University of Richmond Magazine Winter 1972

MAGAZINE

WINTER,

1972

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ATTENTION ALUMNI AUTHORS The "Friends of the Boatwright Memorial Library" plan to honor all University of Richmond alumni authors at a special spring program . If you are an author, or have alumni friends who are, please send name, address and titles to : Mrs. Evelyn Boatwright Lynch, 23 Clarke Road, Richmond, Va. 23226.

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William T. Muse

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Westhampton College Within the University 12 Alumnae speak out on Westhampton

Cover: The fifth president of the University of Richmond, Dr. E. Bruce Heilman, was inaugurated with all the traditional pomp on October 30, 1971.

Alumni in the News

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U of R Classnotes.

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The InauguralAddress

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 2 WINTER, 1972

JOHN A. CLAYTON , '62, editor; JoHN W. EDMONDS, III, '56, Law School editor; MRs. LOUISE C. LONG, '43, Westhampton College editor; HERBERT C. PETERSON,'64, business manager; MRs. JEAN GILMAN, classnotes editor.

U . of R. Magazine, Winter, 1972, Volume 35 Number 2. Published quarterly by the General Society of Alumni.

Entered as second-class matter at University of Richmond, Virginia 23173 .

Subscription price: $ 1.00 per year.

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Manon theMove

OUR RESIDENT

Dr. Heilman participates in opening ceremonies for the Richmond Coliseum.

Dr. Heilman took the first few days in September to get his feet on the ground, then chose his administrative staff to address first. He gave them his 12 axioms of success (the first axiom: "an administrative leader must be able to inspire others and he must exude enthusiasm") then called a meeting of the Board of Trustees.

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Calm and unruffled, always with a smile, he is His first address to the Trustees was inspiring and exciting, as he himself described the meet- a man in motion. He stops (he's never too busy a significant rallying point for the to chat with the students on the campus) only ing: " ... trustees and administration as we join with occasionally. But it's never to catch his breath .

It's only to line up the next task. faculty, students, alumni, church, community, He's fond of quoting Edgar Guest's poem "It and all of our other constituents and publics to bring into focus all the forces necessary to ful- Couldn't Be Done" and the university comfill the purposes and to bring to fruition the munity has learned from this enthusiastic man highest expectation of those who are the Uni- that, by golly, it can be done.

In his announcement to alumni of the selecversity." of Dr. Heilman as our new president, tion There followed in quick succession, adRector Robert T. Marsh, Jr., made the statedresses to faculty, the students, the opening convocation of school, and later audiences at ment: "We need a man who can lead the University of Richmond in taking advantage of the Homecoming, Parents Day and other functions. opportunity for excel Jenee made possible by The inauguration on Oct. 31 was a significant occasion, attracting more than 2,000 to the the financial beneficence of the E. Claiborne Greek Theater where Rector Marsh placed the Robins family. In Dr. Heilman, we have that new University Chain of Office on Dr. Heil man's man. Indeed, we are fortunate to obtain the shoulders. The crowd braved a misty, damp services of this highly qualified leader and morning to hear Dr. Heilman discuss a new era administrator."

And now we know he is right. of the University of Richmond. (See the special RHW address). inaugural the of text full insert for the To list all the organizations he has addressed would take more space than is available. But among those groups are the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Baptist General Association of Virginia, alumni and alumnae chapters scattered across the east coast, and many others.

Sandwiched between speaking engagements has been visits to the city manager and mayor of Richmond as well as other local government officials. He dined in Washington with Senator William Spong, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and others on a national level. He makes regular visits with dozens of other persons interested in aiding the University of Richmond in accomplishing his mission.

Mealtimes are pleasant occasions for Dr. Heilman to do business. He breakfasts regularly with civic and business leaders, lunches at the University or elsewhere with others including alumni and other special guests. Home football games gave him the opportunity to have guests for a luncheon or dinner prior to the game where he could discuss the University with board members, faculty members or others.

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By Jennings Culley, Sports Editor, Richmond News Leader

en Nichols seemed to have the world on his shoulders as he bent over, pried his eyelids open and let a contact lense drop into his hands .

There were no te ars, but the low whisper , the disconsolate expression , the sad nod of the head told the story .

The University of Richmond qu arterback was trying to take all the blame for the Spiders' 28-3 loss to Toledo in the 1971 Tangerine Bowl.

"I gave them the big score ," Nichols said, thinking back to his second quarter fumble in the end zone that gave the Rockets an easy touchdown and sent them on their way to their 35th straight football victory .

"That was the turning point of the game . My fumble switched the momentum around ."

The play was a big one, but hardly a game -loser. Frank Jones knew that.

"I guess in the end it gets back to superior personnel," said the Spider coach .

"That defense of theirs was so tough . . . it all comes down to that.

After the first drive they simply beat us up front. " The Spiders had come well prepared

in strategy.

They knew they didn't have the outside running speed to match Toledo's quick pursuit, so they elected to run right at the Rockets middle .

It seemed like a wise move .

The first time they had the ball they controlled it for eight minutes and ten seconds and moved to the ten yard line before settling for a field goal by Keith Clark.

Hope of an upset , similar to that of 1968 in the Tangerine Bowl , seemed to be budding among the Spider fans in the record Tangerine crowd of 16,750 -especially when the Spiders twice chocked off the explosive Rockets in the first quarter.

Even Toledo 's talented quarterback Chuck Ealey had a twinge of frustration when the Spiders took over on the five early in the second quarter leading 3-0 .

But three plays later Nichols suddenly abandoned his normally cautious approach and called a roll out pass play.

He moved left, tried to reverse his steps and was collared by Toledo tackle Mel Long in the end zone. As he went down , the ball popped free and Long fell on it for an easy Rocket touchdown .

The Spiders never fully recovered their offensive composure.

But the fumble was just a first of a series of mistakes that nibbled at the Spiders offense and took away much of the glitter from the solid , spirited performance by the UR defen se.

Given those easy points by his def ense, Ealey seemed to relax and the next time the Rockets got the ball he moved them 80 yard s in seven plays for a 14-3 half-time lead.

That left the Spiders playing catchup with a passing game that has sputtered all year. Barty Smith and Billy Meyers pounded relentlessly at the Rockets front, but Nichols never could penetrate the pa ss defense. He wound up hitting only two of 11 passes for just 24 yards .

"The y're such a quick team .. .

I had a lot of trouble reading their defense ," said Nichols . "I just couldn 't get clicking ."

There were some valid reason s why he didn 't-like excellent pass coverag e and a strong rush by defensive ends Bob Rose and Ron Roberts, who had Nichols running for his life much of the night .

For all their defensive prowess , the Rockets had trouble blowing it open until the Spiders tired near the end .

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Williams, Jr., '51, and John Campbell, L'51, Bowl were on hand for all the Tangerine activities . a sponsored Bank in Richmond National Central Bowl Special" contest and awarded the "Tangerine winner an all-expense paid trip for two to the TanE. Bruce President Here University gerine Bowl.

Coach Frank Heilman and Athlet ic Director-Football the contents with the Jones seem to be counting help of CNB President and U of R Trustee Kenneth L. Roberts .

Young Maury Bareford, class of 1984, son of A. Conrad Bareford, 8'56, L'60, waves his the prior to boarding toy rubber spider plane for Orlando .

Dr. and Mrs. Heilman and their five childre n Here the Heilm ans cheered the Spiders. follo w ing th e chat with a young alumnus game.

It was still 14-3 when Ealey began hitting split end Don Fair repeatedly and cranked up two touchdown drives of 68 and 59 yards.

Ealey finished hitting 14 of 23 passes for 176 yards and Fair accounted for 10 yards with eight catches.

"He's the most dangerous quarterback I've ever played against," said Spider Cornerback Ray Easterling of Ealey." He just tires you out. When he scrambles, his receivers make one move and then another."

"Their receivers don't have exceptional speed. But they run good short patterns, and Ealey throws such high side-line passes, there's no way to get to them . Their timing is perfect."

The Spider defense handled one other mission well, too . They gave the offense good field position on several occasions.

"But we couldn't get it going," said Jones. "We stopped ourselves at least five times."

On three occasions, the Spiders had five yard penalties on first downs and had to start first and 15.

"That's no way to start," said Jones, "against a team that's been first in the nation on defense the last three years ."

Frank Jones receives some pre-game from Spider faithful encouragement Mrs. B. Nolting Rhodes.

Ken Nichols Richmond quarterback is chased by two Toledo linemen as he was unable to find a receiver downfield.

Spider fans fillec Enthusiastic two jet airliners for a four day trip to the Tangerine BO\

By Joseph E. Nettles, '30

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very day for the last eight years was a bonus day for Dean William T . Muse of the University of Richmond Law School-and for the University and State he served so well.

But most of all, his colleagues agreed, his life was spent in the service of his God and his fellow men. Although his accomplishments in the law and administration were many and significant, he never lost the humility he carried with him when he came to the university as a student in 1924 . He remained through the years "a country boy from Gloucester County."

Dean Muse grew with the law school and served on its faculty from 1931. He was dean when the school moved from the parent campus at Grace and Lombardy streets into a handsome building on the rolling West End campus. Last year, when alumni and other friends contributed $500 ,000 to the law school in its centennial campaign , many of the givers considered their gift an endorsement of Bill Muse and all that he meant to the university . On his last visits to the campus during the current semester , he viewed with satisfaction the progress being made on the new law school wing , which will expand the school's library facilities .

Although for those last eight years he was living on borrowed time, and frequently in pain, he carried on his work without complaint and with his customary geniality. If he had fears he would die before he had completed the task he had set for himself, he never said so. He never complained that there was so much to do and so little time. He taught his

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law classes, as usual, taught his Berean Bible class, as usual, and attended athletic events, as usual.

It was during this period that he made perhaps his most substantial contribution to the Commonwealth of Virginia as chairman of the nine-man commission appointed by Governor Mills E . Godwin , Jr . to study the highly controversial and politically volatile subject of conflicts of interest in Virginia. His colleagues on this commission have said he never lost his temper , never departed from his judicial calm . A newsman commented that no matter how busy Dean Muse might be he always found time to explain, unhurriedly, the intricacies of a problem before the commission .

In the days following his death there was a great deal of testimony about the human qualities of this man who endeared himself to the state 's lawyers he had served as secretary and later as president of the Virginia State Bar Association, and to the generations of students who knew him as professor and dean .

Students on the campus best knew him as the expert on torts, students in the Bible class knew him as a warm, friendly man whose chief concern was always for "those among us who most needed help."

One of those men , now a business executive who was helped "during the ups and downs" of a long career , gave $50,000 to the university m recognition of his friendship.

The university, in seeking a replacement for Dean Muse, must look for a man learned in the law , a skillful administrator, a genial friend to students , faculty and members of the bar, a man who has the humility of the Master that Bill Muse served.

Selection committees have been set up to receive nominations for the position of Provost of the University of Richmond and for the Dean of the Law School. All alumni are invited to submit the names, with credentials,of those individuals deemed most qualified to fill these most important positions. Alumni can render a valuable service to the University by nominating those persons whom they feel can best aid the University in achieving a higher level of greatness in the years to come. Please send the names and credentials to:

Dean C. J. Gray University of Richmond,Va. 23173

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those at the Crippled Children's Hospital.

These included her boys at Richmond College where as secretary to the dean and later as registrar she spent 39 years of her life. In fact, the University of Richmond was her life and when finally she retired in 1961, her parting was perhaps as emotionally disturbing to her as had been the deaths of her beloved sister, Marian, and her parents, with whom she lived in that picturesque house with the cupola in the 2300 block of Grove Avenue.

To her diary she confided her thoughts, her emotions on that last day at the University. Dean Smart came by to say good-bye at five o'clock and departed.

"Then," she wrote, "I was left to say good-bye to the college by myself. Finally I broke down, but nobody saw me . As I left, in pouring rain, after blowing a sentimental kiss to the empty office, the c~rillon ?,egan to play, "The Fight is Oer . ...

Others had said their good-byes in appropriate fashion. The football team presented her an honorary "R" and she was delighted to be photographed in her monogram sweater. The ROTC had a review in her honor. She stood smilingly at attention as the battalion passed the reviewing stand, the band playing "You're in the Army Now ."

Earlier she had recorded "the most wonderful day in my life," the day the University conferred on her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition not only of her literary achievements but also her great contributions to Alma Mater.

These were some of the memories she carried with her in the rain that March afternoon . She carried memories too of the professors with whom she had joked and sometimes scolded for failure to get their grades in on time . Memories too of students with whom she traded anecdotes-and whose brains she picked as she sought information about such things as a water wheel (for her story about young Tom Jefferson) and a corn stalk fiddle (Stonewall Jackson when a youngster had made a cornstalk fiddle).

When her career at Richmond College and the University was officially ended she continued to write stories for children and to impart her art to avid students in her class in children's literature at Virginia Commonwealth University . She was talking with friends about her teaching plans for the 1971-72 session that July day when she was admitted to the hospital. It was the first time she had been in a hospital as a patient. Seven weeks later she died.

Sorrowing friends, in assaying the 76 years of her life, agreed that she was a great woman with a magnetic personality that attracted children and adults as well.

And life was always a great adventure for this Alice who never outgrew her wonderland, who regarded death as only the next adventure along the way, a glorious voyage into the unknown. As she confided to a friend on one particularly lovely summer afternoon, "this

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Helen A. Monsell

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By Joseph E. Nettles, '30

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elen Albee Monsell has embarked on her last adventure-an adventure she looked forward to, perhaps not eagerly but with consuming curiosity and the serene faith of a little child.

It was appropriate that this faith should have been child-like because, although she never married, her life was centered on children for whom she wrote books, to whom she told stories and with whom there existed complete understanding, a meeting of hearts.

She never talked down to children , she valued their opinions and, in preparing the format for her books, she very much respected their judgments . Over a period of 30 years she was a weekly visitor at the Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond. Eagerly the children awaited the Thursday night visit of the white-haired lady with the twinkling blue eyes, who divided her hour with them with rigid impartiality-a half hour in the boys' ward, followed by a half hour with the girls .

Standing between two beds she faced her audience gathered in a semicircle about her, in beds, in wheel chairs and sprawled on the floor. She read from the masters, Scott, Stevenson and others, told stories familiar to all children and also told stories that later were to be a part of the book on which she was working . If they liked the stories, she knew that her larger audience would like them also.

Most of her "children" were older than

would be an interesting day to just slip away."

In many ways she resembled her mother, a remarkable woman with a sense of humor who worked as a telegrapher in a day when "genteel" jobs for women included teaching, and very little else. Virginians were to gain more than Western Union could have known when the company transferred Anna Hulse Brewster from New York to the Richmond office. (Helen Monsel!'s possessions at the time of her death included her mother's telegrapher's key.) When Anna Brewster went to Richmond, Robert E .

Monsell followed soon after and married her. There were two children, Marian and Helen, both of whom were educated in the public schools of Richmond and at Richmond College where Marian received her bachelor's degree in 1913 . Helen , after attending both Richmond College and Westhampton, received her BA in 1916 . She completed her formal education at Columbia University with a master's degree, taught and did secretarial work before beginning her association with the University of Richmond in 1922 .

Another of her long associations was with Bobbs-Merrill, the publisher of most of her books for children, including eight titles in the company's series of childhood stories of America's great men and women . "The Secret of the Chestnut Tree" was the first manuscript she sent to Bobbs-Merrill.

Bobbs-Merrill snapped up the "Secret of the Chestnut Tree", and later contracted to publish the "Secret of the Gold Earring", and eight of the childhood series . Others of her more than a dozen books for children include the "Mystery of Grandfather's Coat ," "Lucy Lou Fights for her Rights", and perhaps the most popular of all, "Paddy's Christmas ."

Understandably Helen Monsell was wellorganized. Without ever seeming to be hurried, she did a prodigious amount of work for the University, wrote prolifically, lectured frequently, and gave an evening each week to her young friends at the Crippled Children's Hospital. And, after her retirement , she found time to travel across the continent, make two trips to Europe and jaunts to Mexico and Alaska. She made the journeys not as a tourist but as a traveler . "A traveler ," she explained, "has to know enough about something so that he can engage people in conversation; a tourist just looks at things."

Although it might be said that she went through life laughing or rather chuckling, a contagious throaty chuckle, her inner self was hidden by a reserve very few persons penetrated . A scholar and distinguished author, she was genuinely humble . The Helen Monsell that hundreds admired and loved is best described perhaps by a few words written on the flyleaf of a book presented to her by a friend on the day she received her honorary degree : "For Doctor Helen-our erudite friend, who never lost the rapture and wonder of a child ."

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ElectionExpert Says'72 Is Up ForGrabs Richard M. Scammon, one of the nation's top experts on elections, told a Phi Beta Kappa audience at the University in November that "the Richard M. Scammon election is up for grabs."

Scammon, director of the Elections Research Center in Washington, D . C., was the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at the University of Richmond for a two-day tour in November.

Scammon told the honors convocation in Cannon Chapel that at that time the most certain thing that can be said about the presidential election of 1972 is that there are no strong trends about how it will go.

He suggested that none of the leading candidates-Kennedy, Muskie, Humphry on the Democratic side, or President Nixon , have the cha risma that Eisenhower had.

Kennedy, he asserted, certainly attracts large numbers of voters, but also "turns off" large numbers, too.

Scammon, a large , forceful man with a pleasant manner and quick quip, offered some observations about the voters, however. They will be exurban and suburban, a majority will be women, and the average age of the voter will be 43 or 44 years old.

He said that foreign policy will not be a major issue, barring some unforseen event," in terms of shifting people from one side to the other." Most persons, he said, "are more concerned with their personal problems on the domestic front , including the economic issues of wages, hours , jobs , housing and conditions of work."

Also important, Mr. Scammon indicated, are the social issues of drugs, unrest on the campus or the street , and race relations. "Impact of the issues will depend on the circumstances upon which we find ourselves."

Mr. Scammon, a former director of the Census Bureau, is a statistician, political scientist and an authority on elections and voting patterns. As director of the Elections Research Center, he heads a staff which publishes data on presidential , gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional elections.

He spoke to the Honors Convocation at which three sophomores received the R . E. Loving Book Award for their academic records in their freshman year. The re-

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cipients are Marbry B. Hopkins III of Towson, Md.; Janet Y. Ferrell of Danville, and David H. Pankey of Richmond.

Hopkins and Pankey had perfect 4.0 averages; Miss Ferrell had a 3.8.

The LawReviewMoves Into the Big League The University of Richmond Law Review, formally established in 1968, has in the relatively short time since become an important legal publication. With the publication of articles by three United States Senators in its current fall issue , the "Review" has firmly established a reputation which goes beyond the boundaries of the Old Dominion .

The lead article for the fall "Review" is Senator William B. Spong's thoughtful and provocative examination of the conflicting and often contradictory roles the Congress and President play in making and declaring war. A distinguished area lawyer calls Spong's discussion of the problem of war roles "incisive and penetrating. The solution lies between balancing the need for and the ability of the President to act quickly and the disadvantage of vesting too much power in any one office. He focuses well upon the congressional problem . . . how do you make Congress act promptly?"

In another article, Senator Carl T. Curtiss, the Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, discusses the legal problems of the space age in an article entitled "The Space Age: Legal and Policy Problems." Senator Edward J . Gurney of Florida is also featured in the "Review." Gurney's "Toward Judicial Reform" examines the problems involved in expediting the judicial process without impairirig the quality of judicial decisions .

The purpose of a law review, according to Waverly Pulley, the editor of the "Law

Dean of Administrative Services C. J . Gray, and Business Manager William Rhodes display their gifts to the University.

Review," is in large part "to serve the Virginia lawyer. In doing so we broaden our own scope here at the law school."

The goal of the writers, according to Pulley, is not advocacy but objectivism-to report the law as it is and to help keep Virginia lawyers abreast of current developments. To accomplish this, the top students at the T. C. Williams School of Law carefully research legal issues and prepare a summary of the developments. These studies, especially those in the "Recent Decisions" section, provide exhaustive bibliographical information. Thus, when preparing a case, the attorney can turn to the "Review" for a summary of what has been said on the issue and directions to primary source information.

The law student also benefits from the "Review" because it gives him experience in legal research and writing and a forum for his finest research efforts. The "Law Review" helps to build the reputation of the law school itself because many persons identify a school by its review. The University of Richmond Law Review compares favorably with the finest reviews in the state and nation.

In spite of its youth, the "Law Review" has over 800 subscribers already. Although this represents less than 25% of the law alumni and is low compared to other schools, the subscription level is understandable because of the newness of the publication. Yearly subscriptions can be received by sending $5.00 and your address to : UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW ASSOCIATION University of Richmond Virginia 23173

Studyof AlumniQuestionnaire ResultsBegun

Chairman Otis Brown, '56, is nearly covered by questionnaires completed by over 1400 alumni.

Looking on are officers of the General Society of Al umni, the sponsoring o rganizat ion, James Robinson, '49, Robert Bateman, '54, G. Edmond Massie, '41, Archer L. Yeatts, '64, L'67, Randolph Tabb, '36. Car l Johnson, '60, Robert McDanel, '47, Dr. Heilman and Roland Galvin, '26.

The alumni study committee headed by Otis L. Brown, has begun examining the results of the alumni questionnaire included in the Fall issue of the alumni magazine. More than 1400 alumni com pleted the lengthy questionnaire and returned it prior to the November 8 deadline. Several hundred more have been received since then.

It is anticipated that the final tabulations and written reports of the various subcommittees will comprise the bulk of material in the Spring issue of this magazine .

W. Roland Galvin. '26

CLASSAGENTS HELP ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM

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f you have felt pride in the University of Richmond in past years, prepare yourself for a wave of excitement during this 1971-72 session!

