Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 11, January 1947

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The managing editor of the New York Herald took a day off on December 21, 1879. So this headline in his paper hit him without warning.

all kinds of obstacles ...• broadened and improved the service.

EDISON'SLIGHT-

created jobs for many thousands of Americans, as well as a great new service for many millions mote.

IT MAKESA LIGHT, WITHOUTGAS

OR FLAME! The public promptly shouted "hoax!"

Scientists called Edison crazy. And our shocked, angry editor expected to be fired.

But he wasn't. Eleven days later, Thomas Edison held a unique New Year's party in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and invited the world to see his "flameless light." Thousands came and were convinced. The incandescent lamp was real.

Soon small companies were bringing the benefits of Edison's newfangled lamp to the people. Engineers and business men poured in their energy and time ..• risked their own savings ... overcame

Government didn't do the job. Individuals did. And in the process, they

When Edison opened the first powerplant in 1882, electricity cost 25c a kilowatt-hour. This year, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the great in• ventor's birth, the average price of household electricity across the country is only 3 l/3c per kilowatt-hour.

Thanks to Edison's imagination and enterprise -thanks to the courage and initiative of many men and women, working under the American business system - this country enj~ys the most and the best electric service in the world. And all our lives are richer, safer, more productive.

HOUR OF CHARM. Sunaays, 4:30 P. M .. EST, CBS.

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Dear Alumnus, Systematic giving by University of Richmond alumni to objectives close to their hearts will be made possible by the Alumni Fund which will be inaugurated in March.

There will be no high-pressure technique and no solicitation other than by class agents, each representing his class, in cooperation with the alumni office. Healthy rivalry will be carried on among the classes, not primarily from the standpoint of total contributions but from the standpoint of the percentage of contributors.

When you hear from your class agent or receive mailings from the alumni office, please resolve to help your class approach the goal of 100 per cent participation.

Funds may be earmarked specifically for the Student Center Building on which con• struction is expected to begin in the near future, for any other building, for scholarships, for athletics, or for. any other purpose. Or, if the alumnus does not wish to earmark his gift it will be given to the - University to be used for any purpose the trustees may designate.

The class agent plan has worked well at institutions throughout the country. It has made giving pleasant and systematic. The class agent plan worked last year at Washington and Lee to the tune of $22,386; V.M.I., $12,500; Medical College of Virginia, $19,602. It can work for our Alma Mater too.

Class agents already have accepted assignments for most of the classes and other acceptances are coming in daily. In the near future the organization will be complete and in readiness for the start of the fund in March. Each agent is entitled to the wholehearted cooperation of all of his classmates in this worthwhile endeavor.

Assignments already have been accepted by the following class agents: 1888, Dr. F. W. Boatwright; 1894, Hill Montague, Sr.; 1895, Dr. James H. Franklin; 1896, Dr. Harris Hart; 1897, James F. Ryland; 1898, Prof. W. L. Prince; 1899, Hunter Miller; 1901, Dr. Julian L. Rawls; 1904, S. P. Ryland; 1905, Judge Edward W. Hudgins; 1906, Dr. Percy Scott Flippin; 1907, Senator A. Willis Robertson; 1908, Overton D. Dennis; 1910, Frank G. Louthan; 1911, Wilmer L. O'Flaherty; 1912, Henry M. Taylor; 1913, Frank C. Riley; 1916, Dr. R. C. McDanel; 1917, Dr. Herman P. Thomas; 1918, R. L. Lacy; 1919, B. Clifford Goode; 1920, W.R. Broaddus; 1921, R. W. Nuckols; 1922, R. T. Marsh, Jr.; 1924, R. E. Booker; 1925, G. Fred Cook, Jr.; 1926, W. R. Galvin; 1927, Dr. J. Maurice Trimmer; 1928, Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr.; 1930, J. Leslie Hart; 1931, Dr. Edward F. Overton; 1932, Watkins Fugate; 1934, Victor H. Chalcain; 1935, Frank Straus; 1936, Rev. William J. Fallis; 1937, J. Dave Ewell, Jr.; 1938, Ralph Patterson Moore; 1939, Edwin Wortham, IV; 1940, Paul Saunier, Jr.; 1941, George Edmond Massie, III; 1942, Malcolm U. Pitt, Jr.; 1943, Maxwell D. Katz; 1944, Stanley Lusby; 1946, William Bareford.

When YOU hear from your class agent, respond with some news about your activities, the size of your family, the job you are doing, of honors that are coming your way. And don't forget to include a check.

Please don't give until it hurts! We want you to have fun in supporting the University activities which are closest to your heart, whether it be the Social Center Building, Endowment, books for the library, extra support for athletics, or a law school building on the main campus. You can be assured that the money will be used by the University's board of trustees specifically for the purpose for which it is earmarked.

Cordially, , JOSEPH E. NETTLES, Executive Secretary.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN Published quarterly at the University of Richmond by the General Society of Alumni.

Entered as second-class matter at the University of Richmond Post Office.

Vm. XI JOSEPH

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E. NETTLES,

LESLIE S . BooKER, ROBERT

1947 No. 2

M. STONE,

ANNUAL DUES Sustaining membershipi . ..... . .. .. $5.00 Membership ..... . .. ..... ... . .. . $2.-00 THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNI OFFICERS H . Aubrey Ford, ' 21 . . .... .... President William Ellyson, Jr., '23, 1st Vice-President Oscar Hite, '22 .. . . . . . 2nd Vice -President Chas. H. Ryland, ' 36 . .. 3rd Vice-President Emanuel Emroch, '28 . .. ..... .. Secretary Joseph E. Nettles . ... . . Ex ecutive Secretary EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE

A. H. Camden, '11, R. T. Marsh, '23, R. E. Booker, '24 and the above officers.

THE ALUMNI COUNCIL OFFICERS W . B. F. Cole, '12 . . .... .... . . President Robert T . Marsh, '22 . ... 1st Vice-President W. Richard Broaddus, '21, 2nd Vice-President Joseph E. Nettles . . . .. . Ex ecutive Secretary Robert M. Stone, ' 30 .. . .......

Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

D. N . Davidson, '09 Frank C. Riley, '13 John J . Wicker, Jr., '16 and the above officers.

WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Camilla Wimbish Lacy (Mrs. Evan), '23 . . . . . . . . ... President Mary Ryland Babcock . .

(Mrs. Alvin J.), '32 .. .. Vrce-Presrdenl Leslie Sessoms Booker (Mrs. R. E.), '22 . .. . Executive Secretary Mail all contributions and news items to Mrs. R. E. Booker, Executive Secretary, Westhampton College Alumnae Association, P. O. University of Richmond, Va. Ethel Smither , '15 } Ethney Selden Headlee (Mrs . T . J.), '23 Margaret Leak;, •3~ Members-at-La.-ge Emily Parker Kendig (Mrs . E. L.), '38 May Thayer, '42 .

Florence Boston Decker } (Mrs.. Henry), -~ of T rustees G d '17• Boara D r . Em11y ar ner, 18 Elizabeth Tompkins, '19

Unawed, little Susanne Page Brown hobnobs with college presidents attending the inauguration. Kneeling beside her is President Martha Lucas of Sweet Briar College, while in the background, left to right, are Presidents Herbert Travis Quilliam, La Grange College, Ga.; J. Earl Moreland, Randolph-Macon; Edgar G. Gammon, Hampden-Sydney; Morgan L. Combs, '17, Mary Washington; Samuel S. Hill, '17, Georgetown ; John Edwin Pomfret, William and Mary, and R. B. Montgomery, Lynchburg.

" I hereby declare you to be President of the University of Richmond . .. ." The charge is delivered by Rector Douglas Southall Freeman.

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HE University of Richmond, which believes in picking its presidents young, placed the mantle of leadership on the shoulders of 43-year-old George Matthews Modlin at inauguration exercises in Cannon Memorial Chapel, November 16, which were attended by hundreds of alumni and other well-wishers , including delegates from more than two hundred institutions of higher learning.

The high point of the two-day celebration was reached when Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman , by virtue of his position as rector of the Board of trustees announced : " J hereby declare you to be President of the University of Richmond and to be entitled to all the rights and privileges and honors to that office appertaining."

Then , while the hushed audience bowed in silent prayer, he added : "May the grace of God be with you now and always."

Dr. Madlin 's installation as the fourth president in the University's 114-year history , was preceded by a masterful address by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. , former Secretary of State and now rector of the University of Virginia. Mr. Stettinius, who recently served as chairman of the American delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nation s Organization, made the optimistic prediction that •the victors in World War 11 would "eventually find a mutually satisfactory basis of collaboration in peace as they did in war. " The program concluded with the inaugural address in which President Modlin reviewed the "aims and obligations" of the University of Richmond and , in summary , said: "As a liberal arts institution, it must provide sound learning in

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Awaiting the sta rt of the inau gura l banquet, President and Mrs. Modlin (center couple) chat with Rector and Mrs. Stettinius.

Exercises the humane tradition for the intellectual and cultural development of the student; as a church-related institution, it must offer moral and ethical training toward the understanding of spiritual values; as a private institution, it must develop human personal ity for its fullest expression through individual freedom; and as an urban institution, it must train responsible citizens for leadership in a progressive, democratic society."

As president Dr. Modlin succeeds Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright, '88, who as Chancellor of the University, presided over the exercises.

In welcoming the delegates, he pointed out that the campus is situated in a locality "made famous by many notable events" and that in Henrico County was founded the first English-speaking university in the new world. "Near the mouth of the little Westham creek which flows through our lake was built one of the first iron furnaces in the Virginia colony. On this campus were some of the outer breastworks defending Richmond when this city was the capital of the Southern Confederacy. Across these pleasant lawns flowed the tide of battle when in the closing year of the War between the States the home guard of Richmond, consisting of old men and boys, successfully repulsed Dah lgren's destroying raiders."

Chancellor Boatwr ight pointed out that the occasion was the first time that guests from other institutions of higher learning had attende d the inauguration of a University of Richmond president.

He explained that the first two presidents "simply walked in and took charge" and that the third (himself) was publicly installed in

1895 but that it was not then customary to invite the attendance of representatives of other colleges. He recalled that at his own inauguration he was presented with "the largest and rustiest key" he had ever seen. "We are glad, " he told the delegates, "that today your presence makes it possible to conform to established custom and to install our fourth president with the approval of so many distinguished guests who represent the best and highest in American scholarship. Your attendance today heartens us for the tasks of the future and will long be an inspiration to our new president as he builds a greater University of Richmond. " Both Dr. Theodore F. Adams, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond and a member of the University 's board of Trust _ees, and the Rev. Edward V. Peyton, '15, pastor of the Rhoadesville Baptist Church and president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia , asked divine guidance for the University's new leader. In offering the invocation, Dr. Adams besought for the president "all needed strength, day by day, in body and mind, and spirit, that he may lead this institution we love into larger paths of usefulness and

Rector Stettinius tells a good story and President Modlin and Chan'cellor Boatwright register appreciation.

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Christian service for the community, for the Commonwealth, for the nation and the world." And, Mr. Peyton, in pronouncing the benediction, prayed: ' "Hold in Thy gracious keeping, we beseech Thee, President Modlin and his colaborers of this university. Match their strength with the strain and opportunity of these days. May the stress and confusion under which we live bring out in them dimensions of wisdom, foresight and courage that easier days could never have called forth."

The previous evening at a dinner in the John Marshall Hotel over which J. Vaughan Gary, '12, chairman of the inauguration committee, presided, greetings and best wishes were expressed to President Modlin

by Governor William M. Tuck; Mayor Horace H. Edwards, '26; Mrs. Camilla Wimbish Lacy, '23, president of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association; Senator A. Willis Robertson, '07; Dr. Sparks W. Melton, '93, pastor of the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, and vice rector of the University's board of trustees; Jackson Davis, vice president and director of the General Education Board, and Guy E. Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges.

Said Governor Tuck: "The proof of any educational undertaking lies in the quality of the citizens produced by that system. It is my firm belief that our educational system, to be really adequate, must provide not only the physical equipment so necessary to efficient operation, but supply leaders of character, energy, foresight and determination to instill our youth with the established democratic doctrines and Christian principles which have proven to be the most feasible guides to human relationships."

Mayor Edwards: "The University of Richmond has meant much to our city. Four out of every ten of our high school graduates matriculate in the University. Opportunities for a higher education for six out of every ten who matriculate would not be possible were it not for

financial aid in scholarships granted by _the school. The civic, political, professi'on;il, and business life of Richmond count upon the graduates of the University, who after leaving college make their homes here with us. There has been no one single contributing factor to the growth of Richmond as great as that of our University."

Mrs. Lacy: "This University is the teacher of the best.

We, the alumnae of Westhampton College, and the affiliated alumnae of the Richmond Female Institute and of the Woman's College, offer our support to our new president by spreading our knowledge, and by keeping alive the spirit of the University, to the extent that we shall prove its merits. We shall honor her style by destroying complacency, and erecting a spirit whereby each member shall seek to have this University send forth men and women superior in all their attainments. Our diplomas shall not become certificates of honorable discharge, but banners of challenge to all who seek the wealth of our program."

Senator Robertson: "For over half a century Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright at Richmond College has been outstanding in the field of Christian education, balancing training in the sciences with training in the humanities and for the inspiration of his students throwing the spotlight of his radiant mind on paths of glory that do not lead to the grave. In Dr. Modlin our board of trustees has selected a brilliant successor to carry on that great undertaking."

Dr. Melton: "Tonight, out great leader, who in life has won for himself a glorious immortality, lays his hand on his Joshua and says, 'I call you president.' And a great host of Virginia Baptists shout, 'Lead on Mr. President; we will follow with our loyalty, for: " 'Who would not a hero be 'In such exalted chivalry?' " Mr. Davis: "The people of Virginia have as good natural ability as any people. They have a love of freedom that is second to none. But

our institutions being scattered have never had the strength to make the most of these natural endowments. We need this strength to cope with the forces of the modern world.

We want not merely to develop the talent of our own people but to have something that will hold them and give them the opportunity for a free play of their talent at home. Scholars cannot remain productive without a constant association with stimulating associates and with library and laboratory resources. Given these in adequate measure, in the atmosphere of the Virginia tradition, I believe we shall see such a flowering of the spirit as we have not seen in this old Commonwealth."

Dr. Snavely: "Although I have had rich experience and high adventure in serving 17 years as president of another well-known Southern college, I restrain the impulse to give advice.

I shall presume to quote a brief colloquy between the late President Charles Thwing, for 31 years at the helm at Western Reserve University, and the late, great Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University forforty years. In response to a query from President Eliot as to the guiding principle of his presidency, Dr. Thwing replied, 'Power of Endurance.' In his turn Thwing asked of Eliot his guiding principle, to which the latter replied, 'Patience.' I do have the temerity to add to Eliot's observation, 'and Persistence.' " In expressing his appreciation "to all of you who do honor to the University of Richmond by your presence here tonight," President Modlin said that, "as we work together in our several institutions to achieve our common educational goals, may we find strength in our unity of purpose, in our friendly associations, and in the high ideals for which we labor."

Dr. Freeman was toastmaster at the dinner. Dr. Reuben E. Alley, '22, editor of the Religiotts Herald, offered the invocation.

The banquet was followed by a reception which was attended by thousands of alumni and other well-wishers.

Addressby Dr.GeorgeM.Modlin President, University of Richmond

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O be installed as president of this University is a high honor and a grave responsibility. Great distinction has been brought to this office by our beloved Chancellor Boatwright during his fifty-one years as president. Already I know something of the exacting duties imposed by the position.

As I receive this charge from our eminent rector, I am aware of the challenging opportunity that confronts all institutions of higher learning in these momentous times. Assured of the full support of the trustees, the loyal cooperation of the faculties, the confidence of the alumni and students, and the interest of friends of the University, I accept

this challenge. I pledge the full measure of my ability in the administration of the affairs of the University.

These are times when social institutions of every type are being critically examined.

Colleges and universities in our democratic society cannot and should not claim exemption from these searching inquiries. For nearly twenty-five years the aims and objectives of our educational institutions have faced progressively more intense examinations by their friends and critics. During the 1920's these studies took the form of a series of practical operational "surveys" made for individual colleges. It remained for Dr.

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Abraham Flexner, in his UniversitiesAmerican, English, German (published in 1930), to begin the flood of books and critical appraisals published during the past decade and a half. Dr. Flexner's vigorous onslaught against the specialized training that had supplanted culture in American colleges and universities incited a torrent of criticism of American higher education, which continues with unabated force. More recently there has developed a widespread controversy over the philosophy and objectives of higher education. This controversy has led to the publication of a score or more of books and studies on the subject since

1940. Many univers1t1es and colleges have conducted intensive investigations of their educational programs. Since the end of W ?rld War II the controversy has been heightened by the presence of two million students, nearly half of them veterans, in American institutions of higher learning.

The quest for a basic educational philosophy or integrating principle is perhaps the most urgent problem facing American colleges and universities today. Manifestly there is lack of unanimity as to both aims and methods. Of the different philosophies advanced, three are especially noteworthy.

One view looks to "our cultural heritage" as the unifying core of a sound educational program. Although their methods of presenting this heritage may differ, this is essentially the basis of the Wisconsin experimental school, the Chicago plan of Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, the "great books" program of St. John's College, and, in a broader sense, the position taken in the now-famous Harvard Report. The Harvard Report on General Education in a Free Society attempts to reconcile the three chief constituents of our cultural heritage: the ideal of the free man inherited from the ancient Greek civilization, which emphasizes the life of reason; the ideal of walking with God in the light of faith, contributed by Christianity; and, more recently, the contributions to empirical knowledge by the scientific method of experimentation. According to this philosophy, it is the function of our colleges to transmit the cultural heritage of our Western civilization through a "content centered" program of instruction.

Another school of thought insists that "student needs" should be the basis of our curriculum . This "student centered" approach requires an examination of the student's individual needs in preparing himself to enter the society in which he must earn a living, rear a family, exercise citizenship, .and face the whole gamut of problems in modern civilization. This view is represented by the program of the General College of the University of Minnesota and by the philosophy of John Dewey.

A third philosophy of higher education, and certainly the earliest in America, has for its purpose the training of the Christian citizen. The advocates of this philosophy maintain that it includes all the essentials of a sound educational program adequate for our modern democratic societv in this a1<eof science, that it is broad enough to encom• pass all the elements of our cultural heritage, that it prov:ides the fullest approach to the individual needs of the student, and that it dignifies the human personality and orients man in the physical and spiritual universe.

In the light of the needs of our generation, what should be the educational objectives of the University of Richmond?

Toward what goals should we set our course? In seeking to answer this insistent question, I wish to examine the four characteristics that distinguish this institution, the four factors that have determined its development.

II The first of these is the liberal arts tradition . There are now six divisions in the University of Richmond. The School of Law and the School of Business Administration are devoted to professional studies. Richmond College, Westhampton College, the Summer School, and the School of Graduate Studies provide the liberal arts foundation of our educational program .

The fundamental task of the liberal arts college is the intellectual and 'cultural development of its students. At the University of Richmond sane culture, sound scholarship, and high educational standards have been consistent characteristics of our tradition, a tradition marked by intellectual integrity and honesty. Although legally entitled to grant the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1840, the faculty delayed conferring it for nine years, till the equipment and teaching staff of Richmond College became equal to that of other strong liberal arts colleges. Thus at the beginning our standards were set high. During the past half century they have been raised ever higher. They must not, and will not, be lowered.

The modern university must be not merely the great conservator of our cultural heritage.

It must be a pioneer in research and creative scholarship. It must discover among its students unusual talent and nurture its development. It must maintain high standards of teaching and learning. Good teachers are the very foundation of a university. To its teachers a university must accord full academic freedom in their quest for truth and in their exposition of the truth in areas of their competence and scholarship. Every possible facility should be afforded them to permit creative research, effective teaching, and direct service to society.

