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A 11Graduate" My 27 year& at Wes.thamptQn.and the Univet&ity as a fac-c ulty metnberin UR'S Oeparto1e.nt .ofl:f~th.an(l PhYsi¢al Educatioo have been vetJ'$peclal to n.te. ~ frientWtips l've shared 'With colleagues,. staff/ stu~nts, alumnae and

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The. University has given oie,St) much. My ~ . $ and stu..dent activity asS()clati•ns we~ just a means for the,~Wnge th,H took plac&...Thediscove.ry o(new me~

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left h.:-hind. I was fortunate to have been friends With Dean Keller, MISS Crenshaw, Miss Wright, MiSSTurnbu.ll1 Or. Modlin, Dr. Wh~I~, Or. Smati, i!tt,; to have taught and known some of our present faculty as stu,d¢lltS and to work with many others; tQ have worked with and loved "Roosevelt'' and ''Sonny"; to ha\'e taught and/t,t known 50 rnany student$ and on and on.

Wht!'n the Westhampton Coll~e Alumnae. A$s<K:ia~ tion made me an honorary alumnae, J wa$ touched mQN than they'll ever know, as I -can ttow leave knowing 1 have "graduated'' and dn alwayiu;ome uatk: The University has bc<!n a great place lQ share the J;,elie~ and m~l\!.ngs of Christian brotherhood and to challenge others toward a positiw approatj) to the chanting world in which we li~.

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l am for the honOr be:StQwtad on me at Commencement. It sreat privilege to tect1i\>it the honQrary doctorate arn.ong a uni.que s;roup of o~ers sjmilarly honored, who I am .,ure 'Share my hope that m our various pursuits we represent well many of the idi:!.Us of learning and service: fut whid1c the Univeq.ity of Richmond stands, Wa$ "'

R.Qsalind Barker

1.Joo,field, Ontario

Emphasizing Academics I thought the 1,11{ Magazine, Summer issue, was an ex.eel· hmt edltion, The paramount emphasis on academics was much appredatw. by th~ of us who want the magazine to reflt>ct thl? University'$ bask purpose; and, equally im• pQttant, the content was vibrant and interesting.

1'hi? article on the H<mors Program~ John Outland's thoughtful essay on Nudear Disarmament (a timely controversittl issue), the pktorial essay on student creativity ("Senior Callery")r and even your chokes for "Around the LakE!," wure all evidences of the vitality of teaching and ~rning, with the fQCUS where it should be.

An MjOyable and significant issue, Many thanks &0111 an alumnus, teacher, and~ yes, contributor!

lrbyS. Brown English Department Univer.,if)' of Richmond

A Bit More Special Recognition, Please!

Reflections May I share with you my reflections on the rec¢ntocciJ:· sion of being awardM: an }wnQrary d«totate by the: Oniversity of Richmond, my alma mater.

First it is an experience of keen enjoyment whenev~ er l return to the e.am:pus, whatever the occasion'. r liked seeing those undergraduat~ receiving tht,r degreus in the spirit pf the $Os, with a gOt'.>d bit of<>bvt-Ous·camatiide~ rie--serious~ some of thetll,·and less·than sern>us; others; most of them not at all certain of what really~ ah~d.

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metamorph¢sis/' 1 firmly believe that, too, is the vision transn'litted by u.niver..ities fiki? the Univetsity of Ridt• mQt\d, with its.rich religious traditionsfui'Ul the past and itstontinuingconunitmentto scholarship and learnjng for a: world to be lived outside its bounds in the future.

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somet~~n! :e~t1~\~:1J;;1 Bible and Uterature, the author, Northrop Frye, onl! 0£ the foremost Canadian S<;hoJars, explains that it is from the Bible that Western man has captured a "viSion of Uf!:Ward

It Wi\$ nke to See somi! attention gii/en to the women's tenttis team in the Summer Issue of the UR Magazine.

The picture of th¢ five senior$ was nice and the quotes were ao:urat¢ and stated well It issurprlsing,.·howevrir, that the very first team (male or female) at the lJnjver.sity of Richmond ever to win a Natiottal Championship would nQt receive a bJt

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:::,m~~~itioni~!t announced in order~ readby noticed ;.md appreciated by students, alumni and faculty, l would have expected to -see the announcement in a bold type headline at th~ least,. if not announcing it on the magazine's QWer. ·The tntite team work¾ hatd to achieve this title and the news. '$hOuld pot have been surp~ in an article on s.enlor athletes.

Em;L. O'Neill Women's1'enni$ Q)ach UniVtiSity ~f R/c!>mond

Letters

2 The Art 0ÂŁ Asking Philanthropy, the desire to help mankind through gifts, viewed from a national perspective, as well as from the Uni~ versity"s perspective. by H. Gerald Quigg and D. Chris: Wither$ 6 Sabbatical Leave: A Time of Renewal Five faculty members telI what they did while on sabbatical leave this past year. by Evelyn 'terry and Dale Hargrove 10 A Potpourri of Alumni UR grads are doing interesting things in medicine, in the theatre, in industry and in teaching. by Alison Griffin

14 Viewpoint: Right or Wrong?

Several people at UR give their view of morality on college campuses today.

17 Around the Lake

21 aassnotes 23 Westhampton Qassnotes Cover Illustration Bill Nelson

Credits Bill Nelson, page 2; Marsha Polier, pages 6-7, 13; Eric Dobbs, pages 17, 20; Leigh Drewry, page 19; Lindy Keast~ page 19; Richard A. Chase, page 12.

Editor Evelyn Terry Art Direction The Paxton Group-Ken Cook Contributing Editor Alison Griffin

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~~r~;:lin, R'77 aassnotes Editor Jane S. Thorpe, W'58 Contributors H. Gerald Quigg, D. Chris Withers, Warren ffupkins, Oaibome Tarrant, David D. Burhans, Richard A. Mateer UR Magazine Advisory Committee Rog~r Btck, Stephen Nash, Wei~ ford D. Taylor, John Taylor, Mary Gtace Taylor, &arty Westin

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by H. Gerald Quigg and D. Chris Withers "Some group is always asking me for money."

"All you do is ask me for money. Isn't there anything else I can do?"

"I'm on every charity mailing list in town."

These familiar comments regarding fund raising are heard repeatedly nowadays as the need for private funding becomes increasingly intense in Virginia and throughout the nation. As the nonprofit sector struggles to cope with escalating costs, and cutbacks in government support, more charitable and service organizations are seeking the philanthropic dollar. This seeking of funds is more professional and more sophisticated than ever before. It is sometimes viewed as "slick" and utilizes all the modern techniques, computerized direct mail, advertising efforts, and thorough marketing research .

Philanthropy is big business in the United States- in fact, a $50 billion a year business. According to Giving USA, a publication of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, $53.62 billion was contributed to more than 300,000 charities during 1981. Who gave all this money?

In 1981 individuals gave $44.51 billion; $3.49 billion from bequests; corporations gave $3 billion, and foundations $2.62 billion. Where did last year's billions go? Religion received $24.85; education, $7.49; health and hospitals, $7.36; social welfare, $5.32; arts and humanities, $3.35; civic and public charities, $1.54; and other, $3.71."" â&#x20AC;˘American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, Inc., Giving USA, New York, N.Y. , 1982, p. 6.

While some of the public tires of appeals from time to time, the concept and practice of philanthropy appears {thankfully) to be well established and, in fact, well accepted. Philanthropy is uniquely American. Nowhere in the world is "giving" more accepted, and the art of asking more practiced. "Giving is really an extension of America's free private enterprise system," says E. Bruce Heilman, UR's president and an acknowledged superb fund raiser.

"Private colleges and universities, in particular, are dependent upon the financial support of alumni, corporations, foundations and other friends to achieve their educational goals," says the president. "Since most private institutions receive little tax support, they must go into the marketplace, just as a business or an individual, to make their appeal.

The extent to which an institution can document and market its case will determine, for the most part, its success in attracting gifts."

In Virginia, we are uniquely blessed with two of the major philanthropists in the nation.

Two of the largest gifts made to higher education in the last decade were made by distinguished Virginians- Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Lewis gave $9 million to Washington & Lee University and the E. Claiborne Robins family gave $50 million to the University of Richmond. These are but a small portion of the charitable support these families provide. They have supported a wide variety of causes ranging from education to museums, hospitals and other civic ventures. These families and many others in the Common-

0 wealth recognize fully the importance of private philanthropy and the role it must play in our society. As competition for the dollar increases it is becoming difficult to determine which charity to support. With the multitude of requests now being presented to the more affluent, to corporations and foundations, the process of selection and evaluation has become extremely sophisticated.

Detailed criteria and formulas may even be applied in considering a specific proposal. Corporate giving officers have been urged to carefully evaluate each request and to make the best selection based upon both the needs of the corporation as well as the interests of the charity. It is difficult and time-consuming because most every cause is worthy.

In the private education sector in Virginia alone, there is not a single college or university which is not or has not engaged in a campaign. Some have estimated that more than $300 million currently is being sought.

And this does not include the increasing number of campaigns for private gifts being conducted by the state-assisted and state-supported educational institutions.

In light of all this, should worthwhile causes pull back and ease up on their quest for funds?

Any alternatives to reduction of fund raising must be viewed as far less desirable and even disastrous to many facets of American society.

Consider the recent advertisement which says, "Pay me now or pay me later." Metaphorically speaking, this may also apply to a society with no incentives for individual or corporate

giving. If philanthropy is not encouraged, the tax burden will be increased to meet the needs of thousands of not-for-profit agencies and institutions. Secondly, in a society where philanthropy does not exist, individualism is limited. Now a group can determine that a need is to be met; and with hard work and persistence by making their case for support in the marketplace, the need can be fulfilled through individual action. Philanthropy and democracy share many of the same characteristics. Third, philanthropy and free private enterprise go hand-in-hand. Not-for-profit agencies must take risks similar to the risks a business takes and utilize many of the same entrepreneurial characteristics if they are to survive and meet their goals. The decline of philanthropy would surely assist in the decline of free private enterprise.

Fourtli, the philanthropy in giving is a mark of a caring people. In spite of the view of a callous society, the evidence indicates that today Americans, both corporate and individuals, cared enough to give away $50 billion last year.

Thus, many of the characteristics which make this country strong are present in the philanthropic motive. It must, therefore, be preserved and encouraged.

The degree to which American charity rises or falls in the 1980s will depend upon how the Federal and/or state tax laws continue to encourage or discourage private giving, and how successfully the multitude of charities make their case for support to the American public.

The University of Richmond as a community within the larger

society reflects similar problems.

The University does depend upon private support to meet its educational goals. Some alumni think that all the University does is raise money. As one trustee put it recently: "I have learned to be disappointed if there is nothing in the mail from the University each day."

President Heilman stated recently: "The University will continue to raise money in large amounts. When we cease to care about resources, we will cease to care about the quality of education. Nothing we do on campus is free from the consideration of dollars because it takes large sums to do all that we want to do and to help us become what we are capable of becoming."

Although the foundations laid decades ago- the concern for values and the individualistic approach to the teaching-learning process- are still very much hallmarks of the University of Richmond, some things are different.

Approaches to fund raising are different, and they must be. Joseph E. Nettles, a former alumni secretary, and Mrs. Leslie Booker, a former Westhampton College alumnae secretary, did a fine job, in fact a superb job, particularly with the constraints under which they operated. However, to meet and even stay ahead of the competition, the University must try to utilize the latest techniques in direct mail, marketing and research to meet its goals. The pressure is greater, the environment more highly charged. But the results can potentially be extraordinary if the University successfully competes in this arena, often referred to as the "major

leagues" of philanthropy.

There have been two major fund-raising campaigns in excess of $50 million since 1972. The University is now in the early stages of its second campaign.

Nearly 18 months of exhaustive planning followed the highly successful "Our Time in History" campaign-a campaign that exceeded its goal by $4 million two years ahead of schedule. Each constituency within the University community has been represented in planning for the next major effort. Needs have been identified and hard decisions have been made as to how much the University should expect to realistically garner in five years and as to which of these needs should receive top-priority attention during that time. Thorough faculty studies followed and included all of the objectives since the long-range plan of 1972 had been completed. Subsequently, at a specially called trustee retreat in the fall of 1981, the board spent days reviewing policies, plans, programs and prospective goals for the new effort. Official approval was finally given in March 1982. The new campaign will be entitled "Cornerstones for the Future" with a goal of $55,030,000.

It will help provide much-needed additional endowment to undergird and strengthen student financial aid programs, library programs and quality of teaching.

Many have already expressed delight that The E. Claiborne Robins School of Business will be renovated and an addition made to it.

The entire list of campaign needs follows: • Endowment for Scholarships and

Student Aid $15,500,000 • Endowment for Faculty Salaries $14,000,000 • Endowment for the University Libraries $ 6,500,000 • Endowment for Lectureships in the Social Sciences 250,000 • Endowment for Lectureships in the Humanities-National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant 480,000 • Endowment for the Chaplaincy Program and Chair of Bible $ 2,500,000 • Endowment for Academic Programs and Capital Expansion of The E. Claiborne Robins School of Business $ 4,500,000 • Endowment for Academic Programs and Capital Expenditures for The T. C. Williams School of Law $ 2,300,000 • Annual Support over Five Years $ 6,000,000 • Athletic Endowment Fund Campaign, Phase II $ 3,000,000 $55,030,000

To succeed in raising this enormous amount of money, the University will have to have the loyal support of her alumni, alumnae, corporations, foundations and friends like never before. It will require the mobilization of legions of volunteers throughout the metro-Richmond area, the Commonwealth and areas of alumni/ae chapter interest and leadership throughout the

nation. It will require precise and concise documentation of the case before prospective donors. When completed and when successful, it will help assure the University's prominent place among American private higher educational institutions.

Already, through the omnipresent volunteer leadership of campaign chairman E. Claiborne Robins Jr., a national steering committee cabinet has been enlisted and plans are unfolding for the major gifts effort, and a public launching was held earlier in October.

"This will not be just another drive, because we're not just another University," says Robins.

"We are not a victim of the retrenchment, so rampant in private higher education today.

We're bucking the trend! The University is like a blue chip stock, worthy of any prudent investor's time, money and energy."

Money is not raised just for the sake of raising money. The dollars given are used prudently and efficiently to assure that the operating budget is met (the University has not had an annual deficit in the last 87 years) to provide opportunities for muchneeded financial assistance to students, to provide outstanding educational facilities and for very special educational projects.

Philanthropy has always been vital to the University. Some of the University's greatest philanthropists gave at a time when communications with alumni and others were not so frequent.

Thus, their giving did not receive such widespread publicity. For example, James Thomas Jr. was

probably the largest contributor to Richmond College in the period of the 1850s and 1860s. His gifts enabled the college to reopen following the hard times after the War Between the States and the devastation to the City of Richmond. Thomas Hall and the Thomas Lectures are named in his honor.

The late Senator Garland "Peck" Gray, R'21, was a longtime supporter of the University and it is rumored that at one time Gray, Overton D. Dennis, R'lO, and E. Claiborne Robins, R'31, kept the athletic program going by "picking up the deficit each year."

Senator Gray gave the money to build the Agnes Gray residence hall for women (Gray Court) in 1971 in honor of his wife, Agnes Taylor Gray, W'23.

Alumnae, like Betsy Camp Smith, W'18; Hannah Coker, W'23; Frances Stallard, W'28, and May Thompson Evans, W'21, have provided leadership giving to various Westhampton College projects over the years.

The Baptist General Association of Virginia over the years has given gifts amounting to millions of dollars, which at times have been the very "lifeblood" of the University. ln more recent years gifts from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, designated to the operating budget, have provided a living endowment which is almost irreplaceable.

So the "giving" of alumni, alumnae and other special groups has always been prevalent at the University. Today's world, the 1980s, however includes another dimension. The spiraling inflation

and a difficult economy continue to erode the value of a dollar even as the University seeks more of them. Also, competition.

