University of Richmond Magazine Summer 1976

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CONTENTS Higher than an Elephant's Eye Don't Look Back Journey with an American Adventurer The Douglas Legacy: Not So Substantial Musical Mountain Climbing What's New in Town? Baker Urges Curb on Intelligence Community Around the Lake People in the News Westhampton's Indomitable Little Dean University Classnotes Westhampton Classnotes Letters to the Editor

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Constance Semple, editor Susan Grayson, assistant editor Louis M. Markwith, R C'67, c/assnotes editor Jane S. Thorpe, WC'58, Westhampton editor Maxie Mason, art director Cover: President E . Bruc e Heilm a n as illustrated by Bill Nelson. Credits: Robe rt Llewellyn , pages 1-7, 23; Bill Nelson, page 8; Š 1975 Henry Hinton , page 12; Gary Putnam, pages 14-15, 17., 19, 20, 23; Ed Thorsett, pages 18, 20; Tom Reed , page 18; "At a Bach Concert," p. I 8, is reprinted from Poems , Selected and New, I 950-1974, by Adrienne Rich , with the permission of W . W. Norton & Company, In c. Copyrig ht Š I 975, I 973, 1971, I 969, 1966 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1951 by Adrienne Rich. The UR Magazine, of which this publication is Volume 39, Number 3, Summer issue, is published quart er ly by the University of Richmond , Virginia. Second-Class Po stage Paid at Univer'ty of Richmond , Virginia 23173

WHILE DRIVING NORTHTO BOSTONrecently, we noticed an interesting phenomenon . In Virginia and in Maryland most of the automobiles stay close to the speed limit. But then as we passed through New Jersey , New York , Connecticut and into Massachusetts, the pace quickened and by the time we reached our destination, we sensed that the tempo of life had changed. Inasmuch as we have lived on both sides of the Mason-Dixon, we agree with the observation that life is faster paced in the Northeast. It has been said that since Northern schools have been closely allied to this difference in pace , educationally they have been outrunning the Southern institution content to remain within the "Southern tradition ." We object! In our past and present issues of the UR Magazine , we have been describing how the University of Richmond has shed its Southern cloak a nd has made great strides "catching up ." Most indicative of all is the university 's treatment of the bicentennial-not as a celebration of the past , but as a symbol of the future . Our Theme '76, "The Continuing American Revolution," manifests a spirit of looking forward-not back-whereby we view the third century of our country 's existence as a time when the University of Richmond will take its place among the great universities of the land.

Higher Than An Elephant's Eye Constance Semple by

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by Robert Llewellyn

"Never in history have administrators of colleges been so pressured to think and act in business world realities."

EVER SINCEEARLBRUCEHEILMANwon first prize for the tallest cornstalk in LaGrange, Kentucky 's Oldham County Fair at the age of I 2, he has had the uncanny ability to make things grow. From these simplest of beginnings, Dr. Heilman himself has emerged as a leader among modern college presidents . Because he has applied sound management and marketing principles and exhibited a consuming and sometimes unappreciated zeal, the University of Richmond has become an increasingly competitive, self-sustaining and creative institution. When national publications and educational journals recognize and call for a new breed of college administrator who knows what it takes to make a college competitive in an increasingly competitive world, it is of little surprise that Dr. Heilman literally bursts out of the mold. Gone are the days when colleges could seek high scholastic levels, remain reelusively passive to economics, and expect to maintain both a competitive educational and a sound financial existence. The "old school " cherished intellectual integrity and viewed the application of business school techniques as undermining the higher educational standard, demeaning and certainly not reflective of the gentlemanly and scholarly way of the private institution. Where the private institution is besieged by the gadflies of the liberal arts education and surrounded by government supported institutions , it is Dr. Heilman's firm belief that sound management must be practiced by private, small universities which have all the educational values for success , but all the potential economic hazards for failure. "Never in history have administrators of colleges been so pressured to think and act in business world realities," he said in a speech delivered to a symposium on Christian Colleges. "Yet most administrators are untrained in business management and many would defend against the concept of running colleges like businesses. When our colleges are overbuilt, overstaffed, overscheduled with programs and courses, and underfinanced because of underenrollment, management comes to the forefront in responsibility, and cutting of the Gordian

knot may stand between simple crisis and disaster. Managers must have both the judgment and the courage to manage retrenchment on the one hand or manage dramatic progress out of new vitality on the other." Contrary to the expectations of those who do not believe the marketing man has a place at the head of a liberal arts university, Dr. Heilman's point of view has been resulting in educational progress. For the first time in its history, applications to the university closed in mid-February. They were up 22 percent at Westhampton College and 8 percent at Richmond College. The Kresge Foundation, which has been cultivated for years, gave a sizable grant towards the construction of the new Science Center, and the endowed psychology chair under the sponsorship of alumnus MacEldin Trawick has become a reality. A master of business administration degree program will start in the fall; a master of music began this year; and recent gifts from Mrs. E. Claiborne Robins include a Dowd harpsicord and extensive collections of shells and rocks. The new wing of the Frederic W. Boatwright Memorial Library and the Learning Resources Center open in the fall; a new post, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been created to embody the system of coordinate education; and though primarily a teaching institution, the U niversity of Richmond has made significant strides in the field of research. For sometime, we viewed Dr. Heilman at a distance, somewhat unfocused, unscrutable, always there, but not known very well. We have heard, equally at a distance, that his concerns were chiefly monetary, not academic, and that when certain apparently superficial goals were reached-for example, the end of the building program-he might think his job completed. To find out if all of this was true, we observed Dr. Heilman over a period of a week recently, and during that time he candidly told us about his goals and his philosophy. We began to see why the quality of the student body has been increasing dramatically, and more faculty have been seek-

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ing tenure; yet the high cost of college education continues to be effectively controlled without the inevitable lessening in educational quality-all of this orchestrated by a man some think is only concerned with raising money. Our lasting impression of Dr. Heilman was that he totally lived his job. Whereas many people rise at 6:30 AM,have breakfast and go to work, the president wakes up at 6:30 already at work. He typically has a breakfast meeting, manages to work a full day with lunch and dinner meetings interspersed, and usually turns in about midnight. He does not eat at home alone with his family very often-possibly once a week. Whenever he travels by car, he asks someone to accompany him, and will normally dictate letters or speeches into his _portable tape recorder, or reflect on problems concerning the university. His sched.ule is hectic. During the week he met with the various university vice presidents, administrators, faculty, students, alumni/ae, trustees, lawyers, members of the Board of Associates and community leaders. He had breakfast meetings with the Athletic Council in the Refectory, the Trustee Selection Committee at his home, and two lawyers, the vice president for student affairs and the dean of administration in the president's dining room at Westhampton; lunches at A.H. Robins for a board meeting, with Westhampton College students, and with a representative from the College Entrance Examination Board. During the day, he spoke with faculty, trustees and alumni, met with a student representative to the Athletic Council in his office, and interviewed a job applicant for superintendent of buildings and grounds. Through all this, Dr. Heilman appeared to be in control of both his time and that of others-the consumate businessman operating in an academic climate. Dr. Heilman follows two basic principles: leadership through direction and solution through communication. He listens, then often very subtly makes decisions which he has logically orchestrated and upon which he can expect a general concensus. During a Tuesday morning breakfast meeting of the Athletic Council, including

Trustee L. Dudley George, chairman, faculty member Dr. Richard Chewning, secretary, and other members representing trustees, alumni, faculty and students, discussion focused on the sensitive issue of women's representation on the council. On the one hand, some of the members argued that representation should reflect the ratio of men to women on campus, while on the other hand, others pointed out that women's athletics had less impact on the university as a whole. Still a third point of view suggested that if ratios were to be maintained exactly, the council, which makes recommendations to the president relating to the posture of the athletic program, would become too large and too cumbersome. During all of this, Dr. Heilman waited patiently and calmly, and finally suggested that since three alumni equaled three alumni, irrespective of sex, the replacement of a man with a woman should not cause concern and would maintain an appropriate balance without increasing the size of the council to include more than three alumni representatives. The council, feeling satisfied that every point of view had been fairly discussed, adopted Dr. Heilman's suggestion. A part of the reason the president works so hard is because "no" is a word that does not seem to be in Dr. Heilman's vocabulary. To those who work closely with him, insurmountable problems are not "problems," but "opportunities." Even though he writes his own speeches well in advance, when recently asked to deliver his views on the importance of gerontology in education, he was given only four days to prepare. Dr. Heilman believes the best way to deal with students is to permit them to self-govern, with lines of communication open beteen them and him. He thinks that trying to disrupt the students from analyzing and disagreeing, which is essentially an educational objective of the university, is only looking for trouble. Perhaps the greatest criticism of Dr. Heilman is that he is not an academician. It is said he feels strongly that academicians as presidents are not what schools such as the University of Richmond need, at least not

Dr. Heilman confers with E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. during Athletic Council breakfast meeting.

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"If I do not greatly improve the quality of the university, I should leave."

now. On the other hand, Dr. Heilman recognizes he cannot totally abdicate academic leadership; but he says, "the president must have a sense of business acumen rather than being a great teacher of literature." No longer is the president merely the chief faculty member; his goals are redirected because of the exigencies of economic survival. "When I first came to Richmond, I spent much time with the faculty on academic goals-programs, faculty /student ratios, class sizes. "But I was also charged by the university community to provide better facilities and more scholarships to students," he says. Some faculty think that research grants are more important than research buildings; the president thinks good facilities will make future grants more easily obtainable and research more easily conducted. "Buildings do improve the academic environment," Dr. Heilman believes . "The Student Commons, now under construction, will be a crossroads for interaction between students and faculty, students and students." And of course, the new facilities in the Science Center will replace outdated and overused equipment. Critics also question the president's ci:mcern for athletics. "When the Robins Center was completed," Dr. Heilman notes, "applications went up 10 percent. Athletics give us visibility." Even so, whereas the cost of operating the athletic program has increased, these costs have not become unbalanced with other expenditures. In the last five years, • library expenditures have doubled, • the university budget has gone from $8 million to $16 million, • a greater diversity in the student population has evolved with 10 percent fewer coming from Virginia, • and to encourage scholarly achievement among faculty, the department chairmen and the deans have been seriously considering tenure, which is not as easily obtainable as it once was . This year only four faculty members were promoted. "If I do not greatly improve the quality of the university, I should leave," Dr. Heilman says.

Sometimes, inevitably, observations have been made that the Robins gift has been the raison d'etre of the university's progress. "The Robins gift gave us a foundation," the president says, "useless unless used in the best way possible." Yet even with such a large gift having been given, Dr. Heilman does not see his financial goals for the university accomplished, and he continues to spend about 30 percent of his time away from campus as a professional representing the university in associations, speaking to church and civic groups, marketing the university and informing and updating alumni. The president does believe his visibility among students has suffered somewhat, and could improve . He normally only meets with students when there are some problems. "The student who makes good grades and has no problems is not likely to meet individually with me," he says . The days when it was possible for the president to know each student by name and remember all alumni by face have gone. But Dr. Heilman never ignores students who need his help. "I remember one evenin_g when a foreign student called me at home because he could not reach the dean and he needed permission to leave before exams and return home, where his father was seriously ill." There was another student, Dr. Heilman recalls, who came to him complaining that the University of Richmond did not satisfy his needs, and would look elsewhere for a college . The president spent several hours on more than one occasion talking with the troubled student-at one time closeted in the garage of the president's home. The student stayed and graduated two years later. Dr . Heilman's priority among constituents is the trustees, with whom he deals personally on all matters . The four vice presidents are charged with handling the overwhelming needs of their constituentsfaculty, students, alumni and friends of the university . Yet the president interacts with all constituents every day . Though Dr. Heilman emphasizes certain long-range objectives, his daily routine in-

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Our lasting impression of Dr. Heilman was that he totally lived his job.

eludes enough flexibility so that every inquiry by either telephone or mail gets a quick response directly from him or from someone else. No one is ever brushed aside . Even walking through the hall to a meeting for which he may be unavoidably late, the president will stop to talk with a faculty member, a student or a staff member who has a question . But when necessary he has a back door to his office which provides a shorter route to the parking lot. "I can't go anywhere without running into alumni, students, faculty . When you do , you can't just walk away ," he says , even if his office is ringing and it is the chairman of the Board of Trustees on the other end. Dr. Heilman 's daily-and perhaps more mundane-concerns involve problems ranging from the air conditioning in a Westhampton dormitory to the La ke Beautification Project. When there is controversy, he practices mediation management-tr ying to get the job done while keeping people satisfied that something is being done. We had occasion to visit during a meeting with Dr. Charles Glassick , provost, with whom Dr. Heilman discussed the MacEldin Trawick professorship in psychology , Demetrios Mavroudis 's proposed sculpture for the new library wing (there has been some controversy on campus over the sculptor's works on display , but Dr. Heilman is reluctant to stifle artistic expression) , the policy of library faculty vacations , and faculty biologist Dr. Willie Reams's summer project of assembling the Robins shell and rock collections for display . After Dr. Glassick left , Dr. David Burhans, the chaplain , and Thomas Feamster, the director of university services , entered and went over the plans for ¡ the Baptist picnic on campus. A telephone call was put through : "Why hadn 't the air conditioning been working in the Westhampton dormitory?" Another call : "Could Dr . Heilman take a look at 50 loads of dirt dumped beside the Student Commons? Was it adequate for landscaping before the topsoil was put down? " And before the end of the morning , consideration was given to the de-

Dr. He ilman surveys constr uction with Dr. William Leftw ich, vice pres ident for student affa irs. (upper right) During A.H. Robins Co. boa rd of directors meet ing, the Presiden t talks with Chairman of the Board E. Claiborne Robins. (lower right )

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sign of office space in the library for faculty emeriti. Many of Dr. Heilman's mornings are spent like this. Though it is hard to tell something about a man simply from his trappings, we were impressed with his personality and habits, which agreed with his solid, steady, but unextreme attitudes towards management of the university. His attire was conservative, On the day we photographed him, he wore a black suit, black socks and black shoes, a white shirt, a tie bearing the school colors in a geometric pattern and a sapphire stickpin, which he always wears. His office was masculine-panelled, gold rug, black leather chair, shelves with books on college law, insurance, estate planning, one entitled The Radical Probe: The Logic of Student Rebellion, and, not too surprisingly, a book on college administration and management. His desk was strewn with architect's renderings, folders and papers. The most important item was a small, black date book to which Dr. Heilman referred often, making notes and checking dates and times. We asked the president why he chose the private college, and why Richmond? The particular strength of the University of Richmond, he says, is that it is a small, , private institution and has a personal relationship with the community and church, both of which support his own personal beliefs about the nature of liberal arts education. He values being a visible part of the University of Richmond's great forward move and thoroughly enjoys the opportunity to channel his resources and energies with the "Our Time in History" development program. How long does Dr. Heilman plan to stay? The president has agreed with the university's Board of Trustees to remain another five years, but believes that "no president shou_ld remain longer than 15 years in any one institution. After that, they usually lose their effectiveness." It is evident that Dr. Heilman has set high standards and goals for himself and the University of Richmond-likely "higher than an elephant's eye."

En route to a luncheon meeting, Dr. Heilman dictates correspondence.

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Don't Look Back

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As WE RUSH HEADLONG into the twentyfirst century, society may well be developing the nervous tic that comes from overstim ulation. The daily press bombards us with one impending disaster after another. As an American, you have one chance in 200 of being murdered during your lifetime, if you escape being mugged or robbed on city streets. Crime and violence permeate the schools where thousands of elementary school children sustain assaults from fellow classmates each year. Sexual revolution, black revolution, communications revolution-before we can catch our breath the world spins and twirls us into the unknown. A U.S. Department of Education survey reports that already 20 percent of us cannot keep pace with modern life. As we grope for new footholds, one in every 10 Americans experiences an emotional illness, depression. More impressed than depressed, however, are several University of Richmond futurists, who peer into their crystal balls for visions of the future. Although these modern soothsayers pessimistically unveil gloomy trends for American society, they are confident that in the long run American ingenuity can alter our doomsday course. In several arenas, what will happen is beyond our control. The world population threatens to number 6½ to 7½ billion people by the year 2000-not quite double the 4 billion who inhabit the earth today. Impossible? Dr. John Outland , professor of political science, who teaches a course in future policy and belongs to the W arid Future Society, observes, "Statistics are a little lower than they were five years ago, but barring a major catastrophe, we are going to get there." While United Nations Population Programs receive enthusiastic support and American foreign aid concentrates on improving birth control and agricultural techniques, the problem snowballs, defying sizeable proportions. Double the population means double the pollution. However, ecology ranks low on the world agenda. "Developing nations believe pollution is a rich man's disease," says Outland. More concerned with putting food on the table, they will worry about the quality of life only after conquering the shortage of food. Since twice as many people will consume the world's food supply, many suggest we will be forced to replenish our needs from the oceans. But another futurist, Dr. James Worsham , professor of chemistry, believes

we can feed the world's people by intensifying current methods of production. He predicts the soaring of meat prices will curb the use of animal protein in favor of cheaper and more plentiful alternatives. But with "sophisticated irrigation and agricultural techniques," says the scientist, "we can bring more arable land into production. While some theorists are confident we can keep ourselves from starving to death, skeptics caution us against climatic changes . If aerosal sprays destroy the atmosphere 's ozone layer , then we will be stripped of our protection against the sun's burning rays . Nevertheless with the evidence on aerosal sprays not yet in, Worsham supports the theory that nothing man has done has produced noticeable changes in the climate. While the forecast may not call for an ice age, we must develop new ways to keep our fires burning. "The next 10 to 20 years are critical ," says Outland. "If we can get by these years , we will have developed new form s of energy. ' ¡ National policy , formulated in the 1950s, empha sizes nuclear sources as the way to beat the energy crunch. And atomic power will provide 50 percent of Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO) power next year. The threat of a nuclear holocaust is the biggest spectre . The director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency , Fred like , believes we are entering the threshold of the second nuclear era. In the first , from 1945 to 1970, only the United States and Russia had developed atomic weapon s and the world's two superpower s followed a policy of mutual deterence . However , as more and more countries perfect such weapons, the danger of nuclear confrontations or radioactive accidents increases . "We are no longer familiar with what it takes to provide a stable world, " worries Outland. Notwithstanding nuclear threats, Americans have been overwhelmingly preoccupied with local issues, he cautions . We are increasingly beset with global problems-populaton, pollution, resource limitations, atmosphere development-which demand global solutions. And as advances in some fields necessitate setbacks in others, "we must develop future policy to determine trade-offs," he says . What are we willing to sacrifice? Environmental concerns for greater energy sources? Polluted Virginia beaches for offshore oil resources?

