Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 21, Spring 1958

ALUMNI BULLETIN UNIVERSITY

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Tlli,; GENERAL SOCIETY 0~, ALUMNI Ch a r les II. Ryland, '36 ..... . . . . . President ,John II. Garber, '16 Vice President T. R,vland Sanfo r d, Jr., '27 Vice President .-\. \\T. Goode, Jr., '42 ..... .. Vice President \\fa lter B . Anderson, '21 . . ........

Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE W. Roland Ga l vin, '25 Joseph A . Leslie, '16 and t h e above officers

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Seld om in so short a span ha s death taken so grim a toll of outstanding alumni as in th e p ast fe w months.

Gon e is T. Justin Moore , on e of th e South 's ablest lawyer s, a past president of th e Virginia Stat e Bar Association , and a devoted son of Alma Mater whom he served as chairm an of the board of tru stees. He was in the forefront of th e movement for th e erection of a new law building and th e return of th e Law School to the main campu s.

Gone is J. Hoge Ricks who temp ered justice with compassion, a g entle man as we ll as a gentl eman. As judge of Richmond 's juvenile and domestic relations court, h e exercised rare wisdom in a most difficult judicial area. He was forever concerned with the r estoration of the erring child , the errant husb and , the errant wife. He was less toler ant o f the erring parent. H e believed in probation wh erever there was reaso n to believe th e transgressor could , with prop er safeguards , be returned to societ y.

H e was pr esident of the N ational Prob ation Association for two terms .

Go ne is Th om as B. McAd ams who se profe ssion was banking but whose avocation was educ ation. He lov ed th e U niversit y of Richmond with a fer vor that was hardl y surp assed by hi s lo ve for Phi K appa Sigma fr aternity. His distinction in his profession wo n for him the pre sidency of th e American Bankers Association. To Alma Mater h e g ave man y years of fruitful service as a member of the board of trustees . His memory will be perpetu ated at th e U niversit y in the McAdams prize th at is given each year to th e out standing memb er o f th e junior class.

Go ne are thre e giant s of th e Chri stian mini stry and Chri stian education: John Jor dan \Xlicker who lifted an alm ost bankrupt little school , Fork U nion Militar y Academy, to a pl ace of emin ence; W illi am Ca rey Jam es, belo ved pa stor emeritus of Grove Ave nue Bapti st Church in Ri chm ond and a former pre sident of Bethel Col lege in Ke ntuck y, and John Wa lt er Camm ack, a form er pr esid ent of Averett College in D anvill e.

A lm a Ma ter mourn s the loss of th ese distinguish ed sons who from failing hands h ave th row n the torch to yo unger alumni who will close th e ranks and move for war d in the service of th e U niversi ty.

'l'HE ALUMNI COUNCJL Gar l:ind Gra:v. •~1 ..............

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Pres'iclenl A n to i nctte \Virt h VVhittet, '41 . Vice P1·esident Les lie Sessoms Booke r , '22, Executive Secretary 1Ia ii all cont r ibut ions and news items to J\Irs. R. E. Booker, Exec u tive Secretary, \Vc>stha mpto n College Alumnae Association, P .0., University of Ric h mond , Virginia.

Ge r trude :Murrell duPont, '31 H elen Pollard Deck, '32 .

Helen Caulfield Ba llard, '35 Membe,s,•:tl· :Mary Grace Schere r Taylo r , '42 La r;e Vi r ginia LeSueur Carter, '53 Florence B. Decker, '17 :rvrar:v:Mills Freeman, '35 . ,.

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GAINES,RYLAND,LOVING:Doctorsof Science

ROBERTEDWIN GAINES

ROBERTEDWARD LOVING

Patriarch of a family distinguished in Southern education; Influential leader of Baptists at home and in foreign fields; Illuminating and exacti ng professor of mathematics; Held in grateful remembrance by generations of studen ts.

Skilled teacher and humanizer of the physical science; Reve red and trusted leader in his de nomination ; Father of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Richmond; Devoted son of Fluvanna and of this University.

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Loving 40 years when both retired in 1948.

Visito rs to Dr. Gaines' home on Bostwick Lane often hear this favorite story: "You know," Dr. Gaines will say, "when I came to the university in 1890, I was sort of sickly. Some of the members of the board of trustees didn't want to engage me because they were afraid I wouldn't live."

Then, callin g attention to hi s monthly retirement d1eck, he adds: "Now they are afra id I won't die. " Old timers still refer to Dr. Gaines as "Professor Whiskers," a title he acquired on the "old campus" at Broad and Lombardy

HREE VETERAN professors who taught a total of 126 years for the University of Richmond have received the University's highest accolade----an hon.orary degree.

The degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on Dr. R. E. Gaines, professor emeritus of mathematics; Dr. Garnett Ryland, '92 professor emeritus of chemistry, and Dr. R. E. Loving, '96 professor emeritus of physics.

Appropriately the degrees were confer red at the annual Honors Convocation on March 20 in Cannon Memorial Chapel at which the University pays tribute to students who have excelled in the classroom and in extracurricular activity.

A former colleague on the faculty who later became president of the University , Dr. George M . Modlin , conferred the degrees which were authorized by the Board of Trustees. Alumni members of the board , without exception, were former stud ents of one or more of the three men who in retirement still live on the University campus.

One of them, Dr. Gain es, celebrated his 97th birthday last De cember 7; Dr. Ryland is 87, and Dr. Loving , the youngest member of the trio, is only 84.

All, as Dr. Modlin pointed out, were "exacting tead1ers, demanding the best and refusing to accept less." They were "teachers outside as well as inside the classroom," he adde d, "always concerned with the spiritual as well as the intellectual growt h of their students."

Dr. Ryland, a member of one of the most distinguished families in Univ ersity of Richmond history and a descendant of the first president of Richmond College, Dr. Robert Ryland , had taught at the University 28 years when he retired in 1945. Dr. Gaines had taught the amazing total of 58 years and Dr.

GARNETT RYLAND Worthy scion of a family eminent in the history of this University; Dedicated and understanding historian of Virginia Baptists; Master teacher of the science of chemistry; Loyal son of Alma Mater .

sts. when he sported a handsome full beard.

He exercises daily, tramping energetically about the hous e and is awaiting summer weather so he can resume his walks about the campus with his dog, Roddy.

Dr. Ryland , although in failing health, continued for some years after his retirement to work as secretary of the Virginia Baptist Historic al Society. He wrote a book, a history of Virginia Baptists , published in 1955.

Both Gaines and Loving have served as president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.

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TALES OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS. The "boys" get together at the home of Dr. Ryland.

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SusanMadeleineLough

N THE desk in the hoL1seon Roselawn O Road, where Miss Lough lived with Miss Woodfin, there stood a miniature

of a round-faced curly-haired child; and one afternoon as a group of us looked at it, Miss Lough told us a little about the subject of the photograph.

"I was about four when that was taken," she said. "It was just about the time we came to Chicago from Dublin. My father, who had preceded us, took his family from the boat to a hotel in New York, and there I made such a pleasant discovery that I have never forgotten it. I saw my first rocking chair! I seized on it with delight, and I devoted myself so wholeheartedly to rocking that my father suggested leaving me there when the rest of the family should move on ."

I have thought many times of her "discovery ... seized on with delight" and wondered if that quality, so soon developed, was not the cord that bound together the chapters of her life. All of her days, it seems to me, Miss Lough discovered and enjoyed what she found.

Though most of us at Westhampton might have found it hard to believe, Miss Lough had a life before she discovered us. She told us once that she went straight to college from her lessons at home, with no high school interval. And after college she went as a young tutor to a family in Chicago. They must have loved her there, for years later the youngest of the children that she had taught - then a woman no longer youngcame to visit her on the campus. Later Miss Lough taught in Wyoming and Alabama.

But she was so complete ly a part of Westhampton that it is hard to realize that the coJlege was a year old before she arrived to spend there three decades of her life in teaching.

And how she taught us! We took thousands of pages of notes, and we were admonished to discover for ourselves, to investigate, to weigh, to question what we found. The great men she had met, the countries that she visited, the women from universities all over the world that she learned to understand and admire-all these became in their proper places a part of our history lesson for the day. Miss Woodfin used to say that Miss Lough, in her scholarship and in her concern for her students, was more like an English don than an American professor. "A student of history" the Richmond News Leader called her in the notice of her death, "a student of history and a spirited traveler." What a happy choice of adjectives I Off she went to Cracow, with that same air of setting out on a discovery, to a meeting of the Federation of University Women; later she was a delegate to the same group meeting in Stockholm; she had the feeling of returning home when she went back to England and Scotland and Ireland. And she brought back enthusiasm and

understanding and information that caused her to be in great demand as a lecturer.

Scholar, teacher, and traveler she undeniably was, but how much more to us at Westhampton. She knew us all, she understood our problems, and she gave us real help when we needed it. "She had a habit of calling homesick students into her rooms during their early days for a friendly talk and a word of encouragement," said another of the articles that reported her death. And the friendly talks were supplemented by frequent tea parties and waffle suppers and picnics down by the lake. Who else but Miss Lough could have made delicious French toast over a bonfire?

How she loved Westhampton! When we were freshmen, we stood with her one night and watched the May Day procession, lantern lit, wind up the hill from the Jake. "This is one of the things you must always remember" she told us. "I do not know anot her ceremony as lovely." She had an appreciation of beauty that transcended any that we had known, and she tried to make certain that we did not look at loveliness with unseeing eyes. She gave tangible proof of her dev.otion

Susan

M. Lough Memorial

A fund to aid Westhampton alumnae in graduate work in history has been established in memory of Dr. Susan M. Lough. The purpose of this fund will be identical with that of the Maude H. Woodfin Memorial Fund, and grants from both funds may be made simultaneously . Mrs. Henry W. Decker will be alumnae chairm an of both funds.

Anyone wishing to have a part in this memorial to Dr. Lough may send her gift to the Westhampton Alumnae Office, with a notation that it is to be put into the Susan M. Lough Memorial Fund.

to the college when she quietly established the Maude H. Woodfin Memorial scholarship .

This was established through a bequest of $5,000 to the University of Richmond to be used for a scholarship for a girl coming to Westhampton from a Richmond high school, preferab ly Thomas Jefferson.

Her life on the campus was a full and happy one . Commencements brought back students with whom she had never lost touch and sent out those who were sure that she would always be there for their returning. And so the news of her retirement came as something of a shock to all of us, who could not imagine Westhampton without her.

Those of us who helped her transplant some of the flowers from her garden on the campus to the new house in town wondered if the transplanting of her own life would not be unbearably hard for her, but she followed new interests and enjoyed them.

There was first of all her adoptive family.

"We inherited her from Maude," Mrs. Jeffries used to say, and Miss Lough became a real member of the household. She loved her family life and shared her affection with the grandchildren and the Siamese cats and Mickey, the small bulldog.

Then she looked for and found a new opportunity to teach, beginning an association with the Richmond Professional Institute, an association that was mutually enjoyable and profitable. Now she worked with boys instead of girls, boys who were student engineers and who demanded a different approach to her subject. She studied them and the new approach, and they came to love her as we had clone.

The scope of Miss Lough's life was a broad one. She was intensely interested in civic life; she was a member of the board of the YWCA; she took an active part in the Association of University Women; she gave her free mornings to Red Cross Work. And then in her last years of teaching there came what must have been one of the most rewarding jobs that she ever discovered. A young paraplegic at McGuire-Veterans Administration Hospital was seeking desperately for a way to fill his empty hours. A friend took Miss Lough to see the boy, and they settled on a course in Russian history. It meant hours of reading and study for her, but she again "seized upon it with delight," and her pupil passed creditably his examination sent him by his former college.

Miss Lough was not one to talk much about her religion, but she was deeply religious, and much of her life centered about her church. She h ad been brought up a Scotch Presbyterian, and there were very few Sundays when she was absent from church.

We were always impressed by her complete absorption in the service-except that memorab le Sunday when she suddenly discovered that she had dropped the envelope contain(Continued

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It's SpringtimeIn Religion By

J.HUNDLEY

WILEY, '16

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HAVE agreed to take a quick look at religion on the American campus. There, new flowers are beginning to bloom in the spring.

They may be no prettier than they were before. But there are more of them and they seem to have sturdier roots. They stretch in never ending lin e all the way from Virginia to Califo rnia.

Each Thursday night in Keller Hall on our own campus several hundred students sit on the floor, packed like sard ines, partic ipating reverently in the weekly vesper service.

Each night as dusk falls across the pinedad hills students may be seen walking singly or in pairs toward the chapel for the Evening Watd1 , a period of meditation and prayer.

Baptist Student Union teams carry the story of Jesus and his love to churches scattered throughout the State.

What has been observed on our campus is being observed on campuses from coast to coast. While this article was in preparation I opened the Sat11rday Evening Post and found the same theme expressed there. Life Magazine has told the same story pictor ially.

Unquestionably the college student of today is more interested in religion than was his brother, his sister, of a generation ago.

H e sees religion as the only light in the darkness that threatens to envelop mankind.

I approach my theme not as a professional teacher of religious courses. I have never been fortu nate enoug h to teach these sub jects but I have always been a sympathetic observe r of such giants as Solon B. Cousins, E. M. Poteat , and his two sons, and Edgar Goodspeed. In my teachin g I have met Confucianis ts, Buddhists, Jews, Protestants and Catholics. These studen ts have taught me more about religion than I have ever been able to teach them. I have constant ly tried to avoid the mistake of one missionary on furlough who declined to give a talk on Buddhism. Said he, " I have been so busy

THEIR ABSORBING INTEREST: RELIGION. This is a typical Thursday night vesper crowd in Keller Hall.

studying my own fa ith that I have not had the time to inform myself about the faith of others." And lest you think that this has no appl ication to the present scene, let me remind you that we Americans have hundreds of other communions in add ition to the one to which you belong.

We have heard much of the return to religion. Professor Link was not the first man to write on this topic and very likely he will not be the last. The next edition will be a vast volume, having one chapter w ith this

Since 1945 Hun Wiley has been professor of sociology ot the University of Richmond where three decodes earlier he hod been o campus leader and athletic star.

He came to the University of Richmond from the University of Shanghai where he was head of the sociology department from 1921 to 1944.

The son of the Rev. James lewis Wiley and Margaret Vorous Wiley , he was born at Bentonville, Va. He entered Richmond College in 1912 and received his bachelor of arts degree four years later. He won both his master of theology and his doctor of p hilosophy degree at Southern Baptist Theological s~mina ry in Louisville.

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Soon a fte r his graduation from Richmond College, he entered the army and served as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant in World War I. We ll known in sociological circles, Dr. Wiley is a member of the Southern Sociological Society, the American Sociological Society, and the Rural Sociological Society of America.

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head ing: "The Return to the Study of Religion. " Even this will be a many-sided affair with cooperat ive research by scholars in a dozen fields.

Quite naturally as I examine the subject it is from the standpoint of the sociolog ist and anthropologist. The average sociologist is much more competent in the field of religion today than he was in the dry decades of the Twenties. There are still some among us that continue to analyze from afar, but they are less numerous and less influential than they were. For example I pull down from the shelves old texts, used in the ten years before 1932. I can find on ly four but I remember the content of others . Of these only one had as much as a chapter on the institution of religion. Today one would have to look a long time to find a general text that left it out. The research work of Talcott Parsons at Harvard on the influence of religion in guiding mankind has been outstanding. We in Virginia have every right to be proud of our senior sociologist from Blacksburg, Dr. W . E. Garnett. He is a friendly researcher that knows how to speak the truth in love. His specialty is the country church.

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The Dream of

S. C. MITCHELL 40 Years Too Soon

By WILLIAM L. BOWDEN*

AN IDEA IS TAKING SHAPE S. C. Mitchell, a man of large ideas and great vision, unfolds to the president of the Richmond Education Association his conception of the Richmond Area University Center.

OST University of Richmond alumni M would agree that Dr . Samuel Chiles Mitchell was a legend even in hi s lifetime.

His accomplishments were large in social welfare, in education and in business. As a teacher he stimulated the minds ,of thousands of youths. His impact upon the adult society of Richmond , Virginia and the South was imp ressive.

He was called upon repeatedly to do the difficult and solve the impossible. So varied were his achievements that most people came to the notion that whatever Dr . Mitchell set his mind and energ ies to accomplish would be completed successfully.

With h is truly remarkable record of success it would seem almost improbable that a man of Mitchell 's vision and ability could have been frustrated in any venture he chose to champion. Yet he dreamed a vision in 1906- which he referred to over the years as "the University of Richmond, " " the Richmond Area University Center"-which was to elud e him for some forty years. It was not until 1946, two years before his death in 1948, that the present Richmond Area University Center was founded . This agency was established with a different operationa l framework from the one in Mitchell's vision , but the basic Mitchell idea of a cooperative agency repre enting the needs and interests of Virginia colleges was preserved.

Mitchell conceived the idea of the "Richmond Area University Center " in late 1906 as a physical amalgamation of several exist* Mr. Bowd e n is Dir ec tor of the Study-Di sc u ss ion Programs for the University of Virginia Ext ension Division.

ing institutions of higher learning. He proposed to group these colleges around commonly shared library, museum, physical education and religious facilities . He gained initial support for his idea from the Richmond newspaper publisher, Joseph Bryan, and a group of the city's business leaders.

During the Christmas holidays in 1906, Mitchell was staying at the University Club of Brown University in Providence, Rhod e Island. He took this occasion to write about his plans to two respected friends. In a letter to Dr. Hollis Burke Frissell, Prin cipal of Hampton Institut e, on De cember 27, 1906 , he described his idea of "the University of Richmond" and appended a pen-and-ink sketch showing how the physical arrangement of the campus might look .

Two days later , on December 29, 1906, Mitchell wrote a second letter to Mrs. Landonia Randolph Dashiell, acting president of the Richmond Education Association and Director of Citizen Leagues for the Cooperative Education Association. In this second letter , Mitchell set forth his idea in somewhat more 00mplet e terms: My dear Mrs . Dashiell: An idea is taking shape in Richmond , which will interest you I know because of your generous sympathy with all progressive causes.

It is a plan to secure cooperation among Richmond colleges. This is an outline: Organiz e a Board of strong business men, who will acquire 200 acres of land adjacent to the city.

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place the agencies needed by all the colleges, such as a central library, auditorium, museum, Y.M .C.A., and athleti c field.

Give to each college a site of 25 acres & the free use of these common facilities.

The colleges will remain autonomous & separate as now. Not a word in any charter will be changed.

The colleges which could well enter into this plan would be1. Union Theologi cal Seminary 2. The (proposed) Woman's College 3. Richmond College 4 . T. C. Williams ' Law School 5. Hampden-Sidney College (removed) 6. Randolph-Macon College (removed) 7. Mechanics' Institute 8. Medical colleges.

Perhaps one of the Normals proposed by the legislature might also be landed about this central group .

Th e cooperative Board could be known as the University of Richmond, & eventually offer (only) graduate instruction.

Such an institution will give to Richmond the intellectual primacy of the South.

You will combine whatsoever advantage lies in a small college with the intensity of intellectual forces belonging to a great institution . You preserve denominational ownership & control of some of these colleges with catholicity of spirit and a wide sphere of freedom. You give an exhibition of cooperation in education ( Continued on Pate 31)

The Newport News Academy,

1902-1910

By WOODFORD B. HACKLEY

Many alumni of the University of Richmond earlier attended Richmond Academy which was operated under the auspices of Richmond College . Few alumni know that there was another academy, "The Newport News Academy," which flourished for a while and then died after an existence of only eight years. Professor Hackley, secre· tary of the Virginia Baptist Histo rical Society, tells the story of Richmond Academy. His story of the rise and fall of Richmond Academy will appear in the summer issue.

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N JuNE 1902 the trustees of Richmond College authorized the treasurer of the College to open a fund to be known as the "Academy Fund, " to which subscriptions would be invited to be used to found and equip academies in Virginia to operate under the auspices of Richmond College.

This proposal had its origin in the mind and heart of Mr . George B. West, a philanthropic citizen of Newport News, a man deeply interested in education, a trustee of Richmond College, and, to use the words of Dr. Boatwright, "one of the best friends Richmond College ever had. " Mr. West deeded to the trustees of Richmond College one hundred valuable lots of land, the proceeds from which were to be used to found and operate an academy in Newport News. On February 4, 1902 a "committee on academies" was appointed by the Trustees to confer with Mr. West , and draw up regulations and plans for the inaugura tion and conduct of the proposed academy. This committee, composed of Dr. William E. Hat cher, president of the board of trustees, Dr. Charles H . Ryland, secretary of the board, and Dr. F. W. Boatwright, president of Richmond College, recommended to the trustees on June 11, 1902, that the Newport News Academy be started not later than September of that year.

The idea of the Newport News Academy seems to have started something. On April 16, 1902, at a called meeting of the trustees, President Boatwright proposed the formation of a Richmond academy. The Trustees approved the proposal, but postponed final

THE NEWPORT NEWS ACADEMYwas housed in two frame buildings, long since razed, in Warwick Park (popularly known as the Casino Grounds) overlooking the James River below the plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

action until the annual meeting of that year.

Meanwhile the matter was referred to a committee of nine members which reported favorably at the June meeting. Richmond Academy also opened in September 1902.

The trustees evidently thought that if it was a good idea to have two academies, it would be a better idea to have more of the same, at locations throughout the state. It seems, however, that the plans for additional academies did not develop.

The report of the committee authorizing the Newport News Academy is interesting.

The Academy was to be controlled by Richmond College through a local board of managers to be elected by th e trustees of Richmond College and to consist of seven persons , a majority of whom had to be citizens of Newport News and members of some Baptist chur ch in that city. The President of Richmond College was to be ex-officio a member of the board of managers with the same rights and duties as the other members.

Two of the remaining six members were to be trustees of Richmond College.

The curriculum was to be such "as shall lead to advanced work on the lin es of collegiate instruction, but stud ies of a more practical character, qualifying for business pursuits, shall not be excluded, if deemed desirable and necessary for the success of the Academy." (The "practica l" studies were never offered, or so it appears.)

Money necessary for starting the Academy was to come from the Academy Fund already in the hands of the trustees, or from the sale of lots belonging to the Academy Fund. The trustees of Richmond College were to control this fund.

The committee urged that the most cordial relationship be es.tablished and maintained between the College and the Academy and that "every effort consistent with its own interests be made by the College to promote the high end contemp lated by the founder of the Academy." [ 5]

The members of the first board of managers were: George B. West, president; W. E. Barrett , Jr ., treasurer; Maryus Jones, secretary; Henry L. Schmeltz, auditor; George F. Adams , Dr. F. W. Boatwright and Dr. T. J. Sims. Mr. Schmelz was a resident of Hampton, and Dr. Boatwright, of course, lived in Richmond. The other five members all resided in Newport News . The only change in the personnel of the board during the life of the Academy was the election of W. M . Parker in the place of George F. Adams.

The duties of the board of managers were to locate and furnish the buildings, fix the fees, employ the teachers, transact all business of the Academy, and make a full annual repor.t to the trustees of Richmond College.

The Academy was located in Warwick Park , Newport News , overlooking the James River, one of the most beautiful sites in the city. The grounds were spacious and suitable for all kinds of outdoor games.

The first session opened September, 16, 1902. The prospectus uses this descriptive title: "The Newport News Academy, founded by George B. West, in honor of his parents, Parker and Mary West. " There were two teachers the first year: Elvin S. Ligon, '98, principal, and Goodwin Frazer, '02, associate. Mr. Ligon was principal until 1907; he later taught mathematics for a while in Richmond College. The second principal was the late William 0. Beazley, '06, who was succeeded by the late Robert W. Durrett, '98. Other teachers were: J. Edwin Lodge, Robert C. Barrett , E. B. Alsop , Miss Merrie Verser, Miss Lena Trout man, Miss Ruby Buxton , Miss Mabel Sanford and Miss Alma K. Barham .

The following courses of instruction were offered the first year: English ( four years), Mathemati cs (four years), Latin (four years) , History ( three years), Science ( three years), and two years each in French, Ger(Continued

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It's Back to Class For Alumni on Both Sides of Lake

Old GradsWill ReturnMay 17th U. (Mac) PITT, who has M given 30 years of his life to the University of Rid1111ond as coach and ath letic ALCOLM

director will be honored by the old grads who return to the campus for Alumni Day, May 17.

The salute to the "Silver Fox " will take place at the Alumni lunch in Millhiser Gymnasium while, at the same hour, Westhampton College women will hold their annual luncheon in the Westhampton Dining Room. At both luncheons members of the senior class will be guests of honor.

Both groups will gather in Keller Hall at 6 o'clock for the annual joint dinner at which Dean Robert F. Smart will speak.

An innovation on the men's side of the lake will be the classroom visitation program which will enable the old grads to sit again in the classrooms of their former teachers.

Alumni Day Chairman Howard P. Falls, '33, has included a Saturday morning classroom schedule with his invitation to the old grads .

This will enable the alumni to go first to the classroom for an hour of instruction (the professors have solemnly promised not to ask the alumni any embarrass ing questions) .

After class, each alumnus can walk across campus to Millhiser Green to register and renew his friendship with bis former college mates.

The alumnae will take their back-to-school movement in more formal stride, devoting Friday to an interesting and stimulating Alumnae College. (See separate article on this page.) _A highlight of the Westhampton program will be the annua l Alumnae Hour in Keller Hall at 11 o'clock. At this time Carolyn Marsh , '47 , and Betty Hardin Elmore, '48, will be the speakers . later at the annua l business meeting, alumnae will honor Miss Marjorie Rivenburg who is comp leting 25 years

ALUMNAE " Our Expand ing Universe " will be the theme of the Westhampton A lumnae College which will be conducted in four sessions on May 16.

Four distinguished members of the University of Richmond facu lty will participate: Dr. Ralph C. McDanel, " One World or More"; Dr. Edward C. Peple, ''L iterature in a Changing World " ; Dr. Robert E. Loving, " Who Will Conquer Space?" and Miss Pauline Turnbull , " Space Celestial and Terrestrial. "

Alumni-ae Day Calendar

Howard Falls, '33

8:30 8:30 l 0:00 11:00 12:00 l ,00 l :30 6:00

Barbara Rodewald Forrest, '49

a.m.-11 :20 a.m. Alumni Classroom Visitation a.m.-1 :00 p.m. A lumni Registration, Millhiser Green a.m.-11 :00 a.m. A lumna e Registration , Keller Hall a .m. A lumnae Hour, Kel ler Hall noon Annual Business Meeting, Westhampton Alumnae Association p.m. Alumni-Senior Lunch, Millhiser Gymnasium p.m . Alumnae-Senior Luncheon, Westhamp ton Dining Room p.m. Alumni-A lumnae Dinner, Keller Hall. Speaker: Dr. Robert F. Smart

as professor of Latin. A lumnae Day activities have been arranged by a committee headed

by Barbara Rodewald Forrest, '49.

