Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 31, Spring 1968

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Published quarterly at the University of Richmond by the General Society of Alumni.

Entered as second-class matter at University of Richmond, Virginia 23173. Subscription price: $1.00 per year.

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You Gotta Pick Yourself Up

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So They Say

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Baseball

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Basketeers Reach Semi-Finals; Mills Named Coach of The Year

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Alumni In The News

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JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '30 .............. ............ Editor RANDOLPH H. WALKER, '60 .... Assistant Ed itor LESLIE S. BOOKER, '22 .... Westhampton Editor JOHN W. EDMONDS, III, '66 Law School Editor THOMAS S. BERRY ........ Business School Editor CECIL F. JONES, '43 .............. Business Manage,-

THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF ALUMNI EDWIN B. BROOKS, JR., '43 .............. President T. JACK GARY, '31 ........... ........• Vice President CHARLES G. MOTLEY, '46 ···-· ·· Vice President G. THOMAS TAYLOR, '36 .......... Vice President JOHN M. BAREFORD, '40 ...... .............. Secretar11 EXECUTIVE

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R. W. NUCKOLS, '21 AUBREY J. ROSSER, '60

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL JAMES M. FRYE, JR., '53 ................... .

HOWARD P . FALLS, '33 .............. Vice RAWLEY F. DANIEL, '40 .......... Vice JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '30 ....................

CECIL F. JONES, '43 ................... .......

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE G. FRED CooK, '26 RALPH P. MOORE, '38 JOHN W. EDMONDS, III, '63 EDMUND G. HARRISON, '66 A. E. DICK HOWARD, '64

Odis BenjaminHinnant Few people make full use of a lifetime. Odis Hinnant did. And though he walked in humility, he was a proud man-proud of being a native Richmonder; proud of his Christian faith; proud of his fellowman.

He lived all of his seventy-six years, joyfully and zestfully. He gave himself to many enterprises but never seemed to tire, was never wearied with good works.

Although never an ordained minister, his was an active ministry dedicated to young people. His most notable contributions were made through the Boy Scout movement, the Y.M.C.A., and the University of Richmond.

It was Odis Hinnant who organized the first Boy Scout troup in Richmond. It was to Odis that heartbroken parents turned to help rescue a recalcitrant, delinquent youth who seemed headed for the reform school.

He is best known for his work with the Y.M.C.A. in the United States and in South America. Not only in Uruguay and Brazil where he was stationed for 40 years but throughout all of South America he did notable work for the Y.M.C.A. Among his other talents, he developed a prodigious ability for raising funds. Of his work for the "Y", one who knew Odis Hinnant well had this comment: "His appeal was as personal as that of Jesus of Nazareth. In simp licity , in humility, and in dedication, he walked where Jesus walked."

In 1956 he "retired." But this man of action was not suited for retirement. He wasn't content to rest on his laurels, to show his medals and commendation ribbons, to brag about successes in Y.M.C.A. work in two continents, to show photographs of buildings constructed with funds he had raised.

Odis Hinnant went to the Inte1·denominational Religious Foundation ( now the Chaplain Service) and said: "Here I am; what can I do?"

"We need you at the Beaumont School for Boys," he was told. So, Odis Hinnant gave two days of each week to the boys at Beaumont , boys who had been dubbed incorrigible, but boys who beneath their tough exteriors were just boys who needed love and understanding. They found a friend in Odis Hinnant, a confidant that they could trust and respect . His ministry was shared by his wife Adele who accompanied him to Beaumont (Continu ed on page 20)

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WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION BETTY ANN ALLEN DOUB, '49 .......... President CATHERINE SMITH SPRATLEY, '49 Vice President FRANCES A. STALLARD, '28 } MARY MILLS FREEMAN, '35 Board of Trustees ELIZABETH TOMPKINS, '19 LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION R. E. BOOKER, '29 .... ......... ......... ........ President HENRY D. GARNETT, '46 ....... . Vice President VIRGINIA IVEY KLINGEL, '48 .... Exec. Secretarv CARLE E. DAVIS, '56 ... .............. .........

Treasurer DIRECTORS FELIX E.

EDMUND S, '24

BOYCE C. WORNOM, '64 MELVIN R. MANNING, '64 JOSE M. CABANILLAS, 69 AUSTIN E. OWEN, '50 RICHARD C. RAKES, '51 FRANK D. HARNS, '54 G. THOMAS TAYLOR, '39 JOHN W. EDMONDS, III, '66

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OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CLYDE H. BELLAMY, JR ., '56 ................ President WILLIAM E. LAYNE, JR., '69 .. Vice President B . ROLAND FREASIER, JR., '61 ...... Vice President ROBERT s. JEPSON, JR ... .... .............. ...... Secretary ELLIS M . DUNKUM, ' 69 ······· ··············· Treasurer

The Changing Role of Education Alumnae-Alumni Weekend May 10-11,1968 Mr. Wayne

Calendar of Events

Dr. Winstead

Mrs. Franklin

Friday, May 10, 1968 ALUMNAE-ALUMNI

COLLEGE

Chairman: Clarice Ryland Price '50 Room, South Court 3, South Court

10:00 A.M.

REGISTRATION-Reception LECTURE SERIES-Room

10:30 A.M.

"CAN PHILOSOPHY BE PRACTICAL?" James Hall -Dr. Can philosophy assist in straightening out confusion in morals" and the over the so-called "revolution conflict over legally based equality?

11:00 A.M.

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Tea Room LUNCHEON-Westhampton Speaker: Betty Sherman Cale '28. A State Department wife sees today's world from the viewpoint of an American who has lived in many foreign countries.

2:30 P.M.

Edward Peple "A MIRROR UP TO NATURE"-Dr. Dr. Peple takes Shakespeare's view of the purpose of drama as his starting point as he examines the themes of several modern dramatists.

CLASS REUNIONS

Mrs. Mary Anne Franklin. Mrs. Franklin, a Westhamp· ton alumna, draws on her experience as vice-presi· of Central Virginia director dent and program Educational Television Corp. to for.ecast the impact of television on all levels of education .

Mr. Edward A. Wayne. Mr. Wayne, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, was chair· which man of the Governor's "Wayne Commission" recommended establishment of a state university in the Richmond area. He focuses on changes ahead on the local scene for tomorrow's collegians.

FRIDAY EVENING

12:30 P.M.

Meeting-Keller ALUMNAE LUNCHEON-Business Hall PRESIDING: Betty Ann Allen Doub '49, President, Westhampton College Alumnae Association

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Gymnasium ALUMNI LUNCHEON-Millhiser PRESIDING: Edwin 8. Brooks, Jr . '43, President, Gen· eral Society of Alumni GUESTS OF HONOR: Members of the Faculty

Joy Winstead Propert '55

of Business Alumni Association BREAKFAST-School W. Broad St. Holiday lnn-3200

3:30 P.M.

Theatre REX"-Greek PLAY-"OEDIPUS production featuring the University A spectacular Players, the University Choir, Orchesis and the Brass Ensemble .

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PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION-Dr. Modlin 2 Bostwick Lane University of Richmond

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and Alumni REGISTRATION-Alumnae Lawn, School of Business Administration

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J. Sydnor Phillips , Jr. '53 7:30 A.M.

Auditorium

Speakers: Dr. Warren Winstead, '50 . The President of Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. discusses the unique approach to education which has won national recognition for his college in its first year.

Saturday, May 11, 1968 Co-Chairmen:

SEMINAR-Dennis

"THE CHANGING FACE OF EDUCATION"

Frances Gregory "WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?"-Dr. Dr. Gregory brings her special interest and training in American History to bear on a subject of importance to each of us. How does our American heritage affect the attitudes and problems of our country today? What lessons can it teach us?

12:45 P.M.

