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Emmet Reid: Man at Work ................ .

So Like A Leaf (Poem) ........................................................ . ... ..... . .. . . ... ... . ........ . .. . ...... . .. .

A Glimpse of South Africans ...... ... .... .. . . ....... . ...........

Long, Hord Winter on the Hardwood ..... . .......

That Long Shot From The University of Richmond as Told by the Young Pro . . ... . .... .

To Miss Caroline Lutz, With Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Rosemary-That 's For Remembrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Spider Gridmen End Season with Triumph Over Indians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alumni In The News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Westhampton News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Necrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CarolineStookeyLutz In the picture, typically with her mouth open in animated conversation, Miss presentation of her portrait to Lutz is wearing orchids for a festive occasion-the Westhampton College by grateful alumnae.

The year was 1955, Miss Lutz had then been teaching at Westhampton since 1917.

She was one of the "old timers," those who came soon after the trio of May Keller, Fanny Crenshaw, and the late Susan M. Lough had given leadership and vitality to Westhampton College. Miss Keller, the little dean, and Miss Crenshaw came in 1914; Miss Lough came the following year.

Each was a personality that influenced students outside as well as inside the classroom. And the same was true of that blythe spirit, Caroline Stookey Lutz, who joined the faculty in 1917, a young woman not long out of Goucher College.

As Camilla Wimbish Lacy, spokesman for the class of 1923, said in presenting Miss Lutz 's portrait in 1955, "her keen love of beauty and her enthusiasm opened avenues of interest to us. She taught us to achieve aesthetic moments , moments when one became breathless when merely looking at something beautiful.

We respected her love of beauty in all things, because we knew that within her scholarly mind was a veritable storehouse of knowledge, whether it concerned beauty in nature, as seen in the stately pines and the sunset at Westhampton, or beauty in writings of the English poets, or beauty in the paintings of the great artists."

Students sometimes complained about the amount of work demanded of them

by Miss Lutz who forgot that her English was not the only subject in the catalog. And campus policemen sometimes complained about her lethal driving on days when she was moving in iambic pentameter. She never denied stories that her horseless carriage mov ed to the rhythm of whatever poem she was reciting to herself as she threaded her car along the winding campus roads.

She was no stereotype. She was vibrant, alive, and daringly different. She challenged her students to be alive in the best of all possible worlds. And Westhampton College and the entire University community is poorer because of her retirement . two really Alumnae will find her busily engaged in reading and writing-the they visit her apartment at 5816 York Road. She reads everything fine arts-when that is worth reading, the newest best seller as well as the oldest of the classics.

Occasionally she will look up, with a puckish grin, to share some literary morsel with her favorite cat, Persing .

Hundreds of students who left her classrooms with senses quickened and a new appreciation of beauty will wish for her happiness and contentment in her retirement.

VOL. XXIII JOSEPH LESLIE VIRGINIA THOMAS ROBERT

JAN., 1960

E. NETTLES , '30 . .........

S. BOOKER, '22 .. Westhampton

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Law School Editor . ...

IVEY , '48 S. BERRY . . Business School Editor M . STONE , '30 . . .. Business Manager

SOCIETY OF ALUMNI THE GENERAL President •~5 . . ......

Edward H. Pruden, . . Vice President Robert W . Allen, '34 . .

R. L . Lacy , '18 . . ... .... .. Vice President Wa lter B . Gillette, '40 . . . . . . Vice President Rando lph P . Tabb, '36 . .. ... .. .. Secretar .v COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Rawley F . Daniel, '40 Edward R . Adams , '41 and the above officers

THE ALUMNI COUNCIL Reed I. West , ' 30 . . .... . . . .. . . President Wilmer L. O'Flaherty , '11 . . Vic e President Malcolm U . Pitt Jr ., ' 42 ... . V¡ice Pres ident Joseph E . Nettles , '30 . ... .. ... . Secreta7'1/ Robert M. Stone, '30 .. .. . . ... .. . 1'reasurer COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE G. Edmond Massie III , '41 R. L. Lacy, '18 William T. Bareford , ' 46 S. Frank Straus , '35

ALUMNAE COLLEGE WESTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION Antoinette Wirth Whittet, '41 . . . . President Mary Owen Bass, '41 .. ... . Vice President Leslie Sessoms Booker, '22 Executive Secretary Mail all contributions and news items to Mrs .

West Secretary, R. E. Booker, Executive hampton College Alumnae Association, P.O ., University of Richmond, Virginia } Florence B. Decker, '17 Mary Mills Freeman, '35 Board of Trustees Elizabeth Tompkins, '19 Harriet S. Willingham , '26 LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Leon M. Bazile, '10 . . .... . . . . .. President Vice President A. Scott Anderson , ' 31 .. ....

Virginia D. Ivey , '48 . .. . Executive Secretary . .. Treasurer Carle E. Davis , '54 . ... .....

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Ed ward L . Kurtz , ' 50 . . . . . . . . . . President William Higgs, '56 .. ... .. . . Vice President Stuart B . Cary, '50 . . .... . . ... . Secretary Treasurer Frazier B. Hoover, '56 ..........

George E. Gaskins, '5 6 Immediate Past President

Emmet Reid: Man at Work

By WILLIAM E. TROUT,

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Professor of Chemistry, University of Richmond

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years after his "retirement " from the Johns Hopkins University as professor emeritus, Dr. E. Emmet Reid's achievements are those of a man in his pnme .

Few chemists have more deserved the rich rewards he has received during the 87 years since his birth at Fincastle, Va. But Emmet Reid doesn't have time to stand still and take bows. There 's work to be done!

His latest book, "Invitation to Chemical Research," is written in the clear, lucid style that is typical of the man . One ,typically clear and simple statement swns up a life-Long concern of its author: "We read articles in [scientifi c] journals, not passively for entertainment, but with active minds , to get facts, to find out how these facts are discovered, and to pick up suggestions for experiments of our own. " Few chemists have covered with more thoroughness the literature in their fields, or have found more suggestions for experiments. In addition to his forth coming book, a classic in the field, he has in publication a five-volume definitive work on the "Organi c Chemistry of Bivalent Sulfur, " the E. Emmet Reid first volume of which appeared last October.

More than 20,000 references will be cited. Research," 1924; and an introdu ctory textDr . Reid was a pioneer in this field in which book on "Organic Chemistry," 1929. To he has conducted research for more than these must be added the many publications fifty years. in the journals, based on his research.

He is determined to bring out all of the The number of experiments that have five books and on schedule . This despite the grown out of Dr. Reid's reading is imposfact that failing sight has made his work sible to estimate. In addition to the large much more difficult. When the day came that number of experiments, some yet to be rehe no longer could see distinctly the letters ported, that he and his students have peron the keyboard of his typewriter, he refused formed, are the experiments that he has to admit defeat. He learned to type by suggeMed to the chemists ( often his former the touch system. students) in the laboratories of the halfRecently, when Dr. Reid complained to a dozen chemical corporations and government good friend, an eminent physician, that he agencies who employ him as a research contended to tire more readily than in former sultant. Added to this list are the experiyears, this friend suggested that he take a ments performed by faculty and students on nap in the day time. Instead, Dr. Reid re- some eight campuses where he has visited quested that the physician prescribe for him regularly to advise and encourage . No small some medicine, such as had been developed part of Dr. Reid's contribution to his Alma in their research, which would pep him up .

Mater has come through his active support He travels, unattended , although he can of research in the department of chemistry. not read the street signs . He depends on Approximately every six weeks he and Dr . taxi drivers to take him to his destination.

J. Stanton Pierce, a professor of chemistry His eyes still retain , however, the sparkle at the University of Richmond , meet in of a man youthful in spirit , one who has lost Washington to discuss their projects . none of his zeal for research nor his unHe has given valuable books and peribelievable energy. A partial listing of his odicals and many checks to be used in buildprinted works includes the translation from ing up the departmental library. His most the French of a monograph by P. Sabatier recent gift was 100 shares of a valuable on "Catalysis in Organic Chemistry," pub- chemical stock, to be used for the library of lished in 1922 ; "Introduction to Organic the Department of Chemistry .

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His zeal for learning was demonstrat ed at Richmond College where, after completing all the courses in the catalogue and bypassing the baccalaureate, he took the master of arts degree in 1892. ( Alma Mater called him back to the campus in 1917 to confer on him the honorary LLD. degre e.)

Teaching and studying, he earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Johns Hopkins University in 1898 . After gradua tion, he taught for three years at the College of Charleston and seven years at Baylor University. A year as Carnegie Associate at the Hopkins was fol!.owed by two years as privileged Johnston Scholar. After three years of industrial research at the Colgate Company, he was called to the Hopkins as associate professor of Chemistry . In 1917, he was awarded the professorship that he held for •twenty years, until he was made pro fessor emeritus in 1937 .

Always demanding of others the same high standards that he requires of himself, Dr. Reid is nevertheless genuinely interested in his associates and students, frequently going out of his way to assist, advise, and encourage. It is not surprising that he won the strong loyalties of his s•tudents and colleagues, who have honored him in many ways. Among his most prized awards are the Leon P. Smith Medal and the Charles A. Herty Award, both given in recognition of his contributions to chemistry and to chemists. A former student , Max Gergel, recently opened in Columbia, South Carolina , a laboratory for pilot plant research, which he has named the Reid Laboratory.

Dr. Reid was married in 1915 to Miss Margaret Kendall, whom he met at Baylor University where she was teaching music.

He shares with Mrs. Reid a strong interest in music. This interest led him at one time to undertake the development of an electronic organ on which he had made considerable progress before a commercial firm placed a similar organ on the market.

Dr. and Mrs . Reid have three childr en, Emmet Kendall Reid, who is the administrative assistant in charge of the Ennion S. Williams Hospital of the Medical College of Virginia, Alfred Gray Reid, an archit ect in San Francisco, and Mrs. Martha Bell Hudson, who lives in Baltimore . There are five grandchildren .

A Baptist, Dr . Reid is chairman of the board of deacons of the University Baptist Church, in Baltimore, where his pastor is the Rev. Vernon B. Richardson, '35.

SO LIKE A LEAF When autumn time of my sweet life has come And days are short and nights are dark and long; \tVhen cold winds blow, and cold rains check the How Of blood that once ran swiftly through my veins; When harvest-time has come, and I can say: "The fruit is ripe and all my work is done!"

Then like a leaf in bleak October days, All bright with scarlet and with golden hues, Gently released from all the ties that held, Comes Boating slowly down, .all gracefully To quietly lie and give its body back Unto the earth from which its life had sprungSo, like a leaf, I would that I might die, So carelessly, so gracefully, And with as bright a smile Upon my autumn face.

-Adon Allen Yoder*

* Mr. Yoder , a member of the class of 1900, died in November 1958 in San Jose, Californfa.

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A Glimpseof SouthAfricans

By PARK P. DICKERSON, '55

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that the people whose an1.\... cestors are Huguenots and Hollanders are called Afrikaners. Those of English descent are called English-speaking South Africans. The million people of mixed blood are called the Coloureds . The indigenous blacks are called the Bantu or Natives. The quarter of a million people who originated in India are called Indians." These were the words of a South African exchange student at Yale. He gave me a helpful, final briefing before I left from New York in November, 19S8, for what has proven to be an exciting and interesting year as a Rotary Foundation Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

I had hardly arrived in Johannesburg when I discovered that this exchange student's helpfulness was characteristic of South Africans.

They are very patient in explaining South African particularities to strangers. One student reminded me that on segregation signs the term "Europeans" referred to all whites, including Americans, and "nonEuropeans" was applicable to non-whites only. Although I was aware of this, quite a few Americans who come to South Africa are not. Indeed the problem of American tourists getting in the section marked "non-Europeans" proved such an embarassment that the government in June, 19S9, changed the nomenclature at Jan Smuts International Airport to read "wh ites" and "non-whites."

The people of South Africa are reputedly among the most hospitable in the world. One does not have to be in South Africa very long to see why. By rthe time I ceased to be fascinated by the water draining from the basin in a counter-clockwise motion characteristic of the southern hemisphere, I felt right a,t home in a strange country. Invitations for dinner, tennis, dancing and the theatre arrived almost as soon as I got my suitcases unpacked. Rotarians and students went out of their way to make sure I was happily "settt led in."

The twelve million people who comprise South Africa speak a variety of languages.

The three million whites are expected to be fluent in the ,two official langu ages, English and Afrikaans. Government publications and officials use both languages. Both languages are used by business firms. Such bilingual signs as "hou links / keep left'' dot the roadsides so no careless motorist can blame an accident on his inability to read the traffic signs . Although within the white community

Author Dickerson chats with a couple of those friendly and hospitable South Africans he learned to appreciate and admire during his year as a Rotary Foundation Fellow in at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg . The central building of the Un,iversity is in the background. Below he receives instruction from a cricketer.

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English is generally used more in the cities and Afrikaans more in the rural areas, the home, the church and the social setting are about the on ly places where just one lan . guage is used.

The nine million non-whites are often better linguists 1than the whites. The Bantu servant who keeps my room spotless and my shoes sparkling is fluent in the two official European languages as well as two Native ones. This is some feat considering that the Native tongues differ from one another almost as sharply as European languages, but facility of language is not atypical of the urbanized Natives.

On a recen t train trip I shared a compartment with an Afrikaner. He spoke to me in Afrikaans, and I answered in English apologizing for my lack of fluency in his language.

Immediately he recognized my accent as being that of an American. "So you're an American," he said. After I replied in the affirmative he continued, "I've never met an American before." Quickly I got to my feet and extending my hand said, "Shake."

As soon as we sat down again he asked, "So what do you think of our Native question?"

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The burning question of the day is Native policy. The Nationalist Party since it came to power in 1948 has been busily trying to implement its policy of aparth eid ( segregation). Ideally apartheid means the complete separation of the races in every walk of life.

The argument of the Nationalist Party is that either there must be total segregation in South Africa or complete integration. The Nationalists contend that only when the races are absolutely separated will the Bantu get the opportunity to develop socially, economically and politically along their own lines.

Aparth eid is more comprehensive and more consistent than the policy of segregation. A separate state is envisaged for black and white with neither racial group having any rights in the others' territory. Ultimately the policy of apartheid hopes to realize all black and all white states living side by side in peace and prosperity.

Not everyone in South Africa approves of the policy of apartheid. Indeed Witwatersrand University officials, faculty and students fought the Nationalist government for eleven years to keep its doors open to non-whites.

The government, being rigorously consistent , finally passed a law this year making it compulsory for all non-whites to attend the nonwhite universities.

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Basketeers Too Slow, Too Short, Too Few

Long, Hard Winter on the Hardwood an 80-66 victory over the Pirates W of East Carolina , the Uni versity of Richmond basketeers moved over the .500 ITH

mark with a 6-5 record aft er eleven games.

And then the roof fell in . The Spiders lost four in a row- all to Southern Conference teams- and when the basketball season recessed for first semester examinations the Spiders seemed destined to become the first team coached by Lester Hooker Jr. to write its record in red ink .

There are only nine more games on the card. All of these, with the exception of the tilt with mighty West Virginia in the Richmond arena on February 13, will be played away from home.

The hapless Spiders seemed not only destined for a losing season but there loomed the possibility that they would finish ninth in the Southern Conference race and thus fail to win a berth in the tournament. This possibility became a nightmarish probability when the Spiders dropped a 77-76 heartbreaker to V.M.I. in overtime on January 16.

Aside from the fact that the opposition has been strong , the Spiders' record can be attributed to a lack of speed and height, both serious handicaps, and also a lack of capab le reserves .

The Hookermen gave a supposedly weak George Washington team a good battle before going down 89-83 in the opener but when they needed a desperation 60-foot field

goal to nose out Randolph-Macon , 76-75, the handwriting was already on the wall.

There was not hing in the 85-67 licking administered by the University of Virginia Cavaliers to bring hope to the Spider fait hful , but there was evidence in the next outing against West Virginia that the team might come alive. Although the Spiders lost, 84-62, the nation's number 2 team, led by the great Jerry West, had to go all out to win.

Les Hooker liked what he saw that night.

Captain Butch Lambiotte had regained his shoot ing eye, Carl Slone was doing a fine job of ball hawking, Red Booker's ball handling had improved, Alan Cole was back in action after laying off to nurse an injured back, and Lee O'Bryan was sweeping the backboards.

Mike Morchower, a sophom ore, looked like a first class reserve.

Hooker said things were looking up and he kept on saying it even after the Spiders dropped their fourth decision in five outings an 83-68 drubbing by a Furman team that had to fight harder than the score would indicate . The following night the Hookermen found themselves against a heavily favored team from The Citadel.

The Spiders had the jump on the Bulldogs from -the start. With O'Bryan clearing the boards and Butch Lambiotte hitting the basket from every ang le, the Spiders triumphed 63-52.

They racked up their second in a row

ALUMNI FUND HITS TWO HIGHS: $52,945

FROM 1876 CONTRIBUTORS

University of Richmond men upped their giving through the Alumni Fund by more than $7,000 in 1959, establis hin g a record total of $52,945.78!

Also gratifying was the fact that the total of 1876 contrib utors was 166 in excess of the previous year's high.

Alumni Fund Director G. Edmond Massie III , '4 1, hailed the record total as "refreshing evid ence that Alma Mater's sons are aware of her needs and eager to help meet the problems of these difficult days." He said he hoped the University could use some of the money to augment professorial salaries.

Treasurer Charles H. Wheeler III pointed out that the Alumni Fund , although an increasingly important part of the University's finan cial resour ces, does not begin to reflect the liberality of alumni. He cited such bene-

factions as the $400,000 Robins Hall, made possible by the giving of E. Claiborne Robins, '31, and frequent bequests.

Alumni and alumn ae giving for the year, through the respective funds, totals more than $83,000. The Westhampton fund of more than $30,000 was swelled by the gift of $10,000 by one ardent alumna who is eager to see finis written to the swimming pool project. The amount in hand now totals approximately $80,000.

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LAY-UP FOR LAMBIOTTE.Butch scores two points in the Spiders ' losing effort against South Carolina in the Christmas tournament .

Coming up is Carl Slone. Lambiotte, who averaged 14 points in the Spiders' first eleven contests, was chosen to the all-tournamen t team.

a few nights later, defeating Washington and Lee in Lynchburg, 71-55. Returning home they played one of their best games before the largest crowd of the season, 2,000 fans, in defeating Rhode Island, 82-71.

Richmond entered the Chri stmas tournament with a 4-4 record and came out of it with a 5-5 record, losing to a strong South Carolina team, 86-75, but mopping up favored William and Mary, 71-65 in the consolation battle . Lambiotte fired in 27 points and the Spiders also got inspired p lay from Cole, Slone, Booker and O 'Bryan.

Lambiotte earned a place on the all-Tournament team, and both O'Bryan and Slone were tapped for the second team.

The struggling Spiders got their heads above water for the first time on January 2 by walloping East Carolina, 80-66.

They promptly sank beneath the surface by losing four in a row to V.P.I., William and Mary, Geo rge Washington and Louis (Wee nie ) Miller's Cadets.

That LongShotfrom the Universityof Richmond As Told by tl1eYoungPro JOSEPH BISCAHA, '59

story has its beginning in January M of 1959, when I received a telegram from Wellington T. Mara, vice-president of

contests in which the Giants participated, as a substitute for ends Kyle Rote and Bob Schnelker.

He also saw considerable action in the Giants ' losing effort against the Baltimor e Colts in the playoff. ( Gu back says th e Biscaha story rea lly began when Joe was a senior in high schoo l at Passaic, N. J. Sidelined with an injur y, Biscaha played only three games as a senior. There were no scholarship offers and no particu lar interest. "I hadn 't planned on going to college ," Guback quotes Biscaha as saying. "I was all set to get a job wh en my high school coach menti oned my name to a friend of his, Dick Humbert. Richmond offered me a partial scho larshi p. I've been fortunate ever since."

(And the U niver sity of Richm ond has been fortunate to have his nam e first on the student roster and now on the alumni roll. A superior student, he was also a leader in activity ou tside the classroom and off the football field. His honors included the presidency of his jun ior class, memb ership on the Honor Council, and the pr esidency of Omicr on Delta Kappa . He won the McAdams award as the outstanding member of the junior class.)

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the New York Football Giants asking if I would consider playing professional football for their organization . I replied in the affirmative, and shortly thereafter was drafted as their 27th selection in the annual player draft. I then qualified as a target for some good natured kidding by my friends. At this point I didn't realize the possible consequences of playing pro ball. Fall seemed a long time in the future.

The second chapter began with a visit by Jim Lee Howell, the Giant coach. This was an embarrassing moment, for at the time I was a temporary barracks counselor and when the coach came in I was in a tee shirt eating an orange. My physique may have caused Mr. Howell to question his recruiting program. We chatted for a while and agreed to terms for the contract, which I later signed. I was now the exclusive property of the New York Giants. (It was then I had the feeling a steer would have, being led to the slaughter house.)

On July 26th the slaughter house was one step closer. I departed from Richmond on a plane bound for Winooski, Vermont, the Giants' training camp. There was a stop scheduled for New York City, so my parents met me at the airport. My father happened to have a newspaper with a story written by one Sam Huff about training camp. The story made reference to the fact that the rookies would be used to prepare the varsity for the coming season. This meant that we would be devoured by the "big boys." I then felt a strong urge to head for the safer confines of Clifton, N . J.-as any practical minded college boy would . My father had more confidence ,than I (he didn't have to face those monsters), so I boarded the plane for Ver mont.

One of the questions I kept asking myself was, "What am I doing here? " While at camp in Winooski, we had two practice sessions a day, each an hour and forty minutes , in addition to a two-hour blackboard meeting after supper each evening . After a month we moved our camp down to Bear Mt., New York for the next three weeks. During this time there were trips to Dallas, Texas ; Bangor, Maine; Detroit; Chester, Pa., and later Salt Lake City. It was during this time that I had been referred to by the New York papers as "the sleeper, or long shot from the University of Richmond."