The University of Richmond is now faced with many opportunities for expanded service and increased usefulness. Since the turn of the century it has grown from a sound, but small, liberal arts college to the dimensions of a small, but well-equipped, university.

We must assume added and enlarged obligations, if we are to meet the exacting, growing demands of our constituencies. It will be my earnest endeavor, in the light of developing needs, to continue the constructive, sound expansion that characterized President Boatwright' s administration.

Although the present offerings in our undergraduate colleges are thorough, there is opportunity for enlarging and strengthening them. Especially is there the obvious necessity for expanding the program in international studies. Today, when the countries of the world are bound together by the close bonds of communication and transportation and by the dreadful fear of self-destruction through atomic power, it is imperative that our leaders of tomorrow be taught the bases of international understanding and be prepared to assume the responsibilities now placed upon our country by the forces of a power age. It is incumbent upon every college and university in the land to cooperate wholeheartedly with the cultural and educational program of the United Nations. Never

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has such an opportunity for world service been available to our institutions of higher learning. They must not fail in this obligation.

We already have in the University of Richmond excellent Schools of Law and Business Administration . If, however, we are to fol.fill more completely our role as a university, other specialized professional schools must be established, and greater emphasis must be placed upon research and graduate study.

During the next decade, the millions of young men and women who will be graduated by colleges and universities will create unprecedented demands for advanced education. Our graduate schools must prepare to meet this need. This year there are enrolled in the several divisions of the Uni versity of Richmond nearly 200 men and women holding bachelor's degrees. Not only is it the obligation of the University to provide advanced training for such as these, but it is the duty of every university to expand the areas of knowledge to the extent of its facilities and resources.

In Richmond there are wide opportunities for research, especially in the fields of history, the natural sciences, business, and government. Our faculty members must be encouraged to explore these opportunities and aided to continue their research and their production of scholarly monographs.

Opportunities for strengthening scholarship and promoting research will be facilitated greatly by the newly created Richmond Area University Center . Under this program there will be close cooperation among the various institutions of higher learning in this section of Virginia. While each institu tion will maintain its complete autonomy, the fasulties, facilities, and policies of the several institutions will be coordinated and , to some degree, integrated at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. There are many ways in which these objectives may be achieved, bringing large benefit to the institutions , to the students, and to Virginia .

This project is a challenging opportunity to advance the educational development of this section of the country. I pledge my personal efforts and the full cooperation of the University of Richmond in this undertaking .

These programs and policies, of course, will require heavy expenditures of effort and money, and our progress, as heretofore, must be financially sound . But these are necessary educational goals, if we are to face successfully the challenge of the future. I am encouraged that our history shows that where such educational needs have been recognized by our friends , the required resources have usually become available.

III The second factor determining the development of the University of Richmond is its Christian tradition as a church-related college. It was .first conceived in the year 1 788 , when a committee of Virginia Baptists was organized to establish "a seminary· of learn ing." Indicative of its inclusive spirit is the significant fact that of the twenty-one trus tees elected, fourteen were Baptists and seven (C ontinued on page 24)

A Children's Librarian in· Atomland

By WILMA H. SPANGLER, '25

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you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here . I'm mad. You're mad." The Cheshire Cat's statement from Alice In Wonderland haunted me often during the two years I spent on Mad Mesa, the place now known to the world as Los Alamos, New Mexico. I had expected my life to change when I joined the WAC in August, 1943, but in my wildest dreams had not envisioned that life which opened up to me the winter of 1943. On Thanksgiving Eve, 1943, a thoroughly scared, fatigued and bewildered group of seven W ACs unloaded at Lamy, New Mexico. We had traveled on SECRET orders by practically every type of transportation except an oxcart. We would have clambered without question into a carreta, if one had lumb ered up, creaking .

Hadn't we even been honored with a Toonerville train with a coal stove burning brightly at the coach's end? We didn't know what to expect next. How could one sleep comfortably in P. 0. Box 1539, the only address we knew? Later The Santa Fe New Mexican was to say on that fatal August 6, 1945, when the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima: "A whole social world existed in nowhere in which people were married and babies born nowhere. People died in a vacuum, autos and trucks crashed in a vacuum and the MP baseball team materialized out of a vacuum .... " That night, however, there was little humor to us in traveling halfway across the continent seeking a Post Office Box number!

A GI station wagon met us at the bus station in Santa Fe and whisked us up through a snow-dad scene of moonlit beauty, up, up, up a narrow winding mountain road. The brush fences closed in on us from all sides and the sleeping adobe-housed villages loomed dark behind their rustic fences. At times in the bright moonlight, breath-taking and awesome vistas of deep rocky canyons opened up below us and the dark shadowed mesas towered above. (Later, I appreciated the story one of my friends told. Fresh from the effete East, she had been transported up in a Six-By. The truck had backed up to negotiate a hairpin curve. Mary looked down into the awesome canyon below and dropped her utility coat into it. She never saw it again!) After climbing an interminable hill which seemed headed straight for heaven, we reached a guardhouse. It appeared that we were of the chosen few for we were allowed in and rode through miles of fencedin land to lay our exhausted heads at last on a GI pillow. Oh luxurious! Oh wonderful GI pillow 1 This Thanksgiving Day was our last free day until the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . The next day we were introduced into our new jobs. Our air of bewilderment was enhanced by our fellow W ACs who besieged us with cryptic questions . Were we to be a strange creature called a JERK?

Her experiences on Mad Mesa as one of the highly trained WACs w ho did secret work on the atom bomb project is a story more interest ing than some of the adventure yarns passed over her desk by Miss Spangler, who has returned from her wartime job to her more prosaic civilian duties as librarian of the Trinity County Free Library at Weaverville, Calif.

JERKS? ? what were they? We learned that you worked behind a second, an electric fence inside THE AREA and were a JERK or you worked outside this electric fence surrounded only by one fence and were of the POST. The Post run by the U. S. Engineers kept the project clean, provided water and power and all the necessities of life for the laboratory , which itself was building improved windshield wipers for the U. S. Navy's submarines.

Thus had the fates worked. Washington had had a request in September from a high priority project requesting six computors.

Into a machine had gone the record cards of the new batch of WAC recruits and six cards had caught on notches indented in their sides and had fallen into a pile. Intelligenc e men immediately started to investigate their background of integrity and loyalty and so started the chain of circumstances that landed one Pvt. Wilma H. Spangler at Los Alamos , New Mexi co. Did Doc Gaines ever dream that the student whom he considered only a fairly competent mathematician those 18 years ago at Westhampton, would land here to work on computations that might mean life or death for thousands? Luckily for me and the Project, the Underground (the WAC were in every important office on the Hill) passed along the news that a trained

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librarian was assigned to do computing. The library requested that I be transferred. In the Document Room they were strugg ling with a problem that no one knew how to start. Uncataloged documents were jamming the files and were remaining inaccessible tl;irough lack of analytics. So the Army just by luck made one very satisfactory assignment and I joined the staff of the Document Room, and loved every exciting minute of it. Here were the living , growing, often inaccurate results of experiments and theorizing, put down in black and white.

Daily great bundles of printed symbols in documentary form entered the room, demanding to be processed in such a way as to be made immediately available to the inquiring minds of the scientists, great and small, who sought truth in the laboratory .

They came from all over the world sealed in their double envelopes, a never ending stream from the greatest scientific brains.

Catalogers would shudder at our cataloging system. (As a children's librarian , I had long itched to get my fingers on the complicated scholarly library cataloging which confused the layman and often the trained reference librarian herself.)

Our simplified catalog grew from scratch, to · thousands of cross references. The staff grew frorri two WACs and a civilian to a force to crowd several additional rooms. At first my insistence on some semblance of form and accuracy in the catalog cards seemed silly to my coworkers, but soon our attractive and useful catalog became the pride of the Document Room . Subject heading books evolved from nothing to large volumes which were revised monthly . Author and series files were set up. My chemistry and physics, unused for eighteen years, had to be pulled from the recesses of my memory and set to the task of understanding scientific terms, many of them in the state of Rux in definition, for this was a science in growth. My days I spent trying to learn the vernacular and to translate the many codes in which the material was written and my evenings in reading nuclear physics and attending lectures, a good half of which sailed over my bewildered head . These lecturers, many of them, were names seen on textbooks or serious scientific treatises . They were Nob el prize winners and leaders of scientific thought in great Universities. I was indeed a Children's librarian , lost in the bewildering maze of Atomland . A mad , mad mesa which planned to do the impossible and join the realms of the pulp magazines and split the atom. Yes, the atom had been split in laboratories, the theory had been developed in many a scholarly treatise. These men meant to make of theory, actuality 1 The idealistic scientists who worked at Los Alamos had hoped that the BOMB would never be used against man. They had (Continued on page 26)

All Aroundthe Lake RichmondCollege

By WALTER B. HOOVER, '47 CHORUS of groans echoed around the A lake as the exam schedules were posted , heralding the close of the first semester.

Looking back, it seems. hardly possible that so many events could have been crowded into such a short space of time.

Scarcely had Richmond College accustomed itself to the actuality of 1,135 students when the prospects of a week end containing both Home-coming Day and Opening Dances loomed over the horizon . About the same time the University realized that it had a football team.

When that "combined operation" week end arrived it outshone even the wildest expectations of all the committees: the dances flowed to smooth perfection ; the old grads were greeted by a gentle breeze, wafting the tantilizing aroma of barbecue, and swaying the chorus of balloons which supported the web of welcome over Millhiser Field; the Spider team laid a thoroughly trussed Cavalier at the feet of Miss Janie Copenhaver, the Home-coming Queen, and the occasion slid into the treasured past to the tune of a dulcet sax amid a swirl of red and white bunting.

The first presidential inauguration in over half a century brought some 200 delegates · from colleges and universities throughout the nation , who wound their way across the campus in a multicolored tide to the Chapel to hear President Modlin accept his responsibilitie~ for the years ahead.

The Playhouse came in for its share in the spotlight when the Players presented two smash hits, "The Hasty Heart" and "The

Male Animal." Professor Alton Williams was assisted in the production of these plays

by William Maner, '40, who had ·returned to the campus after receiving his M.A. from the University of North Carolina. Professor Maner , in addition to teaching classes in English and Dramatic Arts, and working with the Players, found time to write light verse which was finding its way into print in national magazines. So far, he has sold three pieces to The New Yorker , and one to The Sat11rdayReview of Literature.

The Radio Guild had become the ''voice of the University," broadcasting a program over WRNL every Tuesday from 9 to 9: 30 p.m., when students were heard in shows which ranged from music and drama to a pregame pep rally. The Radio Forum Committee added one panel discussion each month to complete the schedule. The panels were made up of two invited guests, three members of the faculty, and one student.

During the first semester the University of Richmond Radio Forum had discussed the continuance of the draft, taxes and the balanced budget, veterans ' housing, and juvenile delinquency. The next discussion was scheduled for Tuesday, February 11, when the Forum would broadcast part of one of the roundtable discussions, held in connection with Religious Emphasis Week, when a Catholic priest , a. Jewish rabbi, and several Protestant ministers would try to find the religious answer to pressing problems of community and world interest. Beginning • Tuesday, January 21, the University programs would be heard one-half hour later,

9 to 9: 30 p .m., to make way for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

When the spirit of Christmas began to steal through buildings of the University , the University Choir, to help the spirit along, sang the "Messiah " before a capacity audience in the Chapel, after which most of the crowd tried to get into the Christmas party in the Reception Room of Keller Hall, jointly sponsored by Richmond College Student Government and Westhampton College Government. When the last person managed to squeeze into the standing-roomonly section, Professor Skinner, of the German department , led the group in singing carols from many lands . Professor Wil liams read Dickens ' Christmas Carol, giving his annual portrayal of Scrooge. Santa Claus appeared on the scene, his pack loaded with appropriate gifts for student leaders. All question about his identity was dispelled when he greeted the assembly with, "Merry Christmas, neighbors ," in the hearty voice of Dean Pinchbeck . After the party a sizable chorus of minstrels wound their way up the hill to sing carols before the homes of personnel and friends of the University.

President Modlin forecast, in the Collegian for January 10, the possibility that construction may begin in 1947 on that long-awaited Student Activities Building for Richmond College. He termed it "regrettable" that the University must builrl at this time, but added that this building "has long been needed by the men ."

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Westhampton College

By ELSIE MINTER, '47

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by College Government, the Junior Class, and the Athletic Association. One of the oddest of these was the Sadie Hawkins Dance, sponsored by the Junior Class. Filled with all the traditions of L' il Abner and the Yokums, it was one of the cleverest functions of the fall . At this dance the Even mascot, a pig, officially change its name from SNEVE to SALOMEY. The Christmas season began with the Snow Ball sponsored by the A . A. Board and closed (here at school, at least) with the Christmas Party. Dean Pinchbeck made a swell Santa Claus, even though he lost his glasses and couldn't read the poems .

Hockey season closed with a bang and a big surprise for the Odds. The Odd -Even game, fought long and hard, ended in a tie and the Senior Class captured the hockey championship. Our hockey team, which went together to hockey camp, had its most successful season this year, losing only two games to out-of-state rivals and winning the ~tate Hockey Championship.

Remember how it is around this time of the year with exams only one week awayterm papers , note cards, and busy signs all greatly in evidence and a rather dazed expression on all faces. Of course, our activities are few!

However, we refused to surrender completely to our own selfish desires and on Friday, January 10, we began our annual Old Clothing Drive for the relief of French

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students whose lot is much more unfortunate than ours. Shoes, sweaters, skirts- clothes of all descriptions- filled the modern language office until one wondered if Miss Wright could possibly be under all those piles of clothing or if she had resignedly withdrawn until Les Femmes Savantes had time to pack them for mailing.

Remember when a lot of you were her e, Mortar Board sponsored a Eugenics course for Juniors and Seniors. It hasn 't been done since I've been here but I'm glad to know that it's on the way. Sch~duled for th e first of February too.

Speaking of dazed faces you should have seen the expressions as the girls came out of chapel last Thursday. Les Femmes Savantes sponsored the program and presented th e Scripture reading and morning prayer in French . Anyway, it kept everybody awake!

Home-coming IGHT HUNDRED ALUMNI are willing to affirm that the 1946 Homecoming on November 2 was the best occasion of its kind in Spider history, featuring a well-rounded program climaxed by a 19 to 7 football victory over the University of Virginia's Wahoo s.

The whole show was prepared bY,a committee headed by J. Earle (Pete) Dunford , '15, with a big assist from Richmond College students who went all out in showing the ol' grads a good time. Decorations were unusually attractive and featured a giant Spider web, held aloft by hydrogen-inflated balloons. There was further cooperation from the weather which served up a good, brisk midautumn day.

While the alumni were sleeping soundly, dreaming of the big day on the morrow , Alton Williams, versatile ace of all trades who teaches drama for a living but presides over barbecues for the fun of it, was tending the fire in the big pit. The aroma of slowly roasting spareribs and other specialties of Chef Williams greeted the ol' grads as they registered, and tantalized them throughout the morning football game between the "B" teams of Richmond and the University of Virginia.

Since a victory over the Virginia varsity eleven had been written into the Home coming script for the afternoon, it seemed proper for the visitors to win the "B" game altho ugh Da ve Robertson's lads put up a gallant fight before dropping a 13 to 7 decision.

The sound of the gun which ended the game was followed closely by Prof. Williams' "come and get it." The alumni, needing no second invitation, rallied around and were served quickly and bountifully. Guests of honor at the barbecue were members of the Mary Washington College band from Fredericksburg who came down under the watchful care of W. B. F. (Billy) Cole, '12.

The girls, whose marching and playing had won a great ovation at the V.M .I. game earlier in the season, were to put on an even more spectacular demonstration between the halves of thf' game with the Wahoos in City Stadium later in the afternoon.

At the head table with such bigwigs as Chancellor Boatwright, '88, President Modlin, Senator Robertson, '07, Representative Gary, '12, Mayor Edwards, '26, and Judge Hudgins, '05, was pretty Janie Copenhaver of Bristol, daughter of Robert M. Copenhaver, '22, who reigned over the Homecoming festivities in her role as Homecoming Qu een. She was the selection of Co-Captains Francis (Fritz) Laurinaitis and Houston Sizer who (the ol' grads all agreed) are pretty good pickers. With the queen as her maids-of-honor were Jacqueline Pitt , daughter of Athleti c Director Mac Pitt, ' 18, and Irene Barbour of Rockville Centre, N. Y., who were selected by members of the football squad. The queen and her maids

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Most of the alumni commen ted on the large number of their college mates with whom they were renewing their friendship after the lapse of a number of years since their undergraduate days together. Some shamefacedly confessed that the Homecoming was their first since they quit college halls. A great many of the Home-comers were veterans of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps who were returning to Alma Mater after many months of military service.

All agreed to return for Home-coming in '47.

The day was appropriately climaxed by a smashing 19 to 7 victory over an outclassed University of Virginia team. Richmond scored three times and had another apparent touchdown called back, before yielding a score to the visitors. The victory was probably the best performance of the season for the Spiders.

Credit for careful planning and wise selection of committee members goes to Chairman Dunford and to his subcommittee chairmen: W. Roland Galvin, '26, registration; Mac Pitt, '18, "B" football; Billy Cole, '12, Mary Washington band; and Robert M .

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With Chunky Galvin on the registration committee were Wi lliam T. Muse, '28, who registered Law School alumni and gave them each a scrap of royal purple, and Richard McCrone, '35.

Mac Pitt was assisted by Walter Anderson, '21; Clyde Ratcliffe, '34, and by honorary alumnus A . K. (Gus) Barker, one of the Spiders' most ardent supporters although the University does not have the honor of numbering him among her ol' grads.

With Billy Cole were Ralph Ferrell, '33; Robert Leitch, '39, and Edwin B. Brooks , '43.

On the barbecue committee with Bob Stone were L. Howard Jenkins, Jr., '3 7; Henry Snellings, Jr ., '38, and Cleveland Kern, '35.

Assisting Chairman Dunford with the pleasant job of greeting the returning ol' grads were Senator Robertson, President H .

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AlumnaeWorker's Conference Early in the morning on November 9, thirty board members, class secretaries and local club representatives arrived at Westhampton to spend a full day in "going back to college. " They were to try as far as possible in that limited time to acquire all the latest information about entrance requirements, present curriculum, new professors, and the student body in order that they might adequately interpret the college to outsiders.

During the morning , talks were given by Dean Woodfin on T oday's Westhampton including entrance requirements, curriculum, and academic standards; by Dean of Students Marion Hamilton on Today's Westhampton including social life and student activities; and by three student leaders.

Marion Buske, president of College Government, spoke on The Student Body, Betty Ann Allen, representing the Y.W .C.A., spoke on Religious Activities, and Elsie Minter from the Athletic Association spoke on Athletics. Following each of these talks the opportunity which was given for questions was eagerly accepted by the workers.

From 11 :45 a.m. to 12 :30 the group visited spots of special interest around the dormitory. They went into the court and saw in detail the work which is being done there this year by the alumnae. Many of the plants had already arrived and been put in.

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had not yet been touched, but for which plans have been made to be carried out as soon as more money for the project comes in . They visited the formal garden where the alumnae are also putting in new plants, and they saw the steel framework of the new dormitory.

At lunch with the students in the college dining room Dr. Modlin, Dr. Woodfin and Miss Hamilton were the special guests, and Dr . Modlin told something of his plans for the University's future.

In the early afternoon the workers broke up into three groups. The class secretaries, the board members, and the local club representatives had separate meetings for the discussion of their specific problems, after which they came together again in a general conference to report and discuss their findings.

From three to four o'clock there was a tour of the campus, including a visit to the science buildings and Thomas Hall.

