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FALL 1963

Alumni Bulletin UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

Homecoming November 2


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The Wisdom of the Past

"NO MAN IS FREE WHO IS NOT MASTER OF HIMSELF." EPICTETUS

Too many of us-complaining

of the erosion of individual liberties and the tightening controls of government - have overlooked or forgotten this simple philosophy. Yet it is as true today in 20th Century America as it was 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece. To remain free, we must be willing to face individual responsibility. To accept self discipline as the only true discipline. To defend - consciously and constantly-the liberties we cherish. This was the philosophy that guided our founding fathers. Men such as Washington and Jefferson dedicated their lives to creating a nation in which all men could be masters of themselves. Answerable above all to their own consciences. Served by their government-and not its servants. Their legacy to us was individual freedom. If today it seems in jeopardy, let us remember: No man is free who is not master of himself.

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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA


The AlumniBulletin IN THIS ISSUE Good for What Ails You

The Research Chemist-He's Homecoming

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN 2

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Afghan Housewife

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New Trustees

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The New Session ............ .....

Charter Heslep: A Tribute

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Mrs. Lula Woodward

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

VoL. XXVII

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1963 No. 1

JO SEPH E . NETTLES, '30 ............................ Editor RANDOLPH H. WALKER, '60 .... Assistant Editor LESLIE s. BOOKER, '22 ...... Westhampton Editor JOHN W. EDMONDS, III, '56 Law School Editor THOMAS S. BERRY ........ Business School Editor Business Manager CECIL F. JONES, •43 ..............

Art Director-FRANK

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Alumni In The News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Westhampton

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In Praise Of Odis Hinnant Philanthropy will not be found as a subject in the college curriculum, but it is a basic characteristic of liberally educated men and women, a fundamental part of orien tati on in the liberal arts. A college is fortunate when it has been able to impart to its students the ~e~;;Tng ~ philanth;op y,- as- well as· knowledg~ ~c;f t~ch:- Such -acoll~g~ ga-i'ns~ i~h r~t~;n ~~ s't h~ lives and tangible goods of its alumni serve dedicated purposes. A college that has such alumni is assured dynamic vitality, for its alumni exert a creative influence on their Alma Macer. The University of Richmond is singularly blessed to have many alumni whose lives reflect a philanthropic outlook and an ability to translate their philanthropy into practical efforts. Among them are men and women in every kind of endeavor. Pervading their personalities is a love of mankind, an appreciation of their Alma Mater, and an active desire to guarantee the benefits of a Richmond education for future generations. Often an alumnus of the University makes an unusually valuable contribution, both of his tangible goods and of himself . The contributions of such an alumnus typify the meaning of philanthropy and reveal the value of an independent university whose atmosphere cultivates that voluntary pilgrimage which we know as The American Way. Such an alumnus is Odis B. Hinnant, member of the Class of 1914. At the beginning of this year, Odis Hinnant accepted the General Chairmanship of the Alumni Bequest Program. From the outset, his serious intentions were apparent, for immediately he began to make arrangements for permanently endowing his own substantial yearly contribution to the Alumni Fund. He also called personally on most of his 40 Class Bequest Chairmen and with them studied their class lists, for he realized that permanent endowment of all contributions to the Alumni Fund would mean the addition of $2,500,000 co the University's 0

endowment. Odis Hinnant next made a comprehensive study of the University's endowment needs. He found that continuation of the past decade's endowment growth will require the addition amount almost of $4,500,000 to the University 's endowment during the next ten years-an identical to capital needs. Having charted these needs in detail, he is de-voting three days each week chis fall to personal discussions of the University's future with more than 100 alumni leaders in Richmond, Roanoke, Petersburg, and other Virginia cities. As an alumni volunteer, he is giving half of his time to his Alma Mater - a distinctive contribution deeply appreciated by Alma Mater. His gift of time and ability evokes even more gratitu de when one learn s that during the fall Odis Hinnant also is professional director of a community fund in a West Virginia city, that he speaks weekly to various civic groups, and that he gives another three days a week to his work as chaplain at Beaumont, the Virginia industrial school for boys. To Odis Hinnant, lifelong YMCA missionary and executive, philanthropy is a way of life. Love of mankind is one of his primary characteristics. His Alma Mater is justifiably proud of his accomplishments and grateful for his contributions.

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SOCIETY

OF ALUMNI

ALBERT L. PHILPOTT, '4 1 ······················ JOHN B. BOATWRIGHT, JR., '38 Vice ENDERS DICKINSON, III, '40 ...... Vice '3 4 .......... Vice VICTOR H. CHALTAIN, SPENCER D. ALBRIGHT, III, '54 ········· · COMMITTEE

R. W. Nuckols, Richard C. Walden,

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL WILLIAM T. BAREFORD,'46 .................. ALFRED J. DICKINSON, ' 37 ········ Vice G. F1'ED COOK, '25 ..................... . Vice JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '25 ············ Vice CECIL F.

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President President President President Secretary

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President President President President Treasurer

COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE John J . Wicker, '13 Ralph P. Moore, '38 Howard P. Falls, '33 Carle E. Davis, '54

COLLEGE ALUMNAE WESTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION FRANCES ANDERSON STALLARD, '28 .. Pre sident VIRGINIA LESUEUR CARTER, '53 .. Vice Pres ident Mail all contributions and news items to Mrs. WestSecretary, R. E. Booker, Executive College, Alumnae Assoc iation, P. hampton 0., Un iversity of Richmond, Virginia . I '35 Mary Mills Freeman, fBoard of Truste es '19 Elizabeth Tompkins, '26 J Harriet S. Willingham, LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Jesse W. Dillon, '32 .............................. E. Ralph James , '2 4 .................. Vice Executive Virginia Ivey, '48 ______________ Carle E. Davis, '54 ..... ........................ .

President President Secr eta ry Treasurer

DIRECTORS Howard P. Anderson, '48 Willard J , Moody, '52 Joe T. Mizell, Jr., '27 Kenneth I. Devore, '55 John C. Williams, '27 R. Daniel Smith, Jr. , '56 James H . Barnett, Jr., '17 Ezra T. Carter, Jr., '39 Hugh A . West, '53

ADMINISTRATION OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Joseph E. Brooks, '51 ......... ................. Pres ident Ted R. Buckner, '55 ...... ........ .... Vice President Bruce A. Carlton, '55 .................. ........ Treasurer Fred B. Bisger, '54 .............................. Secretary Theodore F. Adams, Jr., '52 Immediate Past President

SCHOOL


If you are an "average" alumnus of the class of '38 or earlier you would not be reading this article, were it not for advances in health measures since the turn of the century. You would be dead! Since 1900, the life expectancy in years for the citizen of the United States has increased from forty-seven to three score and ten. The increased life span of people in all civilized countries can not be attributed to any single factor or condition but advances in health sciences have contributed greatly to longevity. High in importance in health sciences are surgery, internal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry, the first two of which depend greatly on the last. Pharmaceutical chemiSJtry is concerned with the preparation of drugs for use in the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease. These drugs may be obtained from natural sources or they may be synthesized . The syntheses may involve slight or major variations in the structure of the naturally occurring products or the building of the desired compounds from pharmacologically inactive chemicals. Many of these drugs have become so much a part of modern life that existence

THERESEARCH CHEMISTHE'S GOODFOR WHAT AILSYOU

A research chemist at work in the laboratory of A. H. Robins Co. [ 2

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without them would be intolerable to large numbers of people. Millions of Americans who today are in excellent health would either be dead or in such a physical and mental state ,that death would be a welcome relief were it not for certain drugs, many of recent origin. Fifty years ago pneumonia killed one patient out of three. Today, due largely to modern drugs, such as sulfapyridine, approximately seventeen out of eighteen patients survive pneumonia. In 1913, tuberculosis was the main cause of death in the United States. Today, due to modern treatment, which includes surgery and new drugs, tuberculosis ranks seventeenth as a fatal disease. Had such treatment been available for Robert Louis Stevenson, English literature and youthful adventure lovers likely would have been enriched by many other exciting narratives. An imaginative historian could write an interesting treatise on history as it might have been had modern drugs been available


at certain times in the past. Penicillin could have cured Stonewall Jackson after the mishap at Chancellorsville. Jackson's artillery at Gettysburg might have turned a crushing defeat for Lee into an inspiring victory. Tranquilizers could have made George III of England a more tractable individual and might have averted the loss to England of a certain thirteen colonies. Modern history doubtless would have been much different had it not been for

pharmaceutical chemical developments , many of recent origin. In September, 1955, it is quite likely that the United States of America would have had another president had not modern drugs been available when Eisenhower had a heart attack. Thousands of veterans of World War I and World War II who have made tremendous contributions to national progress would not have returned to civilian life had there been no advances in medical sciences since the Civil War. Many diseases which were scourges to humanity in tropical and semitropical areas particularly, now have been or are being brought under control by modern science. Destruction of lice, mosquitoes, black gnats and snails is the best method to prevent the spread of typhus, malaria, filiarisis and schistosomiasis, respectively. Treatment is with chemotherapeutic agents, largely of recent origin . Leprosy, dread disease of ancient and modern times, is losing some of its terror as certain new drugs cause improvement in about four patients out of five who have had the disease from one to twenty years. Vitamin deficiency diseases develop in individuals when their foods lack adequate quantiities of certain vitamins. Night blindness, beriberi, scurvy, rickets and pellegra result from deficiency in vitamin A, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin C ( ascorbic acid), vitamin D 2 ( calciferol) and niacin, respectively. Although a balanced diet furnishes aLI of the vitamin requirements for a normal, healthy individual, paithological cond~tions at times cause the destruction or improper utilization of one or more vitamins.

For some people the regular use of vitamin tablets is more than a fad. Pernicious anemia results from inadequate transfer of vitamin B 12 from the intestinal tract to the blood. Hog and calf liver are relatively rich in vitamin B12 so early therapy for pernicious anemia consisted in feeding large quantities of liver. Fortunately for people who disliked such a diet, liver concentrates proved to be a satisfactory substitute. Vitamin B12 or cyanocobalamin now is prepared in crystalline form by fermentation processes so the present therapy for pernicious anemia consists of intramuscular injection of solutions of the pure vitamin. The usual dosage of vitamin B12 is from 1 to 30 micrograms, although when anemia is accompanied with severe neurological abnormality, the dosage may be 1000 micrograms or 1 milligram . This latter amount is one thousand times the actual daily requirement of vitamin B12 for one microgram per day in the blood stream is adequate to prevent pernicious anemia. Thus, one ounce of vitamin B1 2 , if fully utilized, would be adequa:te to prevent pernicious anemia for one year in a city of 80,000 inhabitants. The daily dose of one microgram seems small, particularly since vitamin B12 (CGsH90CoN14 Q 14 P) is such a large molecule, but each individual would receive 400 million milJion molecules per day. Forty years ago the patient wirth diabetes usually was doomed to a precarious and severely diet limited existence, followed in many cases by a premature and horrible death. A,t present, except in extreme cases,

J. STANTON PIERCE J. Stanton Pierce, veteran professor al chemistry at the University of Richmond, is admired by his colleagues as an able teacher , a devoted and successful researcher and a wise and sympathic counselor.

He perhaps has guided as many students into restudy as any member of the search and graduate faculty which he joined in 1937. All of the friends of this quiet, unassuming scientistin the announcement that and they ore legion-rejoiced he would be one of two recipients of the 1963 Distinguished Service Awards of the Virginia section of were Society. The awards Chemical the American presented at a dinner in Richmond on June 7. Dr. Pierce ¡ s research has been largely devoted to the discovery of compounds important for their pharmaceutical uses and it is in this ~eld that he writes in the article on this page. authoritatively Georgetown A native of Kentucky, he attended College in Kentucky where he took his B.S. and the in Univers.ity of Illinois where he took his doctorate 1924. He has an honorary doctrate from Georgetown . He had taught at the University of South Dakota, the before coming University of Illinois, and Georgetown to the University of Richmond.

diabetes can be controlled by regular use of insulin and in mild cases in adults, frequently by oral use of the new synthetic compound, orinase. Phenobarbital enables a patient with epilepsy to lead a fairly normal life . Chlortrimeton and other antihistamines relieve to a great extent the symptoms of asthma and hay fever. Duodenal ulcer is largely a modern affliction, brought on by tension. Relatively few of the millions of individuals, usually men, who suffer from an ulcer, will die directly from its effect but to such a victim, the enjoyment of life, particularly the act of eating, is greatly reduced . Robinul, a new antiulcer drug, developed by a graduate of the University of Richmond for a phar-

maceutical company whose president is a graduate of ,the University of Richmond, due to its strength and specificity of action, is making substantial inroads into the arutiulcer market. Robaxin, a muscle relaxant developed by another gradua,te of the University of Richmond for the same company, based on sales, is one of the top drugs used for the treatment of muscle spasm associated with acute strain. Modern surgery would be impossible without anesthetics. Tens of millions of Americans have undergone major surgery, surgery necessary for survival in a large percentage of cases. Analgesics help to make convalescence pleasant rather than a nightmare of pain and thus contribute to healing of the surgical incisions. Chemotherapeutic agents, such as the sulfonamides and antibiotics, most of which have become available within the past thirty years, cause happy endings to many operations which otherwise would be classified as "Operation successful. Patient died." Although research in pharmaceutical chemistry has contributed greatly to man's relief from pain, his health, his span of life, his ability to enjoy these added years and to use them productively, much yet remains to be done. At present, heart disease is the main killer with cancer second. Mental patients occupy a high percentage of hospital beds. Great progress has been made in the (C ontinued on pag e 20)

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HOMECOMING- - 1963 Scheduleof Events Friday, November 1 WATER BALLET, 8: 30 p.m. That Westhampton swimming pool was well worth waiting for and the colorful, spectacular ballet officially opening it will be well worth seeing. The Westhampton ladies have graciously invited the Alumni to join them at the Fanny G. Crenshaw swimming pool. Saturday, November 2 BREAKFAST, School of Business Administration Alumni, Nick's House of Steaks, 7:45 a.m. REGISTRATION, beginning at 9 a.m. for Alumni on Millhiser Green; 9:30, Alumnae, Keller Hall, coffee and doughnuts at both places. Come early to greet and "visit" with your friends. FRESHMAN FOOTBALL, East Carolina College vs. U. of R., 10 a.m. This will be a good game, scheduled for the Alumni through the courtesy of Ed Merrick. It will be played on beautiful Robins Field. Bleacher seats have been installed for your comfort. DEDICATION, Emily Gardner Memorial Room, 10:30, Keller Hall. LUNCHEON. A tasty luncheon will be served in Millhiser Gymnasium at 12 noon for U. of R. and Westhampton Alumni and Alumnae who will be guests of the University. (Bring your friends. Guest tickets may be purchased for $1.50.) HOMECOMING PARADE. Beginning at 1:00 p.m. at City Stadium there will be a spectacular Homecoming Parade with floats, marching bands, and the Homecoming Queen and her court. FOOTBALL, V.P.I. vs. U.R., 2 p.m ., with the traditional crowning of the Homecoming Queen and awarding of prizes at half-time. CAPTAIN'S CLUB DINNER and DANCE. Virginia Room, John Marshall Hotel. Dinner at 7: 30 p.m. will be preceded by a 6: 30 p.m . reception and will be followed by a dance at 9:45 p.m. Checks for tickets ($10 each) should be made payable to: U . of R. Captain's Club and sent to P. 0. Box 100, University of Richmond, Virginia. ALUMNI DANCE, Virginia Room, John Marshall Hotel. In conjunction with the Captain's Club, there will be a dance for all U. of R. alumni, starting at 9:45 (see above). Tickets $3.75 per couple; music by Joe Michaels and his orchestra. EVERYBODY COME

Let's make this a University of Richmond family day. Bring your wife and children. Bring your girl friend. Come prepared to enjoy a great day and a fine program on the campus of Alma Mater.

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Introducing

OURNEWTRUSTEES DAVID

NELSON SUTTON

Although he has an international reputation as a brilliant prosecutor of Tojo and other Japane se war criminals, David Nelson Sutton, ' 15, a newcomer to the University 's board of trustees, insists he is "just a country lawyer." He is looked up to not only as the leading legal light in his area but has been described by colleagues as "the best friend any young lawyer in his circuit can have." His office is at West Point, Va., where his son David, Jr., '48 , is in practice with him. In fact, the entire family is a University of Richmond family. Mrs. Sutton, the former Frances Lillard Shipman, is a

Two of the University's most loyal alumni, David Nels on Sutton, '15, and Tyler Haynes, '22, have been added to the University's board of trustees. Each is a distinguished member of his profession; each a public-spirited civic leader. They can be expected to give to the board the benefit of their wisdom and devotion. The brief sketches on this page will introduce them to the Alumni who do not already know them.

Nimrod Nelson

1920 graduate of Westhampton, where daughter Franees graduated in 19 51. Mr . Sutton can lay claim to having supported the University from probably the longest distance if not the longest time, having remembered to contribute to the Alumni Fund in 1948 from Tokyo during the war criminal trials . The job would last six months, he was told when it started in 1946, but turned out to last two and a half years. Mr. Sutton was in court 425 days during the trial that covered a court record of 50,000 pages of evidence. He did the job in his usual thorough way in spite of langua ge difficulties- each word in court was repeated in English , Japanese and Russian. He has been a tireless worker for his University - as a class agent for the Alumni Fund many times, and president of the Alumni Society in 1954. He has practiced in West Point since 1920, serving from 1928 until 1946 as

Haynes ' Hobby.

commonwealt h 's attorney of Kin g William County. His fellow attorneys have honored him many times, electing him pr esident of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1948 . The Univer sity of Richmond honor ed and recognized his achievement s in 1954, when he was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, which had no chapter on the campus wh en he was an undergraduate . - William T . Bareford , '46 [ 5 ]

DR.W.

TYLER HAYNES

The election of Dr. W. Tyler Ha ynes, '22 , as a trustee of the University simply strengthens the tie of loyalty that has existed since his graduation 41 years ago. He is a former member of the executive committee of the AJumni Council , and a former class agent. At his farm on Gaskins Road, he has been host for many years at picnics for alumni of Omicron Delta Kappa leadership society and Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity. His main concern as a trustee, he says, will be strengthening of faculty salaries. Following his graduation with a B.S. in 1922, he attended the Medical College of Virginia , where he received a D .D.S . in 1926. Two years were spent in further study in New York, and Dr. Haynes in 1928 began a practice limited to orthodontics (treatment of irregularities of the teeth). He has been professor at MCV since 1928 and professor of orthodontics 20 years. He is on the ladder of titles in the Southern Orthodontics Society and will be its president in two years. As an undergraduate, he was business manager of The Web and vice president of the student body. But today, Dr. Haynes is not a joiner; his memberships are limited mostly to professional organizations or those with a tie to educational institutions - and to the Baptist church . (But Medi cal College of Virginia alumni prevailed on him several years ago to be their president.) Although he has counseled und ergradu ates for a generation, Dr. Haynes would never fit any writer 's stereotyped profes sional alumnus . Football games frankly do not interest him. Yet there is nothin g unusual in finding him- with no hat , even in wint ertim estrolling and chatting with several und ergraduates or young alumni on Broad Street. His hobby, he says, is "lying on the sofa, sleeping. " There are few better places to do so than his farm in Henri co county . The time availabl e for that hobb y and for strolling down Broad Street appears to have diminished in recent months . In additi on to his office in the Medical Arts Buildin g downtown , he has opened an office in Stratford Hills in Chesterfield County . - J. Earle Dunford , Jr. , '4 8


Another Land ... Another Life

AfghanHousewife By BARBARAFERGUSONQAISSAUNEE,'60*

I am an Afghan housewife, a Khanom Sahib. It is a challenging job and a time-consuming one, but I love every minute of it. I have been an Afghan housewife -cook, "cleaning woman," seamstress, fire tender, etc.-since September, 1962. With my many duties as a housewife and

my work as a librarian, I haven't missed television, ranch-style suburban homes or credit cards since my husband and I came to his native country to live. Let me tell you something about life in Afghanistan, a country about the size of Texas which is bordered by Iran , Russia, China and West Pakistan. Abdul and I live in a typical mud-brick , [ 6

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mortar-covered house in Kabul, and our neighbors and friends are Afghans. Kabul , the home of approximately 300,000 people , is located in the northeastern section of the country, in the valley of the Hindu Kush. At an elevation of 6,000 feet, its dry sunny climate is marvelous . Kabul's brilliantly blue skies remain sunny and blue all winter. And in winter our view is especially majestic with the sun glistening on the snowy peaks of the Hindu Kush , against the background of the strikingly blue sky. Although Kabul's wintry temperatures fall quite low, the warm and bright sunshine makes heat unnecessary in the daytime. Kabul is a picturesque city where the ancient and modern intermingle at every hand. According to Afghan law, every land owner is required to close his property with a wall- so all residential areas look alike. City streets are wide and well-paved, but become narrower and dustier in the suburbs. There are many cars and trucks on the streets, as well as city buses, but the drivers spend much of their time dodging people , sheep, goats, loaded donkeys, cows and an occasional camel caravan. The buses, incidentally, have only one front seat for women, with the remainder reserved for men. Bold woman that I am, I have on occasion sat in the men's section. I usually sit with the veiled women but also have stood ( seething with indignation) while a couple dozen men relaxed in their seats. Although many Afghans now dress Western-style, on the street you see mostly turbans and veils. A turban is a strip of selfedged cloth about a foot wide but 12 to 20 feet long. When Abdul's teen-age brother visited us sometime ago, I had the dubious pleasure of washing and ironing his turbans - so I know whereof I speak. Afghan men also wear baggy cotton trousers and a "piran," or long dress-like shirt. Even though the "chadori" was legally discouraged several years ago, the majority of Afghan women never leave home without donning this shroud-like garb. The Moslem leaders, or "mullahs," encourage women to believe that it is sinful for them to be seen unveiled in public. Usually dark blue or gray, the opaque, shapeless, pleated garment completely covers its wearers from head to toe with latticework for the eyes and nose. To my surprise, many women wear quite nice Western-style clothes under their chadoris, including nylon hose and heels. Ordinarily , however, a lady's attire is completed with a full-skirted piran and a pair of "ezar," or wide cotton trousers. Our Kabul is a city of shopping centers. If you immediately think of gigantic suburban shopping marts, forget them. These shop*Barbara met Abdul Qaissaunee when both were graduate students at the University of Illinois . They were married in November, 1961, and have been living in Kabul , Afghanistan , since September, 1962. Dr. Qaissaunee is dean of the College of Engin eering at the University of Kabul.


ping centers are the famous Middle Eastern bazaars. Like all Afghans (I hold dual citizenship, American and Afghan), we buy our foodand everything else-from the turbaned merchants in the bazaars. Grocery stores do not exist, much less supermarkets. The merchants charge according to their moods, so that one day soap may be six afs and the next day nine . Overcharging foreigners is their only consistency. So even though a stroll through the bazaars is a treat for me, I usually stay away. Like practically everything about Kabul , the bazaars fascinate me-particularly the multicolored displays of fruit, candies, nuts and vegetables . You can find just about anything in the bazaars, from a silk-embroidered sheepskin jacket, Afghan carpet, Karakul hat or chadori to the latest electrical appliances. I have found Kabul food to be very tasty, in spite of the American treatment it gets from me. Vegetables are of the same variety as those in the United States, but many are king size. Fruit is a specialty, with Herat

alone reporting 72 varieties of grapes . Just about any kind of fruit is plentiful, including luscious melons, pomegranates, oranges and grapefruit. Mutton, sold interchangeably with goat, is the favorite meat of most Afghans, and kabab is a taste treat fit for any king. The fat-tail sheep is especially prized, both for its meat and its oil. Beef is plentiful in the winter, and chickens are always on the market - live! I don't know of any Afghan processed foods, except for marvelous hydrogenated vegetable oil. The bazaars carry limited supplies of costly imported canned goods; for example , a small can of powdered milk costs the equivalent of 75 cents or 8 pounds of beef. Americans usually like "nan ," Afghan bread , and I am no exception. Mixed and shaped by hand and baked to a brown crispness in Afghan ovens, the thin slabs of whole-wheat bread are a delight to any palate

-especially when toasted on top of a wood stove on a frosty morning. Another essential in our diet is "chai," or tea. We wouldn't dare deprive our guests of their traditional pot of chai. Warmed up by chai and nourished by "nokul " (sugar-covered apricot seeds), "keshmesh" ( walnuts, almonds and raisins) and salted, roasted pistachios, we often engage in good old-fashioned conversation . You may wonder how I spend my days, so let me try to give you an idea of my life as a Khanom Sahib. My day begins with a trip to our only water faucet ( in the yard) where I fill the teakettle and then put it on our kerosenedrinking kitchen range. I proceed sleepily to fix both breakfast and lunch , then eat hurriedly and dash off to work. (I work for USAID/ Afghanistan as librarian at the Afghan Institute of Technology and for Teachers College, Columbia University team as library consultant and as adviser to two Afghan school libraries where we catalog books in English, French and German , as well as Farsi, Pushtu, Ordu, Turkish , Arabic and Russian. I have been told that I am the only trained Afghan librarian in the country.) Returning home at noon , I warm up our lunch and make soup out of stew if we have guests, then scamper back to work by 1 o'clock. When I get home at 5, I put on the faithful teakettle, just previous to the arrival of a tired, thirsty husband and an unpredictable number of friends and / or relatives. With the temperature clinging to the 100degree mark, I have become addicted to iced tea but cannot induce any of our friends even to try it. While I finish butchering the meat and get supper on the stove, Abdul chops wood and fills the small water tank atop the wood heater in the "bath" room for our baths later in the evening. If I have time I squat Afghan-style, broom in hand, and do a duck walk across the floors, vacuuming the rugs except for one nice Afghan carpet which I clean with a special brush . Supper over, I pile the day's dishes into a tub and douse them with water heated on the multi-purpose range. A half hour later I am ready to rinse them under the outdoor faucet. After Abdul has made the fire, we take our baths in an old-fashioned tub that would make Grandpa feel right at home, while water runs out through a drain in the floor. Once a week we wash clothes. We are the proud owners of a fine wringer-washer that was new only five years ago. Washing is a laborious process, especially for Abdul , who must heat the water and carry it one bucket at a time to the machine . But it is much better than scrubbing clothes on the rocks and rinsing them in polluted streams as many Afghan women do. Occasionally, I find time to sew, a must [ 7

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in every Afghan household. When I left the United States, I could barely put in a decent hem . Although my skill as a seamstress has not improved considerably , I make our curtains and draperies, sheets, bedspreads, tablecloths and some of my own clothes. Our Japanese hand-operated portable machine is one of our luxuries; so are a massive kero sene icebox which we use only in summer and a powerful shortwave radio . We often listen to the radio . Another favorite pastime is talking with our Afghan friends before an open fire. As a result of these fireside conversations , I have come to believe that many Afghans have a number of illusions about the United States, sometimes imparted by their American teachers. For example, one university junior was quite surprised to find out that all American families didn't own their own houses, have two cars or lots of money. And he was astonished to learn that some American cities do indeed have beggars! My Afghan friends have learned something of America from me. But I have learned ever so much more from them . I have learned that Persian and Pushh1 are certainly the most difficult languag es on earth , or that I'm the laziest person . I have learned that clothes don't make the man ( or the woman) . I also have learned that it is possible to set up housekeeping without all ( or any) of the modern conveniences ; that I can live on $40 a month and like it ¡ that I can do things the hard way and enjo; them; that it isn't easy to keep in the black without an installment plan ; that I can live quite well without modern plumbing and that an outdoor toilet isn't half bad ¡ that cement floors make a house as much a 'home as hardwood; that there is more to cooking than a can opener and that supermark ets are not essential to a happy life; that coffee can be eliminated from the diet without any ill effects; that I can butcher, cook and eat mutton and goat, and that one of Afghanistan's greatest blessings is the lack of television . What I have learned in my first year in Afghanistan would fill a book (and could not be found in any book), but I hope I shall continue to learn. Often I am a very dull student, become impatient , forget my lessons and have to be reminded . I feel venr fortunate to be living in Afghanistan becaus~ I have the chance to really know the Afghan people themselves. I think it is rar ely possible for Am ericans to see the other peoples o~ the world as real people , to sympathize with them, or to stand in their shoes for even a moment. Now I am able to work side by side with Afghans, to have them as neighbor s and friends , to eat with them , to pl ay with them. They don't have ranch-style hou ses, cars in a two-car garage or credit cards, but thev know what it is to feel hope and despai; , anger and mirth , joy and sorrow, pride and humility .


Enrollment Reaches New First Semester High

The New Session Two new buildings were pressed into service as the University of Richmond started its 1963-64 session with the largest first semester enrollment on record. One of the new buildings was literally opened with a splash-the new swimming pool at Westhampton College where the girls are reaping the benefits of years of effort by the alumnae. The other building, Dennis Memorial Hall, was rushed to completion in time to provide first class accommodations for the 105 young men who had ¡ been promised beds in that building. The dormitory was a race right down to the wire with the workmen, helped by dry weather ., that was a boon to them but a catastrophy to Virginia farmers, finishing up a few days ahead of schedule. When attendance figures were announced at the opening convocation no one was surprised to learn that the total of 5, 171 set a new first semester record, some 300 above last year's opening figure. When second semester figures are added in February, it is certain that the total will eclipse last year's peak of 5,312. Of course, the total could have been much higher, had the University had facilities to accommodate all of the qualified students who sought admission to Westhampton College and Richmond College. Westhampton College's dormitory facilities had been exhausted as early as last December and at Richmond College Dean Robert F. Smart estimated that fully 200 additional

MEN AT WORK. Lights burn at night in this unusual picture by David D. Ryan of Dennis Memorial Hall, newest of the University's dormitories . Workmen rushed it to completion in time for the 1963-64 session.

first rate students would have come had there been beds for them. The enrollment figures were reported by the deans of the seven divisions with the youngest member of the University family, University College , setting one record and making it possible for the Summer School

SPLASH. These five girls, among them Elaine Johnson, College Government president, are scoring a historic first-the first to swim in the Fanny G. Crenshaw Swimming Pool. [ 8 ]

to set another. The University College total of 1,520 compared with 1,401 last year. The Summer School enrollment, swelled by University College summer students, reached an all-time high of 1432. The opening convocation was attended by the usual academic panoply with the seniors marching in procession for the first time with the faculty . Only freshmen and seniors of the undergraduate divisions attended the convocation but they were sufficiently numerous to fill the Luther H. Jenkins Greek Theater to near capacity. Freshmen who already had had a week to learn what every upperclassman knows, that the academic pace is fast and difficult, got no easy recipe for success from the speaker, Dr. Theodore F. Adams, pastor of First Baptist Church, past president of the Baptist World Alliance , and a member of the board of trustees. "God," he said, "helps those who help themselves ." He urged them to get to work and buckle down . He also told the students that God helps those who "can't help themselves," those who "help others," and those who "help Him." He described the last group as those "who stand against evil and stand up for what they believe is right."


