ALUMNI N BULLETI ' UNIVERSITY
Fall 1955
Tower of New Library at the University of Richmond
Boatwright Memorial to Be Dedicated on November 1
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Virginia Chambe1· Photograph by Philip Flournay
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THE GENERAL S OCIETY OF ALUMNI J . Ear le Dunford, '15 . .. ... ... . . Pres(dent G . Mallory Freeman, '31. . . . 1st Vice Pres~dent V. Goodwyn ,'le lsh, '32 ... . 2nd Vice President Charles G. Motley, '45 . . . . . 3rd Vice President Ch ar les H. Ry land, '36 .... . . . . .. . Secretary Joseph E. Nettles, '30 . . .. Executive Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Reed I. West , '30 R . Stuart Grizzard , '41 and the above officer s
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THE COVER The ALUMNIBULLETINis indebted to The Commonwealth , publica tion of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, for permission to reproduce its October cover picture of the Frederic William Boatwright Memorial Library and the story (Page 2) by Ramsey Fitzpatrick, '30. The dedication of this library on November 1 will be a significant feature of the celebration of the University's 125th anniversary. Details of the three birthday celebrations will be found on the Anniversary Calendar (Page 4 ). The library will be an appropriate memorial to Dr. Boatwright who considered the library "the most vital building in a University . . . a universal laboratory where every student and every teacher does his work . . . . Especially has the library become more important in the last half century as the emphasis in college education has shifted from teaching to learning . The quality of education provided by a college is direct ly dependent upon its library, and the educational value of an institution will rise or fall as its library is stron g or weak ." [ 1
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OF RICHMOND UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES 125thANNIVERSARY Institution Reflects the Leadership of Three PresidentsRyland, Boatwright, and Mod lin By RAMSEY FITZPAT RICK, '30 Matthews Modlin , who has been president since 1946 and whose first decade as president has been marked by th e greatest growth in the institution 's history. It was Dr. Ryland , devout and sincere, a man who frowned on sham and pretension , who set the course for Richmond College. It was Dr. Boatwrig ht who came to the rescue of the school in its most precarious days and almost literally carried the little Baptist col-
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Library Memorial The new Boatwright (above) and the older Cannon Memorial Chap el (right) occupy commanding sites on opposite sides of the University Lake.
OF RICHMONDwill dediUNIVERSITY cate a building and celebrat e an anniversary this month and next on ,its spacious Dem en ti campus in Richmond's western suburb s. The building is the new $1 million Boat- lege on his shoulders until it became a great wright Memorial Library, a handsome struc - university. Now it is Dr. Modlin, dynamic and perture of brick and limestone with a tower that rises majestically above the campus and is sonable, who, has succeeded in cementin g the goodwi ll of the founding Baptist denominareflected in the University lake. The anniversa ry is the 125th. Over this tion, the ever-growing body of alumni , and the thousands of Richmond citi zens who span of a century and a quarter the University of Richmond has grown from a little more and more are thinking of the institution academy attended by nine stude nts to Vir- as Richmond 's own university . The three men have had a number of gin ia's largest pr ivately supported institution things in common: an appr eciation of and of higher learning, with more than 4,000 a respect for the dignity of work; a belief students in its six divisions. If, as Emerson has said, "an institution is in the democratization of education , which the lengthened shadow of one man," that one . is that every man and woman should have an opportunity to earn for himself the maximan would be Frederic William Boatwright, who spent sixty-four of his eighty-thr ee years mum amount of education h e or she can assimilate; and a belief that the purpose of on the campus of the University as student, an educationa l institution is to teach a student professor, president, and chancellor. how to live as well as how to make a living. But the University of Richmond, future These beliefs are the bricks that have gone historians may agree, is the lengthened shadows of three men: Dr. Rober t Ryland, the into the construction of the University of first president of Richmond College; Dr. F. Richmond and that have been cemented W. Boatwright, the first president of the securely by the school's administration and University of Richmond ; and Dr . George faculty during a century and a quart er. No
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small part of the success of the University of Richmond has been due to the devotion and character of its teachers. A list of its most able teachers of the past would include the names of S. C. Mitchell in history , John Calvin Metcalf in Eng lish, Walt er Scott M cNeill in law, and J. L. M . Curry in the social sciences. And among those who no long er teach but who do live closely with the student body in retirement, there are Garnett Ryland in chemistry, R. E. Loving in physics, and R. E. Gain es in ma:thematics. The hundreds of persons who will aittend the 125th anniversary celebration in Cannon M emorial Chapel on Saturday, October 29, will have their attention directed to the story of Dunlora Academy, in Powhatan County. Th ere, in 1830, the Rev. Edward Baptist gave instruct ion to nine students who were preparing themselves for the Baptist ministry. Two years later, the academy had grown into the Virginia Bapt ist Seminary, whose president, Robert Ryland, succeeded to the presidency of Richmond College when the college was chart ered in 1840. Something of Dr. Ryland's character , which became a part of the chara cter of the college, was revealed in his stubborn refusal to confer degrees until the college could afford "faci lities for education equal to those of other chartered institutions." H e took this stand in the face of the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia, in granting the charter, specifically empowered the school to confer degrees. However, it was not until 1849, when the college had grown in faculty and in financial resources, that its first degrees were given. In stating the college's determ ination to begin modestly and work upward without ostentation, D r. Ryland pronounced a policy to which Richmond College and the University of Richmond have adh ered throughout the years, with t he except ion of one almost disastrous lapse. "It is far better," he said, "to proceed cautiously-to live within our to rise gradual ly but surely, means-and than, by affecting a premature prosperity, to plunge th e ente rpri se into the vortex of ruin."
This pay-as-you-go idea has cont inued to be a guiding principle of the board of trustees of the University. Since 1895, when Dr. Boatwri ght became president , the institution has lived within its means every year.
The one lapse from this policy had occurred at the outset of the War Between the States, when the trustees, with mor e patriotism than wisdom, invested the college's entire endowment in Confederate bonds. The institution reopened after the war and struggled bra\ ¡ely to survive, but its prospects were dark indeed when Dr. Boatwright began his long tenure in 1&95, at the age of twenty-seven. A number of the older members of the faculty, some of whom coveted the honor them ~elves, took no pains to hide their indignation at the selection of Dr. Boatwright. Members of the student body, po:;sibly encouraged by some of the belligerent professors, burned the young president in effigy. This resentment did not disturb Dr. Boatwright as much as the report of the college treasurer, who said in his fiscal summary for 1894 that no year during his period of service had equa lled that one in uncertainty and anxiety . "The unrest, paralysis, and shrinkage which have marked the past twelve months, in all commercia l matters have been unparalleled in pervasiveness and severity," he wrote. "My public and private appeals for money have met with only expressions of sympathy and regret." The school's income in 1894 was only $30,000, and its total resources were less than $500,000. The nine-man faculty needed raises in salary, the buildings on the campus at Grace and Lombardy streets needed repairs, and the 186 students needed better classrooms. The college was so poor, measured even by the standards of that day, that Frederic Boatwright's father counseled him not to undertake the job as president. The son did not take the father's advice in this case. The Boatwright story became one of the most thrilling in all the annals of education in the South . For fifty-one years he labored tirelessly for the college and for the University of Richmond into which the college grew. When he gave the trustees his fiftyfirst and final report as president, the Universit y's assets totaled more than $7 million, including $3 million in endowment. The annual income had risen to $650,000, the faculty numbered more than 100, and the student enrollment had climbed to 2,300 . Besides the parent Richmond College, the University had grown to include We sthampton College (for women), the T. C. Williams School of Law, the Evening School of Busine ss Administration (the forerunner of the present Sd1ool of Business Administration), a summer school, and a grad uate school. Instead of the thirteen-acre campus at Grace and Lombardy streets, in the closeto-downtown West End section of Richmond, the school occupied a 300-acre campus at the western limits of Richmond. The move to the new campus had been another achievement o.f the Boatwright administration. At a banquet that celebrated Dr. Boatwright's fiftieth year as president, Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, distinguished editor an alumnus of the Univerand historian 1111d
sity of Richmond, said that everything Dr. Boatwright had touched had multiplied by ten . "Seeking nothing for himself ," Dr. Freeman said, "he is great in the univers ,ity he has made great." A new visible symbol of the University of Richmond 's devotion to its late long -time president is the Boatwright Memorial Library. Its dedication on Tue sday, November 1, will highlight the second of the three public celebrations commemorating the University's 125th birthday. ¡ Speakers on that occasion probably will refer to Dr. Boatwright ' s ability as a moneyraiser in a day when college presidents often had to fight desperately for funds with which to operate their institutions. They alw may note Dr. Boatwright's ability to recruit professors of outstanding ability, even by lurin g them from positions with larger salaries. Perhaps his largest single success in recruit ment was in persuading Dr. George Modlin to leave Princeton University to become professor of economics and director of the Evening Smool of Business Administration. Dr. Modlin, a native of North Carolina and an honor graduate of Wake Forest College, had gone to Princeton in 1924 as a graduate student. After taking his Ph.D., he remained at Princeton as a member of the econom ics faculty. In 1938, when Dr. Boatwright invited the young profes~or to join the University of Richmond staff, one of Dr. Modlin's colleagues solemnly told Dr. Boatwright, "You' ll never persuade him to go south of the Potomac." But Dr. Modlin did go south of the Potomac. He made the decision because he believed there was a larger field of service for him in the South. His success at the University was instan-
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taneous. He quickly won the esteem of the faculty and the students. His most significant success, however, was as director of the Evening School of Business Admini stration, which had been in an almost moribund condition, with only a handful of students. Under Dr. Modlin's energetic leadership, the youngest of the University's six divisions became the largest. He told Richmond workers in busine:;s and industry: "If you want promotion and pay, you must show that you deserve them. Prepare yourself for a better job and you'll get it." He told employers that the men and women who were earnest enough and determined enough to give one or more nights a week to study toward making themselves more valuable employees deserved the support of the companies for which they worked. So successfully did he present his case that, with few exceptions, every major business and indu strial organization in Richmond now pays, fully or in part, the tuition of students who successfully pass their courses in the Business School. In the files of the Business School are scores of letters from business leaders testifying to the school's value in dollar and cents to the Richmond community. The way in which George Modlin discharged his duties as dean of the Evening School made it almost a foregone conclusion tha:t he would be elevated to the presidency when Dr. Boatwright resigned after fifty-one years of service. When the announcement of Dr. Modlin's selection was made, there was genera l agreement with Dr. Freeman 's statement that the trustees had elected "the man of all men to fulfill the great future of the University of Richmond."
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THE ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR OCTOBER 29 125th Anniversary Celebration 11:00A.M.
CONVOCATION, HENRY M . CANNON MEMORIAL CHAPEL. Speaker: G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange. RECITAL ON CARILLONIC BELLS. Hilton Rufty, Carillonneur. LUNCHEON, ROGER MILLHISER GYMNASIUM
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NOVEMBER I Dedication Frederic William Boatwright Memorial Library 11:00A.M. CONVOCATION, HENRY M . CANNON MEMORIAL CHAPEL. Speaker: Dr. Vernon B. Richardson, '35, Pastor of the University Baptist Church, Baltimore. 12:15-1:00 P.M. RECITAL ON CARILLONIC BELLS. Hilton Rufty, Carillonneur. 12:30 P.M. LUNCHEON, ROGER MILLHISER GYMNASIUM 1:45 P.M. FORMAL OPENING, BOATWRIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 2 :30-4:00 P.M. TOUR OF CAMPUS. 2:30-4:30 P.M. OPEN HOUSE, BOATWRIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND VIRGINIA BAPTIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY WING.
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NOVEMBER 5 Homecoming REGISTRATION OF ALUMNAE AND ALUMNI, THE TERRACE OF BOATWRIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY. TOUR OF BOATWRIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY CONVOCATION, HENRY M. CANNON MEMORIAL CHAPEL. Speaker: Dr. Jay B. Hubbell, '05, Professor Emeritus of American Literature, Duke University. LUNCHEON, ROGER MILLHISER GYMNASIUM. HOMECOMING PARADE, CITY STADIUM. FOOTBALL, DAVIDSON VS. UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, CITY STADIUM.
Although Dr. Modlin would be the first to insist that some of the seeds that came to fruition during his administrat ion were planted earlier , none will deny that the first nine years of his presidency have been marked by the greatest material progress in the institution 's history. During his presidency there have been built a new dormitory and dining hall at Westhampton College, a student center building for men, a new building for the T. C. Williams School of Law, and now the Boat-
wright Memorial Library. The library was financed in larg e measure by the Baptists of Virginia. Furthermore, before the close of the first decade o.f Dr. Madlin's administration , grou nd will have been brok en for the first unit of a series of new dormitories for men. The new buildings added during the Modlin administration have cost an aggregate of $2,700,000. Coincidentally, this is identical to the sum bequeathed in 1952 by A. D. Williams of Richmond , an alumnus of the school and a member of a family
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that has made generous contributions to the institution throughout the years. The income from the Williams bequest of $2,700,00 0 is to be used for the most part in enlargement of the University's scholarship program. It is in the field of student aid that the University of Richmond can claim a place of preeminence among the institutions of its size in the South. During the academic year that began last month the Univ ersity will grant more than $100,000 in scholarship aid to boys and girls who have the brains and the ambition to make good use of their college education. A total of $25,000 more will be paid this year in wages to students who are financing their education, wholly or in part, with money earned on campus jobs. Students find employment in the dining halls , in the library, in the laboratori es, and in a multitude of other jobs on the campus. Even more numerous and more varied are the off-campus jobs at which students work. They work in Richmond stores and factories, they baby sit, they drive taxicabs, and at least one man worked his way through college as a "p rivate eye" for a well-known detective agency. Ther e is no stigma in rhe case of working students. Althou gh the University recommends that, if possible, the student bring funds from hom e to finance his education in part, at least, it also insists that no student of ability need let a lack of funds deprive him of a college education. As a matter of fact, during the early years when the Virginia Baptist Seminary was in operation in Henrico County, all students were required to till the soil of Spring Farm, where the school was located, to pay in part the costs of their training. At commencement exercises launching the University's anniversary celebration the past June, President Modlin declared that "respect for work is one of the foundations on which the University has been built." He said, "W e have come . far from the slab-covered log cabins of Spring Farm to the Gothic buildings on this beautiful campus, but may we never lose the spirit that places high esteem on honest toil." The University's location in Richmond was cited by Dr. Modlin as one of the principal factors in the school's growth. The students have benefited from the cultural, economic, and religious advantages of the city, he said, and "the city has received from the University a steadily growing stream of graduates who have influenced every phase of its life .... Both city and University have enjoyed happy benefits from this mutually fortunate union." The credit for this accord between town and gown in Richmond goes in large measure to Dr. Modlin, who earned the respect and affection of Richmonders during his years as head of the Evening School. This respect and affection have continued to grow during his presidency. Evidence of the esteem in which he is held by the business community was his election as president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce for the year 1951. He is a member of the board of directors of the
First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond and is identified in many other ways with the business, civic, and cultural life of the city. Nor has he been unmindful of the school's dependence upon the founding Baptist denomination, both for spiritual guidance and for financial support. It •is significant of the University of Richmond's cordial relationship with the Baptists of Virginia that the school now receives in financial aid a great deal more from the Baptists than at any other time •in its history. It is significant, too, that the library just completed and the dormitory which will soon be under construction are being built, for the most part, with money given by the Baptists of Virginia. Appropriately, the library will house in one wing the books, papers, and other records of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. The new dormitory will be partly financed by the First Baptist Church Endowment Fund, Inc., of Richmond. Although the University is indebted to the Baptists and has remained steadfast in the faith of the founding fathers, students of all faiths are welcomed to the University, and a number of non-Baptists serve on the University's board of trustees. "There has never been," President Modlin said in his commencement address this year, "a narrow spirit of intolerance at this institution, social, religious, or economic." Furthermore, he continued: "Faculty and students have never been restricted here in their search for truth . Everyone has been free to follow the inquiries of his mind and the dictates of his conscience without fear of interference or recrimination. On this campus there have been breadth of opinion and freedom of expression to a degree that •is rare in a churchrelated inshtution." President Modlin emphasized, as he had done time and again in his remarks to the alumni of the University, that "size, facilities, and resources do not make a great -institution. Rather, it is the quali•ty of its educational program; what it stands for in the educational world; and what i,t seeh to achieve." He told the board of directors in his ninth annual report in June that •in the face of growing enrollments and the prospect of a veritable deluge of applications in the years immediately ahead, the University of Richmond must guard against over-expansion. "Registrations," he said, "should be restricted in each division to a figure beyond which the quality of education would be impaired and the personal relationships between sh1dents and faculty would be endangered." He has proposed a maximum full-time enrollment of 2,600, exclusive of the Summer School enrollment and the more than 1,000 part-time students in the evening classes of the School of Business Administration. His proposal to keep the enrollment within definite bounds has met with the approval of the alumni, many of whom have told him they hope that the school will never become so large that it will be forced to abandon its program of close and intimate relationship
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EDWARD BAPTIST If there had been no Edward Baptist there would be no celebration of the University '; l2Sth anniversary this year. For more than a century the y.ear 1832the founding date of the Virginia Baptist Seminary- was accepted as the birth year of the institution which is now the University of Richmond. . But as more and more information became available about the life of Edward Baptist, . it became recognized that 1830 should be accepted as the founding date. It was in 1830 that Baptist, one of the outstanding Baptist ministers of his day in the South, undertook at Dunlora Plantation in Powhatan County, Va., the education of a handful of ministerial students. Dunlora was the forerunner of the Virginia Baptist Seminary, later Richmond College, and finally the University of Richmond. It was President Boatwright who first became convinced that Baptist's contribution to the University had been minimized, and it was he who located the foundations of the farm building at Dunlora where the students had received instruction . At his sug· gestion, the Virginia Conser vation Commission erected ?. marker on Route 60, some two miles from the site of Dunlora Academy. Baptist's place in the history of the University was secure. Thanks to his diary which is in the possession of the Baptist Historical Socie-
ty, most of the significant facts and many of the intimate details of his life became known. But where was he buried? It was known that in 1832 he had moved to Alabama, after declining the presidency of the Seminary. It was known also that he was a trustee of the University of Alabama, and that he had refused the presidency of Howard College . There were many facts that were not known , however, including his final resting place. Woodford B. Hackley, professor of Latin and an antiquarian of some note, agreed to undertake the search for more details about Baptist's career in Alabama and the location of his grave. After months of inquiry he learned that Baptist had been buried in the family cemetery at "Oakland" where he had died, in Marengo County, about four miles from Faunsdale and eight mile s from Union Town. There was no marker above his grave . There is a marker now. It was dedicated by Pr esident Modlin on August 17 in the presence of members of Baptist's family and representa tives of the Baptist denomination in Virginia and Ala bama who had gathered in the vine-covered graveyard for the brief but impressive ceremony. The inscription proclaims for all to see through the ages - that Edward Baptist is the founder of the University of Richmond .
between faculty and student members. They feel, as President Boatwright once said, that "education is caught as well as taught," that not only do students learn from their textbooks and reference books and during their periods in class and laboratory but also that some of the character and wisdom of the teacher is imparted to sh1dents. The esteem in which students hold former professors and the pride of the teachers in their former students can be seen at ead1 homecoming in the joyful reunion of alw11ni and their one-time instructors. They gather on the lawn in front of Millhiser Gymnasium to swap stor-ies and trade reminiscences. The homecoming this year, on Saturday, November S, will be the occasion for the third and final celebration of the University 's 125th anniversary. It is expected to draw a record nwnber of old grads to launch the Boatwright lecture series in Cannon Me-
morial Chapel. Later, alumni and alumnae will gather with professors and administrative officers in Millhiser Gymnasium for the annual luncheon. They then will go to the Richmond City Stadium for the traditional homecoming parade and a football game with Davidson College. With the year of celebration concluded, the old graduates and other friends of the University will have in mind the closing words of Dr. Modlin's commemorative address: "If we adhere faithfully to the policies and principles of the past, if we remain true to the traditions and spirit of the University, if we accept the d1allenge of the vast opportunities that lie before us, we can face the future with every assurance that, with divine guidance, there will be a much greater University of Richmond during the next 125 years."
