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ALUMNAE NEWS

BULLETIN OF

LONGWOOD November 1957

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Library

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College

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Volume XLIII

Number 4

Longwood College

Bulletin of

FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA

ALUMNAE NUMBER Volume XLIII

November 1957

FiMishcd by

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Member

Page

The American Autmni Council

of

Editor: Virginia

Message from

McLean Pharr

the President

Alumnae

Helen Draper, Chairman. Rav Merchent, Foster Gresham. Mary Clay Hiner. R. C. Si.moxini. Editorial Board:

Stu-dent Assistant:

Ann

Brierley

Dr. Francis G.

Dabney

S.

Lankford Lancaster

President Emeritus, Longwood College

5

6

W.

News

8

Dormitory Under Construction

9

"Rotunda Clippings"

10

Darden Addresses 18S Graduates Gifts

Made

Fifty

Year Class Wins Jarman Cup

President

3105

4

Longwood College

President.

Elsie Stossel

Suijport Institute of Southern Culture

Dean, Physician, Professor Retire

New

Dr.

2

Tribute to a Teacher

Faculty

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

1

From Living Abroad

Insights Gained

Grace

St.,

Richmond,

to

12

.Alumnae House

12 13

\'a.

Retired Secretary's Portrait Painted

14

First J'iee-Presideut

Dorothy Diehl

3-D Baylor

.^pts,,

1019

Anne

St.,

Si.x

Graduates Receive Scliolarships

15

Portsmouth, Va. Chapters

Seeond

16

J'iee-Prcsideiit

Virginia L. Wali

Farmville, Va.

Farmville. \'a.

Directors

Frances Horton

Seniors, Sororities

Make

Gifts

17

Foreign Students

Ex-Pi-esideuf

Margaret Robinson Simkins

Sammy

Have Busy Year

Nine

New

Faculty

18

Members on Campus

20

Granddaugher's Club Picture

21

Your Alumnae President Reports

22

2124 Memorial Ave.,

S. W., Roanoke, Va.

Scott

Tazewell, Va.

Emily Johnson Pat Tuggle Miller

3833 9th Rt.

2,

St.,

North, Arlington, Va.

Laurel Springs, Ellerson, Va.

Ex-Secretary

Founders Day Program

23

Your Candidates, and

24

Honor

Ruth Harding Coyner McLean Pharr__

Farmville,

Virginia

Ballot

25

Roll

Va.

Lane Richmond, Va.

5211 Sheridan

In

Memoriam

'_-

29

Births

Chairmen of Standinc/ Committees Helen Costan, Chairman, Snack Bar 1307 Oakwood Court, Lynchburg, Va. Maria Bristow Starke, Chairman. Alumnae House "Rustoni", River Road, Richmond, Va.

Marriages Class

28

30

News

31

46

Missing Persons

Executive Secretary and Treasurer

Elizabeth Shipplett Jones

Sheppards, Va.

COVER

Class Representatives

Josephine Hillsman

Joan Harvey Betty Davis Edwards.-.416

Martinsville, Va. Rt.

1,

Appomattox, Va. Va.

Joist Hite Place, Winchester,

The picture on the cover shows Elsie Stossel, president of the Alumnae Association and Margaret Rolnnson Simkins, past president, before the statue of Joan of Arc in the Rotunda.

Published quarterly by Longwood College, Farmville, Va. Second Cla

liling privileges at

Farmville,

Va

MESSAGE

FROM THE PRESIDENT I

am

and everywhere are facing rapidly

increasing enrollments. In this respect.

wood

'

pure you are aware that colleges

universities

is

Each year

no exception.

*

'

^

.

.

Long-

'': •,

since 1953

^^^^iBt.p'''"''^-

our enrollment has steadily increased; and by conservative estimates our present enrollment will double by 1970. We have a dormitory under construction which will be ready to occupy by September of 1958. .\s I write

*

\

we are inviting bids on construction to provide more classroom space. Further additions to the physical plant will be needed. But there are other even more important Francis G. Laxkford needs that increased enrollments will emphasize. One is the need to maintain the quality of faculty to which Longwood is accustomed. This must be done in the face of keen competition from other colleges and universities. To meet this competition, we must have better salaries as well as working conditions that give faculty members more time for research and other creative work. We must also tr\ this,

to

make more There

crease.

is

efficient

use of the capable faculty

we

have.

also the need to maintain the quality of our student

Here

I

mean

quality of heart and mind, for at

as our numbers inhas always been true

body

Longwood

it

and intellect are respected by student body and faculty. As numbers we must also be sure that each new group is taught respect for the fine traditions Longwood. These are a precious heritage which new students must be helped to ap-

that both character increase,

of

preciate.

In meeting

all

live in Virginia

of these needs, loyal

Longwood alumnae can

can be especially helpful

help.

Those

of

you who

supporting our requests of the legislature for funds to increase faculty salaries and to enlarge our physical facilities. Loyal alumnae everywhere can help in directing to Longwood young women who possess the qualities to succeed academically, to make a contribution to campus life, and to reflect credit on the good name of Longwood. Such young women do constitute our student body today. I wish all of you could have the rewarding experience that is mine in working with these bright, resourceful,

in

and dedicated young people

am

keenly aware that local alumnae chapters have helped with scholarships and in our recruiting of able high school graduates. Indeed, whenever we have asked new students how they were influenced to choose Longwood, contact with alumnae has always had high frequency. I am sincerely grateful for this help. I hope you will write us any time we can support your efforts in this direction. I

Sincerely,

F. G. L.A.NKroRD, Jr.

—

INSIGHTS GAINED

FROM LIVING ABROAD Founders Day Address by Mary Douglas Finch, '22 Often

found

I

ver}- frustrating in the

it

Japanese schools

not to be able to maintain the language standards either

my

for myself or for

Miss

students instilled by Miss Rice and

my

nor to have

Smithe}-,

high school and college

pupils'

compositions in

faintly resemble those ap-

e^'en

proved by Mr. Grainger and Miss Hiner, but each year im Mar}' DouglaDr. Francis G. Lankford, Mildred Dickinson Da\i^, ami .\ancy Lea Harris, student body president, (in tile platfurm at Founders Day. I

1

It

has been exactly four months since

my

returned to

I

arrival in Virginia.

been discarded today.

forted today in this meeting as

come with ^ou

I

to

tribute to our

Alma Mater on

Day.

comforted because we have the same

feel

I

same deep

ories, the

this seventy-third

pav

Founders

mem-

gratitude, for our student experiences

here, for the lasting friendships formed, for our

Longwood educational

heritage

and

advantage which the years

spiritual

com-

feel

at

STC

cultural

the

our

Alma

and

^Mater

brought to each one of us in large measure.

In voicing again as

we had

tion of the leadership

faculty of our day,

and

in

Dr. Jarman and the

of our present leadership,

we

are

life

At

abroad.

sights. to live

I

least

have gained some different

I

say a privilege because I consider

and work

professional

mv

in another culture, not

the impact of different social

and

it

in-

just that

own, under

religious customs against

an ancient Oriental background. I

America"

in

number of "Japan Speaks to Allantic Monthly: "The best way to learn

about a country

is,

when an American

of

course,

to

go there.

travels in Europe, he

not only exploring but also going home.

no parental son

never

or narcissistic

inducements.

is,

However, in a sense,

Japan provides Samuel Johnand

Hiroshige's

Kyoto prints awaken no vicarious memories

of coaching

davs with

strolled

JSIr.

along

Pickwick."

the

Ginza;

into the

"Some

Japanese

included the extension of the period of compulsor\' edu-

ment

and the adoption of group

of a social science course,

instructional

methods."

Maeda

!Mr.

points

out the difficulties involved in implementing these educational policies,

among them

the complete lack of under-

standing of the Japanese situation on the part of too officers,

many

as well as the Japanese tendency to

In spite of western clothes, gadgets, the most up-to-date buildings in

the large cities, radio, television, in fact

all

mass media, the

the introduction of all forms of of feudalism

way of

of life.

some

of

icy

hand

has a strong hold upon the Japanese

still

All too often,

it

my

as

students

wipes the smile

off the faces

they go obedientl}- to the

Shinto Shrines to be married

quote from a recent

in a recent

cation, the basic principle of co-education, the establish-

conformism.

my

Bureau of Education)

Tamon Maeda,

Japan, Mr.

much to commend Of primary importance and basic to all of them Others was the emphasis upon the democratic spirit.

have had more privileges than some, because

have been teaching and learning most of

minister of Education (edu-

educational system after the war have

in our lives through the years.

I

them with

of

them.

U.S. Aniiy

I

many

of the striking innovations introduced

simply saying in words the thanks we've tried to express

Perhaps

at least

students,

copy of the Japan Quarterly comments as follows:

discussion

do with you today our apprecia-

I

is

The

controlled by a National

in early post-war

I

new

had many U.S. Army of Occupation reforms superimposed upon them, many of which have

that adjustments are necessary.

time and the startling changes around us,

with the

aid,

cation

all this

start

Post-w'ar Japanese schools rebuilt,

After seven years' absence, I believe you can understand

Yet in spite of

new

a

holding up the high standards received here.

American

America, and two months since

make

could

I

men whom

to

the profes-

sional go-between has introduced briefly only a short time before.

The arranged match

cerned with

little

regard

pleases the two families conthe

for

two individuals most

concerned.

But whether students of in the

in

human

Japan or

in

America as teachers and

relations

we

are not interested chiefly

formal changes in

societ}-.

cerned with people and what

we teach not

is

We

are

much more

happening

to them.

con-

For

subjects, not grades in a system, but persons

Alumnae Magazine

growing up

make

to

permitted here to

tell

a world of

you

tlie

my

San, Saito-San or Hirohara-San,

whom

I've

whom

much,

I've learned

had fellowship

own.

am

I

not

and

to teach

in their small

G

beloved by

all

Jaiianese students).

sit

quietly sipping tea

floors

in

witli

We

homes.

Beethoven

a beautiful laccjuer cup, listening to the

Symphony

whom

students from

I've tried

on the straw matting covered from

tlieir

fascinating stories of Sokuda-

minor or Chopin's Polonaise If there

(records

no record

is

In students' homes we hover over the tiny char-

same student seated

coal brazier for heat in winter, }et that

me

across the Ijrazier from

than

much more stylishly dressed new design by Dior from

is

her suit a cojjy of a

I.

Seventeen or Vogue, highh- jirized magazines in

Japan

and think

of

civilization

dominated

You

see,

and the

we always have the combination of the new Eastern and the Western ways of life,

old, the

and many of us believe

that in spirit of Kipling "the East

and the West are met" rising

tide

Shrine

cult,

And in spite of much anti-Americanism

Japan.

in

nationalism,

of

and the revival

certain groups,

many

of

who have

of us

the in

the powerful

Shinto

Japan

believe

lived in

that whether for better or for worse adaptation of Western

ways and manners

new Japanese way

into the

In passing

will continue. thorities are

let

me

of life

say that Japanese au-

acknowledging that the chief gains from the

education, but in the

more

significant agrarian reforms

burdens from the shoulders of the highly conserva-

lifting

and poverty stricken rural group. The farmers of Japan and the Japanese women, given the privilege of

tive

voting for the

time by the U.S. Occupation, are going

first

on to places of leadership in Japanese society unheard of before,

and

means our graduates, women who

this often

have come out of small Christian

take their

colleges,

most stimulating

others see us.

It is

daily,

seeing ourselves as

is

obvious that this kind of experience

not often only unflattering but sometimes humiliating.

By

this I

do not mean

to

polite, they flatter,

way embarrass you

convey the idea that the Japan-

They

ese people are frank.

are not.

The}^ are oA'erh-

avoiding anything which will in anyin personal conversation.

English

is

a required subject in all schools and the Japanese write well

in

English,

their

English

American

of

was allowed

policies

English newspapers in the days of the pation,

but

been plenty. stop the

personal

the

is

Of

countries.

since It is

and think.

the

The

the

U.S. Occu-

censorship was lifted, there has

not vicious, but at least following

is

typical.

December 1956 Current History

carefully written article by a well

November, 1957

official

in

it

I

makes us

quote from

a paragraph

from a

known Japanese

privilege

accorded

at

home

in

of

being

a

course this

responsibility that often

a

is

becomes a burden, something we are conscious of alwavs

we walk

as

that

mention the important fact

failed to

I

High School De]iartment and

facult)-

over a hundred,

(if

all of

the

whom

Too

teachers.

is

made

either

by us that the American wa>-

we have

not

studied

enough appreciation

WUS,

with

the twenty-five

plastic surgery by

the

with

to be, our outlook being

V.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A.,

Xorman Cousins

countr}-

for

of the Saturday

Re-

to

this

Hospital of

Sinai

New

and the American Friends Service Commis-

Cit}-

and

sion,

often

brought

girls

view in cooperation with Mt.

York

Too

sympathy, thereby disqualifying

or

we claim warped by our ignorance.

my work

camjius

nor their customs

the superior.

is

art

thi-ir

oft"

by them or unconsciously

ourselves as the friends

In

American

five

often in our relations on and

the im|jlication

and a

College,

are highly trained

Japanese people, with the exception of

with

new people

the crowded city streets where even

teach in a school having 1800 girls in the prepara-

I

tory

in

my

annual counseling and screening by ex-

amination of .student-candidates for the Fulbright Scholarships,

also those

church-sponsored scholarships for

for

overseas study in the U.S. and Canada, I have been im-

pro-

of

good

wdll.

could go on and

tell

you of long conversations with

students of non-Christian background, puzzled and hurt

by what they have read

in our U.S.

newspapers of the

strong sectionalism in this country and of their inability to

understand

i:>rinciples of

all

this

in

the light of our long boasted

brotherhood and democracy.

from the nearb)' Government School put

.As

one student

"How

bluntly,

it

can we accept the Christian message you proclaim v.'hen

we

discover that the spirit of this message

is

violated so

often in vour countrv?" I

criticism

al-

for

bridge of understanding between the peoples of our two

Language newspapers

being among the best published anywhere in the world.

No

There has

and admiration

Another advantage of being an American

Japan

I

living long abroad, aside from the adventure or excite-

ment of seeing new things

interest in

.America in Japan".

one receives from

gifts

they arc simple-minded, im-

liut

mature, pleasure-made and self-centered.

ambassador of the

gadget

a

The Ameri-

idealistic values.

ways been an enthusiastic

little else,

solely

pressed again and again with the privilege of being an

places in the well-know Diet Parliament of Japan.

One

as

civilization

b}'

cans are good-hearted,

U.S. Occupation reforms have not been in the field of

is

American

stop and stare.

toda}'.

"American tech-

Kazrio says:

Dr.

Japanese, like so nianv other peoples, can see

player at home, we go to the public tea houses to hear music.

Tokyo.

in

fest^or

nology and American wealth are so spectacular that the

go with

my

girls to the

UNESCO

chapter in Hiro-

shima, to the international work camps held every sum-

mer

in

two or three of the needy areas of Japan.

the college students for participation in national

national oratorical contests in English. conferences

on such topics

as

Understanding and Asia's Contribution tion in .Asia Basic to

I

"Peace",

World Peace,

(Continued on page 11)

train inter-

attend world

"International

to It",

etc."

I

and

"Coopera-

Even when we

ALUMNAE SUPPORT INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CULTURE by R. C. Simonini,

A new

known

educational venture to be

of Southern Cuhure

at

The purpose

during the academic year 1956-57. Institute

to

is

as the Institute

Long\vood College was established of the

promote the stud)' of traditional aspects of

Southern civilization through academic course work, special

the

lecture,

and through the publication of research

in

Financial support for the Institute for a

has been provided

five

year period

by the Longwood College .\lumnae

Institute

is

tures in the spring of

The FarmvUle Herald,

while institution."

went on

the

currentl}'

sponsoring two series of lec-

and summer

faculty.

b}'

visiting scholars

The spring

the college on April 26, opened in the

held

lectures,

morning with

by Dr. Francis B. Simkins, professor

at

Long-

wood, on "Education That Doesn't Educate: The Per-

which Dr. Simkins pre-

sistence of Virginia Folkwa3's" in

not onlv as a penetrating,

The

financial

Longwood, tion since

its

a

The concluding evening

lecture

American

Longwood, reviewed the

"Critical

Essays

English

on

bellum magazines published

The summer

Writers

in

Southern

the

one of the most important antein

America.

lecture series held

dition of leadership

and scholarship

a paper on "Assessment of Virginia's Natural Qualities

by Explorers and Early instructor in geography at

"Ellen

Settlers"

by Dr. Gary Dunbar,

Longwood, and

a discussion of

Glasgow and the Southern Literary Tradition"

by Dr. C. Hugh Holman, professor of English University of North

Carolina.

The

Institute

at

the

program

concluded with a symposium on "Interpreting Virginia History" in which various points of view were presented

by Dr. Marvin W. Schlegel, Longwood professor of tory;

his-

Miss Spotswood Hunnicutt, Longwood alumna and

currently supervising teacher of social studies at

Whaley

School, Williamsburg;

nette, Jr., field editor

Matthew

it

deserves

—Virby

in the field of South-

most appropriate that some

is

it

now

can be given

Many

to these

colleges

studies

and

through

universities,

including other state-supported institutions in Virginia,

have special

and

institutes,

of Southern Culture at

is

it

hoped that the Institute

Longwood

will enable the college

develop and enjoy considerable prestige in an impor-

to

tant educational endeavor.

The Alumnae

Association has generously offered to give

support to the Institute by contributing $1000 per

initial

This money will be used entirely to

year for five

}'ears.

pay

lecturers

visiting

each year.

on July 10 consisted of

.\nd

alumnae association which pro-

pioneer in both private and public educa-

ern studies; therefore,

by Dr. Gardner B. Taplin,

associate professor of English at

Literary Messenger,"

history.

college activity that pro-

founding in 1839, has enjoyed a long tra-

Jr.,

to deal with the single greatest event in

serve

critical honesty."

afternoon lecture by Dr. Louis D. Ruljin,

appraisal of the attempts of Southern novelists

will

backing, but also by townspeople

an Institute program.

critical

of

t^-pical

it

ginians, whose love of region can only be strengthened

recognition

associate

"A

editorial concluded that

culture.

Richmond Neius Leader, on "The Image of an Army: The Civil War in Southern Fiction" made a

as

approach to a great

factual

vides these deserves to be perpetuated.

vides

example,

but unafraid to look with scholarly honesty."

and modern public education on Virginia editor of the

be taken

those to follow, the Institute showed that

sented his impression of the opposing forces of tradition .An

may

opening series of lectures

paper

a

of history at

and

for

to say that "If the first three speakers in Friday's

support, but not only the

Association.

members

held in the spring agreed that this was a "new and worth-

tradition,

field.

The

Jr.

and

publish the lecture series

to

There are no funds currently available

support research or to pay faculty lecturers. tute

beyond the five-year period of alumnae

to continue

is

to

If the Insti-

support, the college must secure additional funds.

As

is

academic custom, acknowledgment of individual donors memorials would be made

or

the

college

catalogue

and

in descriptions set forth in

in

publicity

to

the

making

the

relative

Institute.

The

Association

initiation of the

wood

possible.

is

to

be

commended

for

Institute of Southern Culture at Is

it

too

Long-

much to hope that a friend now become interested in

friends of the college might

or its

permanence ?

and Dr. Lawrence Bur-

and representative of Charles ScribDates for the 1958 lectures have been

ner's Sons, publishers.

In observance of the Jamestown Festival

all

of

the

Institute lectures this year were on Virginia subjects.

Independent editorial opinion of the

initial lecture series

Institute will be held tute is

scheduled for July

are cordiallv invited

9.

and urged

The Spring Summer Insti-

set.

on April 18, and the

Alumnae and

their friends

to attend.

Alumnae Magazine

TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER by Dr. T. McNider Simpson The following address was delivered by Dr. Simpson, Dean of Rnndolph-M aeon College. .Ashland, Vir-

retired

ginia, on the occasion of the dedication of the parlor in

rUunmac House to the memory of Miss Minnie Vaughan Rice. Born in this house. Miss Rice was beloved

the

professor of Latin

As we gather

College for fifty-five years.

at the

morning

this

the memor}- of a dear lady,

with

a

"Some

for us

da>-

will give

it

"Forsitan

et

you pleasure

begin

haec

olini

rendered

War

born

visions.

house and for

many

she lived here

}'ears

house which stood where your library stands

in the

For one who gave sixty-four years of her

now.

year

first

between the States, Minnie Vaughan Rice was

in this very

and

it

remember

to

Ninety-iive 3'ears ago last December, in the of the

to

to

memories and

a day for

is

room

dedicate this

— she herself might have

This

these things.'"

to

seems appropriate

line

\'irgillian

IcA-ely

meminessee juvahit",

it

them

teaching, fifty-five of

State Teachers College,

to the State

fitting that

her

birthplace be set apart as a gathering place for returning

alumnae who knew her and

for others

who

will

come

to

share the comfort of this room that hon<}rs her.

Some

known

of vou ma^' have

more intimately, but

or

w'as still a

I

My

which

in

cit\'

family moved to Farniville in the late

1895 to tind that P'anii\ille liad no high school

of

fall

could c(jmplete the work

I

I

had begun

purpose

lie

ing themselves for college and

names

may have been them

of all of

In the few months

guidance as

I

for

I

came under her tutelage

others after us.

we shared

a

I

wish

knew

I

blessed privilege.

had with her she gave me inspiring

I

began the

her,

of

stud}' of

Latin and algebra and

It is

rememlier that

it

Of Miss

was time snatched from her

lunch hour and the early hours of her evenings that she

gave

to

us for what

remuneration. I

remember

And

I

know now was

her hands.

best

They were

it

may

seem,

slender hands

with fair skin so thin and tender that the blue veins

showed

clearly through,

and she seemed

a fragile creature.

There was nothing however thin-skinned nie's character

was

and nothing

the virtual

in

Miss Min-

fragile in her courage.

She

head of the home, caring for an aged

father and nuturing tenderly the nieces

November, 1957

P.

Kng-

so,

seemed anything fragile about for her spirit Ijore the strain

sixty years of teaching anil her

frame with-

my memories

wish that

could

in the

fill

who were

a part

details of

munity she loved, but >ou who are here know them far better than

do and

I

y(ju

have

had

left

jiaid

and

will fiay

your

tributes.

Forty years after

cantly into

— here

my

with

teacher of

1

still

life

\(iurs.

Farniville for college, not

Miss Minnie came

signifi-

again when her nephew, Bruce English

you today

my

The words but for

—became

m^•

student

and

later

son. i

speak today are not spoken for her ears I

am

glad that she

knew while

with us the grateful regard with whicli

bered her through the years.

A

I

she was

had remem-

tear on the bier

had not

half the meaning of a word in the ear.

Those who teach merely for a living may be paid teach for the joy of

and the beauty of

it

all

But those who it

can never be

fully paid save in the recognition of their students

and

the achievements of those students.

a pitifully small

of her person, strange as

ii

'

I

they deserve however small their wage.

odd what children notice and remember. I

If there

was deceptively

it

more than

I

geometry, and her skill was as sure with the mathematics as with the language.

Minnie

'

I

Liiah^h, Di. William

\'.

her long years of service to this institution and the com-

There had been others before

with two or three others. us and there

1

I

to return save for brief visits.

her communit\' of tutoring bo^'s prepar-

in

of her household.

in the

from which we came.

Fortunately for me, Miss Rice had already served the no!

1

Kteblc, and Dr. Francis G. Lankford.

did

young

teacher in her thirties that her life touched mine for last-

ing benefit.

H'juse

nii \1

bmipsuii, Uuilc

stood the tests of ninetv years of living.

her longer than

was when she

it

Present for tli' 11 to tilt memor\ hsh. Dr. T ikNidti

Normal School and

seems singularly

it

life to

I

think that Miss Minnie

knew

that "her girls"

and

"her boys" as she called them, loved and revered her.

There are other teachers too, yours and mine, who need be told w'hat they have meant and do mean to us.

to

"Say

it

with flowers"

if

It is a satisfaction, I

sons that this shall be

home

you

am

will,

but don't wait for that.

sure, to

Mrs. English and her

associated with their aunt in her youth

permanently associated with her memory. (Continued on page 22)

DEAN, PHYSICIAN,

PROFESSOR RETIRE Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Regional

lution,

Dean's Association. at Longwood, Miss Gleaves was a member Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary leadership

As a student of

society, Cotillion Club, President of the

and an

Upon Ruth Cleaves

retirement she looks forward to doing some of the

things which she has always wanted to do and for which

she hasn't had time. jNIiss

Dean

Ruth Gleaves, Professor

Home Economics and

of

having been with

of ^^'omen, retired last June, after

Since becoming Dean, ]Miss

the College for sixteen }'ears.

Gleaves has been a constant and faithful friend of the

and guests

students, a gracious hostess to visitors

College, tion

and

Student Council,

active participant in sports.

member

a versatile

She will return

Wythe County, do some the culinary arts.

in

est

book

to publish a

of the

In the near future she hopes

in this field.

Her address

"The Wil-

is

RAY ATKINSON MOORE RESIGNS

DR. Dr.

in

inter-

Ivanhoe, Virginia.

lows'',

of the college administra-

home

her

to

and pursue her

traveling,

Ray Atkinson

!Moore,

and community.

Longwood College physician

for fifteen years, resigned his position with the College,

Prior to coming to Longwood, she taught in the public schools of W3'the schools; Franklin

Count}',

High

Richmond public

her home;

School, and the secondarj- schools

Having taught Home Economics Radford College, she joined the Long-

two years

wood

staff

at

1941 as an Associate Professor of

in

Home

J. L. Jarman, and

Economics under the presidency of Dr.

when she was advanced Home Economics and Dean of Women.

served in this capacity until 1948 to Professor of

"Nothing more could have happened during year as Dean," Miss Gleaves stated.

