Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 27, Spring 1964

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"Black Maria" which transported the young ladies from the The Cover-The car stop to the college in the early days of Westhampton.

J. Vaughan Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................................

Their Light Ever Shines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sentimental Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fastest Brain On Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

THE

GENERAL

In retrospect it might seem that time's breezes have riffled the first fifty pages of Westhampton College history with near cyclonic velocity. Two fighting wars, a cold war, a depression, a population explosion, radio, television-considerably more than a mickle has been blown into her first half-century. In addition, there has come about a complete change of fashions, fads and mores since the days when a cadre of Co-Eds, with the first contingent of inductees, gave their somewhat bewildered selves into the keeping of an equally new little dean . She wasn't equally bewildered, though. She knew exactly what she wanted. so new that wasps still feasted on not plural-was The building-singular, the damp paint. There were piles of lumber which could be hastily converted into they were, new, seesaws during between-class lulls. Girls, building, faculty~there clung to their which clay red the of lump a as untried, as malleable in her hands new But-repeat-the Hill.

Westhampton up trek overshoes after a rainy day equal vision with president a had she Moreover, wanted. littl e dean knew what she to her own, to back her up. Together they were to create not a finishing school, all-a mere rib from not another of the then popul ar normal schools, not-above liberal arts college sound a wanted They lake. the across Adam the of side the for women. And that is what they created.

Frills and foibles changed. So, even, did college mores. Ribbon-bow hairdo's ga ve way to bee hives, high buttoned shoes to spike heeled pumps. As for gym A boy no longer waits six months before formally asking permission costume-!!! to call a girl by her first name. A chaperone isn't needed for an afternoon at the movies .

Yet the final impression left by the first half-century of Westhampton history is not one of change. It is one of constancy. With her foundations laid deep in the bedrock of the classics, her walls rising high as Empire State to an observatory from which one may envision the needs of a modern world, Westhampton has remained true to the Keller-Boatwright tradition. She is still-and will continue to be-a sound liberal arts college for women.

SOCIETY

OF ALUMNI

L. PHILPOTT. '41 ··-·····-------- -----Vice JR., '38 JOHN B . BOATWRIGHT, ENDERS DICKINSON, III, '46 ...... Vice '34 ........ .. Vice VICTOR H . CHALTAIN, SPENCER D. ALBRIGHT, III, '54 ..........

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Westhampton,Wondrous Mother True

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President President President Pres ident Secretary

COMMITTEE

R . W. Nuckols, Richard C. Walden,

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL WILLIAM T. BAREFORD,'46 ................. .

ALFRED J. DICKINSON, '37 ........ Vice G. FRED CooK, '25 ........... ........... V ice JOSEPH E. N ETTL ES, '25 .... ........ Vice '43 .... .. .. .. ........ .... ..... ...

CECIL F . JONES,

President President President President Treasurer

COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE John J . Wicker, '13 Ralph P. Moore, ' 38 Howard P . Falls, '3 3 Carle E. Davis, '54

COLLEGE WESTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION

ALUMNAE

STALLARD , ' 2 8 .. Pre si dent FRAN CES ANDERSON VIRGINIA LESUEUR CARTER, '53 .. Vice Pres ident Mail all contributions and news items to Mrs .

Secretary , WestR . E . Booker, Executive P. hampton Coll ege, Alumnae Association, 0 ., University of Richmond, Virginia .

Mary Mills Fr eeman, '35 } Board of Trustees '19 Elizabeth Tompkins, '26 Harriet S. Willingham,

LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Jesse W . Dillon, '32 ............ .............. ....

E. Ralph James , '24 .................. Vice Virginia Ivey, '48 .............. Executive Carle E . Davis, •54 .... ...... ......... ...........

President President Secretary Treasurer

DIRECTORS Howard P. Anderson, '48 Willard J. Moody, '52 Joe T. Mizell, Jr., '27 Kenneth I. Devore, '5 5 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 .................. ........ President Ted R. Buckner, '55 .................. Vice President Bruce A. Carlton, '55 ...... ...... ........... ... Treaeurer Fred B. Bisger, '54 ........................ ...... Secretary Theodore F. Adams, Jr ., '52 Immediate Past President

SCHOOL

That Congressman's Congressman

J. VAUGHANGARY A Profile by ANDREW H. McCUTCHEON

was coming and the ConC HRISTMAS gress was trying to close shop for

Virginia's Third District Representative in Congress will end 20 years of service in the House at the close of the 68th Congress. At the top he leaves the Capitol for his office in the House Office B-uilding. At the bottom he chats with the late President Kennedy at the White House (1962). And (lower right) as a member of Richmond College's crack relay team of 1911. Left to right, Richard W. Taylor, A. Russell Meredith, Gary, and Richard W. Vaughan.

the holidays-and for 1963. It wasn't going to be easy. President Lyndon B. Johnson had asked for the foreign aid appropriation in his stocking and it was obvious in Washington that the Republicans in the House of Representatives weren't going to climb down the White House chimney for anyone-not even for the man thrust into the free world's seat of power by the tragic assassination the month before of John F. Kennedy.

Members of Congress were sneaking away from the Capitol in droves (not knowing, of course, that they would soon be ordered back for important votes). But still on the job-and very much involved-was the man who has served Virginia's Third District capably and conscientiously in the House for the last 20 years, University of Richmond alumnus J. Vaughan Gary, '12 .

Goodness knows, Gary wanted to get away. He had already abandoned all plans for any Christmas shopping, but he still had a trip to Florida on the calendar and a family in Richmond wanting to know when they could leave. The date of departure had to remain indefinite . Representative Gary had a date with leadership in the House and it had to be kept.

As a Member of Congress whose experience in the foreign assistance field dates back to the beginning of the program, Gary was representing the House in conferences with the Senate to settle the differences in the appropriation bills passed by each body.

On the Friday before Christmas he conferred for twelve hours on the bill. A report was finally made to the House and it was debated all night without progress. Adjournment came at 5 :45 a.m . Members of Gary's staff had remained at his side to assist in the preparation of his weekly radio talk to his constituents. Gary returned to his office for this work and the telephone rang at 6 a.m. A committee clerk reported that another conference with the Senate was scheduled at 9: 30 a.m.-only three and a half hours later.

"Get me a blanket," said the Third Distr_ict Congressman, who cancelled a trip to his hotel for a cat nap on his couch. At 8 a.m. he was up again. His first stop was the gymnasium for a steam bath and a shower; then to the cafeteria for breakfast.

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From there he went to the radio studio to tape the speech he had polished up at dawn . Then to conference - and back to the House floor at noon . That Saturday session enG::d at 6: 19 p.m .- again without final action. He caught a train to Richmond on Saturday night, got his family off to Florida Sunday morning and returned to Washington that afternoon . Monday: another conference and more debate . On Tuesday Christmas eve- the House convened at the unprecedented hour of 7 a.m. Less than two hours later the House had completed its part in the longest Congressional session in peacetime history, resolving the key dispute in the foreign aid appropriations fight with an agreement reached in the conference committee on which Gary served .

It wasn't exactly what the Virginia Representative wanted; few decisions by the Congress suit an individual member in every respect. In this case the House - and Gary - had voted against the extension of government credit in the sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. The Senate had refused to prohibit such financing. An agreement was reached which barred such credit without the express approval of the President.

At 9: 30 that morning Congressman Gary finally boarded a jet to join his family in Florida. He knew that some of his constituents would not like the agreement , but he also knew that compromises have to be reached if the Congress is to operate effectively.

And those who saw him off for Florida that Christmas Eve at National Airport knew that in those five hectic closing days of the session he had demonstrated the sterling qualities that the Third District , the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation will lose in a legislator when the pre sent Congress ends .

Here was a man of 71 matching steps with Representatives half his age . . . con( Continued on page 4)

Return To Westha1npton Across the luminous air we still may see By chance, perhaps, just how the sunlight falls In shining arcs upon a distant tree.

And ivy clinging fast upon the walls, And lemon lilies blown upon our view Remind us that in other vanished springs Such loveliness as this has flowered, too; And many years have passed . .. and many things.

Along these winding roads the deepening blue Of dusk still softly stains the purple night; And year by year the dogwood trees renew Their innocent blossoming of bridal white.

Pale lyric moons have scattered on these skies Their fragile silver down time's lonely length; And winds have whispered melancholy sighs, And storms have raged with terrifying strength Aroun these buildings and about these walks; Whil echoes of lost laughter he e and there, Where o hers have engaged in friendly talks, Stil inger hauntingly. upon 1he air.

- Here e on~e learned the history of Rome , Delved deep into philoso 'phy's rich store, Reado] Aeneas wandering from home, And analyzed Poe's tragic "Nevermore."

We probed the secrets of a foreign tongue, And traced the distance to the Pleiailes, Found Juliet forever fair and young, And pondered Newton's theory-but these Are not our only heritage.

We prize The opalescent lake we used to know; A campus golden under autumn skies, Or dazzling in a crystal fall of snow/ White Grecian columns, stately, and austere; A dream of Gothic beauty on the hill . ...

Oh, something more than knowledge we found here,A richness that exalts the spirit still.

The gates of learning opened wide, and more: For here we unlatched Beauty's sacred door.

-Margaret

Carpenter, '38

THEIRLIGHTEVERSHINES Dttring Westhampton's first decade, a small band of yo11ng fac11lty members arrived to ignite the spark. Throttgh the years they stayed to keep vigil, ever nourishing the flame to make it burn with increasing brilliance. Some of them have gone to more eternal labors, some have retired to contintte scholarly purs11its. Now, at this halfcentury milestone, alumnae pause to salute them. Their light will forever shine at Westhampton and our lives will forever glow with its reflection.

May Lansfield Keller

Fanny G. Crenshaw

Susan Madelaine Lough

1914-1946

1914-1955

1915-1948

How high?"

a celestial reunion

From one basketball to one swimming poal; from 40 girls to hundreds; from baggy bloomers and black stockings to tank suits; from climbing trees to accredited majors in P.E. ! It's long-distance mileage for one career, but it's the true story of Fanny G ., AU American. She started with a part-time program suitable for young ladies, i.e., long hikes and genteel soccer on the lawn of North Court. She never hung up her whistle until she had sprinted over the victory line leaving in her wake a physical education program unrivaled in academic distinction and facilities. Nor did she confine the contest to the sports arena. Many who appeared reluctantly, left, not only with athletic skills, but also with lifetime assets of sportsmanship and self-discipline learned through association. "Jump," she said. "How high?", we asked. Encouraged, we reached, and suddenly, in disbelief, we found we could be champions!

"Chaotic and catastrophic," she would say. The classroom wails blurred and we were with the Little Corporal at Waterloo or standing by a monk at Worms. Entranced by the mysterious magic of her Scotch-Irish brogue (imported from her native Dublin) and bewitched by a conviction that our distinguished "don" had been an eyewitness to all of time, we contracted her enthusiasm to seize upon history and life with delight.

As a scholar and world traveler, she was the friend of famous statesmen; as a civic worker, she was tireless; as a compassionate counselor, she wiped away homesick tears while entertaining us with waffle suppers and tea parties. And so the legend has credulity: that somewhere in celestial mists, Miss Lough is eagerly planning an alumnae reception . . . just to keep in touch.

scholarship, starch and spice . . .

What is Dean Keller made of? Scholarship, starch and spice. From that first day in 1914 when the mule-drawn bus labored up the steep slope bearing young ladies to be educated, she made it quite clear that the purpose of the venture was academic excellence. Two world wars, depressions, and atom bombs did not deter the dynamic pioneer as she marched on through the decades. Applying reason mixed with vinegar, and determination fired with vision, she never faltered until her goal was achieved -Westhampton, a college dedicated to sound scholarship. Her diminutive stature disguised a Titan- ,like ability to unravel Shakespeare, decipher Anglo-Saxon, untangle administrative maze, and still have time to walk the dog. On the campus, one building bears her name; around the globe, several thousand women bear the priceless imprint of the "little Dean high on a hill."

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she made puppets into people and people into poets who soared the confines of earth to reach the stratosphere . The standard assignment- "rewrite and correlate" - encompassed a challenge to survey (in the original) the vast scope from Sanskrit to the present moment. We meditated in the "Mahabharata ," tarried at Canterbury, suffered with Prometheus, envisioned with Whitman, intoned with Sandburg, and arrived breathless, somewhere beyond in an unchartered wild~rness, to discover self. Miss Lutz' tireless energy vaulted with ease from the lower depths of the studio to the turrets of the Tower , while her dedication was ceaselessly s-t-r-e-t-c-hi-n-g young minds to seek beauty in the written word . . . the rhythm of its music, the vibrancy of its color, the sanctity of its truth.

Isabel Harris 1922-1948

Venus on sabbatical .

reach for the stars Whether it was the "x" in an equation, the bright star in the firmament, or the solution to a personal problem , she guided her sh1dents in the search with precision and patience. Disciplinary tactics applied under her tutelage for higher math have proven equally effective strate~y in the_ s~ien~e of rearing children. During a d1st111gu1shed teachincr career that spanned 45 years and broughf her international recognition, she never lost sight of the individual pupil. An intrepid voyager herself in the quest for the unknown, she always had time to beckon onward - to reach out her hand and help us scale the heights and reach for the stars.

Like Venus on sabbatical from Olympus, she came in the early dawn of Westhampton to open mundane eyes to beauty. Through the years it became apparent that she was an ambassador of more than one deity; she was a classical composite. As secretary to the dean and as registrar , she rivaled Hermes in efficiency; at the Deanery, she presided like Hestia; in the Latin or Art classroom, she towered like Athena. And to articulate her appre ciation of the perfe ction in th_e creations of God and man, she record ed 1t on film to share with others. Unaware and asleep, young women came to learn. With gentle grace and serenity, Miss Turnbull roused us, lur ed us, until we too were awake to beaut y.

J. Vaughan

Gary

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Maude Howlett Woodfin 1920-1948 . . . to seek the truth

Caroline Stookey Lutz 1917-1959 If

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By same alchemy of lavender and wisdom,

In her search for the truth she journeyed far, uncovering facts, unlocking closed minds.

As a student in the class of 1916, she sought truth. As a scholar and the first alumna to receive the honorary LLD degree, she was recognized for it. As a distinguished Colonial researcher , she probed for the facts behind the legends to reveal it. As a person who defended the principle of right, she lived it. "If when you leave college," she said, "you are the same person you were when you came, there is no point in coming ." She unloosed. the ch~ins ?f pettiness, prejudice, and deceit, for 111Miss Woodfin we found the meaning of the Biblical injunction: "The truth shall make you free ." [ 4J

£erring with a clear head and great wisdom despite the loss of considerable sleep . .. a man who attracted the ultimate in loyalty from his staff . . . a leader in a body where the weak fall early and the unwise are filed and forgotten by their colleagues . . . but a man unaffected by Potomac Fever; he returns to his home in Richmond every weekend and reports to his constituents every Saturday by radio and through the press.

On February 29 of this year, that manthat "Congressman's Congressman, " as ~ajority Leader Carl Albert has descnbed him- announced he would not seek reelection to the House. Aft er 38 years of public service he said _he would return _to the practice of law. His law firm, he said, had beckoned and he would respond because of the death last year of his friend and partner, Oscar L. Shewmake.

Letters are still pouring into his Washington office. Many say "run again." Others recognize the rest he has earned. All reflect the mixed emotions of friends, admirers and even political adversaries who regret his de(Continued

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SENTIMENT AL JOURNEY 50 years of memories In The Beginning Frieda Dietz, '16 Secret organizations forbidden to women.

T.A.S. secret society revealed after flourishing on aid campus. (Talliaferro Admiration Society.) Members watched Boyd in athletic practice. Baseball knocked him unconscious; one girl swooned; others wept hysterically. ( 51 years before the Beatles.) Football heroes entertained with hot chocolate and eclairs served atop Egyptian mummy. . . .

Parties ran short of lemonade; citric acid swiped from lab ... Jack Johnson coached pleated-bloomered basketbaill teams by men's rules; Smither, Tanner and Dietz put out of every game for roughness but had to stay in- no substitutes-. . . Lee Liggon had 21st birthday party; a rich guest had an open car, men and girls piled in, 3-deep on laps, raced whooping and singing all over Church Hill. (Half-century before "hot-rndders .") ... WESTHAMPTON: "Who's afraid of" May L. Ke1ler? Huh I Dean Dr. Keller was scared of us. Witness foHowing: Halloween masquerade, 1914. Astonished faculty chaperones saw masqueraders disappear up dark srtairs of unfinished tower. Romantic? Each girl had two men. Sounds not for chaperones.

Returning via kitchen, blaze of light revealed a Soph's man wildly embracing a Senior.

Group had to pu!l hair-puhlers apart. Soph never spoke to Senior again. Someone played piano. All danced. (Dancing strictly forbidden.) One couple tangoed, man threw girl dramatically in air. Faculty turned to stone.

Greek prof flunked girl: "Brains in her feet!" (Long before Ann Landers.) . . .

Celeste Anderson (O'Flaherty), president of Student Gov't. couldn 't suggest her own bright idea, put Frieda Dietz up to it. April 1, 1915: Professors gasped at empty classrooms. Dorm girls had rendezvoused with city girls at Cary St. Road, the latter ladened with picnic lunches enjoyed at river bank.

Return at 4:30 p.m., met by photographer from Times-Dispatch. Men furious that we outsmarted them . .. . April, 1916: 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death . Whole city invaded campus. London Bridge houses built on both sides of lake bridge. Every collegian active in costume. Emily Gardner, an unforgettable "Puck" in a superb outdoor "Midsummer Night's Dream." ...

"Black Moriah," drawn by mule team, met us at streetcar to pull us "frails" up hill. Car ran off track daily; mules mired in mud ...

"Twelfth Night," Senior class of 1915, magnificent in red Elizabethan costumes, banqueting. One, Louise Reams (Hundley) first M.A . Dubbed "Sup" because of supervisory

pos1t10n. Name still clings, denoting "Superior." . . . In 1916, Junior Oass of '15 held first May Day, enacting self-written drama, "Ceres and Persephone." Ka,thleen Bland (Cottle) with glorious long hair was Persephone. Men heard girl ask in library for picture of Mercury's costume. Twenty men sneaked view of play. . . . First proposal at Westhampton: Ministerial s,tudent asked, "Will you?" "Yes." Kiss applauded from bakony over Blue Room ...

Norma Woodward (Throckmorton) , first Muse of Poetry . . . Mary Porter (Rankin) and Mary Clay (Camp) beautiful in "As You First Tower class rings Like It" ...

Fanny Crenshaw, slender young coach Dr. Lough "winning friends" ... Remembering: Five-foot-one and under, Dr. Metcalf, Napoleon, Dean Keller-all born to greatness. Dean Keller going to battle with Dr. Boatwright and trustees for "us girls," put to heavy trial but coming out with our admiration and life-long devotion . Dr. Metcalf's secret smile (he had spirit-contact with the literary dead) , his twirling "nose-pinchers," his different, elegant suit daily . Unless you had a class under our most famous "Metty" or "Bobby" (Dr. Stewart) you lost social status. Dr. Stewart proved that French and German were made for jokes, his classes hilarious. Dr. Loving knowing everybody's name, their love affairs, and shouting them through the street car. Dr. Gaines' wonderful understanding that women didn't need higher math, and through they went, even the hopeless . These stand among the PILLARS of our past. What did we get out of wllege? Precious, priceless friendships that have endured beyond naming the wives of Henry VIII, and a high sense of loyalties to Westhampton and to one another.

The Twenties Mildred Anderson Williams, '28 Last of the innocents , these blessed demoiselles, damp little moths just emerging from cocoons, not quite brave enough to fly. Outside the fabulous twenties roared by: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Woolcott, John Held, Jr., Dorothy Parker, College Humour and Katherine Brush. Inside, the Collegian, the Messenger, the Web, a Writers' club so prolific we filled pages with stories and poems by nom-de-plumes when we tired of our own by-lines. Golden Nineties . . .

Platinum Twenties, we called ourselves . . .

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formulae on blackboards . . . Miss Beggs, like the prow of a Viking Ship, sailing down Roselawn Road to be towed uphill in an old Franklin named Eloise that carry seven and Miss Beggs . . Miss Brown who pronounced every word as if it had two syllables, who taught us to say, over and over, "I am a Prin-cess" until we almost believed it ourselves ....

The classes: Latin I where we sat alphabetically but daily listened to a roll call-a rush through three Andersons and into pash1re with Butterfield, Churn and Cudd while we tittered like silly milkmaids ... 19th Century Poetry in Miss Landrum's study with its thick, blue rug and casement windows, or under a tree when Spring vied with Wordsworth in a poem of her own ... Writing Composition in the Tower where we sat on a window seat facing Miss Lutz and a Victorian desk with Ming yellow insides ... Archeology, a must for Latin majors, where we memorized the pictures of sculpture of the ancient world that lined the walls and knew them shll by heart years later when we saw them in the Louvre and the British Museum. . . . Those cold May Days when we danced in Dogwood Dell, risking pneumonia in rainbow chiffon . . . Original one-act plays, the first ever, on the stage of the Red Cross Building, our relic from World War I that served as Chapel , Playhouse and Gym . ..

Ah, Gym. . . . when we donned our blue bloomers and long , black stockings, our middy blouses and our ratty ties and swung from the parallel bars or climbed the moth eaten leather steed that Fanny G. called The Horse . . . The pyrotechnic display of the Science Hall burning, its chemicals exploding and flinging out golden blobs that stained the sky with fireworks . That empty crater beside the Power House where the pathetic Botany professor whose Ph.D . thesis had gone up in smoke, was found poking around the ruins to find a lost paragraph. Science thereafter on the balcony of the gray building overlooking the lake , a building that had belonged to the era when the campus was an Amusement Park at the end of the new street car line . ...

Ten minute dates on week nights . . . Dances in fraternity houses just off campus, with curfew at midnight for Westhampton girls who were rushed up the Hill in one batch, together with chaperone ... The Twenties when we loved Westhampton's traditions, her songs and made up those of our own. The Twenties that ended with a bang of the stock market crash that startled all demoiselles from their golden bars of heaven.

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1. Up and Over. Fanny G 's girls practice the high jump on the old hockey field . In the background is the old Red Cross building which served as gymnasium and auditorium.

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2. To Honor the Bard of Avon . Hundreds of townsfolk joined with the University family in observing the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare 's death. The facade of a typical English village was erected near the eastern end of the Lake.

3. Inseparable Companions with the Inevitable Dogs . Dean May L. Keller (right) with Miss Pauline Turnbull who came to Westhampton as secretary to the dean and remained to become regis-trar and a member of the faculty.

4. The Senior Class of 1923 assembles North Court Garden .

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The Thirties Rhea Talley Stewart, '35

Olympic sprints from lab to Tower in eight minutes, uphill all the way ... Sunday, December 7, 1941, when yesterday's goals became obsolete ... boys leaving and returning in 90 days with braid and bars .. . those who never returned . . . the lean years when Thomas Hall welcomed women . . . married women on campus . . . patriotism : knee-length skirts, short formals, victory gardens, plane spotting, knitting, walking, writing letters, waiting . . . the way our little world trembled in the eerie light of a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima . . . learning to live in a new age ... the postwar boom of ex GI's with families . .. honors tapping and still suspense . . . a street car named rock and roll that never failed to arrive in time for an eight-thirty . . . breakfast uniform: trench coats . . . formal dinner aUire: black velvet coat and saddles . . . the lingering scent of pine needles . . . Playhouse Combo : heroic histrionics, hissing radiators, and torrid typewriters battling a deadline . . . Greek tragedy : a frigid, unseasonable May . . .

Omega and Alpha: motor boards checkered across a blue sky; academic gowns winding in serpentine procession over the bridge, up the crest of the slope, through the massive Gothic doors and into the Chapel.

Baggy red gym bloomers flopping to the cadence of Miss Crenshaw' s counting . . .

Miss Keller's hairdo , later to be adopted

by Audrey Hepburn ... The girls in clusters sneaking glances at the boys in clusters during convocation . . . the stirring measures of "God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand, " and the trumpet chords following . . . the long, hard pull up the hill and the temptation to accept a ride from an m-a-n . . . the cameraderie of Rat Alley . . . the day the banks didn't open . . . the Depression . . . the commencement speech in which the President told us to go into the world and plant Virginia creeper . . . our delight in ritual, and the relish with which a phrase like "academic procession" rolled off our tongues . . . Miss Lutz' quarters which looked like an advertisement for Medaglia d'oro coffee ... the night we went to hear Edna St. Vincent Millay and came back talking about the way she asked for a drink of water . . . the Garbo cult . . . May baskets . . . the cruel wood of the dining-room door, when tucking your pajama tops into your skirt, you pushed on it one second too late for breakfast . . . the astringency of Miss Wright, like a scythe cutting through underbrush The Fifties . . . Miss Ross' wryness . . . the lights Virginia LeSueur Carter, '53 through Gothic windows seen from a distance . . . the impressive formality of the Mid-century: change amid tradition .

Blue Room . . . the little nods with which midnight sirens and the Play House burns Miss Lough greeted all comers, and the way . . . a war in far-off Korea reaches to she pronounced "rise" as if it were a Chinese UR ... Westhampton in the spring: azaleas, food staple . .. the woebegone Venus de dogwood, love . . . note cards plus typeMilo in a corridor, looking cold without any writer plus midnight lights in the Tower clothes . .. rehearsals for the song contest, Room equal term paper . .. a new Student with the best singer in the class waving time Center, and the Slop Shop becomes the Dry like a willow tree . . . the long dresses and Dock . . . short shorts grow to Bermudas picture hats for the garden party . . . Miss . . . the demise of the Daisy Chain . . .

Turnbull's grace .. . the Dogs of the Dean- Rat Day, a terror before, a laugh afterward ery ... peanut squares and chocolate pepper- . .. new light on learning: the Boatwright mint patties eaten together . . . the con- Liibrary opens . . . doing the shag in a stant amazement that Dr. Pinchbeck, with long white dress at the Junior Prom . . . those manners, came from Amelia County welcome Law School .. . knitting argyle . . . a solemn march across the lake with socks during convocation ... the Messenger lanterns . . . the visit of Gertrude Stein, a goes literary . . . lectures, lectures, leotures stern Buddha, and our wondering how she . . . the long bus ride to town . . . twinkling compared us with the personages in her life lanterns, singing freshmen and magic to May . . . the minstrel shows and "Roll a Day ... bridge in the day students' lounge Silver Dollar" which was No. 1 song for a at Keller Hall . . . enter the language lab month . . . our confidence that we would . .. exit the trek to Bosher's Dam on the all become famous .

AA picnic . . . big name bands for dance weekends . . . learning to love learning, sometimes too late . . . rat cap to Mortar The Forties Board, always too soon.

Mary Grace Scherer Taylor, '42 Icing white dresses and youthful faces tipped with candlelight following the gleam . . . red tunics careening with the autumn leaves and the keen crack of hockey sticks . . . earthworms and formaldehyde . . . the midwinter snow of 1940 that momentarily delayed the day of reckoning . . . the library with its monastic caverns and arches where, unexpected and unannounced, a new concept arrived to remain even yet ...

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cision but want to pay tribute to the service he has rendered his country.

Editorial praise has been equally high.

Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He has shown both ability and industry and has earned the high respect of his congressional [ 7

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colleagues." Said the Newport News Daily Press: "For Gary, the record spoke, and it spoke volumes . . . (his) footsteps are big indeed." Said the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot: "Well done, Mr . Gary. Very well done. " It was at the University of Richmond that Congressman Gary, a star trackman and struggling math student, got his political start. He lost his first election-on the charge that he operated a political machine . He hasn 't had a machine since (if he had one then) nor has he lost another election.

Just the highlights of his career must awe the aspirants for his office: school and Sunday School teacher . . . ten years as counsel and executive assistant to the Virginia State tax board . . . eight years in the General Assembly . . . President of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce and the Richmond Bar Association . . . member of the board of trustees of the University of Richmond and Fork Union Military Academy ... ninth-ranking member of the committee on appropriations in the United States House of Representatives . . . chairman of the Treasury-Post Office subcommittee and a respected Congressional authority on both departments (Robert McNeill, in his new book on the House, Forie of Democracy , refers to a statement by Woodrow Wilson that "the leaders of the House are the chairmen of the standing committees." In this select group of experts McNeil] lists Vaughan Gary of Virginia.)

Congressman Gary was patron of the appropriation bills that financed the Marshall Plan-the aid program generally credited with saving Western Europe from Communism after World War II. He drew the praise of former Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy for his support of their foreign policy and has been called on for advice

by President Johnson .

As one vitally interested in government economy he also likes to point to his successful effort in cutting mail service in residential areas to one delivery a day. " It has saved $100 million a year," he says, "and in the last 10 years that adds up to $1 billion . That has at least covered my salary."

A loyal Democrat and a political moderate, he has drawn fire from both liberals and conservatives in his District. But he has commanded respect from both sides for his dedication and the depth of his convictions.

In his last election Republican campaigners portrayed him as a conservative Byrd Democrat to the liberals and a Kennedy liberal to the conservatives. Gary never wavered from this tortuous middle. He refused advice to criticize either Byrd or Ken nedy, both of whom he admired as men of character and integrity.

Congressman Mike Kirwan of Ohio , chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in the House, summed up his character best in evaluating Gary to an inquiring constituent: " If he would demagogue just a little bit he would win every election (Continued on page 13)

T INON CAMPUS FASTESBRA

by RANDOLPH H. WALKER, '60

A stocky, cigar-smoking professor has the key to a room on the third floor of the School home of of Business Administration-the a mechanical genius whose influence is reaching almost every phase of University life.

The keeper of the key is Professor Robert T . Partain, whose teaching duties include the care and feeding of a new 1620 IBM computer obtained by the University in a gian t stride toward keeping abreast of the newest methods of research and efficiency in today's atomic age.

The $150,000 computer, acquired by the University at a 60 per cent discount, is a whirring, purring electrical marvel that, said Partain, "will not only perform administrative chores in a fraction of the time now used, but will make its greatest contribution in the fields of research."

