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The Cover: The apple is not for the teacher but material for an " exam-break ."

Homecoming Alumni Help Break Ground for New Business School Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... ... ...

For Auld Lang Syne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........

Mr. Justice Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . ..

Why Rubin Writes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miss Isabel Harris; Ad Infinitum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Show Good Promise for Future Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As Others See Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Visually Handicapped Children in Public Schools .. . .. . . . . ... . . ...... .

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

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

Local Clubs Westhampton Alumnae ... ..... .... .. . . . ..... . . . .. . . .. .

Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN Published quarterly at the University of Richmond by the General Society of Alumni. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, University of Richmond, Virginia, May 14, 1948. Subscription price: $ 1.00 per year.

JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '30 LESLIE S . BOOKER, '22 VIRGIN IA !VEY , '48

THOMAS S. BERRY ROBERT

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...... Editor Westhampton Bd?'.tor Law School Editor Business School Editor ....... Business Manager

THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNI Thomas C. Yeaman J r., '30 .. ........ President A . W. Goo de Jr. , '42 ............ .... Vice President William F. Kayhoe, '4 0 ............... Vice President Robert W . Ferrell, '3 4 .......... ..... Vice President J ack B. Wilbourn e, '49. . ..... .. Secretary EXEC UTIVE COMMITTEE Edward H . Pruden, '25 P . Paul Saunier Jr. , ' 40 an d the above officer s

U. of R. MEANSBUSINESS Members of the University of Richmond faculty in showing visitors the campus would say apologetically when passing the green frame Business School headquarters down by the railroad tracks: "This is just temporary; we're going to have a new building soon ."

Years passed and a collegiate wag observed that the "surest way to achieve immortality is to be a temporary building on a college campus."

All the skeptics were silenced, however, when ground was broken at Homecoming for a handsome $600,000 building which will be a credit to the School of Business Administration and to the University. It will be constructed in the traditional collegiate Gothic and will face the Law School building.

Although the principal measure of the worth of any school is its faculty and student body, facilities are also of paramount importance. There could be no mistaking the fact that the University was at a disadvantage in attracting business students. With the compl etion of the building, the Business School will be at a competitive advantage with facilities that will be ideal for a student body of 300.

Further, there will be an assembly hall on the first floor which will seat 400 persons, thus providing the medium-size auditorium which has been so badly needed .

Dr. W. David Robbins, the School 's dynamic dean, says he " will not be satisfied until it is one of the finest undergraduate business schools in the nationand with the help of our friends in the Richmond business community this may well come about within the next decade." The new building , he added, will make it possible for the University to invite to its campus a larger amount of business groups for regional meetings and also to enlarge its executive development program.

President Modlin and Dean Robbins are understandably happy about the new building, as are all Business School alumni, many of whom shouted with glee when ground was brok en for the building. President Modlin has been in the forefront of those who have labored for the development of the Business School. When he joined the staff of the University in 1938 it was as director of the Evening School of Business Administration and chairman of the department of economics .

During his pres idency the School of Business Administration has been established as the sixth in th e University's family of colleges. The "baby" college now serves more students than any other unit of the University, although most of them are part-time students in the evening division.

The Commonwealth, publication of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, spoke with the voice of prophecy some years ago when it launched an appreciative ar ticle on the University's business program in these words: " The University of Richmond means business!"

JAN., 1961

VOL. XXIV

TH E ALUMNI COUNCIL Wilm er L. O'Flaherty, ' 11 . . .... President Malc olm U . Pitt Jr ., ' 42 ............ Vice President William T. Bar e ford , '46 ... ......... Vice President Joseph E. Nettles, '30 ............... .......... ... Secretary Robert M . Stone, '30 . .... ........ ....... T reasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Reed I. W est, '3 0 S. Frank Straus, '3 5 John W . Edmonds III, '53 R. L . Lacy, '18

WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION A ntoinett e Wirth Whittet , '4 1 . . ... President Mary Owen Bass, ' 41 . ... ............ Vice President Le sli e Sessoms Boo ker , '22 Execut1:ve Secretary Mail a ll contributions a nd news it e m s to Mrs. R. E. Booker, Executive Secretary, Westhampton College Alumnae Association, P.O., Univ e r sit y of Richmond , Vir g inia ] Florence B. D ec ker , ' 17 B d Mary Mills Freeman , '3 5 Elizabeth Tompkin s, '19 oar of Trustees Harriet S. Willingham , '26

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LA W SCHOOL ASSOCIATION A. Scott Anders on, '31 Benjamin L. CampbeB. '38 Vice Virginia D . Ivey, '48 ... ..... Executive Carle E. Davi s, '54 ........ ...... ... ... ........ ....

DIRECTORS Walther B. Fidler , '49 M. Dann e hl Aldridge Jr ., '5 0 E . Ballard Baker, '4 7 Zebulon V. Johnson Jr ., '36 Michael W . Moncure III, '53 R . Granger We s t , '36 Ernest T . Gearheart Jr. , '3 9 Julian E. Savage , '49 '50 Nicholas A . Spinella,

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OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Stuart B. Car y, '50 .. President C. Ralph Martin , '52 ............ V ice President Ru sse ll W . Miller, '57 .......................... Secretary Frazier B . Hoover , '56 ..... Treasurer Edward L . Kurtz, '5 0 Immed iate Past President

HomecomingAlumni Help Break Ground For New BusinessSchool Building

A QUEEN IS CROWNED. W. Richard Broaddus, '20, vice rector of the University's board of trustees, crow ns pretty Lynne Stephenson of Norfolk as Homecoming Queen.

and students from W the grayalumniframecheered bu ilding down by the HIL E

railroad tracks cheered even louder , President George M . Modl in turned over the first spadeful of earth October 15 for the permanent hom e of the School of Business Administr ation.

The groundbreak ing ceremony was one of the highl ights of Homecoming activities at the campus . Business school a lumni , after an early-morning breakfast reunion, crowded with other returning grads to the pine-dotted ridge across the walkway from the Law . School building where the $600,000 collegiate Got hic facil ity is now taking shape. The three-story building is of red brick trimm ed with limestone.

Dr. Modlin , who came to the University in 1938 as head of the evening classes in business adm inistratio n, said the building would offer excellent faciliti es "for our stu(Contin11ed

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OH, HAPPY DAY. President Modlin prepares to dig into the turf on the site of the new $600,000 building to house the School of Business Administration. Left to right at the gro undbreaking at Homecoming are Robert Marshall, president of Student Government in the Business School ; Dea n W. David Robbins, Dr. Herman P. Thomas , ' 17, vete ran member of the faculty, and Stuart B. Cary , '50, president of Business School a lumni.

ALUMNI REGISTEREDHERE. The Alumni got ideal weather far their Homecoming visit to the campus.

BACK TO THE CLASSROOM. Students in Alumnae College listen at te ntively to Professor Samuel V. Stevenson.

FOR AULD Ryland Hall Class Rooms

We are indebted to Charles F. Boehler, Civil Engineer and Landscape Architect of Lansing, Michigan for the pictures of campus scenes taken in 1914. Mr. Boehler was the Superintendent of Landscape Construction during the time of the erection of the first set of bu ildings on the new campus and took the pictures of the completion of the construction of the Richmond College and Westhampton College buildings. P ictures recently taken g ive some idea of the changes that have occurred in forty-five years.

Before Richmond College moved to the new campus and Westhampton College was begun the area around the lake was a recreation center for boating, swimming and picnic parties in the summ er and skating in the winter. A trolley line from downtown Richm on d brought picnickers to the ground s and put them off at a point near the lake where there was a refreshm ent consession .

This building later became the college shop and post office.

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Older alwnni will recall the boathouse and band building at the edge of the lake and the water carnivals held on the lake. They will also remember the "Auditorium" on the hill where the Boatwright Memorial Library now stands. This building which had been an open pavilion for picnics and parties had been closed in and served for a number of purposes before it was finally demolished.

In the beginning it was used for chapel meetings, public lectures, student meetings and for commencement exercises. After the Cannon Memorial Chapel was erected and fire destroyed the temporary wooden "Science Building" the science laboratories were set up in the "A uditorium. " It was later used as "The Play House" and for offices for the student publications. When fire damaged the Student Shop shortly before the present Student Shop was established in the Student Center Building, it served as temporary Student Shop and post office.

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Mr. Justice Miller An Appreciation by David

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Justice Willis M Dance Miller died on December R.

20, 1960, from a heart attack, almost immediately following the indication of his intent ion to retire as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, on wh ic h he had served with distinction for eleven years. Surviving him are his widow , the former Eliza Broadnax Ingram, a son, T homas Maurice Miller , formerly an Assistant Attorney General of Virginia and now a member of the State Industrial Commission, and a brother, Thomas R. Miller, Clerk of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond .

Mr. Justice Miller was born in Powhatan County, January 30, 1893, son of Judge Thomas M. Miller and Anne Harris Patteson.

H e was educated at Powhatan public schools, Randolph-Macon Academy, Washington and Lee, and the University of Richmvuu , graduating from the latter 's law school in 1914 and returning in 1951 to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws . While at college he was prominent in baseball and was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity and Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity. He was in politics a Democrat, and a communi cant of the Ep iscopal Church.

Justice Miller began to learn law with his baby speech. His paternal ancestors had been lawyers and jud ges since the time of the French and Indian War, and for Willis Miller being a lawyer was as natural as breathing. He came to the bar in 1914 and soon developed a wide practice in varied fields, not of the type that would be frnancially remunerative, but invaluable in preparing him for his career on the ben ch . Almost unaided, he revised the Richmond City Code in 1924, and from 1925 until 1936 served as Assistant Commonwealth 's Attorney and prosecuted a wide variety of cases before Judge Wells in the Hustings Court , Part II. After a flattering endorseme nt from the Richmond Bar, he was appointed in 1936 Judge of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, on which he served until his appo intm ent to the Supreme Court of

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Appeals of Virginia in 1947 . He quickly won th e reputation of being one of the best trial judg es in Virginia, and during his eleven years of service, he was reversed by the Court of Appeals only six times out of almost six thousand cases that he finally disposed of. In 1947, a vacancy occurring in the Supr eme Court of Appeals , his appointment was urged by numerous local bar associations. It was thought that his chances were poor, since traditionally Richmond had no judge on that court - indeed , it had not had one for more than a century; and Judg e Miller was running in a strong field. Although the Law and Equity Court was a very busy one, Judge Miller had given much time to other circuits as judge-designate, and wherever he went he won many friends who volunteered their endorsement of him for the Court of Appe als. The lawyers of Boydton, Charles City, Cumberland, Elizabeth City, Hampton , Hopewell, James City, Kin g William, Louisa, Lunenburg , Mecklenburg, New K ent, Newport News , Nottoway , Powhatan , Petersburg, Prince Edward, Sussex, Victoria, Warwick and York, were among those who urged his name.

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ing that being from Richmond , he had no chance, but within forty-eight hours after the appointment was announced, Governor Tuck received more letters of appreciation than he had from those recommending the appointment. Many people petition the Governor; very few thank him .

These letters of thanks were an amazing tribute to Judg e Miller.

For some days thereafter , the Governor would throw up his arms in his characteristic fashion and call out , " Ben , bring in those lett ers about Willis Miller . " Indeed, this proved to be among the best of his very fine appo intments .

Willis Miller - for those who knew him intimately never thought of him with a title - met every test of the bench , both trial and appe llat e.

Th e terms, "just," "upright ," " learned," etc., those exp ress ions that have become cliches in speaking of judges, were all adjectives which applied to him ; but his friends would grope for something mor e.

Rich experience and constant study gave him complete readiness as a trial judge. There was nothing stiff about him and no affectation: " plain as an old shoe " was an expression made for him. He was the judge in homespun, and he loved, when he could , to lapse from chaste judicial prose into the vernacular. The door to his private office (he never called it "my chambers") stood always open to the members of the bar, and he shared with them freely his wide experience. Expecially did the young members of the bar come to him for guidance. His success left him untouched and he never looked upon the Law and Equity Court as "my Court." When someone referred to it as such, he immediately replied , "No , it is not my cote (as he loved to pronounce it) ; it belongs to the people of Richmond. " Indeed , he enjoyed telling how precarious his tenure seemed when, in his first case, he had over-generously granted many instructions.

Th e jury having been out for some hours, Jud ge Miller called them to ask whether they might reach a verdict, only to be assured (Co11tin11edon page 12)

Novels Are Fun (Like a Toothache)

But More Permanent Than Tombstones

WHY RUBINWRITES

BY VIRGINIA LeSUEUR CARTER, '53

r. Louis D. Rubin , Jr. , '46, recently wrote in his book column in the Roanoke, Va., Times a series of questions and answers titled "W hy Novels Get Written: A Guide to the Perplexed."

To a statement that a publisher's royalty of $1,000 sounded like a lot of money , Dr. Rubin replied: "It's roughly one-third the amount that the novelist could earn if he spent the same amount of time clerking at the five-anddime."

Another question: " Is it fun to write a novel?"

"A : It ranges from a dull toothache, prolonged, to a sharp, searing toothache, prolonged . " "Q: Well , if a novelist can't make a decent living from novels, and people don 't read them , and it hurts like a toothache to write one, why does anyone ever try to writ e a novel at all?"

"A : Because tombstones wear out after a time."

The novel which may be more durable than marble -o r perhaps considerably less, he isn't sure-is Dr. Rubin 's The Golden Weather to be published March 20 by Atheneum.

Like the six books he has written or edited already, and like another Rubin book which will appear in 1961, The Golden W ea.ther is about the South.

More precisely, it tells the story of an adolescent in Charleston, S. C., during th e summer of 1936, the year the c'ty commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter.

Are there autobiographical overtones here 1 Dr. Rubin himself lived in Charleston until he was 19 or 20; in fact he attended the College of the City of Charleston for two years.

"The character exists in the same house I grew up in , but I didn't do any of the things the character did. The character isn't me, " he explains .

When The Golden Weather does appear, readers will have a chance at a book which has been in the Rubin mill since the late 1940's.

"I started the book back in 1948 as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins, but nothing of the original form remains," Dr .

Rubin said in an accent which betrays his South Carolina origin. ("Form" comes out "fo m ," almost. And "South" is a cross

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between the Eastern Virginia pronunciation and "Sooth. ") During the winter of 1957-58 , his first session at HoJlins College when he lived in a Charles Addams-type house at Fincastle, Va. , he went through five drafts of the book.

By June, 1959 , only 100 pages were done , and they seemed "lifeless" and "cold " to the author. He packed the book off to Hiram Haydn at Atheneum "w ith the intention that, if he didn 't like it, that would be the end of me as a fiction writer."

While on vacation in Charleston that summer, a cryptic telegram came from Haydn: "Why haven't you answered my wire?" T o this day, Dr. Rubin doesn't know what the

HOLLINS AND U OF R Dr. Rubin (below) is but one of the contributions which the University of Richmond has

made through the years to Hollins College. In 1846 Charles Lewis Cocke left his post as professor of mathematics and business assistant to the president of Richmond College to begin 55 years as head of the Valley Union Seminary which became Hollins Institute, then Hollins College .

Currently Dr. Rubrin is one of four UR a lumni serving on the Hollins faculty and staff. Others are Dr. G. Cary White, RC '26, professor and head of the sociology department; Miss Susie Blair, WC '25, former associate professor of dramatic art and English who is now assistant to the associate dean; and Virginia LeSueur Carter, WC '53, director of press relat ,ions and publications, who wrote this article.

original wire said. But he called New York and found, to his surprise, that Atheneum wanted to publish the book .

In the 1959-60 year, h e completed the novel, then rewrote the whole thing. He finally finished the book, he says, June 23, 1960, the day he sailed for Europ e and a series of Fulbright lectures in France.

It comes as a surprise to his associates- to this one at least-that Dr. Rubin could have found the hours for this project on top of his other activities .

He heads the English department at Hollins where in 1960 he was made a full professor. In addition to teaching, he is faculty adviser to 65 English majors, meets weekly with the editors of the student newspaper.

His work as book editor of the Roanoke Times takes him back to bis old haunts-the newspaper city room-twice a week.

He writes book reviews from time to time for such papers as the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times; he is national vice president of the American Studies Association ; and in the past year be planned two conferences at Hollins: a Southern Humanities Conference symposium on "What Lies Ahead for the South:>" and a student literary festival which brought novelist Elizabeth Janeway, poet James Dickey, and the poet and critic Randall Jarrell to the campus.

For recreation he is leader and harmonica man in a faculty jazz band, "The Hollins Hambones." (He is currently investigating a harmonica with a built-in amplifier. The recent additions of a trumpet, clarinet and drums to the group overpower his harmonica .)

He plays tennis, is an enth usiastic fisherman and smokes cigars, many cigars.

Dr. Rubin is married to the former Eva Redfield, of Cincinnati, who has done extensive graduate work in government and who teaches constitutional law at Hollins.

Their children are Robert , 21/z, and William, born January 6 of this year.

(When Robert was about 18 months old, he unscrewed the gas cap on the family car and filled the tank with water from the garden hose. Papa didn't know wheth er to praise bis cleverness or swat him 1) Dr. Rubin likes teaching. He says it "works off enough of my excess energy so that I can sit down and write. I write better (Continued on page 6)

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MissIsabelHarris;Ad Infinitum AN APPRECIATION BY CORNELIA AYRE, '49 All of us connected with the Un iversity have suffered a great loss in the passing on October 21, 1960 of Miss Isabel Harris , beloved teacher of mathematics at Westhampton Co1lege. But her memory and works linger on ad infinitum. She has left us a legacy of inspiration, patience and deep understanding. Throughout her 27 consecutive years of teaching at Westhampton College she inspired her students in all realms of human endeavor.

It was only fitting for her to develop a deep feeling for the liberal arts . Both her father . Dr. H. H. Harris , and her brother, Dr. William A. Harris, were professors of Greek at the University for a total period of 73 years. Also, her brother-in-law, the late Dr. R. E. Gaines, was professor of mathematics at Richmond College. As a Richmond College co-ed. Miss Harris showed e:icce ptional aptitude for lani;uages and skill as a mathematician. She followed the Harris tradition by winning the coveted Greek prize when she graduated from Richmond College in 1906. She continued her studie~ at Columbia University where she received her Masters Degree. In her further search for knowledge, she did graduate work in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and attended a seminar on astronomy at Harvard.

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when I'm busy. I'm afraid that is a defect in my writing."

He writes mostly at night, and, when he writes, he writes fast. That's a legacy of a career which has teetered between journalism and teaching, between newspaper work and writing novels and literary criticism.

As a boy in Charleston , Dr. Rubin's dream was to grow up and write for a newspaper wire service.

When he was at the Unive rsity of Richmond (he attended the session of 1942-43 and returned after military service to graduate in 1946) he worked in the news bureau.

He also served on the Collegian staff with a remarkable board of editors. R. Clifton Long , '47, is now secretary and advertising manager of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation in Richmond; Guy Friddell, '46, is chief political reporter of the Richmond News Leader; Paul Duke, '47, is a fartraveled political reporter for the W all Street f ournal, and Thad Crump , '48, moved through advertising to become assistant to the president of Wilson Paper Box Company in Richmond.

Her honors included membership in Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics) ; Mortar Board leadership fraternity, Phi Delta Gamma (graduat e) and Zeta Tau Alpha (social).

Just as "T he tree is known by its fruit, " so a brief glance at the activities of Miss Isabel Harris attests to her wide influence and accomplishments locally, nationa1ly and internationa1ly. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Mathematical Association, and a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Virginia Academy of Science. On three occasions, she represented learned organizations at international conventions. Within the same year, she was delegate to both the International Congress of Mathematics at Oslo, Norway and to the International Federation of University Women in Cracow, Poland. The AAUW sent her as their representative to the international convention at Oslo, in 1925.

Even within her lifetime many honors were bestowed upon her. In 1952, her portrait was presented ,to the University by the Alumnae Association. Later, the Richmond Branch of the American Association of University Women named an international fellowship in her honor.

Not for her honors but for herself she has found a niche in the hearts of many.

The stars she loved so much still circle, beckoning us onward.

Before and between stints at Johns Hopkins graduate school, he worked for the Associated Press in Richmond and for newspapers in Staunton, Va., Hackensack, N. J., and Wilmington, Del. Also during the 1946-54 period he got an M.A. in creative writing at Johns Hopkins, taught freshman composition and an advanced fiction seminar there, edited the Hopkins Review for four years and in 1954 received his Ph.D. in the aesthetics of literature.

His first book, edited with R. D. Jacobs, was Southern Renascence: the Lite rature of the Modern South which appeared in 1953.

Thomas Wolfe: the Weather of his Youth was published in 1955 while he was at the University of Pennsylvania as executive secretary of the American Studies Association and assistant professor of American civilization .

In 1957, during his final fling of newspapering (as associate editor of the Richmond News Leader) , he was co-editor with James Jackson Kilpatrick of The Lasting South.

Teach the Freeman, a two-volume work which he edited, appeared in 1957 and No Place on Earth: Ellen Glasgow, f ames Branch Cabell, and Richmond-in-Virginia was publish ed in 1959.

This year, in addition to his novel, two other books by Dr. Rubin will appear. One is The Id ea of the American Novel, an anthology which he has edited with Dr. John Rees Moore, another member of the Hollins English department, and South: Modern Southern Literature in its Setting which he has edited with R. D. Jacobs.

In the works is another book on the South, a sort of personal memoir, he says.

Dr. Rubin held a Guggenhe~m fellowship in 1958-59 for work on his novel, and in 1953-54 held a Sewanee Review Fellowship in criticism.

At Richmond College in the bulging postwar era, Rubin became a student on the Westhampton side of the lake for two courses which he calls '' the best . . . I ever had in literatur e."

One was Miss Caroline Lutz ' course in modern literature. " It was my first time in a course which dealt with the writers I was interested in." The other was Dean May L. Keller 's modern drama course.

It was in their classrooms that he first felt the sharp pains of that now prolonged toothache.

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Show Good Promise For Future Success

SurprisingBasketeersWin Tournament

By WALT DREWRY

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sophomore-laden 1960-61 University of Richmond basketball team, a club with tremendous hustle and desire , has been a pleasant surprise . At the mid-season break Coach Les Hooker's quintet held the Rich mond Invitational Tournament title th e result of a 101-87 win over favored William and Mary in the finals, and an overall record of six victories and five defeats.

Considering the fact that last season's squad managed to capture only seven victories while losing 18 contests and the top scorers (Butch Lambiotte and Carl Slone) had completed their eligibility, it seemed unlikely that this season's inexperienced club would improve on that record- not with three sophomores in the starting lineup.

What's happened?

Well, Danny Higgins , a dandy little sixfoot sophomore guard from Philadelphia , quickly developed into the "ta ke charge" type player the Spiders have needed. After his performances in the Richmond Invitational which earned him the tournament's "Most Valuable Player" award, newspaper scribes were comparing him with the great Warren Mills of the 1954 and '5 5 clubs. At his best in a "clutch" situation, Danny averaged 18.6 points through the first 11 games.

