University of Richmond Magazine Summer 1974

SUMMER1974

MAGAZINE

Editor's Notes

MAGAZINE CONTENTS A Golden Age of Athletics University College Revamped Williams, Skinner, Roberts Retire T Is for Tree Around the Lake Football Preview Alumni in the News Story with a Happy Ending The President's Report University Classnotes Westhampton Classnotes

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COVER: The Spiders' 1974 football sea-

son kicks off September 7, but missing from the squad will be All-America Barty Smith who has signed with the Green Bay Packers. For the facts behind the university's expanding athletic program and for a preview of the coming footbaU season, please see stories on pages 1 and 12, respectively. Photo by Bob Hart.

George Roycroft, editor John Clayton, RC '62, classnotes editor Jane S. Thorpe, WC '58, Westhampton editor Maxie Mason, art director Editorial Advisory Board

Elizabeth R. Dunkum, WC '59; James B. Robinson, SBA '49; Ross A. Hotchkiss, Jr., RC '54; Dr. Frances A. Underhill, associate professor of history, Westhampton

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Dr. Irby Brown, RC '54, professor of English, Richmond Coll,ege; John A. Clayton, RC '62, director of alumni affairs, Jane S. Thorpe, WC '58, executive secretary of Westhampton College Alumnae Association;

Randolph H. Walker, Jr., RC '60, director of public information.

The UR Magazine, of which this publication is Volume 37, Number 4, Summer issue, is published quarterly by the University of Richmond, Virginia. Second-Class Postage Paid at University of Richmond, Virginia 23173.

Tms ISSUE of the UR Magazine focuses on a topic of concern to many alumnithe future of athletics at the University of Richmond. The lead story, written by Randy Walker, RC '60, director of public information, presents a view of the athletic situation which, unfortunately, hasn't been fully covered in the public press. All too often sports writers and others have taken the narrow view, seeing changes in the athletic structure at the University of Richmond as undermining their pet interest, usually football. The fact is, as Walker points out, that the university is beefing up its entire athletic program, and not at the expense of football or basketball.

As was announced in the spring issue of the UR Magazine, Jim Tait is the new football coach, succeeding Frank Jones who resigned in March. In April Clyde Biggers of the University of Nebraska at Omaha was named athletic director, a post also formerly held by Jones. And, as this issue goes to press in June, the university is searching for a new basketball coach. Lew Mills, Southern Conference Basketball Coach of the Year this past season, accepted a position at Virginia Commonwealth University as assistant director of athletics June 4 .

Just as the university has been successful in tapping such outstanding men as Tait and Biggers, it will no doubt do so again in naming Mills's successor. The excellent facilities of the Robins Center and the commitment of the Board of Trustees to intercollegiate athletics will be enticement enough to attract any number of outstanding basketball coaches.

It would seem then that all alumni sports enthusiasts and others as wellshould be proud of the strides that the university's athletic program is making.

In the future there will be not only victories to celebrate in football and basketball, but also in baseball, track, tennis, golf, swimming, wrestling, and rifle.

-George Roycroft

A Golden Age of Athletics

by Randy Walker, RC '60

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Baske tball is the one sport that may operate without a deficit.

Previous page: Wrestling, the newes t sport, was initia ted last winte r.

THE UNIVERSITYOF RICHMONDis moving boldly ahead in athletics. The socalled "minor" sports-baseball, track, tennis, golf, swimming, and wrestlingare being brought up to the top level in the Southern Conference. But not at the expense of football and basketball.

That's the consensus and decision of the Board of Trustees as it watches the progress of an athletic program led by a new director and a new football coach.

Clyde Biggers, director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, assumed the position of A.D .

June 15. Coach Jim Tait, who has coached the Spider offensive backs for the past eight seasons, now heads the football staff.

With a clear mandate on the part of the board and administration, alumni, students, and friends can now look forward to "a golden age of athletics" at the University of Richmond. Coach Tait, encouraged by a good recruiting season, predicts a good year in football, even without the services of All-America Barty Smith , UR 's offensive back who was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Basketball prospects are bright, although like the football team, the basketball team has lost its top star . Aron Stewart, a standout in the Southern Conference, graduated May 12. Baseball Coach Chuck Boone had his usual winning season, making the University of Richmond the only member of the Southern Conference to have winning seasons in football (8-2), basketball (16-12), and baseball (22-12) .

President E . Bruce Heilman stated recently that "there is to be no switch in emphasis to minor sports, there is simply to be an increase in quality in all sports , as with all programs of the university"a statement made in accordance with the desires and policies of the university trustees. In fact, as Dr. Heilman has pointed out , "The Board of Trustees and the administration have determined that the University of Richmond should not only be competitive , but competitive at the top level of the Southern Conference in all sport s."

The Universit y of Richmond is one of the few institutions to make a financial commitment to intercollegiate athletics in these times of financial stress. During the present administration the university has supported a much larger deficit in 2

football than ever in the past. It has funded more scholarships and financed more staff. Presently, the university awards 100 football scholarships, as many as any other member of the Southern Conference and approaching the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) limit of 105; there are seven on the coaching staff. All of this is in keeping with the board's decision to fund a football team which will be competitive and can win in the Southern Conference.

The budget for football has been increased to, offset inflation and to make more funds available for recruiting. The total university budget for 1974-75 is $12,789,000, of which the athletic portion is well over $1,000 ,000.

According to figures furnished the UR Magazin e, the cost of the 1974-75 football program will be approximately $600,000. The net revenue is expected to reach no more than $200,000, leaving the university to absorb a possible $400 ,000 deficit. The Board of Trustees recognizes , however, that the univer sity does accrue other tangible benefits from a strong intercollegiate football program . Dr. Heilman has stated, "The intercollegiate program provides opportunities for competition for the athletically superior student and serves as a focal point for creating and maintaining interest in the university on the part of students , alumni, and members of the community ." And while the Board of Trustees would like the athletic program to be self-supporting , it does not require that it pay for itself.

Basketball is the one sport that has a good chance of operating in the black.

Only a few years ago Spider basketball limp ed along on a recruiting budget of $5,000 . Recruiting trips oft en meant the coach's wife would pack peanut butter sandwiches , and the family car would double as a motel room while on the ro ad. The past few seasons have seen the recruiting budget tripled and the addition of two top-flight assistants . Eighteen basketball scholarships , the maximum allowed by the NCAA , are now awarded annu ally, and today the basketb all budget is in the neighborhood of $150,000 .

However , the break-even point is still a few years away .

It should be pointed out that a 1974-75 athletic scholarship at the University of Richmond is valued at $3,440 . That's about twice the value of a schol arship at

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one of the state-supported institutions.

The 122 scholarships being awarded UR athletes this academic year will cost the university more than $400,000.

Following an ad hoc committee study two years ago, trustees authorized an expansion of the university's minor, or "nonrevenue-producing," sports. They agreed to beef up baseball, track, tennis, and golf; and they authorized the addition of three new sports-swimming, wrestling, and soccer. The board also pledged that scholarship expansion in the nonrevenue-producing sports would come, but not at the expense of football or basketball.

This decision to bring the nonrevenue producing sports up to a competitive level has brought joy to the hearts of coaches and admissions counselors alike.

Here's the way twelve new scholarships to be added over the next four years will be divided: track will receive three new scholarships to add to the three they already have for a total of six; baseball will have two new scholarships and now has one for a total of three; golf and tennis will get one scholarship each; wrestling will have two scholarships; and swimming will get three.

Coach Fred Hardy welcomes the scholarship aid to entice trackmen to the university . He already has another great attraction in the new $250,000 track complex which consists of an eight-lane, all-weather track laid in the oval area known as Pitt Field. The stands have been refurbished, and the university now boasts one of the finest track and field facilities in the country.

Coach Chuck Boone will also enjoy first-class facilities when the new baseball field is completed next year. It is to be located between University Lake and Robins Field, now used for intramural sports and parking.

In only two seasons, Coach Norris Eastman has already produced a winning swimming team which finished 10-3 for second place in the conference. The new wrestling team, making its debut under Coach Don Pate, achieved only a 3-12 record; however, several wrestlers muscled strong performances.

The tennis team, coached by Bill Walker, has continued to improve, and this past spring finished sixth in the conference with a 13-15 record. The team now has excellent facilities with the re-

cent completion of eight new courts on Campus Drive behind the university bus stop.

Coach Nat Withers's golfers tallied a 10-2 record, while the rifle team, coached

by Sgt. Major Genora Higa, won 7 of 11 matches. Rifle, the university's seventh minor sport, is supported largely by the federal government and, therefore, awards no athletic scholarships. The soccer team, authorized by the board, has not been fielded as yet, mainly because of the lack of a suitable playing field.

Like the coaches, the admissions officers are pleased with the new athletic scholarships. They say it helps to point out not only the Robins Center's excellent facilities for intramural sports, but also the student's possible participation in one of the nonrevenue-producing sports.

With Spider athletics on the upswing one knotty problem remains-the need for an improved football stadium . Although there has been no final decision in regard to erecting a stadium on campus, the prospect is rather remote, even if a necessary $5 to $7 million in stadium funds was to become available. Civic associations formed by neighbors surrounding the campus have voiced strong concern about traffic generated by the Robins Center. They even recently opposed the building of the new University Commons on the grounds that such a facility would contribute further to traffic through their suburban neighborhoods. Already, there are predictions that the university's neighbors would apply the maximum pressure possible to prevent construction of a football stadium on campus.

However, a study headed by Richmond City Councilman Henry Valentine has suggested several sites in the metropolitan area for a new stadium, including two sites in Henrico County . A Henrico County site probably would be acceptable to the university. The proposal is for a 40,000 seat facility, expandable to 60,000 seats if Richmond can attract a professional football team sometime in the future; the cost of such a facility is estimated at $11 million.

There is every reason to believe that University of Richmond athletic fortunes, already respectable on the major sports level, will improve during the coming year. This optimism is being shared by

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Top: Tennis will get one scholarship.

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alumni, faculty, and students. Porter Vaughan, RC '40, a Richmond realtor and chairman of the president's advisory Athletic Council, feels "that the athletic program will be better and more effective than in the past." Dr. Richard Chewning, chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, predicts the university will "have a good program in every sport."

And Jay Lassiter, editor of the student newspaper, writes "now we can look ahead to a golden age of athletics."

President Heilman shares the abundant confidence, but he also points out that a successful athletic program is dependent upon "strong financial support and a continuing interest on the part of the community, alumni, students, faculty, and other constituencies."

Clyde Biggers: New A.D.

Clyde Biggers is the new director of athletics.

CLYOE BIGGERS, the new director of athletics at the University of Richmond, is regarded by his former colleagues as an outstanding coach and administrator.

He also presents impressive credentials as a scholar and an athlete . In announcing Biggers's selection as the new A.D., President E. Bruce Heilman characterized the North Carolina native as "an intelligent, well-organized gentleman who has the ability, desire, and dedication to administer a successful athletic program ." And that's the consensus of those at the university who have met him.

The sheer size of the man, six-footseven and 255 pounds, bowls one over, just as it did his wife, the former Jane Lee Frank, on their first meeting years ago in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The pert young redhead was on her way to an interview for a high school teaching job when Clyde bounded out the school entrance, almost knocking her down as he hurried out. Obviously, Clyde made amends , and Miss Frank became his bride and the mother of a daughter, Martha Ann. Biggers, who came to the University of Richmond June 17 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he was director of intercollegiate athletics, has been lauded by officials there.

Bob Devaney, director of athletics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln , said, " In the time that Clyde Biggers has been with the University of Nebraska at

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Omaha, he has really taken hold of the entire athletic program. He has led the Mavericks onto sound footing with a bright future in sight for all the university's competitive sports programs. I have a world of respect for him as an athlete, as an educator, and as a gentleman."

Dr. Ronald W. Roskins, chancellor of University of Nebraska at Omaha, said, "I have high regard for Clyde Biggers as a human being and as a professional leader in education and athletics.

He has made unbelievable progress during his brief tenure at the institution, for which we will remain forever indebted.

We wish him continued success."

Biggers played varsity football for four years at Catawba College in North Carolina, winning places on the All-Conference, All-State, and Associated Press Little All-America teams. He won Catawba's Most Outstanding Athlete award, and ranked first in his class in academic standing.

After graduation, he played professional football with the Green Bay Packers and later earned a master's degree in physical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On the coaching level, Biggers served twenty years as a college and university head football coach with an overall winning record. He was at Catawba from 1953 through 1958 as head football coach, director of athletics, and associate professor of physical education. After a six-year stint at the University of South Carolina as a defensive football coach, he moved to Eastern Illinois University where he was head football coach and lecturer in physical education. In 1971, he decided to take up full-time administrative duties at UN-0 .

At the University of Richmond, Biggers will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing all intercollegiate athletic events, programs , and activities of the university athletic department within the policies established by the Board of Trustees and under the direction of the president.

President Heilman commended the choice of the A .D. selection committee, adding that Biggers "is a man of integrity and character. We have concluded that he is the best man for the job, and I am confident that he will provide great leadership in our athletic program for years to come."

University College is Revamped THE UNIVERSITYOF RICHMONDhas revamped its downtown division, University College , by merging it with the Summer School and by giving it a new name , a new dean, and a new curriculum .

The new dean is Dr. Max C. Graeber, forme r assistant professor of speech and dean of the Summer School. The new name is University College-Summer School and Continuing Education.

The new curriculum includes "innovative approaches to adult education, with emphasis on quality and increased flexibility," explains Dean Graeber. Credit and non-cred it courses also will be expanded and intensified .

The changes, which became effective July 1, stem partly from budgetary considerations . University College's day division has been experiencing dwindling enrollment for several years. The enrollment fell from 282 full-time students in 1972-73 to 121 this past year, a decline of 57 percent. The reasons generally given for the decrease are relatively high tuition costs and increased competition from nearby state institutions and community colleges for day students from the Richmond metropolitan area .

In an effort to assure their continuation , services provided by the day division at University College have been combined with those offered on the main campus. Beginning with the fall semester, students with academic deficiencies will participate in an academic skills project designed to increase the likelihood their studies will be successful. This remedialtype program will offer study-skill seminars and intensive classroom programs for students needing individualized attention .

According to Dr. Graeber, the reorganizat ion of University College represents "a very significant step in the total development of the university, partic-

ularly in terms of meeting the needs of the community at large, including working adults and part-time students."

Women, in particular, will receive special attention under new University Col lege programs . In fact, a continuing education center for women is being created.

Mothers will even be able to leave their children, ages two to ten, in an enrichment program while they attend summer classes on the main campus.

During the evening University College will continue to offer the bachelor of arts degree in economics, English, and history; the bachelor of commerce degree; the associate of arts degree ; the associate in commerce degree ; and six certificate programs in various business fields. In addition, graduate programs in commerce and the humanities will still be offered.

Under the new setup, all of the university's continuing education activities -the School for Christian Studies, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Horizons in Learning Program, and the Institute for Community and Business Development-come under the umbrella of University College and the direction of Dr. Graeber.

Dr. Berkwood Farmer, associate dean of University College, continues in that post under the new organization . He speaks optimistically about the new division, pointing out that more full-time university faculty members are now teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate evening programs .

"What we're really doing," says Dr. Farmer , "is opening up the entire university, with all of its resources, to the community. We will be using the downtown campus on Franklin Street and the main campus facilities to improve accessibility to both graduate and undergraduate courses."

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Top: Dr. Max Graeb er is the new dean of University College .

Bottom : Ev ening classes will still be off ered at Uni versity College's Franklin Stre et campus .

Williams,Skinner and Roberts Retire You Can't Keep a Good Trouper Down

Williams (top), Skinner (bottom left), and Roberts retired this spring after teaching a combined total of 103 years at UR.

WHEN THE CURTAINrang down on April 4 on the final University Players' performance of The Skin of Our Teeth, the cast and audience bade farewell to its director , Alton Williams. After a career of nearly forty years, "Prof" Williams, as he is affectionately known, was retiring.

Perhaps it was just a bit prophetic that the last play Williams directed was Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth , a theater classic. Across Virginia and the U. S. his former students-some of whom are drama teachers, actors, actresses, radio and television personalities-no doubt remember him as their "classic ," that rare individual who left an indelible mark upon their lives.

Although he is a quiet, gentle man who likes to tend his garden on his 50-acre farm-retreat in Powhatan and who finds simple pleasure in communicating with his pet cows, Williams is, nevertheless, an institution. The former associate professor of speech and dramatic arts has been a leading force in the development of the university's drama department, holding it together during both lean and fat years .

Williams came to the University of Richmond in 1935 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned his M.A. and toured two years with the UNC Players, both before the footlights and backstage. Earlier, he had studied at Fresno State College in his native California, and later he did further graduate work at the University of Michigan. During his years at the University of Richmond he directed more than 100 plays, repeating himself only twice with two productions each of Joan of Lorraine and Our Town. Some of his productions were performed under a variety of conditions , which Williams still recalls with a touch of wry humor.

Certain ly, his early productions in the old playhouse on the UR campus bring back fond , if not amusing, memories.

After all, it's not often a director has the "opportunity" to stage a commencement play for fifty dollars. But Williams was more th an equal to the task , scrounging props and lumber and fashioning floodlights out of tin cans and electric

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bulbs . Those were certainly the University Players' lean years.

The old theater building-which was freezing in winter and stifling in summer -burned to the ground in 1950, nearly fifteen years after Williams joined the faculty. Later the theater moved into a Quonset hut behind Cannon Chapel, and finally in 1967, to its present location in the Modlin Fine Arts Center.

While "Prof" Williams has devoted much of his time to the university, it has by no means been his entire life. For thirty-two years he was associated with the Richmond News Leader. Until his retirement from the newspaper June 8, Williams was amusements editor, often traveling to Hollywood during the forties and fifties to interview great stars, producers, and directors.

In addition, Williams has traveled widely throughout many parts of the world, his most recent trip being an aro und-the-world jaunt just four years ago. "Prof" and his wife, Mildred, who is food editor for the News Leader , are already planning their next trip, this time to Australia, New Zealand, and the South Seas. They will depart the West Coast sometime after Christmas.

However, one can't really be too sure just how far away from the University of Richmond Williams will go. His association with the university has been "a happy, wonderful experience," and he is already thinking about how he might set up volunteer classes in playwrighting on campus. You just can't keep a good trouper down.

'Der Allerbeste Professor'

HUNDREDSOF ALUMNIremember N. Wilford Skinner, associate professor of German, as one of the few great teachers.

They have honored him individually and collectively. One class gave him a lighter for his wonted pipe, inscribed with their words of gratitude . Another class, inspired by the master teacher, arose in spontaneous applause at the end of a lecture. Some have made sure that their children have studied under his tutelage.

Countless others-German majors and even students who had only one or two

courses with him-have written throughout the years to thank him; some had sailed through Ph.D. language tests, some felt his course had heightened their enjoyment of a European trip. One student sent a postcard from Germany picturing an altar that was the basis for a short story read in second-year German. Another wrote simply to voice what is the conviction of many: Mr. Skinner is "der allerbeste Professor."

Skinner came to the University of Richmond in 1937 . A native of Ohio, he earned his bachelor of arts degree at Ohio University. He received his graduate training at Ohio State University and the universities of Indiana and Wisconsin. Later he brought another Ohioan to the university as librarian, his pretty, young bride Olive.

His father was a violinmaker by avocation, and young Wilford became a violinist at an early age. Having studied violin at Denison University and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he became concertmaster of the Ohio State Symphony Orchestra, and later he organized a string quartet at Indiana University. He switched to viola, which he played when he came to the University of Richmond where he again organized and led a string quartet. The quartet played often at university functions and at the Richmond Musicians Club from 1937 to 1943, when it disbanded due to the war.

Skinner also sang in the choir at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church until a few years ago.

World War II did not take the professor of German to Europe, as one might expect, but instead to the South Pacific to fight on one island after another. Upon his return , he enthusiastically began working with the fledgling University Foreign Film Society. He was its mainstay-treasurer, impresario, and exhibitor-for years. Indebted to him are not only the viewers of those outstanding films, but also the recipients of the annual awards for excellence in modern foreign languages. After all, it was Skinner's management that garnered funds for these awards .

For years it seemed that commencement could not be held without Professor Skinner at the helm. He made the many arrangements to make sure that

everyone and everything was in the right place, rain or shine. He also served as secretary of the Richmond College faculty. In 1968 he was made chairman of the modern foreign language department at Richmond College, and a year later, of the new university-wide department, a chair he occupied until June, 1972.

Professor Skinner is from a background that knew the value of skillful, creative handwork and of reverence for natural life. He still reflects this heritage.

His deep feeling for literature and music, his precise understanding of grammar, and above all, his profound devotion to teaching have left their imprint on students, colleagues, and the university.

Between DACOWITS and Hardy

DR. MARGUERITE ROBERTS,professor of English at Westhampton College, retired in June and packed away the memorabilia of twenty-seven years of teaching at the University of Richmond.

From the walls of her North Court office she took down framed mementos, dusted them carefully, and tucked them neatly into a large box. One wall had been decorated with photographs related to her years with the Defense Advisory Committee of Women in the Services (DACOWITS). She had been appointed to a three-year term by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to advise him on standards and policies affecting women in military service. The pictures were from tours of the military bases and visits with Washington officials, including the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. A highlight of those years was a trip to the North American Air Defense Command headquarters in Cheyenne Mountain near Denver.

While her DACOWITS job rated one wall, two walls had been devoted to her favorite author, Thomas Hardy. In fact, Dr. Roberts is recognized as an international Hardy scholar. Her interest in the English writer goes back to her college days. After graduating from the University of Evansville, she went to Radcliffe College where she earned both her M.A. and Ph.D . degrees and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . It was while she was a

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student at Radcliffe that she wrote to the late novelist's wife in search of a dramatic script by Hardy. The reply from Mrs. Hardy included the invitation to "come to see me."

In 1934 she visited Mrs. Hardy, thereby establishing a relationship that spanned a number of years. During the course of their acquaintance, Dr. Roberts gained valuable access to the author's letters and private papers. The research culminated in her dissertation written between 1936 and 1937 on "Hardy and the Theatre." From the dissertation later came a book, Tess in the Theatre, printed by the University of Toronto Press in conjunction with the Oxford Press in 1950 and reprinted in Japan in 1967.

Her Hardy's Poetic Drama and the Theatre appeared in 1965, and a third Hardy book, The Max Gate Circle, is nearly complete and is awaiting a publisher.

Before coming to the University of Richmond in 1947 as dean of Westhampton College, Dr. Roberts taught English at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and at the University of Toronto. After eighteen years as dean , she announced in 1965 her intention to concentrate "all of my efforts in the field of English and to spend the next years in the library and the classroom ."

Even though Dr. Roberts served as chairman of the Westhampton English department from 1965 to 1970, she still had far more time to devote to the teaching of Shakespeare, literary criticism, and modern poetry and prose , especially that of Thomas Hardy .

In July Dr. Roberts returned to England, just as she has every summer for the past ten years . There, she is making London her headquarters, visiting the museums and taking in the theatre . She also plans to take the short train ride from London to Dorchester where she'll continue her research in the special Hardy collection at the Dorset Count y Museum .

But before she left for London , Dr. Roberts returned to the University of Evansville for commencement. On June 8 her undergraduate alma mater presented her with an out standing alumna award , a fitting tribute for the first Evansville alumna to receive the Ph .D.

T is for lree, T is for lrustee

by Dr. Rosalind Allen Barker, WC '57 IN "SESAMESTREET" letter learning, the letter T is a shape and a sound. Learning to remember that shape and sound and to use the letter T comes from a watching and listening experience in which the shape becomes almost anything, of which T is the first sound. A T shape can become a Tugboat's Tea party, a Tiger's Tonsils, a Teddy bear's Tee-shirt, a Train robber's Thermos, a Trench digger's Telephone. Or the letter T can become a tree of any kind, of all seasons-the long vertical becomes the trunk, the short horizontal, the branches, bare or leafy, evergreen or deciduousfor the shape of the letter T does suggest a Tree much more readily than it suggests some of these other visual fabrications.

But if "Sesame Street" can suggest a connection between tugboats and tea parties, between tigers and tonsils, between train robbers and thermoses, I would like to suggest another T connection: T is for Tree, T is also for Trustee, and that Trees and Trustees are T words with several characteristics in common.

Trees of course have a long, interesting, and varied history-obviously in plant history and ecology, but also in ancient art, history, and ritual. It seemed to me that in remembering our "history" this year and our sixtieth anniversary as Westhampton College, it might be a good time to remember a tradition at Westhampton. That tradition is the tree-planting ceremony which began fifty-one years ago this year, 1923, when the class of 1926 planted ten linden trees. Just a few weeks ago, this year's freshman class planted a live oak. And in between those years-over a half century-we and classes before us and classes after us have reenacted a ritual that affirms symbolically a belief in new life, growth, beauty, and continuity.

Those ten linden trees that were planted fifty-one years ago by the class of 1926 were not the first trees here by any means; but they were the first, I believe, to be added consciously, in the spirit both of enhancing the beauty of the campus and affirming at least implicitly a belief in tradition and continuity.