As few as a dozen years ago there were but a handful of "development officers" in the Richmond Metropolitan area attempting to raise funds. Now there even exists a professional society which has a membership in the hundreds. These development officers represent several not-forprofit agencies, all seeking the philanthropic dollar from individuals, corporations and foundations.

The University will be in the fund-raising business for years to come and when, if ever, it ceases to seek the support of alumni, alumnae, the business community and others it will cease to be a viable, energetic university. Indeed, the value of the University of Richmond diploma may even decline.

The University will continue to need gifts, large and small, and volunteers for all kinds of services. Last year in America 84 million people volunteered in the nonprofit sector. During the same time at the University of Richmond, more than 5,000 people gave time and effort as volunteers, providing services ranging from fund raising to alumni/ae activities. We could not do without them.

The continued growth of giving to the University and the increasing number of people who are willing to serve verifies that the University is a source of pride to many and a very worthy endeavor. As with society-at-large, University of Richmond people can be counted upon to step into

a campaign and/or a program with enthusiasm, generosity and a sense of sacrifice. People are willing, but they must be asked.

In the next several years we will continue to ask.

During the past decade, great progress has certainly been made.

Modern educational and living facilities have been provided; more highly qualified students are regularly added to the applicant pool; higher faculty salaries have placed the University in a competitive stance, and greater diversity throughout the University is evident. The time has come to focus even more directly, however, on strengthening the University's overall academic programs. This is the reason for "Cornerstones for the Future." This campaign will help the University work toward providing stronger programs in arts and sciences, business and law. Priority also will be given to garnering resources for helping young people of inadequate means, thus the reason for a large portion of the campaign to be allocated to student financial aid endowment. "Cornerstones for the Future" is a slogan you will be hearing much more about.

Educating society's young people is of basic importance. For like cornerstones in a building, they form the foundations of our future. _UR]

sabbatical year. Two other parts to this law state that in the sev-

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yard or oliveyard, and that debtors should be released. Sources indicate that the law was not

strictly adhered to.

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comes, by a circuitous route, the concept for sabbatical leave granted to faculty members at colleges and universities. During the 198182 academic year at the University of Richmond, 18 faculty mem-

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bers took either one or two semesters of sabbatical leave, provided by the University, as stated in the Faculty Handbook, "for enrichment of teaching capabilities and professional growth."

Only full-time tenured faculty are eligible for sabbatical leave "after each six years of service to UR, with the sabbatical taken during the seventh year." For successful proposals, one-half salary is granted for a two-semester leave

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by Evelyn Terry and Dale Hargrove Ancient Mosaic law provided that Hebrew slaves should serve six years and have the option of going free in the seventh year, the

momes to cover expenses, such as travel and research costs, which may be connected with the leave.

The sabbatical leave program is administered by the president with the approval of UR's Board of Trustees. Faculty members must submit a proposal for sabbatical leave, by providing a

statement of purpose, as well as indicating how his/her leave will aid teaching effectiveness, the department and the University. A full report of the sabbatical must be submitted when the faculty member returns.

What do faculty members do while on sabbatical? Following are brief summaries of what five UR faculty members accomplished this past year.

PROE PETER SWISHER There's a lot of uncertainty as to the validity of Haitian, Dominican Republican and Mexican divorces in American law.

"The only places where these divorces are legal for Americans." says Professor Yeter N. Swisher, "is in New York, Tennessee, Connecticut and the U.S. Virgin Islands."

Swisher, a professor at UR's T. C. Williams School of Law, teaches Domestic Relations Law which deals with such topics as marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, abortion and separation agreements. Because many of Professor Swisher's former students have come to him with questions concerning the legality of foreign migratory divorces, he focused the main part of his sabbatical research last spring on

the reappraisal of such divorces.

He researched and wrote an extensive law review article, compiled from more than 100 resources and with an excess of 180 footnotes, which will be published in the fall of 1982 in the Journal of Family Law, one of two nationally recognized journals dealing with family law.

"Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti have been advertised in newspapers and prominent periodicals as being 'quickie' divorce markets," says Swisher. "Solicitations have been mailed directly to many American attorneys. Since these divorces are not recognized by most American courts, it is ethically questionable for American attorneys to aid in such divorces.

Federal law declares it a crime to mail foreign divorce information, and a person can be fined $5,000 for doing so.

"Mexico has practically dropped out of the 'quickie' divorce market since 1971, when it amended its law which now requires aliens to live there one year to become legal residents before obtaining a divorce.

Nevertheless, Mexican divorces continue to create problems in many American jurisdictions."

The advantage of a "quickie" divorce, explained Swisher, is that it can be obtained in 24 hours. The disadvantage is in not knowing whether it's legal.

"ln most U.S. states, to get a divorce, a person is required to be a legal resident," says Swisher. "This usually takes six months to a year, but in Nevada and Idaho, you can become a legal resident in six weeks.

"It's a well-established principle of American law, falling under the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution, that a divorce granted in the U.S. by a court with proper jurisdiction must be recognized in all sister states. But under foreign comity action, states may or may not recognize foreign judgments.

"Estoppel is a defense which is used by some. Although an estoppel defense means that neither party in a bilateral divorce may be able to later attack the divorce's validity, the state may still bring an action against them.

Estoppel does not validate a void divorce."

Professor Swisher would not recommend that any one get a non-resident foreign divorce because later bigamy charges may be brought against a person who remarries.

Besides his research on foreign migratory divorces, Professor Swisher found time to write a few poems. He also developed and presented a seminar, the first of its kind, to the Virginia Magistrate on "Family Law and the Virginia Magistrate," and began work on

his next law review project, "The Last-in-Time Marriage Presumption: Its Theory and Application."

DR.ROBERTJ.HORGAN Competition for jobs is getting tougher and tougher for the young college graduate who has just finished school without any work-related experience in a major field. That's why more students are adding internships to their course of study.

During Dr. Robert J. Horgan's recent spring sabbatical from UR's Political Science Department, he completed a thorough investigation of internship programs at colleges and universities throughout the country and in state and local governmental agencies, before outlining and setting up a new political science internship program which is being offered for the first time this fall at UR. Through research in libraries and communication with numerous organizations, Dr. Horgan developed an internship program which "combines seminars on state and local government issues with off-campus experiential education in state or local government agencies located in the Richmond area." (The Political Science Department also offers a Legislative Internship program in which students assist state legislators, government agencies, interest groups, or the press during the spring session of the Virginia General Assembly.)

"Internships provide training for the real world," says Horgan.

"If internships are set up with the appropriate guidelines and a definite set of criteria, a student can gain meaningful work experience and at the same time receive college credit. In setting up a program, there must be checks and balances to be sure a student doesn't become just a mere pair of hands in an organization.

"It's important to identify what the student will be doing before actually beginning the internship. That's why I require that a contract be agreed upon by the department, the student and the organization which spells out work activities. This way everyone knows what to expect."

Dr. Horgan also expects agencies to evaluate students on the job, by summarizing general performance, punctuality, attitude and completion of work assignments. This evaluation provides relevant information for grading a student, plus data for planning subsequent internships.

Students must apply for the internship program, says Horgan, and must think out beforehand why he or she wants to be involved in the program; what agency would provide the best experience for future plans; and decide what they expect to get out of the internship.

"Students receive three credit hours for each semester of work and are graded on a daily journal kept by each student, the agency report, attendance and involvement in seminars. One or more research papers are required, depending on the student's work experience.

Students are allowed to receive credit for only two semesters of work through internships."

Before a student begins an internship, Horgan says, the Political Science Department stresses the importance of a professional attitude. Students must respect the confidentiality of the agency and must dress appropriately for the job. The agency is asked to treat the student as a member of the staff, and, on the other hand, the student is required to act as any other employee of the agency and must obey organizational rules.

There are 14 students participating in the state and local government internship program this year. Dr. Horgan's prior experience in training state and local officials through UR's Institute for Business and Community Development enabled him to

place students in local governments of Henrico County and City of Richmond. This fall students are working in such local government offices as: City/County Managers; Planning; Human Services; and Public Works. Some students also are interns in state agencies.

DR.JOHN D. WELSH Sabbatical for Dr. John D. Welsh meant immersing himself in a theatrical production for six weeks, not as a director, but as an observer- an experience he says he will not soon forget.

Chairman of UR's Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Department, Dr. Welsh obtained a unique glimpse of the handling of a professional theatre production by a brilliant director at work with his cast. He was one of a select group of individuals allowed "behind the scenes" to observe internationally known director Michael Bogdonov's rehearsals of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the National Theatre in London.

"It was fascinating to meet a large number of British actors and actresses and to talk with them about their careers, training, and approach to their roles and about what criteria they feel are important in working in the theatre," says Welsh.

Many of the cast with whom he came in contact had performed major roles in the British theatre and on film and television.

Dr. Welsh observed that the British theatre is the best in the English-speaking world. "There is more of a tradition of live theatre in Great Britain, and plays tend to be more diversified and less expensive than in the United States."

For Professor Welsh, the entire experience as an observer in a professional theatre setting was extremely stimulating, and

throughout his stay in London, he recorded his observations in a notebook. But he says defining that experience so he can bring it back to the classroom has been more difficult.

"Bogdonov," says Dr. Welsh, "showed me what is possible. More importantly, the professional theatre atmosphere has inspired me to keep my standards high in working with my students. It is comforting to know that a great director who works with seasoned actors and actresses has some of the same problems that I encounter."

After Uncle Vanya's opening, Dr. Welsh completed his sabbatical by teaching a master's class in comedy techniques at the Drama Studio in London. He also was involved in directing a play, Lady Windermere's Fan, for the studio.

DR.R. WAYNE MAJOR Holography, or three-dimensional photographic imagery, was the prime topic of Dr. R. Wayne Major's sabbatical research.

Holder of the R. E. Loving endowed chair of physics, Major secured a $22,000 contract with the U.S. Navy to do a feasibility study on holograms and their potential use in the Navy.

Specifically, he investigated the feasibility of using holograms as targets in firing-range exercises.

Since January, Major has traveled along the east coast, from Florida to New York, to talk with experts in the field of holography. The information gathered was correlated, summarized, evaluated and then reported back to the Navy.

According to Major, riflemen in the past have usually shot at a bull's eye or other simple target.

His preliminary report indicates that holographic images, which appear to hang in space and are amazingly real, could be utilized as more realistic targets.

Major pointed out that holograms, which are produced by laser light and film, have been used mainly in the advertising industry. Due to the tremendous expense of their production, only large companies, such as the Japanese firm Mitsubishi and Cartier jewelers, have been willing to make the investment.

From his research, Dr. Major hopes to bring back to the classroom a method to teach students to make and understand better holograms.

Beyond his study involving holograms, Major finalized a research report, "Photoacoustic Kinetics in a Weakly Absorbing Solid," that he and several students have been involved in for several years. The paper was published in the April 1982 edition of Applied Optics. Dr. Major's specialty is optics with an emphasis on interaction of light with solids.

As a concluding thought on sabbaticals, Dr. Major says: "It is unrealistic to pretend that a professor's research in its entirety has direct applicability to the classroom. But outside research, whether it has classroom applicability or not, expands horizons and capabilities, and helps one grow as a teacher."

DR.R.CLIFTON POOLE International finance and commercial policy recently sent Dr. R. Clifton Poole back to school for six months.

Associate dean of UR's E. Claiborne Robins School of Business and director of the school's Richard S. Reynolds Graduate Division, Dr. Poole was one of five persons to receive a postdoctoral research fellowship to study international finance and commercial policy at the London School of Economics.

Poole, who teaches graduate finance courses, spent his time retooling some basic skills and

increasing his knowledge of the spectrum of international finance.

According to Dr. Poole, the School of Business had a real need for its faculty members to become versed in international business. "The United States, the greatest exporter of entrepreneurial and managerial skills in the world, does not exist in a vacuum."

While involved in his studies, Poole found himself to be one of a few students in their forties involved in the international/commercial policy concentration. (Students averaged 21-26 years of age.) Thirty percent of the class were women, and the large majority of students were not British but came from countries around the world.

As is customary in the British education system, Dr. Poole was assigned a tutor, Dr. B. V. Henson, professor of international commercial policy at the London School of Economics, who helped him decide which lectures and classes to attend.

He was exposed to a series of speakers, including John Kenneth Galbraith, the leading liberal economist in the United States; Lawrence Klein, a well-known John Maynard Keynes scholar; Sir Derek Ezra, chairman of the British National Coal Board; and John Harwood, director of finance for Phillips Electronics, UK, Ltd. In addition, he was involved in a short internship during spring break with Lloyds of London, the largest risk managers in the world. While there, he went through an orientation of the business operations of the company.

The entire six-month experience in London was highly informative, says Dr. Poole. Other than the obvious benefits of increased knowledge, he indicated that there were some intangible benefits. "It is of definitive value for someone my age to become a student again. I now have more empathy for the student, lessening the gap that may exist between professor and student."IB

William

J. Williams

In 1963, when he was aged 34 and eight years out of law school, William J. Williams left the large Richmond law firm now known as Hunton & Williams to join the Law Department of Republic Steel in Cleveland.

Since then, "Bill" Williams has risen, like the proverbial cream, steadily to the top.

In June this year he took over as President and Chief Operating Officer at Republic, one of the nation's major steel corporations.

"My wife has never forgiven

me for leaving Richmond," he said.

In 1955, Williams was accepted at The T. C. Williams School of Law at UR. Jean Tarpley, then as now a dedicated member of the law school staff, remembers him warmly as "a very handsome and gentlemanly kind of person.

Oh, yes, I remember him very well! He deserves all the accolades he is getting."

After graduation, Williams recalled recently in a telephone interview from Cleveland, the well-known Richmond attorney A. L. Witcher Jr. "took me off the streets for a while," and then Bill Williams joined Hunton & Williams, whose clients happened to include Republic Steel.

Shortly after he'd moved to 10

Cleveland in '63, Bill Williams wrote in a note to the late Joe Nettles, UR's alumni secretary: "Bill Muse [the late Dr. William T. Muse, Dean of T. C. Williams from 1906-1971] has served as my counselor, mentor and, in some instances, conscience, for a number of years, and if he thinks he is rid of me because of my move to Cleveland, he is sadly mistaken!" To the law school itself, Williams pays this terse compliment: "If I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now."

In 1971 Williams was named general counsel for Republic Steel; in '73, vice president, and in '76, executive vp. He became a director in '78, and by 1980 had responsibility for the corporation's legal, public and governmental affairs, as well as for its energy and minerals operations.

In June 1982 he was named president and chief operating officer.

As the leading edge of the nation's heavy industry, the great steel corporations like Republic, along with the automobile companies, are among the most drastically affected by what Williams calls "the current depressed state of the national economy." And, inevitably, the impact of a shaky national economy on the steel and auto industries has had a ripple effect.

Williams lays the blame chiefly on lack of consumer confidence, and on the Congress "for its unwillingness to control federal spending and for its watering down of the 1981 Tax Law revisions." While the Congress is demanding drastic restraints and cutbacks in the private sector, the Republic Steel chief said, it is showing itself unwilling to assume these same responsibilities.

"I just read in The Wall Street Journal," Williams noted in an interview that took place last August, "that the Congress has voted an across-the-board cost of living increase of four percent for all federal employees."

Republic Steel, as reported in the WSJ in May, 1982, had to lay off about 8,000 salaried and hourly workers out of a total 40,000 employees at the start of this year. About 5,400 more are on short work weeks, with hundreds

more jobs slated for elimination this year.

Nancy Boykin In the New York theatre, actresses and actors tend to get "slotted" by casting directors, agents and so on. Former Richmonder Nancy Boykin, W'72, has been slotted "Serious Theatre."

Thus she half-humorously explains the consistently high quality of the plays and playhouses she has been associated with in a fairly steady way since before she graduated from the University.

Currently, Nancy is appearing in "Inherit the Wind," the Scopes trial drama, at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park. (She plays Rachel, the love interest.) The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. gave her her real baptism into the world of professional theatre. She has played in "Twelfth Night" with the Indiana Rep; in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Talley's Folly" at the Virginia Museum Theatre; in "The Admirable Crichton" at Long Wharf, New Haven; spent six months with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, and a summer with the New York Shakespeare Festival (where she understudied Meryl Streep in "Henry V.")

