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
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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-
