. Prior to this he was Clerk of the Chesterfield County School Board.

Robert Lynwood Coffman was married to Miss Anna Lee Lutz Bowman August 22 at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church.

David R. (Dick) Hensley and his wife, Helen Clarke (Westhampton , '51) are proud parents of a boy, Dick, Jr., born August 13. Dick, Sr., is now coaching football at Winchester, Ky., high school.

The Rev. William G. Pitts has accepted the pastorate of Hebron Church in King William County after serving a field of churches in Chesterfield County.

E. S. Snead, III , after a year at Dun & Bradstreet, is now with Richmond Newspapers, Incorporated, in the Display Advertising Department.

John A. Richman, Jr. is presently engaged as an electronics technician for the U. S. Navy and is stationed in the Caribbean area around San Juan.

He reports that "the climate is terribly humid and conducive to lazy habits and long siestas."

Curtis D. Oakes has rejoined the Virginia Food Dealers Association after being with the State Grocers Association as field representative from June 1951 to April 1952 when he left to represent the United States Slicing Machine Company in the Roanoke-Richmond areas.

Beverly Frost Carson was married to Miss Anne Harwood Reese June 27 in the Wakefield Baptist Church.

Also married was Aaron Hathaway O'Bier, Jr. His wife is the former Miss Kathleene Anderson Cooke. The rites took place June 14 at the Main Post Chapel, Fort Bragg, N. C. William G. Shahda has completed all but his thesis on a master of Business Administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now living permanently in Richmond .

1952Army Pvt. Theodore F. Adams, Jr. recently completed a course in chemical warfare at the Eta Jima Specialist School in Japan. He entered the Army last October and is now serving as a radio operator.

R. Forest Persons was married to Miss Barbara McCraw (Westhampton , '53) July 18 at Pocahontas Baptist Church in Bassett. The couple will make their home at Fredericksburg.

Jess H. Walters received his master's degree from Emory University, Ga., at commencement exercises in Jun e.

John Patrick Graybeal, now an ensign in the U. S. aval Reserve was married to Westhamptonite Miss Jill Lobach , Class of '52, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron , Ohio, July 18.

Charles H . Kelly was also married. He and Mi ss Clara Faye Oliver took their vows August 22 at the Crewe Baptist Church.

Theodore F. Adams, Jr., is now serving as a control tower operator in the Korean Communications Zone Air Section.

Richard R. Ryder was named assistant United States district attorney for Eastern Virginia Augu st 4. Active in Republican circles in Richmond , he will serve as a regular assistant in the Richmond office. Before this appointment he served as a hearings attorney for the State Division of Motor Vehicles and was chief enforcement attorney for the now defunct regional Wage Stabilization Board.

Pvt. C. Norman Woerner is on a tour of duty in Newfoundland with the U. S. Army.

Lawrence Coleman Zacharies was married to Miss Jacquelyn Virginia Reynolds June 13 at St. Bridgets Catholic Church in Richmond. Mr. Zacharies is currently studying medicine at the Medical College of Virginia .

Malcolm M . Hutton has entered the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C. after serving as pastor of Deep Run Baptist Church since last October .

S. Franklin Foster, Jr. has won the bars of a Navy ensign. His home is in Brookneal.

Ernest Cadell Broske will complete theological education at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond soon. He is studying for the Presbyterian ministry and plans to serve in Los Angeles , California.

1953Clyde D. Nuckols is stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga. with the U. S. Army . After his term of service is over he plans to enter Yale or Westminster to prepare for the ministry.

Tomas Pollard , likewise, has planned to enter the ministry and is now studying at the ColgateRochester Divinity School in Rochester , N. Y. Jacob H. Kelly , III took second prize in the 1953 will draftsmanship contest sponsored by the Virginia Trust Company. Dorman T. Hall received an honorable mention award of 50. Mr. Kelly's award was $125.

Sidney Sprinkle, credit manager for Cities Service Oil Company, was re-elected president of the Richmond chapter, National Institut e of Credit.

William J. Carter is among 55 graduate students enro lled for a year of study at New York University's School of Retai ling, where he holds the Miller & Rhoads Scholarship.

Marshall Soghoian has built three pieces of electronic laboratory equipment for alma mater at a saving of about $2,700. Amon g his projects was an oscillographic polarograpa mathine which detects minute quantities of metal in solution. Valu e of the three pieces of equipment was estimated at $3,000, and the cost was $300. His other two projects for the university were an electroniccontrolled cathode reduction apparatus and a high frequency titrimeter.

Charles Hilmer Winberg was married to Mi ss Carolyn Swann How ard June 27 in the Chapel of Myers Park Baptist Church, Gastonia, N. C. The couple is now residing in Arlington , Va. Russell Lyle Cheatham, Jr. wed Mi ss Jeann e Elizabeth Gouldin g at St. James Episcopal Church on June 21.

Al Coates is now at work in Newport News with the Daily Press.

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Secretary MRS. PALMERHUNDLEY(Helen Hancock) 3021 Noble Avenue, Richmond, Virginia

I am really proud of our Class in its response to the Alumnae Fund Jetter. It shows that 1919 still has real college spirit.

One of our most faithful members is Adelaide Walton Cowherd. We can always count on her writing us a most interesting Jetter each year. She lives on a farm in Virginia and her husband is a member of the State Board of Agriculture. They have had Jots of fun farming together and rearing a large family of four daughters and one son. Their son, who was in his third at the University of Virginia, was called into ,the Armed Forces of his country this year. Adelaide writes she is looking forward to being at our Reunion.

Members of our Class still make the headlines.

Virginia Karnes Wright was recognized for her outstanding work as Postmistress in Roanoke in many of the Virginia newspapers recently.

Our Reunion is not far off-just next Spring.

Be sure to make plans to come and bring pictures of the family, children, grandchildren, in-laws and what have you.

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MRS. E. L. DUPUY (Catherine Little) 703 Beechnut Lane, Martinsville, Va.

The only news item this time is a change of add ress for myself. I am now living at 703 Beechnut Lane, Martinsville, and I am still teaching in the consolidated county high school. Betsy Andrews, one of Westhampton's June graduates, is teaching English just down the hall from me.

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Secretary: Miss JEANETTEHENNA 3902 Chamberlayne Ave., Richmond, Va.

With the help of the class of '26 and a few other alumnae we have presented Westhampton with a lovely portrait of Miss Lough. Please make a trip to the college to see it.

Leslie Sessoms Booker's son, Lewis, graduated last June from the Harvard Law School. Her son Rusty is in U.S.A. Tank Corp. and is now attending Army leadership school.

SteJJa Hubbard Taylor's son, Wattie (Washington Taylor , Jr.), was graduated with honors at Woodberry Forest School in June. He was awarded the medal in physics, the Rensselaer Polytechnic medal for excellence in math. and science, and a scholarship to Yale University.

Muriel Saunders and her sister, Gladys, toured England and Scotland this summer, visiting an aunt and several cousins.

Valeria Arrington Bonney and her husband stopped in Richmond for a few hours in August to visit Miss Lough on their way home from Virginia Beach, where they spent their vacation.

Helen Wilkes Mabry was badly burned and has been at Johnston-Willis Hospital (Kensington and Colonial Aves ., Richmond 21, Va .) for six months and will be there for quite a while longer. She would enjoy hearing from all of you.

Our sincere sympathy is extended to Virginis Moncure in the death of her sister, Elizabeth, last spring. Virginis is now living at 6 N. Linden St., Richmond 20, Va. Please-all of you-send me news of yourselves, husbands, children , and grandchildren. If any of you would like ,to have the address of any member of our class, write to me and I will send the latest one that we have on file.

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Secretary: MRS. T. J . LOVING (Virginia Kent) Stage Junction, Virginia

Members of '23 who have daughters in the Freshman Class at Westhampton this year are Elizabeth Hill Schenk, Rosa Sanders Thomas, Virginia Epps Field and Katharine Essex Clark. These are the second daughters for Rosa and Virginia.

Due to a printing error ,the names of Elizabeth Gayle, Olivia Hardy Blackwell and Elizabeth Hill Schenk were omitted from the list in the last ALUMNI BULLETINof those who returned to Westhampton in June for our thirtieth reunion.

I enjoyed seeing Miss Lutz, Miss Lough, Dr. Loving and Camilla Wimbish Lacy at Betty Snead's wedding in Fork Union in July. Betty is the daughter of Virginia Jones Snead, '19, and a member of the class of '52. Camilla told me that Han nah Coker visited her this summer in South Boston.

Hannah has bought a home in Richmond. Her address is 5311 Tuckahoe Ave. Tuck and Ethney drove up to Fluvanna Co. to see me one afternoon in August . We had a wonderful .time swapping news and discussing plans for a future class project. Accompanied by Olivia, they had previously visited Lelia Doan at her home in Petersburg on Sycamore St. Since then Lelia has moved to 104 Filmore St. Ethney's son, Thomas Headlee, is in the Navy and on a six months' cruise of the Mediterranean and its ports. Tuck told me that when speaking at the Franklin Baptist Church this summer, she saw Gertie Williams who lives in Franklin.

Those of you who have not heard will be interested to know that Miss Lutz will be on sabbatical leave next year. She plans to leave for Hawaii in February, where she will study at the Un iversity of Honolulu .

Elsie Morgan Anderson 's niece, Betty Stembridge, is president of the Junior Class at Westhampton this year. She is also on the Miller and Rhoads College Board.

Ruth Powell Tyree and daughter returned to America from an European tour on August 20th on the Queen Mary.

I have had very interesting letters recently from the following members of '23 who were unable to attend our reunion: Melba Harvie Booth of Danville has a son who is an architect in Los Angeles, a daughter at Southwestern, Texas, and a son, John, a Junior at Richmond College.

Polly Simpson Bar.ton, whose home is in Oregon, was too far away to return, but she is planning to accompany her husband to the meeting of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, Va., in November. She bas a married daughter in Pittsburgh, a married son teaching Latin and Greek at Kent School, Conn., another son at the Medical School of the University of Oregon and a twelve year old daughter.

Ardys Hauser Gwinn writes that our reunions always come at the wrong time of the year for her to attend. Ardys teaches Math in Portsmouth where she lives, and the first week in June is her busiest season. She has one son who graduated from Wake Forest and is now a Naval Air Cadet at Pensacola, Fla. Sallie Davis is planning to spend her vacation this fall in Denver with a week's tour of Colorado and a visit to her family in Virginia.

Rennie Parks Rue wrote, that altfiough she had no news to report, she was looking forward to reading '23's column in the BULLETIN as she enjoyed keeping up with our classmates.

Bernie Whitlock Bowles is one of the busiest women I know. She is now living in Annapolis, Md ., where her husband is stationed as Director of Chemistry in the Electrical Engineering Department at the U. S. Naval Academy. Besides teach-

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ing, participating and holding offices in numerous educational and civic organizations, she has reared a family of three. Her oldest son, Page, a captain in the Air Force, has been stationed in Germany for four years and is now on leave completing his degree at the University of Maryland. The youngest son, Fred, attended Richmond College one year and is at present in the Naval Academy. Mary, her daughter , graduated from Westhampton in 1950 and has since married.

Thanks to all of you who contributed material for this Jetter. I hope that others will write me their news before the next BULLETINgoes to press.

My youngest son, Richard Edward, graduated from V .P.I. in June and was commissioned in the Army . He is now stationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J. in the Signal Corps.

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Secretary MRS. DAVIST. RATCLIFFE (Idaline McVeigh) 6 Hillside Road, Baltimore 10, Maryland

Mary Glenn Waller (Mrs. W. E. Lacy) wrote to me this summer. She was staying home and enjoying having her two girls ( 17 and 14) at home. She said that ""the big one was the little one." In May she went to Washington for a visit and saw Buck Ashton for the first time since 1927 and they had a wonderful time catching up with each other.

Buck Jost her mother quite suddenly this summer. Our sympathy goes out to her.

Gladys Sanders took a trip ,to England and Scotland for her vacation.

Evelyn Davidson (Mrs . William Randolph Ward) is teaching Math at St. Catherine's again this year. Her youngest daughter, Kitty , is in the tenth class there . Craig, Evelyn said, plans to teach Art in Norfolk and the other daughter will be a Freshman at Hollins.

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Secretary: MRS. Loms S. CRISP (Louise Massey) 216 N. Madison Street, Staunton, Virginia

There's been little or no news since Reunion.

My family, Louis, our eleven year old son, William, and I were in Washington the week after our weekend in Richmond. I talked with Betty Sherman Cole and told her of our "doings." She was so sorry to have missed, but was still recuperating from an operation and the loss of her mother late in the spring. Ed Cole is still with the Department of State. They have a lovely home in Chevy Chase, Md. There are three children, Betsy and Ann, teenagers, and seven or eight year old Edward.

Gray Robinson French was busy getting her two daughters and herself ready for two months of Girl Scout camping at Woodstock, Va ., and her son for a trip to the West by plane to visit his father's family.

Kay Moore Tharpe was planning a trip with her mother to Mexico City to visit her brother.

