University of Richmond Magazine Fall 1972

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UR is ForgingAhead . . . . . . . . .

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An introduction of Dr. Charles E. Glassick, University Provost.

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New Deanat the LawSchool Dean Harold G. Wren. A builder and organizer comes as a worthy successor to Dean Muse.

The UniversityToday . . . . . . . . .

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Dr. Heilman's remarks to the new Freshmen contain food for thought for everyone in terested in the University.

The Institute for Business and Community Development

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This University division serves the immediate community and the nation .

"A Slight Praise of the University" ...

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The June Commencement Address delivered by the president of the University of Tennessee. A clear look at higher education .

COVER: The University of Richmond, as typified by this happy June graduate, is an interestin g and exciting place.

VOLUME 36, NUMBER 1

National Alumni Council Formed 14 New g roup has goal of coordinating activities .

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John A. Clayton, '62, editor; John W. Edmonds, Ill, '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, Fall, 1972, Volume 36 Number 1. Published quarterly by the University of Richmond Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at Univer sity of Richmond, Virginia 23173. Subscription price: $1.00 per year.

Campus Briefs . . . . . University Classnotes WesthamptonClassnotes Letters to the Editor . . .

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and honor Doubles.

Friday November 10

10:00 a.m. Third Alumni Open Golf Tournament $10.00 (includes green fees and electric James River Course cart) . Country Club of Virginia 6:00 p.m. Social Hour Courtesy of the "Richmond Robins" ice James River Course hockey team. Country Club of Virginia 7:00 p.m. Westhampton Alumnae Dinner Dr. & Mrs. Heilman and Dr. & Mrs. Glassick will be guests of honor. Westhampton Dining Hall 7:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner-Dance $7.50 each (tax and gratuity included). Space is limited. Only 140 reservations James River Course available. Country Club of Virginia

Dean, Dr. M. Ray Law School Lounge

10:30 a.m. Alumni-Student Variety Show An outstanding lineup of alumni and student talent. The M. C. will be the popular radio personality Harvey Hudson, RC '42. Camp Theater Fine Arts Building 11 :45 a.m. Luncheon A delicious pre-game meal in an informal Keller Hall atmosphere. $2 .25 each. Westhampton 1:30 p.m. Football, UR vs. Davidson $6.00 each. Post Game Spider Club Smoker Evening

City Stadium

William Byrd Hotel

Fraternity Dinners and Dances Various locales

Sunday November 12

Saturday November 11

8:00 a.m. School of Business Alumni Breakfast Refectory $3.00 each. 9:00 a.m. Alumni/Alumnae Registration Coffee & conversation. Westhampton Green

11:00 a.m . Homecoming Worship Service A special service featuring music by the University Choir and a message by Dr. R. Stuart Grizzard , RC '41, pastor of the National Baptist Memorial Church , Washing Cannon Memorial Chapel ton, D. C.

9:30 a.m. Water Polo Game UR's newest sports team against an opponent to be announced . Crenshaw Pool Westhampton 9:30 a.m. Law School Coffee Meet the new Dean, Dr. Harold G. Wren Chairmen: W. W. Jennings, Jr., RC'63;

retiring

John W. Kirk; 8'69,

A Special for Business Men: Pre-Homecoming Seminar , Institute for Business and Community Development "Management by Objectives ," Conducted by Arthur Beck, '40. See Details on p. 11

UR is forging ahead in a time when most institutions of its nature are retrenching University Provost Charles E. Glassick

New Dean brings wide experience¡ to T.C.Williams

Dr . Harold G. Wren

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r. Charles E. Glassick is a slim, 41-year-old chemist, graying a bit now, with a soft voice and a mind with a cutting edge. He gives you the feeling that he knows his business and expects you to know yours. He has plenty of time to talk to you but the conversation ought to show a profit. He's confident and has a right to be. He turned down the presidency of another institution and was just into the second year as vice president for academic affairs for Albion College in Michigan when President Heilman sought him for the position of Provost at the University of Richmond. He has much going for him-he won his B.S. degree at Franklin and Marshall College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He's been a Harvard Fellow, a General Electric Fellow, and in 1967 won the prestigious American Council of Education Fellowship in Academic Administration. That gave him the opportunity to work and study during that session under President Frederic W. Ness of Fresno

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State College in California, now president of the Association of American Colleges. Later, he became vice president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, providing leadership for a number of outstanding private colleges in that area. He's served in the classroom, too-at Princeton, Temple, Adrian and Albion . Small wonder that President Heilman, in announcing Dr. Glassick's selection as Provost, described him as "one of the brightest young educators in the nation today" with "the right combination of scholarship and leadership it takes to be successful in the position of provost." He believes in a quality liberal arts education and regards the University of Richmond as "large enough to offer a quality program" and to sustain a "rigorous academic program in a humanitarian setting." Dr. Glassick left no doubt as to his concern for the individual student, pledging his efforts to support programs "flexible enough to meet the student's goals and abilities." In his role as provost, he will "keep all of us in agreement on

fundamental objectives," in an effort to continue to improve the university's image as a "distinctive and distinguished institution." Another of Dr. Glassick's firm views: "Faculty are the key to the quality of an institution" and he asserted his ambition to provide a faculty development program and aid in the improvement of teaching. But "publish or perish" does not score with him. Scholarship does. "Scholarship keeps the faculty member alert and alive in his discipline, and engenders in the teacher an excitement for his subject area." he added: "Publication is the natural result of scholarship, but I do not believe in just counting publications." Dr. Glassick came to the University of Richmond for another reason: the persuasion of President Heilman. "Bruce Heilman knows where he is going and knows how to work with people," Dr. Glassick said. One has the feeling that Dr. Glassick also is a man who has charted his course.

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1949 after a year of practicing law in New York City. He also has been a Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma, the Boston College Law School and Southern Methodist University. His special interest is estate planning, and in 1970 he published his two volume work "Creative Estate Planning." He has addressed the Institute of Estate Planning of the University of Miami, where he is a member of the Advisory Committee. In addition to his work in estate planning, he has written three other books and numerous other monographs and articles. He also has lectured at the Williams College School of Banking and at the National Trust School of Northwestern University. There's a bit of salt in Dr. Wren's blood, gained when he served in the U.S. Naval Intelligence in World War JI. During that time, he attended the Naval School of Oriental Languages at and received a Boulder, Colorado, diploma there. He is now a Captain in the Naval Reserves, serving as commander of the Na val Reserve Intelligence Division which covers Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Montana. Since 1958, he has been an arbitrator in many cases and is listed on the panels of the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Concilia-

tion Service. He also was a reporter for the Uniform Probate Code from the time of its inception in 1962. Although he is a native of Big Stone Gap in Virginia, he spent much of his boyhood in Norfolk and left the state 41 years ago for New York. He has expressed his pleasure in being back in Virginia, where he can feed more fully his interest in Virginia history. Dr. Wren is married and has two sons, 17 and 15. T. C. Williams is not the same law school that Dean Muse lead for so many years, at least not physically. Alumni returning to the campus will be pleased at how well the new wing blends with the old, and how much the new space helps the program at the law school. Finishing touches are still being added, but the students of the 1972-73 session will enjoy their new quarters as they get to know their new dean. The selection of Dean Wren concludes a search "literally nationwide," said President E. Bruce Heilman of the University. "It has been exceedingly difficult to find a man to continue the excellent work that Dean Muse carried on at the law school," he said. "But our selection committee is convinced, as I am convinced, that we are indeed fortunate to secure the services of Dean Wren. He will be a worthy successor to Dean Muse and undoubtedly will lead the law school to new heights of achievements."

ean Harold G. Wren of the Northwestern Law School of Lewis and Clark College at Portland, Oregon, had accomplished much in the three years since he took the job of building a law school. That's one of the reasons he was such an attractive candidate to succeed the late Dean William T. Muse at the University of Richmond. Since 1969, Dean Wren had spearheaded the development of Northwestern Law School. He had the pleasure and satisfaction in 1970 of seeing the school dedicate its three buildings, of developing a day division for the school, and gaining accreditation ior his law school from the American Bar Association. These accomplishments of the 51-yearold dean, along with his credentials as a legal scholar, served to put him at the top of the list of candidates for dean of The T. C. Williams School of Law. Dr. Heilman persuaded him to come to Richmond to look at the situation and soon Dean Wren came back to stay. Along with new Provost Charles E. Glassick, he reported for duty Aug. 21. Dean Wren earned the B.A. and Bachelor of Laws degree from Columbia University and the J.S.D. degree from Yale Law School. He has served as a Fullbright Research Scholar at Waseda University in Japan. He began his teaching career at the University of Mississippi in

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Remarks delivered by Dr. Heilman to the new Freshman Class on opening day contain a message of importance for all those interested in the present posture and future course of the University of Richmond.

By Dr. E. Bruce Heilman

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ost of us are well aware of the fact that education is a manyfaceted, as well as a manysplendored thing. Its elements are multitudinous and its measures are limitless, but there are certain basic forces which come to bear upon the transformation of a student from the shy, retiring, inhibited, uncertain freshman to the mature, confident, determined, expectant, and hopefully educated, senior who moves into the world of work and responsibility. It is to this idea and to these basic forces which I shall direct my attention. Every college differs in its manner of organizing and catalyzing the . forces which converge to bring about transformation in its students. Variety of education in our country has produced the most sophisticated civilization known to man. The real strength of an educational enterprise is in its being as diverse as the society in which it exists. Thus at Richmond we give attention to the fact that we are important not so much in our likeness to other colleges and universities as in our being uniquely different. No institution can be all things to all people. Each must select a specific role within the context of the total. At our university, committed to being a small, liberal arts, church-related institution with limited related professional and graduate programs we hope to project , activities which will give every student a chance to, develop his intellect, to achieve wisdom, to advance his skills, to increase his spiritual insights, and to live a life which will be both rewarding to himself and worthwhile to the community of which he is a part. I like to think of the University of Richmond as a point ~here paths of communication converge and a junction at which people and ideas go out in all directions. Looking backward for a moment, I would venture a guess that such high expectations presuppose that many of the ingredients of the past will be carried forward into the emerging future. Able students, a strong faculty, adequate facilities, and substantial resources controlled by our purposes and objectives are necessary to this end. 6

Purposes and Objectives At the University of Richmond our purposes and objectives are concerned not only with academic ambitions and the desire for making everyone economically self-sufficient, but also give consideration to inculcating social and ethical concepts which extend themselves to moral and spiritual values and virtues. The identification of these with knowledge is as old as Plato. Our university would fall far short of its goal if it attained in the human product only the fundamental capacity for knowledge and earning a living. There is a higher literacy which must be attained, a disciplined reason through which students come to understand themselves and through which they establish a sense of identity with all humanity. In a general sense, academic excellence is the predominant role of the University, but actually excellence in life should be the end result of education. Emerson once said, "Make the most of yourself because that's all there is of you." At the University of Richmond we have both the responsibility and the opportunity for helping young people make the most of themselves. We must maintain in our society colleges and universities which manifest interest in the eternal, verities along with contemporary philosophies. Some 140 years ago the University of Richmond was chartered to provide education in a Christian context for young people of any and all faiths who were interested in academic excellence. Throughout the years the best education has been provided for the finest young people of each generation. As the world has developed and as the roles have changed, our University has stood strong for basic human qualities and character as well as good education. The doors are open wider than ever before, and more are passing through these portals to receive these same benefits. Our students, we think , are special and if so, their education should testify to this fact. At the University we seek to give something special to the unique human beings who come to us. We seek to contribute to their perspective by expos-

ing them to people and things which count; we endeavor to provide appropriate advising and counseling; and we try to maintain a setting where they can voice their ambitions, express their hopes and dream their dreams. Leadership is our goal, and so we seek out potential leaders among young men and women and make every effort to instill into their minds and hearts those things which are important to leadership. Our objective is to provide opportunities which result in competence and self-confidence in a world which is in rapid transition and in a society where roles change rapidly. With all these possibilities growing out of our purposes and objectives, nothing we do will be quite good enough; yet all that we do is justified many times over in results. So we always seek maximum fulfillment of the noble goals of our founders. The Student

Students¡ themselves are a most important element in the process of their transformation. Nothing has as much bearing on learning as those being taught. Our University gives attention to independent development and to the fact that every one aspires to do and be something significant. Although the future for most institutions may involve more students, larger classes and fewer personal contacts, the nomenclature of education must never conceive of students as numbers only. Every individual will continue to have particular and peculiar needs. Universities like Richmond are in an excellent position to deal with these considerations. Too often we have failed to make good use of our advantage. We tend to imitate existing educational patterns when we might better develop more patterns of our own. In the future we hope to give even more effect to the maximum potentialities which are unique to our kind of University. Our students along with most others, are concerned with freedom. Many of the restrictions of the past have appropriately been discarded. But I like to believe that we will preserve what one recent graduate called supervised independence.

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Many students and parents appreciate institutions which provide flexible but firm direction to young men and women who look for solid foundations on which to build their dreams. I hope that we may always graduate students who carry with them that special something which causes them to be outstanding in what they contribute to the world. The Professor

Clearly an element of significance to transforming students is the professor. Good students, modern buildings, fine laboratories and excellent programs are commendable, but what really matters is what happens when a good professor closes the classroom door and turns to face the students . Faculty members are the heart of the academic enterprise and the end result depends upon their quality. At the University of Richmond , devotion to Christian ideals, interest in the welfare of the students and scholarly competence, makes for excellence by any measure. The big problem is to lure the best possible professors into our classrooms and keep them there. Now that we are in the era of the specialist, a teacher finds that he must really concentrate if he is to measure up in his field. He must keep up with current research, new methods, special problems, and volumes of literature. It is said , "A man's mind, like a field, eventually becomes barren if it isn't continually enriched with new materials." The role and pace of professors has changed. They are no longer regarded as ivy-towered dreamers, divorced from society. They are more specialized and thus more limited in their breadth of knowledge. But at the University of Richmond, they still work in the interest of the student. They take an optimistic view and conceive of education as an investment in the future . They believe that the best teaching is in helping students help themselves. Though they publish, they do not allow their students to perish. Administrators In recent years, administrators have become a new breed . In the past they taught courses, wrote books and main-

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tained scholarly pursuits. Now they are engaged in fund raising, economic planning, architectural design, public speaking and recruitment of faculty and staff . No one has yet discovered how a college president can be gentle, leisurely and scholarly, while heading a dynamic organization which must be farsighted if it is to be worthwhile . Universities and colleges-even the smaller ones-are in every way major business enterprises and they demand managers as well as educators. Other' Considerations

As the future unfolds, we must give more attention to the world about us. In the course of the next half century it can be expected that the spread of technology and the waves of social thought will alter every aspect of the world . There could be nothing more disastrous than that we should educate our students for a way of life that no longer exists. It is evident that our university was never needed as much as now . In many ways, our finest years are ahead of us. For such a time as this, we can place in the world men and women educated not only in intellect but in heart and soul as well. Ours is a task in which we can and should take great pride. We have the privilege and the responsibility for training young men and women. It 's said that , "The joys of today are in part what we borrow from promise of harvest heaped high on the morrow. " What greater joy can we find today than that which comes from planting ideas destined to affect the generations of tomorrow. The process of making this possible is enormous. To be passive is to suggest failure. We must act or be acted upon. As I have made these comments I have moved from talking about us to a posture of including you as I have used the we . We must act or be acted upon and during your years here you will help your university to become an even finer place than it was when you joined it. To do so you must have high goals and strong incentives. A story from my home state of Kentucky has it that a man was being chased

by a bull across a field. He was running at top speed , doing his best to reach a fence, but he saw he was not going to make it. He saw a tree nearby with a very high limb . He dashed under the tree and leaped, hoping to grasp the limb; he missed it, but he caught it on the way down. This is the perspective we must have as we look ahead. We must leap high-our aspirations must be so great that even if we miss a specific goal we shall obtain such height that we will be saved from any possible danger of failure. I know we have in this room the highjumpers , those who would never catch a limb on the way up and usually never need it, but if they did it would be their salvation on the way down . I'm proud that you are a part of us. You will find strong and able leadership in the student ranks. You will find the leadership emerging from the ranks of this Freshman Class, but you should all become leaders. You should live here as you want your life to be lived in its entirety. As we seek to serve ourselves and a great purpose together beyond ourselves we might remember these words of challenge from Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant. So live that when the summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not , like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon , but sustained and soothed By an unflattering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him , and lies down to pleasant dreams. BonVoyage as you set upon your journey through college.

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The Institute for

By Dr . Richard S. Underhill , Director stablished in 1963, the Institute began its life, like many similar units as a further extension of the evenmg and adult concepts of higher education. Activities focused on helping individuals from many organizations to ( 1) do more effectively what they were already doing and, (2) to prepare themselves to move ahead in their organizations. The list of course offerings sounded like it had been taken from the standard University catalog: Basic Economics, Managerial Economics, Human Relations, Communications, and Advanced Administration. The principal differences between Institute programs and the regular adult program were the result of the absence of grades, and the fact that the student was the sole judge of his performance . Small as these differences might seem, their long run impact on the Institute was significant. The classroom became less a place where students came to listen and more a forum where they grappled with the realities of running their organizations . Institute staff members minimized their role as lecturer and worked with the participants as coaches and consultants . This necessitated the selection of a staff that had extensive organizational experience to supplement academic training. Subject matter for each session was drawn from actual participant experience, with many of the solutions to problems finding on-the-job application in the participant's organizations. A natural outgrowth of this experience was to take the coaching, consulting and development skills of the staff

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out of the classroom and into the corporation, the hospital and the government agency. In this move a further dimension was added to the growing¡ enrichment of learning . People who were working together were now learning together. Problems of human relations, communications, trust , openness, teamwork, and competition were not distant issues, but present in the classroom where they could be dealt with in a relatively safe atmosphere. To accomplish this in a way that was supportive of the needs of the organization, as well as the individuals concerned, required additional skills from the training staff. Dealing with the here-and-now realities of existing organizations makes rigid lesson plans that control the topics open for exploration dysfunctional. The Institute staff member must not only have a wide-ranging knowledge of his field of expertise, but also the flexibility to deal meaningfully with the issues raised by group members in the course of a session. Further, regardless of his subject matter expertise, the instructor must be highly qualified in the area of group skills, understanding the processes that work in groups and being highly sensitive to the elements of human interaction. These tend to be skills that traditional classroom situations do not demand to nearly the same degree. While working with a wide variety of organizations, the Institute staff noted that one of the major difficulties in working with people in a training situation was that new skills acquired during the development programs often could not be applied during normal work. Investigation showed that the organizations themselves needed to change if the full effectiveness

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A dynamic but little known segment of the University of Richmond

of the programs was to be realized. The structure of an organization determines who reports to whom , who can communicate with whom, what flexibility individuals have in solving problems, whether teamwork is encouraged, and whether the operating systems are supportive of goal-oriented behavior. Unless these issues are dealt with by the top management team, efforts to improve the capacity of individuals can have only limited positive effects on the functioning of the organization. These developments of the past nine years have led the Institute to a position of growing prominence in the field of organization development. Out of the issues involved have come a series of questions which organizations desiring to change should ask themselves. 1. Are you interested primarily in training individuals or in developing your organization? The two approaches are not mutually exclusive, but experience shows that concentrating solely in training individuals leads to only modest improvements in organizational effectiveness. Organizational development on the other hand requires a willingness on the part of the organization to work on a goal-oriented basis and to select participants for the same program on a needs rather than positional basis. 2. Are you willing to commit your organization to a three to five year coordinated effort? If organization development is to be effective, existing patterns of behavior must be examined, alternatives developed, and new patterns given an opportunity to produce. Organizations unwilling to make this commitment inhibit the ability of individual executives to experiment with new behaviors ac-

quired in training sessions. 3. Are you prepared to budget for a highly flexible program rather than the more easily controlled series of traditional management seminars? Organization development requires that programs be developed that have great flexibility. Working with an organization is like working with an iceberg . As you approach it, only a small portion is visible . As more knowledge is gained of the remaining portions the entire effort may need to be redirected. If the flexibility required to develop this type of program is to be assured your organization must be fully aware of the theory base being utilized by any outside group seeking to assist you. If this is not done, top management will likely become very uneasy as it attempts to make sense out of the changes taking place as the program progresses. 4. What do you know about the staff of the organization that will be assisting you? Too often organizations become involved in a development contract on the basis of confidence in the person making the initial contract and have little or no knowledge of the persons who will actually be involved in helping them achieve their goals. Your organization should be very concerned with the outside staff that will be involved in the program. Great expertise in a narrow discipline is generally inadequate for organizational development. Skills in working with groups on their problems and an understanding of the dynamics of human interaction are essential. Outside personnel should be willing to assure the organization that they are in a position to maintain the relationship over an extended period of time .