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Co-captain Lee O'Bryan, Louisville senior who never played high school basketball , apparently has reached his potential. H e's the Spiders' second leading scorer with a 15.6 average and leading rebounder with a 13.5 average. Last year Lee averaged only 7.2 points and 7.8 rebound s.

Co-captain Tom Booker , who was named to the All-Richmond In vitational team along with Higgins and O'Bryan, is hittin g the hoops at a 12.3 point clip. When he was injured in the VPI game and missed the next two contests, juniors Ronnie Floyd and Dick Haymore proved valuable replacements.

Sophomore George Grodzicki of Queens, N. Y. is the fourth Spider averaging in double figures. He has a 11.3 mark and is the club's No. 2 rebounder with an average of nine per game. Ma c Dirom, a sophomore from Lynchburg, is the fifth starter and is improv ing from game to game.

Although out-rebounded ( 72-42) by George Washington in the Spiders ' opener . at Washington's Uline Arena, Richmond made a battle of it most of the way. Th e Coloni als, paced by Jon Feldman with 21 points, broke a 56-all deadlock and went on to win, 75-67. O 'Bryan scored 16 points for Richmond with Grodzicki collecting 15 and

Co-captains Lee O 'Bryan (left) and Tom Booker, seniors from Louisville

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The University of Richmond's George Grodzicki (24) scraps for a rebound with William and Mary's Bob Harris (31) during the finals of the Richmond Invitational basketball tournament. The Spiders defeated the Indians, 10187, to capture the championship.

Booker and Higgins 14 each.

The Citadel, with Gary Daniels scoring eight of his 22 points in the final five minutes, defeat ed the Spiders, 92-78, at the Richmond Arena. H igg ins tallied 17 for UR in the Spiders' first home game. Booker scored 15 while O'Bryan had 14 points and 17 rebounds .

Richmond won its first game in three starts by walloping Washington and Lee, 80-51, at Colonial Heights. The Spiders ran up a 43-21 advantage at half time by using their fast break effectively. O'Bryan had 20 rebounds and 15 points. Booker also had 17 points and Higgins 13.

The Spiders, hitting on only 28.9 per cent of their shots and out-rebounded by 7151 margin , were soundly beaten , 76-54, by seasoned Virginia Tech at Blacksburg in their fourth game. Higgins (19 points) was the only Spider in double figures. Booker suffered a hip injury and played less than seven minutes . Chris Smith and Bucky Keller topped the Gobblers with 25 and 21 points.

Higgins , who paced Richmond with 21 po111ts,held Virginia's Tony Laquintano in check after Cavaliers had jumped to a 17-11 lead , and the Spiders went on to defeat the

SPIDERS LICK INDIANS IN FESTIVAL TO END SEASON ON TRIUMPHANT NOTE Coach Ed Merrick's football team closed its season in a blaze of glory Thanksgiving Day by routing arch rival William and Marv, 19-0, before a Festival crowd of 7,500 at City Stadium. It was Richmond 's fourth victory over the Indians in the last five meetings.

Junior Halfback Earl Stoudt and Fullback Tim McGinnis, playing his final game for the Red and Blue, were the backfield stars as the Spiders rolled up 25 5 yards rushing. Stoudt, returning to action for the first time since he was injur ed in the Virginia Tech contest , ga ined 100 yards in 24 carries and McGinnis pounded the William and Mary line for 82 yards in 20 attempts .

Danny Higgins, six-foot sophomore guard from Philadelphia, was voted the most va luable player in the Richmond Invitational basketball tournament held at the Richmond Arena December 29-30. Higgins scored 26 points as the Spiders defeated VMI, 100-90, in the first round and 28 as Coach Les Hooker's club stopped favored William and Mary, 101-87, in the championship game.

Cavaliers, 80-68, at the Arena. Grodzicki had 17 points and a like number of rebounds. O'Bryan was an 18-point man for Richmond, which led, 37-31 , at the half. ge 32) (C ontinu ed on pC1

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dent body and also for the Richmond business community and Virginia industry. " It will provide an air-conditioned conferencelecture room , an assembly room seating 400 , classrooms, an accounting laboratory, student and faculty lounges, and offices.

Under Dr. Madlin 's leadership , interest in business courses expanded so much that in 1949 the University organized the School of Business Administration to supplement th e evening school classes. Since that time the student body has been housed in a temporary structure , pending the raising of funds for an adequate building. This task was made easier, President Modlin pointed out , by a substantial bequest of L. U. Noland of Newport News.

The building is scheduled for completion by the opening of the 1961-62 session.

Stoudt , co-captain-e lect with End Art McGee, had a hand in the first two scores and tallied the third on a six-yard run to climax a 67-yard Spider march. On that drive Stoudt accounted for 45 of those 67 yards in seven attempts.

McGinnis, whose blocking was just as effective as his running, tallied Richmond's first touchdown from the one-yard marker to climax a 65-yard push. Sophomore Mel Rideout scored the other touchdown from the one as the Spiders moved 98 yards in 19 plays after watching a W&M punt roll dead on their two-yard marker. Rideout . completed nine of 14 passes for 85 yards during the game to bring Richmond's total offense for the game to 340 yards .

Not to be overlooked was the entire Spider line which blocked expertly and played great defensive ball, limiting the Indians to 62 yards rushing. Tackle Joe Pesansky, Guard Bob Sizer and Center Don Christman played exceptionally well.

The triumph enabled the depth-shy Spiders to finish with a 3-6-1 record . After bowing to Florida State, 28-0, and VMI , 21-6, Richmond tied favored West Virginia , 6-6 . Citadel spoi led Richmond's Homecoming, 24-12, but the Spiders rolled over Davidson, 35-6. Richmond played a fine game against VPI, the Gobblers scoring two of their three touchdowns in the final four minutes for a 20-0 victory. Without Stoudt, nursing a knee injury, Richmond fell before George Washington, 16-0, but bounced back with a thrilling 35-28 triumph over Furman as Rideout pitched three touchdown passes. Five days before the win over W&M, East Carolina surprised Richmond, 22-7.

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All-Southern Halfback Earl Stoudt gained 100 of Spiders 255 yards rushing against W&M.

All-Southern End Bob Coolbaugh , nation 's fourth-ranked pass receiver with 35 catches.

AS OTHERS SEEUS

By A. E. DICK HOW ARD, '54 uring an amiable conversation in the D streets of Moscow, a young Russian asked me, in all seriousness, "Does your government intend to attack us ?" Hundreds of miles to the west, in a prov incial city in Czechoslovakia, a young Slovakian soldier wanted to know why the United States persists in blocking proposals for disarmam ent.

Incidents like these underline to the trav eler behind the Iron Curtain the distorted picture which m illions of people have of America. But is the misunderstanding of these people really so very different from the assertion made by an int elligent Oxford undergraduate in a colleg e debate on the race problem in South Africa, "If we are going to boycott South African goods , then we should boycott goods mad e in the South-

About the Author No honors that come to Dick Howard will surprise his classmates at the University of Richmond w here he was a big wheel, but without ostentation. He was expert in debate ticipated in other campus activities.

elected to Phi Beta Delta Kappa .

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He was at Oxford for two years as a Rhodes Scholar, from 1958 to 1960 , reading phi losophy, politics,

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he traveled in West Europe, North Afr ica, the Middle East, Eastern Europe , and Russia . He was accompanied this past summer by his brother, Tom, '50.

His impress ions of the people he met and tal ked with will be of interest to University of Richmond alumni.

In the picture above Author Howard rests beside a two- man saw he used to "earn my keep " while staying at Glen Coe , Scotland, with George Mitchell, ' 23 .

em States of America , for the Negro there is as oppressed as in South Africa "?

If an articulate collegian in one of the best-informed countries in the world can make that sort of statement about the United St_ates,then one can read ily imagine what 1s bemg said about us in the turbu lent, untutored states of Africa or the xenophobic lands of Asia. The truth of the matter is that America, if it is to win the battle for men 's minds , ha s a major public relations job to do.

Some governments, of course, undert ake a deliberate campaign of abuse and vilification against this country. In Communist states, an Orwellian Minitrue pours out hate propaganda and sees to it that people have as little contact as possible with western " lies." Often such campaigns are highl y successful. This summer in Russia, the first questi on that any Russian would ask me was about the flish~ of the U-2 . Their description of this rnC1dent ranged from "an open and brazen act" to "a brandishing of arms."

Ignorance of America and its policies is at its greatest in Russia, where forty years of indoctrination , purges, liquidations , and rigid censorship have produced a people who, with occasional exceptions, take their views straight from the pages of Pravda .

Even Russians who find much to criticize about the domestic policies of their government-and many do- are likel y to buy at face value the Soviet line on American imperialism and warmongering.

In Eastern Europe , America is better known and better loved . The Iron Curtain does not prevent news and ideas from the West from trickling through to those who want to learn. Talking above the din of a jazz band in a student hangout in Warsaw , a Polish law student showed himself more knowledgeable about Amer ican polit ics than are most college students in this country.

He knew that F.D.R ., Jr., was stumping West Virginia for Kennedy , and he knew who was the senior Senator from Montana.

And why not? After all, he reads the New York Herald Tribune, even behind the Iron Curtain.

In Hungary and Czechoslovakia, it is far harder to learn about the West than in Poland, where western newspapers sell on the streets of Warsaw. In Czechoslovakia the only two English-language newspap ers thought by the puppet government to be "safe" for Communist readers are the Daily Worker , and ( more interesting to Southerners who wonder whose interests are served by those who stir up racial unrest) the Afro-American, published in Richmond , Virg1ma.

A few days behind the Iron Curtain, whet her in Soviet Russia, or in its satellites, suffice to convince the traveling American

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that we have a king-sized job in reaching the millions of people who live under Communism. Tota litarianism cannot kill natural curiosity , and all through Eastern Europe and . Russia I spent the largest part of my waking hours deep in conversation with people eager to know more about Americ a.

Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America are widely listened to, when possible , and my few copies of western magazines and newspapers were readily received and no doubt will pass from hand to hand until worn out.

Curiosity about America is not limited to the East. During my two years at Oxford I found that the Eng lish have an insatiable appetite for learning about the United States.

Repeatedly I was asked to show color slides on Virginia - to local chapters of the English-Speaking Union, to Oxford undergradua~e s~c(eties, to groups at other Eng lish umvers1ties.

The reactions were often enthusiastic, for those things which Europeans count most highly - culture, history, natural beauty, education - could be shown to be part of America, too- in the Faberge Easter eggs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in the "Bloody Angle " at Spotsylvania , in the mosaic of auhmm in the Shenandoah Valley, in the cool shades of the Lawn of Mr. Jefferson's Eng lish-modeled University. And my Eng lish viewers could see that this was not all; Oxford undergraduates' enthusia sm rose to fever pitch on seeing views of May

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Day at Westhampton College.

There is at Oxford an informally organized American Association which serves mainly as a forum for visiting speakers of interest. It was always notable to see how English students often outnumbered the Americans at a meeting to hear Chester Bowles talk about American diplomacy, to hear Allan Tate read his inspired poetry, or to pump Vice-President Nixon with alert questions.

Many Oxonians do not confine themselves to asking questions about America.

In increasing numbers they are coming here for the long summer vacation, working part of the summer, then spending the remainder seeing what they can of this strange civilization. It is a relief to be able to report that without exception Englishmen return to England with a better impression of the United States than they had before they came.

One ex-president of the Oxford Union, a debating society, said that "a lot of muck" has been talked about America and that before he went there himself he had talked a lot of it. But going there completely revised his thinking. As he is the sort of Oxford graduate who may some day sit in a British Cabinet, we may be glad that he came- and that he liked what he saw.

Other Oxonians had the same experience.

The nephew of Scotland's premier peer seemed to think that a dinner party at Westover Plantation in Virginia matched anything that the British could offer. A lovely Oxford co-ed told me happily of her experiences in America, including picking fruit in California. Every Oxonian that I talked to about his trip to America has become something of an ambassador without portfolio for the United States.

Some Englishmen acquire a poignant nostalgia for America-or, at least, for part of it. In short, they seem to have heard about the Southern half of Heaven . My philosophy tutor, a charming lady don, told me that the place she would most like to retire to at age fifty would be Lexington, Virginia. In her record library is a cherished copy of the album, "The Confederacy," on which her favorite song is "The Bonnie Blue Flag." Her respect for Robert E. Lee is shared by an undergraduate at Balliol College who, on seeing my slides of the Virginia battlefields, pronounced Lee the greatest general of the century 1850-1950 .

Such English interest in, and affection for, America does not prevent misconceptions .

On being invited to English homes for din ner or the weekend (an oft-recurring feature of their splendid hospitality) , I found myself spending much of my time trying to get across such things as the concept of federalism or the essence of the South's race question . It proves no easy task to explain the significance of the tenth amendment or of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions to one whose country has no written constitution and in which the idea of federal-state balance does not exist.

Even the best-informed have their misconceptions. At a London cocktail party, I found that the dean of British television newscasters had a picture of the American civil service not far removed from that of Andrew Jackson 's spoils system. One would think, to hear him talk, that there had never been a Pendleton Act nor comparable state statutes.

In the probing climate of an Oxford college, in a Syrian bazaar, in a coffee house, in Eastern Europe, in Moscow's Red Square, one found always this mixture , to whatever degree, of knowledge compounded with confusion when it came to talking about Amer ica. But whether in Minsk or Marrakech or Maidenhead, people in other lands share one thing: an intense curiosity about America, its way of life, and its people. Whether they listen clandestinely to the Voice of America, as in Hungary, or are fortunate enough to see America for themselves, as do the touring Oxonians, they are eager to learn .

In Europe, Asia and Africa, I saw the evidence, tangible and intangible , of the ways open to us as Americans to tell our story. The channels are there: Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America, government and private scholarships and travel grants to enable foreigners to see America firsthand , services of the United States In formation Agency, and such publications as the State Department's Russian-language Amerika .

Americans who travel overseas have perhaps the most obvious opportunity to build the image of an America in which "inalienable rights" is more than a phrase and in which "In God we trust" is more than an inscription on a coin. It is not too much to wish that more American tourists were

this kind of ambassador. Europeans have seen plenty of those who are not.

But Americans who stay at home hav e their part, too. Appropriations for foreign aid and for information programs have to be approved by Congress, and Congressmen do read and heed mail from their constituents . Private foundations and individuals are playing an increasing role in sponsoring students and others from abroad to come to this country. Hospitality extended to foreign visitors creates friends for America, as the Richmond Bar Association found when it played host to 150 visiting English lawyers this summer.

Perhaps we should worry less about whether the Kennedy Foundation or the State Department sponsors 250 African students to come to study in America , and more about just getting more such future national leaders to see this country and to understand its values.

Let us make no mistake; whatever they think of us, people abroad want to know more about us. What impression they get is up to us.

LUMPKIN WRITES BOOK ON BAPTIST FAITH

The Rev. Dr. W. L. Lumpkin, '37, pastor of the Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfolk, has written a book on the faith of Baptists during the last four cenh1ries.

Dr. Lumpkin gathered much of his material for Baptist Confessions of Faith while serving as professor of church history at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "Church libraries throughout our land, study groups among young and old, students in colleges and seminaries, individual laymen and Baptist pastors everywhere will for years to come make use of Dr. Lump kin's book," reports Dr. William A. Muel ler of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

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VisuallyHandicappedChildren1n PublicSchools

By NANCY BERTSCH RATCHFORD, '57

these supplies, and first the teacher and I decide which aids are best suited for each child 's eye condition. For the blind chilposition at the Maryland School for the dren the county furnishes Perkins Braille Writers, Braille books and specially prepared Blind in Baltimore. The first year I taught the children with low vision, and then for classroom papers in Braille. two years I taught the totally blind first The most important thing that I try to graders. I found the work most challenging emphasize to the families and teachers of a and rewarding. The three years at the Mary - blind child is that Braille is not another land School for the Blind increased my desire subject, but only a tool to aid the blind in to help these children and to continue in learning and to enable him to read and this field. When I found we would be write. Braill e is a system of touch readin g living in the Washington area, I was pleased which consists of raised dots evenly arranged to be able to continue working with visually in spaces of "cells." There are six dots , handicapped children in the public school three high and two wide . By arranging the system. In September 1960, I accepted a dots in various patterns sixty-three different position with Prince Georges County, Mary- characters are formed. There are two grades land as an It inerant Teacher. This job in- of Braille. Braille Grade I is in full spelling volves helping visually handicapped chil- and consists of letters of the alphabet, dren, their parents and teachers. The chil- punctuation, numbers and several special dren attend the public school closest to their composition signs special to Braille. Braille homes . Because having blind children in Grade II consists of Grade I plus 189 short the public schools is fairly new, there is form words. Because of so many contractions much close work and outside help needed and sign forms the blind child often has by the parents and teachers. I discuss each trouble with spelling. He reads and writes child's problems with his teacher and family a short form of a word but must learn to and try to aid in his adjustment. In this way spell it out completely for overall usage.

I help provide the specialized factors such For example: the word "hims elf " is written as aiding the child in Braille writing and in Braille as "hmf. " reading, ability to get around in a sighted I also try to encourage the blind chilschool and substitute special teaching tools dren to develop their senses of smelling, when necessary. hearing, touching and tasting. The children Some of the supplies offered to the low at an early age learn to feel and distinguish heavy stands, vision children are reading between various textures, sizes and shapes. pens and pencils, large print books published They also try hard to improve their sense of the for House Printing American by the direction. They learn to find locations by Blind, heavy lined paper and magnifying sound, street names and land marks such as glasses. Not all of the children need all of stores, walks and tracks. The blind boys and girls are very courageous on the whole and have a great desire to learn to be independent in their classrooms and in their hom es.

Many of the children need to develop their muscles because they have never felt free to run , ride a bike or skip. There are problems such as providin g similar experiences that a sighted child gains from his environment.

What a sighted child gains through pictures a blind child must gain through substitutes .

Tommy is one of my totally blind children in a regular kindergarten class which I aided the family in selecting. I outline his pictures with the sewing machine , and he enjoys coloring in the raised figures with his classmates. Until he learns Braille I mark each Tommy shows his sighted twin brother and friends a Braille writer, while Nancy Bertsch crayon with an object. A piece of his brown hair is on the brown crayon, a minature Ratchford looks on .

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apple is on the red crayon and a piece of grass is glued to the green crayon. I also furnish Tomm y with pictures made of felt , button eyes or real objects. Clay is used a great deal because Tommy not only can make a three dimensional object, but working with clay strengthens his finger muscles also.

Because Tomm y will later learn to read and write with his fingers it is very important that he develop these muscles. All of these and many other experiences help make the raised areas of Braille und erstandab le and interesting to the young child.

I would like to tell you more about Tommy. He loves his kindergarten class and Before school gets around beautifully. opened I introduced Tommy to his teacher and let him walk all around fee ling the objects in his classroom. When his friends arrived the first day, he knew where to find the toys, play yard and bathr oom, even though he could not see them. Tommy is now looking forward to entering the first grade class in a school near hi s home. I will then visit him each mornin g and teach him Braille. When Tommy becomes familiar with the Perkins Braille Writer and Braille reading he will be able to read in a group with his friends and classroom teacher. Over the Braille words I always write the printed words so that his family and teacher may also read his work with him. I work with Tommy's teacher and therefore offer individ ual help to the child , but not as a classroom teacher.

Another littl e boy is Donny. Donny , a first grader, has very littl e vision, but is able to read very heavy print this year. When special large type books are not available, I write his books and work using a heavy black flow pen. Each day I visit Donny for two hours and assist the teacher as well as the child. I review all board work that he was unable to see and enlarge all of his seatwork. Because Donny often can see shadows and not objects, he is allowed to feel the object being discussed or hold it very close to his eyes. He is able to get around the school buildin g and has quickly learned to find all of his classroom equipment. The Doctor is trying to find some visual aid to improve Donny's limited vision so that he will be able to continue reading large print material.

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that they had "eliminated" all but three of his instructions and wou ld render a verdict in a short time. "Boy," he would say, "I thought that my judicial career was already over."

He got their best from the lawyers because of his humor, his ready, but not unkindly, quips, his capacity for quickly reaching the very nub of the controversy, and his kindly way of easing tension and aiding an excited advocate in developing his case. But he knew well how to stop the long-winded lawyer who labored unsound arguments. One day after listening to much of this in the trial of a long case, he leaned forward with his head in his hand and said, to the delight of all, "Mister, 'taint no use." This is not the kind of incident that would appear in a formal, stiff memorial, but it faithfully portrays Willis Miller.

His universal popularity and legal knowledge kept him much in demand as a speaker, and he was constantly engaged in the quest for the better administration of justice. He served as Chairman of the Virginia State Bar Committee of the Judiciary from 1941; was a member of the Judicial Council of Virginia; served as Chairman of the Commission for the Revision of the Code of

Willis Miller as an outfielder on the University of Richmond baseball team.

U OF R RIFLE CLUB HAS SUCCESSFUL SEASON What's all the shooting about, podner?

It's just the Rifle Club, one of the newest University organizat ions, practicing in the basement of Millhiser Gymnasium.

While retaining their former compet itive attitude toward each other, the varsity , ROTC , and freshman rifle teams have combined to form a club with a three-fold purpose: to provide an opportunity for students to develop proficiency in target shooting, friend ly competition with neighboring colleges and universities, and a sense of fair play and good sportsmanship.

During the year the club fires matches shoulder to shoulder with nearby colleges .

Members also conduct postal matches with more distant schools, firing on their own range and exchanging scores by mail. T hey use 22-calibr e weapons and ammunition, both supplied free of charg e by the ROTC. In the past season the teams enjoyed the best record in the school's history, according to coach Woodley J. Koonce, ROTC Master Sergeant. The freshmen placed second in their league; the large trophy they won is the first rifle shooting award in the athletic de-

partment's trophy case.

The varsity team placed fourth in the National Rifle Association's sectional match fired at Virginia Military Institute, upsetting VMI, one of the top teams in the state. In the NRA intercollegiate postal match the varsity team placed 15th out of 39 teams, and captain Robert Watkins placed sixth in the nation in the individual match category.

Also gaining nationwide recognition has been the ROTC team , which placed 12th out of 102 teams in the Randolph Herst match fired betwe en teams in each army area in the United States.

Led by Robert Myers and Robert Brewster, captains of the ROTC and the freshmen respectively , those teams are undefeated; the varsity team has lost only one match. The range record of 1394, set last year, was broken in the first match of the season, when the varsity and ROTC scored 1412 out of a possible 1500 in a postal match with Seaton Hall.

Sgt. Koon ce and Sgt. Allen Meech, coaches, anticipate completion of an outstanding shooting season.

Virginia, and Chairman of the Supreme Court's Committee for the Revision of Procedure. To these tasks he was devoted, and flattering financial offers of partnerships with established lawyers could never tempt him from the bench.

During his thirteen years on the Court of App eals, he made varied contributions to the law of Virginia, and wrote some powerful dissents, particularly in connection with the Virginia school statutes and the interpretation of Section 185 of the Virginia Constitution.

