Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 7, April 1943

APRIL , 1943

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Apostle of Democracy • S THE nation observes the Bicentennial Year of Thomas Jefferson, born at Shadwell, in Albemarle County , Virginia, the very principles which he so ardently and eloquently championed face their direst test.

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In this hour of our challenge, we can find a renewal of our faith in his words which might, indeed, have been spoken for these times: "Even should the cloud of b a r b a r i s m and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe," he once wrote, "this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them ."

Born April 13, 1743

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The words ring with an inspiring truth undimmed through two centuries, We salute Thomas Jefferson, statesman, patriot, gentleman, and chamideas which still will pion of the democratic triumph. Their triumph will be his. We are grateful for so many things more than the three for which he chose to be remembered:

"Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, Father of the University of Virginia"

Remember, Americans, YOU write your own declaration of faith in democracy every time you buy a War Bond!

-Reddy Kilowatt.

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PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND JOSEPH E . NETTLES,

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Volume VII

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UNIVERSITY

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Number 3

APRIL, 1943

toU.ofR. Navy Comes AWEIGH-The ANCHORS The Un iversity of Richmond has been designated as a V-12 training center for Naval officer candidat es and several hundred trainees will report to the Univtrsity on July 1.

This announcement by President Boatwright of an agreement between the Navy and the University has solved the institution's wartime problem of maintaining enrollm ent and keeping intact the faculty.

The number of students can range from a minimum of 280 to a maximum of 600 but probably will be set at 400 when final terms are agreed upon.

Naval students will be hous ed in the dormitories of Richmond College and will use Richmond College classrooms and dining faciliti es. Plans are under consideration for an additional dining hall - a temporary structure - which will be erected to provide for the tramees.

Both the summer session which commences on June 9 and the 1943-44 session which begins next fall will be conducted largel y on the Westhampton College side of the lake. The University expects to rent fraternity hous es and several near-by residen ces for A duration of the war to provid e lodging facilities for the male Wi!ian stude nt s. The large frame building which now serves as the University Playhouse probably will be converted into a kitchen and dining room. Westhampton women will continue to use their present dormitory an d dining facilities.

Laboratory facilities of the University will be made available both to the military and to the civilian student bodies .

Despite the fact that both men and women will use Westhampton College classrooms, insofar as possible students of the two col1eges will meet separa tely during the regular session which begins next fall. In some of the advanced classes in which the enrollment will be small, the co-educational plan will be adopte d, however. Summer school will be conducted on a co-educationa l basis as has been the case in past years.

Naval students will be under the general supervision of the University, President Boatwright said, and University professors will teach th e classes. " It will be possible," he said, "to use pra ctically all of our present teaching staff, and it will be necessary to enlarge our faculty in mathematics and probably in physics and chemistry. " A half dozen or more Naval officers and men, including the commandant, drill officer, medical officer and clerks, will accompany the Naval men.

T~e V-12 prog_ram will be condu cted over an eight-month period, President Boatwnght has been advised. At the end of each eightmonth period an add itional _group will be sent to the University for tramrng. President Boatwnght said he understood that the most promising students would be permitted to remain until they hav e received their degrees.

Although the majority of the students will be college fr eshmen, I re also will be sophomores, juniors and seniors in the group ch reports on July 1. The course of study is strictly prescribed •

for the freshmen , but upperclassmen are granted more latitude m the selection of courses.

Examinations for V-12 candidates were conducted April 2nd in colleges and high schools throughout the country. Eligib le for the program are high school seniors, high school graduates and college students between the ages of 17 and 20, as of July 1.

Dr. Boatwright's announcement of the Navy 's intention to include the University of Richmond in the training program followed several conferences in Richmond and with Manpower Commission officials in Washington. "The genera l program has been agreed upon," he said, "although there still remain some details to be adju sted."

He said he was pleased that the Navy had selected the University for its training program and particularly commended its policy which allows "a wide latitud e in the curriculum." He was gratified too, he said, that the V-12 plan will make possible the utilization of the University faculty during the war period .

Although enrollments in other units have been maintained at pre-war highs , the Richmond College student body has dropped to approx imately 350 men, many of whom will be called up at the end of the semester in May. Since February approximately 150 men have gone from the campu s into the armed services. Forty-nine Army reservists were called up, 40 Army air candidates were called next, and nine Naval reserves left on April 5th. In addition to these a number of students have been called through selective service channels .

Commencement Clipping a day off the usual four-day commencement program , final exercises will be conducted at the University of Richmond May 22 to 24 with alumni delivering both the graduation address and the baccalaureate sermon.

Colonel Thomas B. McAdams, '97, president of the Union Trust Company of Maryland and past president of the National Bankers Association, will deliver the commencement address in the Luther H. Jenkins Greek Theatre at 7 o'clock on the evening of Monday, May 24. The date is the earliest grad uation date in the modern history of th e University.

Commencement exercises will begin with Alumni Day on May 22, and the followin g evening the Rev. George W. Sadler , D.D. , '10, secretary for Africa, Europe and the Near East in the Foreign Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, will preach the baccalaureate sermon in Cannon Memorial Chapel.

The early ending of the winter-spr ing semester (accomplished by the curtailment of holid ay periods) will make possible the start of the twelve-week summer session on June 9. All classes, with the exceptio n of laboratorie s, will be conducted on the Westhampton side of the lake.

On July 1st the Navy comes to the campus.

Entered at the post office of the University of Richmond, Virginia, as second-class matter.

With OurArmy in Africa

By CAPTAIN GEORGE RUMNEY, '38, Chaplain, U. S. Army North Africa is a land of contrasts, a land that would prove a perfect foil for the color talent of a Van Gogh. Its predominant colors are red, yellow, and purple. Sunrise is a thing that steals gently upon the world in the lightest wash of gold. Sunset is a blaze of purple and gold. Seeing these things firsthand makes travelogue in color a bit more believable. Also in great contrast are the varied peoples of this land. On one hand we have the Arab in all of his color. On the other hand is the Frenchman with his savoir faire and love of life. Between we have a pot pourri of humanity that may claim all types of heritage, and speak any language.

Living in a rather elementary manner in the midst of such surroundings makes life an ever-changing pattern of interest to Joe Yank.

However, it is the practical aspect of living and the experience of the individual that will live in the memory of our soldiers. High school and college language courses are usually a boresome duty to the student back home . We travel too little beyond our own borders to find use for them. Over here we are digging into the foggy corridors of memory for "Oui," "Non," "Combien." The Frenchman usually knows at least one language other than his own, which is often helpful. Add to this the ability of all men to use expression and pantomime, and you see the means of intercourse between allies.

It constantly amazes me, that men can get along so easily and know so little of a common language. The other day I was in a store to purchase clothing. Behind the counter were two young Frenchwomen. As I made a gesture, one of them caught sight of my wedding ring. With characteristic na·ivete, she took my hand and began to exclaim over the ring . The rapid interchange between salesladies was in a stream of French which ended in a blush and a giggle.

My companion wanted to know what the joke was. When I correctly told him that one of the women had said that she wished to marry an American Officer, the other woman surprisedly assented to my translation. I know very little French, but one learns to get the drift of a conversation. This is a saving factor in many instances.

Our dealings with the Arabs are usually those of purchase and barter. Haggling over prices is one of their main occupations and major sports. The Arab children, and some of the French youngsters, have quickly picked up a few phrases in English. As they take advantage of the native generosity of the American soldier, their favorite cry is, " Shoongum, schoclat, cigaret !" If you speak to them about being too young for smoking, they sometimes try to get you to believe that they give the cigarettes to "papa."

The subject of living conditions is taboo in communications. It is sufficient to say that we have an experience that is very much in common with our predecessors in the last war. The compensating element here, as it always has been, is that abi·lity of Joe Yank to live by the exercise of an ingenuity hitherto dormant. Humor is also a boon to our existence. We never despair as long as we can laugh at others, at other things, and at ourselves. Yesterday I saw two men laughing at a fellow soldier. He was dirt from head to foot.

As he came whistling by, he caught their laughter. Turning, he gave them a wide flash of U.S. dental work and continued on his way. That's Joe Yank.

My own work has an everchanging quality that is a partial compensation for many other things . When personal problems, "gripes," arise, the favorite cry ( seriously, or otherwise) is "Go see the Chaplain." Christmas day was a fair sample. I provided a make-shift Christmas tree. The Christmas morning services were well attended.

A boy came to me because he had just receivtd word of the death of his mother. A program of amateur entertainment was held , and I was requested to make an extemporaneous speech . Pictures were taken. Songs were sung. Memories were built. Thus my day was given over complettly to the lives of others . When bed time came, I was tired. but far happier than I expected to be under the circumstance of war.

Do not let me convey the impression that all is an exaggeraA picnic over here. Some time ago I spent one of the most heal"' rending hours of my lif e with a Jewish boy who had just learned of the death of the Mother whom he had idolized. A few days ago I cried with a Catholic boy as I told him of the death of his father.

It is a hard task to tell a man that his "buddy" has not been found.

It is a hurtful thing to leave your friends in the soil of a strange land .

Religious services over here are given a very definite place in the lif e of the soldier. Sunday services are a regularly schedu led activity of every unit. They are held in Chapel rooms, tents, hangars, the open field, or wherever the men may be. My men bought me a communion set some time ago. I have used it to great advantage to our own, as well as other units. I remember using it once in conjunction with Chaplain Conrad Baldwin, who will be well remembered by University of Richmond men who were in the Southern Baptist Seminary with him. The service was held in an open field under a bright sun. Chaplain Baldwin conducted the services for his men, while I played the small field organ and assisted him.

Services are made available each night for those who wish to attend. These take the form of Bible study, singing, forums, prayer groups, and preaching services. One thing that I have noted in all of my activity is that the men will not tolerate anything but religion when religion is sought. They want the straight Gospel in a straightforward and simple manner. No pretense is desired. Long flights of oratory are discouraged. Some of my best receptions have been with ten-minute sermons . It has interested me to note that some of my men are reading through the New Testament in groups, as a bed-time devotional. Do not think that I am talking about some few people who are different than others. The average American soldier is a serious minded man. He is facing up to the finalitits of life.

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I suppose that many former Spiders have passed me by in movements of this army, but we have not met. The class of '39 will

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Chaplain Rumney presides at the communion table . . . somewhere in Africa.

On the War Fronts University of Richmond men are figuring prominently in the tales of heroism which come back from the fighting fronts, particularly ~-~e Southern Pacific where flying Spiders are knocking Japanese 9,;'. the skies and whipping them on land and sea As the military listing fast approaches the 900-mark, the honor roll of the valiant dead has grown to 11. Silver-starred since the last edition of THE BULLETINare the names of two members of the class of 1942, Aviation Cadet Elmslie Bayley von Gemmingen and Lt. Earl Lewis Noble, Jr. Both died in plane crashes, Gemmingen near Cochran Field, Ga. and Noble at Page Field, Fla., just a few days after he had received his coveted wings.

The tragic news was tempered with apparently well-substantiated reports that Lt. Walter G. (Windy) Winslow , '36, of the Navy Air Corps, who had been believed lost in the sinking of the cruiser Houston , is alive although a Japanese prisoner.

John A. Moore, '34, writing from Windy 's home town of Bronxville, says "we have had two definite reports that he is still alive. . . . The first came when a Japanese broadcast was picked up by a West Coast listening post. Supposedly Windy spoke, along with several other prisoners, stating that he had been wounded and asking that his father be notified . He said he was at present OK and asked for chocolate and tobacco. To me this seemed good evidence that he was still alive as he always smoked a pipe rather than cigarettes.

About three weeks ago a Connecticut amateur picked up another broadcast in which Windy said he was 'well in mind and body.' This report was checked through government listening posts and found to be authentic."

Reports of conspicuous gallantry of University of Richmond men continue to pour in over the wires of the press associates. The much-decorated Major Philip L. Mathewson, '38, has received his fourth decoration, the Air Medal for more than 100 hours of operational flight missions . It follows the award of the Silver Star Ahis action in Java, the Distinguished Flying Cross for scoring a -ct hit on a Jap cruiser in an attack off Bali, and the Blue Bar for leading the headquarters squadron on a particularly dangerous mission. Every member of the group received the special Blue Bar, a citation which will never be awarded again. Home in Richmond for a brief rest after a year's service in the Pacific, Major Mathewson said the Jap Zeros "go up like an elevator and come down like a rock."

Three of them came down like rocks as a result of the expert shooting of Lt. Paul M. Stanch, '44, Army fighter pilot and former Spider football player. He shot down three Zeros in two days in the Bismarck Sea engagement.

Mathewson fourth decoration

For "conspicuous gallantry under fire," Lt. Frank H. Jordan, Jr. , '4 1, in the armored division somewhere in Africa , has received the Army's coveted Silver Star. He is the son of F. H. Jordan , 05, principal of the Dublin, Va., High School.

Meanwhile there comes word that Lieutenant Moses Payton , '39, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his performance in the battle of Wake Island shortly after the outbreak of the war.

Captain John P . Crowder, Jr. , '37, apparently becomes the first Spider flyer to be credited with an Italian plane. In fact, he got two Macchi 202's in North Africa and damaged another so badly that it was listed as probably lost.

A few days earlier, word had come from Indi a that Lieutenant Daniel Grinnan, '39, had participated in a daring low-level bombing raid against the Japs in Burma .

Friends of Lt. Frank R. Alvis, Jr ., '38, USNR, wondered if he were aboard that American submarine which press dispatches reported playing havoc with Japanese shipping. He was. The exact score was ten cargo vessels and three warships. Lt. Commander L. H. Chappell, skipper of the sub, who was awarded the Navy Cross, for his work in directing the sinkings, said every man aboard the ship had a share in it.

Writing in pencil on the reverse of a letter which had been mailed him from the Alumni Office, Col. William C. Bentley, '28, said the Germans "took everything usable," including writing desks and writing paper when they began their retreat in Africa. He arrived on the opening morning of our entry into North Africa as commanding officer of the paratroop force. "I have been slightly wounded twice since arriving in this theatre of war but both times I was quite lucky," he wrote. "On the last time a bomb hit the house we were in and it collapsed on us rather suddenly. All of us pulled bits of mortar and brick out of our skins for two weeks."

Lt. Milton Eugene Wills, '39, has received four decorations for gallantry in the Pacific action . He got the Silver Star for action in the battle of Midway, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster for his work in the Solomon Islands area. His citation tells the story: "For meritorious achievement on Sept. 11, 1942, while participating in an aerial photographic mission over the Solomons ... encountered a Japanese formation of approximately 30 bombers and 20 fighters over Lunga Point, Guadalcanal Island. In flights of three and four they immediately and intensively attacked for approximately 10 minutes during which time the crew by skill, courage and

Stanch Got three Zeros

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Jordan "Conspicuous gallantry"

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AlumnaeforVictory As told by May Thompson Evans, '21, War Manpower Commission to Phyllis Coghill, '41 Evtry American woman wants to help win the war. But she must do more th an want. To have an adequate fighting force to assure Victory we need to take men out of war industries, out of business and professions, and even out of Army, Navy, and Marine homefront jobs. Womrn must take their places I In America there are millions of women available. They can do the job. The problem is how to get them.

Some countr ies have drafted their woman power. Must we?

Whether or not there is conscription of women in America depends considerably on what kind of cooperation individual American women are willing to give right now. Some have always known , others are just beginning to realize what a precious thing this democracy is. We expect our men to give their very lives lighting to preserve it. But what are we w illing to sacrifice? It is not enough to say in this war I have given a son, or husband, or sweetheart.

If you had given full time to an essential job you might have saved his life.

America is a land of initiative. Its women will find their places, now, give everything in their power, and speed a victorious peace.

War jobs which need to be filled by women are varied. Few are glamorous; few are "w hit e collar jobs, " but this isn't a white collar war.