Charter Heslep:A Tribute Charter Heslep dead? Impossible! Even those of us who knew of his overstrained heart and his disdain of doctor's orders to "take it easy," found it difficult to accept as true the news that Charter was dead at 59. Perhaps it was significant that Charter's last years were spent with the Atomic Energy Commission because "atomic energy" and "perpetual motion," in combination, best explain Heslep . But no portrait would be complete without the Heslep smile, the Heslep exuberance , the Heslep kindness which at times extended into a sort of knight-errantry. Add to this the logical mind which played over these emotions when he planned his work in characteristic, precise detail. The vital statistics, although they are impressive , do not tell the story of "Fritz" Heslep, nor can they explain his genius for making friends , a genius he exhibited during his student days on the campus of the University of Richmond (BA , 1926) . Most men would be satisfied to achieve success in one field. Charter was pre-eminent in three. As a newspaperman , he achieved the goal of all newspapermen to become managing editor. Charter worked up to be i.rn of the Washington Daily News to wh ich he had given distinguish ed service as a reporter and as city editor. Turning next to radio, he was a star member of the NBC staff and is still remembered for his ingenuity in scoring a 2-hour beat on wire services on Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941. After serving as chief radio news censor

under Byron Price in the Office of Censorship during World War II, Charter returned to radio with Mutual Broadcasting System and was a pioneer in the network use of tape recording. It was while covering the Truman campaign for Mutual that he formed a lasting friendship with the President , a man Charter resembled in many respects. Opposition newscasters still remember ruefully that Heslep got an MBS exclusive on Truman's first post-election broad cast. After the dropping of the atomic bomb ushered in a new era in the history of mankind , it was inevitable that Charter should have joined forces with the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1956 he was awarded the AEC's Outstanding Service M edal. His duties with the Commission were many. He planned and prepared the observance of the 20th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction , handled radio and television coverage of publicly reported nuclear weapons tests in N evada and the Marshall Islands , managed the U. S. delegation's information program at the first United Nations Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva, and served in an advisory capacity at the second international conference in 1958 . He coordinated and prepared speeches, to use the AEC's official description, but most of all he "ghosted" speeches. Fritz Heslep ghost-wrote a great many speeches and books, among them Fleet Admiral William Leahy' s war memoirs , "I Was There ." To those who insisted that ghost-writing was a shabby practice, Charter was quick to

strike back both in defense of the executive employing the "ghost" and the ghost himself. It is entirely proper , he insisted, that professional writers use their talents to help harried presidents and other administrative officials in their effort to communicate with the people . Said Charter : "There are deep satisfactions in feeling that through one's command of English and the ability to marshal] facts in effective continuity, he contributes to public understanding of a segment of government-even if anon ymously. I am proud to be that kind of a ghost. " Charter achieved careers in journal ism, radio, and government but his most notable career was in the field of human relations. Like President Truman , he was never playacting . He was a democrat instinctively . He did not talk about it, but he believed in it with all his heart. He believed in and loved his fellowman , whether one was possessed of little or mu ch worldly goods. He never found himself in any company where he was not at ease, save that of knaves and poltroons , and even these might intrigue him. It was impossible to resist Charter's frank, friendly, courteous addre ss. Although his long experience in the newspaper world gave his remarks habitually a sardonic cast and threw a tone of skepticism over his observation of mankind 's evolutions, in his final arguments with himself he tried to be optimistic. These broad bases and incentives sprang from his Virginia and University of Richmond background , particularly from the political attitudes of his (Co ntinued on page 40)

A Man of Three Careers

Editing copy on the Washington Daily News (about 1932).

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Receiving the AEC Medal for Outstanding Service from Chairman Lewis Strauss. (1956)


Spider Gridders Magnificent Against Florida

RichmondBattlesTech In HomecomingTilt By WALTER DREWRY Through the years the University of Richmond football teams have won a few games and lost a few. They've beaten teams they weren't expected to beat and they've been upset on occasion. But no one will forget the gallant Spider eleven and the game it played against a heavily favored University of Florida squad one hot afternoon in October of 1963. U. of R. alumni can be proud of their football team which they will have an opportunity to see in action when the Spiders engage Virginia Tech in the Homecoming engagement on November 2. The Florida Gators had beaten Penn State in the Gator Bowl the previous season. They had been picked by some critics to finish as high as sixth nationally is '63 . They had two All-America candidates in Fullback Larry Dupree and Frank Lasky. And they were favored to whip the Spiders by at least four touchdowns. Coach Ed Merrick 's lads had beaten East Carolina, 10-7, and lost to the University of Tennessee, 34-6, in a game that was much closer than the score indicates. But the Spiders had come to Gainesville to play football and they let the Gators know about it in a hurry. With 28,000 fans looking on in amazement, Richmond put the first 10 points on the scoreboard. Defensive Halfback Joe Stromick intercepted a pass and Bruce Gossett, a junior college transfer student with a magic toe, booted a 35-yard field goal just

Center Jim Helvin ... eight tackles, four assists aga ins-I Florida.

as he had done for the margin of victory over East Carolina in the opener. Shortly thereafter, Center Jim Helvin, cited nationally for his great defensive work that day ( eight tackles, four assists), recovered a fumble on the Florida 20-yard line. Bill Silvi passed to End Pete Emelianchik on the one and Halfback Ken Wilbourne blasted tackle for the score. The stunned Gators, who were to upset Alabama the following week, finally recovered and taUied twice to take a 14-1O lead at intermission. Then the Florida team began acting like the national power it was expected to be. The weary Spiders trailed, 35-10, with 11 minutes to go, then suddenly caught fire and came within seven points of pulling the upset of the season! Quarterback Ronnie Smith threw two touchdown passes and scored another in the hectic finish that left the Gators and Ray Graves, their coach, gasping when it was all over. Smith connected with Halfback Kenny Stoudt on a 44-yard scoring pass to cut the margin to 35-16 with 6:38 remaining in the contest. Then Stoudt, magnificent on defense, intercepted a Gator pass and romped 45 yards to the Florida six-yard stripe. Smith scored and it was 35-22. Less than four minutes were left on the clock. The Gators took to the air in an attempt to run up the score. This time Pete Britton made the interception and romped 61 yards before he was pulled down. Smith, a transfer student from Wake Forest who prepped at Richmond's Varina High, connected with Emelianchik on a nine-yard scoring play with 1 : 14 left. With 2 3 seconds left Florida was forced to punt but Richmond had to watch time run out since it had no timeouts left. The final score : Florida, 3 5; Richmond, 28. Graves said after the game that the work done by Merrick and his staff preparing for the game was the best he'd seen since he became Florida's coach. The opening victory over East Carolina was accomplished on a 54-yard Silvi to Stoudt pass and Gossett's field goal. The following week, East Carolina whipped Wake Forest, 20-10. Stoudt was named Richmond's outstanding back in that game by scribes and Guard Joe Kessel was chosen Southern Conference Lineman of the Week . It took a "gift" touchdown for Tennessee to take a 14-0 lead over the Spiders in the second game of the season at Knoxville. A freak interception of a Smith attempt to pass (his arm was hit and the ball landed in the arms of a Vol player who ran all the [ 10)

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way) accounted for one Tennessee first half tally. The clock showed 5 :46 left in the game and Tennessee leading, 21-0, when Smith shot a pass to Wilbourne which covered 51 yards and gave the Spiders six points on the scoreboard. Richmond, however, was unable to stop the Vols late in the contest and Tennessee prevailed, 34--6. Southern Mississippi edged the Spiders, 7-0, in 95 degree weather at Hattiesburg by capitalizing on a fumble by Ron Gordon, Spider sophomore fullback, and driving 34 yards. Richmond never could get its offense to click in this one chiefly because the Southerners' John Laird kept them bottled up in their own territory with his great punting. Gossett had to punt several times with his back to the goal line.

Old Grads To See Frosh Coach Joe Downing's University of Richmond freshman team whipped the V.M.I. Rats, 24-7, at I,ex/ngton in their second game of the season after bowing to Bullis Prep, 6-0, at Silver Spring, Md., in the season's opener . The freshmen play host to the East Carolina freshmen at Robins Field on Saturday morning, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. in a Homecoming headliner and wind up their season against Chowan Junior College at Murfreesboro, N. C., on Nov . 14.


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19251910Dr. George W. Sadler, former secretary for Africa, Europe and the Near East for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, suffered a heart attack August 3 in Danville, where he is serving as interim pastor of First Church. He is making a good recovery.

1913Former State Senator John J. Wicker, Jr. of Richmond has been elected president of the Society of American Legion Founders.

The Rev . William Russell Pankey has left the ministry to join the staff of the Richmond Welfare Department as a social worker. Assigned to the City Nursing Home, Mr . Pankey calls welfare work "a new venture, in a certain sense, although it is related to my work as a minister in that I have dealings with people and their needs." He formerly was pastor of Westhampton Baptist Church.

1926Dr. J. Chester Swanson, who spent the winter, spring and summer in Washington on a special assignment in the U. S. Office of Education, has returned to the University of California at Berkeley.

Joseph J. Williams, Jr., former member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, has returned to his law practice in Henrico county. Mr. Williams was a member of the board in Washington for nearly three years. Joe T. Mizell, Jr. of Richmond's Acea Temple has been appointed a member of the national committee on jurisprudence and laws for Shrine hospitals. is with the U . S. Francis T. Williamson Embassy staff in Rome.

1928Dr. Edward Cale, of the U. S. Foreign this Corps, is spending Service Inspection

1916Waverly G. King, Sr. has been elevated from president to board chairman of three Richmond firms. The firms are Richmond Motor Co., Automotive Rebuilders, Inc., and Richmond Pressed Metal Works, Inc. His two sons, Robert C. and Waverly G. King, Jr., have moved up to take their father's former positions.

1917Dr. Claudius 0. Johnson, formerly of the department of political science of Washington State University, has accepted a teaching position with the department of political science of Montana State University. His new address is 548 Edith St., Missoula, Montana. H. W. Charlton retired June 30 as principal of Fluvanna County High School, Carysbrook, Va. Mr . Charlton is now living at Fork Union, Va. After forty years in the ministry, the Rev. Howard C. Lane of Baltimore has resigned as an active minister. He spent the last 32 years as pastor of Scott Street Baptist Church. His address is 1818 Palo Circle, Baltimore.

A Story of Progress " Without question, the University of Richmond must be ranked among the country's meritori ¡ous colleges and universities. It long has enjoyed the respect not only of its home City and State, but also of the national academic community. " " There is a very general feeling that the University progress in the years since World War II ... "

of Richmond has made great

the University of Richmond fully subscribes to the principle of free enterprise, " ... has never accepted even one dollar of public subsidy, and does not borrow funds from any source, federal or otherwise ." " .. the University of Richmond has operated without a deficit, for almost 70 years. " " . . the Universi -ty of Richmond has no indebtedness. " These were several findings of a recent survey of University records and among the University's alumni and friends in Richmond . Many of the University's achievements can be attributed to tangible expressions of trust from alumni. gifts and bequests are won on merit. When someone provides subfor philanthropy from his property, he puts his gifts in hands that will use it effectively and productively. He places his gift in the custody of an institution that will perpetuate his interests and beliefs and that will manage his gift well. The University's distinctions are many, but none more important than the respect Both lifetime

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1924David J. Mays, Richmond attorney and member of the University board of trust ees, has completed his term as a member of the State Library Board . He was succeeded by Virginius Timesof the Richmond editor Dabney, Dispatch, who holds an honorary doctorate from the University . Dr. W. Linwood Ball has been elected presid ent of the newly-formed Chapter Two of the Richmond Howitzers Association, which is made up of veterans who served after World War I. 0. L. Hopkins, owner of the Bon Air, Va. Realty Co., was the subject recently of a lengthy feature story in the Richmond TimesDispatch. Hopkins, one of Bon Air's oldest developers in terms of experience and years, won't sell property co people unless he feels they are "real folks."

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DeMOLA Y HONORS BERNARD DABNEY Bernard M. Dabney, '3 7, has received the Order of DeMolay' s highest award, the Legion of Honor. The award is conferred for outstanding leadership and accomplishment. Dabney, the owner of a specialty advertising business in Cincinnati, is deputy district governor for the 7th District of Ohio. He was a member of and Master Councilor of the John Moncure Chapter in Richmond . After graduation in 1937, Dabney worked for several radio stations in capacities as continuity writer, salesman, publicity director and assistant manager. He was commandant of cadets at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, and taught at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Va., for a year. He also was general agent for Monarch Life Insurance Company in Richmond, before moving to Cincinnati.

year on duty in five countries-Turkey, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Malta. As a Foreign Service Inspector, his duties include the evaluation of the effectiveness of U . S. F. S. establishments abroad, and to prepare efficiency reports on officers subject to the Foreign Service promotion system. James H . Gordon, M .D., has moved from Atlanta to Lyons, Ga. His address there is P. 0. Box 226. The Rev . George W. Burroughs, former pastor of Bishop Methodist Church of Richmond, is now pastor of Victoria Methodist Church . His address is Box 42, Victoria, Va .

1930Philip

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course in Jamestown, N. Y., last year, writes that he expects to teach this year in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore. He was married last year to Lib Jones (Westhampton '30), who teaches in Northampton County. Major General Elvin S. Ligon, Jr., is now serving as Chief of Staff of the Combined Military Planning Group of the Central Treaty Organization. He will soon be transferred to Naples.

1931T. Jack Gary, Jr. is managing partner of the Washington Office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company, accountants and auditors, of Washington, D. C. Gary had directed the Richmond office of the concern since it was opened in 1954. Jesse W. Dillon, commissioner of the Virginia State Corporation Commission has been named chairman of a division of the United Givers Fund in Richmond. Judge Dillon is responsible for solicitation of all employes at city schools, military installations-and offices of the city, state and federal government, as well as officers of Henrico and Chesterfield counties. Lt. Commander Paul J. Forsythe, who had been serving as chaplain in the Officer Candidate School of Camp Usher, Quantico, served additional active duty at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during September. Chaplain Forsythe is the former pastor of Sunset Hills Baptist Church of Richmond . Joseph P. Barker, formerly of Richmond, has moved to Huntington, W. Va. His address there is 547 Jefferson Ave.

1932Dr. Edward C. Peple, professor of English at the University, was presented a silver serving dish recently on his retirement from the Richmond School Board. Dr. Peple, who retired after 10 years, was board chairman last year. Dr. Samuel P. Kayne has been promoted to assistant clinical professor on the dental faculty of the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Kayne also was elected president of Omicron Kappa Upsilon honorary dental fraternity, MCV chapter.

KINCHELOE VOTED OUTSTANDING TEACHER Dr . Henderson G. Kincheloe, '31, recently voted an outstanding teacher at N. C. State University, has enrolled his daughter Terry as a Westhampton freshman, the eighth Kincheloe to attend the University. Dr. Kincheloe is a professor of English at the North Carolina school, and last June was chosen by a student committee as the outstanding member of the faculty of the School of Liberal Arts . On enrolling Terry, Dr. Kincheloe said, "I hope that she will at least come to have for Westhampton the affection that I have had for Richmond College since 1926." In addition to his regular teaching duties at State, he has taught at Ft. Bragg, summers at Appalachian State Teachers College, and several courses at Shaw University. He has added to his personal library and those of the University of Richmond and other schools through his duties as book reviewer in the Raleigh News and Observer.

RICHARDSON AMONG "NOTED PREACHERS" Rev. Dr. Vernon B. Richardson, '35, participated recently in a program featuring noted preachers at St. Thomas Church in New York City. Dr. Richardson, a native Virginian and currently minister of the University Baptist Church in Baltimore, was one of 11 ministers of national reputation who preached in the New York church. Dr. Richardson has served in his present position for 17 years, ever since he completed his service as a chaplain in the U. S. Navy. He is a holder of four campaign ribbons and four battle stars. The University of Richmond recognized his accomplishments in 1949, when he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

1933Fielding Lewis Grasty, the son of Taylor P. Grasty of Orange, was killed this summer in an auto accident. Mr. Grasty is mayor of the Virginia community . Maurice S. Dean, deputy clerk of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been named clerk of the court. Mr. Dean's father, the late Claude M. Dean, retired as clerk of the court in 1954.

1934John Doley, president of the Warwick Laundry, Inc ., has been named chairman of the board of People's National Bank of Gloucester, Va. Mr. Doley also is vice president of the year-old bank. Guy V. Mallonee, formerly of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., has moved to Houston, Tex. His address there is 5645 Bradley Dr. Charles T. Tinsley, formerly of Atlanta, Ga., has moved to 826 Talleyrand Ave., Jacksonville 6, Fla.

1936G. Thomas Taylor has been elected president of the Richmond Area Council of Presbyterian Churches. The term is for 1963-64. A. C. Bledsoe of Augusta, Ga. has been appointed division manager for Waddell & Reed of Augusta and Savannah. He formerly was branch manager of National Cash Register Co.

1937John R. Brooks, Jr., of Baltimore has moved to 908 Homestead St. with his wife of several months, Alice Elaine.

1939R. McLean Whittet, Jr. led his wife and three children 800 miles to watch something they couldn't see from their Richmond home. The Whittets traveled to Pleasant Pond, Me., to watch the July eclipse of the sun. They were accompanied by another family. Dr. Clyde T. Francisco, professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist

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Theological Seminary, left during the summer for a series of lectures at five Baptist seminaries in Latin America. L. Kell, formerly of Weirton, William W. Va., has moved to Ashland, Ky., where his address is 1817 Fischel court. Cape. Henry H. Dickinson, formerly of San Francisco, is now stationed at Westover Air Force Base, Mass. Capt. Forrest H. Norvell, Jr., formerly of Bayside, Va., is now living at 112 Esplenade, Middletown, R. I.

1940Major Allan J. Phaup, Jr. of Richmond is stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. He is on assignment with the Strategic Air Command. Russell K. Wood, Jr. is beginning his third year with the army in Europe. The Woods are living near Versailles. Professor H. J. Gordon, Jr. is with the history department of the University of Massachusetts, not with Amherst College as incorrectly reported in the last issue of the Bulletin. Arthur C. Beck, Jr., formerly of Norfolk, has moved to 327 Albemarle Ave., Richmond.

1941The Rev. R. Stuart Grizzard, pastor of Montrose Baptist Church, has been chosen president of the Richmond Area Ministers Association.

1942The Rev. Randolph B. Hall, former paswr of Bowling Green Baptist Church, has left the pulpit to teach chemistry for a year in Newport News High School. Mr. Hall said he wants to pursue his interest in high school guidance. He

CAPT. DAVIS RETIRES AFTER 23 YEARS Navy Captain Douglas W. Davis, '41, ended his 23-year military career in July. At the time of his retirement, Capt. Davis was a member of the Inter-American Defense Board, the agency responsible for planning the collective defense of all nations on the North and South American continents. Between 1958, when he joined the board as navy representative, and 1961, he served as a deputy secretary of the board. Capt. Davis planned trips for delegates on the board to civilian and military installations throughout the United States and Latin America. The delegates conferred with heads of state and military personnel on problems of hemispheric defense. He joined the navy as a seaman in 1941, received a commission as an ensign shortly thereafter, and served with the Atlantic fleet during the early part of World War II. He served in the Pacific during the latter part of the war, and returned to the Pacific shortly after the beginning of the Korean conflict. His oldest son,' Doug, was enrolled in September at the University.

MILLS BUYS CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER Edward M. Mills, '37, a veteran newspaper man and Scripps-Howard feature service executive, has purchased a California weekly newspaper, the Mill Valley Record. Mills and his wife, Katherine are copublishers and owners of the newspaper. Both have extensive experience in the news field. Mrs. Mills was a syndicated columnist for Newspaper Enterprise Association and former women's editor of the Beatrice, (Neb). Sttn. Mills recently resigned as Midwest Division Manager for NEA, a newspaper feature service of Scripps-Howard, with whom he became associated shortly after World War II. He is a former member of the staff of the Richmond News Leader. For the past 11 years, Mills headed the

was a guidance counselor at Caroline County High School. Herndon P. Jeffreys, Jr., a Richmond attorney, has been elected as the 10th judicial circuit's member of the Virginia State Bar Council. Jeffreys was named for a three-year term to succeed Walter W. Regirer, '49, who has left his law practice temporarily co serve with the U. S. Department of Commerce in Brazil.

1943Dr. Linwood T. Horne, first pastor of Walnut Hill Baptist Church of Petersburg, has left the church to accept a call to First Church of Radford, Va. Dr. Horne came to Petersburg 11 years ago as missionary pastor. Moreland R. Irby, Jr. of Richmond has been admitted to the investment firm of J. C. Wheat & Company. George T. Asbell, superintendent of young peoples II department of the Sunday School of Southside Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., was cited recently by the church for faithful service. Mr. Asbell is benefits manager of Mutual of Omaha and is a deacon of the church. The Asbells have four children, Fred, Douglas, David and Beth. Rev. William B. Connor, II, formerly of Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tenn., has accepted a call to become pastor of Salem PresCollege, Tenn. byterian Church, Washington The historic church was founded in 1780. Richard B. Nichols, Jr. has moved from Alexandria, Va., co 60 Seeley place, Scarsdale,

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1944Dr. Georg Gerson Iggers has been appointed associate professor of history at Roosevelt University, Chicago. Dr. Iggers previously taught at Dillard University, Tulane University, University of Arkansas, and Philander Smith College. Dr. Iggers was engaged in fulltime research from 1960-62 on grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.

1945Rev. Melvin J. Bradshaw has moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he is serving as a missionary in that vicinity. This is his second appointment to Japan, where he served from 1950 to 1961 as a teacher-pastor in Kokura, and

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Kyoto. From 1961 co June of 1963, he served as associate pastor of the First Baptist Church in Winchester, Va. Olien I. Burnette, Jr. has moved from Madison, Wisconsin, to 1205 Greensboro Rd., Birmingham, Ala.

1946Dr. Carl A. Restivo has assistant chief of medicine at Jersey City, N. J. Dr. William G. Allen, Jr., 1310 Stuart Ave. in Richmond Va.

been appointed Christ Hospital, has moved to from Emporia,

1948Dr. Charles Walker, Jr., has moved from Williston, North Dakota, to Rt. 2, Box 34, Maple Plain, Minnesota. Rev. A. R. Knotts, Jr., has moved from Prospect, Va., to Pembroke, Va.

BAKER NAMED HENRICO JUDGE E. Ballard Baker, '47, has been named judge of Henrico County Court. Judge Baker has been a substitute judge in the county court since April 1962. He will continue his general law practice with the Richmond firm of Wicker, Baker, and Goddin. Judge Baker served as assistant attorney general of Virginia for two years and was in the office of the city attorney of Richmond for more than a year before going into private practice. He is a teacher of business law at University College, the University's downtown division in Richmond. Judge Baker is a member of St. James Episcopal Church in Richmond and is president of the Richmond First Club.


RIPLEY HEADS BIRACIAL GROUP Robert F. Ripley, '40, who heads a real estate and insurance business in Norfolk, has been named chairman of the Citizens Advisory Committee, a group designated by the city council of that city to handle biracial matters. Ripley was featured recently in an article by Norfolk's Ledgers-Star which quotes Norfolk Mayor W . Fred Duckworth as saying, "There's no one for whom I have higher respect." Ripley enlisted in the Navy in 1942, was commissioned an ensign in 1944, and earned a Bronze Star for his part in the saving of a damaged ship . After the war, Ripley plunged into politics as a member of the Young Democratic Club in Norfolk and soon found himself elected to the city council. He is an outdoorsman, and one can frequently find him during hunting season either in a duck blind or walking the fields and woods around Norfolk. Robert F. Ripley, '40, cleans up his shotgun in preparation for the season on Tidewater ducks, geese and quail. A prominent real estate and insurance executive in Norfolk,

Richard A. Chandler, an assessor for the city of Richmond, has been accepted as a member of the American Institute of Real Estate appraisers. Fewer than 3,500 American appraisers have qualified for membership in the institute since it was founded in 1932. Donald Lewis Ball is now a member of the English Department at the College of William and Mary. Melvin V. Lubman, second ranking official in the Richmond Personnel Department for the past nine years, has resigned his position to give his attention to other business opportunities. Lubman joined the city agency in 1949 after graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University in 1948. With the city, Lubman was a personnel administrator with major responsibilities of training, promoting safety and recruiting.

1949George R. Endicott of Richmond, has moved to 5000 Fairbanks Ave. in Alexandria, Va. William L. Perkins, Jr. of Norfolk, has moved to 2416 Sunset Rd . in Charlottesville, Va. Joseph R. Johnson, Jr., is now engaged in private practice of law in Lynchburg, where he resides with his wife, Dorothy, and three children, Diana, Robbie, and Jeff, at 902 W . View Drive. Michael A. Platko of the U. S. Army has been transferred from a European station to the Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Va. U. S. Army Major Charles E. Pugh has completed an 18-week associate field artillery officer career course at the artillery and missile center at Fort Sill, Oklahoma . He is regularly assigned to Headquarters Company, 80th Division of the Virginia Army Reserve, and lives in Bowling Green, Va. Rev . Nolton W. Turner, pastor of Bethl ehem Church in Chesterfield has accepted a call to

Ripley has been chosen to head that ci-ty's Citizens Advisory Committee.

Lawrenceville Baptist Church. Previously, he served as president of Fredericksburg Baptist Pastor's Conference, Fredericksburg Minister's Conference, Middle District Pastor's Conference, and secretary-treasurer of Richmond Baptist Pastor's Conference. He has also served on the Baptist General Board of Virginia.

they are residing at 337 West Bute St., Norfolk. Bonney is Superintendent of the Tidewater Educational Foundation, Inc. Major Paul V. Romero of the U. S. Army is now assigned to Ft. Gulick, in the Canal Zone of Panama as an instructor to the Internal Security Department of the Military Police Section. James R. Bryant, Jr., formerly of Richmond, has been promoted to superintendent of agencies in the life, accident, and health agency department of the Travelers Insurance Co. He now lives in West Hartford, Connecticut. Bryant joined Travelers in Richmond in 1955 as a field supervisor and two years later was advanced to assistant manager of the Richmond office. In 1959 he was transferred to Norfolk as manager. Rev. Paul R. Garber of Ridgeway, Va., will be married in October to Miss Mary Elizabeth Collums of Houlka and Jackson, Miss. Rev. Garber received his master's degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C. Dr. Arthur B. Frazier of Va. Beach has been elected president of the Virginia Beach Medical Society. Dr. Frazier has practiced medicine in Virginia Beach since 1958. Rev. A. L. Gardner, Jr., has moved from the Arts Academy, lnterlochen, Mich., to 1903 W. Franklin St., Wilmington, Del. Hunter Boyd Spencer, Jr., has moved from Hudson, Ohio, to 1638 Bowling Green Dr., in Vienna, Va. John A. Hamilton, associate Editor of the Lynchburg News, has accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Norfolk LedgerDispatch. Hamilton was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship in 1961 to study U. S. history, government and literature. Sixteen Nieman Fellowship in 1961 to study U. S. University to 11 American and five foreign newsmen in 1961. Hamilton is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and began news work in Lynchburg in 1955 as a reporter. After three years on other Virginia papers, he returned in 1958 as associate editor. His editorials have won Virginia Press Association awards. Richard W. Garrett has moved from Richmond to Ballsville, Va.

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1950Walter E. Beverly, Jr., has been named manager of the claim department at the Travelers Insurance Company's office in Jacksonville, Fla . Beverly joined the company in 1949 as a claim adjuster in Richmond, and served there as a line adjuster and supervising adjuster. In 1957, he moved to the home office in Hartford, Conn . as an examiner in the casualty-fire claim department. Three years later he was appointed claim office supervisor. Glenn 0. Grimme! of Alexandria, Va., sales manager of the Alexandria Realty Co., was recently elected president of the Alexandria Civitan Club . Kenneth R. Woolard has moved from Berkeley Heights, N. J., to Barboursville, Va. William C. Farmer, C. L. U., of Richmond has been elected president of the Richmond Life Underwriters Association.

1951 John F. Batte, Jr ., of Richmond, was the subject of a feature article recently in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Batte, the owner of a prosperous real estate firm, John F. Batte & Son, has a law practice in addition to the real estate business. Thomas E. Garnett, Jr., has moved from Decatur, Ga., to Flat Rock Drive, Ridgefield, Conn. Hal J. Bonney, Jr., was married July 4 to Miss Marie Frances McBee of Norfolk in the Epworth Methodist Church there. After a wedding trip to Niagara Falls and Canada,

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James E. Flournoy of Charlottesville, has been named residential claim superintendent in the Washington, D. C. office of the State Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

AIRPORT COUNCIL CHOOSES HOWERTON John B. Howerton, '49, formerly with the Association of American Railroads, has accepted a position as associate director of Management Services of the Airport Operators Council. Howerton joined the staff of Representative W. M. Abbitt, member of Congress from the 4th District of Virginia, in 1949 . He remained with Mr. Abbitt until March of 1959, with the exception of two years in the U. S. Army. He joined the railroad organization in 1959, where he worked as an administrative assistant in the Law Department. He received a masters degree from the University of Richmond in 1956, and a LLB. from George Washington University in 1957.


Julian C. Mann of the U. S. Air Force, has been transferred to Reese Air Force Base , Texas . Mr. and Mrs. James B. Morrison of New York City have announced the birth of a son on May 15. Morrison is employed by Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Thomas E. Boyle of Champaign, Ill., has moved to 958 Veta St., Pueblo, Colorado. Roger A. Koury of Richmond was married Sept. 28 to the former Miss Laura Patricia Hicks of Charlotte in Sc. Patrick's Catholic Church there.

1953Thomas J. Little of Dewitt, N. Y., has moved to 230 Ellicott Dr., Ormond Beach, Fla. Sidney E. Brown, a member of the marketing research department of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has moved to 7 11 Hillwood Ave., in Falls Church, Va . Rev. E. Hugh Ragland of Buckingham, Va., has moved co 1415 Buford Rd., in Bon Air, Va. Dr. William R. Beasley of University Hospitals, Iowa City, Iowa, has moved co 2622 Country Club Parkway, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dr. Robert S. Alley has joined the faculty of the University of Richmond as assistant pro-

HOW TO SAY "NO" TO TEEN-AGERS Why mom and dad occasionally say "no to teen-agers-and how to understand itis the subject of two books for teen-agers by Charles K. Scott, '55 . The point of the books is to put the shoe

on the other foot, as described by the titles: " If I Were My Mom" and "If I Were My Dad." Scott figures the books will help parents as well as offspring by clearly stating the teen-ager 's problems. Scott conceived the idea of the books while representing a publishing company in Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D. C. The books are a product of seven years of thought, study and polishing, and Scott thinks they present solid ideas on how teen-agers can better grasp circumstances leading parents to say "no" so many times when crises stem from squabbles about allowances, dating , dressing , studying , and using the car. To support himself and finance the books, Scott has worked as an elevator operator, manager the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity's New York club, and sold cars. Currently , he's working on another book.