The afternoon feature for the men will be the baseball game with William and Mary on Millhiser Field at 2: 30 o'clock.

Mac will go to the playing field after receiving the testimonial of friendship and esteem from his fellow alumni. The testimonial will be voiced by President J. C.

COLLEGE Classes w ill begin at l 0:30 and end at 3:20 w ith a luncheon from 12:30 to l :20 in the Tea Room. There will be an advance regis trati on fee of $3.50 which includes the luncheon.

It is hop ed that many alumnae will plan to enrol l in Alumnae College and also at te nd the Al um nae Day activities on May 17.

Alumnae College was planned by a committee composed of Phyll is Coghill Brown, Mary Mills Freeman, Elizabeth Gaines, Elizabeth Tompkins and Antoinette Wirth Whittet.

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(Tiny) Wicker of Fork Union Military Academy, one of Mac's close friends of college years who p layed with him on baseball, football and track teams .

At the conclus ion of his address Tiny Wicker will present to Coach Pitt an appropriate gift as a token of alumni ,affection and esteem.

He came to the University of Richmon d in 1928 after a highly successful career as coach at Fork Union Military Academy and is now perhaps the best known college sports figure in the Southern Conference area. (Dr. John 1. Plyler, president of Furman Univer sity, recently presented to Coach Pitt a. silver tray on behalf of his friends in the Conference which he has served for years as chairman of the basketball committee.)

Mac, the midd le man in three generations of Pitts that have served the University well, is the son of the late R. H. Pitt, for many years editor of The Religious Herald and a member of the board of trustees of the University. Ma c's son, Malcolm U. Jr. , '42, principal of Patrick Henry High School, played on the basketball, baseball and football teams of the University .

Assisting Chairman Falls on Alumni Day arrangements are Dr. Emmett Mathews, 30; B. Clifford Goode, '19; William Farmer, 'SO, and J. Earle Dunford Jr ., '48.

By MARGARET SPENCER, '59

N

OW THAT May Day is over it's about time to get that term paper written .

May Day .... It was a huge success despite the rain which forced it indoors. Queen Carolyn Moss and her court were stunning in their full length formulas. The "Around the World" theme was carried out effectively with the flags from many nations flying over the booths at the carnival. And those dancesthe folk dan ces ( from all around the world, of course), the ballet and the forma l. May Day was a sort of condensed Greek Week.

Wasn't Greek Week fun' Except that all the boys were so occupied with fraternity projects that they hardly had time to see their Westhampton friends. How I missed that certain someone who has a crew cut and brown eyes and size 11 ½ loafers.

Loafers ... . Well , I guess I'm one. Let's see now .. .. The Canterbury pilgrims were kept in tow by Harry Bailly.

Speaking of pilgrims, that was guite a tour the Rid1mond College Glee Club took to Florida during Spring Vacation. Lucky Suzanne Kidd to get a trip that far with a bus full of boys. Accompanists get all the breaks! It was the first time in its history that the Glee Club had taken such an extended tour. But there was some work involved, too, I guess, although you'd never know it from those Florida suntans.

On Wednesday , March 26, the Gle e Club appeared in the Meyers Park Baptist Church of Charlotte, North Carolina. After the evening concert the men were lodged for the night in the homes of members of the church.

Thursday evening, March 27, the group sang in the Central Baptist Church in Gainesville, Georgia. Here again, as in the rest of the concerts, the church members entertained the boys for the night in their homes. In St. Petersburg, Florida, the Glee Club gave their third concert on Friday njght in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Churd1 . Journeying to Jacksonville, Florida, their final concert was given in the Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on Sunday evening. The Rev. Clyde Lipscomb, pastor, is an alumnus of the University of Richmond, as is W. Emory Trainham , inter im pastor of Meyers Park Church.

Work. ...

That's what I've got to do.

Gosh , how I planned to work when I came

back to school last fal l. But in September there was the usual rush, rush , "H i, how was yom summer?" And of course there were the freshmen. The ones at W.C. were numerous, aud cute too. But at Rimmond College, I just wasn't too sure. After several nights of being awakened by the patter of little feet, freshmen feet, running down the hall to windows with a better view of the serenading rats, or for a better vantage point from which to pour water, I began not to have a friendly opinion of the ent ire class of '61.

And besides that, the singing was off key!

Singing .. . . Didn 't the Canterbury pilgrims sing sometimes on their trip? The University Chorus sang, even if the Canterbury pilgrims didn 't. And they went on trips, too-to Washington one week end and to West Virginia another.

I sure lost a man ce to go on a trip when the BSU Convention was held in Richmond instead of Bluefield. That was because of the

flu epidemic. Oh, well , at least we had a lot of free cuts while class attendance was cut in half and even the professors got sick.

The flu really played havoc with some of the football teams. Fortunately we didn't have to cancel any games, and the pep rallies were fun. They also provid ed mor e opportunities for seeing "him ."

Homecom ing was even more colorful than ever. The queen was chosen in a regular beauty contest, minus the bathin g suit, of course. The sputniks were all the news then, and several of the fraternities took advantage of it for their floats. But it still was a Spider that won-the float and the game.

Maggie , the term paper' Harry Bailly really knew how to make money . That story telling contest was a neat way to get the pilgrims to come back to the inn . I should have had some of his business sense when I was collecting money for W. U. S. and the maids ' Christmas gifts.

And of course the Snowball! This was really a dan ce year for us. We even got two big name bands on campus-Johnny Long for the Junior Prom and Buddy Morrow for the University Spring Dan ce. Such attractions really promote friendship on the other side of the lake. Such cordiality, such gentlemen, such fun' Harry Bailly ... . He was a genial sort of man. But there were some people he just couldn 't seem to get along with. It was similar to when everybody started grumbling and threatening the administration when school opened on the Friday after New Year's, of all times. But that didn 't last long, because tests and completing semester assignment s (Conti1111ed on Pa!!.e 31)

SOAK ING UP FLORIDA SUNSHINE . Members of U. of R.'s touring Glee Club chat with newly found friends in the congregat ion of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church at St. Petersburg.

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Spider Nine Wins With

BOOM-BOOM BASEBALL pitching (and that's imthe 195£ baseball team may be one of the very best ever produced by that master producer of good baseball teams, Malcolm Upshur Pitt, sometimes known as Mac. As this piece is written the Pittmen have just turned in their seventh victory in a row after losing their opener to Harvard, and the boys have been hitting like Yankees.

There never was any question about the tightness of the Richmond defense.

After dropping the opener to Harvard, 5-1 (bad weather had kept the Spiders indoors and their batting eyes were far from sharp), they turned on the Crimson the following afternoon, 14 to 10.

After polishing off The Citadel, 8-5, and Canisius, 4-2, the Spiders went to work in earnest on their Southern Conference and Big Six foes. They beat V .M.I., 9 to 3, at Lexington and the following afternoon shelled Washington and Lee pitching for 20 hits and an 18 to 1 victory. Virginia Tech was the next victim, 14 to 6, and George Washington, the defending Southern Conference champion , 6-2.

The victory over the Colonials , a neat 6hitter, was fashioned by Lefty Mel Horowitz, a sophomore who also was credited with the Spiders' victory over Canisius (in relief) and Washington and Lee. Horowitz and Berry Swilling, a converted centerfielder, will carry the bulk of the pitching burden. Swilling (3-1) has shown good control and judgment, particularly for a player who is more at home in the outfield.

Other pitchers who should be of some help are Charles Revere, a freshman right hander , and Carlton Rowe, a lefty .

Although it is unusual to find a Pitt team with shaky pitching, it is equally unusual to find a Richmond team with such power at the plate. After eight games the Spiders were hitting at better than .300 and they showed no inclination to take the pressure off opposing pitchers. The big guns were Alan Cole who was hitting .484 and had driven in 13 runs , and Chuck Boone who had driven in 12 while hitting at a .461 clip.

Boone's hitting was no surprise. The allSouthern Conference catcher was accustomed to pulverizing baseballs but Cole, who had been billed as a good field-no hit shortstop has straightened out his swing and has been ASIDE

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hitting hard and often. He is regarded as one of the best professional prospects Pitt has ever tutored. Rangy, fast afield and the possessor of a good throwing arm, Boone's hitting makes him a sure-fire bet for stardom .

The Spider infield is one of the best in college baseball. A freshman, Doug Martin who prepped at John Marshall high school, has successfully made the transition to college baseball and is playing second base like a veteran. J. P. Vass, a Navy veteran, is stationed at first base and at third base is Mickey Marinkov.

Marinkov chased Snookie Leonard, a threeyear veteran at third, into the outfield and Leonard, in turn, has sharp ened the competition for the outfield job. So keen has

the competition become that Don Glenn who won all-Southern Conference recognition as a freshman last season, is spending a great deal of time on the bench. He's still fighting it out with Tom (Red) Booker, a freshman for the leftfi.eld position. John Boggs, a converted pitcher, is stationed in centerfield and the dependable Leonard in right.

Unless there is an unexpected collapse, this should be a great year for Richmond baseball. Here's the schedule the rest of the way: May 12, West Virginia (double-header) , Richmond May 14, V.P.I., Blacksbur g May 17, William and Mary, Richmond May 19, Virginia, Charlottesville

Well Done, Les Mrs. H. Lester Hooker Jr. was not among the more than 200 friends of her husband who gathered on the roof garden of the John Marshall Hotel on the evening of April 14 for a testimonial dinner in his honor.

Mrs. Hooker was at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital where at 6:23 o'clock she gave birth to the third young Hook er, Ann Kraft.

Seven minutes later , Les, looking like a cross-country runner rather than the Old Dominion's most successful basketball coach, arrived at the party.

Mrs. Hooker should have been there. She would have been proud of all the complimentary things that were said about her husband who did so much for basketball at the University of Richmond and for the City of Richmond.

Among those who said, "Well done, Les," were his excellency, J. Lindsay Almond, Governor of Virginia, who sent his greetings through an official representative; City Manager Horace H . Edwards, '2 6, who told what Les and his basketball teams had meant to the city of Richmond , and Walter W. Regirer , '49, who spoke affectionately on behalf of the Hookers' neighbors.

Rawley Fleet Daniel, '4 0, chairman of the committee on arrangements, presided at the

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outset and then introduced Toastmaster T. Coleman Andrews, ' 22 , president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to a beautiful silver tray there was a silver basketball for Les in recognition of his feat in leading the Spiders to another State championship. Each member of the championship team also received a silver basketball.

Hooker 's teams captured four Big Six championships and reached the finals or semifinals of six Southern Conference tournaments during the half-dozen years he has been at the University.

ACADEMY PRESIDENT HARRIS SAYS SERVICE TO COMMUNITY SHOULD BE MEDICAL GOAL

1888While most alumni were shivering in their overcoats back in January , Dr . William H. Baylor of Baltimore , Md . was basking in the sunshine at Winter Park , Florida. It's nice work for those who deserve it.

OMOHUNDRO COMMENDS PURE, SIMPLE LIFE Malvern Hill Omohundro , '00, who developed a subdivision plan last year in Goochland County at the age of 90, is retiring by degrees.

He told a recent interviewer he doesn't practive much law now. ''I've just been retiring by degrees .... Real estate is my main business."

His varied career has included work as a storekeeper and railroad man, but h is specialties have been law and the real estate business. His philosophy: ' The pure and simple life is the only one worth living."

Mr. Omohundro, whose Goochland county farm home is named Brightly, is the author of "The Omohundro Genealogical Record, " a six-pound work which was published in 1950.

"I worked on that thing 45 years," he said . "During the depression about 20 years ago I worked on it practically full time."

He started with the first Omohundro in the Northern Neck in 1670 instead of following the usual practice of tracing different generations back from the present. T he result is the large book of 10,000 nameswith breezy notes by the author.

1905Clifton H. Howell had retired after 15 years with the Federal Power Commission. H e has moved to his new home at Woodstock in the Valley of Virginia.

C. W. Dickinson , Jr. has been named the first Nationa l Historian of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

1910Frank G . Louthan retired as executive vice president of the Virginia Manufacturers Association April 1. He plans to fill his spare time with church and Kiwanis Club work and gardening in his yard.

Dr. George Washington Sadler, who retired as the Southern Baptist foreign mission board's secretary for Africa, Europe and the Near East on De cember 31, 1957, has become a roving ambassador for the foreign mission board. Stops on hi s planned itinerary include Yugoslavia, Hungary and the Soviet Union. The Sadlers' new home is in Zurich, Switzerland.

1911Wilmer L. O'Flaherty has received a lifetime membership in the Amer ican Legion as a result of his 38 years of service to the organization.

1912F. M . Benton will retire from the Phillips Academy in June after 40 years there. He then will teach in Groton School, Groton, Mass. for a year, after which he and his wife plan to move to Rome, Italy.

"Community service, not only in his practice as a physician but also in civic activities, has been the keynote of Dr. Harris ' long career.

That's what The Commonwealth, publica tion of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, says about Dr. Malcolm H. Harris,

1914Odis B. Hinnant has retired after 40 years of youth work in South America, Europe and the United States. He remains active in his field by lecturing and conducting surveys for youth move ments.

Edmund T. Turnley has retired and is living in Rocky Mount , N. C.

1915Dr . Henry W. D ecker has been re-elected for another year as chief of staff of Richmond Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Dudley P. Bowe bas been elected to membership in the Wine and Food Society in Baltimore. Md. Dr. Bowe bas practiced medicine in Baltimore for many years.

HOSPITAL ACCREDITATION VICTORY FOR PERCIVAL W hen the Clark County Hospital in Kentucky was approved by the Joint Commission on Accreditation last November , it was a personal victory for Col. George M. Percival, '15.

When Col. Percival came to the 40-yearold hospital four years ago as its administrator he determined to get full accreditation for it. He had hoped to reach the rigid standards required for accreditation by late 1958, but by "effort, pat ience and lots of cold cash" he reached his goal a year early.

Building safety, records, a medical library, legal and moral responsibility are among the requirements for accreditation. To Col. Percival this means not only reaching high standards but maintaining and improving them. " It eliminates hit or miss standards and is evidence that the medical and hospital people are on guard, and that the hospital is well run, weJI organized, well equipped and well staffed," he says.

Percival is not the only one who is en-

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' 18, of West Point , the new president of the Virginia Academy of General Practice.

He began his medical practice in West Point in 1923, a year after his graduation from the Medical College of Virginia , and has spent the past 34 years serving his community as a general practitioner and civic leader.

He likes small towns in general ("the best pla ce to live") and West Point in particular. He has served West Point as mayor and as chairman of its school board . H e has been a member of the board of public welfare since 1942.

Dr. Harris is a charter member of the Virginia Academy of General Practice and also is a charter member and past president of the Midtidewater Medical Society. He was a member of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates from 1950 to 1953 and currently is vice president for Virginia in the Tri-State Medi cal Society.

thusiastic about the Clark County Hospital.

A Florida resident who was hospitalized there after an automobile accident and who described herself as "well qualified to speak" on hospital care wrote to the local paper praising the medical staff, the nurses, the doctors, the hospitality, the interest shown and the food.

Col. Percival's job is "not a bed of roses or a crown of thorns. " For the former Army man "it has many compensations."

BROOKE ANDERSON WORKS FOR WELFARE CENTER FOR THE WEARY For K. Brooke Anderson, '16, retirement meant anything but a cessation of work. The former secretary of the Brown Christian Association of Brow°' University, Providence , R. I., is now working in the office of the Near East Christian Coun cil Committee in the Gaza Strip.

This is not Mr. Anderson 's first experience in the Middle East. He worked there with the YMCA after World War I. Th e beneficiaries of his service now are Arab refugees, persons who lost their homes during the fighting last year.

Mr. Anderson describes his office as "a welfare center for the weary, the depressed, the ill, the hungry , the dispossessed, the widow, the amputee, the professional beggar, and even the man who wants a loan."

All come asking for help , he adds, and one of his most difficult tasks is separating the sheep from the goats.

It's a heartbreaking , yet rewarding job, the kind of thing Mr. And erson has enjoyed doing since he graduated from U. of R. He held the YMCA position at Brown for 29 years, and the University awarded him an

honorary master 's degree last June in recognition of his service.

Anderson 's office ha s a "cham eleon-like quality, " and to support his statement he points ollt that it ha s been used as a sandal factory, a hospital dispensary, a second-hand sto re, an employment office, a college admission office, and a vegetabl e mark et in turn as various emergencies arise .

Misery and Sllffering are the norm for the refugees that Mr. Anderson serves, and, unlike their benefactors, they cannot escape from the tension. For them death is the on ly way Ollt. Mr. And erson and those who work with him do what they can to help, and when the pressure becomes too great they leave the Strip fo r a short and deserving vacation.

1917Lucien W. Bingham , manager of the Bingham Truck Service jn Richmond, "pa ints" pictures for a hobby-in needlework. Bingham, who clajm s he can't draw, gives the pictures to his friends and r elatives for unusual gifts.

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1922Vjce Admiral Irving T. Duke, USN (R et. ) , has moved to his new home jn Arlingt on.

T. Coleman Andrews has been named president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. H e also is president and board chairman of American Fidelity & Casua lty Company.

TWO ALUMNI NAMED SCHOOL PRINCIPALS Two alumni of the University have been appo int ed principals of new schools in H enrico County.

Joseph Rotella, '22, principal of Dumbarton School since 1952, was named prin cipal of the new Bethlehem School on Bethlehem road.

B. T. Doyle, Jr. , '51, was named principal of the new Maybeury School. He has been principal of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Danvill e for the past two years.

Mr. Rotella, wh o lives at Ellerson, is married and has two children , joined the Henrico school system in 1946 after serving as a principal in Hanover County for 28 years.

Mr. Doyle was a teacher and principal for 13 years before becoming principal of the Danville juni or high school. He is married and has one child .

MITCHELL QUITS HIS JOB AND MOVES TO SCOTLAND George Mit chell 's only previolls building experience was to help his brother build a house. Now he's building a dream home of his own-near GJenco, Scotland.

Mr. Mitchell , '23, and his wife, Ali ce, with the aid of a local handyman , began building their own cabin last summer. Thi s spring they' 11 move into it.

A feature article in the Scottish Daily Express noted: 'T he house nestles in a sheltered hoJlow in the Glencoe mountain-roots , besid e a burn that tumbles 700 yards from a spring down the rearing sides of Sgor nam Fiannaidh-'my miJlion dollar burn ,' Mr .

Mitchell calls it."

Mr. Mitchel] , who taught economi cs at Columbia University for six years and later served as executive director of the Southern Regional Council for 12 years, offered this explanation for the decision to move 3,500 miles to Glencoe: "I went to Oxford when I was a young man. At Baliol I met a lot of Scots boys, and in 1927 I visited Scotland . I liked it. And I read a lot of books about it. I clecicleclthat when I was 55, I would quit my job and move to Scotland. Which I did . And her e I am."

In January a year ago, he qui t his job , the Mitchells sold their hom e and went to Scot-

land with "enough books to read for 20 years," Mr. Mitchell said . ' Tm not going to do a darned thing except read my books.

I've been buying them all my life." Actually , though, he has found time to give a number of lectures since his arrival in Scotland last spring.

Unable to find a building lot that suited them when they arrived in Scotland, they went to the Glencoe area after Mr. Mit chell remembered a college friend whose peop le lived there. The Mit chells found the site they wanted and started building .

The cabin is only 36 feet by 24 feet, but the Jiving room, dining alcove and kit chen are all one unit. Later , the coupl e plans to build an addition for their two daughters, who are of university age.

Of the move to Scotland and the housebuilding experience, Mrs. Mit chell says: "I go where my husband goes. I certainly never expected to be doing this. But it's fun."

In their new home , the G eorge Mit chell s are still interested in the education of youth.

Mrs . Mit chell, in a recent letter to his sister, Mrs. Mary Clifford of Putn ey, Vt., said "Geo rge is driving two little 10-year-olcl village boys to St. Andr ews tomorrow to give them a glimpse of a university in hope s that they' 11work toward going (th ere) some clay."

FREEDLEY'SBOOK "THE LUNTS" WINS HIGH CRITICAL ACCLAIM

Mark Lutz has received a citation from the U nit ed Stat es Treasury for promo ti onal wo rk in the D elawa re Valley on the sa le of saving bonds.

His campaign backing bonds in the Philco Corporation magazine led to the awar d.

Dr . Kennon C. Walden is practicing surg ical medicine at Bedford , V a. His home is 1113 Longwood Avenu e.

G eorge Freec!Jey, '25, curator of the New York Publi c Library 's Theatre Collection and drama critic for the Morning Telegraph, has scored another theatri cal triumph with his new book, 'The Lunts. " In this mono graph , Freeclley tells simp ly the story of one of the theatre's outstanding couples, Alfr ed Lunt and Lynn Fontanne .

Whitn ey Bolton , commenting on the book in hi s syndicated column, said, "F reeclley ... has gone about his task with both affection and a grim determination to cuJI away the legends , the fancies, and the shadows. H e has stuck to facts like magnets to steel."

The book contains authentic stories , a factual roster of work and a rare collection of photographs of their entire career, promot, ing Bolton to term Freeclley's book "a histori cal must , a research must. From now on, there can be no excuse for errors in reporting the Lunts ."

Fre eclley's interest in, and outst anding contributions to, the theatre were well nur tured during his undergraduate clays, when he was constantly associated with the University Players.

1924Davis T. Ratcliffe of the New York In suran ce Society's insura nce school spo ke at the annu a l meeting of the American Association of U n iversity Teachers of Insurance in Philadelphia in .January.

1926W arre n Chappell handled the typography. bind ing and jacket of the book Amonf!. the M ormons, an eyew itness history of the Mormon movement.

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1927Menter P. German of Wa shing ton represented Alma Mater at the inauguration of Dr. Willi am Joseph McDona ld as Rector of the Catholic Univers ity in W ashington April 16.

1928The Rev. Oscar .E. Northern has accepted the pastorate of Hunt on Baptist Church , Glen All en.

H e previously was pastor of South Hill Bapti st Church.

1929Thoma s P. Par sley has given about 400 books , including works of lit eratur e, history and Virgi niana , to the University librar y. Man y of the books donat ed are rare volumes that are now out of print.

1931.James P. Gunter , former vice president and sales manager of David M. lea and Company 's furnitur e division, ha s been promoted to administrativ e vice president in charge of all l ea operations.

Th e Rev. Jam es A. Cales has becom e pastor of the Berkley Avenue Bapti st Church in Norfo lk. H e formerly wa s pastor at Calvary Bapti st Church, Bow ling Gr een. Mr. Cales also is secretary-tr easurer of the 1958 Alumni luncheon at Virginia Beach.

Mark Andr ews has been promo ted to General

1934FORMER COP NOW PARSON For Joseph C. Cox, '26, the transition from police captain to ministerial stude nt was a satisfying experience.

Mr. Cox entered New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary last September when he retired from the Shreveport, La., police department after 20 years' service.

Of the transition, he said "other than the fact that I felt the need of special training , I also felt strongly that I should get in a different world wit h a different viewpoint than I had had for years. The semina ry has given me more than I had hop ed for."

In preparing for a career in the ministry, he is following in the footsteps of his father , also Joseph C. Cox, who was a Baptist minister, and a brother , the Rev. Byron B. Cox, who is now pastor of First Baptist Church in Olla , La. Mr. Cox was a professional baseball player, traveling salesman and oil rig "ro ughneck" before becoming a policeman. Of his career as a law enfo rcement officer, he said "people think po licemen get tougher with

Sales Manager for Virginia Metal Products , Inc. in Orange. Following in his father's footsteps, Andrews' youngest son, Michael David, is a member of the class of '6 1 at Richm ond Co llege.

John P. Bowden has been transferred from Char lott e, N. C. to Atl anta, Ga. by the Markel Service, Inc.

1932Engaged: Lila Peck Walk er of Greensboro , N. C., to the Rev. Christopher Lawrence McRae of Richmond. The wedding wi ll take place in June.

Emme tt A. Williams has mov ed from Biloxi , Mis sissippi , to 36 11 Hawthorn e Avenue , Richmond.

George Leonard Smith is an electrica l en1;ineer at the Richmond office of VEPCO. Th e Smiths are the pare nt s of seve n chi ldr en, four boys and three girls.

1933Dr. H oward H. Harlan of th e D epar tment of Socio logy at Birmingham-Southern College represented Alma Mat er at the inauguration of Dr. Frank Anthony Rose as President of the University of Alabama April 9.

Howard P. Falls has been re-e lected as moder-

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BY STA TE-PLANTERS P. Henry Poehler and Preston T. Holmes have been promoted from assistant vice president s to vice presidents of State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts .

Mr. Poehl er, '3 5, has been with StatePlanters since 1936 . He was elected assistant cashier in 1948, assistant vice president in 195 3 and a branch manager in 1956 .

Mr. Holmes, who attended the University's Evening School of Business Administration , joined State-Planters in 1944. He became an assistant cashier in 1952 and an assistant vice president in 1956.

The Rev . Julien Gunn , OHC, has been transferred from Holy Cross M onastery, West Park, New York , to St . Andrew 's School, St. Andr ~ws, Tenn .. where he is Prior and H eadmaster of the School.

STRAUS RECEIVES FOOD COUNCIL AWARD

experience. I became easier. I guess that was because of my little daughter , who 's now 13 and staying in Shreveport un ti! I get my chur ch ."

He added that "alth ough I liked my job on the police force, I never felt I was doing exactly what I wanted. That's one reason why after all these years, I've finally come to the seminary. "

ator of th e Richmond Baptist Association . Falls is a layman of Fir st Baptist Church.

Married: Earluth Elaine Epting of Atlanta. Ga. to the Rev . Raymond E. Abbitt at St. Matthew 's Cathedral , Dal las, Texas, April 16.

S. Frank Straus, '35, exerntive secretary of the Virginia Food D ealers Association, has been presented a marketing achievement award by the Virginia Food Council.

Mr. Straus received the award at a lun cheon in Richmond at which the Rockingham Poultry Marketing Co-operative also was recognized for market ing achievement.

Edward L. Frost, presid ent of the Rich mond Wholesale Produce Dealers Association, presented the awards.

1936Hilaire E. Beck, Jr. has been promoted to Coordinator of Purchasing at Phillip Morri s, In c.

Beck has been Controller of th e Louisville branch of the company since June 1957.

Anthony Neal Smerda is Financial and Account ing Manager of the Versailles Product s Company , Versailles , Ky. Hi s home is in Lexi ngton , Ky.