Westhampton alumnae, if you are not already in an essential job , these are the war jobs open to you now: 1. SERVING UNCLE

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To free men for combat duty, women's organizations of the armed services have been set up- the WAACS, the WAVES and SPARS, the WAFS; and, most recently, the MARINES. And there are civilian posts in all Federal departments available to women through Civil Service- particularly as typists, stenographers, and clerks. Thirty-six thousand women a year are needed by the Army and Navy as graduate n11rses.Nursing is woman's primary and traditional job in wartime.

The Medi cal Department of the Army needs women civilians as technologists. At present there is a great need for more dietitians and physical technicians for service within and outside the continental United States.

Civilian posts in the War and Navy departments are open to women; in the field of radio, testing out antiaircraft and machine guns, driving tanks, as fliers to train cadets, etc. The Army never has been able to fill all its openings for women draftsmen. Women workers are needed in the War Department plants , and in arsenals and depots.

For college graduates without experience a large crop of "junior " posts have sprung up in the past few years. Almost any professional or business career a woman may have started will find its counterpart in the varied activities of the Federal Government in wartime.

2. IN BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS:

As the Army and Navy inducts into military life more and more doctors, dentists, nurses, teachers , bank tellers, newspaper reporters, and other business and profession al people , some one has to take their places in civilian life. War also causes the creation of new professional jobs such as the specialist who must set up new daycare programs for young children of women working in war factories and the paid personnel with service organizations such as the American Red Cross and USO. The shortage of teachers in primary and secondary schools is a critical problem. We must have an educated America to help build a sound peaceful world in the reconstruction period after this war.

The shortage of civilian physicians should stimulate more women to enter and to return to the medical profession. Women physicians who have married and retired from practice should if possible take

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refresher courses in order to be able to serve their county and communities in the war emergency.

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VOLUNTEERS:

Many women are already on the jobs they can do best and are putting in full time. Some women still have odd hours in which they could give volunteer patriotic service. Women who don't go off to war must be increasingly the very backbone of community protection. The Office of Civilian Defense needs women volunteers as drivers, air raid wardens , nurses' aides etc. The Citizens Service Corps, a branch of the OCD, has unpaid civilians to carry on these war services-salvage, sale of war stamps and bonds , child care services, housing programs, etc. Women are active in all of them.

The American Red Cross must have volunteer workers for these corps: production, canteen, motor, etc.

Volunteers by the hundreds work with the USO to give service to soldiers and sailors on leave or in transit, and to workers in war plants. These volunteers dance with the boys, give them competition at games, take them sight-seeing, serve them sandwiches and coffee. They organize athletic classes and parties for women war workers. They also give welfare services to families.

No discussion of the work of the woman volunt eer would be complete without emphasizing the fact that we are in this war all the way, it's a woman's war right now, and women should be thinking in terms of going into full time work and carrying many of their volunteer activities as side lines. It has been done in England. It can be done here by carefu l planning and hard work.

4. IN THE WAR INDUSTRIES:

In the past two years, the United States has swung into total war production. Vast new war industries have created new crowded communities. Older industries have converted to the W of war. All agriculture must be keyed to the Food for Freedom program.

In the course of this gigantic movement, women by the tens of thousands have gone as workers into the war factories . Women have also gone to work in the fields and orchards.

The woman who takes a factory or farm job has the great satisfaction of knowing that she is each day producing some physical thing which will help win the war. This vital fact has lured many girl graduates of universities and colleges into wage jobs in the war production plants and fields.

Use your intelligence, college graduates, to find out where women are most needed and advise the women arou nd you, too. If the job that you have is an essentia l one then stay in it, regardless of how tiresome it may be. Perhaps, your work Jacks drama but it's a step toward victory, nevertheless. Have the vision of a farm woman who said recently, "Our job is to stay home and pitch in with the men in the fields every minute we can spare from the house instead of driving to town on thinning tires to knit."

Gear your sense of values to a total war picture. Until now, American women have been on the receiving end of democracy.

Today it's up to us to give. Analyze your way of life critically in some one you know was killed today by an terms of this-perhaps enemy weapon as he fought to protect you. What price are yott willing to pay for freedom?

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In general, the following instructions are given for women seeking war jobs : If you wish to volunteer for unpaid patriotic work , go to Cross, the USO, or to your Civilian Defense Volunteer Office.

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We'reIn the NavyNow

By ENSIGNS ALICE ('39) and JEANNETTE ('41) EVANS, USN (WR)

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and our Navy have expressed their confidence in the Wlity of American women by accepting us in the armed force s. For the first time in the history of our land , a woman can become an officer or an enlisted woman in the USNR ( except , of course, for the Navy Nurses' Corps, which came into being in 1917) .

Women with college degrees , or with two years of college and some employment experience, who can pass a sfiff physical and intelligence test, are eligible for entrance into the Naval Reserve Midshipmen 's School at Northampton , Massachusetts . The purpose of the training at Smith is to develop an apt and capable civilian into a Naval officer for whom no apologies need be made . The in?octrination is begun as you step from the train and are logged 111, by oth er women now officers, as midshipman, are assigned to billets, and then marched in formation to the dispensary where physicals are begun.

The courses are interesting, intensive , and cover a wide field.

After some three weeks of naval history ( in which you become vitally aware of Admiral Alfred T. Mahan - a man on whom your history courses may not have placed much stress- as a shaper of world destiny), law, personnel , administration , ships and aircraft, you are ready for specialized training. By now, it is hoped , you are wearing your uniform with ease and dignity ; are able to march with finesse; feel at home with the common navy terms of scuttlebutt, gangway, carry on, and standby; live with one to .seven girls you never knew before in a room smaller than you could have dreamed of, and fairly frequently receive "shipshape and seamanlike " on your inspection report ; know that the "Tree " is posted on Tuesday night to notify the world at large of those who have fallen below 2.5 (with 4.0 as perfect) in scholarship or aptitude (a nebulous term covering, for example, your failure to present a military attior to make out a correct laundry slip) ; stand when an officer Wers the room and never fail to sound-off with your name and rank before speaking to an officer.

You may be sent for further training to Radcliffe and the Navy supply school at Harvard, or remain at Northampton for advanced indoctrination or communications. Those are the present fields in which women can be trained for officer duties . Perhaps, more will be added.

Your day runs from about 0615 ( depending on where you are bi lleted) to 2000 (Navy time for 6:15 A.M. to 10:00 P .M.) and means 8 hours of classes (including 11/zof gym or drill), three excellent and ample meals, perhaps (unless something else is scheduled) 1 hour of liberty, 2 hours for study. Despite this breathtaking pace there is energy to get out a weekly newspaper, produce a class show, have a choir that sings in station church each Sunday, and take an occasional shore leave to New York or Boston , and , of course, indulge in some fellowship with your excellent shipmates .

The competition is keen, the standards high, and the life appea ling.

As more women are trained, more men are relieved for sea duty .

The men on the Station evidence the feeling that the women are completelv adequate to handle th e jobs for which they are being trained. The officers, whether men or women, command the respect and confidence of the future officers who are now verdant apprentice seamen or more sophisticated midshipm~n.

The type of training a woman is designated for is based , on her age, previous experience , and the conclusions made regarding her abilities and talents during the indoctrination period. The speed with which you become known to your instructors and company officers is frightening , yet reassuring, for you realize they are actively on the iob.

Mvervone who makes the grade at the local procurement office .s not emerge with a commission. There are a few that for a variety of reasons drop out.

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feeling to stand with the rest of your class, right hand raised, taking the oath of allegiance to your country and accepting the privilege as well as the responsibilitie s of becoming a Naval Officer. In that moment , as in all great and important moments of one's life , one sees in a miracle of retrospect all that which has gone before to climax in this moment , as well as all that which lies ahead to do credit to the moment. Classes, D and D ( drill and discipline) , "Tree," Aptitude, Rooms, Gym , all the parts of the brief training period . In a flash of insight one sees the true significance of the occasion.

We should have pride in ourselves for warranting the faith that a woman can become a U. S. Naval Officer. The responsibility for proving that this belief has not been falsely based is min e-a nd yours.

Women Deans Meet War Industrialists On February 10, 1943 a conference was held at A .A.U.W . headquarters in Washington to which were invited heads of all colleges attended by women, and representatives from plants of leading war industries. The purpose of the conference was to coordinate the resources of women 's colleges with war industries employing college women .

After a discussion of opportunities for women in industry , it developed that the industrialists wished women with a college degree to do other than routine work, and that they were all preparing to offer training courses in specialized departments for which aptitude tests would show the applicants to be fitted. Thirty-one occupations could be entered by the college graduate, and undergraduate courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, Eng lish, languages , social sciences, and art were recommended as good undergraduate studies : In response to the question of how the colleges could best meet the demands of industry , without exception the industrialists recommended to the colleges to keep the program of general education and let them do the specialized training. It was stated that twentyfour hours or a major in colleg e was a sufficient foundation on which to base subsequent specialized work .

Four and one-half million women are needed in the war industries for 1943, so there is a place for everyone . Teachers of science, mathematics, and languages are also in great demand, and the teaching profession should not be allowed to suffer.

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remember Ed Sinar. I know that he was in my vicinity once, but we did not meet. However , I talk ed with a member of th e same outfit who will be remembered by some at the Univ ersity. Thi s man was Pvt. Bullo ck, a ministerial student in th e fr eshman class of '41. Hi s home is about thirty mil es north of Richmond .

I trust that all of thos e connected with our Alma M ater are continuing to make their special type of contribution to the world -wide effort for a peaceful and more worthwhil e life amon g men. It becomes impressed more and more upon me th at a few men may fight to win a peace, but all men must work to build the peace th at is lasting .

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Her RoyalMajesty:Wilhelmina

By NORWOOD GREENE, '27, U. S. Secret Service Of primary importance to the Secret Service is the protection of the President of the United States. However, during this emergency of World War No. 2 the U. S. Secret Service has on many occasions afforded protection to both European and Oriental royalty whose countr ies are allied with us. Plans are made for their coming even before they leave their native lands and continue throughout their visits in this country.

Through these personal contacts with royalty and their various attendants Secret Service agents have been able to gather considerable first-hand information about their habits, behavior, pastimes, and personalities .

In the summer of 1938 I was on a protection assignment with President Roosevelt at Wilmington, Delaware, when Crown Prince Berti! of Sweden was greeted by the President on the occasion of the Swedish tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Swedes in Wilmington. It was raining "pitc hforks and hammer handles."

There was a delay in the meeting of Prince Berti! and the President.

The crowd was blaming the President, who was really not at fault at all. He was waiting at the duPont estate at Owl's Nest until Prince Berti! had landed at Fort Christina.

In the summer of 1939 the United States Department in making preparations for the reception of their Royal Majesties , the King and Queen of England, called upon the Secret Service for cooperation because of their years of experience in protecting the President.

Plans for their reception were made even before they left England and continued throughout their safe and successful journey in this country.

Probably my most important assignment with royalty was last summer in the Berkshire Hills , at Lee, Mass., where I spent nearly three months with Her Royal Majesty Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, and the daughter, H er Royal Highness Juliana, Crown Princess of Holland. There also were the two grandchildren, Princesses Beatrix six and Irene four ladies in waiting, Dutch Secret Service :igents, 'and 'a number ;f serv~nts. .

Crown Princess Juliana leased the John Bross Lloyd estate, JUSt outside Lee, known as Fencefteld, consisting of about one hundred acres. And so on the morning of June 24th there was considerable excitement when the Secret Service agents and spectators met the royal train from Ottawa, Canada, at Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands leaves Albany's City J:Iall in company with Governor Lehman (left) and Mayor Cormng.

Behind her are three Secret Service agents with author Greene in the center.

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Cameras clicked for a while, motors hummed and the royal party was off to Fencefield, where Queen Wilhelmina took up her abcA at the modest guest cottage with her two maids, and Princess Julia. occupied the sixteen-room John Bross Lloyd House, with the rest of the royal party and the Dutch Secret Service agents. Headquarter s for the Dutch and United States agents were set up in the office adjoining the sitting room. This office commanded a view of the front of the house, two entrances to the estate, the Guest Cottage and the garage and barn. On the inside , it was only necessary for the Crown Princess or either one of the ladies in waiting to open the sitting room door and we were immediately available.

Twenty-four-hour protection was maintained on the estate. On e night while Guard Asay was on duty in the flower garden, something brushed against his leg . Asay flashed a light and was dumbfounded to see a skunk turn around to face the light just a few feet away.

One false move and - swish - ! ! Asay did the only logical thing .

He turned off the light and beat a hasty retreat, allowing Mr. Skunk to depart unmolested.

The royal children are attractive, active and enjoy playing just as any normal healthy children would. There were see-saws, rubber balls, and other playthings to keep them constantly active and amused . When riding the see-saw they would say "oop and down- oop and down. " They talked Dutch when with the family, and spoke English just as readily when with our agents.

Queen Wilhelmina, up until the present war, was the wealthiest of the world's ruling monarchs. Ascending to the throne at the age of ten, she has ruled the rich Dutch Empire for over fifty years.

Being a member of the House of Orange the Queen 's royal ancestry may be traced back to King James I, who ruled England in the 16th century. The Queen's husband was a Prince Consort, just as Bernhard is now Prince Consort to Crown Princess Juliana. When the Dutch possessions are recovered from the Axis powers, Juliana will bea line for the Netherlands' throne, and unless there should be a b. boy born to Juliana , little Princess Beatrix will follow her mother on the throne . Incidentally, there hasn't been a baby boy born to a Dutch queen for almost seventy years.

Someone gave Beatrix and Irene two Egyptian goats, one was black the other tan . They played with the children under supervision, but they were locked in a pen fenced off with chicken wire in the flower garden beyond the tennis court. Two distinguished guests were permitted to take motion pictures of certain spots around the estate, including the goats. I took the goats out of the pen and held them by a leash so that a better picture might be taken . While the photographer was grinding away one of the goats pulled loose.

I dived after the leash and scrambled on the ground until I regained control of the goat. I had visions of the goat getting up in the lap of either the Queen or Crown Princess , who were sitting on the veranda. Later I felt very much relieved when the photographer spoiled the roll of film as he was taking it out of the machine .

At Fencefield the royal family visited very little . They conserved gasoline and rubber by restricting the use of the automobiles just as religious ly as any patriotic American . However , on July 29th the Queen visited Albany where she was the guest of Governor Hubert Lehman at the Mansion House at a luncheon in her honor. This was preced ed by the Queen's visit to the First Reform Church of Albany , founded by the Dut ch, where she boldly signed her name "Wilhelmina R" in the old church register.

Th e luncheon was followed bv a visit of the Queen , accompanied bv Governor Lehman to City Hall , where she paid her respects to Mayor Corning and greeted a number of Dutch girls born in Holland. members of the Wilhelmina chorus, who sang the Dutch national anthem, joined by the Queen.

It was interesting and impressive to observe the reaction and pressions on the faces of the people along the line of travel fr JI (Continued on page 19)

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PassedByCensor One of the Marines who gave the Japs a pretty sound whipping in the Southern Pacific was Captain Reed Taylor, '39, who is getting rest now, we hope, after pretty intensive action on Guadal.al.

"This island," wrote Reed to Dr. McDanel, "is certainly the center of a lot of activity. It has been my pleasure to watch our air force operate in some wonderful fighting and dog-fights and kick _the Japs in the pants. Our Navy furnished us with an epic sight from a distance in the recent big attempt of Tojo. So on land , sea, and air the Japs get whipped. " Reed, who will be remembered as a strong-armed third baseman on some very good Richmond teams achieved a masterpiece of under statement when he described the jungle, guerrilla warfare as "exceedingly rough." No quarter "is given or expected," he added, "but we do take prisoners when we can but they won't surrender."

"Tojo has thrown everything at us but the kitchen sink and I think parts of that are in his big shells from his battleships that he flung at us one night and in his bombs ."

Shifting continents we move to Africa where Lieut. Victor Chaltain, '34, who used to carry the ball for the Spiders is playing leapfrog with the Pyramids. He also has visited the Holy Lands and has "seen all the important places where Christ was born and where he spent most of his life."

