UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
The AlumniBulletin IN THIS ISSUE Needed: Seven Million Dollars Ralph McDanel Malcolm U. Pitt
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Service Beyond The Call Of Duty Charles H. Wheeler III, has completed 25 years as University treasurer and next year will have given 40 years of his life to the University as teacher and chief officer. Members of the board of trustees with whom he has worked closely and diligently appre ciate his worth and have expressed this appreciation in words and, in a more tangible way, with a gift of silver in February at the semi-annual meeting and with a portrait which was given to the University at the annual meeting in June. Treasurers are by nature men who have to say "no," who have to warn that the path of careless spending leads over the hill to the poorhouse. And it should be said that Dr. Wheeler can scream with the best of them, "Where is the money coming from?" He is now directing the University's fiscal operations that involve expenditures of $4 million dollars a year. His competence in this field is admired by his fellows who elected him president of the National Federation of College and University Business Officers Associations. It is significant that he is one of relatively few chartered financial analysts in the United States. As a teacher, he flunked his share, but his competence and fairness were so much admired by the students that usually those who failed wanted to repeat the course under him. Robert T. Marsh, '22, rector of the board of trustees and unt il his re tire ment pres ident of one of the largest banks in the southeast, is among those who recognize his value as a fiscal officer. But further he appreciates Treasurer Wheeler 's devotion to the University, and the multiplicity of tasks to which he gives his attention. "If it's 8:30 in the morning or 3:30 in the morning," says Rector Marsh, "Charlie Wheeler's on hand if there's a job that needs to be done at the University." "He's really the University's Pooh-bah, " says Marsh. The reference was to Pooh-bah, the "Lord High Everything Else" in Gi lbert and Sull ivan's "T h e Mi kado." Like the celebra ted Pooh-bah, Marsh added, Treasurer Wheeler "does a great many things and does the m all well."
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WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION BETTY ANN ALLEN DOUB, '49 .......... President CATHERINE SMITH SPRATLEY, '49 Vice Pr esident FRANCES A. STALLARD, '28 } MARY MILLS FREEMAN, '35 Board of Trustees ELIZABETH TOMPKINS, '19 LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION R. E . BOOKER, '29 •.............. ..... .......... HENRY D. GARNETT, '46 ...... .. Vice VIRGINIA IVEY KLINGEL, '48 .... Exec. CARLE E . DAVIS, '56 ..........................
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Needed: SevenMillion Dollars The University of Richmond needs $7,000,000 to "maintain its program of quality education." That's what President George M. Modlin told the Board of Trustees in what may have been one of the most significant statements in the University's history. He discussed the University's needs as the 1967 graduating class was preparing for the final exercises in the Mosque where President Charles E. S. Kraemer of the Presbyterian School of Christian Education would tell them that they were entering upon a world in which "the guidelines are far from clear." Possibly the guidelines also were far from clear to the trustees but one thing was clear: the University must have $7,000,000 now, not for expansion, not for educational frills, but to provide the necessities of academic life for a full-time enrollment no larger than the current student body. The trustees, as they left the meeting, said the university's needs had been clearly and earnestly expressed by the President. The need for more dormitories for men and for better recreational facilities and, no less imperative, the need for more money for faculty salaries was made abundantly clear. President Modlin pointed out to the trustees that the changing composition of the University's student body is responsible for the urgent need for more dormitories. Whereas more than half of the students in Richmond College 20 years ago were commuters, now only 25 per cent commute and this figure probably will drop to 20 per cent or less by the end of the decade. This means there is an immediate need for at least two, preferably three, dormitories. Failure to provide them, Dr. Modlin told the trustees, will mean that the University will lose many good students who will not enroll if they have to live off compus or in the "temporary" barracks constructed in 1946-47. These buildings, referred to by the students as the "Green Mansions," are an eye-sore. The University administration looks forward to the day when they no longer will disfigure the campus. Further, the University is far from proud of the "Green Mansion" down by the powerhouse that is used principally for faculty offices. Faculty members are not only demanding-and getting-more money for their services in a day when the law of supply and demand is working in their favor but they also expect reasonably comfortable offices. The Administration proposes to con-
struct a wing on Ryland Hall to provide better facilities for Richmond College administrative officers and faculty members. The department of physical education, under the direction of Dr. Richard E. Humbert, '41, is doing a more than creditable job but it is handicapped by woefully inadequate physical facilities. Millhiser Gymnasium, constructed in 1921 when there were only 350 students in Richmond College, is obsolete. It is believed that a field house would be a boon to the physical education department and, even more important, would boost student morale. President Modlin has been outspoken in his praise of the academic achievements of the student body whkh reflects the more selective approach made possible by the unprecedented number of applicants. He has said, however, that the full-time enrollment in all divisions can not be expected to rise appreciably above the 2,904 of the 1966-67 session. The total enrollment, including part-time students and almost 1,000 enrolled in courses conducted by the School of Christian Education, Tele-College, and the Management Development Center, was 7,542. Although the graduates received their diplomas at commencement against a backdrop of wars and rumors of wars, for those who had no military commitment and were ready to go to work, job prospects were excellent. Top salaries offered male members of the graduating classes were in the $8,700 range both at Richmond College and in the School of Business Administration. (There was one whopping $12,000 offer to a Business School graduate but that was far out of line.) Westhampton's top- to a mathematics major who will work as a computer programmer-was $8,340 with two other math graduates starting at $7,100 as actuaries. At Richmond College, graduates in technical fields will receive salaries ranging from a high of $725 a month to an avera1se of $622. The high in non-technical fields was $630, the average $545. In the Business School the top (other than the $1,000 a month job) was $725, and averaged almost $600 with accounting graduates most in demand and getting salaries averaging $612. Teacher salaries were up , reflecting the greater demand for teachers, particularly in the ·sciences and in elementary schools, but the going salary was still below that offered in industry. Teacher salaries ranged from $5,300 to $6,000 for ten-month contracts. Although the prospect was bright on the
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economic front, in other areas, as the commencement speaker pointed out, the outlook was confusing. Speaking on the subject, "Now You Are On Your Own, " Dr. Kraemer said that young men and women, more so than ever before in America, would be making their own decisions in the fields of religion and politics. He urged them to "weigh all the evidence and examine the records" before making judgments. (Continued on page 11)
BACHELORS BOTH. Soon after receiving their bache lor -of arts degrees, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Saunders, Jr., (above) left for a motor trip to Canada to celebrate their second wedding anniversary . Below, Kenneth R. Erfft, '36 is made an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science. The hooding is being do ne by Provost Robert F. Smart.
A few months ago friends of Dr. Ralph C. McDanel ( and that includes about every-
one who has come within hailing distance of this University for the past 41 years), decided that the time had come to do him in oils. It was not so much that we needed a reminder of how he looked in any given year over the past two score for he has changed but little; the same crew cut in season, out of season, in style, out of style, the same trim figure, the same undimmed eye for a shabby footnote. Nor are we particularly trying to honor him, a thing we would never do in public with him sitting by ready to take us apart with his dry, wry wit. What we are really hoping to do with this portrait is to give some innocent freshman years from now, perhaps even a son or grandson of ours, a chance to look at that solid countenance and ask, "Who is that?" That will be all we need to launch into the amazing career of one of the most versatile characters
Remarks of Vernon B. Richardson, '35, in presenting portrait of Dr. McDanel to the University at Alumni Day luncheon, May 13. ever to come down out of the north and teach Confederate history in Virginia for 41 years. The Yankee accent was only on his tongue, not in his treatment of history. We will tell the unsuspecting lad that in 1967 we gave the famous artist, David Silvette, an impossible task. How could he possibly catch on canvas the full spectrum of this man's interests and talents? He must show a scholar with a doctorate from the famed Johns Hopkins, a teacher with an obvious love for the history of his country and who could make dry bones live, a full member of the college community who left his mark in athletics, fraternity life, churchmanship and friendship. Dr. Mac created everywhere a favorable climate for the moments that educate. Who could expect the artist to catch that gleam in the professorial eye when he was about to launch a satirical comment on modern politics? How could the artist suggest that characteristic tug on his cuffs to make sure that everything was as neat as the research papers he demanded? If the function of a portrait is to convey a train of years and a lifetime of character in one arrested instant then we feel that this glimpse of the beloved "Dr. Mac" has succeeded. He came to this University in 1926 with a Ph.D. diploma in one hand and a stack of ideas for term papers in the other. The diploma quickly disappeared, but the term papers from his students have flowed on and on like our esteemed James River, now clear, now polluted. Far beyond the academic cloisters Dr. Mac's interests flourished and his abilities were recognized: National President of O.D.K., the leadership fraternity; District Grand Master of Kappa Sigma, his social fraternity; President
of the Southern Conference, the governing body in athletics for most colleges and universities of the South at the time; President of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, the highest office Virginia Baptists can bestow on minister or layman. On and on the honors extend each be-
so much come so quickly from so many in response to so few words of request. There is enough left over to buy for the library such a huge collection of required reading in the field of history and political science as to make future generations of students wish that we had skipped the whole idea!
i;alpb ~. i$1c1!lanel He" created everywhere a favorable climate for the moments that educate."
speaking years of faithfulness in a few things before his being made ruler over many things. In every role Dr. Mac was the same man, integrity itself, one of those rare and choice persons who is all of a piece. Mr. President, as a small by-product of our making possible this portrait to the University, we are happy to inform you that the tight money market is a thing of the past and that the days of easy currency and affiuent alumni are with us once more. Never in the history of fund raising has
We are happy, Sir, to present this por trait of Dr . Ralph C. McDanel in affectionate appreciation of him as a teacher of men whose love of excellence in all things has inspired our lives, deepened our pride in our country and taught us new dimensions in citizenship with its responsbilities as well as its rights. We may add, Sir, in the presentation of this portrait, and in the spirit of this one who never missed a chance for a friendly dig, that having been around for the framing we all fervently hope to be here for the hanging!
"NOW, THOSE RASCALSIN WASHINGTON." W. Rush Loving, '56, one of the great band of McDanel hero-worshipers, shot the above picture when he was a student in Dr. Mac's class. Dr. McDanel had no idea that Loving, who should have been taking notes in European history, was instead taking a series of candid snapshots. [ 5]
I know you understand how proud I am to be making this particular presentation honoring our greatly respected and beloved friend, Coach Malcolm U. Pitt. This is one of the highest honors I ever expected to be paid. Although we are recognizing his retirement, after twenty-five years of service as Director of Athletics at the University, I think we can say that he is essentially a teacher. He has performed his dutks well as our Athletic Director , but his chief interest is in teaching and his great love is young people. He not only teaches sportsmanship along with the fundamentals, but he sets an outstanding example for conduct later in life. This is the main reason he has so many warm friends among the Alumni who once played for him on baseball, basketball, track or football teams here. In the 33 years he has been coaching, he has never spoken a profane word on the practice field, ( although we know at
Remarks of C. Porter Vaughan, '40, in presenting portrait of Coach Pitt to the University of Richmond at Alumni Day luncheon , May 13. times the temptation has been great). No one has heard him use an obscene expression, or tell a dirty joke. But, believe me, he is no "softy." He's a fierce competitor who has never enjoyed losing and never will . From Coach Pitt's example, the boys of his athletic teams learn this same spirit along with a little cockiness and a burning desire and courage to win. While here in college he was quarterback of his football team, played third base in baseball, and was a consistent point scorer in track. This versatility has followed him through his career and his leadership qualities were recognized early when he was tapped to ODK. Believe it or not, at one time he was interested in banking as a profession , but soon learned that he enjoyed working with boys more than with dollars. It was at this stage in life when he accepted the opportunity to coach at Fork Union Military Academy, a prep school supported by the Baptists of Virginia. Here he served from 1919 to 1928 when he joined the staff at the University of Richmond as Freshman Coach. Today we honor him not only as our retiring Director of Athletics, but also as varsity basketball Coach for 19 years, and as baseball Coach for 33 years at Richmond College. And what an outstanding record he has had in these years ! His baseball teams have captured 16 state championships, two Southern Conference titles and two ties for that Crown, 376 wins- 198 losses, and a winning percentage of .655 up to this season. And speaking of our present Spider nine, who would have believed we would be in contention for the S.C. and state championships during this last week of
the season. We've won twelve and lost only 7. Another winning year. At retirement as basketball coach, his teams had won 197 games, while losing 168. The 1934-35 team was undefeated in twenty games. Most of you realize that Coach Pitt was named to the Helms Foundation Basketball
thousands of young men with whom they have come into contact on the campus .... " Yesterday Lawrence Leonard, sports editor of the Richmond News Leader devoted his entire column to Coach Pitt. This is an outstanding testimonial for which we are very grateful. Southern Conference Commissioner Lloyd
.fflalcolmW. ~itt rrHis entire life has been coaching, teaching and counseling boys." Hall of Fame in 1963 and last year was elected to the Helms Baseball Hall of Fame as well. Few coaches in the nation have been paid this double tribute . A1:d speaking of tributes , let me briefly ment10n a few which are unsolicited but justly deserved. In a Time s-Dispatch' Editorial of April 7, 1967, both Dr . McDanel and Mac Pitt were recognized, and I quote: "For here are two men who not only have performed eminently in their respective fields, but whose dedication to Christian principles surely has enriched the lives of
Jordan says, "He possesses to the highest degree the qualities of integrity, leadership , and sportsmanship which are requisities of an athletic coach." On May 1, 1967, from Athletic Director Lyles Alley, representing Coach Pitt's Furman University friends , and incidently, just before losing a double header to our Spiders, he was presented a plaque inscribed, "A Man Of Wisdom With A Heart Of Gold ." And last, but by no means least, last Saturday after defeating the William and ( Continued on page 16)
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**** PanelDiscussesucampusFerment" More than 1,000 men and women returned to the University of Richmond May 12-13 for a joint Alumnae-Alumni Weekend. Under the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Long (Louise Cardoza, '43) discussions were planned around the theme "Affluent Turmoil. " Alumni joined Westhamptonites in a South Court classroom on Friday to hear a series of lectures by four faculty members. (See "So They Say," page 15.) A full Saturday program found alumnae and alumni gathering at the chapel for a seminar on "Campus Ferment," attending luncheons, watching Richmond whip William and Mary at baseball, and being greeted by Dr. and Mrs . George M. Modlin at the President's Reception. Participating in the morning seminar were Dr. Rosalind Allen Barker, '57, lecturer in the department of · English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and Dr. Fillmore H. Sanford, '35, professor of psychology at the University of Texas. Dr. Austin E. Grigg, '40, dean of Richmond College, who moderated the panel, commented that student demonstrations were a way of saying "Hey there, look at me." "They want to be somebody-and they really are somebody- but we treat them as though they haven't become full-fledged members of the human race as yet," he added. Dr . Barker suggested three kinds of experimental ideas in the areas of curriculum, books, and university identity as possible means of drawing student and teacher closer together . First she advocated a shift in emphasis in the orientation of freshman, attempting to discover the student's interests as opposed to the traditional concept of orienting incoming students to a world already provided and developed by the administration, the faculty and the upperclassmen . "What I would like to see would be something like the Senior Essay, that is, an individual project done in the first year . . . and counting for about one-fourth of the student's total course load," she said. "Fo r some, it would be the beginning of an exciting and developing interest; for others, perhaps a dead end-but a dead end discovered early enough to look for
other more lasting, more appropriate kinds of concentration. Best of all, it would provide the opportunity for a continuing dialogue with an individual faculty member whose relationship to the sh1dent would be not so much the faculty advisor as the fellow adventurer." Such a project, she continued, would give the freshman some idea that the curriculum has flexibility and is open-ended "rather than being a page of ruled paper with all the lines filled in." Her second experiment involved books. She suggested that universities set aside a certain amount of the library's budget for student requests and publicize this fact Righi-PRESIDENT BETTYANN ALLENDOUB, '49, greets alumnae at the luncheon in Keller Hall. Be/ow-WELCOME. President and Mrs . George M. Modlin entertain alumnae and alumni at a reception at their home on Bostwick Lane. With them are R. Clifton, ('45), and Louise Cardoza ('43) Long, cochairman for the Alumni-Alumnae Week End, and Fillmore H. Sanford, '35, one of the panelists at the morning seminar. Dr. Sanford is professor of psychology at the University of Texas.
among the students. "This does not mean that the library should purchase every book a student asks for," she emphasized, "but I think the opportunity for the student to take this kind of initiative should be there." She called for changing universit y bookstores into intellectual centers, where books and periodicals far exceeding the range and
demands of courses would be available. As a third experiment she suggested more links between universities, both for cooperation and to stimulate a diversity of outlook. This might be done through annual exchanges of students and faculty to visit classes and to meet informally, she said. Dr. Sanford noted that universities sometimes "overestimate the importance of purely intellectual growth and forget the importance of the growth of whole, integral human beings." The latter kind of growth, he said, is facilitated by joining things , caring deeply about issues, making commitments, testing limits, examining a variety of viewpoints and seeing and perhaps trying out personal orientations to life . "The facilitation of whole person growth," he emphaized, "should be a prime aim of higher education in an open society." He reminded alumni that the "rebels" among college students were but a small percentage of the student body, and that the vast majority were, "at least on the surface, quiet, adjusting, conforming members of the existing establishment." "Many wise and confident educators seriously wish that there were more participation of students in student movements, not less," he added. "Such educators believe that the active participation in real social and political affairs is productively conducive to the growth toward maturity, and conducive, too, to productive change in the way we approach higher education." Dr. Sanford stressed the difference between "expressive rebellion" and "instrumental rebellion" among college students. "There are many understandable reasons why today's young people should feel frustrated by and disappointed with the world in which they find themselves," he said. "In their rampant idealism and self-appointed purity of mind, they find much that is intolerable in the behavior of adults. "It is to be expected that many of them will express these feelings . . . by growing beards or by wearing mini -skirts. "These relatively nonfunctional expressions of individuality don't seem to have any great importance. They probably should be regarded . . . as instances of 'high spirits', or merely downright foolishness." He pointed out that if students really organize and plan to have a definite effect on "the establishment" and have in mind explicit changes they would like to bring about, then "we have something else on our hands. " "My own feeling is that we should leave alone the length of male hair and the presence of beards . . . ignore shortness or length of skirts . . . but take seriously the genuine attempts on the part of our young people to bring about definite changes in our institutions," he said. "Whether we confront such rebels by direct opposition, or by trying to turn their energies into what seem to be tolerable and constructive channels or whether we
choose ... to join them is a matter of intricate decision. But we should not ignore deeply felt expressions about the way life should be lived." Young people often forget, he said, that they cannot gain "a sense of identity, a feeling of integrity and worth in a social
setting, unless they achieve somethin,; on their own and unless their achievement is confirmed by society." "The world will reward competence and effective individuality," he stated. "Human achievements still rest on hard work and the developing of genuine competencies."
WE'RE TWENTY, WE'RE TWENTY, who says we are more? Members of the class of 1917 borrow from Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem, "The Boys," as they relive their college days of a half century ago . As their gift to the University, the class gave money for the purchase of a reader-printer for the Library. Seated left to right: Herman P. Thomas, William R. Silvey, James H. Poteet, Clifton C. Thomas, and James H. Barnett, Jr. Standing left to right: Edward J. Fox, William Earle White, E. Hiter Robinson, Lynn C. Dickinson, H. W. Charlton, Harvie A. Clopton and William Hugh Bagby.
The Old GradsCome Home From the seers of 1917 to the youngsters of 1957, alumni returned for a round of reunions, most of them on the Friday night of Alumni-ae Week End. Classes of 1917, 1922 and 1932 held reunions at the John Marshall Hotel where arrangements were made by committees headed by William Earle White , '17 ; W. Tyler Haynes, '22, and Frank Lord, '32. Books Shetter arranged the party for the class of 1937 at the Executive Motor Hotel; Edward M. Klein, 1942 at the Jefferson-Lakeside Country Club ; D . Walton Mallory, Jr .,1942, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W . B. Badenoch on Matoaka Road, and Frank Skinner, 1952, the Charcoal House Restaurant. Two of the classes held reunions on Saturday, the class of 1927 around the Sun Dial, after attending Dr . McDanel's 8 :30 class, and the class of 1957 Saturday night at the Willow Oaks Country Club where arrangements were made by a committee headed by Nelson Turner.
'TYE GOT A MILLION LIKE IT." A Stan Kellam, Jr., master of ceremonies for the reunion of the class of 1942, continues his quips after dinner to the delight of Class President Edward M. Klein, Mrs. Raymond B. Pinchbeck, and President Modlin. More than 70 attended . [ 9
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SpiderGrid TearnWill Be Better:Jones by WALT DREWRY Coach Frank Jones' second University of Richmond football team will be an improved eleven although it will be a young squad dominated by rising sophomores. Although less experienced than last season, the Spiders will be quicker, faster and more aggressive than a year ago and will hit harder. Eighteen lettermen are expected back this Fall but the Spiders lost most of their offensive team including All-Southern Halfback Larry Zunich, signed by the St. Louis Cardinals ; fine blocking Fullback Doug Davis and All-Southern Tackle Bob Andrews. Losses were heavy in the defensive line as well. Jones inherited a winless team last season. Despite a lack of depth and talent, the Spiders captured two games and played exciting football in most of the other contests. The Red and Blue play another rugged 10-game schedule this season which includes seven Southern Conference foes, three of them at Richmond City Stadium. The 1967 schedule includes home games with West Virginia on September 16 and East Carolin a on September 23, both at 8 :15 o'clock (EDT), and the Homecoming game with Th e Citadel on November 11 at 2 o'clock (EST) . . Following their home games with the Mountaineers and Pirates, the Spiders play V.M .I. at Lexington on September 30, Davidson at Davidson on October 7, Furman at Greenville, S. C., on October 14, Virginia Tech at Blacksburg on October 21 and Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg , Miss., on November 4. Richmond winds up its season with William and Mary at Williamsburg on November 18 and Parsons College at Fairfield, Iowa, on November 25. All of the road games are afternoon contests. Heading the list of returning lettermen is Buster O'Brien, the 6-1, 189-pound junior quarterback from Virginia Beach who set new passing (99 completions in 200 attempts for 1,221 yards and 8 TDs) and total offense ( 1,301 yards) for the school in his first season. A smart field general, O'Brien is regarded as a pro prospect by Jones. In the Spring game against a starstudded Alumni eleven O'Brien led the Varsity to a 34-21 victory by completing 11 of 13 passes for 124 yards and two touchdowns and running 18 yards for another. Jones believes he has the finest punter in the country in Mike Bragg, the senior from Falls Church who tied for third in the nation last season by averaging 42.8 yards on 58 punts. Mike also booted a pair of field fioals and kicked 11 of 13 extra point attempts. Senior stars returning are Dave Delgado (2 18), All-Southern middle guard from Dover, N. J., who may be shifted to a defensive tackle post ; Wayne Collins (187),
second All-Southern linebacker from Prince George, and Tackle Terry Crum (236), a pro prospect from Highspire, Pa. Sophomore Jim Crenshaw (185) and shifty Mike Bixiones ( 173) , a transfer student from Montgomery Junior College, probably will start at the halfback posts. Mike Dussault (203) may have the edge over two other sophomores, Pat Turchetta ( 18 5) and Bill Sweeney ( 189) at fullback. Newcomer Walker Gillette (6-4, 193) is a fine split end prospect. Tight End Tommy England ( 6-2, 203) and Guards Bob Hag(Continued on page 11)
Jones New A. D. Football Coach Frank Jones was appointed Athletic Director, succeeding Mal colm U. Pitt, as the Alumn i Bull etin went to press. The announcement was made by President George M. Modlin on the recommendation of the Athletic Council with the approval of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. Jones said his goal was "to become competitive with everyone we play." Jones said his "initial concern in taking this post will be finances. It is my hope that the alumni and friends of the University will support an expanded and well rounded program in all sports. In return we hope to give them outstanding athletic events at
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the City Stadium, the new coliseum, on the campus and wherever our athletic teams play." In his first season as head football coach, Frank Jones demonstrated his ability as an organizer and leader," Dr . Modlin stated. "I am confident he will provide the leadership to strengthen further the total athletic program at the University of Richmond. "
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Spider T rackmen Set Nine Records The 1967 track season was one for setting records as Coach Fred H ardy's team finished with a 5-3 record, tied for third in the State meet and wound up third in the Southern Conference Meet. The Spiders set seven individual school records and two relays records. Co-captain Bob Crute, whose 316 points in his career is a UR high, ran a 21. 3 in the 220 on a curve in a meet with Florida, Duke and Yale to qualify for the NCAA Meet in this event. The senior speedster from Radford also set a school mark of 49.1 in the 440. Co-captain Allen Saville ran a 1:53.0 half mile against Washington and Lee and tied his mark in a meet with Frederick College. He also set a school mark of 4:21.8 in the mile against East Carolina. Mike Cline set the two-mile mark of 9 :46.0 against Frederick and the three-mile record of 15:16.1 against East Carolina. Tom Winfree's timing of 56.4 in the Southern Conference meet trials also is a UR record. The 440 relay team of Dave Smith, Cap-
tain-elect Rod Camden, Ted Bisterfeld and Crute posted a UR mark of 41.6 in the meet with Duke, Florida and Yale. The mile relay team of Crute, Camden, Bisterfeld and Saville established a school and Southern conference record of 3: 16.3 in the conference meet. Crute won the 100 and 220 in both the State and Conference meets, tying his meet record of 9.7 in the century in the former (he holds the school record of 9.6 set in '66 against Virginia Tech) and breaking his meet record in 21.5 in the 220 in the latter meet. Coach Lewis Mills' golf team posted its finest records in years, winning seven of nine matches. The Spiders linksmen tied for second in the State tournament and tied for fourth in the conference tourney. The tennis team of Coach Leonard McNea l and Student Assistant Coach Bobby Bayliss beat William and Mary, 7-2, in its final match to reach the .500 mark for the first time in several years. The netters had an 8-8 record and tied for sixth in the conference tournaments.
Another Baseball Winner For Pitt Coach Mac Pitt's thirty-third and final University of Richmond baseball team was a typical scrappy one despite a lack of punch at the plate and a lack of pitching depth. Although the Spiders batted an anemic .228 as a team and Junior Righthander Dick Balderson toiled in 13 of the 22 games on the mound, the club finished with a 13-9 record and wound up third in the Southern Conference race with a 10-5 mark. Actually, Richmond was in the scrap with West Virginia and East Carolina for the crown until the last week of the season when V.M.I. beat the Spiders, 6-2, at Lexington to knock them out of the race. Boasting a 9-4 record overall and a 6-2 Conference mark after taking a 7-3 decision over V.M.I. at home, the Spiders dropped a 2-0 decision to Navy and Balderson lost a three-hitter to Virginia, 1-0. The Spiders bounced back, however, and swept a twin bill from Furman, 5-4, and 5-3, and then Balderson blanked William and Mary, 3-0, at Williamsburg on a fourhitter. The loss to V.M.I. at Lexington, however, dropped the Spiders behind East Carolina and West Virginia, which went on to capture the title in a playoff game with the Pirates.