It

was

my

at this

that the sophomore building burned to the ground.

private practice.

was no interruption

nor was any

girl

in the routine of the College, at

me

in m}' first j'ears at

to

"It has

Longwood",

been a great comfort

have the benefit of her good judgment and her S3'mpa-

thetic

understanding of the numerous problems we have

worked on

together.

We

will

wish for her every happiness

all

in her

miss her greatly and

much

deserved retire-

1906.

Dr.

work

at

the Universit)'

Tennessee, and

at

Columbia.

of

Chicago, University of

She

National Association of Deans of

is

a

Women

member

of the

and Counselors,

American Association of University Women, Virginia Education Association, Daughters of the American Revo-

interned

at

Virginia

Hospital in

turned to Prince

Edward County, where he has

resided

ever since.

The

doctor,

who

lives in

Hampden-Sydney,

a

is

Mason,

Lion's Club member, and an elder in the Presbyterian

He

Community

uate

Moore

Richmond, and then practiced for two years in Neola, West Virginia. From there he moved to Charlotte County, where he practiced until 1927. At that time, he re-

Church.

She has done additional grad-

for the students."

dent of the student body his senior year, and graduated

Miss Gleaves received her Bachelor of Science degree in education from Longwood, and her Master of Arts degree LTniversity.

commendation from the Committee on Stand-

Moore was born in Charlotte County, but grew up in Hampden-Sydney. He received preparatory instruction and entered Hampden-S)'dney College. After graduation he taught for two years in West Virginia and then entered the Medical College of Virginia. He was presi-

ment."

from Columbia

a member of Women, the col-

Dr.

in

always be grateful for the help and loyal

said President Lankford.

of University

which your college provides

without a comfortable place to stay

support she has given

American Association

lege received

It

by

When Longwood became

medical experts. the

services in the state.

a study of the needs of colle.ge students

time

Miss

friend of !Miss Gleaves. shall

finest college health

was based on

ards and Recognition for the "excellent health program

any time while the new building (Tabb Hall) was being constructed, according to Miss Emily Barksdale, a close

"I

In 194S he inaugurated, and successfully carried out, one of the

first

Gleaves calmly supervised proceedings in such a way that there

Moore will continue his work Hampden-Sydney College and his

Dr.

in a similar capacity at

of Jacksonville, Florida. for

June 1957.

effective

is

on the medical

staff

American Medical Association,

of

the

Southside

member of American Academy

Hospital, Farmville, and

is

a

the of

General Practice, Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary' leadership fraternity, and Sigma Chi, social fraternity.

This ored

b}-

3'ear,

Dr. Moore was one of eleven physicians hon-

the Medical Society of Virginia for fifty years

of professional service.

"Dr. Moore has rendered an

e.xcellent service to

Alumnae

Long-

M.-^gazine

wood

College", President Lankford said in accepting his

"Longwood

resignation.

and

view of

in

extends

he has accomplished at the College,

all

him

to

sincerely regrets his resignation

and recognition

gratitude

for

but his real contribution

He

as a dedicated teacher.

has always been a student himself, keeping abreast of

fine

his

recorded in the hearts of his

is

who have known him

students,

his

own

subject-matter field; and his rich background in

service."

and intimate knowl-

the liberal arts, especially his wide

MR. COYNER Sixt}-four years of service

the comljined total time

is

devoted to

Longwood College by one

become

reality

a

with

Coyner, this summer, for fort}'-two

who has been

a

This has

family.

retirement

the

edge of great literature has given his students a living

RETIRES

of

Bo}d

2\Iartin

member

of the staff

His wife, Ruth Harding Coyner,

years.

who retired last year, supervised for of Longwood College who were doing

five years, students

To

for eighteen }ears.

his native state

all his

teach-

College, he has taught in the Jefferson School for

Boys

Washington and Lee University, Madi-

at Charlottesville,

to be derived

from

real scholarship.

they have learned that they should never be

content with "second bests", and that a decision onl_\"

when based on

wise

is

In Mr. Coyner his students

truth.

have found

a cultured

character.

Naturally they have admired this professor

"who

as one .\s

Mr. Coyner has given

In addition to his professorship at Longwood

ing years.

From him

their practice teach-

ing in the Farmville Elementar}- School, and served as

alumnae secretary

example of the joys

gentleman, possessed of the highest

lured to brighter worlds and led the wav."

an ideal home-builder.

highest

He and

brackets.

!Mr.

his

Coyner places

Ruth Hardhio Coyner, have created loved

b}'

in

versatile

cajialjle,

the

wife,

home known and

a

innumerable guests wlio have enjoved

tlie

charm-

ing hospitality of this gracious host and hostess.

son College, extension classes in Petersburg, Lynchburg,

Camp

and

Pickett for the University of Virginia,

Randolph Macon Woman's

also in

and

In the Covner

who has

College.

home

received

at

there the

grew up one

Universit}-

honors, his B.A. and !M.A. degrees and

During

^^'orld

\A'ar

In this capacity he administered and scored intelligence tests

is

Bovd,

Virginia,

Tr.,

with

near completion

he served in the psychological

I

Medical Corps in the United States Army.

service of the

child,

of

given to recruits.

of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree, tiful

case

of

poetic

justice,

attesting

of the psychological principles !Mr.

is a member of the Psychology Section of Academy of Science, American Association

to

^^'hat a beau-

the

soundness

Coyner has taught.

Mr. Coyner the \'irginia

Advancement

for

versity Professors,

He

tion.

a

is

77/

American Association of Uni-

of Science,

and the Virginia Education Associa-

member

Lions Club and

of the Farmville

a past president of that organization.

In addition to his services as a dedicated teacher of psychology',

chosen

Mr. Co}"ner has been a research scholar in his intelligence, memory, and indi-

—

fields of interest

vidual differences; a challenging writer of scientific articles in educational journals;

his faculty associates

and an incomparable friend

and

to

the hundred of students

to

who

have had the privilege of working under him.

Beyond record

is

his loyalt)' to his chosen profession,

Mr. Coyner's

a gratifying proof that he has not been

ful of his responsibilities as a citizen of this

His influence has been valuable

in

many

unmind-

community.

concerted efforts

community improvements, and as a member of innumerable committees in the college faculty, in the town, at

and

in

man

of courage

state

organizations. is

his courage, integrit}", his saving sense of in

has been said that one

It

a majority.

Mr. Coyner, by virtue

humor, has been

a

determining force

anv organization of which he has been a

The

of

and clear thinking, coupled with

part.

foregoing paragraphs contain some of Mr. Coyner's

achievements that can be

November, 1957

listed

in

a

biographical

file.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Boyd Coyner, at the testimonial dinner which was given for him in the spring. At this time, he was presented with a gift of luggage, and a volume of letters w ritten by his former students in appreciation for his teaching and friendship.

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS by A. R. Merchent

SUPERIOR COLLEGE The

faculty

manA- ways.

Longwood

of

It is

composed

College

— SUPERIOR

Dr. Blanche Badger (mathematics) had her disserta-

outstanding in

is

of excellent teachers

and they

have made significant contributions during the past year above and beyond the demands of the classroom. During 131 speeches to outside groups and forty percent

held fifty-eight

offices in

off-campus organizations. Thirty-

had material published and twenty-nine percent were engaged in some form of research.

eight percent of the faculty

Michigan.

Memoirs

was made

Tiger."

Dr. James Wellard

President Francis G. Lankford,

Van Johnson and

stars

It

late in

Dr. Wellard also wrote a one act play,

ber.

"The

at their

book

entitled

Wynne

home

—a

ogy)

in Italy.

Qualities

Experience for Prospective

of

Teachers which was published by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

mer he taught

at

During the sum-

Central Washington State College of

Education in Ellensburg, Washington. Dr.

Frances

B.

Simkins

Spottswood Hunnicutt used this

)'ear

in

book of history which will be

'45 a

the seventh grade of Virginia public

During the summer he taught

schools.

He

at the

University of

presently engaged

Texas

in

a book,

The Seaboard South, part of a ten volume regional of the United States. Miss Hunnicutt is teaching

history at

Austin.

is

James Blair High School

The Life

in

writing

in Williamsburg.

of Elizabeth Barrett Broivning, by Gardner

B. Taplin (English) was published in the fall of 1956.

During

the

summer he worked on another book, using New York Public Library. It is to be

materials in the

based on hitherto unpublished manuscripts of IMrs. Browning.

Dr. Dorothy B. Schlegel's (English) book Shaftesbury

French Deists was published during the fall by the University of North Carolina Press. During the fol-

and

the

lowing summer, after attending a conference on General

Education and Religion and Moral Values, she conducted research on the subject

The Influence

on Eighteenth-Century Literature.

.8

who had

of Free-Masonry

In

scientific

(biology)

—

the

published in profes-

articles

Dr. Robert T. Brumfield (biol-

paper in connection with his Atomic

Commission research;

Energ}'

lead

article

in

George

Dr.

W.

Jeffers

American Biology

the

Teacher for February, 1957; Foster B. Gresham (Eng-

—

"The Possibility of Regional Cooperation" in symposium on "The Preparation and Certification of Teachers of English" in the March, 1957 issue of College a

English; Dr. Rinaldo C. Simonini,

Jr.

(English)

—"Eng-

Study in Italy", Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 1956; "Literary Map Published by the lish

VEA co-authored with

(history)

University of Virginia.

high school graduation classes and to teachers

Faculty members

Elec-

(philosophy) completed writing a

summer

also delivered the

meetings.

lish)

Dr. John P.

Norfolk City school

for the

He

at the

sional journals included:

which was produced by the Longwood Players and featured the author in the leading role. During the summer Dr. Wellard and family toured England

and spent some time

week workshop

Septem-

tronic Triangle"

delivered addresses

between he found time to deliver commencement addresses to several

Martine Carol and premiered in Richmond,

He

convention of mathematics teachers, to the

Secondary Principals' Association meeting and di-

state

French actress

the

has collaborated in

Jr.,

used in the Virginia public schools. to the national

Another of

year.

Arbor,

writing of a set of mathematics textbooks which will be

system during the summer.

movie entitled "Action of the

into a

entitled

is

commencement address b}'

was published during the

(English) his books

Man,

of a Cross-eyed

Ann

An

Analysis of the Evolving Evaluation Program in Elementary Geometry. It

rected a three

PROFESSIONAL WRITING

by University Microfilms,

published

tion

the 1956-57 session, fifty-six percent of the College faculty

made

FACULTY

Section,"

Virginia Journal of Education, March,

1957; and "Phonetic and Analogic Lapses in Radio and Speech," American Speech, December 1956; and Dr. Gardner B. Taplin "Mrs. Browning's Poems of

Television

—

1850," Boston Public Library Quarterly, October, 1956.

Others materials)

included,

—major

Dr.

Edgar M. Johnson

(teaching

revisions of the Virginia Congress of

Parents and Teachers Bulletin, Policies and Practices; James M. Helms (history) book review for Virginia Quarterly Review; Dr. Marvin B. Schlegel (history) two

—

—

book reviews in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; Dr. John W. Molnar (music) "Shortage of

—

Music Majors", Virginia Music Educators Association Notes, April, 1957; Mrs. Emily K. Landrum (physical education) "The Problem-Solving Method in Teaching

—

Team

and Lane (geography) book review appearing in the October, 1956 issue of The Journal of Geography; and Dr. Gary S. Dunbar (geography) two book reviews appearing in the March and July, 1957 issues of The Professional Geographer. Two members of the Art Department, Mrs. Janice Sports," Journal of Health, Physical Education

Recreation, April 1957; Dr. Charles F.

—

—

Alumnae Magazine

—

Lemen and Miss Annie Lee art

work during

the year.

Ross, exhibited some of their

Mrs. Lemen's appeared

They were: Dr. Robert T. Brumfield,

fessional journals.

in the

Virginia Journal of Science; Foster B. Gresham, I'irginia

of Fine

English Bulletin: Dr. Charles F. Lane, Managing Editor,

Miss Ross' prints were exhibited in the Aquinar Library and Book Shop, South Bend, Indiana.

College Editor of the Mrginia IMusic Education Associa-

Rotating Artists Section of the Virginia

Museum

Arts.

Virginia Journal of Science: and Dr. John

M. Molnar,

tion Notes.

LEADERSHIP Dean Earl school year.

Still

R. Bcggs led a very active life during the In addition to his regular duties, he delivered

eighteen talks to professional, civic and church groups.

He

also

worked with the District

D

Principals' Associa-

tion as a consultant, acted as a consultant for the

County school's evaluation program and as

a

Norfolk

Roanoke

of the faculty

members were

elected to leadership

positions in organizations outside of the

were:

Dr. Rinaldo C. Simonini,

Jr.

They

College.

— President

of the

Regional College English Association and of the Virginia

Lane

Association of Teachers of English; Dr. Charles F.

—President

the

of

ville

and Farm-

Virginia Geographical Society;

Miss Mar}- P. Xichols (English)

—President

of the

Chapter of the Longwood College Alumnae .\5s0cia-

the

Mrginia Congress

—Mce

—

of Parents

leadership posi-

First Vice President

and Teachers; Dr.

President of the Teacher Education

Section of the Virginia Education Association

becca L. Brockenbrough (physical education) ident of the Virginia Field

Wynne

— Executive

Chairman

State

^liss

;

Re-

—Vice-Pres-

Hockey Association; Dr. John

Committee of the South Atlantic

Philosophy of Education Society; Dr. John of the

Music

in

W. Molnar

Higher Education Com-

mission of the Virginia Music Education Association; Dr.

Robert T. Brumfield tee of the Virginia

Research Commit— Chairman Science; and David W. .Academy drama) — Virginia Coordinator of the

of

(speech and American Educational Theatre Conference. \\'ilev

Other (art)

tion.

.^elected for

Dr. Edgar !M. Johnson

Earl R. Bcggs

P.

City School System consultant.

Some

of

members

other faculty

tions were:

held

offices

— Chairman

Other faculty members were selected as editors of pro-

included: the

of

^liss

College

(Contiimcd

o)i

of the

Bedford

Virginia

Group Art

Section of

page 44)

r

Architects conception of

Cunningham Hall with

the

new wing added.

NEW DORMITORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION The new

five floor brick

dormitory, located on the

site

student rooms, a clothes pressing room, and storage room

formally occupied by Venable House, will be ready for

for formal wear.

occupancy

built in units of

in

1958.

to the Junior

Wing

189 students

in

It

of

will be similar

on the exterior

Cunningham Hall and

will house

96 rooms.

floor

has a vestibule, several parlors, nine student rooms.

a suite of rooms for the hostess, and storage space.

next three floors

NO\TMBER, 1957

are

identical.

The

Each has twentv-nine

but three of the student rooms are

ing three have private baths. six feet closet.

The structure will face the Elementary School but the main entrance will be on Madison Street. The ground

.All

two with a connecting bath.

The

The remain-

Each room has

fifth floor is

a

two by

designed for recreational

purposes and can not be seen from the

street.

It

will

house a recreation room, snack room, storage space, and a

Three stairways and an elevator connect the

sun deck. floors

of

the

^^'ing will

new

building.

Corridors from the Senior

merge with corridors of the new wing.

ROTUNDA

CLIPPINGS

1956-1957 by Foster Gresham

SEPTEMBER:

Nineteen members of the Longwood Col-

camp held Tob3'anna, Pa. The

lege hocke}- team attended the annual hockey

August 29 through September

5 at

.

.

.

1956-57 session began on September 17 with a registration of 857, of which 23 were graduate students.

.

.

Education

.

majors scheduled for student teaching during the semester began their

elementary school and 32 in the high school.

Kappa Gamma

OCTOBER:

.

.

Aljjha as

Alpha Psi Omega, the honor casts included Molly Work-

The

society for dramatics.

DECEMBER: Among

"At Liberty";

Carolee

and Mildred

(Roanoke)

Silcox

ter";

and Donna Boone (Marion), Carol Carson (Hot

Goodman

Springs), and Herb

of Lockspur Lotion."

.

.

.

(Farmville) in

and the usual crepe paper

of green paper

"The Lady

"Rats", wearing baby bonnets skirts over jeans,

.

.

Ozmon

(Portsmouth).

Who

Fifteen seniors were selected for Who's

Students in American Universities and Colleges:

(North

Beavers

(Greensboro,

Sandra

Tazewell),

Kuhn (Richmond), Harry

Loretta

(Farmville),

Dyer

N. C), Anne Wayne Fuller (Danville),

Nancy Lea Harris (Roanoke), Jo Hillsman

(Norfolk) and Vivian Willett (Bowling Green) in

Sutherland Meleney (Clintwood) in "Lord Byron's Let-

.

wick), and Catherine

Margaret

1956 Circus in October.

its

the discussion.

Three Unpleasant Plays, by Tennessee Wil-

liams, were presented by

man

.

(Richmond)

chose Jeanne Saunders

general chairman for

fall

attempts at teaching, 41 in the

first

Hampden-Sydney students engaging in The Hampden-Sydney Jongleurs also joined with tlie Longwood Players in the presentation of Thornton Wilder's Tlie Skin of Their Teeth. Longwood students playing leading roles were Donna Boone (Marion), Barbara Burnside (Arlington), Amy McFall (Wardents and three

(Fannville),

Lancaster,

V.

Jr.

Nancy Lenz (Warwick), Sara Wendenburg

McRee

(A^dett),

Raine

(Warwick), Nicole Rothe

Gayle Peoples (Pitman, N.

J.),

Frances

(Farmville),

Jeanne

Saunders (Richmond), Caroline Stoneman (Petersburg),

and Nancy Striplin

Gamma won

(Farmville).

.

Alpha Kappa

on the weekend of

Universit}' of South Carolina

at the

.

.

top honors at the national convention held

direction of

The Longwood scrapbook won first place, and Nancy Lenz (Warwick), who was elected secretary,

the 1956 Rat Day.

designed the winning cover for the national scrapbook.

were put through their paces on October

]

under the

3

Sandy Sandidge (Lynchburg), chainnan of ... A new refractor telescope, purchased by the Department of Natural Sciences, was put into use by classes in physical science. With a threeinch objective lens, the new instrument reaches a magnification of two hundred times. The sophomore class was the winner of the 1956 Circus with the freshman .

class

.

.

(Roanoke)

Frances Patten

placing second.

was

ringmaster and Louise

Norman (Richmond),

trainer.

regarding the Snack Bar, owned

.

.

.

Statistics

the animal

December

.

.

1.

The Freshman Commission

.

(Salem) president.

.

.

cluded the following; the

HoO

Spanish clubs' Fete-Fiesta; the

the LTniversity of

eight dozen doughnuts; and of course they sell quantities

theme "Christmas Carousel''.

W.

Sinnott,

sity,

and the

like.

...

On

October 30 Dr.

home-

Edward

dean of the Graduate School of Yale LTniver-

Mind"

addressed the students on "Life and the

in

their first fall convocation.

NOVEMBER: ing

him 400

Gamma

for

of the 611

Dwight D. Eisenhower,

votes cast.

.

.

giv-

Alpha Kappa

.

tapped seven members on November

7

;

they were

Longwood Choir and

the

Cornelia Anne Batte (McKenne}) and Ann Thomas Matthews (Blackstone) were delegates to the regional Kappa Delta Pi conference held in Lynchburg. .

.

.

J.)

May

J.),

Flo Soghoian

(Richmond), and Sara Wendenburg McRee (Aylett). In honor of the

Woodrow Wilson

the assembly on

November

on the World 10

War

I

.

.

.

Centennial Celebration,

13 featured an informal debate

president, with three

Longwood

stu-

general

elected

Day, and Gayle Peoples (Pitman, N.

Kmi Glover (Staunwas chosen business manager. Roache (Richmond), and Mary Davis (Rich.

.

.

ton), Evelyn

mond) attended

L^nited

the

Student

Council

Christian

Southeastern Regional Study Conference at Davidson Col-

groups and the student

(Roanoke), Gayle Peoples (Pitman, N.

was

(Lynchburg)

Carolyn Clark

lege.

C), Frances Patton

the music for the

JANUARY:

(Danville), Lucia Hart

S.

been chosen

the University of \'irginia

Richmond furnishing

Margaret Beavers (North Tazewell), Anne Wayne Fuller (York,

French and

Glee Club; and the senior dance with the Collegians from

chairman for

In a mock election Longwood students voted

an overwhelming victory

the

Christmas pageant,

Kuhn (Richmond) had

which Loretta

for

YWCA

by the students as the Madonna; the joint concert presented

of hamburger, two to three gallons of Pepsi Cola, and

pies,

activities in-

Club's annual Christmas

Nancy Richardson (Grundy);

of

tion

l)y

made

Peggy Blevins

water pageant "The Nutcracker Suite", under the direc-

and operated by the Alumnae Association, revealed that Mrs. Farrier and Mrs. Slate sell each day about 10 pounds

of coffee, chocolate, ice cream, sandwiches, soup,

elected

December campus

.

This council

inations

is

composed

YMCA

of

11

denominational

and Y\A'CA.

.

.

.

Exam-

!

FEBRUARY: May

<lueen of

Jean Parrott (Stanardsville) was elected Day, and Nancy Lea Harris (Roanoke),

Tapped for membership in Alpha Maid of Honor. Kappa Gamma were Carolyn Clark (Lynchburg), Mary .

.

.

Alumnae

M.^^cazine

Jo Davis (Bassett), Frances Raine (Warwick), and Carole Stroupe Wirt (Salem). ... Dr. Claude C. Abbott, Eng-

and Fred Stables

(Crewe)

received

the

"Little

Oscar

William B. Ward, of the Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church of Richmond, was guest speaker for Religious

Awards" for best performances during the session. Alpha Psi Omega presented two one-act plays: Eugene O'Neill's "Before Breakfast" and for its first time "The Electronic Triangle" written by Dr. James Wellard of the Longwood faculty. Charlotte Hall (Chatham), major-

Emphasis Week.

Forty-two education majors began

ing in business education, was chosen Miss Future Busi-

student teaching in the Farmville schools for the spring

ness Executive, 1957 at the State Future Business Leaders

Durham

professor at the University of

lisli

in

spoke on the Boswell papers on February 14.

semester.

.

theme for

.

.

The

.

.

.

Dr.

.

.

named

with Jack

23,

Kaminsky's orchestra furnishing the music. for the 19S7-S8 publications were

.

had a "Mardi Gras"

junior class

annual dance on February

its

England,

.

.

.

Editors Ella

as follows:

.

June was awarded

(Midway

Boswell

Virginian; and Pat

Workman

Walton (Covington), Colonnade.

A

presentation of Christopher Fry's quent.

.

.

Phoenix Too Fre-

Ella Carter (Bedford) was elected vice presi-

.

dent of the Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association at the annual convention in Roanoke.

.

.

.

.

team downed Westhampton 54-44

ball .

The

varsity basket-

end a 4-2 season.

to

"South Sea Sonata" was the theme of the spring

.

Festival.

.

.

.

organizations had the following results:

(Williamsburg),

YWCA;

Frances

Dorothy S.

Molly

.

Helen Garter was crowned

.

.

and represented

in a beauty contest

Apple Harvest

Festival.

Handy

(Danville) was the winner of a com-

petitive scholarship

from the Riverdan Benevolent Fund,

.

.

Elaine

.

June Strother (Colonial Heights) work scholarship given by tlie DepartWelfare and Institutions. Since its establishment

Inc., of Danville.

.

.

.

received a social of

four years ago, Jane Bailey '55,

and Carolyn Clark

'57

Anne Field Brooking

have been recipients of this

scholarship awarded annually to a deserving senior.

Annette Crain

Patton

.

1957-58 session;

the

the county at the Charlottesville

'56,

Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Annual election of presidents of major

at the Thirtieth

for

JUNE: Commencement

wood

.

level at the .

.

was awarded the Dabney

Island)

Miss Madison County

ment

.

Texas.).

in Dallas,

scholarship

(Miss Hall in

on the national

(Norfolk) received the Leola Wheeler scholarawarded annually by the Longwood Players.

ship,

water pageant directed by Ann Jeter (Lynchburg). Gale Branch (Norfolk) was selected to represent Long.

Richmond.

in

this title

FBLA

convention of

Lancaster

The I^ongwood Players entered the College Drama Festival in Richmond and won acclaim for their

.

America Convention

of

Carter (Bedford), Rotunda; C3.Tole Stroupe Wirt (Salem),

MARCH:

.

.

.

.

FOUNDERS DAY ADDRESS

(Roanoke),

(Continued from page 3 movies in Hiroshima (and the 1945 tragedy has )

Student Government Association

;

Sue Taylor (Richmond),

House Council; Carol Wolfe (Arlington), Athletic Association; and Shirley Hauptman (Winchester), senior class. .

.

.

Roberta Silcox (Roanoke) was elected president of

Home

the State

Roanoke. Miller's

Economics Clubs

at

a meeting held in

The Longwood Players presented Arthur The Crucible with Molly Workman (Norfolk) .

and Fred Stables (Crewe)

in the leading roles.

.

Government Association, netted a

sizable

amount

for the

Dabney

S.

the

three lectures of the Institute of Southern Culture

first

Lancaster scholarship fund. ...

On

April 27

were given.

MAY:

it

Italian,

more international than before the war), we see French, Indonesian, as well as American and

Japanese movies.

In Hiroshima our church

International

chapel cause

in keeping with the jSOth

Thus we

are saved

Collegians from East Carolina gave a concert

May Day

May Day

dance.

.

.

.

program and played The Green and White classes

captured the 1956-57 color cup, winning 45 of the 60

awarded for individual and

Alpha Kappa

Gamma

class

initiated into its

sports.

.

.

.

membership An-

(Williamsburg), Shirley Hauptman (WinJune Strother (Colonial Heights), and Mary Lee Teel (Charlottesville). Barbara Burnside (Arlington) nette

from

a strong, nationalistic type of

and from a narrow sectionalism involving us an emotional attitude toward the American way of life,

patriotism, in

or the Soutliern

Way

of

life,

or in any struggle to

tain the status quo, saved from all this to

Crain

chester),

.