Everywhere on the campus, and infectiously spreading among alumni, parents, and other friends, is a renewed feeling of confidence this year. And why not? Consider .. .

• We have a new and dynamic President , Dr . E . Bruce Heilman.

• The $10 million Robins Challenge Grant is entering its third year, with over $2.5 million already in.

• Our $8.5 million Athletic Center nears its anticipated November 1972 completion date.

• The new wing to the Law School is under construction and is expected to be ready by September of 1972.

• Last, but never, never least; we have thousands of alumni who have never forgotten the magic of their own University of Richmond days.

And this base has been broadened by many others befriending the U. of R. in programs which are planned to conserve the past-to assure the future .

The 1971-72 Annual Giving Program certainly is no exception to this excitement, as the zealotry of National Chairman , B. Franklin Skinner, '52, attests, "My sights are not on the established goal of $276 ,500 but on my own personal goal of $300,000 and I know we'll make it."

The campaign which spans all the University's various constituencies ( trustees, alumni, parents, associates , corporations and foundations) is running well ahead of last year and has the necessary tempo to reach its goals. Through 6½ months, Skinner reports 1493 gifts totaling $176,000, increases of 377 and $46,000 respectively, over the campaign at the same point in time last fiscal year. The largest increases have been from the alumni and the parents of University students , where , in the case of the latter , more money has already been pledged than was so the entire previous year. Significantly, 70%

of all gifts received are either new or increases and thus qualify to be matched by Mr. E . Claiborne Robins, '31, and his family.

Solicitation for membership in the University of Richmond Fellows program has been stressed in the early stages of the campaign . Fellows Chairman Moreland R. Irby, Jr., '43, is pleased with the progress thus far but states, "Much work and many more contributions of $100 or more must be received." Increases are also evident in this category, as compared with last fiscal year at the same time.

Momentum continues to mount as the campaign enters its second phase-telethons!!

This year the telethons ( there'll be four) will take two formsRegional from a central location within the states' three largest Alumni Clubs, (Washington, D.C ., Newport News-Norfolk and Roanoke-Martinsville), and Nationwide from Richmond. Selected alumni in the Richmond area and in outside Virginia were telephoned during the week of January 16-20, Washington, D .C. alumni and parents the week of February 6-10 from Alexandria, Newport NewsNorfolk alumni and parents on February 20-22 from Newport News and Roanoke-Martinsville alumni and parents from Roanoke on February 23 and 24 .

The final phase of this year's Annual Giving Program revolves around the veritable army of Class Agents who begin their work on Class Agents' Day, February 19, 1972. Trained and armed with pen and paper they will begin the task of writing classmates and friends who have not contributed as of that time. Initiated by former Alumni Director Joe Nettles, '31, in 1946 , this facet has had great success in past years. The campaign officially ends on June 30, 1972.

It will take much hard work to surpass last year's award-winning Annual Giving Program, however, it can and will be done . The University of Richmond has been good, it can now be great. But, to make it so will not only take everything we have, but everything all of us can give . . . in time, talents and resources.

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ESTHAMJPTON

WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY

This is a condensation. available report Complete through the alumnae office.

NOTE:

I. THE COMMITTEE: CHARGE AND PROCEDURE-The Governing Board of the Alumnae Association voted on Nov. 13, 1970 , to establish a Committee on Westhampton within the University of Richmond and charged it: With many indications of a possible change in the status of Westhampton ( from coordinate to coeducational), it is felt important that a study be made of the College's position within the University so that a full statement of alumnae feeling can be presented to the President and Trustees.

Appointees to the Committee represented the six decades of WC 's existence.

At its initial meeting in January 1971 , the focus was adopted-Westhampton Today: Its Strengths and WeaknessesWhat would be gained or lost if WC were to change from a coordinate to a coeducational college?

Subcommittees were formed to study four areas : students, faculty , administration , alumnae . Research , interviews and consultation followed.

First objective was to obtain accurate information on the College 's operation and the trend to coeducation nationally.

Then opinions of alumnae and students were solicited by polls. Alumnae have a mature perspective and a supportive attachment to the University. Students are sensitive to the currents of the times.

A fact-sheet questionnaire was circulated among 4,450 alumnae . Responses tabulated totaled 1,540 ( 35 % ) . Another questionnaire went to 575 students, bringing 350 responses (60%). These polls are summarized in appendices (SEE FULL REPORT IN ALUMNAE OFFICE) and referred to throughout report.

On the basis of research, deliberation and opinion surveys, the Committee next appraised Westhampton's current strengths and weaknesses , formulating conclusions and recommendations .

II. BASIC CONCLUSION-The

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mittee and 90+ % of alumnae responding favored retention and continued development of WC as a small coordinate liberal Coordinate arts college for women. structure was favored by students, whose opinions were solicited on all aspects of coeducation . Westhampton women made clear that they value their college's identity and distinctive characteristics.

Ill. RATIONALE-Among colleges of coordinate structure , each institution determines its own elements and extent of coordination ; there is no single type. At U of R, for WC (women) and RC (men) , the distinctive elements of coordination are separateness of student bodies , administrative heads, some departments, and living arrangements. Thus each has its own character and identity , while each may cooperate with the other in academic and social activities, sharing classrooms (most classes are mixed) , faculty , administration and facilities.

Westhampton is unique . It was founded with unusual foresight in the concept of a living-learning center as a liberal arts college with academic standards equal to the best established colleges for women .

The significance of this lies in the extent to which WC is thereby positioned and equipped to meet, with flexibility, the challenges of this new era in higher education.

In recent years many traditionally single-sex colleges , especially those in isolated areas, have been plagued by declining applications and turned to the admission of both sexes. One argument heard for coeducation is that its initial cost is less than that of coordinate structure . This does not apply to U of R as the initial outlay for coordination (separate dormitories , etc.) was made in 1914.

WC now has no excess classrooms or unused facilities; therefore , merger would bring little or no reduction in such costs or in administration or faculty.

It has become evident that the declining rate of applications is not confined

to single-sex institutions, but has appeared almost universally among private institutions and seems to have a close correlation with general economic and financial conditions .

WC has not encountered this decline in qualified applicants. If it does , the answer seemingly would lie in development of its role as a liberal arts college for women and in more effective public relations and recruitment.

The trend toward coeducation seems to have peaked within recent months. News media indicate some of the "unremedied problems" following shifts to coeducation. Several colleges which considered becoming coeducational a year ago have second thoughts now, notably Smith , Mount Holyoke and Goucher. Wellesley has decided to remain a woman's college.

The Committee has viewed many other colleges in the process of their study , among them: Chatham , Wilson , RadcliffeHarvard , Princeton, Mary Baldwin, and Duke.

IV. SURVEY OPINION-The

Committee's communication to alumnae consisted of a fact sheet citing some specific highlights of Westhampton, followed by eight questions. The student questionnaire was much more detailed. Both questionnaires were designed to elicit opinions which would provide reliable data for a statistically sound sample. Detailed data, tables and additional information are contained in appendices. (SEE FULL REPORT).

Questioned on organizational details , students and alumnae endorsed , by range of 65 % -90 %, separate dean, registrar, admissions and housing. Two-thirds of each endorsed all-University departments.

The results of the student survey contradicted some sections of the Report of the Student Planning Committee. which was prepared in the spring of 1970 by a small number of students. In fact, students surveyed by the WC-UR Committee favor only limited aspects of coedu-

REPORT: cation, not the sweeping changes to total coeducation recommended in the Student Planning Committee Report.

Students want more cooperation in some non-academic areas: placement services, bookstore, student center.

Evaluating their college experience, students and alumnae valued most those aspects dependent upon the intimacy of a small school with separate identity.

Both surveys revealed priorities of friendships, size of enrollment and faculty contacts. Eighty per cent of alumnae responding indicated that well-qualified women in top faculty and administrative positions was important. A wider geographic admissions base was favored by alumnae (slightly) and students (strongly). Students want an admissions policy bringing WC increased religious, social and racial diversity. Alumnae recommended that their daughters, if equally qualified, be given preference in admission.

Many concepts already indicated were reinforced throughout the 1,062 spontaneous comments in the alumnae survey.

These were coded and analyzed for content. Recurring was the remark that WC now has "the best of both worlds". Attracting significant support were: a student body of 600 to 750; further diversity in student body without losing the personality of the college; maintenance of high academic standards and development of the individual student; preservation of the atmosphere of moral and social maturity; improvement of administrative communication and cooperation among University, College and alumnae.

Strength of alumnae identification with WC is one of the most significant implications of the survey. Not only do 90% of alumnae prefer the coordinate structure, but 93 % want to be consulted on any proposed structural change. Other indications of personal attachment to the College are shown in the high rate of responses, half of which contain additional comment. The similarity of re-

sponses to specific items and spontaneous remarks was significant.

The loyalty of Westhampton women is also indicated by the high percentage of annual giving and hours of volunteer service to the University. Alumnae function through an independent association, which 70% of the respondents wish to retain.

V. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES -The Committee notes: A. Strengths-( 1) WC has advantage of a small college for women and benefits of a university. (2) Size ( 600 students) is conducive to an effective college administration; development of maturity and leadership; close-knit student body with students regarded as individuals having access to faculty and staff.

(3) WC has a college identity marked by distinctive characteristics: its own administrative officers and some faculty; its independent college life including an effective honor system, accessible and responsive college government and some special interest organizations; separate housing, privacy, excellent food and family style dining; high academic standards for admission and reputation for pursuit of excellence in academic performance.

B. Weaknesses-Cl) Westhampton's college life is adversely affected by lack of close cooperation and by inadequate communication at the University level. (2) WC has poorly maintained and over-crowded housing, limited student center space and resources for bookstore, outdated infirmary, insufficient office space and classroom areas. ( 3) WC needs expansion and improvement in student services: adviser system, medical services, career guidance, placement services.

In considering whether or not West-

hampton should be changed, the Committee raised three questions: Would WC's strengths be enhanced by change to coeducation? Would the results of merging with RC correct major weaknesses of the coordinate system? Would gains compensate for losses in a completely coeducational structure?

The Committee believes the reasoned answer to each is "No". Noted strengths would be diluted or lost by merger; weaknesses could readily continue unchanged.

The question of structure is irrelevant to the correction of Westhampton's weaknesses. Losses would far outweigh gains which are regarded as minimal.

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FACULTY-Excellenceof faculty determines the quality of education. The Committee supports a search for faculty of outstanding competence, particularly in teaching. This requires resourcefulness in recruitment, perception in employment and periodic evaluation of performance.

WC and RC have been served by University departments ( in which faculty hold dual appointments) and College departments operating directly within the administrations of the respective Colleges (four at WC; five at RC). Most classes ( of University or College departments) are mixed. A recognized disadvantage of dual appointments is the duplication of time and effort in faculty meetings . Since teaching is not involved, the Committee believes such disadvantages could be solved administratively. With comparable teaching loads in hours and students, financial savings would not seem to result from converting College departments to all-University departments.

College departments constitute a distinctive feature of the University's particular form of coordination, and strengthen the cluster college concept on which Westhampton was founded. All indications are that such departments have proved their value in the total context of

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Billy. Jean Baker (right) and Mayme O'Flaherty Stone present Dr. Heilman with the committee report on Westhampton College within the University.

college identity, in faculty-student relationships and in meeting the special needs of women. These departments offer more opportunities for women to hold the positions of department and committee chairman.

Statistics show that women (faculty, hold top students, and administrators) positions chiefly at women's colleges.

This is true at U. of R. WC's four administrative officers are women. Of the 16 full-time faculty members at WC, 13 are women. Currently, all four department chairmen are women. On the other hand, of the 100 faculty members holding dual appointment at WC and RC, only 11 are women. There are 15 University departments, with one woman serving as chairman.

Joining alumnae in recognizing the need for women of achievement as models, the Committee endorses the employment of more well qualified women for other divisions of the University as well as WC.

COOPERATION AND COMMUNICACommittee believes that TION-The clearcut delegation of authority by University executives would greatly strengthen Westhampton's administration. Internal communications at Westhampton are effective, but the College's relations with the University administrators are often complicated either by lack of contact or ambiguous channels. This weakness surfaced in both student and alumnae surveys.

In the development of long-range planning, to which the Committee assigns a high priority, all University divisions should be drawn into participation and the entire University community should be kept informed.

Persons new to the University should receive orientation in the coordinate structure.

FACILITIES AND SERVICES-Among facilities, complete re-evaluation of WC housing is given highest priority. This could be accomplished while working drawings are being prepared for the recently announced dormitory. Needed for two decades, the dormitory could be filled by only a few additional enrollments, relieving the over-crowding of current facilities and providing residence for town students who want to live on cam-

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pus. Lack of space has forced WC to maintain a ratio of 60% dormitory residents to 40% town students. The Committee is also concerned with replacement or renovation of worn furnishings, equipment, wiring and other safety features.

A University student center-bookstore is definitely needed; one that is imaginative as well as modern in service and adequate to enrollment. We are happy to note that a combined group of alumnae, alumni, students and faculty is making specific recommendations through a FacNo ulty Advisory Panel Committee. single facility improvement would have as much impact as this on the morale of the total University community.

The WC infirmary should be expanded in size, facilities and equipment. The Committee concurs with the student recommendation that an infirmary be included in the proposed new dormitory.

Careful study should be given to the location , size and proportion of all further construction so that the natural beauty of the campus may be retained.

Among student services, the adviser Advisers system is most inadequate. should be knowledgeable in course offerings and requirements for degrees, graduate study and certification and should be interested in each student's development.

Medical services especially need to be expanded and improved.

Career guidance is not systematically available, and placement services are fragmented. These services could, perhaps, be better provided if University based. are increasingly DIVERSITY-There fewer choices available for the student who wants a small, privately supported university with high academic standards

in a church-related atmosphere. Westhampton, in offering such a choice, should be strengthened. The Committee would seek greater diversity without lowering academic standards or losing the character of the College. Concerning the University's educational goals and philosophy, more thoughtful attention needs to be given to their definition and art iculation.

VI. RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Continue WC as a small coordinate liberal arts college for women, within the University.

2. Maintain the distinctive characteristics which mark WC's identity as a college.

3. Develop long-range planning at the University policy level. Communicate policies appropriate ly to faculty, students, staff and alumnae.

4. Focus on building and maintaining an outstanding faculty, with strong emphasis on teaching ability. Retain some Westhampton departments. In total faculty, increase the number of especially qualified women.

5. Initiate high priority plans as follows: speed construction of new dormitory for WC; renovate and refurbish housing; build University student centerbookstore complex; expand medical facilities and provide adequate medical care; modernize classrooms and faculty offices.

6. Improve Westhampton adviser system.

7. Establish University career guidance and placement services.

8. Increase the diversity of student body and faculty, without lowering academic standards or changing the basic character of the College.

9. Retain the natural beauty of the campus.

arriving for the delicious buffet dinner and enjoyed conversations and cocktails on the clubhouse patio . The Kenny Henderson Trio supplied music for the affair. The dinner was followed by dancing.

While the dinner-dance was being held Homecoming '71 got underw ay on Friday at the country club, the Westhampton morning, October 22 with gray , threatenin g Alumnae Association was holding its anskies and ominous predictions from the nual dinner on campus. Dr . E . Bruce Heilweatherman. But Uni versity of Richmond man and Mrs. Heilman joined the ladie s alumni-golfers proved that they are as hearty as any golfers anywhere. Eighty-four · for dinner.

The bad weather which had held off on alumni teed off at the beautiful James River Friday plagued the activities planned for Course of The Country Club of Virginia Saturday. and enjoyed a great day on one of AmerThe School of Business alumni had their ica's finest golf layouts . usual fine breakfast meeting. This year 's The chairman for this first-ever Homeaddition was held for the first time on coming golf tournament was E . Claiborne campus with nothing but compliments for Robins , Jr. , '68, who also hosted a social the fine buffet prepared by the Refectory hour immediately following the tabulation personnel. Dr. Heilman spoke to the more of score cards . Sponsored by Mr. Robins ' than 100 alumni following breakfast. hockey team , The Richmond Robins of the Alumni from the other divisions of the American Hockey League , the social hour University were beginning to arrive at the was attended by nearly 300. Golfers ju st Fine Arts Building while Dr. Heilman in off the course joined with couples just

IDIICDIINI '71

Alumni in the News Sheriff Young Elected President James H . Young , RC 19, for 20 years Richmond City Sheriff, has been ~- '"'\ elected president of the National Sheriff's Associ ation. He is the first Virginia Sheriff to be elected to head the 23,000 James H. Young member National Association .

Sheriff Young served the Virginia Sheriff's Association as secretary-treasurer for 9 years . During that time , he or ganized and ran the first school for sheriffs and city sergeants. He is presently serving on the Law Enforcement Training Standards Commission.

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Cecil Kite Marks 35th Anniversary Cecil E . Kite , RC 26, recently observed his 35th anniversary as pastor of Elmhurst Baptist Church , Elmhurst, N . Y. His sermon on Sunday , SeptemCecil s . Kite ber 26, was entitled "Remembrance with Thanksgiving" . Apparently the thought works both ways as the service was attended by hundreds who remembered with thanks the many fine deeds he had performed in their behalf during his years of service.

Adams Honored at UNC E. Maynard Adams, RC 41, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina , ha s won the coverted Thom as Jeffer son E. M . Adams Award for 1971.

The cash prize is made annually at several universities in recognition of the person

who most closely approximates in his teaching and personal life the philosophy and conduct of Jefferson.

A member of the UNC faculty since 1948, Dr. Adams served as the chairman of the philosophy department from 1960 to 1965. He has published several books on logic, language and ethics and over 50 scholarly articles on a wide variety of topics.

In addition to the Jefferson Award , he has been appointed a Kenan Professor , a top honor for UNC faculty members.

Williams Appointed Counsel William J. Williams , L '55, was recently appointed general counsel of Republic Steel Corporation in CleveWilliam J. w;11,ams land , Ohio. Before joining Republic in 1963, he had been associated with the law firm of Hunton, Williams, Gay , Powell & Gibson in Richmond.

Alumni Bookshelf THE NAVAL ACADEMY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNITED ST ATES NA VY

By W. Harrison Daniel Chairman, Department of History, Richmond College E. B. Potter, class of '29 at the University of Richmond and currently Professor of Naval History at the United States Naval Academy , Annapolis , Maryland, has written an account of the nation's navy from the American Revolution to 1970. Thi s hand some volume (eight and one-half by eleven inch pages) has a number of appealing features. It is well organized and written in clear and unambigious prose , free of technical jargon . There are fifty-one maps and diagrams to aid and assist the reader in understanding the narrative ; and there are nearly two hundred picture s of ships and per sonalitie s associated with the navy during the past two centuries .

spoke at the SBA breakfast and the new president soon joined what was an amazing turnout considering the rainy conditions outside . Over 400 alumni heard Dr. Heilman call for their support and advise as he leads their alma mater during an extremely exciting era in her history.

The sun shone on the U of R football Spiders but the rains came in torrents on the small crowd of spectators and the Furman University team as the Spiders completely outplayed the Purple Paladins .

Another new addition to Homecoming was a special worship service held in the chapel Sunday morning.

Alumni Weekend will be held May 19, 20 and 21. Reunion Classeswill be the classes of 1922, 1927, 1932, 1937, 1942, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962 and 1967. Begin to make plans now to return to the campus for the special activities.

Although this volume was written for the general reader rather than the specialist, it is obvious to the reader that it is based upon considerable research . Potter recounts the establishment of the navy by the Continental Congress in 177 5; however, it is noted that most of the sea warfare in the American Revolution was waged by privateers .

Throughout the book the author · has sought to describe the attitude of the federal government toward the navy at different periods of its history. After the Treaty of Paris , 1783, what remained of the United States navy was either sold or abandoned and for the next ten years there was no navy. It was not until the mid1790's when there emerged the possibility of war with France or England that Congress decided to revive or recreate a navy.

Although the navy was never completely abandoned again there have been decades when it was neglected . The naval academy , for the training of officers and administrators , was not established until nearly half a century after the creation of a military academy. Nat ional leaders and some naval personnel were slow to covert to metal for the construction of ships, and only gradually accepted the idea that airplanes and aircraft carriers could contribute to the effectiveness of the navy.

The overall tone of the author is one of respect and admiration for his subject; there is no pretense that he is a detached and objective observer . If the navy made any blunders or stupid decisions or errors during its history they are not readily apparent to the reader of this volume. Although factual mistakes appear to be few, the reader who wishes to pursue further the history of the United States navy will find neither footnotes nor bibliography to guide him to other sources. Some might feel that the volume 's contents are decidedly unbalanced when almost as many page s are devoted to the years since 1941 as are accorded to the first one hundred and sixty-five years of the navy. Many Civil War historians would question the author's designation of Abraham Lincoln as "the abolitionist candidate" in 1860, and the oversimplified statement that the American Civil War was launched in 1861 by presidential proclamation. These criti cisms aside , this is an attractive volume and navy buffs will appreciate it.

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Classnotes RICHMOND COLLEGE 1899 Rev . Samuel L. Morgan celebrated his 100th birthd ay on September 22 .

1925 Virginia 's Chief Ju stice Harold F. Snead was named chairm an of a StateFederal Judicial Council whose purpose is to coordinate the work of the state and federal judicial systems in are as of mutual concern.

1928 Dr. John W. Kincheloe , Jr. , pastor of Branch 's Baptist Church in Richmond , retired December 31.

1929 Wilbur Gaines was elected a director of the Westhampton Civic Association (New York).

1934 The Rev . Raymond E. Abbitt, Fort Worth , Texa s, represented the Universit y at the inauguration of Dr. Nolen at North Texas State University on December I. 1936 Dr. Woodrow W. Clark , Huntington , W. Va. , represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. John G . Barker as President of Marshall Univer sity on October 23.