While still a student at UR, she won an English Speaking Union scholarship to study Shakespearean theatre for six weeks at Stratford-on-Avon.

Nancy's base is New York.

Between jobs- an inevitably recurring situation for actressesshe supports herself by working at Scribner's, the publishers, or, more often, at Newsweek. This kind of occupational versatility should surprise no one who knew Nancy as a Westhampton student. She made Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board, and sang in the University choir as well as acting in Players' productions.

At this point of her stage career she comments with typical realism: "I've had just enough breaks to pursue the hard-headed notion that I've got to go on with this thing .... Yes, New York is tough. So are all big cities. But New York has been good to me."

As often as possible, she returns to Richmond to visit her proud and loving family. When her mother, Mrs. J. Wesley Boykin, talks about Nancy's growing success, the mother's comments reveal that particular mixture of deeply-felt concern, pride and slight awe that belongs to the parents of gifted children bent on exotic and hazardous careers. The Boykins share much in common

with the parents of astronauts, explorers of the Amazon, and flying-trapeze artists.

"Nancy's a strong person," her mother said steadily. "She's dedicated, and she has learned to face disappointments. There have been many. It's a very hard life, and she gives it all she has."

Explaining why she has done so few musicals, Nancy says: 'Tm not a song-and-dance person. I didn't tap-dance my way through childhood. At auditions, when they make notes about that kind of thing, they usually put down about me, 'Moves well.' " In a review of "Talley's Folly" at the VMT last season, when Nancy played Sally Talley in the two-character play, a local critic commented: "Miss Boykin is perfectly cast as the wholesome Missouri girl, blending her natural country-girl beauty with a fierce sense of strength and a loving smile of need and frustration . with just the right blend of hard edges and soft curves."

A passing comment during an interview throws extra light on the kind of role Nancy prefers: "In 'A Streetcar Named Desire' I'd much rather play Stella than Blanche."

Nancy asked that three people who especially inspired and challenged her as a student at UR be mentioned in this article: - Jack Welsh, "who gave me a marvellous variety of roles in the Players- from Iris in 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' to the Virgin Mary in the Wakefield Plays."

- Bill Lockey, "who took a group of us up to New York to see plays- my first brush with New York. I saw Hepburn. Bill took a few of us on a side trip to the Met. Norman Treigle was doing 'Mephistopheles.' It was an overwhelming and unforgettable experience for me."

- Jim Erb, "who did all that medieval music for the Wakefield Mystery Plays with the choir. Mr. Erb gave me an appreciation of music and sound that belongs in the theatre. He helped me to understand the music of language.

The 'Wakefield' experience was a total one. It taught me that a group of people working together could make something very spe11

cial.

"Often, now, I get the same feeling at a first rehearsal: a sense that this group of strangers is going to end up creating something that will move people."

Jesse W. Markham Jesse W. Markham, R'41, is an economist, and a native of the small and pleasant Virginia community of Sharps on the Rappahannock River.

He retired in June this year as the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He may go back to Sharps to stay, but not yet.

This fall, Markham began teaching economics at Emory University in Atlanta, invited for a stay of indefinite length.

Among his colleagues on the Emory faculty is former president Jimmy Carter, lecturing on government.

Every so often, Dr. Markham goes back to Sharps, and looks around in a casual, reflective kind of way to see if some house he likes might be up for sale or rent.

He says when he mentions Sharps to people, they quite often say, "Oh yes, I've driven through it." But you can't drive through Sharps, the economist explained in a recent telephone inteview, using a slightly proprietary tone of voice. "It's a place you drive to, and then, if you need to, you turn around and drive away again. You can't drive through Sharps."

Markham has been teaching at Harvard since 1968, lured away from Princeton, where he had been teaching economics since 1953. Before that he taught at Vanderbilt. He is an authority on public policy towards business, and an expert on price theory and analysis. He says he came to teach at Harvard "because the theories on which public policy were being built in my field of economics just didn't square with the realities of the marketplace. I wanted to work in an environment where my colleagues, students and contacts were close to managerial decision-making."

Behind him now is this phase of his academic career, full 12

of distinguished achievements and appropriate honors. They include graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Richmond, and earning master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard. Also included is a Ford Foundation Research Professorship in Geneva, Switzerland, 1958-59, and two Julius Rosenwald Fellowships in the 1940s.

Markham's government experience includes 18 months as chief economist at the Federal Trade Commission, 1953-54, on a leave of absence from Princeton. He also worked at the C&P Telephone Company and in the accounting department of the DuPont Company.

His publications include 150 articles, 25 book reviews, and book-length studies of the rayon industry, the fertilizer industry, the common market and the petroleum industry. His most recent book is "Baseball Economics and Public Policy," co-authored with Paul Teplitz (1981).

The teachers Markham remembers best at the University of Richmond include Dr. George Modlin, former economics professor, president of UR for 25 years and now the very active Chancellor of the University. Markham said he was delighted to run into Dr. Modlin at a joint meeting of Harvard and Princeton alumni not long ago. (Dr. Modlin is a Princeton man.)

Markham also remembers vividly his UR physics professor, Dr. Robert E. Loving, and the history professor who influenced so many of his students' lives in such marked ways: Dr. Samuel Chiles Mitchell.

It was Dr. Mitchell who persuaded Markham to go on to

graduate study in economics at John Hopkins. Then World War II intervened, and Markham got caught up in the Allied invasion of Normandy and southern France as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After that he completed his graduate studies at Harvard.

As a research professor at Emory, Markham is teaching invitational seminars for the school's Olin Fellows, students with a law degree working towards a Ph.D. in economics, or postdoctoral economists working on a law degree.

"Emory has been trying to persuade me to take a visiting professorship for the past three years," Markham said, "and I never felt I could do it before now. It is very different from the Business School at Harvard, but just as stimulating."

Dr. Maysville Jane Owens Page A few years ago, word went out that Dr. Maysville Jane Owens Page of Richmond, W'36-known to her friends as "Boo"-was being considered as a recipient of the annual Distinguished Alumnae Award of Westhampton College.

Like an avalanche of snow gathering impetus as it sweeps down the side of an alp, the letters of support came pouring down on the nominating committee. From hospital and civic groups, from other outstanding Westhampton graduates, from Dr. Page's colleagues in the medical profession, from medical societies, from state government officials and her college roommate; from assorted clergymen and a large, telling miscellany of other friends and admirers from all over.

One letter came from a retired widow who had worked as a nurse at the Methodist Children's Home in Richmond when Dr. Page was the medical director there. The letter was five pages of careful penmanship, but there is only room here to quote one paragraph: "Dr. Jane treated the children [at the orphanage] as though they were her own. She, was a very kind but a strict per-

son. The children had the best of care and counseling a mother could have given them. The children loved and understood her.

When the children grew up and left the home, Dr. Jane always kept in touch with them ... I do hope you will elect Dr. Jane, as she is so deserving and has given so much to the youth of Virginia who needed it most." She won the Distinguished Alumnae Award.

I went to meet "Dr. Jane" for the first time after studying the heap of praise-filled letters collected in her file in the alumnae office. Driving to the Pages' Rugby Road home near Byrd Park, I felt intimidated about talking with a person who had achieved so much, who was loved and held in such high esteem by so many; who had lived a life so full of all the things that matter: A long and happy marriage, beautiful and talented grown-up children; five grandchildren; distinction as a scholar; world travel; outstanding achievement and recognition in a male-dominated, demanding career field. And judging from the photo in her file, good looks that combined sheer prettiness with charm and elegance. It was enough to give any reporter an inferiority complex.

A half hour later, in Dr. Jane's living room, this wonderwoman, a photographer and the reporter were chatting merrily about clothes, gardens and foreign dolls like a trio of congenial neighborhood friends. Later, Dr. Jane and I pored over pictures of her grandchildren, and laughed over old photos of high school and college reunions. "Dr. Sidney" (her husband, Dr. Sidney G. Page Jr., retired physician) came in to say hello, and it turned out that my uncle had taught pathology to both Dr. Jane and Dr. Sidney at MCV. We chatted about old times and mutual friends. It was one of the least intimidating interviews I've done.

Finally, though, I had to pin down Dr. Jane.

So how does it feel to have lived such a life? To have achieved so much, to be heaped with so much fondness and praise, to have done 'everything'?

Dr. Jane's lively face broke into a

typical delighted smile. 'Tm just amazed and astonished!" she said. "After all, what did I do except take the jobs the men didn't want?"

Here, necessarily truncated, is some of what she did: Won a BA and later the '36 Baby Cup at Westhampton. Met her future husband on their first day of med school in the MCV bookstore.

Married and bore the first of her three daughters while still a medical student. Graduated from MCV in '41, seventh in her class of 75.

•1942-78: Private practice of medicine (pediatrics).

•1942-44: Attending physician (psychiatry) at Westbrook Hospital.

•1947- 50: Medical consultant for the YWCA and assistant health physician for Westhampton freshmen.

•1947- 75: Medical Director for the United Methodist Children's Home, providing full physical coverage for 250 children; in charge of a 20-bed infirmary and two nurses. (When she first took the job, with two babies of her own, she was paid $100 a month and was on 24-hour call year-round.)

•1952- 55: Medical consultant for well-baby clinics at the State Department of Health and Child Welfare.

•1955-78: Virginia Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, Disability Determination Division of Social Security Administration: first as a medical consultant, then Chief Medical Consultant, then Administrative Chief Medical Consultant. (The state Governor and the head of the national Disability Determination Division, SSA, both awarded her special ci-

tations for extraordinary service to her fellowman).

Especially since her official retirement in 1978, "Boo" Page has devoted much of her apparently inexhaustible energy to helping her husband in his role as vice president of Children, Incorporated. This international Richmond-based organization, headed by the Pages' close friend Jeanne Clarke Wood, was founded 16 years ago to "assist children of all races and creeds, administering to their physical, mental and spiritual needs." Children, Inc. works through schools, orphanages and welfare centers all over the world. The Pages' travels with Children, Inc. and independently have taken them around the world.

Many readers may recall in the Richmond newspapers in 1977 the poignant story of a 9year-old boy, weighing 35 pounds, who was found dying in an orphanage in Cali, Colombiasent back there from a hospital because there was no available medical facility to deal with the child's heart defects. Through Children, Inc. and the Drs. Page, the child Alberto was brought to MCV, had successful open heart surgery, and has been adopted by a Richmond family. A color portrait of handsome, smiling, healthy Alberto, now 14, has a place of honor in the Pages' living room.

A letter supporting Dr. Jane's nomination for the Distinguished Alumnae Award cited as one of her particularly attractive traits, "a joy and eagerness in her project of the moment." This is borne out by the deep pleasure she takes in her latest-and very belated-honor: As a medical student, because of a technicality, "Boo" Page's name was not in• eluded among those elected to the national honor medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha (the Phi Beta Kappa of medicine), though she qualified. In a quiet kind of way, this omission bothered Dr. Sidney over the years.

Then, in 1981, 40 years after her graduation from MCV, Dr. Jane was welcomed as an alumnus member into the Brown Sequard Chapter of AOA. She is, of course, delighted. 1!R 13

Morality, fl1e rightness or wrongness of conduct, is a frequent topic of discussion by parents and students and by faculty and administrators on college campuses today. Is the moral conduct of today's students much different from that of their parents' generation?

All colleges and universities must address moral issues and take a stance. A booklet, '1.lniversify Scenes . . . Tlioughts for Parents," is published by the University's Center for Psychological Services, and it focuses on some key moral issues. Dr. Warren Hopkins, the Center's director, has given the magazine permission to extract portions of the booklet. Following these excerpts are brief comments by three individuals at UR who haue dealt with the issue of morality, either as an administrator, as a University chaplain or as a student. They answer tile question: What do you think of the moral atmosphere on college campuses today?

Excerpts from "University Scenes . .. Thoughts for Parents â&#x20AC;˘ There has been much talk about the changing college scene, and for sure there are differences between that of the 1970s and 1980s and the 1940s and 1950s.

Students of today are more discerning and individualistic in their social relationships than college students of yesteryear. Consequently, they are less enthusiastic about formal social commitments and more interested in forming ties based on shared personal styles. Furthermore, today's student tends to be more open and less dogmatic in his attitudes toward many matters of personal morality and conduct. This trend is national in character and the University of Richmond student is no exception.

For many students the matter of sexual conduct no longer falls within the realm of public authority. They believe that the "do's and don't's" of sexual behavior are a matter to be determined by each individual. Of particular importance is that these students are usually willing to respect the attitudes of fellow students who differ in their code of sexual behavior. At the University of Richmond, as on other campuses, there is increased openness in discussing divergent views about sexuality as a moral and ethical concern. There is greater visita14

tion in the residence halls and more opportunity for a student to make critical and responsible decisions about sexual activity and personal values.

Students may find, as many do, that their attitudes relating to sex will be challenged many times. They may be forced to do some hard thinking about their own attitudes, particularly in a climate that encourages them to be their own person and to make up their own minds .

The University cannot impose a common morality on its students; rather it must support a climate that values the pursuit of knowledge whereby each person may reach out in any or all dimensions seeking enduring values to apply as a guide to life.

The foundations brought to campus, to build upon or protest against, are those that have their origins within the family and will be guiding him initially.

What has been said about the multiplicity of attitudes toward sexual activity is in some ways applicable to varying views concerning alcohol and drug use. Drug users are present in the University community just as they are in the rest of society.

Of course, many students choose not to experiment with drugs for personal reasons. They may fear the legal consequences or the possible health hazards. Perhaps it violates their personal values. Among both users and abstainers, there is frequently a tolerant attitude toward those who act differently from themselves.

Few cases of adverse drug reactions have come to the Center for Psychological Services' attention and the use of drugs has not created a significant disciplinary or medical problem on campus.

However, the University is particularly concerned with drug use which leads to behavior harmful to others or to the drug user himself.

For parents the matter of drug usage is no doubt a distressing concern .

Every student and every parent is faced with the task of forming his or her own personal position with regard to the use of various drugs.

In today's world this concern must include the use of alcohol, perhaps the most abused of all drugs. The University has a moderate but definite policy on the use of alcohol by individual students and groups. A way to prevent problem drinking involves a basic educational approach which deals with the characteristics of alcohol, together with a self-control approach which allows the individual to

understand the variables that control his or her drinking behavior.

On the University of Richmond campus societal sanctions against over-drinking are built in, and, hopefully, concerned individuals contribute consciously to this endeavor. The skills that are presented for the control of drinking can be learned before people are in dire need of them. This is the basic thrust of our preventive approach.

There is no guarantee parents and students will see eye to eye on these matters, but mutual respect is a sound beginning. Furthermore, the factual learning about alcohol and drug types and use, and their possible effects, helps to create a foundation upon which intelligent opinions and behaviours can be built. Young adults respect those who are well informed and willing to discuss objectively the complex issues involved. Parents who recognize that the problems associated with alcohol use and abuse are complex can better avoid the pitfalls that occur from misunderstanding and misinformation.

The general attitude concerning alcohol and other drug related substances has become one of concern rather than intrigue.

Claiborne Tarrant, W'84 The overall moral atmosphere of the University of Richmond can be described by one adjective, "conservative"-thal is, conservative in comparison to other universities with which I am familiar.

Being a Floridian, I come from generally a more liberal atmosphere and can honestly say that on coming to UR I felt the strong conservative air of Richmond. Surprisingly enough I like it better!

Comparing my classmates here lo students at various Florida schools, such as Florida State, St. Pete Junior College and the University of Florida, I view UR students as having more responsible attitudes toward alcohol, drugs, sex and their fellow students. The general attitude concerning alcohol and other drug-related substances has become one of concern rather than intrigue. The average student

sees their potential harm and has a more sensible attitude concerning their use. We have a great deal of respect for our physical health.

Honor and integrity are prevalent among UR students. I sense a feeling of unity within the student body that carries with it respect for each other and for each others' property. Of course we have our share of vandalism, but I still see less abuse of another's property and person than in a lot of other college communities.

