Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Mid-winter 1939

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E. NETTLES, EDITOR · UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND , VIRGINIA

February, 1939

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andCityHonorDr.S.W. Melton Church

By JOSEPH A. LESLIE, '16, Associate Editor, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch

On De cember 6, 1908, the Rev. Sparks W. Melton came to comment by the local press , which expressed gratification Norfolk from Augusta , Georgia, to become pastor of the that he would not leave his pulpit .

In the anniversary celebration on December 9th, with Dr. Freemason Street Baptist Church and to begin a career which in the role of principal speaker, greetings were exFranklin December On was to make him this city's most loved citizen.

Dr. Melton by W. 0. Wigg , president of the Busito tended creeds and faiths 9, 1938, hundreds of Norfolk citizens of all Bible Class which he has caught for more th an a 's Men ness thirtieth the joined with members of his church in celebrating decade, and by Mrs. B. L. Rhodes , presiann iversary of his pastorate in a demonof the Business Women's Bible Class, dent stration that testified to the remarkable inhe has taught for nearly ten years; by which fluence he has exerted upon the life of this of his own church, who anrepresentative a community in his three decades of service church has provided for the that nounced here . which would be annuity an Melton .

Dr To a very considerable extent this celeby Dr. retirement; his upon available celebration was a University of Richmond followreception a In others. and Cousins, were honor bration. Among the guests of eds hundr program the of feature this ing Solon Dr. President F. W. Boatwright and greet to came life of walks all in people of longboth B. Cousins, Professor of Bible, and extend their congratu lations. time friends of the man whom an entire Not many days later there was widethe for speaker al princip city honored. The joy but no surprise when it was anspread PresiFranklin, H. James occasion was Dr. that Dr. Melton had been chosen nounced entered who , Seminary Crozer of dent SPARKS WHITE M ELTON, D.D . first citizen for 1938. His seNorfolk's as Melton Sparks with College Richmond Pastor of annual honor con£erred by the for lection friendship a began and ago decades some The Freemason Street Baptist Church , Club was anCosmopolitan Norfolk the which has carried down to the present .

Norfolk,Virginia nounced by its committe e of awards of When Melton and Franklin were freshmen, a young professor was beginning his freshman year on which the chairman is the Rev . P. Rowland Wagner , pastor the faculty . This "youngster " was the same Boatwri ght who of the Central Baptist Church. later was to become president of the institution and give it Mr. Wagner said Dr. Melton was chosen "because of his greetings His destiny. its meet to forward it push and life new continued influence in the civic and religious life of the city to his former students at the anniversary celebration gave an and because he had lived gloriously his creed of the equality interesting turn to the program . of all mankind." His selection was unanimous .

The Norfolk pastor, a graduate of Crozer, a member of the Dr. Melton has been the teacher of the Business Men 's board of trustees of the University of Richm ond from which Bible Class, which holds weekly meetings, for seventeen he has received the degree of Doctor of Divinity , and one years, and for six years has taught the Business Women's of the best known Baptist ministers in the South , has served Bible Class. He has been outstanding in religious circles of as pastor of the Freemason Street Church for one third of its the city, particularly in his work with the religious relief aslife of ninety years. He has come to be, in the most complete sociations, and is the author of a book, Will H e Find Faith , sense, a possession of this community. H ow true this is was which has been widely circul ated. seen four years ago when he resigned his pastorate , only to be He was the principal speaker at ceremonies at Monticello compelled to reconsider his action in the face of tremendous pressure not only from within his church but from without on July 4, 1926, in commemoration of the 150th anniversa ry the church, as well. His unusual hold upon the esteem and of the signing of the Declarati on of Indep endence, and long affections of the community was seen in the fact that his has been regarded as an outstanding religious thinker and decision to remain in service here was the subject of editorial intellectual moralist.

Entered at the post office of the University of Rchm ond, Virginia, as second-cla ss matter.

Since he came to the University in 1929, Dean Pinchbeck has devoted himself, heart and soul, to the task of maintain ing and elevating the school's high academic requirements and , above all, to the task of teaching the undergraduates to be "good citizens" in their own collegiate world and in the world of greater affairs in which they are soon to enter .

The Next Twenty -Five Years A Great Blessing to Humanity For the Rev. William J. Cocke who was ninety-four years old when death claimed him. last month, a long and useful life has ended. One of his last exhortations-a prayer in whi ch every loyal alumnus will join- was "God bless the University of Richmond and make it a great blessing to hum anity. " One of the three oldest of the living alumni and among th e oldest "alumni " of the War Between the States , he rem ained mentally alert and active to the end . He never lost an opportunity to come back to Alma Mater.

H e saw the school rise from a small, impecunious institution to a great University situated on one of the most beautiful and spacious campuses in all the world. And through the solemnity of his partin g prayer there rings a challenge to all alum.ni.

Ther e was no T. C. Williams School of Law when William J.Cocke matriculated as a student. There was no W esthampton College . No business school. No graduate department.

And out in the mountains of West Virginia, Frederick William Boa twright wh o later was to head the University of Richmond had reached the mature age of one year.

Dur ing the thr ee score and ten years which have passed since William Cocke was a student , the little Baptist school has taken its pl ace amon g the outst anding institutions of higher learnin g in the South . Wh ether this pace shall be maintained and accelerat ed or whether the University of Richmond shall be permitted to lag to the rear of the academic procession is a question which the alumni must answer.

The gains cannot be maintained, certainly there can be no expa nsion unles s new resources are found . Inadequate is a soft wor d to describe the present library facilities. A new libr ary is im.perative. Richmond College students are crying out for a social center building . Dean Doubles is crying out for a new buildin g to house the law school. A fine arts building, and a buildin g to house the school of business administr ation rank high on th e list of President Boatwright 's objectives.

It' s no list of things the Uni versity would like to have .

It's a list of things the University mu st ha ve. It's an S.O.S. call. A call directed to every alumnus to help make the University of Richmond "a great blessing to humanity. "

Dean Pinchbeck Commended to th e attention of the alumnus is the article , " Living and Learning at Alm a Mat er," which appears elsewhere in this issue. Io it D ean Pinchb eck answers the questions most freq uently asked by the 01' Grad about how thin gs are done in Richmond College now, what the standards are, what the activities are, and what the college is doing to make well-rounded men of the hope ful freshmen who ent er each fal l. [ 2

In 1964 Westhampton College will celebrate its Fiftieth Anniversary. What report will be made at that time concerning the twenty -five year period beginning with September , 1939, and what type of growth appears most desirable to those who have helped make Westhampton College what it is today?

Io this period of change and experimentation in govern ment, education, and in social standards , far be it from a mere academic dean to attempt prophecy. It is possible, however, to make a few statements concerning certain fundamental principles, which seem necessary for maintaining certain standards of character and scholarship .

Mere size is not indicative of a college 's contribution to the educational world . Slow normal growth to the number of 500 students would seem a desirable maximum for the liberal arts group. It may be that a fine arts college will be established in the future in connection with Westhampton College, but separate from the liberal arts department, with its own faculty and dean.

The scholastic standards must at all times be maintained.

From the beginning the college has offered work of a scholarly character; the faculty has been drawn from institutions of first rank both in the United States and abroad; and a certain quality of work has been demanded from students. With the present tendency of school and home to let down the bars, our college must not lower its requirements to meet an insistent demand on the part of certain members of the community to meet the lower half of the high school group rather than the upper half. The state institutions are compelled to take all high school graduates; the privately endowed institution has a task to perform in Virginia, namely, to save the finer things of life from being completely submerged by the immediately practical. It is not a case of idealism; it is a wish to see developed in our graduates of the future as of the past a feeling for the background of culture and high moral integrity that has been their heritage from their forbears.

The future demand for enlarged reading room space and more books will have to be met. Also , if graduate work is to be part of the development of the University, Westhampton College will have a share in the greater facilities and equipment required for graduate study .

Io the Mortar Board initiation the torch of learning is handed down from generation to generation; in the Y.W.C.A . candle-lighting ceremony the spiritual flame is passed onto the incoming freshman group. The hope of the college is its alumnae . Splendidly organized , strong , loyal, groups of alumnae look ing to the future, but at the same time upholding the best traditions of the past , will ha ve much to do with the next twenty-five years in Westhampt on College .

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As one alumn us to another, I know how easy it is always to recall life at Alma Mater as continuing, in every particular, just as it did when we were students in her enchanted academic halls . This seems to be even more true as the span of years lengthens. We take for granted the changes in modern science, business methods and the conveniences of our homes but to each alumnu s there remains in memory an unchangea bleness in the Alma Mater we knew and loved. Indeed, we feel a secret affront at innovations.

To this characteristic of alumni memory must be added the happy natur al tendency to forget some of the tougher spots of academic and personal life and to remember the gratifying, often imagined, educational, personal and social triumphs. As the years pass, one rationa lizes the legion of experiences had in college into a personally satisfying pattern which explains and justifies everything he did while a student.

My alumnus memory performs another interesting prank on me. While I think I lived a pretty full and eventful life in COME IN THE HOUSE , NEIGHBOR. college, actually I find myself recalling and elaborating experiences of vigorous participation in acts of deviltry which could With this cheery greeting, Dean Pincheck invites into his office Bobby Leitch, senior class president, for a conference. easily have been detected by any moderately observant dean, and for which any self-respecting dean would have kicked me out of college. Every successive narration of my stories of The University of Richmond does not employ a paid sothese acts of mischief enriches them in their imagined importo recruit students but depends on the aid of alumni and licitor tance and dimensions . My wife is sure that fifteen years of reto direct to the University able and well qualified stufriends peated narration of these experiences probably justify the atlarger numbers of our alumni, as individuIncreasingly dents. tempt to write them out for the fiction market. I presume that now performing this service. are groups, as and als the psychologists would explain this phenomenon of memory We regard "qualified for admiss ion" to mean graduation as the attempt of a mild-mannered soul like myself to inflate an inferiority complexed ego by lionizing the "man ly" achieve- from an accredited high school, in the upper half of the class, with the recommendation for college of his high school prinments of my alumnus memory.