Dr. Arthur W. Rich , Jr. , Deland , Fla. , represented the University at the inauguration of Dr . John E. Johns as President of Stetson University on November 15.

Randolph P . Tabb has been elected president of the Presbyterian School of Christian Education board of trustees in Richmond.

1940 Willi am L. Maner, Jr. was elected a Dir ector of the Williamsburg National Bank. He is manager of the Virginia Electric & Power Co. office in Wiiliamsbur g, Vice Chairman of the Alexandria Community Council and the Fairfax Count y Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

1941 Dr. A. E. Beale , Jr. , senior re search specialist in Inorganic Pro gress Research at the Texas Div. of Dow Chemical USA has been appointed to the position of associate scientist.

L. Starke Jones is the new administrator of the Baptist Home of Maryland.

1943 Dr. John R . Fitzgerald represented the University at the inaugur ation of Dr. James I. Doi as Dean of the College of Education at The University of Rochester on October 29.

1944 William E. Locke y. Jr . has been elected to the board of the Mid Atlantic Theatre Associ ation . He will be colle ge and university repre sentative and will serve for one year to fill an unexpired term .

1947 Dr. Lewis B. Hasty h as been promoted to clinical assistant professor at Emory University.

Frank D . Stoneburner has been promoted to manufacturing manager for printing and plastics plants in the packaging division of Reynolds Metals Co . in Richmond.

1948 John H . Baker , Jr. has been promoted to manager at the Richmond branch office of Marine Office-Appleton & Cox Corp .

F. Carlyle Tiller has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer with Wheat & Co ., Richmond.

James M. Wiltshire, Jr., assistant to the President and Assistant Counsel of Home

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Beneficial Life Ins ., Co., Richmond, has been elected to the boards of the company and Home Beneficial Corp .

1949 E . Carlton Gammon has been named director of operations for the Pharmaceutical Division of A. H. Robin s Co. , Richmond.

Edward E. "Sugar" Ralston has been elected vice president of Virginia Paper Co. and will serve as manager of the company 's Richmond branch.

1950 William B. Astrop , Atlanta , represented the University at the Inauguration of Dr. Pafford as President of West Georgia College on October 29.

Dr . William P. Hargis, director of the Virginia Institute for Marine Sciences , was presented the American Oceanic Organization 's 1971 Neptune Award.

1951 William T. Coppage , director of the Virginia Commission for the Visually Handicapped , has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Commission on Standards of the National Accrediation Council for Agencies serving the Blind and Visually H andicapped.

Paul R. Garber is a teachin g assistant working on a Ph.D . at Florid a State University .

1952 Rev. Ch arles W. Gibson was installed as pastor of Oak Grove Bapti st Church , Richmond . He was formerly with Emmanuel Baptist Church in Manas sas, Va. Malcolm M. Hutton , Sr., Evangelist , is now associ ated with Monument Height s Baptist in Richmond. He formerly was pastor of Seaford Church in the Penin sula Association.

1953 H arold M. Goldston has been elected a director of Insurance Management Corp .

He has been controller since 1968.

1954 Thom as H. Markley is a senior at the School of Theology , The Univ ersity of The South , in Sewanee, Tenn. He has worked as manager and representative for grocery and department stores .

Charles A. Mink has been appointed senior vice president of Petroleum Products, and director of Refined Products for Phillips Petroleum Co. , Europe - Africa .

1957 Bill Je ssup, executive secretary of the Raleigh Community Relations Committee in North Carolina, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the N ational Association of Hum an Rights Workers.

Harry L. Tomlinson has been promoted to the position of circulation manager of the Winston-Salem newspapers from the Richmond Newspapers position of assistant circulation director - administrativ e. Both papers are divisions of Medi a General.

Dr. Rudolph F. Wagner , a coun seling psychologist and the chief psychologist of the Richmond, Va . public school s, has written a book about dyslexia , the inability to perceive what the eye mechanically sees , that was published in May by Harper & Row . Entitled Dyslexia and Your Child it explain s how to assess the dyslexic condition at various levels , and helps adults pinpoint the specific reading problem before remedi ation is started .

1958 Dick Bell is headmaster of the Blackstone Day School, teaches English at V.C.U . in Richmond, and is interim pastor for neighboring churches in Blackstone , Va . He also reports that he has three children , two boys and a girl.

Ellis M . West has been awarded his Ph.D. degree from Emory University. Dr. West teaches at University College of the University of Richmond.

Dr. James M. Yankovich, associate pro fessor of education at The University of Michigan-Flint, has been named its acting associate dean for academic affairs .

1959 Dr. Charles Ray Wingrove is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Richmond .

1960 W. Christian Sizemore has been named acting academic dean of South Georgia Co llege in Douglas , Ga. Librarian there since 1966 , he was awarded the Advanced Master 's degree by Florida State University in June , 1971 and has completed residence requirements for the Ph.D. degree at FSU .

Manfred H. VonEhrenfried has been named department manager of the newly formed earth resources applications department of Wolf Research and Development Corp . in Riverdale , Md . He previously was chief of science requirements and operations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's Manned Spacecraft Center.

1961 Rev. Wat son E . Mills read a paper entitled "Glos solalia and Ecstaticism: Parallet Phenomena ?" to the nation al meeting of the Society of Biblical Liter ature in Atlanta, Ga. Hi s new book , Und erstandin g Speaking in Ton gues , was released by William B. Eerdman Publishing Co. in De cember, 1971.

Ebb H. William s, III, Martin sville Alumni Club Presid ent , represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Hart as President of Ferrum Colle ge, Va. on October 8.

Larry Wood has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Chesape ake Savings and Loan Association in Norfolk , Va. 1964 David M. Fuller ha s been appointed agency supervisor with William C. Goodman & Associates in Richmond .

Charles A . Hart z, Jr. has been appointed an attorney with the R.F. & P. Railroad Co . He formerly worked with VEPCO. Frank S. Penl and is listed in the 1971 edition of OUTSTANDING YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA .

V. Earl Stanley , Jr. represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Ru ssell as president of Saint Paul's College on November 20.

Andrew W . Wood is now engaged in the General Practice of Law in a partnership, in Richmond.

1965 James A. Ca les, Jr. has been elected Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Port smouth, Va. C . Eugene Moss was appointed an instructor in Robert Morris College's natural science department. He is currently working on his doctorate at the Uni versity of Pittsburg and was formerly an instructor in radiology at the Medical College of Virginia .

David C . Poteet has joined the faculty of Averett College, Danville , V a. as assistant profe ssor of history.

Raymond C. Robertson was sworn into office as assistant Commonwealth 's Attorney in Augu sta County , Va. Roger L. Tomli;i has been promoted to staff supervisor-methods and training at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in Newport News , Va. 1966 Dr. Robert W. Allen, Jr., Salt Lake City , Utah, represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Oaks as president of Brigham Young University on November 12.

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y much beloved predecessor Dr. Modlin, and Mrs. Modlin both of whom are my most ardent supporters, Rector Marsh, honored platform guests , members of my family, former colleagues from Meredith College , representatives of colleges , universities , and learned societies, trustees, fellow administrators, colleagues of the faculty , staff, students, alumni , alumnae, neighbors in the com munity, friends of the University, ladies and gentlemen : An inauguration is many things to many people . To the one being inaugurated , it's an occasion unlike any other and represents the formal initiation of his administration . To the Inaugural Committee it's a demanding responsibility and a challenging opportunity to turn the spotlight on the University . Cert ainly the entourage gathered here speaks well for the efforts of this group .

To trustees , the inauguration signifies a transfer of leadership and the beginning of a new era . To faculty , students , graduates, the denomination, the community and all other members of the University family , this is a time to be proud of the past , an opportunity to take note of the present, and an occasion for reaffirming dedication , loyalty, and support.

To those who have been invited to take part in this celebration , it is as many things as the number of individuals involved . But to each and every one , we

soc1et1es. We respond with gratitude to the expressions of good will tendered by representatives of the principal communities of the University of Richmond.

In my second month of office and on my 60th day, I can 't speak as if I've been around forever or even for a long time . Nonetheless , I shall endeavor to express something of the atmosphere and of the character of the University , as well as the spirit and posture of the administration assuming office. I shall also remember that an inauguration is not for the president and the cultivation of his already healthy ego , but to give exposure to the University and possibly to make some contribution to higher education generally .

Since my first contact with the Presidential Select ion Committee , I've heard over and over again from many sources that this institution aspires to be a great Universit y. These expressions have caused me to reflect back on the several colleges and universities which I've served and to remember that , without exception , the y aspired to greatness. Cer tainly they did , and why not? For with -

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great or the criteria for greatness. There seems to be, however, a particular thread that runs true throughout all of history in identifying college and university greatness. That thread embroiders on the institution a clear evidence of self-confi dence and uncompromising self-expectation to the point of clearly saying to all, " We are a distinctive institution."

The fact of such confidence is not surface or peripheral but dips into the trunk and roots of the institution and exudes from every aspect of its being.

Some may read it as arrogance , but anything bordering on conceit does not compliment a truly great university . The kind of confidence which is observable in the institutions I have in mind grows out of the generally recognized assumption that there 's a relationship between what others expect of them and what they expect of themselves . Both selfrespect and expectation on the part of others result from continuing performance at a level beyond the ordinary.

A few colleges and universities have been great even in poverty, but not many.

Many have been great because they had great resources, but not all. Most have been great because they believed in themselves in such a way that their confidence in self spread to others , making greater and greater achievement possible . Strength built on strength , and the University moving of its own volition found direc-

University of Richmond

CAPITALIZING ONCONFIDENCE FOROUR TIME INHISTORY at the University of Richmond extend our warmest welcome and express our deepest appreciation for your presence and participation. We are proud to reflect with you on an illustrious past , to indulge with you in the exciting present , and to anticipate in your company a future which promises to be among the finest years in the life of the University .

We are privileged to have the Governor of our State represented and the Mayor of our City present with us, along with many other political, civic , social , and church leaders, and delegates from many colleges, universities , and learned

E. Bruce Heilman Saturday, October 30 1971

out such aspirations, no institution is worth the salt of its existence.

More recently, in preparation for this addre ss, I remembered the history of higher education and I recalled that much mention is made of the great universities. I also observed that very little is said of the conditions that made them

tion under able leaders who were attracted by the special excitement created under such conditions.

Has this University called Richmond been a great University? In a measure, I think we would all say it has been.

Great things have been accomplished throughout its history . But it's obvious that this University has the possibility of building higher towers on these strong foundations because those who are the University conceive of a measure of greatness not yet attained. We who are now responsible must improve upon the excellent record of the past and make it

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Faculty and guests move through the woods into the Greek Theater for the Inaugural Ceremony .

Re_ctor Mar_sh delivers the Charge of Office as President Heilman and Trustees listen intently.

President and Mrs. Heilman greet guests after the Inaugural Ceremony.

The Greek Theater is packed for the Inaugural Ceremony, October 30.

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of our young people that is not trembling outstanding if we are to do justice to the new opportunities resulting from the genwith destinies. We are the leaders in preparerosity of the Robins family and others ing for these destinies. We must define our who have been generous to the University purpose clearly and it should not be a faulty over the years. We cannot do less than run compromise with expediency." the risk of building strength far above a Thomas Braden said, "Only when men level ever dreamed of prior to the recent and institutions do not know what they want magnificent contributions from the Robins or have forgotten what their purpose was, family, including endowments and facilities , do pressures become dangerous . . . for which with the matching portions will total pressures of whatever sincerity and from more than $70,000,000, making this an unwhatever source can be dealt with-can be precedented act in the history of this Uniresisted or welcomed-as long as an instituversity or any other. tion and the men who make it up know But aspirations are only emotions put into what they want and have a purpose and a words unless we discover the ingredients ¡ goal . . . When there is no purpose, pressure necessary to success in bringing about the takes its place. And institutions which ought greatness of which we speak. Certainly it to help define the ends and aims of life are wori't be money alone, although that prothemselves defined by pressure." vides a measure of possibility not before We at the University of Richmond must attained. It won't be human resources alone, put ourselves to the stern test of gauging because people can create or perpetuate results in terms of human behavior , dignity, weakness as well as strength . It won 't be and freedom. Our priorities must be apmore students, because size doesn't make pr.iised against their contributions to this greatness. It won't even result from a winoverriding purpose. This University has a ning football or basketball team. A univerbackground which gives it special reason to sity's greatness depends neither upon the be sensitive to such considerations and we presence nor upon the absence of any must have confidence that these commitparticular thing at any particular time . ments justify our best efforts.

Rather, it depends upon an attitude, a spirit, I bdieve we must maintain mutual conand a posture of a kind embodied in confifidence between the University and the gendence. eral public. Arnold Toynbee has said, "The I believe confidence to be the only certain World's greatest need . . . is mutual coningredient that will bring us toward , and fidence . . . confidence may be risky, but it carry us into, a new level of greatness. We is nothing like so risky as mistrust." Plato must have a new confidence, a clear confisaid , "We can forgive a child who is afraid dence and a confidence far beyond that of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when achieved prior to this time. I believe so men are afraid of the light." But many will strongly that "Capitalizing on Confidence" is continue to be afraid of the light unless we our best approach to success in the months in the forefront of education can win their and years ahead that I've made the title of confidence anew . To do this we must talk this address "Capitalizing on Confidence for to them in terms they can understand, give Our Time in History". If a lack of confimore emphasis to our positive achievements; dence can cause crises, as John Gardiner has and disclaim responsibility for what we have so clearly observed, then the presence of not brought about or what we should not be confidence should keep us free from the expected to control. pangs of crisis and catapult us toward our But confidence, like prestige , sought digoal. This confidence should say to us, "If rectly is almost never gained. It must come you are going to be something , be something as a by-product of that which is sought and special." But to do so, we must translate our achieved for its own sake and recognized as co-nfidence into specifics. So let me share valid and valuable by others. We cannot with you what I believe about confidence maintain confidence simply by verbal exspecifically . pressions of objectivity. Our credibility must I believe we who are responsible for the come through in practice. Objectivity is not University must have confidence in ourin disregarding or flouting the views of selves. I would be the wrong person for the others even those off campus. We can't bepresidency of the University of Richmond come great by putting down those who if I had any doubt as to the possibility of would not agree with us . A university must greater progress and more outstanding be open-minded, and that image should exist achievements in the months and years ahead.

The faculty, staff, trustees, students, alumni , neither to deceive nor to placate others, but simply to express an honest intent to broadcommunity, denomination, and administraen our own narrow views. tion would be poor risks in doing their jobs While outside forces should not tell us for the University if they expected anything what we may teach, how we must teach it, less. Confidence must be our state of mind, or what kind of speakers we may have on our spirit, and our attitude . It must make us campus , we must have the willingness to face up to our responsibilities , and it must make a part of our posture a stance of listmake worthwhile our efforts to achieve our ening, learning, and inviting suggestions . We ambitions . have the ability and the responsibility to Yes, I believe all of us who are the Uniconvince our constituents that we deserve versity must have confidence in ourselves if both support and respect. We do not conwe are to live up to the level of expectation descend to others in so doing , but rather we obvious at this point in time . We must enextend our image of integrity beyond ourvision the rewards and satisfactions of our selves. In order to have others listen to us, efforts if we are to deal with the challenge we must first win their confidence. It is only and opportunities , and we must believe fully as we pay attention to others that we get in our ability to fulfill the demands, whatthem to pay attention to us. ever they may be. The most obvious eviJohn Stuart Mill said. "Every conceivable dence of ¡ institutional confidence is self-conshade of opinion should be tolerated in a fidence on the part of its leadership. university." In a social or political sense, I believe we must hm â&#x20AC;˘e confidence in our purposes and objectives . Thornton Wilder this means that the university as an institusaid, "Our young people are being prepared tion is neutral. In a good university, however, even neutrality is dynamic; and if it is, for a world in which every good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the there are some who will need to be assured razor 's edge of danger and must be fought of the legitimacy of that posture . That will for. There is not an hour in the education take continuing effort because the confidence

that is built by many acts is often lost by one.

I believe we must maintain confiden ce in leadership and in constituted authority necessary to effecting that leadership. No great movement has reached its peak without a leader having the authority necessary to fulfill the expectations of the movement. Confidence in leadership is critically important to success in any university. This includes con fidence in the president, but extends throughout the institution . Unless there is confidence in leadership there is excessive over-theshoulder looking, which hinders the necessary risk-taking that is essential if an institutio~ is to build and grow in strength and service. If every critic is free to check every move of those selected for leadership then the leader will seek only to please, not to lead. Such a practice is analogous to regularly pulling up flowers to see how the r?ots are growing. They may continue to hve as plants but they will do very little blooming.

Every institution with aggressive ambitions must create and honor some reasonable structure of authority. If it ceases to do so then it !11oves toward no authority or ulti: mately 1t reverts to total authority neither of which is desirable. Educationai institu tions are particularly vulnerable in their authority structure because they must allow a wide latitude for dissent.

Governance is a great concern of the . present and of the future in the life of the university . Trustees , administrators, students, professors, staff, alumni , and the public ,all have an interest. It's easy to underestimate or to exaggerate the influence of any one of these . It's impossible that all should decide everything or be consulted on each issu~. But there must be a sharing of information and responsibility and a readiness to subject all authority to the requirements of a well-defined system of accountability.

John Stuart Mill said "Men often submit willingly! eve~ cheerfully , to authority when they beheve It to be exercised well and responsibly in the pursuit of ends of which \hey approve and whose benefit they would Justly share." Total consensus is not a viable alternative on the campus today . Thus we must maintain a healthy confidence in each other ~nd we must have guidelines which treat rights and responsibilities simultaneously under leaders whose constituted authority is clear and present.

I believe we must continually seek and endeavor to maintain the confidence of our supporting church . The Christian community must believe in institutions which aspire to uphold Christian principles and traditions.

The University of Richmond was born of dedicated churchmen. Its history of some 140 years has been blessed with this relationship. They who have blessed the University must not be disregarded.

Perhaps a university and its church relationship is analogous to a parent and a child . The child is conceived and nurtured by the parent. As the child matures he grows more and more independent. Nonetheless, he never disowns his parent, and if he seeks to do so his action reflects upon himself. The wise parent seeks not to dominate his maturing child but endeavors to find those attributes which are complemen tary, recognizing that perfection is a goal but not a reality. In turn, the child shows toward the hospitality and appreciation parent by fostering a meaningful relationship which enriches the lives of both.

Frederick deBolman of the Esso Foundation, has said, "The University is a protective shield beneath which all points of view

can be expressed and cherished. Unlike the church, its mission is not to propogandize or to preach some particular gospel. Its mission is rather to tolerate."

The University of Richmond , although a church -related institution , has been privileged to function in an unusually free atmosphere .

As testimony to the liberality of this University I quote from a speech made by Dr. Modlin some years ago: "Faculty and students have never been restricted here in their search for truth. Everyone has been free to follow the inquiries of his mind and the dictates of his conscience without fear or interference or recrimination. On this campus there have been breadth of opinion and freedom of expression to a degree that is rare at a church-related institution."

Dr . Frederick W . Boatwright, speaking in defense of the University and its teaching practices in 1930 said , "We must encourage our teachers and students to think, and we should not' be surprised when they do not think alike. The inquiring mind will question est ablished customs in every field of human action . .. a college is more concerned with teaching students how to think than with telling them what to think .. ."

As far back as 1890, Dr. Robert Ryland, the first president of the University of Richmond , returning from retirement to deliver an alumni address , pointed out that the College is "a Baptist college in no narrow , bigoted sense. Pupils of every creed and no creed have been and will be received on the same terms and treated with equal justice and consideration ." Baptists in Virginia have , over the years, held high expectations for their University as they have been both tolerant of its actions and proud of its results .

After 140 years of contribution to the University, the Baptist denomination deserves to know that the relationships grow ing out of the roots of its existence are not taken lightly . At the same time, the University cannot be run by the church , and as a result the church cannot assume responsibility for what the University does . Together, I believe the Baptists of Virginia and the University of Richmond have much to give to each other in the years ahead . We must have their confidence, and in turn I hope we give them no doubt as to ours . l believe we must have confidence in our faculty and its ability to continually change the University constructively. A university campus is many things-a physical place, a shifting scene of people, a set of functions , a series of traditions , a body of rules, and much else. But it's also a spirit. This spirit has been in the past , and needs to be in the future a healthy tolerance, respect for the contrary views of others, and good will toward each other as individuals. It also must embody the supremacy of persuasion, concern for hard facts and careful analysis, devotion to the well-being of mankind around the world, and a means of thought directed toward the end of wisdom . This spirit and the preservation of freedom which it implies is particularly in the care of the faculties of a university . As they nurture it and guard it well, it endures; if they do not , it decays.

From its place within the hearts and minds of the faculty, it emerges just at the right time to cast itself upon young minds , creating a positive confidence in self and one 's place in society.

A very heavy responsibility thus falls upon faculty members , for they are at the heart of all academic endeavors . The quality of campus life depends upon their performance. They need to be alert to grievances, ready to accept constructive change ,

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Dr. and Mrs . Heilman , Dr. and Mrs. Marsh greet those attending the Inauguration on Oct. 30.

Trustees prepare for procession into the Greek Theater.

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James Erb directs the choir during the Inaugural Ceremony.

Trustees, alumni, guests, faculty and students share in refreshments after Inaugural Ceremony.

willing to cope with the problems of detecting dissent and¡ preventing disruption, and devoted to the preservation of independent scholarship and teaching.

Education is a stimulating occupation.

