University of Richmond Magazine Spring 1961

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U of R Confers Honorary Degree on Helen Mansell .

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COME BACKHOME Alumni have received an invitation to come back to the campus for Alumni Day on May 13 to renew their ties with vhe University, to meet friends of college years, and to join in the attractive program that has been arranged.

Not the least of the reasons for coming back is the opportunity to greet professorial friends of college years, the men who helped prepare you not only for your professional career but also, through their wise counsel and friendship, for leadership in your community.

ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING. This reminder is for alumni who might otherwise be confused by the fact that some of Virginia's counties and cities are on standard, others on daylight saving

They, as well as your college mates, will be happy to see you. In fact , they are going all out by putting on a "bigger and better" Faculty Frolics. The profs let down their hair last year to the delight of the old grads and Faculty Frolics of 1961 will be an even bigger performance.

The script, "Ivory Towers," is a farewell gift from Richmond College's departing registrar, Helen Monsell. The play will be directd by Alton Williams, a busy and capable director whose Players have just produced "John Brown's Body." He finds time to help with all alumni enterprises.

Alumni will spend the morning on the classroom side of the campus where they will register and attend classes with their favorite professors. From 10:30 to 12 o'clock there will be Glee Club and Band music on the Student Center lawn.

At 12:30 alumni will gather in Millhiser Gymnasium for the annual luncheon which will be followed by a baseball game with Willi ,am and Mary's Indians. As the Bulletin goes to press Mac Pitt's Spiders are well-launched on what promises to be another winning season for a Richmond team that usually wins a Southern Conference or State championship, or both.

The evening dinner at 6 o'clock, featuring the Faculty Frolics, will end the busy day.

Any alumnus who has not yet sent word that he will be on hand for the day's activities i's urged to do so.

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

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APRIL, 1961 No. 3

J OSE'.PH E. NETTLES, '30 ........ ...... ..............

LESLIE S. BOOKER, ' 22 Westhampton VIRGINIA IVEY, '48 Law School THOMAS S. BERRY Business School ROBERT M.

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THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNJ Thomas C. Yeaman Jr., '30 ...... ... ....... President A. W. Goode Jr ., '42 .................. Vice President William F. Kayhoe , '40 . ............ Vice President Robert W . Ferrell, '3 4 ........... .... Vice President Jack B. Wilbourne, '40 ...... ................ .. Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Edward H . Pruden, '25 P. Paul Saun ier Jr. , '40 and the above officers

THE ALUMNI COUNCIL Wilmer L. O'Flaherty, '11 ....................

Malcolm U. Pitt Jr ., '42 ........... Vice William T. Bareford, '46 ............ Vice Joseph E. Nettles, '30 ............................

Robert M. Stone, '30 . ......

Presid ent Presiden t President Secretary Treasurer

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Reed I. West, '30 S. Frank Straus, '35 John W. Edmonds III , '53 R. L . Lacy, '18

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

R. E. Booker, Executive Secretary, Westhampton College Alumnae Association, P.O ..

University of Richmond , Virginia } Florence B. Decker, '17 M~ry Mills Free1!1an , '35 Board of Trustees E h zabeth Tompkms, '19 Harriet S. Willingham, '26 LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION A. Scott Anderson, '31 .. ........ Presiden t Benjamin L . Campbell , '38 ...... Vice President Virginia D. Ivey, '48 .......... Executive Secreta.ry Carle E. Davis, '54 . ........ Treasurer DIRECTORS Walther B. Fidler, '49 M. Dannehl Aldridge Jr ., '50 E . Ballard Baker, '47 Zebulon V . Johnson Jr ., '36 Michael W . Moncure III, '53 R . Granger West, '36 Ernest T. Gearheart Jr ., '39 Julian E. Savage, '49 Nicholas A. Spinella, '50

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Stuart B. Cary, '50 .......... ........ ............. President C. Ralph Martin, '52 ................. ... Vice President Ru sse ll W . Miller, '57 ........... .............. Secretary Frazier B. Hoover, '56 .............. .......... Treasurer Edward L. Kurtz, '50 Immediate Past President

DOCTOR OF LETTERS.Dr. Robert F. Smart, (right) the last of four deans with whom she was associated during her 39 years as registrar, drapes over the shoulders of Registrar Helen A. Monsell the white, proclaiming her a doctor of letters of the University of Richmond. The degree was conferred by President Modlin.

Little Lady With Long Bright Memory Retires as Registrar

U of R Confers Honorary Degree on Helen Monsell

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he "little white-haired lady with the long, bright memory" placed the cover on her typewriter in the Richmond College registrar's office and called it a day.

In fact, she could have called it a career.

She had just finished 39 years of service to Richmond College as registrar , friend and confidante of her colleagues on the faculty and three generations of college students.

The University had honored Helen Mansell by conferring on her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. When Dr. Robert F. Smart, the last of four deans with whom she had been associated, placed the white hood across her shoulders, students and faculty members rose and gave her an unprecedented ovation.

Students and faculty members, as well as her more intimate colleagues in the reg istrar's office and in other offices on the second floor of Ryland Hall, bespoke their affection with gifts and parties in her honor.

The ROTC had a special review for her.

The students gave her a framed picture of the degree-conferring.

She continued to smile serenely although her colleagues choked up a bit when they said their good-byes on the afternoon of March 31. She told them she was going to stick around late , to tidy up and make sure there was no unfinished business to worry her successor.

When she left , alone, in the late afternoon, the heavens were weeping un-

ashamedly and , as she moved through the storm to her automobile, there were raindrops on her cheeks.

She left two days later in the same automobile for a leisurely trip to the West Coast, in the company of a widowed friend .

They were in no hurry. They intended to take their time, do what they wanted to do and perhaps gather some material that Miss Mansell would weave into a book.

But Miss Mansell insisted that she wasn't a lady author in search of a theme ; she was a tourist seeing the America that she had been too busy to see while recording grades, comforting love-lorn students, and serving as sister confessor to students and faculty members alike.

But everyone agreed that she undoubtedly wou ld bring back a great variety of ideas that she would embroider and place between the covers of books , adding to an impressive list of more than a score of titles for children and for adults . She is perhaps best known for her contributions to the Bobbs-Merrill series about the boys and girls who became famous men and women.

She has been described as "an Alice who never grew out of her wonderland." She saw nothing particularly strange in the letter from the youngster who wrote to ask if she had really ever played games with Robert Lee. She laughed in bright-eyed glee [ 1}

when she was informed that a Richm ond College student on a test paper had identified her as "o ne of Lord Byron 's mistresses," a libel she never bothered to deny.

Although she often played in the shadows of the statues of Lee and Jackson and other Confederate heroes on Monument Avenue of her native Richmond , she came from Northern stock. She inherited the pixy humor of her mother, a New Yorker, and the hard-headedness of her Connecticut father. She attended the West End School at Lombardy and Main and went on to John Marshall High School. After graduation she entered Richmond College in 1912, was a co-ed for two years, and then helped open up Westhampton College from which she was graduated in 1916. The range of her accomplishments and personality is illustrated by her selection as both class poet and class treasurer. She received her M.A. from Columbia University in 1922 .

Six days later she was back on the campus as registrar and secretary to Dean William L. Prince. Later she was to have the same association with Dean Raymond B. Pin chbeck. Theirs was a close, warm friendship that continued until the dean 's death. A visitor to the dean's office was touched with Dr. Pinchbeck's courtly def erence to Miss Mansell and the fact that he always addressed her as "Little Lady. " Smiling she (Continued on page 4)

Ground for $250,000 Building Will Be Broken In July

Virgina Institute Returns Home

BY RUSSELL

J.ROWLETT, JR.*

"T hesiteVirginia Institute is returning to the whi ch was its very first home ," declared Dr. Henry Leidheiser , Jr. , Director of the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research, speaking to the annual Faculty Dinner and explaining the move which will make VISR a neighbor of the University of Richmond in 1962.

Leaders of the Virginia Academy of Science chartered the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research in 1948 as a non-profit Virginia corporation. At that time its sole capitalization was a $5,000 gift from a generous Richmonder and one microscope purchased from funds of the Academy.

Through the good graces of the University of Richmond and Professor R. F. Smart, a laboratory room was furnished and Dr. John C. Strickland, a young man just completing his doctorate , was the first employee.

Professor Smart is now Dean Smart, also a Trustee of VISR, and Dr. Strickland is chairman of the Biology Department. The Institute's Staff has grown to 29 employees.

Its net worth is in excess of a quarter of a million dollars.

Since 1949 the Institute has been housed in the form er Museum building of the R. E. Lee Camp , Confederate Memorial Park on Richmond 's Grove Avenue . This old but sturdy building, leased from the Common wealth of Virginia, is literally bulging with the complex instruments used in modern research . A new laboratory, a permanent home for the Institute, is to be constructed just a few hundred yards from the biology lab in which the Institute underwent its first growth pains.

The new 50 by 200-foot building will be located on the western end of the 15.2-acre tract leased last year from the University.

The site is just south of the Westhampton College campus, 250 feet north of the River Road , and looks east over the golf course of the Country Club of Virginia. The goal for ground breaking is July 1, 1961 with occupancy about one year later.

The int erior of the new VISR home wi!J include 20,000 sc1uare feet of laboratory and office space plus a small basement for utilities and a!J-year air conditioning equipment . The first floor will provide four large laborator y areas, each subdi vided into individual offices and sma!J labs for the de* Mr . Rowl ett is assistant dir ector of th e Virgini a In stitut e fo r Scienti fic Research .

CARNEALand JOHNSON, Architects partments of biochemistry, crystals, physics, and surface chemistry. Also on the first floor will be the Institute's complete machine shop, a conference room seating about 30, a special instrument room, a photographic dark room, business offices and an employee lounge. The second floor will be substantially unfinished with complete-span joists to allow maximum freedom for future expansion . A small laboratory and a temporary library will be completed on this floor.

In the dreams of the Virginia Institute this new laboratory is the first unit of a campus-type group ¡ of buildings. A futur e Administration Building will include a science library and auditorium for the use of the scientific community. "Our ambitions are very high," said Dr. Leidheiser, "but the scope of the library and degree of its service wiJl, of course, be limited by the funds available. " In its new location VISR will be able to assist the growing graduate program of the University of Richmond. VISR can provide for the use of graduate students : special laboratory space, the use of expensive equip-

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ment not owned by the University, and research direction by Institute senior scientists.

Members of the Institute Staff will be available to teach special classes in the University scientific schools. The libraries of both institutions wi!J be mutually beneficial. There may be opportunities for part-time Institute employment for both graduate students and faculty members. Dr. Modlin, President of the University, and Dr. Leidheiser, Director of the Institute , have stated that the coming association between the Institute's Staff and the University Faculty will have a stimulat ing effect on both groups.

Funds for the construction of the new laboratory are being contributed by in dividuals and foundations interested in seeing the Commonwealth and the South grow into their rightful places in the nation's scientific future . The Virginia Institute is unique and has been termed "a Virginia personality." It is dedicated to basic research in the natural sciences, to the prog ress of science, and to the encouragement of promising scientists. It is one of the very ( Contintt ed on page 7)

Battling for State and Conference Crowns 1

Spiders Are Spoilrs

BY WALT DREWRY

Sports Public Relations Director Mac Pitt's 1960 University of C Richmond baseball team is being tagged OACH

"the spoilers." Still very much in the running for the Southern Conference and state Big Five diamond crowns at mid season, the Spiders have made it rough for the loop leaders when they visited Millhiser Field.

The Citadel, which tied Richmond for the SC title last season, was leading the loop when it visited the Red and Blue's campus and dropped a 4-3 decision to the Pittmen. Furman boasted a 5-0 conference mark when it invaded Millhiser Field but the Spiders set the Hornets down, 21-11, in one of the wildest games played there in years.

As this is written, Furman still leads the SC parade with a 5-1 record, but Richmond has vaulted into second place with a 3-1 mark. The Spiders' third loop win was a 5-0 decision over V.M.I. at Lexington. The Pittmen 's lone SC loss was to Virginia Tech , 2-1.

The Spiders are 1-1 in Big F've play as the result of their win over the Keydets and loss to the Gobblers. Virginia captured its first two Big Five tests to take the early lead in the scrap for the Old Dominion title. The Spiders and Cavaliers play only once this season, the game being set for Charlottesville on May 20.

The pitching of Charlie Revere, big 195pound senior righthander from Middlesex , is one of the big reasons why the Spiders are still a definite threat in both the SC and Big Five races despite the loss of three outstanding players from last year's club .

Revere has won four games and lost only one, the 2-1 defeat at the hands of Virginia Tech's Lee Melear .

When Revere, Spider co-captain, blanked VMI , 5-0, on seven hits, it marked his twentieth victory against only five setbacks during his collegiate career. Charlie's statistics this year are remarkable and major league scouts have been watching him closely. In 37 innings he's allowed only four earned runs for a .9 earned run average.

He's given up only 29 hits while striking out 27 and walking only seven.

Coach Pitt's big problem has been pitching depth . Both Sophomore Johnny Clayton and Mel Rideout, letterman first baseman , have been plagued by wildness. If either or

both could solve their control problems, way Booker swings a bat and the Louisville senior may get a crack at pro ball.

Pitt would be a much happier man.

Bobby Stewart, a sophomore from DeltaDefensively Dick Haymore, a junior from Danville, doesn't measure up to Alan Cole, ville, promises to be one of the better center All-Southern shortstop last season. How- fielders before his collegiate days are over. ever, Haymore , who played third base for Stewart, who broke into varsity play with the Spiders last year, has done a capable three hits- all to different fields-ag ainst job at short this season and leads the Ohio Wesleyan and hit a tape measure Spiders at the plate with a .387 average. homer against The Citadel, then went into Tom "Red" Booker, playing his final a batting slump. He came out of it with a season in left field for the Spiders, also is pair of circuit blasts against VMI, however, having a good year at the plate. Booker has to raise his average to .257.

Senior John Boggs of Cartersville in right a .355 average and a pair of home runs to his credit, one a grand slam against Furman . is hitting only .238 but has an uncanny A number of scouts have commented on the (Continued on page 5)

SPIDERCO-CAPTAINS AND COACH-Malcolm U. Pitt (right), now in his twenty-seventh season as University of Richmond baseball mentor, congratulates Pitcher Charlie Revere (left) and Second Baseman Doug Martin on their selection as co-captains of the 1961 Red and Blue baseball team . Revere, big 195-pound senior righthander from Middlesex, is being watched closely by professional scouts. Charlie's four-year record is 19 victories and just five defeats. Martin, a Richmond senior, is considered one of the finest fielding second basemen in Spider history. Coach Pitt's nine is seeking its thirteenth State crown and third Southern Conference title. Richmond tied The Citadel for the SC pennant last season. [ 3

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Admissions Director Pollard Assumes Registrar's Duties Thomas N. Pollard , '53, who joined the staff last July as Director of Admissions for Richmond Col lege, has assumed also the duties of Registrar.

Dr. Modlin said he be lieved that the consolidation of the two offices would be in the interest of the most effective service to the University In his combined job Mr . Pollard will interpret the college's admission policies to prospective students, parents and other interested persons , serve as the exec utive arm of the admissions committee, and maintain academic records.

He will work in close cooperation with Dean Robert F. Smart .

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informed the visitor, "But he calls every woman 'Little Lady.' " . She shared Dean Pinchbeck's hearty affection for human beings and envied him his ability to remember names. Now that she has left the campus, it can be revealed that often she smiled and bluffed until the visitor gave the necessary cue to carry her down memory lan e to the point of recognition .

When Dean Pinchbeck donned the Navy 's Blue and took over the command in Washington of an LMD ( which he always laughingl y identified as "a large mahogany desk") she helped lighten the work of his successor, Dr . B. C. Holtzclaw , professor of philosophy and now dean of the Graduate School. She continued her association with Dean Pinchbeck when he returned from the war. Although she was now exclusively the registrar and relieved of secretarial duties , she worked in close cooperation with Dean Pinchbeck and , after his death , with Dr. Smart.

She joyed in her work and in her friends , includ ing the tots at Crippled Children 's Hospital whom she visited regularly . She was invariably the teller of stories at campus Christmas parties where bright-eyed children gat hered in a circle around her.

She loved children and liked to envision the boyhoods of men who were later to become great Americans. Her childhood friends included Thomas Woodrow Wilson , Robert Lee, Tom Jefferson , Tom Jackson (later to be called "Sto newall " ), and Henry Clay. The lives of these young Americans , based on fact but dressed up with fiction, are among the best sellers in the BobbsMerrill series.

It was almost provi dential that Bobbs-

SWEAT ER G IRL. Studen ts, facu lty members and other friends vied in honoring Miss Monsell. Probably nothing p leased her more than the honorary " R" that was given her by the Athletic Depar tment. The picture of her with Football Coach Ed Merr ick traveled much faster than did Miss Monsell on her trip to the West Coast. That accounts for the fol lowing episode, re lated by Miss Monsell in a note to a friend at the University: " We stopped for Easter services in a small church where the woman in our pew whispered, 'Your face is very familiar, but I can 't p lace your name .' When I whispered it back she said, 'Oh yes, of course; wasn 't that sweater picture good of you? ' "

Merrill became the publisher of her first manuscript , "The Story of the Chestnut Tree." An entirely normal person would have made enquiry about the various publishers and those most likely to be interested in a mystery story for children of teen age and younger. But not Helen Mansell. She got hold of a printed list of publishers neatly arranged in alphabetical order - and checked off those she knew. And lo, BobbsM er rill led all the rest!

That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Bobbs-Merrill snapped up the "Secret of the Chestnut Tree ," and the "Secret of the Gold Earring, " and then suggested that she try her hand at the childhood series of great Americans .

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Scholars have claimed her as one of their own and have given her a Phi Beta Kappa key, and her Alma Mater has given her an honorary degree but she's still a girl in pigtails. Utterly lacking in pretense, she blandly admits she prefers P. G. Wodehouse to Shakespeare whom she finds "grossly materialistic" and very much overrated by the literati. Her catholic tastes embrace Jane Austen, two writers of Children's fiction, Florence Crandall Means and E. Nesbit , and A. A. Milne, Now , in retirement , she will have more time to add to her already considerable stature as a writer. Her friends , boys and girls of all ages, will cheer each new title .

tion concernin g the case in h and and searches for precedents that will either h elp or warn him . The speech writer researches his subject and consults policy statements to insure that the material being prepared confo rms.

"The lawyer checks his brief with his client and any official is ill-advised who does not take time to go over carefully what has been prepared by his speech writer. Once tried, the lawyer turns to the next case.

Once delivered, the ghost starts on the next opus."

A ghost writer's finest reward, Mr. Heslep said, is for his work to be considered truly representative of the man he is writing for.

An uninte nded compliment for Charter Charter Heslep Heslep came in 1950 after publication of the book, "I Was T here," which Mr. Heslep had ghost written for the late Fleet published policy statements of the White House and other departments that may have Admiral William D. Leahy.

In its review of the book , the Christian a bearing on the work of ,t}.is agency. When necessary, he must challeng e material sub- Science Monitor said, "Here, at last, is a mitted in support of some particular pro- war memoir uncontaminated by the hackneyed hand of the ghost." gram or point of view .. . " The admira l, Mr. Heslep said, "could not And "above all, he must have a pass10n for accuracy. A cardinal sin of a speech have written this book. Yet what he had writer is to send up a draft that contains done in long and important service to his countr y needed to be set down to add to factual erro rs."

In some respects, Mr. H eslep added , public knowledge of the events in which he "g hosting can be compared to the practice participated and for historians to evaluate. of law. A new speech is like a new case. This is one more reason why I insist that ghosting is NOT a sin. It IS a necessity."

The lawyer gathers all pertinent informa-

Ghost Are Necessary Want to know some of the trade secrets about ghost writing?

A key one, in the view of Charter Heslep, 1926, him self a top ghost writer who insists that ghosting is not a sin but a necessity, is this: The really successful ghost writer, in a manner of speaking, gets insid e the man he's writing for and learns what makes him tick. One measure of success is whether the works sound natura l from the man who delivers them. " If you have watched Khrushch ev struggle with a prepared text I think you will agree that the Soviet Premier needs writers who have a better understanding of the unusual style of delivery of the Communist leader."

Mr. Heslep gave his views of ghost wr iting in a speech before 800 college English pro fessors. What h e said reflected the thoughts of a man who has been a ghost writer for some of Washington 's top officialdom. He emphasized that "I speak as a longtim e practitioner of the art of writing for others and not in my capacity as a staff officer of the International Affairs Division of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commi SSIOn."

In Mr. H eslep 's view, the ghost writer is absolutely necessary because of the tremendous work load shouldered by top federal officials. " If they tried to do the research on, and the drafting of even a minimum number of speeches, they would no longer be on top of their jobs. They do not have the time."

To the charges of some critics, Mr. Heslep acknowledged it is true that some ghost writing is trite and hackneyed, that a "ghost may be tempt ed to second-guess his boss" and that a ghost sometimes "becomes so int rigued with the sound of his own words that he forgets that they may not suit the man for whom they are being written."

But, he emphasized, the ghost writer 's job is not to create a synthetic personality.

"If he can impro ve the delivery of a speech by an official, he is being creative, not synthetic."

To write successfully for others, Mr. Heslep sugge sted that a ghost must ( 1) know the man he 's writing for as completely as possible, (2) know how to do or to super vise research and to arrang e related facts in orderly sequence, and ( 3) know how to write good English.

Of the art of ghost writing, Mr. Heslep added these pointers: "Research for speeches in federa l agencies means more than knowing the standard reference works and the availability of annual and special reports. One has to know the key people in the agency, the people who are in charge of a project or program and can supp ly first-hand background and current data.

"A ghost writer has to keep abreast of

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ability to get on base, having walked 11 times. With Boggs teaming with Booker and Stewart, the Spiders have one of the b::st defensive outfields in the Southern Conference.

Rideout gives the Spiders a long ball h:tt er at first base. The big fellow is hitting at a .300 clip. H e has a pair of triples and a doubl e to his credit.

Co-captain Doug Martin, a senior from Richmond, has been the steadying influence in the infield . Martin hasn't reached his potential as a batt er but his fielding leaves little to be desired. He may well be the conference's top "g love man. " When Pitt was forced to shift Haymore from third base to shortstop, it left the Spiders without a seasoned performer at the hot corner. Lewis Armi stead, a junior from Portsmouth, started at that position during the early games and delivered several timely blows. Ho wever, when both Armist ead's hittin g and fielding fell off, Pitt gave Don Falls a chance at third and he has been doing an adequate job.

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plate or at bat, Vann has shown improvement from game to game.

Golf Larry Dixon, captain of the University of Richmond golf team, is undefeated through his first four matches . Dixon, former Rich mond city junior champ, stopped Washington and Lee's Jack Vardaman, who tied with William and Mary's Ken Rice for top honors in the State Intercollegiate tournament at Hot Springs last year, by a 6 and 5 marg in in his last match . Dixon also holds victories over Virginia Tech 's Charley Holden, 2 and 1; Hampden-Sydney 's Charl ey Fergu son, 4 and 2, and Lynchburg College's Litz Beavers.

Track Bill Vent ura , 225-pound sophomo re from Garfield , N. J., has been the one bright spot on Coach Fred Hardy's track team. Ventura has won the shot put event in all five of the Spiders' meets, his best effort being a toss of 46 feet, 11 ½ inches against Virginia Tech.

Man Must Enlarge the Spaces of His Heart and Mind and Soul

till Seekingthe Truth* score and ten years ago this UniS versity was fo und ed by men who only OME SIX

a short time before h ad been persecuted in this Commonwea lth of Virginia because they steadfast ly persisted in worshipping God only as their own consciences dictated.

They were compelled to pay tithes and taxes to support government-spons ored chur ches whose ministers preached inflammatory sermons designed to strengthen and consolid ate the Established Church by generating a burning hatred aga inst dissenters. To their everlasting credit and out of a love for God and for their fellow man they established the foundation of this great instituti on of learning. In this same spirit young men and women of all fait hs have been welcomed here to think together, to exchange ideas and to learn the art of intergroup relations and gracious living.

We honor and revere the memories of those leaders and teachers of this University who in the first half of the 20th Century were the connect ing links between the past and the present, and who were infused with that same spirit of love and respect for the dignity of man, and who taught in the classrooms on this campus that men should on ly live by the lamp of truth and by a fait h which gave stature and worth to each individual. The intangi ble legacies which they bequeathed to us are ingrained upon the hearts and souls and minds of count less students who sat at their feet.

The lamp continues to burn brightl y. We are still seeking the truth. The leaders and teachers of today are also dedicated men and women who are engaged in transmitting to you new ideas and a fait h and a courage for tomorrow. The physical sciences are making fast strides and the social sciences show encouraging signs of catchin g up . In this academic atmosp here of research and learning we meet littl e, if any, resistance to the belief and practice that men and women, while bent on the mission of stretchin g their minds , can work and study and play together as an harmonio us and coopera tive gronp . Honesty and fa irness p revail. Intolerance and bigotry have no sanctions . The cultural climate of this Univers ity discour ages the planting and growth of the seeds of religious group prejudic es, of dis* Remarks by Emanuel Emroch, '28, at a Brotherhood Convocation at the Uni vers ity of Richm ond March 2. Mr . Emroch, past president of the Tr ial Attorneys Association of Richmond and presidentelect of the Vir gi nia Trial Lawyers Association, is a fel!ow in the In ternati onal Academy of Trial Lawyers.