And the explanation of this statement was unfold ed in an interview that began in his office two floors below the chatter and . clatter of a very busy machine.

Professor Partain stuck a lighted match to the stub of a cigar and wheeled around in his swivel chair to pluck a stack of IBM material off the window sill. "In the fields of physics and chemistry, for instance," he said, "scholars are faced with complicated mathematical formulas which require extensive computatio n. It has been tremendously time-consuming. But this computer can do one million computations in 20 seconds," he said. "To illustrate its potential another way, it can compute the square root of 1,000 ten digit numbers in less than one minute. It would take about a week to do it with pencil and paper, as a conservative guess," he said.

"Computers don't have brains," he said.

"But this computer, like all others, is more than a jet-age addition of the old crankhandled adding machine. It can add, subtract, divide and multiply by the use of electronic impulses, and it does more than that. It can scan data electronically and make decisions based on instruction given it by humans ."

Partain speaks with authority on the subject of electronic computing. While teaching at Texas College of Arts and Industries he was commanding officer of the Naval Electronics Reserve Unit, and was trained in the field of electrical data processing. He took a three-year leave of absence from the Texas college in 1955 to head a production and control department for Celanese Corporation of America, which used a computer to solve production control problems . He joined the University of Richmond in July of 1963.

Partain outlined some of the achievements

in the use of computers. The University of Pittsburgh has a project underway in which a computer is used to retrieve pertinent legal information. "Their computer is a little more complicated than ours because it can use magnetic tapes," he said, "but this illustrates what can be done with computers ." All the statutes of the state of Pennsylvania were coded and fed into the machine, and a battery of lawyers were invited to search the statutes by hand for certain specific information relevant to a given case. "The computer found 18 relevant statutes and the lawyers found none," said Partain .

"Computers are being used to tabulate information on post-operative patients in hospitals," he said. Sensors are placed on or under the skin of a patient and attached to the computer. "The computer receives information through the sensors and provides doctors and nurses with the condition of the patient - including blood pressure, temperature and respiration," he said.

He reached across the desk to a bookcase and fished out an inch-thick manuel. "And in here," he said tapping on the cover, "are more than 6,000 programs already developed by persons using IBM computers, and they are made available to us. The programs range from a tic-tac-toe game to

a program to plot the contours of constant response for a quadratic regression function.

So we not only benefit by our own experience, but we can take advantage of everyone's experience with computers."

Partain discussed some of the jobs done by the computer since it was installed at the University in February. Books in the library of the School of Business Administration are being catalogued. Questionnaires of a self-study program the University is doing are being tabulated and totaled. Dr. Emanuel Last, director of the Executive Development Program, is planning a computer program called the "Decision-maker," by which he can test executive decisions.

The School of Business will register its students and record grades and class rolls on the computer. "This alone will save two do it in 30 months secretarial work-and minutes total running time," said Partain .

He pointed out, however, that the Business School was stealing no march on Richmond College. "They've been using a computer downtown to do this work since 1961.

Soon they will switch over to this one."

As he talked he led the way up the steps to the 20' x 16' room which houses the computer. On two sides of the room are green "blackboards," both chalked with (Continued

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The man in fron ,t of " The Brain " is Robert T. Partain who rides herd on the computer on the third Aoor of the School of Business Administration building.

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Salesmenfor Universityof Richmond

by THOMAS N. POLLARD JR., '53 Director of Admissions} Richmond College

More than 200 outstanding University of Richmond alumni in every village and town in Virginia have joined hands in a unique selling venture.

They are telling the story of Richmond College to the finest crop of prospective freshmen that ever made an admissions Director drool. I know because my office processed the papers, and I sat with the admissions committee during the many hours spent in separating the academic wheat from the chaff.

Unfortunately, the fact that a student applies for admission and is accepted for admission doesn't mean that he'll be enrolled in next fall's freshman class at Richmond College. The probability is that he has been accepted also by Virginia, or William and Mary, or Virginia Tech, or Hampden-Sydney or Princeton. The average high school senior seeking admission to college applies to at least three colleges.

When all the replies are in, then the stu-

dent makes up his mind . That's the point at which the alumni committeemen-in virtually every county and city in Virginiahelp in guiding his decision.

The very day that the applicant is notified that he is acceptable for admission to Richmond College, an automatic "go" signal is released to the alumni admissions committeeman in the student's home town. Armed with a bundle of pertinent information and a portfolio of the applicant's personal data, he pays a visit to the student in his home.

Here he discusses, with some bias, all of the advantages of going to Richmond College. After his interview he files a report with the Admissions Office.

A typical reaction to this hard sell campaign - the only one of its kind in Virginia -was the statement made by a parent in the dean's office the other day: "We had the nicest thing happen to us last week. An alumnus of your school had heard that our son had been accepted by your college. He

Super-Salesman Dr. Robert F. Caverlee, visits in the home of Randolph Skinner Jr. to tell him and his parents about the University. Soon ofter the visit, Ronny sent his room deposit and will be a member of the freshman class in September . Dr. Coverlee, pastor emeritus of the Fredericksburg Baptist Church, is a member of the University's board of trustees .

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Writing the Report. Charles R. Revere, '61, who used to do a good job for the Spiders on the mound, is equally as effective as a U of R representative in Middlesex County.

wanted to come by and tell us about Richmond."

"We thought, " she continued, "that if this is the type of person that comes from the University of Richmond we certainly want our son there in September."

The reactions , of course, are not all one way. An alumnus wrote : "The boy wants to come to Richmond, but his mother (who did all the talking) wants him to go to William and Mary ." Several days later we received his reply form .. . "going to William and Mary."

The Alumni Office in setting up the committees in cooperation with the Admissions Office, sought to have a sufficient number of committeemen in each locality so that each man would be required to call on no more than six or eight candidates. There was surprise and gratification when one member wrote: "Send me more names ; it's fun to talk with such great boys about Richmond. " The biggest work load is on the back of the Northern Virginia committee. It seems that almost every eligible high school senior in Northern Virginia wants to enroll in Richmond College. Finally, Glenn Grimme!, 'SO, committee chairman, had to send an S.O.S. The response to his plea for reinforcements was almost instanteous . Within a period of three days, his committee had been increased from the original 12 to 23.

The situation is now well in hand .

Most of the committees were set up by

ALUMNI DAY-

MAY 9

Alumni Day Chairman Jimmy Robinson, '49, is not being figurative when he suggests that the old grads "get in the swim " on May 9.

Alumni not only will have an opportunity to visit the new Westhampton pooJ but those who wish to go swimming may do so. "Transportation will be provided from the registration area, " says Jim, adding "be sure to bring your own suit. " The program follows a familiar format, including classroom visitation, a luncheon at which the portrait of Dr. Woodford B. Hackley, for many years professor of Latin , will be unveiled.

The varied morning program, in addition to registration, will include classroom visitation, music by the band and quartet on the Student Center Lawn and the opportunity to go sight-seeing -- and swimming . . The luncheon will be followed by a baseball game with William and Mary's Indians , a barbecue at the end of the game with alumni having a choice of beef, chicken, or pork and finally the Pops Concert in Cannon Chapel by the Glee Club.

Many alumni will come early to participate in Friday night's class reunions .

Director of Adm;ssions Thomas N. Pollard Jr . interviews a prospective freshman.

correspondence, although the committees in the population centers were brought together at meetings arranged by the Alumni Office and attended by the Alumni Secretary and the Director of Admissions . Without exception the response was more than willing . It was enth11siasti c.

Many of the committeemen have given of themselves far beyond the call of duty and some have insisted on brin ging the boy to the campus. An alumnus who was a first class pit cher for Mac Pitt"s baseball team, also has demonstrated that he is a first class salesman for the University in Middlesex County. One of his report cards is typical of the great many received which say in effect,

Mission Accomplished : "John is SOLD. He has written other schools to which he has been accepted and informed them of his decision to attend the U . of R. I plan to bring him up and show him around the campus one Saturday in the near future."

From Prince William County : "This young man has been visited in his home and wi ll be enrolling in the University in the fall. I am coming to the campus next Thursday if weather permits and will bring him along with me . . . . He is very interested in applying for a scholarship ."

Information about scholarships and assurances that the applicant will not have to room in "one of those barracks" are among the matters most often discussed in corre-

Men at Work. Thoughtfully and prayerfully the Admissions Committee examines the credentials of every candidate . Left to right around the table are Admissions Director Pollard, Dean Edward F. Overton, '31, of the Summer School, Dean of Students C. J. Gray, '33, Dean Robert F. Smart of Richmond College and Robert J. Filer, '43, associate professor of psychology.

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spondence from the committeemen . Reluctantly , we are forced to say to late applicants that the only available room on campus is in the temporary dormitories. (Despite the fact that three dormitories have been completed in the last seven years, the need for mor e on-campus housing is still of grave importance . At least one new dormitory is on the agenda for the near future . Meanwhile the University continues to house 139 male students in the barracks.)

Some of those visited play it coy, declining to make an immediate decision . It is with those that the committeeman frequently makes a follow-up visit or a phone call.

This note is typical: "Talked with Bob about U . of R. and congratulated him upon his acceptance by the School. He had numerous questions about life on the campus and we reassured him with our answers. Advised him to attend Summer School for his Math . Recommended that he enter the R.O .T.C. program . He's thinking about the Citadel also but, I hope , not too seriously ."

Still another : "He is planning to attend Richmond. He was accepted at •- - - College but turned it down. A fine student, he is student government president this year." .. Of course, w.e didn't. land _ all 0£ them.

Some of the biggest ones got away. But there can be no question of the fact that the alumni committees in the first year of their existence have more than demonstrated their worth. They unquestionably are responsible for the enrollment of many of the young men in next fall's freshman class and further they have won for the University friends untold . They have made what heretofore has been a necessarily formal admissions process, a real, personal thing. The long arm of the Admissions Committee extends into every Virginia community!

The full impact of the committees ' work can not yet be evaluated but I am telling the faculty that this fall's freshman class definitely will be the best ever to enroll m Richmond College.

Spiders Get Good Pitching As

BaseballTeam Starts Fast In Conference Coach Mac Pitt's Universi.ty of Richmond baseball team posted only a .500 mark through its first six games. However, the Spiders were right where they wanted to be in the Southern Conference chase- two victories in as many starts against conference opposition .

The loop triumphs came over The Citadel, 3-2, at Charleston and George Washington University, 9-1, at Millhiser Field . Bob Philyaw, the slender junior righthander who posted five wins as a sophomore , was the victor in both contes,ts.

The Spiders, who had been a battin g slump in the eaulier games, pounded George

Carl Bolt Joins Football Steff Carl Bolt, backfield coach at Emory and Henry College for the past three years, has joined Coach Ed Merrick 's football staff.

A native of Dublin, Va., BoLt played college football at Washington and Lee University and the University of Southern Mississippi. He was an assistant coach at Richmond 's Thomas Jefferson High before joining the E&H staff.

Coach Merri ck said he thought the offseason Spring drills were basically successful. The Spiders employed strictly offensive and defensive units in their final intra-squad scrimmage, but Merrick hasn't made up his mind whether he'll two platoon or use units which play both ways and a few defensive specialists when Fall rolls around .

Offensive units scored five touchdowns against defensive uni-ts in the windup. Halfback Kenny Stoudt romped four yards around right end for one score, Halfback Warren Hayes connected with End Bruce Soderstrom on a 42-yard scoring pass, Halfback Pete Britton tallied from the two-yard marker, Halfback Norris Aldridge scored from the two following a pass from Quarterback Ronnie Smi.th to Stoudt which covered 67 yards and Smith passed 11 yards to Britton for a TD .

Washington pitching for 10 hits, four of them for extra bases. In the sixth inning Richmond batted around and scored six runs to assure the victory.

Philyaw , who struck out nine and walked only one, allowed the Colonials only five h~ts. He was in complete command until the ninth inning when George Washington scored its lone marker on a triple by Tim HiJ:l and Philyaw 's wild pitch.

Spider pitching has been superb. The staff, composed of Philyaw , Evan (Topper) Davis, Lefty John Snyder and Bill Smiley, had given up only eight earned runs in 50 innings for a brilliant 1.44 earned run average. Philyaw had twirled 28 innings , striking out 21 and walking only seven.

He had a 1.26 ERA .

John Telepo, the All-Southern basketball player who was playing his first game in right field after nursing an injury , got the Spiders off to a good start in the first inning of the game with the Colonials. He rapped a single to right following walks to Second Baseman Richie Sharff and Third Baseman Al McNamee to score the sophomore second sacker. Don Douglas , the Spiders' catcher and co-captain with McNamee batted in First Baseman Dick Thompson, who had walked and stolen second, with a single in the second inning .

Sophomore Center Fielder Randy Hash , son of former Spider and major league pitcher Herb Hash , singled t o left to score Left Fielder Peter Britton, who had walked and stolen second, with another marker in the fifth inning.

The Spiders banged out five hits, includ-

Stolen Base. Pete Britton dives into second ahead of the throw to Harvard Second B.aseman Skip Falcone .

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ing a triple by Douglas , doubles by Sharff and McNamee and singles by Philyaw and Hash, during the big sixth inning . Aided by a walk and a pair of George Washington miscues, Richmond tallied six runs .

A walk, error , fielder's choice and Philyaw's sacrifice enabled the Spiders, who collected only five hi,ts, to score ,the winning run in the sixth inning against The Citadel.

Sophomore Shortstop Craig (Dut ch) H alblieb, who ,leads the Spiders at the plate through the firs,t six games of the season with a .357 stick mark, collected two of the five hits off the Bulldogs' Bill Machorek and John Zito. Philyaw allowed The Citadel only five hits, striking out s,ix and walking three.

The Spiders opened their season by splitting a doubleheader with Lafayette College. \X'ith H alblieb, Sharff and Davis contributing two hits each, Richmond won the opener , 7-1, by banging out nine hits . Davis, who hurled the first five innin gs and was the victor, and Snyder limited the losers to six hits. Starter Smiley, the loser, and Philyaw pitched the nightcap and allowed only six hits. However, the Spiders could get but one hit , a double by Douglas , off two Lafayette hurlers and bowed, 2-1.

Harvard won a pair of pitching duds from Richmond, 2-1 and 2-0. Hash 's home run accounted for the lone Richmond run in the opener as the Crimson pushed across a run in the ninth off Davis. Each team collected eight hits. Paul Del Rossi, Har vard's great southpaw, hurled a two-hitter and struck out 15 in the nightcap.

The '64 AlumniForum Perhaps no dates on the Alumni calendar are more eagerly awaited than those of the Faculty-Alumni Forum which each year buings to the campus men and women of taile11Jt in the arts and sciences, in politics and world affairs.

Since their beginning a decade ago, the programs have been varied and of exceptional high quality. Alumni, faculty members and others have given generously of their time and talent. Perhaps n.o series has been more successful nor more appreciated than the 1964 programs which brought to the University a widely-known newspaperman, an NBC correspondent, the author of a highly praised book ( all graduates of the University) and closed with an exceptionally welldone presentation of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" by the University Players.

Alumni and other friends of the University were vocal in their praise of the programs as ,they left Dennis Auditorium. There were good audiences despite the fact that for three of the programs the elements conspired against the committee on arrangements.

Mixing whimsey with straight-from-theshoulder criticism of Virginia's laxness in improving public educational faciJities, Guy Friddell, '46, editorial page editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, launched the series with a clinical discussion of "The State of the State of Virginia."

Three weeks later Paul Duke, '47, former

Associated Press and later Wall Street reporter before joi11Jing the staff of NBC in Washington, discussed national politics, even venturing the prediction that Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania would cop the GOP presidential nomination. His address, which brought many chuckles as well as applause, was entitled "Periscoping the Potomac."

Just a week later, Margaret Rudd, '29, who traveled 2,300 miles down the coast of Chile, collecting material for a book about the Nobel prize winning poet, Gabriela Mistral, captivated her audience as she spoke on the subject, "From the Valley of Elqui to Punta Arenas." The lecture was illustrated with colorful slides. Miss Rudd, who won critical acclaim for her first biography, "The Lone Heretic," gave ample evidence that she has the material for another book in hand as well as the ability to weave it into an attractive story of the life of Chile's famed poet.

AJton Williams' superb direction was much in evidence as The University Players gave a distinguished performance of Dylan Thomas' difficult, although at times rollicking, "play for voices"-"Under Milk Wood."

Alumni who were not privileged to attend the programs are given only morsels of the substantial fare in the excerpts which follow.

The State of the State of Virginia

By Guy Friddell, '46

Snow in Richmond or a hurricane scare in Norfolk can mean the day's loss of $10,000 in State aid. Imagine having to figure a budget on the barometer.

Ask any ,teacher the part of her job that she despises, and she'll say, "The register."

A good part of her time has to be spent in keeping records of students who aren't present instead of teaching those who are.

(I speak from experience. Gin [Mrs. F.riddeill) used to teach, and she carried on so much about that infernail register that at last I told her: "Listen, Gin, if you're going to let this upset you so much, you'll just have to stop teaching and get another job. I can't stand the excitement.")

The Assembly made some modest increases for public schools, but we're still behind North Carolina. The under-developed minds of Virginia's boys and girls are our greatest loss.

We talk eloquently of what we're going to do for public education in Virginia, and we talk at such length that in time we get the impression we have done it.

The General Assembly did not accept the two Leagues' good advice, but next time, perhaps it will. In Virginia you have to take the long view. After all, it has not yet been 200 years since we had Thomas Jefferson.

The most promising occurrence in the 1964 Virginia General Assembly was the joint appearance of the Leagues of Virginia Counties and Ci.ties in an unusual plea to the Legislature.

Long ago, a sage said that "one day the lion will lie down with the lamb." Everybody ran off to write that down and didn't hear him add: "But the counties and cities of Virginia will never agree on anything."

But this time they found a common cause: public education. "We come arm in arm before you," said young Clarence Hicks of the County League. "We are concerned that education is not what it should be. We are talking here about $100 million needed to improve it."

Among other things, the two Leagues urged that state aid to localities be figured on average daily membership instead of average daily attendance.

Under the present system, every time the barometer goes down ( or maybe it's up -I can't keep the two straight) school attendance rises or falls and so does money from the State, but the basic costs continue at the same level.

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Periscoping the Potomac With Paul Duke, '47 . . Harry Byrd is undergoing something of a metamorphosis. If there was ever a man who didn't care for Washington's social hi-jinks, it was supposed to be the senior SenaJtor. But the Byrd name is suddenly showing up in the society columns, of all places. The other day one of the more perceptive social snoopers reported the Senator had gone to four parties in two weeks and had been dancing for the first time in 10 years. According to the report, the Senator whirled Ladybird around the White House floor and even did the foxtrot with Mrs. Hubert Humphrey-leading to speculation that Mr. Byrd might be veering leftward and looking more kindly on Mr. Humphrey as a vice presidential nominee.

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While [he J can count on more first round ballots than anyone else, party leaders have discovered all that glitters is not Goldwater -indeed, there is now a widespread feeling that Mr. Goldwater won't make it at San Francisco. ... Governor Scranton may be the choice. .. He doesn't have the liabilities of other possibilibies and is a fresh, attractive face.

The urbane, moderate Scranton is the kind of noncontroversial candida,te that all of the various wings of the Republican party might rally around. Unlike Romney, Scranton has handled his legislature with considerable skill and is highly regarded by party leaders.

While a liberal on civil rights, he would not be anathema to the South like Rockefeller.

And he is conservative enough on fiscal policy to be acceptable to Goldwater backers. . .. Some Republicans see in Bill Scranton a Republican John Kennedy-a youthful, energetic man who has the same political sophistication, toughness and confidence-who has the same zest and ability for the rough and tumble of a national campaigning-who would inspire the GOP as no other candidate ....

It's interesting ... that some of the charges that were hurled at Kennedy are directed at Mr. Scranton - that he is cold-blooded, doesn't have any basic convictions and is unqualified to be President. It's my personal feeling that Governor Scranton would make the strongest candidate-and if elected perhaps give the Republican party its most progressive front since Teddy Roosevelt's days.

But beating Lyndon Johnson will be no easy matter for Mr. Scranton or anyone else.

In fact, if the President's high popularity holds up, he should win an easy victory in November.

From the Valley of Elqui to Punta Arenas With Margaret Rudd, '29 is Chile's famed Elqui Valley not very accessible. A tiny, narrow gauge railroad runs by fits and starts reaching only a few of i,ts countless remote villages, and it never reaches the head of the valley that comes to a point at the village of the Pisco Elqui. From there, only precipitous Andean footpaths disappear over the mountains to lead down into Argentina.

The Elqui is one of six or more rivers that flow from the Andes bordering on Argentina to the Pacific Ocean across this semi-tropical seq:ion of Chile, commonly called "the Little North." This "Little North" lies between the province of Santiago in Central Chile, and the hot desert pampa expanse that borders on Bolivia and Peru and is called "the Big North."

I had made the trip through the valley by car, complete wi,th a chauffeur who was the 21-year-old son of my Hungarian companion. [His J name was Gabriel and his use of the horn would shame the very archangel himself. .. . Gabriel and I, accompanied by Laura, a sculptor from Santiago, left La Serena in the early forenoon. By nightfall we reached As we approached the town of Vicuna .... it over the long low-swung bridge I looked back at the moon shadows cast by overhanging crags and floaiting clouds remembering the lines written by the poet who was born ,there: "And we who live in this valley know not whether we be men or stones." . . . The next day . . . around noon we crossed a high, narrow bridge [leading to J the poet's beloved Monte Grande . . . the place I had come almost half-way around the world to see! Looking toward us and down the valley was a sculptured face. It looked small but Laura said it was taller than she was. The hair swept back from a broad, high forehead, sunken eyes under heavy brows, a prominent nose curved slightly over a mouth that drooped downward to one side. Other sculptured figures of the poet I had seen were done in white stone, this in a reddish sort of terra cotta, was somehow more appropriaite; it seemed to have weathered many storms. We stopped and I photographed the sculptor looking up at the work of her hands. . . . At the far end of the village up the steep mountainside was a single grave at the foot of a large white stone. Around it were some carefully tended bright blooming flowers. As I climbed the steep steps leading to it I heard the sound of digging and saw dirt being thrown up from a surrounding ditch. A lone man, the caretaker, explained that a newly ordered mausoleum was being erected. The poet had wanted it plain like this, but for Chile's Nobel Prize winner it must be otherwise. As I looked down on the miserable little village I marvelled at the miracle. One might well

question, "Could anything good come out of Monte Grande?" Then I read the inscription on the tombstone: "The artist does for his people what the soul does for the body."

Under Milk Wood "Under Milk Wood" is a dramatic reading which can be best termed experimental. The play requires 79 speaking parts, little action, and a minimum of scenery. Chairs and two speaker's stands are the only props. The production has been termed "a play of voices."

The play deals with life in a small Welsh village. lit is a series of character sketches that attempt to capture the basic emotions of life. It is done with a sense of humor that never neglects to point out true value. Running through the play are themes of love, death, sadness, loneliness, and hate; all are portrayed with the beautiful wild lyrics so characteristic of Thomas.

It handled the concept of time with breath-taking gentleness. Captain Cat, a retired and lonely sea captain, is visited by the spirits of long dead crewmen. One is the spirit of Dancing Williams who says in a wave of nostalgia that he lost his step at Nantucket. The lonely Captain is also confronted with visitations of happiness with old sweethearts, a happiness he let slip through his fingers. Now old and almost forgotten by life as one of the villagers says, "Look I Captain Cat is crying."

Thomas, with love and understanding, tells the story of Polly Garter, a young girl so in love with the dead Wee Willie that she forgets the past only by having one lover after the other.

There is the moving love story of Mifanny Price and her shopkeeper boyfriend , Mog Edwards; the beautiful pleas of the Rev. Eli Jenkins for God to look favorably on Milkwood, the gossip of ,the villagers, the toil of the weary, and the story of birth and death.

"Listen," says the narrator, "time passes."

"Prof" Williams demonstrates again his uncanny ability to get the best out of student casts. Ten actors read the numerous parts , each playing five or more roles. There were only four experienced actors in the production, ,with the other six appearing on stage for the first time. This inexperience did not hurt the play but added a refreshing quality of realism.

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by 40,000 votes," said Kirwan. "But he won't do it."

All Gary did was win-13 times while serving 10 terms in the House.

What now? Late this year Congressman Gary will be coming home for good. He'll miss his colleagues in Washington and, certainly, the paddle ball games in the House gym, where he daily makes believers out of brash young Congressmen not long out of college.

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His public service may be at an end-but don't bet on it. When he left the General Assembly of Virginia in 1934, he was returning to private life for good. Then Congress called. People will be calling again on this dedicated disciple of service and chances are he will answer. If he has a weakness at all, it has been his inability to say no to anyone in need.

LETTERS Dear Sfr: As you see, I am beginning in the customary fashion of a " Letter to the Editor," which is precisely what this is. I have never seen a section devoted to such letters in the Alumni Bulletin, but I am wondering if there may be a place for them in the future .

Thank you and Dr. Wheeler for his article, "financing a University," in the winter issue.

His review of the investment program of the University of Richmond was interesting and informative ....

Dr. Wheeler's article raised certain questions in my mind, however, as an alumna of limited financial means. I wonder if there is not an additional and important role which interested alumni can assume, as well as that of giving money. Some of us have ideas about the University and its continuing development which may never be expressed or even adequately formulated simply because there is no forum where these ideas can be expressed.

Is there a place for the expression of Alumni opinion and ideas (critical and commendatory) in a ''Letters to the Editor " column in the Alumni Bulletin? Such a column could, I hope, lead to an exchange of opinions on a wide range of topics, some growing out of articles in the " Bulletin, " others growing out of special interests and ideas of the alumni themselves. . . . believe that any fruitful ideas alumni may hove about the University 's development are going to depend to a large extent on the degree to which they are informed about the University at the present time, in terms of specific academic and intellectual interests as well as in terms of annual budget, and statistical enrollment, the development of the physical plant ....

As on alumna, moreover, I om well aware by alumni encountered of the difficulties themselves if they are interested in keeping up with their fields of specialization and related areas of interest. The program of lectures given this academic year at the UniRichmond, the Faculty-Alumni of versity lectures as we ll as the Thomas and Boatwright to lectures, offers a splendid opportunity alumnae and alumni in the Richmond area to hear outstanding authorities in the fields represented. It hos occurred to me that in connection with the celebration of Westhampton (Continued on page 20)

1911Elmer W. Sydnor is recovering from a heart attack at his home in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

1916K. Brooke Anderson, of Cambridge, Mass., has been appointed secretary for development of the Student Christian Movement in New England. He was secretary of the Brown Christian Association from 1928 to 1957, and New England Regional Executive of World University Service from 1960 to 1962.

1921Randolph W. Nuckols of Richmond was the 1964 general chairman of the city's Heart Fund drive, which had its best year with more than $51,000 in contributions.

1924Rev. W. Randolph Keefe, Jr., of Cumberland, Md., celebrated his 30th anniversary on January 27 as pastor of Grace Baptist Church in that city. Mr. Keefe, a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary, served seven and a half years at Reistertown and Forrest Churches in Baltimore before coming to Cumberland in January of 1934.

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LAW GRADS, FORMER DEAN, PUBLISH JURY INSTRUCTION BOOK TULSA BANK PROMOTES BROACH Falkner C. Broach, '25, has been promoted to vice president of the board and chairman of the executive committee of the National Bank of Tulsa.

He had previously served as executive vice president.

Broach has served 36 years with the Oklahoma Bank, beginning his career there after receiving a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1927. He was elected a vice president in 1937.

1929W. B. Rawlings, vice president of Carter Brothers, Inc., in Richmond, has been elected a director of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

1930John B. Siegel, Jr., senior the Life Insurance Company been elected a director of the ber of Commerce.

James Dailey is recovering at his home in Hamilton, N.

vice president of of Virginia, has Richmond Chamfrom an illness C.

1932S. Cecil Childress, an insurance executive, has been appointed to the County school board. Childress, who Highland Springs near Richmond, is and the father of two daughters.

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1934Dr. Edward

Judge M. Ray Doubles, '26, Emanuel Emroch, '28, and Robert R. Merhige, Jr., '42, have collaborated on a book, "Virginia Jury Instruction," released in January.

Judge Doubles presides over Richmond's Hustings Court, Part II, and Emroch and Merhige are Richmond attorneys.

The authors examined approximately 2,000 cases that have been before the State Supreme Court to arrive at the 658 instructions in the book. The idea of the book developed, about six years ago, Judge Doubles said. "I became very much concerned that instruction to juries was taking up too much time because of bickering over technical words, and because of objections from one side or another." He was particularly con-

cerned with time-consuming automobile damage suits which occupy about 80 per cent of his civil docket.

Judge Doubles prepared about 60 instructions for use in automobile cases with the assistance of some of the lawyers in Richmond and began using them in his court.

A publishing company heard about them and asked him if he would put the instructions in book form, but not limiting it to automobile damage suits.

That's when attorneys Emroch and Merhige came on the scene, and the book was published with their collaboration.

Judge Doubles was dean of the T. C. Williams School of Law from 1930 to 1947, and Emroch and Herhige were his students.

Richmond and a former state senator, has announced his candidacy for Congress from the Third District in Virginia on the Democratic ticket.

U. S. Navy to become administrative assistant to the dean of the medical school of the University of Virginia.

1936Anthony S. Smerda has moved from Attleboro, Mass. to Gastonia, N. C. William D. Butler has been promoted to second vice president at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Butler was formerly assistant vice president. He joined the Virginia company in 1934 as a clerk in the mortgage and real estate division, was promoted to inspector in 1946, assistant secretary in 1958, and assistant vice president in 1960.

1937Dr. M. Parker Givens, professor of physical optics at the University of Rochester, addressed the Physics Club of Richmond in February.

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1940Dr. David D. Dexter of Hampstead, N. Y., has been elected president of the Nassau County Physicians Guild for the 1964 term.

Enders Dickenson, III, has been electet a director of the Central Richmond Association, a civic group. Dickenson is president of Plywood and Plastics, Inc. in Richmond.