Tree-planting seems to me to be a uniquely civilizing art; it is also, more than any other kind of planting, a gift to the future. The first ten linden trees were joined by ten more the following year, and then again by ten more. Whatever the inspiration for this choice, and I take it Dean Keller had memories of an avenue of lindens in Berlin, it seems a very appropriate tree for a campus.

I like to think of those linden trees, thirty within three years, and the many other kinds of trees that joined themthe maples, the willow oaks, the magnolias, the elms, the live oaks, the cedars, the hollies, the cherries, the dogwoods, as having personalities. The lindens have every reason to feel elitist, exclusivethe lindenwood girls- but they don't.

They're very much tradition -minded though. I have imagined them in an annual meeting, coinciding with ours; and while theirs can't be called a reunion, as they're here all the time, it takes on some similar characteristics.

"My, don't the lindens make a noise when they get together," says one of the maples. "As if they hadn't seen each other for years. What is that they're saying about they new live oak-they like her, but they're not sure she feels at home here yet. Oh, they're assuring her that age doesn't matter a bit-they feel every ring of their years, but that's not to say they feel decrepit, and they do like to see young ones coming along. Just think what size Live Oak will be at our age!"

"It is nice not having to worry about spreading waistlines," says a willow oak.

"Or changing fashions," says a pink dogwood. "Pink is always right, goes with any foliage."

The trees all nodded and swayed in the light, gentle breeze rustling their new spring leaves every now and again, just for the good feeling it gave them each year, being old and new at once . Most of the time they listened-they weren't night watch ladies exactly, but they were people watchers, and when some of them thought how long they had watched and listened and how much they knew about all the people who had passed under their branches, it was quite amazing.

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"It's good being a tree here," reflected one of the evergreens, and all the other trees agreed.

It's good being a trustee here, toonot least because it brings one back into the past, the present, and the future all at one time-being a trustee gives one the trees' sense of time. Even coming back as an alumna doesn't give me, I think, quite the same sense of tree time.

When I come back as an alumna, I'm looking for the people I knew, I'm rediscovering the past-I notice the present and the changes and the strange faces, but I'm n;mch more interested in recovery than in discovery.

When I came to my first meet ing as a trustee, green as the greenest sapling although not anything like so young, I was quite struck by the fact that age didn't seem to matter, either to my sense of belonging among some much earlier, much more experienced plantings - or to my sense of trusteeship toward the institution. The trees-the fifty-year-old lindens, the older evergreens and elms, the younger dogwoods and live oakshad been growing gradually, perhaps almost imperceptibly all the time, and so had the institution.

We use the word "trusteeship" to describe the carrying out of the responsi bilities of being a trustee; we don't normally talk about treeship - perhaps because it seems to come naturally to a tree, being a tree. As a trustee, I have felt that I have been participating by being myself in something bigger than myself, but still by being me. But there is another characteristic of being a trustee that is like being a tree. Trees don't go to school, even though some of them may help make better students, when their wood is used for lead pencils. But a tree's lifetime is a lifetime of becoming; it may not learn exactly to become a better tree, but it is responsive to environment, to climate, to winds, to adverse weather conditions, as well as to favorable ones.

It becomes-it survives, it begins anew every spring.

For me, being a trustee has been a new experience of becoming - perhaps the most important new avenue of becom-

ing I have had in the past four years. It has made me do a great deal of thinking, reading, and learning about higher education; it has made me reevaluate my own educational experience here ; it has made me want to understand the educational needs and desires and ambitions and frustrations of today's students; it has made me wonder creatively about Westhampton, the University of Richmond, and higher education generally in the future. It has made me rethink my own position as a teacher of students and as a friend of students. It has allowed me to see myself again as a student. It has given me some new tools of learning and put me in a new classroom.

This university obviously believes that its trustees are "doers," but it also believes that they are "learners;" being a trustee during the past four years has meant a continuing education.

We have a new word in Canada-perhaps it started here. It grew out of a combination of participation and action It was coined for the -participaction. encouragement of community-wide physcatchy word to ical fitness programs-a get across the idea of going outside and walking around the block with your actively-parneighbors-participating ticipaction. This too is what being a an idle pastime, not trustee means-not a feather in one's cap, not an I.D. cardbut a role of active identification; participaction .

I suspect all of you have been or are trustees of this institution, in some of the senses I have mentioned-whether officially or not. Alumnaeship is like treeare¡ ourship, is like trusteeship-we selves, part of something bigger than ourselves, participating in its becoming because we are its past, its present, and its future, as long as we and it continue to be.

Trustee Rosalind A. Bark er, WC '57, addresses the Westhampton Alumnae Day luncheon.

Dr. Rosalind Barker, professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto , Canada, delivered the above remarks April 20, 1974, at the Alumnae Day luncheon marking the sixtieth anniversary of Westhampton College. Dr. Barker has served as a trustee of the University of Richmond since 1971. Excerpts from her speech are reproduced here.

Editor's note:

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Around the Lake

Tiedemann

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Degrees conferred. Six hundred twentythree diplomas and eight honorary degrees were awarded during graduation exercises May 12 in the Robins Center arena.

In his commencement address, Dr. Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University, expressed concern for the skepticism he sees sweeping the nation's colleges, leaving students with pessimistic views about their nation's future. He stated that young people have grown skeptical for several reasons, among them the attempt by "some of the very high officials of our government" to bypass the Constitution. Brewster said, however, that the responsibility of the graduating seniors is to help the country devise methods to assure that the powers of the government are held in check.

Honorary degrees were presented to Dr. Brewster; Mills E. Godwin, governor of Virginia; William D. Oldham, RC '41, Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee; and Joseph F. Cullman 3d, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Philip Morris.

Others receiving honorary degrees were: Rev. Raymond F. Allen, RC '62, pastor of Cosby Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond; Rev. Miles J. Jones, chairman of the Richmond School Board; Edmund A. Rennolds, Jr., a Richmond businessman; and Malcolm U. Pitt, Sr., RC '18, former director of athletics at the university.

Forum on coordinate education. An open forum to discuss the trial proposal on coordinate education will be held Saturday, September 14 from 9:00 A.M. to 1 :00 P.M. in the Keller Hall Reception Room. Dr. Rosalind A. Barker, WC '57, chairwoman of the Board of Trustees' subcommittee on coordinate education, has called the meeting to get the response of alumni, alumnae, trustees, faculty, and students to the committee's trial proposal.

The proposal, published in the spring issue of the UR Magazine, calls for Richmond College and Westhampton College to retain their separate indentities, names, and administrations; for both colleges to provide separate housing, dining, and

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social opportunities; and for both colleges to administer separate counseling services in admissions, academics, registration, career development, and placement. The proposal also recommends that all academic departments of the two colleges be made university departments reporting to a dean of the faculty.

Anyone interested in speaking on the issue is invited to _the forum. Those wishing to make presentations are encouraged to contact the provost's office.

New graduate program. Beginning this fall, the university will draw upon the strengths of its physical education faculty and its athletic facilities in offering a new Master of Education in Physical Education.

Among the new program's assets will be the Robins Center, which contains not only a 10,000-seat arena, auxiliary gymnasium, swimming pool, and handball and squash courts, but also classrooms, a well-equipped kinesiology laboratory, and the latest instrumentation for monitoring body reactions during exercise. The exceptional faculty consists of four full-time members with their doctorates and three with master's degrees.

The new graduate program is designed for area coaches, physical education teachers, and recent graduates who plan to make physical education their career.

Visitation study. An ad hoc committee of the Board of Trustees is currently studying the university's policies regarding dormitory visitations.

The committee was formed in April after students demonstrated their desire for more liberal visitation rules and regulations. The current policy governs both men's and women's dormitories and restricts visits by members of the opposite sex to weekend hours: between 4:00 P.M. and 1 :00 A.M. on Fridays; from 2:00 P.M. to 1 :00 A.M. on Saturdays, and from noon to 8:00 P.M. on Sundays. The regulations also require that doors must remain open and that no alcoholic beverages be consumed during visits.

Last spring a student government association poll showed that ninety-four per-

cent of the students favored liberalizing the dormitory policy. However, the student affairs committee of the Board of Trustees turned down a proposal that would have allowed students living in each dormitory to write their own visitation rules.

The committee reviewing the issue is composed of four trustees, three students, the deans of students at Richmond College and Westhampton, and one representative each from the faculty, the Board of University Associates, and the Parents Association. Dr. William Leftwich, vice-president for student affairs, presides over the committee's meetings.

After the study is complete, the committee will report to the Board of Trustees.

$156,000 from Carver estate. The University of Richmond has received $155,677 from the estate of Dr. David J. Carver, RC '05. The gift will be added to the scholarship fund Dr. Carver created before his death in 1969 in memory of his son, David J. Carver, Jr. Dr. Carver was an expert on Chinese art, a churchman, and a businessman.

Another gift to the university comes in the form of royalties from chemistry books written by the late Dr. E. Emmet Reid, RC '92, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Reid, internationally known in the field of organic chemistry, was an industrial consultant and the holder of a number of patents.

When he died last December at the age of 101, he was the university's oldest living alumnus.

Gift for the library. A gift of $100,000 from Richmond's First Baptist Church Endowment Fund will be used to establish the Theodore F. Adams Memorial Lecture Room in the new addition to Boatwright Library, now under construction. Dr. Adams, trustee emeritus, was pastor of First Baptist Church for thirtytwo years before his retirement in 1968.

The church's endowment fund has donated approximately $385,000 to the university since its first gift in 1946.

ROTC scholarships. A Westhampton College sophomore, Marie T. Tiedemann of Richmond, is one of only ten women in the nation to receive a two-year Army ROTC scholarship. Last year was the first year that women were admitted to ROTC and thus eligible for the merit awards valued at $7,000. Marie, who plans a career in medicine, is one of five women ROTC cadets at the University of Richmond. Two-year ROTC scholarships were also awarded to William F. Barrow, and Harry R. Florke, students at Richmond College.

World's largest banana split? Students at the University of Richmond created in March what they hope will be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's largest indoor banana split."

One hundred fifty student workers constructed the banana split in the Robins Center, using 800 pounds of bananas, 90 gallons of ice cream, 5 gallons of chocolate syrup, 540 ounces of whipped cream, and 750 cherries. It took one second more than 21 minutes to build and 17 minutes and 22 seconds to be consumed by 700 hungry students, faculty, and friends. By the way, the banana split was more than 600 feet long.

The search is on. The University of Richmond is seeking a new director of alumni affairs. Just as this issue was going to press, John A. Clayton, RC '62, alumni director since 1970 and former editor of the UR Magazine, accepted a position as director of marketing and public relations with Richmond Sports International. The firm owns the Richmond Robins hockey team and is expanding into other leisure time and recreational enterprises.

An alumni committee headed by Otis L. Brown, RC '56, chairman of the alumni council, will interview candidates for the position of director of alumni affairs. Persons interested in applying should contact Jerry Quigg, Vice President for University Relations, University of Richmond, Va. 23173.

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Students plait the traditional Maypole during alumnae / parents weekend festivities April 20.

FootballPreview: There Have Been a Lot of Changes

by Nick Boccella, Director of Sports Information FROM YOURSEAT high in the stands on the east side of City Stadium it will be hard to see the vast changes that have taken place in the football program during the past year. The formations will appear to be the same. The play selections should not vary too much. Even a lot of the numbers on those white jerseys will be identical.

But there have been changes. Many of them.

The man now in charge of the football fortunes at the University of Richmond is Jim Tait. His is a familiar name to many of the university's followers because he has been a major contributor to the football successes of the past. Tait joined the Spiders in 1967 as offensive backfield coach and coordinator under Frank Jones. He was here when the program went from one of the worst in the country to one of the most respected.

He has a new staff for the most part.

Dick Lage, who has been at UR for eight years, is the defensive coordinator. Jerry Foshee will remain as the offensive line coach. But there are new faces. Jack Williams is here from Georgia Tech, and he will tutor the offensive backs. Laurin Collins from Delta State will coach the defensive backfield. Tommy Throckmorton and Jeff Hanson, who were graduate assistants last year, have been added to the staff to coach the defensive ends and tight ends, respectively. In addition, Hanson, who starred at Richmond as a linebacker, will head the junior varsity program.

The biggest changes , though , will be evident in the individuals who are wearing those white jerseys every Saturday.

Last year's team accomplished much more than most expected. The final record was 8-2, but how that came about is a story in itself. The Spiders went through the first six games undefeated, with three shutouts to their credit. The Associated Press saw fit to rank Richmond among the nation's top twenty. Pat Kelly was chosen as the national lineman of the week by the same agency.

It has been suggested by many that that team was the best ever at the University of Richmond. Better than the bowl teams and the conference cham-

Top: Jim Tait is the new head football coach for th e Spiders.

Bottom: The annual spring blue-white .football game was played at City Stadi um to test the yo ung team.

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pionship teams. Better than any. So a comparison with the 1974 squad would be unfair.

With the great team were great players. Three Spiders have signed professional contracts: Barty Smith with the Packers, Kelly with the Colts, and defensive end Lee Pearson with the New York Jets. In all nineteen lettermen were lost, including nine starters on defense and four first-stringers on offense.

But Coach Tait still feels that he has a chance to have a sound football team, though young it may be. This team will bear the fruits of the past two recruiting seasons, which were good ones.

Tait feels that his biggest problem areas will be the overali depth on the entire team, the kicking game, the defensive line and most important, the replacement of the outstanding leaders from last year's team.

"We lost not only good players but great leaders," said Tait. "We had players that had started together for three years, and the other boys looked up to them and rallied around them. The success of this year's team will depend on the emergence of such leaders from the boys that we have back.

"I think that we have good football players, but they are just young and lack that game experience. The young defensive players will have to mature in a hurry, " said Tait.

The strongest part of the 197 4 Spiders should be the offensive backs and receivers. The tandem of Bob Allen, Ed Kreilis, and Al Newby gives Tait depth and quality at running back. George Crossman, Smith's understudy for the past two years, will step in at fullback and do a creditable job. Split end Mike Mahoney, flanker Dinky Jones, and tight end Rickey Brown combine to give the Spiders the best receiving corps since the Walker Gillette-Jim Livesay era.

The quarterback slot should be in good shape with two-year starter Harry Knight returning for his senior year. "Harry has improved every year since he's been with us," said Tait. "He has a fine arm and is developing into a g9od all-around quarterback." Pressing Knight for playing time will be sophomore Larry Shaw, who guided the JV squad a year ago.

"Shaw is a good athlete who has the ability to be a starter."

The rest of the offensive team should be Ramon Perez at center, Rodney Elam, and Bud Jacobs at tackles, with Clay Eubank, Doug McGee, and Greg Duncan alternating at guards.

The defensive team will not be as easy to name. Only tackle Ace Owens and cornerback Bob Saunders return from last year's starting team. "We've had to redevelop our entire defensive football team this spring," said Tait. "We are still not set on a starting lineup. We'll just have to wait until August to see where everyone fits."

As many as six sophomores could start on the defensive unit against Villanova on September 7. Only Owens and Saunders appear set in the starting array.

Jim Tait is correct when he says that the positions are still wide open on defense. Any number of combinations could appear before the starting lineup is set for the opener.

Besides the coaching staff and the players, the 1974 schedule will also be quite different. Gone are Northeast Louisiana, Mississippi, and Davidson, Southern Wake Forest. They will be replaced by Villanova, Appalachian State, Ball State, and Virginia Tech. Six games will be played at City Stadium with Villanova, Furman, V.M.I., East Carolina, Appalachian, and William & Mary all making a visit this year.

This year on your way up to that seat high in the east stands, you'd better buy a program so you can really find out how many changes there have been in Richmond football for 197 4.

1974 Football Schedule Sept. 7 Sept. 14 Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 12 Oct. 26 Nov. 2 Nov. 9 Nov. 16 Nov. 23

Villanova at West Virginia at The Citadel Furman at Ball State at Virginia Tech V.M.I. (Homecoming)

East Carolina Appalachian William & Mary

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Spring Sports Improve THERE WERE NO national championships.

Not even a Southern Conference title.

But the athletic program at the University of Richmond enjoyed one of its most successful years in a long time .

The Commissioner's Cup in the Southern Conference is symbo lic of overall athletic excellence of the member schools.

The Spiders didn 't win the cup this year, but with a fourth place finish , recorded their best season since its inception.

Richmond finished with a total of 55½ points, behind East Carolina's 70½, and Appalachian and William & Mary, both with 66. Below the Spiders were Furman , The Citadel, VMI, and Davidson, in that order.

UR received runners-up trophies in football, basketball, and swimming and finished second in baseball. The track team finished fourth; cross country and rifle teams both ended in fifth; and wrestling, golf, and tennis teams came in sixth in the conference.

Overall, though, spring sports had im proved seasons.

The baseball team, under Chuck Boone, head coach, set a school record for the most wins in a season with 22.

He went through the state undefeated to pick up his second state championship in three years .

The track team opened a new facility this year and hosted the fiftieth annual Southern Conference track and field championships. The Spiders, playing a shorte ned dual-meet season due to late construction, finished fourth in the title event. However, in meet competition, Coach Fred Hardy did record a win over Virginia in a triangular meet with Duke and the Cavaliers.

In golf, Coach Nat Withers recorded a 10-2 season, taking third place in the state ch ampionships. The highlights of the season were the 21-9 win over Virginia Tech in head-to-head competition and the second place finish in the Sea Side Invitational.

Tennis improved under the leadership of Dr. Bill Walker . The Spider netmen ended the campaign with a 13-15 mark, playing one of the most ambitious schedules in the school's history.

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New trustees. Five new trustees have been elected to the University of Richmond Board of Trustees.

They are David E . Satterfield III, RC '43, congressman from Virginia's third district; F. Carlyle Tiller, RC '48, president of W:heat, First Securities; Dr. Charles G. Fuller, RC '54, president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia; Virginia L. Carter, WC '53, an administrator at the University of Maryland ; and Ken McFarlane Smith, an Arlington attorney.

Representative Satterfield received his legal training at the University of Virginia and served in the Virginia House of Delegates before his election to Congress in 1964. He has been active in alumni activities at the university.

Tiller, a member of the university's Board of Associates is the chief volunteer leader in the $50 million "Our Time in History" Development Program. More than $21 million has been raised under Tiller's guidance. He once taught in the School of Business Administration.

Dr. Fuller received the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary in 1957 and was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Richmond in 1970 . He has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Roanoke and serves as president of the trustees of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission. In 1949 he was elected to the Virginia all-state football team.

Ms. Carter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Westhampton College, worked in publications and public relations with several firms before joining Hollins College in 1960 as director of information and publications. At Hollins, she won national recognition for excellence in her field. In January, 1973, she returned to the University of Richmond where she served as director of publications before moving to the University of Maryland last fall as publications editor.

Smith, a member of the University of Richmond Board of Associates, is a senior partner in the law firm of Kinney, Smith, and Barham in Arlington. He earned undergraduate and law degrees at Indiana University and is a director of a number of civic and business firms.

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Pace and Robins inducted. Warren M. Pace, SBA '43, president of Richmond Corporation, and E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., SBA '68, vice-president and director of personnel of the A. H. Robins Company, were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma in ceremonies at the School of Business Administration in April.

The honor society was established at the School of Business Administration in 1965. Only schools nationally accredited by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business are eligible to have a chapter of the society, which is based on academic achievement.

Pace has been president of Richmond Corporation since it came into being in 1968. He assumed the office when the Life Insurance Company of Virginia affiliated with Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation to form Richmond Corporation.

Robins joined the Robins firm in September of 1968 after receiving the B. S. degree in business administration.

He is president and chairman of the board of Richmond Sports International and a member of the boards of a number of civic and business organizations.

Pollard president of PCACAC. Thomas N. Pollard, Jr., RC '53, director of admissions at the University of Richmond, has been elected president of the Potomac and Chesapeake Chapter of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. The chapter includes college admissions officers and high school guidance counselors from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

A member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omicron Delta Kappa, Pollard earned the M.A. degree from George Washington University in 1956. He served as assistant director of research for the Richmond Public Schools before joining the staff of the University of Richmond in 1960.

Hart named Professor of the Year. Dr. Philip R. Hart, RC '46, professor of religion and chairman of the department, has received the Omicron Delta Kappa Professor of the Year Award at the University of Richmond.

After graduating from the university with a B.A., Dr. Hart continued his formal education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he won the Bachelor of Divinity and at Columbia University where he received an M.A. He earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1962.

Before coming to the University of Richmond in 1956 as director of religious activities for men and assistant professor of religious education, Dr. Hart was assistant pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Richmond.

Omicron Delta Kappa is a national service-leadership honorary fraternity. It recognizes outstanding leadership, scholarship, and service to the school and community.

Pitt enters Hall of Fame. Coach Mac Pitt, RC '18, was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame during ceremonies held in Portsmouth April 26.

Pitt was the University of Richmond's baseball coach for thirty-six years and athletic director for twenty-five.

Coach Pitt was elected to the Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame in 1963, the Helms Foundation Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, the American Association of College Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1970, and the Richmond Professional Hall of Fame.

Pitt's association with UR began in 1915 when he enrolled as a student.

He was a star athlete in football, baseball, and track.

Under his guidance, UR baseball teams compiled a record of 426 wins, 257 losses, and five ties. They won 16 state championships, two Southern Conference titles, and tied for two. As basketball coach, Pitt, with a 20-year record of 197-168 , led his teams to three state championships. The 1934-35 team posted a 20-game undefeated season.

Restivo heads N. J. physicians. Dr. Carl A. Restivo, RC '46, has been elected president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. He has been in private practice in Jersey City since 1948.

Dr. Restivo is president of the Hudson County Medical Society, vice-president

of the medical staff at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, and Hudson County delegate to the Medical Society of New Jersey.

Kent new Alexandria judge. Donald Hall Kent, RC '60, L '63, has been appointed circuit court judge in Alexandria, Virginia. He was formerly a member of the Alexandria law firm of Thomas, Kent, Haddock, and Sewell.

Kent accepted the position of assistant commonwealth's attorney following his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1965.

In 1970 he was appointed a substitute municipal court judge. He is a member of the board of directors of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce and is active in the First Baptist Church.

Huff heads recreation program. The Reverend W. W. Huff, RC '61, minister of education and recreation at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Tucker, Georgia, has developed the largest single-church Christian sports program in the nation.

What started as a service to a community without recreational facilities or parks has grown into a part of the successful ministry of Rehoboth Church.

On the 31-acre church property, there are five baseball and softball fields and three football fields. During the summer of 1973, Huff conducted baseball and softball programs in which 1,100 persons, ages six and up, played on seventythree teams. Half of the participants attend Rehoboth, with the remainder coming from other churches in the community.

Future plans call for the construction of a 5,000-seat coliseum which will include three basketball courts, handball courts, and sauna baths.

Millar serves on international team.

Dr. J. D. Millar, RC '56, recently served on the PARO / WHO Commission for the Assessment of the Smallpox Eradication Program in South America. Millar and four other disease control experts from Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and Venezuela reviewed the mass smallpox eradication campaigns conducted in South America.

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A Story with a Happy Ending

Sophorrwre Marshall Bank found rare books on library shelves.

MARSHALLBANK became so unhappy with Boatwright Library's facilities for rare books that he took five of them in April to hold as hostages until the university assured him of its concern for the valuable volumes.

In the process, Bank became the century's most famous booknapper. The Associated Press picked up the story, and newspapers, radio stations, and television stations throughout the nation told of the University of Richmond student's concern for old books. And, as a result, he got an anonymous donation of $1,000 to help the library.

News stories, 28 of them in Virginia newspapers alone , told of Bank's exploits.

The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Herald were among the papers across the country who ran the story. Bank received a phone call from a radio station in Houston, and UPI in New York carried a special piece on the booknapper.

Here 's how the scene unfolded. Bank, a sophomore from New Rochelle , New York, became interested in Robert Frost after reading a magazine article. He checked out a Frost volume entitled Selected Poems and found on the title page an inscription to Westhampton College signed by Frost. Told by a librarian

that the book was in general circulation by mistake, Bank double checked by going back to the library to see if other rare books were on the shelves instead of in a rare book room. He found another Frost book, a 1928 first edition of West Running Brook, also signed by the poet.

On later trips, he found other signed books, one by John Banister Tabb, Later Lyrics, and a 1868 version of John Greenleaf Whittier's Among the Hills.

Bank wrote the library with his complaint , charging that "since the library and the university are incapable of providing an environment which is healthy for both books and people, someone else will have to assume this responsibility."

So, he kept the rare volumes in his dormitory room and gathered headlines and air time to tell of the plight of the library and the rare books. But the library conditions were already well known to Librarian Ardie Kelly and the administration. In fact, construction is to start this summer on a $3 million-plus addition, which will bring library facilities into top shape by 1976.

Assured of this, Bank returned the books to the library and presented the $1,000 check to Kelly, who responded with the comment that "the books will be put into a very suitable environment."

