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Homecoming 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Accent Is On Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pena lties of Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Science- W ithout Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gridmen Blow Hot and Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

An Adventure In Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni In the News ............. West hampton News ..........

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TH E ALUMNI BULLETIN Published qua rterly at the University of R ichmon d by the Ge neral Society of Alumni. Entered as second-class matter at the Post O ffice, University of Richmond , Virgi nia, May 14, 1948. Subscription price: $ 1.00 per year .

VOL . XX Ocr o BER, 1957 No. 5 E. NETTLES , '30 . . . . • • . . • • Editor S. BOOKER, 'r2 •• WeBfhampton Editor VIRGINIA IVEY, '48 .•.... Law School Edilc,r THOMAS S. BERRY •... Busines8 School Editor ROBER'.r hl . STONE, '30 . .. Business Manager JOSEPH LES L IE

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Necrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Very Few Loafers Study, as Jo Hyde expresses it in a thoughtful article in the Richmond T imes-Dispatch, "is both necessary and socially acceptable in college. " This conclusion was reached after extensive interviews with students on both sides of the Uni versity Lake. The views expressed by these young men and women may be indicative of a quickening interest in intellectual and cultural pursuits. As Dean Marguerite Roberts says, "We get very few loafers these days." Dean Robert F. Smart is also of the opinion that college students are more mature , more aware of their real purpose in attending college, less concerned with the horseplay that too often makes for glaring headlines and a distorted picture of campus life . At any hour of the day and into the night students may be found at work in the library, and lights burn late in Thomas and Jeter and Wood halls, and in North and South Courts. Students are becoming increasingly aware of the competition at the academic level and increasingly aware of the fact that dullards and triflers will not be permitted to occupy classroom and dormitory space that could be used to better purpose by those who have come to college to learn. An evidence that students are maturing earlier is seen in the fact that marriages are being contracted by a surprisingly large number of undergraduates. These married men and women with family cares as well as academic responsibility are, in the main, making exceptionally good students. As Dean of Students C. J. Gray expressed it, a student doesn 't want to be shamed by carrying home "a poor report card to a wife who is helping to work his way through college." And the high school student who, in the words of his doting parents, "is really very intelligent and could do the work if he would apply himself ," may never get an opportunity to apply himself in college. With applicants increasing as they are, colleges will be able to accept their full quota from among those who are prepared-and have demonstrated their preparedness. [ 1]

THE GE:'-fERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNI Char les H. Ry land , '36 .......... President Jo hn H. Garlier , '16 .......• Vice President T . Ry lancl Sanforcl , Jr ., '27 .. Vice President A . W. Goo<le, Jr., '42 ....... Vice President \\Talter B. Anderson, '21 .... ...... Secretary EXECUTIVE CO;',UHTTEE ,v. Ro land Gah·in. '25 Joseph A. Leslie, '16 and the above officers THE ALUMNI COUNCIL Gar l and Gray , 'il ... ......... .. G. Edmon<l ~fassie, III ..... . Vice Vice Reed I. W est '30 .......... J oseph E. Nettles, '30 .... ........ Robert M. Stone, '30 ...........• EXECU T IVE

President Pres(derit Pres,derit Secretary Treasurer

COMMITTEE

Tha dd eu s T . Crum p, '48 R. L. Lacy, '18 Wi lli a m T . Mu se, '28 William T. Bareford, '46 and the abo ve officers

WESTHAMP

T ON COL L EGE ALUMNAE ASSOC I ATION .. . President F lorence Siebert, '33 . .. ...... Antoin et t e W irt h W hit tet, '41 . Vice Presiderit L esli e Sesso m s Boo k er, '22, Executive Secretary M ail all co n t ri butions an d news items to :Mrs. R. E. Booker, E xecu tive Secretary, "\Vesth a mp ton College Alumn ae Association, P.O ., U n ivers it y of Ric hm ond , Virginia . Gertrude Murrell d uPont, '31 H elen Pollard Deck , '32 -iJliwibers•af: He len Cau lfield Ba llard, '35 Large Mary Grace Scherer T ay lor, '42 Virginia LeSueur Carter, '53 F lor ence B . Decker, ' 17 } M:~;ry ~fills Freei'!lan ,, '35 Boa.rd of Trustees E h zabeth To mpk ms, 19 Harriet S. 'Willing h am, '26

LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION C. Ch ampio n Bow les, '26 • • . . . . . . President Dav id J. Mays, '24 ... ...... Vice President V ir g in ia Ivey, '48 ...... Exec11,tive Secretary Harry L. S n ead Jr., '50 ..... ... Treasurer DIRECTORS Ben j amin L . Campbell, '38 l J. Westwood Smithers. '32 f Three -year Term W illi am S. Goode, '40 Y. Me lvin Ho d ges, '24 Emory L. Carlton, '29 Two-year Term L . Sh ields Parsons , Jr., '42 Victor E. Pregeant, III, ' 48 } Anna F . He dr ick, '30 One-year Term Max 0. Laster, '35

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINIS'l'RATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION William Farmer, '50 . ..... ... •. . . President Gi les Eng ledove, Jr ., '51 ...... Vice President Edwar d Kurtz, '50 .. .... Secre tary-Treasurer Dr. Herman P . Thomas, '17, Faculty Representative

HOMECOMING 1957

Audrey Lynn Moncure

at the University of Richmond from the president to the lowliest "rat" will join in putting out the welcome mat for the hundreds of old grads who arc expected to return to the campus Homecoming weekend, November 8-9. Returning alumn ae and alumni will have separate programs on their respective sides of the University Lake Saturday morning and then will join in a noon luncheon at which the University will be host. VERYONE

Walter

Rival fraternities and other campus organizations alr eady are busily at work on th eir floats for the homecoming parade which will lead to City Stadium for the big footba ll game between the Spiders and George Washingto n 's strong eleven. Attractive homecoming programs have been worked out by alumna e and alumni committees, headed by Mrs. Richard Moncure, ·so, and Walter Clayton, '36. The ladie s will start the procession back

HOMECOMING CALENDAR Friday, November 8 6:45 p.m.-Alumnae 8:00 p.m.-After

Dinner, Westhampton

Dining Room.

Dinner Coffee, Reception Room, Keller Hall.

8:30 p .m.-Fine Arts at Westhampton Hall.

College, Reception Room, Keller

Saturday, November 9 9:00-10:00 a.m.-Alumni 9:30-11 :30 a .m.-Alumnae

Registration, Millhiser Lawn. Registration, Keller Hall.

10:00 a .m.- Alumnae Coffee with Mortar Board Hostess. 10:00 a.m.-Jay-Vee

Football: Bullis Prep School vs U. of R., Millhiser Field.

10:30 a .m.- Hockey: Alumnae vs Varsity, Westhampton 12:00 noon-Lunch,

Millhiser Gymnasium.

1: 15 p.m.-Homecoming 2 :00 p.m.-Football:

Hockey Field.

Parade, City Stadium.

George Washington

vs U. of R., City Stadium.

Cla yton

to the campLtS with th eir annual dinner in the Westhampton Dining Room on Friday night which will be followed by after dinner coffee and a line arts program in the reception room of Keller Hall. Participants in the program will be members of the dramatic department, the art department and the music department. The drama department, und er the direction of Alton Williams, will present a oneact play. Dr. John White, Mr. James Erb, and Mr. Robert Barker will give a tr io for voice, clarionet and piano and Dr. Roy Jessom and Dr. Frederich Neumann will give a number for violin and piano. The old gra ds will be back in force Saturday with the men beginning registration at 9 o'cloc k and the women -a half hour later. A hockey game between Westhampton varsity and ahrmn ae teams and a foot ball game between Bulli s Pr ep of W ashingt on and the Spider Jay-Vees will enliven the morning program. An unusual feature will be carill on music by Hilton Ruf ty, a member of the University's music department and Virginia's best known carillonn eur. Seated at the k eyboard in the tower of the Boatwright Memorial Library , Rufty will play appropriate music, including University of Richmond and Westhampton College songs. Seven of W esthampt on's loveliest, t he Homecoming queen and her court , will ride at the head of the parade and will preside over all of the days' festivities. The queen will be crowned at a ceremony between the halves of the footba ll game in City Stadium. Later the queen will present the Miller & Rhoad s trop hy to the campus organization sponsoring the winning float and the H arvey Hud son (' 42) trophy to the fraternity with the best float. There will be anoth er trophy for the best entr y, other than a float.

BiRRer and Better But

The Accent Is On Better ALT H OUGH the enrollm ent for the first Il. semester is the largest since 1948, University of Richmond officials were more impressed by evidences that the freshman classes in Richmond and Westhampton colleges are better prepared than any other entering classes in the school's history. That was the report from Dean Robert F. Smart at Richmond College. That was the report from D ean Margu er ite Roberts at Westhampton College. Both optimistic statements were based on the academic rank ing of the freshmen in their graduating classes in high and preparatory schools and, perhaps even more import ant, their prowess on placement tests in mathematics and languages. W esthampton College, continuing to justify a place among the nation 's top-flight colleges for women, opened the 1957-58 session with dormitories jammed and with a number of students living in the hom es of relatives and friends off campus . The enrollment of 490 was the highest on record; it could h ave been much high er had there been dor mitory space and other facilities for a substantially larger student body. Richmond College 's student body was a few below last year's total despite the apparent paradox that more old students returned and there was an increase in the number of enter ing freshmen over the preceding year. The difference was in the sharp decrease in the numb er of students accepted as transfers from other colleges. Although emphasizin g that he was not shutting the door on transfer stude nts. Dr. Smart was adamant in his policy of accepting only those transfers "who clearly deserve a place in our student body." The approxi mately 400 freshmen and a few transfers who finally were accepted for adm ission to Richmond College represented fewer than half of those who had sought admission. The wisdom of the selection policy was reflected in the p lacement test grades whi ch were the highest in the testimg program of Richmond College. At W esthampton where the academic level has been established on a very high plateau, freshman grades on the placement tests were again outstanding. Dean Marguerite Roberts was hop eful that the scores in the National College Freshman Program in which West hampton participates will be up to last year's magn ificently high standard. Among the 77 colleges, men's and women 's, which participated in the program , West hampton freshmen ranked eleventh. Among the women's colleges of the same

g roup it ranked second. On mathematics it ranke d fourth among the 77 colleges. Of the 152 colleges, men's and women's , that took the English achievement tests, it ranked eighth, and of the women 's colleges it ranked seventh . It is easy to und erstand, as Dean Roberts pointed out, why only two of last year's

freshmen were placed on academic probation at the close of the first semester. Both of them were able to pull up their grades during the second semester. Both Dean Roberts and Dean Smart were outspoken in praise of the scholarship program which enables the University to offer (Continued on page 9)

THE 1957-58 SESSION BEGINS with a formal convocation in Cannon Memorial Chapel. Seniors donned academ ic robes and marched with professors and other convocation digni taries in a procession that formed at th e Boatwright Memorial Library . Marshal Ralph C. McDanel, ' 16, leads the way . He is followed by Ellis West , president of Richmond Colleg e Student Government , who carries th e Universi ty mace .

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It's Not the Parkin!!,, It's the Con ~estion

Penaltiesof Progress By HELEN A. MONSELL, ' 16, Registrar, Richmond College "I got a car-You got a car, All Modlin's chillen got cars." So sung, or could or should or would have sung, every dean, professor, staff member and student in the University when college opened this fall-or at least so Mr. Irvin B. Clarke, supervisor of buildings and grounds, feels they must have sung. Over nine hundred and fifty cars. Count 'em . Mr. Clarke did. It is a problem that has snowballed tremendously from the halcyon days in 191S when the Westhamptonites were singing "And then we got a little dean To ride around in her machine ." Of course an occasional car had been seen in and around the old campus. A certain red-haired lad whose father was reputed to be a millionaire used to take Co-eds, during their vacant periods, for a spin out Franklin St. and even as far as the Reservoir Park. The powers-that-were never frowned upon this extracurricular activity-because the Coeds never let them know of its existence. The red-haired lad was gone, though, before the Hegira to Westhampton, so that the college's first year on the new campus, with the exception of one or two day students, was carless. Considering the state of the roads, that was fortunate. There was one approach to the campus over a strip of corduroy guaranteed to make the driver's teeth rattle. Another led down the hill from Three Chopt. After surveying both approaches, a visiting aunt, who came to see me graduate, asked to be allowed to get out of the car and walk. The campus roads, themselves, were as muddy as they were new, with frozen ruts as winter set in that jolted each bus load of Westhamptonites into fresh giggles with every jounce. Yes- there was a bus that

first year, variously known as The B1ack Maria, the Binky-dinky, and the Bust. Drawn by two mules, it met the early street cars and transported the day students to the Westhampton side of the lake. Presumably, it brought them back, but I can't seem to remember any return trips. Under such circumstances, suit case-toting was a major activity. My estimation of both faculty and Richmond College students was in direct ratio to their willingness to utter those magic words, "May I take your suit case up the hill for you? " And be it remembered in their praise, those words were freguently spoken, both by reverend Ph.D.'s and by Rats who hadn 't even been introduced 1 But there were times-a nd times- when no men appeared in the offing. Those were the days when the climb up Westhampton Hill was a long, long jaunt. During that first year we must have worn out both mules and bus, for neither reappeared in 1915. It was then that Dean Keller's Ford appeared, and President Boatwright's car. The honor, though, of being the first dormitory student to own and operate a car on the campus seems to belong, on the Richmond College side of the lake, to James Boyd Patton, Jr., and on the Westhampton side to Virginia Truitt - Mrs . George H. Swann. Now, cars in those days were born without such accessories as windshield wipers or heaters. Such trifles were still uninvented . You carried a ruler to thrust into the tank to find out how much gas you had. And when you saw a storm approaching, you pulled over to the side of the road, took out your car-curtains, and, if you were lucky, got them up before the floods descended. IL really didn 't make too much difference, though, because they always leaked anyway. Moreover , veils and gogg les were no mere

PIONEERS.Two of the earliest cars on campus were Dean May L. Keller's 1916 Ford and the Chevrolet owned by Mrs. Mittie Grove, director of dormitories at Westhampton. The man in the middle is Frank Elder, a chemistry professor and sometimes chauffeur for Miss Keller.

fripperies of fashion. They were stern necessites. Ventilation , brought about by turning a crank that raised the windshield, was about equal parts of air and dust. Such were the cars of the good old days- and worth every cent of the nearly four hundred dollars that they cost! The possession of one of them carried with it distinct social responsibilities. (It still does. That is why deans have headaches.) Mr. Patton remembers that "as many students as I would let get in" would make the trip whither and wherever Mr. Patton went. Moreover, it wasn't fair to lock himself into his room to study while his eager pub lic yearned for transportation to opera, vaudevil le, chop suey and such-like attractions. Mrs. Swann remembers equal distractions on a feminine scale. There was, for instance, the snowy Wednesday evening before Thanks giving when the turkeys hadn't been delivered to the dining room . Off she tooled with the dietitian down a slippery Cary Street to the wholesale market district , returning with Westhampton 's holiday dinner. It wasn't until after World War I, though , when the college returned to the campus that the automobile became an integral part of campus life. More and more of them appeared yearly, until I remember standing at my office window one morning in the mid twenties and counting nineteen cars in the circle at Ryland Hall! I was sure the saturation point had been reached. The campus could hold no more . But still they came- model T's, coupes, rumble seats, be-mottoed jalopies, woo-wagons, jeeps, puddle-jumpers, station wagons, convertibles. Many of them had personalities. Who will forget "Uncle Sam's" model T that brought the mail- and also as many

ALL THE WAY TO WILLIAMSBURG.The six intrepid travelers who made the overnight trip are, left to right, History Professor Susan Lough; Miss Lucy Bartholomew, French; Mary Robinson, English; Dean Keller, Professor Elder and Mrs. Grove.

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DIG THOSE CLAM DIGGERS!Their ankles exposed in this shameless attire, here are Mrs. Grove, Miss Pauline Turnbull, professor of Latin; the late F. Flaxington Harker, professor of music, and Dean Keller.

Science-WithoutFiction By MARK LUTZ, '26 The story of Franklin Institute's New Director of Museum Education, the Indispensable Robert W. Neathery, Jr. , '27.

of the world presents no more l.s cientifically explained mysteries for Bob Neathery than the creation of the universe, and to him a rocket trip to the moon is as plausible as the reason for the seasons. After all, science without fiction has been Bob's job for a long time now. Durin g the past twelve years he has delivered to moppets and the public in genera l, in Fels Planetariu m at Philadelphia's famed Franklin Institute, more than 2,250 lectures, with between 300 to 400 listeners at each, on topics ranging from the origin of the calendar to superstitio ns about the moon . Actually these lectures have been something of a sideline, for Bob's take home pay for fifteen years has been earned as a member of the science faculty at the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia. Until two years ago, when the strain of the schedule became -e ven for Bob- too great, he also coached junior teams in baseball and football at the school. During his fifteen years at the Academy a new science building was erected, and the science faculty, which consisted of only two instructors when Bob join ed the staff. has been doubl ed. Since Bob has the knack of being indis pensable it is not surprising that Franklin Institute has now latched on to him on a full time basis as Director of Museum Education . In his new position Bob will master mind a program which will reach yearly in excess of a quarter of a million children . The Museum Education Division supervises special school demonstrations in the Fels Planetarium, science films, lecture-d emonstration s by eminent scientists , children 's workshops, science fairs, service training for student teachers, and in-service courses for practising teachers. An important funtion of the Division is the Museum lesson in which (by using museum exhibits as visual aids) the Museum is integrated with class room studies. One of the steps which led directly to Bob's new and highly important assignment was taken three years ago when he agreed to devote his entire summer vacations to the preparation of huge chemical tables, forty by twenty feet each, where the ninety-eight chemi cal elements were represented, along with their samples and applications. While this project was in progress one of the Philadelphia science societies, concerned over the shortage of scientific personnel, asked Bob 1""""("°1H E END

to see what could be done among youngsters to stimul ate an interest in science. Bob organ ized demonstrations and lectures on a threeday a week basis, but these proved so popular they had to be repeated, and the number of days devoted to each subject had to be increased. Other scientific group s, impressed with the handling of the origina l project, asked help in presenting their story to youth. As a result, what had begun in a comparatively small way worked into the major program now undertaken at the Museum Edu cation Division.

Those who know Bob are aware that, in addition to having enough energy to shame a dynamo, he has a creative enthusiasm for whatever subject he undertakes. His talks on even the most erudite of themes are never of the dry, pedantic kind. Instead they take on a glow , an originality and an inspiration which fires the imagination of his audience. All of us who remember Bob Neathery recall that in addition to receiving enviable grades he also earned, at various outside jobs, enough to keep hims elf in cakes and 'shakes ( Continued on page 10)

BOB NEATHERY at his desk in Franklin Institute which houses educational historical exhibits portraying the advance of science. The Fels Planetarium duplicates our universe, showing the earth, sun, moon and other planets in relation to countless trillions of stars. Their order can be shown for any period in the world's history.

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GridmenBlowHot andCold By J.EARLE DUNFORD,

l"I 7 ITH NEARLYHALF its schedule gone, V Vthe Spider football team, strangely, had its followers still wondering how good it was. The record read 2-2. First, there were surprisingly easy wins over East Carolina College and Randolph-Macon. Neither team was conceded a prayer of beating Richmond, but the final scores were 40-7 over ECC and 40-0 over Randolph-Macon. In what was considered one of the toughest games on the schedule, the Spiders bowed only 12-7 to a University of Dayton team that scored in the final two minutes and then barely halted a Richmond drive goalward. But the Spiders got their lumps the next week at City Stadium in a game that from the U.R. standpoint was as miserable as the damp, raw weather. Richmond teams have been noted for their defensive play for the past six years, but seldom in that time has a Merrick -coached team looked so pitiful on defense. Final score: V.M.I., 28; Richmond, 6. (As THE BULLETIN went to press, the Spiders lost to The Citadel, 26 to O.-Ed.) The week before the V.M.I. game Spider alumni were glowing over the performance against Dayton. The two games contrasted strange ly as the gridders came to the break in the season. After an open weekend, there were games away against The Citadel, Rutgers and V.P.I. and at home against George Washington, Davidson and William & Mary. Despite the performance against the Keydets, there were some bright points and reason for optimism.

Jerry Landis, Quarterback

JR.,'48

Junior halfbacks David Ames and Mickey Marinkov, a pair of elusive 170-pounders who stand under six feet, had scored 18 and 26 points, respectively, and had shown plenty of speed. Joe Biscaha, a junior end, was developing into a steadier player and had scored at Dayton on a spectacular pass play. The line play, which disappointed against V.M.I., was magnificent at Dayton as again and again the Flyers were stopped short of the goal line. Freshman Bob Buffman, 230, was a standout as were veterans like co-captain Dick Eaton, Sonny Dean e, Fred Wilt, Gene Barkocy and Pat Lamberti . Game-by-game, here's the way the Spiders went: RICHMOND, 40; EAST CAROLINA, 7-It was much the same story as last year, when the Spiders romped, 45-7. This year five Richmonders got into the touchdown act in the game at Portsmouth. Joe Biscaha scored first, taking an 11-yard aerial from junior quarterback Jerry Landis four minutes after the start of the second quarter. The next TD came in the same period , as senior quarterback Jim Hoffman completed a 66-yard drive with a 38-yard pass to Mar inkov. The Spiders scored three times in the third period. Landis tossed a lateral to Ames who dashed 40 yards for the first score. Four plays later Lamberti recovered an ECC fumb le on the Pirates ' 20. Then junior fullback Buddy Davis bull ed his way to the 9 from the 25 after a Richmond penalty. Marinkov scored from th e 2 three plays later.

Joe Biscaha, End

The third TD of the period came as sophomore quarterback Joe Rossetti went over from the 1 after a 17-yard drive, featuring a 54-yard yard dash by John Boggs, a freshman fullback. Art D ' Arrigo , a freshman halfback , picked up the final touchdown, in the fourth per iod on a 1-yard plunge . The Spiders had gotten the ball following an ECC fumbl e on its own 20. Marinko v kicked three extra points, and Lamberti, one. ECC scored its lon e TD in the fourth period as Bob Maynard scored from the 2 and Carlton Math ews converted. RICHMOND , 40; RANDOLPH-MA CON, 0- Unfamiliar Spider names were in the news as UR, in its first home game, reeled off its first touchdown within two minutes and scored in every quart er. Mickey Marinkov skirted end for 33 yards for the first TD and David Ames counted twice-once on an 11-yard run and once on a 49-yard runback of a pass interception - but the youngsters accounted for the rest. Bob Dunnington , a 170-pound sophomore from Richmond, tallied from the 2 early in the third period to cap a 70-yard drive. Earlier in the game, Dunnington had pu lled one of the most spectacular plays of the night. He hauled in a Jacket punt on his own 40, elud ed several would-be tacklers and crossed the goal-to no avail, as a hold ing pena lty cancelled the score. The fifth UR score was by another local boy, freshman Carlton Rowe, a 200-pound halfback. Rowe smashed over from the 3 after Richmond several plays earlier had recovered a Ran dolph-Macon fumb le deep in Jacket terri-

David Ames, Halfback

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Mickey Marinkov, Halfback

An Adventure In Understanding By NANCY GOODWYN*

"WHAT

ABOUT DIVORCE in America?" "Does everyone have a car?" Do milny families have maids?" These are some of the questions I was asked in Italy this summer during my stay with an Italian family. \What an experience it was to live with these people, to participate in their activities, to learn their customs, and at the same time to see what they think of America! From the contacts I made ( my ideas are gathered almost ent irely from English-speaking Italians unless someone translated for me), I discovered several misconceptions which had been established from movies or reading material. First of all most Italians think of Americans as wealthy people, all of whom have automobi les, mansions, and maids. Although many of the upper middle class homes in Ita ly hav e maids, my Italian home did not ; instead the mother and two daught ers did the housework. Since I was to be an extra daughter for the summer, I tried to make myself useful when dishw ashing time came around. But my Ita lian mother, surprised that an American would offer to h elp in the kitchen, refused my help. It was quite a while before I could convince her that we had no maids in my home in America and that we young peop le are used to doing things aro und the house. Anoth er thing they all wond ered about was the divorce rate in America. Th ey've beard much about divorce from the movies, newspapers, and magazines; and it was hard for them to realize that all of Am erica is not like Hollywood and Broadway. On e girl told me, " Am ericans get married easier than Italians. Perhaps that is why the marriages do n't last." By thi s she meant that many Am ericans get married on short acquaintances; this is rare in Italy , for generally a girl never goes out with a man who hasn't been among her immediat e circle of friends for some time. Since in wellresp ected homes a girl does not go out alone with a man unless she has intentions of

marriage, most of the dating is done in groups; and there is more necessity for longer acqua intances before marriage. Another reason for their concern over the American divorce rate sterns from their religion. Since most of Italy is Catholic, divo rce is not accepted; and it is hard for them to con-

ceive of being married more than once when so much of their emphasis is placed on the home and family. Among the most impressive features of Italian culture is this close fam ily relation ship and the centering of interest around the home. Since married women rare ly seek emp loyment, they spend much more time in the home with their fami lies than many American women do; and they are not drawn away from the home by a myriad of civic organizations. In Italy such groups simply do not exist. Working hours in Italy are roughly from 9 to 12 in the morning and 3 to 8 in the evening, so that all working men can go home for the mid-day meal. This arrangement allows the men to eat a leisurely dinner, have a short rest afterwards, and to spend more time with the children during the day. Even young people seem more content to stay at home and spend more time doing things with the family . Before this summer, I had always pictured NICE BOSSY. Below: The author (right) and her Italian "sister, " Lucia Facchinetti, pause during a hike along an Alpine mountain side in northern Ita ly to make friends with a farmer's cow. Below them is an abandoned hotel. Left: Miss Goodwyn flanked by two of her "sisters" at a party given by the American visitors in honor of the Italian friends at whose homes they sta yed.