While Americans struggle to maintain their balance against a barrage of societal changes, more persons will seek professional help to weather the storm of American life. "We can see it now in the counseling trends, " says Dr. Frederick Kozub , assistant professor of psychology . As the pressures multiply, people turn to pastoral counseling , marriage counseling and sex therapy counseling . Now past the dawn of the computer age, machines flex their muscles and a new worry gnaws at Americans-the fear that manpower will become obsolete . Futurist Dr. J. Kenneth Matejka, assistant professor of business administration, contends that new technology creates new jobs. But he warns that our survival may hinge on the ability of management and workers to arrive at common goals. "Profit sharing is one beginning," he says. "With everyone a part owner, they have a stake in keeping things going ."

" With a national credit card, we do ha ve the 'big brother' aspect ," he says . "With centralized files containing all the data on an individual , we sacrifice privacy ." Computers will have a domestic impact in the next 10 years, suggests Worsham , who sees most middle-class households channeling finance and tax matters into a home computer terminal. Matejka envisions "instantaneous democracy" with the use of computers. For information on national issues , citizens could go to terminals located in major retail and grocery stores and push a button to record their vote. But pushing a button will not give us an accurate reading on the year 2000 . As world opinion seesaws between two extremes , no one can predict our future course . Some observers approach the second millenium as a magical turning point , which will usher in another golden age, while others fear we will sink into a dark age . Outland thinks the recent craze for disaster films may be a foreboding on the part of some of us, but Another impetus for change may be the does not see the world veering toward nation 's unemployment rate, with one out either extreme. of every six Americans in search of a job. Science may well be the world's savior, "The problem, " explains Matejka, "is findif, as Worsham believes, it can solve any deing new areas of employment." In the fufined problem given time and resources. He ture , he anticipates redefinitions of work as does not see a mad scientist grabbing conwe make PTA presidents and other voluntrol of the world, but does encourage us to teer positions paying ones to meet society's concentrate only on clear and present dandemand for jobs. gers. "The pragmatic element in American More flexible work schedules loom on culture is a very good safeguard," he says, the horizon . Statistics reveal that not only but overemphasizing the future may result will Americans possess more leisure time as in a controlled society as we attempt to the number of working hours declines , but allay our fears about a cataclysmic end . also people with college degees will enter A lack of common sharing handicaps the work force later and retire earlier. American efforts to thwart impending disBut what of early retirement or increased aster. "We have lost our sense of individual leisure time if inflation eats a way our savresponsibility," notes Kozub. "Community ings? Matejka observes that in comparison spirit has been replaced by the assembly to other countries the United States has line notion-no one is ultimately responbeen relatively successful in halting in- sible ." flation's corrosive growth . And as the world While we may want to sidestep the issues, shrinks and the economies of other nations responsibility rests with each of us. Margaplay increasing havoc with our own, we ¡ ret Mead forewarned Americans in a recent should feel fortunate to escape the gallopcommencement address . "We've discovered ing inflation rate of Argentina-292 perthat if we try to spread our technology over cent. the whole world , we'd simply devastate the While that fails to make living with inworld . We'd cut down every tree , we'd use flation any easier, Americans seem content up every resource and we'd leave a desert. to buy now and pay later. The credit card, We ' re going to have to learn something which has Americans individually in debt to new." the tune of $900 million, is here to stay. In a bicentennial year , it is most approMatejka predicts a national credit card sys- priate to celebrate American ingenuity , the tem for greater ease and efficiency, eliminatprimary ingredient for survival. Perhaps we ing the cumbersome conglomeration of can use our American know-how to devise cards we now carry in our pockets. But such an escape hatch to another planet and a system is not without its hazards. start the revolution spinning all over again _;

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Journey with An American Adventurer

by Dr. Welford D. Taylor

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Sherwood Anderson walks along country road near Marion, Va.

least for native devotees of American literyear 1976 marks something ature-the more than the nation's 200th anniversary: it is also the centennial of Sherwood Anderson's birth. And, as the university celebrates the American bicentennial, it will likewise be paying homage to Anderson. If Anderson's name is recognizable to readers at all, it is undoubtedly as the author of Winesburg, Ohio, the collection of short stories based generally upon people, places and events that he remembered from small towns in his native Ohio. Why, then, would an eastern Virginia university be concerned with honoring the man? Anderson's ties with Virginia are closer than one might think , and his tie with the University of Richmond was very special. After an initial visit to Virginia in the summer of 1925, he decided to buy a farm in Grayson County, near Marion. From 1926 until his death in 1941 this farm, "Ripshin," remained his permanent home. In 1933 he married Eleanor Copenhaver, WC' 17. The significance of Anderson's Virginia experience can only be assessed in light of his life prior to 1925. Born in Camden, Ohio, in 1876, he saw a good deal of northwestern Ohio as his father, an itinerant sign painter and harness maker, moved his family about, always with the hope of better prospects in the next town . However, much of Anderson's youth was spent in Clyde, Ohio , a small town that decisively shaped his interests and values. But it would be a long time before he gave written expression to either. After a year in the Spanish-American War, he completed a rather haphazard secondary school education with a year at Wittenburg Academy ( I 899-1900). Thereafte r , most of his time was spent in Cleveland and Chicago while he worked first as a writer of advertising and then as head of a mail order house. This period ended abruptly in late 1912. For several years before, he had become

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interested in writing. This urge was possibly born out of his advertising experience, or possibly out of the literary discussion groups in which he and his first wife, Cornelia, participated. Whatever the impetus, he soon found that the literary and the commercial callings were creating an unbearable tension in his life. One morning he came to his business office exhausted. He began dictating a letter and drifted off into an incoherent stream of words. He excused himself, left the office, and for all practical purposes never returned. Thus began the literary career of Sherwood Anderson, and thus was created one of the most celebrated anecdotes of American literature. For Anderson's gesture represented the triumph of the artistic As in Henry over the materialistic. Thoreau's rejection of a corrupt Concord in favor of the pristine natural environment of Walden Pond, the artist in a materialistic society had won a round for a change. But the road that was to lead from Chi- ¡ cago (where Anderson went after the rejection episode) to Virginia was long, tortuous and uphill most of the way. It was more than three years before he was able to find a publisher for his first novel. When this book, Windy McPherson's Son (1916), finally did appear, Anderson was 40. Although this and the next two titles attracted favorable attention from prestigious critics, they sold poorly. Anderson was not discouraged, however. For even while he struggled to gain a foothold in the publishing world, he had found his literary forte in the short story. He arrived in Chicago at the time that Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Floyd Dell and numerous Midwestern literati were creating the revolution in national letters that would become known as "The Chicago Renaissance." They were attuned to new themes and forms, and they readily accepted a poorly whose ideas of educated Midwesterner

structure for short stories derived from the genial, ambling narrative mode of oral storytellers of the region. Anderson's fourth book was a collection of stories cast in this mode. Titled Winesburg, Ohio (1919), it sent shock waves through the literary world at the time of its appearance and has never gone out of print. Winesburg contains many of the themes and stylistic qualities that would appear in Anderson's subsequent volumes of short stories, novels and essays. In a forthright, probing manner, which utilizes the simplest of words, Anderson in Winesburg spun story after story that talked of inner human forces such as frustration, loneliness, compulsion and alienation. Alienation was perhaps the most significant of the Winesburg themes-at least Anderson thought so. He viewed the fictional village of Winesburg as a microcosm of all America. The Winesburghers were separated from each other as, Anderson believed, most Americans were. In a country that placed far more emphasis upon the dollar than upon human values such as sympathy between human beings and compassion for the unfortunate, the mass of Americans lived and died alone, often yearning and frightened. Americans, in short, did not know how to; were afraid to; or were unwilling to love. Such were Anderson's convictions when he came to the southwestern Virginia mountains for the first time in the summer of 1925. He had lived in Chicago, in New York, in New Orleans. He longed to escape the urban centers and to find a peaceful environment. The area around Marion proved to be just that. The next year he bought a farm and started a handsome fieldstone country house. In the years before him lay many experiences he could have never foreseen. From 1927 until the early 1930s he owned, ran and wrote for two small weekly newspapers in Marion-one Democratic and one Re-

publican! With the advent of the Depression and a concomitant increase in agitation for collective bargaining in the factories of his region, Anderson became a staunch supporter of labor and often made speeches to striking workers. He visited and then wrote about the factories in southwestern Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, always speaking out for the exploited individual and the erosion of human strengths by the factory system. The Westhampton girl he married in 1933 had inspired much of his support of the factory workers. Eleanor Copenhaver was a national executive of the YWCA, whose special assignment was the working girl in the South. But from Eleanor, the Copenhaver family, and from numerous other close friends in Marion, he came to realize something more significant, perhaps, than from any of the foregoing experiences. He came to the realization that individuals were at last finding a means of overcoming alienation. In seeing Americans successfully working together to recover from the Great Depression; in many policies of the New Deal; and finally in the feeling of community found in towns such as Marion, Anderson realized that the sense of alienation was abating. He was on a good-will tour to South America when he died, painfully and tragically, at Colon, Panama, in the spring of 1941. After he was buried in Marion, an artist friend erected a modernistic sculpture over his grave. It bears an inscription that seems to summarize the long journey that ended in happiness and fulfillment in Virginia: "Life, not death, is the Great Adventure."

Dr. Taylor, professor of English at the University of Richmond, is one of the founders of the Sherwood Anderson Society, which is a newly established international organization headquartered at the university.

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Anderson and his wife, Eleanor, board the Santa Lucia for Panama in /94/.

The Douglas Legacy: Not So Substantial

by A .E. Dick Howard, RC'54

IF ANYONE EVER WRITES A Guinness Book of Judicial Records, William 0. Douglas will be a conspicuous figure therein . Appointed to the Supreme Court at age 41, Douglas was the youngest justice named to that court since James Madison put 34year-old Joseph Story on the bench in 1811. By the time he retired, Douglas had served on the court longer than any other man in than 36 years . He American history-more may well have been in terms of sheer volume of work , the most productive justice who ever sat on the court. No one will doubt that he has been one of the most controversial, both on and off the bench . Now that Douglas has laid aside his robes and returned to private life, we may take the opportunity to ask what sort of imprint he has left upon the nation. He has written more than 1200 opinions-majorand dissenting-spread ity, concurring across more than 100 volumes of the United States Reports. He served, of course, during a period of during uncommon judicial activity-one which the court struck down racial barriers in schools and elsewhere, brought about the reapportionment of congressional and legislative seats, imposed nearly every one of the guarantees of the federal Bill of Rights upon the states, and touched the lives of Americans in a host of other ways. In the work of the modern Supreme Court, what is the Douglas legacy? Douglas came to the court in 1939, the fourth of Franklin Roosevelt's appointees . The court that had earned the name "The Nine Old Men," that had stood in the way of the New Deal and of state reform legislation, was fast getting in step with newer times. Douglas, well aware of the havoc that the old court had wrought, joined with the others of the new majority to get the court out of the business, as he put it, of "sitting as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation ." No one on the court, save perhaps Hugo Black, was more determined to drive the last nail in the cofdoctrine fin of substantive due process-the which the court had used so actively before 1937 to second-guess legislative majorities .

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Similarly , Douglas, again joined by Black, made the strongest case against the court 's too-free use of the Constitution's commerce clause to confine state power. Douglas preferred to look to Congress to decide at what point state legislation or regulation imposed too much of a burden on interstate commerce. In such areas Douglas sought a kind of judicial restraint. But it is not for such restraint that, after his 36 years of judging , he is best remembered. The court in the 1950s and the 1960s began increasingly to concern itself with civil liberties. As the character of the court's calendar evolved, Douglas emerged, not as an apostle of restraint, but rather as the most activist of the justices on the modern court. Douglas 's activism revealed itself, for example , in a striking willingness to address tough questions which some of his brethren, more sensitive to lawyerly niceties such as standing and justiciability, might avoid . When it looked as if the court might give some guidance on the thorny question of a state university's law school giving racial preference in its admissions, the court, sharply divided , dismissed the case as moot; only Douglas was moved to produce an opinion on the merits of the practice in question. Likewise , it was Douglas who repeatedly dissented from refusals to grant a hearing in cases in which litigants sought to have the court rule on the constitutionality of the war in Vietnam. Precedent and stare decisis had little hold on Douglas . The influence of the legal realists is evident in Douglas's remark, in a 1948 speech, "how illusory is the lawyer's search for certainty." That uncertainty, he noted, increases when the question is a constitutional one: "A judge who is asked to construe or interpret the Constitution often rejects the gloss which his predecessors have put on it. ... Stare decisis has small place in constitutional law." Indeed, Douglas was not troubled if he changed his own position on major constitutional issues. In 1940 he voted to uphold the constitutionality of a state law requiring school children to salute the flag, but three

years later he changed his mind. Similarly he shifted his views on obscenity-at one time thinking it not protected by the First Amendment but later concluding that it is-and on the expenditure of public funds for bus transportation of school children to parochial schools-saying in 1962 that he had been wrong in I 94 7 when he made possible a 5-4 majority upholding such a program. His activist temperament led Douglas to discover rights not spelled out in the Constitution. Perhaps his best-rememberedsurely his most creative-decision is his 1965 opinion for the court overturning the conviction of defendants who had been charged with violating Connecticut law by giving information and advice on the means of preventing contraception. Undeterred by the Constitution's making no mention of a "right to privacy"-the right invoked by Douglas-the jurist looked to "penumbras formed by emanations" from the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments. Justice Black, often accused by some (such as Felix Frankfurter) of being an activist, dissented, saying, "I like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision." Where justices of an earlier generation had used due process as a cutting tool to limit state power, Douglas made use of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Avowedly egalitarian in his jurisprudence, Douglas found in equal protection a device to evolve "fundamental" rights or "suspect" classifications which required close and skeptical scrutiny of state laws. Thus, in writing the court's opinion striking down the Virginia poll tax, Douglas declared that equal protection "is not shackled to the political theory of a particular era ... Notions of what constitutes equal treatment for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause do change." No justice at any period of the court's history ha~ betn a more passionate defender of free speech. Frequently quoted is his

1951 dissent in Dennis v. United States, involving convictions of Communist party officers under the Smith Act, where Douglas said, "When ideas compete in the market for acceptance, full and free discussion even of ideas we hate encourages the testing of our own prejudices and preconceptions." Like Black, Douglas had what some call "absolutist" views about the First Amendment, holding, for example, that a reporter has "complete" immunity from being compelled to appear or testify before a grand jury-a position rejected by a majority of the court. Other themes running through Douglas's opinions include the "right to be left alone"-such as the right of a "captive audience" on public transportation vehicles not to have political advertisements forced upon them-and a special concern for the poor and the disadvantaged-such as indigent defendants too poor to hire legal counsel for appeals in state courts. So forceful and eloquent a justice might be expected to have left an indelible imprint on the court. The legacy may prove, however, less substantial than one would expect. During the Warren years, when Douglas was more often in the majority than had been the case recently, the landmark opinions were penned for the most part by others on the court, not by Douglas. And it was justices such as Black and Frankfurter who marked out the ground on which most of the major debates took place, such as over the "incorporation" of the Bill of Rights via the Fourteenth Amendment. Douglas's personal habits played a major part in his influence not being greater. A loner on the court, Douglas seemed to have little interest in lobbying his fellow justices to sell an idea as Frankfurter, for instance, so often did. Quick to finish his work, done with the term's opinions before his colleagues, Douglas was likely to head for his beloved outdoors. For whatever reason, many of the Douglas opinions have an ad hoc, almost careless quality about them, the rhetoric being more moving than the analysis or craftsmanship. Douglas's departure and his replacement

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by a justice of apparently more conservative persuasion will not affect the outcome of the vast majority of cases likely to come before the present court. If one reviews the more important cases of recent terms, since the four Nixon appointees came on the court, one will note that in cases tending to limit or undercut Warren Court doctrines, such as search and seizure decisions under the Fourth Amendment or cases involving the Miranda warnings, Douglas was regularly in the minority; his departure in such cases may be anticipated simply to convert 5-to-4 margins to 6 to 3. If one turns to Burger Court opinions reaching a more "liberal" result, cases reaffirming or extending Warren Court doctrines, Douglas is to be found in substantial majorities, and his replacement would not change the outcome of those cases. There are a few instances where his leaving may change the outcome-the most obvious example being the constitutionality of capital punishment, an issue on which the court has been closely divided. But looking at the mass of the cases which come before the court, Douglas's replacement (Judge John Paul Stevens) does not change the balance of power. In losing Justice Douglas, the court becomes a less lively place. It also loses a man who never failed to act as a conscience to his brethren. We can regret that his towering talents¡ were not used as well as they might have been. But we may honor his stirring commitment to civil liberties, his efforts on and off the bench to seek a balance between man and his environment, his regard for the freedom of the human spirit.

Mr. Howard is a professor of law al the University of Virginia and clerked al the Supreme Court for the late Justice Hugo Black. He is a former fellow and fellow-elect al the Woodrow Wilson Center and is writing a book on the Burger Court. This article is reprinted courtesy of The Washington Star.

At a Bach Concert Coming by evening through the wintry city We said that art is out of love with life. Here we approach a love that is not pity .

Form is the ultimate gift that love can offerThe vital union of necessity With all that we desire, all that we suffer.

This antique discipline, tenderly severe, Renews belief in love yet masters feeling, Asking of us a grace in what we bear.

A too-compasionate art is half art. Only such proud restraining purity Restores the else-betrayed, too-human heart.