ALUMNAE-ALUMNI

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LESLIE BOOKER:

She Kept Openthe Lines Of Communication Between Alma Materand HerAlumnae

by MARY GRACE SCHERER TAYLOR, '42

Leslie Sessoms Booker was "sweet sixteen" and Westhampton College was only four when the two first met in 1918.

It must have been love at first sight because ever since the two have been "going steady."

For the first quarter century, it was mutual admiration, but for the past 25 years the marriage has been official.

This June the 50-year romance will take another turn when the executive secretary of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association closes the books and becomes just Leslie Sessoms Booker, Class of 1922.

"I'll be glad to come back and stuff envelopes if they need me," she promises, "bu~, I've got a lot of catching up to do.

From the beginning, the partnership that has kept her on the go was blessed by parental consent. Her father was a Baptist minister and her maternal grandfather, also a Baptist clergyman, was the Rev. John Rhodes Quarles, '71, a Richmond College alumnus.

One thing led to another and succeeding decades strengthened the ties.

In 1926, after four years of teaching history, the Westhampton graduate married a fellow collegian, Russell E. Booker, Richmond College '24 and T. C. William Law School, '29. In 1937, when the Westhampton College Alumnae Association came of age and expanded as a national organization, she was elected the first president under the new set up. In 1943 she was named executive secretary, and in later years her two sons and daughter followed tradition to enroll at the University.

It's the same kind of family affair for Leslie , the executive secretary, who is on a first-name basis with alumnae of each generation. Her kin embrace every woman who ever attended Westhampton. What's more, she not only knows them by name ( both maiden and married), but she can, on a moment's notice, furnish important vital statistics.

Scarcely, if ever, does a girl spend four years on campus without being entertained-after offi.ce hours-at one of

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Leslie's famous at-home dinner parties.

Nostrae Filiae, student government, incoming freshmen and outgoing seniors, she greets them all with maternal pride and southern hospitality. For the preWorld War II set there's a similar welcome when alumnae business is conducted in eloquent style over prized English teacups and home-baked bread.

Looking back, she's still slim, brunette, and breathless.

"You see, I really didn't plan to stay long. Just a year or two. Nothing permanent. Once the children were in school all day, I didn't feel justified in keeping a maid and I've never liked housework. It was a question of giving up my help or going to work. I had a

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war job in mind but Dean Keller convinced me that nothing was more important than having a part in continuing education."

That's how it happened and she moved into the mini office next to the Keller Hall reception room. It was a one-woman operation without even (believe it or not) a telephone. That year alumna e raised slightly over $500 and on file were 1,300 loyal grads.

It's a different story today. Upstairs quarters are still cramped and Leslie, supposedly, still works part time. But there's a telephone, a secretary, and occasional help from students. The mailing roster carries 4,100 names with addresses around the world and annual giving averages about $32,000. During her career she has served under all the deans Westhampton has ever had and the only two presidents to sit in the University of Richmond chair.

Outside the office there is other evidence that "Leslie was here." There are reunions, homecomings, and alumnae college. There's a swimming pool with water in it, a redecorated Blue Room, beautified grounds, and tea time for students during exams-all alumnae projects.

Even now, while busy packing, the executive secretary keeps a watchful eye across the road on the fine arts construction. This year, she says, the Association goal is $40,000 with furnishings for the new building as the priority project.

Beyond the campus her high heels stay on the go. There are 15 out-oftown local ·clubs which usually meet on Saturday ( her day off). She's frequently guest of honor to show color slides of the college. Whenever her husband, the executive director of the Virginia State Bar, heads for a legal convent ion, ·Leslie hitch es a ride. On such occasions she puts first things first by assembling a Westhampton handful for a reunion far from home. In between, she travels to meetings of the American Alumnae Council where she ravenously picks up new ideas to apply when she gets back.

Jet Speed Executive. Leslie Booker gives her divided attention to the committee on one hand and the telephone caller on the other.

With her (from the left) are Frances Anderson Stallard, '28, a member of the University of Richmond Board of Trustees; Billy Jane Crosby Baker, '44, chairman of the tearoom committee, and Inez DeJarnette Hite , '24, former member of the Westhampton Alumnae Association board.

Somehow, through the years, she also in has found time to participate-often official capacity-in the Parent-Teachers Association, the Richmond Branch of t:he American Association of University Women, and the Commonwealth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Then there's the Tuckahoe Woman's Club, a bridge club, and a book club, which "I never get to."

'Working with Leslie," pants one Booker fan, "is like doing the Indianapolis ·500. She starts fast, accelerates ideas at a mile-a-minute pace, and seems to have an endless supply of energy."

"She's much younger than I," is the envious confession of another alumna who postdates Leslie by more t:han a decade. "I get tired just thinking about her. Her phone is ringing all morning, she has ·a meeting which started 15 minutes ago, she's tossing off dinner for 55 students that night, and house guests are arriving from England first thing tomorrow morning. She goes so fast she doesn't know where she's been. Take her frequent lament that she never gets to her woman's club. I attend regul;rly and she's usually there."

The jet speed schedule, however, does not detract from her alumna housekeeping which the secretary has iningenuity vented with characteristic born of necessity.

"I get calls about donations from girls filling out tax returns," she explains, "or inquiries from personnel people asking for a Westhampton graduate with specific qualifications. Then, someone is moving and wants to know if any alumnae live in her new location.

And, of course, everybody remembers classmates by maiden name."

To solve these everyday problems a computer would be helpful, but Leslie doesn't need one. She has her own sys-

tern which catalogues each alumna under eight separate listings. The master file is by maiden name with each card garnished by clippings which have appeared through the years in class notes of the Bulletin. Keyed to this are six additional listings according to married name, class, personal questionnaire sheet, contributions record, career, and zip code. The eighth and most reliable file is in Leslie's head.

"It's the most valuable source of all," confides one Board member. "She knows everybody so well she can fi.t jobs to people almost instantly. Many times I have searched the files to find an alumna suited for a special assignment. Suddenly Leslie says, 'You know who would make a good person?' And sure enough, she's pinpointed the best woman for the task."

Management experts might despair but this person-to-person approach turns exasperation to admiration as co-workers marvel at her "unbounded, unlimited, unbelievable enthusiasm."

"If anyone else asked me to do what Leslie does," admits one alumna, ''I'd say, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But somehow you end up taking the job because you know she never asks you to do something that she wouldn't do herself. She is firmly convinced that Westhampton women are capable of doing anything.

Strangely enough, once she sets the pace we usually end up doing just what she said we could. In the process she never has a negative thought, never panics when things go wrong, and never takes any of the credit."

The reputation for modesty comes as no surprise to one of Leslie's classmates who remembers that the future executive secretary was the youngest in their class and nicknamed "Baby Sessoms."

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and even then we were cutting hair , hemming dresses, selling candy, and 'buying bricks' for the woman's fund."

This was the beginning of the $50,000 which helped build Keller Hall some 15 years later.

Alumnae both old and young see Leslie's hand in the remarkable growth of the Association-"a product of her imagination."

"She sees the organization as a service rather than a fund raising organization," they agree. "To keep open the lines of communication between alumnae and alma mater, Leslie expects of others only what she gives of herself. That is everything!"

Never was this personal commitment to the job at hand more evident than at a recent student convocation when she was invited to ·recall highlights of the college's history. In the course of her remarks, spontaneous impulse compelled her to stand tall-all five feet five inches of her-and launch into a solo of "Boatie went a-begging and he did find." Verse followed verse until the climax: "Only four years now have passed/Standard College A-1 Class." ( The "Boaty" who went a-begging was of course, the late Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright, '88, president for half a century, renowned both as a scholar and fund-raiser.)

The message rang clear. In her book , every woman ·in every class for more than 50 years has been A-1. First hand and from a veteran, the new generation heard what was expected of them.

In the futur e they too will come back to the campus and see the giant imprint of her dainty slippers. These are the footsteps which tell the tale of the legend of Leslie and her love affair with Westhampton.