A faculty tea in the Reception Room of Keller Hall at which the alumnae were given a special opportunity to meet and talk to the new members of the faculty ended the day's program, and sent the alumnae workers home in a state of exhaustion but, it was hoped, of considerably more enlightenment concerning college affairs than they had possessed when they arrived that morning.

(1) Brooks Dawkins, freshman scat back, sets sail around right end to spark a touchdown offensive. (2) Excellent judges of pulchritude as well as experts in legal matters, Judge E. W. Hudgins, 'OS, and Judge Burnett Miller, '31, get chummy with Home-coming Que en Jane Copenhaver. (3) Yum, yum! Eating barbecued pig are Home-coming Queen Copenhaver (center), and her maids-of-honor, Irene Barbour (left) and Jacqueline Pitt. (4) Chairman W . Roland Galvin, '26, and his registration committee do a land -office business. Beside "Chunky" Galvin is J. Westwood Smithers, L'32. (5) Chef Alton Williams spears a sizzling portion of barbecued spareribs for Chancello r Boatwright while Home-coming Chairman J. Earle (Pete) Dunford, 'l 5, waits his turn. (6) Student leaders work with Home-coming committee in entertaining the alumni. Editor Clifton Long, a ided by Beth Decker (left) , daughter of Dr. John W . Decker, '11, and Marion Friddell, give copies of the Collegian to the ol' grads. (Bottom) The perfect ending of a perfect day. Richmond 19, Virginia 7. In the front row of the president's box (left to right) ai-e: President Modlin, W. Richard Broaddus, '20; Mrs. Broaddus; and Mrs. J. Vaughan Ga ry.

Behind them are Overton D. Dennis, 'l 0, and Mr. Gary , '12.

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HE alumni and friends of the University of Ric;hmond were shocked by the sudden and untimely death of Dave E. Satterfield, Jr., '16, on December 27, 1946, at age 52. They were joine~ in their sorrow and bereavement by thousands of Richmond and Virginia citizens and public officials, members of the United States Congress with whom he served nearly eight years with distinction, members of his own beloved legal profession, and leaders of the life insurance profession for which he was. the national director at the time of his death.

I am utterly unable to put into words my own deep sense of loss in the parting of my close boyhood friend. I knew him intimately for nearly thirty-five years, as a fellow student in old Richmond College, as a fellow attorney at the Richmond bar, when he served as Attorney for the Commonwealth in Richmond, and when he served in the U. S. Congress. I knew him in his gracious home life and counted him and his devoted wife and two boys as members of my own family. This feeling was reciprocated by him and his family. I shall ever remain in his debt for the privilege of his rich friendship.

It seems only yesterday that Dave entered Richmond College to study law in 1913. He was nineteen then. Dave had graduated from John Marshall High School in 1911 and worked as a freight clerk with the Atlantic Coast Line for two years. He tells of the circumstances of his opportunity to attend college in the following characteristic words: "T he Times-Dispatch sponsored a 13mile marathon in 1913. I was interested in the race and would run three miles every night after work. One night I was running out Grace Street near the old University of Richmond; and I overtook two runners on the street. They were Paul Heubi and Vaughan Gary, two University of Richmond varsity track members.

"For a week the three of us would run together, and I would win each race.

Vaughan Gary wanted to win the marathon for Richmond, so he went to Dr. F. W. Boatwright and asked him to give me a scholarship. After considerable dickering, I got the scholarship, and when the real race started, I was wearing the colors of the University of Richmond ."

He loved to remind me that I ran second in this marathon and explained his own failure to finish in this mann er: "The Times-Dispatch officials had a newsreel camerama n to follow the race and take pictures for the full 13 miles. I was out in front for the first three or four miles, right behind the camera truck. I must have inhaled a lot of carbon monoxide from the exhaust of the motor as I got terribly sick and finally 'p assed out' running."

Dave earned the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916 and immediately began the practice of law in his native Richmond. At Rich-

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mond College he was president of his senior law class, first assistant editor-in-chief of the Collegian, captain of the track team, captain of the basketball team, and a member of the Delta Theta Ppi legal fraternity and the Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity. He and John Archer (Nick) Carter, '16, got out the first issue of the '•Collegian. As a distinguished alumnus he was later elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honorary leadership and scholastic fraternities.

In his college career, as in high school, he revealed increasing ly his leadership in scholarsh ip, social life, and athletics.

Dave Satterfield was a great Virginian and a courageous and patriotic American citizen.

He volunteered for the United States Navy on the day after World War I was declared in 1917. He served first as a third class seaman but lat er was transferred to the U. S. Naval Flying Corps. Commissioned as an Ensign he was discharged as a full lieutenant in March , 1919. He held the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Air Corps Reserve in 1941 -42 when he secured a leave of absence from Congress to serve on active duty in London for five months as an official observer attached to the staff of Rear Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, chief of the special naval mission to the United States Embassy. He was torn between his deep desire to serve in combat duty in World War II and continuance of his important service in Congress. His request for active duty in Wocld War II was based on his conviction that active duty would give him a larger and

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Dave 's devotion to his country was clearly revealed when the question arose as to whether his own two fine sons, Dave E. Satterfield, III , '43, and Richard Benjamin Satterfield, should continue their education until called for military duty. Like their distinguished father, "Litt le Dave " and Di ck entered the United States Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor, and were commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve Air Corps. They both earned outstanding records in their service. Their father and mother were justly proud of the decisions and the records of their sons.

Dave Satterfield 's rise in public and political leadership was as rapid as it was outstanding. In 1921 he was elected Attorney for the Commonwealth in Richmond. He served in this position until 1933 when he resigned to resume the practice of law . At the close of his service as Attorney for the Commonwealth his record was characterized by a local newspaper editorial in these words: "Mr. Satterfield has made an excellent job of it. The Commonwealth's Attorney has met every emergency with ability and ta.ct and with an eye single to even-handed justice. Judges before whom Mr. Satterfield has practiced regard him as a distinct ornament to the bar, a man who has discharged the onerous and, sometimes, disagreeable duties of his office in a manner fully to justify the high confiden ce the people of Richmond have reposed in him all these years."

From 1933 to 1937 Dave devoted himself solely to the practice of law as a member of the Richmond law firm of Tucker, Bronson, Satterfield and Mays. In the private practice of law he revealed himself to be a man of rare judgment, possessor of the fine ability to assess and evaluate evidence, and the sound judicial temperament of the experienced member of the bar. He remained a member of the same law firm after his election to Congress on November 2, 1937, to fill the vacancy created by the death of the Honorable Andrew Jackson Montague, and until he resigned from Congress on February 15, 1945.

Dave was re-elected without opposition to the 76th, 77th, 78th and 79th Congresses.

During his service in the United States House of Representatives he was a member of the important Judiciary Committee. His outstanding ability and sound judgment were quickly recognized by his colleagues, and his sincerity of purpose and fidelity to duty won their confidence and respect. As a member of Congress he took a strong stand for wartime antistrike action. He gave his full support to the extension of the Trade Agreements Act of 1943. His was among the earliest voices raised in support of LendLease to the victims of Axis aggression, the (Continued

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BasketeersTakeOver BluesArmory NE-THIRD of the way through a 24game schedule, the University of RichO mond basketball team had a presentable 6 to 2 advantage in games won and lost. Only Georgetown and William and Mary 's towering Indians were able to dent the Spider armor.

Wi lliam and Mary's 47 to 45 triumph in the most exciting game of the season was a heartbreaker for Ma( Pitt's gallant courtmen who outplayed their taller and bigger opponents most of the way. The Spiders apparently had the situation well in hand until their captain and _great guard, Louis (Weenie) Miller , fouled out with 14 minutes still remaining in the game.

Then the Indians, led by John Jorgenson, one of the outstanding players in the Southern C'1nference, overtook the Spiders and finally went ahead by two points in the last minute of the game.

The most spectacular performer for the Richmonders was little Bernard (Bootsie) Do lsey, five-foot-five sophomore, who was hitting the target from all angles. He scored 17 points and , in addition, passed cleverly and did a good job on the defense .

After the first eight games Captain Miller and Tony DiServio, all-State center from Camden, N . J., were deadlocked in scoring with 92 points each, an average of better than 11 points per game.

Next in line came Al Rinaldi of Apollo, .

Pa., Miller 's running mate at guard, with 72. Jim Suttenfield of Lynchburg and Irvin Robinson of Richmond, who started most of the games at the forwards, each had 40 points, as did Jack Jones, who earned allState honors at Thomas Jefferson high .school last year. Dolsey, who was used sparingly early in the season and had scored only one point in the first five games, scored 13 against Quantico's Marines , 6 against Maryland , and then looped in 17 points against William and Mary for a respectable total of 37 points.

Opening against Union Theological Seminary, the Spiders piled up a 90 to 24 score which they followed with 5'5-38 and 56-5 3 victories over Langley Field and Fort Belvoir, respectively. Then Georgetown, boasting one of the best teams in the East, gave the Spiders a 46-38 thumping. Resuming their winning ways Coach Pitt's men posted 54-44 and 65-51 victories over the Medical College and Quaiitico before entering the Southern Conference competition with an impressive 41 to 39 victory over a strong University of Maryland quintet. Maryland later defeated George Washington, a team regarded as one of the strongest in the Southern Conference.

The victory over Maryland was followed by the William and Mary game which was witnessed by perhaps the largest crowd ever to see a University of Richmond basketball contest. The game was moved down to the

Blues Armory where bleacher seats were installed and more than 3,000 persons wit nessed the fray. An additional thousand or more were turned away.

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By PAUL DUKE, '47 In answer to those who argue that miracles don 't happen these days, Richmond rooters pride - to the record compiled point-with by the 1946 l{ed and Blue football team.

Picked to finish far down in the second division in the state championship race, Coach Johnny Fenlon and his assistants did the almost unbelievable with the more than 80 candidates-the largest in UR historywho reported for fall practice .

The Spiders proceeded to run off a 10game schedule that brought six victories, two ties, and only two setbacks, good enough to . keep them in the race for the Old Domin ion's Big Six title right up to Thanksgiving Day and a place among the first six Conference elevens, immediately behind Duke.

Richmond shared with William and Mary the lion 's share of the All-State selections, with four players making the first team and Jackie Null , the little 150-pound center, earning a berth on the second team. Jack Wilbourne , the Roanoke speedster -, received more votes than any other performer and was named captain of the mythical eleven.

Ed (Sugar) Ralston, sopho more plunging fullback from Richmond who got better as the season progressed, was named to the first team along with Wilbourne, giving Richmond for the first time in many years two places in the backfield.

End U. S. Doc Savage of Phoebus , Va., and Guard Fritz Laurinaitis of New Phil adelphia, Pa., obtained line berths. One of the state's leading pass snatche,rs, Savage 'Yas offered a contract to play with Wash ington of the National Professional Football League next season but he declin ed.

Laurinaitis was the China Wall up front all season, and played a particularly fine game against Maryland. He has been offered contracts by the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Brooklyn Eagles.

The Spiders smacked Randolph-Macon, 46-0, in the curtain raiser and played V.M.I. to a 7-7 tie the following week end. Quarterback Marion Timberlake of Fredericksburg intercepted a pass and returned it 26 yards for the Spiders' lone score. Frank Thompson of Farmville, whose specialty for. splitting the uprights netted 15 points during the season, provided the all-important single marker .

There were few who thought the Spiders would do more than hold Maryland to a respectable score. The score was highly respectable, 37 to 7-and Richmond got the 37.

The Spider s ran up their third high score in dropping Hampden-Sydney , 33-6, before Duke 's Bl_ueDevils , always a power , handed them thelf first reversal of the campaign, 41-0. The Dukemen hopped off to an early lead and walked off the field at halftime with a five-touchdown advantage.

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Among hi s many services in behalf of the blind was that of having Robertson 's Harmony of the Gospels embossed in Bra ille . It is now in 27 libraries for th e blind in th e United States.

Prof. Corr, who will celebrate hi s 84th birthday February 11, is one of th e University's oldest alum ni .

H e vividly recalls hi s undergraduate career whic h was mark ed by such ho nors as the editorship of the Messengel'. (He was a one-time roommate of Chancellor Boatwright, '88 .)

1901E. W. Prove nce, whose active career has in cluded th e pre sidency of two colleges, has retired from college work and is now operating a printing establishment at Denton, Texa s. In addition to his first Jove, printing, he has serve d as an English professor in Shanghai Baptist College and at Baylor University, business manager of Baylor and later business manager of Texas Techno logical College, and as president of Mont ezuma College in New Mexico, and Burleson College, Greenvi lle, Texas.

He reports that he is ''in fine hea lth, and when the class of '0 1 celebrates its fiftieth anniversary I hope to be th ere."

1907A. Willis Rober tson of Lexington , Va., who was elected to the United States Senate after receiving the unanimous endorsement of the Democratic nominating committee, has been assigned to the banking and currency committee on which his predecessor, the late Carter Glass , served for 27 years, H e also received assignment to the committee on expe nditure s of executive departments which is taking over functions of the joint committ ee on nonessential Federa l expe nditures headed

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1912Pulling no punches, J . Vaugh an Gary, who was elected to Congress from the Third Virgini a District last November, is courageously insi sting on a balanced budget. In speec hes before hi s constituency, he has warned that further deficit financing may prove .fiscally disastrous. Vaugh an's losing opponent in the November election, Earl Lutz, ' 14, Republican, made a cred itable race in a district overwhelmingly D emocratic.

1914-Earl Lutz ha s been designat ed to prepare a history of Richmond's war years for the Richmond World War II Hi story Commissi on.

1915I. W. Duggan, Governor of the Farm Credit Ad ministration, has announced from Washington the re-e lection of Waverly S. Green of Burkeville, Va., as a director of the Farm Credit Board of Baltimore, Second District.

Mr. Green's district embraces the states of Virg,inia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, De laware and Porto Rico. In hi s important post he succeeds the late Th omas W. Ozlin , '09. He had

served previous ly as field representative for the Farm Credit Administration.

Carrying on for Mr. Green in the best Spicier tradition are his two sons, Dr. T homas W ., '42, who has comp leted bis interns hip and is now a physician at the Nava l Academy, Anna polis, and Waverly S., Jr., '4 1, who is a medical student at Joh ns Hopkins. The latter is recovering" satisfactorily from a war injury.

Returned from his job as prosecutor in the trial of 27 top-ranking Japanese war crimina ls, D. Ne lson Sutton reports that the Japanese peop le apparently are p leased with the prospects of a constitutional government and that they are happy to learn that their emperor is a human being and not a god . He expects to return soon to T okyo to cross-examine witnesses who wi ll testify for the defense in the celebrated "rape of Nanking" phase of th e case.

1918Rev. J. Ernest Wrenn took over the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church at Martinsburg , W. Va. , in October, after resigning pastorates at North Run and Hopeful in Dover Association of Virginia. ·

1919The persons standing on their heads over there in the corner are the innocents who believe Boyce Loving's tall tale about being one of fo ur fishermen who "landed more than 150 brown and rainbow trout" one day recent ly. "We tossed back all those weighing under two pounds, " affirms N imrod Loving, who is pub lic affairs officer in the Unite d States Informat ion Service at Santiago, Chi le.

1920w. Richard

Broaddus , Jr. has been elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as the representative of Henry County and the City of Martinsville, succeeding Thomas B. Stan ley, resigned.

Mr. Broaddus, former commonwealth's attorney for Henry County, was unopposed in the special election called by Governor Tuck. · Mr. Broaddus, a former president of the Genera l Society of Alumni, is a member of the Univers ity's board of trustees.

1921Dr . Marvin L. Skaggs, head of the division of Social Sciences at Greensboro College, has been elected vice president of th e His torica l Society of North Carolina. Dr. Skaggs is the author of a number of pub lications , including a book, North Carolina Boundary Disput es.

1922Rev. Charles F. Leek, after 15 years as pastor of the Highland Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., resigned his charge to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Thomasville, N. C. Mr. Leek 's undergraduate honors included the editorship of The Collegian.

1923Herbert R. Hutchison is now with Phipps & Bird, Inc., in Richmond, following his discharge from the Navy with the rank of Lt. Commander.

Dr. Georg e S. Mitchell , former director of the Southeastern Regiona l Office of PAC, has joined the staff of the Southern Regional Counci l to direct a special program for veterans. Dr . Mitchell , a former Rhodes scholar, has had a distinguished career which has included teaching economics as a member of the Columbia University facu lty, work with the Resett lement Administration, and later with the Farm Security Admi nistration, before accepting the position of regional director

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for the PAC. Among his best kn own writings are "Texti le Unionism in the Sout h," "The In dustria l Revo lut ion in the Sout h," and "Black Workers and the New Unio n. "

1925Warren A. McNeill, a vetera n Associated Press correspondent, has accepted appointment as administr atiYe assistant to Senator A . Wi llis Robertson, '07, a job created by the last Congress to relieve Senators of some of their duties and to permit them to devote more time to legis lative matters .

Mr. McNei ll brings to his new job a journa listic and scho larly backgrou nd. As a student in the University he won not on ly the Jacob Billikopf, '96, prize for research in social sciences but captured also the meda l awarded to the best graduate in Eng lish.

While in graduate school in the Un iversity of Richmond ( MA'27) he be,;an work on "Cabellia n Harmo nics," a stu dy of the works of James Bra nch Cabell , which was published by Random House i n 1929.

After newspaper wor k in Richmond and his nat ive Lynchb urg, he joined the staff of the Associated Press in Richmond and later served the AP in New Yo rk, Nashvi lle, and Washington .

1926Elmhurst notab les joined with mem bers of the congregation in paying tribute to the Rev. Ceci l E. Kite on the occasion of h is 10th ann iversary as pastor of the Elmhurst Baptist Chu rch. Mr. K ite, who whi le a student at the U nion T heologica l Seminary in New York served as assistant to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosd ick, has been prominent in the life of th e Elmhurst comm unity since he became pastor there in 1936. He served for six years as preside nt of the Elmhurst Federation of Churches.

1927Moncure P. Patteso n has been elevated to the position of vice president and cashier of the State-Planters Bank and Trust Company, foll owing his return to the bank after -three years in the Army. He holds a Jaw degree from the T. C. Wil liams School of Law in addition to his academic degree from Richmond Coll ege, and was a member of the first class of the Rutgers University School of Banking in 1937. He has served in every department of the State-Planters Bank during his 19 years with that institution.

1928Paul G. O 'Ne al has been appointed Transportation Director of the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

1929Ralph Johnson, who did vital work in the development of the atomic bomb, is now working with the Army Air Forces in Washington.

Th e nature of his work has not been disclosed. Dr. Johnson is doing this work on leave of absence from the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady .

1930Aubrey V. Kidd of Richmond has been elected comptroller of the Bank of Virginia with which he has been associated since 1927. His services as a part-time bookkeeper began whi le he was still a student. Rising through the auditing and accounting departments, he became auditor in 1935 and assistant vice president in the comptro ll er's divi sion in 194 5.

Mr. Kidd, a Certified Public Accountant, has served as instructor in accounting, auditing and bank operations at the University of Richmond's Ev~ning School of Business Administration.

1933Rev . Gary Bousman is associate minister and director of young peop le's work at P lymou th Church, Mi lwaukee . H e also teaches Bib le at Mi lwaukee-Downer College . His return to church

work follows four years of duty as an Army chaplain, including duty in Hawaii, Guadalcanal, and New Zealand . A second son, Ronald Lee, was born to the Bousmans July 15.

While on terminal leave, Stuart A. Eacho was notified of hi s promotion to the rank of commander in the United States Naval Reserve. He has returned to the practi<:e of law in Richmond.

1935Engaged: Betty Ann Scheer and Dr. Samuel E. Rudlin, Richmond. The wedding will take place in February.

1937Born: a son, Charles Briel, III, to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Briel Keppler; at Norfolk General Hospital, October 19.