November, 1957

.

.

main-

what has some-

demand-

ing a recognition of values that place the Fatherhood of

fail to

in the Dell following the

at

students

over the world bringing other inter-

all

was written by Jeanne Saunders (Richmond) and Anita Heflin (Ashland). Pat Jones (Waynesboro) was narra-

points

speakers

My

national insights.

less of the drastic

for the

international

excitement on campus.

times been called a supernational or world view

The May Day Pageant,

The

and

visitors,

little

anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, portrayed dramatic events during the period 1607-1619. The script

tor.

life is inter-

denominational, interracial and sometimes interfaith.

have come from

APRIL: The annual Cotillion Club dance used "Sea Isle" as its theme with Buddy Morrow's orchestra furnishing the music. The faculty show, sponsored by the Student .

to the

made

.

.

.

go

God and

the brotherhood of

As educators

first

and foremost regard-

home and abroad

I believe

we cannot

subscribe to the truth as stated by a thoughtful

among

leader

at

man

adjustments necessary.

to express

my

us,

and closing with

gratitude to

this quotation I

wish

all.

"Psychological and technological research has forced us

way

into a

of life

(if

totally destroy himself)

tions like

is it

a

man in

choose to live rather than

which the

required subject for

or not

we

all.

art of

human

rela-

Indeed whether we

are in school with our fellow world citi-

zens (here and far away) of every color and creed, and the examination hour

is

perhaps not far off!" 11

.

Gifts

Made

to

Alumnae House

by Dorothy Diehl, '24 3.

Two

4.

Antique sideboard from the Washington Chapter

say this with reservations because there

5.

make any

6.

Chest of drawers from Scotia Stark Haggerty '04 Pair of antique vases from Kate Perry '09

This has been ac-

7.

Sterling silver tray, in

The Alumnae Fund Committee is very happy to report Alumnae, that the Alumnae House has been

to you, the

We

furnished.

are only a few "odds and ends" needed to

and happy.

guest, you, comfortable

complished through

}'our

generous support.

erts,

tlie

memory

of Elizabeth

set,

brass candlesticks, silver

which belonged

all of

Miss Minnie Rice, by her

Virginian sofa from the Richmond Chapter

English

2.

Convex mirror from

nishing of this room as a memorial

Budget We

attention to

)'our

call

the

much

less

than previously and are sure this will be good

Beginning on July been changed

June 30.

dent,

told

would

see

justice to

to you.

to

As

1

of this year, our fiscal year has

correspond to that of the College, Juh-

any

a result,

gift received after

June

W. Darden,

Colgate

meeting.

news

who

public

must

system

school

greater selectivity than

it

has in the past

resort

if

is

it

far

to

to

meet

,30

Speaking

Revenue 5,000.00 561 00

Alumnae House)

University of Virginia presi-

are held b.ack because of present low standards.

"Virginia's

$ 6,000.00

College (for the operation of the

Jr.,

the needs of the future",

Snack Bar

the fur-

Miss Rice.

Longwood College graduates he hoped they the day when the Virginia public schools do the number of bright and ambitious students

on Sunday June Anticipated

to

1

will not be listed in the Bulletin until next vear.

Gifts

to complete

Darden Addresses 118 Graduates

budget which follows

and which was adopted by the board at its May 1957 We now depend principally on gifts and the Snack Bar for our revenue. We depend on the College

and family,

'07,

Lucy Rice

niece,

1.

the Lexington Chapter

Rob-

Class of 1926.

bowl, and silver loving cup,

Alumnae House:

to

to

by

Antique table, inkwell

8.

Since the last report the following gifts have been received for the

antique lamps from the Lynchburg Chapter

Darden

118 graduates

told the

2.

to the Seventy-third

commencement

exercises,

he said that in preparing to teach, mastery of the subject to

be taught

is

how

essential, but learning

to teach

is

of

.

equal importance. 211,561.00

Following the address, Francis G. Lankford, ferred degrees on the graduates,

Anticipated Expenditures

of six

Salaries Secretary (half-time) Hostess

$ 2 000 00 ,

Student Help Social Security

High Honor, 29 Honor, and one Honors Biology

High Honor graduates were Margaret Ann Hudnall

.

$ 4,095.00

Pitman, X.

J.,

Scott Williams,

Service S College Operation and Maintenance ...

150.00

of

Elm

City,

N. C, Roberta

and Mr. Harry V. Lancaster,

Jr.,

both of

.

40.00 125 00 .

.00

Magazine Publishing

Anne Thomas

Farmville.

561 00

Insurance

Other Operating Expenses

of

Mila, Jeannette Morris of Warwick, Gaj'le Peoples of

Alumnae House Maid

con-

graduates.

.

600.00 720. 00 700.00 75 00

Office Assistant

Jr.

and announced the names

Nanc}- Lenz, and Frances Raine of Warwick; Camille

$ 2,400.00

Office expense

1,600.00

Travel and Expense of E.xecutive Board and Secretary American Alumni Council Scholarships, Loans and Memorial Funds. President's Discretionary F'und Institute of Southern Culture

200 00 45 00 220.00 500.00 1,000.00

Honor graduates were Mr. John Austin and Josephine Hillsman of Farmville; Jacqueline Adams, Judith Billett, Atwood and Gale Branch

of Norfolk;

Hazel Bell of Wil-

mington; Sandra Dyer of Greensboro, N.

.

Harris of Roanoke; Florence King and

C; Nancy Lea Ann Savedge of

Suffolk.

5,965.00

Other Honor Graduates were Loretta

Kuhn and Jeanne

Saunders of Richmond; Katherine Naugle of Blackstone; ?10,936.00

Charlotte Caroline Phillips of Rustburg; Patricia Powell

Please remember that support, and generosity

now more than is

needed.

ever your help,

All of us should be

very proud of our past accomplishments.

Credit goes to

you, because of your untiring efforts and support.

keep the "ole Farmville Spirit" living and growing. 12

Let's

of W^akefield; Jane Railey of Severn,

dick of Corapeake, N. C. ville;

Meade Webb

Elsie

Portsmouth

;

;

Mary of

N. C.

;

Rebecca Rid-

Stewart Sisson of Shaws-

Emporia; Sylvia Wright of

and Caroline Stoneman of Petersburg. {Contijiiied

on page

14)

Alumnae

^Magazine

Year Class Wins Jarman Cup Fifty

The fiftieth reunion class, 1907, won the Jarnian Cup for the largest percentage of attendance at

Who

Founders Day. 3"s

and

15. 1958, for

will

win

1958?

All you

be here on

March

in

it

planning now

8"s start

to

vour class reunion!

The crowd began

to gather for the 116th

Founders Day

celebration by 2 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

the

way from New York

from Pennsylvania

to

to the state of

Alumnae

all

Washington, and

Tennessee came to join the scores

from Virginia for the wonderful

Alma Mater.

visit to

Saturday began with a lovely coffee hour in the .Alumnae

Every

House, with the Famiville chapter as hostess. one was amazed

at the beaut)' of their

home on

The morning program proved most speech by

Mary Douglas Finch

the campus.

interesting

(see

with

Louise Twelvetrees Hamlet, '92, greets Julia Johnston Egglston, '87, as the seven and two classes had reunions on Founders Day.

a

page 2), followed

by a delightfully entertaining student program directed

This told the history of Longwood

by Mr. David Wiley.

College through the use of slides, reading of interesting

and

historical matefial,

the appearance of girls dressed

Richmond, with her two sons and

of

this

many

room, and gathered with

lived the

first

their wives, furnished

meanhouse, and

friends for this

was born

!Miss Rice

ingful occasion.

dedicated to the

impressive cere-

Mrs. Pollard English,

(See speech on page 5).

mony.

in the

Following the luncheon held in the dining

and Mrs. Lankford welcomed for a

most enjoyable

hall,

the

In the afternoon, Dr.

alumnae

into their

home

Fridav evening, Beryl Morris Flannagan entertained

the

members

ent

and two

of the fifty }-ear

guests,

at a dinner at

reunion class

who were

pres-

Jean Morris and Maria Bristow Starke,

Longwood House.

After the dinner they

had an informal meeting and talked over the happenings of the years.

member

of the

and many interesting

replies

Beryl had written to each

January and June

classes,

were read at this time.

Those present were Belle Gilliam

Marshall, Carrie Kyle Baldwin, Carrie

Mason

Norfleet,

Lucy Rice English, and Mary V. Steger. Elizabeth Dowdy Overton and Fannie B. Shorter came on Saturday. The earlier reunion classes were well represented by such lovely ladies as Katherine Wicker '87, Louise Twelvetfees Hamlet and Myrtis Spain Hall '92, Frances Y. Smith and Mamie Wade Pettigrew "02. The members of the class of 1912

who

returned for their forty-fifth reunion

were Hattie -Ishe, Agnes Burger Williams, Lettie Cox

NOVEMBER, 1957

years)

of the class of

(some

Louise Lane

were

who were

1017,

for the first

Shearer,

de-

time in 40

Elizabeth

Howard Wilson, Marian

Hinternhoff, Ruth

Malcolm

R. Linton,

Agnes Murphy, and Gladys Tucker Rollins.

The

degree class of 1922 stood forty per cent strong

on the platform

at the

morning program: Mildred Dickin-

son Davis, chairman of the Founders

five

members

) !

(The

Day Committee, and

class of

1922 had only

Sarah Belle Stubblefield, of the Diploma

Class of that year was also present for the week-end.

Among we saw

tea.

reunion classes had special meetings.

Several of the

On

all

members

Several

Mar\- D, Finch, speaker.

17 years of her life there.

annual business meeting was held.

.

lighted to see each other

in the typical dress of the different periods.

The parlor in the Alumnae House was memory of Miss Minnie Rice in a very

Laughon, Louise Davis Thacker, Frances L. Poindexter, and Ruth Ward Sadler.

those graduating in 1927

who were

in attendance,

Thompson, Louise Brewer, Helen Duke, Kathryn Hargrove Rowell,

Jessie Bennett

Costan,

Louise

E.

Frances Holland, Charline Martin Saunders, Orline Wilson

White,

Mary Frances Sheppherd

Flinn,

Virginia

Graves Krebs, and Ida Wells Garrabrandt. See Class

News

section for account of 1932,

and 1937

reunions.

Those who got together from the class of 1942 were German Rowlett, Mary Venable Hughes, Jane Lee

Lillian

Hutcheson

Hanbury,

Estelle

Peerman Coleman, Jean Walker Dukes.

The 1947

class returned over

week-end together, "catching year reunion were son,

Gwen

Paulette

Lumpkin, Betty and Henrietta

Steel .'\rmistead,

40 strong for a wonderful

up"'.

Present for their tenth

Ackiss Thompson, Grace Ander-

Ruth Anderson Smith, Virginia Anderson

Justis,

Edith

Apperson, Lou Baker Harper, Nancy Lee Barrett Baldwin, Betty Bibb Ware, Kitty Sue Bridgeforth Hooker,

Anne

Charlton Miller, Connie Christian Marshall, Mar}' Armi-

13

:

stead Catlett, Joan Davis Ricketts, Ellis, jNIartha

Mary Lee Dickerson

RETIRED SECRETARY'S

East Miller, Margaret Ellett Anderson, Betty

PORTRAIT PAINTED

Hudson Grinstead, Sue HundAnne Hundley Greer, Barbara

Harville Francioni, Audrey ley Chandler, Katherine

by Margaret Robinson Simkins

Kellam Grubbs, Betty Minetree Dauscher, Heidi Lacy Tokarz, and Glennis Moare Greenwood.

Also present

Ann

Early Eee Palmer Miller, Doris Rose Ramsey,

were:

Scruggs

Critzer,

Scherberger,

Pli)dlis

Christine

Shiflet

Maxey, Grace Shriver Wiggins, Shirk}- Slaughter Embrey, Cornelia Smith Goddin, Lucile Upshur Mapp, Lillian Stables, Charlotte West Yates, Nancy Whitehead Patterson,

and Violetta Wilson.

A

One

Snack Bar was

lovely breakfast in the

following were together for

members

enjo5'ed

by

The

of the class.

trait

ner Riggins, Mildred Blessing Sallo, Betty Scott Borkey

Banks, Mar)' Brame Trotter, Barbara Broivn Moore,

Emily Johnson, and Rosa

^^'all,

Crawford Andrews, Mary Lee Folk, Lauralee

graciously consented to

Mary

Fritts Wliit-

David

yir.

for

sit

Smith)

it.

most famous

From

for her sittings.

Maria Jackson,

Mar\- Moore Karr Borkey, Ruth

Lacy Smith, Shirley Livesay, Eugenia Moore, Winnie Murdock, Ginny McLean Pharr, Frances Anne Ramsey Hunter, Bunnie Ricks Austin, Jean Ridenour Appich,

May

of the South's

While

do the work.

to

''Rustom" on the River Road, the home of Maria Bris-

Hood

Harris,

was chosen

artists,

was being made, Ruth's headquarters were

the portrait at

Richmond, one

of

Silvette,

tow Starke.

^^'all,

Coiirter

would make the alumnae happiest would be a porof Ruth Harding Co)'ner. When Ruth was per-

more, Dot Gregory Morrison, Peggy Harris Ames, Alargie

Jackie Jardine

loving thought the committee

part of the week-end

all or

Humphreys

much

the

After

suaded that her portrait was what we really wanted, she

Jane Allen Hinman, Flora Ballowe DeHart, Marian Beck-

Caldwell, Joy

is

on tributes and memorials (Maria Bristow Starke, Vir-

and Mrs. Schlegel as honored

all tlie

everywhere

interest

paid to Ruth Harding Coyner.

man}- conferences and

that

worked hard contacting

it

decided that the most appropriate tribute and the thing

Jean Ridenour Appich, and Pegg)' Harris Ames

guests.

accomplishments which has

Association's

the

which

tribute

ginia

the 1952 class, with Dr.

of

met with warm enthusiasm and

It

The

here she drove to Mr. Silvette's studio

took the artist ten full days to complete the picture. time was well

spejit, for

the beauty of Ruth's

Mr.

features

Silvette's

brush caught

and not a

of her

little

charming personality.

Henry Sadler Midgett, Mary Frances Spurlock Taylor, Catherine Toxey Altizer,

Nancy Walker Reams, Maxine

Watts Peschel, Eleanor Weddle, Martha Alice

Wilson

The

framed, hangs over the mantle

portrait, beautifully

in the business office of the

No

Alumnae House.

one can

look at this likeness without remembering the love and

Thompson, and Lee Wood Dowdy.

labor that Ruth has given, and .\ssociation of

Alumnae

organization that

it

of

giving, to

is

Longwood College

make

the

the splendid

is.

DARDEN ADDRESSES GRADS (Continued from page 12)

Also graduating with Honor were

Mathews

of Blackstone,

Ann

\Miite

Jean Hines Morris of Gladys, Rita Hite Nelson of Clarksville,

and Mr. Jesse Casey of Village.

The Biology Honors graduate was Nancy Redd Quarles

American Association

of

gift

membership

University AA'omen

for

books, so

was decided

it

A

Coyner, and

members

will be

MA

on the

DEGREE re-

to establish a

Mary

of the

Alumnae

of

Longwood

Mary Clay Hiner book

We

14

in English.

plates

b}^

of the

These books

and placed

shelves in the office of the

believe that the

Mary Clay Hiner

Library will add to the charm of the house; we know that

tors

program

members

College.

marked with appropriate book

!Miss Mary- Clay will be greatly pleased

since the graduate

book collection in

faculty and by

awarded by Longwood College

Her major was

can't

Nichols, will collect books written

Longwood

ceived the second master of arts degree in education to be

started in 1955.

We

committee, composed of Mildred Davis, Ruth

Alumnae House.

Mrs. Georgia Auglierton Gurne}-, of Ajjpomattox,

was

Mary Clay Hiner

for her years of service to our Association.

-Association of

one year.

RECEIVES

HONORED

very fitting tribute has been paid to

her honor.

Josephine Hillsman was awarded a the

A

think of Miss IMary Clay without thinking of her love of

of Winchester.

in

MISS HINER

Thomas

Ellen Hamlett Willis of Rice,

if all

of our visi-

read and enjoy the books which have been collected

in her

name.

Alumn.ÂŤ; Magazine

SIX

GRADUATES

RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS Six recent graduates have received scholarships or fellow-

ships to do graduate study.

Mary

Ruffin Cowles '55, was awarded a Florence

Wood-

worth Scholarship for study in the Graduate School of Library Science, Columbia University, for the academic

Xaxcv Quarles

Helen Waeriner

Roberta Scott

Williams

This was one of three permanent scholar-

year, 1957-58.

ships from the Henrietta Church Becjuest offered by the

New York Who's

for

and

Mary was

State Library Association.

Who Among

Longwood. Since graduation she has

Colleges, while at

been loan librarian at Randolph-Macon

and has been

chosen

Students in American Universities

Lynchburg

active in the

Woman's

College

Little Theatre, ap-

pearing in several productions.

Fav Sharon Greenland work the

in the field of

School

of

'54 is continuing her

Spanish-American

Inter-American

advance

social studies in

University

Studies,

Before graduating from Longwood,

Fay won and

ernment for undergraduate study sity of

to

Mexico.

Longwood

at the

National Univer-

Fay returned

After a year's study there,

to finish

her undergraduate work, graduat-

ing with high honors with a major in Spanish.

taught for the past two years at

During

tlie

summer

of

'55,

She has

Warwick High

Fay

assisted

in

a

Church.

The summer

of '57, she traveled in

and studied

at the Colegio

Mayores

in

Gamma,

'55

was awarded

is

is

won

of

the

"Romeo and

Xancy Redd Quarles Quarles

Juliet''.

'57,

daughter of Nancy Crisman

has been awarded a fellowship at the Blandy

'22,

Experimental Fami of the University of Virginia

a

biology and general

science

major from Winchester,,

Her honors paper was

graduated with honors in biology.

"An

entitled

for

Nancy^

graduate study in botan\- for the 1957-SS session.

and Experimental Account of The members of her examining committee

Historical

Geotropism".

Patterson of HoUins College, and Franklin F. Flint of Randolph-IMacon A\'oman's College. Nancy was Maid of

studying at specializing

Nancy

one of 123 outstanding students from 30 countries to

She was sponsored by the

Rotary Club of Nevirport News, her home town. the 1956-57

A member

leadership fraternity.

Players, she acted in five plays and

Honor

in the

1956 Apple Blossom Festival

in

Winchester.

Longwood.

in English literature of the Renaissance period.

receive a Rotary Fellowship.

Students in

mission

a Rotarj- Foundation

Lad}' Margaret College, Oxford, where she

is

national

as Juliet in

Helen Page at the

Nancy Nelson

Among

1955 "Oscar" or Best Actress Award for her performance

Madrid, Spain.

Fellowship for advanced study abroad, and

]\'ho

were Ivey F. Lewis of the University of Virginia, Paul

Europe with

at

WJio's

School.

school in Puerto Rico under the auspices of the Episcopal

Michelle Bodo, former French informant

for

American Universities and Colleges, and Alpha Kappa

of

used one of six scholarships offered by the Mexican gov-

At Longwood,

School in Alexandria.

Nancy was chosen

Longwood

Florida, one of two assistantships offered to ^American students.

Hammond High

During

school year she taught English at Francis

AA'arriner '56, of Amelia,

now

is

studying

She was awarded

National University of Mexico.

Buck Fellowship of the Virginia Federation Women's Clubs to pursue graduate study in a LatinAmerican university for 1957. The fellowship is oft'ered the Dorothea of

and

for the purpose of creating friendship

better

standing between the people of the United the people of Latin America.

It

is

under-

States

and

available alternate

years to a student from a Latin country

who

wishes to

study at the University of Virginia and a Virginia student

wishing to study in a Latin country. Schuj'ler

'51

x received

this

Helen was awarded an A. B. degree tion with a double

was chosen Universities

for

Who Among

and Colleges, and

in

for

'57, of

1953.

secondary educa-

She

Students in American

Alpha Kappa Gamma.

Farmville, was awarded

special scholarship for first-^^ear graduate students at

the University of

SI

in

major in English and Spanish.

Who's

Roberta Scott Williams a

Nancy Camper^

same fellowship

7

10

is

English.

North Carolina.

The

scholarship worth

being used for graduate work in the field of

Bobbie Scott graduated with high honors with

an A. B. in secondary education with a major in English.

Mary Cowles

November, 1957

Fay Greexlaxd

Nancy Nelson

She finished college in three years.

IS;

Chapters Have Busy Year The Danville chapter had a lovely Silver Tea at the home of their president, Marian Heard, and a luncheon meeting

Three Freshmen Receive Chapter Scholarships

in the spring.

Thelma Souder, assistant dean of women traveled Greensboro to speak to the Alumnae Chapter, and attend College

Norman

Day

at the

to

Recipients of scholarships from three alumnae chapters

to

were outstanding high school seniors, now freshmen at

She and Louise Lexington Chapter's spring

high school.

'59 also attended the

Longwood. Pat Southworth, who graduated from John Marshall

meeting.

High

Lynchburg chapter members had

"white-elephant

a

sale" and used the proceeds to help to gifts the>-

buy the lovely

have given for the Alumnae House.

School, received the

chapter's annual

Pat was a member of the student

council, F. T. A., the

newspaper

staff,

and National Honor

She was on the varsity hockey team and

Society.

Norfolk and Portsmouth have combined their chapThey have held eight chapter meetings this year,

Richmond

scholarship award.

ser\'ed

as captain of both varsity basketball and softball squads.

ters.

all of

which were luncheon meetings.

Dr. R. C. Simonini

was guest speaker at their big spring luncheon. Neighborhood card parties and class card parties helped to raise the $200 which this group provides for a scholarship each

The Jarman Memorial Scholarship awarded by the Peninsula chapter went to Peggy Lovic, from Newport She was president of the Future Homemakers Club

News.

and

and belonged

year.

Raleigh chapter members enjoyed a lovely per at the

home

of Claire

Eastman Nickels

buffet sup-

ciety.

in recently.

An

with over 600 alumnae in the area.

active

and Mrs. Lanlcford attended

their

very

lovely

Dr. Lankford also enjoyed being the guest of

subscription card party and fashion show

of the highlights of the year for the

Jeffers,

was one

Peninsula chapter.

and Puckett Asher were faculty guests

their

spring luncheon;

enter

Longwood were

elected

and

in

1957,

won

the National Lucile

M.

Nancy Morris,

valedictorian

of

the

Worsham High

President of the student coun-

scholarship for this year.

and the dramatic

F. H. A. work, and a staff,

Nancy was outstanding

club,

member

and president of her

of the glee club,

class.

in

newspaper

She was also selected

to attend Virginia Girl's State.

a dinner meeting

The Norfolk chapter awarded its scholarship to a who later decided to remain at home and attend school there. They plan to give a larger scholarship next year, or to give two scholarships. The Lynchburg chap-

enjoyed a recent

ter helps girls

also invited.

from Dr. and Mrs.

Washington

at

high school seniors planning to

The Suffolk-Nansemond group held in May. Winchester chapter members visit

was

School senior class, was awarded the Farmville chapter's

cil

Dr. C. G. G. Moss, Mary Clay Hiner, Dr. and Mrs.

George

of the Girls Club, she

Wright Citizenship Award.

Dr.

spring

the Philadelphia chapter at a spring dinner meeting.

A

member

Federation,

and the Peninsula Choral So-

All of these were

contacted twice by phone and once by letter this year.

luncheon.

up

chapter stays quite busy keeping

to the chorus

1956 as Young Homemaker of the year by Girls Club

of America,

The Richmond

Homemakers Peninsula

the Future

of

student

from that area through a student loan fund.

Jeffers.

chapter members had a delightful time

at a spring hat show which was held at the Fairfax Hotel.

Seven members modeled beautiful spring hats after luncheon was served

had

to fifty-two ladies.

This active chapter

as their guests during the year Dr.

rj- r%

and Mrs. Dabney

Jarman, Mr. and Mrs. Macon Pharr, and

Mary

%

Nichols.

Several chapters have entertained high school students

during the

yea.T.

Lexington members

seniors to their spring

meeting.

invited high school

Dr. Jeffers visited in

Lynchburg and talked to interested high school girls. Norfolk-Portsmouth and Peninsula chapters both had Christmas parties, inviting high school seniors and Long-

wood

students.

Emily Johnson entertained prospective

students from the

her

home

Washington area and their dates in Winchester chapter members

in Arlington.

gave a tea in honor of the juniors and seniors of Handley

High .16

School, with over SO students attending.

Ruth Clendening Gaver, pours ville chapter's

Silver Tea.

at the

Dan-

Standing are

Barbara Rickman Vought and Clare Davis Wallace.

Alumnae Magazine

CHAPTER OFFICERS NAMED The Alumnae Danville

—

been notified of the election

Office has

Chapter

of the following

officers:

Marian Heard;

president,

vice-president,

Lee

Robertson; secretary, Clare Davis Wallace; treasurer,

Lou

Betty

and

Jefferson;

reporter,

Helen Wentz Fore-

becker.

—

president, Ann Holladay DeMuth; vice-presMargaret Davidson Bruce, Martha Jane Jones Andrews, Mary Banks Fretwell, and Ethel Gish

Farmville

idents,

^^'ilmoth.

N.

Greensboro,

C.

— Beth

Brockenbrough Linweaver, of the Raleigh, N. C. alumnae are, front row, Betty Pecrnian Coleman, treasurer Viola Tattle March, president, and Claire Eastman Nickels,

president; secretary, Violet Marshall Miller

Lexington

—

Janie Potter Hanes;

president,

dent, Gertrude

—

vice-presi-

Mary

Josephine Snead

Coleman;

Lipscomb.