Later, during the summer, I bumped into Beverly Neale Kluttz at Massanetta Springs Summer Encampment. Beverly was working in the Presbyterian Publishing House Book Store during the week of the Women's Conference.

In August there appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch an article about teachers' clothes, and one of the accompanying pictures showed Elise Stephenson, biology teacher at John Marshall High School, modeling a brown faille suit, suitable for classroom wear. Elise looked wonderful. We missed her and so many of the Richmond girls in June.

By now Sarah Cudd Gaskins has gotten her eldest daughter, Nancy, off to college near Spartanburg, Elizabeth Taliaferro Hudson's daughter is back for her third year at Stuart Hall in Staunton.

Ethel Pond Brinkl ey's eldest of three daughters, Betty, is a sophomore at W esthampton and Margaret Chapin Perry's Sue is a junior at our Alm a Mat er.

I am back teaching seventh grade Social Studies for the third year after a long absence from school work. William is in one of my classes and that creates a little problem, but so far we have not let it bother us.

Write me more news about yourself and those we would like to hear from.

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Secretary MRS . MILDRED

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5101 Powhatan Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia First , let me ask each of you please to send me all the news that you know about yourself or anyone else in our class. There are several whom I haven 't heard anything about for so very, very Jong. Please, too, begin to make plans to attend our reunion in June, and let's just be girls again!

In the early summer, I saw Virginia Snow Richardson in Charlottesville. She had had a letter from Ruth Hale, telling of her mother's death.

Virginia also told me that her son, Howard, was entering the University of Virginia in September.

Stuart Lesher Scarborough 's son, Paul, Jr., was on one of our local television programs this summer and said tha t he was entering Virginia in September. Clare Johnson Wayt's son, Howard, has enrolled in Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

My daughter, Jane, entered Westhampton this fall. Virginia Perkins Yeaman's daughter, Ann Carol, is a sophomore this year.

I saw Roma Laches Gustin at May Day and met her daughter, Jackie, who graduated at Westhampton in June . It was good seeing Roma after so many years-she said she was teaching school.

Ruth H averty was back for May D ay, too.

I stopped by Clare Johnson Wayt's this summer and who should come in but Frances Schofield.

She had just spent a week at her cottage on the Potomac. Frances told me about her trip, of a year ago, as a visiting professor in State College of Washington . She was invited out there to lecture on nutrition by the President of the College and spent the week in his home . On her way back she visited in Oregon and San Francisco .

Clare told me that Mary Wright had been studying library science.

Ernest and I are planning a trip north in October and are including a visit with Billye Williams Thomas and her husband, George. We'll certainly talk about our reunion in June. Let's all come back one hundred per cent.

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ported, but it was worth it. They spent a leisurely two weeks touring Nova Scotia and took in everything of interest, including the famous Tidal Bore, caused by the unusually high tides in the Bay of Fundy .

Evelyn Dun can Sadi and Buena Perkins Myers had visits home this Summer . Several of the class had telepho ne chats with them.

Evelyn Gardner Ward and Marie D eatelhauser visited their famili es in Hampton in August. Katherine Hesby was to meet them for lunch when she had to go to the hospital. Both Katherine and I had similar hospital experiences this Summer . My surgery proved to be minor, but Katherine had a longer stay. At this wr iting she is much better and is back at home .

Evelyn Ward has come back to the States to live . She is now living at 1579 44th St. N.W., Washington, D . C. Colonel Ward is at the Pentagon.

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Secretary CHARLES W. SCARBOROUGH (Z ephia Campbell) 5109 Sylvan Road, Richmond, Virginia

I surely wish more of you could have gotten back for Alumnae D ay in June. Katherine Hesby, Eleanor Ewell, Phyllis Perkinson, Helen Deck and I were on hand to hear delightful talks by Mary Ellen Stephenson and Rhea Talley. This year we had four Seniors at each table for the luncheon and we really felt our years hearing ,those fresh young things talking about wedding plans .

Helen had a wonderful vacation this Summer.

She and the children drove to Boston , then got a boat for an overnight trip to Yarmouth. H elen said she nearly bought a share of Eastern Steamship Lines to get herself, children and car trans-

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Vacations carried us far and wide. Laura Thornhill spent the summer in Europe and we are waiting for some details of her trip . Louise Sanford and Anne Jones Berkholtz took trips into Canada and the Cape Cod section . I would be delighted to have news of some of the rest of you.

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nue. She's been working on copy this Summer for the Miller and Rhoads Christmas catalog .

Geneva Snelling tells me that Dr. Freeman 's executors have retained her as one of the four members of his staff who will prepare his Volume VI on Washington for publication by Scribner 's in 1954 . To quote Geneva: "I quake in my boots when I think of the scholars waiting to go over this volume with a fine-tooth comb."

Three of our "children" were featured in tne Sunday Times-Dispatch this Summer. There was a story in July about Eleanor Ewell 's Pat and her association with the theatre groups here. Pat is a sophomore at William and Mary this year.

Almarine Franklin's son Wilbur was the subject of a nice picture and story about a boat he was bui lding . He is in his first year in mechanic al engineering at VPI this Fall.

Frances Gray, Jane 's daughter, had her picture in with a group of models who were showing "Back-to-School " clothes. Fran worked at Berry-

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Burk this Summer and did some modeling. She is a Senior at Thomas Jefferson.

Helen Redford's picture was in the News Leade,in September, the same smiling Helen we knew in college. She was given a surprise birthday party by her young adult Sunday School class at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. Helen teaches at Robert Fulton School on week days.

I ran into Bertie Flippo in Thalhimer 's in August. I hadn't seen her since graduation. She is teaching math in junior high in Arlington. She mentioned seeing Nelle Johnson at the University of Virginia this Summer. I told Bertie how disappointed we were that she didn 't get back for our '52 reunion. She said she had to be at school that day. She didn't want to ask off because of her "record." She hasn't missed a day from school since 1935 !

Speaking of reunion reminds one that plans are now getting under way for a Richmond 1932 Club -but more about that next time!

1933

Secret ary

DYSON 1500 Wilmington Avenue , Richmond, Va. Our reunion lingers on. In all the correspondence no one in Richmond ever heard from Mary Ruffin Jon es Ma son, Ruth Langl ey, Katherine Muir e Carlton or Margaret Neale Moger. They are our '"missing members." If anyone has any news of them, please notify the class secretary.

Archie Fowlke s enjoyed a motor trip this sumMISS GERTRUDE

mer and attended the Barter Theatre in ·Abingd on.

Mollie Moorman Simpson, with her family, spent July at Virginia Beach where her parents had a cottage.

Kat Harris Hardy and her husband recently attended a convention in Roanoke. Ed has just opened his own accounting office.

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Sec{_etary Mas . C. M. TATUM (Gladys Smith) 2105 Rosewood Avenue Richmond 20, Virginia

Sue Cook McClure Jones and two of her children visited her parents in Richmond in July and then toured the rest of the U. S. before returning to their home in California. Estelle Veazey Jones, Betsy Marston Sadler , Beverley Bates, Harriet Walton, and I had lunch with Sue Cook, and we all enjoyed seeing her and talking together. Mary Pat Early Love was unable to be with us for lun ch, but she did arrange to meet us for a few minutes' conversation. Sue Cook is still as attractive as she was in college. We 're looking forward to her return for our reunion in 195 5.

Rhea Talley returned from Europe in September.

She went first to Paris and then toured Netherlands and Germany and visited friends in Switzerland. She went to Rome and Florence and she liked Florence especially. She returned to Paris for another visit before sailing . More than this little space would be required to describe all the interesting people she met and the unusual things

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A. PITT 4303 New Kent Avenue , Richmond 26, Va. Congratulations are in order for Betty (Kelley) and Paul Conley . Their son, William Harvey, was born on August 16. The youngster tipped the scales at 7 pounds, 5 ounces.

The teaching profession has reclaimed the full time services of one of its very own. Mary Ellen Stephenson has resigned from the deanship at Mary Washington College and is now carrying a full schedu le of teaching and is in charge of the Mary Washington Spanish House-Framar-at College. Her address remains the same except that her new Box Number is 1042 .

Elizabeth (Chapman) and Homer Wilson have moved to 103 Westham Parkway, Richmond. Their new telephone number is 88-1445.

Along with the necessity of meeting deadlines and trying to literally "scare up" news for our class, this business of being your reporter often brings up opportunities that are unusual and most pleasant. In the latter classification falls the conversation with Lu Frank Cherry Dr e!!. When I talked with her, she had been in Richmond only a short time and she was ready to leave to meet her husband in Europe. They will remain in Europe for three years. Lu Frank said she will send us her address as soon as she gets settled over there. I shall pass that information on to you as soon as I get it.

Because several of you sent checks to our Memorial Fund after the deadline was reached for sending the list to the printer, I am asking Mrs. Booker to include in this issue a complete list of all who contributed to the Westhampton College Alumnae Association during the 1952-1953 term.

They are as follows: Alice Turner Schafer, Lyndele A. Pitt , Virginia Burfoot, Anna Castelvecchi Del Papa, Mildred Crowder Pickels, Martha Cosby Rucker, Sarah Covey Bradford, Elizabeth Chapman Wilson, Marguerite Abbott McGuire, Esther Figuly, Marjorie Pugh Jabb, Louise Callison, Alice Ryland Giles, Maysville Owens Page, Ann Kincannon Rutherford, Margaret Bowers, Mary Ellen Stephenson, Margaret Watkins Weatherall, Florence Marston Harvey, Helen D enoon Hopson , Helen Falls, Mary Watkins Brock Clevinger, Elizabeth Conwell, Alice Pugh Barty, Beulah Gregory Tharpe, Sarah Poole Botkins, Lou White Winfree, Kathryn Ellis Fox, Martha Riis Moore, Esther Walsh Dutton , and Frances Bowers Jones.

We are delighted with the support our class gave the Alumnae Association last year. Now that we have given more thought as well as money to the group, let us be sure to keep up with its many activities and benefits. It is good to get together at local and national. We hope the meetings-both to see you at Homecoming and all the other meetings. In the meantime, please send in any news about yourself and other members of our class.

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Class Secretary Mas . A. L. JACOBS (Scotty Campbell) 807 Henri Road, Richmond, Virginia

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third child, Samuel John, was born in July.

Ruth Hauser wrote a nice letter with a check ,enclosed which came while I was at camp. She has been working in the Chrysler Bui lding in New York for eleven years.

Margaret Harris Quick and family spent the ¡summer in Phoenix, Arizona where Jack was sent 'by the Reynolds Metals Co. on a special project.

Petey, the two boys and I spent a glorious summer at Camp Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains, where he has been a counselor for fifteen years.

Don 't forget the Alumnae Fund!! And don 't forget to write me some news! !

1940

Secretary MRS. VERNON C. KIBLER (Doris Hargrove) 2 Berkshire Road, Windsor Farms, Richmond, Virginia

The time for sending in Alumnae news for the rail BULLETIN rolled around before I realized it, -consequently I had to call several of the 40's to my rescue. Lucy Baird, Elsie Mattingly Di_ckinson, and Marian Sibley Parham called the Richmond _girls. I wish to thank them for the news which they gathered and for their willingness to serve.

Cards were sent to the out of town members.

Sometimes the news you send may not appear in the BULLETIN. Do not be discouraged for I assure -you that it arrived too late, but will certainly appear in the next issue.

In this fast moving world the 40's keep moving -about. Margaret Ligon Bernhart wrote that she now lives in Springfield, Ohio, at Mercy Hospital, where her husband is interning . They have been furnished a house by the hospital, and the address is 1400 Pythian Avenue .

Vista Robinson Gettier's husband is the minister of the Princeton Unitarian Church in Princeton, New Jersey. He served as supply minister during the summer at Exeter , New Hampshire.

Mary Sue Carter Patterson is in England with her husband, who is Bureau Manager of the London Bureau of the United Press . Dell Williams Smith says that she wrote her glowing letters of her trip. Mary Sue's address is: c/o United Press, 30 Bouvrie Street, London, E.C. 4, England.

The husbands seem to be making the headlines of this issue. Lucy Sisson Higgins' husband is teaching with the State Apprentice Program at the Virginia Mechanics Institute.

This summer found several of the girls taking nice trips. Claire Francis was much impressed with the Baptist Sunday School Conference at Massanetta Springs. Lucy Baird was in Bermuda for a week.

She left by boat from New York, and returned home by plane . Kathleen Francis took a motor trip to Canada. Her itinerary included Thousand Islands, Algonquin Provincial Park, and Ottawa which was still decorated in honor of the coronation. Dot Roberts spent the summer in Maine with friends. Jane Frances Davenport Reid and her mother took the two children to the summer hotel at Woodberry Forest School.

When I talked with Jane Frances she said that she was busy working on the decorations for a dance sponsored by the Junior Board of the Retreat for the Sick. Helen Smith Moss was recently elected to that Board.

He len Smith Moss was recently elected to membership in the Florence Nightingale Circle, and had also just retired as President of the Commonwealth Woman's Club.

Our deepest sympathy goes to Jane A ler VanLeeuwen, whose father, Rev. Robert E. Aler, passed away suddenly on August 14th.