His grasp of the law was probably nowhere better shown than when lawyers were arguing for wr its or appeals. Reared back in his chair with one foot on the desk, he would carry on a matter-of-fact exchange of views which showed an astounding off-hand grasp of the immediate problem. Only his fellow justices would know of his contributions in conference , and of the value of his notes on the first drafts of their opinions, but his impact must have been considerable; and , of course, his own value on the bench was greatly enhanced by daily contact with first rate men, because, fortunately, our system of selecting judges has given Virginia a very high average in its judicial department.

But, it is as a man, that his friends will best remember him. He was a comfortable and enjoyable companion, the life of a party, and the man to have along when he picked up his fishing rod or set forth with an old hunting jacket, dog and gun. Many distinguished men have won the admiration and gratitude of the people whom they served, but few ever won their hearts as did Willis Miller. Over the years, thousands of people came to understand and agree with one young lawyer who appeared before Governor Tuck to ask for Judge Miller's appointment to the Court of Appeals. He forgot for the moment

the speech he had prepared, then when he found his tongue cried out, "Governor, my father loved Willis Miller."

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POTTER AND NIMITZ EDIT SEA POWER STORY OF NAVIES AND NAVAL WARFARE Sea Pow er, an interesting and impressive 900-page volume, has come from the presses of Prentice-Hall. It was edited by E. B. Potter , '29, with the aid of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

As Admiral Nimitz, himself an honorary alumnus of the University, says, the book "contains an extraordinary amount of information about navies and naval warfare , expressed in language that the seaman will appreciate and that the civilian will easily understand."

Beginning with a brief study of the age of galley warfare, emphasis is placed successively upon an ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Renaissance Venice. Sea Pow er then proceeds to the age of sail, marking the rise of Great Britain to her century-long position of pre-eminence as Mistress of the Seas. The book is then increasingly concerned with the emergence of the United States as the world's foremost naval power.

The volrnne attempts to set forth impartially and objectively the defeats and victories of the United Sta,tes Navy and its role in the evolution of sea warfare.

The book is produced as a project of the Naval History Committee of the United States Naval Academy, wh ere Potter is chairman of Naval History.

In typical Potterian style, the author inscribes a volume for the University of Richmond Library "where in my youth I picked up much curious learning."

1890Dr. Milnor Wilbur St., Ashland , Va.

is now living at 124 Snead

NIGERIAN DEVELOPMENT HEARTENING TO SADLER Dr. George W. Sadler, ' 10, "_greatly heartene d by what I saw and heard ," has returned to Virginia after attending the Nii;erian independence celebration as a special guest of the Nigerian government.

The Southern Baptist foreign missionary, retired after 39 years of service that began in Nigeria and expanded to all of Africa, Europe, and the Near East when he became an area secretary for the Foreign Mission Board, is now serving as interim pastor of the Harrisonburg Baptist Church . In January he visited the camp us to speak at Convocation and to present a Russian Bible to the Virginia Baptist Historical Society.

Dr. Sadler said that in Nigeria the "transfer from colonial rule to independence could not hav e been smoother." Contrasting Nigeria with the Congo, he said that "education, especially Christian education, is one of the biggest differences. Nigeria has thousands of leaders with college and university training , contrasted with 18 or 20 college graduates in the Congo.

"My belief is that Nigeria will set the tone for the new countries of Africa," he said.

Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Sadler returned to the States by way of RuschlikonZurich, Switzerland, where he spoke at an annual mission day service at the Baptist Theological Seminary and saw a portrait of himself, as first president of the school, unveiled. They also spent five days visiting Baptist mission points in Portugal.

MAY RECEIVES COUNCILS' DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Irving May, ' 11, vice chairman of the board of directors at Thalhimers in Richmond, has received the 1960 distinguished community service award from the Richmond Jewish Community Council.

The award- high est honor the Jewish community can bestow - was given May for his leadership in business, civic, and philanthropic activities. More than 600 persons attended the dinner meeting at which he was praised for his myriad activities in community life.

Among his varied accomplishments have been serving as president and board member of the Community Chest, vice-chairman of the City Planning Commission, founder of the first Richmond Symphony, founder and

past president of the Central Richmond Association, member of the state affairs committee of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and of the advisory committee of the YWCA, executive comm ittee member of the Crippled Children's Hospital for 20 years, past president of the Richmond Heart Association, and dir ector of the Family Service Society.

A member of the national finance committee of the Jewish Welfare Board and cochairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, he has been congregation secretary at Temple Beth Ahabah for more than 15 years, superintendent of the Sabbath school, and president for two years.

Mr. May was one of the founders of the council which honored him with the service award and had served on the board and its executive committees for many years.

Alma Mater awarded him the honorary doctor of science degree in 1955.

1915Dr. Dudley Pleasants Bowe reports a change of address to 1014 St. Paul St., Baltimore 2. Md.

DR. REUBEN ALLEY EDITS OLDEST RELIGIOUS PAPER Dr. Reuben E. Alley, '22, believes he is ed itor of the "oldest religious publication, operating under the same name continuously, in the United States."

In a feature article in the Richmond TimesDispatch, the editor of the Religious Herald , weekly magazine of some 450,000 Virginia Baptists, said that during the past 2 3 years he had been making the statement publicly and that he has never been challenged. The paper was begun in 1828.

Dr. Alley, whose avocation is studying science, sees sever.al purposes in the Herald.

Foremost, he says that it should be a medium for informing members of the Baptist faith about the denomination . Other functions are to give readers news about the Christian Church as a whole, to provide features , a weekly sermon, and editorials.

The Times-Dispatch quoted Dr. Alley as saying he lets his editorials go to press confidently because "every statement in them is well documented ." He has recently finished a series on religious liberty which drew comment in the press throug hout the state.

is busily making reproductions of handmad e Virginia furniture pieces.

Marian Marsh Sale, '26, described the doctor's woodworking ventures in a feature page article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Christmas Day. She relates that the "bug " for carving bit Dr. Hite five years ago. Since then, he has made a Chippendale-type chest of drawers, numerous lamp tables, beds , bookshelves , and cabinets, and an entire Hepplewhite dining room suite.

Dr. Hite says he prefers walnut to other types of wood he has used, but he prizes the pine corner cupboard made from trees on his Halifax farm.

Equipment for his projects consists of a multiple-function power unit with a lengthened lathe (for six-foot bed posts), and lots of patience. A busy physician, he works at his hobby between office patients and afterhours calls.

Friends are very cooperative, he says, in keeping on the lookout for good pieces of wood for him. In return, he has given man y of his finished products to enhance other homes.

1926Hunter F. Spencer, Jr. has joined the personnel department of the City of Richmond.

Dr. Chester Swanson has returned from a trip around the world , including an eleven-month stay in the Philippines , and is again teaching in the University of California , Berkeley.

Charter Heslep attended the 4th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agenc y in Vienna in -the fall, and then visited in Norway , Sweden, Denmark , and Paris.

1927The Henrico County Board of Supervisors ha s presented a resolution to Joseph J. Williams , Jr. , former Henrico delegate to the General Assembl y, for his 22 years of service in th e House of D elegates.

TRIAL LAWYERS ACADEMY ELECTS EMANUEL EMROCH Emanuel Emroch, '28, president of th e Trial Attorneys Association of Richmond and vice president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, has been named a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

The group limits its membership to 500 trial lawyers throughout the world. It serves as a forum for exchange of ideas in improving trial and appellate practices and strives to maintain high standards in the legal profession.

1929DR. OSCAR HITE MASTER WOODWORKER Dr. Oscar L. Hite, '22, is doctoring some new patients and has more than 40 successful "operations" to his credit. The Richmond general practitioner, reviving an old hobby ,

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Randolph Lowry W ood is professor of air science at the University of New Hampshir e. H e hopes to retire from militar y service in 196 3 and concentrate on obtaining an M.S. and a Ph.D. Emo1y L. Car lton of Tappahanno ck, commonwealth's attorney for Essex County, has been named pres ident of the Northern Neck Bar A ssociation.

1930Dr. Peter N. Pa store of Richmond received a merit awa rd in October from th e American Academy of Opthalmology and Ot olaryngology at its annual meeting in Chicago . H e is head of th e ear , nose , and throat department at the Medical College of Vir gi nia . Th e aw ard he received was one of 17 national recognitions for serv ice in th e academy's educationa l program.

1931T . Jack Gary, Jr. , '3 1, has been reappointed

chairman of the committee on accounti ng for public housing of the American In stitu te of Certified Public Accountants. H e is a partner in the Richmond office of the accounting firm of Peat , Marwick , Mit chell & Co. and a former president of the Federal Government Accoun tan ts Association.

1932Dr. Hugh I. Myers is now chairman of the division of science of the College of Emporia in Emporia , Kansas.

SELLYOURSELFFIRST, SAYS GAMBLE BOWERS Gamble Bowers, II , '33, has a reputation in Richmond for knowing the techniques of selling.

As vice president for sales of Owens , Min or & Bodeker, In c., he imparts his sales philosophy to trainees of the company , which he has help ed develop into one of the largest who lesale drng houses in the area.

He credit s this bit of advice with advancing him toward successes that were crowned last year by his election to the presidency of the Sales Executive Club of Richmond : " Sell yourself first. The deals and pro motions can come later. "

GEORGE SMITH HONORED BY SCHOOL COLLEAGUES George F. Smith, Jr., ' 17, was hon ored by his colleagues in Baltimor e Novemb er 7 upon his retirement from 40 years of active service with the Baltimore public school system.

Mr. Smith , who was an instructor in the ¡ engineering depa rtm ent of Baltimore Polytechnic In stitute from 1920-29, joined the business division of the school system in 1929 and was elected dire ctor of educat ional supplies and equipment in 193 1, a position he conti nued to fill until his retirement.

He was a memb er of many professional and business associations, including the Nationa l Association of Pur chasing Agents , the Nationa l Association of Educationa l Buyers, and the Association of Scho ol Business Officials in the United States and Canada.

Amon g the articles he wrote are many publi shed in such busine ss publicat ions as " School Business Affairs" and " Am erican School and U niversity." In 1940 he prepared a biblio grap hy of literatur e on busin ess ad ministrati on for int ernati onal distributio n.

One of his latest contributions is a chapter

board of directors of th e Southern Tit le In surance Company , succeed ing his brother, former D el.

Jose ph J. Willi ams, Jr. , who resigned to become a memb er of the Federal Hom e Loan Bank board.

Dona ld is a member of th e law firm of Willi ams, McG ehee and Wi lley in Richmond, and vice pres ident and ge neral counsel for Frank lin Federal Savings and l oan Association .

1938The Rev. Canon Francis William Tynda ll has been appo int ed Canon Mi ssio ner of the Di ocese of° Chicago.

Marri ed: Henry L. Snellin gs, Jr. , to Mis s M ary E leanor Craig Octob er 1 in Bon Air. J. Thomas Johnson has been nam ed sales

on purchasing published in "School Business Administrati on" in 1956.

Dr. Geor ge Brain , superintendent of publi c instru ction, praised Mr. Smith for his "q uiet strength, dignity, open-mindedness, courtesy, patience, persuasiven ess, sound jud gement, and integrity, " which he said contr ibuted to his " distinguished education al statesmanship."

ladder aga in in O ld Greenwic h, Conn .

Fr ederick M. O'Connor is a lieutena nt colonel in the Air Force and is stat ioned overseas.

1940Edward L. Bragg h as been named ge nera l plant perso nnel su perv isor of the Chesapeake and Poto mac Tel ep hone Compa ny of Vir gi nia .

Sidney G. M orton of Richmond wrote a stor y entitl ed "The Indian Thanksgivin g" for th e November issue of Jack and Jill magazine. H e works for th e Ri chmond Juvenile and D omestic Relatio ns Court.

1941The Rev. Charles A. W atki ns resigned D ecember 1 as pastor of the Grand in Court Baptist Church in Roanok e to go to the First Baptist Church of Wahiawa, Haw aii. The chur ch mini sters primarily to personne l of th e Schofield Barracks and Wh eeler Air Force Base.

Born: To the Rev. and Mr s. Ir a D. Hud gi ns of Frank lin , a son, Jonathan All en, D ecember 5.

Dr . Car l A . Collins became pastor D ecember 1 of th e Tabernacl e Baptist Church in Salem.

1942Henry A . W ellhouse has been appointed as a claim s examiner by the Social Security Admini strati on in Baltimore.

19431935John Wilfred Courtney , Jr. , of W est Point , V a. has been instrume ntal in reorga n izing the Eastern Virginia Scholastic Ga llery Rifle league.

1936Dr. Woodrow \Xi . Clark has moved from Royal Oak. Michigan to become pastor of th e Fifth Avenue Baptist Chur ch of Huntin gto n, W. V a.

1937Donald D. Williams

has been appoin ted to the

manager of the X -ray Specialties D ivision at the Liebe l F lars heim Company in Cincinnati. Previously he had been manager of field serv ices at the Ritt er Company, In c., pare nt compa ny of Liebel H e is a member of the Rochester Flarsheim.

Chamber of Commerce.

1939The M obi l Oil Compa ny in New Y ork City has promoted Al Klaffky , who is now livi ng on Long Island, to national resale programs manager.

T . Nash Broaddu s has moved up the DuP ont

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Born: To Dr. and Mr s. B . J. McClan ahan of Horn ell, N. Y. , a daught er, Susan Lee , Augu st 22, 1960.

1944Born: To President and Mrs. J. Ralph Noonkester of W illi am Carey College in Hattiesburg , Mi ss., a daughter, Lila D aw n, D ecember 7.

1945The Foreign Mi ssio n Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has elected the Rev. C. Bailey

Jones of Suffolk as second vice-president. He is also chairman of the missionary education and promotion committee of the Board and serves on the Africa, Europe and Near East committe e.

1946Rev. Jane Grey Ross has become pastor of the Wayne Hills Baptist Church in Waynesboro after .a pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Dundalk in Baltimore.

1947Dr. William C. Gill, Jr. has been named pres ident-elect of the Richmond Academy of General Practice. He will take office in 1962.

Dr. Henry A. Rutter has moved into his new home at 503 McKay St., Falls Church , Va. Gordon W. Thurston has been named western division commercial manager for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia .

1949George 0. McClary is now associated with the cooperative test division of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey .

William J . Teefey, Jr . has been transferred to the Columbus , Ohio office of McGraw Edison Co. , where he is now district manager.

The Stuart Massies have moved to West Hart ford, Conn., where Stu is the new manager of the Hartford branch office of Travelers Insurance Company.

Engaged: Donald B. Camden to Miss Nancy Joyce O 'Neill of Big Island.

Rev. Thomas H. Caulkins has been appointed chaplain of the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of General Practice , an organization of fami ly doctors to promote high standards in scholarship and practice. He is pastor of the Clover Baptist Church.

Robert S. Barbour has formed a partnership for the practice of accountancy under the firm name of Barbour , Parrish & Company in Winchester .

1950Louis A. Crescioli reports an address change from Monterey , Calif . to 201 E. 69th St., c/ o F.B.I. , New York 21, N . Y. J. Boyd Sutton and his wife have been appointed missionaries to Brazil. Their address is Caixa 758 , Campinas, Sao Paulo , Brazil, S.A. Manning Rubin is now a television producer for Benton and Bowles , Inc. , 666 Fifth Ave ., New York , N. Y .

Roland M. Avery , Jr . has joined the Binswanger Glass Company in Richmond.

Stuart Cary is now with the American Paper Company in Richmond as comptroller and assistant treasurer.

The Reverend James David Burnette was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood October 12 in Scott City, Kansas.

Born: To the Reverend and Mrs. Ernest l.

Harris, a daughter , Catharine May , October 2 in Petersburg .

1951Dr. Willie M. Reams, Jr. is now assistant professor of zoology, physiology , and entomology at Louisiana State Univ ersity.

Alva Stuckey, Jr. is branch manager for RoyalMcBee in Montgomery , Ala. Eugene Stewart , Jr. , formerly controls engineer for the Inta-Roto Machine Company in Richmond , has been promoted to sales engineer.

Born: A daughter , Frances Ann , to Mr s. and Mrs. John F. Batte , Jr. October 26 in Richmond .

1952Born: To Mrs. and Mrs. Richard All en Claybrook of Petersburg , a daughter, Helen Elizabeth , October 7.

Donald J. Jacobs is an admini strator for th e Chicago Hospital Council.

Dr. Daniel l. Kendrick has been assigned to th e Army Medical Group School at San Anton io, Texas and is scheduled to be stationed in Ja pa n for three years .

1953Born: To Nancy and Bob Brown the ir second son, David Wesley , October 23. The Browns are living in Drexel Hill , Pa. Michael A. Korb has been assigned to the Norfolk office of United States Attorney Joseph S. Bambacus.

Andrew G. Adams , Jr. has joined the staff of Mason-Hagan, Inc. , Richmond investment bankin g firm, as manager of the mutual funds department.

1954Engaged: A. E. Dick Howard, to Miss Lois Alberta Nilson of Worcester , Mass.

Born: A son, Charles A,rthur, to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cofer of Columbia , S. C. Jim is now with Travelers Insurance.

William B. Harrison , Jr. has been selected as assistant vice-president of the Federal Reserv e Bank of Richmond. He bad previously been manager of the accounting department and an assistant cashier .

Born: Spencer Delancey Albright , IV to Dr .

Spencer, III and Martha Pannell Albright December 12 at Augusta , Ga. where Spencer is a residen t in surgery at Herman Talmadge Memorial Hospital.

Robert W. Berry, Jr. has been appointed commercial manager of Unit 3 of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia in Richmond.

FREEDLEYAND MR. CAT George Freedley , ' 2S, met Mr. Cat in the rear of a New York Second Avenue pet shop.

That was some 1¡6 years ago. In November Mr. Freedley paid tribute to his companion in a theatrical memoir published by Howard Frisch.

Mr. Freedley , dramatic critic, author, and curator of the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library, was recently appointed

by President Eisenhower as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Performing Arts for the National Cultural Center in Washington.

GEORGE

FREEDLEV

1955Parke D. Pendleton bas joined the staff of Baker , Brydon , Rennolds , and Whitt in Richmond.

Born: A son, Joseph E., III , to Mr. and Mr s.

Joe Spruill , Jr. September 29. Joe , Jr. , is engag ed in the practice of law in Tappahannock , Va. John l. Anderson is now assistant personnel manager at the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company in Richmond .

1956Talmadge K. Durham reports two boys: Tal madge Kennon, Jr. , born September 25, 1955, and Gregory , born February 23, 1958 . He is a member of the sales staff of the R. H. Donn elly Company in Richmond.

William James Kerr has completed four years of Air Force duty and is now associated with General Electric in Schenectady , N . Y. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ray Ashworth a daughter , Sallie Quarles , November 4.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs . Aubrey Heath their first child, Norman Bradley , April 10 in Richmond.

Born: A son , Patrick Michael , to Mr. and Mr s.

John Paul Berry November 18 in Washington .

Their first son was born August 31, 1959 .

J. Peyton Farmer was appointed December 28 as acting commonwealth 's attorney for Caroline County .

1957Born : To Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Frostick , a son Jerry Randolph , September 25 in Winchester.

Sherwood is plant manag er for the Southern States Winchester Petroleum Cooperative.

Franci s A. Howard has been appointed assistant group manager in Raleigh , N. C., for Connecticut General life Insurance Company. He and bis wife , the former Betty Aldridg e of Petersburg , have a daughter, Susan , 3.

Sam Cutchins reports an addre ss chang e from Sheron Hill , Pa., to 4523 High St., Pennsauken 8, N. J. He is now in training to be a programm er for RCA in the computer division , and is organ ist and choir direct or at a Penn sauken chur ch.

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Mr. Cat was less of a public figure; his adventures were neither spectacular nor unique . He roamed , he played with his friends, he got lost and then found. But Mr. Freedley was devoted to him, and so will be cat-lovers everywhere when they read his delightful account of their life together.

The volume is illustrated by Victor J. Dowling, whose model was his twelve-yearold Maltese cat. Lillian Gish has writt en the introduction.

Leonard M orrow , a candidat e for the Ph .D . degre e in the depart1nent of botany at Corn ell , holds an assistantship in the Bailey Hort atorium there.

Jam es Alvin Samuel , Jr. is a staff chemist wi th American Vi scose Corporat ion in Front Royal, wh ere he is a member of the J aycees and assistant trainin g officer in the Air Force Reserve.

M arr ied : Kenneth E. Burke , Jr. to M iss Ruby

Born: A daughter, Patrici a Lee, to Mr. and Mr s. Robert S. Bloxom , October 2. They are making their home in Mapp sville.

Marri ed : Hugh L. Tru esdale to Mi ss Anne Warfield Crenshaw of Richm ond September 12, 1959.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs . James B. Aldridge, a daughter, Patricia Lynn, May 17. James is a

JOHN DAVIS WINS ROTARY FELLOWSHIP John E. Davis , '60, has been awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship for study abroad during the 1961-62 academic year.

One of 118 outstanding graduate students from 25 countries to receive this honor , Davis was recommended for the fellowship by the Rotary Club of Norfolk. He will study philosophy of religion, in preparation for a career in the ministry and in universitylevel education, at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rushlicon-Zurich , Switzerland.

Davis is now studying at Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest , N. C., where he expects to receive a bachelor of divinity degree in 1963.

While a student at Richmond College

BUCK MAKES BETTERTIN CAN IN SCIENCE RESEARCHLAB W. Roger Buck, '35, has discarded the idea of building a better mousetrap to gain his share of fame-he's developing a better tin can instead.

In his laboratory at the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research, he is lending significant basic understanding to one of America's most familiar items, which is, he says, "only slightly better understood than the common cold."

The mystery shrouding the housewife's ally stems from the way the cans are made: a steel strip is coated with 30-60 millionths of an inch of pure steel. Now, ordinarily, according to principles basic even to fresh-

man chemistry, when the two metals meet the steel should corrode. In the canning process the electrochemical behavior is reversed, but through unexplained complications steel corrosion still results .

At this point Scientist Buck entered the investigation. He and a colleague extracted concentrations of one part per billion of a metal contaminant, put it in an acid solution, and found that they could affect the tendency of either the steel or the tin to corrode.

Through his research the Institute is finding the answers to a 150-year tin-plated question that will affect 50 billion cans produced yearly.

Jane Brown of Westport, Ky. , in December.

Both are students at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.

Born: A daughter, Sarah Rutherford , to Mr. and Mrs. James M. Farrar of Falls Church March 29, 1960. James is now a seni or member of the Systems Analysis Groups at Melpar.

Born: A son, Craig Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Scott September 20 in Arlington.

John Markham is now Comptroller at Greentree's in Richmond.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Ray Long , their second son, Mark Stuart, February 7 in Richmond .

Engaged : Arthur K. Radin to Miss Beverley Rosenbaum of Petersburg. Art is attending the T. C. Williams School of Law.

1958Born: A son, Scott Garland, to 1st Lt. and Mrs. Richard J. Jenkins, Jr. August 1 at Martin Army Hospital in Georgia. Dick is assistant provost marshal at Fort Benning .

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. James M. Yankovich of Sandston , a daughter , Julie Ann, October 20.

James is director of guidance at Varina high school.

John Stultz is on the comptroller's staff at Atlantic Life Insurance Company in Richmond.

Engaged: Robert B. Beas ley to Mi ss Vivian Marie Miles. Robert is now attending Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina.