Sterrett

Lettie Cox Laughon; first viceLane Shearer; second vice-president,

recording secretary, Cleo Reynolds

;

corresponding

Evans

Thereas

secretary,

Craft; and treasurer, Elizabeth Ballagh.

—

Norfolk president, Eva McKenny Gu}'nn; Winnie Beard. Raleigh, N. C.

—president,

Elizabeth

president,

treasurer,

Viola Tultle March; vice-

Williamson;

Fields

Walkup; treasurer, Betty Pecrnian Coleman; Historian, Nena Lochridge Sexton; and public relations, Claire Eastman Nickels. president,

Marsh Pilkington Adams; Moomaiv Leek; recording sec-

Ella

vice-president, Harriett retary, INL^rtha

Higgins Walton; corresponding

retary, Kitty Patrick Cassidy;

and

Seniors^ Sororifies,

sec-

treasurer, Frances

—

Alpha Sigma Alpha and Kappa Delta sororities are These two national in the Rotunda.

placing plaques

vice-president, president. Else

jMinnie

Wente;

Gwen

treasurer,

president,

Elizabeth

Jean

vice-i>resident,

presented at the time of the

and

—

—

\\'inch;

vice-

Hazel-

secretary,

treasurer, Elizabeth

Garden

president, Lucille

Hewlett

Moore;

Scott;

secretary,

Day which

Sorority,

founded on

ser\dce of dedication

its

and

anniversary

October

23,

year.

1897,

plaque to

])resent the

Last to the

fall

Zeta

memory

and sponsor

Tau Alpha

treasurer, Betty

of

ZTA

Visit Messick,

Atkinson Jerome; secretary, Betty Gill

Jean Snapp Fawcett;

of this sorority,

dedicated a memorial marker

of I^Iiss Leola Wheeler, 1884-1954. of the faculty

from 1948-1954.

placed below the Colonnade in front of

Irma Page Anderson; vice-pres-

Mapp

The founders

Sara Turner.

Lula Winley Hart.

William Hohannas;

November, 1957

Delta

will be

Miss

from 1911-1949, This marker was

Tabb

Hall.

Ximmo

secretary,

alumnae

All in

tlie

Mary

Davis Edwards.

Alumnae House

are cordially invited to spend the night

alumnae house whenever they are

Farmville.

alumnae

president, Jesse Pickette Carter; vice-presi-

Betty

held

Bragg

Yowell; treasurer, Eleanor Lader Unhau.

dent,

State 16.

whose names appear on the plaque, were Mary Sommerville Sparks, Julia Gardiner T3'ler, Lenora Ashmore, and

Irma Phillips Wallace, Sara

—

Kappa

Wheeler was a member

president,

Eisther

Winchester

ASA

Longwood on November

held at

Acklss Thompson.

Edgerton

Buck Muse;

Margie

Stallings; reporter,

dents,

The Alpha Sigma

Long^vood.

the college on October 23.

Margaret Sheffield Ward; treasurer. Valla

Washington

at

Alpha plaque bears the names of its founders, Virginia Lee Boyd, Louise Burks Cox, Juliette Jefferson Hundley, Mary Williamson Hundley, and Calva Hamlet Watson, and the founding date, November IS, IQOl. This was

Neva Mae Brank-

membership chairman, Isabel Eutaler Grater.

Suffolk-Nansemond

•

first

Barrett; second vice-

secretarj',

Wood Burhank Thomas; Crafts;

Grumpier Burger;

Mary Ann King

and

ley Parker;

Philadelphia— president,

were founded

sororities

In commemoration of the sixtieth

president,

Gifts

auditorium.

Goldman. Peninsula

Make

The graduating June class of 1957, and three sororities, have made gifts to the college this year. The seniors gave money for the brick walk which was placed this summer joining the library walkway with the side walk of the

secretary,

Elizabeth

—

Back row, Elizabeth Fields Williamson, vice-president and Nena Lochridge Sexton, historian. public relations officer.

president,

president, Louise

Richmond

;

Wright Wells; secretary, Louise Hurt

Faber; and treasurer,

Lynchburg

Oflici-'rs

chapter

visiting

secretar}-, or

Miss Lucile Jennings,

hostess, con-

cerning which night or nights you would like to

Plan

in

Please notify Mrs. Elizabeth Shiplett Jones,

a trip soon to visit

Alumnae "home on

Longwood College and

visit.

this lovely

the campus.''

17

Department Encourages Foreign Informant Program

State

by Helen Draper Last spring wht-n Dr. Lankford received

sim-

letter

a

one to Mrs. Pharr, he suggested that

ilar to the following

an account of our foreign student-assistants be puhlished

Alumnae

in the

Bulletin.

Department

of State

Washington

25,

D. C.

April 15, 1957

Dear

^Irs.

Pharr:

/ kiiou' that you are aware of

United

and speeiticaUy

.States,

jectives, of the periods of

to

tJie

importance

its

ioreii;n

study nnJertaken

at

io

the

policy

olj-

your

Chantal Perrotte and Elena Vinos, who are serving as foreign language informants at Longwood this year.

iusli-

tution by foreign visitors. ]'onr institution lias repeatedly

encourage their active participation

demonstrated

association.

unJerstandini^ of the signijicaiit contribu-

its

tion sucli study can

make

mutual understand-

to increased

Providing certain institutional oi idumiii association

2.

publications to foreign alumni at special rates.

ing throughout the world. If full value

is

from their .inierican

to he realized

r.v-

S.

Encouraging continuing professional correspondence

4.

Inviting prominent

between faculty members and foreign alumni.

perience, these foreign students will wish to maintain both

personal and professional contacts with the United States after their return to tlieir

home

and consular missions abroad possible through

countries.

assist to the greatest extent

the promotion of professional seminars, the presentation

liv

our official representatives overseas can,

however, constitute onlv tact or "follim-up" to tliese

Soliciting articles

5.

a

Of

Any

bonds as correspondence with to

contribute

tlieir

much more meaningful,

to

.Imerica.

.Such

tinuing professional growth and feeling of kinship

which

The program

am

therefore writing to ask

members of your

association,

sideration to devising

means

if

could give increased con-

vour foreign alumni. in

important

this

and by members of the United States Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange. It has been tional Affairs,

American Alumni Council.

While we recognize that your association mav already be carrying on extensive follow-up activities,

we should

offer the following general suggestions

for your

consideration: 1.

IS

years

jirac-

her Spanish classes.

Those were war years which disclosed

program was recently suggested by the American Conned s Commission on Education and Interna-

like to

Two

Puerto Rican .students on a volunteer basis for oral

the nation's sur-

Offering special inducements to foreign alumni io

marked

the

beginning of intensive programs of foreign language teaching in our armed forces.

The

use of natives for quick,

accurate information about the terrain, people and civilization, as well as able.

knowledge of languages, proved invalu-

This was not a new method of teaching.

eign language teachers of

on Education

heartily endorsed by the

fourteen years ago.

previously Miss Barksdale had been using some of her

prising lack and vital need of linguists, and

you, or appropriate

Enlistment of your fiiiiher cooperation

of the foreign student-assistantship at our

officially

their interest lias

of maintaining a professional

relationship of long duration with

began

'u'ith

been most personal and most profound. I

vour associa-

International Educational E.ychange Service

tice in life in

alumni,

Russell L. Riley, Director

former professors, and

alumni publications are

of course, in terms of their con-

those aspects of American

to

Sincerely yours,

college

opportunities

from foreign alumni

contribution to inteniatiomd understanding.

returned students are their reliitionships with the in

conferences,

to

increased foilow-iip activity which

far greater significance

institutions 'i'hich thev h<n<e attended

alinnni

professional or other publications.

small part of a continuing con-

program.

foreign

etc.

tion should be able to undertake will constitute a material

of publications, an-d other related activities. 2'iiis effort

symposia,

Our diplomatic

stimulation of "alumni" associcitinns.

tlie

your alumni

in

excellent results

vinced

a

now

many

countries used

Many it.

for-

But the

aroused national interest and con-

numlier of school administrators that Americans

could become good linguists and that more were needed.

Some

of these administrators began a

program

of

employ-

Longwood College was fortunate to have such administrators. The program begun under Dr. Jarman has been continued by ing foreign student informants, or assistants.

both Dr. Lancaster and Dr. Lankford.

Beginning in 1944 each year a native French student

Alumnae ^L^gazine

Spanish student have been granted

.ind a native-speaking

part-time instructorships often referred to as scholarships,

and

the foreign language classes

to assist in

They

ten hours a week.

lalioratory

are hostesses in the dining-hall

France, licencier of Lille Universit)-, has just

left

us for

a similar position at the LTniversity of Hlinois.

Seven French assistants

come from Paris.

liave

and voted

leine Bigot, intellectual

^Lide-

friendliest, received her

where students may practice the languages, and they help

licence at the

Sorbone.

Destined h> follow her father's

with programs of the language clubs. They usually enroll

and brother's profession

of teaching, >he instead marritd an

and concentrate upon perfecting

as special students

their

English and learning about American literature and cusIn many instances these students are graduates of home universities. The French students have often

toms. their

and

held equivalent master's degrees,

were employed also

At the time Miss Barksdale began using some Puerto Ricans for

Six of them have served

regular students.

in the official

position of students-assistants in Spanish.

Longwood.

of

ates

Patria

came with

student of

College

the

married

also

in

an

l)oth

character

.American,

and mar-

an outstanding

('49)

Dalila Agostini,

and scholar-

whom

minister

a

ÂŤhe met in Puerto Rico where she returnetl to teach. is

now

were

Carmen

She

Other Puerto Rican student-

living in Arizona.

assistants

a

expe-

teacliing

e.xcellent

Pretty and attractive, she "captured"

ried a local bo^'.

ship,

are gradu-

.\1]

('50)

Perez,

diploma from home and with rience.

of her

twelve were enrolled as

ten or

drill

years

several

for

one or two small Latin classes.

to teach

('45),

Flores,

Mal-

Isabelita

donado, ('46) Julia Perez, ('55) and Elba Castaiier ('S5).

Elba has continued her studies

at

Middle! >ury College,

receiving her master's degree there.

The

College lost

Puerto Rican students and

its

it

became

necessary to look elsewhere for assistants in Spanish.

The

Englishman, and is helping him build sea-ports in .Africa and Pakistan. Interesting Catherine Dessaix came from

Kathy Ollivary, Denise Monalum-

Paris and the Sorbonne.

Bodo and

tagne, Michelle

nae of

well-known Parisian commercial

a

have fallen

with Longwond.

in lo\-e

recommended

has

each

t_'hantal Perrotte are all

^Michelle wrote she

her

to

it

had

w-ith

who

Kathy

Recently

su( cesser.

Chantal,

told

All

college.

Beginning

is

spending

was lucky to be able to go to recommended as one of the finest

this year with us, that she

Longwood.

Chantal

is

students of her graduating class.

The

program has brought us exchange

foreign student

relations with

foreign teachers,

from

professors

Holland,

England, and other countries.

ment

in

month's

a

visit

Venezuela.

in

visiting plan

a

for

Longwood College was chosen charn-iing

a

]j\

Mexico,

In I'Mo the State Dei-iart-

Washington included us

Latin American teachers. for

have been hosts to

^^"e

France,

\'enezuelan.

Seiiora

made it possible fi>r a member of cur Foreign Language Departn-ient to teach English in the summer school of the .-American \'enezuelan Center at Caracas. The op]>ortunit\- for four of our students to study Her

Soto.

visit

abroad has change.

Ijeen

our most important and gratifying ex-

Maria Jackson

and Helen Tanner

('52)

('5.i)

next four represented three countries, Honduras, Chile,

obtained Fulbright grants to study in France. Fay Green-

and Mexico.

land ('54) received one of six ^Mexican government schol-

w-ell

Argentina Matute of Honduras liked us so

she sent us a student, her sister-in-law (Celina Leon-

Gomez).

Silvia

Bascour of Chile won our hearts with her

beauty and fine character. Micki IXiarte and Elena Flores of

Mexico adapted well

Vinos,

Micki remained two

students.

the

W'ith

who came

becoming popular

to college wa}s,

to

us

this

fall,

years.

though

Elena

a

citizen

She

Ijids

of

Mexico,

is

to bring

unusual beaut}- and contacts with the old culture

of Spanish birth

and training.

fair

first

from Quebec,

was a Canadian Only her language

attractive Lise d".-\njou.

Due

France there was an interim of a

to

war conditions

}-ear

a licence

was especially

She remained

to teach in

obtained a student-assistantship consin the follov^dng year. students.

in

qualified for her

summer

at the

school,

and

University of Wis-

She was loved by both faculty

every way, talented

kindergarten

w-ell

teaching.

November, 1957

in

and Genevieve Joatton, music and interested in

Genevieve

^^'oman's Club

real to us their language

ticipated in the

homes, speaking

and

life

and

community at

civic,

Thev have become our

a significant contribu-

They have made They have par-

culture.

civilization. life

of our State, visiting in

church,

and school meetings.

home

friends, taking life.

A\'e

and

a true

could have no

ambassadors nor alumnae abroad. story of each foreign assistant

important

to us.

Her

story

is

is

and

interesting

the history of the foreign

student program at our College.

after Lise's de-

Other assistants from Lyon were Suzanne

Girard, lovely and intellectual, fine

College

NINE RECEIVE MASTERS DEGREES

from the University of Lyon and experience

in teaching, Annette

a

in

parture before Annette Vincent-Viry arrived from Lyon.

and

made

foreign students have

to our

The

student-assistant in French

betrayed her as a foreigner.

position.

Our tion

better

FRENCH ASSISTANTS

With

Helen Warriner ('56) obtained

grant to stud)' in ^Mexico also.

friendlv view of our American

of Spain.

The

arships.

Laloux

of

northern

iCniifiiiiiCil froiii pain-

20)

Blackstone; Margaret Riuker Scott '25, Prospect; Myrtle A'ayto?!

Skeens

'23,

Roanoke; Ruth Hardiman Steger

'30x,

Buckingham; Ora Mayo Summers; Schuyler; Josephine Tarpley, Dry Fork; Mrs. Elva F. \\'arren. Ford; and Elizabeth Manson Wenzel '46x, Dewitt. Receiving other Bachelor Degrees were Barbara Scott

Gibson and

]\Irs.

Xichole Rothe. both of Farmville; Elsie

Wells of Richmond; and Patricia Browder of Dolphin.

19

Nine

New

Nine appointments

to the faculty

Faculty and

Members On Campus EXCHANGE PROFESSOR

two replace-

staft",

ments, and three promotions marked the ojiening of the

1957-58

session.

new Dean

is

Women,

of

succeeding

She has served as assistant Dean cf W( men

Alabama Polytechnic

at

of Canada, she

replacement

fur

biology' professor

Dr. Ruth B. Wilson

Ruth Gleaves.

A

A

Institute for six }-ears.

was educated and taught

schools of Pennsylvania.

in

native

the public

She holds the master's degree

month's leave of aljsence,

comes a

to

University of Leiden, and

teaches biology.

education,

succeeding !M.

Longwood from

session, she has .substituted

degrees from

Duke

He

Xew

new asPh.D. and A.M.

York,

holds the

the

is

University, and has been a graduate

assistant in the biology department at

Duke

for the jiast

taking the place of Dr. Gary

S.

is

geography instruc-

Dunbar, who resigned

to accept a position with the University of Virginia.

son of a missionar)', Mr. Noble was

bom

preparatory instruction in South India.

the

M.A. and A.B. degrees from the University

Research assistant for the A. E. C. project

Aaron H. O'Bier,

is

has served as instructor

Jr.

education department.

He

who

Dr. Doroth)' Schlegel,

to the

in the Ijiology

He

Medical College

holds the M.A. and A.B. degrees from the University of

Richmond.

is

now

Association Professor

and Mrs. Kathleen G. Cover, Associate Pro-

of English,

A. Moore.

A

practicing physician in Farmville, he

holds both the B.S. and

M.D.

degrees from

Xew York

University.

Mary

The two

foreign language informants for the 1957-58

session are Chantal Perrotte,

A. F. Kemble, assistant professor of music,

comes from the University of Mar3'land where she has taught for the past nine years.

French informant, and Elena

Vinos, Spanish.

Nine Receive Masters Degrees

As Summer Sessions Closes The

blaster of Arts Degree in Education was awarded

Prior to that time, she

taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania and

New

She holds the B.S. in public school music from

and the Master

to seven candidates,

Education

to

exercises on

two

at

August

10.

summer

M.A. degree in Education to James Harold Anderson, Pamplin; Audrey Davis Carr, '47, \\'indsor; ^Marshall '24,

'39,

Norfolk; Mrs. Virginia Fitzgerald

Jordan, Blackstone; Earl

J.

Smith,

John Edward Huegel, '52 of Danville, and Mrs. Marie Gwartney Lucy, of Blackstone received the Master of Science in Education.

The Bachelor

of Science

Degree

in

vania.

Braun

John P. Kennedy, instructor in sociology, holds the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Emory University. He has been

17x,

Mrs. Alice M. Overton, of Farmville, has been added to the staff as college hostess.

Elementary Educa-

was awarded to Welma Wilck Boggs, '24, Bumpass; .\nn Blair Brown, 4Sx, Arlington; Barbara Ann Burnside,

tion

Carter,

be employed jointly

Pamplin; Mrs.

of Pamplin.

Richmond; Dorothy Bagby Canada,

Emory during the past year. He will at Hampden-Sydney and Longwood.

Jr..

Ruth H. Taliaferro, Harrisonburg; and John Earl Wood,

M.S. and M.Ed, degrees from the University

a graduate fellow at

Degree in

school

Mansfield State Teachers College, Penns)'lvania, and the of Pennsyl-

of Science

commencement Dr. Francis G. Lankford awarded

the

the

Greathead,

Dr. John G. Graziani, college physician, succeeds Dr.

20

rank of x\ssociate

Also receiving promotions were

Professor of Education.

holds

I., where he has been doing graduate work for the doctorate degree.

Jersey.

Miss Trent has been promoted

of Georgia.

of Lottsburg.

in biology at the

The

of Virginia and as laboratory instructor at V. P.

Mrs.

For the past

Miss Kate Trent in the

and received

his

Ray

for

fessor in the History of Social Science department.

years.

William A. Noble, of Atlanta, Ga.,

He

for

substitute

on leave of absence for

is

Promotions Announced

sistant biology profes.sor.

department

as

the fall semester to do research in education.

who

Jr.,

and doctorate from the University

Dr. Edgar F. Stillwell, of

tor,

serving

is

to

of Virginia.

two

holds

Hague, Holland, where he

Charles H. Patterson,

holds the master's degree in psychology from the University of Penns3'lvania,

He

on leave of absence from Het

is

in the

of

and Mary, and

the faculty of \\'illiam

in Java, he

the Fulbright act.

Miss Ada R. Bierbower

new associate professor Boyd Coyner. He comes

the

M. Lodewijks,

Born

and the doctor's degree from the

teaching certificate

the University of Pittsl:)urgh in the field of religious edu-

is

assistant

taking a fifteen

is

Dr. Jacobus

is

Longwood through

Nederlandsch Lyceum

Richard B. Brooks

Merritt,

who

an exchange professor from Holland.

from Syracuse University, and the doctor's degree from cation.

Robert T.

^Ir.

the college,

at

'36,

Pamplin; Marie

Semora, N.C.; Barbara Carter and Mrs. Ealise Carter,

both of Norfolk;

LaCrosse;

Carrie

Maude Moseley Cook,

Hale Dickerson, Ellerson; and

Martha Elder, Randolph. Also receiving '40,

this degree

were Alarie Cardwell Foster

Lynchburg; Margaret Barrett Knowles,

'26x, Suffolk;

Imogene McCutcheon and Russie McCutcheon

'31,

both of

(Continued on page 19)

Alumnae Magazine

:

:

:

GRANDDAUGHTER'S CLUB

The maiden name first

From

of the mother follows the student's name.

row ;

;

;

ent '11).

Evelyn — grandmotherMary Helen

Roache Bessie Jones (Mary Hazel (Yates Crowder '29) Felecia Elliott (Betty Carroll Lazenby, ent '26) Dorothy Marshall (Florence Nash, ent '24) Lou Gvvyn Roark Glenna Snead, ent '23 ) Emily Johnson (Louise Barksdale, ent '31) Beverly GasChloe kins (Bessie Land, ent '24); Helen Rilee '(13

ent

Shirley Grizzard (Edith Richardson '29) Julia Grey (Margaret Barham '27); Shirley Lucy (Alice Michael, ent '25) Jackie Green (Evelyn Hudson, ent '24) Betty Rawls (Edith Daughtrey,

Wallace

left to right,

)

Barksdale, ent '2b)

McMillan

'31)

(

;

;

Minnie L. Dean

;

;

;

;

(

;

;

second row

(

Nancy Knight (Rosa Townes

'26) Joyce Pendleton (Fern Randolph, ent '25); Betty Spivey (Victoria '28) Betty Sue Barhee (Mamie Daniel Gwaltney '26); Cornelia Anne Batte (Hazel Poarch '29); Helen Jean Young (Helen Glenn '24) Ella Gray (Edith Estep '20) Ann Wallace (Robbie Lee Raney '19) Elizabeth Nichols (Eunice Hod.ges, ent '16) Nancy Knowles (Margaret Barrett Knowles '26, '57) Agnes Lowry (Agnes Meredith, ent '28). ;

—

Snow, ent '05 grandmother) tha Stine, ent '33).

;

(Mar-

Eileen Cahill

;

;

;

;

;

new

m.embers, not pictured

:

Betty Jo Martha Clark Sue Wooding, ent '33 Cook (Josie Spencer '33) Anne Edmunds (Anne )

(

;

;

Sharon Fosciue (Gladys

Phillips '25) Faye Garrett (Lottie Di.von Garrett '33, '54) Freida Hamlet (Virginia Dickerson '34) Lyn Madrin (Eva

Johnson

'36)

;

;

;

;

;

third

Pozvers Madrin ginia

row

McRee (Sara Fox

Sara IVendcnbnrg

'25)

;

Jane

Katherine Key (Carrie Worrell, ent '27) (Veta Martin '24) Nancy Allen (Cleo Belle CogRebecca McGrath (Rebecca Gillette '37) gin '28) Ann Scott (Maud Raiford, ent '22) Sylvia Cogville (Zelma Echols, ent '38) Jackie Waller (Rosa Hunt, Railey

;

;

;

;

;

Marchant

Virginia Lee Mills (VirCarolyn Mottley (Thelma Gar-

'21, '50)

'33)

;

;

Sara Oliver (Eureka Oliver Wenner '19, rett '29) '28 grandmother) Nancy Strickler (Dorothy Bald;

—

zvin

;

Spencer '29)

;

Tae Wamsley (Margaret Hiner*

Claudia Whipple (Lucy T. Bid—grandmother) grandmother; Claudia Fleming good*, '14

;

—

ent '8(5 Patricia Wilmoth (Ethel Gish, ent '20).

'30)

;

;

*

November, 1957

— deceased

21

Your Alumnae President Reports by

In this issue of

Alumnae

tlie

new alumnae

greetings to our hrand

We

hope that man}- of you

Day

Bulletin

it

is

Long^vood Alumnae everywhere and

to greet

already activel}' taking

our pleasure

the 1957 graduates.

in the

alumnae

Mary

CIa\' Hiner,

Longwood

and the support

in the

Longwood

all

Ruth Harding Coyner and

tributes to

the

for

time,

first

money

that

direct

services

it

had formerly for the

Now

salaries,

on the

which

is

as

it

\\'e

should

more

page

shows

12)

that

more heavily than we have

A

its

in the past

We

—

generously.

Alumnae Association

is

not want to do less for our

done

\A e

knowing who your committee members tution lays

on

down

strict rules in the

rec|uires that certain officers

are.

Our

A tem

Alumnae Fund I.

II.

—Dorothy

alumnae

c(;nimittee

is

to

on September

We

1.

Jones with us and know-

look forward to greeting her as

during the

•\ear

and return

to

Founders

is

now studying

the possibilit}' of having

ever}' five years.

Our present sysWould you be

having three consecutive classes return for

in

same }'ear, such as 1950, 1951, and 1952? Vour reunion would then bring you back with those who were in college at the same time you were, although in a

is

This

different class.

March meeting when

consti-

will be

an item of business

the committee will report on

at

its

our

find-

ings.

forming of committees.

Start

and board members be

making plans now

Founders Day on March •

of meeting

many

to join

15.

I

}'our

hope

to

friends here at

have the pleasure

of you at that time.

Diehl, Chairman; Virgilia

Bugg.

Chapter Organization

Publications

and

—Virginia

^^ all.

Chairman;

— Elizabeth

Shiplett

Jones,

Chairman;

TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER iCoiitiiuied

Sammy

Snack Bar

Scott.

—Helen

from

pcige 5)

Preserve this memorial through the years. of

memories

is

in the visions they invoke

The value

and the

spirit

new tasks which they inspire. And now a closing word of appreciation for the privilege of being here today for

Costan and Rosemary Howell,

Co-Chairmen; Elizabeth Shiplett Jones; Francis G. Lankford.

22

will

Elizabeth Shiplett Jones.

is

office

a reunion the

in

Helen Draper; Ray Merchent; Pat Tuggle Miller;

IV.

Secretary

have reunions

Frances Horton; Emily Johnson. III.

McLean

with deep regret

resignation.

fortunate in having Mrs.

interested

do

specific committees. I.

is

the reunion classes in a different order.

in the past.

Alumnae Association

it

Day.