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Institute Associate Director sion . Others, left to right, Dunsing and Ellis Hillmar .

Art Beck, RC'40, makes a point during an Institute planning sesare staff members Larry Gibson, Dr . Richard Underhill, Richard

5. Are you willing to provide the outside group with the necessary information about your organization? Programs of organization development should contain a strong research component. Any organization considering substantial change should gather considerable base line information about itself against which it can measure the efficacy of the change program. Research into the nature of existing problems is of great value to the design of the program . Data collection during the course of the program is vital in assuring that the flexibility built into the program will be utilized in the best interests of the organ ization . And, continuing evaluation should be required by your organization as a necessary condition of the long-term commitment and the flexible budgeting . 6. How committed is your top management to changing the organization? With the impact on the organization that this type of program can have, the commitment of top management is essential. This commitment needs to be not only expressed but demonstrated by actions that are supportive of the program . A major part of this commitment is the willingness of top management to examine the values that guide the organization , particularly those that result in the establishment of behavior norms on the part of the organization's members. A variety of factors in modern society have led to organizations examining the desirability of change . These include a high level of technology, rapid change in that technology, the pressure to become more responsive to external influences, and an increase in the speed with which decisions must be made. There is also a growing concern that organizations con-

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sider making investments in their human resources comparable to those they make in physical resources. Achieving this requires a change in both attitude and behavior on the part of all levels of management in the organization. Unfortunately, institutions of higher education have been slow to respond to organizations desiring to change. In most cases this slowness can be attributed to organizational traditions in higher education that are as inhibiting as those con straining either institutions. One of the exceptions is the University of Richmond which established the Institute for Business and Community Development in order to respond to this need. The Institute is currently working with organizations of state and local government, hospitals, financial institutions corporations, and regional planning districts. Three operating units, the Management Center, the Urban Center, and the Research Center provide the resources to meet the varying requirements of diverse organizations. In addition, in order to meet the desires of individuals who want to pursue their personal development the Institute conducts a series of management development workshops conducted by an outstanding faculty of international reputation. This variety and flexibility has been the key to the growth of the Institute since its establishment in 1963, and one of the factors in the increasing prominence of the University of Richmond as an institute of higher education. If you would like to know where to go when you want to change an organization , call Area Code 703, 358-8401 and let your university help you .

1972-73 ManagementDevelopmentSeminars

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Computer Oriented Management Information Systems Conditions for Human Effectiveness Developing the First Line Supervisor Seminar for Career Women Transactional Analysis: A Tool for Better Management Management by Objectives Teacher/Instructor Development Financial Analysis, Management & Control Performance Appraisal & Productivity Levels of Human Existence Managing Management Time Personnel Management in a Non-Union Company Power Dynamics in Organizations Work Simplification Workshop Managing Management Time Developing the First Line Supervisor Managerial Goal Setting and Motivation

Robert Hagin M. Scott Myers Martin Broadwell Dorothy Jongeward Dorothy Jongeward Arthur Beck, Jr. William Snow Henry Kester Marion Kellogg Clare Graves William Oncken, Jr. Charles L. Hughes Warner Burke Allan Mogensen William Oncken, Jr . Martin Broadwell Charles L. Hughes

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$150 $175 $150 $150 $150 $200 $120 $150 $175 $150 $175 $150 $175 $200 $175 $150 $150

DATE Oct. 12-13, 1972 Oct. 16-17, 1972 Oct. 25-26, 1972 Oct. 30-31, 1972 Nov. 2-3, 1972 Nov. 8-10, 1972 Nov. 13-15, 1972 Nov. 16-17, 1972 Dec. 4-5, 1972 Dec. 11-12, 1972 Feb. 12-13, 1973 Feb. 19-20, 1973 Feb. 26-27, 1973 March 5-7, 1973 May 1-2, 1973 May 14-15, 1973 May 29-30, 1973

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Slight Praise of the University"

June 1972 Commencement Address by Dr. Edward J. Boling, President The University of Tennessee ,

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he commencement address may be a relic of another age. The speaker has potentially three audiences and, frequently, none. He can address the students, but they didn't come to hear him and may tune out. Parents , relatives, and friends are usually a more responsive audience , but likely to be slightly euphoric and camera happy. He could direct his remarks to the faculty but their professional expertise covers so many areas that it may be difficult to find a common language or interest. Those of us who find ourselves at commencement together may have few shared interests, so the commencement speaker usually talks about "life" or "society," or "education" or "success." It occurs to me that we do all have one common interest, and that is the university . Not education, nor culture, nor the attainment of a particular degree, nor the interest in a particular university-but simply the idea of a university and its meaning is our bond. I'd like to offer today a six minute "summa cum laude ," a slight praise of the university. You know, of course, that a freshman enters the university in the empty greenness of ignorance and naivete and emerges four years later robed in the . somber black of knowledge, professionalism, and wisdom. Actually, the first week of freshman classes is enough to shatter that dream! If we learn anything at all in our university experience it is to wear these black robes casuallyknowing that the scholarly traditions they represent are those of study rather than achievement. A scholar is a man who knows what it is he doesn't knowsometimes! Even in this age of sophisticated youth, it is not uncommon, I think, for a student to enter the university with some vague expectation of "being educated" by some mysterious power or process which resides within the university. He finds his most difficult early assignments are reading the catalogue and standing in registration lines. Then the learned doctors proceed to waste his time

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by carefully defining their pet technical terms rather than immediately giving him the answers to all the burning questions. He discovers that some of the professors are confused-and that they don't agree among themselves. Then when he finds that the administrators don't even know the burning questions, he may begin to wonder what it is he is supposed to be doing here. Too many arrive at that question and never go on to work out an answer. Some never understand what a university is and what it is not. I come to offer slight praise for the university-to make some claims for it and to deny some claims on it. First, the university is not so much a teaching institution as it is a concentration of resources for learning. Human resources, with minds highly trained in special disciplines, and material resources, such as books, films, records and lab equipment, are combined in physical facilities hopefully designed for accessibility. The ideal, at least, is a vast array of learning resources concentrated in time and space for faculty and student use. It may be that anything available in a university is also available somewhere else. If you knew where to find it all, you could have stayed at home! Second, the university is not so much a community of eager scholars as it is a city with all kinds of inhabitants-each chasing his own rainbow. Some are searching for themselves-or for someone else! Some are searching for love, or for adventure, some for danger, some for glory, some for an escape from responsibility, some for a chance to try their abilities against the challenge of today's real and pressing problems. The fact is, few students are serious scholars. (Remembering that a scholar knows what it is that he doesn't know, some might define a student as one who doesn't want to know anything that's not required for a passing grade.) And much as I hate to be the one to break this news to you, few of the faculty are Renaissance men! Most have focused their energies within their discipline to the point that they may be as ignorant as administrators in other areas! The resulting campus community is full of a variety of lifestyles, interests, and causes. This special cultural mix is

one of the truly educational aspects of university life. And the university does have, I believe, in higher proportion than other communities-men who have developed a rational philosophy, who have achieved some degree of wisdom along with their studies, who have achieved a personal balance and style which enriches the lives they touch . Third, the university is not a political organization to be used as a lever for pushing changes in government and society, but it has always been on the leading edge of the ideas which shape our world . And ideas, right or wrong, are the most powerful agents of change. I'm afraid the popular push of the past few years to use the university as a power base to force changes has actually diminished the influence of the university community in the larger society. The university is a dependent institutioneternally asking alms, begging indulgence for its unorthodox members and ideas, struggling for its own survival. As such it has no power base. And, individuals within the university have much more weight if their positions represent the personal convictions of thoughtful and conscientious men, rather than an emotional crest of popular sentiment. And further, the university as an entity has no moral right to impose any idea on any of its members except the idea of maintaining free and open inquiry. The benefit to any member of the academic community is the exposure to many points of view with the right to freely choose his own position . The university experience-completed, achieved, and hung on the wall in the form of a diploma-is not an education. But the university deserves more than faint praise if it can stimulate three things: ( 1) An eagerness to hear and weigh new ideas, or to put old ideas together in viable new patterns; (2) a feeling of competence to reach personal goals; and ( 3) the building of a rational and integrated personal philosophy. And those who are able to use their campus experience to make a beginning on these tasks have used the university well. I hope you have used the University of Richmond well and I wish for you a challenging and productive future.

New Facility Brightens UR Basketball Prospects By Leonard Alley, '72

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new optimism is apparent at the University of Richmond. Coach Lewis Mills expects a definite improvement in the Spider basketball fortunes in the 1972-73 season. Part of the reason is an added year of experience for the squad. Part is the fact that, for the first time in years, the Spiders will have a home court on campus. The new $10 million University of Richmond Athletic Center will be ready for the opening game. Seating 10,000, the facility will fill a long-existing need-an on-campus multi-purpose facility which can be used for basketball games, giving the students a chance to see their team without the time and expense of travelling into the city. Of those returning, Jeff Snider, a 6-10 center who showed tremendous improvement in his sophomore year, will be one of the major reasons for an optimistic view of the season. He led the team in scoring (275 points) and rebounding (181), finishing with an 11.5 scoring average and a 7.5 board mark. Added experience will come from Mike Anastasio (8.9) and Roger Hatcher (8.1), neither of whom showed up too well throughout most of last season, but who in late season games, revealed some of the form that made them outstanding prospects. Bob Jacobs (12.8) was one of the top scorers until he was injured midway through the season and should help to

carry some of the offensive load again this year. Gus Collier (10.5 points, 7.2 rebounds) was a pleasant surprise, exhibiting much hustle, helping in the rebound department, and at times adding some scoring punch to the Spiders. Three spot players return-Joe Dauses (3 .5), Ray Amann (5.9), and Carlton Mack ( 4.3). Among the newcomers, Aaron Stewart, who will not be eligible until the second semester, should prove himself an outstanding addition to the Spider five. The former Essex Community College star was a first team Junior College All-American in the 1970- 71 season, leading all JC players with a 36.7 scoring mark . Although outstanding on offense, his defense may even be superior. Mills, in his tenth year at Richmond, will also be leaning heavily on three sophomores up from last season's freshman team-Dave Williams ( 18.4 points, 7 .6 rebounds), Steve Catlett (14.0 points), and Barry Taylor (13 .2 points). Each had a fine freshman season, although Taylor missed much of the year due to a knee injury which required surgery . Once again, the Spiders will play a tough schedule. In the opening game, Richmond meets Maryland, the defending NIT champions. Other non-conference foes are West Virginia, Villanova, Duke, George Washington, Canisius, and Virginia Tech.

Jeff Snider, tall and talented Spider basketballer will be looked to for leadership and scoring .

10,000 seat Athletic Center to open December 2 with UR vs . Maryland basketball game.

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National Alumni Council to SBA and Law Representativesin LeadershipPositions

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he chief auditor at Richmond Corporation and the Circuit Court Judge of the Third Virginia Judicial Circuit have been elected temporary chairman and vice chairman of the newly formed University of Richmond National Alumni Council. David L. Burke, B'62 of Richmond and Hon. Ligon L. Jones, L'42 of Hopewell, will serve in temporary leadership until a constitution and by-laws can be approved. Burke is the immediate past president of the School of Business ¡Administration Alumni Association while Judge Jones is the current president of the Law Alumni Association. The National Alumni Council is composed of two members from each of the alumni organizations representing Westhampton College, Richmond College , School of Business Administration and The Law School.

1972-73 Membership Westhampton College Mrs . Richard P . Stone, '41 Mrs. David Burbank, '50 Richmond College Otis L. Brown, '56 Robert L. McDanel, '47 School of Business Administration Michael K. Ryan, '61 David L. Burke, '62 The T. C. Williams School of Law Ligon L. Jones, '42 L. Shields Parsons, Jr., '42

The Alumni Council will work toward the goal of fostering increased cooperation on various alumni projects. Its for-• mation will in no manner change the present structure maintained by the various divisional groups. Rather, it is hoped that its existence will enhance the pro-

grams offered by the several organizations . ~t the first meeting of the Council Dr. E. Bruce Heilman spoke briefly but earnestly about the importance of having a coordinating alumni body on campus . L. Shields Parsons, a well-known Norfolk attorney, was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws for consideration by the group. There was lengthy discussion of future Council membership for alumni representatives of the Graduate School , University College and the Spider Club and decisions will soon be made on that question . In a letter to his fellow Council members, temporary chairman Burke called on them to insure that the Council becomes an important part of the University community. He cautioned them against the possibility of allowing it to become an ineffectual debating society.

Michael K. Ryan, 8'61, ponders a point during the first National Alumni Council meeting. He is the president of the SBA alumni organization.

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Coordinate Activities

Temporary Chairman David L. Burke , 8'62.

Temporary Vice Chairman Hon. Ligon L. Jones, L'42

Mrs. Richard P. (Mamye O'Flaherty) Stone, WC'41, Westhampton Alumnae Association dent.

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Six Receive Honorary Degrees The University of Richmond conferred honorary degrees on its provost , a trustee, one of the South's outstanding scholars, two Baptist pastors and a Baptist lay worker at commencement June 5. Provost Robert F . Smart, who retired in June, and Dr. William Tyler Haynes, a university trustee and emeritus professor of MCV, received the honorary Doctor of Science degree . Dr. Louis D. Rubin Jr. , professor of English at the University of North Carolina , received the Doctor of Letters degree ; and Mrs . Camilla W. Lacy of South Boston , a Westhampton College graduate and lay worker in the Baptist denomination , received the honorary Doctor of Humanitie s degree. The Reverend Mr. Raymond L. Spence , Jr., pastor of Richmond 's Second Baptist Church; and the Rev. Mr. 0. Edwyn Luttrell , pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., each received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Smart , a native of Tyro, Miss., joined the University of Richmond faculty in 1929. He served on the faculty until 1957, when he succeeded the late Raymond B. Pinchbeck as Dean of Richmond College. He was elevated to Provost in 1967. Dr. Smart won accolades for his service on the Henrico County School Board as chairman and member, and for his prowess as a scientist. He served as president of the Virginia Academy of Science, and the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research. , Dr. Haynes, who was head of the department of Orthodontics at the Medical College of Virginia from 1943 to 1968, is an alumnus member of Phi Beta Kappa national scholarship fraternity . He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists and a past president of the Southern Society of Orthodontics. l-{e is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthodontics.

Rev. Spence

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Dr. Rubin

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., son of the late Louis Rubin, Richmond's amateur weather forecaster, graduated from the University of Richmond in 1946 with the B.A. degree and went on to The Johns Hopkins University to earn the M.A. and Ph.D . degrees. He was editor of the Johns Hopkins Review from 19 50 to 1954, and served the following two years as assistant professor of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania. He was associate editor of the Richmond News Leader 1956-57, then moved to Hollins College where he was professor of English and chairman of the department. Since 1967 he has been a professor of English at the Univ. of North Carolina. The Rev. Mr. Spence earned the B.A. degree at Louisiana State University and the B.D. and M.Div. at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been Pastor of Second Baptist Church in Richmond since 1962. Mr. Spence has served on the executive Board of the Richmond Baptist Association, and as president of the Richmond Baptist Pastor's Conference. Mr. Luttrell is a 1943 graduate of the University of Richmond, and won the B.D. degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1946. He returned to the University of Richmond 1950 to earn the M .A. degree . He served as associate pastor of Second Baptist Church in Richmond from 1946 to 1948, and then as pastor of Main Street Baptist Church in Emporia for three years . From 1951 to 1954 he was pastor of First Baptist Church in Baltimore, then for the next two years was pastor of Larchmont Baptist Church in Norfolk. He has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo ., since 1966. Mrs. Lacy, a 1923 graduate of Westhampton College, has been active in Baptist and civic work . In the years immediately following her graduation from college, she taught in two high schools , and served as superintendent of public welfare of Halifax County from 1934 to 1940. Mrs . Lacy was superintendent of the primary department of the Sunday School of First Baptist Church, South Boston, from 1924 to 1960. She has taught an adult class since 1961. She serves on the Religious Herald Board of Trustees, and was a member of the Baptist General Board of Virginia.

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Dr . Smart

Miss Walker, Always Happy and Helpful, Retires Winds howled, trees were felled, lightening flashed through the heavens and rain drenched the earth on the day that Ellena Walker came to the University of Richmond . The newly retired Placement Officer and Secretary to the Dean of Stude.nts at Richmond College recalls that Hurricane Hazel positioned herself at the University on the same day in 1954 that Miss Walker did . Undeniably, Ellena accomplished far more lasting good than Hazel did damage, and certainly this has been done with less hullabaloo . In fact , quiet efficiency and modesty characterize. the silver-blonde who was secretary for 14 years to Dr. C. J. Gray ( now Dean of Administrative Services). "Dean Gray believed in personnel services for students, and he taught me the philosophy of placement-everything I know about it. He permitted me to take an interest and grow in the field. I started by helping with minor aspects, such as the efficiency of a form. Gradually I began to help with interviews, correspondence and introductions. Then it grew into counseling. When he became the Dean of Administrative Services, I assumed the placement duties." She has held the post of Placement Officer for the past four years in addition to being secretary to Dean William E. Baker. Asked about the duties of the office, she searched for words. "That's difficult

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to describe. I think of the objective, and then the duties fall into place in particular instances. The objective is to help every senior in Richmond College, whether he plans to enter graduate school, business, teaching or whatever. "Through interviews, counseling and follow-up action I try to help them find their own sense of values. I can't stand the emphasis on big jobs, important titles. I think it's much more important to find a job that makes one happy because he is good at it and values himself. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to the latter in times of inflation, to say 'This job will give me $20 more a month than that one will.' "I try to help young men come to conclusions about their careers without telling them specifically which jobs I think are right for them. That decision has to come from them for happy adjustment. "The size of the University of Richmond is ideal for personalized help. It's extremely satisfying to hear from a large company's recruiter that we are not 'people factories' such as the larger universities tend to become ." The personalized touch lies in finding out .about the student, setting up appropriate interviews, preparing him for what will be expected, tactfully suggesting a haircut or change of casual uni. form to coat and tie. She smiles at this. "At first the longer hair presented a problem, because it coincided with unrest on college campuses across the country. But the company recruiters solved it wisely after they recognized it for what it was-a style rather than any evidence of character. They didn't mention it in the first interview. In the second they explained an interest in the young person and the conservative nature of their particular business. " Bill Baker was first known to Ellena as the highly magnetic and inventive president of sophomore and senior classes and as secretary of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. "Everyone loved Bill, even then. He was so clever and always arranging fun. He talks with the students and is close to them. "Dean Gray and Dean Baker are two totally different men, and both with such ability. Both men have achieved so much that is good. " Miss Walker was born in New York City and came to Richmond during her high school years which she spent at Collegiate. Her first job was as assistant in the Wither-Scott Top Knot Nursery School. She has been a social secretary, worked in advertising , publications, schools, health agencies and the State Department of Distributive Education. Before coming to the University of Richmond, she nursed her parents for seven years and did secretarial work from an office in her home.