Rev. William L. Lumpkin is doing graduate work at the University of Edinburgh in the field of church history . He resigned his charge at the Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington, Va . in November.

Channing L. Pace, since the return of the U. S. Patent Office from Richmond to Washington, is now Jiving at 1407-A South Thomas St., Arlington, Va. J. Laurence Pittore has been re-elected to the Eastchester (N. Y.) Town Council by a landslide margin of approximately 9 to 1. There were 12,.000 votes cast in the election. Mr. Pittore was appointed to the Council in March 1946 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of one of the members. A veteran of World War II in which he served with the 7th and 4th Infantry divisions, he is now engaged in the practice of law in Bronxville.

1938Rev. Harry T . James is pastor of the Gretna (Va.) Baptist Church.

Married: Rev. Paul B. Watlington, Jr., pastor of the Purcellville (Va.) Baptist Church, and Miss Lelia Carson of Falling Spring, Va ., at the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, August 13. The ceremony was performed by the bridegroom's father, Rev. Paul B. Watlington, '07. Paul and his bride were among the enthusiastic witnesses of Richmond's football triumph over Maryland.

1939Married: Miss Marguerite Josephine Plageman of Richmond and Howard Cary Adams of Centralia, Va., at McGuire Chapel in Richmond.

A. G. Howell, administrative director of Raiford Memorial Hospital at Franklin, Va., has been granted a year's leave of absence and is now directing the Virginia Hospital Survey, established to determine the State's medical needs and to prepare a master hospital plan. Mr. Howell will have two full-time field assistants to aid him in this survey which is expected to extend over a period of one year and involve at least one visit to every hospital in the State.

Engaged: Jane Dabney Duke and Flavious Burfoot Walker, Jr . of Richmond. No date has been set for the wedding.

1940The Army has announced the award of the Bronze Star Medal to Captain Hamill Dice Jones of Richmond, for meritorious service with the Signal Section, Allied Force Headquarters, North African theater.

Captain William H. ReMine, Jr. has been transferred from Fort Ord, Calif., and is now stationed at Camp Lee.

1941Norman Brown is with -the Continental Coffee Company in Miami . He was married to Miss Barbara Koven soon after his discharge from the Navy in December, 1945. (Home address: 17 Majorca Avenue, Apt . 2, Coral Gables.)

For "extraordinary heroism" as a pilot of a fighter plane attached to the aircraft carrier USS · Wasp during operations against Japanese forces in Tokyo Bay in February, 1945, William A. Grant, Jr. has been awarded the coveted Navy Cross. "Skillfully and courageously maneuvering

WesthamptonHomecoming Thanksgiving Home-coming this year had a special interest for returning alumnae.

They were to meet their new president, Dr. Modlin, to greet their long-time friend Dr. Woodfin who is now acting dean of women, and to welcome the new dean of students, Miss Hamilton. At the formal dinner held in the college dining room on Wednesday evening the alumnae waited with great interest to hear the talks which were to be made by these three. When the ~alks ended one could sense the feeling of satisfaction and approval among the listeners-they felt that their college was still in good hands, and they had caught a vision of a great future before us under excellent leadership.

Following the dinner, Camilla Wimbish Lacy, national president of the alumnae association, invited all those present to a reception in Keller Hall where they were given an opportunity to meet Dr. and Mrs. Modlin, Dr. Woodfin and Miss Hamilton. Since

all the members of the Westhampton faculty had also been invited to the reception, it took on the aspect of a real family reunion.

As the alumnae chatted over their punch cups, with stringed music and a crackling fire furnishing the background, they felt that they had truly come home.

On Thanksgiving morning at ten o'clock an alumnae hockey team with Cornelia Reid, '46, as captain, played a team made up of Westhampton undergraduates. The fact that the alumnae won by a score of four to nothing helped further to make the Homecoming a happy one. Following the hockey game, Westhampton Mortar Board under the leadership of Marylou Massie served coffee to players and alumnae.

The football game between William and Mary and the University of Richmond Thursday afternoon completed a homecoming which, despite the outcome of the game, had been most successful.

his plane in the midst of intense antiaircraft fire," the citation states, Lt. (jg) Grant "scored two rocket hits on an enemy aircraft carrier" which "contributed materially to the sinking of the vessel immediately after the attack."

Mr. Grant, who now operates Grant Mills at Jasper, Ala., also has the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Gold Star.

Married: Miss Ann Elizabeth Burton and Benjamin G . Williams in St. Benedict's Church, Richmond .

Dr. Gordo!l ReMine is on the staff of Crile Clinic in Cleveland.

1942Tommy Wiley, '40, himself an Army flier with an exs;ellent World War II record, reveals in a recent feature story in the Richmond News Leader that Lt. (jg) William Harrison (Bill) Bingham won the title of the "Ack-ack Kid" because of his habit of invariably bringing back a plane peppered with antiaircraft shell fragments. It was necessary to fish him out of the Pacific on one occasion but the "Ack-ack Kid 's" luck held through 31 combat missions. For his heroism he has an Air Medal with a Gold Star, and the Navy Unit Citation.

Born: to Aylett Woodson Goode, Jr. and Mildred Cox Goode, '44, a daughter, Courtney Oliver Goode, on October 13 at Martinsville, Va. Clarence Edward Major is a student at Oxford University, England. With him at Oxford are Mrs. Major (the former Beatrice Penny of Exeter) and Jennifer Virginia Major, 3. During his four years in the infantry he rose from private to captain, was twice decorated (Purple Heart and Bronze Star) .

Robert J. Martin, 3rd, is assistant West Coast sales manager for the Silex Co. Bob and Mrs .

Martin (Jane Whitener, '42) and daughter, Janet, live at 204 West Live Oak St., San Gabriel, Calif.

From Tom Warriner comes word that his classmate in the University of Virginia Law School, Robert C. Cotten, Jr., currently ranks 14th in a class of some 150 students and is a strong candidate for a place on the coveted Virginia Law Review. Other Spiders in the Wahoo Law School include John Locke, '41, and Harold Owens, '41.

1943Engaged: Elizabeth Montague Nunnally to John Edward Grigg of Richmond. The date for the wedding has not been set.

The Navy has announced the award of a Gold Star in lieu of a second Air Medal to Lt. David E. Satterfield, III, of Richmond for service as pilot of a fighter plane credited with the destruction of a Japanese aircraft near Hollandia in New Guinea.

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1944Joseph M. Kuczko, 1'44, is associated with Henry C. Bolling, '26, in the practice of Jaw at Pound, a newly incorporated town in Wise County, Va., in the coal fields.

Dr. John L. Read will terminate his internship at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. in April. He has just become engaged to "a very lovely nurse, from Sharon, Pa.," Lt. (jg) Dorothy Patricia Diana (NC) USNR, which may account for the fact that his interest in medicine "has narrowed down to cardiology."

1945Pierce S. Ellis, Jr . is a student in Crozer Semi nary where he has been enrolled since his discharge from the army. He is also doing graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in quest of the doctor of philosophy degree, after which he intends to enter the teaching profession. Mr. Ellis served during World War II in Burma and India with the Office of Strategic Services.

Pierce 's father , Dr. Pierce S. Ellis, '13, is pastor of the Waynesboro, Va ., Baptist Church .

1946Married: Miss Nell Brown Hogshead to Harvey Holmes Chapman at the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, Richmond, October 19.

J . Frank Church, 1'46, is now patent attorney of the Phillips Petroleum Co. at Bartlesville, Okla., following his graduation from the T . C. Williams School of Law. A graduate of Iowa State Teachers College and of Iowa University where he received his master's in education, he served for 12 years as superintendent of schools in Iowa. Entering government service, he was with the department of justice and later with the patent office of the Department of Commerce where he served for four years. He is an inventor in his own right and has four patents pending.

Junius E. Foster, Jr., a Navy pilot in World War II, has been ordained into the Baptist ministry. Following his graduation from the University of Richmond in June he will enroll in Crozer Theological Seminary.

Engaged: Nancy Mann Hite of Blackstone and Jesse Miller Tucker, Jr. of Richmond. The wedding will take place in June.

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pany, died at his home in Richmond· on October 22. A son of the late Major Isaac H. Carrington, early president of the Richmond Bar Association, he was a native of Richmond. After attending the University of Richmond, he became associated with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company and later entered the tobacco business.

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BENJAMIN P. WILLIS, '88, Fredericksburg attorney and trustee of the University of Richmond, died at his home on November 19, following ·a heart attack. He had practiced law since 1893, and continued in his professiOn until the day of his death. Following his graduation from the University of Richmond, he took his law degree at the University of Virginia.

Though he was in his eightieth year at the time of his death, Mr. Willis was active in the Fredericksburg Baptist Church and had lost none of his interest in the affairs of the University. Only a week before his death, he visited the campus to attend the inauguration of Dr. Modlin.

CHARLESLEWIS DAVENPORT,'89, active Baptist layman and secretary of the board of trustees of Averett College, died in Danville on October 30. Mr. Davenport had lived in Danville for 25 years, and was a large landowner in Halifax and Pittsylvania count ies.

COLONEL PARKE POINDEXTERDEANS, '02, widely known as a leader of Virginia's organization wing of the Democratic party and a member of the State Industrial Commission for the past 22 years, died at a Richmond hospital on January 7.

Colonel Deans was appointed to the State Industrial Commission by Governor E. Lee Trinkle in 1924. He served as Commonwealth's Attorney of Isle of Wight County for 10 years, and in the Virg ·inia House of Delegates for six years.

After graduating from Richmond College, Mr. Deans studied law at Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1905.

Active in the Baptist Church, he served as vice president of both the Baptist General Assembly and the Virginia Sunday School Association.

Alumni and friends of the University heard Colonel Deans speak last spring, when he presented the William L. Prince's portrait to the school at the time of Dean Prince's retirement.

DR. ASHBY JONES, '89, who for more than a half century served in the Baptist ministry, died_ in Atlanta on January 2. He served pastorates in Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, and in Georgia at Columbus, Augusta, and Atlanta.

DR. JULIAN A. BURRUSS,'02, president Dr. Jones was internationally recognized of Virginia Polytechnic Institute for a as a pioneer in the field of racial relations, quarter of a century during its greatest deand was appointed to a number of good-will missions to Europe . He was a founder of · velopment, died at his home in Blacksburg on January 4. Dr. Burruss, president emerithe Interracial Commission and was known tus of the college since July 1, 1945, had and loved for his insight and understanding. been in poor health for several years.

Likewise, he was a great influence for good Dr. Burruss had served Virginia in his understanding among Protestants, Catholics and Jews, and was honored some years ago chosen field of education since 1901, when with a citation from the National Conferhe became principal of Richmond's Leigh School. In 1904 he was made director of ence of Christians and Jews. manual arts in the Richmond public schools, REV. WILLIAM B. LOVING,' 92, Virginia and served in that post until 1908 when he teacher and Baptist minister, died at Afton, was made president of Harrisonburg State Va ., on December 11. Mr. Loving served Teachers College, now Madison College. in Baptist State Mission work from 1892 to He remained in Harrisonburg until named 1902, and was a teacher in various schools to succeed Dr. Joseph D. Eggleston at V.P.I. throughout five states during the years of A native of Richmond, he received the his work in the field of education. He was degree of B.S. in Civil Engineering from a former resident of Richmond. OutstandV.P.I. in 1898. He later attended Riching as an undergraduate , Mr. Loving wrote mond College, Harvard, and Columbia, reregularly for the Messenger, won the ·writer's ceiving his master's degree from Columbia medal as a freshman, and was president of in 1906. He received his Ph.D. from the the Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society.

University of Chicago in 1921 and in 1937 Hampden-Sydney conferred on him the deBLAIR BURWELL STRINGFELLOW, SR., gree of LLD. · '93, died at his home in Richmond on October 29, after an illness of six months. A WILLIAM VERNON THRAVES,'05, wellretired investment banker, Mr. Stringfellow known breeder of thoroughbred horses, died had been a partner in the investment firm at his "Langridge Farm" at Lexington, Ky., of Scott and Stringfellow since 1909. He on December 22. A native of Amelia Counwas a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church ty, he studied law at the University of Virand a former member of the Richmond Gerginia after attending Richmond College. He man, the Commonwealth Club, Westmorepracticed law in Virginia and in Oklahoma, land Club, and the Country Club of Virginia. serving as prosecuting attorney of Nowata SEDDONCARRINGTON,'01, retired tobacco County, Okla., before entering the oil busibuyer for the Export Leaf Tobacco Com- ness. He went to Kentucky as a representative

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of an oil company and later started breeding horses which he raced under the colors of "Langridge."

HUDSON AUGUSTUSMENCH, '07, paymaster of the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., died suddenly in Norfolk on June 11, suffering a heart attack while he worked at a precinct ballot box. A native of Warwick County, he had lived in Norfolk for 35 years and had been connected with the Brambleton plant of the shipbuilding company for 21 years. He was an active member of the Ocean View Methodist Church.

HERBERT SHELTON RAGLAND, '08, supervisor of grounds and buildings for the Richmond public schools, died at a Richmond hospital on January 1. After attending the University of Richmond, Mr. Ragland worked with his father in the building and contracting business, and later took part in the restoration work in W"illiamsburg.

DR. THOMASBENJAMIN PEARMAN,'19, Richmond physician, died in a Richmond hospital on January 12. He had served as city physician from 1922 to 1934, and had long served on the staff of Grace hospital in addition to his large private practice.

After spending two years at the University of Richmond, Dr. Pearman took his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He served as an interne at Sheltering Arms Hospital and at the Retreat for the Sick Hospital.

Widely known in medical circles as an outstanding diagnostician, he was a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, the Southern Medical Society, the American Medical Society, the Country Club of Virginia, and the Commonwealth Club. He was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Dove Lodge No. 51 of Acea Temple, and the Legion of Honor.

GEORGEHOWELL, '24, former Richmond attorney, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., on December 25. Mr. Howell was an alumnus of both the University of Richmond and the T. C. Williams Law School.

After becoming a member of the Virginia bar, he practiced law in Richmond for a number of years before leaving for Oklahoma City, where he was associated with the Lawyers Title and Research Company. He went to Memphis with the same firm, and left them only a short time before his death to enter private practice.

JAMES D. PuGH, '40, an official of the Veteran's Administration at McGuire Hospital, died suddenly in Richmond on November 5. After graduating from the University of Richmond, he was associated for several years with the State-Planters Bank and Trust Company. During the war he served for five years with the Quartermaster Corps, and joined the veteran's staff after receiving his discharge as a captain. He was a member of Oakland Methodist Church.

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'1917Dear Class of ' 17, It wou ld be a fine thing if each of you wou ld send in some suggestions for our th irtieth anniversary to be celebrated this coming June . While the thirteen of us are still able to get around under our own steam we shou ld have this occasion for a hundred per cent reunio~. Th ink about it, won ' t you ?

Gladys Holleman Barlow took time out from her many family duties to attend the Inauguration of President Modlin. Gladys has two sons at V .P .I., a daughter Hannah who is a Junior at Westhampton, another daughter in high school at Smithfield and a young son in the grade school there . Is she not to be envied for such a fine fami ly) One of our class in Washi ngton, D. C., has sent a most generous check to the Alumnae Fund.

Many thanks, "Kattee," and come to see us.

Cate sby Willis Stewart will soon be en route to Guam to join Major Thomas Stewart. They will be stationed there for some time.

Ann Ruth Harris has had several letters from her sister, Billie, who has returned to Ningpo, China . Billie is superintendent of the Hwa Mei hospita l there, has a large nurses' training school , and is doing many thing to improve hea lth conditions in Ningpo.

Ruth Puckett Wysor has a son in the first year of Medicine at the University of Virginia, Geoffrey Wysor, Jr. Her daughter is at St. Cather ine's .

Lu la Puckett Wicker is now living at Fork Union.

Her husband, known to us as "Tiny," is president of F.U.M.A. Her oldest son, Tivis, has been singing in "Show Boat" in New York . Ruth Ann, Lula"s daughter, graduated in the class of '44 and wa s married this past summer to James Lynch. She also has a son attending Fork Union.

Eleanor M . D ecker continues running her farm in Orang e County, teaching school and is engaged in many other activitie s.

My young est son , Chase, is attending the University of Richmond and Chesley, if all goes we! I. will receive his M.D. from the Medical Co llege of Virginia in June, '47.

Now I have accounted for eight out of our thirteen. Let me hear from you five.

Cordia lly yours, FLORENCEBOSTONDECKER, ' 17.

1919Westhampton Alumnae were guests of the Uni versity at the annual Thanksgiving Eve dinner.

Tommy Tompkins, Janet Fountain, Elizabeth Gaines, Helen Hundley and your secretary represented the class. After the dinner we retired to Keller Hall and attended a reception for President and Mrs. Modlin. Helen Hundley had decorated the drawing room and her arrangements were much admired.

Elizabeth Tompkins (Tommy) entertained on Sunday, December 1st, for Janet Wyatt Fountain, and many of the 1919 Class were there.

Virginia Bundick Mays recently addressed one of the prominent Richmond garden clubs.

Ju liet Brown Carpenter invited us to Pamela's wedding and reception.

Peggy Laws Decker will attend commencement in June when Beth graduates. Beth has recently been chosen for Who's Who Among Students.

One of the alumnae projects is replanting the Westhampton court. Sure ly, if you could see what is being done, and hear Dean Woodfin unfold the plan, you wou ld send a check to help defray the cost .

MILDRED LEWISMCDANEL, Secretary.

1922Dorothy Winfrey Coub le writes that her husband is returning to the States for duty after forty months overseas, and is taking over as com-

manding of!i(er of the ammunition depot at Earle, New Jersey. Th is means, of course, that they w ill be leaving Arl ington where her older daughter, Pat, is a senior in high school. Dorot hy's new address is in care of the Nava l Ammunition Depot, Earle, New Jersey .

1923Dear Class of '23, It may be a bit late for New Year Greeti ngs by the time the BULLETIN reaches you, but I shall send them anyway . I hope that 1947 will be a happy year for all of you.

My assistants are doing a wonderful job, but imagine some of you are conscience-stricken because you haven't answered their letters. I hope you are and will send in news right away .

We are so distressed to learn that Varina Elliott is in the Un iversity of Virginia Hospita l at Charlottesvi lle. Her address is 3 Barringer Wing.

Jane Waters Beckwith, who formerly taught at St. Catherine's School, has returned to her home town, Altoona, Pennsy lvania, where she is teaching this year.

'23 has anot her daughter at Westhampton. She is Agnes Fei ld, daughter of Virginia Epes Feild.

Florence Gray, daughter of Aggie Taylor Gray, was named Virginia 's "official princess " by Governor Tuck and appointed to represent the state at the 13th annual Christmas Carniva l in Birmingham, Alabama.

Cami lla Wimbish, President of the Alumnae Associa tion, made a sp lendid speech at the recent dinner given in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Mod lin.

I wish all of you cou Id have heard her! She and Catherine Essex Clark were the only '23's from out of town at the Thanksgiving dinner. We must have more at Commencement, so begin planning now. Dora Ransone Hartz and her family were in Richmond for the Thanksgiving game. Dora has two sons and the older one will enter Richmond College in two mor e years.

Nellie Saund ers Earlv tells us that besides running her home and a Sunday School class of two hundred women, of which she is president, she gives book reviews as a hobby . She belongs to the Philade lphia chapter of the University of Richmond alumni, a Woman's Club, and a College Club. During the last four years she has accompanied her husband on trips through thirty-six states, visiting engineering colleges and universities where his drawing instrument is used-being married to an inventor has its advantages.

Our deepest sympathy is extend ed to Agnes Butterworth Palmer in the loss of her husband in December.