MARKHAM TO HEAD RESEARCH PROJECT Jesse William Markham , '41, has been chosen by the Ford Foundation to spearhead an inter-university research program on the economics of technological change and economic growth. A professor of economics at Princeton Univers ity, Markham will head a group of associates at a half-dozen universities Chicago, Carnegie Tech, Harvard, Minnesota and Yale as well as Princeton - in the first major analysis of the factors determining technological change itself. The group was awarded a $150,000, three-year grant. Professor Markham is a former Chief Economist of the Federal Trade Commission, and is an internationally recognized authority on price policy and theory whose primary interests include measurement of the degree of competition existing in various industries. He has held assignments as Visiting Professor at Harvard and Columbia, and a year in Switzerland as Ford Foundation Research Professor. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Richmond in 1941, he served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. At the end of World War II, he entered Harvard and earned his advanced degrees . He spent five years on the faculty of Vanderbilt University and joined Princeton in 1953 . For six years a U. S. delegate to the Organization for European Economic Co-

fessor of Bible and Religion. He comes to the University from William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., where he taught for two years. He also taught at Hun School while earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He is married to the former Norma Crane of Ocala, Fla., and they have two children, Robert, Jr., 3, and John, 1. Dr. Alley's father, Dr . Reuben E. Alley, is editor of the Religious Herald, publication of the Baptist denomination in Virginia. Dr. Joseph L. Hendrick, a former teacher and principal in Richmond area schools , has been appointed superintend ent of schools in Hammond, Indiana. Dr. Hendrick has s¡erved at Ossinging, N. Y ., as assistant co the superintendent of schools, a post he has held since September, 1959. He caught in Richmond in 1953.

Orrin D. Morris of Jackson, Mississippi, has moved co 2552 Cinda Lane, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Roy E. Ehrlich has moved from Pensacola, Fla., co 65 Barlow Lane, Rye, N. Y.

1954Rev. William R. Wooten, Jr., has moved to Silver Spring, Md., where he is assistant minister at Grace Episcopal Church. He was formerly principal of St. Andrew's Parochial School, a post he held s'ince June of 1959 . Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Dick Howard of Alexandria, Va., have announced the birth of a daughter, Jennifer Leigh on July 12. Howard is law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Black. Dr. Robert B. Scott of Petersburg, Va., has moved to 9 Grandview Ave ., Watertown, Mass. Rev. and Mrs. Robert L. Carlton of Jarratt, Va., have announced the birth of a daughter, Karen Anne, born January 20. Rev. Robert Hancock Armstrong has been

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operation and its Experts ' Committee on Restrictive Business Practices, Markham has been a consultant to the Federal Communications Commission , the Brookings Institution, and the TV A. He has been closely affiliated with George Washington University's Patent , Trademark and Copyright Foundation. A Princeton publication honored him recently by nominating him "Man of the Week " for "seeking to plug gaps in our understanding of the operative mechanics of our economic system; for his capacities for translating into layman's language extremely difficult economic concepts; and for blueprinting a research venture which will draw representatives from both industry and higher education."

appointed Curate at St. James Episcopal Church in Richmond, where his chief duties will be as director of Religious Education . He was formerly attending the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. Dr . and Mrs. William Douglas Clark of Charlottesville have announced the birth of a son, Todd Reynolds, on July 20. Dr. Gustavus V. Jackson, Jr., of Millers Tavern, Va., was married in September to the former Miss Anne Elizabeth Shannon of Roanoke, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Moore of WinstonSalem, N. C., have announced the birth of a daughter, Virginia Anne, on June 12. She is the fourth child for the Moores . Dr. and Mrs. James E. Brown of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., have announced the birth of a daughter, Candice Leigh, on June 4. Dr. Brown is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Colorado, having joined their faculty in July from a similar pose at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He also has taught at the Universities of Washington, Florida, and Michigan State University.

1955Shelton P. Applegate has mov ed from Durham, N. C. co 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California. Lawrence B. Bond of Salisbury, N. C., will direct the band and choir chis year at Catawba College. Dr. J. R. Hutchinson, Jr., has moved from Clinton, Md., co Clinch Valley Clinic at Richlands, Va. William F. Dunbar, Ill, has moved from


1956ED WAYNE TO ADDRESS BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI Alumni of the School of Business Administration are urged to plan now to attend the semi-annual breakfast on Homecoming Day, Nov. 2, at 8 a.m. at Nick's House of Steaks. Edward A. Wayne, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, will be the speaker. Association president Joe Brooks, '51, re-

Joe Brooks

ports that the executive committee of the School of Business Alumni Association has met on several occasions during the summer to plan the program for the year. One suggestion: every member make an effort to promote the School of Business to the business leaders of the community. In addition to Brooks, the officers are Ted R. Buckner, '55, vice president; Bruce A. Carlton, ' 55, treasurer ; and Fred B. Bisger , ' 54, secretary.

Phoenix, Arizona to 8317 Gaylord Rd. in Richmond. Dr. Charles M. Graham, Jr. of Purcellville, Va., will wed Miss Lolita Joy Smith of Charlottesville in November. Nelson Taylor has been named administrative assistant in the Henrico County school system . He has served as principal of Hanover County's Patrick Henry High School since it opened four years ago. In his new position, Taylor details including will handle administrative business affairs and personnel. Clarence D. Powell, a special agent for the Insurance Company of North America, was married on April 6 to the former Miss Jayne Allen of Kansas. Their residence is 722 W. 9th St., Wichita, Kansas. John W . Deter of Richmond has purchased the firm of Professional Employment Services and is serving as president of the Richmond firm. His staff consists of six placement managers and the firm ha~ two locations in Richmond. Deter served as vice presid ent of J. L. Deter and Sons fr om 1957 to 1959, when h e joined the Englander Co. of Chicago, Ill., as a In October of 1961, he sales representative. joined Snelling and Snelling Personnel Consultants as a placement manager, where he stayed until purchasing his new firm. W. J . Williams, assistant counsel for the Republic Steel Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, has moved to 32 Deep Wood Drive, Moreland was Hills, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Williams formerly in practice of law in Richmond.

Lt. Robert Paciocco of San Diego, California, has moved to 2019 Skipwich Rd. in Richmond. Dr. William E. Tuggle is now practicing dentistry in Norfolk after having been released from the U. S. Navy chis spring. The engagement of Mr. H. James Strohm of Vienna, Va., to Miss Madeline Helvey of Fairfax County has been announced. Strohm is 12th grade counselor at James Madison High School in Fairfax County. John Paul Berry has been promoted to Senior Scaff Engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Berry is attached to the Navigation Project of the Polaris Division of the Laboratory. He and Mrs. Berry also have announced the birth of a daughter, Colleen Patricia, on May 8. Philip A. Flournoy has been promoted to Senior Research Physicist on the Engineering Research Laboratory of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. at Wilmington, Del. U. S. Army Captain William M. Vandall is company commander of the 88th Transportation Company at Fort Eustis, Va. The company consists of 60 2½-ton cargo trucks. The Vandalls expect to be stationed at Ft. Eustis for two years. W. Rush Loving of Richmond, has joined the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' public information staff. Loving is a former reporter for the and the Norfolk Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginian-Pilot. He will be responsible for the preparation of press information for the museum dance, drama, music, and lecture theater's events. Dr. Arthur Beryl Fadel of Portsmouth, Va., has received an appointment as Assistant in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walter P. Lysaght has been promoted to District Traffic Manager for the Richmond suburban area of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. He was formerly District Traffic Supervisor in Richmond. Phillip H. Kirkpatrick of Petersburg, Va., is specialist in the working as an educational department of nonresident instruction at the Center at Ft. Army Logistics Management Lee, Va. He was elected executive vice president of the Virginia Jaycees in June ¡. John E. Brooks has been appointed principal of the Unionville Elementary School in Orange, Va. Brooks has been a teacher at the school, and was principal of the Gordonsville

GARY JR. HEADS SUMMER THEATER Vaughan Gary, ':-4, a high school drama teacher in Fairfax, has completed a successful season as a founder, treasurer, director and actor of the Vienna Summer Playhouse. The outdoor theater opened with "The Teahouse of the August Moon," in which Gary played the role of Captain Frizby. He directed the second offering, "Picnic. " Two other plays were presented. Gary, who had plans for a summer theater in perhaps five years, found heavy support this spring for the project, and staged the presentations with the help of interested persons. Gary has an M.F.A. in dramatic arts from Columbia University and years of experience in little theater and television. He is the son of Representative and Mrs. J. Vaughan Gary, ' 12, of Richmond.

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and James Barbour Elementary schools for the year 1962-63. Edmund G. Harrison of Richmond has been and to the American Telephone promoted Telegraph Headquarters in New York. Lieutenant Robert V. Hannah, Jr. was a participant in the military exercise Swift Strike Ill, held in the Carolinas in August. Hannah, a F-100 pilot, was one of 500 airmen involved in the training maneuver. Dr. Jimmie W. Bush is now in the third year of general practice residency and will begin seminary training in the Fall of 1964. He was married in August to the former Miss Terrill Henry of Mobile, Ala. Rev. Thomas F. Mabe has assumed his duties as pastor of Sycamore Church in the Blackwater Association. For the past two years he has served as assistant pastor of Virginia Heights Church in Roanoke. Rev. Robert E. Evans of Arlington, Va., is serving as Chaplain of the Virginia Baptist Hospital. He received special training for the chaplaincy in the Department of Pastoral Care at North Carolina Baptist Hospital, completing a year as Chaplain Intern last year. He has served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Eminence, Indiana and has preached extensively as a supply pastor in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. John H. Thomas, Graham T. Jennings, '61, and George W. Farley, '62, have formed a for the general practice of law partnership with offices in Chesterfield, Va. John A. Richman, Jr., of A. H. Robins, Co. of Richmond, spent the summer studying Infrared Spectroscopy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1957Joseph M. Whitehead won two campaigns this summer, one for the hand of Miss Harriett Elizabeth Wilson of Casdale, whom he married in July, and one for the office of Commonwealth's Attorney in Pittsylvania County. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cox of St. Paul, Va., have announced the birth of a daughter Lisa Veanne, born January 19. of Midland Park, Herman S. Blumenthal N. ]., has moved to Lynnhaven, Va. Rev. R. Stuart Carlton, pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church of Norfolk, has accepted a call to become pastor of Stockton Memorial Church in Richmond. A native of Richmond, Rev. Carlton was ordained at Venable Baptist Church in Richmond in 1959. Rev. Will E. Wade has accepted the position of Director of Public Relations at Bethel College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. His duties will include the offices of church relations and student recruitment. He received the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Seminary and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Education and Psychology at Longwood College. Jack M. Neal has accepted a position as Child Care Consultant for the Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions. He received his Master of Science degree in Social Work in June. Charles F. Taylor has been transferred to Greensboro, N. C. by his firm, the C. I. T. Corporation. He is new business manager and field representative for the firm. Thomas L. Berry of Sears Roebuck, Inc., has been transferred to Petersburg, Va. on temporary assignment. He is one of the firm 's staff responsible for opening a new score there.

1958L. H. Beazley, Jr., is now a supervisor with Brown and Williamson Company in Petersburg. Dr. Kenneth A. Blick has moved from New Orleans to Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va. Robert W. Lawrence was ordained into the ministry and installed as minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Soddy, Tenn. in August .


VEA LUNCHEON ON NOVEMBER 1 The tenth annual luncheon for alumni and alumnae attending the VEA will be held in the Colony Room of the Hotel John Marshall Friday, November 1, at 12 :30 p .m. Letters have been sent to all of our graduates who are known to be teaching in Virginia. If you did not get a letter, it is most likely because your current address is not known to the Department of Education. Anyway, consider this announcement your cordial invitation to visit the University of Richmond room in the Hotel John Marshall October 31 and November 1 and call the I?epartment of Education (288-1921, exten sion 35) to make reservation for your luncheon. A re:ord attendance is expected at this tenth anniversary. And remember that the week-end of November 1-2 is Homecoming at the University. Be sure to join in all the Homecoming activities.

He was ordained by his brother, Rev . Stewart Lawrence, Jr . Lawrence received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga . 1st. Lt. Robert B. Edwards is serving in the Judge Advocate General division of the U. S. Army in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany . He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in June, 1962, and attended the 1963 J. A. G . school at the University of Virginia following training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. His wife, the former La Verne Watson, joined him in Germany in September. Harvey J. Michelman, a New York City attorney, has changed his offices to 200 W . 57th St., N. Y . J. Ashton Kesler of the Insurance Company of North America has been transferred to Norfolk. He and Mrs. Kesler live at 648 Rose Marie Avenue in Virginia Beach, Va . 1st. Lt . Frederic W. Bradley was graduated from the U. S. Air Force Squadron Officer School at the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama in August. He was selected for the special professional officer training in recognition of his demonstrated potential as a leader in the aerospace force. Ellis M . West is now a professor at the University of Tennessee . He and Mrs. West have announced the birth of a daughter, Julie Katherine. Rev . Kenneth E. Ayers has moved from the Pineyville Baptist Church in Kentucky to the First Baptist Church of Griffith, Indiana. Fred R. Skaggs of Richmond received a Bachelor of Divinity degree in summer school commencement exercises at Southwestern Baptist Seminary on July 19. Mr. and Mrs . Robert C. Graver of Salvisa, Kentucky, have announced the birth of a son Thomas Cameron, on March 23. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald J. Exton of Newport News have announced the birth of a son, Keith John, on May 28. Rev. Cline E. Hall has taken a teaching position at Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga .

1959Richard E. Ford was ordained into the ministry at a service held in the West Main St.

Baptist Church in Danville on July 18. He has been serving the church as minister of education and music since June 9. Rev. John F. Carty has accepted a call as pastor of the Scottsburg Baptist Church in Scottsburg, Va. John R. Cummins, Jr., has moved from Louisville, Kentucky, to 8712 Main St., Damascus, Maryland. Dr. Robert L. Deal and Dr. William M. Vaughan of Richmond, who recently went on active duty with the U. S. Air Force, have completed the orientation course for officers of the Medical Service taught at Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama. They were given familiarization instruction covering administrative procedures, military medicine and medical service support of USAF objectives. Rev. Calvin C. Bloxom has accepted a call to Greenpond Baptist Church in Chatham, Va. Arthur G. Broadhurst has moved from Kent, N . Y. to Card igan Mt. School in Canaan, N. H. Roger E. Miles, assistant director of the private patient service at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, has been elected president of the Orange County Unit of the American Cancer Society. He is also president of the American Field Service. Joseph B. Benedetti, a Richmond attorney, is a candidate for the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly this fall. Benedetti is a Republican candidate . Pascal A. Tarantino has moved from Searsport, Maine, to Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Tarantino is director of Weapons Systems in the Chemical Research Group of the U. S. Army . Gordon W. Poindexter, Jr., has moved from Lovingston, Va . to 532 Dogwood Dr ., Chapel Hill,N . C. Bobbie R. Johnson of Richmond has been commissioned a second lieutenant at the Air Force Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas . Johnson was honored as a distinguished graduate at graduation exercises for his class. He received his appointment to officer training school through competitive examinations with other college graduates. Walter E. Burnette, Jr. of Richmond, has been promoted from assistant cashier to assistant vice president at the Bank of Virginia. He has ben associated with the bank since 1955. Peter R. Neal has been awarded a $1500 fellowship to do graduate work in history at the College of William and Mary . Following his graduation from the University of Richmond in 1959, he taught at Granby High School in Norfolk until 1960, when he entered the U. S. Army. Larry E. Snider is now a management analyst with the Naval Supply Center in Norfolk, Va. Charles W. Walker has been promoted to Health Program representative for a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service in Atlanta, Ga. Walker was a Henrico County school teacher prior to entering the Public Health Service in 1962. Rev . William Hewlitt Stith, Jr ., has been appointed director of the Wesley Foundation for the city of Richmond. He will serve students at the University of Richmond, the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute. Rev . Stith came to Richmond from Fredericksburg, where he was associate minister of Fredericksburg Methodist Church .

1960Joseph P. Barker has moved from Richmond to 434 Beechwood St., Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Robert John Polhemus of Richmond has been employed by International Business Machines in their Data Processing Department . John D . Welsh has moved from New Orleans

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WATTS HEADS EQUITABLE'S MIAMI OFFICE Stanley S. Watts , '43 , has been promoted

to agency manager for the southern Florida area of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. He served in World War II as a naval officer, then entered the construction business in Asheville, N . C. In 1949 , he decided on a life insurance career and joined the Equitable in Asheville, moving to Norfolk, Va., in 1950 . He has been a million dollar producer every year except his first year in the business, and for four years his production has been in excess of two million . Watts was named district manager in Norfolk in 1955 , holding that position until his recent promotion . He was named Sales Executive of the Year by the Norfolk-Portsmouth Sales Executive Club in 1960 , and has served as president of the ~ortolk G:eneral Agents and Managers Assooat1on , director of the Norfolk Life Underwriters Association , and vice-president of the Norfolk-Portsmouth Sales Executive Club . He earned in 1961 the highest honor in the life insurance field- the degree of Chartered Life Underwriter.

to 6530 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, Texas. Irvin Blitch was married to the former Miss Barbara Rose on June 15. Mr. and Mrs. Blitch are both working on their doctorates in biology at the University of Virginia and will be living in Charlottesville during the next four years . Douglas H. Moseley, Jr., has been named commandant of the cadet corps at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond . Mosely was released from active duty in the U . S. Army in August. Mr. and Mrs . Jerry E. Haney of Hyattsville, Md ., have announced the birth of a son, Jeffrey Glenn, on June 5. Haney is employed at Johns Hopkins Applied Physi cs Laboratory as an associate mathematician. 1st Lt. and Mrs . Charles 0 . Boyles have announced the birth of a son, Bryan Rae, on July 23. Lt . Boyles, who recently received the promotion to 1st lieutenant, is commanding officer of a headquarters compan y with the 7th Division in Korea. Frederick H . Creekmore of Chesapeake, Va ., and a law graduate of 1963, is now practicing law in Norfolk, Va .


STITH BROADCASTS RELIGIOUS NEWS Rev. W . Hewlett Stith, Jr., '59, Youth Director of the Wesley Foundation in Rich-

mond, is the announcer and editor of a religious news broadcast now heard in the Richmond and Fredericksburg area. The five-minute weekly broadcast covers events involving and effecting the nation's church life, important church-state relations, major denominational activities, and features growing out of unusual events in the life of the churches. The program began in Frederi cksburg in November of 1962, when Stith was associate pastor of Fredericksburg Methodist Church . The idea caught on in the Virginia city, and soon was commercially sponsored for a period of 52 weeks. It is one of the few such programs in the country so sponsored. Several other stations are now considering adding the program to their broadcast schedule. Those now carrying the program are WRVA Richmond , at 12 :30 p .m. on Sunday, and WFLS in Fredericksburg at 12 : 10 p.m. on Saturdays.

Arthur G . Lambiotte, a 1963 law school graduate , is now practicing law in Newport News . Dr. Andrew G . Schroeder has moved from Richmond to 349 A Wakefield Dr ., Charlotte, N. C. George T . Cochran ha s moved from Knoxville, Tenn ., to Clemson, S. C. Mr . and Mrs. Frank X . Gagliano have announced the birth of a son, Ralph Glenn, on June 18. Frank is teaching and coaching in Roselle, N. J. Rev . James Dean Edwards has been called as pastor to the First Church at Collinsville, Va . Thomas Herman Atkins of Richmond will be married next spring to Miss Karin Heide Bach of Richmond . F. Llewellyn Welstead of Charleston, W . Va ., has been promoted from staff assistant to engineer with the C. and P . Telephone Company of Va . Frank J. Sweene y, III, has moved from West Haven, Connecticut to 514 22nd St., Virginia Beach, Va . D. B. Wallace has moved from Hampton, Va ., to 111 Fairview Ave . in Fairfax, Va . Rev . Donald G . Wilson has accepted a call to the Baptist Church at Ghent, Kentucky . He had been pastor of Plum Creek in Indiana . He was married June 22 to the former Miss Mary Lewis Linthicum of Roanoke.

Charles P. Wilbourne is now administrative assistant in charge of personnel for the ColonialAmerican National Bank in Roanoke. The Wilbourne 's third son, David Bradbury, was born June 29, 1962. John W. Savage, Jr ., has moved from Richmond to 116 Crompton Rd. in Waynesboro, Va., where he is a safety engineer with DuPont in the construction division. The Savages have a son, 2. Robert H. Wainwright, minister of education at the Smithfield Baptist Church, Va., was ordained June 16 at the West Hampton Baptist Church of Hampton, Va. He received his B.D. degree from Southeastern Baptist Seminary in May. He is married to the former Miss Betty Portwood of Hampton, and they have two sons, Bruce and Morris . 1st Lt. Conrad C. Lewane of the U . S. Army is now stationed at Ft. McPherson, Ga ., after having completed the basic officer's infantry orientation course and the 38th special law class at the Judge Advocate General's School at the University of Virginia. His new address is 1845 Idlewood Dr., East Point, Ga. Alton B. Prillaman has joined the Allstate Insurance Company in Roanoke as an insurance trainee. Ervin H . Mueller, Jr., has moved from Wilmington, Delaware, to Richmond, Va. Douglas Hiza has moved from Newport News to the Virginia Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, Va . Marcus W. Collier is now with Reynolds Metals Company and is working in the South Plant in Richmond . 1:uis W. Morales has joined the Philadelphia natronal office staff of Robert Morris Associates as an administrative assistant . He was honorably discharged from the Marines in June, after having served three years as a Marine officer. . John B. Polhill was ordained to the ministry rn September . His father Dr. Lucius M . Polhill, executive secretary for Virginia Baptists, preached the sermon and delivered the charge. The ordination service was held in the Grace Baptist Church in Richmond .

LIBERALARTS STUDY INCLUDE UR ALUMNI The University of Richmond is cooperating in a national study of liberal arts alumni which is being conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley. This study, which is being financed by the Cooperative Research Branch of the U. S. Office of Education, will explore a number of significant relationships between liberal education and vocational progress . Selected male alumni from the classes of 1948, 1953, and 1958 wihl soon receive an extensive questionnaire asking for information on their post-college experiences. There has been a great deal of debate concerning liberal education-this study seeks to provide factual, unbiased information on how this education affected their later careers.

LOU ST. CLAIR: HOSPITAL CHIEF Nelson L. St. Clair, '58, is serving as ad-

1961B. Roland Freasier, who is serving with the Internal Revenue Service in Richmond, has ben elected to membership in the Richmond Chapter of the National Association of Accountants. Billy B. Vincent, Jr ., of Richmond has passed the Certified Public Accountant examination and will receive a Certificate . Mr. and Mrs . David Ritter have announced the birth of a son, Christopher Wingfield, on August 4. Ritter was released from active duty with the U. S. Army in September. H. Norton Mason, Jr ., has joined the staff of Investment Corporation of Virginia in Norfolk. He will occupy a newy-created job as manager of the mutual fund department, and organize and manage a training program for new representatives of the firm . Donald H. Seely is one of 33 young men and women who will leave the U. S. this Fall to begin three years of missionary service for the Methodist Church. He will serve in one of 19 countries in Africa, Asia, and North and South America . He has completed a five-week special training course in missionary work at the Methodist Orientation Center at Stony Point, N. Y. Kenichi Sugahara has accepted a job with the data processing department of Travelers insurance firm. Now at the Hartford, Conn. office, Mr. Sugahara will go into actuarial work. His address is 20 Clermont St., Apt . 3, Hartford, Conn. The marriage of Miss Geraldine Gray Edmonds of Richmond to Lt . Frederick Sale, Jr., USA, of Ft . Dix, N. J., took place in August. The couple will live at Ft. Dix. Edward C. Spence has joined the staff of

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ministrator of Newport News' 323-bed, $7,000,000 Riverside Hospital. Lou, co-captain of the 1957 Spider football team, received his Master of Hospital Administration in June, 1961 at MCV . He served his residency at Norfolk General Hospital, and moved to Riverside as assistant administrator upon receiving the M.H .A. degree. He has been administrator there since February of 1962. His is a "hometown boy makes good" story, since Lou comes from Newport News. He is a graduate of Warwick High School, where he was All-Tidewater in baseball and football. At the University, he played baseball and football, and was a member of the Kappa Sigma social fraternity . In his junior year, he was athletic representative to the student government, a senator-at-large, and a member of Scabbard and Blade. The St. Clair's have one daughter, 4, and two sons, 2 and 8 months .


COL. PATE AWARDED MEDAL

Lieutenant Colonel Verne E. Pate, former commander of the ROTC unit at the University, has received the Army Commendation Medal for his work while heading the unit. The medal was awarded at Fort Brooke, Puerto Rico, by U. R. alumnus Brigadier Gc>neralJohn W. Dodson, '35, Commanding General, Antilles Command of the U. S. Army Forces Southern Command. Col. Pate is now serving as Deputy Senior Advisor to the Puerto Rico Army National Guard. General Dobson, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, class of 1939. Among his decorations he holds the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

A. M. Pullen and Company in Richmond. He formerly was with Arthur Young and Company in Atlanta. Robert V. Beale, who is a candidate for the bachelor of laws from T. C. Williams in February, has won first prize of $250 in the Nathan Burkan Memorial competition for 1965. His winning paper was "An Important Interim." The contest is intended to stimulate interest in copyright law. First Lt. Kenneth E. Cousins completed his tour of duty with the army September 30. Prior to leaving the service, Lt. Cousins had been promoted to supervisor of postal operations at Ft. Knox, Ky. Lt. John F. Eidelbarner is an air intelligence officer stationed at Strategic Air Command Headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Charles Stuart Pierce III, formerly of Richmond, is now employed by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Norfolk. Raymond A. Young of Arlington was married in June to Miss Margaret Lee Strawhand of Baltimore. The marriage of Mary Loretta Brehm of Keysville to Thomas O'Connell Reardon of Richmond took place in August. Mr. Reardon has accepted a position with the City of Richmond as property claims examiner.

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Lee Richardson began work for the doctor of business administration degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in September. His wife, Doralee (MA '62) is secretary for Denver Temple Baptist Church. Gordon L. Eanes of Charlotte, N. C. passed

the Virginia State Board of Accountants ex• amination in May and will receive his CPA certificate . Capt. Robert S. Berman of Norfolk has completed the orientation course for officers of the air force medical service at Gunter Air Force Base, Ala. Capt. Berman, a dentist, was assigned to Shaw Air Force Base, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Grayson E. Dodson announce the birth of a son, Barry Mark, on July 2. Ernest Bailey Jordan, Jr. is an employer and claims interviewer for the Virginia Employment Commission. Second Lt. John J. Purcell, Jr., USA, was married to Miss Patricia Mullins Highfill of Richmond in June. Lt. Purcell's home is Louisa, Va. J. G. Lumpkin, Jr. has been named manager of Berry-Burk & Company's River Road branch store in west Richmond. Mr . Lumpkin had worked at the downtown store for five years on a part-time basis. Second Lt. Fred H. Bowen of Reedville, Va., has completed a special course for United States Air Force communications officers at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Tex. Rev. Richard C. Newlon was ordained in June to the ministry by Skipwith Baptist Church in Richmond. Mr. Newlon, who served as stu• dent pastor of Skipwith for two years, is completing work at Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest. J. M. Hurt, III is the recipient of a $1,000 graduate assistantship at the University of North Carolina, where he is working toward the M.A. in fine arts. Hurt, a Blackstone, Va. resident, was elcted president of the Art Student's Journal Club. Gus John James, II of Danville has returned from the military service. He was at Ft. Jackson, S. C., and Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. He plans to do graduate work. W. L. Hartzman has been assigned to Germany for 2½ years by the army. He recently completed the adjutant general school. Edwin P. Crowell, formerly of Richmond, is now living at 13 Blackfoot Dr., Trenton, N. J. Jerald R. White, Jr., of Ft. Worth, Tex., has moved to 2124 Pelam Dr., S.W., Roanoke, Va. William F. Mezger has been employed at the Virginia Employment Commission as a labor market analyst trainee. Ensign William A. Clark is legal officer aboard the USS Lexington, based in Pensacola, Fla. He graduated from Naval Officer Candidate Naval and attended School in December Justice School in Newport, R. I.

COMEDIAN SHORR ON LESTERSHOW Comedian Lonnie Shorr, '59, has signed to appear on a new television show which will be shown on network TV in Canada and nationally syndicated throughout the United States. The program, featuring comic Jerry Lester, will have a variety-late show format, to be seen on Saturday or Sunday nights . Shorr has just completed an engagement at the Downington Inn in Pennsylvania, and has future dates in Baltimore, Miami Beach, Ontario, Des Moines, and Texas.

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LT. DONALD W. ADAMS

Lt. Donald W . Adams, '62, won the Virginia State Smallbore Position Championship match held this summer in Virginia Beach. He is currently a member of the United States Army Marksmanship Training Unit, stationed at Ft. Benning, Ga. Lt. Adams travels throughout the eastern United States delivering lectures in marksmanship, and is a member of the International Division of his unit.

1963Mr. and Mrs. Morgan C. Pritchett of Richmond announce the birth of a daughter, Anne Clements, who was born March 6. Lt. Gordon Lee Merritt of Annandale Va. and Alice Louise Moyers were married in' July. Tom "Red" Booker is assistant football coach at Chesterfield county's newest high school, Meadowbrook. Ernest J. Boyd of Richmond was ordained to the ministry in June by Bethany Place Baptist Church. For the past four years he was pastor of Mt. Hope and Arbor Baptist Churches in Chesterfield county. Jack C. Grady, Jr., formerly of Richmond is now living at 4702 Townsend Dr., Ft. Worth'. Tex. S. R. "Dick" Bagby has completed a tour of duty with the coast guard. Part of the time ~e was stationed at the North Pole. Bagb? lives at 5100 West Franklin St., Richmond. Allen Lee Puffenberger of Luray, Va ., is a student at Southeastern Seminary Wake Forest ' ' N. C. ~nsign_ Dale ~- _Robinson, who recently received his commiss10n, is stationed aboard the USS Independence. University of Richmond outfielder Bobby Stewart won the Southern Conference baseball batting championship with a .421 average. Jo_hn Edward Buck, Jr. is attending the University of North Carolina, where he is doing graduate work in history. Rufus Baxter Griffith, Jr. and Miss Eileen Jolly Hoy were married in June in Vinton, Va. John Letcher Fugate and Miss Mary Ellen Deckelman, both of Richmond, were married in August . Andrew George Bachmann of Newport News is engaged to Miss Jane C. Brumback of Richmond. Mr. Bachmann is doing graduate work here. Hunter B. Spencer, Jr. of Annandale, Va. is hospital sales supervisor for A. H. Robins Co., Inc.