1937The Rev. Paul G. Wiley ha s accepted a call to

STOKES SUCCESSFULLYCOMPLETES STATE DEPARTMENT JOB IN ETHIOPIA Charles S. Stokes, '31, and his w ife have moved from Eth iop ia to Wash ington where he has ente red a mid-career training course at the Foreign Service Institute . After completing the training course, he will receive a new assignment from the Department of State.

Mr. Stokes, w ho was appointed a foreign service officer last September , was deputy director of the International Co-operation Administration 's Mission to Ethiopia for a year and a half before returning to Washington.

The post in Ethiopia was his second ICA assignment as a deputy director. Earlier, he served w ith the ICA in Libya after five years' work with several agencies in Greece. In 1952, he was presented the Gold Cross of George I in recognition of hi s services to the Greek government.

In his work in Ethiopia, he was responsible for the general direction, planning and developme nt of the American technical and economic assistan ce program there in co-operation with the Ethiopian government. This program was started in Ethiopia in 1951.

Mr. Stokes said Ethiopia's heritage of independence has enabled it to maintain its culture throughout the centuries. He believes the country has great promise for the future .

•·1n Ethiopia," he said, "there are many undeveloped resources. Th e survey of the Blue Niles river basin, which is a project of the ICA Mission to Ethi opia and the

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Ethiop ian Ministry of Public Works, will give Ethiopia more information about her natural resources. The survey and mappin g of this comparatively unknown region of the world is an important step toward determining Ethiopia's economic potential in the Blue Nile river basin."

Results of Ameri can technical and economic assistance to Ethiopia are apparent today. "In the year and a half I've been here, I've seen the Ethiopian people move increasingly into roles of responsibility in their government. New edL1cational institutions have been established and curricu la for old institutions revised. . . . Ethiopia is rapid ly taking a leading role among the count ries of Africa and in the modern world."

the Arlington Baptist Church . H e previo usly was pastor of Spurgeo n Mem orial Baptist Church in Norfolk.

"LIFE ON THE FRONTIER-" THAT'S FOR CARROLL WILLIAMS In the op inion of Dr. Carroll M. Williams , '37, "if a chap wants to live on the frontier, it is difficult to find one except in science today. For me, life outside science would be unbearable."

Dr. Williams expressed this view to a writer for Look Magazine, which in a recent magazine cited him as the symbol of the man America needs. He is professor of zoology and a research scientist at Harv ard University.

Six years ago, another national magazine, Life, carried a picture story of Dr. Willia.ms' work on metamorphosis, the miracle by which a caterpi llar becomes a moth. In 19S0, h e won the annua l $1,000 prize .offered by the Am erican Association for the Advan cement of Science for outstanding scientific research.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch, in a recent editorial, said Dr . Willia.ms' research is producing information about the life process in insects which scientists say ultimately may be extreme ly important in giving man a better understanding of the human body, how it functions and how it can be kept in better health. Certainly such information could be valuable in countl ess ways, possibly even including better protection of the hu man body in space travel. " 'The Misunderstood Man ' is Look' s caption for Dr. Willia.ms' photograph . Fortunately for the nation 's future, the scientist, symbolized by Dr. Williams, is becoming better understood-and far more appreciated."

A publication, Corporate Citizenship and Science Ed11cation, published by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, gives top billing to Willia.ms in its story of the contribution of Virginia's privately endowed colleges and universities in the field of science education.

1938The Rev. Morris deSaussure Warren has become pastor of Vin eville Presbyterian Church in Macon, Ga. He had been a staff member of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education in Richmond since 1951.

1939D aniel Grinnan has resigned as Richmond assistant city attorney to enter private law practice .

H e had held the position since 1950.

D r. Robert A. Cars ley represented the Universi ty of Richmond at the inauguration of D r. Richard Aubr ey Mclemore as President of Mississippi College, Clinton , M iss., March 19.

1940John T. Aberna thy, Jr. represented Alma Mater at the inauguration of H enry King Stanford as President of Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Al a., Apri l 11. Abern athy Jives at 34 Clarendon Road in Birmingham.

DENMARK DUTY DAMP SAYS JACK DOBSON To Colonel John W. Dobson , '35, and his family the first look at Copenhagen, Denmark was deceiving.

Colonel Dobson, who is deputy chief of

staff for the Allied Land Forces Denmark headquart ers, wrote recently : "We (the colonel, his wife and two chil dren) landed h:'!re on a bright, sunny afternoon in mid-July (19S7) , thereby getting a somewhat false impression of the usual weather in Copenhagen. I can with authority now state that a nice sunny day here winter or summer is unusual.

"Despite the climate which is on the damp, cool side, we like it a lot here. The city is beautiful , the people on the whole are friend ly, clean and intelligent, and have been quite helpful to us in getting settled ....

"We live on an old farm north of the city proper, thatched roof, horses, but modern plumbing. In addition, much to my joy, there are two excellent golf courses her e which serve as my physical conditioner s."

William Kayhoe, president of the H ome Build ers A ssociation of Richmond , is a third- genera tion constru ction man. Ow ner of the K ayhoe Construction Corp., he doubles in home and commercia l buildi ngs. Hi s current project is the development of a Bon Air subdivision for homes in the $25,000-$30,000 range. As if that weren't eno ugh, one of his avocatio ns is building furniture in his shop at home.

Edward l. Field , Jr. has been appointed personnel director for Allied Stores Corp., of New York, a department store chain. H e lives with his wife and daughter in Garden City, New York .

Major Stuart Hoskins is chief of the recreation division at Third Army Headquarters , Ft. M cPh erson, Ga. His duties include supervising service clubs , libraries , sports entertai nment, bands, crafts and wild life within the army area .

Edward B. Walker, Jr . has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Orth o Pharmaceutical (C anada ) ltd. H e formerly was in charge of the Latin American export program and the development of markets in the Far East .

Born: A daughter, Carol tuart , to the Rev. and Mrs. R. Stuart Grizzard January 11 in Norfolk. D r. Grizzard is pastor of the First Baptist Church in orfolk.

Born : A daughter, Rebecca Jo, to the Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. McNutt in Char leston, W est V irgi nia.

Cdr. R. A . Keil, USN, is studying for his master's degree in economics at the Un iversity of Hawaii. He is slated to be comma nding officer of a destroyer based on the W est Coast or H awaii in the summer.

1941D r. Carl Collins assumed his duties as pastor of Marion Baptist Church February 16. H e holds the rank of Lt. Col. as a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve. D r. Collins ' book, Paul A s a Leader, was published in 1955.

1942Dr. Rober t S. Mur phey has been promoted from director of chemica l research to assistant director of the research program at A. H. Robins Co., Inc ., a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Richmond.

Born: A daughter, Karen Lynn , to Mr. and Mrs. John M. H ardman in Richmond May 1, 1957 .

HORACE FORD'S BOOK OF SERMONS DEALS WITH EVERYMAN'S PROBLEMS MAY I PRESENT JESUS ? By Hora ce L. Ford, pastor of the Broadus Memorial Baptist Church, Richmond , Virginia. The Williams Printing Company, Richmond , Virginia. 99 pp.

Here is a book of sermons by Hora ce L. Ford, ' 37, Pastor of the Broadus Memorial Baptist Church, Richmond, Virgin ia. This is his first book and reveals the high qualit y of his ministry and except ional gifts for relating the Christian gospel to the question s which are being asked today.

It is easily understandab le why two of th e sermons included in this volume should have won the George Was h ington Medal of Honor from Freedom Foundation, Valley Forge , Virginia. In "T he Chains of Freedom" and in "The Cause and Cure of Disillusionment " the preacher Jays his hand upon prob lems

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and issues that are vital in the conservation of our American way of life , and the other eight sermon topics deal also with the problems of the man on Main Street, as well as students on a amp us. Th ey are "May I Present Jesus ?", "The Tragedy of Being Civilized ", "Leaning Against the Wind ", "Hurry Up and Live", "Ho w Much are you Worth ?", "What on Earth Are You Doing? ", "Th e Secret of a Thrifty Life ", and "Life 's Greatest Jun ction. " Mr. Ford's sermons are in the manner of elevated conversation and are warm with the breath of experiences encountered as pastor of churches in villages and cities, as chaplain , and as student traveler in other lands.

Readers of these sermons will say that he has presented Jesus attractive ly, appea lingly and convincing ly.

- Solon B. Cousins

The Rev. Charles E. Spain has been appoint ed superintendent of missions for the Petersburg Baptist Association. He will help to strengthen the organized work in several churches of the association.

Born: A son, Jon Christopher, to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lee Williams in Richmond ovember 24, 1957.

Rev. W. Paul Hepler, pastor of the Biltmore Baptist Church, Glen Allen, collects antique clocks for a hobby. His favorite is a weight-run time piece handed down from his great-grandfather.

1943Ray Baker has become pastor of Coan Baptist Church, Heathsville. He formerly was pastor of Zoar Baptist Church, Deltaville.

George W. Sadler has entered the race for election to the Richmond City Council. His platform includes reappraisal of the city's tax structure and no reduction in spending for the city school system.

Moreland R. Irby, Jr. has been named a registered representative of J. C. Wheat & Co., investment bankers. He has been with the firm a year.

Stanley S. Watts guided the Norfolk Unit of the J. Smith Ferebee Agency, Richmond, to top honors among the Society's Units in 1957. It was the seventh straight year the Norfolk Unit had won.

William Allister Mackenzie has formed a law partnership, Jones, Ewen & Mackenzie, in Louisville , Ky.

1944Warren A. Stansbury has been named chairman of the blood donor recruitment committee of Roanoke County Red Cross Chapter. Stansbury is manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in Roanoke.

Dr. and Mrs. Chester Wagstaff plan to arrive in New York in late April. They left Ceylon in March because of the illness of their daughter Suzanne. The Wagstaffs had been missionary doctors at Green Memorial Hospital, Manipay , Ceylon.

Orrin Delbert Morris received his bachelor of divinity degree from New Orleans Baptist Seminary at the mid-season commencement exercises.

1945Frank W. Mann, Jr. has been promoted from the advertising department to art director at A. H. Robins Co. Inc., pharmaceutical manufacturer.

He joined the firm in 1953.

1946Rev. Paul W. Strickland has become Chaplain of the Florida tate Hospital at Chattahoochee.

He previously was a Ward Chaplain at Mississippi State Hospital, Whitfield, Miss.

19470. Russell Lang has become director of public relations for James E. Grass Coca-Cola Bottling Plants, Inc. He was publicity manager for Governor J. Lindsay Almond in his election campaign last fall.

Born: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Phillips, Jr. in February.

Born: A son to Mr. and Mrs. William B. Badenoch, Jr. in late March at MCV Hospital.

Dr. Lewis B. Hasty is practicing medicine in East Point, Ga. His specialty is obstetrics and gynecology.

1948Elliott H . Barden has been appointed an account executive for Hall & Co., Inc., a Richmond advertising agency. He formerly was with John H .

D ulany & Sons, Inc., food processor of Salisbury, Md. John R. Chappell , III won the championship in the Richmond Chess Club winter tournament for

ALUMNI IN ACTION George Hill Shackelfo rd, who received his B.S. in Business in 1941, is the youngest superintendent of agencies The Travelers Insurance Company hos ever hod, both from the standpoint of age and years on the job. George, who is 39 and hos been with the company since 1947, is in charge of soles with overoll jurisdiction of one-half of the United States for Travelers ' soles of life, occident and health lines. Shackelford, a native of Hampton , hos had two employers: The Travelers Company and the United States Morine Corps for whom he served five years before being discharged as a lieutenant colonel. (He's now a Reserve Colonel.)

Mrs. Shackelford was Betty Ann Petzinger, of Portsmouth , Vo. Westhampton '42; she was Moy Queen, Phi Beto Koppa, and Mortar Board.

The children ore: Lisa, 7, and George, Jr., 4. Dick Humbert was the best man at the marriage in 1942. The Shackelfords live at 26 Belcrest Rood, West Hartford , Conn.

They ore Presbyterians and members of the Parent Teachers Association.

This Phi Gamma Delta, who roomed with Art Jones and was Ed Merrick ' s sub at cen te r for two years, ploys golf ot the Hartford Golf Cltjb of West Hartford , where he is a 10 handicapper.

One-third of George's time is spent traveling

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in all 48 states.

This captain of the 1941 Spider tennis team believes that the "potential market hos barely been scratched" in the insurance business.

This former Democrat become a Republican because he favored Eisenhower over Stevenson and Dewey over Truman and not because of one party over the other.

Shockelford's "fondest hope is that our daughter will follow her mother to Westhampton and my son to Richmond to lop up some Southern culture because they will be 'domyankees' by then." He will retire at sixty-five, and soys that when the day comes he will be singing "Carry Me Bock to Old Virginny. " Jomes B. Robinson, '49

the second time. He began playing chess at Alma Mater.

Harry J. Perrin, Jr. director of research services for the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, has been given the additional title of Small Business Counselor. He will help small businessmen with their special problems.

Dr . W. Edward Holladay has formed a partnership with Dr. Robert Powell Coggins in Marietta, Ga., for the practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

1949Rev. Thomas H. Caulkins became the pastor of Clover Baptist Church, Clover, Va., April 1. He previously was pastor of the Branchville Baptist Church.

Corbett F. Haden, Jr. is in charge of the Warwick area office for Remington Rand. A loyal alumnus, he even took a special radio with him when he moved to Warwick so he could follow

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the University's basketball and football games.

Rev. No lton W. Turner became pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Chesterfield County , January 15. He formerly was pastor of Massaponax Baptist Church near Fredericksburg.

Born: A son, Richard Charles, to the Rev. and Mrs. William 1. Corder of Hollins last summer.

James William Flippin has been appointed a Municipal Court judge in Roanoke. He is assigned to the traffic violations bureau which handles minor violations to which the offenders plead guilty.

Born: A daughter, Deborah June, to the Rev, and Mrs. Lawrence J. Seyler of Ardmore , Pa., December 11, 1957.

James A. Moncure edited the 1958 White Paper, the tate Chamber of Commerce daily reporting service on legislative activity of the General Assembly. Moncure is an instructor of history at Alma Mater.

Thomas W. Della has taken the position of Supervisor of Machine Accounting with the Richmond Public Schools.

TRUCKERS CHOOSE BUDDY BRISTOW AS PRESIDENT

Virginia truckers, large and small, know well the abilities of William Edmund "Buddy" Bristow, '43.

In recognition of these abilities, they named him president of the influential trade group, the Virginia Highway Users Association.

In his role as president of Bristow Lines, Inc., Mr. Bristow today devotes most of his time to the company's administrative functions, but the time was when he of-ten took the wheel of the night run from Baltimore to Richmond .

The Bristow firm's business is concentrated on the competitive Richmond-Baltimore run.

The company, known for its efficiency, safety record, excellent condition of equipment and the highway courtesy of its drivers, has terminals in Richmond, Fredericksburg, Baltimore and Washington.

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his father as a helper while in high school, began driving during college and resumed this activity after his Air Force service during World War II. He later moved into other jobs with Bristow Lines and became vice president and general manager in 1949. In 1954, after the death of his father, F. A. Bristow, Sr., who started the business in 1917, Buddy Bristow became president.

As for the future, Mr. Bristow said 'Tm just hoping that there is a place in this business for the small carrier who can give personalized service." This was in reference to the mergers and consolidations which sometimes thin the ranks of independent truckers.

Mr. Bristow has great confidence in the men behind the wheels of American trucks.

"Out on the road, when I see trucks," he said, "I feel confident and know I can trust what they are going to do. I'm afraid I can't say the same thing about cars."

LONGAN APPOINTED TO HOS PITAL BOARD Dr. Robert Coleman Longan, Jr., who has been engaged in the private practice of psychiatry here since 1947, has been appointed to the State Hospital Board.

Dr. Longan , who served in the Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1947, is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine , Ameri can Medical Association, Southern Psychiatric Association and the Neuropsychiatric Society of Virginia. He is married and has two childr en.

1950Ru ssell 1. Gulick has joined the Potas h Company of Ameri ca and is working out of Atlanta.

Engaged: Mary Davidina Partin , daughter of Mr s. Robert Ne lson Partin of Petersburg and the late Mr. Partin , to Richard Clark Tutwiler , Jr. They will be marri ed in May .

Engaged: Call is Meriweth er Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs . James Barton Allen of Richmond, to Nicholas Con stantine Condyles. A May wedding is planned.

An Easter pageant written by N. Carl Barefoot , Jr. was presented for the third year in the outdoor amphitheatre at W esthampton Memorial Park in Richmond East er Sunday. Th e pageant tells the story of Easter in the five ap pearances of Chri st from the Crucifixion to the Ascension.

Rob ert 0. Marshall received his Certificate in Public Accounting in February. He has been with the Union life In suran ce Company since December.

Rev. Warr en D. Russell , Jr. has accepted a call to Christ Baptist Church, Worchester , Mass .

Married: Jeann e June Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Emanuel And erson of Richm ond and Charlottesville , to William Bow en Astrop D ecember 21, 1957 , at the home of th e

bride's parents. Astrop has join ed the sales planning staff of Bren co, Inc. , manufacturer· of rai l road bearings.

Born: A son, J ohn Al exand er, to Mr. and Mr s.

Stuart B. Cary in Richmond, March 15. Cary is on the Richmond staff of Ernst and Ernst.

1951B. T. Doyle , Jr. MS ' 51, has been appointed principal of the Maybeury School in Henrico County , Va. Engaged: Patricia Ann Salenger , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Salenger of Colonial Beach , to lewis C. Madison, Jr. Born: A son, Richard Han sel, to Mr. and Mrs. Julius H. Fanney, Jr. of Summit , N. J. February 17. The little one weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

Born: A son, David Randolph , to Mr. and Mrs. George D . Taylor at Medical College Hospital March 8.

Adrian Loftin in chairman of the Roanoke City Young Republicans membership drive which began in March. He is vice president of the group.

James B. Bourne , Jr. has been promoted to vicepresident-treasurer and director of Franklin Federal Savings and loan Association . Bourn e lives with his wife and three children at 206 Jackson Avenue, Sandston.

1952Robert Chadwick has go ne to New York to take a job in a pub lishing house there. He formerly had been writing for the Autonomou s University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He plans to return to get his master 's degree in Spanish at Mexico City College soon.

1953First Lt. Robert K. Neale took first place honors in the U. S. Army Infantry School's associate company officers class at Fort Benning , Ga. He has since then graduated from the advanced course .

Jay V . C. Donohu e and the former Gwen Priddy (Westhampton '52) are now the parents of three childr en: Marian Adelle , 3, Terry Marie , 2, and Beverly Dale , born March 9, 1957 .

Born: A son, Stephen Douglas , to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Mann January 23. The Mann s

CHICAGO YMCA NAMES COUSINS Solon B. Cousins, Jr., '47, Northbrook, Illinois , has been appointed Director of Personnel for the Young Men 's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago. Cousins succeeds Alfred C. Rogers who assumes duties as Executive Secretary of the Sears Roebu ck YMCA. At 32, Cousins is the youngest Assistant General Secretary ever to serve on the 9-rnan cabinet.

Cousins formerly served as Assistant Personnel Director of the Chicago Association, largest YMCA in the world with 39 departments and bran ches and over 100,000 members. He began his YMCA service March 22, 19S4.

From 1952 to 1954 he was employment manager for Goldblatt Bros. stores. He

served in the U. S. Air Force during World War II. Cousins is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Solon B. Cousins, head of the Department of Religion at the University of Richmond.

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RICHMOND ALUMNI SERVE AT JUDSON If Judson College of Marion , Alabam a, feels an especially close tie to the University of Richmond as well as to the Baptist denomination , it is quite understandable.

For 36 years immediately prior to the retirement of Robert Bowling , '10, a Richmond University man headed the dep artment of psychology and education there (with the exception of 1925-26) and for 23 years held both the department of psychology and education and also the deanship.

For four years prior to Dean Bowling 's coming to Judson , T. E. Cochran, ' 12, was dean and professor of education, 1921-2S. Judson College gets its name from Ann Hasseltine Judson, wife of Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary to India.

Established in 1838 it is now in its 120th year of uninterrupted service. It claims to be the oldest Baptist college for girls in the world and one of the oldest of all colleges for girls.

have moved into their new home, 24 South D rive, Richmond.

Born: A son, Brian Keith , to Mr. and Mr s.

William W. Eudailey of Woodbridge February 8 in Alexandria .

William J. Carter is manager of the fashion division in Miller & Rhoads Roanok e store. Th e Carters have moved into their new home , 2750 Thorndale Street , S. W. Born: A son, John Willis , IV , to Mr. and Mr s.

John Willis Edmonds, III , in July , 1957 .

Engaged: Garnett Carter Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Moseley Smith, Jr. of Richmond , to Thomas Nicholas Pollard , Jr.

1954Engaged: Harriet McDowell Wyche , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis lewi s Wych e of Petersburg , to Robert Bradley Scott. The couple will be married in June.

Married: Barbara Kimes Smith of Alexandria to Du ane H. Brown January 25 in Alexandria.

Brown is employed by Price Waterhouse & Co. of Wa shington , D. C. A2/c Arthur N. O 'Brien, Jr. is stationed in London and is due for rotation back to the States in July. H e plans to return to Richmond in September or October.

Donald R. Young is now a management trainee at State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts.

Charles 1. Finke , Jr. has joined the Sales Staff of radio station WRNL , Richmond.

Richard 1. Reynolds was graduated from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at the end of the fall semester.

Richard H. Guilford has been promoted to vicepresident for agencies at Fidelity Bankers life Insu ranee Corp.

Robert E. Brown has taken a position as Sales Trainee with the Reuben H. D onne lly Corporation in Richmond.

Engaged: Allen Fay Thurman , daughter of Mr. and Mrs . Allen G. Thurman , III, of Arlington , to Charles A. Mink.

Rev . Robert 1. Carlton is now pastor of St. Stephens Baptist Church, St. Stephens Church , Va. His former address was little Plymouth , Va .

DICKERSON WINS ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP Park P. Di,ckerson, '55, of Harrisonburg has been awarded a Ruritan Foundation fellowship for advanced study abroad during the 1958-59 academic year.

He was one of 113 outstanding students from 30 countries to receive the hono r. In continu ing his preparation for a career in the ministry, he will study religio n at a major university in Africa.

Mr. Dickerson is scheduled to receive a bachelor of divinity degree from Ya le University in June.

He has served as youth director for the First Congregational Church of Norwa lk, Conn ., and during the summer of 1957 was student assistant pastor at Albert Hall Methodist Church in Manchester, Eng land.

1955Born: A daughter, Donna Marie , to Mr . and Mr s. John Van R . Kelly, .Jr. in Richmond October 7, 1957.

Engaged: Margaret Anne Persinger, daug hter of Mrs. Benjamin Meade Persinger and the ]ate Mr. Persinger , to Andrew John Daffron , III.

V. Wi ley Bragg is now a fue l oil representative with the Esso Standard Oil Company in Richmond .

John H. Thomas (Law School '55) was named Chesterfield County 's Young Man of the Year for 1957. T he Thomases live on Canterbury Road , Chester .

First Lt. Henry A. Shockley is stationed in Baumholder , Germany with an Armored Carrier Company of the Eighth Infan try Division.

J ames D. Bray has been re leased from active duty in the Transportation Corps and has now joined the staff of the Virginia Electric and Power Company.

Born: A son, Charles Leon, II I, to Mr. and Mrs. Char les Leon .Jennings, Jr. at Medical College Hos pital .January 1. The mother is the former Jane Pope Anderson, Westhampton ' 56 . .Jennings is now a senior at MCV.

1956Jame s N. Lampros is a corporal in the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at the New River Base in Jacksonville, N. C. Born: A son to Mr. and Mrs. George Robert Brown in July 1957.

Married: Joan M. Phillips of Warwick to John Dona ld Mi llar in August 1957. Millar is a third year medica l student at MCV .

Engaged: Shirley Lucille Hill (Westhampton , president of the class of ' 58) to Francis Elijah Bishop , Jr. They will be married in June.

Doug las Watson has joined the sales staff of the Gu lf Oil Corporation in Norfo lk.

Engaged: Patricia Pearl Doggett (Westhampson '58 ) to Wi ll iam Hough Colonna , Jr. A June wedding is planned.

Why We Call ThemSpiders The year was 1894 ; we can be certain of that. A group of college boys living in Richmond, not all of them Richmond college boys, got together and formed a baseball team to play in the old Tri-City League . And it was on a fateful day that very summer that someone up in the stand is supposed to have shouted out: "You boys look like a bunch of Spiders trying to play ball!" I say supposed to have because no one there wrote down exactly what was shouted.

Up until that time Richmond College teams had been known as the Colts. It is known that this name was first app lied to the College baseball team in 1876. At that time did someone in the crowd really shout out ,that the Richmond players played like "an energetic group of colts?" I th ink not.

I would rather think that the boys playing chose their name and named themselves after the leading baseball team of the day-the Chicago Colts of the old National League!

And as for them getting the name Spiders because someone in the stands thought "they looked like a bunch of sp iders" because of the pitching motion of H . K. Ellyson or the fielding antics of the outfielders I say bah!

For one important fact has been forgotten; there was good reason they might have been referred to as Spiders. I believe that this early fan who made this reference to spiders was merely comparing the team of college boys to a professiona l team of that day- the Cleveland Spiders.

T he Cleveland baseball team in the old

National League had been known as the Spiders since the early 1890's. It was only a so-so team then though it did have two of the greatest stars of the day, Chief Zimmer and Cy Young . In 1895 the Cleveland Spiders sudden ly caught lire and beat out the Baltimore Or ioles for the Temple Cup which corresponds to the World Series Championship. This caused Connie Mack, then the manager of the Pittsburgh team to say " ... I am happy that gent lemen have won the Temple Cup. " Now, if they were gentlemen in 1895 they must have been so in 1894 since the make-up of the Cleveland team changed little between these seasons.

The Cleveland Team remained the Spiders until 1903 when they became the Naps (so called for the great Nap Lajoie). It is interesting to note that the Cleveland fans voted to change the name from Spiders to Naps .

They did not get their name Indians until 1915.

So is it too much to think of the fan up in the stand watching the college boys play in 1894 and calling them Spiders because they reminded him -of the Cleveland Spiders?

Because they didn't really play too well, because they were gentlemen, because he might have been a Cleveland fan? To me it seems logical that a team composed of college boys should have been g iven the nickname of an already existing major league baseball team.

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UNIVERSITY ENTERTAINS LEGISLATOR ALUMNI W hat may have been something of a legislative record is the fact that twenty-two members of Virginia 's General Assembly got together for a meeting on February 11 and found themselves in perfect accord.