A Million and One, a Million and Two ...

VFIC SellsHigherEducation

by JOSEPH C. ROBERT According to tradition, an ancient recipe requires the cook to say aloud "a million and one, a million and two," and up to a specille d number, thus insuring the proper time interval during some intricate maneuver with pots and pabulum and such. More pleasant than any such intonation over a hot stove is the identical chant given by accountants at the University of Richmond when totalling the income from a source perhaps unfamiliar to many alumni, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, the number-one organization of its kind in America.

Yes, the unrestricted income received by the University of Richmond from this fund-raising federation of twelve private colleges" will exceed a million dollars when distribution for the fiscal year 1968 takes place this spring, the sum representing this particular institution's share of the accumulated generosity of business and industrial corporations funneled through the foundation since it was established in 1953. The funds disb.-ibuted to the constituent institutions from 1953 through 1967 total $8,180,000, of which the University of Richmond received $916,000. It is now common knowledge that contributions for the fiscal year 1967-68 will put the U niversity of Richmond above the magic-million mark.

By every reasonable yardstick the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges is the most successfu l of the forty similar associations over the nation.

'Whether measured in terms of funds distributed yearly per college and per student, or in terms of contributions received in proportion to oorporate or per capita earnings in its area, this enterprise leads all the rest. What is the eA1)lanation of this remarkable triumph?

Though much of the story of the past fifteen years will remain inarticulated under the silent mortar boards of the college presidents ( those models of discretion, especially when philanthropists, actual or potential, are involved), some facts might well be revealed to alumni "Washington and Lee Un iversity, HampdenSydney College, Randolph-Macon College , University of Richmond, Emory and Henry College, Hollins College, Mary Baldwin College, Roanoke College, Bridgewater College, RandolphMacon ·woman's College , Sweet Briar College , and Lynchburg College.

PRESIDENT GEORGE M. MODLIN, one of only three remaining active college presidents who organized Virginia's "united fund" of colleges in 1953, discusses the VFIC's 1968 program with Warren Pace, '43, president of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia , one of the first insurance companies in the country to support higher education. Dr. Modlin estimates that he has called on more than 1,000 business and industrial corporations during the V FIC's lifetime.

in reassurance that their individual efforts are ·being supported by strong allies in the corporate world, and perhaps as a reminder that the shrewdest of corporate givers use the self-help what th e alumni concept-analyzing themselves are willing to give - as an index of their own ·duty.

'What is the recipe for this negotiable ambrosia and nectar, which, as far as the University of Richmond is ·concerned, now has a millon-dollar look?

There are three major ingredients, plus a seasoning-to-taste. The first is the statesmanship of the college administrators, Presidents Gaines, Modlin, Pannell.

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Quillian , Moreland, and others ( not this writer, let's be clear on that point), who joined forces in 1953 to explain in community-fund fashion the purposes and the problems of the privately-supported institutions of higher learning, and to offer to the business communi ty an opportunity for convenient and effective investment in this private-enterprise sector of Virginia's higher education.

It took both vision and courage for the individual president to pool his plea, and not insist on protecting as a private preserve philantropists and key business executives who by geography or by affection seemed pecu liarl y his. After

About the Author Dr. Joseph C. Robert , who has iust succeeded Dr . Ralph C. McDanel in the William Binford Vest chair of history, has been a member of the history department at the University of Richmond since 1961, returning to his first love, teaching, after serving as president of Coker College and later Hampden-Sydney .

A scholar of catholic tastes, his interests range from the life and times of Chief Justice John Marshall to the history of tobacco in Virginia.

In the unlikely event he should come to class with ink smears on his fingers, his students would properly deduce that he had been working at his chief hobbyiob printing on a hand press in the attic of his home on College Road.

much soul-searching the colleg e presidents and the boards to which they were responsible correctly judged the long-tim e advantages of the united approach. Once the decision was made the presidents plunged into the annual joint campaigns with an enthusiasm which competent observers judg e to be unique among organizations of the kind.

Indeed, it was soon discovered that thP sum was greater than the individual parts; in the united approach a new dimension was given to the cumulated needs of all.

The presidents accepted with good humor their place in the factory anterooms alongside other traveling salesmen. When admitted for their interview they were sure that they could talk about a quality product.

As every wise man knows, the testing time in any great enterprise comes after the excitement of a heroic decision has died down, and it was here in the daily grind of routine calls that the strength of commitment was really measured.

Without their willingness to pers evere, the early presidents would have condemned the novel effort to certain death.

LEA BOOTH , WHO OPERATES the Virginia Foundation for Indep endent Colleges from its headquarters at Lynchburg, gives his 10-year-old twin sons, Cary and George, instruction in the art of bunting which he hopes will enable them to help Washington and Lee defeat the University of Richmond baseball team a decade hence-a feat Mr. Booth was unable to accomplish while pitching for the Generals in the years iust prior to World War II. (The twins' godfather is U of R President Modlin. )

Among the persistent pione ers was our own Dr. George M. Modlin, not only one of the founding fathers but an early president of the group. And he still labors to promote the fortunes of this appeal-in-concert, concentrating on business friends in Virginia, but in the name of the twelve participating institutions, soliciting funds in places as far away as Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Minneapolis and St. Paul. To present the story of the VFIC, Dr. Modlin has made over a thousand personal visits to offices and plants. Here is a sample from his calendar: one rainy day before last Christmas he found himself scheduled for a solo expedition in a northerly direction, and faithfully fulfilled his assignment, making five calls between Richmond and Alexandria before noon, and six additional ones in Alexandria during the afternoon. And

TRUE-FALSEQUIZ In 1967 the money allotted the University of Richmond by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges was the largest sum received by any of the 510 collegiate institutions in America participating in statewide funds similar to the Virginia Foundation.

Is the statement true or false? Mark your and then turn to answer True D or False page 43 for the correct answer.

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If the first ingredient of this success is rhe far-visioned group of early administrators who made the right initial decisions, the second, and the one which according to the presidents gives the characteristic appea l of the organization, is the group often termed, "the lay trustees." These are the busy professional and corporate leaders who are willing to contribute a considerable fraction of their time, their imagination , and their energy to promoting the cause of the private colleges. This blue-ribbon jury of Virginia's finest citizens studied the cause and found it worthy of their best.

To them, service to the colleges became a challenging hobby, a magnificent duty.

It was a project beyond parochial thought; it excited memories of tihe Commonwealth 's great yesterday and visions of its greater tomorrow. These are the modern-day counterparts of those planters of the early republic who accepted public responsibility as a sacred duty. The roster of trustees reads like a Who's Who in Commerce and Industr y; there are businessmen of regional and of national prominence.

Jam es L. Camp, Jr., of Franklin, for instan ce, joined th e board in 1955 on nomination of the University of Richmond, of which he is also a trustee. He was VFIC chairman in the year 1964-67.

Impr essed by the determination of the colleges to sustain their traditionally (Continued on page 43)

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R. Gregory Porter, Ill (Virginia Polytec1111ic Institute '64) m,d New England Life's /lead F. Goode, (University of /liclnnond '65)

His ideawas GregPorter.

While Read F. Goode was still in college, he worked with Gregory Porter for a prominent Richmond investment firm.

Greg stayed with the brokerage firm, but Read entered the insurance business with New England Life.

Several years later, when each was established in his own field, Read had an idea which he believed could benefit them both, and benefit their clients, too. He suggested that he and Greg cooperate, vvhenever possible, to offer balanced financial programs to their clients. Greg agreed.

Together, they analyze a prospect's needs, with Read setting up the fixed dollar portion through insurance, and Greg handling the variable dollar portfolio through investments.

The idea has proved abundantly productive. In the last 12 months, Read's new business from this source alone has totalled more than $250,000-an impressive portion of an equally impressive $1,535,000 total.