*Miss Goodwyn, president of Colleg e Government at Westhampton, spent the summer in Italy as Richmond's Community Ambas sador . Her trip was sponsored by 43 Richmond civic organizations. Richmond is one of some 70 American cities which sponsor such trips abroad in the interest of world peace and understanding . Richmond's first Community Ambassador , in 1954, was James A. Moncure, now a member of the history faculty at the University.

Italians as short and dark in appearance . Since this description fits only the Southern Italians, I was surprised when I met my friends of the North. Many of these people are very similar to Americans in appearance and, on the whole, they' re just slightly darker than the average American. There are blonds as well as brunettes; and fair-skinned Italians are certainly not rare around Bergamo , the region in which I lived . Just as in our own country we find sectional differences in opinion and attitude, so it is in Italy; but since Italy is such a small country I was surprised to find such a strong sectional feeling in the North toward the South. One day my Italian sister and I were out walking in the village when she pointed out several young boys, strangers in town, and said, "They're from the South." In our own country it would be ridiculous to make such a judgment at first sight, so I asked her for an explanation. She said they were shorter, darker , and-dirty. Upon closer observat ion I could distinguish the difference in stature and coloring, but I found the last part of her description a bit biased. The general feeling of the industrial North toward the more agrarian South is that the Southern Italians are lazy and un-progressive. This may or may not be true, but it did appear to me that poverty is more evident in the lower part of Italy than farther north. I had always heard that most Europeans u~ed segregation as a mark against the United States; therefore, I was quite interested to find out the thoughts of some of my Italian friends on this issue. The discussion first came up when one of the girls said she was afraid of all people with black skins, including other races, such as the Indian. When I tried to find out the reasoning behind her statement, I was only told that they were different, strange, and scarey. Then, as I was thinking how much this attitude toward segregation differed from what I had anticipated, she added that she couldn 't understand why we wouldn't let them go to school with us. By this time I wasn't sure what the attitude was, so I explained that only a part of our country was against integration and asked her how she would feel if she were faced with a similar problem in Italy. To this she replied, "It would be no problem, because I wouldn't be afraid of people with dark skins if I could see more of them ; and then we certainly wouldn't keep them out of our schools." Another Italian offered two alternatives: "Send all the Negroes back to Africa or allow the races to be mixed.' ' Perhaps I shouldn 't have mentioned either of these views, which are simply individual opinions and not ideas representative of the Italian people as a whole, yet these comments can be of some interest in -a consideration of attitudes. Once or twice I tried to stimulate conversations on Italian politics and government, but the young people were reluctant to talk about politics, so I was able to learn very little . Opinions on Mussolini varied. A num-

Rosemary: That's for Remembrance "Strike warm your cordia l hands , Good Hearts, from many I-ands Returned again . . ." While the older grads are chiming in on these lines from an old Alumni Reunion song to the tune of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," let's acquaint the younger grads with their author-LaFayette Rupert Hamberlin , the Poet Laureate of Richmond College. Mr. Hamberlin was born in Mississippi some two months before the boys in Gray sent their shells screaming over Fort Sumter. He was educated at Mississippi College, Richmond College and Harvard University; taught preparatory schools in Louisiana and Tennessee; was the first teacher of Speech ( then called Elocut ion or Expression) in Richmond College , 1890-1892; taught elocution or English at the University of North Caro lina, the University of Texas and Vanderbilt. Our Poet Laureate entered Richmond College in 1882. During his first year he won the Steel Medal for reading and the Woods Medal for public declamation, and was final President of Mu Sigma Rho. After promulgating the knowledge for six years in the South, he returned to Richmond College to finish his B.A. requirements while he was encouraging his fellow students to elocute properly. Mr. Hamberlin had published poems before he came to Richmond College. His first volume, called Lyrics, came from the press in 1880. Seven Songs followed in 1887, Alumni Lilts and Other Lines in 1892, A Batch of Rhymes in 1893, Venes, in 1895, and Rhymes of the War in 1899. Perhaps his best known poem is "Flossie,'' an old miner 's story. "The College Bell" and "Strike Warm Your Cordial Hands" will bring more tingles down your spinal column. Speaking of tingles, boys, just listen to this: Should you ask me what I know of That wild mystery, a woman, Of her mind, with all its fancies, All its whims and intuitionsRead the rest of the poem yourself 111 Alumni Lilts. With poems such as these Mr. Hamberlin made quite a hit while teaching at your Alma Mater. A handsome man, our Poet Laureate

ber of the Italians I talked with emphasized what they termed constructive changes he brought about for the good of the country. Most of them were willing to admit, however, that toward the end of his regime, his motives became selfish and his polices dictatorial. These are some of the impre ssions that I gained by living only a short time in Italy. Some of the Italians' ideas about the United

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Richmond 's Poet Laureate L R. Hamberlin the role of Damon.

was a graceful and attractive speaker, a popular teacher, a polished actor, and a delight ful entertainer, indulging with equal effect in the humorous, the pathetic and the tragic. One of his Richmond College students said: 'T d rather be with Hamberlin an hour than to talk with my best girl." Does any more need to be said ! The remains of the Poet Laureate rest in Hollywood Cemetery in our own city, which was the native city of Mr. Hamberlin's wife, Miss Lily Wilson. And now let's all sing these lines from the Reunion song. Let's sing with the same spirit that Mr. Hamberlin felt toward his beloved Richmond College : With mind, with heart, with hand, For her best weal we stand,And faithless him we brand Who shames her brow. -

WOODFORD

HACKLEY

States are true, other are not; but the concept of the "Experiment" is "that world peace and understanding will prosper as peoples really learn to talk to peoples." Certainly my one short summer has helped me in my quest for understanding; I hope that as one representative American I helped them understand what kind of people we are in the United States and how earnestly we are united in our desire for world peace.

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substantial scholarships to outstanding gradu. ates of high and preparatory schools. During the current year the University will give a total of $110,000 in scholarships, some of them based on financial need but others based solely on the academic ability and the char• acter of the students. Most of the larger sd10larships were made possible by a bequest of $2,700,000 by the late A. D. Williams. In addition to the Williams scholarships which range upward to $2,000 for the four.year period, many top students in Virginia high schools are attracted by the scholarships which are awarded to winners in the Univer• sity of Richmond•WRV A Radio Scholarship Quiz. Williams scholarships are available not only to students in the two undergraduate colleges but also are awarded to outstanding app licants for admission to The T. C. Wil. Iiams School of Law and the School of Busi• ness Administration. Reports from deans of the University's six divisions were made at the opening convoca• tion in the Luther H. Jenkins Greek Theater on September 26. In perfect early auh1mn weather the academic procession formed at Boatwright Memorial Library and moved across the lake to Cannon Memorial Chapel. There the students were reminded of the value of a college education by H. I. Willett, superintendent of Richmond's public schools. He told the students that Russia is spending twice as much money and is educating twice as many men and women as are being trained in American colleges and universities. They pricked up their ears when he said Russian students receive pay for attending classes. Most of the training is at the scientific and technical level, he said, with little interest in the humanities and with a distorted interest in history. The need today, Willett said, is for "hu . man engineers that are propaganda proof." He told the students that other countries not only "are looking to us but they are sending representatives here to study us in order to determine whether or not the Amer· ican brand of democracy in our republic is something that they want to follow. They are also interested in appraising our Judeo• Christian faith. " "Since other countries are appraising us," he added, "it is doubly important that we appraise ourselves to determine whether or not we are tending to grow soft mentally, physically and spiritually." At the close of his address the deans re• ported enro llments totalin g 4048 students, a slight increase over the 4012 of the previous year. This included more than 1200 part• time students in night classes of the School of Business Administration. The increase in the student body pointed up anew the need for additional dormitories, particularly new dormitories for men. Wood Hall, into which students moved last year, offered dormitory facilities for 76 additional

ESAU BROOKS 1957

Where 's Eas ? Alumni athletes of yesteryear upon returning to Millhiser Gymnasium invariably asked this question. Told that he was on the field, or in the equipment room, or in the training room, the visitor would go to pay his respects to Esau Brooks. Esau had rubbed the kinks out of the weary muscles of Mr. Frank Dobson's boys, and had soothed torn ligaments and strapped the ailing shoulders and shins of Mr. Glenn Thistlethwaite 's boys. He had ministered to the University 's athletic greats, working tenderly and ski]. fully with hands that seemed to possess the magic of healing . He had taped the wounds of Mr. Mac Pitt when he was a half.pint quarterback and taped the wounds of Mr. Ed Merrick when he was playing center for the University of Richmond. He gave the same care to the athletic warriors of another generation when Pitt and Merrick returned to coach University teams and direct the instih1tion's athleti c policies. Esau was no hero.worshipper. All men counted alike with him and he gave the same attention to the painful charleyhorse of an intramural scrub as he did to the wounds of the gridiron great. He was humble but never obsequious and he had a dignity that made him at home in any company. Eas was an institution and like all institutions ageless, although the obituary notice said he was 62 years old. He had been at the University of Richmond since 1914.

When he perished in the fire that destroyed his frame house on Ridge Road near the University campus, he left behind very little of this world's goods . But he left a host of friends, black and white , who gathered in the Mount Vernon Bap• tist Church to say a fond farewell. All agreed that Eas was a gentle soul with all of the attributes of a gentleman. He was kind and good. He knew how to laugh, an infectious, throaty chuckle . Laughter came but seldom to Eas during the last weeks of his life. With the death of his devoted wife, Willie, Esau lost the post to which his life had been securely tied. When he no longer could go home to Willie when the day was done, Esau spent most of his waking hours inside Millhiser Gymnasium. Just a few hours before death came to Esau Brooks, he had been hard at work in the training room, patching wounds and getting Mr. Ed Merrick's boys ready for their game with The Citadel.

students but several dormitories are desper • ately needed. They will be needed even more in the years immediately ahead if the University is to take care of its share of the army of well• trained students who will be seeking adm is• sion. New dormitories, a building to house the School of Business Administration, and a fine arts building head the listing of new struc• tures needed for the University development.

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girls as could crowd on? Or Coach Dob• son's open Buick, with its side.curtains? Or Miss Harris' s coupe? Or Dean Pinchbeck' s Leaping Lena? Or Billy Grant's little num• ber with the striped awning top? With World War II the onward rush of campus cars came to an abrupt halt. There were no new cars; there was no gas for the old ones. "My sister isn't going back to college this fall," a young girl told me. "That's too bad," I murmured. "Well, I don't blame her. What with all the boys in the service and no gas to go any•

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where weekends , herself, there is nothing left for a girl to do in college, these days." But after the war-Bingo! It was then that the parking problem first reared its ugly head. For the first time the pine.tree tract by Ryland Hall was invaded by jeep drivers who negotiated its ruts with veteran skill. But the wooded strip wasn't enough. More cars kept coming, and more and more. Between 1952 and 1957 the number on the campus rose from 350 to 950. Greensward and woods slowly gave way before them. Parking lots appeared by the dormitories, by the chapel , by the Social Center building - everywhere. And, as Irvin Clarke, the superintendent of buildings and grounds, points out, it isn't so much the parking; it's the congestion. At the end of each class period, all nine hundred and fifty car owners seem to want to get somewher e else at the same time. The result is a fruit•basket change that makes Broad Street at five o'clock look like a country pasture 1 Mr. Clark e sighs for the good old days when students knew how to use their feet for something else than stepping on the gas. Botanists mourn the rare clump of lady slip • pers now ground beneath the gravel of a new parking lot. Romanticists are reluctant to admit that the multicolored car tops be-

neath our Gothic windows equal in beauty the disappearing lawns and wooded kno_lls of the campus. But such are the penalties of progress. The cure for nostalgia is to remember the past in toto, or not at all. That toto must include the weary hours spent on street car sidings, the long treks across campus, the colds caught while waiting on stormy days for street cars off the tracks. To get where you want when you want to-that has been the slogan of Young America since oxen first labored over wilderness trails. Why should we expect it to be changed today? . .. "Don't worry," says young A~enca . _It won't be. Just wait until the helicopter hits the campus."

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at the Student Shop. However crowded the schedule moreover, he also found time to be staa-e' manao-er of the University Players (he w~n a key for his dramatic work with t?e group), to sing with the Glee Club, w~1t_e for the Collegian, and to be one of the ong1nators of the Harlequin Club. . Bob did post graduate work at Columb~a, Temple and the University of Pennsyl_vama. Somewhere along the line he taught ~n the New York public school system and m the Wooster School in Danbury, Conn. At one point he decided to become a?- engineer a~d was with the Western Electnc Company m that capacity, but education and teaching won out and he returned to his school work. For the past ten years Bob has served on the Science Committee on the Secondary Education Board, and he has just completed a five year tenure as a member of the Chemistry Examiners Committee of the College Entrance Board of which he was chairman last year. He is also a member of a for_midable number of distinguished profess10nal and honorary organizations concerned with astronomy, science and teaching. . Although teaching by day at the Episcopal Academy and lecturing at night and weekends at Franklin Institute would fill the waking hours of most folks, Bob ~as also since June of last year, found the tune somehow to conduct a Sunday afternoon program over Philadelphia's Radio Station WRCV. On this program Bob sets himself up as a target and a couple of bright youn~ people fire questions at him on such subjects as the whys of hurricanes, the hows of Nor~ern lights and the intricacies of the chemistry of the world, light, color, sound. (Bob has just begun telecasting weather over Channel 12, Station WVUE-TV, under General Electric sponsorship. The time is 11 :15 p.m. on Monday , 11 :00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday .-E d.) Bob who is the son of the late Rev. R. W. Neath~ry, '99, is a church layreader and a more than casual communicant at St. Mary's Episcopal Churd1 in Ardmore. Incidentally, the assistant rector there 1s the Rev. Larry M. Seyler, '5 0.

Some years ago the former Katherine S. Allen, of Dover Planes, N. Y., a graduate of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, became Mrs. Neathery. The couple has one daughter, Rosemary Ann, who recently married Robert F. Alwell, III, a graduate of Annapolis. The newlyweds currently live at Pensacola, Fla., where Ensign Alwell is stationed as a member of the Air Arm of the Navy. Oh yes, if you are interested in Bob's earlier mentioned knowledge about the end of the world take comfort ( or scare yourself) with his theory that in the foreseeable future ir won't be nature but man's own rash actions that may doom him. His ideas on the creation of the universe, the feasibility of a trip to the moon, and the alliterative reason for the seasons are much better explained by Bob and if you have never been to Franklin Institute then you are advised to visit it and to see its marvels and have Bob show you the fundamental applications of science in the Museum or a reproduction of the night skies, .. past, present or future in the Fels Planetarium.

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tory. The final score came after the Jackets lost another fumble-this one on their 21. Freshman quarterback Jim Boger, a Lebanon, Pa., boy ran 16 yards, and Rowe picked up four more and Boger pushed over. Mickey Marinkov converted four times. DAYTON, 12; RICHMOND, 7-Merrick-coached teams are noted for their defense and this was a game to prove the point. It also was a game to show the Spiders have an offense and they also have what is euphemistically called intestinal fortitude. The Flyers were favored to win this one - and they did, by a hair. Until the last two minutes, it looked as if the Spiders' TD in the first nine minutes would stand. The score followed a UR recovery of a Dayton fumble on the Dayton 31. Ames and Marinkov moved the ball to the 12. Landis made five around end and with a fourth down on the Dayton 7, passed to Joe Biscaha. The 6-2 end maneuvered around three defenders ( one of whom deflected the ball) and caught the pass for a touchdown. (The catch was a factor in Biscaha being chosen lineman of the week in Virginia by The Times-Dispatch sports staff.) Mickey Marinkov added the most important extra point. Dayton cut the margin to one point before the half. A 57-yard drive, including one run that ate up 39 yards, ended as Dayton's fullback plunged over from the 1. But the extra-point try was wide. Six times before the end of the half, Dayton was inside the Richmond 40 with first downs. No time did the Flyers score. On the deepest penetration, incomplete passes, a 4-yard loss on an attempted pass and four penalties thwarted the drive. In the fourth period, the Spiders continued to hold-once when the Flyers had

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a first down on the Richmond 13 and ended up surrendering the ball on the 17 and again when they couldn't tally on four plays inside the 9-yard line. Then, with the ball on their own 40, a 57-yard pass connected and seconds later (with 1 :47 remaining) the Flyers jumped to a 12-7 lead. But it wasn 't over. With the ball on his own 44, Richmond's Jerry Landis looped a screen pass to Bob Dunnington, who scampered to the Dayton 15. An interference call on the next pass gave the Spiders a first down on the Dayton 11, with 25 seconds to go. Landis faded back again, threw the ball-and Dayton intercepted. That was it. V.M.I., 28; RICHMOND, 6-The Keydets always field a speedy, tricky, spirited ball club that will put on a good show against anyone. This time was no exception. But the V.M.I performance was more sparkling than usual because of a brilliant array of backs, and the Spider defense was as poor as it has been in perhaps any game since Merrick took over. In one spurt the Spiders looked good. That was in the second quarter when, trail ing 14-0, they drove 72 yards to a TD, with Buddy Davis driving over from the 2. Ames had two good runs in the drive, one an 18yarder. Quarterback Landis set up the score by dashing 15 yards to the 2. Marinkov's conversion was good. But a penalty nullified it and his second try was unsuccessful. After the Spiders had staved off additional V.M.I. threats, UR alumni at halftime figured a good spurt might give their boys the game, even though two TD's would be required. That was simply wishful thinking. Ames sat out the second half with a bruised leg. But it's doubtful if he and tackle Pat Lamberti, also a second half benchsitter, could have changed the complexion of the game. V.M.I. couldn't be stopped and Richmond couldn't start. The Spiders seemed at times to have forgotten the fundamentals of tackling. The Keydets ' 14-6 halftime advantage was the result of a 98-yard drive and of an 18yard push following V.M.I's recovery of Ames' fumble of the ensuing kickoff. The Keydets scored in the third period on a 38yard run and in the four quarter on an end run with 1 :25 left. The Keydet backfield of Sam Woolwine, Duke Johnston, Pete Johnson and Bobby Jordan left little to be desired. V.M.I. rolled up 254 yards on the ground to Richmond's 133. The Spiders' passing record: two of 10 attempts for minus 16 yards. By contrast, UR had totalled 302 yards rushing and 81 passing against ECC; 281 and 41, rushing and passing, respectively, against Randolph-Macon, and 117 and 71 against Dayton (which had roughly twice that amount in each department). Perhaps the worst was over. But no remaining team was a pushover and V.P.I., \Villiam and Mary and Rutgers would be especially tough.

HENRY TAYLOR RETIRESAS AGRICULTURE REPORTER

1893Dr. W. C. James , pastor eme ritus of Grove Avenue Baptist Church, celebrated his 90th birthday and his 64th wedding anniversary recently.

1909G. Edmond Massie has been appointed chairman of the State Compensation Board. H e was formerly a tat e sena tor from Richmond.

1916K. Bro oke And erson sailed September 6 on th e Exochorda for Beirut and from there flew to Gaza.

1918Th e Rev. H . D . Anderson has retired from May Memo rial Baptist Church in Powhatan , Virginia. H e is living in Powhatan. Clinton 1. Mason is working in the bank 10 Chincoteague, Va. He lives in New Church.

1920The Rev. David W . Charlton , pastor of Heights Methodist Church, Fayett evi lle, Caro lina, has pub lished a collection of 17 tions und er the title By These Things M en

Wesl ey North medita-

L ive.

1925Dr. Emmett Y. Robertson was feted at a rece ption September 6 at Park Avenu e Baptist Church on his 25th anniversary as its pastor. Dr. Esmond Mari ll a has been promoted to Professor of English at Louisiana State University. H e has been with the University since 1942.

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Henry M. Taylor, ' 12, who chronicled Virginia 's agricultural growth for a third of a century, retired Septe mber 30. Mr. Taylor's retirement came after continuous service since 1919, except for a fiveyear stretch of World War II army duty, as head of the Virginia Co-operative Crop Reporting Service. In his role as chief agricultural statistician , Mr. Taylor issued monthly reports on crop cond itions and estimates of yield and pro duction. In addition, his office produced annual summary reports on crops and livestock, weekly reports during the growing season and numerous special reports dealing with many phases of Virginia agriculture. The federal-state statistician was adviser for many years to state and federal farm officials. In 1955 , he was the recipient of a United States Department of Agriculture award for superior service. In 1956, he was cited again by the federal agency, this time for "outstanding service in planning and directing the Virginia Federal-State Crop Reporting Service and invaluable assistance in planning nationwide crop reporting and census programs. On the eve of his retirement, the Richmond Times-Dispatch paid editoria l tribute

Elliott Campbell is Clerk of the Court at Bowl ing Green, Va . He is the author of a 500 page

PHILOLOGIANS LEARN FROM OLDEST PREXY

His tory of Caroline County.

1928Oscar W. Fary Jr. added to his duties as principa l of East End Junior High School the principal-

U OF R ATTORNEY DEFENDS IN 600 MURDERTRIALS W. A. Daugherty, '08, a Pik eville, Ky., lawyer, may hold some kind of a courtroom record . The possib le record, as related by Gerald Griffin in an article appearing in the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine, is this: Mr. Daugherty "has been defense counsel in more than 600 murder cases during his 55 years of pract ice in the mountainous corner of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia; and not one of his clients ever was executed. Only one of them was sentenced to death. But "Judge" (an honorary title) Daugherty induced the Governor of West Virgi nia to pardon that one." The article recounts some of the Pikeville attorney's more celebrated cases and calls Mr. Daug herty "a philosopher wit h a deep respect for the law." Mr. Daugherty told his interviewer that he "certainly had a wonderful time as a lawyer. It has been just as natural fo r me to practice law as it was for me to grub g rubs and plow the land when I was a boy. If it's not in a fellow to be a lawyer, you ju st can't put it in him."

to Mr. Taylor. The editorial said in part: "Mr . Taylor is the sort of officeholder who is found too rarely in this or any other country. Efficient, thorough, cooperative, courteous-always 'on top of his job' and able to deal effectively with the myriad questions which come to a man in his position-his service has bte n conspicuously good. "It has been a material factor in promoting farm prosperity in Virginia, for the vital facts which Mr. Taylor's office made available to the people of the Commonwealth, and particularly the farmers, have been of substantial help in making Virginia 's agricultural population prosperous. "

Present members of the University 's Phi lologian Literary Society have learned firsthand of the society's activities more than a ha lf century ago. To the oldest living past president of th e society, the present members extended an invitation to describe the society's program near the turn of the century. This assignment went to Dr. John W. C. Cammack of 4700 Brook Rd ., who was president of the Philologian Literary Society ( and also winner of the society's best debater's medal) 58 years ago. The meeting with the Phi lologians was one of the high spots during a spring period when Dr. Cammack marked a number of anniversaries. June , particularly, was a noteworthy month for the retired Baptist minister , who is a former president of Averett College and former chaplain at Fork Union Mi litary Academy. During June, alone, he celebrated the 60th anniversary of the date of his ordination as

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1929Rev . W. B. Watson became pastor of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Goochland Co. October 1. H e previous ly was pastor of On ley and Broadway Churches in Accomack Co. His daughter, LaVerne , is a junior at \Xles thampton Co llege.

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a minister , the 52nd anniversary of the date he received his certificate of graduation from the school of philosophy at the University of Virginia , and the 44th anniversary of the date he received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity. Although officially retired, Dr. Cammack i:; busily engaged now as supply minister and adviser to congregations seeking full-time pastors.

1930Th e Rev. Charles A. Morgan has resigned as pastor of Betha ny Plac e Church in Ri chmo nd. H e will continue act ive service in the ministry.

1933Howard P. Falls has been elected national vice president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra-

JOHNSONS LEAD CELEBRATIONOF INDONESIAN HOSPITAL In the words of Mrs. W. B. Johnson, wife of an American missionary, it was a "day long to be remembered by Baptists in Indonesia." The day was February 28. The place Kediri, Indonesia. On that day, Mrs Johnson wrote in a recent issue of the Religious Herald, "we were celebrating the formal opening and dedication of our first Baptist hospital in Indonesia and two years since the opening of the first clinic." At the dedication, the article stated, her husband, the Rev. W. B. Johnson, '21, "spoke along general lines to clear up some possible misconceptions." Mr. Johnson, who is treasurer of the Indonesian Baptist Mission, said at the dedication program: "We came to Indonesia in 1951 with just the program of Jesm Christ who 'went about tead1ing, preaching and healing all manner

of sickness and all manner of diseases.' The money for this hospital was not given by rich Americans, but by Christian people, members of our Southern Baptist Churches, peop le like you and me. They gave the money for this hospital because they love the Lord and the Indonesian people. "The Southern Baptist Mission does not want subsidy from the Indonesian government. These missionary doctors and nurses do not get their sahries from money made in this hospita l, but are paid by our Foreign Mission Board. This hospital is an expression of the desire of the Christian people of America to provide a good place for medical healing of sick people in Indonesia, a service rendered in the spirit and love of Jesus Ch rist. Our missionary doctors and nurses have the be:;t training available in America. They have dedicated their lives to ministering to the sick in the spirit of the Lord."