Her retirement plans are set forth in priorities. "First, I'm going to rest, catch my breath. Then I'm going to visit my relatives up north. At the moment I will not allow plans beyond that. But I know I'll ultimately do something, perhaps some volunteer work. "My career here and in other fields has been wonderful. I've been luckier than

anyone I know, because I've always had good people to work with. It's been loads of fun." Those who have touched her life recently and in bygone days undoubtedly share a wish for Ellena Walker's retirement: may there be good people and loads of fun for a lady who IS a good person and loads of fun.

Library ReceivesAbbitt Papers

President E. Bruce Heilman of the University said that "we are privileged to have Rep. Abbitt's papers." The papers include documents relating to Democratic Party matters, papers containing voluminous accounts of the congressman's legislation in the field of agriculture; speeches , election files, school integration , and other miscellaneous matters. Rep. Abbitt began the practice of law in Appomattox in 1931 and served as commonwealth attorney for Appomattox County from 1932 to 1948, when he was elected to the 80th Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the late Hon. Patrick H. Drewry. He was reelected 12 times.

Congressman Watkins M. Abbitt of Virginia's Fourth District has given the papers, records and correspondence of his 25 years in Congress to the University of Richmond. Rep . Abbitt , who received his law degree from the university in 1931 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1965, will retire at the end of the current term . The first shipment of the papers-241 arrived at the cartons of them-have university library where they are awaiting filing and storage . The remainder of the papers will be sent to the university when Rep . Abbitt closes his office in Washington.

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Moms and Dads take a break while moving offspring into the dormitories .

Chris Goforth qualifies easily as an alumni ates . His mother is the former Joyce Robâ&#x20AC;˘ Goforth, RC'47. The Goforths live in Bowling<

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Fleshman . Both his parents are UR gradui.son, WC'49 and his father is Douglas B. ,reen, Va. Let's see now. Did I forget something?

Ellen Gwathmey, WC'72 has be~n commissioned as a missionary journeyman by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. She will teach English in Japan . Ellen was one of 66 Baptist college graduates who recently completed a 7-week training program prior to being commissioned.

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Familiar Figureto Remain in The Gown Room

Ted Thompson fits a student with a gown. The University's 650 gowns are his responsibility.

Each fall new seniors, pushed by the Wheeler didn't have to pursuade him to urgency to line up for the academic procontinue part-time in his role of cus cession, hurry into the basement of Boattodian of the gowns-it's a job he enjoys. wright Library minutes before the first Many students will remember Ted and convocation of the year and joined a line his competent handling of the gowns, of others in the hallway leading to the but practically none knew of his other exploits as a star catcher and third baseman gown room. There, Theodore R. Thompon the Royal Giants, a Negro baseball son, custodian of the University's 650 gowns, patiently fitted each of the scholteam in the pre-WWII days that earned ars and would-be scholars with the right semi -pro status. They toured the state and won their share of games. Ted challenged length gown and proper mortar board. the runners to steal second base. "I And so it has been each fall for 26 years for Theodore Thompson and a long threw 'em out without standing up," he line of students. And now Ted, as he is said, chuckling at the memory. When he affectionately known, is going to retire. wasn't engaged in playing baseball, Ted He has been employed by the university enjoyed hunting quail and other small for 33 years the first seven of which he game. was a custodian. Recently, he has served Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will travel a as the able superintendent of the cus- , bit now, he said. He has a brother in St. todial staff, making his rounds of the Louis and a sister in Washington and university to be sure everything is neat he'd like to see them. and clean and in order. There will be many who will miss Ted. He'll be 68 on Oct. 12 and is ready to But whenever a convocation is called, be relieved of his burdens, but admitted he'll be there quietly and carefully fitting to "a few tears" when he thought of parteach senior. ing with the university. That is why Dr.

Informal, Non-CreditClassesBegin Topics ranging from the issues of the 1972 presidential campaign to the moonlight-and-magnolia image of the South are being discussed in three informal evening classes for adults this fall. Contemporary political problems, Virginia authors and modern Southern writers are being offered through the Program in Continuing Education in the Arts and Humanities. The new program's courses carry no credit; they have been planned in response to an increasing demand from citizens in the Richmond area wishing to gather and discuss informally subjects of topical and intellectual interest. All classes are meeting in the Modlin Fine Arts Center ·on the West End campus. Dr. Gerald Wells is the new director of the Continuing Education Program. Alumni are encouraged to review the following list of potential subjects. Check your preferences and mail the completed form to The Alumni Office, P .O. Box 128 , University of Richmond, Va. 23173.

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I. Education D Speed Reading D Building a Better Vocabulary • How to Study D Improved Writing of Reports Correspondence

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Creative Writing Practical Speech-Making Effective Business English Use of the Library How good are our public schools? New Math for Parents Other (Please specify)

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Travel in Virginia Culture of the Pacific Isles Modern Europe Conversational French Conversational Spanish Conversational German Photography Rare Books Antiques Other (Please specify) III. Literature

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What is your teenager reading? Children's Literature D The American Small Town in Literature D Mark Twain's Later Years Selected Shakespeare Tragedy: Past and Present D Contemporary American Poets The Film as Art Other (Please specify) IV. Art and Music

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Studio painting D Studio drawing Modern directions in art

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Art history Classical Music Appreciation Recent directions in pop music Folk guitar Basic singing for the chorister The American ballad tradition The play and the audience Other (Please specify)

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So You're Retiring Investing for Laymen The European Common Market Fundamentals of Ice Hockey Arm Chair Professional Football Understanding Professional Basketball Fishing in Virginia Ecology for Laymen The Drug Culture Home Gardening Other (Please specify)

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I would be able to take the courses if they were offered in the _____ _ morning; afternoon; ______ evening. I would prefer the courses be held at:

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West End Campus of the University of Richmond Downtown Campus of the University of Richmond Other locations m the community (Please specify. _______ ),

International Congress of Dermatology, Venice , Italy , in May. In June he was made chairman of the Dermatolog y Section, Na ssau Hospital , Mineola, N.Y . Enders Dickinson , III was honored by the Richmond chapter of the American Institute of Plant Engineers for his action s during the Feb. 15 robbery of the We stwood branch of the Southern Bank and Trust Co ., Richmond. George Rochkind was reelected president of the Jewish Community Center, Richmond . His daughter graduated from the Univ. of Maryland in June .

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RICHMOND COLLEGE

1924 J. Bernard Bradshaw has retired , after 32 years of service with the Dept. of Justice in Wash. , D. C . 1926 James E. Carver has retired but continues as Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright Advisor at St. Andrews and as book consultant to the Student Center in Laurinburg, N. C. Dr. A . Stephen Stephan had the initial issue of The Arkansas Journal of Sociology dedicated to him. 1928 Rev. Pat E . Taylor is retiring as pastor of the Madison Ave. Baptist Church , Covington , Ky., after being pastor for 24 years. 1929 Andrew C. Britton has been elected to the board of directors of Metropolitan National Bank, Richmond. Clinton Webb , senior vice pres. and trust officer of First & Merchants National Bank, Richmond, recently retired after 40 years with the bank .

1930 Aubrey V . Kidd was reappointed to the Consumer Credit Study Commission by Virginia's Governor.

1942 Dr. Straughan L. Gettier was appointed to the faculty of the Midwest Institute for Human Understanding and director of the Youngstown , Ohio Pastoral Counseling Service. 1943 Dr. Wyndham B. Blanton has been named rector of the board of Visitors at Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond. 1944 Dr . Edward E. Bowden is a partner at the Interscience Research & Development C<:irp. as a laboratory manager in Tampa . 1945 Dr. 0 . Lawrence Burnette, Jr. has been appointed Dean of Faculty and Research Professor of History at Stratford College, Danville, Va . 1946 Arthur A. Palmer was promoted to trust officer in the Trust Div . at United Va. Bank, Richmond.

1932 Sam L. Elfmon, M.D. , had Aorta Coronary By Pass surgery last year and h ad to discontinue the practice of medicine . Lester W . Fallin's wife, Marion , died April 16 after a long illness.

1947 Dr. William K. Easley was appointed vice president for academic affairs at Marshall University, formerly a dean at Winthrop College.

1933 Edwin S. Cohen was nominated as undersecretary of the Treasury . He has been assistant secretary since 1969 and was a professor of Jaw at Univ. of Va. J. Spencer Gilmore has been promoted to vice chairman of the board and general counsel of Southern Title Insurance Corp . He is one of the founders and has served as president of the company since 1948 .

1948 William B. Pond has been named vice president at the Rockingham Nat 'l Bank, Harrisonburg, Va. Dr. James Roy Smith was awarded The Legion of Merit by the President for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services during the period June '62-June '72. Dr. Smith , a Chaplain (Col.) in the Army Reserve , has had more than 28 years of military service.

1934 Dr. Clarence E. Denoon , Jr. , vice pres. for corporate ventures at Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia , has assumed the additional responsibility for the Licensing Dept. and was named a director of the board . 1935 Charles W. Peterson has been named president and chief executive officer of Va . Mutual Insurance Co., Richmond. 1937 Dr. Fred T. Laughon, pastor of Fir st Baptist Church, Gainesville , Fla ., ha s been named special assistant to the director of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission in Forth Worth , Texas . The Baptist organization is one of the world 's largest producers of programs for religious broadcasting . 1938 S. Brooks Robertson was elected secretary of Va. Elec. & Power Co., Richmond. 1940 Arthur C . Beck , Jr ., assoc. director at the U . of R. Institute for Business and Community Development, recently co-authored a book entitled A Practical Approach to Organization Development Through MBO /Selected Readings . It summarizes many management concepts with which the Institute works. Rawley F . Daniel has been named vice president and secretary at United Va. Bankshares, Inc ., Richmond. Dr. David D . Dexter gave a paper on the treatment of Scalp Psoriasis at the 14th

1949 James 0 . Avison 's title has been changed from vice president for development of Grinnell College, to vice president for resources planning . Harvey R. Cooley has joined Linkhorn Associates , Inc ., a Va . Beach, Va. bonding and insurance agency, as vice president. William T. Luck , Jr. was promoted to branch officer of The Central National Bank, 'Richmond . Morton Marks , Jr. has been elected treasurer of the Institute of Business Designer s, a national trade organization. 1950 Dr. William J. Hargis, Jr., direct or of the Va. Institute of Marine Science, will be one of the principal investigators selected for earth observation experiments to be performed on the space agency 's manned Skylab space station next year. His project involves a study of Southern Chesapeake Bay circulation. Rev. Hammett N. Riner, Jr . is the new pastor of Biltmore Church , Glen Allen, Va. Rev. Aubrey J. Rosser was elected pre sident of the Alumni Association of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 1951 James B. Bourne, Jr. , president of Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Association, Richmond, has been elected first vice chairman of the Va. S. & L. League. 1952 Rev. Robert L. Boggs has accepted a call as pastor of First Church in Taylorsville, N .C.

Fred T . Thrasher was promoted to national sales manager of Virginia Maid Hosiery Mills, Inc. , Pulaski , Va. He was in charge of their New York office.

1953 Rev. Garvin C. Martin , former missionary to the Phillippines, has become pastor of Bethany Place Church, Richmond. 1954 Burton L. Bolton was one of 32 salesmen out of 1,000 recognized by the Upjohn Co. for outstanding achievement in 1971. Dr. Charles G. Fuller , pastor of First Baptist Church , Roanoke , has been elected secretary of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission's board of trustees, Fort Worth, Texas. Thomas Hicks Markley was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons of the Episcopal Church in June. 1955 Lt. Col. Don N. Ander son is a recent graduate of the National W ar College , Fort Lesley J. McNail in Wash. He is now assigned to Ubon Royal Thai Air Forces. Dr. William D. Deep ha s been made a fellow of the American College of Physicians , an international society of specialists in internal medicine. Dr. Madison R. Price attained Fellowship of Academy of General Dentistry ; elected to Executive Council Va. Dental Assoc .; elected president Va . Society of Dentistry for Children ; assistant clinical prof. Pedodontic s at VCU-MCV School of Dentistry and has a private practice of dentistry in Newport News. Va. Frank E . Resnik was appointed director of the research center operations in Philip Morris Inc. 's Richmond operations . 1956 Melvin M. Scott, Jr. is employed by GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Ma ss. and is presently acting as project manager in a laboratory consolidation . 1957 Montie R . Orr wa s named headmaster of Hatcher Memorial Academy , Richmond . He was formerly principal of Battlefield Park Elem . School , Mechanicsville, Va. Dr. Roy K. Patteson, Jr. resigned as president of Southern Seminary Junior College to become director of development for Mary Baldwin Col1ege. Donald B. Vaden , vice pre sident of First Mortgage Corp ., Richmond , as been elected president of the Va. Mortgage Bankers Assoc . for 1972 . Will E. Wade , Community Development Speciali st for Univ . of Mi ssouri Extension Division , had conferred on him Murray State Univ.' s highest degree , Ed .S. in August. He maintained an A academic record except for one B. 1958 Harvey J. Michelman received the New York Conservative Party's nomination to run for Congress in the 20th congressional district against William Fitts Ryan and Bella Abzug . Rev . Martin Linwood Whitmer participated in the first Ecumenical ProstestantCatholic Seminar in Rome , Italy from June 24-July 7, which included a n audience with Pope Paul VI. After the seminar he and his wife traveled to Gottingen , Germany where they visited with Sabine l.eibholzBonhoeffer , the sister of the martyred German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 1959 Rev. Clifton S. Collins wa s elected president of the Murfreesboro , N. C. Exchange Club for 1972-73. 1960 David W . Lee has accepted the call of First Church in Winchester , Va. as pastor.

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1961 Dr. Watson E. Mills has completed another book: Speaking the Truth in Love -A Professor Looks at the Gospel . Dr. Charles E . O'Rear has been named director of the Forensic Science Bureau of the Division of The Consolidated Lab . Services. He will be responsible for developing full crime lab services to state and local law enforcement agencies, including drug analyses. 1962 John A. Clayton was selected to appear in the 1972 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. Rev. Harold C. Lewis is the pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church in Hurt, Va . Michael Morchower is engaged in the practice of law in a partnership under the firm name of Ott & Morchower, Richmond. William E. Russell is assistant directorsocial services for the City of Virginia Beach. He also has a T.V . program on marital problems. 1963 R. Baxter Griffith, Jr. is an agent for State Farm Ins. Company , Alexandria, Va. Hunter B. Spencer, Jr. was promoted to director of sales training and development at A. H. Robins Co., Richmond. 1964 Garth Baldwin recently joined the field audit staff of Blue Cross of Virginia. Maxwell G. Cisne was named Spark Plug by the Richmond Jaycees Chapter. Stuart B. Medlin received a graduate assistantship from William & Mary to complete his doctoral studies. Rev. Wesley R. Monfalcone received the M .Theo. degree from Southern Sem . Dr. Rudolph L. Raymaker completed his residency in internal medicine and entered private practice in Nassawadox, Va. Terry M. Welborn is co-author of Leading the Mentally Retarded in Worship to be published this fall by Concordia Publishing House. 1965 H. Gray Broughton was named the Director of the Year by the Richmond Jaycees. ¡ Stephen S. Carpenter has been promoted to personnel director of the Clifton ForgeWaynesboro , Va. Telephone Company . John F. (Jack) Carroll, III has been promoted to vice president of Nationwide Homes of Martinsville, Va . Jonathan A. Hawkins was promoted to vice president at The Bank of Virginia , Central, Richmond. Reginald N. Jones became a partner in the law practice with E. E. Willey, Jr., Richmond. Dr. Richard Marks is assistant professor of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark. Dr. Wayne K.. Talley received his Ph.D. in Econ . at the Univ. of Kentucky. He has joined the faculty at Old Dominion Univ. Stanley C. Tucker, M.D. has begun a Fellowship in Cardiology at MCV. 1966 Rev . James Donald Campbell, Sr. received the M.Divinity from Southern Seminary. Dr. James W . Davis received his pharmacy degree in '67 and M.D. degree in '71 from MCV; completed his internship at the Univ. of Ala. Medical Center and has entered the Ala. Medical Center to begin resident studies in surgery. He is married and has two children. Chri stopher M . Sieverdes has accepted a position in the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the Univ. of N.C. at Wilmington. He and his wife, Jo, have moved into a new home there. Capt. Edward M. Tomlinson has received

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his third through fifth awards of the Air Medal and the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal.

1971 Joe Talley served as the assistant to the chaplain at Eastern State Hospital, Williamsburg, Va. during the summer.

1967 Richard H. Carlton has joined the Richmond advertising firm of Brand-Edmonds-Bolio as an account executive. Capt. Fitzhugh L. Godwin, Jr. recently received the Army Commendation Medal in Korea for meritorious service. He is now serving as assistant Army Staff Judge Advocate with Headquarters Co., 8th Army, near Seoul, Korea. Walter Terry Owen has accepted a coaching job at Blairs Junior H.S., Ringgold, Va. Kenneth L. Younger was named president of Inta-Rota Inc., Richmond.

1972 Stephen C. O'Hara is working toward his MBA at Rutgers Graduate School of Business and is president of the Class of 1973. Lt. Phillip H. Skvens, Jr. recently completed a nine-week infantry officers basic course at Ft. Benning, Ga.

1968 Lynn A. Blue received the Master of Church Music from Southern Seminary. Frank Henry Frye received a JD degree from the College of William & Mary. Thomas J. Harris was promoted to branch officer at The Central National Bank, Richmond. Capt. Peter B. Shaw received the Army Commendation Medal at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas last Spring. 1969 Paul Bradshaw received a Master in Psychology of Religion & Education from Princeton; was a therapist at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and Eastern State School & Hospital; was offered a fellowship from Houston Medical Complex to work with counseling the terminally ill; worked under a Rockefellow Foundation Grant to write a new training program in leadership development for the BSA; directed experimental run of this program at Schiff Scout Reservation, the National Education Center for the BSA; evaluated the current program at Philmont Scout Ranch and after return ing from a European vacation in Sept. became the Executive Director of a home for dependent and neglected boys in Gary, Indiana. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary conferred Master of Divinity degrees on Glenn Wayne Frith, Sidney Elmore Rodriquez and Jerry W . Turner, in May. Julian N. Holland, Jr. was promoted to assistant vice president at United Virginia Bank, Richmond. Russell L. Leonard, Jr. received his Ph.D. in industrial psychology from Ohio State Univ. Rev. Bob Raymond Melvin received the master of Divinity degree from Southern Seminary and has accepted a call to Hardy Central Church, Richmond. Sgt. John G. Metz, JI has been reassigned from Yokota AB, Japan to Whiteman AFB, Mo., where he will be attached to the 351 st Combat Support Group of the SAC. He formerly served as a Chinese Linguist in Japan. Rev. Donald R. Rhoton received the master of Divinity degree from Southern Seminary. 1/ Lt. William F. Roberts, Jr. recently was assigned to the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Davis L. Smith received the Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School in May. Rev. Jack N. Waddell, a June grad of Southern Seminary, has become pastor of Pleasant Grove Church, Chesapeake , Va . 1970 Roger L. Beck has been named director of public information of the Virginia Heart Association. Marvin B. Settle , Jr. received the Master of Religious Education from Southern Seminary. Carroll Herbert Walker , Jr. received a MBA from Rutgers in June.

Engagements 1969 Woodliff L. Jenkins, Linda .Ann Pugh .