Pitt, however, achieved his 389th victory as Richmond coach on Alumni Day as the Spiders topped William and Mary, 4-1, as Balderson hurled an eight-hitter and Jim Claiborne hit a two-run homer . Any hopes the Spiders had of finishing second in the conference race were killed when West Virginia defeated them, 2-1, and 3-1, in a twin bill. The 1967 season was one of Pitt's finest coaching jobs. Third Baseman Tommy Gilman ( .338) was his lone .300 hitter although All-Southern First Baseman Tom Green was close at .297. The outfield played well enough defensively but not a one hit as much as .175. A sophomore, who hit only .209, played second base. The co-captains, Catcher Emory Maiden and second team All-Southern Shortstop Frank Jenness, batted .273 and .268 after slow starts at the plate and well below their 1966 averages. Balderson, who had a deceiving 7-5 record, led the balloting for pitchers on the All-Southern team. He pitched four shutouts and had a fine 1.71 earned run average. He twirled 95½ innings. Lefty Jack Hellems was the No . 2 pitcher with a 3-2 record.
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Mike Denoia (200) and Bill Roberts (215) and Sophs Steve Milling (191) and Dave Criswell (200) are battling for the starting role at center. Tommy Johnson (178), Dennis Wiley (175), who also plays split end; and Rich DeVito, also an offensive halfback, in the
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gerty ( 195) and Willard Arthur ( 20 5 ) are transfer students from Ferrum Junior College. Nick Morris (220), a senior letterman, will be at tackle with Crum. Seniors
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defensive battlefield; De lgado up front and Linebacker Collins are the only experienced defensive starters. Sophomores who could start on defense are Ends Mel Medved (189) and Buzz Montsinger (204), Tackles Bill Clark (212) and Eddie Barnes (225) , Middle Guard Dick Irvin (205), if Del gado moves to tackle, Linebacker John Zehler ( 198) and Back Winston Whitehead ( 173) .
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Of the 466 degree winners, 141 were in Richmond College and 121 in Westhampton ; 92 in the Business School; 57, Law School; 11, University College, and 44, Graduate School. In addition to degrees in course, honorary degrees were conferred on six distinguished men; Richmond City Manager Horace H. Edwards, '26, Doctor of Laws; RPI President George J. Oliver, '20, Doctor of Laws; Lucius M. Polhill, executive secretary of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, Doctor of Humanities; Kenneth R. Erfft, '36, vice president for administration at Duquesne University, Doctor of Commercial Science; the Rev. David S. Hammock, '31, pastor of the New Bridge Baptist Church, Richmond, Doctor of Divinity , and the Rev. Arthur W. Rich, '36, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lakeland, Fla., Doctor of Divinity .
WOOTEN NAMED V.P. OF S.C. UTILITY Oscar S. Wooten, '48, has been elected
vice president and member of the board of directors of South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. As vice president, he will have supervision over financial and secretarial functions of utility. He had been assistant vice president of finance. He joined the firm in 1954 as an assistant auditor and in 1963 was elevated to assistant controller. In 1966, he was elected assistant vice president. Wooten is past president of the Central Chapter of CPA's and past vice president of the South Carolina Association of CPA's . He is a past treasurer of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
Richmond'sUniversity ServesThe Community by CHARLES W. HOUSTON*
Th e University of Richmond is assuming a new and expanding role as Richmond's university. Under the dynamic leadership of Dean Martin L. Shotzberger, its new University College is involving its university deeper and deeper and more completely into the life of the community . This was never more apparent than a few months ago when more than 100 persons, public officials and organizational leaders from Richmond , Henrico and Chesterfield counties accepted the Uni versity's invitation to get together to consider problems that are of deepening concern to the community. At this Metropolitan Leadership Workshop, sponsored by the Institute for Business and Community Development , within University College, leaders of the three subdivisions earnestly sought areas of agreement and cooperation on problems facing the Richmond area.
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Houston, who has spent most of his working years in Richmond, is a reporter and columnist for the News Leader .
The Workshop was well organized by Dr. Richard S. Underhill, director of the Institute which is becoming increasingly involved with the non-academic publics served by University College. Through its three Centers, the institute has run schools for hundreds of persons employed by business and industrial institutions. It has brought instruction in the latest techniques of supervision and is aimed at upgrading the quality of work. Many business establishments have availed themselves of the facilities offered by the Management University College Center . The Urban Center is now making an exploration throughout the Richmond Metropolitan area (Richmond, and the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield, and Hanover) to try to deter mine the attitudes of the people toward present and emerging metropolitan problems. The Organizational Research Center is now engaged in a major project that concerns the set-up of the Virginia State Department of Welfare and Institutions . It expects to expand its field of inquiry as time goes on. The Institute, in short, stands ready to
help where help is needed , and to go forth on its own to explore into what it is that is going on all round us. Other University College units stand ready to do what they can to help every individual to upgrade his abilities to do the job he is in and to fit him for some more demanding role in his own life and that of the community. "If the University is the storehouse of knowledge it is supposed to be," says Dean Shotzberger, "it is ridiculous to sit back and wait for somebody to ask for what they don't know is here ... ." That seems to put it in a nutshell. There 'll be no hiding of the University's light under a bushel in this expanding Age of Knowl edge. The University has long been an important factor in Richmond 's life and University College has as its specific role service to the Richmond community. University College is an outgrowth of the Evening School of Business which has served 24 ,000 Richmonders in credit work since 1924, largely through part-time professors . ( Continued on page 43)
SERVING THE COMMUNITY. Typical of the activities of University College was the Metropolitan Leadership Workshop conducted by the Urban Center. Richmond's next city manager, Alan F. Kiepper, is addressing the Workshop. Others, from the left, are Dr. Dean Martin L. Shotzberger of University College; William F. LaVecchia, Henrico planning director; E. A. Beck, Henrico county manager; Irvin G. Horner, Chesterfield supervisors chairman, and City Manager Horace H. Edwards, '26. The building at the left is the sanctuary of the Second Baptist Church which, with the church's education building, has been purchased by the University. Both buildings will be placed in use by University College this fall.
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Author Of uHip PocketEssays" Succumbs by JOHN ARCHER CARTER* H. M. Sutherland-"Maynard" to homefolks but "Joy" to my fellow alumni and to me-a member of the Class of 1917-writer, fighter, humorist and every inch a Southwest Virginian-died April 22 in the Veterans' Hospital in Roanoke. He was 73 years old. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Irene Draper Sutherland; a daughter, Miss Rose Ella Sutherland; and a sister, Mrs. Edna French, all of Clintwood. What follows is a tribute to his memory and there shall be not one sad song in it. Joy wouldn't wish a shadow of gloom to enter here. After all, Joy has not lost his uni':ersity and its people. They are a bright and happy part of his spirit. We who knew him have not lost him . Surely, one cannot lose any spirit that one, with love remembers. Nearby is a humorous story of Joy's life, written by Joy himself twenty years ago. I shall add to it here and take sharp but kindly issue with the latter part of it. When Joy had been a student at the University of Richmond for a year, this young mountain man, never a joiner and somewhat of a loner, was acquainted with every student and all the professors . And every acquaintance was a friend . Then in October., 1915, Joy was suddenly an outstanding member of the student body, perhaps the most "famous" man on the campus. Joseph A. Leslie, editor of The Collegian, had op~ned the columns of his newspaper to Joy for a series of "Hip Pocket Essays" on subjects of Joy's choice-"Love," "Skirts," "Whiskey," and "Courtship," to name a few. These essays promptly were a hit. At that point Joy began a career that presently would nudge him far along on the high road toward fame and fortune . . . a road from which years later he would be compelled abruptly to depart. Shortly after he was graduated, Joy went to war, and there he received an injury that plagued him through the years. For "a year or so" after the war, as he writes, he was in the hospital. Then came a spell of studying and teaching at Columbia University, and after that, a pleasant trek along the high road toward fame and fortune. May this aging professional writer assert that if one is a top man on the editorial staff of The New York Times and is also a writer of short stories for the "slicks" including The Saturday Evening Post, one, in modern lingo, has it made . His w~s the big opportunity. He could have been brilliantly successful as a newspaper man, magazine writer, novelist, radio and TV writer . When he was still a young man, however, that old war injury forced him into semi-retirement, away from Manhattan, back to the mountains. There, he writes in the piece nearby, he served several terms in the State legislature, then founded "The Dickensonian," named, of course, for his home county. When he founded The Dickensonian he had just begun to fight! I talked about Joy with an engaging neighbor of mine here in Venice, Florida where I am living . This neighbor is now retired, but for forty-five years, he was a distinguished physician in Norton and surrounding areas of Southwest Virgina. "In all my years in Southwest Virginia," he told me, "I never heard one person say anything but good about Maynard Sutherland. He was liked-he was highly respected-not just because of his good character and his fighting spirit but because of the deeds he did, the services he performed for his home country, by the spoken word and especially the written words as they appeared in his own newspaper. It was familiar throughout the Southwest. Mighty few people ever did more for that beautiful part of Virginia than did Maynard Sutherland." Joy came home from the Big League, so to speak-back to his beloved hills . He used his talents, so generously given, for the benefit, the progress-always an uncompromisingly wholesome progress-of his home country and its people, his neighbors .
* Mr. Carter, whose brillia nt career embraced newspaper work, public relations and advertising, was the first editor of The Collegian. He was Public Relations Director for the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, later worked for advertising agencies in New York, and was Director of Radio-Television for the American Heritage Foundation. ·
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Confessions of a Reformed Reformer (Editors Note: When Dr. Ralph C. McDanel wrote his college mate H. M. (Joy) Sutherland for biographical information to adorn a piece about him in the fall, 1947 issue of the Alumni Bulletin, the author of "Hip Pocket Essays" responded with the letter below.)
Dear Mac: I certainly am flattered and pleased beyond expression that I have been remembered after these many years away from my Alma Mater. You ask for some data concerning my activities. In brief they are: Soon after having been graduated from the University of Richmond (1917) I set out upon my self-imposed task of reforming the entire world. I, of course, felt that I could best accomplish this by joining the forces of Democracy and sailing overseas to destroy the power of Kaiser Bill who at the time personified all of the evils of this world. But after coming in contact with German armies in France, and getting the worst of the deal, I concluded that perhaps I had been taking in a bit too much terri tory in including the entire world. I returned to these United States, and, after a year or so in an army hospital, I entered Columbia Uni versity where I received a B.Litt., and then for a couple of years I was instructor in the Columbia School of Journalism . I had by that time determined that I would limit my reforming activities to the United States only, and to accomplish this I went to work on the editorial staff of the New Y ork Times. After some five or six years of crossing lances with political windmills and Wall Street tycoons, I was forced to the conclusion that I was again taking in too much territory. And so I returned to my native land in Southwest Virginia where I began to lay plans for the reformation of my home state of Virginia. I got myself elected to the Virginia General Assembly for four terms, and, after bucking the Byrd machine ineffectually, I retired from that scene, finally convinced that even Virginia was a bit too much territory, and that perhaps I was going about that reformation task the wrong way. I came back to my native county of Dickenson, and decided that I would reform my home town of (Continued on page 16)
The King ts D ead, Long Live the Ki ngs
LastOf Jim Tharpe'sRecordsFalls by ROBERT A. WHITT, JR., '51 When Allen Saville raced to a 4 :21.8 mile on April 17 in a meet with East Carolina, the last of Lester E. "Jim" Tharpe 's three longstanding marks was erased from the track records of University of Richmond . On May 23, 1925, forty-two years ago, Tharpe had set the record, winning the South Atlantic Championships mile in 4:22. 6. Tharpe, undoubtedly the Spiders' greatest trackman, set records for the 440, 880, and mile while winning 44 of 48 dual meet races and seven of eight South Atlantic Meet events during his career from 1924 to 1927. He was undefeated as a junior and senior and was beaten in only one meet by an opponent - edged by Joe Enslow of Maryland in 1925' in both the 440 and 880. Three times he finished second to teammates. H is 51 wins in 56 outdoor races are the most ever posted by a Spider. In his 4 year carrer he also won several South Atl antic A.A .U . Championship titles . In setting the mile record Tharpe whipped a field of competitors from ten colleges, winning by 75 yards: He likely would have lowered it if he could have concentrated on the event but ran the mile in only three dual meets, being more valuable to the
team doubling in the quarter and half. Tharpe's half -mile record of 1 :56.8 was also set in 1925, in a meet with Virginia Tech. His 440 mark was 49.8 against Johns Hopkins in 1926 . All three of the records withstood the challenges of Spider runners for over three decades, even though the holder had offered a beautiful silver cup to the man breaking any of the marks. The 440 was the first to fall when Ted Masters won the 1958 Big Six race in 49.2 (lowered to 49 .1 by ace sprinter Bob Crute this year) . (Masters is now teacher principal at Woodrow Wilson School in Portsmouth.) Saville, co-captain with Crute, broke the 880 standard in 1965- 1 :55 .8 in SC Meet trials. He has lowered the mark three times, holding the record now at 1 :53.0 . No one threatened the half-mile record until Saville came along, but Spider distance stars Bill Lumpkin, '37, Owen Gwathmey, '42, and Warren Chukinas, '58, came close to the mile mark. Lumpkin still holds the indoor two-mile school record (9:30.4 in 1937 SC Indoor Meet) . Saville, like Tharpe, probably would have lowered the mile record even more if he could have competed in the event regularly.
THE LASTTHARPERECORDFALLS.When Allen Saville (right) edged Charles Hudson of East Carolina in 4:21.8 in the mile, he erased the great Lester E. (Jim) Thorpe's University of Richmond mark of 4:22.6 that had stood since 1925. Saville also lowered Thorpe's record in the half-mile, set in a dua l meet with Johns Hopkins' (below).
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He ran it in only five dual meets, winning each time but conserving his energy to double up in the half . In addition to the races in which he set records Saville says, "Winning the mile relay in this year's Southern Conference Meet stands out. " He anchored the quartet which lowered the meet record more than two seconds with a 3: 16.3 clocking. "Jim" Tharpe, a native of Luray, Va., almost didn't get a chance to go to college, dropping out of high school after one year to go to work during World War I. After the war he entered Fork Union Military Academy and was started on his brilliant career by Mac Pitt , then coach at the Academy. Pitt clearly recalls, "The headmaster suggested that I give young Tharpe an opportunity to make the team. The track was laid out around the flag pole- his practice times were almost unbelievable, even under those makeshift conditions ." Pitt took him to big time schoolboy meets where he won the indoor 600 and 880 at Baltimore and the 1000 yard run at Washington, and scored a point in the National AAU meet 880 at Chicago. ( Conti nued on page 17)
So They Say Edited by JAMES A. SARTAIN
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The p:rovocative statements above were made by four University of Richmond faculty members at the Alumnae-Alumni College on May 12. Clifford Dowdey, celebrated author and lecturer in creative writing, Alton Williams, associate professor of speech and dramatic arts, Mary Louise Gehring, dean of Westhampton College, and James A. Sartain, associate professor of sociology, organized their talks around the theme of the weekend, "Affluent Turmoil. " Mr. Dowdey answered his own question, "What's wrong with contemporary litera ture?", by stating that it doesn't deal with real people in the sense of authentic people. Instead he said, "Mo dern fiction writers take aspects of persons and develop them in vaporous nuances, but real people are no longer the subjects of literature." In the past novels dealt with one of three themes -the relation of man and God, the relation of man to his environment, or the relation of man to himself . The basic theme today, however, is "non-man in relation to nothing." Mr. Dowde y also predicted the end of the professional freelance writer with this generation, because "the independent mental worker is almost an anachronism today. You almost have to be affiliated with a system to gain any kind of security." Today's society is seeking for some sort of inner certainty, some sort of value system to replace the old absolutes, which can no longer be absolute in our society. Mr. Dowdey concludes that the contemporary writer cannot address himself to this question because "he is a peripheral citizen in a society structured around corporate life. Th e writer cannot understand the corporate life because, by the nature of his craft, he is outside it." Professor Williams took as his theme his view that the theater should mirror the times, and he sees the theater of today as "a revolt against the prudish confines of the Victorian era." He used the film "BlowUp" as an example of a film which explores the theme of "t he confusion of illusion and
reality experienced by many people leading jaded, bored existences today." It reflects our society today in that people want a thrill and don 't know how to get it. He feels that the old Pollyanna story and the good wholesome sentimental story have lost their edge, while the lurid and shocking appeal to the public. He predicted, however, "a future revolt against this kind of story and a return to the good human stories." Dean Gehring's lecture was based on the life of Russell H. Conwell, soldier, newspaperman, lawyer, author, preacher, educator, and lecturer. Conwell is best remembered as the founder of Temple University and the author of the lecture, "Acres of Diamonds ." Although he was "no t a particularly creative person," his ideas, Dean
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Brooks Alumni Society President; Jim Frye Chosen To Head Council
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In a spirited three-cornered race that went right down to the wire, Edwin B. Brooks, Jr., '43, was elected president of the University of Richmond Alumni Society. Brooks, president of the Security Federal Savings and Loan Association of Richmond, was recently elected president of the Virginia Savings and Loan League. He outpolled George W. Sadler, '43, president of the University's Parents Organizavice president and a member of the Society's executive committee. He outpolled George W. Sadler, '43, president of the University's Parents Organization, and R. Clifton Long, '46, co-chairman with Mrs. Long in planning the AlumniAlumnae weekend. James E. Frye Jr., '53, of Richmond, Community Relations Director for Philip Morris, was chosen president of the Alumni Council, the fund raising arm of the Society, at a meeting at which good progress was reported toward the Alumni Fund goal of $100,000.
At: the annual breakfast of the Business School Association on Alumni Day, Graham K. Ragland, '63, an accountant for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, was elected president. Earlier, on Law Day, R. E. Booker, '129, a former president of the Alumni Society, was elected president of the Law School Association. J. Vaughan Gary, '115, for many years Representative of Virginia's Third District in the national Congress, was the principal Law Day speaker. University alumni in another notable action elected Walter P. Lysaght, '56, former All-Southern Conference basketball star, as an alumni representative on the Athletic Council. Alumni Society officers, with Brooks, are T. Jack Gary, '3 1, of Washington and Charles G. Motley, '45, and G. Thomas Taylor, '36, both of Richmond, vice presidents; John M. Bareford, '40, of Saluda was chosen secretary, and R. W. Nuckols, '21, of Richmond, and the Rev. Aubrey J. Rosser, '50, of Roanoke, were elected to the executive committee.
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Serving with President Frye on the Alumni Council are Howard P. Falls, '33, of Richmond, first vice president; Rawley F. Daniel, '40, of Richmond, second vice president; Joseph E. Nettles, '30, secretary, and Cecil F. Jones, '43, treasurer. Executive committee members are G. Fred Cook, '25; Ralph P. Moore, '38; John W. Edmonds III, '53; A. E. Dick Howard , '54; Edmund G. Har rison, '56, and the retiring president, Carle E. Davis, '54. Law School alumni elected Judge Henry D. Garnett, '146, of Newport News, vice president. To the board of directors they elected Frank D. Harns, 'L54, South Hill, and G. Thomas Taylor, '139 and John W. Edmonds, III, '156, both of Richmond. Business School alumni elected Clyde H. Bellamy Jr., '56, and William E. Layne Jr., '59, vice presidents; B. Roland Freasier Jr., '61, secretary, and Ellis M. Dunkum , '59, treasurer. To the board of directors they elected Roy S. Cayton, '52; Robert S. Jepson Jr., '64; Philip R. Johnson, '54; Russell T. Mann Jr., '60, and Russell G. Warren, '64.
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Mary Indians at Williamsburg, 3 to 0, Coach Pitt was extended the offer by Athletic Director Lester Hooker, Jr., to become Head Basketball Coach at William and Mary for the season of 1968. I ask you, what greater compliment can be paid anyone than this? It might be said that his entire life has been coaching, teaching, and counseling boys. As many of you know, after nine months at the University of Richmond he journeys up to the Alleghany Mountains, on the Maury River, where he directs Camp Virginia, one of the truly great boys camps in our section of the country. He has gained a wide reputation as an after dinner speaker, and is in constant ( 16]
demand by civic, religious, high school or college groups. On Sundays he teaches a class of college-age boys at First Baptist Church where he serves as a member of the Board of Deacons. "The Middle Man" in three generations of Pitts at the University of Richmond, Mac Pitt is the son of the late Dr. R. H. Pitt, who for many years was editor of the Religious Herald, the Baptist publication for Virginia. His three children all hold degrees from the University of Richmond . His son, Mac Pitt, Jr ., former All-State performer here in basketball, and a letter man in baseball and football , is Headmaster of the Collegiate Schools and is performing an outstanding job in this capacity. His wife, Louise, has been loyal and devoted and at his side constantly through these years. And so, Dr . Modlin, on behalf of the Alumni of the University of Richmond, I present to you as President of our Uni versity, this portrait of Malcolm Upshur Pitt, with the knowledge that although retiring as Director of Athletics, he will serve this University in many useful capacities, for years to come.
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Clintwood first of all, and then work up from the bottom. I bought the local newspaper and looked about for something to reform. The cows were grazing peacefully and serenely on the courthouse green and the streets, and with glee I fell upon my task of removing these bovine marauders to greener pastures. After some six or eight months of intensive campaigning, I succeeded in calling an election on the cow question, and the cows were defeated by a majority of eleven votes. But the town officials forgot to inform the cows of this momentous decision, and, as I write this, an enterprising Jersey is standing before my office window, derisively ringing her bell, and placidly consuming a pasteboard box. So, I am through with reforming. As far as I am concerned the world can chase itself around and around. As for me, I shall do my daily stint of editing my paper, writing wild and woolly yarns for the pulp magazines, and spending the rest of the time afield and astream with rod and gun, seeking the elusive bass and equally shy squirrel and quail. With every best wish for you and all the Alumni of U. of R., I am, Yours in complete disillusionment, H. M. "Joy" SUTHERLAND
UR Flight'67 by LEONARD
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Who Did Not KeepThe SeatbeltAround His Mind Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years; One season following another, laden with happiness and tears. It is in this way that Tevye and Golde describe their long life in the classic "Fiddler on the Roof." It is in this same way that I would describe my four years at the University of Richmond. It is a strange feeling to realize that four years, undoubtedly some of the most important in my life, have flown by so quickly. Yet this flight has not been by supersoni c jet, but more like the flight of a glider-filled with misgivings at the beginning, filled with adventure at the middle, filled with satisfaction at the end. What has made the flight possiblethrough the seasons of happiness, the seasons of tears--have been those who made the trip with me. No matter what class accommodations we had , the education was strictly first-class for students with the desire , the dedication, the determination. Although this fact is probably true in all departments, no where is it truer than in the Richmond College department of Ancient languages. For, any flight, even that of a glider, depends for its success mostly on the pilot, corresponding to the faculty of the Uni versity. There could be no better flight
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leonard J. Greenspoon, who took his B.A. degree last month, is the only student in the history of the Universit y to w in three major fellowships: Fulbrigh t, Danforth, and Woodrow Wilson. He's studying German this summer at Harvard where two summers ago he studied Russian. Last summer he studied Ital ian in Rome and this fall he w ill return to Rome w here he will begin his doctoral work at the University of Rome. He plans to teach languages at the college level where, says Dr . Talbot R. Shelby, chairman of the department of ancient languages at the University of Richmond , he will be brilliantly successful. His maturity and his ability as a writer were demonstrated in his editorials for the
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captain than the chairman of the department of Ancient languages, Dr. Talbot R. Shelby, and no better co-pilots than his associates in that and in the other departments in which I worked. When I entered Flight 1967, the course was uncertain, the route sure to be stormy. Only because experience was at the helm did I make it through successfully. As the flight conti nues, one's attention turns to those individuals whose responsi bility it is to make the flight more comfortable and pleasurable. It seems to me that the role of steward is analogous to that of the student who assumes a leadership position among and for the students. No special training is needed to be a student leader, but both roles have similar characteristics-a desire to be of service, to improve any defective aspect of the flight, to be there when a need arises. Thus it is that students who have led in all fields-athletics, student government, publications, clubs- have helped to keep my flight in the air. One would never dream of assuming the steward's role on a flight. How unlike such a flight has been that of # 1967, where the positions of leadership have been filled by a number of the passengers . This opport unity to serve, along wit h the knowledge that my fellow students were likewise eager to serve, has been one of the prime sources of satisfaction durin g my four years at the University . As I stated above, the real success or failur e of any lengthy flight for the individual passenger is his relation wit h those around him . If he chooses to keep the seatbelt around his mind , as well as his body, and "go it alone," he will miss the wonderful and lasting friendships that can develop, the chances that arise to learn valuable lessons from others, to receive and give aid where it counts. And, if I had to choose the outstanding trait of the vast majority of my fe llow passengers in # 1967- and those who caught an earlier flight, as well as those who boarded after me- it would have to be their sincerity and friendliness. The person who flies across our country and keeps his eyes glued to the movie screen h as presumably gotten where he wanted to go, but how much he 's missed along the way! It is the same with the student who fails to take advantage of the opportunities tha t friendships offer. And, few of my fellow students , to my great pleasure have been of this type. Supplied only with the knowledge gaine d in the classroom, I would feel as if I were [ 17 }
in a balloon , with one rope still tied to a stake on the ground. Combining the academic knowledge with the warm and sincere friends I've made and the experience gained from them, I can cut the last rope and begin with greater confidence the long flight of my life, compared with which Flight 1967 is just a short haul . Although the four years' flight may be a relatively short haul in the total flight of my life, it most certain ly has set the course for all my future ones. With the guidance of experienced and interested pilots, with the sincere and able help of my fellow passengers in their various capacities, and with the opportunity to take my place as leader and server- Flight 1967 has been most rewarding and satisfying. Only now that the flight has come to an end and I've landed am I aware of how much I"ll always owe to old number '67 .