Musical Mountain Climbing IN A YEAR WHEN University of Richmond cultural programs revolve around the theme, "The Continuing American Revolution," one would expect the University Choir to burst into a rendition of "I ' m a Yankee Doodle Dandy" at their spring concert in Cannon Memorial Chapel. But for the March 26 performance , the Choir and campanion group Schola Cantorum decided to scale musical heights, performing J. S. Bach 's masterpiece, "Mass in B Minor ." The impetus for the project came in fall I 974, when James Erb, choral director at the university and associate professor of music, decided to attempt a major choral classic for the bicentennial year. The "Mass " fulfilled the requirements-an educational opportunity which would allow students to become "channels for the ideas of men like Bach and Beethoven ." While obviously not composed by an American or within the last 200 years, the "Mass " is still a fitting tribute for the country's birthday celebration, says Erb. "The bulk of our country 's musical heritage, " he explains, "is European and dates back 1200 to 1500 years . American choral culture is very thin." Bach's lengthy and difficult piece was the choir 's most ambitious undertaking to date , a project that involved a year's preparation . "The most gratifying thing was that the students were enthusiastic from the beginning," says Erb. It would take a great deal of enthusiasm for any group , let alone college students , to tackle the work, which took Bach 25 years to complete. Probably the longest ever written, the two-hour "Mass " was begun in 1724 and first performed in part in 1733 to celebrate the election of a nobleman . Three movements of the Gloria section were adapted for use as a Christmas cantata some time after 1735, while other sections were assembled during Bach's final years . A manifestation of the religious spirit , the "Mass " follows the model of an Italian cantata mass composed of 25 numbers of varying length . A specialist in Bach, German lieder and Renaissance music, Erb with trepidation but characteristic energy undertook the challenges of this musical mountain . He assembled a 28-piece orchestra including students, faculty , members of the Richmond Symphony and Sinfonia and community volunteers to perform the exacting score. To master the complexity of the work, the conductor engaged professional musi-

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cians, who acted as " faculty" and performed in tandem with student musicians . The 80-voice Choir and 14-voice Schola Cantorum performed the choral portions with faculty and student soloists completing the cast. Although he dislikes to hear the choir called " profession a l," Erb attributes the groups' past applause to the hard work of students possessing the essential talents . They do not simply rehe arse to perform in public , "these students perform in public because they have had a common experience of learning a great work," says Erb. "If the students perform so the public likes it, that is a by-product. "Students need to come up against music

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that is an intellectual and spiritual stretch for them," says Erb . "It is not I who make the demands ; it is the music. " Overwhelmingly, university music majors have a high regard for the musician 's profes sio nal standards , and have climbed many a mu sical mountain under Erb's direction. The rewards of a performance artfull y given are many , but the greatest accol ade for Erb-musician and educator-came after the concert from a music student who tacked a copy of poet Adrienne Rich 's "At a Bach Concert " on his door.

Cheryl is assistant to the director of publi c information at the University of Richmond.

What's

New in Town? BOTH PUBLICAND PRIVATEAGENCIEShave long mapped Americans' existence-from pl a nned parenthood, career planning, retirement planning and estate planning. No one is immune to the forces that attempt to tell us where to go, what to buy, how much to spend and when to spend it. Yet with the resources our country has gathered for its citizenry, it has failed to plan the methodical growth of a social system which affects each one of us-the city. Historically , we have blown the opportunity to structure orderly and efficient expansion . The New Yorks, Detroits, Bostons and Richmonds shrink and swell at the breaking point. Today when a community reaches a population of 250,000 or more, experts say that the quality and quantity of continued growth cannot be controlled. It is perhaps a function of the American political and economic system that has prevented the well-regulated spread of our cities, but we have found in Europe and in Asia a new type of town, called new

towns. New towns, of which there are approximately 1200 scattered around the globe, have been carefully planned and built from detailed blueprints for community development. Dr. James A . Sartain, professor of sociology at the University of Richmond, has been studying their applications and believes that the same concepts can be applied in this country. The only American sociologist to visit ma ny of the Soviet Union's new towns, and in some instances the only American, Dr. Sartain took his sabbatical leave last year to resea rch their successes and failures. Over a pe riod of four months , he traveled to 16 countries including 25 cities and 39 new town s. F or most of us, the concept of self-sufficient , planned communities or cities started from scratch is a novelty. "Ideally," says Sart a in , "the master plan for a new town , which can have a population as small as 8000 or as large as a million, outlines in detail housing , industry, education, transportation and recreation. " The o rganizing unit in every instance is the government , operating through an agency mo st commonly called Town and Country Planning . Without exception a superbureaucracy runs the town, says Sartain. Once the master plan has been developed and approved , deviation from the original design must be ratified at the top level. "Aesthetically," says the sociologist!

And the professor is optimistic about the "the Scandinavian countries-Finland, results. People who live in new towns, he Sweden and Denmark-have the best new says, appear to be satisfied. They tend to be towns. They are more pleasing and have younger in Western Europe and the families more open space between the buildings." In tend to be larger. They are happier in new Tapiola, near Helsinki , for example, curved towns that have single-family and duplex streets wind their way through the undulathousing as well as apartments close to ing countryside from the peaks, with singlepublic transportation and job opportunifamily houses, to the valleys, with apartties. ment buildings . The Finnish have made considerable efforts to build attractive inIn the Soviet Union, especially in Siberia, dustrial and residential communities . "And Sartain notes, there is a spirit of energy they have made a desperate attempt to save about the residents. They are ambitious and the trees," he says. hard working and have chosen to move for The concept of the greenbelt community, more money. Given the same income , families can generally achieve a higher standard which incorporates much more open space than American city-dwellers are accusof living in a new town. tomed to, was developed in the late eighPerhaps what is precisely the roadblock teenth century by an Englishman, Sir in the United States is just that-wealth. Ebenezer Howard. The closest we have come to new towns, In keeping with the greenbelt concept since our forebearers designed Williamsstores and schools are within walking disburg, Washington and Philadelphia, is Oak tance without crossing a street. UnderRidge, Tennessee, and Columbia and Respasses and overpasses are virtually every - ton, Virginia. They, however, lack the wide where. Although Sartain thinks this is a diversity typical in Europe and consist "good thing, it is hazardous when children , mostly of upper-class residents, many of who are unaccustomed to watch for traffic , whom commute to jobs outside the town . go to another city." The United States has the highest standNot all new towns make street crossing ard of living and the worst public transporso convenient. In Lelystad (the Nethertation. Since affluent Americans prefer to lands) , one of Sarta'in's favorite communijam our highways with too many automoties, walkways circumvent only the major biles, those without them are politically streets . The town is divided into blocks , powerless and suffer from immobility. which are the equivalent to 15 or 20 AmeriWashington approved an underground subcan city blocks , with each including schools, way in 1934, but it has taken them 40 years playgrounds, shops and open spaces . to begin construction . Even in Richmond, Like Lelystad, the Scottish towns of Slo - says Sartain , public transportation is low termeer and Osdorp, separated by a greenon the list. belt , were built on reclaimed lands from the Too many layers of government prohibit sea. What is interesting about Slotermeer, , new towns from working effectively in this says Sartain , "is that the old folks home is country, he says. About five years ago the located right in the middle of everythingHousing and Urban Dev.elopment agency not out in the middle of nowhere. " (HUD) had funds to build new towns. But For Sartain, the most interesting new when obstacles , such as building codes and town was Bratsk in Soviet Siberia, built in zoning ordinances, got in the way continthe late '50s at a hydro-electric station site. ued development was abandoned. For Eight villages of skilled workers-village of plans to work each rung on the government electricians , village of engineers and village ladder must be in agreement. of textile workers-center Soul City, North Carolina, which H_UD around Central Bratsk . The satellite communities might be supported at the request of black proas much as 15 kilometers apart from one moters, is underfunded, says Sartain. And another with dense forests, perhaps only none of the other eight new towns planned one road , and even bears separating them. has fared much better. In theory , the concept of new towns apSartain doubts if they will. "We are pe¡ars sound. How then can a new town 's crisis-oriented . We will do anything to solve success or failure be measured? Sartain bea problem, but not to prevent one." New lieves the primary ingredient for success is towns, he believes, are a "viable alternative to urban sprawl, but the United States has good management of the residential and not yet reached the stage of doing anything industrial growth, leading to better housing and greater employment. about it."-CS

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Baker Urges Curb On Intelligence Community "No OTHER NATION on the face of the earth ," said Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., " could have undergone the tearing of emotions and divisiveness of constitutional crises we have experienced and continued to function in a peaceful non-suppressive manner." Addressing 696 graduates at commencement exercises in May, the senator from Tennessee said that "there are a few additional checks and balances that must be instituted to insure that the intelligence community never becomes a 'rogue elephant ' and that the FBI does not become a domestic police force. " First , the U .S. Senate should appoint and give full responsibility to a permanent committee for the purpose of "monitoring and evaluating the performance of the entire American intelligence community." Second, both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government must be made aware of the function of American intelligence and work more closely in overseeing its activities. During the ceremonies, Senator Baker, who won national prominence as co-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Practices and Watergate, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Other honorary degree recipients were U.S . District Court Judge Robert R. Merhige , Jr. , L'42, the Doctor of Laws; Jacques Houtmann , conductor of the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Sinfonia, Doctor of Fine Arts; F. Carlyle Tiller, RC'48, president and chief executive officer of Wheat, First Securities, Inc., in Richmond, the Doctor of Commercial Science; and the Reverend Aubrey J. Rosser , RC'S0, pastor of Monument Heights Baptist Church in Richmond, the Doctor of Divinity degree . Dr. Helen E. Falls, WC'36, professor of missions at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, and Miss Frances Farmer, WC'31 , L'33, law librarian at the University of Virginia, was awarded the honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Trustees Emerti Senator Garland Gray and Senator M. M . Long were recipients of the Trustees' Distinguished Service A wards .

Chancellor George M . Modlin congratulates Trustees ' Distinguished Service Award winners Senator Garland Gray (right) and Senator M . M. Long . Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr . delivers commencement address.

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President E. Bruce Heilman with Terri, his fourth daughter to graduate from the University of Ri chmond.

Around the Lake UR experiences surge in applications. Because of an unprecedented demand and limited space available for students, applications for the 1976-77 academic term closed in mid-February. A survey by the College Entrance Examination Board revealed that the university is the only private , four-year institution, exceeding 2000 students in the Southern region, which experienced a IO to 20 percent increase in applications this year . According to Thomas N. Pollard , Jr., director of admission s, there were 22 percent more applicant s to Westhampton College and 8 percent to Richmond College. Pollard attributes the increase to many factors . The total cost of annual tuition, room and board per student runs about $3900, compared with the national average of $4391 at four-year , private colleges. Consolidation of Richmond and Westhampton Colleges ' admissions offices last fall and the institution 's growing reputation, Pollard believes, affected greater exposure for the university, as evidenced by the large number of appli cations from out-of-state students . Pollard added that an apparent trend of stud ents shifting away from large, urban campuse s and favoring self-contained, suburb an college communities may also be respon sible for the surge in student applicati ons.

Capt . R ichard Cicco/e/la (above) instru cts student in orienteering. Student finds compa ny while studying fo r exams.

Museum curator begins scratching the surface. One retired University of Richmond professor is digging for treasure . Dr. Thoma s S. Berry, former associate professor of economics in University College, is combing the campus in his new capacity as curator for th e reactivated University of Richm ond Museum . The former professor is scouring old buildings and closets in an attempt to unearth lost treasures from the university 's first museum , the James Thomas, Jr. Museum , a division of the university when it was located on Lombardy Street. During the move to Richmond's West End, man y of the museum's artifacts were scattered . An Egyptian mummy donated to the university by Dr. Jabez Curry was placed in Maryland Hall, while an extensive collection of portraits were used to decorate the Refectory . The portraits were lost at some point, but about half of the origin al 66 framed paintings and busts have been recovered . Other curios were stashed in various campus locations. In a university storeroom, students discovered two paintings by nineteenth century Virginia painter John Toole . Labeled Grandpa and Grandma

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Jones, the portraits are of Col. and Mrs . John R . Jones of Social Hall , Charlottesville. When restored , the paintings will have an estimated value of $ I 5,000 each. The core of the museum now includes the portraits , the mummy, a desk belonging to Jefferson Davis, a chair attributed to Patrick Henry and several items of furniture and personal effects bequeathed to the university by Thomas 's heirs . According to Berry, the most important item in the university ' s collection is a desk owned by Thomas Jefferson, which is on loan to the Monticello Society in Charlottesville. As curator, Dr. Berry plans to catalogue the collection , most of which is currently stored on the top floor of the Modlin Fine Arts Center. A permanent location, one which would be open to the public, has not been determined .

Law Day looks to the Muse. The man who brought the T .C. Williams School of Law in his own words from "rags to riches" was remembered during Law Day festivities this spring . And in a speech , Mrs. Jean Tarpley, director of admissions, captured the lighter side of her former boss, Dean William T . Muse. "An organized man, Dean Muse could always-somehow-squeeze nine hours of work into eight. Sometimes, however, in trying to fit into a busy schedule so many extra duties , he ' d get caught-for the Dean was not noted for his slow driving! " reminisced Mrs. Tarpley at the noon luncheon, where several members of the audience spontaneously related other stories . John w_.Edmonds III, L'56, offered ancedotes of another T .C. Williams institution, Professor James H . Barnett, Jr. During the day alumni observed in the law school courtroom at a mock trial conducted by Judge Robert Merhige, and later over 300 attended a dinner / dance at Salisbury Country Club .

Students get lost. If you were to jump out of an airplane and land in the middle of the woods with nothing but a compass and a map, you would be one of a new breed of athlete , partaking in what could be the longest series of games ever played-orienteering . A fast-growing sport in America, orienteering emphasizes speed and equips the player with only two aids-a map and a compass-to find certain identifiable terra in, such as a hilltop or a stream junction. Although similar to cross-country

running, the participant does not know his course until after the time has started. Orienteering as a competitive sport began in Sweden in 1919. It was developed by Major Ernst Kill ander , president of the Stockholm Amateur Athletic Association, who noticed a lagging interest among Swedish youth in track and field. He looked for a sport that would revitalize their enthusiasm for running and decided to use the natural environment of the Swedish countryside with its many forests , hills and lakes and devised the new system of cross-country running. In 1946 Bjorn Kjellstrom , a former Swedish orienteering champion, brought orienteering to the United States. Interest lagged at first, but since 1970 the sport has gained a tremendous following. Now there are over 5000 orienteers in the U.S. and more than 300 college teams. In November 1975, the University of Richmond Orienteering Club was formed under the direction of Lester George, a RC junior, and Capt. Richard Ciccolella, assistant professor of military science . The club has 15 members and is open to all faculty, students and alumni . According to George, "There is a growing interest on campus in orienteering. " This year the club participated in two meets, the Major Ray Balasquez Memorial Meet in Quantico, Va., and the Intercollegiate Championships at Ft. Story, Va. , where the Richmond relay team of Lester George, Rod Leary and Bob Dale placed ninth in a field of 50 teams. And Cindy Peake, a WC senior, finished fifth among the 50 women participants.

Robins Center use explored. "Report of misuse of the Robins Center by unauthorized personnel," said President E. Bruce Heilman in a statement to the University Board of Trustees this spring, led to an investigation by the University Facilities Committee, chaired by E. Sherman Grable, associate professor of mathematics. In its report, the committee recommended "that we should re-affirm the present policy of restricting the Center for the use of the inuniversity community-students, ternal faculty, staff and trustees." Alumni and friends of the university may, however, receive temporary passes from Frank Soden, assistant athletic director, who said they will be issued "very occasionally and users must provide their own equipment." "Conof the sequences of lax administration building," said Dr. Heilman, "dictate that we exercise more strict control in order that it may be maintained and preserved for stu-

dents, who have major claim to its use. This magnificent structure has been and continues to be a great asset in our intercollegiate athletic program , our physical education program and our general academic program."

Campus buzzes with activity. Students at the University of Richmond have been participating in the annual rites of spring-Westhampton Lifestyles Conference, Black History Week, Greek Week and Dutch Chaos Week . At the second annual Westhampton Lifestyles Conference , they explored traditional and nontraditional careers and examined the equality of opportunities between men and women . Folksinger Deborah McColl, Dr. Mary F. Carson, the first woman graduate of Union Theological Seminary, and Elreta M. Alexander, the first black woman judge in North Carolina, related their experiences while seminars focused on assertiveness training, human sexuality , male and female communication, the socialization of children and women in business. A highlight of Black History Week was speaker Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Essence, the fastest growing black women's magazine. As the guiding force of Essence, Gillespie said she sees the magazine as a service publication, communicating the physical and mental beauty of black women. During Dutch Chaos Week, students attended band parties, movies and a lecture on extrasensory perception by Russ Burgess, who earned his $200 fee by correctly predicting the Richmond Times-Dispatch front-page headline one week in advance. Campus chaos reigned during Saturday's Wild West Day with a gold rush treasure hunt, mud slides and stage coach tours . Saturday night, students spun the wheel of fortune as they gambled in a converted Robins Center casino . Competition was the name of the game during Greek Week as fraternity members battled for first place in the boat race, chariot race and Greek olympics. The Greek community also staged two concerts and a cookout for University of Richmond students .

College shop comes to a close. A 37-year tradition at the University of Richmond ended with the closing of the College Shop this May. The T.C. Williams School of Law, Richmond College and Westhampton College bookstores will be consolidated into a single facility in the new Student

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Fraternity crew uses every kind of "oar" in Greek Week boat race.

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Commons, scheduled for completion this August. The bookstores are being combined into one operation for overall efficiency, says Thomas Feamster, director of university services, who hopes the store will provide easier access for students. While the new bookstore will not lower prices considerably, students will receive a four percent savings because the university, as a nonprofit institution, is not required to add sales tax. On other items, the new bookstore will be competitive with the rest of the community , Feamster says. The College Shop, which began operating in 1939, was owned by former University of Richmond postmaster Ralph Pearson (Buddy) Mayo, who died of a heart attack this spring. Since 1952, the shop was run by his brother , Rob ert Mayo .

Westhampton lacrosse team battles British all-stars. Spid er baseball team captures second place in Southern Conference.