Marie Keyser Jordan and John were in town this summer, with their two children. Leigh Keyser Jordan was born May 4th. Congratu lations to you and John.

D eborah Brann Scott was born May 7th. Ruth writes that she is their third girl-the boy Jimmy is the oldest.

Vernon and I are enjoying our new home even more since a little fellow came to live with us .

D ouglas Mason Kibler was born July 15th.

Patsy Joblin is living in New York at 135 E. 39th Street. Patsy, please let us know what is new in New York.

Elsie Mattingly Dickinson is a student again.

She has an art class once a week at our A lma Mater.

It will be greatly appreciated if anyone can give me the addresses of the following: Margaret Brinson Reed, Eunice Flannagan Holland, Maureen Fugate Shandrick, Katherine McCarty Keys, Virginia McLarin Tate, and Elizabeth Marsh Jones.

1941

Secretary: MISS EVELYNV. COSBY Bon Air, Virginia We extend our sympathy to Patsy Garrett in the loss of her father and grandmother. Patsy is now back in Richmond and has her own radio show on WRVA at 7:30 P.M. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Bitsy Epes Hardy forwarded to me a card announcing the arrival of Martha Ranqall de Vos on July 19. Congratulations Martha Lillian and Francis.

Antoinette Whittet writes: "Mayme O'Flaherty Stone's grandmother died in July. Many 4l 's knew her as 'Nannie' and loved talking with her." On behalf of the class, I wish to extend Mayme and her family our deepest sympathy. Toni also writes that she saw Kay Leviston Krug in Miller and

Rhoads and she had some news to pass on. Mildred Owen Stanley is in Blacksburg now and lives near Kay. They see each other at A.A .U.W . meetings.

Kay is a 1st Vice President of the Junior Woman's Club in Blacksburg and saw Lib Henry Belcher and Jane Massie at the Convention in Roanoke.

Kay and family were spending the summer with her mother in Richmond and Bob was workmg with a scientific group here.

Ann and Milton Bonifant are back in the States after a stay in Germany .

Kitty Crawford Lindsay was in Richmond in the early summer. The class enjoyed her article on her husband in the last issue of the ALUMNI BULLETIN. The Whittets spent a month near Black Mountain, North Carolina this summer and took a trip to Washington in August by plane with the two oldest children, Connie and Robert who have never flown. They were also in New York on September 23rd when the family returned from Europe on the Flcmdre.

In June, Naomi Lewis Policoff's husband, Leonard was awarded a United States Public Health Service fellowship for a two-year period of research and training at the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia. He is the first local recipient of such a grant.

Now that the vacations are nearly over why not write and tell us about them . My plans for a vaca-

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If you don't find time to write and are in Richmond call me up at Miller and Rhoads during the day on extension 340 or at night on 88-0086 .

1942

Secretary MRS. R.R. CRUTCHFIELD(Kay Gillelan) Box 40-Al, Route 1 Virginia Beach, Virginia

Norma (Palmer) and Bill Coghill seem to be partial to girls-their third daughter , Christy Anne, was born on June 24th. Norma wrote they have even acquired a pointer named " Lady" and said "Bill is now complete ly and happily resigned to loving in a predominantly feminine household."

Ruth Farley Linthicum has been kept busy working at all the odd jobs required by a new house.

Unfortunately , their vacation plans for Ocean City did not work out too well. On their arrival they received word their niece was in the hospital with polio so they returned home immediately .

Allene Jones Patteson writes that they have been transferred from Florence to Naples and like it even better. There is a larger American population in Naples and better facilities for service personnel. A new daughter, Nina Jeanette, arrived March 17th. So now with two boys and two girls

and, as Allene wrote, with riding herd oh a black Cocker and a German Shepherd the Patteson household is full of activity. Piggy Wilson Humphrey spent 11 days with them in Florence in May and Allene wrote they had a marve lous time .

Laura Jenkins Cornell is still living in Ghent, N. Y. and is kept on the jump with her growing family . They added a little girl to their family of three boys.

Eunice Bass Browning and her family vacatio ned at Ocean View in July. Emmy Fountain visited them there. Emmy is still studying and teaching music in Norfolk .

Ann (Smith) and Ed Pallazzo took a wonderful trip through the Smokies this summer and were completely carefree--little Edward stayed with Ann 's mother .

Marylou (DuVal) and Dick Sawyer and their three children spent two weeks with Marylou¡s parents this summer. Their oldest child, Susan, celebrated her 6th birthday August 29th and has been looking forward all summer to her first year in "real school." Marylou wrote that Florine Mahone Palmer is living in Hampton and they get together once in a while . Florine has three children , all in school, and she has been doing substitut e teaching. They took an early summer vacation in New York this year . Our class is well represented in the Peninsula Alumnae ChapterFlorine is vice president, Marylou is secretary, and

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Virginia (May o) and Hank Dalbey are looking forward to an ear ly fall vacation. They are driving to Albuquerque to visit Hank's family .

Jean Beeks Marston had a lovely bridge party, so Ginny wrote, for Harriet Howe Byrider early in the summer. Harri et was in Richmond awaiting the arrival of her second child, Katherine Howe, born in June. Jean and Landon are in the process of moving to Clifton Forge this week. Keep us posted on your new address , Jean, and lots of luck in your new location.

Clarine Cunningham Bergren and her two boys have been in Richmond for the summer. They returned to the Azores, where David is stationed, the middle of September. Clarine has had some fascinating trips through Europe while they're been overseas.

News came to me via the grapevine that Frances Badenoch was in Richmond this summer on her vacation from California.

I have finally gotten the record straight on Christine Lawson. Her name is Mrs. Paul Plenckner and she is living at 4236 34th St., Mt. Rainier, Maryland.

LaVerne (Priddy) and Cal Muse had a nice trip to Long Island and New England. They combined business and pleasure and took little Tommy along.

He did better than they expected so all went well and 'twas fun.

Margie Wilson Glick is moving again. Her husband, Sam, is doing some building and they very often move into the new house, 'make it a home, then sell it. A nice change of scenery, but more work than you think, Margie says.

De e (Hall) and David Schenck have been on the move since February-Mobile to Atlanta to New York to Maine to New York and now to Connecticut. For the next year Dee and David will both be teaching-remedial work with children who have some specific language disability, for the most part. They spent the summer practice teaching at a camp school in Maine which they found quite an experience. Dee 's new address will be: The Rectory School, Pomfret, Conn.

Wendy and B. G. Cline visited us this summer .

We had a marvelous time, despite hurricane " Barbara" hitting, leaving us sans electricity for 36 hours . But we made out beautifully, doing such things as having a picnic breakfast on the beach .

I was glad to have this column to get busy on today. I'm feeling a bit glum and blue--just said goodbye to Bob this morning for five months. His ship sailed for duty in the Med for the winter and now the coming season looms as an endless eternity .

The house is really empty-both girls started school today, too.

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I have just finished looking through the scrapbook and since it will be many weeks before all of you have the same opportunity, I'm passing on some of its later news to you by the BULLETIN. Anne Arwood Sheedy ( the only one who remembered the September deadline with a letter) has moved back to Richmond after a summer of criss-crossing the country by car-11 ,000 miles since June 1. Her new address is 4815 Chamberlayne Avenue, Richmond 27, Virginia.

Reba Booker Fox and Earl have moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where he will be practicing medicine .

Barbara Fuller Cox and her husband have returned to Hampton after a year in Pittsburgh.

Dolly Dorsey Garwood wrote a long letter from Munich, Germany where they are stationed for three years. She and Dave have been touring Europe .in their leisure time, and her account of their experiences sounds like a travelogue. You'll each have a chance to enjoy it as the scrapbook comes your way.

One scrapbook item that particularly interested me concerned Betty Hogan's being elected president of the Roanoke Society of Medical Techno logists and includes a picture of her taken in Trinidad.

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:Somehow I'd lost track of Betty's activities. Do keep us posted, Betty.

Harriet Lewis Goodman and Puff Poteat Humbert are both in new locations. Harriet is in Texas with Harold for the two year period he must serve as a doctor for Uncle Sam, and Puff is "temporarily" Jiving in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Lt. Georgie Simpson, U.S.N. had planned to be in Richmond for the reunion, but the chance to visit Yosemite Park instead was too wonderful to miss. She writes that her 150 "children" keep her more than busy.

I missed a very important item in the last BuLI.ETIN. Louise Wiley Willis' third child, a boy, was born in the late spring and was a husky baby when I saw him in June.

Pepper and Bob Hathaway stopped by for a delightful visit with the Moore 's on their way to Ocean Drive, S. C. in June. (They even brought the dog!)

Donald and I have had a busy summer with one wonderful week at the beach to bring it to a close.

Before the next deadline I hope to hear from each of you. Let's not any of us get "lost" during the next five years!

1944

Secretary MRs. W. A. STANSBURY (Ann Burcher) 2617 Tillett Rd., S.W. Roanoke, Va.

We are all proud that Billie Jane Baker was elected vice-president of the Alumnae Association in June. I was late getting to Richmond and missed the 1uncheon and election of officers, but Warren and I did make it to the banquet which we enjoyed thoroughly in spite of the shortage of '44's. Millie Cox Goode was there-busy behind a serving table.

You may have read in the Summer BULLETIN that Skee Goode is the new president of the Southern Paper and Supply Co. The Goode's shared a cottage at Myrtle Beach with Bob and Pepper Hathaway 's family for two weeks in July.

Ann Gordon was our June bride. On June 26 she became Mrs . Vernon Neblett. Vernon is a VPI graduate and is with Wise Contractors in Richmond.

Summer brought four additions to our cradle roll-Lois Hester Blackburn and John announced the arrival of Diana Elaine on June 8.

The Graham's, Mary Alderson and Billy, had another son on July 12. The baby's name is Gordon Scott, and his brothers are "Brokie" ( age 6) and "Randy" ( age 3). Billy and Mary have just enlarged their kitchen and added a den and a garage to their house.

On July 16 Priscilla Brooke Hill arrived and added confusion to the Hill's moving preparations.

Dot and Stonie's new house was completed early in September, at 124 Duke Drive , Portsmouth, Va. Dot writes that young Brooke is not a quiet baby"For a while she kept the whole neighborhood awake with her yowling. The other kids are fine.

Fleet ( age 7) is excited about going to a new school, and Bobby is in nursery school."

In August, Dave and Barbara Gray Clayton became the proud parents of another little girl. Hollis is two years old now.

Frank and Dot Darracott Duarte recently bought a ranch-type home at 8501 Whetherly Drive in Richmond. They have two boys-Ed (age 7) and Scott ( age 4). The Duarte ' s vacationed in Maine this summer and stopped by to see Barbara Krug Evans in Pennsylvania on their way back.

Bob and Ann Thurston Filer and "Randy" have moved into their new house at 6121 Hampstead Ave., in Richmond.

Mimi Hill Boynton, Doug and Bruce have a rustic house in a woodsy dale just outside of Roanoke. The address is R.F.D., Box 646E, Roanoke, Va. Doug is with Hayes , Seay, Mattern and Mattern, an engineering firm.

Evermond Hardee Daniel and family have moved to Monroe , N. C. where their new address is Rt. No. 5, Griffith Rd. Clayton has accepted a job with Tool Service Engineering Co. in Monroe.

Evermond and the girls relaxed at the beach for the month of June, and "got fat and tan."

Ruth Jones Wilkins has moved from Richmond

to Harrisonburg where she is the new dean of women at Madison College.

Molly Warner began her vacation by running a summer camp. Later she took a trip to New England with Norma Sanders and completed a course at George Washington before settling down to teaching again.

Dee Dee Howe Kirk writes that they are all excited over Bill's new real estate business-"Kirk and Co. opened their offices on September the first.

Bill is specializing in commercial and industrial properties. We are training Fleet to be office boy!"

Confusion will undoubtedly result from our two "F leets"-Dot Hill's girl and Dee Dee 's boy.

Over in Honolulu Kay Hanley Wery is still combining her job with household duties. Along with humoring a tempermental washing machine, she is learning to sew. Clay is a "rabid gardener" and is responsible for their yard of amazing tropical flowers. Kay sends a "big Aloha to everyone."

1945

Secretary: MRS. HOWARDB. CONE ( Elizabeth Parker) 7317 Alycia Ave., Richmond , Va.

It has been so wonderful hearing from you all and seeing all the grand pictures you've sent. I have received lots of material for our scrapbook and can always use more.

I heard from twenty-seven of the fifty-nine letter s that I wrote. What happened to you other gals?

Most everyone had grand vacations. Libby Kibler Keibn and Ruth Hiller Powell were at Niagara Falls for theirs. Ann Clark Howe visited in upstate New York . Jane Woodward Tondettar also toured N. Y . state. She is very anxious for you girls to come to see her when you go to N. Y. Ruth Maris Wicker and Jane Wray McDorman did their vacationing by short trips to the river and beach.

Jen Lea Yancey and Scott are planning a trip to New Orleans in October. Betty Lawson Dillard and Les have had fine trips to Savannah, the Greenbrier and the beach .