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honesty and bad manners. Out of our joining together on this campus in the intellectual quest to discover the truth about life , we seem to uncover, as a natural concomitant, the answer as to how we can Jive together in a coopera tive spirit-a spirit that gives strength, and character, and nobility to the ent ire group.

W e are also mindful of the religious faith which has been interwoven in and a dominant factor in th e development and grow th of this important and influential educational center. We find agreement that "out of the heart are the issues of life "; th at power for one's will and stre ngth to act on noble decisions comes from faith; and is aided by religious disciplines. We know that the sanctions of morality and the redeeming power of religion provide checks and balan ces for personal living, and that this faith at this University has given substance and purpose and hop e to finer intergro up relations as science, philosophy and religion join forces in study and experimentation.

Universities and their communities are linked in many ways. You men and women will become policy making business and profession al leaders and statesmen, teachers that help to guide the thinking and morality of future citizens, technicians who put new forms of energy at the disposal of the nation. You will prepare varying devices for exp lorat ion of outer space, you will advise on government foreign policy and write important books that w ill help to change the course of history .

We suggest that the University and the Community be linked in another important way and that you men and women be the continuing human links , as the dedicated teachers and leaders of former years were the intell ectual and spiritual links between

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the past and the present. W e sugg est that when you leave this campus, to take your place 111 your respective communities, you carry with you those noble principles and cultur al knowledge and techniqu es which you acquired, absorbed and pra cticed on this campus . We need these principles , knowl edge and techniques in the organic makeup of our communities. As your idealism and culture are transfused into our cellular civilization you will help to treat those chronic soci_al _ailments of group and religiou s pre1ud1ces.

We need young men and women of integrity who, by virtue of their trainin g and cultural experience at this University , are committed to the idea that they can make and maintain a decent and high standard of living honorably while at the same tim e according to others the rights and privileges they want for themselves.

We take issue with and deny th e validity of th~ o~ten expressed opinion that one finds 1t difficult to practice the virtues of a campus culture in the outside world of selfish economic competition. This is not true and its invalidity is becoming more evident. You can be honest in your busines s and professional endeavors and at the same time enjoy the ultimate in economic success.

You can have a belief in the worth and dignity of your fellow man and in the pri_nciple that a better community can be built through the cooperation of men and women of good will , and you can work at it, and at the same time enjoy the ultim ate in social and group recognition . If you have the dual equipment of character and competency you will be invi ncible . If you brin g to the community th at equipment, and if, through your dedicated efforts, you manif est it in your daily associations, we shall have high hop es as to the futur e of our democratic, social and economi c system and as to the future of our intergroup relations.

As you move into your communities in the next few years, greater break-through s will not only be made in the physical sciences, but also in the social sciences. As man explores¡ outer space he must enlarg e the spaces of his heart and mind and soul.

The social sciences will help man to accomplish these ends .

In making a contri buti on to your communities with a spirit and a fait h and a conviction born of your experiences at this p,reat and dedicated University, you will help society reach these goals and come closer to the realization of the Brot herhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God .

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BY THOMAS S. BERRY Professor and Mrs. William Trout have sent reports from Zurich, and are expected in Florence this spring. Charles B. Hurd, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Union College, is teaching in the Chemistry Department this semester-he also served in that capacity last year.

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Professor Ralph C. McDanel was elected Moderator of the Richmond Baptist Association on February 17.

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Professor E. W . Gregory, Jr., attended the White House Conference on Aging, January 8-12, 1961, as a member of the Virginia delegation. Dr. Gregory is Chairman of the Admissions Committee of the United Givers Fund this year.

equitably, and rendered its Richmond City Council in Councilman E. Elwood Ford, fessor of Accounting, also Commission.

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Professor J. Stanton Pierce is carrying on research under the auspices of the Geschickter Fund of Washington, D. C. The research is in the general area of the synthesis of compounds destined to become drugs .

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Dean Melvin L. Greenhut, Director of the Evening Division of the School of Business Administration, has authored three books in the past few months: Plant Loca-

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No less than three offspring of members of the University Faculty were elected to Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on February 16. They are Susan Elizabeth Ford (psychology major), Carole M. Johnson (English), and Edward Cronin Peple, Jr. (English).

Abou t the Author Beginning with this issue the Alumni Bulletin will ca rry a column of news about accomplishments of members of the Un iversi ty of Richmond foculty. It will be conducted by the able and affable Tom Berry , director of placement

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Dean Marguerite Roberts is prosecuting her research on Thomas Hardy at the Widener and Houghton Libraries at Harvard University this semester, while she is on sabbatical leave.

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Professor '17, Chairman of the Department of Economics, served on the Richmond Tax Study (Gibson) Commission during the past year. The Commission had a membership of fifteen, including twelve citizens of various interests and three City Councilmen. It studied means of attracting business to the city and also of distributing the tax burden fairly and

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Professor Allan Powell has for some time been a Research Consultant in analytical chemistry at the McComas Research Center of the Philip Morris Company. Professor Powell also acts as Chairman of the Chemistry Section of the Virginia Academy of Science.

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Harrison of the History Department published an article on "Southern Baptists in the Confederacy" in Civil War History in December, 1960, and one on "The Christian Association-A Religious Society in the Army of Northern Virginia" in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for January 1961.

Professor Billy Sloope of the Physics Department recently completed his fourth year in research at the Virginia Instih1te for Scientific Research. His work is in the general field of metal and semi-conductor films, particularly as respects the formation of single crystals.

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Professor James Worsham spent the year 1959-60 at the Masssachusetts Institute of Technology performing research work in neutron diffraction. Worsham also attended the International Crystallographic Congress at Cambridge University last August and traveled on the continent, particularly in Germany and Denmark .

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few research institutes in the word which devotes its full time to basic research.

Operating income for the Institute, which totalled more than $26 0,000 in 1960, comes from four sources: 1) research contracts from the federal government and industry; 2) research grants from the federal government and industry; 3) a grant from the State of Virginia; and 4) gifts from individuals and foundations.

The legal governing body of the Institute is a Board of Trustees which includes 19 business and civic leaders of Richmond and Virginia. Dr . Allan T. Gwathmey, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia and in whose mind VISR was born, is President. Dr. H. R. Hanmer , Vice President for Research of the American Tobacco Company, is Vice President; Dr .

Robert H . Kean, retired chemical engineer of Charlottesville is Secretary; and Mr. A. Churchill Young , Jr. , President of E. M. Todd Manufa cturing Company of Richmond, is Treasurer.

Before the University Faculty in response to the question, "\Xfhat are the plans for th e Institute's future ?", the Director replied, "F irst and foremost it is to do good research. " Second, he continued, "by doing good research the In stitute hopes to have a culh1ral impact on the Richmond community."

elected chai m1art of the Virginia Corporation. The General Assembly the estab lishment of the corporation tention of promoting new industrial in Virginia.

1896W. H . Lambeth Ave., New Orleans , Richmond College .

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writes from 2600 Jefferson La., that he often thinks of He asked for a Richmond remind him of his student

1900John B. Welsh , Richmond lawyer, civic leader. world traveler, and churchma n, was honored January 27 on his 85th birthday by member s of the Business Men's Bible Class of YMCA. Mr. Welsh is a charter member of the class, having assisted in its organization in 1925.

One of the oldest members of the Richmond bar , he was named two years ago by the Businessmen's Association for the East End as its first man-of-the-year.

In addition to visiting his office every day where he continues in active Jaw practice , Mr , Welsh finds time to serve as register of historic St. John's Episcopal Church , where he has been a member of the vestry for 54 years, He is also secretary of St. John's Foundation Inc. , and treasurer and trustee of the church 's endowment fund .

Mr. Welsh is the oldest past master of the Richmond Randolph Lodge, and he has been a member of rhe Brotherhood of St. Andrew for 66 years, Journeying by air, ship , and train , he has been to Europe three times and to Asia once . Two years ago he flew around the world , and now he's planning a trip to Australia .

1910Dr. George W . Sadler , Southern Baptist denominational leader for almost half a century, has joined the faculty of Baylor University as visiting professor of religion for the spring semester. Dr. Sadler has been associated with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board for 46 years and has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 44 times on Baptist mission business.

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1926Dr . G. Cary Whit e, professor of socio logy at HoJJins College, has been elected chairman of the Advisory Board of the Juvenile and D omestic Relations Court of the city of Roanoke.

The department of sociology at HoJJins works in close cooperation with the probation staff of

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the local court. Dr . Whit e p lans and h lps conduct research studies pertaining to juvenile delinquency and the placement of students for field experie nce.

Professor A. S. Stephan of the department of sociology at the University of Arkansa s was designated to represent the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. David Wi ley Mull ins as president of the University of Arkansas April 24.

1927T. Ryland Sanford Jr. of Warwick was designated to represent the U niversit y of Richmond

ELECTED SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTS

Four Univers ity of Richm ond alumn i were among the five senior vice presidents named recently by the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

Alumn i promoted to senior vice president were Hill Montague, Jr., '17, administrative vice president in charge of home office operations; William R. Shands, '21, vice president and genera l counsel, and John B. Siegel, Jr., '30, financial vice president.

Another Un iversity of Ri c hm ond alumnu s, War ren M. Pace, '43, was named senior vice president in charge of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia's ordinary agency divis ion. Mr. Pace, a Certified Life Underwriter, left the Atlantic Life Jn. surance Company, where he was agency vice president and board directo r, to join Life of Virg ini a as a senior vice president.

Mr. Montag ue, who joined Lif e of Virginia in 1919, served in the company's actuari al division and was promo ted to assistant actuary in 1935. The fo llowing year he was elected secretary of the company and in 194 5 was promoted to vice president.

Mr. Shands joined the Life In surance Company of Virginia in 1940 as counsel

after serving as director of the Virginia Division of Statutory Research and Drafting. Three years later he became general counsel and in 1952 was promot ed to vice president and general counsel. He has been a director of the company since 1946.

Mr. Siegel began his career with Lif e of Virginia in 1932 as a security analyst.

He was elected an officer in the company in 1952 and was promoted to vice president in 1954. In 1960, he became financial vice president in charge of the financial department and was elected to the board. Mr. Siegel is a member of the Unive rsity's board of tru stees.

Mr. Pace entered the insurance business in 1946 as an agent for Guardian Life Insurance Company of New York, a company he later served as associate manager in Richmond. He went to Guardian Life 's home office in 1949 and three years later was appo inted agency director. Mr. Pa ce joined Atlant ic Life in 1954 as assistant vice president, was appo inted agency vice president in 1956 and elected to the board in 1960. He is a member of the University of Richmond Football Capta ins Club.

1919Robert T , Ryland of Sharps has been reappointed as superintendent of schools for the Richmond County-W estmoreland County school division. Mr. Ryland was appo inted to the post in November of 1954.

During h is tenure , white high schools have been consolidated in Westmoreland County and new Negro elementary schools in both counties have replaced smaller units .

1921Dr. Marvin L. Skaggs, a member of the department of social sciences at Greensboro (N , C.) College, represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Samuel D. Proctor as president of the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina March 18.

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THE LIFEINSURANCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA recently elected five Senior Vice Preside nts-four of whom are Alumni: left to right, John B. Siegel, Jr.; Hill Montague, Jr.; William R. Shands and Warren M. Pace.

Robert T, Marsh Jr. of Richmond , president of the First & Merchants National Bank , has been

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1934STATE-PLANTERS ELEVATESPATTESON Moncure P. Patteson, '27, has been elected a senior vice president of the StatePlanters Bank of Commerce & Trusts in Richmond. Patteson, who is in charge of operations, is a grad uate of the Rutgers banking school. He is a past co-chairman of the committee on business finance for the Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy.

Dr. Edward E. Haddock, state senator from Richmond, has been elected illustrious potentate of Acea Temple , Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

1935S. Frank Straus of Richmond sailed from New York April 12 on the Queen Elizabeth, taking 26 persons from the food industry on a tour of Europe. They will visit France, Italy , Austria , Switzerland, Germany , Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, and England before returning in the latt er part of May .

1936at the inauguration of Dr. Jerome H. Holland as president of Hampton Institute April 29.

1928Emanuel Emroch has been chosen presidentelect of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Emroch, who has been president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Richm ond and vice president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, will take office next year.

Waller Wynne Jr., formerly a social psychologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, is now a statistical adviser for the International Statistical Program s Office in Bangkok , Thailand. His new ad dress is APO 146, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco , Calif.

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Virginia Mutual Insurance Company of Richmond has appointed Stewart T. Walker resident vice-president for North Carolina.

Mr. Walker joined Virginia Mutual Insurance in 1941 and for the past five years has been assigned to Greensboro, N. C. as stat e man~ger .

He will be the company's senior officer in that state.

The Rev. Arthur W. Rich has recently been honored three times. He has been elected president of the Lakeland (Fla.) Ministerial Association , re-elected moderator of the South Florida Baptist Association, and selected to be part of the Corporation of the South Florida Baptist Hospita l in Plant City. He is pastor of Lak eland's First Baptist Church.

Fred 0 . Funkhouser, president of the Harrisonburg Loan and Thrift Corporation, has announced the open ing of a new and enlarged office bu ilding for his bank.

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Joseph Sharove is now a full colonel in the U. S. Army and is associated with the Office of Judge Advocate Genera l at the Pentagon.

E. Claiborne Robins, president of A. H .

Robins Co., Inc., has donated to th e City of Richmond funds to buy a bookmobile to serve the Richmond area.

State Senator FitzGerald Bemiss, chairman of the City Library Board, said , " The bookmobile has been a valuabl e addition to the library system of many cities and its introduction in Richmond , throug;h Mr. Robins' generous offer, will increase the usefulness o.f our library tremendous ly."

The Rev. Leland H. Waters, executive assistant of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board in Atlanta, preached the 10th anniv ersary sermon at the annual meeting of the Richmond Baptist Association February 16.

Mr. Waters served as the first executive secretary of the association. Prior to that he was superin tendent of missions of the Richmond Baptist Council from 1944 to 1950 .

Robert T. Fary signed his name 379 times January 17 in New York City, and each signature authenticated 20 separate $WOO bonds for the City of Richmond.

As director of finance, Mr. Fary was responsible for converting $7,580,000 worth of securities into funds for capital projects.

Alumni Day

May 13, 1961

William P. Dooley has been appointed marketing specialist in the commercial development division of Sun Oil Company 's research and engineering department.

Mr. Dool ey went to Sun Oil from the Kuljian Corporation where he was chief chemist. Earlier he had been employed for 20 years in various technical and administrative positions at American Viscose Corporation .

He is a member of the American Institute of Chemists, th e American Chemical Society, the American Statistica l Association, and the American Management Association.

John G. Stap les has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the State Capital Insurance Company, Raleigh, N. C. For the past five years Mr. Staples has been manager of the claims and fire underwriting departments .

1939Flavius B. Walker of Richmond has been elected president of the Richmond Chapter , Sons of the American Revolution. He is a practicing lawyer and a former member of the General Executive Council of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Kenneth Bass Jr . of Wilmington, Del. represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Luna Isaac Mi shoe as president of Delaware State College April 16.

1940Sidney Grant Morton of Richmond has written a "Primer of Child Guidance" which has been praised by many prominent persons in the field of social wor k. Among the intriguing sub-

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NUCKOLS TESTS OUR COINS. Alumni can rest easy now, secure in the knowledge that the quarters, dimes and nickels rubbing to gether in their pockets have i'he proper amount of the required metals in them.

Alumnus Randolph W. Nuckols, '21, was honored by appointment to the assay commission. Above, Mr. Nuckols (center) and two other committee members examine the rolled quarter at the Philadelphia mint.

jects he treats are "A Child is a Person ," " Parents Come in Pairs ," "How To Produce a Problem Child ," and " Love."

The Rev. Clyde B. Lipscomb may be the pastor of the only congregation in the nation that built a gymnasium before it constructed a sanctuary.

Members of Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., under Mr. Lipscomb's leadership recently comp leted a large sanctuary after having worshipped in the red-brick gymnasium they built in 1946.

The church , which has a full-time recreation leader , has a regulation-size footba ll field, a regulation baseball diamond with stadium and dugouts, two concrete tennis courts, a shuffieboard court, and television and game rooms for children whose parents want a "night out" without hiring a baby sitter.

David Dexter Abeloff is treasurer of the Nassau (Long Island, N. Y.) Physicians Guild and has been made a director of the newly-organized National ¡Physicians Guild .

Arthur C. Beck Jr. , president of Diggs & Beadles in Richmond , has taken on all the pro motion duties of Major League Bowling & Recreation , a large chain of bowling centers in the southeast. The firm is in the process of building 15 bowling centers from Wheeling , W . Va. to Tampa , Fla .

C. Porter Vaughan Jr. of Richmond has been elected second vice president of the Real Estate Board of Richmond.

1941G. Thomas Fattaruso is now serving as director of the American Baptist Student Foundation of Northern California. He also contributed devotional literature to the "Secret Place ," a pub lication of the American Baptist Convention.

Charles J. Ferneyhough , Jr., of Richmond has been elected sales manager of the B. W. Wilson Paper Company. He joined the company in 1950 ,

1946BOYCE LOVING AT LARGE "Howdy , Neighbors. This is Boyce Loving at Large, the pore mountain boy from Whoop'n'Holler, saying, be true to your

teeth and they'll never be false to you."

If you happen to have access to a radio within reach of Radio Station WCHV at Charlottesville, Va., at 1 p.m. on a Monday , Wednesday or Friday, you will hear a program introduced more or less like the above.

Loving, Class of 1919, says this is the 11th phase of his career since he left college 42 years ago.

The title, "Boyce Loving at Large, " sounds like a mad dog on the loose or a criminal gone beserk, but, as Boyce points out, it allows him to talk about almost anything that comes to mind. The station manager said recently that Loving's program had elicited "several hundred" letters and telephone calls-all but one favorable . That came from a member of the NAACP who protested his referring to an elderly Negro woman as "Mammy." , If radio broadcasting was Loving's "11th

having been associated with the paper industry for 14 years.

1942Do rtch Oldham of Nashville has been designated to represent the University at the inauguration of Dr. D. D. H olt as president of Scarritt Col!ege on May 4.

1943Alton B. Howell , director of the Richmond Choral Society for 11 years , was saluted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article in January .

Mr. Howell , voice teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, minister of music and .organist at First Baptist Church, and director of the Acea Temple Shrine Chanters, directed the Choral Society's rehearsal of Stravinsky's Symphonie de Psaumes which they sang with the Richmond Symphony in February.

phase," what were some of the others? He taught for about 20 years, the last few of these as head of the department of dramati c arts at Mary Washington College and director of publicity for the college, as well as at RPI in Richmond. Loving also has written 36 three-act plays . Of these, 14 hav e been published. One of the comedies, "GAY," was produced at Westhampton College about 1930 . Published by Samuel French in 1933, it is still in print and still being produced.

On Dec. 14, 1953, Loving joined the news staff of the Daily Progress in Char lottesville. He says he has written almost everything that goes into a newspaper, except that he has never covered a wedding.

Features, book reviews, a column and editorials have made up the bulk of his newspaper work.

"If I had never written anything but an editorial that appeared in my paper five or six years ago, " Loving said, 'Td be willing to put the cover on my typewriter for keeps." The editorial, he explains, caused the Perry Foundation of Charlottesville to purchase 1,200 acres of land flanking Goshen Pass and give it to the State of Virginia. A sawmill operator had purchased the timber rights along the pass and was about to start cutting one of the few remaining stands of virgin timber in Virginia. Now the area is a state park, in perpetuity. A seven-article series by Boyce and published in the Daily Progress won honorable mention in the 1960 Virginia Press Association competitions.

Loving is the father of two daughters , both of whom attended Westhampton College. One, Anita, transferred to Sweet Briar College after her freshman year at West . hampton and was graduated in 1941.

Juliette was graduated from Westhampton the same year.

Boyce says he always signs off his radio program , "Lovingly yours, Boyce Loving ."

Dr . Robert J. Filer, president of Psychological Consultants, Inc., has announced that the Ji.rm is erecting a $75,000 building in the Wil!ow Lawn area of Richmond. Dr . Filer and Dr. Merton Carver , partners in the enterprise, are also members of the University faculty.

1944Leland H . Waters Jr. of Richmond has, with his brothers , begun promotion of a shell home firm that bears their name . Headquarters of Waters Hom es is at 4410 West Broad St., Rich mond.

1945Charles G. Motley has been elected a member of the board of trustees of the Crippled Chil dren's Hospital.

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Guy Friddell, columnist and political writer for the Richmond News Leader, was awarded two honorable mentions in the annual competition of the Virginia Press Association.

He was recognized for a story about Harry Truman's visit to the University of Virginia and for a series on political developments following the 1960 session of the General Assembly.

Joseph R. Walker has been appointed unit claim supervisor at the Richmond office of Aetna Casualty and Surety Company.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. J . E. Hubbard, Baltimore, Md ., a son, Mark Brophy, July 19, 1960.

1947Born: A daughter, Jeanne Anne , to the Rev. and Mrs. George Reynolds of Dillwyn, March 6. They have two other children, Mary Kathryn, 11, and Charles, 6.

Walter B. Hoover , a member of the New Orleans Ghamber of Commerce , represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Herbert E. Longenecker as president of Tulane University April 15.

1948Ira E. O'Kennon has been named manager of Burroughs Corporation's Terre Haute branch

office. He will supervise the business machine firm's marketing operations for an 11-county area in central Indiana and Illinois .

Joining Burroughs in 1958, he held ¡ sales positions in Richmond and Detroit and was man ager of recruiting and training in Philadelphia before assuming his new post .

Julian Walker is assistant comptroller for the American Fidelity Casualty and the American Fidelity Fire Companies, with offices in Richmond .

Joseph H . Sydnor Jr . of Mountainside , N. J . has been named to an administrative post in the employee rdations division of Esso Research and Engineering Company . In his position as compensation administrator, he is responsible for activities involving salary administration, salary analysis, and job classification .

Mr . Sydnor has served as evening school instructor in the graduate school of Fairleigh Dick inson University and in the adult institute of Union Junior College . He is an elder in the Community Presbyterian Church, Mountainside , a Republican committeeman for Union County , N. ]., a personnel advisor for the county Girl Scout Council, and a Little League manager.

Earle Dunford has been writing a series of reports for the Richmond Times-Dispatch on the many phases of Chesterfield county. He joined the Times-D ispatch in 1952. Since that time he has covered schools, hospital s, courts, several city agencies, the police beat, and business and labor.

Dr. Martin L. Shotzberger of Kalamazoo College was designated to represent the University at the inauguration of Dr. Louis Will iam Norris as President of Albion .S::oJJege April 14.

1950GILBERTPROMOTED BY GENERALELECTRIC Dr. Alfred R. Gilbert, '42, has been named manager of a new section for re-

search in polymer reactions at the chemistry research department of the Genera l Electric research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. Gilbert had been personne l and administration manager of the chemistry research department since 1958. He has been on the research laboratory staff since 1949.

He, hi s wife and their three children live at 1394 Dean St., Schenectady.

1949Arthur Lee Singleton Jr. is now associated with the Public Relations Office of the United States Steel Corporation in Washington.

James M . Minor Jr. has announced that he is a candidate for the Henrico seat in the Virginia House of Delegate s. He is the third person to enter the contest for the post left vacant by the resignation of Del. Joseph J . Williams .

Mr. Minor is a partner in the law firm of Minor, Thompson , and Whi te. In addition to his law practice he is president of the First Dominion Investment Corporation and secretary-treasurer of the W estlothian Development Corpora tion.

Robert H. Parks reports a change of address from Richmond to 200 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 4, Ill. , where he is associated with the Okla homa-Pate D ivision of Humble Oil and Refining Company.

Clarence B. Gill, Jr. , enacted the ro le of a historic character-Hannibal Hamlin - in a March 5 re-enactm ent of President Linwln 's first inaugu ration at the Capitol in Washington.

Jerome H. Leon is a retail executive with Stern's department store in New York City.

FEDERALRESERVE PROMOTES HEFLIN Aubr ey N. Heflin, '33, has been appointed first vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. H e joined the bank in 1941 as assistant to counsel after practic ing wit h a Richmond law firm. In 1949 he was appo inted assistant counsel and was elevated to vice president in 1953.

H . Stuart Smith is assistant director of the cooperative education program at the engineering school of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Chester A. Beck, 4022 D ouglas Rd., Miami 33 Fla., is teaching in the North Miami Junior High School.

Ernest L. Harris, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Petersburg , is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board o.f Trustees of the Virginia Negro Baptist Children's Home in Chesterfield County. He has also been elected secretary of the Petersburg Area Ministerial Union an inter-racial, inter-denominational body, C. 'carlyle Williams of Ellerson has been elected second vice president of the Richmond Chapter of the American Savings and Loan Institute.