Jim Tharpe (Continued f rom page 14)
As a freshman at Richmond College, Tharpe was a mainstay on Coach Frank Dobson's 1924 team. It defeated Wake Forest, Trinity (now Duke), Maryland, and William & Mary in dual meets; overwhelmed Hampden-Sydney and RandolphMacon in a tri-meet; and won the South Atlantic Meet. The team's lone defeat was to Washington & lee . Tharpe's time of 51.4 and 1: 59 .6 stood as frosh records until surpassed by Masters (50.6) in 1956 and Bob Willis ( 1: 58.0) in 1966. Paced by Tharpe and Virgil Goode, '27, who held four school records at one time (100, 220, BJ, Discus), the Spiders won the South Atlantic Meet again in 1926 and finished second in '25 and '27. Widely acclaimed was the Spiders' mile relay team of the mid-20's. The championship foursome of Goode, Charlie Edwards, G. H. "Gaw key" Sharpe, and Tharpe competed against the best on the East Coast, in big indoor meets at Washington and Baltimore, and running outdoors in the famed Penn Relays. It posted record times of 3:27.8 outdoors and 3 :32.8 on the indoor boards. Captain of the 1927 team and president of his senior class, Tharpe ranks as the fourth highest scorer in Richmond track history, amassing a total of 268 points. The three top point getters are Crute, 316; Goode, 2781/z; and George Riggs, ('57) 2701/z. The versatile Sam McCormick, '64, holds the single season record with 125 points in 1965. Though 67 years old, Tharpe still runs approximately five miles a week on the YMCA track in Washington where he works as Assistant Membership Secretary. Even now as he plans for semi-retirement at a valley retreat in the mountains of West Virginia, the star whose records shone brightest and longest in Spider track anna ls, says "all the good things in this life for me have been the result of my years at the University of Richmond. "
Dr. George J. Oliver, retumg president of the Richmond Professional Institute, in Richmond, was given a dinner by the faculty members of the institute in May.
1905Dr. Jay B. Hubbell of Duke University will be honored by his colleagues in the Fall when Duke University Press will bring out a volume entitled Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. The volume will be edited by Clarence Gohdes with contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of American Literature. Dr. Mciver Woody, reports his daughter is a third-year resident in medicine in Florida.
1907Former U. S. Senator A. Willis Robertson was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the officials of the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks, in Washington D. C. Robertson was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during his time in Congress.
1909Grover C. Outland, Jr., is still active as a representative of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
1911Dr. T. E. Cochran of Orlando, Fla., was recently married for the second time. A loyal alumnus, he served in 1967 for the 21st time as a class agent. Paul E. Hubbell of Ypsilanti, Michigan, taught a class in Evolution of American Democracy for Eastern Michigan University's extension in the Detroit area.
1912Former Representative J. Vaughan Gary was the princioal speaker at the University's Law Day, April 26.
1915John A. Ryland reports he is busy farming at his home, "Ingleside," and with civic and social activities. His home is in King and Queen county. E. J. Wright is teaching a men 's class of 62, and doing some supply preaching. He lives in Richmond .
1916K. Brooke Anderson of Providence, R. I., is busy raising scholarships for an Arab refugee and a South African student under a University of London plan.
1917The Rev. George W. Diehl returned to the First Presbyterian Church in Corpus Christi, Texas in May to preach a centennial sermon. He is senior past-pastor of the church, which he left in May 1949 after 18 years there. He recalled the University of Richmond's 1917 commencement: "After breakfast, some of us went up to the fire-station where we registered for the draft and, when the exercises were conducted, some of the graduates wore their academic gowns over their uniforms."
1918Archer G . VanDenburgh of New Orleans, La., traveled to Egypt during the spring.
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PENDLETON RECEIVED IRS GALLATIN AWARD George F. Pendleton, '23, received the
H. B. Winfrey of Sperryville retired in June 1966 after 45 years as principal of a high school in Rappahannock County.
1920Jesse R. Hite has been named to serve as one of the first group of counsellors on the Pastor-Church Relations committee of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Dr. C. Vernon Hickerson, pastor emeritus of Northminster Baptist Church in Richmond, delivered the baccalaureate address at The Collegiate Schools graduation exercises in May . The Rev. Harry B. Fraser of Greenwood, S. C., attended the inauguration of Dr. Joseph Wightman as president of Erskine College in April. Mr. Fraser, now retired from the active pastorate, is in his third year on the faculty of Lander College in Greenwood.
1921The Rev. Ralph J. Kirby is serving as interim pastor of the Grove Park Baptist Church in Portsmouth. Charles G. Stone has been re-nominated to his seventh term as commonwealth's attorney of Fauquier County.
Gallatin Award for Meritorious Service on his retirement from the Internal Revenue Service. The award is the highest given by the Treasury department. Pendleton, who spent 30 years as a special agent of the intelligence division of the service, is now with the real estate firm of Slater and Vaughan, Inc.
1922V. 0. Smith of Amherst, Va., is serving his third term on the Town Council. He retired in 1962 after a heart attack but is now enjoying good health. T. Coleman Andrews of Richmond has been elected chairman of the board of Partake, Inc., a national franchise marketing organization.
John R. Cheatham of Frederick, Md., represented the University of Richmond at the dedication of the new campus at Hagerstown Junior College in May.
19261923Edgar M. Johnson will retire from teaching at Longwood College in June with 28 years at the college. He plans to devote much of his time to developing his herd of Angus beef cattle and cross-bred hogs. Louis C. Carlton of Richmond has retired after 33 years in the law department of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. William T. Vandever of South Yarmouth, Mass., keeps busy with his work in the local Council of Churches on Cape Cod. Dr. Edward C. Held of Hempstead, N. Y., represented the University of Richmond at the Convocation and Library Dedication at Hofstra University in May.
1924Waddy D. and registrar Washington, Curt Fray new home.
Street is job placement officer at Columbia Technical School in D.C. of Winchester, Va., has built a
1925Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden has celebrated his 30th anniversary as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Washington, D. C. Dr. Pruden has served as president of the Washington Council of Churches, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the American Baptist Convention, and the General Society of Alumni of the University of Richmond. He is a trustee of the University of Richmond.
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J. Taylor Frazier, has been elected to chairman of the board of Bluefield Supply Company
CARTERAPPOINTED MEDICAL DIRECTOR Dr. Aubrey R. Carter, '26, has been appointed District Medical Director for the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Employers Compensation, with offices in Seattle, Wash. The district covers the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. Dr. Carter received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He served as assistant chief surgeon of the Alaska Railroad until 1939, when he spent a year at the Post Graduate School at the University of Pennsylvania. He entered the Army Medical Corps in 1942, served in the Asiatic Theatre until 1946, and was discharged a colonel. Dr. Carter moved to Everett, Wash., in 1947 and has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery there since.
1930VETERAN EDUCATOR, GALVIN RETIRES W. Roland Galvin, '26, principal of Westhampton Junior High School, has retired after 28 years as principal of the school. "Chunky" Galvin devoted 41 years to the education of young men and women, beginning with his first job after graduation from the University, as teacher and athletic coach at Blackstone Military Academy. He taught at Chester High School, John Marshall High School and Thomas Jefferson High School before being appointed principal of Westhampton in 1945. His honors in the teaching profession have included the presidency of the State Science Tead1ers Association , of the Secondary School Teachers Association of Richmond, and of the Teacher's Credit Union. He served as secretary of both the Richmond Principals Association and the District C Secondary Principals Association. He is a past president of the General Society of Alwnni.
in Bluefield, W. Va. The firm, which has five subsidiaries, is a five-state organization with 25 outlets and 825 employees. He had been president of the firm since 1955 . Vice Admiral C. L. Melson of the U. S. Navy has been awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Rhode Island. He retired from the Navy in January in 1966, and was awarded the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal at that time .
1927Jesse C. Green of Powhatan, Va., is supervisor of agricultural Ed ucation in central Virginia. Robert W. Neathery of Philadelphia , Pa., has been appointed vice president for education of the Franklin Institute, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Norwood G. Greene has been busy as the division chairman of the Kiwanis-sponsored Circle K Clubs on college campuses in the Richmond area. L. E. Tharpe has purchased a mountain retreat in the mountain area of West Virginia , where he and Mrs. Tharpe will soon retire. Martin J. Logan represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. John A. Greenlee as president of California State College in May.
1928Edward G. Cale of the department of economics of the University of Oregon, will spend July through December in Rome on a world coffee study for the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Bank, and the International Coffee Organization .
1929Joseph H. Cosby of Chatham, Va., has been awarded the Chatham Sertoma Club's first annual "Service to Mankind" award.
The Rev. J. L. Hart retired from hi s pastorate at Pamplin, Va., in April. Mr. and Mrs . Carroll Minor of Richmond will spen d a month in Europe this summ er, visiti ng juvenile and adult correctional syste ms in severa l count ries. M. Y. Hill of Richmond retired from the American Tobacco Company after 35 years of service in August of 1966. Alex W. Schoenbaum of Richmond, will retire in September as manager of the Hamner division of the American Tobacco Companv, an d will make his home at Indian Creek, Kilmarnock, Va. Russell T. Mann of Brooks Transfer and Storage Co., Inc., in Richmond, has been elected president of the Virgi ni a Movers and Warehouseme n's Associatio n.
1931Edward sent ed the cation of Quinnipiac text boo k , he us es in
Carbone of Hamden, Conn., repreUniversity of Richmond at th e dedithe new Mount Carmel Campus of College. He is the author of a "Princip les of Bookkeeping, " which teac hing at Hamden, Conn.
NEATHERYWINS AWARD AS TOP TOY SALESMAN H. R. "Rags" Neathery, '30, of Atlanta, Ga., has received the "Outs tanding Toy Manufacturer Salesman Award" presented by the Toy Wholesalers Association of America. Neathery was commended on his " deli gent and extremely proficient work in the improvement of manufacturer -wholesale relations in the expanding toy industry" by Donald S. Frey, executive secretary of the international association of toy wholesalers and manufacturers. The award was based on the manufacturer salesman and firms who have been consistently effective over the last five-year period.
1937The Rev . Fred Laughon, Jr. preached Baccalaureate sermon at Stetson University
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1932Max 0. Laster and Mrs. Laster of Richmond have received the B'nai B'rith Civic Award for "se rvices benefitting mankind. " Laster is past pre sid ent of the Richmond Jewish Community Coun cil and Mrs. Laster is a former chairman of the woman's division of the Richmond Jewish Community Council's annual campaign. The Rev. Russell J. Urquhart of Charles Town, W. Va ., is pastor of the Charles Town Baptist Chu rch there . Thomas C. Jeffries retired from the U. S. Army on March 31 after 30 years of military service. He is now located with the Bureau of Laboratories of tbe Maryland State Health Department at Baltimore, Md. Gordon L. Mallonee, vice president of Miller and Rhoads, Inc., in Richmond, has been elected president of the Better Business Bureau of Richmond. Mallonee joined Miller and Rhoads as a salesman in 1946, was made vice-president and director of merchandise and sales in 1954, and vice president for buying and promotion in 1962. Harold H. Dervishian has announced his candidacy for re -election to Virginia House of Delegates.
1933Edward Bennett has been appointed interim supe rintendent of schools for the cit y of West Haven, Conn.
1934The Rev. Paul W. Nye is pastor of the F irst Baptist Church in Richwood, W . Va., and has been appointed to the executive board of th e W. Va. Baptist Convention.
1936Stewart P. Conra d, Sr., has been elected cash ier of Second National Bank of Richmond. He formerly was head teller of the bank, and has been regional operations manager for the General Finance Corp. and vice president of the Ca pit al Chemical Company.
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ROBINS ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF PMA E. Claiborne Robins, '31, president of A. H. Robins Company, has been named
chairman-elect of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. The PMA is a non-profit scientific, professional and trade organization representing 140 manufacturing firms which produce more than 90 per cent of the nation's prescription drug products. Robins has been actively associated in the management of the Robins firm since 1933, becoming president in 1936. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. Robins is a past president of the Better Business Bureau of Richmond, the Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association; Richmond Baseball, Inc., the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Richmond Alumni Council. He is a member of the University of Richmond 's Board of Trustees.
receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Jerome L. Epstein is president of Epstein, Salmick, Marshall Brokerage Corporation, a meat brokerage firm serving the New York, New Jersey metropolitan area. Richard L. Todd has accepted a position with Millhiser Bag Company in Richmond.
1938Hay Garber is regional budget assistant in the Washington (D.C.) office of the Post Office Department. Robert T. Harris is in the special education department of the Richmond cicy school system.
1939M. J. Dwyer of Volkswagen Australia limited has moved to Victoria, Australia, where he is export sales supervisor for his firm .
1940John T. Watkins, Jr. is sales vice president of the plastics division of Fabricon Produces in Detroit, Mich. Franklin M. Church is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Wolfe, Hubbard, Voit and Osann. William F. Kayhoe, president of Kayhoe in Richmond, has Corporation Construction been elected to the Richmond Board of First and Merchants National Bank. Dr. David D. Dexter of Hempstead, N. Y. has been elected president of the UnitarianUniversalist Church of Central Nassau, Garden City, L.I. Rawley F. Daniel, senior vice president of State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts in Richmond, served as an instructor in the marketing program of the 1967 session of the School of Banking of the South, held at Louisi ana State University.
1941Robert P . Van Buren has received an award from the YMCA for distinguished service to youth, for his work in the Model General Assembly of Virginia. G. Edmond Massie, 3rd, of Richmond, has been re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Richmond Association of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. R. Stuart Grizzard, pastor of the National Baptist Memorial Church in Washington, D. C., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Virginia Intermont College.
1942Philip B. Mason of Annandale, exhibited one of his watercolors in the 69th National Exhibi(D.C.) Watercolor tion of the Washington Association. Mason is an employee of DuPont de Nemours and Co. Joseph A. Amrhein, Jr. is senior resident agent of the F.B.I. in Fredericksburg, Va. He has completed 20 years with the F.B.I. Tom Warriner has been reappointed to a new term as city attorney at Cocoa Beach, Fla.
1943Dr . John H . Wotiz has accepted of professor and chairman of the of chemistry of Southern Illinois He was chairman of the chemistry at Marshall University.
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BEFOREAND AFTER. Four members of the law class of 1942 hold portraits drawn 1n charcoal for the Web of that year by Hugh Parker Young. The gentlemen, from left to right, are L. Shields Parsons of Norfolk, Charles Fetter of Richmond, F. Byron Parker of Richmond, and Mr. Young of Springfield, Va. The ladies, left to right, are Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Fetter, Mrs. Parker, and Mrs. Young. The pictures were presented at the 25th anniversary celebration . Others who attended were Dean and Mrs. William T. Muse, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Savage Jr. of Fredericksburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Elmore of Richmond.
LAW CLASS CELEBRATES F. Byron Parker, LLB '42, and Mrs . Parker entertained the members of his class and their wives to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Dean William T. Muse and Mrs. Muse were special guests for the joyous occasion at the Downtown Club in Richmond . The festive event concluded with a sumptuous dinner . The highlight was the presentation to each member present of his portrait, a reproduction of which appeared in The Web of 1942. The original portraits were done in charcoal by Hugh Parker Young, law school editor of The W eb, who presented them to his classmates. Young told them : "I have kept these portraits in my attic for 25 years, waiting for this reunion. I had thumbtacked them to a drawing board and, when I looked at them, they still were in good condition. I bought some frames, mat board and after working on
them for two nights, had them ready. Sooo . . . here they are for all the world to see how dignified you are now and how hand some you were then!" One member of the class, George M. Shields, suffered a paraplegic wound while serving his country in World War II and was unable to attend . Each classmate wrote a personal message in a long letter, mailed to Shields immediately. Young took a detour on his return to Spring.field, Va. to visit Shields at his home in Charlottesville , to personally deliver his portrait and convey to him the good wishes of the Muses, his classmates and their wives. "I expected to be able to do this in 20 minutes," Young wrote to the Parkers, "but the good wishes were so many that it took me two hours. George and I had so much to talk about that we didn't even have time for a game of checkers!"
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19450. Lawrence Burnette, Jr., has been designated a Distinguished Professor in connection with a grant made by the Ford Foundation to Birmingham-Southern College. Dr. J. Powhatan Cox is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Forsyth, Ga. Dr. Joseph A. Solomon is physician in charge of Student Health Service for the first class of Mackinac College, a new liberal arts college on Mackinac Island, Mich.
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Weenie Miller is with Lees Carpets, a subsidiary of Burlington Industries, with offices in Glasgow, Va. Russell Lang, vice president and director of marketing of First and Merchants National Bank in Richmond, has been named marketing instructor for the South Carolina School of Banking. He will conduct marketing classes there for the South Carolina Bankers Association.
Milton D. Mitler is president of Atlas-Hart ley Corporation, manufacturers of bedspreads and draperies. He lives in Ardsley, N. Y. Larry Y offy is director of personnel development at Wards Company, Inc., in Richmond. Thomas P. Bryan, Jr. is a candidate in the Democratic primary in July for a RichmondHenrico district seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Dr. H. Walton Connelly, Jr., Training Union department of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, is the author of a new book for l 7 to 20 year olds. The book, "Learning for Living," emphasizes the responsibility of the young person to be a learner in the church.
1948E. R. Carter has moved to Fribourg, Switzerland where he is regional manager for the international division of Burroughs.
1949C. Frank Wentzel, Jr. of Richmond has re ceived the Senior Residential Appraiser desig nation from the International Society of Residential Appraisers. Mercer W. Kay has been appointed superintendent of the Buckingham County school system. He was director of instruction for the county. Morris E. Cather has been appointed chairman of the English department at Hargrave Military Academy. William M. Wills has been named director of power station design for Virginia Electric and Power Company in Richmond. He was assistant superintendent prior to his promotion . Louis F. Luechauer has been accepted for membership in the Textile Institute of England. He is an executive in the field of commercial laundering . Ralph N. Hargrove of Richmond has been elected commander of the Westhampton Post 84 of the American Legion . Hargrove is vice president of Carneal Insurance Agency. Major Lewis M . Omer, III is currently on active duty in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army and is stationed in Heidelberg , Germany .
Paul R. Garber is a counselor for the department of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Commonwealth of Virginia with an office in Charlottesville . The Rev. Horace E. Twine is pastor of Broadview Baptist Church in Washington, D. C.
1952Dr. William H. Leftwich has been named chairman of the psychology department at the University of Richmond. He has been a mem ber of the faculty since 1961. Robert R. Storm is a representative for Parke, Davis and Company, a pharmaceutical firm, with his office in New York. Richard H . Catlett, Jr., has been elected to the board of directors of Southern Bank and Trust Company in Richmond. Catlett is a partner in the Richmond law firm of Christian, Barton, Parker, Epps and Brent . John C. Gayle has been admitted as a general partner of Abbott, Procter and Paine, a Richmond brokerage firm. Ray C. Norvell is in practice of law in a new firm, Wills and Norvell, in Atlanta, Ga .
1953R. L. Cheatham is in Chicago as assistant regional retail manager for Shell Oil Company. The Rev. Cecil E. Marsh has jointed the Baptist Training Union Department as an associate . He will provide leadership in the New Member Orientation and Church Leadership Training. He was pastor of Randolph Memorial Baptist Church. William K. Howell has been named vice president of the Latin America division of Philip Morris International with headquarters in New York City.
1954Paul M . Loehr has been named supervisor in the group insurance claim department at the Richmond casualty and surety office of Aetna Life and Casualty Company. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Turlington, Jr., have
ALUMNI MEET ON TOUR ABROAD Among those in the party of Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr., touring Europe this spring to encourage business abroad was Roy M. Newton, '39, vice president of the Virginia National Bank of Norfolk. When the party reached Mons, Belgium, two more alumni lunched with the governor's group. They are W. W . Dunkum, Jr., '38, and Edward M. Miller, ' 38, both of Reynolds Metal's subsidiary, Aleurope.
announced the birth of a daughter , Carol Lawrence . Major Albert C. Pecuch of the U. S. Air Force is engaged to Miss Barbara Ann Brooks of Richmond. A September wedding is planned. Professor A . E. Dick Howard has been named associate dean of the University of Virginia law school. He was appointed last year by Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr., to the commission which will pl an Virginia's bicentennial celebration of independence . Joe Cox has been promoted to vice president of the North American Assurance Society of Virginia, with offices in Richmond . Major James C. Hughes of the U. S. Air Force is a member of the unit rated the best air refueling squadron within the Strategic Air Command's Eighth Air Force. He is stationed at Seymour -Johnson Air Force Base, N. C., where he is a pilot of a KC-135 Stratotanker. The Rev. Jack M. D. Price is now associate secretary for the Sunday School Department of the Baptist General Board . He was pastor of Fieldale Baptist Church in Henry County. Dr. and Mrs . Spencer D . Albright III have announced the birth of a son, Leonard Clyde ,
1950Dr. James R. Sease of Harrisonburg ha s moved into a new medical building named for his father , where he will practice medicine with his brothers, Dr. C. I. Sease, Jr ., and Dr. Robert Sease. Carl Barefort is publishing a book, "Art Objects: Their Care and Preservation ," by Frieda Kay Fall. Ernest L. Harris, II is supervisor of edu cation at the Beaumont School for boys, and serves as pastor of the Cartersville Baptist Church.
1951Leslie D. Campbell, Jr., is a candidate for re-election to the Virginia State Senate. He is an attorney in Ashland, Va . W. V. Ford of Round Hill, Va ., attended the congress of the International Union of Local Authorities in Bangkok, Thailand, in February. The principal subject of discussion was the management of public utilities. Sam H. Flannagan, III, is vice president and general manager in Richmond for the D. H . Overmyer Warehouse Company , a national warehousing chain . Floyd D . Gottwald, Jr. of Richmond has been elected to the board of directors of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company .
CARROLLWILLIAMS RECEIVESLEDLIEPRIZE FOR STUDY OF JUVENILE HORMONE OF INSECTS Professor Carroll M. Williams , ' 37, a Harvard biologist internationally known for his investigations on the juvenile hormone of insects, has received Harvard Univer sity's George Ledlie Prize, given every two years to the faculty member who has made "the most valuable contribution of science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind ." The award, a $1,500 cash prize, was given Williams for his work with the hormone, which controls the maturing of an insect to adulthood. His studies have demonstrated the hormone 's potential as a powerful new kind of insecticide. In 1965, he found a substance in American pulp paper that has a juvenile hormone effect on a species of European insect, and traced the substance to trees from which
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the paper came. In 1966, he reported the laboratory synthesis of a substance which has the effect of juvenile hormone on virtual Iy all insects. Earlier, Professor Williams ' work with the hormone won the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also holds the Borden Award for Research in Medicine, and the Boylston Prize and Gold Medal of the Harvard Medical School. Professor Williams received his Ph.D. and M.D . from Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, and later served as chairman of the biology department. In 1966, he was elected the first Bussey Professor of Biology at Harvard.
PACIOCCO APPOINTED TO STATE POSITION Justin T. Paciocco, '56, has been named assistant director for special units in the Virginia Department of Vocational Rehabilitation's division of rehabilitation services. Paciocco has been the Alexandria area superv isor for the department. He was youth secretary of the Louisville, Ky., YMCA from 1957 to 1960, and then was pastor of Oak Dale Baptist Church at Gainesville until joining the department in January of 1966.
on April 14. Dr. Albright is practicing dermatology in Fayetteville, Ark. Bob Armstrong is assistant to the rector of St. James Episcopal Church, in Richmond. Duane H. Brown is running for a seat on the Alexandria City Council. He is associated with WETA Television station in Washington, D.C.
1955Dr. Dwight W. Cumbee is associate professor of psychology and pastoral counseling at the Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Maine. He received his Ph.D. degree in January from St. Andrews University in Scotland. Clarence D. Powell has been appointed a special agent for the Crum and Forster Group of Insurance Companies at Kansas City, Mo. Kenneth Hodder is serving as a chaplain in Vietnam, and has written a lengthy article for the Salvatio n Army's "War Cry" publication. Entitled "How Much Can a Vietnam Day Hold?," it is a description of his duties which include conducti ng services, and ministering to the wounded.
1956Robert E. Swain has been promoted to assistant superintendent of sales promotion in the commercial lines marketing division of the casualty-prope rty department of The Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford, Conn. Phillip H. Kirkpatrick has been promoted to chief of the Program Evaluation Officer,
FIELD NAMED TO HONOR SHERWOOD FROSTICK A recreation field in Richmond has been named in memory of the late Sherwood Frostick, '57, by the North Chamberlayne Recreation Association of Richmond. Frostick had been active in coaching youngsters and instructing them in various sports at the field. Friends and former associates unveiled a bronze plaque at the field on May 27. The field will be known as Frostick Field. Frostick was killed in an automobile accident in 1966 while on a business trip.
MOST PHOTOGENIC THE LADY BY THE LAKE is Elizabeth Kallmyer, a Westhamp ton College sophomore who represented Virginia in the Miss U.S.A. contest in May. She was voted Most Photogenic by the press corps there, and was one of the final 15 contestants in the national beauty contest.
FRIENDS HONOR HOSKINS ON RETIREMENT Lt. Colonel Stuart W. Hoskins, '40, one of the University's great sports stars, has retired after a 26-year career in the U. S. Army. There for his retirement ceremony at Ft. Eustis, where Col. Hoskins served as Special Services Officer, was Coach Malcolm U. Pitt, one of the persons whom Hoskins said "taught me to be a God-fearing individual and not to take the easy wrong way but tackle the hard right way in life." It was a philosophy "Stu" Hoskins followed from the time he was an All-Southern Conference baseball player for Coach Pitt, and one to which he stuck during a career of influencing and lifting the spirits of thousands of men. "Big Bear" or "Stukie" as his close friends call him , was a 12-letter man at Richmond College, and later played professional football with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Richmond Rebels. He had a brief fling with major league baseball, as a catcher with the Boston Red Sox. In 1946, he was backfield coach in football and head coach in basketball for Fork Union Military Academy. He went to a Falmouth, Va. high school in 1947, coach-
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ing football, baseball and basketball. His teams had terrific records for the next three seasons: football, 24-9; baseball, 78-8, and basketball, 60-6. He was recalled to active service in 1950 and assigned to Ft. Eustis, and later to Ft. Lee in coaching positions. As Special Services Officer at Ft. Eustis, Col. Hoskins duties included staging basketball and baseball games, track meets, boxing shows. He has played a key role in opening a new roller rink and new picnic grounds, renovating bowling alleys, swimming pools and a beach-like area. His office at Ft. Eustis serves more than 30,000 men. Among the many memories he has to treasure is an award which he received in 1962. It was the Conseil International du Sport Militaire, which Hoskins received for his superior work on behalf of the U. S. Forces in international military sports. He was the first American to receive the award. He ends his career on a happy note. ''I've enjoyed every minute of my job. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't want any other job in the military . I'm happy making other people happy. "
Nonresident Instruction Department, U. S. Armv Logistics Managements Center, Ft. Lee. He also served as the Virginia State Heart Fund chairman for 1967. Robert L. Harris, Jr., has been promoted to the rank of major in the U. S. Army. Major Harris was awarded the Bronze Star for Meritorio us Service in Vietnam. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Mallory of Campbell College, N. C., have announced the birth of a son, J ohn Frederick, on January 6. The Rev. George W. Barnes is pastor of the Round Oak Baptist Church at Corbin, Va . The Rev. Robert P. Wyatt has moved to the pastorate of High Hills Baptist Church in Jarratt, Va. He was pastor of Druid Hills Baptist Church in Danville.