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President's Report 1973-74

University of Richmond

The President'sReport A Year of Study and Decision The year 1973-74 was a year of study and decision at the University of Richmond. While we reviewed our present policies, we charted plans and made important decisions affecting the life of the university. During the year there were a number of major developments, and it is with pride that I list some of the highlights here.

"Recent accomplishments, combined with the university's traditional strengths ... are reasons enough to believe that we shall accomplish our mission: to become one of the best small private universities in the nation."

-President Heilman

• An academic goals study was completed and has set the tone for greater academic excellence, giving us a new sense of direction.

• Members of the faculty, staff, administration, and trustees began a year-long institutional self-study, while a special committee appointed by the Board of Trustees sought to define the meaning of "coordinate education" at the University of Richmond.

• The Board of Trustees approved a merger of the administrative staffs of University College and the Summer School, thus combining the university's continuing education programs into one division.

• Several administrative changes were implemented. Dr. Edward C. Peple was made associate provost; Dr. Austin E. Grigg became dean of the Graduate School; Dr. Russell G. Warren was named dean of Richmond College; and Dr. Max C. Graeber was appointed dean of University CollegeSummer School and Continuing Education.

• Applications for admission to all schools and colleges within the university for 1974-75 increased in number during the year.

• Plans were developed and construction started on a new University Commons, designed to become the center of campus life.

• Financial aid worth more than a quarter of a million dollars was awarded to some 1,000 students.

• Ground was broken for a major addition to Boatwright Memorial Library which will not only triple library space but will also turn the facility into a total learning resources center.

• The law school library was renamed in honor of the late Dr. William T. Muse, a member of the law faculty for forty years and dean for twenty-four.

• Four of our athletic teams ended their respective seasons as runners-up for conference titles, making this one of the most successful years in Spider sports history.

• The Greater Richmond Campaign, part of the ten-year "Our Time in History" Development Program, was launched in March with a goal of $5.6 million.

Details of the activities during the year follow.

Academic Programs The year 1973-74 could be characterized as a year of study.

No fewer than four important studies related to the academic life of the university were in progress.

Perhaps the most important of these was the academic goals study completed last fall. During its year-long preparation, the administration and faculty spent hundreds of hours determining the university's future academic direction. In addition to deliberating the fundamental character and nature of the university, they focused on the influence we have upon students and how we can help them grow as individuals, the

kind of citizens we want our students to become, the nature of our obligations to help students develop professionally, and our responsibilities to communities beyond the campus.

This monumental study has set the tone for greater excellence and has established a sense of direction for the university. In line with our newly defined educational objectives, many departments are evaluating their present programs and some have already altered their course offerings.

University College, which has been faced with a declining enrollment, was the subject of another intensive study. The study, which aimed at determining how we can maintain our urban commitment in a form that is economically feasible, has resulted in the consolidation of day division programs at University College with those on the main campus. Beginning with the 1974 fall semester, daytime programs will be conducted on the main campus, while University College will continue to offer an evening program of high quality at its downtown location.

The study also resulted in the merger of University College and the Summer School, thus combining into one division the university's continuing education activities. The new division, now known as University College-Summer School and Continuing Education, serves as an umbrella for the expanding program of credit and non-credit courses of a continuing education nature, including institutes, workshops, and seminars.

Still in progress is an institutional self-study, begun last year and required every ten years for continued accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. This intensive analysis of all aspects of the institution will form a veritable blueprint for action for the university during the coming decade. In the fall after the study has been completed, an inspection team of educators will visit the campus to consider reaffirming the university's accreditation.

A fourth study has concerned itself with the meaning of coordinate education at the University of Richmond. A special committee, appointed last fall by the Board of Trustees, is attempting to define coordinate education with the intention of preserving and enhancing its best qualities while correcting its weaknesses. A trial proposal has been prepared, calling for Richmond College and Westhampton College to retain their separate identities, names, and administrations; for both colleges to provide separate housing, dining, and social opportunities; and for both colleges to administer separate counseling services in admissions, academics, registration, career development, and placement. The trial proposal also recommends that all academic departments of Richmond College and Westhampton College be made university departments reporting to a dean of faculty.

Let me emphasize that this is only a preliminary proposal.

The committee will not make its final recommendations concerning coordinate education to the Board of Trustees until after public hearings on this important matter.

Because we were analyzing many aspects of our academic program during the year, we deferred implementation of major academic innovations . Instead, we chose to strengthen several programs instituted in recent years. The two-year-old Freshman Colloquia program has continued to flourish. The colloquia, which offer first-year students the opportunity to discuss topics of special interest, was expanded with eight departments offering fourteen different courses ranging from "Big Bangs, Black Holes, and All That" to "The Religious

Dimensions of Western Art Forms." More than 150 freshmen participated. Also, women were admitted to the Army ROTC program for the first time. There were five women among the 109 members of the campus ROTC unit. One of them, a Westhampton College sophomore, was among four cadets unanimously recommended for a two-year scholarship . ¡While the honors program continues to provide advanced instruction for our academically gifted students, an Academic Skills Project is being inaugurated in the fall for students deficient in particular subjects. Students with academic weaknesses subsequently will be provided with study-skill seminars and intensive classroom programs to increase the likelihood of their academic success.

Like many other private institutions, the University of Richmond experienced a decline in the number of applications for the 1973-74 session. Several reasons can be cited for what is a national trend: the dwindling pool of college-age young people, the end of the draft, and the cost of a quality private education. However, the impact of decreasing applications upon the University of Richmond was not as severe as it might have been. In fact, full-time on-campus enrollment was up slightly; nevertheless, total registration in all divisions of the university decreased during the past year, primarily due to changing enrollment patterns at University College.

Enrollment in the day division at University College fell by more than fifty percent as a result of the opening of a new community college in Richmond and increased competition from other nearby low-cost, state-supported institutions. As pointed out earlier, the daytime programs at University College have been combined with those on the main campus in an effort to keep our urban commitment economically viable.

The enrollment picture for the 1974-75 academic year looks considerably brighter. Applications for admission have increased over last year in each of the university's six schools and colleges. Our admissions officers deserve credit for the imaginative and productive manner in which they faced the declining student market. Applications for admission to Richmond College and Westhampton College increased fifteen and twenty-five percent, respectively, over last year.

Under the vigorous leadership of Dean Harold G. Wren, the T. C. Williams School of Law grew to more than 400 students, added five new faculty members, expanded and modernized its curriculum, and greatly improved its library with the acquisition of some 3,500 volumes.

Contrary to national trends, the 1973 Summer School enrollment was eight percent higher than it was in 1972.

The High School Junior-Senior Program, designed to admit academically able and highly motivated high school students who have completed their junior year, enrolled thirty-one students during the summer term. The previous year the program was launched with six students.

A new Master of Education in Physical Education has been added to the offerings of our Graduate School. Scheduled to begin in September, 1974, this program will be taught by our exceptionally well-trained physical education faculty, many of whom have doctorates, and will utilize our outstanding facilities in the new Robins Center. Our interdisciplinary Master of Humanities program, formerly administered by University College, has been transferred to the Graduate School, where it will continue to be offered in the evening. Also, in an effort to attract more full-time graduate students, money avail-

The President'sReport able for graduate stipends has been increased by some $10,000.

The School of Business Administration, which marked its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, taught a record number of students. More than 400 students were served by the school, some thirty percent of whom were enrolled at Richmond College and Westhampton.

The evening division of University College experienced a slight decline in enrollment. This was due largely to the discontinuation of courses at Fort Lee, Virginia, and the removal of all non-credit courses sponsored by the Richmond chapter of the American Institute of Banking. While steps have been taken to stabilize the enrollment at University College, the Bachelor of Commerce degree, a popular evening program among our business and professional constituency in Richmond, has been revised. There has also been a substantial increase in the number of business and liberal arts courses taught at University College by full-time faculty with Ph.D. degrees.

The strength of our academic program is largely dependent upon the excellence of our faculty. During the 1973-74 session our 4,657 full-time and part-time students were taught by 186 full-time and 107 part-time faculty members . In addition to providing instruction of high quality, our faculty found time to direct plays, organize benefit golf tournaments, publish books and articles, present scholarly papers, serve as officers in professional organizations, and work for civic causes .

This year we will be without the services of three outstanding professors who retired this past spring after a combined total of 103 years of teaching at the university.

Alton Williams, associate professor of speech and dramatic arts, and N. Wilford Skinner, associate professor of German, retired after 39 and 37 years, respectively. Dr. Marguerite Roberts, former dean of Westhampton College and professor of English, retired after 27 years. These three professors made an invaluable contribution to scholarship at the university; however, far more important is the favorable influence they exerted upon students. Surely, they will be missed by a host of friends at the university and fondly remembered by thousands of alumni.

The academic program was enriched during the year by visiting scholars, poets, artists, and performers. The cultural highlight of the past season was the Tucker-Boatwright Lecture Series, which presented the Erick Hawkins Dance Company for a week of lectures, demonstrations, and performances.

Another notable program included a lecture by one of the nation's top English literature scholars, Dr. Francis Lee Utley, and readings by two young poets.

It is always particularly pleasing to honor our own alumni who have distinguished themselves in some notable manner.

This past March the Board of Trustees chose to award Earl Hamner, Jr., RC '44, creator of the award-winning television series "The Waltons," an honorary degree. Other alumni awarded honorary degrees during the year were: Dr. Martin L. Shotzberger, SBA '48, president of Catawba College; William D. Oldham, RC '41, Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee; the Reverend Raymond F. Allen, RC '62, a Richmond Baptist minister; and Malcolm U. Pitt, RC '18, former director of athletics at the university.

Honorary degrees were also presented to Mills E. Godwin, Jr., governor of Virginia; the Reverend Miles J. Jones, chairman of the Richmond School Board; Edmund A. Rennolds,

Jr., promoter of the Richmond Symphony; Joseph F. Cullman 3d, chairman of the board of Philip Morris; and Dr. Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University.

Student Affairs One of the year's most significant developments in the area of student affairs was the planning of the new University Commons. More than 100 interviews were conducted in an effort to determine the needs of student-related activities to be relocated in the new $4 million facility. The commons, now being constructed at the southeast end of University Lake, will house bookstore, post office, barber shop, game room, lounges, snack bar, photography darkroom, arts and crafts studio, and offices for various student organizations . Once the commons is completed in September, 1975, it will become the first true "hub" of campus life in the history of the university.

The Robins Center, which just completed its first full year of operation, hosted a variety of programs and activities.

Among the more notable successes were performances by Doc Severinsen and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. A lecture series, sponsored by the University Student Union, presented such speakers as Stewart Udall and James J. Kilpatrick, while the University Union Programming Board advised other enter tainment activities designed to appeal to the students.

Improvements in our financial aid program have been rapid and progressive. This past year the Office of Financial Aid served more than 1,000 students, awarding scholarships, loans, grants, and employment worth more than a quarter of a million dollars. Next year the financial aid office will administer fourteen different programs supported by federal, state, and university funds; just four years ago there were only two such programs. Approximately twenty-five percent of the student body will receive some form of financial aid in the coming year.

Services in advising and counseling students, particularly freshmen, were expanded this past year. A workshop was held to train freshman advisors, and new procedures were developed for providing advisors with information on advisees in a rapid and efficient manner. Further improvements in this important task of counseling first-year students are planned.

As students become more career-oriented, it is important that they be provided with the service of an office of career counseling and placement. Already, students have displayed growing interest in the limited services provided by the teacher placement office and the placement offices at Richmond College and the School of Business Administration.

These types of services must assume a more significant role in our student affairs operation if larger numbers of students and alumni are to benefit.

The academic year witnessed extensive student involvement in the life and governance of the institution. Students expressed considerable interest in social rules, the result being that the Board of Trustees reviewed and clarified university guidelines regarding alcoholic beverages. Dormitory rules and regulations also received much attention, both on and off the campus. This matter, which consumed much time on the part of both students and administrators, currently is under study by a committee representative of the university's many con-

The President'sReport The Baptist General Association of Virginia was a guest of the University of Richmond for its two-day sesquicentennial meeting last November. More than 6,000 persons attended the two evening sessions held in the Robins Center.

Dr. David S. Cohn, assistant professor of law, lectures to a class at the T.C. Williams School of Law. Cohn, who earned the J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, was one of five new faculty to join the law school this year.

nesses and governmental agencies during the year; some 3,500 persons were enrolled. In addition to strengthening its relationship with its internationally known adjunct faculty-consultants, the institute engaged several outstanding authorities in the field of transactional analysis, among them Dr. Muriel James and Ms. Dru Scott. The institute also performed research activities for the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the Richmond Community Action Program, the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission, and the Virginia Association of County Administrators.

The evening division of University College continues its objective of providing business and liberal arts courses that are relevant to the Richmond community. The Master of Commerce program continues to be the university's largest graduate program, attracting more than 200 full-time and parttime students. Its Bachelor of Commerce program has been revamped for next year. Undergraduate business students will find the updated program allows more flexibility in selecting courses. The newly reorganized University College is also expanding its continuing education opportunities for the community.

Athletics The 1973-74 season ranks as one of the best in the history of intercollegiate sports at the University of Richmond. The Spider football team compiled a record of eight wins and two losses. After six straight wins and a big victory over West Virginia University, UR appeared in the Associated Press poll of the top twenty teams in the nation for the first time in history. Although they came close, the team missed the Southern Conference title by losing a late-season game to East Carolina University. Football superstar Barty Smith capped a fantastic season, his last for Richmond, by being voted All-America honors.

The basketball team posted a 16-12 record for second place in both the regular season and the Southern Conference tournament. It was the first winning season for the basketball team in sixteen years. After the final game, the number 30 jersey worn by senior Aron Stewart was retired; he is the second player to be so honored in university history.

The baseball team ended its season with a 22-12 record, also second best in the conference. The swimming team, after only two years of intercollegiate competition, finished second in the Southern Conference championship meet.

This past winter wrestling was initiated as the newest of the university's intercollegiate sports. While the wrestling team won only three out of twelve matches, it did produce outstanding performances by several individuals. Both the indoor and the outdoor track teams finished fourth in their respective Southern Conference championship meets. The university hosted the Southern Conference outdoor track championship in May on its recently completed all-weather Chevron track.

Three coaches also distinguished themselves and the university. Basketball Coach Lewis Mills was voted Southern Conference Coach of the Year while Dr. Norris W. Eastman, swimming coach, received similar honors. Track Coach Fred T. Hardy served as head manager of the U. S. track team when it went to Moscow.

James M. Tait, assistant football coach for seven years, was appointed head football coach last March, following the resignation of Coach Frank Jones. Clyde Biggers, director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, was selected in April as the new athletic director, a position also previously held by Coach Jones. Earlier, the Board of Trustees had separated the jobs of head football coach-athletic director. We recognize and appreciate the contributions of a winning coach such as Frank Jones, and we are confident that our football and other athletic programs will continue their winning traditions.

Financial Developments At the time of this writing the 1974 fiscal year ( ending June 30, 1974) was not concluded, and therefore, we are

stituencies. These student concerns made this a vibrant year, characteristic of dynamic institutions.

Students displayed greater interest and involvement in university worship services. The second year of the series was marked by increased attendance and could well become the focal point of religious life on campus. Religious organizations, particularly the University Interfaith Council and the Baptist Student Union, also experienced greater activity and interest.

New and Improved Facilities As indicated earlier, one of the major accomplishments of the year was the planning of the new University Commons.

Last October the Board of Trustees authorized planning to begin on a $4 million student activities building. A committee of students, faculty, and administrators was formed to develop the plans. They visited other campuses to inspect student union buildings, and they met with the architects, Caudill, Rowlett and Scott of Houston, Texas. Their recommendations have been incorporated into plans for the new facility, designed to bring together various student activities presently scattered among numerous locations on campus.

The new commons will include not only offices for the student government associations and other campus organizations such as newspaper, yearbook, and radio station, but also recreational areas and a large multipurpose room for meetings and banquets. When this facility is completed in the fall of 1975, it is expected to become the social center of the university.

Construction on the addition to Boatwright Memorial Library is also underway. The new wing will more than triple the library's floor space, providing room for more than 500,000 volumes and extensive audio-visual equipment. Once the $3,320,000 addition is completed sometime iri early 1976, the library will become a total learning resources center for students and faculty.

During the summer Ryland Hall is undergoing extensive renovation. Th~ $600,000 project, to be completed in time for the start of the fall semester, will modernize the Richmond College classroom and office building, constructed in 1912.

New lighting, air conditioning, and carpeting are being ¡installed during refurbishing.

Construction of Agnes Taylor Gray Dormitory at Westhampton College is well on its way toward completion. When it opens in the fall, the air-conditioned and carpeted dormitory will house 280 women. A generous gift by Trustee Emeritus Garland Gray, RC '21, H '64, made the naming of the dormitory for his late wife, a 1923 alumna of Westhampton, possible.

We now have one of the finest outdoor tracks in the country, thanks to the recent completion of our new eight-lane, all-weather Chevron track. The quarter of a million dollar facility was the gift of an interested alumnus. Millhiser Gymnasium has also recently been renovated and now houses the language laboratory, computer center, and various administrative offices.

McNeeley Associates, landscape architects and planners from Raleigh, North Carolina, have been retained by the university to review and implement the various landscape projects contained in the master campus plans adopted last

year by the Board of Trustees. Their recommendation to wnstruct a new baseball field at the north end of University Lake, convenient to locker rooms in the Robins Center and near student resident halls, is being implemented during the summer. Also in the process of being decided is the location of a new road to link Richmond College and Westhampton.

The roadway over a dam between the two campuses will be closed due to lakeside construction of the new University Commons.

While completing plans for the University Commons, the library addition, and the Ryland Hall renovation, a new science center has been under much consideration. The site selected for the $8 million facility is on the Westhampton College side of University Lake, between Cannon Memorial Chapel and the Modlin Fine Arts Center. Members of the mathematics, psychology, biology, chemistry, and physics departments have spent many hours planning the new facility, which is to be constructed as soon as architects can complete their work.

Although there were no new buildings dedicated this past year, we did choose to rename the library at the T. C. Williams School of Law in honor of the late Dean William Taylor Muse (1906-1971). The dedication ceremony was held during Law Weekend in April, recognizing not only Dean Muse but also the generosity of his close friend, Harwood Cochrane, who made the memorial possible.

Community Service The University of Richmond has a strong commitment to community service, as evidenced by the variety of programs and activities conducted during the past year. The Institute for Criminal Justice, operating under the auspices of the law school, was established to educate Jaw enforcement officers, district attorneys, and others in the criminal justice field. The first program conducted by the institute was a three-day seminar for the National College of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Public Defenders. More than 100 attorneys, not only from the Richmond area but also from other eastern states, attended the sessions.

In March the Interfaith Council joined the law school in sponsoring a Law and Ethics Symposium. The featured speaker was Father Robert Drinan, congressman from Massachusetts. Other participants included U. S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige, ¡Jr., State Senator Lawrence D. Wilder, Professor R. J. Bacigal, and Dean Harold G. Wren.

The Student Education Association opened Ye Old Junque Shoppe, which collects materials from local businesses and industries for redistribution to metropolitan area teachers.

Works.hops on how teachers might use the materials creatively were conducted by the education department.

A series of non-credit courses in the arts and humanities launched in 1972-73 as the Horizons in Learning program this year enrolled approximately 500 students, three times the first year's enrollment. This program's rapid growth indicates that there is a definite need for this type of educational service within the community. In providing these courses the university enhanced its reputation among alumni, faculty, staff, and the general public.

The Institute for Business and Community Development sponsored 143 programs, conferences, and classes for busi-

unable to report actual financial details . We do, however, expect to complete the year within the budget.

The 1974 budget was $11,785,800, an increase of approximately $351,000 over the previous year. The increase in revenue was due primarily to increases in student fees and investment income. The instructional, student life, and intercollegiate athletics areas were the primary beneficiaries of this increase.

Significant increases in faculty salaries were recorded during the year, and together with salary raises scheduled for 1975 the university's pay scale for faculty will be well above the national average . This increase not only recognizes the talents of our present faculty, but also will enable us to continue to attract outstanding teachers.

In an effort to improve the law school, funds were allocated for five additional law faculty, and a special allocation of $50,000 was approved to acquire books for the law library.

Over the next four years some $400,000 will be appropriated to bring the law school library up to required standards.

Further financial data will be published in the fall.

Our Time in History The undisputed highlight of the university's fund ra1smg effort during the past year was the Greater Richmond Campaign. This effort involved more than 900 volunteers and stirred much local interest in the University of Richmond.

Under the leadership of Kenneth L. Roberts, president of Central National Bank in Richmond, the campaign began in March. During the week of the kickoff, a series of special events focused the attention of the entire community upon the university and its impact upon the city. Five distinguished national figures appeared on campus before various audiences.

They were Esther Peterson, consumer affairs advisor to President Lyndon Johnson; Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; Lewis F. Powell, associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Earl Hamner, Jr., RC '44, creator of the award-winning television series "The Waltons;" and Lt. Commander Paul E. Galanti, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam. I am most pleased to report that as of June 1, 1974, more than $5.4 million had already been committed toward the goal of $5.6 million.

The Greater Richmond Campaign is part of the broader "Our Time in History" Development Program which seeks to raise $50 million by 1982. Since the development program began two years ago, some 3,000 volunteers have pledged their support. The result has been that as of June 1, 1974, we had received pledges totaling some $22 million dollars, almost $10 million of which has been paid.

While the Greater Richmond Campaign was being conducted in our home community, alumni in other parts of the country were being asked to continue their support of the university through the annual giving programs. These programs continue to be highly successful, with the Parents Fund particularly noteworthy. As of March 31, 1974, parents of our students had donated $43,000 to the university, an increase of $30,000 over their contributions last year. During the coming year alumni and alumnae across the country will be asked to support the "Our Time in History" program, while

Richmond residents will again be given the opportunity support the annual fund.

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Board of University Associates The Board of University Associates was formed only two years ago, yet it has already proved to be one of our greatest assets . These thirty-four distinguished men and women, all leaders in their fields, help to interpret the university to various groups, advise the president and his cabinet , and secure financial support.

Three new associates were elected by the Board of Trustees in March . They are Leslie Cheek, Jr .; Dr. Kenneth L. Erfft , G '36; and Mrs. Paul E. Galanti. Elected at the Board of Trustees' meeting in May were State Senator Elmon T. Gray; A. P. Gates, RC '48 ; C. Porter Vaughan, RC '40 ; and Marcus M . Weinstein, RC '49.

Board of Trustees Our Board of Trustees has continued to serve the university generously . During the year, they acted upon a number of matters of great significance, always displaying wise leadership and great forethought.

We welcome to the board five new trustees elected in May .

They are David E . Satterfield III, RC '43 ; F . Carlyle Tiller , RC '48; Dr. Charles G. Fuller , RC '54, H '70 ; Ms . Virginia Carter, WC '53; and Ken McFarlane Smith , a member of the Board of Associates.

The deaths of two trustees emeriti, J . Vaughan Gary and L. Howard Jenkins , were recorded with sadness.

Looking Forward to 1974-75 The promise of the 1974-75 academic year gives us great cause for enthusiasm . We have already charted the course for our academic program through the recently completed academic goals study . Once the analysis of the entire educational program is completed, we will have a clearer vision of the tasks ahead .

The new facilities now under construction, the University Commons and the library addition, as well as the renovation of Ryland Hall, will provided the facilities necessary to house our expanding educational services.

These recent accomplishments, combined with the university's traditional strengths-good leadership , a small enrollment, a liberal arts tradition in a university setting, a faculty dedicated to teaching, concern for the worth of the individual, a beautiful suburban campus near metropolitan Richmond, and an educational climate based upon Christian principles-are reasons enough to believe that we shall accomplish our mission: to become one of the best small private universities in the nation.

E. Bruce Heilman President

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1911 Paul E. Hubbell of Ypsilanti, Mich., read a paper to the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters on "Edward Gibbons, 1737-1794, as World Artist, Diarist, and Historian of Rome."

1930 Robert H . Evans retired Jan . 1, 1974, from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation while continuing in a consulting capacity.

Bennie V . Madison of Montross , Va ., is serving as interim pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in the Rappahannock As sociation of Virgini a.

1916 The Reverend L. Bland Taylor of Hartfield, Va., is serving as interim pastor of the New Hope Memorial Church of King and Queen County, now part of the Tidewater Baptist Association .

1919 Robert Ryland of Tappahannock, Va., is serving in his eighth year as general registrar of voters for Essex County. He is active in the local retired teachers group as well as the scho-larship program of the Ruritan Club.

1920 Dr . Thomas M. Winn, Jr. of Covington, Va., is a practicing physician at LewisGale Hospital in Salem.

1922 Dr. W . Carl Kappes is a practicing physician in Huntington, W. Va. 1923 B. French Johnson of San Diego, Calif., completed a 22-day tour of foreign countries .

1924 Fred E. completed ten as southeastern tian Nationals'

Manning of Gaffney, S. C., years of voluntary service field representative of ChrisEvangelism Commission .

1926 Reade W. Corr, having retired in 1968 after 40 years in the public school system, is a counselor at Chesapeake College and director of an adult education program in Chestertown, Md. He also serves as president of the boards of trustees of the local hospit al and library.