William B. Astrop of Richmond became associated with the Florida Capital Corporation March 1 and is now making his home in Palm Beach near the multi-million dollar small business investment company. Mr, Astrop bad been a member of the finance faculty of the University of Richmond Evening School.

Thomas M . Woo, pastor of the George Braxton Tay lor Goodwill Center in St. Char les, reports the birth of their son, Gregory Neal, February 4.

Mr . and Mr s, Boyd Sutton, Baptist missionaries in Sao Paulo , Brazil, report the birth of their third child, Cecilia Lari e, September 21. They are being transferr ed to Rio De Janeiro for 5 years.

Roland Maxwell Avery, Jr. , with Binswanger Glass Company in Richmond, is a member of the finance committee of the American Red Cross.

1951Joseph E. Brooks bas been elected assistant treasurer of the B. W, Wilson Paper Company in Richmond.

Bruce L. Randolph, Jr. , who began his career 10 years ago as a food inspector, has been appointed chief of Richmond Health D epartment's bureau of sanita,tion. In naming Mr. Randolph as head of the 55-employee department, the city health director praised him for his service since 1954 as chief of the divisi on of housing and environme ntal sanitation. Mr. Randolph's duties now include food, water, milk , housing, and plumbi ng inspeotion , plus rabies and animal collection activities.

Earl Kuhn , a prison nurse at the State Peni tentiary, was stage manager . of the Virginia Museum Theatre's production of "Come D own To Carrolton County."

Na than S. Caplan of Richmond received his doctor of philosophy in education fr om Western Reserve University in Cleveland at its winter commencement February 1.

The Rev. Robert A . Whitt , former minister of education at the First Baptist Church in Gaffney, S. C., has assumed his duties as minister of educa tion at the Northminster Baptist Church in Richmond .

William H. Wolfe, Jr. , of Maddrea, Fergusson and Woody , accountants, has been named Grand Master of the Sixth Dis,trict of Kappa Sigma fraternity. H e is teaching intermediate accounting in the evening division of the School of Busines s Administration .

Dr. Winston Melville Browne, Jr., a dentist in Boykins, is a member of the Board of Dir ectors of the Boykins Lions Club and an associate director of the Tidewater D evelopment Council.

Adrian L. Loftin, Jr., has been promoted and transferred by the Allstate Insurance Company.

H e bas moved from Atlanta and is now Allstate's personnel representative in the Washington and Baltimore area, assigned to the Roanoke regional office.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. William W. Stennett, their third son, Stephen Earl, October 22, 1960.

- Mr. Stennett is Training Union Director for his Baptist association and pastor of the First Baptist Church in Suitland, Md.

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Albert A. Mosha of Richmond has received a Fulbright grant to participate in the State Department's educational exchange program this summer. He will attend the summer seminar for American Teachers of the Classics at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, and the Vergilian Society of Cumae.

1952Robert S. Cross has been installed as president of the Richmond chapter of the American Savings and loan Institute. He is assistant secretary of the Richmcnd Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Robert Chadwick, who is to receive bis master's degree this spring from Mexico City College, plans to go to the Sudan in September for two years as staff archeologist for a privately-financed expedition. He has written a bulletin for the Mexico college and has also contributed to American Antiquities and Science of Man. Edward H. Clarkson, administrative resident at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., hopes, with his wife, to be appointed as a mission ary for the Baptist Foreign Mission Board in the near future.

The Rev. Malcolm M. Hutton became pastor of the Linden Heights Baptist Church in Staunton March l. H e had been pastor of the Norlina (N.C.) Baptist Church since 1956.

Engaged: Dr. Anthony A. De ep, of the Margaret Hague Maternity H ospital in Jersey City, N. J., to Mis s Careme Sate] of San Antonio, Tex. The wedding will take place May 20 in San Antonio.

1953John C. Al sop reports an address change from Charleston, W . Va. , to Indianapolis , Ind .

Ronald H . Davis is staff labor relations representative in the Ford Division of the Ford Motor Company, Trenton , Mich .

John S. Lynch, a public relations consultant, bas joined Richmond Hotels , Inc. , as sales promotion manager. His duties invo lve promotion of group, convention, and organizational business.

He had formerly been pub lic relations advisor for the Greater Richmond Civic Recreation Association, the Thanksgiving Festival, the American Cancer Society drive, and the Virginia Heart As¡ociatio n.

Donald B. Wi lliams is now commercial manager

KAY RETIRESAT GOOCHLAND Ashby Weldon Kay, who has devoted his entire career since graduation from the University of Richmond to the education profession, the last 20 years as superintendent of Goochland county schools in Virginia, will retire July 1.

He went to Gooch land in 1934 from Louisa county to teach agriculture at the then new high school and remained there through the remainder of his highly productive career.

Earlier he had taught in Midd lesex coun. ty before moving on to Louisa.

At the end of his senior year at Richmond College he volunt eered for the naval reserve, and spent four years in the service, one and a half of them in active duty in World War I. In later years h e received his MA degree in vocational agricu ltur e from Virgini:i Tech and did graduate work at CornelJ University and the University of Virgin:a.

of the Richmond office of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia . He joined the C&P in 195 3 as a staff assistant and has served as commercial manager of the record office.

Jack R. Clanton, an attorney in Chesterfield county , has announced his candidacy for the House of Delegates from the district embracing Chesterfield and Henrico counties and Colonial Heights.

He will enter the July 11 Democratic primary.

Th e Rev. Orrin D. Morris was among 16 missionaries of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board commissioned in pub lic services in Atlanta March 16. He was appointed associational missionary in Simpson and Central Associations in Mississippi.

W ii I iam J. Carter bas become associate divisional merchandise manager in the fashion division of Mi Iler & Rhoads and has been transferred from Roanoke to Richmond.

1954The Rev. Charles Fuller, pastor of Pine Street Baptist Church in Richmond, has been selected by the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashv ille, Tenn. , to conduct Baptist associational en largement campaigns in Virginia between now and June , 1965.

Engaged: Gunars Vilcins of Richmond to Miss Margaret Elizabeth Bill. A May weddrng 1s planned.

Born: To Dr. and Mrs. David Propert February 20 a son , David Bruce, in the Washington Hospi tal Center. They also have a daughter, Kathleen, 2.

The Rev. L. Edgar Whitlock is now pastor of rhe Calvary Baptist Church in Roanoke Rapids,

CHAPPELL'S THE CHAMP No one will ever say that all work and no play makes Jack Chappell, III , '48, a dull boy. A highly successful insurance man he still finds time for two favsorite avocations, chess and bridge.

His ability at the chessboard is attested to by the cup he holds in his right hand , emblematic of his city championship for the second year in a row. He is equally able at the bridge table where he has the distinction of being a life master. When he won the coveted life master's designation six years ago at the age of 27 he was the youngest in Virginia.

Tyler \'v'hitley of the Richmond News Leader asked him recent ly which game he preferred. The city chess champion replied without hesitation: "Bridge." He pointed out that bridge, while not as scientific as chess and perhaps not as difficult, is much more sociable.

What separates the really good players from those who are just so-so, he was asked.

"Deliberation," says Jack. "Being careful to avoid mistakes."

The actual play ,..of the cards he places last in his list of three essentials. He considers

bidding the most important aspect and places defense -" by far the most difficult and painstaking aspect of bridge" - in second position.

N. C. Dr . Averett S. Tombes, who received his PhD this year at Rutgers, is teaching entomology at Clemson College.

Hector Davis, III, is now living in Co llege Park, Md. Married: Juan Raymo nd Anderson , Jr. , of Andersonville to Miss Anne Folkes of Richmond .

1955Thomas T. Vinson , Jr., executive secretary of the Hom e Builders Association of Richmond , was recen tly featured in a Richmond Times-Dispatch series entit led "Meet Your Builders." His duties incl ude adminis tering the HBAR office, doing pub ] ic relations and socia l contacts work, and implementing the ideas of the association's president .

Engaged: William Hiter James of Wilmington , Del. , to Miss Catherine Lou Wright of Richmond.

A spring wedding is p lanned .

Kenneth H. Ramsey is district colJection manager for th e J. C. Penney Company in Virginia, District of Columbia , Delaware, and Maryland.

John C. Houlgrave is now senior salesman in the data processing division of the Roya l McBee Corporation in Richmond.

William H. James is associated with th e Hercules Powder Company in Wilmington, Del. Ernest A. Lumsden, Jr. is engaged in his terminal Ph.D program in experimental psychology at Duke University Graduate School. He and his wife and two sons expect to continue Jiving at Duke until 1964.

Gardner Koch, Jr. reports an address change from Peterman , Ala. to Manchester, Md.

1956Engaged: Franklin Edison Cleland, a stude nt at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary , to Miss Helen Maxine Smith of Richmond.

Sherwood Frostick is now branch manager of Southern States ' Cooperative's Norfolk Petroleum out let. He is living at Virginia Beach.

Talmadge K. Durham has joined the Social Security Administration as a claims representative in Richmond.

Van R. KelJy, Jr. is now associated with the Texaco Corporation as a sales trainee.

Born: To Dr. and Mrs . Louis A. Frederick of Richmond, a daughter , ¡Carol Jean, January 20.

Engaged: Dr. Morton Bender, of the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass. , to Miss Evelyn Solomon of Yonkers, N. Y. A June wedding is planned.

Born: To the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Stouffer, missionaries in Brazil, a son, Andrew Paul, on Christmas Day 1960.

Frazier B. Hoover has passed the Virginia Certified Pub l¡ic Accountants exam.

1957Engaged: Edward Ladd Bennett, Jr. of Dayton , Ohio, to Miss Sue Jane Dennis. An April wedding was planned.

R. D. Ward, director of the Randolph-Macon Men 's College Glee Club, was recently featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch for his part in the February concert of the Richmond Symphony. In addition to rehearsing his g lee club for their performance of works by Bach and Stravinsky during the concert, he also doubled in his regu lar position as bass trombonist for the symphony.

Robert Paul Wyatt of South Boston was ordained in January to the Baptist ministry. He received his B. D. degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary during the January commencement.

Jay A. Kaplan of Eng lewood, N. J ., was recently named to "Who 's Who in Public Relations." His biography is part of the current edition which lists over 1,500 people who are prominent in the public relations field. Mr. Kaplan is head of an industrial public relations firm bearing h is name .

At 25 , he is one of the youngest to be listed in the P. R. 111/ ho's Who. Active in local affa irs, he is deputy director of Civil D efense , a member of

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the Traffic Advisory Committee, and director for the county Soap Box Derby.

The Rev. William Royall Jessup , who completed his studies at Southeastern Seminary in January , has become minister of youth activities at th e First Baptist Church in Richmond.

Richard Gent Cofer of Bristol also received his B. D. degree at Southeastern in January.

The Rev. James E. Grant, former pastor of Bedford Road Baptist Church in Cumberland, Md. , has assumed his duties as assistant pastor in charge of education and youth activities at Calvary Baptist Church in Richmond.

Irvin Acr ee, who received his B. D. degree from Southeastern Baptist Seminary last yeas , wit.] graduate this spring from the seminary with the Th.M. degree. He and his wife have a 14month-old son.

Thomas H. Collins, Jr., bas passed the Virginia Certified Public Accounts exam.

Homer S. Stokes, Jr., of Richmond has become assistant to the division manag er of the Single Vision Divi sio n at the Titmus Optical Company. Stokes lives at 3700 Stratford Rd. William Rh ea Shelton was appointed assistant Chesterfield commonwealth's attorney in February.

Since his graduation from T . C. Williams School of law , he bas done legal work in Washington and at Richmond Quartermaster Depot , and has been associated with the law firm of J ewett and Gates.

Engaged: Miss Sue Jane Dennis of Dayton , Ohio, to Edward Ladd Bennett, Jr., also of Dayton . The wedding is p lanned for April.

1958Robert C. "Bob" Jackson, a student at Temple University School of Medicine , Phi ladelphia , Pa. , has accepted the commission of Ensign in th e Navy Reserve , medical program.

Born: A daughter, Marianne, to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G . Flannagan , Jr., January 15. Since February the Flannagans have moved to a new

CHADWICK NAMED ARCHEOLOGIST FOR EXPEDITION TO EGYPT, SUDAN Robert Chadwick, '52, will leave this fall for an archeological exped ition to Egypt and the Sudan.

Mr. Chadwick will participate in the expedition as staff archeologist of the PaleoPhilosophical Society, Inc. A graduate student in anthropo logy at Mexico City College, Mr. Chad wick is schedu led to receive his M.A. degree from the Mexico college this spring. He will leave for the Sudan on October 1.

The purpose of the expedition is to conduct scientific investigations in Egypt and the I Sudan and to interest peop le in Egypto logy.

Mr. Chadwick has been at Mexico City College (MCC) since 1958. He ha s participated in MCC archeologica l work at the sites of Caballito Blanco and Yagul, both in Oaxaca . At Yagul , he unco vered the famous brasero , which is now displayed at a museum in Oaxaca.

home and a new job, but their new address has not yet been ~eceived.

Engaged: Miss Judith May Eillis, a senior at the Medical College of Virgini a School of Nursing , to Don Sherrill McLernore , who is now attendin g Dallas Theological Seminary. The wedding is planned for June .

E. Pope "Sandy" Bassett, Law School '58, has formed a partnership with Harlan Tuck for the genera l practice of law in Maitland , Fla. Their office is located at 7 Maitland Plaza .

Charles Tay lor McMullin of Richmond has become adve rtising and sales promo tion manager for the C. F. Sauer Co. McMu llin , formerly an advertising representative for Richmond Newspapers , In c., also is a new member of the Hermitage Country Club.

Born: A son , Fred T., III , to Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Mathew s, Jr., of Suffolk, Va. , August 9, 1960. Papa Bred, who now has thr ee little mouths to feed, says that business is good at his firm, City Motor s, in Suffolk .

Born: A son, Jam es Wil son, to Mr. and Mrs .

Ransone Hartz of Richmond, February 23. The family lives at 8811 Gayton Road.

George Hamilton Miller of Abingdon and Robert Adkins Brown of Richmond received Master of Arts degrees from the Un iversi ty of Iowa at commencement, February 4.

Former basketball captain Roy Peschel has become district representative of the Horace Mann Mutual Insurance Company in Da llas, Tex., where the Peschels live at 263 7 San Medina Avenue.

William D . BulJock has returned to Fredericksburg after two years ' service in the Army Artillery in Korea . He has been married to the former Dolores SuHivan since April , 1959.

The Rev . Lewis H. Sutton of R,ichrnond has accepted a call to Elkhardt Baptist Chapel in South Richmond . A former businessman with the DuPont Co. in Wilmington , Del., Mr. Sutton plans to receive his master ' s degree from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in June.

Juni e L. Bradshaw has announced his candidacy for the House of Delegate s, representing H enr,ico,

Chesterfie ld and Colon ial Height s. Bradshaw , who is seeking the seat being vacated by J. J. Jewett of Midlothian , is a law partne r of Beecher E. Stallard, Law School '3 1.

Born: A son, Robert Edwin Gale , III, to Mr . and Mr s. Gale , Jr. , of Leonia , N. J. , October 15, 1960. Gale is a departm ent head in the Printing Ink Divi sion of the Int ercherni cal Corp ., Lodi , N. J ., in addition to being technic ail service adviser for several southern districts.

Engaged: Mis s Carol Hardin Davi s of Rich mond to Robert William Tay lor, who is associated with the Personal Small Loan Co., Richmond.

Barry B. Anthon y has been promote d to assista nt to the vice president at the Bank of Virginia . Barry and his wife, former Westharnptonite Betty Lou Sutton , live at 4815 ChamberJayne Avenu e.

1959Born: A daughter , Michelle Ann , to Mr . and Mrs . Jerome L. Stein of Hampton , Va. , January 5. The mother is the former Rita Davidson , Westhampton , '57.

Engaged: Miss Patricia Ann Fitchett , West hampton '59, to Theodore Davis "Ted" Nordenhaug of Arlington. An April wedd,ing is planned.

Born: A son, Alan Marshall , to Mr . and Mr s.

Char les E. Johnson, June 19, 1960. Johnson is a member of the accounting staff of Reynolds Metals Company , Richmond .

Engage d : Miss Mary E llen Summers, a stude nt at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, to Edgar B. Cahoon , Jr., who is attending Southeastern Baptist Theo logica l Seminary, Wake Forest, N . C. The wedding is planned for July.

W. C. "Dick " Pu lly, formerly sales manager for Richmond radio station WEZL, has been ap pointed general sales manager for station WEET .

Engaged: Miss Yvonne Ferre ll of Richmond to Henry Edward Robertson , Jr. A May wedding is p lan ned.

The Rev . L. Edgar Whitlock of Roanoke Rapid s, N. C., has accepted a call as pastor of Calvary Baptist Ch urch ther e. His prev10us pastorate was at Kelford Baptist Church.

Ray D. Davis has return ed to Richmond after serving with the U. S. Army at Fort Kno x, Ky. He and his wife , the former Patti Harle y of Adington , Va., live at 3518 Hanover Avenue.

The Rev . Calvin C. Bloxom was ordained into the Christian ministry December 7, 1960, at Duk e Memorial Baptist Church , Justice , N. C., where he and his wife are living while h e completes his studies at Southeastern Baptist Seminary.

Horner Mar shall is now assistant commercial manager of the Newport News office of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Vir g inia .

Engaged: Ray Dona ld Faulconer, Jr. , of Orang e to Janet Louise Wood of Sanford , N. C. A June wedding is planned .

Francis Benjamin Garey has a new classified job in Washington. He and his family are living at 6168 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington.

Walter A. Stosch and Ellis M . Dunkum hav e passed the Virginia Certified Public Accountant examination.

Born : Catherine Chiles to Mr. and Mr s. Roger E. Clarke , Jr. , in Richmond November 13. Roger is working toward the Chartered Lif e Underwriter designation with the Connect,icut Mutual Life Insuranc e Company.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Kahal , a daughter , Andrea Ruth , Januar y 24. Philip is at the Yale University Divinit y School.

Engaged: Robert Samuel Taylor to Mis s Carol Ann Gaulin of Richmond .

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1960George E. Mor gan has joined the accounting staff at R. A. Gary and Company in Richmond .

He recently finished his militar y duty at Fort Knox .

H erman Geschwind has been promoted to pur chasing agent at the Burlington Ribbon Compan y in South Hill.

Ronald R. Brown is assistant buyer in the Better Shoe D epa rtm ent at the Rike-Kurnler store in Da yton, Ohio.

Second Lt. Lawrence J. Hasty recently attended a 12-week field artillery officer orientation course at Ft. Sill , Ok la.

Second Lt. Donald C. Brown comp leted the missile officer orien tation course January 23 at Ft. Bliss , T ex.

Engaged: LaNeau LaFayett e Pippen of Pulaski to Miss Judy Carroll Beall of Myrtle Beach , S. C. A June wedding is planned .

Engaged : Carl William John son to Mis s Li llian Dougla s Gatewood of Richmond .

Engaged : Philip Wayne Graig of Portsmouth to Mis s Barbara Crandall William s of Pittsburgh , Pa. An August wedding is planned .

Bernard F. Harris is with Anderson and Strud wick in Richmond.

Charlton L. Davi s is a staff accountant in the Ban k of Georgia building in Atlanta.

Alan E. Burgess is stationed wi th the Marine Corps at Quantico .

Robert Schuyler Boss, Jr. , of Raleigh , N. C. is a salesman with the Commerce Clearing House.

The Rev . Ryland D. Crews has accepted a call to the pas torate of Wilderness Baptist Church near Fredericksburg .

Born: Randol ph Hastings, III , to Mr . and Mrs .

Rando lph H. Walker , Jr. , in Richmond March 25.

Donald T. Foster is a sales trainee with the R. P . Andrew s Paper Company in Washington , D.C. John H. High has joined High and Stephen s, home builders in Rocky Mount , N. C. Engaged: William Christian Sizemore to Mi ss Anne Mills , a Westhampton senior. Chris is a student at Southeastern Baptist Seminary , Wak e Forest , N. C. A June wedding is planned.

William G. Green has joined the Albemarl e Paper Manufacturing Company .

Ernest F. Bush has finished his military service at Fort Jackson , S. C. Married: Bob Grose to Miss Carolyn Loui se Crowder of Charleston , W . Va. , October 22.

Bob is with the Central National Bank in Rich mond.

Born : To Mr. and Mrs . Charles Wilbourne , their second son, Stuart Preston , February 2 in Richmond .

William Tredway had the ro le of Chief Justi ce Roger B. Taney , who administered the oath of office to President Lincoln , in a March 5 reenactment of President Lincoln 's first inaugur ation . The ceremony took place on the east front of the Capitol , and had Carl Sandburg as pr inciple speaker.

Lt. Carle F. Germelman, Jr. , has assumed his new duties at his permanent duty station , Fort Knox , Ky .

Engaged: Jimmy D ean Edward s to Mis s H elen Sue Hair ston of Roanok e. A Jun e wed ding is planned.

Engag ed: Fred erick Hillary Creekmore of Rich mond to Marg ery Keith Buchanan of Oaklette .

A Jun e wedding is planned .

Born: A son, Kenn eth Robert, to Mr. and Mrs . Kenneth Ray Woodruff of New Orlean s, February 8.

Jo seph Barker ha s completed basi c training at the Marine Cor ps School in Quantic o.

KEEPINGFIT IN THE SIXTIES

By LESTER E. THARPE, '27 HERE is evidence on every hand that the general physical condit:on of American men is on the decline. The large percentag e of men who work indoors , who have sedentary jobs , have no planned exercise or recreational program. Many work under tension and do not know how to relax. A recent report, issued by th e Physical Education Department of Yale Unive rsity, revealed that since 1950 the percentage of freshmen students taking the same physical test upon entrance and passing it, has gradually decreased yearly.

There are hundreds of men who drag themselves home on Friday aft ernoon and do not leave again until Monday morning , and if they do, just to walk from their door to the car. Thousands of young men graduating from high school and college t!iis year, if they do not have a car, will have one after they start to work, and will never walk as much as a mile at a time, as long as they live. This is a tragic situation.

With the gradual decrease in work hours, AUTHOR "Jim" THARPE(every bit as youthful many people are caught in the dilemma of in appearance as pictured by artist Jimmy having time on their hands and not know- Robinson) might have mentioned that he ing what to do with it. For many, all set three track records while running the leisure is TV time. I think it should be used cinder paths for Richmond. Ted Masters, '60, for a hobby, a sport or other field of interest finally broke Jim's record in the quarter-mile more worthwhile. but Jim's marks of 1:56.8 in the half mile A recent magazine article predicted com- and 4:22 .6 in the mile are still on the books. munities where people can do all their To encourage tracksters to break his records, shopping in their cars, with vehicular travel Jim has offered handsome cups to those who underground, and of course, moving side- do it. wa lks for pedestrians.

So for what it's worth I herein relate some and running has been a vital part of my facts of an athletic life , which have been exercise program in an effort to maintain meaningful to me, and perhaps might, as some semblance of physical fitness. I believe would be my prime purpose in this writing, the fact that my weight approximates the encourage others to a fuller physical li fe. supposed ly ideal weight for my age and Forty years ago this coming September height, attests to the value of my activity.

I ran my first race in cross country at Fork Lest anyone think I am a bigger fool Union, in which I finished in 3rd place. I than I know I have been at times in my can still remember a classmate rubbing my lif e, I hasten to say that I do not do any ach ing legs since I was not in any condi- strenuous mnning at my present age. Any tion for the race. However, it started a track exercise workout should be preceded by a career which spanned a period of seven preliminary warm-up period of easy to years, with an opportunity to be considered moderate exercise, about 20 minutes long, a candidate for the 1928 Olympic team . The which permits the grad ual build up of body fact that I missed the boat to Amsterdam is heat , circulat ion and respiration and proanother story which some day I may write. tects muscles and joints from strain. AfterThe University's present Athletic Director ward, I can jog or run easily a quarter or Mac Pitt started me on my athletic career a third of a mile, followed by walking a for which I shall always be grateful to him , similar distance and work on the rowing not only for th e achievements and athletic machine or pull-ups. This procedure is rehonors that followed but the desire to avoid peated several times, depending on how I those things which slow a man physically. feel. Then some swimming can be relax I derived much pleasure from playing on ing and if possible a short rest period. This baseball and later soft ball teams until past weekly program, with some walking daily if the age of 45 and played a fair game of possible, followed by long walks over the tennis until several years ago . week-end, is the substance of my program.

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home, such as mowing the lawn , tending the flowers, can be a means of relaxation also, and I must not neglect these too long , if there is to be any peace in the valley.

I should hate to think that I would stir the enthus iam of any of my old classmates to begin this program at their present age.

What is good for one person is not necessarily good for another. One 's doctor is usually the best person to advise on one's physical activity.

It should not be necessary for me to state that I neither smoke nor drink . I further suggest that if one wants to avoid that middle age spread, that he avoid over eating, and watch those cola drinks too.