Jr. to Miss

1970 Lewis Clinton Barber to Miss Charlene Phillips. 1972 Jerry Stanley Deborah Lynn Mollen.

Plotnick

to

Miss

Marriages 1926 William 22, 1971.

B. Fitzgerald,

December

1965 William B. Early, Jr . to Miss Kathryn Suzanne Wright, September 2. 1971 Thomas Clifton Gibbs, Jr. to Miss Paula Gail Hammett. 1972 Ronald Andrew Malstrom to Miss Charla Bott Bjostad. Steven L. Nock to Miss Cynthia May Wornom. Lt. Michael McC. Wood to Miss Mary Jane Brooks.

Births 1960 Mr. & Mrs. J. Daniel Stevens, a son, Matthew Glenn, July 8. 1961 Mr. & Mrs. Carey E. Stronach, son, Howard Stanley, June I 1.

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1962 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Clayton , a daughter, Khristanne Karin, August 18. 1965 Mr. & Mrs. Reginald N. Jones, a daughter, Emily Reed, December 25, 1971. Dr. & Mrs. Wayne K. Talley, adopted a daughter, Heather Wynn, born April 24. 1966 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Sieverdes, a daughter, Ann Carol, July 1.

BUSINESSSCHOOL 1950 Robert G. DuVal was elected president of the Southwestern Louisiana Association of Phi Beta Kappa. David 0. Williams, Jr. was appointed senior tax attorney at Bethlehem Steel. 1955 J. Wiley Bragg was named public affairs manager of Humble Oil & Refining Co's central marketing region headquartered in Memphis. Robert Mason Tunstall was promoted to manager, product services at John Deere Dubuque Tractor Works, Iowa. 1957 Major George R. Poor recently received the Meritorious Service Medal at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz . He also holds two awards of the Bronze Star Medal and two awards of the Army Commendation Medal. 1959 Arthur Backstrom, Jr. was promoted to a vice president at First & Merchants National Bank, Richmond. 1961

Kenneth E. Cousins was promoted

to assistant to the treasurer at Robertshaw Controls Co., Richmond.

1963 Louis J. Matt, Jr. is exchange sales manager with WHC, GMBH brokers for 47 U_.S. <=:orporations in Ce~tral Europe . He hves m both Germany and Austria where he, his wife and four children all enjoy alpine skiing as a family unit. 1964 Dennis M. Rozum is regional manager for Pillsbury in Buffalo, N.Y. 1966 Carl E . Mangum was recently promoted to tax manager in the Newark office of Price Waterhouse & Co. 1967 John W. Andrews is a junior at Stetson Law School in St. Petersburg, Fla. He reports two children. Capt. Robert A. Stobie is stationed at the AFPRO, Hughes Aircraft Co ., Tucson. 1968 Eldridge C. Hamm Jr. has received the Distinguished Instruct~r Award from !he Quarterm~ster School, Ft. Lee, Va. and 1s now an assistant professor of business at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Va . Lt. Franklin C. Heim recently completed a medical supply and services course at Brooke Army Medical Ceriter, Ft. Sam Houston. 1969 Allen C. McGehee won the Jaycee of the Year award by the Richmond Jaycees Chapter. Stuart M. Statham graduated from 9eorgia State Univ. in Aug. with an MBA m Management. He will be inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma in Feb.-'73 and has been selected for appointment in the U.S. Treasurer Dept. 1971 Larry Brown was elected treasurer of the Richmond Jaycees Chapter. Lt. Richard L. Wyatt recently completed a nine-week air defense artillery officer basic course at Ft. Bliss, Texas. 1972 Moffett Skinner is working toward his MBA at Rutgers Graduate School of Business.

Engagements 1969 James Otis Lowther, Susan Elizabeth Campbell.

Jr. to Miss

1972 George Robert Barkley, Jr. to Miss Deborah Kay Lovern. John L. Coleman to Miss Dulcie Murdock . Chelton Todd Givens to Miss Pamela Anne French .

Marriages 1955 Mistr.

Ted Roy Buckner to Miss Josephine

1968 Ray Timothy Collings to Miss Alice Christine Matthews.

Births 1964 Mr. & Mrs . Dennis M. Rozum a daughter, Kristin Elizabeth, Nov. 18, 1971. 1966 Mr. and Mrs . L. Herbert Apsley a daughter, Elizabeth Anne, Jan. 12. ' 1967 Capt. & Mrs. Robert A. Stobie, a son, James Robert, Jan. 30.

LAW SCHOOL 1927 Ju_dge Herman A. Cooper, Richmond Pohce Court, Part II retired Sept 5 after a judicial career of' more than ¡ 35 years.

1936 J. Spencer Gilmore, a founder and president since 1948 of Southern Title Ins. Corp., has been promoted to vice chairman of the board and general counsel. 1961 Harvey J. Michelman received the New York Conservative Party's nomination t? run ~or . Congre_ss in the 20th congress10nal d1stnct, agamst William Fitts Ryan and Bella Abzug. 1962 Roger G . Hopper , a Saluda, Va. lawyer, was appointed commonwealth's attorney for Middlesex Co., Va . He has been town attorney for Urbanna, Va. for nine years. 1965 ~ichael Mo~chower is engaged in the practice of Jaw m a partnership under the firm name of Ott & Morchower , Richmond. John Page Rawlings has established the firm ?f Rawlings_ and Wood for the general practice of law m Ri.chmond with William C. Wood, '66. 19_66 W~Iter A. McFarlane has been appomt~d Chief Counsel for the Virginia Dept. of Highways. He will head a staff of seven attorneys and the activities of 50 law firms locat~<;I. throughout Virginia in property acqms1t1on for the department. John Williamson Moore III has become a partner in the law firm ~f Williams Mullen & Christian, Richmond . ' Capt. Barry P. Steinberg recently received the Bronze Star Medal in Korea for distinguishing himself through meritorious service against hostile forces in Vietnam. William C. Wood has established the firm of ~awlings and Wood, for the general practice of Jaw in Richmond with John Page Rawlings, '65. 1967 Grayson ~ - _Sand}'.,.~r. is deputy county attorney ( cnmmal d1v1s10n)in Maricopa County , Ariz. 1968 Barry S. Comess was named to the staff of the Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney office where he will prosecute cases in Traffic and Police Courts. Reginald N. Jones became a partner in law practice with E. E. WilJey, Jr., Richmond . William K. Slate, II has been appointed clerk of t~e _4th 1!-S. Circuit Court of Appeals and 1t 1s believed that he is one of the youngest , if not the youngest, to hold federal appellate clerkship. William E. Thomas, Jr., Burke , Va., is employed as a trial attorney for the General Services Administration. 1970 Darden E . Daniel has transferred from the Individual Income Tax Branch to the Corporate Reorganization Branch of the Internal Revenue Service in Wash., D .C. Cpt. Fitzhugh L. Godwin, Jr. recently received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in Korea. He is now serving as assistant Army Staff Judge Advocate with Headquarters Company , 8th Army, near Seoul, Korea . C. Kent Trible is now associated with the Virginia Attorney General's Tax Division Office. 1971 Aubrey M. Davis was named to the staff of the Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney office where he will prosecute cases in Traffic and Police Courts.

Births 1968 Mr. ~ Mrs. Reginald N. Jones, a daughter, Em!ly Reed born Christmas Day 1971. ' '

ALUMNI DIRECTORY (It will soon be a reality) . Ever wondered how many UR grads live your town or the town to which you are about to move? You'll soon be able to know-and other things too. The _ fast complete University-wide alumni directory 1s presently being prepared. If you haven't completed and mailed your biographical data form, please do so now. in

Necrology Dr. Pierce Dies Dr. J. Stanton Pierce , a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of Richmond for 34 years before he retired in 1971, died at J ohnst '.m-Willis Hosti tal Saturday, July 22. He was 73. Dr. J. Stanton Pierce Dr. Pierce lived at 1899-1972 813 Roseneath Road , Richmond. A_native of Catlettsburg , Ky ., Dr. Pierce received his bachelor of science degree at Georgetown College in Kentucky and his doctor's degree at the University of Illinois. He came to the University of Richmond in 1937. and served here as chairman of the chemistry department from 1946 to 1953. Dr. P!erce was instrumental in setting up an evem_ng program of the graduate study of chemistry at the university . . The author of many articles in chemical Journals Dr. Pierce's research was devoted largely to the discovery of compounds important for their pharmaceutical uses. He held patents in various fields. ~r. Pierce was a member of many profess10nal o~ganizat~ons, including the American C~em1cal Society, on which he served as chairman of the Kentucky section and as a member of the executive committee of t~e \'irginia section. He received the Distmgmshed Service Award of the Virginia section . He was a member of the board of deacons of First Baptist Church.

Billy Nix Receives PosthumousAward Bill A. Nix, B'64 has received posthumous recognition from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for saving a small child from drowning and attempting to rescue another off Sullivan's . Island, S. C. in 1970. Nix (1964 WEB photo) Nix was fishing in . shallow water off the island on July 18 of that year when he saw Teresa E. _Williams, 11, of Charleston, S. C., caught m a current in the Atlantic Ocean. He swam 150 feet, reached the child in water 25 feet deep, and towed her to safety 1:(e was returning to save Teresa's 6-year-old sister , Tamela but sank before reaching her and both drowned.

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1900 Dr. J. Coleman Motley, a retired Abingdon, Va. surgeon, July 31, 1972. 1909 Rev. William M. Thompson of Culpeper Va., retired Virginia Baptist minister, March 15, 1972.

1941 James H. Donohue, III, an executive for Southern Biscuit Co., Richmond, August 26, 1972. 1943 John Edward Grigg, vice president and director of Realty Industries, Inc., Richmond, Va., June 21, 1972.

1911 Sidney E. Hening, retired YMCA executive and treas. of Home Mission Society of American Baptists , St. Petersburg, Fla.

1950 Julian T. Luck, Sr., branch manager Goodyear Service Store, Richmond, August 29, 1972.

1912 Dr. Charles Phillips Texas, November 1, 1970.

1952 Malcolm bridge, Va.

of Houston,

K.

Blackwell

of

1963 Pano J. Liatos, a Richmond attorney, July 20, 1972, of a heart attack.

1916 Rev. George T. Terrell, pastor emeritus of First Church in Norfolk, Sept. 24, I 971. P. Winfree Fore, retired businessman of Culpeper, Va., April 19, 1972.

1963 Glen H. Payne, III of Sandston, Va. was the victim of a shooting accident in April, 1972. A former asst. principal at Manchester H. S., he was a student at The T. C. Williams School of Law at the time of his death. 1970 Richard Edward "Dickie" Williams, III , July 23, 1972, in an automobile accident. He was from Victoria, Va.

1919 Rev. Llewellyn C. Northern of Richmond, retired Baptist minister, April, 1972. 1920 Frank L. Butler, Jr. Florida, Febrnary 10, 1972.

of Tampa ,

1921 Oscar C. Brown of Gainesville, Georgia, August 22, 1971. Virgil R. Goode, a Richmond lawyer, July 24, 1972. 1923 Rev. Duncan E. Murray, a retired minister from Christiansburg, Va ., August 2, 1972. 1924 Thomas M. Alderson of Lebanon, Virginia. Roger L. Mann, a Richmond real estate broker, June 9, 1972. 1925 John D. Brown of Memphis , Tennessee, October 5, 1971. Rev. H. Wark Curry, a Methodist minister from Norfolk, Va., 1971. 1927 Charles R. Gibson of Richmond, May 21, 1972. Jack "Jake" Kaminsky, violinist and conductor in Richmond , May 18, 1972. 1929 LeRoy Gillette Crenshaw, Jr ., president of Crenshaw Corp., Richmond, Va ., April 12. 1972. Irvin L. Enroughty, a retired assistant Counsel for Lawyers Title Ins. Corp., Richmond , June 27, 1972. ¡ 1929 Rev. Willard A. Irving, Jr., retired Baptist minister , Rustburg , Va. William Cameron Hope of Richmond, October 1, 1971. 1930

Charles J. Newell, Jr . of Aylett, Va.

1931

Martin 0. Haase of Richmond.

1932 Herbert 0 . Gates of Highland Springs, Va., Feb. 9, 1969. H . H. Dervishian, former member of the House of Delegates and Richmond City Council, Richmond , Va ., May 29, 1972. Philip Seldes of Richmond. 1933 Rev . Emmett H. L. Snellings , a retired minister and teacher from Calverton, Va., Aug. 3, 1972. 1937 Carroll F. Toler of Towson , Md., long time executive of Humble Oil & Refining Co., Feb. 23, 1972. 1939 David C. Rice of Richmond, vember 26, 1971.

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ESTATE GIVING Are Capital Gains Taxes Preventing You From Selling Your Appreciated Property?

Many people have real estate, stocks or other securities that were acquired at a cost considerably less than their current appreciated value. Furthermore, many times the income from these holdings could be greatly increased if they were sold and the assets were transferred to some other type of investment. Sometimes in the case of real estate, there is no income at all and in fact, there is a corresponding expense in taxes, upkeep, insurance, etc. The major problem facing many of those who hold such securities is that if they are sold, there would be a large capital gains tax to pay on the difference between their original cost and their present value. This tax would so substantially reduce the asset value that it would be undesirable to sell. Increasing numbers of smart investors are finding it extremely desirable to transfer such assets intact to a trustee such as the University of Richmond or a local bank in exchange for a life income . The trust of this nature, known as a charitable remainder trust, not only allows the donor to avoid all capital gains tax, implications on their appreciated securities, but also allows him to receive a large charitable contribution deduction on his income taxe in the year he makes the gift (up to 30% of his adjusted gross income) .

In addition, he receives a generous and steady income, usually considerably higher than he was obtaining from the securities he has given away and such a gift frees him from management and investment worries. For further information contact: W. PATTERSON, Ill Assistant to the President University of Richmond, Virginia 23173 (703) 285-6203 CHARLES

ALUMNAE CLUBS

Ken-

1914 Claude E. Leach, former hotel executive of Norfolk, Va., Aug. 21, 1971.

1917 Dr. W. Archer Bagley, a Richmond dentist, August 19, 1972. A. Ellis Baker, retired lawyer, Richmond, Va.

~~ Westhampton

PENINSULA ALUMNAE CLUB President, Mrs. George Bains, Jr. (Nancy Jane Cyrus '58), 143 Chancellor Road, Hampton, Virginia 23361.

Our club held its annual spring luncheon in April at the Colonial Restaurant in Newport News. The business agenda included the election and installation of Mrs . George Bains, Jr. (Nancy Jane Cyrus '58) as president. Other officers include Mrs. T. D. Foster (Jean Morris '63), vice president; Mrs. Robert Saund'61, secretary; ers ( Shirley Southworth Mrs. William A. Denton (Patricia Dabney '64), treasurer; and Mrs. D. W. Borger (Anne Higgins '47), historian. At this meeting we were pleased to hear three national alumnae officers speak on possible changes for the college resulting from the alumnae questionnaire. Discussing these changes were Mrs. E. Ballard Baker, national committee chairman for the evaluation of proposed changes at the college, Mrs. Richard P. Stone, president of national Westhampton Alumnae, and Mrs. R. Clifton Long, executive secretary of the national organization. New and returning students of Westhampton College were honored at an informal coke party on August 18 at the home of Mrs. Robert M. Saunders (Shirley Southworth '61). Mrs. T. D. Foster ( Jean Morris '63) was in charge of arrangements for this event.

RICHMOND ALUMNAE CLUB President: Mrs. Donald Falls (Elsa Queen '64), 1515 Helmsdale Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23233

The Executive Board of the Richmond Club held its first meeting of the year on June 22, 1972, at 8: 00 p.m. in the home of Elsa Queen Falls, president. Plans for the year's activities were discussed. On August 17, 1972, from 3: 30 until 5: 00 p.m ., the Club sponsored a Patio Party for Richmond area freshmen and transfer students. The event was held at the home of Barbara Moore Flannagan. October 12, 1972 is the date set for our covered dish supper. We will gather at River Road Baptist Church at 6: 30 p.m. The Richmond Men's Chorus under the direction of Ken Archer will provide a musical program. Other activities for the year include a get-together for new alumnae in the area,

sale of pecans headed by Ann Cosby Davis , and calendar sales under the direction of Em St. Clair Key. The annual spring luncheon for 1973 will be held at the Executive Motor Inn. The program will be a fashion show presented by Steve and Anna's. New officers elected at the spring luncheon held at the County Club of Virginia are: Mrs. Donald Falls-president; Mrs. David Burbank-1st vice-president and Mrs. Thomas M. Palmer-corresponding secretary. Mrs. James Paxton, appointed by the Executive Board, will serve as second vice-president.

TIDEWATER ALUMNAE CLUB President: Mrs. Edward L. Breeden, Ill (Marian Gates '59), 1601 Keswick Drive, Norfolk, Virginia 23518

On August 16, the lovely pool and sun porch of Mrs. Lewis Shulman (Gay Winslow '58) was the setting for the annual Back-to-School Pool Party for new and returning Westhampton students. The Club looks forward to a varied program this year beginning with a weekday coffee at 10: 30 AM on October 25 at the home of Mrs. Robert Callis (Ann Hanbury '54) in Virginia Beach. Thanks to the loyal support (financial) of many club members, the pecan order was increased to meet the growth in demand for nuts. The Club will continue to sell note paper and will add an additional money raiser, pocketbook calendars. The view of the year from the Tidewater vantage point appears interesting, educational, and prosperous.

R.F.1.W.C.R.