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ATOM AT GENEVA THE PEACEFUL By CHARTER HESLEP, '26
THERE-at Geneva-during the two weeks in August when the peaceful atom made headlines and history . Men of great skills and good will from 72 nations made a start toward that goal set by President Eisenhower: "to strip (the atom) from its military casing an.cladapt it to the arts of peace." It was my assignment to help plan the public information program for the U. S. Delegation to the atoms-for-peace meetingofficially, the United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. I served as managing editor of the U. S. Delegation Information Office. When the Conference opened on August 8, there were no doubts about its technical success. This was guaranteed by the great outpouring of information in the hundr eds of fine papers prepared for the meeting. Scientists and engineers from all over the world had jumped at the chance to exchange ideas and data. But it was technical information. It ranged the atomic alphabet from "acute radiation syndrome in man" to "xenon poisoning" in nuclear reactors. Could this be "trans lated" so that for 14 days, the attention of the world could be focussed on greater understanding of the enormous peacetime potential of atom-
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dred topics were covered in the fifty-nine separate sessions that consumed 162 hours. There were ten evening lectures of which four were delivered by U. S. scientists. Informal "bull sessions" filled what time was left and often lasted far into the mornings. By August 20, the lack of sleep was taking its toll but there were few who did not feel that it had been a "feast." The Conference had succeeded beyond the expectations of its planners. Every session was open and attendance was so great that closed television circuits in various languag es had to be set up in overflow rooms so that all who wished could see what was going on. Following six general meetings, the Conference divid ed into three parallel series of sessions. One group covered topics of primary interest to physicists, the second was for chemists and the third for medicine and biology and the multiple applications of radioisotopes. In the plenary sessions there were broad survey pap ers on energy needs of the world between now and 2000 AD; the probable role of nuclear power in meeting the in-
creased demand for energy; world resources in uranium and thorium and methods of pro specting and recovering the raw materials of the atomic age; health and safety problems ; and progress in applying atomic energy to medi cine and increasing the world's food supply. The United States was the only nation having at least one paper at every session. They were of high quality and we made equally important contributions to the discussions which followed the presentat ions. Our atomic program is so vast and diversified that it was logical that this country should give the most at Geneva. But we received as well. There were valuable papers given by Soviet scientists, by our British colleagues, by France, Canada, Sweden, and many other countries. Dr. Walter H. Zinn of our Argonne Nation al Laboratory, gave an impressive list of important ideas we got from Geneva to 700 guests of the Atomic Industrial Forum in Washington late in September. Every meeting was open to all news media. And there were more than 900 reporters, (Continued
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Would world news media, especially the press-accus tomed to valuing news in terms of sex, conflict or m0ney-consider t he peaceful atom as newsworthy as the lethal atom? Would the meeting be reported as a historic giving and sharing of useful information by the world scientific community or interpreted as a kind of "atomic Olympi.c games" with headlines pounding the theme of " who's ahead?" Those of us handling the public information side of the Conference had worked feverishly in the preceding weeks to write material and ,e t up services that would help solve this gigantic problem in semantics. Would these plans work? These were some of the uncertainties we faced as 2,000 delegates and observers began the sessions on Aug. 8 with more than 900 newsmen on hand to record what happened. The setting was impressive. The Conference met in the beautiful Palais des Nations, a massive group of connected buildings on an elevation overlooking Lake Geneva. These buildings were completed in 1937 for the League of Nations and today house the UN's European Center. During the two crowded weeks that followed, 480 papers were read or discussed of which 178 were by U. S. au:thors. One hun-
Charter (Fritz) Heslep, '26, has had many interesting assignments during his six years as information officer of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission but probably none more interesting than his assignment at Geneva. Here he is with Commission Chairman Strauss and the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Miss Frances E. Willis, just before the start of a television program which Heslep directed .
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THE ACADEMICJUNKET By JOHN E. JORDAN, '40
Who Has Just ReturnedFrom One RICHMOND COLLEGE man of Professor S. C. Mitchell's time needs to be told about a "sense of place." He remembers vividly how the well-trimmed beard bobbed and the blue eyes twinkled as, with uplifted finger, Mitchell told his class of some former student who had gained prominence: ¡¡1 knew him well; he sat right there." The scarred seat took on importance as the earnest old man pointed, but how genuine was that halo? Is it really important that the personages and events of history have for us a local habitation as well as a name? This is a question I have asked myself at many a literary shrine and historical site the past year that I have spent in Europe on a fellowship granted by the Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation. How valid is the "sense of place" that draws so many to seek the soil where grew our western culture? It is a sense especially strong in the academic world. When I recently did a little job on Robert Louis Stevenson's Silverado Squatters, I clambered up the shoulder of Mount Saint Helena and disturbed the lizards in the abandoned Silverado Mine. Hearing of this, my old teacher at Johns Hopkins, the late Raymond Dexter Havens, wrote approvingly of my "service to the place." Such a service he often paid, and many teachers pay regularly, stretching their fellowship stipends, straining their sabbaticals, husbanding their savings and skimping their families to travel and see. The ship on which we crossed last fall carried at least three other academic men bound for a year in Europe and, I was interested to discover, two European scholars coming back from a year in the United States. And I ran into more than a dozen other American teachers in Europe. Of course these scholars, and many more like them, had come to do research, to work in foreign libraries and archives, to get at documents and papers not immediately available at home. But, as a young historian told me in London, you can do almost anything by photostats and microfilms these days. You can often bring foreign documents to your own study, more cheaply than you can go after them, more accurately than you can transcribe them. Yet this same scholar had already been twice to Belgium to work close to the sources of his interest in Low Country medieval history. There is something that no microfilm can bring back, no photostat hold, and that is the "sense of place" -the being on the spot and feeling the nuances
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found cannot be much understood by gazing at that dock: that is to peel the onion away. Certainly, also, the impulse to gather and exhibit the substantial remains of famous men has led to many collections of husks i:1 the birthplaces and residences of the great. Still, the line is hard to draw. Perhaps nothing but curiosity is gratified by looking at Napoleon's chapeau at Fontainebleau. But one gets an unexpected light on Ruskin from the sight of his court dress in the Kendal Museum. If you go to the Dickens House ill London and look at the grating through which Oliver Twist crawled, or a stuffed raven which might have belonged to Barnaby Rudge, you may wonder if you were not better off with your own unassisted images. For, of course, Dickens' Oliver Twist never squeezed through any real window, and Barnaby's "Devil" had no actual existence at allmuch less a stuffed one. Better go see the Tower ravens hopping grotesquely around the green. If you visit Paris's interesting Place Vosges to see the Victor Hugo museum, it Here is author John Jordan in front of the will mean little that this was one of his apartment where he and his family (Marie residences-he had 19 in Paris. Neither will Keyser Jordan, '40, and sons Craig and Leigh ) you be much edified by the countless "por stayed during their sojourn in Paris. He insists traits" of Esmeralda, often with her goat. that the picture records the one and only time But seeing Hugo's powerfully suggestive he wore the beret. Dr. Jordan has now redrawings and the chinoiserie furniture he sumed his work at the University of California designed for the house lets you into the rowhere he is associate professor of English . mantic soul ,of the man. The place remains charged with his energy. In such a situation the "sense of place" of the country in which things happ~ned. is certainly valid. Wherever the place bears Is this just a variety of the "Genetic Fallacy"? the marks of the man or event associated Or-as bad-is it the result of an unfortunate with it, one can learn from it. Strawberry desire to make concrete what never can be Hill-with its melange of fake medievalism concretized without being distorted and and Renaissance styles-can tell as much pitiful, like a stuffed bird of paradise? Is about Horace Walpole as his letters in forty the academic junket justified except as a odd volumes . And the "sound-proof " attic healthy corrective to the European idea that in Carlyle's Cheyne Row home is voluble all Americans are millionaires? of his Gospel of Silence. The Age of Chivalry Undoubtedly there is often some fallacy becomes very real as one looks up at the involved in the "sense of place." One o.f battlements o.f Carcassone-almost too much my colleagues complained o.f the site con- like a Hollywood set to believe. sciousness of London evident in the little The "sense of place" is also valid when the bronze plaques on modern buildings an- locality has moulded the man or happening . nouncing that "on this site" something or A poem is a thing in itself, which in the final other happened. Nothing remains but the analysis must stand on the words which make ground, and that cannot even be seen. Nei- it up; but "The Prisoner of Chillon" is ther does there seem to be much point in nevertheless enriched by a vi~it to Lac going out to the end of a Delphaven pier Lehman and the narrow dungeon supported in Rotterdam to stare at a little tablet which by seven pillars, on one of which you can proclaims that the Pilgrim Fathers embarked still see where Byron carved his name. The from the vicinity in the Speedwell before bitter contrast between the happy freedom they transshipped to the Mayflower. The great of the blue lake and the caged mi?ery of nation those independent men helped to (Continued on page 10)
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"A Good Workout for the America n Voice"
CHINESEMANDARIN:The MusicalLanguage By CHARLES F. WILTSHI RE, '53*
,..\ T ONE ARMY POST
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Il. stacks of rifles have been exchanged for stacks of textbooks, language textbooks that is, to enable American military personnel to und erstand and converse with people throughout the world. Intensive linguistic training is nffered here revealed by the fact that a student in a 46-week course, for example, is exposed to over 1300 classroom hours. foreign acThis particular post-where cents are the order of the day-i s the historic Presidio of Monterey, California, which houses the Army Language School (A.LS.) . It represents the first permanent language school to be established by the Pentagon. Here the military is developing multilingual Americans who are very essential in promoting good will among nations. It is not surprising, then, that the A.LS. has grown since its inceptio,n in 1941 at San Francisco, when the teaching of Japanese was begun as a result of military necessity. In 1946 the school was moved from Minnesota to its present site at Monterey . As important as any of the languages taught here is the course in Chinese Man darin, the national language of China and one of the twenty-eight languages offered at the school. The growth of the Mandarin department at the Presidio is typical of that of many departments. Mandarin is one of the four languages taught in the Far Eastern Language Division, the others being Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Cantonese. In China there are many dialects, but the four major ones may be listed as Fukien, Shang hai, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The last named, being the national language , is by far the most widely spoken of all the Chinese dialects, and covers approximately four-fifths -0f the area of China Prop er. The Mandarin department became a part {)f the Language School in the Fall of 1947, when five instructors and thirteen students inaugurated the program. Until the winter sess¡ion of 1947-48 the only languages taught at the A.LS. were Japanese, Russian ( now the largest division) , and Spanish. The staff of the Mandarin department gradually m*Charley Wi ltshire is the kind of man who would be expected to undertake the learning of the complicated Chinese Mandarin languag~ in 46 weeks. He was good in language s at the Umvers1ty too, but he was good at a great many things. He was a consistent dean's list man, he was secretary of the Honor Council, sports editor of the Collegian, president of the French Club (he m~jored in French and economics). And he was Phi Beta Kappa , Omicron Delta Kappa , Pi D elta Epsilon.
creased, in some years fluctuated, reaching its peak in 1953. The background of the instructors, who are natives of China, is a heterogeneous one. Included on the staff are former officers in the Nationalist Army, dip lomatic nfficials, ministers, lawyers, music teachers and high school principa ls. They are mostly post-graduate students holding at least M.A. degrees and many are holders of or candidates for Ph.D. degrees. Just as varied in background as the instructors are the A.LS. students themse lves. Military personnel of almost every rank attend this school- and put their scholastic and hnguistic abilities to, test for the duration of the 46-week course in Mandarin. Not only Army men attend, however, as the nan1e of the school would imply. At one time or another Air Force personnel, Marines, W.A .C.'s and recently Navy men have taken courses here. The chief aim of the Chinese course, as in all the A.LS. courses, is to teach its military students to speak and understand the language. The students are taught that Language is a "set of hab its," and classes are conducted according ly, with jnzitation of in-
stmctor the key factor in the learning process. While speaking the language takes first preference, writing and reading are also very important. It is to be noted that Chinese, although it has many diale:ts, has one unified written language. There are approximately 40,000 characters and only 400 sounds in Chinese. For each sound in Mandarin there are four tones: the level, the rising, the low, and the falling, all of which give the American voice a good work-out. Because of these tones, Chinese is a seemingly "musica l" language. The student, of course, cannot be expected to become a Chinese "scholar" in 46 weeks, not only because of the time limit but because, as would be expected at a military school, much time â&#x20AC;˘is spent in the learning of a specialized military vocabulary. There are many ways in which the language is conveyed from instructor to student. Instructors try to give the students as much individua l attention as possible, and for this reason classes are divided into small sections consisting of about eight students. The instructors are rotated during the six periods per day so that each section gets a variety of instruction techniques. (Continued
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Dr. Pa o-Ch'en Lee, Chairman of the Chinese Manda rin De partment , demonstrat es to Author Wi ltshire the tona l inflections necessary to produ ce a simple sentence in Mandar in, the nationa l languag e of China . The spoke n Chinese -Mandarin has four tone s and is noted for its to nal beaut y. As shown on the blackboard , the first line is written in Chinese cha rac ters; the second line is the Yale-system of romani zat ion, which provides the key to pronun ciation and the third line gives the litera l translat ion in English.
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FOOTBALL 1955 By SEEMAN WARANCH, '53 A LL
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victories, Ed Merrick's Spiders will go North to battle Villanova October 29 in an important intersectional game. With a great fourth period uprising that carried them to a surprising 7-7 tie with highly favored V.P.I., the Red and Blue warriors convinced Villanova scouts that the Spiders will give the Wildcats a real battle. After the Techmen had scored in the third period, the Spiders came roaring back to score a touchdown after little more than two minutes of the final quarter. A 49-yard run by David Ames, a freshman from Portsmouth, Va., sparked the attack and Frank Pajaczkowski, one of the South's best fullbacks, went the last nine yards, fighting his way across the goal. Jack Wilson, an end who formerly played for Randolph-Macon converted and the score was tied. Neither team was a:ble to score for the remainder of the spine-tingling game , although Richmond on one occasion got to the 15-yard line, thanks to a pass interception and 20-yard run by Mickey Marinkov, a freshman from Lebanon, Pa. The Techmen had scored in the third period on a sustained overland march with Don Divers, a fullback, hitting hard at the middle, and Dick Beard, a very good halfback, runeing the outside stuff effectively. Divers went the final yard for the score. The first half had been a gruelling battle of two outstanding lines with honors about even, although the Techmen backed the Spiders to within the shadow of their goal when Bob Wolfenden punted outside only inches from the end zone. The Spiders punted out safely, however, and gave as good as they took throughout the remainder of the scoreless first half. EVEN AFTER
.fl. two defeats and one tie-Coach
JACK WILSON Scored Season's First TD Against Former Mates
Although the stubborn lin e play reflected credit on the entire cast, perhaps the two outstand ing performers were Don Hillegass and Dave May, a pair of guards who did a great job of stopping the blows at the Spider middle. Pajaczkowski did a superlative job o.f backing up the lin e, in addition to scoring the Richmond touchdown. The tie brought balm to the Spiders who had been surprised by an underdog Citadel eleven which triumphed, 14 to 12, the preceding week. On September 17, Coad1 Merrick unveiled his fifth University of Richmond team against Randolph-Macon at City Stadium. The 33-6 Spider victory didn't tell the overwhelming difference between the two teams that night. With the Spiders looking ahead to West Virginia and Mountaineer scouts on hand, Merrick never lifted the wraps but watched his forces build a 20-0 halftime margin and then cleared his bench. Swift George Riggs skirted his left end and breezed 57 yards along the sidelines to set up one score-he cracked over two plays later from the one- and Frank Pajaczkowski contr ibuted most of the yardage towards another, scoring standing up from 14 yards out. Other Spiders to join the TD parade were: End, Jack Wilson (former little All-American at Rando lph-M acon); sub-halfback, Dan Wagner, and freshman tackle Pat Lamberti. George Riggs picked up 110 yards in 13 attemp ts to lead the Spider rushers. That look ahead to West Virginia became pressing business at hand the following week when the Red and Blue journeyed to Morgantown . The defending Southern Conference champion Mounties found the Spiders more than a match throughout the first half, trailing on two occasions, '0-7, and 7-12. The beefy Mountaineers, eleventh ranked nation-
GEORGE RIGGS Gained 47 Yards, Scored TD ogainst W . Virginia
ally, scored in the waning moments of the first half and then wore down the lighter Spiders to win 33-12 . Pajaczkowski cracked over for one TD , and George Riggs, on a 9-yard jaunt, pro duced the other. The loss was a costly one for Richmond, placing Theodose and Riggs among the injured. Riggs returned to action at Lexington against VMI but was re-injured on the opening kick-off. The Spider swifty, who carried a 7.9 rushing average into the VMI game, left for the sidelines and remained throughout The Citadel encounter. With Wacker hobbled and Theodose and Riggs on the bench, co-captain Frank Pajaczkowski took over to lead the Spiders to a 21-0 victory over the Keydets. Padjy had scoring jaunts of 93 and 65 yards. In the final quarter, shedding his halfback ways, he punched over from the two, looking every bit like the All-State fullback that he is. Pajaczkowski's heroics before a saddened but convinced Keydet Homecoming crowd earned him recognition as Southern Conference "p layer of the week" and the Old Dominion "back of the week." He also lifted his rushing average to 10.5 yards per carry, good for ninth ranking in the nation. The contest with The Citadel seemed to be moving according to plan until the second per iod when the roof caved in on the hapless Spiders. Richmond received the opening kickoff and 11 plays and 66 yards later had a 6-0 lead. Bill Reynolds, subbing for the injured Theodose, moved the attack well, climaxing the drive with a 35-yard pay-off pass to halfback Louis Wacker. In the second period the freshman-laden Bulldogs took over and gained maturity all at once to make the Spider road a rough one .
FRANKPAJACZKOWSKI Gained 174 Yards, Scored 3 Touchdowns against V.M.I.