"This is typical of what I hoped to be able to do when I chose the insurance field," says Goode. "I wanted a business in which initiative and ideas paid off. I wanted opportunity, with a large measure of freedom, and I've certainly found it here."

Read Goode's choice of a life insurance career was ideal for him. And his choice of New Eng land Life has given him the added advantages of the prestige, resources and reputation of the oldest mutual life insurance company in America.

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The following University of Ricbnond Ahimni are New England Life Agents: Spottswood Duke, CLU, '18, Cincinnati Read F. Goode, '65, Richmond Walter G. Schnee, III, '67, Richmond Verser Todd, '27, Richmond

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StudentsHail UnlimitedCuts DatingRegulations Lightened

by DALE PATRICK, '68

Graduation looms ahead in the minds of the seniors, but they, like everyone else, are enjoying the spring weather which is particularly evident on the University of Richmond campus.

Students who have been studying inside as the campus lay shrouded in snow have moved their books outside, some to bathe in the sun, others to rest in the shade of one of the trees.

Spring, traditionally, is a time to think of new birth, new challenges and love, but frequently, especia lly for the seniors, it is a time to consider the vear gone by-what it has achieved, wh;t it has all meant. And the school year 1967-68 has meant ,a great dea l.

There have been many large and significant events during the year which will make it stand out in the minds of those who cherish the University and seek her well -being. Everyone - students, faculty, administrat ion and alumni - will remember this year as the one in which the Board of Trustees was given the power to authorize the limited acceptance of federal funds.

But federal funds meant even more than the ostensible results which were widely publicized; it proved responsib le for a cohesion ·among students which lasted throughout the year. Studen t enthusiasm for the trustees action enhanced the whole year .

This was the year, too, tha·t the faculty voted to initiate an unlimited cut system. It was certainly a change which met with jubilant response . Many sen-

iors momentarily regretted that they wouldn't be here to enjoy such freedom!

Curriculum changes, like an unlimited cut system, met with popular acclaim.

For the girls the most popular revision was probably the reduction of physical education requiremen ts from four to two yea rs, a long awaited change.

There were other things too - increased support for ,the athletic teams, a winning football team, the nearing completion of the Fine Arts Building and the ground breaking of a new dorm, the list seems endless.

Westhampton studen ts · arnvmg in September found revised social regulations which were much ,to their liking.

Not only were seniors allowed to stay out until 12 p.m., but sophomores, jun iors and seniors were allowed to date on the nights of their own choosing!

A feeling of mutual trust seemed to dominate throughout the year, a feeling which administration and student alike appeared to have found a happy one.

During the summer of 1967 the administrative wing of ·North Court was remodeled . The old combination faculty sitting room and conference area has become not only a compact conference room but also director of Admissions and Placement offices.

Along with ·this added social responsibility all the students have assumed more responsibility for the effective operation of the College Government Association. The nomina ting committee [9]

system for selecting candidates to vie for College Government offices has been replaced by a system of applications. Any student wishing to run for an office for which she is qualified may have her name appear on the ballot simply by filling out the application form , which may be obtained in the Dean of Student's office or from the first vicepresident of College Government.

Not only has the election system been studied and revised but also the judicial branch of Westhampton 's College Government. Since all the cases considered

by Honor Council were not cases involving a student's personal honor , and since ·the titl e "Honor Council" seemed to give a stigma that all offenses were of this nature, the name was changed to Judicial Council.

And so, when you visit th e University for Alumni-Alumnae Day, you will probably find students who ar e not only enjoying a lovely spring-clad campus, but students who have enjoyed a profitable and ·enlightening year. Those who will be returning next year have seen changes which will make their University more effective as an institution of higher learning. For the seniors, it's been a rewarding year, one which has increased their faith in and hopes for their alma mater .

Spring is here and man's thoughts tum to graduation and leisurely summers, marriages and new careers, and the University, too, has put on a new face-a visage ever-changing to meet the needs of ,today's world.

Life Is Like a Football Game

You Gotta Pick YourselfUp

by WILLIAM E. BAKER, '59 Assistant Dean of Students The fourteen-year-old Negro boy of divorced parents, who had been shuttled from one foster home to another all his life, sat sullen on .the sidelines looking through eyes filled with hatred and distrust as the young athlete e:Kplained backfield techniques to the teen-age boys seated in a circle around him.

"As you receive the snap from the center, drop back, partially turning to your left. As the halfback comes by, hold the ball in close to your side away from the line and fake a hand-off into his stomach. Fade back about five yards and get set to throw, watching downfield for your receiver."

The withdrawn boy became more attentive as the brawny letterman stepped back, his arm cocked with the ball held

A Good Start is Important. Steve Bowman helps the Beaumont Boys who need now to recover from a bad start.

high behind his right ear, and let go with a long pass across the green lawn.

"Notice, fellows, I locked my wrist into position before throwing the ball.

Another thing, you have to keep your footing. Balance is a ·very important thing to a quarterback. The least jolt from a rushing tackle can ruin a pass unless you have your feet firmly planted."

The young lad's eyes brightened as he moved in closer to the eager boys who listened intently to every word the football player said.

"And you know guys, life is much like a football game. You get a lot of knocks, and there are many people who will push your face in the mud, or clip you

from behind, but the secret is how you bounce back. All of us get knocked down now and then, but what really counts is how we pick ourselves up and get back into the game. All right, who's going;,to be the first to throw me a long pass?

Before anyone else could get to his feet, the youngster who had, at first, hung back from the group, literally leaped over the heads of those bovs seated inside the circle and stood looking up at the athlete-the first volunteer!

Time and time again similar scenes are re -enacted at the Beaumont School for Boys, a state correctional institution, where the members of the Fellowship of Christian Alchletes from the University of Richmond go each Wednesday to train youngsters in the fundamentals of being ,a good athlete while exhibiting the attributes of good citizenship.

The program started last year when the Men's Class of Pine Street Baptist Church in Richmond, which conducts a weekly Sunday-School Class at Beaumont, told the Director of Religious Activities at the University of Richmond of the need to supplement the athletic program for the young men at Beaumont. The Spiders' Varsity Quarterback Buster O'Brien, president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, led his group in accepting the challenge .

O'Brien tells it this way: "The first week only twelve students came out.

We divided up six to each of two cottages, talked to the boys and tried to orient ourselves. The next week our football players played the Beaumont

Boys who used to play "no holds barred" learn from Allan Fajkhanel how to play by the rules.

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It Floats Through the Air. Buster O'Brien shows how to throw those touchdown passes.

basketball allstars in a hotly contested basketball game. The third week there were two Richmond athletes for each of Beaumont's eleven regular cottages.

That's when we began training them for a wrestling tournament."

"After many weeks of practice on the mats, the Big Night arrived when seventy -seven participants, with fortyeight University of Richmond athletes as their coaches, conducted the largest wrestling tournament that the Beaumont School had ever seen. There was enthusiasm and great excitement as the youngsters saw their cottage champion compete for the trophy and the championship of the school. All 400 boys and staff members packed the gymnasium."

Buster O'Brien, a student from Virginia Beach, had made arrangements for this tournament by looking up an old friend who had worked with sports organizations in the Tidewater Area for years. Through his friend, O'Brien acquired ten trophies depicting the silver figure of an athlete mounted on a marble base, and one trophy two-feet high for the school champion.

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So They Say

Edited by JAMES A. SARTAIN

Rubin Speaks

Robert Says

In Defense of Tom Sawyer

History Tonic for Tired Ideas

What did Tom Sawyer become when he grew up? Why is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn consid ered by many to be a greater novel than is Th e Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Why is the 'horror element' in Huckleberry Finn so much sharp er than it is in Tom Sawyer? Dr. Louis D . Rubin, Jr. , '46, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina spoke at the University of Richmond February 16 on the topic , "In Defense of Tom Sawyer ."