1927 Thomas Eugene West will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the Christian ministry in 1975. He plans to teach a semester of music in Treverton Baptist College , South Africa, and lecture in Christian ethics and philosophy in Johannesburg Seminary . He will present concerts in all his former overseas churches.

1928 Aubrey S. Tomlinson completed an interim pastorate for the First Baptist Church in New Bern, N.C., and is now interim pastor for the Wake Forest Baptist Church in Winston-Salem .

1929 David V. Buchanan of Chappaqua, N.Y., retired from Con Edison as assistant to the senior vice-president in July and makes his home in Peterborough , N.H. Cyril B. Meyers of Philadelphia retired as director of economic development of General Waterworks and remains as a consultant to the rate department.

Nevitt Sanford, president of the Wright Institute, Berkeley, Calif., delivered the commencement address at Atlantic Chri stian College this year.

R. Edward Walton of Arlington, Va ., retired from the Navy Department after thirty-one years service with the Bureau of Ships and the Naval Ship Engineering

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1931 Robert T. Fary will retire in August as director of finance for the City of Richmond after forty-two years of municipal service.

1932 Robert I. Booth of Lynchburg , Va. , has accepted an interim pastorate at Clifford Baptist Church in Amherst County .

Blake W . Corson , Jr. received a NASA achievement award for his invention of a jet noise suppressor which can be applied to commercial aircraft. He worked on his invention before retir ing from Langley Research Center in 1972.

The Reverend Charles P . Parker, former interim pastor of Clover Baptist Church, plans to retire next year as principal of Clover Elementary School.

The Reverend Russell J . Urquhart of Roanoke, Va. , is in retirement from several Baptist pastorate s in Virginia , but still works part-time in the church of his membership.

1933 Sam C. Couch of Honake r, Va ., has retired after forty years of teaching school.

He is now with Texas Refinery Corporation of Fort Worth .

1934 The Reverend Raymond E. Abbitt, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Frederiksted , St. Croix , U .S. Virgin Isl ands, has accepted a call to be rector of the Bishop Ma son Retreat and Conference Center for the Diocese of Dallas , Tex. 0. B. Falls , Jr. of Jack son , Miss., completed an 18-month stay in Vienna , Austri a, where he was a senior director of the International Atomic Energy Agency in charge of a project dealing with a market survey of nuclear power in developing countrie s.

He and his wife traveled in twenty-six countries durin g their stay abroad .

C. T . Tinsley recently relocated his Florida Rubber and Supply Company in a new facility ( 1708 Mar shall St., Jacksonville, Fla .) that hou ses one of the largest stocks of mechanical rubber products and allied items in the U .S. Harold Van Allen of Kingston , N. Y. , retired in 1971. He was pre sident of American Baptist Churches of New York State in 1972-73 and pa st-pr esident of the American Baptist Men of New York.

Judge John F . Carroll , Jr. is retired and lives in Port St. Lucie, Fla. 1935 John W. Courtney, Jr. of We st Point , Va ., conducted a NRA rifle instructor school at West Point High School this year.

A. Taylor Seay , Jr. of Kilmarnock, Va., retired from DuPont Co. , Sept. 30, 1973.

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Va., retired from the Fifth Baptist Church of Hun tington, W.Va. He is currently serving as interim pastor of the Bedford Baptist Church in Virginia.

1947 Paul W. Duke has been appointed public broadcasting correspondent for the National Public Affairs Center for Tele vision in Washington, D.C.

1938 Stuart Schwarzschild of Atlanta, Ga., is the incoming president of Southern Risk and Insurance Association .

1948 Dwight H. Anderson spent the summer of 1973 medieval and modern history Munich, West Germany . He M.A. in counseling last year Michigan University.

1939 John D. Sanford is serving as chair man of the Department of Health and Physical Education at Atlantic Christian College.

1940 T. H. Bruno of Norfolk, Va., retired as a commander in the Navy in 1972.

He is teaching part-time in the School of Business Administration of Old Dominion University.

Dr. Austin E. Grigg, dean of the Graduate School at the University of Richmond, has been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa , the national honorary scho lastic fraternity.

Dr. W. H. Remine recently spoke in Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., for the American Cancer Society and in San Juan before the Puerto Rican Chapter of the American College of Surgeons . He gave four addresses to the Dallas Southern Clinical Society in Texas. In May he spoke to the American Surgical Association in Colorado Springs and before the American Medical Association in Chicago in June .

Otis E. Snowa of Toano , Va., retired in January, 1974, as executive officer at the national office of the Internal Revenue Service after thirty-two years of service.

1941 D. E. M . Adams of Chapel HiH, N.C., lectured at Vanderbilt University's Symposium on Human Rights. His topic was "Parenthood and Human Rights." He also lectured at Louisburg College and East Tennessee University.

Edward R. Adams, former vice-president of corporate finance for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, joined Central National Corporation as corporate vice-president.

1942 Ralph E. Kinsey, secretary-treasurer of the real estate firm of Kinsey, Perdue, McCall, was elected president of the Richmond Board of Realtors.

1943 B. Judson Mcclanahan , M.D., authored the article, "You're the Captain" in the February issue of Air Facts Magazine.

He has flown as a private pilot for the past twenty-three years, with over 2,000 hours of flight time.

William H. Metzger, Jr. of Rockville, Md. , a chemist for the government, served twenty-five years with the National Bureau of Standards and for the past seven years ha s been chief chemist for the General Services Administration.

Dr. Elmer S. West , Jr . is pastor of the Ginter Park Baptist Church in Richmond .

1945 Dr . Melvin J. Bradshaw will return to Tokyo in July as administrator of the Japan Mission.

1946 Dr . M. Moseley Powell of Memphis, Tenn., assoc iate research professor at the University of Tennessee medical units and assoc iate professor at Memphis State University, has completed a speaking tour in four education centers in Mississippi and Missouri on "Science and the Citizen."

Zane Grey Ross of Mechanicsville, Va., wa s elected a tru stee of Bluefield College.

Fred Uzzle of Jacksonville , Fla., has been elected by the National Federation of the Blind of Florida to coordinate a talking books project in the exceptional child progra m of the public schools system.

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1949 Dr. Farrar W. Howard is a practicing physician in Providence Forge, Va. He is a deacon and Sunday School teacher in the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.

G. I. Johnson was elected venerable master of the Lodge of Perfection of the Richmond Scottish Rite Bodies. He is employed by the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Claude G . Thomas of Weston, Mass., is vice-president of sales for Massachusetts Financial Services in Boston.

1950 Harper J. Sasser of Knoxville, Tenn., is in his sixth year as pastor of Washington Pike United Methodist Church . His column "Amen Corner" appears regularly in the local weekly paper .

James L. Holdaway of Stone Mountain, Ga., was a consultant in water quality studies in Sao Paulo, Brazil, sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization in cooperation with the World Health Organization.

1952 Robert L. Chadwick of Commerce, Tex., received his Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Tulane University.

Paul Shupe is serving as city magistrate in Newport News, Va. 195<!, William R. Wooten, Jr. of Silver Spring, Md ., will become recto,r of Grace Episcopal Church. He is now serving as associate rector.

1955 John B. Dorsey of Englewood, Colo., is general manager of the architectural and engineered products division of the Johns -Manville Corporntion . In 1972, he was appointed vice-president and operations manager of the industrial construction products department. In addition to being named division general manager, he is also a vice-president of Johns-Manville Sales Corporation and vice-president of Johns Manville Products Corporation .

Kenneth L. Hodder of Northridge, Calif ., received the J.D. degree from the University of California. He is serving with the Salvation Army and the U.S. Naval Reserve as a chaplain.

1956 Clarence "Red" Keville of San Rafael, Calif., completed Command and General Staff College in June , 1973, and is now assigned as Ninth Army Readiness Region Aviation Coordinator for five west coast states.

1957 W. C . Hatcher of Durham, N.C. , was recently named to the board of directo'fS of the Tobacco History Corporation .

He is involved in the restoration of the Duke Homestead in Durham and is president of the Lenoir County Historical Association.

1958 Dr. James M. Yankovich has accepted the position of dean of the School of Education at the College of William and Mary.

1959 F. B. Garey of Richmond joined Hanover Mortgage as vice-president in charge of administration. He was formerly an assistant vice-president of Bank of Virginia Company.

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Dr. W. A. Higgs of Kalispell, Mont., is a practicing physician.

The Reverend Paige A. Young of Fredericksburg is the local UGF chairman for 1974 and is also serving a two -year term on the State Board of Trustees of UGF. He is host of a program on educational TV supported by the Ferry Farm Baptist Church where he is pastor.

1960 Army Major William P. Collier, Jr. of Portsmouth, Va., graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk.

1961 S. Wyndham Anderson of Princeton Junction, N.J., was recently appointed corporate manager, Equal Opportunity Affairs, Pfizer Corporation, in New York City.

R. Chris Hassell, Jr. was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at Vanderbilt.

1962 Major Howard Haynes received his master's degree from Western Maryland College and is presently a faculty member assigned to the school's Army ROTC department.

James M. MacMillan, Jr. joined Richmond Corporation as assistant auditor. He holds the M.B .A. degree in finance from Emory University.

Dr. Maurice Novick of Houston, Tex., is completing his residency in plastic surgery.

Dalton A. Parker of Columbia, S.C., is a chemical salesman in water treatment for Metropolitan Refining Company of New York.

1963 John L. Fugate of Winchester, Va., is leaving Lord Fairfax Community College to accept the position of program head of the humanities and social sciences division at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond.

1964 C. Dale Ga.mes of Richmond has been elected an officer of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia as assistant actuary.

1965 John Carroll of Richmond is president of Hanover Mortgage Company.

Earl R . Crouch, Jr., M.D. , will travel with his wife to the Dominican Republic in June on a Christian Medical Society Mission Project.

William F . Gunter was named a pension trust officer of the First and Merchants National Bank in Richmond.

Charles Thornsvard of Rockville, Md., is currently a fellow in hematology at Walter Reed General Hospital.

1966 Robert Elliot Bayliss, who teaches English at the Naval Academy, also serves as tennis coach and assistant squash coach.

Karl Doetsch holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Science in Biochemistry from the Medical University of South Carolina .

Dr . Travis DuPriest returned to Cambridge , Mass., after having spent a year on leave-of-absence at St. Cha.d's College, University of Durham, England, He is working on his M.T .S. degree at Harvard Divinity School.

Louis A. Rosenstock was elected judge of the General District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, by the General Assembly of Virginia on Jan. 31, 1974.

Joseph Russo, Jr. is a pharmacist with Revco Drugs in Virginia Beach.

William J. Solari of Raleigh, N.C., was appointed to head the section of Bache which deals with fixed income products for eastern North Carolina .

1967

Douglas W . Davis of Danville, Va .,

received his J .D. degree from Georgetown Law Center and is associated with the Richmond firm of Hunton, Williams, Gay and Gibson.

Thomas W. Lukens of Chicago, III., was accepted into the Ph.D. program in pathology of the University of Chicago Medical School.

John McGinty is serving as assistant tennis coach at the U.S. Naval Academy .

Samuel E. Perry, Jr. has been named to the Fredericksburg, Va., Bicentennial Commission, as chairman of the special events committee. He will also chair the committee for the 250th celebration of the founding of the city of Fredericksburg in 1977.

R. Allen Saville of Lawrenceville, Va., graduated from University of Virginia Law School and is a Jaw clerk with Justice Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

William F. Kennedy of Virginia Beach was promoted to vice-president and manager of the commercial loan department of First Virginia Bank of Tidewater. He received his M.A. in economics from Old Dominion University in 1970.

R. Tucker Kirk has assumed the position of vice-president of Mid-State Insurance Agency, in Lynchburg, Va. John M. Moates is presently associated with Hamby and Thorne, Realtors in Richmond.

Joseph C. Northen of Louisville, Ky., received the Master of Church Music degree from Southern Baptist Seminary and will serve as Minister of Music at West Hartsville Baptist Church in South Carolina.

Ralph W. Turner, Jr. of Cary, N.C., is assistant national bank examiner with the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department, headquartered in Raleigh.

Captain William J. Viglione of Frederick, Md., having completed an internship at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. in July, 1973, is serving as post dental surgebn with the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick, Md. Latham T. Winfree, Jr., after having being stationed for two years with the Army in Berlin, earned his master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and has entered the University of Montana for his doctorate under a grant from HEW. 1969 Robert J. Hundley of Phoenix, Ariz., is vice-president of Armour and Company.

Davis L. Smith, Jr. of Alexandria, Va., chaplain at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg, assumed the associate directorship of the Harvard Street Baptist Center.

1970 Ronald L. DeTemple of Marietta, Ga., completed his Master of Science in Business Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University in August, 1973, and is now with the marketing services division of Dun and Bradstreet.

1971 Ronald Lee Eason completed his seminary training at Southeastern and received the M.D. degree. He is pastor of the Meherrin Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, N.C. Jeff Hanson of Beloit, Wisc., was appointed head junior varsity coach at the University of Richmond.

S. L. Lanterbach of Battle Creek, Mich., was promoted to assistant manager of Stanley Home Products in Battle Creek.

Robert W. Smith is a special agent of the FBI in Cincinnati, having recently graduated from the FBI National Academy.

1972 David C. Shores of Craig AFB, Ala., was assigned to the 29th Flying Train-

ing Wing at Craig AFB. In August he will leave for an assignment in the information office at Torrejon AFB in Spain .

1973 Steve Carroll is an economist in Washington, D.C ., with Data Transmission Company of Dallas, Tex. Don Dale has been named news director for WTVR, Channel 6, in Richmond, and the two radio stations, WTVR-AM and WTVR-FM. He has been on the staff of the television and radio stations since 1962.

Gilbert C. Earle of Richmond has completed a seminar at the Hartford Insurance Group's advancement center. He is a claim representative with the Hartford's Richmond regional office.

Engagements 1969

Dwight Frazier to Debby Fifer.

1970 Cary Atwood Ralston to Janet Word Pearman.

1971 Brian William Susan Owings.

Mccahill

to Mary

1973 James Douglas Barfoot to Moore Littleton.

Ramon Earl Chalkley III to Nancy Tureman.

Leonard Franklin Gardner to Nelle Haag.

Bruce Winship Wright to Linda Rosser.

Leah Jane Dare Lou

1974 Louis Russell Lawson III to Katherine Walton Moore.

John Allan Teates to Pamela Jane Weaver.

Weddings 1967 Keith L. Tinkham to Shirley J. Wise on Nov. 24, 1973.

Births 1963 Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Jennings, a daughter, Suzanne Elizabeth, Mar. 18, 1974.

1965 Dr. & Mrs. Earl Crouch, Jr., a son , Eric, born Feb. 2, 1973.

1966 Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Barnes, a daughter, Sarah Margaret, on Mar. 28, 1973.

Mr. & Mrs. Karl Doetsch, a son, Walter Lewis, born July 28, 1973.

Mr. & Mrs. David Workman, a son, Brian, born Mar. 4, 1974.

1971 Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Lee Eason, a daughter, Amy Leigh, born Aug. 8, 1973.

BUSINESS SCHOOL 1950 Lewis A. Crescioli was promoted to special agent liason officer with the FBI in Washington.

David 0. Williams of North Tazewell, Va., was promoted from senior tax attorney to tax counsel of Bethlehem Steel Corporation and was transferred from Pennsylvania to Washington.

1951 William G. Shahda of Pittsburgh, Pa., is a financial analyst with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

1954 R. Wayne Browning of Davis Wharf, Va ., is president of the Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital board of trustees for a two-year term .

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George W. Norris , treasurer of Investors Income Fund, was elected a director of the mutual fund, Investors Income Fund, of the Richmond Corporation. He is also vice-president and treasurer of the fund's investment advisor and underwriter , First Virginia Management and Research Corporation, a Richmond Corporation affiliate .

1956 W. K. Cardoza of Brookfield, Wisc., is in charge of the Milwaukee division of C.I .T. Corporation.

1957 Leo N. Lampros received his D.D.S. from the Medical College of Virginia and his M.S.D. from the University of Indiana.

He is now practicing orthodontics in Roanoke, Va. Frederick J . Sodomka of Hopewell, Va., spent a working vacation in the Philippine Islands, where he was involved in the construction of a chapel.

Charles F . Taylor of Chesapeake, Va ., is vice-president and area manager for the Bank of Virginia's Tidewater, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake offices.

1960 Robert F. Clay of Newport News, Va., accepted the post of vice-president and general manager of Princess Anne Equipment Corporation's industrial division in Virginia Beach.

Charles P. Wilbourne of Richmond was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Bank of Powhatan .

1961 T. L. Willis, Jr. of Martinsville , Va. , is purchasing manager of Pannill Knitting Company.

1962 Dr. S. Lee Richardson , Jr . will head the Office of Consumer Affairs within the Federal Energy Office. He was formerly with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Office of Consumer Affairs.

1964 H. Carlton Townes of Richmond was promoted to director of taxes for A. H. Robins Company. He is a member of the Tax Executives Institute and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants .

1965 Charles N . Reynolds, Jr. of Richmond joined the firm of Winfree H. Slater, real tors.

1966 David Workman was promoted to manager of information systems at the General Tire and Rubber Company, Bolta Products Division in Lawrence, Mass.

1967 J. W. Andrews of St. Petersburg , Fla., graduated from the Stetson College of Law in May, 1974.

Wilbur B. Boyer, Jr . of Greensboro, N.C., is assistant controller of ErwinMooresville Mills Division of Burlington Industries .

Michael W . Taylor of Richmond , former commercial finance officer for the Bank of Virginia , was promoted to assistant vicepresident.

1968 Peter D. Pruden is trust administrator with the American National Bank in Suffolk , Va. Herbert M. Savage. Jr. of Conshohocken, Pa., was promoted to district credit manager for Reynolds Metals Co . in Park Ridge , III. Jeffrey R. Thoman was appointed manager, Philadelphia district for Heinz , U.S.A., a division of the H . J . Heinz Co. 1970 Joseph C. MacPhail, Jr. of Char lottesville, Va ., was promoted to assistant vice-president and commercial loan officer of Virginia National Bank .

Bruce L. Weinstein of Winston-Salem, N.C., is working as a systems repre sentative for Burroughs .

1972 William T. Pearson, Jr. of Portsmouth, Va., was promoted to assistant cashier of the American National Bank.

Engagements 1969 Paul.

Andrew H. Forberg to Susan Kay

1970 Alan Curtis Edwards to Rebecca Joyce Ricks.

John S. Ely to Patricia Jean McPhail.

1973 Earl Jackson Maderia, Jr. to Debra Lee Mackey.

Births 1970 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. MacPhail, Jr., a son, Joseph C., III, born Dec. 22, 1973.

LAW SCHOOL 1947 Alvin Guttag of Bethesda, Md., is practicing patent law with the firm of Cushman, Darby, and Cushman in Washington, D .C. He and his wife recently returned from a tour of Europe.

Engagements 1973 Cyrus A. Dolph IV to Mary Margaret Pastore.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 1967 Charles B. Walker, president of Spotless Company of Richmond, is comptroller for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

GRADUATE SCHOOL

Travel abroad. Four

tours designed with alumni and alumnae in mind are being offered during the next year.

Three one-week tours are being sponsored by the alumni association. The first of these will depart November 2 for Greece; the return date is November 10 and the base price is $399.

Hawaii is the destination for the second tour ; the dates are January 18-25 , l 975, and the base price is $439. The third trip includes Leningrad and Moscow , February 12-20, for $438 , base price. For information contact the Alumni Office, P .O. Box 128, University of Richmond, Va. 23173 .

The fourth tour is to Scandinavia and Russia and will be escorted by President and Mrs . E. Bruce Heilman.

The dates for the tour are July 4-20, 1975 , and include a three-day stay in Stockholm during the 1975 Baptist World Alliance Meeting. The tour price is $1,485. For reservations and information contact Dr . E . Bruce Heilman , 7000 River Road , Richmond , Va . 23173.

1948 Dr. James Roy Smith of Roanoke, Va., was awarded the George Washington Honor Medal by the National and School Awards Jury for his public address "America! America!" given at the service honoring the U.S. Army in 1973.

1967 C. Ivy Johnson, Jr. of Richmond was appointed national marketing manager for Reynolds Metals Co. electrical division.

1968 Julian W. Banton of Richmond was promoted to executive vice-president of the Bank of Virginia-Central.

1973 Lt. Cmdr. Douglas R. Overman, USN, a veteran of 16 years Naval service, is special assistant to the director of Contracts for Weapon Systems Acquisition, headquarted at the Naval Electronic Systems Command, Washington, D.C. 1973 Jeff Hanson of Beloit, Wisc., was appointed head junior varsity coach at the University of Richmond. He will assume responsibility for tight ends on the varsity.

NECROLOGY 1913 Thomas C. Fletcher of Richmond, retired presiding judge of the Richmond Law and Equity Court, April, 1974.

1917 Rev. E. C. Dean of Baltimore, Md., April, 1974.

1921 Frank S. Barrett of Palo Alto, Calif., an attorney, April, 1973.

Rev . W. B. Johnson of Pulaski, Va., Feb. 3, 1974.

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1926 Rev. Peter H. Clements of Danville, October, 1971.

1927 Clarence H. Sales of Clarksville, Va., September, 1972.

1933 Henry L. Brothers N.C., Nov. 28, 1973.

of Burlington,

1943 Garland M. Harwood, Jr. of Richmond, June 15, 1973.

1951 Alfred M. Wheeler Heights, Va., Nov. 3, 1973.

of

Colonial

1952 Andrew G. Richardson of Richmond, a research chemist and retired director of the laboratory at William P. Poythress & Company, March, 1974.

1952 Robert A. Travis, Jr. of Alexandria, Va., Feb. 13, 1974.

1969 Allen C. Flippo of Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1972.

WESTHAMPTON Club & Class News Charlottesville Alumnae Club President: Mrs. W. R. Crews, Jr. (Julie Perkinson '62), 57 Georgetown Green, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901

The second year of the Charlottesville Club has been an active and interesting one.

The September meeting was held in the historic Court Square area of Charlottesville, where Susan DeAlba Snodgrass, '66, conducted a walking tour. In February, the club, husbands, and dates met at the home of Marian West Stocker, '33, for a most enjoyable cocktail buffet. Dean Gehring was guest speaker at the spring luncheon, and gave a very informative talk on the latest happenings at Westhampton. New officers, Jay Hart Carter, '68, president, and Mary Eleanor Hodges Strickland, '64, secretary-treasurer, were elected at this meeting.

Other club activities included a "Back to School" party in the summer for local Westhampton students, a "Get Acquainted with Westhampton" party for prospective freshman from the area high schools, and a pecan sale. Profits from the sale of pecans enabled the club to make a donation to the Catherine Bell Scholarship Fund.

Martinsville Alumnae Club President: Mrs. E. H. Williams, Ill (Gayle Gowdey '61), 1211 Mt. Olivet Road, Martinsville, Virginia 24112

The Martinsville and Henry County Area Alumnae held a dessert party at Chatmoss Country Club on March 6, 1974. Current Westhampton College students home for spring vacation and high school girls interested in attending Westhampton College were special guests. Mrs. E . L. Dupuy, Jr. is the new president of the club.

North Carolina Alumnae Club Co-chairmen: Mrs. John T. Weigel, Jr. (Walker Glenn '64), 3104 Round Hill Road, Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 Mrs. C. R. Burrell (Jackie Harper '65), 4430 Bridle Path, Route 2, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103

Westhampton alumnae from Burlington,

Greensboro, Jamestown, and Winston-Salem held their annual spring meeting on April 27, 1974 at the Reynolda House , former home of J. R. Reynolds, in Winston-Salem. An art-related program was presented about American artists and their works on display there. Pete Ballard, of the North Carolina School of the Arts , gave a lecture on restoring old costumes of historical interest.

After lunch a brief bus iness meeting was conducted by the present co-chairmen , Mr s.

C. R. Burrell (Jackie Harper '65) and Mrs. J. T . Weigel, Jr. (Walker Glenn '64) to elect co-chairmen for a 2-year term . Mrs . Leslie M. Baker (Suzanne Borum '64) and Mrs. David W. Johnson (Martha Hartman '64) were unanimously approved by the group .

Richmond Alumnae Club President : Mrs. Donald P. Falls (Elsa Queen '64), 1515 Helmsdale Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23233 The Richmond Club held its annual spring luncheon at Willow Oaks Country Club on April 6. Chairmen for the event were Mary Manning Sparrow and Linda Dix Brawner, class of '71. Special guests of the club were its nominees for the Outstanding Alumnae award; Mrs . Leslie Sessoms Booker, Mrs .

Mayme O'Flaherty Stone, and Miss Carolyn 0. Marsh . Following the meal and a short business meeting, Mrs. Dorothy Wampler talked about and read from her book of light verse, From Motherhood to Menopause.

On April 23 the Richmond Club held an informal get-together on campus for graduating seniors who plan to remain in the Richmond area and others who were interested to familiarize them with local club activities . Helen C. Outen and Cindy Norris Vogel , class of '70, had charge of plans.