Campus briefs. H. Gerald Quigg, vice president for university relations, is district chairman-elect of the Southeastern District Conference of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), a professional organization for educational develpublic relations and institutional opment personnel. Quigg will represent 1340 college and university administrators in 10 states and serve from April 1977 to April 1978 .. . Dr. Austin Grigg, dean of the Graduate School, has been named one of six consultants to review examination items for the national licensing of clinical and counseling psychologists . Dr. Grigg was selected by the American Association of State Psychology Boards, along with five other from major graduate consultant-reviewers Dr. Gresham schools in psychology ... Riley, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences , was recently appointed to a national ten-person task force to study the future of the Association of American Colleges and its role as an advocate for liberal arts education .. . Dr. Ronald Vigneault, assistant professor of speech communication and theatre arts, directed the Rich mond Experimental Theatre production of King Ubu in April ... Andre A. Moenssens, professor at the T. C. Williams School of of Law, was re-elected secretary-treasurer the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at its annual meeting in February . .. Dr. Georgia B. Christopher, associate professor of English , is one of 15 chosen to participate in the Folger Renaissance Institute Seminar , "Milton and the Politics of the English Revolution, " to be held at Oxford College this summer.

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Short takes from sports. The chuckling you are hearing is probably coming from the baseball field and the smile on Coach Chuck Boone's face is proof he pulled off another fast one . Boone declared that 1976 would be a rebuilding year , that his schedule was too tough and that he had only one starter back from last year. Poor guy had to use extra pitchers in the infield and a first baseman behind the plate . The result: 20 wins, only 12 losses and second place in the Southern Conference! Junior Renie Mart in who is almost a cinch to be chosen in th~ upcoming professional draft, accumulated a 6-1 record on the mound with a super 1.70 earned-run average, 73 strike-outs in 58 innings and was named All-Southern Al centerfielder Conference . Freshman Bowles finished the season with a .357 batting average , contributing 5 homers and 22 and gave the Spiders the runs-batted-in power hitter that was missing in '75. Shortstop Kevin Harvey ended the campaign with a .319 mark and was chosen as the Southern 's top shortstop. The Spiders hosted their last Southern Conference championship when the tennis teams gathered to name Furman champion. The Pa ladins outscored the Citadel, 64-51 , in the three-day event. Richmond finished sixth . The golfers fared better at the South ern Conference tourney in Florence, South Carolina, with their fourth place finish, but the Paladins were again too strong for the field and captured the championship by a whopping 20 strokes . And the trackmen finished the dual meet season with a 2-2 overall mark , placing third in the Southern Conference championship The big surprise was the unseating of long-time champ William and Mary by East Carolina . On the other side of the lake , the Westswimmers captured the state hampton for the first time. Team championship members Suzanne Williams and Caroline Michaels broke records in 400-yard freestyle and 50-yard butterfly events . The women 's lacrosse team ran up against stiff competition when they hosted the British Universities Touring Team, considered one of the world's finest. In a dual meet , with William arid Mary playing one half and Westhampton the other, the UR team lost but compiled a respectable season record of 5 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses . Players Gary Wood , Margaret Stender and Dot Harrop were named to the Virginia Women 's Lacrosse Association (VW LA) team. The women's.tennis team had a winning season with 4 wins and 3 losses, but finished 16th in the state championship tournament.

People in the News Center for American thought founded. A new center to study the ¡ history of American thought has been established by Dr. Jay B. Hubbell , RC'0S. By gathering papers and materials of significant American literary critics and scholars, the Jay 8. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography in the Perkins Library at Duke University, will trace the emergence of American self-understanding. Focusing on literary history, criticism and bibliography, the center , developed by Hubbell, professor emeritus of American literature at Duke University, will study the evolvement of American thought and promote the scholarly use of literary materials.

Dean Gehring takes new post. Dr. Mary Louise Gehring, dean of Westhampton College for the past 11 years, has accepted a new position at her alma mater, Baylor University. Dean Gehring, who earned her doctorate at Louisiana State University, will become associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and will hold the rank of a tenured professor in oral communication. "Dean Gehring has served Westhampton College faithfully and well," said President E. Bruce Heilman, "and though we regret losing her services we are happy for her that this opportunity for further development has become available." Since appointing a university committee to consider candidates for the position, Dr. Heilman said, "It is my hope that I will be able to recommend a successor to the university's Board of Trustees by the beginning of the fall term." Recently Dr. Gehring was honored by the Richmond Chapter of the American Association of University Women as one of two persons for whom a name-grant of $500 was given, and Omicron Delta Kappa at Baylor University named her one of IO outstanding graduates. She is also listed in

Who's Who in American Education.

Suggs Mental Health Center dedicated. A new county mental health facility honors the work of Dr. Ann Howard Suggs, WC'44, the only volunteer director of a mental health facility in North Carolina. A pediatrician in Asheboro, North Carolina, Dr. Suggs was responsible for developing county mental health facilities after a 1964 survey indicated a need for out-patient services. She spearheaded a delegation of 100 persons to lobby for funds from county and state legislators and directed a $50,000 fund

raising drive, enabling a small part-time staff to begin offering community mental health services in 1966. Under her direction, the clinic has grown to include 2 I staff members now operating in the new Ann Howard Suggs Mental Health Center. In addition, the county program has expanded to include two halfway houses for alcoholics and a sheltered workshop for five mentally retarded adults.

Professors in a class by themselves. Since ideas sparked the great American experiment and visionary gamble that the founding fathers took, a bicentennial celebration would be incomplete without a university's spirit and dedication to foster freethinking and debate. Because of this the University of Richmond awarded five grants for the development of courses related to Theme '76: The Continuing American Revolution. The rhetoric of the founding fathers will come under close scrutiny next fall, as Dr. James Duckworth's "History of the American Language" plunges students into the intricacies of the mother tongue. The associate professor of English and his students will trace America's revolution in language. "The only sure thing about language is that it changes," says Duckworth, who believes the black revolution has produced the greatest evolutions in our speech during the last 20 years. Originally a melting pot notion predominated, he says, handicapping all immigrants who could not master English without a trace of accent. With the success of the blacks our language is becoming more pluralistic and other groups are encouraged to preserve their ethnic heritage. Many colleges and universities now allow students to write freshman compositions in their best language . In the course, Duckworth analyzes the attitudes formed by the expression of language and delves into phonology. "We cannot do much to direct language," he says, although observing its development from many sources. Just a survey of foods-chow mein, spaghetti, goulash-shows the varied influences on American speech. After 200 years, we are still wrassling with the concept of justice, believes Dr. Thomas Morris, assistant professor of political science, prompting his bicentennial course, "Law, Politics and the Administration of Justice." Morris contends the nation increasingly asks the courts to cure society's deep-seated ills. Recognizing that reform of the courts is a pressing political issue of the '70s, he investigates an often ignored aspect

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of American jurisprudence-state and lower federal courts . Concentrating on criminal justice, he examines the complex and voluminous litigations, which threaten to paralyze the process of justice. Students learn firsthand by going out of the classroom and into the courtroom. Students will also journey back to the pre-Revolutionary era in another Theme Year course , "Philosophical Roots of Rev olution. " Its originator, Dr. James Hall, professor of philosophy , plans to attend a Canadian university this summer for a British perspective on eighteenth century intellectual and political history. Studying the works of jurists, playwrights, poets, politicians and historians of the period, Hall's students will examine the ideological causes which spawned revolution in America and only reform in Great Britain, and whether any philosophical roots still flourish. Another course will analyze the potent and hidden messages relayed into our homes through a modern American medium-prime time television. "TV: Ethics for Hire " focuses on how popular shows treat dozens of issues-crime, law enforcement, courtroom procedure, medical ethics, family solidarity. Dr. Robert S. Alley, professor of religion, believes that instead of acting as a mere reflection of American society , today 's electronic media "influences what we are and what we think ." A study of "Colonial American Literature " will tie the past to the present with a survey of Revolutionary novels written by both eighteenth century and contemporary authors . Dr. Lynn Dickerson, associate professor of English, plans a thorough and analytical study of the impact of the colonial experience on American unity. Dr. James Hall (top) Dr. Robert S. Alley Book is tribute to Roberts. A Festschrift for Professor Marguerite Roberts , dean of Westhampton College from 1947 to 1965 and professor of English until her retirement in 1974, has been published by the University of Richmond in recognition of her long service . The publication was celebrated with an autographing party sponsored by the Westhampton Alumnae Association and Festschrift Committee in April. Edited by Dr. Frieda Elaine Penninger, chairman of the Westhampton College English department, the book is a tribute to the former dean 's scholarly connections. Its materials range from impressionistic poems and reminiscent essays to scholarly considerations of literary works with an intro-

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ductory biographical sketch by Chancellor George M . Modlin. The 31 contributors, which include professors and former professors at the University of Richmond, come from varied academic backgrounds and differ in age by as much as 70 years. Anyone wishing to obtain a copy of the book should complete the coupon printed on the inside back cover of this magazine . Educators honor Robins. The Virginia Conference of the American Association of University Professors named E. Claiborne Robins the third recipient of the Jackson Davis A ward for Distinguished Service to Higher Education in Virginia . "In our minds, it is the highest award in education," said Dr. Robert S. Alley, president-elect of the Virginia Conference of AAUP and University of Richmond professor of religion, because professors honor someone who is not necessarily in the field of education but who has made a significant contribution. Designed to promote the advancement of educational quality and to defend academic freedom, the AAUP voted to honor Robins after association members and university presidents submitted their nominations. The award recognized Robins as a "staunch advocate of quality and magnificent patron of higher education."

Truly a sporting event. Four former football players, two ex-coaches, a former baseball pitcher and a former basketball player were selected by the Hall of Fame Committee and honored at the first University of Richmond Sports Banquet on April 9. Walker Gillette, Dr. Richard E. Humbert, Arthur Jones, Edwin J . Merrick, Warren Mills, Malcolm U. Pitt, Barty Smith and C . Porter Vaughan were selected from a list of nominees for their outstanding contributions to the athletic program at Richmond. Gillette, the only consensus football. AllAmerican to play at Richmond, starred for the Spiders from 1967 to 1969 as a wide receiver and led the university to the Tangerine Bowl title in 1968. He holds all the school's major records for pass receiving in a season, game and career. A number one draft pick in the National Football League, he now plays for the New York Giants. Humbert, chairman of the university's physical education department, lettered in three sports at Richmond from 1938 to 1941. After making All-State as an end in football, he starred for the Philadelphia Eagles

from 1941 to 1950. Humbert then coached for four years at the University of Arkansas , returned to his alma mater as end coach for ten years, earned his doctorate and assumed his current position . Jones , another football great , played for UR from 1938 to 1940 at halfback , made the Look All-American team, led the Southern Conference in scoring for two years and became the first Virginia player to appear in the North-South Game . He was a number one draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 194 l, led them in scoring , the NFL in pass interceptions and made All-Pro . He was elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame . Merrick was the UR football center from 1936 to 1939 and the first Spider ever cho sen All-Southern Conference. He made honorable mention All-American and was the first player from Virginia to play in the College All-Star game . After coaching at Fork Union Military Academy , he returned to UR as head football coach, a post he held for 14 years , and was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year in I 958 . Mills , one of Richmond 's top basketball scorers , starred from 1952 to 1955 when the Spiders compiled a 62-24 mark , dominated and were nationally state basketball ranked . He was the first Richmond athlete to have his jersey retired and made AllSouthern Conference two years and AllState three . For Coach Pitt, this is his sixth athletic hall of fame, having been named to the Basketball Hall of Helms Foundation Fame, the Helms Foundation Baseball Hall of Fame, American Association of College Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, the Richmond Professional Hall of Fame and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. As a student in 1915, he played quarterback on the football team , third base on the baseball team and also ran track. He was UR's athletic director for 25 years, coached the basketball team for 20 years, compiling a 197-168 mark, and the baseball team for 37 seasons , running up a 426-257 record. Smith , the youngest former Spider elected, starred in football from 1971 to 1973 as a fullback, leading UR to one Southern Conference title and a Tangerine Bowl appearance. He led the only Spider grid squad ranked in the Associated Press Top Twenty and was the first round draft choice of the Green Bay Packers in 1974. He won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy two straight years, the Coffman A ward as the outstanding player in the East-West Shrine Game, and played in the Coaches All-

American Game and the College All-Star Game . He still hold s many UR football records. Porter Vaughan, an outstanding lefthanded pitcher during the late thirties , went from the Richmond campus to the big leagues with the Philadelphia Athletics in 194 I. Since graduation he has served the university in many capacities, including past chairman of the Athletic Council member of the University's Board of Trustees and the University's Board of Associates.

Saine directs corporation. Carroll L. Saine , G '66, has been elected president and chief executive officer of Central National Corporation. A bank holding company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia , Central National Corporation has assets totaling $440 million with affiliate banks in Rich mond , Petersburg, Yorktown, Fairfax, Arlington, Manassas and Hopewell, Virginia . Saine, who had been executive vice president and chief executive officer of the corporation and chief executive officer of the corporation 's primary bank, Central National , was named to the boards of both the bank and the holding company in December.

Wanted: patriotic ghosts. As we hark back to our country 's origins, a new hobby is taking hold-genealogy , the search for one's ancestors . In this bicentenni al year, the law of averages dictates that not every a genealogist can have a coup-finding Revolutionary patriot in the family lineage . But for Mrs . Lillian Youell, WC'45, of Virginia Beach delving into the family line s of husband Rice Youell , L' 55, the quest ended with William Youell, a Scotsman who landed on American shores a few years before the Revolution and settled near Goshen in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After verifying that Youell had served in the Revolution, Mrs . Youell traced the patriot to his grave in an overgrown fam ily cemetery near Goshen . Discovering the site lacked a "Soldier of the American Revolution" marker , she set about getting one from the Veterans Administration . A family reunion surrounded the plaque 's dedication and one of the I 000 Youell descendants recorded her search in a recently published book, Recognition of a Patriot , One Family's Observan ce of the Bicentennial.

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Hall of Fame inductee Barty Smith (top ); alumnu s Carroll L. Saine; and f ormer dean of Westhampton College. Dr. Magu erite R oberts.

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Westhampton's Indomitable Little Dean MAY LA NS FIELD KELLER LIFE AND LETTERS, by Pauline Turnbull, McClure Press. 399 pp. $8.95. A half-dozen or more good books could be written on the lives and letters of leaders of Virginia colleges and universities in the '20s and '30s, but none could come as more of a bombshell to several thousand Virginians than will May Lansfield Keller-Life and Letters. (Younger readers should be here reminded that a "bombshell" is to their elders the opposite of a "bomb" in modern parlance.) Books on Francis P. Gaines of Washington & Lee, Bessie Carter Randolph of Hollins, and onward goes the list, would be of equal value to persons interested in the history and development of the spectrum of Virginia's many educational institutions. But would any of the books on those deans and presidents and professors include touching love letters that would prove the existence of a life and time absolutely unsuspected by their fellow professors or students? This is really three books in one: (I) a solid account of the development of a fine Virginia liberal arts college for women, and the life of its dean, spanning the period before women's suffrage through their military service in World War II. It has been said that "an institution is the shadow of a man," to which we properly now add "or woman ." Dean May L. Keller was Westhampton College, from I 914 until her retirement in 1946. (2) descriptive and flowing letters from a brilliant, attractive and petite American girl who from I 90 I to 1904 moved fearlessly about Europe, Alps and all, charming her male contemporaries and professors while earning a doctorate in a prestigious German university. (3) a revelation to one segment of our population-the alumni of Richmond College and Westhampton College over three decades, who to their surprise may now read from a flood of warm and sensitive love letters sent almost daily to a suitor until his suicide, written before they knew her by a lady they viewed as a smart but stern and unromantic spinster. Author Pauline Turnbull served as registrar, professor of Latin and professur of art history at Westhampton and worked and shared living quarters with Dean Keller for 50 years. The first sentences of her book are taken from an editorial in the Richmond News Leader written after Miss Keller's

death at 83 in 1964: "She lived through a complete revolution in women's education, women's rights, women's role in society. Lived through it? She fought in it. She was 4 feet 10 inches tall but she was indomitable." It is an apt beginning. Miss Keller's letters from Europe to her parents and a few others, from September of 1900 until the victorious one-word cable from Heidelberg in February of 1904, "Doctor," are models of the declining art of letter-writing. The Europe of the professional classes of that day comes alive with descriptions of the music, architecture, dress, social occasions and the male "Deutschers" who try to paw her . She found the German women "frumps" but relished the high demands of German scholarship. Her degree was in German philology; she wrote a thesis on "AngloSaxon weapons." Yes, Anglo-Saxon weapons. Perhaps the best description of what she was like as a student in Europe (and probably to all her acquaintances since) is in a letter written to her father by a friend in Switzerland. She was a "darling little person," who also "possesses muscles, whose existence one would never suspect and make a blacksmith envious." The correspondent adds, "One discovers also beneath this charming simplicity an inflexible will, fixed principles, and a remarkable capability of getting along in this world without anyone's help, even if available." The final portions of the book are copies of letters which Miss Keller wrote from 1909 through 1912, to a young man in Baltimore. Miss Keller could have destroyed them, but did not; she kept them neatly where she knew a biographer would find them. That of itself is a revelation. They were a surprise to Miss Turnbull, who presumes they were returned to Miss Keller after her lover's death in 1912. To quote from them in a review would be unfair, because language and style have changed, and out of context, something sensitive could appear camp. For everyone interested in arts and letters, this reviewer recommends the second (European) part of the book; for those interested in the growth and scope of higher education for women in Virginia, the first part; and for all those who ever met tiny, lively Dean Keller, the love letters, because they will then view each of their attractive elder spinster friends with new wonder. Paul Saunier, Jr., RC '40 This review is reprinted courtesy of Commonwealth magazine.