Alma Mater than has been

Since most of the work of the

close to the

board meetings.

position and they

the}' visit the office

The major purpose

to serve the college.

new

that the

alumnae

done by standing committees you might be interested

It

feel

on our alumnae

feel that the

still

fortunate to have had ^'irginia

Our new Alumnae

de|)end

to

to the

Founders Day meeting.

their ideas to our

She assumed the duties of the

reh'ing

association to be self-supporting and will

contribute to that end of an

still

a share

look forward to her services in that capacitv.

staft'

glance at the Ijudget

necessary

is

it

contributions for other projects.

would want

are

our

maintenance of the Alumnae

college, however, for

House, including heat and water. (see

We

be.

all

have

This amendment

at the last

have those who are

we announce her

cepted a

the college can use

now paying

to

Her husband has acmoved to Richmond this past August. She is such a capable person and her work has been done so efficiently that we shall miss her greatly in the Alumnae Office. We are glad that Ginny will remain on the Board for two years and that we can still that

Previously the college

are

Chairman;

an elected representative of

Pharr as our E.xccutive Secretary and

has paid half the salary of the alumnae secretary, and of one student assistant.

to

and can bring

\\'e luive l_)een so

alloted to the bulletin for

students.

was passed good

lie

.students

being pul)lished entirely

is

will

It

which you

The budget passed by the Board at its May meeting made the Alumnae Association responsible for much more This of its own financing than it has been in the jjast. bulletin,

more alumnae

of the association

constitution

will lind elsewhere in this bulletin.

by funds from the association.

Pharr,

Bierbower.

of four years after graduation.

Institute of Southern Culture are of such spe-

cial interest that they deserve separate articles

possible for

it

work

McLean

Ada

each graduating class will serve on the Board for a period

to

newlv established

of the

—Virginia

Mar}' Clay Hiner;

activities of

Board has transacted

the Executive

business that should be of interest to

The

Constitution

To make

During the past Acar

much

Jones; and Dr. Lankford.

lett

\l.

}our communities.

Alumnae.

—

Alumnae House Maria Bristow Starke, Chairman; M}rtle Dunton Curtis; Bessie Carter Taylor; Ruth Harding Coyner; Carrie Spencer; Elizabeth Ship-

Founders

1Q5S, and that you are

15,

jjart

V.

to give special

will be Ijack for the

March

celebration on

—

Elsie Stossel, President

and Dr.

and

of participating in this affectionate tribute to a splen-

did teacher and a gallant soul.

Alumnae Magazine

SEVENTY-FOURTH FOUNDERS DAY March

15,

1958

TENTATIVE PROGRAM Friday, AIarch 14 3 to 6

P.M. and

—Rotunda

P.M.

Registration for

Room

10:15 A.M.

Registration for

Room

7 to 9

Saturday, IMarch 15 8:15

to

9:15 .\.M.

4:00

to

is

hajipy to welcome

vation slip even

if

all

—Jarman .Auditorium

Alumnae-Student Program

12:45 P.M.

Luncheon— College Dining Hall

2:00 P.M.

Alumnae Business Meeting

5:00 P.M.

Open House

— President's

Home, Dr. and Mrs. Lankford

6:50 P.M.

Supper— College Dining Hall

8:00 P.^I.

Spring Pla)'

Saturday.

da\-

You

Please check

19S7 RESERVATION fill

in

— Long\vood

Pla}-ers

'93, '98, '03, '08, '13, '18, '23, '28, '33, '38, '43, '48,

.Alumnae back on Founders Day.

you are coming just for the

Please

Alumnae House, Farm\ille .\lumnae Chapter, Hostess

10:50 xA.M,

Classes holding reunions this .vear will be:

Longwood

Coffee,

—Rotunda

and

'53.

are requested to return the following reser-

all

functions you will attend.

FORM

and return to the Alumnae Office before

MARCH

10

Married, last na

Address

arrive for Founders

Day on

I

sliall

I

should like a reservation at the College for the following nights

n

I

should like to room with

n

I

do not wish a room reserved

I

expect to attend the following

:

a student in college

as I'm visiting

Coffee

,

Luncheon

,

Tea

Entertaiimient

REGISTRATION FEE (Check may be enclosed with

The

A

cost of the

this form, or fee

Founders Day Luncheon

charge for other meals

November, 1957

is

made

at the

is

may

.

.

—$1.00

be paid at Registration Desk)

included in the Registration Fee.

following rates

:

breakfast, fifty cents

;

lunch, sixty cents

;

and dinner, seventy-five

cents.

2S

About Your Candidates — Frances

Sale Lvle,

life in civic

and church

For First Vice-President Danville leads an active

She has served as president of her

local

'37,

of

affairs.

P.T.A. and Garden

Club, teaches leadership classes in her church, serves on

—Nancy

Harrison McLaughlin, graduate Woodberry Forest. Her husband is a teacher and coach at Woodberry Forest. They have a son and a daughter, both high school students. Nancy is

For Director

of

19._i4,

lives

in

vice-president of her

the Girl Scout Area Board, the City Mental Health Board,

and the Board

of

Church Homes

for Children.

She and

her husband, a tobacconist, have two children, a boy and a

ffirl.

Frances has also done

For Second. Vice President

i2;raduate

She and her family spend their summers

Camp

Briar

Hills,

where her husband

is

is

teaching in Richmond. Maria, whose

home

Lexington, was awarded the Fulbright exchange

scholarship and studied in France for the academic year,

1952-53.

She has continued her studies

at

Lexington

director,

and Nancy serves as camp

Staunton,

honor Please help the nominating committee

at the University

of Virginia.

Ijy

sending in

your suggestions for president and two directors, elected next year.

town

is

and

betw-een

MAKE NOMINATIONS '52,

graduate of 1952, and outstanding leader in extracurricular activities,

Club, and chairman of a

circle.

matron.

work.

— Maria Jackson,

Woman's

church

yiay

19SS.

1,

alumnae

in

These suggestions should be sent

Also, the constitution states that

good standing

may

received in writing by August

to

be

in

by

any ten

send in a nomination.

1, it

H

will be printed on the

ballot.

Read about your condidafes, above, before you vote!

BE SURE

TO VOTE AND RETURN THE BALLOT BEFORE

MARCH

15,

1958

BALLOT TIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Frances Sale

(vote for one)

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

L)'le, '27

*

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

(vote for three)

Mary Tyler Baker

Baber, '23,

Katherine Gilbert,

'18,

'54,

'56, Cartersville

Lynchburg

(vote for one)

Kitty Hatch Whitfield, '27, Farmville

Maria Jackson,

'52

Ruth Love Palmer,

DIRECTOR

(vote for one)

Nancy Harrison McLaughlin,

24

.

'34

"27,

Green Bay

Clara Nottingham Baldwin,

Mildred Ragsdale Jackson,

'39,

Farmville

'25, '56,

Lexington

Alumnae Magazine

1957 Contributors for the year are listed by classes.

been changed

to coincide

HONOR ROLL By

Board the

vote of the Executive

with that of the College, July 1-June 30.

Any

fiscal

contributions

year of the Association has received

after

June 30

will

appear on next year's Honor Roll. Sue B. Cook Booker Carrie Brightwell Hopkii Mary Louise McKinney

STATISTICS Nuinher of Alumnae contacted

18S7

Katherine Wicker

Xuinber

Margaret Meaghe

of

8,943

Alumnae who contributed

1,27U

Amount Contributed

$6,570.45

To Alumnae House To Unrestricted Fund

$1,680.00 $4,890.45

May Boswell Gordon Louise Twelvetrees Hamlet

Georgie Biyan Hutt* Cora Lee Cole Smith Rose Lee Dexter Mary Power Farthing Carrie Goode Bugg Claudine L. Kizer Frances Y. Smith Katherine Vaughan Farrar

1893

Ada Mapp Guerrant Bessie Turner

Wicker 1894

Mabyn Branch Simpson Pearle Cunningham Boyle Sarah Ferguson Thomas Florine Hunt Fowler

1903

Ruth Clendening Gaver Mildred D. Cook Mary Frayser McGehee Martha Goggin Woodson

Janie Staples Cfaappell

Emma

1895 Fulks Williams Man- Sue Raney Short Linwood Stubbs

Greer Grace B. Holmes

Stisie

Lena Marshall Carter Anna C. Paxton Mary Henry Shackleford Mattox Grace Warren RoweU Mary S. Yonge

1896

Rosaline Bland Myrtle Brown

1904

Morgan Mary Lou Campbell Graham Inez Clary McGeorge Bessie Blackmore

1897

Dix Floyd Bell Martha Mason Kennerly* Given in her memory by Mrs. E. J. Deckman and Mrs. C. F. Burke. Given in her memory by Mr. and

Sallie

Mrs. Patrick A. Powell Emma LeCato Eichelberger Elsie R.

Kate Spain Powell* Given

in

her

memory by

Zillah

Mapp Winn and Emma LeCato Eichelberger

Martha (Pat) Featherston Matilda Jones Plumley Ruby Leigh Orgain Nelly C. Preston

1900

Margaret Goode Moore Ida

Houpt Howard

1901

Barnes Jessie Cox Locke

Mary

J.

E.

Denny

Beulah Finke Horn

Maude Foster

1907

Gertrude Davidson Higginbotham Olivia Dowdy Overton Louise Farinholt Cottrell Belle Gilliam Marshall Bei-yl Morris Flannagan Lucy Rice English Leonora Rvland Dew Marj- Schofield Watkins

Louise Semones Clara Smith Stoneburner Mary V. Steger Virginia Stubblefield Eleanor Wiatt DuVal Mattie S. WiUis

Gill

Julia Harris Butterworth Elizabeth Palmer Saunders Elizabeth C. Pinner Edith Steigleder Robinson

Frances White Martins

November, 1957

Jennie Bailey Dale Virginia Blanton Hanbury Mattie Bowles Black Belle

Burke

Effie Belle

Wrenn Parhani 1912

Mary W. Anderson Latham Hattie Ashe Sallie Blankenship Adams Jean Boatwright Goodman

Irene E. Briggs Agnes Burger Williams Aletha Burroughs Dodd Leta R. Christian Lettie

Cox Laughon

Louise Davis Thacker Elizabeth Hawthorne Lueck Martha Johnston Rodrigues Amelie Jones Garrison

Amenta Matthews

Crabill

Pearl D. Matthews Annie Moring Fallwell

Louise Poindexter Annie Belle Robertson Paul Lelia E. Robertson

Annie L. Summers Thurzetta Thomas Ross

Ruth Ward Sadler Anne Wilkinson Cox Edith Willis Reed Lillian L. Wilson

Mildred T. Price Ahna Taylor Fincham Lockett Walton Marshall

1913 Ethel Abbitt Burke Preston Ambler

Fannie Hodnett Moses

Hallie Miller Hart Ella V. Moore Rector Bettie Murfee Ray Mary Littlepage Powers Kearney

Alda Reynolds Smith Lottie Wood Snead Grimes Scotia Stark Haggerty Carrie Sutherlin

1905

Maud Anderson Soyara Maud Chernault Yeaman' Susie Chilton Palmer Maria Cocke Talcott

Edith Leigh Dickey Morris Mary Ewell Hundley Georgie R. Gravely Katharine Grayson Reid Willie Hodges Booth

Julia Forbes Thornton

Virginia Garrison Williams

Vedah May Watson Dressier 1909

Annie Bidgood Wood Minnie Blanton Button Alice Carter

Carrie Caruthers Johnson Zula Cutchins Mai-y P. Dui)uy Mattie Bell Fretwell*

Evelyn Hamner Chess Hardbarger Natalie Hardy Graham Isabelle Harrison Mamie Jones Johnson Countess Muse Bareford Antoinette Nidermaier Phipps Blanche Nidermaier Vermillion Mary Perkins Fletcher Kate Perry Florence Rawlings Frances Stoner Binns Virginia Tinsley

Lucy Manson Simpson Mary Sue Moore Bearaan

1910

Maude Newcomb Batte

Flo

Alice Paulett Creyke

Ruby Berger

Ursula Tuck Buckley

Millian Brooke

Alice Chiles

Annie Pollard BeaUe

Emma

Pearle Vaughan Childrey Pauline Williamson

Eva Heterick Warren Mary Clay Hiner

Mary French Day Parker

Ella

Iva Wilkerson Etheridge Elsie E. Wilson

Grace Graham Beville Georgeanna Newby Page

Janie Crute Traywick

1899

Thom

Vera Tignor Sandidge Lucille Watson Ro.se

Clara Burrus Fvazer

1898

Annie H. Cunningham Laura Harris Hines Charlotte McKinney Gash Belle Mears Miller

P.

Estelle Price

Marie Etlieridge Bratten Jessie V. Finke Blanche Gilbert Mary Frances Gray Munroe Gertrude Griffin Billingsley

Jemima Hurt Bessie McGeorge Gwathmey Carrie McGeorge Burke

Mapp Winn

Mary Massenburg Hardy* Given in her memory by Hardy '31

Rebekah Peck Lucy Phelps Irma Phillips Wallace Ruth Shepard Forbes Lucy Cabell Steptoe Sarah Virginia Stuait Groves

DeBerniere Smith Grey Angela Tinslev Dillard

1908

Amelia Holland Jones Elizabeth Smithson Morris Eubie Venable Maude Wicker*

Zillah

Emily W. Johnson Violet Marshall MUIer Nell Maupin Effle Milligan

Anne

1892

Isabel

Lucile Cousins James Nelle Fitzpatrick Jordan Mai-y Gladys Garnett Morris Elizabeth Hatch Pettit

Ware Eubank

Frances R. Wolfe Clair Woodruff Bugg 1906 Merle Abbott Kirk Louise Adams Armstrong Dessie Bailey Minor Isa McKay Compton Carrie M. Dungan Henrietta C. Dunlap Elise Holland Perkins Bess Howard Jenrette Florence L. Ingram NeU D. Ingram Elizabeth B. Kizer Virginia Nelson Hinman Virginia Nunn Williams

Conkling

Emily Firth Smith Estelle HaU Dalton Julia Johnson Davis

Mary Hester Jones Alphin Willie Moorman Morgan Hattie Robertson Jarratt

Maud Rogers Rynex Caroline Roper White Elizabeth Taylor Clark

Mary

Emily Ward McLean* Given

in her Sadler

memory by Ruth

1911 Alice Anderson Campbell Carrie Lee BeU Elbert Pearl Berger Tumbull

Mary

Virgilia

Bugg

Minnie Butler Albright Sallie Bailie

Chew

Leslie

Wilson Daughtrey Margaret Garnett Trim Elsie Gay Wilbourn Ruth Harding Coyner Wanda Harkrader Darden Winnie Hiner Bertha M. Hunt Annie Warren Jones Starritt Nena Lochridge Sexton Alice Martin Horgan Jennie Martin Purdum Gertrude Martin Welch Annie Moss McCIure Annie Lee Myers Williams Katherine Ragsdale Brent Hallie Rodes Willberger Mary Sterling Smith Eileen Spaulding O'Brien Annie Tignor

Walker

Mary V. Brooking Savedge

Ward

Eva Anderson Grimes Kathleen Barnett Fringer Ada R. Bierbower Margaret Boatwright Mclntyre Florence Boston Decker

1914

Maria Bristow Starke Bessie Bucher Pike Alice Dadmun Murphy

Lockey Delp Rector Mary Dornin Stant Esther Brooke Ford Macatee Ethel Fox Hirst Carrie Galusha Mcllwaine Hattie S. Hall

Lucy Heath

Sheriill

Pearl Henley Jones

Meta Jordan Woods Lila McGehee Vreeland Juanita Manning Harper Mary Susan Minton Reynolds Grace St. C. Moorman Eleanor Parrott Hutcheson

Alma Thomas

25

Mary O. TreviUian Grice Lillian Trotter Bradley

Mary Louise Tvus Baicy Sadie Upson Stiff Elizabeth Wall

Emma

Ward

Ruth Webb Watkins

Josephine White

Vivian Glazebrook Elvira H. Jones Jean Morris Frances L. Murphy Nancy Pendleton Godsey Mvrtle Reveley Brown Grace Richardson Fletcher E. Margaret Rogei-s Lily Sanderson Rice

1915

Lucy D. Allen Selma Batten Miller Lula Berger Terry

CaUie Bolton Tyler Mildred Booker Dillard Barbara Brittain St. Clair Mary Elizabeth Codd Parker

Compton Martha Drumeller Elizabeth Ewald Liveley Francis I. Goldman Olive Harris Kydd Olivia

Mary Catherine

Hill

Shepherd

Carey Jeter Finley Christine Nellie W.

MacKan Walke Nance

Sue Bailey Barnes Gladys Camper Moss Emily L. Clark Verliner Crawley Bettie

R. Elfreth Friend Shelburne Kathleen Gilliam Smith

Janet Hedgepeth Jones Katherine Krebs Kearsly Gertrude Lash Asher Elizabeth Leech Whitehurst Wil Mil A. Rew Mapp Portia Lee Spencer Louise Trotter Wooten

Mae Cox Wilson Myrtle Dunton Curtis Pearl Ellett Crowgey Louise Fletcher Annie Sue Fulton Clark Louise Fulton Brenda Griffin Doggett Josie Guy Yonce Elizabeth Jarman Nancy E. Lewis

Hardy

McCabe Hairston Mary Norris McCabe

Dixie

Mabel L. Prince

Mary Ruth

Russell Piggott Russell Westover

Alice Smith Starke

Todd Anne Tucker Bradshaw Gilliam Walker Lamond Virginia Watkins Douglas Lucile Woodson Nicholson Lillian

Bagby Butt

Ruth Blanton Wood Kathleen Bondurant Wilson Fannie Brooke Weld Annie Davis Shelburne Bertha Dolan Cox Lee Drumeller Vought Louis Drumeller East Lucille Geddy Crutcher Marv Hester Wiedemer Ruth Howard Wilson Louise Layne Shearer Annie H. Loving Page Rose Meister Florence Middleton Crockett Clara Pearson Durham Ruby Sledd Jones Gladys Tucker Rollins Louise Vaden Threlkeold

Grace Walker Welsh Martha Watson Hamilton 1918

Katherine Anderson Maddox Vernah Collie Williams Nora Edmunds Richardson Katherine Field Campbell Helen S. Harris Rille Harris Malone Ruth Harris Florence Hunt Fulwiler Nola Johnson Bell

Edna Kent Tilman Ernestine McClung Rice Kathleen Moorman Mary Noel Hock Lela O'Neal Scott

Degree 1919 Shannon Morton Catharine Riddle

Diploma 1919 Katherine Armstrong Watkins Martha Armstrong Robertson Sally Barlow Smith Janice Bland Mabel Boteler Kishpaugh Bettie Carter Bell Olive Ferguson Rives

26

Ha

Myrtle Price Thomas Julia Reid Grumpier Winnie Sutherland

Ruth Winer Brown Degree 1925 Dorothy Askew Gayle Mary Ellen Bowles Yates Mar>' Haskins Ferguson MaiT E. Peck Mary Rives Richardson Lancaster Lucile Walton Jean West

Crowe White Mabel Edwards Hines Elizabeth

Helen Draper Katherine Stallard Washingto

Diploma 1921 Irene Anderson Turner Jane Bacon Lacy Grace Bargamin Bohannon Barksdale Hargrett Sue Brown Harrison Sallie

Flora Clingenpeel Patterson Irene Fowlkes Sours Justine Gibson Patton

Dora Jett Mabie Frances

MacKan Adams

Ruby Paulett Omohundro Dorothy Wells Greve Coralie Woolridge

Thelma Yost Lehmann Diploma 1922 Hilda Baldwin Hix Helen Black Gibson Catherine Brooking Priddy

Latawanna Couk Moring Mary Virginia Elliott D< Madeline FitzGerald Hess Alise Harris Rahily Gertrude Lytton Barnes Nettie McNulty Oertly

Lucile Franklin Richardson

Katherine Goode Martha Hinch Marlev Virginia Hunter Marshall

Emily Lawrence Hofler Hattie Lythgoe Gwinn

Eva McKennev Guvnn Alma Matthews Vaughan Dorothy Rawles Parker Sue Roper Pace Berta A. Thompson Ruth Tinslev Arthur Frances White

Degree 1926 Laura Anderson Moss Cassie Baldwin Margaret Barrett Knowles Elizabeth Bugg Hughes Selina Hindle

Ruth Jennings Adams Gladys Moses McAllister Lilian

Nunn

Sue Puckett Lush Fannie Belle Shorter Ann Smith Greene Katherine Trent Martina Willis Thelma Woolfolk Monagon Lucille Wright Eberwine

Sarah Moore Lucille

Mary Mary

Rash Rooke

Christine Reid S.

Ander

Simmons

Lily Thornhill Reams Clotilda Waddell Hiden

Lorena Wilcox Leath Lillian Williams Tui-pin

Gwendolyn Wright Kraeme Degree 1923 Gladys Bingham Woodson Mary George Bolen Theresa Evans Craft Laura Holland Bowen Anne Meredith Jeffers Mary Nichols Marjorie S. Thompson Lois Williams Pearle Young Culross

Diploma 1923 Doris Beale Kilmartin Edna Blanton Smith

Genevieve Bonnewell Altwegg Pauline Chapman Ramsey Elizabeth Coleman Echols Louise Day Gibson Lillian Griffin Turner Bernice Johnson Svkes Margaret Kite Sii Par Ka Janie Potter Hanes Nina Quarles Cunningham Sallie R. Rives

Bettie Shepard

Hammond

Louise A. Stephenson Sallie Woodard Pate

Degree 1924 Christine Armstrong Jones Agnes Baptist Hamblen Emily S. Calcott Dorothy Diehl Ethel Gish Wilmoth Belle Oliver

Hart

Diploma 1926 Mildred Amorv Heptinstall Evelyn Bell Jessie Bennett Thompson

Mary Anna

Evelyn Thurston Daughtry Ida Wells Jeffress

Vera Oakes Spain

Blanche Craig Garbee

Roberta Hodgkin Casteen

deceased

•

Mabel Mays Scott Aleen Mundv Johnston

Elizabeth Ballagh

Lillian Bristow Trevvett

1917 Elsie

Marshall Greathead Gladys GrifHn Jeter

Diploma 1925

Margaret Zernow Shawver 1916 Margaret Barnard Cassidy Marcella Barnes Newell Marv Catlett Kelloge

Degree 1928 Alyce Adams McLemore Harriett E. Brown Alice Carter Stone Alice Frood Morrisette Aileen McClenny Haiwey Virginia Moore Raine

Be

Diploma 1920

'

Perkins Oast Anna Spitler Booton Josephine Wayts Howdershell Sallie

Diploma 1924 Louise Bates Chase Louise Bland Morgan Susan F. Brown Graham

Ethel Gildersleeve

Mary Simmons Berger

Jettie Talley

Reva Blankenbaker Holden

Degree 1920

Webb

Pauline Timberlake Wiley Louise Wiley Mottley Edna Mae Wilkinson

Gladys Oliver Wenner Marnetta Souder Marjorie Thomas Johnston Frances Treakle Whaley Virginia Updyke Cushwa Elizabeth Weston Yeary

Diploma 1928 Eleanor Amorv Bovette Phyllis Burnett Martin Elizabeth Chandler Rainey Bertha Chappell Lane Charlotte Drvden Smith

Mary Wilson Hardy Harris Mary J. Harward Smith Lois Hilton Lucy Mary Blackwell Parker

Kathleen Sanford Harrison Odell Smith Audrey White Harris

Degree 1929 Joy Burch Sheffey Alfreda Ceilings

Nancy Denit Eastman DeShazo Phillips Margaret Finch Gwendolyn Hardv Lelia

Ann

Holladay DeMuth

Margaret Hubbard Seelv Elizabeth Rawls Pavlovskv LiUian Rhodes Ethel Rodes

Sammy

Scott

Mabel Spiatley Margaret Walton Glenna Watts Shepard Gladys Wilkinson

Diploma 1929 Eunice Bassett Leyland Elizabeth Brockenbrough Lineweaver Katherine Cooke Butler Mabel Cowand Smith Elizabeth Lacv Helen McHenry McComb Eleanor Mallory Parker Frances Millikan Aderhold Jennie Owen Hazel Poarch Batte Alice Pugh Rhodes Elizabeth Revercomb Hudnall Edith Richardson Grizzard Alice

Wimbish Manning Degree 1930

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Annie Lee Bowden Lillaston

Mary Thelma Thomas White

Lucille

Mae

Degree 1927 Grace Chambers Feinthel Edith Cornwell Garrabrandt Virginia Fitzpatrick Harper

Daphne

Gilliam Wool Virginia Graves Krebs Rosalind Harrell White

Elva Hedly DeLaBarre Elizabeth Hopkins Wagner Virginia Minter Coleman Virginia Potts Redhead

Louise Pruden Apperson Louise, Richardson Lacy Frances Sale Lyle Carrie Spencer Mildred Spindle Helen H. Thomas Ola Thomas Adams Virginia Vincent SafTelle Margaret Watkins Bridgeforth Orline Wilson White

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Elizabeth Carver Fowler Florence Cralle Bell Alice Hamner Woll

Norman O'Brien

Myra Reese Cuddy Mary F. Shepard Flinn Helen Smith Grumpier Laura Smith Langan Evelyn Traylor Macon Linda Wilkinson Bock

Diploma 1930 Judith Fenner Barnard Mayo Beaty Dotson Dorothy Biggs Chaffln Virginia Cox Pohe Katherine Downing Josephine Evans Booth Susie Reames Beville Loulie F. Shore Irma Vaughan Beale Lillian

Via

Degree 1931 Frances Armentrout Irwin

Martha Christian Eleanor Dashiell

MUdred F. DeHart Elizabeth Dutton Lewis Pauline Gibb Bradshaw Alice Harrison Dunlap Emilie Holladay Adele Hutchinson Watkins French Hutt Hoole*

Brvan Hutt Olive Her

Catherine Jones Hanger Mildred Maddrey Butler

Margaret Nuttall Coaker

Alumnae Magazine

Georgia Putney Goodman Rena M. Robertson Elizabeth Temple Ida Julia Trolan Allen Evelyn West Allen

Lucy Lee Williams

Mae Burch Withers

Betty Witt Gates

Edna Dawley Gibbs Doris Eley Holden Chesta Hubbard Morrissette

Anne

Sally Inge Eddins

Elizabeth Rogers Bellinger

Degree 1935

Diploma 1931 Gertrude Baxter Olgers Mary Clare Booth Loyd Kalypso Costan Furniss Elsie E.