The following new officers for 1974-1975 have been elected: Doris Balderson Burbank '50, president; Pat Cluverius Goodman '61, first vice-president; and Kakki Elmer Rogers '63, corresponding secretary .

The board held its final meeting May 15, 1974, at the home of Mary Bo Willis Gassman '67. Officers and committee chairmen presented their annual reports.

Roanoke Alumnae Club President: Mrs. William H. Farthing (Nancy Wheeler '60), 1848 Dorset Drive, S. W., Roanoke, Virginia 24018 The Roanoke Alumnae Club met at Hidden Valley Country Club on April 27 for our spring luncheon . We were delighted to have as our guest, Mrs . Jane Stockman Thorpe, WC '58 , a former Roanoker who now serves us as executive secretary for the Westhampton College Alumnae Association .

Exam-time "Goodie Boxes" were prepared for delivery to our Roanoke area students at Westhampton.

Suffolk-Franklin Alumnae Club President : Mrs. Jack Bain (Hannah Barlow '48), Wakefield, Virginia 23888 Tn April we met at the Surry for a brunch followed by a most interesting tour of the Rolfe House, Chippokes, and the grounds of Bacon's Castle. Members of the Peninsu la Club were invited to join us .

A brief business meeting was held at the restaurant. We decided to continue our newspaper , "The Peanut Picker ," and to ask Miss Ruth H averty to continue as the editor.

The following slate of officers for the next two years was accepted: Mr s. Gordon Bar-

low, president; Mrs. Garth Hancock, Jr., vice-president; and Mrs. Charles R. Rowe, secretary-treasurer.

We voted to send the Westhampton College Alumnae Association a contribution.

Plans for a fall meeting in early September are being arranged by our officers.

Tidewater Alumnae Club Presidents: Mrs. Henry B . Kaufmann (Thais Silverman '40), 1655 While Lane, Norfolk, Virginia 23518 The annual covered dish luncheon was held April 6, 1974, at Coleman's Nursery in Portsmouth. The variety of foods served once again demonstrated the culinary talents of our members. The incoming freshmen were our special guests.

The treasurer announced that this year our Club sent $400 to the alumnae association and $35 to the memorial fund.

Offi'cers elected for 1974-1975 were Mrs. Henry B. Kaufmann (Thais Silverman '40), president; Mrs. David L. Freeman (Agnes Deaton '3 9); vice-president, Mrs. John T. Atkinson (Elizabeth Ann Wilson '67), secretary; Mrs. Frederick B. Lowe (Nancy Loughridge '64), treasurer; Mrs. Harold G. Hollans (Eileen Mccutcheon '59), librarian.

Jane Thorpe, Elizabeth Dunkum, and Karen Bursey were our program. Jane and Elizabeth discussed the Robins grant and plans for the future. Karen , a sophomore , brought us up to date on student activities and life in the dorms and on campus .

Washington D. C. Alumnae Club President: Mrs . Bernard Cline (Esther Wendling '42), 3433 Greentree Drive, Falls Church, Virginia 22041 In March the Washington Club had a theater party at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts seeing a performance of A Little Night Music. Afterward, they gathered for dessert at the home of Wendy and B. G . Cline.

The club is participating once again in a scholarship benefit featuring the Washington Redskins.

A luncheon is planned for the fall.

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Mrs. J. Hundley Wiley (Elizabeth Ellyson) 51 Old Mill Road Richmond, Virginia 23226

We are proud to claim Jennie Phillips LeSueur's daughter, Virginia LeSueur Carter, as the new Westhampton alumna member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Richmond . As the director of publication of our university she was snatched away by the University of Maryland, but retained her loyalty.

Lois Rogers Buter writes, "I keep busy with church work and garden club work .

Had a lovely trip to Europe . Was in about eleven countries. I have one daughter, Nancy Butler Turlington in Towson, Md. She has eight children, six boys and two girls. I expect to see three of my grandsons graduate from high school this June."

Estelle Kemper Butler writes, "I still live in my old house and am lucky enough to have a live-in maid and two tenants to protect me. I have written articles recently in the local papers , Down East magazine, and for the Navy twice."

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Betsy Camp Smith, after her usual Florida winter, has been under great strain with the loss of her brother Hugh and operation of her brother Jim. Her angina has resulted in very severe illness at the hospital in Richmond .

The passing of Lula Garst in her home at Catawba Sanitarium leaves our '18 alumnae today at seventeen. The Richmond seven are going the way of most of our age-bridge and caring for relatives, with church understood. Five are in a threetable bridge club that meets every two weeks.

The Presbyterians and Episcopalians are building a very up-to-date Retirement Home.

It is called Westminister Canterbury, built on the Lakeside area of land that belonged to Westbrook. These five have all sent in their deposits for admission when it opens in possibly a year. Eleanor McCarthy loves her Sunday School class with Florence Decker in First Baptist Church, and has recovered from the shock of a robbery in her Fan district house. Elizabeth Brockenbrough has had a severe time with shingles this spring. Martha Chappell had shingles, too, but she started earlier and has about conquered hers. Gertrude Johnson Wright went on Dr. Peple's tour to Europe last summer and plans a tour of the British Isles this summer.

Elizabeth Ellyson Wiley still lives in their campus home caring for her two men, Hun, her husband and her 42 year old son Tom. Hun was made professor emeritus this spring. Two granddaughters, a great-niece and a great-nephew in Richmond College keep us up-to-date. Ours love Westhampton and Richmond College.

May Edmonds is still working in the family newspaper office with a niece moving to Richmond to bring her back to campus more often.

Dot Gary Markey wrote a long letter on the cleaning of the Hudson, with consequent Shad Sail-Sale and Pumpkin Sail-Sale on old historic Dutch vessels, and the Annual Fe! Festival at the J. F . Kennedy Marina. She wrote "Our local (Yonkers) Sleep-Hudson River Restoration group a lot of fun (and work). John and I helped with old, young.

You should have seen us swinging shovels and rakes spreading topsoil on the marina park. We spread six truck loads, garden clubs gave trees, now a guarantee against high rise apartments, a fantastic marina park for all.

My two children; May and family in Hastings on the Hudson home, husband on Time editorship. Our son John and family live in New Jersey, works for Blue Cross. Easter Egg Hunt a traditional the three families of us enjoy."

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

Kina McGlothlin Odell writes with pride and deep satisfaction of an event in May when Furman University conferred an honorary degree upon her brother, Bill. As a former vice-president of the University of Louisville, a full time teacher from choice in its graduate department, and an accomplished writer of books and magazine articles, he has made outstanding contributions.

Also Kina is quite pleased with the recent acquisition of a 1735 wood carving from a temple in China. Finding it, she says, was the highlight of one of her recent Florida trips and that it is "for a particular place in my living room."

It seems that Kitty Vaughan Willis's 1973 visit to Westhampton meant so much to her that she says she may bring a granddaughter with her on her next trip. She enjoys her four children and twelve grandchildren and, with the help of the ones in the Princeton area, is in the midst of getting a rather large garden to grow on nearby university property. One daughter hopes to complete her doctoral thesis at Harvard this semester; and her son, a Department of Modern Languages chairman, is at present much involved in improving their eighteenth century New Hampshire home. Kitty is thankful for good health, and in addition to her civic and church responsibilities, finds time to continue her group work in French conversation and hopes to enro.Jl in a class in creative writing at Princeton! Her present travel plans include a cruise in September up the Nile to Abu Simbel. An eighteen-day Swan trip from London, this offers an opportunity to visit a part of the world that very much interests her.

Gazelle Stubbs Smith has not been able to do any globe-trotting lately because of poor health but reports, "I'm still able to dream."

Jeffries Heinrich as he former class sponsor was a much honored quest in May at the Jefferson Hotel when the John Marshall High School class of 1924 celebrated its fiftieth reunion. The News Leader carried an attractive picture of her with the class officers and showed us a Jeff with hair and smile as lovely as ever. She says that she thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.

Anna Lee Willis Eppright is delighted at the great interest and suppo-rt given to our university's fund-raising drive. She writes also of her gratitude that her only sister, Margaret, who retired last year from teaching at Waynesboro, Virginia's Fairfax Hall, is living with the Epprights and is to them "a blessing and a joy ."

You will be much pleased to know that a recent note from Jeannette Freeman Bettle tells of considerable improvement following her unexpected surgery in January and that she is beginning to take part again in the life about her . As moâ&#x20AC;˘st of her varied activities were naturally curtailed during her convalescence, another class member has collected our news for this issue. Jeannette's return to this post will be warmly welcomed.

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Mrs. W. N. Stoneman, Sr. (Irene Summers) Varina on the James, Route 14 Richmond, Virginia 23231

Do you know that two members of our class had their pictures in Richmond publications and that one was on the cover page of the first issue in May of the new magazine Richmond? That's our Virginia Moncure on her bicycle! A few weeks earlier Leslie's picture was in a daily paper with the four others who received the citation for community services during the Alumnae Weekend. Aren 't we proud of our friends?

I think not one has joined the rocking chair group so far!

Hilda is a member of the D. C. Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma, is corresponding secretary of the Beta Chapter and usually attends all meetings. She and her husband belong to a couples club at the National Presbyteri an church which they enjoy . They entertain friends, garden, attend Theater Guild and other plays and travel some. They are ble ssed with good health and have a wonderful life together.

Hilda had lunch with Alice Garnett

Thomas and other friends at Alice's lovely home in Arlington not too long ago.

To Rebekah we extend our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in the loss of her husband the first of this year . They had sold their farm in Missouri and now Rebekah is thinking of moving back to Virginia in the fall. .

Mary Fugate is fine and besides being president of the Danville branch of the A.A .U.W., attending the meetings and conventions, she is library committee chairman of her church, leader of a missionary circle there, and a member of two other interesting and time consuming committees. She is a member of the board of directors of the Danville Historical Society, works in the archives of the Mary Blount Library at Averette College where she has an office.

She also has a garden, freezes vegetables and raises flowers, too, but this summer she and a friend are taking time out to go to England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark . It will be Mary's first trip abroad and we hope to have some interesting news about it in our next letter.

Louise Duke Brantley teaches art and stays busy . She visited her grandchildren in Rochester not too long ago.

Frances Clore is retiring this year and will continue to live in Cape Charles .

Gladys Bentley is having her first trip north since she moved to Florida; she and a friend are coming by auto-train and Gladys will visit her daughter in Arlington -she hopes to be in Richmond in July.

Her younger daughter, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, and her husband, a retired Colonel in the Air Force will move soon to Myrtle Beach where he will be in charge of the Trust Department of a bank there. Another daughter and her husband, who teaches at the Art Center, live in Clearwater.

"Rat" (I think that we should say Elizabeth now) called when she was in Richmond with relatives. She has an apartment in Orlando and enjoys living there . She helps in the thrift shop at her church and does volunteer work in a hospital there each week . During the winter she enjoyed having relatives and friends visit her. From Virginia she will attend a wedding in Alabama before returning to Florida.

Stella also called; she said that her cultural activities of the winter were over, that her Altar Guild duties started in July and that in June she would visit her son and his family in Cambridge. She attended the Boatwright Society dinner, is well and has a nice life . Her wonderful and talented daughter-in-law will teach piano this summer in Maine at a camp at Stearnes Pond. The two sons, 9 and 2½, will go with her and her husband will go for the weekends . Their greatest thrill and excitment, however, was Vivian's N . Y. piano recital and debut on April 19 at Carnegie Recital Hall and the report given by Robert Sherman in the N . Y. Times Sunday Review on Sunday, April 21I quote "What a fearsome debut roster and how brilliantly Miss Taylor played! .. . It was, in short, an extraordinary first recital and a striking introduction to a major new talent."

Stella's son, who took photography his last year of graduate work at Yale ( one class only besides architecture was allowed), designed the flyer for the recital and took the picture of his wife, Vivian, for it.

Stella said her sister, Zola, had fallen, was in the hospital several days but was now greatly improved and expected to be well soon.

Narcissa 's attractive daughter, Narcissa Titman, spoke on "The Theater" at the

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Richmond Woman's Club in April and made a wonderful talk, I've heard. Miss Crenshaw and several other people we know were among those present.

Last summer Narcissa and Carney attended the executive committee meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Switzerland.

They flew to West Berlin, went to the check point and entered East Berlin (the wall is still there) . They were met by Ralph Danmann, executive secretary of the Baptist Union of the German Democratic Republic, and other officers of the Baptist Union, and had lunch with the Danmanns at their apartment. Then they had a 200-mile drive through beautiful country, with a stop at Wiemar, a 900-year medieval town, were met there by other Baptist leaders and near there they visited an infamous concentration camp . On Sunday after church they drove to Worthburg Castle where Martin Luther spent ten months translating the New Testament. They visited a one-hundred-year-old Baptist institution for retarded adults and epileptic patients. They flew 400 miles north to Barth on the Baltic Sea, visited churches in that area of Mecklenburg, then returned to East Berlin to a dinner meeting with Baptist ministers and their wives, followed by a church service where there were many young people-a memorable evening for them, Narcissa wrote . They left East Germany with fine impressions of the Baptists there-as enthusiastic, warm, friendly, hospitable and most courageous.

This July they will attend the B.W.A. Executive Committee meeting in Louisville at the Seminary and in September will be off to New Zealand and Australia to visit Baptists there.

Narcissa took care of their three grandchildren in N . Y . while their parents were at White Sulphur for a week-so in between trips she says she is quite domestic.

Back to our Richmond friends and a tour sponsored by the Virginia Museum which Jeanette and Cathryn, Claudia and a friend really enjoyed. They went to Australia, New Zealand, Taihiti with some other trips on the side . They say the weather was perfect and all had a wonderful trip. At home Jeanette does so many worthwhile things (including much alumnae work) and still has time to work with her beautiful roses and other flowers.

Celia and her husband do much traveling both at home and abroad. They have been to Italy and Hungary, twice to Florida, to a wedding in Boston and a Confirmation in Pittsburgh. They have had house guests including grandchildren. Celia also finds time for Garden Club, sewing classes and other interesting things.

Rachel spent some time in Florida with her three grandsons while their parents went to the Orient.

Edith will visit her children in California and will also be at Ridgecrest with the family some time during the summer, as usual.

Thelma and Bob enjoy his retirement and since they have had so many nice trips they are now enjoying a more quiet life at their Berkshire Apartment.

Ruth and her husband had a nice time down on the Florida Keys during the winter and will most probably go to Cape Cod during the summer. Ruth is on the board of Sheltering Arms Hospital and tho' she has not told me, on boards of other worthwhile organizations, I'm sure.

Leslie stays as busy as ever and is almost as hard to catch as a flea. She is on four different boards, attends all meetings, does lots of church work, entertains almost constantly, belongs to Woman's Club, bridge and book clubs, D.A .R., is an officer in the Alumnae Chapter of the Mortar Board, and

I am sure there are more I don't know about.

Murie l is doing so well after a complete hip replaceme nt during the winter. Now with her plastic hip she has no pain, can go up and down stairs slowly and seems to be well on the road to recovery.

Stella, from Norfolk, Eva, Jeanette, and Leslie attended the Boatwright Society dinner; they represented the class well but I'm sorry there weren't more.

To Eva in the recent sudden loss of her youngest brother we extend our deepest sympathy and also to Rachel and Edith in the loss of a sister some months ago.

My sincere thanks to you who called or wrote to give me news. I'm sorry I've left so many unmentioned, maybe I can do better next time-I'll try.

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Mrs. Graham A. Carlton (Margaret Fugate) 1503 Wilmington Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227

How does one describe anything as perfect as our reunion?-it would take someone far cleverer than I to do it. We enjoyed every minute of it but we did miss all of you who could not be with us. There were 29 who attended one or more of our functions: Mabel Allen, Elizabeth Cobb Bailey, Katherine Kirk Bains, Rita Baker, Therma Valentine Baxter, Hilda Booth Beale, Bernie Whitlock Bowles, Norma Coleman Broaddus, Margaret Fugate Carlton, Elizabeth Cosby Carver, Mary Taylor Gills Copenhaver, Mary Myrtis Cox, Joanna Savedge Ellett, Louise Vincent Flanagan, Virginia Gregory, Inez DeJ arnette Hite, Margaret Smith Hewitt, Helen Anderson Hendricks, Lucille Hudgins, Virginia Clore Johnson, Agnes Jones, Lillian Woodyard Lipscomb, Ruth Lazenby McCulloch, Louise Wilkinson Morton, Mary Peple, Eva Sanders, Evelyn Mallory Schools, Anna Hardaway White, Wilhelmia Wright.

We had such nice notes from some who could not be with us and who were surely missed-"Miss Paris" (Mrs. Emil W. Ceder borg), Elinor Johnson, Hazel Walker Maxey, Elizabeth Lake Patterson, Mary Anna Powell, Charlotte Francis Sloan, Mary Noffsinger Stevens, Kate Harmon Wahlin, Carlene Broach Watterson.

Mary Anna had planned to come but at the last minute, she could not because of illness. She sent flowers, which Inez brought to our dinner-they decorated the piano and added to the beauty of Inez's azaleas on our dinner tables.

But to begin at the beginning, we met at college Friday April 19 at 5 o'clock in the garden outside the tearoom for a social hour. There were so many old friends to see and to greet that Louise had a hard time getting us calmed down enough to eat when dinner was announced. Our two guests were recognized-Miss Pauline Turnbull and Miss Fanny G. Crenshaw, who added so much to our pleasure. Miss Mary Louise Gehring, the dean, joined us for punch in the garden but she could not stay for dinner.

Louise read the letters from all of you who could not be here--1 will save the news from them for my next letter. After a delicious dinner and lots of talk, Joanna presented Rita Baker, who was our Freshman class president and who now teaches music and plays the cello in the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. She had chosen three compositions to play for us, the last being one of her own and we liked it best of all.

The next day we met for lunch with the whole alumnae group. There were corsages for each one of our class and we each re-

ceived a Golden Legion Certificate. As you know, Westhampton was celebrating her 60th birthday as we were celebrating our reunion and the huge cake in honor of Westhampton's birthday was given to us.

The Lazenbys were recognized at the alumnae luncheon. Ruth's mother, who is 93 years old now, has sent six daughters and four grand-daughters to Westhampton.

That is a record which will probably stand for a long time-Richmond College was challenged to match it!

There have been lots of changes on the campus since we were there - many expressed a feeling of nostalgia for things as they used to be. But I'm sure the present students welcome the changes as each new addition broadens the scope of their college years.

The highlight of our week-end was our Sunday morning breakfast at Norma's - she is a gracious hostess and always entertains so beautifully. Lots of the girls had brought pictures, scrapbooks and other mementoes of the past, all of which recalled such pleasant memories. Louise brought the cake, which was given to us on Saturday and after we had had breakfast, we divided it and each one had a large piece to take home.

We all hated to tell each other goodbye there is a bond between college friends that time does not break and when we get together, it is almost as if we had not been separated at all. Now we become members of the Boatwright Society, made up of those (alumni and alumnae) who have been out of college for 50 years or more. The contributions made by our class to the Alumnae Fund for the school year 1973-1974 will be used to buy a gift for the college-this is customary for a class celebrating its 50th reunion . To date we have had 34 contributions and a total of $2,890, which made us very proud. Joanna, as our fund chairman for the past five years, especially wants to thank each one of you who had a part in this. We will let you know soon just how the money will be used.

We are indebted to Elizabeth Cosby Carver for the cleverest, most unusual memento of our reunion. Many years ago she started collecting 1924 silver dollars and at one of our functions, she presented each one of us with one. We shall cherish them and we will never forget Elizabeth's thoughtfulness.

We were saddened in March by the death of Inez and Oscar Rite's daughter Anne our sincerest sympathy goes out to Inez, Oscar and to Anne's husband Norton and her son Jay. Vernon Ellett, Joanna's husband, was ill in early April but we were so glad that he was home from the hospital and well enough for Joanna to take part in all of our reunion activities.

Agnes Jones was selected as our new fund chairman and I agreed to act as class secretary again, with the help of Virginia Clore Johnson. She has promised to write to each out -of-town member periodically, asking for news to be sent to me. This letter is "all reunion" but next time, I want to write one with some news about each one of you.

There are so many to thank for their help in making our reunion such a successLouise Morton, Agnes Jones, Inez Hite, Norma Broaddus, Joanna Ellett, Rita Baker and all of you who came back for it. I hope you had as much fun as I did!

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Dr. Louise Fry Galvin 3416 Grove Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23221

We were so glad to hear from Margaret

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Lazenby Brown. She continues to be active in civic, club, and church work. She and Clark also keep on the trot visiting children and grandchildren in Jacksonville and Charlottesville. She hopes to time a Charlottesville visit to include meeting of local alumnae chapter in which daughter Peggy is active. Margaret asks if we remember all the things we did to raise money for the "Woman's Building"? What small potatoes that seems now! But it was a good start.

A little bird told us that Murtha Brown Felter took a Caribbean Cruise this winter and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mary Virginia Daughtrey had surgery for a cataract in November and has had quite a difficult time of it. This explains absence this Christmas of some of her newsy greetings. We do hope things will go well with her from now on.

Annie Renee Powell Carey's sister Susie visited her in Tucson this winter and liked it so well that she has bought a home not far from Tucson and will be moving there in May. Harriet Sharon Willingham spent 2½ months with her sister in Florida this winter. We are so lucky she comes through Richmond now and then on her trips.

Our deep and sincere sympathy to Eliza Grimsley Miller Reams in the loss of her husband.

Please don't forget to send me a few lines about yourself and family before time for our next news bulletin. And a good summer to all!

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Miss Margaret Willis P. 0. Box 576 Culpeper, Virginia 22701

Our round robin is certainly no homing pigeon. It must have been lost in the mail, for efforts to locate it have been in vain, bringing prompt responses but little news.

A third round robin will be sent soon. Please keep it flying.

Gray Robinson French reports: "Betty and Ed Cale expect to come north to attend respective 50th Class reunions. The Richmond "girls" will be attending John Marshall's Class of '24 on May 2. Also I go to England in June to see my latest grandchild and visit with my daughter."

Flora Hutzler writes: "What I am about to relate is not rea11y 1928 news, but thought you might be interested in hearing about it. I retired in March of 1972, and am enjoying it immensely; just staying home and keeping busy with trivia I never had time for when I was hitting the time clock.

I work in the yard, attend to my houseplants, play bridge, visit folks, walk practically every day, am taking swimming lessons to improve my long neglected stroke, etc. Had hoped to do some travelling but this has not worked out, except for Garden Tours around Richmond.

This year, I was contacted by Gay Minor Nelson with regard to the "Greater Richmond Campaign" and I offered to help if they needed any typing, but would not solicit. I typed one letter for Gay, which went to the college to be reproduced. Gay, Mary Jenkins Warriner, and Geneva Snellings and I went to the "Kick-Off Luncheon" held in the Robins Gym. Lunch was really a dinner; furnished by Thalhimers' Dept.

Store, consisting of fried chicken, 3 or 4 different salads, several desserts, coffee and bread-delicious.

Alumni made pep talks, students furnished music and singing; Galanti (POW) gave a beautiful talk, a won-

derful command of English, really held his audience. Earl Hamner spoke a few words, and visiting with folks I hadn't seen for a long time was fun.

During Alumnae Week, the President's home was open with an "at home" for alumnae and it is a fabulous place, beautifully fur~ished, but a place you could enjoy living in. The house is really a mansion, upstairs and basement, and very large rooins.

On May 3, Class of '24 at John Marshall High School had its 50th Reunion. I went with Henriette Greenbaum Kohn, and others.

Virginia Pleasant Robertson was there, Gray Robinson French, Frances Bristow Young, Frances Anderson Stallard and probably some others of our class. There were so many I can't remember. I had written to Helen Covey Milius and to my delight she was able to come and we sat together and had a good time . Was disappointed that Hazel Anderson Carpenter was unable to come."

Agnes Peters Nolan attended a Pen Women 's National Conference in Miami Beach where she was honored for her television play . She is being listed in the 1974-75 biography, The World Who's Who of Women .

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

We are all sorry to learn of the death of Arthur Parr, Helen Harwood's husband, and we send her our love and sympathy.

When I was at a motel in Daytona a few months ago, whom should I run into but Dorcas Herthel who was traveling to Miami as I was leaving Florida. She was with her brother and sister-in-law, going to visit her nephew. Dorcas told me that she has moved to an apartment at 804 Brook Hill Road, Richmond, now that she is alone .

Alice Connell has retired from Pan American! She spent part of the winter in Florida where son Dick and his family live the year around.

Speaking of retirements : My husband Arthur Ellett retired April 1 from his work of thirty-nine years' duration in Roanoke.

We're packing for a trip to Scandinavia and Russia this summer.

Dottie Wood has two lovely grandbabies; Lee has a daughter and Matt has a son; their names are Ashley Abbott Turner and Matthew Leland Wood III. Virginia Shinnick also has a new grandson, Coate Manderson, who lives with his parents and big brother Bray in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Gladys Smith has retired from the Com monwealth of Virginia position of supervisor of Retirements. In her leisure time she has been taking classes on antiques and 'on England, the latter in preparation for a trip to England .