Confidence in its nature in a university setting is essential if the faculty is to meet the enormous challenge. None of us who have faculty responsibility can look forward to rest, for as we seek and find we open new doors of inquiry. What we find today will be taken for granted or rejected tomorrow, and the search will begin anew. We must have confiderce in that search and instill confidence on the part of those who make it possible.

I heliere we must hm¡e confidence in our y outh. We live, as Dickens said . in the best and the worst of times and in the greatest paradox ever. Never before have we had such strength for good. yet so little knowledge of how to use it. The power of religion,

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once dominant in people's lives, has declined to a point of nominal significance to many.

Family stability continues its decline. We are in an age of uncertain moral values. The once clear line between violence, lawlessness and destruction and the world of builders, cooperators and constructive forces has become blurred. We are reaping the harvest of failure to challenge youth with ideals, values, and standards of conduct. Why shouldn't they fail to measure up to some of our expectations?

Most of the world's great issues are yet to be resolved and our young people know it.

They have become aware of the fact that these problems cannot all be resolved by research. Somewhere in their background they acquired the idea that life is more than objectivity, that human concern plays a part.

With such a spirit stimulating our young people, we should be encouraged to mobilize our intellectual and spiritual talents to overcome some of the problems of the past and present. As we do this, we give hope to our young people as we both educate them to a mission and leave a foundation on which they can build their lives.

The older generation owes the younger generation what all older generations have owed younger generations-love, some protection, and respect when they deserve it.

We also owe them an education based upon our experiences but not saturated with our prejudices. But above all else and in spite of every reason we may have to do otherwise, we owe them our confidence; and having given that confidence, our help in building a better world.

I believe we must have confidence in the old adages re[<arding response to challenge.

Professor Arnold Toynbee said that civilizations rise to greatness only when faced with some desperate challenge. Where there is challenge there is action. and action is a great builder of confidence.

Man is a complicated animal. He simplifies only under pressure. Put him under pressure in almost any situation and he will scream in anguish; then he will come up with a plan which to his own private amazement not only solves his past problem, but also creates a new and better way of dealing with his own original objective.

The greatest source of satisfaction is the act of creation, whether it be a work of art, a garden, social reform, or business or professional achievement. Throughout it all , a love of excellence lifts one's sights and makes even the smallest task a source of satisfaction. Such is the need in attitude of those who would make this university greater.

All through history the proper challenge has caused men and women to strive impatiently and restlessly for results which appear worthwhile to them. In the process they have achieved great religious insights, created wcrks of art , urcovered secrets of the universe, and established standards of conduct.

"Our chief want in life," said Emerson. "is someone who will make us do all that we can . whether we like it or not." People who fail to do all they can have clearly not seen the alternatives. I believe that our cause is vital enough to point up these alternatives and to draw out the best in those who must support it. It is my feeling that men and women of today are just as capable of devotion, courage, and response to challenge as has ever been true in the past.

Conclusion In conclusion, let me say that the task of presiding over a private institution of higher learning in the 70's will be arduous, awesome, and excitin_g.

-Arduous because the maintenance of a truly independent college or university of high quality grows more difficult with each passing year . In the face of stiff competition from tax-supported institutions, many private universities and colleges are becoming mediocre or second-rate.

-The task is awesome because the prospect of America slumbering placidly while its private colleges and universities suffer from malnutrition is preposterous, but a real threat. The University of Richmond and other private, independent institutions must be made even stronger, for they are the fountainheads of freedom and free enterprise in this country. If we allow these institutions to grow weak, we will have contributed, I am convinced, to the weakness of the country at large.

-The task is exciting because all of us joining in this common cause can give the University of Richmond the forward thrust she must have. Despite difficulties that confront us, the vistas of opportunity are real and vast. Our opportunities are limited only by our vision of what can be, and by our ability to share this vision with others.

As I respond to the challenge before me, I do so without modesty, but with much humility. I accept the full weight of responsibility. knowing that as president I represent the University of Richmond. I realize further that the demanding charge carries with it commensurate honor and satisfaction.

Here I expect to find maximum fulfillment. l do not anticipate that we will perform miracles or create a paradise. But we will do our best. Step by step, throughout the history of this institution. those who have gone before us have made possible all that this new administration will build upon.

Our heritage is a rich one indeed. Our past is behind us. That which is ahead is a responsibility for each of us. God grant us the wisdom to fulfill our aspirations.

I believe our trustees are at a high level of readiness; our administrators have the know-how and commitment to do the job; our faculty and staff are anxiously contributing their best effort; the alumni and alumnae have shown what they can and will do; the church is giving strong support, and the community, students, parents and all the rest appear willing to promote an ambitious undertaking and to invest in something which will continue as a worthwhile and successful enterprise. ln Revelation 3:8, we read, "Behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." I believe that we who hold the future of this University in our hands must believe that destiny has for us an open door that no man can shut. How far we advance through that door is up to us. The advance will require painstaking preparation: helping each other to grow; high aim: long days; and sleepless nights.

According to J. C. Holland, Heaven is not reached by a single bound, But we built the ladder by which we rise From the Jowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

Life for this university must be lived in the spirit of reaching for the summit. Otherwise our accomplishments will not be worthy of the investment of human effort which such confidence as that expressed here today can muster. Many hold keys which open the doors to the future of this university to make "Our Time in History" the time when we set out to mount to the summit of the destiny of this university.

William J. Solari is now associated with Bache & Co. in Raleigh, N .C. as a New York Stock Exchange member.

Rev. William Lee Tomlinson became p~stor of Pine Street Baptist Church, in Richmond .

L. Ellis Walton, Jr. , a research analyst at the Virginia Highway Research Council, Charlottesville, Va., has been named head of the council's environmental and economics section.

Warren J. Winter has been appointed principal of the Lively Primary School Lively, Va . '

Monterery, Calif. for training as a language specialist.

Robert A. Hudgins was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S . Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB , Texas.

Airman James E. Speight, Jr. graduated with honors at Sheppard AFB , Texas , from the technical training course for U .S. Air Force accounting and finance specialists .

J. Allyn Straus received a MBA degree in August from Florida State University.

1967 John P . Derrenberger completed his work toward his Ph.D. in German last August at the University of Texas and has begun his second year on the faculty of Hamline University , St. Paul , Minn .

Alice Sofis Evangelides served as an assistant professor in the Political Science Department, 1970-71 and has been appointed assistant to the Dean of Rutgers College, Rutgers-The State University in New Brunswick, N.J. Kenneth M. Gassman, Jr . and television star Bob Newhart appeared together recently. Ken accepted an award for the C. & P. Telephone Co . when their advertising was judged the nation's best in the 11th Annual International Broadcast Awards Show .

1942 Robert E . Piper , Jr. to Miss Marie Cornelia Claypool.

1968 David W. Barksdale was promoted to assistant vice president of the Central National Bank, Richmond , and is currently attending the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University.

Capt. Terry Lee Crum is stationed with the 23rd Infantry Division at Chu Lai , Vietnam.

Sherwood Adams Jones is associated with his father , Robert Randolph Jones , L'33, in the general practice of law , in Richmond.

Carl L. Schone was recently promoted to the rank of Captain while stationed in Germany.

Staff Sgt. Roy S. Riner, ( Air Force) , an education and training specialist , has re turned from a tour of duty in Thailand and is stationed at Langley, AFB , Va. Wayne Lee Stith was recently graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.

Sgt. C. W. Stockdon , Jr. , stationed in Okinawa , is the editor of the post newspaper THE NAHA OUTPOST .

1969 J. H. DeJarnette has been elected a vice president of Wheat & Co., Inc. in Richmond .

Stephen J . Lux has been promoted to executive vice president of Cavanagh Leasing Corp. in Richmond. He was an assistant treasurer of Virginia Electric & Power Co. before joining Cavanagh Leasing.

Wayne A . Satterwhite is a first lieutenant stationed at the induction station in Providence, R.T. where he served as the Test Control Officer and Personnel Psychologist.

1970 Airman Fir st Class Ernest S. Moore has graduated with honors from the training course for U.S. Air Force communications operations specialists at Goodfellow AFB, Texas.

Richard H. St.Clair has been named senior claims representative in the group claim department at the Columbia, S.C. casualty and surety division office of Aetna Life & Casualty .

1971 Airman Benjamin F . Curtis, Jr. has completed his U .S. Air Force basic training and has been assigned to Presidio of

ENGAGEMENTS 1963 David M. Berlin to Miss Dorothy Lee Townsend of Richmond.

1966 Capt. Geoffrey C. Bushway to Miss Lucia Logan.

Thomas Douglas Goodman, Jr. to Miss Jane Lee Ragland.

1967 Joseph D. Felton , III to Miss Janice Lynn Cooke.

1970 David P. Campbell to Miss Marilyn Christine Nossen.

Keith W. Clarke to Miss Debra Sue Adams.

1971 Jack E . Boyles , Jr. to Miss Gail Louise Ruark.

MARRIAGES 1958 Dr. Charles K. Polly to Miss Susan Scott MacGregor August 4.

1961 Joe Nye Wiggins to Miss Pamela King Harris of Virginia Beach , on September 3.

1962 Raymond M. Fearnow to Miss Martha Cecille Miles.

1969 Julio G. DelCorso to Miss Virginia Brady Powell.

Donald Albert Lahy to Miss Deborah Gayle Wesson in December.

1971 W. Stephen Dail to Miss Linda Gail LeDoyen on December 11.

Stephen Thomas Hall to Miss Pamela Clair Rave in November.

Edward S. Katz to Miss Sheryl Irene Goldberg.

Melvin C. Medved to Miss Adele Elizabeth Affleck.

BIRTHS 1951 Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Garber have recently adopted a daughter, Mary Naomi , born November 6, 1966.

1959 Rev. & Mrs. John F. Carty, a daughter, Janet Diane, June 28.

Dr . & Mrs . Charles Ray Wingrove, a son, Benjamin Ray, November 6.

1963 Mr. & Mrs . William W . Jennings, Jr. , a son, William Bryan, February 19.

1965 Capt. & Mrs . Leland W . Potter, Jr., a son, Justin Morgan, August 12.

1966 Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Allen, Jr., a son, Robert Whitley Allen, October 30.

1966 Mr. & Mrs. William J. Solari, a son, Michael Scot, October 18.

1967 Mr. & Mrs . Frank A. Appel, a son , September 1.

Mr. & Mrs . Robert Nelson Baldwin , a son, Christopher Brent, October 23.

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. Long, a son, Ashley Watson , July 22.

Mr. & Mrs . David J. Wilson , a son, David John Jr. on January 30.

1969 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Stern, a son, Michael Farron, on November 1.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CPA Exams Passed James D. Farrell , Jr ., '58 William B. Jones , '66 Allen H. Sinsheimer, '66 Kevin W. Quinn, '67 Rea D . Brown, '69 Eugene C . Lynn, '70 Charles E . Walton , '70 1950 Robert C. Warren completed a fourweek program of the Motorola Executive Institute.

1951 Boyce C. Wornom represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. James A. Russell as President of Saint Paul 's College on November 20 .

1952 Charle s H . Kelley, formerly sales manager , has been elevated to vice president of marketing of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co. , a division of Occidental Petroleum Corp. in Houston .

1953 James M. Frye has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Virginia College Fund in Richmond.

1954 Arthur N . O'Brien , Jr. represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Harold J. Schultz as president of Bethel College in October.

1955 George F. Tidey , of Richmond , was elected president of the Tuckahoe Elementary School PTA Association for 1971-72.

1958 Thomas K. Barrett has been elected a vice president of Wheat & Co ., a Rich mond investment firm .

1960 Charle s P . Wilbourne was elected assistant vice president of Southern Bankshares, Inc., Richmond , where he will be coordinator of holding company activities.

1962 Lewis F. Jolly represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Carrier as President of Madison College on December 4.

1963 Elmo G. Cross, Jr . is now in the private practice of law in Hanover , Va. Joseph B. Reynolds took a month's vacation across country to California and Old Mexico last summer. He is employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. 1966 Phillip E. Devron has accepted a Regional Representative position with Smith-Kline Surgical Specialties in Texas.

He reports that he has a five state area to cover.

1967 Dr . M . Wayne Delozier, assistant professor of the Department of Marketing at Wright State University in Dayton , received a Ph.D. in business administration last August from the University of North Carolina.

1968 Don B. Henderson received a Juris Doctor degree from U . Va. in June and is now associated with the law firm of Bradley, Arant , Rose & White in Birmingham.

1969 Wilton E. Ford . Jr. has been transferred by Burlington Industries to a !lew division, Burlington-Madison Yarn Div. as an industrial engineer ¡serving as standards manager of the Plant. He completed schooling and graduated from the Army Reserve Drill Sergeant School , Fort Jackson , S.C. this past summer.

1970 Paul J. Strauss ha s become a regis-

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tered representative with Wheat & Co ., Inc. a regional investment banking and brokerage firm, in Richmond .

Charles I. Walton is on the internal auditing staff of the Wards Co. in Richmond . ¡

1971 Army Private William B. Ritt, Jr. recently completed eight weeks of basic training at the U.S . Army Training Center , Armor , Ft . Knox , Kentucky.

ENGAGEMENTS 1955 Halford I. Hayes to Miss Linda Wray Boyd.

1962 Joseph Anthony Gragnani, Jr. to Miss Sidna Lee Turnbull.

1970 Bobby Davis Rickman to Miss Patricia Ann Sturman.

Paul J . Strauss to Miss Margaret Anne Belton.

Charles W. Tysinger to Miss Alycia Faye Farrar.

MARRIAGES 1967 Michael S. Ferguson on August 7.

1971 Roger M. Hoos to Miss Suzanne Elaine Luck .

John Clark Shotton to Miss Spotswood Parker Morrison.

BIRTHS 1963 Mr. & Mrs . Stephen B. Miller , a Mr. & Mrs . Stephen B. Miller , a daughter , Valerie Sara , July 5.

Mr . & Mrs . Robert D. Whitehurst, a son , Robert Davis , Jr .

1967 Mr. & Mrs. Alger Batts, Jr., a son , Alger Batts , III, "Trey", July 5.

Mr. and Mrs . J. Frank Maynard, a son, Frank, II , May 26.

1971 Mr . & Mrs. R. Jack Schweitzer , a son, James Andrew, March 25.

LAW SCHOOL 1929 Virginia's Chief Justice Harold F .

Snead was named Chairman of a StateFederal Judicial Council whose purpose is to coordinate the work of the state and federal judicial systems in areas of mutual concern .

1933 Robert Randolph Jones has announced that his son , Sherwood Adams, RC'68 , L'71, has become associated with him in the general practice of law, in Richmond .

1936 Del. George E. Allen , Jr ., has been named Boss of the year by the Richmond Legal Secretaries Association.

1947 Thom as P . Bryan , vice president and secret ary of Miller & Rhoads , was named chairm an of the local United Givers Fund for the 1971 campaign.

1950 James M. Wiltshire , Jr. , assistant to the president and assistant counsel of Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co ., has been elected to the boards of the compan y and Home Beneficial Corp .

1954 Boyce C. Wornom represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. James A. Russell as president of St. Paul 's College on November 20 .

1960 G. Warthen Downs has been appointed a substitute judge for Henrico County Court , Va. He was appointed an assistant commonwealth's attorney in 1966.

1963 George F. Tidey , Richmond , was elected president of the Tuckahoe Elementary School P .T.A. Association for 197172.

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1964 Ebb H . William s, III represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Hart as president of Ferrum College on October 8.

1965 Lewis F. Jolly represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Carrier as president of Madison College .

1966 Elmo G. Cros s, Jr. is now in the private practice of law in Hanover , Va .

1967 Dean W. Sword , Jr. has been appointed assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Portsmouth , Va. Andrew W. Wood has formed a partnership in the general practice of law, in Richmond .

1968 James A. Cales, Jr. has been elected Commonwealth's Attorney in Portsmouth, Va. Charles A. Hartz , Jr. has been appointed an attorney with the R. F. & P. Railway Co. He formerly worked with VEPCO. V. Earl Stanley, Jr . represented the University at the inauguration of Dr. Russell as president of Saint Paul's College on November 20.

1971 Richard E . Carter won a special award from the Environmental Law Section of the American Trial Lawyers Association . He received a $100 cash prize and special certificate for the best legal brief in the field of environmental law.

Sherwood Adams Jones has become associated with his father , Robert Randolph , L'33, in the general practice of law , in Richmond .

George E. Talbot passed the bar exam in June and has been appointed assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Pcrtsmouth , Va .

MARRIAGES 1970 Michael S. Ferguson, on Augu st 7.

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson Baldwin , a son, Christopher Brent , October 23.

Necrology 1902 Henry Starke Hotchkis s, a retired banker and a civic and political figure in Richmond for many years , died on October 20.

Lucian Baum Cox , a retired Norfolk , Va. attorney , died on June 10. Mr. Cox was the seventh Founder of Sigma Phi Epsilon at Richmond College in 1901, author of the fraternity 's first constitution and writer of the application for a state charter which converted the local into a national fraternity .

1905 Dr. Robert Archer Goodwin , a Virginia Episcopal clergyman and former missionary to China , died on Nov . 5 in Winchester , Va .

1906 J. Milton Shue , retired superintendent of schools in Henrico County , Va. , died Dec. 14.

1907 John S. Blunt died in Richmond , Va. on Sept. 29 .

A. Willis Robertson , U .S. Senator from Virginia for 20 years , died Nov. 1 in Lexington, Va . After he left the Senate he spent two years as a con sultant to the World Bank . Sen. Robertson was a specialist on fiscal matters and served as chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee and was principal author of the 1957 Financial Institution s Act. 1910 Joseph F. Gulick, a former lawyer for

the U.S . Patent Office, died July 3 at a Washington, D .C . nursing home after a long illness.

Walter R . Moncure died August 17.

Wilburn B. Sydnor of Rapidan, Va. died around the first of October.

1911 Winfield R. Smith died February 24 in Baltimore, Md. 1913 William J. Moll , a columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, died on August 17, in Richmond .

Dr. C. Roy Angell died on September 11 in Miami, Fla. He had been pastor of Central Baptist Church , Miami , for 25 years.

1915 Col. George M. Percival died on July 21 in DeLand, Fla. 1917 George F . Smith , Jr. died in November . He was a Founder of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and had spent 40 years with the Baltimore , Md. public schools.

1922 Frank C. Moore, of Richmond , Va. , was rep orted decea sed.

Dr. George Hugh Warren, a physician in Smithfield , Va ., died in October.

1923 Rev. Daniel Slabey, a former pastor in Newark, N.J ., died October 19 at McGuires VA Hospital in Richmond .

1924 F . Emmett Topping , Jr. died October 8, in Richmond .

0. L. Hopkins , a Richmond , Va . realtor, died Oct. 3.

1925 Henr y G. Che sley, Jr. , president of the board of directors of Richmond Memorial Ho spital , died Nov. 16.

1926 Curti s E. Dicker son, of Roanoke, Va. has been reported as deceased since 1969.

1929 Cornelious B. (Neney) Penzold , a retired inspector for the City of Virginia Beach , Va., died Sept. 23.

1931 Joseph Percival Barker, materials engineer for the C & 0-8 & 0 railroad , died in the Huntington , W. Va . C & 0 hospital on Augu st 7.

Rev. Clayton Dwight Sweet, pastor of Immanuel Church, Princeton , W.Va ., died September 12.

1932 Dr. Abe I. Whitten, product superintens:lent-Teflon , with DuPont , died in Richmond on June 30.

1937 A. Scott Anderson, attorney and former mayor of Richmond , Va ., died November 12 in Williamsburg.

1~41 John William Wright , Jr. , of Alexandria , Va ., died in August.

1942 Chauncey G . Welton , owner of the Welton Public Relations Firm in Hartford, Conn. , died Sept. 27.

1943 George W. Draper of Salem, Va . has been reported as deceased .

The Rev . H . Curti s Holloman, pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Sparta, Va . for the past 25 years , died in a Richmond hospital June 20.

Meredith Watkins Rhodes , Assistant Secretary of the Virginia Manufacturers Association , died in Richmond on July 26.

1950 Erskine Miller Hutcheson died Oct. 28 in Richmond. He had suffered from cerebral palsy all his life.

1957 John Browning Odel , Judge of Newport News, Virginia's Civil and Traffic Court, died Nov . 28 after a lengthy illness. He received his law degree from The T. C. Williams School of Law in 1959.

Charles A. Maine, Jr., of San Jacinto , Calaf ., died on January 5.

1969 Ronald D. Goff of Leaf, Miss. died on May 22 in an automobile accident.

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1957-lSth, 1962-l0th, 1967-Sth, 19702nd . Mark these dates on your calendars now!

Your committee to study "Westhampton College Within the University of Richmond" , under the chairmanship of May Thompson Evans, '21, has completed its report. Our sincere thanks go to these alumnae for their many months of study and research, which has resulted in a report in which we can all take pride . A condensation of the report is carried in this issue.

Interested in a trip this summer? You will soon receive a brochure on the Alumni-Alumnae Tour to Mexico. What a nice trip for the whole family!

o all of the Class Fund Chairmen and Class Agents-a big "Thank You!" for saying you Louise Long would help on the 1971-72 Fund Drive! You may think one note to a few classmates in April is not ALUMNAEFUND HEADEDBY much , but it means the success of the Fund . You CAROLYN A. POWERS will be helping your class, Westhampton, and the University in a very important way. ~ arolyn Anthony Powers , '63 , will serve as A biographical survey has been mailed to each ~General Chairman of the 1971-72 Westalumna. I hope you will take a few minutes to hampton College Alumnae Fund . A native of fill it in and return it. No stamp is necessary. We Bedford, Virginia , Carolyn majored in physical hope to hear from each of you! education while at Westhampton. Since graduaWe are celebrating an important event this tion she has taught at George Wythe High School year-the 50th anniversary of the Westhampton for five years, and part-time at Westhampton ColTea Room . The Westhampton alumnae started lege and the Collegiate school in Richmond, Virthis service in September , 1921 ! Changes have ginia. come and we have grown through these fifty years .