Dr. Rubin said that he did not believe that th e chief importance of Tom Sawyer is as "a harbinger of Huckleberry Finn," but that it stands very high on its own merits. He suggested that one possible reason for Tom Sawyer's subordinate status and reputation is that it happens to be notabl e as a book which children can read and enjoy. Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand , is not really a book for children.

Tom Sawyer can b e read and enjoyed by the child , and can continue to be enjoyed ever afterwards . Dr. Rubin feels that this is true because "the plot of Tom Sawyer , while quite fascinating to a child , is not the chief attraction of the novel.

Thus instead of the book 's appeal being diminished as soon as one discovers how it comes out, it becomes stronger. After we once know what will happen, our attention is liberated, so to speak, from dose attention to the adventure story-line, and we are free to take in the characterization the setting and the imaginative meaning of the story. " Mark Twain wa~ right then when he insisted that it was not a children's book , so much as a book about childhood, written for adults.

While both books contain considerable unpleasantness in them, Tom Sawyer does not have the same kind of horror which one finds in Huckleberry Finn. Dr . Rubin suggests that there are several reasons for this. One is that "Huckl eberry Finn is told by its author through Huck, with the liberation of vernacular language involved thereby , while Tom Sawyer is told by the adult author in his own words .. .. It is the active role of this authorial impressario telling the story to us that accounts for the distance between the reader and the events of the novel , and this distance is very important, for it is the method whereby the novel is given much of its meaning. We do not see Tom and Huck in action; they ar e In short, the condescribed for us by this story-teller ... scious presence of the performing story-teller, with his exaggerations, his jokes, and his philosophing , creates the distance and detachment needed to make us view Tom Sawyer's exploits in the proper way ... While narrative is filtered , as it were, through a haze of time ; it is in the past."

Dr. Rubin thinks that T. S. Eliot is mistaken when he pre dicts that Tom "will one day become an eminently respectable and conventional member of conventional and respectable society." Rubin , however, does not doubt that "Tom will manage to stay in the limelight, dis-cover number opportunities for theatrical gorgeousness , and win the esteem of communities far larger than St. Petersburg; but that he will do

Dr. Joseph C. Robert, Professor of History at the University of Richmond , recently address ed the initiation banquet of th e Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Winthrop College. Dr .

Robert chose as his topic , "History as Ev erybody 's Second Choice. " He urged the "well-winnow ed lead ers . . . to nur ture history as an avocation , as the salt and pepp er for th e seasoning of judgment , as th e tonic to ton e up tir ed ideas, and as a prism through which vision is sharpened. In a word , I beg you to make history, which borrows from all th e arts and sciences and th en rep ays with inter est, your numb er two disciplin e, conc eding that in a professional sense it of necessity yields to your bread-and-butter calling ."

Dr. Robert noted with approval th e long history of tea cher training at Winthrop and remark ed that "The persistent pockets of ignoranc e over th e land should persuade us-no, should terrify us-into taking decisive action. Wh en the populance is streaked with functional illit eracy democracy invites both demagoguery and despotism. " In dealing with American histor y Dr. Rob ert referr ed to "a dark chapter when the vot er achi eved power faster than he did wisdom ," and added , "How can th e people choose if they have no awareness of their hard-won liberties? How can they govern if they are ignorant of the art of compromise, an art which has been th e genius of our system of government, save always for the 1850's and 1860's. Our people must learn from study that naked majoriti es can b e quite as tyrannical as a Caesar , and that we hav e always tempered our democracy with variants of the them e of John C. Cal houn, the 'concurrent majority.' " In the best sense of the words, he asked for involvement and participation. "Yes, the days roll by and current events become paragraphs in the sophmor e history texts. Scenes are shifted and the audience finds itself on the stage.'' The role must not be passive , for "Democracy , like religion , needs its priesthood of all believers ."

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it conventionally, and be as one with them and th eir ideals , I doubt very much ."

He also doubts that Tom would follow the career that Judge Thatcher had in mind for him. Th e Judge , as we know, "hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier someday.

He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitt ed to th e National Military Academy and aft erwards train ed in the best law school in the country, in ord er that he might be ready for either career or both ." Dr. Rubin doubts that this is what Tom had in mind. "It is more likely ," h e thinks, "that he will eventually becom e a nov elist, and one who will be capable of writing both Tom Sawyer and Huckl eberry Finn. Neither book is finally an affirmation of th e Official Culture ."

BaseballTearn ReboundsAfter Slow Start Just when it appeared Coach Mac Pitt's young baseball team may be in for a long season, the surprising Spiders defeated West Virginia in a Southern Conference doubleheader, 5-4 and 4-3, for a 2-1 S. C. mark and then walloped Georgetown , 15-1, to make it three in a row in the victory column. The freshman and sophomore laden nine is now 7-8 on the season.

Captain Dick Balderson, who had lost a heartbreaker to Virginia, 4-2, despite a two-run homer in his previous start, scattered seven West Virginia hits in the opener with the Mountaineers. Sophomore Ernie Lamberth turned in a fine relief job on the hill in the nightcap, limiting WVU to one safety over the last five innings. Right Fielder Larry Powers , who made a game-saving throw in the first game, drove in the winning run in the second contest.

The Spiders banged out 19 hits and Balderson hurled another seven-hitter in the victory over Georgetown. Balderson, who struck out nine, paced the attack with four hits in five trips ,to the plate. Every Spider made at least one hit with Tommy Gilman and Jimmy Johnson collecting three hits and Steve Kennedy , Lucky Jacobs and Powers two each.

Kennedy , a sophomore third baseman, leads the Spiders at the plate with a .391 batting average. Jacobs, junior second baseman who played little last

Redskins Draft Bragg Mike Bragg, the Spiders' excellent kicking specialist for the past three years, has been drafted by the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. Mike averaged 41.4 yards on 203 punts during his collegiate career, kicked 33 of 38 extra point attempts and booted five field goals.

Mike, who is the son of former Spider gridder Eddie Bragg ( '38-39), averaged 41.4 yards on 78 punts last season, made 16 of 19 extra point attempts and booted field goals of 26 yards against VMI, 22 yards against Davidson and 38 yards against William and Mary. His kick in the game with the Keydets won the game, 3-0.

season, is next with a .372 mark. Gilman, a senior shifted from third to first base this season, is hitting .313 and leads the club in runs batted in with 10. Johnson, a newcomer at shortstop, has a .306 average and Powers is next with a .297 average. Left Fielder Mike Garriott and Steve Fowler, a freshman in center field, have made several timely hits.

Harriers Whip Virginia Coach Fred Hardy's feated Old Dominion, ginia, 78-67. Freshman two-mile school record

track team de118-26, and VirFred Guest set a of 9:27.4 in the

former while Sophomore Miler Herb Daniel ran a school record 4:21 in the mile and Freshman Jim Livesay high jumped 6-6 for another school mark against the Cavaliers. Freshman Hurdler Carl Wood had a school record 14.7 in the 120 hurdles in a triangular meet with West Virginia and VMI. The Spiders' mile and quarter-mile relay teams set meet records of 3:21 and 43.1 in the West Virginia Relays and Wood established a meet mark of 38.7 in the 330-intermediate hurdles.

Richmond's mile relay team was composed of Wally Abbot, Ted Bisterfeld, Chuck Hunsicker and Wood. The quarter-mile relay team was made up of Tom Winfree, Captain Rod Camden, Bisterfeld and Ty Aron.

BasketeersReach Semi- Finals; Mills Named Coach of the Year The 1967-68 University of Richmond basketball team was a Cinderella squad and its amazing performances earned Coach Lewis Mills Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors. Picked by the experts to be the conference doormat, the Spiders recorded a 12-13 overall mark, placed sixth in the regular S. C. play with ·an 8-8 record and reached the semi -finals of the conference tournament by upsetting third seeded The Citadel, 100-88, in ·the opening round of the conference tournament at Charlotte.