There was still much room for improve-

Joe Biscaha in Giant Uniform

ment , and I had not yet earned a position on the team. Buddy Dial, second draft choice, was still with the Giants, and was considered a fine prospect, which he later proved to be. As the training season came to an end the Giants decided to keep me and placed Buddy on waivers. I still felt no security because there was always the possibility of being dropped if my performance wasn't up to par.

Perhaps the biggest thrill for me was playing in the opening game against the Los Angeles Rams. There was a telegram for me in the dressing room from the Humbe1ts, and the football team at Richmond . It was also one of the low points of the season for me, because it was in this game that I separated my shoulder and was sidelined for the next four games. The rest of the season was covered more fully in the sports pages, so .there's no need for me to elaborate on that.

(Editor 's Note: Among those who have elaborated on it is Steve Guback of the Richmond Tim es-Dispatch, who saw Jo e play in severa l games, notably in th e Giant s' victory over the Washington Redskins. H e was impressed with his abi lity and his courage in beatin g not only the odds but an All -Ameri can (Dial) to play with the Giants. Joe , a member of the punt and kick-off units at the start of the season, was playing about 50 per cent of each of the last four

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I feel fortunate to have been able to attend the University of Richmond, and been influenced by the many great men both in the administration and faculty. I feel a special indebtedness to Coaches Pitt , Humbert, and Merrick for their unselfish help in my athletic career at the University. There are so many others to thank that it would be impossible rto list them without omitting someone.

I hope that I can achieve a small portion of the accomplishments that they have experienced. To all at the University of Richmond , "Thanks a lot."

EDWARD CALE NAMED DEPUTYEMBASSYCHIE¡F After distinguished service as economic counselor to the U. S. Embassy in Argentina, Edward G. Cale, '28, is Deputy Ghief of Mission and Counselor at the United States Embassy in Mexico City.

The President of the United States on November 18 accorded him the personal rank of Minister during his tenure of office in Mexico City.

He has been in the State Department since 1941, resigning that year his posi.tion of associate professor of economics at the Universi.ty of Richmond. He had also taught at Tulane University.

Dr. Cale is married to the former Betty Sherman, '28.

To MissCarolineLutz,With Love... * very happy tonight to have the opportunity and privilege to say publicly what I have felt for many years about a very dear teacher, counselor, guide and friend.

We students who climbed the tower stairs to her classes for the first time little knew then what a wondrous realm of adventure lay ahead . .. for she was to open wide the gateway to knowledge . . . and lead her students through the plains of fundamentals . . . across the mountains of intellectual curiosity ... down into the rabbit-burrows of research ... and up the craggy peaks of imagination . . . as, pantingly, we tried to keep in step. And then again, not content with that, she would send us off into a very special orbrt through the Universe-long before the Sputniks and Explorers ever reached the drawing board , much less the launching pad 1 There was no easy, compassed route to follow across the vast, uncharted wilderness of this, our minds ' high challenge.

Into ead1 of us she endeavored to instill a love of knowledge and a respect for our own talents and ,abilities ... to have humility for our weaknesses ( coupled with an earnest desire to overcome ¡them) . . . to make an honest appraisal of our errors ... but at the same time, she charged us to maintain confidence in ourselves and to make no apologies for what we knew 1 Into each willing mind -a nd Heaven help the others 1-she firmly lodged a sense of beauty of the written word . . . an appreciaition of academic truth. No imperfection was allowed. From each student whom she taught she wished to draw but one thing ... which was everything . .. our own best effort, always. Anything else was inadequate; indeed , nothing less was acceptable ....

And through it all she would, by some miraculous alchemy of lavender and patient wisdom, create within our eager minds an intense desire to produce the results so painstakingly sought.

She "stretc hed " us . . . encouraged us to try something new . . . to be unafraid of the strange, the different - but to accept it, rather, as a challenge to grow on-to explore eagerly, because it woud be "g ood for you."

Indeed , she would stretch our abilities until they were taut as the strings of a bow.

But when, after painful training, we fitted an idea-arrow to tha,t bow and aimed it at the target of our life, it would fly swiftly, truly to the goal.

Her own enthusiasm for adventure and exploration of life and the arts is without

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* Remarks by Barianne Beck Duty , '50, in presenting a gif t to Mi ss Lutz at Hom eco ming , November 6, in appreciation of service to Westhamp ton College as professor of English. Mi ss Lut z retired from act ive teaching at the close of the 1958-59 sessio n.

boundaries and has spilled over into us, her students. Her classes would move with equal ease in Chaucer's April England or towards the snowcapped crest of Fujiyama. The essence of her far-flung travels, her avid scholarship, her sincere interest in people, her appreciation of the beauties of color, music and the spoken word permeated every period we met.

Though we'd move along at such a rapid gait that often we would wish that we, like Hansel and Gretal, had a pocketful of shiny pebbles to drop along the way and mark our journey of confusion ... nevertheless, when we came at length to the end of the semester and reviewed our copious notes, the glimmer

of understanding would suddenly become a beacon light through the purple haze ... and somehow we'd get through each exam with the use of honest toil, a ream of paper and a bottle of ink!

She is a true teacher-a true scholar- and friend, who can mete out a challenge on the one hand, inspiration and confidence on the other. ...

"And gladly wolde (she) lerne, and gladly teche."

All who have been privileged to know her, in whatever capacity, are in her debt; for she has taught us more than Literature. By the calm example of her own great personal courage and endeavor, she has taught us Life .

PERSING KEPT ON READING. Miss Lutz looks up to greet a friend but her scholarly pet, Persing, was too engrossed in the book to bandy words with visitors.

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Don't Sell Those Teen-Agers Short

EDUCATION ON THE AIR P

ERSONS who think the younger generation isn't as smart as it might be and that high schools aren't doing the teaching job they should be doing might revise their opinions if they became regular listeners to the University of Rid1mond Radio Scholarship Quiz.

The Quiz is entering its ninth year on the air, abundant proof of its popularity, with scholarship awards totaling $16,000.

In addition to the originating station, WRNL in Richmond, the programs will be heard over a network of seven stations in eastern Virginia. (A listing of these stations and their positions on the dial appears elsewhere on this page.)

The quiz, which has the blessing of the Virginia Education Association, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and every district superintendent of schools in the area, will be aired by WRNL at 12: 30 p.m. on thirteen consecutive Sundays, beginning February 14.

For the seventh consecutive year the quizmaster will be Dean of Students C. J. Gray, ' 33, who took over the school master's role from the late Dean Raymond B. Pinchbeck who was with the show during its first two years.

Early listeners will recall the quizmaster's expressions of amazement at the speed with which the answers were shot back by the wntestants. The University, which had embark ed upon the venture with some reservations was soon convinced of the program's worth. From $2 100 in scholarships the first year, the total was doubled to $42 00 the following year and steadily increased to the current $ 16,000 .

In addition to a first prize of $2,50 0, there will be two scholarships totaling $1,500 each,

six of $ 1,0 00 each, and eighteen of $250 each.

Although consolidations of high school s in the countie s of eastern Virginia has cut down on the number of schools, the percentage of participating schools has never been higher ,than this year. More than 600 students from 58 high schools took part in the preliminary written ex;amina tion this month.

From each of the 27 districts which comprise the quiz area, the s.tudents submitting the three best pap ers will be interviewed.

Then 27 students - all of them at or near the top of their classes scholasti cally-w ill be selected to represent the districts.

In groups of three they will be brought before the microphone in programs originating in high school auditoriums where the atmosphere is almost as tense as at a basketball game. Do the youngsters freeze up , do they get "mike" fright ?

"Most of them are nervous before the quiz gets underway," says Dean Gray. "So am I. So are football players before the kickoff.

WE'RE MIGHTY SHARPTODAY. Early listeners to the Radio Scholarship Quiz will recall Dean Pinchbeck's constant amazement at the knowledge and mental agility of the contestants. The quiz was launched in 1942 in cooperation with WRVA. This association continued through 1958. WRNL is now the originating station.

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TUNE IN Eight stations, including the or1g1nating station WRNL, 910 AM and l 02. l FM, will broadcast the Radio Scholarship Quiz during its 13 weeks on the air . Broadcast time is 12:30 p.m., Sunday , beginning February 14.

The s,tations and their positions on the dial: WSVS, 800, Crewe. WFLO, 870, Farmville. WYSR, 1250, Franklin. WFVA, 1230, Fredericksburg. WGH, 1310, Newport News. WSSV, 1240, Pete rsburg .

WAVY, 1350, Portsmouth. WRNL, 910 (l 02. l FM), Richmond.

But once the show starts they perform with the coolness of veterans."

That also was the verdict of Charles McDowell , Jr. , who writes a widely-read column in the Richm ond Times-Dispatch. McDowell went to one of the contests and returned properly amazed. "At a time when adu lts seem to be spending an unusual amount of time advocating tougher, more intensive schooling for the younger generation ," he wrote, "it might be interesting to look at some of the questions that three Virginia high school boys answered almost offhandedly the other day on a quiz program. " Alumni who have been listening to the program will understand McDowell's appreciation . Others, who can tune in on one of the participating stations, are invited to do so.

PUTTING THE SHOW TOGETHER. Producer Ray Schreiner and Script Writer Nelli Williams confer on the format. Questions are prepared by the appropriate sections of the Virginia Educ-ation Association and screened by University department heads in English, mathematics , history, and the sciences . Faculty members also serve as judges .

of the Student Senate, and a member of the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet. And president of ODK. Witha l, he was the full time pastor of the Ridge Baptist Church , west of the campus, for the four years he was a student.

He was avidly interested in athletics. In addition to serving as manager of the football team ( "the last of the undergraduate football managers with full respons ibilities "), he was active with the late Coach Frank M. Dobson in organizing the Virginia-Carolina Inte rcollegiate Athletic Association.

He also "did the first recru iting of athletes for the University, going for the University to sign Dave Mi ller, '26 (star in football, basketba ll and baseball and captain of football and basketball), and to try to enlist three or four other outstanding athletes of that day in becoming Spiders. " (Mr. Leek recalls that "Dr. Boatwright and Coach Dobson were reluctant at first but finally consented.")

One major problem was in the money that would be needed for this recruiting trip to Lynchburg , Roanoke and the Tidewater.

,(THAT,S FOR REMEMBRANCE First U-R Husband-and-Wife Received Degrees in 1922

T'S NOT TOO unusual in these days of large enro llments and early marriages for hu sband and wife to get their degrees at the same commencement but time was when this was a rarity.

The first University of Richmond couple to get their degrees the same evening were Chas. F. and Zola Hubbard Leek. That was in 1922 in the old frame building then known as the chapel, late r as the science lab and still later as The Playhouse.

The late President Boatwright considered calling the Leeks to the platform together rather than separately when their names were read by the deans of their respective colleges. He decided against it, however , explaining to Mr. Leek, "I didn't want to start something."

Looking back on the event 36 years later after a notable career in the Baptist ministry, the Rev. Mr. Leek wonders if he and his bride might not have been the first husbandand-wife to graduate together from an institu,tion of higher learning in the South .

As a matter of fact Mrs. Leek probably could not claim the title, bride, despite the elasticity of this term . The couple had been married since their sophomore years. They Jived first in the Rio Vista section near the campus but later moved to an apartment above the Richmond College cafeteria, now the refectory (Brunet Hdl).

In addition to supporting himself and his wife (he worked for the Richmond newspapers and later did some pt,blicity work for the University under the direction of President Boatwright) , he found time to partici pate in a number of extracurricular activities.

He was editor of the Colle1;ian1 ;;nd organized and served as first president of the Southern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. He was athletic editor of the Spider ( now the lV eb), business manager of the Messenger, mar.ager of football, a member

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Mr. Leek remembers that it cost something less than $100.

If there had then been in existence a "Who 's Who Among Students in American Colleges" Leek's name would be listed there, just as it later was to be listed in Who's Who in America.

He had a number of important pastorates in the South, including the 2,500 member ship Hig hland Avenue Baptist Church in Montgome ry, Alabama. While in Alabama h e edited the widely-read "Watching the World Page of the Alabama Baptist. " His last pastorate was at T homasville, N. C. At the conclusion of h is Th.M . degree at Louisville, Mr. Leek was retained on the Seminary staff as promotional secretary for six years.

After 42 years as a Baptist pastor he has embarked upon a "ministry-at-large." He preaches, teaches, conducts conferences in church administration and finds some time to write of his preaching and pastoral experiences. The Leeks now live at "Cedargates," their rural home near Chatham, Va.

THE LEEKS in 1922 (insets ) and in 1957 wh e n t he Fi,r.st Bapt 1ist Church at Thomas ville, N. C. ga ve a part y for th e m on the occasion o f the pastor 's 65th birthda y. After mor e tha n e leve n ye ar s a s pastor ther e, Mr. Le ek "stepp e d up to the nex t plateau and became a ministe r-at -la rge .''

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RELIGION IS SICK BUT NOT DEAD IN RUSSIA, DR. SADLERREPORTS "It would be difficult to imagine a warmer welcome than the one extended to us," Dr. George W. Sadler, ' 10, said of the reception he and Dr. John D. Hughey, Jr. , met in Russia.

Dr. Sadler, a member of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board , described the trip the two men made in an art icle which appeared in the board 's magazine , The Commission.

Dr. Hughey is profes sor of church history at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Ruschlikon, Switzerland .

Of their first service at the only Baptist Church in Leningrad , Dr. Sadler wrote : "Every evidence of hospitality and Christian devotion was mad e manifest by the pastors and the crowd of more than 1,500 people awaiting us at the church. In no

other part of the world, I suppose, would hundreds of people be willing to stand ( all seats were filled) through a two-hour re-

ligious service. Certainly, nothin g less than complete Chr istian loyalty could prompt such attention and reverence.

"The majority of the audience were older women. There were few men and still fewer young people. We asked the reason for the scarcity of young people in the church , but received an evasive answer."

The two Baptist leaders later went to Moscow where they also received an enthusiastic welcome.

Dr. Sadler 's conclusions, based on what he saw and heard during the visit to Russia, included the following: 1. Communism is here to stay for a Jong time . We neither saw nor heard any evidence of dissatisfaction or disloyalty.

2 . The masses of the people are willing to endure personal inconvenience in order that such things as sputniks and missiles, subways, stadiums and schools might be pro duced ....

3. Russian Baptist leaders do not understand our desire for peace. If they did , they would not plead with their guests to use their influence that peace might be established in the world. One must conclude that they have been so thoroughly propagandized that they honestly believe we are militaristic.

4. It is evident that Baptists have accommodated themselves to prevailing conditions. That does not mean, however, that they are Communists, for as someone has said, "If yon are not a convinced atheist, you cannot be a good Communist."

5. Religion has been dealt a severe blow .

The sickness is not unto death, however , for God still lives. His power alone can bring about a revival. ...

QUARTERBACKCLUB

U OF R THROUGH THE YEARS Only the hearty souls braved torrential rains to attend the Homecoming celebration on November 7. Those who did got a great lift from the pictorial display of the University's progress from Dunlora Academy in 1830 to the present time. It was prepared by the School of Business Administration alumni, with a big financial assist from Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association of Richmond, of which James B. Bourne, Jr., '51, is president.

The idea man was A. Wallace Agee, '54 (right); the commibtee that was responsible for getting the job done was headed by Russell W. Miller, '57 (left).

The exhibit, six large folding sections of durable board on which are mounted chart s and blow-ups of pictures, will be shown at a number of conventions during the year. It already has been seen by hundreds of men and women who attended the Baptist General Association meeting at the First Baptist Church in Richmond . It is currently on display in Boatwright Memorial Library.

The Business School display was one of five colorful Homecoming exhibits in Robins Hall , the new dormitory -infirmary .

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The University of Richmond Quarterback Club got such excellent leadership from John J. Wicker, Jr. , '13, that it showed its appreciation by re-electing him as president. He was roundly applauded for his promotion of the Thanksgi ving Day Festival which featured the William and Mary-Richmond football game.

The club meets weekly during the football season for fellowship and to keep in touch with the football fortunes of the Spiders.

In addition to electing Wicker as president, the club chose as vice presidents Jesse W. Dillon, '31, a member of the State Corporation Commission; Frederick J. Vaughan, '3 5, and William C. Farmer, '50.

Emmett L. Hubbard, '42, and John K. Griffin, '51, were re-elected secretary and treasurer , respectively, and Wiley R. Davis, Jr. , '58, and William C. Burch, '57, were reelected assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, respectively.

Six members were elected to the executive committee: Melvin G. Berman , '4 8, Philip Whitfield , '27, Allan H. Lane, '25, George W. Sadler, '43, Ramon E. Chalkley, '49, and C. M. Tredway, '24.

SpiderGridmen End Seasonwith Triumph Over Indians A first class football team that played in tough luck through most of the season broke loose on a scoring binge in the last three games to salvage some glory.

The Spiders knocked off George Washington in the mud on a bleak and dreary Homecoming, walloped Furman , 48 to 14, and then polished off William and Mary in the Thanksgiving Day finale, 20-14.

Ed Merrick , who sometimes wondered what a fellow had to do to win, summed up the season by saying that the Spider first team was as good as any team on the Richmond schedLile. Lack of reserve strengt h was the difference between plLis and minus in the ledger.

In addition to the closing burst of three triump hs, the Spiders outpointed Davidson and played a 14-14 tie with a V.M.I. team that later was to capture the Southern Conference championship.

Merrick, who in the past has courted expulsion from the coaches ' union with outbursts of opt imism, was a bit g loomy as he surveyed the future. Two first string halfbacks and his top two quart erbacks have used up their eligibility as have such line stalwarts as Co-Captain Chuck Boone at center and Pat Lamberti at tackle. Both Lamberti -and David Ames, a fleet halfb ack from Portsmouth, were named to the all-Southern Conference football team.

(Lamberti and Ames, chosen by the press as the outstanding U. of R. performers in the VMI game, were given awards by the Norfo lk-Portsmouth area alumni chapter.)

ALL-CONFERENCE . Both David Ames (left), and Pat Lamberti were chosen to the allSouthern Conference football team after an outstanding year on the gridiron . Both were promptly drafted by professional teams, Ames by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Lamberti by the Chicago Cardinals. The Cardinals also drafted Bob Dunnington . Both Ames and Dunnington are halfbacks; Lamberti is a tackle.

Other stalwart performers included Bob Dunnington, a halfback; Frank Gagliano and Joe Rosetti, quarterbacks; Frank Vecchio, a

HOSHALLHELPSPHILIPPINEPEOPLE IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES In Earle Hoshall's view, the people of the Philippines "are the most hospitable people in the world and it is a rewarding experience to live and work with them."

C. Earle Hoshall, '26, has been an educational adviser to the Philippine government for more than three years. As chief of the education division in the technical assistance program of the International Cooperation Administration, he co-ordinat es the work of American education specialists working with the Philippine govern ment to improve the quality of education there.

"We are very pleased with what we hav e achieved thus far, and are very optimistic for the future," Mr. Hoshall noted in a recent letter.

He said "the Republic of the Philippines, at the close of the war, faced two very difficult jobs. Since the assumption of their status as a newly independent nation coincided with the end of the war, they had to recover from the ravishes and destruction of war , and at the same time undertake the building of an independent nation .

" Along with many other facilities, the schools of the Philippines suffered almost total destruction during the war. Textbooks were burned, buildings leveled, teachers killed or dispersed. The task of rebLiilding was a monument-al one and the Philippines have made tremendous progress during the past 13 years. They have every reason to be proud of their achievements. There are still

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guard, and J. P. Vass at end.

How about next fall? A first class first team, says Ed. Reserves will be few.

many unsolved problems, such as inadequate teaching materials, too few classrooms, a confusion of languages, too many drop-outs, etc., and we are working with the leading Philippine educators in attempting to solve these problems."

Mr. Hoshall wrote that "fo r some time we have been discussing the need for a general survey of public school education in the Philippines. We have recruited a group of six of the outstanding educators from the United States to make this survey for us.

Even though my days as an undergraduate at the University of Richmond are far in the past, I have kept track of the activities of many of our alumni, and when we were looking for someone to head up the survey team, I felt that we were particularly fortuna,te in being able to get Chester Swanson. (Dr. Swanson, '26, went to the Philippines from the University of California; he is former superintendent of Oklahoma City schools.)

He has been with us for several months, along with his wife, Eddie Sawyer Swanson (Westhampton '26). Chester and his team are doing an excellent job and I am particularly enjoying the opportunity for this reunion with Chester and Eddie."

37th Year At Bluefield

1897Dr. Walte r Ernest Gibson was present at th e unvei ling of a plaque erected to him by members of Broadus Memor ial Baptist Church Nov. 22 where he served as pastor for 35 years. Hi s great-grandson , Michael , remov ed the covering from the plaque.

Dr. Gibson, well-loved by his congregation, has served on both Home and Foreign Mission Boards and as Mod erator of the Dover Association.

"Quiet, humbl e and unassuming, Dr. Gibson has gone in and out among his people , into the community and through the city with sympathy and und ersta ndin g, with firm convictions , and with heart and mind ever ready to serve the M aster."

E. M . LO UTHAN E. M . Louthan '07 has made many contributions to Alma Mater in his 3 7 years at Blue-

1905Brigadier General John A. Cutchins ( ret.) bas been elected a director of the North Am erica Assurance Society of Virginia. Gen. Cutchins, a partner in the Richmond law firm of Cutchins, Wallin ger, Wallace and K essler, is a former Richmond director of public safety . H e bas long been associated with Virginia military affairs, both with the famous Richmond Light Infant ry Blues and the 29th Divi sion which includ ed a large proportion of Virginia troops.

Activ e in civic affairs, he is also a director of Lawyers Title Insuranc e Corporation and is a member of the Jamestown Society.

1912R. McLean Whittet of Whittet and Shepperson, printers, has been elected president of the Better Business Bureau of Richmond. He is past president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and of the Centra l Richmond Association. He moved up from th e vice-presidency of the Better Business Bureau.