If time or interest is limited the following exercise, which can be done in either home or office, is highly recommended. lying on your back or stand'ng, draw in your stomach , as you count 1. Draw your stomach in and up as you count 2, and on the count of 3, draw it in close to your spine. Try to hold this position to the count of 10. Then relax and repeat the exercise 10 times. A well known author ity claims that this exercise, done daily, is the one setting up exerc:se that a person needs for the rest of his life.

If any readers are left, I am sure you are asking for something more sensib le, so the suggestion is Try Walking . My home is only several blocks from the entrance to a 375acre estate, much of which is still un developed for residential or commercial purposes. It 's a haven for anyone who likes to observe the beauties of nature. It abounds in forest trials, beautiful trees, singing birds and a cooling stream. There is hardly a weekend the year round that I do not walk at least five miles there and see th e beauties of the changing seasons. Yet in over 15 years, aside from the friends I occasionally get to go with me, I can count on my fingers the adults I have seen doing likewise. Ten years ago I used to see some childr en but very seldom any more. This past winter, after one of our beautiful snowstorms, I took a walk through the snow covered hills of our suburban community, for at least an hour. I saw three persons out of doors, a man walking his dog and a couple going several doors to a neighbor's home. Many of us were raised in the country and re-call the joys of out-door living. Now the joys and pleasures of the great out-doors are fast disappearing from American life , and we may become poorer in health and spirit because of it.

Recently a man who celebrated his 100th birthday gave this observation on longevity .

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Times have changed.

Have America's coUege students?

THE COLLEGE STUDENT, theysay, is a youngpersonwho will . ..

... use a car to get to a library two blocks away, knowing full well that the parking lot is three blocks on the other side . . . . move heaven, earth, and the dean's office to enroll in a class already filled; then drop the course. . . . complain bitterly about the quality of food served in the college dining halls - while putting down a third portion. ... declaim for four solid years that the g~rls at his institution or at the nearby college for women are unquestionably the least attractive females on the face of the earth; then marry one of them.

there is a serious side. Today's students, many professors say, are more accomplished than the average of their predecessors. Perhaps this is because there is greater competition for college entrance, nowadays, and fewer doubtful candidates get in. Whatever -the reason, the trend is important.

For civilization depends upon ¡ the transmission of knowledge to wave upon wave of young people--and on the way in which they receive it, master it, employ it, add to it. If the transmission process fails, we go back to the beginning and start over again. We are never more than a generation away from total ignorance.

Because for a time it provides the world's leaders, each generation has the power to change the course of history. The current wave is thus exactly as important as the one before it and the one that will come after it. Each is crucial in its own time.

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will the present student generation do?

What are its hopes, its dreams, its principles?

Will it build on our past, or reject it? Is it, as is so often claimed, a generation of timid organization people, horn to he commanded? A patient band of revolutionaries, waiting for a breach? Or something in between?

No one--not even the students themselves-can be sure, of c~urse. One can only search for clues, as we do in the fourteen pages that follow. Here we look at, and listen to, college students of 1961-the people whom higher education is all about.

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What are today's students like?

To help find out, we invite you to join

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PHOTOS: HERB WEITMAN

Robert Thompson

Roy Muir

Ruth Vars

Galen Unger

Parker Palmer

Patricia Burgamy

Kenneth Weaver

David Gilmour

Martha Freeman

Dean Windgassen

fourteen young men and women pictured above come from fourteen colleges and universities, big and little, located in all parts of the United States. Some of their alma maters are private, some are state or city-supported, some are related to a church. The students' studies range widely-from science and social studies to agriculture and engineering. Outside the classroom, their interests are similarly varied. Some are athletes (one is All-American quarterback), some are active in student government, others stick to their books.

To help prepare this report, we invited all fourteen, as articulate representatives of virtually every type of campus in America, to meet for a weekend of searching discussion. The topic: themselves. The objective: to ob-

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tain some clues as to how the college student of the Sixties ticks.

The resulting talk-recorded by a stenographer and presented in essence on the following pages-is a revealing portrait of young people. Most revealing-and in a way most heartening-is the lack of unanimity which the students displayed on virtually every topic they discussed.

As the seminar neared its close, someone asked the group what conclusions they would reach about themselves. There was silence. Then one student spoke: "We're all different," he said.

He was right. That was the only proper conclusion.

Labelers, and perhaps libelers, of this generation might take note.

ofstudents from coast to coast

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studentis a wonder/ul thing." are exciting years. They are exciting for the participants, many of whom are on their own for the first time in their lives-and exciting for the onlooking adult .

But for both generations, these are frequently painful years, as well. The students' competence, which is considerable, gets them in dutch with their elders as often as do their youthful blunders . That young people ignore the adults' soundest, most heart felt warnings is bad enough; that they so often get away with it sometimes seems unforgivable.

Being both intelligent and well schooled , as well as unfettered by the inhibitions instilled by experience, they readily identify the errors of their elders-and they are not inclined to be lenient , of course. (The one unforgivable sin is the one you yourself have never committed.) But, lacking experience, they are apt to commit many of the same mistakes. The wise adult understands this: that only in this way will they gain experience and learn tolerance--neither of which can be conferred.

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"They say the student is an animal in transition. You have to wait until you get your degree, they say; then you turn the big corner and there you are. But being a student is a vocation, just like being a lawyer or an editor or a business man. This is what we are and where we are.'' '' The college campus is an open market of ideas. I can walk around the campus, say what I please, and be a truly free person.

This is our world for now. Let's face itwe'll never live ' in a more stimulating environment. Being a student is a wonderful and magnificent and free thing. ''

"Yougo to collegeto learn,of course.

SUSAN GREENBURG

LIFE, contrary to the memories that alumni and alumnae may have of "carefree" days, is often described by its partakers as "the mill." "You just get in the old mill," said one student panelist, "and your head spins, and you're trying to get ready for this test and that test, and you are going along so fast that you don't have time to find yourself."

The mill, for the student, grinds night and day-in classrooms, in libraries, in dining halls, in dormitories, and in scores of enterprises, organized and unorganized, classed vaguely as "extracurricular activities." Which of the activities -or what combination of activities-contributes most to a student's education? Each student must concoct the recipe for himself. "You have to get used to living in the mill and finding yourself," said another panelist. "You'll always be in the mill -all through your life."

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"I'd like to bring up something I think is a fa ult in our colleges: the great emphasis on grades."

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"I think grades interfere with the real learning process.

I've talked with people who made an A on an exam -but next day they couldn't remember half the material.

They just memorized to get a good grade."

"You go to college to learn, of course. But learning comes in many ways-not just from classrooms and books, but from personal relations with people: holding office in student government, and that sort of thing."

"It's a favorite academic cliche, that not all learning comesfrom books. I think it's dangerous. I believe the greatest part of learning does come from books-just plain books."

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is where many students meet the first great their personal integrity. There, where one's of test progress is measured at least partly by examinations and grades, the stress put upon one's sense of honor is heavy . For some, honor gains strength in the process. For others, the temptation to cheat is irresistible, and honor

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breaks under the strain .

Some institutions proctor all tests and examinations.

An instructor, eagle-eyed, sits in the room . Others have honor systems, placing upon the students themselves the responsibility to maintain integrity in the studen t community and to report all violators.

How well either system works vanes greatly. "When you come right down to it," said one member of our student panel, "honor must be inculcated in the years before college -in

the home."

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

"Maybe you need a B in a test, or you don't get into medical school. And the guy ahead of you raises the average by cheating. That makes a real probkm."

,, honorworks onlywhenit's easy.

"I'm from a school with an honor system that works.

But is the reason it works maybe because of the tremend-0us penalty that's connected with cheating, stealing, or lying? It's expulsion- and what goes along with that is that you can't get into another good school or even get a good job. It's about as bad a punishment as this country can give out, in my opinion.

Does the honor system instill honor- or just fear?"

"At our school the honor system works even though the penalties aren't that stiff It's part of the tradition. Most of the girls feel they ' re giv en the responsibility to be honorable, and they accept it."

"On our campus you can leave y our books anywhere and they'll be there when you come back. You can even leave a tall, cold milkshake- I've done it- and when you come back two hours later, it will still be there.

It won't be cold, but it will be there.

You learn a respectfor honor, a respect that will carry life." over into otherfields for the rest of yo1.1,r "I'd say the minority who are top students don't cheat, because they're after knowledge. And the great majority in the middle don't cheat, because they're afraid to. But the poor students, who cheat to get by . .. The funny thing is, they're not afraid at all.

I guess they figure they 've nothing to lose."

"Nobody is just honest or. dishonest. I'm sure everyone here has been guilty of some sort of dishonest act in his lifetime . But everyone here would also say he's primarily honest. I know if I were really in the clutch I'd cheat. I admit itand I don't necessarily consider myself dishonest because I would."

"It seems to me you're saying that honor works only when it's easy."

"Absolute honor is 150,000 miles out, at least.

And we're down here, walking this earth with all our faults. You can look up at those clouds of honor up there and say, 'They're pretty, but I can't reach them.' Or you can shootfor the clouds..

I think that's the approach I want to take.

I don't think I can attain absolute honor, but I can try- and I'd like to leave this world with that on my batting record."

"It's importantto knowyou cando a goodjob at something. '' "IT'S

HARD to conceive of this unless you've been through it ... but the one thing that's done the

most for me in college is baseball. I'd always been the guy with potential who never came through. The coach worked on me; I got my control and really started going places. The confidence I gained carried over into my studies. J say extracurricular activities are worthwhile. It's important to know you can do a good job at something, whatever it is."

"The more you do, the more you seem to get done.

You organize your time better."

•

"No! Maybe I'm too idealistic. But I think college is a place for the pursuit of knowledge. If we're here for knowledge, that's what we should concentrate on."

•

"In your studies you can goof off for a while and still catch up. But in athletics, the results come right on the spot. There's no catching up, after the play is over. This carries over into your school work. I think almost everyone on our football team improved his grades last fall."

• "This

is true for girls, too. The more you have to do, the more you seem to get done. You organize your time better."

• "I

can't see learning for any other purpose than to better yourself and the world. Learning for itself is of no value, except as a hobby-and I don't think we're in school to join book clubs."

SUSAN GREENBURG

• "For

some people, learning is an end in itself. It can be more than a hobby. I don't think we can afford to be too snobbish about what should and what shouldn't be an end in itself, and what can or what can't be a creative channel for different people."

"In athletics, the results come right on the spot. There's no catching up, after the play."

"It's not how we feel aboutissues-

"WE

ARE being criticized by other people all the time, and they're stamping down on us. ¡ 'You're not doing anything,' they say. I've noticed an attitude among students: Okay, just keep criticizing. But we're going to come back and react.

In some ways we're going to be a little rebellious.

We're going to show you what we can really do."

Today's college students are perhaps the most thoroughly analyzed generation in our history. And they are acutely aware of what is being written about them. The word that rasps their nerves most sorely is "apathy." This is a generation, say many critics, that

plays it cool. It may be casually interested in many things, but it is excited by none.

Is the criticism deserved? Some college students and their professors think it is. Others blame the times -times without deprivation, times whose burning issues are too colossal, too impersonal, too remote-and say that the apparent student lassitude is simply society's lassitude in microcosm.

The quotation thqt heads this column is from one of the members of our student panel. At the right is what some of the others think.

"Our student legislature fought most of the year about taking stands. The majority rationalized, saying it wasn't our place; what good would it do? They were afraid people would check the college in future years and if they took an unpopular stand they wouldn't get security clearance or wouldn't get a job.

I thought this was awful. But I see indications of an awakening of interest. It isn't how we feel about issues, but whether we feel at all."

"I'm sure it's practically the same everywhere.

We have 5,500 full-time students, but only fifteen or twenty of us went on the sit-downs."

"I think there is a great deal of student opinion about public issues. It isn't always rational, and maybe we don't talk about it, but I think most of us have definite feelings about most things.''

"I've felt the apathy at my school. The university is a sort of isolated little world. Students don't feel the big issues really concern them. The civil rights issue is close to home, but you'd have to chase a student down to get him to give his honest opinion."

"We' re quick to criticize, slow to act."

"Do you think that just because students in America don't cause revolutions and riots and take active stands, this means . . .?"

"I'm not calling for revolution. I'm calling for interest, and I don't care what side the student takes; as long as he takes a side." ¡ "But even when we went down to Woolworth's carrying a picket sign, what were some of the motives behind it? Was it just to get a day away from classes?"

but whetherwe feel at all.

,,

"I attended a discussion where Negro students presented their views. I have never seen a group of more dynamic or dedicated or informed students."

"But they had a personal reason."

"That's just it. The only thing I can think of, where students took a stand on our campus, was when it was decided that it wasn't proper to have a brewery sponsor the basketball team on television. This caused a lot of student discussion, but it's the only instance I can remember."

"Why is there this unwillingness to take stands?"

"I think one big reason is that it's easier not to.

It's much easierfor a person just to go along."

"I've sensed the feeling that unless it really bums within you, unless there is something where you can see just what you have done, you might as well just let the world roll on as it is rolling along.

After all, people are going to act in the same old way, no matter what we try to do. Society is going to eventually come out in the same way, no matter what I, as an individual, try to do."

"A lot of us hang back, saying, 'Well, why have an idea now? It'll probably be different when I'm 45.'"

"And you ask yourself, Can I take time away from my studies? You ask yourself, Which is more important? Which is more urgent to me?"

"Another reason is fear of repercussions-fear of offending people. I went on some sit-downs and I didn't sit uneasy just because the manager of the store gave me a dirty scowl-but because my friends, my grandparents, were looking at me with an uneasy scowl."

"We needa purposeotherthan ¡ securityand an $18,000job."

"Perhaps 'waiting' is the attitude of our age-in every generation."

"Then there comes the obvious question, With all this waiting, what are we waiting for?

Are we waiting for some disaster that will make us do something? Or are we waiting for some 'national purpose' to come along, so we can jump on its bandwagon? So we are at a train station; what's coming?"

HERB WElTMA,,."ll

"I

GUESS one of the things that bother us is that there is no great issue we feel we can personally come to grips with."

The panel was discussing student purposes. "We need a purpose," one member said. "I mean a purpose other than a search for security, or getting that $18,000a-year job and being content for the rest of your life."

"Isn't that the typical college student's idea of his purpose?"

"Yes, but that's not a purpose. The generation of

the Thirties-let's say they had a purpose. Perhaps we'll get one, someday."

"They had to have a purpose. They were starving, almost."

"They were dying of starvation and we are dying of overweight. And yet we still should have a purpose - a real purpose, with some point to it other than selfish mediocrity. We do have a burning issue-just plain survival. You'd think that would be enough to make us react. We're not helpless. Let's do something."

Have studentschanged?

-Some professors' opinions

"OH,

runs. They don't understand the complexity of things; everything looks black or white to them. They say, 'This is what ought to be done. Let's do it!'"

"If their parents could listen in on their children's bull sessions, I think they'd make an interesting discovery," said another faculty member. "The kids are talking and worrying about the same things their fathers and mothers used to talk and worry about when they were in college. The times have certainly bittersweet agony changed, but the basic agony-the of discovering its own truths, which every generation has to go through - is the same as it's always been.

"Don't worry about it. Don't try to spare the kids these pains, -or tell them they'll see things differently when they're older . Let them work it out. This maybe even is the way we become educated-and civilized."

"I'd add only one thing," said a professor emeri tus who estimates he has known 12,000 students over the years. "It never occurred to me to worry about students as a group or a class or a generation. I have worried about them as individuals. They're all different. By the way: when you learn that, you've made a pretty profound discovery."

indeed," a professor said recently, "I'd say students have changed greatly in the last at least-for ten years and-academically, change lately a such been there's fact, In better. the that we may have to revise our sophomore language course. What was new to students at that level three years ago is now old hat to most of them.

"But I have to say something negative, too," the professor went on. "I find students more neurotic, more insecure, than ever before. Most of them seem to have no goal. They're intellectually stimulated, but they don't know where they're going. I blame the world situation - the insecurity of everything today."

"I can't agree with people who see big changes in students," said another professor, at another school.

"It seems to me they run about the same, year after year. We have the bright, hard-working ones, as we have always had, and we have the ones who are just coasting along , who don't know why they're in school - just as we've always had."

"They're certainly an odd mixture at that age----a combination of conservative and romantic," a third professor said. "They want the world to run in their way, without having any idea how the world actually YES,

The material on tl1is and the pre ceding 15 pages is the product of a cooperative endeavor in which scores of schools, colleges, and unive .rsities are taking part. It was prepared under the direction of the group listed below, who form EDJTORIAL PROJECTS FOR EDUCATION, a non-profit organization associated ,,¡ith the American Alumni Council. All rights reserv ed ; no part of this supplement may be reproduced without express permission of the editors. CopyrightŠ 1961 by Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Printed in U.S.A .

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Westhampton News R. C. Co-Eds: Secretary: S. MATTHEWS Glen Allen, Virginia

MRS . WILLIAM

Angelina Gregory Patterson , class of 1911, died January 9, 1961, at her residence 501 North Allen Avenue , Richmond . Mrs . Patterson was the daughter of Dr . Junius Claiborne Gregory of New Kent County , a Civil War surgeon for the Confederate army. She was born in Hanover County , and lived at the Castle, New Kent County .

H er early education was acquired by private tutoring. She attended Richmond College , 19081911, received the A.B . degree in 1911 and the A.M. degree later from Columbia University .

Mrs. Patterson was the widow of Henry Patter son, of Bedford . She lived many years in Richmond and taught at the John Marshall High School. She was a member of St. Paul's Church, of the Woman's Club , the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Senior Center and th e Thur sday Club.

1919

Secretary: MRS . WEBSTER

CARPENTER

(Juliette Brown) 1001 Gates Avenue, Norfolk, Virgin ia A new plan for class notes will bring a letter with news of herself from a different member of the class for each issue of the Bulletin .

A lett er from Peggy Laws Decker is quoted below: "J. W . De cker (1911) and Peggy Laws Deck er (1919) are now living in Arlington , Virginia and thoroughly enjoying a renewed touch with the Old D ominion .

It is good to be nearer our sisters, brother and cousins for family reunions which become increasing ly precious as the yeurs accumulate.

We have enjoyed scouting about Virginia, seeing its historic and beaut iful old towns , to say nothing of the cultural delights of Washington .

Our son, Bill who is in the State Departm ent, lives near by with his wife and thre e adorable children. With them we are making hay while the sun shines as they will be going abroad in a few months.

John , our elder son, ( 1943) a member of the medical faculty of the University of W ashi ngton , travels a lot in connection with his specialty, arthritis , this summer as far as Rome . His daughter, Virginia , aged two, is the apple of our eye.

Dr. Beth , class of ( 1947), is a pediatric neu rologist working at Presbyterian and St. Luke 's hospital and as an instructor at New York University School of Medicine .

Of course, the gathering of the clan is a happy time for all of us. Next to it our greatest pleasure has always been to travel to far places. This is on our schedule for the near future.

J . D . D. celebrates his 50th anniv ersary this June at Richmond College. His father and mother graduated there before him and my father, Curtis Lee Laws, as well, so our herita ge from Richmond and Westhampton is rich indeed.

We hail her with increasing affection."

1922

Secretary LEONARD F. H ATZ ( Louise Shipman) Box 228, West Point, Va.

MRS.

A nice letter from Narcissa Daniel Hargraves brings the following news-"Carney and I attended the Baptis t World Congress in Rio last summer.

We travelled with Dr and Mrs. Theodor e Adam s, and many other good Virginians-some were U. of R. alumni, and what fun we all had! After Rio we visited most of the countries of South America , Panama and Mexico -vis iting Southern Bapti st Mission stations in all the big cities .

Several weeks ago I had lunch in New York with Ruth H enderson '2 1 and Alleyne Spencer Young ex '22. Just a few days before while in Princeton we went to see Clodius and Katherin e Willis '2¡0. It is always good to see our college friends. " Leslie Sessoms Booker and Book plan to go to Wildflecken , Germany in July for the wedding of their daughter, Constance . Constance has been at an army post there with the Special Services for the Armed Forces since last June. Her fiance , who is from Anchorage, Alaska , is a lieutenant in the regular army and is planning an army career.

Valeria Arrington Bonney writes from Oak Park , Illinoi s, that her husband will retire thi s year and they plan to move back to Norfolk, V irginia , this fall. It will be wonderful to have Valeria close enough to see her often.

One of Elsa Wallerstein Gerst's paintings is displayed at the Virginia Mu seum in the current exhibit of work by Virginia artists.

I have a new granddaughter, Catherine Shipman Hat z, born J anuary 20 to my son Tommy and his wife.

My daughter graduated from U. N. C. (Chap el Hill) last June where she was a math major. She went on a Brownell College tour of Europe last

summer, and is now working in the Research D epar tment of the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond.

1923

Secretary: BARTEE E. CORPREW (Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Hors epen Road Richmond , Virginia

MRS.

There is news of all kinds this time! First let me tell you what a wonderful surprise it was to visit with Doug Oliver on the street the other day.

She is now living in Richmond after spendi ng a fine summer as hostess at Blue Ridge Terrace. At present she is working at the Baptist Book Store.

We must see more of one another .

During the past few months there have been three weddings in the family of '23. In August, Vir gi nia Hart Tyree, daughter of Ruth Powell, and incidentally the baby cup winner of '23-was married at the beautiful old Wicomico Church in the Northern Neck. She is now Mr s. Roland Cary Woodward . She continues to teach in the English department at St. Catherine's School.

In De cember Betty Beryl Schenk, daughter of Elizabeth Hill , was married at a most unique ceremony at Cismont Manor Farm in Alb emarle County. She is now Mrs. William Coleman French.

Also in Decemb er, Virginia Epes Feild's daughter, Lee Epes, was married to Charles Griffiths in Alexandria. All three of these "mama alumnae"

ALUMNAE HONOR ROLL We congratulate alumnae who have received recognition for professional excellence or community service.

M ildred Anderson Williams, '28, took first place in the display advertising category in the Virginia Association of Press Women's contest. A second-year winner, Mrs . Williams ' entries included a display ad and a food notes column from Thalhimers where she is food consultant. In dual capacity as food editor of the Richmond News Leader, she was honored last year for her newspaper column.

Frances Allen Schools, '51, was named residential chairman for the 1961 Richmond Area Cancer Crnsade.

Her job, now in full swing, includes recruiting 11,000 volunteers for houseto-house canvass. Mrs. Schools is junior director and second vice-president of Lee District, Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, parliamentarian of her junior woman's club, board member of the Virginia Society for Crip[ 31 }

pied Children and Adults, and an active church worker.

Becky Branch, '58, is represented by an oil and a water color in the Eighteenth Biennial Exhibit of the Virginia Artists ' Association at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eighty paintings were selected by an out-of. state jury from 1,350 submitted by 518 artists. The watercolor was also chosen as one of 18 paintings to hang in the artmobile which tours the state.

Marg ery Peple, '44, was named recipient of the Sherwood Reeder Award , given annually to the Richmond employee who has done most for the city.

Frances Anderson Stallard, '28, wins the admiration and thanks of alumnae everywhere for her fine work as chairman of the swimming pool completion fund. A dream, first visualized more than twenty years ago, is close to realization because of her concentrated efforts for the past two years, and your response to h er efforts.

ton, Mary PepJe, Wilhelmin a Wright , and I met together for a spot of tea and Jots of chitchat. We had fun and wished for all you others . If the date had been more propitious , severa l others could have attended.

Ine z Hit e has been in Florida on avacation to give the sun a chance to heal her ail ing back.

Virginia Johnson expects to have a delightful trip to Glacier National Park come early summer .

Mary Taylor Copenhaver plans to spend part of her vacation in New York with hopes of seeing some of the stage attractions and friends .

Had a pleasant chat with Margaret Smith W illiams after a long interval of the wrong address.

Hope she can meet with the rest of us at the next get-together.

HAWAIIANS HONOR MARGARET MONTIERO A lifetime of life-savin g has made the name of Margaret Montiero 16, almost synonymous with sainthood, according to a recent article in a Honolulu newspaper.

"Aunt Maggie", as she is affectionately known throughout the Episcopal Dio cese of the Hawaiian Islands, was the guest of honor at a "T his Is Your Life" program in late 1960. In reporting the event, the newspaper devoted two columns to the Westhampton alumna who has dedicated her life to her moto: "If you're busy life saving you don't have much time to worry about your own problems."

A missionary to China for many years, Miss Montiero was evacuated to Honolulu in 1949 to teach in St. Andrew 's Priory. With her new neighbors she pioneered the growth -of the Aina Hana Valley by "p lanning, painting, and praying." Although she is now supposed ly retired, she teaches ceramics to blind children, conducts Bible classes, tutors scholastic subjects, calls on the sick and bereaved , and is in constant demand as a speaker.

"In the frantic worried world of today" states the article, "she is an oasis of common sense .. . . She is on call 24 hours a day to anyone, no matter his faith or creed. Nor is her help restricted to words of wisdom and comforting prayers. There is a hard core of basic practicality in this woman who has seen starvation, death and 'Suffering first hand.

are fortunate in having their daughters living dose by in their home towns.

Ethney Headlee and husband , Tom, drove over to Petersburg one Sunday and enjoyed a nice visit with Lelia Doan.