SAMUEL HAUSER PILOTS PEOPLESLIFE TO NEW RECORD There's no question in Samuel W. Hauser's mind as to why Peoples Life Insurance Company of Washington bas enjoyed rapid growth. Mr. Hauser, '29, president of the company since 1944, told a Washington interviewer that "the growth of this company is due to the combined efforts of some 1,600 persons who work for it. Peoples Life is fortunate in having a well-trained agency force with high morale, backed by an efficient home office staff. The results speak for themselves." The results do speak well. In 1944, when Mr. Hauser became president, Peoples Life had assets totaling $24,759,459 and inrnrance i['_force amounting to $267 million. Twelve years later, at the end of 1956, assets stood at $110 million and insurance in force at $592.5 million. This growth is continuing. Spurred by a "Trip to Bermuda" campaign in whim some 1,000 men and their wives will take all expenses paid trips to Bermuda, the amount of insurance in force at the end of June, 1957, bad reached a record $637 mil-

lion. Company officials now are looking forward to the time when Peoples Life will move into a new four million dollar home office building that will give the company three times the amount of space now available in the 12-story building purchased in 1924. Mr. Hauser joined Peoples Life as an actuary in 1935 after serving for 15 years as an examiner and a~sistant actuary with the Virginia State Bureau of Insurance and Banking. The state job meant constant traveling and "I was in the mood to listen to a job offer that meant staying in one place and sleeping at home," he explained to an interviewer. In two-year jumps, he served successively - and successfully- as assistant secretary and actuary (1938), secretary and treasurer (1940), vice president and treasurer (1942) and president (1944). Mr. Hauser, who is married and has one son, a student at American University, makes his home in Arlington. His favorite pastime is gardening and his specialty is tomatoes'Tve been growing them for 21 years."

ternity at its convention in Oklahoma City. He is moderator of the Richmond Baptist Association. Gordon E. Marks , president of the Seminole Bank of Tampa, Florida, reports that the bank had passed the $5 million mark in total assets on its first birthday in April.

mittee for the Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists.

1935Commander Beverley L. Britton , USN, has assumed his new duties as Public Information Officer on the Staff of Commander , U. S. Naval Forces Philippines.

1936William J. Fallis, editor of the Broadman Press in Nashville, was an advisor to the editorial com-

1937Bill Robertson has completed a tour of duty with the Navy as director of physical education and recreation at their school in Naples , Ita ly. The Rev . Fred T. Laughon, Jr., is the new pastor of the First Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida. He formerly was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Orangeburg, S. C.

1938Dr. Reuben E. Alley, Jr., has taken a new job at Bell Laboratories, after teaching last year at Washington and Lee. The Rev. Francis Wm. Tyndall visited Spain

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for six weeks in the summer. In March he held the first service of Ho ly Communion to be said in Spanish in the Episcopal Dioceoe of Chicago . The Rev. Paul B. Watlington , Jr., has accepted a call to Calvary Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia. He had served as pastor of the Orange Baptist Church for the past seven years .

1939Herbert S. Marks has been electeJ president of Morton Marks & Sons Inc., a Richmond office furniture an:l commercial desi<>n firm. He succeeds his father , the late Morton Marks, Sr. Col. Geor{(e L. Oliver graduated June 20 from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa . This is the Army's highest educational institution . Wi lliam H. Sanders, Jr., was general chairman of the Richmond Citizens Fire Prevention Committee. The committee planned Richmond's observ ance of National Fire Prevention Week October 6-12.

1940Dr. James M. Fredericksen has been appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry at Davidson Colle{(e. Dr . Fredericksen received his Ph.D . degree from the University of Virginia. G eorge Rumney has been promoted to the grade of Lt. Col. as a Chaplain in the USAF Reserve. The Rev. Jack Noffsinger has accepted a call as pastor to the Knollwood Baptist Church , WinstonSalem, N. C. Capt. Allan J. Phaup, Jr., is now stationed at Schilling Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas. He is Assistant Base Adjutant as we ll as Assistant Adju tant of the 802nd Air Division.

1942M1jor John Newton Gordon bas been assigned to the Dep:irtment of Neuropsychiatry at Walter Reed Army Hospital. R. Braxton Hill , Jr.. of Norfolk has been elected president of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants .

1943Dr. John H. Wotiz has been appointed group leader for the Diamond Alkali Company's exploratory research department at Painesville. Ohio . T inwood Horne is completing his thesis for the Th.D. Degree from Southern Seminary in Louisville , Ky. Lin is pastor of the Walnut Hill Baptist Church in Petersburg . Marvin F. Cole has opened his new law office in Richmond .

1944Born: A son , Myron Craig, to Dr. and Mrs . J. Ralph Noonkester , Au{(ust 12. Dr. Noonkester is president of William Carey College , Hattiesburg , Miss. Born: A daughter, Annie Grace, to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Snead, April 22 in Richmond. F. E. Wheeler is the Plant Accountant with the American Cyanimid Company in Piney River, Virginia . Engaged: Mary Byrd Tignor of Richmond to Jack Dinwiddie Lewis.

1945Engaged: Phyllis June Parks , daughter of Mr . and Mrs. Archie Earl Parks of Canisteo, N. J ., to Frank William Mann, Jr. Rev. Stephen W . Glover is now pastor of Glen Allen Baptist Church. He was formerly pastor of Webber Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond. Rev. C. Bailey Jones is the new pastor of the West End Baptist Church in Suffo lk. He was formerly pastor of the Sandston Baptist Church.

1947Thomas Wi lliam Turner received the degree of Master of Pub lic Hea lth from Harvard University in June.

NEAL WRIGHT , JIM HEFFERNAN PROMOTED BY C.&P.

Born: Pamela Jane Connelly to the Rev. and Mrs . Hester Wa lton Conne lly, Jr. , March 30. Dr. Donald H. McGlery has accepted the position of Biochemist at the Institute of Patho logy, Rhode Is land Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island . William Barnes Propert has taken a position with Trevvett , Christian & Co., Inc. , a Richmond printing firm.

1948Hilton W. Goodwyn, Jr. , has been promoted from Accounting Supervisor to Assistant Secretary Treasurer of the Commonwealth Natural Gas Corporation. Nicholas J. Dementi is now Chief Accountant with Cliff Weil Inc . in Richmond. Born : A daughter, Lisa Marie , to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. (Pat) Velenovsky , September 4.

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Two University of Richmond graduates have accepted new positions with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia. James Nea l Wright, '2 1, has been named general ,:taff personnel supervisor. James D. Heffernan, '49, has assumed his duties a,, uptown district plant manager in Richmond. Mr. Wright, who started his telephone career in 1916 as a central office repairman, will handle labor relations and associated subjects in his new post. His career with C&P also has included service as exchange wire chief, plant methods supervisor, general plant employment su-

pervisor and general plant personnel supervi,or. Mr. Wright, who is married and has one son, James, also a University of Richmond alumnus, is a past president of the Old Do minion chapter of the Telep hone Pioneers of America. Mr. Heffernan began his telephone career iu 1946 as a lineman with Southern New England Telephone Company. He was granted a leave of absence to attend the University and after graduation joined C&P. In h is new post, Mr. Heffernan, who is married and has three daughters, will be in charge of all plant activities in his area. He formerly held positions in C&P's plant and accounting departments.

SANFORD, GRIGG JOIN TEXAS PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT Dr. Fillmore H. Sanford, '3 5 (right), and Dr. Austin Gr igg, '40, are now working together in the psychology department at the University of Texas in Austin . Dr. Sanford, from 1950 to 1956 executive secretary of the American Psychological Association and editor of the journal, the Ameri-

can Psychologist, is professor of psychology at the University of Te~as. Dr. Grigg, who taught at Alma Mater from 1948 to 1955, is assistant professor. On August 27, Dr. Grigg 's wife, Helen, presented him a 7-pound, 3-ounce son who has been named Kenneth Carver Grigg.

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Morton Marks, Jr., has been named secretarytreasurer of Morton Marks Sons Inc., a Richmond office furniture and commercial design firm. Thomas Ellsworth Wilkinson became a partner in the firm of Elkins , Holt and Bruner July 1. Louis F. luechauer has returned from three months in Cologne, Germany, in connection with his work as chemist with the American linen Supply of Chicag o. Born : A daughter , Susan lean , to Mr . and Mrs. William F. Ludlam, February 18 . The ludlams 8.lso have two boys, Frank , 4, and Dan , 3. The Rev. Walter B. Barger is now pastor of Montrose Baptist Church in Richmond . He previously was pastor of the Warsaw Baptist Church .

1950James A. McClellan, who was a psychology major of U. of R., received his Doctor of Optom etry degree from Southern College of Optometry in June and has just opened his office in Farm ville. After his graduation he entered the Air Force and served in Korea durin g the Korean Conflict. While he was in the Air Force, he attended Bucknell University. U pon his separation from the Air Force in September, 1954 he entered the Southern Colle~e of Optometry. The Mc Cle llans (Jim , his wife Ann e, and children Susan and James , Jr.) live on Milnwood Road, Farmville, Virginia. The Rev. Aubrey J. (Buddy) Rosser is the new pastor of Webber Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond . A varsity football player while he was at the University, he has held pastorates in South Boston and in Pittsylvania County. H e is married and has two sons. The Rev . George W . Bowman, III , has accepted a call to become pastor of Faith Church in the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond . He is married to a Westhampton College graduate, Mary Catherine Bunting , and the couple hav e two small children , Karen and Gregory. T homas l. Howard has been elected to a seat on the Richmond City Democrati c Committee . He was one of thre e elected from seven candida tes. After graduatin g from the University, he served in the Navy. The Rev. Ernest l. Harris underwent a gall bladder operation at Johnston-Willis Hospital in Richmond around August 1. He is now at home again in Buckins>ham, Va . Grayson E. Tuck has been promoted to Accounting Supervisor at the Commonwealth Natural Gas Corporation. He was previously a Senior Accountant. Henry L. Bishop , Jr. , has taken a position in the Accounting Department of the National Ani line Division , Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation. Mr. Bishop lives at 1002 Forest View Drive , Richmond . Born: James Ethan Rubin , to Mr. and Mrs. E. Manning Rubin, 1606 Westhill Road , Richmond. Son No. 2 was born on his father's birth day, May 18.

1951Born: Carey Stephen Pittman, to the Rev. and Mrs. Albert Calhoun Pittman of 3462 Lakewood Drive, Dayton 10, Ohio, June 12. Mr. Pittman is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dayton. Giles C. Engledove, Jr., has taken a position as Commercial Representative with the Vir gini a Electric and Power Company. He has been a member of several Richmond civic organizations and is a 1)1ember of the Downtown Club of Richmond. Wi lliam Shahda has been teaching accounting courses at Centenary College in Shreveport , Louisiana. He received his M .B.A. degree from Whart on School of Finance and Commerce in February. 1956 W. T. Hawk s ha s a uniqu e department in his store, Broadway Lumber Company, 7210 W. Broad Street, Richmond. Using his customer's own dimensions and specifications , h e sells do-it-yourself packag es that have the lumb er already cut and ready to assemb le. With all the other necessar y materials included in the package , all the custome r has to do is go home and assemb le the pieces.

1952AN ADDITION OF 30,000 SQUARE FEETwi ll increase by one-third the size of the plant of the rapidly growing A. H. Robins Company, Inc. The addition wil l adjoin the present plant (at the left of the insert of President E. Claiborne Robins, '31.)

A. H. ROBINS CO. EXPANDS PLANT Once again plant expansion has become a necessity at A. H. Robins Company, Inc., Richmond's steadily-growing pharmaceutical firm, which has mushroomed in recent years under the leadership of E. Claiborne Robins, '3 l. Now rated among the nation's top ten drug manufacturers, with medical service representatives in many foreign countries and covering every community in the United States, A. H. Robins has nearly 200 emp loyees at its home plant here and over 500 in the field on its sales staff. In addition there are warehouse and office personnel at its branches in Montreal , Canada; Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. Increases in research projects and over -all business has induced Robins to add more than 30,000 square feet of space at the home plant at 1407 Cummings Drive, where the firm rnoved not quite five years ago when it outgrew HS Ellen Road quarters. In 1953, the new mult,million dollar plant was finished and considered of a size that would not demand expansion for many years. But, grow the company did , and the over-half a million dollars expansion construction that started in mid-September may within another five years again become inadequate. E. Claiborne Robins is the grandson or Albert Hartley Robins, founder of A . H . Robins Company in 1878 , a Confederate Army veteran who saw four years of service as a member of Mahone's Brigade in the defense of Richmond. It was nearly 80 years ago that Robins placed its first product on the market. The company was then an "ethical" manufacturer , and it still is today, with, of course, many more products lining the shelv es of drug stores in a ll parts of the wor ld. Alb ert Hartley relinquished the manufacturiog end of the business to his son, Claiborne, around

l900 , but continued to operate his drugstore on East Marshall street until 1920 and lived to the grand old age of 96. Claiborne, a graduate of the University of Richmond (Robins Field is named in his honor) and the School of Pharmacy at the Medical College of Virginia, died unexpectedly in 1912 , leaving his widow , Martha , and son, E. Claiborne , then two years old. Mrs. Robin s carried on operations through the good and bad years of the 'twenties and ear ly 'thirties , when her son became actively associated in management of the company. A graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A. , Class of '3 1) and of the Medical College of Virginia's School of Pharmacy (B.S ., '33 ) Claiborne took over the preside ncy of A. H. Robins Company , Inc., in April of 1936, upon his mother's retireme nt. (Mrs. Robins died in a Richmond hospital on Sunday , September 22nd at the age of 74.) Starting out with a small amount of borrowed capital ( on a personal signat ur e from the Central Nationa l Bank , of which he is now a director) Cla iborn e visited physicians throughout the nation and estab lished a routine that some years lat er was to see the company grow to its present stature in the pharmaceutical world. E. Claiborne ( the E. is for Edwin) married Lora E. McGlassen of Waco , Texas, in Jun e of 1938 . They have three children, Lora Elizabeth , born in October of 1940 , E. Claiborne, Jr. , born in August of 1943, and Ann Carol, born in October of 1945. So in three generations the ethical pharmaceutical business has been operated and wholly-owned by the Robins family. The firm now includes A. H . Robins Company, Inc. , A. H . Robins Company of Canada, ltd., and A. H. Robins Int erAmerican Corporation.

SHOTZBERGER ACCEPTS KALAMAZOO Students and his associates on the faculty, as well as a h ost of friends down town, join in best wishes for Martin L. Shotzberger, '48, who has left the University of Richmond to become director of the Industrial Relations Center of Kalamazoo College in Michigan. "Shatz '' was director of the University's

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evening division of the School of Business Administration and had carried the enrollment there to new heights. He returned to the University of Richmond in 19S 3 after teaching economics at Lynchburg College and doing graduate work at Ohio State University.

David P. Beverly is back at the University studving for a M.A . in Pyschology. H e also has a new job, that of Probation Officer for Henrico County. Married: Elinor D orsk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Dorsk of Petersburg to Allan S. Bloom on Dec ember 23, 1956. Allan was released from the U. S. Army Medical Cor~s in September , 1956. The Blooms are living at 4911 Monumental Avenue in Richmond. Engaged: Charlotte S. Pole to Jess H . Walters. Jess is in Honolulu this year working as a researcher in the Legislative Reference Bureau and assistant professor of governme nt at the Univessity of Ha waii. The wedding is planned for next summer. Married: Elizabeth Ann Davis to the Rev. Malcolm Maclaren Hutton, August 30, in Norlina, North Carolina. Rev. Hutton is pastor of Norlina Baptist Church . Married: Thelma Greenberg of Manchester. New H ampshire to Richard Florin , July 27. The Florins are living at 234 Eagle Rock Avenue. West Orange , New Jersey. Married: Brenda Roger s Park to Norman R. Dodi, Jun e 29, in Lithonia, Georgia. Norman is principal of Yorkshire Elementary School in Prince W illiam County, Virginia. Andrew C. Garnett has received the Four Star Achievement Award given annua lly to three outstanding salesmen at Sears Roebuck & Co. H e is Division Manager of the Jewelry Department at Sears. Philip Joseph Snider, Jr. , received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in June. Dr. Snider lives at 4910 Patterson Avenue. Robert A. Gollwitzer , a student in the T. C. Williams School of Law , passed the Virginia State Bar Examination given June 28-29. Married: Geraldine Kantner, a 195 3 graduate of Westhampton College, to H ervey S. Jones. June 9, 1956 , in St. Giles Presbyterian Church. The couple lives at 8309 Vernelle Lane, Richmond. Mr. Jones is a member of the staff of the Federal Deposit In surance Corporation in Richmond. Charles S. Goodrich has joined the sa les staff of the U. S. Gypsum Company in Richmond. H e ,,,as previously an insurance clerk at the Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc Dr. Page Hud son will be at Johns Hopkin s Hospital for another year. His addr ess is now 535 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore 5, Maryland Born: A boy, Stephen Wayne , to the Rev . and Mrs. Charles A. Sinclair , Jr. , on June 12. The family lives in Auland er, N. C. Julian W. Clarkson has received a promotion from Carlisle Chemical Works and has been transferred to the company's office in Atlanta , Ga .

1953Engaged: Mary Ann Gravitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gravitt , Sr., to Edward George

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Landi. The weddi ng is planned for November. A. Me lton Wi lliams has been appointed general manager of the Emrick Chevro let Corp. He was previous ly busi ness manager of the firm. Rev. E. H ugh Rag land has left Springfield Baptist Church, Springfield, Va., and returned to Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest , N . C. Byron D . Peterson has returned from Naval duty in the Canal Zone. H e was released with the rank of Lieutenant, jg. Engaged: Peggy Sue Duke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. D uke, Jr. , of Mi neral, to Henry Mi lls Harris. The couple plans a November wedding. James M . Anderson , Jr., is at the University of Virginia this year studying for his doctorate . Since receiving his master's degree from Columbia in 1955, Lawrence R. Pinneo has been doing research for the Air Force in the Air Research and Development Command as an Experimental and Physiological Psychologist. Stuart W. Omohundro graduated from a Denver, Colorado, school of theo logy in July. He is now livi ng in California. Married: Mrs. Patricia Minor Murphy to George Raymond Aldhizer, Jr., Ju ly 13 in Upper King and Queen Baptist Church. The Aldhizers are living at 120 Oa khurst Circle, Charlottesville, Virginia. Rev. Paul B. Logan, Jr., became pastor of Grace Church in Williamsburg June 1. Mrs. Logan , the former Miss Jean Devlin of Canton , . C., received her Master of Re ligious Education degree from Southwestern Seminary. Byron D . Peterson has taken a position with the Labor Relations D epartment of the Reynolds Meta ls Compa ny in Richmond. Char les Attaway Maine, Jr., returned to the University and received his B.S. degree in chemistry this year. In Apri l he took the position of Ana lytical Chemist with D ouglas Aircraft Co. in Torrance, California.

JESSE W . DILLON(left ) is sworn in by H. Lester Hooker, a member of the commission and father of U. of R.'s basketball coa ch, Lester, Jr.

1954Married: Martha Lee Pannell, daughter of Mrs. Otis Clyde Panne ll of Wythevi lle and the late Mr. Pa~ne ll, to Spencer De lancey Albright III , August 3 in Grove Avenue Baptist Church . Duane H. Brown was released from the U . S. Army Au gust 30, 1957. He had been in Germany with the Army Security Agency in Frankfurt and Berl in. Born: Irvin Ta lton Quinn III , the son of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Qui nn, Jr. , August 16. The fami ly lives in Arkade lphia, Arkansas. Engaged: Maxine McAlister to James E. Brown . Mr. Brown is an instructor at Michigan State University . Born: A daug hter , Roberta Lee, to 1/Lt. and Mrs. Robert E. Brown. Lt. Brown is stationed at Langley Air Force Base , Virginia . A. D. Howard was the top man in his first year law class at the University of Virginia. Born: A daughter , Elizabeth Boatwright, to Rev. and Mrs. M anes E. Clark, April 25 in Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Clark is Minister of Education at the Court Street Baptist Church , Portsmouth , Va. Born: Cynthia Ha ll Thomas, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Thomas, Jr. , February 22 in Richmond. Married: Sue Brown , daughter of Mr. and Mrs . Luther C. Brown of Danville , to Rex Adams, Jr. , January 26 in Danvi lle Lutheran Church. Rex is now wor king with his father in the Adams Shoe Store in Newport News. Married: Jane Rachel Gill , daughter of Mrs. Everett Gill, Jr., and the late Rev . Dr. Gill , to 2nd Lt. Averett Snead Tombes , June 15 in First Baptist Church , Richmond. Lt. Tombes is serving with the U. S. Army. The Rev. James D. Newman was install ed as pastor of Mount Vernon Baptist Ch urch September 15. H e received his ministerial training at the Southwestern Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas. Born: A son, James Monroe Reynolds , III, to Mr. and M rs. Reyno lds, Jr.

1955Ray K nick has returned

to the States from

JESSEW. DILLON IS INSTALLED AS CORPORATION COMMISSIONER On the day after his 53rd birthday, Jesse 'vii. Dill on, ' 31, took the oath of office as a member of th e State Corporation Commission. In becoming one of the three referees who issue charters and determ ine rates for Virgin ia business, Mr. Di llon stepped out of politics after lengthy service as a leader in the D emocratic party organizat ion in Virginia. His first political venture was as a senator in Richmond College's student government. Mr. Dill on took the oath of office Ju ly 16 fro m Commissioner H. Lester Hooke r before more than 100 admirers, including SCC Chairman Ra]ph T. Cattera ll, state officials, lawyers, judges and persona l friends from throughout Virginia .

To accept the SCC appointment, Mr. Dillon resigned as state treasurer, a post he had held for 10 years, and as chairman of the State Compensation Board after nearly two years' service in that capacity. His record of state services dates back to 1928 when he became a clerk in the tax depar tment. He later was director of inheritance and gift taxes, Secretary of the Commonwealth for Governor Darden and, in addition, executive secretary to Governor Tuck . His wife, the former Margaret Knight, was May Queen at Westhampton College whi le he was the University's football captain. They have three children-Julie, 11; Margaret, 16, and Peter, 23, who is a Fulbr ight scholar working toward his Ph.D. degree.

Germany and is now in the service station business. He is married to the former Pat Kantner ( Westhampton ' 5 5) , and they have a daughter , Virginia Eli zabeth . Married: Mar jorie Jean Fitton, daughter of Lt. Co l. and Mrs. Richard B. Fitton, to Kenne th Laslett H odder , August 27 in San Francisco , California. Shelton P . App legate is studying for his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago . D on C. Stearns is now a Trai ning Engineer in the In dustrial Relations Department of Procter and Gamb le Company in Cincinnati. Robert Mason Tunstal l is in the Foreign Trade group of the Caterpi llar Tractor Co ., East Peoria ,

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Edward R. Adams, '41, has been promoted from assistant treasurer to controller for the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Mr. Adams , a graduate of the University of Richmond and Harvard Business School, joined the chemicals and fertilizer company in 1946 after completing a tour of naval duty.

Illinois. He is married to the former Janet Louise Knight, a graduate of Lynchburg College. John W . Deter was discharged from the U . S. Army Transportation Corps as a 1st Lieutenant at Fort Lewis, Washington . He is married and has a son , John Church. Pvt. Joseph K. Cardwell has been assigned to Headquarters Company , U. S. Army , Fort Meyer , Va . He received basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Married: Jacqueline Jean Rhoads, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm R. Rhoads of Fort Thomas , Kentucky , to Walter Coleman Jackson , III, August 17 at First Baptist Church , Fort Thomas . Second Lieutenant George E. Grammer , USAF, received the silver wings of an aircraft navigator on June 6 at graduation exercises at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston , Texas. John C. Houlgrave has joined the Sales Staff of the McBee Company in Richmond. Dick Keith's current assignment at General Electric is editing and having reproduction proofs made up for Air Force instruction books. He and his wife , Dotsie, are living at 2021 Pyle Road , Schenectady , N. Y .

ED BENNETTPROMOTED BY WEST HAVEN SCHOOLS Edward L. Bennett, ' 33, has been named assistant superintendent of the 8,000 -student public school system at West Haven, Conn.

1956Harold K . Anderson is stationed at the Army Ordnance Center at Aberdeen, Maryland. John P. Berry and William Peters are roommates at the U. S. Naval Academy where both are first-classmen. Berry has been appointed a Midshipman Lieutenant , jg. Engaged: Jennie Jo Fyock, a June graduate of Westhampton College, to Milton R. Tignc_ir,. J_r. Milton entered the Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine in September. Married: Anne Lucile Blanchard to Richard Holt Gascoigne, August 10 at the First Methodist Church of Hudson , Michigan . Harold Gibson is serving with the U . S. Army in Italy. Sam " Pogo " Holland is also serving with the U . S. Army. He will be stationed at Fort McClel lan through November. . . Edmund G . Harrison has been appomted Assist ant Manager of the Richmond Telephone Exchange. Second Lt. Frazier B. Hoover has been gradu ated from the field artillery officers basic course at The Artillery and Guided Missile Center , Fort Sill, Okla . . Second Lt. Erik R. Chmtensen , Jr. , and 2nd Lt. James W. Stump , Jr., graduated June 22 from The Infantry School's basic course at Fort Benning , Ga. . f Engaged: Catherine E. Blair , a graduate o Westhampton College , to David Mason Armbrister. Richard E. Hight has joined the sales staff of the McBee Company in Richmond. David Harfeld is beginning his second year of law at the University of Michigan .