BILL SEWARD'S NEW BOOK CONTRASTS MODERN WRITERS "Contrasts in Modern Writers," by William W. Seward, Jr., '34, professor of Eng-

RESEARCH (C onti nued fr om page 3)

production of drugs that lower blood pressure and thus extend the active and useful life of hypotensive patients. These hypotensive drugs partially relieve a condition but do not cure. While some progress has been made in cancer chemotherapy, no drug or combina-

lish at Old Dominion College in Norfolk, is a collection of reviews, lectures, and essays, constituting an informal journal of fi~ti.onal writing since mid-century. These m~1ques deal with some relatively recent editors of works of established authors, with biographical ?r critical books pertaining to important wnters of fiction, and with new works of the older generation as well as a generous examination of the professional youngsters. The range extends from D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce to Rosamond Lehmann and Audrey Erskine Lind op; from the American Nobel Prize winners to "post-moderns" William Styron and James Purdy. Mr. Seward has published one novel, two books of criticism and numerous magazine articles. Since 1947, he has reviewed 'books for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and for more than two years edited a weekly book review program over station WMTI-FM in Norfolk. He is listed in "Who's Who in America" and the "Dictionary of American Scholars." He received the M.A . in English from the University of Richmond in 1935, and has taught in public schools, the University of Richmond, Tift College in Georgia, and Old Dominion College. He was nominated by Ernest Hemingway to edit "The Hemingway Reader," in 1952.

tion of drugs has been prepared which is a general carcinolytic agent. While the pharmaceutical chemist has .little hope in the near future of preparing a drug which will cure ¡cancer, there is the possibility that the surgeon, radiologist and chemist together may increase greatly the percentage of recoveries from cancer. The tranquilizers or ataractic drugs have proved to be of great value to millions of

TREVVETT AND RICE AUDITORS FOR R. F. & P. Robert L. Trevvett , '36, and James T. Rice, ' 58, both of Richmond, have been promoted by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Co. Trevvebt is now auditor of revenues, and Rice is auditor of expenditures . Tr evvett joined the R. F. and P. in 1937 as a clerk in the passenger bureau. He was elevated to chief rate clerk in 1950 and appointed passenger accountant in 1956. He was promot ed to revenue accountant in 1961. Tre vvett was a member of the golf team at the Uni versity, where he earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration.

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QB CLUB HONORS VAUGHAN The University of Richmond Quarterback Club made a surprise presentation to its past president, Frederick J. (Freddy) Vaughan, '35, at the f1rst meeting of the year at the Holiday Inn in Richmond. It was a portrait, drawn by James B. Robinson, '49, and signed by all the members of the club . One of the great names in University athletics, he was a member of the celebrated football team of 1934. His alumni activities have included the chairmanship of Alumni Day.

individuals in helping them to cope with the stress of modern living . Also, they have increased the effectiveness of treatment in mental hospitals and many former inmaites of such institutions are leading normail, useful lives due to the judicious use of tranquilizers. However, none of these drugs have proved to be universal cures for all mental disturbances. Working with the biochemist, the pharmaceutical chemist should make available to the physican drugs which are more effective tranquilizers than any that have been prepared to date. ~nowled.ge in pharmaceutical chemistry, as m practically all fields of science, is increasing in almost a geometric ratio. At present the pharmaceutical chemist is devoting much of his effort to the finding of a cure for heart disease, cancer and mental illness. If he is successfu.I in this multiple quest many healthful years should be added to your span of life. Continued advances in health sciences should give reasonable assurance .that your son, grandson or nephew , born m 1963, will live to give a hearty welcome to the year 2063.


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MRS. WILLIAM MATTHEWS (Lily Frances Trevvett '09) Glen Allen, Virginia Clara Gary is recovering from a long period of illness and is looking forward to enjoying again her hobby-substituting in the Richmond schools. Salie Engelberg taught Government at R.P.I. during summer school. She is now doing research on Negro Women in Virginia during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Lorena Mason was in Vermont in June, 1963, and later in the summer in the mountains of Virginia. Concerts and church occupy her time when in Richmond. Eudora Ramsey Richardson's paper-"Coeducation and Co-ordination versus Traditional Southern Colleges for Women," delivered at the Institute of Southern Culture, Longwood, 1962, (along with two other papers) will be published shortly. Your Secretary had an interesting and enjoyable trip "Around the World," January 16th -July 1, visiting Honolulu, Japan, Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Colombo, [ndia, Karachi, Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Paris, England, Scotland, Germany. A wonderful trip. I learned much. Margaret Monteiro, 1915, added greatly to the pleasure of our stay in Honolulu. She plans to be present at the 50th anniversary in 1965. 1915 Secretary MRS. WILMERL. O'FLAHERTY ( Celeste Anderson) 3603 Moss Side Avenue, Richmond 22, Va. Celeste has a cottage for the year "down the river" and so Frieda Dietz is delegated to report for two classes. Direct report on Margaret Monterio is at hand in color slides brought back by Ethel L. Smither, who visited Margaret in Honolulu for a month. Margaret is in wonderful condition, lives in a charming house in a compound of four homes, and she is leading the life she loves in "retirement" and as a recently elected Phi Beta Kappadoing for others and being "done for," as experienced by Ethel in the many luncheons and parties given by Margaret's friends. Margaret is hoping to come back for a visit in 1965. "Sup"-Louise Reams Hundley, Mrs. E. D., of 1401 Grady Ave., Charlottesvill-is slowly recovering from a second eye operation and hopes are high that this will be completely successful, as the first operation brought complications. Her son, John, is reading her mail to her, so, write! Irene Stiff Phillips is happily dividing her time between Jean's and Sid's children, Sidney, Jr. having moved to Richmond. Irene visited relatives in West Virginia. Frances Glassell Beale, '17, held Celeste and Irene spellbound for two days and nights, and Frieda during a luncheon, at her Bowling Green home, relating her European adventures with her daughter, Louisa Brown McGahey of Charlotte, N. C., and Bessie Graham, Norma Throckmorton's sister. After trains and buses on the Continent, they hired a car for the British Isles and "Ezy" drove. Frances is planning her annual houseparty for "us girls" the last weekend in October. Celeste had a three-day, two-night houseparty at her Rappahannock cottage, Sept. 10-13. On

Friday the thirteenth they had the good luck to lunch with Florence and Dr. Henry Decker at "Warsaw Farm," Ayletts. Henry has recovered so happily that he commutes to and from his Richmond office daily. Kathleen Bland Cottle, '16, has moved into her newly-built little house on the same bank of the York river across from West Point. The home she and her late husband, Ralph, built when he retired from his career in California, is now occupied by Kathleen's retired brother and his wife from Chattanooga. Kathleen is helping her two sisters care for another brother, invalided for about two years. She finds time to do much work among the young people in her church and to be active in garden and literary clubs. Louise Goepfarth Schaaf is in "seventh heaven" -for the first time in years, all of her family had a week together in hers and Bernard's home. Their daughter, Mrs. Wm. J. Depten and husband came on with two children from Evansville, Ind., and their son, Bernard, Jr. was here with his wife and two children from New Jersey. Also, Louise's late brother Karl's daughter, Mrs. Wendell Snowden with her husband and baby visited en route from Duke University to Colorado. Helen Monsell, '16, reports a most enjoyable summer. She taught her class in children's literature at the University of Richmond summer school and is teaching the same subject at R.P.I. this autumn. I-Frieda Dietz-had a splendid seven weeks in Europe in the Spring with a small group of perfect travelers and I am planning a 1964 "Follow the Springtime" in either the Holy Land and Egypt or Europe again. Meantime, for ten months a year (my sister Norma Mackay takes over for two months in the Spring) I care for my invalided 94-year -old father . Of the distant members of the Class of '15, we have no special news, nor of the only two others of '16, Stella Carden in Pittsburgh and Elizabeth Hutchinson, last heard from in Washington. We did hear that Constance Morenus and her husband are in Atlanta, teaching. If Mary Delia Smith and Sara Thomas read this, please report to Celeste.

1924 Secretary MRs. GuY BEALE (Hilda Booth) 8513 Hanford Drive Richmond 29, Va. I have contacted as many of our Richmond girls as I could reach to glean a spot of news for you. Mary Taylor Copenhaver is very happy with her new assignment to the English Department of George Wythe High School. She spent an enjoyable vacation boating and fishing at Claytor Lake Park. Lucille Hudgins is starting her eighth year with the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. She is eagerly looking forward to our reunion next year and hopes to have a part in it. Norma Coleman Broaddus seems to be our only distance traveler this summer. She had a delightful trip of three weeks to Nova Scotia and Bar Harbor. Virginia Clore Johnson said she didn't do anything exciting herself but was thrilled that her husband had the distinctive honor of entertaining the U. S. District Court Clerks' Association for the entire county. Mary Peple spent most of her summer sewing, textile painting, and racing the birds to the fig bush, plus taking a trip to Doswell to visit Wilhelmina Wright. The highlight of Wilhelmina's summer was a journey to Harpers Ferry and Roanoke. Virginia Gregory and Mary Anna Powell recently visited Inez Hite for a couple of days. I had the pleasure of being with them in Margaret Carlton's home. Such fun we had chattering up a storm of back news. My big news is the birth of my first granddaughter in Korea. Of course, I won't see her until about the first of next year-can scarcely wait! 1926 Secretary MRS. CLARKM. BROWN(Margaret Lazenby) 207 Memorial Ave. Bluefield, West Virginia We were all so sorry to hear of the death

Westhampton Swimming Pool Open-to

Alumnae!

Westhampton alumnae were delighted with the annnouncement made by the Physical Education Department that, beginning October 15, the new pool would be kept open for alumnae the first and third Tuesday nights of each month during the session. In addition, alumnae may bring their husbands or dates. Alumnae may use the bathing suits furnished by the college or may wear their own . The men will have to provide their own suits. The hours for swimming will be 7: 30 p.m. to 9 :00 p.m. Since the ¡ swimming instructors are vo~unteering their time to make this possible, it is hoped that many alumnae will avail themselves of this opportunity. Now that we have the pool-let's enjoy it 1

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of Louise Fry Galvin's father. We send our love and sympathy. Gene Edmondson Barney reports that both she and Don have had major operations in the last few months. Both of them came through fine and have spent the summer recuperating and catching up the time they missed while sick. Gene says that she has a new grandson. This is the second son of her daughter. This seems to have been the summer of operations. I, too, had one the last of June and though I got along without any trouble I spent the rest of the summer getting back to normal. It was just a matter of "taking it easy" as the doctor said and that is what I just love to do. Please write me some news. I didn't get down to Richmond and vicinity this summer so I know very little of what is going on. 1929 Secretary MRS. HAMPTONH. WAYT,JR. (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road Richmond, Virginia 23230

Last year I promised you that Margaret Rudd would sonn be publishing her book "The Lone Heretic." It was released in August, so let's all buy a copy . Margaret left Westhampton in June to do further research and writing, has gone to Mexico and Chile where she will be for three months. She is most excited over her new career. If you missed the write-up about her in the summer Bulletin, go back and read it. Franc"s Schofield spent her vacation attending a Nutrition Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. t'1en travelled in England, ltalv. Switzerland and Denmark before returning to Knoxville. Elizabeth Hale broke her ankle in the spring. We hone it has healed completely. Elizabeth accepted the enforced bed rest as extra vacation. "Trudi" Rvland Harlan and husband have moved to Charlotte, N. C., where he will be head of the Sociology Department at Charlotte College. Their son and his wife are in California where he is a marine pilot. Pearle Powell Prillaman has a new granddaughter. She now has¡ four grandchildrentwo boys, two girls. Nat Evans Sanford's son, Taylor, is stationed in Hawaii but his wife and son "Happy" are visiting their families now. Nat ' s daughter, Betti, and her family have moved to Petersburg from Maine . Taylor stays busy coaching at Fort Lee and scouting for the Yankees. I saw Panny Sykes DeHart at V.P.I . in June and met her handsome family. Pat, Jr., his wife and two daughters live in Alexandria: Sykes, who finished V.P .I. in June, then served on the Camp Seafarer staff for the summer, entered Duke Medical School in September. Marv Butterworth's daughter. Rennie, was elected treasurer of Student Government at Randolph-Macon, where Rennie is a junior. "Jimmie" Mattox's daughter, Murilla, has a large music class and also directs her church choir in Fredericksburg. Mary Wilson MacMillan's son won his wife 'and wages last summer . He is with the Marines in California. My son, Hampton, graduated from V .P.I. in June, is now working for Union Carbide in Greenville. N. C. Mildred Pope Andersen 's daughter, Jane, her husband and children have moved to Roanoke where he practices medicine . I saw Charlotte Marshall Farmer this summer . She is very proud of her little grandson and still likes teaching. The Yea mans flew to Denver this summer to see Ann Carol and her family, and to visit Yellowstone Park. Tom, Jr. is stationed in Texas at the Missile base. " Billye " Williams Thomas and Ann Lee were in Virginia for a wedding this summer.

1930 Secretary MRS. JOHN E. MILLEA (Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida St., Newton, Mass.

Virginia Prince Shinnick's daughter, Elizabeth, was 1963 May Queen at the Collegiate School in Richmond. Helen Harwood Parr's son, Arthur, was one of 35 U. of R. students who had an opportunity to see history in the making this summer. He flew to Rome with a group headed by history professor, Dr. James A. Moncure, and was there at the time of the election of the Pope. The tour included other Italian cities, Munich, Lucerne, Paris and London. Did you know we had an artist in our midst? Dorcas Hooker Herthel's ceramic, Pair of Quails, was included in the exhibition of Virginia artists at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Feb. and March. In April, Thalhimers held an arts and crafts show entitled "Focus on Art" which exhibited Dorcas' ceramic, Groundhog , What a wonderful surprise to pick up the phone one evening in June to find Helen Bowman Lieb on the other end of the line! She flew up from Florida with her son who was to be at camp in Charlton, Mass., then hired a

Mary Stevens Jones '29 Mary Stevens Jones, columnist and news-editor of the Culpeper Star-Exponent, was a first place winner in the 1962 writing competition conducted by the National Federation of Press Women. She was one of nine Virginia women honored with awards presented at the federation 's annual convention, held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June, and the only Virginia woman to win a first place award for newspaper writing. Miss Jones placed first in the Column Division for weekly or semi-weekly newspapers with her column, "On and Off Main and Davis Streets." The series of columns she submitted in the competition were among those she wrote about her trip to Europe last summer. Previously, Miss Jones had won two first place awards and one second place award in state competition. The Virginia Press Women ' s Association awarded her first place for columnwriting and make-up of women's pages in weekly or semi-weekly newspapers, and second place for news-writing in weekly newspapers. Her first place entries were entered in national competition. The Star-Exponent plans to publish Miss Jones' complete series of columns on her European travels in booklet form. In March, the Culpeper Star-Exponent changed over from weekly to daily publication, so this year Mary Stevens will be competing in the daily division .

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car and drove to Chappaqua, N. Y. for a short visit with Emily Schielinger Carlson. She called me from Boston where she spent one night before returning home. When Helen's husband was appointed to the Florida bench, the family moved to Miami. They returned to their home in Tampa as soon as a judgeship became available there. Virginia Saunders Thomas and Bill spent part of August at Myrtle Beach, S. C. Margaret Flick Clark wrote me that she wished we could do something in memory of Miss Lough. Why not let me know what you think of the suggestion and send me some news at the same time? (Note: There is already in existence the Lough Memorial Fund. The interest from this fund is added to that from the Woodfin Fund to aid Westhampton alumnae in graduate work in history.) John and I went up to Arcadia National Park on Mt. Desert Island in Maine early in July, a place I hadn't been in 30 years. It was quite a thrill to drive on the new road to the top of Cadillac Mt. The last time I went to the top of that mountain I had to climb up! 1931 Secretary

MRS. TUCKERHARGROVE (Virginia Beck) Dinwiddie, Virginia Congratulations, Josephine. Josephine Nunnally was recently honored for her 25 years as cataloguer in the University of Richmond library. Her colleagues and former members of the library staff returned on September 14 for a surprise party given by Kathleen Francis in the library. All of us extend our sympathy to Lauretta Taylor Sullivan in the loss of her mother. Lauretta writes that her son Bob finished at T. C. Williams. In June he and his wife moved to Norfolk where he is now associated with a firm of young lawyers. Her daughter, Barbara, and family now live in Ormond Beach, Florida, a suburb of Daytona Beach. Page (Cauthorne) and Clark Spellman have moved into their new home at Palmer, Virginia and are enjoying fishing and boating on the Rappahannock. Mother and I spent a month in Florida visiting my sister. While there I broke my foot and was in a cast for four weeks but it's about well now. Amelia Ullman was nominated by Memorial Guidance Clinic as the Volunteer of the Year from Richmond . She works in the Remedial Library set up there and maintained by the Richmond Branch of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her work is not only with the library but with the children who come in for consultation. A picture of Amelia with the children and a write-up of her excellent work appeared in the Times-Dispatch. An account of her work which was submitted with her nomination was so flattering, Amelia says, that she plans to us¡e it as her obituary. 1932 Secretary MRS. GLENNS. HESBY (Katherine Roberts) 900 West Franklin St. Richmond 20, Virginia

News of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beatty comes from their home at Fayetteville, Ark. Mrs. Beatty is better know to our class as "Capitaine." She works as Secretary to the Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Arkansas. Life centers around their two daughters, Virginia and Mondella. Geneva Snellings heard from Dorothy Jones this past summer. Dorothy still teaches at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina. She taught at R.P.I., Richmond, Va. during the summer of '62. Buena and Hugh Myers with their daughter, Mary Wheeler, spent their vacation camping in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Their son, Hugh Jr., is out of the service now and enters graduate school this fall .


Jessie Miller Turner's son, Dr. John Turner, who graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School in June, was married Aug. 10 to Ellen Walker of Charlotte, North Carolina. They are living in Norfolk, Va., where Dr. Turner is interning at the Norfolk General Hospital. Jessie Miller's daughter, Carolyn, who graduated from Lynchburg College, is living in Richmond and teaching Physical Education at Fairfield Junior High School. "Jud" Babcock is now making his home in New York City where he is working for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. His brother, "Bill " , is a Freshman at Washington and Lee University. Betsy Broaddus was married to Craig Zimmerman on June 29 in Severna Park, Maryland. They now make their home at Washington Grove, Md. and Betsy teaches French in the high school at Gaithersburg, Md. Carolyn will be teaching two classes in Latin at the Severna School for Boys. Her son, Giard, enters the 11th grade at this school. Helen Deck's daughter, Margaret Ann, who graduated from Wellesley this past June, is working in Boston as a risk analyst for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. 1933 Secretary DYSON Miss GERTRUDE 1500 Wilmington Ave. Richmond, Va. One classmate enjoyed our reunion! Jane Reynolds Merchant invited the Richmond girls to lunch at her lovely home on Grant Avenue in Manassas. Matilda was visiting Edna Earl, and Julia Perry Pattie, who was with us for two years before going on to Duke to graduate, came over from Alexandria. Her only child, a son, is a senior at William and Mary this year. Dolly, too, drove over from Baltimore. Ann kindly drove with Etta, Kat, Archie, Helen, Margaret and Gertrude as willing passengers. It was a lovely party and especially good to see Jane's sister Mildred, the youngest grandmother! Helen Crawford has moved to an apartment at 2117 Stuart Avenue. She is dividing her week between Richmond and Bowling Green where she and her sister are doing over the old home place. Archie Fowlkes had a wonderful motor trip in June to St. Petersburg. She visited Elizabeth Chandler Cox in Rome and Catherine Dawson Cox in Charlotte. Margaret Crews Hurley enjoyed a visit to Atlanta in June . Ann with Mrs. Dickinson and daughter, Betsy, visited son, Jack, and wife in their new home in Houston where Jack will teach this winter. Our deepest sympathy is¡ extended to Phoebe and Carolyn Cutchin Powell in the loss of their mothers.

Wells gave us the news about Margaret Proctor Swetnam's oldest son, Ford, Jr. On August 31st he married Agnes Chichester Lewis at Bethesda, Maryland. On June 5th one of our classmates changed her name. Hazel Hemming Coleman became the wife of A. Taylor Seay, Jr., a Richmond College alumnus. They live at 1410 Palmyra Ave., Richmond, Va. Virginia Puckett's daughter, Betty, attended the World Baptist Alliance in Lebanon during July. She took many beautiful color slides en route including historic landmarks of Greece, Beirut, Egypt, Jerusalem and Paris. Also, she played the organ for the meeting at Lebanon. This was indeed an exciting and memorable tour for Betty, who will be a Westhampton sophomore this September. Margie Pugh Tabb's daughter, Louise Stewart, was a June graduate with honors at Thomas Jefferson High School. Her son, Randy, Jr., was president of his freshman class there last year. Lyndele Pitt took a summer course in the new approach to biology (cellular), given by the University of Virginia. 1935 Secretary MRS. C. M. TATUM (Gladys T. Smith) 336 Lexington Road Richmond 26, Virginia We have a bride and a grandmother in the news. Margaret Gravatt Varkentine was married to Clayton Vincent Baker in Winchester on the tenth of July. Margaret is now living at 27 Ridgewood Drive, Auburn, Massachusetts. Sue Whittet Wilson is a grandmother. Her grandson, Edward Andersen Boling, arrived during the summer. Susan and her husband and baby live in Alexandria, near enough for Sue and Nat to see them and to have an opportunity to spoil their grandchild a little. Sue's son is now living in Richmond in one of the restored houses in the Historic Area in Church Hill. He is employed by the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. We are proud to have another daughter at Lottie Britt Callis' daughter, Westhampton.

Pat, is in the Freshman Class. Billy Rowlett Perkins' daughter, Lea, is a Senior. Lottie Britt Callis has an ideal position. She is teaching two classes of Algebra at Thomas first two periods Jefferson High School-the only. It was estimated by Mary Anne Guy Franklin, TV Consultant for the Richmond Public Schools, that the educational programs would reach 100,000 student this year. Beverley Bates, Director of Richmond 's Senior Center, was one of the founders of the HandWork Shop recently established in Church Hill to encourage artists and those who work in handcrafts . Connie Vaden Moore's s-on and Betsy Marston Sadler's son are active in various organizations at John Marshall High School; they are both members of the Key Club and the Cadet Corps . Mildred Epes White's daughter, Betty, who graduated magna cum laude and was Phi Beta Kappa at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, married John Koontz. They are living in Richmond and Betty is teaching at Collegiate . Rhea Talley Stewart and Art returned from their Grove Beach home to Manchester in September. At that time Rhea began a parttime job with very flexible hours doing public relations for the Manchester Education Association. Since giving up her New York apart ment and her columns, Rhea has been busy with all kinds of volunteer work. She helped to promote a money-making project for the symphony and services on the board of the Connecticut Opera Guild. She does cover the N. Y. fashion shows for the local newspaper and writes a news letter for the Swiss Textile Publications . 1936 Secretary MRs. RoBERTJ. Fox (Kitty Ellis) Aylett, Virginia Thanks to Lou White Winfree , I have some items of interest for our Bull etin this time. She advised me that Judith Hodges Schulte was in Richmond during August visiting her mother and sister . Her mother was ill at the time, but she did find an opportunity to visit

1934 Secretary MRS. R. VANHEUVELN(Frances Lundin) 3905 Midlothian Pike Richmond 24, Virginia

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Helen Hulcher spent a mathematical summer at R.P.I. learning Modern Concepts of Mathematics with emphasis on number systems. In addition she took a correspondence course in Algebra, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. A western trip was enjoyed by Frances Gee who traveled by bus and trail to San Francisco, Yosemite Park, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Grand Canyon. Virginia Sanford visited a sister in Richmond and another in New York during the vacation season. We have two weddings to report. Grace

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North Carolina . Her husband, Bernard, is a certified public accountant and financial assistant at Dunbar-Stanley Studios. Their oldest son, Gary, graduated from high school this year and was valedictorian of his class. He is now attending the University of Dayton. Their daughter, Catherine Mayson, is a freshman in high school. Martha Ann is¡ teaching second grade at St. Ann's School in Charlotte. Now that summer is over and you are settled down to your fall routine, please write and tell me about your exciting vacations and your interesting plans for this fall. Let's have a long letter for the next issue. 1938 Secretary MRS. VmGINIA l-ILADYS(Virginia 4010 Hermitage Road Richmond, Virginia

MISS NUNNALLY HONORED Miss Josephine Nunnally (right) , acting librarian , received a silver tray presented by Miss Kathleen Francis on behalf of her colleagues on the staff of Boatwright Memorial Library. The occasion was Miss Nunnally's 25th anniversary as a member of the staff. The gift was presented at a tea in Miss Nunnally 's honor given in the home of Miss Francis.

A graduate of Westhampton College, Miss Nunnally received a bachelor's degree in library science from Columbia University and her master's degree from the University of Michigan . She worked in the libraries of \'v'illiam and Mary College and Agnes Scott College before coming to the University of Richmond in 1938 as assistant to Acting Librarian Lucy T. Throckmorton .

Lou . Judith also visited Westhampton College. I believe she is interested in entering her daughter, Evelyn, in Westhampton in 1964. Katherine, her oldest daughter, will enter Indiana University this year . Two boys complete the Schulte family, with Fred starting high school and Rick starting kindergarten . Boo and Sidney Page have recently returned from Florida after a delightful visit with Daughter, Jane, and husband . Lou Winfree has moved into a new home in Westover Hills. The address is 4520 Riverside Drive. Her husband, Westover, is a lawyer, but enjoys working in wood sculpture as a hobby, so the house was planned with an adequate work shop . Their daughter, Edith, is a senior at Greensboro College this year. One son, Rupert , enters Hampden-Sydney as a freshman. A younger son, Marvin, is still in high school. Lou is Minister of Music at River Road Baptist Church. On June 29, Marjorie and Ronny Tabb moved to 305 Oak Road in Wes¡tham. Their daughter, Louise, enters Mary Baldwin College this fall. She won the Cutler-May Award at Thomas Jefferson High School, an honor which is given annuall y to a senior who has been out standing in four areas of activity .

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Miss POLLYANNASHEPHERD 1053 Naval Avenue Portsmouth, Virginia Marion Miller Peyronnet says that she manages to do some garden club and church work, but teaching the first grade in Henrico County and keeping house for a family of four consume most of her time. Husband Jimmy has his own plumbing and heating business, and daughters Carolyn Le and Mary Stuart are high school, junior and sophomore respectively. A newsy note from Peggy Louthan Shepherd tells us that her family leads a very busy life in Gloucester Point, Virginia. Dick is a pharmacist and has his own drugstore . Peggy keeps herself occupied with D .A.R., Woman's Club, P.T.A., Red Cross, church and scout work. Her three children must take after their mother for their activities are just about as numerous. Almeda, 16, is president of the sophomore class, Tommy, 14, is an active eighthgrader and Boy Scout with star rank, and Pete, 10, is a fifth grader and president of his 4-H club . Martha Ann Freeman Eck is a busy mother, housewife, and career woman in Charlotte,

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This is "news" that should have reached you in the last issue of the Bulletin, but better late than never . . . . There were eleven present June 7th at the class reunion dinner at the Country Club of Virginia. Elizabeth Wheeler made all the arrangements, and I understand it was a lovely affair. Those present from Richmond were Douglas Gee Baldwin, Jo Mallory Cosby, Henrietta Harrel Smith, Anne Walker, Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler and Elizabeth Shaw Burchill. Those from out of town were Mildred Harrell Clinkscales of Norfolk, Virginia, Olive Messer Lewis of Tappahannock, Virginia, Emily Cudd Creal of Spartansburg, South Carolina, Augusta Straus Goodwin of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Barbara Dejarnette Bagwell of Halifax, Virginia. At the luncheon June 8th Mildred Clinkscales, Henrietta Smith, Emily Creal, Elizabeth Wheeler, Elizabeth Burchill and Mollie Fleet were present. Mollie attempted to attend the dinner the night before but got caught in a storm-she made the luncheon, we're glad to say. As you must know, it is a struggle to gather "news" of our class for the Bulletin. We're hoping, when you read this little bit, you will take pity and want to contribute something for the next issue . Don't be bashful. We are really interested in the activities of you and your family. Mildred Lewis Masengill is teaching full

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time this year at Brookland Junior High School in Henrico County, Virginia. Emily Parker Kendig, our new Class of '38 President, will be happy to hear from all of you. Emily lost a daughter, Anne Randolph, this February 23rd, but gained a son-in-law, Ronald Faris Young. Anne Randolph attended Sweetbriar College and received her degree from there in June. The newly-weds now live in Boston, Massachusetts. Our sympathy is extended to Virginia Pinchbeck Anderson who lost her mother this summer. .My daughter, Virginia Ann, is attending the University of North Carolina this year, after graduating from Averett College in June. She was president of the Student Council and received the General Excellence Award upon graduating. Emily and I are anticipating a note or a ,call. Don't disappoint us. 1939 Secretary MRS.

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(Evelyn Hazard) 1512 Wilmington Ave. Richmond, Virginia This will be the year of our 25th reunion,does it seem possible? Some of us in Richmond will be meeting soon to make plans . .Meanwhile we 'd like to hear from everyone . What are each of you and your families doing and do you have any ideas that will make this reunion the best ever? Callie Ross Lewis is working at the Richmond .Memorial Hospital part-time as librarian for the medical library there. We congratulate Jessie .McElroy Junkin's son, Bill. He won a Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Fellowship upon his graduation from King College in June. He will attend M.I.T. Elizabeth Ashbrook Jackson has moved into her new home at 4300 Dover Road in Richmond. Her daughter, Betty, entered RandolphMacon Woman's College as a freshman this fall. Lavinia Winston Edmund's daughter, Em, will also be a freshman at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Sarah Hoover Jones' two daughters, Sarah and Virginia, went abroad with the Baptist Tour of the Holy Land this past summer.

1963 GRAD TO BRAVE JUNGLES ON MISSIONARY ASSIGNMENT A 1963 Westhampton College graduate has a job that will take her into the depths of Latin American jungles where she will face wild animals , fierce jungle tribes, sickness and disease. Mrs. Coral Mears, a slender blond in her late thirties , has been accepted as a literacy teacher to one of the remote Latin American tribes for Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. The Wycliffe teachers are trained to live with the jungle savages, learn the tribal tongue, and translate onto paper. With the major step of writing a literally unwritten language, the teacher translates the Bible, and the tribe is on its way to civilization. Mrs . Mears will go in February to Wycliffe's Jungle Camp in Southern Mexico , where she will spend three months learning

how to build a hut and furniture from mud , sticks and grass; how to swim and canoe expertly; how to cook and preserve food. She will hike daily, with the last hike through 25 miles of jungle-going at only a moment"s notice with only what is on her person at the time . After the Jungle Camp she will v1s1t a missionary friend in the Huixteco tribe in Mexico . She will stay there a few weeks and visit some of the Indian tribes in Guatamala before going on to her own assignment. More than 4,000 teacher-missionaries have graduated from the Wycliffe school since it was started in 1934 . Graduates are at work in 25 countries under mission boards of 35 denominations .