Mary Campbell Paulson made a visit to Minneapolis in June and was a delegate from the Newport News Branch to the National Convention of the AAUW. Bitsy Rosenbaum Hurwitz and family vacationed in Virginia and Connecticut. Doris Mills will be going to Biloxi, New Orleans and Fort Myers, Fla., in October.

Frances Crowder Laird writes that she was

elected first vice-president of the Richmond Branch of AAUW in the Spring.

Ann Seay Jackson wrote news of a son, now over three months old. Congratulations to the Jackson s and also Doris Colley Berger, who wrote that they had a son born January 17.

Lydia Crabtree Love and husband spent five weeks in the U. S. in June and July. They live in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nancy Lazenby Stable's husband won the Silver Star for his part in Korea and she was mighty proud to write us this news.

Lillian Beck Youell and family spent three weeks enjoying the beach and the river. I had a long letter from Carrie Trader Dunkard bringing us up to date on her family. They have been in their home two years. She has seen a few W. C. gir ls recently and enjoyed that so much.

Elizabeth Whitehorn studied Spanish at Middlebury College, Vermont , this summer. Ruth Latimer has been doing a wonderful job helping out in the polio epidemic in Bristol. She was chief delegate of the State Chapter of the Physical Therapy Association that met in Dallas, Texas, in June.

Nat Heller Moore writes that her husband will be out of the service in January and they will be leaving Virginia for Union, ' N. J. Nancy Leslie had a terrific operation this summer, but she is able to be back in Martinsville teaching again this year.

I had a wonderful vacation at the Greenbrier on tobacco convention and a few days at Virginia Beach. Those places certainly do spoil you though.

It is a real pleasure being your new secretary and I do hope that you will write often, send pictures, clippings, and everything of interest to our class.

1946

Class Secretary MRS. D . J. HOWARD , JR. (Alta Ayers) 5637 Lester Road, Apt. 4, Cincinnati 13, Ohio

I've had two letters from Mary Frances (Bethel) Wood since our last BULLETIN, despite the fact that she was busily preparing for the little daughter who arrived August 21. They named her Catherine Ann. She weighed 7 lbs. 15 oz. at birth and we do congratulate them on their fine little girl.

Mary Frances spent some time in Richmond this past May and was surprised one evening with a baby shower at Dina Lambeth Shotwell's-Barbara Ritchie Branch, Lelia Phillips, Lucy Harvie and Bev Ryland were among those there.

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Barbara 's son, Ware, was born last November.

David finished his internship at the Medical College of Virginia in July but they hadn't decided on their next stop .

Ding has two children, their second being a girl also. She was born March 16 and is named Jo Ann. Lynn, the older child, is just over two. Ralph, Ding and Lynn had a grand vacation at Nag's Head this summer while Ralph 's mother kept Jo Ann. Earli er, they left both children with Ding's mother and celebrated their 6th Anniversary at Tides Inn in Irvington , Virginia where they had a glorious time .

Virginia Gibson Stewart was in Richmond last fall and worked at Miller and Rhoads while Frank was in England. She was there a only a short time though, for Frank was sent back to Shreveport, La., so she went there to be with him. They are expecting Frank to be discharged next year.

Jeanne Yeamans and Lelia Phillips had another trip to New York - this time a "weekend at the Waldorf ." They went to the Metropolitan opera and saw "Haz el Flugg" and " Cinerama ."

France s Bleight Elliott was in Richmond this spring. She now has two children . Bev saw Helen Mump er Dunnavant who has four girls-the last two being twins .

Cornelia Reid Rowlett and B. J . have moved into their new house and their new address is 618 Graystone Road, Charlotte, N. C. Connie has been quite sick but is home from the hospital and feeling fine again.

Anne Jones Parker wrote Mary Frances that Don now has his C.P .A. certificate. She said Donald was a big boy and kept her pretty much on the run. Ann had heard from Marie Peachee Wicker who has a new job at N. C. State which she likes very much.

Jackie Hodges Walker wrote me a wonderfullv long letter in June. Their oldest child, Henry, started to school this fall and the others are Ellis , who was five in March , Jacqueline who was 3 in August and Ann Carter who was two August 27th .

Hank has finished his second year of teaching at Mt . Vernon High School and they had been living near the school- and about a mile from Mt. Ver non itself. Jackie said it was lovely there - with two acres for the children to roam about but rather isolated. They were buying a new house, though, when she wrote and hoped to move in the last of June . It is south of Alexandria in a section called Groveton-a 3-bedroom, one story house of brick and frame construction. Jackie says it's wonderfully convenient to everything. Her new address is

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Pat Husbands Burton, Bill and son, Mark, had visited Jackie August of '52 and Jackie hoped to see Pat and family when she went to Chapel Hill, N. C. this summer for her sister , LaNeve 's, wedding. LaNeve also attended Westhampton. Pat's in Durham which is quite near there.

Jackie talks to Ann Ware Fry occasionally. She and Bill are in a new house. Ann did substitute teaching this past winter and was very busy during the virus and flu epidemics .

Ruth Smith Tschan spent the first part of the summer in Deltaville , Virginia. She and Martha went down first while Donnie stayed with his Dad to finish first grade. They had a fine time together, Ruth said , and then Don put him on a plane and Ruth met him in Richmond .

Dowell and I went to Virginia for our vacation during August and we saw several of the girls. I had lunch with Bev Ryland and Nook Richardson Phipps. Bev had taken a trip to the British West Indies and had visited Jinx Booth Armstrong, whose husband, Tucker, is a captain in the Marine Corps . Jinx and Tucker have three boys. They live in Puerto Rico.

Nooky brought her daughter, Becky, by to meet D. J. and the two of them appraised each other as only children will do. Nooky taught last year but doesn't plan to continue this year.

I stopped in at the Richmond Public Library to see Frances Anne (Beale) Goode. She and David have a new house at 5430 Dorchester Road in Richmond .

Cora Lynn Chaffee Goldsborough and husband, Henry showed us some lovely color slides of their June wedding and of their honeymoon spot"Brookdale on the Lake" in the Poconos. Cora Lynn's and Henry's wedding was on June 27 'in the Westhampton Methodist Church . Isabelle Gunnels Snyder was Cora Lynn's matron of honor and Lola, one of her bridesmaids . Jeanne Pebworth Gammon acted as her mistress of ceremonies so our class was well represented. Cora Lynn and Henry are living in the apartment Cora Lynn previously had so all of you have their correct address. Both of them are working.

Bev Ryland plans to teach in Richmond this fall in Forest Hills.

I think that's all the news for now except that we have moved since I last wrote--into a larger apartment. Please note our new address and write me often. It happens that Proctor and Gamble is sending Dowell to Philadelphia for three weeks in

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October and I'm hoping to take the children home so perhaps I' II see some of you before this Jetter reaches you . D. J . is eagerly looking forward to another trip to "Grandfadder's ."

1947 Secretary Miss !SABELAMMERMAN 6000 Crestwood Avenue, Richmond, Va. Well, summer and those wonderful vacations are over and, although your newsy letters have been few and far between these last few months, we do have some "items" for you.

Speaking of vacations-Betty O 'Brien really traveled far and wide in two weeks . She went first to Syracuse, N. Y. , wher e she visited Claude and Marie Walthall LeSieur, then on to Montreal, Quebec, New England, the New Jersey beaches and home. Marie is now working for General Electric and seems to like Syracuse a lot but says she still misses Richmond.

Lavinia Watson Reilly and her son, Robin, came east this summer and stopped in Richmond for a short visit. It was so good seeing her and that big boy of hers is a honey!

Majie Wingfield Webster was also back in Virginny this summer. Ed, Majie and their son, Earl Parker, visited her home and came down to Richmond one afternoon. The trouble is these out-oftown gals just don't come back often enough!

One of our out-of-town girls has moved back to Richmond-we 're glad to report-but we also "lost" a Richmonder ! You just can't win! Betty Tinsley Andrews and Dick moved back from Williamsburg and are now living at 3203 Enslow Ave. Dick is working for the Century Sprinkling Co. again . Frances Coles left Richmond August 1 and moved back to Halifax, Va. She is working in the new South Boston hospital where she is in charge of all the labs.

Mary Cox will be moving to Williamsburg after her wedding to William Edward Anderson on October 10. Betty Tinsley Andrews is to be one of her attendants.

Another wedding this fall is that of Polly Jones to Charles Cousins. They are being married on September 26 and will live in Colonial Heights.

Margaret Goode Vicars and Joe, who were married June 27, are now living in the Cavalier Apartments in Lynchburg, Va. Another wedding on June 27 was that of Verda Sletten and Milton Hobbs which took place in Hopewell.

Dottie Hughes Freitog and Dean have left Vicksburg, Miss., and are now living in California.

Dottie, what is your new address? We also understand Beth Decker has moved-Beth , where are you? Bev Patton Browne and Bob Love moved also and are now living in Bon Air .

Mimi Daffron Honigan and Jack Love bought a house here in Richmond. Their new address is 3801 Hanover Ave. Carolyn Storn Patti and Harry have also bought a new house. They are now living on Guthrie Ave. here in Richmond. Their new daughter, Laura Page, was born May 24.

Another new arrival is Elizabeth Burton Cumby who joined Guy , Guy, Jr., and Marylou Massie Cumby on June 11.

We were all so distressed to hear that John Miller, Marion Collier Miller's husband, was stricken with polio this summer. He is still in the hospital in an iron lung but-we are glad to report - is improving. I'm sure all of you join me in wishing him a speedy and complete recovery .

Elsie Minter had a wonderful trip this summer.

She went on a tour of South America and reports a wonderful time.

Do write those letters to your group leaders and keep us informed. Remember, that's what makes these letters possible. Don't forget the Alumnae Fund!

1948

Richmond, Virginia

Secretary: MRS. JACK B. WILBOURNE (Sarah Bishop) 136 Robertson Ave., Danville, Va.

If we were to choose a classmate of the year, the laurels for ¡53 would go unanimously to Sugar Carlton Bowman. The forty girls who attended the June reunion buffet dinner at Sugar 's have all

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complim ented her gracious handling of that monumental occasion . Sugar says all the work was done by the wonderful Richmond group. If you didn't see the reunion picture, you missed a treat -not a day of these five years showed! The scrapbook which Jo Hoover Pittman compiled is in the custody of Flip Orrell Dunn . She'll be delighted to give a private showi ng whe n you are in Richmond. The group decided to keep a scrapbook up to date so it won't be such a tremendous task collectin g material next reunion time. Wilma Lum is custodian. Be sure to put Wilma's name on your mailing list for all announ cements and items of interest. Wilma's address is 1731 Brandon Ave ., Petersburg , Va. Pat Adams and Helen Condyles both chose August for their wedding dates . Pat became Mrs .

Robert G . Woodhead III on August 8. Eleanor Pitts Rowan and Boo Koltukian Cowles were attendants. Pat and Bob are now at home at 570 E. Faris Rd., Greenville , S. C., where Pat will teach the Fifth grade. August 16 was the day Helen Condyles and Paul Constantine Couphos were married. Helen will teach Latin and English at New Brunswick High School. She and Paul are now livin g at 271 Powers St., New Brunswick, N . J. Sally Taylor is abandoning teaching and is enrolled as a business student at R.P .I. She has an apartment at 909 Floyd Ave. Sally has taken over the group leader responsibilities from Betty Hardin Elmore who had many other obligations taking up her time. Incidenta lly, Sally had a letter from Ann Gi ll. She hasn't been missing-just working hard.

The youngest of fifteen history teachers at Norfolk's Maury High School, Ann will be heading that department this year. Quite an honor for her.

Ginna Herndon and Jackie Jeter 's annual jaunt didn't materialze this year but Ginna did fly to Louisiana to visit her brother. There were quite a few fascinating sounding tours taken. Alice Goodman went to D enver to the International Christian Endeavor Convention and was able to see the sights of Chicago en route. Dottie Floyd took a whirl through New England before sett ling down to some new edito rial duties at the Princeton University Pres s. Maria Carter Satterfield spent a month at Cape May, N. J. with her two girls, Alice and Mary Minor . Betty Stansbury got her tan at Virginia Beach and Sugar Carlton Bowman enjoyed her visit to Myrtle Beach . Hannah Barlow has tried her skill at mountain climbing and scaled some of the Japanese mountains. She is beginning a new assignment with the Women 's Missionary Work. Pat Fuller Gat lin was due for a long awaited trip back to Virginia. Shirley Sollod Schwartz was home for a visit from Chicago. Ann McK ee Coulbourne enjoyed her southern vacation before returning to Madison, N. J. They plan to make their home in Jacksonville , Florida, about D ecember 1. Peggy Stone Cunningham is still showing championship form on the tennis court.

She won an important match this summer. I don 't know how she does it with those two lively boys she has.

Bobbie Freed Roberts has moved to Springfield, Illin ois (address P.O. Box 1005) and by now has plunged into a round of interesting activities .

She has become a member of the local theater gui ld.

The first production is Bell, Book and Candle in wh ich her husband has a part and Bobbie is und erstudyi ng the lead. As a sideline she's studying oil painting.