Frank M. Benton, who is retiring from Groton Schoo l, Groton , Ma ss., will spend a year in August 1960 to October 1961. He Europe-from plans both to travel in the Mediterranean area and to study at the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Athens. He and Mrs. Benton spent forty years at Phillips Academy in Andover , Massachusetts , where he was cha irman of the Classics Department.

field Col lege, but he claims one of his greatest accomplishments was in persuading Ralph McDanel to enroll in Richmond College in 1912.

Mr. Louthan spent three years at Cluster Springs Academy in Halifax County as math-

the honorary D. D. degr ee from Stetson University.

He is a former vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention and president of the Florida Baptist Convention.

1918The Rev. J. Ernest Wrenn has retired after 46 years as a Baptist minister.

Before serving nin e years in the Dillwyn area Baptist churches of Enon, Bethlehem, Cedar and Dillwyn First Baptist , Mr . Wrenn served pastorates

ematics teacher following his graduation with an M. A. degree from UR, then became principal of Alderson Baptist Academy. He enter ed Southern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary in 1912 and, three years later , received his Th .M. degree.

From 1916 to 1921, Mr. Louthan was pastor of the Glade Spring-Chilhowie Field of churches in the Lebanon Association.

After another year at Alderson Junior College, he went to newly-opened Bluefield Junior College where he has remained for 3 7 years as h ead of the mathematics department and 33 years as the Treasurer and Secretary of Tru stees.

Ralph McDanel was a senior at Alderson Baptist Academy in 1911-1912 when Mr. Louthan was its principal. After long talks with Ralph and his father, Mr. Louthan persuaded the son to enroll in Richm ond College. Ralph McDanel earned hi s B.A. in 1916 and took his Th.D. at John s Hopkins.

He has been a member of U. of R.'s hist ory faculty since 1926 and chairman since 1942 .

in Louisa, Orange, Goochland, Albemarle and Buckingham counties.

H e was ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1917 . After graduating from Richmond College in 1918, be studied at Crozer Seminary in Chester, Pa., and at th e University of Pennsylvania. H e received a masters degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville , Ky., in 1921.

He and his wife plan to make their home in Elberon, Surry county. Mr. Wrenn may do interim ministerial work.

Lively, Active, Portly G. EDMOND MA SSIE

DR. GAINES TO SERVE AS W-L CHANCELLOR Dr. Fran cis P. Gaines ' 12, who retired August 31 as president of Washington and Lee University, has been named the University's chancellor. Dr. Gaines will be called on from time to time to assist the board of trustees and the president in duties which are agreeable to him.

After serving in the presidency for 29 years, Dr. Gaines will continue to give to the university his wise counsel.

1913Dr. C. Roy Angell , former pastor of Central Baptist Church in Miami and First Church in Charlottesville, is the author of a book of sermo ns to be published by Broadman Press. Dr. Angell was born in Boone Mill and spent his childhood in Clifton Forge , Va. He studied at UR, Pennsylvania University, Crozer Theo logical Seminary, Johns Hopkins University, U Va. , and received

"At 76, George Edmond Massie, a former Richmond state senator, leads a lively, active life. A short portly man, silver-haired with a long friendly face and rimless glasses, he is gracious of manner and extremely personable," writes John Lee in the Richmond News L eader.

Mr. Massie , '09, was born in Hanover County March 16, 188 3. After receiving his education in Richmond , he went to work as a clerk in the wholesale grocery business of C. W. Antrim & Sons and invested in a little print shop which later became Garrett & Massie.

"Active in community life , Mas sie is a past president and charter member of the Richmond Kiwanis Club and past president of the old Richmond Printers Association and the old Advertising Club. He belongs to various trade groups and is steward emeritus at Reveille Methodist Church.

In and out of politics for 35 years, he has served on the Richmond City Council, the

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city school board, in the House of D elegates and in the Senate. In 1956 he served as a delegate to the constitutional convention . He was appointed to head the State Compensation Board in 1957.

He has three children, two stepchildren and five grandchildren. His son Edmond is vice-president of Garrett & Massie .

1919October 1 was a special day for the Rev. H .

Pierce Simpson.

It mark ed the 40th anniversary of his ordination as a Baptist minister.

Octob er 1 also was th e date he retire d as minister of Mt. Carmel Bapti st Church at Carmel, N. Y., after continuous service since 1930, except for a three-year period of service as an army chaplain during World War II. On October 1, Mr. Simpson became interim pastor of Croton Falls , N. Y., Baptist Church.

Rev. H . P. Simpson has retir ed from th e active ministry and from the pastorate of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in New York. A native of Salem, Va ., he earned his degree from UR and received his theologi cal training at Princeton Seminary.

He was ordained in Octob er 1919 in Salem and has devot ed hi s life as pastor of churches in th e American Convention.

1923Jam es B. Guthrie has been promoted to associate manag er of the Policyown ers Service Divi sion of the Life In surance Company of Virginia.

Rev. W. T. Vandever has retired from the pastorat e of Oak lane Baptist Church in Philadelphia and has accepted a position as a teacher in a girls' junior college near Philadelphia.

THE OBSEQUIES WERE PREMATURE. When the late Frederic Wil liam Boatwright was elected president of the University of Richmond in 1895 tears rolled like rain. There were of his election the death some, like the group above, that heard in the announcement knell of Richmond College. Dr. Boatwright stayed on as president until 1946, a mere service as matter of fifty-one years, and then gave five more years of distinguished chancellor until his death in 1951. He hod the joy of seeing the University grow during his lifetime to the largest private institution of higher learning in Virginia!

Most of the mourners above become loyal alumni of the University and some of them worm friends of President Boatwright. Among these was the late Thomas B. McAdams, '97 (14 in the picture above), for many years a member of the University's board of acceptance was Dr. Boatwnight's of their friendship Among the evidences trustees. of an invitation to join the fraternity of which Col. McAdams was a devoted member, Phi Kappa Sigma .

The picture was sent by J. B. Kaufman, '97, to his Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity mate, Fre derick J. Vaughan , '35, of football fame. Fred presented it to the library where it will be carefully preserved.

OLIVER INSTALLEDAS RPI PROVOST Dr. George Jeffries Oliver has taken office as the second provost of Richmond Professiona l In stitut e. He succeeded Dr. Henry H. Hibbs, who was RPI' s chief execut ive officer from the school's foun ding in 1917 until bis retirement last June.

In bis inaugural address, Dr. Oliver foresaw the following trends at RPI:

( 1) Greater stress on the liberal arts without weakening the quality of professional education. ( 2) A rise in total enro llm ent from more than 4,300 day and evening school students this year to 6,000 by 1970.

(3) A need for more financial support hire from tax sources or endowments-to more full-time members and to expand RPI's physical plant. ( 4) Closer co-operat ion with, and support

1924The second edit ion of Davis T. Ratcliffe' s "Gen eral liability Insurance H andbo ok" was selected as the In suranc e Book of the Month and was featured in a window display at 85 John Street, New York City, for two weeks last October.

Ratcliffe , who is a faculty member at The School of In suranc e, holds both his B. S. and 11. B. degrees from UR and is a member of the Virgini a Bar. One of his extra activities is the editorship of the NYC Air Force Reserv e JAG Newsletter.

1926Roland Galvin, pr incipal of W esthampton School in Richmond , has been elected president of the West End Kiwani s Club, and first president of Junior Hi gh Principals of the State of Vir gi nia.

1928Emanu el Emroch has presented the law School with volumes 1 through 5 of the NACCA law Journal. H e was elected president of the Trial Attorneys Association of Richmond, Va., in D ecember.

from, local business and industry in providing the community with professionally trained manpower , and (5) A health ier spirit of unity and intellectual stimulation among students , with its fruition in a student activities building on the campus.

Dr. Oliver began his college training with two years at Richmond College and completed work for his BA degree at tlie College of William and Mary. He earned his MA and PhD . degrees at Columbia University.

Dr. Ol iver went to RPI from William and Mary, where h e was head of the education department, co-ordinator of branch activities and dire ctor of extension services. He is a former teacher, high school principal, county school superintendent and director of instru ction for the State Department of Education.

A son, George J. Oliver, Jr., receiv ed his BA from Richmond in 1946 .

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LIFE OF VIRGINIA ELEVATESSIEGEL The Life Insuran ce Company of Virginia recently created a finan cial department and named John B. Siegel, Jr., '30, as financial vice-president and department head . Siegel was formerly vice-president in charge of the bond department.

This new setup places the bond, mortga ge loan and treasury divisions und er the authority of the financial departm ent.

William D. Butler '34 moved up from assistant secretary to assistant vice-president.

1929The state D epar tment of H ealth has announced that Dr. E. C. Gates is the new director for Din widdie , Prince George , Surry, and Sussex counties. H e was previo usly the dir ector for Am elia, Chesterfield, and Powhatan counti es.

1931Mallory Freeman played the role of Major Pollack in the Virginia Museum Theater¡s December production of "Separate Tables. " Mallory made his debut in the Richmond theater in 1937 when he appeared in "Twelfth Night" in the old Theater Guild. H e followed wit h a great deal of work in the Summer Theater , and then began work in comedy with "Pursuit of Happiness. " Rev. Paul J. Forsyth e celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination into the mini stry in September. He was ordained at the First Baptist Church of Havre de Grace, Md. , in 1924.

1932Ernest H . Der vis hian has resigned his job as assistant Commonwealth¡s attorney to work fulltime with a new law firm in Richmo nd. In recent years he has served chiefly as prosecutor in Hustings Court, Richmond 's chief criminal court. Among the members of the new firm will be William S. Smithers ' 58, and Milton P. Miller '58.

1933R. R . J ones has presented the T. C. Williams School of law with two volumes of the NACCA law Journal.

Thomas H. Neathery, Sr., is the assistant vicepresident, Falconer Office, of the Chautauqua National Bank of Jam estow n, N. Y.

1934The Rev. Raymond E. Abbitt has accepted the position of Rector of All Saints Episcopal Church , St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. This Church mini ster s to around 4000 souls. Fr. Abbitt will also hav e the responsibility of the Parish Day School , Kindergarte n through Grade 8, connected with All Saints Church. H e was formerly the assistant pastor at St. John's Episcopal -Church in Dallas , Texas.

1935Rev. Gary Bousman, mrn,ster of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Fargo, N. D., has just publish ed a book entitl ed The Human Side of the Ministr y. He bas sent a copy to the University library .

Beverley Britton has been (since May) with the Baltimore Division of Th e Martin Company, handling specia l events of various kind s, usuall y in conjunction with one of the armed servi ces. H e writes , "M y first assignment was in Paris , where I spent most of th e month of June handling European news-media contacts in connection with Martin's exhibit at the Paris air show. W e were showi ng off our new Mace missile, which is now deployed with the Air Force in Germany."

Dr. Elmer S. Rob ertso n, a Richmond internist , is a memb er of th e Flying Physicians Associat ion , which has a member ship of approximately 1500 throughout th e nation.

ALUMNI

IN ACTION

June 26, 1959, Wilbur Keller (Bill) Gaines, Class of 1929, was the honored guest at a dinner celebrating his thirty years of successful service with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He is the Man ager of the Mitchell Garden District, 29-50 Union Street at 31st Road, Flushing, Long Island. Under his direction are three Assistant Managers, twenty-five salesmen, and nine clerks. Five retired men and seven men he promoted to other offices attended the dinner .

Wilbur Gaines was born in Morristown , New Jersey, December 14, 1905. He married Ann Trent, Westhampton '28, of Portsmouth, Virginia . Their children are twentythree year old Richard, who is attending Columbia University, Daphne and Deborah, seventeen year old twins, who are seniors at Bronxville High School. Their home address is 5 Bolton Gardens in Bronxville.

Before receiving his B. S. in Business Administration, Gaines was president of his class during his junior year, and also student Senator at Large. This Phi Garn took a business course at Columbia University prior to entering Alma Mater.

A former president of the Flushing Lions Club, Gaines is a member of the Rogers Beach Club of Westhampton Beach, Long Island and Ouogoe Field Club . Since he gave up golf he now enjoys fishing for striped bass and tuna off Montauk Point. About twice a year he makes the trip to Richmond to see the Spiders play football.

He served two years as president of the New York Chapter and also two years as National vice-president of Alumni.

Although not active in politics, he guesses that the Democrats will run Symington, Kennedy or Johnson, one of whom will defeat Nixon .

Wilbur Gaines reads Civil War history, and collects old books of that era. He is proud of his autographed copies of R. E. Lee by Dr. Freeman . His interest in the war is natural because a grandfather fought for the North and four uncles for the South.

Formerly Gaines was a vestryman of the Zion Episcopal Church of Douglaston, New York. Now he and his family are members of Christ Church of Bronxville, and St. Marks, near their summer house of Westhampton Beach.

Two comments he made regarding Alma Mater . He said that he would like to see the Spiders win a couple more football games in the North and that he thought the Alumni Fund was a "fabulous program."

Some of Wilbur Gaines ' college chums with whom he keeps in touch are Hiter Atkins of Greenwich, Connecticut, Sid Upjohn of Stamford, Connecticut, and Art Harrison and Reid West of Richmond.

S. C. Mitchell, Robert E. Gaines (an uncle), Rolvix Harlan, and Robert Astrop are the professors who linger fondly in Wilbur Gaines ' memory.

-James B. Robinson '49

1936Dr. Eugene Howard Hess is now working at 16321 Mack Avenue , Grosse Pointe , Mi chigan.

1937Dr. Willi am G. Bond reports a new address: Box 2782 , Baltimore, Md . He is the new pastor of the First Baptist Church th ere.

Olyn ~ l ayne Shannon is now a chemical engi ne er in the E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Memphis, Tenn. H e received his M. S. at the U niversity of W. Va. in 1939.

1938James Graves Wil son is a professor in the Anatomy Department at the University of Florida Medical School in Gainesville.

Rev. and Mrs. Paul B. Watlington have a new son who arrived last M ar ch in Charleston, W. Va. , Rev. Watlingt on is Samuel Artz Watlington. pastor of Cavalry Baptist Church.

Leroy V. Moore, Jr. , is a commercial photographer in New York City. He reports a new address at 408 East 64th Street , N. Y . 21, N. Y .

PHILIP MORRIS COMPANY

ELECTS ROPER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Philip Morris, Inc., has elected Robert P. Rop er, '3 7, an executive vice president.

Mr. Roper and two other Philip Morris executives were elected vice presidents at a recent meeting of the corporation's board of directors.

The three executive vice presidents are Mr. Roper, operations; Chandler H. Kibbee , finance, and George W. Weissman, marketing .

Mr. Roper, a native of Richm ond, joined Philip Morris here in 1938. He became a department head in 1946 and was transferred a year later to New York as director of per-

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In 1955, he was named vice president of industrial relations. A year later he was made vice president for operations. In 1959, shortly before his latest promotion, he was elected a dire ctor and a member of the executive committee of the board of directors .

Mr. Roper, who was president of Rho Chi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta during his undergraduate days, is married to the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Grattan. They have two sons, Robert Poore Roper, Jr., and Wilfred Allen Roper II, and reside at 25 Shore Drive , Larchmont, N. Y.

1939JOHNSON'S OF PARSONSAND PROFS: THERE'S "A LAUGH IN EVERY LINE" Centennials are celebrated in many ways.

To help celebrate the 100th birthday of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Inman "Prof " Johnson , ' 15, collected and retold scores of stories about seminary professors and students. He published them und er the title , "Of Parsons and Profs."

The book is a warmly told human story of one prof essor's experiences through 30 years' service as a teacher at the same school and earlier years as a student at the seminary.

A book reviewer, writing in the Sunday H erald-Leader of Lexington, Ky ., said: "E ntirely honest , human and absolutely lacking in the pond erous sanctimony which often characterizes books written by theologians, this volume is of a type that will appeal to both saint and sinner alike. It portrays the lighter side of lif e in the Seminary by introducing parsons and profs who have studied and taught there during the past 45 years."

The review er added: "On and on for 114 pages this littl e book goes with never a dull moment and a laugh in every lin e. Lest from the foregoing ( examples of anecdotes in the books) some may presume that it is irreverent of Christianity, this is certainly not so. It is only delightfully irreverent of some prea chers and teachers who are only human and should not be credited otherwise."

Professor Johnson earned the nickname "Prof " from students who learned from him not to take themselves too seriously.

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In his senior year at Richmond College , he was pr esident of his class, manager of the Glee and Mandol in Club (a big job in those days) and manager of the baseball team (capta ined by Hun Wiley). His baritone rounded out the college quartet - Pete Dun ford, Joe Lesley and Nick Carter. (Tiny Wicker took his place in 1916.)

Since 1956, "Prof" has been alumni secretary of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A postscript to the book reveals his leisure time passion - bird dogs and huntmg .

FOR PRESIDENT'S AWARD

Dr. Leroy Smith, ' 34, ha s been nominat ed by the Medical Society of Virg inia for the President's A ward.

The nomin ation was sent to the Governor' s Committee for Employment of the Physically Handicapped. After approval by the committee, his name will be forwarded along with nomin ations from the other 49 states to President Eisenhower's committee . Th e name of the recipient of the President' s Award will be an noun ced next May. D r. Smit h was the only pl astic surgeon on the staff of Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond for 12 years unti l he was joined

by Dr. Hunt er Jackson in 1955 . During the 12-year period, he perform ed all plasti c surge ry at the hospital, including operations for har elips , deft palates, birthmark removals, reconstru ction of nose and ears and skin grafts fo r burns.

1940Paul Saunier, Jr., executive secretary to Rep. J. V aughan Gary, ' 12, addressed the annual Alma Mater apprec iation convocation in Cannon Memorial Chapel.

Th e Am erican College of Surgeons has announc ed an award to be prese nt ed to Dr. William H . ReMine, Jr. , for a motio n picture on cysts and sinus es in th e necks of embryos . Dr. ReMin e is head of a section of general surgery at th e M ayo Clinic in Rochester , Minn. H e will receive the awa rd at the college's 1960 congress.

Attorn ey J ohn Bareford of Saluda bas been named curator of the milli on-do llar estat e of the lat e Mr s. Lul a R . Valentin e.

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LEROY SMITH, PLASTIC SURGEON, NOMINATED

E. L. Nob le ha s been appo inted controll er of West Engin eering Company. H e was form erly senior staff accountant with th e pub li-c accountin g firm of P. M . Smith Jr. Before that , h e was assistant dir ector of the po licy and planning service in th e office of the controller of the V etera ns Admini stration.

Records of Crippled Childr en's Hospital show that he has per formed 1,650 fre e operations there. Hospital officials say he is a mainstay of that instituti on and one official commented , "I hat e to think what we would do without him. " Dr. Smith has also found time to serve as a major medical consultant to the State Rehabilitation Service since 1947.

Floyd H. Armstrong, super visor for the rehabilitation service, said Dr. Smith "bends over backwards" to give up appoint ments for consultation on cases when requested.

"We call on him at any time his advice is needed and he is most liberal in giving us his time, " Mr. Armstrong said. "He has been a primary factor in restoring pati ents to a point where they can engage agam in remunerative emp loyment."

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Willi am Pai;e Andr ews has been named director of Mat eria l Research at Reynolds M eta ls Company in Richmond. This departm ent is responsible for basi c researc h wor k and for deve loping and evaluating base materia ls used in packaging.

Formerly assista nt dir ector of foi l and pr inting res earch, he is a graduate of UR and bas an M. S. in chemistry from V . P. I. H e jo ined Reynold s in 1942, and was with DuPont for severa l years after World War II. H e rejoined Reynolds in 1954 as head of ind ustrial foi l development.

Rev . Jim Fogg has assum ed his new duti es on the facult y of Alderson-Br oaddu s College in Philippi , W. V a. H e is teaching and devel opi ng a course of pre-Engine er ing. Hi s work wi ll include teaching math, phy sics, engineering draw ing , and surveying. It is a Bapti st colleg e and Rev. Fogg wi ll occasionally do some supply preaching.

"The doctor is not a physicia n, but hi s new job is that of a 'pu lse-taker.' Dr. George D .

Sands wi ll analyze scientific effor ts and goals and translate th em int o terms of specific requir ement s for rocket systems, pow er sources, creative eng ineering projects and research programs as director of scientific requir ements at the Mar tin Company ." Dr. Sands wa s formerly chief of the nuclear branch of the Army 's Transporta tion Research and Engi neering Comm and at Fort Eust is.

William 0. Seifert report s a new address: Hq 5th A ir Force, APO 925 , San Francisco, California.

Born: a daughter ( th e fourt h) M ary Beth, to J oan and Charles McNutt. M ary Beth arriv ed Jul y 12 in Charleston , We st Virgini a .

1943The Rev, Arthur Parke Roach, pas tor of the Community M ethodis t Church, Princess Ann e, V a., is th e auth or of the meditation being used on Tuesday , J anu ary 26 by The Upper Room , a devotional guid e.

Mr. Roach based hi s medi tation on Prov erbs 22 :28 "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." Th e g uide wi ll be pub lished in over 28 languages.

Benj amin H . W eston is work ing in the Southeast Flor ida Tub erculo sis H ospital in Lantana. H e is being kep t "very busy" with hi s work at th e hospital, the Arm y Reserves, th e Gun Club , the Lodge , etc. H e is now listed as a MSgt. in th e Army Reserves an d holds a Certified Rifle Mark smanship Instructor 's rating in the Nationa l Rifle Association of Am erica.

1944William H . Phipps is a salesman in Richm ond.

He reports a new addr ess at 3006 Monum ent Avenue. Aft er leaving UR , be graduated wi th a B.S. in anim al husbandry from V. P. I.

1945Louis Rubin , Jr. has been appointed head of the Department of English at Hollins College.

William B. Badenoch, Jr. , is the new vicepresident of the D. W. Mallory and Co. He succeeds his classmate, D. W. Mallory , Jr. , who has moved up to bhe presidency following the recent death of bis father.

C. Bailey Jones has begun a new venture in his pastorate at West End Baptist Church in Suffolk . He is broadcasting a weekly radio program "Religion in the News," which is a program "of inter-nationa l, inter-denomination, inter-faith coverage of religious news on the world-wide scale." In November be crossed the Atlantic and visited West Germany, Switzerland, France and England.