The sexual attitudes of students are quite similar at most colleges. The difference lies in the handling of these attitudes, for students here seem to be responsible in this area. Personally I find the moral atmosphere at UR quite comfortable, realizing, of course, that students aren't perfect. But morally I feel most are quite upright and responsible.

The rather strong interest of students in faith questions and their response to worship opportunities are encouraging.

Dr. David D. Burhans University Chaplain The moral atmosphere on college campuses today is, in my judgment, an interlacing of positive and negative values and lifestyles.

On the positive side, college students of today are more aware of the need to show concern and compassion to their fellows and are more accepting of persons of different races, colors and creeds. Diversity has come to be seen among students as inevitable and perhaps even a positive, creative force in culture and in religious faith. It seems there is a strong desire among many college students to find ways to build bridges to other people.

In recent years, I have also been hearing college students express growing concern with the inherent problems of "free sex" and with the way many of their associates impugn Christian values and traditional mores. The rather strong interest of students in faith questions and their response to 15

YfOrship opportunities are encouraging, however.

I also believe there is increased sensitivity and some alarm among college students with regard to other critical issues such as the breakdown of relationships in marriage and the family, nuclear weapons, war and peace, and poverty and world hunger.

On the negative side, many of today's college students are more "permissive" in their use of alcohol and other drugs and in their attitudes toward sexual experiences. The procedure of abortion as a means of birth control among young adults may be one of the most alarming indications of serious erosion in moral values.

A large proportion of today's college students reflects a mentality which seeks to rationalize and satisfy a whim of the moment, that whatever seems fun or "feels good" to the individual is acceptable or even appropriate behavior. Furthermore, the focus on oneself and the "survival of the fittest" spirit continue to be overriding factors in personal relationships regardless often of how one's behavior may impact the lives of others.

In summary, 1 believe the moral atmosphere on college campuses today reflects a diminished degree of personal discipline and commitment to certain values. Because I think today's young adults are thinking, sensitive persons, however, I am genuinely hopeful that their own sense of personal integrity will stem the tide of destructive permissiveness and lead society into a new era of moral and spiritual concern.

College students experience the majority of the pressures, temptations and diversions that other adults experience.

Dr. Richard A. Mateer Dean of Richmond College The arrival of a new decade, the 80s, prompted a number of experts in the field of education to predict what lay ahead and, in some cases, to contrast the decade ahead with those of the recent past.

To this end, Arthur Levine, a senior fellow at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has contributed When Dreams and Heroes Died. Through the use of extensive data from several national surveys, Levine has compared the students of the 80s with those of the 60s and ?Os. He contends that the changes that have occurred in society, in the family and the schools and in the media have led students to conclude "that things are falling apart." Surveys suggest that students are becoming increasingly pessimistic and fatalistic in their outlook on the world around them; and in their effort to cope, they have turned inward. Levine concludes that students of the 80s see them16

selves as passengers on the Titanic and that this fatalistic view leads to an approach to life of "justified hedonism."

The University of Richmond has surveyed its new students for each of the last six years so as to remain current on student opinion and concerns.

There is little doubt that students of the 80s, both nationally and at Richmond, are socially liberal. In their responses to survey items, touching on morality issues, today's students answer from the perspective of how an issue might affect their personal freedom. In the most recent survey, two-thirds of Richmond's students agree that abortion should be legalized. Approximately 40 percent feel it is all right for a couple to live together before marriage and 50 percent feel it is acceptable for a couple to have sex if they like each other. Levine contends that students experience pressure from their peers to prove their sexual liberation; and as a result, they have developed a more casual attitude toward sex.

There is less interest among students nationwide in both marriage and having children. Both of these trends stem from a need to be independent, from financial considerations and from peer pressure.

Alcohol, particularly beer, is the overwhelming first choice among recreational drugs and a larger percentage of students are consuming larger quantities of beer at earlier ages. A majority of high school students are at least occasional drinkers before they enter college. While other drugs seem to be less a part of the group social environment, they are still a significant force and concern. In a recent national survey, 10 percent of the high school student sample indicated they used marijuana daily or almost daily. On the other hand, student support for the legalization of marijuana has decreased substantially in the last ten years.

Colleges are most concerned about the apparent level of academic dishonesty that exists on their campuses. While Richmond has not surveyed its students in recent years concerning their actions and attitudes toward the Honor System, there is no reason to imagine the results would be markedly different from the national trend. In surveys at Stanford, Amherst, Hopkins and Dartmouth, 30 to 60 percent of the student body admitted cheating during their enrollment. The vast majority of students indicated they would not report another student they suspected of violating the honor code.

Most experts attribute this apparent breakdown in student body integrity to the pressure to achieve that students feel and the diminishing academic skills they possess.

On the brighter side, over 60 percent of the Richmond students surveyed last year felt it was very important to help others in difficulty. This level of altruism has been increasing for the last five years.

While some of these survey results will concern the reader, it is not a preparation for life; it is life. College students experience the majority of the pressures, temptations and diversions that other adults experience. They are full participants in the adult world. UR

II In Memoriam Three UR trustees have died in recent months: Floyd D. Gottwald Sr.; Dr. James T. Tucker, R'23; and Willey Richard Broaddus Jr., R'20, L'21.

Floyd D. Gottwald Sr. beca~sa~l~f 1~ts

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Ethyl Corp. 20 years ago, Dewey Gottwald, vice chairman and former board chairman of Ethyl Corp., died on July 31, at age 84.

He began serving on UR' s Board of Trustees in 1%0 and was a trustee emeritus at his death.

marle before acqujring Ethyl. ln 1963, Mr. Gottwald received an honorary degree from UR. Later in 1979, the University named the Gottwald Science Cen• ter in his honor. The University had received $4 miUion toward the center's construction in Mr. Gottwald's name.

A member of First Baptist Church, Mr. Gottwald also was a former member of the Richmond School Board, the Richmond•Pe· tersburg Turnpike Authority, the board of directors of First and Merchants National Bank and the board of directors of the Metro· politan Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

Baptist Church and a veteran of both world wars.

Willey Richard Broaddus Jr. James T. Tucker Or. James T. Tucker, an or• thopedic surgeon, had retired from private practice. He died July 14 at the age of 86. began serving on UR' s Board of Trustees in 1947 and was emeritus.

A native of Richmond, Dr. Tucker was graduated from UR and had received his medical de· gree from the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in 1927. He did graduate work at Harvard Uni• versity. In 1962 he received an honorary degree from UR. Dr. Tucker was an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at MCV. He was on the sur~cal staff of Crippled Children's Hos· pita! (now Children's Hospital), was a surgetin·in•chief frOm 1955 to 1970 and a member of its board of tru,stees for many year$. He also was a member of the Rich· mond Academy of Medicine and the MedicaLSociety of Virginia.

He was a member of the First

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A portrait of Floyd D. Gottwald 1lOW hangs in the Gottwald Science Center.

Mr. G-Ottwald joined Alb~ marle Paper Manufacturing Co. as a clerk in 1918 and rose through the company's ranks, becoming president in 1941. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he merged six companies into Albe-

An attorney and former member of the House of Dele· gates from Martinsville and Hen• ry County, Willey Richard Broad· dus Jr. died on September 14 at age 86 after a lengthy illness.

Born in West Point, Mr. Broaddus attended the University of Leeds in England and graduat· ed at the top of his class at UR in 1921 with undergraduate and law degrees. He was the captain of UR's 1920 football team.

From 19.36 untit 1969, he served as a director of UR and was vice rector of the school dur~ ing his last 10 years on the Board of Trustees. He was later named trustee emeritus and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from UR in 1968.

A life deacon and trustee of First Baptist Church, Mr. Broad· dus also was a former president of both the Martinsville and Vir-

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In Memoriam: N. Wilford Skinner N. Wilford Skinner, UR professor emeritus of German, was found dead at his home on Aug. 23. He was 73.

Professor Skinner was a native of Newark, Ohio. He majored in both biology and German at Ohio University and received a master's degree from Indiana University, where he later taught German.

Mr. Skinner taught for three

years in Ohio before joining UR's modern languages faculty in 1937. He taught German for nearly 40 years at UR, and served as

chairman of the Modern Languages Department from 1969 to 1972. He retired in 1974.

Professor Skinner also was an accomplished musician, who began playing the violin at age 3.

When he discovered that Richmond had no string quartet, he began one in the late 1930s. He played viola with the group for many years. He also performed for 25 years as a professional baritone at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where he was a member.

In 1942, he was named an honorary member of the Beta Theta chapter of Beta Beta Beta, national honorary biology fraternity. He also was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. He was active in UR's Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. ET

Summer Projects Summer is a time when most UR faculty members are continuing or completing research, involving 18

themselves in field work as consultants or engaging in course preparation for the new academic year. This summer was no exception. Here's what a few of UR's faculty members did this summer.

Dr. Steven Barza (English) spent the summer months completing two chapters of his novel, Travis and Will, which revolves around two friends and their experiences growing up and traces much of the social history of the past couple of decades.

Involved in a comparatively new area of research was Dr. C. Ray Wingrove (sociology), who conducted an exploratory study on professional/business women in retirement. He held lengthy interviews with retired professional women in the Richmond area and hopes to obtain more grant money so he can expand his work outside the Richmond area.

Dr. Joseph C. Troncale (Russian) lived in the Soviet Union for two months on a Fulbright Fellowship, studying that country's language and literature and trying to interact with the Russian people.

Dr. Robert M. Schmidt (economics) spent his time evaluating new teaching techniques. Specifically, he is looking at what happens when a professor tries to do something new in the classroom.

In addition, he is studying the fertility of rural Egyptian women and evaluating governmental policy measures to reduce fertility.

Two faculty members in The T. C. Williams School of Law, Robert E. Shepherd Jr. and Ronald J. Bad gal, worked on books during the summer. Shepherd's book, Juvenile Practice Manual, is intended as a practical manual for lawyers practicing in juvenile and family courts. Bacigal's book, Virginia Criminal Procedure, is also intended for the practicing attorney.

Dr. Richard W. Topham (chemistry) continued his research on the basic mechanism and regulation of iron metabolism in animals. He hopes to identify the molecular components in iron metabolism and develop some insight into the reasons for iron deficiency anemia and iron overload.

Dr. John S. Rose (management systems) and Dr. Joe Ben Hoyle (accounting) were involved in ongoing research. Dr. Rose continued to study the optimal choice theory, and Dr. Hoyle worked to finish an advanced accounting textbook that he has been working on for two and a half years.

For ten days this summer, Dr. John C. Boggs Jr. (English) attended the International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. During his time at the symposium, he developed an interest in topographical features of Dublin in Joyce's fiction and will draw on these materials collected during the conference to conduct a course in experimental fiction this fall and to direct a facultystudent seminar on Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake during second semester. DH

Opening Convocation President of New York University Dr. John Brademas spoke at Opening Convocation, the official opening of the 1982-83 academic year, Sept. 15 in the Robins Center. Classes began Sept. 2.

A former Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Brademas was a member of Congress for 22 years from Indiana's third district. He helped draft major legislation concerning elementary, secondary, higher and vocational education services for the elderly and handicapped, and for federal support for libraries, museums, and the arts and humanities.

Also at Convocation, UR's President E. Bruce Heilman announced the five winners of the University's Distinguished Educators awards for 1981- 82. The faculty members are: Dr. Kathleen A. Rohaly (health and physical education); Dr. Steven L. Barza (English); Dr. Thomas R. Morris (political science); Dr. Joe Ben Hoyle, (accounting); W. Clark Williams Jr. (law).

The annual awards, presented by President Heilman on behalf of the Board of Trustees, in-

elude a prize of $2,000 for each recipient. The awards were created to assist the University in attracting and retaining persons of high ability and integrity. Award recommendations come from faculty, students, administrators and alumni.

Special Events

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has increased its potential listenership from 25,000 to 300,000, two-thirds of the Richmond population. ~~--

Campus Apartments Moving into UR's nevvly constructed townhouses added to the excitement of returning lo campus in August for about 300 students, mostly juniors and seniors.

The townhouses provide an innovative means for the University to meet its present housing needs.

Living in townhouses instead of residence halls while on campus is a new living experience for students, giving them the advantages of more spacious apartment life. The townhouses include two bedrooms upstairs and a kitchen, a small dining area and living room downstairs. Four one-story units are especially designed for handicapped students.

Sixty townhouse units were completed at the beginning of the school year, and 16 additional units were completed by the beginning of October. After the University realized its needs were greater than first anticipated, UR's Board of Trustees approved the construction of the additional units. ET

More Power for WDCE-FM WDCE-FM (90.1), UR's studentrun radio station, has increased its wattage from 10 to 100 which

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passed a ruling that all 10-watt, noncommercial FM stations would have to raise their power to 100 watts or possibly lose their frequency. The 1University made the decision to support the increase in wattage and has spent about $12,000 to keep the station on the air and to provide a new production studio and AP news wire, according to Dan O'Shea, the station's general manager.

"In May of this year, after many delays, we finally received the 100 watts and all the new equipment," says O'Shea.

"For the past year, we've been Jetting everyone at the school know that we're open to new programming. So far we've done such things as tape a journalism seminar with James Kilpatrick, interview John Dean when he was on campus and produce our own radio mystery story."

The station, with its freeform format, plays mostly new music, which is not played on commercial stations, and sounds of ten years ago. Hourly, the station provides local, national, campus and sports news. About 60 to 70 students provide services to run the station, with an increased emphasis on making the station more professional.

In the fall the station will be on the air from 7 am to 3 am.

O'Shea invites all alumni, especially ones with a media background, to visit the station and offer advice. ET

Three special events this month have attracted a broad spectrum of alumni and friends back to the campus to support the launching of the "Cornerstones for the Future" development campaign.

A Philanthropy Forum Sept.

30 and Oct. 1 was held in conjunction with an Alumni Leadership Conference. Both events overlapped with the annual opening meeting of the Board of Trustees and with Parents' Weekend, making Sept. 30-Oct. 2 one of the fullest weekends in recent campus history.

On October 16, a third special event, UR and the Arts, focused attention on the fine arts at the University over several decades. A fourth Cornerstones event is planned for Sunday morning, November 21, when a distinguished alumnus, the Rev. Thomas W. Downing Jr., R'54, of the University Baptist Church at Chapel Hill, N.C., will be the guest speaker at a Dedicatory Worship Service in the Cannon Memorial Chapel.

Led by Jane Thorpe, director of alumnae relations for Westhampton College, the Alumni Leadership Conference gave the members of all four alumni association boards as well as the leaders of alumni groups such as the Lake Society, a chance to learn about people, programs and services at the University. A full day of activities October 2 included hearing the four UR vice presidents explain their operations.

Visiting alumni leaders also could join visiting parents to hear the latest developments in special University areas such as the chaplaincy, admissions and athletics.

The Alumni Leadership Conference and the Philanthropy Forum simultaneously kicked off the weekend activities with a dinner September 30, at which the speaker was Edward A. Horrigan Jr., chairman and chief executive office of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Speakers at the forum the next day were John T. Schwartz of New York, president of the American Association of Fund19

raising Counsel, who offered a:, national perspective on the cun+:rent "giving" situation; Raymohd P. Szabo, assistant vice president, corporate services, CSX Corpora,.tion, who gave the corporate view, and Robert Hull of Atlanta with a foundations overview.

Hull is executive director of the

Southeastern Council of Foundations based in Atlanta.

"UR and the Arts" brought an invited audience of alumni and friends to enjoy an afternoon

and evening program of music, an art exhibition and a performance of the musical "Brigadoon" by the University Players. The program included a recognition dinner at which UR graduates in the fine arts, who have achieved

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awards. The music was an afternoon concert presented by the University Music Department.

The art exhibit featured work by distinguished faculty and alumni painters and sculptors over the years. AG

Listen to the Music The chiming of the carillon from UR's Boatwright Library tower can once again be heard throughout the campus.