1941Charles J. Ferneyhough, Jr., has been elected vice president and manager of sales for B. W. Wilson Paper Company, a Richmond firm.

1942Thomas E. Warriner, Jr., has moved from Lawrenceville, Va. to Cocoa Beach, Fla., where he is studying for the Florida Bar examination.

Rev. Thomas 0. Herndon has moved to

Halifax County, Va., where he is pastor of the Aaron's Creek Baptist Church .

1943Warren M. Pace has been promoted to executive vice president of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and elected a director of State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts, a Richmond bank.

Rev. Arthur P. Roach, formerly pastor of Colonial Avenue Methodist Church in Norfolk , is now minister of Highland Park Methodist Church in Richmond.

Cecil F. Jones, assistant treasur er of the University of Richmond, has been named to the Henrico County school board.

Lawrence L. Tapscott, formerly a financial analyst with Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., has joined the Roanoke, Va. law firm of Honeyman and Lutins . Tapscott received his law degree from Blackstone School of Law in 1953.

1944C. F. Gindhart, Jr. has moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Yorktown, Va. Dr . and Mrs . 0. William Rhodenhiser have announced the birth of a daughter, Nancy Anne, in Tanuarv. Dr. Rhodenhiser is chairman of

William Judson Newell has moved from Little Rock, Arkansas to Henderson, Ky. Walter G . Pearson has moved from Raleigh, N . C. to South Hill, Va .

Reverend William L. Hales has accepted a call as pastor of Pocahontas Bassett Church in Bassett, Va. He served Hulls Memorial Church at Falmouth for 13 years prior to his acceptance of the Bassett charge.

Cleve! T. Eubank has joined the staff of Andrews , Burkett and Company in Richmond.

Lee Northey is now in Springfield, Ill. as a general insurance broker .

1950James F. Duckhardt of Richmond has been named to the newly crrnted position of executive director of the Virginia Building Materials Association. He was employed as a sales representative for Ross Iron Works and Air Master Corporation before assuming his new position March 1.

Dr . Frederick H. Savage of Richmond has been elected president of the Richmond Academy of General Practice.

Rudolph G . Hetzer, Jr ., formerly with Owens, Minor and Bodeker, Inc. of Richmond, has been named vice president of the Dr. T. C. Smith Drug Company in Asheville, N . C. He h,;,c hPPn ..:a m.:>mh.Pr nf ThP f-::arn'1-u nf -th,:,. TTni-

COSBY TO REPRESENTSACS ON EVALUATION COMMITTEE Dr. Joseph H . Cosby, '29, president of Hargrave Military Academy, has been appointed to the executive committee of the National Study of Secondary School Evaluation.

Dr. Cosby will represent the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . on the committee. The National Study edits and publishes information by which the high schools and other secondary schools of the nation are evaluated and accredited .

Dr. Cosby also serves on the Policies and Functions Committee representing the Secondary Commission of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Dr. Cosby received his M .A. at the University of Virginia in 1937 and a Th .B. from the Southern Baptist Seminary . He has been president of Hargrave since 1951.

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red lay Jre 15 red the George Washrngton ttonor Meaa1, was delivered to the Wesleymen's Bible class. Bonney is superintendent of Tidewater Academy and a teacher at Epworth Methodist Church.

Dr. R. Lewis Wright of Boston, Mass. has opened an office for the practice of neurological surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston .

John A. Hamilton, formerly associate editor of the Lynchburg News, has been appointed associate editor of the Norfolk Ledger-Star. He has also served as associate editor of the Richmond News Leader, and is the holder of a number of state and national journalism honors.

Nathan S. Caplan has been appointed assistant professor in the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Illinois. He was formerly an assistant program director in group dynamics at the University of Michigan .

Elwood L. Coates, C.L.U., has been appointed manager for the Peoples Life Insurance Company in Wheeling, W . Va .

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treasurer and for Standard a director of in Richmond.

1948A. P. Gates has been appointed executive vice president of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. He was the subject of a feature article in a January issue of the Richmond News Leader.

Gates had served as vice president in charge of the company 's agricultural minerals division since May, 1960.

1949Donald W . Calder, Jr. has been elected as assistant cashier of First and Merchants Na tional Bank. He has been with the bank in Richmond since 1949.

D. B. Morri ssett of Richmond has been named executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of Computer Systems, Inc ., of Richmond . He formerly was director of marketing of the International Business Machines World Trade Corporation's European operation.

1952J . Patrick Graybeal, Christiansburg, Va. attorney, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve .

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Franklin S. Edmonds has accepted a position with the Valentine Pulp and Paper Company of Lockport, La. Edmonds formerly was associated with Union Bag-Camp Corporation in Franklin, Va. Earl Northern, a Richmond realtor, has announced his candidacy for the Richmond area seat in Congress on the Democratic ticket .

H. Clyde Pearson of Roanoke, Va . has been appointed southern regional director of the Rockefeller-for-President national campaign committee . Pearson was the Republican candidate for governor in the 1961 elections .

1953Joseph S. Spivey, Jr . has taken a pos1t1on in the accounting department of the Binswanger Company in Richmond.

Harold M . Goldston of Richmond has been appointed assistant controller at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia .

John S. Lynch has been appointed director of sales for the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Va .

Charles F. Wiltshire of Richmond has received a John Hay Fellowship for 1964-65.

Wiltshire, a French teacher at Richmond's John

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ELECT ABBITT CHAIRMAN Congressman Watkins M . Abbitt, '31 , of Virginia's Fourth District, has been elected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee.

He was unopposed for the election to the chairman 's position after Thomas H .

Blanton of Bowling Green, th e former chairman submitted his resignation, Blanton has been chairman of the committee for 12 years.

State Senator Garland Gray , '21 , of Waverly, Va., nominated Abbitt, who has been a member of Congress for 16 years. Committeemen for all 10 Virginia districts seconded the Abbitt nomination .

1911Elmer W. Sydnor is recovering from a heart attack at his home in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

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Anderson, of Cambridge, Mass., has been appointed secretary for development of the Student Christian Movement in New England. He was secretary of the Brown Christian Association from 1928 to 1957, and New England Regional Executive of World University Service from 1960 to 1962.

1921Randolph W. Nuckols of Richmond was the 1964 general chairman of the city's Heart Fund drive, which had its best year with more than $51,000 in contributions.

1924Rev. W. Randolph Keefe, Jr., of Cumberland, Md., celebrated his 30th anniversary on January 27 as pastor of Grace Baptist Church in that city. Mr. Keefe, a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary, served seven and a half years at Reistertown and Forrest Churches in Baltimore before coming to Cumberland in January of 1934.

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He had previously served as executive vice president.

Broach has served 36 years with the Oklahoma Bank, beginning his career there after receiving a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1927. He was elected a vice president in 1937.

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James Dailey is recovering at his home in Hamilton, N.

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1936Anthony S. Smerda has moved from Attleboro, Mass. to Gastonia, N. C. William D. Butler has been promoted to second vice president at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Butler was formerly assistant vice president. He joined the Virginia company in 1934 as a clerk in the mortgage and real estate division, was promoted to inspector in 1946, assistant secretary in 1958, and assistant vice president in 1960.

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Commander Stuart Allen has retired from the

U. S. Navy to become administrative assistant to the dean of the medical school of the University of Virginia.

1940Dr. David D. Dexter of Hampstead, N. Y., has been elected president of the Nassau County Physicians Guild for the 1964 term.

Enders Dickenson, III, has been electet a director of the Central Richmond Association, a civic group. Dickenson is president of Plywood and Plastics, Inc. in Richmond.

1941Charles J. Ferneyhough, Jr., has been elected vice president and manager of sales for B. W. Wilson Paper Company, a Richmond firm.

1942Thomas E. Warriner, Jr., has moved from Lawrenceville, Va. to Cocoa Beach, Fla., where he is studying for the Florida Bar examination.

Rev. Thomas 0. Herndon has moved to

Halifax County, Va., where he is pastor of the Aaron's Creek Baptist Church .

1943Warren M. Pace has been promoted to executive vice president of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and elected a director of State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts, a Richmond bank.

Rev. Arthur P . Roach, formerly pastor of Colonial Avenue Methodist Church in Norfolk, is now minister of Highland Park Methodist Church in Richmond.

Cecil F. Jones, assistant treasurer of the University of Richmond, has been named to the Henrico County school board.

Lawrence L. Tapscott, formerly a financial analyst with Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., has joined the Roanoke, Va. law firm of Honeyman and Lutins. Tapscott received his law degree from Blackstone School of Law in 1953.

1944C. F. Gindhart, Jr . has moved from Montgomery, Ala ., to Yorktown, Va .

Dr . and Mrs. 0. William Rhodenhiser have announced the birth of a daughter, Nancy Anne, in January . Dr . Rhodenhiser is chairman of the department of Bible and religion at the University of Richmond.

1946Dr. Louis D . Rubin, Jr., chairman of the department of English at Hollins College, has been awarded a fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies for 1964-65 to undertake a critical study of the form of the novel. The $6,000 fellowship will be used by Dr . Rubin next year, when he will be on sabbatical leave from Hollins. He will spend the year in Italy and France.

1947Charles D. Dickerson, Jr. has moved from Richmond to Crew, Va. Thomas P. Bryan of Richmond has been elected president of the Central Richmond Association. Bryan is a partner in the legal firm of McGuire, Woods, King, Gordon and Davis.

He served for thrEe terms as a city councilman.

D. Walton Mallory, Jr ., president of D. W. Mallory and Company, has been elected president of the Retail Merchants Association of Richmond. D . W . Mallory and Co. is a coal and fuel oil firm founded by his grandfather at the turn of the century.

Gilbert M. Rosenthal, assistant treasurer and general merchandise manager for Standard Drug Co., Inc., has been elected a director of the Southern Bank and Trust Co . in Richmond.

1948A . P . Gates has been appointed executive vice president of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. He was the subject of a feature article in a January issue of the Richmond News Leader.

Gates had served as vice president in charge of the company 's agricultural minerals division since May, 1960.

1949Donald W . Calder, Jr. has been elected as assistant cashier of First and Merchants National Bank. He has been with the bank in Richmond since 1949.

D . B. Morri ssett of Richmond has been named executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of Computer Systems, Inc., of Richmond. He formerly was director of marketing of the International Business Machines World Trade Corporation's European operation.

William Judson Newell has moved from Little Rock, Arkansas to Henderson, Ky .

Walter G. Pearson has moved from Raleigh, N. C. to South Hill, Va. Reverend William L. Hales has accepted a call as pastor of Pocahontas Bassett Church in Bassett, Va. He served Hulls Memorial Church at Falmouth for 13 years prior to his acceptance of the Bassett charge.

Cleve! T. Eubank has joined the staff of Andrews, Burkett and Company in Richmond.

Lee Northey is now in Springfield, Ill. as a general insurance broker.

1950James F. Duckhardt of Richmond has been named to the newly crrnted position of executive director of the Virginia Building Materials Association. He was employed as a sales representative for Ross Iron Works and Air Master Corporation before assuming his new position March 1.

Dr. Frederick H. Savage of Richmond has been elected president of the Richmond Academy of General Practice .

Rudolph G . Hetzer, Jr., formerly with Owens, Minor and Bodeker, Inc. of Richmond, has been named vice president of the Dr. T. C. Smith Drug Company in Asheville, N. C. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Richmond and the School of Pharmacy of the Medical College of Virginia.

Mr . and Mrs. James E. Powers have announced the birth of a son, Troy Winfield, on December 9, 1963.

Carl L. Shires, a political reporter for the Richmond News Leader, has won a citation and $50 award for "outstanding contributions" to the news content of the Richmond newspaper.

The award was given by the Richmond Newspapers Guild .

1951Joseph E. Brooks has been elected secretarytreasurer of the B. W . Wilson Paper Company, Inc. in Richmond.

James B . Bourne has been elected a member of the board of Central Richmond Association.

Albert D. Murden of Floral City, Fla. is enrolled in George Washington University as a full-time student for the second semester of this school year. He is a candidate for the Advanced Professional Certificate in the School of Education . He is on leave from his position as principal of the Floral City Elementary School.

Hal J. Bonney of Norfolk, Va. has received a Freedoms Foundation award for a Sunday School message he gave the Sunday before last July 4. The lesson, for which he received the George Washington Honor Medal, was delivered to the Wesleymen's Bible class. Bonney is superintendent of Tidewater Academy and a teacher at Epworth Methodist Church.

Dr. R. Lewis Wright of Boston, Mass . has opened an office for the practice of neurological surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

John A. Hamilton, formerly associate editor of the Lynchburg News, has been appointed associate editor of the Norfolk Ledger-Star. He has also served as associate editor of the Richmond News Leader , and is the holder of a number of state and national journalism honors.

Nathan S. Caplan has been appointed assistant professor in the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Illinois . He was formerly an assistant program director in group dynamics at the University of Michigan .

Elwood L. Coates, C.L.U., has been appointed manager for the Peoples Life Insurance Company in Wheeling, W. Va.

1952J . Patrick Graybeal, Christiansburg, Va. attorney, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve.

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COSBY TO REPRESENTSACS ON EVALUATION COMMITTEE Dr. Joseph H . Cosby, '29, president of Hargrave Military Academy, has been appointed to the executive committee of the National Study of Secondary School Evaluation .

Dr . Cosby will represent the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . on the committee . The National Study edits and publishes information by which the high schools and other secondary schools of the nation are evaluated and accredited .

Dr. Cosby also serves on the Policies and Functions Committee representing the Secondary Commission of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Dr. Cosby received his M .A . at the University of Virginia in 1937 and a Th .B. from the Southern Baptist Seminary. He has been president of Hargrave since 1951.

Franklin S. Edmonds has accepted a posmon with the Valentine Pulp and Paper Company of Lockport, La. Edmonds formerly was associated with Union Bag-Camp Corporation in Franklin, Va. Earl Northern, a Richmond realtor, has announced his candidacy for the Richmond area seat in Congress on the Democratic ticket.

H . Clyde Pearson of Roanoke, Va. has been appointed southern regional director of the Rockefeller-for-President national campaign committee. Pearson was the Republican candidate for governor in the 1961 elections .

1953Joseph S. Spivey, Jr. has taken a posltlon in the accounting department of the Binswanger Company in Richmond .

Harold M. Goldston of Richmond has been appointed assistant controller at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

John S. Lynch has been appointed director of sales for the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Va. Charles F. Wiltshire of Richmond has received a John Hay Fellowship for 1964-65 .

Wiltshire, a French teacher at Richmond 's John

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ELECT ABBITT CHAIRMAN Congressman Watkins M. Abbitt , ' 31, of Virginia 's Fourth District, has been elected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee.

He was unopposed for the election to the chairman's position after Thomas H. Blanton of Bowling Green, the former chairman submitted his resignation, Blanton has been chairman of the committee for 12 years.

State Senator Garland Gray, '21 , of Wav erly, Va ., nominated Abbitt, who has been a member of Congress for 16 years. Committeemen for all 10 Virginia districts seconded the Abbitt nomination .

nounced the birth of a son, Robert Quincy, on Dec. 9, 1963.

WAVERLY G. KING, SR. ON EUROPEAN TOUR Waverly G . K,ing, Sr., '16, is enjoying a three-month vacation in Europe, from which he will return in May. King is chairman of the boards of Rich-

1954William M. Phillips, a Richmond attorney, is now associated with the law firm of Seymour Horwitz.

Townes Carter Coates has been promoted to claim specialist in the Richmond office of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

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mond Motor Company, Automotive Rebuilders, Inc., and Richmond Pressed Metal Works, Inc. He recently turned the presidency of Richmond Motor Company over to his son, W . G. King, Jr., after having an active part in the firm since he joined it in 1916 as a salesman.

He later became general manager and took over the control of the dealership in 1940.

Under his leadership, the Ford dealership has grown to more than 130 employees.

Marshall High School, will receive an amount equal to one year's salary plus tuition and travel expenses for study in languages ~nd th~ hum'.1nities. He was one of 96 public semor high school teache rs in the nation to receive a John Hay Fellowship .

The engagement of John Samuel Lynch of Richmond to Miss Virginia Bard Gatling of Norfolk has been announced.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Nolting Rhodes have an-

MED SCHOOL APPOINTS HARDY ASSOCIATE DEAN Clyde T. Hardy, '38, has been appointed associate dean of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine , in Winston-Salem, N . C. His appointment was announced by Dr. Manson Meads, medical school dean. Hardy, who is also director of the department of clinics, will assume additional responsibilities for the coordination of the physical development program of the medical center.

A graduate of the Duke University School of Hospital Administration, Hardy has been a member of the medical school staff since 1942. He has played a major role in the development of the medical program conducted by the clinical faculty of the medical center.

The engagement of Reverend Park Price Dickerson of Griffinsburg, Va., to Miss Mary Norman Davis of Rappahannock County, has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

Captain Henry A. Shockley of the U. S. Army is now attending American University in Washington, D. C. He has completed a year of language study in California.

Rev. H. Fleet Powell, Jr. has moved from Lenoir, N. C. to Roanoke, Va. Captain Don L. Anderson of the U. S. Air Force has been awarded senior pilot wings at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Captain Anderson is an F-84 Thunderstreak jet fighter pilot in the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Holloman.

The engagement of Robert E. Short of Purdy, Va. to Miss Jeanne Temple Parrish of Richmond has been announced.

1956Rev. Allie W. Frazier, Jr., former rector of Wicomico Church, Va., has become associate rector of Christ Church in Savannah, Ga. The engagement of Robert E. Winckler of Richmond to Miss Harriett O'Keefe of Decatur, Ala., has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

Gene B. Hansley of Altavista, Va., has been named assistant director of Information services of Washington and Lee University. He formerly was religion editor and feature editor of the Lynchburg News. Previously, he worked three years as an advertising copywriter in the advertising department of the publishing agency of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. His work at Washington and Lee will involve him in general public relations, with emphasis on relations between the univers1ty and representatives of the press, radio, and television media.

Preston W . Doyle is now training director for the Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago.

Jr. of Capt . and Mrs. K. S. Vandergrift, Bryan, Texas, have announced the birth of a son, Daniel Robertson, in September. Capt.

Vandergrift is assistant professor of military science at Allen Academy in Bryan.

1957Sanuel B. Cutchins, Jr ., has been transferred from Edison, N. J., to Menlo Park, California by his firm, Johnson and Johnson. He expects to be on the west coast for a year.

The engagement of Dr. Harley M. Ellman of Richmond to Miss Marianne Sue Bernie of Dayton, Ohio, has been announced. A July weding is planned .

Alfred Roos of Forest Hills, N. Y., was married on February 7 to the former Miss Lois Coltellaro in New York City .

1958Ben F. Lewis, Jr. has moved to Raleigh, N. C. where he is supervisor of the Travelers Insurance Co. Group Department for Eastern Carolina.

Mr . and Mrs . George R. Hulcher of Charlotte, N. C. have announced the birth of a daughter, Laura Lea, on Nov. 19. Hulcher is an agent with the U. S. Secret Service.

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Robert H. Crowder, Jr., is now a property accountant with the City of Richmond.

Lloyd E. Brotzman, Jr., of Franklin, has been promoted to field salesman for Union BagCamp Paper Corporation covering Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio.

Hartwell T. Rainey, III of Richmond, has received the Memorial award given by the Richmond West End chapter of the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce. Rainey is an accountant for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. The award is presented by the Bank of Virginia for the chapter member whose service to the club is considered most meritorious . Rainey also was instrumental in Richmond's Stop Polio campaign which ended March l.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Scott of Charleston, W. Va. have announced the birth of a son, Brian Frederick on November 15. Scott was transferred recently to Charleston where he is field supervisor with the Travelers Insurance Co. Rev. Fred R. Skaggs has been called to the First Baptist Church in Atoka, Oklahoma .

William K. Phillips of Richmond has been promoted to assistant manager of Life Underwriting for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

1959Ray K. Weems is employed with the Community Federal Savings and Loan Association in Staunton, Va. Ralph C. Bethel, Jr. is in the production department of Philip Morris and Co. The engagement of Herbert C. Bickel of Charleston, W. Va. to Miss Patricia Ann Cooke of that city, has been announced . A June wedding is planned.

Dr. David E. Carmack has received a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and is a second-year law student at Columbia University. He has received a Rotary Fellowship for study abroad in the 1964-65 school year.

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Flemer, of Oswego , N . Y. have announced the birth of a son, David, Jr., on September 26, 1963. Dr . Flemer received a Ph.D . from Rutger's University in October .

1960John W . Savage, Jr. of White's Creek, Tenn., has been promoted to safety supervisor for DuPont.

J . Corson Spencer, Jr. has moved to Charlottesville, Va., where he is employed with the Pepsi-Cola Co . of central Virginia .

Francis L. Welstead of Charleston, W. Va., has returned to school at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Robert L. Meredith was ordained to the ministry on January 19 at the Webber Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond. Dr . Thomas 0.

Hall, Jr ., pastor of the church, presided for the ordination. Meredith received a B.D. degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C. Carl W. Johnson has been appointed internal auditor of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company .

1961The engagement of Robert B. Belk of Fredericksburg, Va. to Miss Ruth Juleen Peterson of Greenwood, S. C., has been announced.

The engagement of Edward Hodges of South Hill, Va., to Miss Dorothy Jean Brown of Pawtucket, R. I., has been announced.

The engagement of Perry A. Russ of Arlington, Va., to Miss Pamela Ann Koslow of Trenton, N. J., has been announced. Russ is attending graduate school at George Washington University.

George E. Kreidel of Kansas City has re-

ceived a B.D. degree from Midwestern Baptist Seminary.

James 0. Whelan, Jr. of Martinsville was nominated for the Jaycee Distinguished Service Award in that city. Whelan is general sales representative for Humble Oil and Refining Co. in there from having transferred Martinsville, Petersburg in 1962.

The engagement of Terrance M. Welborn of Richmond to Miss Betsy Rogers Jackson of Richmond has been announced. A May wedding is planned.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Langley, Jr. of Dayton, Ohio have announced the birth of twins, Pamela Lindon and Susan Louise, on December 18.

Charles S. Pierce of Martinsville has been assigned to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New York.

The engagement of Raoul Louis Weinstein of Newport News to Miss Susan Linda Salsburg of Richmond has been announced. An August wedding is planned.

Watson E. Mills has graduated from the Southern Baptist Seminary with a bachelor of divinity degree.

The engagement of David H. Taylor of Detroit to Miss Carol C. Eckman of Waynesboro, has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

Watson E. Mills of Louisville, Ky., received the bachelor of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in January . He is continuing his study there, working toward a doctorate, and serving as an instructor in New Testament Greek.

1962James H. Slaughter is now with Wyeth Laboratories, in Norfolk, Va. The engagement of Carl E. Woodard of Richmond to Miss Jean Carol Guthrie of Richmond has been announced. An April wedding is planned.

Gordon L. Eanes of Charlotte, N. C. has been awarded a Certified Public Accountant designation.

David L. Burke of Richmond has passed the Certified Public Accountant examinations in Virginia.

Second Lieutenant Wilton 0. Curtis of the U. S. Air Force has been reassigned from Keesler AFB, Mississippi, to Westover AFB, Mass.

At Keesler, he received training in the operation, maintenance and management of radio, communications and cryptographic teletype equipment and systems.

Dudley B. Currin has been awarded his Certified Public Accountant designation by the state of Virginia. Currin is a resident of Alexandria.

Benjamin Smith, Jr. of Sharps is serving in the U. S. Navy in the Panama Canal zone.

The engagement of Maurice Novick of Richmond to Miss Joan Shirley Gross of Richmond has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

Harold Carter Lewis was ordained into the Baptist ministry at Chatham Baptist Church January 26. He has been called to serve the Antioch Baptist Church in Roxboro, N. C. Second Lieutenant Orvin C. Jones, Jr. of Newport News has been awarded silver wings following graduation from U. S. A. F. navigator training school at James Conally AFB in Texas. Lt. Jones received instruction in radar and celestial navigation during the course, and has been reassigned to Mather AFB in California for advanced training.

1963C. Lee Ousley of Greenville, N. C. has been employed by the North Carolina State Department of Education as a counselor in vocational rehabilitation.

J. Dennis Booker is in training as an adjuster with Crawford and Company in Atlanta Geor~L

William

J. Wynne

is enrolled

.

at the Um-

MARCHANT, JOHNS-MANVILLE V-P, WINS FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AWARD A. B. Marchant, '39, vice president of Johns-Manville Products Corporation, has received the second annual achievement award of the Richmond Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.

Malcolm U. Pitt, '18, University of Richmond athletic director and Marchant' s former coach, made the presentation at the 18th annual Sportsmen's Club football banquet in January. The award is given to former athletes who have made a name for themselves in their chosen fields after leaving college.

Coach Pitt recalled that Marchant "threw the most vicious block I ever saw in City Stadium, in a game against VMJ. It stunned both players. It illustrates the type of competitor he was and is-he put all his heart and soul into whatever he did. And this same fierce competitive spirit," said Coach Pitt, "has enabled him to rise to the top in his field."

Marchant was captain of the 1938 football team, playing end with the outstanding ability that earned him rating on the Aili-State team. A diamond star as well, he often came from his post in the outfield to take a few h1rns at the mound as a pitcher .

As in football, he earned All-State honors in baseball. There is Ettie wonder at the name of the Athlete of the Year in the 1939 Web: A. B. Marchant.

Off the gridiron and diamond , Marchant was a leader, too. He was president of Kappa Sigma social fraternity in his senior year, and a member of the Interfraternity Council, Harlequin Club, Philologian Literary Society, treasurer of his sophomore class,

and a senator-at-large in the student government.

The sports star had an eye for beauty, too -the 1939 Web beauty, the former Miss Virginia Eubank Shuman. They were married in 1939, shortly before Marchant joined Johns-Manville at their Jarratt , Va., plant to begin an outstanding career.

In 1949 he became plant manager at Natchez, Mississippi . While there, he was on the board of directors of the Mississippi Manufacturers Associaition, and a member of the Natchez Country Club.

He was promoted and moved to W aukegan, Ill. in 195'6 to become manager of the Johns-Manville plant there . Currently, he is production manager of the building prod ucts division of the Johns-Manville Corporation and lives in Darien, Conn.

Mr. and Mrs . Marchant have three sons.

A. B., III; Franklin A.; and Denbeigh Lee. Home to this native Virginian is Urbanna, Va.

versity of Illinois working toward a Ph.D. in marketing.

James R. Bobb has been elected vice president of his class at the Medical College of Virginia School of Hospital Administration.

Walter D. Griffith was married February 1 to the former Miss Penelope Bainbridge Lewis of Charles City. Griffith is serving in the U. S. Army at Ft. Eustis.

Wayne J. Haskins is enrolled as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina.

The engagement of Coolidge A. Porterfield of Richmond to Miss Brenda Marie Shelton of Danville has been announced. Porterfield is attending Southeastern Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C. The engagement of Andrew G. Bachmann of Newport News to Miss Jane Claiborne Brumback of Richmond has been announced. Bachmann is attending graduate school at the University.

The engagement of Lt. Robert B. Belton, Jr., of Roanoke to Miss Joyce Carol Puster, of Richmond, has been announced. Lt. Belton is attending the U. S. Army security agency school at Ft. Devens, Mass. A June wedding is planned.

The engagement of Jeremiah A. Robertson of

Greensboro, N. C. to Miss Blanche Page Acree of Greensboro, has been announced . A June wedding is planned.

Robert W. Kinley of Summit, N. J . has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force. He is a graduate of officer training school at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas.

He has been reassigned to Chanute AFB in Illinois for training as an aircraft maintenance officer.

Milton C. Richards, Jr. has been commissioned Ensign in the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve after having completed 17 weeks of training in navigation, seamanship, and military sciences. He has been assigned to duty aboard the Coast Guard Cutter "Ariaden," at Key West, Fla. The engagement of Robert Davis Whitehurst of Richmond to Miss Sally Phelps Hall of Alexandria has been announced. An August wedding is scheduled .

Edward W. Wade, III, is on the sales training staff of Brown and Bigelow in Richmond.

John W. Vaughn, Jr. is with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Portsmouth.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Gott of Richmond have announced the birth of a son, Kevin Hamilton, on March 2.

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LETTERS BILLY COLE

(C ontinu ed from pag e 13)

College's 50th anniversary these lectures might be published and made available at a suitable price for interested alumni-outside of the Richmond area as well, by mail-order .

Such a book would be only incidentally a memento of the occasion; i,t could be an important addition to our knowledge, as students still.

Sincerely yours,

Rosie Allen Barker (571 (Mrs. John C. Barker) Ed: Mrs. Barker has started

some ,thing. The letters from alumni. Please try to hold them to 250 words, typewriter, double-spaced.

Alumni Bulletin will welcome

In the death of W. B. F. (Billy) Cole the University of Richmond lost one of their most devoted sons.

His was a radiant life. Like the Master he served , he went about doing good. No one will ever know how many persons benefited from his liberality; no one will ever know exactly how many boys and girls became college men and women with the financial backing of Billy Cole. Many of those men and women were at the graveside that cold February day when all that was mortal of Billy was committed to the soil of his beloved Fredericksburg. The community bemoaned the loss of a devoted citizen and rich and poor, exalted and humble the loss of a friend.

Billy and his brother John ( and there was

never a more devoted pair, kept bachelors ' hall for many years in Fredericksburg where Billy was Commonwealth's Attorney and Dr. John , city medical examiner. Saturdays were devoted to their favorite diversion - college sports ; Sundays to the work of the Fredericksburg Baptist Church . The pastor emeritus of this church , Billy's life-long friend and for many years his spiritual advisor, Dr. Robert F. Caverlee, '21 , spoke for everyone when he voiced his own appre ciation of Billy Cole's life and Christian faith .

As President of the Alumni Society, Billy Cole toured the Sta,te, in company with President Bo,atwright , speaking to alumni and other groups on behalf of the University. He gave liberally of his time, his talent - and his money- to the University he loved.

kept telling them I was sick," and also, "Spider Dead ."