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TOM THEODOSE Star of West Virginia and Citadel Games
Any attempt to assess the meaning of same skilled reporting of the results of these Geneva is akin to the fable of the blind men gatherings. President Eisenhower suggested (Continued from page 7) describing the elephant. Already there have (and Soviet Premier Bulganin seconded it) the murky prison is etched in Byron's lines. been appraisals of the impact the Conference that another Geneva be held in about three Here is a place which had a great deal to do will exert on nuclear science and atomic de- years. Also there doubtless will be more with making a poem. There are, of course, velopment in different types of nations; of world gatherings of scientists working in many others. Looking up from the Vale of the inestimable value of the personal contacts particular fields for that exchange of ideas Chaumonix, as Shelley did, at the serene made; of the possible effect of Geneva on and data that proved so useful last August. Secondly, I believe that in the magnificent bulk of the mighty mountain, you under- the many po litical and sociological aspects of contribution of the United States-a constand better the majestic power he put in the atomic age. My impressions naturally stem from inti- tribution lavishly acknowledged in the world "Mont Blanc." And the May gladness of contact with the public information mate the to something press and radio--the malevo lently nurtured Keats's great odes owes garden of his London home adjoining Hamp- aspects of the Conference. This included myth that this country is a threat to world reading Reuters and European United Press peace has been blasted. Chairman Strauss stead H eath. whose news tickers were installed in the U. of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission put of Especially rewarding to the student in downtown Geneva; it this way in an excellent review of the Wordsworth's poetry is a visit to the English S. press headquarters U. S. and foreign press Conference in a Washington speech on Sepof summaries daily the Lake Country. Here is the world of Wordstechnical people at tember 28: worth, where he hearkened to "The ghostly reaction; chats with our visited on scientists British with and Geneva "We achieved a new understanding abroad language of the ancient earth" and drank a survey of some 2,000 and home way the up follow to our efforts to promote a decent and endurof have You power." ry "visiona newspapers and magazines ing peace .... This myth ("war mongering") Greenhead Gill and see the mists slide easily clippings from to Scandinavia. was effectively demolished at Geneva without over the red and lonely hump of Seat Sandal from North Africa of reporting and our having to brand it as a myth." plethora this of Out to conceive the isolation of Michael "a lone seem to me to stand amid the heart of many thousand mists." comment, two factors We presented more data on research and and intangible tangible many the above out And I don't think anyone can fully comprereactors than any other nation; we power is first The benefits of this historic event. hend the force of Wordsworth's lines: in detail the advances being made explained based on the demonstrated interest of the for research and application isotopes using in the activion the Oh! then what soul was his when people of the world in following and industry; we agriculture medicine, in ties of the conference. But the Associated rops processing uraand prospecting on data gave Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Press filed more than 100,000 words from that finds this nation any help will that nium Geneva. The United Press and Reuters never Rise up and bathe the world in light, sumborders-in its within material raw got a "hold down" order from New York lead ership in accomplishments unless, after a dreary week or so of typical or London. The UN radio and television mary-our Lake Country rainy weather, he has awak- recording facilities-expanded even in excess and sharing our knowledge seems indisput ened to see Loughrigg Terrace lit with a of what was needed to take care of the "Sum- ably established. golden glow while Grasmere valley was still mit'' meeting that immediately preceded the We must keep up our guard in atomic dark. until such time as reason and dipweapons capacbeyond taxed were sessionsatomic For such things as this I prize my two ity. More than 3,000,000 words is the official lomatic skill combine to formulate a fool months in a little cottage optimistically called estimate of the traffic sent out from Geneva. proof system for reduction of armaments. "Sunny Bank," at Town End, GrasmereSo, for two solid weeks, people all over But I believe that any charge that in fulfilling that paramount duty the United States prize them more than all the time I spent in the world heard about the PEACEFUL the British Museum and the Bibliotheqtte Na- ATOM. If they missed their paper or their is endangering world peace will fall fiat. t10nale. Perhaps it is more enlightening to village loud speaker radio on one day, there We must keep our leadership in interlook at Wordsworth 's desk in Bishop Sandy's was more news about Geneva on the next. national cooperation in exploiting civilian Hawkshead School than at that of Dr . Mitch- It wasn't that there were sensational scien- uses of atomic energy. Fortunately, we have ell's successful student - and not as inspiring tific discoveries revealed at Geneva. There the resources to do so while carrying out as the old man made it. But among the high weren't. But the world at large had not paid our duty to national security. Our performmoss of Fairfield nature still speaks "remem- too much attention to the steady and impres- ance at Geneva is a positive augury that we berable things." In service to such vital places sive growth of peaceful applications of will do so. the academic junket is, it seems to me, amply nuclear energy. It had been too preoccupied justified. with the fear of the atom. In making public information plans for servicing the various media, it was thought Chinese Mandarin that after three or four days, the proceedings (Continued from page 8) would be so technical that the Conference Peaceful Atom The A.LS. employs many aids in the would be lucky to get a stick of type among (Continued from page 6) the obituaries and the classified ads or a line teaching of the language. For example, tape recorders and phonograph records aid the commentators, magazine writers, radio, news- or two in the radio and television roundups. throughsustained was student in comprehension and fluency in outinterest public But reel and television people on hand to record stayed story of-classroom hours. Another definite asset is Geneva The weeks. two the out interveteran the of the Conference. Some store, national political correspondents had diffi- ''up front." Much credit goes to the newsmen the Presidio' s research library and book books, language foreign nslating" many "tra of contain job which excellent an did who of kind culty adjusting to this "diffe rent" world meeting. No secrets, no chasing re- the often abstruse discussions into lay lan- newspapers, and magazines. Other aids indrills luctant diplomats into a corner to get inter - guage. The correspondents explained each clude movies, lectures and sand table where basic military situations are discussed. views. Most of the delegates were completely day the ultimate bearing that the papersalso accessible to newsmen. The Soviets even many of them studded with Einstein-like Faculty-student pimics and parties are held. he1d a couple of informal parties for the equations and unpronounceable words-had The linguistic opportunities at the Army on future civilian uses of atomic energy. ~ newsmen and a full dress news conference. To fulfill the hopes raised at Geneva re- Language School thus provide the military Th~re were no "surprises" except the unwho, schedul~Q- interfection by Conference Presi - quires a continuation of the kind of intimate with trained translators and interpreters for lking" "ta the do will graduation, upon and scientists the between contact personal energy of control of topic the of de11tBhabl_i.a abroad. relations its in States United the the and there revived energy. engi neers that was fro!,11atomic fusion-thermonuclear
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ALUMNAE-ALUMNI
1888The many friends and admirers of Dr. William Henry Baylor will be distressed to learn that his hea lth has been failing so that, as he writes, "While I am doing fairly well, I am kept in all the time." He has moved from the Homewood Apartments to the home of his son, Ralph, 120 Tap low Road, Baltimore 10, Md.
1910"So strenuous I don't think a younger man could have stood it " is the way Dr . G. W. Sadler describes his two-and-a-half month trip abroad with Mrs. Sadler last summer. They attended Baptist World Alliance meetings in London, then visited Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Switzerland, Lebanon, Trans- Jordan and Israel. The visits Jed Dr. Sadler to conclude that the greatest problem facing America, and the Christian churches today is that of the nearly 1,000,000 Arab refugees driven from their homes by the creation of Israel.
1912R. McLean Whittet has been elected president of the Central Richmond Association, which was formed in 1951 to deal with the problems of the among those central business district-problems Whittet has handled with such marked success as president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
1919Now in his seventh term as Mayor of Colonial Heights, Fred R. Shepherd has been making news throughout those twenty-six years. The "how" is ably and wittily told by Bill Bein in a feature story which appeared recently in the News Leader. Bein writes of Shepherd, "He's so busy thinking of the future-a new City Hall, potential new industries, extending the sewer and water Jines, a new he seldom has time to reminisce city garage-that about the past. " One bit of the past-and the present-of which Shepherd is quoted as saying he's " right proud " is his city's reputation for being a "speed trap," though be doesn't like the term. "We arrest 'em for speeding, sure," Bein quotes Shepherd as saying, "and we have the best safety record of any city in the State. Governor Darden , in his 1944 inaugura I address, jumped on the people who criticized us. He said he hoped every city in Virginia would soon have the same reputation." In addition to his job as Mayor, Shepherd finds time for business, bis Credit Adjustment Company, and much for other activities. In Colonial Heights he is a member and finance committeeman at the Baptist church; a director of the Bank of Colonial Heights; former director and a member of the Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Tri-City Committee (Colonial Heights, Petersburg, and Hopewell); a member of the Colonial Heights Lions Club and wartime Draft Board member. He also is a director of the Petersburg Savings and American Trust Company and Masonic Lodge No. 3, in Petersburg.
TEACHERS TO M EET OCTOBER 28
last October 29, more than .fifty alumnae and alumni representing twenty-five classes from 1916 through 1954 attended a luncheon in connection with the annual meeting of the Virginia Education Association. This was the first such gathering provided for our grad uates who are teaching in Virginia. T hose present were enthusiastic about making this an annual affair. Accordingly, plans have been made for a second luncheon to be held Friday, October 28 at 12 :45 p.m . in the Monroe Room of the John Marshall Hotel. Be sure to send in a reservation card. Incidentally, if you don't get a letter with reservation card enclosed, just know that we did not have your correct address in the Department of Ed ucation office. Be sure to let us know if you do want a reservation. Th is notice should be sufficient inv itation. Of course, if you can't attend the luncheon, be sure to visit our University of Richmond Room in the John Marshall Hotel. Consult the bulletin board for the number of the room assigned us. Make this room your headquar-
1927Now at their home in Ridgecrest, N. C., for a few months after "a perfectly marvelous, super extra fine tr ip by plane to the Baptist World Alliance in London, through England, France, Switzerland, Ita ly," the Rev. Dr. T. Eugene West and Mrs. West plan to "locate in the pastorate again some place in America or perhaps an American church abroad." Meanwhile they are visiting, teaching mission study courses and, no doubt, reminiscing of their trip. From Italy, Mrs. West went on to Egypt, Greece, Lebanon , Syria and Israel , whi le Dr. West stayed in Rome three weeks for piano lessons. Both went on to Nigeria, in West Africa, "seeing mission work at its wonderful best" on a 1400 mi le trip inland by car.
1926Charles D. Moore now is Efficiency Engineer in the Production Department of VEPCO's Chesterfield Power Station. Until his promotion, he was assistant efficiency engineer in the same department.
The Rev. Harvey L. Bryant will in future devote bis time to evange listic work , and supply for churches without pastors. He is living at 3010 North Avenue, Richmond, having come from Surry County, where he was pastor of Moore's Swamp Baptist Church. His other pastorates since graduation from Union Theo logical Seminary include Bethany Place Baptist ( formerly the old Clopton Street Baptist) and Memorial Baptist, in Hampton.
1929Lt. Col. Edward W. Eanes has succeeded Lt. Col. Ariel H. Achtermann as Post Chaplain at Fort Eustis. From the University of Richmond, Col. Eanes went on to Colgate Rochester Divinity
HARGROVES TOURS RUSSIA Dr. V. Carney Hargroves, '22, pastor of Germantown Baptist Church of German-
1925Park View Baptist Church's new chapel, dedicated in June, has been named Memorial Chapel in memory of the Rev. W. E. Robertson, pastor of the church for more than 28 years. Dr. Emmett Y. Robertson, his classmates will recall, succeeded bis late father as pastor of Park View in 1932.
ters for meeting other Spiders and Spiderettes. The Alumni Societies of both ~'esthampton College and Richmond College are cooperating with the Department of Education in providing this room for your pleasure and for the sake of old times . Mrs . R. E. Booker will be on hand with coffee and doughnuts ( which seemed to make such a hit with everyone last year) and will be assisted by Evelyn Boatwright lynch, Jane Little Gray, Mary Mills Freeman, Dot Shell Wood, Marjorie Pugh Tabb, and others. Several Richmond College alumni, headed by W. Roland Galvin will also be there. With the help of more than 500 of you alumnae and alumni last year a tack map has been made showing where you are teaching in Virg inia. When the replies are all in this year, the map will be brought up to date and exhibited in "our room " at the VEA meeting October 27th and 28th. It will inspire you to see how many teachers Alma Mater has trained and placed in Virginia .- Edward F Overton, '31.
town, Philadelphia, since 1932 and immediate past president of the American Baptist Convention, was one of four prominent Baptist ministe rs who toured the Soviet Union after attend ing the meeting of the Baptist Worl d All iance in London this summer. Another of the four was Dr. Theodore
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F. Adams, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond who was elected president of the Alliance. Dr. Adams is a member of the University of Richmond board of trnstees. The visiting members told repo1ters that they were impressed with the enthusiasm and sincerity of the 500,000 Baptists in Russia, and pleased particularly to see so many young men and women in the churches. Before leaving for Europe, Dr. Hargroves had been signally honored by Temple University which conferred on him at its 69th commencement the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. At the same ceremony Vice President Richard M. Nixon was made a Doctor of Humane Letters. Dr. Hargroves also holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Richmond. Both Dr. Hargroves and his wife, the former Narcissa Bruce Daniel, '22, have been active in the religious and civic life of their community. Mrs. Hargroves is a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Council of Churches.
1932After serving as pastor of Mineral and Gold Mine Baptist Church, in Mineral , Va. , since 1950, the Rev. Russell J. Urquhart has accepted a call to the First Baptist Church in Charles Town West Virginia. He succeeded the Rev. W. E. Culiers on August 15. Lt. Col. Dudley B. Selden now is assistant to the commanding officer of the San Francisco Ordnance District , in Oakland, Calif. Previou s to the Oakland assignment, Colon el Selden was chief of the engineering office of the Japan Ordnance Command.
1933Clarence ]. Gray, as Dean of Students, no doubt has a feeling for fraternity initiations on the University of Richmond campus quite different from those he entertained one evening last summer , while he was in residence at th e University of Virginia completing work on his doctor 's degre e. He was among students initiated into Kappa Delta Pi, honorary education fraternity. The general chairman of the Sunday School Enlargement Campaign and Clinic held in Rich mond October 2-14 was Howard P. Falls , who worked on plans for the project for more than a year. About 5,000 persons attended evening discussions, while more than that number of volunteers participated in a door-to-door survey of church membership and membership preference.
THE SPIDER BRIDGEAND CHOWDER CLUB. That's the name given by Toby Tobias to this double quartet of U of R alumni in Houston, Texas, who used to get together frequently for bridge and other jollifkation . Since the picture was taken the club has lost Toby an? his wife, Lee, who have moved to Los Angeles. The ladies are Betty Van Buskirk, Lee Tobias, Margaret Curley Baish, and Betty Shackelford. Behind them are Bruce Van Buskirk, Toby Tobias, Ed Baish, and George Shackelford.
1935F. A. Frayser, Jr. and his family have returned to Richmond, where they are living at 1704 Oakdale Road. H e now is sales manager forPhysicians Products Co., Inc. , of Petersburg, having been for the last ten years with the lederle laboratories Division of American Cyanamid Co. New York, as assistant regional manager.
1939THREEWIN HARVARD DEGREES Three graduates of the University of Richmond received advanced degrees from Harvard last June: Robert P. Lumpkin, Ph.D.; Stuart R. Allen, M.B.A., and Philip J. Snider , Jr., A.M.
FREEDLEY PROPOSES MICROFILM PROJECT Should the University Players want, one day, to reproduce, say, a Japanese theatre design not to be found in print it should be possible through the World Theatre Microfilm Project, proposed by George Freedley, '25. The proposal was made by Freedley, Curator of the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library and head of the American delegation, at the International Conference on Theatre History held at ithe British Academy, in London, July 17-23. It was accepted unanimously by the Conference and ratified by the Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations in Brnssels on September 17th. The World Theatre Microfilm Project would place on microfilm the principal unpublished theatre manuscripts and designs throughout the world. Copies of this manuscript would be deposited in each country and provided UNESCO works out the copyright details, copies could be purchased by any library anywhere in the world.
School, where_ he received his degree in theology, and to the University of Rochester , for a degree in social research. He has also graduated from the Chaplain School at Harvard University and the Chaplain School at Ft. Oglethorpe. Col. Eanes entered the service in April, 1941, and served with the ETO during World War II and later in the Philippines and Korea. Among his decorations are the American Defense Medal, Europe-African-Middle East Medal, WW II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Nationa l Defense Service Medal, UN Service Medal, the Korean Service Meda l and the Bronze Star Medal. The Elmer B. Potters are receiving congratu lations on the birth of a daughter , Katherine Anne rn the summer.
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Now a full Commander, Roderick lee O 'Flah erty, U.S.N., has been ordered to the War College , which is quite an honor, especially for a nonAnnapolis man. The O'Flahertys are living at Beecbland Farm, Middletown , R.I. Bill won his . Navy "Wings" and was commissioned an Ensign in 1942, at the U. S. Naval Air Station in Jackson ville, after preliminary training at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Anacostia , D. C. Bill, it will be remembered, excelled in track, boxing and basketball while a student at the University, which be entered following his graduation from John Marshall High School. Thomas M. Davenport has been appointed manager of the American Surety Company's Hartford Claim Office. He has been with the company since ¡ the end of July , 1951, serving as claim representa tive in the New Haven office.
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William H. Keyser, Jr., has resumed law practice in Ashland, where he is associated with P . H. Vincent, in offices at Fifteenth and Winchester Avenue. He had practiced in Ashland for the 15 years prior to 1945, when he became Claim Agent for the C. & 0. Railway Company's Cincinnati Division, with offices at Covington.
1931Breaking into the news is a habit of E. Claiborne Robins ' s, so it was no surprise to readers of the News leader of July 14th to find his pictur e and those of the original Robins Pharmacy and of the handsome new plant built on the company's 75th anniversary in 1953 illustrating a feature story by George W . Rogers , "C ity 's Drug Industry Has Grown Amazingly Over the Years." In the piece , Rogers tells how the business has developed and prospered with the third generation Robins at the helm . The Rev. Leland H. Waters, former secretary of the Richmond Association, bas been appointed executive assistant to Secretary Courts Redford of the Home Mission Board.
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The Rev. J. R. Noffsinger and Mrs. Noffsinger have a daughter , Linda Diane, born August 20. Jack is pastor of the First Baptist Church , in Gainesville, where he ministers to more than 4,000 Baptist students at the University of Florida. Rooters for the Red and Blue in Lexington a couple of Saturdays ago included Allen J. Phaup , Jr., and his bride, the former Bertha Boswell. They were married on April 2 and are living in Lexington, at 521 Jackson Avenue. Rawley F. Daniel, former secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Bankers Association, has been named executive vice-president and treasurer of that organization.
1941It's a third son, Richard Milton , for Mr. and Mrs. Charles J . Ferneyhough, Jr ., of 2319 Essex Road. He was born April 27th. The Rev. Charles W. McNutt has changed pastorates , going from South Ruffner Presbyterian Church in Charleston, West Virginia, to McKinnon Memorial, in the same city. His address is 4350 Merical Drive .
1942R. Braxton Hill, Jr., of Norfolk, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Society of Public Accountants at a recent three-day meeting at Old Point Comfort. At the same meeting Dean F. Byers Miller , of the School of Business Admini stration, was re-elected executive secretary. Presiding at another out-of-town meeting, th e ninth annual fall meeting and conference of the Virginia Bakers Council at Natural Bridge, was T. S. Herbert, of the Atlas Baking Company. VEPCO has announced the promotion of Scott H. Wermuth, Jr., from supervi sor of the Records Section, Pay Roll , in Richmond , to supervisor of the Pay Roll Section.
BECK HEADS GARDEN COMPANY Executive associates of Arthur C. Beck, Jr., '40, in his new enterprise, Beck's Lawn and Garden Supply, Inc. , include University of
1944The Rev. 0. W. Rhod enhiser, after four years as . pastor of the Lawrenceville Baptist Church, resigned to accept th e position of assistant professor of Bible at his Alma Mater. He will continue to serve the church as interim pastor until a full tim e pastor is secured. An enlarged opportunity for service awaits th e Rev. Preston J. Taylor in his new pastorate, the Fmt Baptist Church of Mt. Airy, N. C. While pa_stor of New Bridge Baptist Church, Stop 21, Nme Mil e Road, during the last six years, he h as found time to take an active part in civic and church affairs both local and in the state. He is president of the Virginia Baptist Pastors' Conference and chairman of the extensio n Committee of the Do ver Baptist Association, of which he is a past moderator. He is a member of the Advisor y Board of the Henrico County Juv en ile and Dom estic Relations Court, a seven-member group orga nized last year by Judge R. Dixon Powers. H e graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1948, BD cum laud e, with the highest academic average of any student at Union. Mana,ger of t_he American Surety Company's new claim office m San Antonio, Texas, is Richar d W. Lowery , who goes to that post after a year as claim representative in the company's Hou ston office. Low ery came to the University of Richmond on the V-12 program, was later assigned first to Duke University, then the University of Pennsylvania. Aft er the war, during which he was an Air Corps rad ar observer and navigator, he continued his studi es, receiving his LLB. from Washington and Lee in '48. He practic ed law in South Boston, where he served as City Judge in 1953 and 1954. He married Mabel Simmons, a South Carolina girl, in 1945 and they have three children.
1945Dr. Charles Whitney Caulkins, Jr., has been pract icing general surgery in Waynesboro , Va., since the first of July, when he completed his surgical residency at the Medical College of Virginia. His address is 720 Rosser Avenue .
1946Author of the giant historical pageant to be given at the Mosque next month as the climax of The First Baptist Church's 175th anniversary celebration is Guy Friddell a staff memb er of The News Leader. The pageant will be dir ected by Alton Williams, associate professor of speech and dramatics at th e University.
1947The Robert L. McDan els' second baby, a son, was born in September. He is named Lewis Roger McDanel , the Lewis for hi s pat ernal grandmother, whose maid en nam e it was. Having been pastor of Holland, (Va.) , Baptist Church for the past four years, th e Rev. L. L. McGee accepted a caU, f,rom Glebe Church, in Arlington, and began his ministry there the end of August. Th e Holland church received 140 members during his time as pastor, and built a Sunday School annex. He is a graduate of Southern Seminary and is married to the former Mary Lou 'Wilson , of Warsaw .