Lightning struck the carillon several years ago, but until recently the University was unable to find someone who could repair it for a reasonable price. Sam Straus of Old Dominion Broadcasting, w:10 is a friend of UR Biology Professor Willie Reams, repaired the carillon; and as a gift to the University, Dr. Reams provides the tapes needed by the University's carillon to produce the bell-like tones.

Built in 1955 by Schulmerich Carillons Inc. of Pennsylvania, the carillon in the past chimed the hour, and in the afternoon about 5 p.m. a vespers concert of traditional Baptist hymns was played, according to Dr. Reams.

Now the carillon is programmed to play music at 8 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., with such popular tunes as the Beatles' "Yesterday," "Michelle" and "Here Comes the Sun" coming over the speakers. ET 20

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0 •• n-i•nlligi• ,B • iy_t_h_e_L_a_k_e____________ Freshmen arriving for the '82-83 session in late August may have taken it for granted-just another handsome new building among several on the campus. But the oldies-sophomores, juniors and seniors, expressed a collective "Wow!" The new combined dining facility, situated by the lake on the Westhampton side of the campus, was open for business as the first students arrived to start a new year of school.

The $4.5 million building is of neo-Gothic design, with an exterior of warm and harmonious red brick; stone facings and arches, and an arcade that looks out on the water.

It has a seating capacity for 925 students on its main level.

(The old refectory and the Westhampton dining rooms had a combined capacity of 625.)

On the lower (arcade) level, there is space for 100 more diners. This is the University catering area- to accommodate University interest groups, trustees, guests at special events. (The dining room of the Jenkins Suite in the Commons, where the trustees hold their meetings, will continue to be very much in use.)

The new combined dining facility has bay windows at either end. Outside, the roofs of these bays are covered with copper sheeting, producing an attractive burnished look that is very much

in keeping with the Gothic esthetics of the design.

Inside, the three student dining areas have 60-foot cathedralstyle ceilings. Two of the three dining areas are designed with a capability for open dining as well as more intimate, small-group dining.

The kitchen of the new facility, according to food services director Ron Inlow, is one of the best-equipped of its kind in this part of the country.

"Jt will give us an opportunity to serve our University constituencies with a greater variety of food, more efficiently, and more attractively," Inlow said. He and his team of food service experts see the central dining facility as "providing more than just a place where people can eat in a beautiful setting three times a day. We think this is going to bring the people of the University together in a new way." AG

II 30's Roy M . N ewton R'39, of Virginia Beach, Va., retired a~ senior vic_e president and ma~ager of Virginia National Bank's Inter• national Department, June 1, 1982. Mr.

Newton started with National Bank of Commerce, Norfolk, a predecessor of VNB, in 1954.

40's Dr. R. Stua rt Grizzard, R'41, H 'S?, of McLean, Va., has conducted a number of

revivals in the country since his retiremen_t in 1978. H e recently held revival services at North Pamunkey Baptist

Church.

Solon 8 . Cousins III, R'47, of Winnetka, Ill., ~ived an honorary Doctor of Humamcs degree from Springfield College, Sprin_gfie_ld, M_ass., on May 30, 1982.

Cousins 1s national executive director of the YMCA of the USA. Dr. William K. Easley, G'47, of Pensacola, Fla., received the Carson-Newman Disti~guished Alumnus Award for 1981, the highest honor that the College bestows upon an alumnus.

SO's B. Walton Mahon, R'SO, of Bow.ling Green, Va., president of the Umon Bank & Trust Co. of Bowling Green, has been named preside.nt.of the !~dependent Bankers Association of Virginia.

John T . Drui:r, R'56, of Wilmington, !kl., is active in his ministry, and has published his first book "LOVE THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD." He suffered a stroke in October 1980.

C. Ra ymond Hailey, 6'56, of Richmond, has been promoted to senior vice president by the Ethyl Corporation. Hailey will continue to head Ethyl's Plastics Group and serve as president of The Elk Horn Coal Corporation, an Ethyl subsidiary.

Thomas H. Markley, R'54, of Richmond, serves as the 21st Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond The Rev. Lawrence E. Matthews, R'SO, of Vienna, Va., is pastor of Vienna Baptist Church and was awarded Southeastern

~ptist Theological Seminary's prestigious Citation for Excellence in Christian Ministry.

James T . Rice, B'58, of Jacksonville, Fla., has been p romoted to vice president of the Family Lines Rail System's Executive Department in Jacksonville.

60's Robert G . Sulli va n, R'60, of Halo Rey, P.R., has been named vice president of production in the Operations Division of A. H. Robins Company William L. ~awkins Jr:, R'61, of Newport News, Va., IS community development director with the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Dr. Wa tson E. M ills, R'61, of Macon, Ga., has been appointed vice president for research and publication at Mercer U. and will continue to hold the positions of direc:or of Mercer University Press and assooate professor of Christianity Horace l. Ford, Jr., B'63, of Mechanicsville, Va., is emi:iloyed as contract manager for the Virginia Division of Purchases and Suppl.y. Ford ~1:'ed as president of the Virgm1a Assoaat1on of Governmental Purchasing in 1981--82.

James l. Hoover, R'64, of Kilmarnock, Va., is Superintendent of Schools for Northumberland County.

Willi~m M: Adams, ~•~s, of Birmingham, Ala., 1s assistant adm1mstrator for the U. of Alabama in Birmingham. The University of Alabama Hospital is an 863-bed teaching hospi tal.

Aaron D. ~opkins Jr., R'65, of Las Vegas, Nev., is editor of The Nevadan, the Sunday magazine of the Las Vegas ReviewJournal. He is married to Patricia Louise Hopkins, and they have a child born in September D r. Russell L. Leonard Jr., R'69, of Midlothian, Va., has_ accepted a position with Bank of Virginia as vice president, human resources planning and development.

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!ta~di~t1~: t~~6S~~~t:i~?i:~~,~~mmittee. Mr. Miller was formerly a senior att?rney with the State's Division of Legislative Services.

Robert M. Miskimon Jr., R'66, of Pacific ~rove,_ Calif., has be.!n appointed managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone,Carmel Valley Outlook. Miskimon did graduate

wo~k at_ the U. of Missouri School of Journalism m Columbia, Mo. He lives with his wife, '7hristine, and two daughters, Mae and Elizabeth.

Dr. Franklin L. O rth, R'66, of Kirkland, Wash., has been named a Certified Management Consultant by the New Yorkbased Institute of Management Consultants, Inc. Dr. Orth is president of Frank Orth & Associates, Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., and Anchorage, Alaska. The firm offers management and consulting serv1c~s to cor~rate_ an~ government sector clients, spec1alizmg m natural resource and financial services industries. Or. Orth lives with his wife, Christy, and two children.

Dr. James C. Rose, R'65, of Winston-Salem, N.C., has been promoted to associate professor of physiology at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest U. Dr. Rose is active in the teaching and research programs of the medical school's lkpartment of Physiology and Phannacol~ ogy. He is also an associate in obstetrics and gynecology Leonard I. Sweet, R'69, of Rochester, N.Y., has been appointed Provost of Colgate Rochester-Bexley Hall-Crozer Divinity School. He also will hold the title of associate. professor of church history. He has published two books this past year. One is entitl~d New_ Life in the Spirit, designed for a wide audience, and the other is a scholarly exploration of an important feature of the history of women in American religion: The 0ini5ter'5 W!fe (n Nineteenth

Century American Evangehca/15m Da~id M. Szumowski, R'67, of Cardiff, Calif.,. has been admitted to practice law in California. Szumowski is a Vietnam veteran and was awarded numerous decorations for his service there, including the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars (one for "Valor"), and a Purple Heart for wounds received action_ which left him permane ntly bhnd. Dunng 1981, Szumowski learned of the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program being formed under the federal ACTION Agency, and became interested in a possible position in San Diego.

He was selected executive director of the ~n Diego branch of the Southern California Vietnam Veterans Leadership Pro-

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gram. In addition to serving as President of the l?cal 13hnded Veterans Group, Szumowsk1 serves on the Executive Committe~ and Board of Directors of the National Blinded Veterans Association, a veterans organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. Szumowski said the Vietnam Vdt'Tan's Leadership Program is a grassmots effort geared to bring successful vets in contact with troubled ones, offering them the help they may need to find a job, or ad1ust lo civilian life. He said the program was successful in four trial cities, and is now beginning operation in 25 cities.

Eventually, he said, there will be Veteran Leadership Programs in 50 cities.

Pet~r Hayne Han Tsou, R'66, of Cerritos, Cahf., works for TRW as section head, managin!$ the Advance Technology Scctio1: consisting of advanced computer scienhs_ts s1:1pporting projects in system cngineenng rn the are~s of networking, distributer data processmg, data base management systems, simulation development, etc.

Peter L. Wyeth, R'68, of Charlottesville, Va., has bl't'n named director of development at th~ Uni'.'ersity of Virginia. He has been associate director of development since 1981

70's Jane L. Cariello, B'78, of Villanova. Pa .. received a Master of Business Administration degree from The Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the~- of Virginia, on May 23 in Charlottesv1\le. Cariello will assume the position of international treasury analyst with Sun Company in Radnor, Pa Terry L. Cook, U'76, of Mechanicsville, Va., has been elected chairman of the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission, serving a one-year term. ~ook IS cont~oller of United Virginia Leasmg Corporation, an affiliate of United Virginia Bank Dr. Hugh E. Fraser III, R'75, of Greensboro. N.C., is a senior medical student at the Bowman Gr,iy School of Medicine and has been awarded a 1982-83 house officer appointment at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Bowman Gray graduates will take house officer training in 55 hospitals i11 24 states and the District of Columbia. House officer a_ppointments arc made through the National Intern/Resident .Matching Program The Rev. Amos W. Healy Jr., R'77, of Woodbridge, Va., was ordained to the gospel ministry by I lcrmitage Baptist Church, Church View, on March 14. Mr 1 lcaly is pastor o'. 13ethany Baptist Church, Woodbndge.

The Rev. John B. Hesch, R'78, of Rich~ mond, was ordained a Catholic priest May 8, 1982 al the Mosque in Richmorfil, Va He currently is a candidate for a doctoral degree in divinity from Catholic U. Dr. Marbry B. Hopkins Ill, R'74, of Winston-Salem. N.C., has been appointed to the fa~lty of the Bowman Gray School of Medicrne of Wake Forest U. as assistant professor of pathology. I le also holds the

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M.D. degree from the U. of Virginia Schoo_! of ~edicine. In his new position, 1 lopkms wtll have responsibilities in teaching and research. He will serve as medical dirccto~ of the blood bank at Baptist Hospital. His wife, Dr. Judith Owen Hopkins, is a fellow in hematology and oncology al Bowman Gray R~d Ho~ard, R'78, c?f Shreveport, La., is with station KW KH m Shreveport Robert B. McEntee, R'79, of Richmond, received the juris doctor (law) degree from The U. of Toledo at their June 12 commencement. McEntee will clerk for the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sharon Picard Keplesky, 13'77, (attended W'73- '75) of Zweibrticken Air Force Base in Germany, recently moved there with her husband and son, Bryan. Her address is PSC Box 1748, APO, NY 09860. She married an RF-4 pilot in the Air Force.

Sharon also joined the Air Force as a cost analysis officer_ and _was on active duty for two years, until their son was born. and is still in the Reserves.

Charles Fisher Kingery Jr., R'76, of Carrollton, Tex., received the Master of Divinity degree fro_m Southwestern Baptist Theological Senunary, July 16, 1982 David Nickel, R'76, of Kilmarnock, Va., has been promoted to assistant trust officer by the board of the Bank of Lancaster.

Dr. Robert C. Parker Jr., R'75, of Champaign, Ill., was named the 1982 winner of the Os!?~ Award given by the Department of Med1cme at the 13owman Gray Schoo! of Medicine of Wake Forest U. He will begin private practice in internal medicine in July at the Carle Clinic Association in Urbana, Ill Steven Soldinger, 13'75, of Virginia Beach, Va., owns and operates Virginia Beach's only radio station, WVA13 1550. He also is vice president and partner of Atlantic Broadcast Enterprises, Incorporated. He Judy Hyman of Baltimore in April

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Dr. Douglas D. Taylor, R'76, of WinstonSalem, N.C., has received the Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Wake Forest U Lawrence E. Terry Jr., R'79, of Richmond, has been ehxted president of the Richmond Jaycees.

Bradley R. Van Hom, R'82, of Stafford, V~., has been appointed as Legislative Aide for Delegate Thomas M. Moncure.

Michael M. Wo?d: U'72, of Virginia Beach, Va., has JOmed the office of Davenport & ~o. _in Davenport's first branch office in Virginia Beach

Births 1971/Dr. an_d Mrs. J.P. Bushkar, (R), (Sharon Phillips Bushkar, W'72, G'75) a daughter, Natalie Corbin, Dec. 14, 1981 1972/Mr. and Mrs. Perry E. Tumer Jr., (R), (.Marth N. Poston Turner, W'73) a son, Rett, May 7, 1982.

1973/Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Crowe Jr., (R), of Brooklyn, NY., a son, Jefferson Martin.

1978/Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Richards, ~~~- 1 ~chmond, a son, Tyler Case, Apr 8

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1981/Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kirk Wilbourne, (R), of Raleigh, N.C., a daughter, Lisa Beverly, June 5, 1982.

Deaths 1909/Dr. James L. Stringfellow, (R), of Culpeper, Va., July 4, 1982.

1920/Samuel T. Bowman Jr., (R), of Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 15, 1981. Mr. 13owman retired in 1962 after 34 years as commissioner of the revenue for Bristol, Va. He was active in many civic organizations. The offinal publication of the Bristol Kiwanis Club ha~ this to say about the former commissioner of the revenue: "Sam I. B?wman has consistently sought opportumty for service to others, to church, to c?mmunity an_d the _nation, and has pers1ste_ntly exercised _his d~ty of political participation with mtegnty in this democracy for nearly fifty years."

1922/J. D. Simons, (R), of Fort Worth, Tex., Jan . 16.1982.

Dr. Raymond L. Hightower, (R), of Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 24, 1982. Dr Hightower served 20 years on the G.ty Commission from 1957 to 1977, and he served two terms ~s mayor for the City of Kalamazoo. Dr. Hightower was a dedicated scholar-formerly the sociology and anthropology department chairman of Kalamazoo College. His academic creden?als, including graduate degrees in divinity and theology, were voluminous. He ~i:~dc::::::::t~~>~i:ca:~d~~:~:ta~ft organiz<1tions.

1928/Wesley H. Kersey, (R), of Richmond, Oct.15,1981 1932/Joseph B. Shue, (B), of Statesville, N.C., Mar. 7, 1982.

1933(Dr. Edmund Moseley LaPrade, (R), of Richmond, May 2, 1982.

1934/Roy Nelson Puckett, (R, G'36), of Richmond, June 2, 1982. Mr. Puckett was an educato~ for many years in the Richmond pubhc schools and administrative assistant to the state senetary of commerce and resources. He had retired in February.

1935/Meredith L. Meador, (B), of Richmond, June 2, 1982.

1943~e Rev. Frank L. Rose Jr., (R), of DeltaVJlle, Va., Dec. 11, 1981. Mr. Rose retired as Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascensmn on April 30, 1978, after 25½ years in that position.

1947/Dr. William C. Gill Jr., (R), of Richmond, July 9, 1982. Dr. Gill died while on vacation in th_e \Vest. He was past president _of the Vlfgrn!a Academy of General Practice and the Richmond Academy of Medicine 19~/Rkhard Hamilton Jones, (G), of Coloma! Heights, Va., Feb. 11, 1982.

197~/Bruce E. Pearson, (B), of Concord, Cahf.,Mar.25, 1981.