It is the latter I want to tell you about. If anybody ever lived who was "Spider Born" and also "Spider Bred " it is nobody else but me. You may not believe this, but the truth is tho~ I was one of the diggers of the foundation of the Second Baptist Church, the Church with a Heart in the Heart of the City, at Adams and Franklin St.-iust one-half block east of the Jefferson Hotel where the little

al Iigators used to be.

Anyway, there's no doubt that Daddy used to be a ringer on the Spider baseball teams along about the twist of the century and that's why I say I was "Spider Born." As for being "Spider Bred, " I maintain that no other human being in the his~ory of the world has spent more time as an enrolled student on the campuses of Richmond College than I have -and in addition there was quite a bit of

Dear Sir: Our 40th reunion will be coming up in June and tha ·t means most of us in the class of '24 are more than 60 years old, and that means some of us already havve one foot in the grave.

With that in mind, I want to ask a favor of you: when my time comes to be taken back down where the James goes rolling by, I wish you would get in touch with my beloved next of kin and insi~t that the stone on my grave be marked as foll•ows, to wit: "I

The Wisdom of the Past "EVERY ONE

OF YOU THE LEADER."

( Conti nued on page 38 )

When

Xenophon spoke these words, more than 2,000 years ago, he appealed to that spirit of individual responsibility that made the Greek character and nation among the most admired in all history.

With that spirit , the army of Xenophon marched to a seemingly impossible victory. With that spirit, men and nations have marched to greatness since the world began.

Our own nation won its freedom and built its strength as a nation of leaders .

When we lose this spirit of indep endence, when we surrender our individual responsibilities to an expanding government, when we ignore the erosion of our personal liberties - then we sap our strength as a nation, and endanger the freedom of generations yet to come.

Let us accept the challenge of Xenophon. Let us ~ be leaders.

~

Xenophon to his army Greek Amphora c. 550 B.C.

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWERCOMPANY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

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Westhampton News 1915 Secretary MRS. WILMER

L.

O'FLAHERTY

( Celeste Anderson) 3603 Moss Side Avenue, Richmond 22, Va. Louise Goepfart h (Mrs. Bernard Schaaf) did a wonderful job with letters to our class, bringing respo nse from several long-unheard-from classmates: Jeannette Bryce (Mrs. L. B. Staton) who is recovering from a broken hip at her home, 206 N. Granby St.; Mary Delia Smith (Mrs. Ford Robinson of Goodwater, Ala.) who is heading for Europe again soon, after a recent tour of the British Isles and Continent ; Sara Thomas (Mrs. Horace Hambrick of Georgetown, Ky .). We hope they all return for June 5-6, as well as Constance Gay (Mrs. Richard Morenus of Atlanta, Ga.) and Ethel L. Smith er.

We expect Margaret Monteiro from Honolulu , Hawaii, in advance for some intimate parties. Ir ene Stiff (Mrs . Sydnor Phillips) is spending more time in Richmond with her married dau ghter and son and four grandchildren, than in Tappahannock. Irene has made a fine reputation as a portrait artist. Her childrens' portraits are exquisite in oils, water colors and pastels. \Ve miss seeing Mary Shine Brown. Louise Schaaf and husband are soon off for a visit with th eir daughter and in Indiana . We are anticipatgrandchildren ing "Sup's" coming for the June events. Louise Reams (Mrs. E. D. Hundley) and her son, of Charlottesvill e, have had long, extended health probl ems, but seem improving. I am busy with four grandchildren and a small part in planning for the night of June 5.

had been completed and the building was almost cleared for the second performance for Westhampton students and friends.

Through the years the swimming pool project was very important and des erved much work but I must confess that I wasn't prepared to see such wond erful results.

The dedication of the Emily Gardner Memorial Room was perfect in every way. Being in such a service made us more conscious of on our young the influence of Westhampton lives. How grateful we were for the influence of faculty members, fellow students and the

atmosphere in general.

Westhampton Friday's banquet was one of the best. Florence Boston Decker, Anne Ruth Harris, Gladys Holleman Barlow and Ruth Elliott Trice were the '17's at one table, but we almost forgot class lines as we chatted with close friends of other da ys.

Since Ann Ruth has moved from Richmond, Helen Monsell has taken Gladys and Ruth Trice under her wings. She is doin g a fine job.

After a most delicious meal on the other side of the lake and a brief shopping trip, Helen, Gladys and Ruth had a delightful visit with

Fiftieth Anniversary

Westhampton

Celebration

Friday, June 5, 1964 ALUMNAE COLLEGE Classes (South Court) 9:30 a.m ., 10:30 a-m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (Tea Room) 12:30 p.m.

ALUMNAE GOVERNING BOARD MEETING (Keller Hall) 4:00 p.m.

CLASS REUNION DINNERS (Various hours and places)

1916 Secretary FRIEDA

MEREDITH

DIETZ

2100 Stuart Ave., Ri chmond 20, Va. Our small class hopes to bring into the fold those girls we so loved but lost before the senior year: Louise Tanner (Mrs. William Callis West); Elizabeth Spratley (Mrs. Chester Wooldridge); Emma Jinkins, and Lillian Harding (Mrs . Karl Bixby of Conn.). Lillian has been through the years but a faithful contributor hasn 't been able to attend reunions. If Stella Carden of Pittsburgh and Elizabeth Hutchinson could come, we three locals, of Washington Helen Monsell , Kathleen Bland (Mrs . Ralph Cottle of West Point) and I might at last have a class reunion.

After six months' illness and two hospital experiences, I am still hoping to fly to Switzerland on June 8 (I am delaying to attend the college festivities) and from June 27 to August 1, to be on the faculty of the famous adult education Klubschule Migros of Zurich, at its vacation Hotel Castell near St. Moritz. Returning? No plans. My father died in September and my sister, Norma Mackay, and I expect to sell 2100 Stuart before June.

RECEPTION(Keller Hall) 9:00 p.m.

"Nostalgia-SO

Years."

Margaret Anniversary

Leake, '31 Chairman

Saturday, June 6, 1964 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Keller Hall 9:00 a.m.

SYMPOSIUM-"Changing

Opportunities and Challenges for the College Woman "

(Cannon Memorial Chapel) 10:30 a.m .

Panel Members: Dr. Esther Raushenbush, Director of Center for Continuing Education, Sarah Lawrence College Dr. Nancy Roman, Astronomer Chief, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mrs. Jean Wells, Deputy Chief, Economic Status and Opportunities Division, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor Moderator-May Welfare .

Thompson Evans, Department of Health, Education and

1917 Secretary GORDON E. BAHLOW (Gladys Holleman) Smithfield, Virginia

MRS.

Homcoming 1963 was one of the very best, especially for those who attended Westhampton during the years 1914-20. Everything was perthe timing of the auto crash on a fect-even nearby road which caused the lights in the swimming pool to go out . Fortunately for the grads, the lovely water ballet in their honor

EXHIBIT(University of Richmond Library) 9:00 a.m .- 12:00 noon LUNCHEON (Keller Hall) 1:00 p.m.

FORMALALUMNAEAND ALUMNI BANQUET (Keller Hall) 7:00 p.m.

Speaker-Dr. Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D., LLD.LHD., Retired Dean of Women, University of Pennsylvania, Past-President, AAUW, Author and Lecturer.

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GLADYS BARLOW HONORED FOR MISSION WORK . Baptists of Smithfield, Va., recently paid tnbute to Gladys Holleman Barlow, '17, for her contribution as a leader in world missions.

In a special testimonial service, officials of the Smithfield Baptist Church honored the alumna for her "patient prodding and her persistent promotion" of the cause. Her dedication, they stressed, accentuated by the fact tha:t one of her daughters served as a missionary to Japan, has made the congregation aware of the world-wide emphasis of Christian truth. Since her election as president of the Woman's Missionary Union in 1946, circle membership has almost doubled and mission offerings have increased more than five times.

Anne Ruth and her sister Billie in the home of Mrs. Robert Crump, a faithful friend of Westhampton "girls" of our day.

This was our first opportunity to see Billie's slides of China and hear her explanation of the places so dear to her. We felt that with TV we could say "I was there."

As many of Anne Ruth's friends know she has had a great deal of illnesses of various kinds. The quote from one of her recent letters indicates that she is the same brave · person who feared nothing but basketball.

1918 Secretary Mrss DEBORAHMcCARTHY 1618 Park Avenue Richmond, Virginia Mary Ruffin has become a world traveler.

Again this summer she will motor through the French countryside. The stay-at-home armchair travelers will look forward to a showing of her slides in the fall.

In February we received word of the sudden passing of Henry Butler, husband of Estelle Kemper Butler. Our deepest sympathy goes to Estelle in her bereavement.

Dorothy Gary Markey has a new book off the press, Explorer of Sound, Michael Puppin. The book is written for children but is also interesting reading for adults.

Elizabeth Brokenbrough and I sail on March 27th for a three-month tour of the continent and British Isles. We regret that we shall miss Fiftieth Anthe observance of Westhampton's niversary but hope '18 will be well represented.

University

1919 Secretary MRS. WEBSTER I. CARPENTER (Juliette Brown) 1001 Gates Ave. Norfolk, Virginia

Dear Folks: The principal purpose of this letter is to put us on the alert for our 45th class reunion. Plans are shaping up nicely for a full and "fun" week-end. You will be receiving more information on this later from the Alumnae Office. The "extra" plans that concern "1919" only will start with the usual wonderful dinner party at Frances Shipman Sutton's at West Point on Friday evening. We want you as our breakfast and place to guests on Saturday morning-time be announced later, and Elizabeth Tompkins has graciously invited us to her home for Sunday morning breakfast. Enough said! Just you be there!

A nice note from Lillian Robertson Carter came yesterday reminding us of our debt to Westhampton and asking that we be generous in our gifts. We have always felt proud of the record of our class; even though small in numbers, percentage-wise we have been in the top eschelon. Do let's keep it there! Lillian says she will represent her D.A.R. chapter, which she organized and of which she is regent, at the state meeting at Hotel Chamberlin in midMarch. Possibly we shall see her there.

As of February first, after twenty years as Travel Director for the Tidewater Automobile Association, we are in the office only on Mondays and Tuesdays each week. Needless to say ' it's wonderful.

I'm looking forward to seeing each of you in early June.

1921 Secretary: MRS. E. L. DuPuY (Catherine Little) 703 Beechnut Lane Martinsville, Virginia How good it was to hear some news from several of you after Christmas !

Elizabeth Elsea is retired on disability since the spring of 1961. She taught physics and chemistry in Arlington. She writes of spending time with her brothers and sisters, who are close enough to get together often. She was in an auto accident in 1958 but was able to go back to teaching for almost two years before retiring. Her home address is 307 East Liberty Street, Berryville, Virginia.

News of our artist, Theresa Pollak, continues of her success. Her exto come to us-always in January showed a hibit in Williamsburg dozen paintings and a portfolio of drawings.

She also gave the program for the Richmond :'-rtists Association. She is doing some oil paintmgs from her European sketches. She is teaching and painting whenever she can in her Richmond Studio.

Frances Vaughan Faglie represented us at

of Richmond

School of Law School of Business Westhampton

College

Class Rings Fraternity Jewelry

CHARLES G. MOTLEY, '45 L. G. BALFOUR CO.

3110 West Marshall Street Richmond 30, Virginia Telephone 358-6612

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the Secretaries meeting at Leslie Booker's home.

She has helped in getting the letters to you.

From her we hear that Virginia Lane is planning to retire soon. Frances is holding Virginia to her promise to join her in a walking trip on one of the mountain trails in the near future .

Frances climbed muntains in Mexico for her Christmas vacation.

Ruth Hoover Lide is rejoicing that her son and family have been transferred from Ohio back to Virginia.

My guidance work gets more interesting each day. The rapid growth in industries in our county has produced heavy population growth and our high school enrollment has increased thus my work has increased. My interests i~clude work with the Mental Health Society as Treasurer, with the church as an adult Sunday School teacher, with the Henry County Education Association as President for two years.

1922 Secretary MRS. CHARLESH. WEST, JR. (Eva Timberlake) 303 St. David's Lane Richmond, Virginia Spring has arrived in Richmond and it is lovely to see. How about making every effort possible to be here for the Commencement Exfiftieth anercises, celebrating Westhampton's niversary?

Edith Newton Eakes, Jeannette Henna, Leslie Booker and I were present at the Alumnae Dinner in preparation for writing the letters you have received. We hope you have responded to them.

Several of the class of 1922 have joined the newly formed Tower Club, about which you have already heard.

We were deeply distressed to know about the death of Julia Roop Adams' husband, who passed away last October.

Louise Hatz (Shippy) is planning a trip abroad and is eagerly making her preparations.

We wish for her the best of times and real pleasure.

Leslie Booker spent a few days with her daughter, Constance, during February, while Book was attending a Bar Association meeting in Chicago. Captain Don Moe, Connie's husband, is teaching Military Science at Wheaton College and they and their two children are now living in Wheaton, near Chicago.

Irene Summers Stoneman has had a nice trip to Florida this spring and from all reports had a glorious vacation.

We are told that Claudia Patrick, who is now a retired lady, is also planning to go to Europe this summer.

Dorothy Winfrey Couble is enjoying her boys. three grandchildren-all We have enjoyed having Sara, our older daughter, here with us this year, as she is attending Richmond Professional Institute, working on her degree in Recreation Leadership.

Please, members of 1922, will you do me a favor and send me some news items for our Summer issue of the Bulletin? It would be great to get a dozen or so letters, crammed full of news!

Here's hoping to see you in June.

1923 Secretary MRS. BARTEEE. CoRPEW (Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Horsepen Road Richmond, Virginia The time of year has come again to think of Alumnae Day which is June 6 this year. It is also the fifti~th anniversary of the college, and many special events are planned for the weekend. Watch for your program.

I missed Homecoming last fall, and I was very sorry, for our class was well represented at the dinner, and the whole program was excellent. The dedication of the Emily Gardner room was fitting and impressive, with speeches by former Governor Darden and Elizabeth Tompkins.

JOSEPHINE TALLEYKRITZER We regret that the death notice of Josephine Talley Kritzer failed to appear in last summer's Alumnae Bulletin. Our hearts were saddened by the news of her passing on March 5, 1963 -due to a severe heart attack.

Josephine was an outstanding member of the class of 1922 and made for herself an inspiring and wonderful career in the teaching profession. After graduation from Westhampton College, she taught for one year at Manassas, Virginia and then returned to Richmond's Bainbridge High School for three years.

In order to further her study in the field of dramatics, she attended the Schools of Dramatics in New York City and the Richmond Professional Institute. Upon the occasion of the building of the beautiful new Collegiate School, one of her former pupils, now a successful contractor, endowed a classroom in her honor.

After many years at Thomas Jefferson High School, she transferred to the new John Marshall High School in the fall of 1961. Due to ill health she was forced to retire in February 1962.

Ethney Selden Headlee is looking forward to her daughter Ann's return from Germany with her family. Her husband, Captain Earl A. Patterson, expects to be stationed at Fort Eustis for several months. Also, Ethney was in New York recently, and had lunch with Sally Davis, who is as charming and good looking as ever.

We all extend our deep sympathy to Hannah Coker on the loss of her sister, Katherine Cannon.

On a brighter note, we are happy to hear of Her Ruth Powell Tyree's new granddaughter. pretty name is Allin Loraine.

Ethney and I were the only two who managed to attend fund workers dinner this year, but other faithful souls are helping with the letters you will have received by now. Douglas Oliver, Altha Cunningham, Elmira Ruffin Bowen, Rosa Sanders Thomas, and Elizabeth Hill Schenck are among the number; and I have had nice talks with them.

Let us have news of you and yours, and see you Alumnae Day and / or during Anniversary Week End. 1924 Secretary MRs. GuY BEALE (Hilda Booth) 8513 Hanford Drive Richmond 29, Va. I just received a delightful letter from Elizabeth Cosby Carver in which she enclosed a most interesting account of her Christmas Carribean holiday. She and her husband flew 6,000 miles, visited six countries, and had the grandest trip of their much-traveled lives. I am saving the "Carvers' Carribean Capers" for you to read in June during our reunion. Sorry there isn't space to print it here. You will certainly enjoy her descriptions of the many entertaining and historical facts of her wonderful holiday.

Westhampton recently gave a dinner for the Alumnae Fund letter writers. Five "girls" of '24 attended and had a very enjoyable and informative evening. After the excellent dinner, we adjourned to Keller Hall, where we heard several inspiring talks and received our instruc-

The Westhampton Campus Shop needs both paid and volunteer Alumnae workers. If you are interested in a part-time paid job or if you could serve on the Campus Shop committee, please contact the Alumnae Office. tions. Bernie Bowles, Norma Broaddus, :Margaret Carlton, Louise Morton, and I attended.

We had lots of fun being together and seeing many other friends. Now, if you all will preFoundation sent a gift to the Westhampton Fund, we can really have a grand reunion.

Our class reunion will be celebrated the evening of June 5th. We hope many of you are planning to come. Our plans are still in the soft jelly stage but they will be firmly set by June.

Our daughter, her husband, and two babies returned from Korea in time to spend Christmas with us. They are now in Boston, which seems so near after Korea. Their safe trip home to us made a Christmas to remember.

1925 Secretary MRS.

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M.

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( Estelle Outten) Seaview, Virginia 23429 My, how I wish you girls had more time to write, or more stamps or something!

I did have one note from Gladys Wright Cocke, for which I was duly grateful. She saw Emeline Stearnes in January. Emeline is in Fredericksburg this winter, but is thinking of going to Europe and the Middle East in the early spring. Gladys was planning to spend the month of February in Miami, Fla. with her mother.

Billy Spangler Rogers is having a busy but wonderful time. She is librarian in a new high school now being built, and so has to buy the beginnings, set up the furniture etc. In addition to that she is teaching five units in library science in Sacramento State College. Last summer, she and David bought a house in Beaver, Utah.

She says, "It's 6,000 ft. up-in a beautiful mountain area near the Grand Canyon area. It is a perfect colonial, built by Mormons out of nathick and could have been tive rock-18" hatched on a New England or Virginia farm."

They expect to spend their summers fixing it up. Let us know when you finish, Billy, we will be right over.

I enjoy the letters so much. Won't someone else please write?

keep the Trempers young. Maude writes of an extra-special festivity on December 27 when they celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary.

As you know, Dorothy Knibb is with the Department of State and makes frequent trips to Europe. In October she was sent to London.

After the work was done in London and she had revisited her favorite haunts there, she went to Paris for a week, then overland by way of Lyon and Grenoble to Nice. Dorothy also reports she's bought an apartment in Washington "with a large balcony, on a fine breezy hilltop."

Margaret Saunders Haile flew co Bolivia in August to visit her daughter, Jane, and her family, after which they returned with Margaret to Chevy Chase for a home-leave visit of several months, returning to Bolivia just after Thanksgiving. Margaret's son, Billy, is doing graduate work in engineering at VPI. And Edward, the younger son, spent last summer in Brazil with the family of his fiancee, who are in the Diplomatic Service. is holding great As for me, "retirement" satisfaction and stimulation in various activities.

One day a week is spent at the County Juvenile Detention Home as Red Cross Gray Lady working with juvenile delinquents and neglected and abandoned children, a most rewardingThen I've recently and heartbreaking-work. taken on a Red Cross job as representative for Home Service for the Southeastern Area, which constitutes handling emergency matters that come up outside of regular office hours. It is liaison work between Headquarters in Washington and chapters in the eight southeastern states. It's quite challenging and sometimes a bit overwhelming. These---in addition to quite a stint of church work, gardening, housekeeping, taking in concerts and plays, playing bridge ecc.-keeps me out of mischief.

And now, may I hear from the rest of you?

Please?!!

1928 Secretary MRS.

L. P.

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(Virginia Pleasant) 117 Lakewood Road Walnut Creek, California At our last June reunion, our alumnae office suggested a change in officers had been found advantageous in ocher classes. Gray Robinson

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2601 Midway Road Decatur, Georgia 30030 The Christmas mail brought a mite of news of us, so for chis time at least '27 will appear in the Bulletin, praise be!

Jean Wright Woodfin writes of a visit at Thanksgiving from Margaret Daughtrey Minnick who is now teaching in Newport News.

They also stopped for a short visit with Dee Kelly. Jean is a proud grandmother for the secSuzanne, ond time. The new granddaughter, was born on Jean's birthday in Germany, where the baby's father is stationed. The first grandchild, the son of Dickie, a pharmacist in Chatham, Virginia, is now four years old.

Our sincere sympathy to Dee Kelly in the loss of her mother. Many of us remember so pleasantly Mrs. Kelly and the warm hospitality of her home.

Maude and Tremp are two very busy people.

Though Tremp is retired, he is principal of Adult Education in Bellport, New York, and does a lot of substitute teaching, as does Maude also. These activities, plus all sorts of family gec-togethers with children and grandchildren

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Madalyn Freund Bente wrote Christmas that her son is a freshman at the University of Richmond, playing football. He must be good.

Madalyn's mother has sold her home in Richmond and is living with Madalyn and her famChurch work, teaching, ily in Connecticut.

DAR, and politics keep Madalyn busy.

"Jimmie" Stuessy Mattox, Mary Richardson Butterworth and Carolina Beattie, are excited over their coming trip to Miami in Jimmie's new car. They plan to be there to celebrate Mrs. birthday, which falls on Stuessy's eightieth Mother's Day. Rennie Butterworth, Mary's youngest daughter, has been elected president of her dormitory at Randolph-Macon.

A note from "Billye" Williams Thomas said that Virginia Snow Richardson is all pepped up over a trip to Germany in May. Billye's daughter, Ann Lee, is a sophomore at Wellesley.

Mary Wilson MacMillan will have her daughter-in-law and grandchild with her in Arlington, while her son, a Marine pilot, is on duty abroad.

The grapevine has it that Genie Riddick Steck continues to be interested in art and painting.

Please write me your news and interests .

French, 105 Lexington Drive, Silver Spring, Maryland, is our new president . Gay Minor Nelson, 1511 Brookland Parkway, Richmond 21, Virginia, is her deputy in Richmond; and 117 Lakewood Virginia Pleasant Robertson, Road, Walnut Creek, California, will serve as secretary.

Pictures were made of the group gathered to have supper with Tom Rudd. Each of us present had shed the total of 35 years and enjoyed being together as if it were the first time to meet since our graduation. We beg more of you to make plans now to join us in 1968.

I have had one day this month with Dr. Lois Frays er after the Allergy Convention in San Francisco . She has a busy practice in internal in Seattle, medicine, allergy and pediatrics Washington. She has spent much time in school and acquired membership in alumnae groups of the University of Virginia, of Michigan and of Iowa and has now practiced in Seattle fifteen years.

Please write me news about yourself and your family. If you plan to come to San Francisco do let me know you will be here . We enjoy showing you our favorite pleasures. But if you cannot come, write news and on this Fifsend tieth Anniversary year of Westhampton, a generous gift to the Alumnae . Remember it is our Frances Anderson Stallard who now guides us.

1929 Secretary MRS. HAMPTONH . WAYT, JR. (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road Richmond, Virginia 23230 The Faculty-Alumni Forum had, as its third speaker, our own Margaret Rudd, whose lecture and slides on "From the Valley of Elqui to Terra Del Fuego" were delightful. Margaret traveled 2,300 miles down the coast of Chile collecting material for her next book, a biography of Chile's Nobel Prize winner. "Tom is back at Falls Church now, writing I presume, but plans to be at our reunion .

Miriam Figgs Rankin and her husband, Weston, returned from a trip around the world, to be home for Christmas. Trudi Ryland Harlan and her husband, Howard, were in New York for the holidays and spent Christmas Day with the Rankins at their lovely old home in Darien, Connecticut.

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1930 Secretary MRS. JOHN E. MILLEA (Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida St., Newton, Mass. 02158 Christmas cards always bring bits of news for which I am most grateful.

Grace Watkins Lampson's son, Miles, is a graduate assistant in Physics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Daughter, Margaret, is a Freshman at American University in Washington, D. C. Virginia Saunders Thomas has a new grandson born last September . Her job at the Pulaski Library keeps her very busy, but she and Bill were able to get to N. Y. for a few days in at Christmas to October and to Washington see their grandchildren.

Margaret Lowe Logan writes that Harry and Beverly will return to the U. S. this summer as Harry's three-year term teaching Physics at University College in Addis Ababa will be over. Pris and George are now living in Mountain Lakes, N. ]., and Elsa is a Junior at Luth.eran High. Quoting Chrissie: "The most exciting thing that happened to anybody in the family this year was John's trip to Europe last summer. Through the French Dept. at Princeton, he was given a Carnegie grant to work as counselor in a French boys ' camp near the Swiss border. He spent three months abroad and managed a side trip to Florence and a good bit of Left Bank living in Paris."

I was sorry (as I'm sure you all will be) to learn that Thelma Bryant Hutton lost her husband during the past year, and Elsie McClintic her brother just this winter.

A recent note from Virginia Prince Shinnick contained the news that Shirley Gannaway Cornick has been visiting Jean Collier Withers in Richmond. Billie is looking forward to arrival for Ferguson Underwood's Cornelia April Garden Week. in Dorothy Abbot Wood 's son graduated February from Naval Officers Candidate School in Newport, R. I. and has been assigned to San Diego, Cal. 1932 Secretary MRS. GLENN S. HESBY (Katherine Roberts) 900 West Franklin St. Richmond 20, Virginia Elizabeth Capacaine Chapman made a short trip co Richmond in February to attend her aunt's funeral. We were sorry not to see her, but Mary Mathews had a telephone visit with her .

Two of our alumnae have sons graduating in June. Charles Scarborough (son of Zephia and Charles) and Bobbie Jones (son of Valerie

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and Robert) will get their degrees from the University of Virginia. Congratulations!

Many of us got to visit with Carolyn Broaddus in February. Carolyn teachts 2 classes of Latin at the Severn School for Boys and between semesters she spent four days in Richmond.

Jessie Miller Turner and her daughter spent a weekend in Norfolk visiting her son and daughter-in-law.

1933 Secretary Miss GERTRUDEDvsoN 1500 Wilmington Avenue Richmond, Virginia Winter-weary Richmonders were revived by the visit of a dear classmate . Catherine Geoghegan Trulock was in town for a few days on vacation from her library and family duties, visiting her aunt. She was charming and lovely as always. Her daughter is attending Emerson in Boston, son, Carl is a special pleasure to Carl, Sr., as an active achlece.

Kay Harris Hardy is improved after an operation in November. She had to improve, for Linda with young son has been visiting. Linda is living in Fayetteville, North Carolina where her husband is practicing law.

Another librarian for our class is Mary Lou Prichard who is in her second year in an elementary school. Her daughter, Julianne, is at Emory working on her M .A. in nursing education. missed our Margaret Slaughter Hardcastle reunion last June as she was visiting her daughter in Germany. While there she spent three weeks driving through Southern Germany and Austria to Italy, returning through Switzerland.

Virginia Napier had a busy yrnr with Harvey's wedding, Mary Beth's second daughter and a trip to the west coast.

Adelaide earned her M .A. last summer. She is teaching full time now. Daughter, Lucy, is a senior in high school and son, Jimmy, is in the first year of junior high .

Rose Thacker Schwarcz has two school libraries in the Richmond area. Her son, Joe, is in the ninth grade and is a honor student.

Mollie Moorman Simpson has a new daughter, Sandra. Sewall was married in January to Sandra Brown. He has bought a farm in King William where he and Sandra will make their home .

Always remember the Alumnae Fund!

1934 Secretary MRs. R. VAN HEUVELN(Frances Lundin) 3905 Midlothian Pike Richmond, Virginia We have more news from Nancy Davis Seaton's family. Her daughter, Nan, married Mr. Charles M. Finney in St. Mark's church on February Sch. The bride and groom are making their home in Richmond.

Virginia Puckett cells us that two of her positions. Janee daughters have programming is a supervisor for the J. P. Stevens Textile Co. in Charlotte, N. C. Mabel Ann works for Blue Cross and Blue Shield here in Richmond .

Hazel Hemming Taylor's daughter, Pac, has a son, Kenneth Mitchell Lorraine, who was born on February 12th.

Please notify the Alumnae Office if you know the address of any one of the following: Ursula Mordecia (Mrs. Joseph E. Lyle), Hettie Turner (Mrs. J. E. Wood, Jr.), Virginia Davis (Mrs. Richard Knowlton), Louise Rogers Leacherland.

Plan now co attend our reunion in June.

1935 Secretary MRS. C. M. TATUM (Gladys T. Smith) 336 Lexington Road Ri chmond, Virginia Mary Pat Early Love, Lottie Britt Callis, Sue Whittet Wilson, and I spent a delightful evening at Westhampton at an Alumnae Fund Meeting. We hope chat you will respond with a

birthday gift to Westhampton after rece1vmg pleas from us and also from Billy Rowlett Perkins.

Harriet Walton was unable to get the courses she wanted to take in England this year and has postponed her sabbatical leave from St. Catherine's until next year.

Mary Anne Guy Franklin is one of our most publicized alumnae because of her abilities in the TV field. At the end of the school year she will assume new responsibilities as Program Director of Central Virginia Educational TV Corporation.

Remember our minstrels? You would have been taken back in memory many years if you had seen the faculty show at Thomas Jefferson High School-for the benefit of the organ fund.

Margaret Taylor Gallaway sang "Louisville Lou" and Lottie Britt Callis entertained with her specialty, "Roll A Silver Dollar."

Margaret Gravatt Baker and her husband are building a new home near Auburn, Massachusetts. Margaret was in Richmond early in the year for a too brief stay. After her return to New England, she had a short visit with Rhea Talley Stewart in Manchester, Connecticut.

Rhea is preparing a dictionary for the Connecticut School for the Deaf. It seems that Rhea has a knack for defining words in such a way that young children with hearing difficulties and smaller vocabularies in many cases than other children can understand the meanings of the words.