Our baby cup girl, Peggy Schaeffer, has a little brother, Joseph Kirk, born July 30. Congratulations to Arleen and Joe. All our newest arrivals make two children in their respective families . Ann Elizabeth was born June 26 to proud parents, Jo Hoover and Bob Pittman. Joel Robert came home Jul y 15 to Sarah Brenner and Milt Rubin . Emily Di etrick and Troy Burklow welcomed their daughter, Lynn, on August 10. Anne Bruner and Tommy W oo had their son, D avid Thomas on September 6. Congratulations to all five families .

Get out your patched-up address list and I'll give you the rest of the changes. D id you know that we're now scattered in 22 of the 48 states plus D. C. and Japan ?-Jean ne D ecker Sw_ank, 1002 Garden Place , Glenshaw, Pa.; Betty Hengeveld Bradshaw, 8206 Cedar, Fairchild, Washington; Ann e Brun er W oo, Box 81, Lyndon , Ky.; Bobby

D eane Kolcum, 7003 Thornrose Ave., Apt. 3, Richmo nd ; M argaret Elliott Ownby, 4001 Grov e Ave., Apt. 5, Richmond; Elsie Keyser Robinette, Buras, Louisiana; Sarah Brenner Rubin , 1910 Shenandoah Ave., Richmond; Pat Parlow D aniel, 18 Shawnee Ave., Tuckahoe 7, N. Y.; Ann Bowie Clark Little, 7401 D elaware Ave., Hammond, Indiana; Betty Chamb liss Holcomb, Belspring, Virgi nia ; Emily Di etrick Burklow, 122 E. Newkirk Lane, Oak Ridg e, Tennessee. Take the time to w rite an old friend a letter and drop me a lin e when you can.

1949

Secr etary MISS H ATHAWAYPOLLARD 4701 Bromley Lane, Richmond, Virginia

Tiny, but oh so valuable bits of news are the littlest '49ers . Oldest of the group, William Townes, IV , joined Bill and Kitty Wyatt Townes in April. Next in months supremacy is Charl es Martel, son of Martel and Olive Trader D ailey, who was born the last week in July. Just a mite younger are the August arrivals. Jack and Rosie Calhoun McCarty's daughter, Lenora Gwyn was born August 4. Ne lson and Ruby Patterson Weber 's son, Franklin Patterson, picked August 11 for his birthday. And so did William Carlyle Gill, III, the son of Bill and Mimi Anderson Gill. Also in August , another daughter for Rusty and Bangs Shaw Warren, and a son Raymond, III, for Ray and Beth Wilburn Hooker. Very youngest of th e group is another son for Buddy and Nancy Berry Hulcher , who was born in mid-September.

To continue one item I started last BULLETIN, Jean Moody was married in April to Stuart Vincent, of Emporia, with Harriet Smith and Ida Eanes Patrick as attendants. My last BULLETIN comp laint that I did not know the groom's name brought Id a quickly to the rescue. Jean and Stuart live at 4042 K Street in Philadelph ia, where Stuart is stationed with the Army.

Ida 's letter included news of several other '49ers.

Cyn Patrick Lawson and son Jay were spending the summer in Hampton, with plans to move to Richmond this fall, where Jack is serving a fouryear residency in surgery at McGuire Hospital.

Lou Winn McCutcheon, Ben and Julia are now in Texas, where Ben is stationed with the Air Corps. Bill and Elaine Leonard Davis had plans of moving to Norfolk, where Bill had accepted appointment as Assistant District Attorney. Latest development with Ida , Woodfin, and two-yearold son "Pat" is their new home at 4028 Monitor Drive, in Hampton. Ida extends a cordial invitation to all Westhamptonites to drop in whenever they are in the vicinity.

From several sources came word that Flo Gray Tullidge, Tommy, and Agnes are back in the United States. Welcome home!

And, with Flo returned, we have a new foreign correspondent-Lynn Gilmer Guilford, from Japan.

I have the letter she wrote Martha Hall and shall include as much as space permits.

"I flew to the west coast April 18 with little Lynn-reported into Fort Lawton, Seattle on the 19th and sailed on the 22nd. The trip over wasn't too bad, at least I didn't get seasick, but you can imagine 11 days with 225 small children running wild.-To say the least, I was awfully glad to see Bill as we docked in Yokohama.

"We have a nice little house at Sagamikara, near Camp Zama- about 20 miles from Yokohama . So far I like the Japanese as individuals-They are intelligent, hard-working and extremely anxious to please. They are always polite except on trains, where they are utterly impossible. I can't describe the trains except they are much like New York's subways. Only it is easier to ride a downtown New York subway during rush hours than to ride one of these at off hours.

"You should really see the shops out here .

There is so much to see that I am still in a daze.

-The only objection to shopping in Yokohama or Tokyo is the smell, but you get used to that. I've learned to breathe only when necessary."

Tha nks much for the communique from J apan, Lynn. We'll be looking forwa rd to more. Lynn's address is: Mrs. William B . Guilford 0-2021141 , 84th Ord. Tech. Int ell . D et., APO 343 c/o Post-

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master, San Francisco, California.

Martha Hall also had news of Betty Fleshman, whom she had seen in Charlottesville. Betty was attending X-Ray Technicians' School at the University of Virginia Hospital.

Audr ey Bradford and Harriet Smith have returned to Richmond to resume teaching at H ermitage High School. Ann Morano is also teaching at Hermitage this year.

Jackie Cunningham wrote of a summer spent recuperating from an operation, visiting friends at Madison College, Orkney Springs, and Williamsburg . Th is fall she returned to Powhatan, where she is sch9ol librarian , and a busy participant in school, church and Eastern Star activities.

From Anne Carter Kraft came news of Julie Moller , Sally Van Dyck Wood, and Marilyn Alexander Kubu. Julie is interning at the University

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of Illinois Research and Educational Hospital, after spending the summer with her family in Caracas, Venezuela. Sally and Art vacationed in Cape Cod; Boston; and Westchester, New York.

Marilyn and Ed, who are living in Northfield, Ohio, vacationed with Ed's family on Long Island.

Frances Hix received her master's degree in religious education from the W.M.U. Training School in Louisville, Kentucky, in April, and is now secretary to Dr. Reuben Alley, Editor of the Religious Herald. And, in true '49er tradition, Frances has changed addresses. The new home, which she shares with her mother, is at 103 Alton Street , Richmond 22.

Helen McDonough Kelley, Matt, and Helen Elizabeth are living at 4926-B Eubank Road, Lewis Gardens, Sandston, Virginia. Matt has joined our Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation Research Department as chemist with the organic group.

Rip and Libby McNeal Claybrook and son Rick are living in Colonial Beach, where Rip is principal of a school.

Betty and Fred Dick and children spent July in Easton, Maryland while Fred served as locum tenens for an internist , and have returned to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins this fall.

1950 Secretary PEGGYWELLS 214 West 30th Street, Richmond, Va. Tim e to dry out your bathing suits, peel off the sad remains of your sunburn, and haul out your long red undi es .. . winter's just around the corner.

But before we progress too far into the season, let's get caught up with the many summer activities of the Class of ¡so.

Southbound to Nags Head , N . C. were Dot Maddox Sykes and Neil for a week's basking in the sun. Al so in North Carolina were Joanna Maiden and her moth er. They were at Ridgecrest for Foreign Missions Conference . Joyce Betts Pierce, Jack, and Lin have recently moved into a new apartment here in Richmond upon returning from a trip to K entucky to visit relatives. Nags Head seems to be a popular spot , since that's where Barbara Coleman spent a week this summer . The Basil Morrissetts enjoyed a month at a cottage on the Rappahannock, and the William Gravitts vacationed two weeks on the Potomac. "Lorrie" Chapman accumulated a batch of sore muscles during a week at hockey camp in the Poconos. Janice Brandenburg Halloran, Charli e and little Stuart buzzed over to

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man Oakley, who is teaching at Woodrow Wilson W. Va. to show the new offspring to some of High School. Wilda 's popularity with those teenCharlie 's relatives. Doris Lee Reeves competed with the cosmopolites of New York City while agers is shown by the fact that she is sponsoring she spent a few days' vacation there. Peggy King the February and June Senior Classes. By the grapevine we hear that Mary Howard Holloway is Nelson and little Winnie spent three weeks at Peggy's home in Massachusetts. Lou Covington teaching in Petersburg this year. Martha Harris spent a glorious three weeks in camp at Virginia has an interesting title as secretary to the Executive Officer and Engineer of Roanoke County at the Beach at the Baptist Lodge. Seems she recommends Courthouse in Salem, Va. She is also one of the loafing as a pleasant pastime . . . which many Deputy Registrars for Roanoke County. She and people have discovered during the past three her sister, Imogene, spent part of their vacation months.

Five classmates got "helpmates" since the last with the family at Jacksonville Beach, Florida. issue of the BULLETIN. On May 2 Libby Rowse Jane Edmonds is back at Glen Echo this fall after became Mrs. Robert Wilson at her home in Lexspending the summer at home and working as a ington, Mass. After honeymooning in Maine, they secretary for most of the vacation months. Mary drove cross-country to California where they have Lee Rankin is located at Williamsburg as Baptist bought a roomy new home in Arcadia, California.

Student Secretary at the College of William and Besides being a housewife, she has a part-time job Mary. The class joins in extending its deepest symas a secretary. Following in the same steps of pathy to Mary Lee and her family in the Joss of matrimony was Margaret Buck when she became Dr. Rankin.

Mrs. Rosser Lee Wayland, Jr. on June 20th. She Barbara Beattie Fanney and "Skip" have moved and Lee have a five-room apartment in Danville, to Ann Arbor, Michigan where "Skip" will be and she's fast becoming the experienced housewife working on his Master's in Public Health at the after three months of married life. The stephanotis University of Michigan . We hear from Marjorie blossomed for Julie Wann and AI Pittman, who Parson Owen that she and Ralph vacationed in were married on August 21 in Washington, D. C Washington, D. C. visiting Ralph's sister. She They plan to live on the campus of the Divinity has been very busy this summer being an indusSchool in Rochester where Al has one more year trious housewife and mother. From the sound of of study . Julie plans to teach the fourth grade the contents of her deep freeze, we' JI all drop in there in Rochester. Wedding bells tolled the very on her this winter for a good home-cooked meal. next day on August 22 for Doris Balderson and Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy have recently gotten David (Banty) Burbank . They were married on settled in a ranch-style home in Edgewood on the the lawn of her parents' home in Northern Neck. outskirts of Elizabeth City, N . C. Ludie Hickerson Attendants from our class in the wedding were Wiley and Doug will be located this fall near Jean Tinsley Martin and Bernie Arey. Also present White Plains , N . Y . Doug will be doing further at the wedding were Helen Lampathakis Kostyal , work on his Doctorate.

Barbara White Balderson, and Libby Givens Pierce.

Betty Sims Lqving and Robert have recently The Burbanks have made their home in Richmond. moved into their newly built brick home in the August 22 also proved a popular and eventful day suburbs of Goldsboro , N. C. Also, along ihe for Bettie Lane Barnhill when she became Mrs. architectural line is the home of Vivian Betts William Rutherford Phillips Wilson. They plan Lewis and W. P. Their new abode is a ranch-style, to Jive in his home state of South Carolina. one floor home located in the West End of RichAt last we 've tracked Alice Clarke Lynch down mond . It's nice to hear news of those who are and found that she and Robert have a sixteen becoming home-owners. months old boy, Charles Patrick. In a few months We hope you all enjoy reading this issue as they are planning to move into their new home much as we have enjoyed putting it together. The on Hanover Avenue. Helen Lampathakis Kostyal coffee and laughs at Audrey 's house were great. and Dick have a new addition , Kristen Leigh, born June S, who missed the last issue of the BULLETIN 1951 Secretary: by scant hours . Gracie Clauter Keys is home in MRS. WILLIAM M. SCHOOLS(Frances Roanoke with eleven week old Marcus William.

Allen) Vernon, a Marine 1st Lieutenant , is in Japan, and 6841 Carnegie Drive, Richmond 26, Va. Gracie hopes to join him in the near future. We '51 's are really aging-with this Jetter we start are now able to release a few more accurate details on our second class secretary , and I will do my about Clarice Ryland Price and Fuzzy's new baby best to get the news to you. Charlotte Herrink boy. He is Wyndham Ryland, born in January.

Jones Jed us successfully through the first two years, We were very glad to hear some news from Pris but has now turned her duties over to me in favor Enslin who is now in South Bend, Indiana where of the role of "Mama." Charlotte and Bob are the she is the new Teen-Age Program Director for the proud parents of Robert Minor, Jr., born in AuY .W.C.A. Pris is pleased with her new position gust. Bob, Sr., has been transferred to Roanoke, and has gotten established in a new apartment. so they will be moving in a few weeks.

Emma Tilman Kay has recently gone to work with I had a nice long Jetter from Paula Abernethy: Southern States Co-operative as a seed-tester in She is planning to go back to Greensboro to teach the laboratory . Dot Warner Gardner is teaching this year. I know she will hate to settle down school in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is also honored again, as she had a most exciting summer. with another Westhampton graduate, Wilda Whit-

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Jane Slaughter went to South America this summer to the Baptist Youth Conference. She will be teaching music in Blue Mountain College, Mississippi , this fall. She now has her M .A. in Music . Betty Munsey also will be teaching , but this year it will be the first grade in Charlottesville.