Marriages

~~~~, ~a~r~~d ~i~~e~;~ ~~~~~oku~~c~~~~helty, July 17, 1982, in Carrboro, Mark Abraham, RS'80, and Julie McCarthy, W'81, were married September 5, 1981 i1: Towson, Md. They arc now living in Lou1sv1lle, Ky

Westhampton Middle Pen insula Alumnae Club Peggy Louthan Shei1herd, Preside,1/ Box 444

Gloucester Point, Va. 23062 The Middle Peninsula Westhampton College Alumnae Club held its spring meeting on June 5. Ten of us traveled to the campus and had a yummy lunch in the Deanery.

After a very informal business meeting Jane Thorpe and Dean Bennett told us about some of the changes at Westhampton

Our next meeting will be in the fall.

Roanoke Alumnae Club Barbara Richie Br11nch, President 1232 Persinger Rd., S.W. Roanoke, Va. 24015

In April 1981 Jenny Wright completed a successful two-year presidency of the Roanoke Valley Alumnae Chapter. At a potluck luncheon in Nina Byrd's home, Jane Thorpe and UR trustee Betty Ann Allen

Tulloh visited with ten alumnae. Goodie bags were filled to be delivered to our 32 area students al Westhampton. Mrs. Thorpe was presented with a check to purchase a brass bowl and some glassware for the new Alumnae Office The new president, Barbara Richie Branch, was hostess in August 1981 for 12 alumnae, tenstudentsandsixmothersat the Family Reunion party. The new vice president is Fran Henderson Krause. Barbara Comer continues as treasurer Mrs. Thorpe and Dean Bennett shared Westhampton news with the 12 alumnae present at the home of Emily Ayers Gray for the May 1982 spring potluck luncheon. This year 21 "Goodie Bags" were sent to Westhampton, with special help from Fran Krause and Nina Byrd

Loudoun, Clarke, Fauquier Counties Alumnae Club Rachel Pierce Price, President P. 0. Box 374 Leesburg, Va. 12075 The Westhampton College Alumnae Chapter of Loudoun County is a newly organized group, unnamed as yet! We'd like to know who's interested in having an annual get-together, preferably in the fall of each year. Our invitation is open to any alumnae (or parent of a current student) in Loudoun, Fauquier, Clarke or Frederick Counties.

Last November, Stephanie Bennett and Jane Thorpe came to Leesburg for a

dessert and gave us an "update on our Alma Mater."

Also, in August we'll have another dessert for current Westhampton girls.

Please let me know of any student familiar to you

'19 Lillian Robertson Carter P. 0. Box 918 Harrisonburg, Va.12801

Living in Sunnyside Home has been a very pleasant experience since 1974. I have two daughters, one who lives in Hampton, Va., and one who lives five miles away. This one gets me for weekends, and we attend church together. 1 get to see my three great-granddaughters who are 1, 3 and 6 years old, and another great-grandson who lives in Chester, Va My one grandson is a psychiatrist and practices in Brooklyn, N.Y., while his sister who graduated from Westhampton in 1977 is a mechanical enginet!r with Texaco in Texas. I go to my church affairs and play bridge occasionally.

Bessie Dicks Beatty plans to move from Norfolk to Va. Beach to Westminster-Canterbury in June. She is active in her church, the Woman's Club, and the Music Club, as well as Senior Citizens She has eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Adelaide Walton Cowherd flew to Ohio to see her daughter, who is the mother of 19-year-old triplets. In May she also visited her daughter and son who live in Luray, Va. Their daughter graduated from Westhampton in 1954 Katherine Nottingham Richardson lives on Eastern shore and is active in her church and DAR. She still keeps house at Montrose Farm. She says her three greatgrandchildren are her pride and joy.

MaryMorrisRobertsstaysinhercolonial farm house; and the man who runs her farm also attends to her business and buys her groceries as she is ill most of the time. Mary keeps in touch with a friend who was in Westhampton class of 1918.

Virginia Karnes Wright wrote me a long letter remembering the times we studied our history together for our class with Dr. Susan M. Lough. Virginia was ill most of 1981 but is much improved and enjoys her church activities, Woman's Club of which she was president and the Wednesday History Oub, and serves on the executive board of the Multiple Sclerosis Board and finds time to play canasta.

Irene Summers Stoneman Varina on the James, Rt. 14 Richmond, Va.13131 We, the lucky 13, who met at the University Commons on April 16 for the dinner meeting of the Boatwright Society had a most enjoyable evening. First the social

hour with so many people greeting classmates and friends, everybody talking and laughing; then to the dining tables we went. There was a big '22 on our table.

There were Mary Fugate (Danville), Elizabeth "Rat" Hoover (Orlando), Hilda Lawson Jecklin (Arlington), Louise Shipman Hatz (Fredericksburg) and Elsie Payne Guthrie (Brookneal) also Jeanette Henna, Leslie Sessoms Booker, Ruth Waller-stein Thalhimer, Eva Timberlake West, Edith Newton Eakes, Rachel Newton Dickson, Claudia Patrick and I from Richmond.

Nellie Hoover Williams and Gatewood Holland Stoneman were with us as guests. The dinner was very good and the program most interesting. Dr. Heilman spoke briefly; the keynote speaker was Dr. Louis Rubin, Jr. Music by the Richmond Men's Chorus was excellent. Officers for the coming year were elected, and the Oass of '32 was introduced and inducted into the Society.

Elizabeth Hoover's arrival was a surprise, and it was a real treat to see Elsie Payne Guthrie again. She taught high school for 37 years; now she teaches the adult Bible class in her church, sings in the choir, is pianist for the Adult Assembly and helps in other ways. She is an active member of the Historical Society, the DAR, Woman's Club, Delta Kappa Gamma, American Legion Auxiliary and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program Group in Campbell County. She was awarded the Valley Forge Foundation Teachers Medal for notable patriotic contribution to youth the year she retired. Her daughter lives in New York, her son in Brookneal and there are four grandchildren. She lost her older son in World War II. Her sister, Stella, who is also retired, lives with her.

Louise Story and her brother have taken trips to Hawaii and New York.

They enjoy working and traveling togethMary Fugate has visited her brother and his wife at Emerald Isles, N.C., and during the summer is doing work in the Averett College Archives. At home she is sorting out and organizing family papers.

Celia Levinson Meyer and her husband had an enjoyable Caribbean Cruise.

She recently took a class in foods.

Jeanette Henna attended the 50th reunion of the first graduating class at Thomas Jefferson High School Ruth Waller-stein Thalhimer spent three weeks in Maine, visited her daughter who has an art gallery at Outer Banks N.C., and also has been to Tides Inn. She enjoys her four great-grandchildren and their parents.

Leslie Sessoms Booker is president of the Elizabeth Tate Foundation at the Stale Fann of Virginia for Women. After the Boatwright dinner several from the class went to her apartment to do more reminiscing. Mary and Hilda were her guests for overnight.

Muriel Sanders, who had been in poor health for some time, died in April To her family we extend sympathy.

Narcissa Daniel Hargroves sends love and best wishes to all. They were invited to attend the 75th anniversary of Weatherford Baptist Church in Richmond in February and since this was their first pastorate they came. In May there was a Daniel

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f,1mily reunion at "Tanglewood Park" near Winston Salem where about 75 relatives gathered. She drives and visits for "Meals on Wheels" and is active in the Woman's Fellowship which is a part of "The American Baptist Women's Organization."

I had five graduations in June; one granddaughter received her master's; two finished at a community college but plan to do further study; two graduated from high school and entered college.

Margaret Fugate Carlton 1503 Wilmfr1gton Ave.

Richmond, Va. 23227 Some time ago I heard of Lillian Woodyard Lipscomb's death, but I was not able to confirm it until I heard from Virginia Gregory. Our hearts are always saddened by the death of a friend. ln April there was a large group of alumnae back on campus for the annual Boatwright Society reception and dinner.

But there were only three of us from our class-Joanna, Eva and I. Joanna Savedge Ellett's daughter and her two children came from Buffalo in April for a visit. While here she attended the 20th reunion of her class at Westhampton. Joanna and Vernon continue their frequent visits to Claremont.

Inez DeJamette Hite's activities continue to be limited because of her back trouble. But the things she can do, she does with her old enthusiasm. Inez and her daughter and children visit e~ch other often. Inez has two sisters who hve in Richmond.

In June Louise Wilkinson Morton's son and his family came from Houston for a visit. They were on their way north to visit colleges. Louise's oldest granddaughter will be ready for college in another year. Jeanne Morton from New York was here with her mother for the weekend of July 4.

In June Agnes Jones fell in her apartment and broke her hip. She was in Henrico Doctor's hospital for two weeks and is doing nicely. At this writing she is in University Park Nursing Home for a stay before she can go back to her apartment In April we had a short visit from all of our children and two of our grandchildren.

There are so many of you from whom I have not heard from for a long time. I wish you would write me news of yourself and family. My next letter is due January 1.

We extend our sympathy to the family of Carolyn Ramsey Haley who has passed away.

Ruth Bishop Dailey has completed 1500 hours of service at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, since 1973. She tutors a Laotian family and assists monthly in devotional services at a nursing home.

Buckner Fitzhugh Pannill keeps busy with volunteer services at her home in Maryland. Her husband died shortly after their 47th wedding anniversary.

Hunt, a retired Georgia school teacher, sends regards to the class.

Mildred Anderson Williams is recovering from a broken hip, suffered in March.

Annabeth Cash was here in February for her niece's wedding. Frances Anderâ&#x20AC;˘ son Stallard and her husband, Beecher, have returned from a tour of Eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia Remember spring 1983 will be the 55th reunion of the Class of 1928. Plan to

30 Margaret Willis Overton 1602 Bellevue Ave. Richmond, Va. 23227 Nancy Cassell Madry and Ernest are in good health, enjoying life and taking lots of short trips to the beach and mountains.

Janie Ruffin and her sister built a house in Chester after retirement and she keeps busy with gardening and caring for her sister, who had several operations in recent years Alice Richardson Connell had a visit in the winter with her son Dick and his family. Her daughter-in-law, Linda, is president of the Friends of the Gainesville Library.

Thelma Bryant Hutton took a trip to Scotland, Wales, and England in May. In June she attended the 50th reunion of the class of 1932, the first graduating class of Thomas Jefferson High School. After study in Munich, she joined the faculty in 1931, teaching German.

Virginia Prince Shinnick reports the marriage of her youngest daughter, Elizabeth Shinnick Vaughan, to The Rev. Martin Caldwell on June 12, 1982 in Houston, Tex. Cornelia Ferguson Underwood has a grandson born in October 1981. She and Wilson took a trip to Bermuda in May and enjoy weekends at their cottage in the Poconos.

Ed and I flew to Atlanta in May for a visit to our daughter, Margaret Kelso, and her family.

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2956 Hathaway Rd., Apt. 611 Richmond, Va. 23225

Frances Anderson Stallard 302 Virginia Ave. Richmond, Va. 23226

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April 16-17 marked the joyous occasion of our 50th class reunion. In all, 30 of us were present for all or part of the week-

end festivities: Mary Anne Hall Anderson, Carolyn Thompson Broaddus, Helen LeGrande Butler, Helen Pollard Deck, Olga Pitts DeShazo, Mary Ryland Fessler, Bertie Flippo, Almarine Montâ&#x20AC;˘ gomery Franklin, Lucy LeGrand Furney, Anne Sadler Garrett, Jane Little Gray, Tyler Hogg Harris, Muriel Mae Jones, Valerie LeMasurier Jones, Alice Sallee Lyons, Mary Templeman Marshall, Mary Hodnett Mathews, Mary Louise Trice Mitchell, Virginia Tabb Moore, Phyllis Perkinson, Virginia Jones Pharr, Ruth Coen Powell, Gwen Graham Ridenour, Mary Lucile Saunders, Zephia Campbell Scarborough, Geneva Bennett Snelling, EIU:abeth Prichett Taylor, Jean Peatross Thomas, Jessie Miller Jones Turner, Evelyn Gardner Ward.

On April 16 we were inducted into the Frederic W. Boatwright Society of Alumni and were guests of honor at the annual dinner of the Society. At a luncheon the following day we were awarded Golden Legion Certificates by the Westhampton College Alumnae Association.

The highlight of our celebration was the class banquet held on the night of April 17, when we were joined by husbands and other guests. Zephia, our president, presided and led us through a delightful panorama of reco!lections. Special guests were Dr. Jean Gray Wright, Dean Stephanie M. Bennett, and Jane S. Thorpe. With the aid of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association, the committee distributed a souvenir booklet of biographical sketches, including a class roster.

Class officers chosen to serve for the next five years are: President, Valerie LeMasurier Jones; Secretary, Jane Little Gray; and Fund Chairman, Mary Hodnett Mathews.

Margaret Procter Swelnam Box 170 Gwynn, Va. 23066 Elizabeth Claybrook Bristow is chairman of the Middlesex County unit of the American Cancer Society. It is participating in the six-year national Cancer Prevention Study #2 project.

Warren and Louise Messick Porter spent February on Longboat Key, Sarasota, Ra. In April they enjoyed having Ellen Douglas Oliver, W'23, as their guest in Delaware.

Ammye Herrin Hill changed her scene in July, by enjoying a painting holiday in the Shenandoah Valley. In March, painter-novelist Norman Garbo judged her painting of a young woman "Anne" best-in-show.

In addition to her other community interests, Elizabeth Claybrook Bristow is writing several sections of Families of Middlesex County, scheduled for publication November 1.

Anne Childrey Wood sold her house on Durwood Crescent and is now at home in "The 5101)" on Monument Ave.

Tucker Hill, Ammye's son, joined the Valentine Museum staff as Research Consultant, gathering and interpreting materials in preparation for the permanent exhibition on the History of Richmond which will become a part of the Museum in stages over the next several years. In some of his work, he is associated with Grace Rowland Wells, curator of the textile and clothing collection at the MuseWould you think an essay on an attic "Up the Stairs to Now" could win a blue ribbon? Marg,ll"Ct Proctor Swelnam's excursion into literature succeeded in the Virginia Federation of Woman's Clubs annual awards.

After 27 years of teaching in Kenbridge, Va., Helen Wilkinson Buchanan has retired to travel, to do volunteer work at the hospital and church and to participate in other community activities. She spends "much time enjoying my four grandchildren, two in Kenbridge, two in Virginia." She recently had a wonderful telephone visit with Ruth Parker Jones and enjoyed Anna Hallett Sniffen's visit, who came to Kenbridge lo speak to the ladies of the Episcopal church.

36 Helen Denoon Hopson 3404W.FrankiinSt. Richmond, Va,23221 Marjorie Pugh Tabb 4903MonumentAve. Richmond, Va. 23230 Dotti Harrison Enslow was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons this past March in St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Bellevue, Washington. She will spend the next two years in the clergy residency program of the Diocese serving as assistant at Christ Church in Seattle, and as chaplain in two hospitals. Dotti visited Martha Riis Moore and Manny Bowers Gill for several weeks this summer.

Kay Conner Davidson and her husband, Bob, vacationed in Europe in early spring. Millie Crowder Pickels cruised throughout Micronesia, making numerous stops in the Caroline, Marshall, Marianas and Gilbert Islands. In May she visited friends in Canada but suffered a bad fall, breaking her arm in two places. She is recovering slowly but surely.

Bobby Brock Clevenger's daughter, Nancy, was married on March 27 to Army Captain Howard Carpenter. They wil! live in California. Judith Hodges Schulte's son, Fred, married Kathy Wheat on April 30. Judith is active in Friends of the Library in .Mishawaka.

Randy Tabb, Margie Pugh Tabb and Ranny's son, is a partner in the law firm of Taylor, Hazen, Kauffman, Lipscomb and Smith in Richmond.

Helen Denoon Hopson and Billy have their first grandchild, a girl, Amanda

Stuart Hopson. Martha Riis Moore has her 11th grandchild, a boy, born to daughter Gretchen and husband Tony Cooke.

William Redd Taylor, Boo Owen Page's son-in-law, has gained wide recognition for his distinctive watercolors. Bill attended UR. His paintings have been exhibited in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Mariners' Museum, Smithsonian Institution and numerous other galleries throughout the country.

The very first class to be graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond had its 50th anniversary in June. Among those attending a reception and dinner in celebration of this event were five from our class at Westhampton; Esther Walsh Dutton, Jacquelin Wamer Warren, Martha Riis Moore, Marjorie Pugh Tabb and Helen Denoon Hopson.