Hardy

Esther Kutz Eusmisel Pauline Lanford Stoner

Degree 1932 Virginia Bledsoe Goffigon Harriett Branch Major Margaret Fisher Lansing Lucy Fitzgerald Ruth Floyd Speer Susie V. Floyd

Fannie Haskins Withers Ruth D. Hunt Charlotte Hutchins Roberts Ellen Jones

Huffman

Lucie Lane Bowles Catherine Marchant Freed Irene Meador Agnes Meredith Lowry Velma Petty Gardner Catherine Ritter Zeno Doris Robertson Adkisson Jane Scott Diedrich

Nancy Shaner

Striekler

Easter Souders Wooldridge Elsie Story Lindsay White Spicer

Diploma 1932 Margaretta Brady Smith Delma Conway Bates Rogers Covington Lou Ella Ann Eugenia Davis Margaret Eley Brothers Margaret Garnett Willis Emily McAllister Bell Frances

Newman

Sarah Beck Crinkley

Lady Boggs Walton Christine Childrey Chiles

Nancy Dodd Smith Lena Mac Gardner Sammons Ila Harper Rickman Jessica Jones Binns

M. Jones Clarke

Lucille

Bonnie McCoy

Mann

Elizabeth

Wilds

Maude Rhodes Cox Diploma 1935 Ella A. Black Rowley Mattie Russell Barnes Alice Zeigler Blackard

Degree 1936 Dorothy Billings Helen Boswell Ames Berkeley G. Burch

Mary

A. Chenault Gillikin

Margaret Clark Hanger Audrey Mae Clements Lawrence Amanda Gray Eugenia Harris

Huse Ware McNamee Fore

Elizabeth

Dorothy

Agnes Murphy Margaret Pollard Flippen Susie Robinson Turner Florence Tankard Renner Marcia H. Vick

Lucille

Diploma 1936 Davis Byrd

Evelyn Dickerson Frazier Gertrude Levy Conn Cleo Reynolds Coleman

Estes

Mary Virginia Robinson Helen Ward Forrest Dorothy Weems Jones Marietta Wilson Gregory

Degree 1933 Frances Armistead Margaret Armstrong Ottley Fay Martin Barrow Dorothy Bloomfield Tunstall Margaret G. Brown Mae Belle Chitwood Cheatham Winston Cobb Weaver Lois Virginia Cox

Ingram Turner Marguerite Massey Morton Lucille

Marjorie O'Flaherty Davis Katherine Pannill Gay Richardson

Duvahl B. Ridgway Hildegarde Ross

Sarah Rowell Johnson Jane Royall Phlegar

Diploma 1933 Ruth Hall Crater Louise Hartness Russell Avis Hunt Jennie Hurt Butler

Degree 1937 Virginia Baker Crawley Virginia Bean Hylton Janice Bland Mary V. Blankenship Cramer Mary E. Bowles Powell Merwyn Gathright Rhodes Martha Gwaltney Everett Martha Hamlet Davis Katherine Hurt Stahl Katherine Irby Hubbard Louise Lewis Martin Lucile Moseley Epes

Ruth H. Myers Margaret Pittard Chewning Marian B. Pond

Degree 1934 Alberta Collings Musgrave Nell Dickinson Mary Diehl Doering Alice Disharoon Elliott Nell Fitzpatrick Harris Mary B. Fraser Fisher

Eva Harris Gold Mary Easley Hill Steger Bessie S. Hix Frances Horton Margaret Hunter Watson Ruth Jarratt Gloria Mann Maynard Lottie Marsh Mai'y Berkeley Nelson

Margaret Otten Stuart Margaret Parker Pond Edith Shanks Sarah Hyde Thomas Douglas Annie Louise Via Helen Westmoreland Beverly Wilkinson Powell Maria WiUiams

Diploma 1934 Ophelia Booker Barnes Burnley Brockenbrough Kinney Irene Bryant Weston

November, 1957

Elizabeth E.

Bowman

Leona

Margaret Sinclair Frances Steed Edwards Sarah Stubblefield Annie Laurie Taylor Owens Doris

Thomas

Eloise Williams Draine

1944

Anne Billups Jones Anita Carrington Taylor Laura Nell Crawley Birkland Evelyn Crockett Pruitt Martha Denny Judith Gathright Cooke Charligne Hall Chapman

Martha Meade Hardaway Agnew Carolyn Harrell Mildred Harry Dodge Sadie Haskins Hawthorne Mary Louise Holland Rosemary Howell Martha McCorkle Taylor

Anna Maxey

Boelt

Lorana T. Moomaw Margaret Northcross Ellis Jane Powell Johnson V. Welby Saunders Marion Shelton Combs Mary Sue Simmons Goodrich Myra Smith Ferguson Olivia Stephenson Lennon Mary Lou Stoutamire Georgie Stringtellow Hortenstine

Degree 1938

Camp

Edna

Bolick Dabnev Richie Ellis Chandler Virginia E. Gates Edith Hammack

Evelyn Hastings Palmer Nora Field Jones Culpeper Mary Nellwyn Latimer Lillian Minkel Isabel

Plummer Kay

Degree 1939 Louise Anthony McCain Marguerite Blackwell Seely

Tena Branch McNeiU Elizabeth Burke Elizabeth Button Rosenberger

Helen Costan Dorothy Ford Hirschberg Jane Fowler Olson Florence Garbee

Alice Feitig Kelley

Edith Garcia Uribe Hamlii rott Martha Higgins Walto Myrtle Lee Holt Johnson

Dorothy Hudson

Mary Anne Jarratt Kellogg Marilyn Johnson Rachel Joyner Taylor Frances Patterson

Fleshman Pillow Roberts Morgan

Mary Preston Sheffey Mary Sterrett Lipscomb

Blanche Daughtrey Helen Dunkley Elizabeth Garrett Rountrey

Margaret Stewart Eleanor Wade Tremblay Mary Paul Wallace Martha Watson

Louise Hall Zirkle Marion Lee Heard Louise Kendrick

Mary

Hille

McCoy

Carolyn Bobbitt Jones

Shaw

Geneva Smith Doris Trimver Gresham Helen Truitt Georgia Watson Wilkerson

Martha Whelchel Plummer Forrestine Whitaker Holt Nancy Jane Wolfe Borden

Elizabeth Barlow

Vera Baron Remsburg Marie Cardwell Foster Iva Cummings Johnson Nancy Reid Dupuy Wilson Caroline Eason Roberts Jamie Elliotte Cox

Irma Graff Holland Elizabeth Gunter Travers Myrtle Harrison Helen Hawkins Louise Haydon Garland Margaret Hughes Fisher Mary V. Hughes Polly Hughes Weathers Elizabeth Jennings Wilkinson

Catherine Moflitt Walters Virginia Morris Jones

Mary Anna Mottley Stapf Elizabeth

Ann Parker

Mary

Lillian

1946

Katharine Allen Maugans Ellen Bailey Mary T. Beasley

Dorothy Rolhns Pauly Dorothy Scott Mildred

Gwynn

Mary Franklin Woodward Potts

Margaret R. Lawrence Simkins Eunice Lipscomb

Eva Reid Verelle Julia Smith Borum

Rose Smith Elise Turner Franklin Mary H. Vaughan Driscoll Katherine White

Helen Chapman Cobbs

Florence Boatwright Brooks Bernice Callis Hudson

Lula Power Muller

Deane Saunders Dyson Nan Seward Brown

Anderson Watson

Blair Brown Bernice Blair Perkins

Isabelle

May Raney

Gillespie

1945 Eliza

Ann

Jane Waring RufHn House

Nancy Pobst Ellis Virginia Price Waller Julia

Dorothy Flowers Johnson Lucille Lewis Armstrong Josephine Bishop Paxton Mary Evelyn Pearsall LeGrande Jerolien Titmus Helen Williamson Foresman Nancy Williamson Cole

Laura Boteler Cowne Faye Brandon Cross

Anne Boswell Kay

Rives Black

Elizabeth Jones Clark Mildred Corvin Lingerfelt

Louise Applewhite England

Marguerite York Rupp

Geneva Blackwell

Ruby Branch Carlton

Nancye Bruce Noel 1941

1942 Rachel Abernathv Paulson Gevaldine Ackiss Coote Esther Atkinson Jerome

Mary

Bosworth Marion Shoftner Kelly Jerry Smith Shawen Stella Scott

1940

Charlotte Rice Mundy Elizabeth Smith Melvin Zaida Thomas Humphries Virginia Tilman Aebersold Flora Belle Williams Goldie Williams Bowers

Diploma 1937 Brenda Doggett Garner Ruth James Moore

McCoy

Moomaw

Janie Patterson Alma Porter Anne Rogers Stark Rosalie Rogers Talbert Alice Lee Rumbough Stacy

Elsie Stossel Violet Woodall Elliott

Carrie Yeatts Barbee

Dorothy Price Wilkerson

Mary Alston Rush Audrey Smith Topping

Kelly

Catherine Maynard Pierce Charlotte Minton Neely Mary F. Rice

Stokes

Purdum Davies

Dorothy Sprinkle Eckman Jean Steel Armistead Harriette Walker Dukes

Lucy Bowling Potts Ruth Brooks Soyars Nancy Broughman Terry Barbara W. Brown Alice E. Buck Nell Morrison

Buck Mary Louise Bunch Anne Carmines Ransdell Margaret Claiborne Wright Sue B. Cross Shirley Cruser White Dorothy Cummings Julia Feagans Miriam Feagans Margaret Hewlett Moore Dorothy Davis Holland Lillian Livesay Edwards Margaret Mclntvre Davis Kitty

Maddox Thomas

Rebecca Norfieet Meyer Evelyn Pierce Maddox Florence Smith Can-

Mary Spradlin Martha Watkins Mergler Phyllis Jane Watts Harriss 1947 Gwen Ackiss Thompson Virginia Anderson Justis Helen Apperson Shefler

Mae

Ballard

Rachael Brugh Holmes Mary Armistead Catlett Lorene Claiborne Ward Patsy Dale Barham Joan Davis Ricketts Shirley Mae Didlake Irby Martha East Miller Margaret Ellett Anderson Annie Ellis Lewis Elsie

Freeman

Mary 1943

Irma Anderson Elva Andrews Jones Beatrice Barnette McArthur Julia Berry

Evelyn Breedlove Grace Collins Boddie Lucy Davis Gunn Marie Davis Eleanor Folk Canter Helen Wiley Hardy Wheat Betty Page Harper Wyatt

Ellen Johnson Garber Evelyn Hair Audrey Hudson Grinstead Sue Hundley Chandler Ann Harris Johnson Kathe- ine Kearslev Williams Barbara Kellam Grubbs

Glennis Moore Greenwood Bernice Nichols Brinkley Betty O'Connor Newlander

Mary Cabell Overbey Field Nancy Parrish Haydon Doris R. Ramsey

27

Grace Shriver Wiggins Cornelia Smith Goddin

Upshur Mapp Martha Frances Webb Delano Nancy Whitehead Patterson Liicile

Virginia

Patsy Kimbrough Pettus Stuart McGhee

Rachael Peters

Nancy Lee Maddox

Josephine Sneed Frances Thomas Pairet Pat Tuggle Miller Eleanor Weddle

Eugenia Moore Elsie

Phillips

Coralie Woolridge

1955

Bettv Davis Edwards Clare Davis

Blannie Tanner Bass Gladys Marsh Harvey Anne C. Jones Eugenia Korahaes Bowers Caroline McDonald Reed

Jo Anne Dyer Ridenour

Nancy Purdum Hunt

Barbara Mitchell Dorothy Morris Nancy Nelson Marjorie Smallwood Barbara Southern Meeker Anne Thaxton Daniel

Mary

Bettv Lou Jefferson

Lillian Shelton Cox Collins Shelton

Margaret Taylor Barlow 1951

1949

Vaughan

Freia Goetz

Maiy Maxwell Acree Cumbia Claudia Bradshaw

Sylvia Hollingsworth Mai-y Frances Hundley Abbitt

Lucv Thwing Chapman Shirley

Elaine Pierce Elizabeth Spindler Scott

Jean Thomasson Holmes Joyce Townsend Hoge

Lucile Pollard

Patricia Altwegg Brown B. Jane Branch Botula Nellie Mae Culpepper Sykes Elizabeth Eubank Davidson Rebecca G. Earle

Wrenn

1956

Virginia Chapman Eggert Betty Jane Harlowe Harrison

Nancy Hartmann Mary Jo Hutchinson

Emily Eggert Katharine E. Gilbert Fay Greenland Catherine Hamilton Dorothy Hughes Harris Peggy Hood Smith

Corinne Rucker Lester H. Smailwood Jr. Virginia Spencer Wnek

1950

Jean Anderson Smith Marian Avedikian Kachadurian Winifred Beard Virginia Bowie Brooks Nell Anderson Bowles Nomeka Bryant Sours Grace Oakes Burton Virginia Diggs Lane Dolores Duncan Smallwood Margaret Farmer Newman

Ann Ward

1954

Harriet Butterworth Miller Edith Duma Lindsey Emily Hastings Baxter Betty Juliette Jones Jacqueline Moody McSherry Gretna Perkins

Jean KoUmeyer Schulze Lochie Moss Mattox Cathryne Mosteller Garrett

Thomas

Alice Ellington

Grace Garnett Nancy C. Inge

Maude Gwendolyn Cress Tibbs

Tompkins

Jane Bailey Mabel Underwood Chapman Dorothy Toland Cooper Barbara Moore Curling

1953

Ruth Walker McGhee Peggv White Crooks Sara Lee Wilkinson Baldwin Virginia Yarbrough Wiltbank Jacquelyn Wright Smiley Ann Younger

Altreda Peterson Wood Betty Scroggins Nichols EUa Stone Smith Harrell Bettv Jean Snapp Fawcett

Nellie Garrett Else Wente

Vaughan

Betty Shanks Blount Carol Stoops Droessler Harriette Wade Davis

Marian Hahn Sledd George Anne Lewis Hart

Rae Page Bonner

Erma Poarch

Joan Marie Moore Emma Moss Jean Oliver Heywood

Ray

Ann Thomas Wicke

Anne Carter Moseley Akers

Cornelia Marston Blackwell

1948

Hilda Abernathy Jackson Jeane L. Bentley Catharine F. Bickle Sue Davis Breeding Adeline Dodd Wilkerson Betty Gill Yowell

Hattie Pugh Virginia Sutherland

McLean Pharr

Charlotte Flaugher Ferro Jean Hogge Shackleford Martha B. Hylton Iva Mae Jones Seward

Mildred Ragsdale Jackson Jones

Ann

Beatrice Jones Lewis

Winnie Louhoff Maude Clay Sutherland Helen Warriner

Doris Home Elizabeth Hoskins Mary Anne King Barrett Dorothy Batten Kitchin Elizabeth Kitts Lucy Mann Pierce Sarah Mapp Messick

1952

Jane Allen Hinman Marian Beckner Riggins Betty Scott Borkev Banks Dorothy Boswick Greenman Mildred Bright Hatcher Mary Lee Folk Jocelyn Fraher Garber

Louise Wilder Colley

Honorary Members Harriet Baker

Mary

B. Barlow Houston Blackwell

Ora Mitchell Parker Jean Pearce Shell

9n TyismoJiiam Martha Kate "Mattie" Amos Reichardt, '98

Mary Helen Gray Nancy Sue

Ethel B. Baltimore Allen, '14x

'44

Dix, '24

Archie Pauline Blain Campbell,

Dorothy Detiby Bondurant,

Grace Hurst,

'02

Margaret Myrtle Burton,

'27

x

,

'01

'05

Susie Trigg Campbell Hundley,

'83

Anna

Ham Kemp

Jones Zehmer,

McConougli,

'29

Emily Crump Starke,

'24,

Fac-

Long McAllister Parsons,

'31

Clara Cunningham Watkins, ent '84

Frances Yarbrough Edwards, Nellie

Lee

28

Claire

Ruby

'09

Gibson Robinson,

Moorman Browning,

'26

S.

W.

'04 '06

Showell, '35

AI.

Spain Powell,

'97

Moss Dunnavant,

'86

'31.

Nellie Miindy Campbell, '02

Georgiana E. Stephenson, '06, Faculty member 1927-1944

Virgie Elizabeth

'37

'2^,

'o7

Wade

Rogers.

Fannie Walker Woodward.

'03

Florence B. Morris Hull, ent

Ferrell, '25

Mattie Bell Fretwell, Elsie

Lizzie

'37

Peachy Sandcrlin Whitehead,

Catherine Tuck Dodd,

'93

Clara

'12

John Finney, '19x

'13

U'illielmina Paleske London, ulty member 1919-1946

'90x

St.

Kate Lula Lee Nance,

M. Cogbill Coleman,

Walker Robinson Brady,

Beulah

Nellie B. Smith Perrow, '08x

'12

'88

Alartha Susan "Marsa" Cobb, ent '14 Bettie

Willie

Elizabeth

'29

Robinson. '38x

Eleanor Seaman McWhirt, ent

Willie Jeffrcss Painter, '87

Avis

McLean

Frances

Jane Segar Eggleston L'ving, ent

Gentry,

member

Edith Irving Orange, 'lOx

'11

'41

Faculty

Blanche E. "Peggy" Price Paulctt,

'17x

Blanche V. Hill Ytst. '04x Louise Hogzi'ood Russell,

'28,

1921-1945

'54

Florence Haines Booth, '14

Georgia M. Bryan Hutt,

Georgie Norris,

x

Mary Ruth Hartvood Hix,

Beaman

Mary Pankey Brooks

\'ance, '16

Marsh,

Pauline Harris Richardson, '94

Elizabeth Baskerville, '03

Patty Montgomery

(7Âť_v

'21

'89

Kate Friend Watkins Morton,

'09

Alice Lee Whitakcr Bates, '98

Margaret M. Wonycoft Newsom,

'16

Alumnae Magazine

Roberta Dazis Huey Thelnia Daz'is Cobb Paige

Si/dkdu Mrginia Lee .-Ihcniathy Courier '48, a son. James Carlton. Ill Olivia Andrczvs Hurt '38x, a daughter, Anne Marie Lois Ash Carr 'Z2. a son. Randall

Nancy Desmond ald Edward Frances Dodson

a daughter a son. Randy

'45.

'48.

Lee Gladys Dozedy Putney Deborah Jean

'53x,

Frances Bailey Hatchett '57x, a daughter, Rebecca Ann

Nancy

'53.

Baker Tokarz '52, a daugliter. Anne Marie Hettie Rae Banirs W'idgen '52x. a daugh-

Ann Dudley Johnson Karen Ann

Elsie

Finlev

Driskiil

Robert

a daughter,

a

Earl

son.

ter

Ruth Blair Plyler

'48,

a son. Phillip

Wes-

ley, Jr.

Blake Maxey Winifred Ann

Janie

Margery

Boa::

'52x,

Dull

'48,

a

a

daughter.

son,

Roger

Patton Joyce Booth Wilkerscn '54, a son, David Bennett Harriett Bozvliiig Stokes '50, a daughter, Ann Katherine Elizabeth Bragg Crafts

'50,

Margaret Moore Bramc Wallace '57x. Donna Rae Mildred Bright Hatcher '52, Betty

a

daughter,

a

daughter.

a daughter.

Julia

Dorothy Brisciitinc Campbell '51, a son, Watkins Clarke Rachael Brugh Holmes '47, t\\ in daughters Katherine and Emilie Laura Buchanan Hayes '50. a son, Geor.ge Fulton, Jr.

Paige Biinn Dobie

Prince

Elizabeth Bush

'52.

Stumps

David

son,

a '52,

a

daughter,

Susan

Funk

Judith Cable

Henry, IV Jean Cake Forbes

'55x,

a son. \\'illiani

'53,

'55,

Rosemary PJam Pritchard Tucker

'44.

'55.

daugh-

a

'48,

Vaughan

'51x,

a

daughter,

Brenda Gail

Anne Cock Bruno

'41,

a daughter.

Anne

Renalds

Page Cook Axson '46. a daughter, Elizabeth Page Betty Corv Coppedge '56. a son. Steven Allen

a daugh-

Elizabeth Crockett Luczak '54x, a daughter. Liz Scott

Anne Crozvdcr

^'ickstrom

'53,

a daughter.

Dianne Lynn Helen Crozvgey Sheppard '53, a daughter, Suzanne Shirley Cruscr White '56, a son, Thornton Cruser Nell Dalton Smith

Grey

'52,

Davis

daughter, Jacqueline

November, 1957

a son, William

Shepard

Lynn

'54x,

a

'56.

Phillips

Frances Harman Chambers, lY

a

daughter,

'52.

Ray

Mark

a son.

daughtei

a

a daughter a son. .\lfred

'58.

Haydon Parrish '53, a daughter. Dori Louise Haydon Garland '42. a s<in. Wiatt Challice

Eloise Hodges Martinelli '51. a daughter. Elsie Jane Inez Hughes Pratt '52. a son. Ray Ed-

ward

Hunt Henderson

Elizabeth Lynn Martha Ellen Jones

S..

'49x. sun.

a

son,

Arthur

Jr.

Ann Xock Flanigan tricia Ann

a daughter,

'50.

Clara A'ottiughaui Baldwin ter. Anne Preston

'39.

a

Pa-

daugh-

Dot Oz'erstreet DeShazo '46. a daughter, Deborah Marshall Audrey Ozven Beale '56. a son. Robert Scott. Jr.

Peggy Packett Straughan

'57, a daughter Jean Carol Parker Harrell, '55, a daughter. Donna Jean Nancy Parrish Haydon '47. a sun. Geoffrey Jennings Evelyn Patterson Venable '49, a daughter,

-Amy Byrne Barbara Peach .Aubey '57x. a daughter Jo.\nna Phipps Sickles '50. a daughter,

Debra Lyn Price Greenberg

Jo

Cliristine

a

'52.

Rhodes Cunihey

daughter.

'57x.

C(innie Rice lohnson

'52.

a

son,

a son, .'^sa

Bush,

Robert Fisher,

Irnia Setchell

'48.

Lane

a son

'5Sx. a son

J. Shackleford Ellison '56. a son, Richard Morris, Jr. Bettv Shaffer Wilson '57x. a son, Charles,

'55,

daughter.

a

Holmes

'46,

a

son.

Jr.

Ruth Jones Duvall

]v.

Lois Lloyd Sheppard Lewis ter, Betsy Anne

'46,

a

daugh-

Mildred Shiflett Toonier '46. a son. Robert Pendleton Grace Shriz'cr Wiggins, '47. a son. John Carolyn Smith Stringer '57.\. a son, George Raymond. Jr. }ilarguerite Smith Cutchins '53. a son. Kevin Smith Norma Soyars Watkins '48, a son. William Betty

Henry J.

Staples

Glasscock

'55,

a

son,

Thomas Jay

Nancy Jane Jones Carter

'55.

'42x,

a

a son, Shir-

son,

Thomas

King-

Barbara Kellam Grubbs

'47,

a son,

Rob-

ert K. Katie Lazvrciice Graves

'48,

a son,

John

Margaret Steele Suti)hin '53, Joanne Sterling Ferrell '49, Susan Anne Thaxton Daniel '55. a

a son a daughter, son.

Henry

Broadus. Ill

Lorene Thomas Clarke Pamela

Lucy

Lawrence Robin Lear Peaccx:k '47, a daughter, Sarah Stansbury Martha Jean Leavitt O'Donnell '48. a son Jane Lohr Lee '56, a daughter, Teresa Jane

Cathryne Mostcller Garrett Benjamin Ellis. Jr. Polly Xasser Holland '5(1. a

Betsy Scott Bane

a son

ley Harrison. 11

Mary

son,

Thomas

a son.

Betty

Becky Lee Peggy Harris Ames

Joyce

'52,

III '49.

W'ilder Janice Hanks

Chick

Isaac Hundley, Jr. .Anne }Joseley Akers

son,

John Alan '48,

Diane

Dorothy Caldzvell Lafoon '50. a daughter, Susan Anne Betty Campbell Johnson '52, a son Emily Carper Robinson '46, a son, Robbie Gail Carroll Coleman '58x, a daughter, Cynthia Lynne Lee Carter W'Wsnu '40. a daughter. Sarah

ter

a son,

Lisa -Ann

Betty Jane Griffin Holland ter. Martha Jane Charlotte Crizzard Dimmig

'S3,

Charlotte Chadzeiek Cridlin 'SSx. a daugh-

'48,

Wayne

b"d\\ard

Madagan

Patricia .-Xnne

Jane

a daughter a son, Robert

Martha Murehead Landerman '40, a David Mary Virginia Morris Yeatts '49x, a

a son

Candace Lynn

Anne Hannier Bryant

Marion

daugh-

a

Charlotte Pelletier Lauralee Eritts Whitmore '52, a son, Edwin Dwavne Ann Gallozcay Reddish '49. a daughter. Carol Ann Suzanne Garner Leggett 'S7k, a son Betty Gill Yowell '48. a daughter. Betsy Florence Gilliam Fitzwater '51x. a son. Ralph Ray. Jr. Martha Gobh Ogburn '57x, a daughter Jane Gray Comerford '50, a daughter.

Betsv Hankins Mc\'av

son,

'44.

Jean Elliott Baynes '52x. a son, William Douglas Carol Lee Em rick Fry '58x. a son Frances Epps Beard '5Lx, a daughter. Janet Epps Broaddus Eustace Allen '57x. a daughter. Diane Frances Ez'crett Brown '51, a daughter, Martha Frances Alargaret Farmer Newman '50, a daughter. V'irginia Teresa Charlotte Flaugher Ferro '50, a daughter.