Born: A son, Steven Anson Hart , to Rev. and Mrs. Philip Ray Hart , November 24 in Richmond.

1947Dr. Ange lo Isma el Portela is in private practice in internal medicine in Mitch ell , South Dakota.

After serving his internship at City Hospital in San Juan, P. R., in 1952 , he enlisted in the U. S. Army Medica l Corps. He had a general practice for a year after his discharge and then specialized in internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in D etro it. H e gave a seminar on lep tospirosis while he was with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minn.; then worked with the Delaney Clinic in Mitch ell, S. D. Married October 28, 1957, to Eulalia Ramirez, be now has a daughter , Margarita , born July 16, 1958 , and two step-children, Gilb ert, age 11, and Maria , age 10.

1949Cary 1. Branch, a Richmond lawyer , was sworn in as an assistant United States district attorney in federal District Court . He bas been in private practice since 1955 after working for six years in the claim s department of the Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. C. D. J enkin s has been nam ed administrator of Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Whitesburg, Ky. He was the assistant administrator at Memorial Medical Center in Williamson , W. Va. Roscoe Crosier, Jr. , has been appointed as supervi sing underwriter for the branch office of Zurich-American Insurance Company in Richmond.

C. Frank Wentzel, Jr. is engaged to Miss Nancy Ann Hilton of Arlington.

Born: A son, Warren EJJwood Rowe , Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rowe Sept. 3, 1959 in Richmond.

William Judson NoeJJ is working at the Southern States Coop. whol esale warehouse in Knoxville , Tenn. He reports a new address at 4101 D eerfield Road.

Franklin C. John son has changed his address: 84 North Main St., Yard ley, Pa. James A . Moncur e, a memb er of the history facu lty at UR , will edi t the 1960 " White Paper ," a Virginia State Chamber of Commerce daily reporting service on legislative activity of the Genera l Assembly. The " White Paper," which wi ll be relea sed daily, will contain bri efs of legislation introduced and the sta tus of bill s "in order to keep interested persons informed on developments, " Verbon E. Kemp, executive dir ector of the State Chamber said .

1950MacDani el William s has been named assistant director of sales training at Reynolds Metal s Company headquarters. He was previous ly superviso1y educational officer at the U. S. Army Logistics Managem ent Center , Fort Lee, Va. He is the author of several instructor guides and student workbooks used in high schoo l distributive education and vocationa l programs.

The new principal of the Stonewall Ja ckson School in Richmond is Catlin E. Tyler , former assistant principal of Ginter Park School.

A. Dale Hulce wa s recently promoted by the Life Insurance Company of Virginia to assistant manager , Policyowner s Service Division .

Formerly with the traffic department of Vir-

Scores of alumni and alumnae in the Virginia public school system, headed by Dr. Robert W. Allen, '34, president of the Virginia Education Association, attended the University of Richmond luncheon in the George Wythe room of the Hotel John Marshall on October 30. The luncheon was held in conjunction with the annual convention of the VEA. At the head table, left to right, are Miss Jessie Pollard Haynes, retired assistant professor of education at the University of Richmond; Dean Emerita May L. Keller of Westhampton College ; Mrs. Allen; Dr. Allen, principal of Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth; Leslie L. Jones, supervisor of safety education, Richmond public schools, who served as toastmaster; Dr. Edward F. Overton , dean of the Summer School and chairman of the department of education; Mrs. Overton (Frances Willis, '30), and Miss Mamie Spangler, assistant professor of education .

ginia -Carolina Chemical Corp., Alan L. Creedl e bas been named sales representative for Atlantic States Motor Lines, In c. He is treasurer of th e Richmond Traffic Club and an approved Inter stat e Commerce Commission practitioner.

Attorney G. Clinton Moore has been appo inted Tuckahoe district representative on the Henrico county school board by L. McCarthy Downs , Jr. , supervisor- elect from the district. He succeeds Dr. Robert F. Smart, dean of Richmond College.

Louis A. Crescioli was married August 22, 1959 , to Miss Marjorie Lobdell of Richmond.

Dr. and Mrs. James R. Sease recently returned from a four-day trip to New York where he attended meeting s held by the Amer ican Cancer Society . Jimmy is continuing bis studies in surgery at the Medical College of Virginia.

William E. Harper , Jr. , bas been elected an assistant cashier of Central National Bank. H e has been with Central since 1954. H e was formerly emp loyed by th e Old DomJnion Adjustment Bureau and the Armist ead Adju stment Co. Dr. Warr en J. Winstead moved from Boston last Augu st to 1683 Mont iceJJo St., Petersburg, Va ., and is now an educational advisor at Fort Lee, Va. N. Carl Barefoot, Jr. , has resign ed as dir ector of publication s at th e Richmond Chamber of Commerce. H e became assistant to th e edi tor of the Journal of the Arm erican Institut e of Archit ects on January 1 and has moved to W ashi ngton.

1951E. Eugen e Higgin s reports that the Higgins family is " now back in residence on Virgini a soil" at 414 Dale Drive , Lord Fairfax Estates, Fairfax. He became a Specialist in th e College and University Administration Branch of the U. S. Office of Education, Divi sion of Hi gher Education , following completion of bis EdD degre e and subsequent teaching in the School of Education at Indiana University.

Edwin F. Comunale is the new assistant manager of the Management D evelopm ent Divisi on of

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the Home Lif e Insuranc e Company in Newark, N.J. Bill Ludlam is sales repr esentative for ExquisiteForm , Inc. with headquarters in Richmo nd.

Lewis F. Mock has taken an accounting position with the Virginia Metal Products Company in Orang e.

Marri ed: Miss Frances Marie Barr to John Feild Batte , Jr. in D ecember.

Malc o lm I. Silver, father of a new son, John Edwin Silver, has been promoted to vice-president in charge of sales for Ha sco, Inc., in N. J. Married: Ernest Philip Crick to Alice Jane Micha el , a senior at Westhampton.

Donald Willi am Roth is the ow ner of a popular Dri ve-In Restaurant in Orange , N . J. He and Mr s. Roth had a son, S. Robert Roth , on October 20.

William Clyde Martin, Jr. was married to Miss Dol ores Moyano of Argentina last June. She received her B. A. at Vassar in 1956. H e is presently a phy sicist for the National Bureau of Standards in W ashington , D . C. H e is the author of two art icles ( curr ently in press ) dealing with the confirmation of the Rydberg Constant.

1952Bobby Chadwick is working for his M.A. in anthropology in Mexico.

Rev. Edward H. Clarkson has enro lled in the School of Hospital Admini stratio n of the M edical Coll ege of Vir g inia in preparat ion for his work as a foreign missionary. He has resigned as pastor of the Broad Run and H aymarket Churches.

H. D. Wright , Jr. bas been transferred by Internati onal Harv ester Company from Norfolk to Richmond. H e is now Credit Supervisor for the Vir gi ni a area.

Sam W. Parker is now associated with the Monti cello Dairy in Cbarlottesvi!Je. He previous ly work ed for the Bank of Powhatan, and Dun & Brad str eet.

Born: A son, Frederick D ouglas , to Dr. and

to assistant cashier by the Federal Reser ve Bank of Richmond. Harrison , who has been with the bank since 1951 , was named assistant manag er of th e accounting department in 1955 and manager in 1957.

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FOOD, MEDICINE, CLOTHES.Everything from dried beans to vitamin pills were in the airlift from the United States to Cuba last summer. The supplies were received at Guantanamo Naval Base by the Rt. Rev. A. Hugo Blankenship, '21 (right), Episcopal bishop of Cuba, and other leaders of the Cuba Council of Churches, which distributed the Church World Service supplies.

Mr s. Philip Snider of Berkeley, California. Dr. Snider has been appointed assistant professor of botany at th e University of California .

Married: Theodore Floyd Adams , Jr. , of Lynchburg to Mis s Shirley Colleen Zorn in November.

Born: A son, John David , to Mr. and Mr s.

Richard I. Florin on November 6, 1959 , of West Orange , N. J. Timothy W. Haden is now living at 213 Morgan Ave., in Elkton, Va. H e is a merchant in retail furnitur e.

1953Byron D. Peterson is a wage engineer with Reynolds Metal s Company in Corpus Christi , Texas .

H e reports two sons: Byron, Jr . (4) and David ( 8 months).

Born: A son, Christopher Bruce, to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Nye (B ettie Jarrett , Westhampton ' 52) on April 15, 1959.

Born: A dau ghter , Sandra Milne , October 5, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sneed of Bon Air. He is a sa lesman with the Redford Brick Company in Richmond .

Engaged: Jerry Claude Witherington to Janice Ma e Booze of Richmond. A February wedding is plann ed.

Engaged: Nicholas Andr e Nielsen to Dorothy Gee Saunders of Kenbridg e. An April wedding is planned .

Ron ald H. Da vis and Parke Borkey Davis (Westhampton ' 54) report a daughter , Kimberly Ann born in Detroit , Michigan , December 14, 1957. They live at 3-013 Grange Road , Trenton, Michigan.

1954Don ald R. Young has joined th e staff of th e C.I.T. Corporation and is working out of Richmond.

The Second Branch Church in Chesterfield County has called to its pastorate Rev . Richard L. Reynolds . who bega n his minist ery there on Septemb er 1st. He hold s the M . R. E. degree from th e General Assembly Training School in Richmond and a B.D. deg ree at the Southeastern Seminary.

Engaged: Betsy Rawls Rooks •to Charles Louis Finke , Jr. Th e marriage is planned for February.

William B. Harrison III has been promoted

Mr s. William M. Wanda!! on October 22 . H e and his family are prepar ing for their new assignment in Frankfurt , Germany.

The Rev. Philip E. Jenkins , pastor of South Quay Baptist Church in Franklin , has recently been ordained into the Baptist ministry. He is a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary. The Jenk;ns have •hr childr en.

Ever ett Gill , III , was ordained to the Baptist ministr y at First Baptist Church of Richmond November 29th. His uncle , Dr. William Harrison Williams of Charlotte , N. C., preached the Ordination Sermon. Everett ' s father and his two grandfathers wer e Baptist pastors and denominational servants and leaders.

James F. H c.witt has mov ed to 50 Oakland Avenue , San Anselmo , California .

Carlysle Crank is th e new pastor of Fort Howard Community Church in Fort Howard , Mary land. He was graduated this p1st summer from Chaplain s::hool in Fort Slocum, N. Y. and ordained October 12 in Dr. Peterson's Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore.

R. C. LaPrade is with the U. S. Departm ent of Health , Education , and Welfare in Richmond.

Vincent Jerome Meads , Jr. , is a supe rv isor for International General Electric in New York City.

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Joseph E. Spruill , Jr., has formed a partnership with Gordon Lewis fo r "'the general practice of law" in Tappahannock.

James R. Sipe has been elected Commonwealth Attorn ey for Rockin g ham County and the City of Harrisonburg.

Rev. James K. Brown has assumed the pastorate of the Deep River Baptist Church , D eep River , Connecticut , and First Baptist Church of Old Saybrook , Winthrop , Connecticut. He is taking some courses at Hartford Theological Seminary leading to the STM degree .

Born: A son, Patrick Edward on August 31, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Van R. K elly, Jr. in Richmond.

James William Renney is practicing law in Wakefield. He formerly was employed as an attorney by a Richmond law firm and also by the Allstate Insurance Company Claims Office .

Kenneth Murrell Mac e, Jr. is the new principal of the Henry Clay Schoo l in Ashland. He is former principal of Old Broad Rock School in Chest erfield County.

Robert L. Garian ha s been appointed assistant secretary to the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Garian, a Richmond attorney , graduated from UR and Law School.

James William Hiter is now working with E. I. du Pont de Nemours , Inc. , in Richmond.

He is a chemist.

Charles K. Scott reports a change of address: he is living at 622 NW 9th Ave. , Homestead , Fla. Harland R. Betts has moved to 4210 Ferrara Drive , Wheaton , Md. Born: a son, Parke Douglas , to Mr. and Mrs. Parke Douglas Pendleton of 30 Cooper St., N. Y. , N. Y.

1956Vincent J. Meads , Jr. reports a new address: 44 Boyd Drive , Westbury , Long Island , New York.

Marriages: Samuel W. Holland to Joan Archer Waddell. Robert Neil McKenn ey to Jean Norris Booth.

Engagements: B. Roland Evans to Jane Campbell Williams. The wedding will take place in April.

Joseph Mersel to Ellen Sue Rosenberg . A February wedding is planned.

Claude W. Anderson and the former Nancy Day {Westhampton ' 58) have a new son: Claud e Wood , Jr. (Woody) , born October 24 in Richmond.

Born: A daughter , Cecily Vianne , to Lt. and

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1957Jay Kaplan , formerly spor ts publicist with the University of Richmond , is a public relations consu ltant in Engl ewoo d, N. J. He has also taken on th e job of teaching an evening course in public relations to adu lts at the Dwight Morrow High Schoo l in Englewood.

Jack N. Kodrich has been appointed a state bank examiner by the State Corporation Com mission.

Sherwood Frostick is now plant manager of the Winchester Petroleum division of Southern States Cooperative.

R. Kenn eth Wheeler writes , "My wife, Faye , and I are presently livin g in Jacksonville , N. C. I am a 1st Lt. in the USMC , stationed at Camp Lejeune. I am in the heavy avtillery rocket batt ery ( honest john)."

Donald Burkat has a new job in the Public Relations Dept. of Prudential Magazine.

Al Burkholder has been elected president of his freshman class in the School of Ho spital Administration at the Medical College of Vir ginia .

He reports a new son , Terry.

Jack B. Odell and Shirley Jean Hartmann were married November 28.

A son Gregory Wayne, was born May 29, 1959 , to Mr. and Mrs. Emory P. Weisiger.

James Archibald Leach Ill is now with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in Norfo lk. He was previously a management trainee with Ford Motor Company. He recently qualified

LOUTHAN AND DAVIS ARE NAMED TO VIRGINIA MILK COMMISSION Two of the three members of Virginia 's powerful State Milk Commission are alumni of the University of Richmond. They are Frank G. Louthan , ' 10, who was appointed

by Governor Almond in late December and Dr. Howard Hunter Davis, '23, who was appointed two months earlier.

Mr. Louthan , former executive vice-president of the Virginia Manufacturers Association, is the consumer member of the commission ; Dr. Davis, professor of economics and government at Richmond Professional Institute since 1946, is the economist member.

The third member and chairman, Clarence G. Burrows of Bedford, represents the producers.

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Since his retirement from the manufacturers association, Mr. Louthan has been serving as treasurer of Virginia Forests , Inc. He also has been working diligently as local chairman for the class of 1910 in preparations for the 50th reunion next spring.

(Although Frank Louthan is nearing 72 years of age, he has had only one-fourth that many birthdays. He was born on Leap Year Day in 1888 in Clarke County, Virginia.)

Dr. Davis, a native of Cumberland, Md., has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in addition to his B.A. from Richmond. He taught in the Allegany County High School in Maryland, Bluefield College and the Oklahoma College for Women before joining RPI.

for the vice-presidents club at CGLIC. Jose A . Garrido, who is now attending the Univers ity of Puerto Rico law School, ha s just been married to Am alita Velez of New York.

Thomas Rodes Jarman, Jr. , has joined the tra ining program at the State-P lant ers Bank. H e reports two boys: James Cardwell (25 month s ) and Kenneth Mills (9 months).

Wilbert Sisk Hodges , Jr. , is now associated with the Post Office Department in Williamsburg. He is former owner of a drive-in res<taurant.

Engaged: John Wylie Davenport of Gordonsvi lle to Bernice Lou Crockett of Charlottesv ill e. A Februa ry wedding is planned.

1958Harry W. Garrett, Jr. , has comp leted the 17week field artillery officer basic course at the Artillery and Missile Schoo l, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

The course, designed for newly-commissioned officers, trained Lt. Garrett in communications, arti llery, transport , tactics, and target acquisition.

En.1sagement: Miss Jean Fra nces Ayers to Paul Winfree Anderson. The wedding wi ll take place in Februarv.

T homas H. Neathery, Jr., is a junior accountant wit h Blomquist , Halstead and Company in Jamestown, N. Y. Born: A son, William Craig on Sept. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Brotzman , Jr. , at Ft. Bliss , Texas .

J erome 1. Stein is moving to Hampton. His posit ion is wit h mathematical research wit h Tech nical Operation , Inc., Fort Monroe , Va. He is assista nt administrative officer in the H igh Altitude Missile D epartment, United States Army Air Defense School, which trains personnel on the Ni ke Hercules Missile.

Born: A son, Robert Manning, August 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus J ames .

Army 2nd Lt. Phil lip E. Welker recently complete d th e officer basic course at the Infantry Schoo l, Ft. Benning , Ga. Floyd 1. Carr is moving to Winston-Salem , N. C. where he wi ll be detailing to doctors. H e wil l be with Mead Johnson , Inc. Donald Gregory is pharmaceu-tical detail man wi th Smith, Cline, and Frenc h laboratories in the Roanoke territory.

Don ald Keith Pend leton is doing "confidential" work wit h Western Electric Co. in WinstonSalem, N. C. A boy, Brian McCauley , was born Sept. 29 to

IS RUSSIAMERELYBLUFFING?PROBABLYYES, SAYS CAMPBELL T. E. Campbell , '27, on a recent trip to Russia, found the Russians courteous but suspICious.

Mr. Campbe ll, upon return ing to his Bowling Green home after his sixth trip to Europe since 1948, outl ined his impressions of Russia at the request of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The clerk of Caroline County Circuit Court said he passed through the Iron Curtain when he entered Czechoslovakia but did not feel the curtain close until he reached Russia.

He said the Czechs and Poles treated him court eously and left him alone. "The Russians were also courteous, but they did not leave me alone. The first thing I learned after I reached Russia was that the Soviets have no confidence in independent thinking and r~?ard anyone with suspicion who travels alone.

He added that "de legations who come to Russia for instruction and propaganda purposes they apprec iate, and organ ized tours they tolerate. But an independent traveler, such as I was, is a nuisance , although the delegation travels at the government's expense, the tour at reduced mtes and the independent traveler at $30 a day, plus transportation fares and extras."

Mr. Campbell described Moscow as "an immaculate city, the cleanest city I have ever seen. I never saw any litter , even -a cigaret butt, on the streets."

H e noted that Moscow is supposed to be the greatest industrial center in the Soviet Union, but "I saw few modern factories as I explored the city, and Stella (his guide) only pointed out one, a plant which manufactured sweets. There are few automobiles, far less than in any major city I have ever visited. While this reflects on the industrial capacity of a nation, it has a decided advantage for the tourist. My driver was always able to park directly in front of the building I wish ed to visit, even a store in the shopping district."

Except for one English-speaking Russian who believed in God and hated communism, "all the Russians I talked with were happy under Communist rule. " Mr. Campbell said that "w hile they have the scientists to put a sputnik in orbit and hit the moon with a rocket, spectacular feats which scare some Americans to death, they -actually lack the indus.trial capacity to exploit these developments. I believe Russia is pulling one of the biggest bluffs in history-but remember I was there only a few days."

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic 1. Marx in Richmond .

Father Marx is employed at VEPCO. Engaged: Barry Bruce Anthony and Betty Lou Sutton (W esthampton).

Born: A son, John Bryan, August 11, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schwe itzer.

H erbert F. Richardson has been elected assistant title officer of the branch 's operations of lawyer s Tit le Insurance Corporation.

J. Ashton Kesler , '58, is recreation director of H endr icks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville where he cond ucts a varied program of activit ies. " I love my job ," he says. " I am working with ath letics and recreation with emphasis on the young people , and yet am satisfyi ng my desire to wo rk in a Christian atmosphere ."

He point s out that membership in the Recreation Association is not li mited to members of Hendricks Avenue Church. Approximately forty per cent are members of this church; the others are from ot her churches and other de nominations, including Catho lics and Jews.

Clyde H. Lipscomb , class of '40, is pastor at Hendricks Aven ue Church.

George 1. Aldridge , Jr., is working as a public administrator in the Office of the Governor in Trenton , New Jersey. He plans to receive his Mast er of Governmental Administration Degre e from the U niversity of Pennsy lvania in June, 1960.

George Richard Hulcher has been promoted to 1st lieutenant at Fort Benning , Ga. Lt . Jame s E. Hoffman has a new address: A Co, 3rd ARB , 50th Inf. , APO # 26, N. Y., N. Y. Phi l Welker is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga.

surance Company of North America in Richmond.

Mel vin Burton has finished his service at the Pensacola Plying School.

Married: John R. Cummins and Evel ine Ann lewis of West Caldwell.

Wi llia m McGruder Bugg is a computer in the Bell laboratory under the employment of Philco in Whippany, N. J. Thomas Raymond Ryan, III , was sworn in as a Nava l Aviation Officer Candidate at the Nava l Air Station, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Norfolk, recently. He is now at Pensacola where he wi Jl attend pre-flig ht school and receive basic flight training. 路, ;,, 路路路 Engaged: Robert MaxweJl Weinberg to Florence Joyce Gralnick. Th e wedding will take place in Jun e.

J. W. Rhyne has join ed the staff of Haskins and Sells in Charlotte , N. C. Born: A son, to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Marrin in September in Ri chmo nd , Va. Married: John Mclver leach to Grace Tarver of Wa co, Texas. leach has comp leted his service at Fort Knox , Kentucky.

Azal ea Church in Norfo lk exte nd ed a call to the Rev. Edward 1. Fe lton , Jr. as assistant pastor in charge of youth activities. His term of service wil l be one year, at which time he will resume his studie s at Southern Seminary. H e will work with Frank Lawson Pankey '48.

Samuel McEwen has accepted a job as pharmaceutical detail man with Parke-Davis Company.

Married: H arry Scott Wagner to Miss Mary Lou Walden who is currently attending Westhampton.

Robert Hu ghes Gettle of D ayton, Ohio , is now with the Rik e Kuml er Company in Dayton.