1936 Secretary Mns. R. WESTWOOD WINFREE(Lou White) 4520 Riverside Drive Richmond 25, Virginia

Helen Falls, who is Dean of Women at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, was in New York last year working on her PhD at Columbia University. She spent a weekend near Boston with Alice Turner Schafer. Alice's husband, Richard, is a professor at M. I. T. and Alice is a math professor at Wellesley. Helen also had lunch with Lu Cherry Drell, whose husband works for the government. At present, they are living in Alexandria and Lu is teaching in Fairfax County.

Helen was in Richmond with her parents for Christmas, and by chance we met in the grocery store the morning of Margie Pugh Tabb's Christmas coffee. So, Helen joined us, and we sat around the table in Margie's lovely new home and gleaned most of this news. Elizabeth Chapman Wilson, Boo Owens Page, Helen Denoon Hopson, Margaret Bowers and Esther Walsh Dutton were also there.

Boo Page is now the chief medical consultant to the Social Security disability unit for the State of Virginia. In Februarv, she attended the National Medical Advisory Committee in New York as one of the four state representatives from Virginia. She was the only woman there!

Later in the month, she and Sydney visited the grandson, William Brian Reams, and parents at Eglin Airforce Base in Florida. Diane Page, Boo's youngest daughter, was elected "Miss Jeff" at T. J. and has a leading part in the school operetta, "Oklahoma."

We have news of Rae Norford (Mrs. James Griffith), whose address is 1724 Maple St., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Rae and husband have a son, Bill, who is a college senior, and a daughter, Kathy, in the tenth grade. Rae earned her M.A. from Lehigh University last year and is now teaching in the biology department at the Moravian College in Bethlehem. She is the advisor for the honorary education sorority on campus.

Florence Marston Harvey's son, Robert, was married to Jane Daniel Fitchett on February 8.

She is a Westhampton graduate and they will live in Richmond.

Alice Pugh Bartz has been elected vice-president of the School Librarian's Association of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and will be the president next year. This is the

highest state job a school librarian can hold.

Alice's oldest son, Fred, is going to Drexel University. Her other son, John Davis, is in high school at their home, Jenkentown, Pennsylvania.

Sue Bonnet Chermside wrote of her very interesting work with American Field Service in an exchange student program. Her daughter, Mary, is living abroad this year with a Belgian family, whose daughter, Nicky, had been with the Chermsides the year before. Sue is chairman of annual letters, and apparently keeps busy typing messages all around the world.

As your new class secretary, I shall be looking for your news. Please send also any change of address. Many thanks!

1937 Secretary

Miss POLLYANNASHEPHERD 1053 Naval Avenue Portsmouth, Virginia At the time of this writing Virginia Lee Priddy, our Alumnae Fund chairman, and the members of her committee are busy writing letters to the Class of '3 7 concerning the plans for this year. We hope that many of you will join the "Tower Club," but if you cannot, then try to make a liberal contribution to the fund as a fiftieth birthday gift to our Alma Mater.

Virginia Lee Priddy keeps quite busy with her job as office secretary in the Department of Missionary Personnel, Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. In connection with her work she recently spent a week on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and last summer spent some time in Kansas City. Most of her interests and activities have to do with the church and its organizations. Virginia Lee is the immediate past president of the Virginia Federation of Baptist Business ,Women's Circles.

Jane Lawder Johnston's daughter is attending college in Petersburg and Jean Hudson Miller's son is at M. I. T. and her daughter is at Mary Washington College.

Alice Torbeck Bryant is a busy homemaker in Baltimore. Her husband, Dorsey, is a manufacturer's representative under the firm name of Bryant Brokerage Co. They have two daughters, Beverley Bryant Richter, who is enrolled in Monterey Peninsula College, California, and Catherine Carter, also a student. Torbeck works with the altar guild in her church, plays bridge, and spent her last vacation travelling to Gun Flint, Minnesota, St. Sault Marie, and Mackinac Island.

It was so good to hear from "Bobbie" Smith Christian, whom I have not seen since college days. She is supervisor of a stenographic pool with The Life Insurance Co. of Virginia in Richmond. Clyde is with the Department of State Policy, Commonwealth of Virginia. They have a married daughter, Nancy Kathryn Hunter, and a married son, Clyde W., Jr., who is doing graduate work at the University of Georgia. Bobbie and Clyde are also proud grandparents of two fine grandsons. Any time left after her career and housekeeping duties are completed is spent in attending St. Thomas Episcopal Church, playing bridge, refinishing furniture and painting portraits. My conclusion is that she leads an interesting and diversified life. Do you agree?

Louise Thompson Chewning and husband, Pat, continue to lead a busy life in Richmond, where Pat is a physician. Their daughter, Patsy Chewning Young, teaches history at Thomas Jefferson High School, and the three sons are all students-Trip, a Hampden-Sydney junior, Tommy, a University of North Carolina freshman, and Bobby, a sixth-grader at St. Christopher's. Louise, Pat and Bobby spent a vacation in Europe last summer.

A very ambitious member of our class is Ruth Stephenson Edwards who will spend her fourth summer at Math Institute, University of South Carolina on a National Science Foundation study grant. She expects to complete the

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requirements for her master's degree in August.

Ruth is a high school math teacher in Camden, S. C., and her husband, John, is a. chemist at the DuPont orlon plant there. From all reports they also have four ambitious children. John Lee graduated from the U. S. Air Force Academy last June and is now studying electrical engineering in graduate school at Oklahoma State; Beth will graduate from Westhampton this June; David is a sophomore in a pre-dental course at Wofford College; and Stephen will graduate from high school this June and has an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy.

From all indications Ruth and her family will have an eventful summer.

Even though this is not a reunion year for our class, let's make a special effort to have a good representation at the fiftieth birthday celebration in June. Hope to see you there.

1938 Secretary MRS. VIRGINIAHLADYS (Virginia 4010 Hermitage Road Richmond, Virginia

Ellis)

On March 3rd, three representatives from the class attended the dinner which set off the Alumnae Fund Drive for this Fiftieth Anniversary year. They were Henrietta Harrell Smith, Liz Shaw Burchill and myself. By the time you read this, you will have received your personal letter from one of the girls urging you to support the Fund Drive and telling you of the new and interesting things your recent contribution will help make a reality.

Peggy Lockwood Nolting reports the only new item this quarter. She has four sons. Rick, the oldest, is a sophomore at VPI, majoring in Geology. He actually explores caves, much to Peggy's consternation, and is a member of the Cave Club. Jim is eighteen years old and will graduate from Frederick Military Academy at Portsmouth, Virginia in June. George, a ninth grader at Huguenot, is an Eagle Scout and member of the 0. A. (which means a lot in scouting, Peggy says) . Mark, the youngest, is in the fifth grade at Crestwood Elementary School. Peggy is assistant teacher if forty-six children in a kindergarten of her church. Dick, husband and father, is a scoutmaster, naturally!

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1939 Secretary MRS. KENNETHD. ANGUS,JR. (Evelyn Hazard) 1512 Wilmington Ave. Richmond, Virginia Plans are under way for our reunion. You will be receiving a letter soon and we would like an answer by return ma:il.

Some of the Richmond girls met at my home on March 9 to make plans. They will be hostesses for a buffet supper and a tea for the out--0£town girls.

At the meeting we learned that Felicia Turman Prendergast has an interesting new position. She is secretary to Governor Harrison here in Richmond which sounds very exciting!

Pat Walford attended the dinner that began our Alumnae Fund drive. She made a very enthusiastic report at our meeting and urged each one to do her part in making this a banner year for contributions to the Alumnae Fund from the class of '39.

A nice Christmas note from Kate Peterson Klagky revealed that her son, Ken, is a student at University of Richmond Law School. Roger is a sophomore at Weslyan University in Connecticut. Daughter, Lynn, is a senior in high school.

A very welcome letter came from Christine Dulin Sponsler. Her daughter, Kristin, is a junior at Westhampton majoring in Physical Education. Christine says she did not get her interest in that subject from her mother who was in "Puny" Gym. Her son Bill, 16, is a junior in high school, an Explorer and Eagll½ Scout and a member of the Order of the Arrow.

Susan, 7½, is the baby in the family.

We're looking forward to two things from each of you, a contribution to the Alumnae Fund and a note saying you will be here for our reunion.

Carol, daughter of Fred and Maude Smith Jurgens is being married on March 27. The fortunate young man is Van Bowen, also of Bon Air. He graduates from Richmond College in June and will do graduate work at VPI. Our congratulations to Robert and Eleanor Parsons Fish on the birth of their sixth child in January. This is daughter number five. Their oldest, also a girl, is attending junior college.

Jack and Margaret Brinson Reed have moved to Alexandria, Va. New address: 7 Congressional Court, Mt. Vernon Forest, Alexandria.

Margaret is still teaching and is doing some counselling.

Our sincere sympathy goes to Annabel Lumpkin Hessel, whose brother, James, died on March 15.

Kathleen Bagby Costa's son, Carlos, is a senior at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He plans to go on to seminary after graduation.

Ethel O'Brien Harrington's son, Tor, had been employed by the Dallas Daily News, but decided to return to college. He is attending North Carolina State and is also working on the Raleigh News and Observer.

Betty Willets Ogg is not teaching this year, first time since graduation. She is having a lovely time doing church work, gardening, and all the other things she never had time for before.

Wes and Margaret Ligon Bernhart's oldest, Tommy, is a freshman at George Washington University in D. C. The college attendance has been reported to you piecemeal, as I hear of it.

Please notify me as soon as possible of your child's attendance at college n,xt fall.

1940 Secretary MRS. E. FRANKLINMALLORY (Emma Lou Parson&) 6406 Monument Ave. Richmond, Va. 23226 This will remind you of your age, but I am happy to tell you that our Baby Cup winner,

We have a number of address changes, which should be of interest. I'll give them in the very beginning.

Betty Acker Gillespie, 352 Thornbrook Ave., Rosemont, Pa. Mary Arnold Brandis, 608 LaSell Drive, Champaign, Illinois.

Margaret Brittingham Curtice, 1251 San Antonio Creek Rd., Santa Barbara, Calif.

Edith Burfoot Lovig, Co. N.S.D., Newport, R. I. Trudie Duncan Scott, 106 N. Blvd. of Pres., Sarasota, Fla. Jeannette Evans Hardin, 2529 Wrycliff Ave., S.W., Roanoke, Va. Jo Fennell Pacheco, 400 Valley Lane, Falls Church, Va. Florence Lafoon Cornwell, 25th LAM Co., Fort Bragg, N. C. Josephine Moncure Flexner, 31 Beechmont, Bronxville, N. Y. Ann Phillips Bonifant, 1416 Atlee Rd., Mechanicsville, Va. Evelyn Pomeroy Umstattd, Front Royal, Va. Thelma Seldes Nieder, 3113 Floyd Ave., Richmond, Va. Frances Wiley Harris, 8 Dogwood Lane, Rumson, N. J. Ann Woodward Courtney, The Roost, River Road, Box 143, Ulster Park, N. Y. Toni Whittet was the only one of our class who was able to attend the most recent alumnae dinner. The following day she visited me and we divided up the materials for mailing on to the Group Captains, who in turn sent to each class member the attractive booklet, "Westhampton, Your College," and other pertinent data. The co-operation of these Group Captains is meaning a much closer-knit fellowship among us, and will through the years prove of great benefit in preserving a better contact with each one. Again I thank you all heartily, and ask that you continue to keep in touch with those on your group.

I found it impressive to be reminded that a girl at Westhampton pays only 60% of her

NATIONAL CONTEST WILL FEATURE ALUMNA AUTHOR A contest to be conducted in libraries throughout the country for children 12 years of age and under will feature A Gift For The Princess of Springtime, written and illustrated by Margaret Carpenter, '38. Duplicate cash prizes, ranging up to one hundred dollars, will be given the winners and their librarians for the best entries telling in 50 words or less what each child liked best about the book. Jesse Stuart, well-known author, will judge the competition.

The book, published by Schulte Publishing Company of New York and printed by Whittet and Shepperson of Richmond, recently was awarded the highest honor givea by the Virginia State Printers Association for the finest example of book printing in the state in 1963. The full color illustrations were dup1icated from the author's original pastels.

Alumnae whose children or grandchildren are in the eligible age group will find further information about the contest on display in their local libraries.

1941 Secretary MRs. R. STUARTGRIZZARD(Barbara Eckles) 2J~9 .Farrand Urive Richmond, Va.

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actual expenses. Alumnae support is therefore essential, and comes naturally when we realize someone helped us. $3.50 per year is spent on each alumna; we at least want to repay that amount. Plans for redecorating the Blue Room sound appealing, as do the Fine Arts Building for the future, and eventually a fountain.

Dorms and salaries may at some time be benefitted by our Fund. The organ purchased last year is under construction in Germany and will be delivered when completed.

Louise Morrissey Moyer's "little Ricky developed an allergy to all foods this past year, which has completely floored me. At least, he's 2½ now, which means improvement in his 'general behavior.' Hope!"

A bulletin from Cecile Gaddis Smith: Patsy, 14, is a Westwood Jr. High Cheerleader, VicePresident of Future Homemakers of America, Girl Scout Curved Bar wearer and proud possessor of blue contact lenses. David, 10, "is still very much ball crazy.'' Nancy, second grade, "drew a picture of a girl reading a book as her conception of 'happiness.' Last summer she served as concert master in a violin concert and began piano lessons." Kathy, first grade, "talks a blue streak at home and says many 'quotable' things such as 'Adam and Even." Cecile "wants to learn a philosophy whereby a child can acquire skills of swimming, arts, etc., without a chauffeur.''

Their family vacation took the form of a camping trip to Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina last August. Husband Cecil is now a full professor at the University of Florida.

Margaret Purcell Spindler, with husband Jack plus Lee and Ves, visited the campus last summer and rejoiced to behold the swimming pool.

Margaret writes, "Yes, 16, is a junior and undecided between law and medicine. Lee at 15 still wants to be a nurse but would like a year at Westhampton before going into training.''

From Helen Martin Laughon comes this word: "Tom is at the U. of Florida and Nel starts next fall. They both love Florida and are afraid of the cold weather in Virginia. All of us went to Beirut this summer. The church let us have two months vacation. I never thought when I married a Baptist preacher I'd be a world tourist and be able to take our children-but we did-and loved every second of it.

We visited England, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Greece. It was truly great.'' The occasion taking the Laughons abroad was the Youth Conference of the Baptist World Alliance.

Martha Belding Aycock's son excels scholastically, as well as at chess, broadcasting and working in the library at Union Seminary, where his mother is employed.

Now ... what do you know that I don't know?

1942 Secretary MRS. BERNARDCLINE (Esther 6933 Greentree Drive Falls Church, Virginia

Wendling)

Annie Loie's nice letter was a joy to receive.

The Secats have moved to the Chicago area.

Their new home is now 912 Forest Glen Drive, E., Winetka, Illinois. Lot accepted the position of corporate comptroller of Bell and Howell, so that explains the move. They were fortunate not only in finding the very house they needed, but in selling their Radnor, Pennsylvania home quicker than they had anticipated. Of course, Annie Loie is busy decorating along with club activities, the theater and social doings. During Langley's spring holidays they plan a trip back East.

Just in case the out-of-towners are not up on the political scene--Nancy Davis Parkerson's Bill was elected to the State Senate as a representative of Henrico County. Eunice Bass Browning's Herbert has been elected county supervisor for Matoaca district of Chesterfield County.

The Doziers, Jute and Hoyt and their children, are settling ( ?) down to life as civilians.

After a lot of parties, change of command, farewell, and the like, you can see how it is! 982 St . Joseph Ave., Los Altos, California is the address. Hoyt started a furniture discount business, but now he is with the city of Los Altos as Finance Director. Jute is running the discount business as a side line, and planning to teach in the fall of '64. Their oldest boy, Jim, will enter Foothill Junior College next yearplans to be a lawyer.

Lillian Jung writes that life in a law office gets pretty busy and hectic, but she enjoys every minute of it.

Which reminds me-everyone enjoys the news so-won 't you share a little of what you are doing with us-it is so worth while-and many of you promise and mean well but don't . Please do it now! One of these days I shall have to send out return-type cards-think how embarrassing that will be .

The luck of the Crutchfields-Bob will only have his West Coast duty till November . They have decided to spend the summer in San Diego with him. Kay will go out for a week in April.

She already has their Virginia Beach home rented for the summer! Pam graduates this June, and Wanda the following June .

Remember, classmates, we must keep our thoughts in circulation-10 letters for next time I hope!

1944 Secretary WILLIAM B. (Mary Alderson) 8015 Maple Lane Richmond 29, Va.

MRS.

GRAHAM

I hope you have all made plans to come back for our 20th Reunion. We ought to make this the biggest and best one yet! Billy Jane Crosby Baker, Ann Thruston Filer, Ann Burcher Stansbury, Dee Dee Howe Kirk and Millie Cox Goode met for coffee at my house to make the plans, which I hope meet with everybody's approval. The six of us also went to the Alumnae Fund dinner at Westhampton (which was delicious, by the way) and I trust you have all received your letters by now and have contributed generously!

I had a note from Dot Monroe Hill on her Christmas card . She said she was certainly looking forward to the reunion and hoped it wouldn't conflict with Fleet's high school graduation.

Dot said they had a delightful visit last summer from Molly and Jim and their family (Bruce, 3, Susie, 15 mo., and Larry, 7 mo.!)

They were between Air Force assignments and are now in Arizona . Dot said Molly is an old hand at the diaper business and seems quite happy .

Dot says that she, Gloria, Gene and Marty never seem to get together but their paths cross occasionally with bridge, P.T.A . or the like.

Fleet is driving now and that is an immense help but she still has the usual scouts, choir, dancing, etc . for Brooke and Tommy. Bobby is continuing at Norfolk Academy and is thoroughly wrapped up in the world of sports . He's grown taller than his daddy and looks like he's going to grow lots more still! Fleet has been accepted at Randolph-Macon and is quite anx ious for college days to start .

I also had a letter from Mary Lee Smith Chapin. Mary Lee says "Our year has been enriched again by music and travel. When the New Year began, Louis was still in New York to cover music for the Christian Science Monitor during the newspaper strike . I had several trips down while my mother stayed with Julia-and enjoyed some very lovely concerts. In the spring we moved from Durham Street to Huntington Avenue, right in the shadow of the rising Prudential Tower, and even closer to Louis' office.

We had fun, as well as a great deal of work, decorating an old but comfortable and spacious apartment. And we took weekend trips to near-

by New Hampshire, lovely in the snow, and later in the spring concerts and other "cultural coverage" took us also to Dartmouth College, to Marlboro, Vermont, and to Tanglewood in the Berkshires . Marlboro was highlighted by the presence of Pablo Casals; especially memorable was a rehearsal conducted by him one summer morning . These events, of course, stretched on through July and August.

We divided our two weeks of vacation between Rockport and Cape Cod-braving the cold September waves at both places; and then Julia and I returned with Mother to Virginia, where we stayed a week.

The League of Women Voters offered a forum for some interesting civic work during the municipal elections in Boston (as did also the St. Botolph Citizens' Committee and the Citizens for Boston Public Schools). Louis and I both assisted in a lively 'meet the candidates' evening before the elections, and I did some work at the polls-all of which gives us a sense of participation in the local scene.

I've joined the international relations committee of the League, and have learned more about the UN during a special study program in this subject . I also enjoyed helping with International Students ' Day at the State House, at which selectmen from towns all over Massachusetts put on an authentic New England Town Meeting for the students. These, by the way, looked like a youthful United Nations themselves, some wearing their various native costumes .

Julia's nursery school teacher (to turn at last to the really important matters) says she is a "leader" there this year . Last year the littlest and probably the shyest, she now stands as the largest. She is growing "by leaps and bounds" and her interests are expanding to match. With all of this she 's still very imaginative, and enjoys playing by herself as well as with others ."

I had a card from Ann Howard Suggs saying "My copy of the Alumni Bulletin just came and the first thing I looked at was the 1944 newsand decided to follow the impulse to write! As I recall, some of the classmates are sending children to college but I'm still having babies.

Child number 4 arrived Oct. l and is thriving and I'm now back in the office (which is just

downstairs) practtcrng Pediatrics. I am also President of the County Medical Society this year and we are in the midst of a 10-county program to give the oral polio vaccine to about a million people on March l and April 26. If I last until this summer we are planning to head for the beach and be 'beach bums ' for a few weeks."

Well that 's all the news for now. Hope to see you all at the reunion, and by next time we should have a new (and much better!) secre tary.

1945 Secretar y

B. C ON E (Elizab eth Park er) 606 Chandler Circl e Richmond, Virginia MR S. HOWARD

Peggy Huber called me recently and asked if I would take over her duties as class secretar y.

I had this job when we lived in Richmond be fore and you all were grand about sending me news items then. so please keep in touch thi s time . Thanks to Peggy for all of her fine let ters and her wonderful support of our class .

The annual fund-raising dinner was held in March and the class of '45 was represented by Ann Jackson, Connie Richards, Peggy Huber and me . It was an evening well spent and the four of us were delighted to hear the wonderful accomplishments that are being made at Westhampton. Guess you have heard by now that the Blue Room is being completel y redecorated and I know you 'll want to contribute some funds toward that worthwhile project. We hope that some of you more prsperous ones will join the Tower Club .

Connie Richards heard from Lydia Crabtree Love and she is back in Paris . She spent Christ mas in Germany and had lunch one day with Doris Mills Harrell in Wiesbaden .

Ellen Powell Brooks Blackwell is back in this country and her husband is stationed at Fort Lee . If anyone has her address, please send it .

Ann Jackson attended a Women's Committee meeting for the Richmond Symphony in March and saw Mary Campbell Paulson there. Mary and Jack are completely remodeling their home in Newport News . Sounds as if they are going

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I would love co hear from you folks anytime -either by telephone or mail. Please remember co send a check for the Alumnae Fund.

1946 Secretary MRS.

EDWARD SCHMIDT,

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(Elizabeth Thompson) 4545 Stratford Road Richmond, Virginia We have only one item of news this time but it is choice! On February 1, 1964 Ashton Todd Lewis came to live with his three sisters (ages eleven, eight and three) and mother and dad. Nancy and Ashton Lewis of Gatesville, North Carolina. We are so happy for you, Nancy. You finally got that boy!

The next issue of the Bulletin will be the last one for me to write to you. Please let me hear from you in time to make it a good letter! Some of my group leaders have never sent any news. Let's make this last effort for more than one reason-for this is a golden year for Westhampton-her fiftieth birthday .

Though '46 will not be "reunioning" especially let's have everybody present or accounted for.

1947 Secretary MRS. foHN C. HORIGAN 4636 Stuart Ave. Richmond, Va.

(Mildred Daffron)

There is quite a lot going on in Richmond this year in connection with Westhampton's 50th anniversary. I wish everybody could be close enough to enjoy the programs but you will at least be hearing about them through the mail.

Jane Bently who was with us at W. C. for two years, is married to an Army Major, has four children, and is presently stationed in Japan. The tour will last about three years.

Sam and Sara Frances Young Derieux had a wonderful vacation trip to Bermuda aboard the Italian liner, Riviera, last spring. Their

daughter, Justine, is eight now and a pupil at Collegiate School.

Mary Lou Cumby had a very interesting letter from Toni Reid Zuercher . I suspect that she is one of the busiest among us. She has all four children in school now, from kindergarten to the eighth grade. Her oldest, John, goes to Jr. High School from 1:30 to 8:00 P.M. Imagine keeping up with meals and a schedule like that. In addition Toni is active in her Church and P.T.A. The Cralles-Jesse, Alice and Alice Louspent a lovely Christmas and New Year's in Fla. Previously they had gone to Durham for the Duke-Navy football game. Alice took her young daughter to the Alumnae Christmas party for children. She said that both mother and daughter enjoyed it very much.

Bev Patton Browne saw the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia last Dec. 7th. During the previous spring she and her mother toured the Charleston, S. C. gardens and also took the Embassy tour in Washington.

I must make apologies to Tina Clauter Stapleton. I failed to remember that she had five children when I commented on Betsy Slate Riley as being the only mother of five in our class. Tina should also be listed among our busiest mothers. She now has one in the first grade (Carol), David in the 2nd, Jackie in the 4th and Kathy in the 6th with only Jeff at home with her during the day. Her husband, Jack, a doctor, gets busier every year, more medicine and more civic work.

Margaret Goode Vicars wrote that her two are a third and a first grader. Daddy (Joe) coo is going to school this year-taking a weekly course in Economics at Roanoke College at Salem.

The Scirlings wrote from California that they have a move coming up this summer. Perhaps it will be close-we hope so. They are involved with the usual teen-age activities, and their baby, Stuart, is in nursery school.

Betty O'Brien Yeats writes that they are being introduced to the Northern winter sports of ice skating and sledding. She says that snow is on the ground most of the winter there.

We have two new addresses to give: Betsy Slate Riley and Buddy are now at Route 1, Hurt, Va.

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Betty Tinsley Andrews and Dick have moved their family into a lovely new home at 8240 Holstead Rd. in suburban Richmond.

When you get your letter rom the Alumnae Fund Chairman please answer it promptly.

This is such an important year for Westhampton and we want to do our part to make the celebration a success.

1949 Secretary WM. K. BARKER (Barbara Rhodes) 1700 Chadwick Drive Richmond, Virginia

MRS.

I must open this letter to you on a note of sadness. Carolyn Bonham Thompson died on March 6. Carolyn came to Richmond last summer for an operation at MCV. She had been in declining health since that time. Carolyn and Charlie were living in Marion, Virginia and had seven children-Betty (12), Gwyn (10), Susan (8), Lynn (6), Robert (4), and twin girls Margaret and Cynthian (16 months). I want to extend our deepest sympathy to Charlie and the children. Carolyn was a wonderful wife and mother and an inspiration to all who knew her.

Our deepest sympathy also goes out to Mary Burton Haskell Finleyson and Alex. Their son died early this year.

Marilyn Alexander Kubu writes that her husband Ed has been named Director of Research and Development for Allied Chemicals' new fiber division and they will be living just outside Richmond.

Jackie Cunningham is the librarian at Henrico High School here in Richmond. During the past summer she traveled through the New England States and all through the Dutch country of Pennsylvania.

Pat Allen Winters is teaching a second-third grade combination in Prince George County, Maryland. Last summer Pat and her sister, also a Westhampton graduate, took a trip to Europe with a teacher group. She visited London, Brussels, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Venice, Rome, and Paris. She is planning to go again this summer and study French for five weeks at the Sorbonne and then tour Spain and Portugal.

Dot Richwine Korb has been substituting at Chamberlayne Elementary and Henrico High School this year. She has been coaching two boys in Latin and still has found time for a night class at RPI. Betty Ann Allen Doub and Bill, after 14 years of marriage, were joined by their heir apparent Sandra Elizabeth on July 4. Bill is psychologist for the penal system and last year (after being in banking and personnel for years) Betty Ann did some consulting work for the State Industrial Farm for Women. During the Christmas holidays Mitzi Verra Williams and her two children from Winston-Salem, N. C., Betty Ann and Helen McDonough Kelley, with her four children, got together at Helen's for a very noisy afternoon.

Cary Walker Craig reports that she loves living in the San Francisco Bay area. She stays busy with her three children Pam (11), Tim (9) and Tracy (3). She still plays bridge when the opportunity presents itself.

Kie Van der Schalie Pedersrn and her husband are again living in the East. She was sorry to leave the West Coast after 8½ years, but is delighted to be finally settled in Allendale, N. J. While in San Rafael, California, she saw Cary Walker Craig several times and also went to some Bay Area Alumnae meetings.

Can anyone cop this? Janet Richards Stanton and Frank welcomed their 8th child, Emilie Margaret on July 26. This makes 5 girls and 3 boys. Janet has her hands full but manages to sneak out once a week to bowl with Frank in a mixed ten pin league. Frank was elected an assistant treasurer of Suburban Trust Co. in January.

Julie Moller Sanford writes that she and John have four children whose ages range from

3¾ to 7½ years. Julie is doing part time work in internal medicine while John is busy in surgery. They plan to sail to Denmark at the end of April to spend 6 weeks with Julie's parents in Copenhagen.

I had a long newsy letter from Harriet Hammond. For the past three years she has worked as secretary to Congressman Homer Thornberry (D., Texas). Working on Capitol Hill is extremely interesting but involves long hours and hard work. She decided to give this up and take a long automobile trip around the country before going to work again. She and her roommate left Alexandria on June 6th and returned about the end of August, having traveled exactly 12,098 miles. They had a wonderful trip and spent a couple of nights with LaVinia Watson Reilly. La Vinia's husband works at Disneyland, so they had a grand tour there. Harriet is now working as secretary for a real estate agency, but she misses the hustle and bustle of Capitol Hill. She sees Mary Lusby Scott quite often. Mary and Pete live in Washington, D. C. and Mary works at the Federal Reserve Bank.

Joyce Roberson Goforth is teaching fourth grade this year after taking last year off. Her oldest son Chris is in the fourth grade this year and was on Frosty's Little League team last summer. Joyce is taking a course at RPI this semester but still manages to work in two Women's Clubs, P .T.A., and Eastern Star. Her Junior Woman's Club honored her with an honorary membership upon her graduation last May. Joyce and Frosty stayed with Anne Bing Abbitt several times before Christmas while visiting Frosty's father at Virginia Baptist Hospital. He had two serious operations and died on December 18. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Joyce and Frosty.

Jackie Smith Hagan reports that her only news is that her doorway won first prize for being the most beautiful in the city of Franklin Christmas Contest. She is very proud of that, and also of the engraved silver tray they received as a gift.

Peggy Hassel Ford and Lee have a son Kevin Lee born on January 29.

The Alumnae Fund Dinner at school this year brought several of our class together. Mary Ann Peddicord Williams, Betty Evans Hopkins, Frankie Robison King, Brooke Triplett Grove, Libbie McNeal Claybrook, and I attended. I hope you have all sent your contributions by now.

I ran into Joyce Parrish Wills at a rehearsal for the dance recital. She and her two girls, along with my daughter Gail and me are going to be in a mother-daughter number in the recital at the Mosque in April.

Those of us in Richmond are making big plans for our reunion in June. I hope to see all of you then.