1959Engaged: Charles Wilbur W alker to Miss Joan Wells Everette. A summer wedding is planned.

Gary Wayne Grove has joined the RobertshawFulton Controls Company as a tax accountant in the company 's executive offices in Richmond.

Frederick B. Leary is a supply commodity management assistant at the U. S. Quartermast er Depot in Philadelphia.

Fred Peatross is now business manager for Tidewater Weeklies in Fredericksburg.

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Davis was a member of Tau Kappa Alpha, Pi Delta Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa, "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities," the Debate Squad, the Messenger staff, the Forensics Council, the Religious Activities Council, the Baptist Student Union, the Ministerial Association, the President's Advisory Council, the House of Representatives , and the board of governors of the Student Union. In his senior year he was president of the YMCA.

:sales trainer for the F. W. Woolworth in Richmond 's Willow Lawn.

Company

1960Engaged: James Fredrick Caskey to Miss Vir_ginia Steadman Steece of Richmond.

Charles Saunders has joined the cost control staff at the DuPont Company.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Enfield, a daughter, Kathleen, November 26. Jerry's address until he finishes his military service, is c/o George H. Enfield, 498 Faber Dr. , Falls Church, Va. Married: Cabell Cliborne to Miss Helen Britt August 20. He is now in the bond department of the Travelers Insuranc e Company in Richmond.

Lt. James L. Gore is serving in the Army in

Augsburg, Germany as a platoon leader in a medical battalion. His address is Company A, 24th Med. Bn., APO 112, N. Y., N. Y. Don W. Krause has joined the production staff of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dr y Dock Company.

Married: George H. Coburn, Jr. to Miss Frances Henderson October 15. George is now on a four month cruise to the Philippines and Japan aboard the USS Vega.

Army 2nd Lt. James F. Thacker has completed officer orientation at the infantr y school, Fort Benning, Ga. Engaged: John Wayne Traylor to Miss Carolyn Faye Fergusson of Richmond.

Ernoe Csaky has been recognized by the D ow Chemical Company in its new recruiting fo lder.

STANLEY WATTS NAMED SALESEXECUTIVE OF YEAR Stanley S. Watts, '43, has been named "Sales Executive of the Year" by the Norfolk-Portsmouth Sales Executive Club.

Mr. Watts , a district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States since 1955, has consistently ·sold more than a million dollars worth of insurance each year since moving to Norfolk in 1950. The selection committee said Watts has brought Norfolk nationwide recognition as a result of his district's leading all others in production since he took over its direction.

This is not the first honor for the Richmond native who is now the father of two daughters and a son. In 1953 he was elected " Honor Agent of the Year " for the entire Southern Department of the Equitable Society, based on his generally superior performance.

Mr. Watts is on the board of directors of the Norfolk Association of Life Underwriters and of the Norfolk General Agents and Managers Association ; he has served as cochairman of the industrial division of the Norfolk United Communities Fund. An active member of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and the Norfolk YMCA , he is a member of the board of directors of the Norfolk Development Foundation.

"Stanley Watts is an agency manager's dream," says J. Smith Ferebee, with whose agency Watts is associated. " He serves as an inspiration" to everyone with whom he comes in contact one of his great strengths is the positive attitude with which he attacks any problem . He has no peer in his determination to do the best job. "

William R. McCollum is serving as associate pastor of the Moffett Memorial Baptist Church in Danville while attending Southeastern Seminary.

Marvin Lewis Moseley , Jr. is assista nt manager of the Bracken Fence Company in Richmond.

Robert Gordon Padgett is a public accountant in Decatur, Ga. Thomas Arthur Tillman holds the same position in Charlotte , N. C. Bobby Gene Stacy owns a restaurant in Hopewell.

Charles Preston Wilbourne is associated with the State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts in Richmond.

Frank Vecchio is a management trainee with the Kroger Company in Charleston, W. Va. G. Warth en Downs is an attorney in Stuart , as are Richard Stanley Young in Portsmouth, Richard Shaw Tilley in Roan oke, Harry F. Thompson, Jr. in Huntington , W. Va. , and Chris Mitsos in New Castle, Pa. David G. Vieira is a graduate student at American University in Washington, D. C. Edmund E. Meredith is a disability examiner for the State D epartment of Education in Richmond.

Carl Edward Tucker is a price estimator for Reynolds Metals in Richmond.

Lloyd Barbee is teaching at Henr ico' s Tuckahoe Junior High School; Loyd Johnson teaches at the John S. Mosby Academy in Front Royal.

Francis Gagliano played professional football in Hamilton, Ontario.

Lawrenc e Joseph Hasty is stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla.; Luis Morales is a Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant.

U. VA. NAMES SAUNIER TO EXECUTIVEPOST Paul Saunier, Jr., '40, has been appointed to a newly created position at the University cif Virginia. The former aide of Repres_entative J . Vaughan Gary, '12, is now ass1stant to the president for University relations and development. . .

Saunier took over his new duties 111

WHERETHERE'S A WILL •

•

•

Would you like to link your name to the University of Richmond through the years beyond your time?

The University's Bequest Program is designed

to show you how this may be done.

If you are among that growing number who have written the University of Richmond into their wills in order to pass on to future generations the benefits Alma Mater bestowed on you, the University is grateful.

If you have not made a will you are urged to do so, whether you provide for the University or not. If you have made a will which makes no provision for the University, perhaps it should. Please consider how deeply this concerns both the University and you.

In any event, if you have not asked for and received full particulars of the Bequest Program and desire more information, pass the word to your Class Bequest Chairman or the University Bequest Program office.

This is a matter of vital importance to the future of the University.

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Charlottesville in November. He has been delegated general responsibility for all activities affecting public relations and the University's development program.

'The University of Virginia is indeed fortunate," said President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., "to obtain the services of a man of Mr. Saunier 's experience and capabilities. I am confident that his addition to the staff will be of great benefit to our future progress."

Rep. Gary said he was "dee ply distressed" to lose the services of Saunier, who has been his secretary since 1951. Last year Saunier was president of the Congressional Secretaries Club, an associatio n of 1,800 staff assistants and secretaries in the House and Senate. For the past two years he had also been chairman of the 60-member Democratic staff policy study group in the House of Representatives.

Before joining Gary's staff Saunier had been a staff writer for the Richmond TimesDispatch and public relations consultant in former Governor Battle's 1949 gubernatorial campaign. He had also been a consultant to the Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy.

MAJOR HILLIARD NAMED CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE Governor J. Lindsay Almond has appointed Major M. Hilliard of Portsmouth, '26, to

succeed th e late Edward L. Oast as judge of the First Judicial Circuit.

Hilliard, who began practicing law in Portsmouth in 1926, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1928 to 1932 and of the State Senate from 19 32 to 1954.

Before his present appointment he had served as clerk of the circuit, which is made up of Norfolk Count y. Delegate Charles B. Cross, Jr., who had first been endorsed for the judgeship but who was ineligible for appointment , united in favor of Hilliard, with "virtually all lawyers and public officials in the county. " Hilliard's term will end 30 days after the next Assembly session begins.

HENRICO NAMES NEW SCHOOL FOR DEAN RAYMOND PINCHBECK Henrico County's newest elementary school has been given a name that is a part of the University of Richmond itself: Raymond B. Pinchbeck.

It is especially fitting that the school, located in the far west end several miles from campus, should bear the name of the distinguished educator who was dean of Richmond College from 1932 until his death in 1957. He served as chairman of the Henrico school board from 1934 until 1942 .

Henrico school reforms and innovations instituted during Dr. Pinchbeck's term on the school board won national recognition.

G. Clinton Moore, ¡so, Tuckahoe district school board member, said that Dr. Pinchbeck's name had been suggested to him ''by

ALUMNI

hundreds of persons who have called me ..

He contributed most of his life to the education of young people. "

IN ACTION

As vice-president both of American Funds Distributors Incorporated of Los Angeles and of American Plans Distributors of New York, Claude Gibson Thomas spans the country.

From his office in his home at 635 McAlway Rd., Charlotte, N. C., this graduate with a B.A. in economics travels via car and airline 50 thousand miles a year as he promotes the four mutual funds he sells from Virginia through Florido and calls on investment houses such as members of the New York Stock Exchange.

Claude attributes his rise to the guidance of Dr. Hermon P. Thomas-no relotion"who steered me into the investment business upon graduation ." Loter he earned on Investment Bonkers Association certificate in finance from Whorton School of the University of Pennsylvania .

The Thomases (she was Martha Ann Boos of Richmond) hove four children . The girls ore Claudio, eight, and Shannon, two; the boys ore John, seven, and Poul, five. The family attends the Providence Baptist Church, where Claude hos headed the fellowship and recreation committee and tau ght a class of college students.

A John Marshall high school alumnus, ex-pharmacist mote second doss in the Novy, and stomp collector specializing in plate number blocks, Claude reads "Fortune," the "Woll Street Journal " and other financial material, autobiographies, and historical novels.

He hos iust finished "Dr. Zhivago. " In his adopted state of North Carolina Claude is a registered Democrat and was "delighted" to see Governor Hodges appointed Commerce Secretory "because he is on industry man ." He believes that North Carolina is more progressive than Virginia through Hodges ' seeking of new industry.

"Since mutual funds is a growth industry, college graduates should consider entering this field of investments. I believe it will become as important to a family as life insurance .

We in the business ore spreading the ownership of American industry to everyone, " advises this 35-yeor-old executive ofter 10 years of experience.

While at Alma Mater Claude was captain of the track team in 1947 and a member of Omicron Delta Koppa and Phi Delta Theta.

-Jimmy Robinson, '49

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Westhampton News 1920

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

We shall have to try again for a reunion because in June we had only the "regulars". Most of my "news " is from letters of girls who wanted to come but were unable to do so. At the time to send it in for th e Fall Bulletin my five year old granddaughter was quite ill with an emergency appendectomy and I was busy going to the hospital to stay with he1¡ and coming hom e to be with her brother . She is fine now , I am happ y to report.

J eannette Freeman Minor taught Math in Everg lades Sc-hool for Girls in Miami from Janu ary to June and then was to retur n to her apartment in Tenafly, N. J . Her daughter works for a literary agency in New York and her son is still in Puerto Rico. In th e summer of 1959 J eann ette bad a National Science Foundation Grant to study Math at San Jose State College, California.

Gazelle Stubbs Smith had another wonderful trip in February and March that included the Holy Land. More recent new s is that she will take the Virginia Cruise to Central and South Am erica ports next.

Anna Lee Willis Eppright and Kitty Vaugha n Willis had planned to come for the reunion but Clodius felJ and fractured his hip. H e and Kitty had reservations to go to Jordan in the summer to visit one of their daughters, her engineer husband and their new baby. Their son, who taught last year at Amiens , F ranee was to hav e joined them at Mar seilles.

Frances Shumate received trophies in June for teaching mathematics and for supporting the boys' baseball and track teams . She lives in Huntington , West Virginia , plays golf often-wouldn't you lik e to see her hit the ball ?-and feels wonderful.

Shippie and Nelson Sutton had another trip to Europe . This one started in Greece and ended in Scotland. On e of their stops along the way was at the Passion Play at Oberammergau.

Wilbur , Anne Beverly, our older daughter , and I also bad a trip to Europe. It was my first and now I want to go again. At the airport in Brussel s we saw planes unloading refugees from the Congo , a moving experience. Some still looked dazed.

Our schedu led flight was on a Sabena Jet but instead Lufthausa brought us back. I liked both lines!

1922

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

Our only two news items this issue are sad ones. A letter from Mary Fugate brought the news of her father's death on June 28. He had a stroke on May 4 from which he never recovered.

The other very distressing item was the notice of the death of Louise Duke Brantley 's only child , a son, in September after an illnes s of nine months.

1924

Secretary MRS. Guy 0. BEALE (Hilda Booth) 8513 Hanford Drive Richmond 29, Va.

I am very sorry to be so late in expressin g sympathy on behalf of our class to Bernie Whitlock Bowles , who lost h er husband last spring.

Bernie was asked to allow him to be buried in Arlington National Cem etery since he taught at

the Naval Academy eight years and was a Captain in the Naval Reserves at the time of hi s death.

He now rests in the shadow of the Unknown Soldier.

Joanna Savage Ellett was her e in th e fall to visit her daughter at W esthampton and had to spend several days in th e ho spital. However , she was able to come agai n to atte nd th e annual Thanksg iving football game . The Spiders' defeat of William & M ary surely mu st have given her a boost.

Ruth Lazenby M cCulloch was in town recently on her way to New York where she has a son and daughter in Columbia Universi ty. I understan d she has nine gra nd children already!

Mary Ta ylor Gills Copenhaver has no grandchildren but will celebrate the arrival of two gra nd-niec es in Baltimore at Chri stmas.

Much happiness is wished for Carlene Broach Wagn er , who was married last March to Mr. George T. Watt erson. She still lives at "Idyll Acres", Chunky, Mi ssissippi .

Lucille Hudgin s is working for th e Baptist Historical Society whose offices are in the Boatwright Library. It seems like old times to her to be going back to the college every day.

Margaret Carlton's son graduated from th e University of Richmond this past summer and will do his stint in the service before starti ng his g raduate studies.

I had a delightful visit with Mary Peple last Sunday and very mu ch enjoyed seeing the lovel y new paint and paper job in her big hom e.

1925

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

It' s been a long time since our reunion last June. I had asked Evelyn Boatwright to write that up for us in the last issue, but maybe Evelyn was too modest to tell you how beaut ifully she entertained us at the buff et supper at her home .

Those attending were Anne Lecky, Eunice Gill, Martha Lipscomb , Becky Brockenbrough , Lucille Jones , Glady s Sanders, Emeline Stearns, Evelyn Davidson, Thurma Valentine , Buck Ashton , Gar y Turner, Elizabeth Butl er, Julia Deck er, Mary Olive Lynch, Louise Fristoe, Ma e Evans, and , of course, Evelyn, her lovely daughters , and I. Miss Crenshaw , as well as Mi ss Kell er and Miss Turnbull , came by to visit aft er the dinner. They had dined earl.ier with anMher "1'e-unin g" class. The talk went on and on, and you can well imagine what you missed. We enjoyed the letters and messag es which some of you sent.

Shortly after the reunion Evelyn wrote that she would stop by here to see me on her return from the Washington airport and we would try to get a round robin going. Unfortunately, I wasn 't going to be in town t,hat week, and that ended our efforts.

Mickey McVeigh Ratcliffe (not e in the paragraph above I didn 't try to recall all th e additional name s you 've added) had had a bad fall and was unabl e to get to Richmond in Jun e. W e missed her , as well as the rest of you.

Emelin e Stearns is teaching at the Foxcroft School near M iddleburg . I stopped to see her in October on my return from a meeting in Purc ell ville.

This is the key year now for the Swimming Pool Fund; '2 5 has done fairly well so far, but

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ALUMNA RECEIVES VALLEY FORGE MEDAL Fifty years of teaching brought many honors to Miss Sadie Engleberg, '12, whose

long career was climaxed in the fall when she was awarded the Valley Forge Classroom Teachers Medal by the Freedoms Foundation . One of 11 Virginia recipients, she was cited for "exceptional work in teaching responsible citizenship and und erstand ing of the American way of life ".

This is not the first time Miss Engleberg, who retired in 1958 as head of the John Marshall High School history department, has been rewarded for her labors . Many of her former students have served their city with distinction as mayors and members of the city council. She is credited by the school's principal, Fred Di xon, as having inspired young men to assume roles of civic responsibility.

In addition to her B.A. degree from the University of Richmond , Miss Engleberg pursued graduate studies at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. She resides in Richmond at 3305 W est Grace Street.

all of us will have to do better thi s year if we ' re to reach our goa l.

If you want me to have anythi ng in the Bulletin next tim e, you'll have to send it to me. Marth a Lipscomb was the only one who obliged last time .

She had been selected to take a new science course which she is now teaching at M cLean.

H ere's hoping 1961 may be especia lly good for all of you and for W estha mpton !

1926

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

What has happened to all of you) I can' t seem to get any of you to send any news. I was in Richmond for the V .E.A. and thought I wou ld see

RETIRED ARTIST KEEPS PAINTING An artist by training and a housewife by choice, Ammye Herrin Hill, ' 34, now makes a career of both.

We all look forward to seeing her and hearing of her work.

The Yeamans, Virginia , Torn and Tommy, went to Albuquerque, New Mexico , on their vacat ion , to help Ann Carol and her family get sett led in their new home.

Our sympathy goes to Frances Schofield who lost her mother in May. Frances was in Richmond for a few days in September.

If you have any newspaper clippings about yourse lf or family , or change of address , please send them to Mrs. Booker at the Alumnae office.

1930

A former commercial artist, she took up portrait painting 10 years ago when she "retired". Her painting, which occupies her several days a week, consists mostly of portraits of friends, their friends, and their pets. The latter recently included a dog who arr ived for his sitting in an air conditioned Cadi llac complete with bone and eating dish .

The rest of the week she is busy as wife, as the mother of two sons, and as the superintendent of one of the primary departments of the First Baptist Church in Richmond.

She theorizes that anyone who is not colorblind can be an artist and she advocates instruction as an incentive to both would-be and accomplished artists. She takes her own advice . Having studied art since the age of twelve, she regularly attends study sessions despite the fact that her success is apparent throughout her Richmond home where her sculpture, paintings, and murals are in evidence.

a few of you, but Alice Tayior was the only '26er I saw. I always enjoy having a short visit with her.

Do you know it is time for us to plan for our 35th reunion) The burden of this usually falls on the Richmond girls. Be thinking about it and let us know if you have any suggestio ns. We ' JJ let you kn ow definite plans when we get out the spring Jetter.

1929

Secretc1ry MRS. H AMPTON WAYT (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road, Richmond 30, Va.

You will notic e that your secretary is no longer Helen Moon of Tonbridge Road but Clare Wayt of Rodney Road. I w ill not be able to do the job Helen bas done , but if you wi ll send me your news, I will see that it gets in the Bulletin.

Helen W enzel bas had a wedding in her family .

Her daughter , Judy , was married to James Ownbey, Jr. of St. Petersburg , Florida in August. Jud y and James are seniors at State University in Tallaha ssee; she is majoring in business , he in meteorology. H elen and Fred celebrated their own twenty-fifth anniversary ten days before the wedding.

Elizabeth Hale wrote in her Christmas letter that she will be leaving Malaya for home in June .

Secretary MRS. JOHN E. MILLEA (PriscilJa Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Id a St., Newton 58, Mass.

Virginia (Saund ers) and Bill Thomas spent a week in August at Myrtle Beach , S. C. In October they were in New York for a few days to shop and see some plays.

Dorothy Abbott Wood traveled to the West Coast last summer. She said it was a wonderful experience seeing this vas-t country unfold before her.

In November, Margaret Flick Clark won a raffie at the Library. Her prize-$10.00 for dinner and two tickets to "The Best Man ".

You'll be interested to learn that Lois McIntosh is back in the Philippines, Jiving at 1771 Dakota St., Manila.

As you see, news is scarce, so I repeat my request: "Please write!"

1932

Secretary MRS. GLENN S. HESBY (Katherine Roberts) 900 West Franklin St. Richmond 20, Virginia

News bas come from Evelyn Gardner Ward that she and her family have returned from Saigon and are now Jiving in Easton, Pennsylvania , where her husband , Pete , is Professor of Military Science at Lafayette College. Their son, Nat, is a student at Sullivan's Prep in Washington, D. C. Before leaving the Orient, they had a trip to Cambodia, Thailand , India and Pakistan. Then they caught the "Excalibur" at Beirut for three weeks on the Mediterranean.

Jessie Miller Jone s Turner attended the Virginia Education Association meetings her e in November as a delegate from her county.

Several members of our class were so pleased to see the Babcock children on their recent visit to Richmond to spend a few days with their grandmother, Mrs . Ryland. They are very happy in their new home in Charlotte, North Carolina. The oldest boy, Jud , is in his second year at Washington and Lee. Virginia Jones Pharr has moved into her new home in Hydenwood , Warwick, Virginia.

For more news read under the class of '33 about our trip to Carolyn Cutchins'.

1933

Secretar y Mrss GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Avenue Richmond 27, Virginia

Happy New Year 1 H elen Travis Crawford is taking a year off from her busy life in Richmond and is spending it abroad in study and travel.

Marion Clark , who is teaching at King College, has been awarded a D elta Kappa Gamma Society scholarship for graduate study. Congratulations, Marion' Rebecca Watkins Moore was here for a short visit with her daughter , Nancy, who is working in Richmond.

On Saturday, November 12, 1960, Carolyn Cutchins Powell entertained at her home in Franklin , Va. , for our Westhampton Bridge Club. Mollie Moorman Simpson drove and took Katherine Harris Hardy, Anne Dickins on Welsh ,

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and Etta Whitehead Nachman. Katherine Robert s H esby drove and took Mary Hodnett Mabhew s and Phoebe Drewry Thiermann. We were surprised and delighted to see three other invited guests. NeJJe Johnson was there from Drewry. vi lle, Va . Al so Virginia Jone s Pharr from Denbigh , and Ella Freeman Ander son from Williamsburg drove over together. The weather was perfect and it was a great day for all tho se present.

1934

Secretary MRS. R. VAN HEUVELN (Frances Lundin) 3905 Midlothian Pike Richmond 24, Virginia

We have another "class daughter" to includ e with those who entered college last September.

Katherine Brown van Allen's oldest, Peg, ha s begun her freshman year at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She received a National Merit Scholarship.

Two of our class, Frances Gee and Erma Gay Cecil, were hospitalized thi s fall. We wish them the best of health in the future.

Condolences are extended to Virginia Watkins Ellenberg, whose father passed away in Decemb er, and to Gene Newton West , who lost her moth er during the same month.

Ann Wood tells us that the Red Cross has request s, from Veteran and Naval hospital s, for several hundred open -heel socks to fit over casts.

Mrs .. Elizabeth Whe eler, chairman of College Act1v1t1es, has enlisted the aid of Westhampton students who like to knit. If any one can help , please contact Ann (AT 8-5117).

1935

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

Our sympabhy is extended to Margaret Gravatt Varkentine in the loss of her husband.

Rhea Talley Stewart had a busy fall. She covered the food editors ' conference in New York for the H ouston Post . The following week she went to Memphis, where she was principal speaker for the Business and Professional Women's W eek and was presented the keys of the city by th e Mayor. ~hea writes regularly for the M emphis Commerczal App eal. A few days lat er she spoke at Delta State College , Cleveland , Mississippi, under th e auspices of the A.A.U.W. , and during the same week addressed the student body of Mississippi State Col lege for Women at Columbus Mississippi.

Before returning to Connecticut '.

Rhea spent the 01ght at one of the showplaces in Natchez, Hop e Farm.

Lola Wil liams Pierce's son, R. G., decided that he preferred music to engineering and transferred from VPI to Peabody in Baltimore.