Mills lost all five starters from the 1966-67 squad, including Player of the Year Johnny Moates and All-Southern Tom Green, and two other seniors. So little was expected of the inexperienced Spiders. Mills, however, molded an exciting, aggressive team that, as he liked to put it, "got after folks."

Junior Center Wilton Ford, who had played in only 12 games the previous season and averaged only 4.2 points, developed into an All-Southern performer.

The 6-6 pivotman averaged 20.1 points and broke the school single game scoring record by tossing in 41 points in the final game of the regular season which Richmond won over William and Mary, 108-81. The old mark of 40 points had been set by Elmo Stephenson against Mount Union back in the 1951-52 season.

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and both did fine jobs. Foster, who averaged 15.4 points, scored 28 points in the overtime win over The Citadel in the oonference tournament opening round and tallied 22 in the semi-final loss to West Virginia, 102-81. That showing earning him a berth on the alltournament team. Frazier, too, had a (Continued on page 42)

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To Come From PressSoon University of RichmondLaw Review

1899Judge Edwin 0. Lewis of Narberth, Pa., will represent the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Paul R. Anderson as President of Temple University on May 1.

1918Rev. Hiram D. Anderson has been named pastor-emeritus of May Memorial Baptist Church in Powhatan, Va. He served as pastor of the church, as well as at Fine Creek, Old Powhatan, and Red Lane Baptist churches for 18 years. He is currently serving as interim pastor at Mt. Hermon Baptist Church.

1921Edward H. Gunst has retired as president and a director of Polk Miller Products Corporation in Richmond. He has been with the firm since 1922, and will continue to be a consultant to the firm, ·which is owned by A. H. Robins Co., Inc. of Richmond. Polk Miller makes pet care products under the brand name of Sergeant's. Robins acquired the firm a year ago from Gunst and his brother.

1923Dr. ·Edward C. Held has received the annual Brotherhood award presented by the Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary Clubs of Hempstead, New York, where he is in general practice. Dr. Held is department surgeon of the Hempstead Police and Fire departments.

1927Dr. Menter P. German is interim pastor of First Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. ~ev. T. Eugene West, of the faculty of Hong Kong Baptist College, has returned from a trip to Thailand, Australia and Tasmania, and Cambodia. It was a 20th anniversary trip for the Wests.

1928Oscar W. Fary, Jr., principal of Richmond's George Wythe High School, will retire in June. Fary joined the city school system in 1942. After serving as principal of Bellmeade,

TABB, FLANNAGAN PROMOTED

BY POLK MILLER PRODUCTS Randolph P. Tabb, '36, has been elected vice-president and director of Polk-Miller Products Corporation, and Warren L. Flannagan, '53, has been elected treasurer.

Polk Miller produces a line of pet-care products and is a subsidiary of A. H. Robins, manufacturer of ethical pharmaceuticals. Both firms are based in Richmond.

Tabb, a native of Newport News, joined Polk Miller in June, 1955, as a sales supervisor and was named sales manager the following year. He became treasurer in 1958 and general manager in 1961. Tabb will continue to serve as general manager.

Flannagan joined Polk Miller in August, 1955, as assistant office manager, and had served as controller since 1958.

He is a native of Louisa.

By JOHN W. EDMONDS III, '56 The University of Richmond will reach another milestone in its history of progress this spring with the first publication of the University of Richmond Law Review.

The Law School has been the publisher of another legal publication, but for the first time this year, the publication is to be a full-blown law review.

In 1958, there first appeared the University of Richmond Law Notes, whose administration and contribution was originally faculty inspired and oriented. Although publication costs were borne by the University, the Law School Alumni Association undertook to finance its distribution to the law school alumni. The Law Notes had two distinctive features. There were no footnotes and the articles were designed to be of special appeal to practicing Virginia attorneys. It was well received .

The scope of Law Notes was gradually widened to include articles by alumni and both notes and articles by students.

Gradually the administration and editorial work of the Law Notes were turned over, bit by bit, to the student body.

The Law Review marks the high point of this metamorphosis. The Law Review will be under primary control of the students, with the faculty lending guidance, assistance and continuity.

The first editor of the Law Review is Patrick MacSweeney of Richmond (L68 ).

The first issue will contain lead articles

by Robert E. Keeton , Professor of Law at Harvard, William D . Dixon with the Federal Trade Commission ( L48) , and James W. Payne of the law school faculty ( L48) . There will also be a student note on the rules of hearsay evidence, as well as case notes by students.

The Law Review will b e published on an annual basis and is supported by the University. The staff are now engaged not only in editorial activities, but in the more mundane br ead and butter activities of selling advertising and subscriptions, the latter at a low rate of $2.00 per annum. Potential advertisers and prospective subscribers should inquire to University of Richmond Law Review, University of Rich mond.

Summer Hill, Bainbridge, Franklin, East End Junior High , Nathaniel Bacon, and Albert H. Hill Junior High School. He earned his master's degree from the University in 1951.

Rev. Aubrey S. Tomlinson, pastor of Louisberg Baptist Church in North Carolina, observed his 22nd anniversary at the church in March. Members of the church designated Aubrey Tomlinson Appreciation Day, and members paid tribute to the pastor during a special service.

ruary. Each day he studied and met with a faculty member to discuss recent developments in theology and the world,

1930Rev. John P. Batkins has retired from his pastorate and is now living in Richmond.

Dr. Eugene K. Ritter has been appointed Chief of the mathematics department at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at Silver Spring, Md. For the past 10 years he has been associated with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, most recently with the California-based Lockheed -Missiles and Space Company .

1933Edward Bennett , superintendent of schools in West Haven , Conn., received an award from the New Haven Boy's Club Alumni Association in March. The association presented the award in recognition of Bennett's service to the Boy's Club organization.

1935Irvin G. AbeloH has been elected resident vice president of Nationwide Communications, Inc., which recently acquired television station WXEX of Richmond-Petersburg, and radio station WLEE in Richmond. AbeloH is general manager of the television station , which he helped organize in 1955 .

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1932T. Burwell Robinson, personnel manager for the A. H. Robins Co., Inc., has been appointed to the Richmond City personnel board. Robinson, a native of Bedford County, has been with A. H. Robins since 1951. He became director of personnel for the pharmaceutical firm in 1952.

Dr. Elmer C. Prichard of DeLand , Fla., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Paul F. Geren as President of Stetson University on January 26.

The Rev. C. Lawrence McRae, pastor of Davis Memorial, Bethlehem and Douglas Presbyterian Churches in the Farmville, Va., area, served as a Tower Room Scholar at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond in Feb-

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Fred W. Black is an accounting recruiter for the -U. S. Steel Corporation, in Yardley , Pa.

1938Dr. Roger B. Page, assistant dean of liberal arts at the University of Minnesota, represented the Epsilon of Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the installation of the Minnesota Epsilon in February at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.

1939John Ridenour, a Greensboro, N. C ., attorney, is a candidate for the North Carolina legislature.

Captain Forrest H. Norvell, Jr. of the U. S. Navy, represented the University of of Dr. John Richmond at the inauguration A. Hamrick as president of the Baptist College of Charleston on April 2.

1940Dr. Eugene G. Peek, Jr. of Ocala, Fla., has been reelected president of the State Board of Health for the eighth consecutive term.

Dr. Peek is also on the board of governors for the Florida Medical Association, and a number of other professional and civic organizations.

1941Lt. Co lon el William H. Herndon of the U. S. Air Force is on duty at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, Vietnam. He is a CV-2 Caribou pilot there.

Commander Robert A. Keil, USN ( Ret.) of San Francisco, sends us the latest bulletin on how small a world we live in. An old high school classmate from Oak Park, Ill. in coming to the campus to aid his son in applying to Richmond College, chatted with Dr. Richard W. Humbert, '41. Turned out that Keil and Humbert were roommates, and the three knew others in common . The incident had a happy young man was accepted to ending-the Richmond College,

1942Dr. Alfred R. Gilbert has been named manager for the organic chemistry branch of the Chemical Laboratory at General Electric 's Research and Development Center at Schenectady, N. Y. Since joining GE's research staff in 1949, he has specialized in research on silicones and fluorocarbons, in addition to new polymerization catalysts and polymer synthesis and modification.