1957W. S. Hodges, Jr., is an insurance representative with Abbitt Realty Company, Inc., at Newport News. The Hodges have announced the birth of a son, Christopher Raines, on April 1. Howard L. Arthur, Jr., has been promoted to senior auditor for the First Union National Bank of Charlotte, N. C. He has been elected treasurer of the Piedmont Carol inas Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Rev. Irvin H. Acree and Mrs. Acree have been appointed missionaries for Uruguay, South America. They will spend a year in San Jose, Costa Rica, where they will study language, and then Mr. Acree will do student work at the University of Montevideo, Uruguay. James W. Cox has been transferred to Richmond with the C. and P. Telephone Company as a commercial supervisor.
1958Captain R. W. Bowles of the U. S. Marine Corps is serving as aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, S. C. The Rev. Leslie H. Giles is serving as moderator of the Flat River Baptist Association at Oxford, N. C. Fred C. Scott has been transferred to the Washington, D. C., office of The Travelers Insurance Company, from their office in Charleston, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Dixon, Jr., of Crozet. Va .. have announced the birth of a son, David Williams, on October 24. Lt. Commander A. G . Ildas of the U. S. Navv has been stationed at the Naval Aviation Safety Center at Norfolk, Va., after serving three years aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga with a Fighter Squadron. John G. Bazacos has been named an assistant vice president of the Peninsula Bank and Trust Company. George R. Hulcher has been transferred to the U. S. Secret Service field office at Columbia, S. C. His office handles all South Carolina v:olations of law enforced by the Secret Service. The Rev. Robert L. Winston. Jr., is serving as pastor of the Columbia and South Side Baptist churches . Dr. Richard C. Brown is in Liberia in connection with the State Department's AID program .
1959Robert G . Watts has been named director of operations for A. H. Robins Company. He has been assistant personnel manager since March 1963. Dr. Peter R. Newman has moved his dental
practice to 3402 Parham Rd. in Richmond's far west end . Alton G. Hancock has been promoted from senior field claim representative to claim specialist in the Falls Church, Va. office of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. William W. Nicholls has been promoted to chief of the training aids and development section of the Public Health Service. John M. Smith is assistant professor of mathematics at George Mason College of the University of Virginia in Fairfax, Va. Previous ly, he has served on the faculty of Georgetown University. Capt. Bruce Macgowan is serving in Vietnam, and is expected to return to the U. S. by November. Doug P. Miller is now a pilot for Northwest Orient Airlines and lives in Seattle, Wash. He previously served as a U. S. Navy pilot in Vietnam.
1960Chuck Boone is now a sales representati ve for Epes -Fitzgerald Paper Company in Richmond . The engagement of Franklin Stuart Wolf of Richmond to Miss Lynn Marjorie Rubens of Martinsville, has been announced. James G. Bates is in the practice of law in Richmond, commuting from his farm near Tappahannock, Va . The Rev. Douglas Hiza of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Vermillion, S. D., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Edward Q. Moulton as president of the University of South Dakota in April. A. Paul Smith of Decatur, Ala., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Frank N. Philpot as president of Athens College in May . Louis E. Brink, former general manager of station WRGM in Richmond, has been named an account executive with Webb and Company, Inc., a Richmond advertising and public relations firm.
1961Stephen F. McCormick of Birmingham, Michigan, is employed with the accounting and consulting firm of Touche, Ross, Bailey and Smart in Detroit, as a management consultant . Mr. and Mrs. George B. Morewitz of Hampton have announced the birth of a son, Steven Louis, on March 7. Rev. S. Wyndham Anderson, of the Congregational Church of Manhasset, N. Y., performed the marriage ceremony for his classmate, Dr. Wallace S. Edwards, in November, 1966. Dr. Edwards wedded the former Miss Barbara Rae Holland. Hugh Litchfield is the recipient of a scholarship to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. John F. Daffron, Jr., assistant commonwealth's attorney for Chesterfield County, has announced that he will seek election to the office of commonwealth 's attorney for the county. Thomas H. Garret, Jr. will attend a summer institute in U. S. history at the University of Virginia. Garrett is a teacher at Manchester High School in Richmond . N. Leslie Saunders, Jr., a Chesterfield County attorney, is a candidate for the office of Virginia State Senator from that county. Michael K. Ryan has joined the staff of Ernst and Ernst , an accounting firm, in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Von L. Piersall, Jr. of Portsmouth have announced the birth of a son, Von L., III, on April 8.
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The engagement of John L. Spain, Jr. to Miss Carol Ann Hegedus of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., has been announced. J. Vincent Narron, now associated with the M. E. Howard Construction Company of Richmond, has received an Army Commendation Medal for his performance while on duty as an officer in Vietnam . Dr. Earl D. White, II, is in the U. S. Army, serving with the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Capt. White is expected to return to the United States in November.
1962Dr. Barry V. Kirkpatrick has completed a year of internship in June at the Medical College of Virginia. He will enter the medical corps of the U. S. Air Force in the summer. Carl E. Woodard is territory sales manager in Detroit for Hunt-Wesson Foods. Blanton S. Barnett, III is an U. S. Marine Corps instructor in the advanced instrument phase of the Naval Flight School at Pensacola, Fla. He has recently returned from a tour as helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Michael Morchower has been appointed an assistant U. S. attorney in Richmond. Morchower served as an FBI agent in Louisville and New Orleans before graduating to Rich mond. Dr. David A. Reid is stationed at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Mass. He will move to Arlington, Va., in August to begin his private practice of dentistry. Norwood B. Woodard, Jr., headmaster of St. Michael's School in Bon Air, has celebrated the 10th anniversary of the school ' s founding. William A. Clark has joined the IBM Corporation in Arlington, where he is in marketing training. He recently completed duty with the U. S. Navy. The engagement of Elmer M . McDonald, Jr. of Purcellville, to Miss Florence Dickens of Castalia, N. C., has been announced . Don Mater is in sales work with the Old Dominion Freight Line in Richmond. William W. Chapman has been elected an assistant cashier of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, in Greenville, N. C. He had been serving as dealer credit manager. Captain Blanton B. Allen of the U. S. Army is serving with the 178 Military Police Detachment in Vietnam.
1963George F. Tidey, a Richmond attorney, has been elected president of the Richmond Jaycees.
EDWARD R. ADAMS JOINS RICHMOND INVESTMENT FIRM Edward R. Adams, '41, has joined the Richmond investment firm of Abbott, Proctor and Paine. Adams has been vice president for finance of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company division of Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. He had served the firm as budget director, special assistant to the vice president, assistant treasurer and comptroller . He is a graduate of Harvard Graduate School and Harvard Business School. He is a past president of the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Horace L. Ford, Jr., has joined the Virginia state department of Purchases and Supply as a purchase officer. Griffin T. Garnett, III is in the U. S. Air Force and stationed at Scott AFB, Belleville , Ill. John E. Sullivan is a sales trainee in the film division of the E. I. DuPont Company and is located in their New York Office. Joseph B. Reynolds has received a master of science degree in personnel administration at George Washington University . He is employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dr y Dock Company. Walter S. Griggs, Jr. has been appointed librarian for the State Librar y in Richmond . He had been serving as assistant librarian. The engagement of Russell L. Rabb, Jr . of Richmond to Miss Teresa Ann Farrell has been announced. The wedding is planned for September 2. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. McKinney, Jr. of Richmond, have announ ced the birth of a daughter, Deborah Lynn, on Jul y 7, 1966. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J . Haskins of Richmond have announced the birth of a daughter, Rebecca Slater, on Feb. 11. Second Lt. Kenneth R. Smith of th e U. S. Air Force has been assigned to Plattsburgh AFB, N. Y., where he will fly with the Strategic Air Command. Lt. Smith is a pilot. Capt. Norman E. Lassiter, Jr ., of the U. S. Army is a flight instructor in the Ar my Aviation School at Ft. Rucker, Ala. He has returned to the U. S. from duty in Vietnam. Robert B. Belton, Jr ., is employed by the U. S. Army Security at Arlington Hall, Va. S. Strother Smith, III, has moved to Abingdon where he w ill practice law. In August, he will receive an L.L.M . in criminal administration. N. Decker Bristow of Lynchburg has completed the General Ele ctric Company's financial management training program. Frank Kress has joined the Virginia State Health Department 's Tuberculosis Control Center in Richmond as a specia list in tuberculosis . Moultrie S. Lanier, III has been named "Agency Man of the Year" by the Richmond Gadberry Agency of Pacific Mutual Life Insur ance Company. Joseph B. Reynolds of Newport News has completed work for the M.S. degree in personnel administration at George Washington University. Mack T. Daniels is a candi date for election ~o the post he was appoi ntd to a year ago. He is clerk of Chesterfield County Circuit Court. The engagement of Saunders R. Bagb y to Miss Anne Olivia Davidson has been announced. A September wedding is planned .
1964William W. Berry has been named superintendent of production operations for Virginia Electric and Power Company. He was superintendent of the Portsmouth operation before moving to Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. James Lee Thacker, Jr., of Disputanta have announce d the birth of a daughter, Lisa, on Nov. 12, 1966. Gordon B. Porter, Jr ., has received the Bache lor of Divinity degree from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and will enroll in September at the same institution to pursue the master's degree. He is participating in the clinical training program at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, N. C., this summer. Albert T. Mitchell is now practicing law in the firm of Marsh and Saiver in Strasburg, Va.
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Wiltshire, Johnson, Rhodes Three University of Richmond alumni have received "most outstanding" awards from Junior Chamber of Commerce chapters in the state. They are Charles F. Wiltshire, '53, of Richmond ; Joseph P. Johnson, '60, of Abingdon; and William J . Rhodes, Jr ., '59, of Franklin. Wiltshire received the Richmond Jaycees "Most Outstanding Young Educator " award, and thunderous applause when the award was announced at an assembly at John Marshall High School, where he teaches American history and government and French. In September, he will add a new course, in the culture and language of
modern China . Johnson, the Abingdon Jaycees' "Young Man of the Year, " is an attorney seeking h is second term as a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. He is a member of the Abingdon Rotary Club, the American Legion, and past president of the Washington County Red Cross Chapter. Rhodes, also an attorney, received the "Most Outstanding Young Man" award from the Franklin Jaycees. He has been active in a number of civic and fraternal organizations in the area. He is secretary and legal counsel for the Franklin Industrial Corporation, and vice president of the proposed Southampton Academy.
John N. Moreau is teaching and coaching at Collegiate Schools in Richmond. The Moreaus have announced the birth of a daughter, Lee Levering, on January 31. The engagement of Stephen F. Stutzman of Richmond to Miss Barbara Bloxom of Richmond, has been announced . Stutzman is a student in the Trinity Evange li cal Divinity School at Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ill. The engagement of Robert R. Everett of Norfolk to Miss Ann White Pruitt, of Augusta, Ga., has been announced. Captain Claude R. Hoggard of the U. S. Army has completed a hel icopter pi lot course at the Army Primary Helicopter School at Ft . Wolters, Texas. He is undergoing advanced Bight training at the Army Aviation School at Ft. Rucker, Ala. The engagement of Michael L. Edwards of Hampton to Miss Donna Lee Clark of Fieldale has been announced. Edwards is a student at the Medical College of Virginia . A Ju ly wedding is planned . Bill R. Graham has been promoted to senior personnel interviewer for the United Aircraft Corporation in East Hartford, Conn. The engagement of John J. Bageley, of Richmond to Miss Brenda Joyce Vogt of Lynchburg has been announced. Bagley is a student at the Medical College of Virginia . William Taliferro has recently returned from service in Vietnam and is living in Richmond . First Lt . Andrew S. Pastorus of the U. S. Army has been assigned to Bangkok, Thailand as a perso nnel officer. J . William Hatfield is enro ll ed in the law school at the University of Richmond.
fax, has been announced. Maney attends the T . C. Williams School of Law . A September wedding is planned . Thomas W. Hash is now associated with the Office of Economic Opportunity in Atla nta, Ga.
1965Dennis P . McIntire is a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas . John D. Hopkins was married to the former Miss Sara Fontaine Gilliam on May 20. Hop kins is a reporter for the Richmond News Leader. Craig F. Adams has completed an eight-week pay specialist course at the U . S. Army Finance School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind . The engagement of John R. Maney, Jr. of Richmond to Miss Lind a Tucker Hilley of Fair -
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WADE JOINS STAFF OF U. OF MISSOURI Will E. Wade, '57, has been appointed Community Development Agent for the
University of Missouri . Wade was formerly director of public relations and admissions at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Ky. For the past year, he had been principal of Malden (Mo .) Senior High School. Previously, he served as principal for Christian County Kentucky School at Pembroke . He also has taught in schools of Powhatan, Va., and Suwanee, Ga. Wade is also a Baptist minister and has served pastorates in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Missouri . He received the B.D . degree from Crozer Theological Seminary, an M.A . in Education from Longwood College, and has done further graduate study.
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combat on two occasions in Vietnam, Army Captain James F. Thacker, '60, received his first and second awards of the Bronze Star Medal. Capt. Thacker is assistant training officer in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters, U. S. Army Transportation Center, at Ft. Eustis. He entered the Army in June 1960 and was last stationed in Vietnam. His wife, Paulanne, is with him at the fort. Capt. Thacker has also received the Air Medal, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
ister of Beale Baptist Church in Richmond. He is one of 10 medical students in the U. S. and Canada to be selected to attend a special conference in the behavioral sciences at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The engagement of John W. Courtney III of Richmond to Miss Mary Kip Bowman of Boones Mill has been announced. Courtney is a student at the Medical College of Virginia. A summer wedd ing is planned. Robert H. McDaniel is an evaluator at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center at Fishersville, Va. The engagement of Lawrence E. Brett, Jr. of Wake Forest, N. C. to Miss Nancy Scott Nelson of Richmond, has been announced. Brett attends Southeastern Theological Seminary. Vernon E. Inge has been appointed assistant city attorney for research and drafting in Richmond. He is a member of the law firm of Wright and Moore. Lt. Terry K. Kinum of the U. S. Navy is
C. B. MA TTOX APPOI NTED RICHMO ND CITY A HORN EY Conard B. Mattox, Jr., '49, has been named Richmond City Attorney. He had been serving as interim city attorney since January. He had been a senior assistant in the city's attorney's office since 1956. Prior to that, he was city attorney of Warwick before that city merged with Newport News. He has taught economics at the University of Richmond evening school, and had served as law librarian at the T. C. Williams School of Law.
The engagement of Garnett L. White of Richmond to Miss Patricia Elizabeth Clifton of Covington, has been announced. White is in graduate school at the University of Richmond. Earl R. Crouch, Jr., is a student at the Medical College of Virginia and is associate min-
CRUMP NAMED MANAGER OF WILSON PAPER DIVISION Thaddeus T. Crump, '48, has been named general manager of the Wilson Paper Box Division of Downington Paper Company. Crump will have responsibility for all sales and manufacturing operations at the local plant. Downington Paper Company manufactures paperboard and packaging. Crump joined the company in 1959 as assistant to the president and in 1962 became vice president for sales. He was made sales manager for this area two years ago. He is chairman of the executive committee of the Richmond section of the Virginia Manufacturers Association and a past president of the Richmond Personnel Executives Association.
on duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, now in the Mediterrean. He recently became engaged to Miss Nancy Spencer of the University of Florida. A wedding is planned in December. Edward P. Motley of the U. S. Army, has been promoted to First Lt. Motley is serving as a platoon leader in Long Binh, Vietnam.
MAJOR JOHN PHILLIPS IS TWICE DECORA TED Maj. John B. Phillips , '53 , has received
the Bronze Star Medal and an Air Medal for outstanding service from November 1965, to September 1966, in Vietnam where he commanded the Aviation Materiel Management Center of the 34th General Support Group.
in the U. S. Army 's Judge Advocate General Corps. He is stationed at the U. S. Army Training Center, Ft . Lewis, Washington . Mark C. Schnitzer is assigned as an assistant staff judge advocate at Norton AFB, California. Second Lt. J. Edward Capps is serving as the commanding offifficer of a hospital company at Kimbrough Army Hospital, Ft . Meade. Md. Richard W. Fisher of the U. S. Army is stationed at Ft. Lee, Va. Before entering the army, he was a production supervisor with Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick, N. J. The engagement of Alden W . Toberman of Arlington, to Miss Alice Sandra Lough of Elkton has been announced. Towberman attends Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary. A December wedding is planned. The engagement of Robert F. Ripley, Jr. of Norfolk to Miss Sally Shepherd Bryant of Williamsburg has been announced . Ripley at tends the University of Richmond Law School. A September wedding is planned. The engagement of William A. Powers III of Clintwood to Miss Sandra Marie Matthews of Richmond . Powers is a graduate student at
1966Charles Sydnor has completed his first year at Alexandria Theological Seminary and will enroll in a clinical training program at Detroit General Hospital this summer. Second Lt. Larry E. Thomson of the U. S. Army has completed a nine-week signal officer course at the Army Southeastern Signal School, Ft. Gordon, Ga. John Farrar is head residence counselor for one of the residence halls at North Carolina State University. William H. Leadbetter, Jr., has been appointed to the faculty of the University of South Carolina Law School. He is a candidate for the LL.M. degree at Yale University in June. Second Lt. Ralph W. Drayer, Jr., of the U. S. Army has completed a transportation officer course at the Army Transportation School at Ft. Eustis, Va. James G. diZerega is serving as a captain
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FIVE ALUMNI CHOSEN BY VA. TRIAL LAWYERS Five University of Richmond alumni have been elected to positions in the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. They are J. Westwood Smithers, '35 , secretary-treasurer; R. Randolph Jones, '33, parliamentarian ; and Frank N. Cowan, '62 ; George E. Allen, Jr., '36, and W. Griffith Purcell, '35, vice presidents . All practice law in Richmond. The meeting of the association was held in Roanoke in March .
STATE'S LAW STUDENTS HOLD CASUALTY SEMINAR University of Richmond law students were joined by students from other law schools in the state Feb. 25, for a seminar on casualty insurance. The program , sponsored by the Defense Research Institute on Casualty Insurance , covered the history , development and growth of casualty insurance and the recent developments in insurance litigation. The speakers were Egbert L. Haywood , president-elect of the International Association of Insurance Counsel; R. Harvey Chappell, Jr. , and Samuel J. T. Moore , Jr. of Richmond; Thomas A. Ford of Albany , N. Y.; Blaney C. Turner , vice president of the casualty claims department for Aetna Insurance Company; Allan S. Reynolds of Norfolk and John B. Browder of Richmond.
the University of Connecticut. The engagement of Lt. Harry G . Lea of Dan ville to Miss Be tty Webb Newman of Boydton has been anno un ced. Lt. Lea is stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco, California. A summer wedding is planned. The engagement of John B. Vellines of Rich mond to Miss Rosalind G. Rogers of South Boston, has been annou nced . An August wedding is planned. Robert J. Prince is married to the former Miss Eileen J. Karsok of Philadelphia, and the couple now lives in Yeadon, Pa. Prince is employed with Sun Oi l Company of Wayne , Pa. as a credit agent. The engagement of Lt . A lvin Lee Milam of th e U. S. Air Force, to Miss Nancy Lula Rowan of Arlington, has been announced . Richard B. Mueller of the U. S. Air Force has been assig ned to Offutt AFB, Neb., for training and duty as an intelligence specialist. Second Lt. Eddy P. Rice of the U. S. Army has completed the officer basic course at the Army Armor School at Ft. Knox, Ky. W ilson J . Bailey, Jr. has been commissioned a Second Lt. in the U. S. Army at Ft. Eustis, Va.
N . C. ALUMNI CHAPTER LAUNCHED AT RALEIGH University of Richmond alumni and alumnae met in Raleigh , on April 14. Men and women from various central N orth Carolina cities including Raleigh , Durham, Chapel Hill , Fayetteville , Rocky Mount , and Wilson , were present. The guest speaker was Dr. Edward C. Peple , dean of the Graduate School, who spoke on 'Th e State of the University of Richmond." The officers of the new chapter are th e Rev. Aubrey S. Tomlinson, '28, president; Arthur Woodlief, '3 0, vice president ; and Frank A . Howard , '5 7, secretary-treasurer.
FOR THE HOSPITA L/TY OF YOUR HEARTH. Martha Stew ar t entertain s two of her stud ent fr iends, Gal e Hod kin son, '67 (left ), and Lisa Humm el, '67.
Martha Stewart Retires The delightful Scottish accent of Miss Martha Stewart will be missing from the halls of Westhampton next fall . After 20 years of service to the College, Miss Stewart is retiring from her position as Director of Westhampton Buildings . She came to Westhampton in 1947 from Manchester University where she had been in charge of catering and dormitories. Her plans for the immediate future ( after taking care of three conferences at the College) , include a summer vacation on the New Jersey shore with Miss Jean Wright, trips to North Carolina and Expo '67, and , of course, a return visit to her native Scotland. Much of her "reti rement " time wil l be spent at the home of Dr. Marion Hami lton , former Westhampton Dean of Students, in New London , Conn. The Westhampton College Alumnae Association presented Miss Stewart with a gold watch at its luncheon meeting on May 13. Margaret Glenn Tinsley , '55, who made the presentation , paid tribute to Miss Stewart's "talent for organization and administration."
"Yet it is not for this alone that we shall always remember you. Rather, it is for:
"Our admirat ion for you increased proportionately with age," Mrs. Tins ley said.
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"Your jau nty step and spark ling eye, And your armfu l of magno lia leaves !
It is for your convivial spirit and zest for life, And your Scotch short bread! For your ready wit and crisp, clipped speech, And your campus bicycle rides! For the warm th of your heart and the hospitality of your hearth, And your collection of h ats, past tale of number! For your gracefu l bearing and perso nal charm, And your luck at cards and bingo 1 For your love of learn ing and purs uit of culture , And your unforgetta ble readings from Robert Burns.
esthampton News 1919Guess I've been just a little dilatory in getting someone to gather up the news, so here I am again pinchhitting. After writing some of the '19 letters, I have had replies from several members of the class, and without exception, all said they had mailed in their contribution. A card from Elizabeth Gaines says that she and Bill still enjoy their farm in Rockingham County. Janet Fountain wrote that her son has moved from New Orleans to Memphis, and now she has both of her children there. I also had notes from Margaret Hutchinson Rennie and Margaret Semmes McKillop. The McKillops have had a siege of illness, but are much improved. It was nice seeing Lillian Robertson Carter at The Hotel Chamberlain in March during the state meeting of the D. A. R. She was staying with her daughter, who reminded me so much of Lillian. Also, I had the pleasure of being with a group of Westhampton friends while attending the N. S. D. A. R. meeting in Washington in April. Alice Garnett Thomas and Margaret Laws Decker had lunch with a friend and me at the Hotel Washington, where we were staying. Several days later, Alice had all of us at the Hotel Washington, where we were staying. Several days later, Alice had all of us for lunch at her lovely home in Arlington . We were joined by Hilda Lawson Jecklin. There was much conversation and catching up on the intervening years. While driving back to Norfolk, we were too near "Warsaw," the Henry Decker's lovely old home, to pass without trying to say, "Hello," to Florence. So we drove the several miles into her place. She drove in right behind us, having been on a "fish" purchasing expedition to one of the Indian reservations nearby. We had such a nice little visit with her . The annual "move " to Virginia Beach has been made, and we are established at 307-24th St. We maintain an "open door" policy, so please try us sometimes! MRS. WEBSTERI. CARPENTER(Juli ette Brown) 1001 Gates Ave., Norfolk, Va. 23507
1921Catherine Little DuPuy, entered by the Martinsville Business and Professional Womens Club in the 1964 contest sponsored by the Retail Merchants, was named from 14 finalists as the Mother of the Year in the Martinsville area. When selected she was treasurer of the MartinsvilleHenry County Mental Health Society, secretary of the local Red Cross Chapter, president of the Henry County Education Association, treasurer of a Drewry Mason scholarship Fund sponsored by the PT A, and active in Delta Kappa Gamma. Presently she is Guidance Director at Drewry Mason High School in Henry County, located not far from the DuPuy home at 703 Beechnut Lane, Martinsville. The DuPuys began tandem careers in education in Pittsylvania County's consolidated school where he was principal and she taught all the
algebra and U. S. History, and English to junthe flavor of her family and life today: iors and seniors. Next they went to Virginia's "We have just returned home from a two largest rural consolidated high school, Volens and one-half months ' visit to the West Coast in Halifax County, where Mr. DuPuy also ... We visited both of the boys-William who served as principal. Catherine organized the is doing Post Doctorate work at the University first concerted effort in the countv to orevent of Oregon. We baby sat for William and Janet duplication among the various agencies aiding while they attended a convention in Las Vegas. the poor. Results, which improved the welfare They have two little blonde girls, 5 and 3. We of people, were recognized by the University had fun . Andy and Betsy have a brown-eyed of Virginia. two-year-old girl. Fun there too .. . It was terNext the DuPuys went to Henry County; first ribly disappointing not to be at our reunion, to Spencer-Penn High School, and then to join but we left in April for a Mediterranean trip the faculty of the County's Drewry Mason High and did not return until after the reunion. This School which was consolidated in 1952 and lo- is Bernard's first year of retirement . We spent cated in Martinsville . Here, Catherine turned the late winter in Florida, then in Europe, and from mathematics to guidance, and in so doing this fall in the West. " went back to school-summer graduate work at Leonora Dorsey, our 1921 editor-in-chief of the University of Virginia and in extension The Tower , has been Mrs. Daniel J. Kilby of courses, and at the College of William and Culpeper, Va . since 1957. Mary. Concerning her move to CulMost deeply she is part and parcel of her peper as wife rather than as family. The DuPuy's older daughter Kitty Little career coll ege teacher or adattended Westhampton for two years (W.S. '50) ministrator, Leonora says, and then attended Pan American Business Col"After years of living on lege. She is married to The Reverend John D. college campuses and in Alfriend, Rector of the Episcopal Church in surroundings provided for Yorktown. They have four daughters. others, the beginnings of Suzanne Watkins, second daughter, was home making became my graduated from Westhampton (W.C. '61) and challenge at a late date." attended Indiana University two years for her Leonora has earned two M.A. in personnel and for in-service training. additional degrees-her B.M. She is married to The Reverend G. Donald T. from the Baptist WMU Black, Rector of the Episcopal Church in AcTraining School, now merged with Southern comac, Va. They have a son one year old . Baptist Theological Seminary ; and her M.A. Camille Robinson is Mrs. Bernard Andes Hess from Columbia; undertaken graduate study at of Wilmington, Del. Upon marriage to a Du Harvard, Chicago, and the University of MaryPont executive (chemical engineering) she gave land; and worked at eight colleges as teacher up her teaching career which of Mathematics or Bible, as Dean of Women, had taken her to high schools Registrar, Counselor-or a combination. in North Carolina, Virginia , During the first four years in her new home and New Jersey-and for town she taught math in the local high school which she had added to her and freshman math at Mar y Washington College. B.A. an M.A. from the UniTo keep her hand in, she still tutors in math, versity of Virginia. Her and for three or four years has substituted at interest in and training the high school. for teaching, however, has Church work has been her first love among brought results in great meas- extracurricular activities. Her AAUW connection ure within her family and in has been constant and she is now on the execuher volunteer service. tive board of the Mental Health Association. In the Women 's AssociaMRs. W. NEY EVANS (May Alcott Thompson) tion of the Presbyterian 4651 Kenmore Dr. , N.W ., Wa sh in gton, D. C. Church and the Wilmington United Church 20007 Women she has held office. In the YWCA she served for ten years as secretary of the Finance Board, in the Wilmington Center. In promoting 1922international relations and fellowship, the Hesses The class of '22 celebrated its 45th reunion have taken into their home for many months with 15 members attending at least one of boys from Germany and Scotland. For the its functions. Those present were Elizabeth Senior Center of her City, Cammie has provided Williams Bell, Elva McAlister Berrey, Leslie programs for a year. The American Association Sessoms Booker, Rachel Newton Dickson, of University Women has tapped her leadership Edith Newton Eakes, Narcissa Daniel Harthrough its Wilmington Branch, Delaware Divigroves, Louise Shipman Hatz, Jeanette Henna, sion, and National Committee. Hilda Lawson Jecklin, Mildred Kline, Rebekah One of her family plans that has enriched Lawson McReynolds, Celia Levinson Meyer, the lives of the Hesses has been seeing the Alice Garnett Thomas, Mary Bristow ThompUnited States by travelling with the sons through son, Eva Timberlake West and Mary Rilee their vacations-William Robinson is now marWright. The member who had traveled the ried and rearing his family. So is Bernard Andes . greatest distance to attend was Rebekah McCammie and her husband now are extending Reynolds who had flown here from her home their travels to the high seas and other countries. in Missouri. Some of the members, such as Already they have been to England, Scotland, Mary Fugate, Elizabeth Hoover and Julia Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, SwitRoop Adams, were prevented from coming zerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Yugobecause of duties at their respective colleges slavia, Hungary, Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, at this time and others who had definitely Turkey, Greece, the Caribbean Islands, Veneexpected to be here, such as Zola Hubbard zuela, Mexico, and Canada. Leek and Stella Hubbard Taylor, could not From Cammie herself, we get something of come because of illness .