Major William Mansfield is a 2nd lieutenant station ed at Ft. Benning, Ga., with the second division.

Engaged: Thomas Edward Dietrich of Ellerson to Kathleen Andr ea Murray of Richmond.

John M. leach is with the truck division of Internati onal Harvester Co. in Richmond.

James S. Presgrave s is teaching seventh grade at Bainbridge Junior Hi gh School and also teaches at John Marshal] Evening School twice a week.

1959IT'S FOR YOU . J. Philip Hart makes a formal presentation of the University of Richmond rattle to his new brother Stephen Anson Hart, born on November 24. The children are the sons of Philip R. Hart, '45, and Mrs. Hart . Phil is Director of Religious Activities for Men at the University .

Born: A son, Thomas Young, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Whitaker , in Wayne sboro.

Wayne A. Sweet was commissioned a second I ieutenant in the Regu lar Arm y at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Married: Robert Gerald Haynie and Bonnie Elaine lewi s.

Arthur Broadhurst is in his first year at ColgateRochester Divinity School.

John G. Eley is a claims adjuster with the In-

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esthampton News Ric hmond Coll ege Co-eds Secretary

MRS. WILLIAM S. MATTHEWS ( Franc es Trevvett) Glen All en, Virginia Lo rena Mason - 1904-1905 - wa s with the Y.W.C.A. during World War I. She th en served three years as Gen eral Secretary of the Y.W.C.A . in Ashevill e, North Carolina , three years in Fort Wayn e, Indiana, eight years in Tr enton, New J ersey, and lat er in Fairmont , West Virginia.

Lorena returned to Richmond in 1944 to the Staff of the Y.W.C.A. and remained there until she retired in 1956. Now she is keeping house in W estover Hills; at the same time she does some Y work, church work , travels around , visits friends, read s and writes.

Julia Peachey Harrison is now busy moving to Monro e Terrace . Peachey took three degrees , B.A. , B.S., M.A. during the time she spent at R .C. She taught at Wil son College , retired in 1948 . Since then she has wandered about a bit to the Hol y Land in 1951 and around the world in 1955 . Now an ardent collector of stamps , she is working on a History of Science as shown in stamps.

Sadie Engelberg retired June , 1958 after 50 years of teaching. Sadie had a trip to Europe in 1959 . Now she collects stamps and flits about from " board to bored ."

Mary Montague retired in June , 1958 , went to Europe that same year. She is now recovering from the effects of an unfortunate accident.

Eudora Ramsey Richardson , 1911, has done enough writing , etc. to get in "Who 's Who ," 1932 ff. Now , as she says, she is not doing a thing except having bad arthritis. She is also enjoying to the fullest two delightful young grandsons.

Mary Harris Willis, 1903 , is now living with her son , Eugene Willis in Culpeper County. Her address is Box 38, Remington , Va.

1915

Secretary MRS. WILMER O'FLAHERTY ( Celeste Anderson) 3603 Moss Side Ave., Richmond, Va.

Louise Reams (Mrs. E. D. Hundley of Charlottesville) has always been one of our class " prides " as she was the first woman to receive an M.A. from Westhampton in 1916 after receiving her B.A. in 1915. In our last report we did not have the facts in hand on her son, Louis. We mention ed John Hundley , the Charlottesville city editor and actor in the local dramas . Dr. Louis Hundlei â&#x20AC;˘ received his Ph.D. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with the unusual major, " Wild Life Management ," a course offered in the East only at V .P.I. and Cornell. He has been teaching biology for the past three years at Virginia Military Institute. He is happily married and a fr equent visitor of his mother's.

Kathle en Cottle and Frances Beale and I lun ched with Ir ene Stiff Phillips in Tappahannock and Franc es and I stopped by Frieda 's for supper on Nov . 21. Kathle en, Irene, Frieda and I spent the night with Franc es in Bowling Green , October 29.

1916

Secretary FRIEDA MEREDITH DIETZ 2100 Stuart Ave ., Richmond 20, Va.

Our class was grieved at the death of gentle brilliant Sally Wills Holland. The story is uncle; N ecrolon .

Our class now numbers on ly five graduatesStella Carden in Pittsburgh , retired from teaching and a prospering decorative picture artist; Eliza-

beth Hutcheson , still in a government position in Washington; Kathleen Bland (Mrs. Ralph Cottle) who since her husband 's passing has become a Sunday School teacher and is super-active in her church near West Point , Va. (her address is Box 266 , West Point , Va.); Helen A. Monsell , very active at RJChmond Colleg e and in the writing field; and I am working on gathering congenial peop le for a tour of Europe in April. Also, I do a little on programs for clubs and enjoyed the honor of being asked to talk on dolls and costumes at the October supper meeting of the Richmond Alumnae Club.

We are happy to note among the contributors to our alumnae funds , Lillian Harding (Mrs. Carl Bixby) of N ew York and Connecticut. Lillian was a beloved classmate and a very special basketball player but she did not return for her graduation year; she is still a much prized classmate. Others we see, who did not stay for graduation , are Louise Tanner (Mrs. William Callis West) and Elizabeth Spratley (Mrs. Chester Wooldridge).

We must try to get those three back in the fold so that we may number at least 10.

1920

Secretary MRS. WILBUR H. RYLAND (Sa llie Adkinson) 4107 W. Franklin Street, Richmond, Va.

Do you realize that when next June rolls around it will be forty years since we graduated? How man)'. of you are interested in coming back for a reunion June 3-5? We can stay in the dormitory .Jt Westhampton and regain our youth, temporarily at least. Please write to me if you think we should plan a reunion . We aren't too old but we do need enthusiasm!

1924

Secretary Miss WILHELMINA WRIGHT 3200 Hawthorne Ave., Richmond 22, Va.

We were sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Anne H. Rullman (Anne Harris, 1924) . She bad been a teacher in the Falls Church High School for about twenty years. Our sympathy goes to her family .

1925

Secretary

MRS.T. F. COCKE (Gladys Wright) 1302 Washington Avenue Fredericksburg, Virginia

Julia Decker Bristow, Evelyn Boatwright and I a.ttended Alumnae College and May Rudd, who lives in Richmond now, joined us that evening for the banquet and musical show afterwards. It's too bad more of you can't take advantage of Alumnae College . I've found it quite invigorating each year.

How many of you would be interested in our trying to plan a good 35th reunion next spring at commencement? Please write me your views , and 1f enough of you will plan to come and help, we'll get busy w,th arrangements.

My biggest job recently has been that of serving as Christmas Mother for Fredericksburg this Christmas.

1929

Secretary MISS HELEN C. MooN 111 Tonbridge Road, Richmond 21, Va.

A letter from Elizabeth Ha le brings a change of address and interesting news. Her present ad-

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dress is 2 B Lorong Mahdali , Ator Star , Kedah , Malaya.

She writes "There is so much to tell you about: A deli ghtful holiday on the East Coast wher e life is quite different from that in this part of Malaya; (ju st took time out to go up on th e roof to enjoy the beauty of a crimson sunset); the privilege of attending the East Asia Christian Conferenc e in J uala Lumpur ( this touch with the ernrnenical movement did mean mu ch) ; our Mission Meeting at Golden Sands, where in spite of many unsolved problems we "thanked God and took courage"; the visit of Mrs. Mathis and Alma Hunt. But , as the address told you, I'm back 1n Ator Star , and so I guess this letter will just naturally be most about this part of the world , which I want you to know and Jove. Lovely it ,s, with the farmers just now transplanting rice in the great "rice bowl of Malaya" which stretches out on every hand.

Stopped in Penang a bit for a start of study of Swatow with a teacher there. This language study will be my first task here for awhile.

The greatest change evident is, of course, in the younger generation. I have been thinking of 1953 when I came back to Kedab after language study in Singapore, and while this house was being built started working in the litt le room behind the church with most of the group of children who have been so precious since then. At that time they were from eight to twelve and now some of them are working for their Cambridge exams!

KATHRYN McGLOTHLIN ODELL ELECTEDFIRSTWOMAN MEMBER OF GREENVILLESCHOOL BOARD Kathryn Odell '20 was elected to the Greenville (South Carolina) County District board of trustees last summer in a spirited contest with a former United States senator.

She is the first woman ever elected to this board, and won by an almost two to one majority over her opponent.

She has been active in a wide variety of community affairs. She served on the board of directors of the Greater Greenville Community Chest, as a member of the executive committee of the Council of Social Agencies, and on the board of the Greenville YWCA. She is a former president of the Crescent Community Club, of the Crescent Literary Club and of the Thursday Club and she is a former vice-president of the Greenville Woman's Club.

She is also a member of the board and secretary of the Family and Children Service.

Mrs. Odell taught in the Greenville High School for a number of years and has taught American history at Furman summer school.

She served for several years as director of public and school relations for the Greenville City Schools.

This "works hop " is being freshened up-not very pleasant at the moment, but holding promise for the future I It is built on church property and is going to be given to the church, and I'll continue living here with th eir approval, as in the church building back in China.

It is good to be back here. Have ju st had my yearly phy sical check-up; all is O.K.-and trip to the dentist, and am ready to settle down for the next two years before furlough , should it so work out. There is a deeper quiet within than I've ever known, a quality of joy much richer than that in the heart of the young missionary who twenty-five years ago this month sailed for China. "

1930

Secretary MRS. RICHARD CONNELL (Alice Richardson) 1402 Sauer Avenue , Richmond , Virginia

Because of her doctor's orders, Dorcas Herthel has had to resign as class secretary, and I have agreed to serve temporarily with the help of the other class members in Richmond.

Virginia Shinnick and her family went to New York for Thanksgiving. While there she saw Cornelia Ferguson Underwood and her husband , Wilson. The Underwoods returned from the West Coast about a year ago and are now living in Short Hill s, New Jersey. Wilson Underwood is a vice-president of New York life Insurance Company. They have one son fifteen years old who is in Hackley School and another son twelve years old at home.

Start planning now to return for our class reunion next June . It is to be held in connection with Commencement this year and the dates will be June 3 to 5. You'll be hearing more about this later, but meanwhile be sure to save the dates.

1931

1933

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MARGARET LEAKE

Carolina C. Beattie , chief medical record librarian at Johnston-Willis Hospital , was named vice-president of the American Association of Medical Record Librarians when they met in Minneapolis, Minn.

It seems t>hat quite a number of us have gone into library work since our grad uation. I see Helen Haverty-now in Hampton-and Leone Cooper at various library meetings. Josephine Nunnally is cataloguer at the Universit y of Richmond library and Frances Farmer has guided the Law Library at the University of Virginia to an outstandi ng place among the law librari es of the country. Are any other s of us among the librar y ranks)

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Secretary MRS. R. VAN HEUVELN ( Frances Lundin) 4021 Midlothian Pike , Richmond 24, Va.

Virginia Watkins Ellenberg and her husband made a motor trip last November from Columbia , S. C. through the Great Smokies to Knoxville , Tennessee, where they visited relatives.

Liz Goodwin Henderson , with her husband and three chi ldren , drove out to California during the summer , going by the southern route and return ing via Yellowstone Park and Chicago.

Their itinerary included the Grand Canyon, Disneyland , Los Angeles , Yosemite Park , the coastal drive to San Simeon Castle, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. Liz also went to New York last September, accompanying her husband to that dental convention which refused to give up its Hotel Astor reservations for a certain Russian visitor.

1935

Secretary MRS. GLENN S. HESBY 900 West Franklin St. Richmond 20 , Virginia

Secretar y Miss GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Avenue Richmond 27, Virginia

We extend our sincere sympathy to Archi e Fowlkes in the recent death of her mother.

News of you and your family is always most welcome at your secretar y's address.

Secretary

408 N. Meadow St., Richmond, Va.

1932

porarily while "Bus" is attending the University of Virginia until February when he completes his work for his Ph.D. Only Geneva Bennett Snellings, Helen Pollard D eck and I made it to the Alumnae luncheon.

Also Helen, Mary Ryland Babcock and I made it to the Alumnae Dinn er.

Dee Pritchett Taylor 's son, Billie , age 17, is a Freshman at VPI. Carolyn and Charlie Broaddus were in Richmond the weekend of the Tobacco Bowl game.

They are the proud grandparents of a girl born to their son , Coleman , and his wife in Nap les, Italy.

Elizabeth Goldston Soyars has returned to Richmond and is making her home with her mother at 1503 Palmyra Avenue.

Gwendolyn Graham Ridenour is no longer work ing, and therefore has time to enjoy her three grandchildren, one boy, age 7, a little girl , age 3 and another little gir l born in April , 1959.

Congratulations to Zephia in her fine work in writing our class news. This is my first attempt at this new task. I'.11 need your support. Send the news so it can be printed .

Secretary MRS. C. M. TATUM (Gladys T. Smith) 336 Lexington Road, Richmond 26, Va.

Several members of our class have been in the news recently. At a meeting of the Robert E. lee School PTA , Lottie Britt Callis participated in

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a panel discussion on " Changing Family Life in America."

On the same evening the television study group heard Mary Anne Guy Franklin , television consu ltant , Richmond Public Schoo ls.

Mary Mills Freeman led her local PT A group in making a resolution asking Dr. Smart to reconsider his resignation from the Henrico County School Board.

Mildred Epes Whit e's daughter is a dean 's list stud ent at Randolph-Macon Woman 's College.

Beverley Bates , an experienced occupational therapist , is Director of the Senior Center, which has completed a successful year of work and activities with the senior citizens of the community.

1936

Secretary

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

MRS. WILLIAM

Belated congratulations to Virginia Kirk Weeden who received her MA from Syracuse Univ ersit y in the summer of 1958. W e are proud of her.

Martha Riis Moore 's daughter, Elisabeth , is being married in March. Martha works part-time for the Richmond Unit of the Cancer Society.

Dot Enslow and her family are happily settled in Bellevue, Washington.

Alice Gibson Strong is working in th e Broad Street Office of the Coca Cola Company.

Mildred Crowder Pickels and family vacatio ned in Hawaii this summer and Boo and Sidney Page went to Mexico.

Your secretary, after six years of feeble reporting, feels the need of a vacation. Won ' t someone come to the rescue' Why no-t an out of town member' I'm looking for a volunteer, so don 't be bashful. It is a wonderful opportunity to keep in touch with other class mates. let me hear from you!

1937

Secretary MRS. CARL MEADOR ( Margaret Mitchell) 214 Banbury Road Richmond 21, Virginia

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Nancy Chappell Pettigrew has great reason to be proud of Tim, a senior at Manchester High. He had a score of 99% on his National Merit Scholarship Exam that was taken last spring and he has been elected to National Honor Society. Nan is a sixth grader at Bon Air who is active in her junior church choir and the Scout troop. Nancy reports that she has worked diligently with scouts and a junior 4H group. luckily four-year old Bill enjoys accompanying Mama in her many activities .

Mina Karp Moss recently had a nice stroll around the college campus with her youngest child. Mina's oldest daughter, Susan, is a sophomore at Freeman , John is in eighth grade at Tuckahoe , and Pat is in the third grade at Collegiate Country Day. Louise Gano Wilkinson says they have been busy staying home since their Florida trip in August.

She has John in Tuckahoe Junior High and David in the first grade.

I've heard that Florence Moore Flake is still living at Fort lee , where her husband is a Major in the regular army. At that most memorable football victory over William and Mary on Thanksgiving we spied both Jane and Stovall Johnston and Betty and Lawrence Briel. At the Mosque for " An Evening With Carl Sandburg" both the Meadors and th e Chewnings were so happy to see Frances Wright James again. She always look ed like Bette Davis to so many of us, and that night we saw a glamorous Bette on stage and an even more glamorous Frankie during intermission.

Please share your news with us in 1960.

Closs Rings

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CHARLES G. MOTLEY, '45

WALTER B. ANDERSON, '21

(L. G. Balfour Co.)

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Richmond 25, Virginia

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Secretary

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

Anne Walker is taking a course in chemistry at R.P.I. this year. She reports seeing Annette Hawkes Day, ex '38, who is taking courses towards a degree in psychology.

We were sorry to learn of the illness of Jo

Trevvett M elchior 's son, Ge orge, who was in M.C.V. Hos pi tal for some tim e. W e hop e he is much better by now. Jo 's address is : Mrs. Georg e M elchior , 400 W . Nash, Wil son, N . C.

1939

Secretary MRS. FRANK B. LEWIS (Cally Ross) 1203 Confederate Ave ., Richmond 27, Va .

Garland Wil son Brookes , Scotty Campbe ll J acobs, Evelyn Haza rd Au g us and Pat Walford attended th e H omecom in.<sBanquet thi s fa ll. Garland and Evelyn a lso atte nd ed th e Alumn ae Co llege D ay.

Becky Branch has been confined to h er hom e by ii lness for some time. I kn ow she would enj oy receiving cards from the class. H er address is 312 W .

Overbrook Road , R ichm ond , Vir gi nia.

1940 Secretary

MRS. HARRY GENTRY WILLIAMS (Sadd ve Jane Sykes) 6506 M onumen t Ave ., Richm ond 26, Va.

After a wo nd erfu l holiday seaso n, it is alw ays nice to sett le back into routine livi ng for a while but please don ' t get too comfortable. Jun e is ju st aro und th e corn er and we'll soon be celebrat ing our 20t h birthday. I do hope that al l of you wi ll be comi ng back to W esthampton th en 1 Margaret Ligon Bernhart of F1ll s Church, Virg ini a, was in town for Hom ecoming and had a long telepho ne chat with Harr iett Yeamans M erce r. Marpa ret is busv in church and communit y lif e and her four chi ld ren keep her on th e run constant ly.

Kitty Lvle is loo king wond erful th ese days and is now takin g dancin g at the Richmond Professional In sti tute on Thur sday night s.

Virgini a Vaugha n Noe is havin g rea l success, as well as lot s of fun , sellin.<sTHE WORLD BooK S. H er exce llent sa les talk w ill have you sign ed on th e dotted line before you know it, if you're not cautious.

All of you will be happy to know that Janet Gresham Manson 's husband , Bill , is now at hom e and improving. In ear ly November, he crashed in his pr ivate plan e in the Me shomasic State For est in Connecticut. Bill was on a business trip , head ed for H artford , and even th ough he suffered chest injuries and multipl e cuts , it is good to repo rt that he' ll soo n be good as new.

Libby John son Alvi s cam e down to Richmond from Falls Church , Virginia , for her hu sband 's fami ly reunion last fall. Libb y is bu sy in scout work and tries to keep in step with her three children.

Frances Bailey Gill is an assista nt den mother thi s year; however, the real exciteme nt in th eir household is that "D ad" recently boug ht a new fore ig n spo rts car-a nd it's hand s off for "Mom. " Our ow n M ary M olin e Grubbs is teaching Physical Education at Collegiate. She and Dall as pre-teen age. have a son and a daughter-both Lucy Baird is now in a new apartme nt at 2024 Monument Avenue. She and Pauline Cortopassi p lay in the same bridge club every ot her Thur sday night.

Congratu lati ons to J ane Dav enport Reid. She ha s learned to drive a car and also mastered swimming.

Jan e and Emmet recently bought a painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art s. They also rent wonpictures from the museum by the month-a derfu I opportunity for more of us to really get to know and appreciate some of the fine art in our city.

Two of our Richmond girls - Mildr ed Gustafson D onohu e and Elsie Mat ting sly Di ckin son-we re shopp ing at Best in New York and accidentally ran into each other. They had a leis ure ly lunch with much chat ter. Millie 's husband , Jimmie , retu rn ed from a trip arou nd th e world in the fa ll with tales H orne never of earth qu akes and typhoons. . loo ked so good before 1 Kitty W icker Lon g of Fayetteville , West Virginia, has her oldest ch ild at Christ's Church School and a daughter ent ers St. Catherine 's next year.

Per hap s we¡ 11 be see ing Kitt y in Richmo nd before too long.

Ethel O'Brien H arri ngton h ad a wo nd erful visit wit h her mother and aun t in New York a short time before Christmas. Ethel and J ohn love Chapel Hill , Nor th Caro lina , and John doesn ' t mind th e flying back and fo rth to T exas for bu siness.

Planning for the reunion wi ll soo n begin and if

any of you have ideas about our big get-tog eth er, let's have th em. I'll not be headin g this commi tt ee, but I'll be g lad to pass them on to the person who is selected. Your notes make the news for th ese nl be watching th e mails for YOUR letters.

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1941 Secretarv

MRS. R.. P. STONE ( Mayme O'Flaherty) 3605 Moss Si de Ave. Richmond 22, Va .

Loui se M orri ssey Mo yer's letter about th e W ashingto n group came as a we lcome Christmas present as J was trying to get this off in th e pre-ho! iday rush. "Th ere were seven high- spi rit ed ' 4lers at th e W ash ington Club luncheon in O ctob er. and we almost " brok e it up" as we elbow ed 1s close as possibl e to th e spea kers ' tabl e to be near Mary Ow en Bass, National Vic e Pr esident, who had driv en dow n from Wilmington that Saturday to spea k .

Looking wonderful , M ary was proudly flashin g pictur es of daughter , Mary Katherin e, age 2½, and of son, Ken ny, a lmost 6 feet tall.

We were welcoming a newco mer to th e area , Marion Yan cey P etroff , who se husband was transferred here in Jun e. Before leaving Newport, R. I., th ey had visited with Edith Burfoot Lovig several times. Th e Petroff s, with chi ld ren ages, 7, 6, and 3 are living at 1105 North Qu anti co, Arlington.

I was fascinat ed by Ann Wo odward Courtn ey's account of last summer's camping trip throu g h Nebra ska, South Dakota , and Mi chiga n-a busines s trip for Bob , but for Ann , an encount er with gyps ies ( whi le Bob was attending to busin ess, natura lly ) .

All this whi le mothering th e four chi ldr en , includ ing young Mar shall Ashley , born Oct ober 29 , 1958 !

Ann report ed havi ng had a grand afternoon " Catching up " with Virginia Omohundro Purcell , whil e Harold had bu siness in Al exandria.