Miss Nannie Reynolds 2804 West Grace Street Richmond, Virginia 23220

Many of our members attended the inauguration last fall of Dr. E. Bruce Heilman as President of the University of Richmond. Hally Councill Carver, '05 and her daughter, Margaret, were present. It was their first opportunity to visit the Carver Room . They are grateful to the R.F.1.-W .C.R . alumnae and its friends with the results they had achieved in furnishing the room. To quote, "We can now envision the Carver Room." Recent additions are the framing of two specimens of the sixty five Chinese fabrics stored in the ancient Chinese chest in the room. Mrs. George M. Modlin is a member of the committee in charge of the Carver Memorial Room. Mary Hughes, '05, is its custodian. Mary spent the month of August as a guest of Mrs. Hally Councill Carver. Anna Newcomb Marston, '06 is making her home with her daughter in Wicomico, Virginia. In July she visited her classmate Uldine Vaiden Krug, '06 in Richmond. Mabel Walker is recovering from an acci-

dent resulting in a broken ankle. erine Stith Love, Olivia Gwaltney Stallings Our President, Clara Epps, '02 is recuperand Ruth Puckett Wysor. ating at home from a broken hip accident after spending two months in a local hospital. She is hoping that she and her walker Mrs. D. Jackson Kilby may be able to attend Homecoming in the '21 (Leonora Dorsey) fall. She is most appreciative of the "gifts 1222 Blue Ridge Avenue from her girls" on her 90th birthday while Culpeper, Virginia 22701 a patient. From Longview, Texas, Camille Northcutt writes how much she enjoys hearing from us through the U of R Magazine. She Catherine Little Dupuy, Katherine Spicer read of the visit of Agnes to Richmond, Edmonds, Cammie Robinson Hess and hushoping the members of the alumnae were band Bernard, Frances Vaughan Faglie, not in the storm's path. She tried to visualize , Theresa Pollak, Eliza Everett Darden, and locations recalling when in pairs "W.C. girls I were together at the Saturday luncheon were allowed to walk on Grove, Grace, and during Alumnae Weekend. Franklin Streets." The college was on 10th Eliza mentioned having been to Columbia, between Clay and Marshall streets. S. C. to visit her sister, Stuart. Frances Herring Swats has moved from Last fall Cammie and Bernard were in Richmond to Charleston, West Virginia to Spain and Portugal with a group sponsored be near her daughter. Her sister, Edwina by the Hagley Museum, and this year they Herring Dudley, is living at Imperial Plaza, enjoyed a three week tour of six Russian Richmond. cities. She saw an American friend, who is Several of the alumnae have joined the wife of the First Secretary of the West Friends of the Boatwright Library, as charGerman representation in Moscow. A trip to ter members. Eventually we plan to transthe valley of Virginia was for the purpose of fer our early records to the Library from searching out family history. Mary Hart Keller Hall. Some duplicates of our records Willis Winfrey was able to contribute to are already in its care. their research when they visited her immediDr. Heilman wrote on receipt of a copy ately afterwards. In Richmond they were of our Book of Remembrance; "Thank you visiting Virginia Newbill Snead. Virginia for sending me this book about the R.F .1.- had surgery in June and is recovering nicely. W.C .R. I have already perused it, but still Catherine Dupuy's biggest recent project read it with deep interest and with much was the classification of letters and other benefit in learning its history and of those notes from the desk of her late father, Rev. wonderful ladies who over the years have L. P. Little, and their delivery to the Virgone out to represent us proudly." ginia Baptist Historical Society, located on In a letter from Mrs. Modlin after the the U. R. Campus. In a brief organization luncheon given in honor of Dr. Modlin meeting of the Half-Century Club, Catherine and her, she wrote, "What the R.F.1.-W.C.R. was elected vice-president. Alumnae Association did for us will always Frances Faglie's solo drive back to Virbe remembered by us as a very special event ginia from Arizona in April was preceded of the closing days of Dr. Modlin's adminisby a coffee and recognition award for 240 tration. How can I begin to tell you how hours of volunteer service to the Phoenix much the beautiful gift and delightful chapter of the American Cancer Society. luncheon meant to us." Her route home included Blue Mountain, Belle Gayle Ellyson '09, vice president of Miss. to visit Virginia Lane whom she our alumnae, attended the afternoon recepfound busy with multiple volunteer activition, April 26, 1972, at Windsor, Richmond, ties. Virginia's summer trip this year was to Virginia, when alumni-alumnae authors of Texas rather than to Virginia. In June the University were honored by the Friends Frances' doctor brother died in his home of the Boatwright Memorial Library. Other town, Edenton, N. C. R.F.1.-W.C.R. alumnae who have published May Thompson Evans was in New York and whose publications are on the shelves in on Alumnae Weekend for a medical checkour room in Keller Hall and the Boatwright up and another good report. She and Ney Library are: Cassie Moncure Lyne R.F.I., have enjoyed some short trips. The North Ora Latham Hatcher '84 R.F.I., Annye Carolina State Office of Archives and HisAllison W.C.R., Bessie Hogg Ironmonger tory has sent May a copy of their official '07, Clara Becker Epps '02 W.C.R., Alice volume just placed in their stacks-"CollecBohmer Rudd '16 W.C.R., Maude Woodfin tion: Evans, May Thompson, Papers. "Phys'09 W.C.R. ical description states: 31 cubic feet (76 We will miss our friend, Judith Josephine Fiberglass boxes, 4 volumes, and 3 sound Tucker. Her life was an example of giving recordings), including correspondence, clipof self of which her loyalty to the Univerpings, notes, articles, periodicals, pamphsity of Richmond was a vital part. lets, leaflets, editorials, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous items .... " May says to be publicly boxed and labelled is a sobering experience-but if ever we cannot find her Gordon E. Barlow we can go to the North Carolina State '17 Mrs. (Gladys Holleman) Archives. Route 2, Box 165 Alice Williams Whitley is still at Round Smithfield, Virginia 23430 Hill. Her trip to Greece was flawless and exhilarating. Elizabeth Elsea spends the winters in ArOur class was represented at the Alumnae lington and the summer at the family home Luncheon in May by Florence Boston in Berryville. Decker, Margaret Michie Robinson and me. Ruth Henderson has Jived in the KnoxExpressions of regret were received from ville, Tenn. area ever since her retirement Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, Mabel Henas Director of the International Division of derson Crabtree, Anne-Ruth Harris, Florthe Girl Scouts of America, first in an apartence E. Smith, Catesby Willis Stewart and ment, later on a small farm where she now Ruth Elliott Trice. awaits an opening in a delightful retirement Our 55th anniversary gift from the class home. Before vision problems occurred she was presented to the Westhampton College enjoyed a trip around the world, with Girl Foundation in memory of our deceased Scouts contacts in many countries, and in members: Eleanor Marshall Decker, KathKnoxville the arranging of hospitality for

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foreign visitors to TV A. Currently she is helping raise funds for a memorial to a faculty member at the Buchanan (Virginia) Mountain Mission School which itself became a memorial to the devoted labors of Ruth 's parents and of Ruth herself . Gladys Lumsden McCutcheon does volunteer work at the Braille Library in Richmond . Mary Blackwell Hudnall spent some time at Davidson, N. C ., caring for her baby granddaughter when the baby's mother required surgery . Mary's son-in-law is a member of the Davidson College faculty. Inez Watkins Cluverius suffered a physical slowdown in May, but is recovering satisfactorily. My newest added duty is the superintendency of the Baptist Women's work in our Association .

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Mrs. Bartee E. Corprew (Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Horsepen Road Richmond, Virginia 23226

Since March , whenever two or more members of '23 have met, they were joined in sorrow at the passing of our senior class president , Josephine Tucker. None of us who shared her last visit to the college at Homecoming last fall will forget her brave cheerfulness, nor our dismay at her evident illness. No written tribute is necess ary here except to' say we loved her and we miss her. We should like to thank Mr. Nettles for his perceptive delineation of her life, work , and character in the latest U of R Magazine. While she herself lives in our hearts, and her boxwoods are green on the campus , we feel as a class that a more permanent memorial is fitting to honor her devotion to Westhampton. Therefore, at a called meeting of the class on Alumnae Day, we decided to sponsor the construction of a brick walk connecting North Court and Keller Hall. It will be marked by a granite slab inscribed "Memorial Walk " and her name. Many other alumnae and friends have shown an interest in our project, and the administration has been cooperative. We were disappointed that more members could not be present at this meeting , but the number of letters in response to the notices of it indicated your interest and loyalty . We were glad that Elmira Ruffin Bowen, who has been ailing for some months , felt well enough to attend . , Camill a Wimbish Lacy received our congratulations on her coming honors . The honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities , conferred on her at Commencement, was richly deserved for her service to her own church and to the denomination has been long and dedicated. _ Virginia Kent Loving was hospitalized for surgery, but she made a good recovery, and wa s soon back home at Granite Hills . Elise Davis Via expressed her shock and sorrow at Jo's death. It was good to have news of her , despite the fact that she said her husband has been home bound for some months following a stroke . Gl adys Nuckols Wood has been traveling this summer ; first to Mexico , and just now in Canad a . Other travelers are Virginia Epes Feild and husband , Jim, who are to be in England until October. Mildred Pulliam Stone's husband, Bob , has been ill, but is making a good recovery . Mildred Campbell Broome wrote about Jo, too, but with few details of her own recent activity. She did mention an Easter

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holiday trip to the estate of the Wedgewood pottery family . Louise Fristoe Arnold is still in New Jersey, and not yet in their retirement retreat "somewhere in the south." We were sorry to hear Leita Ellis Briesmaster had a 5Vz week stay in the hospital and hope all is well by now . At the Richmond Club luncheon in April, Ethney Selden Headlee had her three granddaughters as guests, and it was such a pleasure to meet them. Allyn, the oldest, is enrolled at Mars Hill; and both Kathy and Beth plan to attend Westhampton in due time . Their youth enlivened the time for Leslie Booker, Elizabeth Hill Schenk, Hannah Coker and me. Now a reminder that you are all privileged to attend Homecoming on November 10 and 11. That is a grand time to revisit the campus . It is so beautiful, and we have such a good time together that it is a highlight of the year. Also, we have a Jot to discuss, for , before you know it, 1973 will bring more important dates , April 27-28, our own Reunion. Do your subtraction and note its importance . We shall not have another Jetter until the Spring issue of the U of R Magazine, because the Odd-and Even-numbered classes alternate, but watch for a class mailing before that issue is out. Don't forget: November 10-11, 1972 and April 27-28, 1973.

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Miss Edith DeWitt 1527 North Decatur Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30307

We all share a feeling of loss in the death of Dee Kelly early this spring. Dorothy Knibb spent the winter in Malaga, Spain with a view of the Mediterranean from her apartment. She retired last year but is still called on occasion as a consultant in petroleum . Virginia McDaniel Cone came to Atlanta for a convention last fall and such a gab-fest we had! Mac has built a home in Mill Spring, North Carolina (near Asheville) on some acreage and is enjoying "settling in". I had a grand trip to San Francisco in May as delegate to the National Convention of the Red Cross . It was a real thrill being one of the 4000 or so men and women-all working together at trying to be a "good neighbor ". After the Convention I spent four more days in Pebble Beach with my brother and sister-in-Jaw. Please-news of you!!

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Mrs. Francis S. Burnham (Thelma Ferrell) 407 Tyler Place Alexandria, Virginia 22302

The following items I received from Helen Moon who is so thoughtful in sharing with me whatever information may have come her way . Mary Stevens Jones and her sister, Mildred ('25), spent the,month of May touring the British Isles. Mary Stevens has written some fascinating articles covering all the details of their trip for the Culpeper Star-Exponent. The Jones sisters also visited Mary Richardson Butterworth in Richmond during June. Mary entertained the Jones' along with Jimmie Stuessy Mattox, Caroline Beattie and Helen Moon at Ridgeway, her sum-

mer home in Dinwiddie. Helen's niece was married the early part of June. Mary and Jug Butterworth are travelling in Europe this summer, seeing Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries . Other recent travellers are Virginia Perkins Yeaman and her husband, Tom. They took the trip to Spain with the University of Richmond group. Claire and Hampton Wayt visited Thelma Pruden Stanton and her husband, Kemp, in February at their home in Venice, Florida where they are living in their retirement. Our warm sympathy goes to Jimmie Mattox whose mother died last fa]).

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Miss Margaret Leake 408 North Meadow Street Richmond, Virginia 23220

You are keeping your news and achievements very secret but here is some news of which we are proud. Selma Rothschild Mann, a volunteer for "Meals on Wheels" was rewarded for this and many other volunteer jobs by B'nai B'rith when it named her the 1972 recipient of the Sophie Stahl Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to both the Jewish and general community. Laura Thornhill was recently elected Member at Large to our Westhampton National Alumnae Board .

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Miss Gertrude B. Dyson 14 Malvern Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23221

Lost! Louise Dinwiddie Roberts. The last address we had was in the D.C. area, if any one knows, please contact the class secretary. Helen Travis Crawford toured the British Isles in May with her sister, while Etta and Henry Nachman enjoyed a trip to Spain and Portugal. Archie took the U of R trip to Mexico. Ann and Goody toured the Scandinavian countries in July. Elizabeth F. Burslem has moved to Cape Cod. Lucky!

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Mrs. C. Maury Tatum (Gladys Tilson Smith) 336 Lexington Road Richmond, Virginia 23226

Anna Hallett Sniffen's son has been ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church and has been assigned to a parish in Alaska, where he served during his student days. Mary Mills Freeman and her family were among those in Richmond affected by Hurricane Agnes. Mary and her daughter and movers were busy until the early hours moving furniture from the lower floor of their home near the James River. Our sympathy is extended to Otelia Francis Bodenstein and her family in the loss of her father. He was in his nineties and alert and active until a short time before his death. Lottie Britt Callis' son has a young son, and her daughter, Pat, was married a few months ago . Mary Pat Early Love and Sue Whittet Wilson heard the very excellent talk given at college by Mary Anne Guy Franklin. Rhea Talley Stewart's book, "Fire in

Afghanistan" is scheduled for publication in January. Because she will be in the midst of reading galley proofs, she will not go to Frankfort as she planned, but now hopes she may go to India later . Thank you all for your fine contributions to the Alumnae Fund.

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Mrs. James F. Peyronnet (Marion Miller) 1807 Aisquith Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

We missed you at our 35 Reunion! Only nine of us were present. Zipporah Gross Hoffer was there from Texas; Kitty Broyles Kerr from Michigan; Peggy Louthan Sheppard from Gloucester, Va. ; and Nancy Riley McFall from Front Royal, Va. From Richmond came Nancy Chappell Pettigrew, Margaret Mitchell Meador, Virginia Lee Priddy, Louise Thompson Chewning and I. We met in a private dining room at the Jefferson Hotel where the food and the conversation were excellent. We know why some of you were not present. Winifred Schenck was actively involved in working with the Florida Teachers Association. Jane Carroll Slusser could not leave her teaching. Jean Hudson Miller was visiting her son at the University of Colorado. Liz Angle was traveling abroad. Betty Pleasants Pitts was involved in a family wedding . Peggy and Nancy Riley were attending graduation exercises for the university. Their daughters received degrees from Westhampton. Shortly after graduation Nancy's daughter was married. Why don't you write news of your busy life so that I may include it in the next letter?

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Mrs. Thornton Stringfellow (Anna Marie Rue) 1131 Blue Ridge Avenue Culpeper, Virginia 22701

Our daughter Charlene was married July 15th. Lib and Ray Belcher and "Its" and Ed Slipek, with children Margaret and Tom Jack attended. The Slipek's son, Eddie, a senior at V.C.U., is editor of the college newspaper. The Belcher's son, Jim , a senior at Thomas Dale High School, is a member of the National Honor Society, attended Boy's State, was on the school tennis team last spring, and has just been named to "Who's Who in American High Schools." Lib reports that Mildred Howerton Jones' husband, Casey, has been named a vice-president of Hercules, Inc. They Jive in Wilmington, Del. "Its" says that Anne Woodward Courtney and Bobby have recently been to Europe. "Its" came to Culpeper another time with Mayme O'Flaherty Stone to a U. of R. dinner honoring Dr. Heilman at which time Mayme introduced Dr. Heilman. Virginia Omohundro Purcell came to visit one day when Harold had court here in Culpeper. The rain that fell turned into Hurricane Agnes and the Purcells couldn't get back to Louisa, so we had a great visit in spite of a flooded basement. Gin and Percy had recently returned from a trip to Portugal, Spain and Majorca. Their son, Charles, was on the dean's list first semester at U . Va., then had to go on National

Guard active duty in Fort Polk , La. He is back at U. Va. now. Margaret Brittingham Curtice was in Suffolk visiting her mother this summer. Their son, Jim, received his masters in special education and started teaching this fall. A note from Margaret Purcell Spindler from Detroit says that she was in Va. in May and saw Helen Dodd Driscoll . Margaret and Jack pl an to move to St. Augustine Beach in about a year. From Margaret's brother who lives in nearby Orange , I have learned that Margaret teaches physical education. She has had some back trouble and several operations and is looking forward to living in a warmer climate. Evelyn Cosby writes that as of July 1st she retired from the U.S. Government after 24½ years of service. She moved back to Richmond in late July and her new address is 511 W. 27th St., Richmond 23225 . She plans to work part time and enjoy her hobbies-china painting , historical research , and geneology. She also hopes to see many of her classmates and attend more Westhampton functions. Charlotte Dudley Patteson's son , Gary , has graduated from Williams College, and daughter, Anne Roy, from Hollins. Barbara Eckles Grizzard's son , Robert , received his PhD , and was married last December. Mary Owen Bass has completed a year as vice-president of the American Woman' s Club of 1060 members in Geneva. Their daughter, Mary Kay , is a tenth grader who has now had more schooling in Switzerland than in the U.S .A. Their son, Ken , is in a law firm in Washington . Previously he had served a clerkship for the late Justice Hugo Black. Connie Powell Luttrell's husband, Edwyn , was the Baccalaureate speaker at UR commencement and at graduation received the Doctor of Divinity degree. Jean Neasmith and Enders Dickinson both made the Richmond newspapersJean in a story about women in psychology , and Enders as a witness in a bank robbery who followed the robbers and turned them in to the police. Our Charlene and husband , Bob Grogg, are living in Richmond at Three Willows Apartments . Charlene, who received her masters in special education from U. Va ., is teaching at the Buford Academy. Our Patty is president of her senior class at Westhampton. The U . of R . has consolidated all of its college catalogues into one , and on the front cover of this year's is Patty's picture .

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Mrs. Robert Rogers (Maxine Williams) 5303 Dorchester Road Richmond, Virginia 23225

On April 27-28 we will be celebrating our 30th Reunion! Later in the year you will be hearing more of our class plan s, but be sure to mark these dates now so that we can all be together for the best reunion we've ever had. News of Pam Carpenter Henry : Noel , her oldest, graduated from Wheaton in Illinois. She is at present in Munich , Germany with her husband who has embarked on a 3 year graduate course leading to a PhD. Two other sons are at Le Tourneau in Longview, Texas enrolled in engineering courses. Juliette , aged 20, is a sophomore at The King's College, Briar Cliff Manor , New York. She planned to go to Kenya

for the summer with a group of student s to work at the Inland Africa Mission . Gwynn , 19, is a freshman at Bryan College in Tennessee. Pam h as 2 boys and 2 daughter s at home. Marguerite Shell Ritchie 's daughter , Bonnie, will enter Westhampton this fall. "Shell" ha s been appointed to the official board at First United Methodist Church and George has been named chief of psychiatry at Towers Hospital in Charlottesville, Va .

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Mrs. James D. Leland (Ann Twombly) Preston Hill Road Hamilton, New York 13346

Words of appreciation to Lillian Belk Youell who served admirably as our class secretary last year. The Youells ' younger son was graduated in June from V .M .I. , and hu sband, Mac, is now working for Tidewater Legal Aid as a "Po·✓erty Lawyer." We extend sympathy to Lilli an upon the death of her father. Wanda's newsy note was gratefully recieved-a postscript that daughter , Judy , ha s been working on a summer newspaper in Nags Head since her gradu ation from U. of Virginia this spring . The Pace s were planning a summer get-together with the Paulsons and other Richmond classmate s. So very thoughtful of Jane Wray McDorman to write after the difficult year she has had. George had a serious operation but has reacted well to therapy and is recovering nicely . Jane lost her mother this past year and we extend sympathy to her. Their daughter, Pat, presented them with a fine new grandson and Cathy was graduated with honors from Westhampton . Ruth Latimer reports that her health is fine and that she is full-time faculty once more, taking a few hour s out for golf , boating and politics. Madge Hender son enclosed a recent article written about her world travel s and her great interest in civic affairs . She is now president of the Richmond Area Retired Teachers Association. We are once more packing for our annu al visit to the Cape , so if I can find a friend to type this for me the Cl ass of '45 will make the U of R Magazine and I will enjoy my vacation .