Evelyn Sanford Wamsley and husband, Hubert, were in Richmond recently attending a Bank Conference and dinner.

Camilla Wimbish Lacy and Evan have just _returned from a month's vacation in Florida. Louis Lacy, their younger son, is a Senior at the University of Richmond.

In New York City, Sally Davis had a terrific fall on the ice. She was hospitalized for several weeks and wa s then confined to her apartment for some time but she is recoving and is able to be " out and about " to some degree.

Our deep est sympathy to Louise Fristoe Arnold in the passing of her mother Mrs. A. J. Fristoe

1926

Secret,iry MRS. CLARKMOORE BROW1' (Margaret bzenby) Box 14, Richlands, Va.

Our Sympathy goes to Thelma Phlegar Owens whose father died this winter in Bluefield , Va. We're sorry to hear that Dorothy Campbell is back in the hospital again after her fall. Certainly hope she is out now and back at work.

It you haven 't made your donation to the swimming pool fund do it at once. Let's help them get that project start ed as soon as possib le. Many of us in '26 haven' t contributed anything toward it.

1927 She shares what she has in material goods, and ¡strength of her belief imparts new faith in the desperate, gives solace to the weak, and truth to the mighty. " In -the Holy Nativity parish where she worships and serves, young and old revere her. To the children there who inquire, "Just what IS a saint anyway?" the oldsters answer simply, "Aunt Maggie ."

On D ec. 5 and to Altha Cunningham in the recent death of her father .

Louise Arnold's daughter , Roberta, who attended Westhampton in the class of '6 1 was married on April 15 to Frank Gagliano , U. of R. '60.

Our best wishes to them.

At the Worker 's Dinn er and meeting held at college in February , the class of ' 23 was represented by D orothy Sadler Corprew , Elizabeth Hill Schenk and Ethney Selden H eadlee. You, no doubt, have heard from them.

1924

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

Margaret Carlton, Ma1y Taylor Copenhaver , Mary Myrtis Cox , Virginia Johnson , Louise Mor-

PHONE EL 5-8693 DAY-NIGHT

Established 1840

Page Price has recently been made assistant director of public information at the Wa shington National headquarters of the American Red Cross.

Previously she was director of public information region comfor the Red Cross eastern area-a prising 16 states and the District of Columbia.

She wi ll be working with the national director in providing service and materials for chapters, in pub lic relations and public information training, the expansion of volunteer public relations participation and other activities directed toward assisting chapters with interpr eta tion of Red Cross programs.

1928

BOULEVARD AND KENSINGTON AVE,

Richmond .20,'Virginia [ 32)

Secretary: MRS. LOUIS S. CRISP ( Louise Mas sey) 210 College Circle , Staunton , Virginia

A long Jetter from the Jim Tharpes , whose address is 6214 43rd. St., Hyattsville , Md ., mentioned that Kay's health is so restored to preoperative days that she has been doing substitute teaching at Northwestern High School. They are delighted to hav e daughter Jane and her husband living next door , with their new baby, Amy, born last November. The Tharpes¡ other daughter, Ann , and husband , Earle McCann , with their two chi ldr en, are living in Fort Walton Beach , Florida, wh ere Earle is principa l engineer with the Aero Geo Astro Corporation. K ay's mother, Mrs. Moore, died about a year ago, and Kay's father has retired . Last April Kay visited Pauline and Ashby Cook in Hi gh Point, N . C. They had not seen each other for nineteen years. Later, the Cooks , with their son " Chuck" , visited the Tharpes. Our sympathy goes to Kay because of her mother ' s death ; and congratulations because of the fine letter about such a sp lendid family.

Elnora Hubbard Robinson , Goshen , N. Y . wrote that she is fine this year and was having her brother's family for Christmas. The broth er's son is at West Point.

Marie Lake is still at 17 East 89th St., New York City. She never says anything about coming back to Virginia.

The Gaskins' card from Spartanburg, S. C. contained the annua l family picture. Sarah and Lee looked quite distinguished and happy with what plus a son-in-law seemed to be their own-five, and two grandchildren.

Margaret Chapin Perry and Cecil are still in Asheville , N. C. and at home with them are Margaret's mother, Mrs. Willi am Chapin, who teaches

,.BROWN FUNERAL HOME,INC.

Secretary: MRS. JOHN C. RAMSAY (El eanor Waters) 979 Conestoga Road, Berwyn, Penn.

science at the local high school, and Glenn, who is about ten.

Ann Carr is a sophomore at Wesrhampton , where she has Eng,lish under Miss Ross who is now head of the Engli sh Department. The oldest daughter, Sue, and her husband sti ll live in Franklin , Va .

Betty Cale wrote from the American Embassy, Mexico, D . F., that she and Ed are thoroughly enjoyi ng their stay in Mexico City, although they are looking forward to a vacation in the States next July. Betty and Ed are grandparents too. Their daughter, Ann, graduated from Newcomb College in New Orleans last June and was the mother of a fine son in July. Betty enjoyed so much seeing Henriette Greenbaum Cohn and her husband when they were in Mexico City last summer.

According to Cecilia Hunt Wight, all three of the Wight children are making outstanding records. Louise is having a wonderful senior year in college, having been elected to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities; Bob, Jr. is in third year a,t Emory Medical College, and still loves it; and Dick has a good chance of being accepted at Georgia Tech. Cecilia is still teaching in Cairo, Ga. Oui- congratulations go to Frances Anderson Stallard for the outstanding work she has done as chairman of the T/7esthampton Swim min?, Pool Completion Fund.

Her e's hoping that all '28ers will support our chairman in the Swimming Pool Fund and that many of you will send messages to me about yourselves.

1929

Secretary: MRS . HAMPTO N WAYT

( Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road, Richmond 30, Va. Miriam Figgs Rankin and her husband spent November traveling through Spain and Portugal, returning home for Christmas by way of Paris.

In February, she came to Virginia to visit re latives and friends. As a guest of "Jimmy" Mattox , Miriam attended the alumnae worker's dinner at Westhampton and our own class worker's get together at H elen Moon's. She is writing letters this year, too.

Mary Richardson Butterworth had a nice winter vacation at Miami Beach while the doctor was attending a medical convention there. Their daugh ter, Mary Harri s, is working at WRVA. We are pleased to hear that Howard Richard son, Virginia Snow's husband , has recovered from major surg ery and is back at his work.

Our young peop le have been making news. Violet Simpson's daughter , Nancy, a senior M Mary Baldwin , has been selected for Who's 117ho among American universities and colleges. Virg inia Yeaman's son, Tommy, is head of the corps at Thom as Jefferson this year and Frances De Hart's son, Sykes, is vice-president of the class of '63 at V . P. I. Congratulations to each of you.

1930

Sec,-etary

E. MILLEA ( Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida St., Newton 58, Mass.

MRS . JOHN

Al ice Richardson Connell wrote at Christmas that she'd had some long-needed house decorating done and was just emerging from the mess.

Young Dick and Linda were married in August.

They are Jiving with Linda 's mother in Richmond , and Dick is working in the Jab of Reynolds Metals .

Frances Wi llis Overton 's daughter, Maragaret, is working at the Harvard Medical School. Gen e is still undecided where he will go to college.

Edie is in England and Jimmy is a sophomore in high school.

Margaret Lowe Logan had her entire family with her for Christmas. Daughter Priscilla and fami ly are now settled in Denv ille , N. J. Grace Watkins Lampson has a part-time job at the Havre de Grace High School counseling students . She and Curt are small foreign car enthusiasts and make use of their MG and Fia.t.

Sarah Cohn Ettenheim received last year's Civic

FACULTY NEWCOMERS HAVE MANY TALENTS (Editor's note : A college is known, not only by her alumnae, but by the excellence of her faculty. With ,this in mind , we introduce to you new professors at Westhampton College. In later issues we plan to bring you up to date on activities of faculty oldtimers whose ideas and inspiration were so important in molding our lives.)

The youthfulness of the new Westhampton College faculty members belies both their academic achievements and their wide variety of skills. Included in their number is one who speaks Hindu, another who converses in Dut ch, and two Greek scholars. One of the new professors earned her Ph.D. degree before her twenty-fifth birthday and two more doctorates are forthcoming in the group. Rumor has it that deciphering hieroglyphics and Sanskrit translations would be no chore at all for the newcomers.

Dr. Mary T. Beaty and Miss Marth a Caldwell were exposed to academics early in life, both of them being professors' daughters. The former, a 1957 graduate of Agnes Scot.t College, received her doctorate at the University of North Carolina in 1960, and is professor of Latin and Greek. Her roommate, M iss Caldwell, who teaches Archeology, Art Appreciation, and Design , holds a B.A. degree from Cornell University and a M.A. from the University of Mississippi.

She attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1956 to 195 7 and has credits toward her doctorate from Bryn Mawr.

The new dean of students, Miss Elizabeth Kaspar, came to Westhampton from her native Kentucky via Northwes.tern University

Award from the Wisconsin region of the Conference of Christians and Jews. She is presently the only woman on the Milwaukee Plan Commission , is on the Boards of the Y. M. C. A ., Planned Parenthood and Wisconsin Mental Health Assoc., and is Presid ent of the Settlement Cook Book Co. H er daughter, Elizabeth, was married on Dec. 26.

She is working for Science Research Associates in Chicago while her husband completes his final year at the Univ. of Chicago Law School. Sarah's son, a research meteorologist , has two daughtersMargaret , seven, and Kathy, three and a half.

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Secrerar)' ~l1s, MARGARET LEAKE ~1,:,; ~- Meadow St., Richmond . Va.

Page Cauthorne SpeJJman was the subject of a recent article in the Richmond newspapers . It told of her many interesting proje cts as head of the Wom en of All Saints Episcopal church .

Laura Thornhill and Anne Jones Berk;holtz will be making plans for our 30th reunion in June.

Do hope that you will make your pla ns to be present. The date is Jun e 2-4.

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where she won her B.S. degree in Psychology, the University of Southern California and Michigan State University where she was awarded the master's degree. In addition to her duties as dean, she teaches Psyd1ology to both Westhampton and University of Richmond students and is putting final touches on her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University.

The Hindu expert is Miss Marianne Presler, history professor, who grew up in India where her father is a professor and an authority on religious cults. Her educationa l background includes Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin.

Directing the college religious actJv1t1es is Miss Mary Jane Seymour, who holds a B.A. degree in English and Voice from Furman University and a master's in religious education from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Two of the newcomers are familiar faces.

Marianne Duty '50 holds a M.A. degree from Radcliffe and is in the English department. Jane Wray McDorman '45 is assisting in the phys-ed activities.

The Dutch conversationalist is Miss Nell Oosthoek, who learned the language from her father, a native of Holland. She holds a B.A. from Calvin College, Grand Rapids , Mich ., and her master's from University of Michigan. Her field is Physical Education and she is watching the swimming pool progress with enthusiasm.

"I love to swim," she says. 'Tll be delighted to have a new swimming pool."

In Dutch or English, that means the same thing : "Let's put it over the top."

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

Jo Ann Garrett , Westhampton '58 and daughter of Ann Sadler Garrett is teaching piano at Collegia te Country Day School.

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POLLAK EXHIBIT HELDAT U. of VA. Theresa Pollak, '21, held man show at the University Spring, exhibiting 20 oils, the last several years. Her

her second oneof Virginia this all executed in previous exhibit

there was held in 1940. In addition, one of her paintings "Trees in Sunlight" was selected for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 18th Biennial Exhibit which will close April 30.

Baby Cup girl , Patricia Ewell Johnson brought her own baby for a visit with her grandmother, Eleanor Pillow Ewell, in February . The granddaughter's name is Jennifer Claire. She was born last November and the family live in Califon , New Jersey .

We extend our sympathy to Mary Rufus Jackson who lost her father early in March.

Bringing us up to date with the news of Vir ginia Tabb Moore's family, we find her daughter , Elizabeth, who graduated from Sweet Briar in '59, teaching at Laburnum Elementary School in Richmond . Her son, Dr. West Tabb Moore , a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicin e, is now a resident physician there and in July will go to Massa chusetts General Hospital in Boston to continue in his special field of internal medicine.

Helen Pollard Deck and I gave a luncheon at Helen 's home on February 18 for the members of the class of '32 now making their homes in Richmond. Those present were Eleanor Pillow Ewell , Jane Little Gray, Jean Peatross Thomas, Phylli s

Miss Pollak has exhibited in group shows at the Corcoran Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum in New York, throughout Virginia, and in other states. She is represented in numerous pri vate collections and in the permanent collection of Mary Baldwin College, the University of Virginia , the Norfolk Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Museum, and the Rid1mond Professional Institute where she has served as professor of Fine Arts since 1928.

She holds a B.S. degree from Westhampton, where she later taught the first art classes offered at the college, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She sh1died at the Art Students League in New York, the Fogg Museum at Harvard and with Hans Hoffman at Provincetown. She has held Tiff.any and Carnegie Foundation Fellowships and has won numerous awards for her work.

In her hometown of Rimmond, Miss Pollak is active in the Artists ' Association and for the third time last Fall won the Silver Bowl award for the best painting in the group's annual exhibit.

A recent article in the Richmond TimesDispatch refers to Miss Pollak as influential "not only through her own creative work, but through that of the many artists and art teamers she has encouraged and taught."

Perkinson, Zephia Campbell Scarborough , Mary Hodnett Mathews, Ruth Coen Powell, Elizabeth Cone Brauburger, Gwen Graham Ridenour , Valerie LeMasurier Jones, Dee Pritchett Taylor, Ann Sadler Garrett, Virginia Tabb Moore, and Muriel Jones . This group has a lot of spirit and will help put our class among the leaders in reaching the goal for our new addition to Keller Hall.

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Secretary

Miss GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Avenue Richmond 27, Virginia

Ann Dickinson Welsh, with her mother, spent a wonderful week in New Orleans with son, Jack, and his wife in March .

Virginia Napier 's daughter, Mary Beth, is a senior at Ohio State preparing to teach in elemen tary school. Her son is in the army in Europe .

Frances Justice and her husband had a wonderful trip visiting the Grand Canyon and Rocky Mountain National Park last summer .

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Phoebe Thiermann has returned to the univer sity as a part -time librarian.

Marian West was a member of a panel in Classics Section at Conference of Independent Schools Education Board in New York in March. The subject for discussion : "Will Teaching Machines Replace the Teacher ? A yes or no answer."

Archie Fowlkes attended the Alumna e Dinner at the college in February . You have received the letters that she was given then. Please let us hear from you!!

1934

SerretarJ'

MRS. R. VANHEUVELN (Frances Lundin) 3905 Midlothian Pike Richmond 24, Virginia

Virginia McIntosh Puckett has recovered from a recent operation and is again teaching Richmond's homebounds . Her oldest daughter , Janet , a sophomore at Meredith College in Raleigh , North Carolina, has been named recipient of an award presented to the students with the best record in freshman mathematics. This honor comes from the Chemical Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio.

After teaching at R. P. I. for five years, Katherine Bell has a new and exciting position with Miller and Rhoads department store, as Training Director in Retailing.

Here is a somewhat different accomplishment by a classmate . Helen Cunningham Laney has composed an anthem, "Many Waters Cannot Quench Love" , which was published early this year by the Broadman Press. Helen now resides at 602 Farris Avenue , High Point, North Carolina .

Condolences are extended to Ellen Ahern Daf fron who lost her mother in March.

An intere sting letter from Virginia Sanford Brian arrived from Baytown, Texas. Sandy and family visited in Richmond a few days last summer. After seeing all their hometown relatives, they made a quick trip to Washington, D . C. to show the historic landmark s to Sandy's two sons. Don, sixteen, is a member of the Junio r Science Seminar, the Alpha Beta Gamma Chemistry Club, and the National Honor Society. Jim , thirt een, enjoys mathematics and algebra and plays the French horn in the Junior H igh School band.

Sandy, too, has a hobby of her own, that of "encouraging " her flowers.

Cornelia Gould Scott has just returned from a wonderful three week trip to Dallas , Texas .

Please, girls, send your checks and pledges to Westhampton and your news to your secretary.

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

336 Lexington Road, Richmond 26, Va. Rhea Talley is still involved with newspaper columns and feature writing, which take her to New York often. She ,has been doing some community work in Hartford in connection with an international fair staged by the Hartford Symphony. She dressed as a Brazilian, copying her costume after some she photographed in Bahia .

H elen Caulfield Ballard has a lovely new house at 5737 Shenandoah Avenue, Lakewood 9, Nor folk Virginia .

Estelle Veazey Jones is having a busy year teaching home bound students, being president of the H ermosa (California) garden club, and look ing after her family . Stella Sue is in high school.

Don is still with Desilu , doing two shows, "Harrigan and Son" and "Guestward Ho" .

Sue Whittet Wilson and Nat enjoyed seeing Miss Turnbull's slides of Spain and the places their son has visited while stationed in Spain.

Sue's daughter will marry in June , following graduation from Mary Washington . She will live in Hawaii while her husband is stationed there .

Mary Mills Freeman had a leading role in a play at the theatre of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which just required that she be her self-the vivacious mother of several children .

Lola Williams Pierce , Sue Whittet Wilson , Mary Pat Early Love, Billy Rowlett Perkins, Lottie Britt Callis , Sue Cook McClure Jones, Rhea Talley Stewart, H elen Caulfield Ballard , Harriet Wal-

ton, and I have written to you in behalf of the Alumnae Fund, trying to "finish the job in '62".

It is our hope that we shall be able to report 100 per cent participation by our class.

1936

Secretary

MRS. ROBERTJ. Fox (Kitty Ellis) Aylett, Virginia

I am writing this from the beautiful ocean front at Palm Beach, Florida. My youngest son and I have been visiting here since the latter part of January. He is attending school from 8:30 until 2 P. M., and then the afternoon is devoted to swimming.

I received a nice letter from Lucy Alexander several weeks ago. She is planning to attend our Twenty-fifth reunion, and I am sure everyone will be delighted to know that. Regarding the reunion: would you please drop me a card saying you will or will not be able to get there. That would expedite matters a great deal.

Margie Tabb had a coffee for our group on the Friday after Christmas. It was so much fun.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the opportunity to get together and chat.

I am looking forward to seeing each of you from June 2 to 4. Start planning now so that nothing will prevent your being ther e.

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Secretary MRS. CARL \V. MF.ADOR (Margaret l\'litchcll) 214 Banhurv Road Richmond 21, Virginia

Liz Angle had a wonderful trip to Bermuda in November, going over on the Queen of Bermuda and returning by air.

Minna Karp 's oldest daughter is away at school this year. She is attending Stuart Hall in Waynes boro.

Carl and I had a two-fold Florida vacation in March. We were in Fort Lauderda le for almost two weeks, where he attended post-graduate medical classes each morning, followed by hours of soaking in that heavenly Florida sunshine. We also had a fine visit with our daughter and son-in!aw in Pensacola , where he was completing his pre-flight course in Naval aviation prior to receiving a commission.

Some of us have been contacting each of you and asking for donations to the Swimming Pool Fund . Let's complete it this year! May I also beg for more news from you. You must be tired of reading items about a few of us in Richmond, so please help me .

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SeCl'etary

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

The Class of 1938 extends deepest sympathy .to Josephine Mallory Cosby and Katherine Chasen Straus who have Jost their mothers.

Douglas Gee Baldwin has moved to 200 West ham Parkway , Richmond 29, Va .

The Alumnae Fund Workers D inner was attended by Mollie Fleet, Anne Payne Stites and Elizabeth Shaw Burchill. Those who helped write the letters but were unable to attend the dinner were: Sallie Haden West , Lula Goode Winfree, Anne Walker, and Peggy Lockwood Nolting.

Anne Payne Stites is teaching in Petersburg, Va. this year, but is still living in Richmond.

Her address is 4400 W. Grace St.

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Secretary

MRS. KENNETH D . ANGUS, JR. ( Evelyn Hazard) 1512 Wilmington Ave. Richmond 27, Virginia

Elizabeth Burch Fowlkes, Margaret Harris Quick, and I with our husbands had a nice visit one evening during Christmas holidays. Elizabeth was here from Falls Church visiting her parents.

Jessie McElroy Jenkins wrote an interes ting letter from Taiwan about their Christmas activities. ,,Using bedspreads, bathrobe s and towels their

Youth Group had a full fledged Christmas pageant in their living room.

Evaline Flow Wells and I attended the Alumnae Fund Dinner in February. Pat Walford , Paula Mackey, Judy Florance, Evaline and I have been working on letters to the class. Let's have a larger percentage of '39ers giving than ever before.

Judy Florance is on a four months leave of absence from her job at M. C. V. She is catching up on her reading and sleep, she says.

Scotty Campbell Jacobs and Petey are settled in their new home at 203 Santa Clara Drive . Scotty is still teaching second grade at St. Christopher's.

Don't forget to send in your contribution to the Alumnae Fund.

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Secretary MRs. HARRY G1rnnff WrLLIAMS ( Sad dye Jane Sykes) 6506 Monument Ave., Richmond 26, Va

Pauline Cortopassi and her mother flew to Italy last September for a wonderful three weeks visit with her mother's sister in Pisa. They had a gay time, seeing many interesting sights and enjoying the family get-together.

Jane Davenport Reid is now working part tim e at Grace & Holy Trinity Church. She has been helping the assistant minister in planning and coordinating the Sunday School work. Janie loves this, and we know she is doing a capable job.

Kitty Lyle's mother has been in the hospital, but I'm happy to report that she is home again.

We all hope that her improvement will continue.

Ethel O'Brien Harrington and John were in Richmond the last week-end in February to visit with John's father and we were in North Carolina visiting my father at the same time. They spent Saturday evening with Maude Smith Jurgens and Fred and Margaret Brinson Reed and Jack . . .

So sorry to miss this get-together. In addition to his other work, John is now writing a textbook on Geology.

Congratulations to Margaret Brinson Reed. She is one of two dramatic coaches at Patrick Henry High School in Ashland and a one-act play which and Minikin " she recently produced-."Manakin a distinguished

by Alfred Kreymborg -received rating at the District Festival. It will go to the State Festival now and we wish Marge and her young actors Jots of luck.

It has been a real joy to serve as your secretary during the past two years and I sincerely appreciate your fine coopera tion . I shall miss this fine contact with many of you. Connie Atkinson Holloway (Mrs. Herbert Holloway) of 6001 South Crestwood Ave., Richmond 26, Va . will be your new secretary, and she will be depending on YOU for news of the '40's ... Why not put her name and address in your book now and when you take a trip or do something interesting, send her a line.

If you are Jiving in Richmond , call Connie at AT 8-0995. She'll be happy to hear from you.

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Secret.rn

MRS. KEITH L. MAXWEl.l.

(Ellen Mercer Clark) 1002 S. Franklin, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

James and Molly Warner Stephenson have announced the adoption D ecember 5 of Bruce Warner Stephenson, born July 4, 1960.

The class extends sympathy to Lois Heste r Blackburn in the Joss of her mother.

Dr. Natalie Lum's new address is 18 Shore St., Petersburg, Va. Mary and Billy Graham attended the boat show in New York City this winter and have just returned from two weeks in Florida.

Rita and AI Copley and their three children were in Richmond for a between-semester vacation. They are settled in their home which they built last year in Watch Hill, R. I.

1945

RECREATIONFIELD HONORS ALUMNA Virginia Gregory, '24, has been made a fellow in the North Carolina Recreation Society in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the recreation movement and unselfish devotion in the service of professional fellowship."

In addition to her studies at Westhampton, Miss Gregory has done graduate work at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, and New York University.

She is also accredited in various courses offered in the recreation field.

Prior to entering her present profession she taught school for eight years. In 1947 she went to North Carolina where she is now assistant director for the North Carolina Recreation Commission, an advisory agency operated by the state. In addition to membership in professional groups, she is active in civic and church work.

joy in their growth . One cheer for dedicated teachers! Anne Glazebrook Tompkins and her husband have a little boy born last April, Edmund Fitzhugh. Her husband was just made General Traffic Mana ger of Virginia-Carolina Chemical, and he also teaches a class at the University.

I made a mistake last time. Christy Lou Miller Russell is teaching Kindergarten at First Presbyterian not Trinity Methodist. Trinity Methodist is their church and her husband is very active there.

Gin Friddell says I gave them enough coverage to last a year last time. I did see the tile table and it is most impressive. Also, Gin is carpooling in a new Falcon.

Peggy Clark Huber has been working for the Children's Aid Society for a year. She went in temporarily for two weeks to help a sick friend

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CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT PLANNED BY ALUMNA Long before the rest of the nation was aware that 1961 was Centennial year, Grace Roland Wells, '34, was deep in research preparing a Civil War costume exhibit wh ich opened in March at Richmond's Valentine Museum.

"For a long time," Mrs. Wells says, "I went to bed every night with several Civil War books." For three years she has been collecting information and materials for the display.

The Westhampton alumna began her museum work in 1952 as a general handy-woman. Her interest in textiles and needlework led to her present post of cosh1me curator where she is in charge of reported ly the third largest collection in the country. In addition to planning and executing the exhibits, she frequently conjures up wigs with crepe paper and muslin, an art she learned in making dress-ups for her children.