Helen Smith Moss accompanied her husband to Chicago where he gave a convention talk. Dell Williams Smith attended Tony's 25th reunion at M.I.T. Dell also talked with Mary Sue Carter Patterson in Atlanta, Georgia. Mary Sue reports her daughter is now in the fourth grade. Janet Gresham Manson and family took a trip to Canada and New England. Janet's daughter, Betsy, is a senior at Collegiate along with her good friend Mabs Smith, daughter of Dell Williams Smith and Tony Smith. Kitty Lyle spent part of her vacation with Harriet Yeamans Mercer at her summer cottage at Trices' Lake in Cumberland County . As a reminder, a year from June we will have our 25th reunion. Already we have an invitation to meet at Frances Bailey Gill's. You out-of-town gals save your pennies so that you may come here to be part of the celebration .

Holden Slipek reports on the wedding ; "Guy is associated with Trans-Copy Business Machines and moved to Richmond from Philadelphia about three years ago. Dr. Sadler, assisted by the minister of the church, performed the ceremony. Henrietta looked lovely in a pale pink dress and flowered hat. Her sisterin-law, Mary Harding Sadler, was her only attendant. Mayme O'Flaherty Stone played the organ for the service. Puff Poteat Humbert kept all three of Henrietta 's children while their mother honeymooned in New York. (Besides teaching at George Wythe, teaching a night class in English at RPI, getting engaged and married, and moving to a new address21 Willway Avenue--Henrietta has also written the course of study for the Richmond Public Schools in the humanities this summer.)" It was through the Slipeks that Henrietta and Guy met. Surely we all rejoice with them and wish them every joy. We are also glad that Dr . Sadler is recovering nicely from his heart attack; many loving thoughts and prayers have supported him. Jean Neasmith Dickinson 's daughter, Julia Ann, who finished John Marshall with high honors last year, is now a William and Mary freshman. Jean herself is instructing in the Department of Psychology on our own campus . She will have some child psychology classes at

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This newsletter comes to you from the combined int'erests of Emma Lou Parsons Mallory and myself. Why don't you call Emma Lou and give her all of your news? Our sponsor, Mary Moline Grubbs, is teaching physical education at Collegiate again this year. Her son, Dallas, Jr. is a freshman at John Marshall High School and daughter Janet, is a seventh grade student at Collegiate. Four of our children entered college this year. (That is, the ones that we know about.) Maude Smith Jurgens' John entered Richmond College, Nancy Moss, graduate of Averett College last year and daughter of Helen Smith Moss and Clinton Moss, is a junior at RP.I., Al Dickinson, Jr., son of Elsie Mattingly and Al Dickinson, has entered Yale, and Tommy Holloway is at Ferrum Jr. College . Let us know where yours are--maybe they'll run into each other. Ethel O'Brien Harrington spent a month in Texas this summer before moving to Spartanburg, S. C. Her husband, John, is teaching part time at Wofford College. Their address is P.O. Box 1208, Spartanburg, S. C.

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Westhampton, as well as doing counselling in the Psychological Center for Students; her office is in the old library. Ann Phillips Bonifant 's Susie, 16, attends Lee-Davis High School and is a student of voice. Thirteen-year-old Sallie is attending St. Margaret's School at Tappahannock this fall. Mayme O'Flaherty Stone was at Massanetta Springs for the Music Conference. Stuart and I saw her there. She and her family also spent some time in a cottage at Ware 's Wharf. Their younger son, Andy, received an encouraging checkup from Johns-Hopkins. Dick, their older boy, is at Chandler Junior High School. Frazier Drumwright Catron and her Stuart had their annual New York trip back in the winter, and attended his twentieth class reunion at MCV in June. Their oldest daughter, Candace, is a member of the Abingdon High School marching band, which played at Virginia Beach this summer. Dot Harshbarger and her two attractive nieces were in Richmond for a brief v1stt in the summer. They were looking at colleges in this area. Virginia Omohundro Purcell 's sixteen-year-old Hal, Jr ., left St. Christopher 's for eight weeks at the Fontainebleau School outside Paris . He toured Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Italy, as well as France . His brother, Charles, 10, is a Louisa fifth -grader, busy with sports , piano and Cub Scouts. You remember that their father, Harold , is a State Senator. Rue's husband " String " (Thornton Stringfellow), is still better , walking now with a brace. The Slipeks attended Law Day at the Uni versity of Virginia . Alese Hardaway Prince and her family spent their usual two months at Virginia Beach. Alese is busy as First Vice-President of the Women of the Church at St. Giles ' Presbyterian Church. Virginia Lee Ball Glover and family moved from Lynchburg to Charlotte, N. C., in August . "We have never lived in a heavily -settled ar~a before and we are all enjoying having neighbors clos e by, even Julie, who has a little girl just two houses down who is only a few months her junior . LeRoy was transferred by his company, and we have known a move was imminent since last Christmas but there was a chance we might be sent to Japan for the company and we were so excited over the prospect-but then they decided they did not need a representative there; so it was Charlotte ... a ni ce town and ever yone seems so friendly." Kira Nicholsky Curwen has moved into a new home in Fieldale. Mary Alice Smith Tillotson has been active rece ntly in the Woman's Club in Lynchburg. Rex, her husband , has been bus y with his

golfers from the college in addition to his regular work with the college. Virginia Lee reports that Betty Keesee Rhodes is working in the Welfare Department in Warsaw, probably heading the department as she had done in Gloucester. Dot Auringer Berkeypile 's parents have a home in Gloucester and Virginia Lee saw her there shopping one day. She also informs us, "Carolyn Gary Hugo 's husband, Larry, was the big thing in Nelson County Day this Spring . I understand he is very well liked there and did a wonderful job of crowning the new Queen . . . this from a friend of ours in Lovingston who was much impressed with his down-to-earthness and general friendly manner. " In the Swimming Pool campaign, 1941 was among the top ten classes in amount of contribution as the goal was neared. We ranked sixth in that 1961-62 final report, giving $645. That isn 't recent news, but perhaps you didn't know it! 1942 Secretary

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6933 Greentree Drive Falls Church, Virginia The most exciting news came from Jimmy Franklin Rudd. Her letter told about Peggy Vicars Early's son, Steve (14). As the winner of the Twin Valley Spelling Bee, he won a week's trip to Washington to participate in the National Spelling Bee. In addition he won a $75.00 cash award and a set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Steve was 19th in the nation-congratulations! Can't you just imagine how proud Peggy and her husband must be? You all can read about it from the clipping I have sent to Louise for the scrapbook. While we are on the subject of children, Jimmy 's boy, Anthony, 13, who is 6' I½" was named the "Outstanding Player" in the Community Junior Basketball League sponsored by the Norfolk Recreation Bureau. There must be lots more "star" children. Won't you share your proud moments with us? Stamps are only 5¢-what better use? 1 had a nice letter, too, from "Woodsie", Virginia Wood Hawkins ('41), who was planning ·10 look up Jute on her Californ:a tri p this summer . She read it in the Bulletin-so you can see how really worthwhile this chatter is. She and Peggy Vicars are neighbors in New Hope, Va . Lucy Burke Allen Meyers wrote about her busy summer. She and her sister, Pat Allen Winters ('48), had a month's tour of Euro pe. She came East from California and had a whirlwind visit in Richmond beforehand. They flew first to England (wouldn 't Miss Lutz be

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happy?) and then on to Brussels . From there they took a bus tour of the continent. It was a conducted tour with an English courier. He had never taken a group of Americans before , so you can imagine how baffled he was with 38 U. S. types. Lucy Burke said they used their French on the bus driver-(who spoke no English) but not with any degree of success. They enjoyed Germany, particularly the boat trip down the Rhine, and were charmed with Switzerland and Australia . Her comments on Italy were a riot-there they were hot and sticky and dirty and had to pay for a bath. At 300 lire (or 48¢) how many baths can one afford to take a day? In Rome Pat could only rent one knob to the shower as the bath maid refused to rent both. You guessed it-the water was icy cold-ah-the luxuries of home. After this adventure Lucy Burke returned home to 17 Hilltop Drive, San Carlos, Californ ia, and a 2 week stint at Brownie Day Camp. Th e Meyers also had an AFS student visiting from the Philippines for 12 days. Such stamina! She also said that Margaret Brittingham Curtice , '41, the real spark plug of the San Francisco Bay area alumnae, has moved to southern California. You girls will just have to join forces now to keep up her good work. Jute, Lila Georgie Simpson, '43, et al, take note. ' If this column sounds like a travelogue-well-La Verne and Cal Muse are having an autumn holiday motoring thru Europe. Their boys are safe at home, and in school in Ar(ington, b:i~g cared for by V~rginia Lee Priddy, 37. V1rgmia Lee says shes having a real whirl in Washington, doing things she's never had time to do . Beverly Priddy, '54 and "Dimple" Mrs. Priddy plan to come up and get in on the fun, too. LaVerne had planned a day to day driving itinerary . With their own car, they should be able to see a lot of inbetween areas. At this very moment they are in Rome. Wonder if they have any hot water? Kay and Bob Crutchfield and their family are as busy as ever. We visited them in Virginia Beach early in the summer. It has now been decided that they will not move to the West \oast, but only go out for special times, as Bobs duty demands. Kay will be hostess m?st of next s1:mmer. whe~ Bob's new frigate ~ill be based Ill Cal1forn1a-San Diego . Bob 1s at "Pre-com " now at Camden, N. J . You owe me a letter, Kay! Woul~n 't it be fun to know where you gal s are sendmg your college bound children? Yes , we are old enough for that . Do let me kno w -and this includes the "broken arm" girls, too! 1943 Se cretary Mas. ROBERTS. BLACK (Althea Johnston) 4101 Pawnee Rd . Richmond 25. Va. Maxine Williams Rogers has sold her house and moved into a lovely new apartment complete with air conditioning and a swimming pool. She says she is delighted not to have the care of a house and yard and the children are thrilled with the pool. Harri~t Lewis Goodman is anticipating a busy wmter . She has ben elected Recording Secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women and is President-Elect of the Woman 's Auxiliary to the Richmond Academy of Medicine. Wow! Louise Cardozo Long reports that since their vacation at Sandy Point in June she has been busy with the usual summer activities, and her boys won three tennis trophies. They are not the only tennis stars-Puff Poteat Humbert 's girls both won tennis tournaments in New Hampshire this summer. Puff says that they had a lovely summer in New Hampshire, a visit with Betty Anne and George Shackleford in Hartford, and now that she is back she has a very pleasant teaching schedule at Collegiate this fall.


Pepper Gardner Hathaway is engrossed in plans for the new house they are building this winter. The Blacks had a wonderful two weeks in New England in June-so much to see and do that we are ready to go back again. Hope I'll have more news for you next time . How about a card? 1944 Secretary MRS. WILLIAM B. GRAHAM (Mary Alderson) 8015 Mapl e Lane Richmond 29, Va.

If no news is good news everyone in the class of '44 must be doing fine! I hadn't heard from a soul when the deadline for the last issue came and I was busy getting ready for an unexpected trip to Sea Island, Ga., so I didn't have time to contact anyone . Our class baby, Barbie Stansbury, is going to William and Mary this year. Doesn 't that make you feel old? Ann was in a dither when I talked to her, trying to get Barbie ready to go. Barbie was a counselor at Scout camp all summer until Aug. 20th so they didn 't have much time for shopping, sewing, etc. Ann and Warren are trying to get a permit from the city to build a new house but due to various complications it has taken a long time. Ann is very anxious to get started on it. She said she had seen Ann Fisher and her children during the summer. The big news from Billy Jane and Ballard Baker was Ballard's appointment as one of the Henrico County Judges this past summer . I was sorry to hear that Ballard's mother died very suddenly in the summer . Billy Jane, Ballard and the children took their vacation at French Lick, Indiana . They went out on the train and Billy Jane says the thing the children enjoyed most about the trip was sleeping on the train. The Filer's have had a very busy summer. Ann and the boys spent 10 days touring Virginia with Bob while he was doing a survey for the Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. Then they took a 2 week trip to Palm Beach, Fla. They stayed in a lovely motel there and visited Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Then they spent a week in Philadelphia . Ann and the boys spent 2 days touring the Franklin Institute there which sounds like a fascinating place. In between trips the Filers have had a summer full of company. And last but not least Bob was made a full professor at the University of Richmond. Mary Bowden Felger 's husband, Ted, has been working for an electronics plant in Charlottesville, but has made the plunge and gone in business for himself as a manufacturers representative. Dee Dee and Bill Kirk and their children spent their vacation at Lake Winola, Pa. Dee Dee's mother and father and Harriet and her family had cottages there also which made it very nice . They did lots of boating, swimming and fishing. Fleet caught 123 fish! Dee Dee and Bill went to a graduation in N. C. and spent the night with Evermond Hardee Daniel which they thoroughly enjoyed. Millie and Skee Goode have just returned from 2 weeks at Cherry Grove Beach, S. C. Enders and Jean Neasmith Dickinson and their 3 children went with them for the first week and some other friends came down for the second week. Millie said the weather was beautiful and a grand time was had by all . Courtney had an emergency appendectomy the week before they left but she got along fine and they left on schedule . The Goode family took a long 4th of July week-end trip to Virginia Beach with us on our boat, which we all enjoyed. The Grahams have had a busy summer spending almost every weekend on the boat. Then in August our family and another family,

who are friends and neighbors of ours, chartered an 84' schooner out of Nassau and sailed in the Bahamas for a week . We drove to Ft . Lauderdale, sightseeing on the way, then flew over to Nassau from there. It really was quite an experience for all of us. Maybe we'll bore you at the reunion next year with all our slides of the trip. Please let me hear from you out-of-town people by the first of December. 1947 Secretary

MRS.JoHN C. HORIGAN(Mildred Daffron) 4636 Stuart Ave. Richmond, Va. Most of our news this time is about vacations. It seems that they were all delightful but not lasting long enough. Ann Wiley Kelly wrote that they spent two weeks on the Jersey shore-all becoming beachcombers. We could also join that classification after our trip to Ocean City, Md. Shirley Davis Sanford and Lena Thornton Small combined their families for a trip to Nags Head, N. C. Shirley is returning to teaching school this fall. She will be in a new Jr. High School near Manassas teaching 7th and 8th grade Social Studies and English. During the summer Shirley ran into Helen Porter . (We've not heard from her or about her in ages .) She has been teaching music in an Arlington school for the past ten years but resigned this spring to go into private piano teaching. Several summers ago she took a musical tour of Europe with Temple University. They attended several music festivals. Elsie Minter is returning to Stetson University, Deland, Fla. this fall. Her position will be that of Chairman of the French Curriculum within the Dept . of Foreign Languages. She spent six weeks this summer in Europe conferring with government and university officials concerning setting up a Junior Year Abroad Program. They hope to have students in both Spain and France during the 1964-65 Academic Year . She is also working on a manuscript for publication. We have two new children to welcome,: The McClennan's (Frances Coles) are proud to announce the arrival of William Elliott, III, born May 16th. Bill has been teaching a course at Union College in Geology-an eight week N .S.F. program. Mary Cox Anderson and Bill are the proud parents of a daughter, Jane Rutledge, born in January, 1963. This makes four for the Anderson's, two daughters and two sons . I had a delightful letter from Betty O 'brien Yeats. Joe returned from Vietnam the first of July. They had a few days at Blowing Rock, N. C. and then began the trip to their next assignment . While still in N. C. they stopped

in Winston-Salem and saw Gertrude Wayne Chandler and her family. (She was with us our freshman year.) Her children are quite grown, a boy in high school, a fourteen-yearold daughter, and another son, 10. Her husband is a vice-president of a furniture firm in Winston-Salem. Joe, beginning August 7th, is attending the Command and Staff School of the Naval War College in Newport, R. I. Their home address is 7-B, Van Buren Rd ., Newport, R. I. They live just a block from the Bay and from a bluff they can watch the destroyers and aircraft carriers go up to the base . Betty writes that Newport is charming, with its display of wealth on one hand and Colonial history on the other . There are some pre -revolutionary homes and buildings and even some quaint, narrow, winding Cobblestone streets . On the way up they spent a night with Marie and Claude LeSieur. Betty reports that Marie's baby is precious and that Carey and her own Katy had a grand time together . Dottie Hughes Freitag and family spent some time in Richmond this summer . Dan went to England to read a paper at an Engineering Society Meeting . Dottie and the children, G eorge, Mark, and Susan drove on here. Mar y Lou Massie Cumby had a W . C. get-together for her during the visit. Upon Dan 's return the famil y spent several da ys sightseeing in Washington and then to Iowa to vi sit Dan 's parents befor e returning to Vicksburg . Marion Collier Miller and her boys had a wonderful vacation in Nassau. John planned it for them . This summer she also took courses at the U. of R. in preparation for a Master's Degree in the future. Gin Ellett spent the summer in Charlotte sville taking a chemistry course at the U. of Va. which will be helpful in her teaching job . Jean Waldrop spent a camping vacation with her sister and family . At the swimming pool dedication (it is a perfectly magnificent structure) Betty and I saw Anne Elliott. She was with us part of the time at W. C. One of the plaques was dedicated to her aunt . Her son and Gu yon Cumby are in the same grade and room in school. The Andrews enjoyed trips to Luray and Natural Bridge this summer . Dick ha s been going to summer school at Universit y College taking Economic Theory . Her Marcia enters the fourth grade and Richie , the kindergarten this year. That will leave just Ma rgaret at home . Izzy Ammerman Allin and Jay have moved their family into a new home at 7917 Lycoming Drive in Riohondo Hills in Richmond, Va. Anne Higgins Borger wrote that they had spent all summer attending weddings but are planning a trip to Ohio to visit Dan 's famil y. I want to thank all of you who sent in news . Please keep up the good work. Since it will be in the fall when you get this, will

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you remember to send any news on a Christmas card to your group leader? Have happy Holidays! 1948 Secretary Mas. JARVISENNIS (Doris Moore) 1772 Old Buckroe Road Hampton, Virginia

The reunion was really a success with twentyfive girls celebrating. It was wonderful to see what everyone had been doing for the past few years and with whom. Sarah Bishop Wilbourne had her hands full taking care of all the details. She had a wonderful week-end planned and I'm certain everyone appreciated all that she had to do to get the details ironed out before our arrival. We had dinner Friday night at the Willow Oaks Country Club. Some girls were able to attend this affair but they could not be with us the entire week-end. They were: Janice Conant McCoy, Margaret Elliott Ownby, Russell Elliott Wiley, Virginia Herndon Pugh, Wilma Lum, Jackie Pitt Suttenfield, and Mary Jane Spivey Snead. The three scrapbooks were surveyed with nostalgia. Others of our number were out at the college on Saturday morning enjoying the activities which officially opened the swimming pool. Emily Holland Lineberry and Flip Orrell Dunn came in from Fredericksburg. Millicent Hutcherson Taylor and I continued to hang on through the festivities. Luncheon was served in the gymnasium with a few songs sung to refresh our memories of the hours spent singing at Westhampton. Peggy Stone Cunningham was hostess at Overhill Lake which she and her husband run. It was a nice family picnic with plenty of food and fellowship. The children and husbands loved the miniature golf and driving range. I remember seeing Suzanne Lovern Peeler and Eleanor Pitt Rowan at this event. We were so delighted to see everyone again, but those coming from long distances deserve a special word. Doris Vickers Hall came in from Wilton, Conn., Jo Hoover Pittman and family came from Clinton, Miss., Dottie Lloyd Stine and family came from Trenton, N. J., Elsie Keyser Robinette from Matairie, La., and Norma Polk and her husband came from Pokomoke, Md. Finally, we were grateful to our Richmond girls who acted as hostesses. Margaret Sabine Brizendine came the shortest distance since she and Jack are back on the campus this year. Jack is teaching at the University. Pat Adams Woodhead and Mary Cross Marshall helped with the scrapbook which is a big undertaking. Others who we enjoyed visiting were Jean Brumsey Biscoe, Alice Goodman, Betty Hickerson Butterworth and Joan Johnson Sandidge. Some of our number could not attend. Virginia Kreyer was attending the Baptist World Youth Conference in Beirut, Lebanon. Emily Smith Powers had all her plans made and at the last minute she had her third baby. It is a smiling girl whom they named Page Petty Powers. This is the third child Jack and Em have given a home. Jean Brumsey Biscoe and Johnny are also the proud parents of a son. Jean bragged so about their new heir that some of the girls went out Friday night to see him and almost had to spend the night due to a bad storm. Betty Hardin Elmore was not at reunion, but now I know why. She and Jim are the proud parents of Mary Elizabeth, born August 19. A girl at the haven for boys is a big treat. Judith Barnett Seelhorst had the best reason, I felt. She and her husband run an "Egg Farm" at South Shores, Ky. When we were having a good time, they were receiving 10,000 baby chicks to raise. Doris Vickers Hall is like a rolling stone.

She has made five moves in five years. At reunion time she was in the process of moving from Conn. back to California. Pat Parlow Daniel seemed the saddest. She and Dave had built a dream home in the rolling hills of Conn. Dave was offered such a nice position with Ketchum and Co., wholesale drug distributor, as Executive Vice President he could not resist. The move takes them to New York City. Because of this fact, her boy and girl are going to boarding school to avoid the city schools. Many of you wrote similar facts of PT A, scouts, piano lessons, and the like but Jeanne Carlton Bowman summarized it so well. She said her life was full. The community didn't know she existed because she was activities coordinator for her family. They got out and participated in the community and received the laurels while she stayed at home and kept up with their schedule. 1949 Secretary MRS. WM. K. BARKER (Barbara Rhodes) 1700 Chadwick Drive Richmond, Virginia

With this issue of the Bulletin I am beginning my duties as your class secretary. As you know this is our reunion year! I will be calling o'n many of you for help during the year as group leaders and the Rich~ond gir~s in particular as members of the reu01on ~ommitt~e. Let's all pitch in and help to make this the biggest and best reunion yet! Vacation time is over and everyone has settled down for the winter. Betty Evans Hopkins reports that she had a wonderful vacation at Virginia Beach and enjoyed every minute of it. Betty was passing through Lynchburg last spring and had a nice visit with Anne Bing Abbitt. She also visited Carolyn Bonham Thompson when Carolyn was in Medical College Hospital in July for surgery. Hazel Jennings Beninghove is teaching again Kinderthis year at Tuckahoe Presbyterian garten. She also will have her sister's child living with her this fall and attending school in Richmond. Dot Richwine Korb is doing quite a bit of substitute teaching in the Henrico County schools, but still finds time to attend night classes at RPI. Ann Morano is teaching mathematics at St. Gertrude's again this ¡ year. Rosie Calhoun McCarty and Jack are building a new home in Marion, Virginia and Rosie hopes that by the time you read this she will be all settled. I have two new additions to report this time. Kitty Wyatt Townes and Bill welcomed the arrival of Tommy in March. Cynthia Patrick Lawson and Jack welcomed baby number four, Cynthia Amory, on July 8, 1963. Cyn says that after all those boys a little girl is a delight. Jack is a surgeon in Newport News and is Chief of Staff at the new Riverside Hospital there. Jane Sanford Jennings writes that she is already involved in a busy schedule for fall. She teaches pre-kindergarten four days a week and a class for housewives in slimnastics. Jane also reported that Martha Kenney was home in Aiken for two weeks this summer. Martha spent most of the summer at San Jose State taking some needed courses. She traveled through California and the Southwest and took in all the sights. She returns to the Virgin Islands to teach again this fall. With the opening of school my days have become quite hectic. I am chairman of the math department and teach classes in first and second year algebra and trigonometry at Tucker High School. Guy, my youngest, started to school this year, and Gail is in the third grade. Gail is becoming quite a dancer. She plans to take classes in tap, ballet, and jazz modern this year. I still haven't given up my dancing

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and take classes also from the same teacher. All of you please try to drop a note to your group leader as soon as you hear from her, so we can have news from many more of the 49ers next time. 1950 Secretary MRS. DAVIDBURBANK(Doris Balderson) 910 Hampstead Ave. Richmond, Va. Frannie Sutton Oliver and Raymond have moved to a different section of Newport News Farms. They are closer to Raymond's -Ivy church, to school, and to a swimming pool. The new address is 711 Mayland Drive. We have a new address for Mary Bowles Flanagan and Bob. He is stationed with Carswell Air Force Base. The address is 520 Fairchild Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Louise Lynham Gravitt, William, and the four children are now in Mt. Prospect, Illinois where William is on a two-year training program for Pure Oil Company. Their address is 907 S. Waverley St, Janice Brandenburg Halloran noticed a new family in her church. It was Joyce Gustafson Crawford, Doug, and their two daughters, Kim, 10 years old, and Kay, 9 years old. Joyce and Doug moved to Richmond in June. He is an assistant cashier for the Bank of Virginia. They live at 7559 Rockfalls Drive, Richmond. Barbara Beattie Fanney's new address is 7301 Shewango Way, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mary Sue Mock Milton and Cecil flew to Europe in the spring and spent several weeks there. They are now both out of service. Cecil is in orthopedic surgery with another doctor in Charlotte, North Carolina. Doris Lee Reeves Childress, Earl and Tripp spent three weeks visiting in Virginia this summer. They went to Falls Church, Tappahannock and finally Richmond where Doris Lee and Janice Halloran spent the day together. Doris Lee is doing some substitute teaching in Westchester, Illinois. Hilda Moore Hankins wrote to Jo Martens and said that Deck has finally gone back into the work he likes best of all, Education. This fall he will be principal of Turberville Elementary School in Halifax County. Hilda will teach biology again at Halifax County High School. All their children, Laura Lee, 12 years old, Anne 9, and Deckie 5, had a wonderful summer having the fun a small town affords. Deck was in a golf tournament in Waycross, Georgia. Jo Martens had quite a fall this summer that put her out of commission for ten weeks. She is better now, but her left shin is still sensitive where the doctors had to graft skin. Early in the fall Jo and her mother went to Lavallette, New Jersey where they had rented a house for three weeks. Barbara Covington O'Flaherty and Billy drove out to the Homestead at Hot Springs in June, on to Indiana and then to Mississippi where they went on a deep sea cruise. They came back to Virginia Beach for a few days and then out to the Greenbriar. Wilda Whitman Oakley, Bud and Brett spent six weeks in California in August. Bud had to go on business for Douglas Aircraft. They saw Disneyland, Hollywood, and Marineland. Wilda and Bud took in Las Vegas while Mrs. Whitman, who went along, baby sat. They were impressed with Grand Canyon. Last Spring Wilda took a course at Queen's College in Charlotte to renew her teaching certificate. She will be busy this year as president of the Women of the Church group at Amity Presbyterian Church. Clarice Ryland Price, Fuzzy, and two children spent some time this summer camping. They visited Virginia Beach, too. Barbara White Balderson and Lester are going to night school this year at RP.I. Barbara wants to renew her teaching certificate.


Pat Kelly Jordan and Alex were in Richmond in August for the wedding of Alex's sister. While here, Pat, Ludie Hickerson Wiley and Libby Givens Pierce got together for a short visit. Gracie Clauter Keys and Vern have moved from Virginia Beach to Apalachicola, Florida. He is a shellfish consultant for the Florida State Board of Health. Apalachicola is in the northwest part of Florida on the Gulf Coast. They have three boys. Gracie visited with her parents in St. Petersburg for a month during the summer while Vern was in Puerto Rico with his marine reserve group. Their new address in Apalachicola is P. 0. Drawer 112. Tish Earl Pfanz and Harry spent part of their vacation on a trip to Nags Head, Cape Hatteras, Williamsburg, Jamestown and Richmond. They were particularly interested in all the National Parks since her husband is with the National Park Service in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. They have two boys, Frederick, 7½ years old and Donald, 5 years old . Also two girls, Tishie, 9½ years old and Marion, 14 months old. Libby Rowse Wilson and Bob took a trip around California to see Disneyland and Marineland . Libby has a new job as secretary to the cafeteria manager for the Arcadia School District. She has to order food for ten thousand childrrn, among other things. Elisabeth, their daughter, flew to Maine to visit her grandparents this summer. Lorraine Chapman and Ginny Brinson ar• rived in Washington, D. C. on August 31st after their motor trip around Europe. They went to Paris, London, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Amsterdam, and Italy. They camped along the way and visited every museum, cathedral aand place of interest that they could.

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(Libba Eanes) McKenney, Virginia Mary Ann Hubbard Dickenson and Boyd have their fifth child. Edward Allen arrived June 30th to join the family. Joan Dalve Heizer and Marshall welcomed Wendy Lyn on May 7. Their other children are Marcia, 7, and Dave, 5. Jane Slaughter Hardenbergh writes that she and Firman love their new life in Boulder, Colorado. Firmon is with the Boulder Medical Center and is also a Clinical Associate in Ophthalmolo0y at the University of Colorado M edical Schoil in Denver. Jane is still continuing her organ. The Boulder Chapter of the American Guild of Organists invited her to give an organ rec ital in observance of Holy Week in April. Ann Rogers Crittenden and her family had a busy summer. After a visit with her parents in Morristown, N. J. they went to Stone Harbor, N. J. for three weeks in August. Charlotte Houchins Decker writes that Jo Hyche Baulch was in Richmond visiting her parents in August. She is in the process of moving from the Air Force Academy in Colorado to Montgomery, Alabama. Hank will be stationed there for 10 months. They have bought a camping trailer and have been touring all over with their four boys. They went to California not long ago. Maryglyn Cooper McGraw and her children flew to Jacksonville, Florida for a six weeks visit with her parents this summer. Mary Lee Moore Vinson is· teaching the fourth grade at Skipwith School again this year . Charlotte saw Jean Lowe Bradley and her family when they were in Richmond this summer. Suzanne Holt Bagley and her son, Steve, had a nice visit in Washington this summer. They

went to the zoo and saw "The Sound of Music." Steve will be in the first grade . Her oldest son, Hethorn, flew to Washington to see the Yankees play a double-header. I was sorry to hear that her baby, Anne, had been sick this summer. Helen Clark Hensley's new address is 885 Corn Tassil Trail, Martinsville, Virginia. Helen and Dick moved to Martinsville in February, where Dick is working with DuPont. This summer they visited Helen's folks in Kentucky and took the children to the Cincinnati zoo, visited Bardstown and saw Paul Green's "The Stephen Foster Story." Betty Munsey Spatz and her family spent a week at Westmoreland State Park with Betty's folks. The second week of their vacation was spent in New York. They managed to see "Oliver" after ordering tickets in March . Natalie McKessick and her family spent part of AYgust in Maine. They have a cottage on Frenchman's Bay across from Mt. Desert Island. Paula Abernathy Kelton's second child started to school this year so Paula has only one child at home. Paula has signed up for an art course at the college. I received a nice letter from "Bookie" Maroney in May. She is Mrs. F. X . Oberle and her address is Rt. 1, Box 312, Westminister, Maryland. "Bookie" writes·, "After four years at Rosewood, the state hospital for retarded, I decided to become a housewife . At Rosewood I had been in charge of a cottage with 145 female patients and 25 employees. In spite of the frustrations, heartaches and responsibility, I find myself missing it. In September, 1962, we moved into our new home (30 years old but new to us). It is located about 7 miles outside of Westminister in a village called Mayberry. Beautiful countryside in sight of the Pennsyl vania Mountains. Francis still works for John C. Legg, investment brokers, in Baltimore which is 40 miles away . Have had plenty to keep me busy as we had to redecorate the whole inside. Also are finishing the basement with cutting tile, etc. Then the yard is in need of care. I have had fun putting in a vegetable garden with the help of the neighbor's plow. We have an arbor with three species of grapes, a strawberry patch and blackberry bushes . Have been busy helping in our church. Also started to get active in the local Republican club and our neighborhood improvement association." Betty Tredway Blake and her family enjoyed a vacation to White Lake, North Carolina this summer. Week-ends found them at Buggs Island where they enjoyed their new boat. I do hope that each of you will write to your group leaders. How about everyone writing to them now telling them about your children and their birth dates? I would love to bring the records up to date. Thank you for your help.

