DR. REA: HE DELIVERED 6,000 BABIES Dr. Montie L. Rea, '99, has delivered about 6,000 babies since he began general practice in the Charlottesville area in 1905. At 80, he still carries on general practice and is on the staff of Martha Jefferson Hospital. Dr. Rea, for whom many a newborn infant has been named by grateful parents, was the only surgeon on the Martha Jefferson Hospital staff during a part of World War II when the younger doctors were in military service. Today he still handles minor surgery cases although he has given up major operations. To a recent interviewer, Dr. Rea offered some observations on the trend toward specialization in medicine-some obviously with tongue in cheek. An example: "Now they have not one specialist but four or five before the patient is pronounced well or dying. It's a lot of inconvenience and expense to patients, but I believe in specialists." For most of modern medicine, Dr. Rea expresses the highest admiration. He said "I like modern things. I haven 't delivered a baby out of a hospital in years. A woman is foolish to have children at home when she can have every convenience and safety in a hospital."
1901J. Hall Moor e, Jr. , who is a special agent with the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of N. Y., is now living at 200 Dun can Street , Ashland .
1910Dr. George W. Sadler has retired as secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board for Africa , Europe and the Near East , effective J anuary 1. He ha s been appointed special representative for Europe by the Board and will supervise Baptist re lief work in Europe and direct construction of churches for refug ees in West Ger many.
1913Dr. John Elliott , who retired in October 1956 , has accepted the pastorate of the Millers Mills Baptist Church near his home at West Wingfield , New York . Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Fletcher have gone to the birds . They hav e a collection of 460 birds of various species which they raise under carefu lly superv ised conditions.
Song Writer Wicker Wins SPEBQSA Award Drawing upon an experience in his legal career, John J. Wicker, Jr., '13, has turned song writer. The song Mr. Wicker wrote, " In the Sunshine of ,Tomorrow ," was his first- and, he says, he never plans to write another. But as a first, it received wide recognition. It won for Mr. Wicker the December international award of the Society for Preserva-
tion and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America . He told a recent intervi ewer that insp iration for the tune came from a woman who sought his aid in having her husband returned from Korea. Mr. Wicker told her that any attempt at political influence would hurt , rather than help , and advised her to "go on home and do a little praying." Sometime later , he said, the woman wrote him that "the sunshine of tomorrow is here ... Joe is on the way hom e." With that in mind, Mr. Wicker turned song writer. Of his first song, he said it "might afford some comfort or solace to others suffering loneliness in separation from their loved ones."
MR. VMA "A good, fair industrial climate is what we've worked for for 35 years." With those words, Frank G. Louthan, ' 10,
1915Frank E. O 'Neill is working as a petro leum engineer and lives at 3831 Merrick Drive , H ousto n, Texas.
1916K. Brooke Anderson has sent c/o Mr. C. Vlachopoulos, Liaison Hq. , Mai son UNESCO, Beirut, wor king with Arab refugees in
his new address: Officer, UNWRA Lebanon. H e is the Gaza area.
1917Rev. Robert 1. Bausum is still a missionary for the Southern Baptist Foreign M ission Board . His home is in Mt. Vernon, Ky. Dr. Clifton C. Thomas, Executive Secretary of Maryland Baptists , bas retired and has moved from Baltimore to 4712 Stuart Avenue , Richmond .
1918Rev. Edward W . Miller was honored at a testimonial dinner Nov. 1, th e fortieth anniversary of his ordination. He is chaplain of the New York State Harl em Valley hospital , Wingdale, N . Y.
1920Rev. D. W . Charlton is pastor of the Wesley H eight s Methodist Church , Fayetteville , N . C. Sam Bowman , who is commissioner of the revenue at Bristol , Va. , recently took a trip to Europe.
1922Rev. Charles F. Leek has retired as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Thomasville , N. C. He and his wife are liv ing at Chatham, Va . Dr. Oscar 1. Hite receiv ed a citation for " meritorious Christian service" at the 90th annual convocation of Crozer Th eologica l Seminary at Chester, Pa. Dr. Hite a Richm ond physician, was instrumental in orga nizing River Road Baptist Church , Richmond.
1923Dr. Curtis V. Bishop, president of Averett College, suffered a heart attack in the fall. Hi s condition is greatly improved now.
7925Dr. Charles M. Edwards , Jr. , Dean of th e School of Retailing of New York Universi ty, received the Natio nal Ret ail Dry Goods Associa tion 's highest award, the NRDGA Gold Medal , Jrnuary 9 at the Annual Banqu et in New York. James Prevas is a supervisory ballistician at the Ballistic Research Laboratories , Aberdeen Proving Ground , Md. Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden delivered a sermon at the Washington Cathedral November 3 at a service celebrati ng the fiftieth anniversary of
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summed up the objectives of the Virginia Manufacturers Association, which he has represented as executive vice president since the association's inception in 1922. In that time, the association's membership has increased from 15 to 763. Mr. Louthan is a familiar figure to the manufacturers who run Virginia's industry and to the legislators who make the laws that can help or hinder the state's industrial climate. Of Mr. Louthan, who practiced law before becoming the manufacturers association's executive officer, a Richmond News Leader feature article recently observed: "He is a gray-haired man built on the small side. His slow, folksy conversation is studded with anecdotes. He can be quiet, almost shy, or he can be aggressive and per suasive in marshaling support behind an issue. "He is naturally friendly and engaging. But he has chosen to efface himself and push VMA presidents and other state manufactur ers into the forefront. Yet VMA members know it is Louthan who has given continuity to the organization ." Mr. Louthan said "my idea in working with Virginia manufacturers is that this should be a conservative, constructive and reserved organization. I feel its activities are important primarily to its members." For legislators to get manufacturers' views, Mr. Louthan encourages individual industrialists to appear before the General Assembly. The association prefers this approach rather than lobbying as a group. In the field of politics, Mr. Louthan encourages VMA members to participate - but as individuals. He does so himself. He also believes that participation by industry in community affairs helps build the character of a community. This is no idle belief on the part of Mr. Louthan, for he is an active civic and church leader himself.