1957Keith W. Armatage is doing graduate work in music at the University of Denver, Colorado. He also is serving as the Minister of Music at a Baptist church there. Thomas Cullen Dalton is basketball coach and end coach in football at Churchland High School , Churchland, Va . . Mortimer Dantzler Heizer is now a medical student at the Medica l College of Virginia. Paul Wheeler K irk , Jr., is doing graduate work in biology here. Lawrence W. Mason is attending the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria , Va. Jerry \1(1. Mehaffey is a student at Southeastern Seminary , Wake Forest , N. C. Jack Maynard Neal is a sales representative for Reuben H . Nonnelley Corp. Fred Herbert Renner , Jr. , is working as a bacteriologist with the U . S. Department of Agriculture. Herbert A llen Richwine is teaching the sixth grade at Glen Lea School in Henrico County. "Mickey " Stokes is a 2nd Lt. in the U.S . Army

ED BENNETT /right) with Superintendent of Schools Melvin E. W a gner.

Mr. Bennett has been associated with the \v'est Haven schools continuous ly since 1933 except for a tour of navy duty during World War II in which he entered service as a lieutenant (junior grade) and departed with the rank of lieutenant commander. He began his career in education as a teacher of physical education and subsequent ly was a business education teacher, director of business education of West Haven schools and supervisor of adu lt education. For a number of years, he has officiated at scholastic, prep and intercollegiate athletic events.

ROBERTSDEVELOPSTESTING DEVICE FOR BUREAU Aaron G. Roberts, '33, a member of the staff of the Nationa l Bureau of Standar ds, has

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ing possible quick and accurate readings in the field of adhesion testing . T he ever-increasing speeds of modern aircraft have made necessary test methods to determine the adhesion property of protective coatings for these aircraft. From the tests made by the Bureau of Standards there emerged several instruments for measuring adhesion, among them the adherometer. This apparatus measures the force required to strip a coating from a metal surface. A coating sample, mounted on a motor-driven plate, travels under a weighted knife. The variable stripping forc e encountered as the coating is removed is reflected on a dial gage. But this variab le force is difficult to follow by dial gage readings ; the process of recording and averaging many readings during a stripping run is lengthy and laborious. Results obtained were not always reliable. To increase the speed, ease and precision with which adherometer measurements could be made, Roberts and his associate, R. S. Pizer, developed an electronic averaging device known as the integrorneter. It converts the variable stripping force measured by the adherometer into electric impulses. These impu lses are then added to give a single average value which can be read directly from a standard recorder. T he integrometer already has proved its wort h in the laboratory and is expected to be of increasing value in the testing program. Mr. Roberts is a chemist in th e organic and fibrous materials division of the Bureau. As a project leader in the p lastics section, he is in charge of research and development in the field of synthetic organic coatings, with particular emphasis on protecting coatings for military aircraft. He has been a member of the Bureau staff since his discharge from the Navy in 1946. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Testing Materials. He is the author of several articles in his field. Mr. Roberts lives with his wife and four children at 9711 Braddock Road, Silver Spring, Mary land.

DR. GEORGE SADLERGIVEN NEW EUROPEAN POSITION The Baptists just won't let Dr. George W. Sadler retire! Although he is officially retiring as secretary for Africa, Europe and the Near East for the Southern Baptist Foreign M ission Board, Dr. Sadler has now been appointed special represe ntative for Europe. H e will supervise Baptist relief work in Euro p e and will direct con struction of churches for refugees in West Germany. Dr. and Mrs. Sadler will remain in Richmond unti l April 1, then leave for Europe. T hey will live at Ruschlikon-Zurich, Switzerland, where the International Bapt ist Theological Seminary is located.

and is stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Stanley F. Norman, Jr, is doing graduate work in chemistry here Rudolph Fred Wagner is a school psychologist in the Guidance Department of Richmond Public Schools. Hugh E. Thornton is a Lieutenant in the Air Force, stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. R. Stuart Carlton is attendi ng the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Roy K. Patteson, Jr. , also is attending the Wake Forest Seminary. Married: Mary Ann Warren , a June graduate of Westhampton College, to Rev. H. Lawson Smith, August 31 at Branch 's Church in Chesterfield Co . They are attending Southeastern Seminary. Charles W. Hill is continuing in his job in the personal loan department at Southern Bank & Trust Co. David Hudgins has joined the Auditing Depart ment of the Southern Bank and Trust Company . Pvt. Harold E. Butler , US Army, is receiving basic combat training with the Army's new Trainfire Company at Fort Benning , Ga. He is receiving instruction in a new concept of rifle marksmanship. The Rev. Will E. Wade is attending Crozer Theological Seminary , Chester , Pennsylvania. Charles Maine , Jr., is emp loyed by Douglas Aircraft Corp., Torrance, California. Ronald D. Ward is attending graduate school at the University of Illinois. He married Judith Carol Bond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Lawrence Bond of Williamsburg , in September . Among the Accounting Majors in the Class of 1957, Bryant Baird , Bob Murphy , and Bob Hodges have enro lled in the General Electric Company 's Business Training Course , with assignments at various location s, and Thomas H. Collins plans to join them in September. Howard Arthur has joined the staff of Ernst and Ernst in Richmond , whereas John Atkinson is continuing his work at the Security Federal Savings and Loan Association. Sam Cutchins went with the Insurance Company of North America, and How ard Edwards joined the audit staff of the Travelers Insurance Company . Douglas Frostick has been with Southern States Cooperative since March, Thomas Proffitt is at Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company, and Baxter Sessums is in the accounting department of the Titmus Optical Company in Petersburg. Francis Howard is in the group sales department of the Connecticut General Life Insurance in Richmond , while Ed McPhillip s is continuing his work with the public accounting firm of Baker , Brydon , Rennolds and Whitt. Jack Kodrich has also gone in public accounting , with A . M . Pullen and Company. Robert D. Wilson expects to take his Air Force duty in September , and Donald Furr, who took his Master's Degree with a concentration in Accounting, is with the audit staff of the Esso Standard Oil Company. The Man agement Majors in the Cla ss of 1957 include Kenneth Anderson , who has joined the sales staff of Procter and Gamble in Frederick , Maryland; Herman Blumenthal , who is in Wash ington with the National Security Agency ; and Vernon Bradshaw , who has plans for going to the T. C. Williams School of Law. Jerry Carroll is operating an Esso Service Station on Staples Mill Road in Richmond ; and George Ceperich is continuing his work as an underwriter with the Prudential Insurance Company. W. B. DuVal has joined up with Loyalty Group Insurance , and Thomas Jarman is taking training with th e Ad dressograph-Multigraph Company. James Leach has taken a superv isor training job with the Ford Motor Company in Louisville , Kentucky . George Riggs is undergoing training in management with the C. & P . Telephone Company , and Richard Shumate has taken a position in Washington with the General Electric Credit Corporation. Thoma s Stevens is continuing hi s work at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Among the Marketin g Majors , Ken Daniel is in the Army, and Leo Lampros is planning to launch a parking-lot business in Roanoke. Alfred Roos is with Weil Ceramics Company, while Fred Sodomka is working with New Dixi e Lines before joining the Air Force . Forrest Stanfield is

DICKINSON NAMED VICE PRESIDENT OF FREEPORTSULPHURCOMPANY Alfred J. Dickinson, ' 37, a former president of the General Alumni Society, has been named vice president and sales manager of Freeport Sulphur Co., one of the world's largest producers of brimstone. To accept the post with Freeport , Mr. Dickinson resigned as vice president and assistant to the president of Virginia-Caro lina Chemical Corp. Headquarters for his new job will be in New York. Mr. Dickinson was with V-C from 1939 until early 1941 when he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation . After service as a marine corps officer from 1944 to 1946, he returned to V-C. He was named manager of the purchasing department and a vice president in 1952 and last November was named assistant to Wil liam H. Wilson , Virginia-Carolina's new president.

Mr. Dickinson is a former president of the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerc e and the Harvard Club of Virginia. He received the Richmond Jaycees' "man-of-the year" award in 1950 . In 1954, he was general chairman of the Richmond Tobacco Festival.

LEW "FROGGY" BURDETTE JOINS BASEBALL IMMORTALS To the list of baseball's immortals must be added the name of Lew Burdette. It was Lew, or "Froggy" as his teammates at Richmond called him , who performed the incredible feat of licking the New York Yankees three times in the World Series. He whipped them 4 to 2 his first time out and then threw 1 to 0 and 5 to 0 shutouts. His final victory, a 7-hitter, dethroned the defending champions who were playing in their own Yankee Stadium and gave the Milwaukee Braves their first World Series triumph. When Lew retired the final Yankee with the bases loaded in the ninth, he became the sixth pitcher to post three World Series victories. The first of them was the immortal Christy Mathewson in 1905. The last hurler to notch three was Harry Brecheen for St. Louis in 1946. Among those who had their eyes glued on their television screens when Burdette achieved that third win was Malcolm U. Pitt, ' 18, who coached the fidgety right hander in 1 946 during his freshman ( and only) year in Red and Blue livery. Mac had been in the Yankee stadium the afternoo n that Froggy fashioned the 4 to 2

triumph and was among millions of TV viewers who witnessed Burdette 's two shutouts. Few college coaches have sent as many pitchers up to the Big Time as has Pitt : Newton (Bucky) Jacobs, '36, who pitched three no-hitter s for the Spiders ; Herb Hash , '36, a right handed fireballer, Lefty Porte r Viughan, '40, who labored briefly for the Philadelphia Athletics, and Lou Ciola, '49, another performer for the A's. None of them quite made it. But Burdette , who was the mainstay of the Spider pitching staff in 1946 has taken rank among the baseball greats. He had the best earned run average in the National League last year, and this season, despite a pulled muscle in mid-year, finished with an excellent 17 and 9 record. Coach Pitt considers Burdette "the smartest pitcher in the major leagues. " Lew makes good use of his low-breaking pitches , the screwball and the sinker, and uses his fast ball (not his best pitch) sparingly. Does he throw the spitball, a pitch that 1s outlawed in baseball? "Absolutely not, " says Pitt.

report ed to be out West with the Broyhill Furniture Company's sales force , and Arthur Tatum is in training at the Richmond plant of the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company . Royal Vilas is enro lled at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Columbia University; and Don ald Yates is an apprentice manager with the Noland Company until January , when he joins the Air Force is an active status. Joseph Harman has accepted a teaching position at the Tuckahoe School. George Poor , another Marketing Major ,

has a summer job at Camp Winaukee and expe cts to take his Army service in the fall . Billy Shep pard is stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds , in active army service , and Charles F. Taylor is with the Army at Fort Benning , Georgia . As for those of the Class of 1957 majoring in Personnel Relations , B. Ben Baker has just finished a training course in Estate Planning with th e Aetn a Life Insurance Company , whereas William Culler is doing similar work with the Equitable Lif e Assurance Society in Charlotte , North Carolina.

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Thomas L. Berry has joined the staff of Sears, Roebuck and Company , and Joe l McGurk is planning to enter the Naval Air Force this summer. Fred Ogden is assistant to the Superintendent at J. W . Fergusson & Sons, a printing establishment in Richmond; and Clarence Pittard is a supervisor trainee at th e Richmond plant of the Ligg ett & Meyers Tobacco Company. Walt Alpaugh planned to tak e bis military service right after graduation. Thoma s H . Collins, Jr., is taking th e Busin ess Training Course offered by the Genera l Electric Company. Roy D . Hass is working in the Richmond office of the Esso Standard Oil Company. Has s married Nancy Spicer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs . Lewis C. Spicer of Min era l, Virginia , on February 3, 1957 . John F. Noll has joined the accounting staff of Carter Hugh es, and Perker in Richmond. J os; pb H. Nolte, Jr. , married Jo Ann Banks of Richmond on June 8, 1957. Lewis C. Spicer, Jr. , expects to work for Bowles and Spicer in Mineral , Virginia , until be goes into th e service. Emory P. Weisiger married Jean ette Lucas of Charlottesville on January 29, 1957. Gene D . Arm stro ng , M.S . in B.A. '57, is a mem ber of th e accounting staff of Andr ews, Burk et & Company. Armstrong was married to Char lotte Thoma s, daught er of Mr. and Mr s. John Thom as of Irvington , Vir ginia , on De cember 24, 1956. Russell W . Mill er, M.S. in B.A. '57 has joined the account ing sta ff of Ernst and Ernst in Richmond. M ervyn W. Wingfi eld, M.S. in B.A. '57, bas been awarded a teaching fellowship at th e U niversity of Illin ois for the year 1957-58. Wingfi eld will teach accountin g and work towards his Ph.D. degree.

WHAT'S NEW? Al umni a re invited to send news of their activities to the Alu mni Offi ce for publi cat ion in the Alumni Bulletin.

TAYLOR PROMOTED BY CONTROLSCO. Beverly D . Taylor, '34, has been named treasurer of the Robertshaw-Fulton Controls

Company, whose executive offices are located at 9 11 East Broad St., Richmond. Mr. Taylor had been controller for the Roberts haw-Fulton firm for 10 years prior to his promotion to treasurer. From 1945 to 1947, he was controller of Fulton Sylphon Company. A native of Richmond , he is marri ed to the former Miss Louise Hicks. They have one son, Beverly Douglas Taylor, Jr.

ALUMNI IN ACTION * From the class rooms and tennis courts of Richmond College to the Professorship of Zoo logy at Harvard University has been the rise of CARROLL M. WILLIAMS, ' 37. Dr. W illiams has taught at Harva rd for eleven years. W h ile instructing undergraduates and graduates in physiology, he is specializing in physio logy and biochemistry of the lower animals with stress on insects. To the layman h is work, which is sponsored by Harvard and the United States Public Health Service, is to purify and crystallize a juvenile hormone extracted from silk worms. Dr. Wi lliams persona lly raises the,e silk worms, which may provide man's founta in of youth . Dr. Wi ll iams married Murie l Voter is 1941. Their four children are boys: John Leslie, fourteen; Wes ley Cona nt, eleven ; Peter Glenn, seven; Roger Lee, two . This summer Dr. Wi lliams will go to Europe for mor e research for the fifth time . His favorite countries other than the U, S. are Britain, Holland, and Denmark. He believes the socialization of medicine in Great Britain is proving satisfactory, and that this country will fo llow suit in years to come. *Th is is the first of a series of sketc h es by Jimmy Robinson, dealin g with U niv et·sit y of Richmond alum ni. Th e nex t wil1 appear in the winter iRs ue .

,,,. Dr. Williams, who is listed in Who 's Who, is a Democrat. He reads "anything but novels ," and is proud that the University of Richmond, like Harvard, is not touched by governmental interference. A pip e and cigarette smoker, Dr. Williams doesn't think the tobacco-cancer link is an open and shut case. Dr. and Mrs. Williams often play tennis together, thus keeping up his enjoyment of the game. He was a member of the 1937 team which lost but one match, that to the University of Virgi nia. 1 - JAMES B. ROB INSON, 49

HONORARY SCHOLARSHIPFRATERNITY ESTABLISHED IN BUSINESSSCHOOL The Alpha Society has been established on the campus as an honorary fraternity for leading scholars in the School of Business Administration. It has four purposes: to promote (1) a hig h standard of scholarship among fu ll-time students in the School; (2) study and research in problems of business administration on the part of both students and alumni of the School; (3) the establishment of sound ideas and hig h ideals in the theory and practice of business administration; and ( 4) fellowship and cooperation among its members . Members of the new Alpha Society are to be of several types. Aside from the 15 charter members there will be members elected in February , Jun e, and August. Provision is also mad e for honorary members, faculty members, and graduate members. Officers are Professor Emanuel M . Last, marshal, Professor E. Elwood Ford , vice marshal , and Professor Thomas S. Berry, secretary and treasurer. Student members are to be elected on the basis of their grades in required courses at the School over four semesters, although outstanding scholars may be elected at the end of their th ird semester. Men or women elected to the Alpha So-

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button -a go ld Alpha. Th ere is a possibility that the new Business School fraternity will eventually ally itself with a nat ional fraternity honoring scholarship in business administration. In addition to the officers, the faculty members include Acting Dean Herman P. Thomas, under whose administration the new Society was founded. Th e men from the Class of 1957 include Thomas H. Collins, Howard L. Edwards, Jr. , and Francis A. Howard , all of whom were eligible for election on a three-semester basis, and John McDonald Atkinson, Bryant W. Baird, Jr., Herman S. Blumenthal, Bob P. Hodges, Leo N. Lampros, Edward W. McPhi llips, and Royal S. Vilas, who qual ified on the basis of their quality credits over four semesters. Robert N. Harris of Richmond is the on ly member of the class of 1958 who has been elected to membership. The Alpha Society expects to announce from time to time the election of alumni members, who may become memb ers by virtue of their academic standing while they were undergraduates, or may be selected in recognition of their contribution to business scholarship or administration.

Westhampton News 1915-1916 Frieda M eredit h Diet z, Pinch-hitter for Celeste And erso n O'Flaherty, ' 15 Norma W oodward Throc kmort on, '16. Because our classes have been so close through the years with severa l from '17 among us, we can hard ly report without repeating. First: Our sympathy is extend ed to Norma W oodward Throckmorton, ' 15, her husband Char les, Jr. , her son, Charles III , and daughter, Marv Lee Elliott , in th e shock of the passi ng of the younger daughter , Na ncy (Mrs. H erman Casey of V irgi nia Beach) on Sept. 23. Norma's son Charl es and his wife. have a second son, born in Baltimore recently, Norma's fourth grandchi ld. W e have bad th e most social summ er since grad uatio n-a lth ough ou r winters are always so. Occasion for much of th e celebra tion has been the return from H onolulu , H awa i i, of M argaret M onteiro, ' 15, wh o has been teaching in St. Andrews Episcopal School since she had to leave her fine missionary work of years in China. Celeste had a big picnic sup per party on her spac ious lawn wi th Louise ( "S up " ) Reams Hundl ey '15-

A CORDIAL INVITATION TO HOCKEY FANS Dear Alwnn ae, N ow that fall is her e (Br-r-r ! and we mean it this year!) there 's nothin g better to warm you up than playing in a good hockey game or watchin g one. Thi s season Wes thampton College's ho ckey team is especially active. W esthampton is sponsoring no less than three big events I First , on N ovember 1 and 2 we will be hostess to the Tidewater To urn ament. College and club teams from the Virginia tidewater vicinity will parti cipate and two teams will be selected from the players participating to repre sent our section in th e Southeast T ournam ent. Ne xt 0 :1 our big three calendar is the \Xl elsh Tourin g Team-somet hin g no one should miss. 1 his is one of the best international teams in the world and their match game with Tid ewate r on Nov ember 4 will really be something to see. As a finale we have the BIG tournament the Southeast. T eams of selected players from the southern coastal states will compete and from the p:i.rticipating player s thr ee South east teams will be selected to go to the N ational Tournam ent. Aft er all the big "ext ras" don 't forget the varsity. In our first two games, we defeated St. Catherin es 3-2, and th e Littl e Colonels 4-2. There are six more sch eduled games to come, including something new- a game with the Alumna e on Novemb er 9 when we are looking forward to seeing many of you. You are invited to be with us at all our games and tournaments. The Hock ey Team

·16 (our first W esth ampt on M .A.) from Charlottesvi lle; Frances Gl asse ll Beale from Bowling Gr een; Florence Bosto n D ecker ( th e latt er two of the ' 17 class) , Louise G oepfart h Schaaf , ' 15, M ary Shine Brown, ' 15. No rma W oodward Throckmorton, and Fri eda M eredi th D ietz, both ' 16, amo ng the many gu ests, some from younger classes. In honor of M arga ret, Fri eda had an old fashioned spend-th e-day with Kathl een Bland Cott le, ' 16, of W est Point , Ir ene Stith Phillips, '15, of Tappahannock , "S up " Reams Hundl ey, Celeste , Nor ma, Florence , and Fra nces, with Norma's and Frances ' sisters , Bessie W oodward Graham and Marion W alker Glassell Beattie. This was in earl y Jul y when Mary Shine Brown was in th e hospital. W e ar e ha ppy to say M ary looks fine, is in circu lation again , and lives at 4202 Patterson Av e. At th e party , "S up " report ed that she bad attended a dinn er party in Ch arl ottesvi lle wi th Constance Ga y Mor enu s, ' 15, who bas a pos iti on with th e recreation d ivision of the Government in Washington. Ther e was a beach party at Buckroe when Norma, Fran ces and friend s bad a cotta ge next to Celeste and Mayme Fray ser Stone, with Fri eda as guest. A few of us had dinner with M arga ret at I orma's one eveni ng to bear abo ut H awaii . Marga ret is hard to snare as she is always flying around the country speaking and being ent erta ined by friends , but she is parking now and may be contacted at her cousin 's, Mr s. R. F. Coleman, 2416 Grove Ave., phone 84-3898. She wi ll be in-andout of Richm ond until Christmas. The alu mnae who made the memorable trek to Europe in 1944: "Sup ," Celeste , Norma , Frances, Russe ll Elliott Ewing ( a much later gra du ate) , wi th var iou s sisters and cousi ns and fri end s in Frieda's group , gave a br ida l dinner party on Sept . 18 for one of the gro up , Stell a Martin. At this were enj oyed Celeste 's home and cookery and Norma 's and her sister Bessie 's ta lents in dressing an elaborate bridal party in silks and satin s, the faces of th e paper dolls being photo-

gra ph s of . the members of th e trave l gro up . Ethel L. Smith er , ' 15, returned in mid-July from a wo nd erfu l Nor th-W est trip including much of Canada , after a session of teaching at th e Uni versity of Nevada. The sympat hy of the classes is extended to Loui se Goepfa rth Schaaf in the passi ng of her sist er, Mr s. Chri stian Schaaf.

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Secretary MR S. WEBSTER

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(Juliette Brown) 1001 Gates Avenue, Norfolk,

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Anoth er summer has gone , and if mine 1s mdicative, I kn ow you have had busy ones too . W e have just moved back to town from our house at Virgini a Beach , w here we enjoyed having our fri end s visit us over the weekends during th e summ er. Webster and I both commuted dai ly excep t Sund ays. We had a nice visit in Jun e from Pamela , George , "The six" , (and th e maid.) I hav e on my desk before me notes from Hel en Hundl ey, Elizabeth Gaines , Adelaide Cow herd, Marg aret D ecker , Margaret McKillop , and Mildr ed M cD anel. It was good to hear from each one. Some helped wi th our letters to you in th e spring , and some just wrote nic e notes to say that they were responding. Margaret McKillop sound ed quite busy w ith her commu nit y and church. I think often of get tin g in my car and "cruis ing" aro und the sta te payi ng some "pop" calls on some of you. May do it some day , if the tim eprese nt s itse lf . We heard abo ut E lizabeth Tompkins ' and Vir ginia Snead 's trip abroad, and it was so nice to have a card from V irginia from Scotland. Pl ease, you tw o, get together and collaborate on a sketch of your trip for th e next Bulletin. I' ve ju st had some excit ing news. Learned last wee k that I'm to have a 25 day tour of Euro pe-an AAA Educational Tour. Will fly from New York on Octob er 4th. H ave ju st been vaccinated . passport app lication is in and the wardrob e is being assem bled. Tell you abo ut it later!

Old Guardesses Honor Dean Keller College to Celeste Anderson O 'Flah erty was the first student of Westhampton meet and welcome the new Dean May Lansfi eld Keller in the autumn of 1914 . Ce leste was a Senior. In her Class of 1915, the classes of 1916 and 1917 , there were girls who were with Dean Keller in spirit and action then, and through the ye ar s since have remained her friends. Florence Boston Decker, '17, realized that this group wanted to make September 28 " special " in ce!ebration of Dean Keller 's e ightieth birthday and , as the unsuspecting honoree wanted to attend th e Country Club lunch eon of the A.A.U .W ., permission was granted the " Old Guard " (who think they should be called " Guardesses " with even an " o " substituted for the ·' uar " ) to have a special table to which a very special birthday cake with candles was brought (and luckily the cake wen t around the some sixty women present). The A.A .U.W. Richmond president, Miss Mabel Montgomer y toasted Dean Keller most charmingl y, contributions to educat ion in Richmond , Virginia, and speak ing of her outstanding decked Dean Keller wi th an orchid. our country. The organization Clay Camp and Betsy Camp Smith from Frank Mary At the birthday table were lin, Va .; Louise Reams Hundle y from Charlottesville ; Kathleen Bland Cot tle from West Point ; Mary Shine Brown, Anne Ruth Harris, Frieda Meredith Dietz, Pauline Turnbull and of course, the instigators, Celeste and Florence. But for other commit ments, there might have been present Margaret Monteiro of Honolulu, Frances Glassel! Throckmorton and Elizabeth Tompkins . Beale of Bowling Green , Norma Woodward

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Secretary

MRS. E. L. DUPUY (Catherine Little) 703 Beechnut Lane, 1hrtinsville, Va.

Leonora Dorsey has once more furnished the most important news for the class of '2 1. Thi s time instead of a new position of importance, however, it is a new name for Leonora! On the tenth of Augu st, at Hopew ell , Virginia , Leonora was married to Mr. Daniel Jackson Ki lby. They are living at 1222 Blue Ridge Avenue in Culpeper, Virginia , and our best wishes go to them both. My younger daughter, Suzanne , entered Westhampton this fall and is most excited about everything there.

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Secretary

MRS. LEONARDF. HATZ (Louise Shipman) Box 228, West Point, Va .

Where are we now? Thirty-two of us live in in Richmond. The WashingVirginia-seventeen ton area has seven and the Carolinas have six. There are two each in Georgia, Illinois , and K entucky and one each in A labama, Florida, Pennsylvania, and California. Most of us are not so far apart. Margaret Whit e Butterworth lives in Fairmont , N. C. Her oldest son, Dr . Tho s. R. Butterworth , Jr. , took his Pre-Med. at U. of R., went to Medical College and interned two years at John stonWillis and is now serv ing in the Army, stationed in Detroit , Mich . He is married and has a little daughter about a year old. The other son, Dick, will be a senior this year at U. of R.-a PreDental student. Her oldest daught er will be a junior at Mary Washington this year where she is a sociology and elementary ed ucation major. She visited a classmate in Puer:o Rico last summer.