Another trick of this memory causes me to wonder how I cipal, and a minimum of fifteen Carnegie units. including ever got a "pass" in certain classes, and made honor grades in three in Eng lish, one and a half in algebra, one in science, one others, with so little study. The facts are that I actua lly studied in history , and the remainder to be elective, but not inclusive very hard , but never admitted it to any one but my professors. of more than four units in vocationa l subjects.

My boast to my fellow students on how little I worked was, In addition to determining these minimum academic reI presume, just another ego-boosti ng product of my psy- quirements for admission, a serious attempt is made to deterchological make-up. I may be typical of other alumni. mine the occupational plans, the background and social hisNow that I have made public confession for us alumni, tory, extra-cur ricular school activities , work history nd sumpermit me briefly to tell you something of the living and mer time employment experiences , recreati onal habi t , and (C ontin ued on p"ge 15) studying at Alma Mater now.

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Spider BasketeersBattlingFor Conference TournamentBid If the Spider basketball team gets into the Southern Conference Tournament at Raleigh , the boys will have to do it the hard way. In dropping four of their first six games, they lost two out of three Southern Conference engagements one of them a 32 to 31 heart-breaker to V.P.I.-and there's a rocky road ahead.

Mac Pitt who piloted the Red and Blue to Southern Conference Tournament bids during the past two years is hard at work trying to develop a successful offensive. He's tried apparently every possible combination of veterans and sophomores and the Spider faithful are hopeful the boys will begin to find the basket before their tournament chances are killed.

Almost every team in the State is stronger this year with Washington and Lee perhaps the toughest of the Southern Conference opponents within the Old Dominion. Roanoke's Maroons are easily the class of Virginia, however, and rank with Pittsburgh's mighty Panthers as the top ranking foes on the difficult Spider schedule.

Looking like the team that won fifteen games while losing only four last year, the Spiders opened the season with a 41 to 34 victory over Maryland. The Marylanders used a zone defens e- which was no defense at all for the barrage of potshots fired by Jimmy Ely, veteran guard, and Dick Humbert, Suffolk sophomore.

The Spiders were no match for the strong invaders from The Citadel who triumphed 39 to 24 and mighty Pitt rolled over Richmond , 47 to 24.

H ampden-Sydney's Tigers gave every indication of pasting

a third consecutive whipping on the Spiders but the Pittmen, after trailing until the final two minutes of play, pulled a 29 to 27 victory out of the fire. Chief credit goes to Big Bill Burge, veteran center from Martinsville, who scored six points in the last half-dozen minutes of play.

Then the Spiders went up to Blacksburg where Tech, capitalizing on foul shots, although outscored from the floor, squeezed out a 32 to 31 victory. At Charlottesville one of the best Virginia teams in years ran up a 45 to 28 victory.

Richmond made a contest of it in the early minutes but the Cavaliers were too good.

Remaining on the schedule are two games each with Washington and Lee, William and Mary, V.M.I. and RandolphMacon and single contests with Virginia Tech , Virginia, Roanoke, and Hampden-Sydney.

The team has been built around two good guards, Jimmy Ely of Richmond and Stuart Hoskins of Fredericksburg.

Although he has done considerable experimenting at the center position, Coach Pitt apparently has decided on Bill Burge, who measures all of six feet, four inches, for this position. Humbert has broken in the lineup at one of the forwards but the other position is still uncertain. Captain George Spears, the sophomore, Arthur Jones, and two of last season 's reserves, Ed Bragg and Seabury Stoneburner, have been used in this position.

John Wright, six-foot-five Lynchburger, has seen considerable service both at center and at forward and has proved

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By GLENN F. THISTLETHWAITE, Athletic Director, University of Richmond

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'Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house , not a creature is stirring - except the shadow of Joe Nettles demanding that I write a review of the 1938 football season.

While the assignment takes much of the joy out of the festive occasion, it is indeed a pleasure to speak of the 1938 Spider football squad and the excellent record it made.

Picked by the experts to finish the Southern Conference season in eleventh place or lower, it is indeed gratifying to find the Red and Blue banner flying in fifth position among the teams in the Conference . Victories over Maryland, Washington and Lee, and William and Mary; a tie with V.P.I.; and single touchdown defeats by V.M.I. and The Citadel, tell the story of Richmond's best year in major competition.

Tr iumphs over Apprentice School, Randolph-Macon and Hampden-Sydney, and another one touchdown def eat by Roanoke, maintained the two-to-one ratio between victories and defeats for the entire season.

After our great team of 1934, with its backfield of five seniors, we struggled along for three years trying to make backs out of linemen . It was with a ray of hope that we entered the 1938 season . Even though graduation had taken our best blocking back and field general, while our only fullback was forced to drop out of school and miss his last year of competition, we could at least see a few backfield men who possessed enough speed to put some dash and color into our offensive play . Lawless, Hoskins and Jones came through to our complete satisfaction, while the all-around plugging of Spears, Van Buskirk and Kennedy, together with some excellent passing and punting by Butcher, combined to give us a backfield with a scoring threat.

Beginning with the first day of practice the boys pointed for the Maryland game, realizing that while a fast start might produce a slump at an important time in the middle of the season, a good start over a veteran Southern Con£erence team would be well worth the price. The entire squad played brilliantly and earned even better than a 19 to 6 victory .

Randolph-Macon and Hampden-Sydney were taken in stride while some of the regulars were recovering from bruises received in the Maryland contest. With a physical slump pretty much in evidence, all energy was spent in preparing for and meeting the excellent V.M.I. team. The Cadets seemed to have reached their peak and broke our hearts as well as our backs, and wot home with the better end of a 14 to 6 victory.

With several regulars out of the lineup and our spirits low we lost to the hard-hitting Roanoke team on the following Saturday , 13 to 6.

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Coming out of the Valley, the squad ascended to what President Boatwright aptly termed an emotional mountain to play against Washington and Lee in our homecoming game. The Generals were fresh from their victory over the University of Kentucky so that our boys had to put out their very best every minute to win by the narrow margin of six points .

Starting the short November season against Citadel we found the plucky Cadets and the Charleston heat and humidity too much for us. While we failed to atone for the 1937 defeat on the same grounds, we came home with the feeling that every man had given his best under the circumstances .

Against V.P.I., who had just defeated North Carolina State and held North Carolina to a single touchdown, on Armistice Day, our boys played some of the most brilliant football of the season. We outclassed the T echmen in everything except luck . With two touchdowns eluding our grasp, we came off the field convinced that we had defeated two teams, V.P.I. and ourselves, hence the score 0 to 0.

William and Mary made it the usual Indian-Spider Turkey Day battle. In previous contests during the season, the Indians had shown themselves to be able to look like the best team as well as the worst team in the State. It was simply a question of whether the old rivalry would hold them at their best for sixty minutes. It was by far the best game between the two institutions in several years in spite of unfavorable weather. After yielding a touchdown to the strong William and Mary offense the Spiders displayed their own most perfect offensive work of the season and were able to hang up their suits with a 10 to 7 victory which had been much harder to earn than most people realized.

Space does not permit me to give each man the praise that is due him, but I cannot refrain from commenting on the work of some of our regulars who will not be with us next year.

First and foremost is our captain, A . B. Marchant of Urbanna, Virginia, who has been one of the best and most loyal leaders I have ever known. Always a hard worker, he perfected his blocking assignments to a standard equal to that set by those

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By RHEA TALLEY, '35

They have asked me to write something about my experiences as a lady of the press. Now, I feel self-conscious about wr iting amout myself. I have a strong prejudice against anything autobiogra phical. It is my belief that no one should be allowed to write an autobi ogra phy except by decree of Congress: that a person shall hav e done something outstanding ( in any lin e, from banditry to charm of personality) before he starts setting down his record.

I also have another , and a far less altruistic, reason for my reticence. Everything which is printed about a member of the

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Times-Dispatch eventually finds its way to the bulletin board in the city room especially if it offers opportunities for satiric comment. The other day an Optimist Club letter came to the office, which contained frequent mention of one Eddie Brill, an ex-reporter - Eddie is a Spider alumnus, you know. The name Brill was underscored everywhere it appeared, and the following quotation from Lewis Carroll was inscribed thereon : "'Twas Brill -ig and the slithy toves."

But if I must take the risk of writing about myself , I may as well follow the general pattern set down by tradition . I will spare you the pain of reading that on such and such a sultry day in July, a squirming bundle of humanity was born , which turned out to be me. Instead, I will start out with a statement that is more customary in alumni bulletins : namely , that I owe it all to the dear old Alma Mater.

In this case that statement will be perfectly true. If it weren't for some work I did at Westhampton I never would have got into this screwball profession , and this, my children , is how it came about: Some time in the first half of my senior year, a member of the American Association of University Women came out to Westhampton, asking if any students would like to write publicity for them about the Howle Fisher dance recital they were sponsoring for their fellowship fund. The payment was a ticket to the recital for each story published. A faculty member-I think it was Miss Turnbull-suggested me, and though I didn't care about the tickets, I agreed, because I was interested in writing for the papers. The chairman of publicity liked the stories, and took them down to the Times-Dis patch woman 's editor , telling her about the little girl at W esthampton who had written them.

A little later, I heard that a girl at the Times-Dispatch was resigning to get married . I hadn't finished college , so I couldn't have taken a regular job, but it occurred to me that the woman's department might use an extra girl on Saturday afternoons, to help with the Sunday paper. So I betook myself to the newspaper office, and using the A.A.U.W. stories as an entree, asked for part-time work. The woman's editor, Mrs .

Newton Miller, explained that this was impossible since the Sunday woman's section is finished long before Saturday .

But, to soften the blow, she suggested that I write in society news from Westhampton College.

As I think of it now , I don 't believe that Mrs . Miller really expected me to send her any society news. The idea just came to her on the spur of the moment, and she thought it would be a polite thing to say. But I took her at her word, and as soon as first semester exams were over, I sent in several typewritten pages of Westhampton society news, with a note apologizing for not having sent anything sooner.