They met at the Commonwea lth Club and they were in perfect agreement that the University of Richmond is close to their hearts.

There were no speeches at this dinner which was given by the University in appreciation of her alumni who are members of the Senate and House of Delegates.

Among those present was Delegate John B. Boatwright, '08, of Buckingham , one of the veterans of the General Assembly and brother of the late President Boatwright.

The U of R contingent in the Senate is composed of Senators Garland Gray, '2 1, of Waverly; Macon M. Long, '10, St. Paul , and Dr. Edward E. Haddock, '34, of Richmond.

In the house are Delegates George E. Allen Jr., '3 6, of Richmond ; Howard P .

Anderson '48, Halifax; Harold Dervishian , '32, Richmond ; Felix E. Edmunds, '24, Waynesbor.o; Dr. Walter C. Elliott, '25.

Lebanon; Minetree Folkes Jr. , '3 4, Richmond; William C. Fugate, ' 57, Jonesville ; Francis B. Gouldman , '2 8, Fredericksburg; Edw in Ralph James, '24, Hampton ; Edward E. Lane, '48, Richmond; Paris Irby Leadbetter, '50, Hopewell; Willard J .

Moody, '52, Portsmouth ; Dr. Maury C. Newton, ' 18, Narrows; Albert L. Philpott , '41, Bassett; Randall 0. Reynolds, '29, Chatham; Richard M. Smith, '26 , Kenbridge ; Lawrence R. T hompson, '33 , Rustburg, and Joseph J. Williams Jr. , '27, Richmond .

President Modlin presided.

Gary A. Kalbaugh is working with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephon e Company in Newport New _s.

Luis R. Miranda is continuing hi s studies in Spain and plans to remain there for some time longer.

John Brooks is studying for his Masters degree at Southern Baptist Seminary, Loui sville, Ky .

Engaged : Bette Belle Hamilton , daught er of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Ham ilton of Richmond , to Lacey Milton Jacobs, Jr. The wedding will be in June.

Donald Brock Matthews is a graduate trainee on cost analysis at the Dearborn Assemb ly Plant , Ford Motor Co., Dearborn , Mich. He is attending the University of Detroit.

James Floyd Roland has been promoted to Pfc. in the Army. He is assigned as a permanent party at Ft. Knox where he is a research assistant at the Human Research Unit.

Engaged: Jean Ellen Bond , daughter of Mr. and Mrs . Elvin Haywood Bond of Winnsboro , S. C., to Sidney William Finley , II.

1957William Charles Fugate (Law School ' 57) was the youngest member of the 1958 Virginia General Assembly . He represented Lee County in the House of Delegates . Fugate is in private law practice in Jonesville.

Engaged: Jacqueline Alice Besecker (West hampton '59) to Charles B. Lamphere.

Tennessee's Leading Insurer

Morgan ReynoldsGets The Bird

By VIRGINIA BIVIN Morgan Reynolds, '33, University of Richmond alumnus recently distinguished in Tennessee as Insuror of the Year for his outstanding contribution to the field of insurance, is probably the only sportsman who ever captured a parakeet when he was sbootin' for an eagle.

If Morgan 's exploit hadn't been discovered by a newspaperman and photographed for posterity, nobody would have believed it.

Here's what happened: "I was shooting for an Eagle," drawled Morgan . "And, just as I shot, I got a birdie instead."

"What I'm trying to say is I was really teed off, fore , just as I shot two under par, a par-a keet, that is- landed on my shoulder 1 "Now I've been given the bird a number of times but this parakeet was really persistent. I shooed him away but, every time I tried a shot, be kept lighting on my shoulder. Finally, I took my feathered friend home in self defense."

At home, Morgan added the parakeet to his gay menage including his wife, the former Margaret Sanders Brugh, and bis six youngsters dubbed Margaret (Peggy), 18, now a freshman at Vanderbilt University; Suzanne, 16; Morgan, Jr. , 14; Brugh, 10; Mary Elizabeth, 5, and Elaine, 3.

Besides bis family and his extensive interest in insurance where he has become distinguished nationally as well as state-wide, Morgan counts writing among his many interests.

At one time, Morgan covered the White House while with the Associated Press and, before that, wrote a widely read, front-page commentary on foreign affairs for The Nashville Banner, called Footnotes on the Headlines.

So discerning were Morgan 's comments on the daily headlines, which he also wrote for the paper as news editor during the kaleidoscopic War II years, that they occasioned much comment in Middle Tennessee for his sharp insight into history in the making.

From Nashville he moved on to cover the Capitol scene as an editor for the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press . There, he became well known on his rounds of the White House during Harry Truman 's administration as the southerner with the punniest drawl.

DAVIS NAVY REPRESENTATIVE ON INTERAMERICAN BOARD A foreign language Commander Douglas

W. Davis, '4 1, learned to speak as a teenager will serve him well in his new Navy assignment.

The language is Spanish and it's used at all of the joint sessions of the Inter-American D efense Board because 18 of the 21 countries represented on the board are Spanish-speaking countries.

Commander Davis, USNR, has been assigned as Navy repres entative on the board's United States team. The board , composed of Navy, Army and Air Force representatives from the 21 countries, evaluates and makes recommendations on the defense of

this hemisphere and on mutual military assistance programs.

How did Commander Davis learn to speak Spanish as a teen-age boy? He explained: "I was working as a laborat ory assistant here in Richmond for Dr. Jose R. Davila (a dentist). Dr. Davila is from Puerto Rico, and his family was from Spain. He told me that he would teach me Spanish if I wanted to learn. From that time on, we spoke only Spanish while at work ."

Commander Davis was commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Training Center here before being assigned to the United States team of the Inter-American Defense Board.

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After several years, Morgan 's versatility again demonstrated itself when he decided to enter the insurance business in Nashville.

Now, after only six years in the business, he has been named Insuror of the Year for 195 7 by the Tennessee Association of Insurance Agents.

In addition to this honor for bis outstanding contribution to the field of insurance, Morgan serves as vice-president of the Insurors of Nashville, a board member of the Tennessee Insurors and as regional chairman of the advertising committee of National Association of Insurance Agents.

As a member of the 12-man national committee, Reynolds has the responsible task of supervising the raising of funds in Tennessee and Kentucky as part of the two million dollar national advertising campaign the association is launching this year.

Morgan, who is associated with E. S. Brugh and Co., is also a Nashville civic leader. He is president-elect of the United Givers Fund, a board member of the Red Cross, the Boys Club, Salvation Army, the Nashville Symphony Association, the Council of Community Agencies, and of the Cumberland Club which be serves as secretarytreasurer. For three years, he served as yearround chairman for the UGF public relations committee.

H e is also a member of Belle Meade Country Club where he plies his three hobbies-golf, golf, and golf - and where the now-famous parakeet incident occurred on the smoothly manicured greens.

Born: A daughter , Deborah Kay, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert D . Wilson in Richmond, November 26, 1957. Wilson is stationed at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden , Utah.

Engaged: Sally Taylor Roos, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Roos of Waukegan, Ill. , to Donald Blake Vaden. He is attending the T. C. Williams law School.

Engaged: Patricia Ames Custin Ashby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pettit Ashby , Sr. of Shields, to Willard Montellous Robinson, Jr. Engaged: Sylvia Marie Clodfelter , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Clodfelter of Richmond , to William Cecil Burch. A fall wedding is planned.

R. Stirling Phipps , Jr. is attending the Virginia Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria. He is married to the former Barbee Gilliam (Westhampton '57 ).

Second Lt. Harry B. Fentress has been graduated from the Infantry School's basic officer course at Fort Benning , Ga. Joe Whitehead has been elected chairman of the First Year Class at the law School of the University of Virginia and has been elected to Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity.

Engaged: Carol Estelle Dickerson (Westhampton '57) to Lt. Chester Thomas Kauffman , U. S. Army.

Pvt. Warren E. Mitchell , U. S. Army , left Fort Benning , Ga., early in March for Germany under "Operation Gyroscope ," the Army' s unit rotation plan.

1958Donald R. H owren (law School, February '58 ) bas been named Henrico County 's first full-time assistant commonwealth's attorney.

Engaged: Jung Jin Chi of Richmond to Kwang S. Chin. He is attending the graduate school.

Westhampton News 1916 Secretary

Miss FRlEDA MEREDITH DIETZ

2100 Stuart Ave., Richmond , Va. \Xie have elsewhere expressed our distress in the passing of Norma Woodward Throckmorton, class secretary. This class of on ly eight graduates has suffered more than normal loss in Norma, Maude Woodfin and Margaret James.

It was a happy occasion in January when I remet Stella Carden, long-time-ago Student Governmen t President of the young Westhampton.

Class of 1916. Stella came here from the University of West Vir ginia for her final two years, and since a 1917 visit, has not returned; but she remembers more than I do of the campus and her friends, and she reads every word of the BULLETIN. Stella is a marvelous person. Having retired ahead of her age limit, at the end of her service limit as teacher of English in a Pittsburgh, Penn.

High School, she built herself a charming home at 724 Center Ave., Avalon-Pittsburgh. To the amazement of professional artists, Stella-untaught -i n the past year has sold more floral paintings than the art ga lleries, and has more orders than she can fill I Her copies of old French water colors, and now her originals from garde n flowers, are exqui site. J could not believe my eyes, on my recent overnight visit to thi s very pretty, quiet, smiling , completely charming Stella. I was in Pittsburgh to presen t a program in costumes for the South Hill s College Club and was impressed with the attendance of 200 college alumnae , and on a wind-howling, sleety night 1 Wh en this issue of the BULLETINcomes out, I sha ll be on the "high seas" for Europe, sailing, as a pleasant coincidence, on the same ship with Fanny Crenshaw.

To Kathl een Bland Cottle, Elizabeth Hutchinson and H elen Monsell, the only members of 1916, do renew contact with Stella; and let me use this space to urg e you to contribute to the Alumnae Fund this year.

1917 Secretary

Mrss ANNE-RUTH HARRIS 6705 Kensington Avenue , Richmond 26, Va.

I do hope that each one of us will give to the Alumnae Fund . Our percentage last year was 71 3/7%. If the few on our list who have never given would send a gift we would be 100%.

Here's hoping.

1920 Secretary

MRS. WILBUR H. RYLAND ( Sallie Adkisson) 4107 W. Franklin Street , Richmond 21, Va.

Lucy Wright 's younger daughter , Betty Frah er, was married last summer. When I saw the announcement of her engagement I wrote to her and received a nice letter telling me about the other members of her family. Her father is still Jiving in Blackstone, Virginia. Her older sister is married to a Virginian, is living in Spain and bas a baby. Her older brother graduated from the University of Virginia and is working for a firm of architects in Richmond. The youngest member of the family , Otho, is a sophomore at the Uni-

versity of Virginia. He and Betty came by to see me when they were in town shopping and we enjoyed our "talk-fest." Betty remembers very little about Lucy, and Otho was just a baby when Lucy died, so they are eager to talk about her . last summer both Shippie (Frances Sutton) and Kitty Vaughan Willis bad wonderful trips to Europe and in the fall Gazelle Stubbs Smith bad a long, delightful cruise along the east coast of South America .

Shippie spent the night with me recently and we bad fun talkin g abo ut our grandchildren, her five and my two! ! 1 She was in Richmond to talk to the women of lakeside Christian Church about Japan and " illustrated" her talk with interesting things she had bought there. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Christian Mi ssionary Society which meets in Indianapolis six times a year. When she attends the March meeting she will come back by Louisville, Kentucky to see her aunt.

1921 Secretary MRS. E. 1. D UPUY (Catherine little) 703 Beechnut lane, Martinsville, Va. We have to begin this with a sad note. We are one less in number! Our quiet, Ruth Dillard ( Mr s.

W. C. Atkins) died the last of February from a blood clot, following a serious operation. She lived in Dunn sville. Our sincere sympat hy goes out to her family.

Leonora Dor sey Kilby has been in St. Eliz-

abeth's Hospital in Richmond for a stay since Christmas.

Virginia lane was so glad of a phone call and visit from Frances Vaughan Faglie while she was in Virginia at her brother's this past summer.

Most of all she was glad of the recent news from Westhampton . Virginia (Dr. lane , you know) is "glad the swimming pool is in sight and hopes Miss Crenshaw gets the first dip."

Mildred Rucker was out of her job (teaching) until the last of October following an operation just before school opened. She, too, can boast a grandchild-her first-a boy born in November.

Katherine Spicer Edmonds also has a grandson- John IV. Katherine went back into library work recently with the Eastern Shore Public library Demonstration. She enjoys this work very much.

Speaking of grandsons, ( I can't 1) I must tell you about my second granddaughter! Margaret Harrison Alfriend , the second daughter of my Kitty little (who was at W. C. two years you know) was born the last of October. Emily, now three years old, considers the baby (Peggy, as she is called) quite a fine baby and does not want the doctor to hurt her!

Are you proud of our class per cent (35 % ) for 1957? Of course I'm talking about the percentage of contributors to the Alumnae Fund! Did youor did you you forget? let's try to be 100% this year. Will you send your contribution (large or small) at once?

Gladys Lumsden ' McCutcbeon , Frances Vaughan

NORMA WOODWARD THROCKMORTON-1 9 16 The passing of Norma Woodward Throckmorton on the morning of December 22, 1957, was to many of the alumnae of Westhampton College the flickering from the firmament of friendship of a sparkling star. Popular in her college years for a wit that grew keener with time, she stepped from her role as Muse of Poetry at Westhampton into that of popular Muse of Humorous Verse. In addition to innumerable poems for many occasions, she recorded her European tour-with a number of her former collegemates-in a small volume of wit that provided entertainment for club programs. Her last verse was the libretto for a garden club operetta, performed during her final illness, for Norma was a Ginter Park Garden Club enthusiast. For two years she served as president of the Ginter Park Woman's Club. She was a very active member of Sev-

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enth Street Christian Church and its women's societies, having achieved a reputation in fine needlework at the chur ch bazaars. During the early years · of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association, she was a leader and an ardent worker. She was assistant to Mr. B. West Tabb, then treasurer of the University of Richmond, before her marriage to a college "beau," Charles Withers Throckmorton, Jr. In late September, Norma and Charles lost their younger daughter, Nancy (Mrs. Herman Casey). Surviving are another daughter, Mary lee (Mrs. Lloyd B. Elliott, Jr.) of Bowling Green; one son, Charles , III, of Baltimore, four grandchildren ; three sisters, Mrs. J. Stuart Graham, Mrs. H. G. Adkins, Mrs .

Robert Pilcher (Mary Woodward of Westhampton College), and two brothers, J. Brockenbrough Woodward ( a Richmond College alumnus) and Overton S. Woodward .

Faglie, Theresa Pollak and Maie Collin s Robinson attended the Alumnae Fund Group. Maie reports "it was a great gathering." Your letter will come from them in Richmond. Do respond at once with the old W. C. spirit , '21 always had!

1922

Secretary MRS. LEONARDF. HATZ (Louise Shipman) Box 228, West Point, Va.

Congratulations are in order! I wrote to thirteen of you asking for help with writing letters for the Alumnae Fund. I received thirteen gracious replies in the next ten days. The five who could not answer in the affirmative had valid reasons and asked to serve later. What better response could a class secretary receive?

In this spirit we are dedicating our effort to reach 100% in number of contributors to the memory of our beloved sponsor , Dr. Susan M. Lough. We owe more to her than most classes.

Our class is the only one with an interrupted freshman year ( off campus) and yet our 3 5th reunion last May showed the fine spirit of loyalty she had helped us build. We are so glad she was spared to be with us on that occasion.

We send our sympathy to Louise Story and Alice Garnett Thomas in the recent loss of their mothers and to Gladys Booth Bentley whose father passed away in January. Hope her mother 's health will improve.

I have just heard from two new grandmothers, Leslie Sessoms Booker and Elizabeth Williams Bell. The two grandsons are wonderful boys and they are doing fine. I am sure this department of our news letter will expand if you will send me word.

Bringing each member of '22 up to date in the NEWS BULLETIN will be continued in the next issue. Write to me if you failed to send in infor mation last May .

1923

Secretary MRS. BARTEECORPREW(Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Horsepen Road , Richmond 26, Va.

Reunion news comes first this time , if it still is " news. " The dates are May 16-18, and we have one special occasion , our very own get-together at Hannah Coker 's on Friday evening, May 16.

She is having us for dinner at 6: 30, and she would like to know approximately how many to expect, so Jet her know , or Jet me , if you can come. When I write the next Jetter , I hope to have an imposing list of names of those attending.

Elise Davis Via wrote me a fine letter , telling something of her past and present activity in the fields of writing and education. She has written some children 's books , has taught graduate work , and she is now principal of an elementary school in Charlottesville . She is also active in the honor society at the University of Virginia, and in the local chapter of the teachers honor society. She married fairly recently , and is very happy in the varied phases of her life .

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Cami Jla Wimbish Lacy and Evelyn Sanford Walmsley were in Richmond recently when their husbands attended a bankers' conference here.

We have some five recruits in the teaching profession among our chi ldren, too. Gladys Nuckols Wood's daughter, Carolyn, and Ethney Selden Headlee's son, Tommy, are both teaching now.

Virginia Kent Loving is attending -college in DeLand , Florida. One of her neighbors in Fluvanna visited her recently and reported that she is weJI and enjoying her return to a student's life.

News of you is always welcome . A card or Jetter will he lp me keep us all in touch with one another.

Hope to see you in May.

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Secretary MRS. CLARKMOOREBROWN ( Margaret Lazenby) Box 14, Richlands, Va.

At the annual dinner of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce in January Florence Boo ker received an award as the outstanding person in the field of arts. Florence is the head of the music department in the Arlington Public Schools, director of the W-L Choir , and leader of the "Madrigals. " We congratulate her.

Virginia Walker writes that she stays pretty busy nursing a sick uncle and her mother.

Marian Marsh Sale wrote me severa l bits of news. She and Fred had dinner with Eliza Grimsley Miller Reams and her husband when the latter were in Richmond for the inauguration of Governor Almond.

Fred, Jr. is a reporter on the University of Richmond Collegian Staff this year.

Marian herself keeps busy with several interesting activities. She is taking graduate work in English at the University and, from the way it sounds, must be working pretty hard at it. She also has been doing free lance feature writing for the Times-Dispatch since October.

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The annual letter went out so lat e this year that I didn't have time to receive much news. I hope a Jot of letters wi ll come in yet. If so I'll put the news in the summer BULLETIN. Please write me if you know any item of news. Just one thing from each of you would mean that I could send in a Jong, newsy Jetter.

1927

Secretary MRS. JOHN C. RAMSAY(Eleanor Waters) 979 Conestoga Road, Berwyn, Pa.

A salute to Eleanor for doing such a grand job of putting '27 back together again! Her life is a full one, what with keeping the home fires burning for John and 12-year-old Louise-and teaching to boot. She deserves our hearty co-operation in pulling the "problem class" out of the doldrumsand she's getting it, I'm convinced. Response to her letters bas been most gratifying and enthusiastic . We've gotten some fine newsy letters-so many that we can't get all the news in this issue of the BULLETIN. We're taking the letters that came earliest, so if your news isn't included, keep a'Jooking I It'll show up later.

Saxon Rowe Carver is head over heels in school and church activities. In addition to her duties as helpmate to her husband , a professor of Missions at Carver School of Missions and Social Work at Louisville , Saxon is librarian at Broadway Baptist Church. She also finds time to write . She reports that her first "hard-cover" book was published in September by Broadman Press. It is "Yeoman of Kent ," a biography of William Colgate, for junior readers. The Carvers ' son, George , Jr. Yale '50, is in government service in Saigon.

Alis Loehr Bailey is Superintendent of Public Welfare in Fredericksburg. Remember Alis was always one to peer into microscopes and juggle test tubes? Well, she went ahead in science, getting her M. S. in 1931 in Biochemistry at University of Chicago. During the depression she switched to social work , which she finds "a constantly challenging job ."

Did you know Kitty Bell had made Phi Beta Kappa? (Knowing Kitty, you will know this news didn't come from her.) She's at Westhampton and she's consented to be our Richmond representative for the class. Being on the campus , she'll keep us well posted on college activities.

Molly DuVal has kept in close touch with the college by attending most of the Homecomings , though she says she has often been the only one of '27 present. Molly and her husband have a i:,oultry farm near Richmond . What spare time Molly has between keeping house and marketing eggs, she spends on church work. Sounds as if she pulls quite a load in leadership of young people's and women's activities. Her oldest son graduated from University of Richmond last June and is now in the National Guard , stationed at Fort Jackson , S. C. Her youngest son works in Richmond.

Liz Reid Shannon writes enthusiastically about LaJolla, California, where she's been living for the last fifteen years . Her son is to be married in April. Then he'll be stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for a stint in the service. Liz plans to

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Billy Spangler Rogers wrote us about a serious operation that her husband, David , had around Christmas time. His trouble was diagnosed as arterial sclerosis. The operation proved successfu l, so he expects to be up and around soon. We all wish him a speedy recovery. Billy expects to complete the work on her Master 's in Library Science this summer . She is specializing in audio-visual material.

Polly Drinkard Walton wrote that she was in Richmond for one day last faJI attending a meeting with her husband , but didn 't get time to get out to the college. However, it was good to see the city again.

Gladys Wright Cocke took a trip to Florida with her mother and aunt in February. After she returned she sent out the Alumnae Fund letters to all of you . Please try to send in your donation soon, and let's have a higher percentage this year.

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come East in May to attend the graduation of her daug hter from St. Margaret's School in Tappaha nnock.

As for yours truly, nothing much to report.

After six years of teaching and getting an M. A. in Eng lish from the University of Pennsylvania, I changed course and have been with the American Te lephone and Te legraph Company for 23 years .

Two more years of punching the time dock, then "retirement"-which means leisure to pursue interests that have been relegated to second place in the work-a-day world of business.

We still have some juicy morse ls of news-but more next time. And now, how about the rest of you? Do sit down now while you' re in the mood and give us the latest about yourselves. And can any of you he lp with addresses for the lost ones listed in Eleanor's letter?

Edith DeWitt Assistant Secretary

1928 Secretary LOUISEMASSEY(Mrs. Louis Crisp) 210 College Circle, Staunton, Va. Marg aret Willis has been teaching for several years at Fairfax Hall in Waynesboro. Last winter she was responsible for arranging for two of their students, natives of Java , to present a program for the young people of our church. They came over in time to have dinner with us and then to go on with our son, William , to the meeting. I believe the girls are now at Westhampton.

Virginia P leasant Robertson is now on the West Coast. I received a card from her soon after they moved. She wrote that the girls had thrown snowballs in Yosemite on June 24th. One daughter was hoping to be at Westhampton this year.

Christmas cards brought interesting news from several. Sarah Cudd Gaskins plans to be at Reunion. Her family, in addition to Lee and their five sons and daughter s, seems to include a small granddaughter.

Betty Sherman Cale, her husband, and son have been in Buenos Aire s, Argentina for almost a year.

The two daughters were able to be with them last summer but returned to the States for college last fall. Mail will reach them c/o United States Embassy. Betty wrote, "My life is so different here from in the U. S. when I was 99% 'Mamn1a' and housewife . Here I get involved in clubs , charities, etc. all day and receptions or dinner almost every night. Sometimes I'd like to go back to just washing and ironing."

Gray Robinson French is planning to attend Reunion. We certainly hope ther e will be many others . Nora Turpin Turner is very much interested in making plans and is willing to help with any arrangements necessary for the event.

Mildred Anderson Williams will not be with us, since she, her husband , and son are making an extended stay in Europe. Frances Anderson Stallard is winding up a very successful term as President of the T uckahoe Woman 's Club and also has a long cruise in mind.

Jim Tharpe wrote a long letter after Christmas and exp lained that Kay, his wife, was still in the hospital recovering from a very serious operation, but hoped to be home soon. We do hope that Kay can keep up her record of attendance at former Reunions.

Hop e to see all of you the weekend of May 17.

thriving seven months old boy. They were all planning to spend Easter with Pris, George, and the baby in Pensacola when George was suddenly transferred to Texas . Tracy Jr. gets his Masters at Wesleya n this June and plans to teach high school physics and math. Chrissie is enjoying working with her A.A .U.W. chapte r and at tending Westhampton Alumnae gatherings.

A letter from Flickie tells that she has been made Head of the Central Reference Division in the Queens Borough Public Library. She considers herself a very lucky person to be able to work in the field that she loves best . Her daughter Charlotte is almost through high school. Her son is coming along too and is very keen about his school work.

Now I am anticipating more nice letters from some more of you.

1931 Secretary

Miss MARGARETLEAKE 408 N. Meadow St., Richmond, Va. By this time I hope that each of you has answered the call of the Alumnae Fund Drive. Carolina and I were on the telephone committee to contact each Richmond member of our class. All those that we reached said that they planned to send in a contribution. Last year our percentage of givers-25%-was the lowest we have ever had.

If you will send in your check, we can put 1931 back where she belongs -a t the top.

Johnnie Adams Irby, Page Cauthorne Spellman, Carolina Beattie and I are sending out our class letters. Caroline had a visit with Nancye Buxton Cowan last summer. ancye has two children graduating from eastern schools this June so perhaps some of us will have a chance to say hello to her when she visits in Virginia. Lucie Francis Samuel also bas a daughter graduating from high school this June.

He len Haverty is high school librarian now and living in Smithfield.

What is the news with you.

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MRS. CHARLESW. SCARBOROUGH (Zephia Campbell) 5 I 09 Svlvan Road, Richmond 2 5, Va. I was so sorry that illness in my family prevented my attending the Alumnae Fund dinner in March . Hel en Deck took charge for our class and bad Ge neva Snelling and Mary Mathews to help her that night. Geneva and Va lerie Jones helped with the telephone campaign. Several other Richmond girls helped write letters which by now I hope you have answered with your gifts.

Again Frances Gray, daughter of Jane and Bus , has walked off with honors. A picture in the Richmond News Leader in February showed her daddy, who is Dean of Students at Richmond , presenting her with her Phi Beta Kappa award.

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MRS. W. B. SHINNICK (Virginia Prince) 2 Clarke Road, Richmond 26, Virginia

At last th e Class of 1930 has an authoress.

Katherine Ty ler Ellett has published "Young John Tyler." This is a delightful little book for children about the childhood years of President Tyler.

It is "w ritten in simple words and short chapters, showing the honesty and fairness and potential leadership which characterized John in his small everyday adventures." The book is illustrated by Katherine's sister, Francis T. Seigel. It is recommended to all of you with young school-age children. Congratulations, Katherine.