Martha , her youngest daughter , will be in the eighth grade and had a wonderful time at camp last summer. Tragedy struck in Marga_ret's home and Martha bad polio. three years ago-Dick Dick's was non-para lytic but Martha 's right side was paralyzed . Last May she had a "rugged" operation. Now she rides horseback , swims, bikes , passed canoeing test, etc., and Margaret is so very thankful. W e rejoice with her. She says if any of you come to Myrt le Beach or any of the S. C. beaches , please drop her a card and come to see her or let her come to see you. Narcissa Daniel Hargroves and Dr. V. Carney Hargroves have just celebrated their 25th anniversary with the Second Baptist Church of Germantown , Pa . They have thre e daughters and one gra nddaughter. One daughter graduated from Va ssar last June and plans to be married to a June Princeton graduate in September. Another daugh ter was a freshman at Pembroke College (Brown University) last year. "Sissy's " husband was elected to Phi Beta Kappa last spring and they were in Richmond in April so she could not return for our reunion. Her address is 48 E. Upsal St., Philadelphia 19, Pa. Anna Riddick is an interior decorator in Raleigh , N. C. She lives at 1028 Cowper Drive. Anna , who kept '22 on the map in track , says of life-" a hits , no runs, no errors. " scoreless tie-no Stella Hubbard 's husband died in 1936. She ha s been teaching in Maury High School in Norfolk since 1939 and is now head of the English D ep1rtment ther e. She is active in her church and is a member of the Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Poetry Society of Virginia, the English-Speaking Union of Norfolk, the A.P.V .A., a literary society and the country club. She bas travel ed in Europe and in California and recently has had an occasional trip to New York. H er son graduated from Yale last June majoring in archi -

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WESTHAMPTONFACULTY NOTES In July Misses Isabel Harris, Emily Brown, former dram1tic coach at University of Richmond, Marjorie Rivenburg, May Keller, Pau line Turnbull, and Jean Wright, all met at Miss Fanny G. Crenshaw's camp on Lake Sebago, Maine, for a two weeks hou:eparty. Miss Mary Jane Miller and Miss Augusta Chapman, who were vacationing in New Eng land, spent a day at the lake. Returning from New England, Miss Jean Wright visited in New York and Pennsylvania, Miss Marjorie Rivenburg visited her sister at Hershey, Pennsy lvania, and Miss Pauline Turnbull and Miss May Keller visited Doris Turnbu ll Wood in Ithaca, New York. Miss Mary Gotaas spent the summer travling in Italy and Spain. Miss Margaret Rudd led the scholar's life in Washington writing and re1ding, as did Miss Joan Corbett at Columbia University. Mrs. Eunice Foy with her daughter spent July and August in Hendersonville , North Carolina. Miss H111nah Coker se::ms to have divided her time between Myrtle Beach, Hartsville, South Carolina and her home in Richmond. Miss Helen Stafford was at home in Pennsylvania, while Miss Frances Gregory was busy with architect, carpenters and plumbers in Richmond whi le build ing her house on the campus. Miss Cather ine Bell took two short vacations, one at her parents ' home in Florida and one at th e summer home in North Carolina Mountains. Dean Marguerite Roberts spent l:er vacation at her home in Indiana and Miss Mar garet Ross as usual was at home in Chautauqua, New York. Miss Caroline Lutz travelled across the continent taking in all the Shakesreare festivals from California, Oregon, and Canada to New England. Miss Susan Lough has been ill and in the hospital recently. Her address has been changed to 2307 Monument Avenue. Be sure to write to her and visit her there- she would love to see you. tecture. H e plans to do his graduate work at Yale. If you are in Norfolk you can find Mr s. Washington Taylor at 1111 Colley Avenue. Mary Fugat e is dean and registrar of Averett College in Danvi lle and with the exception of three years has been at Averett ever since she left college. She did a year of graduate study at Columbia. She has been active in community organizations , including the Y.W.C.A. , the Woman's Club, A.A.U.W. , and Delta Kappa Gamma. She is now teaching an adult Bib le class at S.S. "Fugate" bui lt a home near the college in 1941 so you can go to see her at 124 Canterbury Road . Mary Louise Bristow married a newspaper man from Maine twenty-seven years ago. T hey have no children so she and "Tommy " live alone in an eight room house and tend a four acre lawn and small vegetab le garden. She is registrar at James Monroe H igh School , Frederic ksburg, where the Mary Washington gir ls do the ir practice teaching. They Jove their work and are active in church and community life. "Bristow" is now Mrs. Perry A. Thompson at Rivercrest, Box 187.

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Muriel Sanders has her master 's degree from Columbia and has taught in Virginia since college days. She was head of the Latin Department at Suffolk. Va. , and supervisor of languages at Mary Washington College , and since 1937 has taught English at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond . Her home is at 2237 West Grace Street. Lucile Ledman Kersey could not come to the reunion because she was making her second trip to Havana. Cuba with a group of her Spanish students. She did graduate work at the University of Havana in 1952 . Her husband wa~ a minister and since his death both of her chi ldren have gone into religious work. Her son graduated from U. of R. in 1956 and is now married and studying for the ministry at Wake Forest Seminary . Her daughter graduated at Westhampton and did post-graduate work in religious education and is now director of re ligious education in N. C. Luci le lives at 2602 Monument Ave . Rich mond. Claudia Patrick is buyer for Mil ler & Rhoads ' Virginia Room . " Pat " says she is tied down except for frequent trips to New York . She was present for one day of the reunion before leaving for New York. Julia Roop Adams taught school for five years and then married a farmer and livestock breeder and went to live on a farm which her husband inherited in 1928. She has had a busy, happy life there, improving her home and grounds and bringing up her two sons who are both V.P.I. gra duates . She enjoys visiting friends and entertaining friends at her home . I know you would enjoy a visit to Mrs . Richard P. Adams ' home, Upper Kentland Farm , Whitehorne , Montgomery Co., Va. Miss Lough loves to get your letters promptly. She writes that they are misplaced or delayed when you send them to the University so be sure to use the following address-2307 Monument Ave., Richmond .

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I'll give you news of ten or more m the next issue so don't miss it .

1923

Sen·eta,·y MRS. BARTEECORPREW(Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Horscpen Road, Richmond , Va .

First there is news of sons and daughters graduating from and attending the University. Lee Epes Fie ld, daughter of Virginia Epes Field , graduated in June with a B.S.; Carolyn Wood, daughter of GlaJys Nucko ls Wood . with a B.A. ; and Thomas J . Headlee, Jr., son of Ethney Selden Head lee, with a 13.A . He is now teaching at John Marshall. Entering this fall are Louise Fristoe Arnold's daughter, Robbie; and Camilla Wimbish Lacy's younger son, Louis . The latter graduated from Halifax High School in June . Robert Perrin. son of Kath leen Prentiss Perrin, is already attending Richmond College. Tim Wams lev is now living in Richmond with his family and is with the Associated Press . He is Evdyn Sanford Wamslc:y's son. We are grieved to hear of the passing of Milton Copenhaver in Bristol, Virginia . He was the husband of Marg,1ret Terpstra Copenhaver. We were a'so grieved last January by the death of Thomas J. Loving , husband of Virginia Kent Loving. This month , Virg;ni,1 is entering Stetson University in Deland , Florida, to work on an M. A . in physics. She had a pleasant trip down there to investig1te the school. Whi le Virginia Gay, ' 19, was visiting Kath leen Prentiss Perrin in Philadelphia , they went to New York and lunched with Sallie Davis. /,nother classmate did graduate work this summer. Elmira Ruffin Bowen received a fellowship from the Gener,d Electric Company to do work in chemistry and physics, both in theory and as related to industry . She worked at Union College in Schenectady, New York and in the Research Engineering Laboratories of General Electric, and

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their groups were even admi tted to the ones doing atomic research. She is now teaching Chemistry and Physics at Varina High School, but she managed a flight to Chicago to see her four grandchildren ( one for the first time) before school opened. Now, please let us have news of the rest of you. A card to Ethney Selden (Mrs. Thomas J.) Head lee at 4206 Seminary Ave., Richmond 27, Virginia , or to Dorothy Sadler (Mrs . B. E.) Corprew, will get it in tbe Bulletin .

1925

A nice newsy letter from Bessie Anderson Knecht tells of the "do ings" of her family. She and Jack took a vacation last winter driving to Florida , then around the Gulf. stoppin~ at various places on their way to New Orleans . As thev headed back north, they stooped at Natchez, which they especially enioyed. Their daughter. Nancy, who was graduated last year from the University of Color:ido, has been workin~ with a travel agency, and this winter will take a Caribbean cruise. Mary , their other dan<>hter. graduates this year from the University of Michig~n . "Buck" Ashton was in the Richmond Memorial Hospital in August for an opera'.ion. She is back at work now and feeling prettv well. She strongly recommends the Richmond Memorial for any one who has to be in the hospital. Cathryn Henn:t and her sister, Jeanette, '22, took a trip through the Smokies this summer. They also visi'.ed Ashevi lle and toured through southwest Virginia , where they attended the Abingdon Festival and the Barter Theater. As you will notice , my address has been changed. I bought a house out near my school (Mclean High School). It is brick ramb ler on a fairly large lot in a typical suburban community, and I'm thoroughly enjoying having my own home again . Since I just moved August 31, at this writing (September 19) . I'm still quite busy getting settle:l. P lease send me news of yourself and family, as I know everyone is interested in what you are doing!

1926

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Secretary l\lRS. CI.ARKl\lOORE BROWN ( J\fargaret l.nenhy) Box 14, Richlands, Va.

Harriet and Ed Willingham leave on Christmas Day for a four month tour of Baptist mission stations in Africa . I hope we will have a full report on their trip in a Bulletin in the near future. Allene and Claude Richmond spent their vacation in Florida . Frances Bell and Mary Woodward stopped in to see Lila Crenshaw when they were in Richmond recently . Frances entered her son in Hampden-Syd ney. Marian Marsh Sale's son entered the University of Richmond this fall. Marian is a member of the tearoom committee at Westhampton. Louise Mattern Coleman spent the summer working at Episcopal Book Store. All of you will be interested in hearing news of Miss Lough. She recently went to the hospital but expected to stay only a short time. She will be at 2307 Monument Avenue , and would Jove to hear from you. I had a wonderful visit with Alice Taylor in Petersburg this summer. We stayed so busy "p artying " that we didn 't even go to Richmond . I would certainly like to have news of more of you. Drop me a card anytime you hear of anything interes ting.

1929

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Secretary l\lRS. R. E. \'v'Al.Sll (l\lartha T.i!'~comh) 1819 Chesterfield Ave., Falls Church , Va .

Secretary Miss HELEN C. MooN 111 Tonbridge Road, Richmond 21, Va.

Congratulations to another '29 grandmother! Genie Riddick Steck's daughter, Anna Kirwan, had a little girl last May-Margaret Elliott Carey . "A dar ling," says Genie . Nat Evans Sanford and her husband, Tay lor,

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are living in Richmond now. Their daughter, Betty, is at Vir gi nia Int ermo nt and Tayl or, Jr. , is in the arm y in Korea . Clare Johnson W ayt's son , H owar d, graduated from V.P.I. last Jun e and is now working in Baltimore for the C & P Tele phone Co. of Maryland . Frances Schofield, who received her Ph.D . sometime ago from the U niversity of M ichigan, is now teaching graduate courses in biological chemis try at the University of Tennessee. Elizabeth Hal e has returned via air to her work in Malaya. Billye W ill iams Thomas' husband , George, attended last spri ng the V irgi n ia Chamber of Commerce dinner for famous Vir gi nians. Mi ria m Figgs Rankin is in Europe again thi s fall for severa l months. Ou r deepest sympat hy to Elizabeth Chandler Cox on th e ·Joss of her father. Thelma Prud en Stanton writes me th at Vir gini a Snow Richards on ha s a new home ( 18 Estel Road , Little River Hill s, Fairfax, Va ) . Prudy is teaching in the new Frances Hamm ond H igh School in Alexandria . Jimmi e Stuessy Matt ox, Mary Richardson Butterworth, and I had a wond erfu l week in Cul peper thi s summ er with Mary Stevens Jones. Please write me the news about yourself and your families!

1930

Secretary MRS. WM. B. SHINNICK (Virginia Prince) 2 Clarke Road , Richmond 26, Va .

We are all proud of Dotti e Abbott Wood , who is president of the Richm ond Chapter of the We sthampton Alumnae. She has start ed off the year w ith a tea for the new Richmond stude nts and a covered dish supper for Richmond alumna e. Helen Ha rwood Parr 's daughter , Mar y Catheri ne, became Mr s Jenkins at a very sweet wedding at River Road Baptist Church in Au gust . I enjoyed seeing Do rot hy Epperly Goodman in June when her second daughter, Dotti e, graduated from Westhampton College . D ott ie is now in Richmond teaching the first grade at Thomas Da le School. H er first daug ht er, Lind a, is now Mrs. D enby Lewis and also lives in Richmond and teaches at Summer Hill School. You remem ber , Linda is our baby cup winner. The th ird daughter Nancy is a fourth grader in Ma rtin sville .

1931

Secretary 1vlrssMARGARETLEAKE 408 N. Meadow St., Richmond, Va.

H ope you all had a grand summer. If you have any interesti ng news, let me have it for the next Bulletin. Elizabeth Gill Min or and fami ly have been remodeling a house at Newtown and moved in just in tim e for her dauishter Pat's wedding in July. Her daughter Betsy is following in her mother's dramatic footstep s and this summ er was seen in a Shakespeare prod uction in Ri chmond 's lovely new amphitheatre at D ogwood D ell (Byr d Park). Betsy will also be a princess in the Tobacco Festival this fall.

1932

Secretary MRS. CHARLESW . SCARBOROUGH (Zephia Campbell) 5109 Sylvan Road, Richmond 25, Va.

Since it"s "bac k to schoo l" time again this will bring you up to date on which of our classmates are in the important field of teaching. Jane Little Gray is beginning her first year in the Richmond Public Schools , joining Phyllis Perkinson, H elen Redford, Anne Kenn on Williams and Louise Sanford. Th ose wh o are in other schoo ls in the city are Muri el Jon es, Mary Ryland Babcock and Va lerie LeMasuri er Jone s. Mary Tem pleman Marshall planned to begin teaching this fall, joinin g Bertie Flippo , Betti e Burns Gay lor and Mary Billings in the Washington area. Catherine Foskett McC !oud and Louise Noffsinger Ballou are in the Norfo lk system. Teachin g in other parts of the state are Jessie Miller J ones Turn er, Eve lyn Zehmer and

Ne lle Johnson . Out of state teachers are Buena Perkin s Myers, Bett y Newcome and Mary Lucile Saunders. Virgini a J ones Pharr is principal of the elementary school in Denbigh . If th ere are others in the profession let us hear from you. Ruth Cole W eber sent me a ni ce newsy letter about her family. She had hoped to get to the reunion but the death of Matt 's mother changed her plans. Th e family had a wonderful fishing trip in the Adironda cks this summer. Ruth Coen Pow ell won a local women 's go lf tournament recent ly. Ruth plays for the H ermi tage Country Club. She is not teachi ng at Alb ert Hill again th is year. She went to work last year on a day's notice " just to help out " and taught the wh ole year. Th ere was a story with a picture in the September 11 ews Leader about Eleanor Ewe ll. She ha s been made the new executive secretary of the Trave ler's Aid Society of Vir g inia. Hel en and J im D eck moved int o their beautiful new home on River Road Augu st 15. H elen said she expected to spend the wint er literally on River Road since all the children are going to school in town thi s year. You silent partn ers, why not send me some news about yourself ?

1933

Secretary MISS GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Ave ., Richmond 22, Va .

Dismal Swamp. Grac e is at present Curator of Costumes for the Valentine Museum. H er daughter, Linda W yatt, now 18, has entered Wi ll iam and Mar y as a fr eshman . Son, Taylor, 14, is in his first year of High School. Many of us have visited Jamesto wn, including Julia D onohu e Martin , Vir g inia W atkin s Ellenburg , and Frances Gee. My family and I great ly enjoyed the Exposition , and afterward s, the " Fou nders ." It was quit e a surprise to learn that H elen Hulch er and her moth er, after staying at Mi ami Beach , Florid a, during the summer months , had decided to live there. H elen is teaching at a M iami High School. Your fri ends and former pupi ls wi ll certainly mi ss you, H elen. During vacation tim e I was delight ed to receive a telephone call from Pol ly Cochran Kn obloch . She and her son were in Richmond br iefly after attending a conference in North Carolina . Polly is doing State W elfar e work in the western part of Virgini a. Margare t Ow ens Youn g tel ls us that her 18 year old son has just ente red the University of V irgi nia. Durin g his absence she is kept very busy serving as President of the Sunshine Circle of the Crippled Children's Ho spital. Kath erine Sargeant Newby has moved to Washington State . H er husband is with the D epartment of Ophthalmology there. Aft er a ten year stay in South Am erica, Vir -

As next year is our big reunion-25th-you'll be hearing from your Richmond classmat es as they plan the festivities. W e are counting on your prese nce to make it a successful event. Plan , now , to attend !

1934

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Several members of our class have mad e excitin g trips during the summ er. Elizabeth Goodwin H enderson and fami ly visited Canada. Th ey especia lly enjoyed traveling through Mon treal , Ottawa, and to Niagara Falls. Erma Gay Cecil flew via stratoc ru iser to Orego n where she spent some time with her sister , Audr ey. Durin g her twenty-three days in the W est, Erma went to Wa shingt on, where she saw Mt . Ra inier, Y osemite Park , and San Francisco. If you 'd like to hear all about bears, sagebru sh, cypress, and giant redwoo ds, just ask her! Wh ile trav eling w ith friends through New England, Frances G ee toured M aine, New Hamp shir e, V ermon t, and Massach usetts. Congr atul ation s are due Frances on her pro motion in the State D epartme nt of Educa tion. She is now a Teacher Education An alyst. Virginia McInt osh Puck ett , with her hu sband and daughters, motored up to Canada . Th ey saw Chicago, Lake Michigan , and Niagara Falls. H ere 's a wond erfu l way to spend a vacation ! Grace Rowland W ells and family g lided by cabin cruiser down the in land waterway s, passing throu gh

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ginia Sanford Brian writes that her husband is being transferred by the Esso Standard Oil Company back to the United States. Her two sons, Dan, 12, and J im, 9½, have completed the seventh and fourth grades at Ruston Academy , Havana , Cuba. She reports that the four of them made a 1500 mile trip down the island ( of Cuba) . En route , they witnessed a gay carnival in Sancti Spi ritus , with its paper decorations, costumed people, and noise. In Santiago they saw old Morro Cast le. They went sai ling with friends in Cienfuegos Bay, and also visited San Juan Hill where Teddy Rooseve lt led his Ro ugh Riders in 1898. Their new address is as yet unknown. Sympathy is extended to Evelyn Steussy Fishburne , who lost her husband last May. Be sure to keep me informed , girls. We are all eager to hear your news.

1936

Secretary MRS. WILLIAM S. HOPSON, III ( Helen Denoon) 3404 W. Franklin St., Richmond 21, Va.

Margaret Bowers spent seven weeks this summer in Creo le, Louisiana doing case work with families left homeless by Hurricane Audrey . Margaret writes that this was her first experience with a large disaster and quite an initiation it was: Exp erienced disaster workers told her that anyone connected with Audrey would have the equivalent of the experience with three large disasters . Monny is moving October 12th to 149 Ormond Avenue , Sharon , Pennsylvania . Virginia Kirk Weeden is teaching school this winter. She has the third grade in a new school 10 miles from Syracuse. She enjoyed a wonderful trip this past Easter when she visited friends on the island of Aruba in the Caribbean. Herbert and Sue Chermside made a camping trip to the wi lds of Canada. Boo and Sidney Page and children also visited Canada, stopping off in Buffalo to view Niagara Falls.

1938

Secretary MRS. BERT BURCHILL ( Elizabeth Shaw) 6709 Kensington Ave., Richmond 26, Va.

Many of you missed our news in the last Bulletin. The only item I had to report at that time was the death of Lilyan Ernestine Akers which was printed in the back section of the Bulletin . We shall miss her very much. We are all glad to know that Jean Bobbitt Grubbs ' son , George Ronald Grubbs , Jr., is now at home recovering from a very serious injury he received when he was accidently shot some weeks ago. Perhaps many of you saw his picture in the Richmond News leader when be was released from the hospital. [ had a nice talk with Allie Martin Holbleib recently. Both Allie and Jean teach at Henry Clay High School in Ashland and see each other frequently. Anne Walker enjoyed seeing Olive Messer Lewis and family this summer at the Jamestown .Exposition.

1941

Secretary MRS. R. P. STONE (Mayme O'Flaherty) 3605 Moss Side Avenue, Richmond , Va.

Summertime has gone , and I, for one, am sorry to see the easy living give way to the rush and organization of fall activity . Alease Hardaway Pri nce and I are going to try to keep you up with the class news, and we will start our letter with her. "This was Margaret Brittingham Curtice 's sum111er to come East , and so many of us had the pleasure of seeing her. She and Jack visited Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow and husband at their cottage at Sandbridge Beach. Ray and lib Henry Belcher were guests at the same time. On August 23rd, while Margaret was in Richmond , Its Holden Slipek had a coffee hour in her honor. Jean Neasrnith D ickinson, Betsy Woodson Weaver , Antoinette Wirth Whittet, Mayme and I attended that. We had a wonderful time laughing, eating and reminiscing. Margaret hoped to meet Sara-

jane Payne Arkedis in Chicago when she had a layover between trains there. Sarajane and George and their two chi ldren spent a week at Virginia Beach in late June. David and I vacationed with them and were charmed by the entire family. Georgie and Janie are both of school age , and Georgie plays on a litt le league Baseball team. Fraz ier Drumwright Catron was in town in early September and visited Its. Betsy Weaver, who wrote up Chesterfie ld Countv for the Jamestown Festival Year, is now writing a series of four articles about old Chesterfield homes for the Richmond Times Dispatch. We have just heard that Betty Keesee Rhodes ' mother died last winter , and we wish to extend sympathy to Betty. " ro the above , I would like to add that Margaret said her husband would be coach for the West in the East-West game on ew Year's Day m California, and we can watch for him on TV. She is also working on her degree in social work and has high praise for her Westhampton training. We would like to say Happy Birthday to the children of Martha Beam DeVos and Mary Owen BJss. Our announcements are running somewhat behind 1 Suitable books were placed in the library at Martinsvi lle at Christmas in memory of Kitty Spencer Philpott 's daughter, our class baby. Thanksgiving I sat with Carolvn Gary Hugo and her daughter to see the great Richmond-William and Mary game , and she told me of Larry's work on TV. She and Kitty Crawford Lindsay live relatively close to each other and visit often. That night we had the treat of having Annabel Lumpkin Hesse l and her husband , Red, come down and have Thanksgiving dinner with us. They have a lovely home in Alexandria , and Red is busy at the Pentagon . Phy llis Coghill Brown is second Vice-President of the Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and active in the work there. Five years ago she started as a "docent ," giving guided tours to school chi ldren. She says it is very interesting, and she runs into many of the children of friends. Al lene Jones Patteson is stationed with her husband in California and just had her fifth child this summer. We wish to express our sympathy to Marion Rawls Waymack , whose mother died some time ago, and also to Kitty Crawford Lindsay, whose mother died very suddenly this summer. Helen Hill, Henrietta Sadler Ellwanger, Kitty and I were able to get together when Kitty was here. Kitty and Howard now have an office in Huntington and are writing a series of radio dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Unt il recently they were doing Studio One and are cur rently free lancing. As always in the theatre and TV, there are many things in the offing, and we shal l watch their career with interest. Miss Caro lyn Lutz and Kitty drove to Stratford, Connecticut for the Shakespeare Festival on labor Day weekend. Helen Hill is a visiting teacher for the Richmond Pub lic Schools , and last year studied guidance and administration at George Washington University on a study furlough. In May she was initiated into Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary sorority for women educators. He len wi ll attend the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers in Houston in October. Added to all this , she is organ ist at St. Matthews Episcopa l Church. Cecile Gaddis Smith sent an interesting Christmas letter about their new baby, Nancy Carol, born April 13. Cecil has been busy completing his doctoral dissertation, which has just been accepted by his committee at the University of California. He is now devoting much of his time to research concerned with marketing prob lems of Florida ' s 30 million do llar flower and nursery industry. Cecile has devoted much of her time and energy to the Garden Club, AAUW , and Women of the Church. I talked with He len Morrissey Wren , and she told me Lou ise Morrissey Moyer and fami ly were here for a weekend this year , and that Margaret Forrer Wren and fami ly were here briefly at Easter. Woody is busy in pyschiatric work. Their address is 833 Tay lor Drive , Falcroft, Pennsyl-

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vania , and I always enjoy hearing about the children on the Christmas card she sends me. Teeny Evans Hardin and Bristow are in Roanoke, where he has an administrative job in the public schools. My mother visited Emily Hensley Wieck in Martinsville , and they went over to Fieldale to see_ Kira Nicholsky Curwen and her family. She claims not to do anything of interest , but they had 1ust had a wonderful vacation to Florida. I have seen Jean and Enders Dickinson regu larly at the lewis Ginter Community House pool , where we spent most of our time this summer. Jean was a star member of the Old ladies swimming class, consisting of ladies 90 and married! They had quite a time , and Jean won her swimmer's badge. The instructor was terrific . and our children passed all sorts of tests too. Mildred Mas engill was also a member of this class. What ath letes! They even had a relay on labor Day. In February, I had a nice visit with Ann Phil lips Bonifant at their lovely home at Old Church and I see Henrietta, Its and Toni often. Th~ Whittets have just returned from a trip to St. Louis and also from New York , where they met their children returning from a wonderful cruise with their grandparents. Among my piano pupils are the children of the Slipeks , Whittets and Massies , and it is interesting to know and work with them. I have also enjoyed being on the board of the Richmond Symphony and hope all of you in Richmond and close by will come out and support this orchestra which is a dream come true for our city. The Bulletin deadlines are December 10th March 15th and May 15th. Will you write Aleas~ or me by then, and please excuse any news that is incorrect , inaccurate or uninteresting.