Ensign W. H. (Wish) Martin, '39, who achieves the honor of being the first alumnus to have a lttter to the alumni office mutilated by the censor, is somewhere in the Pacific . . . "hell west from nowhere " which is more graphic than exact. The city is "about the size of Richmond" but, according to "Wish ," has few of the attractions of home. He tells that "Parke Starke, '40, and I left San Diego approximately the same time. He 's the squadron's weatherman. Lyle Graham,' 37, reported in recently, and the three of us from the U. of R. alumni chapter in this particular part of (that ~or again) country. You probably know that Graham, while in .,ing at Jacksonville, was a stalwart performer for the air station's gnd team."

Now, for comic relief, comes up a card from Ben Rouzie, '44, one of the batch of thirty-five University of Richmond men who left recently for active duty with the Army Air Forces. Most of them are now in Miami "after 34 hours in a N. Y. Central day rnach that carried initials from the Span-Amer. war." He sends best regards to "all the suckers that can't be in the Air Corps."

Lieut (j.g.) J. M. Holladay, '39, writes interestingly from the USS Nashville which is somewhere in the Pacific. "I ran into Russ Walton, '39, not too long ago, while smack on the equator,'' he reports. "His destroyers came along side my cruiser while we were crossing. Some time ago I flew into the Adreanof Islands and ran into a Richmond boy named Fox (Earl Fox, '41), who was on a torpedo boat." Jimmy makes this profound observation: "The Spiders are scattered from the Aleutians to Australia, which should make the west coast prttty safe."

Ensign Harold Owens, '41, who calls attention to an address shift from East to West , " received a note from Norman Brown, '4 1, in a foreign port just as we were about to weigh anchor, so didn 't get to see him, but that's the Navy. Ran into Les Phillips, •42, here in Frisco an~, we had quite a few rounds before he shoved off for parts unknown .

And now, again, for comic relief we give you Guy Friddell , '43, editor-in-chief of the Collegian until Uncle Sam made a soldier of him. Or rather, dental technician. He was all right so long as he stuck to sticking fillings in soldiers ' teeth but when they put him on K.P. he was a one-man riot. Let Guy tell it: "At dinner I was stationed at the big coffee urns. As fast as the men marched di the chow lines I was to hand out steaming mugs of coffee. t a dozen men backed up while I cut the faucet on and off. ' n re' ' said a cook. 'Lemme show ya. Just keep a steady stream and pass the cups under it.' Before my eyes cupfuls began to rotate with

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the celerity of a paddle-wheel. Not a drop was spilled. 'See?' said the cook. 'Sure.'

"And then, there began a new kind of Java jive. I hadn't noticed that cookie simply swapped hands on the cups, using the right to hold them under the stream and the left to transfer them to the tray.

"My procedure was to seize cups in both hands , fill one, shoot the other under, slap the first on the tray, cross hands , pass my thumb under the steaming coffee, put two cups under at once, jerk both away and fill my shoes . . . " Peace, it was wonderful. So wonderful that they took Friddell off coffee and put him on . . .

GRAVY. Douglas Laird, '42, writes from Boca Raton Field, Fla., where he is one of six Army Air Cadets. With him are J. Monroe Wells, '39; Simpson Williams, '4 1; William Maynard, '41; Archie Giragosian , '42, and Lawrence Sheffield, '42. R. C. Klaffky, '42, was expected to join them. Doug who got there ahead of the others was expecting an early call north . He'll miss the Boca Raton Club where the cadets are quartered . . . a beautiful place, about 45 miles north of Miami . . . tennis courts . . . theatre . . . swimming pool . . . 18-hole golf course.

After a hard round of interviewing survivors from three torpedoed British ships and doing a couple of publicity jobs on the SPARS and WAVES, Ensign Paul Saunier, Jr., '40, had the misfortune to break his left arm on the basketball court. It's mending nicely now, he writes, from his headquarters at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base.

Ensign Walter ('Bo) Gillette, '40, who manages to "keep busy from reveille to taps," is now "half-way around the world," (nothing there for the censor to object to). So are Winston Burgess, '4 0, who is now a "two-striper," and Ensign Ashley DeShazor, '41.

Wilbur Hoffecker, '3 1, writes from Fort Benning where he was in officer's candidate school that in just two wetks he'll know whether he's to be "a second lieutenant or an awful smart corporal stuck off somewhere." (He 's an awful smart second lieutenant now .

Congratulations.)

It's not a small world, after all, to Lieut. Thomas Wiley, '41, who is the exception that proves lhe rule. In a letter to his friend and former teacher, Professor H . B. Handy, Tommy writes that he hasn't "run across a single boy from the University of Richmond since I joined the Air Corps," although he once "missed seeing Ned Butcher, '42, by about two hours, near San Francisco." Lieut. Wiley has been loaned to Transcontinental and Wtstern Airlines and is "hopping all over the country on Army cargo runs. It's nothing for me to be in New York one day and on the Pacific Coast the next. . . . As soon as I have fifty hours of cargo runs under my belt, I'm go ing to Homestead , Florida - the jumping off point for the hop across the pond and some real fun after almost a year of schooling."

Douglas Goforth, '46, one of the 49 Army reserves who were called from the campus to active duty this year, turns up in Camp Wallace, Texas, along with U. S. (Doc) Savage, '44. Both expect to be put in some specialist school after their indoctrination period.

(Will others of the 49'ers please write the alumni office, giving address and other vital statistics?)

Second Lirnt. C W. Revnolds , '41, the man who "joined the army and became an admiral ," is commanding a harborcraft detachment somewhere in Alasb. At first confesses "Admiral" Revnolds, "it was very hard for a!I of us to get used to the fact that there were very few women, except natives, and that a night club was not just around the corner."

Midshipman Addison Dalton. '43, man-about-camnus until his Rraduation in January . is now at Columbia learnin _g to be an ensie-n.

Studies are keeping his nose to the grindstone. With pardonable exaggeration, he write~ that "in the first two weeks we've covered about two years of college math."

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WesthamptonGoes to War

By DEAN MARTHA B. LUCAS Last October there was a lot of talk about a Second Front in thi s war. But nothing seemed to happen; so the Westhampton War Counci l decided to open that Front here, on our campus. We started off with a bang- a double-barreled bang, aimed at enlisting every Westhampton student in the all-out war effort. Our strategy was two-fold: to get every member of our college community to budget money for the regular purchase of war stamps and bonds and to budget time for participation in war-supporting activities.

Our campaign has been enthusiastically conducted and well supported. The War Council, composed of some twenty student representatives of the various college organizations, and advised by Historian Lough and Philosopher Lucas (- just to keep War and Peace in their proper perspectives 1) has been very ably headed by Lillian Belk, '45. Members of the Council have served as chairmen of the different sub-committees on war activities.

The initial drive for stamp and bond buying has been promoted on a class competition basis, with the corporate goal of $15,000 ( toward the purchase of a pursuit plane) to unify our efforts. Last November the Council had a large cardboard outline of the plane mounted on the Cloister wall. The plane was divided into fifteen sections, each section valued at $1,000. On November 25th, the first block was painted a bright blue to indicate that $1,000 had been chalked up to our country's fighting chance. By the Ides of March, over half the plane was blue. And present indications are that, once the Income Tax deadline is passed, there will be enough Bloated Bond Buyers to guarantee the realization of our $15,000 goal

by June 1st-paradoxica l as that may seem.

Since the beginning of the second semester we have put special emphasis on our second goal, the participation of every student in some one or more of our war activities. The First Aid classes, which were started in the spring of '42, have been continued, with Dr. Cullen Pitt teaching the advanced course for super -aiders and the regular course being again taught by "the present author." A new and very well attended course is that of Miss Peg (Dietitian) Wright-in what every girl should know about Nutrition. Only a few of those present admit so morbid a curiosity as "how to lose 9 pounds in 9 days." For the most part, they want to know how they can best get enough vitamins and calories out of wartime foods to keep That Man alive. A few- the more earnest type- do come up after class to ask how best to get That Man. Another of our war activities is Bandage Rolling, with some 5,000 precise little squares packed away to date. When we first requested a bandage-rolling room on our campus, the Richmond Red Cross hesitated , thinking that possibly college gals would not take it seriously. But Professor Jean Wright went down town to talk it over with them; and the next day the Red Cross telephoned to say that "T he Cuddling Room " (that was all they could remember of "Browsing Room") would be quite satisfactory. Since then, the two Miss Wrights have done a fine job of supervising the project. And the W esthampton gals have "kept 'em rolling."

Plane-spotting , on the roof of the Chemistry Building, has been another of our activities . Time was when the lads across the lake did most of the sky-scanning and chin -cooling. But as they go off to Foreign Fronts , the girls-they-leave-behind-them are taking over their watch on the Home Front. More than 80 Westhampton students are now helping out with the Plane Spotting, working singly or by twos, for one- or two-hour stretches during the day-e ven on Saturday s and Sundays. And that ain't play! The Director of the University plane-spotting station says they' re doing a good job .

Not bad practice for future WA VE officers, either.

Westhampton is fighting this war in other ways, too. The "War Information" committee of our Counci l sponsors chapel talks and forums and round-table meetings in which the issues of the war are discussed and the problems of making a lasting Peace are studied.

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have carried over from the "good-o ld-pre-war days," seems to be giving way to_ a matme sense of responsibility-the responsibiJall of every 111d1v1dualotizen to the makmg of a Good Society.

• There are other war activities-salvaging odd bits of metal for the nation's scrap-metal drive and collecting books for the soldiers to read in the camps. We even organized a Victory Corps to encourage physical fitness. But it looks now as if the Westhampton Victory Garden is going to supply the physical fitness. That's our latest project - with no less an Adviser-in-chief than President Boatwright himself, who addressed a recent meeting of the student body on the when , where, and why of potato planting. Professor Margaret Ross and I staked out a good half acre of "rich bottom land ," over near the River Road, and Mr. Stone put the plowman to work.

On March 17th, the "ge ntlewomen farmers" of Westhampton turned out to observe an old Irish custom of planting potatoes on Saint Patrick's Day. In April will follow the planting of tomatoes, carrots, turnips, and corn. And in the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" will come our golden harvest, a refectory board weighed down with assorted items of high point-ration value - a technicolor picture of which will doubtless appear in a subsequent issue 1

Westhampton Homecoming Because the University has sped up its own war program, commencement this year will be shorter than ever before . And because we have been asked by Secretary Morganthau to put the money usually spent on reunions and alumnae day into War Bonds, and

by Eastman to cut down on transportation, Westhampton hom ecoming will be greatly simplified.

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For work in government, follow Civil Service announcements through your local post office.

If you wish to try for service with the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACS) apply at your nearest Army Recruiting Station.

If you have the aptitudes and the training required by the1WAVES , submit a written request for a preliminary application blank to the Director of Naval Officer Procurement of your Naval District.

If you are a trained nurse wishing active duty with the Armed forces, consult your local Red Cross Chapter or apply to the headquarters of any of the nine service commands of the Army . Or write for app lication forms to the National Headquarters, American Red Cross, Washington, D . C., or to the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. The Red Cross is officia.l recruiting agency for both Army and Navy nurses, and also recruits medical technicians for the Army.

If you are a retired nurse, needed for work on the home front, consult your local hospitals.

Listen to the radio. Watch the newspapers and magazine s for lists of emergency needs.

The Westhampton College Alumnae Association held its annua l business meeting at Ewart's Cafeteria on April 17th, along with the spring meeting of the Richmond Chapter. Election of officers for the coming year was the main business of the day. Martha J. Elliott and Louise Fry Galvin were reelected as president and vice-president , respectively .

An inform al buffet supper in the Garden at Westhampton wjll replace the usual formal banquet for alumnae at CommencerA The Westhampton seniors will be guests of the alumnae s affair on May 22nd.

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Virginia'sProbation-Parole System

By AUSTINE. trhree

University of Richmond alumni are associated with the new probation and parole system of the State of Virginia. Two of the group are members of the class of 1930: Carroll T. T aylor , supervisor of classification for the newly organized Department of Corrections, and Carroll R. Minor, executive secretary of the Parole Board who returned to his native state after distinguished service with the Federal probation system. The administration of psychological tests and personality int erviews is the task of the author of this article.

In the hands of Carroll Taylor rests the responsibility of receiving reports from the various departments and classifying th e prisoner according to the reports. A copy of the medical examination, the social history of the prisoner , the psychological and neuro psychiatric examination, the school level record, and other reports are grouped by Mr. Taylor into a single classification file. This is done for each prisoner.

Carroll Minor, with a successful record as a member of the federal probation system to recommend him, is given the responsibility of coordinating the probation officers' duties with the other factors of the newly organized system. Mr. Minor gathers on each prisoner to be paroled , ~~rts 9!ies each case thoroughly and directs the probation activities of the parole board .

The psychological examination of each prisoner is not what Professor Astrop or Dr. Carver would call ideal. The pressure of time is so great that many of the traditional psychological tests have had to be revised especially for use in the State penitentiary. This revision of standardized test material required the major portion of the first month 's labor and even at the present writing new revisions are being attempted.

Suffice it to say that a Binet intelligence examination now requires an average of 12 minutes here , as compared to from 40 to 65 minutes for a normal testing period.

There are certain factors concerning criminals that should be of interest to all readers.

Without burdening the reader with statistics, it may be stated that in Virginia we find the average prisoner 's age on admission to the penitentiary since the Selective Service Act has increased from 25 years 4 months in 1939 to 27 years 9 months in 1942 . It is believed that the induction of so many young men into the armed forces has caused the rise in average age of prisoners upon admission to the penitentiary. This also hints that a good measure of the problem of deli11quency has now fallen rather harshly into Al aps of Uncle Sam's genera ls and ads. A study of scientific literature spring.l ing from our wartime experiences indicates

GRIGG, '40 that the younger age group is giving Uncle Sam more of a disciplinary problem-just as has always been the case.

Our typical Virginia prisoner - not all prisoners in the State, however - is a man who is in his early twenties, who has never finished school for one reason or another, and who has not developed any stable occupational interests or skills. A great many of our prisoners have been classified by the neuro-psychiatric office as p sychopathic personalities - individuals with unstable inter ests and poorly developed skills. The average prisoner is somewhat below normal in intelligence .

While it is not a purpose of this article to examine the full implications of the high correlation between delinquency and lack of schooling, it should be pointed out that lack of schooling may be a symptom of other difficulties rather than the sole cause of delinquency. Certainly we must agree that many who drop out of school do so because of poor intellectual capacity and also because of inadequate environmenta l factors.

Since many University of Richmond alumni and alumnae enter the teaching profession, it might be well to urge them to try whenever possible to discourage a pupil from dropping out of school. Never before has education been more essentia l to adequate adjustment to society than today.

Never before has the uneducated been placed at such a handicap. Witness the tra ining of army and navy personnel at our universities and realize full well the widespread recognition of the adjustment value of education to the normal individual. Those who fall out of the school system along the way, theirs will be a difficult strugg le through the complex maze of occupational requirements. Those who leave school because of intellectual retardation will be protected by society. But those who quit school because of emotional failure to adjust, their welfare will become the concern of society as they begin to fail to adjust again and again to life. It is with this latt er group that crime prevention must be greatest concerned and it is with this group that university courses in criminology and psychology must be directed.

But these are cursory observations gained during the infancy of Virginia 's latest social experiment. Many problems will be solved before many years roll by and still others will continue to defy the theories and obser vations of scientific workers in the field . If we look to the post-war world for which many brave Spider heroes are fighting, surely we have a right to promise that criminal behavior must be solved before the new peaceful society will be perfected.

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At least a dozen University of Richmond alumni wrote, edited, or illustrated books which were published during the past year.

Occupying the center place of honor in the University library exhibit was L ee's Lieutenants, th e work of Dr. Douglas S. Freeman , '04, rector of the board of trustees.