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(Bettie Snead) Boydton, Virginia Looks like round-up time again! Here goes Joyce Bell Cody's group: 1) Joyce lives at 1727 Conrad Rd., Lancaster, Pa . Bill is Telegraph Editor for the Daily Intelligencer Journal ( called In tell), a morning newspaper in Lancaster. Their children are Stephen William, 5, and the twins David Leslie and Douglas Henry, born Dec . 16, 1959. (The only twins in our class . . . No?) In May they took the children to Gettysburg to the Fantasyland Park and when they were about half-way through they " ran into" the Kennedy children . It was nearly closing time and all the others had left the park, so they toured the last part more or less together. Caroline and Joyces' Steve are about the same age and Steve had been wanting to meet her, so he was especially pleased. The twins weren 't impressed at the time, but now when they see pictures of Caroline they are! In July, the Codys vacationed in Maine. On the wa y back they stopped in Warwick to see Bev Gilbert Lovell. Bev had been reading Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln " to keep up with Bud who had been lecturing on the Civil War in his spare time . 2) Claire Carlton-1503 Wilmington Ave., Richmond, Va. Claire is working for the MasonHagan Investment Company where she has been for the past seven years. She takes all kinds of courses and classes and enjoys the theatre . She had a wonderful trip to Europe some time back. 3) Lucie Dearing is Mrs. S. J. Hunt, Jr ., 2527 Nations Ave., El Paso, Texas . Jack works at Guaranty Title Corp. where he does credit investigation and certification, sells title insurance and handles other phases of real estate. They have both completed courses in Spanish as 40% of El Paso's population is Spanishspeaking. Lucie says the regular afternoon thundershowers season has come and "sometimes our rains drive people from their homes, as last evening when an entire subdivision was deluged . .. I'm glad we live on the mountains . . . of course we are having our own scare now of rabid coyotes and bobcats coming down at night and attacking our dogs and cats ." Lucie will be teaching at a school 12 miles out in the desert this year and her class will be the brightest second grade children of the White Sands moon scientists. Jack and Lucie have joined the Rock and Cactus Society and the Texas Western College Cosmopolitan Club. Their future plans are to build on their lot a chalet-type house, plus pool. It will be an exotic butterfly roofed, split level home by Egils

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Hiermanouski, which will fit their steep twoway-tilted hillside lot. It will have balconies and glass walls befitting the 360 degree panorama (30 mile vista!). 4) Barbara Ferre is Mrs. Marion W. Phillips, Box 164, Quitman, Miss. Barbara's husband is Unit Forester for the International Paper Company. He is treasurer of the Quitman Lions Club and active in the First Baptist Church. They have four children: Cathy Lynn, 8; Virginia Lee, 6; Carl Eric, 4; and Elna Joy, 1. Barbara writes that she spends most of her time chasing children, but is also Secretary of the Quitman Woman's Club and until Elna was born, taught an adult Sunday School class. 5) Betty Hurt is Mrs. W. R. Beasley, 2622 Country Club Parkway, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the last ten months they have moved 5 times. They are now settled in Cedar Rapids where Bob has gone into private practice. Their children are Mark Dewitt, 6; Jeneill Allison, 3; John Stringfellow, 1. 6) Bev Gilbert is Mrs. Charles E. Lovell, 515 Red Chimney Dr., Warwick, R. I. They have four children: Debbie, 10; Sue, 7; Karen, 6; Andy, 1. Bud works for IBM and is representative for State and Local Government and is quite a buff on the Civil War. Some time ago they moved into a lovely eight room Colonial house in Warwick with four bedrooms and two wooded lots. Last year Bev ran a kindergarten in her home until Andy was born. 7) Jill Lobach is Mrs. J. Patrick Graybeal, Christiansburg, Va. Jill's husband is an attorney-at-law, self employed. He is chairman of the Cancer Drive for Montgomery County, TieBraker of the county and active in the Navy Reserve unit. They have a daughter, Sally Katherine, 3. Jill's big news is that as of August 1st, she has been Minister of Music for St. Paul Methodist Church of Christiansburg. Previous to this, Jill "has taught and directed choral groups and ensembles in high schools in Ohio, Richmond and Blacksburg. She was accompanist for the Virginia All-State Chorus, Central Division." 8) Marilyn McMurray is Mrs. C. Lyle Rishell, 4327 Reno Road, NW, Washington 8, D. C. Murf and children are with her family while Rish is completing his hardship tour in Libya, which is half over. Their children are: Lisanne, 8; Sandra Lynn, 6; Kevin Paul Eddleman, 5; Eric Lyle, 3. Murf had ear surgery in August and while everything is going along o.k., it will take a couple of months to heal completely, so we all wish her well. 9) Joy Selby is Mrs. R. C. Scollon, Jr., 45207 Koa Kahiko Place, Kaneoke, Oahu, Hawaii. They have four children: Doug, 9; Lani, 5; Tori, 2; and "baby," 1. Joy and Cal have added on to their home and are enjoying the space. Joy teaches Sunday School and they entertain foreign students from the University East-West Center. 10) Dizzy Stuart-Alexander writes that her "ticket takes me out of N. Y. at 10:00 A.M. on Sept. 10." She will stop in London for a visit with her sister and family who are returning from Africa. From there she will go on to Ethiopia for her two years teaching stint. I am sure we all wish her great luck! 11) Nola Texley is Mrs. Robert C. Breckenridge, 3169 Ellington Circle, Sacramento, Calif. They have two children, James (Chipper), 9, and Betsy, 7. Bob is a career Army officer and has been on "Hardship Tour" in Turkey. Nola has been teaching school since her children have been old enough to attend. 12) Sophia Zea is Mrs. John D. Ritenour, Strasburg, Va. Sophia is staying at home now

while John D. is stationed in South Vietnam. He is a USAF pilot. They have two children, John Edward, 3 and Kate Zea, 2. Three cheers for Joyce and her group! They are A-o.k. complete-and I thank you. Sue Easley Candler writes that Ralph (and Monty Wiley Schutte's husband) is being sent by his company on a business venture to Formosa to last from six to nine months, with only one trip back home during that time. Sue isn't anticipating the long stretch sans husband. To keep her busy this winter are her three children, a job as Ways and Means Chairman for the PT A, Chairman of the Christian Education Committee at her church, Sunday School teacher, membership in the Junior Woman's Club and a bridge club. Sue and family spent a week at Nags Head in June; then a week in West Virginia when her sister was married. Anne Gibson Hutchison sends the happy news that she, Dick and their three children moved into their new ranch-style home on Old Mill Road, Chapel Hill, N. C. They vacationed in Pawley's Island, S. C. Harriett Willingham Johnson had a grand trip to Austria and Germany in July with her husband Cork, who went to Vienna to present a special paper at a World Mass Spectroscopy Conference. They toured with friends, a German couple whom they had known in Minneapolis, driving through Germany, Bavaria, and the Austrian Alps to Vienna, staying there for five days before returning via Heidelberg. Eleanor Bradford Tunell and Barbara Cawthorne Clark with their husbands enjoyed a pleasant 5 days of relaxation at the "Cloisters," Sea Island, Ga., in June. Charlotte Babb Edmonds and family moved into their new home in March. Let's all go down for a reunion! Mary Ann Coates and Don spent their annual week at Virginia Beach this summer and spent several evenings with Nancy Ayers McClees and Carl. Don has been promoted to District Manager and they will move to his new territory (Cincinnati) as soon as Mary Ann can sell their present home. Mary Ann and Betty Edmonds Dunn had lunch at Helen Want¡ Miller's lovely new home in July. Georgie McTeer Cooke called Mary Ann from the train station en route from Newfoundland to South Carolina where she was spending a month at home. Addie writes that they are just back from several weeks in Bermuda, snorkeling, swimming, watching Hurricane Arlene, buying a complete Spode set, and jetting both ways! Brock has two multi-million dollar anti-trust suits pending this fall which we will eventually read about in the newspapers. She has been elected President of the Guild of her Church ( 400 women). Bramble, their Boxer puppy is being shown at Eastern dog shows to finish her championship. Addie CRIES for word from Mimi Hochman, Doc May, Margorie Sparer Fiorino and Janet Storm Pengelley. Help her please .... Lou Tull Mashburn writes that she is still doing cancer research at the University and this year will give some lectures to the Biochemistry class (seniors and graduate students). She does AAUW work and church circle and uses her spare time in her flower garden. Art is a chemist with duPont. Harriett Stubbs Johnson and family have adopted two sisters-Linda Rischell, age 2 and Sandra Stubbs, age 3. They arrived amidst her six finals (18 hours of Education). They (brothers included) are enjoying them tremendously. She and Harriett Willingham Johnson were looking forward to a visit from Diz

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on her way to N. Y. and Ethiopia. Jane Camlin Miner writes that her husband is studying for his Ph.D. in Forestry at University of Washington . He still has to complete his thesis but is at present employed by the U. S. Forest Service in Portland. Their new address is: 9121 S. E. Lincoln, Portland 16, Ore. They have 2 children; Jeffey, 2; and Gretchen Eve, 10 months. On May 17, Bettie Jarrett Nye and John became the proud parents of Kimberly Elaine. The double reason for their joy is that they have three boys, Alan 6; Christopher, 4; and Thomas, 2. John is a sales representative for the Burroughs Corporation. They moved into a "big, old, 2-story house" on December 1, 1962. Their new address: 4101 Richmond-Henrico Turnpike. Jeanne Hootman Hopkins and family have moved to Chatham, Va. where Peter will be teaching at HMA. In July they went to Alexandria for her sister Nancy's wedding in which Jeanne was a bridesmaid. They continued on up to Maryland and back via Eastern Shore and Virginia Beach. They will all be in "school" this year. Jeanne is teaching in Danville where she will have a class of 26 first graders and her youngest will attend Nursery School. Catherine Towler Gibson also lives in Chat ham where she teaches 7th grade. What a surprise to be awakened from an afternoon nap and find Thelma Childers Snider calling from Hopewell! They were on their way to Texas where Philip will be teaching at the University of Texas. New address: 5134 Stuyvesant, Houston 21, Texas. She was looking forward to lunch the next day in Richmond with Kathleen Cooke O'Bier, Lee Persons Hays, and Sarah Barlow Wright. Dru Marshall Waring and Marshall announce the arrival of a baby girl in July. Carol Melton Sinclair writes that their daughter Jeannette had her tonsils removed in Arlington, Va. and on their way back to Aulander stopped to see Nancy Clement Edmonds in Massaponax, Va. Nancy has two girls and will teach first grade. Orchids to each of you for writing! 1953 Secretary MRS. H. S. JONES (Gerrie Kantner) 8309 Vernelle Lane Richmond 29, Va.

We reorganized over the summer and have 14 groups with 6-7 girls per group. Group leaders are: Bobbie Reardon, June Carter, Pauline Brooks, Peggy Shackelford, Pat Bradshaw, Page Miller, Lou McNally, Jane Cather, Janet Parsons, Jackie Boeh, Betty Culp, Betty Marsh, Betty Allen, and Betty Rhudy. Please cooperate with these girls when they contact you. Many reported that they received no response to their cards. Jane Willcoxon Councill had a coffee for Gayle Mepham Hensley who came to Richmond for the day. Gayle, Ray and the children were vacationing in Williamsburg with the Mephams. Pauline Decker Brooks, Kay Beale Coates, Methyl Young Bruce and I enjoyed seeing Gayle. I learned from Methyl that Nancy O'Neill Camden and Donald welcomed a boy on July 1David Barnes. On July 24, Mary Beale Coates was born, Kay and Carter being first time parents also . Some of you may not have heard why Marietta was not at the reunion. She and Howard have a third daughter-Mary Todd, born in May and a new home. Faye Kilpatrick Gillespie also missed the meetings because of the imminent birth of her daughter, Rebecca Gail. This is the Gillespie's third child. Arthur,


III is in the third grade and Mary Ann is in kindergarten. Faye has a new home, too. They are located near Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in a new park-type development. Janet Johnston Parsons' twin daughters had their picture in the Richmond Times-Dispatch recently. They were helping their Grandmother Johnston celebrate her retirement as regional director for World Book Corp. Janet heard from Sue Bentley Joseph who has been teaching swimming for the Red Cross this summer. Marietta's husband and Ed took the Joseph boat up the bay for a week. The Parsons, all seven of them, went to St. Louis to visit Ron's mother . Betty O'Bannon Culp says they are ready to start another year at Rutgers. Helen is enjoying her many playmates around their new home. Betty passes on the news that Ola Hill Krueger's husband, John, is pathologist at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla. Catherine has just started school and Marianne and Beth help Ola around the house . Jackie Gustin Boeh wants to hear from anyone who has Grace Williams Grizzard's new address. Jackie ran into Bill Carter and learned that he and Ginny and Jenny are back in Roanoke. Bill is new public relations director for Hollins College. According to Jackie, Jenny is a beautiful baby with big, bright eyes. Also returned to Roanoke are Betty Davis Cocke and her family. One of their boys has Charlotte Herrink Jones for a teacher. The Boeh family took a hot trip to Nebraska ( 110 in the shade) to visit Virgil's grandmother. His parents came from Oregon for a family reunion. Lisa is a snaggle-toothed kindergartener and Jackie is teaching Latin to 8th and 9th graders. Another teacher is Barbara Watkins Beale who has been going to summer school at Mary Washington College and is teaching high school at Bowling Green . Page McCray Miller 's report tells of Ruby Vaughn Carson's trip to New York in July with Don and the boys . She had a nice visit with Barbara Cawthorne Clarke ('52) in Philadelphia en route. Mary Hurt Winslow left Len and the children behind and flew to Cedar Rapids for a visit with her sister, Betty . She stayed a week and met Len in Washington. On the way home to Charlottesville, they stopped for an overnight visit with Barbara McCraw Persons and Newtie in their new home. Mary says their home is truly lovely and has every gadget and convenience known to man. Mary also spent a w eek at the beach and a weekend in the mountains . She and Len are building a two-story colonial house in Charlottesville. Page and Jimmy attended the Bar Convention at the Greenbriar in July and had a wonderful time. In August, they spent a weekend at Virginia Beach and later had the Persons visit them. Betty Lear took time out from her teaching to come to Richmond for a couple of weeks in August. We suite-mates got together for lunch at the Lears ' and caught up on summer activities . Betty is still in Newport News and shares an apartment with Shirley Mason who is doing guidance work along with her high school teaching. June Pair Carter, Mann and the girls went camping at Fairystone Park. She had said she would never do it again after last summer's init ial experience, but when the time came, she was off for the open spaces. It sounded like fun and we may look into it for next year, leaving bottles and diapers behind. Bobbie Warren Reardon spent some time at the beach and her parents' home in WinstonSalem. Traveling with four youngsters is not conducive to long distance trips. I know. We went to Philadelphia with our three and, al-

though we enjoyed our visit, I am sure we won 't be going again any time soon. Bobbie has two children in school and two at home; June has a first grader and one more at home; and I have a kindergartener and two boys at home . I had a surprise call from Jane Cather about 9 A.M. one particularly gray day. The unexpected pleasure really picked me up and made my day. Any time you all feel like calling long distance, I'll be delighted to hear from you . That is the pleasure of this job-hearing from so many of you. I look forward to more news in December. We need addresses for Pat Moran Talley who has moved to Calif ., Martha Clark Bell, Gerry Paul and Barbara Happ Poff enberger. Help us out if you can . My special thanks to those of you who are working and have taken time from your busy days to glean the news .

1954 Secretaries MRS. WARREN1. FLANNAGAN (Barbara Moore) 4403 Kingcrest Parkway Richmond 21, Va. Mrss MARCELLAHAMMOCK 2620 Hanover Ave. Richmond 20, Va. Congratulations to Bev Priddy on rece1vmg her Master's degree from U. of N. C. She is now back in Richmond working for the Vital Statistics Bureau. We are delighted to welcome back to Richmond Sara Sherman Cowherd. She and Rush moved here the first of June from Charlottesville and Rush is still with the Federal Government-Internal Revenue Agent. Anna, age 6, has begun school, leaving sisters, Jane, 4, and Sara Lynn, 2, at home. Bev French Dunn got an overdose of sunshine while she and Bill were at the beach this summer and Bev landed in the hospital for a few days . Jane Betts Schmitt, Buzz, and their boys spent a week at \Vestmoreland, on the Potomac, dur ing the summer. On their way home, they paid a visit to Sue and Tom Downing in Warsaw. Nancy Graham Harrell and Walter combined pleasure with business for several days in May while attending a convention in New York. Later in the summer, they took their two older children to Niagara Falls. Betty Rosenberger spent the last two weeks in August working at the Sinclair Towne House in Virginia Beach . During the early part of July, Ann Powell Oast and Townsend and Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey and John enjoyed dinner at Ann Hanbury Callis and Bob's home at Virginia Beach. Ann, Townsend, and the children drove to Buffalo, N . Y . and spent an enjoyable 10 days with her family . Linda Goodman Lewis and Denby spent a week-end the early part of June with John and Mary Lou Dorsey, while attending a local wedding . Denby opens his new dental office m October . Peggy Brown Hantzman spent a few days m Richmond visiting her sister, Sue Clark. We had a most interesting letter from Jane Gill Tombes . As mother of three boys, she leads quite a busy life . This summer, while Averett was att~nding reserve summer camp in New York, Jane and the boys visited her mother here in Richmond.

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Congratulations to Bobbie Cronin Lovell and Bob on the arrival of their first son, Anthony Marlow, July 6th . Nancy Lay, who returned this fall to her teaching position at the University of Tennessee, was here for the dedication of the swimming pool in June . Betty Fleet Schmutz a11d Roger brought their young son, Charle s Douglas, to visit her grandmother and relatives here in Richmond for several days in May . Betty and Roger returned in August for her cousin 's wedding. Beverly Burke Dunklee and Earl took their children, Edward and Anne, on a camping trip this summer . For several days, they camped at State Seashore Park at Virginia Beach before continuing their trip along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Best wishes go to Ruth Zehner . Wedding bells rang for Ruth and Harry Seibold on August seventeenth. They have a home in Roslyn Hills and Ruth has resumed her teaching at Bon Air Elementary School. We have many new addresses for th is issue and will give you a listing of them . We hope that more of you will contact us when there is a change of address. New addresses: Nancy Lay, Highville Apts ., Knoxville, Tenn . Mrs. Harry Seibold, Jr. (Ruth Zehner), 204 Melwood Lane, Richmond, Va . Marcella Hammock, 2620 Hanover Ave., Rich mond, Va. Mrs . W. Rush Cowherd (Sara Sherman), 1309 Beverly Dr., Richmond, Va . Mrs. Averett S. Tombes (Jane Gill), 201 Thomas St., Clemson, S. C. Mrs . Townsend Oast (Ann Powell) , Eastwood Terrace, Larchmont, Norfolk 8, Va . Mrs . Paul A. Goldman (Pam Markel), 206 Sleepy Hollow Rd., Richmond, Va . 1955 Secretary MRS. ZED J . WAMPLER,JR. (Jody Weaver) 6307 Colebrook Road Richmond, Virginia 23227 My hat's off again to my wonderful group leaders who have managed to dislodge all sorts of fascinating news from some of our long lost classmates, and many thank s to those of you who keep in constant touch . A data-ful card from Jo Earnest Holzer just missed the last newsletter, but she sent news of her daughter Elisabeth (Lisa) Howard Holzer, who was born May 6, 1963 and the fact that husband Edwin Howard Holzer is a vice-president of the William Esty Co ., an advertising agency in New York, where they live at 411 E. 53rd St. 6A. Dr. Maritza Garrido McManus is now a re sident of Tarzana, California, at 5715 Geyser Avenue . Husband Basil finished hi s residency in anesthesia in Oct. '62 and is now in private practice. Their rented home in the San Fernando Valley contains " all th e Southern Californi a necessities of life" (to quote Maritza), a pool, patio, bar-b-q, etc. Last March the y spent ten days in Hawaii! Maritza also said she had a private reunion over lunch at a Los Angele s department store with Hope Guaraldi Omohundro . Another of our Californians send s news of a new baby . Angela Groth Guenther and Dick welcomed Lynda Ann on August 8, 1963 to join their two boys, "who are delighted, bu t wish she was bigger!" There are also tw o more future Westhamptonites to rep or t, Anne Susan Diamonstein arrived July 18, 1963 at the home of Arthur and Renee Gartner Diamon -


stein and a "Bang-up 4th of July" announced the arrival of Denise Ann Prillaman co Martha Minter Prillaman and Dennis. This is their second girl, after big sister Rebecca Lynn who was 4 on June 19 and Marshall Lewis who was 3 on June 26. Just think of all those birthday parties! Martha is going back to teaching at Fieldale High this year and will teach Academic English IV, which is designed to better prepare college bound students for the rigors of freshman English. Martha also reported her Alumni Bulletin from Bluefield College contained an excellent picture of Margaret Gore Swanson and Jean Williams Lumsden . They had both attended Alumni Day and both were elected officers of the Alumni Association. "Let's Travel" seems to be the class motto this year. Our Number One Trip Taker Alice McCarty headed west again for one fast but fun-filled week. She visited Tacoma, Wash., Victoria, B.C., Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles, where her brother was taking part in the Billy Graham Crusade. My tongue's hanging out just talking about it. In July George and Pac Minor Aldhizer flew to Los Angeles, met Ann and Sam Taylor (both U of R '53), and the four of chem toured ?outhern California, using the Taylor 's home rn Santa Ana as home base. They were only twenty minutes from Disneyland, which Pat described as "unbelievable" and amazingly clean and sparkling, considering the thousands of daily visitors. They took in the Laguna Beach Arts Festival, saw the old Mission of Capistrano (where the swallows really do come back!), saw Betty Hutton in "Annie Get Your Gun" at a brand new theatre-in-the-round, and then, as if chat wasn't enough, Pat and George headed north to San Francisco to an Elks convention. They drove up the California state highway # 1 where the mountains drop directly into the Pacific, a trip which Pat says was "literally breathtaking when you're in a rented convertible and every five minutes you see a sign DANGER SLIDE AREA." Sounds a bit scary to me . They loved San Francisco, the people, the stores, the climate (60's in July), the Japanese Tea Garden, etc. Pat called Jackie Levy Mayer and she and Fred took Pat and George to Broadway in Frisco, the former street of opium dens and the like which is now filled with small clubs frequented by college students. Fred has his own pharmacy in Sausalito and is, according to Pat, a completely delighted person. The Mayer household also includes David 3½, Heidi 2, Charles 7½ months, and Duchess (the dog, a small pony), and their address is 587 Thornwood Terrace, San Rafael, California. Another traveling couple, Earle and Jean Ruddle Migneault have hit north and south. In May they visited Gracie Mason Evin and George in Atlanta, where Gracie is working in a Federal Health Lab and George manages a shoe store, and in July they vacationed in New England . Last spring Jean spent a week in San Francisco and a week and a half in Washington, D. C. at IBM meetings. When not on the go, they both work at NASA with computers. Jean has been teaching a 5-week course for new people in her section and so far has had several Westhampton grads in her classes. Coming back to Virginia, Alice Creath McCullough and her boys, Mark 2½ and Winston 15 mos. spent three weeks here while Piggy was playing in the Midwest with the Warren Covington band. While in Detroit he stayed with Van and Sue Smith Van Wickler, who just moved there in July when Van 's company, Maritz Travel Co., transferred him there. Their new address is 2356 Liverpool Rd., Auburn Heights, Michigan. Also up in the cold north, the Henry Hahns (Marjorie Moeschler) have moved again, the third time in three years, and they're still within the city limits of Rochester, Minn., this time at 108 12th Ave. SE. Henry's getting his Masters in Pediatrics and Marjorie's still saying "This is the last year!" They were in Richmond in July, but just for a short time.

This summer also was moving time for Arnette Kizzia Neuville and family when Bob was transferred to Norton, Va. They expect to be there about 18 months while Bob is handling the traffic part of the cutover from manual to dial telephones for Southwestern Va. Their address is 1017 Virginia Ave., Norton, Va. Last May Al and Beulah Thorson moved to 915 W. Fozcroft Drive, Camp Hill, Pa. where Al is area representative for the Double Envelope Co. Beulah and the children visited her family in Roanoke for a week in August while Al did his time with the Marine reserves. Carlene Shuler Saxton and Harry expect to be moving into the Richmond area since his promotion in the Dept. of Agriculture so maybe we'll be seeing her soon. She did some substitute teaching lase year but want s to teach fulltime now since her boys Tom 8 and Michael 4 are older now . Mary Ida Nelson Bolton is heading into her 6th year of teaching, 3rd grade again, and she also sent word of a nice visit with Margie Blevins Alexander at Myrtle Beach in August. To quote her, "Margie is just the same, cute as ever!" Mary Ida also confirmed the fact that Pat Kantner Knick has received her MA degree. Any details, Pat? More vacation news. Marty and Blue Tinsley were at Sea Island, Ga. in June, Peggy Armstrong Clark and family visited Ginnie Swain Saunders and family and all then headed to New York for some sightseeing. Myra Embrey Wormald and her family rented a cottage on the ocean at South Bethany Beach for two weeks in September for their first "real vacation" in quite awhile. Polly Bundick Dize and Colburn brought their two oldest for a thorough visit to Jamestown, but stopped in Richmond only long enough for lunch. There are two local address changes: Bobbie Reynolds Orrell (Mrs. J. D.) 9305 Edson Rd ., Richmond 29, Va. Ruth Gouldin Kelley (Mrs. Roland E.) 120 Westmoreland Ave., Richmond, Va . Zed and I spent a glorious weekend in Roanoke in June at the Miss Virginia Pageant with several ocher couples from the Ginter Park Jr . Woman's Club. Our Miss Richmond placed 4th which pleased us all . Two more short weekends, one in Washington for our 4 year old to see the zoo, and another at Virginia Beach, which included a fast ferry ride and trip up the Eastern Shore to Ocean City, Maryland have accounted for our whole summer. Nancy Johnson White and the children are back in Richmond, for an indefinite period of time. Her address is 3004 Elmbrook Rd . Another slight address change locally is Phyllis McGhee's, just a new number, so it is now 4206 Silbury Rd. By the way, Phyllis left September 13 for a trip to the Bahamas, about which she was quite excited, and who can blame her? Janet Pace Burbage and family have recently left Richmond and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where her new address is 1012 Ravenwood Drive. I've heard rumors that Mary Ann Logan Mongan is now back in Salem. Confirmation, please, and new address. I'm still trying to get final addresses for a class address list, but you gals are such movers that I can't seem to pin you down. It will be forthcoming soon, anyway. Again let me say how thrilled I am at the response for news. Please keep it coming and I hope to see some of you at Homecoming. 1956 Secretary Mas. JAMES G. RICE (Martha Boatwright) 1925 Hanover Ave. Richmond 20, Virginia Ann Carol Yea man Malcolm was viscing her parents in August and entertained with a coffee. Swapping stories were Charlotte Hart, Helen Melton Lukhard, Pat Eanes Jackson, Ann Peery Frederick, Anne Stuart Hill, and I. Ann Carol

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spent some time in Pittsburgh before returning to Denver. Peggy Smith King writes that the ColgatePalmolive Company transferred her family from Arlington to Houston last November. Her husband, Bob, is a sales representative and travels the city of Houston and a few surrounding towns. She has two children, Susan, almost 3 and Deborah, who is five. Ann Peery Frederick and Phil had a fine vacation in June when they flew to San Francisco to visit friends. Besides the foggy town they tucked in a day at Disneyland. I've had several requests to include new addresses "in time for Christmas cards ." This is the most recent list but as usual I have a feeling some of these are already out of date. I will list only the ones that have changed. Andersen, Jane (Mrs. Charles L. Jennings, Jr.) 4916 Shadyside Dr., Roanoke, Va . App, Ann, Dependent School, APO 336, New York, N. Y. Ballard, Pat (Mrs. Charles Larus IV) 6505 Wessex Lane, Richmond, Va. Boggs, Pat (Mrs. Richard D. Marks, Jr.) Page St., Scottsville, Va . Brinkley, Betty, 1401 Gilpin Ave., Wilmington, Delaware . Brooks, Carol (Mrs. Hollis L. Jennings, Jr.) 942 Ingleside Rd., Norfolk, Va . Carpenter, Joan (Mrs. Michael R. Baas) 5377 E. 26th St., Tulsa 14, Okla. Daniel, Barbara (Mrs. Wm. J. Humphreys) 7 Westwood, Fredericksburg, Va. Dranchak, Rose (Mrs . Charles Martin) 4907 Edgefield Circle, Richmond 24, Va. Eanes, Pat (Mrs. Royce L. Jackson, Jr.) 8714 Wycheland Rd., Richmond. Evans, Shirley, 4301 Columbia Pike, Apt. 311, Arlington, Va. Flynn Thelma (Mrs. Marshall Helm) 3745 Glouster Dr., Tucker, Ga. Gee, Phyllis (Mrs. Louis Wacker) HampdenSydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Va. Gregg, June (Mrs. G. R. Bennett, Jr.) 3620 Mississippi Ave., Ingleside, Norfolk, Va. Hartz, Anne Stuart (Anne Stuart Hill) 4508 Brook Road, Richmond . Hogge, Virginia (Mrs. Ferrell Atkins) 75 McLeod, Charleston, Illinois. Hubbard, Julia (Mrs. Samuel Anthony Nixon) 118 Bullock Sc., Franklinton, North Carolina. Hunter, Sue (Mrs. Carroll G. Bennett) 441 Lawnview Dr., Morgantown, W. Va. Jennings, Anne (Mrs. Judson Vaughan, Jr.) 3925 Stratford Rd., Richmond. Kendall, Betty Lou, 4213 Americanna Dr., Annandale, Va. Kingrey, Mary Lee (Mrs. R. D. Divers) 5769 Littleton Rd., Roanoke, Va. Knobel, Janet (Mrs. Morris J. Jones) 9305 Lester Lane, Richmond. Melton, Helen (Mrs. Rawley K. Lukhard) 6012 Brookfield Rd., Richmond. Mullin, Mary Moore (Mrs. A. L. Mowery, Jr.) 416 Temona Dr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Murray, Charlotte (Mrs. Ramsey) Claremont Baptist Church, Claremont, Va. Saunders, Nancy (Mrs. Charles H. Johnson) 1903 Haviland Dr ., Richmond. Simmonds, Ellice (Mrs. Charles Wells) 123 Albacore St., Galveston, Texas. Smith, Margaret (Mrs. Robert King) 5614 Warm Springs, Houston, Texas. Snyder, Merle, 4201 Dalmation Dr., McLean, Va. Stiff, Dottie (Mrs. Madison Price) 7 Beverly Hills Dr., Newport News, Va. Tucker, Leta May (Mrs. Edward D. Hodge) 1200 Polock Rd ., Mexico, Missouri Watson, Mary Lou (Mrs. Lester Lamb) Box 403, Stuart, Va. Weatherly, Patty (Mrs. James D. Cooper) 10 Martin Dr ., St. Augustine, Florida. Wyatt, Betty (Mrs. James E. Grant) 38 Timberlane Dr., Greenville, S. C.