1950 Secretary

MRS. DAVIDB. BURBANK(Doris Balderson) 910 Hampstead Ave. Richmond 26, Va. The class of '50 families are still increasing.

Ida Smith Hall and Channing had their second son, John Lester, on December 14. In the same hospital at the same time was Janice Brandenburg Halloran. She and Charlie now have a third child, a girl, Amy Randolph, born on December 15.

Maggie Alexander Anderson and Sat announced the birth of their third boy, Christopher Burns, on Christmas Day. Mary Sue Mock Milton and Cecil welcomed the birth of their first child, a son, born in the fall. They have a new address. It is 1507-B Green Oaks Apartment, Charlotte, North Carolina. If I didn't mention it before, Cecil is an orthopedic surgeon.

Ruth Morrissey Bain and Tom report the birth of their son on November 20. They are planning to leave Southern Rhodesia in June for the trip home. They want to tour Europe before they return to the States. Tom will take

up residency at the University of Virginia in the fall.

I received a letter from Ellen Largent Perlman who is living in New Delhi, India, where her husband, Al, is the Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer with the U. S. Information Service.

Ellen says that Delhi is similar to Washington, D. C. It is spread out instead of up and is, being the capital city, a governmental worker's haven. She says that it is cold in the winter there, which they especially noticed after being in Bombay for a year where cottons were worn all the time. Ellen's address is: American Embassy-USIS, APO 675, New York, New York. Ellen and Al will be there for the next two years, so if you are planning a trip that way they would love to see you.

Peggy King Nelson and Earl have been transferred to 431 Heritage Way NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

New address for Mary Bowles Flanagan and Bob. It is 6429 Ascal Drive, Fort Worth, Texas.

Jo Martens extends an invitation to anyone in our class who might be going to the World's Fair this summer to stop in on her. She is thirty miles south of New York City about two miles off Route 46. She has two lovely guest rooms, she says. Her address is 109 Eloock Avenue, Boobton, New Jersey. The telephone number is Area Code 201-DE 4-0827.

I had a nice letter from long lost "Piggy" Wells Meador. She wrote that Ray is a real estate appraiser for Palmetto Federal Savings and Loan Association, a local association. He likes this type work very much. He is also the Superintendent of Sunday School and a deacon in their Presbyterian Church. Piggy is busy being a circle chairman and organizing a new class for young adults. She also is treating a couple of patients in their homes with physical therapy. Their boy, Ray, is six years old and their daughter, Robin, is four.

Barbara Covington O'Flaherty had a long note from Win Shanen Mitchell. She and her family had a motor trip to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard during the summer. Win has been busy in the PTA, Girl Scouts, and Sunday School. Bill was transferred to Baltimore, Maryland on January 1 and she will let us know the new address as soon as they sell their home in Pennsylvania and are settled in Baltimore.

Charlotte Westervelt Bispham and family spent a warm, sunny Christmas in Florida.

Vie Sanders Washburn and Ben had their third boy in December. They will be in Germany for one more year and then Ben will be due for new orders.

Aggie Field Burke wrote that David, Jr. has been such a happy baby that even sister, Ann, who is six years old, thinks he is worth keeping. She said that Lee Davis Chapin and Gerald gave a puppet show at the White House last fall for Caroline Kennedy and a group of her friends . It was in the paper there.

Libby Givens Pierce saw Pat Kelley Jordan and Alex in January during their weekend visit to Richmond.

Maryanne Bugg Lambert is quite busy now with a Brownie group . She and Pete plan to go to Roanoke in April for the Virginia-Carolina Hospital Convention. She had a letter from Barbara Beattie Fanney, who is in Cincinnati, Ohio. Skip is with the public health service and their three children are growing fast .

David and I plan to fly to New York City next week for our vacation. We want to see some plays and just rest.

News is due again in May. Please write to your leaders.

1951 Secretary MRS . CHANNING BASKERVILLE, JR.

(Libba Eanes) McKenney, Virginia

Suzie Gibson Madden and Ray have a new address. They are now in California where Ray is taking Operations Analysis at the Postgraduate School. Their now address is 1294 Spruance Road, Monterey, California. Their four children are Bill, Jim, Johnny, and Betsy .

Charlotte Herrink Jones' new address is 1633 Persinger Road, S.W., Roanoke, Virginia .

A nice long letter from Jean Lowe Bradley reports news from her family. "Holt will be three on March 5 and is all boy . He now has a black eye and six stitches in his forehead-looks as if he has been in a fight but just accidents."

Ann Lowe was five in September.

Jo Hyche Baulch and her family will be in Montgomery, Alabama until June . Jo has four boys-Tex (11), Joey (10), Johnny (8), and Michael (3).

Millie Wright Outten writes "that they are well and happy. Jeff is in the first grade, Cornelia is in kindergarten and Sam is in my hair."

Millie and Joe live in Greenville, South Carolina.

Pat Smith Kelly and Page are receiving congratulations on the arrival of their fourth son in late September.

Another member of our class is going back to school. Norma Streever Doss is taking a night school course at R.P .I. in pre-elementary education. She is commuting to Richmond each Wednesday night . Norma finds that she is well occupied with her school work, three small children and housework.

Ann Marie Hardin Bailey reports things are looking better this year in England now that they have moved to base quarters with central heating. They lived in a country cottage with only fireplaces for heat . They are constantly on the go to see all that the continent has to offer.

Ann Marie, Ben, and the two girls made a trip to Holland last spring but since have confined their wonderings to England alone. Ann Marie plans a trip to Germany in March to a Scout Conference.

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Jo Asbury Hopkins writes that she now has all of her boys in school and that she, Hal and the boys have taken up camping as a most enjoyable summer sport.

I was sorry to hear that Piret Koljo Cruger's husband has been in the hospital with heart trouble . Other illnesses in the family have kept her busy too. Do hope that everyone is better now .

Bett y Baker Peachey and John bought a swimming pool last summer but almost felt it unnecessary when a flood put two feet of water in their basement. Betty keeps busy with her two boys, John (5), and David (3). Betty also finds time co be president of a missionary group and sponsor of a Sunday night youth group.

Mary Ann Hubbard Dickenson and Boyd are planning a Florida trip in March with three of their live children.

Jeanne Goulding Cheatham and Russell are thoroughly enjoying their new life in Raleigh.

Jeannette Aderhold Brown has added dancing class chauffering to her ocher activities. Her girls are Jeannette, Jeanne Claire, and Deborah Lynn.

Lee Thompson Osburn writes chat she and Will flew to New York in November for a live day stay. It was a mixture of business and pleasure.

Lea sent news from Liz Latimer Kokiko. Liz writes, "For those of you who remember my are celebrating their fiftieth mom and dad-they the end of December. wedding anniversary (My mother went co her fiftieth college reunion two years ago .) Anyway, we live off-springs are honoring their grand event by having a reception for chem at one of our hotels in Washington. So you can imagine how much we are looking forward to this gala event."

Bobbie Brown Y agel and Myron have their third child and first girl. Lori arrived March 6.

Steve and Craig are thrilled to have a little sister.

Mary Ann Hardenbergh arrived last August 30th. The proud parents are Jane Slaughter Hardenbergh and Firmon. Their other children are Esther Jane (3½) and Gordon (2½) .

1952 Secretary MRS.

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(Bettie Snead) Boydton, Virginia The nicest Christmas present of all was from Claire Carlton! It is certainly one that will be enjoyed for a long, long time. Each group leader I heard from asked me to express thanks from their group and we all appreciate the work chat went into chis fine listing of our class.

We want to express our deepest sympathy to Kathy Cole Lee. Her husband, Bill, died soon after they had moved to Greenville, N. C. Kathy and her son, Stuart have now returned co Wilson, N. C. where they lived formerly.

P. S. to Addie's group in the form of a nice, long letter from Janet Storm. (Mrs . Bruce Pengelley, Awali, Box 817, Bahrain, Persian

Gulf). "Life on Bahrain really isn 't new to me as I grew up here, but it certainly isn't the picnic it used to be. Unfortunately Bapco (Bahrain Petroleum Company) doesn't have a policy of sending its employees on vacation in the summer. You go when your leave falls due every two years. We have just spent our fourth consecutive summer here and each year it seems to be hotter and last longer . However, there are compensations. All the houses and buildwhich doesn't help ings are air-conditioned, Bruce as he works in the field, but makes for comfortable living . There's never any problem day is sunny about drying the washing-every and if you plan a picnic or barbecue you never have to worry about alternate plans in case of rain. It's really ideal for bringing up little children. They wear a minimum of cloches most of the year; they run about fr~ely outdoors with no worries about heavy road traffic; and enjoy an abundance of warmth and sunshine. All children seem to thrive here.

"Bruce is a keen swimmer so one advantage of the climate for our three is chat Bruce is training them to be excellent swimmers. Jenny is 8 now and doing well at school. It 's run on the British system so when she comes home with arithmetic problems dealing in pounds, shillings and pence she can do chem quicker than I can. Even after all these years as an Englishman's wife I still have to think twice about a coin before I know what it is or if my change is right. I used to just hand over the biggest note I had and get change until one day my purse burst and poured coins all over the sidewalk much to my acute embarrassment; so I have given that idea up! This of course applies to when we're in England. We use Indian rupees here and they're on the decimal system.

"Back to the kids. Kathy is 6 and has just started school. She likes it very much and it 's amazing how quickly they learn to read once they scare. Richard is 3 and a handful. He can from spillget up to more mischief-anything ing ink on my good carpet, to pouring kerosene all over the verandah, to climbing up onto the top shelf of a cupboard and getting stuck there.

You name it. He's done it.

"That's the family. My parents live just 13 miles away at Manama so we see them often.

They had a trip to the States this summer and are now back for two final years before retiring .

"We're making plans for our leave coming up in January. We 'll be going to England where we have a house and are looking forward to the change even if it is cold. The kids of course are hoping for lots and lots of snow.

We'll be away until the end of March. " Tharpie's new address is Mrs . Earle McCann, 4544 S. Chelsea La ., Bethesda, Md. Jane Ratcliffe Hardies writes "Cynthia was hospitalized in October and had minor surgery.

It seems a congenital urinary defect has just shown up so we are still working with chis problem .

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"This past Christmas was, I think, the most enjoyable we have had. My mother and sister flew out for a few days and Geoff was recovering from chicken pox. Cindy started the new year with it.

"In September I started working with the Red Cross as a Gray Lady at the local hospital.

This cakes no special talent but it does bring me in contact with all types of people and I certainly enjoy it. Right now we have no vacation plans . This is the year a strike is expected at the plant and if chis happens Don will have to live in the plant . Two years ago there was a strike threat and it was a mess for salaried personnel. All vacations were cancelled and we never knew if Don would be coming home or not. We are starting play in a bridge tournament this month to last chru June."

Addie writes that "the Comegys have been having great fun on the weekends going up to our newly acquired cottage and ski cabin on Squam Lake, N . H. We take the dogs and friends of Lee 's with us each time. He caught our first bass thru 2 feet of ice recently! There are ski areas all around so it's an all-around place which we just love.

"Lee had her first piano recital recently which was successful, although tense for her Ma and Pa! My presidency of our church's guild has kept me on the go all year ."

Betty Crews Watkins has had much difficulty in getting news from her group so here's what we could put together: 1) Betty Crews is Mrs. Earle Watkins, South Hill, Va . Earle is a self-employed pharmacist and they have three girls: Scotty, 10, in 4th grade; Anne, 7, in first grade; Christy, 2. Betty says all she does is play bridge, but I doubt that!

2) Kitty Little Dupuy is Mrs. John D. Alfriend, Boydton, Va. They have four girls: Emily, 9; Peggy, 6; Lucy, 4; Sarah, 2. John is Rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Boydton. He also has a church in Clarksville and one outside of Boydton . They bought an old house several years ago and it keeps chem busy.

3) Lou Glading is Mrs. Maynard H. Shelton, Jr., Starling Ave., Martinsville, Va. Bud is a self-employed pharmacist. Their children are Chip, 9; Frank, 6; Frances, 2 and Markley, 1.

Their little girl Ann, 3, died this January as a result of burns. We all extend to them our deepest sympathy.

4) Sande Glass is Mrs. Robert Rubin, 1200 Cambridge Ave., Plainfield, N. J . Bob is a surgeon and their children are Lisa and Mark.

5) LeNeve Hodges is Mrs. Allen Adams, Park Dr., Raleigh, N. C. Allen is a lawyer, president of the Young Democratic Club and they both are active in politics. Their children are Anne, 10; Jefferson, 8; and Spencer, 2.

6) Marian Lacy is Mrs . Walt Mahon, Bowling Green, Va. Walt is in banking and real estate. Their children are Laura, 4 and Bernard, 2. Lacy is in the Jr. Woman's Club, Board of Directors of Rescue Squad and county cancer unit. She has also done some substitute teaching. They have built a new home recently.

7) Nina Landolina is Mrs. I. Ray Byrd, 226 Lewis Ave., Salem, Va. Ray is a self-employed pharmacist and their children are Carol, 10; Ray, Jr ., 5; and Mary Catherine, 1. Nina is a "housewife and mother and happy to be!"

8) Jane Ozlin is Mrs . Fred Given, 1130 Hanover Ave ., Norfolk, Va. Fred is an obstetrician and has just moved into a new office. He is active in American Cancer Society and head of the Tumor Clinic at DePaul Hospital. Jane keeps busy at home with little ones and not many outside activities. They have just returned from a medical meeting in Florida. Their children are: Jeannette, 7, in first grade; Mary Jane, 5, in kindergarten; Jeffress, 4 and Robert, 2. They enjoy trips to South Hill occasionally.

They have an older house with the "lived-inwent thru ordeal of inside painting. look"-just 9) Janie Tune is Mrs. James R. Sease, 810 Va. Jimmy is a S. High St., Harrisonburg, surgeon. Their children are Beth, 6; Dolly, 4;

Sally, 2; and J. R. S., Jr., born October 2nd.

Janie has been caking riding lessons and teaches a Sunday School class of 17-18 yr. old girls at the Baptist Church. They are crazy about the Valley.

10) Ann \Villiamson is Mrs. Robert Beasley, 4308 Ocean Front, Va. Beach, Va . Bob is with Tidewater Supply Co. They have a lovely home on the ocean front. Ann takes an annual trip to Ashville. Their children are Robert, 13; Allen, 11; Katherine, 8; and Mary Ann, 5. l t) Me . . . Scott is a self-employed pharmacist. Our children are Bettie Scott, 9, in the third grade and an industrious Brownie; Tommy, 7 and in first grade where he loves homework! Ginny, 3, bosses us all around. I stay busy keeping track of all you girls, plus the usual round of civic things. I have the G.A.'s in our church and enjoy chat a lot. We moved into our new home finally on Dec. 12th and it is "ab-Snerd" how long it took to build it.

We are just as happy as can be in it and invite you all to come see us.

Liz Kennard just had her seventh chlid, a girl, Mariam Catherine.

Our sympathy to Jane Camelin Minor on the loss of her mother.

Mary Ann has a partial address for Jo Soles Garnett; Flat Rock Rd., Ridgefield, Conn. We would love some news from her and her family.

Mary Ann asks again about the Memorial Fund. Any word from you?

Aileen Cunningham Huff's new address is P. 0 . Box 247, Callao, Va. In May of '62 Bill completed his work for his master's degree. On Sept . 13, 1963 William Peter Huff IV joined the family. Sisters Susan, 11 yrs. and Kathy Jo, 8 yrs . are very attentive to the addition. While in Gloucester, Aileen did quite a bit of substitute teaching and PTA work.

Dru Marshall Waring writes that baby Jill sweet, good and friendly." is "just a doll-so Lynn, 4, goes to nursery school.

Carol Melton Sinclair writes chat they are finding Ayden, N . C. a very nice town and she keeps busy in her housework with three children and as a minister 's wife.

Sarah Barlow Wright attended the SRA Reading Institute in Washington last July. In August she attended the Va. Education Assoc. Local Leaders' Conference at Mary Washington College and in October the Centennial Convention in Richmond. While in Richmond she attended the swimming pool dedication. "Colgate Darden's tribute was inspiring and the pool is a beauty."

So nice to hear from Paralee Neergaard Stout.

Her husband, Jack, is the District Sales Engineer for the Torrington Company of Torrington, Conn. "We have lived here in Willingboro for four years. Our children are John Alston, 6 and Stephen Christian, 4. Johnny will be finishing kindergarten in June. After looking after mv house and family, plus church activities, I do find time to make all my own cloches, which I have been doing for the past year. I am presently attending night school taking a course in advanced tailoring which I find a lot of fun ."

Glad coo to hear from Joy Selby Scollon.

Early last summer Joy's 4th child was born, Daniel Ballard, making it two each in the child Two days after Joy and Danny department. came home from the hospital, "chaos began."

Cal was offered a job as Malaysia-PhilippinesIndonesia desk officer for the Asia Foundation.

After 10 years in Hawaii, it was a difficult decision co move, but Joy writes that "The change has been a big one, and while we think longingly of the Islands, we are well satisfied with our move.'' Home base for the Scollons is San Francisco, though they will spend some time in the future in Malaysia or the Philippines. The Scollons bought a home in Lucas Valley which is 15 miles from the Golden Gate; the house is modern with the rooms built around an interior atrium (on bare soil). We wish them well and welcome them back to the "mainland." New address: Mrs. R. C. Scollon, Jr., 33 Mount

Faraker Dr., San Rafael, Calif.

Joyce Bell Cody writes, "those who remember my great athletic ability will be amazed to know that every Saturday morning I go ice skating! Starting in January, we began our weekly treks to the local ice rink and all five of us love it. The family that skates together, falls together, but I heartily recommend it for all."

Sue Easley Candler 's husband Ralph came home Dec. 27th for three weeks, then was gone again until May or June. She and the children spent Christmas in Clarksburg with her family . She and Monty and two other "widows" have been meeting for a monthly luncheon at the Tea Room. Lawrence also came home for three weeks in December .

Bev Gilbert Lovell has four children, 1 parakeet and a hamster!

Jackie Jardine Wall and Bo have bought a farm in the Farmville area and are starting to build.

Lelia Adams Anderson writes "our boys are now 10 and 6 and both in school so I am enjoying some free time and really having a ball.

We are gradually becoming used to the midwest but still long for Virginia. We are covered under a blanket of snow and suffering with below 0° temperatures now."

Sympathy co Anne Gib son Hutchison on the sudden death of her only brother Phil a few days before Christmas . Since the holiday season, Anne and her family have been able to get away for a much needed rest and change of scenery co Palm Beach, Florida, and for a short visit to Lake Lure.

Enjoyed a very attractive Christmas letter from Lu Angell Soukup, complete with pictures of her two children. Alan is a 3rd grader, studies piano and is a junior usher at church.

He sounds like a wonderful little boy with many interests and lots of ability. Nancy is going to kindergarten and does all the "little girl things" of her age with plenty of personality along with it. Lu's brother graduated from college chis past spring. He is studying English at Duke University Graduate School. Lu and family motored co Ohio and Michigan and returned through Ontario and N. Y. state last August. Lu is Vice-President of her Guild at St. Andrew 's Church and has been soprano soloist for five years. She is PTA secretary and stays busy with music commitments. Roy is programming for the 1410 and 1401 IBM computers as well as the older 705 at duPont.

Again thanks to those who wrote. Hope to Hopkins ' group Jeanne Hootman "feature" next time. So please help Jeanne get hers complete.

1953 Secretary (Gerrie Kantner) MRS. H. S. ]oNES 8309 Vernelle Lane Richmond 29, Va. We have some new addresses and are still looking for another; so lee's take care of that before we go on to the letters.

Mrs. E. A. MacEwan (Doris Johnston), 2040 Seabrook Drive, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Mrs. Grace Grizzard (Grace Williams), Rt. 3, Box 58, Elgin, Illinois.

Mrs. Chase Ambler (Connie Shuford), Bolles School, Jacksonville, Florida.

Carla Waal, Johnston Hall 223, Graduate Residence Center, Bloomington, Illinois.

We need to know the whereabouts of Jackie Downing or Barbara Hopp. Please drop me a line if you know the current addresses.

I had a long letter from Janet Johnston Parsons. She has two girls in school, two in kindergartrn and her son at home. In addition to her housework and chauffering, she is coaching high school and college math. She says it is interesting co note the change in both the material and the manner of presentation. She is only four blocks from the Old Dominion College and hopes to take a course there this fall.

Betty O'Bannon Culp writes that all goes well in Central New Jersey and she is looking

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forward co spring weather and no snowsuits.

A letter from Betty Eichelberger Allen arrived coo late for the last issue but the news is still new! She tells us that chis is Carla Waal's last year at Indiana University where she hopes to get her Ph.D. in June or August.

Her major is Drama and she is teaching parttime now. She recently played the part of Blanche in the University Theatre 's production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Jane Wilson Ralston and her husband took some of their young people on a tour of a few North Carolina colleges in the fall. While on the trip, she went over to Fairmont to spend a night with Bettie Kersey Gordon and her family. A newspaper clipping from the Bristol Herald Courier tells of Holmes ' participation in the Tower Room Scholar program at Union Theological Seminary here in January . I know Jane is proud of his accomplishments.

Jackie Gustin Boeh located two of our group who had not been heard from for awhile. Grace Williams Grizzard is living in Elgin, Illinois with her two children, Kevin and Lynn . She completed her work coward hu B.S. at Northern Illinois University and is teaching bus iness subjects at Elgin High School and Elgin Community College . Says she still has time for love. Jackie first extra-curricular bridge-her also heard from Connie Shuford . She was married November 27th co Chase Ambler and is living on the campus at a boys ' prep school where her husband is a coach and ph ysics instructor . She has a little boy, Scott, who is 6 years old. Connie is working as a secretary as well as keeping house .

Betty Davis Cocke is doing some welfare work with the city (Roanoke) since Freddie is in the 3rd grade and David in kind ergarten .

Ginny Carter did a wonderful job for the Roanoke Alumnae Club. Because of a bridge party with her homemade pecan pies as dessert, Ginny helped the club send its first contribution to the Alumnae Fund . Bill is business manager at Hollins College. His work touches on the acnon-academic phases of college life-from counting office co dairy farm. They are living in a comfortable apartment in a triplex on campus and attend as many evening speeches and concerts at the college as the baby-sitting budget will allow. Ginny is active in the League of Women Voters and the Great Books Club and Bill plays trombone with the Hollins Hambones, a faculty jazz band . But they derive their greatest pleasure from Jennie who is a lovely, lively 10-month-old doll.

Jackie and Virgil have redone their house and are waiting for spring so they can begin their city gardening. Ditto the Joneses .

Jane Cacher is busy with teaching and church work, but found time to write. I'm looking forward to her annual visit to Richmond in April for the Model General Assembly . She heard from Faye Kilpatrick who is enjoying being busy in her new home with her third girl.

Our sympathy goes out to Doris Johnston MacEwan whose father died last September .

Doris and Mac and their twins, Joan and Jean, live in Canada where Mac works for the Canadian government.

I had a wonderful newsy letter from Alice Gardner Wilson who is in Thailand. I am quoting from it for you to enjoy as much as I did.

We have several missionaries in our class and our prayers are with them in their great unas "J. L. and I were appointed dertaking. last Missionaries Foreign Baptist Southern April, and we arrived in Thailand last August .

As you can well imagine, these past four months have been strange and fascinating ones for us! Bangkok itself is a half-old, half-new city which combines the Orient with the West.

One can see muddy klongs packed with fish and naked swimming children, running along roads with the newest Mercedes Benz . Across from our mission home (a lovely modern house with all the Stateside conveniences) is a herd and the smells leave (literally) of buffalo ...

something to be desired! Many of the people wear western clothes, but real shoes are a rarity! I could go on, but I'll run out of room.

J. L. and I are in the swim of language school and believe me, it's the hardest thing I've ever done. Thai has five tones, with many consonantvowel combinations really having the possibility of five different words. As if that isn't enough, we find that there are 44 consonants I don't know HOW many and ... as yet ... possible vowel combinations. No punctuation or capitalization . . . or, for that matter, space between words! I had trouble enough with French and Spanish in college . . . you can imagine what I do to the Thai. Luckily, we have good teachers, and we spend twenty hours a week in school plus as many more out of class . . . so some of this has to rub off. I find that I can bargain like a pro (thanks to a whole week of learning buying and selling terms), and it's a real pleasure to see the shopkeepers come down when they think you know what you're talking about! But I can't tell a soul about Christ yet since many of the Biblical terms are in a High language that we haven't begun learning yet (although at the Thai church we attend we do pick up some words). We begin studying fohn after Christmas.

"The first months we were here we spent our weekends visiting various churches and seeing the work in this part of Thailand. Southern Baptist work is very slight here . . . we have but re54 missionaries under appointment, sponse to the gospel is quite slow. Thailand is Buddhist (National religion). Now we are going to a Thai church, Paknam, on Sundays; and we expect to start helping with an English class there after Christmas. When we have learned the language (two years) J. L. will be teaching in our Seminary here in Bangkok. I miss the hustle and bustle of the State churches; as well as the busy life of a minister's wife; but with the many new things to see and do there is no time to be bored.

"Debbie and Beth are both quite happy here in Sunny Thailand, and we are more than pleased with their schools. Debbie is in first school (about 1,000 grade at International students, American plan). Beth goes to a French-Thai nursery school (European plan) which boasts a swimming pool and French lessons. I'm not sure whether Beth is learning a thing (she comes home singing songs which French!) are a far cry from Miss Wright's but she is at least happy. (Beth is 3, Debbie 6) I'd love to hear from any Westhampton folks who'd write, Box 832, Bangkok, Thailand." took the three As for the Jones family-We children to Philadelphia in January. My high school class had its fifteenth reunion and it was so nice to see folks I hadn't seen since I left the North to come to W. C. Thanks for the news. I hope to hear from the following group leaders next time: Lou Hudgins McNally, Betty Mont~omery Marsh, Betty Eichelberger Allen, Betty Andrews Rhudy, Pat Shomo Brad-

shaw, Bobbie Reardon and June Pair Carter. If you are in these groups, write!

1954 Secretaries MRS. WARRENFLANNAGAN (Barbara Moore) 4403 Kingcrest Parkway Richmond, Va. Mrss MARCELLAHAMMOCK 2620 Hanover Ave. Richmond, Va. Our big class news is the tenth reunion in June. Plans are in full swing for June 5th and 6th, thanks to two of our very competent classmates, Nancy Graham Harrell and Nancy Harvery Yuhase. A meeting of local 54ers was held in February at Marcella's apartment and if that small gathering is any indiction of our reunion, it promises to be most delightful. At the meeting plans were proposed and opposed, with everyone showing lots of interest and enthusiasm. Those present were Mrs. Leslie Booker, Miss Mary Jane Miller, Bobbie Taves Bender, Roberta Cohen Cohen, Nancy Stanley Cockrell, Ruth Zehner Seibold, Nancy Harvey Yuhase, Nancy Graham Harrell, Marcie Hammock, and Barbara Moore Flannagan.

The latter part of January several of us met Linda Goodman Lewis downtown for lunch; Mary Lou Dorsey, Sara Sherman Cowherd, Nancy Graham Harrell, and Barbara Flannagan.

Linda and Denby were in Richmond for several days while he attended M.C.V. reunion doings. and best wishes to Jane Congratulations Betts and "Buzz" Schmitt on the arrival of daughter Jennifer Bruce on January 22nd . and best wishes also go to Congratulations on the Edie Burnett Grimes and "Whitey" arrival of their fourth child, Tommy, last June 10th.

Sue Perry Downing is now teaching high school English in Warsaw. She filled in for another teacher the latter part of the first term and will teach all of this term.

Shirley and "Buddy" Wingfield are building a new home and hope to be in by spring.

Mary Jo Arnold Markham and Bob and 2½ year old "Kathy" plan to leave for New Orleans the first of June where Bob will begin work on his Ph .D. in English at Tulane. In celebration of their tenth wedding anniversary they spent Easter week in Nassau.

Ruth Zehner Seibold enjoyed a Christmas card from Mary Alice Wagner Grebner and family. They are in Pittsburgh and have two children.

We understand that Betty Mozingo Lucas is doing some social work again, in Roanoke, now that both boys are in school.

Early in March Beverley Priddy left our fair city for two weeks vacation in Florida.

Betsy Garrett Meyers wrote on a Christmas card that she, Duane, Liz and Lynn were then in the process of moving to Pittsburgh.

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the Christmas holidays. She was taken ill while home and went to Florida to visit her brother to her before returning while recuperating work on Mackinac Island in New York.

Nancy Stouh Fox is teaching in Springfield, Va. Would love to hear more about her Denton, the twins and her other son.

Jean Burgess Sadler and Bill and family moved to Chester, Virginia in August and went into their new home in December. Jean is teaching physics and science.

We wish to extend our best wishes to Millie Wood who recently became Mrs. Martin in Richmond. Millie was the nurse at the infirmary while we were out at Westhampton.

Hope to see all of you in June at our tenth reunion. And try to get your contribution mailed in before then. Every little bit helps and it still is our college.

New Addresses.

Mrs, Denton Fox (Nancy Stouh), 7317 Gresham St., Springfield, Va. Mrs. William Sadler (Jean Burgess), Grove Ave., Box 227 B, Route 3, Chester, Va. Mrs. Edith Grimes (Edith Burnett), 7 James Street, Woodcliff, N. J. 1955 Secretary MRS. ZED J. WAMPLER,JR. (Jody Weaver) 6307 Colebrook Road Richmond, Virginia 23227 You have surprised me again. Each time I think I won't hear from anyone, then some long lost souls turn up with lengthy letters of fascinating activities. This time there were several, the first arriving the day after my last deadline.