Thomas

a

'49,

David

a son,

Wayne

ter,

'54,

a

Re-

Keith

Peggy Anne Moore Womble

Kathryn Kirby Joanne Dyer Ridenour,

ter X'irginia Elicit

'55,

Blackstock

'51.

a daughter,

'4(),

becca Susan Gwenie Michael Chaney

daughter.

a

Hurt

Julia Mcssick

Sally Dnnninglon \\'liidden '40x. a daugh-

Cornelia Hamilton Lahey

Haden

Robert Michael

Ann Mallory Hancock '54, a son Mary Leigh Meredith Armstrong son, Stephen Edward

Ann Moore

Byron. Ill

ter.

Linda Bartcnstciii Frazier '55x, a son, Stephen Lawrence Johanna Biddlccoiith Shahan '54, a son, Donald Brooks, Jr. Nancy Birdsall Bain '55x, a son, Preston Carney

Nell

Don-

'57x, a son,

I-Cilhy

\\'h\it '50, a son,

Xancv McLazi'h.irn Khue '56. a son. William Benjamin Patricia McLcmorc Saunders '55. a son,

Thzi'ing

Chapman

'46,

'56,

a

daughter,

a son

Pat Tuggle Miller '52, a son, Craig Frances Turner Widgen '52, a son, John

Waynehouse.

Jr.

Sophie Urso Rodriguiz

'53.

a

daughter,

Tina Marie

Anne

E. Il'alkcr Bailev a son, George William, Jr. (Continued on page 48) '43.

ZQ-'

Patricia Louise Parker '57x

TyicwdcupiA,

.A.

Dobyns

Lloyd

Airs.

;

Jr.

Frances Anderson Phillips Carter Alexander Barrett

Jr.

Elaine

Francis

Pierce

'49x

'5Sx

Airs.

;

A'Irs.

;

Ray

Palmer Nellie Katharine Allen '46; Mrs. Frank O. Maugans

Marjorie Frances Allgood '58: Mrs. Coling Harrison Jr. Marian Avedikian 'SO Mrs. Fred Kacha;

Carrie Evelyn Hale '57; Airs. Claude Franklin Dickerson Ellen Elizabeth Hamlett '57 Airs. Calvin Johnson Willis Patricia Ann Hancock '58x Airs. James ;

;

Reene

durian Elizabetli

White

Barefoot

'SSx

James Alfred Pettit Jr. Geraldine Muriel Belcher 'SSx Spafford Timberlake

Donna Diane Benn

'S8x

;

Airs.

:

Mrs.

;

John

Alexander Harrison Frances Lee Harman '58x

;

;

:

;

Jane

Betty Jane Carr 'S8x

Airs.

;

Mrs. Rob-

;

Jimmy Lee

Bradshaw Alartha Eleanor Clements '57 Airs. Creed Wills Trimble Joyce Alease Clingenpeel '56 Airs. Robert Milton Bailey Dorothea Alinor Aleredith Coleman 'i7^ Mrs, Vernon LeGrande Moore Betty Lee Copenhaver '56x Airs. William iltsee Pharo Young Betty Alae "Sue" Crenshaw '57x Mrs. Percy Norwood Boze Jr. Norma Jean Croft '56; Mrs. James Hoyt Atkins Nellie Mae Culpepper '54 Airs. John ;

;

;

;

W

;

Nancy

Naomi

Davis Childers Jr. Jean Spotswood Hines '57; Airs. Thomas Watkins Morris Nancy Lee Hubbard '58x Mrs. Ronald

Norma

;

;

;

;

;

Winston Wheeler Nancy Reid Huff '54x

Joseph Hop-

Airs.

;

Harman

Nancy Grasty Hughes '57 Hindle Goodman Christie Lou Hulvey '57;

;

win Wesley Shumate Alary Dawson Hundley K, Hyatt Tr. Alartha Phyllis Isaacs brey Roland Slayton Alary Lula James 'S7x

Airs.

Herbert

Airs.

Thomas

'52:

Airs.

Ray

Celicia

Purdum

liam Allen Hunt Tane Railev Reid Chity Eugenia Elizabeth

'53:

'57

Wil-

Airs.

Alalcolm

Airs.

;

Ramsey

'43;

Airs.

Airs.

Paul

Davis Harold Ruddock

Reamy

Virginia

'57;

Thomas Shanaburger Bunnie Dean Ricks '52; Airs. Alilnes Austen Alary Rebecca Riddick '57; Airs. James Arthur Bradshaw Airs. Clyde June Elizabeth Ritchie '51 Gerhardt Oberlander Alarv Frances Rosenkrans '58; Airs. Charles F. Witt Jr. Betty Tyree SaiJelle '53; Mrs. Alva

Airs.

Ed-

Eugene Alilam '55

'55x

;

Airs.

;

Mrs.

;

John

Anna Mae Sanders

Au-

Lyle Sanders Alargaret Christine

Airs. Gabriel O.

Saavedra Ernestine Camp Johnson '55x Airs. Ernest Warren Dclaney Elizabeth Anne Johnston '55 Airs. Charles Edwin Dennis III Charlotte King Jones '51 Airs. Arthur ;

'55

Alarshall

Airs.

;

Sheppard Wilbur Ross Farnev

'56;

Airs.

Shields" '57 Airs. Carson H. Durham III Pauline Jeanette Stinson '58x Airs. John

Allen

ludith

:

;

Burton

Woods

Rog-

Alarian Lecky Stone '55x Airs. Tullius G. Light Jr. Carol Elizabeth Stoops '50 Mrs. Earl G. Droessler Eleanor Rhodes Stradley 'S7x Airs. Nelson Bibb Turner Jeanne Strick Alooniaw '44 Airs. Howard

Glen

Carole

;

;

;

;

Frank Greenbaum ;

William

Airs.

;

:

Lee Varner Lucyle Dove Humphries

William Sykes Judith Elizabeth Dalton '5Sx

'52

Jean Pritchett '50: Airs. Wirt Robertson Williams

Mrs. Alfred

kins '57x

Robert

Airs.

Chambers Ray III Ann Hope Hart '58 Airs. William Spencer Hamrick Alolly Ann Harvey '56 Mrs. Melvin

as E. Mills

Dreama Anne Burchett ert Collins Gorman

'56;

Betty

Joseph Rutter Mrs. James Florence Rabon Blake '55 MacFarland Sheldon Mrs. BenLynell Cecil Bradshaw '54 jamin Carl Davis Louise ^'andalia Brothers '56 Airs. William McLeniore Birdsong Jr. Margaret Ann Bullock '59x Mrs. Thom-

;

Gay Reynolds Power Roger Mitchell

Harlowe

IMrs.

Robert

Esther Florence Pollard '57; Airs. William Bagwell Goode III Alary Alice Powell '57 Mrs. Gordon Roberts Jr.

Joan Knight Jones

'57;

Robert A.

AJrs.

;

Goodwin Joan Virginia Darnell '56; Airs. John David Cowley Jr. Nancy Dee Deaton '57; Airs. Alalcolni Floyd Jones Jr. Ilia Atkinson DesPortes '54; Airs. Irby Bland Brown Alartha Jean Donaldson '56; Airs. John Sheppard Crute Jr. Alary Alice Ellington '55 Airs. Wilbur ;

Loy Jane Campbell Karicofe '58x

;

er Kent Elliott Alaricle Burling Koons '58x

;

Anna

Airs.

Eugene Cohron Alar}' Dabney Langhorne '55x Airs. Jack Switzer Hurley Shelva Jean Lee '58x Airs. Paul Alexander Cobb Annie Leigh Lewis '56; Airs. Thomas ;

;

Eugene Thomas Judith

Airs.

Nelson Jones

Elliott

Rawlings Ware

'58x

Earle

Airs.

;

Alarion

;

;

'55

Airs.

;

Ed-

;

'56;

Henry

Airs.

Bowling Thrift Jr. Caroline Alae AlacDonald '53; Airs. Travis

Dean Reed

Ann

Roy

Airs.

;

jr.

Lynette talley '55x Thomas Allen Applewhite Jr. Elizabeth Berkeley Tennett '44; Gideon Lamb Gilliam

Airs.

Margaret Gwynn Thomas

Airs.

Rob-

'56;

Airs.

Alildred

;

'52

;

Airs.

Alayo

Kathryne ^'enable Tompkins

Raymond Lynwood Adams

Anne Gregory Lush

Jo

Douglas Lynch Elaine Stroupe '58x

Washington Wirt

ert

McDowell Dowry

win A. Boone

II

Betty Jane Faggert '57x Mrs. Otis ^\'illiam Doss Jr. Joanne Earless '56 Airs. B. A. Batten Jr. Bettie Virginia Fentress 'S7^\ Airs. Edward Preston Grisson Elizabeth Clinard Forrest '59x Airs.

:

Sue Coburn Upson '56; Airs. William Crenshaw Newman III Sophie Urso '53 Airs. J. R. Rodriguiz Audrey Ann Voelker '58x Airs. Wayland Leslie AIcHaney ^"irginia Sue Webb '53 Mrs. John ;

;

AlcLelland

Francis

Airs.

'S6yi\

Benjamin Garey

;

William Anthony Somma Helen Franklin '56 Airs. George Apostolos Grekos Sandra Louise Frye '57 Airs. \\'illiam Samuel Letsinger Joann Lee Funai '57; Airs. Daniel Neal

TVIarguerete

Nell Pendleton Meredith '58x ald Lester Smith

Justis '50

Airs.

;

David

Ann Jovce Catling '53; Airs. Walter A. Ward Jr. Mary Frances Gilmer '52x Airs. Ernest ;

A. Brandon

Mary Laurin Graveley

'57x

;

Mrs. James

Compton Shelton Jean Stuart Haden '57x Stewart Jr.

JO

Dare

Eleanor

Thomas

;

Frances Ellen Garnett Malloy Word

;

Airs.

Ger-

;

Patricia

J.

Ann

Moorehead

'58x

;

Airs.

Smith A'Torgan '57x

Hume Powers

Airs.

;

Olney

Jr.

Sue Moschler '56 Airs. Donald Louis Baradell Frances AJotley '55x Mrs. Robert AIcCray Spencer Frances Northern '55; Airs. Donald L. Nellie

;

;

Ashburn

Owen

'53

;

'48

Airs.

;

Airs.

John

Robert Lewis

Carlton ;

Airs.

\"aughan

Elizabeth Staples

'57

Ann Wheeler

;

Garland Helen Louise Wilder

'56

:

Airs.

Airs.

;

John

Airs.

Alargaret Courtney Jane White '50 Thomas Jefferson Crooks. Jr. Shirley Alae Wilbourne 'So

Grif-

Airs.

;

'57x

Airs.

;

Harold Donald

Eubank CoUey Ogburn

Elizabeth Sophia

Wells Annie Lee

\\^elch

Sara Lou Wendenburg fith John AIcRee Jr.

Alary Susan

Ellen

Joan

Willard

Whalem Dolores Ann Winder Jackson Grimstead

Owens

Taylor Hopkins

'58x

;

Mrs.

Howard

'56;

Frances P. A'oung

Airs.

'57

;

Airs.

J.

H.

Lloyd

Jr.

'S5.x

;

Airs.

Otis Lee

Brown

Alumnae Magazine

her

tells of

many

community.

years of service to the South Carolina Divi-

She

is

UDC,

sion President of

Federation

Carolina Susie Campbell Hundley, '88 is greeted by Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster and Frances

Horton,

on Founders Dav,

'34,

'54.

of

trustee of South Women's Club,

and very active in charitable organizaShe has also served as president tions. of the Council of Church Women for eight years and president of the Woman's Club and now serves as president of the ;

Hazel's son is a physician Charlotte and has three children.

.\L.\.

1885-1899

One

graduates, Susie Campbell Hundley '88. passed away in June. Her activities in the College and her many contributions to its welfare will long be remembered, as will her many contributions to social, church, and community life in Farmville. She seldom missed being present for Founders Day. and was honored on several of these occasions for her loyalty. The years never dimmed her memories of her days at the College, nor her love for it. Sarah the

of

.

.

.

Ferguson Thomas '93 wrote a paper on "Jazz Music and Its Influence" which she presented at the March meeting of the Bristol Music Club. She is still recovering from a broken hip and writes that she hopes to attend Founders Day 1958. .

.

.

Three members of the Class of 1894 recently met to talk over school days and all the years between. Maud Pollard Turman. who lives in Atlanta. Ga.. Lola Belle Bland, and Jane Staples Chappell, college chums of 63 years ago had a reunion pell.

May

in

.

.

.

home of Mrs. ChapAnna Belle Mears Miller '98 is at the

teaching in the "Robert Sugden" private school in Hampton. Prior to this, she Avas a librarian. Xelly Preston '99, who had a successful cataract operation in the spring, writes that she has "set her sights" on '59 when she will return to Longwood for her oOth reunion. .

.

.

—

1900-1909 Louise

Hoc/zcnod

'01

passed

right before Christmas last year. This tribute was paid her by Ruth Winer '24.

a

in

letter

to

the

Alumnae

"She was my beloved cherished her as a big sister. Her devotion to Longwood was so outstanding. The community of Cape Charles suft'ered a great loss in the passing of this fine woman." Edith Steif/teder Robinson '01. who retired in 1954 after over 30 years of teaching, writes that she is under doctor's orders, "but can go on studying, reading, and improving myself in a quiet way." Mary Shaeklejord Mattox '03 wrote at the time of Founders Day, "I'm not exactly with the mothball fleet, can still feel proud of my basic training at Longwood. for 'tis a memory symphonic Of cheerful happy retrospection. To the Class of 1903 Tiny Tim expresses what I wish to say. 'God bless us everyone' ". Leonora Rylaiid Dew '07 has ten lovely grandchildren, nine granddaughters and one grandson. She has three daughters and a son who was for 11 years with the FBI. ... A letter from Hazel

Office

recently

friend,

and

:

I

.

.

.

.

.

.

!

.

.

.

Thompson Huey

No\ EMBER,

'07. of

195'

Rock

Hill. S.

C,

WiLHELMix.\ Loxnox,

1910-1919 Marietta King of

as

195(j

'10 retired in September librarian at Norfolk's \'an

Wyck

branch of the public library, a position which she held for 31 years. Marcella Barnes Newell '16 is choir director of the Hawthorne Lane Methodist .

Church

.

.

three Charlotte, directing choirs, as well as belonging to an Oratorio group which presents two concerts She wrote that their two each year. sons, stationed in Germany, were to finish their two years in service in May. Elizabeth Jarman Hardy '16 lost her husband, Dr. Thomas G. Hardy, widely known physician and surgeon, in June. Sympathy is extended to her and to their children, three of whom attended Long.

.

in

.

Hardy Murdoch '40. Helen Wiley Hardy Wheat '43. and Sara Hardy Blanton '44x. Their son. Thomas G., Jr.. wood

:

Betty

Annie Sue married Martha Wells '47. Fulton Clark '16. state chaplain of the .

.

.

DAR. was

recently honored at a tea at "Claiborne Hall", home of !Mabel Barksdale Xorris '31. regent, Colonel .Abram

Penn Chapter. Sara Rowbotham's ('31) mother. Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham. is honorary vice president general of the \\rImogene \\'right '19 ginia Daughters. is now serving as principal at Robert Fulton School in Richmond. She was formerly assistant principal at WestLily Sandersoi hampton School. Rice '19 is living a happy retired life doing the things she has always wanted to do. She retired in 1951 after teaching in -Arlington County 32 years, serving both as grade teacher and principal during that Olive Ferguson Rives '19 wrote time. that her three daughters-in-law are Longwood degree girls as is her daughter. Betty Rk'es Sydnor '47. Two of her sons graduated from Hampden-Sydney and .

.

.

.

Russell

away

Brown

in

living

oldest

.

one.

.

.

.

.

from ^'P1.

Many lie's gentle, constant tricnd>hip larger bodies have contained less of true Truly, precious spiritual greatness. Mary things come in small packages." Hill Carleton Peck '26 writes that she leads a very busy life in community acShe is a member of the Historic tivities. Garden Week Committee of the Garden .

.

Ruth Hoivard Wilson '22 is head of the Ground Observer Corps in Buckroe Beach. She and two chief observers and 351 volunteers help to man Papa Hotel Wilbelmina LonFour Zero Black. .

many

.

.

years professor of English at Longwood. died in January Excerpts from a after a long illness. tribute paid to her at the time of her retirement in 1946 follow: "A former student said recently, 'How is dear Miss I used to have English Willie London? She taught me to literature with her. have all enjoyed Miss Willove it.'

don

'24,

for

We

.

.

.

.

.

.

Board of Governors Town Library, the Gray and the Fairfax Hospital AuxAgnes Baptist Hamblen '24 iliary. and her husband Ed .go in November to Chile. Brazil, and \'enezuela, where he Club of

^"irginia, the

Fairfax

of the

Ladies,

.

.

.

He is an international authoron endocrinology. Agnes is editor of "The North Carolina Gardener", official bimonthly publication of the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc., and is an accredited rose judge, one of nine in the will teach. ity

Daughter Agnes has a little Carolinas. and an M.A. degree; Suzanne, a freshman at Salem, plans to teach. The Class of 1927 and the Alumnae Office extend sympathy to Jessie Bennett Thompson in the loss of her husband last Edith Riehardson Grizzard '29 fall. girl

.

.

.

.

.

.

writes that her son Eugene was graduated from \'PI last year and was rec-

ognized in Who's ]Vho

Among

Ameriean Universities and

Students

Colleges.

in

Her

daughter Shirley is a junior at Longwood. Walter Leyland, son of Eunice Bassett Leyland '29. is president of the William Alargaret anci Mary student body. "Pete" Hanmcr Weinzettel '29 is presently in Wiesbaden. Germany, where she is deputy to the wife of the Commanding General and is Regional Representative and a member of the Board of Directors to the Berchtesgaden Conferences. These Conferences concern the American Wom.

.

.

.

en's

1920-1929

.

Activities

member groups

in

Europe

;

.

.

they offer to

a clearing house for their problems and inspire and assist them in carrying out the principles of NATOpeoples living together in peace and unAfter her derstanding in a free world. marriage to Colonel Roy E. Weinzettel, USAFE Intelligence, in 1947, she organized the schools at Clark Field in the Philippine Islands on an accredited basis. while stationed there. She has also been principal of an Arlington schcxjl and worked for two years with mentally retarded children in Kansas City. "Pete" received a master's from Columbia and has done additional graduate study at W. & M., U. Va., and U. of Kansas City.

1930-1939 Helen Galcy Wilson '33. of Crewe, was re-elected to the Nottoway County School Board. The only woman member of the Board, she has served since 1955. Maria Williams '34 was awarded the M.S. degree at Florida State last summer. She teaches in Bainbridge, Ga., and is studying oil painting and piano and doMary Easing sociological research. ley Hill Steger '34 was the 1956 Covington-Allegheny Christmas Mother. She has two children. Frances and Edward, and is very active in welfare work, PT.'K, Virginia church, and garden club. Price Waller '38 is supervisor in the .

.

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.

.

.

.

1955. Pattie Jeffreys Adams '38 is press relations chairman of tlie Col. William Allen Chapter of the D.\R in Rich.

.

1940-1957

Maria Cocke Talcott was superintendent of the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies from 1935 to 1954. She now lives by herself in a Clair small apartment in Richmond. this time.

.

—

Jemima Hurt, Steanes

in

life

.

.

.

was recently

installed as senior reof the Moose at Farm-

gent of the ^^^omen ville. June Elder Reynolds '54.x is living in Milwaukee where her husband is an instructor in Naval Sciences at .

.

.

Marquette University. Johanna May Shahan '54 lives with her husband and baby son in Hagerstown, Md., where Donald is associated with the Coffman Health Center. .

.

.

Biddleconib

Secretary:

Mary Lou Campbell (Mrs.

M. Graham)

185 Ridge

St.,

T.

Wythevilfe,

Va.

Lucy Roanoke;

.

creative living ... to us, you will always be one of the great ones." Mary

Powers Kearney is still in her arartment Washington Scotia Starke Haggerty has moved into an apartment from her beautiful big home since the death of her husband. Living now in the far Southwestern pirt of the state are Audrey Britfinglwni ;

Keuhn, at Radford; Mary Lou Campbell Graham, Wytheville Lucile Mooma'w Perry, Glade Springs: Bertie Eaton, Abingdon and Ilia Miller, Bristol. News ;

;

about others who did not stay to graduate Bessie Blackmore Morgan lives in Hampton Lucy Daniel Palfrey, in Du.xAnnie Perry retired after bury, Mass. teaching 45 years and is in Culpeper. Her sister, Kate Perry, has given many beautiful and valuable articles to Longwood House, the .\lumnae House, and to the College. Ella Moore Rector is the wife of a retired Presbyterian minister and lives in Berkley Springs, W. Va. close with a sad note by reporting the death in January of Peachy Sanderliu :

;

;

.

.

.

a story

.

.

"The Mar-

(written for Judith Randolph Chapter D.\R published in the Xorfolk and IVestern Magazine and also in fin-mis, Zeta Tau Alpha's publication. Myron Howard of Draper is recovering nicely from a hip fracture. )

.

.

.

1911 President: Louise Ford Mrs. S. G. Waller) 39 N. Roval Ave., Front Royal, (

Va. Acting

Emily W. Johnson, Secretary 3833 9th St. North, Ariington 3, Va. If "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books" be true as Carlyle once said, then thrice happy must be our Class. My most facile pen could elicit few responses from those left of the 101 graduates and 20 associate members Our president, of 46 years ago, Louise Ford W'aller, has gone back to her childhood home to live since losing her husband. Adjutant General S. Ruth Gardner Waller, last year. Shepard Forbes, our vice president, lives Although Etta Hope at Cumberland. Owens lives in South Arlington and Gertrude Roberts Jones on \'eazy Street in :

.

.

We

Whitehead.

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.

.

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.

.

Greetings from the Class of 1904. Look out for us on Founders Day two years hence, our 55th anniversary. Our class has reached the retirement age, so most of the "girls" are enjoying well earned leisure. Several are fortunate to call Farmville home and can keep in touch with the progress of the College. Bessie Carter Taylor has just been reelected president of the Junior-Senior Woman's Club Corporation. She has held offices in all the organizations to which she belongs, civic, patriotic, and church, and is on the hospital board. Eva Hctcrick Warren and Carrie Sutherlin have apartments in Farmville both entertain their friends often and both travel. Eva has just returned from a visit to Fort Worth, Texas, and New Orleans, travelling by plane. She goes to New York on the RF & P Special Theatre train and has been abroad several times. Friends and especially members of the class are sure of a most hearty welcome from Mary Clay Hiner when they return to Farmville. Mary Baldwin Bynum is one of the liostesses at .^shlawn. Her daughter, Mary Cecil, is married and lives in

.

.

Salem are Jessie Finke, Blanche Pedigo. Johnston, and Carrie Martin When Carrie retired in June, a high tribute was paid to her at a luncheon held by members of the Andrew I^ewis High School. The following is taken from a speech by one of her former students: "She must have opened the door to the English language to more than 5000 children and fcr 30 years six periods a day, she conducted her class .

.

riage of Pocahontas"

in

.

.

Woodruff Bugg had

Nellie Sniithey, and

enjoying

are

in

Kitty Kcarslcy Williams '47x and her husband moved to Chattanooga recently, after he finished geology training at U. of N. C. Jean Cunningham Wilson

Washington and

I

talk

to

times over the telephone,

them Irma

.

.

.

I

them somehave not seen

But our

since June 1911. Phillips Wallace,

who

poet,

lives

in

Md., and I often get together and read our poems to each other. Sometimes we write about the same things, but Irma with a polish perfected through the years. She is a member of the Federal Poet (Society) and I, of the Federal I am also one of Editors Association. the trustees of the Columbia University \\'heaton,

.

;

Charlottesville.

Inez Clary McGeorge, Bettie Miirfee Ray, Ethel Topping Folks, and Ethel Reynolds W'hite are in Richmond. Ethel has been made an honorary member of the Barton Heights Woman's Club as she has held nearly every office in the club. Byrd King Eckles has retired from her nursing position and makes her home in

32

.

in

mond.

'Six

.

.

Henderson, N. C, city schools. She received her M.Ed, degree at U. of N. C. in .

bronze plaque were presented to him at

Culpeper with her daughter, Frances Elizabeth Cohbs Pritchett is Gale. kept busy at her home at Whitmell. Her children are her joy her two daughters live in Richmond, one is with the .American Cancer Society and the other is at Miller and Rhoads, Cook's Travel Service. Elizabeth's son is in South America.

1905 Leigh Dickey f^^Irs. Morris) 834 Locust Grove,

Edith

President: John R.

Charlottesville, \'a.

Clair W^oodruff (Mrs. J. Luckin Bugg) High St., Farmville, Va.

Secretary:

Hodges Booth, who has served for many years as Clerk at Brookneal and also as librarian, is now planning to serve as Deputy Clerk and give more Willie

Carlotta Lewis writes most interestingly of a trip abroad. has Mary Day Parker taught the past year in the Cathedral Episcopal

time to the library. .

.

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.

.

.

School in Orlando, Fla. ^ Edith Dickey Morris' daughter, Mary Day Parker writes, has a beautiful new home in Orlando. Susie Chilton Palmer, who has taught many years in Washington, is .

.

.

.

wood on Founders Day.

Georgie R. Gravely writes that after eight years as superintendent of Petersburg Home for Ladies, she is now one of the guests. Last year she toured the West, returning through the Canadian Rockies and across the Great Lakes. Janie Crute Traywick's husband. Dr. Asa Paul Traywick, .

eron,

.

.

.

patients

.

.

.

.

.

.