:38 Margaret Lockwood Nolting 7833Jahnke Rd. Richmond, Va. 23235 In March ten of us had lunch together at the Virginia Museum. Jean Bobbitt Grubbs came from Ashland and is the mother of four sons and also has four grandchildren. Jean has retired from teaching at Hermitage High School.

Olive Messer Lewis was there from Tappahannock. She has four children (three sons and one daughter) and seven grandchildren. Her son, Bill, has gone into law practice with his father in Tappahannock.

Henrietta Harrell Smith still teaches math al Douglas Freeman High School in Henrico County. Her children, two girls and two boys, are all married, and she has nine grandchildren!

Martha Ellis Ross' daughter, our "Baby Cup" winner, is now 41 years old and lives in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Martha's mother is in a nursing home. We were sony to learn that her father died in Sep~ temberof 1981.

Emily Parker Kendig's husband, Dr Lawrence Kendig Jr., who was a pediatrician before he retired from his medical practice, is the new editor of The Richmond Medical Monthly. As class president, Emily is trying to get suggestions for our reunion next year. Each person at the luncheon will try to encourage at least one other member of our class to attend We were happy to see Mildred Gafford Davis looking so well. She had heart surgery two years ago and was unable to attend our first luncheon get-together.

Helen Gray keeps busy with her church work and also enjoys gardening at home.

Allie Martin Halbleib, Anne Walker and I were also there to enjoy the food and the conversation.

As you have probably noticed, Anne and I have been sharing the responsibility of handling the class notes. So contact either one of us if you have any news about yourself or others in the class

40 Jane Davenport Reid 2219StuartAve Richmond, Va. 23220 Maude Smith Jurgens 1828 Bloomfield Rd Richmond, Va . 23225 Pauline Cortopassi took a trip to the Costa Del Sol in June. Frances Bailey Gill and Harvey attended the graduation of their son Jack from Yale Law School. While they were there, they travelled around New England. Frances' daughters, Ann and Francie, live in Richmond. The Gills also spend time at Gwynn's Island Jane Aler Van Leeuwen is active in the Humane Society which serves six counties. Son Evan is a branch manager of a bank in Norfolk after his UR graduation and has a son Evan III (Tripp) who is 2.

Daughter Lynne, a Westhampton graduate, lives with her husband and three children in Severna Park, Md. Margaret Brinson Reed, serving on the boMd of the Virginia State Company, a professional theatre group, was chairman of their auction on June 5 that cleared $27,000. She does counselling with the Juvenile Courts, is on the board of the AAUW chapter and is working on !he Brinson family tree. She is doing some paper work for a psychologist interested in nutrition and Down's Syndrome and will be helping with the orchid convention at Williamsburg in the fall. She and Jack added a solar room to their Virginia Beach home and enjoy a boot.

Emma Lou Parsons Mallory enjoys the visits of daughters and granddaughters. Betty Lou works in the neonatal nursery of Henrico Doctors Hospital. The oldest granddaughter has become a baseball fan at 6½. Frank doesn't have 9 to 5 hours any more but works when he wants, with some gardening thrown in Harriet Yeamans Mercer finished the Hospice training course at Retreat I lospital. While she's not working with the hospice patients at home, she works on the Oncology floor doing whatever needs to be done. Jane Davenport Reid and Emmet babysit for granddaughters Cassandra and Jessica Williamson, 13 and 6. Jane continues to do interesting things at the Virginia Museum, just having finished up the Tour-of-the-Month describing the vases from South Jtalv Virginia McLarin Tate keeps active with the AAUW, League of Women Voters and is treasurer for the Danville Arca Association for Arts & Humanities. Owen has turned lo gardening in his retirement Daughter Kathy will be living in Williamsburg, where her husband is beginning law school.

Fred and I arc having a visit from three grandchildren from Oregon for two weeks. Eleanor Parsons Fish's youngest, Debbie, graduated from high school this June. Ellie and Bob have five older children married and quite a few grandchildren.

Our sympathy to Saddye Sykes Wil-

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Iiams and her husband, Harry, whose stepmother died in March

Frances Ca/isch Rothenberg 4003 Kensington Ave. Richmond, Va. 23221

Thirty-five members of the class of 1942 assembled for two nights of reminiscing and renewing college friendships, first at a "hen party" at Blair House, then with spouses or escorts at Willow Oaks Country Club. Class president Ada Moss Harlow, with Ann Pavey Garrett and May Thayer Holt, made arrangements.

From "update sheets" filled out by those present, your new (and former) secretary has garnered the following bits and pieces¡ We have produced 68 offsprings and brag about 48 grandchildren. Allene Jones Patteson seems to hold the record with six children, three of each kind, clever girl.

Ann Shafer Carey, mother of our class baby, told us that Holly Carey Handlin has a son and daughter of her own, as well as a master's degree from Harvard and a music degree from Cambridge, England.

Among those present were holders of graduate degrees in mental health (Ethne Flannagan Higginbotham); biology (Jean Grant Andrews); occupational therapy (Evelyn McAuley Harris); rehabilitation counseling (Ann Gwaltney Harwood); education (Jayne Maire Massie). Many others of us have taken graduate courses.

All of us work or have been employed in various fields from social work (Laura Jenkins Cornell); through chemistry (Dorothy Dill Robben, Peggy Vicars Early); writing (Mary Grace Scherer Taylor, Betty Sessler Tyler); real estate (Mildred Slavin Cordish); small business (Ann Gwa ltney Harwood); teaching (Laverne Priddy Muse, Jane Blake Longest, Jayne Maire Massie, Evelyn McAuley Harris). We boast corporate executives: Ann Shafer Carey, Esther Wendling Cline, Virginia Sauer, even yours truly Our puppeteer, Mary Duane Hoffman, still works with her little wonders. Most of us have done much volunteer and church work, too For Frances Williams Garrett, it was her first reunion. She and her husband, Henry, now a retired circuit judge in Virginia, have raised three sons, two lawyers and a Lt. in the U.S. Navy in Japan. Now she plans a "happy farmer's wife" career.

We have a dozen UR graduate offsprings of whom I am aware: Jean Beeks Marston's daughters Pam and Felicia; Wendy Cline's daughter Langley; RoselJen Hoffman Via's son Gil; mine are Paul and Martha; and Jayne Maire Massie's family is 300 percent UR, son Ned, daughter Susan, daughter-in-law Ellen, and granddaughter Catherine Jayne Massie, class of 2002. Jayne wouldn't have it any other way!

Our hobbies are healthy: walking, tennis, fishing, gardening, needlework,

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reading, travel. Some of us have travelled world-wide with husbands' careers: Clarine Cunningham Bergen, Allene Jones Patteson, Ann Shafer Carey, Betty Sessler Tyler.

Betty Anne Petzinger Shackelford from Houston, Tex. and Jean Grant Andrews from Largo, Fla. probably came the most miles. Lillian Jung, from Central Valley, N.Y., took wonderful pictures of everyone. Bless her! Louise Hall Moser and Dot Quinn Keeling completed our roster. Did I omit anyone? If so, please forgive We did transact a bit of business.

New officers for the next five years include Ann Smith Palazzo and Ann Pavey Garrett, co-presidents; Rosalie Want Jacobs, treasurer; Ada Moss Harlow, fund chairman; and your correspondent, secretary.

Lois Kirkwood North 1684 Maple Ave

Galesburg, l/1. 61401 Ellen Mercer Clark Maxwell wrote the sad news of Keith's death on May 12. We extend our sympathy lo her at this time, especially since many of us remember him well from our class reunions. We shall miss him at our next one.

My mother and I spent two delightful weeks in Virginia this spring. I had lovely visits with Gene Shepard Keever and Dick, and Dot Monroe Hill and Stonie Gene and I spent two days in Richmond and visited the campus. It was ablaze with color, especially on the walk near Betsy's bench. I was happy to contact Betsy Rice. She is busy teaching part time, working in a hospital and caring for family.

I saw Gloria Tyler Robertson in Portsmouth. She is the director of research and staff development for the schools of Chesapeake Sympathy is extended to Dorris Hedgepeth Neal in the death of her husband, Frank, on March 13, 1982 Dot Monroe Hill had news of Ann Burcher Stansbury. She and Warren are the proud owners of a sailboat and report that retirement is great. Norma Sanders Gravely is also part of a retired couple now.

Mimi Hill Boynton has one child in Vermont, one in North Carolina, one in California and two in Virginia Colleges.

She teaches part time in a private school, and Doug is retired I have just completed my seventh year check-up at M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston, Tex. I am thankful the report is still good, and I do not return until June 1983.

It is time to begin thinking of our next reunion. We will need an arrangements chairman since I cannot manage from Illinois. Please let us know what events you would like to schedule or if you would prefer a questionnaire. 1 know from my experience with the Knox College 50-year dub (I have been giving out

diplomas and reading citations for many years) that often some of the local people do not choose to participate as thoroughly as those of us who come greater distances. We hope all of the class will make a sincere effort to return . Those of us from out of town stay together at a motel- almost like the dorm of long ago. Plan to join us!

Cornelia Reid Rowlett 8831 Tuckennan Lane Potomac, Md. 20854

Virginia Lambeth Shotwell is volunteer coordinator for the National Network of Oergy Spouses.

Marion Lawton Kinzey's son, Renny, received his MA from UVa. this spring Jean Saperstein Beeman and Ed toured by car southern France, Switzerland and northern Italy. Ed is a physician in internal medicine. Barbara, their oldest child, is a geologist for oil drillers in Denver, Colo. Another daughter, Cynthia, is a dentist, working toward a doctorate in oral biology at the U. of Connecticut Medical Center. Daughter Judy is engaged to be married. Their son, Robert, was just graduated from Earlham College in lndi-

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48 Jean Brumsey Bi scoe 808 Keats Rd Richmond, Va . 23229 Sorry to report the death of Lois McClanahan Garrell in the spring. I'll be secretary until our reunion in April 1983 and then one of you, 1 hope, will volunteer.

We went to two lovely weddings Betty Hickerson Butterworth and Jack's daughter, Ann, was married in May and !ots of UR people were there, including Emily Smith Powers and Jack. He has retired from teaching, and they are delighted with their first grandchild. Also Frankie Robison King and George were there and, they arc enjoying their new summer place on the Outer Banks. Ann is a lawyer in Tennessee. Their son, John, is studying in Boston to be a neurosurgeon. Frances Orrell Dunn and Bob's son Roy married in June. Roy graduated from W&M and is with IBM in Roanoke. Frances is still a principal in a Spotsylvania School and Bob is doing well, after retiring early due to illness. Saw Suzanne Lovern Peeler and Sam at the wedding. They have one graduated WC daughter and one still there Frances said Jo Hoover Pittman and Bob have retired and are traveling around the country Betty Hengeveld Bradshaw, in Wilmington, wrote of the death of her husband, Brad, last January. Both her children arc in banking, one in Wilmington and one in Richmond.

I'm still with the Department of Cor-

rections as manager of a unit which measures compliance with standards for all facilities and programs in the state. Our son has graduated from high school, and our 16-year-o!d daughter is actively trying lo be involved in everything. Johnny has completed 32 years with the telephone company. Mother, whom many of you remember, is on her second pacemaker and doing well.

Our 35th is in the spring. Make tentative plans for a great reunion

'50 Wilda Whitman Oakley 2W7WhiteOakDn've Titusville, Fla. 32780 Virginia Sim's recuperation from brain surgery nears an end, and she is anxious lo return to work. Flota Jeanne Zbar liws in Tampa, Fla. Libby Givens Pierce and Bucky have just returned from a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Maggie Alexander Anderson and Sat enjoyed a trip to Daytona Beach.

Doris Lee Reeves Childress went tu Europe in the spring.

Ellen Largent Perlman and Al are in Romania, where Al serves as the Embassy's counselor for press and culture. They had a short vacation to Vienna, Austria, Prague, Czechoslovakia and Berlin. Ellen produces a monthly newsletter for the International Women's Association.

In May, Mark Kaplan, the son of Louise Feinberg Kaplan, graduated from UR, and Lynn, daughter of Barbara White Balderson and Les, received her master's in nursing from the U. of Md Our sympathy to Helen Lampathakis Kostyal whose father passed away in June.

Win Schanen Mitchell lives in Birmingham, Ala. Now last but not certainly not leastone humongus thanks to Barbara White Balderson who wrote the news when I had my first heart attack in December. I had a second heart attack in Januarv and on January 23 the doctors performed open heart surgery and gave me a quadruple bypass operation. I'm progressing nicely and plan to return lo my classroom in the fall

Nola Texley Breckenridge 5110PumphreyDrive Fairfax, Va. 22032 It was a SUPER FANTASTIC 30th REUNION weekend for all 46 uf our class who were there. The festivities began on Friday evening at the Downtown Oub where there were many squeals o( delight as friends began to catch up on each other's lives. The arrangements were made

by Claire Carlton, and everyone appreciated all the effort she made to make it such a memorable occasion. After dinner

there was an election of officers for the next five-years period. Isabel Sanford Rankin was elected president; Nola Texley Breckenridge, secretary; Anne Gibson Hill, fund chairman. My husband, Bob, is Class Scribe for his West Point class, and J sec him agonizing over his column because he does not have enough news. So right here and now, PLEASE keep me informed. My deadlines are twice a year, January 7 and July 7. For the January column, put me on your Christmas card list.

It is just one more name-do it now!

Most of us from out of town were staying at the Regency Motel on Parham Road. This made for good times and conviviality, when we returned from the Downtown Club.

Saturday morning we had a festive pre-lunch gathering at the beautiful home of Diane Evans Glenn. It gave all of us a chance to circulate and see classmates who had not been able to attend the dinner the night before. From Diane's we went to Westhampton for the alumnae luncheon in Keller- the Gym Hall. It was beautifully done! The students who were helping were positively refreshing. We had delicious box lunches and had the opportunity to watch the March of Time as the various reunion classes stood and were recognized. I do believe that we were the largest reunion class there.

After the luncheon, many of us chose to walk around the campus. As Anne Gibson Hill said to me, "Nola, you won't believe the changes since our college days!" fhal evening we all gathered at Isabel Sanford Rankin's home for dinner. There were classmates there who had not been able to attend any of the other occasions, soonceagainthcrewerethesquealsof delight and the hugs of long-standing devotion. Some who had never been able to manage a reunion until this time, left convinced that they would make every effort not to ever miss another one.

I cannot begin to list the names of those who were present. Suffice it to say that we had a simply marvelous time. I will give space to a few who came from great distanccs-Diz Stuart-Alexander came from Palo Alto, Calif.; Joy Selby Scollon from Marin County, Calif; the two Harrietts from Minneapolis; Jo Soles Garnett from Conn.; Lou Tull Washburn from Memphis, Tenn.; and Mary Marshall Wiley from Texas.

We missed each and every one of you who could not be with us Write and send pictures. It will add so much to this column and to our class scrapbook.

Barbara Cawthorne Clarke and Herb, joined by Anne Gibson Hill, watched their son graduate from Duke U. in June and receive a commission as an Ensign in the Navy. He is off now for flight training in Pensacola, Fla. Harriet Willingham Johnson and her husband are in the Netherlands for a six-month period of work.

Harriet Stubbs has just returned from a meeting in Sweden; topic, Acid Rain.

Jo Soles Garnett and Tom teach in Ridgefield, Conn. Georgie McTeer Cooke and Morris enjoy civilian life and stay put in Beaufort, S.C. Eleanor Bradford Tunell and Bob designed and built their new house in Columbia, S.C.

Joyce Bell Cody is doing well following open heart surgery and is working un her second novel. Lu Angell Soukup's husband, Ray, also had heart surgery and looks great.

Kitty Little Dupuy Nelson and husband, Bob, live in Yorktown. Betty Hurt Beasley has just finished nursing school.