Ada Arthur Deacon, her husband, and fourteen others organized a new church at Roanoke last year which now has a membership of 224. She writes, " Struggling with it so constant ly makes us feel that it is a part of our very souls." You have our best wishes, Ada, in your good work.

It is so nice to have news from Mary ·Peers Sargent. She is living in Welch, West Virginia. where her husband has a radio shop. Her two daughters are Jean Budd, 12, and Mary David, 9.

For five years Mary has been -teaching in Gary High School near Welch and she has also done work toward her M .A. Degree at the University of West Virginia.

News has come from another schoolteacher and " housewife" in Chicago . The letter is so interesting that we are quoting much of it. It is written in reply to a letter from Doug Oliver asking for news.

"What a thri ll to hear from you ! As you say, it has been such 'eons ' since we've been in touch heaps of H2O has flowed with each other-and under the dam, so to speak .

"We ll, where shall I begin? I suppose with the twelve-year-old son, center of the household-our Lloyd . He is in the 8th grade and this year received a scholarship to the Art Institute. Satur-

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he had 'bagged' another ( on the strength of his work this semester) and is now eligible for the · winter sketch class. Too, he is quite gifted in music-plays the violin beautifully and expects to make art and music his fields. " . . . Now for me-since I'm primarily a "housewife,' that is my first and most rewarding job .

On the side, three times a week, I lecture in the Medical Science and Invertebrate Zoology departments of the Museum of Science and Industry. I have been doing this for about three years now.

Since we must tone up or tone down our talks to University students on down through the lower grades, a bit of mental gymnastics is needed and that helps keep us on our toes. It is fascinating work, in beautiful surroundings and we have lots of fun besides . I started this as a bit toward the war effort ( the staff there was greatly depleted then, as in most places) and now they still need me so I stay on .

"That is a 'flash' of what has been happening to me through the years. Except, I must add, I, too, have been very happy . The three of us have, I fear, overdeveloped senses of humor, so find that he lps in this day fun in everything-and of inflation and upheaval. .. . " LOUISEBECKMORRIS. A letter from Mamie Smith Fitzegerald also asks, "What has become of the Round Robin ?

I kept hoping it would come on around, for I have kept up with so few of the girls and often wonder about the others." Surely our Robin will resume its flight eventually! Maybe spring cleaning will get it started. Mamie also writes that she has three sons- William, Gray, and John _ She says, "They are quite a handful. I don't do much but stay at home, so there is littl e news to write."

Please let us have more of these grand letters .

We are going to have a new class secretary, Elizabeth Hill Schenk. She has been a wonderful assistant and has now consented to be secretary. Let's send her lots of news! Her address is 2914 Noble Avenue. ' 23 is still showing generosity in g ifts to the Alumnae Fund - so far we have twel ve contribution s totalling $123.00. Isn 't that a wonderful beginning ? When the rest of you send in your contribution s, my guess is that '23 will ju st about RUTH POWELLTYREE. top the liSt .

1926Dear Class of '26, Frank ly, I wondered what would be left to write about after our reunion was over. But '26 continues to make headlines!

Mary Louise McGlothlin Friebele has a son born recently in New York.

Louise Matt ern Coleman has a son, Robert Carey Coleman, born October 25.

Annie Renee Powell was married Oct ober 26 in W ashington to Donald Henry Sage. Marg aret Miller Smith, still living in Washin gton , gave her a shower which Allene Booker Richmond , Margaret Dorsey, Harriet Sharon Willingham, and Lila Crenshaw attended.

Mary Virginia Daughtrey visited Margaret Dorsey in Washington in mid-Octob er and together they went to see members of ' 26 th er e.

Ione Stuessy Wright is teaching Latin-Am erican history in the University of Miami.

Frances Bell Barnes is serving as chairman of the International Relations Study Group of the AAUW in Charleston, South Carolina.

Those of us who were privileged to attend this year's Thanksgiving Home-coming Banquet and the reception following it in honor of Dr. and Mrs . Mod lin, Dr. Woodfin, and Miss Hamilton found the evening to be particularly delightful.

At our own table for '26 were Miss Lough, Madge Pennell, Louise Mattern Coleman, Mary V. Daughtrey, Lila Crenshaw, Kate Rucker Beazley, and Marian Marsh Sale. It was fun chatting with Kate about the new home she moved into recently in Bowling Green, her sojourn in Richmond when the Legislature is in session, her daughter's achievements in high school, and her own activities as president of the Missionary Society . Come back oftener, Kate.

Following my suggestion that those of us in Richmond write notes to you again this Christmas

as we did last, Louise Mattern Coleman promptly invited us to meet at her home on December 3 to work out a plan. The little get-together was one of the pleasantest that we have had, with Miss Lough, Mary Virginia, Louise, Madge, and me all talking at once over delicious refreshments.

The major thrill of the evening came, of course, when we were allowed to gaze on Louise's fine new son-snug and unsuspecting in his crib.

We did some wishful talking about some of you in '26 that night for there are a few of you from whom we never hear and whose addresses we cannot learn . Answer our notes this time, and help us keep '26 in the news!

Sincerely, MARIAN

MARSH SALE.

Mrs . Frederick Sale 6103 Wesley Road Richmond 21, Virginia

1929Dear Twenty-niners, Here you are with a new class secretary wished off on you, and what she wants most is news from you all. Those of us who live in Richmond keep in "fair" touch with each other, but it would be so nice to know a little bit more about everybody else.

In August, Trudi Ryland Harlan, Mary Stevens Jones and Bunny Harlan Patterson were in Richmond for a visit at the same time, so they, along with Helen Moon , Jimmie Stuessy Mattox and me gathered for a small '29 reunion. Mildred Jones, '25, and Carolina Beattie, '31, were also present.

Nancy Reynolds Smith has adopted a baby sister, Ann Tucker, for her three-year-old son, Hedgeman Dent.

Miriam Figgs Rankin and Ruth Cox Jones are back in New York and faced with the problem of finding a place to live, after. having lived _in Alexandria for several years dunng the war while their husbands were on special government services.

Helen Moon is beginning her second year of teaching at Collegiate School for Girls. Jimmie Mattox with Guy and their two children will motor to Miami in their new car to join the Stuessy clan for a three-week visit over the Christmas holidays.

After three years of Jiving back and forth, first in Richmond and then in Dinwiddie while my husband was overseas, we have bought a home at 3906 Park Avenue and with our two little girls feel pretty well settled down again.

Do write me news of yourselves and send it to the above address .

Sincerely, MARY RICHARDSON

BUTTERWORTH.

1930The Robert Clarks (Margaret Flick) announce the arrival of a son, Robert Bruce Clark, on

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November 5, 1946. To quote "Flickie,"· "He's really cute-looks just like a kewpie." The Clarks also have a six-year-old daughter, Charlotte.

1931Ann Jones ' engagement to Herman Berkholtz has been announced. She will be married this winter.

We have a new baby in the class. Phyllis Johnson Pope's second son, Jackson Hunter, was born in November.

Edna Royal · Davis, Amelia Ullman and I had lunch recently with Pris Church Hite who was in town on a visit. She brought news of Mary Hicks. She says that Mary is still living and thriving on her welfare work in Baltimore.

All of us extend to Selma Rothschild Mann our sympathy in the recent death of her mother.

We had a grand Thanksgiving dinner this year as usual. Lucie Francis Samuels, Ann Jones, Josephine Nunnally, Carolina Beattie and I were back from our class. Missed the rest of you.

Leone Cooper is teaching in Bristol again this year and writes that she enjoys seeing the Westhamptonites there from time to time.

Virginia Peers Hart has a redheaded little girl, born November 30th.

Have you sent in your contribution to the Alumnae Fund? So far seven of us have responded. Your gift will be needed to help carry out the program of the Alumnae Association this year.

MARGARET LEAKE.

1932Dear Class of '32, Elizabeth Capitaine Beaty (Mrs . Frank A.) has twin daughters born July 22, 1946. Their names are Carolyn A. Beaty and Virginia C. Beaty.

Cappy and her husband, who is in the regular Navy, are now Jiving at 628 E. Seneca, McAlester, Oklahoma. They were formerly in New Orleans for about six months before moving to Oklahoma.

Zephia Campbell Scarborough (Mrs. Charles W.) has recently moved to Richmond. Her new address is: 4502 Peyton Street, Richmond, Virginia . Her husband, Charles, has accepted a position with the News Leader. Zephia has one little ' boy. We, who live in Richmond, hope we will see Zephia often now .

Our sympathy goes to Helen Pollard Deck (Mrs. James L.) whose father recently passed away.

Muriel Jones is away from the Medical College on a year's leave of absence for study at Tulane University. She is taking a special course· in Bacteriology and Parasitology.

We are delighted that Carolyn Thompson Broaddus is again living in Richmond. Carolyn's new address is 2415 Irisdale Avenue. Charlie was overseas nearly three years with the American Red Cross, and during the time he was away Carolyn, and their two children, Coleman and Betsy, Jived in Chatham with her parents.

Virginia Tabb Moore 's new address is: 1903 Edgewood Lane, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Virginia Jones Pharr and her husband and little boy are again settled after many moves during the war. Their address is: Denbigh, Virginia.

We have two more new babies to report .

Mary Ryland Babcock (Mrs. A. J.) has a daughter, Ann Hamilton Babcock, born October 28, 1946. Mary and "Bab" also have two little boys, "Jud," age 5, and Bill, age 3.

Valerie Le Masurier Jones (Mrs. Robert B., Jr.) has a new son, Michael Harrison Jones, born November ·6, 1946. Valerie also has an older son and daughter.

Katherine Roberts Hesby's new address is 1346 Second Avenue , South, Fargo, North Dakota.

Katherine writes that she is very happy keeping house in her new apartment. She and Glenn plan to drive to Richmond for the Christmas holidays .

Katherine also recently had a short visit with Evelyn Gardner Ward, who was passing through Fargo en route to Seattle, Washington.

From there she was to sail for Japan to join her husband .

On October 31, 1946 at Trinity Cathedral in Newark, New Jersey, Frances Gottlieb was married to Jules F. De Dan. They are Jiving in West

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WesthamptonAlumnae Fund With something over a thousand dollars already received through the Alumnae Fund, we have made an encouraging start toward our goal of $3,000.00 for the year. In order to continue our work of beautifying the court and the formal garden, to help the students in the furnishing of a recreation room, and to have a substantial amount to add to the Swimming Pool Fund, we need at least that amount.

A glance at the figures below will show the standing of the Fund by classes. If yours is one of the classes that is lagging behind, will you do your part to bring it up by sending in your contribution to the Alumnae Office?

CONTRIBUTIONS

Class Co Eds '14 ' 15

'16 ' 17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '2 5 '26 '27 '28 '2 9 '3 0 '31 '32 '33 '34 '35 '36 '37 '38 '39 '40 '41 '42 '43 '44 '45 '46 Total

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Number 2 2 1 2 5 6 4 1 3 4 12 4 2 8 5 2 3 4 7 3 4 2 3 6 5 9 5 7 3 6 7 10 7 8 162

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Amount 5.00 30.00 5.00 20.00 48.00 150.50 57.00 5.00 10.00 31.00 123.00 20.00 7.00 41.00 25.00 6.00 20.00 16.00 31.00 12.00 22.50 10.00 20.00 35.00 25.50 38.00 20.00 37.00 9.00 33.00 45.00 60.00 33.00 42.50

$1,093.00

Orange, where they have bought a colonial bungalow at 137 Walker Court. Frances has given up her job with the Fidelity Union Trust Company, but as her husband has a son seventeen years old and a daughter twelve and as Frances is also Grand Representative of Rhode Islancl in the Order of the Eastern Star, she doesn't expect any idle moments .

Emmett and I recently moved into our new house. We are happy to feel that we are finally settled. My new address is: 16 Maxwell Road .

If any of you have any information about any of the girls in our class, please pass it on to me.

Sincerely, MARY HODNETT

MATHEWS.

1933Dear '33's, I have very little news to report this time as so few of you take the time and trouble to let me know what's going on. How about a little cooperation?

Kat Harris Hardy, Marian West, Vivian Hart Tillinghast, Archie Fowlkes, Mrs . Harker and yours truly were the only members of our class present at the alumnae dinner and reception the

night before Thanksgiving. We all enjoyed it so much and I am sorry more of you couldn't come.

Ann Parker Moffett, her husband Harry and daughter Marianne spent Thanksgiving with ~nn Dickinson Welsh and her family. It was certamly good to see Ann again and meet her attractive daughter. It was also the first time I had seen Ann Welsh 's daughter, Betsy, and she's a precious baby. The boys, Jack and Billy were as cute as ever.

I saw Carolyn Cutchin Powell, her husband R. H. and small son Bob Christmas shopping.

They had left the baby Charles in Franklm so I didn't see him but it was so nice to be with the rest of them for a few minutes. Carolyn's son is a handsome young man-his mama looked pretty too!

A letter from Louise Dinwiddie to the Alumnae Office brought us interesting information about her. Since college days she has served as Iibranan in several high schools, and is now medical librarian of the Doctors Hospital in Waslungton, D. C. At odd times she has done a good deal of newspaper work-reportorial work, society column book reviews movie reviews and feature writing, and she h;s also contributed to various professional journals. In June, 1946, she became Mrs. John Calvin Roberts. This she says completes the list of her activities, and about brings her up to date!

Let me hear from you.

PHOEBEDREWRYTH!ERMANN.

1934John Scott Newby was born November 19, 1946, to Katherine Sergeant and Edward Newby.

He is their second son .

1936Congratulations to Martha Riis Moore on the arrival of twin daughters, Gretchen and Nancy Ruth on November 14. This gives Martha a famit'y of five-our largest. Her husband is_':ocational Counsellor with the Veterans Admm1stration office at the University of Richmond.

On November 23, Elizabeth Chapman became Mrs. Homer Sterling Wilson, Jr., at the Gmter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond. Our best wishes to you, Chappie.

1938Dear '38's, Ruth Ruffin Banks and her husband, Bob, proudly announce the birth of Leigh R~ffin Ban½s on September 22 in Los Angeles. Their home is 1128 Ingraham Street. . . . .

Ernestine Akers bas JOmed Hilda m San Francisco. She has a secretarial position but as yet I haven't learned any other details.

We are very sorry to learn of the illness of Helen Roberts' mother, who has been paralyzed for several months.

Caroline Fraser Johnson (Mrs. W. A.) and her husband and son, Bob, have recently moved to Roanoke where Alvin is a salesman for -the Motor Parts Company. Their home is 410 Wellington Avenue I was most interested to hear through Sweet Carpenter that Caroline and her family have adopted ( for six months' care) a two and a half year old French girl. In case.a~y of ::mr other class members would like to part1opate m such an excellent cause, the agency which arran.!,eS the details is the French Relief in New York City.

Virginia Russell, in addition _to all of her other activities (hitherto recorded m the B:JLLETIN, you remember) is now Director of Rad10 at the Children's Studios of Speech and Dramatic Arts.

She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Children 's Theatre of Washington and enjoys her work with the children ( ages from 3 to 16) exceedingly.

We are proud of Jo. Mallory Cosbr (Mrs. Charles C.) who is president of the R1chmo1;1d chapter of the Westhampton ~lumn~ Assoo~tion. The retiring president, Emily Parker Kendig is, of course, a " '38 " too.

Lula Goode Winfree's (Mrs. W. A.) daughter was born July 15, 1946. Her name. is Susa_n Ryland. They have recently moved . mto tbeH new home at 4622 Hanover Avenue, Richmond.

A happy New Year to each of you.

JULIA GUNTERDAVIDSON.

1939Dear Class of '39, I am your temporary secretary while Anne Scott Jacobs awaits a fine Cbnstmas gift. Anyway, as the leader of a group who received only one reply, Becky Branch (bless her!), I am beginning to understand why Anne Scott told me group leaders were not the most prompt.

However, some are splen~id, especially prompt Alice Evans. Our class president responded nobly when she reported that Pen and Mae Shiflett's son, P. M. Shiflett, III, was born July 10, 1946, and "after several weeks of unrest the correct formula for the gentleipan was arrived at and now all is moving happily. " Lenore and her young son are in Richmond, while her husband, an army flier, is in Washington.

Another male in our second generation appeared when Dot Shell and Charles Wood's son was born this November.

In her newsy note, Becky Branch disclosed that she works for the Unemployment Compensa -t,on Commission of Virginia, which is not too interesting, but better than teaching fr?m her point of view. During her October vacat10n she flew to New York with "not a single bump."

Hear ye! Elizabeth Mitchell and h_er husband, Bob Driscoll, announce proudly the birth of Robert Marvin Driscoll, Jr., on November 16, 1946.

The young lad, weighing 7 lbs. 13 ozs. is a "mighty cute little boy," quoting his mother.

In late October your temporary secretary returned from a western motor trip to find Martha Elliott en route to Portsmouth on business . Martha, still the same dynamic, happy person, is a. field representative for the Internat10nal Counol of Religious Education with the whole Umted States as her field. She had been to Richmond and she was full of possible news, but I cannot disclose even bits of it, 'cause some group leaders have not confirmed any of it. But lucky Martha! She planned to visit Florida during (he winter month~.

Now you girls, come forth with the news. Lets make Anne Scott proud in this interim! Remember the Alumnae Fund, if not CHARLOTTEANNE BEALE, 415 Riverside Drive, Waterview, Portsmouth, Virginia.

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Happy New Year, "Forties." It will be 194_7 by the time this BULLETIN reaches yo_u. H~re s hoping each of you will resolve to send ·m a bit of news about yourself before the ye3:r is up. I'd especially like to hear from you girls who live out of Richmond.

Our biggest news this issue is the three weddings. Charlotte Ann Dickinson was marned on December 21st to John Phillips Moore at Front Royal, Virginia. John and Charlotte Ann pl3:n to Jive in Washington for the present. Betty Willets married Woodfin Ogg of Waynesboro on December 26th and Marion Sibley is saying "I do " to Houston Parham of Charlottesville on January 25th. Mildred Gustafson Donohue was Betty 's maid of honor .

Speaking of weddings, Kitty Wicker Long ca_me up to her sister's marriage m Nove~b_er: Kitty is now living in Fayetteville, West V1rgmia, with her husband and two children.

Several of our old Richmond girls have moved to more exciting places. Patsy Joblin is in New York and has a position with the Standard Oil Company. Her new address is c/o Mrs. A. Miller, 438 West 116th St., Apt. 22, New York, New York. .

Madeline Cosby is now living in Washmgto_n where she is a patents examiner. Her address 1s 4409 13th St., N.E., Washington, D. C. Lois Blake' s new abode is 923 Buchanan Boul~vard Durham North Carolina. By the way, Lois is a' librariad at Duke University, not Chapel Hill as I erroneously said in the last BULLETIN. Plea~e forgive me, Lois.

There are several other new addresses alsoVirginia Bugg Peek is now living in Calverton, Virginia, with Gene and her so~ .. Floren~e Parker Quin and Jimmy have gone to JOm Bob m Philadelphia at 235 S. 46th Street .

Even some of the girls in Richmond have moved.

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Helen Smith Moss 1s now at 2906 West Grace Street. Incidentally, Helen appeared in the production of the operetta "Red Mill " given here m November . We are proud of you, Helen. Saddye Sykes Williams and her husband are now Jiving at 3219 Floyd Avenue. Bobbie Winfrey Cannon and her family expect to move into their new home soon lucky people. Margaret Crabtree Sutherland ;nd her husband are busy looking for a new home in Wytheville. Margaret says she spends all her time reading to her little son, a very pleasant duty I'm sure. .

Margaret isn't the only one busy with her family. When I called Betty Carper Gngg a few days ago, she was in the midst of nursing her seven-month-old son through a new tooth and a bad cold.

We have two new "mamas" to add to our ever lengthening list. Frances Bailey Gill has a daughter, Frances Bell, born on_ October _3rd .