Richmond alumni: Edward E. Lane, Law School '48, secretary; H. Addison Dalton, '43, treasurer; Carlyle Tiller, '48, member of the Board of Dir ectors, and Edgar Smith, '53, assistant manager o.f the retail store. The company has a distributive organization
The dedication of a new educational building marked Hom ecoming Day at London Bridge Baptist Church, near Norfolk, where the Rev . G. Edward Hughes is pastor. Alvin Isaacs writes from Silver Spring, Md ., where he is living with his family at 8004 Court, that he is studying law at night at American University's Washington College , although he wishes he was abl e to attend T. C. Williams.
1948Mr. and Mrs. Carroll 0. Alley , Jr., have a baby daughter, Frances Elizabeth, born last May. They still are in Princeton , N.J., at 181 Harrison St. A. P. Gates, Jr ., has been named assistant to C. Cecil Arl edge, vice-president of Virginia-Carolina Chemcial Corporation. Following his graduation from the Harvard School of Business Administration, he joined V-C where , since '52, he served as assistant sales manager , general sales depa rtm ent. Gates, his wife, th e former Julia May Nicholson, and their three children live at 8024 Spottswood Road . A set of congratulations goes to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Gordon. The proud parents welcomed twins , Susan Marguerite and Stuart Braxton, on July 18. The Gordon's are living in Bon Air. Miss Beverly Paige Shotzberger is the new arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Shotzberger in Midlothian. H er Dad is the director of the Evening School of Business Administration at the University. Joseph S. James, Jr. is now employed by the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company in Memphi s, Tennessee, as a member of their Cellulose and Specialties Technical Division . Buckeye is a subsidiary of Procter and Gamble Larry Jensen of Alexandria writes that he has received his M.A. in Public Administration from the American University in Washington , D. C., and also that he has been elected to Pi Sigma Alpha , National Honorary Political Science Fraternity , Larry plans to continue his graduate study this winter working toward his Ph.D . Horac e R. Powell , Jr. has been appointed assistant to the accounting division manag er in the Roanoke Regional Office of the Allstat e Insuranc e Company. Horace and Mrs. Powell and their two children are at present residing at 2525 Bowman Street in Roanoke.
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and a lawn and garden service, both started in July, and a store, The Lawn and Garden Mart, which opened in September at 6300 West Broad Street. Mr. Beck is a past president of the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce and a past vice-president of the Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce. After graduation from the University of Richmond , he attended the University o.f Pennsylvania, where he received his MBA with a majnr in marketing. He served four years in the U. S. Navy, as a Lieutenant. He has been associated with Lindsey and Company, advertising agency, as a partner for more than nine years. He has been an Account Executive and Director of Research and Media, serving numerous accounts marketing packaged goods to the consumer trad e. One of the accounts he served was the Smith-Douglass Company, of Norfolk. His new company has been appoint ed distributor for Smith-Douglass on its new Nutro Plant Food Pellets in the Richmond area.
1949James Richard Matthews of 7318 Hermitage Road became engaged in July to Miss Elizabeth Pollard W eatherford, who graduated from Mary Washington College. We received the news from Clinton Webb, class of '29, that Dr. William C. Da y has received the degree of Master of Science in Dentistry from the University of Nebraska and is now specia lizin g in Pedodontics ( child dentist division) at 5813 Grove Avenu e in Richmond. Charles R. Talley is extended our heartiest congratulations for the promotion he received to the position of assistant cashier of the First and Merchants National Bank. Charles has been with this Bank since his graduation from Richmond. In a letter from Mrs. Thomas L. Thomas, we learn of her husband 's position on the radio and television staff of W . L. V. A., Lynchburg. Another Richm ond alumnus, Howard Sutton, is likewise on the same staff, as an engineer. The Rev. Robert L. Wood , who has for the past five years served as pastor of Smyrna Church, received his ordination September 24 . Dr. Solon B. Cousins, chairman of the department of religion at the University, delivered the ord in ation service.
1950Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. Donald McNeill, Jr. on their wedding in June. Dr. McNeil! is now interning at the Winchester Memorial Hospital. Frank C. Hawkins. Jr. has been awarded a grad uate assistantship in the field of Library Service at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Captain William I. Knight , Jr., now in the Philippines for a tour of duty, has begun his assignment as a member of the surg ical staff of the hospital at Clark Air Force Base. The Rev. Wallace Chesley Shields was ordained into the Episcopal Ministry September 29. He is now residing in Bluefield, Virginia. The Rev. W arren D. Russell, Jr. , now the minister of the First Baptist Church in Conshohocken, Pa. , writes a long letter of his activities since graduating in 1950. He received his B.D. in ' 54 from Crozer Theological Seminary and was ordained in June, 1953, in his home church in Somerville , Ma ss.
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, ATHLETEAND COACH TAYLORSANFORD By PAUL W. DUKE, '47 class of '29 will be to know that Taylor Howe Sanford still is doing what always has come so naturally to their conspicuous classmate -winning games and glory . It's a happy habit that Sanford acquired early in life and has never lost. It all started when the Hampton, Va., native entered Richmond College in 1925 and proceeded to earn 13 letters as a foursport star before receiving his B.A. degree in 1929. It's a Virginia college record that endures to this day. With that as a springboard, big Taylor has been traveling merrily along the sports additional fame, trail ever since-winning if not fortune, as a coach. The coaching career was launched soon after graduation at Hargrave Military Academy, which his father, the late Rev. T. Ryland Sanford, '03, helped to found. The launching was a success an.cleventually came a new assignment at Rando lph-Macon CqJlege as football, basketball and baseball coach and athletic director. Sanford's teams won several Mason-Dixon Conference titles and his baseball clubs invariably wound up in a dogfight with-guess who ?-his Alma Mater for the state championship. In 1949, Taylor returned to the Baptist fold as baseball coach at Wake Forest. He carried the winning -touch up the ladder with him and last spring the Demon Deacons won the national collegiate championship. For Taylor, there was a special honor college baseball coach of the year. So you see things really haven't changed a particle with Taylor. He's still just about the biggest sports success story the University ever had. Not only did he take a band in fom sports while in college, but he excelled in each, making the all-state team in football, basketball and baseball his senior year. There are no all-state picks for track, but Taylor', heaves in the shot put and discus were Virginia records until brother Jack, '39, came along to break them a few years later. In a way, Taylor was living up to family tradition with his athletic accomplishments. His father was captain of Richmond's first basketball team and four brothers figured prominently in Spider sports, too. During Taylor's sophomore year, there were three Sanfords in the football lineup. Taylor was at left tackle, Nevitt, '29, was at quarterback and Ryland, Jr., '27, was captain and played left end. Taylor wasn't the only one to win letters in four sports. Jack and Fillmore, '35, did it, too--and Nevitt and Ryland picked up monograms in three sports.
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For 16 years after his graduation, Taylor played professional baseball in the summer, holding down first base for several teams in the Bi-State, Coastal Plains and Piedmont Leagues. But for an uncanny bit of fate, his name would be in the record book for an unheard of five home mns in one game. The feat nearly came about one night when Taylor slugged four homes and tagged a fifth drive to deep center field . The ball seemed headed over the fence, but struck the flagpole and bounced back into the playing field for an automatic double. There's another near-miss be won't forget, either. That was in 1951 when bis Wake Forest team represented -the United States in the Pan-American games in Buenos Aires. The Deacons finished in a tie with Mexico for second place.
When he isn't coaching, Sanford frequent ly may be found along that other circuit of coaches- the banquet trail. He's much in demand in North Carolina's Baptist Hollow but still doesn't consider himself a speaker. At least that's what the missus, the former Natalie Evans, ' 29, says. Taylor met her when they worked in the same campus dining room. They have two children, Taylor, Jr., 21, and Betty, 15. Taylor, a 1954 graduate of Wake Forest, is now an ensign in the Navy . Betty is a high school junior, "interested in music, voice, piano, band, dramatics- and boys," to quote her mother. The Sanfords also find time to take part in civic and church life in the Wake Forest community. And Taylor, true to Sanford tradition again, recently completed a fouryear term as deacon of the local Bapt ist church.
FAMILY PORTRAIT. Taylor Sanford, '29, finds time between championship s to pose for a picture with Mrs. Sanford (Natalie Evan s, '29); son, Ta ylor, Jr., and daught er, Betty.
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William H . Snead, Jr., has been named Southern Arkansas representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Mr. B~sil O'Connor, president of the organization announced. William is a native of Lynchburg , Va. Word from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky , relates that William E. Hutchison has enrolled in the School of Religious Education of the Seminary. Thomas R. Holt writes from Lynchbure; that he is now emp loyed by the Craddock-Terry Shoe Corporation in the auditing department. He is also a proud papa of a daughter born D ecember 17, 1954 . We're glad to hear of the success of N. Carl Barefoot, Jr. 's song, "Goodnight, Sweet Dreams," which has been recorded by the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and chorus. Ann Worsham and Edward L. Dunford are the parents of a baby boy, Edward L. Dunfo rd, Jr. They are living in Richmond. The . Rev. A. J. Rosser has resigned the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church in South Boston to accept a new field of churches. The Rev. and Mrs. Letcher H. Reid announce the birth of their daughter, Nancy Carol , August 30th. Rev. Letcher is pastor of the Powers Memorial Baptist Church at Hopewell, Va.
1951Married: Miss Shirley Virginia Maddo x and George D. Taylor, Jr. in the First Presbyterian Church, Richmond on August 20. George is a staff writer in the Richmond Bureau of the Associated Press. Rev. Robert Dougla s Pitt, Jr. has been ordained into the priesthood of the Episcopal Church. He had been serving as assista nt to the admini strator of mountain work in Virginia since his ordination as deacon at Virginia Theological Seminary last year, and he wil I continue in this post. After graduating from the University of Richmond , he studied at the University of Virginia and at Bexley Hall, Divinity School of Kenvon College where he won a prize as the best preacher in the seminary . Edward Altman, who is doing his stint for Uncle Sam, is stationed with the 25th infantry divis ion in Hawaii. He was recently awarded the Expert Infantryman Badge for satisfactory completion of field-proficiency tests. Eddie is also a drum and bugle player in headquarters company of the division 's 14th regiment. The Rev. Paul R. Garber , pastor of Lee Hall (Va.) Baptist Church was honored by his church at a farewell party just before his departure for Scotland to do graduate work in the University of Edinburgh. Paul went to the Lee Hall post after taki ng his B.D . degree from Southeastern Theologica l Seminary. B. Frank Lewis, Jr. has been appointed to the field und erwriter staff of the Richmond Agency of Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa .
HAWAII ALUMNI CLUB It isn't uncommon for University of Richmond alumni to be working together, as Colonel Sam Cooke, '27, and Dr. Raymond E. Jones, '42, attest from Hawaii. Colonel Cooke is chief of the ear, nose and throat section at Tripler Army Hospital. Dr. Jon es, who earlier practiced medicine in Louisville, Ky., has been a member of the hospital staff since January. Besides being sold on their work, the two men are enthusiastic about the Islands. "The climate, the people, the flowers and our work . .. are all simply wonderful, " they said in a letter. The letter carried an invitation to alumni to come visit Hawaii: "D r. and Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Cooke and I will be glad to show them (alumni) about and help them really see the Paradise of the Pacific."
1952Married: Cecile Grace Orcutt to Forrest Elmo Firesheets in Richmond in August. Donald McGaffin has joined the staff of th e Dow Chemical Company as a chemist. He is stationed with the company at Midland , Michigan . The Rev. Richard Stennett began his duties at the Haddock Hill Baptist Mission in Orangeburg, S.C., last month. This mission is the work of the First Baptist Church of Orangeburg where the Rev . Fred Laughon, '37, is pastor . Stenn ett was graduated last spring from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Jack D. Etz, formerly with the Royal Liverpool Group and the National of Hartford Group, has opened his own insurance agency in Richmond. Married: Miss Jean Buehlmaier to Norman Woerner in the Union Methodist Church in Union , N. ]. on September 17. After a honeymoon in Florida they are now at home at 3 Fifth Avenue, Cranford, N. J.
1953Married: Miss Joan Marcia Davi s of Birmingham to Richard Bozman Eaton, Jr., of Winchester on August 17 at Chapel Hill, N. C. Eaton, who has already taken his M.A . there is working toward his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina . Clyde D. Nuckols is studying for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Ray T. Oglesby was commissioned an ensign at graduation exercises of the Navy's Officer Candidat e School at Newport, R. I. Eugene H. Payne is man ager of the Greeneville Loan Service at Greeneville, Tenn. He previously had served as assistant manager of the Inter-Mt . Telephone Company at Johnson City , Tenn. , as sales representative for Southern D airies at Johnson City, and as assistant manager of the Credit Finance Service at Bristol, Tenn. Lt. (jg) John B. Woolbridge, Jr., now stationed in Norfolk at the Armed Forces Staff College after 15 months aboard the large carrier USS Randolph, is lookin g forward to his first Homecoming since graduation. His ship returned recently from a seven-month deployment period in the Mediterranean area where he had "a mple opportunity to put my two major subjects, Spanish and French, to work for myself and the Navy. " He served as interpreter on several occasions in Barcelonia, Marseilles, and Cannes. Andrew G. Adams, a second lieutenant in the reserves, engaged in two weeks of railway training at Fort Eustis in August. He received training in the operation and use of modern rai lway and other transportation equipment. Adams is an employee of the Virginia Electric and Power Company in Richmond.
1954James H. Cofer of Bristol and Thoma s H. Markley of Lawrenceville were commissioned reserve ensigns at graduatio n exercises of the Navy's Officer Candidate School at Newport , R. I., in July . Born: a son, James Douglas, to Mr . and Mrs. James Earl Brown in Richmond on July 29. Married: Ann Krakow of Richmond to N. N. Serwitz on September 11. They are now living in Hawaii where Serwitz is stat ioned with the 25th Infantry Division . James E. and Peggy Armstrong Clark, ' 55, who were married this summer, are living at 119 Vernon Ave ., Wake Forest, N. C. where Jim is attending Southeastern Theo logica l Seminary. Peggy is teaching high school-Eng lish and French. Second Lt. Robert W . Berry , Jr., has been assigned as statistical officer in the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for administration at Fort Eustis. He worked for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company in Newport News before entering the service . Tom Downing , Jr., was ordained into the Baptist Ministry at a service in the First Baptist Church of Front Royal on September 4 . He is a second year student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville. Tom was married on August 23 to Miss Sue Perry of Ridgecrest, N. C., a West hampton graduate.
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Married: Delor es Ann West and Ashton Gwaltney Elliott in Richmond in August.
1955Walter Jackson is the new director of music and associate pastor of Belmont Church in Charlottesville, Va. M arr ied: Miss Dorothy Lucille Pelouze and Richard Mountjoy Keith at Saint James Episcopal Church in Richmond on September 19. Madison Price served as best man. Three members of the class of '55, Dick Keith , Walter T. Garcia, and John W . Lewis were graduated this summer from the Army's Transportation School at Fort Eustis. All have the rank of Second Lieutenant.
1956William C. Thomas has been appointed assistant manager of the Public Loan Corporation in Richmond.
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Bulldog backs - Bob Three unheralded Broome, Ed Dzanis, and Bob Schwarze-did most of the damage. Wilson, back to punt, fumbled early in the second stanza. The Citadel gaining possession on the UR 35. A stout defense almost met the challenge but Dzani s finally plunged over from the one. Midway the same period Wacker fumbled on his own 30. The visitors moved the distance in six plays, Broome scoring from the five. Sophomore guard Connie Tuza converted for a second time, and a surprised Spider team took a 14-6 deficit with them to the dressing room at halftime. Richmond had the better of everything ¡statistically. The defense, which at times !coked porous, yielded but 179 yards ( 102 less than the Spider bag), but three costly fumbles and a pass interception kept the linemen with their backs to the wall. They rose to the occasion more than once with repeated successful stands inside the 20, but the anxious Bulldog backs were not to be denied. When 'I1heodose came on, the Spider hopeful mixed sighs of relief with frequent glances at the scoreboard clock as the tiny T-wizard perked up the offense, hitting Wilson in the end zone with a 15-yard toss to complete a 63-yard march. Wilson 's conversion attempt was wide for the second time, and the visitors clung to a 14-12 lead. But Richmond gained possession once more and when Mickey Riggs broke loose on a double reverse for 40 yards to the enemy 18, it looked as if the Spiders might yet pull this one out of the fire. Pajackowski hurdled the line for a first down on the six where two end zone passes by Theodose were broken up, and Rid1111ondran out of chances and time.
HOMECOMING DANCE The University of Richmond Club will hold a Homecoming Dance, Saturday Evening, November 5th, at the John Marshall Hotel. The dance will be informal. Tickets will be $2.50 per couple.
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Secretary MRS. WALKLEYE. JOHNSON (Virginia Clore) 4633 Leonard Parkway, Richmond, Va.
Only five members of our class attended the Alumnae Luncheon last June, Ikey, Wilhelmina, Inez , Elizabeth Cosby Carver and Eva Sanders. Eva was on a year's furlough, had flown to the States from Africa and was visiting her father, who is 81, in Roanoke. She had lots of pictures to show and talked enthusiastically about her hospital and all phases of her work in Africa. She was to return there in October. Elizabeth had come to Richmond also for her niece's graduation at Richmond Professional Institute. Ikey says she had a quiet summer but is now looking forward to a week at Hot Springs with her husband in October. Their daughter, Claire, is at home this winter after having worked in Hartford, Connecticut for the past three years. Ruth Lazenby McCulloch has her third grandchild, born in July-little Scott O liver, Ann 's first child. Nancy, the youngest in Ruth 's family, is a fre shman at Converse College in Spartanburg,
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Estelle Billups was visiting in Richmond this August and Ikey says she looks grand. Charlotte Francis Sloan was also in Richmond during the summer. We would love to have more news from these brief visitors. My daughter, Frances Wyatt, is spending the winter in New Orleans, doing graduate work at Tulane University. My son is in his senior year at the University of Virginia. Margaret Smith Williams has a new grandson, born to her daughter, Mrs. James E. Brown, who is living with Margaret while her husband is still in service and stationed in Indianapolis. We extend our sincere sympathy to Wilhelmina W'right and her fami ly in the death of her father, Dr. Wright, beloved physician of Doswell .
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Secretary MRS. R. E. WALSH (Martha Lipscomb) 5601 Second Street South Arlington, Virginia .