Archie BJain Campbell, Daisy Sivetnam Hughes, Nannie G. Watkins left us in 1956 for that "undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns," and there they joined Nannie U'inibish Archer, Mabel Shezuey Warren, Kate Jl'allcr Lillian Cale, Gray, Alargaret Bronni Maud Byrd Mills, Frances Land Chappell, Grace Terrell Clements, Lucile Cole, and our beloved Senior Man, Dr. Milliedge. and our President, Dr. Jarman.

1912

.

was honored recently by his and friends. A silver tray and a

Leta Christian. 1311 Winston-Salem. N. C.

President:

.

has served the community of CamS. C, for SO years as doctor of

medicine,

to Roanoke for "Leaves of Gold," the State Federation's pageant celebratLalla Ridley ing its Golden Jubilee. Jones Warner, our class poet, lives in Pattie Prince Turnbull, New Jersey.

and

.

retiring this year. She writes that she hopes now to meet class members at Long-

who

Club of Washington. I went to Luray for the Northern District meeting of the \'irginia Federation of Women's Clubs

St.,

Clover

Mrs. \\'. Lettie Cox .\cting Secretary E. Laughon) Old Forest Rd., Lynch(

:

burg, Va.

Leta Christian is teaching in a private She spends school in Winston-Salem. part of each summer at her old home in Some day she e.xpects to the Valley. Edna Ewart of retire and live there. Lynchburg is teaching in Campbell CounLouise Davis Thacker and her ty. .. .

.

.

.

Alumnae

M.^gazine

AAUW,

in

active

is

hospital

auxiliary,

and Red Cross.

She taught from 1945then retired for the second time. But teaching runs in the family her daughter has taught and her son is professor of 50,

—

mathematics Columbia.

at the L'niversity of British

Sexton) Raleigh, N. C.

Fairview

2506

Thelma Blanton Rockwell, vice president of our class and our only living officer, lost her husband in April. She has moved back to her old home in Farmville. Florence Boston Decker, with her many other activities, is chairman of

WaltM

I!

I

III, grandson of Laughon, '12.

C"i;.r

husband were at Founders Day. They Bramwell, W. Ya... where Loui.'e

live in

.

.

.

;

;

a

Education" under Etta Rose Bailey at U. Va. Nellie is active in the Episcopal Church her hustand and two sons have been vestrymen. Susie Holt retired in June after class in "Progressive

;

.

.

.

teaching 45 years. She and her brother, Colonel Harry Holt, reared three nephews. One is a graduate of U.\'a. one, a g"raduate of Newberry College the other one attended ^'PI. Sue Adams Davis with her six children and 11 grandchildren lives a busy life. Three daughters are graduates of Loiigwood her other daughter is a graduate of Bob Jones and is a missionary. Sue is superintendent of the Beginners Dep't and works in the Alissicnary Society. .Annie Belle ;

:

.

.

.

;

.

.

.

Robertson Paul lives at Chatham. She has a son Lee Paul, who teaches speech at Dartmouth, and two grandchildren. Lettie Co.r Laughon lives alone since the death of her husband in '54. She does substitute work and coaching. In '51 she went as a delegate from Campbell County to the Convention in San Francisco made a tour of more than 10.000 miles, visited many places of in.

.

.

NEA

—

terest,

among them

— Chateau Lake Louise

and Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies. In that same year she was named an outstanding citizen of her community and the PTA had her name listed in the

Book of Honor that will be displayed at the headquarters of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Chicago. In '54 Lettie went as a delegate of Classroom Teachers to the Con-

NEA

vention in New York. She has one son and two grandchildren. In May she had a trip to Nassau, Bahamas. She is now president of the Lynchburg .Alumnae Club, and a member of a garden club. Ruth Ward Sadler is living in Norfolk, growing flowers, and enjoying life. Agnes Burger Williams stays busy caring for an invalid husband. Lillie Canody Denning has taught the last three years resigned in June and accepted a Civil Service job in Richmond. Edna Miars Davis .

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.

November, 1957

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about a Caribbean cruise. Evelyn Hurff Cross and I had a grand reunion for the first time since 1913 at my daugh.

teaches. NelUe Bristozu Sandidge teaches in Campbell County two of her four sons have followed in her trail and are in the teaching profession. Harry Jr. is a banker in Richmond the other son is an architect. Last summer Nellie had

ter's

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President: Maria Bristow (Mrs. T. J. Starke) "Rustom", River Road, Rich-

mond,

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the Richmond group for the Jamestown Festival. Florence's husband. Dr. H. W. Decker, was elected chief of staff at the Richmond Memorial Hospital. Alinnie Butler Albright was very excited

lughon

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and writes that it is very rewarding and challenging w^ork. Lena Marshall lives at Rice and teaches a few music pupils. Edith IVillis Reed toured in Europe and the British Isles during the summer with Brownell tours. Ruth Harding Coyner, now that her husband has retired from Longwood, plans to travel. Here's hoping we can all attend our Reunion on Founders Dav. .

1913 Acting Secretary Nena Lochridge J.

non-readers,

home

Windsor

in

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summer.

last

I

am

sure your ears burned, as we talked of you. Evelyn reared six children, all married except one. She has been active in church, social, and patriotic groups in Suffolk. Julia Rollins Ashby's husband is ill. She goes back to Covington often to see her mother who is 93. Jennie Earnest Mayo and Colonel Mayo had just started a life of retirement, when he was called to activity at VMI. .

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Kerah Cole Proctor is busy with a gift shop in Fredericksburg. Annie il/_vcrs Williams has lived a full life, rearing nine children, while teaching. Five of her sons were in the service during World War II. One son is studying for the ministry. Emily Minnicgcrode Claytor says she and her husband are alone .

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.Anne Stone Stewart and her husband have built a home in Portsmouth where she teaches in Woodrow Wilson High School and he is government horticulturist at the Naval Base. They have two grown daughters. After attending Longwood. -Anne received her B.S. degree at the University of Maryland. She and her husband have both taught at Ferrum Junior College. Virginia Driver Beardsley. of Dunedin, Fla., came through Farmville last fall. She sees Elizabeth .

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Jones Watkins '24

.

who

lives

Clear-

in

water. Lockey Delp Rector and her husband spent last winter visiting their .

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children, four in the Washington area and one in Wheeling, W. Va. They live at Forest Level. Charles City. Eleanor Parrott Hutcheson's husband, Dr. John R. Hutcheson, is chancellor emeritus of \^PI. Hutcheson Hall at VPI was dedicated in July and named for him and his brother, Dr. Thomas B. Hutcheson. who at the time of his death in 1950 was dean of agriculture there. five

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now

that all three children are married. In 1955 she was a delegate to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church

Honolulu.

Alice Martin Horgan from her position with the Washington. She and two women friends bought a home together, and -Alice spends her time with flowers. Ella Pope Brandon enjoys the winters at her home in Sarasota, Fla.. and the in

has

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retired

government

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summers in Virginia. Elsie Gay Welborn writes that she and her husband are growing old gracefully. Her twin .

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sons and daughter, Jean Moycr Scorgie '41, are all married. Margaret Boaturight Mclntyre is Regent of the Swamp Fox Chapter of the DAR in Marion, S. C. Ruth Percivall Whittle writes that her son Frank is an engineer with Westinghouse in Elmira, N. Y. Her daughter Ophelia Whittle Chafey '45 and her husband have three children and live in Alenlo Park, Calif. Her older son Joe practices medicine in Petersburg. Her youngest daughter is at home. Ola .

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Berryman has served

officer of the D.AR and twice of the Smithfield Woman's

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as a state

as president Club. .

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Martin Welch's husband reRailroad from the N & -Ada Bierbower retired in Roanoke. She and returned to Farmville to live. finds herself active again, teaching a few Annie Jones classes at Longwood. Gertrude

W

tired recently

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Starritt.

Adams,

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.

Cliannell

Elizabeth Malcolm Hinternhoff, '17; Mary JJouse Smoot, '44 Frances MacKann

Wood

of

Charleston,

grandmother of seven. private school

for

many

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W.

Va..

is

a

She has had a years,

tutoring

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and Gladys Tucker Rollins, as they chat at Founders Day.

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Naomi Duncan (Mrs. G. W. Morris) 3811 Hawthorne .Ave., Rich-

President:

mond, Va. Mollie

John elected

Moore

Bondurant's

husband.

C. Bondurant, has recently been president and a director of the

Planters

Bank and Trust Companjr

in

Farmville. He has been an employee of the bank for almost 40 years. Irene Pugh Evans' husband teaches at Temple .

University in Pennsylvania.

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They

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live in

Lansdown. Ruth Robinson Kaylor is living in Osaka now and drives each day to Wise where she teaches Latin. Her two boys have both graduated from \'PI and have been in the service. .

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1921 Katharine Stallard (Airs. L. A. Washington Jr.) 2917 Western Parkway, Owensboro, Ky.

President:

Acting Secretary: Elizabeth McClung (Mrs. C. C. Pulsifer) 14UU West St., Annapolis, Md.

"Woman

We

all know for Owensboro, Ky. that Helen Draper and Merle Davis have taken their places in the educational world Helen as head of the foreign language .

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department at Longwood and Merle in the department of education at William Mary Stephenson is doing and Mary. .

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Stallard Washington was of the Year" not long ago

Katharine voted

she is liead of the English department in Marian Camper the local high school. and Anne Meredith Jeffers are professors' wives. Elizabeth Moring Smith, whose son attends Randolph Macon College, lives in Farmville, as do .'\nne Meredith Jeffers and Mary Nichols. Other classmates, Ellen Carlson Hopper, Mary JeiTerson, Stella Lang Taylor, .

Fuller

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Marie

McCurdy,

Sutton

Katherine Thompson Revercomb, and Lois Williams live in Virginia and are expected for the reunion of the Class of '23 on Founders Day.

1926

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Ann

President:

F.

Greene) 2808 Rd., Country Club Hills, Camp Hill, Pa. Acting Secretary: Olive Smith (Mrs. W. D. Bowman) 409 College St., Bridgew'ater, Va.

Chapman Revercomb, husband of Sarah Hughes Revercomb, is serving his second

of

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term

United

States Senate, as Grace senator from West Virginia. Oakes Burton has just had published a charming collection of poetry, "SonHeart", by and Songs of nets the Vantage Press. ... As for me, my chief contribution seems to be progenating the race three grown sons Betsy is a senior at and a daughter. Towson State Teachers. Last year she was president of the Student Christian Association. She says "like mother like daughter". She also made Delta Kappa Phi honor society. the I am back in classroom again and find that school and home absorb most of my time.

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1923 President: Lois Williams, 128 Hatton

Portsmouth,

Acting

High

St.,

A'a.

jMary Secretary St., Farmville, Va. :

Nichols,

700

How

true some of the class prophecy for the Class of '23 has proved to be Of the 17 class members, one is deceased; 1 1 are five are living out of Virginia two are married three are teaching librarians two are college professors' wives one is a postmistress and several ;

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are both mothers and grandmothers. Congratulations to Mary George Bolen, librarian at Culpeper High School, for having been honored with a distinguished service award as adviser for the Colonnade, school yearbook. Three times in the past five years the Colonnade has won the coveted trophy awarded by SIPA. News from Louise "Scottie" Robins, .

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living in San Jose, Calif., tells of her husband's successful insurance business and of her three children. Frank, a recent high school graduate, is a licensed radio operator and a member of the American Relay Radio League. Scottie herself has such varied interests as her granddaughter, her work with Job's Daughters, and "over a hundred, fullgrown, blooming African violets". Lou Gregory Wilson, living in Sarasota, She writes, "With Fla., is again teaching. heartfelt sincerity I send greetings to dear old Farmville and to the girls of '22." Lelia Burroiv Davis is living in

Ann Smith Greene

sends

J.

love to

all

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Ray, Jr., graduated from VPI in 1953 and has served in the Air Force in Hawaii and Japan. Youngest son, Thomas Wright, attends Hargrave Military Academy at Chatham and plans to enter VPI later. Daughter, Mary Lou Barlov; Haverty, graduated from Longin

1954.

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Mary Vaughan

is

bookkeeper for the telephone exchange in Amherst. She is taking care of her 87year-old mother and invalid brother. Grace Noel iMistr has five children (is this not the class record?), is busy with community and church activities, and this .

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Her oldpast year returned to teaching. est child is a junior at VPI. Grace talked to Bessie Motley and sends news that Bessie has been tutoring since she retired from teaching six years ago. Lucille Wright Eberwine and husband have two sons in the service. Bruce, Jr., graduated from VPI in 1956, married a .

former Longwoodite; Son, John,

is

now

is

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Europe. Maryland and

stationed in

in

plans to be an electrical engineer. Sue Puckett Lush, husband, and daughter car.

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Marjorie Thompson,

ried out their plans to fly to Panama. A card from her reports Thelma Wooljolk Monogan and two daughters visited them and took them on a five-hour trip around Peggy Lou the Zone and Canal. Stearnes Senter received a M.Ed, this summer at A'PI. She teaches English and social studies in Dade County, Fla. Son Bill has entered U. of Miami for his freshman year in aviation management. Daughter Peggy Gene remains at VPI, a general science major. Gladys Moses McMlister enjoys a 3-year-old grandson

El Paso, Texas and Pearl Young Culross, in Williamson, W. Va., where

and his baby sister born this spring. As the busy wife of a Dinwiddle minister

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school in Roanoke for the past three years, and loves it even though, she writes, she is "a bit old for skipping and jumping." Bunn has a daughter Patricia who wilb enter college in '58 and a son who is a junior at U. Va. The Bowmans.

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motored in June to son Warren, Jr.'s.^ marriage at Gallup, N. Mex., to Jean McArthur. Jean is a former pupil of Hattye Blankenship. We had hoped tovisit Hattye, but she had left earlier on a. trip to Hawaii. Daughter Helen, in Cincinnati, presented us w-ith our second grandson last November. Now, girls, sit down and write all the news left out of this letter and send it in for 1958. Only about 10 of our degree graduates have not yet contributed to the class newsletters.

wood

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closing reminder,

a

.As

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"Long-

in 1961 or bust I"

1927

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College, specializing in the teaching of reading. She has now been promoted to associate professor of education. Bessie JVriglit Barlow's oldest son, Joseph

wood

women called her "Miss Moses"' Gertrude Quinn Thomas hasbeen teaching kindergarten in a Catholic again.

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She has joined the rank of grandmother with a granddaughter born in May. Its mother received her B.S. from University of Pennsylvania shortly after the baby's birth. Son Bill is with Dupont in Birmingham, Ala., and daughter Ann has two more years in high school. Kate Trent went to Longwood in 1947 as supervisor of first grade and in 1952 became assistant professor of education and general supervisor of the primary grades in the training school. This past semester she attended Peabody you.

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1937 pupils in Chester, she almost; clianged h.er mind when so many fine men. lier

and

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(Mrs.

Smith Marion

Our hearts go historical research. out to Grace Beard Lockwood after the death of both her husband and daughter within a few months, she and her mother moved back to Charles Town, W. Va. few items from the diploma class .

(does this make three minister's wives im our class?), she says she has so many interesting things to do in the parish that she has no desire to be a teacher again. But at the recent class reunion dinner o£

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Virginia Potts (Mrs. J. ARedhead Jr. ) 704 Dover Rd., Greens-

President:

boro, N. C.

Thomas

Ola

Secretary:

Adams) R.F.D.

3,

J.

A-

Charlottesville,

Va.

(Mrs.

has been a real pleasure hearingof the '27 class. While are scattered from Puerto Rico XoJapan, most of us are still in Virginia. Many have received IMasters degrees and some have done doctorate work. Teaching did not hold all of us. Some are in business schools, secretarial jobs, radioIt

from the members

we

and newspaper work. It seems most of our children have gone to college or are

Mary

in school.

still

IVisely

Watkins

is

Executive Secretary of Longwood. . Dorothy Squire Cundifif is gardening in Florida. Mabel Groseclose has retired to paint, collect stamps and good music. Louise Prudcn Apperson is a busy teacher whose hobbj- is family trees. Mildred Spindle is guidance coun.

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Church High School. . teaches in AlexanCliarles graduated from

selor at Falls

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Mar^f

Ames Parker

dria.

Her son

.

Citadel and w-as married in September. Frances Sale Lyle's interests aside from her children are gardens and church and civic work. Besides teaching in Roanoke Louise Forbes helped with the radio script in the NEA 32nd Yearbook of Science. Cornelia Diekciison Nuckols is working in a bank and has gone to the dogs (cocker spaniels) and now has a champion. Dreama Chambers Fennimore taught and helped the mentally re.

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Now

tarded.

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she

is

raising daschunds.

Mildred Lohr Irizarry is head of the Sciences at Inter-American U. Puerto Rico and has traveled in South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Her older boy at.

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tended Fork Union this past year. Frances Woodhouse teaches in a business school. Sara Spires took up bookkeeping. Grace Chambers Feinthel teaches in Alaury High School. Margaret Wallaee Hibble is busy with three children. Frances Rucker is .

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in the Veterans Hospital, RoaLucy Overby Webster's three noke. One son is at children keep her busy. Daphne Gilliam Wool's inU. Va. Harriet terests are golf and music. Foster is a busy home economics teacher Virginia Graves Krebs in Staunton. has many civic interests, especially radio Virginia I'incent Saffelle's work. daughter, Betty '53, was married in Virginia is teaching music at August. Orline \\'hite is doing a big home. job teaching and counselling in Lawrence-

^Martha Anthony is president of District E of the VEA. She has formerly been president of the Martinsville Education Association and of the Community Theatre there. She is a life member of the NE.A. and has been a delegate to their conventions in New York, Chicago, and Portland. Robert Large, son of Elizabeth Chambers Large, graduated with a bachelor of science degree from

Mary Markley was in Puerto Rico for a while, but returned to Roanoke. Church work takes her spare time. Emily Jones Rickman collects antiques.

Alpha

nursing .

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advisor to the Virginia delegation girls attending National of meeting at Purdue U. Moffett Armstrong Beall lives in Washington, D. C. Her daughter, a junior at Swarthmore, spent last year studying in France. I have two sons and one grandson to is

FHA

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in June. engineering major, he was a

D. Yeary) Ewing, Va. Virginia Updyke Cushwa lias left the teaching profession foi a new career, but Virginia II has begun in the teaching field this year. Her son is in the submarine corps. Virginia is educational consultant for D.C. Heath Co., textbook publishers. ^'irginia Bull Moose has been living in Plainfield, N. J., since 1944, where she has been established as a She reChristian Science practitioner. ceived a master's degree in education '44. Mary Baldwin Colfrom Rutgers in lege initiated Virginia into their honor Virginia Ellis ^''onsociety in 1953. Ritcher taught home economics in Staunton, married, moved to Richmond where she does church, garden club, and WomHer son Frank HI is a an's Club work. .

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sophomore at U. of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. Her husband is chief engineer for Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Chris Royal! Elmore's husband has been superintendent of Pittsylvania County school for 15 years. Daughter Janie Jo is married, lives in Norfolk and Kathryn Royall is a sophomore at W. & M. Chris often sees Liz Woodson, Greenie Parker Winiker, and Anne Ferrec Jordan. Alice Wiley Brown enjoys social work with county welfare board in Annapolis. Her daughter Dinah graduates from the U. of Md. in 1958; interested in journalism, she works on the paper in Annapolis. Marjorie Thomas Johnston lives in .

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where Mr. Thomas is highway Margie is disengineer in Lee County. trict president of WSCS, and was reJonesville

cently appointed a delegate to St. Louis Conference. Her son Charles attends Pharm.acy School. Daughter Betty Elizabetli is a junior in high school. Weston Yeary is in her third year heading her garden club also is busy with Association, and famchurch work,

MCV

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1930 President: M. Lucille Graves (Mrs. W. A. Noell) 110 Summers St., Bluefield,

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1931

1928 President: Virginia Updyke (Mrs. Virginia Cushwa) 1516 Maiden Lane S.^^'., Roanoke Apt., Roanoke, Va. Secretary: Elizabeth Weston (Mrs. A.

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physics-

member

Phi Kappa Psi, social fraternity, and Pi Nu and the Christian Council. Myra Reese Cuddy is teaching again. Her husband "Buck" is Commonwealth Attorney in Roanoke. Their daughter Dele Reese is a high school senior, and son Bucky is 14. Sally Morrison Richardson's husband is city councilman in South Norfolk. They have two daughters, 19 and 14, one in business school and the other in high school.

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Washington and Lee

Va.

November, 1957

President: Virginia Robertson (Airs. J. F. Enright) Gertrude Baxter Olgers is very active in her church and helps her husband run They have a son who gradhis store. uated from high school in June. Clara McAllister Parsons, who passed away in March had this tribute paid her by the editor of the Enterprise: "Mrs. Parsons left an indelible imprint for good in this community. Only when the scroll is w\.

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rolled at the consummation of the ages, will her great contributions to the betterment of Wytheville be truly revealed. No person worked with greater zeal or a more unselfish spirit for the upliftment of the community. Her monument is not one of stone or iron, but she built a monument that will live on in the lives of others, and will not be effaced by time or the elements. Her influence shall live on in the hearts of the hundreds who were .

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." fortunate enough to call her friend. Virginia Robertson Enright and her husband were due to return to the States in .A.ugust after having lived for the past two years in France and England, where he was a officer. Their son is in his third year at West Point. .

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Pa. The Kisler family has "lived all over", each of the five children having been born in a different state. Ella Simms Clore Barnes stays busy with an insurance agency in Crozet and a new home. Her older son, Carl, graduated from Washington and Lee and was married this spring. He was Samuel .\dams in the Common Glory cast last summer. A second son. Ward, is 9. Those who were present for our reunion w'ere Harriett Branch Major, who is teaching again Louise Clayton, who is a superCoatesville,

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visor in schools in the Portsmouth area

Henrietta Cormvell Ritter, whose son is entering the ministry Alargaret Fisher Lansing, who came all the way from Staten Island, N. Y., and told us of her interesting work in the Child Care Clinic there Lucy Fitzgerald, who is teaching in_ Crewe Ruth Hunt, who planned a trip abroad for this summer Charlotte Hutchins Roberts, who has returned to teaching; LucieiA.nne Lane Bowles and Grace Virginia Woodhoiisc Rawles, both of whom have adopted a little girl Doris Robertson Adkisson, who is in the teaching profession A. J. Scott Diedrich, who is also teaching Vehna Petty Gardner, Margaretta Brady Smith, Ruth Hall Crater, Fannie Haskins Withers, Mary Ellen Johnson Garber, Helen Ward Forrest, Myrtha Watkins Reese, Marietta Wilson Gregory, and Cleo Quisenberry Kent, who lives closer to Lynchburg and to me than I dreamed Ruth Floyd Speer, who agrees that now there is little time or energy for dancing after dinner each night Easter Soiiders Wooldridge, of :

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who

Lynchburg,

Nancy Shaner

studies art as a

who

Strickler,

hobby

serves as

elementary librarian at Oceana. Nancy has been class secretary' for a long time and asked me to relieve her. Not knowing this at the time of our reunion. I did

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not take any notes, thus my apologies. I have failed to mention that gentle lovely Miss Bedford was with us for our reunion, and seeing her again was like going home.

1935 President; Frances McDaniel (Mrs. T. N. Cargill) 8915 Tresco Rd., Richmond, \'a.

1932

Mrs. W. W. Jean McClure Thomas) Spottswood, Xa..

Secretary

President: Henrietta Cornwell (Mrs. F. M. Ritter) 1419 Greystone Terrace,

Winchester, Va. Acting Secretary: Lindsay White (Mrs. L. Si. Spicer Jr.) Piney River, ^'a.

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N^ancy Bnrgzvyn Leake has three children 16, 11, and 5 mos. "I tell everyone they haven't lived until they've had the three B's at once bottles, baseball, and beaux !" Ruth Shoivalter Swineford and her husband Jimmie have recently

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As

the day of our 25th class reunion near, I began to feel very reticent about going. When I entered the Alumnae House, I was happy and relieved to see many familiar faces among both faculty and alumnae. Aliss Jennings is a most hospitable hostess and greeted us all with such warm friendship that from that moment on, I was glad I had made the trip to Farmville. Our class, with 26 members present, "captured" Dr. Jefifers for the luncheon. Afterwards we had an informal meeting in the Student Building with Henrietta Cornwell Ritter presiding. Several letters from classmates unable to be present were read. Kitty Marehant

drew

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Freed, Waynesboro, was busy with preparations for the spring meeting of the

Shenandoah she

is

District,

president.

husband

is

VFWC,

Jane Witt

with the

VA,

is

of Kisler,

now

which whose

living in

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celebrated their 19th anniversary. They have four sons Bobbj' 18, James 13, Bill Ruth is teaching fifth 8, and Charles 4. grade at the Prince George School and enjoying teaching since she's had a is refresher course in child psychology right

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Lena Mac Gardner SamMary, her youngest enschool this fall, and from her letter,

home.

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mons writes ters

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that

seems she's still enough of a school teacher to keep her son Mac pretty well Nell Oakey Ryan Gardner occupied. teaches at North Cross School in Salem. She and her husband have a lovely place on Claytor Lake with a good looking boat to go with it. Lila Jacob of Machipongo is the Virginia member of National Committee of Delta Kappa Gamma for their building program. it

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1936 President: Tac Waters (Mrs. Hallett Mapp) 87 Post Rd., Warwick, Va. Acting- Secretary: Helen Boswell (Mrs. J. Wilson Ames) Smithfield, Va.

her husband Garnett, and three children, Garnett, Jr. IS, Dickey 12, and Susan 11, live on a They built a farm near Wytheville. colonial home 13 years ago with lumber

Agnes

Davis,

Crockett

the bricks were made in the farm their yard by hand. The boys participate in football, basketball, and baseball, and train and show ponies. The boys and the entire family take part in the Fancy TurnAgnes is starting her fifth out Classes. year as senior president of the CAR. Her husband is county chairman of the

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