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1915 John A. Ryland, R, is still farming at "Ingleside," in the house in which he was born. He received a "Certificate of Recognition" from Bruington Baptist Church for over 50 years of service. Rev. C. A. Tucker, R, has retired as a Methodist minister after serving 54 years and is now residing in Richmond. 1920 A. B. Honts, R, is serving as Commander of Col. John S. Mosby Camp No. 1237 Sons of Confederate Veterans. They will be hosting the Virginia Division State Meeting on July I 0, 1976. Rev. Cothran G. Smith, R, lives in Wilmington , N .C., with his wife since retiring from the Christiansburg, Ya., Presbyterian Church in 1967. 1927 Thomas E. West, R, will be busy giving several lecture, piano and voice concerts in North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Massachusetts and Virginia during the bicentennial year, using American and European music of 200 years ago. 1928 Rev. John W. Kincheloe, Jr., R, retired in 197I, after serving for 43 years as pastor of Southern Baptist churches in Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia. He is now living in Richmond. A. S. Tomlinson, R, is mostly retired but serves on county councils on Human Relations and Retardation, the Regional Directorate of Senior Services and Sheltered Workshop and Alcohol Rehabilitation . 1929 Dr. Joseph H. Cosby, R, relinquished the interim pastorate of Lee Street Baptist Church, Danville; Ya., in October I975. David V. Buchanan, R, although retired for only the past 18 months, is busy as chairman of the executive committee of the Union Congregational Church in Peterborough, N.H., and president of the Monadnock Country Club, with bowling and skiing to fill in his "life of leisure." 1930 Lucien Lofton, R, announces both his and his wife's retirement. 1931 Lonnie 0. Bolton, R, retired in October I 972, as state urban engineer, Virginia Department of Highways. Rev. Paul J. Forsythe, R, has retired from the pastorate of Colosse Baptist Church, West Point, Ya. 1932 Dr. Emmett A. Williams, R, received a PhD in business administration with a major in finance, from the American University, Washington, D.C., last May. 1935 Col. Hugh L. Cardoze, (Ret.) has been working as a community developer with the Oconee Area Planning and Development Commission, Milledgeville, Ga . 1939 James C. Knibb, L, retired as Commonwealth's attorney for Goochland County, last December. 1940 Arthur C. Beck, Jr., R, co-authored a new book, Making MBO / R Work . He is currently acting director of the University of Richmond's Institute for Business and Community Development while Dick Underhill , director, is on sabbatical.

Cdr. T. H. Bruno, SC USN (Ret.)

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teaching in the School of Business Administra tion, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. Lt. Col. Allan J. Phaup, Jr., R, who was deputy base commander at Glasgow Air Force Base in Montana, retired June l, 1976, to Warsaw, Va. 1943 Marvin Cole, R, L, was elected president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association at their annual meeting in March. W. Bruffie Connor, R, has been involved with the ETSU Greeneville Center for the IO years that it has been in existence. He also spends a lot of time teaching on the main campus at Johnson City, Tenn. 1944 Alfred F. Baroody, R, has just completed an expansion program for Virginia Electric & Power Company at Yorktown, Va., acting as project superintendent for the general contractor. 1947 Clyde Y. Cridlin, L, is administrative law judge, Bureau of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration in Hattiesburg, Miss. 1948 Roland B. Anderton, Jr ., R, has been appointed regional vice president in the southeastern region in Atlanta, Ga., for Underwriters Adjusting Company. 1949 James A. Moncure, R, is presently vice president for academic and student affairs at Elon College in North Carolina. Dr. W. N. Gee, R, and his wife, Sandy, announce the arrival of son John Eric born June 30, 1975. Charles E. Caravati, B, was elected director for District X (Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia) of the Nation .al Sporting Goods Association. John B. Richardson, B, was elected to the executive committee of the General Agents Association of National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. 1950 M. Douglas Crawford, B, has been promoted to senior vice president and cashier of the Bank of Virginia in Roanoke. 1952 Dr. Page Hudson, R, is chief medical examiner in North Carolina; writing a few articles; president of North Carolina Society of Pathologists; and has founded Forensic Systems, Inc., along with his associates. Robert Storm, R, is senior professional sales representative for Parke-Davis and is also serving as commissioner of sanitation in New York. 1953 Ralph Eugene Peachee, R, is quite active in community affairs with Reams Road Athletic Association, treasurer of Reams Road Elementary School PTA, Shenandoah Community Association committee member on area development, finance, membership, and long-range planning. Dr. Robert C. Markham, R, L, has been ap pointed to the committee on censorship by the National Council of Teachers of English. 1954 Walter V. Powell, L, is now an associate professor teaching law and political science, at Slippery Rock State College as well as practicing law in Butler County, Pa. 1956 Vincent J. Meads, B, was promoted to managing director and chief executive officer of Cutler-Hammer Europa, Ltd. Walter P. Lysaght, R, was recently transferred to C&P Telephone Company of Maryland, where he is employed as a general staff supervisor. 1957 David E. Hudgins, B, has been elected president and chief executive officer of NB Bank of Richmond, Va. 1958 William F. Abernathy, R, was recently appointed director of learning resources center at Columbia Bible College/Graduate School of Bible and Missions.

Rev. Leslie H. Giles, R, became pastor of the Ephesus Baptist Church at Raleigh, N.C., in February l 976. 1959 Bill Baker, R, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Air Reserve was presented with the Navy Centurion A ward by the Deputy Chief of Naval Reserve, Rear Admiral Thomas B. Russell. He was honored for his work in making more than I 00 speeches and lectures to civic and student groups in an effort to further understanding of the value of our national strength at sea . 1960 W. Ivey Bridgers. R, was promoted to assistant vice president of EmJ?ire General Life. is chairman of First Aid Committee, National Red Cross and a member of the National Red Cross Board of Directors. He also serves as an instructor-trainer for Red Cross advanced first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and is chairman of the National Motorcycle Patrol, a volunteer search and rescue first aid team and on the board of directors for the Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club. His wife, Barbara Ramsey Bridgers, WC'60, is a social worker and a member of the board of directors of Tri-city Family Planning Clinic. 1961 Dr. R. C. Hassel, R, read a paper at the International Shakespeare Congress in Washington, D.C. this spring.

S. F. McCormick, B, is presently senior vice president, corporate services, Republic National Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Tex. 1962 Charles V. Franzman Ill, R, received his master of business administration degree at Pace University in New York in June 1975. Harold L. Smith, R, was married to Miriam A. Eby of Brutus, Mich., on December 20, 1975. Leonard E. Walcott, Jr., R, will be conducting, along with his wife, the ir sixth annual European Art Study Tour. Most of his attention has been directed toward developing a new course in interdisciplinary studies at Marlborough, uniting h umanities, science and human values. 1963 Walter S. Griggs, Jr, R, L, G, and wife Frances Pitchford, WC'63, announce the birth of daughter Cara Frances, who arrived on January 15, 1976. Rev. and Mrs. Harry A. Gray, Jr., R, announce the birth of their third child, Michael Tawes Gray, on January 6, 1976. Andrew G. Bachmann, R, G, has received his MBA from the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn. He is employed by Loctite Corporation of Newington, Conn., as manager of the commercial division. J. Stempie, R, is now a stockbroker with Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis in Denver, Colo. He enjoys living in Colorado with his wife and two children. 1964 Kenneth E. Dichtenmueller, B, has been appointed to assistant director in the casualtyproperty personal lines department of The Travelers Insurance Company. W. R . Hodge, B, married Carol Marie Grimes on October 14, 1972, and is raising daughter Tammy and son Robbie, along with Christmas trees, cattle, ponies and other assorted fauna in Fluvanna County. Charles A. Hartz, Jr., R, L, has been appointed general attorney for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company as of April I, 1976. J. Thomas Burch, Jr., R, L, has formed the law firm of Pompan & Burch in Washington, D.C. Leslie S. Webb, Jr., R, and his wife announce the birth of a daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth, on September 30, I 975. 1965 Roger Hening Meacham, Jr ., R, G, and his wife announce the birth of a son, Michael Wiley.

H. Larrick Hockman, B, has been appointed manager commodity sales for the Industrial Fla-

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vor Division of McCormick & Company, Inc., B. David Traylor, R, and his wife, Barbara , announce the birth of a son, Steven David, on October 22, 1975. Dr. Glenn T. Miller, R, has recently been appointed assistant professor of church history at Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, N.Y. His new book, Religious Liberty: History and Prospects was published in March by Westminster Press. Dr. and Mrs. Earl Crouch, R, (Edie, WC'69) have decided to move to Norfolk, Va., where Earl will be joining the opthalmology staff at Eastern Virginia Medical School. 1966 Nate S. English, B, has been promoted to vice president for finance and elected to the board of directors of Washington Construction Company. David M. Raid, R, recently formed Pilot Service Corporation, an air taxi-charter operation flying out of Byrd International Airport. 1967 Kendall P. Parker, G, has been elected vice president and director of employee relations for Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation in Richmond. 1968 William R. Allen, R, and his wife announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Anne, born July 12, 1975. He is special administrative assistant with Stewart Sandwiches, Inc. in Norfolk, Va. Stanley J. Buchwalter, R, and his wife announce the birth of a daughter, Alicia, on December 19, 1975. William M. Turner Ill, R, and wife Rosemary announce the birth of daughter Kara Leigh on February 26, I 976. Richard E. Carter, R, L, married Jay Hart and they have one child, Amy. He is in private practice in Charlottesville, Va. Linwood W. Davis, R, translated some early American Lutheran texts for St. Luke Lutheran Church in Richmond. The German writing of Ambrose Henkel of New Market, Va., in the early years of the nineteenth century formed the basis for the published work, The ABC's of Instruction for Boys-and Girls of the Lutheran Faith in America. L. D. Metcalfe, B, has received a promotion and will be moving to New Orleans. The Metcalfes are expecting their second child in August. William R. O'Brien (Buster), R, has become a partner in the Virginia Beach law firm of Brydges, Hudgins, Ege, Burt, & O'Brien. 1969 John B. Thornton, R, is working for Greene County Health Department as a sanitarian. The Thorntons are expecting their first child in April. 1970 Weldon A. Bradshaw, R, and his wife announce the arrival of their second son, David Moore Bradshaw, on March 3, 1976. David P. Campbell, B, has been named salesman of the year and received the Sales & Marketing Executives Distinguished Salesman A ward. He works with Custom Mailers and Cons1Jltants, Inc. Richard Haynes, R, received his master's degree in law and taxation in June l 975 at the College of William & Mary. Capt . Laurence A. Lenhart, R, has been reassigned to Fort Lewis in Seattle from his former post at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Va. 1971 Stran L. Trout, R, L, has been named among the "Outstanding Young Men of America" for his community service, professional leadership, academic and business accomplishments and political participation. John G. Powers, B, and his wife announce the birth of their first child, Roberta Fayette Powers, born September 26, l 975. William A. Thornton, R, has been promoted to chemistry supervisor at the Surry Power Station for VEPCO. Barry C. Drewes, B, and his wife, Candace,

anno unce the birt h of d a ught er Brittany Catron on February 2 1, I 976. Peter H. L unt, B, is pre se ntl y working in Milwaukee, Wis., as a mo rt gage underwriter for Northwestern M ut ua l Life In suran ce Company .

1972 Gerald E. Ha rrison, U , has been promoted to vice pres ident , reco mmend a tions , and a member of the exec utive boa rd of the Americas Univac Users Assoc iatio n. Rev. Norr is Partri dge , R , has gr aduated and received his mas ter of divinity degree from Southwestern Ba pti st Th eo log ica l Seminary in December 1975. 1973 Law rence M. Cardon, L , has moved to Virginia Beac h and is wo rkin g with Peter Decker, criminal lawye r. He has a lso added another little girl to his fam ily. Mitche ll A. We ber, R, wears a blue medal on his uniform to show he was "Rookie of the Year" in I 974 . But wh en he be ca me involved with two Flori da escape es, o ne of whom held cap tive the sister o f fo rmer N o rth C arolina Senator Sam J. Ervin , Jr. a nd four other s, it was more than a ro uti ne day in the p atrolm a n' s life. That particular day was filmed as a television news documentary por tr ay ing a routin e Richmond patrolman's day. Buford F. Ang le, U, and wife T err y Schmidt Angle, are now residi ng in Ir an , wo rking on educational projec t co nt rac ts u ntil late 1976. Dan iel V. Cant rell, R , is ass ocia ted with the American Tobacco Com pa ny, R esea rch & Development La bora to ries in H o pewell , Ya ., as a chemist-flavor resea rch . Edward Knig ht Carpen ter, L, assumed the duties of the office o f co mm onwe a lth ' s attorney fo r Gooch la nd County in J anua ry 1976. Mrs. Margaret S. Bas k et te, B, and her husband, Ashto n, are pro ud o f their new son, Michael Scott, b orn o n Feb ru a ry 28, I 976. Elwood V. Elliott, R, is p resently working with the Virginia Div isio n o f Ju stice and Crime Prevention in Richmond. J. Daniel Pond II , L, an d his wife , Nancy , announce the birt h of a so n, Jo hn Daniel Pond Ill, on February 2, 1975. Kenneth R. We iner, L, was elected president of the Northern Virgin ia Yo un g Law yers As socia tion for 1976-1 977. 1974 Stephe n L. Comfort, L, married Pamela A. Minter, WC '73 on J une 28, 197 5. H e is now a partner in the firm of Bas night & Comfort , attorneys-at-law. William R. Pumphrey, L, wr ites th at he ha s a son who is now 18 mo nth s old. He is working as assistant county att orney affiliated with Grant & Rose law firm in Winc hes ter , Ky . Paul W. Sacra, B, and Ba rb ara Cros s, WC' 74, were mistaken ly reporte d to h ave been m arried last October 3. They ann o un ced th eir engagement on that date an d pla n to be m a rried July 24 . 1975 Jeffery S. Cribbs, G, has bee n appointed budget directo r for YCU.

Deaths Dr. Dud ley C. Ashton, R '20, M arch 29, 1976. John Bagby, Jr., 8'31, May 1975 . Jackson R. Baldw in, 8 '73, January 16, 1976 . Lt. Col. R ichard A . Bowen, R'23, Fe bru ary I , 1976. Dr. Allyn B. Choate, R '27, Octo ber 2, 1975 . E. Lee Copley, Jr., R '39, L'42, Marc h 30, 1976. Rev. William B. Denson, R '26, March 26, 1976. Edward H. Guns t, R'21, Ma rch 3 1, 1976 . Dr. Clifton W. Henson, R '24. Abraham Homer, L'23, Feb ru a ry 28, I 976. Gordon K. Hump hrey, L'65, Sep temb er 7, I 974. Dr. Claudius 0. Johnson, R ' I 7, Fe bru ary 26, 1976. George K. Mack, R' l 9, Decem ber I , 1975 . Douglas S. Mitc hell, L'33, Feb ru a ry 29, 1976. M. Wallace Moncure, Jr., L'27, J a nu a ry 3 1, 1976. Beverly K. Patton, R '27, Jan ua ry 9, 1976 .

James W. Phillips , L' 27 , February 25, 1976. William J. Phillips , R ' 36, February 28, I 976 . Frank J. R ej evich, L' 52, December 9, I 975. Dr . Emm e/I Y. Robertson ; R'25 , December 22, 1975. Olin A . Rog ers, L' 34 , April 17, 1975. Joseph Rot ella, R ' 22, G'41, February 14, 1976. Beverly W. Shelton , Jr. , R ' 28, February 27, 1976. Jam es W. Teabo, Jr ., 8 ' 53, March 20, 1976. Dr. Jesse M . Tuck er, Jr. , R '47 , March 14, 1976. William P. Tu ck er, R ' 29, February 13, 1976. Howard C. Vick, L'48 , August 16, 1975. Edward C. Weil, Jr ., R '60, January 17, 1976. Hora ce A . Wright , L' 24, March 27, 1976.

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Club & Class News Richmond Alumnae Club Doris Balderson Burbank, president 910 Hamp stead Avenue Ri chmond, Virginia 23226 Richmond Club members and their friends joined together for an evening of fun February 26 at a ca rd party in the Reception Room of Keller Hall. Arrangements were handled by Suzanne Ivey, Li sa Coleman Rose and Brownie Sales Tuck er. The C ommonwealth Club was the setting for the annual Spring Luncheon on April 3. The program , " Classics , Culture and a Cold Water Flat ," was presented by Jack Welsh, an alumnus and associate professor at the university. Recognition was made of the Richmond Club nominee for the Distinguished Alumna awards , Frances Allen S chools, director of information for the G overnor' s ca binet. Chairmen of the luncheon were Ann Ferrell Draper and Fran White Cheatham . Elected to office for the coming term are Tu cki e Smart Paxton , president ; Kakki Elmer R ogers, first vice-president; and Jean Tinsley M artin , corresponding secretary . Serving for another year are Anne Askew Jones, second vicepre sident ; Barbara Whit e Balderson, recording secr etary ; and Peggy St . Clair Stevens , treasurer . Our thank s to outgoing officers, Doris Balderson Burbank as president ; Pat Cluverius Goodman as first vice-president ; and Kakki Elmer Rogers as corre sponding secretary, for a job well done. The fine support of its members made this another successful year for the Richmond Club.

Suffolk-FranklinAlumnae Club Gladys Holl eman Barlow , president Rt. 2, Box 165 Smithfi eld, Virginia 23430 The Suffolk-Franklin chapter enjoyed having Kitty Kelly , student government president, and Bruce Higginbotham , a medical assistant in the uni versit y infirmary , at the fall meeting in Suffolk . They brought campus news and showed slides of the past a nd present taken by Miss Pauline Turnbull. The spring meeting wa s held March 26 at the fac ilities of Union C a mp Corporation in Franklin . F ollo wing lun ch and a brief business meeting , there was a guided tour of the paper mill . Union Camp is a successor through merger to C a mp M a nufacturing Company, one of who se founder s was James L. C amp , a former trustee of the university . The Camp Memorial Theatre was donated by the J. L. Camp family in his memory. Mr. Ca mp 's daughter , Elizabeth M. Camp Smith , clas s of 1918, a member of this chapter , attended. The officer s for the coming year are: President , Mrs . Lillian Stephenson Stroud; vice-president , Mrs . Ka y Koontz Gille/le; secre-

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tary-treasurer, Mrs. Carolyn Cobb Penniston; editor paper , Miss Ruth Haverty. The fall meeting will be in Smithfield.