Frankie Overton's son Gene has completed his residency at the University of Virginia Hospital and will be assigned for his two years of United States Navy duty at Charleston , South Carolina. Her oldest son is with the telephone company in Maryland ; her youngest son Jim is a phychologist associated with Psychological Consultants in Richmond ; her daughter lives in Atlanta . Frankie and Ed have eight grandchildren.

Margaret Saunders, Alice Connell, Virginia Shinnick, Gladys Smith, and Frankie attended the Alumnae Weekend luncheon at college in April. Margaret was up from N orfolk visiting Alice for the weekend.

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

Several of us in the Richmond area ( of the Class of '32) worked in the Greater Richmond UR Fund Drive. Mary Hodnett Mathews was our Captain. It was nice to have contact with class members we do not see often. I had a lovely visit with Ruth Coen Powell and her husband, Stagg. They still enjoy a good game of golf. Through seeing Almarine Montgomery Franklin at her office, I learned she and her husband were spending a week in New Orleans in April.

Mary and Emmett Mathews recently went with a medical unit on a tour to the Greek Islands. Incidentally, their daughter, Sara, will be married to James Fisher on July 12 at First Baptist Church.

Marie and Joe Deatelhauser are now living at 1940 E. Vina -del-Mar Blvd. in St. Petersburg, Fla. 33706 since Joe's retirement .

As of this writing, Zephia Campbell Scarborough is in Chippenham Hospital for spinal surgery. Our thoughts and prayers are with her, hoping she will be in much better condition.

We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Kay Burroughs Conkle.

Yours truly is beginning to sound like Calamity Jane. At a meeting in Toronto in April, my hotel room was burglarized, and my mink stole and jewelry were taken!

Please let me have news!

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Mrs. Thornton Hill (Ammye Herrin) 6421 Handy Lane Richmond, Virginia 23226

Our 40th Reunion dinner was celebrated sumptuously at the Monument Avenue apartment of Nancy Davis Seaton. She and Edith McDanel Shelburne hosted the preliminary champagne toasting with Katherine Bell and Grace Rowland Wells completing the reunion committee. A gourmet feast, from tenderloin to tipsy-cake, facilitated acceptance by the above of jobs as class secretary and Margaret Proctor Swetnam as president, with Helen Hulcher continuing as Class Fund Chairman. Our teacher friend, Dr. Jean Wright, was honored guest.

"Billie" Allen Geogegha.n is consultant for Stamford Branch Libraries (Library Group of Southwestern Connecticut). Information is exchanged internationally by heads of companies (RE: Industrial Pollution Control) from their shelves.

Katherine Bell, Personnel Director of Miller and Rhoads, initiated use of closed circuit television in training personnel (in group of 40 stores). On this she will speak for National Retail Merchants Association in Williamsburg and New York. Later she will speak in Canada.

Katherine Brown Van Allen and husband Harold both returned for reunions at U. of R., but not to live, as planned. He has retired from IBM in Kingston, New York, and they are absorbed in Baptist Church there.

Nancy Seaton is retiring, after 12 years, from Cerebral Palsy Center. Since 1965 she has been teaching, and mastering petit point and needle point original designs, for communion cushions on benches at altar rails of colonial churches. The project is for 65 Eighteenth Century restored churches in Virginia .

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Frances Folkes Duncan's daughter is re ceiving Master's degree in psychology.

"Liz" Goodwin Henderson's son, Claiborne, is graduating from Washington and Lee. Pa.rt-time work as systems analyst becomes full-time. Liz and W. C. flew to Majorca. for fall vacation .

Hazel Hemming Seay's husband has retired . They live in Indian Creek Estates, Kilmarnock. She is psychologist for ten counties.

Frances Lundin van Heuveln's son, Henry, is sophomore at John Tyler Community College.

Betty Puckett Fettig, daughter of Virginia. McIntosh Puckett, and 1966 Westhampton graduate, is a systems analyst in Houston, Texas. Husband, Donald, is chemical engineer.

Margaret Proctor Swetnam 's daughter, Mary Lovell, is graduating this summer from Westhampton.

Laura May Thomasson Leitch rejoiced because of recent successful operation for detached retina .

Grace Rowland Wells has been instrumental in enlarging Historic Costume Co,Jlection of Valentine Museum to over 12,000 items.

Virginia Sanford Brian passed out photos from last year's homecoming - is dedicated "shutter-bug." Husband, John, retired as oil executive, to major in building new home on lake.

Katherine Sergeant Newby came from Virginia Beach, where husband is opthalmologist.

Evelyn "Steussy" Fishburne is buyer assistant for book acquisitions for the Dade County School Board. Twice she has visited son, Charles, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Permanent Secretary for the Edinburgh University Student's Association.

As Julia Donohue typed this letter-her desk was graced by handsome "Mr. Lincoln" roses, raised by husband, Ralph.

Ammye Hill shared tri -color in Tuckahoe Woman's Club 25th Annual Art Exhibition.

Same portrait received popular vote.

Helen Wilkinson Buchanan has taught in Kenbridge 19 years . On retirement will head for Greece where son Miller, works for Philip Moris. Daughter, Martha, is at Radford working on Masters in Guidance. Niece is coming to Westhampton in fall. Son, George, and wife restored "Woodlawn," built in Lunenburg in 1862.

Helen Cunningham Laney is back in Monroe, North Carolina, after teaching in Wood Junior College in Mississippi. Now she is Church Music Director, organist, and teacher.

Ursula Mordecai Lyle would like all to visit her at her Ragged Robin Gift Shop, 214 76th Street, Virginia Beach, 23451.

If the novelty of this news pleases you, write me in time for next magazine.

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Mrs. Paul 0. Alexander (Lucy Blackwell) 1206 Golf View Drive North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29582

My many thanks to Margaret Gill for filling in for me last time. Paul and I arrived home from Europe just two days before the newsletter deadline. Needless to say, there would have been no news from '36 had Margaret not done something about it.

I have never had the opportunity to do much traveling and, in a. way, it has its compensations, for when the opportunity

finally comes to the untraveled it is all so new and exciting that every moment is pure joy. We spent five days in and around Madrid, ten delightful days in London as guests of Paul's British relatives, who left no stone unturned to show us the sights, then joined an American Express tour. For the next thirty days we wandered through much of the continent, doing all the things tourists are supposed to do, from joining a wine festival in a little German town, to dancing a waltz in Vienna, to basking in the beauty of the waters around Capri. Pompeii proved what I've always suspected: that I could have been very happy as an archaeologist.

The tour guide in Heidelberg was intrigued with my tale of how Dean Keller took her Ph.D. sitting behind a screen in the days before women were allowed in the classroom there, and I wondered what Miss Keller's reaction would have been to the dance floor built atop the mammoth wine keg at Heidelberg Palace. The end of the trip brought a rather nerve-wracking event.

We were flying military "Space Available" and arrived in Frankfurt for our flight home just as the U. S. forces were put on alert due to the Mideast crisis. Nothing was coming through Germany at that time and we sat there for nine long days, each day thinking "surely tomorrow."

Lyndele Pitt has retired after 36 years of teaching. Lyndele has not only a new life, but also a new address. She's at the Imperial Plaza, 1713 Bellevue Avenue, Richmond 23227.

Rae Norford Griffith was married to Calvin Hess on March 8 in the Moravian Chapel in Bethlehem. After a honeymoon in Antigua, they are living at 4117 Wellington Drive, Bethlehem, Pa. 18017. Calvin is a chemist; Rae is wo-rking in a hospital.

Boo and Sidney Page have had a couple of interesting trips this year, combining medical conventions with pleasure. Attending the International Congress of Allergology, they spent three weeks in Japan, visiting Tokyo and Kyoto, also Hong Kong.

Later, through the Richmond Academy of Medicine, they attended a convention in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Time out for trips to Athens, to the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, and for a cruise through the Greek islands made it a memorable trip. Boo's busy doing private practice, plus wo-rk for the Methodist orphanage and Social Security disability.

We also have some news of Boo's daughters. Our baby cup girl, Jane, operates a children's shop, the Kitty Korale in Bon Air. Proficient in handwork, especially smocking, Jane has exhibited at the State Fair. Diane continues to do commercial modeling for Jordan Marsh. Gayle's husband, William Redd Taylor, is a watercolor artist and has been honored by being invited to submit paintings to the Wild Wings Gallery, which, I understand, is outstanding for its wild life paintings.

We were all saddened to learn of the death of Margaret Watkins Weatherall last year. Our sympathy goes to the two Duncans, husband and son.

I had a long newsy letter from Sue Chermside not long ago. Their life is full of skiing ¡ in winter and sailing and swimming in summer. Flo and her children are near them now so Sue and Herbert are enjoying the pleasure of including their grandchildren in many of their activities.

On our way to Dover, Delaware, last fall for our flight to Europe, we spent the night in Norfolk with Florence and Robert Harvey. This was the first time I'd seen Florence since our last reunion so we had a delightful evening catching up on all the news. She says they live quietly but that when holidays come they either run a ho.Ji-

day inn at home for Bobby and Frances and their families or they close up shop and visit one of the children.

Martha Rucker's husband, Ben, thought he was retiring to become a gardener and fisherman, but he's now also teaching phys ics at three schools in Mecklenburg County.

Add that to Martha's teaching and their civic activities and they're busy people.

Martha and Ben do something I like.

They send me a copy of their Christmas newsletter. Won't some of the others of you do the same? It's an easy way to provide me with some news for the next issueand I'd like hearing from you.

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

I hope all of you saw Marge Brinson Reed's picture and letter in the Newsletter of Nov. 1973. It is an honor for the class of '40 to have Marge as the President of the WCAA. Marge and Jack took the University's sponsored 3 week trip to Rome, Florence, Athens, the Greek Islands and London, squeezing in both Pisa and Stonehenge too. Despite injuring her left heel doing the bunny hop the night of the Captain's costume party, Marge with the aid of a cane and Jack's arm managed to crawl up to the site of the palace of Knossos. I think we will have an indomitable executive working for us for the next two years. Brin is working, playing in a band, writing music and planning on getting married this year. Mike is at Chowan College.

Ginnie McLarin Tate's son is now an ROTC 2nd Lt. in the Chemical Corps at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and her daughter is a freshman at the University of Virginia.

Ellie Parsons Fish's 4th daughter, Leslie, had emergency surgery in April and they almost lost her, but she recovered in time to attend Ade le's, daughter no. 3, wedding in May when they were able to collect all of their six children for the affair. Their new address is 17154 Strathern St., Van Nuys, Calif.

Charlotte Anne Dickinson Moore was sent to San Francisco by her agency, the NIMH, to wo-rk at a convention in November. She spent a morning with Marie Keyser Jordan who came over from Berkeley to chat , and a weekend with her daughter at Visalia. She and her husband spent 2 weeks in London and Stratford this summer.

Maude Smith Jurgens and Fred have been busy welcoming grandchildren into the world this year. Carol had another little girl in the spring and this fall Maude flew to Casper, Wyoming to help out with Corliss's twins, a boy and a girl to add to 2-year-old Andy. Son John and his wife are expecting a new arrival momentarily, which will make seven grandchildren for the Jurgens.

We had a holiday in Europe too. John was most anxious to visit Siccar Point an outcrop of rocks that changed the geologists thinking during the last century. So we rented a fishing boat at St. Abbs in Scotland and motored up to see the Siccar. The North Sea was gloriously calm and blue and the cliffs were lined with little birds called guillimots. They look like very tiny penquins. We toured Scotland and part of England, and then spent ten days in Germany with our son at Rirnpar and Oberamagau.

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Mrs. Justin M. Andrews (Jean Grant) 403 Mindy Drive Largo, Florida 33540

I'm sure you all know and were as shocked and saddened as I to learn of Nancy Pa rkerson's passing. A terrible loss to her family and to us. La Verne Muse had a hard year with the illnesses of her mother and her sister and finally their deaths within about three months of each other. Our sympathies to Bill and to LaVerne .

A long letter from Annie Loie at Christmas. They are still in London and expect to be until late this summer at least. They are travelling at every opportunity and have been to Scotland , Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Florence , Venice, and Switzerland. Lots of friends have visited them, including Anne and Karl Garrett. Last June they interrupted all this to come back to Pittsburgh for Langley's wedding to a young man of whom they are fond and who best of all is a Pittsburgh man so they will be close when the Seacats get back.

I had a fabulous six weeks vagabonding through Spain and Portugal last summer.

We went as and where the mood took us, stayed away from the "touristy" places, and got to know the people and the countries pretty well. Carne home to major surgery and have felt like a million since. My latest community venture was to serve on the Clearwater Mayor's Planning Committee for an Auditorium and Civic Complex.

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Mrs. James R. Stephenson (Molly Warner) 1645 Palmetto Street Clearwater, Florida 33515

Dot lhnken and Helen Curtis Patrick did a great job of organizing us and making plans for our thirtieth reunion, which began on Friday evening with a very tasty social hour at the home of Billy Jane Crosby Baker. Eighteen of us assembled to visit and poke over beautifully kept scrapbooks. The highlights of this gathering were supplied by two "no shows." Fifi Smethurst sent her very professional and tres candid photograph album recording our freshman and sophomore years. Midway through the hour Anne McElroy MacKenzie called from Louisville and had a few words with each of us. She sounded as if she could win the title of least changed '44er. Lacking a personal appearance, however, this honor went to Lois Kirkwood North. Others in attendance were Mary Alderson Graham, Ann Burcher Stansbury , Millie Cox Goode, Helen Curtis Patrick, Nancy DeJarnette Hansen, May Gunter Edmonds Kelley, Evermond Hardee Daniel, Emily Hensley Weick , DeeDee Howe Kirk, Dot Ihnken , Dot Monroe Hill, Rita Muldowney Copley, Norma Sanders Granley, Gene Shepard Keever and Ann Thruston Filer.

Gloria Tyler Robertson joined us when we adjourned to the Colony House Executive Motor Inn for a delicious dinner arranged by the Richmond girls under the direction of Ann Burcher Stansbury . Norma and I had the largest room at the Inn and so our hen party wound up there much later in rare Rat Alley form.

Anne Gordon Neblett had expected to be with us up until the last minute when she had an opportunity to take part in a special Garden Tour. She has been an active leader in area garden clubs for a long period. night Blondie, alias "slim Saturday Gene ," engineered another fun get together

attended by many couples and out of !owners.

Rita and May Gunter shared honors as first reunioning grandmothers. In addition, Ruth Jones Wilkins wrote that she has three grandsons who are "the joy of my old age."

She retired this spring and plans to write, refinish furniture and travel.

Mary Lee Smith Chapin and her 15 year old daughter, Julie, visited Westhampton during Homecoming last year. She and her husband are very busy and enjoying their many activities in New York City.

A cheery note from Anne Fisher Keppler said that she is working as Director of Financial Aid for Smith College at Northampton, Mass. and that she particularly likes the student contacts and opportunities for some travel. Also, she hopes we'll all look in on her if and when we travel through New England.

Mary Lee Clary Graeme is a busy pharmacologist, interested in gardening, admires antiques and hopes to spend a vacation in Portugal thi s fall.

There was lots more information in the scrapbook, but I didn't get this job soon enough to take many notes. If you'll all just write me your first Christmas cards that should be plenty of time for my next deadline .

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Mrs. R. Wallace Baxter (Jeanne Yeamans) 904 South Gaskins Road Richmond, Virginia 23233

I don 't know how I got to be class secretary aga in but the Alumnae Office thinks I am. Will the real class secretary please co me forward!

Caroline Goode Jackson is now Caroline Jackson, Ph .D. Undaunted by tremendous responsibilities , including her work at MCV, her family , and Greer 's illness, she has earned her doctorate in anatomy. Congra tul ations , Caroline. We're all proud of you. And I understand that Greer is doing much better.

Marian and Johnny Kinzey spent a week in Jamaica in the early spring. Johnny went on bu siness for Reynolds Metals and Marian went for fun.

Cat hy Wood, daughter of Mary Frances and Buddy, is still recuperating from a sledding accident in December. She broke her leg ju st above the knee and spent four months in a body cast. She's getting around now and expects to resume her studies at Chapel Hill.

Libby Thompson Schmidt's daughter, Kat hy, was May Queen at Collegiate this year and a lovely one she was too. She'll be entering Queens College in North Carolina this fall.

I close thi s brief letter with the sad news at the death of Virginia Gibson Stewart Willi ams in April. She had been ill for almo st a year. We miss her and find it hard to believe what has happened. Her daughter, Susan, was a freshman at Westhampton this yea r.

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Mrs. Ralph Ownby, Jr. (Margaret Elliott) 8015 Thom Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

Sooner or later I plan to see that all of you rece ive a ca rd from me requesting news for the UR Magazine. Thanks to those who

responded this time, and thanks also for those unsolicited cards and letters.

Marvelous news and I quote from a card received from Seth Jewell: "A name change for the magazine-last May I married Corwin T. Jewell. His daughter, Ann, lives with us-just Jennifer's age, 16-just like twins! Bob graduates from U. of R. in May -made Phi Beta Kappa and completed requirements in three years. Plans to go on to law school, not sure where yet. I am still selling real estate in Talbot Countythe heart of Maryland's Eastern Shoreassociated with Helaine White, Inc. Our office is in Easton." Seth's address remains the same.

And new news from Florence Lide Snider : "All my news is family news. Jane is a reporter for Newsday and loves it.

Mary Alice graduates from Chapel Hill and will teach or go to graduate school. Flo is a freshman at Guilford and works at the Arbor House. Milly is a junior at Page High and going to Outward Bound this summer. Bill and I are enjoying a little freedom and have had a couple of nice trips. We plan to go on a Smithsonian trip to the Black Sea in September."

Emily Holland Lineberry is working her seventh year in the seventh grade. Son, Bob, was married in July, 1973, and daughter, Sandy, spent last year in Switzerland, but is currently working at M.C.V . on a Robins Research project, which she will complete in May .

Ginna Herndon Pugh wrote me one of those long unsolicited letters, which I love getting. "I thought you'd like to know Alger's sickness last fall. In September he had severe chest pains but no tests showed heart attack. The doctors suggested he go to Duke to check out circulatory problems.

In November, an arteriogram showed blockage in one artery and a week later they did a by-pass ." Alger tolerated the surgery well and had planned to be back at teaching in April. Ginna sounds busyshe has been helping out as temporary Minister of Music at her church , and regularly directs a hand bell choir of teenagers.

I had such a nice letter from Ann Bowie Clark Little, who wrote just three weeks after she had moved from Indiana to Illinois . She wrote : "We have just moved.

Our new address is 2 S. 386 Seneca Drive, Wheaton , Illinois 60187 . Randel is an assistant director of research for Amoco Oil Company. The company is building a new research facility in Naperville, Illinois, a community just south of Wheaton. The actual move is scheduled to take place the end of the summer, but we found a house we liked here , sold ours in Indiana very quickly , and here we are . Poor Randel is having to commute back to Whiting, Indiana, but it is only temporary. Our oldest daughter, Beth, was married last summer.

She is trying to complete her B.S. work and housekeep all at once. Our middle daughter, Pat, is a freshman at Westhampton, and is enthusiastically planning to return next year. Susan, the youngest daughter, is a freshman in high school."

Ann Bowie is enjoying the challenge of redecorating their new home. Their lot backs on to an old farm property owned by a Presbyterian church. She claims to have become an avid bird watcher in middle age, and apparently this setting provides her with the perfect spot to pursue her hobby . She and Randel get to Virginia at least once a year , as Randel's mother lives in Amelia and her parents in the Northern Neck. However , her parents are planning to move out and live with them this summer. For those of you who might

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travel out that way , the Littles are in easy distance from O'Hare Airport, but will not be in the phone book until summer.

It was great getting all those Christmas cards this year! Pam forwarded me one from Dottie Lloyd Stine, who wrote that she was disappointed to have missed our reunion last year . She was sidelined by a gall bladder operation. A visit with Johnnie Sandidge revealed that Dottie had been in our area during the fall , college visiting with her son, I believe, and that they had a nice visit.

Pam and Elmon Gray enjoyed a trip to Switzerland last November, and returned in time to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on December 18.

Pat Fuller Gatlin's card contained news about her new grandson, Nathan Grady Gatlin, born in August, 1973. She also wrote that son, Bill, had been inducted in the National Honor Society. He is a junior, ranking 26th in a class of 681. Son, Jamie , is loan manager for Commercial Credit.

Pat enjoyed having lunch with Judy Barnett Seelhorst when she was in St. Louis for a PT A conference. Next year Pat will be president of the St. Louis Library Club. I have pasted in the scrapbook pictures of the reunion which she enclosed .

Judy Barnett Seelhorst had heard from Anne Gill, who married Dr . Wymer Manning a Norfolk dentist, last June. Judy was chosen as the Northeast Area Master Farm Homemaker, and in the fall was to compete with three other homemakers for the Kentucky Master Farm Homemaker title. To be eligible for the award a homemaker must be a bonafide farm homemaker and live on a farm with half or more of the family income from the farm .

Peggy Stone Cunningham has been traveling. Last June they went to son, Steve's, graduation from Furman, then on July 21st, he was married to Jackie Keppell in Baldwin, New York. The young couple now lives in Henrico, while Steve teaches history at Goochland High School, where he is also head baseball coach, and she attends V.C.U . Jim is a senior at V.P.I., where he is president of his fraternity, and very active in intramural athletics. He just won the university golf championship. Daughter Cathy, who attended Chowan , is now back in Richmond working . Peggy and Jerry spent a week at Disney World, then went to Busch Gardens , Silver Springs and Pompano Beach.

I was in touch with some of you while I was working on the UR "Our Time in History Campaign." Bish brought me up to date on the whereabouts of her three daughters: Jane is a freshman at Guilford; Connie, the bride, was married during that awful icy week end in February, is living in Salisbury , N. C., and Sally is in Europe.

Sarah Brenner Rubin told me of her son, Mark 's marriage last June. He and his bride are now living in Charlottesville.

Sarah also told me that she had seen Shirley Sollard Schwartz who was in Petersburg last month for her mother's funeral.

Our deepest sympathy, Shirley , and our sympathy also to Lois McClanahan Garrett, who lost her husband, Jack, in December.

My daughter, Margaret, graduates from Collegiate in just two weeks, and plans to enter Westhampton in the fall . She is thrilled, and so are her brothers! They are not losing a sister, but gaining a bathroom .

You were great about writing this timekeep it up. And all of you brides, grandmothers , mothers-of-the-brides, etc ., send the clippings for your page in the scrapbook.

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Mrs. Raymond E. Oliver (Frances Sutton) 711 Mayland Drive Newport News, Virginia 23601

Not Jong now until our 25th class reunion! You'll hear more about this later, but plan now to attend.

Barbara Beattie Fanney and her family moved last year from Lexington , Ky., to Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, when her husband Skip received a promotion. Maryanne Bugg Lambert's family moved in the spring to Norton, Va., where Pete is Director o.f the Community Hospital. Their oldest daughter graduated this year from the Univ. of Virginia with a B.S. in nursing . Another daughter attends Mary Washington College, and their youngest daughter is a 9th grader.

Our much belated sympathy to Barbara Brann Swain whose husband Monroe died in 1972 . Their daughter Cheryl graduated from William and Mary and is now teaching . Ann Monroe is still a student at William and Mary. Barbara enjoys playing golf and also does some substitute teaching.

Last summer Nancy Chapin Phillips brought 4 of their 5 children to Virginia for a quick trip . They did get to see Lorraine Chapman before returning home to Tulsa, Okla . Their oldest son Chris (19) is at New Mexico Military Academy . The others are Greg (17), Karen (16), Eric ( 13), and Tracy ( 11). Nancy still likes to play bridge and became a life master several years ago. Recently she's become "addicted" to ceramics and has her own kiln along with two friends . What started off as a hobby has developed into a profitable business .

Lorraine Chapman has had to retire on disability from the Department of Recreation and Parks in Richmond. She is a member of the advisory council of one of the playgrounds.

Joanne Waring Karppi of Annandale has 3 sons who keep her busy with scouting and sports . She is taking tennis lessons and is in a garden club . Her family plans to take a Florida vacation this summer. Libby Rowse Wilson went from California to Florida in February to see her Dad, and she plans another trip there in August. She talked to Piggy Wells Meador on her first visit.

In April, Louise "Baby Sis" Cheatham Chandler's daughter Mary Bruce was married in Wytheville. She graduated from Mary Baldwin College. Louise was busy getting the house ready to have the wedding reception there. Their other daughter Lisa is a sophomore in high school.

Congratulations to Doris Balderson Burbank, recently elected president of the Richmond Club of Westhampton alumnae.

She is active in all phases of alumnae work, having served on the Tea Room Committee this past year. Doris and David joined Barbara White Balderson and Lester on the U. of R. alumni tour to Hawaii in January .

Marjorie Parson Owen's son Marshall graduated from the U. of R. in May and will be married in June.