Josephine Fennell Pacheco delighted us with the news that she had spent last summer in Brazil , visiting Armando' s family and giving th e chi ldr en a chance to kn ow th eir cousins. H er chi ldr en are in school now , grades 2, 3, and 4. As for academic end eavo rs, she is spe nding one day a week at th e Library of Congress on a " proj ect which I think I'll continue. " Martha Beam deVos and I manag e to get our families togeth er every six months or so . During th e summer Eleanor Kindell Mill er and her family visite d th e deVoses during th eir trip hom e from Aruba , and we had a delightful picnic on th e grounds of th e National Arbor etum , where Fran deV os is assistant dir ector. Mildr ed P ark er Beecher '42 of Black sburg , also picnicked with us. Marth a had seen Mildr ed Owens Stanley in Blacksburg where she is so very active in church, civic and ga rd en club activities.

At the lun cheon, I also had a nic e chat with Evelyn Cosby, who was lookin g forward to a New York vacation in the fall.

As for th e M oyers, we seem firmly entrenched in Maryland , ju st outside th e Di strict and are hectically engaged in the proj ect of finishing off th e upstairs of our Cape Cod . Jo e and I are each takin g

HARRIET WALTON '35 HONORED AS HOCKEY PLAYER Harrie t Walton was the subject of a recent feature story in the Times-Dispatch. The United States Field Hockey Association has awarded her an honorary membership, and she and the physical education director of Vassar were the oniy two women in th e U.S. to receive the special recogn ition. Although founded in 1922, the Association has only 32 honorary memberships. Harriet has probably won more honors for her athletic prowess and played on mor e a ll-star teams than any graduate of the University of Richmond. She has played on all-star teams in this country and has repres ented the U. S. on teams which have played in Africa, Australia , and Europe.

Harriet still plays with the Richmond Ho ckey Club. She teaches biology at St. Catherine's School.

a night course and are activ e in ju st enough organizations to keep the schedul e squ eeze d to th e limit each week. " Carolyn Gary Hugo and her children were in Richmond to spend the Thank sgiv ing holidays with her fami ly and brought news of Kitty Crawford Lindsay whom she sees frequ ently . We wer e sor ry to hear of th e death of Howard 's mother in Canada , and also to hear th at Kitty did not get her Europ ean trip as son Robbie was sick. Caro lyn reports that he is doing fine now.

Its Slip ek received a letter from T eensy Garr ett Buckler who se address is Number 42 , Beethove nstrasse, Nurenburg , Germany. Th ey arrived in Europe in September 1958 and hav e visited Rom e, Paris , London and taken side trip s to the Shakespeare country whil e in London .

Among th e local group, Antoinett e Wirth Whit tet presided beautifuHy at th e Alumnae banquet in th e fall. H enri etta Sadl er Ellwanger , Ann Philli ps Bonifant and I enjoyed bein g ther e together. Antoin ette and Mac are just back from a trip to K ansas City , Mi ssouri. Phyllis Coghill Br ow n is active in th e Leag ue for Pl anned Par enthood and is also chairman of th e Vienne se Ball to be given in th e spring at th e Virginia Mus eum of Fine Art s. I have had a bu sy fall work ing with the Woman 's Committee of the Richmond Symphony , and we are quite exci ted ove r a new series of program s inaugurated this year to acquaint chi ld ren with th e various families of instruments in the orchestra. It is a lecture demon stration typ e program with members of th e symphony present to play music especially commissioned for th e occasion . Hilton Ruft y of the Univer sity of Ri chm ond facu lty was com-

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1944

Secretary MRS. KEITH MAXWELL ( E1Ien Mercer Clark) 1002 S. Frankl in , Mt . Pleasant, Michigan

Our new section leader s are Lucy Garnett Lacy, Doris Hedgepeth Neal, Mimi Hill Boynton , Gene Shepard , Ann Thruston Filer, and Mary Lee Smith Chapin. You will hear from them befor e the Nhrch issue .

Lucy and Bill and famil y of thr ee hav e moved into a ten room hou se which is a little like Grand Central Station. Bill is dean of students and on th e psych staff at Trinity Coll ege , and Lucy works part time at a child guidance clinic.

Julia Wych e Chapin arrived to Louis and Mary Lee Smith Chapin in April between th e dres s rehearsal and the performance of the spring concert. ( He is in the musi c department , you remember.)

Bob and Ruth Van Ness Cotton have a daught er, Candice Victoria , born September 4. That mak es two boys , two girls for them. Bob was recently e lected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

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They celebrated those events with a vacation in Bermuda.

Ann Burcher Stansbury writes that their hous e needs soundproof rooms. Warr en at his Hammond Organ , Barby on cello, \1(/inn on bass fiddle, and Susan practicing piano and violin , and th e two litt le ones exercising th eir vocal chords make a musical but noisy family.

Mimi Hill Boynton has four out of five children home this winter but finds time to teach a kind ergarten class, sew, read , and tr y her hand at watercolor or paste ls.

I am teaching for Central University this term , two classes of Spanish, one of Latin . It' s a temporary job , for state law says only one memb er of a family may teach at a state school. Keit h is presi dent of the Michigan Speech and Hearin g Association this year and busy with class es too.

Let me hear from you all by March 1, so I can get news of ¡44 in th e next issue.

1945

Secretary !\[RS. J. B. JACKSON, JR. (Ann Seay) 7711 Sweet Briar Road , Richmond 29, Va.

A Happy , H ea lthy , and Prosperous New Year to each of you and yours! Be sur e you start planning now for our 15th reunion to be held Jun e 3rd to June 5th.

I am happy to report th e births of a daughter, Lucille Huntley , to Kathy Mumma Atkinson and Jack in March; a son, Loui s J., Jr. , to Dori s Mill s Harrell and Lou in April ; a daughter , Elizabeth Shipp , to Jen Lea and Scott Yancey in August , and a daughter , Meredith Twombly, to Ann and Jim Leland in October.

Doris live s at 44 Mav eric k Drive , Dayt on 31, Ohio, and Lou is stationed at th e Wright-Patt erso n Air Force Base where he works in th e Ai r Technical Intelligence Center, th e purpose of which is to avoid technological "su rpris es."

Kathy was quite ill with a drug-r esistant "s taph " germ after Lu cill e's birth and had to return to th e hospital when the baby was 7 weeks old, for an operation.

I wish to express, for us all, our deep est sympathy to Betty Law son Di11ard whose father died in early December.

I had two grand Chri stmas telephone conversations with Ann Clark Howe and Mary Ellen Tucker Lowr y. Ann and her family had driven down to spend the holiday s with her par ent s in Buckingham and were faced with returning to a frigid , snow-covered Potsdam. Mar y Ellen and her family were her e from Camden , South Carolina for a nice Jong holida y with both sets of relatives.

Christmas card news was scarce bu t meaty .

Nancy Lazenby Stables wrote of grand trips to Pari s, Luxemburg, Holland , Belgium , Bavaria and Austria this past summer. She, Linton and the boys are living in Frankfurt and Jove it.

EIJen Brooks Blackwell , Roy and their children are presently at Fort Leavenworth , Kansa s, but expect overseas orders soon.

Mary Campbell Paulson and family were driv ing to Minnesota to spend Chri stm as with Jack's family.

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Ruth Latimer is still at the University of Maryland enj oying her Physical Therapy clinical and teaching work , and has been elected President of a new ly organi zed Baltimore Club of Westhampton College Alumna e Association.

Liz Parker Cone told of a grand Thanksgiving get toge ther at her family's home in Williamston , North Carolina, with Mi ss KelJer as their g uest.

Liz met her at the train statio n in Rocky Mount in a sta tion wagon whi ch contained "three children , two dogs , an antiqu e clock, several pieces of luggag e and a hug e box of fruit cakes and ham s," and they alJ had a fine time!

Bett y Clem ent Adair and Eddy sent a clever card in verse , relatin g the year- long activities of their bu sy family . Th ey were fortunate to get a vacation trip , alone , to St. Louis in the summer 1 Jen Lea sent a dear picture of th e whole family.

Th ese 15 years hav e rested lightly on Jen and Scott 1 Those of us here look forward to seeing every one of you in June . Don 't disappoint us 1

1946

Secretary MRS. GILES E. WOOD, ]R. (Mary Frances Bethel) 972 Hug o Stre et, Norfolk

13, Va.

I have sad news for you. I kno w you wi ll be as distressed as I was to hear that Alic e May Prigg Drummond passed away in Novem ber, after an extend ed illn ess. Our deepest sympathy goes to all of her family. She was such a lov ely person , and I know she will be gr eatly missed by all of her many friends.

Now to th e happi er news-Ruth Smith Tschan wrote that her son , Don , is in junior high schoo l and enjoys it very much. His first love, th ough , is his trump et. Marth a is in the fifth grade and is doing nic ely with ballet and organ les sons . Charles is three and such a happy little boy. Ruth and her husband both hav e been ill , but are fine now.

Congratulations to Barbara Richi e Branch and Franc es Newman Stevens. Barbara is president of the Roan oke Alumna e Club , and Frances is secretary.

Cora Lynn Chaffee Goldsborough and Henry lead an exciting lif e. During the past year , they have been entertaining peop le from the International Center in Washington. These people are professional men and women w ho come to this countr y from all over the world to study our methods in business and pro fess ional lif e. Since last November, the Goldsboroughs have enterta ined 28 peop le from 14 countries.

Joyce Eubank Todd and Howe have a new baby girl. Congratulati ons 1 J eanne Yeama ns is working hard, as usual , and is studying European Hi story in night schoo l.

I hav e spe nt my spa re time this fall taking a millinery course. It 's the most fascinating thing I'v e ever don e.

Pleas e write when you can.

1948

Secretary

MRS. J. F . BUTTERWORTH , Ill (B etty Hi ckerson) 65 17 Du stin Drive , Richmond, Va.

The year 1959 continues as a good one for future We sthampt onit es . We hav e two more to report.

Littl e Kimb erl y Ann e arr ived November 6th and was we lcomed by D ot tie Ll oyd Stin e and Les, big broth er Rick and sister , Leslie Ann. Bob and Faye Hin es Kilp atrick are also th e proud parents of a new daughter. Tracy Kilpatrick has an older broth er , Pat , and sisters , K ath y and Loren.

Ginna Hernd on's husband, Al ger Pugh , is a senior at Virginia Tech . Alger has received many plaudits as an athlete including being named Collegiate Star of th e week by the Richmo nd Time s Dispatch.

Th ere are severa I new add resses to report. Em Smith Powers, Jack and little Pam have moved to their new hom e 153 Fairview Road , Newport News, V a.

Frances Orrell Dunn , Bob and Andy have moved to the land of th e Yankees and are now living at

317 Travis Dri ve, Apt. 1, Pittsburgh 36, Penn sylvan ia. Flip reported Andy had an accident with his bicycle and was in traction for a while but is fine now .

The bigg est change of address is that of Boo Koltuki an Cowles which is now c/o McGrawHyd ocarbon, APO 301, San Franci sco, California.

Boo and the childr en flew last week to Korea to join Syd who is a Chemica l Engin eer with Economic Aid for Improving Agriculture. They will be in Kor ea about eighte en months. At first th ey wi ll be in Seoul and later move to the v illage of Mok Ha eng Dong. Boo's chi ldr en are Sydney 7, Mary Elizabeth 4, Mar tha Ann 2, and Jimm y, 11 month s.

Betty H ardi n Elmore, Jim and littl e Jim flew to Chicago where Jim attend ed the National Association of H omes for Boys Convention.

H ere in Richm ond Sarah Brenner Rubin is having a busy winter in the dual ro le of moth er and teacher. ot only does Sarah have three l ively chi ldren, Mark , Jo el and D ebbie, but she a lso teaches H ebr ew thr ee afternoo ns a week at Beth El. Frankie Robi son King and I were at H omecoming at the U. of R. in November. We looked in vain for other " '4Sers."

Our class ex tend s sincere sympathy to Sally Tay lor Dubo se in the death of her mother and to Suzy Lovern Peeler w hose fat her died this autumn .

A letter from Hann ah Barlow brings ¡a new address No. 1, Honmachi , Hokodat e, Japan and news as follow s: " As I am writing now, I am warm ly clad in clothes that I wou ld only don in a northern coun try in a J apa nese hou se that is not centra lly heate d. W e learn that thi s system of extra layers is best after a ll for adjust ing to a land where we do not hav e central heating in th e churches nor in the hom es which we visi t.

I would lik e to tell you about my move from Tokyo where I was work ing in the WMU Office to this historic city of Hakodate in th e very south ern part of Hokkaido Island . But I shall condense it all into one simp le statement. I felt the call to come to this undeve loped area to w hi ch Japan is givin g so much attention now as its on ly frontier for expa nsion so that I can try to help our new chur ches here be missionary-minded from the beg inning . eedl ess to say, my past expe ri ence and contact s with promotio nal workers are of count less worth in this new undertaking .

As you can gather, I shall be working not only in th e local Mi ssion here in an effort to help it to become an organized church , but also in this vast district which stretches from the Toky o area of the main island northward and includes all of the large island of Hokkaido . D o you have a map hand y so that you can see with your ow n eyes how large this is' It tota ls ap proximately the north ern half of Jap an. The thousand-mile length of Japan would cover the par t of Canada betw een Lak es Ontario and Huron and stretch to the Gulf of Mexico if superimposed on a map of the U. S. It is only 100 miles wide at its widest point, but mountains whic h cover most of Japan's surfa ce make it imperative to take rou nd-abou t routes and so it is difficult to be! ieve this.

The city of Hakodate (255 ,000 population) is the chief port of Hokk aido and is situ ated on a very narrow strip of land between the great Sea of J apan and the vast Pacific Ocean. Vi ewed from nearby H akodate Mountain , this affor ds a beauti ful sight especia lly at night wh en it spark les mor e than thousands of Christmas decorations , and peop le from all over Jap an come to see it . Bu t so much water means stro ng winds.

East of Japan a warm current which makes the southern part of Japan almost semi-tropica l meets th e Kurile Current from th e cold waters of the Bering Sea, and this makes northern Jap an very cold so that snow lies deep on the grou nd all wi nt er. I am assured of a "w hite Christmas ."

I can sum up my activities by saying that I resemb le an edu cational-evangelistic worker in our Mi ssion here which we pray will become an orga ni zed churc h next year. At th e same tim e I ani working in th is half of Japan (with on ly two coup les out of our over a hundr ed mi ssionaries) as WMU missionar y leader.

I have been here on ly two months but already I

am thrilled with the vast opport uniti es and pray that I can make a wort hy contributi on here. "

1949

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I still have late news of last summer 's vacat ions.

A long letter from Barbar a Todd Clark told that in May th ey built a swimming poo l in their backyard and Bobbi e played life guard all summer to thei r thr ee chi ldr en and most of the neighborhood childr en. She says they have few garde ning chores since most of their backyard is pa tio and poo l.

Peggy Ha ssel put on her trav eling sho es and took a Trailw ay bus tour of the west leaving Jul y 27th and visited such poi nts of interest as the Grand Canyon , Di sneyland and Yo semite. Fr om California, she went to Haw aii to visit May Lee Yook Chung and her hu sband who have a " pretty litt le house in th e Man oa V alley," Peggy says.

Another member of the class visiting far from home was Elizabet h Hsu Lee and H arry who flew from Ann Arbor to Manitoba , Canada and then " trained " to Alb ert a, Canada for two weeks. Elizabeth is sti ll working half time in the bacteriolo gy lab at th e University Hospital.

Vacationing at the beach were D ot Richwin e Korb and her fami ly. Ju st before school star ted she and Willard took their four chi ldren for a weekend tour of some of Vir g inia's point s of int erest , including Endl ess Cavern s and Natura l Bridge.

Ann Wilson Bryant was busy getting ready for a Garden Club show at the Cari llon whe n she wrote Pat Allen Wint ers. Ann is superi ntende nt of th e crib nursery at th eir Sund ay School.

This summer saw Jacki e Cunningham in W ashington , D. C. atte ndin g bhe American Library Associatio n, sight-seeing and visiting old friends from Peabody .

Carolyn Lynn D oyle is taking a course on the teaching of reading at the U niv ersity of Virgini a so she can qualify to teach when her young est enters schoo l.

Virginia Grabeel Cole is renewing her teach er's cert ificate by tak ing a course in Crewe on " Guidance Counseling. " Another stu di ous '4 9er is Rosie Calhoun McCarty who is enrolled at Mar ion College for a course in the " O ld Testament." Lynn Gilmer Guilford received lots of news from G eorgia Kilpatrick H ammack who is taking a correspondence cour se in Writing for Children from the University of Chicago. Georgia writ es the news from her County for the Richm ond News L eader . She and Jack took a canoe trip in Minnesota and Canada during the summ er.

As we have some girl s st udyin g, we have others teaching. Ann Pulsford Rake s has 33 second graders keepi ng her busy. Ann's husband, Roy, has a field of five churches wh ich ma kes theirs a very busy hous ehold. Another second grade teacher is Pat Allen Wint ers, but thi s is th e least of her news.

Th e Winters ha ve moved twice in the last thr ee month s. In Sep tember Au stin was transferred to Wa shington , D. C. to the Hotpoint Branch of

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Kaki e Smith Sprat ley's W arren deserves a pat on the back. H e is now vice-president of the Citizens Nationa l Bank in Hampton .

Ida Eanes Pat rick sent th e sad news of th e death of Jean Moody Vin cent's father who had been in an automobi le accid ent. W e extend heartfe lt sympathy to Cynthia Patrick Lawson and Jack. Jack' s fath er passed on in October.

Severa l of our girls were on the go in O ctober.

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Frances Hix drove through Pennsylvania with friends. Lou Winn McCutcheon writes that she and Ben spent a few days in New York with Chapel Hill friends seeing plays and enjoying the bright lights. Still another "country gal in the city" (and that is a quote) was Elaine Leonard Davis and Bill who were seeking a big change after a siege of ups and downs with their four children including brand new twin boys born August 28th.

Our tenth year has been a banner one in the production line. Charlotte Wheeler Mullins and Henry are the proud parents of David who is their third , Beverly Ann 5½ , and Hank , 3½ . Henry is an attorney in Newport News associated with Newman and ALlaun. Nancy Berry Hulcher and Buddy also boast a baby boy born March 27th before they moved into their new house in the West End of Richmond. Two most delighted parents are Carolyn Bonhan Thompson and Charley who now have a second son, Robert, born in August, to keep up with their three daughters. Another boy "growing like mad" is William Henry born September 18th to Mag Knapp Howe and Joe. The latest one reported to me was Beth Wilburn Hooker's and Raymond's son , Edmond Anderson, who arrived October 1st. I'd love to have announcements for the scrapbook for these cherubs .

We std! have a two-year old yet unrecorded, born in Berlin, Germany. Again a boy, Michael Blair is the third child running around the Guilford house-

hold . Lynn Gilmer Guilford and her husband returned last spring after three years in Germany.

They are now Jiving in the Space Capital of the World and she says "the sight of missiles and rockets has become commonplace." Their address is 274-B Wesson Circle , Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Last are two not-to-be-forgotten members who didn't remain long enough with us-a couple of the original "bumma sigs." It was Martha Hall who managed to hear from Mary Clare Dougherty Wohlford. Mary Clare graduated from Marion Junior College and then went on to major in biology at Madison College in Harrisonburg. Then Marion, Virginia, won her as a teacher for 2½ years and in 1952, she married a college classmate, William T. Wohlford, III. They are living in Glassboro, N. J., where Bill is a special agent for Prudentia-1 in Vineland, N. J. They boast four potential W.C. freshmen-Anne 6, Beth 4, Susan 2 and Jayne 8 months. The other girl who was greatly missed when she left our ranks was Jackie Smith Hagen. Her life seems to be the familiar routine of most mothers, spiced with having been president of her Garden Club for two years.

1950 Se,retary

MRS. DAVID B. BURBANK (Doris Balderson) 910 Hampstead Avenue, Richmond 26, Va.

We have several baby announcements for this issue. A second son was born on November 14th to Frannie Chander Long and Allen. His name is David Chandler.

Piggy Wells Meadow and Ray had a girl born on September 17th. They named her Margaret Robin and call her Robin.

Pat Kelley Jordan and Alex welcomed James Alexander on October 18th. They planned to visit Alex's family here in Richmond for Christmas.

July 4th was celebrated in a big way at the Oliver home. Cynthia Carolyn was born to Frannie Sutton Oliver and Raymond. Frannie tells me that they can't get used to a girl around after two boys.

Her oldest started school this fall and loves it.

A boy was born to Claire Noren Griffin and Robert. His birthday is October 1st. They named him Kenneth Allen.

Marjorie Parson Owen said that they are building a new house. They spent their vacation at Virginia Beach.

The address of Terry Noble Vawter and Robert has changed from Ashland, Kentucky to Box 358 , Charlton Heights , West Virginia. Her husband is with the C. and 0. Railroad. They have two boys.

Barbara Taggart is now going to the Presbyterian School of Christian Education and is living in the dorm. Next year she plans to go to Mexico.

Mary Sullivan Tinder's husband Cecil is getting his Master's degree in psychology at Peabody in Nashville , Tennessee. They have been here in Richmond since March and will stay until after Christmas. They plan to stay in this country now because of the children. Mary said that this will be the first Christmas in the United States for her children.

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Virginia Sims tells us that she is taking an evaluation of education course. She is renewing her teaching certifi cate as a few of us are doing or are about to do. I never thought that I'd still be teaching by 1960.

Barbara Covington O'Flaherty and Bill went to the Army and Navy game in Philadelphia. Charlotte Westervelt Bispham and Brud came over to see them and spent the week-end.

Doris Lee Reeves Childress reports that at least eleven or twelve of our class were at the card party put on by the alumnae.

Alice Clarke Lynch is pleased to report that Bob got his Master's degree. He is still at Medical College.

Rhoda Brown Sisisky and Norman are preparing for their yearly trip to Florida for Christmas with her parents.

Louise Covington Randall III and Harry are stationed at Camp Pendleton in California. Her address is 252 Calusa Way , Vista, California. Harry is a Major now. They and their two girls , Jane and Jennifer, have been in California since August 1st.