I have just had an interesting note from Chrissie. She is enjoying being the grandmother of a

Of the 24 students elected from the University Frances had the highest scholastic average . Her string of "A's" was marred by on ly one "B." We were interested to see Evelyn Zehmer's name listed as a patron on an organ recital program sponsored by the Richmond chapter of the American Guild of Organists .

Anne Sadler Garrett, who moved to Alabama just before our reunion last spring, is now living in Bon Air , her husband having been transferred back to the Richmond area. Anne's talented daughter , Jo Anne , was presented in her Senior music recital at Westhampton in March .

Helen Deck bad a letter from Kay Burroughs Konkle telling of her older daughter Gail's, wedding just before Thanksgiving. Her younger daughter , Jackie , will enter Lasell Junior College in Massachusetts next fall after a summer in camp.

We extend our sympathy to Kitty Luning in the loss of her mother and to Katherine Hesby and Geneva Snelling in the loss of their fathers.

If you haven 't already done so, please don't forget to send your check for the Alumn ae Fund.

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Miss GERTRUDEDY,ON 1500 Wilmington Ave., Richmond 22, Va.

The Richmond group is looking forward to seeing each of you in Richmond the third weekend in May for our "si lver " reunion . The group is entertaining at Kat Hardy 's at buffet supper on Friday night . Saturday , the festivities will be on the campus. The alumnae office will send out information about that day.

Sunday morning Ann Dickinson Welsh has invited our class to her home for coffee.

You 'll be hearing from us, so please respond and do come-it won 't be fun without you.

1934

Secretary

MRS. R. VANHEUVELN (Frances Lundin) 4021 Midlothian Pike, Richmond 24, Va.

It is always nice to hear news about our out-oftown classmates. Two have visited in Richmond recently.

Alice Shepherd Horton , her husband , and two children, Jeffrey 7 and Ellen 6, came down from Arlington on a brief trip.

Margaret Proctor Swetman, with her husband and two of her four children, Ashland and Mary Lovell, visited their parents here in January. We hear from Grace Wells that last September Mar garet moved into a beautiful new home just outside Fairfax .

While in Richmond , both Margaret and Alice spent a few hours with Katherine Bell. The latter, after leaving Thalhimer s in 1955, has returned to R.P.I. where she heads the Department of Retailing.

Liz Goodwin Henderson and her husband escaped our February freeze by flying to Bermuda for a week of fun and relaxation.

It was truly a pleasure to receive a letter at Christmas time from Louise Newland Capen. She was a town student during her senior year, having transferred to Westhampton from Duke.

Louise 's parents were missionaries, and she has carried on the tradition by marrying one. Her husband , Carl , is Mission Secretary-Treasurer of the American Baptist Mission. Louise herself was born in Korea; Carl was born in Swatow , China as were their three older children, daughters Keith 19, Connie 17, and son Carl 9. The sole 'American' is the youngest girl, Graal , 7, who is a native of Greensboro , Georgia. Louise finds life in Bangkok, Thailand , exciting and rewarding. It is, in her words, 'the crossroads of airlines.' At present husband Carl is attending conferences in America. Keith is a sophomore at Ottawa University , Connie goes to boarding school in Kodaikanal , South India , and the two younger children go to school in Bangkok.

We were sorry to learn that Katherine Brown van Allen lost her father in January.

We bear that Martha Saunders Ziebe's husband is recuperating from a prolonged illness.

Also, Margaret Owen Young 's husband bas had a serious operation, but is now on the mend .

Virgin ia Watkins Ellenburg , husband lloyd, and Mrs . Watkins went on a two weeks ' trip south during icy February. The snow did not keep them from driving through Lynchburg and Charlotte , N. C. on down the coast to Jacksonville, Florida.

Among the interesting places visited were St. Augustine , Africa U.S.A. , Silver Springs and Cypress Gardens. They motored back through Georgia and Tennessee, sightseeing in Chattanooga and on lookout Mt., Signal Mt. and Missionary Ridge. A short stay with relatives in Knoxville completed a very pleasant tour.

While in Florida , Virg inia had a chance to see Helen Hulcher, who is teaching in Miami.

1935

Secretary MRS. C. M. TATUM (Gladys T. Smith)

336 Lexington Road, Richmond 26, Va. News has been received from two of our California classmates, Sue Cook McClure Jones and Estelle Veazey Jones . Sue Cook writes from Palos Verdes Estates , "We spent two and a half weeks in H awaii this past summer, making overnight trips to the major islands, but spendi ng most of our time in Hon olulu. We were lucky enough to meet a member of the old Hawaiian royalty and were invited to homes that most tourists never see. It was a wonderful trip, which we hope to repeat soon .... Remember me to any of the ' 35ers you may see."

Estelle's note from Hermosa Beach contained the following news : "We have been so busy fixing our new home. We've bought a Colonial Williamsburg style house ( the one we were renting here at the beach)-just a half block from the ocean with a wonderful view of the ocean from our windows. I'm only substituting this year, did not take a full time teaching position. Stella Sue keeps me busy with all of her activities . ... Hop e to come back to Virginia around Easter ."

Mary Anne Guy Franklin, TV Consultant for the Richmond Public Schools, has been busy with the production of a series of science programs.

Sue Whittet Wilson and Nat are looking forward to a trip to Indiana in June to attend the graduation of their son from Purdue.

Those of you who receive the Religious Herald, published by Virginia Baptists , have been helped, I'm sure by the Sunday school lessons, as thoughtfully interpreted by Thomas E. Pugh . He is Mary Nelson Decker's husband and pastor of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg.

Our sympathy is extended to Mary Pat and Arthur love in the loss of his father and to Jean Shafer and her family in the passing of Jean 's aunt Lottie Britt Callis, Mary Pat Early love, Betsy Marston Sadler, Billy Rowlett Perkins , Sue Whittet Wilson , and I have written you letters in behalf of the 1957-1958 Alumnae Fund , and we hope that every member of the Class of 1935 will be convinced that she should make a contribution.

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Secretary

MRS. WILLIAM S. HOPSON, III (Helen Denoon) 3404 W. Franklin St., Richmond 21, Va.

Six of us got together for the Alumnae Fund dinner on M arch 4th, Sarah Bradford, lyndele Pitt, Lou White Winfree, Elizabeth Chapman Wilson and your secretary. By now you have received your letters and some of you Richmonders have received a telephone call. If you have put off sending in your contribution please get it off to Leslie now. We want to increase our class percentag e this year.

Sarah Pool Batkins was in the hospital in February. She is back at home now in Moseley, Virginia. Sarah teaches the sixth grade in Grange Hall Elementary School in Chesterfield County.

I talked to Esther Figuly for the first time since we were graduated. She has been back in Richmond for two years and is working for the Stat{ D epartment of Health as a bacteriologist.

Boo Page's daughter , Jane, is again in the news at TJ. She was voted the most talented senior girl.

Lou White Winfree 's daughter, Edith, is also at TJ. Edith, like her mother , is an accomplished pianist and accompanies many of the chorus groups at school. My son, Steve, served as a page in the Hou se of Delegate s this past session. Steve is in the eighth grade at Albert H. Hill Junior High School.

1937

Secretary

NANCY CHAPPEL (Mrs. T . P. Pettigrew) 108 Montaigne Dr ive Richmond 25, Virginia

Our class really has a full force working on the letters for the Alumnae Fund , so I'm sure you'll be hearing from one of them. I hope that by the time you read this you will have responded, "by check," to the efforts of your classmates. We did so well last year that we're looking forward to doing even better this year, thanks to all of you.

Our appreciation for their work on the Fund Drive goes to the following: Liz Angle , Connie Fleming Warwick , Jean Hudson Miller , Marion Miller Peyronnet , Louise Carroll Gano Wilkinson, Winnie Schenck, Jane lawder Johnston, Pollyanna Shepherd, Joyce Stanley Smith , and Nancy lee Riley McFall. There were five of us at the kick-off dinner, at which we had a fine time.

We are happy to have news from a number of people this time. Liz Angle had a busy time last summer with a class in statistics at V .P.I . and then a vacation in Mexico. Jane Carroll Slusser went to school at Pennsylvania State A number of us are teaching this year. Helen Roper Quinlan has been teaching the third grade.

Betty Allison Briel is also teaching a third grade at Forest View School (near Westover Hills) in Chesterfield County . Her children are now a boy, 18; girl, 14; and younger son, 12. Winnie Schenck is teaching a second grade at Midlothian in Chesterfield County. She has recently moved into an apartment of her own at 311 N . Nansemond Ave., Richmond , Va . Louise Thompson Chewning is teaching a class in English at Collegiate here in Richmond , where Patsy is also attending school. Marion Miller Peyronnet reports having a fine time teaching a kindergarten group at a nursery school, Humpty-Dumpty College, in the west end of Richmond.

Congratulations go to Rhoda Cornish and Arnold Sparrow on the birth of a son, their 4th, Carl Peter , on November 30.

Louise Carroll Gano Wilkinson and her family, including David , 5, and John , 12, had a nice trip last summer to Texas and New Orleans. Merl e Norris Caldwell reports, like so many of us, that she stays very busy with P.T.A. and keeping up with the activities of her three children, ages 13, 11 and 9.

Margaret Dudley Griffith is leading a very active life with a full time job, her three children ( youngest about seven) and all sorts of community and church work in Waynesboro , Va. She is also vice-president of the State A.A.U .W .

In a letter from Minna Williams Torrance ('38) we heard that Martha Ann Freeman Eck is the "ta lk of Charlotte ," N. C. She has a Brownie Scout Troop in connection with which she and her girls ( ages 7 & 8) put on a "Snow White " play, the three of them doing the scenery, costumes, et al. The result of this was that she was asked to teach the leaders' course in dramatics . Looks as though they're running true to the family tradition .

Florence Moore Flake had a wonderful Christ• mas present. H er husband, Major Joe Flake , re • turned from a year in Greenland just in time for the holidays. They have recently moved from D en• bigh , Va. to Fort Lee, Va., where Joe is Transportation Officer. The last word was that they were in temporary quarters but hoped to be moved by Feb. 28th. Florence keeps busy with the army lif e and her teen-ager, Joe Jr. Let's hear from you, Florence , and send us your permanent add1·ess.

Margaret Harris Bradner wrote that her husband , Billy, got home from Carrollton , Kentucky , for the Christmas holidays. Margaret also writes that she hopes to get back for Alumnae Day again this spring, as does Nancy Lee Riley McFall.

Nancy Lee is doing her teaching bit in French at Front Royal Academy.

Pollyanna Shepherd is a very busy girl with her church work , a job, and being president of the local Westhampton Alumnae Club in Portsmouth .

Grace Elliott Olsen and her family have moved from Gulfport to Shorter College , Box 701 , Rome, Georgia, where her husband, Humphrey, will be doing library work . Grace accepted a job as Senior High School Librarian. Good luck to both of you in your new jobs!

After a family vacation at the beach last summer, yours truly has been kept busy as Troop Organizer on the neighborhood team for Girl Scout and Browni e Troops in the Bon Air-Southampton Area , working with Better Schools for Chesterfield, church work , garden club, and the interesting complexities engendered by a 16 year old son, 9 year old daughter and a 2 year old boy.

Please phone or write me the news about yourselves. It was grand to have so much to report in this issue. D on't forget the Alumnae Fund and do plan to come back for Alumnae Day.

1938

Secretary MRS. BERT BURCHILL ( Elizabeth Shaw) 6709 Kensington Ave., Richmond 26, Va.

I hope that many of you are planning to attend our 20th Reunion which is to be held May 16, 17, 18, 1958. A small group of our Richmond members met at my home on February 5 to make some plans. Thos e present were : Douglas Gee Baldwin. Emily Parker Kendig , Lula Goode Winfree , Virginia Ellis Hladys , and Mrs. Leslie Booker . Cards and letters are being sent out with all the information and we will be looking forward to seeing everyone in May. It was nice to see Mildred Harvey Clark recently. She is living in Glen Allen, Va . She also gave me a new address for Helen Gray which is 203 Gun Club Road, Richmond , Va.

1941 Secretar)'

MAYMEO'FLAHERTYSTONE (Mrs. R. P.) 3605 Moss Side Avenue Richmond 22, Virginia

Its Hold en Slipek gets the prize this time as the star reporter for our class with the following news.

"Marion Yancey Petroff and Chris left Annapo lis in June, and their new address is 42 South Driv e, Silate Hill Farms, M iddletown , R. I. Accordi ng to Marion, summers are wonderful, but oh, those winters!"

M argare t Brittingham Curtice was to have moved to the Coast in March . Jack has assumed his new posi tion as coach at Stanford. All of us were closely following the sports pages while he was " deciding! " Dot Har shbarger and her mother were still at

their lovely "camp" ( 5 bedrooms) near Union• vi lle the week before Christmas. They usually go to their home in St. Albans, West Virginia when winter starts to set in, but this year the man who manages their farm had broken his leg and D ot was taking over the care of all the livestock.

Betsy Woodson Weaver had her tonsils removed in January. Things must have been mighty quiet on Aetna Hill!

Lib Henry Belcher and Ray and their little son have moved into their new home in Chesterfield county . Rue has visited them and says it is lovely.

Lib's mother has her own apartment in the house .

Gin Omohundro Pur cell and H arold and sons, Hal and Charles were all in Richmond for the General Assembly . Charles attended kindergarten , and Hal was a page. It must have been a wonderfu l experience for him . Kitty Spencer Philpott' s husband , A. L. was also here, and we saw his picture and read about him in the papers.

Tinsy Garrett Buckler and Phil are still at Fort Belvoir. Via that twining vine, we heard that Tinsy had recently starred in some post theatrical.

Our third child, Randall , started kindergarten this past February. He is in the same class at Brook Hill wi th D ot Shell Wood 's "baby, " Char les.

Frazier D rumwright Catron from Abingdon was shopping in Richmond in February and lunched with me at Miller & Rhoads . Her two young daughters, Candy and Anne Stuart keep her quite busy with their school, church and Girl Scout activities . Stuart (Dr . Catron) is busy at the hospital there where he is the resident in medicine.

Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow and two daughters left Culpeper after Christmas D ay to bask on Florida 's shores. They ran into rain and cold but enjoyed themselves anyway as they got lots of sightseeing in.

Alese Hardaway Prince, D ave, and Molly had a similar experience visiting Florida in January.

A telephone call with Helen D odd Driscoll disclosed that she now has the measles after all these years . She is teaching the seventh grade and has seen many of the people we haven't.

Elsie Satterwhite Elmore has returned from West Virginia and is now living in Richmond. Her husband works for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Her 11 year old twin girls are taller than she.

Our deepest sympathy to Margaret Purcell Spindler whose mother died recently.

Helen saw her and her two pretty children while they were here and says she is teaching physical education-her first Jove-in Detroit.

Helen has also visited Ann Robey Gaulding in her beautiful new home, most of which Ann and her husband built . They live in Bon Air. Alease reports that a wonderful letter from Patsy Garrett Kokinacis brings the news that she has been a happy resident of California since June 1955.

Their address is 3229 Holly Park Drive , #3 , Ing lewood, California. To quote Patsy : "I just love California-specially after seeing the kind of weather the East Coast has had this winter! Right now its 70° and sunny . All windows are open ,

and the children never miss a day being outside.

Speaking of the children, I might as well catch you up on news about them. We have two, Jeff, our son, is 7½, in the second grade, takes piano , is a professional model (TV and photography) and is bat boy for a little league baseball teamin other words-a BOY! Kathy, our little girl, is two , and already leads us around by the nose .

She's a real character. I have "retired" as far as show business is concerned . It 's too hard to keep at it with two children and all the homework.

I'm quite happy to say I'm third Vice-President of our PTA this year, and believe me, that's almost as tough a job as '4-a-day' in the theatre."

Won't the rest of you out-of-towners write us about yourselves. I have tried , though unsuccessfully , to contact all of the Richmond girls . Its, Alease and I went to the Alumn ae Fund dinner at coll ege and want to thank all who are helping us write those letters-Rue , Sara-jayne, Henrietta , Toni , D ottie , Jean, Mary and anyone I may not know about. We hope to be able to raise our percentage above our rather low one last year. At one of the meetings , one of the girls from another class said "But you won't have any troubl e. You have such an outstanding class!"

Our congratu lations to Louise Morrissey Moyer on the birth of their third daughter, Margaret Lynn on December 11th .

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Margaret Forrer Wren wrote that Woody has opened an office, and they wil l be moving into their new home in July. Steve is taking trombo ne lessons, I was happy to hear.

Phyllis Cogbi ll Brown was Co-Chairman of the Alumnae-Alumni lecture series this winter .

She and Charlotte D ud ley Patteson have been serving Lenten luncheons at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with Charlotte in charge of this.

Toni Wirth Whittet and Marjorie Tabb's husband, Randy , were bride and groom respectively in a mock wedding at the Westhampton PTA .

Mac's firm, Whittet and Shepperson, won four of the seven awards given recently in statewide competition.

Carolyn Gary Hugo and Larry and family were here at Christmas and according to her father, whom I saw at a basketball game, they collected so much, they had to rent a trailer to get home!

I heard from Kira Nicholskv Curwen and Teeny Evans Hardin at Christmas and saw He len Hill recently before she went to Roanoke on a trip.

I also chatted briefly with Mark Markowitz at the Medical College Hospital. We were anxiously awaiting the resu lt of Pat's ear operation. That it was a success and he now has only a small hearing loss is the big news for us this time.

Thanks for all your he! p, and be sure to answer our letters.

1942

Secretary

MRS. G. EDMONDMASSIE, III (Jayne Maire) "T he Grove," Hanover , Va.

Louise Moser wrote me a postcard and sent me Virginia Parker Dozier 's address in California.

They expect to be there about 1½ years.

After talking to Emma Bee Cruickshanks I discovered that her expected baby was a boy born on July 4. Sorry we are so late in offering congratulations, but the Pony Express just caught up with me. However , the congratulations to May Thayer Holt are due because of a baby girl born on January 8. Her name is Elizabeth Harrison.

Ann Garrett sent me a line to tell me she had seen LaVerne Priddy recently who told her that she was settled in her new home at 3501 N. Peary Street, Arlington, Virginia. LaVerne 's husband is going to Harvard for three months this spring for some special training .

Dot Quinn Keeling , from South Hill , reports that she has also built a new home. Her husband who is a busy doctor there has recently been elected President of the Medical Association in that section of Virginia.

I saw Ann in town one day and she reports that they were adding a downstairs bedroom and bath and that her son was in the first grade at St. Michaels in Bon Air. I heard that Allene Patteson is due back in Washington this year sometime . Her baby was a boy named Tom and they have finally arrived with Tom, Dick, and Harry.

Lila Wicker H unt wrote a long note saying that she may not be prompt, but that she did answer letters . California is rain weary as we are snow and cold weary. At the mome nt she was deep in a school bond issue. They have them there too!

She also said that she had hopes of being in Richmond this summer.

We had an exciting emergency trip to the hospital with Ned during our big storm of February 15-16-17. We were completely snowbound due to the high winds drifting the snow . The highway departme nt couldn't get to us so neighbor hood ingenuity booked a tractor to our statio n wagon and pulled us through the fields to the hig hway. He bad the old fashioned 1918 flu and was quite ill for several days, but has at last recovered and is now his old happy self again.

How about the rest of you ' Please write and give me news- I can't print it unless you tell me.

1943

Secretary

MRS. F. P. CLAYTOR,JR. (Shorty Nuckols) 507 N. Boulevard, Apt. 10 Richmond , Virginia.

I can't seem to avoid these deadlines-sti II no news from you out-of -towners , and wou ld you believe that ten of us in-towners got together recently and I couldn't extract any news from the whole gang? However , we met to make plans for our 15th reunion-and indeed it was a fine start.

It was real fun being together again and if the enthusiasm of that eveni ng can be expressed by letter, I'm certain this wi ll be a get-together none of us will want to miss. We met at Pepper 'sJohnny Black, Harriett Goodman, Puff Humbert, Evelyn Krause, Cozy Long , Virginia Ogg, Max Rogers, Fudge Starke, Pepper and myself-and that made for a reunion in itself. By now you know what 's being planned-a nd I hope those of you not too far away are making ready to come.

It 'll be wonderful getting news from all of you so, if you haven 't already done it, do send in your questionnaire , those much enjoyed snapshots, clippings and a Jetter.

I'd like also to stress the need for your contribution to the Alumnae Fund. Max Rogers and I attended a recent dinner meeting out at college and we were most impressed with the program and material for this year. I can't think of a better way to recognize our 15th than by br inging up our embarrassingly low percentage. Can you' I do have some news-Puff Humbert made the headlines recently - picture and all. She's teaching an experimenta l class in Chinese .

Max Rogers and children are getting sett led in their new home and that probable addition of dog and cat was an immediate reality. Max is already singing the Vet Blues.

Fudge and Tom Starke have already added more rooms to their house and Cozy and Cliff Long plan to do so soon.

Max appeared on TV recent ly- it was in connection with National Library Week.

Next issue we shou ld have beaucoup news . rrn look ing forwa rd to seeing you in May. P.S. Parr Claytor celebrated his 1st birthday February 28th and he's ge ttin g along just fine, than k you.

1944

Secretary

MRS. R. M. KEEVER( Gene Shepard) 215 Verne Avenue, Por tsmouth , Va .

The Keever men (Dick, Mac, and Jeff) are in Philadelphia visiting D ick's parents so Susie and I have bad a little vacation which among other things included a lovely all -day trip to Richmond for shopping and real news gathering.

DeeDee (Howe) Kirk was entertaini ng for her son, Fleet, and his 6th birthday. However, she was still able to talk sanely enough to give me news of Ann (Thurston) Filer and the lovely new house she and Bob are building on College Road facing the lake. Her husband is an assistant to Dr. Carver in the Psychology Department at the College .

The Goodes (Millie Cox) have a new home and address, Arsenal Drive, R .F.D . No. 1, Midlothian, Va. Millie and Mary Anderson Graham have been able to talk Skee and Billy into a 10 weeks dancing lesson course ... how 'bout that, the rhumba, the cha-cha, and what have you. Mary and Bi lly and their 3 boys ( 11 years down) also find time for some boating up Irvington way, having acquired a new boat.

Bi llie Jane (Crosby) Baker was called at a busy time in the afternoon with her red beaded baby boy who arrived September 3, 1957. She was full of news about Juanita (Tiller) Elmquist and her new baby boy born December 21, 1957. "B . ]. " also had news of the marriage of Norma Sanders to Edwin Calver Gran ley on Feb. 1, 1958. She had also heard from the Mackenzies in Louisville , Kentucky and Mac was opening his own law office.

Our love and congratulations go to all the folks in their new ventures.

Congratu lations go also to Dot (Monroe) Hill's Stonie who recently was installed as President of the Chamber of Commerce in Portsmouth, Va. Molly Warner plans to return to the States from her teaching post in England about mid-summer after a Scandanavian Tour.

Ruth (VannNess) Cotton and Bob have been vacationing in Cuba , also learning the "Cha-Cha," and improving their Spanish .

We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the family of Allison Cooper Kern who passed away suddenly some time ago. We were shocked and very sorry to hear of rhis.

A Jong and lovely letter from Kay (Hanley) Wery at Christmas told of the beautiful home she and Clay have recently built ... orchids in the yard and waterfalls close by ... sounds fabulous.

Besides house keeping Kay stays busy with her job at the University of Hawaii.

Gloria (Tyler) Robertson and her fami ly have just returned from a trip to her mother's in Florida.

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1945

Secretary

MRS. J. B. JACKSON,JR. (Ann Seay) 7711 Sweet Briar Road, Richmond, Va.

First things first-and best wishes are in order for Dot Francis, who was married in December to Benjamin Overton Atkinson. They will live at Wyoming Farm in King William County. Congratu lations to Bitsy and H enry Hur witz on the birth , in October, of a son, Wayne Mark , and to Betty and Eddy Adair on the birth, in December, of their third daughter, Elizabeth Clement. Betty and Eddy have recently moved into a lovely new home in Culpeper, thus becoming close neighbors of Jen Lea and Scott Yancey.

And now we come to "Christmas Card news" most of which was brief but meaty.

Marianne Waddill Jones has plans for a trip to Virginia in the summer. Someone told me recently that Marianne was going as a delegate to a Junior league convention in Hawaii. I do hope that was fact for I cannot think of a nicer honor or more pleasant trip .

Nancy Lazenby Stables and fami ly are in Bluefield waiting to join Linton overseas. The Army 's "hurry up and wait policy" has them all ready to go , complete with shots and passports, but it wil l be May or June before they leave the states.

Lillian Belk Youell wrote that John, their oldest boy, has been in the Navy H ospita l at Bethesda with pneumonia.

Liz Parker and Howard Cone, along with a small group of Episcopa lian s, are busy having a church built in Fuquay Springs , North Carolina .

They had their first service last February and have come a long way since. I am sure Howard, as Senior Warden , has had a large part in the development of the parish.

Ann Twombly Leland sent pictures of her attractive children for the scrapbook, and told of plans to drive to Lexington in April for a visit with her fami ly.

Ruth Latimer is delighted that her new apartment is only a nine iron shot from a golf course!

I hope she takes time out from her busy schedu le as Assistant Professor and Chief Physical Therapist in the Physical Therapy Department, School of Medicine of the University of Maryland to occasionally play a few rounds of the grand game.

Mary Campbell Paulson wri tes of a busy schedule which includes singing in her church choir , chauffering John and Lyn to scout meetings and dancing lessons, working as a guide at the Mariner's Museum as her Junior league vo lunt eer work and playing golf, which she has recentl y taken up and is finding to be good exercise and great fun. She, Jack , and the ch ildr en had an extended trip to Minneapolis last summer, via Atlanta.

Betty Lawson Dillard reports that she too, has taken up golf and that she and Les, who is president of the golf club in South Boston, had eagerly anticipated a weekend of go lf at Southern Pines .

They arrived there and played on Friday, but awoke to find the ground covered with snow on Saturday and the locale gripped in the coldest spell of weather in 10 years I Betty is most busy with PTA and garden club work, and she also teaches the Bible in her church circle. All of this in add ition to the usual routine of children's activities and household tasks as we all know them!

I was happy to learn from Betty that Eulalia had a second daughter last May. Nat Heller Moore writes that she is "dusting, washing, picking up and generally using her Bio logy Major to the fullest advantage," wh ile living in a house which sound s absolut ely fascinating. They moved last year into a carriag e house, circa 1903, which is of Norman -French architecture built of common fieldstone. It ha s a turret with two round rooms-castle style. She and Leonard enjoyed a trip to Florida , Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in November. Louise, 7, Bill, 2½, and Alice, 18 months, ro und out the Mo ore family.