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Mrs. C. L. Woody, Jr . (Susie Guard) Route 4, Box 45 Bassett, Virginia 24055

M ay 19th found thirty of us renev.:ing friendships at our twenty-fifth reumon . Those attending were Betty Tinsley Andrews, Bev Patton Browne, Carolyn M arsh, Marg aret Goode Vicars, Nancy Rich ardson Elliot , Gin Ellett, Alice Landi Reed , Marion Hu ske Moom aw, Anne Higgins Borger, Marie Walth all LeSieur , Jean Waldrop , Polly Jones Cousins , Sara France s Young Derieux , Beth Decker Kimb all, Betty O'Brien Yeat s, Betty Brown Parson s, Mimi Daffron Horigan, Izzy Ammerm an Allin, Howie Bingham Kiser (with daughter Melissa), Len a Thornton Small , Ollie Menefee Stirling , Marion Collier Miller , Carolyn Storm Patti , Mary Cox Andrews, Lois Reynaldo and I. And for the first time to return for a reunion were: Elsie Minter, Helen Connant

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Grinnell, Helen Chandler Shea, and Peggy Hawthorne Charlton. Helen and Peggy are neighbors now in Fork Union, Virginia. Betty O'Brien Yeats probably came the greatest distance, traveling from Detroit. A special thanks to the Richmond girls for their efficient planning and execution of the whole reunion. Saturday about twenty of us attended the Alumnae luncheon at Keller Hall, and also our class was well represented at the tea honoring Dr. Robert F. Smart. That evening the Richmond girls were hostesses to us and all available husbands (Hank, Jay, John E., Frank, John H., Dick, Dan, and Straughn-hope that's all). The dinner was held at the lovely home of Izzy and Jay Allin. Thanks girls for the great food and hospitality. Congratulations to Carolyn Marsh of our class for a FIRST. She has been elected to the University of Richmond's Board of Trustees for a four year term. Our deepest sympathy to Elsie Minter who lost her mother in February. Her mother and father had made their home with her since early last year. In January '71 Elsie adopted a 14 month old boy who "keeps Dad and me both busy, being charming and completely outgoing". Marion Collier Miller was busy showing grandchildren pictures at our reunion, both sons are married. Unable to attend but sending letters and pictures were Martha Edwards Allen, Dottie Hughes Frietag, Dottie James Foster, and Bobbie Rock Hardy. Dottie Foster had major surgery and was. still recuperating. The Allens had just returned from a family pleasure-business trip abroad. Distance and end of school year activities kept some at home. Please send a contribution to Mrs. John C. Horigan, 4640 Stuart Ave., Richmond, Va. 23226 to help defray the cost of our scrapbook. Mimi has done a great job on this and works hard to keep it up to date. A short business meeting was held Friday night and Mimi was re-elected our class president, Margaret Goode Vicars was elected our Alumnae Fund Chairman, and I will be your class secretary for the next five years if I can learn to be brief and concise. In August the Woody family of 4 spent a week with the Beth Decker Kimball family at their home on Fire Island, New York. A very lovely and different place.

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Mrs. W. B. Mccutcheon, (Lou Winn) 2014 Wilshire Drive Durham, North Carolina

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From Ida Patrick comes lots of news about '49ers in the Hampton area: Kaki and Warren's eldest, Kitty, graduated from Mary Baldwin in June and married Doug Faure in September. Their son, Phil, is a rising senior at Hampton High School. Young Pat Patrick, Ida and Woodfin's eldest, is a rising senior at U.Va., president of the senior class and of his fraternity! (Sounds like he took a page out of his mother's book!) Eleanor, 16, and Elizabeth, 12, are still at home in school. Abie Bradford Saupe was in Durham this summer looking at Duke and UNC for their daughter. Her sister, Eleanor, lives in Cary and she was staying with her. Abie wants her daughter to go to school in the South. Cynthia, Mimi and Betty Hickerson Butterworth, '48, got together at the MCV '52 reunion in Richmond in June, a 20th,

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which Benson and I missed because Bill graduated from Asheville School that weekend. Lydia McCullough Morley who teaches at Bear Creek Elementary School in Baltimore received her M.A.L.S. degree at Wesleyan University in May. Help me meet the spring deadline by making your Christmas notes very newsy. North Carolina girls are surely at a disadvantage!

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Mrs. T. Crawley Davis, Jr. (Mary Booth) 3007 Faulkland Road Wilmington, Delaware 19808

The West is a popular place this summer, as many of our classmates are traveling there. Ann Rogers Crittenden took her daughter, Susan, and five other girls that way with stop-overs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. The main purpose and highlight of their trip was a five day voyage down the Colorado River on a raft. Ann says "it was the most thrilling and exciting event of my life, though it's not for everybody." Betty Munsey Spatz and her family are camping and touring the West, Northwest, and western Canada. Paula Abernethy Kelton's husband, John, drove their sixteen year old, David, to the Explorer Scout Olympics in Colorado, looking at colleges on the way. Rosie Varn Ruggles has retired from her job as Girl Scout leader and plans to see more of Texas. Eleanor Wright Weston's family is sailing ing again this summer, with Eleanor Susan having a Montgomery # 10 to sail in the creek. Rosemary and William III are taking swimming lessons. We are also sailors and Jim and I spent some time cruising the Chesapeake Bay while my son, John, was at Camp Sea Gull sailing around the waters of North Carolina. My eleven year old, Mary, was enjoying camp in the North Carolina mountains during this time, but the family is back together again and we are getting ready to spend August at our cottage at Rehoboth Beach. Claudia Bradshaw Miller says she has been doing substitute teaching in Chesterfield County. Brad 10 and Ann Scott 8 keep Claudia busy with swimming, basketball, and tennis. Ann Baird Caulkins writes that her daughter, Charlene, loved her first year at Westhampton. Her second daughter, Bennie, was chosen the county's outstanding student and attended Governor's School in Winston-Salem. Tom is fond of his pastorate in a college town as it gives him an opportunity to have contact with the "younger generation". Ann is a mental health social worker. Liz Latimer Kokiko received her master's degree in April. She would like to thank the nine class agents who were of so much help to her: Rita Bross, Charlotte Decker, ¡Jo Ann Hopkins, Rene Howland, Paula Kelton, Betty Spatz, Frances Tonacci, and Eleanor Weston. When she wrote, they were in the midst of the floods of Agnes and she was thinking of all of you in Richmond. Ibby Gill White and her husband are going on a week's trip with Campus Crusade at a LIFE Institute in Houghton, New York-without children, who are a lively but fun, seven and nine. Rene Groves Howland and her husband, John, spent a perfect week in Acapulco in March, resting from the cares of home and life.

Libba Eanes Baskerville is glad to have her children home and together for the summer. Feild has finished his first year at college. She has seen Doris Goodwyn Bridgeforth and Bevo who are fine. Jo Ann Asbury Hopkins and Hal have bought one hundred twenty acres in Virginia on the Staunton River in Charlotte County. Their son, Burt, will enter Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in the fall. Helen Clarke Hensley has enjoyed having her son, David, home for a visit from the Air Force Academy. She urges us all to visit the Academy and says "it will make you so proud". Dick has been in Charlottesville working on his master's, and while visiting him they drove over to Fork Union to see Jeannette Aderhold Brown and Pete. Pete teaches at F. U. M. A. while Jeannette teaches in public school. Bobbie Brown Yagel will move in August to 104 Jackson Street, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701, where Myron will be an associate professor in special education at the University of Indiana. They hope the new house will be completed at the time of the move. Gina Herrink Coppock's address has changed to 9013 N. West Street in Manassas. She says the older she gets the less she does that is newsworthy. Shirley Robertson is teaching retarded teen-agers in summer school while finishing a master's in education with a major in special education. She is on study leave from her job of fourteen years with the Virginia Baptist Board where she is a consultant in youth work. She has seen Beulah Johnson Hooper, who is leaving in July with her three children to return to Kenya. They plan stops in Portugal, Spain, and Morocco. Dale will be working with the Baptist East African Mission as its treasurer and Beulah will be working in publications. Jane Slaughter Hardenburgh is delighted that her parents have moved to Boulder. She and her husband are having an exciting trip to Russia. Marilyn Montague Harper's mother has¡ moved to Wytheville, and Marilyn says they have bought a house on a hill with a beautiful view that is big enough for them all. She says summer has been hectic, with campers everywhere. Daughter, Abby, was home from Roanoke College for six weeks to help out, and Mandy, a high school junior, is the ''right hand lady" at the campground. T. G. is with Blue Cross of Roanoke in the Wytheville office and Marilyn is teaching. Teeny Mitchell Goldston is teaching fifth grade in Bluefield while doing "the usual" for Tommy, fourteen; Lou Ellen, thirteen; and Beth, seven. Tom is pastor of the Athens Baptist Church, which is in a college town. Teeny wrote that Kitty Bunting Bowman's oldest daughter, Karen, enters Westhampton in the fall. Some of us are "lost", so if you know the addresses of any of these girls, please let me know: Laura Longarini Pagliarini, Betty B. Rogers, Sterling Clark Atchison, and Rose Setien Blanchard.

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Mrs. Bob D. Willis (Barbara Turner) 6522 West Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23226

Peggy Armstrong Clark has completed course work for a masters degree in occupational therapy and is doing her residency at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington. Carolyn Neal Lindsay received a masters

degree in education from VCU in June. Carolyn, Jim, and the children went to Chincoteague for the pony penning this year. Marty Glenn Tinsley spent two weeks this summer in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Jody Weaver Wampler and family went on a 2 weeks motor home tour to Vermont. They went through the Adirondacks, the Catskills, Lake Champlain and Lake Placid. They also went to Jekyl Island in the spring.

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Mrs. John W. Starke (Shannon Bryant) 8710 Kenilworth Drive Springfield, Virginia 22151

On May 19-20 members of the class of 1957 enjoyed a most rewarding weekend of renewing friendships, chatting, and catching up on the activities and news of the last five years. We were all pleased to learn that several reunions had not changed us very much, as we were still quite recognizable (even without the help of Lee Feild Griffith's 1957 Web). Three reunions really aren't so many-especially if one fails to say that they are only held every five years . Friday evening Joyce Garrett Tidey was the gracious hostess at a cocktail hour and a delicious buffet dinner prepared by the class members resident in Richmond. After dinner those present told of their activities of the past five years, and then letters were read from our classmates who were unable to attend the reunion. Peggy Graves Butterworth was elected Alumnae Fund Chairman . Lovey Jane Long Walker, Pat Harper Winston, and Brandon McDaniel volunteered to be group leaders. We hope you wiJJ respond to their reminders with news for the alumnae magazine. If any of you would like to be group leaders, please let me know . It was my privilege to be elected the class secretary for the ensuing five years . I am looking forward to receiving many letters from you. Fox Head Inn, an old Virginia home that has been converted to a restaurant, was the setting Saturday evening for a social hour and dinner attended by the class members and their husbands. Those attending the reunion weekend were: Nina Reid, Pat Moore Ewell , Joyce Garrett Tidey, Helen Melton Vandermark, Pat Harper Winston , Ann Hunter Harris, Ruth Tipton Powers, Jackie Randlette Tucker, Carolyn Wood Aldridge , Kitty Alford Conner, Barbara Goodman Burton , Beverley Ambler Richardson, Rita Davidson Stein, Brandon McDaniel, Lee Feild Griffiths, Margaret Foster, Peggy Graves Butterworth , Carolyn Temple Moore, Lovey Jane Long Walker, Shannon Bryant Starke, Kitty Clark Kersey, Nancy Day Anderson, Ann Lee Hines Reamy, Phyllis Lewis Neal. Letters were received from: Betsy Turner Holland, Rosalind Allen Barker , Jane Andersen Jennings (who was a freshman with our class), Mary Loving Bell Kirby, Ann Wagner Westbrook, Carolyn Naumann Robertson, Faye Jones Townsend , Cathie Blair Armbrister, Nancy Moore Plonk, Anne Byrd James, Jennie Sue Johnson Murdock, Ann McRee Godley, Mary Katherine Parr Jenkins . Many girls included photographs with their letters which will be put in our scrapbook. We offer our sincere thanks to Joyce

Garrett Tidey for the use of her home and to the Richmond Reunion Committee which prepared the dinner and planned the activities that constituted a memorable reunion weekend. Those on the Richmond Reunion Committee were: Carolyn Wood Aldridge , Nancy Archbell , Barbara Goodman Burton, Ann Hunter Harris, Mary Garland Cox Johnson, Phyllis Lewis Neal, Rita Davidson Stein, Joyce Garrett Tidey, Jackie Randlette Tucker, Lovey Jane Long Walker, Pat Harper Winston. Ruth Tipton Powers is still living in Philadelphia and is working at the University of Pennsylvania. Presently she is working on the design of a computerized information retrieval system for the chemotherapy program of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health in Washington. Her husband, John, completed his PhD in physics last fall. On May 21 Ruth and John departed for a one month vacation trip to East AfricaKenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. There they rented a car and drove through several game reserves in order to see animals in their natural habitats . Helen Melton Vandermark lives in Williamsburg, Virginia and works for Coloni al Williamsburg . She has four stepchildren and one grandchild. Gerald is the master glassblower at Jamestown, Virginia. He was recently the subject of an article entitled "Glassmaking Gets A Break" that appeared in the May, 1972 issue of the SOUTHERN LIVING magazine which has a circulation covering the entire South. The art of glassblowing is being revived in the reconstructed glasshouse in Jamestown after 350 years as costumed workmen turn the molten glass into vessels believed to be replicas of those made in the original glasshouse. Christine Smith, the writer , states , "Vandermark is credited with being one of three men in the United States today with a complete knowledge of glassblowing in all its aspects . And should he be called upon to do so, he can even build the furnaces . He has been described as one of the finest craftsmen in the country . Even his coworkers at the glasshouse, all fine craftsmen , are often in awe of Vandermark's skill with glass ." Anne Byrd James really settled down in Atlanta, Georgia with the purchase of a house in September, 1967. Their "zoysia lawn has been their major accomplishment with most of the other projects still in the talking stage". Much of her time is centered around her family. Carole is 3½ years old and Larry is 7 years old. For the past two years Anne has worked with the three year old class in Sunday School and has been active in various PT A projects at Spring Street Elementary School. Her "pet project other than playing tennis year-round has been to coordinate the newly organized Women's Tennis League, some sixty teams". Other than trips to Virginia and Minnesota to visit grandparents, Anne and her family have done quite a bit of tent camping in Florida, South Carolina , North Carolina, and Georgia . The last few years have found Kakie Parr Jenkins on the move almost continually . From August, 1967 to July , 1969 she called Heidelberg, Germany home. Traveling as much as possible while there , she toured Germany , Austria, France , England, and Holland. Substitute teaching, a study of German , an education course, and work with the cub scouts occupied her time at home. She and the two boys , ages 13 and 11, returned to Woodbridge , Virginia in 1969, while Dick went to Viet Nam for a second tour. Here Beth was born and was

six months old before seeing her father. The Jenkins family has been in Gary, Indiana since summer , 1970 where Dick is a commuter to Chicago . They expect to be there another year. September to June finds Kakie singing in the choir , directing the youth choir, playing bridge, and sewing. In the summer they go to the mountains of Madison County, Virginia where they are building a vacation home which is almost finished. The men plan to do a great deal of fishing. In August, 1967 Mary Loving Bell Kirby and Jim spent one month driving to the west coast and back. The ir trip included visits to the Black Hills , Disneyland , Yellowstone, Carlsbad, and the Ford Museum . James Bell Kirby was born in 1968 and on May 23, 1969 Mary Loving's father , James B. Bell died in Fluvanna County, Virginia . Jim is an avid aviation sportsman and for some time had been building his own airplane. In 1970 he completed and licensed his home built plane, a "Breezy" and last year flew it to Oshkosh , Wisconsin for the national Experimental Aircraft Association flyin. Mary Loving and Jim canoed the Delaware River from Callicoon, New York past Skinner Falls and Port Jervis to the Delaware Water Gap . Just recently they have purchased a lot on Main Street in Mullica Hill, New Jersey for an office. Mary Loving is very active in Girl Scout work and in May took about seventy girls on a camping trip which regretfully prevented her from attending the reunion . For six years Ann Wagner Westbrook has been living in New Jersey where John is employed by International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. Ann is teaching a lab biology course at Raritan High School in Hazlet , New Jersey . She has two daughters , Laura age 15, whom she is hoping will choose Westhampton, and Martha , age 8. In May Nancy Moore Plonk and family embarked on a very interesting journey to Dundee , Scotland where they will live and work through August. Bill is exchanging pastorates with a minister there . Their two children, Billy, 10 and Mary Evelyn , 13, will attend school in Scotland for two month s. If at all possible , the Plonks plan to spend the month of July touring on the continent. For the past three years Nancy has directed the week day kindergarten at the church , but next year she will teach fifth grade in the public school. Grace Bloxsom Raveling is now living in Tripoli , Libya. Her husband , Philip, is a geologist with Mobil Oil Libya , Ltd . The Ravelings and their two children, Philip and Nancy , travelled in Europe and Moscow last winter. Grace says for anyone in Europe to please let her know . She and her family spent several weeks this summer in Hampton , Virgini a, visiting her parents and returned to Tripoli in August. Nancy Day Anderson has been selected for the 1971 award of Freedoms Found ation at Valley Forge for the Prince Edward Academy's stage production of "Man's Four Freedoms" . Nancy composed the scenario and directed the program and was selected for the 'Valley Forge Teachers Medal Award' . Carolyn Wood Aldridge is keeping a class scrapbook. If you have photographs or newspaper article s to contribute , they may be sent directly to her at 1202 West Valley Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23229 or they may be sent to me with your news items for the U of R Magazine . Whether you attended the reunion or not, please send me resumes of your activities for the last five years, and don't forget to keep me posted on the current event s for you and your family .

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Mrs. Robert F. Hill (Ruth Adkins) 7611 Winkler Road 23229 Virginia Richmond,

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Arlene Olson Jones and her family. O.C. was listed as missing in action in Vietnam in March 1972. We extend our sympathy to Bev Wine Bowers, whose mother passed away in May. Bev recently worked at an experimental camp for pre-school deaf children. Her twins, Cindy and Tammy, will attend kindergarten this fall. Jo Edwards Mierke and Eddie visited with Margaret Griffin Thompson in Hawaii while they were there on a business tripvacation. Barbara Dulin Polis and Charlie ended their Germany assignment with a ten-day tour of Greece and Turkey, taking a boat cruise of seven islands. They are now living at : 101-B Spruce Court, Eglin A.F.B., Florida 32542. Charlie and Barbara are giving up skiing for tennis, and Chuck ( 10) and Laurie (6) are enjoying fishing and swimming. Sherrie ( 1) enjoys "messing up the house." The Polis family joined the Crews family for a trip to Disney World in August. Peggy and Merrill Crews are now at 1267 S.W. 15 St., Boca Raton, Florida 33432. Merrill is now vice president in charge of administration of Boca Raton Community Hospital. Gary Moore Barnes and Bill travelled to Phoenix and Las Vegas and found the Indian lore and history of the area fascinating. Everyone has been travelling except Margaret Spencer Hernandez, who is laid up with a broken leg. Margaret slipped in gravel and will be in a cast for four months. Bev Brown Floyd and her family spent two weeks at a Methodist Youth Camp. The Floyds plan a three-week trip in November to Washington , D.C., New York and Boston. Bev plans to spend the coming year as a P.T.A . volunteer, on the church Commission on Education , and sewing. B. J. Stamps Bryant and her family are now living at Rt. 2, Box 63½, Welsh Rd., Brookville, Ohio 45309. Dan was transferred to Dayton last fall. They have a little over an acre with a barn, so they were able to keep their horses . Cary Hancock Gilmer writes that Cary Lee and Melanie are good helpers with chasing Greg, now almost two. Marian Gates Breeden spent most of the summer taking Eddie ( 11½) and Carlie · (10) to sailing , lessons and Lucius (7) and James (5½) to swimming lessons. The Breedens spent a week in July on the Bay on their sailboat. Marian is president of the Tidewater Club, W. C. Alumnae. Boulden and her Peggy Yarbrough family spent the Easter holidays in Richmond, after which, Peggy wrote, "I needed a grease and oil job on my mouth!" Peggy Shearin O'Brien also spent the summer taxiing her pre-teeners to their activities , including Tammy Joe's meets with the Willow Oaks swim team. N ancy Phillips found time to take evening classes at V.C.U. during the spring in addition to her teaching . Eileen Cordle Harris wrote that Mary Kyle (2) -is getting along beautifully after having undergone major surgery in February. Chuck is now "at that busy crawling stage that is so cute and so frustrating." Carolyn Nash Haga received her M.A. degree in English from Longwood in June. Carolyn plans to teach this fall , so with her children leaving for Prince Edward Acad-

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emy each morning at 7:00 a.m., the Ragas will be a busy bunch. An article in the Richmond TIMESDISPATCH in July brought us up-to-date with Betsy Minor Mccommon. She and David are buying a 55-acre farm in Floyd County, Virginia, near Radford, where Betsy is involved with the nearby outdoor, historical drama, "The Long Way Home." Three of her older children, Tom, Parris and Parker, will be participating with her in the drama. Betsy and David have a twoyear-old daughter, the youngest of the five children. Jean Martin Wyndham helped with a reading-testing program in Southampton County in 1971-72. We hope Jean can relax and enjoy raising Chris, now 4, and baby Cynthia Anne, after having had a 4week hospital stay with a ruptured appendix in February 1971 and major surgery again in February 1972. Eleanor Dickson Campbell completed two courses toward a master's degree last year and will continue with new courses this fall. She, Sibby, and I spent a delightful week at the Young cottage at Colonial Beach in June with our collective nine children. Sibby now has two, Grace E. and Allan, so Eleanor and I feel somewhat better about descending upon her with all of ours. As for the Hills, Bob is now vice president of Personnel with Wheat, First Securities, and I will be teaching third grade this year in the mornings while Sarah is in kindergarten. I'll be at the same school as Julia Jett Shepherd and Sue Kaufman Wilson.