For the rest of the school year, I had from ten to twenty inches of society news from Westhampton College in the Sunday paper. The news was rather monotonous; most of it was "Miss So-and-So is spending the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs . So-and-So, in Podunk." In the course of that year I learned the home town of every girl in school and her parents ' names . Incidentally, I made around eight dollars a month .

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• Winning national recognition for his valiant fight on th e White Plague , tuberculosis, is Dr. Sidney A. Slater of Worthington , Minnesota who recently was honored by reelection to th e presidency of the Minnesota Public Health Association.

His achievements in the cure and prevention of tuberculosis and his progressive administration as superintendent of the Southwestern Minn esota sanatorium at Worthin gton-a post he has held for twenty yearshas gained the recognition of medical men throughout the United States. He holds membership on the board of the National Tub erculosis Association, is a member of the American Medical Association and the Americ an Sanatorium Association.

Dr. Slater's work is noteworthy not only for his treatment of advanced cases of tuberculosis but also through such preventiv e measures as chest clinics and application of th e Mantoux test. In 1924 he completed the first rural tuberculin testing survey of children conducted in southern Minnesota. In his pub lished report of the survey he called attention to the high incidence of tuberculosis infection among children in contact with active cases of the disease. Scoffed at by many authorities on tuberculosis when it was first published , Dr. Slater's survey was proved to be correct and formed the basis for much future work in tuberculin testing among children.

Born at Enfield, Virginia , Dr. Slater was educated at Richmond College and received his B.A. degree in 1907. He received his M .D. from the Medical College of Virginia two years later. After two years of privat e practice in West Virginia, he accepted the position of superintendent and medical director of Grand View Sanatorium at Oil City, Pennsylvania where he remained until 1918 when he moved to Worthington , to take over th e direction of the sanatorium ther e.

Although dedicated in 1915, the sanatorium in its early operation suffered because of the lack of a satisfactory water supply and was in service for only two years before closing during th e period of United States par ticipation in the World W ar. Dr. Slater immediately solved this problem by the installation of a method of treating the water pumped from Lake Okaben a on the south shore of which the sanatorium is located.

During the twenty years of hi s superintenency, th e institution quickly achieved nationwide recognition .

He is a past preside nt of the Worthington Kiwanis Club and also a former district vice president of Kiwanis. His particular inter est ;s in the organization 's work for underprivileged children.

Dr. Slater is past president of the Sioux Valley Medical Society and also of the Southern Minnesota Medical Association. He has written a number of articles on tuberculosis. f

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In the current (sixth) edition of American Men of Scienc e, the name of Professor Henry E. Garrett (B.A. Richmond College, 1915) is followed by a star to indicate distinguished work in the field of experimental psychology .

American Men of Science is the official directory of Am erican scientific men. It appears in new editions every five or six years. Th e present edition contains the names and biographies of nearly 30,000 workers in all fields of science from astronomy to zoology.

In each new edition those men are starred whose work, as determined by the votes of their colleagues, ent itle them to rank among th e 1,000 lead ing American men of science.

Professor Garrett was educated in the schools of Richmond. Following his graduation from Richmond Colleg e in 1915 , he taught for several years in the John Mar shall High School. Later , he received the M.A.

and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, where he is now associate prof essor of psychology. Dr. Garrett has published many scentific papers as well as several widely used textbooks in psychology. H e is associate editor of the / 01m1a'iof Abnorm al and Social Psychology, and of Psychometrika,- consultin g editior of the American Psychology Series, and a memb er of the Natonal Research Council. Besides Columbia University , Dr. Garrett has lectured at the University of Californa , the University of Southern California, and the University of Hawaii . H e is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Applied Psychologi sts and the Psychometric Society. He is also a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Columbia Chapter of Sigma Xi. f

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The election of Dr. Walter Jorg ensen Young, '07, head of the department of philosophy and psychology at Mary Washington Co11ege, as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts gives added international recognition to this outstanding student, author and teacher.

The society was founded in 1754-fifteen years before the founding of the Royal Academy.

In addition to his present position, Dr. Young has served as head of the department of philosophy and psychology at Hampd enSydney College, head of the department of philosophy and education at the University of Richmond , and head of the department of psychology and educat ion of Winthrop College .

Well known among men of science and of letters in Europe as well as in America, Dr. Young 's record is cited in Who's Who in America , American Men of Science, Wh o's If/ho in American Ed11cation, North Am erican Atttho1'S, British Men of Science, Inter national Bl ue B ook, B urke's Landed Gentry, Town and Country Review, London.

Dr. Young's fine career is no surprise to his classmates who thought enough of him to elect him president of the class. It is no surprise to his prof essors who gave him grades which made him valedictorian of his class.

He won the best writer 's medal and also the best orator's medal. He was president of th e Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society, and editor in-chief of the [ubil ee Me ssenger.

At Crozer Theological Seminary where he won his B.D. and his Th.M. he was valedictorian of th e class of 1910. H e received his M.A . and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Young has received international recognition for his brochures on 'The Correlation Th eory in Psychology ," "Cause and Effect," and "Th e Bristol Youngs in America" which was request ed for th e historical archives of th e Briti sh Museum and for the new Archives Building of the United States Government in Washington. He also is the author of The Arlin gton Co11nty Course of Stud y, and The H istory of M assaponax Church.

Dr. Young bas in preparation a book on the correlativity theory in physical, biological, and psychological sciences with application to social sciences, with Professor E. Boyd Graves as co-author. f

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Carl Gray Gillikin , '32, played leading rol es and character parts last summer at the Reginald Goode Summer Theatre in Clinton Hollow , N. Y. His stage name is Carl Wallace. f

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Robert Parrish , ' 36, returning from Mexico where he served as interpreter for Chicago petroleum engineers , was widely quoted by the press when he asserted that American oil int erests, driven out of Mexico by government expropriation of their property , are " trying to break" the proletariat Cardenas g overnment. Mr. Parrish teaches languages at the University of Wisconsin. f

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Thomas 0. Newell , '33, has been awarded a scholarship by Columbia University in recognition of excellent work done in that institution 's school of business . f

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Hill Montague , ' 17, is serving in Richmond this month as chairman of the zone enrollment division of the annual Red Cross call. Mr. Montague is secretary of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. f

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William Ellyson, Jr. , '23 , will lead the general solicitation division of the 1938 Community Fund in Richmond and will direct the sevente en divisions which comprise the general solicitation section . f

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Dr. W. E. "Spec" Snipes, Jr. , '35, who received his D.D.S. at Atlanta-Southern Dental College in Atlanta , Ga., is now practicing dentistry in Franklin , Va. f

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Paul Scarborough , Jr. , ' 29, is now manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company office at Pet ersburg. He moved to Pet ersburg during the summer after serving with great success as manager at Hampton. f

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Dr. Emmett C. Matthews, '30, after serving as an interne in the Boston Dispensary at Boston, Mass., is now associated in Richmond with Dr. Wyndham B. Blanton in the practice of internal medicine. Emmett received his M.D. from the Medical College of Vir ginia in 1934. f

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Dr. P . N. Pastor e, '30, who is associated with the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., recently was made a junior member of the American College of Surgeons . Other honors included election to membership in the M in nesota State Medical Association, the Olmstead-Houston-Fi llmore-Dodge County Medical Society, the American Medical Association , and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. f

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Miss Annabelle Hurley became the bride of Stuart Wellford Cook, '34, in Minneapolis , Minn., last July 14th. f

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Perry N. Jester, '24, for a number of years active in the diplomatic service, is now American Consul at Southampton, England. His name is included in the 1938-1939 edition of Who 's Who. f

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The Rev. Samuel T. Habel, Jr., '27, has been granted a leave of absence from the First Baptist Church at Nashville, N. C., and is now continuing bis studies at the University of Edinburg. Sam received his Th.M. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1930. f

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John A. Radspinner, '37, has been awarded a fellowship at the Carnegie Institute of Technology for a year of graduate study in the Tech Coal Research Laboratory. After receiving his B.S. at U. of R., Johnny accepted a teaching fellowship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he received his M.S. degree~ f

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Bruce A. Morrissette, '31, is professor of Romance Languages at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. f

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Miss Dorothy Magrane became the bride of Ralph D. Crawford , '30, at a wedding performed in Erie, Pa. , last August 6th. f

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Thomas Parsley, '23, has been transferred from Petersburg to Roanoke where he is head of the Morris Plan Bank of that city. f

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Grace Elizabeth Taylor of Urbanna and Fredericksburg and Thomas Francis Miller, ' 31, were married June 25th at Christ Church in Middlesex County. f

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Miss Jaquelin Ambler Johnston became the bride of John Spencer Gilmore, '33, at a wedding solemnized in Monumental Church, Richmond, on August 24th. f

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Paul David Peterson was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Peterson on August 21, 1938.

Paul Sr., is a member of the class of 1930.

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The Rev. Charles F. Leek, '22, has been honored by election as first vice president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention. Pastor of Highland Avenue Baptist Church at Montgomery, Mr. Leek has served as president of the Montgomery Safety Council, president of the Montgomery Baptist Pastors' Conference and vice president of the Montgomery Ministerial Association . His career is printed on the pages of Who's Who in America, the International Blue Book , and in Who 's Who Among the Clergy.

Mr. Leek is editor of "Watching the World" page in the Alabama Baptist which is published weekly by Dr. L. L. Gwaltney, '04.

Under his pastorate the Highland Avenue Baptist Church has grown from a membership of 1,333 members to 2,009. The church

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James Graves Wilson who got his M.A. last June is at Brown University where he was awarded one of nin eteen special fellowships and scholarships. His is a National Research Council Fellowship which was made po ssibl e by a special grant for biological research.

C. Y. Hui, '22, writes Dr. Garnett Ryland of th e horrible conditions in war-torn China.

Dispassionately he tells of th e sufferings of the people and optimistically he predict s that '' through suffering and sacrifices, we will finally win out. W e are looking forward to the final victory of justice ; we are optimistic."