In the lit erary group are three women, Dr. Maude H . Woodfin , '16, who edited the second volume of William Byrd 's Diary ; Helen Monsell , ' 16, who has added Yottn g Stonewall, and Paddy's Christmas, to her list of popular books for children, and Ethel L. Smither, '15, whose Jesus and the Children has recently come from the press .

Prominent places in the exhibit wer e given to the new edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, illustrated by Warren Chappell , '26, and Free M en are Fighting , which contains articles by Charles Yates McDaniel, '27, among other Associated Press war correspondents.

Others in the exhibit are Simon Cameron Ante Bellttm Ye ars, by Dr. Lee F. Crippen, · 17; Reflections on Science and Ethics, written by Wilbur Spencer Sheriff , '28, for a volume of Philosophical Essays in honor of Edgar A. Singer , Jr. ; L ook H omeward Soldier, by the late Lt. Lee G. Crutchfield, Jr. , '32; Two-fold Powe r of the Gospel, the Rev. Clyde Hickerson , '2 0; Five Years of Probation and Parole, Luther A. Irby , Jr. , '31; Las Epistolas Gene ra/es, th e Rev. A. B. Rudd, D.D., '84, and Our Fighting Ships ,

by Mitchell D. Katz, Jr. , '3 7, and Edwin L. Levy, Jr., '38.

In commenting on the exhibit, Miss Lucy Throckmorton , University librarian , pointed out that th e institution's alumni includ ed Dr. R. E. Alley , ·22, editor of the R eligious H erald; Dr. Curtis Lee Laws, '91, editor of the Watchman Examiner, and Frieda M .

Dietz, '16, editor of the Sottthem Li terary Messenger. C. E. S. Ridgway , '35, is assistant editor of the Watchman Examiner.

U. of R.Men at S.B.T.S. Fourt een University of Richmond men are enrolled this session in Southern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary in Louisville .

They are: Edgar M. Arendall, '41; H arold 0. Bartlett, '30; William G. Bond , '37 ; Louis R. Broughman , '41; Winfred H. Elder, '41; Hat cher S. Elliott, ·40; Clyde T. Francisco, '39; William B. Gravatt, '4 1; Thomas 0.

Herndon , '42; Clyde B. Lipscomb , •40; Har old W. Parker , '4 2; Tony Russell Rea, '42; Alvin L. St. Clair, '41; Donald E. Trump , '38 .

SpiderNineGetsGoodPitching The University of Richmond baseball team, long on pitching but short on hitting, got off to an impressive start by winning the first three games on its collegiate schedule.

Io addition to their victories over Randolph-Macon, Hampden-Sydney, and Washington and Lee, the Spiders played surprisingly close games with the star-studded teams of the Norfolk Naval Training Station and the Norfolk Naval Air Base.

The Training Station nine which nosed out the Spiders 5 to 3 at Norfolk is coming to Richmond on May 1 for a game which should draw one of the largest crowds ever to witness a baseball contest in Virginia's capital city. The Sailors number among their players such stars as Dom Dimaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Benny McCoy (the lad who got $50,000 for signing with the Athletics) and such outstanding pitchers as Fred Hutchinson, Charlie Wagner, Walt Masterson, Tom Earley, and Maxie Wilson.

This major league talent impressed but didn't scare Mac Pitt's Spiders when they opened their season in Norfolk and they played the Sailors on even terms for seven innings. The score was tied at 3-all when Captain Al Wheeler left the mound after five innings of play and although the Sailors picked up two runs in the seventh off Sophomore Bob Houghton the Spiders battled all the way.

The team is a tribute to Mac Pitt who has done a great deal with the limited number of players available. Only twelve plavers remained after the Army, Navy and Marine Corps reservists had been called up. Several of these men, however, are unusually good college players and the Richmond battery certainly is the best in Virginia collegiate circles.

Wheeler heads the pitching staff which includes sophomores Lou Ciola of Norfolk and Bob Hou _ghton of Berryville. Also available if needed is the veteran Chester Bourne of Quantico, a left-hander, who has been stationed in right field because of his hitting ability.

Behind the plate the Spiders have an outstanding college catcher in Courtney Lawler of Clifton Forge. He has a remarkable throwing arm and is without an equal in Virginia in handling pop flies.

The Spiders are well fixed at first base where they have Louis (Weenie) Miller, an outstanding fielder and a creditable hitter, and the other members of the makeshift infield have been a pleasant surprise. Particularly brilliant has been the play of Tom Nichols, an outfielder who has bten shifted to shortstop. Marvin Cole of Richmond, an intramural product, is at second base and , Lou Ciola and Houghton alternate between third base and the mound. Nichols and Ciola hit well.

Another makeshift job, the outfield. has more than lived up to expectations defensively. The trio committed onlv one error in the first five _gameson the schec1ule and both Bourne in right field and Charlie Mattox of

Lynchburg, a freshman, in center, have hit opportunely. John Gleason, Salem sophomore, is in right field.

Wheeler's pitching and a two-run homer

by Miller were the features of the opener with the Training Station. The following afternoon Chester Bourne started for the Spiders against the Air Base and gave up one run in the first and then stayed out of trouble until the fourth when the Flyers got to him for four runs. Ciola took over in the fifth and held the opposition to a single tally the rest of the way. The Flyers won, 6 to L The Pittmen got only six hits but used them to advantage in defeating RandolphMacon 7 to 2, at Ashland. Houghton was the winning pitcher . Lyda who pitched for the Ash landers walked eight, and five errors by his supporting cast contributed to his downfall.

Wheeler and Roy Duncan of HampdenSydney hooked up in a magnificent pitching duel in the Spiders' next game which was won with two out in the ninth frame. Gleason scored from third after the catch of Weenie Miller's fly into left field. Hits were all even at 5 - 5, but Wheeler was the more impressive pitcher. He struck out 14 and walked none. Duncan gave four passes; struck out four .

Even more nerve-wracking was the Spiders' 4 to 2 victory over Washington and Lee the following afternoon. After spotting the opposition two runs, the Spiders tied up the game in the third and scored two more runs in the eighth. Tom Nichols' booming triple into center field was the big blow in the eighth. Bourne then lofted a fly into left field which was sufficiently deep to have scored Nichols if the catch had been made.

Roehl droooed the ball, however. Nichols scored and Bourne romped all the way to second base and scored on Mattox's timely single.

Io their three games against college op position the Spider hurlers limited the opposition to a total of only five runs and struck out 36 batsmen. Coupled with the airtight pitching was some excellent defensive work The pitching had to be good I The Spiders showed verv little power at the plate and averaged only six hits per game through their first five contests. As a result the pitchers had to bear down all the wav. Pitt hopes that his lads will sharpen their battio_g eves and boost their averages, but he bas little hopes for a great deal of power.

The schedule for the remainder of the season follows: April 28- Wi lliam and Mary, Wi lliamsburg.

Naval Training StaMay 1-Norfolk tion, City Stadium.

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"I talked so many times with Hank about the need of a building similar to Westhampton's on your side of the lake that I should like to send my birthday present for him as a contri- _ bution to that building. . . . " Enclosed was a check for the Rich-., mond College Social Center fund. j The letter was from Frances Cake, ~ '30, sister of Ensign Henry Cake, '41, = who perished in the Boston fire after an active military career as an officer with the Atlan tic fleet

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Jack Mabry, '45, a sophomore from Newport News, is one of the more than 100 University of Richmond undergraduates who have been called to the colors since February 15.

Jack left for home to spend a few days with his family before reporting for active duty.

While he was there a check arrived - from the University treasurer. It was in the sum of $80.00-a refund of fees for the second semester.

"Give it," Jack told his father, Dr. J. Hughes Mabry, ·oo, "to the Social Center Building."

In President Boatwright's mail one morning was a check from a retired Virgi nia minister. It was not a great deal of money but it was one-twelfth _ of the minister's annual income. I(A was his monthly pension check.

• "Use it," he wrote, "for the Social = Center Building."

The letter was signed by one of the most beloved of University of Richmond alumni, the Rev. T. Ryland Sanford, D.D., '03.

You can make your check payable to the Univers ity of Richmond.

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pects for the coming year were good in the light of the many changes and the demands upon the youth of the country. Several others used the occasion to speak of their indebtedness to the institution. President J. H. Franklin, '95, of Crozer Seminary, paid tribute to the splendid spirit of freedom in the classrooms. Dr. Franklin will move to Richmond at the close of the present session and live in a new home on the edge of the campus.

Plans were made for a similar meal at the next meeting of the General Association.

Rev. Harry Hubbard, '35, of Waynesboro, is chairman of the committee on arrangements.

Phi Beta Kappa

RoscoeRoy Spencer,D. Sc. Alma Mater conferred the degree of Doctor of Science upon Dr. Roscoe Roy Spencer, '09, of Washington at exercises in Cannon Memorial Chapel last month.

At the same time, the degree of Doctor f Laws was conferred upon Dabney S. Lancaster, State superintendent of public instruction for Virginia.

Both were lauded by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, '04, rector of the board of trustees.

He cited Dr. Spencer's investigations into the dreaded Rocky Mountain spotted fever and his discovery of a vaccine which won for him the American Medical Association's gold medal in 1930. He made reference also to Dr. Spencer's work in bubonic plague control and of his present duties at the National Cancer Institute of which he is assist-

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In the hooding ceremony, President Boatwright formally cited Dr. Spencer as follows : "Loyal alumnus of the University of Richmond, whose professional career has brought honor to alma mater; successful investigator of the secrets of nature on behalf of human health and welfare; public official above the schemes of politics or the lure of money, wholly consecrated to the service of his fellow men."

Two additional honorary degrees will be conferred at commencement upon President Samuel S. Hill, '17, of Georgetown College, Ky., and the Rev. Wade H. Bryant, pastor of the Barton Heights Baptist Church in Richmond. Both will receive D.D.'s.

U. of R. Breakfast More than eighty alumni and friends attended the University of Richmond breakfast at the Virginian Hotel, in Lynchburg, on Tuesday morning, February 23. The hotel management had made adequate arrangements to serve the meal, but the waiters failed to make their appearance in the dining room that morning. Everybody gave a helping hand so that tables were quickly put in place and when volunteers were called for, several men renewed their experie nces of college days by helping with the service. jlihat at first appeared to be cause for disWder and regret became a happy circumstance. Everybody shared in the spirit of

goodwill, and, in spite of the delay, breakfast was served and enjoyed. Rev. W. Rush Loving, '21, of Richmond, had charge of the sale of tickets and helped with arrangements.

President Boatwright told about tentative plans which the University of Richmond had with the United States Government whereby the faculty and buildings of the school would be used for special work under the supervision of the Navy. He said that the war service rendered by the University of Richmond would not stop the regular classes which will meet at Westhampton College.

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Alumni membership in Phi Beta Kappa was bestowed upon Representative A. Willis Robertson , '07; Jacob Billikopf, '02, and the Rev. J. William Decker, D.D., '11, at the honor society's annual dinner in Richmond on April 1.

Typical of the times is the fact that of the 17 "undergraduates" elected six received their degrees either in January or at the last summer session. The six are John Laws Decker, '42, Dr. Decker's son, who is now in the Navy; Army Aviation Cadet James Barnett, III, '42, who is stationed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert M. Hathaway, '43, a Naval Aviation Cadet who is stationed at Ellisville, Miss. ; Robert J. Filer, '42, who is enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary; Walter W. Haden, '43, a chemistry major who is engaged in defense industry, and Rowland H. Burns, '43, who enters medical college this month.

The initiation of members preceded the banquet which was addressed by Dr. Edwin Mims, professor emeritus of English at Vanderbilt University.

AlumniDay The home guard will carry on as usual with Alumni Day activities May 22nd.

Unfortunately, no pressing invitation can be extended to the out-of-town ol' grads who would have to make use of already overburdened transportation facilities.

The curtailed program probably will consist of informal athletic events and the annual dinner in Millhiser Gymnasium for alumni who live in and near Richmond.

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Class of '97 The Rev. Charles G. McDaniel, '97, who served 40 years in China as a missionary of the Southern Baptist convention, has returned to the United States and is making his hom e in Richmond. He has been in constant demand as a speaker and has given vivid accounts of the Japanese invasion of China .

Class of '00 Adon A. Yoder, '00 , in addition to writing news, advertis ing , and editorial matter for three poultry publications, sings the praises of Auburn, California, high up above the Sacramento Valley . "Wi th my first family, of three boys, grown up and with families of their own," he writes, "I am raising my second brood of four lively yougsters, one boy and three girls, all younger than my oldest boy's children." He has one son in the Army , one in the Navy, and his only grandson old enough to get in is at 17 the youngest staff-sergeant in the Marine s.

Class of' 16 Oliver A . Pollard, '16, has been appointed commonwealth's attorney of Petersburg, Va. for the unexpired term of the late Charles E. Pollard which will run until December 31, 1945 . For 26 years a practicing attorney in Petersburg, Mr. Pollard is a past president of the Petersburg Bar Association.

Class of '20 The Rev. Norman F. Jacobs , '20, has become pastor of the Scottsburg Baptist Church in Halifax County, Va .

Class of '21 G . Keith Taylor, '21, is now located at Ashland, Ky. He is engaged in work in one of the new ordnance_ plants across the river in Ohio.

Class of '22 A busy man is Joseph Rotella, '22, who is principal of Battlefield Park High School in Hanover County, Va., serves as pastor of two churches and still finds time to run a 70-acre farm .

President Curtis V. Bishop , '22, of Averett College has been doubly honored by his election as president of the Southern Association of Junior Colleges and by his selection by the trustees of Furman Uni-

Class of '09 The Rev. Beecher L. Rhodes , D.D. , '09, was recent ly honored by election as president of the Crozer Alumni Society of Virginia.

Both Dr. Rhodes and Mrs . Rhodes were honored on February 7, when Berkley Avenue Baptist Church of Norfolk celebrated Dr. Rhod es' 20th an niver sary as pastor. A $100 war bond was presented to the pastor and another to Mrs. Rhode s.

Class of '23 Edgar M. Johnson, '23, a member of the State Teachers College faculty at Farmville, received his M.A . degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, last December.

The Rev. W. T. Vandever, '23, of Erie _ Pa. has been elected president of the Penisylvania Crozer Seminary Alumni Society.

Arthur W. James, '23, former State Commissioner of Public Welfare for Virginia, has been appointed State security officer for Virginia for the United States Office of Civi lian Defense.

Class of '26 John U. Tatum, '26, has been named Southeastern District Service manager for the Graybar Electric Company .

M. Ray Doubles, '26, has accepted the appointment of acting assistant attorney general of Virginia. He will serve in a temporary, part-time capacity to help carry on the work of the attorney general's office during the war and will retain his position as dean of the University of Richmond law school.

Class of '27 Born: William T. T. Logan , on October 10, in Baltimore to Martin J., '27, and Mrs. Logan .

Dr. Fred W. Wenzel, Jr. , '27, is at Michigan State College where he is doing research in food technology under an industrial fellowship established by the C. F. Sauer Co. of Richmond . He received his Ph.D. in food technology from Massachusetts State College last June .

Class of '28 The Rev. H . Otis Mayhew, '28, became pastor of the Fulton Avenue Baptist Church of Baltimore on February 1st.

Class of '30 Married: Edith Batchelor Hancock and Lt. John Marshall Moseley, '30, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church , Richmond , on December 31.

Dr. Alfred Steiner, '30, has turned down an offer to be Haile Selassi's personal physician. Dr. Steiner, who has returned to th e United States after spending 11 months with the United States North African Mission, said Selassi was enlightened and inter ested in educating his people but that conditions there are shockingly primitive. In discussing the African situation, Dr. Steiner said the natives didn 't seem to care who won the war because their great battle is with the elements in trying to win enough bread for their existence. However , they liked the American men of arms because of their generosity.

Dr. Steiner 's work was with the setting up of a base hospital in Africa. So well did he and his associates do their job that the mor tality rate behind the lines was less than oA per cent. Malaria was the worst enemy.