An active alumna, she has served as class fund It is a service of which we can all be proud . We chairman for five years, as a board member of celebrated the occasion with an Open House in the Richmond Alumnae Club, and as student reDecember. lations chairman on the National Alumnae Board.

Classes having their reunions during AlumnaeCarolyn is married to William E. Powers, Jr., Weekend, May 19-20, will be: 1917-55th, head football coach at Douglas Freeman High 1922-S0th, 1927-45th, School. They have a daughter, Kendal, at 2½ 1932-40th, 193735th, 1942-30th, 1947-25th , 1952-20th , years old.

TEA ROOM HAS A TEAPARTY! Jean Brumsey Biscoe, '48, Campus Shop Chairman , greets Doris Balderson Burbank, '50, Chairman of the Tea Room, and former Chairman Celeste Anderson O'Flaherty 1 '15, at the Tea Room's Fiftieth Anniversary Party which drew alumnae, students and faculty .

Westhampton College Alumnae General Fund Chairman Carolyn Anthony Powers, (63), hard at work in the Alumnae Office.

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WOMAN 1\ ~EOLO~IST Al[]S TtiOSE MOONMEN ALLTtiE WAY Reprinted from the San Jose News,August 5, 1971.

Dr. Desiree Stuart-Alexander, '52 , helps chart lunar "road maps" as geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

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pollo 15's moon men got a big assist from an earth-bound woman geologist.

Desiree Stuart-Alexander (Westhampton Class of 1952) is part of the U. S. Geological Survey team in Menlo Park that pinpoints intriguing geological spots for lunar landings.

One of the world's experts on the far side of the moon, she has spent six years mapping the planet with the aid of photographic mosaics made by satellites.

The attractive Ph . D . admits she sometimes has a little trouble with directions.

'Tm okay with 'north, east , south and west', but I sometimes have a little trouble with 'left and right,' " she laughs.

Helping chart lunar "road maps" for exploring astronauts is fine but the 41-year-old geologist wants to get back to more "terrestial work" in the field.

Her demonstrated skill at back-packing and "hard rock" geology helped convince most of her male colleagues geology doesn't have to be male-dominated.

One of the rock hunts included a Mexican Valley, Utah, outing where the thermometer reached 110 degrees.

It's still not easy for women to make it in geology.

"Where a man only needs a master's degree, a woman needs a doctorate . I haven 't got a grudge about it, but it is a fact", she says.

"I'm not militant about women's liberation, but all human beings _should do what they can do ; otherwise they will be living a very unnatural life", she says.

The daughter of an Army officer, Miss Stuart-Alexander was born near London and toured the West Indies, Canada and Cyprus before landing in Palo Alto and taking a degree in geology at Stanford University.

She joined the U. S. Geological Survey six years ago.

With two moon landings scrubbed by the hardpressed space agency, she will spend the next year or so mapping Mars.

Miss Stuart-Alexander says she wouldn't turn down a trip to the moon, "but I won't raise a rumpus to get there".

Her own "space" exploration for the time being is limited to piloting a Cessna 172 in which she owns a half interest.

She has been flying for about three years and recently received her instrument rating .

"The plane 's really great for field work and for getting away on the weekend. You zip along at 125 miles per hour and watch the bumper-to-bumper traffic below."

The flights are generally smooth-unless someone says "turn left".

Westhampton Club News TIDEWATERCLUB President: Mrs. Edward L. Breeden, Ill (Marian Gates '59), 1601 Keswick Drive, Norfolk, Virginia 23518. . Fourteen Westhampton College students, six of whom are freshmen , attended a "Back to School" luncheon and pool party at the home of Gay Winslow Shulman '58 on September 1, 1971.

The October 6 meeting was held at the home of Renee Gartner Diamonstein '55.

The following officers and committee chairmen were introduced: vice-president, Kay Ramsay Parrish '66 ; secretary-treasurer.

Thais Silverman Kaufmann '40; ways and n:ieans, Bunny Deaton Freeman '39; librarian, Page McCray Miller '53; publicity , Ann Hanbury Callis '54; and teleohone Eileen McCutcheon Rollans '59 . Following the distribution of pecans for sale , Felice Abram Stern '54 reviewed the book THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath.

A luncheon and tour of the Chrysler Museum are tentatively planned for January 15, 1972.

The Tidewater Club welcomes all new alumnae to the Norfolk-Virginia BeachPortsmouth-Chesapeake Area.

WILLIAMSBURGCLUB President: Mrs. William E. Anderson (Mary Cox '47), 210 John Wythe Place, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185.

Guests of honor at our October 20 meeting were local high school students interested in attending Westhampton. We also welcomed representatives from Westhampton, Miss Clara Keith, Dean of Students, and three seniors , Jere Hudson , Beverly Browden, and Carolee Dykes. Dean Keith and the girls interpreted and explained the college of the present, its high auality of education and the opportunity Westhampton offers for individual develonment. They reviewed all aspects of college life at Westhampton: academics, athletics, social life. student government, and clubs. The prospective students were stimulated, and the members of our Club marveled and gratified at the progress and growth of our¡ alma mater.

Westhampton cLAssNEws '20

Mrs. Harold E. Bettle (Jeannette Freeman) 44 Marcotte Lane Tenafly, New Jersey 07670

The 1920 alumnae who live nearest our campus and Jeffries Heinrich in particular took the brunt of arrangements for our Fiftieth Anniversary gift to our Alma Mater. The letter below from former President Modlin and excerpts from the letter of Hannah Coker ('23) will serve to inform you of our gift and its appreciation. Dr. Modlin wrote to Jeffries , April 28 , 1971 as follows: "This is a very be-

lated acknowledgement of the Fiftieth Anniversary gift by the Westhampton Class of 1920. You must know how deeply all of us appreciate the stone benches and landscaping at the new entrance to Westhampton College. Certainly the new entrance would not be nearly so attractive without your Class gift , and I hope you will express our gratitude to your Class on some future occasion." Hannah wrote : "Many people have told me they were pleased with our new wall and walk at entrance of North Court. The girls with their visitors are enjoying the good looking benches. We all greatly appreciate them, the shrubs and the plaque. Please thank your class for me and pass on the appreciation of those who speak to me."

Jeffries Heinrich was not well last spring but was on hand to assist in the annual Christmas plum-pudding making project for her church sale. She still serves in the Altar Guild one week each month after giving up the chairmanship of that organization.

Gazelle Stubbs Smith , after g1vmg anproximately twenty years of service (including a year of graduate study) as a case worker and a supervisor in the Norfolk and Portsmouth Social Service Bureau , retired about ten years ago and has traveled a good deal. After her stay in Spain in the fall of 1970. she and her sixteen year old grandson , Blount, who attends Norfolk Academy, enjoyed a Caribbean cruise during his spring vacation. She says she has always had a mania for collecting china , linen and antiques. Now it is for the children , since space has become a problem .

Granddaughter , Paird , having completed her M.A. in French at Emory, now teaches high school French. Granddaughter , Carter. is studying for her masters in Counseling and Guidance at the American University in Washington.

In the summer of 1970, by dint of an enjoyable round trip on the Queen Mary II , Kitty Vaughan Willis used ten weeks in Paris to see a great deal of the city and attend a French Language School in the afternoons. In the spring of '71 she stayed three months in Europe-9 davs in Geneva. where she recommends the Foyer de La Femme , a residence for nrofessional women. run by the Armee du Saint. four weeks in a fine pensione in Rome. and five wee1<sin Paris on the Left Bank. In Prin ceton she keeps "busy dashing around doin<:? local things and making short visits to the four married children and their families."

Sallie and husband , Richard Jesser , with their three children live in Princeton. Lee , with husband. John Williams. and their three , lives in Boston. Julia. a W.C. alumna, and husband, John Van Ness Philip , are in New York City with five, their son, John, ei_ghteen. being Kitty's oldest grandchild. Her youn!!est. Henrv Harris Willis. belongs to MaxinP. :rnd Clodius Willis Jr. , professor of French and Ling11istics at the U . of Vt. Kina McGlothlin Odell is home from a trip to Portu _gal, Spain , Greece, Greek Islands and the Holy Land.

Ruth McEwen continues to enjoy work with her church library especially in its close association with young people. Early in the year she visited her nephew's family in Fort Lauderdale and bridged the "generation gap" by her niece 's accompanying her on a brief trip to Nassau. En route home she had the pleasure of visiting in Camden, S. C. with a former pupil of "many years ago" , and revisiting the mag-

nificent Charleston gardens. She was with her sister, Eloise , and her husband at their home on Belmont Bay , Fairfax County .

My husband I are pleased that my daughter and husband and their four children live near us in New York City and the rest of our children and five grandchildren reside in Tenafly . We stay home most of the time and enjoy them. We did spend the last two weeks of February on the beach at Alvor, Portugal and then visited Spain and London .

We are pleased that Virginia Truitt Swann attended our fiftieth and told us so interestingly of plans for her current retirement , living in her house on Campbell College campus , where she had taught for twenty-three years. She wrote me Sept . 10, 1970: "Retirement does not mean time on my hands ", then listed her numerous helping and intellectual activities , which she expected "to fully enjoy " . Her closing: "The class of 1920 should not wait so long for another reunion ."

After attending the American Bar Association in London , Shippie and her husband spent ten days in Portugal and Spain and then went on a cruise around the fjords of Norway up above the North Cape.

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Mrs. W. N. Stoneman, Sr. (Irene Summers) Varina-on-the-James Richmond, Virginia 23231

Don 't you think we should all almost burst with pride because of the great honor our Mary Fugate recently received? One which she really earned and deserved!

Imagine having a modern dormitory for 150 students at Averett College being named for one of us . It is the Mary C. Fugate Residence Hall which was dedicated, with all the pomp and ceremony , on October 30th. (Hilda Lawson Jecklin was there) . Mary met with us in June at Leslie's and we found her the same sweet person she was in college days. The fortyfive years of college work as teacher, registrar, dean of women, and as acting president for an eight month term hadn't made her too dignified for ordinary people like me. Now she has retired but she is still busy being president of the Danville branch of the A.A.U.W ., a director of our Alumnae Association and the Danville Historical Society. She is a member of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, the National Education Association. and the Association of Higher Education.

Then she does much work at the First Baptist Church and at the Y.W.C.A . there.

In her spare time she arranges papers, programs, letters, prints, and documents of historical value to Averett.

Stella Hubbard Taylor plans to attend our reunion in May. She recently visited her son and his family in Cambridge, Mass.

He is an architect there and his wife , who studies at the New England Conservatory , teaches music and plays in concerts. They met at graduate school at Yale-he has an M.A. in architecture and she , one in piano . They have a bright 7 year old son.

Gladys Booth Bentley wrote Leslie sometime ago that she hopes to come to the reunion. She is happy about the restoration of her hearing after having to wear a hearing aid for 20 years. She lives in Nutley, N. J. near her daughter who is a school librarian.

Her younger daughter

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graduated from Chapel Hill, Phi Beta Kappa and now lives in Arlington with her husband and four children but still finds time to substitute in French, art , etc. in the school.

Rachel Newt-on Dickson expects to go to Florida this winter as usual. In the summer her children and grandchildren were with her at Ridge Crest. Rachel told me that Elva McAlister Berrey had recently moved to Charlottesville.

Edith Eakes , Rachel's sister, has been to California to visit her son . Both Edith and Rachel are active members of Ginter Park Baptist Church.

Lucille Ledman Kersey , whose husband was a Baptist minister, has a son who is a Baptist minister in Portsmouth and a son-in-law who is a Presbyterian minister.

Lucille taught Spanish at Hermitage High in Richmond until after her husband's death when she went to Winchester to teach. She is retired now and lives in Richmond .

Elsie Ware Clift says she is well.

Thelma Hill Marsh wasn't at home when I called but I'm sure she and Bob have been many places and have done many things.

When I talked with Claudia Patrick in the spring she was planning a trip to foreign ports .

Celia Levinson Meyer has been around the world twice and has had many other interesting trips. When I talked with her, her daughter had just arrived from out of town to take part in a bridge tournament.

Eva Timberlake West was so happy to report that Charlie's health is better. She had been to Philadelphia to visit her daughter.

Muriel Sanders is looking forward to having Mary Fugate , Hilda , Rebekah and Elva with her at reunion time .

Virginia Moncure keeps busy with many activities at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in town, and she still rides her bicycle everywhere .

Narcissa Daniel Hargrove still lives in Philadelphia . They belong to the Second Baptist Church of Germantown where her husband was pastor for 39 years and is now the Pastor Emeritus. He is also President of the Baptist World Alliance so much of his and Narcissa's time is spent in traveling. They attended meetings of the Central Committee of the Council of Churches in Addis Ababa, Ethopia where they met many fine Ethopian and American women .

They went to Nairobi , Kenya and were with an outstanding group of young , attractive and dedicated missionaries . After they came home they shared in the celebration of some church anniversaries in the midwest in the spring and attended the American Baptist Convention in Minneapolis. In June they were in Stockholm and on to Moscow where they had a special invitation from the Russian Baptists. They visited Leningrad , Tallinn in Esthonia , and Riga in Latvia . They were warmly received everywhere and they spoke to thousands of people in the packed churches where the services ranged from two to three hours in length with many people standing the entire time . They have also been to Finland.

In November while her husband is in Lisbon , Madrid , and Budapest she is iwing to visit their two daughters and their families in New York. Their third daughter is doing graduate work at Harvard. They have five grandchildren .

Leslie and Book had a two months trio this summer. They took an apartment in London at the time of the American Bar

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Association meetings and Leslie said it was fun to be a London housewife in between all festivities that went on. Next they visited a friend in Carlisle who drove them to the Northwest coast of Scotland and to the Island of Syke. They spent a week in the highlands and then back to Carlisle for another week . They visited friends in Derbyshire and down to Channel Islands to Jersey for a week with more friends.

They took the hydrafoil to the coast of France to Mont St. Michel, then back to Exeter, to St. Ives for a week and all around the coast , to London and home .

They will be in Kansas with Constance and her family for Thanksgiving.

Rebekah Lawson McReynolds writes from Maryville . Missouri, that she hopes to come to our reunion. She keeps busy with family and community activities . She gardens , has done and still does much club and church work. She received a 10 year service pin for her Volunteer Red Cross work. Before going to Maryville in 1959 she taught at Woodrow Wilson High in Washington for 23 years.

Jeanette Henna had an interesting three weeks trip with a group of A.A .U .W. on a tour of Eastern Europe. There were three groups of 50 each; Jeanette, her sister, Cathryn and three others went from Richmond. They toured West and East Berlin , Warsaw, Poland then to Leningrad . Russia by plane. They rode the famous Red Arrow train to Moscow , then went by plane to Kiev, Ukrania where they spent three days. At each of these places they met with groups of professional women for lunch at their clubs , later they had some of them come to their hotel to have dinner with them and they found these women most interesting. They went to Bucharest , also to Budapest, Hungary; they rode the hydrafoil to Bratastava , Czechoslovakia , by bus they went 20 miles to Vienna, by plane to Paris and then home. Jeanette said that meeting with the women was most interesting and that many of them spoke English. Earlier this year the Richmond Branch of A.A.U .W. named its fellowship gift in honor of Jeanette .

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up 35 quarts of apple sauce from my winesap tree and 48 quarts of tomato juice , entertained and been entertained by relatives and friends, and discovered that an interesting piece of crewel work improves T.V.

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Miss Mary Virginia Daughtrey Route 1, Box 33 Handsom, Virginia 23859

What fun seventeen of us had at Lila's to celebrate our 45th reunion! The chatter about college days, then and now, occupations, children, grandchildren , and the joys of retirement was noisy and interesting.

Margaret Dorsey and Ione were roommates again at the William Byrd . Margaret retired from teaching in June. lone is still professor of Latin American history at the University of Miami . She is also editor of the "Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs".

Gene, Margaret Lazenby, May Rudd, Harriet , Mary Woodward, and Allene enjoy their grandchildren, travel and a variety of activities .

Annie Renee digs with an archeological group from the University of Arizona when she isn't golfing.

Margaret Harlan is program chairman for the Virginia Museum and a half time psychiatric social worker.

Louise, Lila , Salle, Alice and Lucille are involved in church and charity work.

Mary Ellenor works part time for the Peanut Growers Cooperative which helps farmers like me get our peanuts on the market.

Marion, Dorothy Campbell, and Aurelia were absent because of illnesses.

Newsy notes from Glenna, Culley, Alma, Nelda , Florence Spady, Mary Ellett, Inez, Marguerite Noffsinger, Margaret Miller, and a phone call from Eliza assured us that they were enjoying the freedom and pleasures that come with the years .

This accounts for 30 of us! What about the 20 from whom we received no news??

Louise Fry Galvin is now our class secretary. Please send her your news.

Miss Mary L. Peple 3200 Hawthorne Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23222

'28 The 1924 May Queen, Norma Coleman Broaddus, had a letter from Bernie Whitlock Bowles telling of her trip around the world just after she retired from teaching in 1970. A grandson from California is staying with her to attend Gill School at present.

Wilhelmina Wright went to South Carolina to visit Hannah Coker last summer.

I have made three rugs in needlepoint , have made one spring coat , ten or fifteen dresses for relatives and friends, slipped begonias for outdoor summer planting for my niece, sister-in-law and me, helped pot 85 at the end of summer for the Richmond Nursing Home, have experimented with growing flowers under lights, had success with tomatoes planted in nail kegs on the upper back porch and in the yard , picked the green ones just before frost and have them ripening indoors, enough to last through November , have been working enjoyably each day on Lizst's Ballade No. 1 and Polonaise No . 1 with mild success, read six or seven books a week, put

Mrs. Edward G. Cale (Betty Sherman) 325 Vitoria Avenue Winter Park, Florida 32789

Gray French has asked me to take over the job of class secretary . Please add my name to your Christmas card list, and send me any information about yourselves or other '28ers for the summer issue of the U. of R . Magazine .

Gray took a Pan Am Theater tour to London this fall, to visit her daughter who lives in London as well as to see the plays.

Her traveling companion was Betty Wilson, widow of Dr . Francis Wilson, who taught many of us biology at Westhampton.

Sarah Cudd Gaskins' daughter, Elizabeth Anne , was married to David Lane Barkley, August 14, 1971.

Ed and I continue to enjoy our retirement in Winter Park , though so far there have not been many leisure hours. Putting an old house and overgrown garden in shape has kept me busier than I've been in many years.

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Mrs. Arthur T. Ellett (Katherine Tyler) 2959 Hemlock Road Roanoke, Virginia 24014

We are saddened by news of the death of Priscilla Kirkpatrick Millea's husband on June 1, following a short illness. Colonel John Millea, a Harvard graduate, had a distinguished USAF career during World Wars I and II. After retirement he had taught at Northeastern and Boston Universities. We send our sympathy to Pat and also to Shirley Gannaway Cornick who lost her mother in September, and to Dorothy Abbott Wood, who lost her mother in November.

Estelle Crenshaw (Hutcheson) has a new name as of September 18 when she became Mrs. Newman Leadbetter.

Dottie Abbott Wood's daughter, Dorothy Lee, was married to Thomas Graham Turner in a beautiful ceremony on September 25 at First Baptist Church. Lee and Tommy will continue to live in Richmond.

I want to thank Virginia Prince Shinnick and Margaret Flick Clark for their recent letters.

Flickie has given up her library job and is busy looking at possible retirement houses for herself and Robert, who will soon retire. Recently she was traveling around the state of Arizona. Her sister, Frances (ex-38), is working in the University of Arizona library.

Virginia's oldest daughter, Peggy, and my Susan were close friends at Hollins, so I was interested to learn that Peggy's husband, Tris Hyde, is practicing law at Heathsville, Virginia, where they have a lovely old house. Virginia and Bill have a new grandson, born in April on his mother's birthday. He is John Bray Manderson, Fluff's first child.

Another new baby is Ed and Frankie Willis Overton's seventh grandchild, James Cusworth Overton, son of Frankie's Gene who is interning at MCV. Frankie will be singing in the chorus with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra when Missa Solemnis is presented at the Mosque, with guest conductor Robert Shaw of Atlanta. She sings regularly with the UR Cafur group.

Alice Richardson Connell visited Corinne Morecock at her home in North Carolina in June.

I enjoyed seeing Nancy Creath Erfft's sister in Martinsville recently and hearing news of Nancy, whose husband is vicepresident and treasurer of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Richmond a few years ago. Nancy is Mrs. Kenneth Er/ft, 8H Chatham Center Apts., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.

Nancy Osborne has her doctorate in French and teaches in a college in Anderson, Indiana. For a number of years she was dean of the college, but decided to return to classroom teaching.

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Mrs. Eleanor Pillow Ewell (Eleanor Pillow) 8525 Chippenham Road Richmond, Virginia 23235

Richmond will never be the same again!

Yes-Glenn and Katherine Roberts Hesby have retired from operating the Chesterfield Tea Room! Although it is still "busi-

ness as usual" there and most of the waitresses have remained with the new manager, it just won't seem the same, particularly to those of us who knew Katherine and Glenn so well. By the way, they will spend Thanksgiving with Glenn's relatives in North Dakota, and then will fly to the Philippines to be with Katherine's sister for Christmas and the New Year. They will be away for several months.