Dr. Hui until recently was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lingnan University at Canton and is now at the Teachers College, National Sun Yat-Sen University at Hongkong as professor of physics and head of the department of math ematics. He will go to the interior of China to join the Teachers College in Lungchow as soon as it is ready to open.

"Of course, it is somewhat dangerous, " he wntes, "but I feel my service will mean more if I shall go in to help to train youth for the building of new China although I shall be constantly under the thre at of Japanese bombers ."

In refugee camps are "thousands of women and children," Dr. Hui writes, "who were driven out from their towns and villages" by the conquenng Japanese. "Wooden beds could not be made for them so quickly so they have to sleep on the ground."

Most horrible passage in the lett er is the account by a missionary physician of a Japanese raid on the Baptist Home for Old Women.

Sam K. McKee , '28, has been transferred from the Federal Bureau of Inv estigation in St. Paul , Minnesota to the F.B.I. in Richmond.

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McEldin Trawick, '34 , is now teaching psychology at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, New York. Trawick , an outstanding undergraduate, was elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa.

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Alfred Willis Garnett , '19, holds the office of Director of Public Assistance for West Virginia.

Martha Emily Nolan became the bride of Howard R . Denton , '3 7, at a wedding in the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Northville , New York , on November 24th. After the wedding they left for a trip South. They now reside at 29 Washington Road Scotia New York. ' '

J. Chester Swanson , '2 6, is now director of trnining for the in-service training program m the Panama Canal Zone . He has persons in training in over fifty diff erent occupations and obtains instructors from the local

junior college, from local tradesmen , and ha s on e_full -time instructor. A $70, 000 shop is available for use in the mechanic al and electrical trades.

Kappa. Dr. C. C. Little, head of the Roscoe B. Ja ckson Memorial laboratory and manag111 g director of th e American Society for Cancer Control, will speak on "Posterity and Progress."

Dr. Julian L. Rawls, '0 1, former pr esident of the Norfolk-Portsmouth Alumni Chapter, and one of the outstanding surgeons in Norfolk , recently was elected pr esident of the Seaboard Medical_ Association of Virginia and North Carol111a at the organization's 43 rd convention .

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T. J. Noffsinger, '27, has moved from winchester, Vir$inia to Fairmont, West Virginia , where he will serve as district manager of the Peoples Life Insurance Company.

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Dr. Richard S. Owens, '04, of Roanoke represent ed the University at the inauguration of David Wilbur Peterson as the second president of the State Teachers College at Radford recently .

Dr. Alfred Steiner , '30, is cited by the ~ews magaz111e, Ttme, for his discovery of a prom1s111gtreatm ent " for arteriosclerosis, a type of heart disease.

Steiner has been experimenting on rabbits and hopes to try his discovery, "choline " on human sufferers in the near futur e.

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Rev . H. Pierce Simpson, ' 19, for the past seven years pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in New York has been electetd to a three-year term on the board of managers of the New York Baptist State Convention.

The board of managers is the executive administrative and policy making body fo; the 200,000 Baptists in the Empire state. H e will represent the Putnam , Dutchess , and Westchester sections of the state on the central board which has its headquarters at Syracuse .

Alma Mater, through Epsilon Chapter of ~h1 Beta Kappa, recently saluted four dist111gu1shedalumni of the University of Richmond .

Chosen to membership in the ancient honorary scholarship fraternity were President Julian Ashby Burruss of V.P.I., a graduate student at the University during the session , 1898-'99; Ethel Lisle Smith er '15 of Cincinnati , editor of children's publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North; Dr. Cheng-Yang Hsu (C. Y. Hui) , '2 2, professor of physics and head of the mathematic s department of the Teachers College at National Sun Yat-Sen University; and Miss Judith Josephine Tucker, '23, head of the English department of Hathaway-Brown School, Cleveland .

They will be initiated on March 6th and ~i_ll be honored g_uests that evening at the JOmt dinner of Epsilon Chapter and the Richmond City Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta

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'19 Starts Early Members of the Class of 1919: Hail 1 ( And I don 't mean Heil') Remember? Or do you care to be reminded of the passage of a score of years? At all events , that 1s Just how long it h as been since twentyone of the one hundr ed and twenty of us that entered Richmond in September, 1915 , had our official connections politely severed from those of the college . The rest of us had ~.ntered pr ~-,?1ed, pre-law, pre-matrimony, or that man s Army , this account ing for the fact that only one-sixth of us comp leted the four-year trek to graduation.

Time, tide, and class reunions wait for no ~an I Thus it is that this June, Hitler, Musso11111,et als wi lling , we sha ll celebrate our twentieth class anniversary. The pates of many of us are now highly polished, those of others of us are iron- grey, and those of all of us _ar_e,_ perhaps, furrowed by the cares, re spons1bil1t1es, and escapades of the int erven111gyears s111cewe left the "studious cloister's pale " of alma mater.

Some of us hav e traveled far since 1919; many have remained close to the city of Richmond; some of us are now residents of the city or its environs. Whatever our habitats there is no pl ace_nor time more appropriate than _a class reun10n for getting together, rehash111g old:time incidents, and shak ing the hand th at wielded a mean paddle back in the fall of 1916. . Th e college ha s grown into a university s111cethat day in June, 1919, when we we re ~warded om degrees; the student body has mcreased m size; and , many fine buildings have been added to the original group at Westhampt?n. _Just th e same, the spirit of Richmond 1s still there and anxious to welcome its prodigal, or not so prodi ga l, sons back home.

It will be more than four months between the time you read this and the date of commencement in June. Now, don't say we didn't warn you. Also, you will be notified more definitely at a later date as to time, place, and day of the reunion itself.

Want to mak e anything of it?

BOYCE LOVING,

Vice President, Class of 1919.

Diana Westhampton alumnae will be saddened to learn that Diana is dead.

Westhampton 's oldest and most renowned pet, the little fox terrier was spoken to affectionately by students and faculty alike. She had been a frequent visitor in the court and around the dean's office for the past seventeen years. Galli-Curci, daughter of Diana , carries on.

Class of ' 18

A most interesting letter was recently received by Miss Keller from Elizabeth Ellyson Wiley of Shanghai, China. She asked that a room reservation be made for her daughter, Louise, who will enter Westhampton in the fall of '39. Mrs. Wiley is the author of our college Alma Mater song and was an outstanding student during her four years at Westhampton. After her graduation she attended the Baptist Training School in Louisville, Kentucky, and was also Y.W.C.A. secretary in Richmond for a time. In 1921 she became Mrs. James Hundley Wiley and in '22 she and her husband went to China where they have been engaged in educational and missionary work. In '35 Mrs. Wiley returned to Richmond for a short visit and is planning her next furlough for '43-the year of her daughter's graduation from Westhampton. Mrs. Wiley is the aunt of Marian Wiley, the present president of college government at Westhampton .

Mary Decker attended the meetings of the American Science Association in Richmond during the Christmas holidays .

Class of '20

Marie Crowder Anderson (Mrs. Wallace) has recently moved from Atlanta , Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts.

Class of '23

Jane Waters Beckwith (Mrs. Wm.) is now at St. Catherine 's School in Richmond.

Camilla Wimbish Lacy (Mrs. Evan) of South Boston, Virginia, is the proud mother of a new son- her second.

Josephine Tucker is now head of the English Department at the Hathaway Brown School for Girls in Cleveland, Ohio. She formerly was at the University of Maine and also a teacher at Foxcroft in Middleburg, Virginia. She has done graduate work in the summ ers at both Cambridge and Oxford, England.

Glenna Loving Norvell (Mrs. John) has recently moved to Winterpock , Virginia.

Class of '24

In ez DeJam ette Hite is the proud mother of a daughter , Ann e D eJarnette , born in October.

Class of '26

Frances Bell (Mrs. William C. Barnes), of Charle ston, South Carolina was in Richmond with her husband for the Science meetings December 26-31.

Class of ' 27

Cecyle Loving Hackendorf (Mrs. Arthur C.) is now living at 100 Ow en Avenue , Richmond.

Class of '28

H elen Hutchison Marks is back again in Richmond. Her addr ess is 2524 Hanover Avenue.

Sarah Cudd Gaskins ' new address is 304 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Class of '29

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wenzel (Helen Orpin) are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter , Judith Ann, on December 3d.

Mr. and Mrs. Weston Rankin have returned to their home in New York City after several months in London. (She was Miriam Liggs.)

Mrs. Howard Harlan (Trudy Ryland) has a son, Robert Ryland.

Rosalie Gore became Mrs. Walter Leak Parsons, Jr. , in July. They are living in Rockingham, North Carolina.

Bunny Harlan Patterson (Mrs . Travis) has a new son, Rolvix Harlan.

Mary Richardson Butterworth has a daughter, Mary Harris.

Class of' 30

Dr. Frances Noblin is now located at the Massachusetts State Prison for Women at Framingham.

Margaret Bull Oliver was a recent visitor to the city.

Cornelia Ferguson was married during the summer to Wilson M. Underwood and is living on Long Island.

at the Ridgeview Congregational Church at White Plains, New York. Congratulations, Betty!

Martha Jeter Lazenby was a recent visitor to the city.

Margaret Bowers is working at Miller & Rhoads since her return from Hartford, Connecticut.

Esther Figuly is now at the Northampton and Accomac Memorial Hospital at Nassawadox, Virginia, as technician.

Class of '37

On November 18th, Kitty Broyles became Mrs. Arthur S. Kerr.

Blanche Bristow is studying dietetics at Mary Wash ington College in Fredericksburg .

Class of '38

Ernestine Akers is teaching at Hampton , Virginia and lives at 57 Locust Avenue.

Mildred Gafford has recently secured a new position as case aide in the Richmond Social Service Bureau.

On December 3d Augusta Straus ex-'38 of Westhampton, was married to Robert C. Goodman of 5906 Thirteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D . C. Nancy Orthey is now working in the book department of Miller & Rhoads.

