as a vice president of the First and Merchants National Bank, has been appointed chairman of the Richmond Area Heart Association's 1964 Heart Fund campaign.
1912Virginia's Third District Representative, J. Vaughan Gary, addressed a Richmond audience November 3 at an exhibit commemorating the 60th anniversary of the United States Department of Commerce. With him for the occasion was Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
1915A plaque honoring J. Earle Dunford, an attorney in Wake, Va., has been presented to the undergraduate chapter of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity at the University. The plaque was presented by the fraternity's graduate chapter .
1916The Rev . George Tyler Terrell of Norfolk was honored by his church on October 13 by special recognition of his 50th year in the Christian ministry. Now retired, Mr. Terrell preached his first sermon at Carmel Church in Caroline County and became pastor of that congregation in 1913. He retired from the active ministry in 1957.
1920Dr. Clyde V. Hickerson, pastor of Northminister Baptist Church, has been chosen moderator of the Richmond Baptist Association.
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1922T. Coleman Andrews, president of the American Fidelity and Casualty Company in Richmond, has been appointed to the government operations and expenditures committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Robert T. Marsh, Jr., chairman of the board of First and Merchants National Bank, and the executive committee of the board of trustees of the University, has been elected to a three-year term as director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
The Rev. H . Pierce Simpson, ' 19, has been honored at a testimonial dinner for his
1930Dr. Peter Pastore, a Richmond physician, has been awarded a national certificate of merit and a pin for his outstanding contributions to the Richmond area cancer program. Dr. Pastore is chairman of the department of Otolaryngology at the Medical College of Virginia . Dr. Pastore has been initiated into Alpha Omega Alpha, an honorary medical society.
1931The Rev. Paul J. Forsythe, who has been serving as a Naval Reserve Chaplain, sailed November 20 as civilian chaplain aboard the SS Hope for Guayaquil, Ecuador. The SS Hope is the hospital ship for Project Hope, known also as the People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. The voyage will last until the fall of 1964.
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Dr. Marvin L. Skaggs, professor of history and political science at Greensboro College, has been elected president of the Historical Society of North Carolina. Randolph W. Nuckols, who retired recently
Marvin E. Nuckols, Jr., has retired from his post on the Virginia State Industrial Commission due to ill health . He was appointed to the agency in May of 1950. Previously, he had been an assistant attorney general and an attorney for the delinquent tax section of the State Department of Taxation.
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J. Spencer Gilmore, vice president and attorney of First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Richmond, has been selected to direct a gathering of 5,000 Boy Scouts from 18 counties and four cities next April at the State Fairgrounds in Richmond. Gilmore was chosen by the Robert E. Lee Boy Scout Council in Richmond to head the project . Benjamin E. Chapman, a Salem lawyer, has been elected grand high priest of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Brigadier General John W. "Jack" Dobson, '35, has been listed by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of 25 men who were distinguished athletes before they launched distinguished careers. The award, the Sp orts Illustr ated Silver Anniversary All-American Award, was earned by Gen. Dobson for his football proficiency at West Point as well as at the University of Richmond. During World War II , Gen. Dobson, then a major, commanded the First Ranger battalion . He was wounded and taken prisoner at Cisterna di Littoria, Italy, in February, 1944. He escaped in January, 1945, and made his way to Russian lines in western Poland. Since the end of the war , Gen. Dobson has been stationed as a teacher at West Point and at the Army War College and he is currently commanding general of the Antilles Command at Ft. Brooke , Puerto Rico. He also has had duties in Austria, Denmark and Germany before being assigned to his present command .
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years devoted to the church and the service of veterans, servicemen and their families . Mr. Simpson, who is completing his 18th year as New York State veteran's counselor for New York 's Putnam County, retired in 1959 as pastor of the Carmel Baptist Church. He is now serving as interim pastor of the Croton Falls Baptist Church. Mr. Simpson was first appointed veteran's counselor when he returned to Carmel after service as a chaplain with the Fifth Army in World War II. He had served as combat infantryman in France during World War I. During the past 18 years, 6,780 files of veterans and their wives and children have been prepared in the Carmel Veterans Office. An average of 3,000 personal contacts a year are made as well as telephone and letter contacts.
current legal services available to poor persons in Virginia courts. Kenneth C. Bass, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., bas been promoted to product manager for Orion acrylic fiber for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. Bass joined du Pont in 1943 as a research chemist in the technical division.
1936E. Starke Farley of Richmond has been reelected president of the Robert E. Lee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Farley is vice president of the Richmond Engineering Co., Inc.
1938Dr. C. Ralph Arthur, president of Ferrum Junior College, has been elected president of the Southern Association of Junior Colleges. The Rev. R. Bruce Griffith, Jr., assumed his duties as pastor of Brookneal Baptist Church on September 8. He succeeded the Rev. Kenneth E. Thornton.
1939David M. White, a Richmond attorney, has been named an associate member of the American Bar Association's new special committee on Defense of Indigent Persons Accused of Crime. The committee will direct a detailed survey of
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JUDICIAL GROUP ELECTSMURPHEY Judge D. W . Murphey, '38, has been elected president of the Association of Judges of the County and Municipal Courts - of Virginia. After graduating in 1938, he went to Washington , D. C., for a short period before returning to Richmond as a policeman . He began practicing law in 1949, after receiving a certificate from the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. He was appointed a County Court judge in 1959 by the lawyer (now judge) under whom he had studied law, Chesterfield Circuit Judge William Old.