Ann Clark Howe and Chuck are having fun

and headaches remodeling a large old house which they recently bought in Potsdam, New York , where Chuck is a professor at Clarkson College. They have put in two closets and done some tiling, painting, and papering. Ann 's account of all that plus her prodigious amount of sewing, her participation in a drama group and other college community functions leaves me somewhat breathless. Just living through one of those cold, cold winters would finish me!

By now, my dears, you shou ld have received a Jetter from one of us here in Richmond asking for a contribution to the Alumnae Fund. Take heed and dig as deeply as possible for contributions are sorely needed and our class average is deplorably low.

News is always desirab le.

1946

Secretary

Mrss JEANNE YEAMANS 3304 Stuart Avenue, Richmond 21, Va.

First, a reminder to those who haven't done so, please send in your contribution to the Alumnae Fund as soon as possib le.

A few more post cards came in after the deadline for the last issue. Frances Carter Bleight Elliott and Dick spent a week in New York City before Christmas and she said that Fifth Avenue was really a beautiful sight, although she added, "Potsdam is a wonderful place at Christmas time.

Every place looks just like the Christmas cards. " Naomi Hall Kingery wrote that she and Charlie are in the process of buying a drug store in Franklin. They have a girl and two boys-Donna , who is 6, Chip, 3, and Terry 15 months.

Ding Lambeth Shotwell is still my best source of news . She said her girls had a wonderful Christmas and just loved their ballerina dolls for which Ding made eight changes of clothes , including fur stoles! When does she find time to do all that, take classes and give lectures too? Just to use up some of her spare time, she has signed up to take a physical fitness course which includes exercises and basketball and vo lley ball.

D ing incl uded a note from Bev Ryland who is back in Richmond. She had a marvelous trip to South America, stayed with friends in Lima and Bolivia and then took off on her own to Rio, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Santiago.

Mary Frances Bethel Wood and Buddy are mighty happy these days. Buddy has received another promotio n-th is time as manager of the brand new Western Auto store in Norfo lk. They will be moving to Norfo lk as soon as they can find a place to live. Congratulations!

Mary Frances added that her Christmas card from Anne Jones Parker had a new addition-Greg-

October she has been working for Philip Morris as a chemist in the Research lab.

Majorie Webb is teaching English at Hermi tage High School here in Richmond. She is sponsor for some of the clubs at school and doesn't have time to do much wr iting any more.

Virginia Gibson Stewart was in the hospital the first of March but I'm glad to report that she's home and feeling fine now . Her mother and father built a home not too far from her which comes in mighty handy for babysitting purposes.

Speaking of babies, Lelia Phillips Toone's little two month old Margaret had an operation, but a few days later, you would never have known it.

She got along just fine.

I want to express the deep sympathy of our who le class to Cornelis Reid Rowlett whose sister , Gloria Ann, died in D ecember after a long illness .

Calley Goode Jackson has been working on a research project at MCV and the results will soon be published. It must be nice to see the fruits of your labors in print.

Libby Thompson Schmidt, among her many outside-the-home activities, was recent ly chairman of a Fashion Show sponsored by the Southampton Gui ld which is a volunteer welfare agency in her county. Daughter Lee's picture was in the Richmond paper modeling a grown-up dress.

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Hoping that some of our enthusiasm for the 1958-59 Alumnae Fund was slipped into the letters we sent you, we are expecting lots of news from each of you and the Fund lots of checks. If so, then our goal of 75% will be a reality.

Our deepest sympathy is extended to Bobbie Rock Hardy and her family due to her father's sudden death in September.

Just as we thought Ollie would be in Virginia she wrote Susie that Hank has been given a last

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minute extension and that the Sterlings will be in Hawaii until June when their destination will be Quantico. Actually this means the children wi ll be able to finish their school terms and they will be traveling during the more pleasant weather.

Marion Huske Moomaw and family have moved to Staunton, Virginia. Ed is now associated with an engineering firm there.

S. F. Young Derieux and Sam, while enjoying a brief vacation, visited with Copie and her family in Culpeper.

In January Susie and C. L. Woody were in Miami Beach, Florida for a week at the National Automobile Dealers Association Convention. They enjoyed every minute of the Convention and after it was over the Woodvs took a five day Caribbean Cruise on the Arasa Star Cruise ship from Miami.

They made stops in Nassau and Havana, Cuba, and visited the famous open-air Tropicana Nite Club in Havana and also, Sloppy Joe's. In Nassau rhey spent most of their time shopping, with Susie "drooling" over the cheap prices and the famous French perfumes.

Babies are big news for this letter. As far as we know, Peggy Hawthorne Charlton and Charlie have established a "first" for our class by having become the parents of young Paul on December 10th.

Waiting to receive him at home were Mo who was six in November, Co who was five in March, and Page who was three in January. Peggy wrote "at last count that made a total of three boys and one girl and are we proud of them 1" Are there any others of you who can equal the Charlton record? Peggy wrote they are living now in Fork Union where Charlie works for VEPCO. Last year Peggy taught art classes at Fluvanna County High School for a half day and enjoyed it. She belongs to local Bridge and Garden Clubs, but finds, as do so many of us, that "bath, bottles and babies" are her chief interest.

Marylou Massie Cumby and Guy welcomed little Sarah Catherine on February 24th. They have two other Cumbys, Guyon and Betty-Bee. Richard F. Andrews, Jr. to be known as Richie, was born on January 4th. His arrival was early by some six weeks and coming on the heels of Christmas and the New Year at that, had us all hopping for a whi le. Everything in the Andrews household has settled to normal again and Marcie is quite pleased with her baby "brudder" and of course Dad with his son!

Already hints of vacation plans are in the air.

Why not share these and other news of your activities with your group leaders, Susie, Lena, Gin, Marylou and me.

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MRS. ]ACK B. WILBOURNE ( Sarah Bishop) 903 Sylvania Avenue, Fredericksburg, Va.

Our communication system seems once again to have faltered. However, having lived through this the year of the Terrible Winter, I believe everyone is still digging out or maybe you're too pooped from fighting the elements, wet snowsuits and the

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l ike so that letter writing seems relatively unimportant. Spring will come and with it the week-end of May 16 and our Big Tenth get together. Hope all of you will be able to join in the fun!

Doris Vickers Hall writes that she and Pat Parlow Daniel will be driving down from Bronxville, N. Y. and have invited Betty Hardin Elmore to join them. Doris' letter was a resume of the past year's activities, when she and Peggy Stone Cunningham visited together in Washington and went to Baltimore to see Betty. The Halls moved in January to New York, and as luck would have it only 3 blocks from Pat. These two members of '48 hadn't seen each other in almost 10 years, but Pat has helped Doris and her family find an apartment, acquaint her with the city, and even provided playmates for the children.

Ann Stevenson Powers wrote a letter "thirteen years in the composition." The Powers visited Virginia, and specifically Westhampton, last year in order that the children Gay and Buddy (now ten and eleven) could enjoy the beauties of the campus and meet Miss Keller. Gay was delighted and wants to enroll as "they have ducks on the pond and dogs at Miss Keller's home." Ann is now Jiving in a village 38 miles from Chicago since leaving a town house on the University of Chicago campus. She too, hopes to be with us at the reunion, IF she can get "organized at home and with her outside commitments."

Lois McClanahan Garrett sends news of 2 more short term members of '48. Betty Rackley Root had written that she and Herb are the proud parents of a baby girl, Tina, born last September 18.

They Jive in Coral Gables, Fla. exact address unknown to me. Also Sallie Curtis Clement is living at Rt. No. 1 Fishersville, Va . (outside Staunton) where Frank is assistant County Agent for Augusta County. Correct this if wrong, but I think I remember that the Clements have 4 children.

While on the subject of the Cradle Roll, little David Wiley's name was added February 17, proud parents being 0. L. and Russ Elliott Wiley. A light weight, weighing in at only 5 lbs., he's growing fast and the whole family quite pleased with him. A note from Deity (Emily Deitrick Burklow) brought news of her third child, Paul Randolph Burklow, born last November 13. His big brother and sister, Troy and Lynn, were quite disappointed that he wasn't twins. Two days later, big Troy was in the hospital for back surgery with his recovery complicated by a bout with pneumonia.

He spent 27 days in the hospital and even longer recuperating at home, but Deity said all was going as well as could be expected and I hope by now everything is back to normal.

We all owe much appreciation and many thanks to Pat Adams Woodhead for the hard work and headaches she's going through trying to get the reunion plans workable and smooth. Please cooperate with her and her committee by answering promply and coming to help enjoy the fruits of their labors. Thanks to Betty Hickerson Butterworth who represented us at the Alumnae Fund dinner and participated in the telephoning of the nearly 1000 grads who live in the Richmond area (we're striving for 100% contribution-is your check on the way') Two final news items which had been tucked away-Suzanne Lovern Peeler has her second daughter born on December 18 and Jackie Pitt Suttenfield has gone back to teaching. This time it's the 3rd grade at New Broad Rock School.

With that this reporter bids you "au revoir."

Our next letter will be from some yet unchosen successor, maybe you. Thank you for your patient indulgence with my mental ramblings and for keeping up with my frequent address changes through the past 5 years. I've enjoyed keeping in touch with you through the mail, and sharing your family experiences across the miles. I hope you will want to volunteer to fill these lines , for though you have to give a little of yourself you get so much enjoyment and satisfaction in return. Our common bond, the love of Westhampton, seems closer though our days grow ever wider.

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1927 - 1957 GLORIA REID JENSEN On December 28, 1957, Gloria Ann Reid Jensen succumbed to many weeks of illness. The class of '49 will remember her for her friendliness and vivacity. No one ever met Gloria Ann on campus without receiving a ready smile; no group was ever dull when she was in its midst with her quickwitted but gentle humor. An even greater characteristic was her sympathetic nature; she was always willing to share a friend's problem and to offer encouragement.

Gloria Ann was born in Richmond and e duca ,ted in the city schools. After attending W esthampton College, she graduated from Pan-American Business College. In September of 1951 she married Lawrence Chr istian Jensen, Jr., an SAE alumnus of Richmond College who had pinned her during her

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1949 Secretary MRS. ]AMES B. HOPKINS (Betty Evans) 3005 Dunwick Road, Richmond 28, Va .

There were eight girls from our class at the Alumnae Fund Drive dinner on March 4th-Helen McDonough Kelley , Betty Ann Allen Doub, Hazel Jennings Walker , Cornelia Ayre, Bobbie Rodewald Forrest , Mary Ann Peddicord Williams , Brooke Triplett Grove , and I. We bad such a wonderful reunion that we're all looking forward to the Big One about this time next year. All of these girls helped write Fund Drive letters as did Bobbie Rhodes Barker , Ann Wilson Bryant, Ann Morano, Peggy Hassel , Beth Wilburn Hooker , and Nancy Berry Hulcher. Many thanks to them all and I do hope everyone in our class will contribute to the Alumnae Fund before July 1st. We are proud that one of our class, Mary Ann Peddicord W illims, was chosen Fund Drive chairman for this year .

We were glad to hear from Lynn Gilmer Guilford . She and Bill have been living in Berlin , Germany , since May 1956. They have three children , Lynnie 5½ , Billy 2½, and Michael Blair , 6 weeks old. Last summer they traveled through Germany, Austria , Italy, and France. Lynn says she stays busy and hopes to be back in the U. S. by May 1959. Her address is: Mrs. Wm. B. Guilford, Box 53, APO 742, c/o PM, New York, N . Y. Bobbie Rodewald Forrest and David have a new address. They bought a house at 5305 Tuckaho e Ave. , Richmond 26, Va. David has opened his own office this past fall. Bobbie has been busy redecorationg her new home and taking care of her two children.

Caro lyn Bonham Thompson had quite a bit of excitement during the sub-zero weather. There was a fire in her house which she says was quite frightening but little damage was done.

Charlotte Whee ler Mullens is living in Warwick where her husband is an attorney. They have two children, Beverly Ann, four years old and Hank , who is two years old.

Kitty Wyatt Townes and Bill are still living in Danville, Virginia. Kitty visited me in February with her two children, B., five years old, and Katy , who is three years old.

Randy Man Ellis announces the arrival of her

junior year at Westhampton. Gloria Ann and Larry lived at 3312 Coryell Lane, Alexandria, Virginia.

The class of '49 is deeply grieved by the death of Gloria Ann, for all who knew her loved her. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to her husband and to her parents.

fourth daughter on D ecember 16, 1957. She was named Eve Elizabeth.

Virginia Ann Otey Dickenson and Jimmy announce the arrival of Anne Rebecca on Feburary 3, 1958. Ginny says little Jim is thrilled with the new baby.

John Leonard D avis, born May 25, 1957, is the second son for Elaine Leonard Davis . Elaine says he kept them all quite busy for the first few months but all is well now . Elaine lives at 910 Penn Ave. , Suffo lk, Virginia. She said Oliver Trader Dailey, Martel , and their 3 children visited her briefly this fall.

Flo Gray Tu ll idge writes that her three children and a winter full of illnesses have kept her busy. Her daughter, Aggie, is in the first grade this year. Flo saw Martha Hall in Charlottesville recently and talked to Jackie Smith Hogan who is busy with her two children and with the presidency of a garden club .

The Tullidges had a delightful visit with the Barnetts (Peggy and Bill) at Bridgewater in January. Peggy is teaching school and is about to open a Bride's Shop . She went to New York over Christmas vacation on a buying trip and stayed with Jane Dens McManigal.

Joyce Roberson Goforth is still teaching the 4th grade and is president of the P .T .A. this year. Her son, Chris, will be 4 in May. Joyce has been quite active in her Junior Woman 's Club.

They had a talent show for one program and she was in charge of an "all-male" ballet!

Audrey Bradford Saupe and Bill are living in a lovely furnished home in Caracas and will be there at least a year. Her new address is : C. A. Tabacalera Nacional, Apartado 287, Caracas , Venezuela. Jane Dens McManigal writes "Abie says durini; the revolution it was pretty noisy and some terrib le things happened. They stayed in and battened down the hatches when the lid blew off the morning of the 23rd. Things are about back to normal now, tho. " Abie has two servants, but neither speaks a word of English so Audrey and Bill are learning Spanish as fast as they can.

Mary Lusby has a new address: 3286 N St., N. W ., Washington 7, D. C. Ginny Grabeel Cole and her family moved to their farm in January . Her new address: Virginia Lee Farm , Rt. 1, Blackst one, Va . She has a big old home. Part of it is 165 years old and the other 135 years.

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has been going to the Richmond basketball games with Mimi Anderson Gill and plans to see "My Fair Lady" in New York in March. She was Alumnae Fund Chairman and is busy in Junior Woman 's Club work .

Libby McNeal Claybrook and Rip attended the Principals ' Convention in Roanoke in March .

Their son started in kindergarten in February .

Libby also said she had a nice chat with Ruby Patterson Weber and Laura Saunders James at a bridge party recently .

Peggy Hassel is teaching at Robert E. Lee Schoo l in Richmond . She recently spent a week end with May Lee Kook in Winchester , Va . May Lee is teaching school and taking lessons in oil painting. Peggy says a picture of May Lee's entry for an Art Exhibit was in the paper that weekend!

We wish to thank Ann Wilson Bryant for her article on Gloria Ann Reid Jensen which appears in this issue. We were all quite shocked and saddened by her untimely death. We extend our deepest sympathy to her husband and family .

19 50 Secretary

MRS. J. S. PIERCE JR. (Joyce Betts) 3434 Hanover Ave ., Richmond, Va.

The stork has had a busy season visiting members of our class . Louise Lynham Gravitt and Bill had their fourth child, Nancy , on July 30 .

William is really outnumbered by his three sisters. Another fourth , Mary Rebecca, arrived at the home of Ann Neblett James and D. T. on D ecember 15. Good things seem to come in fours as Rhoda Brown Sisisky and Norman had their fourth boy, Stuart Jay, on December 30. Joyce Betts Pierce and Jack welcomed Warren Vinson on January 25. Lynn and Stan make excellent baby sitters . Terry Noble Vawter had her second boy on February 5. His name is Richard Allen Vawter.

The "Do-It-Yourself" Martins have done it again! Catherine Jean arrived February 10, at the home of Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy with the help of the Tuckahoe Rescue Squad.

Barbara Beattie Fanny and Skip had their first child, Richard Hansell, on February 17. On the same day, Melissa arrived at the home of Bernardine Arey Clark and John. Mokey Rounds Holloway and Dick had their second boy, born June 11.

From La Paz , Bolivia, we hear that Mary Sullivan Tinder and Cecil had their second child. Cecily Devon Tinder was born on March 6.

Nancy Adams Shields and Bruce are thrilled to be in their new home . It is their first experience in building and Nancy is enjoying spreading out into eight rooms. Mary Bowles Flanagan and Robbie have also moved into a new home in Tampa , Florida. Miriam Weddle Whitt and Bob have moved to Gaffney , South Carolina , where Bob is educational director of the First Baptist Church. Hilda Moore Hankins writes that Deck is now with Wachtel's Physician Supply Company. They will continue to live in Columbia, South Carolina for awhile.

Barbara Taggart has received her Masters Degree in Spanish from the University of Mexico .

While in Mexico she lived with Mexican families and many of her friends were Mexicans. She was most impressed with the hospitality and trusting nature of the Mexicans .

Lenore Greenberg Siegel and George had a wonderful vacation. They flew to Nassau, Bahamas and returned to New York by ship . Libby Rowse Wilson 's mother visited her in California this winter. Libby was disappointed that she was not able to visit Richmond also. Barbara Coleman attended a Child Welfare League Conference in Washington , D. C. in February. Clarice Ryland Price and " Fuzzy " took a week-end off and went to Baltimore with friend s in Mar ch . Jane Edmonds Barnett and Aubrey tore themselves away from their busy life in Alexandria and came to Richmond in February.

Claire Noren Griffin and Bob had surprise visitors in December. They returned home one night to find that their house had been broken into and ransacked . The intruders took such

things as pig gy banks and cards but left their movie camera and watches.

M ar iann e Beck is doin g vo lunt eer work for th e Richmond Cancer Society and ha s been appointed chairman of the mass meeting for th e radio and te levision programs in April. Bea Covington O 'Flaherty ha s been qu ite busy this winter as Vi ce Preside nt of th e Ri chmond Alumn ae Club and the Mortar Board Alumnae Club. We were proud that so many of the girls turn ed ou t for the Alumnae Fund meeting at K eller Ha lli in February. W e were especia lly pleased to see ludi Hi ckerso n Wil ey from Wilmingt on, D elaware.

Our deepest sympathy is extended to Alice Clarke lynch on the death of her father.

with DuP ont in Wilmington. Barba ra wrote that they spe nt a glorious thre e-wee ks' vacation in Haw aii last Christmas visiting Sam's parents .

They saw as much as th ey could and even receiv ed the certificate of "Pe le's Po ope d Pedestr ian " for wa lkin g across Kil auea Crat er-wor ld's weirdest walk! Barbara hopes to see many of the class at the next reunion.

W e welcome more new babies into the cla ss direc tory. There are now 87 children in our class, incidentally! Pete and J eann ett e Ader hold Brown now have two littl e gir ls. J eann e C laire arrived on October 13, 1957 . Ann Rogers Crittenden and Crit welcomed their second gir l, too. Susan Gray was born February 13, 1958, alm ost two years to the day after Sarah Ann. Th e most spectarn lar and exci t ing thin g that 1951 Secretary has happen ed to any of us was the appeara nce of MRS. D ONALDA . WHITE (Elizabeth Gill) M illi e W aters Harford and Jim on th e TV show 4354 North Hender son Road, " D o Y o u Trust Your Wif e." I' ve hear d about it Arlington, Va . from a number of people and proba bly man y of you saw them. They were on th e show for tw elve D on and I en joyed Christmas in Richmond wi th consecu tive days and walked off with 12,000 1 ! ! my family and his mother. Since then th ere have M any of you have moved rece ntl y, so here's been both happy and sad happ ening s in our Jives. the rund own of who, where and why . Charl otte On February 5, my grandfather , Everett Gill, Sr. H ouchin s D ecker and Hank hav e a new and roomy died in Wak e Forest and we drove down for th e hom e in Richmond at 8313 Gay land Road. Th ey funeral. H e was 88. The very wee kend befo re moved last Jul y and are ha ppy to have mor e space that , my brother , Everett III , and hi s fiancee_ defor littl e Jimmy. cided to be married Mar ch 29. D on and I provided Jeannette A . Bro wn has verified Jeanne_ Gould the music for the wedding in Hick ory, N. C. and ing Brown 's address . She and Russell _live rn Silver everyo ne is very happy about them. H er _nam e Spring, Md . at 554 Southampton Dn ve . Je ann ette is Rachel (ju st lik e M oth er } ! Otherwise , life 1s also reported that Jan e Ellis Babb ha s moved mu ch the same and our choirs are stil l grow10g ! into a ranch house at 403 North.fie ld Wa y in Teenie Mitch ell Go ldston and Tom are living Camil lus, N. Y . H er husband , Emerson, is th e at Buffalo Junction , Va . Tom g rad uated from . economi st for a milk producers' cooperative. J eanCrozer Seminary last Ma y and now ha s two nette's hu sband , Pete, is sti ll travelling for Rad io churches in the little comm unity which is 18 miles Suppl y Company of Richm ond, No rfolk a_nd Roa from South Boston . H e recently comp leted a sixnoke so she has Jots of tim e at home while he 1s wee ks course in clinical pastoral training, at the away' and spe nd s it sewi ng and knittting , besides Baptist Hospital in Win ston -Salem. keep ing up with th e two littl e gir ls.

Teenie visited Kitty Bunting Bowman in South Anoth er mover is Eleanor Easley Barnes. Don Boston in February and the y had a long , delighthas been tran sferred to Columbi a, S. C. in conful reunion. Tennie was impressed with Kitt y's nection wi th his position with the Federal D ethree "sweet and good" children. She was also posi t Insurance Corporation. Their new. address in Arlington in February to see Mar y lib Wr en n, is H eat hw ood Court Apt . F- 6, Columbia. Th ey former director of religious activities at WC. a re happy there and Eleanor is looking for a job.

An oth er long-lost member of '51 is Barb ara Paula Ab erne thy K elton has moved to 1206 McGehee Cooke , who now liv es in Wilmington , R iversi de Dri ve in Tusca loosa. She wrot e of a D elawar e at 203 D Thom as Dr. , Monroe Park , v isit by Jan e Slaughter, who still teaches organ with Sam and th eir two littl e gir ls, Connie and at Howard College. Jane went to Miami with her Cynth ia Lynette. little Cindy was born on ~opa rent s to spe nd Christmas with her brother and vember 24, 1956 in Texas , before Sam r eceived his family. . his Ph.D. in chem ist ry from Baylor. H e is now Ray and Elizabeth M cRa e Dudl ey took a cruise to Miami on th e Dudley 's yacht with Ray's paren ts. She repor ted a wonderful vacation with deep sea fishing , gra nd show s, bea ch and su_n, and Phone 7-4086 visits with re lati ves. Th ey bought a hous e 10 Norfolk last fall-old brick colonial , with a nice big yard. Elizabeth says the loves the kitch en best of all.

Bob and Betty Mum sey Spatz were visited by •.· ... - .. _, _ ,, .. .) .. ' - . ..

Eli zabeth and Ray after Christmas and must have . . had a nice reu nion. Betty wrote that Bob was snowe d in for two days dur ing the big storm in 1 February. On that sco re, my Don was hom e from . . .,/ .. _, ,.--..• .. ·- school for a week because the drifts were so deep out in Fairfax County 1 The newest member of Eleanor Wright Wes- --- .- ........ J ..

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Suza nn e Holt Bagley and Bill will be leav ing Kenbridge soon since Bill is going to wor k for Standard Oil. libba also reported the death of Joan D alve Heizer 's mother-in-la:"· Mr s. H eiz~r 327 West Main Street was evide ntly a well- loved person m the community. We all send our love and sympat hy to Joan an d Richmond, Virginia Phone MI 4 -40 35 her family.

Factory - Lawrenceville, Virginia Exciting tidings have come from Jo H yche Baulch, through Joan. H ank is being sent ba~k /Hanufacturers and Distributors of to school for his Master 's in history and be will be teaching at the Air Force Academy in 1960.

School, Church and Public Seating Co ngratulations to Jo and H an k.

Furniture and Equipment The latest and last bit of news is from Nance And erson H all. They hav e been transferred back Ping-Pong Tables, Roll-A-Way Beds, Ma ttresses , to Richm ond and Nance is thri lled to be back Card Tables, Lounge and Camp Chairs home. Th ei r temporary addr ess is 302 1 Chamb er layne Av e. until they find a hou se.

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Bett y Roge rs. who is now Betty Roger s Stowers, is enjoying her work at th e Campbell Count y Bank.

Next new s is due MAY 15 ! Group leaders , take note!

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Best wishes go to Ha rr iett Willingham. H er engagement to Walt er S. Johnson of Minne apo_lis, M inn esota has just been announced. The wedding will take place in June in ew York City. and H arrie tt and "Cor k" will l ive in Schenectady, New Y ork, where he is empl oyed. For th e past year Harriett h as been in Cambridge, Mas sachu setts doing graduate work. (Thi s will make two "Harriett John sons" in our class now-Stubbs and Willingham).

From the Richm ond paper , we see that Lou Tull is engag ed to Thompson Arthur M ashburn , Jr. of M adi son, N. C. H er fiance was grad uat ed from the University of North Caro lina and is doing g rad u ate work at Duke University.

Fannie Craddock W ood , John and daught er, Pat have left Ri chmond and have moved to M emphi~, T enn essee, where J ohn wi ll be headqu ar tered in hi s new work.

Bobby Beckner Stoney and Bill are livin g. in Hamp ton, and Bobbie is cont inuin g her teach10g at Hampt on High, whi le Bil l is an aero research scientist.

Congratul atio ns to Bev Gilb ert and Bud Love ll on the birth of K aren H ope on D ecem ber 3, 1957.

This is numb er thr ee. On Janu ary 13, 1958, Joyce Bell and Bill Cody pro udl y an nounced the arri va l of their first born , Stephen William. T o keep Sally Ann compa ny, K ath erine Cosby arrived in D ecember at th e household of Berth a Cosby and H obson K ing. We missed !,earing of Carol M e lton Sinclair and Charlie 's son, Stephe n W ayne, born on June 12, 1957 . Thi s is th e Sinclair's third child.

T o M ary Ann Coates and D on Edel 's ho me on February 16, came <laugher, Cary Curtis to play with Gr eg.

Mary Ann also writes tha t Don has been transferred to a new store in l au rel, Md. Fortunately, it isn 't far to commute so it doesn 't n ecessitate their moving from Silv er Spring.