We are sorry that you didn't get news of the reunion ( along with the picture) in the Summer Bulletin , but between changing class secretaries, and my being on the move this summer, we slipped up. As you could see from the picture, our reunion was small, but we enjoyed it and only wish that more of you could have been with us. Friday night we had dinner in the Tea Room. Those present were: "Buck" Ashton, "Becky" Brockenborough, " Margie" Rhodes Hall, "Mickey " McVeigh Ratcliffe, Mary Olive Lyoch Edwards, Christabelle Lindsay Dickerson , Emeline Stearns, Gladys Wright Cocke and Martha Lipscomb Walsh. Then we were honored by having Miss Turnbull and Miss Crenshaw have dinner with us. Miss Crenshaw was much in demand this commencement as everyone wanted to honor her since she was retiring. Miss Kellar and Leslie stopped in to see us. Miss Kellar looked young as ever I Of course we all talked like mad and tried to catch up on the past years. We got together again at the Alumnae Luncheon on Saturday and were joined at this time by Marguerite Butler Jones and Eunice Gill. Evelyn Boatwright Lynch had planned to have us come to her house before dinner , but she was suddenly taken sick and couldn't join us at all. We missed you "Boaty" ! Several people who couldn't come sent messages to us. While we were at dinner we received a wire from "Polly" Drinkard Hall wishing us a successful reunion. "Billy" Spangler Rogers wrote us a lengthy letter about her life in California. She described
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their house as as old one which they are in the process of renovati ng. Lots of interesting things have been done already, but they have a long range plan for more improvements. The location sounds most attractive, on th e side of a hill, with a view of the Sierras in the distance. David has a shop and does lithography of various types of California cards. Billy is in charge of an Industrial Materials Center which not only includes a library, but also an audio-visual collection. It is under the school system. They serve several counties and send book trucks with materials to surrounding territory. She had hoped to come East to her niece's wedding and be her e for our reunion, but her plans didn't work out. Cathryn Henna had to go to San Francisco to attend a meeting of the National Conference of Social Work the first week in June , so couldn't be with us. At our 25th reunion she was living in San Francisco, and had hoped to get leave at that time. She wrote telling us how sorry she was not to be able to make it this time. A letter from Gladys Sanders to ld us that she had had two heart attacks during the winter, and was unable to come. "Billie" Gordon Atwill was in a serious automobi le accident last winter and was not sufficiently recuperated for the trip. Anne Gordon Steward wrote that her son, Gordon, is a Sophomore in Chemical Engineering at Cornell. Her husband, Camp, was in France last summer attend ing ,the Botanical Congress and he expected to go to England this summer. Late Jast summer they attended the American Institute of Biological Sciences in Gainesvi lle, Florida. Emeline Stearns brought us a letter that ¡ she had received from Kwan Fang's son, Samuel, giving us news of Kwan Fong and her fami ly. He is in Iowa City, Iowa doing research in Nuclear Physics. Kwan Fong had diabetes in 1953 but is better , She had been in poor health due to heart trouble ever since the the birth of her daughter, Teenian, who is now 20. During the war years when they were in Chunking, she was unable to get western drugs and proper treatment. However, she improved later before diabetes deve loped. Teenian is majoring in Music. Her other daughter, Waylia was graduated from Taiwan National University majoring in English. Samue l didn't know much about Yui Fong except that she married a doctor and lives in Hong Kong . " Bessie" Anderson Knecht wrote to me recently about a wonderful trip that she and her husband , Jack, had last winter and ear ly spring. They drove out West and then finished it off by stopping by the University of Colorado to see their daughter , Nancy, who is a student there. We have just received news that G ladys Wright Cocke lost her father, Dr. J. A. Wright, on September 1. Our sympathy to you, Gladys . A letter from Lucille Thornton Jones brings us up to date on her activities. She was still in school and consequently unab le to get here for the reunion in June. She is teaching the Educable class at the Centreville Elementary School. This summer she received two scholarships for the Special Education Classes at the University of Virginia , one award from the Virginia Society for Crippled Children and Adu lts and the other from the Junior Women 's Clubs, Northern Virginia District. She has a sixteen year old son, James, who graduated from Fairfax High School in June and entered Madison College to take libra ry work this fall. Her other son, John , is eleven years old and in the seventh grade. As for myself, I -have been in the process of reorganizing my life since Bob's death last winter. This spring I accepted a position to teach in Fairfax County, Virginia. I came down to Alexandria in April and finished out the term teaching General Science at Mount Verno n High School just
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outside Alexandria. This fall I am teaching Chemistry and Biology at McLean High School, a new school in McLean, Va. (a lso Fairfax Co.). I went back to Monroe in June after school was out and attended to things there, then I moved down her e permanently the last of July. I have a nice five room apartment in Ar lington at the above addres s, and am beginning to feel settled again. I know that all of you want to join me in thank ing Mickey for the splendid job that she did as our class secretary for the past five years. She and Gladys talked me into taking over at this point, so please write to us and let us know what yon have been doing. Some of the others are going to help me gather news, so answer their letters if you hear from them, telling them anything you've been doing-we wou ld all be interested I Don 't wait for something start ling to happen!
1930
Sec,¡etary MRS. EDWARDF. OVERTON ( Frances Wi llis) 1602 Bellevue Avenue , Richmond, Va.
Alice Richardson Connell had a vacation trip to Old Point Comfort with Corinne Morecock and Margaret Oliver Saunders. Margaret is doing substitute teaching again this fa ll. There was a good picture in the Richmond paper
Westhampton Faculty Notes MISS LOUGH reports a very delightful sum mer in California. There were numerous festiv e events at the Statler Hotel and stimulating busi ness sessions of the A.A.U.W. convention. Th e Hollywood Bowl program of the opening session of the Association included a brilliant speech by the president, Dr. Susan Riley, a music program presented by the Wagner Chora le and incidenta lly a very delicious box supper. All of Ju ly was given up to visiting nieces and nephews, in-laws, and their families in Long Beach and other towns near by in Los Angel es County . A quite unexpected and very de lightfu l finale to the California jaunt was a visit to Auburn, the county seat of Placer County ( northeast of Sacramento). Two of our Westhampton alumnae are at present residents of Auburn . Helen Strick land is counse llor and adviser in program making to the teachers in high schools and grammar schools in Placer County. He len has had quite extensive experience in the field of education and has a Ph. D. in Education from Columbia University. Billi e Spang ler '25 (Mrs. D avid Rogers) has been in Auburn for several years. She has charge of 3 library service and of a visual education program in the city schools. The last two days of the California summer were spent dr iving over to the pen insu la and visiting Corne lia Ferguson Underwood in her very lovely home in M_enlo Park. MISS LUTZ spent part of the summer with her artist brother on the Gaspe Peninsula and then went to Montana to visit her brot her Robert. She flew back to Richmond just in time for the opening of college. MISS KELLER, MISS TURNBULL, MISS HARRIS, MISS JE AN WRIGHT, MISS EM ILY BROWN and MISS MARY DENMEAD RUFFIN visited MISS CRENSHAW at her camp on Sebago Lake in Maine the last week in July an::l the first one in August. MISS MARY JANE MILLER spent part of her summer taking additiona l courses in phys. ed, and then took a western tr ip, visiting Lake Louise and Washi ngton State and other points of interest.
recently of Billie Prince Shinnick entering her three daughters in Collegiate School. Jean Collier Withers is moving this week. Put down this new address on your list : 208 N. Lombardy Street, Richmond. Dottie Abbott Wood 's new house is progressing and she will be moving soon too. Her son Matt was at Camp Virginia again this summer along with our two younger boys. Our sympathy goes to Lucy Wright Pitts, who lost her father recently. I started in teaching first grade this fall with over forty pupils, but was relieved in a few days. I have a nice class now and really enjoy my work. Sara Cohn Ettenheim has been one of our most active and public spirited alumnae. Her offices include the following: President of the Jewish Vocational Service, President and Managing Editor of the Settlement Cook Book Co., National and Regional Board Member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews , Treasurer of the Planned Parenthood Association of Milwaukee, Tre<!surer of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Milwaukee , and Instructor in Aerial Navigation and Meteorology during World War II .
1931 Secretary
Miss MARGARETLEAKE 408 N. Meadow Street, Richmond 20, Va.
Do you know what June 1956 means? It will be our 25th class reunion-so get ready. We will need news about you and your family for our class book. Will you sit down right now and write me some news about what has happened to you in the 25 years, enclose some snapshots and send them right on to me? This will save the reunion committee a great deal of work. Later , when plans have been made for the weekend, we will send you a letter. Lauretta has already offered us her mother 's home for one of our parties. Make your plans now to be with all of us in June. Our class baby was married in the spring. Barbara Sullivan, Lauretta's daughter, became Mrs . Tliomas Jackson Little on the 11th of June. All of our best wishes for the bride and groom. Hope you had a grand summer and I will be counting on news from each of you.
1932 Secretary
]\fas. CHARLESW. SCARBOROUGH
(Zephia Campbell) 5109 Sylvan Road, Richmond, Va. It was nice to have Marie Davis Deatelhauser back in June. It was Joe 's reunion year so Marie and their teen-ager , Cynthia, got to come along. They went on to Hampton and took Marie's parents back to New York with them for a visit. When Phyllis went to visit a cousin in New York City in June, she had a chat on the train with Helen LeGrande Butler. Mary Rufus is working at Collegiate where her daughter, Terrell, is enrolled. David , now six, attends William Fox. Does anyone ever hear from Nelle Johnson, Liz Fugate, Louise Noffsinger Ballou or Ruth Fiske Hokanson? Muriel Jones spent two months in Europe this summer. She made Paris her headquarters where her traveling companion, Mrs. Dabney Stone, was taking several courses at the Sorbonne. Mary Templeton Marshall visited her parents here in the late summer. She came "for a rest" after keeping her young grandson, David, while his mother went to the hospital for his new sister. Mary is our first "two times a grandmother." Jane's son, Kenny, represented the Country Club of Virginia at a swimming meet held in Waynesboro in late August. Since Kenny has had polio, this is a real news item. Cappy didn't move in June as reported last time due to the uncertainty of Frank's new station. Cappy, Frank and the girls drove to Arkansas this summer to help celebrate the hundredth birthday anniversary of Frank 's father whom they affectionately call "Padre." He made the automobile trip to Arkansas from his home in Texas, over seven hundred miles, in one day. Cappy says his vitality amazes her, Carolyn Broaddus and her three youngest, Betsy, Irene and Gerard, spent a week in town in Au-
gust . Charlie and Coleman came down for the weekend and took them back to their home in Severna Park, Maryland. Coleman entered his Junior year at the University of Virginia this fall , having transferred there last year from Rennselaer. News from the Scarboroughs concerns the men in the family. Charles, Jr., who is only twelve, is now the proud owner of a ham radio operator's license, novice class, having passed the FCC examination in August. Charles, Sr. has been appointed music critic for the Richmond News Leader to succeed the late Mrs. Channing Ward, who had written the criticisms for the past thirty years under the name of Helen de Motte .
1933 Secr etary
Miss GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Ave., Richmond, Va.
Ann Dickinson Welsh with family and Mrs. Dickinson spent a week at Douthat State Parktrue camping for they slept in tents! Mollie Moorman Simpson with her two children and parents took a motor trip through Maine to Canada. Camilla Jeffries attended an Altrusa convention in Montreal. On her way home she went by to see Virginia Atkinson Napier. Phoebe Drewry Thiermann was vacationing at Myrtle Beach during a hurricane . It was not too bad but not an experience that she wants to repeat each summer.
1934 Secretary
MRS. W. C. HENDERSON (Elizabeth Goodwin) 100 Westham Parkway , Richmond 26, Va.
Gene Newton West passed through town on her way home from Africa . I was sorry I didn't see her to hear all about that two months' trip she and her husband had this summer. They attended the Baptist World Alliance in London, stayed in Rome awhile and toured most of Africa . I'm sure one of the highlights of the trip was when she visited the place where her grandfather, Dr. Newton, was buried on the Gold Coast of Africa. She saw several of the natives who had known him. One was still wearing the wedding ring he had used when he performed the wedding ceremony. The Wests are moving to Asheville , N. C. in October. Julia Donahue Martin and family are going through the pleasant ( ? ) experience of building a house in Glenbrook Hills. If any addresses have changed, please let me know. Although all of us haven't had wonderful trips to Europe , I'm sure the class is interested in knowing how you've spent your summer. Let us hear from you-the next deadline is December 10th !
1935
Secretary MRS. C. M . TATUM (Gladys Tatum) 33!5 Lexington Road Richmond 26, Virginia
Shortly after our reunion, Estelle Veazey Jones ' husband and daughter went to California to visit
his family , and while there Don was offered a fine position with a company that makes TV films. Estelle had to pack on short notice , put the house on the market, and leave for her new home in the Los Angeles area. She is living temporarily at Hermosa Beach and is going to let us know as soon as she is settled. She plans to see Sue Cook McClure Jones , who lives nearby at Palos Verdes Estates. We are all grateful to Estelle and Don for the delightful evening we spent with them in their attractive home here and wish them happiness out West. Our congratulations go to Connie Vaden Rup el, who was appointed to the responsible position of principal of Broad Rock School in Chesterfield County. Hurricane Diane caused the James River to rise so much that Mary Mills Freeman and her family had to move fr om their home for a few days. Lottie Britt Callis is spending busy days as. membership chairman of her PTA group. Billy Rowlett Perkins completed work during the summer for a master's degree. Beverley Bates spent two weeks in an occupational therapy workshop at R. P. I. After 23 years at the same location, we moved in September to a new house at 336 Lexington Road.
1936 Secretary MRS. WILLIAM S. HOPSON, III (Helen Denoon) 3404 West Franklin St., Richmond 21, Va. Margaret Bowers left Richmond in October to become a field representative in the Eastern Area for the Red Cross. Monny has served as executive secretary for the Henrcio County chapter since 1941. She will go to Alexandria for a six weeks' training course before being given her next assignment. Monny will have to give up her job as reunion chairman and has asked me to take over for her. I will need he! p and suggestions from all of you so please answer when I send out an SOS. We had a small meeting at Boo Page's home to talk over some tentative plans. Letters will be sent to each of you later in the year. We have lost contact with quite a few of the girls who started out with our class, some having been at Westhampton two and three years. If any of you know the married names and addresses of any of the following, please drop me a card and I will put them on our mailing list for the reunion: Lou Frank Cherry Drell , Helen Binns, Virginia Coleman, Ethel Cook, Marie Harwell , Margaret Pearman, Mildred Reynolds, Lalla Terrill , Eleanor Whitehead, Rita Caplan , Nancy Lee Codd, Mary Elizabeth Elam, Jean Faulkner , Jean Forsythe, Mary Ann Gaitskill , Betty Page Gary, Edith Gay, Frances George, Alice Gibson, Frances Grant, Frances Gilliam, Virginia Harris , Louise Headly, Ardath Hobart , Thelma Lane, Marie Rice, Anna Robinson, Lelia Rucker , Frances Saunders and Mary Elizabeth Vaden . Sara Covey Bradford has bought a new home. Her address is 151 7 Cedar Lane, Richmond. Mary Virginia Burfoot also has a new address-
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Secretary MRS. E. M. MILLER (Jean Hudson) 1708 Elmsmere Ave . Richmond 27, Virginia
Congratulations to our two new babies on their choice of parents! Elizabeth Jean, born May 9, is the daughter of Mildred Vick and Milton Chatton. The Chattons live in San Jose, California, and have three other children, Tommy, Barbara , and Mary Alice . William Hamilton , born May 18, is the son of Nancy Chappell and Tom Pettigrew . Young Bill has a brother, Tim, age 14, and a sister, Nan, age 7. Margaret Hulvey Wright wrote such a grand bring-' em-up-to-date letter that I'll quote a portion of it: "When I left Westhampton I entered the University of Virginia, was married in 1935, moved to Coral Gables, Florida, and finished at the University of Miami. After five years as an army wife, my husband died and I returned to Charlottesville. I decided to put the old B.A. to work and became a librarian at the University of Virginia library, which lasted for eight years. Then I went all out in the real estate business and have been running ever since I My one and only child, a boy 16 now , is in his third year at Woodberry Forest School." Margaret also mentioned that she occasionally sees Betsy Rogers Cowart and her husband. The Cowarts live in Hamilton, Virginia, and have two little girls. After Betsy left Westhampton , she entered American University where she graduated. Besty's first husband was lost at sea during World War II .
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Jane Carroll Slusser made good use of her Richmond visit this summer to participate in a Workshop in Visual Aids at RPI. After completion of her course, she joined her husband and two sons in Pittsburgh, where they had been visiting Tom 's parents. Before returning to their home in Pensacola, Florida , the Slussers spent some time at a lake in Pennsylvania, then toured New York State, and came back by way of Luray and Natural Bridge. Bobbie Smith Christian, our other representative from the Show-Me State, lives at 1110 Seminary Place, Richmond. Bobbie's children, Kay, age 16, and Butch, age 13, are winning top honors in swimming . Louise Carroll Gano Wilkinson and her family divided their vacation time between the river, the mountains , and Virginia Beach. The Wilkinsons have two sons, John, 10, and David , 21/z. Elizabeth Angle with Bess Pat Walford (Class of '39 ) toured the Adirondacks this summer. Also included in their itinerary were Canada and Niagara Falls. In August we six Millers followed Elizabeth's route, after spending several days in New York City. The Stovall Johnstons (Jane Lawder) made New York City their headquarters during the long Labor Day weekend. Margaret Mitchell Meador and her family spent a good part of the summer at their cottage on the river. Mitch has three daughters, Barbara, Carole, and Shirley. Louise Thompson Chewning's river vacation was cut short by the hurricane. Louise's daughter, Patsy, 1s now fifteen and a high school student. Trip, 13, and Tom , 10, are students at St. Christopher's while Bobby, 3, helps Mother at home. ' Josephine O'Grady Carter had to cope with illness ?uring the spring and summer. Her son, Billy, was m the hospital for a week in a diabetic coma and her mother-in-law, who makes her home with Jo, was sick for a long time. Both are well now, and Mother and son have returned to school. Billy has been promoted to the fourth grade and Jo has been promoted to teaching the fifth grade. Jo has also enrolled for a night course in Children 's Literature. While some study for credits, others study for recreation. In the latter category are Jane Lawder Johnston, who has resumed her piano lessons, and Liz Angle, who has been taking golf lessons. Myrtle Norris Caldwell and her family visited in Alexandria during the summer. Nancy Lee Riley McFall extends an invitation to the members of our class to visit her on the campus of Randolph-Macon Academy where husband Lyle is a faculty member. Nancy Lee describes her summer as "the busiest summer of my life, doing nothing but routine household chores with a few picnics, Bible School teaching, and keeping my sister Betty 's two boys for a week, thrown in. Summer is always a busy time for me since my whole routine changes and it takes me a while to adjust. You know we take three meals a day in the school dining-room all winter, so cooking, grocery shopping, and having the children home all day makes a difference. I love summer, tho', because we have such a good time together as a family. Lyle is so tied down during the school terms that we hardly see him and of course eating at home is wonderful after nine months of institutional food with a tableful of boys." Nancy Lee's children are Nancy ( nicknamed Pepper), age 11, Charles, age 7, and Jean, age 5. Flo Troutner Harris and her family were in Richmo!"!d for te!"! days this summer. Before returning to their home in Atlanta, the Harrises traveled in Florida . Ruth Stephenson Edwards and her family split their vacation between Richmond and John's hometown of Petersburg. Ruth"s children-Johnny, 14, Beth, 12, David, 11, and Stephen, 9-keep her busy, but she manages to keep her hand in by doing substitute teaching. Ruth is also den mother for a group of cub scouts. We would like to extend our sympathy to Marion Miller Peyronnet, whose father died August 10.
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1939
Class Secretary MRS. A. L. JACOBS (Scotty Campbell) 807 Henri Road, Richmond, Virginia
We have two new babies to report: Thomas Lyle Mercer, son of Lois Lyle Mercer; and Jean Alphin Kinson, daughter of Ruth Houser Kinson. I had a nice letter from Hermine Hoen Phillips in Towson , Maryland. Hermine stays very busy with two year old Sarah Louise. A letter from Elsie Bradshaw Kintner tells us that she is the new president of Indiana's medical auxiliary. Congratulations to Elsie! With her four daughters, a huge house , and a new job , she stays very busy. Thanks to all who have sent your checks to the Alumnae Fund . Petey, the two boys and I spent a very happy summer at Camp Virginia near Goshen. Liz Darracott Wheeler 's son, Chuck, and Mina Karp Moss's son, John, were there also. Please let me hear from vou !
1941
Secretary MRS. ALBERT ELWANGER ( Henrietta Sadler) Watlington Rd., Rt. 13, Richmond , Va.
Evelyn Cosby writes: "This summer I have had several cards from Eleanor Kindell Miller while they were in the states on their vacation. They took a car trip through the west visiting Yellowstone, Seattle, down the California coast and across the Southern United States to Texas, stopping at Hoover Darn, Zion, Bryce and Grand Canyons, on to Miami from which they embarked for home. I have returned to Washington to work for the Finance and Accounts office of the Department of the Army as an accounting officer. This is the same office I worked with during World War II. I am now living at: Apt. D-11 , Grant Bldg., Presidential Gardens , Alexandria, Virginia . I had dinner one evening with Josephine Fennell Pacheco and family and we had a wonderful time talking about Westhampton and our class. She has two boys and an attractive little girl. Her husband, Amando , is employed at the Pan American Union. Martha Beam DeVos and family moved to their new home in Northwood Village, Silver Spring, Maryland, the first of September."
1943
Secretary MRS. DAVIDR. TALBOTT (Barbara Lewis) 224 Westwood Road, Annapolis, Md.