W Engaged: Margaret Eleanor Mitchell and

Class of '12 Captain S. S. Cook, '12, of the Navy Medical Corps is serv ing as chief medical officer of the Tenth Naval Di strict , San Juan, Puerto Rico. An authority on tropical diseases, he is credited with solving the malaria problem at Quantico Marine Base with finely powdered paris green dropp ed from airplanes flying low over the swamp land s.

He was stat ioned in the Canal Zone during the construction of the Panama Canal and during the period of the Marine occupation of Haiti was director of the General Public Health Service. He has served in China, and during World War I was 111 command of the Mobile Base Hospital at

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Pvt. Louis A. Onesty, '30. Since his enlistment, Pvt. Onesty has been affiliated with the military department of the Staunton Military Academy where he has been a member of the coaching staff for the past five years.

Class of' 32 Alice Gillespie and William Carey Newton, '32, USNR, were married on November

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John B. Hening, '34, is serving as placement officer in the Service Operations Office of the Office for Emergency Management in Washington. In his duties he helps staff an agency which in turn serves 14 national war agencies.

Class of' 35

John Franklin Wall, '35, is load dispatcher for the West Penn Power Co. at Pittsburgh.

A daughter, Judith Cleo, was born July 18 to Lt. A. J., '35, and Mrs. Baroody. Lt. Baroody is stationed in the Captain of Yards office of the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. Lt. David E. Bass, Jr., '35, of the Army Air Force and Miss Sue Hurt of Drakes Branch, Va. were married February 4 at Lakeland, Fla. Lt. Bass is stationed at Drane Field, Lakeland.

Class of' 39

Married: Jacquelin Temple Branch and Wilson Eustace Reams, Jr., '39, on December 26 in the First Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg, S. C. Married: Mary Ellsworth Kay hoe and Lt. Eugene W. Ford, '39, on February 24 in the First Baptist Church in Richmond. Lt. Ford was recently graduated from Quartermasters Officer Candidate School at Fort Warren, Wyo. Ensign David Meade White, '39, and Carolyn Elizabeth McEldowney, were married in Gulfport, Miss. on Sept. 11.

Dorothy Maye Bennett, was the recent bride of Ensign Kenneth L. Black, Jr., '39.

Married: Marilyn Morris and Lt. F. M. O'Connor, '39, on March 20 at Selma, Ala. Margaret Gaffney Douville and Ensign Roderick Lee O'Flaherty, '39, were married recently in Richmond.

Mary Ellsworth Kayhoe and Lt. Eugene W. Ford, '39, were married recently in Richmond.

Mattie Virginia Hoyle of Richmond and Flight Officer Samuel A. Irby, '39, of the Army Air Force, were married February 10 in Sedalia, Mo. Flight Officer Irby is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Herbert S. Marks, '39, and Hortense Edwards of Rocky Mount, N. C., were married on August 20. Mr. Marks entered the army last month as an aviation cadet to specialize in aerial photography.

When Marguerite Elizabeth Johnson ot Farmville, N. C. and William Ward Kersey , Jr., '41, of Bluefield, W. Va., were married on January 16 the ceremony was held in the Egyptian building of the Medical Col'twas there they lege of Virginia-lxcause first met . Both are sophomore medical students.

Class of '42

Nancy Kent DuVal and Lt. Donald W_ Howe, '42, were married January 18, at Grace-Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond.

Engaged: Lelia Bondurant Pierce and Richard C. Klaffky, '42, of Huntington , N .

Y. Engaged: Ethel Levine, '42, and Milton Bass, '44, USNR. Mary Daniel Lovern of Forest Hill and Ensign Fred Claude Forberg, '42, were married February 19, at the Broad Street Methodist Church in Richmond.

Class of '44

Engaged: Dorothy Wells and Lt. Norman Macfarland Torrence, '44, of the Army Air Force.

Class of '45

Engaged: Ida Marie Harris and Lt. Gor don W. Thurston, '45, of the Army Air Corps. Lt. Thurston is now stationed with the Air Transport Command in Wilmington , Del.

Class of' 36

Married: Mary Beverly Baptist of Boydton, Va., and Lt. Hugh Latimer Cardozo, Jr., '36, of Richmond on February 6 in St. James Episcopal Church, Boydton.

John C. Edwards, '36, and Ruth StephenEdwards, '37, and their son and daughter, are now living in Portsmouth where Mr. Edwards is an assistant chemist in the Norfolk Navy Yard.

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The Rev. William L. Lumpkin, '37, has become pastor of the Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington, Va. Married: Marian Sharwood and Lieut.

Mitchell D. Katz, Jr., '37, in the Army Chapel, Nautilus Hotel, Miami.

Doris Lillian Schepp and Joseph L. Pittore, '3 7, were married January 16 in Bronxville, N. Y. Mr. Pittore who has law offices in White Plains is secretary and treasurer of the Recreation Commission of the Town of Eastchester. He won the 1942 annual Westchester Bar Association go! f tournament.

Lt. (jg) Stanford C. Finney, '37, and Louise Felkel of Anderson, S. C. were married on November 15. Lt. Finney is stationed at Boston.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nicholson Jones announce the engagement of their daughter, Jean Edmonds, to Captain Robert Arthur Vaughan , '37, of the Army Air Corps.

Class of '40

Married: Fentress Bennett Matthews of Kenbridge, Va. and Joseph Douglas Sims of Richmond, '40, on February 11.

Two Richmonders were married on August 23-Lt. Roy C. Parks, Jr., '40, of Richmond, Va., and Truth Virginia Boughter of Richmond , Calif. Lt. Parks is now in New Guinea.

Married: Evelyn Sanderson Smoak and Sergeant Henry Madison Lewter, Jr., '40, in Woodland Heights Baptist Church, Richmond.

Colonel and Mrs. Godfrey Cheshire of Fort George G. Meade, Md. and Raleigh, N. C. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Emily Shiell, to Ensign Walter Scott Townsend, '40, of Petersburg.

Nancy Jane Sellers of Rocky Mt., N. C. and Lt. Russell E. Herring, Jr., '40, were married February 20 in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Lt. Herrin g is stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss.

Katharine Harriett Fraser of Memphis and Lt. Robert Emmett Reid, Jr., '40, were married February 13 at the First Presbyterian Church in Sebring, Fla. Lt. Reid is stationed at the Army Air Base there.

Evelyn Fitzgerald Duncan of Warrenton is soon to become the bride of Pvt. Sadi James Mase, '40. The wedding will be held in New York.

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The Rev. Harry T. James, '38, and Mrs. announce the birth of Harry, Jr. on ,.mes Thanksgiving Day, November 26.

Married: Lucille Loving Webb and Dr. William Watkins Walton, '41, on February 13 at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond.

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WILLIAM ROBERT FITZGERALD, '87, for 17 years president of the American National Bank and Trust Company of Danville, succumbed to a stroke of paralysis on January 11. He was 77 years old. After his education at the University of Richmond and V.P.I., he entered the warehouse business in Danville and became secretary-treasurer of the Danville Warehouse Association.

He served overseas with the Y.M .C.A. in the first World War. Upon his return to Danville, he was elected president of the Agricultural Credit Corporation, an agency sponsored by the Danville Chamber of Commerce to assist farmers to finance their crops during the depression years. In 1925 he was named president of the American Bank.

REV. J. G. DICKINSON, D.D., '88, died December 8 in Evergreen, Alabama-the State to which he gave his entire ministerial service after his graduation from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was a native of Louisa County, Va., from which he attended the University of Richmond.

REV. WILLIAM RANDOLPH KEEFE, '92, died in the Baptist Hospital at Atlanta on December 20 after an active ministry of 45 years. His body was buried at Chatham, Va. After his education at the University of Richmond and Crozer Theological Seminary , he served pastorates in York, Pittsylvania, (Continued on page 16)

Class of '23

Sally Davis writes about her war activities: "I was at the Music Box Canteen for several months. It was very interesting work .

My own company, Eastern S.S. Lines, is quite busy with the handling of Liberty ships for the War Shipping Administration and also looking after its own fleet which was turned over to the Government over a year ago."

Class of '25

Margaret Taylor Chamblin 's son, Minor Humphrey Chamblin, celebrated his first birthday on February 16th .

Cathryn Henna has distinguished herself as a social worker with the American Red Cross. When we got this news she was in New York, preparing to sail for overseas duty.

Class of '27

Dear Class of '27: I know you are all delighted with The First Thousand. From the book I find that twenty nine of us live in Virginia and the other twenty-three are scattered in fourteen different states, the District of Columbia, and South America . We begin in Maine with Edna Lawrence and go across the country to Janet Hall Parsons (Mrs. G. S.) in California, while Emma Crosland Simonson (Mrs. W. N.) is our goodwill representative in Brazil , where her husband is a Presbyterian missionary . I am glad to have addresses more recent than some of those I had, although I'm sure by now many have already changed. For example, Saxon Rowe Carver (Mrs . George A.) is in Hightstown, New Jersey where her husband is teaching in the Peddie School. They plan to continue their work in China as soon as missionaries are allowed to return to their posts. Dorothy Daughtrey Anderson (Mrs. C. P.), too, has moved recently into a new home. She is thrilled with the house and the new equipment so generously furnished by their chur ch, the Fulton Baptist in Richmond.

Our sympathy goes out to Dorothy Ryce Gunn (Mrs. L. B.) who lost her mother last summer, and, also, to Sally Winfree whose father died about the same time. Then, too , I've been thinking of Virginia McDaniel Cone (Mrs. Richard M.) whose husband lost his life while serving with the Air Corps in Australia . We have been proud to read of the bravery of Virginia's brother, Charles Yates McDaniel , war correspondent. I am sure that she is showing the same quality of Christian courage as she cares for her three children , the youngest · born a few weeks after its father's death.

Just before Christmas I had a delightful visit with Miss Harris. She is very much inter ested in '27 . We were trying to think of some way for those of us around Richmond to get together. With transportation

as it is and every day filled with work, we could not make definite plans. Your suggestions would be appreciated. Louise Wright Slaughter (Mrs. W . E.) asked about a round robin. I feel that this would be fine and that our letters, besides giving news of our work and families, should include our convictions of the kind of world we are fighting for and just what each of us is doing to lay the foundations for that world .

Sincerely, CECYLELOVINGHACKENDORF. Class of '28

Louise Eubank Grey has a new baby-a son, Douglas Temple Grey, born on December 24, 1942.

Class of '29

Louise Hardaway Boswell has a third child, a son, born in November. His name is John MacLean Boswell .

Ruth Cox Jones, also, has a new son, named Douglas, born in December.

Mary Richardson Butterworth's husband is a captain in the Medical Corps and is still stationed at Camp Lee. The following item is taken from the Springfield Daily News of January 19, 1943: "Mrs. Doris Turnbull Wood, director of placements at Springfield College since 1940, was sworn in as a WAVE in Boston last week and is awaiting her call to attend the officers' training school at Smith College, it was announced from the college yesterday.

During the past year Mrs. Wood has been instrumental in obtaining commissions for many students at Springfield College and has assisted hundreds of others as well as alumni in enlisting in the various reserves and special branches.

Mrs. Wood, who lives on Worthington Street, was born in Ilion, N . Y., attended Syracuse High School and received her B.A. from the University of Richmond, Va., in 1929. A master's degree will be conferred on her next month at the Teachers College of Columbia University. For several years she was engaged in personnel work in the Office of Placement Service at Columbia prior to coming to Springfield to take charge of the placement office at the local college."

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Dear Class of ' 30 : This note is an extending of news and at the same time a plea for more news. THE ALUMNI BULLETINis the one concrete way of keeping us in touch during this stay-athome period, and you don't know how good it is to get word of you that can be passed along here .

The '30 Richmonders are doing their bit with war work: Gladys Smith helps at the Filter Center, Jean Collier and Elsie McClintic give time to the U. S. 0., and Dottie

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Abbott Wood and Jean were co-chairmen of the A. A. U . W. supper at the U. S. 0.

A letter from Grace Watkins Lampson gives us news of Priscilla Kirkpatrick. Pat is now in Washington, D. C. (3130 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) where her husband is Colonel John Millea . Grace is busily engaged in bringing up young "Mickey" who, by the way, took his first steps at Christmas time.

A Both Katherine Tyler Ellett and "Kriss}W Lowe Logan have been visitors to Richmond with respective families during the last few months. All goes well with them.

Margaret Oliver and her husband (Lieutenant Horace Saunders) are stationed in Memphis, Tenn. '(154 N. Cooper, Apt. 1).

Our deepest sympathy goes to Cakie for the loss of her brother Henry in the tragic Boston fire.

Helen Harwood Parr is living in Dinwiddie, where her husband is principal of the school. Helen has been doing some substitute teaching to help during the teacher shortage.

Contributions are in order to the Alumnae Fund. I know the Alumnae Secretary will be pleased to have yours come in.

With best wishes to you all, ALICE RICHARDSONCONNELL, 1402 Sauer Ave ., Richmond, Va. Class of' 32

Helen Pollard Deck, 4004 Kensington Ave., Richmond, had a son born on February 8th, weighing nine pounds, two ounces. His name is John Franklin Deck. They now have a girl and a boy.

Virginia Jones Pharr is now living in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She and her soA James M. Pharr, Jr., went there to join hhusband who is with the United States Army stationed at Camp Edwards.

Evelyn Gardner Ward (Mrs . N. P., III) has moved to California with her two children to be with her husband, a major in the Army, now on desert maneuvers.

Caroline Thompson Broaddus (Mrs .

Charles) has moved back to Glenburnie on Willow Lawn Road.

Class of '33

The class of ·33 is very busy these days with preparations for the reunion. We had a meeting on March 4 at the home of Mary Lou Tyler Prichard, the general chairman.

Most of the plans were made during the blackout. Kathryn Harris Hardy, Archie Fowlkes, Foy Gunter Harris, Camilla Jeffries, and Isabel Taliaferro were present.

The following committee chairmen were chosen : Camilla Jeffries, Publicity; Marian West .and Gertrude Dyson, Scrapbook, Etta Whitehead Nachman, Luncheon; and Ann Dickinson Welch, Tea. By this time you should have received a letter from one of the Richmond girls requesting all kinds of information for the Scrapbook. And we want pictures of your family and you, especially. If you don't sencA picture we'll cut an old one out of the AnnulP' - and nobody wants that done! The dead-

line for this intormation is absolutely April 15.

If you have any pet ideas about how a reunion should be "done" let Mary Lou know-she lives at 2404 Grove Ave., Richmond, Va. Class of' 35

Daniel Harrington Hunt, called "Danny," born September 29th to Alice Harring• n Hunt (Mrs. Richard W.) in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Dick (Tufts College) is in Defense work.

Mary Harrington is working for the Army in a secretarial position for the duration.

After the war she and Mitchell Otash of Massachusetts will be married. Mitchell is now somewhere with the Armed Forces.

Dot Nalle, "Billie" Schwartz, and Mary Harrington, '35, Rosalie Clary and Ethne Flannagan, '42, are doing Red Cross work at night, making surgical dressings.

Jessie Neale was with the first group to be trained for WAAC officers at Fort Des Moines last June. She graduated as a 3rd officer in August. By 1943 she had become a 2nd officer. That was wonderful news. And now, just before we went to press, we got a telegram saying she became Jessie Neale Jensen on March 19th. He's a lieutenant in the Army. They are very happy.

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Sarah Covey Bradford (Mrs. John A.) has a daughter, Jean Covey, born October 2nd.

Judith Hodges Schulte (Mrs. Harold F.) is now living at 19958 Irvington Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Her husband, Harold, is *aged in "war work." .Alice Pugh Bartz, who since last November has been Children's Librarian of the largest branch library in Philadelphia, is leaving April 1st to join her husband in New Jersey.