Speaking of travel, Geneva Bennett Snellings had a lovely trip to Europe and England in the summer. After flying to London and then to Amsterdam, the tour group went by bus to Western Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy, the Italian Riviera, Switzerland and France. The bus driver estimated they traveled a total of at least 3,400 miles by bus. Some of her observations were: Americans and Europeans are becoming more alike in dress, food, etc.; the people seem more prosperous, and have more (and later model) cars than before; Parisians were the rudest and most discourteous, while the English were the friendliest and most polite . In Vienna, one woman expressed verbal appreciation for what Americans have done there, through the Marshall plan. Geneva spent a wonderful week in England visiting a cousin after the tour on the Continent.

Remember, girls, class reunion in May, 1972!

Please send me any news about yourselves-however trivial it may seem to you.

The rest of us will be interested in what concerns you. During the past two years or more, I have been somewhat confined due to mother's illness, and couldn't "beat the bushes" for news. Mother passed away in October.

We are counting on each one of you to send me news, and begin making plans to attend class reunion next spring!

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Mrs. Paul O. Alexander (Lucy Blackwell) Box 702 North Myrtle Beach, S. C. 29582

Margaret Bowers Gill and Helen Denoon Hopson did a superb job of organizing our thirty-fifth reunion, and on Friday night twenty-two of us gathered for dinner at the home of Marjorie Pugh Tabb. Those attending were Frances Williams Parkinson, Boo Owens Page, Martha Cosby Rucker, Louise Callison. Bobby Brock Clevenger.

Martha Riis Moore, Alice Pugh Bartz, Alice Ryland Giles, Margaret Bowers Gill.

Florence Marston Harvey, Virginia Ingram Guest, Rae Norford Griffith, Mary Ellen Stephenson, Marjorie Pugh Tabb, Kitty Ellis Fox, Mildred Crowder Pickels, Anna Castelvecchi De!Papa, Lou White Winfree , Helen Denoon Hopson, Esther Walsh Dutton, Lucy Blackwell Alexander and Mary Holt Woolfolk. Ruth Parker Jones, unable to be present because of the illness of her sister, joined us via a telephone call. Officers elected to serve until the next reunion weire: Marjorie Tabb, president; Florence Harvey, fund chairman; Lucy Alexander, secretary.

On Saturday many of us attended the luncheon honoring Dr. Modlin. We were joined by Lyndele Pitt and by Bobby Clevenger's daughter, Nancy. Nancy was tapped for Mortar Board at Westhampton in the spring.

Lou Winfree invited us all to her home

for tea on Saturday afternoon. Lou's home reflects the archeology and gardening interests of her lawyer husband, Westwood.

It is filled with mementos of their trips to Mexico and Central America where Lou says "climbing Mayan pyramids can be wonderfully refreshing."

Lou 's busy-a substitute church organist and director of the Glee Club at St. Catherine's School , as well as chairman of missions in her church, chairman of Enabling Services for the Richmond Council of Church Women United, president of the board of Wilson Inn Residence Home for Young Women and a member of the board of trustees of Ferrum Junior College.

Her daughter, Edith, is married, has two children and lives in Indiana. Son , Rupert, a lawyer, is also married, while Marvin is a sonar technician in the Coast Guard.

Marjorie Tabb says she's busier now than when her children were at home.

Both she and Randy are active in their church, where he is an elder, and in the Richmond Area Heart Association where Margie has been chairman of the Woman's Committee. Randy is currently a subcommittee chairman of the University Alumni Study Committee. This summer the Tabbs had a delightful three week tour of the West, flying to Denver and driving from there out. Their son, Randy, was married in August to Patricia Schumaker of Palmyra in the University Chapel at Charlottesville. He's an ensign in the Navy Air Corps. He received his commission from his father, having first graduated from Hampden-Sydney, where he was president of Phi Gamma Delta, a member of ODK, and selected to appear in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. The Tabbs' daughter, Louise, is now married and living in Irvington, N. Y. Rae Griffith resigned after eleven years on the faculty at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after the death of her husband in the summer of 1970, and moved to Harrisburg to be near her children and grandchildren. Just before reunion she returned to Bethlehem to live.

She is serving a second term as national president of Kappa Delta Epsilon, a professional education sorority, which she enjoys because it keeps her in touch with students.

Martha and Ben Rucker have moved to an apartment in Arlington while they plan for their retirement home in southern Virginia. Martha teaches in Arlington: Ben is a safety engineer with the Department of Labor and drafts health and safety laws for Congress. Daughter, Martha, and her husband are in Springfield, Ohio, busy studying and teaching . Ben Jr. and his wife are in West Chester, Pennsylvania. and Jim is with the sales department of Texaco in Hartford, Conn.

For the past nine years Helen Hopson has been Margaret Gill's right arm (Margaret's words) at the Virginia Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Billy is Executive Vice President of the Virginia Association of Realtors; a job which entails a national convention each year. Their last two trips have been to California and Miami Beach. Son, Steve , a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, is a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and expected home from Vietnam in time for Christmas.

Frances Frazer Kirkland couldn't make it to the reunion, but wrote a letter for the scrapbook. Panny was still recuperating from an operation. We were glad, though,

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that she said she was doing fine and feeling stronger.

Mildred Pickels came all the way from California, timing a visit with her mother in Richmond to. coincide with the reunion.

Helen Falls is Professor of Missions at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary .

The night of our dinner was graduation night there, the twenty-sixth spring gradua tion in which Helen has participated . That evening Helen, as the "senior" member of the faculty, was leading the academic procession. Last summer she conducted an around -the-world tour with thirty-one people in her party , visiting thirteen countries in twenty-seven days . Helen offers her personal tour of New Orleans to any of us who come down and says she's seen Alice and Dick Schafer when they were in town for meetings. Her brother Oswald's (RC '34) oldest daughter , her husband who is head of a department at Tulan~ Medical School, and their two small children constitute Helen 's family in New Orleans .

Mary Ellen Stephenson drove down from Fredericksburg where her mother lives with her. Mary Ellen is chairman of the Depart ment of Modern Foreign Languages and teaches Spanish at Mary Washington College. She saw Helen in March when she attended a Latin American Studies Con ference in New Orleans . During the summer she had a three-week tour · of Scandinavia with a friend she'd met on a previous trip to India.

A_lice Turner Schafer is teaching mathematics at Wellesley , her husband at M.I.T. Last summer she was a member of a writing group at Columbia University , writing a five-year curriculum for the talented high school mathematics student which takes the student through what was the mathematics of first semester of junior year in our day at Westhampton.

Alice , along with Lu Frank Cherry Drell and her husband toured Africa during the summer . ' Congratulations to Frances Williams Parkinson's father who recently celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday .

Elizabeth Chapman Wilson couldn 't be with us because of company. Chapoie has bee'l living in Mathews for five years , but says she still considers Richmond home. _Boo Page's daughter , Diane. was married this last year. She's now living in Boston where she 's a professional model doing TV commercials for Jordan Marsh. Her husband is a securities analyst with the Boston Comoany.

Alice Giles and her familv have just moved into their new home in Raleigh.

Alice Bartz is School Library Development Advisor for the Deoartment o.f Edu cation in eastern Pennsylvania. Her sons are grown and she has one daughter-in -law.

The length of these letters is limited. I (hought you would prefer really personal information on as many people as possible even if you had to take it in installment form , rather than more superficial information all at once, so I've saved the rest of my gleanings from reunion until next spring .

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Mrs. John W. Harrington (Ethel O'Brien) 128 Edgecomb Road Spartanburg, South Carolina 29302

Mildred Gustafson Donohue did a marvelous job as chairman of the Westhampton College Alumnae Fund , and we can all be

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very proud that Westhamptonites contributed over $50,000 of the total. Margaret Brinson Reed has been elected National Vice -Presi dent of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association .

The Charlotte Observer of Aug. 9 1971 had this to say about Mary Sue Cart~r Patterson's husband: "Duke University President Terry Sanford has been busy recruiting especially noteworthy people. He has just added another, Pulitzer Prize-winning Atlanta and Washington editor Eugene Patterson. . .. former managing editor of the Washington Post and editor of the Atlanta Constitution who also has been a vice chairman of the Civil Rights Commission. He will bring a newsman's scrutiny to public affairs and will teach political science and lecture on the media."

Jane Aler Van Leeuwen writes from Church Hill , Virginia: "I am terribly busy caring for this lovely place of 171 acres and I now have two grandsons. The second one arrived while Lynne and Alan were stationed at Virginia Beach, and Alan was attending the Missiles Training School at Dam Neck .

They have named him Evan Foster after her dear father and her grandfather Aler. They are now stationed in Charleston, S.C . Evan, Jr. is a freshman at the U . of R." Kitty Wicker Long writes from Louisville In. "I am a joyous grandmother of two - my oldest, John is married and I watched him get his Ph.D . at Carnegie. He teaches in the graduate school at the Univ . of Rochester.

My older daughter teaches in Arlington , and my younger daughter just finished graduate ~tudy at Pratt Institute of Art . Our youngest 1s a sophomore at Deerfie ld Academy. Jack and I divide our time between West Va. and here, and I, one way or another , run two homes ."

Ellie Parsons Fish and her family are now settled at Route #4, Kalispell, Montana. ·They and the four younger children had barely moved in when Edith Ann and the two grandsons arrived. A few days later they really had a full house when Maude and Fred Jurgens dropped by on their way to Casper, Wyoming to visit Corliss and their new grandson , Eugene Andrew Nevil le who was born this spring. In August, the y~ungest Jurgens , Charles, performed with the Out To Lunch Gang in Dogwood Dell. Richmond music critic, A. B. Thames acclaimed him star of the evening for his rendition of the flute solo "Bouree."

The Harrington offspring are all attending school. Tara and Danny Gottesman are working on M.A .s at McGill University in Cai:i~da- on_e in anthropology and one in political science. Tor and Judy are in Columbus , Georgia where he is taking the ~dva!1ced Officers Training Course, and she 1s a Jtmior at Columbus College . John has just finished writing a geology text book. It 1s called "To See A World" and is to be published by the C . V. Mosby Company next year.

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Mrs. Douglas M. Ho lt (May Thayer) 1207 Taylor Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23225

Classmates will be saddened over the untimely death of Emma Bee Cruickshanks in late spring . Our deepest sympathy goes out to her husband, Douglas , and their children in this loss .

Richmond newspapers carried a report of Grace Norris Reese 's daughter Melissa's

wedding to one of Mary Mills Freeman's sons during the summer.

Jimmie Frank lin Radd's son, Anthony, majoring in economics at Princeton University is Public Relations Director for Undergraduates for a Stable America (USA), formed in Oct. 1969 in opposition to the interruption of classes and the effects of the Vietnam Moratorium on Princeton University. Pres. Nixon invited Anthony and several others to meet with him at the White House on Feb . 26 .

Harriet Howe Byrider is active in the Catholic Woman's Club here , and was recently ·pictured in the News Leader with Dr. Jesse A. Mann, professor of philosophy at Georgetown University , speaker at the club 's Book and Author dinner.

Ann Garrett is serving on the Tea Room Commi ttee at W.C. and has seen Ann Smith Palazzo recently. Ann Pa lazzo's son is doing graduate work at the U. of Chicago. The Palazzos had a visit from Eunice Bass Browning not too long ago.

Mary Grace Taylor is now the editor of the Epiphany Examiner , her parish paper.

Our 30th class reunion is coming up so if anyone has any thoughts on it or is interested in master minding it, 'tis time to be heard!

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Miss Dorothy J. lhnken 1003 Forest Vi ew Drive Colonial Heig ht s, Virgi nia 23834

Although there were only five of our class at Homecoming dinner in October-Billy Jane Baker , Ann Fi ler, Ann Stansbury, Betsy Rice and I-it was so good to be together and back at Westhampton again, and a special treat to meet and hear our new presi dent , Dr. Heilman . The performance of "As You Like It" by the University Players fol lowing dinner was excellent. I was a litt le green with envy but more than ever thr illed with the wonderful Fine Arts Building and what it means to the University and all of us. I got there early enough for a visit before dinner with Nat Lum's niece , Susan, a freshman, and to revisit 'my' old section of the dorm .

Ann Stansbury's daughter , Barbara Maccubbin, our class baby , is head of the language department at James Blair High School in Williamsburg and teaches French .

Susan , now Susan Leslie, was married in June after graduating from Westhampton with honors. They are living in Norfolk and she is teaching in Portsmouth at the Learn ing Disability Center. Son, Winn, a student at V.C.U . was also married last June .

B.J.'s young son, Bill, is already a champion chess player. Last year, when he was just thirteen, he won first prize at the Unrated Divis ion in Washington of the Eastern Open Chess Tournament!

Millie Cox Geode's daughter, Carol, Barbara Gray Clayton's daughter, Ann, and Lois Hester Blackburn's daughter , Diana, are all freshmen at Westhampton . Diana is a cheerleader. Lois has received her master's in phys . ed.

Dee Dee Howe Kirk 's daughter, Kathy, a senior at W.C., is president of the A.A. and is practicing teaching at Collegiate under Teach (Mrs. Dallas Grubbs). Fleet is a sophomore at R .C. Ann McElroy MacKenzie and Mac attended the American Bar Association meeting in London this past summer and traveled in England and Scotland. Daughter, Anne Stuart, studied in Europe for a while this year.

I attended Helen Curtis Patrick's daughter, Dale's wedding to Gary Putnam in April and saw Nita Tiller Elmquist. She's another hardworking teacher, doing fine and looking great. I talked to Helen recently and learned th at Dale and Gary have been in Spain for some time and will travel to West Germany the end of November. He is a photographer and Dale is doing creative writing. Helen is presently enrolled in a methods class in teaching new social stud ies.

Betsy Rice will be working on the Alumnae Fund Drive this year. Let's show Westhampton we still care.

Ellen Mercer sent news that was both good and bad. Our sincere sympathy goes to Keith in the loss of his mother last January. A few weeks later he suffered two heart attacks but made good recovery and they were able to travel to Indiana and Virginia during the summer and to take a thirty day trip to South America. Their last week was spent in Buenos Aires at the International Convention of Logopedics and Phoniatrics where Keith gave a paper. He was given specia l honors at the fall meeting of the Michigan Speech and Hearing Association.

Ellen Mercer was in the hospital for a week in September with a virus but was convalescing and looking forward to coming to Virginia in November and spending Christmas in Indiana.

I had a little visit by phone with Dot Hill when I was in Norfolk last spring.

Mother and I enjoyed our trip to New Orleans in May, also the stop-over in Natchez on the way back where we went through some of the beautiful old homes. In August we spent a couple of days in Nags Head and Roanoke Island, N . C. I was pleased to receive a "he llo" from Nancy De Jarnette Hansen this summer through my next door neighbor who is an old friend of Nancy's and had been up to Bowling Green to visit. Jo-De is a freshman at Longwood College this year, and Dan is at St. Christopher's.

Helen will be writing our class letter next T. so please write your news to her-Mrs. W. Patrick, 12301 Parker Lane, Chester, Va., 23831. I have enjoyed so much being a little closer in touch with all of you these last three years. My sincere thanks, again, to all who wrote or called.

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Mrs. Robert R. Toone (Lelia Phillips) 207 Stebbins Street Ashland, Virginia 23005

We had a grand reunion on May 14 and 15, but missed those who couldn't come.

Our hostesses for the week-end were Irene White Bain and Virginia Gibson Williams.

The following attended one or both of the week-end events: Jacqueline Barnes Wolf, Frances Beale Goode, Marguerite Berryman Overton, Mary Frances Bethel Wood, Frances Bleight Elliott, Lois Bradley Baker, Bertha Cohen Rolfe, Joyce Eubank Todd, Virginia Gibson Williams , Caroline Goode Jackson, Lucy Harvie, Amy Hickerson Dalton, Jacqueline Hodges Walker, Shirley Kruger Lerner , Marion Lawton Kinzey, Frances Newman Stevens, Jeanne Pebworth Gammon, Lelie Phillips Toone, Anne Beverly Ryland, Libby Thompson Schmidt, Nancy Todd Lewis, Irene White Bain , Jeanne White Robeson, Mary Lou Willis Bareford and Jeanne Yeamans Baxter.

Jeanne Baxter and I agreed to take over as secretary from Joyce Todd who has done such a fine job for the past five years. Our

class news will not appear again until next summer, so drop us a card rather than taking the chance of forgetting something important by next spring .

Our sincere sympathy is extended to Mary Frances Bethel Wood who lost her mother last May. Mary Frances's and Buddy's daughter, Cathy, is a freshman this year at the University of North Carolina .

Frances Bleight Elliott is substituting at junior and senior high schoo ls, and taking graduate courses at Potsdam State . She and Dick recently took a "fun" trip to Maine and a convention trip to Chicago. Their daughter, Sally, is teaching near home and Nancy is now a sophomore and has recently pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of North Caro lina.

Marion Lawton Kinzey 's and John's son, John, Jr., graduated from the University of Virginia in June with Highe st Di stinction and was named Outstanding Graduate in the School of Engineering. He is now studying law at Harvard University. Younger son, Rennie, is attending University of Virginia also.

Betsy Mathews Hanckel's daughter, Suzanne, a senior at Averett College, has been selected for Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Her son, John, is now a freshman at Averett. Stuart is a junior at Douglas Freeman High School. Betsy is a medical technici an in the department of nuclear medicine at Richmond Memorial Hospital.

Nooky Richardson Phipps is still teaching 6th grade. Their daughter, Becky, is a sophomore at Longwood College and I 6 yr. old Bill a high school junior. Seven dogs, a horse, and cat complete the household!

Libby Thompson Schmidt's and Eddie's daughter, Lee, a senior at Stratford College, will spend the winter "short" semester in France for credit toward her degree in French.

Julia Shelton Jacob's daughter, Julie, is a freshman at VPI and she and her husban:I have visited Jeanne White and Andy Roseson in Blacksburg. They visited the Bareford's (Mary Lou Willis) when they were in Urbanna attending the funeral of General Puller.

Elaine Weil Weinberg and her husband were on a "lon g awaited" trip to Europe at the time of our reunion.

Mary Lou Willis Bareford, her husband and daughter , Anne , also were in Europe for four weeks this summer. Anne is a freshman at Salem College in WinstonSalem.

Three other college "children" are Ware Branch, son of Barbara Ritchie and David , who is a freshman at University of Richmond; Reid Rowlett, son of Cornelia Reid and B. J., who is a freshman at North Carolina State; and Shirley Kruger Lerner's daughter, Ruth, who is a junior at Westhampton.

Jeanne Yeamans Baxter has just returned from a visit with Wallace's family in Scotland.

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Mrs. Elmon T. Gray (Pamela Burnside)

"Grayswood" Waverly, Virginia 23890

I've been busy helping Elman campaign for the State Senate for the past seven months. It was long but rewarding and he will represent the sixteenth senatorial district in January.

Lois McClanahan Garrett reports that Mary Jane Spivey Snead is now librarian at

St. Michael's and is taking classes toward a degree in Library Science and that Betty Rackley Root has moved. Lois had received an announcement of the marriage of Salli e Curtis Clement 's daughter, Bonnie Ann, last January. Lois' oldest daughter , Carol Beth, is a freshman at Randolph Macon Woman 's College this year.

Virginia Kreyer wrote: "The past several years, and most especially the past two and a half, can probably best be described as hectic. Many of the girls know that m y mother has had several strokes. In April '69 she suffered a severe one which left her right side completely paralyzed and no speech. At first mother was in a nursing home but she was very unhappy and we were not satisfied with the care. We brought her home and have had a twelve hour a da y nurse ever since. We are fortunate to have a marvelous nurse who has become like one of the family . The only bad feature is that her home is upstate. She works fourteen days and then goes home for seven. The week she is gone we have an eight hour nurse, and then Dad and I take over in the evening and all day Sunday. So, as you can understand I really haven't had time to travel , take courses or do anything really exciting lately , but hope that day will come.

I am still on the professional staff of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County in the capacity of social worker-a full time job."

"Religiously, I was in a turmoil for three and a half years. Up until 1967 I was extremely active at the Baptist Church in Garden City and was considered by many as the 'unpaid' assistant minister. We had great trouble, and a very fine man was forced out of the pastorate. Many left the church and I finally left too . After much soul searching I finally joined the United Church of Christ in Garden City in February, and was accepted in April as a recognized minister of the Metropolitan association of the New York Conference. I am delighted with the move, as new paths of service have opened up. I am chairman of the Ta sk Force on Exceptional Persons which is to have its first meeting on November 9. Incident ally . do you remember Harold Tribble? He was at Richmond College when we were at Westhampton . He was a Baptist but is now a minister of a VCC church here on Long Island. His wife , Muriel, is going to be on our Task Force." Ginny closes with saying she is looking forward to seeing us at our 25th Reunion in the spring of '73.

Our son, Bruce , is a freshm an at Richmond College this year.

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Miss Virginia Sims 1205 Petersburg Pike Richmond, Virginia 23224

Barbara Coleman Augustine and family vacationed at Nags Head, North Carolina, and Sandbridge, Virginia.

Joanne Waring Karppi had a luncheon for several from Washington area. Tish Earll Pfanz , Marilyn McMurray (1952) and Barbara Augustine attended. This summer Joanne and her family enjoyed camping. Her three boys are interested in history .

Tish Earll Pfanz has three children : Fred, 15, Don, 13, and Marion, 9. Her husband works for National Park Service as Chief of History and Historical Architecture for Eastern U.S. Frances Chandler Long and family went to Florida thi s summer, visiting members of their family. Frannie has 2 boys : Alan, 15, and David, 11.

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Aggie Feild Burke vacationed in Virginia.

Her youngest daughter, 4½, is looking forward to starting nursery school.