Susan Whittet Wilson 's daught er is editor of the annual , a member of Mortar Board and an outstan ding senior at Mary Washington ' College; she is in Who's 1/1/ho in American Colleges. Her son has recently been promoted to Lt. jg in the Navy. He is stationed in Rota , Spain, not far from the places Miss Keller and Miss Turnbull visited on their trip to Spain in the fall. H e has visited Paris , London , and spent the fourth of July in Moro cco; he is studying Spanish and gets along welJ in using his col lege French and the Spanish he ba s learned.

Billy Rowlett Perkins has moved to a new home near the campus of the University of Richmond , 7704 Hampshire Road. Her older son graduated from VPI and is aotending Wesleyan University in Middl etown , Connecticut, on a fellowship he won. The next son gra duate s from Richmond College ,in June. Her daughter is enjoying her freshman year as a dorm student at Westhampton ; she is interested in dramatics and is a member of the Univers ,ity Player s. Bil ly is teaching math at RPI and is taking graduate work in math at the University of Richmond.

Richmond newspapers carry many feature stories

telling of the varied and interesting activities that Beverley Bates leads in providi ng at the Senior Center. Mary Anne Guy Franklin 's work as TV Consultant for the Richmond Public Schools is the subject of many articles also.

Lotti e Britt Ca lli s is bus y with PT A work, program chairman for Lee School PTA thi s year.

Harri et WaHon ha s comp let ely re covered from her di sc opera tion and pla yed hockey durin g the fa ll.

H aze l W eaver Fob es and her family are set tl ed in New D elhi , India. Her address is: APO 14 3, Box N. D ., c/o Postmaster, San Francisco.

Alth ough it is very hot in New D elhi , th eir home is made comfor,tab le by air conditioning. Beca use she h as a numb er of serva nt s, Ha zel has time to do library work aga in and is helping in th e E ng lish school, w hi ch Geoff atte nd s. Patty is taking corr espondence cour ses and plans to return to the U. S. in the fall to attend college. We do not know whether Mi ss Crenshaw saw H aze l when she ~topped in New D elh i on her wor ld tour , but they discussed it at our reu n ion.

Susie Anderson Ackerman 's daughter , who p rob abl y wo uld ha ve atte nded W esthampt on if she had been abl e to ent er as a dorm stu dent , is a fre shman at Maiy Ba ldwin. Patsy Pitt s H end erson's older daught er, who attended Mar y Baldwin, was marri ed a few montihs ago.

EIJen Barnard W all inger 's son , Scott , graduated from N. C. State in forestry and is att ending Yale on a fellowship.

A good 1961 to you all I Let us hear fro m you in th e New Year.

1936 .

Sec.-eta.-y MRS. ROBERT J. Fo x (Kitt y Elli s) Ayl ett, Virgini a

1937

MRS. CARL w. MEADOR (Marga ret Mitchell) 214 Banbury Road Richmond 21, Virginia

TEAM TEACHING TRIED BY ALUMNA

Kitty Broyle s Kerr is teachin g fourth grade in suburban D etroit. Her address is now 500 St. Clair, Gro sse Point e, Michi ga n.

Our daught er, Barb ara , w ho marr ied C. A. Dow ell JU just aft er hi s gra du ation from Hamp den-Sydney in Jun e, is livin g in Pensacola , Fl orida , w her e he is in Pr e-Fli g ht training in na va l av iation.

If you want news of your classmates, please do your part by dropp ing me a line or call ing EL 5-5954. Let's keep each other posted 1

1938

Secretary MRS. BERT BURCHILL (Eli zabeth Shaw) 6709 Ken sington Ave. Richm ond 26. Va .

Our congratulations to M argaret ( " Sweet " ) Carpenter on the publication of her biography of th e Am eri can poet, Sara Teasdale. W e a re ve ry pro ud of " Sweet's" acco m plishm ent s in the lit era1y field. For thos e of yo u who may hav e miss ed it , ther e was a very nic e report ab out "Swee t" on page 15 of the Fa !J 1960 Bu ll etin w ri tte n by Barbara DeJarn ette Bagwell.

No doubt , many of you saw the lovely p ictur es of Rand y K endig in th e D ecem ber issue of the Ladies H orne ] 011r11al.

Randy is the daughter of Emily P arker Kendig and her picture appea rs on the cover and on pages 62 and 63 of th e Journa l.

1939

Wh at a treat it is to get lett ers from you w ho have taken the tim e to w r ite. I had a Jong one from Monn y Bowers last week. She te!Js me Caroline Shafer ha s been staying with her father at Kinsa le, Vir g inia , since Oct dber. W ou ldn ' t it be wo nd er ful if she could attend our reunion ?

Monn y is now Pr eside nt of the W esth amp ton Club in Baltimore.

I had lun ch wit h Margie Tabb , Elizabeth W ilson and Boo Page last week. Boo's daug hter, Jane , is attending th e U niv ersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She had th e honor of playing the lead in "So uth Pacific " with the Carolina Play makers . Gale Page, another of Boo's daughters , is a first year stud ent at Ave rett College in D a nvi!Je. Did you know that Mar gie Tabb is Student Relati ons Cha irman for our Richmond Club this year?

Marth a Riis M oore te!Js me she is a gra ndm oth er as of this past summ er. H er daught er, Elizabeth M oore Us 1y, has a baby girl. It' s hard to rea lize our '36e rs are becoming gra nd pa rent s. Please advise me who else in our group has that honor.

SecretMy

"Team teachin g " is being tried in Culpeper County, Virginia , with M arth a Ellis Ross, '38, as the " master" teacher.

The program , init iated this year as an experime nt, is being used in the eleventh grade hist ory class of 124 students . Tw o days a week Mrs. Ross pres ents a collegetype lectur e to th e group which is separated according to those taking a college preparatory cour se and those who are not. On alternate days the two gro ups are subd ivided for more individual classroom-type instruction by two other teachers on the team. On Fridays , the thr ee instructors meet for planning sessions whil e the students study current events by newsfilm with comment aries by the final two members of the team .

Gra des and examinations are compil ed by the ent ire five-member faculty group.

Students are enthusiastic, noting that the method solves the age-old probl em of variety.

The teaching team says it keeps them on their toes as a yardstick and check on each other. Th e principal is hopeful but reserves predictions until the end of the year when the result s are appa rent.

Sec.-etary MRS. KENNETH D. ANGUS, JR. ( Evelyn Ha zar d) 1512 W ilmin gto n Av e.

Richm ond 27, Vir g ini a

As you see you no w ha ve a new secret ary. I hope you wiJI all Jet me hear from you from tim e to time.

Callie Ross Lewis , who has served so ably, is quit e busy with preparations for her trip to Europe.

Rosa lie Oakes , anot her of our class , who is a wor ld tra veler, included Richmond on her spea kin g tour of the states. Rosa lie lef t her Y.W.C.A. work in Sout h Afric a and return ed to th e U nit ed States after a tour of Eur ope. H er moth er and her sist er Ann met her in Europe and th ey h ad a wonderful tour. Rosalie called Jud y Floranc e when she came to Richmond. She returns to South Africa at th e en d of De cem ber.

Can you beli eve so me of o ur daughters and sons are in college' Evaline Flow W e lls' daugh ter, Evamon , is a freshman at Willi am and Ma ry.

Elizabeth Burch Fowlkes ¡ daug ht er, Lyle, is a

freshman at Mary Washini;ton.

Kate Peterson Klaffky's son, K enn y, is a sop h omore at Tu lane.

Severa l of our g irls are teaching for the Jirst time in quite a while. Elizabeth Mitchell Dri sco ll is teac h ing Spa ni sh an d Sophomor e Engli sh in the W aynesboro Hi g h School. E lizabet h Burch Fow lkes is teac hin g Science and Math as a substi tut e in th e Falls Church H igh School. Whil e we're on the subj ect of teaching, Jackie Faulkner Dix on's hu sba nd is now teaching English in th e Williamsburg H igh Schoo l. They have bought an old home , near Mathews , which they are restoring. D oesn't that sound like fun, Paula Smith Mackey was our on ly represe ntative at th e Hom ecoming Dinner , but Evali ne Flow W ell s atte nd ed the ga m e and lunch on Sat ur day.

1940

Secre tary MRS. HARRY GENTRY WILLIAMS ( Sad dye Jane Sykes) 6506 Monument Ave., Richmond 26, Va.

At the beginning of this New Year, why not reso lve that you' ll write your secretary at least

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once during this year. It"s a wonderful way to start 1961 and others would enjoy sharing your excitement and everyday living , too!

Annabelle Lumpkin Hessel is now living in Italy. Her husband is serving as a naval officer in that area and we'd like to have a full address.

If any of you can help with ohis, please send it on to me so that I can pass it on to our alumna e office.

The past months have been full ones for Margaret Brinson Reed and Jack. Margaret is teaching in the Ashland school and taking two classes in night school in Richmond. Their younger son, Mike, broke his leg in October and was in a cast for about two months. We're all happy that he will soon be running and playing with his little friends again.

Ethel O'Brien Harrington and John gave us a nice surprise one Saturday in October. They came by our home to visit for a few minutes while they were in Richmond visiting with John's father who was recovering nicely from an operatio n.

Maude Smith Jurgen 's husband, Fred , went hunting Thanksgiving week with great success and shot his first deer. Our first Westhampton baby, Carol Jurgens, is very happy and busy as a freshman.

In early December, Lucy Baird went to New York on the RF&P Theatre train to see Mary Martin in "Sound of Music" and several other plays. Sounds like wonderful fun!

A Happy Year to each of you .. . And please make that resolution now .

1941

Secretary

R. P. STONE (Mayme O'Flaherty) 3605 Moss Side Ave., Richm ond, Va.

MRS.

When you read this , Christmas will be a happy memory and we will be anticipa ting our 20th reunion. At the present time, however, news is scarce, and I am several months behind on everything because of my convalescence ( which was a most enjoyaible time.) I hope you will write what you have been doing and include some ideas for the reunion.

Margaret Brittingham Curtice wrote Its Slipek of a Westhampton party she attended in Walnut Creek , Ca!.ifornia, with Lucy Burke Allen and Virginia Parker Dozier. There were si~teen there including the husbands. Marie and John Jordan , Christine Lawson, and Ilse Shott all live in the same area. Virginia Dozier's husband is on maneuvers in Japan.

Margaret is teaching a high school group in Sunday School, is vice president of the Missiona ,ry Society and active in the PEO. Of her family she says that Jim plays football , Jack, Jr. is at home in college and Ginny has three children.

Marion Yancey Petroff Jives at 1106 N . Quantico Street, Arlington , and writes that she and her

family had a nice vacation crabbing and fishing on the Pamblico River in North Carolin a.

Teensy Gar,rett Buckler is enjoying Berlin , and will soon be back in the States.

Henrietta Sadler Ellwanger is teaching English in the newly opened George Wythe High School in Richmond, is senior class sponsor, and advisor for The Statesman, the school magazine. She finds all this stimu lating but exhausting.

Antoin ette Wirth Whittet has had a busy fall as president of the Alumnae Association and speaker on the homecoming program. In addition to thait, they have just completed a lovely new wing to their home in time to enjoy the Christmas festivities.

Its and Ed Slipek have a wonderful big home at 3218 Seminary Avenue , and a tour of it shows evidence of their musical and artistic interests.

The entire family, with the exception of the baby, paints, and pictures of them featured an article on activities at the Virginia Mus eum of Fine Arts.

Barbara and Stuart Grizzard are at the Montros e Baptist Church in Richmond , and in the past year, the church has built a new parsonage and built and dedicated a wing to the church which means an addition of 300 seats. Their address is 2329 Farrand Drive .

1943

Secretary ROBERT M. HATHAWAY ( Pepper Gardner) 8518 Julian Road , Richmond , Virginia MRS.

Today I feel as if I should be starting the refrain 'Tm back doing business at the same old stand", since this will be my second term as your class secreta,ry. The last one I finished up about 1949, and then at our fifteenth reunion it seems J found myself being designated , along wiith Louise Wiley Willis, for this job for these next two years. From then it passes to Pudge Phillip s Starks and Georgie Simpson. We do want to thank Harriett Lewis Goodman and Rose Koltukian Wallace for their good work of the past two years. I suppose I should apologize for missing the last deadline and having no news for you the last issue. Sometimes this is a bit of a thankless job , and you get to wondering if anybody xeally cares whether you go to the effort to get news of college friends out to them or not. If we don't hear from you, it's fairly easy to arrive at this conclusion, so if you want me to keep writing, how about sending me maiterial to work with?

You do your part and I'll try to do mine.

Incidentally , Georgie has the scrapbook and is in charge of getting it up to date and sending it on to any of you who would like to see it.

Many of the friends of Puff and Dick Humbert were saddened to learn of the tragic bicycle accident and death of their 14-year-old daughter, Helen Reba, last August. H elen was a beautiful and gifted child, and her death was a great loss to those of us who knew her personally and to the whole community. I'm sure that you would like

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for me to express for our class heartfelt love and sympathy to Puff and Dick and their other daughters, Priscilla and Susan. The Humberts moved into a lovely new home on the college campus at the head of the lake this fall, and Puff is teaching at Collegiate Country Day School.

From Fay Carpenter Kirchman in September a delightful card: "With 5 kids nine months to nine years, it's easy to be grateful for Dull moments! Now that school is open we suffer McGuffy 's panic each morning ti! the bus leaves, and th en I prop up my feet and meditate for a minute ( on carefree college days?) before tackling dishes and lau ndry. This is news ?" Yes, Fay, it is and thanks.

Marjorie Clements Kidd writes from Orange, Connecticut, that they moved into a new ranch home last year and Donna washed out their bridg e and dam. Her Kathy is 3 years old and Gregory 14 months. This summer brought a card from Ann Oaks touring in Europe. At the moment she was in Austria enjoying the Salzburg dancers and the landscape complete with castle. Her mother and sister, Rosalie, were touring with her.

Rose K. Wal lace was in Richmond for two weeks in June and enjoyed the sun and solitud e of her family 's 15 acres outside Richmond . Last spring she beaded the Cancer Drive for her town of Wilbrah am, Massachussets. While she was south she ~pent two days with Anne Byrd Tucker Moore and reported a wonderful visit with much conversation. Anne Byrd is working on her Ph.D . in history at Duke and Chapel Hill. Rose writes "Kevin, aged 6, started first grade today. He is very eager to learn to read and should do well in school. With just Bruce, aged 3½, at home now , life is very quiet. Bruce is a real character, keeps us laughing , and my patience stretched beyond its endurance. If I can ju st keep my sense of humor ... " Rose is also involved in the Friendship Group of her church and the local Republican Club.

I have a few news items from the Richmond girls. Harriett L. Goodman is a den mother again this year, and Harold is a cub master, so they are quite involved in scouting. Bob and I have the same set-up , so I kno•w what she means. Her ten year old, Bob, is enjoying his first year of viol,in lessons. Harriett saw Shorty N. Claytor Christmas shopping with her two children a few weeks ago.

Clay has been in a ,hospital in Raleigh since September with a leg condition, but they hope he' ll be home by Christmas.

Evelyn Allen Krause is teaching English and Public Speaking at Manch ester High School, and she has two periods of Counselling and Guidance for husband Charles, who is head of that department now . Maxine W. Rogers took the two children for a restful week at the Chamberlaiin this summer. Alan started first grade this year, and Carol (9) aspires to be an actress since an introductory part in one of the Dogwood Dell plays this summer and participation in Richmond's Christmas pageant . Max reported Doll y Dorse y Garwood and 3 children were leaving Texas to drive to Virgin ia and a residence in Richmond while Dave spends a year in Alaska.

Virginia Del p Ogg has been back in the hospital for 17 days with more back trouble but remains active in P.T.A. and other things. She and Wade a·re taking one class a week at R.P.I. , she a seminar in problems of teaching and he in electronics.

They spent most of the summer at their cottage at Edwardsville and in September took the 4 children to Washington for a somewhat hectic but instructive week end. Last spri ng Chime Dalton Tate was in town briefly and she and Marguerite Shell Ritchie dropped by to say " hello " to me.

Shell's going through the first grade stage with her Bonnie, who is a good friend of my twins.

George has a new office, and they are house hunting. This summer much time was spent on the Raippahannock River boating , and Shell says after a day of being 8 miles out on the river she feels like nothing but a cork! She spends a great deal of her time with the Christian Youth Corps group here .

MISS OAKES RETURNS TO AFRICAN POST Rosalie Oakes, '39, has returned to the world's trouble spot after a four-month furlough in the States.

As advisory secretary of the South African Council of the W odd Affiliated Young Women's Christian Association, Miss Oakes advises 100 groups located in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein.

She is the only American on the 11-member council whose other members include five Europeans and five Africans .

During her first trip home last fall after a two-year assignment, the Westhampton alumna was widely in demand to give firsthand reports on the continent wh ich is the focal po int of the world's attention. Her work, she explained, is the result of the inspiration of a Negro woman from North Carolina who married a South African doctor . Neighborhood groups organized in 1939 to teach methods of housekeeping, child care, diet, and other pertinent problems, mushroomed until they became affiliated with the internatio nal YWCA in the mid forties.

Miss Oakes travels to the four areas, working with staff members and volunteers in planning programs, setting up groups such as Y-Teens, and promo ting service projects that will assist communit ies torn with dissension and disease. The purpose of her work, she stated, is "to train responsible Christian leadership all over the country and to keep the doors of communication open in the tense situation."

After leaving Westhampton, Miss Oakes received her B.D. degree from Crozer Theological Seminary. She has served in the YWCA as student secretary of the Southern Region, and as a director of the organization's work at the University of Kentucky and the University of Texas.

Fay Wray Ronick and Harold are great football fans and spent many week ends this fall on trips witch rhe Richmond team . June Hargrove Cornwall and George moved into a new home a year ago. Pat ( 5) started at St. Catherine 's this year, and this is June's third year teaching there. Louise Cardoza Long is mighty pleased to have ber travelling husband ait: home again this fa ll after many trips for over a year. She and tbe three boys joined Cliff in St. Petersburg , Florida, for two weeks last summer , and while there they saw Reba Booker Fox and Earl and their three boys.

Cozy says Reba looked wonderful and that Earl and thei,r oldest boy were preparing to go out to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Denver.

Last summer was a fabu lous one for me, for I had a marvelous five-weeks trip to South America . After driving to Miami , I joined a party of 30 (mostly North Caro linians including my daddy and stepmother), and we flew over 1,200 air mi les and visited nine cities and seven countries . Since Dr. Lough 's Latin American

History course in college I've been fascinated by South America, and it was everything I' cl dreamed or anticipated. We ended up at the Baptist World Congress in Rio for ten days, and I had complete lecture a one-day flight to Brazilia-a in itself. Bob, angel that he is, not only suggested that I take this trip, but be did most of the caring for our four children while I was gone-in addition to running his own firm and managing a Little League baseball team! I really haven't gotten my feet firmly on tbe ground yet!

I've just checked last summer's Bulletin and have come up with the appalling information thM our class is THIRD FROM THE BOTTOM in percentage of contributors. We were 21% last year. How does that stack up with our 87% in 1948 when we were third from tbe top? I'm not going into the merits of our alumnae fund or the swimming pool. The excellent material from the Alumnae Office has already covered that, but , do Jet me remind you that this is the last year for that pool. I h~ppen to believe thM the class of 1943 can do considerably better than we have lately, so won ',t you do your part-financially-and letterwise to me and your group leader-and may 1961 be a happy yea,r for each one of you.

1944

Secretary KEITH 1. MAXWELL ( Ellen Mercer Clark) 1002 S. Franklin, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

MRS.

The Class of '44 mourns this fa! I the death of our beloved sponsor, Miss Isabel Harris. We will always honor her memory. She was a wise teacher , a knowing dormitory companion, and a welcome and sympathetic member of our class counsels and parties.

Our class seems busy but not news minded .

Dot Hill was in Richmond for an AAUW workshop. Juanita Tiller Elmquist is teaching at Collegiate and Russe ll is at Fai,rfield Junior High in Richmond. Their Randy is almost three . Their address is 3229 Cliff Ave.

1945

Secretary WANDA

WALTON

PACE

115 Willway Drive Manakin , Va. Greetings all 1945'ers. We will all miss Ann ' s crisp , entertaining style. I'll attempt to keep the ball rolling. Having just swept the holly, dry need les and cookie crumbs away, I'm looking over the Christmas cards. There are some with tidbits of news. Those without news must have been caught up in the pre-Christmas scurry, but I'll mention them so you'll know they are in circulation . . . Kathy Mumma Atkinson, Mildred Draper Atkinson , Lillian Belk Youell and Liz Parker Cone.

On Lib Weaver Martin 's card she says Les won his election to the legislature. He was the only Democrat in the county to win , locally , state or

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nationally . On the front is a wonderful picture of her two boys-Lester, III ( 7) and Sam ( 3). Lester III is quite handsome and Sam is so much like Lib it gave me a start . . . looks like a little rascal and angel together .

Ann Twombly Leland's card has her family (all six) pictured on it. They are a very personable group . (Those of us who saw Ann five years ago remember wondering how she could become even more attractive.) The young son, Jim, looks like his Father. The girls are love ly and the little one looks as though she's everyone's darling.

Mary Campbell Paulson says she is busy, as usua l, trying to be President of the Women of the Church and Vice President of the Junior League , and trying to keep up with endless chauffering of small ones. They had a nice trip to Minnesota in August to visit Jackson's folks. Jackson is kept busy at Langley Field; talented young men in flight research are in great demand.

Jen Lea Guthrie Yancey sent a card her Chip ( 8) designed ... most attractive. At the moment he is confined with a broken collar bone . . . bis first football injury. In the summer an unfortunate accident occurred. While making jelly a hot jar exploded and burned her little girl, but she has recovered with no scars and all is well.

Jen Lea says she'll keep me posted on Betty Clement Adair; she makes lots of Cu lpeper news.

It sounds interesting, but that is all I have to report .

One can always count on news from Betty Dupuy Adams though I suppose she must have taken a team of huskies to get to a mailbox in Rochester. In August they vacationed at Lake Placid and plan to go back in February when the bobsled championshi,p runs will be on. They were in Charlottesville visiting Betty's parents on Thanksgiving.

Ruth Latimer sent a very entertaining and newsworthy two-page travelogue from Morocco . Perhaps most of you have one too. It'll be difficult to condense but I' ll try . Her work is both frustrat ing (especially in the beginning due to language barrier) and very rewarding. Progress is slow.

Ruth has 500 patients assigned to her room with 5 aids to he lp her. Imagine 15 patients an hour . . . the patients speaking only Arabic or Berber and the aids speaking no English! They live in a villa with no screens and sometimes without hot water or electricity but they have an excellent native cook. Ruth has toured the area quite extensively . . . into mountains of 10,000 feet .

She finds it fascinating , I'm sure , and her study of the people ( their politics and religion) is penetrating .

We have a class member that I've been in touch with that I think you' cl be interested in bearing about ( unfortunately hers was one of the cards without news). It's Mildred Draper Atkinson.

She and her husband live at 16 Pearle St., Closter, N. ]. They have two boys and a girl. The last I beard from Mildred she was up to her ears in the League of Women Voters.