Barbara Covington O'Flaherty spent several weeks in the hospital but is improving now . Her son Jeff is graduating from V.P.I. with a major in economics . Her daughter Deedi is at the Univ. of South Carolina.

"B" had a surprise visit from Aggie Feild Burke recently . Aggie and her daughter were down from Alexandria looking at colleges in the Richmond area.

Another V.P.I. graduate was Walter

Pierce , Libby Givens Pierce's son. Libby and Bucky went to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February and had a wonderful time. Libby and Vivian Betts Lewis went to the Spring Festival at college (a new name for May Day) . They saw Hilda Moore Hankins who has two daughters at tending Westhampton . The older one was in the Spring Court and is to be married in Halifax. Hilda and Deck are moving to Hampton in the summer. Another member of our class with a daughter in the Spring Court was Jane Pitt Robinson from Galax. Vivian and Libby also saw Miss Rudd who looked grand and is anticipating our 25th Reunion.

Pat Kelly Jordan and Alex were in Richmond during her Spring vacation and phoned Libby. Pat is still busy teaching in Martinsville.

Joanna Maiden recently attended the wedding of one of Ann Neblett James's children . Ann lives in Kingsport, Tenn., where her husband is a Methodist minister.

We express our sympathy to Ruth Pitman Gurley whose father died last year . Ruth and Rudy have recently moved from their house into an apartment in Newport News.

They're building a home near Kilmarnock.

Their older son Bill plays banjo with a group called "The New Morning String Band" and their other son Mike is at Rich mond College .

Miriam Weddle Whitt's husband Robert is Associate Executive Secretary of the Richmond Baptist Association.

Miriam teaches 5th grade in Henrico County . Their son Mike graduated from Lee-Davis High th.is year and plans to enter the U. of R . in the fall. Their daughter Grace will be in high school then. Their family took a most enjoyable trip last summer driving through 28 states.

Virginia Sims heard from Barbara Taggart at Christmas. Barbara is a missionary in Michoacan, Mexico.

Maud Tyler has been busy this year teaching 10 piano students in Richmond.

There must be a lot of music at Mokey Rounds Holloway's house in Salisbury, Md ., because their 16 year old son John plays electric guitar , bass drum, piano, organ and string bass! He's an Eagle Scout and president of the Methodist Conference Youth Council. Their older son Ric attends Salisbury State College and is an apprentice at his father's funeral home. Mokey is active in her church. does hospital volunteer work, is on the Salvation Army Advisory Board, and finds time for golf and bowling.

Jean Tinsley Martin and her family had a good trip to Disney World during Easter vacation.

Our son Ray is getting married June 1.

He and his wife will be seniors at Lynchburg College in the fall. Bill graduates from Ferguson High in Newport News later in June and he will also go to Lynchburg College. Cynthia will be a 10th grader this fall. Raymond and I plan to go to Mexico ' City in July to a church meeting and then do some touring around that vicinity.

Remember our 25th Reunion in 1975!

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Mrs. Donald (Mary Anne 618 Overhill Birmingham,

G. Edel Coates) Road Michigan 48010

Anne Simpson Turner's daughter, Candi, was married at the Suffolk Christian Church on March 17th. Is Candi the first of our daughters to be married?

Don't forget to send newspaper clippings

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of these events. So far our present scrapbook is Dullsville!

Georgie McTeer Cooke and Morris are looking forward to retirement in South Carolina in June . Dawes is playing ice hockey at Univ . of Va . Betsy has taken up scuba diving and hopes to go to a Florida college this fall. Georgie says all three subjects scare her to death-retirement, ice hockey and scuba diving!

Betty Edmonds Dunn and Elmer are house-hunting for al'l. old home in Va. or Md. Betty's son James has his eye on Univ. of Richmond next year.

Jo Soles Garnett says Richard may choose Univ . of Richmond also. Jo says that they are all ski nuts except for Tom who goes along as official photographer.

Tom has accepted the position as Director of Social Research Dept. (Cancer Care Inc .

N.Y.). Nicest of all her news is that after 4 years of night school ,-Jo has her master's degree!

Monty Wiley Schutte visited her family in Va. last June. The Schuttes are still living in La. Do hope Monty 's next family reunion will coincide with our next class reunion. Larry is now a 10th grader , Mary Ann a 7th grader and Ellen is a busy 5th grader . Both girls are active in scouting and are great campers. They also stay busy with music and art lessons . Our sympathy to Monty on the loss of her brother, Harlith.

Jeanne Hootman Hopkins sent a nice long letter. After 10 years in Chatham, the Hopkins have moved to Christchurch, Va. , on the Rappahannock River. Peter is the Biology & Chemistry Master , and coaches cross Country, winter and spring track . He is also President of the Virginia Chess Federation. Christchurch is a private Episcopal boarding school for boys . Fortunately, the girls are accepted as day students so Betsy is enrolled as an 11th grader and Jim as an 8th grader . Emily is a sophomore at Westhampton. Jeanne is teaching in nearby Middlesex County schools. She is under Title I and has five classes of the SRA reading program, "Distar" . Jeanne says that it is highly structured and quite different from what she had been doing .

Eleanor Persons Hayes is a part time English conversation teacher at Kanto Gakuin Jr. College in Hayama, Japan. Her son is back in the states and in college in Salisbury, Md. After learning to surf in Japan, he stopped in Hawaii to test the waves en route to Md . The Hayes also had a wonderful cruise to Hong Kong .

Sarah Barlow Wright is principal of Denbigh Elementary School in Newport News.

It is an 18 classroom school including grades 1 through 5 plus 4 classes of special ed . They are accredited and are working toward accreditation by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . Sarah commutes 56 miles each day from Oak-Crest, their farm near Smithfield . Sarah says that a sign of the times is having Jess trouble getting substitute teachers than a janitor or maid!

Charlotte Babb Edmonds has been a terrible brag about the mild winter most o.f you enjoyed in Va .! (We are still having ice and snowstorms here in April!). Nevertheless, Charlotte and Tom joined friends on a sunshine filled trip to Bonaire where they had a mini course in scuba diving followed by a couple dives which were the thrill of a lifetime.

All of your letters sound so wonderfully full and exciting. I must admit to feeling downright lazy by comparison. Cary started driving this spring and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to get the car.

She also charmed a local department store into the impos sible-a part time job, so she

is feeling terribly grown up. Greg is eagerly looking forward to U. of R. this fall and I can't believe how grown up he looks and is! Don recently returned from Europe & the Orient looking for all the world like Marco Polo. Due to the gas situation I will fly down to visit Mother during Easter and plan to take her to N.Y.C. for a few days to see some shows. After that we are taking the family to Nassau to soak up some good old sun.

Don't forget that the thing that makes me happiest is news, news, news!

A hasty P.S.! While in D. C. during Easter-I happily bumped into Mary Watson in Lord and Taylor. She had just spoken with Betty Edmonds Dunn and they have found their "old" home near Richmond on the James River!

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Mrs. George H. Werner (Nancy S. Baumgardner) 1601 Lauderdale Road Richmond, Virginia 23233

Some of you missed a terrific 20th reunion! The festivities began April 19 when the Richmond group treated the out-oftowners to dinner at Nancy Graham Harrell's home. The next night, Barbara Moore Flannagan had a cocktail party for all of us with spouses included. Thanks Nancy and Barbara for sharing your lovely homes and hospitality.

John Dorsey surprised each of us with green and white 20th reunion plaques. Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey and John had to leave our festivities early as John's father died suddenly the first night of our reunion.

Our sympathy to you, John.

These 31 classmates attended the reunion: Betty Rosenberger Allen, Cos Washburn Barnes, Marcella Hammock Bullock, Nancy Stanley Cockrell, Sue Simpson Cooper, Sara Sherman Cowherd, Beverly Priddy Derr, Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey, Sue Perry Downing, Beverly Burke Dunklee, Beverly French Dunn, Barbara Moore Flannagan, Edith Burnett Grimes, Peggy Brown Hantzmon, Nancy Graham Harrell, Edith Jackson Jones, Kitty Kennedy Koolage Linda Goodman Lewis, Billie Bryan Mackey, Susie Keegan Nuttle, Jane Betts Schmitt, Ruth Zehner Seibold, Jo Sue Leonard Simpson, Betty Garter Smith, Polly Newman Smith, Jane Lanier Synovitz, Barbara Bull Tull, Becky Pilcher Wellford, Nancy Baumgardner Werner, Shirley Ward Wingfield and Nancy Harvey Yuhase.

Ms. Miller (Mary Jane) sent regrets that she couldn't make our 20th but promises to come to the 25th reunion. She sent the sad news that her mother died last year.

Currently , she was planning a May 1st trip to Europe: a week in London; North Cape cruise up the coast of Norway; Copenhagen, Austria , Switzerland and Paris. In England, she planned to visit Ms. "field hockey" Appleby who is 101 years old .

Ms. Miller's current hobby is photography.

Our sympathy to Betty Fleet Schmutz whose grandmother died just before our reunion and to Beverly French Dunn whose father died soon after the reunion. Bev spent a weekend at Sue Perry Downing 's home in Baltimore recently. Betty and family won a week's vacation in a raffle, spent it in a house on Nantucket•. They plan a trip on the Delta Queen, a paddle boat, and sightseeing in the West later this summer.

The Alumnae Office recently received the sad news that Ann Carol Livesay Bittman died suddenly last November 1973.

Becky Pilcher Wellford's daughter, Becky, married June 1. Her oldest daughter, Nancy, is in Mortar Board and a Phi Beta Kappa at Wake Forest where she just completed her Junior year.

Shirley Bruckman Martin's daughter, Linda (baby cup winner), has been appointed a summer missionary under the Baptist Student ministries program . She will attend Virginia Intermont College this fall.

Jo Sue Leonard Simpson and family plan to spend time this summer at their Eastern Shore home in Maryland. Jo Sue is taking a course to renew her teaching certificate.

Nancy Stouh Fox will attend a workshop at UCLA in preparation for work in a team teaching and open classroom program this fall at Orange Hunt Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia . One son is at pre-med school at Penn State. Her husband, Denton, is with the Federal Power Commission.

Jacqueline Weil Rubenstein, husband and two daughters live in Annandale, Virginia.

Jackie does high school substitute teaching .

Her husband is a nuclear physicist at the Defense Nuclear Agency.

Nancy Stanley Cockrell and her oldest daughter recently went with her husband on a business trip to Canada . Nancy's son will enter the University of Richmond this fall. He completed high school in three years .

Martinsville's Linda Goodman Lewis and Polly Newman Smith want to organize an "interim reunion" Fall 1975. Place: Mabry's Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway. They'd arrange motel accommodations, babysitting during a party and promise beautiful scenery and activities for the children.

What does everyone think of the idea?

Linda's address: 210 Thomas Heights, Martinsville, Va. 24112.

I just "retired" after twenty years in which I did marriage and family counselling, earned a Master's degree in Social Work and trained graduate social workers .

Now, I'm busy with gardening, a creative writing workshop, tennis and swimming.

George and I look forward to two weeks at Virginia Beach later this summer.

Our thanks to Cos Washburn for a great job keeping up on class news these past five years and to our outgoing president, Sara Sherman Cowherd and fund chairman, Beverly Priddy Derr.

New officers are : Ruth Zehner Seibold, President; Betty Garter Smith, Fund Chairman. I'm secretary. Please, everyone get news o.f yourself and family to me; so we can keep up with everyone . Our news can appear only twice a year now.

Everyone mark "25th reunion" on your 1979 calendar. OK?

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Mrs. George Snader (Marjorie Kantner) 53 Oak Rd., Trappe Collegeville, Pa. 19426

Fifty-six is back! As your new secretary, my first duty is to thank the ten group captains who have agreed to help me.

Jean Burroughs Matthews, Larry, and family spent the summer of 1973 in England, exchanging pulpits with a pastor in the Midlands. They then flew to Luxemborg, toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. They also spent a week in Scotland . Larry and son, Kevin 15 are shutterbugs and have slides and movies galore as a testament to the trip.

Mary Lou Watson Lamb is working full time as a social service worker for the

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Radford Welfare Dept. Husband, Skip, is Administrator of the Radford Community Hospital and president of the Roanoke area Hospital Council. They visited the U of R with daughters, Melissa, 14, Amy, 12, and Beth, 10 and were quite impressed with the changes. Melissa is in 8th grade and very musically inclined, while Amy enjoys reading and puzzles. At the moment she's bargaining for a ten speed bike. Beth is in 4th grade and thinks boys are dumb.

Barbara Glantz was married on Jan. 30th to Allan Chambers. Her new address is P.O. Box 480, St. Thomas , Virgin Islands, 00801. They have an apartment overlooking the Caribbean, just minutes from Allan's position as Assistant Manager of Bluebeard's Castle Hotel. Barbara will be commuting to home in Milwaukee several times a year , since she helps her mother run the Lithography Company since her father's death. Before her marriage, Barbara traveled to Scandanavia and the Orient and was a delegate to the National Cathedral Association in Washington last May. Following graduation from WC, Mildred Fulfer attended Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, worked in a Baptist Mission in Dallas and is presently teaching at Valley Baptist Academy in Harlinger, Texas about 25 miles from Mexico. Her students are primarily Latin-American and Virgin Islanders, representing six countries.

Thelma Flynn Helm is living in Nashville and is keeping busy in home, school, and church activities. Marshall is a manufacturer's representative and covers ten states.

Thelma plays mom and dad to Paula, 12 and Todd, 8 while he is traveling. Thelma does the newspaper publicity for the Nashville Symphony Guild, is Director of the Senior High Dept. at Immanuel Baptist Church and finds time for tennis and softball Pat Eanes Jackson is busy with her home, two boys, hubby, and a job as elementary school librarian .

Rose Dranchak Martin is working parttime at the local high school cafeteria.

Charlie and Rose and children, Jeanine, 9, and John, 8 are planning a week in Washington this summer . They'll attend the Gideon International convention . Charlie is quite active as a Gideon and is president of one of the Richmond camps. They're planning to fly back home for their first airplane trip. John will be playing Little League for the first time this year.

Betty Brinkley Hayward reports that Jane 6½, completed first grade and David, 4½, enjoys nursery school. John is Assistant Manager of Wage and Salary at Public Service Electric company in New Jersey.

The Haywards are planning a summer vaca tion at Nag 's Head .

Jane Bowles Hurt is a social worker in Roanoke while husband Ira is a stockbroker . Most of Jane's energy is spent with Huff, 10 and David , 7. She reports seeing Mary Lou Kingery Divers at church. Mary Lou is an assistant principal at an elementary school.

Barbara Daniels Humphreys loves living in San Clemente , Calif . Her husband, Jerry is in real estate and they have an ocean view home with quick access to the beach and their boat. Their children are now aged 16, 14, and 6 and involved in many activities .

Betty Wyatt Grant is living in Elmira, N.Y. where Jim is pastor of First Baptist Church. Martha, 15 and Jimmy, 14 enjoy their church and school activities. Betty substitutes at a nursery school, directs a children's choir and a woodwind ensemble at church .

Ruth Dallas Weiss has a new address-

2060 N.E. 210th St., No. Miami Beach, Fla. 33162. Alan, M.C.V. Pharmacy '56, owns his own drug store. Mike, 15 is on the high school varsity track team and plays jayvee basketball. Mark is 14 and Beth is IO. Ruth substitutes as a teacher and is act ive in school and community affairs as well as taking a few CCEW courses .

Joan Carpenter Baas reports husband Bob is still with American Airlines as a co-pilot.

They own a Cessna '70 and Bob is currently recovering the wing of his small experimental French plane. They are also avid antique collector's and restorers. Joan's daughters are in third and seventh grade, and Joan serves on two P.T.A. Executive Boards. She is also a library voiunteer, reading tutor, and coordinator for Volunteer Services. Joan invites anyone coming into the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, to give her a call or a visit.

Helen and Wayne Culbertson have really been busy over the last two years. Wayne designed the blueprints for their home, cleared the lot of about I 50 trees, and started the building in Dec. 1972. They moved in last August. Most of the inside work was done by Crit and Wayne. Crit is teaching part time in an individualized math program in grades 3 to 8. She took an education course, the first time since '56 and Nancy Stanley Cockrell was in the class. Pat McElroy Smith and Helen have daughters in the same 7th grade. She also mentioned Barbara Pratt Willis and Jere are restoring an old home in Fredericksburg.

Oldest daughter Cindy is going to study in Spain this summer.

Dr. Edna Wagstaff Warncke received her doctorate from the University of Georgia and took a position teaching Reading Education at Ball State University in Indiana .

Edna took a Caribbean cruise during Spring Vacation to get away from the snow and ice.

Ann Louise Woodall Thompson and Tom have two children , Ty, 13, and Alisa, 6.

In her spare time, Ann Louise has been a Den Mother, held offices in Garden Clubs, Hamp ton Woman's Club and joined the National Society Magna Charta Dames. For recrea tion the family has traveled to Vermont to ski, and in the summer they enjoy sailing their 30 foot sloop. They have earned numerous trophies in competition and even a write-up in Yachting Magazine.

The Thompson's took a trip to Spain and Portuga l where Ann Louise finally got to use her Spanish. Occasionally she sees Dottie Stiff Price and Virginia Jones Miller.

Since Helen Kinnett Peach is also an avid sailor, Ann Louise gets to chat with her at the races.

As for me, I'm trying to keep up two teenagers. Doug is 17, finished his junior year and looking at colleges. He's earned 3 letters in sports this year, is a member of National Honor Society, Scouts, Youth Fellowship, band, delegate to Boy's State and in May received the 1974 Citizenship Award from the Union League in Philadelphia. Debbie is 16, plays hockey, band front honor guard, choral group, Youth Fellowship, dabbles with art and loves horse back riding. Both of them participated with the high school band at the Apple Blossom Festival. My husband George, is a pharmaceutica l representative and vice-president of the School Board. I keep busy with teaching, Dept. of Sunday School, Brownie consultant, V. Pres. of Church Women's Group, Exec . Committee for Band Boosters and many other committees parents get hooked into.

We are so pleased to see news of '56.

Please answer your group captain when she writes or send your letter to me.

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Mrs. E. Jackson Hill (Nancy Goodwyn) 11733 Dewberry Lane Chester, Virginia 23831

This spring found Emily Damerel King busy getting together an assortment of clothing for an exhibit of Westhampton fashions through the years. She was in charge of setting up a display for Alumnae Weekend to mark Westhampton's sixtieth birthday. Among items in the exhibit were a 1918 sweater, a dress Miss Tucker wore at her freshman banquet, evening dresses from the thirties and forties, circular skirts from the fifties, and several other outfits representative of the times, including a present day pant s outfit. Scrapbooks were on hand a lso and proved to be quite a hit with Alumnae Week-end visitors.

Suzie Prillaman Wiltshire was in the news in January. Dr. Skinner presented Suzie and a Westhampton senior medals for being the best students he had ever taught. These awards, presented in a special ceremony, were Maltese Crosses which Dr. Skinner called Ladies' Crosses of Honor.

Suzie finds time to serve on the board of Boatwright Library besides being on the faculty at St. Catherine's; the students honored her last year by dedicating the yearbook to her.

Pat Steckman Shifflett (Reb) who is the Supervisor o.f Social Studies and Humanities for Chesterfield County Schools is photographing and writing the narrative for a resource guide on Chesterfield County.

Using slides, maps, tape recordings, as well as printed materials, she is covering the history, government, geography and economics of Chesterfield County. She is categorizing and cataloging information for reference and plans to provide a basic set of slides for each school with a standard set in the county office for more intensive studies.

Jane Stockman Thorpe saw Gail Carper Russell, Mary Alice Revere Eastwood, and Nancy Jane Cyrus Bains in Hampton recently. Carolyn Quinn Higginbothom is a member of the steering committee of the Baltimore Our Ti me in History Campaign, and Barbara Jenkins Warriner is serving as Chairman of the Emporia area Campaign.

Barbara's husband, Dortch , has been nominated for Federal District Court Judge.

Carolyn Moss Hartz is serving on the University of Richmond Bicentennial Committee. She and Ransome went to Hawaii in January with the University of Richmond tour.

Frances Gray Mark and husband are living in Cincinna ti where she is a master realtor with a commercial real estate firm and her husband is head of his department in chemistry at the University of Cincinnati .

They have three children-David, 6, who is in second grade; Sarah, 4; and Steven, 2.

Eddie Knipling Lake's activities with AAUW, Little League and PTA keep her busy. Recently she appeared on a Boston TV station in a 50-second "opinionette" speaking out on the subjects, "Parents, Children, and Cuckoos ."

Virginia Harris Fanning and her three children-I ennifer, almost 11; Reid, 5; and Paul, 3, are living in an 18th century house in rural Cornwall, Vermont.

Peggy Ware had a nice visit with Sam Beale Swallow at her home in Virginia Beach last summer.

We are sorry to report the death in April of the Rev. T. Roy Jarrett, Libby Jarrett Burger's father.

Sue and Bo Parsons have bought a new

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boat which they are keeping at Urbanna.

Their two boys will attend a summer enrichment program being offered by county schools while Sue audits a course at the University of Richmond.

Dot Wiltshire Butler is active in the Powhatan Chapter of the Eastern Star and recently attended a three day Grand Chapter Session at the John Marshall Hotel in Richmond.

Barbara Enroughty Thompson passed the real estate exam and is now a professional real estate broker with Don Thompson and Associates, her husband's firm . She and her family went to Europe this winter.

I ran into Cora Sue Elmore Spruill at VCU Evening School Registration in January and also saw Betty Brnce Harris Bones at a Christian Women's Club banquet in April. Bev Brown Floyd '59 dropped by for a short visit when she was up for her class reunion this spring.

Thanks to all you group leaders for supplying the news! Keep it coming!

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

I notice that a number of our classmates have assumed positions on the Alumnae Association Board . On the Endowment Committee, Jane Morris Dobyns. As local club presidents, Eastern Shore-Eva Frances Rue Mapp, Roanoke-Nancy Wheeler Farthing. We were delighted to see so many members of our class so active. And let's not forget that next year, June 1975, is our fifteenth class reunion. Start thinking about it right now so arrangements can be made for everyone to come .

Lynn Mapp Wiggins' baby is a terrible two now. They are doing a big remodeling job on their house, including a large addition but hope to be finished by this summer. Congratulations to Anne Hurd Eastridge on the birth of her first child, a girl, Eleanor Suzanne , born March 18.

Gloria Greenfield Harris and Dodie Tyrrell spent an afternoon in Los Angeles.

Gloria has returned to Seattle with her husband and two sons where she has begun working on a book entitled "Assertive Training for Women" . She also joined the staff of the Division on Child Psychiatry at the University of Washington as a Clinical Instructor where she is designing a psychoeducational program for children with learning disabilities.

Sue Ludington Jones' mother and father have been living with her and Sam for the past year. Sue's father became an ordained minister this past December and is serving as pastor of a church near them . Sue and Sam attended the President's Prayer Breakfast in Washington last year. Jeff is now six and is attending private kindergarten where Sue is serving as President.

Susan is three and started nursery school this last fall. Sam has continued as a hospital chaplain. In August , the family vacationed in Ocean City, Maryland.

Jean Chou Lee and Tun are still living near Disneyland. Tun was sent to St. Louis on business last summer for two months so Jean and the boys joined him for the second month . Jean's father visited from Hong Kong in the summer for the wedding of Jean's brother in Virginia. Tun's parents visited from Arlington over the holidays.

Tun and Brian are both into skiing now.

Dodie Tyrrell is now president of the Mary Washington Alumnae group for that part of the country. She is also working

on seven different research projects in her lab which include such diverse fields as marijuana, dyslexia, transcendental meditation, neuroelectric correlates of ovulation, anesthesia, gender identity, and insomnia at the South Pole . She has just added two people to her staff so even though they are into many things, much of the pressure is gone and she is enjoying her work more than ever. Dodie spent a week at Lake Tahoe skiing.

Em St. Clair Key had a luncheon for our class at her home with thirteen members joining her. I understand the talking went on until 4:30! Melissa Granger Mayo was able to come as she was visiting her parent s at the time. Melissa is active in the medical auxiliary in Brunswick, Georgia and stays busy helping Ed and taking care of the girls. Their family enjoyed a trip to Jam aica last summer .

Becky Grissom Van Ausdall represented her Woman's Club in the Tobacco Festival Hostess Contest. She and her family went to Disney World last year. Em also writes that Linda Morgan Lemmon was here for homecoming. Jeannette McWilliams Welsh was able to make it between teaching and summer school. She and Jack had just returned from the Kennedy Center where they took Westhampton and Richmond students to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Judy Walker, Nancy Rae Baker and Jane Dobyns attended summer school. Judy is studying early childhood education, Nancy Rae took journalism, and Jane is working on a Master's degree in accounting .

Others at the luncheon were Audrey Nuckols Reynolds, Evalene Green Slaughter, Nancy Jenkins Marrow , A. J. Michaels Crick. It seems that Alice Clement Boone can now be counted as one of the world's liberated women. She says she's busy exploring the world now that she has every morning free.