Yeaman, Ann Carrol (Mrs. John A. Malcolm, Jr.) 1371 Syracuse St., Denver 8, Colo. Zickmantel, Brigitte (Mrs. Howard Reimer) 376 Guildford St., Winnipeg 12, Manitoba, Canada. If there is anyone you are especially interested in that I didn't include, why don't you write? Always glad to hear from you. 1957 Secretary MRS. GEORGEM. BALL (Margaret Logan) 25 Omaha Avenue Rockaway, New Jersey One of the pleasures of this job is that everyone who reads the Bulletin knows where I live. Because of this, George and I had a nice surprise in July-Mary Loving Bell Kirby and Jim dropped in on their way to Maine for a camping trip. They are living in a small town in South Jersey, near Philadelphia. Jim is an insurance broker-his own company-and their recreation includes flying around the country in their plane, with Jim at the controls. The Kirbys have an adorably chunky two-y ear-old daughter who looked ready for anything, including the wilds of Maine. Judy Twyford Davey and Jim have a son, Bruce James Jr., born June 15. Lynn, four, and Laurie, three, are delighted with their brother, and Jim, who used to call his family "my harem," looks forward to masculine support. Bev Wingfield Ayers and Ken have just moved from Kentucky to Griffith, Indiana, where Ken is pastor of First Baptist Church. Bev would like to hear from Westhamptonites in the vicinity of Chicago. The Ayerses have two children, Greg, two, and Laura Cheoise, one. Their address is 610 West Avenue H, Griffith. Since last December, Bettie Lew Warren Hudgens and Neil have been living in the new house they had built for them in Mobile. Neil is in law practice there, and Bettie's part-time teaching at Spring Hill College blends in perfectly with domesticity and care of their son Lew, who is almost two. Address: 3770 N. Rhonda Drive, Mobile 8, Alabama. Peggy Graves Butterworth writes that Dick, having graduated in June from dental school, is now in practice with another dentist in Petersburg. Peggy, Dick and son Richie are living in Dinwiddie. They enjoyed a recent visit from Jennie Jo Fyock Tignor and Milton. The Tignors had been visiting in Richmond, afterwards setting off for Florida to see Jennie Jo's family. Next home for this well-travelled Air Force family is Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Kitty Alford Connor and Gale and their two children spent part of their summer vacation in Ocean City, Maryland, and part with Gale's family in Johnstown, Pa. Mary Katherine Davis served brunch to Brandy McDaniel and me when Brandy was in New York during July. We then went to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Luckily, we had time to gab before the performance, as the play is overwhelming, to put it mildly. Brandy was able to do lots of theatregoing while she was up here. Nancy Bertsch Ratchford and Bill welcomed Linda Bertsch May 18. She is their first child. Nancy says she was born with lots of hair which she has now abandoned in favor of producing teeth. Congratulations to Sallie Trice Greene, who has been elected G. A. Director of the Etowah Baptist Association. Besides caring for home, hearth, and three-year-old Gayle, she teaches the college class in Sunday School and also performs all the other tasks of a pastor's wife. All it takes is fantastic efficiency! Carol Dickerson Kauffman has a new address - 2620 B Green Street, Harrisburg, Pa. The Kauffmans have moved because of Chester's interning, which he began June 20th.

On May 12, Lida Etta Rice gave a Faculty Recital, presented by the Department of Music, Catawba College. Her organ selections for the recital included works of Bach, Liszt, and Robert Crandell's "Carnival." She has been granted a two-year leave of absence from Catawba, and during this time will be teaching organ and working on her doctorate at Indiana University. Her address there is Graduate Residence Center, I. U ., Bloomington, Indiana. 1958 Secretary MRS. G. L. HOLDER(Sarah Ashburn) 7711 Stuart Hall Road Richmond, Virginia The change of season finds most of us settling down to a more routine schedule. Summertime provided some interesting trips for many 58'ers. Suzanne Kidd spent another exciting summer in Europe which is her home away from home. The three concerts originally planned turned out to be six. She spent time in London, Stuttgart, Heidleburg, Salzburg, Swiss Alps, Ireland, Denmark, Venice, Bern, Switzerland, and Boston. Jeanne Jones is another world traveler who reports that the Scandinavian countries are far more beautiful than anything she can describe. Annette Masters spent a month traveling and visiting friends in Great Britain and then spent the rest of the summer with family and friends before returning to Kaiserslautern, Germany to teach. Gail Carper Russell and Glenn have purchased a lovely home in Hampton. Nancy Jane Cyrus spent her vacation hopping around to Winchester, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, visiting with Annette Masters, Bev Coker Hobbs, and relatives. Betty Blair Rhodes reports increasing activities at Warrenton Baptist Church and is presently involved with preparation for the fall season. Becky Branch Faulsoner and Harold will be in Rochester, Minnesota for three months this fall while Harold studies Surgical Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. Another doctor's wife, Cynthia Feldman Ruth is still in Atlanta while Jerry is taking OB-GYN Residency at Grady Memorial Hospital. Margaret Williams Ketner writes that Bruce has finished two years service in the Navy at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Now Bruce has his private practice in "Ketner" Shopping Center, Salisbury, N. C. Margaret and Bruce have a young daughter, Laura Caldwell, born while they were in the service. Speaking of babies, Eric Addison Cockrell, son of Jackie Ryerson Cockrell and Grafton was born September 6, 1963. Congratulations! Grafton is Chaplain Resident at Duke Hospital, where he is receiving training in administration and supervision. I can report first hand that Mariett Ayers' marriage to James Eggleston this summer was a lovely affair. Other 58'ers attending the wedding were Bev Coker Hobbs, Kay Crawford Trimble, Lola Hall McBride, Cora Sue Spruill, Carolyn Moss Hartz, and Nancy Jane Cyrus. Mariett and Jim are living in Lynchburg. Kay Trimble just made the wedding after an exciting week in New York City with Bob. Kay also spent time in Tazewell and Florida this summer . Some of us really do get around. Peggy Ware vacationed for two weeks in Hawaii. How lucky can you get? Patty Winship Kesler and Ashton have been transferred to Norfolk. Nancy Prickett Yarbrough and Lou are now in Woodbridge, Virginia, where Lou is practicing dentistry. Jean Hudgins Frederick and Arnold have moved too, but just down the street to a lovely town house. Eddie Knipling Lake and John will be in Japan until next spring. John plans to make the Navy his career. Violet Moore Neal is proud of Jack who received his Masters in June and is doing Social work in Richmond. June Gray is now a full-time employee for Camp Wawenock. Frances Gray Mark and Harry have bought a home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Harry

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is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan and Fran is working for an Industrial Firm. Fran received her Doctors Degree in Physical Chemistry at Duke University in June, 1963, and was accorded Phi Beta Kappa honors for her graduate work. This is quite an accomplishment . Many of our class went to various beaches this summer. Sue Hudson Parsons and Bo spent a week at Nags Head. Carolyn Moss Hartz, Ransome, and two-year-old Jimmy spent ten days at Virginia Beach. Gene and I bumped into Elinor DeLong Belk and Sam at Virginia Beach too. Sam and Elinor also visited his parents at their summer home in Montreat, N. C. Many thanks to the group chairmen for helping gather news. Have a chipper Fall and I hope to hear from YOU before December 10. 1959 Secretary MRS. ELLIS M. DUNKIN (Elizabeth Ramos) 3431-A West Franklin St. Richmond, Virginia 23221 For me this has certainly been a short summer. But from the news I have received of many of you, it has been a busy one. Pat Nettles Harrington writes of several trips that her family has taken. In March they bought a Ford station wagon and took a tenday trip to Florida. They visited St. Augustine, Melbourne, Miami, and Tampa. In May they spent two weeks at Nag's Head. Dick was using some tracking stations at Coquina Beach, a NASA site. In June, when Dick went to Salt Lake City for a convention, Pat and Susan and Janey stayed with Pat 's mother and father. Eleanor Dickson Campbell and Leslie had a wonderful trip with his law partner and wife to the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to attend the Virginia State Bar Association meeting. Before this the big excitement in the Campbell family was the winning of the Democratic Primary race for the 29th District of Va. Senatorial Democratic nomination. Now they wait and campaign for the November elction. They also went to South Carolina where Leslie took his boat to the Charleston, S. C. Regatta while Eleanor stayed with relatives in Manning and Sumter. Leslie was also in Baltimore for the National Cougar Championship Races. Susan Payne and a good friend toured west of the Missouri, seeing many beautiful sights, including the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, and San Francisco. Eileen Cordle and some friends had "a perfectly marvelous live-week trip" to Mexico this summer. She says that she'd enjoy showing her pictures and telling her tales to anyone. She is now busily settling down in a highrise, luxury apartment with all the trimmingsair conditioning, swimming pool, dishwasher, etc. Her new address is 809 West Broad Street, Apt. 502, Falls Church, Va. 22046. At Madison High she will begin a new experience-teamteaching American Civilization to the top juniors. Gaile Sykes spent two weeks in Florida on the Gulf Coast swimming, sunning, and walking. She also spent several weekends at Ocean City, Md., and Ocean City, N. ]. She wrote several children's books this summer. One is now being illustrated, and she hopes to get it published and on the market. Now she is a High School Specialist in Speech and Hearing Therapy in Montgomery County, Md., setting up speech programs as in Walt Whitman High last year. She plans to write a speech therapy manual for use in this type of speech therapy class. Marian Gates Breeden and Ed enjoyed the beach at least one day a week with the children, Carlie and Eddie. During Ed's twoweeks active duty with the Coast Guard at Yorktown, they borrowed Mr. Breeden's boat and docked at Langley Air Force Base Yacht


Club, and Ed commuted. Eddie was with them part of the time, but Carlie stayed with Grandma. Marian and Ed also attended the Virginia State Bar Association meeting at White Sulphur Springs. They, too, report that the Greenbrier is a lovely place. Marian visited with Eleanor Dickson Campbell, Cora Sue Elmore Spruill, and Jean Anderson Farmer. Marian, along with Bonnie Lewis Haynie and Sue Matthews Wright spent a delightful weekend at Mary Frances Coleman's apartment. These senior suitemates had a grand reunion. Bonnie Lewis Haynie and her two-year-old son Scott spent two weeks in Reedville, Va., with her family while Jerry was at summer camp . They flew to New York for a long weekend with Jerry's family. Beverly Eubank Evans and Tommy spent their vacation in the Pocono Mountains, where they had honeymooned. They enjoy a husband and wife book club, whose members meet to discuss books after reading them. Their daughter Kathryn is now walking and delighting her parents. Beverly plans to 5ubstitute teach this year. Sylvia Olney and Jackie Feeman visited with Bev Evans in August while on their way to Massenetta Springs. Jackie enters the University of Virginia this fall to work on a master's degree in math. Sylvia returns to her teaching in Newport News. Anita Knipling Scott, who is Section Director for Mortar Board for Section III, including the University of Delaware, Hood College, the University of Maryland, GW, Mary Washington, Westhampton, and William and Mary, went to the National Council Meeting at the Wind River Dude Ranch in Estes Park, Colorado, for five days. Although the ranch's brochure showed pictures of lovely scenery and a heated swimming pool, Anita reports that her trip was spent in many meetings. She discovered that she missed the children more than she had anticipated and was delighted to return home. In July they went to Wisconsin to visit Fred's relatives. Arlene Olson took a long trip in February -not a vacation, but to live. On Feb. 9th she became Mrs. Orvin C. Jones, Jr. They live in Texas, where 0. C. is attending navigation training school. Arlene is enjoying being a housewife and meeting new friends. Their new

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address is 1615 Washington Street, Apartment I, Waco, Texas. In October, 1962, Doris Turner married David Whitestone. They are now living at 1010 Calhoun St., Charlottesville, Va. Ellen Matlick Klein and Peter became the very proud parents of a daughter, Amy Lynn, on May 16th. Ellen and Amy went to New York to visit the grandparents for a couple of weeks this summer. Elaine Pettengill Rigby and Bob welcomed a bouncing boy on June 11, Elaine's birthday. He is Robert Norris Rigby, Jr. Susan, their red-head, is two. They live at 1252 W. Carolina St., Tallahassee, Florida. Bob is working on a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Florida State University. Also in Tallahassee are Bev Brown Floyd and J. P., who is Associate Pastor at Trinity Methodist Church. Bev ha5¡ been singing in the church choir and teaching Sunday School for the junior high group. Their new address is 205 Edwards Street, Tallahassee, Florida. Their green house overlooks the Florida State University campus. They're both very happy. Sylvia Haddock Young is also a minister's wife. Paige, who was ordained on his father'5 birthday, July 7, is pastor of the Ferry Farms Baptist Church. They live at 16 Marshall Place, Ferry Farms, Fredericksburg, Va. Sibby taught algebra in the summer session at James Monroe High School and will teach math at Spotsylvania High this fall. I am very sorry to report the sudden death of Sibby's mother on Aug. 16th. We extend our heartfelt sympathy. Sue Sybert Ritter and Fred now live at 202 Cherry Lane, Pearisburg, Va. Fred is the Lutheran minister in Pearisburg. They have a brand new church and a nice brick home with a beautiful view of the mountains. Bev Wine Bowers and Albert moved to Mooresville, N. C., on Sept. 13th. Between Labor Day and the 13th they visited relatives and friends with her parents' home as headquarters. During the summer Bev received three more hours of graduate credit from U. of Va. She thoroughly enjoyed her course in Russian history. Audrey Nuckolls, Class of '60, was in the class. Bev reports that 5he saw LaVerne Watson Edwards, who finished her graduate work in history at U.Va. The end of September will find La Verne on her way to Germany to join Bobby for a few years. Bev also visited with Jo Edwards Mierke and Eddie in June. She reports that he graduated from George Washington University this spring and is now working for NASA. Peggy Dulin Crews and Merrill now live in Alexandria. Peggy is teaching at Hammond High, and Merrill is working towards his master's in hospital administration at G.W. Barbara Dulin Polis and Charlie are very happy in Hampton. Charlie plans to go into surgery after he finishes his stint in the service. Two more of our classmates have moved to the Tidewater area. Sue Riley Lambiotte and Butch moved to 7426-B River Drive, Newport News, after he graduated from T. C. Williams in June. Butch is with the firm of Murray, Ford, West, and Wilkinson. Margaret Griffin Thompson is living at 1809 Ramsey Road, Norfolk, Va . 23503. Art is now the Combat Cargo Officer on the USS Guadalcanal. Although Norfolk will be home port, the ship has been in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard most of the time so far. So Margaret spent most of the summer in the Poconos with her inlaws so that she could sEe Art on the weekends. On the 20th of July they went to the commissioning ceremonies of the ship in Philly. After two weeks in Norfolk in October, Art will sail to Cuba for several months. Nancy Taylor is teaching third grade in Norfolk again. Sarah Coleman Marroni, who spent a week at Virginia Beach this summer, teaches seventh grade at Tuckahoe Jr. High in Richmond. Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lind-

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quist, who attended the U. of R. summer school and took an education course, is teaching at Brookland Jr. High. Betty Beryl Harvey Strum is teaching again at Marymount. B . B. and Sherwood had a delightful trip to New York this summer. Martha Jordan Chukinas won an amateur snapshot contest sponsored by the Richmond News Leader this summer. The shot was in the children's class and was taken on a recent trip. She reports with delight that her sister, Sarah, is now in Richmond. Sarah is teaching third grade at Ridge School and lives in the Three Chopt We5t apartments. George, now five years old, goes to kindergarten this year. Nancy Craig Williams Eaton and Dick announce the arrival of a daughter, Elizabeth Anderson, on June 19. Jo Barker Campbell and Otho and their two sons have moved to a larger apartment at 3727 Lyons Lane, Alexandria, Virginia. Otho is teaching junior high school, and Jo is working for the government. B. J. Stamps Rasmussen, a classmate in our freshmen and sophomore years, now lives with her parents in Alexandria. She works for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She has become quite active as a Sunday School superintendent for a large Baptist church. She is aho the leader of a Girl Scout troop of twenty-five 14-16 year olds. She has a daughter, named Beth. Zee Bee Bowling Black and Dale have recently moved from Kingsville to Houston, Texas. Their address is 909 Silber Road, E-1, Houston, Texas. Having completed his degree at Texas A and I College, Dale has gone into training with Cameron Iron Works in Houston. The Blacks are finding big city life quite exciting, especially since their son Stewart is old enough to enjoy many of the sights. Zee Bee took him for his first boat ride in Corpus Christi, Texas, while visiting the grandparents . Zee Bee is involved in the Doman method of teaching children to read at two and three years of age. She says Stewart is responding very favorably to the program and is actually learning to read. Gary Moore Barnes, Bill, and little David have moved into a new home. The house at 1703 Sun Valley Road, S.E., Huntsville, Alabama, is located at the foot of one of Huntsville's loveliest mountain chains. They have thoroughly enjoyed purchasing new furniture, choosing colors, and adding each little personal touch. Gary says, "All time spent seems worthwhile as we look ahead eagerly to having our house a real home." Margaret Spencer Hernandez and Jess also have a new address. They have been living at 409 Ositos Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, for a while. Jess has been doing a lot of flying recently to Hawaii, Canada, and the East Coast. Margaret has been busy with canning, being treasurer of the Squadron Wives Club, and caring for Brian, now two. All three of them came to Richmond this summer to visit with Margaret's family . Pat MacDonald Allen and Abraham and Strauss won the Seventeen Magazine's Amy Award this spring. When I was in New York this summer, I talked to Pat on the phone. She was just thrilled with the award. She said that she got quite a spread in the New York papers. She and Dick flew to Oregon this summer for a visit with his parents . Carolyn Nash Haga and Becky Webb Moran find th eir families take most of their time. Carolyn reports that Jeff is such a good baby and very easy to care for . Laura, however, is getting to be a handful. The older children next door spur her on to new escapades each day. Ralph still enjoys his work in real estate. Becky 's two children, Mark, age 3, and Leslie, age 1½, don't keep her too busy to prevent her from keeping another child and sewing.


John is currently debating between studying surgery and going into general practice. He just "finished his third year of med school at MCV. This fact just came in. Peggy Dulin Crews and Merrill's new address is 830 North Howard .St., No. 302, Alexandria, Virginia. Since Charlie Polis must go to Saudi Arabia on business, Barbara and the baby will stay with her parents in Culpeper for two months. Ellis is still traveling some-but fortunately not as much. In June we went to New York, where Ellis attended a seminar of the American 1nstitute of C. P. A. We saw two shows, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum " and "Mary, Mary, " and we had a <lelightful time. We also took several trips to Hartsville, S. C., where Ellis worked and I swam and relaxed. In September we attended the convention of the Virginia Society of -C. P. A. at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, Va . From there we went to Natural Bridge for the weekend. We are proud to be the godparents of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Strum, who is known as Betsy . She was christened on June 23rd, and we are as fond of her as her parents, B. B. and Sherwood . This brings all the news to a close . As you ,can see, I received a lot of news this time. I am just delighted. Keep up the good work! 1960 Secretary

MRs. ROBLEY J. LIGHT (Jeanne Kosko) 1916 Nanette Drive Tallahasse e, Florida 32303 The way our classmates have been moving around this summer would keep a whole companl'. of Uncle Sam's Intelligence Corps busy . Melissa Granger Mayo and Ed decided to make the task a bit easy though; they moved to Fort Stewar~, Georgia. Ed finished his internship at MCV m June and became a General Medical O!}icer on Post. Melissa writes they are just "42 miles southwest of Savannah" and receive mail .at 4 Demere St., Ft. Stewart. Just northward at the foot of the Smokies . . . Asheville, N. C. are _Mary L~u Walden Wagner, Scott and David; Scott is w~r½ing for Amee! Propulsion Co . a~d they are ltvmg at 69 S. Griffing Blvd. Me~rial Webb's summer started with a move ,of Just three blocks to 1203 Apperson St., Rich m~nd._ She spent the rest of her vacation in the e_dttorial .offices_ot The Commission of the Baptist Foreign Misswn Board. Once again she has answered the schoolbell ring and is teaching fi~th grade at J. ~- Hening School. Betty Brown Tiemeyer and Dick report that they will move fa!t~er west to Phoenix, Arizona. Dick will be cli~ucal psychologist on the staff of a rehabili tau~n center there. _ Betty has "high hopes" of gett_mg 1;ogether with some of the transplanted California Westhamptonites. After three ye~rs in Kentucky, Doris McBride Chesher and Ollie are back in Va . Ollie is pastor ?f a trio of churches near Eagle Rock and Doris says that they have such a spacious parso_na&ethat sh_e ho~es everyone passing through will Just consider It a hotel. They receive mail at P. 0. Box 66, Eagle Rock. Leaving the role of student's wife and student are Nancy Rae Taylor Baker and Bill ; Bill is associate pastor of ~he Fir~t Baptist Church, Lumberton, N . C., havmg finished Southeastern Seminary in July Their new address is 207 E. 12th St. · We are always delighted to receive news of class members who departed from our ranks before gr~duation date . Kitty Whitby became Mrs. John Fiege _on March 16. She teaches English and Journalism at Southern High in Baltimore and John teaches geography at the same school. !hey also_ both were awarded Masters Degrees m Education from Johns Hopkins University in June . Jeanette Foltz Abbott and Rud live in Grand Rapids Michigan with their two sons, Stephen and Mark. Building their "forever and ever" home on the Norfolk waterfront are Linda Berlin Frierman and Lenny; Lenny is in the real

estate business there and they hope to keep Jonathan and Anne "happy as little ducks" in their new home. Ritchie Thomas Carver and Floyd now live in Charlotte, N. C. with sons, Jim and Louis Christian, born last January . How would you like to celebrate an anniversary by taking a second honeymoon to Bermuda for eleven days? Ruthie Greenfield Zinn and Steve did just that this summer. Now Ruthie is back teaching a group of intellectually-gifted third graders just steps away from their Brooklyn apartment but Steve shuttles back and forth for his internship at the Jewish Hospital. Also in the New York area are Gloria Viegener Price and George. Gloria continues to work at the In stitute of International Education, sorting and deciding the fate of foreign applicants for American colleges while George studies Law at Fordham U.; they recently bought an eightroom pink house in Somerset, N. J. Wedding bells continue to peal! Patricia Testerman was married on August 30 to Ernest Ray Pinson Jr., Professor of English at Bluefield College. After a wedding trip to N. Y . and the New England states, they will live on campus, where Pat also teaches in the Music Department. Bluefield, W . Va., this time, was ·the scene of much talk about "old times" when Millie Bagley Bracey and Nancy McCulloch Pickands visited with each other. Millie just moved to 103 W. Third St., South Hill. From the Panhandle state comes word of the increase of alumnae rolls in that area . • . Jeanette McWilliams Welch and Jack are now living at 6530 Bellaire Blvd., Apt. 104, Houston. Jack is teaching at Houston Baptist College, a new school just opened with a freshman class this fall; Jeanette teaches high school math at Kinkaid School , a private institution. The Welches visited with Hettie Reuyl Lutz and Bob in the same city shortly after their move . Another Texan, Lynn Mapp Wiggins and Ben, had visits from both sets of parents .. . "really to see new granddaughter, Mary Susan, born June 10." Lynn is taking courses in Interior Decorating and Foreign Cookery sponsored by the Officers' Wives Club at Fort Bliss, and reports that Ben recently went on a deep-sea fishing trip to Guazmas, Mexico. Martha Kellog Dunbrock writes that she and Jim also had a visit from his parents in the spring . It appears that the female population is increasing by leaps and bounds ... Fanny Manning Lineberger and John announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Beck. Laura Jean Ahlers is keeping Clare Earle Ahlers and David busy since her arrival on June 11; the Ahlers live at 6204 N. E. Radford Dr ., Seattle 15, Washington . Girl No. 2, Helen Ann, became a member of the household of Jane Horton Blackwell and Buddy in August. Word reaches me that Joan Silverstein Zimmerman and Marvin's little girl has almost as many dimples as her mother; Debra Lynn arrived March 25 and the Zimmerman 's are now excited about the purchase of a new home, 809 Sturgis Place, Baltimore, Md . 21208. Sally Riggins Clement and Don have their hands full with their three children but Sally says that she must admit that Geoffrey, Leslie and Lisa, gain admirers wherever they go. The Clements have bought a ranch home in the countryside of Granby, Connecticut, complete with a rock cliff and wooded area . Sally is active in the Womans ' Club of Granby and Don has been busy with insurance actuarial exams. They made a homeward trip in June and soaked up the sun at Claytor Lake and attended Sally's sister's wedding . Some people really did exciting things this summer! Betsy Gathings Snooks, David and Dr . Gathing conducted a tour of Europe. They are back at 10 Butler Ave., Chalfont, Pa. now . Rozie Weinstein Rottenberg had a busy summer ... attended a six weeks Summer Science Institute under the National Science Foundation in Chemistry and then she and Maurice visited

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her brother in Boston. Sandra Hood payed them a surprise visit; Sandra has been teaching chemistry and is presently at Duke University. Her engagement to Jim Repas, a resident in Psychiatry at Duke University Hospital, also has been announced. Audrey Nuckolls attended summer school at U . Va . Linda Morgan Lemmon and Bob dropped by the W . & M. campus this summer and had a reunion with Becky Grissom who attended class 2s th Lre . Linda is teaching second grade again at Fort Knox while Bob has become a football bruiser for Uncle Sam . The Lemmons spent Labor Day weekend in Lexington, Kentucky, where they visited famous horse farms and saw Nashua and Swaps, Derb y winners. Nita Leseueur visited in Richmond and reports that she has been serving as youth director at a Baptist church in Gastonia, N . C. The West Coast brings a change of jobs for Drusilla Young ; she is assistant ot the Presi dent of the largest public relation s corp. in San Francisco and picks up her mail at 835 Pine Street, San Francisco . Dodie Tyrrell writes that she took up sailing this summer and had an ad venture in a schooner to Catalina Island. She also has been nominated for the Snow Queen of Southern California by her ski club . Robley and I drove to Virginia via the Smokies, have made several trips to Jacksonville , and I am now once again a tull-time career wife . Barbara Ferguson Qaissaunee sends greetings from a Kabuli of nearly one year 's standing . She considers herself a novice in many wa ys but she reports that she can "butcher meat, make 'kabab,' eat mutton and goat, speak a bit of Persian and Pushty and wash and iron turbans. " She is working full-time ... half for the US AID as Librarian at the Afghan Institute of Technology and half for Teacher s College, Columbia U . Team as general adviser on librarie s. She is a unique phenomenon in Afghanist an, being the only trained Afghan librarian. Abdul continues to direct the activities at the Engineering School. Barbara and her husband attended the U. S. Ambassador's Garden Party on July 4th where the y had American hamburgers and ice cream for the first time in a year. As Barbara says, "Khoda Hafiz ,'' in her tongue, I repeat in English, "Good-Bye " for thi s issue . Many thanks to all of you for so quickly replying to my SOS.

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1961 Secretary MRS. JERRYH. JoNES (Betty Blanton) 7701 Granger Rd. Richmond 29, Va. The ringing of school bells and the cool breezes we have had have brought an end to summer and vacations. For many members of the class of '61, it brings new jobs, names, children and addresses. For others it means a return to the same problems with another year's experience behind us . All members of the class have been assigned to a group leader and by now you should have heard from her . If you have not heard from your group leader, you can send me your news directly . I want to thank those of you that have served so well as group leaders for the past two years and also thank those of you that have voluntered your help for the next three years. . Many '61 classmates are returning to teachmg after a summer of studying, including Dixi Hargrave to George Wythe, Barbara Spiers to Brookland Junior High and Martha Carole Rogers to Douglas Freeman. After a lovely summer of teaching chemistry at John Marshall and taking a child psychology course at RP.I ., I am again teaching chemistry at John Marshall. I am looking forward to an interior decorating cours·e I will take at night this fall. Maridell Bugg is also returning to John Marshall after a lovely tour of Europe with an extended visit in Germany this summer. Another classmate who is teaching at John Marshall is Sandy Weeks who worked for the cit y Department of Recreation and Parks this summer . Cathy Marshall Overstreet is teaching this fall in Halifax County High School . She and Keith moved to South Boston early in the summer. Nancy Adams Booker and "Red" have both gone to teaching positions this fall. Nancy is teaching math at Chandler Junior High School here in Richmond and "Red" is teaching and coaching at Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County.