Eleanor Bradford and Bob Tunnell , and young Brad are Jiving per manentl y in Portsmouth and are enjoying seeing a ll their o ld friends aga 10.

Diane Evans is located in W ashington , now at 3024 Cambridg e P lace, N. W .

In conn ection with her work as an art consultant Bev Rand olph Shannon did severa l TV shows for' th e Ri chm ond Publi c Schools this fall.

Jill Lobach Gr aybeal is very act ively engaged in music programs and all oth er work th at accom panie s being a music teacher in H enr ico County's H ermit age High School whil e Pat is in h is last year of Jaw school at th e U niversi ty of Richm ond .

J eanne H ootma n Hopkin s w rit es excitedl y of their n ew h ome on the west side of Ba ltim ore, l423 Clairidge Road, Baltimor e 7, Md. Pete has a posi tion with The H alethorpe D ivisio n of \);'/estinghouse w hi ch manufacture or assemble, and sell carrier microwave equipme nt .

Congratulations to D r. and Mrs. Hugh Rankin (I sabel Sanford) on th e bi rth of Charles . Sanford in D ecember. Ann and Hu gh, Jr. are mig hty happy with littl e bro ther.

From Addie Eicbs Comegys in M assachusetts came a note saying that she's busy "s hovelling snow and pu ll ing l ee's sled," as well as participating in num erous community activities in Wenham.

'We are glad to hear from J anet Storm Pengelley, Box 8 17, Aw ali, Bahrowi, Persian Gulf. She and Bruce hav e a tw o year old daughter. Jenn y. " Bru ce wor ks for th e oil company here and we have very p leasa nt Jiving conditi ons. W e have a furnished house in the oil camp with its own Commissary, cinema. club , hospital , etc. We ' re about 13 miles from th e cap ito l of the island where my folks live and work. Unfort unat ely Moth er ha s been quit e ill with ulcer troubl e and she and D addy hav e gone to England for treatment ( of Mr s.

Storm's condition) . Bruce does a 21/z year contract and then has four months leave. The company pays your air fare to your place of recruitment which for us is England ." They had a wonderful leave last year visiting Bruce's family in England and Janet's family in the States when they were on furlough.

Jackie Gerson Lowenstein and Murray are located in Richmond now . They have two boys, Henry and lee. We are always glad to have another classmate join us here. There are about 20 of us present in Richmond.

Lucy Dearing Hunt is teaching in a new high school in Durham County , North Carolina as a math teacher while also working on her degree .

H er husband, Jackie, is working on his degree in physics and chemistry.

Joy Selby Scallon writes that Cal is Executive Secretary of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council which is a foreign affairs council coordinated with the University of Hawaii concerned with education research. In the summer be attended a UNESCO Conference in 'Frisco and was on a study tour of other council's work in N. Y., D. C., Pittsburgh , Cleveland, Chicago and 1. A. Do hope by onw you have generously given to your Alumnae Fund, by way of the Freddie lee

1953

Secretary MRS. JOHN W. GUY, III (Segar White) 7306 Forest Road , Apt. 203, Kent Village, Hyattsville, Md.

Just in case you have Jet the Spring season slip past without mailing your contribution to the Alumnae Fund, won't you remedy that neglect today' As you remember reading in the Jetter from one of our classmates, this year we are aiming at the 100 % mark on the scale of contributors from each class. Gladys Tatarsky, who is our class campaign chairman, and her committee have spent a good deal of time to help make this year's campaign the greatest success yet.

Vital statistics are uppermost in the news this time. Congratulations to the parents of the following new arrivals: WiJ!iam Joyner, Jr .- Born September 12, 1957 to Bill and Carolyn Carter Watkins. Charles Frederick-born October 26, 1957 to Charlie and Pat Moran Talley. Frank Brown II-born November 20, 1957 to Dick and Barbara Watkins Beale, their third child. Anne Strader-born January 5, 1958 to Hervey and Gerrie Kantner Jones. Lisa Diane-born February 14, 1958 to Bill and Jackie Gustin Boeh. Royal Scott, Jr-born February 19, 1958 to Scott and Connie Shuford Vilas. Kathleen-born February 24, 1958 to Steve and Pat Shomo Bradshaw. John Kevin - born February 28, 1958 to BiJ!y and Lou George Wolfe , their third son.

Th e marriage of Bettie Kersey to William Neil Gordon took place on December 21, 1957 in Richmond. Pat Moran Talley was an attendant and Kay Beale sang .

Th ere are severa l new addresses to report. Bill and Ginny LeSueur Carter moved in January to a new home at 2750 Thorndale Street , S. W., Roanoke, Va. Doris Johnston is residing at 2601 16th Street, N. W. , Washington 9, D. C. Don and Ruby Vaughan Carson have moved to Staunton, Virginia for several months while he continues his training with Westinghouse.

Newtie and Barbara McCraw Persons have moved to Warrenton , Virginia.

Cotton and Harriet Wheat Fra lin have a new home in Bon Air , Virginia.

Ralph and Betty O 'Bannon Culp are Jiving in Ithaca, New York while he does graduate work at Cornell University.

Staff and Dottie Hicks Silverman have moved to 641-A 10th Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii. He was recently promoted to the position of assistant manager of the Pearl Harbor Branch, Bank of Hawaii. Dottie no longer teaches , has entered both little gir ls in nursery school, and is now free to enjoy housekeeping , she reports. She has become a member of the women's auxiliary to the Hawaiian Junior Chamber of Commerce , one

of whose activities is promoting statehood for Hawaii.

Nancy Fling Fowler is now working in the Richmond office of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. Jo Deter Sullivan has been teaching second grade at St. Michael School in Bon Air this year.

Peggy Gi lman , Louise Hudgins McNaJ!y, and I spent a carefree afternoon in Washington recently, having lunch together and attending a matinee performance at the Schubert Theater.

Be on the look-out for the next issue of the BULLETINwhen we will be reporting on the highlights of our reunion.

1954

Secretary MRS. EDWARDEARL DUNKLEE (Beverley Burke) 2210 Skipwith Road , Richmond 26, Va .

We have two new babies to add to our growing family. Douglas Clark was born to Mary Lou and John Dorsey on February 6. They are now Jiving in Charlotte, N . C. Shirley Anna was born to Shirley Ward Wingfield and Buddy on January 26 . last August Shirley received a master 's degree from WiJ!iam and Mary. They also moved into their home in November.

Barbara Magyar is teaching at Marymount in Richmond. We understand she really enjoys it.

Nancy Baumgardner is in Cincinnati now , working with Family Service.

Betsy Evans is back at Mackinac Island , Michigan, and from her descriptions , the snow and ice are beautiful. She is also learning to ski.

Lola Varney is back in Charlottesvil le after a few months in Detroit and a year of teaching at her old high school in West Virginia.

Betty Mo Lucas's second son was born on December 30 and they named him David lee. The oldest boy is 21/z now . They moved into a new house last May. Jane Lanier Synovitz and Bob are both teaching while planning an extended motor trip through the south this summer. They hope to come to Virginia .

Virginia Byrd Dance Neblett and John and Nebby are Jiving at Oak Ridge, Tenn. for six months . John is a civilian working for the army and is taking a course in Nuclear Physics.

We are sorry to hear that Barbara Konkle Duke's husband and son have been ill with pneumonia. The good news with them is that they have bought a cabin cruiser.

Sue Perry Downing and Tom plan to return to the States in late summer. He comp letes his school term at Edinburgh in the spring, and they plan to do some touring this summer, including the World 's Fair in Brusse ls.

Here are some recent addresses that some of you have requested: Jean Burgess Sadler: 9008 Farmington Drive, Richmond, Va. Jane Betts Schmitt: 1907 Scottview Drive , Richmond, Va .

Betsy Evans: Cedar Point , Mackinac Island , Michigan.

Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey: 1311 E. Morehead St., Apt. 6, Charlotte, N. C. Linda Goodman lewis: Bldg. 8, Apt. 15, Diesel Housing , Richmond, Va. Polly Newman Smith: 613 Watt St., Martinsville, Va. Sue Perry Downing: 6 Corrennie Driv e, Edinburgh 10, Scotland.

Marcella Hammock: 1624 Rockwood , Richmond 26 Va. Nancy Graham Harrell: 7811 Mary land Drive , Richmond 26, Va. Lola Varney: 402 14th St., Charlottesville , Va. We 'd like to have the addresses of these people: Betty Fleet Schmutz , Robbie Moyer Rich, Joyce Snyder, Ann Whitehurst Crawford , Janice Carrol l Baldwin , Sue Simpson Cooper and Jean Merritt lewis. Please send us any address changes that you know of.

You might have noticed from the changes that Marce lla Hammock is back in Richmond. She is

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teaching in Henrico and completing her master's degree.

Also notice that Jane Betts Schmitt is living at Edith Burnett Grimes' old address. Whitey was promoted and moved by DuPont to Wilmington , Del., so Edith , Lyn, and Susan had to move . Jane , Bey and Stevie bought their home .

We hope that by now you have sent in your contribution to the Alumnae Fund. We are working on our class percentage of givers which was only 37% last year. IncidentaJly , we hope to raise at least $ 150.00 from our class this year, which should be easy since we gave $121.00 last year.

Keep the news coming in. The dead line for the next issue is the first of May.

1955

Secretary MRS. ALEXANDERMcCULLOUGH (Alice Creath) Box 333, AnnviJJe, Penna.

Hoping for bountiful results are the following Alumnae Fund workers who are helping Marty Glenn Tinsley: Jacki e Kilby Brooks, Nancy Johnson Whit e, Arnett Neuville, Janet Pace Burbage, BurreJJ Williams Schultz, Gail Tench Miller, Virginia Lovelace Barbee, Jean Crittenden Kauffman, and Barbara Turner. They need our help to boost last year's percentage of donors!

Alice McCarty spent a few days at Miami Beach in March. She enjoys Jiving in Cambridge, and has been skiing and ice skating. I'll agree that this northern weather surely has its advantages as far as winter sports are concerned. Piggy and I have been coJ!ecting bruises at a ski resort 30 miles from here.

Attending Margaret English's wedding to Morton lester on December 21st was Betty Leigh Stembridge Leggett. Others present were Sue Smith VanWickler , Jackie and Hunter Brooks, Betty Jean Parrish Knott , Barbara Turner , and I. Margaret and Morton vacationed in the South, visiting Betty Jean and Charlie Knott in Salisbury, N. C. on their return. They are Jiving in Martinsville where Margaret teaches third grade.

The Charles Knotts bought a lot in Salisbury and hope to start building a house soon. Betty Jean has recently been voted into the Junior \'(/oman 's Club.

Congratulations to Mariah Chisholm and Bill Hasker on the birth of their second son, Peter Rolfe , on January 12.

We also send a hearty heJ!o to Sharon lee who was born to Dottie Smoker Nielsen and Fred on January 17.

A. L.PHILLIPS' SON CON TRACTORS Roads ... Streets ... Excavating Foundations ...

Sewers

Concrete Construction 3201 Moore Street

E. Turpin Phillips E. Turpin Phillips, Jr.

Charlotte Hud son Hayn es has moved to Baltimore where she and Nicky are buying a house .

H e is an indu strial engin eer at Bethlehem Steel whi le she is teaching 3rd grade. She would like to get in touch wi th any of our classmates who are in the vicinity.

News from Ann All en! She is a First Lt. in Headquarters of U. S. WAC Center Ft McClellan , Alab ama,-a nd loves it! ' · Joy Winstead Proper! has a job in the publ ic relat10n office at the University of Pennsylvania .

She is writing releases and helping with pictures and feature work.

Mr s. Marjorie Taylor presents "Stories for Children" on WTVR -TV . Wouldn 't all of us teachers Jove to have her in our classrooms!

There is a lot going on in our class that we never hear about in the BULLETIN. 1f you know any news please help us to share it in our next issue.

1956 Secretary Miss CAROLYNBAKER 3405 Fendall Avenue, Richmond, Va .

I want to begin this letter with thank s to the seven classmates who helped so faithfu lly in the Alumn ae Dr ive- Jane And ersen Jennings , Jan Hogge Atkin s, Shirl ey Evans , Ann e Stuart Hart z, H elen Melton lukhard, Ann Peery, and D ottie Stiff Pnce. Many thanks, too, to those of you who have res pond ed to their efforts by contribut ing to the drive. let 's all hope that our class response will surpass by far our miserable showi ng of last year.

J ane Jennings brought some very inter esting talk to the dinner. She and Leon are thrill ed over their wonderful little Charles Leon J ennings , III , born January 1, looking "exac tly like Leon" according to J ane. With Leon's finishing school th is spri ng , there is a strong liklih ood that the Jennings will be leaving Richmond . 1f so, we all send our best wishes with them.

R ichmond is also losing anoth er '56 classmate and her hubby. Jan and Ferrel l Atkin s will become citizens of Illin ois starting the next school year as he will at that time become associated with the D epartm ent of Mathemati cs at the University of Ill rno,s at Evanston . W e'll all miss J an's friendly gab at D ouglas Freeman, especia lly her sensatio nal parts in the school's stunt night s and her afternoon runs around the halls (h er daily exercise ).

Congratu lations are in order to Ann Carroll Yeaman on her engageme nt to John Alb ert Malcolm, Jr., of Pitt sburgh . H er /iance is attendin g Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia .

We have two new brides in our class as of this writing. Pat McElr oy became Mr s. Steven Smith, March 22 in the chapel at D ah lgre n Va .

Steve's a "big, red-headed mathematician 'from Pennsylvania ."

Si~ce D ecember 29, Edith Borjes has been answen ng to the name of Mrs . Harold David Greer .

The couple is living at 1614 Rogers Ave., S. W. Atlanta 10, Georgia, where H aro ld works for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad Company and attend s Georgia State College. Edith now has "t he nicest job ever- that of chief cook and bottl e-washer " in their apartment.

I received two lovely Christmas cards from Lt. and Mrs. H . 1. J enning s, J r. (Carol and Curly) from 4725 Ohio Avenue in Tampa , Florida and from Mr. and Mrs . Lawrence Matthews (J ean and Larry) who are residing in Barboursvi lle, a small town between Orange and Charlottesville where Larry is servi ng as pastor of two church~s.

Char lie and Di ane Brown Higgin s have returned to Richmond where he is working in the management program with th e Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. D iane is teaching in the junior primary at Mary Mun ford.

Bruce and Ann lee Randolph are the parents of a fine boy, Edmund lee Rand olph , w ho was born D ecember 29.

Richard and Macon Moring H or ton are also the parents of a son, born in February. I saw Macon, who has recen tly been spending some time with her parents in Richmond while Richard has been stationed at a near-by army camp, at the Southern Conference Basketball Tournament where she reported the good news.

D ee and H elen Lukhard have recently moved into their new home at 2402 Nor tonia Road in the far West End . Now lovely little Lind say has ple nty of room to grow and play.

Dotti e and Madi son Price are living in the H illiard Road apar tments at 7003 Th ornro se Avenue.

A final note: I have received word of Winkie Gray's engageme nt to W allace Stettinius.

There are some of you from whom we've received no word since gradua tion two years ago.

Your classmates have been asking about you. 1f your name hasn't appeared in a recent BULLETIN, p lease let us hear from you .

WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS Atlanta Club President: MRS. STEWART CARVER (Elizabeth Cosby) little Garde ns, Lawrenceville , G eorgia

The Atlant a Club met on Febru ary 21, 1958 at the Dru id H ills Golf Club. Since our membership is sma ll we decided on a dinn er meeting so the husbands could come, too! Th e on ly business transacted was my election as preside nt mostl y by default. The meeting was such a success: though, that we decided to try to have ano ther before the end of the school year.

We have a new member, Ann Burnet ' 54, but we are also losing one, Caro lyn Babb H eflin, who is moving to San Francisco. Ann 's address is 190 S. Colonial Hom es Circle , N.W., Atlanta.

W e especially enj oyed Mar y Sue Carter's hu sband , Eugene Patterson, who is in newspa per work and regal ed us with storie s of other newsp aper writers.

The friends of Miss Frances Hatch er, professor of mathematics '20-2 1 will be sorry to learn of her desperate illness and hospitalization for the last thr ee years.

Eastern Shore Club President : MRS. RICHARDS. T un Pocom oke City, Maryland

(Barb ara Bull)

"Ce dar Grove ," near Bridgetown , the home of Mr s. Juli a Nottingham and Mrs . James Mapp , was th e scene of the annual tea for members of the Westhampton Club of the Eastern Shore, on Saturday , November 2, 1957.

The V ice-Pr esident , Mrs. C. E. Critcher , substituted for Mr s. Tull, who was kept at home by illness.

Aft er the minutes were read the Treasurer reported receipts of $23 .00 in dues, payment of $2.50 for luncheon guests and $2 5.00 to the Swimming Pool Fund, leaving a ba lance of $11.57.

Mrs. Paul Watts and Mrs . W illiam T. Roberts.

Jr ., were ap pointed co-chairmen of the 1958 lun ch: eon, with Mr s. John W. Edmonds, Jr. , in charge of the program.

It was ann ounced that Mi ss Elizabeth Jon es fou nd it necessary to resign as secretary.

Mr s. George Tankard, Mr s. H. I. Buchanan and Mrs. H . P. B. Rue , Jr ., were appointed as nominating committee to submit nomination s for the offices of President and Secretary .

Everyone sang " H ap py Birthd ay" to Mr s. Mary Taylor D awson, observi ng her 83rd birthday.

Mr s. H. P. B. Rue , Jr., was asked to write not es of symp athy to Mr s. Edward P . Roberts on the loss of her husband and to Mr s. Charles Little on the death of her mother, Mr s. Hilary Fitchett , a member of the Club.

After the bu siness session Mr s. William T. Roberts, Jr ., intro duced Mrs. Albert Savage, who gave a most informative talk, "lest We Forget ," dealing with the H ebr ew impact on W estern civilization.

Our " money-raising camp aign " is moving right along . W e will let you know the results later .

Our spring lunch eon will be Apr il 19th.

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Southwest Virginia Club President: MRS. ROBERTC. KRUG (K athry n Leviston), 403 Clay Circle , Blacksbur g, Virgin ia Invitation s have been issued by Southwest Vir ginia Alumn ae Club to the sophomore and junior classes in Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Pulaski and Radfo rd high schools to a tea Mar ch 29th at the Baptist Church in Blacksburg. local girls attending W esthampt on have also been invit ed. Mr s.

Jam es Stanley (Mildr ed Ow en '4 1) , vice chairman of the local club is in charge of the tea.

The annual spr ing luncheon is planned for May 10th at Grant' s Tavern with Mr s. Booker and Mi ss Lutz as speakers.

Tidewater Club President: Miss POLLYANNASHEPHERD 1·053 Naval Avenu e, Portsmouth , V irgi nia On March 22nd, the Tid ewater Club held a luncheon meeting at the home of Mr s. Will iam P. Ballard (H elen Cau lfield '35 ), 4002 Columbus Avenu e, Norfo lk .

Special gu ests of the club were Mi ss Keller Mis s Turnbull and Mr s. Booker who brought in'. teresting reports of life on the campus.

The plan for raisi ng money for the Alumnae Association was discussed. Each member is asked to invest her talent s and energies in an indiv idual proj ect whose proceeds wil l be her contribution to the fund which th e club will send to the college .

Hel en catered for the lunch eon and gave the profit as her gift. Oth ers are knitt ing, baking, selling their preserves and pickles, coaching and doing substitute teaching.

The Washington Club President: MRS. H . MONROE RADLE Y (Ellen Acree) 3701 R St., W ashington 7, D. C. Th e W esthampt on Club entertained prospec tive stud ents and girls from college at the tradition al Spring Tea in their honor on Sunday, March 30.

H ostesses were 12 ex-president s of our club. Many mothers of the young gu ests accepted our invit ation to visit with us. We were proud to learn that Shirley Harr ison, from Mcl ean High School in V irg inia, will enter We sthampton next fa ll as the winner of one of the highly competitive \Xl illiams Scholarships.

The tea, held in the lovely home of May Thomp son Evans, attracted a larg e and enthusiastic group -over one hundr ed! W e could hardl y believe it had happened to us. But interest stimul ated in recent weeks had been thwarted by the harsh weather. The February blizzard forced cancellati on of the Virgini a Group Tea with Paul Saunier, '4 1, as guest speaker; the Maryland and Distr ict areas had their disappoi ntm ents . Th e Washington Club was det ermined to have a "ball" and so we did!

Th e high poi nt of the afternoon was the informal talk by a new member, Ellen Hod ges Proxmir e, '46, wife of Senator William Proxmire fr om Wisconsin. Her campaign experiences were most exciting, her enthu siasm contagious. and her perso nality most charming. Marty Lowr ey Gr eene plann ed th is part of the program , and D orothy Knibb made one of her ever-delightful introduc tions .

Business was limited to one joyful item: The report of the Nominating Committee. LaVerne Priddy Muse , '42, and Alice Garnett Thomas, '22, persevered, won , and presented us with a wonder• ful slate of officers for 1958-59. Duely elected , and scheduled to take office at the third , and last, gen eral memb ership meeting of this year on Thursday evening, May 22, are: President , Mr s. ]. Lawr ence Mann ing (Nan Byrd Owen, '35 ) - Vic e-President , Mr s. Justine M. Andrews (Jean Grant , '42 )- Corre s. Sec'y., Mrs .

Robert H. Courtney, Jr. (Ann Woodward , '48) Rec. Sec'y., Mr s. Benjamin A. Rucker (M arth a Cosby, ' 36)-Treasurer, Mr s. John D. Blanchard ( Rose Seti en, '51).

Details of the May 22 meeting will be announced later. There will be a speaker and, we hope, much news about May D ay, Alumna e Da y and Class Reuni ons.

Wilmington Club President: MRS. DOUGLASWILEY (Louise H ickerson) 26 B, Court Dr ive, Lancaster Ct. Apts.

Wilmington, D elaware On Jan uary 30, the Westhampton Club of Wilmington met in the home of Mrs. Bernard H ess.

The guest speaker was Mr s. Leslie Booker who brought the members up-to-da te on Westhampton, showed beautiful slides of the college, and gave valuable information on club organizat ion.

On February 27, the group met again in the home of Mrs. H ess for a business meeting. The fo llowing officers were elected: President, Ludie Wiley-Vice-President, Mary Bass-Secretary, Barbara Cooke---Treasurer, D orothy Berkeypile .

The constitution was adopted and plans were made for a fund raising bridge party to be held on Apr il 30 at Strawbridge and Clothier. Margaret Knowlton is in charge of this project.

A donation was made to the Alumn ae Fund.

D elicious refreshments were served at both meetings.

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1891-

Necrology

H e was a member of the Southern Baptist Hi storical Society and the Virginia Baptist H istorical Society.

1900Dr . John W alter Cammack, former president of Averett College in D anvi lle, died in a Richmond hospital February 11 at the age of 82.

D r. Cammack , who had been a minister since 1904, was pastor emeritus of Fork Union Baptist Church. He also had been chap lain and teacher of Bible at Fork Union Military Academy.

H e held pastorates throughout V irginia and one in West Virginia, incl uding several in Richmond .

Dr . Cammack received his BA degree from the Un iversity in 1900 and his MA the following year.

U of R conferred the D octor of Di vinity degree on him in 1914. H e had been awarde d the Master of Theology degree from Southern Baptist Theolog ical Seminary in 1903 and a Ph.D. from Universi ty of V irgi nia in 1904 .

H e was secreta ry of the Baptist Education Commission of Virginia and associate editor of The Relixious H erald for many years.

A Ma son for more than 50 years , Dr. Cammack was a member of Richmond Lodge No . 10 AF&AM, and of M izpah Chapter, No. 32, Order of Eastern Star.

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The Rev. John Jordan Wicker, D.D ., preside nt emerit us of Fork Union M ilita ry Acad emy, died March 17 in a Richm ond Hospital. H e was 93.

Dr. Wick er, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Universi ty of Richmond in 1916 , was president of Fork Union from 1930 until his retirement in 1945. Hi s son, Col. Jame s C. Wicker succeeded him as president.

Dr. W icker took over the academy when it wa s about to be closed because of bankru ptcy and deve loped it into the fifth largest military school in th e nation. Aft er his retirement he remained active as a counse lor at the school.

Besides being pastor of Leigh Street Baptist Church from 1910 to 1921 , he held pastorates at Kempsville in Princ ess Anne County , Spurgeon M emorial Church, Norfolk; Hampden Church, Baltimore, Md.; and a church at Tr enton, N. J. He had been graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville in 1894.

Dr. Wick er was the auth or of two books . "T he March of God in the Ag elong Struggle ·" and " Into Tomorrow ." H e also wrot e an essay on Christmas, "T he Strangest Man that Ever Lived."

He is surviv ed by two sons, John J. Jr. , '13, and Pr esident J. C. Wicker , '19, of Fork Union Military Academy , and a daughter, Mrs. C. He ywood Mahon , Jr., of Gr eenville , S. C.

1893Dr. William Carey James, 90, pas tor emeritus of Grov e Avenu e Baptist Church in Richmond , died January 23 at his hom e in Richm ond .

After receiving hi s BA degree from the University in 1893 he was principal and superintendent of schools in Texas, hi s native state, until 1901.

He taught at Baylor University the following year.

H e received his Ma ster of Theology degree from the Southern Baptist Theolo gical Seminary in 1904 and the Do ctor of Theology degree the next year.

In 1911 Alm a Mat er conferred the D octor of D ivinity degree on Dr . J ames.

Dr . Jam es held pastorates in Kentucky before coming to the Grov e Avenu e Baptist Church in 1907. H e remained there until 1920 . H e became pas tor emeritus in 1948 .

From 1920 to 1924 he was correspo nding secretary of the Educat ion Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and from 1924 until 1928 he was presi dent of Bethel College at Ru ssellvill e, Ky. Dr. James subs equentl y held pastorates in Williamsburg, at the Grove Avenu e Church and in Cheste rfield County.

1904-

Th omas Temple Wright of Warsaw, a retired lumb er man, died February 15 at a Richmon d hospital. H e was 74.

A nati ve of Caroline County, M r. Wr ight was a member of St. John 's Episcopal Church in Richmond.

The Rev. Edward Thomas Smith, 8 1, pastor emeritu s of Anti och Baptist Church , Sandston, died February 27 at a Richmo nd hospital.

Mr. Smith, wh o attend ed U. of R. from 18991904 and then studied at Crozer Seminary, Chester , Pa ., had held pas torate s in Vi rgi nia, Mar yland , W est Virgini a and Alabama .

H e wa s field secretary of the Virginia Baptist Board of Mis sions and Education's Sunday School department from 1922-29.