Libby Johnson Alvis has a little gul who arnved on November 15th. Congratulations to you both .

Now I'm going to reverse the usual procedure and ask you all a question instead of telling you the answers. Why didn 't you come to the Alumnae Dinner on November 27th? There were five of us there-Elsie Mattingly Dickinson, Vista Robinson Gettier Janet Gresham Manson, Doris Hargrove and I. 'we had a lovely time chatting away but missed the rest of you. Please do better next year and don't forget to send in your alumnae dues if you haven't already done so.

MARGARET LIGONBERNHART .

1941-

Dear '41's, This issue really slipped up on me, and if I'm to have a bigger write-up next time, I'll have to have more letters ( or cards, I'm not proud!) from all of you .

New arrivals are always events; we have two babies to add to our ever-growing nursery. Charlene Woods Stringfellow, daughter of Anna Marie Rue and Thornton Stringfellow arrived November 10. And Charles Geffrey Krug (called Geffrey) was born on October 23rd. He is the son of Kay Leviston and Robert Krug. His birth announcement was a little book designed by his parents .

Please, Anna Marie and Kay, won 't you send me snapshots of these new arrivals for our scrapbook?

And all of you who haven't sent pictures to The Book, please do . By the next issue we should have more baby news for you.

Since we are fast becoming couples, I'll continue with them.

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Elizabeth Holden Slipek and Ed have moved to an apartment in Ashland.

Jeanne Wilkins Watson, Paul and their little girl (almost three now) have moved to their new home in Lakeside. Paul is teaching science in the Glen Allen High School.

Frazier Drumwright Catron is working at the Veteran 's Administration on Lombardy, and she and the doctor are living on Monument Avenue. . Mary Owen Bass, Kenneth and Kenny visited the Courtneys, Ann, Bob and "Pete" in Christiansburg the week end of October 28th. Ann and Bob are living with relatives there but expect to have an apartment in Blacksburg in January . The Courtneys will be in Richmond December 18 for the holiday.

Mary Bass has been assisting Otto and Caroline Kunze who have staged the lovely puppet show in Thalhimer's corner window . Betsy Woodson Weaver is also assisting with this Christmas puppet show. Betsy and Albert are getting settled in their home in Midlothian, though she jokingly called the home "the haunted house" because it has no curtains at the windows.

Virginia Omohundro Purcell and Harold were in Richmond for Thanksgiving.

Connie Powell Lutrell and Ed have moved to 104 N. Allen .

Just married: Bitsey Hinchman to Joseph Petersen at Bitsey's home on a Saturday afternoon in October. They are now living in Wisconsin.

The Waites, Lutrells, Bonifants, and Frances Wiley Harri s were among those present.

Edith Burfoot Lovig, Larry and Tad have moved to 724-0 Spruce Street, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

Martha Beam de Vo s and Fran will be in Richmond during Christmas to attend Mildred Parker's wedding.

Woodsie (Virginia Wood Hawkins) writes in part: "We are still at New Hope. It is a lovely little village in the valley about twelve miles from Staunton. Howard is Vocational Agriculture Instructor in the school here. Howard Junior is now three and in the 'Into Everything stage.' " Woodsie wrote that she and Cecile Gaddis Smith whose husband is supervisor for the Veteran's training in the same district had a nice visit together.

Alese Hard away Prince was glimpsed in town one day.

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search for her dissertation. She is having a difficult time getting material, all available material being en. the eastern coast.

Ada Land is still teaching at Highland Springs.

Anne Boehling is in secretarial work.

Mary Alice Smith is still "at it" taking a full course of Physiotherapy at Medical College and playing hockey with the Richmond Hockey Club.

Bernice Stephensen is still in Washington.

Dot Harshbarger visited in Richmond in November. She was maid of honor in her sister's wedding in December .

Mayme O 'F laherty is assisting in the music department at Westhampton College. She is teaching piano to veterans. I gather from talking with her that W . C. has changed considerably since our days there.

The Whittets Junior are really settled at 600 Somerset Avenue. Painting has been finished and you can call without being presented with a paint brush ( we kept lots of extras on hand) and a can of paint. My telephone is 6-8878. Won't you all between now and March 15, send me a card with the following informa\i_on: 1. Name (Husband's name and occupation) .

2. Number of children and names .

3. Interests .

4. Permanent address.

I'd like to have a complete directory for the next BULLETIN, so please write me right away.

Always, TONI WIRTH WHITTET.

1942Dear '42's , They say a new broom sweeps clean, but here is one new class secretary who has woefully slipped up in volume of class news.

It's not all. my fault, though, because there are a few of us who just won't write news about themselves no matter how much they are cajoled or threatened. How about it, yo use gals? Come through with the news, won't you?

From her mother I hear that Rosalie has a lovely dormitory arrangement with three other girls in Little Rock, Arkansas, and they have a whole floor to themselves. Starting the first of the year, she will be secretary for the office of the Aetna Life Insurance Company and says she knows she will love it .

Romance Department: Ann Smith married Edward Palazzo in Crewe in September. They now live in Hampton. Eunice Bass Browning and Laverne Priddy were present. Lila Wicker and Edward H. Hunt were married November 23, and, after honeymooning in Williamsburg, left for San Francisco to make their home there. Mildred Parker became Mrs . Albert S. Beecher December 20 . They will Jive in their home town of New Hav en. And Lucy McDonough announced her engageme nt to Horace Powell, Jr., in December .

They become "Mr. and Mrs. " in April. . , .. How many of you have I missed?

Sally Gonzalez Seavers is a 'schoolboy's wife.

Bob is attending V.P.I. Extension with mechanical engineering in view0 So is Nancy Davis Parkerson's husband Bill, at W. and L. And Charles Harwood is re-entering the University of Pennsylvania under the GI Bill while Ann (Gwaltney) takes care of little Jacqueline and acts as receptionist at the Medical College of Virginia .

Clarine C. Bergren is at home with mother and little David while Big David is in New York where he was transferred. He hopes to move soon.

Evelyn and Joe Winston have a grand apartment in Danville where they are very happy and Evelyn is fast becoming a wonderful cook. Joe is a junior partner in the offices of Meade and Talbot. Annie Loie and Lot Seacat are now established in their sweet home in Ramsey, Indiana.

And Wendy Mueller and Bill are transferred to the Washington office of N.A.C.A., which they much prefer to Cleveland.

Remember Audrey Thurston, an ex-classmate?

She is now Mrs . William Johnson and they are Jiving in Richmond on Chamberlayne Avenue .

Bill works for the state.

According to Allene J. Patteson, Army life in Texas is one of plenty-no shortages in anything.

They will be stationed at Randolph Field for at

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least a year. They make treks to Mexico to buy little Harry cowboy boots!

Jimmie Franklin and Peggy Vicars spent Thanksgiving with Doris Hedgepeth, '44, in New York. When they aren 't vacationing Jimmie is teaching in South Norfolk and Peggy is with Du Pont in Waynesboro.

And last but not least, I want to print the names of our "mystery mates," those from whom we haven't had a word in the BULLETIN for at least a year: Emmy Franklin, Ann Frank Patterson, Mary Lou Du Val, and Dorothy Hall. There will be more names for next issue-unless you do something about it!

Best holiday wishes to you all, FRANCESCALISCHROTHENBERG.

1943Hello again and a happy new year to each of you '43,'s, I'm glad to report that I've heard from every girl in our class except Marjorie Clements and if any of you know where she is or hear from or about her, please let me know. First, the girls we missed in the last issueReba writes that Earl is back at the University taking some chemistry prior to entering med school next fall. He's also working on his master 's in bacteriology. I talked to her on the phone not too long ago when she was here apartment hunting. She and baby will stay in Naruna until they can find a place to Jive here, and Reba says she's being spoiled with alJ the good baby sitters at home ....

Mrs. EJJis. wrote for Frances and sent an adorable picture of Ann Carrington Mortell who was born last April. Fran married Dr. Edward J. MortelJ and they are living in Washington where he works at St. Elizabeth's. In November Bette Hogan was in town and calJed me up. She sounded just like the old Bette, bubbling over with enthusiasm-this time about her job for two "mighty sweet" pediatricians in Roanoke.

Barbara Fuller writes that she is turning over a new leaf with the new year-this we want to see!

A very lovely picture of Barbara came out in an early December paper announcing her engagement to Alvin Earl Cox of Norfolk. The wedding will be in the early spring. I'm starting a scrapbook of pictures for our class and I'd Jove to have some from all of you. I have a number of baby pictures to start with and Barbara's engagement picture, but how about the rest of you sending either photographs of you and your families or newspaper clippings of weddings, etc.-even if they are a few years old it won't matter, but date them please-and I'd like some from each of you.

I bad a most interesting letter from Evangeline Zehmer and I wish that I could share every bit of it with you. In lieu of that I'm going to quote parts of it for you. Evangeline is at the University of Chicago : "I came to work for my Master's degree and found myself involved in some of the Religious frontiers of our time. Well, the first year, '43, I scrubbed foul-smelling chemistry dishes and went to classes. I to9k some Philosophy and Psychology courses which I could not for the life of me express as Philosophy nor as Psychology ....

The second year, I changed to Religious Drama, and taught Creative Dancing for a living .

Suddenly aJI my Philosoph,y and Psychology came pouring forth in the form of a Drama entitled Isaiah. Both my professors and I were very much relieved . The Methodist Publishing House bought the first play, and the second one entitled Moses, and are waiting for the other three in the series: !A.mos, Hos ea, and Jeremiah . Fortunately these wiJJ also count as my Master's thesis . .. . I forgot to mention the experience of making salads at the University Cafeteria all one summer, working for the Methodist Publishing House ... and spending over a year at International House.

"This quarter, I hope to finish the other plays, but for a Jiving, I am teaching music appreciation and Drama in four small churches here, one every evening. I have been interested in the racial tensions here in our country, and chose purposely to teach among the Negro People. I have a feeling that if we, in the South, do not solve our own problems better in the future, we are going to be made the 'scape-goats' for all the mistakes in this whole country. The machine politicians are looking around for just such a section . ... With the

result of my seemingly unr elated activities, I am having the thrill of opening up a new field of study which I have named RELIGIO-SOCIO PSYCHO-ART. I am combining all the experience I have ever had and finding a world so big that it' s going to take every moth er's daught er of us at W esthampton and everywhere else to do it. ... The roots of all these things were nourished at We sthampton, where, compared to the educational world at large, our profe ssors were no fools, and I send back all the honor due. My class meant a lot to me, and the peopl e who were in my class still mean a lot to me." Evange line closes by sending her love to all of you.

I talked to Evelyn All en Krau se when she and Charles were here for Christmas. Evelyn repeated her production of Christmas plays this year and gave two successful one-acts in their church. She says being a minister's wife is lots of work, bu t she loves it. . . . Fran Bell writes joyfully that they at last have an apartment and she's given up her job. She and Bob were in town in October and we had some grand get-togethers with them, Joni and Bobby, Pudge and Tom, and some others.

Fran was looking wonderful and the redheaded Bob is a most attractive man! Pam Carpenter Henry is continuing her music teaching since George is so busy at the hospit al. Ano C. Surber sent a copy of Sonny's Christmas paper with a precious picture of Ann Kimb all. Honestly, she looks exact ly lik e a magazine baby, but you can Virginia Delp all see her in our scrapbook ....

Ogg sends the good news that Wade may be back from Italy next month.

During the holidays I saw Evelyn Flax Mirmel stein severa l times in a grand rush ge ttin g Santa's things ready for littl e J ohnn y. I also ran into June H argrove Ruble who was in town for Audrey Foster wrote more about Christmas ....

Al Ashburn , with whom she's going. He was with the Army Air Corps in the CBI Ar ea for 3 years and is now getting hi s degree in electr ical engin eering . . .. Jeanice and Bill certainly have a good time with their store for they get lovely buying trips to New· York, Baltimore, and all around . .. . Rose Kol-tukian is showing those northerners that a southern ga l can have real abi lity in the career world. She's living in Hampden, Massachusetts, and writing radio script for Forbes and Wallace in Springfield . . . . Bee and David Ta lbott wi ll be in the Army 'ti l June and so they're due for a New England winter. Bee says, "Being an only child, I am enth ra lled by I David's fami ly-3 brothers and 2 sisters-and am an aunt to e;ght children!"

Pudge and Tom Starke are very happy out at Rustom and Santa Claus brou ght Pudge a redheaded baby doll in her stocki ng. . . . Harriett Lewis Goodman is in Richmond for a few month, Helen Ridgley has been going to the now ....

Philadelphia chapter of our Alumnae club, which reminds me to remind you to get in touch with your local clubs if you haven't already. They're Jots of fun and you 'll thoroughly enjoy renew ing college friendships. At our Thanksgiving homecoming we had only five from our class for dinner and the reception, but Pudge, Joni, Elizabeth Webb, Little Wiley, and I had lots of fun back in Ilse has stopped the old familiar dining room .... working at Calverts and now has a very confidential and very interesti ng job with the State ' D epartment. She's living in Washington .

About . the University of Wi sconsin, Georgie campus says that there are 15,000 students on the and that they have no out-of-state undergraduates .

"And that isn't all. Prac tically every town you can mention in Wisconsin wi ll have an extension center in it for those who can't come to Madison.

Either this is the state of education or the who le country suddenly wants to get educated." Georgie lives in one of four houses making up the Badger Club, a girls' co-operative group, and it is there Jo Smith that she is acting as housemother ....

Parker is working for the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company in Greensboro, North Carolina, until she can get a house to occupy her time . .. . Ann Byrd says that she and D onald have a darling hou se, a larg e garden, and all the pleasures of the country plu s the conveniences of the city. Is she trying to make us envio us?

In Columbus, whi le D ave goes to Ohio · State,

Dolly is teaching English three night s a week in Kay W eber McLell an the Evening School. ... wants me to give you all her fond regards and also her address and telephone numb er so that anyone going through Hou ston , Texas, can look her up.

It' s 1721 S. Shepherd D rive, Houston 6, and the telephone is Jackson 2-485 1. She and Jack had a marvelou s trip across the countr y last spring on his discharge from the Navy. Jack is a graduate of the University of Texas and Kay met him when he was stationed at Cornell where she was assisting in biology.

Bob and I have at last found an apartme nt and we hope to move in by the middle of J anu ary. For a month now we've been painting and redecorating and let me suggest that you don't und ertak e such a task during the Christmas season! Even though it's small it wi ll be mighty good to get into a place of our own again. We appreciated the Christmas cards from so many of you and let me remind you again to keep me posted on add ress changes and the latest news. Working by the "approved method for class secretaries" I'v e asked four of you to help me by being group leaders and each securin g the news from six or seven girls. So, from now on, if yo u don't hear from me you'll be contacted by Pudge, Kay, Mickey , or Pam. alum nae dues! We've An other reminder-your only had 7 contributions so far and I do so want to make us 100%. You've all gotten the alumn ae Jetter about the fund and why not read it carefully (I wager most of you haven 't) and see just why you shou ld feel obligated-at least, I think you shou ld.

Did you kn ow that last year we had only 11 contribution s totaling $57.50, and to give you some comparisons, the class of '41 had 2-0-$85.60; '42 had 19- ·$101; and the classes of '44 and '45 each had 20 with $140 and $102 . They certainly showed us up I'm afra id, so do let's make a big recovery-PLEASE! ! ! the news coming Happy new year again-keep FORGET THE ALUMNAE DO N'T -and FUND! Love, "PEPPER"

Mrs . R. 'M. Hathaway, 2730 W. Grace St., Apt. No. 1, Ricl1mond, Virginia.

1944D ear '44's, First you must meet our newest candidates for membership in Nostrae Fili ae. D ot and Stonie's daughter, D orothy Fleet Hill was born October 22nd-we igh ed 7 lbs. 4 ozs. D ot reports the baby has her father's good looks, also had colic which was keeping D ot pretty busy with three· hour feedings.

Ruth and Bob Cotten have a daughter, Vanessa.

And I have heard from some people that Milie and Shu Goode have a son, and from othe rs that they are proud parents of a daughter. Please, Millie, send us official word, also an an nouncement card for the scrapbook.

Haq a grand Jetter from Ju anita Tiller the other day. She is still teaching and sti ll crazy about it.

This year she is at George Washington H igh School in Alexandria, Virginia, teaching English and journalism and acting as adviser for the school paper. She says she did a lot of studying last summer getting ready for the journalism course but that it's loads of fun to teach. Her address is 28 E. Howell Ave., Al exandria, Virginia.

Dinkie also says she sees Anne Gordon occasiona lly. Anne isn't teaching but is working in Washington .

Helen is still teaching at Glen Allen and she and Tom are Jiving in Richmond.

Fran and Bob Wolf are at Corpus Christi where Bob is in the first year of a three-year air corps course. Fran seems to lik e it.

All of you remember Mary (Beowulf) Bowden, don't you? She married Ted Felger October 12.

They are living in Rimmond.

Bob and Anne Tiler are living in Philadelphia while Bob is working on his master 's degree and doing some instructing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Enjoyed seeing Molly Warner when she came back through New York after her brother 's weda ding October 5. She looked marve lous-quite career gi rl and still is crazy about her job and She's Atlanta. in fun of lot a having be to seems at the Davison-Paxon Company, 180 Peachtree St., N.W., Atlanta 3.

Doris Hedgepeth was up over Thanksgiving week end with Chicken and Peggy Vicars. It was good to see them . They didn 't accomplish much shopping but did get to see Harvey, the Lunts, and The Iceman Cometh. Doris was full of enthusiasm over the car she's finally gotten. You're all invited down for a ride.

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Buttsey was released from the Waves this fall and is working at the library in Freeport until she decides what she wants to do.

Please note that Santa and I have moved again.

Thi s time it's a wee small studio apartment with cupboard kitchen . We don 't have much space but we are having loads of fun fixing up what there is.

It has lots of nice features . If you hang out the window far enough, you can see the Hudson.

Please any of you coming up, Jet us know. The address is 628 W. 114th Street, Apt . 33-A, New York 25, and I hope you all made New Year resolutions to write often.

A very happy '47 to you all.

BILLYJANE. Love,

1945Hello , everybody!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I hope , too, that the New Year treats you just as well as you want it to .

Of course, the biggest news this issue is about our baby cup girl, Deidre Ann Leland . You all knew about it, but her proud mama informed me that I spelled her name wrong in that little flash bulletin, so I'm giving it to you gain, just for the records. She was born in September, and Twom t1nd Jim, who, by the way, are living at 1228 Blair Mill Road, Silver Spring, Maryland, now, say they have their hands full. But how they love it.

Alice Rawlings became Mrs. Orrick Johnson on November 19 at -the First Baptist Church in Fredericksburg. It was really a lovely wedding, and Conway was maid of honor . Alice and Rick are living in Fredericksburg now .

It was too bad that more of you couldn't have gotten up for Dr. Madlin's inauguration, because it was quite impressive. Mary Campbell was the only one from our class who got here from out of town. She's looking well and is still enjoying her work very much.

Jane Wray McDorman's George finds that he will be stationed in Norfolk until he is released from the Navy, so she is going to Norfolk to be with him .

It's time for donations to the Alumnae Fund again. W e did pretty well last year, but don 't you think it would be rather nice if we could have the highest average among the classes for contributions this year? Send yours to Mrs . Booker as soon as you can.

Connie Sutton has us all green with envy about the vacation she is taking after Christmas. She's flying to Florida for two weeks. It's wrong to covet, but it' s plutocrats like that make it hard for us in the poorer working class!

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Ruth Anne Lynch and Jamie are living in Greenbelt, Maryland, while Jamie is at the University of Maryland . Ruth Anne is teaching in the fifth grade . The town, which is a government project, sounds like something out of a story book!