Betty has an apartment with two girls and is having a grand time.

I have seen " Ibby" Gill several times . This will be her last year of school. Ann Plunkett Rosser was in Richmond this summer for a week end.

Buddy and the baby were with her .

Bobbie Brown Yagel and Myron spent a most fascinating summer touring Europe. They saw all of the interesting places and brought back many thrilling memories that they will cherish in future years.

Nancy Taylor John son writes that she and "Lit " are coming to Richmond to attend a convention.

Ernestine Allport Sasser is in Roanoke where Frank is taking his externship. I saw Joyce Gladding Thomas this summer at the beach and met her husband. They are living at Bowling Green , Virginia.

Jane Ellis Babb is back from Europe and was in Petersburg for a while. However , they will be living in Blacksburg this year wh ile Emerson does graduate work at V .P .I. Jane reports that while in Europe they had an exciting trip to Paris .

More weddings to report- Jeanne Goulding and "Dootsie " Cheatam tied the knot on June 20 in Richmond, with Jeannette Aderhold as maid-ofhonor. On August 8, Jeannette followed Jeanne's example and said the marital vows with " Pete" Brown. Jeanne in turn was Jeannette's honor attendant . Maryglyn Cooper and Wally McGraw were married in Jacksonvill e- Jean Lowe Bradley, Ginna Herrink and Betsy Bethune went down.

Also, there is one engagement to report-Rosie Varn is engaged to a boy at M .C.V. One step ahead of our newly-weds are our new mothers. '51 's are really adding to the enrollment of future U . of R. classes. In addition to Charlotte's baby, Marilyn Montague Harper has a little gir l ; Libba Eanes Baskerville has a son, Channing Fie ld, III; Lea Thompson Osborne has a girl named Ann; and Jo Hyche Baulch is the mother of a boy, born August 30. Little George Joseph weighed eight pounds and six ounces. Jo is still in Maine.

Mary Anne Hubbard Dickenson and Boyd have bought a house in Roanoke . Irene Blackburn Pierce has also moved, but is still in Richmond . Anne Rogers Crittenden is likewise moving to another apartment. Most of Anne 's spare time is spent playing golf and taking an active part in the A.A.U.W. in Wilmington . Busy girl! Mary Lee Moore Vinson has also moved to another apartment here in Richmond .

Betty Tredway Blake is going to teach English in Emporia while Pinky is overseas. Mar y Booth Watt is going to be a housewife this year, after spending some time at Sea Island this summer . We working girls will certain ly envy you, Mary Booth.

Barbara McGehee taught school at John Marshall this summer-no vacation from work for her.

Shirley Hall Murphy took her littl e boy to Pittsburgh for a visit. Sue Pitts went to Virginia Beach and Charlottesville. She has a car now, lucky girl.

Shirley Hoo ver went to the valley for her vacation.

Mary D eVi lbis Barton was in Richmond for a while. H er husband is now chaplain at a mental hospital in Loui sville.

H elen McCarthy Hopkins is in Indiana . Her husband is in camp. Could we have your new address, Hel en? Another wanderer is Bookie Maroney. She is vacatio ning at Mt . Kisco, N . Y., and then would like to work either in New York or Washington . Let us know your future plans, Bookie.

Now for our other world travelers . Helen Blackwelder is in Hawaii and sends back so many interesting stories that it is impossible to tell all.

She is on the island of Lai with only one white man there. She tells of eating such things as goat's eyes. I'm not too sure I envy her on that count. Ginna H errink is teaching this year in Venezuela. She has fourteen pupi ls, three grades , and one littl e girl who speaks German but no English. From all reports Ginna likes it fine down there.

I spent a most enjoyable and restful summer, but am now being rushed to death. Bill and I have both changed jobs. He is now branch manager of the Lanier Company , and I am teaching special students at Oak Grove here in Richmond . "Tobaccorama" has kept me busy every night since August , but it has been great to be dancing again.

Joy Hodgkins Legg and Sue Pitts also took part in this year's " Tobaccorama ." Many thanks to those who have helped supply the news for my first news letter .

1952

Secretary: Miss KATHLEEN COLE 30 Lexington Road , Richmond 26, Virginia Dear "52'ers," We've got lots of news this time so we won't waste another lineWedding bells chimed for Anne Gibson and Dick Hutchison on October 3 in Huntin gto n, W. Va . at a beautiful noon ceremony in Trinity Episcopal Church. Bridesmaids were Harriet Willingham and Barbara Cawthorne . Anne and Dick spent a wonderful honeymoon at Sea Island , Georgia , and returned to Ashville, N . C. to live. Dick is now connected with the Masonite Corporation in North Carolina .

Fannie Craddock has returned to Richmond to put her NYU retailing courses to work at Miller and Rhoads . Fannie , you will remember, won the first scholarship offered by M . & R. to study retailing .

Barbara Cawthorne has finally settled down to work in Richmond at Radio Station WRVA as secretary to the Public Relations Director .

I saw Jackie Jardine Wall and Bo at a football game in Farmville in September . She's still busy as Women 's Editor of the Farmville newspaper.

Sue Easley spent her summer in Richmond working at Thalhimers and has returned to Hope well to teach math again this year at the high school there .

Harriet Willingham has returned to Dayton , Ohio, to continue another year at her "Y" work.

Addie Eicks took off for California during the summer to rest up after her interesting winter at Radcliffe.

The class of '52 now has two sons. Nancy Ayers McClee s and Carl were pleased by the arrival of David Carl on July 21. A third one was added to the Anderson household on August 2 When John Wilton , Jr., came to live with Lelia and Wilton .

I received a very interesting letter from Lucy Dearing in September . Lucy plans to go to Germany next June 15 where she will marry D avid McGee, an army medic stationed there, and former U. of R. student. At present, Lucy is teaching a 5th grade in Haddonfi eld, N . J . By the way, Lucy says she has been trying desperately to get in touch with her ex-room-mate Lucile Hedley to get some advice about honeymooning in Switzerland, Lucile's second beloved homeland .

Joy Selby Scallon and her husband are excited about beginning work on their Masters degrees at the U. of Hawaii .

Jill Lobach Graybeal (bride of July 18) and her husband Pat are in San Diego, California, and not too far from Fred Lee Watson Stanfield .

Barbara Ferre is back in Florida for the year where she hopes to work for the State Welfare Board.

Sophia Zea attended summer school at the University of Virginia.

Betty Hurt Beasley and husband Bob are in Richmond, where Bob has entered M.C.V. Betty is teaching a third grade in Henrico County.

Beverley Randolph is an art teacher in the Richmond Public Schools. She's a "roving teacher," i.e. she keeps busy running back and forth to three different schools.

Isabel Sanford Rankin is enjoying married lif e and looking after Hugh in Columbus , Ohio. Izzy is teaching a second grade there.

Bertha Cosby King left in June to join husband , Hobson , in Japan .

Dian e Evans has a wonderful positi on as training supervisor with the McBee Business Company.

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in her own car. She's had quite a bit of work in Petersburg, so has been in Richmond a good part of the time.

Kathleene Cooke O'Bier is working at Dup ont in Richmond, and her husband, Juny, is studying further in Biology at M.C.V. Janie Tune and Jimmy Sease were married on June 20. Marian Lacy, Nina Landolin a Byrd, Betty Crews Watkins, and Lou George were bridesmaids . Jimmy and Janie are now in Richmond where Jimmy is at M.C.V. Bettie Snead Herbert and husband "P luto " are living in Richmond, where Snead is teaching second grade at Mary Munford School and Pluto is practicing pharmacy. They were married in Fork Union in July, and Betty Crews Watkins and Marian Lacy were bridesmaids.

Nina Landolina Byrd and Ray are living in Jacksonville , N. C. Ray is stationed at Camp Lejeune .

Clarice Underwood was married to Robert Gene Thompson on Sunday, August 30, in Danville.

They are living in Knoxville, Tennessee where Gene is studying at the University of Tennessee.

Becky Cumby writes that she received a diamond in June from William D. Blanton, a seminary student at Wake Forest . Becky plans to teach the second grade again this year in Roanoke .

Jeanne Hootman Hopkins and husband Pete have moved to Baltimore, and will be nearer Johns Hopkin s where Pete is in school. Jeanne is teaching music in East Baltimore .

Catherine Towler Gibson spent the summer in Augusta, Georgia, near where her husband, Ray, is stationed. She is teaching in Danville , Va ., this year.

Jackie Vaughan Rec.tor and husband Charlie moved to Fredericksburg the latter part of September. Jackie is now working with the Fredericksburg Department of Public Welfare .

Anne Brehme had a wonderful eleven weeks' tour of Europe this summer. Other globe trotters were Betty Edmunds and Charlotte Babb who also went to Europe and had a "fa bulous" time!

Betty Jarrett Nye and husband John are happily keeping house in Richmond . Betty is working at McGuire Hospital.

Dru Marshall Waring is back at Westhampton School this year . Her husband is doing graduate work at the U. of R. Sue Peters Hall is also at Westhampton along with yours truly . She's doing a wonderful job teaching art to the Junior Primary's up through 8th grade, plus managing an

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Alice Subley Mandanis and doctor husband John are in Savannah, Ga., and not in England as previously reported.

Lu Angell reports that she's pinned to Roy Soukup, a '51 grad of the University of Delaware.

Harriet Stubbs was married to Dave Johnson on October 17.

We understand Jane Ratcliffe is engaged. His first name is Don and we wou ld like very much to know his last.

Lou Tull started a new job in Allergy Research at the U. of Va. Hospital October 1.

Grace Collins is now Mrs. Edward lindb lum and is living in Richmond.

Peggy Whiteman Hohmann and her husband Corky are living in Colonial Heights. Corky is stationed at Camp lee and Peggy is teaching the fifth grade at Thomas Dale School in Chester, Va. Bev Gilbert Lovell and her husband are living in laurel, Maryland.

Nola Texley Breckenridge and her husband are stationed at Fort Sill, Okla.

We understand that Dizzy Stuart-Alexander had to leave the United States because her visa had expired . We' re all sorry to hear that.

Marilyn McMurry Rishell writes that she "loves" married life but keeps mighty busy.

I hate to end a letter with an unpleasant note, but a few group leaders complain that some of you never write and that they can't keep up with your whereabouts, etc. Please, please write and let us know where you are, who you are, and what you' re doing. let's keep the class united. And while we're on the subject, don't forget that our first reunion is in June.

That's all for now.

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Although we, as the latest graduates, are no longer resuming fall activities at Westhampton, an impressive number of us are finding ourselves busy at present with academic affairs, having joined the ranks of teachers instead of students.

Pat Moran is teaching fifth grade in Bethesda, Maryland, where her address is 5614 Southwick St. Doris Johnston is also occupied with fifth graders in school at Spotsylvania Courthouse near Fredericksburg. Ginny Hunt is living at home and teaching first grade in Chesterfield County. Betty Lear is another Richmonder commuting to the same county to teach second grade.

Bettie Kersey's family has moved to Richmond, where she teaches the fourth grade at Mary Munford School. Her address is 2604-C Monument Ave. In the vicinity of Norfolk are Ruby Vaughan, teaching Spanish and American History at Craddock High School; Natalie Mandel, teaching French and English; and Betty Jane Williams, commuting from her home to a Norfolk County fourth grade.

Carla Waal lives at 2261 Windsor Ave ., Roanoke, Virginia, the home of Rosa Ann Thomas.

She must surely be kept quite busy, for she reports that she is teacher of Eng lish, speech, dramatics, and mus ic at Woodrow Wi lson Junior High School. This summer she spent six weeks on a trip through northern California and Wisconsin where she visited relatives.

Rosa Ann Thomas enjoys having Carla near at hand to share her teaching experiences. Before assuming responsibility for the sixth grade at Wasena School she worked with children at the House of Happiness in Richmond during June and then was counsellor and nurse at Camp Alkulana, Virginia, for six weeks.

Marietta Carr, Beth Carpenter, and Jackie Gus tin are living together in Richmond and teaching the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades respective ly at Ridge School. We extend our sympathy to Beth, whose father died this summer.

Mrs. Forest Persons (Barbara McCraw) lives at 518 Charlotte St., Fredericksburg, Virginia, and is teaching in the Elementary School. She and Forest were married on July 22.

Page McCray, who married James lee Miller this summer, teaches near Charlottesville while Jimmy attends law School.

Kay Beale, after working during the summer at the State Office in the personnel department, decided to teach at Collegiate School for Girls in Richmond.

Gertie Kantner is pleased to be back in Richmond this fall and teaching at Manchester High School. Among the students she must tackle are ten members of the school's football team! She and Kay are keeping house with Mary Hurt, Nancy Carpenter, and Pauline Decker, who live at 1804 Floyd Ave. Mary Hurt works at the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company; Nancy attends Pan-American Business School; and Pauline is Religious Education Director at Calvary Baptist Church after having worked at the Bon Air Industrial School for Girls this summer.