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Mrs. Robert M. Mason (Daphne Shephard) 801 Fourth Avenue Farmville, Virginia 23901

We extend our sympathy to Mary Ellen Deckelman whose parents passed away in 1971. Mary Ellen works with the Va. Dept. of Welfare and Institutions as Civil Rights Coordinator. Jane Pitts McAllister and Jack are located in Winchester. Jack is practicing neurosurgery. Carol Chapman Cook reports Lee is an accountant in D.C. while she stays at home with their new son. Anne Abbitt Kerr and Sam moved to Appomattox in June. Sam is Commonwealth Attorney for Appomattox County. Eileen Hoy Griffith reports that Baxter is studying for the C.L.U. exams and she has retired from teaching to be with Skipper 4½ and Craig 1½ . Linda Frazer Sharp reports that the Sharp Controls Company is a full time life for her and John. I want to thank Bill Hall and Jim Dunn for information about Minna and Mary Catherine while the girls were galavanting! Minna and Bill are in Oklahoma where Bill is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma. Mary Catherine and the boys are in Maine. She and Jim went to London this spring. Mary Catherine won first place in the Lee District and second place in the state for a poetry entry in the Va. Federation of Women's Clubs. Nancy Jean Weeks Morin is b_eginning her fourth year as director of Fellowship Field, a kindergarten that is free to indigent ch ildren. Martha Kessler Goodman began work on her Ph.D. at Duke this summer and Bill received his Ph.D. in religion at Duke. Martha and family took a trip through

Europe before beginning duties at Damavand College, Tehran, Iran, in September. Evelyn Spivey Drum and John were transferred in June to New Brunswick, N. J. Evelyn is Director of Social Service at Raritan Valley Hospital. Last year Cathy Marshall Overstreet taught a pilot project for a biology program designed for disinterested science students. Doralee Forsythe Richardson and Lee have moved to the Washington area. Lee is Staff Director for Consumer Education in President Nixon's Office of Consumer Affairs. Doralee represented consumers at a meeting of the Dental Advisory Committee of HEW and served on a National Institutes·of Health workshop panel. Gayle Gowdey Williams and Ebb had an overnight visit from the Richardsons on their way to D.C. The Williamses visited with Lilli Subley Duncan and John during their vacation at Myrtle Beach. Sandy Smith Skinner and Randy are redecorating a large old house. Lynn Stephenson Cox and family toured Balboa Island on bicycle. Lynn has joined the Canoga Park Tennis Club. She will take a course in humanities at Pierce Cola September family vacation lege-plus touring the Gold Country near San Francisco. Irene Bambacus Rousos reports that Bill has opened his own architectural office in Alexandria. She has been active in the Mount Vernon Environmental Action Committee. All hope to tour Greece next spring. Joyce Davidson Wasserman writes _that Roger is treasurer of a health foods corporation. Lorene Dejarnette Womble, Bobby and Camye are moving to the country this fall. Lo will teach at Halifax County Academy. Sally Spiller Settle is secretary for FISH (not Shirley!) and temporary secretary for two lawyers. She and Fax have bought a home. Anne Coleman Jarrell and family were flooded out by Agnes. Ann Robinson Warner is content to stay at home with the children. Jim is still practicing law. Pat Chandler Smith wrote that after leaving WC she completed the School of Cytotechnology at MCV. She moved to W. Va. in '63 with husband, Marv. Work terminated with the arrivals of Chris 6 and Andy 2! Mildred Gilman Gilmore is working at the State Health Dept., Crippled Children's Bureau. Betty Wade Blanton Jones and Jerry spent a week in London in May. We Masons spent two member-guest golf weekends with the Jones. Charlotte McGlohon is in her sixth year of teaching English and psychology at Guilford Technical Institute. Wayne is with the N.C. Dept. of Revenue and has completed requirements for a MSBE at UNC-G. Cindy Deatelhauser Foltz writes that daughters Becky 11, and Donna, 8, are on their local swim team. Cindy enjoyed poolside visits with Judy Vanderboegh CarroJI and Kathy Gebhardt Shelton. changed jobs Speaking of Kathy-Bill earlier in the year and the Sheltons have built a new home nearer his work. Kathy continues working a few days a week as physical therapist at Va. Home. Becky Powell Harrison says John has been playing softball with the church team and has been teaching Becky the fundamentals of golf. Kitty Borum Fitzhugh writes that Ph.D. hubby, Parke, continues to divide his psychological skills between behavioral science applications for police and his job at

the Urban Studies Center at the University of Miami. Ginny Needham Whitfield's husb and, Jim, has returned from a nine month crui se on the carrier Constellation. Ginny visited him in Hong Kong during this tour. Joyce Steed Wszalek is working on her dissertation. Steve has received his MS in math. Have located Maridell Bugg Wingfield at Catharpin, Va. She and Harvey have a kennel-DELL-MAR-where they raise german shepherds of top breeding. Maridell has retired from medical research and has gone into professional handling . Gail Morrison Brooks took flying lessons and did her first solo with John in the tower. They are pl anning a trip to D .C. and Pa. Jarrell Raper has been made a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and is an associate professor in the Dept. of Medicine at MCV. Gwynn is enjoying the Masters of Humanities program at University College and recently sat on a panel with Governor Holton discussing the role of politics in the church. Paddy Dozier Mudd is involved with the Board of Education-to which she was elected for a four year term in '70. Al keeps busy with his law practice and politics . Shirley Fish Kirchner is attending Beaver College, majoring in psychology. "B" Bond Snidow had a recent visit from Louise Inman Chandler and family. They drove from Texas to visit relatives in Virginia and Delaware. Kathy Gill Langley is looking forw ard to staying at home this year. Teaching , going to school at Wright State University and keeping up with twins was just one thing too many! Carl continues to win trophies in his engineering golf league . Pat Cluverius Goodm an saw Martha Hinkle Fleer and Martha Carole Rogers this spring. At the time Martha Carole was babysitting a student's boa constrictor!! Betty Miller Morris has spent the summer serving and transporting children to tennis and the pool. Suzanne Dupuy Black and Don have returned from Sewanee where Don finished his classwork requirements for an advanced degree in theology. Adrienne Price Cox is working in the Dental Auxiliary, at the William Byrd Community House , and in the Christian Woman's Club of Richmond . Anne Pultz Waters will be teaching history at Norfolk Catholic High this fall. Zeke has undergone surgery. We wish him a very speedy recovery. Betty Pritchett White and Ray went to Bogota, Colombia last November and have been skiing in Colorado . Nancy Edwards Batterman is busy with Chris 5, Elizabeth 3 and teaching kindergarten. Nancy Adams Booker is at home with her girls and traveling periodically with Red . Nancy is president of her loc al Jr. Woman's Club this year. Barbara Spiers Causey is membership chairman for the Newcomers Club of Terre Haute. She spent a month in Virginia this summer. Jean Stonestreet Mann's children have been taking art lessons at the Valentine Museum Jr. Center. Jean is working part time at Psychological Consultants. Sylvia Thompson Carlton will be 2nd VP for the Tuckahoe Village Garden Club this fall. Gloria Holland Merrifield and family have been boating and camping. She and Don will be spending 2 Y2 weeks in Greece in August.

Ruth Reynolds Robinson and Bill have been at the Baptist Assembly in New Mexico where Bill served as staff physician . Marty Wallace Michael's Wythe , 5, has been accepted in Collegiate for kindergarten next year, and Marty will be busy with Marth a, 2, at home . Tish Kinchloe Well and asked that I pass on her appreciation to all who expressed concern about her illness. She has been unable to answer these notes but hopes to do so by fall. Jennie Stokes Howe and Bob are planning a cruise to Bermuda and Cary Bell Harris and family vacationed at Disney World. I had a glorious week in Florida in May, without children! If you would like an address list of the class , send me a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope. Send me address changes .

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Mrs. Joseph D. Nolan (Beth Stafford) Route 4, Box 23, Grafton Yorktown, Virginia 23490

Branch

A letter from Judy Barlow Bolling missed the spring issue deadline . She sent several new addresses: Don and Grace Phelp s Rhinesmith are living in Richmond at 1905 Stuart Ave. (Zip 23220). Marty Goding Forti and Bill-2840 Rossmoor Circle , Bloomfield Hills , Michigan 48013. Bill is with the Bendix Corporation . John and Betsy Broaddus Hopewell live at 1316 Oakwood Court, Lynchburg, Va . 24503 . Thi s past school year Betsy taught three levels of French at Seven Hills' School, a girls' preparatory school. Judy had also run into Julia William s while shopping in Newport News . Julia is assistant principal of an element ary school in York County. Reading class news in the spring U of R Magazine prompted Judy Cooke Mosely to write. Her biggest news was the adoption of red-haired , blue-eyed David . She and Gerry sound thrilled with parenthood. They spent last Christmas in Judy's hometown of Durham and visited with Beth Holland Maxwell and Jim while there. Gerry and Judy like living in Texas very much , especially Austin . They have a new addres s there-2108 Woodmont Avenue (Zip 78703). Gerry became Assistant Dean of the College of Natural Science last fall. This position means a great deal of extra time with the students , but, according to Judy, he enjoys it. He is still also doing research in radio astronomy. Judy and Gerry were near Denver in October 1971 for a business / vacation trip and saw Julie Haynie. Besides teaching sixth grade Julie does lots of skiing (snow and water), plays tennis , and as Judy put it, "seems to be enjoying herself to the limit" . Julie's address is 2512 S. University St., Denver, Colo. 80210. Beth Holland Maxwell and Jim are delighted with their new son, but Beth says big brother Johnathan (5) is the most pleased of all. The Maxwells also have a new address-2615 Stuart Drive, Durh am, N .C. 27707. Nancy Hootman Clemmer wrote a lett er catching us up to date on what she and Don have been doing the last couple of years. Don was accepted into the F.B.I. in 1970 and his first assignment was in Rocky Mount , N .C . Their first daughter , Laura, was born there . After a year they were transferred to Michigan where they Jive at 16513 Hi Land Trail, Linden, Michigan 4845 I. Nancy said Linden is just south of

Flint and their home is situated on a lake , very convenient for swimming. Yes, Nancy says even up North it gets hot enou gh in the summer for swimming. On March 11 Joe and I attended the wedding in Washington , D .C. of one of my W .C. roommates, Carol Winfield , to Frank Cushman Eliot. It was a lovely ceremony and all but one of Carol's former roommates came. In fact Jean Copley Forbes was a bridesmaid. Jean and Preston have two children, a girl seven , who attended the wedding and a boy three . They are in Ohio where Preston teaches at one of the colleges or universities . Judy Metcalf Turner and Burleigh were there. Judy showed me a picture of their two cute children , a boy and a girl. The officiating minister at the wedding was the Reverend Dr. L. D . Johnson. Most of you will remember him as a professor of Bible in the dep artment of religion . Carol and Frank are making their home at 9814 Parkwood Drive , Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Among our classmates who attended the wedding of Sharon Robertson and David Lurch at River Road Bapti st Church in Richmond were Peggy St.Clair Stevens, Claire Hudson M atthews , Ann Cosby Davis, and Je an Morris Foster. The reception was held at the Willow Oaks Country Club. Margaret Brower Almond and Hilton live at 7 515 Roswell Road, Richmond 23229. Though Hilton will soon be through his residency and they will probably be re locating, their former apartment simply would not accommodate 2 children . Mari e Morris received her Master of Arts degree in history from the College of William & Mary in June . I talked with Jo sie Rogers Lovel ady recently . Jo sie has been awarded a National Science Foundation scholarship to get her master' s degree in biology. She will be taking a year's sabb atical lea ve from teaching to devote full time to studying. She pl ans to complete the required course work by next summer. Thanks to those of you who wrote . Please won 't you other classmates send your news and any address changes to me before January 25th. We want to be able to contact each and every class member about our 10th reunion which is only a few months away. Start planning now to be in Richmond for that very special weekend.

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Miss Barbara C. Vaughan 6019-D Willow Oaks Drive Richmond, Virginia 23225

Lale Akbay and her mother are still in Richmond . Lale did some traveling during the summer to Washin gton , D.C. and New York C ity. Lind a Holt Lilly and Eddi e are now in the Air Fo rce stationed at Seymour John son Air F orce Base, Goldsboro, N . C. where Eddie will practice intern al medicine for two years. Noel Swinter Pr iseler spent June and July in Okinaw a visiting her husband who 's stationed there . Th ey took a side trip to Taiwan . Ann Carter is now District Traffic Manager, Facilities Western with C & P Telephone. She has moved to Roanoke . In March she vacationed in Bangkok , Thailand. I received a note from Babs Jones Scrog gs. She married Clifford Scroggs in June 1963. For 2½ year s they have been

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with the Navy, stationed in Naples, Italy . In September they plan to be in East Lansing for Cliff to get his masters in business administration at Michigan State. They have two children, Kimberley Rhea, and Michael Clifton. Jackie Harper Burrell is Registrar at Forsyth Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Evelyn Garrett Bowyer and Ken have moved to a new home in DanviJle. Tay Wynne Bost, Lloyd, and daughter, Wynne, vacationed at Topsoil Beach. Tay writes that Nancy Curtis Wood and Ken along with Mary Evans Layton and Dave had visited with them in April. Ginny Burcher Rogers was delighted to receive news from Westhampton's Class of 1965. She wrote that she has a three-yearold, Susan Beth , born April 22, 1969. She and John are in Pennsylvania where John works for U.S. Steel. Carolyn Jackson Mears and Jerry have returned East as Jerry received a graduate associateship with Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They planned to camp across country. Barbara Royster and Billy have moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where the U .S. Public Health Service has transferred him. Sue Parrish Patrick and Kenton have moved to Virginia Beach where Kenton is working in an engineering and surveying partnership. Janet Wooden MurJless writes that Bill has changed jobs. He's now assistant director in the cash management department of the Insurance Company of North America. Marionette Parker Jones and Tuck are still in Newport News. Tuck received his master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from VCU in June. They both will be teaching at Merchville High School, Newport News for the next school year. Wren Dawson Olivier is working three days a week in medical social work while Torn continues lecturing and doing research at the University of Western Australia. Jackie Branch Murphy will be in the guidance department of Hermitage Middle School for the coming year. Charlie is a junior in business administration at VCU where he was awarded membership in Who 's Who last spring. Rachel Norman Graves visited with Mary Ellen Kyle last spring when she stayed at their lodge in Syria. She writes that Hurricane Agnes floods hit them pretty hard. Pam Myers received her M.A . in French from the University of Massachusetts. Her celebration was a cruise to Bermuda. Dur, ing the summe~ she piloted a new program, Foreign Language Day Camp , open to those high school students interested in further study and enjoyment of French. In the fa)l she'll be teaching at Brookland Middle School. Janet Renshaw Carnighan received her masters in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University in June. Fran Dix Mann has been awarded a grant by the Chesterfield Education Association to complete her masters of education specializing in secondary reading at Virginia State College. She continues teaching at Falling Creek Junior High School. A feature story on Phyllis Jane Bradshaw Meiggs in the Richmond Times Dispatch told of her position as supervising counselor in the Virignia Vocational Rehabilitation office at MCV helping drug abusers. Vivian Virginia Davis was awarded the Master of Religious Education degree during the May 1972 graduation exercises at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary .

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Mrs. Kenneth Gassman (Mary Bo Willis) Dri v e 91 0 3 B urkhart Ri c hmond, Virgi n ia 2322 9

Our new class officers are: President, Joan Odland Cocker; Secretary, Mary Bo Willis Gassman; and Fund Chairman , Pat Brown Bayliss. These officers will serve until our Tenth Reunion. Suzanne Carey Walls is presently working in the clinical endocrinology department of the University of Wisconsin. She is hopeful that she will receive a teaching position. Husband, Neill, finished his PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and plans to be an instructor of pathology there. Carolyn Cobb Penniston is back on the mainland after spending 2½ years in Okinawa where her husband was stationed . They are living at 1373 Braewick Drive, Morgantown, W. Va. Larry is a radiology resident at the University of W. Va. Medical Center. Ree Cross Barnes is a methods analyst at the Equitable Trust Bank in Baltimore while Gary is a tax accountant-lawyer. Carol Copley Axford is still living in Opa-Locka, Florida, where George is the rental manager for Ryder Truck Rentals. They have two children, Terry Sue (3) and Kelly Lynn ( 1). Judy Crowell von Seldeneck was recently elected President of the WC Alumnae Club of Lynchburg. She works as an interior decorator out of her home. Nancy Cox Peters and Bill are pursuing psychological degrees, Nancy at Duke and Bill at UNC. In addition to playing mother to identical twins , Judy Dollenberg Sterling finds time to serve as an officer in the Home Demonstration Club, the Women's Council of her church and the church circle . · Barbara Evans Clements is an assistant professor of Russian history at the University of Akron where she received the Teacher of the Month Award in January. She also received a Science Research Council Research Grant for the summer of 1972. Lois Flournoy Septon is a high school chemistry teacher in Stonington, Conn. Jerry was scheduled to get out of the Navy in June. Among her many activities , Gale Hodkinson Cooper serves as a member of the Westhampton Alumnae Governing Board and is president of the Richmond Pastoral Counseling Center's Advisory Board. Her job title is Assistant Director of Public Relations for the U of R. Her husband , Elliott, is a business editor for the Times Dispatch. Lisa Hummel has recently returned from Maine where she was painting. She has had several group exhibitions while working as the Assistant Supervisor of Educational Services at the Virginia Museum. Ann Kay Joyner holds a position on the Florida Council on Crime and Delinquency. She is a counselor and volunteer coordinator of the Division of Youth Services for the State of Florida. She and her husband have recently traveled to the Bahamas . Janine Kulak Phillips and Justine have finally settled in Midland, Michigan after he got out of the Navy. He is working as a chemist for Dow Chemicals. Alyce McGinnis Lawrence plays mother to her two daughters, Carrie Wetherington and Sarah Hartman, while Steve works as the Gas Sales Rep. at VEPCO in Norfolk. Sandra Matthews Powers is the school psychologist for the Greensboro Public