Class of '39

At the first Baptist Church in Richmond on November 12th, Margaret Tomlinson, ex-'39, was married to Julian Boyles.

Class of '32

Mary McC!intock Ryland is a member of the faculty of the school at Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Class of '33

Ruth Langley, former instructor of physical education at Westhampton College, will enter Harvard Medical School second semester to study physiotherapy.

Class of '34

On December 26th Katherine Sergeant became the bride of Edward Newby of Richmond . The ceremony was performed at the Holy Comforter Protestant Episcopal Church.

Class of '35

Betsy Marston Sadler (Mrs. Henry) of Bristol, Virginia, announced the birth of a daughter on October 24th. The baby has been named Amy Priestley.

Jessie Neale , who now teaches at Glen Lea, Virginia , is living at 3316 Grove Avenue, Richmond.

Margaret Walker Knowlton has recently moved from Birmingham to Gadsden, Alabama.

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Anna Castelvecchi is teaching at Highland Springs, Virginia , while Lyndele Pitt is now a teacher at St. Stephen's Church, Virginia.

Alice Pugh is working in the Children's Library in New York City and is living at 612 W. 115th Street.

Since September Anne Ryland has been studying art and interior decorating in New York. She is living at the Three Arts Club and was home for a visit to her family at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Betty Kelley of Mount Vernon , New York, has recently been appointed church secretary

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Nostrae Filiae Just what is Nostrae Filiae may well be asked for only since June 2, 1936 has the group been known. Nostrae Filiae are Westhampton students whose grandmothers, mothers, great-aunts, aunts or sisters attended the old Woman's College or its predecessor, Richmond Female Institute. To them is given the privilege of using the room in the Social Activities Building known as the R.F .I.W.C.R. Alumnae Association room . Here a daughter may find her mother's class picture, or the account of her graduation in magazine or catalogue or read the history of the old institution founded in 1854. This history with its account of the struggles of the founders to provde for the education of women sets an example of courage and endurance that arouses admiration for these pioneers in the field of education.

The motto adopted by the first board of trustees was, "that our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple," and from that quotation comes the name, Nostrae Filiae.

Hoping to retain the interest of these daughters after college days are ended an alumnae chapter has been formed with Miss Elsie McC!intic as president; Mrs. Lewis Chewning, 15 Augusta Avenue, Richmond, secretary. A year's attendance at Westhampton of a daughter, granddaughter, niece, great-niece or sister makes one eligible for membership. The desire is to enroll all such daughters who have attended Westhampton since its foundation. Application blanks will be sent on request. There are no membership dues.

Pittsburgh Newest of the University of Richmond Alumni Chapters is the chapter at Pittsburgh where L. 0. Gaskins , '3 0, is president. After a preliminary gathering last summer , a chapter was formed in November which embrac es alumni in Pittsburgh and vicinity.

At a meeting on December 6th the chapt er entertained B . West Tabb , '01, University vice president and treasurer, and R. M. Stone, '3 0, assistant business manager who were at tending the meeting in Pittsburgh of the Associat ion of University and College Busmess Officers of the Eastern States. Mr. Tabb is the retiring president of the organization .

In addition to Lee Gaskins, other officers of the chapter are William J . Gilfillan , '35 secretary, and Lawrence C. Dale, '29, treasurer.

Gaskins is membership secretary of the Downtown Branch of the Y.M.C.A. in Pittsburgh , married (Sarah Cudd, '28 ), has two childr en, Nancy 4, Lee Jr., 18 months; Gilfillan is with the Peoples Pittsburgh Trust Company, and Dale is chief accountant with the Manufacturers Light and Heat Company.

Other members of the chapter are Dr. George F. Hambleton, '95, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Duquesne; Dr. Rush Aldridge Lincoln, Jr. , '28, with the Allegheny Ludlam Steel Company and Carnegie Institute of Technology ; Rev. William R. Pankey , '2 5, pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Carrick , Pittsburgh ; David N. Scott, '36, with the Carnegie Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh ; John F. Wall, '35, with the West Penn Power Company, New Kensington; R. Stirling Phipps, '29, a department head with Kaufmann's Department Store, Pittsburgh, marri ed , one son, Robert, aged 4; Owen N eathery , '35, membership secretary of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Comm erce and an active member of the Dramatic Club of the Downtown Y.M.C.A.; Rev. A . M. Finch, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Roch ester; and Stella Garden, Avalon .

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Danville W. C. Page , ' 32, is working with th e State Employment Office in Danville . Mr. Page 1s living at 716 Berman Avenue.

Dr. and Mrs. George Swann are located in Danville, where Dr. Swann is educational director for the CCC camp. Mrs. Swann will be remembered as Virginia Truitt , '20.

Mr . and Mrs . Leslie Rucker have announced the birth of a daught er in November. Mr. Rucker , who is connected with the Soil Conservation Service, was a member of the class of '34.

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Lacy, of South Boston , have announced the birth of a son in November . Mrs. Lacy was Camilla Wimbish , of the class of '22.

Louis Booth, '30 , of Dumfries, Virginia , was a recent visitor at his home in Danville .

ELIZABETH FUGATE , '32.

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Northern Virginia The Northern Virginia Chapter held a dinner meeting in the Hotel Royal on the evening of December 29th. Th e program was informal and there were a number of impromptu talks, the Rev. E. T. Clark , D.D ., '23, of Winchester, emphasizing the importance of enro lling high schoo l graduates in colleges of a Christian atmosphere, and the Rev. E. B. Jackson , D.D. of Front Royal , a member of the University 's board of trustees , st ressing the importance of educational institutions which teach students to think independently and clearly.

There were eleven alumni at the meeting: J. C. Fray , '24 , Rev. E. T. Clark, D.D. , '23, and Mrs . Clark, '23, and Hugh Crisman, '4 1, and Miss Rosa Lee Oakes, '39, U. of R. students of Winchester; Dr. D. Blanton Allen, '32 of Berryville , C. W. McElroy, '04 of U pperville; and Mrs . Ruth Beatty Gasque ; A. B. Honts, '20, and Charlotte Ann Dickinson, '40, a student of Front Royal. Others present were Mrs. Honts and Mrs. Raymond E. Butler of Front Royal.

Officers of the chapter are: president A . B .

Honts , Front Royal ; vice president John Massie, '25, Edinburg; secretary-treasurer Mrs. Elise Shirey , '32, Front Royal.

elected president of the association and Dr. E. T. Clark , ' 23, of Winchester was reelected secretary.

Rev. J. Mauric e Trimmer , '27, of Salem was elected president of the Virginia alumni of the Southern Seminary at the annual ban quet, succeeding Rev . Joseph Cosby, '29, of Lexington. Two of the newly elected vice presidents are Richmond alumni - Dr. Rob ert Caverlee, '2 1, of Fredericksburg , and Rev .

Ernest Honts , '30, of Covington. Another alumnus , Rev . Howard Arthur , '26, of Richmond, was elected secretary .

Rev. Jesse E. Davis, '2 5, h as been elected presid ent of th e Roanoke Minist ers' General Conference for 19 39 . J esse's congregation at Virginia Heights is erecting a new churc h auditorium. The structure is about half completed and will be ready for use about Easter.

Rev. Roy Orr ell, '23, of the Wav erly Baptist church, has been elected chairman of the Baptist Pastors ' Conference for 1939.

G eorge Milliken , ' 30, took an active part in Roanoke's successful Community Fund campaign this year. He captained one of the teams.

For the third successive year Rev. J. Maurice Trimmer served as Red Cross Roll Call chairman in Salem. This year all previous records were broken. In th e matter of per cent of population enrolled , Salem h as stood right at the top among Virginia communities for many years, winning the reg ion al trophy several times.

K. A. Pate, '24, has recently been appo inted general agent of the Pilot Life In sura nce Company (genera] division) in Roanok e. Until this appointment he was with the Metropolitan Lif e Insurance Company.

J. MAURICE TRIMMER , '27 .

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Norfolk-Portsmouth J. Talbot Capps, '34 , married Miss Anne Dixon Hood of Kinston , North Carolina on Sunday, October 16, 1938 in the First Baptist Chu rch of that city. Miss Hood is a graduate of Virginia Intermont College and is an alumna of th e Woman 's College of the University of North Caro lin a.

Miss Henrietta Harr ell, '3 8, is now teaching in the Blair Junior High School of Norfolk.

Miss Mildred Harrell , '38, is now teaching in the Kempsville High School at K empsville, Virginia.

Miss Margaret "Swe et" Carpenter, '38 , is now teaching in the James Monroe Grammar School at Norfolk.

Dr. Sparks W . Melton , '93, has recently celebrated his thirtieth anniversary as pastor of th e Fre emason Street Baptist Church. He has also just been awarded the First Citizen's medal by the Cosmopolitan Club .

J. TALBOT CAPPS, ' 34 .

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New York Nick Carter, '16, who is with the radio department of Pedlar and Ryan , advertising agency, recently arrived from England where he spent one month studying television. He wrote an article concerning this subject in the November issue of Advertisi ng and Sellin[;.

The New York Alumni met at an informal dinner on Dec ember 1st. Twenty-five members were present. We were honored to h ave Dr. John Ryland , '10, of Richmond , a member of the athletic council, drop in on us and he gave a very illuminating talk on at hl etics at Richmond College .

H ar ry Hill , '28, has just announced the arrival of a second daughter , Ju stin e.

Bob Ferrell, '34, is working in the law dep artment of the General Electric Company in Schenectady. H e also has announced the arrival of a daughter named Maribel.

W arr en Chappell , '2 6, is in the course of publishing a new book. The title has not been released as yet but you can rest assured it w ill be anothe r topflight seller.

Dr. Maclv er Woody , '05, medical d irector of the Standard Oil Company of N ew Jersey i, leaving for a trip through the south ter minating in Florida.

Jo e Pittore, '36, is studying law at New York University.

"TURKEY" CHALTAIN , '34 .