1943

Serre/an, MRS. F. P. CLAYTOR , JR.(Shorty Nuckols) 507 N. Boulevard, Apt . 10, Richmond 20, Va.

I learned last night we had only one day if the cl ass of '4 3 was to be heard from ( thanks to Leslie Booker!). So with very little news but a big desire to keep in touch , I've taken up my seldom used pen. Pepper, Puff , Max and I had a delightful evening together at the Richmond Club 's first meeting-a covered dish dinner. Sorry more of you couldn't be with us. This group has a very satisfactory but brief club year. To you Richmonders,

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Florida for two g lor ious weeks-hampered only bv what could have been quite a serious accident but fortunately resulted in only minor ( ?) injury . Pepper wa lked into and shattered a plate g lass door ( at 10:00 A.M.), splitting a knee , necessitating fourteen stitches . I could visualize a whole vacation completely ruined but , gal that she is, they went dancing the fo llowing evenin g! Virginia D elp Ogg sai d they had the usual summer at their place on the Potomac - really sou nds like living to me 1

Thin!!,s to Com e Speaking of 15-we soon wi ll be! As much as it reminds us of our age , we may as well relax and enjoy it. Most of us have en joyed vacation time but do keep in mind our reunion when you start making plans for '58. Our 10th was great fun-but let' s make our 15th bigiser and better. We'll be in touch later with deta ils. Since I've stepped into this assignment wi th little know-how , rather than attempt at this time to coordinate out of town news through one of you out of town ers, please send any news directly to me. W e all love to know what each is doing and if you're lik e me, you seldom find time for personal not es, so Jet's keep in touch the easy way. P. S. I' ve never written a letter without a P . S. This has been overloaded with "I. " Y ou can help elimin ate the problem in the winter issue.

folk after 2 ½ years ( though Bob has been home about 5 months of that time). Lois (Kirkw ood) and W a lter North had their first child, a girl , Elizabeth Kirkw ood, April 22nd. They 're sti ll in Galesburg , Illin ois where D r. North is a professor at Knox College. They 've been in their new house .. . a split leve l . since February. Lois' new address is 1648 Maple Ave. , Galesburg , Ill. The three Norths visited their parents in Norfo lk this summer for a month . Marth a Ann (M ercer) and Bill Oa st's third baby, second son , Cabell Mercer, arrived M arch 3 1st. Marty left us after 2 years , but you all remem ber ber I'm sure. She and Bill and young Bill , (9) , and Marty, (6) , an d Baby spent a happy summer enjoying their new home on the water here in Portsmouth. On Jun e 29th Mimi (Hill) and D oug Boyn ton welcomed their second girl, M elissa Ashfield . The other little Boyntons are Bruce, (9) , Alan , ( 3), and Hannah , ( 1) . Mimi and Doug are busy planning a new house for their enlarged fami ly. Our Baby Cup Baby, Barbara {who is 12 and starting to Junior H igh) bas a brand new brother , D avid Burcher , who arrived August 15th. Ann wr ites from Roanoke that to her knowledge the Stanbury s are the on ly '44 fami ly to boast 5 children ( correct us if we ' re wro ng ) . Besides the new baby and Barbara they are W inn, (10) , Susan , (8) and Beth , (2) . Lois (Hester) Blackburn writes from Wayn esboro that she has no ·44 new s except keeping busy herself with two children and a new house and yard. She's Program Chairma n for the Junior Woman's Club and President of the Garden Club . From D ot H ill comes news of Molly Warner who toured Europe this summer with Norma Sanders, Molly is teaching in England, her mothe r visited her last spri ng, and her sister plans to go over this fall. Gloria (Tyler) Robertson, husband , Clayton , and littl e g irl , Robin, ( 3 ) , ha ve enj oyed this sum mer here on the water with their boat. D eeD ee (Howe) and Bill Kirk visited here thi s summer with their 3 chi ldren . Rita {Muldowney) Copley writes all the way from California of her family's visit East thi s summer , visiting in Richmond with her mother and then going to Buffa lo to her husband' s fami ly. Her three California childr en did get indoctrinated in Virginia history because they visited Jamestown and Williamsburg . Rita 's youngest enter s kindergarten this fall so she plans to take Go lf Lessons . . . Lucky Girl. Ru th Cotten turned this job over to me 'ti] re union. Many thanks and congratulations go to Ruth for a job well done as Secretary these past years. As for the Keevers, we've had quite a summer. We spent a week at Massanetta Springs , Virginia in June ... we being my husband and two boys and I ( my mother kept our one year old, Susie). M y hu sband took a course there taught by our own Betsy Rice, who is with the Pr esbyterian Board in Richmond. She had quite a bu sy summer ahead of her , traveling and teaching .. . M ontrea t, N. C. was on her list. We came home to remodeling our house which started in July with walls coming down and on ly the hope of being straig ht by Christmas. M y boys, M ac, (5 ½ ) , and Jeff , {4), started to kindergarten this week so I'm glad I have outside projects lik e this to keep me occupied now that I on ly hav e our princes s ( 14 month s ) at home. Many thanks to all of you who helped me out wi th this first letter. All of you get busy now anJ drop me a line . 'ca use this can't be written wit hout you.

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Announc em ents Pudge has a new baby boy- Russell Franklin Starke, II , who arrived March 20, 1957. Even though late , Pudge , our heartiest congrats . Speaking of babies-and it's my favorite subject since Parr arrived 7 months ago- I could have easily taken up this space and more telling you abo ut our boy, but I have truly restrained myself. I have recent ly given up Ma Bell ( C&P T elephone Co.) after being on leave for a year for a full-time job as Ma Claytor. We'r e delighted with th e change. Work Max is back in fu ll swing at the librar y and en joys the contact with many Westhamptonite s who still find time to read. I, for one , seem to limit my reading to Baby Talk , Baby Care and of course , D r. Spock. Evelyn Allen Krause has res umed teaching duties with classes in English Grammar , Public Speaking and American Lit at Manchester High School. Just chatted with Virgi nia Ogg and besides the usual load of church work and P.T.A. , she's helping Miss Fry at dancing school one half day per week. Puff says she is really back to the books , having to teach a new science course this semester. You know , you ga ls, are a rea l inspiration! Play Cozy has a source of energy that I need these days. She's planning swimming lessons at the "Y " and also morning tenni s games whi le the boys are in school. H ad a delightful surprise visit this summer with Max Rogers and D olly Garwood. Those two had enjoyed an evenin g out and stopped in to see that much talked about Little One . D olly had about a mon th 's stay with her fami ly in Hopewell - and was later joi ned by D ave for a month of traveling , visiti ng, and then back to Larson Air Force Base in Washing ton. Parr and I strolled by to see Sweet ie M acSweeney recent ly and, as might be expected, there was quit e a gathering in front of the house--all ages- not all Sweeties' . A very fine looking man in cadet unifo rm approached and to my amaze ment it was Sweetie ' s 15 year old Pat.

Secretary MRS. R. M. KEEVER ( Gene Shephard) 215 V erne Aven ue, Portsmouth, V a.

H ere goes with my first attempt at gatheri ng and reporting the doin 's of the '44 's. Baby news first: Fran (K ennard) an d Bob Wolf's th ird daughter , Katharine Davis , was born in Norfolk, Ma y 5th . .. their other girls are Barbara (9) , and Patricia, ( 7). It'll be Wa shingt on, D . C. for the Wolf s thi s fall as they expect to be leavi ng Nor-

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Secretary MRS. J . B. JACKSON,JR. (Ann Seay) 7711 Sweet Briar Road, Richmond 26, Va.

From the scarcity of vacation correspo nd ence it seems that you all have had a qu iet summ er. If that is contrary to fact it is still not too late to inform me. It' s a baby boy for Lib W eaver Martin and Les, name ly, Rob ert Samuel We aver Ma r tin , who was born on Jul y 4 th ! A larg e thank-you to Nancy Lazenby Stables.

Gladvs Kaufman Lowd en and Mar v Ellen Tucker Lowry for note s. Gladys will hav e all three children in school this fall and will be able to pur sue her volunteer hosp ital work more easily. T he Lowdens spent two wee ks at the New J ersey shore and came to Virginia in Augu st via the Skyline Drive. Mary Ellen was quit e excited about having bou ght a home at 1905 Wood Lane in Camden , South Carolina and was findin g packi ng something of a chore wi th littl e "Stew" aro und as Moth er's chief he] per! Na ncy and Linton and their three boys are now estab lished at Fort Benning , where Linton is in Infantry School , but in December they'll be on the move again, for Linton has orders for Germany. Nancy said their quarte rs were nice and the sum mer no hotter in Georgia than in Ri chmond or Baltim ore. E. P. Brook s B lackwe ll and Roy are now stationed in W ashington State after an eighteen months' tour of duty at Fort Lee. Connie Sutton enjoyed an extended vacation at lake Boon, M assachuset ts and Wanda Pace and her fami ly were at Southampton , Long Island for three weeks. She and Warren had been to Sea Island ear lier in the summer. A high spot in my summer was having Ann Clar k H owe and Chuck visit us for an evening dur ing their visit to Ann 's parents, and seeing their three cute chi ldr en. J. B. and I spent a short vacation at Nag's Head , N. C., which we loved for its uncommercialized beautv , and enjoyed taking the children to Virginia Beach for their first rea l stay at the seashore. Will all girls whose maiden names began with the letters A through J please send me a note w ithin the next two month s? The others will have their big chance lat er!

1946 Secretary Mrss JEANNE YEAMANS 3304 Stuart Avenue , Richmond, Virginia It would be ni ce to have news from some of you who have remained silent for so long. Just a pos tal card will do fine. I heard from two group leaders this summ er who said they hadn 't had any word from their peop le in ages, I'm sorry to say. Now , if you haven 't writt en to your leader recen tly, we're talking to you. Mary Frances Bethel Wood had this to say in her lett er-" W e have spe nt a qui et summer. Buddy had the flu and was home from work for two weeks, but is fine now. Otherwise , we've been we ll. Have been to Jam estown severa l times, and thoroughly enjoyed it. W e take our vacation in September and hope to get to Richmond for a few days." Din g Shotwell wrote that she and Ralph had a fine tim e at the American Baptist Convention in Philadelphia. She saw Ruth Smith T schan , who had a leading role in the historical pageant which was giv en for the 10,000 delegates, and her husband, Don , and the ch ildren. Later in the summ er she and Ralph went to Keuka College in New York where Ralph was the Vesper Speaker and

Chaplain for 200 girl s, ranging in age from 12 to 16. Ding taught a class in "Beauty" and also helped the girl s mak e slippers for mission hospital s. Franc es Carter Bleight Elliott and Dick spent a wee k at th e Greenbrier on a conve nti on and they both plaved some go lf, which is their favorite past ime. They were also in Richmond for a wee k so the children's grandparents could see them . I would guess that our most outs tanding news is about Ellen Hodg es Proxmire whose hu sband , Bill, as I am sure you all know , was elected Senator by the State of Wisconsin to comp let e the late Senat or McCarthy 's term. I'm sure none of us will ever know how much time and toil went into that successfu l campa ign but the efforts really paid off. I had hoped to be able to get in touch with Ellen whil e she and Bill were in Wa shington and get first hand information about how it feels to be the wife of a United States Senator but they were so busy th at it was impossible. As you all probab ly remember, Ellen was affiliated with the Wisconsin D emocratic Party for sometime as its Secretary , and she had helped with Bill's campaigns in that capac ity in previo us elections. It was mighty exciting to see and read about them on television , radio, in the newsreels and newspapers. Ellen , we know you must be proud of all that you did to insure Bill's success, and rightly so. As Senator Proxmire said, " She made the difference thi s time." Congratu latio ns to you both. We have a new baby to report. Joyce Eubank Todd and H owe have a little boy, Glen Wiley Todd, who was born June 2. Amy Hick erso n Dalton is teachi ng three classes in Economics-o ne at W esthampton and two at Richmond College. She and Addison painted the inside of their house this summer and their big ges t difficulty was keepi ng the young ones out of the wet paint. She had seen Bev Ryland who told her that she was going to Bolivia with a friend of hers who lives there. Ap pare ntl y, thi s i, just a pleasure trip but Amy says she wouldn't be surpr ised if Bev decides to work there for a w hil e. Lucy Harvi e, V irginia Gibson Stewart , Lelia Phillip s T oone, Ma rian Lawton Kinze y and I went down to Libby Thompson Schmidt's lovel y home on the Potomac River for a day and a night in Tuly. W e rea lly had a fine time---good weather, and even better food. Libby and the children , Lee, Frank and Kath y, spent the summe r there and Eddie came down on weekends. They came back to Richmond after l abor Day in time for Lee to go back to school. Lelia Phillip s Toone and Bob bought a very attractive home at 100 3 Mapl e Avenue in Rich mond and the y moved into it in June. Leli a is now a " lady of leisur e" since she has resigned from her job at Miller & Rh oads . On e other change of address comes from Pegg y Clark Bowdler. He r mother wrote that the new address is Mr s. William G. Bowdler, c/o The United States Embassy, Havan a, Cuba. This has really been a wonde rful summe r-especia lly for trips to the beach and that's how

I've spent most of my vacation. By taking a day's vacation onto a weekend , I've managed to spend rig ht much time in the sun. Forgive me for going commercial on you, but Mill er & Rhoads opened its second branch store this past Augu st. It's in Roanoke and I was lucky enough to be able to be presen t for the events in connection with it. The best part was that I got to see Barbara Rich ie Branch. She and D avid rea lly had a summer, but all has turned out well. David had spina l meningitis and was in the hospita l for a good while and then had to go throug h a recuperation period. Fortunately , he got along just fine but everyone was quite worried for a wh ile.

1947 Secretary

F. ANDREW S (Betty Tinsley Andrews) 3203 Enslow Avenue, Richmond 22, Va .

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Beverly Patton Browne and her mother spent a week at Miami Beach before embarking on a four day cruise to Havana and Nassau. Bev noted a quite a contr ast between these two place s with " H avana being excitin~ and fascinating by day and by night and Nassau quaint and picturesque." July 26th was the day the boat docked in H avana and as they discovered from reading the newspaper the date set by the rebels for their attac k. Fortu nat ely nothing happened and Bev and her mot her enjoyed their stay and returned by way of Atlanta , Georgia. Goi ng in quite the opposite direction were Jesse and Alice Mason Cralle. They enjoyed a trip to Goose Bay H arbor, Maine and other parts of New England. Stopping over in New York they saw "D amn Yankees. " Jack and Mimi D affron Horigan enjoyed New York, too. Jack had been at Rutg ers taking a course in banking. The Horigans also spent some time on the Potomac River. Virginia W agstaff was in Los Angeles for the summ er on a National Science Foundation Scholarship. While there she took advantage of the opportunity to travel around the West Coast.

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Carolyn Storm Pattie and family went out to Toledo, Ohio to see her parents . Her correct add ress is 5810 Guthrie Avenu e, Richmond , Va . Enjoying a river vacation were Marylou Coghill Poland and her family. H er childr en Leigh and Lydia are now 8½ and 6 years old respectively. Marylou has been active in the Richmond Alumnae Club and was head of the committee for flower arrangements. H er outsid e activities are varied, for at present she is working for support of the newly orga nized Ri chmond Symphony and for next year will serve on the Board of the Virgin ia Museum of Fine Art s. She is an ardent chrysanthemum grower and plans to exhibit in both local and nationa l shows. The Cumbys "tent camped" for ten days in th~ National Forest Camp outside of Waynesboro. There, Marylou, Guy and the childr en Guyon and Betty-B enjoyed carefree hours of swimming and hiking. Keeling Coles and Gin Ellett went to Virginia Beach and returned home after visiting Dottie James Foster and her family and Lena Thornton Small and her fami ly. Gin spent the summer working at the American Research Laboratory. Gussie, who is the head of the Physica l Education Department at Binford Junior High School in Richmond, was the swimming instructor at the YWCA D ay Camp at St. Catherine's. Her address is Betty Ann Gustafson, 4213 Grove Avenue , Richmond, Virginia. As in the past three years, Lois Rynaldo taught summer school at John Marshall High School. She managed a wee k's vacation in the New England States. Lois is returning to Richmond after ten years at Hopewell and wi ll teach at Hermitage this year. Budd y and Betty Brown Parsons have moved to 46 Willway Avenu e, R ichmond, Virginia. They love having a back yard after being in an apartment. Polly Jones Cousins and Charles moved to North Caro lina on our reun ion weeke nd . Their address is 706 Queen Street, Windsor , N. C. She wrote, "We like our new home fine and Charles is pleased wi th bis job. H e works for Lea Lumber Company." Milton and Verda Sletten Hobbs v isited them in September. Marion Co llier Miller tutored and taught summer schoo l. She said that John was feeling well and had enj oyed his best summ er since he was taken sick . Margaret Goode Vicars and Joe spent five days in New Orleans in June. They stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel. This trip was in connectio n with Joe's job as a salesman for the Equitable Life Insur ance Company. They ate at lots of famous places and Margaret reported Antoinne 's was " fabulous. " A vacat ion in the Smokies and Charlotte, N. C. was the choice of Dan and Ann e Higg ins Borger. C. L. and Susie Gard Wo ody and Beth and Korrell spen t some time at Jam estow n and Virginia Beach. They took along two grandmothers to help babysit and had a very good tim e. Their week at Fairystone State Park was not only enjoya ble but

as Susie wrote "h ighly recommend ed for small children. " W e were sorry to lea rn that several of the members of '47 had been ill thi s summer. Ann e Young Lewis was quit e seriou sly ill but is feeling her old self again. Betsy Slate Ril ey underwent maj or surgery in Jun e and recuperated at her pare nts' home in South Boston for two months. Th e grandpar ent s kept her two boys, Carson and Robert. Betsy is feeling fine now and she and Frank spen t five days on the Rappahannock where it was peacefu l and qu iet, but where very few fisb were to be fo und. Anne Wil ey Kelly writes "my summ er activities haven't been much diffe r ent from my winter ones except that now I have one more to take care of. Our son, Thomas Patrick , Jr., was born July 1st." He joins two littl e sisters. Oris and D oris Pitman Rainey have discovered the fascination of taking colored home movies. Marion wi th his red hair is the subject of most of them. D oris a lso wro te that Oris ha d been elected one of the deacons at Smyrna Baptist Church in D inwiddie. Returning to school this fall will be Elsie Minter. She bas resigned her job to becom e a student at Bryn Mawr College to comp lete work on her Ph.D. , probably in French and Eng lish Literature . Her ultimate aim is to teac h on the college level. Elsie's decision to continue her studies came about because she was approached by three Baptist Colleges to teach. We shall be looking forward to hearing more from you, Elsie. No letter wou ld be comp lete without a weddi ng. Dr. Julia Dickinson became Mrs. Wilbur Tay lor Phillips on May 31, in Calvary Episcopal Church, Seaside, Oregon. The Phillips live at 7304 Nort h Williams Avenue , Portland 11, Oregon and Julia is continuing wi th her career. Check these addresses: Mr s. R . R. Allen , III (Martha Edwards), Chuckatuck, Virginia. Mrs. H . H . Sterling, Jr. (Olli o Menefee), '99425 K eoka Place , Aie, Oaku, Territory of Ha waii.

1949

Secretary MRS. JAMES B. HOPKINS (Betty Evans) 3005 Dun wick Road, Richmond 28, Va .

I'm sure the class joins me in thanking Cynthia Patrick Lawson for the wonderful job she ba s done as Class Secretary. J ack has set up practice in Ham pton and Cyn is bu sy with her new hou se. Id a Eanes Pa trick is also in H ampton and is keeping quite busy with club work. She bas heard from Izzy Taylor Staples who bas moved to a new address: 8 W. Strong St. Pensaco la, Florida . Jean Har per Sellars also ba s a new addr ess. She and All en have bought a house at 4005 Noyes Ave., S.E., in Charleston , W . Va. Th ey also hav e a new daught er, Nancy Ryland , born Jun e 20th. Their son, Bruce , is 311, and in nursery school th is fall. H elen McD onough Kelley is teaching the fifth grade at New Broad Rock School in Chesterfield County thi s year. H er two girls are in kind ergarte n and nurs ery school. She also has a baby son and said they had quite a crowd of children

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when she, Mitz i Verra Wi ll iams , A lda Marlin Nof tsinger and Betty Ann Allen Doub go t together thi s summer in Richmond. Alber ta McCu llough Palmer writ es that she plan s to be quit e busy thi s year teaching school and going to nig ht school. W e have severa l birth ann ouncements: Jim and Peggy Reno lds Nolan are delighted with their daughter , Jill Ann e, born Ma y 17th. They have a son, Tim my, wl10 is 21/z. Bill and Jane Sanford Jennings proud ly announce the arrival of Paul Judson, born June 28th. They also have two daughters. Jean M eyer Kluger and Ju les announce the birth of Jeffrey M eyer on May 28th. Sister , J eri, 9, and brother Jo el, 5, think he is wonderful. Jane Den s McM an igal writes that she is really enjoying her family as their third son, J effrey \Y/aldron was born August 3rd. Jane had heard from Janie Gutfreund Schmidt who also has three chil dren-Kat hie 7, Arn old 5, and Susan who is 11 months old. Peggy Harris Barnett, Bill, and their three children spent the summ er at Camp James Speers in Dirgmar's Ferry, Pa. Bi ll worked whil e the rest played, Peggy says. They visi ted Jane D ens one day and bad a glorious reun ion. Peggy is teac hing 1st & 2nd grades this year. Audrey Bradford Saupe, Bill , and Kathy wer e vis itin g in New J ersey and Portsmouth this summer. Bill is being transferred from Panama to Caracas, Venez uela. Mim i Anderson Gill, Bill, and their two children had a wonder ful vacation in Maine thi s summer. Mimi is now busy handling her church bazaar. Bil I and Bobbie Rh odes Barker spent their vacation in the Blue Ridg e and Smoky Mountains. M ary Ann Peddicord W illiams spent a week at Ocean City, N. J. this summer and visited Randy Mann Ellis at a nearby beach where she spent the summ er with her three girls. Mary Ann also saw Pat Dri scoll Foster and her two boys in Port Royal , Va. and ran into Sylvia Carpenter at Virginia Beach-s he was in our Freshman Class. Ann Carter Kraft writes that they had a wonderfu l vacation visiting Lake Placid, New York City, Virgini a, and Essex, N. Y. Cathy enters kind ergart en this year and Barbie just celebrated her third birthday. Libby M cNea l Claybrook, Rip , and Ricky will be in Petersburg aga in this year and Libby is already bu sy with club work. She bas heard from Ginny Graybeel Cole who visited her parents in the country this summ er. H er three chi ldren enjoyed seeing the animal s and swimming in the lake. W e extend our deepest sympat hy to Liz W ebb Wo ody who lost her father in Jun e. Liz is teaching at M ary Mun fo rd School in Richmond thi s year. W e have a new address for Patsy Vern e RaylRt . No. 2, Box 320, Asheville, N. C. H er hu sband is Asst. Chief of Surgery at Oteen V etera ns Hospita l near Asheville. Kit Vand er Shalie Pederson writes , that they have bu ilt a new house near Puget Sound and will spen d their vacation sailing in the Canadian waters. Bobbie Todd Clark and Ray have built a beautiful home. She writes that they can see the heart of Los Ang eles and the Pacific Ocean from their patio. Her new ad dr ess is 5113 Bluemound Road. Rolling Hill s, California. Mari lyn Alexand er Kubu and Ed spent a weekend with Sallie V an D yck Wood and her fami ly in Pittsburgh. After six months of traveling aro und the country, Anne Bing Abbitt and John have sett led in Lynchburg , Va. They have bought a lovely home about eight miles from downto wn . Their new addres s is Wat erlick Road , Lynchburg, Va . Laura Saunders James is now living in Farm ville where Joe is Admini strator of the hospital. H er new ad dr ess is 4 15-A Putn ey St. Pat Allen Wint ers and her two boys, Au stin and Micha el, visited in Richmond in September. Pat, Ann Wi lson Bryant and I bad a long chat one day. Pat is now living at 53 Lathrop Ave ., Binghamton , N. Y. My fami ly enjoyed a wonderful vacation in

Florida in June and visited in New Jersey in August. Hoppy is still traveling for Wilson Sporting Goods and Jimmy just celebrated his third birthday. We visited Ann Rice White and her family in September. Carolyn ( our Baby Cup girl) is in the second grade and Sharon is 3 years old . This is a busy time for all of us but I do wish you would take a little time to send in some news about yourself-even if it is just your correct address.

1950 Secretary

MRS. J. S. PIERCE JR. (Joyce Betts) 3434 Hanover Ave., Richmond, Va.