Belle Gayle Ellyson R.F.1.Westbook Avenue, Apt. Richmond, Virginia 23227 W.C.R. 1600

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Four of us have moved to Westminster-Canterbury House , Mallie Crowder Phaup, Anne Trevvett Omohundro , Mallie Guthrie and Belle Gay le Ellyson. As newcomers to our new home, we have been greatly blessed by the services of Nancy Omohundro , member of the staff and Anne 's daughter-in-law, a lovely lady'. We are happy in our new home and enjoy contacts with a number of Westhampton alumnae, who live under the same roof with us. Together , we enjoyed ha ving Miss Pauline Turnbull with Mrs . Thorpe, alumnae secretary , and several students bring slides of the early days of Westhampton College. A picture of the campus with only one building was almost unbelievable . Mrs . Thorpe with Miss Turnbull 's explanations made it a lively occasion . R .F.1.-W .C.R. alumnae a re looking forward with happy anticipation to moving our records and treasures from Keller Hall to Boatwright Libr ary . Any group pictures or souvenirs of your college days will be gratefully received by Belle Ellyson to put among our treasures . We are setting up a trust fund to provide for the permanent care of our records room in Boatwright Library . President Clara Epps received a gift from a friend, Dr. John S. Ashworth, a copy of Admiral C. W. Nimit z' s address at the University of Richmond when he received an honorary Doctor of La ws degree on March 28, 1946. At the same time, General Dwight David Eisenhower received a Doctor of Laws degree . The gift includes programs for the occasion and the autographs of both men. We a re pleased that our newsletter has brought two classmates together who have not been in touch for years ; namely: Mary Woodward ( Mrs . W. W. Avera ) and Mary Hutcheson Taylor. Another book has been placed in the library in memory of Martha Spencer Reynolds. We are always proud of our Nostrae girls and think they made lovely models in the fashion show that took place at the Homecoming dinner. It was Belle Ellyson 's privilege to give the library a large number of The Richmond College M essenger , magazines saved by her husband , Stile s H. Ellyson , since 1905.

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Lillian Robertson Carter P. 0. Box 928 Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801

Esther Sanford Jell is flying to California with daughter Esther Holland and granddaughter Martha to attend the graduation of a grandson who is in Oakland College of Fine Arts . Margaret Semmes McKillop and her husband, Dayton , are keeping in stride but do not go far from home except to church and to shop for groceries. Her oldest brother, who is 83, has been ill in Texas but is much improved. She says she and Dayton appreciate their many ble ssing s. Margar et Hut chinson Rennie, who lost her husband last year , is now living in WestministerCa nterbury and is using a walker after three operations on her knee. Catherine Not1ingham Ri chardson has had cataract operations recently and is rejoicing as she can now read , write and drive her car. Her o ldest grandson, Tommy Richardson, is leaving soon for Paris with his French class of Broadwa ter Academy . Catherine spent this winter with various members of her family but will soon re-

turn to her home in Onancock, Ya. Mildred Lewis McDanel has recovered. She and Ralph get around some but after they went to a prayer meeting on January 28, Ralph lost his vision in both eyes. She said it is arterioscholosis and although he cannot see , he never complains and can dress himself and walk around the house. Their granddaughter , Melissa, attended Madison Col lege , then went to Braxton Business College and will graduate this month. She is now being interviewed for a career as a medical secretary. Elvira Miller Abernath y and her husband , Thornton , seem to enjoy living and Elvira is not ready to retire from retirement. She is very busy with her church work and also with several organizations in Jarratt. Recently, she spent a day in Williamsburg attending a workshop on flower arranging . She will hold a clinic with her garden club in June and all clubs in Sussex County are invited to attend. Elvira is a good example of ideal retirement if one has the energy. Virginia Karnes Wright has recovered from a heart attack last year. She said a great boost to her morale was her doctor's permission to drive her car arou!]d Roanoke . She is very active in her church and still lives in her apartment one flight up. She spends much of her time with her sister , Lucile Karnes Steinhardt, in Franklin, Ya. Ju/ielle Brown Carpenter , who has spent her winters in Norfolk where her husband , Webster, was a dentist , is delighted at plans to spend all year at their home at Yirgiriia Beach. Juliette has agreed to continue as president of the Class of 1919, although she has used a walker for years. Hester Tichenor Warfield lost her husb a nd last August and has finally decided to sell their large home , which her husband designed and built 49 years ago. She spent this winter in Na pies, Fla., with her sister-in-law but decided to leave the sand and water and move into an apartment near her former home. Elizabeth Tompkins (Tommy) still pursues her law practice but says she has done nothing outstanding this year such as taking any trips. But I can assure you , hr~ lovely home and small garden are as charming as ever. Tommy still lives in the home to which Westhamptonites were welcomed. Elizabeth M cLean Matthewson and Don are living in Rosemont Presbyterian Village and enjoying every minute of it. Virginia Bundick Mays and husband Archer had a rough winter but are now improving. Her garden club days are over or curtailed. They sold the farm near Stony Creek and enjoy living next to Elvira Miller and husband Thornton in Jarratt, Ya. Audrey Colonna Twyford has devoted much of her widowhood to working for a college in Lewisburg , W.Ya. Since her cataract operation last summer, she has closed her Accomac home and is living in Episcopal Church Home in Norfolk. She is enjoying living in this small home, which has only twelve residents including the hostess . They play bridge , visit the museum , participate in Women ' s Club activities and attend the Norfolk Symphony concerts. Bessie Dicks Beally is selling her home, where she has lived for 34 years , and moving into the Algonquin Apartments, Algonquin area, Norfolk , Ya. She is enjoying an active life in music and Women 's Club , as well as church. Lillian Robertson Carter-I am still happy with my flowers and friends in Sunnyside Presbyterian Village ne a r Harrisonburg . My chief hobby is oil painting, as there is no end of challenging landscape beauty all around me in the valley . My daughter Nancy Blose lives nearby. Also , one of her three daughters , Nancy Davis, is medical technician at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. It is good to be living near my family. My other daughter, Mrs. H. B. Edwards who lives in Hampton, and her two children spent Christmas week with me enjoying the skiing at Massanutten Ski Resort-almost at my back redwood deck. Their daughter , Anny Cary, is a junior at Westhampton and loves it. My only grandson, Betty Edwards, is in his third year at UV A Medical College. Another granddaughter, Anne Carter

Blose , has just completed her five years of training as pharmacist and has her last clerkship in Roanoke. My oldest granddaughter , Elizabeth Blose Dunn, and her husband live in Winston-Salem, N .C., where she is reservation clerk for Piedmont Airlines. Adelaide Walton Cowherd is still occupied with senior citizen 's activities , Homemaker ' s Club and Baptist Church programs. She flew out to Ohio to see her daughter, Anne Tyler , who has triplet daughters . Adelaide 's oldest grandson , Robert , is a lawyer in Luray , Ya.

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Lenora Dorsey Kilby 1222 Blue Ridge Avenue Culpeper, Virginia 22701

Cammie Robinson Hess 's narrative of her and Bernard 's trip to Mexico mentioned Mexico City , Taxco, Cuernavaca and intervening villages which they enjoyed , because of the Independence Day celebrations, and also two weeks in the Yucatan . ._ They spent the winter at Pompano Beach and both sons with their familie s visited them. For Cammie, the Ft. Lauderdale Palmer Theater 's season was delightful because of the excellent presentations of plays reminiscent of the '20s and '30s. The date for their return to Wilmington was determined by their desire to attend the meeting of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia on April 9 and IO, and to be at home for son Bill's arrival to house hunt since Dupont has transferred him from Chicago to Wilmington. May Thompson Evans has continued to travel to Richmond on behalf of alma mater. When there for a February Alumnae Board meeting, she also represented '21 at a meeting of class fund chairmen because Catherine Little Dupuy was unable to attend after Lawrence suffered a fall. May also joined the steering committee of the Boatwright Society in planning for this year 's dinner meeting. Swart Eve rel/ Moseley 's grandson , George Lee , transferred to UR in December. Stu art is considering moving to Richmond to be near her daughter and a sister , both Richmonders , and her Williamsburg sister, Eliza Everett Darden. Gladys Lumsden McCutcheon keeps in touch with R ichmond class members and gave me Virginia Newbill Raw/s's address. She lent support , too, to Theresa Pollak during her brother 's illness. Theresa's priorities were altered consider ably by her brother's month-long hospitalization and recuperative period. Her care of him was constant and complete. Elizabeth Elsea was glad to have her sister , Alberta , with her for the Arlington part of her year. Their sister, Vida Norvell, visited them. I'll quote Katharine Spicer Edmonds: "The three R 's occupy much of our time. We never run out of things to read. John , as the oldest inhabitant and an old newspaperman , writes down many of his memories and I hope to record some of mine for our descendants. There are always forms and blanks to be figured and filled out. Our children look out for us. They are planning a journey across the Bay for us. " Mary Hart Willis Winfrey 's sister, Sally Gordon, was with her again last ,winter. The improvement in Mary Hart's ability to walk has enabled her to enjoy her yard and to extend her helpfulness to others. Mary Blackwell Hudnall enjoyed two days in Savannah for one of the "Historic Savannah Tours of Homes and Gardens " and evaluated Sa vannah's restoration efforts as worthy of consideration by other cities. En route home , Mary stopped in Chapel Hill to see her daughter and family. Philadelphia was the special Bicentennial city for us this spring- visiting friends there and in Moorestown , N .J ., made the trip doubly pleasurable.

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Elma H. Ashton 515 N. Washington Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Wilma (Billy ) Spangler Rogers moved her mobile home back to California during the summer. She looks forward to rejoining family and old friends. Gladys Sanders is enjoying her new home . She and her sister have moved to the Imperial Plaza in Richmond . Gladys Wright Cocke has had a delightful trip to Florida with family a nd friends . She wrote that her elbow , which was broken in August 1975 and which required "pinning and wiring ," is fine now. Susie Blair 's town of Scotsville had a big fire very close to Susie 's home. Susie came out unscathed but her house suffered some exterior damage. Anne Gordon Steward and her husband had a wonderful trip after our 50th. They went to Helsinki , Leningrad and Moscow. Russia was new to Anne and she enjoyed the weather , the cleanliness of the cities , the hospitality and a "superb evening of ballet. " Mary Hall ( Polly ) Drinkard Walton has rapidly improved her locomotion and now drives a car and gets about with great agility. She fell and broke her arm after we saw her at our 50th , but that is "as good as new " now . Alpha (Billie ) Gordon Atwill has been ill since we sa w her and spent a bout 10 week s in the infirmary at Medford Leas. She has nothing but praise for the care she received and for the friendliness and helpfulness of her neighbors in the development in which she lives . At last report, she was greatly improved and back in her own living quarters . Est elle Myers Thornhill had a good vacation in Florida during the winter. She enjoyed the peopl e, the entertainment and the rest and relaxation. Elizabeth ( Bean ) Abernathy was in northern Virginia during the Christmas-New Year holiday season. She was in good spirits and enjoyed seeing her family. Fanny e Marks had just returned from an African trip when we saw her at our 50th . Since then, I have been in her shop and have seen some of the "startling" clothes she purchased in Africa. I suspect she has been on other trips, but she hasn ' t kept me up to date on her "coming and goings ." Many happy years to Ju Mason R owe Fontaine and Robert R . Root. They were married in Phoenix , Arizona , in October. They have known one another for 40 years. Ju is continuing her night school classes where she teaches foreigners to read and write.

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Helen C. Moon 111 Tonbridge Road Richmond, Virginia 23221

I'm starting this letter with my second request for the na me and addre ss of an yone who was ever a member of ' 29. For our 50th Reunion , we want to locate all who were ever members of '29 . Ruth Cox Jones a nd her husband , Dick , were in Richmond during the Christmas holidays visiting their son , Putney, and his family . Ruth also visited with Jimmie Stu essy Matto x and Helen Moon. Clare Johns on Wayt and her husband, Hamp , had a lovely vacation for two weeks in M a rch at Coco Beach, Fla . Virginia Perkins Yeaman's son , Tom , Jr. , was named an Outstanding Young Mari for I 975 by the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce . Mary Stevens Jones retired last January from the Culpeper Star-Exponent , where she worked for 26 years. During that time, she won 36 awards from the Virginia Press Associ a tion , Virgini a Pre ss Women and the National As soci ation of Pres s Women .

Belatedly, I would like to send Elizabeth Hale '29 's congrat ulatio ns for her Distinguished Alumnae Honor award last June. The following is the beautiful citation written for Elizabeth by her friend and classmate, Margaret Rudd , who was awards chairman: B. A., I 929; Master of Religious Education, Woman's Missionary Union Training School, Louisvil le-West hampton gave you a song to sing and a gleam to follow. Unquestioning, you obeyed. Today, that gleam shines bright in you . After 31 years of Christian service-12 in China , 19 in Malaysia-you continue living among your adopted people, in a home christened Bethel Hill, planned, purchased an d maintained by you to she lter the elderly yo u cannot aband9n. You prove the Apost le Paul's testimony th a t the fruits of the Spirit are "love , jo y, peace, long suffering, gent leness, good ness, faith." Nor cou ld you abandon yo ur older helpless bret hren herded by the winds of war that swept China in 1946. Instead of evacuation, you chose internment and spent 30 months ministering in a Japanese camp. Your silence concerning those months bears elo quent witness that your gentle gleam shone ever steady bene a th the oppressor's eyes. Quoting C hri st's command, "Go and tell, " you comply in word an d deed , at home and abroad. This association proudly claims yo u, unswerving follower of the gleam, humbl y un awa re of your significant serv ice, a Christian, whose name is synonymous with your Mas ter 's teachings , as a Distingu ished Alumna I 975.

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Margaret C. Leake 408 N. Meadow Street Richmond, Virginia 23220

A letter from Mary Faulkner Jordan brings news and best wishes for all ' 3 I ' ers. Last fall she retired from an active real estate business. She and Bob have converted a three -car garage on Long Island Sound into a Ca liforni a style beach house for summer living. Daughter Marilyn lives in New Jersey and her hu sba nd is a vice-president of Morgan Guara nt y Bank in New York . T hey have two boys, age IO a nd I 3 yea rs. Mary and Bob's son lives on a ranch near Denver, Colo. Am sure yo u read of the generous gift of Frances Kerr Barnett. It was given in memory of her son , Blanton S. Barnett lll, a I 962 graduate in the School of Business Administration. Blanton was a captain in the Marines stationed at Pensacola. He died of pneumonia, which started with Hong Kong flu and then a stap h infection went to his brain.

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Gertrude Bruce Dyson 14 Malvern Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23221

Elizabeth F. Burs/em and husband enjoyed three weeks in the British Isles last October. Their daughter, Caroline, and husband Dick had a baby girl , Ellison Meredith Cole, last March. The y ma ke their home in Newport News. Son Bill is an internist in Winchester. His first son, John William, arrived in October. Hi s two sisters are very happy with their brother. It is both a shock and distress to lea rn of the death of Louise McLaughlin Tucker. She died last June in Danville just afte r retirement from her job in Washington. Our symp a th y goes out to her s ister, Mrs. J. Wi llia m C lement o f Danville. Ade laide 's daughter , Lucy, ha s established a pottery bu siness in Banner Elk , N .C. Her husband is complet ing his dissertation for a PhD in political science at University of South Carolina.

Son Jimmy is in the Air Force in New Mexico and received a MA in March. Margaret Crews Hurley's daughter , a senior at Westhampton , was chosen for Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities .

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Lois Lyle Mercer 4900 Park Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23226

In their Christmas letter , Elsie Bradshaw Kint .. ner and Burton reported the arrival of their first grandson. Elsie has progressed from writing parodies to writing original tunes with words of her own. She recently got her first copyright. In January, she did a musical for the church called "John Calvin Would Love It!" She also enjoys fundraising. Burton helped found The Samaritan Health and Living Center and Elsie raised $11,000 of the necessary $20,000 to decorate six consultation rooms in the church. The concept of counseling in a church has spread, and the Kintners have helped start four additional ones in other cities. Hermine Hoen Philips continues working as an opthalmic technician and commutes 23 miles each way to her new job in Delray Beach. Her husband, Bill, is a staff engineer with Bendix Avionics in Fort Lauderdale , where they live. Sarah , the older daughter, is a senior at Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where she is a music major, a pianist. Mary Anne attends classes at Broward Community College . William is a senior in high school. Jane Langley Boley writes from Kewanee, Ill., where her husband is a director with Hardee 's Systems . Jane gave up teaching three years ago but after two years of leisure took a course in income tax and has been a consultant since January with H & R Block. Jane's son was married before Christmas and plans to return to Japan in October for a three-year tour of duty with the Naval Investigative System . He spent two years there in service and reads, writes and speaks Japanese, so he is elated about the prospect of returning . Jane writes that she and her husband were entranced with the Japanese people when they visited their son there. Daughter Ann is teaching choral music at Virginia Beach . It was good to see Sarah Hoover Jones and George at the opening of the north wing of the Virginia Museum . Scotty Campbell Jacobs gave up her teaching position recently because of her health. Hope you are continuing to improve, Scotty. The most exciting news around our house is the completion of a harpsichord by Howard. I am ha ving lots of fun performing-strictly for my own amu sement!

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Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow 1131 Blue Ridge A venue Culpeper, Virginia 22701

the West. Sarajayne Payne Arkedis' son, George, Jr., and wife will be in Paris , France, for two years. Daughter Jane was promoted within Chemical Bank in New York. Betty Keesee Rhodes ' husband, Lee, had major surgery twice last year, and is now well enough to enjoy his hobbies. Lib Henry Belcher was slowed down considerably this past winter because of foot surgery. Dolly Hewes M cGlincy's youngest da ughter graduated from college in June as a geology major. Margaret Brillingham Curtice's mother now lives with Margaret and Jack in Santa Barbara . The Curtices are enjoying retirement. We extend our sympathy to Bitsy Epes Hardy , whose mother died just before Christmas. Tinsy Garrell Buckler has been working at Fort Lee as an administrative clerk with the Quartermaster School since 1972. Since her father died, she has been living in Blackstone with her mother. We all read about what Mary Owen Bass ha s been doing in the nominations for the Board of Trustees and we are so proud of her. Her children are doing equally as much . Son Ken, a Yale Law School graduate, is with a Wa shington law firm, having previously clerked for Justice Hugo Black. They have two sons. Daughter Mary Kay presently is a freshman at Duk e, where she is the first girl manager of the men 's varsity and JV basketball teams! She had previously been manager of the men 's football and basketball teams for two years in high school, as well as being a member of the varsity tenni s team. At graduation, she received the French award, the DAR Award and the Lovell Bowl for most outstanding in drama and speech. With this, I end my term as your secretary. Thanks for all your nice newsy notes which made this column possible.