Among the industrious girls who began working in June soon after college was over are Lois Moody, employed as a Service Representative with the Telephone Company in Baltimore; Nancy Fling, whose job is in the Accounts Department of Doctors Hospital, Washington, D. C.; Lou George, who secured laboratory work at Curles Neck Dairy and lived with Mary Hurt and Monty Wiley during the summer months; Methyl Young, working for an insurance company near her home; and Louise Hudgins, who is gaining valuable experience as a counsellor at the Industrial School for Girls in Washington, D. C. Alice Warner lives at her home in Richmond and is a typist in the State Office Building.

We are proud of the girls who have chosen to attend graduate schools this year. Betty O'Bannon is studying sociology at Tulane University, New Orleans, la. She worked on a playground in Falls Church this summer.

Jeanne Plunkett and Joy Mason are pursuing careers in medicine at the Medical College of Va. Virginia leSueur, who with her parents and Ruby Vaughan spent six weeks this summer on a trip through the West, has entered graduate

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school in government at Columbia University. Her address is 417 W. 120th St., Apartment 5-A, New York 27, New York.

Gayle Mepham is taking up occupational therapy at R.P.I. this year.

Mary Kathryn Manuel, who is sporting a "new" used car, drove up to New Hampshire in late August for a church conference . She is now educational director for the First Baptist Church in Winchester, Va ., and lives at 142 N. Washington Street.

Margare t Anderson was married to Orrin D_ Morris on June 12 at Fulton Chapel in Richmond.

Orrin is a pastor and she works for the Southern Bank and Trust Company.

Betty Davis, now Mrs. Hugh Cocke, will reside at 230 Ohio Ave., Providence 5, Rhode Island, until October when Hugh gets out of the service.

Sue Bentley became Mrs. James Fein on June 27.

Present at the ceremony besides Marietta Carr, ancy who was an attendant, were Harriet Wheat, O'Neill, Jo Fugate, Gayle Mepham, Nancy Fling, Jane Wilcoxon, Lois Moody, and Methyl Young.

After a trip through Maine and Canada, Sue and Jim went to live in Winston-Salem, N. C. Guests at Pat Shomo's wedding included Jo Fugate, Nancy Fling, Jackie Gustin, and Methyl Young. Harriet Wheat and Jo Deter were her attendants. Harriet and Pat later participated in Jo's wedding, while Lois Moody, Jackie Gustin, Betty Andrews, Nancy O'Neill, and Jo Fugate were present.

Ann Helms was married to Samuel B. Taylor, Jr., on September 6 in Portsmouth, Va. Mary Hurt was a bridesmaid and Jane Lanier, '54, sang. Ann and Sammy live at 401 Hanover St., Fredericksburg, Va., while he is stationed at Quantico with the Marines.

The wedding of Mary Creath to James A. Payne, Jr., took place on August 29. Attending Mary were her sister Alice Creath, '55, Betsy Phillips Pulliam, '52, Ann lewis Payne, Ginny leSueur, and Ruby Vaughan. The couple lives at 3607 Chamberlayne Ave., Richmond, Va., where Jim attends Union Theological Seminary and Mary teaches at St. Christopher's School.

Harriet Wheat is planning to be married on Thanksgiving evening, attended by Nancy O'Neill, Jo Deter Sullivan, and Methyl Young.

Best wishes to Betty Andrews, who became engaged to Bill Rhudy in July. He is in Dental School at the University of Buffalo and she is teaching English in Martinsville, Va. Gladys Tatarsky's address is R.F.D. 12, Box 395, Richmond, Va. She works at the life Insurance Company of Virginia.

Alice Gardner spent a busy and varied summer at camps in North Carolina and New York. At present she works at the YWCA in Louisville, Ky. Dottie Hicks Silverman now bas a daughter whom she and Staff have named Constance. They still reside in Richmond.

Your reporter had a delightful trip to the west coast and Canada during August soon after which she began teaching History and Latin in her own home town. Her most acute problem so far is getting the pupils to call her "Miss White" even though they remember when she was still in high school herself.

By the next issue we hope to have received everyone's address and more news about each girl.

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At the head of the parade will be the Homecoming Queen, a lovely Westhampton College student who has been chosen by the vote of the combined bodies of Richmond College, Westhampton College, and the Business School. The Queen, who will be crowned at the colorfu l half-time ceremony, will present the Homecoming ti;ophies to the winning organizations.

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Our Secretary, Lillian Jung, is preparing a combination letter and questionnaire about such items as ( 1) a New Jersey card party ( 2) sectional meetings ( 3) a business girls' luncheon ( 4) a New York theatre party ( 5) our formal winter meeting. Please, you New York Club members give these items your most careful consideratio~ and help us formulate the kind of schedule of activities most interesting to you!

The Peninsula Club President: MRS. A . W. PATRICK, JR. (Ida Eanes), 4028 Monitor Drive Merrimac Shores, Hampton , Va . ' The executive board of the Peninsula Chapter of the Westhampton Alumnae met in the new home of Mrs. A. W . Patrick , Jr. , to make plans for the comrng year.

The. president announced the appointment of Catherine_ Smith Spratley , '49, as librarian and Anne Smith Palazzo , '42 , as publicity chairman.

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return an hour later : the masons never came!

We shared a large house with the presidente, who with his son, nephews, and some friends occupied a room next to ours, and with an Indian family, whose ways of living were very different from ours. Before coming to Jalacingo, they had lived in an area where very little Spanish is spoken, and among themselves often used Mexicano. Panchita, a mischievous little seven-year-old proved to be a good teacher, once she overcame her shyness-she insisted that she didn't know any Mexicano until she saw that I showed respect for the language and for her know ledge of it. Many people are ashamed of speaking it because it pu ts them in the Indian, which usually means poorer and lessrespected, class. Pancha always concerned us, for we wanted her to go to school, but her mother insisted that she had to watch the chickens or tend to the three younger children. When she finally consented to let her go one day to the first grade, Pancha wanted to return, but to no avail. After her grandfat her died, they told her that if she goes to school, he will come back to life again-t hat this has happened before! Finally we resigned ourselves to teaching her numbers, part of the alfabet, and to write her name.

She is very intelligent and wants to learn.

In Jalacingo we ofte n found ourselves in unusual situations. W hen Panchita's grandfather was about to die after a long illn ess,

Three meetings were planned for the year. Mrs .

Edward B Palazzo wi ll be hostess for a bridge party October 28. The mid-winter meeting will be a covered dish supper. A tea for present and prospective Westhampton students in this area is planned for the spring.

Richmond Club President: MRS. BOATWRIGHTLYNCH (Evelyn Boatwright), 23 Clark Road, Richmond, Va.

Of course there will be the big Christmas party in the reception room of Keller Hall on December 13 at 3:00 P.M. for all children of alumnae.

Lillian Belk Youell and Ann Seay Jackson are working hard this fall to assemble a yearbook for the Richmond Club . It will contain the names of the club's officers, program of this year, vital club statistics and a directory of names , addresses and phone numbers of all alumnae in the Richmond area. This list will include over seven hundred names and will be invaluable to all Westhampton alumnae.

The Richmond Club successfully opened the new season with a tea given for the new Westhampton students from the Richmond area . It was held at the home of Mrs . R. E. Booker , Alumnae Secretary.

Louise Cordazo (Mrs . R. Clifton) Long, vicepresident of the club was in charge of arrangements. The tea was well attended by many Richmond girls, the Richmond Club board and officers, Westhampton College Dean of Students , Miss Josephine Tucker and Dean Marguerite Roberts, and several professors. Alumnae and professors greatly enjoyed getting together with the prospective students and welcoming them to Westhampton.

The next event on the calendar will be the fall luncheon meeting at the William Byrd Hotel , October 24 at 1 :00 P.M. The speaker will be Dr. Paul Gregory, Richmond College professor.

The Club is expecting the usual big turnout in ~ovember for their card party. This is one of the biggest and gayest events and is always very popular with alumnae and their friends . It will be held in the gym at Westhampton at 8:00 P.M. on November 20. Frances Stallard will be chairman with Nancy Pettigrew assisting. '

Twenty-six students from this area who entered or resumed studies at Westhampton were entertained at a tea given by the Tidewater Club on Friday afternoon, September 11, from 4 to 6 o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. Stuart Grizzard (Barbara Eckles), Norfolk, Virginia.

Students invited were Jane Pope Andersen, Judith Mae Bernstein , Dorothy Ma e How ell, Margaret Kidd, Patricia Lorene Moore , Eunice Claiborne Parker , Helen Baird Steph enson, Carolyn Rebecca Temple , Louise Brown, Joan Jaye Levy, Jane Tew, Patricia Ray Tonkin, Betty Lewis Warren, Jean Adair Price , Felice Abrahm , Carol Brook s, Jean Burroughs, Mary Lee Gilbert, Leonora Sue Hunter, Kathryn Ann Kennedy , Frances Barbara Tuckmann, Patricia Anne Norman, Jan et Pace, Jean Jacqueline Merritt, Joan Carole Carpenter, and Virginia Murden.

we were called upon to read a twelve-page pr_ayer ~othe poor man lying on a dirty petate, with his wife, daughters, and friends kneeling around him praying and holding pictures of Christ and various saints close before his eyes._ His folde~, wrinkled hands clasped a cruofix. From time to time someone would ask quietly, "? ya?" (yet?), and the grandmother would look carefully and answer "no." But the last time she was wrong-afte; her "no" came "ya," and the women quickly began to wrap his feet in a white cloth. We donated a sheet and a cleaner petate, and the men carried him into another room across the patio where they had already prepared a bier ( a board across two boxes) and had arranged fresh flowers and incense around the altar.

The next night was the velorio: amid candles and more incense he was dressed in white robes while the men wove a cordon with five knots like those of priests and saints to put around his waist; we were all served coffee and brea d. The mournful singing and chanting lasted until 6: 30 A.M. After a short funeral service the procession moved to the camposanto (holy ground). Bones which had been dug up during the excavation lay strewn about, as well as a small bottle of tequi la, which had been buried with someone earlier. Some of the men hesitated and joked about it quite a while befo re tossing it back in! After everyone had dropped a handful of dirt on the coffin, the praying and chanting began again .

The presidente's. santo was slightly differ-

ent-another unforgettable occasion for us.

After arriving home at 11 :00 P.M. tired and sunburned from a weekend in Tecolutla we were awakened at about 3: 00 to the sound of what seemed to be gunfire just outside our windows. Soon we realized that it was only firecrackers to announce the presidente's santo.

After they sang, "las Mananitas," the presidente invited them in-t hen we girls were trying to sleep (girls don't usually serenade men , so we hadn't been invited to join them) with the firecrackers continuing outside; singing, a guitar, a radio, laughing and talking from the presidente's room next to ours; and from the other side of the patio the mournful singing and chanting of about fifteen men in a velorio commemorating the eighth day since the death of Panchita ' s grandfather! at 7: 00 the first orchestra arrived and by noon the second one, from Jalapa. After the barbacoa dinner in the patio, everything was hastily removed from the girls ' room for dancing ( the usual procedure at our fiestas since it was the largest room in the house) at the presidente' s request. About five o'clock we were informed that there was to be another dance that night in our room, with a ma,rimba band from Teziutlan .

As well as accepting many dinner invitations we often invited friends to dine with us. Our guests varied from the presidente, his son, nephews, and friends to Panchita ' s family, one with seven giggling children, and others who never used silverware. On these occasions we were certain to serve a

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purely Mexican meal with tortillas and dispensed with silver ourselves. Sometimes friends would help us prepare a special dish and then stay to enjoy it with us. When we invited Mario Guevara from Altotonga, he brought his two teen-age daughters, and together they entertained us with card tricks, magic, stunts, and games and treated us to a bottle of his Extracto Isabel, a dark syrup containing coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and we can't imagine what else, to be put in milk, hot or cold , with or without sugar. Once we gave an American-style buffet supper for the English class. In this way, we've been able to know better the teachers with whom we worked and many others in town, from Alto-

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tonga, and from Teziutlan. When we invited one or two, we weren't surprised if eight or ten or more came, for an invitation always includes the whole family and any friends or relatives present. We were also honored by visits from people from other parts of Mexico, including an important Mexican artist and Herberto Sein, who has worked with the United Nations in New York as an interpreter and in other capacities and is an advisor to the Friends' groups in Mexico.

Several times one or two of the priests have been to supper and to play ping-pong with us afterwards.

Jalacingo, led by the presidente, gave us a magnificent farewell. Besides several special dinners and picnics and the velada in Altotonga, and during a time of many other fiestas and veladas, the town prepared a special velada and dance in the school patio, which the teachers and children spent many hours decorating. After the program, which included the presentation of a diploma to the group and a poem written in our honor by the Directora of the Central School, and the sad "La Golondrina,'' we received the official abrazo from the presidente and from our other friends ( we were already familiar with this customary friendly farewell embrace) . I have already had the opportunity to return for a visit with my friends in Jalacingo.

Nowhere could one have been more warmly and sincerely welcomed. I know that we accomplished our purpose of making friends and of gaining a deeper respect for other people and their way of life. Jalacingo will not forget us soon, and we shall certainly always remember our happy days in Jalacingo.