Shortly after the beginning of the 1938-' 39 session, Dean M . Ray Doubles of the Law School supp lemente d the standing committees of the Law faculty by appointing several special committees which are to dir ect their efforts toward the betterm ent of the Law School and the University by engendering int erest in th e activities of the former and by more fully acquainting the alumni and the public at large with its many advantages .

From their inception all of the se committees have been functioning satisfactorily . Facilitie s to assist in the placem ent of graduates are in the process of being established by the comm ittee on placement and the committe e on public affairs has, among other things, prepared a program which is bringing to the Law School speakers of recognized ability.

Their tim ely addresses on current legal problems and kindred topics are of much practical benefit to practitioner and student alike and are also, on the whole mentally stimulating.

Durin g the past December a new publication, the Law Alumni News, made its appearance under the auspices of the committee on alumni relations. Through th e capable cooperation of the general alumni secretary copies were mailed to more than six hundred alumni of the Law School whose addresses were in th e files. This issue, being the first, was in the nature of a "trial balloon" or "fee ler" insofar as content was concerned, but the enthu siastic reception of the Dean's editorial and the thumbnail sketches of two distinguished g radu ates of th e Law School in the column titled "Do You Know . . . ?" definitely indicat e that they should become permanent features. At th e present time it ap pears that th e balanc e of the paper should be devoted to news items and announcements concerning the alumni , faculty and students.

While the "News" is published primarily for the alumni of the Law School, the committee will be plea sed to place upon its mailing list the nam e of any alumnus of the University who sends his name and address to the Dean 's Office, 601 North Lombardy Street, Richmond , Virginia.

There was mailed with each copy of the new pap er a specially prepar ed short form questionnaire designed to obtain from eac_h alumnus, with a minimum of effort on his part, certa in information of vital importance to the committee in the work that it is attempting to perform. Although the response was grat ifying , th ere are still some who have failed to return this form. Additional copies of the qu estionnaire are available to replace those mislaid or lost and may be obtained upon request.

The Law School welcomed Professor James H. Barnett , Jr. , back to the faculty this fall after a year spent in graduate work at the Harvard Law School. Professor Barnett held a research fellowship at Harv ard and received the Master of Laws degree in June. Mr . Alex-

ander Fleet Dillard , who substituted for Prof essor Barnett last year, has recently been appoint ed first assistant to the Director of Legislativ e Research and Drafting for Virginia.

Miss Frances Farmer, B.A. Westhampton '3 1, and LLB. University of Richmond Law School '33, has been appointed librarian.

Formerly secretary to Dean M . Ray Doubles, Miss Fanner studied law library work at Columbia University before assuming her new duti es.

Professor William T. Muse , who served last year as Virginia publicity director for the Junior Bar Conference of the American Bar Association , has been named by President Frank J. Hogan of the A.B.A. as the Virginia member of the association's associate and advisory committee on American citizenship for the current year.

Nine of the twelve students from the law school who attempted the recent state bar examination were successful. They are B. L. Campbell, Petersburg, E. T. Carter, Gate City, J. C. Knibb, Bybee, J. L. Mclemore, Suffolk, D. C. Rice, Richmond , U. L. Sweeney, Dumbarton, W. D . Temple, Petersburg , J. W .

Trundle , Danville , and Miss E. S. Weinberg, Frederick, Md. In addition to the twelve applicants from the University of Richmond, sixty-one others were examined , of whom thirty-one were successful, or fifty-one per cent, compared to the seventy-five per cent record of the University of Richmond students. This record is especially significant in view of the fact that the examination was the first given since the new requirements went into effect. To take the examination now, applicants must have at least two years of college training and must have attended an accredited law school for two years, or satisfy the Board of Law Examiners that they possess the equivalent thereof.

Dean Doubles of the Law School attributes the continued success of University of Richmond students in large measure to the fact that the substantive courses dealing with legal theory are taught by full-time faculty members while the adjective courses dealing with the practical operation of the law are taught by practicing attorneys who constitute the part-time members of the faculty.

.,. .,. .,. ''Out in the Cruel, Cruel, World"

"Where, oh where, are the wise and reverend seniors?" The wide , wide world is right , when it comes to describing the whereabouts of the Class of 1938 of Richmond College. They extend from Boston to Mobile , from graduate laboratory to rural school, from automobile insurance to nose drops.

Largest in numbers, according to the records in the personnel office, are the students in graduate and professional schools. The Medical College of Virginia leads, its freshman rol1s bearing the names of J. A. Alvarado, Irving Chofnas , William F. Grigg , Cecil

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Stoneburner. Robert E. Segal is studying medicine at Mid'dlesex Medical College, John H . Tanous at Hahnemann , and J. M. Straughan at the Univ ersity of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Reuben E. Alley , Jr. , is in the graduate school at Princeton; Frank R. Alvis and T. R. Thornton at the University of Pennsylvania; Joseph S. Flax at New York University ; James Edward King , Philip T. King , and S. W. Laughon , at Johns Hopkins; James Laster at Duke; Robert D. Murrill at V.P.I.; Roger B. Page at Wisconsin; and D. M. Thornton at University of Michigan.

The following members of the Class of 1938 are enrolled in the graduate department of the University of Richmond: Sidney Harris, W. R. Hudgins , A. L. Jacobs, William R. Smith, A. C. Taylor; and the following entered the T. C. Williams School of Law: J. B. Boatwright , Herbert Headen, E. W. McCaul, and J. Q. Peers .

Theological seminaries claimed L. Glenn Black, G. R. M. Rumney , and E. C. Turner who have entered Louisville; Dale Griffin, Crozer; Harry T. James, Colgate; A . B. Montgomery and M. D. Warren, Union, in Richmond.

Leonard B. Archer is enrolled in the Library School at Emory University, and William P. Dooley at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The class is represented in the teaching field by W. L. Brock , at Appalachia , by E. Miller , at Glen Allen; by A. H. Taylor, in· Hanover County; by J. W . Wilson , at Buckingham; Robert Taylor and W. W. Townsend, Jr. Philip H. Tomlinson is in the active ministry , and Curtis Haug is with the Y.M .

C.A. at Niagara Falls.

In business , the fields are as varied as in the graduate schools. Chester Barden and Sherwood D. Spivey are with the Unemployment Compensation Commission; J. W. Boykin, with the Export Leaf Tobacco Company; John Stuart Graham and J. Tommy Johnson are with the State Farm Insurance Company; Randolph Grammar with Sears Roebuck ; Clyde Hardy , with the Vick Chemical Company. The oil companies took their quota H . B. Keck , with Standard, L. V. (Kelly) Kielpinski, with City Service; and Ernest Wooten.

Radio gathered in J. H . Kellogg and H. W. Phillips; newspaper work claimed Ned Mills and W . F. Robertson; Beverly Lamb is with the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau; Gus Lynch went with Philip Morris; Ralph Moore w ith Liggett and Myers; L. V. Moore is in advertising work in New York; Douglas Murphy, with the Coca-Cola Company , of Richmond ; G . A. Nimmo with the Savage Truck Lines; Stuart Schwarzschild with New York Life; S. B. Robertson with Virginia Electric and Power Co . ; Penn Shiflett with the American Can ; Henry L. Snellings with the Skyline Drive; Shanks Wilborn with his father in South Boston.

As for the rest of you boys in 1938- why not drop us a line and let us know what you are doing , anyway?

Edith Goode Memorial Room

Veteran of Jackson's Army Dies in West Virginia Death last month ended the rich career of the Rev. William Joseph Cocke, one of th e University's three oldest alumni, a distinguished minister, and one of the few remaining veterans of the War Between the States. He died in the ninety-fifth year of hi s life .

So great was his devotion to his holy profession that he gave up a comparatively lucrative job as a railroad engin eer soon after the close of the war to become a minister at a salary of only one-sixth as much .

Baptists throughout West Virginia and churchmen throughout the South mourn ed the passing of the kindly man who had served as an ordained minister for seventy years, baptized 7,000 converts and married 713 couples.

Vividly he rem embered the battles in which he participated under the leadership of Stonewall Jackson to whom he was devoted. History to the contrary notwithstanding , Mr. Cocke always insisted that Jackson was not shot accidently by his own men . Grapeshot from a federal battery inflicted th e fatal wound, h e said.

Mr. Cocke saw and talked with Jackson frequently and when the Confederate chieftan fell wounded at Chancellorsville he selected the litter bearers who carried the general from the field.

Although he participated in twenty-one battles , young Cocke "never had his hide broken," although he suffered two broken ribs at Fairfax Courthouse .

From the war he returned to Virginia and secured employment with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company-now the Norfolk and Western. He was paid $150.'00 a month - a good salary in those times - but he gave up this job for an assignment as missionary colporteur for th e Strawberry Baptist Association at a salary of $25.00 a month.

He receiv ed his education for the ministry at Richmond College which he attended during the sessions of 1869-'70 and 1870- '7 1.

Many of his happiest memories were associated with Richmond College and in the waning years of his life he wrote frequently to University officials and to the Alumni Office.

His last communication asked the addresses of certain of his classmates with whom he wished to communicate-but death already had removed their names from the file of active alumni.

His last paragraph read: "G od bless the University of Richmond and make it a great blessing to humanity. " Just one year before he died he attended Alumni Day exercises on the campus and although his stride was not as elastic as it was when he marched up the Valley of Virginia wi th Jackson, he was mentally alert and he spoke with vigor and force.

His ability as an orator and his war expe riences made him a popular speaker at patriotic meetings. Last summer he attended the reunion at Gettysburg on the seventy-fifth anniversary of this decisive battle of th e war.

Of interest to the Class of 1926 who originally furnished it , and to others who have contributed to the memorial room will be the news that the Y.W.C.A. is covering the chairs, cleaning the curtains and furnishing ne w cushions. Each class is now setting aside a certain amount of money for replacement of old books and the purchase of new ones. The room was started as a memorial to Edith Goode. It is the hope that as other classes are deprived of members that they will add memorial shelves. Such a she lf was started by the Class of 1931 in memory of Earline Hammock .

The room has figured recently in the annual Kilbourne Farm custom and the window seat, floor and table were piled high with Christmas boxes. A gaily decorated Christmas tree plac ed in the corner of the room added to its air of festivity.