The Class of 'SO certainly had an eventful summer! Two weddings and six babies are our latest news. Wedding bells rang for Jane Edmonds and Aubrey Barnett July 13 in Accomac, Virginia. They are making their home in Alexandria, Virginia. Ida Sparks Smith and Channing Moore Hall were married in Culpeper on August 3. Ludie Hickerson Wiley was on hand for the event . Ida and Channing are making their home in Williamsburg. Aggie Field Burke and David are the proud parents of a l itt le girl, Ann Wyatt, born May 22. Doris Lee saw them in June and reports that the baby is just as sweet as can be. How happy I am to report that Libbv Givens Pierce and Bucky are the parents of a little girl , Elizabeth Ann, born May 28 . While vacationing in August , with their two sons and new baby, they saw Helen lampathakis Kostyal and Dick. Julie Wann Pittman and Al had a baby boy, Carey Steven , on June 12. Big brother, Christopher , is now 3 years old. Al has been called to the Underwood Memorial Baptist Church in Wauwatosa , Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. Another girl, Sarah Celeste, was born to Jean Hart Joyner and Tai on June 17. Stephen Randolph Anderson was born to Margaret Alexander Anderson and Saddler on June 23. What proud parents they are 1 In May a third baby girl , Nancy, was born to Marv Byrd Goforth Hudson and Bill. Since then, Mary reports she has become a "master of disorganization. " I had a nice letter from Mary Byrd saying how pleased she was with the class address list. If you didn 't receive one, contact Mary Ann Bugg Lambert , 8311 Vernell lane, Richmond , Virginia. She and her committee did a grand job distributing them and I am sure you want a list in time to address your Christmas cards. Mary Byrd also wrote that Bill is a " ham " radio operator and she hopes to contact some of the girls indirectly. He has been trying to "get into" Tulsa to have a "ham" call Nancy Chapin. Mary Byrd and Bill are building a new home only a block from Lucia and Bob Barbour. Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy have been in North Carolina where Roy was temporarily sent for his company. Jean and Roymac went along and vacationed at Wrightsville Beach and lake Waccamaw, N . C. Mary Howard Holloway writes that we have printed her address wrong again. She went to the University of Virginia this summer for a three weeks ' course in aviation education. You probab ly remember that she has a plane! later this summer Bill went to Masonic School for a week at Augusta Military Academy and Mary went along. She met Henrietta Dow Vinson and had a grand time. Reporter Jean Bishop Porter, lucky girl , has been assigned to cover Queen Elizabeth's visit to Williamsburg. This summer she and Joe visited Nova Scotia and Canada and stayed at Ketlic Lodge on Cape Breton Island. Mary lee Rankin McCullough and Tom travelled abroad this summer . They visited London, Scotland, France, H o lland and Germany where they purchased a Volkswagon. Then they drove to Nuremberg, Munich, Salzburg, Austria, Switzerland and along the Riviera. They sailed for Canada from Bremerhaven, Germany on August 4 What an interesting trip! On September 6 Roberta Beattie began an exciting new chapter in her lif e. She is working as a

librarian in Germany with the Special Services D epa rtment of the government. Barbara Coleman and two friends had a fabulous vacation in Bermuda this summer. Several members of our class vacationed in Florida thi s summ er. Doris lee Reeves Childress, Earl and Tripp spent a week there in August. Clarice and Fuzzy Price were also there in August and say that Miami Beach is heavenly. Mr. Ryland 's baby sitting gave them the week alone . Emma Tilman Kay and Leslie visited Daytona Beach and took their 10 month old girl along. Libby Rowse Wi lson writes that Bob has gone into business for himself. It is known as Robert A. Wi lson, Inc. and is a state licensed plumbing contracting business. Libby is contr ibuting her bit to the hard work involved and says it is a wonderfu l new venture. Frannie Sutton Oliver , Ravmond and the two boys spent their vacation in Bluefield , West Virginia. Frances Chandler Long and Allen were visiti ng there also. Later the Olivers went to the Smoki es for several days. Rosa Lou Soles Johnston and Mandley recently moved into their new home on West Franklin Street in Richmond. Nan Johnson Adams and Dean moved to Colonial Heights where Dean has accepted a position with Rickwich Realty . Virginia Brinson was in Richmond in September and talked to Lorraine Chapman . We understand she has a mighty fine boat . Betty Finney Tuttle and Arthur have enjoyed life in Charleston and will be back at Chapel Hill this fall to continue studies in city planning. On their vacation at the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, they saw Jane Pitt Robinson, Hiter and three of th eir four children. My fami ly and I visited relatives in Kentucky and camped in the mountains this summer. We will be collecting news again the first of December. let us hear from you. CHANGES OF ADDRESS FOR THE CLASS OF ·so l . Rosa Lou Soles Johnson (Mrs. Mandley) 6705 W. Franklin St. Richmond 26, Virginia 2. Jane Edmonds Barnett (Mrs. Aubrey S., Jr.) 1647 Mt. Eag le Place , Alexandria , Virginia 3. Mattha Spencer Fidler (Mrs. Walther) Sharps, Virginia 4. Julie Wann Pittman (Mrs. A. C.) 1940 Wauwatosa Ave., Wauwatosa , Wisconsin

1951 Secretary

MRS. DONALDA. WHITE (Elizabeth Gill) 4354 North Henderson Road, Arlington, Va.

In this class, the biggest news at any time is that of a wedding and th is time I have another one to report. Eleanor Easley married Donald Byron Barnes on June 20 at Wake Forest College , \l(/inston-Salem, in the small chapel on the campus . Don is from W-S and is a graduate of UNC in business-"a little bit of heaven ," so says our Eleanor! They are living in Charlotte , N. C. at 160 Perrin Place. Eleanor will teach kindergarten this year. And then there are babies. Mark Edward Tonacci, son of Bob and Frances Arrighi Tonacci , weighed in on May 31. Another May baby was Charles David Dickinson, who arrived at the home of his parents, Boyd and Mary Ann Hubbard Dickinson. August 18 was the birth date of Andrew Christian Bowman , number three for Kitty and George. Incidentally, they moved this fal l to South Boston where George began his duties as pastor of Faith Baptist Church on September 16. There are several changes of address besides those already mentioned. Jane Lawson Patton and her family moved into their new home on about August 1, at 5107 Wythe Ave. in Richmond . They are glad to be rid of apartment dwelling and love their more spacious new quarters. Another pleased new-home-owner is Mary Booth Watt, who now sports a most interesting address: 739 Indian Trai l, Martinsville I She found her nextdoor neighbor to be Lou Gladding, WC '52 ! One person who was not too happy about having to change her address is Paula Abernethy

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Kelton. She and John have gone to Alabama where he will be teaching two psych courses at the Univers ity in Tusca loosa, and also serving as director of the UA Testing Bureau of th e Psych. Dept. They were sorry to leave Chapel Hill where they had bought a lot, but will surely profit from their new experiences. They live at University Court , Apt. 12 F, Tuscaloosa , Ala. Another professor's wife , Jane Ellis Babb, is now living in Syracuse, N. Y., where I presume he is teaching at the University . Their address is 216 Dorch ester Ave., Apt. IA. Shirley Robertson had a long letter in the spring from Ann Baird Caulkin , who married Tom after her second year at WC , nine years ago I She was glad to be back in contact with the class and reported on her two little girls: Charlene , 4, and Bonnie , 1. Tom is well again after hepatitis last year and back at work as a busy pastor. Ann wrote: "The Class of 1951 will always be in my heart and bring back fond memories." Betty Munsey Spatz called me the other day to report Paula's news and also said that Bob is out of service now , happily , and that he is working for the Int ernal Revenue Department in D. C. Betty is busy with 9-months-old Billy . Summer vacations are over now , but news of them will be trickling in for some time to come. I even have some news of doings last spring 1 Anne Rogers Crittenden was down from Wilmington in Petersburg at Easter. She spent consider able time playing golf during her visit. Joan Dalve Heizer wrote that she visited her family in Louisville last spring. Marshall's mother was in the hospital for a while , so Joan was very busy and concerned. But she still found time to freeze lots of garden vegetables and says she enjoys country living! In June Betty Tredway Blake , and Libba Eanes Baskervi lle of Emporia, and Mary Booth Watt of Martinsville, enjoved atending their tenth high school reunions ! Betty is now " veep " of the Emporia Jr. Woman 's Club. Also in June was a trip to Louisiana by Doris Goodwyn Bridgeforth and her husband for a wedding; and I understand that Elean?r W rig_ht Weston and Billy were planning a tnp to Virginia in June. Helen Clark Hensley and Dick vacationed in Kentucky with her family this year. They saw Ann and Buddy Rosser recently and also stopped by to see Pete and Jeannette Aderhold Brown in Chatham. Riggie Tonacci wrote that Piret Koljo had spent several pleasant days in the Catskills. We're

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always glad to hear about Piret and she is more faithfu l about keeping us posted than many a '51-er. The main event of my summer was a twoweeks' stay in th e hospital for an abdominal operat10n, my first of any kind. But I'm as good as new now and ready to plunge into the new season . Our church choirs flourished during the summer and now enrollment is climbing. I have several playing engagements during October and November, so practicing is booming, too. Don is glad to be back at school. I'm terribly proud of his work there and this year promises to be the best yet, chora lly speaking.

1952

'5ecreta,-y MRS. W . R. BEASLEY(Betty Hurt) Building 3, Apt. 4, Diesel Housing Unit Richmond, Virginia

At the reunion of the Class of 1952 in May, committee was appointed to work out the p lans for the Fred 1. Watson Stanfield Memorial Fund. The members of the Class present at the reunion banquet voted to establish a loan fund and to place a permanent memorial on campus in Fred lee's name. After thorough investigation into several projects, including an outdoor drinking fountain , a speaker's rostrum for the Greek Theatre, and a stone bench , it was discovered that these projects required a substantial amount of money-more than the committee felt coul d be collected. It has been decided that the gift most appropriate for Fred lee's memorial would be a loan fund. The loan fund would be availab le to any qualified Westhampton student to be used toward her college expenses, with the understanding that she wou ld start to pay back the loan after graduation. Thus the fund would continue from year to year and be a perpetual memorial in Fred lee's name . All classmates and friends who would like to give to the Fred lee Memorial Fund are requested to send their contributions as soon as pos a

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1953

Secretary MRS. JOHN W. GuY. llI (Segar White) 221 North Thomas St., Arl ingt on 3, V a.

Is it possib le that we are beginning our fifth year as alumnae) Indeed it is, and time also to look forward to our reun ion next spri ng. More details of that will be for th coming before long. Only two wedding have come to my attention duri ng the summer. Marietta Carr and Howard Kinney Glascock were married at McKinney , Va . on July 6. She is teaching this year while he attends law schoo l in Richmond . Gayle Mepham is now Mrs . John Ra y H ensley. Their new address is 426 Barry Avenue , Chicago , Ill. New baby girls are in the news this time. Mary Theresa was born to Barbara Warren Reardon and Jack July 26. June Pair Carter and Mann are thrilled w ith their Rebecca Marie , who was born August 26. Jo Fugate Harris writes that her daughter, Pamela E lizabeth, was born on March 20, 1957 during Charley' s exams at V.P.I. Nevertheless , be graduated in July , and they now live at 810 Johnson St., Monroe , North Carolina , where Charley is a highway construction estima tor. Beanie Dav enp ort Bosley and Jack have moved to 1311 N. Ode St., Arlington, Va. She is a reservations clerk for American A irl ines and he works wit h a publi c housing organization. Betty Jane Williams Potter and De~n reside at 409 Virginia Avenue, Oceana , Va. now that he is o ut of service. B. J. has joi ned the Norfo lk Alumnae Club and is teaching agai n this year. Pat Moran Talley·s address is now Manchester, Maryland. Ruby Vau ghan Carso n and Don have moved to 1010 Findley Drive , West , Apt. 8, Pittsburgh, Pa. Ginny leSueur Carter and Bill are living at 2425 Longview Avenue, S. W. , Roanoke , Va. Ginny w rit es that she, like Ruby, has "re tired" from her job, and intends to become a lady of leisur e. Bill has been kept quite busy with preparations for the openi ng of the new Miller & Rhoads store in Roanoke. Doris Johnston is an archives assistant wi th the Na tional Academy of Sciences of the National Research Council located in Washington, D . C. Gladys Tatarsky has changed jobs and is very enthusiastic about her work with the Esso Company in Richmond. Carla Waal moved to New York City in August to work for the American Choral Foundatio n. Her address is 151 East 36th St. Durin g th e summ er she was assistant direct or for "life With Father" w hich St. Catherine's Summer theater produced. Summer vacations scattered some of our members far and wide. Methyl Young Bruce , Billy and the girls visi ted in New York City several days. In trips to the beach they saw Lois Moody Mackey and Sue Bentley Fain with their families. Billy Bruce began a new job in June with the Connecticut Genera l Life Insurance Co. Mary K. Manuel Clark and Dr. Clark spent five weeks at their lak eside cottage in Maine. She is teaching English part-time at Clark County High School , besides attending to numerous church duties which include being advisor to the church kindergarten. Mildred Gambill and Betty Guthrie motored to Detroit for a July vacation . Margaret Gooch Williams and Tommy spent some time in Florida. So did Lou George Wolfe and Billy, who was a representative to the Kappa Sigma convention in Miami. From Scotland came word of Jan e Wilson Ralston and Holm es who were planning a tour to England and Ireland in Augu st. Jane continues to adm ire the lovely Scottish landscap es and is

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enjoying her job as a secretary to the Netherlands Consulate in Edi nbu rgh. The summer had its more serio us side for Jane Sheema and Rosa Ann Thomas who were beginning graduate work at the University of Virg inia. Rosa Ann plans to take advantage of a fellowship awarded her and contin ue work towards a mas ter's degree this winter. Connie Shuford Vilas and Pinky have moved to New York so that he may attend graduate scho ol at Columbia U ni versity. We are sad dened to learn that the two-year-old daughter of Patti Thompson Stoy passed away August 3. H arriet Wheat Fralin, Methyl Young Bruce , and Janet Francis Midgett came to Arlington to be with the family at that time. We exte nd deepest sympathy to the Stoys. As usual there remain some bits of news too interes ting to hold back but not specific enou gh to state as facts. For instance, Nancy O'Niell may return this fall from abroad where her head quar ters for the past year have been Orleans, France. Jackie Gustin Boek and her husband are reported to be back from the West and liv ing in Roanoke. Lastly, by the time you receive your fall Bulletin, Will and I may have a new Maryland address - my sixth change in five years. Please don't let thi s keep you from sending news. to me, as the present Arlington address wi ll suf fice until further notice .

1954

Secretary MRS. EDWARDEARL D UNKLEE ( Beverley Burke) 2210 Skipwith Road, Richmond 26, Va.

We want to thank Carol Jones for the hard wor k she has put on our newsletter for thr ee years . She is retiring now , and I shall try it for awhile. Shir ley Bru ckman Martin has a new daughter. Judith Roe, who was born on July 28. She and Bob are at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary , where she did some work last year on her master 's degree. Atlanta, Georgia has claimed quite a number of our class. Mary Lou Gilbert Dorsey and John have been shar ing their motor boat with Ola Hill Kruger and John there, we hear. Ann Burnet is also there at Emory University Hospital, where she is en joying her work as a physical therapist , Another Georgian now , Jane Gill Tombes and Averett have made their home in Ft. Stewart. They were married on June 15. Jane Betts Schmitt , Beverley French , and I were members of the wedding party. Beverley Fre nch spent her vacation in Spain this year. On her return, one of the local newspapers wrote of her trip, showi ng a picture of her and her campanion. It seems that she lost her suitcase en ro ute, but was so tired , she just laughed-as usual - about it. She saw the bull fights, and ate octopus steak , amo ng other things. Edith Burnett Grimes's second daughter, Susan , arrived on Jun e 21, and promises to be as cute as her "big sister. " Betty Do wdy spen t the summer at the University of Main e, taking education courses. Anyway, it must have been cool! Linda Goodman lewis and Denby are back in Richmond now. He wi ll take cour ses at U. of R. this year , after which he plans to ent er dental school at MCV. Linda is teaching fourth grade in Chesterfield Coun ty, and writing a childr en's book 1 Susie Keegan Nuttle 's baby is so large now, people are beginning to wo nd er when he will stop sponging off his parents , and look for a job. Sue Perry Downing and Tom stayed with us a few days this summer. They left for Edinburgh , Scotland , September 19, on the United States. Tom will do work there on his doctor's degree. Mary Helen Stewart Lawre nce and Nim are back at Southern Seminary now , after being in Germany wit h the Armed Forces. They have another little boy. We bear that Nim, Jr. is the image of his dadd y. Jane Watkins Reid 's little boy, Johnny is talking now. She and her husband, Lou, have moved to Lynchburg, where he has set up practice. Barbara Konkle Duke 's littl e Kenny is sprou ting teeth and growing by leap s and bounds.

Betty Wilder and Charles Anderson were married October 12 in Richmond. Their home is in Port Royal, Va. , where he has two churches. Incidentally , they first met at our wedding, where Betty was maid of honor , and Charlie was best man.

Jane Lanier and Bob Synovitz were married in Petersburg on August 10. We'd like to know where they are living now. Jane Gill Tombes served as the distinguished ( ?) alumna judge in the last W.C. song contest. Our senior song was the required proc. She said she vote d for the seniors, because they sang as poorly as we. Unfortunately, that was not considered grounds for winning the contest. Nancy Graham Harrell and Walter have a little girl , Kimberly , born May 27. We welcome them as our neighbors . They moved this fall into their new home, just a few blocks from us. Barbara Magyar is back in Richmond, studying art at R.P.I., after which she plans to take an overseas job with the government is her field of Occupational Therapy. Nancy Lay spent the summer at N.Y.U., working on her master ·s degree. Macon Day Banks has a little girl, Deborah Jean, born June 11. Ann Powell Oast also has a little girl, though we haven 't gotten the facts on her yet. Jo Sue Leonard and her husband have moved to Fairfax County , while Sara Sherman Coherd and Rush have come back to Richmond. Barbara Bull Tull is teaching this year in Chrisfield. Next issue we'll introduce you to the Vivala twins, 5 and 4. Watch for them. S.O.S. Anyone knowing the whereabouts or any information leading to these people who have been missing (from our news), please let us know: Carol Livesay and Carmen Wong Tang . Do you love to see your name in print? We do! Won 't you lend us a hand , and send some news about yourself and somebody we know? This column depends on you and the U.S. mails!

1955 Secretary MRS.

ALEXANDER

McCULLOUGH

( Alice Creath) It 's time again to hear from "C lub '55" and as usual many members of th e Class have exciting news that they wish to pass on to you! As many of you know, Alice Creath McCullough has had a busy summe r so I agreed to pinch-hit for her this issue. Alice became Mrs. Alexander (Piggy) McCullough on June 22. Alice 's sister, Mary Creath Payne, ('53) was matron of honor. '55'ers from out of town at the wedding were Betty Jean Parrish Knott, Marg aret English , Dottie Smoker Neilsen and myself. Alice and Piggy worked at a camp in Maine this summer and are now living in Annville , Pa. where PigE;y has returned to his schooling at Lebanon Valley and Alice is teaching first grade in the local school system. We extend our best wishes to Pat Minor Aldhizer who was married to George Aldhizer in early summer. They are residing in Charlottesville where Pat is working at the new Miller and Rhoads store. Our percentage of girls engaged goes up a coup le of notches as Margaret English and Beulah Boston join the ranks. Margaret has announced her engagement to Morton Waid Lester of Martinsville, Va . Morton is now a student at V.P.I. while Margaret is teaching at Martinsville again. An ear ly winter wedding is planned. Beulah Boston is en!(aged to Al Hanson, a marine stationed now at Kingsville, Texas. She also plans a winter wedding. We send our best wishes to the four potential members of the Class of 1979 of U.R. William Andrew Diz e was born to Polly Bundick Dize on May 11th. Polly and Coeburn are now living in Onancock where Coeburn has a television sales and service business. On June 21st Sue Smith Van Wickler became the proud mama of Kenneth Scott. Barbara Reynolds Orel! and Durwood are now living in West Point, Virginia, and are the par-

ents of Scott Allen Orel! who was born on August 21st. We also received news that Renee Gartner Diamonst ein had a little boy, Richard, born on Tune 1st. Jim , Peggy Armstrong Clark and daughter visited Alice McCarty and Ginny Swain Saunders in Boston this summer. Jim is the assistant pastor of a church in Port smout h. Pat Stump of Cincinnati also spent her vacation in Boston visiting Alice and Ginny, while Alice saw more of her Westhampton friends in Richmond where she spent a couple of days of her vacation. Dr. Henry Kahn and his wife, Marjorie Moeschler Kahn , will remain in Richmond where Henry wi ll intern at MCV and Marjorie will teach school this fall. Virginia Murden spent her vacation visiting Mary Anne Logan Morgan in Salem and Betty L. Stembridge Leggett in South Boston. Sunshine had as a visitor Norma Lee {Toppy) Kailing Eanes and her husband. Toppy has comp leted nursing training. Vacationing in Maryland and the Eastern Shore were Betty Jean Parrish Knott and Charlie with Betty Jean's family. Crittenden Kauffman and Myron travelled also as they visited several cities considering places where Myron might intern next year. South of the border were Virginia Thomas Phillips and Earle. They were at tendi ng summer school in Mexico . Jackie Kilby Brooks flew to Oregon to v1S1t Hunter one week. Hunt er's company sent him to Oregon for much of the summer on a business trip. Vi siting her home in Richmond were Ann Tillman Shaffner , Don and little Hal for the month of June. Also home in Radford for a coup le of weeks were Ann King Cloyd, Allen and Stevie . Another '55'er joined the IBM staff in Richmond as Nancy Johnson White be"an work there the first of September. We have enough working at IBM from our class to have alumnae meetings during lunch hour. Janice Boyer Baldridge, living now in Red Oak, N. C., attended summer school during June and July. She was also most pleased to have Janet Pace Burbage and family to drop in to visit her this summer. Norma Howard Matthews, Brock and little Theresa Lindsey are living in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Brock is foreman trainee graduate trainee at the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company. They have bought their own home at 1744 Victor. Thank you for bearing with me this issue. I enjoyed hearing from all of you. Alice will be back with you in the winter issue. Jean Ruddle

1956 Secretary MISS

CAROLYN

BAKER

3405 Fendall Ave ., Richmond, Va. The new mamas make the top news in our class column this fall. Phyllis and Lou Wacker's Bruce Elizabeth is the owner of our baby cup. Mama Phyllis phoned with this news and also informed me that she is now teaching algebr a and geometry at Manchester High School in Chesterfield County. Margie Kantner Snader and George welcomed a wonderful boy, Douglas Earl , May 24 . Mary Moore Mullin Mowery and Al became the proud parents of a son, Mark Wayland, born July 11. Mary Moore writes that Al received his master's degree in May and is now back at North Carolina State working on his Ph.D. degree in engineering physics. Helen Melton Lukhard and Dee are now the mom and dad of Helen Lindsey, born September 8. A boy, Charles Hunter, was born to Nancy Stan ley Cockrell and Hunter on September 2. Eliza Hubble Severt is one of our new brides. She was married to James Walter Severt August 18, in Marion . Westhamptonites Rosie Allen , Mary Katherine Davis, and Leta May Tucker were three of the attendants. Julia Hubbard became Mrs. Samuel A. Nixon, June 15. She and Sam, a '55 graduate of the University of Richmond , are living in Franklinton,

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N. C., where she is teaching the sixth grade . Sam is attending Southeastern Seminary. Jack and Lillian Stephenson Stroud are all set tled in their charming little home at 201 Bracey Dri ve in Suffolk. Lillie is teaching at Suffolk High School, and one of her subjects is French! Jack is still very much the boat-racing enthusiast. Two weeks after the wedding he was the only double winner at the annual Tappahannock Independence Day regatta , and Jack's won many a race since then, too. Speaking of boating, Ann Peery has been a very busy gal recently. She's been trying to keep up with all the boating news , has moved from apa rtment to an apartment on South Boulevard , recently became a technician, and has been a bridesmaid in three summer weddings-Lillian 's and Jack's , Thelma Flynn 's and Marshall Helm 's, and Janet Butler's and Bob Barker's. Mot Boatwright Rice and Gerry have a son, Nathaniel Gierhardt, who was born the middle of September. Thelma and Marshall have set up housekeeping at 2417 Guilford Avenue in Roanoke. She reports that she and Marshall are having loads of fun getting their house fixed up. Another of Thelma's bridesmaids, Alice Holladay, returned to school this fall. She is studying at Southeastern Seminary. Joyce Still studied at the University of Virginia this summer working toward her master's. She is at present teaching English at Danville 's George Washington High School. Sylvia Grigorowitsch Dickerson earned her master's in psychology at the U . of R. summer school session. Dotti e Stiff Price is another classmate who has turned to teaching. Dottie has a seventh grade class at Ridge School in Henrico County. All of the \Xfesthamptonites at Freeman were very happy to welcome Nancy Day Anderson and Beverly Wingfield Ayers , both of the class of ' 57, to the high school teaching ranks. Nancy is teaching sophomore physical education. Beverly's field is social studies. Jan and Ferrell Atkins again spent the summer at Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado, where he served as a rangernaturalist for the Park Service. Jan had an unusual tale to tell about their trip home. Their car engine broke down in Marysville , Kansas , and they had to buy a new ranch wagon. The Atkins' now own the only car in the state with Virginia license plates and a Kansas inspection sticker. Jan is teaching first and second year algebra at Freeman. Jody Weaver Wampler is helping me out with the French teaching at Freeman (and doing a mightly fine job, too!) , as I have had a thirdyear French class added, the only one in the Hen ico high schoo ls. This year I am helping out wi th th e National Honor Society and Student Cooperative Association of the schoo l, and I still have the wonderful sophomore class under my supervision . Marilyn Sorce is still another teacher new to the ranks this year. Our senior class president is teachi ng English in Waynesboro High School. Ann App has gone from elementary to high school teaching. She is an eigh th and ninth-grade English teacher at Manchester. Here are two bits of information about two girls who were members of our class for three years. Bev Drake Shull and Owen welcomed a lovely daughter , Susan Drake, June 14 at the Medical College of Virginia. Bobby Jinkins Keville , Red , and Stevie are now in Texas , where Red is serving with the Air Force. The Keville 's will remain in Texas until late November , after which they go to Alabama for 17 weeks. Barbara Pratt Willis and Jere have bought a home in Fredericksburg. Thev journeyed to Canada this summer. Ann Pope Richman and John have bought their home in the southside of Richmond . We end this issue's column with an engagement: Shirley Evans to James Edward Flournoy. A November wedding is in the offing. Please keep the letters coming in, especially those of you with whom we seem to have lost contact.