This column is all Fran Beazley Bell's, bless her heart. "'Rose Koltukian Wallace and Jim (who live in Wilbraham, Massachusetts) were in Richmond in June and spent an evening with us. Greg and Kevin ( their children) had the chicken pox while they were here. In August they went to Tanglewood, Massachusetts , for the music festival, where Jim sang in a chorus for the Boston Symphony's concert of Beethoven 's Ninth. There was an awfully cute picture of Flo Nuckols Claytor and Clay ( quite smart in Bermuda shorts) at the Cavalier Beach Club at Virginia Beach , in the newspaper in July. They had a 10day vacation there. At the convention of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs in Philadelphia in May, Louise Cardozo Long wrote down her name and address with others at a display of Whirlpool products and was amazed to discover a month later that she had won an automatic deluxe ironer. She and Cliff and Bobby and Doug spent two weeks "at the river" and a week-end at Virginia Beach. Evelyn Allen Krause and Charles Allen spent a week at the Black Mountain Hotel near Montreat, N. C., where Charles was teaching in the women's conference. Evangeline Zehmer said she'd love for any roving classmates to visit her if they are Chicago. bound. Her address is 2000 W. Van Buren, Chicago. As a research physical therapist, she is an instructor in physical medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital for Research and Education . Her research includes working with all types of physically handicapped children ( cerebral palsy cases, amputees, etc.) to discover new methods of
therapy for them, and, in turn, to teach others how to apply these methods. Maxine Williams Rogers and Bob are planning to move into a new brick home in Westover Hills as soon as they sell their present house. Little Allen has outgrown his allergies, so everybody's happy. Pepper Gardner Hathaway and family (including sister Alice) spent a week at Dou that State Park in August. Carolyn Babb Heflin has a third child, a boyDavid Livingston Heflin, born in July. Billy (age 7) insists his baby brother's name is David Crockett Heflin. Bette Hog~n Rogers and Verg announced the birth of Vergil Leighton Rogers III last March 14. Pepper and Bob dropped in to see them while they were attending the Jaycee Convention in Roanoke. Sweetie Emerson Mcsweeney and Mac are planning to go to New Orleans in October. Jean Bowers McCammon and her family spent their vacation in Florida. A week in the hospital was my vacation. Two weeks with Bob's family in Boston was his vacation. We spent the first two weeks in August with the Bells, but our activities were limited because of the polio epidemic. We did get to Maine for a few days and had lots of nice reunions with our New England friends." Thanks a million, Fran. There is not much Talbott news. Our seven-year-old David, sevenmonth-old Owen, David and I spent a week-end at the Chamberlin, in Old Point Comfort, in August. It took a hurricane to get us there - David couldn't very well do concrete work in all that rain, hence the trip. The children were good and we had a fine time. Fran and I hope to have captains soon who will contact each of you for news. I do hope all of you will be better correspondents than I ever have been!
1944
Secretary M1ts. ROBERTCOTTEN (Ruth Van Ness) 214 Slade Run Drive , Falls Church, Va .
Thanks, first, to all of you who sent your news in so nice and early . I really appreciate it because I knew I would be especially busy with our new baby. Christopher was born on July 17 and needless to say, he is the new delight in our household. Ellen Mercer Maxwell has moved to Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where Keith is Assistant Professor at Central Michigan College. He is directing the work in hearing in the clinical service of the College. They have spent the summer getting settled on the ground floor of a big white house. From Dot Hill comes a fat letter telling of a busy spring complicated by measles, virus, pink eye and a frightening incident when little Brooke climbed on the stove and got scalded. Fortunately, she has recovered with a scar that time wi 11 probably erase. Molly Warner dropped in on Dot for a short visit en route from a Florida vacation. She has been going to George Washington this summer. Fran and Bob Wol.f have bought a house in Norfolk. Gene Shepard Keever and husband, Buddy, have also moved to a new house. She was recently elected second vice president of the Junior Women's Club. Lois Kirkwood North and Walter were in Williamsburg again this summer where Walter was teaching at William and Mary. They planned to be back at Galesburg in the fall. Gloria Tyler's little girl, Robin, is a year old and beginning to toddle around. Marty and Bill Oast have bought a lot and are looking forward to building. Their children, little Bill and Marty, will both be in school this fall. Dee Dee Howe Kirk also wrote me a most informative note. She reported that the Goodes and the Grahams spent a week together on the Potomac at Edwardsville. From there, the Grahams returned to the Cloisters at Sea Island, Georgia . Millie and Skee Goode are scheduled to move to their lovely large home around September 1. It's across the river beyond Bon Air. Evermond spent several weeks at Myrtle Beach.
She. too, is planning a new home. Dot Darracott Duarte's little girl is now one year old. Dee Dee had a short visit from them in May. B. J. Baker and Ballard attended the Bar Association meeting at White Sulphur Springs. Dee Dee says she's grateful for her W . C. training in refereeing because it apparently helps in handling her own three children. They are 5, 3 and l years of age now and Kathy began school in September. My last letter is from Ann Gordon Neblett who has moved to an apartment in Keswick Gardens. In addition to choosing furniture, etc., she is holding a full time job as secretary to the program director at Radio Station WRNL. Ann has a little daughter, Norma Ann, who is cared for by a competent nurse while Mommy works. The NebJetts are looking forward to next summer when they hope to build a house. Remember the Alumnae Fund and remember
to keep your letters coming to group leaders. The next deadline is early in December. Try to get your news in early so that I can submit the newsletter in plenty of time to allow for Christmas and caring for my three offsprings. Here are some new addresses: Gene Shepard Keever, 215 Verne Avenue, Portsmouth, Virginia. Frances Kennard \l(fo!f, 133 Elwood Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia. Ellen Mercer Maxwell, 801 South Main Street , Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Mrs. V . M. Neblett , 5206 Wythe Avenue, Apt. 3, Richmond, Virginia.
1945
Secretary MISS RUTH LATIMER 1207 Maywood Road, Richmond 26, Va .
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months ago now, Mary Paulson's letter for the summer Bulletin went to press before these functions. On Friday night, June 3rd, we had quite a time at Monacan Hills Country Club. There were 40 peop le there including 23 alumn ae, 14 husbands and 3 other g uests. They were: Connie Sutton, Ruth Hiller and Mosley Powell, Jen Lea Guthrie and Scott Yancy, Betty Clement and Ed Adair, Jane Bristow and George McDorman, Betty Lawson Dillard, Ruth Maris and Tivis Wicker, Ruth Wicker and Jamie Lynch, Ellen Brooks Blackwe ll, Wanda Walton and Warren Pace , Kathy Mumma Atkinson, Anne Twombly Leland and friend Mrs. Rudy Dwyer, Nancy Lazenby and Linden Stab les, Doris Colley and Leo Berger, Eulalia Edwards and Stein Pitts , Peggy Clark Huber, Liz Parker and Howard Cone, Lil lian Belk and Mac Youell, Ann Seay and J. B. Jackson , Elizabeth Weaver Martin, Mary Campbell and John Paulson, Beth Yonan, Miss Majorie Rivenberg, Miss Caroline Lutz and Ruth Latimer. A social hour was schedu led but 60 minutes wasn't long enough as we were all so excited with seeing each other again, and having such a good time. Lillian Youell was our M. C. and kept things going, welcom ing all etc. Mary Paulson helped us reminisce as she talked with us of the good ole' days. Jane McDorman read the C lass Prophecy as it was written 10 years ago by Na ncy Lazenby. (Some came true-other items brought a chuckl eor a red face) . Miss Lutz gave us a box of candy which we appreciated and enjoyed. From you that weren 't there I relayed some of the information in your letters to the rest. Yes, we really had a big time--looked at class scrapbook, Nancy Stables played the piano and we sang, and we had our picture taken for the press. When time came to leave the club , we still had "partying in our bones" so some went to the home of Wanda and Warren Pace. Saturday, June 4, being Alumnae Day, we met at college for Alumnae Hour, business meeting and
luncheon . There were abo ut 20 of us gals there including most of those present Friday night but also Gin Pitt Friddell, Martha Tucker Bass and all the way from Pittsburgh, Rita V aschak Sherlock. Aft er th e luncheon, some of us came back over here to my house. Sat urd ay night was the Alumnae-Alumni Banquet and a few of rhe '45 'ers were prese nt for that. The last function was an impromptu partywith or withou t husbands-at the Officers Club in Richm ond . H ollie Garber and husband John Kenyon were there then. In ad diti on to children , th e Kenyons are raisi ng ra bbit s and chinchi llas. We apprec iated hearing from you who could not atte nd the June alumn ae functions and receiving the pictures for the scrapbook. Captain Lottie Blanton has finished her graduate work at the University of Illinois. She wrote of her busy activit ies as supervisor of the physical disabi lities clinic and student trainees in occupationa l therapy. On the side she's been in some bridge tournaments and is quite a tenn is enthusiast. Mary Payne Cole wrote from 115 52nd Street, Virginia Beach that she, husband and nine-month old "footba ll player" would love for us to drop in on them. From the "South" Charlotte Thomas Patrick's letter arrived. She, three chi ldren and husband, Rev. Theodore Hall Patrick live in Port-au-Prince, Haiti-Box 802. He is dean of t,he Episcopal Theological Seminary in Haiti. She says they may not have all the modern convenie nces like hot water and electricity, but are compe nsated by a wonderfu l beach on the Caribbean and mango and avocado trees in the back yard. Mrs. Waddill wrote that Marianne Jones would be unable to come from Arizona. She sent pict ures of Maria nn e's two gir ls. Mary Ellen Tucker Lowry couldn 't make the reunion for she had just made a trip to Richm ond in May. They are in Camden, South Caroline where she is working for Whiting Products and Stewart is at DuP ont .
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Ansley Hulfi sh tried to make th e Reunion but said she had to work on Saturday. She's working for thr ee doctors in a new medical center in W arre nton, Vir gini a. Family oblig atio ns prevented Betty Dupuy Ad ams ' coming down from Rochester, New York. She's active in the Tri Delt Alli ance in Rochester and their vice preside nt . Betty writes of th e Alum nae Bulletin, "I think it is a very well put together Bulletin-I have read every page-it is certainly a pleasure to get what Richm ond puts out for the old grads." Please let me hear from you regarding chang es in address and news.
1946
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(Ding Lambeth) 7716 Rock Creek Road, Richmond 26, Virginia Anne H arris Wood and Bob have a daughter Chri sty Lou born August 16th. Bob ( ordai ned on Sept. 24th ) works here in Richmond during the week in addition to being pastor of the Smyrna Baptist Church in Goochland. Two more future W esthamp .tonit es are Barbara Lee Branch born September 10th to Barbara Richie Branch and D avid, and Susan Carol Stewart born September 12th to Frank and Virginia Gibso n Stewart. Another Babygram comes from D ottie D avis Whittenberger who had her second son , Gary Randall, on 23rd of July. I believe they've moved into a new home. Amy Hi ckerson Dalt on and Addison enjoyed a delightful vacation in New Jersey with their boys. I saw Amy's picture in the Times-Dispatch for heading up a division in the Richm ond Community Chest Driv e. When last I saw M ary Lucy Willis and T. Barefoot, bhey said they were both looking forward to th eir class reu nions. Can't help envying th em just a littl e living right at the water th ere in Urba nn a. With chi ldren Lee and Frank, Libby Thompson Schmidt moved down to th e Potomac River when their cottage was comple ted-Eddie being there on weekends. It sounds like the perfect spot for taking life a litt le easier. Being preside nt of the Peninsula Club, M ary Fra nces Bethel Wood wrote me of the varied programs th ey've planned for the year. Wishing you a most successful year and taking note from you, we al I shou ld try to be even more active in our alumn ae clubs. H aving an emerg ency app endectomy just two weeks before Lelia Phillips Toone's wedding didn't stop Jeanne Yeamans from being her very lovely maid-of-honor. Lelia and Bob hon eymoo ned in Maine and are "as settled as th ey'll ever be" in their apartme nt at 105 North Harvie Street in Richmond. After the reception Lucy H arvie had a sma ll '46 reun ion at her home. Cornelia Reid Rowlett, Mary Frances Bethel Wood, Betty Biscoe Tibbott , Marion Lawton Kin zey, Barbara Richie Branch, Jean ne Yeamans, and Yours Truly a ll joined in a gab fest wh ile the husbands and escorts , out of necessity , sought each ot her's company. According to Bev Ryland the gorgeous boats and the warmer Mediterranean route teamed perfectly for a pleasure cruise. Landing at the Riviera, th ey proceeded to Milan, Switzerland and then Paris where she ran into Dr. Ad ams w ho was touri ng previous to atte ndi ng the Baptist World Alliance. The last lap of the jou rney included London, H olland , Germany, Au stri a and sailin g from Ital y. Now Bev can't wait to go again . Noo ky Richa rdson Phipps was in JohnstonWillis when she had her son, William Phipps, Jr . They've moved to W oolford, M aryland on th e Eastern Shore, not to greener pastures but to better forests, I guess, since Bill is in lumbering. It is grand having Helen Mum per Dunn avant back in Richmond . She has rented a house, 614 Mapl e Avenu e, for herself and their four daughters to live in while Bob is on a year-and-a-half duty overseas. Our baby cup girl, Barbara Ann , enjoys school. Cora Lynn in June accompanied Henry on a week Jong business trip to th e GE factory near
New York City and then late!' spent some time at a lak e in the Poconos. Filling a new freezer and sewing on her new machine were not enough hobbies, so she and H enry had a vegetable garden . Although Cora Lynn isn 't working she did some testing of children for some of the local welfare departments. Cora Lynn had a surprise visit from Isabel who is fine---busy teaching and doing some of the reading for the graduate work she is taking summers at Chapel Hill. Faye Clarke and Jack Randle with their children Diane and Clarke have headed for Bucklin, Kansas, where Jack is setting up practice. After he had finished residency at the Portsmouth Naval Hospita l, they bought a house sight-unseen on his fami ly's recommendation. Most of you will remember Nadine Miller Sloan (' 47) who after college went into the Marines. She's married and has three boys and a girl. They live in Peoria, Ill. The Goldsboroughs (Cora Lynn and Henry) had a buffet supper for Nadine and John. Invited were Lois Bradley Baker and Arlie , also Alice May Prigg Drummond and Doug. Lois' two chi ldr en were well behaved and very attractive too. Priggum now has a g irl along with her two boys. They live on a farm near Annapolis from which Doug commutes to Washington. Jean White and Andy Robeson have left Georgia and Andy , who had his Ph.D. in physics, will teach at VPI. The last we heard from Jeann e Pebworth Gammon she was very busy with a full time job as a lab technician and giving Tupperware parties. They are living in a trailer in Blacksburg while Charli e finishes school. Allison has a good time in nursery school. Lola Carter Goodell keeps busy as a bee with the three chi ldr en and their big house. Estelle and Stan both went to nursery school this year. While visiting Don's family in Ohio in June, Ruth Smith Tschan wrote of big family get-tog-ethers and fun dancing under the stars. She enjoyed taking a course in creative writing during the winter and also had a group of cub scouts. I just phoned Frances Anne Beale Goode and David told me she had a gi rl , Ann e Charline , a few hours before . H ow's this for up-to-the-minute news? As for the Shotwells, Ralph still finds teaching and directing religious activ iti es among college young people most stimulating. With th e larger enro llment this year he has 55 pre-ministerial students to place in the the Richmond area churches under the field work setup. The Faculty Wives group at th e U of R serves as both a very enjoy ab le club and as a sort of "Welcome Wagon" for the wives of new profs. This year I'm a memberat-large for the group. I was wondering if our class would like to start a scrapbook. If you have any ideas concerning this project, p lease pass them along to your group leader.
1947
Secret ary Miss ISABELAMMERMAN 906 Park Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
We are pleased to announce the arrival of two ¡ future Westhamptonites. Justin Cecilia Derieux arrived on August 28. Her proud parents are Sara Prances and Sam Derieux. On July 8, Lena Thornton Small and Holmes welcomed the arrival of Evelyn Elizabeth. Three year old Billy is very pleased with his new sister. LaVinia Watson Reilly and her two sons spent part of the summer willh her mother in H ampton. When she returns to California she will have a new address. Bob will be connected with Disne yland and the Reillys will live on Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California. Dotti e Hughes Freitag and her son George visited with her mother in Richmond. Dean 's job necessitates a bit of traveling to far off places, this time, Greenland . When the Freitags returned to Vicksburg, it was to a new home. D ottie reports she has so much to do to really feel settled. While Robby was attending school for Capital Airlines in Washington, Pat Guild Robertson with Johnny and Claudia were with her family. School bells are ringing for Alice Mason Cralle
for she is teaching the fourth gracle. Alice at1d Jesse's new home, located not far from the University, sounds lik e a dream. It is comp lete with dishwasher, washer-drier and built-in oven and range. They had a lovely vacat ion, visiting Niagara Falls, touring Canada and visiting the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Tina Clauter Stapleton wrote from her new address, Harrington Drive , Holden, Mass. that their new home was untouched by the high waters, although the thr ee inches of water in the basement was a nuisance. Sylvia Haimovit Silverman writes the big event in their household was daughter Susan's first day a[ school. Kenneth, who is now two, will have to be content with Ding Dong School. News from Marie Walthall LeSeiur and Claude find them just returning from an enviable tri p from Niagara Falls to Fort Knox, Kentucky. There they visited Betty O'Brien Yeats and Joe. The Yeats , too, are becoming seasoned travelers , having journeyed to California. Gin Ellett reports a new address, 56 Lock Lan e, Richmond , Virginia. She is teaching Science and Chemistry at Thomas Jefferson. Margaret Goode Vicars was in town for the day recently and she brought interesting news of Martha Edwards Allen. The Allens are building a new home in Craddock. Write us more about it, Martha. Anne Wiley Kelly was matron of honor in her sister's wedding. We enjoy hearing from every one of you so please jot some news of yourself or family on the postcards and return them to us.
1948
David Bryan McCoy. He arrived here in Petersburg August 11. Janice (Conant) McCoy called to tell me about young Bryan as Hurricane Connie was roaring through town. Wilma Lum accompanied her sister and mother on a cross-country trip to California. I hope she took her camera as her color slides of her '54 trip through Europe have made quite a hit here. Giana Herndon is back in Richmond teaching music in the public schools. Giana and the Butter worths (Betty Hickerson) had visited Emily (Smith) and Jack Powers. Em and Jack enjoyed several week-ends at Nagsh ead, N. C. Millicent and Sim Taylor have moved into their new home at 2401 Quintan o Street, Arlington 7, Virginia,
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Secretary MRS. fACK A . LAWSON (Cynthia Patrick) 1701 East 44th Street, Richmond 24, Va .