Joyce Smith Allison is teaching math at James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg. Her remarks on married life agree with all the others I have been getting from our classmates. Another transplanted Richmond teacher is Sandy Gott Gilliam who is teaching seventh grade at Lanier Intermediate School in Fairfax. She attended two classes this summer at the University of Virginia Extension. Betty Lou Hillsman Gray is planning to spend some of her time substituting in the Fairfax County schools . Terry Gray is 4½ months old now and as one classmate remarked "as· cute as a button. " Minna Wilson Hall and Bill are living in Baltimore, Maryland where Bill is in residency in internal medicine. Minna is an Educational Representative in the public relations division of C & P Telephone Company of Maryland. Nancy Tingle became Mrs . Haywood Griffin on February 2, 1963. She and "Woody" are living in Silver Spring, Maryland . "Woody" is employed in the State National Bank in Bethesda and Nancy is working as a secretary to the vice-president of American University . Judy Olton Mueller and Bruce were living in Maryland until "we were evicted for having a noisy dog." They have bought an old town house and have moved to Alexandria . Judy is teaching sixth grade in Laurel, Maryland this fall. Before she began her teaching duties, she and Bruce vacationed in Maine and Canada . Shirley Fish Kirchner is busy sewing for her children and her home. She did take off long enough to see the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City this September . Tish Kincheloe Welland and Fred have bought a home in Los Altos, California. Fred is continuing his work in cancer research at Stanford. From her letter I got the impression Barbara Ross will be extremely busy this fall. She is continuing her training for instructor of tax law. She was in Cleveland for a week in September and will be leaving again in October for an advanced tax law class. She is also taking a course in accounting this fall at USDA Graduate School. I believe Ross should

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qualify for the "busiest classmate" of the year award. · In August I received the most interesting note from Louise DeCosta. She left in August for a two months visit in Brazil with two families . She became acquainted with the daughter of these families becaus ·e they worked f'?r. their embassy in Washington. She says her v1s1t may be extended if a job opportunity occurs. This will give her a chance to use and improve the Portuguese she has been taking for a year . Kay Parker, who was a member of our class for several years and married Robert Booker, is living in Alexandria. They have a daughter Anne who is two years old. I failed to tell you about the birth in April of Rebecca Lynn Carroll, daughter of Judy VanderBoegh Carroll and Bobby . Bobby has been made manager of the Everett Waddey store in Southside Plaza. Mary Ellen Deckelman was married to John L. Fugate on August 24, 1963 at First Baptist Church in Richmond . John is teaching this fall and Mary Ellen is again doing social work for the City Welfare Department . Meg Gunter and Ed Lovelace were also married on August 24th in Accomac, Virginia. They are living here in Richmond where Ed enters his third year in Dental School and Meg continues to teach at Midlothian Elementary School. Sallie Hunter, Vernon and three-year-old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, welcomed Vernon Ross Hunter, Jr. on April 15, 1963. The Hunters live in Dothan, Alabama where Vernon is a Presbyterian minister. Chris Sizemore graduated from Southeastern Seminary and he and wife, Anne Mills Sizemore, have moved to Chapel Hill, N. C. Chris has entered U.N.C. working on a M.A. in library science as he was the recip ient of the only scholarship offered by the N. C. Library Association . On August 12th Charlotte and Wayne McGlohon became the very proud parents of their second and third children; twin girls, Adrianne Elizabeth and Charlotte Lane. These are the first twins the class of '61 has to boast of. Daphne Shepard Mason and Bobby visited the McGlohons and Daphne reports the twins are identical and adorable . Daphne will not be teaching this fall but is considering graduate work at Longwood College. It seems that I have made anoth er mistake-Evelyn Spivey Drum's husband's name is John . Evelyn, I am very sorry . Becky Powell Harrison and John are now living in Germany and are busy trying to learn the language. Ann Jones Stribling and William have bought a new home in Alexandria. Ann is working for the Center for Naval Analysis which is part of Franklin Institute . Sally Magruder and Ashton Rawls were married in Arlington on June 29. They are living here in Richmond. Only one week later Gloria Holland became Mrs. Don Merrifield. Gloria is teaching elementary school this fall. Helen Londeree Johnson starts her third year of teaching in Richmond this fall and Bradley returns to dental school. Jane Gochenour Archer, husband Julian, and new daughter, Jane Longfellow are living in Boulder, Colorado where husband and father Julian has gained a third title-that of law student. Lisa Clarke Clark visited San Juan, Puerto Rico this summer while Ludlow was there on marine duty . Jennie Marshall Stokes will not join her classmates who are returning to teaching but instead will be a student at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. She is working on her Master of Arts degree. Gwynn Barefoot Rapier and Jarrell have


purchased a sailboat and have spent part of the summer on the water. Gwynn said she had a lot to learn about sailing. Ginny Nedham Whitfield, Jim and their two children, Jimmy, 3 years and Paula, 20 months old, are living in Oak Harbor, Washington where Jim is stationed. Jim was made Lt . j.g. during the summer . Jane Pitts McAllister and Jack are parents of a son, John, Jr . born on July 6, 1963. Betty Pritchett White and Ray have moved into a new apartment in Hampshire Place . Betty is filling part of her time by taking an advanced sewing class at R.P.I. Mary Catherine Sellers Dunn and Jim have become home owners, having bought a home in the far west end of Richmond. Mary Catherine says she is missing teaching since she did no-t return to Manchester. Martha Wallace Michael and George are also home owner s in the west end. Martha is teaching at All Saints Kindergarten. Joyce Slavin Scher and Norman have a son that I don ' t believe I have report ed. H is name is Johnny and he was born June 19, 1962. Ruth Reynolds Barger , Haynes, and son Mark, 14 months, have moved into their new home in south Richmond. Thanks for all the news. See you in the winter issue . 1962 Se cretary Miss R0B1N CRAMME 8962 Bellefont e Rd . Richmond, Va.

This is the beginning of our first reunion year, so let 's make it a good one . I hope all of you will start planning now to come next spring. As usual the summer months have seen many '62ers change their name. Molly Riggins became Mrs . David Allen Sandridge on June 22. The next weekend, June 29, was the date of Lee Strawhand's marriage to Ray Young. They are living in Richmond where Lee is working for the telephone company while Ray continues his studies at MCV. Iris Creedle and Doug Jarrett were married on July 13 and are living in South Hill where Iris is teaching. August was the month Sandra Nunn and Judy Acree chose for their weddings. Judy became Mrs. Richard Hanson on August 3rd . She is teach ing in Richmond while Dick is in the Navy . Sandra and Douglas Dee Wallace were married on August 10th . Both of them are teaching in Richmond. Janet Parrish was married to Fred Cranford on April 13th . They are in Chapel Hill where they are continuing to study at U.N .C. There have also been several changes of address since last year . Shirley Easter has moved to Kansas City where she is working in the Actuarial Department of an insurance company . Tuckie Smart Paxton and Jimmy have moved to Philadelphia where Tuckie is teaching and Jimmy is studying at the Wharton School of Finance . Tuckie said they were almost fullfledged Yankees after only a week to protect their interests . Dale Boatwright Griggs and Tommy have returned to Richmond so Tommy can study dentistry at MCV. Dale is teaching at Tucker High School. Toni Cousins has also returned to Richmond where she is teaching . Sheila Shochat is now in St. Louis where her husband Steve is interning . She hopes to teach but says the requirements are very strict. She attended summer school at St. Louis University. My addres-s has also changed but remains in Richmond. We moved in September and are finally getting fairly straight even if we do have trouble locating things. Please note the new address so I will be sure to get your news which I know you'll be sending soon for the winter issue. Ellen Kayne November and Richard are

the proud parents of a daughter, Debra Jo, born on July 1. Ellen says she is already running the household. Sylvia Brown Pond spent a summer of leisure while Bett Burrus Brooks studied in summer school at U. of Va. Mary Kay Williams worked for the World Council of Churches Service to Refugees in Austria this summer . She will return to school in Edinburgh this fall and will also serve as Assistant Minister of a suburban church. She reports that she loves Scotland and "highland flinging. " Alice Hall has decided to return to school this fall. She will be doing graduate work in economics at the University of Minnesota. I have had several reports from vacationers . Sharon Alderson enjoyed a trip to New York in April while Bonnie Deems preferred to travel south. She spent her vacation in Nassau in June . She has also been enjoying conventions and her new Triumph Spitfire. Barbara Harrell spent part of the summer traveling in Europe . Charlotte Adams Higgs and Wilson spent a leisurely month traveling to Colorado and up into the Canadian Rockies. I'm anxious to hear the lively details of Julie Perkinson's European adventure this summer as she and Ruth Blair disrupted life in the British Isles . Joan Bishop and I spent a week at the Fountainbleau in Miami Beach. We enjoyed every minute of it-that is almost every min ute . There were times such as the daily afternoon storm and one memorable but "better forgott en" evening which were less enjoyable but part of a relaxing and entertaining vacation for both of us . Since we will be contacting you quite a bit this year as reunion time draws closer, won't you send me your address if you think I may not have it or if you have changed it? Please continue to send me your news. You like to read about other class members , but they want to read about you. If you haven 't been contacted by a group leader, please write directly to me. I've had several interesting letters this summer so keep them coming . 1963 Secretary Miss JuLIA WILLIAMS 44 Pear Avenue Hampton , Virginia

I want to thank the group chairmen who were so helpful in sending me news for this Bulletin . The alumnae of the Class of '63 have really been busy since we left our Alma Mater in June . Among those of our class members who became married during the summer are Mary Lynne Williams Bailey, Betsy Beale Bell, Mimi Brent Booker, Archer Hannah Bortz, Nancy Hootman Clemm 2r, and Ma rilvn Miller Dancy. Betsy is teaching Spanish at Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County, Mimi is living in Charlottesville and teaching in Scottsville, Nancy is living in Alexandria, and Marilyn is teaching English and Speech at Herm itage High School in Richmond . Others married during the summer are Barbara Cook Darling, Sue Smith Duer, Jean Copley Forbes , Gail Marcus Genderson, Alice Moyers Merritt, and Pat Rich Pastor. Barbara plans to work as a director of handicrafts in a hospital in Rochester, New York, Sue is teaching art in an elementary school in Chesterfield County, Jean is studying for her Masters Degree in Psychology at the University of Toledo, and Gail is teaching in the Richmond area. Pat is teaching third grade at Glen Allen Elementary School, and Alice is living in Atlanta, Georgia and is working. Rounding out the list of newly married alumnae are Dee Harwood Perkins, Grace Phelps Rhinesmith, Mary Jane Gregg Shand, Peggy St. Clair Stevens, Jo Anne Hardy Thomasson, Betsy Broaddus Zimmerman, and Sandra Dixon Bow en, who transferred to William and Mary during our Junior year. Dee and her husband are

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now living in Columbia, South Carolina where he is doing graduate work. They lived in Richmond during the summer. Grace is working for a doctor in Charlottesville, and Mary Jane is living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her husband is working toward his PhD in Physics . Peggy and Jo Anne are both teaching at Tuckahoe Junior High School in Henrico County. Betsy is teaching French and living near Washington, and Sandra is teaching at John Randolph Tucker High School in Henrico County. Sterling Craige Williamson was born June 11, 1963 to Eleanor Ramsay Williamson and Sterling, the same day that Pat Curley and Larr y became the proud parents of William Geoffrey . The Curleys have recentl y moved to Roanoke . Barbara Jean Shell became engaged on July 5th . She is teaching sixth grade in Stony Creek, Virginia . A large group of '63 alumnae are working in the Richmond area. Judy Barlow, Car olyn Anthony, Charlotte Hines, and Marcia McMullin are living together in The Hampshire Pl ace apartments. Judy is teaching English at Fairfield Junior High School in Henrico County, Carolyn is teach ing Physical Education at George Wythe High School, Charlotte is teach ing Latin at Meadowbrook High School in Chester field County, and Marc ia is working for the Welfare Department in Chest erfield Count y. Also living in The Hampshire Pla ce apartments are Jackie Inge and Carolyn Hodnett. Jackie is teaching fourth grade at Highland Spring s Elementary School, and Carolyn is teaching sixth grad e at Midlothian Elementary School in Chesterfield County . Ann Cosby, Claire Hudson , Sharon Robertson, and Cecelia Stiff are living in The Mount Vernon apartments as are Judy Cooke, Julie Haynie, Beth Holland, and Ann Hurd. Ann Cosby is teaching piano at Saint Catherine's and is organist at River Road Presbyterian Church, Claire is working for the Welfare Department in Richmond, Sharon is working for the Federal Reserve Bank, and Cecelia ' s employed by Du Pont . She has taken several business trips for the company . Judy is working as a social worker for the Children 's Home Society of Virginia , Beth is doing consumer research for Philip Morris, and Ann Hurd and Julie are both teaching sixth grade in Chesterfield County. Julie recently returned from a tour of Europe. Joan Lee Wright and Nancy W ickers are living together and are both teaching school. Bobbie Wilke is living with Miss Chapman and teaching Physical Education in Henrico County . Claudia Dodson is head of the Girls ' Physical Education Department at Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County where Georgeanne Skeen, Annette Rorrer, and Nanc y Delano are teaching English . Annette plans to be married in December . Nancy Hud son is in charge of the Vocal D epartment at John Randolph Tucker High School in Henrico County where Ruth Blair is tea ching English. Nancy also teaches music at Jack son-Davis Elementary School. Archer Randlett e is teaching French and Spanish at Hermitage High School where Maria Sanchez also teaches Spanish . Paul ine Fones attended summer school, is teaching at Huguenot High School, and will continue her Chemistry at the Univer sity Night School. Marty Cone Yeatts and her husband did quite a bit of traveling this summer . She is teaching fifth grade in Richmond . Kathy Street is teaching Kindergarten at All Saints Episcopal Chu rch School. Frances Pitchford is teaching English at Patrick Henry High School in Ashland . Pat Cordle is working in the Executive Sales Department of the Telephone Company, Mary Jane Newton is working for the State, Ellen Fitz-High Campbell is working in the American Tobacco Company Research Lab in Richmond, and Jack ie Smithers is working at MCV . Lynore Katz Aaron, Marty Goding Forti, and Doris Joyner are completing their studies at Westhampton. Kakki Elmer Rogers and her husband are living in Richmond and are expecting a baby.


Dodie Benson, Susie McAfee, Betty Harrell, and Sally Ann Clark all went to Europe this summer. Susie is now working at Parke-Davis in Detroit, Betty is working for the Music and Arts Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and Sally is employed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in White Plains, New York. Val Bryant is also working for AT&T in White Plains. Judy Metcalf and Emily Short are living together in Virginia Beach. Judy is doing child welfare work in Norfolk, and Emily is teaching English at Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach City. Aleta Goodwyn is teaching third grade at Sedgefield Elementary School in Newport News. Also teaching in Newport News is Marie Morris, who is teaching U. S. History and Geography at Newport News High School. Liz Violette is working for the Newport News Welfare Department in the Public Assistance section. Kay Koontz, Jean Morris, Margaret Brower, and Grace Brinkley, who transferred from W. C. after our Sophomore year, have an apartment together in Newport News and are all working at N.A.S.A., where Jean is engaged in the training program . Beth Stafford is also employed by N.A.S.A. Margie Gay Keeling is doing Child Welfare work in Danville. Jeanie Harrison Fisher is working in the order department of the graduate library at the University of South Carolina. Beth Jones is doing h~rt research at Bowman-Gray Hospital in Wmst on-Sa lem, North Carolina while Patti Dix is doing some research at the University of Virginia as well as taking some graduate courses. Bonnie Barron is appointment coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . Shari Goldman is teaching at William Monroe High School near Charlottesville. She attended summer school part of the summer. Pat Shotton is teaching elementary school in Suffolk, and Nancy Berkowitz is teaching second grade in Long Island, New York. Nancy worked as a camp counselor this summer. Connie Overstreet and Lynne Sheppard are living together in Roanoke and are both teaching fourth grade at Belmont Elementary School. Connie was hostess at. Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Front Royal this summer, and Lynne spent two weeks in Florida. Mary Watt Frishkorn is working in California. Donna Houff and Phyllis Pe terson are teaching at George Wash ing ton High School in Danville under the M.A.T. program at Duke University. Betty Lou Giles is in the M.A.T . program at the University of North Carolina and is teaching at Fayetteville, North Carolina. Others who are doing graduate work are Coral Mears, Grayson Foy, Carol Winfield, Jean Robertson, Nancy Hybner, Nancy Fulcher, Ada Allen, Betty Ann Sisler, and M. B . Hummel. Coral is studying at the University of North Dakota. Grayson is doing graduate work in Physics at ~e University of Virginia. She was Physics lab mstructor m summer school for the first half of_ the summe~ and then went West on a trip with her family. Carol worked as Youth Director at Westover Baptist Church in Richmond this summer and is now studying at Southeastern Theological Seminary. Jean is working on her Masters Degree in social work at the Uni~ersit_Y of North Carolina where Nancy Hybner 1s domg graduate work in the Zoology Department. Nancy Fulcher is doing graduate work in French at Columbia University where Linda Zelle, who transferred from Westhampton after our Sophomore year, is studying nursing. Ada and Betty Ann are both doing graduate work at the University of Michigan, and M. B. Hummel is in graduate school at the University of Minnesota where she is a dorm counselor. Kitty Connaway hopes to do graduate work in Spanish. She recently went to Oklahoma on a visit. Gail Lush spent the summer getting ready for her trip to New Zealand where she will be working as a 4-H exchange student for about eight months. Peggy Dail spent the summer in preparation for her work as a member of the

Peace Corps in Nigeria. She is teaching English and History. Kay Hardy, Wendy Swartz, Ann Coale, and Sue Ligon are among those who graduated last month from Westhampton. Ann has returned to her home in Aberdeen, Maryland to work. I attended summer school at William and Mary College and am teaching fifth grade at Bethel Manor School in York County. I hope you will continue to send news in to your group chairman. Chairmen, please have your news for the Winter Bulletin in to me by November 25th.

WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE

sale of pecans on soon. We are hoping year of true fun and pleasure.

Roanoke Club President:

President:

MRS.

J.

M.

MACKEY , JR .

(Lois Moody) 29 Albany Drive Hampton , Virginia An informal coke party was given on Saturday, September 7th, at the home of Mrs. Douglas Powell, 4 Club Terrace, Newport News, Virginia. This event honored the freshmen from our area who entered Westhampton this fall. All upper classmen and alumnae were invited. There were nineteen present. A luncheon will be planned for the near future . The date and place will be announced later. All Westhampton girls who have moved into the Peninsula area (Newport News, Hampton, Yorktown, Gloucester) within the last two years are urgently requested to notify Mrs . Lois Mackey, phone 826-3620 as soon as possible. We are trying to compile a new Westhampton directory for this area, and your name and addresses are needed.

Richmond Club President:

MRS. GLENN

S.

HESBY

(Katherine Roberts) 900 West Franklin Street Richmond 20, Virginia Our Fall Activities began with a Tea for the Freshmen and transfers entering Westhampton. It was held at the home of Mrs. R. E. Booker, 8 Roslyn Road. Dean Roberts, Dean Pierce, Mrs. Beecher Stallard, members of the Board of the Richmond Club, and members of the Orientation Committee from the college were present to welcome the new students. Also among the guests were Mrs. James Callis with her daughter, Pat and Mrs. L. S. Evans with her daughter, Barbara. Both Pat and Barbara are members of the Freshman Class and their mothers are alumnae. On Monday, October 7, we had our Covered Dish Supper at Seventh Street Christian Church. Dr. James A. l\foncure, a member of the faculty of the University of Richmond, was our speaker. The '63 graduates now living in Richmond were invited as our special guests. Our Children's Christmas Party will be held in Keller Hall on Sunday, December 15 at 3 p.m . Plans are in the making for a Benefit Card Party to be held in Keller Hall on November 12 as our big fund raising project for the year. In the meantime our Calendar sale has netted us a nice profit and we will have our

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MRS.

DONALD

R.

DIVERS

(Mary Lee Kingrey) 5769 Littleton Road, N.W . Roanoke, Virginia The Roanoke Club had a tea for the present students and new students at the home of Barbara Branch on Persinger Road, September 4th. We planned a bridge party for February.

Tidewater Club President:

MRS.

ROBERT

H.

CALLIS,

JR.

(Ann Hanbury) 105 48th Street Virginia Beach, Va.

LOCAL CLUBS

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Two more bridge parties were added to our winter project. June Myers and Charlotte Beale graciously acted as hostesses. We felt the project quite successful. In August the officers and a planning committee attended a luncheon at the home of the president. Entertainment for new and returning students in the form of a coke party was planned and an agenda for the year was adopted. The coke party was held on September 7 at the home of Elizabeth McRae Dudley with fourteen students attending . Our first meeting will be October 29 in the Lakewood section of Norfolk at the home of Helen Caulfield Ballard. We are planning a fine arts program. Our speaker is one of our own alumnae Elsa Wallerstein Gerst. Elsa has exhibited in various juried shows and is one of the Tidewater's most dedicated artists. She will speak on some phase of modern art and has generously offered one of her own paintings as a door prize. Our other officers are June Hodges Myers from Chesapeake, our vice-president; Felice Abram Stern from Virginia Beach, our secretary-treasurer and Page McCray Miller from Norfolk, our telephone chairman. Because our chapter encompasses the large area of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach organization is somewhat difficult . However, we expect to increase our active membership and look forward to an interesting and fruitful year.

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MARY JANE PINCHBECK Mrs. Mary Jane Pinchbeck, 82, mother of the late Raymond Pinchbeck, former dean of Richmond College, died this summer m Richmond. She is survived by a son, William K. Pinchbeck of California, and three daughters, Mrs. Ora P. Toms of Covesville, Mrs. Ruby P. Thompson of Richmond, and Mrs. Virginia P. Anderson of Silver Spring, Md., and a sister, Mrs. Rose Lohwasser of Richmond.


1900Dr. Joseph Pendleton Scruggs, retired Baptist minister, died in July at the Adair Memorial Hospital at Columbia, Kentucky. He served several churches in Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri.

1905Joseph Chambers "Chummie" Bristow of Richmond died on August 5. He had been general agent in Richmond for the Home Life Insurance Company of New York for 50 years. Mr. Bristow, a graduate of the T. C. Williams School of Law, took his undergraduate work at the College of William and Mary. He was the father of Mrs. Joseph C. Robert, '27, wife of Dr. Robert of the University of Richmond history department. Mr. Bristow was a charter member of the Lions Club of Richmond, a member of the SPE fraternity, the Commonwealth Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was a member of Saluda Baptist Church.

1906George Morton, former judge of hte circuit court of Wise County, died in September at the age of 80. A native of Appalachia, Va., Judge Morton began pratice of law in Appalachia in 1906, and was appointed judge in 1939. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.

1908Word has been received of the death on March 19 of Rev. Thomas Harper Binford of San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Binford attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and served charges in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio . He retired in July of 1950 from the active pastorate and taught in the Akron Bible Institute . He is survived by four sons and six grandchildren.

1912While apparently in full health and vigor, Frank M. (Baby) Benton, distinguished classicist who taught for forty years at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., died of a heart attack at Gotenberg, Sweden on September 13. With him at the time was his traveling companion, Mrs . Benton, the former Louise Snead. His last visit to the campus had been in 1962 for the 50th reunion of his class. Five years earlier at his 45th reunion he had said publicly, " I have loved every minute of the past forty-five years, just as I loved Richmond College, 1908-1912." Only 15 when he came to college, Benton achieved a remarkable academic record, showing great proficiency in Latin in which he did his major work. He played guard on the football teams, using his 230 pounds to good advantage; edited the Messenger, and served as secretary and vice president of the Mu Sigma Rho Literary society. He managed the track team and served as president of the Athletic Association . After teaching for forty years at Phillips Academy, he tried to retire but was drafted into service by Groton School where he taught for two years. There followed still another year of teaching at Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. He was a member of the American Classical Association, the American Philological Asso ciation, the Vergilian Society of America, and the Vergilian Society of Britain. In World War I he served with the Bureau of Efficiency (assigned to the War Department) in Washington. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Rosalie Virginia Benton Lee, and three grandchildren .

1914Rev. Josiah D. Kesler of Martinsville died in June at the age of 75. Rev. Kesler was retired and did supply preaching in the Martinsville area . His career spanned 40 years in which he served churches in Virginia and Maryland. Survivors include a ¡son, Josiah A. Kesler, a graduate of the University of Richmond in 1958.

1921Rev. Peter Ernest Brame, 72, died in July in Richmond. Mr. Brame was a native of Parkers of Spotsylvania County, and held several pastorates in Virginia and Maryland during his 35 years in the ministry. He was formerly moderator of the Piedmont Baptist Association. He received his theological training at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville .

1926Dr . Thomas Henning Anderson, 60, a general practitioner in Lawrenceville, Va., died July 17. Dr. And erson was medical examiner of Brunswick county, a member of the county electoral board and a vestryman of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. He was a surgeon for the Atlantic and Danville Railroad and a member of the Medical Society of Virginia. He is survived by his wife, four sisters and two grandchildren .

v1s1tmg his sister, a patient at the Duke University Medical Center. He was the son of the late Robert W . Arnold, judge of the Circuit Court for the Third Judicial District of Virginia from 1939 to 1943. A graduate of the T. C. Williams Law School, he had served as commonwealth 's attorney since 1943. Survivors include his mother, a sister and brother. Word has been received of the death of Thomas G . Lewis in 1961. Mr . Lewis was former General manager of the National Carbon Co. (India) Ltd.

1957Wilbert J . Crocker, 57, a science teacher at Suffolk High School for 35 years, died this spring . Mr . Crocker's work was recognized in a 1961 survey of Suffolk High School student progress at college where it was found that his students earned consis tantly high college grades. He wa s an active member of the First Baptist Church of Suffolk. A bachelor, his only survivors are six cousim, all of the Norfolk-Portsmou th area.

1962George Oswald Bullis, Jr ., of Weems, Va . was killed in an automobile accident July 7.

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1927Word has been received of the death in September, 1961 of Richard Fuller Bristow of Knoxville, Tennessee .

1929Joseph S. Hart, a vice president of the J. M . Huber Corporat ion of Rumson, N. J., died September 16 after a brief illness . He was 55 years old. Mr. Hart joined Huber, which produces a number of industrial products, in 1936 and became a vice president in 1947. Well known in the graphic arts field, he was president of the National Printing Ink Research Institute. Last May he was elected a vice president of the National Association of Printing Ink Makers, of which he had been a treasurer and a director . Mr. Hart received a Bachelor of Science at the University, where he played varsity football. After graduating, he joined the U. S. Coast and Goedetic Survey as a chief yeoman, where he remained until June of 1930. He worked for the J. C. Penney Co. briefly, and two other firms before joining Huber in 1936. Born in Argentina, Mr. Hart was brought to the United States at the age of 10.

ROANOKE CHAPTER The Roanoke area alumni are pu shing plans to launch the University Choir tour in their area. Chiles J. Cridlin , '2 9, president of the chapter , has reported that the First Baptist Church of Roanoke will welcome the Choir on April 19. He said that other appearances in the area will be scheduled later. October 25 has been selected as the date

1932Rev. Leonard W. Gammon, 60, pastor of Main Street Baptist Church in Petersburg, Va ., died June 23. Mr. Gammon was a member of the Crusaders Club, the Petersburg Baptist Ministerial Association, and the Petersburg Citywide Ministerial Association . Survivors include his wife, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and four sisters.

1940Robert Watson Arnold, Jr., 48, Sussex county commonwealth's attorney, died August 19 at Durham, N. C. of a heart attack. Mr . Arnold suffered the attack at a motel in Durham where he had been staying while

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for the next chapter meeting . Mr . Cridlin will preside. Other officers are Burrel F. Lucas, '48, vice president, and Kenn eth V. Flora, '50, secretary.

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George A. Terry, '49 , president of the Washington Chapter, reports the launching of their new screening and recruitment pro -


gram under the direction of the recruitment committee, Glenn Grimmel, '50, chairman. In addition to the president, officers of the society are Norman West, '49, vice president; Jack Greene, '49, secretary, and Harry Stone, '54, treasurer.

CHARTER HESLEP (Continued

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father, from the great teachers at the University, and from his initiation as a reporter on the Richmond Times-Dispatch under the noted editor, Robert Ford. Charter 's love for the land of his origin and his University abided throughout his career. Just ten days before his death he discussed with a friend his ideas on the University of Richmond's future. He felt that the glory of its past was but earnest of greater lustre in the world of scholarship. Not his comprehensive knowledge or driving personality, however , but his basic goodness and kindness, his penetrating understanding, his concern for all his friends, make it incredible that he does not still live among us. All that capacity, that great heart was at our service. Even though absorbed in his family , working constantly and painstakingly on plans to help each of his children and his wife attain the best within each of them , he found time always, from these concerns and from countless week-ends of speech-writing or planning for the Atomic Energy Commission, to help a friend with a broken wing or limping leg. His advice on such occasions was firm and salutary, disguising the numerous phone calls and contacts made on their behalf behind the scenes. The life of Charter Heslep was as far from Walter Mitty's dreams as it is possible to get. He probably did not understand the world of illusion which burdens mankind . Eugene O'Neill and Edward Albee meant little to him. His world was not a stage, and yet he saw in photographic brilliance its foibles and fun . His was a circus world when he saw the funny side of man- or a world of Mark Twain with the lamentable weakness of man and his peculiar activities etched in bold relief. These observations he would relate with affectionate gusto as he sat at the head of his board . The latest political and government or world-affairs jokes were never better related . His character descriptions were perfection . He dominated the conversation usually by force of his genius for talk, but with glowing geniality . Those who also loved to talk would stop to listen. And how breathtakingly exciting the tales of events from his life- his reportorial experiences of the police blotter, the Truman Campaign of 1948, the scoops of interviews and of epic broadcasts at the San Francisco Conference forming the United Nations; the Geneva Conferences on Peaceful uses of the Atom- and many more . Charter was the spirit incarnate of the epic surges of history in our times . - Curtis W. Garrison, '23.

Mrs. LulaWoodward The news of the passing of Mrs. Lula A. Woodward brought a sense of personal loss to hundreds of old grads of the 1930's and 40's who visited the refectory three times daily. "Mrs. Woody," as she was known by all the students, served as dietitian for Richmond College from 1927 to 1942. Before coming to the refectory, she had managed the food service at George Wythe High School. No wonder this strong spirited woman lived to be 91 ! To those of us who knew her in the early 40's, she seemed to have only succeeded in getting a fair grasp on middle age. Yet, at that time, she was in the midst of her second career, having been a homemaker for thirty-eight years. Her husband , the late George S. Woodward, died in 1927 . Their marriage was blessed with five children, one of whom died in infancy . Another son was killed in World War I. The oldest daughter , Annie, is married to Mr. David D . Eanes, president of Rountree Corporation in Richmond. The next daughter, Louise, is Mrs. Richard Tutwiler. The only living son, Edgar, is Bursar of Mary Washington College at Fredericksburg. Those who worked at the refectory were known as Mrs. Woody's boys! I had the privilege of being her headwaiter in 1942-43. This unusual woman radiated a certain charm throughout her domain, the dining hall. Freshmen found a mother-away -fromhome in her. She was interested in each individual and sought out the little bits of information concerning family, home town, and food favorites. The students griped about the provisions made for them then as always, but no boy went away hungry. Mrs.

Woody was concerned about a balanced diet for young customers whose desire for food was far more insatiable than their quest for knowledge. She was also concerned about a balanced budget for the refectory! Every new waiter was given careful instructions about the proper way to fill a glass of milk. "Never let the milk get less than three-quarters of an inch from the top!" she would caution. Then, with a sly wink she would confide, "I save the college a hundred gallons of milk per month with these instructions!" Mr. Bob Stone used to say that if every staff member watched pennies like Mrs. Woody, most of his problems would be solved. This good lady could look a crisis straight in the eye. A special group of trustees was being served one evening . A thoroughly shaken waiter brought her the awful spectacle of a rusty nail extracted from the baked potato by the Chairman of the Board. Mrs. Woody's reaction was, "Get him another one. He'll have to blame Mother Nature for that, not us!" Tom Yeaman ('30), now an executive with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, shared a touching experience he had with lVIrs. Woodward when he was her headwaiter, 1929-30. He needed a new suit for graduation and she came to his rescue by lending him the money to buy it. Tom, in a fitting tribute to her, said recently, "Mrs. Woody was deeply concerned about her students . They did not always appreciate her, but in her mind and heart they belonged to her in a very special way." All of us who knew her thank God for what she fed us and taught us ! Elmer S. West, Jr., '43

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