Harvey Hudson has been elected resident vice president of Nationwide Communications, Inc., which recently acquired television staand tion WXEX of Richmond-Petersburg, radio station WLEE in Richmond. Hudson is general manager of WLEE, which he joined as an announcer in 1946.

WHICH CLASS, PLEASE For purposes of reunions, an alumnus often prefers to be considered a member of a class other than the one with which he was graduated. This is particularly true of alumni whose education at the University of Richmond was intenupted by war.

Take for instance, alumni who entered Richmond College in 1938. Some received their degrees in 1942-par for the course. Some were in a hurry and birdied the academic course, finishing in 1941. Others went one over par and finished in 1943.

Still others-and there were many in this category-went off to war, and their graduation was postponed by a number of years.

Alumni who received degrees are considered members of the class with which they were graduated. Those who prefer to be counted as members of some other class, usually the class with which they entered, should notify the alumni office of their preference.

Alumni who did not receive degrees will be considered members of the class with which they entered as freshmen.

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND APPOINTS AUBREY HEFLIN PRESIDENT Aubrey N. Heflin, '33, has been named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Heflin, a native of Fredericksburg, was vice president.

The Richmond Reserve Bank serves the Fifth Federal Reserve District, which includes Maryland , most of West Virginia, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

After receiving his B.A. degree from the University of Richmond , he obtained his LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia. He is also a graduate of Stonier Graduate School of Banking at He was then named Assistant Counsel Rutgers University.

Heflin began his career as Associate at the Reserve Bank in 1949 and Counsel Attorney ·with the Richmond law firm the following year. He was elected vice of Parrish, Butcher, and Parrish in president and General Counsel in 1953 and first vice president in 1961.

1936. He joined the staff of the Federal Heflin is a member of the Richmond Reserve Bank as Assistant to Counsel in 1941. World War II interrupted his Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Ascareer as he served three years as a sociation, and the American ·Bar Association.

U. S. naval officer.

Rev. Leland Higginbotham has accepted a call to Immanuel Baptist Church of Rochester, New York, where he began his ministry on March 17th. He was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Baltimore, Md.

1943w arren M. Pace, president of the Life Company of Virginia, has been Insurance elected to the board of directors of Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. in Richmond, and to the board of the Life Insurance Association of America.

Marvin F. Cole, a Richmond lawyer, has been elected president of the Richmond chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

William C. Mallery has been named director of public relations for the Long Island Railroad. He previously served on the news staff of the Roanoke World-News, the Richand North Carolina mond Times-Dispatch newspapers.

1944Dr. J. Ralph Noonkester, president of WilMiss., liam Carey College in Hattiesburg, represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. John A. Peoples, Jr. as president of Jackson State College on March 9.

1946Straughan S. Richardson, Jr., an assistant city real estate agent and career city employee of the city of Richmond, has received the Sherwood Reeder Award, given by the city for Richardson 's excellence in performing his job, personal efforts to improve his knowledge in his chosen field and contributions to his community and church. The award is named for Richmond 's first city manager.

Guy R. Friddell, Jr., editorial page editor of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot, was called one of Virginia's "greatest natural resources," in a resolution offered in the Virginia Senate in January. The resolution expressed appreciation to Friddell for his book, "What Is It About Virginia?"

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JOHNS-MANVILLE APPOINTS MARCHANT VICE PRESIDENT A. B. Marchant , '39, has been elected vice president for industrial relations of Johns-Manville Corp. of New York.

A native of Urbanna, Virginia, he joined th e company in 1939 and in 1949 he took charge of the Natchez, Miss., plant. In 1956 he became plant manager in Waukegan , Ill., and was named assistant production manager for the building products division in 1961.

In 1962 he was promoted to the division's production manager and later to vice president of Johns-Manville Products Corp. Since 1966 he has served as assistant vice president for industrial relations.

At the University he was an outstanding football and baseball player.

He played end and was captain of the football team in 1938. Marchant was chosen to All-State football and baseball teams.

He was president of Kappa Sigma social fraternity, senator-at-large to the Student Council, class treasurer , member of the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Varsity Club.

Marchant and his wife , the former Virginia Shuman of the class of '39, live in Darien , Conn. They have three sons, two of whom are married and the other is in school.

His brother, John R. Marchant, was recently named president and chief administrative officer of Miller & Rhoads department store in Richmond.

Dr. Thomas J . Walsh of St. Louis, Missouri, represented the University of Richmond chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the installation ceremony of the Gamma Chapter of Missouri at St. Louis University in January.

1947Rev. Junius E. Foster, pastor of Thalia Lynn Baptist Church in Vfrginia Beach, Va., was an inspirational speaker for a series of five Baptist Men's Rallies at the First Baptist Church in Richmond in February.

H. Walton Connelly, Jr., is enrolled at Indiana University, where he is completing a doctoral program. Connelly is secretary of the General Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.

James M. Minor, Jr. a Richmond lawyer, has been elected a director of the Second National Bank of Richmond. Minor, one of the bank's organizers two years ago, is a partner in Minor, Thompson, Savage and Smithers, a Richmond law firm.

James F. Hubbard has received a grant to study psychology at Arizona State University.

In May, he will return to Pembroke State College, N. C. where he is associate professor of psychology and director of student counseling.

1948John Stuart, a claim specialist in the Richmond office of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, has completed five years with the company.

Dr. R. Pierce Lumpkin has become a vice president of Virginia Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc., a bank holding company. Dr. Lumpkin was head of the economics department of Richmond Professional Institute.

Edward E. Lane, a Richmond attorney and member of the House of Delegates in the Virginia Legislature, has been elected president of the Central Richmond Association.

Lane has been practicing law in Richmond since 1949 and has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1954.

1949Melvin L. Segal of San Francisco, Cal., has suffered the loss of his wife, Elaine, who passed away Sept. 10th of a sudden heart attack.

HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR WINS $4,000 QUIZ SCHOLARSHIP Bruce E. Booker of Halifax County High School, won a $4,000 scholarship in the final round of the University of Richmond-WRNL $14,000 Radio Scholarship Quiz on April 23.

For the first time in the 17 year history of the quiz, the final round was held on the University of Richmond campus. In addition to the Westhampton College students in Cannon Memorial Chapel, the other contestants of the quiz and their faculty advisors were in the audience.

Booker won the quiz in a close battle with Michael J. Root of Chesapeake's Great Bridge High School, and Christopher Howard of Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond. Root and Howard received $2,000 scholarships as winners of semi-final rounds.

Quizmaster C. J. Gray, quesHoned the students in English, history, mathematics and general science.

JAMES PUBLIC James M. of the 1967

FRYE APPOINTED RELATIONS CHIEF Frye , Jr., '53, chairman Homecoming, has been

appointed director of corporate relations for Philip Morris Incorporated.

Frye received both his B.A. and his M.A. degrees from the University. He is currently president and a board member of the Alumni Council.

A native of North Carolina, he attended the University of Richmond on a football scholarship. He has also attended the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C. as a Public Affairs Fellow.

He became associated with Philip Morris in 1953 and was named assistant personnel manager in 1957. Since 1964, he has been community relations manager for the corporation's main factory in Richmond.

In his new appointment Frye will direct and coordinate the corporate relations program , including financial, trade, press, oommunity and consumer relations and product promotion programs. He and his wife, the former Virginia Nash of Amherst, Va., will make their home in New York City.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Boys Club of Richmond, the National Tobacco Festival, the Richmond Public Relations Association and the United Givers ·Fund.