Don't forget Homecoming is November 5. Let' s try to have a large percentage of '49e rs back on campus during Homecoming weekend. If you plan to come and let me know in time , I'll try to arrange for an informal get together . Now that summer is ended many of us can reminisce about our pleasant vacations and relaxed living. But for Bill and Liz (Web) Woody their reco llection s are more like a nightmare. It was not as much the hurrican e "Co nnie " as it was th e nine inches of rain that fell in Richmond in August that did untold damag e to their home. It has been over a month since "Co nnie ," and the Woody s have not been able to move back home yet. Their good Samaritans were the D ean Adam s family (Na n Johnson) who welcomed the entire family of W oodys in their home to stay until th eir own hom e was once again liveable . I quote the Richmond News Leader for Augu st 16, "Six foot tall Bill Woody stood flat on the gro und in front of hi s house and there at eye level was the mark , a muddy streak bisected the picture window almost halfway up from the sill. 'T hat's where it came to.' The floor boards were buckled into an inverted "'V" six inches high and the kitch en linoleum had to be replaced." Their furniture was water log~ed, but could be repaired. Now the Woodys can look back upon their unfortunate exper ience and be so thankful. At least they didn't lose their home and no one was hurt physica lly. In fact Liz said it was wonderful how so many neighbors, friends, and even strangers worked together to repair the losses. By th e way, Liz's neighborhood was threatened again by another recent hurricane, "Io ne," but the community worked together and prevented any flooding. I have just received word that Rosie ( Calboune) McCarty had been str icken with po lio. She entered the Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virgini a on September 11. I hope by the time that you receive the Bulletin that she will be much improved. Rosie, our prayers and thoughts are with you. Life is sligh tly confusing at this point for Audrey (Bradford) and Bill Soupe. They bought a home and were just ready to move in when Bill was notified that be was being transferred to New York the first of October. Since Bill wi ll receive a promotion, they were delighted although it will be hard to leave their new red home on the Oxford-on-the-James. Ben and Lou (Winn) McCutcbeon have return ed from the ir two years of army lif e in Cheyenne. Wyoming. Their new add ress is 66 Oakwood Drive, Chapel Hill , North Carolina .. Ben has begun a surg ical residency at th e University of North Carolina Medical School Ho spital. Bill, their son, is now a year old and Julia, 4 years old, begins dancing school thi s fall. Mr. Stork has a few announcements. Phillip Warren Spratley III arrived Jun e 20, 1955. His parents Warr en and Katie {Smith) are most
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proud of their first son. Kitty, their daughter, is now 5 years old. Ray and Jane (Norris) Knutson also were presented with a son, William Norris Knutson on Augu st 29. Jam es Thomas Dick arrived on April 30 to live with bis par ent s Fred and Betty, a sister Kathy and a brother Bill. Pamela , daughter of Bill and Joyce (Parrish) Will s arriv ed in April. Dan and Ha zel (Jenning s) Walk er are now proud parents of a baby girl, Jan Loui se, who was born June 20 in Hawaii . Best wishes are extended to Juli e Moller , who was married to Dr . John Bryant Sanford on September 10 in Chicago . Mary Lusby had a wonderful trip this summ er. She went abroad, sailing on the S.S. United States. and travelled through England, France and Swit zerland. Cary (Walker) Crone visited her family in Ma ssachusetts. It was a long trip, especia lly from California with two children. Jimmy and Virginia {Ot ey) D ickinson had a wo nderful vacat ion this summer . They spent 2½ months at Camp Perry, Ohio, where Jimmy was stationed. It is a camp ope ned for Nationa l Rifle Matches and National Guard. People come from everywhere to compete in the rifle m1tches. They went back to Camp Meade in September where they will stay until Jimmy's discharge in Jan uary. Incidentally, Jimmy is now a first lieutenant. I had the nicest letter from Kit (Vander Schalie) Pederson telling of her new life in Seattle, Washington. Peter took a positio n with the General Insurance Co. of America. He is the Ocean Marine Claims Manager for the Northwest divis ion and superv ises ope rations in that field nationwide. He enjoys his work , but it entails quite a bit of travelling which Kit doesn't care for. I quote Kit, "We have an apartment overlooking 26 mile long Lake Washington, the snow capped CascaJes and that lovely Mount Ranier. Our view is breathtaking, quite like a Swiss post-card." Mimi (An derson) Gill asked me to pass the word on to all of you girls. If you are in an area where there is an Alumnae Club, please affiliate . It won't take much of your time and all of us can benefit from it. Dot (Richwine) Korb had an interesting letter from Jackie Cunningham who spent five weeks this summer in Nashvi lle, Tennessee working on her M.A. at Peabody. She is planning to major in Library Science and expects to finish in five more summers. This year Jackie is librarian at the Waterloo Ju_nior High School in Elkridge, M aryland. She will also teach a class of Eng lish. H er new address is Washington Blvd., Jessups, Md ., Box 42, c/o C. R. Beltz. D ot had a nice visit from Caroline {Lynn) Doyl e who was in Richmond for a two week vacation. They had a wonderfu l time catching up on the news. Peggy H assel reports th at she is teaching the fo urth grade for th e first time this year. Aft er having taught in the Junior Primary, she says th at she has to stay on her toes to keep up with th e older ones. On September 24, Pat Eagan's engageme nt was announced to Dr. Henry Krysiak who works for the DuPont plant in D elaware . The wedding will take place in J anuary. I deduct from Elaine (L eonard) Da vis' letter, that Chip is an angel, bu t eats like a hors e. Bill is so taken by his new son that he takes complete charge of Chip while he is at home. Elaine heard from Oli ve {Trad er ) Dailey, who is in a dither about her new home which should be completed soon. Martel stays quite busy with hi s medical practic e. In fact little Charl es learn ed to say "D ada-bye-bye" as one word. From Ida (Eane s) Patrick we learn that Stuart and Jean (Mo ody) Vincent have settled in Emporia, Virginia, where Stuart is working with the telephone company. They are all excited about building a new home. Ther e's exciting news from Bill and Peg (Harris) Barnett. Bill has started his teaching career at Bridg ewater Coll ege in Virginia , located in the Shenandoah Valley . It is a small church related co-ed school of about 460 stu dents .
Jane (Dens) McManigal has had quite a summer. Her sister-in-law is home for a 3 months' visit from Australia with her Jive children. At one time they were al l at the beach together, and had a hilarious time. Densie said one day there were 8 adults and 12 children , not including four other people who dropped in. Since Mitzi (Verra) Williams has moved to Chapel Hill, N. C. for a year, Helen (McDonough) Kelly has offered to gather news for the Bulletin. Mitzi's new address is 128 Hamilton Road, Glen Lennox, Chapel Hill, N. C. This is the year that Jack will work on his PhD, while Mitzi will work on keeping Lisa quiet while Daddy studies. Helen had a letter from Diane (Brown) Mogul, in which she said they had moved from their apartment in Cambridge to a home at 34 Radnor Road, Brighton, Massachusetts. She said that Ira had been made Assistant Manager of his company's Boston office ( Occidental Life of California.) Helen and Matt are in the process of building a new home in Crestwood Farms, Bon Air, Richmond. Matt is sub-contracting and doing part of the work himself. They hope to celebrate Christmas in their new home. Anne (Bing) Abbitt reports an en joyable summer for her and John. They went to Williamsburg for their vacation where they took in the town and thought that the Common Glory was wonderful. They also spent a week end camping bags-rain at Claytor Lake State Park-sleeping and all. Rosie, Jack, Gwyn, Jackie, a dog, and a cat have moved to Marion and are Jiving in a sixteen room house. We hope that Rosie will soon be back home with her family. We hear that Carolyn (Bonham) and Charlie Thompson are building a lovely home. Marilyn (Alexander) Kubu kept us posted on her travels this summer by sending picture post cards to Anne. She and Ed attended the Goddon Conferences on Textiles at Colby Junior College in New London, N. H. Also they saw Niagara Falls and then visited their families in New Jersey. Martha Kenney is on the move again. Feeling a need for civilization after two years in the Virgin Islands , she wi ll teach in a private school near San Francisco, California. Please look her up at 243 Tilton Avenue, San Mateo , California. Jean (M eyer) Kluger and Jules had a wonderful time at the Jaycee National Convention in Atlanta. They were enj oying Virginia Beach when "Connie" chased them home. J almost forgot to tell you about the pleasant visit that I had with Iz Taylor when she was in Richmond visiting some of her family. Iz hasn't . changed a bit-s till as crazy as ever . She loves her work in Miami and her invitation is sti ll open to any '49'e rs who ever get down that way . Beth (Wilburn) and Raymond Hooker have a new daughter, Elizabeth Wilburn, born September 28, here in Richmond. That just about winds up the news for this issue, except to give one small item from t~e Lawson's household. Our oldest son Jay , who 1s 3½ learned to swim and dive (jump) from the diving board this summer . Proud parents!
1950
Secretc1ry MRS. JOHN S. PIERCE, JR. (Joyce Betts) 3434 Hanover Avenue , Richmond 21, Va .
Frannie Chandler and Allen Long will be married this fall. Piggy Wells is sporting a big new diamond . We 'll give you all the details later. We have four births to report: On May 30th Arthur Bradford Siegel was born to Lenore Greenberg Siegel and George . On July 2nd, Roy Mclain Martin , Jr. was born to Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy. On July 6th, Kate Harting Morrisset was born to Tucky Bellows Morrisset and Basil. On July 14th Douglas Neal Brawley was born to Helen Haskins Brawley and Bolling. Joanne Waring spent the month of June in San Juan, Puerto Rico atten ding the tenth conference of Inter-American Commission of Women, a specialized agency of the Organization of the American States. On August 5, she sailed on the USS
United States for a ten weeks ' vacation to Western European countries. Jane Edmonds left the country also thi s summer. She and three other girls put on their Bermuda shorts and went to Bermuda , no less. She went the last week of July and had a fabulous time. Hilda Moore Hankins and Deck spent the week of their fifth wedding anniversary at the Castaways in Miami Beach. Doris Lee Reeves Childress and Earl spent the first week in August at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pat Kelly Jordan and Alex went to Dayton a Beach the early part of the summer, and Doris Balderson Burbank and Banny traveled south to Sarasota, Florida the last of August. Frannie Sutton Oliver and Ray were in Canada with a church group for several weeks, which should have been much fun along with worthwhile work. Libby Givens Pierce and Bucky have been going to the beach practically every week-end. Libby went home to Roanoke for a family reunion over the Fourth of July, at which 24 of her immediate family (brothers, sisters, and their children) were present. Josephine Martens spent two weeks traveling through New England. Jo reports that she has been presented with her Jive-year pin from General Dyestuff Company. Clarice Ryland Price went to New York in June and took in "Teahouse of the August Moon" and "Pajama Game." Libby Rowse Wilson reported that she located Carol Sid in New Jersey this past June. She had dinner with Claire Noren Griffin and Bob , and also talked to Leslie Whitman in Boston, where she, her husband and three children are now living. Libby took in "Disney land" this summer and reported it was fascinating. Joyce Gustafson Crawford visited her home in Kansas City for a month. Barbara Beattie Fanney and Skip spent their vacation at Wrightsville Beach. Skip was in an unfortunate boating accident and had to spend Jive weeks in bed. Audrey Lynn Moncure and Richard spent a week in the mountains with th eir two little girls. Mary Bowles Flanigan and Robbie were in Richmond in August. Mary's parents have recently moved to the city. Summer vacation for Lorraine was quite busy. She was in charge of women 's activities for City Recreation and Parks here in Richmond. Then she went to the Poconos for two weeks in August at a hockey camp. She reports that flood disaster was worse than we could imagine. Kitty Rosenberger Garber and John saw Peggy King Nelson and Earl in Delaware this summer. Maud Tyler spent a busy and useful summer helping with Vacation Bible School and organizing a junior choir in her church. We are so sorry to lose Barbara Coleman as a group leader this year, but she left September 12 for Tulane University to work on her master's degree in social work. Along with a very green, new secretary we are fortunate to have been able to add Clarice Ryland Price, Jo Martens, and Doris Burbank as new group leaders. Let 's keep them happy and busy with lots of news. Unfortunately news is not always good, and the summer leaves sadness as well as gladness behind it. The class of 1950 wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to Gwen Richards in the loss of her mother, and to Barbara White Burbank in the loss of her mother . We'll be expecting- to hear from you all around the first of December, just before the Christmas rush, so keep us posted!
1951 Secretary
MRS. WILLIAM M. SCHOOLS (Frances Allen) 6841 Carnegie Drive, Richmond 26, Va .
Two more of our class are going the ranks of the married folks. Betsy Bethune and Lewis Langhorne will be married on November 19. Gina Herrink and Maryglyn Cooper McGraw will be attendants for Betsy. Rose Varn , an ex-'5l'er, is planning to become Mrs. John Ruggles. The baby population is growing, and our classmates are getting their share of the littl e ones . Marsha McRae Dudley ca.me to liye with Elizabeth and Roy and littl e Lee at 11: 30 A.M. on July 15. Anne Marie Hardin Bailey and Ben are the proud
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parents of Lynn Marie, born August 18. A new addition in the home of Nance Anderson Hall and Sonny is little Marjorie Suzanne, who arrived in Richmond on March 25. All new members are not girls, however; we do have two new boys to report. James Thomas Madden is the new son of Susie Gibson Madden and Ray. "Jay" Patton, IV is supp lying the patter of little feet at the home of Jane Lawson Patton and Bem. Master Madden arrived on August 5 and Jay arrived on September 10. Ann Rogers Crittenden and Crit are living in St. Simon s Island, Georgia. Ann says she loves it down there and enjoys being so near the ocean. This summer Ann visited in Morristown , New Jersey and Wilmington, D elaware. Ann ].ones Moffatt and George have moved to Winter Park, Florida while George is stationed
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Kitty Bunti ng Bowman sends word that Karen has just celebrated her first birthday. Elizabeth Gill is teaching piano here in Richmond. " Teeny" Mitchell Goldston is working as a dental assistant while Tom atte nd s Crozer Seminary. Jane Muffet Basil is living in Rochester, New York where Nelson is finishing seminary. He is also assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church in Rochester. Shirley McKim writes that she went to Europe last summer aboard the S.S. United States, and toured England, Scotland, and Gay Paree. She just loved France and returned home on the Queen Mary. She has taken some cour ses at Columbia and is now teaching kindergarten in New Rochelle , New York. Pat Atwill Schwarz sent me another of her newsy letters saying that Bill won the award for Best Supporting Actor of 1955 in their Little Theater Group. Pat subsituted for the high school music teacher recently and says that is one job she does not care for. Betty Baker worked this summer as secretary for a cemetery corporation. Her finance ' s parents came down from Canada this summer to visit Betty. John is due home from Germany in October . Mary Anne Hubbard Dickenson, Jeanette Aderhold Brown , and Jane Ellis Babb got together this summer at Mary Anne's where Jane says that Larry, (Mary Anne's little boy) and Connie (Jeanette's baby) were introduced. I am sorry to report that Piret Koljo has been in the hospital again, this time with a kidney ailment. We do hope you are much better by this time, Piret. Norma Streever saw Jean Booth at an A.A.U.W. convention and learned that Jean has been doing graduate work at the University of Richmond. Irene Blackburn Pierce spent a few days at the Cava lier this summer. Joce lyn Hyche Baulch and her three chi ldr en visited with Shirley Hall Murphy this summer . Charlotte Herrink Jones and Mary Booth Watt also were in Richmond this summer. Betty Luke writes that she is now doing lab work and secretarial work for a doctor in Indianola, Mississippi. She also sends word that Martha Carpenter has entered her first year of medical school at the University of Virginia. Betty hopes that sometime soon she can go into radiology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore . Charlotte Houchins Decker and Hank vacationed in the Poconos this summer and returned just in time to escape the floods. Doris Goodwyn Bridgforth is at present a "tobacco wido w" while Bevo is on the market. My poor husband is a "tobacco widower", but for a slightly different reason. I have been rehearsing every night for what seems like an eternity, for this year's Tobacco Festival. This year
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we are presenting a musical version of " To Have and To H old." Gina Herrink and I conti nu e as members of the Richmond Civic Ballet, Along with everything else, I was lur ed back into the teaching profession by a wonderfu l principa l, and am now employed as fifth grade teacher at Tuckahoe School. Eleanor Wright Weston sends word that she spent six wee ks in Florida but is now sett led in Charleston , South Carolina. She is working hard as first vice-president of the Officers Wives Club. She and Billy had a nice surprise recently when they saw Millie Wright Outten and Joe who were in town to visit some friends. Don't forget that our fifth reunion is this June! I have already received many notes from classmates , saying that they are planning to attend , so if you haven't already done so, make your plans now . Let's have one hundred per cent attendance if we possibly can.
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Secretary WILLARD E. LEE, JR . (Kathaleen Cole) 3505 Stuart Avenue , Apt. 204 Richmond , Va. MRS.
Here in the midst of all these hurricanes lots of news has blown my way. Kathy was operated on for appendicitis and asked me, Bettie Snead Herbert, to help her out. Kathy got along nicely , havmg husband Bill right there in Johnston-Willis Hospital to take care of her. Dianne Evans left in September for Germany where she will be engaged in Special Services managing a club for Army personnel. ' A letter from Eleanor Persons Hays from Mardela Springs, Maryland, tells of the arrival of Robert London on August 20th. Bob is the pastor of ~he First Baptist Church there. She writes, " I love rt, and the people are so awfully good to us. Food is always being left here and we even had to rent a frozen food locker to put the extra food in that they keep giving us. " E leanor said that last summer when they were in New York City they saw her roommate Joyce Meisel Zucherman. Her husband Herbie is a rea l-estate dealer. They have two precious children and a new home at Long Beach. Betty Geiman Preston had a baby boy on July 11. She wrote that Mary Jean Ivy Simmons was in the hospital at the same time, having just had a boy also. Her husband has a church near Leesburg. Becky Cumby seems to have had an eventful summer. In June she traveled to California and Mexico and in July to Georgia. She will return to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville this fall where she is working toward her Master's in Religious Education. Carol Melton Sinclair, Charlie, their daughter and dog are now sett led in the parsonage just outside of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Margaret Henderson will ret urn to Chester this fall and will again teach the 4th grade. Margaret vacationed at Virginia Beach for a week this summer . Jackie Vaughan Rector and Charlie became parents on June 8th of a little girl, Elizabeth Gordon (Beth) . No la Tex ley Breckenridge, Bob and "Chipper" are still in Germany. They have a new apartment in their Army quarters there. In August the)' took a trip to Bavaria, Copenhagen, and other points of interest. Bev Gilbert Lovell and her daughter Debbie have been spending some time with Bev's family in Rochester, New York, while Bud is attending Salesmanship School for IBM. She has gotten her driver's permit and has been flitting all around the country. After Bud finishes his training, they will be assigned a definite territory. Joyce Bell and Claire Carlton have returned to Virginia after spend ing severa l years working in Hartford, Connecticut. Joyce is now teaching first grade at Craddock and living at home. Cb1ire is at her home in Richmond and plans to work here. Barbara Cawthorne was married on October 15, at the Westminister Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, to Herbert Spencer Clarke, who is currently
engaged in radio broadcasting in Richmond. Barbara and Herb will Jive in Richmond at 18 Malvern Avenue . Herb is a North Carolinian and a graduate of Bow ling Green State University in Ohio. Marian Lacy has moved into the Chamberlayne Gardens apartments with three other teachers. She spent the summer in Halifax. In August, she, Janie Tune Sease, and Jane Ozlin Given spent the day with Lou Gladding Shelton in Martinsville. Jane Ozlin Given spent the summer in South Hill with her fo lks. She went down to New Orleans in August where Fred is doing his residency at Charity Hospital and they found an apartment in the French Quarter. She came to Richmond for a few days and stayed with me in Bon Air and I had a little get-together for her while she was here. Bev Randolph, Lacy and Betty Edmonds Dunn were the only Westhamptonites that made it. Nina Landolina Byrd and Carol were with Nina's folks in Florida this summer. Ray joined them there and upon their return to Salem they moved into a new house. They spent a week-end in South Hill with Betty Crews Watkins before going to Florida. Betty Crews Watkins, Earle, and Scotty were just up here for a week-end with us. They spent a week vacationing in Nags Head this summer. I spent a week in Fork Union this summer and Lou Tull drove down from Charlottesville one afternoon to see us. She was working in Cancer Research at the University Hospital. She is going to New York in October to work. Scott, Bettie Scott and I spent Labor Day weekend in Martinsville with Lou Gladding Shelton, Bud and Chip. We had fun playing with Chip and saw the lot they had bought for the new house they are planning. Harriett Stubbs Johnson and family have moved to Ft. McClellan, Alabama, where they will be only four months. Her father was made a Brigadier General some time ago. Addie Eicks Comegys and Brock have been visiting his family in Montana . Sue Easley Candler and Ralph went to New England this summer and had a wonderful visit with Addie and Brock. Sue plans to teach in Hopewell this year. LeNeve Hodges Adams, Al and Ann have been sent to Nevada. They have a nice house and are having a wonderful time. Harriett Willingham had a very interesting trip this summer . She and four girls traveled through the northwestern part of the United States and part of Canada for a month, camping out the entire way. One night, they were going through a desert and couldn't find a State or National Park, so they ended up pitching their tent in a Jot adjoining a friendly filling station midst many friendly cacti. Monty Wiley and Lawrence Schutte were married September 10th in Monty 's home in Yancy Mills. They honeymooned at Sea Island and will live at 2807 Grove Avenue in Richmond. Paralee Neergaard and Jack Stout were married at St. Stephen's October 15th. Alice Warner Matthews was her matron-of-honor. Kathy had a long letter from Helen Want. Directly after graduation she started teaching junior high school in Hampton. Then the following March she and Stanley were married. They moved to East Orange, N. J. so Stanley could complete his training program with the International Printing Ink Company, and she resumed teaching there in a private school. Their daughter, Sidney Dale , was born last August 9th and on September 15th Helen was back at school teaching. In March they moved to Washington which is Stanley's permanent assignment. Again Helen was lured into teaching, this time at a junior high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. Helen also wrote about her roommates Joan Kleeman Freitag and June Kershenbaum Agel. Joan and Larry have two little boys. June and family live in Silver Spring and she and Helen see each other often. She and Lenny have a little boy. Helen 's address is: Mrs. Stanley G. Miller, 1404 Langley Way, Hyattsville, Maryland. Bertha Cosby King and Hobson are living in Richmond in the Suburban Apartments. He is going to V. P. I. Extension .