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Have called round about in town to ferret out new s. When I called our gay Ann she was busy making Brad into an angel. He was to narrate th e school pageant. She keeps in the swi m with her church work ( which is considerable; we go to the same church), the Richmond Symphony and the Virginia Mus eum. l know because l couldn't get her to play go lf all this lovely fa ll.

While talking with Ann I asked her about Betty Lawso n Dillard. Ann and J. B. saw them thi s fall when they visited Betty 's cousin and attend ed a dan ce there. Ann mentioned Betty's Christmas card which pictured the whole family (2 boys and 2 gir ls ) and said they were darling.

Gin also commented on the comeliness of Betty 's family; said the boys were built like fullbacks.

Gin Pitt Friddell is busy too running her happy home and three live-wires and one hot one (Guy).

He was scarce this summer and fall during the pre-election activi ties. Guy will be on the radio every night, as of soon. We in Richmond lik e his witt)' and sage comments on the news. In th e summer they took their longest vacation . . two weeks at Cole 's Point. Gin also works on the Symphony and teaches six year olds at First Baptist. Her artistic talent has been realized in the form of a mosaic coffee table. I hear it's beautiful . . am goi ng to see myself soon.

Jane Wray Bristow McDorman is teaching athletics at Westhampton ... hockey this fall . .. and refereed at many hockey games . She is most active at Bon Air Baptist Church ... teaches three-year olds, counse ls intermediate GA's and is Chairman of a chu rch committee. l asked her about her baby boy only to discover he was 3½ !

The rest of the items are second-ha nd so if they are n't accurate let me know and I'll have news for the next letter.

Ruth Anne Wicker Lynch and family have moved to Memphis where Jamie is headmaster of the Presbyterian School. l expected her address from Peggy Clarke Huber and may still get it, but don't dare delay any longer. Will hav e it in the next letter.

Kathy Mumma Atkinson vis ited her sister in Ca liforni a this summer; she hoped to see Betty Richards Warner too.

E. P. Brooks Blackwell loves Japan. Their address is: Major & Mrs. Roy Y. Blackwell , 080588, Hg. USASA, RAC, A.P.O. 343 , San Francisco.

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WITH THE RED CROSS IN MOROCCO RUTH LATIMER, '45 Christmas finds me continuing unforgettable experiences in the fascinating country of Morocco. Now, however, after five month's stay I see that many of the " differences" have become "every day" and you accept them as having always been part of your life.

The International League of Red Cross Societies had been in Morocco one vear as of January 1, 1961. During thi; time about 150 persons ( doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers) from 15 countries have been working at six different centers to treat the patients paralyzed from drinking adulterated oil in the fall of 1959. A Kinesiotherapy School was also started 111 Rabat.

I was assigned to El Mers Center 111 Meknes-one of the Imperial Cities and located rather centrally in the country. We live in a Villa , adequate but different (no screens, stone Boors, and sometimes minus hot water and electricity). Located in the new part of town, it's a wonderful location with beautiful mountain scenery in two directions and overlooking the Medina ( old city behind walls) for another view. We eat well, our Moroccan cook introducing us to new dish es.

Our Center, which incidentally used to be a famous Brothel, is quite large . Some of the area is used for patients to live in and other rooms for treatment. We had about 3,000 patients assigned for treatment (500 to my particular room) . These patients fall roughly into two categories. Fortunately, about SO% of them had only a flaccid paralysis of muscles below the knee and per haps hands. These people now appear to be or are becoming normal, and when so, treatment is discontinued. The others, with spinal cord involvement , developed a spastic paralysis of muscles of the lower extremities.

While the prognosis is questionab ly poor , some appear to function better and have some control of the spasticity. They are quite independent in spite of their handicap-ge tting around on canes or crutches and some without shoes. Treatment to date has consisted of muscle re-education and passive movement. Perhaps in the future a drug will be used and braces or surgery will be available.

I have five Moroccan Aides who perform much of the treatment and translate to the patients from my French ( ?) to Arabic.

Not speaking better French has been a big handicap to me at work and socially. (Study and time have helped - but I'm still no Parisian.) What a bewilderment at firstwith maybe 15 patients per hour speaking

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only Arabic or Berber and the Aides speaking no Eng lish!

Morocco is called a "co ld country with a hot sun". In the summer Meknes had temperatures to 105 degrees in the daytime in the sun-but usually cooled off at night.

Now that it's winter temperate days vary with cool damp ones. It's not really cold like Northern United States but without central heat one is more chilled here.

It's much more mountainous than I expected. My "Fluzzy "-a 1955 Fiat, named after the arabic word " Fluze" for money-has been up and down a few mountains.

There won't be much of Moro cco I haven't seen, from the largest and most modern city of Casablanca, Marrakech in th e semi-desert date-growing area, to the " backwoods" (altitude of 10,000 ft.) of the High Atlas.

That week-end trip I'll never forget. We left the main road and for two days were on a rock or dirt "path" making about nine miles per hour, not seeing another car and greeted at little villages as if we were the first adventurers in many months.

Morocco is said to be the least "westernized" of the Arabic countr ies. The Islami c (Mos lem) religion is the very important core of their customs , dress and philosophy , Prayer time five times a day is signaled from the top of the Mosques' minarets. On Friday the men go to the Mosque. While very excitable people, they are usually jolly and accept their fate very readily. Both the Berber and Arabic women are well covered from head to toe with layers of colorful wrappings and the Arabi c women wearing a jellaba with hood plus veil. They eat from one central dish-"fa mily style" without utensils -Co us-Cous ( sort of a cereal and stew) and very sweet hot mint tea-w hich are as standard as "potatoes" and "coffee" to us . Even in the cities cattle graze and donkeys are as prevalent as cars. Yes, and camels too- but more so in the South.

Being in Africa I can see the subject of Colonial ism and Independence more clearly.

With Moroc co an independent country for only four years there is much room for advancement, but the pride of independen ce and desire to be self-sufficient are very obvious .

I've only been able to skim the surface of a very busy and interesting stay in Morocco.

As the League is continuing its project over here, I've decided to stay at least another month , that is to February 1st.

When I return, after a trip to Europe, I will be looking forward to telling of my experiences here in person.

Anne Clarke Howe is home at this moment in New Canton (Bu-ckingham County) to see her sister married December 27.

Lillian Belk Youell and Mac expect a transfer this summer. Mac is now in the Navy. Lillian is continuing to teach school.

I see Christy Lou Miller Russell quite often in the suburbs. I hear she is doing a fine job teaching at Trinity Methodist Kindergarten.

Anne McElroy MacKenzie and family are well after a bad year of illnesses.

Rutb Maris Wicker is reported to be a fine helpmat e to her husband, wbo is now in his last year at Union Theological Seminary. We tbougbt perhaps some of you did not know of his decision to go into tbe ministry.

Martha Tucker Bass is said to have an up-andcoming husband witb B. T. Crump Co. He is a soloist at tbe River Road Baptist Church. (How about some news about Martha'') If you ha ve alway s bad a secret longing to see your nam e in print , now is tbe time . Tbis is your chance. Send me just a shred of news and I'll see to it your name is in print. It pleases me to see so many "gi ,rls" active in Church work.

Of course , that isn't perfect eithe r, but it is a step in the right direction.

As for our family, I'd say we have many opportunities to be happy tbrougb work and play and we attemp t to take advantage of as many as possible.

1946

Secretary MRS.

DAVJD W . BRANCH

( Barbara Richie) 1232 Persinger Rd ., S.W., Roanoke, Va. Ralph and Ding Shotwell attended the State Baptist Convention in Buffalo , New York in October. Din g says she is holding her own very well and that her family is fine except for Lynn , who has a broken ar m.

Mary Frances and Buddy Wood are now sett led in Richmond.

Cathy started to school this year and loves it.

Joyce Eubank Todd's hu sba nd , Howe, has recently been appoint ed Richmond's Di -rector of Planning.

Ellen Hodges Proxmire was in Richmond tbis fall during th e political campaign in which she took an active part.

Jeanne Yeamans spe nt a week-end with us in Roanoke in October.

Don and Gale Abbott have been transferred to New York. Their new address is 23 Huntington Road, Garden City.

It's a baby boy for Jeanne Sasser Thombley .

Roy , born in August , is th eir fourth child.

Frank and Zue Walters witb their three children, Kathy , Carolyn and Johnnie, no•w liv e in a new split-l evel home in New London , Connecticut.

I have had a busy fall. Ware started in tbe second grade , lee is in kindergarten, and we have a new arrival, Martha, born November 4.

1948

Secretary MRS. R. G. WOODHEAD (Pat Adams) 8311 Cherokee Road, Richmond

25 , Va .

I'm sorry we missed the last Bulletin, but we were saddened by the loss of my father in September.

There are five new arrivals to report. Susan Ann was welcomed by her three brother s and happy parents , Judy Barnett Seelhorst and Art, on June 8.

Robert Roy Dunn ar,rived July 23 to join Andy , 6½, Frances Orrell Dunn and Bob. Frances has been in Martinsville waiting for Bob to be reassigned and will mov e after the first of the year.

Shawn, 6½, Bob and I were so pleased with

the addition of Robert George Woodhead, IV , to our family on August 11.

The Alger Pugh s (Ginna Herndon) announced the a,rrival of William Mason Pugh on September 24. Alger graduated at V.P.I. last June , and they moved to Saltvi lle where he is head coach and teaches , too, at R. B. Worthy High School. His football team had a very good 7-3 record. Their address is Box 51, Saltville , Virginia.

Another birth an noun cement comes from Betty Wood Roorbach , Gretchen Wood born on October 15.

Eleanor Pitts Rowan sends news from Alexandria with the "help " of her four children , Kathy 6½, Mike 4, Alice 3, and Barbara 2. Bill is still with the Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department.

They see Barbara Wood Miller and lewis often. After a New England and Virginia Beach vacation , Barbara returned to teaching third grade in Arlington. lewis is office manager of General Truck Corporation in Washington.

Boo Koltukian Cowles wrote in September from Mok Haeng Ri, Korea that she, Sidney and their four children are sett led in their new house near the McGraw-Hydrocarbon plant where Sidney works. She and the children had been living in Seoul since their arrival in Korea last January.

There are only 14 American families there, and Boo teaches Sid herself , and on Sunday morning they have their own service with Bible stories and church music on their record player. Once a month Sidney goes to Seoul , which is 50 miles away , to replenish the grocery stocks. Boo , your list must be a mile lon g 1 Their address is McGraw-Hydrocarbon , A .P.O. 301, San Francisco , California.

Seth Darmw Shannahan has a fourth grader , Will 9 years old , who won two golf trophies in the 13 and under age group la st summ er. He is the playboy while Bob 7, an enth usiasti c second grader, is the scientist just anticipating the time he will be old enough to do exper iment s. Jennifer , 2½, keeps them all in line-grandmothers, parents , brothers and dogs.

Margaret Sa,bine Brizendine has moved to Piedmont College, a small Congregational college in Demorest, Georgia , P.O. Box 208. Jack is the college chaplain and professor of religion and languages. Their three youngsters , Bill 9, Martha 6, and Anne 3, are picking up Southern accents in a hurry. The college is building a new home for them with a wonderful mountain view and a guest room. Ma ,rgaret exte nd s to all 48' ers an in vi tati on to visit th em if you travel in th eir area.

I received some wonderful clippings from Felicity Holfecker about her activities.

She is writing for a newspaper, The Bay Ridge Home Reporter, while raising two boys , John 7 and George 5. She wpites a weekly column and feature a,rticles and does press releases for a local community theater. last summer she went to Cape Cod to, see her mother act ( Anne Copping er , former leading lady of Dublin , Ireland's, famed Abbey Theater) and played a sma ll part in a new play while t her e . Her notices were so good tbat s•be was encouraged to act some more. She has now just finished a month's run in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" witb even bet,ter notices! She is also directing plays for a group called Union Church Players.

I hear from Peggy Stone Cunningham th at Doris Vickers Hall has been active in theater groups .

The Halls now live a,t 10636 Danbury St., Temple Gity, California.

Peggy's childr en , 9, 8 and 6 years, keep her busy car-pooling.

Jackie and Jim Suttenfield have been in their new home almos-t a year. Their address is 6510 Edge hill Road , Richmond , Virginia. Jackie reports that Rene and Pat Fenlon have moved to Thomasville, Georgia from Michigan.

Doris Moore Ennis is quite busy as vice-president of the Hampton Education Association , vicechairman of the Hampton Guidance Committee , and recorder for the District B Guidance Section of the V.E.A. last summer , Doris participated in an N.D.E.A. guida nce institute at William and

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Mary. She has one class of TV 9th grade science and is doing guidance work for 780 students.

Doris , her family , and Millicent and Sim Taylor , got together often-last July 4 , labor Day and on a camping trip to Nags Head. That outing must have been hilarious with camping equipment which wou ldn 't cooperate , eating Japanese style off cots and fighting mosquito es large enough to take Sim out of the station wagon. The four of them spent a week end in Richmond in Nov ember as delegates and guests at the V.E.A . Convention.

From 321 Plush Mill Road , Wallingford , Pennsylvania we heard from Ginn y Smith Kyn ett.

They ar e livin g in the house that Gerry gr ew up in with 5¾ acr es for the ir children to roam in .

There are Linda 9½ , Mark 8, Michael 5 ½ , a dog , 3 ducks and a parakeet. Ginny has the usual carpooling to do and enjoys being a Browni e leader , and playing golf and badminton. G erry is a partner in Brooke and Co. , a Philadelphia investment banking house and is teaching and lecturing on investment s and the stock market, besides selling stocks and bonds. last summer they bought a 16' fiberglass outboard which was used for water skiing every possible moment . lily Brittl e Hepler told us about th e new educational building addition just finished at her husband 's church , Winn' s Baptist Church , near Varina , Virginia. Thi s church was organized in 1776. The Heplers have two children , 8 and 11, and lily has just started doing some substitute teaching.

Another suhstit ut e teacher is Joan Johnson Sandridge who also has done extensiv e remodeling to their town house at 1143 West Avenu e, Richmond, and finds time to be a case worker for muscular dystrophy organizations.

Bish Wilbourn e has started working ½ day for Jack at bis Stork Diaper Service and what amaze s her is that she gets paid! Her oldest girl started cotillion this fall.

Arleen Reynolds Schaefer missed her husband , Joe , for five months when he went to Fort Knox , Kentucky , to take an Officer Career course . He is now teaching math at Fairfield Jr. High School.

Peggy , 11, is in the sixth grade and sporting a cast on her foot. Beth , 3, had started the trend last summer when she broke her leg.

From Boys Haven , Betty Hardin E lmore writes that she is busy doing Christmas shopping for

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their dozen older boys plus their own 5-ye~r-old son. Jim and she feel that this last year has been the best of the five they have spen t at Boys Ha ven, sensing a greater peace and harm ony and a deepening of spiritua l grow th among both th e boys and the staff. Betty visited with Sally Taylor DuBo se in North Carolina in September whil e on a visit to her fami ly.

Bob is now with Miller Manufa cturi ng Company as Manager of Sales and D evelopmen t, Point of Sale D isplay Divis ,ion , and still travels quite a bit, which causes him to miss much of the fun of watching Robbie grow up .

Triumph spo rts car with room in it for all four Barkers. Durin g the fall months, the Barkers did something I'm sure many of us wish we could do. They redid their living room, threw out all the old furniture and replac ed everything.

Ending the new s on a happy not e, I want to tell you of two brides. Mary Lu sby is now Mr s. Winfield Scott and Liz W ebb is Mr s. J. T .

Hilton.

Ma y I urge each one of you to make a contribution to the swimming poo l fund . Will '49 have a share in making "a dr eam come tru e in '62"?

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1949

Mrs. T. H. Tullidge (Flo Gray) , 123 Woodland Dri ve, Staunton, V a.

Mi ss Martha Ann Kenney, Box 718, St. Thomas , Virgin Islands Mrs . Winfield Scott (Mar y Lusby}, Apt. 105, 3900 Tunlaw Rd., Washington 7, D. C. Mrs. Joseph Jam es (Laur a Saunders}, 900 Pitt man St., Go ldsboro , N. C. Mrs. William H. Warren (Virgini a Shaw}, 407 Rightmyer Dr ive, Roanoke Rapids , N. C. Mrs. J. T. Hilton (Liz Webb} , Rt. 1, Kents Store , Vir gi nia Mrs. William D oub, J r. (Betty Ann All en}, 6623 Wexford Lane, Rid1mond 25, Va.

Secretary

MRS. JOHN A. ABBITT (Anne Bing) Wat erlick Road , Lynchburg, Virginia

By the time you read this letter , Christmas wi ll be but a memory; but as I write it, excitement fills the air. I want to thank each of you who took time out from shopping , baking, and card writing to write to your group leader. It means a lot to those girls to know that their letters and cards are reaching you. It also helps me keep the class address list up to date.

We all have an invitation to join Martha Kenney for "su n 'n fun" in the Virgin Islands .

She's back in Charlotte Amalie again teachin g math, geography, and phys. ed.

Betty Ann Allen D oub was Fall Hom ecoming Chairman for Westhampton.

She writes very enthusiastically of the Alumnae College and found it to be fun as well as stimu lati ng. Betty Ann also worked on the Virginia Museum Theater production of Carousel. Th e Theater is a big thing in Virginia now and is receiving much praise.

I believ e that we have a "first " for our class.

Joyce Roberson Goforth is teachi ng Pat Dri scoll Foster 's son in the fourth grade .

Kit Vander Schalie Pederson and family are now living in San Francisco where Peter is Marin e Manager for ohe West Coast for A pp leton & Co. They drove from Seattle to New Jersey last fall and stopped by to see Jul ie M oller Sanford in Duluth on the way. Julie has two girls and a boy, and Kit has three boys.

Lynn Gilmer Gui lford and her family spent Thanksgiviing in Michigan .

Tommy and Flo Gray Tullidge are enjoying their new hom e. Aggie is now in fourth gra de, Anne Garland is in kindergarten , and Tommy helps Marna. Jackie Smith H agan and fami ly visited the Tullidges in Ootober.

Jo e and Laura Saunde rs James have forsaken Virginia for th e Tar Heel state. Joe is Administrator of Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro. Lavinia is eight years old and H ayden is five.

Nevi lle Watson Broaddus and Dick have three children and are sti ll in MartinsvilJe. Bill and Bobby Rh odes Ba,rker have a new

1950

Secretary

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

We have some baby news and new add resses.

Sidney Kyle was born on Nove mber 2nd to Cecil and Mary Sulli van Tinder . A boy was born to Gatewood Holland Stoneman and Wilmer on October 14th. They named him Wilmer Newcomb, III. Audrey Lynn Moncur e and Richard welcomed their son on September 22nd . Hi s nam e is Richard Cassius, Jr .

D oris Lee Reeves Childress and Earl moved Dec ember 3rd to 8501 Julian Rd. , here in Richmond. Do ris Lee had charge of th e Christmas Party this year at Westhampton College. I und erstand that it was quit e nice. Mariann e Beck Dut y took care of th e music part and Nan John son Adams , Ahce Clarke Lynch , Joy ce Betts Pi erce, and Janice Brandenburg H allo-ran served. That Sunday had bad weat her, but many people came anyway.

Janice Branderrbmg Halloran and 01arlie have moved , too. Th ey now l·ive in th eir new h ome at 8236 Barningham Road , Richmond 25. They moved D ecember 8th.

Lenore Greenberg Siegel wrote that they moved to their new home at 4 Canterbury Road, New Hartford , New Y ork. Their son, Arthur , is Jive years old now and Ellen Sue is two years old .

Lenore and George took a vacat ion to the California coast for a few weeks. On the way home , they visited many places of interest, such

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Barbara Covington O 'Flaherty and Bill went to· San Juan , Puerito Rico in December. Rhoda Brown Si~isky, Norman, and the four boys are going toMiami Beach, Florida again after Christma s. Libby Givens Pierce , Bucky , thei,r three children, and both sets of grandparents were headed for Venic e, Florida on D ecember 26th for a week.

I received a nice Jong Jetter from Joann e· Waring Karppi and Bill. They are now in Indi a . Their addre ss is 20/1 Greenways Road , Adyar , Madra s 2, India . They are settled in a six room, second floor apartment in a suburb of Madras, near the Bay of Benga l. Joanne bel ongs to the Am erican W omen's Club and the Gym jhanna Club , which is a coun try club frequented

by Americans, Indian s, and Europeans. In November-December , Joanne and Bill flew up lo New Delhi for a two week orientati on course for Bill. En route they saw the Taj Mahal.

Please wr ite to your group leaders before March 10th, wh ich may seem a Jong way off, but time· bas a way of slipping by.

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Most of the news this time came from Charlotte Houchins D ecker who added more recent news to her September letter and sent them both. Our love and sympathy go out to Charlotte who sud denly lost her father last A pril. She has spent much time with her mot her since then.

And our congratul atio ns go to Jane Lawson Patton who became Mr s. Da vid W illis on N ovember 15. She still lives at 5107 Wythe Ave. in Richmond .

A littl e girl was born to Rosie V arn Rugg les and John in February-C lare Varn . _S_ ince then, in October, the Ruggl es have had a v ,s,t from T . and Mar y Lee Moore Vinson. They had lun ch together and of course enjoyed a won derful chat.

M ary Lee's trip also took them to Greenville , S. C. where they saw Milli e Wright Outten and Joe. She says Mill ie is just the same and is very busy wit h her three-two boys and a gir l. Last summer Mary Lee took a course at the U of R und er D r. Carver. She said it seemed strange to be back in school but really enjoyed it. This year she is teaching fourth grade at Skipwith Elementa ,r y School.

Betsy Bethun e Langhorn e and Lewis had a nice trip to Charleston , S. C. in November, leaving th e baby wit h Betsy's mother._ Sorry we gave h,s name incorrectly last spr ing. He 1s Thomas Bethune Langhorn e, not Lewis, Jr. Betsy_ enj oys every minute with small Tom but they enJoyed a good rest and vacation during their trip , we ll deserved.

Gina Herrink left Decemb er 29 to start her new job with Reynolds M eta ls in Bermuda!

W e'll be int erested to hear about the new work and life in such a lovely spot.

Ma ryglyn Cooper McGraw has retired from teaching and is engaged in being a full-tim e hou sewife now.

Other news comes from Jan e Slaughter Ha-rdenbergh . A little girl , Esther Jan e was born to them on September 10 and they are naturall y thrill ed wi th her. Jan e and Firmon are still in Annapoli s.

Ann Baird Caulkin s writes that she Jives fairl y close to Teeni e Mitchell Goldston and Kitt y Bunting Bowman. They get together occasionally and chat about Westhampton days and people.

The D ale Hoo pers in Kenya write of the opening of new work in some very needy areas of Nairobi and of good response to loud speaker s, films and preaching. They tell of the need for a full-time pastor at the churc h. Recentl y Beulah had a throat infection and the children had chicken pox. Now al! are wel l and happ y.

An early Christmas card from Ann Jack son tells

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,of her trip to Europe-two months visiting seven •countri es, driving a littl e rented car all the way. ow Ann is Jiving in W illiam sburg , wor king in the hotel sales department for the Restoration and loves it. H er address is 477 Catesby lan e.