Schools. She received her master's and PhD from the University of Conn. She was recent ly awarded the U.S. Office of Education Fellowship in School Psychology. Her husband, Bill, is an assistant professor of math at UNC. Vickie Mi ller Edwards, hubby, Richard, and son, Bobby, recently traveled to California by car. Richard is the manager of Driver Services-Data Processing at the DMV in Richmond. Lane Nelson has two children, Ellen (2½) and Tom (2 months). Husband Dick is a Sales Rep. for Deluxe Check Printers in Roanoke . Elizabeth Omohundro Harwood is a fifth grade teacher and a member of the Jamestown Society, Huguenot Society, and the Tuckahoe Women's Club. Doug is a real estate agent in Goochland . Linda Orrison Griffith is a member of the Bluegrass Artist's Assoc. and has been exhibiting her painting throughout Kentucky. Lois (Robbie) Robinson is studying at the NY School of Education. She traveled to Spain and Morocco in '71 and to Puerto Rico in '72. Ann Carol Robins Haskell continues her position on the Student Affairs Committee of the U. of R. Board of Trustees. John is a cattle farmer in Barboursville, Va. Millie Stein Cohen has recently traveled to Japan, China, Italy, Greece and Israel while working as a programmer for the Dept. of Navy . Anne Vaughan Moore and Sandy plan to spend three weeks in Europe at Christmas this year, and they plan to live in Greece for about eight months this year. Charlotte Waldrop continues as a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond. Sydney Williams Graff has recently been elected treasurer of the Lynchburg WC Alumnae Club. Margaret Cridlin Moore and Don are living in Durham, N.C. for the next year. Don is serving as the chaplain at Duke University Hospital. He is on his "intern" work from Andover -Newton Theological School. Anne Pomeroy Baltzwell was ordained a Baptist minister and is presently serving as a chaplain at the UNC Hospital. Husband, Jim, is an Episcopal minister. Mary Stuart Land Tomlinson and Bob are living at 2311 B North O'Neal Ave., Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Bob is serving at the dispensary there. Their second son was born last November and was named Paul Stafford. Nola Rice Powell and Randy will be in San Diego for at least four years as he is serving his surgical residency at San Diego Naval Hospital. They have purchased a new home at 2372 Murray Ridge Rd. Betty Dillard Cherry will be teaching 7th grade English in Mason City, Iowa this year. She will be in charge of the newspaper and yearbook. John has his own law practice. Lois Helmbold writes that the main interests of her life are teaching, the women's movement, and the "family" of which she is a part. She loves California and seems to be doing quite well at San Jose State College . Suzanne Ivey completed her master's degree and will be teaching at the new Hermitage High School this fall. Barbara Veno Caldwell has been elected an officer and assistant actuary of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Barbara is an associate of the Society of Actuaries. Judy McCann has been promoted to associate dean of students . at Mommouth

College, West Long Branch, N. J. I have "retired" from teaching as my husband and I are expecting our first child soon. I would like to thank each of you for keeping me posted these past three years and I am hopeful that you will do the same for Mary Bo. Remember that our news is in the U of R Magazine only every other issue, so this explains why some of the "news" is a little old. (Pat Kursch McGehee)

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Miss Nancy Crenshaw 7541 Carnaby Court Richmond, Virginia 23225

Laura Hanbury Hall and Douglas, and Elizabeth, have finally returned from Germany, and have turned up in Gloucester, Va. Their address is Box H, Gloucester, Va. 23061. Douglas is working with Broaddus and Hall, Inc. Laura says anyone of us happening down Rt. 17 through Gloucester must stop in and say hello. This you really won't believe. I have gotten a letter from Lynn Turlington Morgan! Her address is 1209 Grant Avenue, Plainfield, N .J. 07060. Lynn is teaching at Kent Place School in Summit, having gotten her MA in Modern European History at UNC. Her husband, Bill, also teaches history. Karen Richardson Dick and husband, Jim, and baby. Heather, are in Erlangen, West Germany where Jim is the adjutant for the 2/46 Infantry Batallion. Her address is: 228-64-6791, HHC, 2/46 Infantry, APO New York 09066. Susie Johnston spent the summer in France living with a family through the Experiment in International Living. She's teaching French at the new Trinity Episcopal High School here in Richmond this fall. Charlene Stringfellow Grogg and husband, Bob, are in Richmond. Their address is 2434 Three Willows Court. Charlene is teaching special education at Buford Academy this fall. (She got her masters degree at the University of Virginia last June). Becky Coleman Harris and Bobby are still living in Colonial Heights and are also teaching this fall at Colonial Heights High School. Emily Adams Rock and Larry are all set to take their annual trip to the East (from Akron, Ohio), and we're looking for them in Richmond any day. A few weeks ago everyone was here all at one time. Dixie Lee Heckel, who's living in Richmond this year on Grove A venue while husband, Carl, spends his year in Thailand, got wind of the fact that a lot of people were in town and called us all together. Here's a run-down-Mary Sue Terry, who's spent her summer working in the Lt. Gov.'s office, getting ready to return to UVa Law School in Sept. She was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention! Mary Sue has been living in Sally Wood and Katherine Jordan's apartment this summer because Sally and Katherine have been in Europe. Kathy Scott is really excited, getting ready for grad school at Florida State in Tallahassee. Good luck, Katerina! Mary Ellen Peterson Saville was there-she and Allen and Catherine live in Charlottesville-Mary Ellen looks terrific. Anne Holland Burch was there-she lives in a new house in Richmond with Billy and their baby boy. Nancy Jo Srb, Anne is looking for you, wherever you are! Pat Mallory Row and her husband, Steve, live at 601 N. Davis #2. Pat is a copy designer with Miller and Rhoads, and Steve works with the newspaper. Pat told us that

Lynn Myer is in Richmond, and that Lynn Robertson took off for Europe again this summer. Diane Dorsey Edwards was there too, with her dog Sam (remember that little puppy on 2nd floor, back hall??). Warren is due back from Vietnam any day now, and in the meantime Diane lived in Wilmington, Del. Diane and Warren should be in Fort Bragg at this printing. Alice Justice Retzer was there and all excited-Donney is now Rev. Retzer. Donney and Alice have moved to the parsonage in Midlothian, Va. and love every minute of it. Alice says she'll continue teaching at Mosby School. Susan Quance Snellings reports that Sue Donaldson Simmons is just fine, as are Betty Lou Mcclanahan Hill and Charles; Susan and Travis are living in Richmond, too. It was reported that Jane Arrington spent the summer in Greece. Dixie's address, by the way, is 4518 Grove Ave ., Apt. 3, Richmond. There were two little sisters there, too-Pat Connell, who's married now, and Sally Andrews. They're both fine and anxious to see everyone. Saw Gail Waddill Grubbs a few months ago. She and Ronnie live at 8826 G Three Chopt Rd., Richmond. Gail is in advertising with Reynolds, after having spent a year in New York City. Rebecca Saunders Hayes and her husband left in August for a year in Germany. Their jumping-off point is the Goethe Institute. Emily Button Brittle and husband, Bill, were at Charlene Stringfellow's wedding. They live in Maryland. Paul McNally spent the summer in France, and returns this fall to teach at Benedictine High School. Kate Sakowski and Tony and family have finally come back to Richmond after several enjoyable years in California, and they're living on Monumental Avenue. I've got a new address, too-7541 Carnaby Court, Richmond. I've started teaching now, but I'm teaching computer systems at Defense General Supply Center. Any of you who took Finite Math with me know that's incredible. I wonder about it, too . . . And I wonder where the rest of you are?

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Miss Judy Lancaster 2821 Wycliffe Avenue, S.W. Roanoke, Virginia 24014

The members of the Class of 1971 extend their sympathy to the family of Nancy Bain who died Wednesday, August 9, 1972. A short note from Linda Yeatts brings us up to date on her activities. She was employed as a social worker in the Petersburg Welfare Department this past year. Linda handled cases for families receiving assistance in the Aid to Dependent Children category. In August she began work on her Master of Education degree in school psychology at UNC, Chapel Hill. Linda attended summer school at UNC the summer after our graduation and writes she could hardly wait to return as a fulltime student. The University of South Carolina psychology graduate student Carole Waite was dating last Christmas is now her fiance. Carole and Bill Kinder plan a December wedding. Bill is from Christiansburg, Virginia, and is a graduate of Virginia Tech. Ann Hodges and Pat Burton zipped down from Charlottesville to Columbia to visit Carole in early June before the start of summer school at South Carolina and were given a grand tour of Columbia.

Mary Lee Watson received her master 's from Clemson University and is living in Richmond with Ann Allport and Linda Noell. Mary Lee is teaching junior high school math. One lucky classmate, Vickie Bowman , spent her summer on an eight-week tour of Europe with two friends from Danville. Vickie and I were both in Charlotte, North Carolina, one weekend last spring and both went to the Billy Graham Crusade. We had planned to meet but somehow never quite caught up with each other! Vickie is teaching math at George Washington High School in Danville again this year. Alice Presson receives her master's from Penn State in December. According to Alice, most of the graduate students at Penn State are foreign , and it was hard for her to convince them that Williamsburg is not Virginia 's capital! Students from Puerto Rico, India and Japan lived on her hall. Betty Deans Witter and husband , Larry, were in Roanoke during June to visit Betty's parents who have moved here from Fredericksburg. We got to see each other a couple of times and had fun catching up on news. Betty will be teaching elementary school again while Larry finishes his last year in vet school at Cornell. After his graduation, they hope to move south. An addition to their household is a puppy named Taffy! I had surprise visitors last May. Becky Mauck Winders and Jim were here visiting his parents and came by to see me. It was the night of their second anniversary. Jim and I talked more about mutual high school friends than college , but Becky did mention that they had seen Ruth Lankford in Virginia Beach recently. Becky and Jim are living in Durham while Jim finishes graduate school at Duke. This fall Becky started work on her master's in urban planning at UNC commuting from Durham to classes in Chapel Hill. Kathy Neal White and Bill are living in Chapel Hill. Bill attends UNC Law School. I attended their wedding in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on August 12. Pat Burton will be teaching sociology and world history at Albemarle High School outside of Charlottesville this year. Marilu Dixon and Pat will be living at 500 Colonnade Drive, Apt. B-23, Charlottesville. Marilu is working as a secretary in the cancer research department of the University of Virginia Hospital. Two of our classmates are teaching at Bermuda Academy outside of Richmond. Jane Alphin Davis is in her second year of teaching science and Gale Burrow is teaching English in grades 9-12. Gale lives with Frances Fowler at 9001 Patterson Avenue, Apt. 65. Judy Strauser finished her medical technology program at UVa September 8 and has her test for certification in November. Until she decides on a job, Judy will be living at her home in Hillsville . Beverly English Dalton and Doug are living in Altavista. Bev teaches elementary school. Ann Kelly Link and Al are in New Orleans where Al is studying at Tulane. Ann is working in pulmonary research at Tulane. Since the end of June , Lisa Byers has been in Zurich having a great time. She is studying organ and doing some traveling on the side. Lisa will return in December and enter graduate school at Michigan State University second semester. Patti Collins works with VISTA in New York City.

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Alice Graube Nuckols and Gary are living in Charlottesville. Alice starts her second year at Louisa County High School and Gary is in law school. I received a long letter from Metta Harris Nickerson. She and Stew are living in the Colonial Court Apartments in Richmond with their '_'family"-two cats, Casper and Pudden. Metta teaches Latin and Stew is still in school with his graduation planned for summer '73. Metta and Stew saw Nancy Jarvis Inge and Cliff in July. Nancy has stopped teaching and is a full-time housewife and mother. Metta says little Robert Clifford is adorable. Cliff is working as a car salesman following his release from the Army. Margaret Williams is working in the Second National Bank of Culpeper. I'm planning on going to the UNC-University of Richmond football opener in Chapel Hill on September 9. By the time this fall issue reaches you, we should all know the outcome! My news deadline for the spring issue is February 1. I'll gladly welcome any news so don't hesitate to write me. Just a reminder that our first class reunion is scheduled for this spring during Alumnae Weekend. So far the only scheduled business will be the election of a new president and secretary. This will be the first return to campus in two years for many of us so make plans with friends and former roommates to attend. You'll be receiving more information about Alumnae Weekend and our class reunion as the date approaches.

Marriages 1961 Carol Chapman and Clifton Lee Cook, August 21, 1971. Sandra Smith Young and Randolph T. Skinner, Jr., March 25, 1972. 1963 Sharon R. Robertson and David Lurch, March 25, 1972. Carol Hobson Winfield and Frank Cushman Eliot, March 11, 1972. 1965 Rosemary Jones and Delchi Serfilippi, Jr., July 8, 1972. Pam Myers and Ashby French Johnson, August 5, 1972. 1967 Pat Callis and William Joseph Noonan, Jr., March 25, 1972. 1971 Cheryl Kaye Blankenship and Howard Jenkins, July 22, 1972. Cheryl Beynton Carlson and John Stanford Booker , July 8, 1972. Susan Lee Finch and Louis Preston Campbell, Jr., April 1, 1972. Paula Gail Hammett and Thomas Gibbs, ~ugust 5, 1972. Katherine Anne Neal and William O'Brien White, Jr., August 12, 1972.

Births 1955 Dr. and Mrs. Leon Wallace (Hope Ida Guaraldi), a son, Rodney Benjamin, June 21, 1972. 1959 Mr . and Mrs. Gerry F. Dollard (Lilalee Guerrant), a daughter, Angela Louise, February 16, 1972. Rev. and Mrs. Paige A. Young (Sylvia Haddock), a daughter, Grace Eloise, April 17, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Wyndham (Jean Anne Martin), a daughter, Cynthia Anne, May 12, 1972. Mr. and¡ Mrs. John Moundalexis (Susan Payne), a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, August 15, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Rowe (Nancy Taylor), a son, Tazewell Southgate, November 22, 1971. 1961 Mr. and Mrs. C. Lee Cook (Caro)

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Chapman), a son, Roy Thomas, June 7, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Goodman (Pat Cluverius), a son, Andrew Atwood, November 30, 1971. Mr. and Mrs. R. Baxter Griffith, Jr. (Eileen Hoy), a son, Craig Edward, January 25, 1971. Dr. and Mrs. John E. McAllister (Jane Pitts), a daughter, Mary Ward, March 16, 1971. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Linthicum (Sally Reynolds), a son, Travis Wade, June, 1971. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Warner (Ann Robinson), a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, September 5, 1971. 1963 Mr. and Mrs. William E. Powers, Jr. ( Carolyn Anthony), a son, William Scott, May 17, 1972. Dr. and Mrs. Hilton R. Almond (Margaret Brower), a daughter, Kristen Elizabeth, May 31, 1972. Dr. and Mrs. Gerard F. Mosely (Judy Cooke), an adopted son, David Franklin, November 8, 1971. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Maxwell ( Beth Holland), a son, Scott Holland, March 8, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Clemmer (Nancy Hootman), a daughter, Laura, May 22, 1971. Mr. and Mrs. Terry M. Parkerson (M. Archer Randlette .), a daughter, Catherine Marshall, March 7, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Windley, Jr., (Patricia Shotten), a son, William Clyde, III, June 17, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Heard, Jr. (Elizabeth Violet), a daughter, Susan Leigh, February 16, 1972. 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Leicht (Pam August), a daughter, Cheryl Lynn, April 16, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murray (Lynda Beran), a son, Jeremy Joseph, June 7, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Olivier (Wren Dawson), a son, David Victor, March 10, 1972. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Lilly (Linda Holt), a son, Kevin Marcus, February 28, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. William Murlless (Janet Wooden), a son, Bradley Wooden, May 3, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bost (Tay Wynne), a daughter, Elizabeth Wilkie, February 29, 1972. 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott Bayliss (Pat Brown), a son, Robert Eliott, Jr., April 8, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll, III (Dolly Kirkpatrick), a daughter, Mary Kate. Mr. and Mrs. W. Andrew Griffith (Linda Orrison), a son, David Andrew, March 7, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Graff, (Sydney Williams), a son, William Jeffrey, April 13, 1972. 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Golladay (Bonnie Giannotti), a son, Spencer Andrew, March 3, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dick (Karen Richardson), a daughter, Heather Bryan, March 8, 1972. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stobie (Betty Smith), a son, James Robert, January 30, 1972.

Westhampton Necrology RFI-WCR Mrs. Charles W. Crowder (Grace Wyatt), formerly of Richmond, Virginia, died June 14, 1972. Mrs. Claude Street Kreite, of Center

Cross, Virginia. Miss Annie Reddy, of Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. Hallie Vaughan Atkisson Wermuth, of Williamsburg, Virginia, died August 17, 1972. 1971 Miss Nancy Lee Bain, of Hampton, Virginia, died in an automobile accident, August 9, 1972.

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Le~~ers Dear Sir: The article by Leonard Alley, '72 opens by saying: "The '72 Spiders entered the NCAA District III playoffs following their best season in history." The '72 baseball team is certainly to be congratulated for a tremendous season and they are undoubtedly a group of talented young athletes and scholars. On behalf of some old timers however, I have to challenge the statement "best season in history." T.he 1947 team had a record of 20 wins and 3 losses. Two of the 3 losses were 1-0 defeats by North Carolina and William & Mary. The third was a 5-3 loss to Washington & Lee where Richmond was leading and the game was rained out and the score reverted to the previous inning. The Conference setup was different in those days and the 1947 squad had no chance to go to playoffs . Again, I congratulate the '72 team, but I still believe that 20-3 beats 21-8!

.Editor's Conanaent

Very truly yours, R. D. Kilpatrick , '48 ED: We should have said "most number of wins." Here's the record of the top 10 in both "won-loss percentage" and "most number of wins." (Records prior to 1928 not available.) TEN WINNINGEST TEAMS 1972 21 8 .724 1947 20 3 .870 1935 18 2 .900 1966 17 6 .739 1940 16 2 .889 1939 14 2 .875 1937 14 4 .778 1943 14 4 .778 1936 14 6 .700 1941 14 8 .636

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A telephone call from Atlanta alumnus, Ralph Graves, '51, resulted in the discovery of another baseball story error. Ralph pointed out that the 1972 squad was not the only Richmond baseball team to play in a NCAA district tournament. The team of 1949 played in Charlotte , N. C. in the District III tourney with Wake Forest, Kentucky and Mississippi State; losing to Miss. State 6-2 and Kentucky 2-0.

John A. Clayton, '62

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t was 8:00 p .m., Monday, August 21. Millions of Americans were preparing to watch the Republican National Convention from their living room vantage points. During the half-hour time segment preceeding the opening gavel, most TV viewers living beyond the broadcast reaches of WWBT-TV in Richmond were confronted with re-runs and other uninviting programing. However, Richmond area alumni who tuned in Channel 12 experienced a new pride in Alma Mater as they viewed a beautifully prepared 30-minute film on the University of Richmond. Produced at considerable expense by the NBC affiliate, the film is narrated by Dr. E. Bruce Heilman and features glimpses of virtually all segments of the west end campus . Students, faculty and alumni are seen and heard as the camera (artfully handled by one of New York's finest cinematographers) captures the beauty of the place. Copies will be made and soon alumni clubs throughout the country will be projecting the film as part of their programs . Additionally, a copy will be offered to educational television stations for showings in other regions. WWBT-TV is to be commended for

the outstanding job performed technically and thanked for the fine service provided the University . Two station employees instrumental in the film production are Ellen Shuler, WC'68 and Bill Jennings, RC'63. irginia LeSueur Carter, WC '53, will serve the University of Richmond as a consultant in the field of publications, communications and photography. Ginny , an award winning editor at Hollins College where she was until recently director of information and publications, will make a thorough study of all University publications and will recommend ways in which the printed image of the institution can be improved and expanded. She will also work closely with me on the University alumni magazine. As editor of the Hollins alumnae publication, she was honored repeatedly with national and regional awards by the American College Public Relations Association and the American Alumni Council. Ginny Carter will help us coordinate the entire University publications program, from alumni magazine to letterheads. Her expertise will be a great addition to our campus.

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