E. A. Allen-is Ann Allen, oops-Captain now in Stuttgart, Germany, having arrived last November on the USS United States ("extremely plush"). Ann reports it was a rough crossing since "that ship aims for speed and doesn't care what the weather is!" The service was exemplary, the cuisine tremendous. 90% of the passengers and crew were seasick, but not our Ann. After 7 years in the Army, Ann is still in Intelligence, but now is one of the three women with a fighting battle group. Sounds interesting, doesn't it? Her full address is now Capt. E. A. Allen L2287319, P. 0. Box 99, APO 154, New York, N. Y. Many thanks for all of the delightful Christmas cards and especially those with news attached. Along with a darling picture of Ethel Smith Amacher's daughter, Terrell, came news of their big Christmas in Tennessee with the Amacher clan, a "BIG" family. Also via Ethel, news of a new addition to the household of Gail Tench Miller and Newton, namely V. Newton III, born December 11, 1963. There are several other new additions this time. Virginia Lovelace Barbee and Allen have a new daughter, Katherine Barrett, born January 31, 1964, and Carolyn Neale Lindsey and Jimmy have another daughter, Rebecca, born December 6, 1963. She joins Sarah, 5, and Jeanie, nearly 2.

I almost forgot the rest of my ne,,,s about Smitty and her family. They are now living at 140 31st Ave. NW in Hickory, N. C. where Martin is Director of the Family Guidance Clinic, Inc. There are quite a few address changes so please note on your mailing list and alter accordingly. Mariah Chisholm Shafner is at 208 Kinston Drive in LeMay 25, Missouri. Ann's address came via Janice Elliott Lovig who saw her last fall. Janice also sent a delightful picture of herself, from the Cedar Rapids Gazette, showing the winners of the best costume awards at the Cedar Rapids 4th annual Beaux Arts Ball in February and our Janice won the award for the best woman's costume. I wish all of and most you could see it. It's delightful original.

I recently received a grand letter from Mary Ann Logan Mongan in which she brought me up-to-date on their wanderings. Brenton has

left IBM in Poughkeepsie and is now an engineer with Creative Packaging, Inc., a division of Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co., in Roanoke.

Their rented house in Roanoke burned the end of February and they lost some of their possessins, but luckily their insurance covered their loss and things are looking up. They are now building a new home in the Stonegate area of Salem, where their mailing address is Box 883, Salem, Va . Mary Ann and Brenton have two boys, Brenton Lee, 4, now in nursery school, and William Quinn, almost 3.

Another change in address is for Jo Earnest Holzer who now resides at 85 Valley Road, Larchmont, N . Y. They are most excited about their new sailboat , a 30-foot cruiser, which will be moored five minutes from their front door . Jo says they hope to do a lot of cruising and as much racing as possible . Daughter Lisa is being fitted for her own life preserver and hopes to be aboard as often as Mother and Daddy will allow.

Margaret English Lester and Morton had a nice trip to Florida in January. They flew down with Margaret's sister and brother-in-law in his plane. Speaking of Florida, Joy Winstead Propert and Dave will soon be leaving same, and heading back to Richmond, where Dave will take a one year's residency in cardiovascular diseases at McGuire Hospital.

Our number one class traveler , Alice Mccarty, made a trip home for Christmas and since then, has only (?) one trip to Washington and two to New York to her credit. What a shame!

There are a few stay-at-homes in this class, who keep busy, too. Norma Howard Matthews writes from California that she is now an officer in the PTA and a brownie mother for Lind sey. Pat Minor Aldhizer recently finished coordinating the annual Junior Woman's Club fashion show in Harrisonburg, and knowing Pat, I'm sure it was a tremendous success .

Zed and I spent an exciting week-end in February at the H omestead with several couples from Richmond, and our first attempt s to ski were hilarious, a bit bruising, but wonderful fun. We're real addicts now and can hardly wait for next winter . March 10th, I went out to Westhampton for tapping of the ten new Mortar Board members. They were a thrilled group, as usual, and this year Miss Frances Gregory was tapped as an honorary member. I was thrilled, too, because one of the new members was a girl I had taught at Douglas Freeman in the ninth grade. Unfortunately, this sort of thing also makes you feel a bit old and feeble.

My thanks to all of you who sent your quarters and by the way, it's not too soon to start thinking about our reunion next year, so if any of you have some ideas as to how we can celebrate the occasion, please let me hear from you .

(I'd like to hear from you anyway .)

1957 Se cretary

MRS. GEORGEM. BALL (Margaret Logan) 294 Morris Avenue Mountain Lak es, New Jers ey Faye Jones Townsend and Bob welcomed their third child, third boy, on November 23.

Faye says Thomas Carl is a talented eater and sleeper and the easiest of the lot. Bob is enjoying his work as Assistant Reference Librarian in the Industry and Science Division of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. The Townsends have lived in Dayton since 1962 and like it very much.

Rosie Allen Barker has been lecturing on Romantic poetry to a class of 200 twice a week since Christmas at Victoria College, University of Toronto. She continues her research duties, and John is working on his PhD in history.

Prime Minister Pearson is an alumnus of Victoria College and the Barkers met him at an alumni function.

Jackie Randlette Tucker has stopped teaching and turned her attention to a class of one, An-

drew Dunn Tucker, born December 12. Jennie Jo Fyock Tignor and Milton also had an early Christmas present, John Lewis, born December 6.

Marcia Slaven Moss writes that their third child Gary Blair was born November 20. Marc is almost four, and Pamela is two. Burton finishes his pediatric residency this June and they will then move to Washington, D. C., where he has a fellowship in Pediatric Allergy at Children's Hospital.

Aimee Lee Raveling Cheek, Petey, and two year-old Wendy are back in Charlottesville where Petey is teaching at U. Va. Aimee Lee is auditing a class in poetry.

Belated best wishes to Drs . Leah Eubank and Alexander W. Williams, Jr., who were married last June . It 's a story straight out of Ben Casey, though I guess they 're tired of hearing that one. Al interned at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia where Leah is finishing up her Internal Medicine residency. This July the Williamses are moving to Burlington, Vermont, where Al will complete his residency and Leah will do research in Rheumatology at the U. of Vermont Medical College Hospital.

Carol Murphy Paulson and Bill are now living in Evanston, Illinois, where Bill attends Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He is studying for the Episcopal priesthood. They have two sons, Eric, three and David, two.

Rita Davidson Stein and Jerry have a second child, David Brian, born November 30. Michelle delights in playing "little mother" and Rita is keeping busy with family, bridge club, and Wives Group.

Barbara Goodman Burton and Al have moved to Springfield, Virginia. Barbara says she hasn't braved the roads and traffic of Washington yet, but did take the children to the Kennedy grave.

Nancy, the Baby Cup winner, is now six and a half! Chuck is a year older, David is four, Andrew three, and Jonathan is eight months .

Lovey Jane Long Walker has left her job and returned to domesticity . She's enjoying their new house in the Richmond suburbs .

Since February, Phyllis Lewis Neal has been working as a reporter for the Richmond News Leader. She has had a by-line already, on a story about Westhampton's '64 May Queen.

Mary Garland Cox is back in Richmond, teaching fourth grade at Collegiate. She is sharing an apartment with Marcella Hammock, class of '54.

Judy Twyford Davey and Jim had a winter vacation this year-a week at Stowe, Vermont, sans children. Judy gave her new skis a real workout . George and I went to Killington for a weekend, and I agree with Jud y that Ver mont skiing spoils you for anything less . We 've been introducing Jim and Tracy to skis . They are making progress, though Tracy likes the lift better than the downhill action.

Nancy Bertsch Ratchford and Bill toured the Pennsylvania and Delaware antique circuit on a recent vacation. Nancy writes that Hope Horney Wendt has a baby girl, Jennifer, born the week before Christmas.

Kitty Alford Connor has taken up star-gazing with son, F. G.-preparing for the space age!

She is doing some substitute teaching now.

From now "till we meet again" in '67, your friendly alumnae secretary will be Carolyn Naumann Robertson . My heartfelt thanks to the group leaders who have been so helpful.

1958 S ecretar y MRS. G. L. HOLDER(Sarah Ashburn) 45 Holiday Hill Crestview Heights Endi cott, New York Becky Branch Faulconer writes that she and Harold are settled back in Louisville again. A Medical convention took them to New Orleans, where Becky hoped to see the French Quarter and have breakfast at Brennan 's during their week there.

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a glamorous stay. Suzanne Kidd had a four-day trip to Florida to attend the Bach Festival in Winter Park. On March 15, Suzanne performed for the Arlington Alumnae Club at St. Andrews Church. I would also like to comment here that Suzanne's concert at Cannon Memorial Chapel in February was outstanding, and very well attended.

June Gray was at Westhampton to speak to the Physical Education majors recentl y. June is working on her thesis for her Masters Degree.

Dottie Goodman Lewis writes that David was on a three-month cruise down around Puerto Rico and Cuba. Dottie joined him in San Juan for a few days and highl y recommends this lovely place.

Suzie Prillaman Wiltshire reports that Charley has been awarded a Hay Fellowship for 1964-65 for study in the humanities. He was the only Virginian selected . There are six participating Universities and he will be attending Yale. They plan to leave Richmond in Septem ber .

I guess the prize for traveling the farthest goes to Eddie Knipling Lake who came from Yokohama, Japan to Arlington, Richmond and then back to Monterey, California where she and John will be living for the next 2 years.

Eddie looks wonderful and is looking forward to playing "housewife " again since John has had ship duty about nine months out of the year. Eddie says that her three- and one-year old sons speak with a Japanese accent in broken English that even she can't understand .

Marti Haislip Padgett reports an active Alumnae Club in Atlanta. Marti is Sec.-Treas . of the group and is recruiting any '58er s who might be moving into the area. She and Puggy are both active in their church in Decatur and Marti did volunteer work with school dropouts this fall.

Elinor Delong Belk wrote that Mar y Dee modeled in the Miller & Rhoads Easter T. V. show. Maybe some of you saw her . Ka y Ownb y is still teaching biolo gy in Petersburg and gets home on weekends. Genie Borum had a fine time on her first ski trip, and tore a cartilage in her knee after she returned home . What a shame. Bobi Wil ~on Crumpton is still working for the Jefferson Manufactur ing Co. and keeps busy at home helpin g her seven- and nine-year old children with their homework.

Nancy Jane Cyrus provided much news from Anne Hite Owen Huband. Anne Hite and Otis are living in Perugia, Italy for the coming year .

Most of the buildings the re are 1200 years old, and the surrounding country side is lovely.

They have visited in Venice , where Anne Hite said she hadn't realized the extent of the canals.

They also took a breach-taking ride through the Alps to Vienna. Anne Hite says that she and Otis are speaking enough Italian to get by, but plan to take Italian at the Italian University of Foreign Students in April.

Carol Brie Griffiths and Harold are the proud parents of Elizabeth Anne, born January 20. Shirley Hill Bishop and Skip had their third son, Leigh, born January 13. Cora Sue Elmore Spruill and Joe moved into their new home on the Rappahannock River in Tappahannock in November and two weeks later their second son Robert Leigh arrived . Maril yn Hunter Adams and Lynn have a daughter, Kell y Marie, born on Februar y 26. Beth Smith Steele and Bob are enjoying their daughter, Ali son Bryant, born on February 2. Beth said they see Mariett Ayers Eggleston and Jim occa sion ally . Mariett is secretar y of the newl y organized Lynchburg Alumnae group .

Jane and Lou Thorpe have bought a home and plan to move around Easter. Tomi Irvine Freese and Jack are enjoying their new home , which is located near lakes, shopping centers, and school in West Palm Beach.

Another '58er settling in a new place is Carolyn Smith Yarbrough , Dabney , and their two children. They drove from San Antonio to Richmond, with the children, in two sepa rate cars . The Yarbroughs are living across the street from Nancy Goodwyn Hill.

I don't have an address for Sonya Greenblatt Floum. If anyone can help me find her I would appreciate it .

Gene and I are settled in Endicott, which is located in the Southern Tier of New York Scace. We have been in our home two weeks and are very much pleased with it. I miss Richmond and the close contact with so many of the '58ers, but will appreciate more than ever the helpful and newsy letters. I would like to hear from more of you next time.

1959 Secretary Mrs . Ellis M. Dunkum (Elizabeth Ramos) 3431 A West Franklin St. Richmond 21, Virginia On June 5th we shall begin our fifth reunion celebration with dinner at the William Byrd Motor Hotel. We are counting on each one of you to make this a big success; so plan to be present.

There are 114 persons on our class roll. From these , forty-nine have returned their questionnaires. If all of these questionnaires were returned, we could have a complete record of our class . If you are one who has not returned this information to me, please do so now. With the information which I have already received, we are acquiring a good Class Directory.

At Christmas I received a card and letter from Betsy Minor Stafford. What a busy girl! While Tom is working on his Ph.D. in Geology, Betsy is occupied with her three children, her trailer home, and the theater . She reports that she has been having a wonderful time as publicity chairman for the Tallahassee Little Theater: writing newspaper articles, making tapes for radio and T .V., and gathering free advertising.

She still enjoys acting, too. Last fall she played a dumb frousy blond in the theater's production of "Everybody Loves Opal," and last spring she was in Florida State's production of "Dark of the Moon ." Although life is quite full and interesting, Betsy says that she is looking forward to Tom 's finishing up and their settling in a home.

Eleanor Dickson Campbell has found her calendar very full for the past several months.

Along with working and caring for Sally and Mary Scott, she has enjoyed getting to know the wives of the representatives of the Virginia General Assembly and attending numerous dinners, receptions, teas, etc. We in Richmond enjoy seeing her picture in the newspaper . There to have also been two legislative trips-one Norfolk and one to Williamsburg. She is active in her woman's club, too . And we owe her thanks for writing letters to class members durAlumnae Fund ing the recent Westhampton Dri ve.

Mary Fran ces Coleman has moved co a new job and new apartment. She is temporarily working for Riggs National Bank until a position opens up in the law firm where she plans to work in Washingt on. She lives at 1500 Arlington Blvd ., Apt . 90 4, Arlington, Va. Arlene Olson Jones and O .C. left Texas after he received his wings at Connally. Now they are living in California at 217 Gilbert Avenue, Mather Air Force Base, where O.C. is training in Electronic Warfare. On the way to their new location they enjoyed visiting and sightseeing in Los Angeles . In L.A . they went to Grauman's Chinese Restaurant, Disneyland and Knott 's Berry Farm. She says that it is a lovely place with the date plams, orange and lemon trees, seacoast and hills.

Laverne Watson Edwards and Bob have been sightseeing in Austria, Northern France, and Holland. Along with skiing a highlight has been the German Fasching Season, the European equivalent of Mardi Gras . Frankie Richeson Macgowan and Bruce, another service couple out of the states, still find many things to do and see in and near Okinawa . They went to Tokyo for two weeks in '62. Last summer her brother visited them and went to Honolulu and Tokyo. This Easter Frankie and Bruce are going to Hong Kong. Her biggest project, how-

ever, has been with the American Volunteer Teachers Association. She teaches English conversation and pronunciation to Japanese speaking junior high students. A.V.T.A. is winning a great deal of friends for America in Okinawa and in Japan. We are fortunate to have such a capable person helping us out.

Gary Moore Barnes and Bill have been hopping around recently, too. Bill went to San Diego on business in January. He has also been to Ft . Walton Beach, Fla ., several times. Gary and David went once and enjoyed a grand week on the Gulf Coast . Bill represented Brown Engineering Co. at the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Convention in New Gary went along York City March 26th-29th. and enjoyed all the activities. Gary reports that the course she is taking in Interior Design at the University of Alabama Extension Center has been helpful in giving her home a new look.

Another southern belle is Jackie Connell Atkinson, who is busy being the suburban clubwoman. She serves as publicity chairman and historian for the Clearwater Junior Woman's Club, as well as teacher of a Sunday School class of seventeen-year-old girls and publicity chairman for the Childbirth and Parent Education League.

We have some new babies to welcome . A happy situation! On September 19, 1963, Margaret Ann Haske joined the family of Mary Ann Williams, Bernie, Susan, David, and Tommy Haske. All are delighted with the new addition. Mary Ann reports that David is "at last walking," Susan is taking dancing from a wellknown Spanish ballet teacher, and Tommy is "going to take next year when I'm a girl ."

Nancy Hookins Phillips and Bill have also evePed up their family with the arrival of Linda Catherine on December 2nd . Keith, David, Susan, and Linda are looking forward to a move to a larger home in the near future. Nancy, besides being our able class treasurer and fundraising chairman, is also active in church work and the Monacan Hills Junior Woman 's Club.

Bev Brown Flo yd and J. P. gladlv welcom ed their first born on December 11th. Bev reports that Alison Jeanette is rapidly taking over the hous ehold . On D ecember 17th Sharon Lynn Shepherd greeted brother Robbie and parents Julia Jett Shepherd and Bob. Then the first of the year the whole family moved to Richmond and now reside at 1006 Pinewood Drive. Bob is a lawyer with Wicker, Baker, and Goddin Law Firm. Julia wrote letters for the W.C. Alumnae fund drive .

January brought Pat Edwards Buffman and son. They are thrilled Bob their first child-a with Kevin Scott. Carrol Andrews Roberson and David's first child is a girl whom they named Leslie Carrol. Since her arrival on Jan . 19, Carrol has been teaching her who is boss. Even with the baby Carrol continues her duties as organist of Central Baptist Church. On January 24th the Boulden household became all-male.

Peggy Yarbrough Boulden reports that life of a solitary female among three males is the last thing from being lonely. She, Ed, and Dicky are quite happy with the new addition, Robert Carlton .

Katharine Schools Covington, Bill, and daughter Carol are happy to report the birth of Diane Margaret on January 30. Katharine says that the contra st between Diane, who weighed in at 10½ lbs., and Carol, who was premature, is unbelievable. Mary Marlowe Price now has two entirely different daughters, too. On February 8th Virginia Kimberly arrived . Mary says that Jenny is built like a midget fullback and Kimberly is very slender and shorter. Jenny is light and blond; Kimberly is very dark and has blue eyes. The Prices bought 3½ acres of land just outside of Blacksburg. They will build this spring.

Pat Kelly Clark and Doug report that they coo are working out plans to build this spring on their land in Howard County, Maryland . Pat teaches a large class of fourth graders. Jeanie Rice Hodder says that her three classes of

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juniors in U. S. History and two senior sections of college-bound students in International Relations keep her quite busy. Hubby Bob is at UNC where he is hard at work in his research.

He has passed his orals and writtens for the doctorate and is now concentrating on research for his thesis and is teaching some. Sue Mathews Wright's husband Jack finished his Ph.D. work in the fall and officially gets his degree in June. He has served as assistant professor of psychology at U.Va. this year. Sue plans to retire this fall. Peggy Dulin Crews is happy that Merrill finishes G. W. in June with a Masters in Hospital Administration. Then they will move to Miami, Florida, where he will do an administration internship in a hospital. Her sister Barbara and Charlie Polis will move to San Antonio, Texas, in June. Charlie has been accepted at Lackland Air Force Hospital for a residency in surgery. They will be there for four years until he completes his specialty. In February they had a grand trip to a ski lodge in Massachusetts.

Barbara Worrell Jessup and Walter plan to move to Louisville, Kentucky this August.

Walter has decided to attend the seminary for a masters in religious music. Barbara hopes to continue teaching. Pat Nettles Harrington's husband, Dick, has entered W & M on an NASA program to get a masters and Ph.D. in physics.

It is a 4 or 5 year program, as he is also working. Pat joined the local AAUW this year and eniovs the meetings. She reports chat Janey is talking more and chat Susan is learning more things daily. Jackie Feeman is studying at U.Va., using the National Science Foundation grant which she received last year.

Dot Deering writes chat she enjoys her position as assistant professor of English at Carson Newman College in Tennessee. She teaches freshmen English composition and sophomores world literature. She has her own apartment at 108 W . Jefferson St., Jefferson City, Tennessee 3 7760.

When Bev Wine Bowers and Albert moved to Mooresville, she didn 't intend to teach. After two months of substituting, she was offered a permanent position. She is teaching U. S. history, sociology and economics in senior high school. They enjoy their new home and association with new friends. She says she is near enough to Charlotte to take advantage of the many activities offered there .

Ann and John Bell and Elizabeth have moved to Charlotte, N. C. They live at 5124 Shady Grove. John is a development engineer with the Celanese Corporation of America. Jehane Flint Taylor, Sam and Dylan have moved to 18 East Heath Road, London N.W. 3, England . They will be there at least another year. J ehane describes her home as a " flat overlooking Hampstead Heath and the view and atmosphere of the borough are so inspiring." While Dylan goes co nursery school, Jehane enjoys oil-painting lessons . Anita Knipling Scott and family are gradually and happily getting settled in their new home in St. Albans .

The first of March Beverly Eubank Evans returned to the classroom as a full-time teacher.

She teaches 9th grade physics at J . R. Tucker High School, where Warren Chukinas is assistant principal. She is enjoying her new job.

Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist continues to teach and looks forward to her retirement in June . Sarah Coleman Marroni retired from teaching in February. She says chat she finds staying at home with Michael very much fun and time consuming.

Pat MacDonald Allen writes that her job with keeps her well occupied. In Abraham-Straus March she had a spring "Seventeen" fashion show for 1700 teens. But she still finds time to ski with her husband.

Two of our classmates are planning summer weddings. Becky Keller, who teaches at Tuck ahoe Junior High School, plans to be married in July. Cynthia Patterson, who gets her masters this year, is also busy with wedding plans.

Bonnie Lewis Haynie took a six-week sewing course at the YWCA beginning in February.

She proudly comes to bridge club in clothes which she has made. Her young son Scott enjoys talking on the telephone. He and Jeff Lindquist have quite one-side conversations.

In January Martha Jordan Chukinas invited some of us to her house for coffee. Mary Beth Stiff Jordan and family were visiting while Bob attended a dental convention. It was great fun tO get together and chat and to see all the children. George was in seventh heaven to have his three cousins there.

I have learned that another '59er is active in a local alumna chapter. Cary Hancock Gilmer of the Roanoke serves as secretary-treasurer chapter.

We owe a great deal of thanks to Nancy Phillips for her work for the class on the fund drives. She has done an excellent job. We also want to thank all the girls, mostly Richmonders, who have written letters. Now do your part and today. to Westhampton send a contribution Large or small, each gift helps Westhampt0n grow and improve. We would like to have 100 per cent participation this year. Please help! !

I would like co locate Phyllis Ailsworth. The mail I send to her is returned. If anyone knows where she is liviing, please let me know immediately.

I shall look for each of you at our reunion . l 960 Secretary

Mns. ROBLEYJ.

LIGHT

(Jeanne Kosko)

1916 Nanette Drive

Tallahassee, Florida 32303 As I write this newsletter, spring is officially one day off but here in Tallahassee, it has been in full bloom for weeks, evidenced by the myriad of azaleas, camellias, Japanese magnolias and even a sprinkling of dogwood trees here and there.

But up where Evalane Green is living, reports are still of "ole man winter." Evalane is in the Graduate School of Library Science at Drexel Institute of Technology working on a Master's Degree. She receives her mail at 212 N. 34th Another classmate recently St., Philadelphia. visited this "City of Brotherly Love". Dodie Tyrrell decided tO come east for the Christmas holidays, spending time in Philadelphia, New York and Boston before spending some time in Fredericksburg, Va. with her sister. Cynthia Rabon Barry also decided to come east from California for a three months' visit with her family in Washington, D. C. while husband, Randy, was on Navy duty in the western Pacific. They moved to San Francisco upon her return to the "land of smog and sunny weather."

Nancy Jenkins Marrow, Hunter and Linda returned to live permanently in Richmond in December; her new address is 1219 Starling Drive. So one alumna leaves just as her former Phyllis Jenkins Polheroommate returns ... mus, Bob and Katherine moved tO Greensboro, N.C. (715 Muirs Chapel Rd.). Bob was transferred and so Phyllis says that she retired from teaching to become a full-time chaser of their "terrible two year-old."

Jane Morris, 3514 Our Class Treasurer, Patterson Ave., Apt. 4, Richmond, has brought to my attention something that I am sure many of you will want to support. A Carole Johnson Fund has been established at Westhampton; the fund will be used as a Book Memorial in the Reading Room, a fitting tribute to one who loved the literary world. If you wish to contribute, just write "Carole Johnson Fund" on the check and mail it to the Alumnae Office. Also don't forget to send to Jane Morris chat dollar to cover postage expenses, etc. for our class Newsletter. Jane tells me that she only received $16.00 so far and you can see that that is not even 50% response. Besides keeping our monetary records straight, Jane has been a busy student at Smithdeal -Massey Business College, having just completed Advanced Typing and being now enrolled in a Speedwriting Course, all this in addition to her full-time daytime job.

Another part-time student is Clare Earle Ahlers who has been taking a night class at the University of Washington in HistOry of Art. Clare says, "it was supposed to be for fun, but it turned out co be more work than fun." She says that she and Dave raising a future Westhampton hockey-player in their com-boy Laura.

Additions tO families always are welcome news. Heather Elizabeth has a springlike name but she appeared at the Lynn Lewis and John Cummins' household in the good ole winter time, January 20. Wanda Faulkner Carter, classmate who departed from our rolls after our sophomore year, reports that she and Dave have adopted a little boy, Christopher Alan.

Wanda's address is 205 Harpers Drive, Newport News; she still finds time tO teach some while being reading piano and remedial In the fall, she and Dave housewife-mother. and Sandra Motley Swain and Bob went to their husbands Tampa, Florida t0gether ... to attend a rocket convention and the wives just co have a good time.

Now living in Tampa are Laura Moss Harwood and Nicky. Mariam Rothwell Livermon and Bill have really been busy since they moved and acquired an addition tO their family recently. Kathryn Leigh arrived on March 8; their new address is 615 E. Church Street, Martinsville, Va. Anne Loving Fenley, Box 370A, Rd. #1, Hightstown, N. J. and Tom live on a rolling hills' farm that can accomodace the dogs and horses which Tom loves; Katherine Anne, who was born on July 10, 1963, keeps Anne busy but she still finds time to do some programming at home; Husband Tom is now with Shephard Laboratories in Summit, N. J . A real life drama occurred at the Mary Cooley Malone and Dick residence in March; Sharon Lee made her debut as a brand new Junior Miss star on March the seventh at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D. C. Inge Lehmann Ward has moved to the same street in New Orleans from which Jeanette McDonald Welch and Jack departed this past summer. She reports that they have increased their family, Richard Byron having arrived.

Inge is finishing her Masters thesis in Physiological Psychology while Byron works t0ward his Ph.D. in Marmosets research at Tulane.

They had as much excitement recently as New Orleans did when the Louisiana folk decided not to allow the Union soldiers to cake their city in the War Between the States-burning all their cotton and causing quite a fire. Inge 's apartment had a fire and she says chat no one was hurt but it was kinda' exciting; as a result, they have a new address-6 440 S. Cla iborne, Apt. 108.

Visits with family and friends occupy much Sue Roberts time of our classmates-Peggy Ferebee, Frank and Susan Lynne went to Norfolk and Portsmouth from the Ohio Valley for Christmas holidays, their first visit home at a They also holiday season since graduation. had a short visit with Sarah Hudgins Rice, Fred and Lea. Jane Horton Blackwell has moved back to Atlanta, Buddy having been transferred. Jane also visited in Wytheville for a few weeks recently and had a reunion with Nancy Wheeler Farthing.

Joanie Silverstein Zimmerman and Marvin have finally settled in their new home. Rozy Weinstein Rottenberg and Marvin visited them recently and reported they had bought a house near-by. How nice to have Westhampton neigh bors!

Some classmates even take advantage of the "World's Fair" theme by seeing all the sights first hand . . . not in exhibit form. Millie Bagley Bracey is enjoying the sights of Europe after being in Penny's brother ' s weedding in England. She also writes that Paula Williams Davis and Joe are building a home in Hartsville, South Carolina. Ruthi Greenfield Zinn and Stephen never seem to have a dull moment, having spent two weeks in Condado, San Juan,

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PuertO Rico at the first of the year. Ruthi says that now she and Steve are on a "ski-bug" kick but she is not much of an athlete; Steve enters his residency at N. Y. Hospital (Cornell) in July. They had a visit at Christmas time from Dru Young, who also spent some time with even Gloria Viegener Price and George ... went Christmas tree shopping with them and in a VW to boot. George is in his third year at Fordham Law School and is pursuing a fulltime career on the side with Zerox Corporation; Gloria is now a supervisory position of Latin American Affairs at the International Institute of Education.

Kitty Whitby Fiege and John are "tickled pink " over the prospect of John's fellowship in history for next fall; he received a John Hay Fellowship.

Sandra Hood was recently marr ied to Jame s Repas and they are now living in Durham , N. C. where Jim is doing his residency at Duke University. Another marriage which occurred in June, 1962 was that of Anne Morris tO Simon Delano Roberts Moore ; they now reside at 2401 Crystal Springs Ave., Roanoke where Anne teaches and her husband pursues his career as a lawyer . Back in Roanoke after six months of life in Germany is Julie Holl yfield Kosko; she and Paul took advantage of the Richard Strauss Opera Festival and saw several other festivals while living in Europe.

Jeanie Chou Lee, 11320 Evans Trail, Apt. T-1, Beltsville, Md ., reports that since gradua tion, she has lived in Georgia while Tun was then she was in California and in France ... now they have settled in the D. C. area. Jeanie works for a private lab and Tun is with the U. S. Naval Ordnance Lab. If anyone of you sometimes has apprehen sions about Barbara Ferguson Qaissaune 's life in Kabul, Afghanistan, push chem aside and read "Caravans " by James Michener which begins in Kabul (pronounced Cobble) and goes throughout this fascinating area.

Again as our newsletter comes co a close, let me remind you that the next deadline is May first to get your news to me ; and do send in those dollars to our class treasurer, Jane Morris.

1961 Secretary

Mns. JERRYH. JONES (Betty Blanton) 7701 Granirer Rd. Richmond 29, Va .

The big news this time is the part our class is playing in the population explosion. From Petersburg comes the news of the arrival of Carl Drayton Bird, III in August to the home of Laura Beth Blackburn Bird and Carl. Laura Beth says that Drayton has put an end to he r very short career in teaching . She and Carl traveled to the University of Georgia in Januar y to attend a conference of the American Veternary Medical Association.

The first of February Jerry and I took a quick trip to Lynchburg to meet Christopher West Mosb v who arrived in Lynchburg on Januar y 21. His parents Marcia Bowman Mosby and Sandy are doing fine. Sandy returned from his tour of duty in Alaska the first part of January .