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The reunion got off to a good start with a beautiful dinner party on Friday evening given by Louise Shipman Hatz at her home overlooking the river in West Point. Several other guests, added to the class members, helped make this a gala occasion. On Saturday the class sat together at the al umnae luncheon and on Sunday morning they had a breakfast at the home of Leslie Booker. We missed the other members of the class who were not with us, but thoroughly enjoyed being with those who were here and planned to meet again for the big celebration of our 50th. MRS. RICHARD P. ADAMS (Julia Roop) Box 673, Radford College, Radford, Va.
1923We had a good number at the workers' dinner in Feb., for Hannah Coker, Ethney Selden Head lee, Ellen Douglas Oliver, Rosa Sanders Thomas, Elizabeth Hill Schenk, Josephine Tucker, and Dorothy Sadler Corprew were all there. Only Hannah, Ethney, and Dorothy came to the luncheon in May, however; though Tuck and Altha attended the Alumnae College on Friday and enjoyed the lectures. We really will do better next year. It will be 1968, remember. Lelia Doane came to the Virginia Museum to a play there in Feb. and had telephone visits with Ethney and Olivia . Virgi nia Epes Field's husband, Jim, has retired, so they had a seven weeks trip to Great Britain and France last fall. Their grandchildren now number five, with daughter Agnes ' youngest, Virginia Lee Epes, born on Christmas Day . Camilla Wimbush Lacy was named Christmas Mother by the South Boston Junior Woman's Club. She and Evan spent six weeks in Fla. this winter and it was a welcome vacation for her, since she is active in so many areas of religious education and community service. Sallie Davis, now retired, flew down from New York to visit Estelle Billups Petit in Pompano Beach, Fla. They attended an alumnae meeting at Fort Lauderdale, where Leslie Booker was organizing a new club in the Miami area. Later, Leslie joined Mr. Booker in Houston and Jennie Shipley Winslow and her husband entertained them at dinner in their lovely home. We have missed Ruth Powell Tyree since she and John moved to Florida last fall, but they are back in Va. now, dividing their time between their summer cottage at Sandy Point and an apartment in Malvern Manor. We are so happ y for Ethney and her daughter, Ann, that the latter's husband has returned to this country. He served a yea r in Saigon, receiving a Bronze Star for meritorious service, and is now stationed at Fort Lee with his family. Although Nannie Campbell Roache was in our class only two years and graduated at Agnes Scott, many of us knew her and were sad dened by her death on Apr. 17. From the Virginia Journal of Education: "Mrs. Rennie Parks Rue of Accomack County has retired after a career of 32 years in the teaching profession. She has taught at Accomack High School, Belle Haven Elementary and Central High School." Virginia Kent Loving plans to retire this year also. She has caught at Virginia Intermont College, in the public schools of Fluvanna County, and is now at Fairfax Hall in Waynesboro, Va. Dorothy Sadler Corprew, after 44 years of teaching in the public schools of Virginia, is retiring from the Richmond Public Schools. Information please: Who has the 1923 scrapbook ? I have a vintage picture of our 1933
Celebrating the 50th Reunion of Westhampton 's Class of 1917_ are Mary Decker, Fanny Crenshaw, Gladys Barlow, Margaret Robinson, (standing, from left) Celeste O 'Flaherty, Louise Schaaf, Kathleen Cottle, Gehring, Florence Decker, Helen Mansell, Ruth Trice, Mabel
(seated, from lef~), Anne Ruth Har~1s; Dean Mary Louise Crabtree.
Celeste Anderson O 'Fla herty and Louise Goepfarth Schaaf; from the Class of 1916, Kathleen Bland Cottle and Helen A. Manby GLADYS HOLLEMAN BARLOW sell. Thirteen is a lucky number for WestEach class member reported the events of hampton's Class of 1917. her life and news of classmates who were Fifty years ago 13 diplomas were presented unable to attend. After Florence Decker to members of the class and when the class discussed her life as a missionary to China met for its reunion dinner at the Commonand a homemaker, the group commended wealth Club on May 12 , there were 13 her for her many services to her college, present. Only seven of the former class her church, and her community. members could attend, but several guests The class president , Florence E. Smith completed the " 13." of Decatur, Ga., who has retired as professor Miss Fanny G. Crenshaw, class spo:1sor, of history at Agnes Scott College, was unled the group in recalling incidents of early able to attend but sent regards to the class. years, especially the athletic acti_vitieswh_ich The dinner party ended with the singing she directed. Dean Mary Lomse Gehrmg of "Boaty Went A-Beggin '," a humorous presented glimpses of Westhampton life history of the then three-year-old college today. which was written by three members of The Class of 1917 began its freshman the Class of ' 17. year as co-eds at Richmond College a1:d The day had been a busy one as class then " transferred " to Westhampton for its members attended Alumnae College and sophomore year. This was the first year of heard four faculty members lecture in a Westhampton College . The events of those South Court classroom on the general theme first two years were reported by Ruth Elliott " Affluent Turmoil." Trice, of South Boston, a teacher, and AnneAnother "13" came up as the date for Ruth Harris, of Boston, Mass. , who has Alumnae Day, Saturday, May 13. Class served as a social worker in China and members attended a coffee in Keller Hall throughout the United States. and a panel discussion in the chapel on Gladys Holleman Barlow, of Smithfield, the topic "Campus Ferment." Va ., class secretary, recalled the junior and Catesby Willis Stewart of Fredericksburg, senior years at Westhampton. Va., joined the class at the Westhampton Other members of the class who attended Alumnae luncheon in the college gymthe dinner were Florence Boston Decker , nasium. Each member of the 50th reunion of Aylett, Va., former member of the Uniclass was presented with a gold circle pin versity's Board of Trustees; Margaret Michie bearing the Westhampton emblem. Robinson , of Smithfield, a teacher; Mary The Class of 1917 also won the prize Decker, of Charlottesville, a college profor having the largest percentage of memfessor; and Mabel Henderson Crabtree , of bers attending the Alumnae Day luncheon. Roanoke, a former missionary to Brazil and The prize, a large box of candy, was shared Portugal. by classmates and friends as a fitting close Guests from the Class of 1915 were to a memorable occasion.
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of a group of volunteers who have worked for the past two years in Maury school, one of the Richmond elementary schools. Louise Schmidt Newcomb was a recent visitor and attended the Alumnae Day festivities at college. She and her husband have purchased another 18th century house in New Hampshire and are doing it over. All of us are saddened by the death of Mabel Goodman Wallin and our sympathy has been extended to her husband and family. LEAKE Miss MARGARET 408 N. Meadow St., Richmond, Va.
Our thanks go to Emeline Stearns for the following news about Kwan Fong: "Kwan Fong Cheung Ling, who graduated with us in 1925, is now living in Newark, N. ]., where she has two married daughters and several grandchildren. Her son, Samuel Ling, is a professor in a college in Illinois . Kwan Fong's husband, Walter W. S. Ling, 1932died of a heart attack in 1965, shortly after they had come to the United States from ForJessie Miller Turner is very happy to have mosa. Walter was an official in the Nationalist her son and family visiting with her . They Government in China and the family moved to recently returned from Alaska, where Dr. TurFormosa (Taiwan) at the time the communists ner will be specializing in internal medicine took over the mainland. Their three children, at Dartmouth. Samuel, Waylia, and Feeman, all received their Elizabeth Cone Brauburger is very proud States. United the in college education of their son, George, Jr., who has just been "I haven't seen Kwan Fong since we gradelected to Tau Beta Phi, the highest honor uated from Westhampton, but we have kept in one can receive in engineering. He attends touch through the years. I went to Allentown, the University of Virginia. Pa ., in 1957 when Samuel was married. I hope to see Kwan Fong and the members of Our deepest sympathy goes to Mary Templeher family living in Newark sometime in 1967. man Marshall who lost her father in April. Miss GLADYSSANDERS We had a delightful evening at the Country 2237 W. Grace St., Richmond, Va. 23220 Club of Virginia celebrating our 35th Reunion . The following came from out of town: Bertie Flippo from Arlington, Carolyn Broaddus from 1926Chatham, Jessie Miller Turner from Washington, Va. and Virginia Jones Pharr from Elizabeth Salle wrote in March that she was Newport News. Those attending from Richgoing to plant her garden and leave on a trip through western U. S. A. mond were Helen Pollard Deck, Eleanor Margaret Lazenby Brown is enjoying a life Pillow Ewell, Almarine Montgomery Franklin, free from school very much ! She also wrote Jane Little Gray, Inez Hauke Hartley, Muriel that Dottie Walker Bryan spent her Christmas Jones, Valerie Le Masurier Jones, Kitty Lugar holidays in Spain. Luning, Mary Hodnett Mathews, Zephia CampRecent letters from Dorothy Campbell and bell Scarborough, Dee Pritchett Taylor and Gene Edmondson Barney indicate that they are myself. After dinner we held quite a session looking forward to summer after this crazy, with each one telling what had happened cold, mixed up weather we've had for so long! to them during the years since we have left It has really wrecked my garden and slowed college. down my farming. MRS. GLENNs. HESBY Louise Coleman and husband spent the last week end with me but she had no news to (Katherine Roberts) relate. 900 W. Franklin St., Richmond, Va. I wish you 26ers would write me some news so I'd have something about us to put in the Bulletin! Miss MARYVIRGINIADAUGHTREY Handsom, Va.
1933Ann and Goody Welsh had a wonderful 10day trip to Vienna in March. Kat and Ed Hardy are grandparents again. Daughter Linda and Dick Lewis announced the arrival of a third son in March. Etta Whitehead Nashman has been accepted at Averett for the fall term. News of you and yours is always welcome at "1500." B. DYSON Mrss GERTRUDE 1500 Wilmington Ave., Richmond, Va. 23227
1935Congratulations to Mary Anne Guy Franklin! She has been made vice president of the Educational TV facilities in Richmond. She continues as program director also . Mary Mills Freeman and her husband had a wonderful trip to Greece, where they visited their second son. Shortly after Mary and Mallory's visit, their son was transferred to Turkey. Mary Mills Freeman, Mary Pat Early Love, Sue Whittet Wilson, and I attended some of the alumnae week end events at Westhampton. We enjoyed a chat with our classmate, Fill Sanford, who was one of the outstanding speakers at the alumnae-alumni convocation. Daughter of Lottie Britt Callis, Patricia Callis, received Modern Foreign Language Award for best language student at Westhampton College when she received her degree this year. MRS. C. M. TATUM(Gladys Smith) 336 Lexington Rd., Richmond, Va. 23226
1936Frances Williams Parkinson tells me that her daughter, Ann, who was married last August, will probably join her husband this summer in Germany, where he is stationed with the Army. Frances also has sent me a long letter she received from Mickey Myrick. Mickey, now Mrs. H. G. Hirschfeld, is living at 5801 84th Avenue, New Carrollton, Md. Her husband, Hank, is a retired Navy Commander. Their
1930Thanks to Alice Richardson Connell, who sent me some newspaper clippings, I have two items for you. Bettie Moring Kirkpatrick, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Robert W. Kirkpatrick of Richmond was married to James Gordon Overton, son of Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Overton (Frances Willis) on March 25 at the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church. Ed, Jr . was best man and Gene was an usher. The couple will live in Richmond. Early in May Susan G. Ellett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ellett (Katherine Tyler) was married to Parker 0. Beaver, Jr ., son of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver of Hagerstown, Md. The ceremony took place in , St. John 's Episcopal Church in Roanoke . The young couple will make their home in Hagerstown. ' MRs. JoHN E. MILLEA(Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida St., Newton, Mass. 02158
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tours of duty took them to France for more than two years, to Hawaii, and the last one to Guam. Hank and Mickey have three children, all in Junior High School, and Mickey works as Library Assistant in the same school. We hope that on one of her trips to Norfolk to visit her Mother, she will stop in Richmond to lunch with our Richmond contingent. I had a letter this spring from Bobby Brock Clevinger, who lives in Arlington. Bobby missed our reunion last year because her older daughter, Ann, was graduating from Virginia Intermont College. Last August Ann went to the University of Vienna to enroll in a short German language course. Before her return in Nov. she managed to visit a good deal of central Europe. She is now a student at Eastern Kentucky University. Bobby 's younger daughter, Nancy, a high school junior, was recently elected to Girls' State and is seriously considering attending Westhampton. Bobby's young• est is a busy ten year old son. Mns. J. DALTONDUTTON (Esther Walsh) 3914 W. Weyburn Rd., Richmond, Va.
1937Alice Wrenn was the gracious hostess for our 30th reunion. Time wears well with the Class of '37, the only evidence of the years in between being the puffing with which each guest climbed the hilly walk to Alice's house . Twenty of us were in attendance: Elizabeth Angle, Nancy Chappell Pettigrew, Louise Gano Wilkinson, Margaret Harris Bradner, Jean Hudson Miller, Jane Lawder Johnston, Mildred Louthan Shepherd, Margaret Mitchell Meador, Josephine O'Grady Carter, Betty Pleasants Pitts, Virginia Lee Priddy, Nancy Riley McFall, Helen Roper Quinlan, Pollyanna Shepherd, Louise Thompson Chewning, Alice Torbeck Bryant, Alice Wrenn Watts, Frances Wright James, Miss Marjorie Rivenburg and Marion Miller Peyronnet. It was good to see Helen Roper Quinlan and Frances Wright James. This was their first reunion. Helen is three times a grandmother and Nancy Riley McFall was on her way to see her new granddaughter. We received many letters from those who could not come. Ruth Stephenson Edwards' letter contained news of her family; Dave is at Dental School at M.C.V.; Beth's husband is teaching at Richmond College and Beth works with Elizabeth Angle. Johnny, Ruth's oldest, is an Air Force Captain stationed near Boston and working in research and development; and Steve is at Annapolis. Ruth, besides her regular teaching, is teaching an off-campus math course for the University of South Carolina. Blanche Bristow Williams is traveling to Nice, France, with her husband who is District
Governor of his Rotary district. They will attend the international convention there. On the way they will visit friends in England and Paris. Joyce Stanley Smith is teaching full time and trying to keep up with her 15 yr. old, active Belinda who is in the eighth grade and president of her class. Her son Deaton is a second year student at V.M.I., is on the Dean's List and has been elected to the Honor Court. Josephine O'Grady Carter's son, William, is a junior at the University of Richmond, a physics and math major. For the past two years, he has been a lab instructor in physics. There is one sad note in our news-Peggy Louthan Shepherd lost her father. Our deepest sympathy goes out to her and her family. MRs. JAMES F. PEYRONNET(Marion Miller) 1807 Aisquith Rd., Richmond, Va. 23229
1940Thanks to Connie Attkisson Holloway for filling in for me in our last issue. I'd like a volunteer to take this job for the next year. I really think we need a fresh approach. Our sincere sympathy goes to Saddye Sykes Williams whose father died this spring at the age of 92. I received a card from Alice McElroy who is "teaching Bible in Myers Park High School, Charlotte, and finding it one of the most challenging jobs imaginable!" Alice's two sons will enter college in the fall-one at Furman and the other at St. Andrews. I talked with several Richmonders recently and gleaned these items: Marion Sibley Parham is one of the secretaries at Grove Ave. Baptist Church. Her daughter, Pat, is graduating from Douglas Freeman High School. Adrienne, 16-year-old daughter of Evelyn Smoak Lewter, is quite an artist and has sold several oil paintings. Marilyn is completing her first year at Mary Washington College, planning to major in psychology. Elsie Mattingly Dickinson's son, Al, is graduating from Yale. Paul is finishing his "Rat" year at V.M.I. Helen Smith Moss is writing for the Richmond News Leader. Watch for her by-line on the women's pages.
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Amelia Ullman '3 1, of 4215 Monument Ave., has been named "Volunteer of the Year" by the Richmond Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her services to the community were recognized at a luncheon at the Lakeside Country Club. Among her many projects have been the Richmond council's Thrift Shop and Sick Room Loan Chest, the Remedial Reading Library at the Memorial Guidance Clinic, and the teachers' aid program at Matthew Fontaine Maury Elementary School. She is chairman of committees that take children at the school to all free festivals and exhibits and read classics to them during reading periods at school. During World War II she served as a volunteer nurse's aide.
Richmond Times-Dispatch this spring with famed Washington hostess Perle Mesta, former ambassador to Luxembourg during the Truman administration, when Mrs. Mesta, was guest speaker at the Woman's Club. Toni's daughter Elizabeth was one of six Richmonders attending the Dance Masters of America Convention at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington this spring. She has been accepted at Salem College for next year. Chosen by her classmates in a recent election at Sweet Briar College, Susanne Page Brown , daughter of Leroy and Phyllis Ann Coghill Brown of Richmond, is one of eight seniors named to the May Court. She took part in the coronation ceremony on May 6. Susanne is one of five seniors and three juniors at that college who have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Majoring in government, she won Junior Honors last year and was on the Freshman Honor list at the end of her first semester at Sweet Briar. Last year she studied MRS. E. FRANKLINMALLORY at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. , Charlotte Dudley Patteson, her husband and (Emma Lou Parsons) 6406 Monument Ave., Richmond, Va. 23226 two children have returned from a visit to Poughkeepsie, Princeton, Williamstown and New Haven. Charlotte has completed a term as 1941President of the Women of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond . Toni Wirth Whittet has been elected PresiMary Alice Smith Tillotson's husband Rex dent of the Woman's Club of Richmond for a is Director of Admissions at William and Mary second term. Her picture appeared in the College. Smitty completed a course at Medical College Hospital and is a registered physical therapist. I want to share with you a part of a letter from Phyllis Cook Wilkinson, who lives in Van Nuys, Calif.: "I see Margaret Brittingham Curtis three or four times a year as she lives about 100 miles from here in a beautiful home on top of a hill from which you can see either ocean or mountains. I also see Estelle Greenbaum Cray about as often. She lives in the opposite direction up at Lake Arrowhead, one of the most beautiful spots in Southern California .... Did you know I got a case of polio four years after we came out here ( 15 years ago) and am confined to a respirator and wheel chair? We have our own swimming pool and the weather is perfect for getting out most of the year. Our oldest daughter is married and • SOUTHSIDE PLAZA the younger is seventeen." • THREE CHOPT AND Marion Yancey Petroff of Alexandria helped us write the fund-drive letters, too. She writes PATTERSON LOAN ASSOCIATION that she is busy with her three children and is teaching full time.
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We extend sympathy to Elizabeth Cardwell Brown in the death of her mother in April. Kitty Spencer Philpott writes "A. L. is on a couple of the Governor's judiciary commis• sions. Both of our children are in Richmond: Lee is a freshman at the U. of R., and Judy is living there teaching the first grade at St. Bridgets School while her husband Phil attends Richmond Law School. Judy doubled up on her work at William and Mary to finish four years' work in three years." Kitty and A. L. were in Washington from May 5-10. "Its" Holden Slipek and family attended a dedication service at Blackstone Presbyterian Church recently. A piano was dedicated in memory of her father, Ruling Elder for many years. Her son Stephen was the first to play publicly upon this instrument at this service. Her son Eddie sang in the choral group of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in their production of "King David," conducted by Edgar Schenkman at the Mosque in May. Mayme O'Flaherty Stone's son Dick played in the orchestra in the same production. School and church activities have been keeping me busy. I was so happy, as Nottoway County chairman in a fund drive for 30 into see dependent schools across Virginia, Kenston Forest School, our private high school in Blackstone, win first place in the state. I have been elected Chairman of District VI of the Women of the Church, Hanover Presbytery, and have been traveling around to different churches in this area. While making a tour of the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, I was pleasantly surprised to recognize our tour guide in the Library as Martha Belding Aycock. She is acquisitions librarian in the Seminary Library and is studying at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. MRs. S. GRAYHARDY(Bitsy Epes) ll0 High St., Blackstone, Va. 23824
1942Our news this time has to do entirely with our wonderful 25th reunion which we celebrated in May. First of all, we had 39 returning out of a possible 61 ! Mixed in with all the college festivities we had our own special '42 functions on Friday night (class only) at the home of Joanne Barlow Williams, and Saturday night at Willow Oaks Country Club (with husbands). We missed all of you who didn 't come, and so appreciate the nice newsy letters many of you sent in your absence--in particular from Annie Loie Walker Seacat in Illinois, a telegram from Betty Sessler Tyler in the Virgin Islands, Virginia Parker Dozier in California, Allene Jones Patteson in Arlington and Lillian Jung in New York. We wish to extend our sympathy to Grace Norris Reese, who had intended to be with us, in the death of her mother the week of our reunion. Mainly for the benefit of those who were unable to make it the following were elected class officers for the next five year period: Nancy Davis Parkerson (Mrs. W . F., Jr.) Ada Moss Harlow-Alumnae -president; Fund chairman and May Thayer Holt-sec retary. We are trying a new (for us) plan of having "regional secretaries " who will attempt to contact various class members near them in order to have more news from more people . They, in turn, will forward their news to me, and I'll send it on to Leslie for the Bulletin. So do be cooperative when contacted, and come up with something! Mary Grace Scherer Taylor (Mrs. George E.) has the custody of the class scrapbook, so please send her any newspaper clippings you may acquire. Her address is: 1201 Dinwiddie Ave. , Richmond, Va. A small silver bowl was presented to each returning class member, and two were given
to Westhampton College engraved "W.C. class of 1942" on one side, and "1967" on the other . The Richmond group loved working on our 25th reunion plans, and were delighted that so many of you came back. Thank you also for your many lovely letters since our reunion as well as before. The group expressed appreciation to May Thayer Holt, Ann Pavey Garrett, and Esther Wendling Cline for serving as class officers from the 20th to 25th . Congratulations and success to our new officers for the next five years . Virginia Parker Dozier thinks she may be our first class grandmother. I've sent her letter on to Mary Grace for the scrapbook so don 't have the birth date. MRS. DOUGLASM. HoLT (May Tha yer ) 16 Dund ee, Richmond, Va.
1943My life has been hectic recently, with two graduations within three days, one in Rich mond for Linda at St. Catherine's, and one at Campbell College for Bill. These, in addi tion to the usual rush of grading final exams and term papers, have kept me completely occupied for several weeks! Due to the press of affairs mentioned above, I did not get to the Alumnae Day activities after all, but there are still some cards from last fall to be reported on. First, from Dolly Dorsey Garwood, in Navato, California, just north of San Francisco, where Dave was trans ferred last July . Dolly has been taking grad uate work in American Literature and doing some teaching on the side. Her son, David, has just finished his freshman year at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio . Audrey Foster Ashburn sent a long letter from Richards-Gebaur Airforce Base in Missouri where Al has been stationed since 1960, and where she has been busy teaching science in the local high school, and carrying a full load of "volunteer " duties on the Belton Baptist Church. Her son, Barry, graduated with honors from high school last year, and is finishing his freshman year at VPI in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her daughter is a high school junior, and promises to match her brother's academic record. Audrey says that they have seen most of the United States in their travels, but hope to settle permanently in Florida when Al re tires from the Air Force next year. A card from Ilse Schott in Palo Alto, Cali fornia and one from Barbara Lewis Talbott in Annapolis complete the response to last fall's letter. Both are well, busy, and anxious to renew class ties. Perhaps they, as well as the rest of you, can plan to meet with us next spring for that significant 25th reunion. And now for a few items gleaned from contacts over the last several months. From
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Richmond Times-Dispatch Promotes Marjorie Rowe To Women's News Editor Marjorie Webb Rowe, '46, has been named women's news editor of the Richmond Time s-Dispatch. A member of the Times-D ispatch staff since 1959, she has been assistant women's news editor for nearly four years. Earlier she worked on the staffs of radio stations WRNL and WLEE and was a teacher of English and journalism at Hermitage and Manchester High Schools. She received her B.A. from Westhampton and also attended Columbia University. She has won writing awards from the Virginia Press Women and the National Press Women. In March she participated in the women's editors' workshop held at the University of Missouri. She is the wife of Tim es-Dispatch columnist Norman Rowe.