When the first contingents of Centennial visitors come to the capital of the Confederacy this Spring to view the display, they will probably not catch a glimpse of the lady who made it possible. Mrs. Wells will most likely be hidden in a library, busily doing research on an exhibit which will open in 1964.

and now says she has found her niche and knows just what she wants to do from now on out.

Jane Wray McDorman was ill with strep throat. That curtailed her activities for well over a week. George is bui lding a scrumptous tree fort for the kids. It is bui lt on telephones po les and has permanent stairs. In all it will be 4' x 8' with a balcony. Fathers , take notice.

Liz Parker Cone wrote me a welcome Jetter after Christmas. In it she mentioned that Nancy Leslie Chambers now lives at 2019 Ivy Rd., Charlottesville. Her husband, Jack, has decided to study law at the University. Nancy is teaching school in Charlottsvil le. Liz and Howard went to a special luncheon on the United States when it was docked at Newport News.

Mary Campbell Paulson has been elected President of the Junior League in Newport News.

Now I can report the address of Ruth Anne Wicker Lynch. They live at 595 Va lleybrook Dr., Memphis 17, Tenn. Jim is headmaster of the Presbyterian Day School with 450 little boys and

Ruth Anne is busy helping organize a symphony for Memphis .

The only Pace news of consequence is that my husband is now with the Life Insurance Co. of Va. and finds the work challenging .

In closing, let me first thank the girls who helped send out the Fund letters: Anne Jackson, Gin Fridde ll, Hollie Kenyon, Connie Richards, Elizabeth Whitehorne , Jane Wray McDorman and me. By now they should be in your hands and perhaps you have already made your contribution.

Please give it your sincere thought and do your best to he! p. Our class standing is not as good as it should be. So far we have had nine contributors this year. Last year 29% contributed $229 (20 contributors). That is below the usual 33% to 35% class level. Let's ALL try to help and get this swimming pool built so we can go on to something else!

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Secretary DAVID W. BRANCH ( Barbara Richie) 1232 Persinger Rd., S.W ., Roanoke, Va.

MRS.

By now you have gotten the advance news of our reunion in June from Mary Frances Bethel Wood . Hope you are all making your plans to attend. From Pat Husbands Berton comes the news of Frances Anne Beale Goode¡s third chi ld, David Beale, who arrived in September.

Another September baby was a daughter for Nancy Moore Lewis. This is also their third child.

Back in Richmond for the Christmas holidays were Peachee Wicker, Betty Biscoe Tibbott and Cornel ia Reid Rowlevt.

Ding and Ralph Shotwell attended the Shotwell fami ly reunion in Brookneal during the holidays.

They also stopped in Richmond where Ralph preached at Chamberlayne Baptist Church. With new family room and camper trai ler, they are doing lots of entertaining and trave ling .

The Go!dsboroughs are adding to their home with new living room, kitchen, playroom and office for Cora Lynn. Being on the hospita lity list for the Washington Internationa l Center means lots of entertaini ng for them.

Our latest bride is Winifred Hambleton who is now Mrs. Joseph G. Doboy. Her new husband is chief Radiologist at Fairmont Hospital. Their new address is 705 Country Club Drive, Fairmont , West Virginia.

The big spring drive for the alum nae fund is on. Let's all do our very best to push it over the top.

1947 SeC1'etary RICHARD F. ANDREWS ( Betty Tinsley) 3203 Enslow Aven ue, Richmond 22, Va.

MRS.

Due to a slight mixup between the Alumnae Office and me the letters have missed the last two Bulletins. I'm certain it has been a disap-

pointment to each of you to find no news from '47 , but this will not happen again. This situation has let you know how those of us who write the quarterly letter and send out the anual fund appeals feel when we get no response from you.

Our hearts were saddened by the passing of our class sponsor and friend, Miss Harris. To have known her and to have been the object of her interest has been our special privilege. That part of her that she shared with her students will be her living tribute.

In attempting to cover so many months the news will be of summer and winter activities and some of the ages of children may be a few months off.

We enjoyed a brief but pleasant visit from Dottie Hughes Freitag and family , who were spending some of their summer vacation in Richmond en route to Greenville for her brother's wedding. Upon returning to Vicksburg, Susan fractured her leg, but recovery was quick. Mark is enjoying kindergarten and George is settled in the second grade.

While in Williamsburg for a day's trip with our children, we visited with Mary Cox Anderson and her children, Bill, Jr ., Bob and Mary Beth.

Shopping for after Christmas bargains at a local hardware, Dick and I bumped , quite literally, into Pat Guild Robertson and Robby who were visiting the Guilds.

Frances Coles and William E. McClennan were married in Halifax this summer. As always, a Westhampton wedding creates a small reunion, and the guests included Gin Ellett, Dottie James Foster, and Nancy Richardson Elliott. The McClennans live in Scotia, N. Y. Gin Ellett spent last summer teaching school in Rid1mond, but managed to vacation in Boston and New Hampshire and visit the McClennans.

News of summer fun came also from Betty Brown Parsons, who spent three weeks with her fami ly at Virginia Beach. Betty is busy with outside activities and worked on the Queens Ball of the Tobacco Festival.

Camping provided vacation fun for the Cumbys. Marylou Massie Cumby and Guyon, Guyon, Jr., Betty Bee and Sara thorough ly enjoyed the experience as always. Guy was first on the scene at Nags Head after one of the hurricanes hit, and his pictures were given a fu ll page spread in the local newspaper.

Exciting news comes from Elsie Mi nter, who taught freshman English at the U niversity of North Carolina last year. She was awarded her Ph.D. and received a Fulbright award. She sailed on September 22nd to study at the University of Paris. Elsie plans to return this July after traveling six weeks on the continent. Her Christmas greetings from Paris reported that she was torn between being a tourist, seeing the sights, and getting her research done. 'Tm managing to see all the impressionistic art, theater, opera, etc. and to spend the necessary hours at the

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Bibliotheque Nationale . It's a great life. I'm off to Ita ly for Christmas. " Tony Reid Zeurcher and family have been in Kentucky over a year now. Her youngsters are Johnny, who has been in the Bulk Program at school, studying according to ability; Ricky, who began school in the fall ; D avid , who is four , and her baby daughter, two. Her activities include Den Mother , PTA and Church. Ed taught a creative English course at G.E . this year.

Summer enjoyment for Bev Patton Browne and her fami ly was a new summer cottage and boat for fun and fishing.

Mi ldred Daffron Horigan has been experiencing a busy year serving as president of the St. Benedict's PTA. Susie Guard Woody wrote that her daughters Beth , a third grader, and Karrel, in the kindergarten , were recovering from the measles. The Woodys were in Richmond for the Southern Conference Basketball Tourname nt.

Ollie Menefee Stirling and Hank and fami ly are enjoying their longest tour of duty in California. Hank is now a Lt. Colone l, much to their delight.

Beth Decker is studying hard and preparing to take some board exams this spri ng .

A note from D oris Pitman Rainey told that Virginia Wagstaff's parents visited them last fall and they planned to move back to McKenney after remode ling their home in D inwiddie County .

Virginia continues to teach science in Mary land.

The Rainey 's niece is a freshman at W. C. and they plan to bring their two sons to see the campus in the spring.

At school for the annual kick-off of the Alumnae Fund D rive were Marylou, Marion , Lois Rynaldo, Jean, Bev, Mi ldred and I. We enjoyed eating again in the fami liar dining ha ll and hearing "the state of the union" messages about the University. We have a particular obligation to support the Fund, for the Swimmi ng Pool wing is soon to be a rea lity. At our fifteenth reunion in 1962 we want to see the ground broken for the new addition, and most of all we want to contribute our share.

At the bow ling alley we discovered Marylou Coghi ll Poland and her son Lee using the adjoining Jane. He is a fine looking boy and was trying to break a hundred.

Now for the best news of all-New Babies!

Betsy Slate Ri ley and Frank announce the arrival of Peter Pierpoint born July 23, 1960. The Rileys live in Stanley and their other children are Carson 5, Robert 4, and Caro l 2.

Thomas Webster Allin, called Tom by his parents, Izzy Ammerman Allin and Jay, was born August 18, 1960. Lander and Ama nda ,round the Allin trio . Izzy's father, whom many of you remember, is retiring to Florida due to ill health.

The Allins , at this writing, are visiting Jay's family in Florida.

A daughter was born to Alice Mason Cralle and Jesse on October 20, 1960. Alice Louise gave her parents some anxious moments at first, but she has gotten along so well since that she is being properly introduced to her paternal grandmother in Florida , where the Cralles are spend ing a month.

The three Foster sons announce the arrival of a baby sister, Marion. The parents of this foursome are Dottie James Foster and Junie.

Frances Hami lton Allen arrived January 7, 1961. Her parents are Martha Edwards A llen and Robert . Trisha, 12 and Robert , 8 are pleased with their sister al though Robert was uncertain about keeping a sister at first.

Our newest arrival, Margaret Hall , was born May 23, 1960. She has been a happy baby and a delight to Marcia , 6 and Richie, 3. Marci a has become a school girl and I have assumed a new identity , "Marcia 's Mother. " Our summer was quiet with a vacation on the river but we did manage Homecoming at VPI and, if spring doesn 't bri ng the measles or something, we hope to be sunning in Florida.

Let me hear from you. If not me, then Gin , Marylou, Susie or Lena would like news. We won't be absent from another Bulletin and please

don 't let your name be absent from the list of givers to the Alumnae Fund.

SeCl"et ary MRS. R. G. WOODHEAD (Pat Adams) 8311 Cherokee Road, Richmond 25, Va.

1948

Ann Bruner Woo sends word of Gregory Nea l, born February 4, 1961 who joins his sister , Carolyn, 10 and David, 7. Tommy continues as mission pastor of the Goodwill Center in St. Charles, Virginia. Their address is Route 1, Box 137, St. Charles , Virginia.

Frances Stuart Bailey has a new baby girl, Nancy Lou, born November 23, 1960. Her husband is pastor of Cave Springs Baptist Church , Roanoke , Virginia.

Sally Taylor D uBose and Bill announce the arrival of William Thompson DuBose , Jr. on December 8, 1960 in Charlotte, N. C. Elsie Keyser Robinett and 0. D. have adopted two children this past year, Kathleen Marie born January 6, 1960 and David Herbert born November 2, 1960.

From Gui lford, Connecticut , Pat Parlow Daniel wrote a very descriptive Jetter of the ir beautiful town. She has taken a course in Early American D ecorating and has refinished some old Hitchcock chairs with the original stencil design on the back. D ave travels quite a bit wirh McKesson & Robbins but Pat and the children, ten and seven, keep busy.

Jo Hoover Pittman, Bob, and their four girls moved into their new home at 607 Berkshire, Clinton, Mississippi last Ju ly and they just love the little college tow n.

Ja nice Conant McCoy is now with the Welfare D epartment in Petersburg and finds it quite a change from the ro utine of housework .

Sallie Curtis Clement and Frank and their four children moved into their home in Verona, Virginia ( Box 345 ) , in January of 1950. Bonnie, the oldest, is eleven and in the sixth grade, Sue, ten, in the fifth grade, Robert , eight , in the third grade and D avid who was just six keeps Sallie company at home. So glad to hear that Robert is over his illness.

Two girls who wi ll really have house cleaning to do are Jea nne Decker Swank and Marion Thomson Goo lsby. Jeanne and Ken moved into an eleven room house at 181 Alexander Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey in December. Ken is the Assistant to Industrial Relations Manager of Melville Shoe Corporation. They are hoping to have lots of visitors from Westhampton so let's go, girls!

Marion and her fami ly moved to Memphis last fall and found a 12-room house in a quiet old residential section. P.T.A., scouting, decorating floats and a course at UT in interior decorating are keeping Marion busy, plus David, a 5th grader , Carolyn, six, and Johnny, three. Carolyn , at the ripe old age of six, is already planning her future. Marion is hoping she will include Westhampton as so many of us with daughters

University

TWO STATESELECTALUMNAE AS MEDICAL AUXILIARY PRESIDENTS The roster of incoming state medical auxiliary presidents boasts two Westhampton alumnae. Elsie Bradshaw Kintner ('39) will take over as presiding officer of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Indian-a State Medical Association in April, and Betty Carper Grigg ('40) will assume the same office in the Virginia society next Fall.

Some twenty years ago, back in their college days, they had shared dreams of another kind. One of them aspired to a career as a dancer and the other envisioned her future as a singer. Through the years, Mrs. Grigg has become a favorite of Richmond theater audiences as an actress and a dancer. Likewise, Mrs. Kintner, who has continued to sing and play the piano for the pleasure of the folks in Indiana.

During the coming year, their paths will cross again when Madame President Grigg greets Madame President Kintner at the annual meeting of the auxiliaries held in conjunction with the national convention of the American Medical Association.

are hoping And with this thought in mind have each of you sent in your check for the swimming pool fund? Make the next check you write to Westhampton!

"I use every bit of knowledge Fanny G . ever gave us," so writes Betty Stansbury Lomax from 325 Link Ave., Salisbury, N. C. where she is head of The Women 's Physical Education Department at Catawba College. Betty and Bobby were married August 29, 1959. He is a dentist with the Veterans Hospital. If any of you old grads Jive nearby Betty would like to join an alumnae chapter .

Fixing up an old brick farm house surrounded by five acres of land is Allen Rucker Williams' current project. They have two children , Dana , two and a half and Diana , nine months and in June are planning a trip to visit her parents at Atlantic Beach, Florida . Allen looks forward to the luncheon meetings of the Westhampton Club in Baltimore where she saw Betty Hardin Elmore in Februa_ry.

Frances Orrell Dunn and Bob are settled in Fredericksburg at 1302 Westview Drive.

One lucky couple went to Florida in April - sans Jes en fan ts! Dorothy Lloyd Stine and Les

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were looking forward to two weeks of sun and relaxation . They are quite busy with three children - Richard, four, Leslie, three, and Kimberly, one. Les is president of Automation Engineers, an industrial consulting firm, and travels all over the United States . Dotty heard from Diety-Emily Dietrick Burklow, and both she and Troy are active in the church. Troy is chairman of the fi. nance committee and she is busy with the Woman 's Missionary Circle . They have named their circle the "Hannah Barlow Circle ." She is, in addition , a den mother and has a basketball team .

Selling a house and moving from Charlottesville to Roanoke is the immediate future for Peggy Christian Shiflett, Ronald and their three children , Ronnie , Jr. , eight , David, five and a -half , and Susan Branch, two and a half. Ronald was promoted by Esso Standard Oil Company , so after June het address will be c/o Esso Standard Oil , Williamson Road , Roanoke, Vir ginia .

Maude Giles Mann is living in Richmond . She and Malcolm have a sixteen month old daughter.

Betty Hengeveld Bradshaw , Brad and their two children , Tommy , nine , and Barbara , six, are still living in McLean , Virginia. Brad is Lt. Col. in the Air Force stationed at the Pentagon and his particular field is missiles .

Back from Bremerhaven , Germany in August are Arline Moore Moore , Bob, and their three children, Roberta, ten, Hugh, seven and Pat, one , who was born in Germany and has dual citizenship . Bob , now a Major , is stationed at Fort George G . Meade and is the chief of the outpatient clinic of the hospital. They are living only ten mile s from her parents and it's the first time in eleven years that she has been so close to home . Arlin e said her two years of German wer e a big help and she joined the Brem erha ven German-American Woman's Club meeting many interesting German women . They traveled in England , Holland , Denmark, Switzerland and France and have numerous color slides Bob took to remind them of their life abroad .

1949

Secretary

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

I att end ed the Alumnae Fund Workers ' Dinner at coll ege in February , spent the night with

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Betty Evans Hopkins and saw Brooke Triplett Grove , Bobby Rhodes Barker, and many "girls" from other classes. I enjoyed that very much , but studying the individual records of our classgiving was no pleasure . Too many of us have never made any contribution to our college at all. No wonder '49 has been at the bottom of the list!

Susan Hathaway joined Tom and Hathaway Pollard Clemans and 2-year old Cheryl on March 6. The Clemanses live in Alexandria where Tom is studying at the Episcopal Theological Seminary .

Sallie Van Dyck Wood wrote that Olive Trader Dailey had her fourth child, John Hunter, in December , and I heard that Bobbie Rodewald For rest and Dave had a little one in September.

It was a girl named Julie for Jessica Niblet Miller on October 7, and a boy, David Trible , for Shirley Armstrong Sutton on January 25. Shir ley's other children are Carol, aged 7, and Howie,

4½.

A heretofore unreported baby is Alda Marlin Noftsinger's little Nan who is 21 months old now. The Noftsingers are back in Richmond temporarily .

1960 was a big year for the McCutcheons . Lou Winn writes that Ben finished his residency in General and Thoracic Surgery and began private practice in his home town , Durham , N . C. Their son , Kerr , was born in September, joining a 9-year old sister and 6-year old brother .

Austin and Pat Allen Winters have bought a new home in Washington. Pat is taking a night class in teaching Social Studies. Caroline Lynn Doyle , too , is burning the midnight oil over a correspondence course in Child Growth and Development.

Kitty Carter became Mrs . Earl Green in January and is living in La Grange , Illinois .

Jack and Cyn Patrick Lawson attended a surgical convention in San Francisco last fall, at which time Jack was installed as a member of the American College of Surgeons . Cyn wrote that Elaine Leonard Davis had moved into a 15 room house in Suffolk . Elaine has 4 boys and says that she stays bewitched, bothered , and bewildered .

Norman and Marilyn Michener Anthony now live in Simsbury , Conn., where they have a 7room house with 200 feet of trees in back.

Martha Hall has been to New York on a buying trip for her dress shop . She also visited Peggy Harris Barnett in Harrisonburg , where Peg has moved her shop , "The Bride 's House." Peg had 25 weddings in one month last summer. Business sounds good! While in Richmond , Martha had a long chat with Mary Ann Peddicord Williams .

Mary Ann is on the board of the Mental Health Association of the Richmond Area and has just been elected to active membership in the Chil dren 's Theatre of Richmond Inc .

Mary Clare Dougherty Wohlford , by appointment of the school board in Glassboro, N. ]., served on the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Building Program. She has 4 daughters.

Frosty and Joyce Roberson Goforth ' s 6-year old Chris underwent successful heart surgery and is now fully recuperated.

Marilyn Alexander Kubu writes that she and Ed had a 3 week vacation in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Acapulco. Ed was elected to "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry " last year .

Rosamond Calhoun McCarty served as Smythe County chairman for the March of Dimes , a drive in which Rosie is very interested .

I agree with Marilyn that jet flying and winter vacation are " the most ". John and I had a February vacation in the Virgin Islands. Saw Martha Kenney , who had a party for us, in St. Thomas .

I now can fully understand the lure that constantly call s M artha back to the Islands , for they are trul y the beauty spot of the earth . We spent a couple of days in San Juan , Puerto Rico, on our return tri p, thanks to . the blizzards in the States .

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when I walked into a shop and asked, " Hab!a_ usted inglis ?" The saleslady said " Si" and that· was the end of my Spanish .

That's all the news for this time, but I do · want to sincerely thank those of you who wrotethe appeal letters for the swimming pool fund .

Now we'll just sit back and watch for the results .

1950 Secretary

MRS. DAVID B. BURBANK (Doris Balderson) 9IO Hampstead Avenue, Richmond 26, Va.

Our news this time is quite scarce. Please write to your group leaders or to me so we can keep in touch with you .

I called Clarice Ryland Price and I found out that she is moving a block away from me at 814 St. Christopher 's Road . Clarice says that it is a larger house and that they will enjoy spreading · out .

The class extends its sympathy to Emma Tilman Kay who lost her father in January .

Maryanne Bugg Lambert is pleased with the news that Pete 's administrative residency will be here in Richmond Memorial Hospital starting in June .

Barbara Beattie Fanney was in town for twe> weeks during March visiting her mother .

Virginia Brinson came to Richmond March 11th for the Virginia Association of Personnel Guid ance Meeting.

Jo Martens received a nice long letter from Marty Lowry Greene from Washington . Their church and home are right in the middle of the restora tion going on in our capital.

Hilda Moore Hankins writes that Deck has gone with Investors Preferred Life Insurance Company as district manager of the Brunswick, Geor gia area .

Frannie Sutton Oliver is the new temporary organist at her church. The Easter music is keep ing her busy with extra practice .

I saw in the paper that Ruth Morrissey Bain , Thomas, and their four children will leave in May for Southern Rhodesia where Tom will be a missionary doctor in a new hospital there. He is the first doctor volunteer to be sent to Africa by the Roman Catholic Mission Doctors Association .

He first became interested in missionary work when he was serving in the medical corps. Ruth and Tom were feted in Los Angele s last January at a dinner-dance given to raise money for the ir mission overseas .

Dave and I are off to New York City again to take in some shows . I need the break about now .

Don't forget the Swimming Pool Fund .

1951

'Secretary

MRS. DONALDA. WHITE (Elizabeth Gill) 205 S. Peterson Ave .

Louisville 6, Kentucky

Hamjambo ! So began the Christmas letter from Rollin Hooper, 5-year-old son of Dale and Beulah Johnson Hooper in Kenya, East Africa. And so I greet you . It means hello . The letter included a darling picture of Rollin and Robin , age two , and told of strawberries in November , Thanksgiv ing with a trip to the beach, Vacation Bible School in December, and hopes for a new pastor. At a Sunday afternoon Sunday school there were 105 four and five year olds in one class!

Charlotte Houchins Decker heard from Liz Latimer Kokiko the news of their new son , Christopher George, born December 28. He ' ll be a pal to 5-year-old June .

Charlotte and Maryglyn Cooper McGraw and other s saw Lea Thompson Osborne during a visit to Richmond . Lea's Ann is seven and her little boy is four. Lea teaches public school music in Stuart , Virginia and loves it.

Shirley Hall Murphy heard from Susie Gibson Madden at last. Susie has three boys, Billy , Jim -

my, and Johnny, and just added Elizabeth Anne on ·October 18. Ray is on staff duty at Little Creek , Va . and expects orders this summer. Their address is 8036 Honeygrove Road , Norfolk 2, Virginia .

Ernestine Allport Sasser has been busy organizing an infant nursery at her church in Ashland .

Besides that she and Frank and the girls moved into a new house last fall at 703 Dun can St. Ernestine wrote of Renie Blackburn Pierce 's new house-a tri-level with four bedrooms which ·they built. Renie's youngest boy, David, is about 18 months old. That makes four!

Paula Abernethy Kelton spent Christmas in Florida. She writes that Teeny Mitchell Go ldston went to Averett College once a week last fall to take organ lessons and finished with an "A" in the course! Now she has three pupils and hopes for more in the fall. Teeny now lives in South Boston.

Ann Plunkett Rosser is teaching a Sunday school class of young married girls and works with teenagers on Sunday nights . Occasionally she teaches a mission study book to the women .

'Typical of a busy pastor's wife .

Libba Eanes Baskerville had a visit from Betty ·Tredway Blake . Her two girls are fine, though small Bet had to go to the hospital last summer.

Libba sent Ann Rogers Crittenden's new address: 85 Wellington Ave. , Short Hill s, N. J. Ann and Crit plan a trip to Bermuda in the spring.

Mary Booth Watt and John welcomed another Mary Booth on November 22 and naturally are thrilled. John works for Bassett furniture .

Jean Lowe Bradley wrote Paula about their trip to Nassau in November . They visited with Eleanor Covington Sorrells ('53) in Palm Beach, Florida.

Two people sent me the letter from Eleanor Wright Weston. She wrote in glowing terms of little Eleanor Susan, nearly a year old. In September, Eleanor went to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play and highly recommends it to any of you touring Europe in 1970 ! She also visited Berlin and was impressed by the contrasts there .

The Westons will return to the States in a year.

Helen Clark Hensley wrote that they had a snowy , slippery trip to Kentucky at Christmas .

Ann Jones Moffatt became an expert handy man whi le George was at sea on the USS Intrepid , an aircraft carrier , from September to February . She fixed drains, the furnace, car, fuses, etc.

A clipping from Richmond announces the appointment of Frances Allen Schools as Richmond Area Cancer Fund Chairman for 1961. She has to recruit 11,000 women to canvass. Good luck , Fran!

Nance Anderson Hall has been living nearly two years in Silver Spring, Md., and I just got her address. It is 1921 Rosemary Hills , # 3, Silver Spring, Md. Other new addresses have come to light. I'm glad to know where some of these have been hiding .

Mary deVi lbiss Barton and their four children three dark-haired girls and a plump , baby boy.

They plan to make a trip to Richmond Easter .

Our plans are still uncertain although we are sure that Don will go on to study for an advanced degree. We are so thrilled at the Church with our new Reuter pipe organ ( 12 ranks) . Right after grad uation in May, we will go to St. Louis where I will play the piano at the sessions of the wo men at the Southern Baptist Convention . This is the t>hird time I've been asked to do th is job!

The biggest news of all for this class is our 10th Reunion , June 2-4 in Richmond . Many have already said they plan to be there . It should be a gala weekend with Mary Lee Moore Vinson and Charlotte Houch ins Decker in charge. But amid all your planning and busy lives, remember your contribution to the Alumnae Fund this year. Let this be a banner year for '51 as we celebrate our Tenth!