Hollie Garber was married to John Kenyon on December 7 at the Second Presbyterian Church here. She looked beautiful, and I know John was sorry for saying that one war was started on D ecember 7, so he and Hollie might as well start another! Anyway, we wish them the best of luck.

Ruth Latimer is at home now, working in the physical therapy department of the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Washington. She's been to Richmond several times this fall, and it was certainly good to see her.

Mary Ellen Tucker went up to the Army-Navy game Thanksgiving, and said she had a wonderful time . She also got into New York and took in all the plays, etc. She saw Anne Seay for a little while, and says Anne 's looking wonderful, and likes her job very much.

Lillian Belk Youell and Mac have a darling apartment in Richmond that they decorated themselves, a la Miss Lutz. They are planning a trip South sometime this winter. Hope it materializes.

Speaking of Miss Lutz, she frequently asks about all of you, and I know she'd appreciate it if any of you would have a chance to drop her a note about what you're doing .

We 're planning another get-together luncheon sometime in January, so here 's hoping a Jot of you will be able to come down for it. It's really a lot of fun, and it's a wonderfu l chance to catch up on the back gossip. You 'll be hearing from me sometime soon about it, so try to come if you can.

Guess this is about all the news I have for this issue. Please let me hear from you as soon as possible, and don't forget about those contributions!

NANCYGREY. Love,

1946Dear "Class of '46," The inauguration of Dr . Modlin was quite colorfu l and thrilling. By virtue of my position as alumnae secretary of the class, I received my invitation to the event. It was a most impressive academic procession of delegates from sight-an the various colleges and universities, of -the University of Richmond faculty and senior classes that filled almost the entire front section of the chapel -all there in honor of the capable and gracious new president of the University.

Aren't we proud of our football team? "' 46-ers" really turned out to cheer them on-especia lly for the home-coming game.

We were well represented at the Alumnae BanShelton, quet Thanksgiving so I've heard-Julia Mary Lou Willis, Jeanne Yeamans, Barbara Richie, Ding Lambeth, Nancy Todd, Peggy Bowdler, Helen Mumper Dunnavant, Caroline Goode, Marian Kinzey and Bev Ryland were among those who attended.

As for news of them-Julia 's still -teaching but plans to resign in February . Mary Lou, Bev, Nooky and Jean White have finally gotten an apartment in Hopewell and are keeping house, cooking and everything. Nooky, by the way, has a fraternity pin from a William and Mary man.

Treason! But he's quite nice and his name is Vaughan.

Jeanne Yeamans is still in Miller and Rhoads, and Ding has become assistant buyer at Thalhimer's in one of -the dress departments. Bill Bowdler is home so he and Peggy have an apartment. She instructs a couple of Jabs.

Annie

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Friends and classmates will be saddened to hear of the death of Annie Breedlove, Class of 1945, on December Westhampton 21 in Petersburg.

After her graduation she had been studyMedical College in ing at the Woman's until the onset of her illness Philadelphia several months ago.

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Mary Frances Bethel and Peachee are at Carolina, rooming together, both doing graduate work in psychology, while Peggy Macy went north to Syracuse for graduate work in Chemistry. Jean Saperstein, after a summer 's trip to California, settled down to work as a research assistant in physiology at George Washington Medical School and at the same time is working on her master's.

Jean wrote that Elaine Weil is also working in Washington for the Navy Department. She writes citation s for all those who are to be awarded medals in the future.

Dorothy Ann Fishberg became Mrs . Herbert Finberg in September . She had a wonderfu wedding in New York with Elaine as bridesmaid, and a honeymoon in Mexico. As for "globetrotters, " Lois Bradley Baker and husband are now in Panama where Arlie is working .

Cora Lynn Chaffee, Nancy Todd and Isabelle Gunnels were among those who went to openings at W. & L. in November. Speaking of Isabelle, she got a diamond from George Snyder this past summer and they have set the wedding date for June . Meanwhile she's working for the Department of Agriculture in Washington.

I saw Jean White, Jeanne Pebworth and Irene White "tripping the light fantastic" at V.P .I. this fall. Jeanne and I drove up in that brand-new car that I mentioned last time. Jean .White was there to see Andy-and having the time of her life. Irene told me she is teaching at St. Margaret's in Tappahannock.

Ann Harris is teaching at Beaverdam. Lucy Harvie has come to Norfolk to instruct lab at the William and Mary division here.

I know you' 11 be interested to know that Pat Williams is now at the Biggs Memorial Hospital in Ithaca, New York, and has only another month until her training in Occupational Therapy is completed and then she too will be "safe in the wide, wide world."

That's about all the news, -though I do want to remind you that Mrs. Booker would be delighted to receive Alumnae dues. She informed me that several checks had already been sent, so Jet's get busy and put '46 right at the top .

We school teachers are still teaching and wishing we'd had more courses in psychology and looking forward to the Christmas education-but holidays.

Hope you had a nice Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody.

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of St. Petersburg , Russia, were brought into the group. Around these names the affection of their students loved to linger. From them they learned high standards, hard work and devotion to duty. They belonged to that older order of broadly trained scholars, at home in many fields of knowledge . There was something contagious about their unselfish love of learning and quiet dignity of scholarship.

We who knew them cherish the recollections of the flowing periods in which the genial Professor of Chemistry described oxygen as the "tooth of time," told us about raising children and strawberries and potatoes, denounced political iniquity and bestowed paternal advise on successive graduating classes; of the Attic wit, the Demosthenic fire, the burning devotion, the personal interest that gave our "Socrates" such influence with the student body; of Professor Smith's brilliancy and modesty; of the "high erected" head of the "Old Roman," his withering scorn of the "hoof beats of the horse" and every other form of subterfuge; of Winston, versatile scientist, clever experimenter, gifted lecturer; of Thomas, profound and clear thinker; of Pollard , careful, conscientious and courteous, and of Hasseleff's linguistic accomplishments.

These were the men who for a generation moulded the standards and ideals of the College and laid broad and deep the foundations of sound learning on which our University is built.

iTHAT,S FOR REMEMBRANCE

By Garnett Ryland, '92

Gridmen Win 6, Lose 2, Tie 2 (Continued from page 11)

Meet the Faculty of Richmond College in 1890!

In the foreground is Bennett Puryear, professor of chemistry and chairman, and immediately behind him is Charles H. Winston, physics. In the semicircle, left to right, Edward B. Smith, mathematics; H. H. Harris, Greek ; Wm . D. Thomas, philosophy; L. N. Hasseleff, French and German ; John Pollard, English ; Edmund Harrison, Latin .

Professors Puryear, Harris, Harrison and Smith were elected by the trustees when the college was reorganized in 1866 after its suspension during the War between the States. Winston was added in 1873 and Thomas in 1881. Harris and Thomas were graduates of Richmond College, Puryear of Randolph-Macon, Winston of HampdenSydney. Puryear had been a member of the ante-bellum faculty; Harris , Harrison and Smith had been officers in the army and Winston in the Nitre Bureau of the Confederate States. All six had been students at the University of Virginia and four were masters of arts of the University in its golden age when that degree was the finest academic trophy to be won in all America.

In 1886 Pollard , alumnus of Columbian, and Hasseleff, a graduate of the University

schedule, the Richmonders demonstrated they still had plenty of oomph left after the Duke debacle as they capitalized on the breaks to shut out Washington and Lee 20-0.

Returning to the Carolinas long enough to knock off Davidson, 27-6, the Spiders came back to treat the alumni to a 19-7 upset triumph over Virginia. It was a masterful demonstration and probably the Richmonders' best game of the season.

Virginia Tech's vaunted line was given a sample of Richmond forewall strength in the next-to-last contest of the season as the Spiders outplayed and outfought the Gobblers, but were forced to settle for a 7-7 indecision.

And then came Thanksgiving Day and a heartbreaking 40 to O spanking by a William and Mary team which was just too good for Old Dominion opposition this season.

The Indians were superior in all departments of play. (There'll be another year!)

A summary of the season wouldn't be complete without a tribute to the men who were able to get so much from a supposedly mediocre group of players. From John Fenlon to Backfield Coach Bill Porterfield to Line Coach Russ Crane to End Coach Glenn Knox, they all turned in a magnificent job of coaching. Fenlon topped off the coaching staff's achievement when he was named outstanding coach of the Southern Conference and 12th in the nation in 1946 in a poll

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Epsilon circle of Phi i Beta Kappa has announced the election of two distinguished graduates, Mrs. Henry W. Decker (Florence Boston, '17), and Lt. Col. George Wellford Taylor, '29.

Mrs. Decker, a member of the board of trustees of the University since 1934 and a member of the Richmond City School Board since 1938, has been honored by many positions of responsibility and trust. She is a member of the executive committee of the Virginia School Trustees and a past president of the Richmond branch _of the American Association of University Women.

Mrs. Decker taught for several years in the public schools of Virginia and later was a member of the faculty of the University of Shanghai. She is the author of a number ?f publications, including a book, World Airways for the King.

Col. Taylor, who last September accepted a commission in the Regular army, served during the war as an expert consultant on aerial gunnery for the air forces. His duties carried him to Africa, India, China, and into Europe. In recognition of his achievement, the Army cited him for merit and he also received a civilian award for exceptional service.

He now is stationed in Washington where he works with the civilian scientists employed and attached to his headquarters on technical aspects of air force strategic operations.

After his graduation from the University of Richmond, Mr. Taylor continued his education at Princeton where he received his Ph.D. in 1932. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., but resigned as associate professor in 1943 to accept a position. as a staff member of the radiation laboratory of M.I.T. He joined the War Department staff as an expert consultant that same year and served throughout the war in various capacities related to the national defense. conducted by the New York World-Tele-

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At their annual football banquet several weeks after the close of the season, the footballers, stringing along with their growing custom of selecting co-captains, chose a tackle, Carroll Richard of Covington, Va., and a back, Joe LaLuna of Ossining, N. Y., to succeed guard Fritz Laurinaitis and end Houston Sizer.

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Atlanta Club President : Marjorie Canada O'Riordan (Mrs. Charles F.), 921 Church Street, Decatur, Georgia.

On October 31 the Atlanta Club had its fall dinner meeting at the Pig 'n' Whistle in Atlanta. They discussed plans for the year and attempted to find someone who could attend the Workers' Conference at Westhampton on November 9. Owing to jobs, illness, and the distance, it was impossible to find a candidate , but" the members expressed great interest in events at the college, and a desire to keep informed about college affairs.

It is planned to have another get-together soon, at which several new Westhamptonites in Atlanta will be welcomed into the club.

Baltimore Club President: Marie Keyser Jordan (Mrs. John E.), 2230 Linden Avenue, Baltimore 17, Maryland .

For its first meeting of the 1946-47 season, the Baltimore Club met at Saratoga Inn for lunch on Saturday, October 19. A gay time of chatting and exchanging news of W esthamptonites was followed by a short business session.

Christine Duling Sponsler, secretary-treasurer, who represented the Baltimore Club at alumnae meetings during Commencement Week last June, gave her report along with a vivid account of the exercises held in honor of Dean Keller. It was proposed

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that the club adopt as a project the furnishing of a room in the new dormitory, and plans for sponsoring a bridge party to augment the sum available from the treasury were discussed enthusiastically. Dolly Latane Hammond was appointed official representative to the Workers' Conference to be held at the college later in the month.

We were very sorry just before Christmas to lose our president, Ilse Schott, who is now working with the State Department and has moved to Washington. Marie Keyser Jordan, who was vice president of the club, is now serving as president. Our next meeting we hope to hold jointly with the Baltimore alumni of Richmond College and to have Dr. Modlin as speaker.

New York Club President: Billy Jane Crosby, 628 W. 114th Street, Apt. 33-A, New York 25, N. Y. A business meeting of the officers of the club was held in January to make plans for a large meeting of the entire club in February. Work is being done on the membership list in order to get all names a~d addresses up to date before the next notices go out.

Philadelphia Club President: Kathryn Mumma, 261 Standish Road, Merion Station, Pennsylvania.

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in the Philadelphia area met at the Ben Franklin Hotel and voted to form a University chapter which will include both groups. The Westhampton alumnae will continue, however, to have additonal meetings, as a separate group.

Plans are now being made for a joint alumni-alumnae dinner on January 21 at which Dr. Modlin will speak, and all alumnae and alumni in the area are being invited to attend.

The Philadelphia Club has arranged to have Westhampton represented this year at College Day in local high schools.

Richmond Club President: Josephine Mallory Cosby (Mrs .

Charles C. Cosby), 2236 Monument Avenue, Richmond 20, Virginia. Phone 5-0668.

On Sunday, December 15th, the annual children's Christmas party was given in Keller Hall. Old and young alike, with an attendance of 90 people, enjoyed the story of "Paddy Bear" as told by Miss Helen Monsell, the puppet showing by Mr and Mrs. Kunze, carols led by Mayme O'Flaherty, and refreshments and favors served in the tea room by Martha Ross and her committee.

We are planning a business meeting in January and , after that time will ~e. ~ble to give you more news as to the activities (or the New Year.

Tiaewater Club President: Pollyanna · Shepherd, 105 3 Naval Avenue, Portsmouth, Virginia.

The Tidewater Club, under our capable president, Pollyanna Shepherd, is planning big things for the coming year.

Our first fall luncheon meeting, held on November 23rd, was highly successful. Our main item of business was the adoption of a new Constitution, in line with the recommendations from the National Association.

Plans are being made for a Christmas party, and for a party for the High School Juniors and Seniors, to be held after the first of the year. We are also arranging for a subscription card party, to raise money for the Alumnae Fund.

We had a night meeting with the Richmond College alumni in December, and had a grand time meeting Dr. and Mrs. Modlin.

We enjoyed his talk immensely. He must have known how we hunger for the college "gossip," because he told us all the little things that were happening, as well as giving us the thrilling news that the new Westhampton dormitory is actually under construction. Joe Nett les, Mr. Billy Cole, and Tubby and Leslie Booker came with the Modlins, and everyone was so glad to see them.

Keep your eyes on the Tidewater Clubwe are most enthusiastic, and we're going places.

BILLIE

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Washington Club Chairman: Frances Burnette, 4614 38th Street, N.W., Washington 16, D . C. The Westhampton Alumnae Club joined the Richmond College Alumni in the Washington area for a University Dinner Meeting on December 3. Dr. and Mrs . Modlin were guests of honor. Other guests who came with them were Mr. Billy Cole, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Booker, and Mr. Joe Nettles.

Dr. Pruden, Pastor of the First Baptist Church and President of the Washington Chapter of the Richmond College Alumni arranged the dinner at the Church. A church group prepared and served an excellent turkey dinner. The highlight of the evening was Dr. Modlin's report on "the state of the University." Leslie Booker and Joe Nettles told us about Alumni activities and Mr. Cole talked about .financial matters at our Alma Mater. We enjoyed each one's contribution and it was such a pleasure to have them with us.

A brief business meeting of the Club was held after the dinner. Because Washington people have had so many things tugging on them during the last few years, the Club has not been as active as it was before the war. It was felt therefore that the entire burden of converting to a peacetime basis of operation should not be placed on the shoulders of our usual group of officers. It was concluded instead that the job would be undertaken by a group composed of several members, the former Presidents, and the other officers.

Appropriately enough, this group is being called the Steering Committee. As one member said, this title indicates we're going somewhere. The members of the committee are: May Thompson Evans, Estelle Kemper Rntler. Fr~nces BurnPtte, Alice Garnett Thomas, Margaret Miller Smith, Annie Renee Powell Sage, Virginia Russell. Evelyn Cosby, Kav Hanley, Ellen Radlev. Eli~aheth Elgin, Ruth Latimer, and Louise Cardoza.

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recognized the leadership of J. Earle (Pete) Dunford, '15, chairman of the Home-coming Committee, and of seven students by tapping them into membership in the honorary fraternity. The seven undergraduates were: Jack Wilbourne, all-state football halfback; Louis Miller, captain of the basketball team; Cliff Long, editor of thi; Collegian; Thad Crump, managing editor of the Colle1;ian; Lawrence Yoffy, chairman of the Honor Council; Roy Wyatt, president of Tau Kappa Alpha, and D. Walton Mallory, president of the Senior Class.

With such an array of events to remember, even the exams could not dampen the hopes for the coming year. Every organization was promising more and better activities.

Standing out like a beacon, the midwinter dances rnst a cheery glow. around the dates, February 7 and 8, when the committee promises a gay time, with all the trimmings, to the music of Art Baldwin's 17-piece band.

NOTE: Frances Lundin van Heuve ln, '34, gives a vivid picture of life in postwar Holland in a letter written to Grace Wells, class secretary. Miss Lundin, a WAC in World War II, married a member of the Dutch Merchant Marine and is now visiting his family in Holland.) .

(EDITOR'S

Wildervank, The Netherlands, December 6, 1946.

Dear Grace, This is a very unusual December for me.

First of all, there is no Christmas rush in the stores. The papers are minus huge ads, and people don 't give presents anyway, on the 25th. That is a religious date which the adults observe by going to church. The children .have their big celebration on December 5-6. This morning, in fact, was the time when they found toys which St. Nicholas had placed in their wooden shoes while they slept. Ray and I explained the whole situation to Lou, but she wasn't much impressed. However, the few little trinkets which she received, a whistle, a tiny auto, a rabbit, and some blocks, were highly acceptable and kept her busy all day.

Another surprise for me was the really quiet way in which Sundays were spent. All work is stopped on commercial projects; everyone sits and relaxes in the front room, by the window from which he can watch neighbors passing by. Coffee is usually served at 11 a.m. and tea at 4 p.m. Canal boats are still, and all motor vehicles are forbidden to travel without government permission. Some religious sects do not even ride bicycles unless going to or from church.

Everything is still ~trictly rationed and prices are "fantast ic,". according to people who can compare them to the prewar scale.

Some of the workers can't live on their wages without government loans. I've heard stories about those who have only one set of underwear. When it is washed, the owner must stay in bed till it dries out. I can't

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say that I would do otherwise, because this is certainly a raw climate, usually. When Holland has a hard winter, the ice and snow stay on the canals for two months straight, according to Ray. In Wildervank the homes were spared from any actual .fighting and bombing during the war. While the Germans occupied the country, the people hid their valuables under flooring, in the ground, and in other hiding places. Occasionally, the person who secreted these articles died before the war was over ( as did Ray's father) and the knowledge went with him. "Oma" (grandma) has never recovered some of her copper ornaments. The same has happened in many families.

Bicycles were frequently requisitioned by the enemy. Oma spread the story that hers was gone, and when searchers came they could find nothing. Later, when the Germans had gone, all the neighbors were surprised to see her riding again on her same well-kept bike. It had been hidden all the time in her built-in, closet bedroom.

The best-remembered day in this town is that on which the Nazis fled northward, with the Canadians coming through only two hours behind them. It was a thrilling occasion.

Ray has pointed out some houses or spots which had been headquarters for the underground. After the loyal government was back, all the Dutch quislings were seized, placed in camps, and sentenced. I've seen men, under guard, going to work in fields or factories until their time was up. The underground workers, too, have suffered in another way. Ray's cousin, who has had some of them in his employ, has found they could not adjust themselves to steady, peacetime work, after months of idle waiting and occasional feats of daring. Some had to be dismissed. The children, too, who were taught to steal from, and bedevil the enemy, cannot suddenly become normal youngsters.

We have visited in some of the larger cities-the Hague, and Amsterdam, and are going again to Gronigen. The bomb damage is still apparent though lots of repairs have been made. The famous Martini Tower in Gronigen still stands, but many adjacent buildings were le,veled. Of course the cities contained more military objectives and the inhabitants weren't quite so fortunate as the farmers.