Pepper came news of Fran Beasley Bell, Dot Shell Ritchie, Louise Cardoza Long, Louise Wiley Willis and Maxine Williams Rogers . Fran's daughter, Carolyn, has finished her Junior year at Westhampton, after transferring from the Univ ersity of Maine . Dot and George Ritchie are living in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is a resident in psychiatry. Dot is painting again, and they have bought a house near the Skyline Drive where she paints the views out of her windows . Their children, Bonnie and Johnnie, are in the 7th and 5th grades respectivel y. Cozy, as usual, is making the society news, chis time as a member of the Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her son Bobby, is also attracting attention as a quarterback on the St. Christopher 's football team. Louise Wiley 's two boys are at Woodbury Forest and Betty, the oldest , is a freshman at Westh~mpton . Louise, the second girl (writes Pepper), is "a pretty, typical teenager ." Maxine is the head librari an at one of Richmond 's branch librarie s, and active in the Chesmond Woman 's Club. Her daughter, Carol, a sophomore in high school , is a budding actress. Last fall she had a role in a Barksdale Theatre production in Richmond . Her son,
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Alan, 12, is active m tennis, swimming, and football. Don and I stopped by for an impromptu evening with Pepper and her family last week, and can report on them first hand. Bobby, the oldest, has finished his sophomore year at Wake Forest, and is a serious history student. I thoroughly enjoyed a round of discussion with him on current international affairs. Rick, a rising junior at Douglas Freeman High School, is a dedicated sportsman, particularly in tennis and wrestling. The twins, now 13, are Junior Varsity cheerleaders, enthusiastic horsewomen, and star campers. All in all, the Hathaways are an energetic, attractive household, and would win my vote for the best all around family in the class of '43 ! This will be my last newsletter for a while. I have a research fellowship for next year, and plan to devote my full attention to getting that book I have been toying with so long in publishable form. Fran Beasley Bell will take over this fall, and hopefully will continue as class secretary until the reunion. I have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity of hearing from each of you, and urge you keep Fran informed as you have me. MRs. W. DONALDMooRE (Anne Byrd Tucker) Coats, North Carolina
1944Thank goodness I saved some of the news from Dot Monroe Hill's last letter for the mail has been noticeably void of notes. When Dot wrote she was in Williamsburg where Stonie was taking a MCV post graduate course. Here's her news from Molly Warner Stephenson. "We have loved our first year in Alaska and are thriving. Bruce loves the first grade and is thrilled to be able to read to the children . Susie and Larry rule the roost at their afternoon nursery school. I am homebound teacher for the public school-afternoons only-a perfect arrangement. Weathermen take their work pretty seriously up here, but Jim's also busy building up credit towards Sunday golfing when we get back to civilization. He is Sunday School Superintendent of the Base Protestant Chaoel choir. "We've found lots of good bridge games. There are active duplicate bridge clubs in Fair• banks 26 miles north, and people travel quite freely until it gets colder than 40° below. Then everyone holes up until it warms up a smidgen." Ann Fisher Keppler's oldest daughter is a high school senior in Northampton, Mass. Anne McElroy MacKenzie's Anne Stuart rode in her first fox hunt this fall . . . made all the jumps but never saw a fox! Marty Mercer Oast's son, Bill, has been accepted at Washington and Lee next year. Gloria Tyler Robertson, who is a licensed psychologist for the Portsmouth City Schools, taught a graduate course for prospective kindergarten teachers last fall. I called DeeDee Howe Kirk and found her busy with end of school activities. She had just come in from hearing Bruce play his tuba in the band concert. Both Ka thy and Bruce enjoy athletics - tennis for both-basketball for Bruce and hockey for Kathy. Fleet is in high school now. Dee Dee will teach the first grade at Saint Catherine's next fall. She is just completing a course in the teaching of reading . Today I finished a course in Communism which was offered as a part of Queens College Continuing Adult Education program. It was so interesting I hate to see it end, but maybe I'll have time now to read all the books I bought as background material! MRS. H. C. DANIEL (Evermond Hardee) 104 Forest Hills Dr., Monroe, N. C. 28110
A High SchoolFreshmanLooks At Westhampton by LUCILE CAMPBELL TAYLOR
ONE OF THE MOST RELAXING AND SCENIC PLACES I HA VE EVER BEEN IS THE BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSI1Y OF RICHMOND. It has an aura of peace and tranquility distinctly different from all other campuses. Even the buildings are uniquely styled. The architecture is Gothic, characterized by tall, lofty spires and huge, gaping archways. The bricks are a mottled blend of color, fluctuating between red and brown as the sun illuminates the walls. The windows are narrow, but often open, even in winter, to welcome gusts of sweet-smelling wind. Crossing the campus of the University, one notices the hilly, rolling terrain. The walks are carpeted with pine tags, and on all sides pine trees stand straight as telephone poles. Initials engraved in their bark suggest nostalgic memories of students whose grandchildren may now attend the university. Other carvings are deeper and more distinct, the handiwork of more recent artists. A wooded expanse separates Richmond College and the other faculties of the University of Richmond from Westhampton, the girls' college. In the middle of this is a lake, a perfect blue oval set between the library and the trees. On a clear day the reflections of the entire landscape can be seen mirrored in the water. Following the path that leads along the edge of the lake, one is hardly aware of the noises coming from a not too distant road. The trees block out all view of buildings and cars, creating an atmosphere of isolation in the midst of a busy campus. The path ascends sharply, and soon the roofs of the Westhampton dormitories can be seen peeking over the hill. The trees become sparse, and once again the view is extended greatly in every direction. Exploring the Westhampton campus is an adventure in anticipation and a joy in reality. At the most unexpected moment one is apt to come upon a garden or a fountain hidden away in some secluded nook where the students may come to rest and talk between classes, or on a Sunday afternoon, feeling more intensely than before the serenity of nature beneath tall sentinels. The largest of the gardens lies behind Keller Hall, pushed snugly against the back of the building. A fountain bubbles in the center, while close by, a statute of Pan plays mirthfully on his lute. In summer, flowers blaze in a fire of natural color ; in winter, the garden glitters with icicles and frost. The mood of the university is never the same; it changes with the seasons. Yet, once one has seen it, the senses are never satisfied with a single visit. Its allure is magnetic. I am quite happily under its spell. Lttcile Campbell Taylor, a 15-year-old freshman at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, is the dattghter of Margery Moore Taylor, '55. The essay was written for her high school English class and represents her impressions of the campus after visiting the University.
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1945How lucky you Richmond girls are to have the Cones moving back after three years. Betty Dillard wrote about seeing Liz in Wilson this spring . Betty also had a grand visit with Ann Jackson and Wanda Pace while with her sister Jane in Richmond . Betty and Eddie Adair are sponsoring the Culpeper County Invitational Golf Tournament this week end. Early in June the whole family will fly to Calif. for a two week vacation . I was disappointed to miss alumnae weekend, and that I have so little news. It has been fun to hear from you. Your correspondent for the next year will be Mary Campbell Paul son (Mrs. John Paulson, 239 Shoe La., New port News, Va. 23606.) Please shower her with letters about your families, jobs, and vacations . MRS. ScoTT YANCEY(J en Lea Guthri e) Box 432, Culp eper, Va. 22701
1946Mary Frances Bethel and Buddy Wood and daughter Cathy went to Expo '67 in May . For those of you who enjoy vicarious travel, I hope to have comments from Mary Frances on Expo '67 for the next issue. On April 26, Marjorie Webb married Norman Bright Rowe at Central Methodist Church, Richmond. Best wishes, Marjorie . In June, Virginia Gibson Stewart, daughter Susan, and Virginia's mother sailed on The France for a Grand Tour of Europe. They spent six weeks visting London, Ho ll and, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, northern Yugoslavia, Italy, the French Riveria, Spain, and Paris. Another traveling '46er is Jeanne Yeamans, who left May 19 for six weeks in Europeher fourth trip. Marion Law ton Kinzey's oldest son, Johnny, enters the University of Virginia this fall. I am sure others of you have college-bo und children. Do write and let us hear about them. As for writing, this summer I hope to get out to some of you a short questionnaire about what you have been doing . Please answer it and return it, so we will have lots of news in future issues of the Alumni Bulletin. For the past two months, I have been engaged in a study of the mental health resources and needs in the local public schools, a project undertaken through the Chapel Hill Woman 's Club. As a result of our study, we have recommended the employment of an elementary school child guidance consultant for the public schools (we now have none), and have established a scholarship for a teacher to cake courses in child mental health and child guidance at the University of North Carolina here in Chapel Hill. To get the money to emp loy the child guidance consultant, a number of Woman 's Club members have been actively working for passage of an increase in our school supplemental tax. We leave as soon as school is over for an old farmhouse in the mountains of North Carolina, very primitive and very remote, to recover from a very hectic spring. MRS. WARRENJAKE WICKER(Marie Peache e) 1024 Highland Woods, Chapel Hill , N. C. 27514
Wiley Kelly, Ollie Menefee Stirling, Alice Landi Reed, Carolyn Marsh, Gin Ellett, Beth Decker Kimball , Dottie James Foster, Shirley Davis Sanford, Susie Guard Woody, Pat Guild Robertson, Ann Higgins Borger, Marion Collier Miller, Nanc y Richardson Elliott, Bev Patton Browne, Carolyn Storm Patti, Mimi Daffron Horigan, Betty Tinsley Andrews, Marg aret Goode Vicars, Sara Frances Young Derieu x, Lena Thornton Small, Marylou Massie Cumby , Mary Cox Anderson, and Twyla Jo Newhous e who was with u s our freshman year. Also joining us on Saturday night for a delicious buffet at Mimi 's were Mar y Lou Coghill Poland, and Polly Jones Cousins. Com ing from the greatest distance were Dotti e James Foster from Florida and Beth Decker Kimball from New York. On both occasions, we pored over snapshot s, letters, and clippings in the scrapbooks. It was my first chance to see the scrapbooks so I realize just what a fine record of the class they are. If you have not sent pictures or letters, please do. Toni Reid Zuercher sent a wonderful group of pictures of her family , and wrote a nice letter to the class. Toni could not attend because she was recuperating from surgery . Marylou Massie Cumby will soon be moving to Petersburg where Guy has taken a position . In the passage of time department: we had three college students among the children of the class. Marion Collier Miller's son John at Was hington and Lee, Mary Lou Coghill Poand Alston land's son at Randolph-Macon, Stirling at Westhampton . Dottie James Foster 's son Darrell will enter Richmond College this fall. Shirley, Lena, and I stayed with Mimi for the weekend, and since th e four of us had lived across the hall from each other our last year, it surel y brought back memories . Beth, Susie, Margaret, and Betsey were together at the Executive Motor Ho tel, and had very little sleep!
Our thanks to Mimi Daffron Horigan for her wonderful work as our class secretary for the past five years. Please help me to follow in her footsteps by sending me all your news . MRS. HAROLDH. STIRLING, JR. (Ollie Menefee ) 4214 N. Valiant Court, Ann andal e, Va. 22003
1948Response to the 1968 Reunion Questionnaire has been very slow. There 's still plent y of time to make your travel reservations , but w e will start some preliminary planning in the fallso please send them in. Since this is the completion of another year as secretary, I want to give special credit to Betty Hickerson Butterworth, Lois McClanahan Garrett, and Peggy Stone Cunningham , without whom the news for the Bull etin would not have been collected. As you write to gi ve news to any of us, be sure to include your ZIP. Pegg y reported Monty Elliott Ownby and Ralph were living it up at the Homestead when she called . She got Russell Elliott Wiley 's new address in Lynchburg, 3801 Manton Lane. Maude Giles Mann had no news, but had heard from Peggy Christian Shiflett, who vacationed in Europe for several w eeks. Doris Vickers Lektorich wr ote Peggy and sent a picture of her wond erful new family which totals 11, including 7 children at home . Bobby Deane Kolcum is on a leave of absence from teaching while she works on credits for her degree. Apparently having the reunion with RC men didn't get '48ers to the Alumnae Weekend. The only one I saw was Jackie Pitt Suttenlield, who had no special news. Sara Bishop Wilbourne has moved to 4218 Park Ave . in Richmond, 23221. She said her daughter is recovering nicely, and Jack But terworth (Betty 's husband) did the honors of sawing off her cast . Bish 's oldest daughter is graduating this year as is Flo Lide Snider's
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Faye Hines Kilpatrick wrote of her son's continuing progress since his accident last fall. Faye has accepted a position as Guidance Counselor. Ginna Herndon Pugh wrote the distressing news of her father's death. Many of us remember him fondly because among other reasons, of all those "hard to get" goodies he sent Ginna during the war. Our sympathy to you and your mother, Ginna. We are sorry to lose one Richmonder, Margaret Sabine Brizendine, who has always been such a good worker for '48 and WC, but we are delighted with Jack's new position at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N. Y. Best of luck. Be sure to send your new address. I was so glad to hear from Seth Darrow Shannahan. Her anticipated Easter trip to Richmond was abruptly cancelled when she was rushed to the hospital. She's recovering and hopefully will be up soon. Hope you will still make the Richmond trip, Seth. Well, guess there's no more news. Get your questionnaires in and put a note on the back telling of your fabulous vacations-by Sept. 1. MRs. JOHN W. BISCOEJR. (Jean Brumsey) 808 Keats Rd., Richmond, Va. 23229
Va., has been selected by the American Legion Auxiliary to receive a scholarship to 1950attend a summer seminar at Freedom FounNews is brief this time and I'm late in dation at Valley Forge, Pa. getting it in, but my oldest ~on broke his leg The three-week seminar, conducted in · during a Little League baseball game and he cooperation with American University, will has just come home from the hospital after a deal with "Preservation of the Principles of week's visit. He will have the cast on his leg for eight weeks and this is hard to take for Freedom." Attention will be focused on the weather in Florida now is so lovely. fundamental freedoms upon which our Five from our class attended alumnae activAmerican way of life is based and the ities in May. Joyce Betts Pierce. Audrey Lynn attacks being made upon these freedoms. Moncure and Libby Givens Pierce were at College on Friday and Doris BalderBefore joining the Williamsburg staff Alumnae son Burbank and Maryanne Beck Duty at• eight years ago, Mrs. Rucker served at the tended the Alumni-Alumnae luncheon and meet• Lee, Yorktown, Madison, and Jamestown ing on Sat. Alice Clarke Lynch has been elected presiElementary Schools. of Mary Munford School P.T.A. for the A member of the Class of 1936, she lives dent coming year. at 5120 37th Rd., North, in Arlington. Libby Givens Pierce, Bucky, and the children In addition to her civic and church activi- spent Easter school vacation in Fla. visiting her ties, Mrs. Rucker is active in many school parents wintering at New Smyrna Beach. How we were to have them drive over to see affairs. She is a sponsor of the Future pleased us while they were in Fla. ! Teachers of America Club and currently Summertime finds Doris Balderson Burbank represents her school on the Superintendent's back at school, taking more courses toward her master's degree. Central Committee.
and Arlene Reynolds Schaefer's "Baby Cup Baby," Margaret Ann who will be going to Longwood in the fall. Bish has a very impressive new title at the department store, Assistant to Director of Methods and Procedure. Congratulations!
Have a nice summer and let me hear from you early in the fall. MRS.RoY M. MARTIN(Jean Tinsley) 2408 Chinook Trail, Maitland, Fla. 32751
1952Our 15th reunion festivities in May were delightful. An electrical power failure in West
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We have two changes of address this time. Jane Wilcoxon Councill has moved to 1203 Dinwiddie Ave., Richmond, Va. 23229. And my family now resides at 1208 Dinwiddie Ave. Although our addresses look alike, we are separated by a long block. Jane's family has increased by one. Catherine Winslow Councill joined them on Dec. 19. Jane and Phil have a son, John Scott, who is four years old. Pauline Decker Brooks will be in her new
home this summer and we'll have her new address then. All of my news lately has come from individuals rather than group leaders. I hope we haven't lost any of you along the way. We have one more year to go until our 15th reunion! MRs. HERVEYS. JONES (Gerrie Kanter) 1208 Dinwiddie Ave., Richmond, Va. 23229
1954George Edward Denby Lewis was born on Apr. 21, 1967 to Dr. and Mrs. R. Denby Lewis (Linda Goodman) of Martinsville, Va. He has a brother, Robert Spencer, who is two years old. Congratulations! to Norma Raney Double congratulations Brown and her husband, Dr. Eugene Brown, who both received their M.D.s last June and a new son, John Lincoln Brown, during the same month. A daughter was born to Ruth Zehner Seibold and her husband Harry in Feb. I don't know her name but I'm pleased to send our best '54 wishes to the Seibolds. Here's a new address for Tom and Macon (Day) Banks: 460 Helen Dr., Millbrae, Calif. 94030. Tom began work Feb. 1 as coordinator of educational television at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and is finding the televising of closed circuit medical classes especially interesting. The Bank s left Michigan on their flight to Calif. hours before a big snow storm hit the area. Hence, the sight of green grass and lovely flowers was immensely welcome. They really like Calif. There is an elementary school near their house and the girls are very happy with their many new friends. Macon's sister, Deloris, lives a few miles away and they enjoy weekly excursions with all of the children. Macon has started a Brownie troop and daughters Rachel, Laura, and Deborah are all busily continuing their activities in scouting. The entire Banks family spent their vacation with relatives in West Virginia last summer, but it was not possible to plan any side trips to see W.C. friends this time. Nancy Baumgardner is back in Virginia now, working in Alexandria. We need her new address if anyone has it. Nancy Graham Harrell enjoyed seeing her twice this year when she was in Richmond for conferences. The two Nancys and Linda Goodman Lewis had lunch together on one of these occasions. Barbara Moore Flannagan is working at Retreat for the Sick Hospital in Richmond. Ann Cardwell Saunders sent a picture of her daughter Polly, who is five, and son Coze, 3. She and Coles have been very busy in Palm Beach Gardens since they moved there almost two years ago ( 4402 Daffodil Circle North, Palm Beach Gardens, Lake Park, Fla. 33403). Coles just received his 15-year pin with Reynolds Metals Co. and Ann has been active in the Junior Woman's Club of the North Palm Beaches. She will serve on the Executive Board this coming year. Ann also has been enjoying Ladies' Nights at the local Toastmasters ' Club where Coles is in charge. She recently gave a two minute improm ptu speech there on the topic-"Children." Ann also does office work for her church and participates in local Westhampton Alumnae affairs. She and Mrs. Booker recently attended a W.C. Alumnae meeting together at the Fort Lauderdale home of Mrs. Windell Gevie where they saw interesting slides of the new buildings on campus. The members of the Synovitz family have kept busy in spite of a bombardment of winter illnesses. I sprained my ankle and sang for one
of our biggest local style shows on crutches! Actually I propped them against the piano during the songs, but it was "unusual." The big house and four children really take up all of my time but I still attend some church and social functions, play some bridge, sew, and accompany Bob to some of his many church and school activities. We are sponsoring Beta Theta Pi fraternity (to which Bob belongs) here at Ball State U. and we recently enjoyed attending the lovely Closed Spring Dinner Dance in Indianapolis. We had a delightful time observing the cute dances and some wonderful clean-cut young people. Bob and three colleagues have published a health problem workbook and some of Jane's time went into putting pages together. Now they're writing a book and I hope to give whatever clerical assistance I can. I also did a good job of baby sitting while Bob delivered a speech at the American College Health Associa tion in Washington, D. C., in March about his research project using educational television . To those of you who are sending news: your wonderful cooperation is greatly appreciated. (Jane Lanier) MRS. RonERTJ. SYNOVITZ 2206 Wood Bridge Dr., Muncie, Ind. 47304
1958Please excuse me for m1ssmg the last issue, but we were in the midst of moving. Marti Haislip Padgett and Puggy are host family for two young men from India, who are graduate students at Georgia Tech. This is a program sponsored by the International Student Bure au and its purpose is to help international students find out how American families live through visiting them and being part of their normal activities. The Padgetts heartily recommend the program to anyone who lives near a university center. Marti is also active in AAUW, being a member of the Atlanta Board and chairman of a study group on Contemporary Problems. A note from Carol Brie Griffiths said that she and Harold are still in Stockton, Calif., at the General Hospital. Carol finished her pediatrics residency in June and Harold his in general surgery. They will go on to Indianapolis in July, where Harold will go into a plastic surgery residency. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is three years old. The Griffiths enjoy riding their two horses, but Elizabeth prefers the pony cart. Joanne Garrett West and Bill are now living at 49 Dovie Cir., Chapel Hill, N. C., where Bill is teaching in the classics at the University of North Carolina. Joanne, who has completed her degree requirements for her master's in library science, is working in the University Library. She will receive her degree in June. Suzanne Kidd spent three weeks in southern Germanv and Switzerland during Jan. and Feb. traveling and giving six concerts while
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on tour. I undertsand she received her students' exam papers via air mail for grading while she was abroad. Carolyn Moss Hartz and Ransone are in the process of building a home on Francisco Rd. in Richmond's West End. Carolyn was a candidate for "Mrs. Richmond," representing the Westhampton Junior Women's Club this spring. Karen Diedrich Gardner and Jim are in Lebanon, Ill., where Jim is serving in the Air Force. Their address is 443 Clover Dr. They plan to return to Va. Beach in 1968. Kari is in the third grade, Doug is in kindergarten, and Sandra keeps Karen busy at home. Karen is active in the Air Force Hospital Wives' Club and also has a Brownie Troop. Becky Branch Faulconer and Harold will be moving to Lexington, Ky., this July. Harold will go into practice in general and vascular surgery. They are look ing forward to their new location in the heart of the Bluegrass country. Becky said Annette Masters Scheel is teaching in a country school in Waterford, Va. Phebe Goode Holladay had news from Cecily DeLoache Berg about their life at the Embassy in Djakarta, Indonesia. Cecily is planning to retire in March. They have spent time traveling in Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore. Libby Jarrett Burger and Wilbur will be leaving Richmond this summer. Wilbur finishes his residency in internal medicine, but has to serve time with the Air Force for a few years. They will be located at Andrews Air Force Base in Md. Phebe Goode Holladay and two other local women will have a 15-minute spot once a month on the closed circuit television at the hospital in Front Royal. The programs on art and music will be shown in the children's wards. Phebe is still substituting when she has the time. Pat Doggett Colonna and Bill have adopted their second child, David William, on Dec. 19, 1966. Annette Hasty Walton had a baby girl in Feb. They are living in Juneau, Alaska. Eddie Knipling Lake and John spent three weeks during Christmas visiting the family in Va. Eddie will do "at home" teaching this semester for the California schools. This she calls a break from nursery school, car pools and bridge. They have joined the Pebble Beach Sports Car Club and enjoy going on rallies. Beverly Byrana Gerber and Lou are living at 5 Guard Rd., Westport, Conn., where Lou has taken a position with a company in Westport. Bev says her boys are fine and they all love their new location. Correction from my last newsletter. Suzie Prillamen Wiltshire is not teaching at U. of R.; she is working on her M.A . in French literature there. She is, however, teaching French in the Richmond Public Schools. A great deal has happened to the Holders over the past few months. In late Dec., Gene
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learned that he was being transferred to the San Francisco Metropolitan office of IBM as of Jan. 4, 1967. The boys and I followed in late Jan. We flew from Endicott to Denver where we picked up our car and drove to Vail, Colorado, for skiing. After several years of skiing on icy slopes in N. Y., we were thrown (literally) by all the powder snow. It was beautiful beyond description. From there we drove to Alta, Utah, where we went skiing again on the loveliest of slopes. The sun was so bright we got sun tans and learned what spring skiing is like. We finally reached San Francisco and found the city to be more than we had dreamed. Our furniture was a week late arriving, so I kept the boys out of school and we spent that week sight-seeing as much as possible. For six weeks we lived in Maraga, which is in the east bay area until we found what we wanted in Tiburon, which is in southern Marin County. We sit up on a hill and our view of the Bay and San Francisco is breathtaking. We have already had several different friends visit us and we look forward to more. If you are looking for a place to spend a lovely vacation, San Francisco is the spot. The next news won't be due until Sept. 1, but drop a line any time this summer so I'll have lots of news for the fall issue. MRS. GENE HOLDER (Sarah Ashburn) 1482 Vistazo West, Tiburon, Calif. 94920
1959The letters this time were all interesting. Dorothy Sparks is back in her old house in Tokyo, one of three students buckling down for two years of intensive study of the Japanese language. The class meets for three hours a day, five days a week. In April she started an English Bible class for several non-Christian college boys who live near her. Her letter overflowed with enthusiasm. Eileen Cordle's trip to New York "was pure pleasure. The kids were great. Chaperoning isn't so hard if you can pick your group. The Martinsville Alumnae Club invited Danville Alumnae to its spring dinner March 28. Martha Jordan Chukinas and Mrs. Mabel Davis, '28, rode up with me. It was a lovely, informal gathering, well-planned by the presdent, Gayle