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banking law , he was a law school faculty member for many years. Mr. Meredith, president in 1907-08 , was a graduate of the law school.

The faculty member but not an alumnus was Mr. Tucker, who was president of the bar association in 1925-26. An authority on constitutional law, he taught that subject in the law school from 1909-1926.

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Since its founding the association has had only six secretaries and treasurers. And in the past 48 -years over an unbroken span, the men in that job-John B. Minor (1905-23), C. M . Chichester (1923-1941) and William T. Muse (1941-present) - have been, were or are members of the T. C. Williams School of Law faculty.

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In Greece the classic coolness and calm were reflected in the atmosphere. The almond blossoms were in bloom but at Delphi they were covered with snow and only the high blood pressure engendered by the careening of our Greek bus around hairpin curves on an icy road kept us from freezing. Mt. Parnassus was covered with snow, and we descended from Delphi to Athens in a snowstorm, which was beautiful to see but dangerous to life and limb.

Contrary to all advice we took a Greek boat from Athens to Brindisi, and to our surprise discovered that it was an old St. Lawrence river boat of the vintage of 1900. The Corinthian Canal was interesting and we stopped at the island of Ithaca, which has just experienced a terrible earthquake destroying hundreds of lives and causing great damage to property. .

The highlight of the Italian trip was Easter in Rome. On Palm Sunday the Pope blessed the crowd of about one hundred thousand more or less in the square in front of St. Peters, and on Easter Sunday he officiated at the Pontifical Mass in St. Peters. On Monday we attended a special audience in the Vatican. About a thousand servicemen also came to the private audience and when _the Pope appeared they gave a rousing "hip, hip, hooray, Viva Il Papa" and Il Papa seemed to like it. Thrice blessed, the trio still remained good Episcopalians and Baptist.

A novelty greatly enjoyed was hearing operas in Rome sung in German. A German company was giving the four operas of "The Niebelungen Ring" in the large and beautiful opera house with modern and artistic sets and excellent singers. Later we visited the famous La Scala in Milan, but did not have the opportunity to attend an opera.

Miss Fanny G was enthusiastic over the two days of horse racing and exhibition jumping by Italian army officers on the Pincian Hill not far from the Pension where we stayed. In fact we could observe the show from our windows but that was not close enough for the lady so we practically lost her for two days while she moved up closer to the field.

Spring was on the way when we turned north toward Florence. Since our travelling was largely by bus, we drove miles upon miles past olive orchards and spring flowers in bloom. Our way took us through the hill towns, Assisi, the town of St. Francis, Siena with a cathedral unlike anything else in this

REVIEWERSPRAISEHAMNER'S "FIFTY ROADS TO TOWN" A transplanted Virginian writing in New York has had his first novel published, has started another book and continues in his regular job as a radio and television script writer for the National Broadcasting Company.

"Fifty Roads to Town," the first novel of Earl Henry Hamner, Jr., '44, was published October 2 by Random House. The story deals with an itinerant revivalist among faith.healing villagers in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Favorable reactions, including plaudits Resigning to take a Summer course in from reviewers for the two Richmond news- radio writing at Northwestern University, he papers, have greeted the new novel. Hamner, later moved to Cincinnati where he was a meanwhile, has launched work on a second writer for Station WL W and was graduated book, "The Stonecutter's House. " with a BF A · in radio education from the For his work as a novelist, Hamner goes College of Music. on a night and day schedule. During office Going to New York in the Winter of hours, he turns out radio and TV scripts for 1948, he worked in a large department store's NBC , the network he has been with for the toy department during the Christmas rush. past two and one-half years. At night , he Later, he was a copywriter for an advertising works on his novels. agency and did a series of scripts for the After attending the University of Rich- American Cancer Society before joining NBC. A four-time winner of "Dr. Christian mond for three years, he went into the Army in March, 1943. Three years later, on his Awards" for his radio scripts, Hamner took separation from service, he became assistant top honors in a national competition for to the program director of Richmond Radio radio writers for his script, "The Forbidden City."

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world, built of black and white marble resembling prison stripes, with the whole front a mass of sculptured horses, men, and angels, and Perugia on a high hill with a fine view overlooking valleys and mountains.

Florence lies in the valley of the Arno surrounded by high hills, on which are situated villas, some dating from the 15th century.

The whole countryside was a mass of white and purple wisteria with roses everywhere .

Our pension, Ben Cista, was situated high on the slopes of Fiesole, overlooking the city in the midst of olive orchards, and a terrace covered with small yellow roses. The road to the tram which took us to Florence was short but steep, and two of our party did some huffing and puffing on the way. Two weeks in Florence were all too short a time in which to see the churches and museums of that mediaeval city. The Dante house was almost hidden in an alley and as difficult to find as the Christopher Columbus house in Genoa which we walked around four or five times before recognizing it.

Having viewed so much art, frozen in so many churches and museums, and visited all the sights which we should see, we felt the time had come for pure recreation so our next stop was Venice . May is the best month for Ven ice since there is clearer water in the canals at this season. The hotel Cavaletto was on a canal near the San Marco piazza and was the place where about twenty gondoliers parked their gondolas for the night.

Something was going on all the time and we had our heads out of the window whenever

we had a few minutes to spare. On May Day the Christian Democrats put on a show, bands in the afternoon and illumination at night in the piazza, and not a sight of the Communists .

On Lake Garda we stayed at Sermione, praised by Catullus, at Hotel Catullo, which had the loveliest roses in all Italy, and a gorgeous view of the lake. Lake Como was perhaps the most beautiful of all the Italian lakes and, after spending a week visiting villas and towns on the lake, we went to the

Italian Riviera where the flowers were in full bloom. From Nice which was our next stop, we made a visit to the Fragonard Perfume Factory which gave us an insight into how our French perfume is manufactured on a large scale. No wonder it is so expensive!

Everyone asks "Did you gamble at Monte Carlo?" We spent an afternoon in the Casino watching, but the whole process is so complicated that we risked no francs, knowing in advance that we would lose.

The Sixth Fleet was in when we reached Ni ce and Cannes , and the navy just about took over. It was a pleasant sight , however , and we were more than happy to know that everywhere in Europe the U . S. A. was in evidence. Miss Fanny G . flew from Nice to London for the Coronation while Pauline and I turned our faces homeward. We sailed from Cannes in June and as we came into New York harbor early in the morning the sun came out and shone upon the statue of Liberty. We had had a wonderful trip but it was good to be home once more on Ameri can soil.

THREEALUMNI RECEIVE DEGREES COLGATE-ROCHESTER Three Virginians, all graduates of the University of Richmond, received their bachelor of divinity degrees from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N. Y., in June, and two of them returned to their native State to take pastorates.

The Rev. Walter Barger, of Buchanan, has become pastor of the Warsaw, Va., Baptist Church . Ordained at Buchanan Baptist Church in June, 1950, he served three churches as a student pastor while at the New York divinity school.

The Rev. William Corder, of Manassas, who was ordained in his home church, Haymarket Baptist , in November, 1951, is now pastor of Enon Baptist Church in Hollins .

During his seminary days, he served two Upstate New York drnrches.

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Ordained in Richmond's First Baptist Church in June, the third Virginia graduate from Colgate-Rochester in 1953, the Rev. William Winn, of Martinsville, has become assistant pastor of Greece Baptist Church in Rochester, N. Y. He earlier had served as student pastor of churches in North Rush and Brighton, N. Y.

18 NEWFACULTYMEMBERS Eighteen teachers, including a new director of music, joined the University of Richmond faculty at the start of the 1953-54 session.

The new head of the music department, Dr . John Reeves White, comes to the University of Richmond from Indiana University wher e he was visiting lecturer in music. He has studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music , at the Cons~vatoire Nationale de la Musique in Paris, at Colorado College, at Columbia and at Indiana University where h e won his doctor of philosophy degree .

Under Dr. White's direction, Dr. Modlin said, the University plans to "enlarge and strengthen its curriculum and program in music. " Among the newcomers to the faculty is Dr. Thomas S. Berry, for four years field office economist in Richmond for the Public Housing Administration, who will serve both as director of placement and as associate professor of management in the School of Business Administration. Dr. Berry, who took his Ph.D. at Harvard, is the author of a number of books in the fields of business and economics.

Both Dr. White and Dr. Berry will have the rank of associate professor as will four other new members, among them Dr. Reuben E. Alley, Jr. , '38, who returns to his position

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as associate professor of physics after serving as a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. the past two years. A graduate of the University of Richmond, Dr. Alley has a Ph.D. degree from Princeton.

Others who join the faculty as associate professors are Dr. Robert J. Filer, '43, in psychology; Dr. John W. Sawyer in mathematics, and Dr. Virginia Dix Sterling, in physical education.

Filer, who comes to the University of Richmond after two years as chief clinical psychologist for the Durham Child Guidance Clinic and assistant professor at Duke University, earlier had been an instructor and assistant to the college personnel officer at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his doctorate. He has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Richmond, and a bachelor of divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary.

Dr. Sawyer has taught mathematics at the University of Missouri and at the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia where he was associate professor. He holds degrees from Wake Forest College and from the University of Missouri where he took his doctorate in 1951. Dr. Sawyer was organist and choir director of the Beecher Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Dr. Sterling holds degrees from William and Mary, New York State University, and the State University of Iowa, where she earned her Ph.D. degree. She has taught at William and Mary, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Iowa State . She is the author of a number of articles and illustrations in physical education publications .

There will be six new assistant professors: Dr . Robert R. Brewster, in German; Dr. Jack D. Burke, biology; Dr. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., history; Dr. James L. Golden, speech; Dr. Mary C. Gotaas, French, and Dr. John Melville Kuhlman, economics .

The new instructors are Frank F. Finney, Jr., in English; Harry Lee King, Jr., '36, in Spanish; Wesley N . Laing and Albert H. Woodruff, in history; Mrs. Claiborne H. Stokes in mathematics, and John B. Tansey , assistant program-service manager for WRV A, as a part-time instructor in radio and television .

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1902John T. DeHart, oldest member of the Bristol Bar Association and Jong prominent in Republican political circles of the Ninth Virginia District, died May 27 at Lake Worth , Florida . He had been in declining health for several years . Mr. DeHart had practiced law in Bristol for more than half a century, following his graduation from the University of Richmond and the University of Georgia. Although prominent in politics, he had never held public office. Mr . DeHart was a member of the First Baptist Church and an honorary life member of the Bristol Elks Club, of which he was a past exalted ruler and in which he had held numerous other offices.

1903The Rev. Charles William Sheriff, nearly thirty years a pastor of the First Baptist Church, Wellsboro , Pennsylvania, passed away unexpectedly with a heart disease May 26 in the Blossburg State Hospital, Tioga County, after a five-day illness. He attended old Richmond College and Crozer Theological Seminary . He was ordained by the Magnolia Baptist Church , New Jersey after serving as assistant pastor in the First Baptist Church of Richmond. He was a missionary pastor until 1922, when he became pastor of Grace Baptist Church , Camden, N . J . He served as Religious Director under the War Work Council of the YMCA ,it Camp Crane, Allentown.

1910Chiswell Dabney Langhorne Perkins, 62, died July 12 at his home at Greenwood, Va. He was a nephew of Lady Nancy L. Astor. A native of Richmond , he was educated at McGuire School in Richmond, Woodberry Forest School, and Richmond College . He was a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Farmington Country Club.

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been received of the death of Charles Meredith Gaines in Washington, D. C.

1915Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Judson Snead , head of the mathematics department of Fork Union Mili tary Academy , died July 15 at his home. A graduate of Richmond College , he was a native of Fork Union and was a member of the mathematics department faculty for 38 years .

1927Edward Thomas Haynes, 52, a Richmond member of the House of Delegates for two terms , died August 24 at his home . He received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Richmond in 1924 and a Jaw degree in 1927. He was admitted to the State Bar Association in 1926 and was also a member of the American Bar Association and the Washington bar. He served five years as an assistant to the late John R . Saunders, Attorney-General of Virginia, and on the Board of Veterans Appeals for two years, beginning in 1933 when he was appointed by President Franklin D . Roosevelt. He was a past president of the Lee Ward Democratic Club, a member of the City Democratic Committee and a chairman of Lee Ward Com mittee .

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1890The Rev. Henry Thompson Louthan , 86-year-old retired Baptist minister and educator, died July 6 in a Richmond hospital. A native of Rappahannock County , he was an alumnus of Richmond College, the University of Virginia, Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky., and the University of Chicago. After nine years as a Baptist pastor , he was a professor at the College of William and Mary and later head of the history department of Mercer University, Macon , Ga. Mr . Louthan became principal of Edmund Pendleton High School in Caroline County in 1914, and four years later he became a history instructor at Staunton Military

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Academy, a position he held until his retirement in 1932. After his retirement, he lived in King and Queen until 1951, when he came to Richmond to make his home. He is author of the American Baptist Pulpit, and was a supply minister for 29 years.

1930Will Arthur Ligon, 45, died August 27 in Detroit, Michigan. He became Director of Industrial Relations for the Timken Axle Company, Detroit after the war, and held this position until the time of his death. He saw duty in the Pacific campaign aboard the aircraft carrier, T/7asp.

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