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The Rev. William Joseph Cocke at the Lee Monument , Gettysburg battlefield .

There he was photographed at the base of the monument dedicated to General Robert Edward Lee, commander-in-chief of the Confederate forces.

Born in Hanover County in 1844 , William Joseph Cocke was orphaned in infancy and was reared by an uncle on whose farm he worked. He was only seventeen years when he ran away from home to join the Confederate Army.

After four years in the war he was discharged. He went to Bedford county and secured employment with the railroad. For six years he made daily runs between Bristol and Lynchburg and between Bristol and Norfolk.

Heeding the call to the ministry, he prepared for this work at Sunny Side Institute and at Richmond College .

After filling several charges in Virginia he moved over into West Virginia to become pastor of the Baptist Church at St. Albans.

After six years there and one year at Hurri cane h e went to Huntington as the pastor of the Twentieth Street Baptist Church, a post he occupied for six years.

Mr. Cocke served rural churches in the Huntington area until 192 9 wh en he retired from the active mini stry .

Of the four ch ildren by hi s first marriage to Miss Charmian Hamrick on October 4, 1874, only one daughter, Mrs. Tom B. Davis of Charleston, State Archivist , survives. His first wife died in 1917, and in 1926 Mr. Cocke married Miss Carrie Miller who survives him .

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The Social Activities Building has filled a long felt need in the life of Westhampton College, but to no group using the building has it brought more happiness than to the alumnae of the old Woman's College, first known as the Richmond Fema le Institute whose association is affiliated with the Westhampton Alumnae Association. At last they have a place in which to preserve their treasures , a room where may be found the history and records of the old college which was absorbed by the University of Richmond in 1914.

An effort is being made to have a comp let e file of catalogues and of Chisels, the magazine of the former W .C.R. Can anyone supply catalogues for the years 1892-1899? The missing Chisels are No. 1 of Volume XVII published in 1909-1910, Nos. 3 and 4 of volume XVIII publish ed in 1910-1911 , and No. 2 of volume XIX, 1911-1912.

Please communicate with Mrs. Jack L. Epps, custodian of records, 2501 Grov e Avenue, Richmond, if you are able to supp ly any of th ese numbers.

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The University of Richmond Exhibit Would you be surprised to learn that an orange crate and a shoe box car.. represent Westhampton College quite adequately? Th ey can I The occasion was the recent College Day Program of the Norfolk Branch of the American Association of University Women , at whi ch all Colleg es represented in the member ship of the Club were invited to hav e an exhibit.

Our desire, of course, was to let our guests see the college, to mak e them realize th e opportunities it has to offer , and to convey something of the spirit and life in the college commun ity. The publicity director very kindly sent us eight beautiful photograph s of the campus and college buildings, which we mounted on white illustration paper and tacked to a tall screen. This was the background and real beauty of the exhibit and did justice, we thought, to our Alma Mat er.

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valuable under the basket because of his height.

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February Basketball Schedule 3: V .P.I. at Richmond.

8: Randolph-Macon at Richmond.

11: William and Mary at Williamsburg .

14: Washington and Lee at Lexington.

15 : V .M.I. at Lexington.

18: Roanoke College at Richmond.

2 2: Washington and Lee at Richmond.

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Freshmen are Keen Johnny Fenlon's freshmen, bolstered by three members of the great Thomas Jefferson High School team of the year before, started the season like a whirlwind with victories over Hampden-Sydney freshmen, 32 to 22, Maury high school, 37 to 24, and the Norfolk division of William and Mary, 32 to 26.

Brightest stars on th e freshman list are Harold Wiese of Ogden, Utah, Malcolm U. Pitt , Jr. ( a much taller man than his poppa), Myer Lefkowitz, and Morris Robinson. Pitt , Lefkowitz and Robinson played on the Thomas Jefferson team.

Johnny has some other good prospects in little Walter "Sonny" Wholey of Fredericksburg, Joe Mack of Runnemede , N. J ., and Garland Turner of Chatham. John Griffin who towers six feet, six and a half inches into the air, should be a good basketball player before he leaves college.

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ends given All-American consideration. His defense has been superb during his three years of competition and it was quite fitting to have him score our touchdowns against William and Mary in both his junior and senior years.

It was, indeed, a pleasure to present a trophy, emblematic of the best blocker as chosen by hi s teammates, to Forest Nor vell of Richmond. H e was the only veteran guard on the squad and through his untiring efforts and leadership we were able to fill the other gua rd hole and to develop replacements out of men who had formerly played at end and other positions on the lin e. Bill Morrison of Pittsbur gh, stamped as the most versat ile player on the squad, will be remembered for his fighting heart. His defense was outstanding and each Saturday found him ready to start in any key position designated by the coaches for that particular opponent.

The work of the backfield was mentioned above. George Spears of South Boston, Virginia , will always be remembered for his hard work, his self-sacrifice and his ready willingness and desire to perfect himself for wh atever assignment that might come his way. Buddy Lawless of Richmond , although our lightest back, was always ready with his speed and courage and played in every contest during his last two years of competition. Jack Kennedy of Pittsburgh, another ligh tweight , was a fightin g Irishm an . He could back up the lin e or play safety , whatever the need, and ran the team wit h precision and drive whenever asked to call signa ls. Tom Daven-

port of West Haven, Connecticut, has left a picture of how a guard should cover punts , holding the opponents' returns to zero while he was in the game. Ed Merrick of Pottsville , Pennsylvania, our All-State center, will lead the 1939 squad and promises to be a fitting successor to A . B. Marchant. Like our retiring captain he will lead by example . His play has always been an inspiration to his teammates.

The Spider team of 1934 was Richmond's greatest team as attested by both city and university authorities. Its record of eight victories and one def eat cannot be erased from the scoreboard until a better record is made. At that time Richmond, a member of the Virginia Conference , won two and lost one conference game. Victories over V.M .I., Georgetown, and Wake Forest were impressive, and all credit is due that fine squad of spirited players. The 1938 team, however, faced much stiffer opposition in six Southern Conference schools, and while the record cannot be placed at the top of the scoreboard, the players can rightfully feel that they were members of Richmond's strongest team to date even though the honor must remain with the team showing the best record.

If you want to stick them in your scrapbook , here are the records of the 1934 and 1938 elevens: 1938

1934 Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond

27 - Roanoke 0 6 - Cornell 0 O - Emory & H enry 13 7 - V.M.I. 0 2-0 - Hampd en-Sydney 0 14 - Georgetow n 13 7 - D avis-Elkin s 0 39 - Wak e Forest -6 6 - William and Ma ry O

Richm ond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond

Appr ent ice Sch. 0 M aryland 6 Rand olph-M acon 7 Hampd en-Sydney 0 V.M.I. 1.3 6- Roanok e 13 6 - Wa shingt on & Lee O O - Citadel -6 O - V.P.I. 0 10 - Willi am and M ary 7

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my senior year I carried two more activity points than · were permitted . I was assistant editor of The Collegian, which carried ten points , and I was president of the French Club , which gave me four more points. Twelve points were supposed to be the limit. No one but myself ever bothered to add them up, however, and that is the nearest I have ever come to violating regulations with impunity.

When I graduated, I haunted the paper officers. In the middle of my search they switched managing editors on me, and the first day the new mana ging editor was at work, I greeted him with my application. Finally, they had an opening and took me on, for the simple reason that they knew my work and the other applicants were unknown quantities.

Since I went to work ( and I took the job without even asking what my salary would be) I have never made a social engage ment with the certainty of filling it. My friends have grown used to waiting from fifteen minutes to an hour for me to meet them af ter work, as I never know if something is coming up at the last minute. It usually does. No doubt people who work on aftern oon papers have less of this problem .

Their work h as to be done at a certain hour in th e afternoon and if it isn't over then, it's too late . But when your actual dead line is 10: 00 o'clock at night , it's possible to keep working until 10: 00 o'clock, and then han g around for the second edition.

My family have acquir ed an intuition which enables them to tell , by the way a telephone rings, whether it is the office

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Living and Learning at Alma Mater (Continued from page 3)

character of the candidate for admission. Individual alumni and alumni committees have been of greatest assistance in their cooperation in this phase of the appraisal of the prospective student.

After being accepted as a student, the freshman is inducted into Richmond College life by a full week of orientation exercises which are planned to give him a panoramic view of how the University lives and works.

During orientation, every new student selects a faculty adviser whom he is to visit for frequent private consultation on his class work and his personal problems. At the close of his sophomore year, in conference with his faculty adviser, the student chooses his major and minor subjects of specialization for his degree. For his junior and senior years, the student's faculty adviser is his major professor.

The Faculty Personnel Committee heads the faculty adviser system. This is supervised by Dr. B. C. Holtzclaw who has a full-time secretary and devotes a large amount of time to counseling students. His office maintains the cumulative social and personal histories of each student, including his photograph, psychological test results, monthly grades, and plans for an occupation or further professional or graduate work. Dr. Holtzclaw also devotes considerable time to placing students in part-time work while in college, aiding them in securing post-graduate fellowships, and in securing jobs after graduation. In addition, he is the chairman of the University Committee on Student Scholarships and Financial Grants in Aid. The Dean of Richmond College devotes a large part of his time to conferences with individual students and in counseling students in the choice of a life occupation, the solution of personal problems of the largest range, as well as in the arrangement of their class programs and the development of successful study habits. In the Dean's Office is maintained the complete scholastic and academic record of each student.

From. this office all reports on class work are sent to all parents every sixty days, and on deficient students every month. The Dean also has the responsibility for discipline, whether this results from scholastic deficiency or personal misconduct, but this latter phase is happily inconsequential. Educational guidance and leadership are the Dean's real responsibility.

The course of study of Richmond College includes 153 courses in twenty-five departments of instruction. To these must be added the new course of study with a major in art, drama, or music, thirty laboratory sections and forty-two class sections. If a student carried a normal class load and never failed a class, it would require more than thirty-three years for him to take all the classes offered in Richmond College.