Class of' 37

Ruth Stephenson Edwards (Mrs. John C.) and her husband have a young daughter, born on September 17, 1942. Her name is Alice Elizabeth. Their present address is 209 Garrett St., Portsmouth, Va. · On Monday, the fifteenth of March Mildred (Peggy) Louthan was married to Richard Thomas Shepherd.

Class of '38

Ernestine Akers is in the Cryptogram Service of the Government and is living in Brownsville, Texas-writes that she is enjoying the "sunny South."

Julia McClure on January 18th became the bride of Lt. Stephen Warner Dunwell, U. S. Signal Corps. He attended Antioch College, and is from Plainwell, Mich. They are making their home in Arlington, Va., at 20 Old Glebe Road.

Nancy Orthey Rowan is now living in her home town, Emporia, Va. with her aunt ••07 N. Main St. Her husband, after gethis commission as First Lt. in the Mae Corps Reserve; was sent overseas.

Adele Maxie is now Mrs. Burwell Rid-

dick. She was married Dec. 3rd. Her husband is in the Army, and she is still working in Richmond with Western Union .

Hilda Kirby and Ruth Ruffin have accepted foreign service as cryptographers for the Government. Their whereabouts is not to be disclosed, but their mail is sent to Miami. They share an apartment and write that they revel in the tropics while we fight off icicles.

Olive Messer Lewis has returned from Florida and at present she and the baby are living with her parents at University Heights They plan to go back to Tappahannock in the near future.

Jo Ann Kent Bouchard has a new address, Del Rey Apartments, No. 10, 212 Washington Avenue, Towson, Maryland.

Emily Cudd was married on March 9th to Lt. James Creal, U.S.A. in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Class of '39

Look what the stork brought !-A son, on December 21st to Jackie and her husband .

His name is John Faulkner Dixon. To Scotty and Petey, on December 23rd, a son, Malcolm Campbell Jacobs. And a son to Elizabeth Davis and Oscar Wooldridge, on February 16th, named Robert Thomas Wooldridge.

Jane Langley is now working for the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Norfolk. She loves it!

Mr. and Mrs. Julian Ellett (Marian Wiley) have been transferred to Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. and Mrs. Frantz Hershey, Jr. and their daughter, Ann Beverley Hershey, born June 3, 1942, were recent guests of her parents. The Hersheys are now living in Boston, Massachusetts.

Evaline and Monroe Wells have a baby girl, Evamon Fernley, born just before Monroe had to leave for the Air Force in February.

Sarah Virginia Elliott Bowen (Mrs. Bruce) now lives at 5618 Ready Avenue, Baltimore. They have a young daughter.

Class of '40

Dear Forties: Congratulations are in order . . . So, here's to you Maude Smith Jurgens on the birth of your second baby girl. Yes, Corliss Jurgens was born on February the 20th, and is "qu ite a beauty"-to quote Proud Papa Fred. She and her baby-cup-winner sister, Carol Ann, are our two representatives of the next generation at Westhampton.

Say, you forties are shining forth. Those bright lights are sparkling on third fingers -left hands. We have six new diamonds ( and by the time this is published there will probably be even more . . . they are appearing so rapidly these days.) Ens. John Jordan made Marie Keyser left-hand-conscious for quite a while after the first of the year. Margaret Ligon was given her sparkler

by Sgt. Wesley Bernhart who is now stationed in Mississippi . Those wedding bells will probably ring out for Janet Gresham pretty soon if the ring she recently got from Lt.

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Billy Manson is anything to judge by. Her engagement was announced not so long ago.

Two more wearers of the diamond , Florence Parker whose fiance, Lt. Bob Quinn, is now in Texas, and Saddye Sykes, are keeping quiet about their plans.

We now have one member in the armed service of our country. Margaret Brinson is the first of the Forties to join up. She's a WAAC, 3rd Officer (I think thats what they call a second lieutenant, n' est-ce-pas?), and is stationed in Norfolk. We're proud of you, Brinson.

Emma Lou Parsons has changed jobs and is now with the Travelers Aid. She works alternately at Broad and Main Street Stations, and is really enjoying her work. She say it's "most interesting."

Libby Johnson and Harriett Yeamans had a marvelous idea recently, and arranged for a '40 get-together-luncheon at the John Marshall. About 23 of the Richmond girls were there, among them were Betty Scherer Miles, Anne Ellis Harrison, and Connie Attkisson Holloway all lamenting the fact that their husbands were away somewhere in the army and navy. Mildred Gustafson Don ohue (who is now working for the state) joined in on that chorus. Annabel Lumpkin Hessel on the contrary was all smiles. She was just about to leave for San Francisco to meet Red. Honestly, there was a marvelous turn out at the luncheon . . . and a good time was had by all.

Please let me hear from you so I'll know what's going on in your lives. . . .

Love, DELL.

Class of '41

Edith Burfoot Lovig (Mrs. Larry) wrote to tell us of the arrival of young Larry, III, on November 17th. Edith is terribly proud and so is Larry ( now a full lieutenant, USN) , although he is at sea and has not yet seen his son. Edith says, ". . . 1943 finds me as always anticipating shore duty.

"My life as a Navy wife has literally taken me from Maine to California, but my enthusiasm for traveling was somewhat dampened after making a cross-country trip -only to miss Larry by one day. But c'est la guerrei

"I saw Annabel Lumpkin Hessel quite a bit in California and we were really birds of a feather - waiting in vain for our fighting husbands. One really appreciates running into a former Westhamptonite !"

We have others in the "Service Set." Ann Woodward Courtney (Mrs. Robert) is now with Bobby in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Tony Wirth Whittet's husband, Mac, is now a technical sergeant at Fort Monmouth. Their address is 219 Broad St., Red Band, N . J. Incidentally, they recently visited in Richmond. Gin Omohundro Purcell has moved to live near the Army camp where her husband is stationed.

We have a hard time keeping up with '4 1 weddings and engagements. Here are a few of the more recent ones : Frances Wiley is engaged to Jimmy Harris (Richmond Col lege, '41). They hope the wedding will be in

June . Jimmy is studying in New York at present. Marian Rawls is now Mrs. Richard Waymack. Helen Hill played at their wed ding. H elen was also a bridesmaid along with Pat Walford in the wedding of Sparks Brewer and Ensign Wilkinson Holland.

War jobs are attracting more of our members. Kitty Crawford leaves on April 10th to take the WAVE officer training course Teeny just finished. Sarajayne Payne is taking the preliminary tests for the WAVES. Cecile Gaddis now discloses the nature of her confidential work-Office of Censorship. Babe Riley left school-teaching to take a Civil Service job with the Signal Corps in Arlington. Connie Powell is with the Finance Department of the U. S. Army .

In volunteer work, Helen Hill gives time and energy to the Motor Corps and Jean Neasmith, to the USO.

Class of '42 Dear 42's: Wedding bells again! By now you've probably heard the latest additions to our list of brides: Ada Moss and Anne Shafer. Ada was married to William Maupin Harlow on January 29. Bill is in the Army now , stationed at Camp Pickett. Anne became Mrs .

Hiram Bissell Carey, Jr. , on February 13.

They're living in Farmington, Connecticut , where "Pete" ( i.e., Hiram) has recently set up law practice .

Gene Woodfin was one of Anne's bridesmaids. She is teaching at St. Margaret's, Tappahannock, and loves everything about it-even registering people for ration books.

Like Gene, Alice-Grey Simpson is teaching physical ed. She writes that she has just recovered from measles-which, she says, is a mere nothing. She's been fully expecting to sprain a couple of ankles or do something to that knee. . . .

"Badenoch" is snowed under with "millions " of Spanish, Biology, and P .E. papers to grade. She says that nothing especially exciting is going on in Marion, that "far off spot in the southwest."

Ethne Flanagan is still enjoying her teaching at Glen Allen . Did you know she and Higgie (Leland Higginbotham) are engage d? He is attending the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in N. Y. Jimmie Franklin likes teaching too-she 's in South Norfolk - but she's looking forward to joining the WAACs next summer. And speaking of " joining up," on February 22 Ann Gwaltney left for the Naval Training School at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she will become an apprentice seaman. From there she hopes to go into photography work for the WAVES. "Try ing to find out what makes a depart ment store tick " is keeping Lila Wicker well occupied. She's at the Simmon's School of Prince College and is sent out from there on interesting assignments in various stores in Boston and elsewhere.

Sally Gonzalez finished up her course at Pan-American several months ago and is working as a Junior Stenographer for the U. S. Department of Commerce. Annie Loie Walker and Norma Palmer are taking secre-

tarial courses at Pan-American School now.

Marjorie Wilson has recently started work for the U . S. Engineering Corporation, in Richmond. And "Engineering" reminds me of Frances Calisch who is a Senior Engineering Draftsman for the Virginia State Highway Department. She's spending many of her leisure ( ?) hours on air raid watch squad work and USO duties.

If you' re interested in a good interpretation of Picasso and his brethren, Lillian Jung can probably help you out. She has joined the staff of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has an interesting variety of duties, including those of receptionist .

Rosellen Hoffman is working as a com puter at Langley Field, and writes that in addition to other items, she is carefully "computing" her annual leave, with the hope of visiting Mac (Davis) soon. He's in the Army, so they have set no date for the wedding. You knew she was wearing his diamond, didn't you?

Jayne Massie writes that housekeeping is "all right" ( and admits cooking is really fun) but says she doesn't do any more of these than necessary! Instead, she spends many of her day-time hours at Red Cross work rooms and with her troup of 40 girl scouts. She and Edmond are working hard at evening Civilian Defense Classes.

Guess what? The world premier of Hoffman and MacMurtry' s first independent puppet opus is scheduled for some time this spring. It will be presented in The Hoff1:1an Cellar, and further information regarding the showing may be obtained from either member of the partnership.

In addition to the puppet business ( !)

Mary is working 30 hours a week for the Norcross Greeting Card Company and untold hours for the O.C.D. She is planning to take a course in cartography and photography.

Betty Ann Shackelford declares that we would "s imply be amazed" at her domestic abilities . She and Shack are still at Quantico.

Andy Jackson, Jean's husband, has been overseas for some months now and Jean is making her home with her parents in Atlanta. She's working hard as a Red Cross Nurse 's Aide.

Eunice Bass Browning's husband, also in the service, is still in this country, and she has spent the winter in Sparta, Wisconsin, to be near him at Camp McCoy. Did you know that Virginia Mayo is in Richmond now? She's working for the photography department at Thalhimer' s and is living at 2003 West Grace Street.

Those of you who asked me to write about myself may really be letting yourselves in for something, because when I get started about my job, there's no telling when I'll stop.

I've recently had a real break: the Major's secretary resigned and I fell heir to her place. The work is unusually interesting and rm beginning to feel like a bona fide Manne.

Remember our "Chinese Child?" Betty Sessler just called to say that we had belated Christmas greetings from him and asked me to pass them on to you- with Wong Pu Kong's best wishes .

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And here are mine too. Do drop me a line occasionally with news about yourselves.

Sincerely, ROSALIE.

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and Culpeper counties, Va., and at Newport__ News.

DR. CLIFTON MEREDITH MILLE,,.

'92, a leading physician in Richmond for many years, died February 22 at his home in Richmond at the age of 69. A native of Richmond, he attended the University of Richmond and the Medical College of Virginia and then interned in the United States Marine Hospital in Boston. He returned to Richmond where he taught in the Medical College of Virginia and entered private practice as a specialist. He was one of the founders of Stuart Circle Hospital. His honors include the governorship of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia, 21 years of service on the Richmond School Board, and membership on the Common Council.

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THOMAS WALKER LIPSCOMB, '95, for many years a practicing attorney in Rome, Ga., and Asheville, N. C., died March 1 7 in a Richmond hospital at the age of 68. He served as mayor of Rome and was a trustee of Shorter College and Darlington School for boys. He moved to Asheville 15 years ago.

CAPTAIN BEVERLEY MERCER HARTMAN, '99, a veteran of the SpanishAmerican war, died January 2 in Amelia , Va. ERNEST H. WILLIAMS, '02, Smithfie.

Va., attorney and chairman of the Isle of Wight Democratic Executive Committee, died March 3. He was 64 years old.

REV. RAYMOND FOWLER STAPLES, '03, died December 9 in Asheville, N. C., where he had lived since his retirement from the ministry in 1936. He was 66 years old.

A native of Portsmouth, Va., he attended Windsor Academy, the University of Richmond, and Crozer Theological Seminary. He served pastorates in Orange, Luray, Emporia, Parksley, and Cheriton, Va., before going to Ridgecrest, N. C. as manager of the Southern Baptist Assembly in 1925. He remained there until 1936 when he retired from the ministry. He was instrumental in the reopening of the Black Mountain Bank in 1931 and served on its board of directors.

MORGAN L. COMBS, JR., '3 9, principal of Oak Grove High School, Va., died at his home in Fredericksburg on January 1 at the age of 24. Formerly in officers' training school of the United States Naval Reserves, he was discharged because of ill health. Continued ill health prevented his enlistment in any other branch of the armed forces.

LT. EARL LEWIS NOBLE, JR., '42 (Se<: page 3). , CADET ELMSLIE BAYLEY MING EN, '42, ("Seepage 3).

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aggressiveness, returned all five and succeeded in destroying at least four of the enemy fighters before finding a refuge in a cloud bank."

Lt. Roy C. Parks, Jr., '4 0, was reported in press dispatches from New Guinea to have been a member of the crew of a Liberator bomber that recently scored a direct hit on a large enemy transport, a near miss on anot her ship and destroyed five of a group of Japanese Zeros that had arisen to attack the plane.

Another Spider who has seen a lot of action is Lt. Warren Townsend, Jr., '38, USNR, who has been in the Southwest Pacific area during most of the stormy months since Pearl Harbor. He was home in Richmond recently for a well deserved rest before returning to the wars. He's a "Short Snorter," a distinction reserved for those who have flown over an ocean with at least three other Short Snorters.

To another Spider, Milton Joel , '40, goes the honor of being, at

Army Lt. Stuart L. Alexander, '38 Lt. H. C. All en, Jr., '37 Pvt. Herbert A. Atkins, Jr. , '44, Air Corps Pvt. Lloyd D. Ballowe, '3 5 Cpl. Joh1-1M . Bareford , '4 0 Pvt. William T. Bareford, '43 Cadet James H. Barnett, III , '42, Air Corps Forrest W. Brown, Jr., '44 . W alter T. Bruce, Jr., '46 . Morris E. Cather, Jr., '46 Pvt. D. Charles Chapman, '4-6 Pvt. James S. Charlton, '46

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23, the youngest major at his Air Corps post at Pendleton, Ore. He has been commander of a fighter squadron since October.

What may be the Spiders' only father-son team in World War II is composed of the Rev. J.C. Wicker, ' 19, and Ensign Tivis Wicker, '41. Chaplain Wicker who reenters the service as a Lt . Commander served in the navy air forces during the last world war.

Belated recognition of "bravery of the highest order," has resulted in the award to Lt. Col. William R. Silvey, '17, of the Silver Star.

The award, recommended 24 years ago by his commanding officer in the First World War, was executed recently at ceremonies at Governor 's Island, N . Y. Col. Silvey is now attached to head quarters of the Eastern D efense Command and First Army at Governor's Island .

Tales of valor will continue to be written in the skies, on th e land, on the sea, and beneath the surface of the sea as University of Richmond men fight on in the uniforms of the Army, Navy, and Marines .