Hilda Moore Hankins and husband, Deck, made a business trip to Williamsburg and enjoyed a golfing trip at Hilton Head in June . Hilda is teaching at Halifax Academy for the second year. Her oldest daughter, Laura Lee, is a sophomore at Westhampton College.

Jo Martens did volunteer work with the blind at Diamond Spring Lodge, Denville, New Jersey this summer. Last May Jo visited friends in Alexandria, Virginia. She enjoyed taking an eight-year-old and a fiveyear-old to a school fair.

Frannie Sutton Oliver and family visited Raymond's parents in Bluefield, West Virginia this summer.

Louise Covington Randall and family spent the summer in Denver where husband, Harry, is taking the Clinical Pastoral Education Course at Presbyterian Hospital. They visited California in August via Albuquerque, New Mexico , and Phoenix, Arizona.

They enjoyed Disneyland. Her mother came from Virginia to visit . Harry, an associate mini ster, has one more year in Seminary.

Doris Reeves Childress enjoyed a novel camping experience to Thousand Islands Beach this summer.

Maryanne Bugg Lambert will be teaching second grade in a religiDus school this year.

Jane Pitts Robinson's daughter, Grace, enters her sophomore year at Westhampton College .

Audrey Lynn Moncure's daughters are at Westhampton . Lynn is a junior and Harriet a freshman .

Alice Clark Lynch is the Richmond City Registrar.

Kathleen Mallory Loudermilk has 2 sons: Tim, 18, and Jeff, 15. Tim attends Dabney S. Lancaster College, and Jeff is in the 10th grade. Her husband, Dan, is on executive staff of West Virginia Baptist Convention Christian Education and an American Baptist Area Minister . Kathleen attended University of Richmond this summer and teaches 8th-9th grade language arts in Ronceverte, W. Virginia . Her father died unexpectedly in early summer.

Jean Tinsley Martin and husband, Roy, vacationed in Bermuda.

Gene Hart Joyner enjoyed a European trip with a friend for 22 days this summer.

Gene Hart Joyner and Jean Tinsley Martin are co-chairmen of the dinner theater party which is sponsored by the Richmond Alumnae Club.

Barbara White Balderson visited Atlanta, Georgia, on her vacation.

Doris Balderson Burbank and husband went to Atlanta .

Janice Branbenberg Halloran's son, Stuart , is number one in the draft. While waiting for his call , he joined the Reserves.

Maud Tyler 's mother died September 27th. Maud continues to be busy teaching her piano pupils.

Barbara Lee Jones Jones' daughters rode horses in competition in the 4H section of Virginia State Fair this year.

Pat Kelly Jordan, husband, and 2 sons had a wonderful European tour this summer.

This is her second year teaching in Martinsville Elementary School.

Libbie Givens Pierce and husband went on a week's trip to Rome and Florence with C'.urier Air Conditioning Dealers and their wives.

Maggie Alexander Anderson hopes our percentage (28.5 % ) giving to the Alumnae Fund increases this year.

Virginia Brinson is now assistant super-

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intendent of schools in Englewood, New Jersey.

Clarice Ryland Price's oldest son, Wyn, is a freshman at Guilford College at Greensboro.

Linn, daughter of Joyce Betts Pierce and Jack Pierce, is a freshman at Longwood College .

Libbie Rowse Wilson, her two children (Elizabeth and Gary), a nephew, and her father enjoyed a two weeks trip to Bermuda.

Ann Neblett James received her MA from East Tennessee State University in June.

I have appreciated the privilege of being secretary th is year.

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Mrs. Charles H. Wright (Sarah Barlow) Route 2, Box 165 Smithfield, Virginia 23430

Who maps Mars? Dizzy Stuart-Alexander!

"Woman's Maps Help Moon Explorers Find Their Way" is the caption for a recent news article featuring Desiree Stuart-Alexander.

One of the world's experts on lunar topography, she helped astronauts spot good landing sites. Taking her PHD in geology at Stanford University, she lives in Los Altos, California and works at Menlo Park. Her next job will be mapping Mars , using photographs sent back from the spacecraft , Mariner 9.

Harriet Willingham Johnson's family of Minneapolis had a holiday in England last summer prior to a conference her husband attended there . When they last came to Richmond, they enjoyed a morning on campus and were impressed with the Fine Arts Center. Harriet went back to school to get certification for teaching in Minnesota, and is now substituting part time in an experiment in open classroom elementary education.

Mary Ann Coates Edel's family moved to 618 Overhill Road, Birmingham, Michigan 48010. Don is at S.S. Kresge Company's International Office as kitchenware buyer (better known in the South as K-Mart) .

When she showed her family Westhampton last spring, Addie Eicks Comegys had a delightful hour with Miss Tucker at her home. The Comegys family has returned to their own house, 202 Main Street, Wenham, Massachusetts O1984, after two fascinating years in Washington , D.C. Brock is still Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice, but he commutes on weekends . Lee, their oldest daughter, is a sophomore at Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts.

Their tenth move has brought Eleanor Bradford Tunnell 's family from Lynnfield, Massachusetts to 401 Edinburgh Drive , Cary , North Carolina 2751 I. Eleanor and Bob met Barbara Cawthorne Clarke and Herb of Haverford, Pennsylvania in Richmond last summer for dinner.

Anne Gibson Hutchison 's family live at 1600 Anderson Street , Apt. 3-D , Durham , North Carolina 27707. Gibson is teaching this year.

Nina Landolina Byrd thinks that her husband, Ray , was a good choice for chairman of the Salem School Board; with daughter Carol, a senior ; 'Ray, an eighth grader; Mary Catherine, a third grader; and now Laura , an infant!

Peggy Whiteman Hohmann is currently principal of Sweethaven Christian School in Portsmouth.

I am now principal of Denbigh Elementary School, a public school in Newport News.

Kathleene Cooke O'Bier of South Carolina sends my daughter news clippings about places we visited with her in Charleston last April.

Marian Lacy Mahon's family attended the same mini-assembly as we at Eagle Eyrie near Lynchburg last summer. Her husband is with Virginia National Bank in Bowling Green.

While on campus for President Heilman's inauguration, I gave my eleven year old daughter her first glimpse of Westhampton.

Most impressive to her? The spiral staircase in North Court!

Isabel Sanford Rankin, our class president, is making plans for our twentieth reunion, the weekend of May 19-20, 1972. Sue Peters Hall, Beverly Randolph Shannon and others of the Richmond area will be working with her . Will you plan to give that weekend to Westhampton?

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Mrs. Harry J. Barnes (Cos Washburn) 595 South Valley Road Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387

Belated congratulations to Sue and Tom Downing on Tom's honorary doctor of divinity degree conferred by the university at commencement activities in June.

Go west, young man, they said to John Dorsey , and he , Mary Lou and family moved Labor Day. New address: 6152 E. Princeton Circle , Englewood, Colorado 80110. With regret they sold their boat and left the sailing activities after a two-week vacation on it cruising to Martha's Vineyard, Block Island , and lower Long Island Sound.

We wish you well in this new habitat.

Macon Day Banks and family have moved also. They bought a house near where they were living. They keep breaking things , like bones. Rachel cracked her collar bone again and Tom broke a bone in his foot this summer and had a cast for six weeks. New address : 403 Anita Drive, Millbrae, Calif.

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Sue Simpson Cooper and I visited via telephone some time ago. All in her family are well, and Little Bit is one year old.

Since news is so scarce and I now report only bi-annually and had to cut out my editorializing, your frustrated journalist is thinking of naming Mary Fred acting secretary and contenting myself with sweeping pine straw.

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Mrs. Ira H. Hurt, Jr. (Jane Bowles) 1910 Airview Road, S.W. Roanoke, Virginia 24018

Our 15th Reunion was grand . Thank you: Helen Melton Lukhard for your great job as our Class President; Ann Jennings Vaughan for your home and the fun party on Saturday night; Ann Peery Frederick for your home and "just girls" dinner Friday night; and all Richmond girls for the arrangements and hard work involved .

Thank you , Class of '56 for $712.00 contributed to the Martha Boatwright Rice Memorial Fund. We presented a painting , "Cloud #I" , a spray acrylic by Richard Porter to be hung in the Reception Room in Keller Hall in Mot's memory . Richard Porter received a Certificate of Distinction in the Virginia Artists '71 show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Mu-

seum Pur~hase Award. He has a Fulbright Sch(!larsh1p to study for a year in Italy. He a Master of Fine Arts degree from re_ce1_ved Vlfgm1a Commonwealth University in 1970.

Go and see this painting. We are proud of the committee's choice.

Those who attended the reunion were: Carolyn Baker, Pat Ballard Larus, Jean Burroughs Matthews, Helen Crittenden Culbertson, !"at Eanes Jackson, Shirley Evans Hart, Wmky Gray Stettinius Sylvia Grigorowitsch Dickerson, Gwen Haley Gregory , Anne Stuart Hartz Garnett Eliza Hubble Severt, Doris Huffman Mo~re Anne Jennings Vaughan, Virginia Jones Miller Margie Kantner Snader , Mary Lee Kingery Divers, Janet Knobel Jones Pat McElroy Smith, Helen Melton Lukhard Macon Moring Horton, Ann Peery Fred~rick Barbara Pratt Willis, Dottie Still Price J;yce Still Gibson, Ann Carroll Yeama'n Malcolm.

New officers are: President, Joyce Still Gibson; Secretary, Jane Bowles Hurt and Margie Kantner Snader; Fund raising chairman, Pat Ballard Larus and Macon Moring Horton.

Charlotte Hart Simpson will be in Chapel Hill, N. C. until Bill receives his masters in library science. Ann App visited them in March. She is taking library courses toward a teacher's certificate which she plans to use in Italy this fall.

Joyce Still Gibson is included in the 1970 edition of "Outstanding Young Women of America".

Anne Stuart Hartz Garnett teaches the 5th grade at Lakeside School in Henrico County.

She plays piano for 8-year-olds in Sunday School. Anne, Ed and their two children; Anne_ Welford, age 11; Stuart, age 9, have vacat10ned at Nags Head, N. C. for the past two summers.

Mary Lee Kingery Divers lives in the country near Roanoke with her husband Don, Kirk (IO) and Allison (11). Sh~ teaches math and social studies, 5th grade.

Macon Moring Horton teaches kindergarten, is a member of Richmond Modern Dance, a performing group, teaches a private class in creative movement for children. Macon and Richard have 3 children: Donald (14), David (12) and Martha (7).

Shirley Evans Hart continues to ski at Blue Knob in Pennsylvania outside her AFrame home located right on the ski slope.

Valerie is 2. The Hart's had a ten-day trip to San Antonio, Texas in April to Doug's home. They took in some annual fiesta activities and attended an SAE fraternity reunion in Austin. Shirley reports that Betty Lou Kendall West's second boy is G. 0 .

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Barbara Pratt Willis has 4 boys. She was appointed by Governor Holton in 1970 to the Board of Regents of James Monroe Law Office and Memorial Library. She is a member of the Garden Club and of the Board of Historic Fredericksburg. During Christmas the Willis' went to St. Thomas , V. I. to visit Mac's aunt.

Virginia Jones Miller and Robert built a home in Newport News two years ago. Her son's name is Carter. She is active in the Peninsula Alumnae Association (Past President) and in the Junior League of Hampton Roads teaching at the Junior Nature Museum. Also active in the Nature Museum Guild.

Ann Peery Frederick has 3 children, Mar v Helen (11), Clair (9), and Philip (7). For the past 2 years she has been studying art history at V.C.U., working with Children's Theatre, doing design and make-up. She vacationed this year in New York and Hungary Mother Park.

Jean Burroughs Matthews lives in Vienna, Va ., has 4 children, Kevin 12, Carol II, 0

Bruce 9 and Liza 6. Larry has been pastor at Vienna Baptist Churcth for the past 5 years. Jean leads youth choirs, substitutes elementary teaching in neighborhood schools, teaches a mother 's ballet class , ushers with Larry at Avena Stage , camps with the children. They vacationed for a month last summer in S.W. United States.

She also spends time at home sewing, gardening, knitting and is learning to play soprano and alto recorder.

Dot Godfrey White, Steve and their two boys visited us briefly in late July. They were in the Roanoke area to pick up daughter, Brooke , from summer camp.

I am resuming my career as a social worker after 8 years on November I with Family Service. I will be in the Protective Services for Aged Project.

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Miss Betty Blair Rhodes 96 High Street Warrenton, Virginia 22186

Sarah Ashburn Holder reported that her major activity at pre sent is keeping up with twin boys who are 21 month s old.

A note received from Karen Diedrich Gardner some time ago indicated that she and her family are now living in Abingdon , Virginia where Jim is practicing orthopedic surgery.

Patti Winship Kesler and her family are now living on the campus of the University of South Carolina where Ash is enrolled in the Graduate School of Social Work. Patti is teaching school and working on her master's degree in education in the field of the exceptional child. Also keeping Patti and Ash busy are four children ranging in age from 5 to 14.

J{!anne Byrd Giles and husband , Les, took a trip to the Holy Land this summer. Les, who is pastor of the Farmville Baptist Church in Farmville , Virginia, and another pastor led the tour.

Nancy Jane Cyrus Bains and her husband, George, have moved to 143 Chancellor Road, Hampton, Virginia 23361.

This year I am teaching fifth grade at P. B. Smith Elementary School here in Warrenton .

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Mrs. Stephen A. Zinn (Ruthi Greenfield) 11 Athens Road Short Hills, New Jersey 07078

Dodie Tyrrell is back in California, having decided that the East Coast was not for her.

Her latest mailing address is 3537 Clarington Ave., Los Angeles 90034. Dodie is interested in starting a Westhampton Club on the West Coast which we think would be a wonderful idea. Jean Chou Lee and Dodie had a delightful visit and discussed the merits of California living and Women's Lib. Jean and husband , Tun, have been kept busy entertaining friends and family from out of town as La Palma is right next to Disneyland.

Gloria Greenfield Harris has just taken the qualifying exams for her PhD which she hopes to complete by next June. Gloria has received a grant from the State of Washington to do her dissertation. husband Miriam Rothwell Livermon's has completed his tour in Vietnam and spent the past year in Petaluma, Cal. Miriam and Barbara Ramsey Bridgers had many chances

to get together throughout the year as they lived near each other. Miriam and her husband, Bill, and their three children made a trip East last June. Bill's next post will be in Germany. Their present address is 3116 Middlefield Avenue, Fremont, California 94538.

Em St. Clair Key has done a wonderful job in keeping up with the Richmond area.

A class meeting was held at her house and the group planned an arts and crafts session, a book review and an informal lecture in one of their homes. They hope to get together four times a year and have an annual cocktail party in the fall with husbands. If any class members plan to be in Richmond on tho se days, please give her a call and be their guest.

Last summer Nancy Jenkins Marrow and her family rented a villa in Jamaica. At Christmas time they all enjoyed a vacation in Florid a. Jenks has been doing volunteer work with the Junior Woman's club and received the "Vo lunteer of the Year Award" from them.

Alice Michaels Crick and Phil recently moved into a Tudor style house at 4515 Butte Road , Richmond. She is a neighbor of Becky Grissom Van Ausdall who has just completed her first year as president of the Richmond Club. Becky recently entertained the board members with a buffet dinner in her home . She has done a wonderful job with the alumnae and stays busy with three yea r old Catherine as well.

Evalane Green Slaughter says she's busy all day with three year old David and six month old Claire, whom Evalane and Bill welcomed last December.

Laurel Burkett Patterson is presently taking a course in children's literature at VCU .

Nancy Rae Taylor Baker is happy to be completing her year of teaching math at Tuckahoe Junior High School. She says she's just going to be wife and mother this year and is looking forward to it.

Mary Eakle Adams was one of the hostesses for the group's September meeting. Mary has been busy at home with her second grader and kindergartener.

Sandra Hood Repass has been doing the usual car pooling with her daughter who entered St. Catherine's in the fall.

Em herself has been busy fixing up their new house at 7540 Marilea Road , Richmond.

Drusilla Young was married on October 16, !971 to Frank Balzano. Their new address is I 3 IO Ritchie Court, Apt. 26 D, Chicago, Illinois 60610. Drusilla is Vice President and Director of Communications for F. E. Compton Co. She has had extensive experience in the field of fashion public relations and sales management , and serves on the Board of Directors of several national companies.

Steve and I have finally moved into our permanent home and loving every minute.

Steve is working in neuroradiology at the Elizabeth General Hospital. Laura Jeanne is in the second grade and reading at a demon 's pace while Michael negotiates the hazard s of nursery school. Plea se put me on your Christmas list and send me a card to let me know what you're doing .

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Mrs. John I. Riffer (Diane Light) 2105 Crofton Place Falls Church, Virginia

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Carolyn Parsley Davis wrote that her husband, Dick , received his ma ster' s degree in chemistry from U of R in August. Her

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oldest boy, Paul, is attending nursery school, with two year old Brian and baby Jonathan still at home.

Judy Trunzo was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and is now in Paris continuing work on her Ph.D. Eight of us met at the Clover Room last May for lunch: Joan Bishop Davidson, Sherry Ratcliffe Crawford, Sandra Britton Saunders, Patsy Chewning Young, Nancy Vaughan Downey, Robin Cramme Perks, Carolyn Parsley Davis, and myself. Joan's daughter , Lisa, is in nursery school this fall.

Sandra's daughter, Angela, is now in kindergarten, and Sandra is taking night courses to renew her teaching certificate. Sherry's oldest two children are in school now, and Patsy 's daughter, Alice. is in nursery school.

Joan also has a new address as of October! 0417 Sydelle Drive in Richmond.

Libby Wampler Jarrett and her family are back in Virginia. They have bought a house in Norfolk at 1438 W. Princess Anne Rd. Harry is setting up a solo practice in OBGyn and will be at Norfolk General Hospital. Harry Jr. is 7 and in 2nd grade; Lori is 5 and in kindergarten; Amy is 2.

Julie Perkinson Crews and her family moved to Charlottesville this summer. Her address is 57 Georgetown Green. Bill is vicepresident of First Virginia Bank / Monticello National. Julie says, "This world of ours is no place for sweet, dainty girls when Bill, Russell , and Carter get going." Julie said she missed seeing Judy Trunzo in Charlottesville by one month.

Kitty Borum Fitzhugh's husband, Parke , completed his orals last July. Then they traveled to Jamaica, followed by a 20-day, 8500-mile trip across country, camping in their VW bus. Parke divides his time between the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Miami and the Dade County Public Safety Department.

Barbara Grigg is in the Intern's Program for Chaplains at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem .

Ruth Blair Taylor has become interested in guidance and counseling and took several graduate cours ¡es in this area at Stetson University last summer. She is taking more hours this fall and plans to finish a master's.

Ruth is still active in the Little Theater, AAUW, and their church . Ruth and Larry live an hour's drive from Disney World.

Aretie Gallins Danley is enjoying staying home with her two children, Lisa (age 4) and Mark (age 2).

Nancy James Buhl and her family moved to Idaho in I 970. Her address is 87 5 9th St., Idaho Falls. She says they love the West and are close to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole and spend a lot of time in both places during the summer. This past summer they spent two weeks sight-seeing on the California coast. Nancy says that she is supposed to start skiing very soon. "John and Jay (my 7 year old) love to ski and have decided that Elizabeth (age 5) and I will be skiing with them this winter."

Shirley Kell DeRoco's husband, Al , began working on his master's in communications management in September.

J. C. Shapard Confroy and her family spent a week's vacation at Nags Head this summer. They had all of Bill's family visit from New Jersey, including his parents, three sisters and their families, making a grand total of 23. Billy (age 8) is in 2nd grade, Sally (age 6) is in 1st grade, and Wirt (age 3) goes to nursery twice a week.

Lucy Hardy Johnson wrote that her husband , Dan , completed his two years of duty in the Army and they have now moved back to Atlanta and bought a house. Dan has gone into practice there. Their children are

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Lisa, age 4; Laura, age 2; and Dan Jr., age 10 months. They often get together with Mary Douglass Sommers and her family.

Mary had a visit from Trunz before she left for Paris. Lucy's address is 2625 Langland Ct. in Atlanta.

Margaret Taylor Sheldon has moved to Ft. Lewis, Washington; her address is Quarters 2669A there. She has three children: David started to school this year; Molly is 4½; Mary Ann is 18 months.

Anne Coldfelter Tucker and her family are moving back to Virginia. Her husband has been transferred to Newport News to the head office of Noland Co. They have sold their home in Georgia and are in the process of house hunting in Virginia.

Several Richmond area classmates have gotten together to discuss our TENTH reunion next May. Tentative plans are for a dinner on Friday night for the girls and a cocktail party for couples on Saturday. The date is May 19-20, so please mark your calendars now and save that weekend.

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Mrs. J. Reuben Rigel (Connie Zeno) 2709-A Eton Road Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Sandra Crowder McDonald and Dave moved to Toronto, Canada in June. He was transferred there by his company.

Sara Ruschhaupt Crippen and Gil vacationed in Europe this past summer.

Glen Chastain Post is living in Hyattsville, Md. They are planning a September vacation in England.

Lee Hill Andrews of Shaw AFB, S. C. writes that their son, Davey, began reading last Nov. and entered a kindergarten this year in Sumter, S. C. Nita Phillips Reynolds and family have moved to Evington, Va. where Ronnie is Director of Recreation for Campbell County.

Billie Lynn Mercer writes that Jim opened his own business, the Mercer Vault Company, in Fredericksburg on October I, I 971.

Ann Gay Widmer Parker and family enjoyed a recent vacation at the Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks. They are living in Eden Prairie, Minn.