Grace Collins Lindblom and Ed are being trans ferred to Washington in October. They have gotten an apartment in Arlington. Murf wrote this nice letter to Mrs. Booker , not having Kathy's address. Murf 's address is 4326 Reno Road , N. W., Washington , D. C. "So much has happened to us since the last issue. My husband is a captain in the Army and we went to Frankfurt, Germany expecting to stay three years. At the end of a year he got the chance to be aide to the Commanding General so he took it. Then Gen. Eddleman was ordered back to Carlisle Barracks, Pa. to be Commandant of the Army War College. Back to the States we came. I had our first baby, Lisanne ( we call her Lisa) June 10th. Rish had received his B.S. from Maryland June 4th. The week following Lisa 's birth they found Rish had TB and he was flown to Fitzsimmon s Army Hospital in Denver. It was a terrible blow to us, but we were thankful to be here where he can get good treatment and I could be with my family. Mom, I.isa and I will drive to Denver the last of August. Mom will stay until I get settled in an apartment near the hospital. We hope Rish will be up to Class four by then and able to get out on weekends. His case isn't too advanced and they hope he can leave in under a year." Lucile Hedley is working at George Washing ton University Hospital. She is the one and only Occupational Therapist in that great, big hospital' Cathy Lynn was born on July 31st, to Barbara Ferre Phillips and Marion. They are in Florida. Marion is a forester and has just completed hi s army service. Joy Selby Scollon became a mother on July 3rd. She has a boy, Dou,glas Allen. Alice Subley Mandonis and John are back in the States. He is a Resident at George Washing ton Hospital. We had not heard from Sophie Zea in ages. When she came to Richmond to bring her sister to Westhampton as a freshman, it brought back such memories that she wrote to Betty Hurt Beasley. Sophie will teach first grade this year in Hagerstown, Maryland. Lucy Dearing was in Richmond this summer. She is working on her Master 's in Education. Betty Hurt Beasley is teaching at Ridge School in Henrico County with many other Westhamptonites. Elizabeth Kennard , an ex 52'er, has four children. Her oldest, Alic e, is in the first grade thi s year. The other three are boys, th e youngest being one year old. Needless to say, she is very bu sy! Isabell Sanford Rankin's husband is stationed at Ft. l ee. He is a dentist in the Medical Corps. They have an apartment in Petersburg.
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tonic. Perhaps you have read of this town which became this summer the American home of the Shakesperian Th eater. An imposing looking theater built of teakwood has been erected here recently for the purpose of presenting various plays by the bard. A numb er of celebrities and other interested people visited it to see "Jul ius Caesar" and "The Tempest" this year. Getting back to class notes, a group of us picnicked together on June third at Hanover Wayside to celebrate our first reunion. As an added attraction we brought our favorit e men along, and they proved their worth by starting an ample fire for roasting marshmallows. Among tho se who came out were Connie Shuford Vilas and Pinkie. She is working with the Richmond Memorial H ospital organization while he attends Richmond College. They live at 5204 Wythe Avenue in Richmond . Other s from Richmond were Harriet Wheat Fralin and Cotton, who now live at 4213 Grove Avenue ; Ginny leSueur Carter and Bill;
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Richmond. Ginny LeSueur Carter and Bill and Mary Creath Payne and Jim were among the attendants. Ruby is teaching Spanish and history at Douglas S. Freeman High School near Richmond this year. Her address is 4 Clark Road, Richmond'. Ginny L. Carter is proud of Bill , who has been made a buyer at Miller and Rhoads recently. Lou George Wolfe has a son, William Henry, III, born August 27. Lois Moody Mackey and Jim have moved to a new apartment in Norfolk at 7607-A Sheryl Drive. Jackie Gustin and Marietta Carr spent a few days at the beach and saw the Mackeys. Marietta is teaching at the new Crestview school in Richmond this year. She also visited Sue Bentley Fain this summer and says that little Bentley is adorable. Beth Carpenter is living at home and teaching in Baltimore this year. Betty Williams Potter is at home and teaching in the same school in Norfolk County while Dean is with the army stationed in Korea. Louise Hudgins McNally, Frank and son Mike moved into a home of their own this summer after Frank was discharged from the Navy. He has entered School of Engineering at the University of Maryland this fall. Lou is busy arranging furniture and caring for Mike. Their address is 602044th Ave. Hyattsville, Maryland. Born to Dottie Hicks Silverman was a second daughter, Pamela Steele, on April 16. Staff is an executive trainee with the Bank of Hawaii, which means they will be permanent residents of the islands. At latest report Dottie had her hands full what with preparing to move into a new house and removing energetic Connie, aged two, from mischief. Their address will be 603 Kaiemi Street, Lanikai , Hawaii. Dottie hopes to get in some teaching this fall. Kay Beale attended Summer School at the University of Richm'ond in preparation for teaching third grade in Chesterfield County this Fall. She is back in the same apartment at 909 Floyd Avenue. The next voice you hear will be Kay·s, practicing for whichever musical show happens to be in the
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making! Ola Hill is sharing the apartment and working at M.C.V. It gets lonely up here in the Nor-th sometimes, so why don't a lot of you write to me this Winter and give me a big report to send in for the next Bulletin.
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8325 Rolando Drive, Richmond, Virginia With the fall of '55 more and more of our class are coming back to Richmond to live. The Big Green just can't resist the magnetism of this city, and we are all glad for each one that comes back. Mary Lu and John Dorsey live at 4213 Grove Avenue. Lu is teaching math at Chandler Junior High School and John is working with Standard Oil. Polly and John Ran Smith have an apartment at 3110 Kensington Avenue . Barbara an::I Flats Flannagan have moved from Lawrenceville to 3921 Chamberlayne Avenue. Flats is with PolkM.iller Products, Inc. and Barbara teaches first grade at Laburnum School. Betty Rosenberger has finally made it back, and she's teaching math at Highland Springs High. Her home is at 2013 West Grace. I am back at home and teaching English at Douglas Freeman. Jane Gill, Ruby Vaughan Carson , Ida Speeks ( ·55), and I have our own Alumnae group there. Barbara Konkle Duke writes that she and Duke have a new home at Chalmette, Louisiam. The address is 3506 Montesquieu. Their home is not far from Mary Brunson Coates who has a son, born last summer. Jane Lanier is working toward her M.A. in English at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is taking voice lessons, and is a dorm counselor to sixty girls, as well. She writes , "J have been assigned to part of the huge new wom en's quadrangle just completed. It looks l•ike a tremendous hotel." Betsy Evans was in Richmond for a visit in early October. She is now living and working at Dellwood, Mt. Kisco, New York. Another New Yorker, Carmen Wong, is now Mrs. Hing Chung Tang. She and Jimmy have a son. Nancy Baumgardner is working toward a graduate degree in social work this winter at Washington University, a school of 12,000 in St. Louis. Teaching at Broad Rock Elementary School in Chesterfield County is Betty Gater. She and her family toured the country last summer, taking the northern route to California and returning by the southern route. Betty is taking German at RPI this winter, and is planning a trip to Europe in the summer. The next '54 wedding will be that of Ann Cardwell to William C. Saunders. Jane Betts' wedding to Buzz Schmitt will take place December 19. Jane is teaching at Ridge School again this year. Sue Perry and Tom Downing, Jr. , were married by Sue's father in a lovely ceremony at Ridgecrest August 23. Jane Betts, Jane Gil_l, and I went down from Richmond for the wedding. Sue and Tom are at 321 South Bayly, Louisville 6, K entucky. Nancy Harvey vacationed with her family in Michigan last summer. She and Bill Yuhase plan to be married sometime in the spring. Robbie Moyer is planning a winter wedding. She is at home in Bluefield. Back in Warwick this winter are Macon Da y and Snap Mapp. They were in Richmond one weekend in September for a football game, Sue Simpson Cooper has left Tidewater, temporarily at least. Billy was transferred to the Far North for a year. They have rented their home on Windmill Point, and Sue and little Billy are in Rocky Mount. Barbara . Magyar: has . finished her training at San Anton10 and 1s stat10ned for nine months at Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco. She l!kes the army very much, especially target practice. Married in August was Barbara Jones, now Mrs. Thomas Walker. Tom and Barbara are living m the Highland Park section of Richmond. Joyce Brandt completed intensive study in languages last winter at George Washington Uni-
versity, and met the extremely stiff requirements for a State Department Interpreter. She has the interesting responsibilities of guide and interpreter for visiting groups from foreign countries and is doing quite a bit of traveling. Don 't miss Hom ecoming if you can possible get here. We'll be looking for th e whole class.
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Secretary MISS ALICE CREATH River Road Apartments 307-A 73rd Street Newport News, Virginia
Wedding bells highlighted the summer for many members of '55 and teaching seems to be the most popular profession. Bev Drade Shull and Owen began the succession of ceremonies on June 4th. They will be living in Richmond until Owen completes his schooling at M.C.V. Hope Guaraldi Omohundro was married July 10th and traveled in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. Stuart is a student at Uiff School of Theology in D enver, while Hope is working in the production department of the Rogers Publishing Co. handling layout and advertising. Our letters to Micky Hardcastle are chasing her around the world, but I hope to give you news in the next Bulletin. Betty Moister is living in Richmond in role of a housewife. Ann Pettit was married to Harland Getts the end of June. While he attends the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, Ann will be teaching 8th grade math and science at Hugh Morson Junior High. June Hodges married John Meyers and is teaching in Charlottesville while John attends the Medical School there. Among July weddings was that of Norma Howard to Brock Mathews . Norma is doing statistical work at the Virginia Dept. of Highways, and is taking a night school course in shorthand. Carolyn Lindsay is teaching 1st grade in Hanover County after spending the summer in North Carolina where Jimmy had a home mission church. Bobbie Reynolds Orell and Durwood, after their June wedding, went to New Mexico where Bobbie is teaching Kindergarten in an army camp in Albuquerque. Polly Bundick Dize and Coeburn had their wedding on August 27th, followed by a honeymoon trip to Bermuda which she recommends to all. They live at Virginia Beach where she will be working for the Welfare Department. Janet Pace and Burrell Williams are living in a Richmond apartment and are both teaching the third grade at Crestview grade school in Henrico County. Burrell was pinned this summer to John Schultz. Joy Winstead has even made the front page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch with her feature of local news from the Northern Neck. On the way home from our camp in Maine Sue Smith and I joined Miss Miller for Dottie Smoker's marriage to Fred Nielsen. Teaching gym and hygiene in her former high schoo l is keeping Dottie quite busy along with housework. Fred has one more year of college. Sue Smith and Margaret English are living in Martinsville. Margaret has a 3rd grade whi le Sue teaches phys ed and health to high school girls. Betty Jean Parrish Knott and Charlie spent a honeymoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are now living in an apartment in Emporia and B. J. is teaching. We were sorry to hear of the fire that almost completely demolished the Parrish's home in Emporia. Betty Leigh Stembridge Leggett is in Louisville, Kentucky with Tommy who is stationed at Fort Knox. For a while after their July honeymoon in N. Y. they were at Fort Benning, Georgia. Virginia Murden feels like a "Veteran of the Foreign Wars" after her fall a few weeks ago. She says the hurt ankle has prevented her working. What do you think? Mary Anne Logan Mongan and Brenton pent their honeymoon in Bermuda and New York and are now sett led in Salem . Brenton is going to Roa-
noke College while Mary Anne is teaching 5th grade. Peggy Hall Flippen has a baby daughter, Shelly Marie. Arnette and Bob Neuville are still shar ing the same two-apartment house on Libbie Avenue with Peggy and Ed Flippin. Wedding bells rang for Angela Groth and Dick Guenther on September 17th. Jo Earnest did graduate work in music this summer in the mid west where she plans to remain during the winter. Ginny Thomas spent the swnmer at home and is teaching thi s fall near Alexandria. Janice Boyer spent a busy summer at home working and planning her wedding. As of Sept. 10th she is Mr s. Baldridge and will be living in Dur ham this winter while Bob is attending Duke Seminary. Barbara Turner is doing Child Welfare Work in Richmond, after a strenuous summer at Camp Pocahontas. The last we've heard was that Jean Crittenden was planning to do this same work in Richmond also. We have heard that Carlene Schuler Saxon has a son who is Harry, Jr. Margaret Glenn was married to Eugene Adams in June and is teaching in Tinsely ("Blue") Crestview. Marjorie Moeschler Hahn is also teaching there while her husband Henry is attending M.C.V. Allen and Ann King Cloyd had a wonderful honeymoon at Sea Island. After a few weeks in Louisville they made permanent headquarters at Jackson, Mississippi. Grace Mason is working as a bacteriologist in the Virginia State Health Laboratory. Also working in this Richmond Laboratory is Virginia Baumberger who became Mrs. Harold Gammon this swnmer. Jody Weaver has a job teaching music at a private girl's juni or high school in Maryland. Can you imagine her being a house-mother? Have you seen the new T.V. program on WTVR, "Stories for Children With Margery Moore Tay-
lor."? She says her best fan is her little girl. Margery plans graduate work soon, but not this winter. Shirley Garrett became Mrs. Maxon in August and will be living in Blacksburg. Peggy Armstrong was married to James E. Clark in August and th ey will make their home near Wake Forest where Jim is in the Seminary. Maritza Garrido is attending the Medical College of Virginia. This summer she received a pin from Poncho Gonzalez. Ann Tillman worked in Thalhimers this summer, but now is living at home and teaching school at Varina. Gail Tench is now married to Newton Miller and is teaching in Baltimore County. Ruth Owen and Nancy Johnson are both working in Richmond and are living together at Nancy's home on Laburnum Avenue. Pat Kantner Knick is following Raymond around the world. At Dale Harman's wedding to Jimmy Saunders I ran into Pat Minor who was collecting pointers for her wedding this fall. Margie Blevins Alexander and Sonny were married this summer. Jean Ruddle, Jackie Kilby, and I love our River Drive apartment in Newport News. Jackie and Jean are mathmeticians for N .A.C.A . at Langley Air Base. I bring home news of my screaming first graders . Among our foreign travelers was Myra Embrey who toured Europe, Italy. and Greece this summer. She has a labor atory research job including the biochemistry of the cell in the Cancer Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. We hope Alice McCarty and Ginny Swain will give us an elaborate report on their European trips in our winter bulletin. Sorry that news from everyone in our class didn't reach us before the dead line but hope that we hear from all in plenty of time for the winter edition. (Nov. 15th, that is!) By the way Alice McCarthy has our completed scrapbook.
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President: MRS. GILES E. Woon, JR. 5 Cambridge Place, Hampton , Va. The Peninsula Club had a picnic for the members, with their husbands and children, on September 11. On October 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Mary Campbell Paulson a dinner meeting will be held. Special guests will be Miss Keller and Miss Turnbull, who will show pictures and tell of their trip to Egypt, Greece and Spain.
President: MRS. ALFRED J. DICKINSON (Elsie Mattingly) 6101 Three Chopt Road , Richmond, Va. The Richmond Club opened its fall season with a tea for the incoming freshmen of Westhampton College who live in the Richmond area. Mrs. Randolph P. Tabb was chairman of the tea which was held in the home of our President, Mrs. Alfred J. Dickinson. Our guests were a large and enthusiastic group . On October 15, we had our fall luncheon in the College tea-room at which time Dr. Ralph McDanel delivered another of his well-enjoyed talks.
Washington Club President: Miss SHIRLEYw ARD 3901 Illinois Avenue, N . W., Washington, D. C. Recently elected officers for the year 1955-56 are: Shirley Ward, '54, president; Dorothy Knibb, '27 , vice president; Pat Winter, ¡49, corresponding secretary; Eleanor Rowan, ¡48, recording secretary; and Mary Lee Smith, '44, treasurer. The Club is making plans to publish a new directory for Washington Area members, and will participate in the annua l College Night Program (held in Western High School for prospective college students) on November 7. At the next scheduled meeting on November 19, guest speaker Flora Bridges will discuss "Japan" and show slides taken during her extensive travels in the Far East. Tea will be served.
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Southwest Virginia Club President: MRS. JOHN ABBITT (Anne Bing) Box 285. Blacksburg, Va. The Southwest Virginia Alumnae Club met on September 22 and made tentative plans for a tea in Radford early in November for senior high school girls from Radford, Blacksburg and Christiansburg. The number of seniors is very small this year, since our schools are just changing over to the twelve grade system . We are also p lanning another luncheon next April at Grants Tavern, with a faculty member from Westhampton as speaker , if possible. We may have a "social" meeting in January.
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Dr. Taylor was a grandson of the late ¡Rev. Dr. James Braxton Taylor , a founder of Richmond College. A prominent physician in diseases of the ear, nose , and throat, Dr. Taylor had been president of th e American Laryngological Society, the American Triologica l Society, and the American Bronchoscopic Society.
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Dr. Ryland Knight, a leading Southern Baptist minister for more than 50 years, died July 9 in Atlanta 's Georgia Baptist Hospital. Dr. Knight attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1896, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville where he received the Th.M. and Th.D. degrees. The University of Richmond conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity . In South ern Baptist Convention work, Dr. Knight served on ,the Foreign Mission Board , the Sunday School board, and the Home Mission board. He was a past president of the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. Before retiring to his home in Apopka, Fla., in 1951, Dr. Knight had held pastorates in four states, Georgia, Kentucky , Tennessee, and Missouri, in addition to those of the First Baptist Church in Pulaski and Calvary Baptist Church in Richmond.
1912G. Stanley Clarke, 64, Assistant Attorney-Genera l of Virginia , died August 31 in a Richmond hospital. Mr. Clarke had been counsel for the State 's Alcoholic Beverage Control board during its 21year existence. Attorney General Almond attributed the soundness and efficiency of the ABC system to Mr. Clarke 's "splendid legal guidance." Serving as a captain in the Twelfth Field Artillery during World War I, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star by Marshal Petain. He also held a divisional citation and another for gallantry in action. Mr. Clarke also was awarded the Verdun Medal. Hi s service ribbon was adorned by six stars. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond where he was a deacon for many years.
1932Clyde Eugene Moss, formerly an in structor of
mathematics at the University of Richmond , died July 4 at a Newport News hospital. Upon receiving a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1931, Mr. Moss enro lled at the University of Richmond and received his M.S. degree a year later. He returned to Richmond in 1934 where he taught for three years. He was connected with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for 12 years in the Engineering Technical Department before founding Butterworth and Moss Electrica l Contractors in 1952. In 1954 Mr. Moss was elected to serve a fouryear term on the first Electrical Board of the City of Warwick. Claude J. Overstreet, 49, a native of Bedford and active in hometown affairs for many years, died September 4 at his home. He was graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy and the University of Richmond and studied at the University of Virginia. Mr. Over street was a member of the Bedford Baptist Church, the Bedford Volunteer Fire D epartment, and the Lions Club of which he was past president. A veteran of World War II , he was a past commander of the Board-Canady American Legion post in Bedford. He was also a member of the Liberty Ma sonic Lodge in Bedford, the Woodmen of the \1(/orld and the Elks Lodge in Lynchburg .
1898Dr . Hugh G. Noffsinger, president of Virgini a Intermont College for 31 years until 1945 , died at Bristol Memorial Hospital, Bristol, Tenn., on July 25 . Dr. Noffsinger's Jong and distinguished career as an educator was marked by his efforts to establish Intermont as one of the outstanding Junior colleges in th e South. He was elected president of the American Associatio n of Junior Colleges in 1925 and president of the Virgini a Association of Colleges in 1932. In addition to the B.A. and M.A . degrees awarded him by Richmond College, Dr. Noffsinger received the honorary degree of LLD. from King College in 1937 and the degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Richmond.
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Dr. Herman Marshall Taylor, past president of the Southern Medical Association , died on September 22 in Jacksonville, Fla.
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