There follows a listing of military names not previously reported :

Pvt. Garland L. Clark e, '44, Air Corps Pvt. Robert K. Coats, '45, Air Corps Lt. Joseph Cohn , '34 Pvt. F. Stuart Covey, '44, Air Corp s Pvt. Thaddeu s T. Crump , '45, Air Corps Pvt. William F. Da vis, '43 Pvt. Frank P. Di ckin son, '4 6 Pvt. Richard L. Edwards, Jr., '45, Air Corp s Cadet Forrest E. Eggleston, '40, Air Corps Cand. Wm. Arthur Evans, Jr. , '23 Cpl. William V. Farl ey, '40 Pvt. Hugh A. Feeley, '44 Pvt . Patrick I. Fenlon , '44 , Air Corp,

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Cpl. Or este Ferramosca, '42 Pvt. Allan W. Flannagan, '44 2nd Lt. John W . Fleming , '44, Air Corps Pvt. Willi am L. Flowers, '44, Air Corps Pvt. Philip Winfr ee Fore, Jr. , '44 Pvt. J osep h A. Fort unato, '43 Pvt . Wm. E. W . Frayser, '46, Air Corps Lt. Wm. P. Fraz er, '3 1, Air Corps (MC) Pvt. W alter R. Gambill, '42 Pvt. Alfr ed P. Gate s, '4 5 Cadet Archie M . Girago sian, '42, Air Corps Pvt. Stewart E. Gla sson, '45 Pvt. Dou g las B. G oforth, '46

Pvt. Reuben Goldstein, '45 Pvt. John E. Grigg, '46 Cand. Edward .H. Grove, '42 Pvt. Edward C. Haake, '45, Air Corps Pvt. Garland Douglas Haddock, ·40, Air Corps Cpl. Gordon C. Hain es, '41 Pvt. H. Bennie H ale, '46 Lt. Ashby Wilfred Hardy , ' 34 Cand . Benjamin H arrison, '23 Pvt. Thomas S. Herbert, ·42 Pvt. Bernard J . Hofbauer , ·46 Pvt. J. J . Holleman, '45, Air Corps Lt. Donald Wm. Howe, '43 Pvt. James F. Hubb ard, '44 Major J. Warr en Hundley, Jr., '23 Lt. J erome A. Hurwitz , '38 Pvt . Walter F. Hyer, '46 Flight Officer S. A. Irby, '39, Air Corp s Pvt. Fred A. J ennings , Jr., '43, Air Corp s Lt. Frank H. Jordan, Jr., '41 Pvt. Leonard J. Kantor, '43, Air Corp s Lt. J oseph F. Kent, Jr., '45, Air Corps Pvt. Philip Keppler, '44 Pvt. Wilbur M. Kessler, '46, Air Corp s Pvt. Charles F. Kingery , '45 Lt. William S. Kirk, '42, Air Corp !; Pvt. Sydney H. Knipe, Jr., '44 Pvt. William C. Kramer , '43 Pvt . Frederick C. Kurtz, '46 Cadet Dougl as W . Laird, '42, Air Corp s Cand . Alfred A. Lazzarini, '43 Pvt. William H . Lockey, Jr., '44 Pvt. Robert C. Long, '44 Pvt. H . Georg e Longaker, Jr. , '44 Pvt. W. T. Luck, Jr ., '45 2nd Lt. Virgil M . Lumsden, Jr. , '42 Cadet Allen G. McCabe, Jr., '36, Air Corps Pvt. Jesse H . Mabry, Jr., '44 , Air Corps Pvt . D . Walton Mallory, Jr., '44 , Air Corps Cadet Herbert S. Marks , ' 39, Air Corps 2nd Lt. Stephen Du Val Martin, Jr., ' 36 Pvt. Sadi James Mas e, '40 Pvt . H . Stuart Massie, Jr., '46 Pvt. Conrad B. Mattox, Jr., '46 Cadet Wm. R. Maynard, Jr., '41, Air Corps Pvt. Wm. F. Mill er, '44, Air Corp s Pvt. Brooke M. Moffett, ·44 2nd Lt. Frank E. Moriconi, '41 Lt. John M . Moseley, '30, Air Corps ' Pfc. William V . Moseley, '44 Pvt . J. Davis Mottley, Jr., ' 39 Pvt. Harry R. Mundy, '46 Sgt. James S. Mundy , ·39 Pvt. Robert Mustoe , '46 Pfc. Orison T. Nebl ett, ·34 Pvt. Richard C. Owen, Jr., '43 Pvt. Oscar A. Pohlig, Jr., '43 Pvt. Wallace B., Poteat, '44, Air Corps Pvt. Ralph W . Raiford , Jr., '46 Wilson E. Reams, ' 39 Lt. Robert E. Reid , Jr. , '40, Air Corp s Pvt. Meredith W. Rhodes, '43, Air Corp s Pvt . Straughan S. Richardson , Jr., '43 Pvt. Dabney 0. Riley, '46 Cadet George W ..Ross, Jr., '40, Air Corp s Pvt. J. Ben Rouzi e, Jr., '44, Air Corp s Pvt . Lewis S. Sachs, '3 1 Pvt. Albert V. Saleeby, '45 Pvt . Ulys ses S. Savage, Jr., '44 Pvt. Robert L. Saville , Jr. , '36 Pvt. Mors e G . Seymour, '45 2nd Lt. Jos eph Sharove. ' 31 Cadet Lawr ence B. Sheffield, Jr., '4 2, Air Corp s Pvt. Steve Silianoff , '45 Pvt. Wm. T . Sinclair, Jr., '45, Air Corp s Pvt. H ouston B. Sizer, '4 4, Air Corp s Pvt. Wilbur L. Skinn er, '46 Pvt. H arold Smith son, '46 Pvt. H enry L. Snelling s, Jr., '38 Lt. Paul Stanch, '44, Air Corp s Lt. Hugh Stockdell, Jr. , '34 Pvt. Toho F. Sweeney, Jr. , '46 Pvt. H erbert Roy Tat e, '46 Pvt. Virgil Di etri ck T aylor, '4 '.l Barth olomew G . T enore, '36, Royal Canadian Air Force Pvt. H arry L. Thomp son. '45, Air Corps Lt. (Chaplain) Aubr ey S. T omlin son, '28 Lt. Henry I. Trag le, '36 Pvt. Tesse M. Tucker. Jr., '46 Pvt. Edwin Vel enovsky, '45 Lt. Tack G. W ebb. '3 7 Cadet J. Monroe W ells, '39, Air Corps

Chaplain T. Eugene West, '27 Pvt. Walter D. Wholey, '39, Air Corps Pvt. James H. Wiley , Jr., '45, Air Corps Cadet A. Simpson Williams, Jr., '41 Pvt . Walter H. Williams, '46 Pvt. Calvin L. Wilson, '44 Carl F. Woo st, Jr., ·39 Pvt. Oscar S. Wooten, '45 Pvt. Robert S. Wright, '44 Pvt. John M. Wy att, III, '44

Navy Lt. Clyde N . Allen, '25 Ensign Hugh H . Baird, Jr., '34 Ensign Frank J. Baker, Jr ., '42 Cadet Milton Bass, '44, Air Corps Walter E. Bass, '40 Midshipman Edwin B. Brooks, '43 William J. Cain, ' 34 Dr. S.S. Cook, ' 12 Mid shipman H. Addison Dalton, '43 Lt. (jg) Douglas W . Davis, '41 Ensign Charles E. Drinard, Jr ., '36 Ensign William P. Edwards, '34 Ensign Kenneth Fred Garrison, '40 Ensign William W . Glick, '34 Chap lain Dale T. Griffin, '38 Ensign William C. Ham, '35 Cadet Robert M . Hathaway , '43, Air Corps Ensign A . Edison Haydon, Jr. , '42 Midshipman Alexander Jacobs , '43 Lt. Alfred P. Jenkins, '21 Midshipman Cecil F. Jones, '43 Midshipman Hugh L. Keyser,. '43 Midshipman Thomas E. King, '43 Lt. Will Arthur Ligon, '30 Midshipman W. Allister McKenzie, '43 Ensign Joho Howard Locke, '41 William L. Maner, Jr., '40, Coast Guard Lt. Thomas R. Miller, '19, Air Corps Lt. (jg) Sam Williams Mitchell, '27 Rev. Wm. Carey Newton, ' 32 Ensign Everett Lee Noble, ' 39 Midshipman Warren M . Pace, '43 Ensign William F. Robertson, '38 Lt . (jg) Fillmore H . Sanford, '35 Midshipman John A. Schools, '43 Ensign Walter S. Townsend, '40 Frederick A. Waddington, Jr ., '41 Midshipman Stanley S. Watts, '43 Lt. Com. (Chaplain) James C. Wicker, ' 19 Ensign Richard Preston Williams, '42

Marines Major Wm. Edwin Dickerson, '20 2nd Lt. Anderson W . Lamb, Jr., '35

Army Promotions David Edward Bass, Jr., '35, to 2nd Lt. Delmas Alton Bottoms, '34, to 2nd Lt. William E. Bri stow, '42, to Corporal Henry Hunt Dickinson, '40, to 2nd Lt. Cecil E. Duncan, '42, to 2nd Lt., Air Corps Edward W . Eanes, '29, to Major Allan B. Ferguson, Jr ., '29, to 2nd Lt. Eugene W . Ford, '39, to Lt. Henry D. Garnett, '42, to Lt .

W. F. Hoffeck er, '31, to 2nd Lt .

Mitchell D . Katz, Jr., ' 37, to 2nd Lt. Richard Kraft , '43, to 2nd Lt. Henry M. Lewter , '40, to Sgt., Air Corps Clarence E. Major, '42, to 1st Lt. Mar lin T. Nolan, '42, to 2nd Lt. Harold W. Phillips, '39, to 2nd Lt. William H . Phipps, '44 , to 2nd Lt ., Air Corp s Dorsey C. Raw ling s, '40, to Corpor al Dudley B. Selden, '32, to Major , Air Corps George Spears, '39, to 2nd Lt. Cary E. Stern, Jr. , '27, to Major S. Frank Strau s, '3 5, to 1st Lt. G. Thomas Taylor, '3 6, to 2nd Lt. Norman M . Torr ence, '44, to 2nd Lt. Robert P. Van Bur en, '41, to 1st Lt. Thomas J. Wil ey, Jr., '40, to 2nd Lt. Mark S. Willing, Jr ., '4 2, to 2nd Lt. G. Stuart Woods on, ' 36, to 1st Lt. William W . Wright, '34, to Captain

Navy Promotions Vincent R. Adam s, Jr., '40, to Ensign Francis Lee Albert , ' 19, to Captain

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Frank P. Alvis, Jr., '38, to Lt. T . Nash Broaddus, Jr., '39, to Lt. (jg) . Winston 0. Burgess, '39, to Lt. Jack Saunders Dudley, '44 , to Ensign, Air Corps William B. Fitzhugh, '41, to Lt. (jg) Aylett W. Goode, Jr., '42 , to Ensign Alvin Franklin Harris, '40, to Lt. (jg) James M. Holladay, Jr., '39 , to Lt. (jg), Air Corps John E. Jordan, '40, to Ensign Leonard V. Kielpinski, '38, to Lt., Air Corps Wilfred P. Lawless, '39, to Lt. (jg) Roy M. Newton, '39, to Lt. Frank Malone Nunna lly, '37, to Lt . (jg), Air Corps Bruce P. Van Buskirk, '40, to Lt. Scott H. Wermuth, Jr. , '42 , to Ensign

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Westhampton Alumnae in the Armed Forces (We realize that the following list is incomplete. But it can ~mly be made complete with your help.)

WAACS 2nd Officer Jessie Neale Jensen , '35 3rd Officer Caro line Shafer Essex, '36 3rd Officer Rebecca Brockenbrough, '25 3rd Officer Margaret Brinson, '40 3rd Officer Virginia Lee Priddy, '37 Auxiliary Frances Lundin, '34 Auxiliary Vivian Hart, ·33

WAVES Lt. (jg) Elizabeth Hoover, '22 Ensign Annabeth Cash, '28 Ensign Alice Evans, ' 39 Ensign Jeannette Evans, '41 Midshipman Lucy B. Blackwell, ex-'36 A.S. Kathleen Crawford, '41 A.S. Ann Gwaltney, '42 Midshipman Mildred Myrick, '36 A. S. Doris Turnbull Wood, '29 Midshipman Matilda Tisinger, '33

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Spiders Now that the smoke kicked up by the Spider controversy has settled, the Spiderloyal may get some satisfaction, as did Representative Dave E Satterfield, Jr., '17, from a piece which appeared recently in London's Daily Mirr or.

James Worth, writing in the Mirror, says that the spider is providing the fighting allies with "an essential munition of war. " "At an ordnance factory somewhere in England, spiders spin their delicate threads to make the cross-hairs on gun bomb sights , and range-finders and periscopes used in our battleships and submarines," writes Mr. Worth. "For many precision instruments of war only spider-web thread is fine enough.

Even a human hair would be too thick.

Other substances which have been tried break in extremes of temperature and when subjected to terrific shock. Spider-web thread never does."

Mr. Worth describes how the spiders are housed and induced to spin their tine webs.

The threads are cut down to about one-third of their thickness ( one ten-thousandth of an inch in diameter) for use on gun sights a. other instruments. The thin strands are scribed as being "as strong, or stronger , than steel wire of the same thickness."

WesthamptonAlumnaein WartimeWashing ton

By MA RGA RET TAYL OR CHAMBLIN, '25 The war has wrought many changes in the lives and activities of Westhampton College alumnae living in Washington. All of us have felt the effects of housing shortages, crowded traffic lanes, med street cars and busses, and limitations on our social activities contacts. To some of us the war has caused only the disruption a normal routine of life, longer working hours, or the assumption of unaccustomed tasks; to others, it has brought real sacrifice.

Though as a group the Washington chapter has undertaken no war activities, most of the members have made and are making individual contributions to the war effort. Of those contacted on the subject, practically everyone is doing some form of Red Cross work. Some who are homemakers must confine their activities to household tasks and the training of very young citizens for their part in a complicated post-war world. Others, like Elizabeth Hutchison (' 17) , are faithfully performing the unexciting routine duties of a government clerk. Some hold important war jobs.

Catherine Love (' 17), who is the highest paid woman chemist in the government and has been recognized in the Scientific Who's Wh o, is analyzing soil for Victory gardens.

Elizabeth Love Chase ('18) is assistant to the head of radio war programs in the Washington schools and directs the daily school broadcasts on nutrition.

Estelle Kemper Butler ('18) last summer made for the A.A.U.\V a bibliography on Mobilization for Total War to be used in study groups throughout the country. In its preparation she read over a hundred periodicals and books, but says she doesn't consider the publication truly complete. On that project she worked with Dr. Esther Cole Franklin, Associate in social studies in the A.A.U.W. office. Also for the A .A .U.W., Estelle did some research in consumer prob lems. Last spring she had charge of the distribution of nutrition posters for the government. This was done through the A WVS. At present Estelle is a day air raid warden and a night emergency feeder for the OCD. Mary Dudley Cappelmann (' 18), our chapter president this year, A 'sacrificing" a husband to the war effort. A successful architect, W' has deserted his private clientele to do special designing for the Navy at Solomon Island.

May Thompson Evans ('21) was, in 1941, Special Assistant to the Director of OCD. Before the end of that year she was made Chief of Consumer Relat ions in the Consumer Division of the OP A .

She still holds that position and with characterist ic enthusiasm devotes all her time and energy to her work.

Alice Garnet Thomas ('22) last year worked with the British War Relief when they put on the ir campaign . She is constantly engaged in Red Cross work of some kind and in the present Red Cross War Fund drive she is Area Chairman in her neighborhood. Of course, she has found time to take various courses and roll bandages, etc., as well as manage her home and two attractive children.

Margaret Miller Smith ('26) has two teen-age daughters who require a great deal of her thought and participation in their affairs, but she is active in wart ime work. She first took the Red Cross First Aid Course and then did some instructing along that line.

Frequent ly she works at the Red Cross headquarters in a secretarial capacity, and rolls bandages in odd moments. She says that the easiest thing she has done was to give blood to the blood ,bank.

Margaret is a day warden, belongs to the AWVS, is working on a rationing board, and as a member of the Woman's War Savings League has done house to house explaining of the rationing program to housewives.