Lou Tull Mashburn and Art are associate professors of biochemistry at the U of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. Lou gave a paper on her research at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in St. Louis in April.

Lou's hobby is orchids, and she is president-elect of the Memphis Orchid Society.

Janet Storm Pengelley has lived in Australia for about 20 years and now lives in Perth. They have two daughters and a son. Son Richard has been around the world a couple of times on tour with the Australian Water Polo team. He was the Young Athlete of the Year last year Eleanor Lee Persons Hayes and Bob's daughter, Linda, had a baby girl early in 1981 and lives in Plainview, Tex., where her husband is a bank trust officer. The Hayeses still live in Arlington near the Pentagon. Bob is on a contract management review team for the Navy. Eleanor joined him in May for a trip to London and Naples. Their son works for Burroughs Corporation in Rochester, N.Y. Nina Landolina Byrd and Ray's grandson, Bradley, was born to Carol and Mark Barr in lx!c. 1981. Carol and Mark are doing their medical residences in MiamL Nancy Ayers Creech could not spare the time from her campaign for the City Council race to be at the reunion. She won with a good majority with her slogan "Creech for the Beach".

Lou Glading Shelton is back home in Martinsville following a long hospital stay and major surgery. We all wish Lou a speedy recovery.

Anne Stuart Hartz Garnett 3848 Brook Rd. Richmond, Va. 23227 The class of 1956 expresses sympathy to Pat Eanes Jackson in the death of her mother last fail.

Doris Huffman Moore's daughter, Laura, graduated from Meredith College in May and is in a management trainee program for the Ginn Company in Richmond. Doris's son, Hudson, is a sophmore at East Carolina.

From Galveston, Tex., Ellice Simmonds Wells writes of their home being hit by a tornado in June 1981. She teaches kindergarten. Daughter Sue (19) is in college. Ann (16) is a high school junior.

Ed and I enjoyed an evening with Charlotte Hart Simpson and Bill. Daughters Catherine (11) and Helen (7) were charming assistant hostesses.

Ann Carol Yeaman Malcolm and family seem to be keeping things going in Pennsylvania. 1981 saw the addition to their home begun. Duties in the Pennsyl-

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vania Association of Hospital Auxiliaries and her ecumenical choir services took Ann Carol to Washington, Chicago, New Jersey, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Some things don't change, according to Edith Borjes Greer, who writes of taking a cake and other goodies to daughter Cindy at Mary Washington College.

"Girls appeared from all directions at the smell of food." Son David finished high school in June and is now a college freshman.

Helen Melton Lukhard's daughter Laurie made Dean's List as a 1981-82 freshman at Westhampton. Laurie has transferredtotheUVa. for1982-83. We are proud to learn that l fclen will be heading the Annual Fund drive this year at Westhampton. Let's all plan to give generously and make Helen's year as chairman a very successful one.

In May I received a service award for 20 years as a fi fth-grade teacher at Lakeside Elementary School in Henrico County. Ed added another to his collection of fishing trophies. The latest was for the largest bluefish caught in the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association's May Fishing Tournament.

Please send your news to Shirley Evans Hart by January l or to me by July 1.

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BetsyGathinKs Snook 25 Indian Valley Lane Telford, Pa. 18969 The class of 1960 has suffered a great loss.

Clare Earle Ahlers d ied of cancer on July 1. We extend our deepest sympathy to Gare's husband, David, her two children, and her parents. We, her classmates, will miss her greatly.

02 fudilh Cnrpenler Rabenold 14 Ravenwood Rd. Darien , Conn . 06820 J.C. Shapard Confroy's oldest son, Bill Jr., will be a freshman at UR in the fall.

Daughter Sally, 16, is a senior at St. Cath· erine's School in Richmond. Wirt, 14, will be in 9th grade, and Tim, 10, enters the 5th grade. Bill stays busy with banking and gives much time to industrial development in the county. J. C. and Bill find time for golf, tennis, little league baseball and league soccer. Their summer vacation was spent at Nags Head, N.C. After studying musicology for three years at Indiana U., Samantha Embrey Freeman went to Washington, D.C. in 1966. She worked at various jobs, trav· elled, married Lee in 1976, acquiring a couple of stepdaughters, and had a daughter, Mary Catherine in 1977. Samantha hopes to return to work soon in a part-time job. She plays the piano, sings with a small group, enjoys gardening and bike rid ing.

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Shirley Easter Maize was sorry to have missed our 20th reunion but hopes to make the 25th. Her son graduated from high school in May and entered the U. of Kansas in the fall.

News comes from Belt Burrus Brooks that John had open heart surgery last November and is getting along nicely. Both boys are active in sports and in scouting activities. John and Eddie, the oldest, both served on the national staff for the Scout Jamboree. Bctt teaches biology at Culpeper High, is head of the science department and is student council advisor.

Nancy Vaughan Downey leaches government to the 12th grade at Petersburg High. Her sons are 8 and 12 years old. Her husband works at John Tyler Community College.

June Mcvey Goodall's husband, David, writes that by June 1983 June will have her DDS from the dental branch of the U. of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and will be back home again in Houston. David Lee will be a senior in hlgh school and wants to be a computer programmer or an engineer. Todd wants to be a professional athlete. David is in the process of building a new church building.

Frederica B. Baxter is a member of the city of Baltimore's Industrial Development Authority. Appointed by the mayor and consisting of two bankers two prominent local developers, the authority has powers equal to those of the city in fi. nancing development. (Frederica is with the Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust.)

06 Eugenia Henderson Schutt 3320 Loxley Rd. Richmond, Va.23227

Sandra Gross Schneider received her Juris Doctor degree in 1980 from T. C. Williams. While in law school Sandy was on the Law Review and the Moot Court Board. In addition, she received the Corpus Juris Secundum Award and the American Juris Award. She and Eddie, district manager for Browning Ferris Industries, live in Richmond with their three children, Andrew Mark, 16; Jill Diane, 14; and Jonathan David, 11.

Joy Davis Smith and Marvin live in Tarrytown, N.Y. Marvin is vice president of Finance with Penntech Papers in New York City. They have two children, Blake, 8, and Whitney, 6. Joy creates and sells original craft items. The Smiths enjoy collecting antiques and breeding their English sheepdog.

Fran Stewart Starr, Ed and daughter, Catie, 9, live in Charlotte, N.C. Ed is an interior designer and owns his own company, Ed Starr, Assoc., where Fran works part time. Fran is active in Girl Scout work and in the Dilworth United Methodist Church. Catie models and makes TV commercials through a local talent agency.

Harriet Mann Tomlinson lives in Dayton, Ohio, with Edward and their two children, Susan, 14, and David, 12. Harriet works full time as a medical secretary

for a plastic surgeon. Ed has his PhD in meterology from the U. of Utah and is now in research at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Betsy Spencer Townsend is a substi· lute teacher in Chesterfield County, where she lives with Daniel and their children, Danny, 13, and Kelly, 9. Betsy and Daniel, a chemist, sing in their church choir and are active in various sporting ac· tivities.

Mary Catherine Ware lives in Homer, N.Y. and is an associate professor of education. She received her MS and PhD degrees from Syracuse U. and completed one year of postdoctoral work at UNC at Greensboro. She is currently working on adult education and computer literacy.

JoAnn Jamison Webster is a research associate in the Department of Biochemistry at Oklahoma State U. Ed is an assistant professor of sociology at OSU. Their daughter, Karen, 11, is active in a-1 sports. JoAnn has her master's in physiology from OSU and was initiated into Sigma Xi Science Honorary in April 1980.

Both Ed and JoAnn are active participants in their church.

Lou VanHeuveln Wrenn is the per• sonnel supervisor at the Willow Lawn Miller & Rhoads store in Richmond. Her husband, Wayne, works for T.F. Frick Painters and Decorators as their estimator.

Their children, Mary, 13, and Ben, 11, attend Chesterfield County Schools.

Jenny Neely Wright has served as president of the Roanoke Chapter of the WC Alumnae Association. She is a nursery school teacher and, also, officiates at volleyball, basketball and gymnastic events. Wayne is self-employed, H. C. Baker Sales, and sells all types of electron· ic supplies. They have three sons, Chris, 9;Jeff, 7; and Patrick, 4.

Bonnie Lush Yospin and Jerry live in Amelia, Va., with their daughters, Sharon, 11, and Kelly, 9. Bonnie works as a part-time bookkeeper and salesperson for her husband, who is a sales representative for women's clothing.

Mildred Kaiser Fleetwood is director of Immunopathology and Histocompatibility Laboratories at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa. Stephen is a dentist in Bloomsburg, Pa., where they live with daughters Millie Kate, 5, and Stephanie, 3, and son, Seth, 1. Millie is a member of the committee on continuing education of the American Society of Microbiology, a group that plans the workshop courses for national meetings.

Sara Gilliam Hopkins moved to Miami seven years ago and began studying voice as a hobby. She is now a profession· al singer and private voice teacher. She received a BA in music in applied voice from the U. of Miami and now sings oper• atic roles for the Gold Coast Opera Theatre. Her husband, John, is an editor at the Miami Daily News and is very active as an elder at Palmetto Presbyterian Church.

Betty Richardson Hobgood takes Tre· vor, 1½, with her to work at her gift shop, Accessories Unique in Durham, N.C. She considers him her PR man since he "chats" with all of her customers! Her husband Wayne is vice president of a consulting firm and president of Olmec Pool and Solar Engineers. Their other two

sons, Blair, 12, and Brook, 10, keep them busy with ball games and scouts.

08 Susan Lee Harris 2525HeafhPlace Reston, Va. 22091 Pamela Rahn has completed an MBA and left California in July for a year's vacation in Europe. She will be traveling around western Europe in a camper van. Pam will return to Baltimore.

Mary Ellen Kerns Kotz teaches history in middle school. This year she helped write and pilot a new academic program for Junior Achievement of Delaware. They operated their own company and competed against the high school companies. Mary Ellen also is enrolled at the U. of Delaware where she is working on a master's degree. She is on the board of the Wilmington Ballet Society and invites anyone in the area to come see the company perform . lier daughter, Dawn (our class's first-born girl), was selected for the Johns Hopkins Talent Search. Husband Ed is in the detective unit for New Castle County Police Department. He plans to retire in 3½ years, and they plan to move back to Richmond Bonnie Bowman Nelson is a counselor at Douglas Freeman High School in Richmond.

Thanks to those that wrote. Please keep in touch- remember our 15th reunion is coming up in '83!

'72 Gwendolyn Fletcher Duncan Rt. 7 Box352 Greenville,N.C.27834 Frances Maddox Smith, Steve, and their two sons live in Gladys, Va. She teaches high school French and English Connie Day Dunn was in Richmond in June and met Trish Mason Prillaman, Mary Kay Reynolds Norfleet, Judy Johnson Mawyer and Betty Gammon Fulgham for dinner. Mary Kay moved in June to Richmond, where her husband Robert is the new director of admissions at Union Theological Seminary.

Susan Tarkington Thomas is the campaign division director for United Way in Richmond. Peter, her husband, works with Branch, Cabell and Co. Nancy Clevinger and her husband, Capt. Howard John Carpenter, live in Monterey, Calif. He is al the Naval postgraduate school with the U.S. Army.

Dianne Jones Home and Wallace have moved to Blackstone, where he is a family practitioner Our 10th reunion proved to be our best yet with a total of 66 members in attendance. We had 61 Friday evening at the Deanery. Saturday night there were 36 class members with dates and/or spouses at the Bull and Bear Club in downtown

Richmond. Nine classmates came from out-of-state. A special thanks goes to each out-going officer and to those who worked on the reunion. Thank you for helping me serve you in the last five years as your secretary. Your new officers for the next five years are: Betty Toler, president, Susan Clarke, secretary, and Nancy Benfield, fund raising chairperson.

Martha Key Bradley has had a hectic schedule between a program at MCV and traveling to Durham, N.C. to be home with Don on weekends. Now, she has joined Don at their new home in Durham, where both are doctors.

'78 Margaret Ownby Milby 18MalvernAve. Richmond, Va. 23221 Tara Daly Ranson's husband, Jerry (R'75), is the division manager for sales for Philip Morris in Bristol, Tenn. Before moving there, Tara worked as a sales representative for Philip Morris in Richmond.

Carol Marshall attends medical school al Eastern Virginia in Norfolk. She graduated from dental school at MCV in May and is interested in oral surgery.

Bonnie J. Axtell is with Performance Systems Corporation in Dallas, Tex., a management consulting firm specializing in organization behavior and human relations.

Belle Blake works for Liberty Mutual as a loss prevention consultant in Florida Mary Kay McClintock Swenson and Jeff have bought a house in Fanwood, N.J. Mary Kay has been on a leave of absence since the birth of their son, Kyle Jeffrey. She was a promotion coordinator of Continuing Education for the IEEE. Lynne Deane has begun her residency in family practice at Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Va. Geri Daly is director of capital resources at Loyola U. in Baltimore.

Carolyn Steere Cockrell, myself, and our husbands, Chuck R'78 and Willard R'78, drove to South Portland, Maine for Betsy Wacker's wedding in June. Betsy and her husband, Bill, will live in Maine.

'80 MaryS . Phipps 529 Harrow Rd. Richmond, Va. 23225 Lee Griesbach works for an oil company in Houston, Tex. Celeste Baldera has moved back up to New York and works with CBS. Karen Borkey spent this summer touring Europe. Sherry Williams finished her master's at Georgetown U. in American Economic Development. She moved in March to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mollie Wilson McCulloch works for PrenticeHall, Inc. in Baltimore.

Alice Asby is entering her third year of law school at UVa. and is clerking for Williams, Worrel, Kelly and Greer. Nancy Garnett is in the Peace Corps in Kenya.

Janet Rice camped across country this summer. Julie Wyatt works for Robertshaw Controls in Richmond. Marcia Cosby works for United Virginia Bank in Richmond. Leigh Hayes is at LINC graduate school in library science. Rebecca West is a third-vear law student at T. C. Williams. ,

Births 1969/ Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stobie (Elizâ&#x20AC;˘ abeth Blair Smith) a daughter, Samantha Blair,Mar.9,1982.

1970/ Mr. and Mrs. K. Maxwell Dale (Emily Davis), a son, Feb. 8, 1982 19721 Dr. and Mrs. Wallace J, Horne (Dianne Jones), a daughter, Deirdre Dianne,Mar.2,1982.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Goyne (Kathy McDonnan), a daughter, Lindsay Wray,Feb.5, 1982.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Kenneth Heskett (Libby Lynch), a daughter, Kendall Elizabeth, May 26, 1982.

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Knight (Nancy Manning), a son, William Blankinship, June 8, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Price (Rachel Pierce), a daughter, Mary Darden, July 8, 1981.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prillaman (Trish Mason), a daughter, Jan. 6, 1982.

Mr. and Mrs . Steven W , Smith (Frances Maddox), a son, David Miller, Feb.3,1982 1976/ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Lacy Jr. (Paula Adams), a son, Joseph Thomas III, July 19, 1982.

1978/ Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Ranson (Tara Daly), a son, Michael, July 18, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Swenson (Mary Kay McClintock}, a son, Kyle Jeffrey, Dec. 13, 1981

Marriages 19721 Nancy Clevinger and Capt. Howard John Carpenter {U.S. Army), Mar. 27, 1982.

1978/ Frances Ann Doyle and Charles Martin Davenport, Mar. 18, 1982.

Betsy Ann Wacker and William Thomas Gianetta, June 26, 1982.

1980/ Mollie Wilson and B. Hunter Mc:Colloch, Sept. 26, 1981.

Paula Van Hom and Mark Rhoads.

Jenifer Bolas and Jonathan Holljes, Mayl982 Anne D'Agostino and Alan Shingler, May 1982.

Barbara Selby and John Andrus.

Pam Asbell and Brad Cavedo, Mar. 1982.

Beth Marcocia and Steve Ramsev, June 12, 1982. '

Deaths WCRI Ophelia Nelson Cooley (Mrs. Horace C.) of Seattle, Wash., Feb.18, 1982 1918/ Deborah A. McCarthy of Richmond, Va., Aug. 4, 1982.

1919/ Esther Sanford Jett (Mrs. Joseph C.) of Virginia Beach, Va., Mar. 22, 1982.

1938/ Arline Kramer Cleveland (Mrs. George), of Dana, Ind., May 24, 1982

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