Libby Givens Pierce and Bucky and their three children were all set to go to Florida on December 26th along with his parents.

Mary Sue Mock writes that she is now working at the Officer Selection Office in New York. Her new address is U.S.M .C. O.S.O. , 346 Broadway, New York, New York. She has been selected for Major and hopes to be promoted by the first of the year. Congratulations! She talked with Barbara Beattie Fanney recently and they are buying a new house and will move in in January.

Jean Tinsley Martin has been quite busy in her garden club, Greenbrier Hills, as the new president.

Recently she and Roy, the children , and her mother , Mrs. Tinsley , went to New York for a trip.

Don't forget that our reunion is June 3-5. If you have any ideas, suggestions , or questions, please write to me.

1951 Se.retary MRS. DONALDA. WHITE (Elizabeth Gill) 205 S. Peterson Ave ., Louisville 6, Ky. Since the last letter I found out a,bout a pile of addresses that had been changed without my knowl edge. Let me urge you all to be sure that I know of your change of address through your group leader. Here are the new addresses: Mrs. Dale G. Hooper (Beulah Johnson) Baptist Mission of East Africa P. 0. Box 2731 , Dar es Salaam , Tanganyika Mrs. W. A. Weston (Eleanor Wright) 143 La Salle Avenue , Hampton , Va .

Mrs. W. W. Schwarz (Pat Atwill) 2011 Polk Drive , Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Russell Scott (Helen Blackwelder) 117 Tempsford Lane , Richmond 26, Va. Mrs. Crawford J. MacCollum (Betty Cather) 3000 Indiana Ave. NE Albuquerque , N. M. Mrs. W. J . McGraw (Maryglyn Cooper) Charlise Road , Richmond 25, Va .

Miss Virginia Herrink 53 Malvern Ave. , Richmond, Va. Mrs. Boyd Dickinson (Mary Ann Hubbard) 3219 Orchard Hill Rd ., Roanoke , Va. Mrs. Walter Barnes (Charlotte Jones) 2810 Hilliard Road, Richmond , Va. Mrs . H. H. Bradley (Jean Lowe) 3425 Leonard St., Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. Roy Dudley (Elizabeth McRae) 1425 Materey Ave. , Norfolk 5, Va. Miss Gladys Maroney (Bookie) Henryton Road, c/o J. Miller Marriotsville , Md. Mrs. ]. V. Donahue (Gwen Priddy) 219 Roslyn Hills Dr. , Richmond , Va. Mrs. H . L. Baulch (Jocelyn Hyche) 640 South 45th St., Boulder , Colo.

Mrs. Samuel L. Cooke (Barbara McGehee) 4116 Patterson Ave. , Richmond , Va .

Miss Betty Luke Walnut Lane , RD 2, Charlottesville , Va. Ther e are some other changes that will appear in

the rest of th e letter. Let me know if you have the addres s of the se people : H elen McCarthy Hopkins , Ruby Clement s Whit e, Susie Gib son Madden , and Joy Hodgkins Plunk ett.

A lett er from Ernestine Allport Sasser finall y filled in th e detail s of her life in the recent past. frank did a year' s residence in surg ery at Johnst on¡willi s Hospital before going to Ashland to set up private practi ce with Ray Smith , also of '51. They now live at 106 McMurdo St., Ashland, wher e they just moved in Novemb er. A larger family caused them to move after the arrival of Juanita Harp er on O ctober 17. Their other daughter , Jan e Kath erine , had her fourth birthday December 13.

I had a card from Russell Cheatham (not J eanne 1) saying that he is the real estate repr esentative for Shell Oil Co. in North Carolina and that they have moved into a new home in Charlott e, at 800 Camborne Place. They have a boy who was a year old on October 19th , and Jeanne enjoys her life at home.

Eleanor Easley Barnes and her family have also moved , due to a new job . Don is Comptroller for Plant er 's National Bank in Rocky Mount , N. C. H e is off the road now and abl e to be home to enjoy the antics of red-headed Anne (how could she be otherwise?). They live at 421 E. Duke Circle.

Rose Setien Blan chard wrote that she and John moved to Natick , Mass. a year ago after he accepted a position with Raytheon Electronics Co .

They bought a ranch house and redecorated it themselves. Last August 13, a new face appeared at 15 Wentworth Road , that of Bruc e Michael, a brother for 3-year-old Debbie.

Sterling Clark Atchison has a new baby, Karen Louis e, who wa s born last January. In March the Atchisons moved to a new hom e at 8313 Beech Tree Rd. , Bethesda , Md. Sterling still works at the David Taylor Model Basin near Washington.

Riggie Tonac ci reports that Frank Peter Tonacci was born September 21, their second son. Riggi e also reported the birth of Karen Streever Doss to Norma and Bill on September 10.

Shirley Hoover Freeland is now working for the City of Richmond at the Medical College Hospital doing welfare work similar to that she was doing in Henrico County.

The Whites in Louisville are busy with preparations for Gbristmas music and going to Richmond, plus term papers and ordering new choir robes for our church! Mary deVilbiss Barton told me of a ten-day visit to Richmond around Thanksgiving.

She kept busy visiting her family , keeping track of her three girls and Christmas shopping!

1952

Secretary MRS, W.R. BEASLEY(Betty Hurt) 506 Finkbine Park , Iowa City, Iowa

Do remember the tidbits of news from your Chri stmas card s and send them on to me. A lot of our ' 52ers have not been mentioned for ages.

Marilyn McMurray Rishell and family are living in Tucson , Arizona where Rich is attending the University. She excitedly writes of their " first" owned home , of roses that grow eight months a year, and the joy of "fixing it up ."

Betty Edmond s Dunn and Elmer had their second son born November 10. His name is Edmond Kirk .

We were sorry to learn that Georgie McTeer Cook e' s family home in Beaufort , S. C. was demo! ished during on e of the recent hurricanes. It was one of the old historical places open to the publi c every year , and a real loss to th e community , as well as to the McT eer's.

Harriet Stubbs Johnson writes of her vacation and of visits with other Westhampt on girl s. Saw Addie in Boston in their n ew home , and Ann Tharpe McCann in their new home. She visited H enr i Dow Vinson whose third child , Shirley Ann , had arrived in April , '59.

Bradford Willingham arrived on October 12 at the l:ome of Harriet and Cork J ohn son. Congratulations to the brand new par ents! Harriet was on the planning committee for the Russian students who visit ed Minneapolis.

Now take out your pen and drop me a note!

Jani e Tune Sease was inspired to do this after the

last news. She and Jimmy and girl s are still rn Richmond wh ere Jimmy is servin g a re sidency.

1953

Secretary MRS. W . J. CARTER (Virginia LeSueur) 2750 Thorndale St. S.W. , Roanoke , Va.

Our best wi shes to Evelyn Ma ssie who was mar ried on Jun e 2 to 1st Lt. Bert T. W ebb. The marriage took plac e in El Paso , T exas. Bert is an Army Chaplain station ed at Ft. Bliss , and Evelyn is teaching. Their address: 3401 Frankfort, #4 , El Paso , Texas.

Young Jane Mari e Potter , born October 5, is the prid e and joy of Betty Jane Williams Potter and Dean. She is their first child. Nancy Fling Fowler and Corky have moved to a new home at 905 Junaluska Driv e in Richmond. Betty Andrews Rhudy , Bill and family are now living at 506 Marsh Rd. , Pittsford , N. Y . Bill is practicing dentistry in Pittsford.

Two '53ers have reason to be proud of new buildings in their husbands ' churches. Construction is in progress on a new educational building at First Baptist Church in Radford. No one is more pleased than Ellen Honts Price, whose husband Dick is the pastor. Mary Creath Payne and Jim are delighted over completion of the educational building at their Presbyterian Church in Annandale. The church had previously been meeting in a school.

Phyllis Dwyer is now working at the Peninsula Cerebral Palsy Training Center in Newport News.

Phy! is a physica l therapist. During August she had a wonderful trip to visit friends in England.

Betty O'Bannon Culp has "retired " this year; husband Ralph teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J. They have seen several plays , for Broadway is only 30 miles away. Alice Gardner Wilson 's husband J. L passed with flying colors the final examinations for his doctor 's degree from the seminary in Louisville, Ky. The next step will be his dissertation. Alice and daughter Debbie bad a long visit with Alice's parents in Laurinburg , S. C., while J. L. did his studying. Alice is a new class group leader-welcome 1 Mary Kathryn Manuel Clark and Jane Cather cooperate on a music project at First Baptist Church in Winchester. Mary Kathryn directs and Jane accompanies for the Junior Choir and the High School Girls Chorus.

Our sympathy goes to Lois Moody Mackey whose father passed away October 30 following an automobile accident in which he and Mrs. Moody were injured. Our sympathy is also extended to Ruby Vaughan Carson and Don in the loss of both his mother and father.

Girls on the go: Doris Johnston had a trip to Ottawa, Canada, in September . Gladys Tatarsky flew out to Chicago this fall to visit friends and relatives . She saw Gayle Mepbam Hensley , John and their daughter wtho is a " doll " according to Gladys. Bill and I went to New York in October.

On the way home , we stopped to see Ruby Vaughan Carson , Don and Richard. Richard is a big boywith lovely blond hair. Ruby and Don had a nice weekend in November with Bai,bara Cawthorne Clark , ' 52, Herb , and son John at the Clark home in suburban Philadelphia.

Harriet Wheat Fralin and Cotton had dinner with Beanie Davenport Bosley, Jack and son Mike in Washington this fall. Harriet also talked with Janet Francis Midgett , of Annandale , who reported that Marilyn Bowlin Gordy , Hugh and family have moved to Danville. Faye Kilpatrick Gillespie has enjoyed typing the manuscript for a book about her father-in-law who was a missionary to China .

The book was written by Faye's mother-in-law.

The Gillespies left their home in New Kensington , Pa., for a November trip to visit relatives and friends in Delaware , Maryland , Virginia and North Carolina.

Carla Waal, back in Tiffin , Ohio , after a summer in orway , is busy whipping " Portable Productions " into shape. " Portable Productions ," a project of the drama society Alpha Psi Omega at Heidelberg College , offer solo readings and one-act plays to clubs in Tiffin and nearby communities. Carla is also teaching a children's theatre course with emphasis on creative dramatics. In the spring term

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she will teach a new special section of freshm an Eng lish for brigh ter student s.

Here's news of Jackie Downing Dekl e who se new addres s is c/o Lt. Tom A . Dekl e 072462 , 31st Trans. Bn. C. Co., APO 29, N ew York, N. Y .

Jacki e and Tom had a delightful trip all throu gh Italy in the early fall , and were in Paris and London later on. They 're station ed at Muni ch, Germany, where D ebbi e, 5, and Tommy , 4, are in kindergarten. Jackie 's parent s plan to visit th e Dekles in May or June.

Our thoughts are with Ginny Hunt whose mother passed away in December.

We 're sending an SOS for news of Natalie Mandel Aron , Andy Wesley Perkinson , Mildred Gambill , Naomi Kennel, and Kadie Phillips. Let us hear from you!

1954

Secretary MRS. R . DENBY LEWIS (E. Linda Goodman) Bldg. 8, Apt . 15, Diesel Housing Unit Richmond 24, Virginia

Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey , John and Doug took a trip combining business and home visits just before Thanksgiving, going to Norfo lk first and to South Carolina for the holidays. Mary Lou had heard from Macon Day Banks that she and Tommy spent some time at the beach in Michigan this summer. Their two daughters didn 't make it to the beach but will accompany them to Shepherdstown for Chri stmas. Macon also had a visit from Nancy Baumgardner , who was on her way back to her job in -Cincinnati from a holiday in Canada with a group of girls .

News of Robbie Moyer Rich came from Mary Lou via Macon , too. Robbie and Irving have two sons (the second is learning to walk , as is Macon 's second daughter). They seem to be doing well farming .

Nancy Graham Harrell and Wa lter are invo,lved in helping to get their new church built, in addition to rearing two activity-minded children. They recently had a surprise visit from Betty Mozingo Lucas and her mother. Harold has had a nice promotion in his insurance business.

Jane Betts Schmitt is another kindler of the home fires, with her two sons. She and "Buzz" spent part of Thanksgiving with his family. Jane is also a garden-clubber, you know, as is Jean Burgess Sadler. Jean and Bill and the oldest of their three took a boat trip on the Inland Waterway at the end of the summer. Jean Merritt Lewis and Hal are building in Lee Hall.

Betty Rosenberger was taking a group from her high school out to Westhampton and ran into Martha Kegan , Susie 's younger sister , a freshman this year .

Jane Gill Tombes writes that she is just about to get Averett through school. They 're hoping that they'll be able to use his new Ph.D. somewhere in Virginia. A clipping in Jane's letter offered big news-Barbara Cronin's engagement announcement I She is to marry Robert M. Lovell , Jr. of Glen Ridge , New York in January . Bobbie is teaching at Drew University at the present.

News comes from even farther afield : Carmen Wong Tang is still living in Hong Kong. She ha s a second daughter , and says that "with the help of servants " she is keeping house and teaching at New Asia College , a refugee college sponsored by Yale .

Husband Jimmy is Export Manager for Conwell Brothers , an American firm.

Denby has finished his first quarter exams and figures he 's one third (I didn 't write in figurestoo confusing) of a dentist . Such progress! Happy New Year!

1955

Secretar y MRS. EUGENE A . TINSLEY (Marty Glenn) 5409 Toddsbury Road Richmond, Va.

Saw Carolyn Neal Lindsey down town not ago, looking mighty pretty and stylish. She Jimmy were here visiting for a few days.

Ann Pettit Getts was here for Homecoming tivities, joining Betty Jean Parrish Knott .

long and fesAnn

and Harland will soon be located in Chevy Chase , Maryland where he will be Youth Director of the Chevy Chase Baptist Church.

Janet Pace Burbage recently received a blue ribbon at the Carillon Christmas Flower Show.

Janet made the arrangement to represent her garden club.

It's boy number two for Ann King Cloydwe'd love to hear all about him , Ann. Rath and Strong, Industrial Consultants in Boston, have been fortunate enough to employ one of our brightest '55ers- A lice McCarty. She's handling promotional work and market research and seems quite happy with her new position. Between jobs Alice took two weeks vacation and visited about the country, seeing Pat Stump in Cincinnati and friends in Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York City.

Shirley Garrett Maxson is now living in New Jersey. Max is working with Western Electric in New York City. After returning from Alaska they took a month's vacation to the West Coast. New address: 2740 Morri s Avenue, Apt. D , Union , New J ersey.

Martha Minter Prillaman and Denni s have a girl , Rebecca Lynn, born June 19. Martha keeps busy with her daughter, teaching 10th grade English at John D. Bassett High School, and "rec ruit ing" for Westhampton. Several of her girls are planning to attend.

A new address for Beulah Boston Thorson is 343 Coronado Avenue , Apt. D, Imp eria l Beach, California. And Annette Kizzia Neuville is now in Lynchburg where Bob is with the telephone company.

Betty Leigh Stembridge Leggett and Tommy are planning to build in the near future and Margaret English Morton and Lester are now at 213 Fairy Street, Martinsville , Virginia. After sell ing their house, they , too, will build soon.

1957

Secretary MRS. B. ALBERT BURTON , II (Barbara Goodman) 1315 Camrose Road Richmond 29, Va .

Rosalind Allen is now Mrs. John Barker. The newlyweds will make their home in Watford , England. Mary Katherine Davis , Kitty Clark Kersey and Joyce Garrett Tidey were bridesmaids.

Brandon McDaniel was receptionist.

Brandon McDaniel is still at the University of Alabama where she is preparing to become a religious education director of the Presbyterian denomination.

Kitty Clark Kersey wants to join our alumnae class as she feels more a part of our group. She has a six months old daughter , Barbara Leigh. Wilbur is the assistant pastor of the Cork Street Baptist Church of Portsmouth.

David and Joyce Benner Prickard will soon live in Burlington Mills , North Carolina, when he is discharged from the navy .

Nancy Day Anderson and Claude have a baby boy, Claude Wood Anderson , Jr. , or "Woody ."

Claude has comp leted testing for the bar exam and finishes th e University of Richmond Law School this spring.

In Au gust , 1958, Faye Jones became Mr s. Robert Townsend. She and Bob had a baby boy October 29, 1959 , James Myron Townsend. They will liv e in Laramie , Wyoming in February, where Bob will continue his education.

Margaret Logan Ball and George are awaiti ng August, 1960 when they will move from Havelock , North Carolina to a more exciting , larger citydestination unknown. They have a daughter , Tracy Jean , born March 25 and a son, Jimmy , who is two years old. She has seen a classmat e, Shirley Parseghian Kapigian several times in Havelock.

Rita Davidson Stein and her husband left Richmond November 1 and are now living in Hampton , Virginia. Rita writes "Jerry is doing research for Technical Operations, Inc. locat ed in Fort Monroe .

We are enjoying this area very much . My address is 14 Westlawn Driv e, Hampton, Va."

1958

Secretary Miss BECKY BRANCH 4310 Bromley Lane, Richmond, Va .

Margaret Williams was married to Medical College of Virginia Dental Student, Bruce Ketner , on December 23 in th e Chapel of the University of Richmond. Th e couple will live in Richmond where Margaret is teaching this year. Another set of Christmas season wedding bells rang on December 26 when Peggy Yarbrough became Mrs . Ed Boulder. In July Kay Crawford married Bob Trimble and they have "se t up housekeeping " in Bon Air , just outside of Richmond.

"California, Here I Come" could well be a favorite tune for Carol Brie who became engaged on November 20 to Harold Griffitts, a medical school classmate from way out west. Both are Sophomores at George Washington University.

Congratulations 1 Jean Anderson Farmer is teaching at Hill Junior High in Richmond and husband Peyton commutes to Bowling Green where he is practicing law. Jack Hill is now employed at DuPont while wife, Nancy Goodwyn, teaches in a Richmond Grammar School.

In the Alexandria area Annette Masters and Bev Coker are apartment mates, with Bev teaching and Annette working in a government position , awaiting a teaching opening .

Becky Branch started on the training program at the new Reynolds Metals Executive Office Bui lding in Richmond during the early part of December.

One section of apartments in Washington Capital City might very well be titled "' 58 row" with Sarah Ashburn Holder and Gene, Susie Prillaman Wiltshire and Charles, Carolyn Smith Yarborough and Babney, Sue Hudson Parsons and Bo, and Jean Anderson Farmer and Peyton-all living there .

Billy Bishop is the new addition to the family of Shirley and Skip of Arlington. The young gentleman was born in September.

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Jan e Freed Schulze reports that her small daughter "Cathy" is quite active and keeps Moth er busy keeping her out of mischief. Jane is also busy teaching some freshman medical students at J oh ns Hopkins in Baltimore.

Though it was a bit damp for Homecoming weekend on November 6 and 7, ( that was one occasion for which it didn 't rain for the '58ers in their Senior Year) a do zen or so class members attended the annual Alumnae Dinn er and afterwards a clever set of song and dance routines from the musical show, " Plain and Fancy ."

1959

Secretary MRS. FRED C. Scorr (Anita Knipling) 2417 S. 27th Street, Apt. 3 Arlington 6, Virginia

A few '59ers caught up on the news of one another at Homecoming , but the weather was terrible-cold and rainy-so many w ere discouraged ( this just can't ha open May Day). There were one and one half tables of our class at the Homecoming Dinner on Friday night. A preview of th e new campus musical, "Plain and Fancy ," was presented (Eileen Cordle, who saw the whole production later said that it was terrific.) On Saturday morning at the coffee hour , Gary Moore and I waded through ankle-deep water (almost) visited with Miss Lutz , the new dean and others, and talked to Jeannie Rice, Caroline Massey and a few other girls who weathered the storm along with us.

Jo Barker became Mrs. Otho Campbell during the Christmas holidays. They have an apartment just off the Boulevard in Richmond. Jo will continue to work at Dahlgren until the latter part of January when she hopes to become a math teacher in Richmond . Susan Payne lov es U.N.C. and her courses in Library Science, and occasionally gets together with Bev Brown , who is ju st a few miles away at Duk e. Kippy and Margaret both are working hard at the Dahlgren Naval Weapons Laboratory; Kippy is also taking a graduate course in Matrix Theory. Taking graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania is Dzintra Klaupiks , who is working at the Medical Research Laboratory , there , too.

Dottie Sparks , who is at Emory College in Atlanta , Georgia , is really busy these days. She is serving as class representative to the Student Council, works as a Director of Religious Education and director of a junior choir at a Methodi st Church in Macon. She is living with six other girls from four states , Korea and Formosa, in addition to taking her six graduate courses .

Eleanor Caldwell Heath and Floyd, who got married last summer , are already planning to buy a new home this spring. Eleanor hopes to go to graduate school next year. From the looks of things , several of our class will be joining her .

(Eileen Cordle , Moff Coleman . ... ) Ann Bell is daily trying to get up enough courage to go for a ride in the airplane her husband , John, recently bought . Nancy and Bill Phillips will be returning

to Richm ond soon from their trip to Fort Sill , where Bill was statio ned for six months.

Eileen Cordle , who just recently bought a new Rena ult , says that ' Tm finding, as are all W . C. teachers, I've ta lked with, th at th ose kids are growi ng on me, in sp ite of myself."

Gary Moore sti ll is as enthu siastic abo ut W ake Forest and her wor k the re as she ever was. She is rooming with a you ng faculty member, and is enjoying the life of a bachelor-girl. From her we hear that Eleanor Di ckson Campbell lo ves th e role of hou sewi fe; she is a typical lawyer' s wif e alr eady, and has done quite a bit of ent ertaining .

Ruthie Adkin s enjoys her first graders more each day, even though she picks up al l their colds and other maladies. Mary Jordan is now in the department of clinical patho logy at MCV and is happi est when wor king wit h pa tients rather than in research , as she was some time ago.