1952

Secretary

W.R. BEASLEY(Betty Hurt) 1301 Yewell St., Iowa City, Iowa

MRS.

Peter and Jeanne Hootman Hopkins and family are living in Front Royal, Virginia, 203 First Street. Peter is teaching at Randolph Macon Academy and coaching the cross country and track teams. Another teacher is Margaret Henderson who is in Chesterfield County this year.

Kathleen Yost is now in social work and is living at 392 Central Park West, Apt. 6F, New York City.

Addie Eicks Comegys writes that she is just back from seven glorious sunfilled Florida days.

Welcome to Virginia Campbell Herbert who joined the household of Bettie Snead and Scott Herbert on March 1st. Jeanette and Mary Jane welcomed baby brother Jeff in November-the proud parents were Jane Ozlin and Fred Givens .

Mary Ann arrived in February at Monty Wiley and Lawrence Schutte' s.

Jo Soles Garnett wrote that Tom is in Atlanta , Georgia with a new position. Do send us your new address, Jo. Mary Ann Coates Edel writes that Don was promoted to anNher store in downtown D . C. Marjorie Sparer Fiorino and family have moved to a new house .

We extend our deepest sympathy to Sarah Ann Barlow Wright and little Janet. Her husband , Charles, passed away in December after an extended illness. Sarah and Janet are with her parents in Smithfield , Virginia. She hopes to teach again next fall.

"We all keep busy with our school work ," writes Nola Texley Breckenridge , who moved back to Fort Sill, Oklahoma with her family last July for the third time. Current address : 6624 -A Snow Road, Fort Sill, Okl:rhoma . Nola is teaching second grade at the elementary school on the

Post. Husband , Bob, is in the Advanced Cours e of the Artillery School. Their Chipper is in the first grade , and daughter, Betsy, in kindergart en .

Eleanor Bradford Turrell, now living at 414 Hastings Avenue , Havertown , Pa., (a Philadelphia suburb) spent a month in Portsmouth , Vir ginia during the winter . She and her two children visited her family while Bob was on Navy duty in th e area . Another classmate in this area is Barbara Cawthorne Clarke , Herb , and sons, John and Bob, who live at 4100 Battles Lane, N ewtown Square, Pa .

Fannie Craddock Wood is living in Greensboro , N. C., 801 Meadowbro ok Lane, P. 0. Box 8071 .

Her daughter Pat is in first grade .

Welcome back to Virginia , Joyce Bell Cody and famvly. Bill has a position with the local newspaper in Lynchburg , Va . Their new addre ss is 6004 Piedmont Place .

Hopewell-ites Sue Easley Candler and Ralph greeted their third, John Easley, on February 17 to keep Sarah and David company .

Jill Lobach Graybeal is teaching mus ic in Blacksburg . She and Pat are happily settled in Christiansburg where Pat is practicing law.

Our grateful thanks go to Claire Carlton and her committee for helping with the Alumnae Fund Drive (better known as the Swimming Pool Completion Fund) . Do your part to help raise the needed $38,792 .93. What a thrill it would be to see the final plans for the Swimming Pool Wing of Keller Hall or maybe help break the ground on our 10th reunion in 1962 ! Make your plans to attend-and send any suggestions to me as to how we might have a wonderful affair.

Happy vacation time to one and all. Send me a card of your trips .

1953

S ecretary :

Wrr.I.IAM G . BRUCE (Methyl Young) 5505 Richmond Ave. , Richmond 26, Va .

MRS.

We have wedding and baby news this ti-me.

Martha Clark was married to Lawrence Bell on December 27 at the Presbyterian Church , Arvonia , Va . They are living in Waynesboro, Va . Arcadia Phillips and Mary Kathryn Manuel Clark attended the wedding.

On January 7, Nancy O 'Neill and Don Camden were married at the First English Lutheran Church in Richmond . Harriet Wheat Fralin and I were bridesma ids and Lois Moody Mackey, Sue Bentley Joseph and Janet Johnston Parsons were out-of . town gue sts.

Now for the babies-On January 2, apparently B-Day- Betty O'Bannon Culp had her first , a daughter , Helen Borden ; Margaret Gooch Williams had a girl , Ellen Kay, her first ; and Betty Eichelberger Allen had Mary Elizabeth . Ruth Ents minger Pierson had Brenda Diane on Nov 8 in Germany , and June Pair Carter had her second girl , Elizabeth Denise on Feb 24. Betty Guthrie

NEW ADDRESSES Pat Atwill Schwarz (Mrs. W . W .) , 914 Somerset Rd . SW Huntsville , Ala .

Mrs . R . R. Schwanhauser (Lea Hunter) , 9138 Grossmont , La Mesa, Calif .

Mis s Virginia Herrink , Reynolds International , c/ o Personnel Dept. Hamilton , Bermuda Joyce Hodgkins Plunket (Mrs . D : C.), 7475 Sternberg St., El Paso, Texas Edith Hutzler Hopf (Mrs. Peter S.) , 11 Avondale Dr., Huntington , L. I., New York Helen McCarthy Hopkins (Mrs . John L., III) , Cave Hill Farm , McGaheysville , Virg inia Alma Rice Jeffr eys (Mrs . Herndon · P .) , 3806 Sulgrave Rd., Richmond , Va. Norma Streever Do ss (Mr s. Will iam) , 83 19 Ben Nevis Driv e, Richmond V a.

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Mildred Gambill ha s a job doing bookkeeping for a group of pediatricians in Richmond and Jeanne Plunkett Beckett is working pa,rt time for the Baltimor e City Health Dept .

I had a newsy Jetter from Janet Francis Midgett. They have invested in a cottage at Kill Devil Hills , N. C., which they are thrilled about and also about their female purebred champion longhaired dachshund. Janet and Bob attended a social supper at Mar y Creath and Jimmy Payne's church which they enjoyed very much. She and Mary attended an Alumna e luncheon where they were delighted to see Billie Bryan , now a chemist at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.

Mary Hurt Winslow and Len have sold their house in Richmond and are moving to Charlottesville .

Pauline Decker Brook s had a visit from Pat Shomo Bradshaw not long ago.

Our sympath y goes to Janet Johnston Parsons whose father died in March.

Let 's all help "Our .dream come true in ' 62" by enthusia stically supporting the Swimming Pool Fund Drive this year.

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1954 Secretary

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

In th e onward and upward department Your N egligence omitt ed a large entry: James Clagett Nuttle was born last November to Susie Kegan Nuttle and Bill. He 's their second son. Garnetta Anderson Coate s and Jim have a second daughter , Lind a Faith , born January 20th.

During March , some of us Richmonders got together at th e Virgini a Museum for a tour of their birthday exhibit, and a socia l hour after.

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ty Rosenberger , Beverley Burke Dunkl ee, Jean Burgess Sadler , Barbara Moore Flannagan, Nancy Grnham Harrell, Nancy Harvey Yuhase , Jane Bett s Schmitt , Betty Dowdy, Beverly Priddy, and I were there. Are there others in the area we don't know about? Inform us of your presence.

Some of us saw Nancy Lay during her visit here . She's now possessor of an M . A. from the University of Tennessee and a member of their Phys. Ed. faculty. Edie Jones, Peggy Brown Hantzmon, and Sara Sherman Cowherd came down from Charlottesville, too. Edie , Jone, Winston , and Jessica have moved into a house. Their new address is Route 4, Box 4-19 , Charlottesville. Peggy Hantzmon and Van are living on Greenbrier Drive, Charlottsville. Peggy is now an experienced interior decorator.

Sara Sherman Cowherd and Barbara Konkle are both active in Jaycee-ette work. Social awareness is developing amongst us 1 Our sympathy goes to Barbara Bull Tull, whose grandmother died in February. Many of us knew and loved Mrs. Rew. Let me urge you to send your contribution immediately to the Alumnae Fund. Be it your generous impulse , your act of faith in private, non-governme nt supported education , or your desire to have done with hearing about the swimm ing pool fund, do it now! (For one thing, you won't stop hearing about it until it's finished). If you postpone it even long enough to finish browsing through the Bullet in, it may never get done . Out with the checkbook and budget and have a go at it I Surprise yourself with your thoughtfulness!

1955 Sec.-etary

MRS. EUGENE A. TINSLEY (.Marty Glenn) 5409 Toddsbury Road Richmond 26, Va .

Beulah Boston Thorson , Al , and their two girls spent Christmas in Roanoke. It was their first time home from the West Coast in two years.

Donna Elaine White joined Nancy and Clifford November 20th and Kimberly Hoyle arrived November 6th to Margie Blevins Alexander. The Alexander family has moved to a larger home1201 Wedgewood Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Other new addresses include : Ruth Gauldin Kelley , 3225 Douglasdale Road, Richmond; Alma Pitt Perkins, 1237 Lorraine Avenue, Richmond; Peggy Armstrong Clark, 211 Hill St., Fairfax, Va. ; Carolyn Nea le Lindsey , Rt. 2, Oharlottesvi lle, Va .

Norma Howard .Matthews, 2604 Ribier Way , Rancho Cordova, California; Jackie Levy (Now .Mrs. Fred Mayer) 587 Thornwood Terrace , San Rafael , California; Ethel Smith, 1526 Sixth Street , Apt .

5, New Orleans , Louisiana; Ann King Cloyd , 15 Radford Village , Radford, Virginia.

Everybody must have decided to move as soon as I sent out a revised address list!

Hope Guaraldi Omohundro writes of an exciting- around the United States trip by car with Stuart and son, Stephen. In a six week 's tour they covered 9,011 miles and visited the Grand Canyon , Denver , Kansas City, Indianapolis , Detroit, Canada, New York, Richmond , New Orleans , across Texas to El Paso and home to California.

Peggy's Jim has left the pastoral ministry and is teaching English and history in the Fairfax Junior High School. She and the girls visited for a week in Rhode Island and just missed Providence's 18.3 inch snowfall!

Marjorie .Moeschler Hahn 's Henry is taking a Pediatric Residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota.

Mary Ida Bolton 's son, Howard III , arrived October 8th and Joy Winstead Propert's David Bruce, was born February 22nd.

You should all know how hard those of us in Richmond have been work ing on t>he pool fund. .Many thanks to Burrell Williams Stultz , Janet Pace Burbage , Emily .Menefee Johnston, Jane Doubles Naumann , Peggy Flippen and Barbara

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

Received Christmas card notes from several classmates that were very interesting. Thelma Flynn Helm has moved to Greensboro, N. C. where .Marshall is a sales representative for Ameri can Agricultural Chemical Co. She is teac hin g 7th grade English and social studies at Aycock Junior High. The new address is : 3505-A Ardale Place, Greensboro, N. C. Janet Knoble Jones writes that they moved into a new home last July - brick , Cape Cod, on an acre of land . Her new address : .Mrs. .Morris J. Jones , Box 91, Grumps .Mill Road , Baltimore, .Maryland. Carol Brooks Jennings sent word that they are still in Texas with the U. S. Air Force at Randolph A. F. B. She has two childr en now.

On February 25t>hthere was a gala gathering of '56 members at Leta .May Tucker Hodge's wedding. Betty Brinkley , Eliza Hubble Severt, Betty Lou Kendall and I were there. The wedding was in the University chapel at Char lottesville . Leta .May will live at Governor 's Point , New York until Edward is released from the Army.

Here's a new arrival who really isn' t so new.

Just got the word that D oris Huffman .Moore had a little girl , Laura Lee, January , of last year. A late welcome to her.

Ann Lee Randolph has moved into a new home on Stuart Avenue. She has two childr en and almost a third. Bruce is a supervisor of housing rehabilitation for the City of Richmond. The new address: 4514 Stuart Ave., Richmond, Virginia.

Two classmates who are living in Richmond, that I just found out about, are Winkie Gray Stettinius and .Mary Lee Kingery Divers. Winkie lives in .Mooreland Farms with two childr en- a little girl 22 months and Wallace Gray born September 26th . .Mary Lee has one little girl just over a year old. Address: Mrs. Wallace Stettinius, 8902 Allendale Road , Richmond , and .Mrs. Donald Divers , 7523 .Mayland Ave. , Richmond.

Don't forget the Reunion June 2-3 . See you there.

195 7 Secretary .MRS. GALE CONNOR (Kitty Alford) 1323 Warwick Drive, Lutherville, .Md. I am so pleased to hear news from the Rich mond area of interest and enthusiasm about the Alumnae Fund Drive. I know the entire class joins me in thanking Lovey Jane Walker 0.nd her committee for t>heir time and effort to make us all aware of the importance of the drive this year.

December 17th was a big day for Lee Feild, who became .Mrs. Charles Griffiths on that dat e.

Bridesma ides included Westhampton girls Ann Byrd, .Margaret Foster, Carol Brie and .Mary Garland Cox. Lee is remaining with her same job and her husband is attending George Washington University School of .Medicine. .Mary Garland Cox is planning to go to Europe this summer for two months with Genie Borum '58. Also planning an European trip is .Mary Elizabeth Hix .Minegar. She and her husband will leave in April. At present , she is wor king for a musical instrument company while her husband is sports editor for the Elkhar t News in Elkhart , Indiana.

Kakie Parr Jenkins and her two little boys have moved to Woodbridge, Virginia , with her family, while Dick spends thirteen mont>hs in Korea.

Another move is .Margie Morrison Hudgins and Gary to Sanford, Florida. Living in Houston, Texas , is Grace Bloxsom Raveling. She is working for an adoption agency and husband, Philip , is a geologist with an oil company .

Kenny Darling Raine and Ashby are living at 1007 West Avenue but expect to be transferred

to New York the fir st of Ma y. Ashby is with Merrill , Lynch, Pi erce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. and after several years in New Yor k expects to be sent to Europ e.

Harriet Mill er Berlin, husband and little girl Jive in Hyatt sville, Maryland . H er husband will graduate from dental school in Jun e and they plan to spend two years in the Air Force. Als o D avid Armbrister (C athy Blair 's husb and) will be graduating from Seminary in Ma y. Cathy says their long term plans are for foreign mission work , af ter a few years in the ministry in the United States. Carm en Austin Williams and Buddy are putting "fi nishin g touches " on their education too.

Buddy is in the midst of writing hi s thesis for Th. M. degr ee at South eastern Seminary and Carmen is in the School of Journali sm at University of North Carolina . Carmen writes that Jeanne Mitche ll ( in our -class until our junior year) was married in Februar y to Jame s Lee, a graduate of George Washington Law School.

Rosie Allen Barker and John spent New Y ear's Eve in Richmond with the Tidey's (Joyc e Gar rett). Also from Richmond comes word that Meg Kidd Tenne y and Lin hav e moved into a new home on Norm andy Drive . Meg is no longer teaching. From the sound of thin gs the stork is going to be ve1y busy this spri ng and summer visiting W esthampton girls. Alre ady he ha s made severa l tri ps. J oan Poole Saunders has a littl e girl , Suzette. Rita D avidson Stein has a littl e girl too, M ichelle Ann , born January 5th. Anoth er announce ment of a baby girl comes from Betty Lu Scearce Bennett. D eborah was born Dec ember 2nd. The Benn etts are living out side Oxford , North Carol ina where Norman is pastoring the M ou ntain Creek Baptist Church and attending Southern Seminary. Now turning to boys : Caro l Mu rp hy Paulson annou nces the arrival of Er ic Mi chae l, November 27t h; Judy Goodman and Barry are proud parents of Daniel Mark , also born Nove mber 27th.

Aim ee Lee Raveling Cheek and Petey are still in Charlottesville where he is wri ting the last pages of his disseration which will make him eligibl e for his Ph. D . in Jun e. H e is a par t time instructor at University of Virg inia. Aimee Lee is working as a reporter for the D aily Pror.ress and says: 'Tve had an interest ing time--met and interviewed Hal Holbrook ('Mark Twain To night' ) and have don e stories ranging from riots to Adlai Stevenson's visit" .

Living in Pittsburgh are Jinx Lindenauer, hu sband, and two daughters . Jinx writes she has been doing some littl e theatre work. From Wi sconsin comes word of a busy spring for Mary Pratt, who writes: "I have six weeks of O.B.-gyn , two of Neurolog y, four of Pediatrics , National Board exams in April , and graduate hop efully on June 5th with an M. D. degree from University of \l(/isconsin " . She plan s to come East for her internship which will begi n in July.

Angie Pettit Willingham and Ed moved last August from Seminary life in Rochester to Buffalo , New York, wh ere Ed is a mini ster at the Dela ware Avenu e Baptist Church.

So many of you wrote note s saying how much you enjoyed Nancy Bertsch Ratchford' s articl e in the winter Bulletin. Those of us here in the Baltimor e Alumn ae Club enjoyed hearing more about her work for she was guest speaker at our March meetin g . I'v e asked Nancy to take over the letter for the summer Bu lletin but rt[ take over again in time for the fall issue.

The class would like to express sympathy to Carolyn Naumann Robertson , whose father passed away in Decemb er.

1958 Secretary

MISS BECKY BRANCH

4310 Bromley Lane, Richm ond , Va .

After nearly 3 years away from the "i vy covered wall", the 1958 grad s are deeply involved in business, school, homes and families.

Bev Byram Gerber writes from Mi llersville,

Pennsylvania that she is becoming more accust omed to "Yank ee land " now. H er husband is in the Advert ising Dep artm ent of the Arm strong Cork Company and she has a full time job as hom emaker.

Ad venture s in teaching have been qui te unu sua l for Na ncy H opki ns. During her f irst year "Ho p' s" classroo m was over a firehouse and currently she is under a church . From the plain s of Kans as, Enfi eld to be exact, comes word from Virgini a Harri s Fan ning. She and college prof hu sband are busy planning an European trip for this sum mer.

Several young ones have put in appearances recently. Sue Pilch er Pierce has a daughter, Susan Lee, to keep her two-year-old son company. K aren Di edrich Gardn er and Jim report from Augusta , Georgia, a son, James, in Janu ary. Two other "Jimmys" born in February belong to Carolyn Mos s Hart z and Ran sone ( Februar y 2 3) and Nanc y Goodw yn Hill and Jack (F ebruary 11) .

Down "deep in the heart of Tex as" Ann e House Herrenkohl and Karl have a son born in December. Carol Jean Frederick came into the household of Jean Hudgin s Freder ick and "Fri tz" in Jan uary. Betty Ann e Jone s Ing e (a member of our class for 2 years) and Welford have a daughter , Susan. Welford is in his third year of medicin e at Medical Coll ege of Virgin ia. Several class members are among the ranks of new home ow ners. Sam Beale Swallow and Jim are buildin g their home in Alam o, T exas. Kay Crawford Trimb le and Bob have bought a house in Richmond on Grandview Driv e in the Stratford Hi lls area. Also in Rich mond, Sarah and Gene Holder 's new house is in W estham on Stuart H all Road.

Wh en Bob completes his service requi rements in Jun e, he and Beth Smith Steele will return to Alt avista where he will go into the insurance business with her father.

On the academic side, Peggy Ware attends a University of Richmond evenin g graduate school course in Labor Law. Thi s summer, Eddie Knip Jing Lake will come East from Cal ifornia with her young son. Whil e her husband is on sea duty with the Navy, she plans to work on her master's degree in Wa shington.

Nancy Prick ett Yarborough is busy teaching , house-keeping and typing dental student husband Lou 's thesis. Nancy was married D ecember 23 in a lovely Christmas ceremon y with J ean Ander son Farmer and Beverley Eubank among the attendants.

Plans are enthusiastically being made for several summer weddin gs both her e and abroad.

Carol Brie and medical classmat e Harold Grif fitt s have selected July 29 for their ceremony date.

Bev Coker will marry V. P. I. graduate Don Hobb s in July. At present, both are teaching in Fairfax County. Germany will be the scene of Connie Booker 's wedding, also in Jul y, to Don ald Moe , a young U. S. army officer stationed in Wi ldflecken , where Connie has been working since last June . Don hails from Alaska . Mr. and Mr s.

Booker and Miss Coker will combine a European tri p and attendance at the wedding. On June 17 in Roanoke , Jane Stockman will become Mrs. Lou Thorpe. Lou is employed by the Virginia-Carolin a Chemical Company in Richmond.

Congratulations are in order to Harr y Garrett who recently passed the Virginia State Bar exam and to Mar y J ean who he lped and fed him study snacks.

Word comes from across the seas that Suzanne Kidd is having a fine and helpful experience dur ing her year's stay in Europe . She moved in Mar ch from Switzerland to Denmark . Suzann e is combining study with promin ent musician s with giving organ recitals and concerts. In February , two of my paintings were accepted for th e Virginia Museum's 18th biennial show of Virg inia artists' works. One watercolor will be in a traveling exhib ition for two years. While visiting Carol Brie on a Februar y weekend I attended a Wa shingt on area alumnae luncheon. Carol , Bev Coker, Ann ette Ma sters , Mari ett Ayers and Laura Lu Green Winship and I sat at a table together. Aft er Iuncheon

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we enjoyed slides and delightful commen ts by Mi ss Keller and M iss Turnbull abo ut their Fall trip through France and Spain . Mariett , Bev and Annette shar e a lovely new apar tment ( complete with swimmi ng pool and modern decor) in Alexa ndri a.

Before closing I would like to express the deep regret of the class of 1958 upon hearing of the dea th of M ary Jordan.

NEW Carolyn mond, Beverly North

ADDRE SSES

Moss H artz, 8811 Gayton Road, RichVirgi nia Byram (Mr s. Loui s Gerber , III) , 333 George St., Mill ersville, Pennsylvania

1959 Secretary:

A N ITA K N IPLI NG SCOTT

2417 s/ 27th Street Arlin gton 6, Va. A red-faced class secretary is wr iting this report.

I apologize for not having a column in last time, but although I sent one in, it was received after the deadline date. W e' ll try to catch up however.

Babies again make headlin es. Susan Ann Harringt on was born just three hours before Craig Mich ael Scott on September 20th. Both sets of parents-Dick and Pat Nettles H arrington, and Fred and I-are mighty happy about the new fami ly additions. On October 30th, William Linwood D aniel, Jr. , was born to Wim py and Peggy Powell D aniel, and his proud mama claims that "Lin" spoke complete sentences at two weeks of age!

Charles and Harriet Stone And erson were thrilled, of course , when Betty Clark arrived on Christmas D ay, and on D ecember 28th , Ed and Marian Gates Breeden welcomed Edward L. Breeden , IV .

Bruce and Frankie MacGowan 's little daughter arrived on J anuary 3rd , just three days too late to be a tax exemp tion. I think I can speak for all of these new parents when I say that they are bound to be enjoying their newborns .

With Christmas came many spark ling presents in the way of rings. Gary M oore will be married on Apri l 8th to William Summerville Barnes , an engin eer with Western Electric in Win ston-Salem.

They will be Jiving on ~he Wake Forest Campus, where Ga1y is still in the psychology department.

Ellen Matlick is engaged to Peter M artin Kl ein, a Columbia U niversi ty Jaw student , and is planning a small June wedding. M argaret Ruth erford and Delan o Compt on climaxed a 6 1/ 2 year cour tship with their engagement; their weddi ng date is Jun e 10th. Peggy Dulin and Merrill Crews , a high school classmat e who is now a student at VPI , will be married this summer, as will Bev Eubank and Tommy Evans, a Richmond College stude nt , on July 15th. Patsy Kelly will be Mr s. Dougl as Clark as of Jul y. Doug wor ks for the government, and Laurel , Md ., will be their future home. Tw o more future lawyers' wives will be among us. Bob Edwards, La Verne Watson's fiance , is in h is second year at U. Va . Law School, and Jay Price , to whom Mary M ar lowe recently became engaged, will graduate from T.C. Willi ams in Jun e. Mar y and Ja y will be living in Blacksburg after their late summer wedding. Ru thi e Adkin s and Bob Hill (R.C. '58 ) , will take the big step in June and wi ll live in orfo lk.

Two important weddings have already taken place. Kath arine Schools became Mr s. Wm. 0.

Covington, Jr ., in November and they are now living in Wat er town, Ma ss. M argaret D orsey is now Mr s. Roy E. Fussell and is living and working in Richmond .

Barbara Worrell Jessup is teaching private piano lessons in addition to her regular fourth graders, which keeps her bus)' and W alt will be returning to Richm ond thi s summer so W alt can wo rk on his master's degr ee in Sacred Mu sic.

Bev Wine Bowers finds that she is much happier this year teachi ng many subjects on the seventh gra de level than one subject in high schoo l. La Vern e Wat son and Peggy Dulin did it aga in! Th ey chapero ned a group of Dougla s Freema n Students this time on a ski tr ip and got snowbound-only half wa y there, in Culpeper.

JORDAN MARYWESTCOTT A host of friends have been saddened by the death of Mary Jordan, a

prominent member of the class of '59.

A delicate operation necessitated by a congenita l heart condition caused her untimely death . All who knew her will remember Mary as a charming, beautiful and enthusiasti c person who excelled in both academic and social areas of W esthampton life. Extremely popular with her fellow students and the faculty, Mary was known for her energy, her friend lin ess, her sense of humor, and h er varied abilities. Although she transferred to MCV in her junior year, she continued to take an active interest in her college and its activities.