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Elise Allman Cage Rt. 3 Box 642A Ashland, Virginia 23005

Virginia Delp Ogg and son Sam were both in the hospital during December. Both are well on their way to recovery. Our deepest sympathy is extended to Fran Beazley Bell in the death of her husband, Bob . Pepper Gardner Hathaway was in Culpeper in connection with her job as director of development for the Virginia Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. While in Culpeper, she had a delightful lunch and chat with Louise Wiley Willis. The ta bles have turned in the Pudge Phillips Starke household. Mamma is back at Westhampton doing graduate work an d -the children are " bugging " her about her grades. Pudge's son, Tommy, is a senior at W & L, son Ru sty is a freshman at Richmond College a nd Terry is a last yea r's graduate of Sweet Briar. Terry was graduated magna cum laude a nd is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. I am pleased to be able to buy little girls' clothes . After 26 years of m ales only, I have a little granddaughter named Christine Elise.

Jean Neasmith Dickinson's son, John, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UR in his junior year. Tom Jack Stipek, son of "/ts" Holden Slipek , Nancy Lazenby Stables was one of two St. Christopher's students , who 1705 Doherty spent a week in Washington at a Washington Mission, Texas 78572 workshop, learning how Congress operates and meeting many Congressmen. "Its" daughter , Lollie Blanton Applewhite and Warren have Betty Tabb, is spending a year in Arizona, where she is setting up a computer for their state departmoved into a SO-year-old house in the Westwood ment of welfare. "Its" and Ed have opened an Highlands section of San Francisco. They invite antique shop cleverly named "Itz Here." any of you, who are in that a rea, to come by and Virginia Lee Ball Glover and family will move _ see them. this summer from Charlotte, N .C. back to her Liz Parker Cone had a letter from Betty DuPuy parents ' home at Gloucester Point. One son will Adams ' daughter , Davie, informing us of Betty's stay in Charlotte and work , one will enter college death in August 1974. It was a lovely , touching and their daughter will begin high school. letter , and I wish we could share it in its entirety. Estelle Greenbaum Cray now lives in Brandon, She did say that her father was setting up a Vt. Her four children-23 to 33 yrs .-all live in memorial shelf at the Rochester Garden Center

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for books on greenhouse gardening, which was a special hobby of Betty's. I won't be going to summer school this year for a change, so I plan to spend a good portion of the vacation back East. It is much too hot here in July and August. Hope to see some of you.

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Susie Guard Woody Route 4 Box 45 Bassett, Virginia 24055

Belly O'Brien Yeatts' son, Jamie, is a freshman at McGill University in Montreal. Katey is a high school senior and caught up in the college decision bit. Yeatts and LeSieurs (Marie Walthall) had a week together at Moorehead Beach, N .C. Also, the LeSieur family visited B. 0. and family over Thanksgiving. Joe Yeatts has been quite busy in developing and testing a new tank at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. He turned it over to the government January I for their testing and hopes Chrysler will get the contract. Shirley Davis Sanford and Bob are now in Spain. Bob was asked to take over a job on a special project and they moved to Madrid in June. Summer was spent in a hotel looking for a house . They found one and moved in September. Someone broke in the first week they were there and stole Shirley's purse, containing a good deal of money. Nothing was ever recovered. "In October when we tried to turn on the furnace-no luck-we were without heat until Thanksgiving." After this they moved to a villa about IO miles outside Madrid, an old country place with beautifu l gardens, large swimming pool and they "inherited" a gardner to go with the place. Stacy is still at home, Susan is at U.Va. and Leslie is working in Heidelberg. Shirley takes Spanish lessons twice a week and Bob has lessons at work. Beth Decker Kimball travels from Lovettsville to Martinsburg, W.Va. several days a week and is affiliated with the Newton D. Baki:r hospital there. Beth and Bob have moved into their remodeled farmhouse. Beth is also at the National Children's Rehab Center in Leesburg, Va., on Tuesdays. Higgie saw Ann Wiley Kelly, her daughter, Kitty, and Marion Huske Moomaw at a W. C. alumnae meeting in October. All had a nice visit with each other. Junior Ring Dance weekend of W. C. was March 27 at the lovely Jefferson Hotel. C. L. and I with our daughter, Korrel, shared this weekend with Lena Thornton Small and Holmes, their daughter, Evelyn, and Sara Frances Young Derieux and Sam and their daughter, Justin. Quite a change from the gym of Keller Hall. Earlier C. L. and I had gotten a letter from Susan Moomaw, <laugher of Marior Huske Moomaw, telling us that Korrel was tapped by Mortar Board on March 21. What a thrill. I was able to go back to Richmond April 3 for Korrel's initiation into Mortar Board .

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Anne Bing Abbitt R. D. 2 Box 185M Hockessin, Delaware 19707

Congratulations to Belly Evans Hopkins, who got her master's degree in library education. She works in an elementary school media center in the Atlanta area . Jim is a senior at the University of Tulsa and Jeanne is a high school junior. Rosamond Calhoun McCarty wrote that Gwyn is working in Charlotte, N .C., Jack is a senior at Wake Forest and Laura is a senior in high school. A proud grandmother is Betty Yates Dick! Mary Katherine Benbow was born in July 1975. Betty's daughter, Katherine, received her master's degree in social work at the University of Denver and her son -in-law will finish his pediatric residency al Colorado Medical Center in July. They will return to Concord, N .C., to live.

Audrey Bradford Saupe and Bill have moved to Milwaukee. The president of Mexico relieved Philip Morris of its cigarette business there, so Bill is now with the Miller Brewing Co. which is owned by Philip Morris. Audrey is in a state of shock. No wonder, after 19 years in Latin America! Kathy, a Westhampton junior, is studying in Madrid this year. Jeff and Bill, Jr., are at Woodberry Forest. Randy Mann Ellis and Dick were in Wilmington in March for a tennis tournament and we had a brief visit together. Eve, who is nationally division. ranked, played in the I 8-and-under Jane graduated from Ithaca College and has her own silk-screen t-shirt business in Philadelphia. Marcia was married in June, and Susie, who has been married five years, teaches in Miami, Randy is a national vice-president of Artists Equity Association, an organization for professional artists which is active in legislation for artists' rights. Dick continues to be Philadelphia's leading cataract surgeon. This is my last letter and your new secretary will be Joyce Roberson Goforth. Please send your news items lo her in Bowling Green, Va.

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Mary Booth Davis 3007 Faulkland Road Wilmington, Delaware 19808

Rene Groves Howland's daughter, Holly, was married this past summer "in an informal, fun ceremony at home ." Her son, Jack, is in school in Philadelphia , which leaves Rene and John at home alone. Suzanne Holt Bag/ey's son, Steve, is making progress and she feels he will make a complete recovery in time . He is now able to walk with the help of a brace and a cane, and he is at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville. Ann Rogers Crittenden, Crit and the girls enjoyed sunning in Jamaica. I took a trip to Virginia to visit my mother while my two children spent their time in Florida. John was on tour with the Duke University Chorale, the highlight of which was an appearance at Disneyworld. Mary stayed at Amelia Island.

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Lou George Wolfe 7007 Coachman Lane, Apt. 101 Richmond, Virginia 23228

Jane Wilson Rolston and family moved from Pittsburgh , Pa., in 1968 to Fort Collins, Colo., where Holmes is an associate professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. They spent the last academic year in Marblehead, Mass., living on the ocean. Holmes was on sabbatical leave as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Contrary to many of us, Jane is very much in the "little people world" with her two children, Shonny , who began kindergarten this year and Giles, who will begin in I 977. The Rolston's eighteenth century Virginia Christmas decorations were featured this year in the Fort Collins' newspaper. Belly Andrews Rhudy and family live in Pittsford, N. Y ., where Bill has a very busy dental practice. Betty stays busy with home, community and school activities. She and Bill are avid pro football and ice hockey fans and go to Buffalo as often as possible to see the games. Their son, Billy, is a sophomore pre-law-history-government major at Syracuse University. Daughter Jane will graduate from high school in June and is considering Westfiampton as one of her top choices for college next fall. The Rhudys have a home on Hilton Head Island, S.C., and spend some time there every summer. Marilyn Bowlin Gordy lives in Denton, Md. Husband Hugh is senior vice-president of Denton National Bank and Marilyn has been with a

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savings and loan company for the past four years, just recently becoming director-hostess of a new executive club within another savings and loan association. Their oldest daughter , Kathryn , is a junior at Westhampton. She is a music education major with an eye toward a career in music therapy as her master's degree goal. Laura is a freshman at Westhampton and loves it too . She graduated from St. Timothy's school near Baltimore and has shown her own large Hunter pony championships many winning extensively, throughout the years. Methyl Young Bruce and Ginny Hunt were among those helping with the "going out of business" sale at the Westhampton bookstore. Ginny has given up her teaching career to stay home and take care of her father and thoroughly enjoys her gardening. Jane Sheema is a physical education teacher at Trinity Episcopal High School in Richmond. Harriet Wheat Fralin's son, Randy , will graduate this year from Huguenot Academy. He has had an outstanding athletic career, starring in all sports. He will go to U .Va. next year. Harriet and Cotton attended the ACC basketball tournament at Capital Centre, Maryland in March. They also had season tickets for the U. Va. games next to Mary Hurt Winslow, who is a real U.Va . basketball fan. Mary 's daughter, Mary Beth, works for a bank in Charlottesville while her son, Leonard, is a junior in high school. Beth Carpenter Brown 's husband , Winston , has a dental practice in Boykins, Va. They are active at Southampton Academy, where both of their boys, Win and Bo, are students. Beth is also a volunteer teacher of gymnastics. At this writing, Betty Montgomery March, Cecil and children had finalized plans for a family vacation in Hawaii this summer. Their daughter, Debbie, will graduate this year and plans to attend William and Mary in the fall. Jo Deter Sullivan 's daughter, Leslie , is another of our I 976 graduates . She will go to Longwood next year.

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Marty Glen Tinsley Rt. 1, Box 178-F Rockville, Va. 23146

Our class has another bride! The first was Pat Stump, now Mrs. Charles Hurley, in case you missed the Tidings last time . Alice McCarty was married in January to Stanley K. Haggerty . The wedding took place in Montgomery, Ala. , a midpoint between D.C. and Florida, where Hag is employed in hospital administration. Hope Guaraldi Wallace sent a Christimas picture of her family: husband Leon , a psychoanalyst; son Stephen, a scholar who hopes to enter Stanford next year; daughter Heather , 10, who loves the clarinet, horses, soccer and her baby brother, Rodney, who at 3\/2, loves everything! Hope very occasionally sees Maritza Garrido M cManus. Maritza is a pediatrician , married to an anestheologist, and they have three beautiful children.

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Shannon Bryant Starke 8710 Kenilworth Drive Springfield, Virginia 22151

This issue finds me participating in all the usual church and musical activities and programs. I was privileged to lead the singing at the Confederate Memorial Service held in Arlington National Cemetery on June 1, 1975. This service honors all the Confederate dead and is a special tribute to Jefferson Davis. Added to an already busy schedule, is my membership in the Associa tion for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. My son, Bryan, is chaplain of the John Singleton Mosby chapter of the Children of the Con-

federacy. He studies piano and viola and is now practising for a n ensemble program to be given in June. He played two piano solos for the UDC Lee, Jackson, Maury commemoration held in January 1976. Last fall, J oho was par t of a n article on helicopter training wri tten for the Rotor and Wing Magazine. We are still waiting for its publication, however. In May 1975, as a member of the Virginia YMCA Board of Directors, John made a presentation on behalf of the YMCA to Senator Harry F. Byrd , Jr. of Virginia for his enthusiastic support of the Model General Assembly program. John is also a member of a nation a l YMCA comm itte e.

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Peggy Dulin Crews 6385 S. W. 110 Street Miami, Florida 33156

Sue Kaufman Wilson, Beverly Eubank Evans and Elizabeth Rmos Dunkum deserve recognition for their wo rk with Westhampton Alumnae weeken ds and fund drives. Bonnie Lewis Hay nie and B . B. Har vey Strum were winners in alum nae tennis tournament. Martha J ordan Chukinas and family visited the Haynies recently and tennis dominated their activities. Julia Jett Shepherd misses Richmond but is getting settled in Maryland. Margaret Griffin Thompson and family are enjoying their home in Roanoke Rapids, N .C. They have a new a ddition to their family. A little girl born in November 1975. I understand that there will be a new movie out ca lled Hospital II. This was decided a fter Bev Eubank Evans a nd Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist were roommates for a few days in the same hospital room. Becky Webb Moran and husband have been trave ling quite a bit during this p ast yea r-San Francisco, Williamsburg, Hilton He ad, Puerto Rico and New Orleans. Becky is vice-president of the junior assemb ly in Anderson, S.C. Dorothy Spa rks was married to Michael J. Brodie on Aug. 2, 1975. Mike is a lawyer in Daly City , Calif. Dorothy attended an alum naealumni meeting in San Francisco last year. Peggy Yarbrough Bouldin is teaching junior high schoo l math and enjoying those "crazy teenagers." Her son, Richard, 15, was on a scholastic quiz show similar to Co llege Bowl. Eileen Cordle Harris's two children are in kindergarten and playschool a nd Eileen h as found time to make an acting debut in the Clarksville Community Players production of"Cinderella." Nancy Hopkins Phillips, husband and four teenagers vis ited F lorida in April, traveling to Disneyworld and Marco Isla nd. Nancy Kipps Hughey is occupied as a chauffeur these days with a I 4-year-old and a I 0-year-old. Sand ra Bowerman Wilkinson is recovering from disc surgery. Her children Kim, 17, Debbie , 14, and Brooke, 11, have been very helpful to her. Kim is act ive in all phases of vocal music in school. Their "Pop Singers" were No. I in West Virginia last year . She is also a " porn porn " girl for athletic act ivitie s. Es was visited Christmas by Jo Barker Campbell and Susan Payne Moundalexis. Jeanie Rice Hodder and fami ly enjoyed a recent ski trip to Co lorado. Barbara Dulin Polis and husband attended a medical convention in Atlanta. Tennis still dominates a big part of their activities. Margaret Rutherford Compton and husband have established a tape ministry in Bluefield, W.Va. They spent some time in Acapulco last year. We were sorry to hear of Sue Sybert Ritter's husband's diving accident last July . His spinal cord was injured. He has spe nt many months in the hospita l and a rehabilitation center and hoped to be home by sp rin g. Sue is ass istant to

the administrator at Community Mental Health Center. Son Fritz, 15, has been a tremendous help to her. Our thoughts are with Sue , Fred and family. Bev Wine Bowers's nine-year-old twins are involved with music and drama. Cindy is studying piano and Tammy the violin. Both were in drama productions of the children 's theater. Bev, herself, is involved with school , church and music club. Hubby Al's new love is antique cars . Gaile Sykes, resource teacher for the hearing impaired, was selected Teacher of the Year by the Honolulu district of Hawaii. Gaile is active in a large number of organizations for the handicapped and a member of the Governor 's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. She organized the first teletype communication system for deaf persons in Hawaii and assisted in developing a program for adolescent deaf students on Kauai. As for Peggy Dulin Crews, we all enjoyed a skiing trip to Colorado. We visited friends in Boulder and then skied at Crested Butte. My husband, Merrill, is coaching a winning baseball team. Kevin , 7, plays first base and was chosen for the All Star Team. Shawn, 5, is bat boy and I try not to get too excited. Next news deadline is in September. Thanks group captains for all your help.

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Beth Stafford Nolan 23 Hex Drive Yorktown, Virginia 23692

Marcia McMullin Cantrell, Bill and their two children have moved to a new home in Richmond. We extend our sympathy to two classmates, Jo Hardy Thomasson and Beth Jones Ellington, both of whom lost their fathers last year. Jo Hardy Thomasson and Jack moved into a home in Hopewell. Jack is back from Korea and out of the Army, so they should be settled for a while. Judy Barlow Bolling and Jon went to Hawaii last winter. They had a stopover in Oakland , Calif. and called Martha Goding Forti and Bill who live in that area . The Fortis have since moved to Greenwich, Conn. Bill is managercorporate development projects with International Paper Co. They live in a 1910 English Tudor style home and are thrilled to be back East again. Judy and Jon enjoyed their Hawaiian vacation, but worried about leaving their three young children so far behind. Anne Randolph, 7, Jon Nelson , 4, and Drew, 2, all love boating and fish-so the Boilings spend a lot of time on the water. Judy and Jon managed to get to the UR Homecoming football game and saw several classmates there. Joe and I took our last out-of-season vacation in March. We spent three nights at Disneyworld and another week on Florida 's west coast. News for our next class article should get to me by early September.