Mr . Smith , a Ma son, was a member of Sandston Lodge No. 216 1 AF&AM .

1908Judge James H oge Rick s, the first jud ge of a juvenile court in V irg in ia, died Ma rch 7 at his home in Richmond. He was 7 1.

After receiving his AB degree from Guilford College in 1905, Judg e Ricks studi ed at the T. C. Williams School of Law where he received the LLB degree in 1908. H e did graduate wo rk at the University of Virgin ia the next year and then was admitted to the bar.

Three years after he entered law prac tice Judg e Ricks was nam ed clerk and probation officer of the juvenil e division of Police Cour t. When th e juvenile division was split from the court in 1916 , he became the first judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relation s Court. H e was 29 at the time.

Jud ge Rick 's court was noted for its informality .

Often the principa ls wou ld sit as if in a discu ssion grou p. A firm believer in probation, he not ed in 1931 that Virginia 's 13-year-old probation law had remained virtually unused except for juvenile and domestic relations court s.

Judg e Ricks was president of the National Probation Association twice. H e was a founder and former vice-president of the Na tional Councii of Juvenile Court Judg es and was the first preside nt of th e Virginia Council of J uvenile Court Judg es.

In 1955 the two councils gave him a scrol l in recognition of his out standing service.

In 1948 Judge Ricks was appoi nted to a subcommittee on juvenile delinquency of the United Na tions' divisio n of social activiti es. The following year he was named vice-chairma n of the Virg ini a Advi sory Legislative Council's subcommitt ee on juvenile court reorga nizatio n.

Judge Ricks, who received an honorary LLD degree from the University, was a member of the Richmond Rot ary Club . and a past preside nt of the Richmond T orch Club. H e helped to organ-

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ize the Richmond Communi ty Fund, now the Richmond Area Community Chest.

A Qu aker, Judge Ricks was a former presiding clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends.

H e also was a member of the board of trustees of Guilford College, past president of the Memoria l Guidance Clinic and president of the Vir ginia Children's Code Commission.

The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolu tion to express its regret on learning of the death of Judge Ricks.

T. Justin Moore 67, one of Virginia 's leading lawyers, died at his home March 10 after an illness of several weeks. He served the University with distinct ion as rector of the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Moore , who defended Prince Edward County Schoo l racial segregation case, was a seQ.ior partner in the law firm of Hunton , Williams, Gay , Moore and Powell.

A native of Liberty Hill , La., Mr . M oore did his undergraduate work at U . of R. wher e he was a member of Ph i Beta Kappa , Omicron Delta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsi lon. After taking his law degree from the Harvard law school in 1913 he was a law professor here for 12 years.

Mr. Moore was chairman of the board of dea cons of the First Baptist Church for 20 years before his retirement in 1955. H e was then elected honorary chairman of the board .

Mr. M oore received honorary doctor of laws degrees from Louisiana College and the University of Richmond.

In 1925 he was elected vice-president , general counsel and director of the Virginia Electric and Power Company, and he represented the firm before the State Corporation Commission.

H e was ge neral counsel and director of the Virginia Transit Company and the Portsmouth Transit Company. H e also was a director of the Central National Bank, Richmond Hotels , In c., and the Uni ted Transit Company.

M r. M oore was a member of the American Bar Association and a past president of the Richmond Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar Association .

H e had been a member of the Edison Electric Institute legal committee since its organization in February, 1950, and was chairman of the committee in 1952-53.

Alg er Y . Maynard , 70, professor of secondary edu cation at Richmond Professional Institute , died February 3 at a Richm ond hospital after an illness of severa l month s.

A nativ e of South H ill , Mr. Maynard came to RPI in 195·0 after being a faculty member at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He taught in the public schoo ls in Highland Park , N. J. for 25 years.

After receiving his BA degree from U. of R. in 1908 he studied at Columbia University where he was awarded the MA degree .

1915John Edwin Woodward , Sr., who organized the John E. Woodward Insurance Agency in Richmond in 1913, died at a Miami Beach, Fla. hospital March 24 at the age of 67 .

A native of Louisa, Mr. Woodward attended Randolph-Macon College and the T. C. Williams Law School.

He served with the Richmond Light Infantry Blues before World War I, assisted in organizing the Veterans Administration in Washington in 1917 and was commissioned in the infa nt ry in 1918. He received a presidential citation for his service as chairman of the payroll deduction plan for war bond sales during W or ld War II. A past president of the Richmond Life Insura nce Underwriters Association and the Richmond Association of Insurance Agents , he wis a member of the Nationa l Association of In surance Agents, Virgin ia Association of In surance Agents .

Commonwealth Club and the Country Club of Virginia .

1917M cClellan George Finnigan of G len Allen , a Richmo nd attorney , died February 13 H e was 70.

The New York native attended the University of Richmond from 1913 to 191 5. H e was a member of Grace Covenant Pre sbyterian Church.

Hom er A . Noblin, 63, county agricultural agent for Prin ce George County , died Januar y 20 at a Pet ersburg hospita l.

Mr. Noblin, a nativ e of M ecklenburg County, wa s graduated from U. of R. in 1917 and received hi s master's degree from Virginia Polyt echni c Institut e the following year.

H e was in pr ivate business in Boydton until he entered the VP! Agricultural Extension Service in 1929. H e had been the Princ e G eorge county agent since that time.

1919W ord has been received of the death of Oth o C. Trundl e of Montro ss, V a.

1921W ord has been received of the death of Benjamin H. Burgess of Fredericksburg in D ecember.

H e attended Richmond College .

1922Joseph H ailey Inge, 58, aud itor for the H alifax Cotton M ills, died February 11 at a Richmond hospital.

Mr. In ge, a Certified Public Accountant , attended Richmond College fr om 1918-21. H e was a past commander of Halifax County Post 8, Ameri can Legion , and was secretary-treas urer of the Sportsman 's Club of H al ifax .

1923D r. Warren G. Keith , professor of history at Mary Washi ngton College , died at his home in Fredericksburg January 9.

Dr. Keith was head of the history department at Winthrop Co llege in South Carolina befor e coming to Mar y Washington in 1945. H e had been director of admissions until last June.

A native of Upto n, Ky., Dr. Keith received his BA degree fr om U. of R. in 1923. He was a member of Omicron D elta Ka ppa. In 1928 he was .awarded the Ph.D . degree from Johns Ho pkin s University.

1925Willi am A. M oorefield, an emp loyee at Graybar Electric Co . in Roanok e, died D ecember 25, 1957, in Greensboro, N. C. Mr. M oorefield received his BS degree in Business Adm inistratio n in 1925. H e was a member of Theta Chi fraternity .

H e was principal of Brookneal H igh School during the 1925-26 session. H e then took a position wit h the electric firm and had wor ked in Win ston-Salem, N. C., Richmond , Dall as and Hou ston, Texas and Roano ke.

Joseph Z. Johnson, 54, a Glen Allen attorney, died in a Ri chmond hospital February 8.

H e received his LL.B. degree from the T. C. Willi ams Law School in 1925.

1931Stan ley Ir wi n Craft of Durham , N. C., coordi nator of distributive ed ucati on at Durh am High Schoo l, died J anuary 23.

H e atte nded VMI and received his BSB degree from U . of R. in 1931. H e was awarded the master's degree from Duk e U niversi ty in 1953.

1944Captain George Edgar Reid, 35, U . S. Air Force, was killed March 13 when a B-47 jet bomber exploded in flight and crashed in the Florid a Everg lades.

Thre e other persons also were killed in the -crash.

Capt. Reid attended R ichmond College during the 1940-41 sessio n and join ed the Air Force in 1943.

He had been statio ned at H omestead Air Force Base, Fla.

1948Hub ert Kirk Perkin s, Jr. , director of the Richmond bureau of traffic enginee rin g since A,pril 1956, died M arch 10 at the age of 32.

He received his BA degree from Richmond College in 1948 and joined the State H ighway D epartme nt in 1950. In 1954 he became assistant traffic eng ineer for the city and was named act ing director of the bureau four month s later.

Doctors of Science (Continued from page 1)

All thre e men were farm boys, and Gaines and Ryland are sons of Baptist ministers. Dr. Loving' s father was a farmer in Fluvanna county.

Student s in his classes absorbed, they are accustomed to say, "a great deal of physics and also a great deal of Fluvanna county."

Dr. Loving never tired of tellin g stories of his boyhood days on the farm.

As comparative youngsters, both Loving and Ryland show proper respect for Dr. Gaines who was their teacher at Richmond College.

They acknowledge that he was an "excellent" teacher- but a stern disciplinarian.

Dr. Gaines , a nativ e of South Carolina, holds thre e degrees from Furman Univ ersity, including the honorary degr ee of Do ctor of Letters. He also did graduate work at JohnsHopkins and Harvard.

He taught at schools in South Carolin a and in Baltimore before coming to Richmond College in 1890.

He is a member of a numb er of learned mathematical and science societies and has been active in the affairs of the Baptist denomination. He has served as president of the Virgini a Bapti st State Mission Board , the Virginia Baptist General Association, and the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

H e is a g ifted lecturer and writer.

Dr. Ryland, a descendant of Robert Ryland, president of the Virginia Baptist Seminary and first president of Richmond College, is the son of Charles Hill Ryland, treasurer of Richmond College. Another kinsman, Josiah Ryland, had been a member of the first grad uating class of Richmond College.

No one was surpri sed wh en Garnett Ryland entered Richmond College or when he graduated with honors in 1892. He took his Ph .D. in chemistry at Johns Hopkins.

He taught at Brownsvill e College, Tenn. ; Beaumont College, Ky.; the University of Maine , Converse Colleg e, S. C. and Georgetown College in Kentucky before coming to the Univ ersity of Richmond in 1917.

H e has served the Virginia Academy of Science as its president and has received from the Virginia section of the American Chemical Society its annual distinguished service award. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, councillor of the American Chemical Society, and a fellow of the Chemical Society (English). He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary scientific fraternity. [ 30]

Both he and Dr. Loving are members of Ph i Gamma Delta social fraternity .

His most famous scientific work dealt with volatile substances which were not separated on distillation. H e discovered about 50 of such mixtures and publication of his work in this field attracted world-wide attention.

A former stude nt in eulogizing D r. Ryland at a public gath ering to anno un ce the establishm ent of the Garnett Ryland prize in chemistry ref erred to Ryland's research with volatile substances. "Dr. Ryland probably takes very little comfort," h e said, "t hat these princip les are now widely used in the present clay distilling industry. Mor e satisfying to him , no doubt , is the knowledge that these prin ciples also aid in the production of gasolin e and a host of industrial chemicals."

Dr. Loving, a B.A . of 1896 and an M.A . of 1898 at Richmond College, took his doctor of p hil osophy degree at Johns Hopkins .

He taught at Blackburn College in Illin ois, at Corne ll College in Iowa, and the University of Missouri before joining the University of Richmond faculty. Later on leave of a:bsence from the Univer sity of Richmond he twice served as acting professor of physics in engineering at Cornell University. He also has served as head of the department of physi cs in the University of Virginia Summer School.

Hi s hon ors have included the presiden cy of the Virginia Academy of Science. He is a member of the American Physics Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma physics fraternity. And he has been honored by the establishment of an annual prize that is awarded each year to the best graduate of physics.

Each of the patriarchs - Gaines, Ryland, Loving- now has another distinction: Do ctor of Science.

Academy (Contin ued from page 5)

man and Greek. (On e can easily note from this offering the "progress " that has been made since 1902.) Soon a preparatory department and a music department were aclclecl. Both boys and girls were admitted.

There were thirty-four students enro lled in 1903-4, 100 in 1904-5 , and 138 in 1905-6.

Ther eafter the enrollm ent cleclinecl. Th ere were only forty-three students in 1907 -8twenty-three boys and twenty girls.

The few catalogs available indicate that nearly all of the students came from the City of Newp ort News. Th ere were a few from H ampton. One student was listed from Buckroe Beach , one from Dia scuncl, Vir ginia, one from Charlottesville, and one hailed from outsid e the State- Miss Eloise Mabry from Tallahassee , Florida.

Thi s academy was founded for the benefit of the people of N ewport News and vicinity. Th e board of managers set the tuition charges as low as possible- much less than most schools of its kind -a nd aimed

simply to cover the operating expenses. For some years the Academy Fund showed a surplus. However, in June, 1908 the trustees of Richmond College were told of "the difficulties of the Academy and existing embarrassments." The trustees passed a resolution that the president of the board and the president of the College confer with Mr. West on the premises and advise with him regarding "the embarrassment the board feels in affording financial aid to the institution."

At the semi-annual meeting on February 4, 1909, President Boatwright presented to the trustees a report on the Newport News Academy, which on motion was referred to the president of the board, the secretary of the board and the president of the College as a committee with power to act.

At the annual meeting in June, 1909 the report to the trustees showed that the Academy had had a good session, but the outlook for prospering continuance was described as unfavorable. The special committee was continued with power to act. Finally, at the annual meeting on June 14, 1910, the committee on academies reported "with great regret the closing of Newport News Academy."

And so, after eight years of excellent work , the Newport News Academy closed its doors.

It was founded by Mr . West in the belief that the best investment to be made in the city was an investment in the boys and girls who were to be its future leaders and citizens. Its goal was to give sound culture under Christian influence and to lay well the foundations of sound learning through hard work and home work. Some of its policies: small classes, strict discipline, personal attention from the teachers, and rapid advancement of capable students. Sounds as if we could use an academy like that today.

Lough ( Continu ed from Paf!.e2)

ing her offering into the letter box on the corner and had put into the collection plate the three letters meant for mailing. That day she laughed all through the sermon- and so did the other occupants of the pew!

Miss Lough's death on the first of February marked the end of an epoch for many of us. It will seem strange and lonely to go back to college and know that we shall not see her. We talked of that at the funeral and of the pleasure she would have had in seeing so many of her girls together. Somebody said, as we moved into the churchyard , that she felt sure that Miss Lough was at that very minute planning a reunion of the girls she was finding again. And we were all very certain that her love and interest and concern for us are deathless.

Soloman said once, "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God ... and ... they shall be greatly rewarded ... and in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble."

How she must love that!

-Juliette Woodson, '22

Mitchell (C ontinu ed f rom /Jafl.e 4)

and of Christian unity, which will be in itself highly educative.

You give to each college three boons1. An admirable site in or near Rich-

mond.

2. The free use of the common agencies

- Library , etc.

3. The organized good-will of the city as a whole through the Board of the University of Richmond, which would be composed of men identified with no particular college, but representing the totality of interests of the city. The trustees of the several colleges could nominate one person whom the Board of Visitors of the University would elect a member.

Sincerely yours, S. C. Mitchell It is evident from Mitchell 's sketch of the proposed campus, that it would have been located on land immediately adjacent to the east and south of the present campus of Union Theological Seminary. It would have occupied the land either between Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue, or land on both sides of Chamberlayne A venue, to a point south of the Union Theological Seminary campus.

Enthusiasm for this "Richmond Area University Center" was oonsiderable for a period of several years. Many public and private meetings were held to advance the idea. In the summer of 1908 Mitchell confided in his friend Hol lis Frissell that he had been offered the office of President of the University of South Carolina. He told Frissell that he would not accept this j,ob if Frissell was of the opinion that the movement for the "Richmond Area University Center" would be weakened by his removal to South Carolina. Frissell could only judge the situati,on as of that time. Progress had been good, enthusiasm was high , and a strong committee was at work. He advised Mitchell to accept the presidency at the University of South Carolina.

It is a moot point whether Mitchell's absence from Virginia from 1908 through 1912 was a crucial factor in the frustration of his dream. Many problems divided the colleges concerned in this cooperative plan, though all recognized the financial advantage of being combined on one campus in shared facilities. Understandably their individual traditions, histories, institutional pride, vested interests and ownership of widely separated lands presented barriers to the realization of Mitchell's great dream. Mitchell's plan languished over the years, although he and President Boatwright made periodic attempts to revive the idea in various forms.

Dr. George M. Modlin became President of the University of Richmond in 1946, and in September ,of that year actively backed the formal organization of the present Richmond [ 31 ]

Area University Center. This modern version of the old Mitchell dream did not develop as a physical combination of Virginia colleges and universities. It became an agency representing thirteen Virginia colleges and universities in the shared development of cooperative efforts in support of higher education in the area .

Through this agency, a number of services have been made to the member institutions with costs being shared. This has permitted these institutions collectively to receive many benefits that individually they could not afford to acguire. The visits of outstanding scholars, artists and administrators, the conduct of public lectures, conferences for professors , research grants, cooperative professorships , special intere st seminars , adult education promotion , cooperative library services and other ventures are shared on a prorata basis by the cooperating institutions.

The member institutions presently include the Medical College of Virginia , College of William and Mary, Virginia State College, University of Virginia, Union Theological Seminary, University of Richmond, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia Union University, Hampden-Sydney College , Mary Washington College , Richmond Professional Institute, Longwood College and the General Assembly's Training School.

Dean George B. Zehmer of the University of Virginia Extension Division was the first Administrator of the Center (1946-47), followed by Dr. Sidney S. Negus , Chairman , Bio-Chemistry Department, Medical College of Virginia ( 1947-48). Since 1948 the Center has been administered by Colonel Herbert W. K. Fitzroy.

Like many good dreams that grow into successful realities , Samuel Chiles Mitchell 's dream in 1906 for a Richmond Area University Center took a lifetime to mature. And like most of Mitchell 's ideas, it was worth waiting for.

Lake ( Continu ed fro m Paie 7)

for reading slips soon filled every spare minute . The Dark Ages seemed upon us !

Then the exams came, and everyone went into hiding or to the library to study . North Court was actually guiet I I went around mumbling about the elements of th e supernatural in Beowulf and Spenser 's code of chivalry while my roommate mumbled in her turn about Burgess ' Theory of Concentric Circles. When we did see our boyfriends they greeted us with tales of woe about a question on their Bible exam that wasn 't on any of the old exams in the fraternity files.

I'll bet the Wife of Bath would never have had any trouble with that marriage and the family course. She was an expert on that subject, or, at least, she thought she was. But she didn't have a thing on the experts that Mortar Board invited out to give a series of lectures on marriage. I just had to go to them; one just never knows where she' 11get some suggestions for the old technique.

The M ontavonti concert at the Mosqu e gave me an extra chance to use the improved versio n. I got to go with "him " that night, even though it was a non-date night, because he took a group of us in his car, and I could sign out "gro up ." But Residen ce Coun cil has tightened up on that rule since then, so now we' ll have to find another way to do illegal things in a legal way.

I wonder ·if it's legal to turn in a term paper a year late? I' II have no trouble predicting the answer to that question. Some -0f our eleGti.onsthis year weren ' t quite that predictable. In fact the elections at Richmond ·College caused a great political battl e which was culminated by a one-vote margin victory of the Student Party candidate for presi,dent of the stude nt government. At W esthampton the elections were more quiet but still interesting and hard to predict. Many girls were petitioned, and run-off elections were necessary.

It is also necessary that this term paper be written, Maggie. Now don't get mad ; don 't lose your religion; just write.

Religion ....

Religious Emph asis Week this year was one of the most successful we've ever had. Not only were the meetings inte resting , but it gave several couples the <liance to be together on week-nights and for several people from Richmond College to meet several people from Westhampton.

The informal discussions with the team members were stimulating , and not at all conducive to study or term paper writing.

Term paper writing! Oh , Maggie, and it's midnight now. You 'd better just start all .over again.

Some New Light On Harry Bailly.

Religion (Continued from page 3)

The anthropologist, unlike the sociologist, -didn 't need to be converted. From the very first he has shown an interest. The antiquity of religion, its universality , and its wholesale power to build habits and attitu des into .a people have been the main foci of his interest but he has not been conten t to stop there. He has made too many trips from Cairo to Naples to think that religion does not make any difference. His studies of prim itive prophets and their mystical exper iences come pretty close to explaining why the English had so much trouble with Joan of Arc. The modern missionary has had at least some tmining in anthropology before going to his field.

Campus religion needs a friendly atmosphere and most college presidents work overtime to bring this about. Men like our Presi dents Modlin and Boatwright and our deans have never wavered in their efforts to provide such an atmosphere. Such men are not .as scarce as they once were. In my student days I was never conscious of these seeming neutralists. The college heads that I kn ew were largely limited to those schools whid1 the baseball team visited in the spr ing . I met .a half dozen or so, men like Smith of W&L,

TURN ABOUT'S FAIR PLAY. David J. Mays, '24, acts as a judge while Chief Justice Edward W . Hudgins, '05, takes the part of a pleader before the court. With them is Dean W illiam T. Muse, '28, of the Law School.

A SALUTETO THE JUDICIARY Returning alumni of the Law School bowed low to 32 of its members who have the title "jud ge" at the 17th annual Law Day celebrati on April 26.

Scores of alumni were pr esent for the 2 o'clock ceremony in the Courtroom at which D avid J. Mays, '24, distinguished member of the Richmond bar and the winner of a Pulitzer prize for his biography of Edmund Pendleton , eulogized the members of the judiciary.

H e pointed out that Law School alumni who are now judges includ e Edward W. Hudgins, '05, of Chase City, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appe als of Virginia and two others of this seven-member court, Justice W illis D . Miller, '14, and H arold F. Snead, '25, both of Richmond.

A. Scott Anderson, '31, chairman of the campus program, presided.

On e of the 32 judges, Jud ge C. Champion Bowles, '26, of Goochland, presided over the dinner as president of the University of Ri chm ond Law School Association. W .

Richard Broaddus, Jr ., '2 0, of Martinsville served as toastmaster.

The hon ored judges included nine members of the judiciary in Richmond, in addi-

tion to the Supreme Court members. Th ey are Jesse W . Dillon , '31, of the State Corporation Commission; M. Ray Doubl es, '26, hustings court, Part 2; Thoma s C. Fletcher, ' 13, law and equity court; W. Moscoe Hunt ley, '26, hustin gs court ; Marv in E. Nuck ols, '32, State Industrial Commission; Carleton E. Jewett '25, traffic court ; Harold C. Mauri ce, '33, police court ; James H. Mont gomery Jr. , '42 , juvenil e and domestic relations court; and E. Harol d Th ompson, ' 34, civil justice court .

Oth er Un iversity of Richmond alumni on the bench include: Leon M. Bazile, ' 10, Elmont; M . Edward Evans, '41, Lynchburg ; John K. Hutton, '08, Suffolk; J . H enry Johnson , '11, Allendale, S. C.; George Mor ton, '06, Appalachia ; Oliv er A . Pollard, ' 16, Petersburg; Frank W . Smith, '22, Grund y; Emerson D . Baugh, '25, Lawrenceville; Samuel R. Buxton, '38, Warwick; Benjamin L. Campbell, '38, Petersburg; Charles F. P .

Crawley, '36 , Appomattox; H erbert B. Gilliam, '08, Petersburg; D eane Hundley, '04, Dunnsville ; J. L. Landrum , '21, Do swell ; K. A. Pate, '24, Roanoke; Bascomb S. Prib ble, '44, Stafford; L. Ralph Slagle, '3 1, Emporia; John W . Snead, '23, Chesterfield, and James W . Flippen, '49, Roanoke.

Gra ham of Hampden -Sydney who had half the team to dinner, Blackwell of RandolphMacon and a few more. They all knew and admired Dr. Boatwright and that was enough for me. It was sometime later that I discovered that some honest sd10lars were afraid that promotion of religion on the campus might hinder the open-eye search for truth .

You see, I did not kn ow then how hard it

was to make the greatness and goodness of God lie down together.

Today I have considerable sympathy for one of the giants in those days, President Eliot of Harv ard. He once confessed that he had never been able to decide what was the pro per role of a divinity school on the campus of a first class University. He worried about it for years and finally settled the

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question by a blanket discussion of the problem in general: T he Religion of the Future.

Here he pred icted that theology and mystical worship wou ld fade completely from American religion . He wished to see justice come.

On that he was clear. He was less than clear on the need of educated men to lose themselves in the majesty of The Most High.

And as I read this report in one of our month lies I was deeply moved by the reply of young President Pusey. In the kindest sort of way he said, and I rough ly quote: This faith will not do for Harvard now, since truth can be lost in a formless faith almost as easily as in an uninformed one. We in the colleges must furnish leadership not only in the field of religious knowledge but also in the field of religious experience.

We are getting that sort of leadership now.

And now we come to ,the state of religion among the students themselves. Things look so bright today that we don't need the advice of an earlier day: "Don't worry about the students; they will straighten out by and by." From all sides comes the same report: Interest in religion has never been more widespread on college campuses that it is today. Increasing enrollment in classes in religion are being reported by both private and state colleges. A stiff course in theology was offered at Cornell for the first time.

Three hundr ed students stayed with it for

the whole semester. There are 1500 paid young but they are no long er limit ed to the religious workers in our American colleges\'v'estminst er Sd10ol in New Jersey. not counting teachers.

All denom inations report a rising numb er In the little schools, the large schools, of ministeria l students. Some day we may the wealthy sd1ools, the poor schools the catch up with the demand but we have not students are flocking -to religious services. gotten there yet. And last, but not least, the Campus chapels are crowded every Sunday Religious Emphasis Week program has with students and tead1ers. (In my day we swept through forty-eight states. The stuhad to call in the neighbors to help us fil 1 dents themselves put on the program with the chapel on The Midway in Chicago. Tothe aid and assistance of the administration day there is no room for the neighbors.) and the faculty. The student committee memStudent teams, such as the excellent one at bers on our campus number at least 150. the University of Richmond, put on proThey work for weeks to get ready for the grams in churches anywhere within a radius period of religious emphasis. of 100 miles or more.

The best thing about the resurgence of Enlarged departments of religion and stiffreligion on the college campuses is the fact ening requirements began to be reported that the students as graduates will carry in the top half of the Forties. This tendency their religion with -them into their churd1es, is continuing. We have some 200 students into their home communities, into their offiat the University of Richmond who are planning professional training in the field of ces and shops. More and more we will bereligion. Of these, about seventy-five are come aware that this is a nation "under from Westhampton. In 1937 the board of God," as Abraham Lincoln expressed it. trustees set up a full-fledged department of "In God We Trust" on our coins has now religion. In Professors Cousins, Rhodenhiser, been made official by an act of Congress.

Hart , and White this Univerity has the Your Presiden t in Washington begins each strongest department of religion in the State of Virg inia. In the neighboring fields of Inaugural with a personal prayer. I guess theological education rising standards are the President is right. Come winter, come the rule and some of our graduates are find- spring, come summer: "Our system of government makes no ing this second inte llectual highway a "rocky road to Dublin. " All our d1oir colleges are sense without religious faith."

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