I am still involved in decorating, it seems never ending and I'm sure that no sooner will I finish than it shall be time to begin anew. We had a lovely trip to South America in February. Somehow we managed to get to Quito, Rio de Janeiro and Bueno s Aires all in two weeks which kept us on the move but was really tremendously exciting.

I am about to suffer a maternal trauma as this summer my daughter, Laura Jeanne, will be going away to camp for eight weeks and I can already feel a bout of separation anxiety coming on (mine, not hers!)

Send me a Christmas card, put me on the list , and include all the news while you're at it.

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Mrs. Richard E. Hansen (Judy Acree) 181 Longstreet Avenue Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401

Much of our news at this sping writing seems to center around new addresses and new babies (note birth listings for our class) .

Tho se classmates who have reported addre ss changes include Sharon Alderson O'Connor, Iris Creedle Jarrett, and Toni Cousins Ewell. Sharon has moved to a new home in the same general area, and her address now is 3016 Shamrock Terrace, Olney , Maryland 20832. Iris and Doug have built a new house in Raleigh at 3305 Lake Boone Trail , Raleigh , N. C. 27607.

And Toni has moved to a section of Chesterfield County called Windsor Forest; her new address is 11901 Win fore Drive, Midlothi an, Ya. 23113. In the fall her 5 year

old son, Lyon, will start school, and 3-yearold Brooke will be in nursery school three days a week.

Toni mentioned, too, that she, Robin Perks, Pam Faye, and Joan Davidson had met at the Richmond Club spring luncheon to hear Libby Wampler Jarrett's mother give a delightful review of her book From Motherhood to Menopause. They also saw Libby again, who was attending the luncheon with her mother.

Edie Graves Jones is busy with two sons, 5 year old Jim and 3-year-old Ray. "Just a housewife" now though she hopes to return to hospital work in a few years. Husband, Joe is flying for the F.A.A. They have been in Illinois for six and a half years.

Nancy Vaughan Downey has temporarily retired from teaching (she taught high school in Petersburg for the last two years) and enjoys being at home with 4 year old Lee and the new baby, Christopher Byrd, now seven months old. Pete is employed at Titmus Optical Company.

A new son has recently joined Sandra Nunn Wallace's family, and I'm sure she speaks for many of us when she says she's "in constant demand by someone all day and part of the night."

Gail Glover Chamlee's little Susan enjoys a play school for four year olds while big sister Mary Simms loves second grade in an open school "where the 3R's are in question but the fun is great!" Husband Bill is still with Phillips while Gail's "hobby is that of the typical mother getting the children there on time."

Alice Hall, still in Washington, has a view of the Watergate and Kennedy Center, but writes that only viewing the Watergate gives her no inside information! She will return to school in June: Stonier Graduate School of Banking, a program which runs three years with two weeks in June on the Rutgers University campus plus interim assignments during the year and a final thesis.

At last report, Ruth Blair Taylor and Larry were anxiously awaiting the fun of Christmas with 11-month-old Adrienne.

They like Tallahassee-a bit different from other parts of Florida they'd been in-and planned a Virginia vacation during Christmas.

Dick and I spent a delightful afternoon in early spring visiting Cathy (Carr) and Ed Elverston in Richmond. It was nice to meet Ed and to see Cathy again after all these years, and we thoroughly enjoyed their "roaming tour" of part of the Church Hill restored area where they live.

In April we left Carter and Kendal with my sister and enjoyed a few days "vacation" in Philadelphia, where Dick was attending a convention. It was a pleasant break from the usual hectic routine!

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Mrs. William H. Walters (Beverly Davis) 3419 Warner Road Richmond, Virginia 23225

The weekend of April 19-20 marked our tenth-year reunion celebration. What a delightful experience it was! Many of our classmates gathered in Richmond to share in the activities (a few of our more distant members being Sally Abel Taylor from Texas, Pat Bankes King and Betsy Uhl from Pennsylvania, and Sandra Crowder MacDonald from New Jersey.)

On Friday night we had a congenial "girls only" coffee and dessert at the home of Lisa Coleman Rose ; on Saturday evening

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we had an enjoyable cocktail party at the home of Carolyn Wiltshire Webb.

At our Friday night get together, the following officers were elected to serve for the next five years: President, Carolyn Wiltshire Webb; Secretaries-Jane Bibb Ranson and Beverly Davis Walters; Finance Chairman-Carol Good Jones. We thank our outgoing officers, Lisa Coleman Rose, Carol Good Jones, Connie Zeno Rigel, Julia Whitlock Sheranek, Joan Hoch Yowell and Elsa Queen Falls for their service these past five years.

Thanks, too, to the Richmond girls who provided refreshments for our reunion activities.

Ann Wiley Clark reported that Joanna Longest Rouzie and her husband John live in Williamsburg and are kept busy with their three children. Joanna is a "retired" school teacher.

Ann Blitch Siler and Russell and their two children live in Virginia Beach, where he is a minister and she teaches 3rd grade.

They are planning a trip to Hawaii soon.

Sara Ruschhaupt Crippen and her husband Gilbert, both teachers, are planning to go to Bermuda with Lucille Phillips Lebold and her husband after school is out.

Lisa Coleman Rose reported that Suzanne Bowles Royster and her husband Lewis vacationed in Hawaii in April without their three children, Rand (5), Virginia Gray (2½ ), and Jennifer (8 months).

Joy Schmidt Prince plans to substitute teach next year when both of her children will be in school. Her husband Waverly is an electrical engineer with E. L. Simmons Assoc.,Inc., in Richmond.

Mary Jane Bacon Huffman and her husband Richard returned to Richmond last summer. He is president of the Bank of the James in Goochland. Mary Jane is enjoying tennis now that her children are in school.

Carol Bradley is planning to go to UNC in the fall to pursue a MAT degree in music.

Also along academic lines, an informative letter from Ingrid Loock Kiss revealed that she anticipates getting her Ph.D. degree in Counselor Education from Fordham University in 1975, having passed her doctoral comprehensives in March and having had her dissertation proposal accepted in May. Elizabeth Morris Meador's husband, Dave, has become an avid gardener in his spare time, and has quite a little helper in their three-year-old daughter Sara. Elizabeth has recently finished a night course in "Parent-Child Relations" which she feels has been helpful in making parenthood even more enjoyable. She is also kept busy with her 3/4 job as volunteer-coordinator at the developmental school.

Bill and I had the pleasure of entertaining Ann and Ben Clark during our alumnae activities. They have built a lovely home in Williamsburg, where they live with their two children, Bill and Melissa.

I recently completed a fascinating course at VCU on the Life and Literature of Paul, which will be of immense value in teaching Sunday School and Bible School.

Please remember to contact your class secretaries with news for the UR Magazine, for each of us is a noteworthy and integral part of the class of 1964.

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Mrs. John N. Burkey (Carolyn Urquhart) 135 Lake Street Pulaski, Virginia 24301

Carolyn Tietze Zetes and her family now

live in Connecticut. Her husband, a Lt. (j.g.) in the Navy, serves aboard the U.S.S. Bergall, a nuclear fast-attack submarine ported in New London, Conn. They have lived there two years with at least another year to go before being transferred. This will be a record stay for them, as they have moved nine times in the past 7½ years! Carolyn worked as a research technologist for a few years before their two daughters, now 5 and 3 Yz, were born . She keeps busy with her family, her garden, singing with a group of Navy officers' wives for Navy and community affairs, and enjoys sailing in the summer aboard their sailboat. If anyone is in the area she would love to see them and give them a tour of a submarine. Her address is 8 Scenic Drive, Uncasville, Conn 06382.

Carolyn Sublette Meredith is now living in Roanoke. Her address is 5343 Brambleton Ave. S.W., Roanoke, Va. 24018.

Pat Schultz Hoy is teaching 4 levels of Spanish at Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Va. She received her M.Ed. degree in the summer of 1973 with a major in Supervision and a minor in Spanish.

Pat had a hectic summer as she taught the previous year, went to summer school to finish up 30 hours, took her comprehensive exams, had her first child, Susannah, and then went back to school 2 weeks late in September. Her husband, Terry, (UR 1969) is in his third and final year of law study with the law firm of Winston, Jewett, and Powers near Chesterfield Court House. Her address is 906 Legion Ave., Richmond, Va. 23224.

Connie Chappell Corsino finished Medical School in 1970 at Medical College of Virginia and then stayed there 3 years for training in pediatrics. During that time, she spent 5 weeks in Brazil studying tropical diseases in children. She is now practicing pediatrics in Orange, California. Her husband, Jose, is also a physician and is setting up his practice in neurosurgery. He is from Brazil, but they met at MCV while she was a student . Her address is 180 City Blvd. West, Apt. 201, Orange, California 9'2668.

Nancy Hilliard Campbell's address is 334 West Altus Circle, Whiteman AFB, Missouri 65301.

Brenda Ellis Nuara and Joe returned to Richmond in July, 1973 after spending two years in the service. Joe was a Navy doctor assigned to the Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. They spent 5 months of the time in Vieques, Puerto Rico, having a fantastic Caribbean vacation. Their little girl, Amy Caroline, is 1½,. Joe begins his fellowship in cardiology at MCV in July. Brenda's address is 10205 Gwynnbrook Road, Richmond, Va. 23235 .

Nancy Saunders Kaplon now has 2 daughters. She and Ron have moved back East from California and their address is 5100 Tall Oak Court, Camp Springs, Md. 20031.

Nancy Borders Blood and Steve moved back to Va. from Maine and her address is 6106 Holly Tree Dr., Alexandria , Va. 22310.

Betty Smithson Carpenter and Steve have 2 daughters and live at 1109 Dale St. in Staunton, Va . 24401.

Ginger Blanton Bailey and Bill live at 3718 Robinhood Dr., Temple, Texas 76501.

Joanne Hauft Clark and Tom reside at 664 Kandie Dr., Ft. Bening, Ga. 31905.

Joy Davis Smith, her husband Marvin, and son, Blake, are in the process of moving back to Richmond from Greensboro N. C. ' Ann Ayres Sherriff and Bill live at 4362 Majestic Lane , Fairfax, Va. 22030. Ann

was in a serious car accident awhile back but is recovering from her back injuries.

Carolyn Poore Fleet and Bob and their two sons live in Richmond, Va. at 2155 Woodmont Road. Carolyn is taking horseback riding lessons and is learning to jump.

I keep busy with our two sons, Chris, almost 3, and Michael, 6 months. Also I enjoy my Newcomer's and Homemaker's Club and La Leche League, and am in the process of preparing to teach piano lessons.

My husband, John, is still in school studying electronics. Thanks to each of you who sent news for this issue. I hope to prepare a questionnaire to send to each class member to update our records.

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Mrs. Charles T. Massaro (Linda Powers) 8523 Betterton Court Vienna, Virginia 22180

Carty Richards Pinchak is teaching calculus, pre-calculus, geometry and algebra at Roanoke Catholic High. Tom is manager of the note department at United Virginia Bank. Things are hectic with their new baby (Deane) and the new job.

Pam Buss Inman, Jr. and Chuck are in Austin, Texas. (8813 Dawnridge Circle, #101 78758). Chuck is working on his doctorate at the University of Texas. Pam keeps busy with work at a travel agency.

After graduation they plan to return to Richmond.

Judy Morong Drayer and Dave now live in Winchester, Virginia. (Box 155, Braddock Hills Estates, Winchester, Virginia 22601).

Dave has a new job as controller of Shenandoah Apple Co-op. Mike, their two year old, enjoys watching the birds, squirrels and chipmunks around their new home out in the woods. Over Thanksgiving they visited Judy's parents in Oceanside, California.

While on the west coast they squeezed in side trips to the San Diego Zoo, Mexico.

Sea World and Long Beach.

Loretta Birckhead has a new address while she is working on her doctorate at Boston University-SO Quint Avenue, Allston, Mass. 02134.

Susan Shackleford Snyder and Tom were married in June 1971. They were stationed in Asmara, Ethopia with the army. Now they are in Richmond at 506 Willomett Avenue 23227. In May 1973 Susan completed work for a Masters degree in Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Since July of 1973 she has been working in a foster care unit for the Richmond City Department of Public Welfare. During the summer they are looking forward to having a garden and canning and freezing lots of things. While Tom has been busy making a cherry hutch, Susan has been working on several children's quilts. Susan saw her brother-in-law and his wife Elaine Robertson Snyder (WC'64) and their two children over the Christmas holidays .

Margaret Anne Byrn Tucker and Mike will be transferring back to the east coast when IBM phases out their air traffic control project.

Karla and Lance Morrell had a busy Christmas holiday in San Pedro, California with visits from both families . They plan to be back on the east coast with son J aso,n when Lance gets out of the Army.

Carolyn Tucker McCormack and husband Dan are in Richmond. Dan took the bar exam in February and graduated from law school in May . Dan has accepted a position with a Richmond firm . Their son Kevin is almost three.

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Linda Orrison Griffith, who was in our class but accelerated and graduated in '67, sent Judy Parrish Ratcliffe a beautiful Christmas card she designed herself. She keeps busy with her two children, Christy and David, and her painting-if she can keep the littlest one out of the turpentine.

She and husband Andy and family may be moving back to D.C. area with IBM. Suzanne Owen Flippo is busy with two children, Carter and Beth, the UGF, Red Cross, Junior Women 's Club and DAR. Nelson is president "of the Ashland Jaycees this year, which keeps her busy, too, helping with that.

My old roommate, Susan Lee Harris, and husband Paul just had their first child, a girl, Meredith Lynn . Susan is enjoying her new role as full time mother and homemaker.

You will notice that Church and I have a new address . We fell in love with this big green contemporary house with a fireplace in the bedroom. We are landlords now since we rented out our old townhouse . Also after several years of part-time study , Chuck received his Master of Engineering Administration degree from George Washington University . To celebrate we spent ten days in Florida.

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Mrs. William A . Wallace (Linda Tomasek) 8124 Sawmill Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

A letter from Casey Clindedinst Swallow missed the last deadline by one day . She wrote that Steve graduated from the Medical College of Virginia Dental School in May, 1973, and is presently a Navy dentist at the Portsmouth Navy shipyard, Port smouth, N . H . In September , 1973, Casey began her graduate studies in chemistry at M .I.T .

Casey and Steve's address is 51 Olive Street, Newburyport, Mass . Casey also wrote that Betty Willis Katt was about to receive her Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton around the first of this year.

Janice Carter is enjoying her teaching position in Japan. This summer she is bringing 45 students to Indianapolis for one month . She plans to stop off in Richmond and then return to Japan in August for 7 more months, finishing the school year and returning home in April. Janice 's address is Reiseki-so, Apt. 4, 6-10-7, Min ami Aoyama , Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan.

Nelson and Judy Baughan Lankford are studying at Indiana University. Nancy Ball Sharp is teaching in Suffolk . Her addre ss is 535 Second Ave., Suffolk , Va. 23434 .

Nancy Goodman Budd's husband is taking courses at North Carolina State in Raleigh and at Chapel Hill. Nancy is working as a secretary for 5 psychologi sts at Chapel Hill 's Child Development In stitute . Nancy 's address is 67-A Colonial Apts., Durham , N . C. 27707 . Virgil and Martha Brandt Goode are living in Rocky Mount, N. C. Virgil has won a seat in the State Senate .

Sharon Morrissett Morris has returned to Richmond and is working as a communications consultant for C & P Telephone Co. Emily Epps is working at a bank in Ro a noke. Her address is 2201 Broadway, Roanoke, Va . 24014 .

My husband, Allen, is now Assistant Vice President of Second National Bank here in Richmond . I am presently tutoring students in our home and thoroughly enjoy it. Our daughter Laura, 4 years old , is attending Mrs . Dixon's school and has proven it JS possible to turn one' s hair gray with in 3 day s.

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Mrs. Stephen C. Price (Rachel Pierce) P.O. Box 9 Berryville, Virginia 22611

It was a shame so few of us attended our second reunion April 20. Susan Clarke and Barbara Crews Haugh planned a terrific gettogether at the Cloisters West Apartments which around 30 of us greatly enjoyed.

Susan, who lives at 9192 Cloisters West, will be our class president until 19'77.

Barbara , I've been told , will be working this summer towards a Masters in either sociology or social studies at Longwood.

Several of our classmates are also doing graduate work . Nancy Boykin is finishing up her second year in drama at U.N.C . We visited her before Christmas and she seemed so happy. (Her residence is Carolina Apartments (A-14) in Carboro) . Rozanne Oliver is in Washington at 1525 Q Street, N.W., Apt. 22 finishing her Masters and working part-time. Although school is not that exciting for her, she's enjoying D.C. fairly well.

Donna Renfro and Vivian Stephenson Clingenpeel have plans for graduate school, too. Donna 's plans for the summer include taking graduate music courses at the University of Tennes see in Knoxville. She teaches group and private piano and has been busy all year with solo and duet recitals . She and Penni Ch appell Jontz '70 were joint accompanists for the recent Univer sity of Virginia production of "Dames at Sea." Vivian and Mike write pretty often and recently told me that in early April a tornado left them without electricity for 9 days in Louisville! Although Mike is not sure of his plans , Vivian has been accepted at the University of Louisville Law School and she may decide to go there at night for the next 4 years! Being a secretary is not her "thing" so she's been taking courses during her lunchbreak and in the evenings plus keeping up their economy apartment at 312 Rice Hall, Godfrey Ave. , Louisville, Kentucky 40206.

Other graduates have recently changed their lifestyles . Marilib Henry Price and Sam have been in Okinawa since January where Sam has a military obligation for a few years. I'm sure they're homesick so write them! (Captain and Mrs. Sam Price 229-58-8348 HQ USARBCO (SJA) APO, San Francisco 9633 I.) Judy Johnson quit her Highway Department job early this year to teach music in Hanover County in a junior and senior high school. Needless to say, it was a rough situation but she has decided to try it there another year to really get a feel for teaching secondary students.

Jeanie McFall Simar and John are loving their stay in Germany , especially when they travel as they have done in Belgium and the Netherlands . Jeanie has her hands full teaching history, math, etc., part-time to G.T.'s who are working for their high school equivalency diploma . (Their address is Lt. and Mrs . John Simar 215-48-8646 CSC l / 6th Inf. APO , New York 09140.) Susan Tarkington Thomas is radiant now that she has her new husband, Peter; after their lovely wedding in Staunton in January, they settled at 2510 Jefferson Park Ave. in Charlottesville (22903) . He's just finished his M .A. in Hospital Administration at George Washington and is an administrative resident at University of Virginia Hospital where she is a medical social worker . N ancy Clevinger Sara and Chuck are excited about their new life in Blacksburg at Terrace View Apartments on Toms Creek Road . Chuck will be working on his Masters in biology at AP.I.

and Nancy will teach elementary music in two Montgomery County Schools.

We've spent some time this year with Marleen Bareford Yoder and Gene plus Carol Brown Thompson and Ken. The Yoders live at 3325-A Cutshaw Ave. in Richmond (23230) and the Thompsons are at 701 Corn Tassel Trail #4 in Martinsville (24112). We see Ann Stewart McDow and Rusty occasionally, too. Ann has big plans to go to Sacramento for about a month this summer to visit her brother and his family.

As for Steve and me, we have been busy, too! He graduated the end of May from the University of Virginia Law School and has taken a super job with the firm Mccandlish, Lillard, Church, and Best in the city of Fairfax . We hope to find a home in Loudoun County where I'll be teaching under the same circumstances as Nancy Clevinger Sara next year. (It'll be nice to have two schools instead of eight). Notice that the above address is that of my parents; by the time the winter UR Magazine is published, I hope to have a permanent address.

Do write or call and tell me of the great happenings in your life . Hope some of you have exciting things happen to you this summer like Ann Stewart McDow, Nancy Clevinger Sara, and I had happen to us in August 1973-we and our husbands saw each other at the Grand Canyon! One never knows what the summer can bring.

P .S. Debra Lynn Pearson has been elected an Assistant Secretary at United Virginia Mortgage Corporation. Debra Lynn joined UVMC in 1972 and has made a rapid rise to supervisory position in the Residential Mortgage Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Kaplon (Nancy Saunders), a daughter, Brittany Kay, March 21, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smith (Joy Davis), a son, Blake, May, 1973.

Births

1973 Nancy Kellog Hardy and Guy Alan Ross, April 6, 1974.

1958 Mr. and Mrs. James Eggleston (Mariette Ayers), a son, Thomas Little, April 19, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Neal (Violet Moore), a son, John Eric, December 26, 1973.

Mr . and Mrs. C. M. Shifflett (Pat Steckman), a daughter, Amy Kendall, June 14, 1972.

1962 Mr. and Mrs. P. Downey (Nancy Vaughan), a son, Christopher Byrd.

Mr. and Mrs. John I. Riffer (Diane Light), a daughter, Elizabeth Diane, born April 10, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Wallace, Jr. (Sandra Nunn), a son , Matthew Palmer, born April 3, 1974.

1963 Mr. and Mrs. James B. Maxwell Holland) , a daughter , Tracey Elizabeth, February 8, 1974.

1964 Mr. and Mrs. David Neal Jones (Carol Good) , a son, Matthew Daro!, July 22, 1973.

Mr . and Mrs. Carl Rae, Jr. (Linda Bradley), a daughter Carol Elizabeth, May 7, 1974.

1966 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Anderson (Jane Thurman), a daughter, Leslie Elizabeth, May 4, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bailey (Ginger Blanton), a daughter, Virginia Catherine, March, 1973.

Mr . and Mrs. John Burkey (Carolyn Urquhart), a son, Michael John, February 21, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell (Nancy Hilliard), a daughter, Nancy Jean, December 19, 1973.

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Carpenter (Betty Smithson) , a daughter, Stephanie, June 1973.

Mr . and Mrs. Terry Hoy (Pat Schultz), a daughter, Susannah Dare, July 27, 1973.

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1967 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. McDonald, Jr. (Diana Summers), a son, Michael Scott, January 28, 19â&#x20AC;˘74.

1968 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harris (Susan Lee), a daughter, Meredith Lynn, March 24, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Pinchak (Carty Richards), a son, Deane Carter, June 5, 1973.

1969 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bryant (Anne Pitchford), a son, Frank Allen, Jr., February 19, 1974.

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Burch (Anne Holland), a daughter, Karen Anne, March 21, 1974.

Mr. ad Mrs. Carl Heckel (Dixie Lee), a son, John Hart, March 10, 1974.

1972 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Marker (Cindy Dalton), a daughter, May 11, 1974.

Marriages 1953 Carla Waal and Norman Lee Marston, January 8, 1974.

1964 Phyllis Shields and Harry Edward Lilly, May 18, 1974.

1966 Connie Chappell and Jose Corsino, September 30, 1973.

1972 Susan Tarkington and Peter Thomas, January 5, 1974.

WC NECROLOGY RFI-WCR Mrs. Mabel Oliver Cox of Norfolk, Va., died March 3, 1974.

Mrs. Christine Hubbard Harris of Richmond died April 3, 1974.

Miss Mary Hughes of Richmond died April 2, 1974.

Mrs. Lucille Bray Wilhite of Richmond died April 22, 1974.

1918 Dr. Lula Woods Garst of Catawba, Va., died March 19, 1974.

1926 Mrs. Joseph Marlin Hoffman (Lillias Mason) of Nelsonia, Va. 1934 Mrs. Cyril F. Horton (Alice Shepherd) of Arlington, Va. 1936 Mrs. Duncan Campbell Weatherall (Margaret Watkins) of Perry, Ga., died in 1973.

1940 Mrs. Straughan L. Gettier (Vista Robinson) of Youngstown, Ohio, died April 13, 1974.

1946 Mrs. Walter H. Williams (Virginia Belle Gibson) of Richmond died April 9, 1974.

1949 Mrs. Neal S. Bricker (Miriam Thalen berg) of Bronx, N. Y., died April 19, 1974.

Mrs. Earl M. Greene (Kathryn Carter) of Ft. Monroe, Va., died September 27, 1973.

1954 Mrs. William J. Bittman (Anne Carol Livesay) of Cincinnati, Ohio, died November 6, 1973.

1962 Mrs. James L. Jones (Sandra Atkinson) of Roanoke, Va., died February 22, 1974.

1965 Mrs. Edward R. Baird, Jr. (Nell McGlaughon) of Norfolk, Va.

We've Come a Long Way

Richmond College football team, 1897

Back in 1897 the Richmond College football team won only three of its eight games. That was before winning seasons had become a tradition.

Before there was a Westhampton College. Before there was a beautiful suburban campus. Before there was even a University of Richmond.

Today the University of Richmond is a dynamic institution of 3,000 full-time students. Located on a beautiful campus, UR combines the advantages of a small enrollment with university programs for both men and women.

If you have a son or daughter beginning to think about college, or if you know a student who should

know about the University of Richmond, please let us know.

As a matter of fact, it is becoming increasingly difficult for university admissions representatives to visit high schools in search of quality students. The energy crisis, naturally, has made travel more difficult and expensive. You can, therefore, be of help in identifying prospective students.

By sending us the coupon, you can help us identify good students. We will then send the student appropriate information about the University of Richmond. Unless you direct us otherwise, we will use your name as the person who recommended that we send the materials.

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