We who have also experienced this great loss extend heartf elt sympathies to her fami ly.

A note from Sandy D ew revealed that she is in the same graduate school program at U.N.C. as Susan Payne. She wi ll get her degree in library science next year. Susan, incidentally, received a Fellowship for her present school term. Elaine Pettengill Rigsby, whose husband, Bob, is working on his Master 's degr ee at Wm. & Mar y Extension in Norfolk is working on her master 's in addition to her regular job.

Pat MacDon ald Allen and husband Dick just received word that they will soon be returning to the East Coast after a year in Los Ang eles as dorm counselor s at U .C.l.A . Dick will receive his master's in psychology and then enter New ew York City. Ann e York Medical School in Goodwin Meeks and baby daughter Shannon have returned from California also, but only for four months.

I received a long new sy Jetter from Carolyn Nash H aga. She and Ralph have bought a 16room house in Richmond which , in addition to 2-year-old laura, keeps Carolyn very busy . Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum and Ellis, too , are buying a home in Richmond and sound like enthu siastic suburbani tes.

Nancy Kipps Hugh ey " retired" in Octob er and has become a full-time housewife. She has become very active in church work and is superin tendent of the Intermediate Department of her Suunday School. Eleanor D ickson Campbell has started to work again part-time at her former job at M. C. V. Jackie Connell Atkinson and Charles really like living in Clearwater, Fla. , where Jackie is teaching math.

How nice it was to hear from Ellen Paschall

Johnson and Barbara H ess Timmeney! Ellen graduated from Meredith College last July, but claims that her heart was always at Westhampton. Their little girl Rebecca Lynne is 2½ now and Jimmy has recently been called as pastor to the First Baptist Church in Tabor City, N. C. Barbara , who was marri ed July 2nd, is teaching in a private school in Pennsylvania whi le her husband finishes college.

While Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist , Pat Edwards Buffman and lilal ee Guerrant Dollard are reading all that Dr . Spock has to say, Sylvia Olney, Jackie Feeman, Arlene Olson and others are consulting Europe on Five Dollars a Day .

Barbara Dulin Polis and Charlie will be moving to Ohio where Charlie will do his internship.

D orothy D eering received her M . A . in English from Baylor University last Augu st.

I'v e been teaching agai n since November. I find all of my students enthusiastic and fun to wor k w ith but I surely miss Craig dur ing the day.

At the present we are looking forward to our trip to D anville to participate in Gary's Wedd ing.

At a recent luncheon meet ing of class secretar ies in Richmond, it was not ed that our Alumn ae Association spend $3.00 on each of its alumnae per year. The least we can do is reciprocate in the form of as large a contribution as we can manage to the Swimming Pool Fund . The goal is in sight; let's do our part.

1960 Secretary:

Mi ss MEURIAL

Watch the movie and television screens for the appearance of J eanette McW illiams Welsh. Director-h usband Jack cast her in the role of a twelve-year-old in a recent production.

Gloria Viegener Price continues her work in graduate school and Marian Cathey is taking a orfolk. course in Russian at night school in lanetta Ware at Smith College could have helped Robin Hood and his band with her knowledge of archery. Her thesis is on the placeme nt of the feet in archery.

Sharing an apar tment just three blocks from the Princeton campus are Ann e loving and Sandra Ho od. Ann e is now a programmer and operator for the RCA computer at the Educational Testing Service, " the originator of those horrid Graduate Record Exams and College Entrance Boards."

Each of you has been contacted recentl y for contri bution s to the final campaign for the new wing to Keller H all and the swimmi ng pool. I hope each of us will remember that others gave so tl1at we might enjoy the W estham pton we know and give accord ingly.

Keep your interesting letters coming and if there isn't any news, get out and make some!

Keeping Fit In The Sixties (Continued J,-om page 14)

WEBB

1205 Mount Erin Driv e, Richmond 31, Vir gi nia "Greeti ngs from the land of the dead 1" writes Phyllis J enki ns Polhem us from her new home in Lawton, Okl aho ma. H er early impressions of the area around Fort Sill, where Bob is station ed, were anything but pleasant , but we hope she will chang e her mind about "givi ng it back to the Indian s." The message derived from the last smoke signa l sent up from the Polhemus teepee said th at she hoped to teach math either to the camp perso nnel or to the Indi ans.

"I didn 't know one little bundl e could brin g so much joy," are the words of new mother Ann e Paige Jon es Hurt . Willi am Wallace Bennett Hurt who a rrived December 11, 1960, manage s to keep his mother quite busy and even gets his father to leave bis medical studies at the hosp ital in Charlottesvi lle for playtime.

In Indianapolis , Indiana , there is a future We sthamptonit e. Linda Kay Marrow was born October 19, 1960, to Nancy J enkin s and Hunt er Marrow.

An addition to the Walk er fami ly came in ear ly February when Matthew Brown was born to Judy and Phil.

Nancy Rae T aylor and Bill Baker have always done thin gs in a big way. When there was an addition to their household , it didn 't stop at one.

Their dog had several puppies.

Sometim es it is difficu lt to decide whether th e sins of commission or the sins of commission are greater. I must confess that I committed both in last issue . I ommitte d the marri age of Peggy Sue Robert s to Frank Ferebee from the list of Chr istmas weddings. They wer e married on D ecember 21 and are living in Port smouth , Virginia.

Elizabeth Thompson has graciously thank ed me for the ring I reported on her left hand and for setti ng her wedd ing dat e a month earlier than she had. She p lans to be married in Jul y to Chuck Zimmerman.

Two engagements have been announced recent ly. Juanita Ainsley is engaged to University of Richmond gra duate Jam es Garber and Lynn Mapp to MCV dental student Ben Wiggins.

It was good to see some twenty members of our class at W estha mpto n' s Song Contest and some of the same gro up at a shower for Barbar a Ramsey who became Mrs. Ivey Bridgers in Warwick , Virginia , on A pr il 8. The Bridg ers plan to attend seminary in the fall and prepare for service as foreign missionaries . Our very best wishes go with them.

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to walk." Supr eme Justice Willi am 0 .

Douglas suggests that the cause of inter national diplomacy might be better served if world leaders could be persuaded to leave the confere nce rooms and banqu et table s and go for a nice long walk. Such an ex. perience in clear air, amid the wonders of nature , might aid some men in high places to re-learn the declining art of walking.

Not long ago, I met a man while walkin g in the woods. I only spoke to him but later learned these facts. Now 74 years of age and semi-retired, his walking has been developed since last summer. He had had an operation and heart trouble and could not walk a b lock. Finally , he started walking a little each day and eventually got up to ten miles . Now he makes the trek to his office, fifteen miles farther out in the suburbs, several times a week .

Need less to say, I have had my share of aches and pains over the years, and survived two operations but always manage to bounce back to some degree of activity. I hope to be able to do so 20 years from now, although I recognize that the handicaps of the advancing years will slow the pace considerably.

A strong , graceful and active body, an alert, inquisitive mind , a sincere, happ y and generous spirit are the evidences of good health and they are not separate but one .

If our bodies are the temples of the Living God, a correct scriptural quotation I believe, then it behooves us to do all we can to keep them from tumbling down.

How appropriately the Psalmist has said, "I will lift up mine eyes unt o the hills from whence cometh my help." This Spring walk in God 's great open spaces over the hills an d dales and observe the beauties of nature , and see a golden sunset preferably from a beach. I believe these experiences will help us build a more adequate philosophy of lif e.

LOCAL CLUBS WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE

Baltimore Club President: Miss

MARGARET

BOWERS

2922Wyman Parkway Baltimore , Md. On Saturday, March 4, at a luncheon at Hocl1schild-Kohn Nancy Ratchford reported on her work with blind children in Public Schools.

'Twas fun for the 20 of us to be together in December and 16 in January, despite snow.

We decided to meet every orher month, usually starting in November and culminating with the Annual Meeting in May. A summer Outdoor Family Affair and the Alumnae-Student Open House will keep us in contact with one another. May 13th is the date for the Annual Meeting. Miss Lutz will be with us then.

A plan for ways and means of raising money for the club to contribute to that Swimming Pool Fund we want completed soon was accepted .

Though we're not big enough to take on a mighty project, Jeanne Beckett and her Ways and Means Committee are offering an exchange of services and materials with proceeds to go to the club .

Members have already offered earrings, homemade rolls, and Christmas greens for sale, giving the fund $5.50. Dolly Hammond will initial linens on order.

Roanoke Club President: DAVID W . BRANCH ( Barbara Richie) 1232 Persinger Road Roanoke, Virginia The Roanoke chapter of the Westhampton college Alumnae Association held a social January 25, 1961 at the Grandin Court Recreation Center.

There were twelve members present. Mrs. Jackie Boeh, Mrs. Betsy Wilds, Mrs. Nina Byrd, Mrs. Kathy Lee and Mrs. Sally Bradley were in charge or arrangements . A very enjoyable and relaxing evening of bridge, talk and refreshments was had by all present.

MRS.

Suffolk Area Club Ptesident: RUTH HAVERTY '29 Smithfield, Virginia T,he Suffolk area Westhampton Alumnae Association plans to have a reception on Saturday, April 8th, West End Baptist Church, Suffolk, Virginia, 3:30-4:30. At this reception we will entertain present Westhampton students and prospective ones. We will use the slides of scenes and events of Westhampton life.

We hope to have a luncheon in May and then plan our two meetings for the following year with the luncheon in the fall and reception in the spring.

Miss

Tidewater Club President: MRS.

C. LEON JENNINGS,

JR.

(Jane Anderson '56) 1047 South Lexan Crescent Norfolk, Virginia The Tidewater club will have a luncheon meeting at Swartz Department Store the end of April.

We are all looking forward to having Mrs Booker visit with us at this spring meeting. We feel especially privileged to have Dr. Neumann come with her to bring us up to date on the music department at Westhampton.

Washington Club President: A. R. GUEST (Virginia Ingram '36) 9707 Old Spring Road Kensington, Maryland The Washington Alumnae Club had a very interesting and enjoyable lunch on February 18th at the Little Tea House in Arlington. A good MRS.

attendance was credited to the very great interest in the program-Miss Keller, Miss Turnbull and Miss Crenshaw with slides and commentary on their recent trips-as well as the swimming pool fund.

On April 12th the club will join with the Richmond College Alumni Club in ilieir annual dinner at the Naval Gun Factory. To complete the year's program a tea is being planned for May .

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book, In the T rack of the Storm, based on h is study . In appreciation of his work the French government made him cl1evalier of the Legion of Honor.

Dr. Franklin was a member of the International Missionary Council and attended its special meeting at Jerusalem in 1928 and also attended its meeting in Europe and America.

1899Melvin Flegenheimer, United States commissioner in Richmond for nearly 50 years, died March 3 of a heart attack.

Mr. Flegenheimer , 82 years of age, was first appointed commissioner for the Richmond federal district court in 1911, and continued in that position through successive four-year appointments until his death. He had practiced law for 11 years before becoming commissioner.

He was a past exalted ruler of the Richmond lodge of Elks and held an honorary life member ship in the lodge. He was a trustee of Beth Ahabah Congregation.

In 1959, when he was reappointed for his 48th year as commissioner, Mr . Flegenheimer said he believed he had held the office longer than any other person in the state.

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ELIZABETH L. THOMASSON Miss Elizabeth L. Thomasson, who served President Boatwright and President Modlin as secretary for a total of 42 years, died February 2 in Mobile, Alabama.

A native of Henrico County, Miss Thomasson became President Boatwright's secretary in 1914 and later served Dr. Modlin until her retirement in 1956. She was a graduate of the Woman's College, where she received a master of arts degree.

Funeral services were held at Dr. Modlin's home, with burial in Hollywood Cemetery.

1890Gordon Blair, one-time president of the Vir ginia Pharmaceutical Association, died February 27 in Richmond, where he was a retired Pharmacist. He was 92.

Mr. Blair was owner and operator of Blair's Drug Store in Richmond from the death of his father in 1902 until the sale of the store in 1920.

He continued his association with the store, but devoted himself principally to the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations originated by his fa. ther and his grandfather, also druggists.

He was the author of a book entitled "Father Tabb," which contains reminiscences of the late poet John Bannister Tabb. Tabb is buried in Mr. Blair's section of Hollywood Cemetery .

1905Arthur D . Davidson , 78, a former Baptist minister and newspaperman, died February 5 in Richmond.

Mr. Davidson served several rural pastorates in Virginia until World War I. He engaged briefly in government work and after an interim of private employment entered the field of journalism.

He was editor of the Northern Virginia Daily in Strasburg for 24 years before his retirement in 1956 .

Mr. Davidson also had served as news editor of the Danville Register and had worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch . For his editnrials he was awarded the 1940 Lee Editorial Award and the Virginia Press Association Certificate of Merit.

For eight years each, he was president of the Strasburg Chamber of Commerce and was a member of the Shenandoah county school board.

The Rev. Marshall C. Frazer, a retired Baptist minister, died March 1 in Orange county where he had held pastorates until 1946.

Mr. Frazer had also served churches in King William, Madison, and Fauquier counties before ill health following paralysis caused him to limit his ministry to service at the North Pamunkey and Orange Baptist Churches in Orange County .

1908-

1895Dr. James Henry Franklin, Baptist clergyman and educator and a former president of Crozer Theological Seminary, died in Richmond on March 2 3 after a long illness He was 89 years old.

In addition to his training at Richmond College he received his formal education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he won his Th.M. The Un,iversity of Denver and Brown University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity; the University of Richmond the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

After serving Baptist churches in Colorado, he served from 1912 to 1934 as foreign secretary for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

He was president of Crozer Theological Seminary from 1934 until his retirement in 1943. Return ing to Richmond he served on the faculty of the University of Richmond for two years prior to his las,t illness.

His honors included the presidency of the Northern Baptist Convention.

As foreign secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Dr. Frank lin supervised its work in China, Japan, the Philippines , and Europe . He also visited Africa as a special commissioner. Follow,ing World War I Dr. Franklin was sent to study the religious and reconstruction work in devastated areas of France. He wrote a

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Louis E. Cutchins, a Richmond lawyer, died January 22. He was 73.

Mr. Cutchins had been associated with the firm of Cutchins and Cutchins until 1941, practicing alone since that time. He was a member of the Richmond and Virginia State Bar Associations.

1909David Nathaniel Davidson Sr., former superintendent of schools for Orange county, died Jan uary 28 in a Charlottesville hospital.

Mr. Davidson was superintendent for 24 years and later served as director of instruction in Orange County. After his retirement in 1949 he was a consultant on historical manuscripts for the Alderman library of the University of Virginia, and he was recognized as an authority on the history of the area. At the time of his death, at the age of 74, be was chairman of the Orange County Civil War centennial committee and was a deacon in Rhodesville Baptist Church .

Mr. Davidson was a former president of the University of Richmond Alumni Council, and was instrumental in encouraging construction of the Student Center building .

1911R. Hill Fleet, veteran Virginia

educator and

publisher, died D ecember 25.

Mr. Fleet served successively as principal of Gloucester County Schoo l and other high schoo ls in the Tidewater area, teacher in Roanoke, and pri ncipa l in Richmond.

In 1938 he was elected to the Hou se of D elegates from Lancaster and Richm ond counti es. l ater he became secretary and vice-presid ent of the John son Publishing Company, and in 1941 became president of that firm .

Then , in 1949, he went back to colleg e, gai ning his bach elor's degree in the Richmond Prof essional In stit ut e Evening School. Because Dr . H. H. Hibb s, RPI provost, liked Mr . Fleet's background as a long-time admini strator and recent student , he appoi nted him assistant director, and then director, of the evening college .

In 195 7 Mr. Fl eet was appointed dire ctor of the RPI summer school. H e retired in 1959 .

Francis Percival Smith Jr. , 71, a retir ed United States Soil Conservation Service offi cial, died March 9. H e was a nativ e of Madi son County , where he died.

Mr. Smith was a state administrative assistant for the Soil Conservation Service from 1935 unti l bis retirement in 1951 , servi ng in Spartanburg, S. C., D anville and Blacksburg. Prior to his Soil Conservation Service, Mr. Smith was vice-president of the State Bank of Madiso n and had also been associated with the Federal land Bank in Baltimore.

The Rev. Dr. Ira D . Kni ght, pastor of Baptist Churches in Virginia for more than 45 years , died October 25, 1960 in Gla sgow, Ky., where he had lived in retirement since 195 7.

D r. Knight orga nized the Wood land H eights Baptist Church in Richm ond and bad also serve d as pastor of Park Place Baptist Church in Norfo lk, Calvary Baptist Church in Roanoke , the Baptist Church in Leesburg , and the Virginia Beach Baptist Church.

Dr. Ira D . S. Kn ight died Oct ober 24 in Bowling Green , Ky. after an extend ed illness.

Pastor of the Glasgow (Ky .) Bruptist Church from 1914-18 , he retired from active ministry in 1951 and returned to G lasgow where he lived in retirement. Dur ing his ministry be served as pastor of the Calvary Bapt ist Church in Roanoke, Park Place Church in Norfo lk, First Bapt ist Church in D urham, N. C., Fir st Bap oist Omrch in W est Palm Beach, Fla. , and First Bap tist Church, Virginia Beach.

Word has been received of the death in M ay of 1960 of Raymond W. Gi ll, w ho was president of the John A. Gill Grocery Company , a wholesale concern in Peters bur g .

R . C. Craft , a lawyer in Gate City, died O ctober 19, 1960.

1912Word has been received of the death of A. R. Meredith, a lawyer and fa rmer, in Law rencevi lle, May 25, J 960.

The Rev. Will iam M adison Black, 88, died March 22 in Pam plin. A reti red minister , he had served charges in South Norfo lk, Greenvi lle, and Pamplin for 31 years.

1916Thomas J. Starke, 65 , president of Steel Service In c. and retired pres ident of the Richmond Engineering Co., died February 15 in a Richm ond hospital.

Mr. Starke was the founder of Steel Service In c. and was president and board director of auxi liary firms in Roanoke, Charlotte , N. C., H ampton Roads, and Fayetteville, N. C. In 1917 he was empl oyed by the Richm ond Engineering Company and a year later entered the army and saw actio n in Fran ce. H e return ed

to Richmond Engineering in 1919 and ret ired as president in 1953. H e served as a direct or of the compa ny after his retirement.

In other activities, he was a certif ied prof essional engineer, board member of Centra l Nationa l Bank, member of the Richm ond M emori al H ospital administrative board, dir ector and chairma n of the Richmond section of th e Virginia Manu factu rers Associati on, past dir ector of the Richmond Chamber of Comm erce and member of the Virgin ia and United States Chamb ers of Commerce.

Mr . Starke was a member of the Nationa l As sociation of Manufactur ers, the American Society of M echanical Engine ers, the Virgi nia Society of Profes sional Engi neers, and the National Small Busines s M en's Association. H e was an advis ory board member of the U niversity of Richmond School of Busin ess Administr ation and a direct or of the Richmond YMCA. Mr Stark e was a member of Fir st Baptist Church where be served as a deacon , a member of the fin ance committee, and a member of the board of managers of the endowment fund .

1917Dr. Samuel S. Hill , wide ly known Bapti st leader, died Febru ary 4 in Bell e Gl ade, Fla . fo llowing a sudd en illness.

Dr Hill was pastor of the First Baptist Church there at the time of bis death. H e was 70.

Dr. Hill was pastor of Bainbridg e Street Baptist Church in Richm ond from 1926 to 1934, and from 1934 to 1943 be was pastor of the D eep Park Bap tist Church in Loui sville, Ky. Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky ., which he served as presi dent from 1942 to 1953, conferred on him an ho norary 11.D. degree. H e served for a numb er of years as modera tor of the General Association of Bapt ist Churches in Kentucky.

Foll owi ng his resignati on as president of Georgetown College he became pastor of the Hatch er M emorial Baptist Church in Richmond .

In 1956 be resigned to work with the executive secretar y of Florida Bap tists in helping chur ches without pastor s.

Stuart Geil Aldhizer , 65, administrator of lew isGal e H ospita l in Roanoke for 17 years, died January 27 after a month's illnes s.

Mr. Aldhiz er went to Roanoke in 1943 from Harr isonburg , w here be had been busines s administrator of Rockingham Memorial Hospital.

1920Bern ard W ebb Mahon , 62, Caro line County Commonwea lth 's Attorney since 1932 died March 27. H e was a member of the Bow ling Gr een Baptist Church and was a former modera tor of the H ermon Bapti st Associatio n, a form er member of the Vir ginia Baptist Board of Mi ssions and Educat ion, and a tru stee of Fork U nion M ilitary Acad emy. H e also was a pas t master of K ilwinning-Cross e Lodg e and a memb er of the Commonw ealth Club and the Vir ginia Bar Association.

1921J. Neal Wright , who last year marked bis 45t h anniv ersary of service with the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel ep hone Company, died February 11 at his home near Old Chur ch.

Mr. Wright was genera l staff supervisor of personne l for the telephone compa ny. H e was a Sunday School teach er at Bethlehem Pr esbyterian Church , a Ma son, and a member of the Han over Ruritan Club and the Richmond Lions Club .

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and ath letic coach at Greenvill e (S. C.) High School before entering hi s medical career. H e interned in Clevel and and Bosto n, was an instructor in medicine at Ya le U niversity, and for two years was medical reside nt at Hunt ingto n M emorial Ho sp ital in Boston .

In 1936 he became assista nt physician with M etropol itan Life In surance Company , Mt . McGregor , N . Y . Wh en World War II broke out he became director of research on minimal tuberculosis with headquart ers in D enver, Col. , and continued the same assig nment in a civili an capacity after the war.

D r. Roper also served as clinical physician for the North Carolina State Sanatorium and for the Birmingham Veteran 's Admini stration H osp ital in Van Nuys , Calif., and as assista nt prof essor in the Colorado University medical school.

H e was especia lly interested in four areas of r esearch; anemia in cancer, blood serum protein s in malignant diseases of bones, gastric studi es in TB patien ts, and fever in TB. Dr . Roper was a member of the subcommittee on tuberculosis of the Nationa l Research Coun cil, chairman of the exhibit committe e for the National T ubercu losis Association , and a member of the rehabili tation committe e of the Am erican Trudeau Society, medica l divisio n of the NTA .

Word has been received of the death in California of the Rev. J osep h N. Hilb ouse, a Presbyterian minister w ho served in the western part of the United States.

Mr. H ilhouse had been pastor of the Fi rst Presbyteria n Chur ch in Phoenix , Ariz. , and at the time of his death was director of Calvin Crest Conference Ground s in Oakburst , Calif.

Thom as G. Martz, 58, died Nove mber 19 in Summit, N. J. after a long illness. H e had retired in January , 1960 as purchasing agent of the W estern Electric Corporation , having been associated with the firm for 30 years.

Mr. Mart z was a member of Rockingham U nion M asonic Lodge , Salaam Temple , Tel epho ne Pioneers of Am erica, and the First Meth odist Churc h of W estfield.

1930Shelby W ayne Arrit t died Ju ne 8, 1960. H e was a real estate brok er in Vi rg inia and Florida.

1931W ord has been received of th e death of Burleigh W . H am ilton, a lawyer in Appa lachia, in February .

1932Word has been received of the death Albert J ohnson Wri ght of Mi ami, Fla.

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1933Christopber P. M iller of Greensboro, N. C., died Janu ary 13.

1936Wesl ey Lynn Snelson, Jr. , 47, an official of the Virginia Indu strial D evelopm ent Corporation , died Janua ry 30 in Kilm arn ock.

Mr. Snelson, who bad been in the banking business for more than 25 years, was appoin ted to the new ly created state agency last fall. His duties included credit analysis, study of investments, and assembling financial and economic dat a.

H e was a former officer of the State-Planter s Bank of Commerce and Tru sts in Richmond , the People' s Bank at Charl ottesville, and the Security National Bank of Greensboro , N. C. H e bad done grad uate stud y with the Americ an School of Banking .

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Word has been received of the death of Dr .

William H ami lton Rop er , engaged in tuberculosis control with the New York State H ealth D epartment.

D r. Rope r, who took bis M.D. degre e at the U niversity of Virgin ia, was science instructor

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Joseph Manu el Levin, 30, of Pbo ebus died February 11 aft er a shor t illn ess. H e bad been associated with the law firm of H enry Koshout yJ osepb Levin in Phoebus and was a memb er of the Hampton Bar Asso ciation and of the B'Nai Israe l congreg~io n.

HeWorkedForQQ QQQFREEDOM In 1611, when th e Virgin ia colony seemed on the verge of collapse, Sir Thomas Dale became deputy governor. It was a sorry situation that he faced.

Under the policy of common ownership and production , the colony was failing. Th e men were indiff erent. Little work was don e, and many were starving.

Then, Dale introduced private ownership struck the spark of individual initia-and t i'i¡e in the hearts of the colonists. Virginia was saved , and John Rolfe wrot e that now every man could sit under his own "fig tre e safely, gathering and reaping the fruits of their labors with great joy and comfort."

This was the true beginning of the American way of life - and of the spirit of fre e enterprise that has made and kept us strong .

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