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Gowdey Williams, '61," Eileen has been selected to attend a Summer Institute in the Humanities at U. Va. during July. Cary Hancock Gilmer says she's really enfar no joying her library science courses-so term papers, either! Jean Rice Hodder and Bob were in "the nice, warm, sunny South. We were in Richmond for a brief visit with our families and spent a couple of days in Washington, D . C., where Bob was attending physics meetings. We managed to take in some skiing this winter and both Bob and I took an investment course dealing with stocks and bonds. Our little girl continues to delight us and her grandparents. We recently purchased a couple of English bikes and hope the weather and countryside will permit some outings this spring." Congratulations to Pat Nettles Harrington and Dick who have a new daughter, Courtney, born March 13, 1967. The other girls have birthdays in June--Susan will be 7 and Janey 5. Bev Wine Bowers and Al announce the arrival of twin girls on April 13: Cynthia Louise, 6 lbs. 2 oz., and Tamara Louise, 5 lbs. 2 oz. Ruth Adkins Hill says Bob has been teaching a course at R.P.I. night school this semester. She has enjoyed playing bridge with some of the Richmond '59ers. Margaret Spencer Hernandez reports that "the children and I are starting our shots, etc., for our trip to Europe. Also, we go to Calif. in June for Jess' sister's wedding. I ran into Jane Robinson Brown, '60, recently. Her husband Charlie is a Navy dentist on the U.S.S. Saratoga, an aircraft carrier. I've run into an old high school friend here, too, whose husband is also on a ship." Nancy Kipps Hughey writes that "Jo Anne started walking right after Christmas, and I haven't had much peace since then. She and Mike can think of all sorts of things to get into. In April we managed to get away for a week, first to Ray's home in S. C. where we left Jo Anne and Mike with Grandma and Grandpa, while Ray and I spent a few days walking around Charleston seeing all of the old historic sights. We also took the boat trip to Fort Sumter, and visited the Magnolia weren't at their peak but still Gardens-these were spectacular. Ray is in Boston this week (May 3) on business, but the ceiling on hiring new employees has been lifted so he's getting some extra help now. Ray and I both teach Young People in S.S. In June Daddy is retiring from VPI and we went home for a retirement dinner on May 26. Then, on June 10 my graduated from U.N.C. sister was married-she on the 5th of June. Gaile Sykes wrote that she spent the summer of '66 as speech and hearing therapist "in a new adventure in deaf education. Montgomery County received funds to establish a day camp for deaf children, so with 30 deaf students, and despite 100°F. heat, we had many a marvelous experience, and have received national recognition by HEW for 'outstanding use of Title I funds'. It was by far my most rewarding professional experience. Although many of the campers came from schools where manual communication is both permitted and encouraged, oralism (speech and lip-reading) was the only accepted way of communicating in the camp. Within the week the children who did not speak were attempting to do so. I firmly feel that the staff's firm refusal to elicited the manual language acknowledge speech. The project is also being underwritten for this summer and no doubt I'll be there. My plans now include a year's leave of absence from Montgomery County to spend on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, where I've been invited by the Dept. of Education to be their alr~ady hearing specialist for deaf teens-I'm learning Hawaiian. A nice honor was given me this year by the Assoc. of Special Class Teachers and Parents of the Handicapped, Inc. I received a special certificate of merit for
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'outstanding professional competence, superior contributions, and wholehearted dedication on behalf of handicapped children'. Due to street changes here my address should read 1805 Stratford Dr.', Alexandria, Va. 22308." Margaret Tabor Small, on the church pulpit committee, is still working hard to find a pastor for their church in Manassas. She and Mike enjoy having a small garden. Margaret Griffin Thompson, too, "is up to my ears in gardening. We've got one of the plots on the base and I've put in a little of everything." Eileen McCutcheon became Mrs. Harold Hollans on May 6 in a beautiful wedding here at Second Baptist Church. Among her attendants were Janice Dowdy Briggs and Becky Keller Ottinger. Carol McAnally Tooley and Franklin Haynie were married March 11 at Carol's home. They will be living at 2210 Chalfont Drive, Berkl ey Place Apts., Apt. 31, Richmond . Miss Chapman has bought a new home at 6725 Hanover Ave., Richmond, Va. 23226. Next year she'll be on sabbatical beginning the second semester. She says that she always looks forward to reading about everybody in the newsletter. Peggy Dulin Crews was really looking forward to May 19, when Merrill's 6 months active duty with the Army would be over. They'll return to Orlando June 1st, same address except for apt. no.: Apt. E-23, llO0 Fla . 32806. Meanwhile, Delaney, Orlando, in a Culpeper elementary Peg substituted school, "an d have really enjoyed it." Martha Jordan Chukinas reports that George is playing little league ball again. Hope he has a successful season. The Easter Bunn y brought the children a pretty white pet rabbit in a very elegant plywood cage. Anita Knipling Scott and Company may now be contacted at 6044 N. 28th St., Arlington, Va. 22207. "We're really getting excited about getting back to the area, but let me put in a plug for West Virginia too. It's a beautiful state with some of the most genuine, sincere, down-to-earth people you'd ever want to meet. Contrary to popular opinion, moonshine is not the main by-product, and people here do wear shoes. Unfortunately, the state is grossly underrated. Among other things, it's a camper's paradise and a nature lover's dream. We're really going to miss it." Barbara Dulin Polis says the four of them "are looking forward to our visit to Virginia in June. We plan a two-weeks' visit with the families and also a week in Atlantic City during the A.M.A. Convention. Our parents will keep the children while Charlie and I are having our "vacation" in New Jersey. Beginning in July '67 Charlie will be chief final year of his ur0logy residency. resident-the Afterwards we owe Uncle Sam four years and so far plan to get out and settle in good ole Virginia after our pay back time. However so many things can change in five years . Chuck will be 4 and Laurie 1-yr. old in July. The weather here is great. The children have in been in the pool already (April 24)-it's the high S0's." Maybe you missed it as I did: Nancy Taylor Baker and Bill have moved to Richmond, where Bill is assistant dean at Richmond College. They've joined River Rd. Baptist Church. Mary Mac Thomas Moran took her sixth graders to Washington, D. C., for a day's field trip in April. They had a wonderful imagine having to keep a whole time--but class in tow while sight-seeing! Mary Mac assures us, "There's nothing to it!" Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum says that the Richmond Club's Spring Luncheon was just lovely. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the fashion show, " Brides Through the Years." Gowns from 1899 to 1967 were modelled. Bonnie Lewis Haynie created a sensation in her mini-
skirt wedding dress complete with white mm1boots. After searching everywhere for one, Bonnie and Carolyn Moss Hartz, '58, made the mini-dress themselves. It was the 30th anniversary of the Richmond Club and Elizabeth was honored as being past president. I am buckling down to learn to type, finally, and will be job-hunting in the fall . Let us know what develops this summer, and send your new address if yours changes. MRS. RALPH L. HAGA,JR. (Carolyn Nash ) 3609 Chamberlayne Ave., Richmond, Va. 23227
1960I had hoped to end my term as secretary by writing the newsiest of all columns but there was not much to report this time. I have had a fine response for all the other columns though and my thanks goes to my secretaries who were so faithful and hard -working: Judy Cyprus Walker, Loretta Hudgins, Nancy Jenkins Marrow, Martha Jane Pugh Woods, Anne Paige Jones Hurt, Paula Williams Davis and Clare Earle Ahlers . Several girls never missed a deadline . They were Jeannette McWilliams Welsh, Jeanne Keske Light, Dodie Tyrell, Peggy Gore Sykes and Ruthi Greenfield Zinn. Two of our classmates have been elected to offices. Jane Morris Dobbyns was elected treasurer of the Richmond Club and Kitty Whitby Fiege was elected president of the Baltimore Alumnae Club. Kitty will soon have to vacate the chair, as she and John will be moving to Bloomington, Illinois in the near future. John begins his residency for the D.Ed. at Illinois State University. He will have a teaching assistantship and Kitty says that she hopes to find a good job. Another classmate who plans to move as of July 14 is Clare Earle Ahlers, class secretary for the next two years. Her new address: 17 Old Stone Rd., Darien, Conn. Clare reports that they had a hectic house-hunting trip but were delighted to find this particular house which is convenient to the commuter train, near the water, and has lots of yard for the children. Clare says she will be ready to receive news and letters any time after July 14, and to please fill her mail box. Sally Evans Hayes is looking forward to June when she plans to retire from teaching and become a full-time housewife . Sally has been teaching fifth grade in Marblehead, Mass . She and Jim spent a week 's vacation in Cali fornia this winter, visiting relatives and friends, and sightseeing. They visited such delightful spots as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Mont erey. Sally enjoyed meeting Jim's sister for the first time while in Los Angeles. Since Jim was away on a trip, she went home for spring vacation and spent some time with Anne Paige Jones Hurt and family in Blackstone. Sally reports that the Hurt children are "adorable" and Bennett is attending kindergarten this year. Jim makes flights to and from Japan now and is gone for six days at a time. He will begin domestic flights Aug . l and by that time they hope to be transferred to either Washington or Dallas. Sally writes that although they love the town of Marblehead, the winters are just too cold and snowy. The Hayes have their fingers crossed for a Washington transfer. Here is an SOS for correct addresses for Laurel Burkett, Cynthia Raben Barry and Sally Finch . If you have any information, please write to Clare. Margie Donald Miller and Lowry moved to Fairfax County after Lowry graduated from T. C. Williams in June. Their new ad dress is 37 N. Rosser St., Alexandria, Va., Apt . T-2. Nancy "Jenks" Marrow writes that she is still teaching and enjoys it very much. Her daughter Linda is in the first grade this year, which makes her feel very old. When I informed Jenks that this would be my last
issue, she assumed that it meant she would no longer be a secretary, and said she was sorry since she "enjoyed the excuse for calling everyone." This is just the attitude Clare needs, so she can consider herself duly nominated again! News from the West Coast reached me via my secretary, Dodie Tyrell. Gloria Greenfield Harris, Jay and son Cameron, spent a week in Los Angeles during Jay's spring vacation from teaching at the University of Washington. Dodie writes that they had several visits together while the Harrises were there. Gloria is working a day and a half a week as a social worker at the Jewish Family and Children's Service in Settle . Dodie learned second hand that Dru Young was leaving for a two week trip to Mexico and planned to visit Acapulco, Mexico City and Mazatlan . Skiing continues to be Dodie's favorite lei sure-time activity and she reports that the snow at Mammoth where she skiis reached a depth of 50 feet. Their ski club cabin, which is two stories high, was covered to the roof and a tunnel had to be dug down to the from door! She was elected a director in the West wood Ski Club and will be serving as secretary in the coming administration . This club is par ticipating in a documentary fiim called "Do Blondes Have More Fun?" which will be broadcast on ABC on August 28th. It is being produced by David L. Welper. Don 't forget to watch this ; we may see Dodie! I received a thank you note from Alice Clement Boone for my contribution to the Alumnae Fund and at the same time picked up a bit of news. Margie Donald Miller, Becky Grissom Van Ausdall , Nancy Rae Taylor Baker, Jeannette McWilliams Welsh, Meurial Webb, Judy Cyprus Walker, Em St. Clair Key and Alice all attended the Alumnae Fund Dinner at Westhampton and had a gay time dining and chattering about college days, career days and motherhood . Kimberly Boone is doing just fine, Alice is happ y to report. I enjoyed seeing Kimberly and her mother while Bob and I were in Richmond in January . We stayed with Becky Grissom Van Ausdall and Jerry in their lovely new home close to the James River. Becky has been quit e busy with buying furniture and decorating on top of her usual teaching duties. Bob and I were pleasantly surprised early one Sunday mornin g to find Phyllis and Bob Polhemus standing on our door step! They were returning from a week end trip to Washington, D . C. and decided to stop over in Aberdeen for a short visit. They enjoyed sightseeing in Washington very much and especially liked the Georgetown section. Bob and I have spent a very busy spring . Aberdeen celebrated its 75th birthday with a Diamond Jubilee Celebration the last week in May. Consequently, there were many "civic duties " to be performed which have kept us
busy. I was invited to join the P.E.O. Sisterhood and was initiated this spring. I enjoy tutoring a third grade student . I am hopefully looking forward to seeing the Alumnae Fund contribution percentage for the Class of 60. I know it will be a high one! Clare Earle Ahlers will be writing our column beginning with the fall edition and for the next two years. So please help her out by remembering to write by September 10. Many thanks to all of you who have helped to makt: my job an easy one and my column a good one . I will really miss hearing from you personally but am looking forward to relaxing on deadline dates and especially to reading Clare's column. LINDAMORGANLEMMON 651 Andr ews Rd. , Aberd een, Md. 21001
1961Thank you very much for keeping u s posted on your news . If you have a change of address your group leader, Mrs . Booker and I should be notified. Our next news deadline is September 15. Meg Gunter Lovelace writes : "I just wanted to let you know that Ed and I had a little red-headed baby boy on April 3rd who has turned my world upside down. No more planning anything. Ed's dental practice is doing well, and we are really enjoying living in Bedford. The Peaks of Otter (Blue Ridge Mts.) are right behind our hous e, so we have a beautiful view. Since Barbar a Spiers Causey is now living in Lynchburg I've seen her several times." Meg and Ed named their son Edward Young Lovelace, IV, and call him Chip. Evelyn Spivey Drum and John attended the 93rd Run for the Roses on Saturday, May 6. Racial tension was high in Louisville and most Derby Week events had to be cancelled, including the $300,000 Pegasus Par ade. However, on Derby Day itself everything ran smoothly"except the horse we picked ." Betty Bond Snidow and Bill had a girl, Terry Elizabeth, born March 9th . Suzanne Dupuy Black writes th at Mary Burks Pipes will be in Bedford for abou t a month. She is coming the middle of Ju ne and Noland will join her in July . Don Black r eturned the end of May from Washington Cathedral where he attended the College of Preachers for a week. It was "an exciting experi ence." Ann Bertsch ha s many excitin g plans. She will tour California the last tw o we eks of July . Then she will travel to the Or ient to visit Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok , Formosa, Singapore, etc. She will stay in Hawai i for 10 days when she returns . Ne xt fall Ann will attend Michigan State to work on her M.A. in special education for th e visu all y handi -
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capped. She has an excellent fellowship for this. Barbara Bertsch Cox, Bob and happy little Charlotte were in Washington lately to visit Ann and also see a little of Washington . Ann writes that the Cox's are all fine and like Woodberry Forest very much. Marth a Hinkle Fleer and Jack had a little girl, Katherine Stuart, born March 20. Martha and Jack 's new address is 2992 Ormond Drive, Winston-Salem, N. C. Barbara Spiers Causey writes that she is enjo ying Lynchburg very much. She also has ventured over to see Meg & Ed Lovelace. Ann Mills Sizemore 's sister, Becky Mills, will be entering Westhampton this fall . This summer Becky will be an academic aide in mathe matics at South George College in the Honors Pro gram. Martha Kessler Goodman and Bill are moving to Laurinburg, N. C. on August 1st. Bill will be assistant professor of religion at St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Martha writes: "We are looking forward to this move very much. I received a contact today to teach in the Scotland County Schools, and now I am trying to get my certificate up to N . C.'s A certificate standards . They do require a lot of education courses, but the ones I've taken so far at U.N .C. Chapel Hill have been excellent courses. I do know that I will be teaching at a Negro school. This will be a situation quite different from any I have experienced so far, and I'm looking forward to the challenge . We still have just two children. Richard, 6, has loved first grade. Jessica is going to take ballet this summer at the YWCA. They 're having a course for three-year-olds, and we 're curious to see how much she can do. If being acrobatic means anything for dancing, I'm sure she's a natural. Over the past year we have made three tri ps to the emergency room of the hospital, just for her . Becky Powell Harrison and John have good news. A daughter, Sara Ann, was born March 16. Becky reports that, "Sara Ann is a very good baby and Edward, 2½, loves her dearly and is a big help with her. " Becky says they have moved to a new house at 804 Frances Drive, Garner , N . C. and would love anyone traveling near to come and visit. Jean Stonestreet Mann says she's "pooped " from working in her yard (landscaping, etc.) and is looking forward to a vacation at the beach and visiting friends and relatives. Kathy Gebhardt Shelton, Bill and daughter , Ann Margaret, welcomed William Brian on ' April 24, 1967. _Martha Gordon Wallace Michael is very busy with and proud of George W ythe Michael , Jr. who was born April 20, 1967. Joyc e Smith Allison report s a fine son, Gregory Scott , born April 19, 1967. The y are all well and happy . Cathy Marshall Overstreet writes, "Our second little girl was born March 23rd - about 3 weeks early . She was really tiny, but got along just fine. We named her Kristi Keith. They re ally keep me busy! " Sar ah H art Willis Blair wr ites, "My hus band , Willi am, is with the E. V . Williams Construction Company of Norfolk. We were tra nsferred from Norfolk to Alberta, Virginia the first of April. Our greatest joy is our son, Thomas Willis, born March 5, 1967. When Ebb and I attended Law Day we saw Bett y Marlow Atkinson and Betty Wade Blanton Jones. Both looked marvelous, and Betty Atkinson said she couldn 't see how anyone could call being a mother a boring occupation. She said she had never had so much fun in her life . MRs. EBB H. WILLIAMS, II (Gayle Rae Gowdey) 1224 Lani er Road, Martinsvill e, Virginia
1962The class of 1962 had its fifth reunion May 12-14. Everyone present had a delightful time, even though the group was small. Friday night there was a coffee for "the girls " and those present were Diane Light Riffer, Ellen Kayne November, Betty Morris Blankenship, Toni Cousins, Darlene Morgan, Julie Perkinson Crews, Judith Acree Hansen and myself . The Saturday night social hour and dinner included the following and their husRobin Blankenship, Betty Morris bands: Cramme Perks, Tuckie Smart Paxton, Jane Carlton Shapard Confroy, Sandra Nunn Wallace, Jo Ann Wortman Andrews, Betsy Burruss Brooks, Gail Glover Chamlee, Sherry Radcliffe Crawford, Jane Thompson Kemper, and Judy Acree Hansen; plus Toni Cousins and Page Ewell and Julie Perkinson Crews (Julie 's husband was spending a weekend with the National Guard. Class officers elected were president, Betty Morris Blankenship and secretary, Diane Light Riffer. Everyone seemed to think no one had changed in appearance in the past five years but, of course, many had changed names, etc. Julie Perkinson Crews will be vice president Tidewater Association of the Westhampton for the next two years. She and husband, Bill, will go to the Canada Expo this summer. Darlene Morgan will teach in Okinawa next year which will give her a good opportunity for foreign travel during Christmas and Easter vacations of the school year. Possible trips will be to Tokyo, Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. Diane Light Riffer and husband will travel to San Francisco this summer by plane. Diane told us that her cousin Janet Light Holman (transferred to M .C.V . senior year) is married to a doctor and l.as a little girl and they are living in Denver, Colorado. Toni Cousins became Mrs . Page Ewell June 17, 1967. They were married in Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond. Dick and Judy (Acree) Hansen will depart for Europe June 25 for two months of touring the continent. Judy Trunzo is with the State Dept. in the capital of Laos, Vientiane . J. C. Shaphard Confroy had had a visit from Judy the last time she was in the states. Julie Perkinson Crews sent news that Anyce Dameron became Mrs. John Thomas McCracken on July 2, 1966. He 's from Norfolk and works with the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Anyce has only her thesis to finish in art education at R.P .I. where she went one year to graduate school. She teaches the fifth grade at Sparrow Road Elementary in Chesapeake. Ruth Blair is teaching eighth and ninth grade English and ninth grade social studies at Maryland Park Junior High School, located Her new on the outskirts of Washington. address is 5507 54th Ave., Apt . 201, East Riverdale, Md. Ruth is currently a horseriding enthusiast. A card from Charlotte Adams Higgs says that she and Wilson have returned to Alaska from a delightful trip in Japan and Hawaii . They spent 10 days sightseeing in Japan and enjoyed very much their stay in the Japanese Inn in Kyoto. They then went on to Waikiki Beach and spent seven days soaking up the sun and relaxing . On the return trip they flew to San Francisco and then stopped in Portland, Oregon, before returning to Anchorage . Charlotte plans to be in Va. in Sept. and hopes to see some 62ers at that time. Barbara Davies Brewer sent a note and a picture for the reunion. They adopted daughter Patricia when she was 16 days old, and she is now seven months. Husband Dick is with the Trust Department at Riggs National Bank in D . C. and is now an assistant trust officer.
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They stay very busy in their first house where there is constant painting and decorating. Iris Creedle Jarrett and husband Doug are the new parents of a baby boy . Gail Glover Chamlee has a year-old girl, Mary Simms. Tuckie Smart Paxton has moved to Staunton, Virginia, where her husband is manager of the C. & P. Telephone office. Their daughter Sarah is 15 months. Pam Koch Fay and John are the parents of a daughter, Elisabeth, born May 24. Betsy Burrus Brooks and John have two children, Eddie, 3, and Ricky, 1. She is teaching in Orange and is president of the Orange Junior Women 's Club. Jo Ann Wortman Andrews and Cecil have a boy, Dick , 18 months old. Suzanne Northam Doley and Pete are stationed at Cigli AFB, Izmir, Turkey . It is a 2½ year tour and they have been there since last Sept. They have a five-room apartment off base and the living is so inexpensive that Suzanne has a full-time Turkish maid , and consequently, much free time to do as she pleases. The people, country and culture, are very interesting and the buys on the Turkish market in brass, copper, marble, Turkish rugs, etc., are fabulous. Suzanne and Pete spent four days in Athens without the children. They toured Athens and went out to the Peloponnese to ancient Corinth and Mycenae . Suzanne says she really appreciated Miss Caldwell 's art history course when she saw all the art slides come to life. Suzanne is active in the Wives ' Club, fashion shows , bridge groups, etc. Suzanne and Pete have two blue-eyed blonds, sons Chris, 3, and Todd , 17 months. Please make an effort to send all news by Sept . 1 to your new class secretary Diane Light Riffer, 6317 Abilene Street, Springfield, Va . I am sorry that not more of you could come to our reunion; perhaps more can come to the next one . I have enjoyed being secretary the past three years and I hope that you will give full support to the new class officers. MRS. W. S. DAVIDSO N (Joan Bishop ) 7547 Cheroke e Rd ., Ri chmond , Va. 23225
1963Sandy Watkins writes that she is now a member of a travel club known as the "Carolina Vagabonds." The club owns its own airplane and has been to Jamaica, San Juan, Mexico City and Nassau. Sandy serves as stewardess on the flights and is therefore able to travel free of charge. She is working for a manufacturer 's representative as a secretary and " girl Friday ." Her address is 1701 W. Blvd ., Apt. E-1, Charlotte, N. C. 28211. to Bett y Harrell Lindsa y Congratulations and Jeff on the birth of their son, Robert Bruce, born April 7. The Lindsays are now living at 918 Baylor Street , Staunton, Va . Congratulations are also in order for Marcia McMullin Cantrell and Bill on the birth of their son William Taylor, Jr. born last Jan. Grace Phelps Rhinesmith has been busy substituting and fixing up her home this past year. She and Don bought a 19th century home, "Avondale " in Hanover County and are restoring it themselves. Carolyn Anthony Powers and husband Bill are also new homeowners. They now live at 906 Arizona Court, Richmond. Carolyn is still teaching at George Wythe. Judy Barlow Bolling retired from teaching this past June. She and Jon had exciting plans for the summer. Along with friends, Mac Dirom and his wife, they were planning a three-week tour of Europe in July. Julie Haynie is heading west this summer instead . She was planning to travel through Calif. and return to teaching in Denver in the fall.
Kay Koontz Gillete had a baby girl, Jennifer, on Feb. 10. Before Jennifer arrived Kay taught 7th grade in Suffolk. Lately she has been tutoring in math and giving piano lessons. Most of May and June she spent campaigning for Joe's Commonwealth's Attorney race in July. PeRgy St. Clair Stevens and Dan bought a house in Bon Air, and moved in Aug. Peggy has been teaching the 7th grade at Tuckahoe Junior High while Dan has been practicing law with McCaul and Pearsall. The government has influenced the lives of some in our class. Jo Ann Hardy Thomasson and Jack were stationed in Germany for two years, but were transferred back to the states this past year. They are now stationed at Fort Sill, Okla. Pat Rich Pastor's husband Alan reported to Uncle Sam for his six months reserve duty last Jan. At first he was training in Fort Benning, Ga., and then he was sent to Calif. Needless to say it was a lonely six months for Pat although she did manage to see Alan one weekend when she flew to San Francisco. She kept busy the rest of the time working around their home in Springfield and teaching the third grade in Fairfax County. This will be my last letter. From now on Ann Hurd will write the news for the Bulletin. It would certainly aid her job if you would send her any and all news. Try to drop her a line and catch her up on your life, family, address, etc. Her address is 701 E. Hamilton St., Richmond, Va. MRS. DENNIS RozuM (Margie Burkett) 1916 Dresden Rd., Richmond, Va.
1964The response of your classmates in helping out as group leaders has been tremendous! Almost every one replied with some news about their people, so prepare yourselves for the deluge; I'm only including new details in this letter. Lee Hill Andrews writes from Birmingham, Ala., where Dave is Minister to Youth 111 a Baptist Church and father of Davey, who is one year old. Bev. Neal Johnson lives across town from them and has a son, Neale, born last Aug. Her husband is also a pastor. The Mapps have returned from Germany and now live in Newport News where Wyatt is in the oil business. Gayle is a hostess in Colonial Williamsburg. Lee forwarded another item of interest: Jean Garrison Knill had twins! Laura Jean and Franklin Peter III were born in Dec., 1965. They live in Cincinnati where Frank is working on his doctorate in clinical psychology. Carol Gilbert Turner's news primarily concerns advanced education. Cindy Morgan received her MA in Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky and hopes to work in Philadelphia. Bonnie Brooks Redditt will be living in Nashville where Paul will begin work on his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt. Barbara Powell received her M.R.E. in June from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to teaching second grade in Dover, Dela., Joyce Sanford Brittingham has been taking a course at the University of Delaware extension. Having finished a year of teaching junior high school music in Fairfax County, Betty Cheyney plans to go to Europe for three weeks in Aug. The late summer also will bring a trip for Emily and Bill Gray-they will be leaving for the Philippines where Bill will be a staff physician with the Peace Corps. From the heart of Richmond Clubland, Judy Barnhart Parr sends lots of news. First of all, congratulations to our class for what sounds like a highly successful fashion show, "Brides Through the Years," presented for the Richmond Club's spring luncheon.