Reni e Blackburn Pierce's new addr ess is 7909 ·Neuson Court, but there are some others whose addr esses I don't have. Can anyone furni sh information of Bookie M aronie Oberle, Jean Booth .McK enney, Joy Hodgkins Plunkett, H elen McCarthy H opkins , or A lma Rice J effreys ( is she still at 45 Mal vern, Richm ond ?). W e think Susie Gibson M adden is Jiving in Norfo lk but have no address. I'd appreciate a card from anyone who ·knows aboi,t these.

Durin g the Fall my chief endeavor was a fulllength recita l at the Seminary Chapel on October 25. About ten days later I we nt to the annu al meeti ng of the state Music Teachers' Association at Mur ray, Ky. and played the whole program agai n . The one w ho was supposed to play was sick and I seemed to be th e most r eady and available cand idate to take his place. Both pro.grams were well received and it was wonderful to p lay a whole program again. I want to star t learnin g a new one soon.

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MRS. w. R. BEASLEY(Betty Hurt) 1301 Yewell St., Iowa City, Iow a

know you are wo ndering why there was no news in the last bulletin. I mailed the news , but evident ly by a qu irk of fate , it never arrived.

Do remember the news you received on your Christmas cards and send it to me. All of us, I know , turn to the class news and hop e to find goo d news of a hu sband 's promotion, change of business , arriva l of a future Univers ,ity of Richmond stud ent, or maybe an item of yourse lf published in your local paper. W e wa nt to hear from YOU. "lacy" and W att Mab one welcomed laura Chalkey to their home in Jun e. Lou Gl ading and Bud Shelton are proud of Ann Moore born in April. There are two other arriva ls that I have just received news of. Robert Spencer Clark e joined brother John in the household of Barbara Cawthorne Clarke and Herb on June 28. Eric Lyle Rishell is number four in the fam ily of M ari lyn McMurray and Rish, as of Jul y 30.

Ann H olmes (w e are sorry we don't have your husband's names) was in the state thi s summer taking educa tional cour ses at William and Mary.

She visited with Mrs. Wat son in Arlin gton. little Ann Stanfield is in Richmond now with her father and new step mother.

There is in the Fred l ee Watson Stanfield M emori al Fund 343.00 The money is being used along with money that the alumna e had in a student loan fund to make loans to W esthampton student s. The fund is being kept separate so that , if at any time we want to use if for Fred l ee's daughter, the records w ill be straig ht and the money wi ll be available , but in the meantime it is being lent out in conjunction with the college's other loan fund . Mr s. Booker w rites that there are student requests for loans and that it is worth while for our class to continu e to build up this fund. I bad written Mr s. Booker to ask if the money was being used, and if, in the best

Ayers McCl ees wrote that their backyard swimming poo l was demolished by Hurr icane D onna, having just been installed in June!

Georgie McTeer Cooke and family spent Christmas in South Caro lina with her family. Ann e Gibson Hutchison and family visited Barbara Caw thorn e Clarke and fami ly at Thanksgiving time.

For those who are antiqu e collectors , Mary Ann Coates Edel is the lucky owner of a wi ndsor chair from Stratford H all, Robert E. lee 's home. It was used in rhe 1700 and lS00 's.

M arilyn McMurray Rishe ll and Rish spe nt an exciting vacation in las Vegas. They saw the Follies, F,rankie lane, Sammy D avis, Jr. and wife M ay Brit t and other celebrit ies. Jay Selby Scollon and childr en were in the States from Hawaii this summer . My, that's a mistake. H awaii is a stat e !

Betsy D avis, now Mrs. J. H. Wilds , III , formerly in our class, is living in Roanoke. Kathy Cole l ee and Ni na Byrd visited with her w hile attending the Roanoke chapter of the W.C. Alumn ae. Nina and fami ly have purchased a lovely home in Salem.

Bev Randolph Shannon and Dick are the proud parents of Jane Randolph, born D ecember 1959.

D iane Evans has an apartment in W ashingto n, D . C. She is emp loyed by the Royal-McBee Corp.

She recently flew down to visit Kathy Cole lee in Roan oke.

W elcome to Thomas Jarreot Nye born October 4, son of Betty Jarrett and John.

Best wishes to Jane Cam lin who was married on September 10 to Norman Miner. They live in Seattle, Washington.

Ann e Tharpe M cCann and family have moved to Fort Walton, Florida, 7 Silva D rive, where Mac is employed by Aero Geo Astro Corp. Harriett Willingh am Johnson and family have moved to 619 8th Ave. , S.E., in Minneapolis, a lovely colonial type house with whit e picket fence .

Harriett writes that Ann e Gibson Hutchison is teaching school and thor ough ly enjoying it. H arriett Stubbs Johnson had a wonderful trip out West , Van couver, Vi ctoria , Washington, Oregon, etc.

They visited wit h Di zzi Stuart-Alexander who is studying for her PhD in Geology at Stanford.

Lou Tull Mashburn and Arthur are livi ng in Wilmin gton , Delaware.

Joyce Bell Cody is busy (natura lly !) with Steve, 3, and the year old twin boys. She was also an ard ent campaigner in the past elections.

Janneill Allison Beasley appea red at our household on September 27.

W edding bells rang out on November 5 for M arianne Shumate and Arn old J ansen. Arn old has a PhD in Chemistry and is employed as a research chemist at the DuPont plant in Wa ynesboro . K athleen Cooke and Jun y O'Bier and Eleanor Parsons Hays and Bob attended the happ y event. Eleanor writes that Bob 's thesis has been publi shed .

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MRS. WILLIAM J. CARTER (Virginia leSueur) 2750 Thorndale St., S.W. , Roanoke , Va.

H ow nice to hear fro m Lila Jean D avenpor t Bosley! She and Jack , who is attending night classes at Georgetown University's Graduate School of law , Jive at Apt. 7, 1336 North Ode St., Arlington 9, Va. Son Mike is five and their daughter, Mary Therese, was one on Nov. 27.

Another gal with a new address is Martha Clark , who teaches in Richmond and Jives at 3600 Anne St., Richmond 25. Mary Creath Payne' s street addr ess is 4911 Bristow D rive , Annandal e, Va. Ola Hill Krueger and Jack are living at 1424 Ridgewood D r. , Augusta , Ga. Dr. Jack is in the Army stationed at Fort Gordon .

Mar garet Anderson Morris ' Orrin has r esigned from the Baptist Church in D 'Lo , Miss. , to become Area-Associational Missionary under the Department of Cooperative Missions of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board. Th eir new address is Mage e, Miss. Hi s area will be the 27 central Mississippi counties. Philip Carter Gordon is the name of the son born October 15 to Bettie Kersey Gordon and Bill . Their address is 305 D avis Street , Fairmount , N. C. Betty O'Bannon Culp 's husband , Ralph , is going to a national speech meeting in St. Louis where he wi ll give a paper. He teaches speech at Rutgers University , New Brunswick , N. J. Betsy William s Roberson and Joe lik e St. Louis , by the way . She is a member of a neighborhood bowling league ( if she's as good at that as at hockey , watch out!) , and their oldest son , David , is enjoying the first grade very much.

Janet Johnson Parsons and Ron , along with their five children, have moved into a five-bedroom home at 1306 Rockbridge Ave. , Norfo lk 8 , Va. Phyllis Dwyer , who works at the Peninsula Cerebral Palsy Training Center in Newport News , bas moved from her home in Norfolk to Apt. 41C , Elizabeth Rd. , Hampton, Va. This saves lots of commuting , accordi ng to Phy!. Betty Eichelberger Allen's husband, Jim , is moderator of the Lexington Presbytery for this quarter. Their church (W estminster Presbyterian Chur ch in Waynesboro) is making pla ns to build a new sanctuary in the near future .

Welcome to a baby gir l, the second daug hter for Betty Jane Williams Potter and Dean.

Rebecca D iane was born October 6. My apologies to Rosa Ann Thomas Moore' s Ron. We misread an abbreviation and had him teaching history at a mythical university; actually it's the University of Chattanooga , and they live in that city. Sorry!

Mary Creath Payne writes that their vacation, spent at their cabin near Front Royal , was a life saver . They atte nd ed a Bible conference at Massanetta for several days while there. Also picked up some real "finds" at an antique auction.

Both good and bad news from Ruby Vaughan Carson and fami ly. They were looking forward

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Betty Edmonds Dunn and family moved into their lovely new sp lit level home in Fall s Church in Jul y. This was the one featured in the "American H ome" last spri ng .

H elen Want M iller has return ed to the teaching pro fession, teaching English and H istory in Junior High . Helen was president of Annand ale Co-op Nursery School last year but more than that , she was chairm an of anoth er cooperative summer nursery schoo l in her own community.

She organized it and this past summer it was the third successful session for 100 children . It is now we ll supported by their civic associatio n.

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to Christmas with Richard , 21/z, old enough to enjoy it, and David , about 6 months old, o ld enough for them to enjoy. They had a nice visit with Barbara Cawthorne Clark '52, Herb and fami ly this fall , and Ruby enjoyed a Baltimore alumnae meeting at which she saw Pat Moran Talley and Jeanne Plunkett Beckett. Bad news was of th e death of Ruby's grandmother , her mother 's moth er.

Pat Shomo Bradshaw and Steve had their third child, Stephanie Lee, on September 15. Their oldest is a boy, Walt , and the second a girl, Kathy. Nancy O'Neill had a wonderful trip to Europe during September , and , when Pauline Decker Brooks wrote , she reported that Nancy was busy preparing for her January 7 marriage to Donald Barnes Camden, RC '49 , They wi ll move into a house at 7129 Cherokee Rd., Richmond.

Thanksgiving weekend I had a treat when Gladys Tatarsky drove up from Christiansburg , where she was visiting her sister , to have lunch with me at Hollins. Although it was a secret then , I was deep in preparations for announcing th e election of a new president of Hollins. The next day I flew to New York where I crowded in a clay of visiting before going to New Haven to interview and photograph the new president, Dr. John A. Logan, Jr. , an assistant professor of history at Yale. Then came a busy week of preparing news releases , and getting out a special issue of the "Hollins Herald. " All of this was clone whi le maintaining a business-as-usual appearance , which was hard for me since I find it difficult to keep a secret. We made it without a serious leak and the news was anno un ced at a campus meeting D ecember 5.

With thi s issue I turn th e class letter over to Methyl Young Bruce who was elected with me to share the live-year term. It 's trite , but I've enjoyed hearing from all of you. Let's all start now planning for our tenth reunion in 1963.

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

Onward and upward with '54 1 There have been several additions and changes of location. Mary Paul Cal lis was born ovember 1 to Ann Hanbury Callis and Bob ; Nell on November 10 to Mary Lou Gi lbert Dor sey and John; a third child to Macon Day Banks and Tommy; and Kim on October 30 to Bobbie Cronin Lovell and Bob. Ann Pow ell Oast , Townsend , and Ellen have moved to 30 Bolling Road , Alexandria.

Polly Newman Smith has rejoined the teaching She·s meeting the challenge of a profession. second grade in Charlottesvil le. John Ran , Sr. still has about a year and a half of his residency to serve.

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Nancy Davis McDaniel also has a husband furthering his educat ion. Bobby is in law school in Florida. She writes of hom ework and allergies.

I am current ly in the mid st of taking German. . News is It seems to be easier than trig. . certain ly in short supply this issue.

Happy New Year and remember the K .H .W.F. !

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Bobbie Reynolds Orrell made the news this fall in Richmond's annua l Tobacco Festival. Bobbie was a hostess at the grand ball. Jody Weaver Wampler, incidentally, played for the figure at this affair . Bobbie has two boys now-Scott who is three and James Lee who was born last March 7. Whil e Bobbie and Dur wood were celebrating their wedding anniversary they ran into Grac e Phillips Wright and Jack also celebrating at the same place. These two couples were both married the Saturd ay after graduat ion. Quite a coincidenc e !

I was surprised and p leased to have a letter from Pat Minor Aldhiz er recently. Because of a new baby and a new house, Pat missed our reunion. News of Eithel Smith 's operation this summer was passed along by Pat , also. I understand she has recovered and is quite well now.

Dottie Smoker Nielsen and Fred had their second daughter , Linda Smoker , on August 2.

Alice Creath McCullough and Piggy have a boy, Mark Alexander, born September 9 in Richmond. We in town enjoyed a brief visit with Alice while she was here in the fall. We all attended the Richmond club 's annu al covered dish supper , which our class sponsored. The McCulloughs are now located in New Rochelle, New York where Piggy is a mu sic instructor. Piggy received his Masters D egree in August. time it's Ginny Another Masters to report-this Thomas Phillips' hu sband Earle. His degree is in Education-Administration.

A new address for Ruth Gauldin Kelley - 3225 Douglasdale Road, Richmond. Ruth is working as a real. estate broker from her hom e. Angela Groth Gunther and Dick had their second son August 16. His name is Bret William.

News is littl e lately. Surely we can' t be settling down to mediocrity so soon>! 1

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MRS. JAMES G . RICE (Martha Boatwright) 844 Welton Ave. , Richmond 24, Va.

Notice my changed address. We haven't moved but Chesterfield County gave us a new street name and number.

I' JI bet Margaret Rutledge was surpr ised to read she was maid-of-honor in Joyce Still Gibson's

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wedding. Actually she wasn ' t, Margaret Rutherford was. I confused the names. Sorry. Read carefully! It may happen to you next time.

Class of '56 , RE-UNITE. Our 5th (Can you believe it?) Reunion is in June. You'll be hearing details later, but make plans to come now.

Way back in the fall , the class had a full house members returned for the H omecoming -eight dinner in Main Dining Hall. From the Richmond area there were Ann Peery Frederick , Joyce Still Gibson, Helen Melton Lukhard , Charlotte Hart , Anne Stuart Hartz Hill , Doris Huffman Moss , and I. Dottie Stiff Price was a weekend guest of Helen's and came from Florida to attend.

Pat McElroy and husband Steve have a new Gail who petite member in the family-Pamela arrived October 18. The whole story is far too complex to repeat , but all three Smiths were at the same hosp ital at the same time-Pat, Pam, and father Steve who had pneumonia.

Another W.C. co-ed is Kathy Lynn Higgins.

She belongs to Diane Brown Higgins and Charles and is now a grown up lady of eight months.

Making his a,ppearance o.n Halloween was Keith Saunders Johnson whose mother is ' 56'er Nancy Saunders Johnson.

Margie Kantner Snader wrote just after the last news deadline to report she and her family are doing fine in Collegevi lle, Penna. where they have been living for two years. She has two children , Doug 3½ and Debbie 21/z. Crit and family had been up to pay a visit and Margie was kind enough to say she wished more of up wou ld drop m.

One letter that turned me green with envy was from Betty Brinkley. In November she attended the Occupational Therapists' convention in California and then took a two weeks vacation in Hawaii. She even toured the Outer Islands.

Two other members of our class are tra veling over the seas. Lisa Simmons Wells and Chuck toured Europe last summer and studi ed in Vienna .

Mary Loving Bell was in Germany, France , Switzerland , and Belgium last June while on She was married in vacation from DuPont.

October to James Clifton Kirby. He is a former instructor in helicopters for Sikorsky Aircraft Company and was stationed in Germany in 1960.

Leta May Tucker has become engaged to a fellow University of Virginia student. He is Edward Hodge , a lawyer , who is with the Judge Advocate General's Department of the U.S. Army.

There is uo definite date yet, but Leta May wi ll be living in Missouri w hen she 's Mrs. Hodge . this one. Edna A little late--a full year-on Wagstaff Warncke has a new home at 1429 Myradar Drive , West end Richmond. Claus is an accountant and Edna teaches first grade at Skipwith Elementary School. .

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MRS. GALE CONNOR (Kitty Alford) 1323 Warwick Drive, Lutherville, Md.

Betty Beryl Schenk was marri ed to Bill French from the University of Richm ond December 3 at Cismont Manor Farm near Charlottesville. Perhaps some of you remember her enthus iasm for horseback riding. She is now riding for a Mr. and Mrs. Dona ld Motch who own th e estate , Cismont.

Lovey Jane \Xfalker and husband spent Thanksgiving week on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Lavey has stopped worki ng and is looking forward to being a "lady of leisure" ( for a few months!) .

Sallie Trice Greene wrote that Christine Herrin, the student nurse during our senior year, spent a week end with her in November. Christine is nursing in Jackson, Mississippi.

Ruth Tipton became Mrs . John Richard Powers on De cember 17 at the First Baptist Church in Silver Spring.

Brandy McDaniel is taking a course in Shakespeare at Easton Carolina College and loves her religious work there with th e college .

Joyce Garrett Tidey and George flew to Texas December 16 for Geo rge's brother 's wedd ing.

They planned to spend a few days there wh ile Joyce's mother kept Jeff .

Betty Hinton became Mrs. Warner Cal lahan in October. They are living in Peter sburg , Virginia.

Carolyn Temple Moore had her third child, a boy, in October. He joins two little sisters.

Carolyn and all three left in November to join husband , Walter , in Germany, where Walter wi ll be for two years in the army.

Ann Wagner We stbrook and John are moving into their new home in Ch ester , Virginia. Ann is teaching biolo gy in Chesterfie ld Count y. Th ey have one littl e girl.

Nancy Bertsd, Ratohford writ es they are settl ed at th e University of Mary land , and Bill is enjoying grad uate work. Nancy is busy , too , starting a new schoo l program for the blind in the county.

Bett ie Warr en Hudgin s and Nei l enjoyed their trip to Virgini a. While ther e they visited with Mary Virginia Seymore Hi llegoss, husband Don , and Donnie . Betti e said Mary V irgini a is picking up a Yankee accent! She has since heard th e Hillegosses are planning to mov e back to Richmond.

Lida Etta Rice is teaching musi c at Catawba College, Salisbury , North Carolina and says she loves it.

N ina Reid writes from Los Ang eles that she finished Jaw school and now has her LLB from U .C.L.A. She hope s to take the California bar in Ma rch. She also announced her plans to marry Jo seph Goldwater in Februar y. He is with the Los Angele s M ed ical Association but also writ es and is an artist. Ni na says she has done several TV shows (pro secutin g attorney for court shows and a few show s on the Alco a hour) .

J ane Cumb y McAl exander and Calvin are still in Varina, Virginia. Calvin is head basketball coach at the high school. They hav e two children - J ames Scott, almost two , and Elizabeth Hop e, ten months. . Kitt y Clark K ersey and Wilbur are now Jiving rn Portsmouth , Vir gi nia. Wilbur is pastor of th e Court Street Baptist church. Kitt y writes he stays very busy, but then she does too, taking care of their 16-montb old litt le girl.

Joy_ceBinn er Rickard lives in Gr eensboro , North Caro lina wher e husband D ave has a job with Burlington Mills. Th ey have a two-year-old son, Scottie .

Ann McRe e Godley writes that th ey are living in Or eland , Pennsy lvania. Larry works in Phila de lph ia as an assistant buyer of housewa res for a large depa~tment store. They have two chi ldren , J,ggs 3½, and Gail 1½ .

Looks as thou~h you all supplied me with a great deal more new s than you thought I Here 's hoping you had a Merry Christma s and we will all have a Happy New Year 1

1958

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

On a lovely Fal l day in early October Jane Davies was married at Fine Creek Mi lls to dentist D on Whe less. The ceremony , held in a tiny Episcopa l church over 100 years old, was fo llowed by a reception on the lawn of the bride 's borne. They are now living in the West End of Richmond where the "D r." practice s dentistry and Jane continues her French teaching at Mid lothian School.

News of another wedding in the autumn was that of Virgin ia Harris and Emory Fann ing. The midd le West is their new home where he teaches in a college.

More wedding bells, though ind irectly in this particular case. Carol Brie has take n time out of medica l sohool to "p lay cupid " . She introduc ed 19S7 Westhampton graduate Lee Fei ld to her own Ji.ance's twin brother. The match was so successfu l that a b lind date has lead to the spendmg of a life-tim e together. Lee and Chuck

Each of us in the class wou ld like to express our heartfeLt sympat hy and prayers for Kay Crawford Trimb le and Bob upon the loss of their infant daught er due to pn eumonia .

Griffitts are bein g married on D ecember 17 with both Carol and twin brother in th e wedding. Lee and Car ol, best fri ends in college, will someday be sisters-in-law .

Further study occupies part of the time of some 19S8'ers . Vi olet Moor e Neal and D ot Wilt shire ar e studying Chi ld Psychology in R .P.I. eveni ng schoo l. Jeann e Jones , who is teaching at Ridge Schoo,! for a third year, is taking an Eng lish course in night school. I go once a week for a class in Sculptur e in which I work w ith clay, plaster, cement and even chiseling in gran ite and marb le. My first effort , a figure in clay, exp loded while bein g baked in a kiln. Result s have been bett er since.

A n early Fal l addition has been welcomed into the fami ly of Cora Sue and Joe Sprui ll in Tap pahannock. Th e young man put in an appea rance the Jirst week of Octob er, is to be a junior and called "Jay ". The same week Peggy Yarbrough Boulden and hu sband Ed celebrated the arrival of a son .

Patti Winship K essler and Ash are living in Ja cksonvi lle, Florid a wh ere he holds th e position of recreationa l director at a Baptist church.

Aft er a year in Salt Lake Cit y, Jean Hud gins Frede n ck and hu sband "Fritz " seem to be enjoying being back in Richm ond while he is completing part of his residency in surg ery at M.C.V. The first Richmond Club Westhampton Alumna e activi ty of th e season brought almost a dozen of our class member s out. Th ey showed off their cooking skill s in fine style. Each perso n brought a specia lly prepared dish to serve at the annual "pot luck" dinn er. J eann e J ones, M ary J ean Sin~pson Garr ett , Sarah Ashburn H older, Carol yn Smith Yarbrough , Nancy Goodwyn Hill , Carol yn Moss Hartz , Jean Hudgins Fred er ick and I wer e th ere. We enjoyed meeting W esthamp ton's new young Dean , Mis s Kaspar and hearing a musical lecture by one of our favorites, Dr. Whit e. Carolyn and Ranson e H artz have recentl y moved into th eir new home on Gayton Road in th e W est End of Richmond.

T eachi ng sixth grade at Bethleh em School is Mary Jean Simpso n Garrett , while Harry looks forward to grad uation from Unive rsity of Richmond Law Schoo l in June , 1961.

Peggy Ware , who does economic resea rch for the Division of Industrial D evelopment and Plan ning on her job , is at present working on a two year pro ject. It is a study on economic trend s in vario us counti es in Virginia. Peggy also is editor of a qua rterly pub lication done by her div ision called the Vir ginia Economic R eview.

Dot Wiltshire paid a rather recent visit to Joann e Byrd Giles and Les at Wake For est . She reports that Les is enjoying his preparation for the ministry there. Also in Wake Fore st in school is Peggy Wi ll iams. She is engaged to a young man there and •bhey bot h hope even tua lly to go into some phase of mission wor k.

Thi s Fa ll Nancy Prickett' s engagement wa s announced to Lou Yarbrough of Fairfax Count y.

H e is in his last year of dent al school at th e Medica l College of Virginia.

Connie Book er writes of her experie nce in Germany with enth usiasm . She ha s visited and seen new sights in Au stria , Swit zerland and th e Bavarian Alp s.