I like to listen to Dutch being spoken, even though I can't understand it all. Just these few months have enabled me to pick up lots of words. By now Oma and I can carry on an intelligible conversation, up to a certain point. Then either she or I call in Ray to act as interpreter. No language seems to bother Lou. She can usually make her wants known by squealing, pointing and making the most primitive sounds. Everyone knows what she means. Hope to be back in January. Merry Christmas to all of you.

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Although hundreds of alumni have sent in their records of service in World War II, there still remain a large number of veterans whose war service data is still urgently desired by the Alumni Office. This information, not only will become a part of the permanent record of each alumnus in the Alumni Office, but will be incorporated in a history which will preserve permanently the story of the part played by University of Richmond men in the air and on the land and sea.

Dr. Ralph C. McDanel, head of the history department in the University, joins with the Alumni Office, in urging all veterans who have not yet sent their service record to the Alumni Office to fill out the form on page 28.

Listed below are the service records which have been received from alumni since the last publica tion of the BULLETIN: 1905 John A. Cutchins, Col. AUS, Chief of Staff, 29th Inf. Div . and Chief, Internal Security Div .

3rd Service Com. Pre-Pearl Harbor, American Defense, and Occupation of Germany Medal.

1916 Wistar Hamilton , Chaplain AUS, 103rd Gen. Hosp . (near Tidworth, Wilts, England) and I.R.T.C. Regimental Chaplain, 5th Reg., Fort McClellan, Ala. 1929 Nathan S. Mathewson, Lt. Col. AUS. Commanding Officer, Regimental Antitank Co., 2nd Bn., and 1st Bn. ; S-3, and Executive Officer of Mo-· bile Force, Military District of Washington, D . C. Served overseas with Military Mission to Brazil (Inf. Advisor); Senior liaison officer for Brazilian Expeditionary Force with Headquarters IV Corps (U. S.) in Italy . Commissio ned with permanent rank of Capt. in Regular Army. June , 1946. American Defense, American Theater, European-African-Middle East (3 stars) . Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Medal of Merit (Italy), Medal of Merit (Brazil), Field Medal (Brazil) .

neer Hdq. Central Pacific Base Command; 427th Engineer Constr. Group, Okinawa; 117th Engr.

Constr. Group, Korea; Asiatic -Pacific (star for Ryukyus campaign), American, Korean Occupa tion .

1932 T . Burwell Robinson, 1st Lt. AUS, 12th Armored Div. and Hgf . Hawaiian Antiaircraft Artillery Command . Asiatic-Pacific, American.

1933 Harold V. Chisolm, Comdr. US. Office of Chief of Naval Operations; 7th Fleet Radio .Unit, Australia; Pacific Fleet Radio Unit, Pearl Harbor . American Defense, American, AsiaticPacific. Navy Unit Commendation .

Julian E. Savage, Capt ., AUS. 1399th Engineer Construction Bn. Asiatic-Pacific.

Sam Couch, Cpl. AUS. 900th Sig. Co. Dep. Avn . ETO ( 4 stars), American. Meritorious Unit Award .

1935 Charles M. Edi;ar, T /5 AUS. Hq. Co. 2nd Bo . 45th Inf. ETO ( 6 stars and bronze arrowhead) . Distinguished Unit Badge, Bronze Star, Combat Inf. Badge, French Unit Citation.

193-6 Kenneth Douglas Angus, Jr., Lt., USNR. USS Kalk Destroyer 611. American, European, African, Asiatic-Pacific ( 4 stars).

1938 S. Brooks Robertson, Capt. AUS . Army Sig. Corps ., Corps of Mil. Police assigned to Security Div. of Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

1939 Merrill R. Stewart, Lt. Comdr. USNR. Pacific Area-Naval Intelligence. Awarded presidential citation for outstan ding duty as area commander of unit 2, Naval Grp. China, during operations behind Jap . lines in Hunan Province.

1940 Robert C. Moore, Capt. USMCR. Hq. Fleet Marine Force, Pacific Area, Hq. 3rd Marine Div. Asiatic-Pacific ( 4 stars).

Lacy F. Paulette, Jr., 1st Lt. AUS. 446th A.A.A, A.W. Bn., 445th A.A.A. A.W. Bn., battery officer. American Defense, ETO (5 · stars), American, Occupation of Europe.

1941 Ben Bowles, Lt. USNR. USS Oak Hill, Engineering Officer. American, Asiatic-Pacific ( 5 stars), Philippine Liberation ( 2 stars).

C. Lydon Harrell, Jr., Lt. Comdr. USNR. Combat Intelligence Unit USS Laub (DD613), Com Des Ron 7; USS Zane (DMS 14), USS Hudson (DD 475). American Defense, Pacific, Atlantic, Philippines, ETO ( 5 stars).

Navy group commendation.

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were from other denominations. Because several of the leaders joined in the migratory movement of that period to beckoning frontiers, the initial plan was int errupted. It was not revived until 1830, when a group of Baptist leaders formed an Education Society to train ministers. This resulted in the opening of the Virginia Baptist Seminary on the outskirts of Richmond in 1832.

Since 1840, when the seminary evolved into Richmond College, the institution has not maintained a theological department, but it has consistently emphasized the study of the Bible and Religion as a vital part of its liberal arts curriculum. For the one hundred and fourteen years of its history, Christian loyalty as well as sound academic standards have constituted the framework in which its affairs have been directed and its policies formulated.

Church-related colleges, founded to promote education under religious auspices, have rightfully been subjected to the same criticisms faced by other educational institutions in these unsettled times. Indeed, there has been serious question as to the survival of many of these colleges. Manifestly they

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must re-examme the foundations upon which they rest, the direction in which they are moving, their claims for continued support, and their place in the total educational perspective .

The primary obligation of the church college is to emphasize the spiritual values in education, to train students in the fundamental principles of moral and eth ical conduct, and to provide sound scholarship in a religious environment. This education must be genuinely intellectual and cultural. It must not be thought that such education is limited, or restricted, or fearful of new ideas.

"Education" connotes nurture and growth.

"Christian education" means growth in a community of scholars where the pervading atmosphere is created by attitudes, standards, and relationships that are predominantly Christian.

The facts of science, history, economics, and psychology are not altered by a religious designation over the gates of a college.

There is no Christian mathematics, language, sociology, or philosophy, as such.

The difference is in the frame of reference given them. It is here the church-related college is distinctive and different, for it is committed to the Christian philosophy of education and of life. This need not be, and seldom is, a narrow sectarianism, but a legitimate and proper attention to the place of religion in the preparation of a balanced leadership. This is peculiarly the province of the denominational college. It is more than its province, it is its duty; and this duty should continue to be performed without apology. The church-related college regards other schools of educational thought and other types of institutions not in rivalry nor disparagement, but with appreciation, for all are allies in the search for truth.

At this particular time in history, when democratic institutions are being compared critically with other political ideologies, it is well to point out that the fundamental Christian principles form the foundation of our democratic society. Christian education is committed to the value and dignity of the individual, the sacredness of the human personality, and faith in the freedom that undergirds and preserves democracy. It is committed to building in the minds of the students, on the basis of understanding born of knowledge, those attitudes and ideals that eliminate dissensions among nations, that appreciate cultures not our own, and that lay the foundations of a real brotherhood of man.

A further obligation of the church-related college is to conserve the religious culture.

Such a college has a peculiar interest in the heritage of Christianity that has been committed to it. It has a solemn responsibility to keep unmarred that inheritance and to transmit it to succeeding generations. To exercise faithfully this trusteeship, and to insure its own future as well, it must stimulate its best students to continue with graduate work and encourage them to enter the field of college teaching. Without the constant development of highly trained Christian teachers to staff the church-related insti-

tions, Christian education may eventually disappear, and the heritage of Christian culture, one of the dominant forces shaping our Western civilization, may vanish.

Another function of the church college is to train leaders for its denomination. This historic obligation to its ' supporting constituency is met not merely by preparing ministers for the churches but by educating laymen who will assume positions of intelligent leadership in the denomination.

As a church-related institution, the University of Richmond is deeply conscious of these obligations and has sought through the years to fulfill its responsibilities to its denomination. From the day of its founding, Richmond College, and now the University of Richmond has enjoyed the support of Virginia Baptists. We shall always endeavor to merit their continuing confidence and consideration by maintaining a university in whose scholarship and character they may have satisfaction and pride; by assuring, as far as our resources permit, every worthy student of whatever religious faith the privilege of an education; and by seeking to render, through our Department of Religion, continued assistance to ministers and churches.

IV The third determining characteristic of the University of Richmond results from its origin. Ours is an institution privately endowed and privately controlled. As in the past church-related and all other colleges and universities on private foundation have a large and important contribution to make to our nation. In the colonial period virtually all higher education. was provided by such colleges, mainly denominational. During the nineteenth century, especially in the latter half, public colleges and universities were established in large numbers . In the twentieth century they have increased in numbers, in size, in influence, and in consequent importance to the American scheme of education. The vast and necessary work they are doing could not be accomplished in any other w·ay. Today, there is not, however, any less need for schools on private foundations. This type of in_stitution still represents nearly three-fourths of all our colleges and universities and serves approximately one-half of all American college students.

Of the many services rendered by the private college today, I suggest only a few.

First, and quite obviously, it is needed to meet the total educational requirements of the nation. This is very clear in these days of crowded classrooms, when the disappearance of any of the hundreds of private colleges and universities would be tragic indeed. Moreover, the scholarship and research programs of the large private universities make extensive and invaluable additions to the advancement of human knowledge. Much piorreering progress originates in these institutions. In general, the contributions of the private college to American education have been incalculable.

Most private colleges have small student bodies, and therein lies an element of their

strength. There can be the intimate, personal relationship between professor and student that is so essential to the development of character and high mental qualities in the student. Individual counseling and guidance, personal stimulation and encouragement, group solidarity of spirit, are advantages preeminently enjoyed by the small college and to a great degree denied to students in larger institutions. This is, perhaps, the greatest virtue of the small college, and its importance is attested by the disproportionately large number of prominent and successful alumni that it graduates. The basic organization of the University of Richmond, patterned as it is upon the design of the older English universities, provides for the division of its student bodies into small units. This assures the continuation of the advantages of the small college_ Moreover, the private college enjoys freedom from political control. It should be said, however, in fairness to the inherent good sense of the American people, that instances of political interference in the work of state-controlled institutions have been few, and virtually nonexistent in Virginia .

Whatever the future may bring in this connection, it is well for American education that there exist a considerable number of trong private institutions as a bulwark and safeguard to our free, democratic society.

A significant characteristic of the private college is its dependence upon its alumni.

The quality of the life and service of its alumni measures the true worth of a college.

Conversely, no private college can prosper without alumni support. They may be long on generosity and short on wealth, but if they have a sense of loyalty and appreciation to the mother who, in the formative years of youth, contributed to their educational endowment, their contagious enthusiasm will influence others more able to make substantial contributions to the education of American young people. Such has been the experience of this college, as I am sure it has of many similar schools.

I am acutely aware of my reliance on the loyal support of the thousands of alumni of the University of Richmond. Trustees, faculty, and all who labor here covet the affectionate interest of those who have tarried a while in these halls. We rejoice in them and their successes. We like to think they are proud of the measure of success achieved by their Alma Mater; proud, but not satisfied.

As they see the great needs and the opportunities for further service that lie everywhere about us, may they be willing to work for the realization of the dreams of a better University.

V Studies show that the large majority of college students attend a college or university within fifty miles of their homes. This remains substantially true despite the convenient facilities of modern transportation.

Nor is it entirely explained by the huge enrollments of the great universities located in large cities. It is a characteristic native to the history and development of American institutions of higher learning. The founders sought to locate these institutions where

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they would most conveniently serve their constituencies. The location of the University of Richmond is the fourth factor that has influenced its development.

In placing their new college in the capital city of the Commonwealth, the Baptist founders chose wisely. The City of Richmond, though started as a town as early as 1737, had a population of only 16,000 people in 1832. But it was destined by its many geographical and economic advantages to become a large and important metropolis.

Moreover, it was at approximately the center of the Baptist constituency throughout Virginia. With the growth of Richmond the college has grown in strength and usefulness to the city, the state, and the denomination.

Today a quarter of a million people live within a few miles of the campus of the University of Richmond, and all Virginia is within a few hours' drive.

The city has meant much to the University. To our students and professors there are readily available the libraries, art galleries, museums, governmental institutions, religious organizations, business establishments, and all the social resources of this great community. For more than a century the people of Richmond have shown their friendship for and confidence in the University by their generous benefactions to it.

They have sent their sons and daughters to its classrooms. They have given of their time and effort toward its development. For this loyal support and patronage the administration, faculty, and alumni have always been deeply grateful. Perhaps the most important contribution of all, however, has been the infusion into the spirit and life of the institution of something of the liberal tradition, the cultural heritage, the cosmopolitan progress, the abiding beauty, and the warm friendliness of this historic city.

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able asset to the community. It has cooperated in sponsoring worthy civic projects and in supporting many programs of a cultural character. Professors in its several departments and schools have served the community, and alike the Commonwealth, within the areas of their special training and experience. Through the years it has _provided legal, business, and pre-profess10nal training to hundreds o~ :8-ichmonde~s._ A host of businessmen, m111isters, physiCians, attorneys, judges, teachers, public officials, and other leaders, women as well as men, have received their education at the University of Richmond. The _cultural tone, the business life , the profess10nal standards of the city and area have felt the deep imI?ress of this institution. Above all, the University has trained for intelligent citizenship thousands of Richmond's young people, many of whom, without the presence and financial aid of the University, would have been denied a college education.

An urban university has a wide field of opportunity for public service, and it has an obligation to the city which is its ~ome: _The education of students for responsible Citizenship and the training of competent lead~rs for public life constitute 01;1eof . the_ m~J0r tasks confronting our educat10nal 111stttut10ns today . To that task the facilities of the University will be devoted.

arms. Man as usual had to be shown. · The World shuddered when the BOMB was dropped on Hiroshima that August m~rning. Many of us ther~ on t~e mesa w~ited impatiently to hear of its use 111Japan with a mixture of exultation that the arduous task was completed and fear for the use onr people and our world would make of the bomb. How would mankind meet the responsibility of this superhuman power vested in him?

Now I am back in the library. Those two years were a long mad' dream. There :was isolation of the most nerve-wrack111g kmd.

We were not allowed furloughs in the early days, no friendly conta~ts outside th: Hil!.

One learned to hold his tongue until reticence became a habit. Our every going out and coming in was noted by the Creeps (Military Intelligence). Interesting letters to my family and friends daily left Mad M_esa about the brilliant blanket of snow makmg of the mountain a Frost King's fairyland, of the golden aspens on the hills, of the exotic fiestas in the Indian pueblos, the glory of the ever-changing shift of color across the towering peaks of the Sangre de Christos, of the wine-like stimulation of our 7,300foot mesa, but no facts ever defaced the innocuous page.

Then there was the army part of it, th. life of a GI. You were no longer an individual, but a cog. No longer a citizen with VI citizen's rights but a soldier. The sour and These, then, are the aims and obligations of the University of Richmond, as deter- , sweet of life in the barracks where one lived mined by the forces that have shaped its with people of all sorts, from all parts of the uestiny. As a liberal arts institution, it mu~t country and with all kinds of backgrounds.

Tolerance was a necessity. My detachment provide sound learning in the humane tradition for the intellectual and cultural devel- is unforgettable. The Provisional WAC Deopment of the student; as a church-rela~ed tachment No. 1 we were called in the early days. The Detachment was selected for a institution, it must offer moral and ethical great part from girls who had _reques~ed training toward the understanding of spiritoverseas service. We used to say with a glmt ual values; as a private institution, it must of humor, "Yes, we landed overseas, 7,300 develop human personality for its fullest feet overseas!" Most of us still regret that expression through individual freedon: ; and as an urban institution, it must tra111 re- we didn 't get there. A majority were colsponsible citizens for leadership in ~ pro- lege trained, many college _graduates. They gressive, democratic , society. In seek111gto were scientists, mathematiCians, stenogr~achieve these objectives, may we bear in phers, cryptographers, law students, architects, teachers in their peacetime jobs. We mind our motto, Verbum vitae et lumen scientiae. "T he word of life and the light of had a sprinkling of Masters an~ ?ne P~.D. knowledge. " May the cool light of inte~- in biochemistry who did an ong111al piece of research work for the project. Each girl ligence be interfused with the warm radiwas an individual in her own right yet there ance of the Divine. was a strong sense of duty and responsibili~y.

I wish to conclude as I began, by pledging My hobby hat is off to those WACs who i~to the trustees, the faculties, the students, vaded the Hill in April, 1943, and stuck it the alumni, and the general constituency of out until the end of 1945. That fall, the the University my full strength to the work retiring CO, a colonel of the U. S. Engiand welfare of this institution. With their neers, complimented us: "I have always concooperation and by the grace of God, we shall build an even greater University of sidered the WAC the best soldiers on the Richmond to meet the challenge of the years Hill." Only a few of those girls remained in Los Alamos after December, 1945, to ahead and to serve faithfully our denominawear the atomic bomb patch and the merition, our community, our Commonwealth, torious award. They are scattered back to and our country. civilian life from Vermont to Florida, from New York to California. Come what may A Children's Librarian In Atomland none of us will ever forget those eventful (Continued f,-om page 6) years when a boom town mushroomed overhoped against hope that an exhibition of night on the top of a mesa in the wild New Mexican mountains, and the Atomic Age its devastating might on some Pacific Ato!l would persuade warring man to lay down his was opened.

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Dave E. Satterfield, Jr. (Continued from page 10)

fortification of Guam, an embargo on supplies to Japan coupled with a strong position by the United States in the Orient. He devoted the full strength of his congressional leadership to the training and equipment of the American armed forces m World War II. Early in 1940 he made an appealing speech on the floor of _the House o_f_Representatives for an adopt10n of a positive and firm policy in the Far East, and warned against the shipping of oil, scrap iron and other materials of war to Japan. In May, 1941, seven months before Pearl Harbor, he called upon the United States to mcrease our aid to Great Britain.

While a staunch defender of states' rights Dave stood steadfastly for a non-isolationist policy in world affairs. He once ~aid ~f his own political philosophy, and his estimate of my political philosophy, "I hope we both reflect a happy admixture of liberalism a~d conservatism." He was fearful of the rapid trend to the national centralization of political power and the weak~ning of state~· rights. Yet he was at all times. a1'. 1:-me~ican in outlook and free of provmcia!tsm m any form. This was true though no ma_n ~v:r loved his native Richmond and Virginia more than Dave Satterfield .

In February, 1945 Dave became Executi_ve Director and General Counsel for the Life Insurance Association of America, in New York City, where he made his residence. In less than two years he became the recognized leader of the American life insurance business representing more than $140 billion insurance on American .lives. Only his great faith in this important phase of the American free competitive enterrrise sys~e_mled him to accept this responsible position ~f leadership which required him to leave his beloved Richmond and Virginia.

On December 23rd Dave came to Richmond with Mrs. Satterfield, the former Blanche J. Kidd of King William County, to spend the Christmas holidays with his two sons and his grandson, Dave E. Satterfield, IV . He was stricken ill with coronary thrombosis that evening and passed away in a Richmond hospital shortly after eight o'clock on the morning of Friday, December 27th. More than 2,000 people from all walks of life, all religious creeds and colors, attended his funeral at the First Baptist Church in Richmond on Sunday afternoon at 3 :00 on December 29, 1946.

Dave Satterfield was endowed with a brilliant mind and sterling qualities of character. By clean living and devotion to God and duty he rose from comparative obscurity to the very "top in the civic, political and professional life of Richmond an_d Virginia. He was intensely ?evoted to . his family and his home was an ideal Amencan home . His loyalty to his Alma Mate: was evidenced by thirty years' ·devoted service to the University of Richmond in any capacity he found it possible to serve. All who were privileged to know him s~are ~ great and common grief because of his untimely death.

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