Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 30, Summer 1967

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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.


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