I ran into Reb Steckman at Mi ss Wright 's on a Sunday afternoon and we three chatted over a cup of tea. Reb was sporting a new Fiat. She continues to teach at Manch ester High School.

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teaches at Beaumont Schoo l for Boys. Emily Damere l Kin g and Bob are also owners of a "home on whee ls" in Char lotte svill e.

A Richmond College sophomore was tellin g me not long ago about hi s hard German pro fessor .

"S he sure ly is tough and difficult , to have a littl e baby g irl at home", he said. Guess who'- Our Susie Prillaman Wilt shir e.

Gai l Carp er writes th at teachin g in th e Ham pton area continues to be a chal lenge. She also ba s a certain special someone ther e to keep thing s int eresting .

T om i Ir vine Freese , whose winters in Palm Beach we will all envy, is a "floa ting teacher" in a sma ll Fl orid a schoo l. She has four classes of junior high schoo l science on her agend a.

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Sec,-etary Mi ss M EUR IAL WEB B 120S Mount Erin Dri ve Richm ond 31, V irgini a

Tr ying to keep up with the Class of '60 is lik e trying to put the excess toothpaste back into the tub e- ne:xltto impossible. Onc e you think they are settl ed as to nam e, addr ess, and occupati on th ey change everyth ing. But this is what makes the class so interesting.

Change of name seems to take precedence over all ot her changes. During the Christmas season the sound of wedding bells ming led with the sound of sleig h bells as four young !aid es went down th e aisle. J eann e Kosko was married to Robl ey J. Light D ecember 17 in Roanoke . They are livin g at 1-03 Raymond Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts , a few blocks from H arvard where Robley is stud ying. Jeanne has visions of "a cold winter in Yankeeland " and would welcome some pen pals.

On D ecember 18 Cynthia Katz became Mr s.

Jack Brenn er. Jack is a dental student at MCV .

Joan Silverstein and Rozy \1{/ einstei n were in Richmond for th e wedding. An ot her pre-Ch ri stmas weddi ng was that of Peggy Gore to Bill Sykes.

By changin g her name to Mrs. Joe D avis on D ecember 30, Pau la Willi ams is no longer at the end of the class ro ll. She gave up her teaching rnree r for this new li fe-long career as homemaker.

Ring s and pins have been acquired by severa l who have changed their address to Cloud Nine.

Elizabeth Thomp son is weari ng a diamond on th at important left band finger and planning a

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June wedding to Charl es (Chuck) Zimmerman .

Barbara Ramsey sports a Sig Ep p,in who se owner is Iv ey Bridg ers. Ree Grasty is pinned to a fellow gra duate student at VPI. Jane Morri s rates th e Univer sity of Tennessee as "tops" since she has been dating an alumnu s. Jan e says the entire office was upset because her title was given incorrect ly in last issue. She is a stati stitian in th e Division of Research and Statisti cs in the State Tax D epar tment located in the State Office Building in Richmond.

Job changes and new jobs find '60'ers in several fields. M ary Frances Gibbs is wor king in cancer research at the Nationa l Institute of Heal th labs in Bethesda, Maryland. Pat H unt Worthington has left Katherine Patric ia at home to play w ith her silver baby cup and is working for Arlington County Pub lic H ealth labs. Cathy Marshall Overstreet is teachi ng science, physics, and math at Westhampton Junior High School in Richmond.

Jeanette McWilliams Welsh is working with Pan American Insurance Company while J ack attends T ulane. Their new address is 4338 South Carrol lton Avenue , Apartment C, New Orleans 19, Louisiana. Dodie Tyrre ll has been working at the Pennsy lvania Hospital Institute and attending the Univers ity of Pennsylvania.

Speaking of Pennsylvania reminds me of my Yankee roommate who was mistaken for a freshman during or ientation week at Bucknel l whe re she is studying. Betsy Gathings is taking education cour ses and doing practice teaching in her home town.

Our three seminary stude nts wou ld be delighted if Southern Baptist Theological Seminary would include a Romance Department in their course of study. Sue Lud ington, Nita Leseueur, and Doris McBride are progressing so nicely in this area th at they would like to major in it and grad uate with an MRS as well as an MRE. Honors cont,inue to come to gradua tes of the Class of 1960. Barbara Ferguson has received a fellowship to continue her study of library science at the University of Illinois. After comple ting her degree requirements , she will return to Richmond to work at the Richmond Public Library.

We welcome back Na ncy Rae Taylor Baker and Marjie D onald Mill er who left us before June 6, 1960. Na ncy Rae and Bill are Jiving at 321 West Pine Avenue , Wake Forest , Nort h Carolina, and Bill is atte nd ing Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary there. Marjie and Lowry are living at 69-A M elro se Avenue , Triangle, Virginia, while Lowry is sta tion ed at Qu antico.

A most interesti ng letter from Nancy McCullo ch to a frie nd to ld of a reception at the Waldorf for African delegates to the U.N. whid1 Nancy had recently attended. She was invited because of h er abilit y to speak French , Spanish and Italian.

One of our classmates has suggested that we start a ro und -robin of the letters sent to me wi th news of the class. There's only one thing we need to get this started-your letters. Remember to w rite your group leader or me regularly and to keep us posted on address changes.

LOCAL CLUBS WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE

Baltimore Club President: MlSS MARGARET BOWERS 2922 Wyman Parkway, Baltimore , Md. Immediate ly preceding the opening of college, Mrs . Dolly Latan e Hammond ('33) was host ess at a delightful reception given by tJ,e Balt imore club for Westhampton College stude nts and incoming freshmen and their mothers in th e Baltimore area.

Twenty alumnae gathered at Hutzler 's Tea Room D ecember 3, at which time the fol lowing committee appointments were announced by the president:

Mrs . Doroth y Austin Alevizatos ('60) - Alum nae Repr esentative Mrs. Dolly Latane Hammond ('33 ) - Swiming Pool Mr s. Ann e Smith Pa1azzo ('42)-Membership Mrs . Christine Dul ing Sponsler ('39) - Program The club decided to aim for bi-monthly meetings and voted to become a member of the local College Alumnae Council, which sponsors Colleg e Nig ht in Baltin10<re, thu s making it possible for Westhampton College to receive wider recognition in this area.

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All Bay Area alumn ae and their husbands were invi ted to an open house on Sunday, September 25, 1960 , at the home of Virginia Pleasant Robertson '28 in Walnut Creek, California. Co-hostesses were Eddie Soyars Swanson '26, and Ollie Menefee Stirling ·47. Eighteen were present, including three Richmond College graduates.

From Berkeley came Eddie and Chester Swanson, Richmond College, who teaches Education at the University of California; Marie Keyser Jordan '40 and John E. Jordan , Richmond College, also wit h Cal in the Eng lish Department; and Thelma Chi lders Snider '52 and Philip ]. Snider, Richmond College, of the Biology D epartm ent of the University.

Coming from the peninsula were Margaret Brittingham Curt ice '4 1, Lucy Burke Allen Meyer '42 of San Carlos, and Virginia Parker Dozier '42 of Los Altos. Margaret's husband, Jack , is coach of the Stanford University football team, and Virginia's husband is statio ned at N AS, Moffett Field , California.

Two Westhampton College roommates , Jean Motter Dempsey '45 and Lottie Blanton '45, attended, with J ean's husband, Hudson. Lott ie is stationed at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco as a physical therapist. Another member of the class of '45, Betty Richard s Warn er, and husband, Keit h, were there from Dan ville . Keith is with the Lawrence Radiation Lab at Livermore .

Our host was L. P. Robertson , Jr. , VPI , who is with· DuP ont at Antioch , California. Ollie and H ank Stir ling live on the Naval Ammunition D epot, Concord , where Hank is station ed at the Marin e Barracks.

"This is just like a day in Vir gi nia' ' was a comment overh eard at thi s ga thering . All enjoyed a delicious Virgini a ham and recalled many happy events througho ut the afternoon. This alumni group hope s to meet aga in in February .

We now plan to have the meeting some time soon after Christmas, with our National Alumnae President , Mrs . McLean Whittet, Jr. , as speaker .

We also plan to have lat er in the spring a reception for prospective Westhampton students .

Our group is a small one but has a number of faithful members who are continu ing their effort s for We sthampton.

Tidewater Club President: MR S. C. LEON JE NNINGS, JR .

(Jane Andersen) 1047 South Lexan Crescent , Norfolk , Va .

The Tidewater Club had a very successful tea in early September for the new and returning students of W esthampton. It was held in the home of Carolyn Heflin and it was a great pleasure for all of us to know that Tidewater has such a large group at Westhampton this year.

We had a we ll atten ded meeting the evening of Novem ber 10 at the home of Jane Van Leeuwen, our vice-president. The sale of books and copperware afforded each of us a wonderfu l opportunity for purchasi ng Christmas gif ts. The profits will be sent to Alma Mater. Plans were discussed for a supper meeting in January or February. After a period of fellow ship and delightful refreshments, the meeting adjourne d.

Washington Club President : MRs. A . R. GUEST (Virginia Ingram) 9707 Old Spring Rd ., Kensington,

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Richmond Club President: MRS . ]. S. PIERCE, JR .

(J oyce Betts) 3434 H anover Ave. , Richm ond, V irgi nia Richmond club's fall buffet in October, with D r.

White as guest lectmer, was spo nsored thi s year by the class of 195 5. Under their guida nce, an unu sual number of recent grad uat es attended, and even the dinner seemed to inclu de a larger variety of delicious dishes.

Our card party was a litt le larger than last year's, and as usual , drew many members toget11er who do not come to other meetings.

In addition to mak ing money at the card party, we have been most successfu l with the sale of club calendars and pecans.

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After receiving a mailing list of the Washington area from -the Alu mnae office, we find many new alumnae in this area. W e hope to meet all these at a luncheon after the first of the year. M embers a1·e now participating in the sale of calendar s.

Two of the officers of the club, Mis s Ruth Tipt on and Miss Lee Feild , are getting married in D ecember .

The Washington club part icipated in a highly successful college night in Novem ber. This was spo nsored by the Associakd Alumna e Clubs of Washington. Leslie Booker came up and inter viewed many high school girls interested in Westhampton. Especia lly helpful in giving the student's slant on college were the two young ladies from -the present freshman class who came along with Leslie.

CHAPTERS

NEW YORK CHAPTER Dr. David Robbins, dean of the School of Business Administration , created an enthusiastic response from the New York alumni in their October 12 meeting as he outlined the plans of his division of the

Suffolk Area Club President: MISS R UTH HAVERTY Smithfield, Virginia A luncheon meeting , which was set for November 26, 1960, had to be cancelled due to illn ess.

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Edward L. Field, Jr., '40-Dean W. David Robbins-Wilbur K. Gaines, '29.

University for the immediate future. Presi dent Walter B. Gillette presided.

The chapter members attended the game between the Spiders and the New York Athletic Club December 19 when the basketball team was on its Christmas swing northward, and they have already marked their calendars to remind them of the RichmondArmy football clash September 23 at West Point.

PETERSBURG CHAPTER Dr. William T. Muse, dean of the T. C. Williams School of law, discussed the growth of the University at the annual meeting of the Petersburg-Hopewell-Colonial Heights alumni chapter October 13 at Whitmore's Restaurant in Petersburg.

During the business portion of the meeting, which followed a film of one of the Spiders' footba ll games, T. Taylor Cralle, Petersburg attorney, was elected president for 1961, succeeding Edwin W. Savory. Dr. Linwood T. Horne, pastor of Walnut Hill Baptist Church, was named vice-president, and Stephen G. White, another attorney, was elected secretary-treasurer .

Guests at the meeting included Petersburg High School Coach Bob Howard, assistant coach Hubie Payne, and six outstanding members of their football team.

ROANOKE CHAPTER Malcolm U. Pitt, University athletic director, explained the school's four-year campaign to boost the athletic program at the October 14 meeting of the Roanoke alumni chapter.

Coach Pitt told the alumni that the University isn't going "big time" but is trying to maintain a "respectable position" in the Southern Conference.

The campaign calls for $50,000 per year to provide additional scholarships in football and basketball. Most of the solicitation has been in Richmond and Coach Pitt said the response, among business people as well as alumni, has been fine; the first $50,000 is assured.

He declared that the school's academic standing is being preserved, and cited a report from Dean Robert Smart showing that the freshman football squad has a better average in the classroom than perhaps any before it.

Thirty grads attended the dinner meeting in the Hotel Ponce de Leon; President Frank Skinner presided.

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1914Thomas J. Blankenship, former judge of the H opewe ll Civil and Police Court, died November 24 in Petersburg.

He was a member of the Knights of Pythias , DuPont Ma sonic Lodge 289, Petersburg Union Royal Arch No. 7, The Scottish Rite, the Petersburg Shrine Club, Acea Temple, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

1917Dr. Moses Gellman , distinguished orthopedic surgeon and educator, died November 11 in Baltimore.

At the time of his death he was co-chief of orthopedic surgery at Baltimore 's Sinai Hospital, associate medical director of the Kernan Hospital for Cripp led Children , associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Maryland Medical School, and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School.

The 64-year-old physician had been a practicing surgeon for 35 years following his graduation from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association , the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, the Baltimore Medical Society, and the Research Club of Baltimore .

1922Dr. A. L. Carson , Jr. , 59, director of Richmond services for the State Department of Health, died September 16.

Dr. Carson joined the health department in 1931 and had been a local director since 1952.

He .;.,as also director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau from 1940 to 1948, and director of the division of specialized medical services from 1948 to 1952.

A fellow of the American Academy of Obstetrics, Dr. Carson had been an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical College of Virginia since 1941. . . .

He was a former president of the Virgmia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society and of the state Nutrition Association , and a member of the Medical Soaiety of Virginia , the Richmond Academy of Medicine, and the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Carson received his M.D. at M.C.V. and did additional graduate wor k at Harvard University .

1925Henry Grady Ferguson, 60, died October 23 in Richmond after suffering a heart attack .

He was president of Sothern Primoid Company, residential and industria l waterproofing concern.

1928S. Ashton Patterson, 58, an attorney, died July 10 in Richmond.

A native of Newport News, he served for a number of years as vice president and trust officer of the Central National Bank in Richmond, where he had been in Jaw practice for 24 years.

Mr. Patterson was active in various bar associations and civic and community organizations.

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Word has been received of the death of Harvey S. Gill in Petersburg September 29, 1959. H e was Virginia representative of the Mi-Co Parking Meter Di vision of Michaels Art Bronze Company.

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Douglas Crutch.field Woodfin, president of a Richmond real estate firm that bears his name , died November 23. He was 52.

He had been in the real estate business for 21 years, and was a Jieutenant in the army quartermaster reserve.

1931Garland

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supervisor of the State Department of Education's vocational rehabilitation service, died June 30 at his residence in Roanoke.

He was a district circulation manager of the Richmond News Leader for 11 years before joining the state educational department.

1933Word has been received of the death of Hugh C. Bennett of Raleigh. He was manager of the South Atlantic District of the Borden Company.

Mr. Bennett was on the board of directors of the Dairy Foundation, the Dairy Council , and the Raleigh Tourist and Convention Association.

He was a member of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

1939Word has been received of the death of Ross Shackleford Gibson of Fredericksburg .

1953Word has been received of the death November 27, 1959, of James S. McCormack in Garland , Texas. He was a division accounting manager for Kraft foods.

1956George B. Harris, Jr., land title officer for a district in the Caroline Islands, was one of 77 persons killed in a plane disaster on the Pacific island of Guam , September 19.

Mr. Harris was on his way to Hawaii , where he was to report for two weeks active duty with the army. Before going to the Pacific islands he was a member of the staff of the Civil Rights Commission in Washington.

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The Spiders, who trailed, 47-37, at the half and once were behind by 15 points, forced West Virginia to the limit in the closing stages of the game before bowing to the Mountaineers, 7 5-72, at Morgantown.

O'Bryan tallied 22 points for Richmond which played its second straight game without the services of Booker. Rod Thorn scored 16 for West Virginia.

Higgins was the hero, scoring the last seven points of the game, as the Spiders came from behind to upset Furman, 76-74, at the Arena for their third victory of the season.

Pressing tactics employed by Richmond, which trailed by 11 points with 10 minutes to go, halted the Paladins without a field goal in the final four and a half minutes.

Higgins finished with 23 points.

Hitting the hoops with sizzling 60.3 per cent accuracy from the floor, Richmond captured its opening round game of the Richmond Invitational Tourney by defeating Virginia Military Institute, 100-90, at the Arena. The Spiders led, 50-34, at intermission. O'Bryan collected a seasonal high 27 points and Higgins accounted for 26. Booker bagged most of his dozen points down the stretch when the Spiders pulled away after the Keydets had closed the gap to three points with two minutes to play._ . . .

The Spiders made 1t three vtCtones 111 a row by routing William and Mary, victor over Virginia in the opening round, by 10187 in the finals of the Richmond Invitational

Tournament. Higgins, scoring a seasonal high 28 points, guided Richmond, which hit the century mark for the second game in a row for the first time since 1954, with a steady hand . Booker pitched in 2 3 points, his high for the season to aid the cause.

O 'Bryan had 17 points and 14 rebounds as the Spiders snapped a five-game W&M winning streak. Jeff Cohen paced the Indians with 30 points.

One week later in a rematch at the Arena before 3,023 fans, William and Mary edged the Spiders, 63-60. Cohen, limited to six field goals, hit on 18 of 22 free throws to lead the Indians with 30 points. Richmond had 22 field goals to 16 for W&M but could sink only 16 of 30 free throws while the Indians were dropping in 31 of 41 gratis tosses. Higgins was high for Richmond with 18 points.

Higgins, finishing with 16 points , tallied two insurance baskets in the closing minutes as Richmond beat V.M.I. for the second time at the Arena , 69-62. O'Bryan tallied 10 of h is 15 points in the first 10 minutes when the Spiders were building up a 20-10 lead.

Booker also collected 15 points and Grodzicki had 12. V.M .I. 's Norm Halberstadt was high for both clubs with 25 points.

FROSH Coach Harry Stewart's Univer sity of Richmond freshman basketball team completed the first half of its campaign with seven victories and four losses. The Baby Spiders defeated the freshman team of Virginia (8368) , William and Mary (71- 57) and V.M.I. (67-64) and lost to the George Washington Frosh (88-70) and the West Virginia yearlings (87-82).

Ae;aimt iunior collee;e competition the Spider Frosh defeated Chowan twice, Lewisburg once and won one of three games with Frederick Junior College.

Bill Burton, All-State forward from Petersburg , leads the Baby Sp;ders in scoring with a 21.8 average . He tallied 38 against the Viq~inia Frosh, 35 against Lewisburg and 32 in the first game with Frederick. John Telepo of Easton, Pa. leads the club in rebounding with an 11 .5 average and is second in scoring with a 13.l mark. Guard Buddy Enck is the other Baby Spider in double figures with a 12.1 average .

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pass receptions, were named to the AllSouthern first team and Senior Tackle Bob Buffman was selected on the All-SC second eleven . Stoudt also was selected the best back in the state in balloting by opposing players in a poll conducted by radio station WRV A. Coolbaugh has been drafted by the Redskins .

Coolbaugh , Buffman, Sizer, McGinnis , Cocaptain and Fullback John Boggs and Reserve Tackle Bob Putney were the only seniors on this season 's club. Coach Merrick

FIVE ALUMNI HONORED FOR SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY'S ATHELETIC PROGRAM The first Captains' Club football banquet, honoring five distinguished University of Richmond alumni, proved to be one of the finest affairs of its kind in the school's history. The banquet was held at the Hotel John Marshall on Thanksgiving eve prior to the traditional gridiron classic between the Spiders and the College of William and Mary the following day.

Receiving "d istinguished service" plaques from the Captains' Club for their outstanding contr ibution s to the University's athletic program, were Businessmen E. Claiborne Robins, '31, and Overton D. Dennis, '08, and Attorney John J. Wicker , Jr. , '13, all of Richmond; State Senator Garland Gray, '21, of Waverly and U. S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, '07. All were present to accept their awards except Senator Gray who , was unable to attend because of illness. State Senator Edward E. Haddock, '34, accepted Senator Gray 's award on his behalf.

Dean William T. Muse, '28, of the Law School served as Toastmaster and kept the enthusiastic gathering of 160 alumni, guests and friends of the University in high spirits with his humor. Individual awards were

presented by president George M. Modlin; Representative J . Vaughan Gary, '12; State Senator Edward Willey; J. Rhodes Mitchell , vice-president of the C&P Telephone Company, and Warren Pace, Captains' Club president. The Invocation was pronounced by Dr. Solon B. Cousins, professor emeritus of Bible. The Captains ' Club, composed of 49 former University of Richmond captains and co-captains dating back as far as 1908, certainly proved that it was an a-ctive organization interested in cooperating with important athletic projects of the University.

The banquet certainly helped build enthusiasm and renew interest in the traditional game between William and Mary and Richmond. The club plans a similar banquet in future years in which no more than three awards will be presented in any one year.

The awards are not necessarily made to a Richmond alumnus or former athlete.

Michael W. West, '37, general chairman of the banquet, and his numerous committees which worked so hard to make the initial affair such a success are to be congratulated for their fruitful efforts.

will have 26 members of the team back to go with some fine sophomore prospects from this year's freshman eleven. So the 1961 Spiders will have depth although it will be a young club.

The freshmen finished with a 3-2 record.

After losing to the William and Mary Frosh , 12-7, the Baby Spiders stopped Bullis Prep, 33-8; the VMI Rats, 26-12, and Frederick Junior College, 19-6 . They lost their final game to Chowan Junior College , 7-6.

As the totally blind child gets o.lder and learns fundamental skills of Braille, I will visit him only a few times a week to grade papers, check on his progress and help with further orientation of new community places.

Another important phase of my job is that of visiting and counseling the childr en of pre-school age when the parents request that we assist them. I visited three-year old Norman and together we played, ate and walked in the neighborhood. I offered suggestions to the mother so that she will feel more secure in feeding, playing with and caring for the child. In this way we all work toward a normal growth of the child and social adjustment so that Norman will be ready to enter school when he reaches that age.

As Prince Georges County is one of the largest counties in Maryland and the children live in all parts of it, I spend part of my day driving from school to school. In the office in Bladensburg I maintain a complete and detailed record on each child including his medical history, my visits, his progress and social background. Through professional journals I try to keep informed of the latest developments in methods, materials, equipment and visual aids so I will be able to be of further assistance to the children.

My work is very rewarding and each day I look forward to helping the visually handicapped children in their studies and assisting them to make the adjustment to the sighted world.

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dren. Roger is in the sixth grade and needs special help with map work. Together we make raised maps for him so that he may feel each state and its size. Mike and Paul are twins in the fourth grade with low vision. I visit the twins and help them learn to make use of what vision they have. Mike uses his regular reader, but Paul prefers the large type books furnished by our office. I help them find how close to hold the books for their eyes and assist them in reading.

Because of these boys' low vision , they read slowly and tire easily. Together with the teacher, we decide how much close work the children can be expected to do at a time, the proper lighting needed and any other individual requirements.

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