A Christmas present arrived Christmas day for Martha Hinkle Fleer and Jack in the form of a son, John Charles . Two Christmas packages were delivered on December 18 in Da yton , Ohio. Two beautiful twin girls, Pamela Lindon and Susan Louise were born tO Kathy Gill Langley and Carl. The new family was brought from the hospital directly into their new brick ranch home. Kathy suggests that for all mothers of twins there be 48 hours in each day.

Karen The blessed little tax deduction, Elizabeth White, arrived December 31 to add joy tO the home of Ray and Betty Pritchett White . Ann Cunningham Woodfin presented hubasnd John with a daughter in December.

The Woodfin's are still stationed in Germany.

Russell and Jean Stonestreet Mann have moved into their new home in Richmond and have with them their son who arrived November 30th. This closes our present list of new " wee ones," but I have it on very good authority that there will be additional members next issue.

Luigi DeCosta is now turning her talent toward politics . She is precinct chairman of the Rockefeller Committee and says she has found that there is quite a bit to learn and to do . Luigi is still active with her volunteer work Student Center. Jessica at the International Scarborough, also in Washington, is working with I.B.M . as a programmer and living in the same apartment building as Carol Eastman Gray. Carol and Tom were married in October .

Carol is in the personnel department of Sealtest Foods and says the job is just what she has been looking for. Sandy Walker is now at American University working on a degree in her is continuing sociology. Sarah Willis graduate work at the University of Virginia.

Peggy McVeigh Nunnally writes to us from Roanoke where she and Bob have been living for several years. Daughter, Kathy Anne, is now two years old. Peggy is a primary teacher and member of the choir at their church. Becky Leber Crookshanks has been teaching here in this winter while her husband , Richmond David, was stationed in Fort Jackson, S. C. He returned to his job with Giant Foods in March.

Ann Peavy, who started with us, graduated from W. C. in 1962. She is working as a claims representative for the Social Security Admiin istration. She worked in Washington until Jan uary of this year when she was transferred to Parkersburg, West Virginia. Ann writes that Parkersburg is a lovely town on the banks of the Ohio River.

Suzanne Myers, who was a member of our class, was married on the 19th of January to William Saunders, III . Daphne Shepard Mason was in the wedding.

Congraulations to Dixi Hargrave on her engagement to Claude Whitehead. Dixi is planning a July wedding and they will live in Chatham. She has a job next fall teaching at Chatham Hall.

Mildred Gilman is working as psychologist for the Seizure Division, Cripple Children's She hopes Bureau, State Health Department. to receive her M.A . degree in psychology this June and plans to continue in her present position.

Annie Robinson Warner writes that she has been undergoing a great deal of unpleasant oral surgery this winter. She is a research assistant at the Medical Center and will be assisting in an Embryology class of over 100 medical students this spring. Mary Burks writes that Converse College keeps her very busy but she loves her work and the people . Suzanne DuPuy Black and Don were in Richmond several weeks before Easter. She said that they were quite busy with the Lenten activities.

Doralee Forsythe Richardson and Lee have moved to Denver where he is working on his at the doctorate in Business Administration University of Colorado. Doralee is a secretary to one of the Baptist churches there. Becky Powell Harrison and John are still stationed in Germany but have taken advantage of the opportunity to travel and have seen quite a bit of Holland. Evelyn Spivey Drum and John were home for Christmas. Evelyn went out to see our new swimming pool and put her stamp of approval on it. The Drums have also joined the ranks of the dog owners. Carolyn Green is in her third year of teaching the fourth grade at Curtis Elementary School in Chester, Virginia.

Ruth Reynolds Robinson and Bill moved to Texarkana, Texas this fall. Bill has joined the staff of the Southern Clinic and they both like Texas very much .

Paddy Dozier Brezina and husband, Dennis, are living in Arlington, a Boston suburb, while he works toward a Ph .D. in History of Science

at Harvard. They have one son, Byron, who just had his second birthday.

Betty Marlow Atkinson and Stuart have bought a new home and moved in March. Betty is teaching English and Stuart has started his own law practice. Suzanne Foster Thomas and Bill have also bought a home in Alexandria and Suzanne is very excited about using her decorating ideas. Gloria Holland Merryfield and Don are in Huntsville, Alabama. She is teaching elementary school and Don is working for the Chrysler Corporation. Ann Pultz Waters and Zeke are in the house hunting business in Norfolk and are very thrilled to be back in civilian life. Sally Spiller Settle is still working for seven professors at V.P.I. Fax will get his M.S. in June in Wildlife Biology.

Earlene Hord Richardson is very active in the church choir and the garden club. She is using her musical talent in another way, for she is singing with a folk group at a coffee house here in Richmond. Mary Ellen Deckleman Fugate has been like a lot of us and had several bouts with flu this winter. She is continuing her social work which she enjoys very much since she deals mostly with teenagers.

Joyce Davidson is office manager here in Richmond for the Virginia State Poultry Federation which is a trade association for the state.

Penny Clayman is working here in Richmond at Bellwood . Barbara Lamm Gregory and George are in Greensboro, N . C. where he is a social worker and she is an assistant reference librarian. Carol Chapman is teaching fourth grade in Chesapeake. Sybil Stevens is teaching the sixth grade in Troutville where they are using the departmental approach and she likes it very much.

Gayle Gowdy Williams and Ebb just got the favorable bar exam results and now they can plan what they will do in June when he graduates from T. C. Williams Law School.

Mary lee Chilton is continuing to work for the Red Cross as a social worker. Louise Inman Chandler is teaching at Huguenot and Jim is in his third year of medical school. Louise has spent the past two summers at William and Science Mary College attending a National Betty Bond and Bill Institute, Foundation Snidow were married last summer and moved to Richmond this winter. She taught in Martinsville until they moved and now she is teaching here in Richmond at A. H. Hill Junior High.

Betty Miller Morris says their daughter, Robyn, is just about a year old and gets cuter every day. Martha Walace is teaching at All Saints Kindergarten. Jane Pitts McAllister, Jack and son have moved into a home in Ashland.

I have been taking a night class in education this spring along with teaching and housekeeping. See you all in the summer issue.

1962 Secretary

Mrss RoBIN CRAMME 8962 Bellefonte Rd. Richmond, Va. The big news this spring is our first class reunion. Our reunion dinner will be held Friday night, June 5 and I hope each of you will plan to attend. The remainder of the weekend will be filled with events celebrating Westhampton's 50th anniversary .

Marty Solley and Carolyn Parsley are engrossed in wedding plans. Marty plans to be married in June to Glenn Lucas. Carolyn is planning a September wedding to Dick Davis who is currently working on his Master's degree in chemistry at the U. of R. Martha Wren Ford was in town recently and called to fill me in on her activity since June 1962 and also to catch up on news of the rest of the class. Mratha was a social worker at her home for a year before becoming Mrs. James Ford. They lived in several places in South Carolina and are currently living in Kingsport, Tenn. Martha is enjoying cooking and accompanying Jim on business trips.

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Carlton Burton Kemper. Judy Acree Hansen was a bridesmaid and Nancy Richardson and Darlene Wall were "punch-pourers" at the reception. Jane and C. B. are living in Hampton .

Libby Wampler Jarrett and Harry are the proud parents of a son, Harry, Jr ., born early in January. Nancy James Buhl and John and Bett Burrus Brooks and John are also brand new parents.

Barbara Davies Brewer and Dick are looking for a place to settle next summer when Dick finishes at U. Va. Barbara says she wishes the mystery would soon be solved. Jo Ellett spent a few days during the Christmas season with Barbara and Dick and they had fun reminiscing.

Tuckie Smart Paxton and Jim are thoroughly enjoying their experience in the north. Tuckie says, however, that all the southerners seem to I guess. She says stick together-self-defense they would love to see anybody who is up that way for the New York World's Fair this summer.

Judy Trunzo has moved again, this time to the Golden Gate city. Trunz was transferred there in January as a Junior Foreign Service Officer and is very happy. Judy Acree Hansen has also moved. She and Dick are living in Norfolk where Dick is stationed in the Navy.

Judy is teaching English to 8th and 9th graders and is also sponsoring the Y-Teens.

Besides her academic pursuits Alice Hall is learning and enjoying the winter sports up in the cold north. She has tried ice skating and after one ski trip became addicted to that sport, too.

Again this year Europe will be the site of Julie Perkinson's vacation. This time she and her roommate plan to tour the Scandanavian countries. If all goes well part of my vacation will be spent in Jamaica this spring. Maybe I'll even learn the Limbo !

Y'all come to the reunion! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and getting lots of news. The next news for the Bulletin is due May 1, so please send me some.

1963 Secretary Miss JULIA WILLIAMS 44 Pear Avenue Hampton, Virginia I enjoyed hearing from some of you and receiving some Alumnae news. Georgeanne Skeen is now Mrs. George Londeree, and Annette Rorrer is Mrs . Robert Hash. Phyllis Peterson is engaged to Don Gary. Judy Barlow is engaged to Jon Bolling and is planning a summer wedding. Wedding bells will also be ringing this summer for Phyllis Pollack and Jack Yaffa who will be married in New Jersey .

Judy Metcalf became Mrs. Burleigh Turner on March 28th. Burleigh is a lieutenant in the army and is being sent to Germany. Pat Kirby Percy and Stu are the proud parents of an infant son, Chad Wellesley. They are living at 204 David Drive, F-4, Byrn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Betty Harrell has joined two choirs in the County Montgomery area-the Washington Oratorical Society and the Washington Cathedral Choral Society. Nancy Hybner is keeping busy in UNC, playing the role of both student and teacher. She is teaching a freshman science class in addition to taking courses herself. Jean Roberston has been on field placement at Fort only girl on the clinic staff . MB Bragg-the Hummel is keeping busy at the University of Minnesota and has changed her graduate major from English to Classics. She is a counselor in a co-ed dorm, and spends her weekends as a hostess at a European-style coffee house. MB wrote that Jean Copley Forbes is keeping busy in Toledo.

Pat Brumble is working as a Claims Examiner in for the Social Security Administration Philadelphia. She has her own apartment and is attending night school at the University of Pennsylvania. She is planning a European trip in the not-too-distant future. Pat wrote that

Danva Butts has moved into a new apartment in Alexandria and is working for the Census Bureau. Susie McAfee is doing virus research at Parke-Davis and is presently working with injuenza. She has joined the Parke-Davis Ski Club and spends many of her weekend skiing .

Phyllis Pollack wrote that Nancy Berkowitz visited Richmond in February and enjoyed getting together with some of the Richmond Alumnae. Nancy enjoys her work as a second grade teacher. Several of our Alumnae are continuing to keep busy as members of the Tuckahoe Junior High School faculty . Margie Burkett is one of the ninth grade class sponsors while Gail Marcus Genderson and Phyllis Pollack are sponsors of the eighth grade class.

Judy Barlow and I attended a coffee for Alumnae representatives at Mrs. Booker 's home in February. I have been accepted for graduate study at the College of William and Mary.

Please send any news you may have either to me or to your group chairman by May 1st.

WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS

Atlanta Club Presid ent :

MRs . RUSSELL G. JAMES

(Ann Byrd) 411 Beverly Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia The Atlanta club met on Monday, January 20 at the home of Edith DeWitt . This was our first meeting in some time, since the club has been rather inactive in recent years . The occasion of this meeting was a visit by Leslie Booker, our alumnae secretary. Mrs . Booker brought us up to date on current projects at Westhampton, especially those related to Westhampton's Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. We were delighted to see her again and to learn of the many activities that are going on at Westhampton.

Officers for 1964 were elected . They are: Ann Byrd James, President; Elizabeth Carver, Vice President; and Martha Haislip Padgett, Secretary-treasurer.

We hope to become active during the coming year. There are thirty alumnae presently living in the Atlanta area. We invite all of you to join us in our activities .

Lynchburg Alumnae Club President :

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Roanoke Club MRs.

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(Mary Lee Kingery) 5769 Littleton Road, N.W. Roanoke, Virginia The Roanoke Club held a benefit bridge party on February 27 at the home of Mrs .

Arthur T . Ellett. The proceeds of $30.00 were sent to the Alumnae Fund.

The spring luncheon will be May 9th at the Colony Club in Roanoke .

Richmond Club President :

MRs . GLENN

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Suffolk Area Alumnae Club President:

MRs . HOLMES

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(Lena Thornton) 302 S. Broad Street Suffolk, Virginia The Suffolk Area Club held its spring luncheon meeting Saturday, March 14th at the Knight's Country Club Restaurant near Wake field. Hannah Barlow Bain had charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Claiborne Stokes, of the University of Richmond's math department, was our guest speaker. Mrs. Booker introduced her after having given us up-to-date information concerning alumnae activities.

During the business session Ethel Pond Brinkley of Suffolk gave the report of the Nominating committee . The newly elected officers are as follows : President, Bertha Cosby King of Franklin; Vice-President, Ruth Parker Jones of Franklin; Secretary-Treasurer, Hannah Barlow Bain of Wakefield .

Tidewater Alumnae Club President:

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(Ann Hanbury) 105 48th Street Virginia Beach, Va. Our winter meeting was held in February in the fellowship room of the Larchmont Baptist Church in Norfolk. Connie Luttrell's husband is minister of that church.

We had a wonderful luncheon. Each of us brought either main dish, salad, bread, or desse ,rt . The recipes were written on index cards and could be purchased by the club members. The proceeds went to the treasury.

It was truly a gourmet's delight, although everyone agreed that dieting would not permit this extravagance but once a year.

Some more articles were donated for the thrift shop project we began this year.

Felice Stern, one of our Norfolk alumnae, presented a delightful program on F. Scott Fitzgerald.

MARSH

(Betty Montgomery) Madison Heights, Va. The newly organized Lynchburg area club had a luncheon on January 11 at the Boonsboro Country Club with fourteen members present.

Mrs. Booker and Miss Pierce were speakers for the occasion.

A tea is being planned for all alumnae, present students and prospective students from this area. It is to be held on April 4 at the Fort Hill Womans Club. Anne Abbitt is chairman of the arrangements.

President:

eon at the Willow Oaks Country Club on April 11th . We are looking forward to a delightful time, as the program will consist of a Fashion Show .

At the business session the Pres ident, First Vice-President and Corresponding Secretary will be elected.

HESBY

(Katherine Roberts) 900 West Franklin Street Richmond 20, Virginia Our Annual Spring Meeting will be a lunch-

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1897William Temple Mooklar, 89, King William County Court Judge until his retirement six years ago, died March 5 in King William.

A native of King William County, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1902.

Mr. Mooklar held his office in the home in wh ich he was born and continued to live. He practiced in King William, Hanover, and Caro line Counties and in Richmond Chancery Court .

In Mangohick, his home town, he managed a store, served as postmaster and promoted and managed the telephone company. In 1930 he was chief census clerk. Mr . Mooklar was also a former member of the county board of supervisors, a trial justice, and a county judge for 16 years .

Mr . Mooklar was a member, past Sunday school superintendent and an elder of the Corinth Christian Church.

Surviving are five nieces .

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The Rev. W . H. Baylor, 98, former superintendent of missions of the Maryland Baptist Union Association, and trustee of the University of Richmond, died January 8 in Baltimore.

Dr. Baylor was Maryland Baptist general secretary from 1915 to 1926. Born in Princess Anne County, Va., on Oct. 25, 1865, Dr . Baylor was reared by a father who was "a godly physician" and a mother who was "a consecrated Christian."

A student from 1884 until 1888 at Richmond College, he was a classmate of F. W . Boatwright. After graduation, he went to Rochester Theological Seminary, where the famous Baptist theologian, Augustus H. Strong, was president.

His seminary education was interrupted by the death of his father, and it was then that he became pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Va. He served that pastorate five years, and in the fall of 1894, he enrolled at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky .

During his three years at Southern Seminary, he served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of New Albany, Ind., a suburb of Louisville.

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There he met an organist, Miss Julia Phillips, whom he married in 1896. She gave him a son and three daughters.

The Baylors came to Baltimore from the seminary in 1898 to accept the pastorate of Grace Baptist Church, a ministry that lasted 17 years . In 1915, he became superintendent of state missions, continuing to serve as pastor .

He resigned in 191 7 to accept the pastorate of the Park View Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Va., for the 14 remaining years of his active ministry .

But retirement for Dr. Baylor was just the beginning of another career. He and Mrs. Baylor moved to an apartment in Baltimore and he began an active life of supplying pulpits and writing. He wrote at 85, "During these years of retirement I have preached in more than 60 churches in four states to at least 15,000 persons, so I have a wider ministry than when I was a pastor ."

Dr. Bavlor wrote and circulated 12,000 copies of a brochure, "Better Not! Some Don 'ts for Young Preachers." Some excerpts: "Don't preach your doubts, " "Don't preach so much against things as for principles," "Don't overlook the Bible when looking for texts, " and " Don't try to hold onto the church you have left."

Mrs. Baylor died in 1951. Since that time Dr .

Baylor lived with his son Ralph P . Baylor in Baltimore, and later with a daughter, Mrs. Frederick Brumble, in that city .

In an interview for "The Maryland Baptist" a few years ago, Dr . Baylor said, "My friends sometimes suggest that I am looking toward the horizon, but the horizon is east as well as west.

So many speak of the sunset of life--why not the sunrise of life?

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Edmundo Belfort, 75, died January 20 at the Virginia Baptist Home in Culpeper, Va .

Mr. Belfort, a native of Brazil, came to the U. S. in 1905 and enrolled at Fork Union Mili tary Academy under the sponsorship of a Baptist missionary group, After attending Richmond College, he received a bachelor of philosophy degree at Colgate University. He attended more classes at Harvard University and George Washington College before returning to Richmond where he was for two years assistant professor of French and Spanish . He held other faculty posts at Lafayette College and Bucknell University .

He had returned to Brazil on a number of occasions before making Richmond his home in latter years .

1912W. B. F. "Billy" Cole, past president of the University of Richmond Alumni Society, and Fredericksburg Commonwealth's Attorney for

39 years, died February 3 in Fredericksburg. He was 75.

His service as president of the Alumni Society and later the Alumni Council capped a long and useful association with the University which began in 1908. He had graduated from Fredericksburg High School, attended the Fredericksburg College, then worked as a reporter on a local weekly newspaper for a time before enrolling in Richmond College.

At the University he was a varsity player on both the football and basketball teams, and after receiving a B.A. degree, he taught mathematics at Fredericksburg High School as well as serving as athletic coach. His basketball team lost but one game in two seasons.

Cole took a post graduate course at Columbia University, and from there went to Peking, China, as professor of mathematics at Tsing Hua College, an $11 million institution built by the American government after the Boxer Rebellion.

But after two years in China, Cole put on his traveling clothes and returned home by way of Siberia, the Scandinavian countries and England.

It was back to school for Cole in 1917, the la w school at Washington and Lee. But three months later, he was called to Navy service as a secondclass seaman in World War I. He was assigned to a cruiser which accompanied two convoys to Europe. The Navy soon recognized there was nothing "seco nd class" about Billy Cole and promoted him to first-class seaman and sent him to the Hampton Roads Naval Officers School, from which he graduated in four months with ensign's rank. He was discharged in May of 1919 as an ordinance officer.

Cole returned to Washington and Lee and received a bachelor of laws in 1920. After spending a few months in Quantico, he set up a law office in Fredericksburg, where he was to remain the rest of his days.

Cole was first elected city Commonwealth's Attorney in 1925 and won re-election to nine consecutive four-year terms. In court, he was known as an excellent debater, often quoting from memory many sections of city and state laws. He was in great demand as a master of ceremonies at various affairs.

A sports fan, he was often seen rooting for the Spiders in City Stadium and traveled around the state to watch gridiron battles.

1913Word has been received of the death of Dr. Livius Lankford of Sante Fe, New Mexico.

1918Curtis M. Dozier, secretary, general counsel, and a director of the Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. for more than 30 years, died in Richmond February 16 at the age of 80.

A prominent Virginia Republican, he served on the Republican National Committee from 1944 to 1952 and was a foe of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in Virginia.

Mr. Dozier worked on the Norfolk newspapers until 1910 when he joined the United States Treasury Department.

During World War I, he served with the army.

He is a former president of the Holy Name Society of the Cathedral, a member of the board of visitors of Benedictine High School, and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Council 295.

Survivors include four sons, a daughter, three brothers, and a sister.

Vernoy B. Tate, 69, prominent Southwest Virginia attorney and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, died January 21 in Wise.

Mr. Tate had practiced law in Wise for several decades and was, at the time of his death, Commissioner of Accounts for Wise County and secretary of the Wise Co,inty Electoral Board.

A former chairman of the Wise Methodist Church Official Board, he was the organizer of the Big Stone Gap Methodist Men, taught the Men's Bible Class for 20 years, and was a trustee of the Church's building committee.

A member of the Wise Kiwanis Club, he was a member and past president of the Wise Coun• ty Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar Association, and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. Mr. Tate was a Mason and a member of the Shrine, and was a worthy patron of the Eastern Star.

A veteran of World War I, he served overseas with the Second Division.

Survivors include his wife, a daughter, five sisters, two brothers, and four grandchildren.

1920Dr. William Frederick Matthews, 65, died November 15 at Mountainside Hospital in New Jersey.

Dr. Matthews had been pediatrician and former chief of staff of the hospital.

Born in New Church, Va., he had lived in Montclair, N. J ., since 1929. He was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1924, and interned for two years in New York before beginning his own practice in Montclair.

Dr. Matthews joined the staff of Mountainside Hospital in 1929, served as president of the medical staff in 1954 and 1955. From 1950 to 1961 he had been director of the department of pediatrics. He was active in major expansion of the hospital in recent years.

1921Dr. Louis Perlin, a Richmond physician, died in February.

Dr. Perlin attended the University from 19171919 and was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1923.

He was a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, the Medical Society of Virginia, and the American Medical Association.

1924Clarence William Miller, 62, assistant superintendent for personnel of the Hampton public schools, died September 27 in Charlottesville following a short illness.

Mr. Miller received his M.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1931.

Mr. Miller came to Hampton in 1953 from Fredericksburg where he had been director of instruction and assistant superintendent of public schools for eight years. Previously, he had been a teacher, coach, and principal in the public school systems of Amelia, Albemarle, and Giles counties. He was a native of western Ohio.

He was a member and served on the board of First Methodist Church in Hampton.

Mr. Miller was immediate past president of the Hampton Kiwanis Club; and a member of Phi Delta Kappa, an educational fraternity; the Hampton Education Association; and the Virginia Education Association.

Survivors include his widow, a daughter, and three grandchildren.

1925Walter J. Conaty, 79, retired tax commissioner and director of valuation for the C&O Railway, died January 27.

Mr. Conaty was a native of Richmond and received his law degree from T. C. Williams School of Law. He moved to Huntington in 1934 and retired in 1949.

While in Richmond he was a director of th~ National Council of Catholic Men, past grand knight of the Richmond council of the Knights of Columbus, presidrnt of the Richmond Bureau of Catholic Charities, a trustee of the Richmond Community Fund and president of the Laymen's Retreat Association of Richmond.

1927Word has been received of the death of Willard G. Davis of Bumpass, Va.

1929Williarn H. Keyser, Jr. of Ashland, Kentucky, died December 20.

Mr. Keyser, a law graduate, practiced law in

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Ashland from 1930 to 1945, then became claim agent for the C&O Railway Company's Cincinnati Division with offices at Covington. He resumed general practice of law in 1945.

1930The Rev. James Berry Dailey, 62, retired supervisor of the New Baptist Horne for the Aged, Hamilton, N. C., died March 20.

Mr. Dailey was a graduate of Hargrave Military Academy. He received a Th.B. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville .

He served as an army chaplain from 1942 to 1946, through eight campaigns under General Patton and General Mark Clark. He entered the military as a 1st Lieutenant, and after serving in Africa, Sicily, France, Italy, and Germany, was discharged as a Major. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

Mr. Dailey was pastor of three North Carolina churches for 16 years, and was chosen in 1962 to be supervisor of the home for the aged. He also served with the Pine Forest Rest, Inc., another home for the aging in North Carolina.

Warren Victor Richardson, 55, a Lancaster County lawyer, died March 8 in White Stone.

Following graduation, he practiced for a short time in the firm of Wallerstein, Goode, and Evans. After moving to Lancaster County, he was associated for many years with the late Senator R. 0. Norris, Jr. at Lively .

A native of Richmond, he opened his own law office in Lancaster in 1958 and served as Commissioner of Accounts for Lancaster County.

He was vice-president of the Northern Neck Bar Association and a member of the Virginia and American Bar Association.

Survivors include his widow, a brother, and a sister.

1933Mortimer Epstein, 52, died August 12, 1963, in Lynbrook, N. J. Mr. Epstein was a food broker in business for himself. He served in the Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 and served tours in England, France and Belgium.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth, and two children, Robert and Arny.

1950Thomas B. Pearman, III, 3 7, assistant director of the State A.B.C. Board's laboratory, died February 3 in Richmond.

A former head of the science department at Highland Springs High School, Mr. Pearman was a science and chemistry teacher at Hopewell High School.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline F. Pearman, and a brother, Richard N. Pearman of Richmond.

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time spent across the lake in 1924, but that 's the beginning of another s-tory that has been going on for 40 years and might be called "Spider Wed," but let's save that for another time.

What I want to point out to you and all the other good Spiders extant is that I lay claim to a grea-t honor, the honor of being the one Spider more "Spider Bred " than all the others in all the world. Dudley George and George Freedley and I went down to Miss Kate Winston 's for one year on the old campus, down at Lombardy and Franklin. We also went to the Richmond Academy on the old campus near Broad Street between Franklin and Ryland for four years. In 1920 we went to the new campus, and I stayed on for four

years, a nd then came back to the old campus to go to T. C. Wi ll iams fo r three more. How ma ny years? I make it a to tal of 12 years. Is there anyone you ever heard of who can beat that record? If so, let him come forward now or forever hold his peace.

Davis T. Ratcliffe, '24

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formulas and notes. The heart of the machine, the console, was softly humming as dozens of tiny orange lights flashed across its stippled control panel. Beneath the flickering signals, rows of switches and buttons controlled the computations. Other gun-metal colored accessories of the computer are stationed around the room. A card reader, collator, accounting machine, sorter, and two key punches aid the computer in its operation.

The electric typewriter, the "voice" of the computer, clacked out its commands and its human masters jumped to push buttons or pull a stack of cards from one machine to put it in another.

Partain stared intently at the console panel, his eyes moving from the row of flashing lights to the typewriter and back again. Satisfied with the performance, he told of the demonstrations which the computer does to show its versatility. "I call them the 'gee whiz' demonstrations," he chuckled.

For baseball buffs, the computer plays a human opponent a full nine-inning game.

Among those who have matched wits with the computer is baseball expert Shelley Rolfe, a sports writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Professor Partain handed him a list of 90 all-time greats and issued the challenge: "Pick your team." As Rolfe, a veteran of 20 plus years of sports reporting, named his team, Partain typed their names on the typewriter: Pie Traynor, 3b; Charlie Gehringer, 2b; Babe Ruth, If; Lou Gehrig, lb; Joe DiMaggio, cf; Mel Ott, rf; Bill Dickey, c; Honus Wagner, ss; Warren Spahn, p. After each name the computer took over, typing in the figures on the best season of each man.

Eschewing even a scientific batting order, the computer quickly rapped out its team: Johnny Mize, lb; Ray Mack, 26; John McGraw, 3b; Arky Vaughan, ss; Ted Williams, If; Tommy Henrich, cf; Sam Crawford, rf; Jim Hegan, c; and Dizzy Dean, p.

As the play-by-play clattered out of the typewriter on a long sheet of paper, Partain explained the '"ground rules" to Rolfe . "No high level strategy," he said, "such as shifting fielders for each batter or bringing in a relief pitcher." Rolfe complained that as a manager he was handicapped , but agreed to go on with the game anyway.

Rolfe remained unruffied when McGraw, for the computer "Yankees," smashed a grand slam home run in the second inning, the computer giving an account of each

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Another in the "gee whiz" series is the game of dates. The machine will tell you via its typewriter "voice" your age-years, months and days. Give it a fictitious date, such as February 29, 1987, it raps out a sharp, "There is no such date. Please be more careful." Its programmed personality provides the machine with many such filppancies as "guess again, bub," and "let's be more careful next time."

Partain said that faculty, administration and students, will use the computer, "once they learn the language. " He explained that the electronic monster "speaks" its own language -Fortra n . Fortran is short for formula translation, the method used to give the machine its instructions. The computer follows a sequence of operations each time it attacks a problem. This sequence is called a program, and a program is "written" for each problem or calculation the computer must make.

The mathematics department is teaching spare-time, no-credit courses on how to program the computer. Dr. H . Pearce Atkins, chairman of the department, said more students than the faculty can accommodate have signed up for the class. "We had no idea we would have so much interest in this," he said. He added that all mathematics majors should know how to program a computer. In the chemistry depart[ 39}

ment, Dr. James E. Worsham, Jr., is teaching interested students to program the computer.

"The only limit to what can be done with this computer is in the minds of the humans who operate it," said Partain . Right now we are doing things with it that we had not anticipated. We'll soon have more work backlogged for it, and even more as we think up more problems," he said.

An assistant appeared at Partain's elbow.

"We're scheduled to run off this problem for the debate tean1," he said, holding up a stack of IBM cards. Partain put the cards into the computer, said goodby, and turned to face the flashing lights on the console.

JAYCEESNAME FERGUSON "YOUNG MAN OF YEAR" James A. H. Ferguson, '52, has received the Danville , Va., "O utstanding Young Man of 1963" award by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Ferguson, Dan ville city attorney, received the award for his leader ship of the city's battle in integration suits.

Other contributions by the young attorney include his work on the Danville Redevelopment Authority, and the recodification of the City Code.

Ferguson has been active in the Virginia Municipal League and is the author of a treatise on storm-water damage that has become well-known among Virginia attorneys. He also served on the local government committee on Condemnation of the American Bar Association, and wrote part of its annual report.

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