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Cynthia Shelhorse 4216 Kingcrest Parkway Richmond, Virginia 23221

Frances Pitchford Griggs and Walter moved into a new home the day after their first child , Cara Frances, was born . They had not planned Leslie Barden M cNe a/ is working part-time at for things to work out that way, but Cara put in the NIH Computer Center as a technical her appearance three weeks early . Frances wrote writer/editor, now that she can leave Jamie, who that Walter was with her all day for the Lamaze is 16 months old. She is also recording secretary delivery and then had to go back and spend the of the Washington Area Alumnae Club, and saw rest of the night packing to be ready for the Jackie Branch Murphy at their October meeting . movers at 8:30 am the following morning. Evelyn Garrett Bowyer says that her children Friends helped paint the nursery so Cara could and duplicate bridge fill most of her time. Linda come home to a neat room. Webb Taliaferro is also busy with children , as she I ran into Jean Copley Forbes and Preston helped chaperone a group of 15 three- and while out shopping during the Christmas holifour-year-olds to Richmond in March , to see the days. Their children are in the second and fifth circus. Irene McDaniel Reynolds knows what it's grades now and Jean has returned to work like to care for that age group, as she is in her part-time as a psychologist. second year of running a nursery school. Carol Winfield Elliot spent 10 days last summer Jackie Harper Burrell and Ray have added a at the American Baptist Convention in Green family member since their stay in Virginia last Lake, Wis . She was on the senior high staff. In summer, and with two boys under two, they 'll be the fall, Carol wrote three programs for senior busy for some time yet. Wanda Fearnow Birch highs to be used by the American Baptist Conwrote of her new red-headed daughter , who is the vention. She is currently treasurer of the Washdelight of Johnny, 12, and Rhonda, 6. ington, D.C . Westhampton Alumnae Club. Barbara Vaughan spent a weekend with rePatsy Bickerstaff Curley entered T.C . Williams cently married Ruth Ann Carter Carmody and School of Law last fall. She wrote that after Jim , and says they plan to visit his relatives in several years of public service work she found Ireland this spring. Lale A kbay Paterson and herself in a position to fulfill an old ambition to Gordon were married after a I 0-year acquaintbecome a lawyer and so far has found the study ance , which began at UR. Anne Poindexter Cardelightful. Her two sons, George , 14, and Bill, 12, ter and Winfrey receive a belated "best wishes" live with her mother on Bryce Mountain and for their marriage and first child! have become expert skiers. They are also active in Florenz Stith has seen Anne Stowe Trenda and scouting. Patsy only get home on weekends be- Gary , who are planning a move from St. Louis to cause of law school. North Dakota, and added that Vicki Batts came Betty Harrell Lindsay and Jeff's three children, to Richmond for a visit in November. Vicki is Keith , 5, Sharon, 6, and Bruce, 8, are all in now senior reference librarian in the New York school this year and appear to be good students. Public Library. Bruce has become a Cub Scout and Betty helps Nancy Curtis Wood is recuperating from a out with his scout pack. Betty is an active volunbout with insecticide poisoning that started last teer in their community, planning and coordinatfall. She was in the hospital for a week of obsering activities for a senior citizens group and as a vation and still has some lingering nerve damage , driver in a group that provides transportation for but is progressing . needy people in the area. With church work, Diane Byers Bodkin and Jim attended a KiPT A , extension homemakers and the civic associwanis convention in Atlanta last summer and ation, she is left with little free time . Last July , Jeff followed it with a trip to New Orleans, where went to work for a new company, Applied Digithey were shown around by Wren Dawson Olital Data Systems, Inc ., as their mid-Atlantic marvier's in-laws. My trip to Chicago was exciting. I keting representative. thought I was prepared for the weather, but what Betsy Broaddus Hopewell, John , Amy, 11, and they say about that wind is an understatement! Peter, 2, are living in Chatham, Va. John is with Our next deadline is at the end of summer , so let the Virginia Dental Association and Betsy me know what's happening before you get too teaches at Chatham Hall. involved with school and work.

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Mary B. Willis Gassman 902 Lakewater Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229

Jean Clodfelter Gulick temporarily liberated herself from husband and children last summer and spent six weeks studying in Grenoble , France, and traveling. She is teaching French in a private school in Virginia Beach. Our other traveler, Lisa Hummel , went to Italy. She is still working at the Virginia Museum, where last year she was appointed loan s registrar , responsible for any objects on loan to the museum from private collections or other museums . Mary Taylor Ouerstreet recently saw Barbara Towsey Siluer and Sam , who live in Marietta, Ga. Bob and Mary Stuart Land Tomlinson, Rob, 6 , and Paul , 4 , are still in Bangor, Me. She says their boys are B-O-Y-S, having had their share of dog, boomerang, bike adventures and misadventures, but she is enjoying them. Betsy Dillard Cherry continues to teach seventh grade. Her attorney husband , John, is also a part-time county magistrate. They enjoy cold weather sports during Iowa ' s long winters. Margaret Cridlin Moore and Don have moved to Hartland, Vt., where Don is the pastor of the First Congregational Church. With their daughters, Jo Ellyn, 3, and Libby, 16 months , they are happily settling in. Nola Rice Powell's son, Kendall, 3, appeared with his Grandmother Rice in the Richmond newspaper before Christmas. He was about to sample her oyster stew, a traditional Rice family Christmas dish, the recipe for which is given in the article. The Powells, including Baby Julie, live in San Diego, Calif. Dick and Terry Kincheloe Bryan , David , 4 , and Sally, 2, have moved to Manassas , Ya. Dick is legislative assistant to Sen . Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) Lillie Jackson lives in Belhaven, S.C., where she has family. She works part time in a furniture store. I am busy getting Vacation Church School lined up for June and keeping books for Kenny's business-and, of course, mothering our three daughters.

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Marilyn Flynn Link Rt. I, Box 71 Newport, North Carolina 28570

Belly Scruggs Jones writes that Frank's work as a real estate appraiser has brought them back to Roanoke. They have had a second daughter, Amanda Beth. Nancy Crenshaw Rohr heard that Ann Packard Thomas has a new son, Joseph Robert, born in September. Nancy and Chip are still in Petersburg, but have bought a new home in the area. Julie M cGarry Holswade and Hank are back in Richmond , where Hank is a sales representative for a medical products company and Julie is working for a federal judge. No children, but an Irish setter , Shamrock. Linda Parrish Dooley and Al had their second son, Kevin Sean, in July. Joan Bendall Howe and Dave have just bought a new home in Chesterfield County. Joan and Dave found time from raising two active children, Paris and David, to take a second honeymoon to Florence, Italy! Jane Kiser Euans and James are living in Lexington, Ky.; where James is an assistant professor in statistics at the University of Kentucky. Jane has now "retired" from IBM and is busy decorating their first home. Their son, James Thomas , is also keeping her very busy. Nancy Dauis Pallerson and Henry have been busy the last year finishing Henry's master's thesis and getting him through his orals. After the rush , they spent a week of vacation in Florida. Nancy is continuing her work on a master's

degree in business administration at Penn State. B. J. Acker Countryman and Bob are now settled in Atlanta , where they are both working at the Harlequin Dinner Theater. The twins, Tracy and Travis, are into everything. Marion Mann is now in her own apartment at English Hills and is having a great time decorating it. She has been promoted to supervisor of programming and systems at Medical Data Service. In her free time, Marion has joined the Virginia Ski Club. Bill and I are enjoying our daughter, Jennifer , but her limitless energy is driving us into old age. Bill's research is coming along slow but sure and we're beginning to see the end in sight. I'm still teaching sophomore biology and Bill is getting into the act. This newsletter is being written in the Hilton honeymoon suite with 11 teenagers here with us to attend the North Carolina Student Academy of Sciences. Some second honeymoon-sure doesn't compare with Florence, Italy!

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Fay Duffer Inge 1507 Lilac A venue Chesapeake, Virginia 23325 Margaret D. Williams P. 0. Box 632 Culpeper, Virginia 22701

directing plays for the new Little Theater Group . Adele Ajjieck Medued and Mel are living on a farm in Front Royal , and Adele is working as a claim representative with the Social Security Administration in Winchester. Mary Lee Watson Brazell and Jim have moved three times in the last year but are now living in Jonesboro , Tenn., with their bab y daughter, Barbara Ellen . Cheryl Blankenship Jenkins and Howard are now living in Alexandria . They also have an addition to their family, another baby boy . Nancy Jaruis Inge and Cliff have a daughter, Katie. Metta Harris Nickerson and six of her Latin students joined other Latin teacher s a nd students on a nine-d ay trip to Rome , Florence and Naples during April.

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Anne Ferrell Draper 9001 Patterson Avenue, Apt. 49 Richmond, Virginia 23229

Polly Winfrey is living in Martinsville, Ya. and working as a psychologi st for the Henry County Health Department. Nancy Bass spent last summer and early fall in Europe, flying government charters overseas for Airlift International. This winter, she ha s been living in Alexandria, Ya. and teaching part time in the Arlington County Schools. Susan Peterson Mclaughlin and David also live in Alexandria. Susan works for a lawyer in Old Town , Alexandria. Beu Moore lives on Capitol Hill and works for the Commerce Department in Washington, D.C. Roxie Armstrong is living in New Jersey and is attending Rutgers Law School, while working at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia. Linda Wilkins is enjoying teaching physical education and coaching the field hockey, squash and lacrosse teams at Williams College in Massachusetts. Jill Corbin is living in Roanoke, Ya. and working in the Department of Water Safety for the American Red Cross. Donna Kingery Hudgins is now teaching preschool in York County and loving Williamsburg. Ann Watlington is living in Richmond and teaching kindergarten in Henrico County. Sally Voris is living in Richmond and working as a social worker for the mental health clinic . Frances Dowdy is in Richmond and works for Central National Bank.

Carole Waite Kinder and Bill are living in Galveston , Tex., in an old (1856) carriage house complete with ghost. Bill received his PhD in December in clinical psychology and has a job on the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Carole is a school psychologist for two elementary schools, one of which she has to reach by ferry boat. Vickie Bowman Jones and Bob are enjoying the home they purchased last summer in Danville . This year , Vickie is teaching Latin in addition to math and is working on a master 's degree at Wake Forest University. Lisa Byers has been in Michigan for three years. She spent around IO months studying in Switzerland between June 1972 and July I973. Now she is organist and choir director at St. Peter's Episcopa l Church in Tecumseh, Mich., where they have one of the 30 German-built von Beckerath organs in the United States. Another of these organs is in Cannon Memorial Chapel. Lisa is also a technical assistant at the University of Michigan School of Music where she is finishing work on a master's degree in music educ a tion and a master 's degree in organ performance. Pam Haycox Wheeley and William are in the process of renovating a beachhouse in Norfolk. William is working as a probation officer, while Karen Snead Pam stays busy with their four-year-old twin 3701 Lynview Drive daughters. Pam and Joyce Clinkscales attended Richmond, Virginia 23235 the wedding of Carol Barker to R . Craig Hindley last summer. Carol and Craig are living in Sherwood, Ore., and Caro l is working as a substitute Ellen Taylor is studying law at Harvard Uniteacher for the Beaverton Public School System. versity. Ra chel Renfro is studying computer sciLee Finch Campbell and Buddy are still staence at the University of Virginia . Chris Murphy tioned in Hawaii . Lee will be a media special ist and Nancy Dow are rooming together at the Uniwhen she completes her master's work at the versity of Southern Florida. Nancy Carter is at University of Hawaii in December. She is also seminary, hoping to become a hospital chaplin . working part-time as secretary for the Hawaii Linda Phillips is also doing graduate work in State Advisory Council for Titles III & IV of the biology at Wake Forest. Marylyn Alley is in medElementary and Secondary Education Acts. ical school at the Medical College of Virginia and Buddy is on flying status and goes up about once Ellen Christian is studying to be a physical theraa month in a C-130. pist there, too. Doris Pickles was married in December 1974 Diane Fraser is working in her father's firm as to Harold Costley and continues to work as a an accountant at the World Trade Center in New medical technologist at MCV. York. Denise Shaw is teaching Spanish in PortsAnne Leigh Hawkes and Jim are living in mouth while Helen Du Val is teaching an elemenClemson, S.C. Anne will receive her master's detary class in Northern Virginia. Judy Conley gree in English in August and will teach at the Diehl is with her husband, who is stationed in university until Jim completes his dissertation for Thailand . his doctorate degree in math next summer . They Charlolle Chapman is a juvenile parole officer spent six weeks in northern India and Nepal in in Richmond. Most of the other classmates 1974. known to me are either working in banks or Ann Hodges and Judy Lancaster spent five days teaching. Joan Wagner is working at a branch of in Jamaica last summer. the Bank of Virginia here in Richmond and SuDonna Holmes Willis and Johnny are back in san Lum is working part time in a local bank and Culpeper, where Johnny is farming. Donna is taking classes at YCU. Carolyn Hall is teaching

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music in a high school in Henrico. She also has a job in a nearby church as organist. Jean Panko is teaching French in Henrico. Three other classmates have found jobs in Henrico Schools. Beverly Tisdale teaches math, Lynn Hansucker is teaching p.e. and Liz Mitchell is enjoying first grade at Crestview Elementary. Karen Toote/ian has a job teaching French in Hanover County. Mary Nell Blanton and Cindy Lowe are both teaching in Colonial Heights. Mary Nell teaches math and Cindy teaches second grade. There are also a few of us working in Chesterfield. Meg Morris is in the French department in Chester Junior High. She is also the French Club sponsor. Anne Powers is a second grade teacher at Hopkins Elementary. Beverly Baird and I are both enjoying our jobs at Robious Elementary.

Letters to the Editor

Marriages 1925 Julia Mason Rowe Fontaine and Robert R. Root, October 1975. 1959 Dorothy Sparks and Michael J. Brodie, August 2, 1975. 1965 Lale A kbay and George Hamilton Gordon Paterson, December 6, 1975. Ruth Ann Carter and James Francis Carmody, January 10, 1976. Anne Poindexter and Winfrey Carter, August 4, 1973. 1970 Emily Talbot Epps and Robert D. Saul, Jr. , September 6, 1975. 1971 Carol Barker and R. Craig Hindley in 1975. 1974 Alice Lindsey Epps and Herbert H. Edwards, August 23, 1975.

Births 1959 Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Thompson/ Margaret Griffin), a daughter, Mary Frances, November 17, 1975. 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Griggs (Frances Pitchford), a daughter, Cara Frances, January 15, 1976. 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Winfrey Carter/ Anne Poindexter), a son , Landon, November l, 1974. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Burrell (Jackie Harper), a son, Thomas Harvey, December 26, 1975. Mr. and Mrs. James Birch/ Wanda Fearnow), a daughter, Caro lyn Elizabeth, January 16, 1976. 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Homer Overstreet, Jr. (Mary Aurelia Taylor) a son, Ralph Wesley, November 6, 1975. Dr. and Mrs. Randall W. Powell/Nola Rice), a son, Kendall Douglas, February 9, 1973, and a daughter, Julie Marrs, July 7, 1975. 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones / Betty Scruggs), a daughter, Amanda Beth, March 4, 1975. Mr. and Mrs. Al Dooley / Linda Parrish), a son, Kevin Sean, July 22, 1975. Mr. and Mrs. Bron Thomas (Ann Packard), a son, Joseph Robert , _September 1975.

Deaths R.C. Co-Eds Mrs . Ruth Thomasson Clark of Mobile, Ala., died July 1974. R.F.1.-W.C.R. Mrs. Edith Koontz Lester of Stanley , Va., died March 29, 1976. Mrs. Martha Spencer Reynolds of Richmond, Va. , died March 12, 1976. 1922 Mrs. Lil/ias Hutchins Ashbury of Louisville, Ky. 1923 Miss Sallie Davis of Norfolk, Va., died February 13, 1976. 1928 Miss Emerald Christian Bristow Stradley of Washington, D.C., died February 28, 1976. 1929 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilson MacMillian of Arlington , Va., died January 20, 1976. Dr. Frances A. Schofield of Knoxville, Tenn. , died March 14, 1976. 1942 Mrs. Virginia Mayo Dalbey of Scottsville, Va. 1944 Mrs. May Gunter Edmonds Kelley of New Church, Va.

Dismayed Dear Editor: I have just received the Spring issue of the Magazine, and I am dismayed that you would choose to devote five pages to halftones (some full page) and minimum copy to an "artist-in-residence," and only twentyfive picas of copy to Dr. Lewis F. Ball, one of the finest professors the university has been lucky enough to call its own. I certainly hope that you are planning a larger article on this outstanding man . Carl Barefoot, RC'50 Washington, D.C.

Second the motion Dear Editor: May I second the thoughts expressed by Wyndham Anderson, RC'61, and T. Dix Sutton, L'23, on page 32 of the Spring issue of the UR Magazine? Although I am a member of the so-called "stronger sex," I would still like to know how the young ladies from Westhampton are doing. In all fairness, in these days of women's lib, how do you dare to permit such an answer to Mr. Anderson's letter as is ascribed to you? You could use smaller type for your calendar of events and list almost anything you chose. I sincerely believe you would generate more enthusiasm and interest in the university if you did . Some hungry underclassman or retired alumnus certainly could be found to keep such a calendar up-todate. And, now to be mean! Just take a look at the inside back cover. No space? The article on the questionable value of the liberal arts education was designed to provoke thoughtful consideration on our part, I presume. I admit there is more than a casual value in specific training such as business administration, accounting, mar-

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keting and others. However, I always remember a certain late great scholar at the University of Pennsylvania who defined liberal arts as the "great liberating force" that enabled one to enjoy life more fully. I won't go on because I am sure you can develop the theme yourself. After 50 years, I am finally really understanding what I did learn under such greats as Professors Mitchell, Loving, Hackley, Gaines and Ryland. They really did teach more than mere subject matter. To close on a more pleasant note . Two of the most gratifying restoration projects in this nation are Williamsburg and the Historic Mile in Philadelphia . I am sure you have seen the former; I hope you see the latter. Did you know that both were the brainchildren of University of Richmond alumni: Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin for Williamsburg and Judge Edwin 0. Lewis for Philadelphia? That might be of interest. I also saw both areas before they were restored. This country owes a debt to those two men. Robert W. Neathery, RC'27 Narberth, Penn.

"With-it" Dear Editor: Just a brief note to tell you how much I enjoyed the Spring issue. As usual, the articles were interesting ang well-written. For once, I didn't feel as if I were getting a fund appea l or a Baptist foreign missionary report. I enjoyed reading how the U niversity of Richmond is becoming (I hope} less provincial and more involved with the current cultural and economic realities of the world. William W. Owens, Jr., RC'67 Norfolk, Va .

God of the years , by whose strong hand Our fathers sailed to this good land , Accept our worship and our praise And guide our steps through all our days.

A Hymn for the Bicentennial of the United States

For all the gifts Thou has bestowed; For peaceful rest and duty 's load; We voice our words of thankfulness And pray that Thou our work will bless. Help With Take Give

us, 0 Lord , to serve mankind hand and heart ; with soul and mind . from us thoughts of self and race ; us Thy Spirit and Thy grace .

In this new age of time and space , Make of each home a holy place . Send forth our children to proclaim Peace and salvation in Thy name . Edward H. Pruden, RC'25

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