Jane Norton Medlin and Stuart have moved back to Richmond and have bought an old town house which they are doing over. She is working at the C&P Telephone Company and he is in graduate school at William and Mary.

Hecky Henderson White and family are still in St. Louis, Mo. where she works in a Montessori school. Ginger (5) is in kindergarten and Jeanne (3) is in school where Hecky works .

Helen Flynn Walton and Clem have bought a 50 yr. old house in Burlington, N. C., with lots of trees, windows and doors. Clem works for Western Electric.

Judy Barnhart Parr and Jerry are still in Sterling, Va. He works with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Judy is teaching kindergarten in a private school.

Mary Bruce Ford Wood's husband, Andy, opened his own law practice in Richmond , Oct. 1. He is in partner ship with Scott Street.

Lisa Coleman Rose's husband, Fred, left IBM in August, and also opened his own business. He is President and Chairman of the Board of Atlantic Imports Corporation.

The corporation sells foreign auto parts and accessories.

Ben Davis Walters and family spent a recent vacation in Florida visiting friends

and relatives. Bev. is teaching Sunday School to high school students and is Vice-President of the Opti-Mrs. Club of Richmond.

Bill was recently named Personnel Director for the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Elaine Johnson Yeatts is involved in junior woman's club work and is District Chairman for Public Affairs for the Junior Woman's Clubs. Her husband, Archie, started a new law firm in June called Maloney and Yeatts.

Polly McDowell Waters wrote that when Jerry was promoted from salesman to Branch Manager of a fiber glass firm they moved from Richmond to Baltimore in March of 1969. Patrick Ross was born May 8, 1969. Jerry was later made District Sales Manager of the Chicago district to which they moved last November. Laurie Neal was born there.

Sally Abel Taylor is still taking courses, studying for comprehensives, and working part time at Temple University. In August, she and John drove through New England (they own 25 acres in Vermont) and Nova Scotia.

Beth Edwards Cox wrote that Randy began his new job teaching Spanish at N. Y .

State University College at Fredonia in September.

Mary Jane Bacon Huffman is teaching English IO and 12 at Brookville High School in Lynchburg. Dick is vice-president of the Bank of Central Virginia.

Tykey and Nancy Holland Miller are back in Richmond as his service duties are over.

He is an Assistant Attorney General for the State.

Hedy Bernard Rosenstock and L. A. are back in the States and have bought a house on the outskirts of Petersburg. Hedy does volunteer work at the hospital.

Linda Fridley Betof is working part time, teaching beginning modern dance, and taking a pottery course. She_ and Bob spent July in California and seemg much of the west.

Carole Hanosn Gonzaga's husband, Tony, will graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music next spring. They plan to move to Germany next summer so that he can JOm . . an opera company there.

Glenda Nicholas Burke and Pat are hvmg in Norfolk while he serves 2 years in the .

Navy. He is a doctor on the Vulcan.

Joyce Sanford Brittingham's husband, Jim, is now flying the C-5A, the huge new cargo plane in the air force. husband, Johnson's Hartman Martha Dave, was promoted by Texaco and transferred to Greensboro, N. C. Francie Mitchell Brooks is in Tampa , Florida where her husband, Larry, has his dental practice. She teaches fourth grade and also helps him on Saturdays.

Kendal East Mitchell's husband, Joe, was recently appointed Public Relations Director for Longwood College in June.

Nancye Webster Blanton's ~usband, Jo_e, took a job with Broward Nat10nal Bank m Fort Lauderdale in April.

Nancy Loughridge Lowe's husband, Fred, is now associated with Robert L. Simpson in the practice of law at Va. Beach.

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Miss Carole Royall 5204-A Castlewood Road Richmond, Virginia 23234

Our fifth reunion was celebrated in May with a small attendance of alumnae. At reunion, a nominating committee was formed

and the following slate of officers approved: President, Betsy Spencer Townsend¡ Vice-President, Anne Dixon Booker¡ Secre'. taries, Carolyn Urquhart Burkey, 'Carole Royall; Fund Raising Chairladies, Fran Stewart Starr and Sandra Gross Schneider.

Carolyn Urquhart Burkey and John are living in Illinois.

Julia Trent Elliot and Chuck, now an M.D ., and son, Brian, are living in Rochester, Minnesota. Chuck is completing a residency at the Mayo Clinic.

Sherry Dixon Fleet and Tim completed their programs of study at the Southwestern Baptist Seminary .

In Australia, if you visit, you will find Thecia Gunn Hancewicz and Ralph. Ralph has a teaching job there .

Jo Ann Jamison Webster lives in Oklahoma now. She received her M.S. in physiology from OSU and her husband, Ed, received his Ph . D. in sociology .

Give to your Alumnae Fund!

Congratulations to Betsy Spencer Townsend on being the new "class pres." Betsy, husband, Dan, and their son, Danny , have a new home in the Meadowdale area in Richmond.

Joan Miller Hines and Mac still reside in Richmond. Joan is teaching math at Collegiate High School.

Bonnie Lush Y ospin, husband , and daughter live in Richmond.

What are you doing now? We're interested!

Congratulations are in order to Richard Elliot, husband of Pat Davis Elliot, on being elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Campbell County.

Jo Ann Dew Flannagan and Lou have a home in Ashland.

Kay Shpil is teaching at Brookland Junior High in Richmond and was recently married.

Give to your Alumnae Fund!

Anne Dixon Booker and Billy have a new home in Richmond.

Beth Booker Wilson and Dave also have a new home in Richmond .

Martha Butterworth Duncan and Mark are in Petersburg, Va., where Mark practices law.

Sandra Harris works at Jackson Davis Elementary School and is engaged to be married to Jim Hollins.

Genie Henderson Schutt and Bill have a home in Richmond. Bill is practicing law and Genie teaches at Brookland Junior High School.

Leora Lawrence Porter and Don still live in Virginia Beach . Leora recently received an important promotion in her job with the Department of Welfare.

Marsha Sims Costello and Andy live in Charlottesville.

Cay Garrett works now as a librarian at MCV. Eileen Ford teaches at Meadowbrook High School in Richmond.

Martha Colston's husband has accepted a position with the Environmental Protection Agency in the Research Triangle between Raleigh and Durham . They move to 1024 Northclift Drive, Raleigh, N. C. at the end of November. Lynne (9) is in the 5th grade and John (7) is 2nd.

We 'd like to hear what all our "single sisters" are doing to the world! Where are you now? What's happening? We've come a long way from Rat Alley and Rat Hole . .. and orange sherbet! Write to: Carolyn Urquhart Burkey, 904 Portland, Collinsville, Illinois 62234 or me .

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Mrs. Lewis W. Gravely (Pat Diggs) 205 North Laburnum Avenue, Apt. 3 Richmond, Virginia 23223

Judy Morong Drayer and husband, Dave, have moved to Maryland where Dave has a job with Everedy Co. Judy is enjoying her new house at Route 3, Frederick Maryland 21701.

Ginny Griffin Bryce and Billy are living at 2325 Avenham Ave ., S.W., Apt. 2, Roanoke, Virginia 24014 while Billy is doing his residency in Family Practice at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Ginny's neighbor in apartment 3 is Barbara Harper Green.

Barbara 's husband graduated from MCV 's School of Medicine last June and is an intern at Roanoke Memorial.

Pam Gordon has received her M. A. in political science from V.P.I. and is currently teaching at Brunswick Academy Upper School. Her address is 705 Windsor Ave., Lawrenceville, Virginia 23868.

Since his discharge from the Army, Amy Mclvor Brown and husband , Haskell, have returned to Richmond where Haskell is putting his degree in architecture to work at Armstrong and Salomonsky . Their address is 2408 West Tremont Court, Richmond 23235.

A number of our class members have moved to California. Among these is Bonnie Bowman Nelson whose husband, Bob, is working on a Ph.D. at Stanford University .

Their address is Barnes , Apt. 8-G; Es Condido Village, Stanford, California 94305 .

Uncle Sam has "called " Lance and Karla Brownmiller Morrell to the west coast. They enjoyed a cross-country vacation trip from New Jersey to their new home at 727 West 38th St., Apt. 6, San Pedro, California 90731. Lynn Werth Montgomery and husband, Bob, are still in California at 12525 Appleton Way , Los Angeles, California 90066 . Lynn and Bob spent their vacation at the Grand Canyon . They enjoy visiting with Kathy Reel Chandler and husband, Paul, and with Ann Heflin Fletcher and husband, Bob, who live near them in L.A .

Susan Blake Thomas is teaching Latin at Orange County High School and working on her master's degree at U . Va. She and William have moved to 1012 Hendrick St. , Culpeper, Virginia 22701.

Linda Powers Massaro writes that Susan Lee Harris and husband, Paul, have moved to 2539 Hillsman Street, Falls Church, Virginia 22043. She also had a new address for Carty Richards Pinchak and Tom: 1177 Herrington, Pontiac, Michigan 48057 . Linda reports that she and Chuck have enjoyed trips to California and to Europe and are now planning to move to 7828 Snead Lane, Falls Church, Virginia 22043 .

In June Loretta Birckhead was graduated from MCV's School of Nursing where she was a Dean's List student. She has received a ful] scholarship to do graduate work at Rutgers University in Psychiatric Nursing with an emphasis on individual and group therapy. Before undertaking these studies this fall, she spent a month in Europe. Her new address is Stonier Graduate Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 .

Gay Mason Allen and Dan are living in Germany now, courtesy of Uncle Sam. Dan graduated from MCV's School of Dentistry last June. Their address is 124th Medical Detachment (DS), APO New York 09189 .

In early September several of us had a mini-reunion at Claudia Bell's wedding to Adolph Grundman . Meade Ferguson, Pam

Gordon, Barbara Johnson, Gay Mason Allen and I attended . The Grundman's live at 301 N. Boulevard , Apt. 4, Richmond. Dolph is finishing work on his Ph.D . in history and teaching at Virginia Union University while Claudia continues to work at the Virginia State Library.

Pam Buss Inman and husband, Charles, live at 5606 Crenshaw Road, Apt. 1413, Richmond 23227. Pam is an assistant buyer in the book department at Thalhimers. She writes that Jane Williams (who was with us the first two years) married James Meredith Woolard, III on April 10, 1971.

Mary Gearing Foster and husband, Raymond, are at 140 Louise Dr., Apt. 15, Newport News , Virginia.

Kathy Milner Neal writes that she and David had a grand time this past summer managing her father-in-law's motel at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. In the fall they returned to 311 Academy St., Madison, North Carolina 27025, and David is continuing work on his master's degree in history .

Jeannette Elgert McCormick has moved into a new colonial ranch home in rural New Kent County . Their address is Route I , Box 196A, New Kent, Virginia 23124 .

She and Bobby visited relatives in Colorado and Nebraska this summer and enjoyed sightseeing on the way home. Jeannette teaches history and social studies at York Academy in Shackelford.

Linda Davis has moved to 255 Stribling Ave ., Apt. C, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 where she has begun work on a master 's degree in Special Education while teaching in Orange County.

Linda Miller teaches at Bethel High School in Hampton and lives at 877 Cloverleaf Lane, Apt. 6, Newport News, Virginia 23601.

Dixie Bailey Ancarrow is an English instructor at Providence Junior High . She and Granger can be reached at 728 Trevor Terrace, St. John's Wood , Richmond 23235 . Pat Temple Armour is a remedial reading teacher at Varina High School. Pat and husband , Daniel, reside at 2020 Grove Avenue, Richmond.

Nancy Hicks has announced her engagement to Mason L. Hart.

Meade Ferguson is a "writer" or officially an Information Officer for the Public Relations Office of the State Dept. of Education.

Her address: P. 0. Box 1822, Richmond 23214.

Jane Harris Hall and husband, William , have returned to Virginia and reside at 856 I Richmond Hwy., Apt. 204, Alexandria , Va. 22304.

Janet Overstreet Godfrey and Wayne enjoyed camping on the Gulf Coast this summer. Janet teaches third grade in the winter.

June Costello Schultz and Erik have returned from a tour with Uncle Sam in Germany .

Lew and I enjoyed a short but pleasant trip to Charleston, S. C. this past August.

On our return , we visited with Patsy Martin Todd and John in Wilmington, N . C . After this delightful vacation, I, too , returned to the classroom as a teacher at Armstrong High School.

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Miss Janice G. Carter 2800 Kenmore Road Richmond, Virginia 23228

Our class has nearly completed its run on weddings for awhile. There are a few coming up soon but nothing like the flood this summer. The way folks are making their

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news is with new jobs , new cars, etc .

Judy Baughan Lankford is working for a professor at the Research and Development Center while Nel son is studying in Bloomington at Indiana University. She sound s as if she is enjoying being up north . I enjoyed having dinner with Emily Epps the last weekend in October in Roanoke . She and Susan Ward had recently taken a trip down to Greenville, South Carolina, where Marjorie Scott ha s begun teaching and doing very well at it. Susan has a new Vega which I know is exciting for her because I have a new one , too. Aren't we independent? Nancy Ball called me la st week from Richmorrd and said she is expecting a new car in a few day s- a Pontiac LeMans . You can sure tell who has the money!

One of the best parts about all the wedding s this summer was seeing so many people from We sthampton . I enjoyed being with Pam Firebaugh and Susan Bryant at Harriet Haynes and David Crowther 's wedding in September. Pam is still teaching in Hampton thi s year. Susan was in an accident the early part of the summer and was still recuperating . I certainly hope she is fine by now and able to go on with her plans for teaching in Hampton .

Joanne Herrington Luskin and Siegfried (with their son , David Siegfried) are living at 167 North 400 E # 5, Provo , Utah 84601 while Siegfried works and attends Brigham Young University .

Eli zabeth Lindsey Britton received her M .A. from William and Mary this June .

Frederica J. Vaughan received her MED in art education from Pennsylvania State University in September.

Guess that 's just about it for now. I am still at UT in Knoxville at this writing but will be in Richmond from January until June for an internship in school psychology.

Before the news for the summer issue is due in June I hope to track down some others of you . Hope to see you in May. P. S. I appreciate the help with the news that a few of you have provided.

MARRIAGES 1930 Estelle Crenshaw Hutchison and Newman Leadbetter, Septem her 18, 1971.

1960 Drusilla Anne Young and Frank Balzano, October 16, 1971.

1962 Catherine Stoneham Carr and Edward W . Elverston , April 17, 1971.

1968 Claudia Fay Bell and Adolph Herman Grundman , September 4, 1971.

Diane Chis ho Im Behrens and John Withers Currie, July 17, 1971.

Margaret Ann Byrn and Michael Grant Tucker , September 18, 1971.

Susan Kirk Shackelford and Thomas Maywood Snyder, June 12, 1971.

1970 Judy Ann Baughan and Nelson Lankford .

Barbara Starr Cahoon and James A . Somerville, Jr. Harriet Carter Haynes and David Crowther , September , 1971.

BIRTHS 1952 Mr. and Mrs. Irving Ray Byrd (Nina Landolina) , a daughter , Laura October 22, 1971.

Christine ,

1956 Mr. and Mr s. William S. Simpson , Jr. (Charlotte Har t), Elizabeth , February

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a daughter , Catherine 12, 1971.

1958 Mr. and Mr s. George Bains , Jr. (Nancy Jane Cyru s), a son, David Ralph, July 5, 1971.

1962 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hansen (Judy Acree) , a son, Carter Erling, June 19, 1971.

Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Higg s (Charlotte Adams), a son , Steven Wilson , March 12, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Parke Fitzhugh (Kitty Borum) , a daughter , Virginia Hosier, September 14, 1971.

Mr. and Mr s. Richard Brewer (Barbara Davies), a son , Bruce Gordon , April 22 , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. John Buhl (Nancy Jame s), a son, James Quinby , February 11, 1971.

Mr. and Mr s. William Crews (Julie Perkinson) , a son , C arter Randolph, April 6, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Anton Wallner (Marsha Sullivan) , a son , Jon, September , 1970.

Mr. and Mrs. Carlton B. Kemper (Jane Thompson) , a son , Carlton Thompson , January 24, 1971.

1964 Mr. and Mrs . Sheldon Sack s (Marian Binder), an adopted son , Jason Andrew , October 3, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Cox (Beth Edwards), a son , Corey Randolph, August 19, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Guy Tower (Susie Fitchett) , a daughter , Jane Elizabeth , July 23, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Branan Thompson (Ga y Frith), a son , John Dixon, April 30, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Daniel (Bucky Hanbury), a daughter , Ann Meade , April 13, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anthony Arrington (Bonnie Higgins) , a daughter, Catherine Meige, January 28, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. William Strickland (Mary Eleanor Hodges) , a daughter , Sarah Elizabeth, May 9, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. John E . Rouzie , Jr. (Joanna Longest) , a daughter , Andrea Ball, December 3, 1970.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Lowe (Nancy Loughridge) , a daughter , Susan Ashley, October, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Gerald Waters (Polly McDowell), a daughter , Laurie Neal, April 20 , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Philip Snyder (Elaine Robertson), a daughter, Amy Shell , July 20 , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Henry Franklin Hoots (Gay Shelton), a son , Todd Franklin, January 27 , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Charles Scarborough (Nancy Smith), a son , Michael , January 24, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Blanton (Nancye Webster), a son , Bradley Webster, Decem ber , 1970 .

Mr. and Mrs . J . Reuben Rigel (Connie Zeno), a daughter , Julia Marie, August 13, 1971.

1966 Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson (Beth Booker) , a son, David John, Jr. , January , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Ken Philbrick (Bonnie Dameron) , a son , Christopher Price, March, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. William Booker (Anne Dixon) , a son , William Holloway, Jr. , October, 1970 .

Mr. and Mrs . Ralph Hancewicz (Thecia Gunn) , a daughter, Sheryl Anita , August , 1970.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Webster (Jo Ann Jamison), a daughter , Karen Leigh , April , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Yospin (Bonnie Lush), a daughter , Shawn , April , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Parrish (Kay Ram¡ say) , a daughter, Jennifer , January , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McEntire (Jean Reynolds), a daughter , Ann-Janette , May , 1971.

Mr. and Mrs . Ed Meredith (Carolyn Sublette) , a daughter , Pri scilla Ann , May, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. John Burkey (Carolyn Urquhart) , a son, Christopher Dale, September 5, 1971.

1968 Mr. and Mrs. John M . Woleben , Jr. (Ann Bouckart) , a son , Christopher Marsh , September 14, 1971.

Dr. and Mrs. William F. Bryce, Jr. (Ginny Griffin) , a son , William Fielding , III , Octqber 27, 1970.

Dr. and Mrs . Thomas Walton Green, Jr .

(Barbara Harper) , a son , Thomas Walton, III. October 3, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bennett (Katherine Henley), a daughter, Josephine deShields , January 6, 1971.

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Neal (Kathy Milner), a daughter , Stephanie Anne , March 16, 1970.

Mr. and Mrs . Grover Cousins Robinson , TU (Betsy Welsh) , a daughter , Elizabeth Ann , November l, 1971.

Westhampton

Necrology

RFI-WCR Hazel Cole Glenn (Mrs. Charles M. Glenn) , of Richmond, Virginia , died September 27, 1971.

1916 Miss Helen A. Mansell of Richmond , Virginia, died September 15, 1971.

1923 Miss Elizabeth B. Parker of Richmond , Virginia , died August 24, 1971.

May 19-21

PLAN NOW to return for Fun and Fellowship

John A. Clayton, '62

Editor's Comment

D

uring the short period he has served as president of the University of Richmond, Dr. E. Bruce Heilman has demonstrated a remarkable ability to fill a calendar full of personal appearances, speaking engagements, private appointments, "rap sessions" with students, alumni meetings from New York to Florida while managing to maintain an orderly and well planned office routine-a must for any chief executive of an organization the size of the University today. His activities have been varied yet those with whom he has met have been unanimous in their appraisal of the man-he is dynamic (a much overused word which, nevertheless, seems appropriate in this case), hardworking and dedicated to leading the University on to heights of achievement never before imagined.

He has been busy, extremely so. Everywhere he goes, he carries the message that the University of Richmond is destined for bigger and better things but he never leaves anyone with the mistaken thought that he, as university president, will be entirely responsible for the strides he expects the school to make. Instead, he is inviting everyone to become a part of a large team of people dedicated to the idea of seeing The University of Richmond become a truly great institution of higher learning.

Some have already indicated their willingness to serve the University with their money, others with their time and talents. Dr. Heilman is welcoming those who wish to serve their alma mater in whatever ways they can. More and more will be called on to help during the coming months. Be ready to do your part and to encourage others to work to make the University of Richmond one of the very best universities anywhere.

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per person double occupancy (+10% Tax & Service) single supplement-$60.00

single supplement $105.00 Escorted by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jones

Escorted by Mr. & Mrs. John Clayton Dulles International departure

The trip includes:

The trip includes: • • • • • • •

Round trip jet (meals and beverages served aloft) Deluxe double-bedded accomodations Continental breakfast each morning Dinner each evening at London's best restaurants Half-day trip to .Windsor Castle City orientation tour Transfers and luggage handling

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Round trip Eastern Airlines Deluxe twin bedded rooms Continental breakfast each morning Luncheon & dinner most days Tours of Mexico City, Taxco, San Jose Purua, Acapulco by modern, air-conditioned motorcoach.

• Tips and gratuities • Transfers and luggage handling

GREECE-EGYPT-AFRICA June 9-28 Escorted by Dr. & Mrs. E. Bruce Heilman • Round trip jet flight from New York

• All tours and sightseeing

• Deluxe accommodations at all hotels

• All transfers and tips

• All meals included

University of Richmond Alumni Tour Program P. 0. Box 128 University of Richmond, Va. 23173 Please send me London-May Mexico-July Greece-June

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