1957

SecretarJ

Ann Baumgardner and Eleanor Vosburgh are shar ing an apartment at 1025 Floyd Avenu e, Richmond . Ann is thrilled with her w0rk as Mr . Kennedy's secretary at the WRVA radio stat ion It 's hard to believe that so many changes have in Richmond. Eleanor is working for the Southern taken place in just three months. To begin our Bank and Trust Co. in Richmond and likes it very first news as alumnae, let's travel across the Atmuch. lantic to our two Fulbright Scholars. Rosalind Helen Mel ton is now working as a secretary Allen sailed for Eng land on the seventh of Sep- at Pollard and Bagby Real Estate in R ichmond tember on the "United States," and she is residing after wonderful vacation in Maine and Canada now at Highfield Hall, University of Southamplast summer. ton, Southampton, England. Mary Katherine Dav is Betty Lou Warren worked in the City Tax Colsailed the tenth of September on the "M.S. Berlector's office in Portsmouth last summer, and now lin, " and her new address is c/ o U. S. Educational she is at the University of A labama with an asCommission, Bad Godesberg, Kaiserstrasse 3, Gersistantship and is working on an M .A. in Speech. many. Best wishes to both of them as they begin Also, she is coaching the freshman debate team. their studies abroad. Leah Eubank has start ed classes in the medical Until just a few days ago I still had the baby schoo l at Medical College of Vir gi n ia, after a cup , but I have just beard that Barbara Goodman wonderful summe r in California. Mary Pratt writes Burton is now the mother of a little girl. So, her that she is sorry that she's not returning to Richdaughter is now the proud possessor of the baby mond to attend Medical College of Virginia as cup from the class of 1957. Congratulations to she had planned, but she's been accepted at the you, Barbara! University of Wi sconsin Medical School. She Also , congratulation go to Judy Hecht Good - had a very busy summ er first as a lab technician man and Barry on the birth of their son, William in a Stanford , Connecticut hospital and then as Elliot Goodman , who arrived on July 24th . a stude nt at New York University. Just one week later, July 31, Margaret Logan Working on an M.A. at Vanderbilt after sumBall and George became parents of James Austin mer school at the University of Richmond is Ball. George is stationed in Florida, and their new Evelyn Crady, whose new address is Substation B, address is Grandview Apts , o. 3, Warrington, Vanderbilt University , Nashv ille, Tennessee. Florida. Anne Byrd and Faye Jones are both working To date exactly thirteen of our classmates have towards an M.A. at the U niversity of Illin ois. been married since our graduation. I regret that Anne is on a fellowship an! studying Library I do not know all of their married names, so wou ld Science, while Faye bas an assistantship and is those with missing names, please let me know studyi ng entomo logy. Their university address is them. The following girls have now received an 705 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, Illinois. "MRS." Degree as well at a W. C. Degree: Kitty Charleston, South Carolina is Meg Kidd's new Alford (Mrs. Gale Connor), Carmen Austin (Mrs. home. She I ives in the Sgt. Jasper Apts. ( Apt. Buddy Williams), Nancy Day (Mrs. Claude An81), and she loves her new job as a child welderson), Joyce Garrett (Mrs. George Fidey), Lorfare worker. etta Landers (Mrs. H. Kenneth Crisp), Nancy Nancy Archbell bas begun teaching piano at Moore (Mrs. Wm. Plonk), Pat Moore (Mrs. Page the Collegiate School in Richmond as well as beEwell) , Mary K. Parr, Angie Pettie (Mr s. Ed. ing organist at the Westover Hills M ethodist Willingham), Ruth Ann Powel 1, Betty Lu Scearce Church. H er new Richmond address is 3128 Park (Mrs. Norman Bennett), Marcia Slaven (Mrs. Avenue. Burton Moss), and Beverly Wingfield (Mrs. Keo Peggy Thomas is still working at the Bon Air Ayers). Congratulations to all of you! School for gir ls as a caseworker. Kitty Alford Conner and Gale are now living Pat Fit zwater and Jackie Randlette will be at 3924 Cutshaw Ave., Apt. No. 4, Richmond. teaching in Warwicb. Pat is in the Junior High Carmen Austin Williams and Buddy are living School and Jackie in the Senior Hi 0 b School. in Carsboro, N. C., where she is very busy with Aimee .Lee Raveling worked with the United church work, learning to cook, and taking care Press last summer , and now she is the Publicity of six little puppies. Both Carmen and Buddy are Director at Hollins College. now going to the Seminary. Lidetta Rice and Mary Elizabeth Hix are both Nancy Moore Plonk is teaching the 5th Grade at the University of Indi ana doing graduate work. and taking care of a month old cocker spaniel. She Lidetta worked in Richmond last summer , and and Bill live at Route No. 2, Chester, Va. Mary Elizabeth took a trip to Mexico. Beverly Wingfield Ayers managed a motel in Nina Reid spent the summer in California visRichmond last summer. Now she is teaching Social iting friends, and now she is studying at the UniStudies at Douglas Freeman High School in Richversity of Richmond Business School. mond while Ken finishes his last year at the UniJennie Jo Fyock has been to Richmond recently versity of Richmond. to make plans for her wedding , but spent the Nancy Day Anderson and Mary Garland Cox sum mer in Florida with her parents. are also teaching at Douglas Freeman. Carolyn Naumann worked as a swimmi ng inPat Harper Winston spent most of the summer structor for the summer and is now busy getting in Richmond working in the mailing department ready for her wedding . of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board while Bob Peggy Graves is working for the C & P Telewas in summer school. phone Company and just loves it. Jane Cumby was busy during the summ er with Nancy Bertsch has begun teaching at the Maryseveral jobs-as a counselor in a Baptist Camp and land School for the Blind after working in a then at Medical College of Virginia. She is now Baltimore D epartment store last summer. teaching English and coaching the Varsity BasketPhyllis Lewis lived with Pat Moore and Lovey ba 11 Team in a Hanover County High School. Jane Long last summe r and worked as a medical Best wishes to Suzie Stutts, who received a diasecretary in the Medical Arts Building. She now mond from Dave Hicks on August 24. is studying at the Howard Business School. Grace Bloxsom bas left for Louisville, KenPat Moore is now Mrs. Ewell , and she and Page tucky, where she wi ll do graduate wrok at the live on Pershing Avenue, Richmond. Carver School of Missions and Social Work. And Kent Darling spent the summer in Europe travBrandon McDaniel has begun graduate work at eling to Scandinavia and then on to Germany for Assemb ly's Training School in Richmond. the Wagner Festival. She is now back at WestJudy Twyford began teaching at the Ellis School hampton studying for her Master 's in English. in Pittsburgh on September 5, and Carol DickerBetsy Turner Wilson traveled arou nd this sumson is teaching at the Sidwel l Friend's School in mer between her home in Atlanta, Bo's home in Washington. She is also playi ng hockey with the Danville, and the beach. She is now a 4th Grade \l(l ashi ngton Club. teacher. Ruth Tipton and Jane Saunders are shari ng an Betty Hinton spent most of the summ er travelapartment in Takoma Park, Md., while they are ing back and forth between Petersburg and Berboth working at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. muda . Wonder what the interest is dow n there? Betty Ann Ponton is now a social worker in She is working for the Court in Petersburg now . Lexington, Va. Her new address is 702 S. Main Margaret Foster is a research assistant for the St .. Lexington, Va. Midwestern U niversi ties Research Association, and MISS BEVERLEY AMBLER 2014 A Park Avenue, Richmond, Va .

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at the same time, she is doing graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. Ann Lee Hin es, Lovey Jan e Long, and your class secretary are all living together at 20 14 A Park Ave. in Richmond . Ann Lee is teaching the 6th Grade; Lovey Jane is an assistant to a buyer at Mill er and Rhoads; and I am a social wo rker for the City of Richm ond . Before I close, let me thank all of the groupleaders for their noble efforts in trying to contact each of you. They have done a marvelous job, and we have news from over 3/4 of the class. Let me add that this job as alumna e class secretary isn't so bad after all-in fact, I highly recommend it!

SPIDERBASKETBALL OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT Les Hooker will be looking for hi s sixth winning season in as many years at the University of Richmond when he leads his basketeers into act ion this season. The outlook is bright. In addition to nine members of last year's squad that went to the sem i-finals of the Southern Conference tournament, the Spiders will have two freshman giants : 6-10 Terry Litchfield of Louisville, and 6-9 Jerry Sklar of Brooklyn. Other newcomers who should help the squad are Tom Booker , a 6-2 guard from Louisville; G. A. Ward, a 6-0 guard from Richmond, and another Richmonder Clarence W alton , 6-7. Back from last year's team are Captain Roy Peschel , Theryl Will is, Butch Lambiotte , Alan Cole, Larry Rauppius, Carl Sloan, W ayne Cheek, Philip Morris, and Everett Witt. The Schedule: Dec. 2, Oilers, Portsmouth; 3, Oilers, Richmond; 5, V.P.I., Blacksburg; 7, Virginia, Charlottesville; 10, W ash ington and Lee, Lexington; 12, Texas A. & M., Richmond; 14 V.M.I., Richmond ; 17, West Virginia, Morgantown; 19, St. Josep h's , Philadelphia; January 4, V.P.I., Richmond; 7, The Citadel, Richmond; 11 , William and Mary , Richm on d; 14, V.M.I., Lexington ; 18, George Washington, Richmond ; February 1, Bu ckne ll , Richmond; 5, Georgetown, Washingt on; 8, West Virginia, Richmond ; 10, The Citadel, Charleston; 12, George Washington, Washington; 15, ~urman Richmond· 20 Furman, Greenville, S. 22, Washingt~n and Lee, Richmond ; 25, St. Johns, Richmond ; . . March 1, William and Mary, Willi amsburg.

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WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS Eastern Shore Club President: MRS. RICHARDTULL (Barbara Bull '54)

Pocomoke, Maryland The Westhampton Club of the Eastern Shore heard interesting news fresh from the campus and elected two new officers at the spri ng lunch eon May 25, at the Eastville Inn. Mr s. C. E. Critcher, of New Church, was elected Vice President, and Mr s. Amo s Russell, of Cheriton, Treasurer, immediately after their name s wer e presented by the nomi nating committee, Mr s. Paul Watts and Mrs . William T. Rob erts, Jr.

Miss Caro line S. Lutz, Professor of English at Westhampton, gave a delightful view of life at the college now . The carefu l screening of app licants for admission means students high in scholarship, she said. Two of thi s year's Seniors have been appointed Fulbright scholars for study abroad, and the Freshman class ha s the highest scholastic average in the history of the college. Miss Lutz also spoke of the increased int erest in classical music, the new library, the Boatwright lectur es, the psychological testing services set up in the former library, and the new look in dormitory life, including TV, automatic laundry equipment used wit h out charge, and pub! ic address systems. The daisy chain ceremony is being abandoned , but the gir ls are holding on to some features of that tradition. Mrs. R. E. Booker, Alumnae Secretary, after some news of special interest to the R. F. I.Woman ·s College a lumna e, announced that the Emi ly Gardner Memorial Fund has passed its goa l and the M aude Woodfin Memorial is making its first grant for graduate work in history. The Swimming Pool Fund has increased by $29,000 making it over $50,000 but still only a fraction of the amou nt necessary. Mr s. Ri chard Tull , of Pocomoke City, President of the Club , introduced the speakers and presided over the brief business session following the program. She appoi nted Mi ss Jessie Jarvis and Mr s. Critcher as co-chairmen of committees to study money-making ideas and report at the autumn meeting. The club voted to contribute $25.00 from the treasury to the Swimming Pool Fund .

Washington Club Pl'e.rident: MRS. H. MONROE RADLEY (Ellen Acr ee ) 3701 R St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C. Ar ea meetings of the Washington Club started off this year's program. A group of Virginia "Forties" had a lunch eon at the Army-Navy Country Club and elected a new chairman. Libby Johnson Alvis , '40. Elma Asht on' s resignation had been accepted with regret during the summer. An area meeting is scheduled for ea rly fall. Th e Di strict of Columbia members met with co-chairmen Estelle Butler, '18, and Frances Burnette, '27, at Estelle's home. A group fund project will be presented at the November general membership meet ing. Since seven present were on the Execut ive Board, there was also opportunity to discuss plans for th e Washington Club. Last year's Mary land Gr oup chairman, Gray Robinson French , '28, bas called a meeting on October 8 to elect a new chairman. Dorothy Vick ers H a ll, '47, wi ll serve as secretary-treasurer this year. On e of our very new alu mnae, lee Feild, ' 57, and representatives from the " Fifties" will participate in the annua l College ight Program to be he ld on November 4 at Western High School. This is an excellent opportu nity to publicize Westhampton and to interest area girls in our college. The Washington Club is compiling a new directory, and Joanne Waring , '50, Membership Chairm an, plans to have it ready soon. Corrections and addi tions wi ll be we lcomed; just phone Joanne or drop her a postal. Our 50¢ engagement calendars continue to be " best sellers." We are delighted with the pictures of Miss Keller and " friends " that Buck Ashton had made from the Times-Dispatch article; also 50¢. Both will be avai lab le at the fa ll general membership meeting, or may be ordered from area chairmen. There are 3 new appointments to the Executive Board of the Club : PUBLICITY , Martha Jones, '50, Chairma n ; PROGRAM , Marty Lowry Green, '5 0, Chairman, and D orothy Knibb , '27, CoChai rman. The Program Committee is busy p lanning the Novem ber meeting for all three areas of the W ashington Club.

SPIDER TEACHERS TO MEET Arrangements have been made for the fourth annual lun cheon for our alumna e and alumni who will attend the meeting of the Virginia Education Association in Richm ond, October 31 and November 1. Letters are being sent to all our gra duates who are believed to be teachin g in Virginia this year. If, by chance, you do not get a letter, it will be because your current address is not known to the Department of Education . Consider this announcement a cordial invitation to visit the University of Richmond Room in the Hotel John Marshall and attend the lunch eon to be held promptly at 12 :45 p.m. Friday, November 1 in the Lee Room of the Hotel John Marshall. If you have not already mai led your luncheon reservation, write Dean Edward F. Overton, '31, today.

DODD MEMORIAL DEDICATED An altar of Honduras mahogany has been presented to the Berryman Methodist Church of Rid1111ondby officers of the Federal Reserve Bank in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Woodfin Dodd. The Dodds died from injuries received in an automobi le accident last year. Mr. Dodd, '33, was assistant vice presi dent of the Federal Reserve Bank. Mrs. Dodd had been superi ntend ent of the Berryman Intermediate Sunday School Departm ent for ten years.

BOWLING RETIRESDEAN Professor Robert Bowling has retired as dean of Judson College at Marion , S. C.,

after a long and fruitful career in educati on. He had served not only as dean but as professo r of psychology and education sin ce 1938. H e is still identified with the college as dean emeritus and maintains an office on the campus. Professor Bowling went to Judson College afte r serving for 13 years as principal of various high schools in Virginia. His h onors include membership in Phi Delta K appa, Sigma D elta Phi, Alpha Psi Omega , and Phi Alpha Theta.

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VOODOO:

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The sign says: Canape Vert. Home of Interesting Native Handi crafts. Creator of Finest Haitian Sculptures . Back of the sign for the tourist shop at Port -Au -Prince, Haiti are two enthusiastic brothers - David, '53, and Wally Talamas - who went to the tourists to find out what they wanted as reminders of the time they spent in Haiti. To get the information, the brothers went on the night club circuit regularly to talk with tourists. Their informal poll has paid handsome dividends. Today, the Talamas brothers have 16 wood carvers, 27 work after they finish their daily classes at an industrial school. In addition, their sister Alice and six sales girls help handle the tourist trade. David and Wally , who is an alumnus of Virgin ia's Hargrave Military Academy, found in their poll that tourists could buy all the mahogany salad bowls they wanted, but couldn 't find a varied collection of wooden anthropo logical specimens. An article in the Haiti Sun said the brothers also found that tourists want value for their money and that they "wi ll not buy an unusual voodoo design until its mythological significance-if any-is fu lly explained '' This article added that "t he carved death masques wh ich the Canape Vert has in dozens of original designs are now in vogue in salons and dining rooms throughout the world as a chic wall ornament." The Talamas brothers, The Sun said "feel it is their carved highly polished Haitian oak drums that have helped build their store's reputation abroad . A Hougan (voodoo priest) whose fami ly has been making drums for generations supplies the Canape Vert with the artistically carved tambours which receive ritual blessings before they go on sale at the store. They are the same drums that would hold honor ed places in any houmfort ( voodoo temple). Meanwhile , David and Wally continue to make the night club rounds, promisingand delivering -"a n immense array of figurines , bowls, trays, carvings and sculptures" for Haiti 's holid ay visitors.

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torates in Rockingham , Albemarle , and in Kin g and Queen counties. After his retir ement from th e active- min istry, he worked for some years for the Richmond Tuvenile and Domesti c Relation s Court.

Christian education Jost one of its most disting uished advocates and th e U niversity Jost its oldest alumnus in the death of Dr. David M . Ramsay in Greenville, S. C. on August 6. H e would have been 100 years old on October 10.

Hi s career as a teacher and preacher began as the age of 18. In add ition to Richmond College, he attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, How ard College in Alabama, and Furman University in Greenville. H e served Pastora tes at Tuscaloosa , Al a.; Richmond; Woodford County, K v.; Charleston , S. C., and in Anderson and Greenville counties, S. C. Dr. Ramsay was presir1ent of Greenville Wom an's College (n ow the W oman's College of Fur man U niv ersity) for a period of 20 years, and also served on the board of trustees of Furman. He was a member of the University of R ichmond board of trustees for 20 "ears. D r. Ramsay was a cousin of Dr. R. E. Gaines , dean emeri tu s of mathem1tics, and President Francis Penclleton Gaines, ' 12, preside nt of Washing ton and le e U nivers ity. D r . Ramsay is survived by a daughter, M rs. Eudora Ram sav Richard son, ' 11, of Richmond , and a son, Col. A !Ian Brorlie Ramsay of the U nit ed States Army Medical Corps .

1894Dr. Herb ert Win ston Prov ence, whose varied career includ ed service in the Christian ministry at home and abro ad, the presidency of a college, and an execu tive position with a printing compa ny, died at Greenville, S. C. on September 14. He was 83 years old. After receivi ng his doctor of theology degree from ~outh ern Baptist Theolopical Seminary in 1898, Dr. Prov ence served in pastorates at Mont go mery and Ens ley in Alabam a before going as a missionary to Shanghai in 1904. Aft er his return from the mission field he served as prof essor of Bible and philosoph y at Mi ssissip pi Coll ege, as professor of English and later professor of Christianity at Furman University. From 1931 to 1933 he was president of Greenvil le Woman' s College. Since 1922 he had been treasurer of the Provence Print ing Company , lat er the Provence -J arrard Company. H e was the joint author of a life of Christ in Chinese and the au thor of popu lar weekly newspa per ~.unda y school feature , "Th e Heart of the Lesson. Among the survivors is a brother , Ernest W . Provence, '01, of D enton, Texas.

1896Burdette Asht on lewis, president of the Bruns w ick Bar Associatio n and a practicing attorney in Lawrenceville , Va. since 1911, died September 25 at his hom e in Lawre nceville. He was 84 years old . Mr. Lewis was a member of the Virginia Bar Association and formerly was sen ior wa rden of St. Andr ew's Episcopal Church.

1899T he Rev. Clarence Everett Tay lor, 83, a retired minister of Baptist church es in Vir gi nia , died Ju ly 22 at his borne in Richmo nd. H e atte nd ed Bal timor e City College and later Richmond College where he won his bachel or of arts degree. H e later studied at Crozer The ologica l Seminary. H e served several churches in Pennsylvania befo re moving to Virgin ia in 1910 . H e had pas-

1912Word has been received of the death of H arry T. Danner , Jr. in Beaufort , S. C.

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Albert Orlando Boschen, a Richm ond attorney and for many years a member of the Virg ini a House of D elegates, died August 15, at his home on Kieg ly Road. H e was 84 years old . H e had been in the practice of Jaw cont inu ously since 1898. Hi s first serv ice in th e H ouse of D elegates was from 191 8 through 1920. H e was elected again in 1924 and served through 1927. H e returned to the Hou se again in 1934 and served continuously until 1953. Hi s hobby was dramatics. H e played roles in amate ur theatricals and with stock compa n ies. H e was a member of a cast selected by the National Broadcasting Company to portray the old days in V irginia. H e wrote a novel, Andr ew Trayton, which was publi shed in 1928.

1902Dr . Elisha Barksdale, a widely known Lynchburg surgeo n, died in that city September 13 after a long illness. H e was 76 years old . H e was among those responsible for the founding of Lynchburg General H osoi tal and was chief of staff from the time the institution ope ned 1..ntil a rotating system was put in effect in 1935. He was the first preside n t of the Virgini a Baptist H ospit al staff. He was also a pioneer in the field of public hea lth. Dr. Bark sda le was widely known as a speaker and writ er on scientific subject s. He was a fellow of the Acad emy International of Medic ine, of the Southeastern Surgical Congress and of the American College of Surgeons. He was a charter member of the Virginia governing committee of Gorga s Memoria l Institut e of Tropical and Pr eventiv e Medi cine.

1906Rev. Paul B. Watlington , Sr., 81, pastor emeri tus of First Baptist Church , Hagerstown where he had served for 2 5 years befor e his retirement three years ago, died September 6. Th e funeral service was held from the Church with burial in Wood lawn Cemetery, Baltimor e. After his trainin ? at Richmond Colleg e, he received M .A. and B.D . degrees from Colgat e Theological Seminar y. In addition to the Hag erstown pastorat e he served the Temple Baptist Church in Baltim ore and earlier the londonbridg e and Mo ore's Swamp Baptist churches in Virginia .

1909Dr. Beecher l. Rhode s, who retired in 195 3 after 30 years of service as pastor of Norfo lk's Berkley Avenu e Baptist Church , died Augu st 28 in Norfo l k. Dr . Rhod es had served as president of the Norfo lk-Port smouth Baptist Association Council and as its moderator. He was the Virgin ia representativ e on the Hom e Mi ssion Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and trustee of the Crozer Th eo logical Seminary . A nativ e of Isle of W ight County, Va. , D r. Rhode s attended Fork Union Militar y Academy befo re enrollin1> in the University of Richmond . H e later received his bachel or of divinity degree from Crozer and h is master of arts degree from the U n iversity of Pennsylvani a. In 1939 the University conferred on him the honorary degree of D octor of Div init y. Before going to Norfo lk in 1923 , Dr. Rhode s had served churches at Salisbury , Md. , and H ert ford , N. C.

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Dr. Moses l. Breit stein , a we ll-known eye, ear and thr oat specialist, died on July 20 in Union Memorial H ospital after a lon g illness. H e was 62 years old . He was a founder of clini cs for hard of hearing school children in Baltimor e, president of the Baltimore H earing Society and a member of the V olta Bureau, a society found ed by Alexander Graham Bell for the hard of hearing. Dr . Breitstein was a member of Govern or McKeldin' s Committee for the Hir ing of the Handicapped and was an otologist for the Baltimor e City H ealth D epart ment . From 19 35 to 1938 he was president of the Baltimore H ebrew Congregation. Born in Richm ond, he received his B.A. from Richmond College and later his M.D . from Johns H op kin s. H e did graduate study at the University of Vi enn a. In additi on to his practice in Baltimore , he was a member of the faculty of Johns H op kins

COL. THOMAS CLARKKILLEDIN FORMOSA Col. Thom as J. Clark, former head of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Richmond , was killed in a plane crash July 16 in Formosa. Sixteen persons perished in the disaster which occurred on the return leg of a flight from Formosa to the Phi lippines. Col. Clark was at the University of Richmond from 1952 until August, 1956 as a professor of air science and tactics. A graduate of Allegheny College, Mead ville, Pa. Col. Clark was a veteran of World Wa r II. He served with Genera l Chennault's "Flying Tigers ." He is survived by h is wife, Nancy, a son, Tho mas, Jr., and a daughter, Cynthia. Representat ives of the University attended the burial service in Arlington National Cemetery.

Medical School. Dr. Breit stein was th e author of many articles in medical journals in th e field of otology.

1935William E. Seaton , 45 , retired president of the Benjamin T . Crump Compan y in Richmond , die d in a Richm ond hospital on September 21. He had been active in the bus iness and social life of Richmond for many years . H e was a member of the Sales Executive Club of Richmond , and the Sons of America n Revoluti on. Among the social orga nization s of whi ch he was a member was the Country Club of V irginia and the Comm onwealth Club. H e was elected president of the Crump Com pany, makers of leather goods, in 1951.

1953Word has been received of the death of George Albe rt Hyde of Mountain lake, N. Y .

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Articles inside

Penalties of Progress

Homecoming 1957

Westhampton Alumnae Local Clubs

Alumni In the News

An Adventure In Understanding

The Accent Is On Better

Gridmen Blow Hot and Cold

Science- Without Fiction