Fred and I saw M ary, Marth a and Warr en, and litt le George during H omecoming W eekend when we stopped by to see Wimpy and Peggy Powell Daniel. Th e Daniel s and Cbukinas ' Jive right across the hall from each oth er at Suburban Apartm ents .

Ellen Matli ck is working in New Yo rk on a research project in automa ted teachin g. The location of the project is a private school in New York City. Caro] Snellenbur g Kaufman, whose sister is a freshma n at W. C. this year, is being kept wonderfu lly busy with her eight and one half month-old son , Andrew. The Kaufmans are Jiving in Elkins Park , Pennsylvania.

B. B. Harvey , who has moved in with Bev Eubank , Mary Trew Biddlecomb , and Moff Coleman in Richm ond a fter returning from Europe, reports that her trip was fabulous. She is teaching Eng lish, biology , health , and physical ed ucation at Marymount Schoo l in Richm ond , and is also

coaching basketball. There 's news of a wedding thi s summ er, incide ntally. Sandra D ew, who went to Emope with B. B., put on 10 pounds in the process. Some " news " is that Ginger Morgan is teaching biology at a private school in Front Royal, Va. The Dulins , Barbara Poli s and Peggy, are using their abiliti es in coaching vars ity sports at Hermitag e and Dougla s Fr eeman.

Maria n Gates took th e big step on D ecember 19 w hen she became Mrs. Edward Breeden , III. Bonnie Lewis, too, wi ll be ge tting married , but not until January 16. She is presently working at National In st itut e of H ealth in Washington .

Anne Go odwi n was married D ecember 27 to Capt.

Burt M eek, a Marine at Quanti co, and wi ll live in W oodbridge until Jun e.

Speaking of weddings , Bev Wine became Mr s. l\lb ert Bowers on October 25 . She and Alb ert are temporarily in Sanfor d, F lorida , but will be heading for Blacksburg soon, so he can enroll in Tech for the winter quart er. Judy Grove Kint er is in Blacksburg , also, w hil e her hu sband is in schoo l.

Jo Edwards is working in W ashi ngton for the Applied Psychology Corporation after a long vacation of rest, relaxat ion , and trave l in Mexi co. Jo , Eddie K. and I bad a Jot of fun working on a College N ig ht Program for the W esthampt on Alumnae Club here recen tly. Ei leen McCutch eon is very enth usiastic about nurse's training at MCV , but finds that spare moments are very few , as she is working there and attendin g classes as we ll.

Mary Ann Williams H aske says that her baby daughter keeps her occupie d, but if that's not enough, Mary Ann had a rath er complicated leg ope rati on in November, and will be in a hip-t ofoot cast for severa l month s. The operation shows successful results so far, which is very good news.

Patsy K elly had an unfor ge ttabl e teaching ex-

per ience when she was two minutes late in getting her fourth graders down to the bu s one day and had to take them all hom e in shifts-in a small Eng lish Ford . Other than teaching , she still finds time for bridg e frequ ently. Another Patsy , Pat MacDonald All en, is a bubbling bride; her hu sband , Dick , is taking gra duat e work at Richm ond College. Elizabeth Ramo s is so crazy about her 1st graders that she wants to steal them all , and loves every day of teachin g.

Arlen e Olson claim s that her stud ents are tryin g to " marry her off" to bach elor faculty members at the Port smo uth high school in w hich she teaches, but that her interests still lie at Richmond College.

Elaine Pette ngi ll is Jiving in Hampt on wi th some gi rls fr om her office (sh e's doing research there).

Ou r first class baby was born thi s fall-Mary Beth J orda n and Bob are now th e proud parents of a baby boy. Bob is stationed in Alaska , so they wi ll be Jiving there for several years to come.

Margar et Spencer Hern and ez : Where are you ' As for news of myseJf, the biggest is my recent desire to take grad uate courses in English . Fred wi ll be study ing for th e next thr ee years , so I may as well tak e adva ntage of the tim e.

If any of you did not get a copy of new names and addr esses, p lease Jet me know , and I'll send one to you.

ALUMNI CHAPTERS Peninsula Chapter The Peninsula Chapter of U n iversity of Richmond Alumni was reactivat ed at an enthusiastic meeting in th e Warwick Hotel at 12:30 o'clock Friday, October 30.

James Sydnor , '53, who bad Jed in th e formation of the chapter was chosen as preside nt.

Dr. Robert F. Smart , dean of Richmond College, told th e chapter of the probl ems growing out of the increased demands for college education on th e part of high schoo l gra duat es. H e so licited the aid of the alumni in th e selection of stud ents whose enrollment in Richmond College would be beneficial to the student and to the college. D ean Smart was introduced by Alum ni Secretary J osep h E. Nettles, '30.

In addition to choosing Syd PhiJJips as president, th e chapter elected other officers and named a steeri ng committee of five.

Dr. T homas N. Hunnicu tt, '26 , was chosen vice president ; Edward M. Blechm an, '53 , secretary, and Will iam G . Turbyfill , Jr. , '37, treasurer.

The steeri ng committee consists of Bill y Hill, '54; John Dol ey, '34; Clyd e Williams , Calvin Bernard Brown , '39, and Dr. John H. Garb er, '16 .

-Edward M . Blechm an

Petersburg Chapter

AND THEN IT RAINED. Alice Clement, a blue-eyed blonde senior at Westhampton, was the happiest girl on the campus when the picture was taken. She had just been announced as the winner of the competition for the Homecoming Queen. Happy and proud is the fellow beside her whose fraternity pin she is wearing. He's Charles (Chuck) Boone, foot ball co-captain . She had the misfortune of being the only queen who presided over a Homecoming that was all but " rained out " although she sloshed through the soggy turf for a brief coronation ceremony .

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Edwin Savory '27 ha s been elected president of the Petersburg, Hop ewell, Colonial H eig ht s Alumni Chapter for the coming year. Other new officers are: Taylor Crall e, ' 50, vice-president; Alexander (B ay ) Jacob s, '43, secretary-tr easurer.

A short social hour preceded the meeting at which outgoing President Fran cis Robinson , '32, pr esided and introduc ed a program consi sting of short talks by Dr. Ralph M cDan el and Athl etic Director M ac Pitt . Coach Pitt showed pictur es of the Ri chmond -D avidso n game.

Those attending the meeting were: Harr y L. Snead '¡09, R. W . Gill ' 11 , P . WeJJs '26 , E. M .

Savory '27 , Taylor Sanford '29, Francis Robertso n '32, Ben Campbell '36, Park er Brown and E. M. Pilcher ' 37, Sidney Barney '39, Dr. M. Sbeint och '42, A . S. J acobs '43, Taylor Cra!Je ' 50, A. M .

Wheeler '5 1, Dr. Lou Bla zek '52, and Steve Wh ite '53.

- Alexander Jacob s

Roanoke Chapter On October 23, appro xim ately fifty alumni of the University of Richmond met at the Patrick

Henry Hotel in Roanoke to organize the Roanoke Chapter of the University of Richmond Alumni Association .

A steering committee made up of Arthur Ellett, '3 0; Bill Claytor , '51; Jack Richardson, '49; Frank Skinner, '52, and Warren Stansbury, '45, made arrangements for this organizational meeting. The luncheon meeting opened with the invocation being pronounced by John Smith, '52, Educational Director of the Melrose Baptist Church in Roanoke; Frank Skinner '52, presided over the meeting and, after giving some information concerning the organization of the new Alumni Chapter, presented Joseph E. Nettles, '30, Alumni Secretary.

Mr. Nettles reviewed the plans for homecoming activities and talked briefly about the success of the University of Richmond football squad.

The main speaker was Dean Robert F. Smart who informed the club o.f curr ent happ enings on the campus and reminded the alumni of th eir continuing responsibility to Alma Mat er.

B. Frank Skinner was elected president of the Chapter. Arthur T. Ellett, '30, was elected vicepresident and Caldwell Butler, '47, secretarytreasurer.

Jack Richardson served as chairman of the nominating committee and made his committee's report.

-M. Caldwell Butler

what clothes to carry when visiting men 's colleges, blind date problems, how much money to tak e on college we ek-ends were discuss ed . These were followed by questions from the floor. The meeting was well attended and there was lively interest in the discussion.

On November 17th we had our card party in Keller Hall. We bad fifty-seven tabl e reservations!

To date we have received donations from fifty-one others to whom tickets were mailed along wit h th e letter announcing plans for the eveni ng. Our door prizes-six Wedgwood Westhampton plates, a Japanese red maple tree, and a Smithfield ham were all won by alumnae. Beverly Bates was our master of ceremoni es.

A pleasant interlud e occurred when a gro up of freshmen students presented a bri ef skit ent itled "The Knight Who Saved th e Day" and a short stunt " The Littl e Men Danc e." Mrs . Barrett, the new Dean of Students, was most cooperative in working with us on these arrangements.

Those who came had a most enjoyable evening.

We were glad to see so many members of the more recent classes present. We are happy to report that from th e sale of tickets, home-mad e cand y and cokes we have cleared $350.00 . Thank you all for your support. Owning thirty-one card tabl es, which are stored in Keller Hall , certainly simp lified arrangements for this project.

Th e Christmas Party for alumnae children was held in Keller Hall on Sunday, De cember 13th .

Literally hundr eds of alumnae, children, and husbands were present for the party which was complete with puppet show, Christmas carols, refreshments and Santa Claus.

WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCALCLUBS Baltimore Club President: Miss RUTH LATIMER 1707 Waverly Way , Baltimore, Maryland Since th e summer meeting the Baltimore alumnae club has had a tea for the freshmen and one executive meeting . A lun cheon was held on December 12th at Hutzler's tearoom and at that time plans were made for a meeting to be held in th e spring with a representative from the college present.

Suffolk Club President: MRS. GORDON E. BARLOW (Glady s Holleman) '17 Smithfield, Virginia The fall luncheon meeting of the Suffolk Area Club was held at the To wn Hous e in Franklin on November 21st.

Mrs. Frances Stallard spoke on the swimming pool project. The members present showed enthusiasm about the progress of the campaign for funds. An effort is being mad e to have the club 100 % in pledges this year.

Mrs. Booker gave an int eresting talk on campus life and the work of the Alumnae Association.

Martinsville Alumnae Club hesident: MRS. DONALD V. WEICK (Emily Hensley '44) 720 Clarke Road , Martinsville , Virginia The Martinsville club met in October and at this time it was decided to send most of the money in the treasury to Westhampton for the swimming pool fund.

A joint meeting with the men is planned for February and a meeting of the Westhampton alumnae alone for later in the spring.

Members of the club are selling cards, tallies , gift wrnppings, etc. for the benefit of the swimming pool fund and we hope to make a nice contribution in the spring.

Richmond Club President: MRS. ]AMES L. DECK ( Helen Pollard) 8914 River Road, Richmond, Virginia

In October Nancy Seaton, our Student Relations Chairman , planned a panel discussion for the benefit of the freshmen at Westhampton. Mildred Williams acted as moderator. Alumnae on the panel were Grace Rowland Wells , Evelyn Lynch and Nancy Seaton. They were supported by ,three members of the junior class-Linda Frazer , Elaine Eton and Sandra Smith. Prepared questions dealing with the cultural opportunities of Richmond,

Washington Club President: MRS. ]. LAWRENCE MANNING (Nan Byrd Owen) 617 N. Jackson Street, Arlington, Virginia Fall 1959 has been a busy one for the Washington area Westhampton Club . Our luncheon meeting in early October was thoroughly enjoyed as we listened to Mary Bass, Vice-Pr esident of the Alumnae Association and to Leslie Booker, Alumnae Secretary, tell of the objectives of an Alumnae Club and of the current activities at college.

Their talks spurred our enthusiasm for makin g our own club bett er .

On October 19th, due to the hard work and unfailing enthusiasm of Charlotte Ann Moore and her committee, our club's sponsorship of the New York City Ballet with the National Symphony was a great success in every way. The members and their friends enjoyed the performance and our club treasury was $203.00 richer.

On November 16th we cooperated with th e Associated Alumna e Clubs of Washington for College Night put on at Western High School in D . C. Anita Knipling Scott, Edwina Knipling and Jo Edwards served most efficiently as th e committee from our club . We are very grateful to Mrs. Leslie Booker and to Mr. Joe Nettles for their cooperation and help in getting display materials and information that was used to create a Westhampton atmosphere in the space allotted to us for th e

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meeting. Dean Barrett officially represented Westhampton.

W e are looking forward to our March dinner meeting that will be a joint Alumni-Alumnae affair-but more of that in the next news report.

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The Rev. W. D. (Scotchy) Bremner , a retired Baptist minister, died on December 2, at the age of 84 in a Richmond nursing home. Bremner, a nativ e of Caitbness county, Scotland, retired from the ministry in 1942 due to ill health . In the 38 years of his ministry, he held eight pastoratesTaylorsville Baptist Church, Hanover County; Carmel Baptist Church, Caroline County; Elon Baptist Church , Hanover County; Gwathmey Baptist Church, Ashland ; Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Henrico County; Mt. Herman Baptist Church, Caroline County; and Mt. Horeb Baptist Church, Ca,roline County.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Zelma R. Bremner; two daughters; two sons, including

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Gay Broaddus

Her many friends were saddened to hear of the death of Gay Broaddus on August 24, 1959 at the age of eighty. Gay was a daughter of Andrew Broaddus III who, with his father and grandfather, served as pastors of the Sparta Baptist church for more than a 100 years.

Gay graduated as a co-ed from Richmond College with a B.A. degree in 1907 and taught school from then until 1947. During her earlier years she held a position at Fork Union Military Academy and when the high school was first built at Sparta she became a member of the faculty there. She also taught in Caroline at what was then Chesterfield school. She taught in Spotsylvania County for a number of years until she retired because of ill health in 19 47. The last twelve years of her life she was ill and hospitalized.

Her only survivor is a nephew who lives in Texas.

Robert G., class of '32; two sisters; two brothers; and 15 grandchildren.

He was ordained in January, 1904 at the Broadway Bapti st Church in Paterson, N. J.

1908Hen,ry N. George, III, former city manager of Norfolk died on October 28, in a Norfolk hospital at the age of 71. H e was city manager of Norfolk from 1952 until his resignation in 1955 on account of ill health. H aving joined the public works department of Norfolk in 1937, he was appointed public works director in 1942, and served in that capacity until be became city manager.

During World War I Mr. George served in the army engineering corps with the rank of captain in the 30th division. Afterwards, he was in the general contracting business in Richmond for a number of years, serv ing as resident engineer in the construction of the Lee Bridge in 1933-34 and then working for the Public Works Administration until he went to Norfolk.

He is survived by his wife, two children, two sisters, a brother , and five grandchildren.

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1909The Rev. Thompson E. Peters died at Virginia Baptist Hospital, Lynchburg, December 20 at the age of 77. He had been retired since 1951 due to illness.

He received both his BA and DD degrees from UR. Dr. Peters served churches in Virginia, including Kentuck in Pittsylvania, First Baptist of Bluefield , Fourth Street of Portsmouth and the Warsaw field in Richmond County. He was a trustee of Bluefield College and of Averett College. He served as a member of the Baptist State Mission Board of W . Va. , the Virginia Baptist Board of Missions and Education, and the Education Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. H e was a field representative for Alderson Baptist Academy. He served as U. S. Food Administrator for Mercer and Wyoming Counties , W. Va., and as county demonstration agent for Wyoming Co.

1912Dr. J. Elwood Welsh, 68 , a retired Baptist minister , died in a Columbia , S. C., hospital on Septemb er 1. A native of Philadelphia , Welsh held B.A ., Th.D. , B.S. , M.A., and D.D. degrees.

Prior to his retirement in 1944 , he was pastor of t he First Baptist Church in Orangeburg, S. C., for fifteen years . After he finished at Crozer Theological Seminary , he served as pastor for two Virginia churches and was a chaplain at Camp Lee , Va. , in 1918. Then he was pastor of several churches in North Carolina and Virginia before he went to South Carolina.

While in North Carolina he was a member of the State Board of Mission s and Education, and one year after moving to South Carolina he was named to the General Board of Baptists there. He later served as president of this board twice, as we ll as a term as one of the two vice-presidents of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Dr. Welsh was a lso a trustee of Coker College and of the Tri-County Hospital at Orangeburg.

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Sally Wills Holland

Sally Wills Holland, Class of '16, died in Richmond October 23, 1959 and was buried October 24th in Liles Church Cemetery, Fluvanna County. After Westhampton graduation, Sally Wills attended Columbia University and twice studied in colleges in England. She taught at Coker College, Hood College, and was a member of the English faculty in Meredith College. She was a niece of Dr. Loving. Two sisters and three brothers survive.

The Rev. Boyce H. Moody , pastor of the Memorial Baptist Church in Baltimore , died on October 28 , 1959 , in a Baltimore hospital. Moody had held pastorates in Mississippi and at Hampton, Va. , befor e comi ng to Baltimore. H e is survived by his wife, two daughters, his father , two sisters , two brothers , and three grandchildren.

1925Vergil J. Coberly , an attorney, died on November 7, 1959 , in Petersburg , Va., at the age of 64.

Coberly , a gradua te of the T. C. Williams School of Law , was past president of the Petersburg Bar Association and pas t commander of the Petersburg American Legion post. H e was a former member of the Virginia State Milk Commission.

A native of Elkins, W. Va. , he is survived by his wife , a son, two daughters, and eight grandchi ldren .

Word has been received of the death of Dr. Morton P. Adkerson , a Fairfax, Va. , dentist , in 1958.

1934Minetree Folkes , Jr., floater de legate for Henrico -Chesterfi eld-Coloni al Heights area in the Genera l Assembly of Virginia, died December 22 at a Richmond hospital at the age of 51. His death was due to heart disease.

A native Richmonder, he was graduated from Richmond public schools, VMI and T. C. Williams Law School. He represented Richmond in the General Assembly during th e sessions of 1938, 1940 and 1942. In 1942 he enlist ed in the Marine Corps, served in the South Pacific campaign and retired with th e rank of major in 1947.

A practicing attorn ey in Richmond , he was a member of various bar associations and the American Judicature Society. He belonged to the Episcopal Church , the Henrico Red Cross Board, the Robert E. Lee Council, Boy Scouts of America and the Midlothian Ruritan Club.

He held the position of vice-president of the Board of Visitors of the Vir ginia School of the D eaf and Blind in Staunton from 1938 unt il his death. He was also chairman and public representa tive on the Richmond Milk Board.

He is survived by his wife, a sister , and a stepdaughter.

1947Wilbur M. Kessler , an attorney, died in a Richmond hospital on October 10, at the age of 35. A member of the law firm of Cutchins, Wallinger, Wallace, and Kessler , he was president of th e Highland Park Citizen s Association .

He received his B.A. from Richmond College and hi s LLB. three years lat er in 1950. He is survived by his wife, a son, a daughter, hi s mother, a brother , and a sister.

19531923Henry Ware Riley, treasurer of the International Bank for Reconstruction and D eve lopm ent (The World Bank) died on September 17 at the age of 57. A native of Greenvi lle, S. C. , Mr. Riley began his government service in 1933 as a member of the staff of the Treasury Department. He next joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as controller and later as executive officer, while concurrently servi ng as execu ti ve officer of the Office of Alien Property Custodian , as deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration , and as secretary and treasurer of the U. S. Commercial Company. He joined the World Bank as assistant treasurer in 1946 and became treasurer in 1953 .

Mr. Riley lived at 5601 Potomac Ave. , N . W. , in Washington , D. C. He is survived by his wife , two children , and four stepchi ldr en.

James M. Dugger , a gra du ate of the T. C. Williams School of Law, died on November 30.

H e was a native of Radford, Va.

A Glimpse (Continued

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I had been in South Africa two months when the wishes of the University were defeated and the separate universities bill was about to become law. On the day it was passed three thousand students led by the entire academic staff in full regalia jammed into the main auditorium to listen to the Univer[ 28]

sity Chancellor speak. With unforgetable solemnity the Chancellor reminded the student body that "a university is a place where men and women, without regard to race and colour, are welcome to join in the acquisition and advancement of knowledge ."

He objected very strongly to the government telling the University whom it could accept and whom it could not accept irrespective of academic capability. He ended by declaring the University closed for the rest of the day to mourn the enactment of the bill that curtailed the autonomy of the University.

Next to the Native question and the politics that are associated with rt, the price of gold is a favorite topic of conversation. South Africa is one of the world's largest gold producers. On innumerable occasions I have gotten into interesting discussions on the price of gold. The South Africans do not like it one bit that the "Yanks" have been able to keep the price of gold pegged at $35.00 an ounce since 1933. Students at the University are delighted every time they hear that America's gold reserves are dwindling. They thoroughly enjoy telling me that it will not be long before America will have to devalue her dollar and increase the price of gold.

Although the racial-political problems furnish a somber backdrop to life , South Africans never seem to let the situation dampen their spirits. South Africans give the impression that they enjoy their wonderful country.

Kruger National Park is teeming with big game just waiting to be seen. The Drakensberg, a chain of mountains in the eastern section of the country, offers the very best in hiking and mountain climbing. The Garden Route in the Cape Province compares favorably with any scenic drive. As South Africans love to travel, they drink deeply of the natural wonders of their country.

South Africans love to socialize. On a Sunday afternoon an Afrikaner farmer thinks nothing of taking his family and driving fifty miles for a cup of tea and some good conversation. When the sun goes down the business man with his family and friends sits on his verandah talking and sipping the traditional "sundowner " ( any of a variety of drinks). In the small towns 10: 30 a.m. is tea time. Housewives drop what they are doing and rush off to have tea with the "girls." The shop keepers take turns using their offices as ,the local "tea house." Any excuse to get together will do. A tennis party, for instance, is usually more party than tennis.

When I leave Johannesburg at the end of my fellowship year I am going to miss the South Africans , their friendship and hospitality. I will miss .their teasing about my Bermuda shorts which, according to them, are miles too long . I will miss the student parties and get-togethers where the girls tried to teach me to "jive" properly. I will miss their accents and expressions. I will miss a lot of things; but I never will forget how they made an American in Johannesburg feel right at home .

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