Judy will continue in social work until July. She is also taking the Teaching of Reading at RP.I. Jerry has received several decorations for valor in Vietnam. Helen Flynn is now Mrs. Clarence Robert Walton. Married in Oct., 1966, they now live in Winston-Salem where she works for Western Electric. Best wishes also to Pat Dabney, engaged to be married, probably in Dec. This summer she is going on a VEA tour to Europe with Sarah Ruschhaupt. And now apologies to Hecky and Toby White, for they have a little girl, Ginger, and not a boy as reported in the previous Bulletin. Pat Waddell Arthur's little girl is about three. Bob is working on his master's at Richmond. Jane Norton Medlin is still working for the telephone company. Stuart will be teaching at Collegiate next year. Nancy Hall Lyon still enjoys the teaching of 6th grade. She and Bill hope to camp across the USA to California this summer! Gay Shelton Hoots continues to teach fifth grade, in addition to remodeling their "new" old home. Betsy Uhl reports from Pa. with news of Linda Fridley's graduation from the University of Pa. She will continue working in Philadelphia with the foster care program. Carole Hanson Gonzaga has been transferred in her work with the state rehabilitation agency to cases dealing with the deaf. In addition to his work at the seminary, Tony is counseling inmates of a mental hospital. Carole and Tony will spend several weeks at a Baptist summer camp in Wisconsin. Sue Hepler attended Virginia Tech during the winter quarter, her off-season as a ranger in Shenandoah National Park. Sue's older brother, John, married Lea Perkins in Feb. They live on a farm near Monticello, for John is a medical student at UV A and Lea is a computer programmer at the University's computer center. Carolina Hudnall graduated last year from the Columbia University School of Nursing. Since returning to the states from a six-week tour of Europe, she has worked in a hospital research unit at Duke. Joanna Holland Ledford was married in Sept., 1965 and lives in Okla. with her husband and new son. Elsa Queen Falls reports that Brenda Falls Holland plans to move back to Richmond; Henry has finished his internship at Norfolk and will do his residency in psychiatry at MCV. Following her husband's ship from port to port, Jo Anne Barco Dougherty has had a marvelous time visiting romantic Mediterranean towns. They also plan to visit Germany. Jo Anne writes that she hopes to see Mary Ann Wheary when she tours Europe this summer. Nancy Holland Miller's husband graduated from Law School, and plans to go into the service. Ann Sarotorius Payne writes from Baltimore where she works in the Child Division of Pratt Library. Her husband Frank attends Law School. She writes the following about Martha Lou Schmidt: "She has been married since Oct. 15 to Richard Rebbert who is working toward his Ph.D. in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. Martha Lou is working at the Carnegie Institute here in Baltimore doing biological research on DNA." Sondra Miller Ivey, Win, and son David live in Norfolk where Win now works for the C&P Telephone Company. Connie Zeno writes that she is now Mrs. J. Reuben Rigel. Married in June, 1966, she now teaches math in a Junior High School and plans to attend Expo '67 in Canada. Married the same day as Connie, Kendal
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East is now Mrs. John Joe Mitchell. They both teach school. Connie Nunn Crowder also is still teaching. Nancy Loughridge also was married last June and now lives with her husband, Frederick B. Lowe, at Fort Sill, Okla. Bucky Hanbury Daniel has moved to Fort Benning, Ga. to be with her husband who also is in the service. Carolyn Wiltshire Webb reports that she now works for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia as editorial assistant for their monthly news magazine. Les will be a senior in dental school at MCV. The Randy Coxes live in Richmond now while he is teaching Spanish at the University and Beth works at the Federal Reserve Bank. In Aug. they will go to the University of Wisconsin where he will begin work on his doctorate. Carolyn also sent news about service wives: Walker Glenn Weigel's husband is in the Navy serving as a lawyer. Zanne Borum Baker is now teaching in a junior high in West Point while Bud is in the service; they met in Hawaii this spring for a vacation. Mary Kay Mast had a son, Robert William, in Jan. and will live in Williamsburg with her sister, a 1967 Westhampton graduate, while Jake is away. Mary Jane Bacon Huffman had her second child, Richard Carl, Jr. in Dec. This spring she returned to teaching English. They have moved to a home near Bon Air. Lee Putney will be working in Richmond this summer before returning to the University of Georgia for her second year in vet school. Ann Blitch Siler reports that they will be moving back to Gettysburg where her husband will continue in seminary and she will teach fourth grade. Most of her news is on the legal side: Ann notes that Archie Yeatts has accepted a job with a firm in Richmond upon finishing at TC Williams. Elaine is still teaching. Susie Fitchett Towers will be moving to Roanoke in June. Her husband graduates from UV A law school and has accepted a position in Roanoke. Mary Eleanor Hodges Strickland will be moving to Richmond this fall when Bill will enter T. C. Williams Law School, having left the Marines. Billie Lynn Lassiter Mercer had a boy, James Wright Mercer, Jr. Sally Abel took a spring trip to New England fo.i; several weeks. She plans to leave Washington in June to seek her fortune in sunny Calif. A note of thanks here to Joan Hoch Yowell for helping in the round-up of Richmond news and group leaders. She writes that Beth Askew is now working as a reference assistant in the Richmond Public Library, having attended the Rutgers Library School. Concerning teachers, Joan writes that Judy Stone Gobble is teaching 6th grade in Richmond; her husband Ray is with Reynolds Metals. Brenda Wade Gordon is still teaching Spanish in Richmond Elementary Schools while her husband is attending MCV Dental School. Frances Mayer is teaching physical education in Chesterfield County. Julia Martin Frazier is teaching algebra in the same county; her husband is finishing at the University of Richmond and will also teach in the fall. Jo Ann Cropper Revnolds is teaching in a high school in Richmond. Nancy Blake Svendsen was married last July to Capt. Don Svendsen, an instructor at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He is also an advisor to the track team and Nancy has been traveling with him to the meets. Margaret Siegfried Thompson is now working as a chemist in research at A. H . Robins
Company; her husband Jack will be a senior in MCV Dental School. Madeline Crenshaw writes that she is now Mrs. Bobby Stick Bulls . She works at the Life Insurance Company of Va. while Bob is in graduate school. Ingrid Loock is planning to enter MCV Medical School in Sept . Mrs. Gary M. Richardson (Carolyn Lee Browning) is teaching high school math in Columbus, Ohio while her husband is interning there with plans to be a surgeon. Mary Frances Webb has been promoted to a systems analyst at A. H. Robins. Her hus band is in MCV Dental School. Alice Ruth Carter is doing graduate work at RPI and will receive her master's in social work next year. Alice De Camps also is doing graduate work, in library science at UNC, Chapel Hill. Bev Davis Walters has moved to Richmond where her husband works as assistant director of personnel for the RF&P Railroad. He was to receive his MA in Business Administration from GW in June . She is writer and editor for the Baptist Foreign Mission Board and teaches piano. In addition, Bev is serving as president of our alumnae class for the next two years. Congratulations! Bev forwarded info on several classmates: Pat Ryan is attending Wayne State University in Detroit, finishing her MA in Dramatic Art. Mary Bruce Ford Wood is teaching sixth grade at Ridge School. Her husband, Andy, has finished his last year at TC Williams. Lisa Coleman Rose and Fred have moved back to Richmond from Hartford, Conn., while he is
in the service. She is working for A. H. Robins. Nancy Ree Smith Scarborough sends news from the Washington, D. C., area. June Hoge Byrd has an interesting job as a departmental secretary in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at George Washington University Hospital. Her husband is working on missiles at Vitro Lab in Wheaton, Md. Diana Davis Ward was married Nov. 5 and now lives in Oxon Hill, Md. Aubrey is a chemical engineer at the Naval Ordnance Sta• tion in Indian Head. Diana is in immunological research at National Institutes of Health. Juanita Phillips Reynolds and her husband, Ron, have a little daughter, Katheryn Denise, born Jan. 6, 1967. They live in Baltimore County where Ron is a Community Director with the Department of Recreation and Parks. After reading about all of these activities, I am most impressed with our class ! Many thanks again to the group leaders; would you believe that most of them have promised to send even more information next time? If any of you have news and do not know who your group leader is, drop a note to me. MRs. JoHN W. MALLORY (Letty Sloan) 606 24th St., Arlington, Va. 22202
1965The first reunion for our class was quite successful but would have been more so if all of you had been able to attend. We had a marvelous time at the banquet at the Jefferson Hotel. There were about 35 girls present, and
the remainder of the class was certainly missed. A new fund chairman and secretary were elected-fund chairman, Dianne Minter, and secretary, Jackie Harper. These girls will hold the offices for the next three years when we will again elect officers at our five year reunion. Phyllis Jane Bradshaw Meiggs and Bob are now living in Charleston, W . Va., where Bob has been transferred by C&P Telephone. Phyllis Jane spent several months in South Boston while Bob attended an AT&T Data Training School in Cooperstown, N. Y. They are now living in the same apartment building with Anne Dixon Booker, '66 and her husband, Bill. Janet Taylor Fuller and Wayne visited Phyllis Jane and Bob in April. I understand they had a wonderful trip. Phyllis Jane says she finally got someone to make the trip from Va. Janet and Wayne are moving to South Boston . Wayne will be working with his father 's men's shop--Fuller 's Men's Shop . Janet plans to teach in Halifax Co. next year. Rosalind Rogers recently became engaged to Jack Vellines. Congratulations, Rosalind. Brenda Netherwood Gibrall and George became the parents of a boy, George Mehfond on Mother's Day, May 14. Susie Greenwood Crute has been elected president of the Richmond Area Mortar Board Alumnae. Ann Carter has been transferred to the Roanoke office of the C&P Telephone Co. June was again the month of weddings. Margaret Brittle became Mrs. William Brown on June 8. They are living in Atlanta where
THE TORCH OF HONOR "National honor is national property of the highest value."
These words were spoken 150 years ago - in the First Inaugural Address of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States and author of the Monroe Doctrine. Today, these words mean more than ever. The bright flame of our national honor seems - at times - to flicker dangerously. If it is to burn on, it must be guarded well. It must be tended with dedication, responsibility, and the willingness to sacrifice. James Monroe was well aware of this, and he gladly accepted the sacrifices that duty entailed. Revolutionary soldier, statesman, President, he devoted his life to keeping bright that flame of national honor. The torch has passed through many hands. Today, it rests in ours. Let us guard it jealously. Let us never deprive it of the life-giving air of freedom. James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, author of The Monroe Doctrine.
VIRGINIA
ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY RICHMOND,
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Bill will be attending graduate school at Georgia Tech . Janet Renshaw became the bride of Dr. Robert Carrighan on June 10. Janet and Bob will be living in St. Louis, Mo. Judy Murden Brown and Gene are now in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gene is with IBM 's Federal Systems division. Judy is learning Spanish and hopes to teach in Spanish the second year they are there. It has been most enjoyable keeping in touch with all of you since our graduation two years ago. Please continue to keep Jackie informed of your news and address changes. BARBARA
C. VAUGHAN
403 Westover Hills Blvd., Apt. 203 Richmond , Va. 23225
1966Tuck Hilley is engaged to John R. Maney, Jr. She is presently attending the University of Delaware, and John is attending T. C. Williams Law School. They plan to marry in Sept. Martha Colston is working for NASA at the Goddard Research Center as a Contract Negotiator. Ginger Blanton and Jefferson Bailey, Jr. were married on May 13, 1967 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Blackstone, Va. They will live in Augusta, Ga. Lacey (Gordon) Cundiff and husband, John, are the parents of a baby boy, Layne Hamilton. The little one was born April 10. The Cundiffs are living in Raleigh where John is a candidate for a master's degree in agricultural engineering at North Carolina State University. Lynn Jordan went to Bermuda for a week's vacation the first week in June. Susan DeAlba is engaged to Bob Snodgrass of Kansas City, Kansas. The wedding will take place July 8, 1967 at Susan's home in York Co., Va. Susan met Bob while working at Harvard in the summer of 1966. I wish you all a happy and safe summer. Keep me informed of the latest happenings so that I may pass them on to the rest of the class. BARBARA A. Ruscus
1200 S. Arlington Ridge Rd. #207 Arlington, Va. 22202
WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS Baltimore Alumnae Club President:
MRS. KITTY WHITBY
F'IEGE
(Kitty Whitby, '59) 312 Stevenson Lane Baltimore, Md. The Baltimore Club has held three functions this year: a tea in Sept. for girls currently attending Westhampton, a dinner held jointly with Richmond graduates in Nov., and a luncheon in April. Mrs. R. E. Booker and Dean Mary Louise Gehring were with us for the April luncheon. The club is currently revising its membership list. We have 23 active members and an average attendance of 14 at meetings.
Officers are Kitty Fiege '59, president; Katherine Newby '34, vice president; Carolyn Higinbothom '58, secretary, and Sue Downing '54, treasurer. The club will send its check to the Alumnae Association after its next executive session.
A coke party is being planned in the early fall to honor girls who are returning to Wes~ham pton and also prospective students. Dottie Stiff Price '56 is in charge of the arrangements.
Richmond Club Alumnae
Northern California Club President:
President:
MRs. L . P. ROBERTSON, JR.
(Virginia Pleasant '28) 117 Lakewood Road Walnut Creek, California The Northern California Club is planning to have a meeting in Palo Alto on Sat., July 29. At this time Leslie Booker will be with us and will bring news and recent pictures of Westhampton. All alumnae in this area are cordially invited. You may contact the president for further details. Here are quotes from Virginia Robertson's letter; "Last year's meetings with Mr. and Mrs. S. P . Lee and Dalton Parker were a pleasure. . . . Foster Robertson will be in school at California this summer on scholarship from the Art History Department to allow her to concentrate on Chinese studies . ... I had telephone conversations with Janet Frances Midgett and Juliette Loving Whitlach. Juliette lives in Moraga Creek. I also had a nice note from Lois Dorsey Garwood. I am sorry to have lost Georgie Simpson but I'm certain her new job is a most interesting challenge .... Chester Swanson is in Washington just now, expecting to spend this fall again surveying the Philippine school system. I expect to be in Virginia from Aug. 1 to 20."
Peninsula Alumnae Club Co-Presidents:
MRs. DouGLAs
POWELL
(Harriet Smith, '49) 4 Club Terrace Newport News, Va. G. LAMBIOTTE (Susan Riley, '59) 214 Piez Ave. Newport News, Va. MRS. ARTHUR
The Peninsula Westhampton Alumnae Club held its annual spring luncheon on April 15 at the King James Motel. There were about 30 in attendance. Mrs. Booker and Dean Gehring were the special guests. Mrs. Booker brought us up-to-date on alumnae activities at college, and Dean Gehring spoke about changes in student life today and the possibilities and problems of a student-abroad program. The club has for some time been interested in encouraging more Westhampton girls to study abroad and in bringing more foreign students to Westhampton. During the business session, the group voted to send $100 te the Alumnae Association to be used to start a Foreign Exchange Fund. It was stipulated that this Fund could be used either for a Westhampton girl wishing to study abroad or for a foreign student wishing to attend Westhampton. It was hoped that other alumnae groups would be interested in contributing to this fund in the future. Officers for the coming year will be: Co-Presidents: Sue Riley Lambiotte '59 Harriet Smith Powell '49 Secretary: Frances Sutton Oliver 'SO Anne Higgins Borger '47 Treasurer:
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MRS.
ARNOLD
FREDERICK
(Jean Hudgins, '58) 9653 University Boulevard
Richmond,Va. Board members of the Richmond Club for the coming year, 1967-68, were elected at the annual meeting. They are the following: President-Jean Hudgins Frederick '58 First Vice-President-Anne Smith Palazzo '42 Second Vice-President-Carolyn Moss Hartz '58 Recording Secretary-Libby Wampler Jarrett '62 Corresponding Secretary-Marion Lawton Kinzey '46 Treasurer-Jane Morris Dobyns '60 Members-at-large-Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum '59 Doris Balderson Burbank 'SO Membership Co-chairmen-Janet Knobel Jones '56 Barbara Moore Flannagan '54 Publicity Chairman-Ann Peery Frederick '56 Student Relations Chairman-Jane Betts Schmidt '54 Co-chairman of Calendar Sales-Sue Hudson Parsons '58 Elsa Queen Falls '64 Co-chairmen of Pecan Sales-Emily Damerel King '58 Becky Grissom VanAusdall '60 The Richmond Club membership committee has compiled and published a directory of over 1500 names and addresses, which will be mailed to each Richmond alumna during the summer. The Richmond Club donated $250.00 to the Westhampton Alumnae Association this year as a result of their fund-raising projects. School year calendars will again be sold by the Richmond Club members, beginning in August. Richmond Area Alumnae: Plan now to support the projects, attend meetings, and become an active member of the Richmond Club.
Roanoke Alumnae Club President:
MRS. ROBERT NEUVJLLE
(Arnette Kizzia, '55) 4726 Glenhrook Dr., Roanoke, Va. The Roanoke Club held its spring luncheon meeting on May 6 at the Lakeview Club. Guests were Mrs. Leslie Booker, Alumnae Secretary, who gave a report on Alumnae Day, Alumnae College and the progress of the Alumnae Fund; and Miss Jean G. Wright, who retired last year as head of the French department at Westhampton. Miss Wright gave an interesting report on recent developments at the college. Betty Hogan Rogers (Mrs. Virgil L.) '43, who has been president of the club for two years, presented a donation from the club to Mrs. Booker for the Alumnae Fund . Charlotte Herrink Jones (Mrs. Robert M.) '51, chairman of the nominating committee, presented this slate which was elected unan-
imously: President, Arnette Kizzia Neuville (Mrs. Robert) '55; Vice President, Cary Hancock Gilmer (Mrs. Donald L.) '59; SecretaryTreasurer, Virginia LeSueur Carter (Mrs. W. J.) '53. Final business at the meeting, attended by 20 club members, was a discussion of plans for the fall reception honoring current and entering students at Westhampton.
Tidewater Alumnae Club
WESTHAMPTONNECROLOGY
1935Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Arthur Harrison, Jr. (Alice Elizabeth Oberle).
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New -officers for the Tidewater Alumnae Club were installed April 22 in a ceremony at the Lafayette Yacht Club in Norfolk. From left are Julie Perkins Crews, vice-president; Jane Ozlin Givens, president; Mrs. R. E. Booker, Alumnae Secretary; and Elizabeth McRae Dudley, retiring president.
Washington, D. C. Area Alumnae Club President:
Mrss
MARGARET RUDD
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Frank Garrett Louthan, a retired lawyer and businessman in Richmond, died on May 13. He was 79. Mr. Louthan had attended Alumni Day activities at the University, and was stricken while still on the campus. He was taken to the Medical College of Virginia where he died shortly thereafter. He was retired executive secretary of the Virginia Manufacturer 's Association, and a former chairman of the State Milk Commission . He was associated with the VMA for 36 years. He helped organize the association, which grew to a membership of more than 700 during his years with the organization. He retired from the VMA in 1958, and served as chairman of the milk commission for two years. Mr. Louthan was active in a number of social and civic organizations but devoted to none more time and effort than to the University of Richmond. He was active in the alumni association and a loyal alumnus. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity, and in 1959 established at the university an endowment fund to be used annually for an award to a member of the University of Richm :md graduating class who is an active member of the SPE fraternity. The award is known as The Frank G. Louthan Award. He was a member, trustee and former deacon of the Second Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, a son and a brother.
5806 Franklin Ave., McLean, Va. A combined business and cultural meeting followed by a reception and tour was held at the Textile Museum in Washington, D. C. on April 1. Westhampton undergraduates living in this area were especially invited to attend and five were able to be with us. Two talked briefly to the group, one on the scholastic aspects of the college and the other on extra-curricular activities. May Thompson Evans who had guided us to select the Museum, spoke on the current exhibit of Ancient Peruvian textiles and the Museum's cultural program, after which the Museum Conservateur discussed his work He then conducted the group through the laboratory where he demonstrated and explained methods of conserving textiles. The club hopes to sponsor a concert of American music in the fall by alumna Elizabeth Gill White, a concert pianist who has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra . Proceeds from ticket sales would go to the college. The chapter also hopes to entertain prospective W. C. students before the fall session begins. The chapter contributed $100 to the Westhampton College Alumnae Association in April, most of it representing proceeds from the sales discount plan of the Associated Alumnae Clubs of this area.
1911J. Elwood King, a retired industrial traffic management consultant, died in Venice, Fla., April 9. He was 76. Mr. King was born in Richmond, and went on to the University of Virginia to study law following his graduation from Richmond College . He later studied at New York University. He was a member of St . Mark's Episco:,al Church in Venice and a member of a number of social and civic clubs. Survivors include his wife, three brothers and three sisters. Oswald Lee Cole, an attorney at West Point, Va., died in Williamsburg in March. He was 78. Mr. Cole moved to We st Po int in 1913, where he served as a member of the Town Council, county attorney, commissioner in chancery for King William County, and commissioner of accounts. He was a member of the Commercial Lawyers League of America and the Westmoreland Club of Richmond He served in World War I as a major in the U. S. Army and was a retired Lt. Col. He is survived by his wife and three grandchildren .
1913Presley A. L. Smith, Jr., a Richmond attorney, died in a Richmond hospital May 8. He was a native of Goochland County where he served as commonwealth's attorney and re -
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cently as substitute county judge. He was recently recognized by the Bar Association of the City of Richmond for 50 years of service as a member of the Bar of Virginia. He served as an officer in both world wars and was retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department. He is survived by his wife, a sister and a brother.
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Professor G. Glenwood Clark, retired professor of English at William and Mary College, died May 20. He was 73. Professor Clark taught more than 40 years at William and Mary, where he served as chair man of the English department and as Chancellor professor of English. He was the author of several historical biographies for children, including works on Thomas Jefferson and Thomas A. Edison. He reviewed numerous books for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. From 1950 to 1953 he taught American literature at the University of Brazil. He was a native of Richmond and received both the B.A . degree and LL.B. degree from the University of Richmond. He received the Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. He retired in 1964. Survivors include his wife, a son, a sister and a brother .
1918Oscar Leonard Brittle, a retired employee of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drv Dock Company in Newport News, died April 2. He was 69. Mr. Brittle was associated with the firm for 36 years. In recent years, he had been active as a coach in the Manchester Little League. He also was active in the Manchester Optimist Club. He is survived by his wife and a brother .
1922Clarence W. Tune of South Boston, Va ., died November 2, 1966. Mr. Tune was a tobacconist in South Boston, and a member of the First Baptist Church there. He was a Mason and a member of the Sportsman Club and the Booster Club . His hobby was raising cattle .
1923William D . Frazier of Suffolk died April 27. He was 65. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Suffolk. He served in World War I. He has no immediate survivors. He died in a Virginia Beach, Va., nursing home.
1925Herbert Goff Ricker, a professional mus1c1an who composed the University of Richmond's alma mater music, died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in January. Mr. Ricker was a piano teacher and concert pianist in Oklahoma City . He was born in Chickasha, Okla., and could play simple melodies by ear when only four. He began serious study of the piano when he was six. While at the University of Richmond, he studied with the late concert pianist John Powell. After his graduation, he studied at Vienna, and later at Sherwood Music School in Chicago. He made his New York debut at Town Hall in 1937 and continued his work there until returning to Oklahoma City more than 30 years ago. He served several years as music critic for the
Oklahoma News was on the staff of Sherwood School, and belonged to several professional associations. Survivors include a brother and a stepdaughter.
1925William Edwards Smith of Greensboro, N. died in October. He was 66. Mr. Smith was an attorney and practiced Greensboro for 39 years. He was a native Roanoke Rapids. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
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1926Judge C. Champion Bowles, retired judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Virginia, died in April. He was 68. Judge Bowles was appointed circuit judge in September of 1954, and served until retire ment in February, 1966. He served as commonwealth's attorney of Goochland County for 11 years until 1947, when appointed assistant attorney general for Virginia. During his term as assistant attorney general, he also served as counsel for the state highway department. He practiced law until he was elected commonwealth's attorney in 1936. He was a member of the Virginia Bar Association, and past master of Cabell Lodge 328, AF&M in .Columbia. He also was a member of the Scottish Rite, Acea Temple Shrine, and the American Legion. Survivors include his wife, a son, and three daughters.
1933Samuel Wilcox, a retired professor, writer and government consultant, died in Norfolk, Va ., on April 6. Mr. Wilcox earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and held several teaching positions in the U. S. He served as a faculty member of The Citadel, Florida State College for Women, Stetson University, Centre College of Kentucky, and the University of Tampa, Fla. He also held positions with the Seaboard Airline Railway , Virginia Electric and Power Company, the Norfolk Naval Base, and as an economist with the U. S. Government. Prior to his retirement, he was deputy commissioner of Revenue and Virginia State Tax Agent for Norfolk. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the Sons of the American Revolution and the American Economic Society. Survivors include his wife, a daughter and three grandchildren .
1934Robert M. Wilson of Richmond died March 31.
1942Captain Vincent W. Collins of the U. S. Navy died in Alexandria, Va., in April, shortly before he planned to return to the University for his 25th reunion.
Community (C ontinued f rom page 12)
When University College came into being in 1962-63, only three of its 134 classes were taught by full-time people, and only 1,727 individuals were served. In 1966-67 there were 221 classes for 3,732 persons . During the year to come 41
full-time faculty members will be employed along with 75 part -time instructors. University College already has expanded at the old Law School site, at Lombardy and Broad Streets, and will expand further this fall into its newly-acquired Second Baptist Church properties on Franklin Street, between Foushee and Adams. The number of classrooms will go up from 17 to 42 ; there will be a 650-seat auditorium, and a library with some 25,000 selected functional books close by the Richmond Public Library with its 375,000 volumes. (Dr. Shotsberger, a practical man, remarked half in jest to City Librarian Howard Smith that their two libraries will average out at 200,000 volumes each.) Junior College enrollment has gone up from zero in 1963-64 to 456 in its third year, and the enrollment of the Institute for Business and Community Development has gone from zero in 1962-63 to 893 in its fourth year. These figures are given for what they are worth as University College attempts its role of helping all who wish to help themselves in keeping with its tersely-stated purpose: "To continue to offer programs, credit and non-credit, degree and non-degree , with a qualitative approach in academic environment that will fulfill the obligation of University College as the community-oriented college of the University of Richmond." And so it is: The University of Richmond in 1964 and again in 1965 joined forces with the Brookings Institution to put on two summer-long Urban Policy Conferences at which community leaders considered, with the aid of outstanding experts, new needs of the new age of urbanization. It is a new world with a new need for new ways of doing new things. Following these conferences have come other things involving the non-academic community: A Guidance and Counseling Seminar on employment problems and opportunities in industry for youth; a seminar on The New Role of Higher Education in Community Life, and most recently the Metropolitan Leadership Workshop . Experts have estimated that some 60 per cent of the spectacular growth of the gross national product is attributable to education, and University College seeks in every possible way to enlarge its contribution . The same experts, viewing the multiplication of knowledge , say that leaders of the future will have "to be in and out of universities for the rest of their lives if they wish to keep up ." They say, and are able in most instances to prove their point , that in the near future education will become the No . 1 economic generator in cities. It's not enough to be an economic generator, says Dean Shotzberger. The urban institution of higher learning should be a "cultural force in the community." He points out that University College's degree program offers education at the undergraduate [ 43]
level in commerce and at the graduate level in the humanities and in commerce. Many a housewife has rejoiced at the opportunity to pick up again the educational skein put aside by marriage, children and household chores. They have taken advantage of the opportunity to add in University College a master of humanities degrees to the bachelor's degree earlier won at other colleges. Men and women are working diligently at both the undergraduate and graduate level in pursu it of commerce degrees. In many cases the bachelor's degree, earned a few courses at a time in evening classes, has required ten or more years of effort. At the June commencement, the age of the bachelor of commerce degree recipients ranged all the way from 21 to 65. A very large proportion, a ratio of better than two to one, of the degree winners are in the master's program . Dean Shotzberger is confident that the number of master's degrees, now approximately 50 each year, will approach 100 within a period of five years. "We honestly feel," Dean Shotzberger said, '' that we have something for everyone who seeks to improve himself culturally or is seeking knowledge and skills that will enable him to improve his economic position." From 8: 30 in the morning until the lights are turned out at the end of evening classes, University College, in the words of Dean Shotzberger, is doing its "level best to bring all of the resources of our University to our Community."
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ambitions and ideals of a generation , and that as times changed, he did, too ." In his talk, "The Plight of the Central City," Dr . Sartain called for a concern on the part of the suburban residents and churches for the problems of the modern central city. While many members of the middle and upper classes have fled to the suburbs, leaving the inner city to the relatively propertyless lower classes, "the suburbanite's dependen ce on the central city for his living is the factor which makes his responsibility a necessity." Many suburbanites fail to realize that city limits are rather artificial boundaries , for the whole area is an economic and social unit. Dr. Sartain concluded by saying, "The suburban dwellers must assume an increasing responsibility for the problems of the central city to prevent the tide of physical deterioration, rising crime rates, and the decline of religious institutions from creating an urban jungle in our cities."
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