These classes are taught by forty-eight trained and experienced professors of sterling Christian character, of sound learning, and a love for and confidence in youth.

The course of study is designed to train men for such professions as chemist, biologist, physicist, accountant, business man, teacher, director of physical education and coaching.

Emphasis is also placed on pre-professional training for medicine, dentistry, the ministry, engineering, law and graduate studies.

Although many students take pre-professional studies,

about forty-five per cent of them remain to earn the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Art, and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Every student, unless excused on account of physical handicap, is required to take two years of physical education, including instruction in personal hygiene, anatomy and physiology. There are two advanced classes in physical education for students who plan to coach or teach physical education, in addition to some twenty-five organized intramural sports teams. The emphasis is on a program which will develop health, recreational and sports attitudes to serve the student throughout life, as well as in the development of sportsmanship.

An approximate grade of "C" or 82.5 per cent is required of a student to graduate. This is the average grade of the student body of Richmond College. Students passing less than three classes, in a normal class load of five classes, are subject to separation from college under the minimum scholarship rule, unless demonstrable providential causes for the failure exists, or in the case of diligent freshmen during their first semester in college. The upper ten per cent of the graduating senior class is eligible for election to Phi Beta Kappa.

Organized student life affords a wide range of opportunities for the individual to develop his personality and powers of leadership, and to learn the responsibilities of citizenship and social relationships. Student government is directed by executive officials and a policy-making senate elected by the students. The honor system which is directed by the student Honor Council is a vital part of student democratic selfgovernment. The spirit of honor which prevails on the campus is the result of more than a century of the Richmond College tradition that a gentleman must be truthful and honest. Richmond College students enforce the standards of honor they ordain. · Including seven honorary scholastic societies, three literary societies, two ministerial associations, the Young Men's Christian Association, and eleven social fraternities, there are forty student organizations on the Richmond College campus.

In addition to his education through work in his classes, the student may take part in a variety of sports, in debating, writing for the publications and in other extra-curricular activities.

The campus of the University of Richmond is one of the most beautiful in the nation, and because of its location near the city of Richmond is easily accessible to the art museums, city and state libraries and archives, and the offices of the Virginia State and the Richmond City governments. The student interested in business administration will find forty per cent of the industries, commerce and finance of Virginia located in the James River basin about Richmond .

Richmond College possesses the most modern scientific buildings found in eastern colleges, two dormitories for men, a large central library, a beautiful chapel, an administration building, a refectory, a modern gymnasium, and a dramatic playhouse. Future plans call for a new central library building, a social science building, a law building, and a social center for students.

In these beautiful physical surroundings , and with this program of educational growth, our faculty and students seek spiritual , intellectual and physical development, in order that they may learn to live the good life and serve their fellow men to their fullest capacity.

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In the foreground were two card tables . At the backs _ofeach were the halves of an orange crate, qmte disguised by lining of red and blue paper. The three compartments we entitled, "awards," "traditions," and "pub lications," and by many souvenirs we tried at least to represent the main important activities of Westhampton. For example, in the back wall of the awards compartment, we pasted the news clipping of the 1938 Mortar Board Tapping Ceremony, and casually placed nearby were a Mortar Board Quarterly, a Phi Beta Kappa Dinner program, a Phi Beta Kappa Ke y Rep orter, a T.K.A. Speaker, and an H onors Convocation B1t!letin. As one inspected the traditions, she saw snapshots of the daisy chain exercise, a daisy chain pillow, a friendship pin , a baby cup, and a larg e photograi:ih of "Proclamation Night. " A recent edition of the Collegian, a Messenger, lf/eb, several Alumni B11lletins , catalogues, and pictur e pamphlets on the University made up the publications' department.

In the foreground was the campus. Christmas tree grass served as the verdant hills of our campus, a hand mirror made an excellent lake, and there was even a cute little canoe perched in the Jake- though , we had never been so entertained while we wer college students at Westhampton I On the grass, we played hock ey, archery, tennis , basketball , even football - each represented in miniature .

The shoe box became a typical room in the Dorm, and it was neatly furnished with woode_n doll furniture . (All apologies to the admm 1strat1on- the radio was too cute to take out of the room 1) To make the room look more collegiate, we made tiny replicas of th e University and Westhampton banners, ar:d to remmd prospective students that there is some fun at college, we had numerous dance cards, tallies, and favors within sight. large felt pennants, loaned to us by the Alumnae Office, led peopl e to the exhibit, and the red and blue decorations on the table assure? our guests that here was in part , the U111versityof Richmond.

Perhaps around two hundr ed guests viewed the exhibit, the majority of whom were prospective college students and their Mothers.

Though there was no prize or public announcem ent, it was remarked by the program committee that the University of Richmond had the most original, most complete, and most attractive booth ther e, which, since we have the most to offer as a col1ege, is just as it should be, don 't you think?

(Editor 's Note: The exhibit was arranged

by Helen Caulfield , '35, with the assistance of Peggy Brown Dixon, '35, and Maroaret "Sweet " Carpenter , ' 38, who served asb cohostesses.)

Westhampton Homecoming Westhampton's twenty-fifth Thanksgiving Homecommg exceeded all expectations as a group of over 175 alumnae returned for the two-day celebration on November 23 -24. At the meeting of the governing board at 5: 30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 23d, in addition to the regular members there were present three local dub representatives and the three new board members , Dr. Louis Fry Galvin, Elizabeth Tompkins, and Lila Crenshaw. Marian Wiley, '39, president of college government, and Alice Evans, president of th e Class of 1939 were the student representatives present for this meeting.

Before a crowd of over 200 (150 of whom were alumna e) the following program took place at the conclusion of the dinner in the Westhampton dining hall. First came the annual roll call of classes by Leslie Sessoms Booker, national president of the W.C.A.A. , who announced that Caroline Shafer Essex chair man of committee on arrangement s'. could not be pre sent due to illness. Miss Keller then spoke briefly on recent changes and additions in curr iculum and social life of Westhampton today. Dr. Boatwright spoke of his future plan for Westhampton and urged that all alumnae make a special effort to return for the twenty-fifth commencement Exercises in June. Brief reports were made

by Helen Anderson Hendricks, representative of _the Washington, D. C. Club, by Frances Shipman Sutton , West Point representative , and by Buena Perkins Myers, Richmond Club chairman, who spoke for the Newport News Club. A telegram was received from the New York Club, and an interesting report from the group in Atlanta, Georgia. Margaret 1. Watkins, Alumnae Secretary, spoke briefly on "the ideal local club" at the conclusion of the reports from the various local alumnae gro ups.

Following the dinner coffee was served in the reception room of the social center building and for several hours alumnae "reuned" in a truly feminine and characteristic manner.

Many enjoyed the dance in the gymnasium to whic h the alumnae were invited by the senior class.

In spite of rain and freezing temperature some twenty-five or thirty alumnae were present on Thursday morning for the varsityalumnae hockey game which ended in a 3 to 0 victory for the varsity. As usual there was much enthusiasm over the game and in spite of defeat the alumnae team seemed to greatly enjoy it. Coffee was served by the present chapter of Mortar Board at 11 o'clock and approximat ely forty alumnae and players attended this concluding traditional feature of th e Thanksgiving Homecoming.

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calling me. We are likely to get these calls long afte r every one has gone to bed; maybe they can't find a piece of type , or maybe a reporter wants the low-down on some ladies of the community. At times I suspect th ey just want to talk their problem over with some one.

Women's affairs, which have been my particular beat since my indu ction, seem rather anaemic at this stage of the game. After all, what can women - or rather, ladies- do that will compare in color with the doing of the would at large? Our what department really gets the worst of its bargain. If a woman gives a tea, that is in our realm, for that is women's activities. But if a woman takes an axe and bashes her husband 's head in that is general news. Of the two activitie;, the latter is certain ly the more interesting. Chalk up one more bit of discrimination against women.

I should like to cover the police beat, or sports. My inter est in sports dates from the time the sports editor, as a stunt, asked me to cover a wrestling match. It was an unimportant match, else they wouldn't have sent me. After I got over my shock at the seeming suffering of the performers , I yelled with the rest of 'em. How they grunt and pound on the floor 1 _They add such emot ional spice to their gyrat10ns. One howls in pain as his opponent twists his foot. The other lowers like a menacing bull ( not Ferdinand) . I· learned that night the import of the newspaper axiom, "You can't libel a wrestler."

Mention in print that a wrestler is a no-count good-for-nothing who beats his wife, ancl you haven't made him lose face. That many more people will turn out to see the scoundrel get his neck twisted.

That gusto is something you rarely get in women's activities. I think I'd like to be a sports reporter if they wou ld let me cover someth ing lusty like wrestling or boxing. But they never would, for fear I might stumble across a male performer in a state of undress.

I probably shou ld be relegated to women's hockey.

Since I started writing a regu lar Sunday column, almost two years ago, I have learned the advantages of having a definite article in the paper at a definite tim e. Readers seem to take you more to heart , as witnessed by the fact that since the column started, women's clubs have been asking me to make speeches for them. I am not much of a speaker, but I en1oy going over the State and meeting the women . Besides any female will jump at the chance to talk without fear of interruption.

It's energy that counts

On the Basketball Court Mac Pitt who knows a good thing when he sees it, says "there's concentrated energy in milk. That's why it's my favorite beverage and the favorite of all of the University of Richmond basketball players.

"There's no game more strenuous than high-speed basketball - that's the kind of basketball which is being played today-and

I know of no other food which has the

zest-giving energy of milk. Summer, winter, spring or fall, milk is a prime essential in an athlete's diet. It packs a punch but causes none of the discomforts which come from overloading with heavy foods."

That's the story in a nutshell, and remember too that Virginia Dairy is dedicated to the task of supplying you with the best milk that is produced. Not from one farm alone, but from many of the finest farms in Virginia comes the milk that is delivered to you each morning in the Virginia Dairy bottle. That's why you can be assured of an adequate and dependable supply of milk at all times.

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