Cynthia Hill ( ex'27) is taking charge of her father's office while he does Victory farming on top of the Blue Ridge where he purchased a nice tract last year. Cynthia, incidentally, is grateful that her wartime work is in a heated office rather than in a chilly farmhouse on the mountain top. merald Christian Bristow ('28) as a school teacher in Alex. ria, Va ., directed the poster work done in the schools for the nutrition program. Some of the posters made under her supervision were sent to Richmond to be entered in a statewide contest.

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She is a member of the Motor Corps and expects to become a WA VE officer next summer. Her paptrs have already gone through .

He len Covey Mi lius ('28) holds down a full time position at the Nationa l Geographic Society and does her own housekeeping in an apartment, but she has managed to do some volunteer work for the OCD, too. She worked on directional pamphlets for civilian defense.

She wrote one on provisions for gas attack protection and another describing protective measures to be taken in schools in case of air raids. The latter was sanctioned by the school systems of some thirty-five American cities and was distributed for use all over the country.

Lou Frank Cherry ('36) is working for Censorship. Her office works directly under the President in the job of censoring mail.

Virginia Russell ('38), who is working with the OWI, has the impressive title of Assistant Domestic Radio Propaganda Analyst.

Elizabeth Angle ('37) gave up teaching school in Arlington County, Virginia last October to become a mathematician at the Coast and Geodetic Survey. All of her work is war work.

Elsie Mitchell ('38) , whose father has taken a leave of absence from his church in Arlington to become a chaplain as he did in the last war, has recently proved that Dan Cupid still works on West hampton girls, even in wartime. She became Mrs. Sullivan and went with Lt. Sullivan to Texas where he has been stationed.

Westhampton alumnae in the nation's capitol are contributing their share of time, money and energy to speed victory for the democracies.

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Albany's city limits to the Governor's Mans ion. They had heard that Queen Wilhelmina was coming to Albany, and they were waitmg to get a glimpse of the Netherlands Monarch in txile. As I looked at those fo1ks' faces, I thought I saw something more than emot10n and reverence for Holland 's first lady. There see.med to be an expression of sympathy- many of the women were in tearssympathy no_t only for the Queen, but also for her Dutch subjects, particularly 111 Holland, who have been enslaved by their Nazi conquerors. That picture impressed me be.cause I had read in the papers back at Lee, of hostages in Holland being shot by the Nazis. . The oldest member of the Dutch Secret Service and I became particularly fnend ly. In fact, the relat1onsh1p between our Secret Service agtnts and theirs was most cordial. This old agent frequently took long walks in the evening. On his return to the office, we usually had an enjoyab le smoke of our favorite tobacco. On one occasion the conversation centered around royalty in Holland before the invasion. For instance , I learned that the Queen had five castles in Holland. This Dutch agent's knowledge of the English language is somewhat limited; on occasions he had difficulty finding words adequately to express his thought. Well , I asked him how many acres the largest castle occupied. He repeated the word "acres," and apparently he didn't understand. Anyhow he replied "One thousand."

I said, "One thousand what?" After groping around in vain for a word to answer me, finally in desperation he said "One thousand" - and putting his two forefingers out from his mouth, he grunted like a pig. One thousand royal pigs - which have long since been consumed by their ill-mannered Nazi neighbors.

Life continued as usual at Fencefield until time for the departure of the Queen for London which , of necessity, was a well-guarded secret. It appeared obvious that the Queen was somewhat reluctant to leave her daughter and grandchildren. However , when the time came to go, she bravely told us all good-bye and boarded her Dutch plane which landed in England long before the news was released by the Secret Service to the press and over the radio.

A short while later Crown Princess Juliana and the remaining members of the royal househo ld, including the Dutch agents , left Fencefield and the U. S. A. for Ottawa, Canada, where in all probability they will remain for the durati0n of the war.

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By F.

J. PEASE,

'26

(Herewith is presented the first in a series of "My Job " articles

by University of Richmond alumni. Mr . Pease has been in the Post Office Service in Richmond for the past 12 years.)

The United States Postal System is often spoken of as the most efficient organization in the world. Its record for accuracy and speed is a challenge for any business corporation. Through it, and in conjunction with the mail service of other countries, it is possible to reach practically any human being on earth, regardless of race, color, creed, nationality or location, and for less than it costs you to ride home on the bus from your office. So confident are we of its dependability, that we drop a letter in the first letter box we pass and forget it. Well we might , for if that letter is correctly and legibly addressed, and bears the proper postage, it will reach the proper person. It makes little difference which Jetter box we drop it in, one on a crowded street corner, in the shadow of towering skyscrapers; or on some lonely rural route, in the shade of the great hills, the results will be the same . It will reach its destination.

The beginning of this great system was laid in Boston in 1739 .

Later other colonies organized mail services of their own. Soon the British Government took over the mails in the new world. However, its object was not service for the forefathers, but shillings for the Mother country . This policy helped to fan the fire of revolution in the new world, and served to build up a "bootleg" system, whereby mail was carried by the regular post rider, but at a much lower rate.

This illegal service did much to unite the colonies, and brought to them the need for better roads and ways of communication. So high were the British rates at one time that it cost about seventy-five cents to send a letter from Philadelph ia to New York. Today we can send the same letter to Argentina by air for eighty cents, and in less than twice the time.

When Benjamin Franklin was made the first American Postmaster General in 1775, he immediately set about to improve the service and lower the rates. That policy is still in effect today. He also allowed the soldiers of 1776 to send their letters free.

From the one original post office, it has increased until we now have approximately 44,000 offices in this country, handling 30,000000,000 pieces of mail annually, with a gross revenue of $900,000,000. Throughout the world today, there are about 340,000 Post Offices. Your local office can locate any one of them in about the time it takes to find a number in the phone book, and give you the rates and schedule of arrival.

Some persons think working the mail is simple. It is, if you know how. But just like chemistry or math, it takes a lot of hard studying to know how. You have to be efficient and work fast, if you are going to make a profit for Uncle Sam on these small sales, most ly one, two and three cents each. There is a lot of handling and sorting and hauling between your office and where that letter is going.

First the letter has to be collected and the stamp cancelled. Then it must be sorted into a sack with others like it, hauled to the train, maybe reworked on the train, then hau led from the train to the post office in the city of its destination , distributed to the carrier and delivered to your door. If it is going to a foreign country it may have to travel thousands of miles on a boat, then carried inland on a dog sled in the frozen north or by runner into the steaming jungle. All this for THREE CENTS if in the Americas or FIVE CENTS if in other continents.

A "dispatcher " is a clerk who has put in about five years of intensive study of routes and schedules. He knows the best way to send any piece of mail , but is especially familiar with those 9,000 offices in his own and near-by states. Each year a clerk has to pass an examination to prove that he is qualified. A grade of Jess than 95% means failure and automatic separation from the service. Boy! Oh Boy 1 Ther e is a lot of cramming for those examinations.

Post office employees are often called upon to perform duties far

removed from hand ling the mail; such as paying veterans' bonus, reg istering aliens, st iling war stamps and bonds, sell ing auto tax stamps, obtaini ng recruits for the military forces and securing workers for Civil Service jobs.

The "postal deficit" has often been the object of debate. However , when each government depart ment is charged with the cost of handl ing the literature of its own depa rtment; there will be not a deficit but a surplus. Remember too that newspapers and magazines are hand led at less than cost. So, too, are books which are sent anywhere in the United States or its possessions for three cents per pound.

The United States Postal Service has had a great part in building this nation of ours, in carrying education to every nook and corner, at a price which everyone could afford. Its task, however, is not c<A pJeted. When this was is over, it will render an even greater senW to all mankind.

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Pvt. Edwin (Pat) Velenovsky, '45, h as been beckoned to Fort Meade . "I speak Eng lish," he writes, "but God only knows wh at the sergeant speaks. Oh, for an 11 : 30 Eng lish class."

Naval Aviation Cadet Robert M. Hathaway, '43, who has left behind him his g irl and a Phi Beta Kappa key which was awarded him after his call to active duty, is now at Jones County Junior College, Ellisville, Miss. At the risk of making h imself unpopu lar with the Ellisville C. of C., Bob writes that J.C.J.C. is "located on the outskirts of Ellisville, the latter being located on the outskirts of civilization."

Ensign Scott Wermuth, Jr., '42, who won h is commission at Columbia in February is now doing post -graduate work at Annapolis, Maryland, where he is prepar ing for service as communications officer afloat. He writes that two of his Columb ia classmates were Ensign Fred Forberg, '42, who has been assigned to an aircraft carrier, and Ensign Earl Holman, '4 1, who is at the Aircraft Identification Schoo] in Columbus, Ohio. He reports meeting Lieut. (j.g.) Enge ne Ritter, '30, who is teaching math in the Post Grad School.

Aviation Cadet Forrest C. Egg leston, '40, was expecting an early transfer to primary tra ining when he wrote from San Anto nio in March.

The pub lic relations office at Athens, Ga ., wr ites to say that our William Harrison Bingham, '42, has completed his course at .

U. S. Navy Pre-F light Schoo] there and that he ranked sixth 1 W class of 2&8 men. He has been ordered to the Naval Reserve Aviat;on Base at Dal1as for primary training.

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Ensign Fred Wortham, '40, is ''seeing lots of sky and water'' from t11e deck of the USS Schenck. Hes on the East Coast ....

Ensign Ben McClure, Jr., '39, has a story to tell, but can't. He's one oi tne mosquito boaters with the Pacific fleet. . . . Lieut. Aubrey S. 'l'omlmson, '28, has entered the Army as a chaplain and has been assigned to .Fort Dix. . . . Ensign Tony Smerda, '36, aboard the USS Pensacola, sings praises of the U. S. Navy which he says is very much of all right. ...

Ensign Gus D . Mandaleris, '40, is aboard the USS Sangamon. . . . Chaplain Edward W. Eanes, '29, Anow assistant division chaplain with headquarters at Camp Van W>rn, Miss. He's a major. Lieut. (j.g.) F. M . Nunnally, '37, is on active duty in the Navy Air Corps with the Atlantic fleet. . . .

Corporal William Farley, '4 0, has completed his signal corps schooling at Fort Monmouth and is now at Fort Hancock, N. J. He writes that Emmett Anderson , '40, also is in the signal corps.

Lirnt . (j.g.) J. Westwood Smithers, '3 0, is at the Naval Training School, Harvard University. . . . Lieut. Elmer B. Potter '29, who went to Annapolis to teach "the gentler aspects of English poetry," is now teaching naval history and diplomatic history . . . . Comes a belated Christmas card from Lieut. Jimmy Turkington, '41, somewhere in England ....

Captain Fred H. Timberlake, '36, is commanding an antiaircraft battery in Hawaii ....

Ensign Evan Van Leeuwen, '40, is supply and disbursing officer with the U. S. Naval Construction Batta lion (Seabees) on "Is land X ." ...

Lirnt. Richard L. Scammon, '39, M .C., doesn't say where he is but it isn't Alaska.

He writes by the light of a crude lamp ("kerosene in a bottle and a scrap of cloth for a wick!") The temperature varies from 100 to 115 degrees in the daytime . . . . Cpl. Oreste Ferramosca, '42, is at the University of Tennessee where the Army Medical Corps is teaching him X-ray technique.

From San Pedro, Calif., comes the assurance of Ensign John E. Jordan, '4 0, that "the Navy has things well in hand." . . . Dr. Thomas Eugene West, '27, has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Ky., and is now an Army chaplain . . . . Garland D. Haddock , '40, is learning radio communication in the Army Air Corps. . . . Ensign William F. Robertson ,

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'38, is in the communications school at Harvard, eager to do his bit and help speed the day "when God 's peace may rule the world and we ma; gather agam in happy reun10ns." . . . Aiter starting as a buck pnvate , .tiirst Lieut . Clarence Major , '42, is only two promotions away from the day when he'll be Major Major. He wntes from England ....

Tom H erbert, '42, who was a baking company vice president until Uncle Sam mad e a private of him , wins first prize for the funniest comic postal. 'Twas mailed from Camp Croft, ::>ouchCarolina. . . .

Lieut. .Kuss Walton, '39, (the salty fellow who has been reported

by Spider servicemen trom Labrador to the Equator) was "tonunate enougn to visit the States recently and I was mtroduced to my son.

Don t torget to send him a catalog. lt is great to know that l have him back tnere waiting for me." :Kussencloses a picture of the young Commander, resp1enaent in his ol' man's seagoing headgear, but unfortunately the snapshot is too small to reproduce.

Lieut. Hugh G. Noffsinger , Jr. , '28, has completed his indoctrination course at the Naval Arr Station , Quonset Pomt , R. I. It was pretty tough, writes Hugh , who says that "the other day I dropped my pencil and befor e 1 could pick it up I missed two ytars of calculus." . . . Milton B. Baroody, now promoted to tust lieutenant, is with the Second Mapping Squadron at Felts Field, Washington .

He has high hopes ot "seerng action before this job is done as they are always picking some of us for units on their way over. In fact, I missed by about two or three days of being with Lieut. Col. Roosevelt who is now in Africa, I btlieve." .. . Lieut. William P . Frazer, '34, writes from the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas. . . . Lieut. A . W . Schoenbaum , '30, has the ticklish job of executive officer at the TNT plant of the Pennsylvania Ordnance Works, Williamsport , Pa ....

Flying fighters for Uncle Sam somewhere in the Pacific is Cecil E. Duncan , '42, who has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 55th Fighter Squadron. He joined the Air Corps in 1939, spent two years in Hawaii and was there when the Japs attacked }'earl Harbor. Then he returned to th e States for pilot training and was commissioned last September.

Lieut. R. E. Herring , '40, is stationed with the 329th Field Artillery at Camp Shelby, Miss. Carl Woost, Jr., '39, is personnel officer for the same outfit. . . . Pvt. Richard Y. Bristow, ·41, writes from Fort Jackson, S. C., where he's in the 307th Infantry . His brother , Cpl. W 1llram E. Bristow, '42, is in the signal corps. . . . Ensign Jonn Kelso Moore , '41, is engineer officer aboard a P.C. boat. When ne wrote he had just returned with Ensign Norman Brown, '41, from an eight -day sea trip , "t he roughest I've ever seen or felt."

He reports seemg Litut . (J .g.) Hunter Keck, '38, and Ensign Tom Todd , '37.

Lieut. Stuart A. Eacho, '33, is at the Naval Operating Base in Bermuda. Ditt o Lieut. (j.g.) Wat Fugate, '32, and Milton Hobson, '33 ....

Dr. Fillmore H. Sanford , '35, has been commissioned a Lieut. (j.g.) in the Navy and is giving up his position in the Harvard departme nt of psychology for the duration. He reports seeing Carroll Willia ms, '3 7, at a Sigma Xi dinner and that he "occasionally bumps into Grover Pitts, '39, when he comes out of hibernation and into the light. " . . From the public relations officer at Selman Field, Monroe, Lr., comes word that Clarence P. (Pat) Ely, '30, formerly of the John Marshall High School faculty, has been promoted to first lieutenant. He 's an instructor in maps and charts at Selman Field . ...

John M . Traylor, '42, is working for his Navy wings at the Corpus Christi Air Station. . . . Ensign Hugh H . Baird , Jr., '34, is being trained for communications work at Harvard. . . . Chaplain W. W. Wright, Capt., '34, is expecting early overseas duty. He enttred the Army from the First Baptist Church at Gretna, Va. Ensign W . P. Edwards, '34, is one of 250 men in the fivemonth indo ctrination and communications course at Harvard. . . .

Roy M . Newt on, '39, has been promoted to Lieutenant. He 's aboard the USS Chester . ...

Lieut . Virgil M. Lumsden, Jr., '42, is stationed with the Jersey City Quartermasterma ster Depot in Jersey City. . . . Capt. George L. Oliver, '39, reports the English weather is always bad, the English prnple always good and hospitable. His only complain t is that he can't locate Lieut. Col. J. E. (Pete) Dunford , '15, who is somewhere in England. . . . Chaplain Francis Lee Alte rt, ' 18, has been promoted to Captain, and is now the Navy 's senior chaplain, at sea.

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