A former board member of the Press Club of Virginia, Frye has been active in the Big Brothers Association of Richmond and has served as second vice president and board member of the Virginia Council on Health and Medical Care.

Edwin J. Merrick, former football coach and assistant athletic director at the University of Richmond, has joined a schoo l textbook publishing firm, J B. Lippincott Co. of Philadelphia, as Virginia sales representative.

George E. Kidd, Jr. , has joined Selas Corporation of America as manager of operations.

His office is in Dresher, Pa. He formerly was associated with Houdaille Industries , Inc. , in Buffalo , N. Y.

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BALTIM ORE CHAPTER The Baltimore chapter of the Alumni Association met March 28 at the Jade East in Towson, Md. The 33 alumni and alumnae enjoyed a Hawaiian Luau, and Rev. Edgar T. Hutton , '46, reported that the "spirit was excellent and a good time was had by all. A film depicting the h eritage of Hawaii was shown at the meeting.

William H. Garren has been named secretary in the corporate actuarial department at the Travelers Insurance Companies, in Hartford, Conn. He joined the company in 1949 in the comptroller's department and in 1957 was named assistant chief accountant.

In 1960 he was elevated to chief accountant and in 1965 to assistant comptroller.

David S. Clay, a partner in the Riley-Clay Insurance Agency in Salisbury, N. C., has been elected president of the Salisbury-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce for 1968. He was Salisbury's "Young Man of the Year" in 1954.

J. E. Galloway, Jr., has been named assistant materials engineer for the Vir.e;inia State Department of Highways. He has been with the highway department since 1950.

1950Julian R. Elliott of Richmond is terminal superintendent of the Humble Oil and Re-

PINCHBECK PAPERS GIVEN TO UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Four large file drawers of the papers of the late Dean Raymond B. Pinchbeck of Richmond College have been presented to the University of Richmond's Institute for Business and Community Development. Dr. Pinchbeck died at the age of 56 in February of 1957.

His widow, Mrs. Edith Pinchbeck, made the presentation to Dr. R. S. Underhill, head of the institute.

"These papers," said Dr. Underhill, "should be invaluable to any students of local government in Virginia. They will be studied and indexed for ready reference."

Dr. Pinchbeck is generally credited with having sparked Henrico County 's adoption of the county-manager form of government in 1938. He is credited with carrying on his ideas and being one of the chief leaders in bringing the council manager form of government to the city in 1948.

Later government experts have judged Henrico 's the best county form of government in America, and Richmond 's form of government the best of city governmental setups.

Dr . T. C. Sanders, director of th e Organizational Research Center of the Institut e, is at work on th e pap ers.

SHOTZBERGER TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF CATAWBA Dr. Martin Luther Shotzberger, '48, a Purple Heart and a Silver Star. dean of University College, has been He entered the University of Richnamed president of Catawba College mond as one of the first World War II in North Carolina. He will begin his veterans and after his graduating in 1948, enrolled to earn a master's degree new duties in July.

Catawba is a four-year liberal arts in business administration. In 1949 he coeducational college founded in 1851. moved to Lynchburg College, where he It is supported by the United Church taught business administration, leaving of Christ. It has an enrollment of 1,050. two years later to work on his doctorate "I will leave Richmond with a heavy in marketing at Ohio State University. heart, but great professional expecta- In 1953 he returned to Richmond as tions," Dr. Shotzberger said. Dr. Modlin assistant professor of business adminsaid Dr. Shotzberger "will be greatly istration, and soon took the job as dimissed as a skilled administrator and rector of the evening school of business personal friend." administration.

Dr. Shotzberger is a Baltimore, Md. In 1957 he moved to Kalamazoo Colnative who moved to Richmond in in Michigan to teach economics lege the married and 1941, where he met the Industrial Relations Cenhead and former Edith Cosby. He was drafted returned to the University He there. ter in 1943 and served as a combat infantry squad leader in Italy, where he lost of Richmond in 1962 to become dean of an arm under artillery fire. He earned University College. fining Company's Richmond office. He joined the firm in 1955.

Rev. Letcher H. Reid, has become pastor of Glen Allen Baptist Church. He was . pastor of Fishersville Baptist Church in Fishersville, Va. He has participated in preaching missions in Canada, Hawaii and Australia.

Robert B. Shaw of Downers Grove, Ill., has been promoted to regional sales manager for Mohawk Brush Company in Albany, N. Y. Dr. Charles B. Beck of the University of Michigan represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Robben W. Fleming as president of the University of Michigan on March 11. Dr. Beck is a biologist at the university.

R. M. Avery, Jr. is now controller and assistant to the president of the Electronic Computer Programming Institute of Richmond.

William L. Rowe is president of the Rowe Tire and Supply Company in Springfield, Mass.

Edward L. Kurtz has been elected vice of the Fidelity president for underwriting Bankers Life Insurance Company in Richmond. Before joining Fidelity in September, Kurtz was chief underwriter of the Southwestern Life Insurance Company in Dallas, Tex. Carl Shires, a reporter for the Richmond News Leader, has received a first-place award for a series of articles on allegations of wrongdoing in Virginia's road building program.

The award was presented by the Virginia Press Association.

1951William M. Claytor, C.L.U., of the Richardson-Claytor Agency, Inc. in Roanoke, Va., has been named to the 1968 Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters. The award is given to insurance agents who produce a million dollars or more of new life insurance during the year.

David R. Hensley, Jr. of Martinsville has been named football coach at Patrick Henry High School. Previously, he had coached at Winchester (Ky.) High School, Fork Union and Hargrave military academies. He won the Virginia Military School League championship four times in his five years as head coach at FUMA. He was fullback and linebacker on the 1946-49 teams at the University of Richmond.

J. H. Fanney, Jr. has joined International Business Machines and moved to Lexington, Ky. He formerly was with the U. S. Public Health Service.

Hugh R. Thompson, Jr. has been elected substitute judge of Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

Robert B. Miller of Winston-Salem, N. C., has received the M.A.!. designation of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers.

He is an assistant vice president of the mortgage loan department of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in North Carolina.

H. Donald Robinson of Atlanta, Ga., is assistant director of accounting for the Georgia State Dept. of Education and is continuing his Management Services business.

James L. Holdaway is with the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration of the U. S. Dept. of Interior, at Charlottesville, Va.

GLEE CLUB ALBUM ON SALE The University of Richmond Men's Glee Club has produced an album, which Professor James Erb says is "one of the finest we have done."

The ·album will be ready for sale by May 10. It is a 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm record which includes the University of Richmond Victory Swing, the Alma Mater, Viva l'Amour, Shenandoah and many other selections sung on the glee club tour in March. The price per album is $4.95 plus 56¢ for postage and handling.

Albums may be ordered from Richmond Sound Stages, Inc., 2314 W. Cary St., Richmond, Va., 23220.

the State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts in Richmond. He formerly was in charge of the pension trust department of the bank. He began his career in 1952 with the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and was later associated with Bowles, Andrews and Towne, Inc., the Keystone Custodian Funds, and Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company prior to joining the bank in 1964.

Franklin S. Edmonds of New York City was married to the former Mary Ellen Sample of Asheville, N. C., in March.

W. G. Armbrecht has been elected vice president-marketing of Richmond Hotels, Inc. He will head the company's sales, advertising and public relations functions.

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Herbert E. Nichols has been promoted to vice president and pension trust officer of

Thomas A. Couch, C.L.U., is an associate general agent with Aetna Life and Casualty Company in Norfolk, Va. He joined the firm in 1956 as an agent.

John Crittenden has been named sports editor of the Miami News. In the past five years, Crittenden has won more state contest awards than any sports writer in Florida, taking firsts in each of the major writing categories. He was sports editor of the Portsmouth, Va. Star and worked for three other Virginia newspapers before joining the Miami News sports staff in 1961.

William H. Perkins of Durham, N. C. is

HOWARD HEADS COMMISSION A. E. Dick Howard, '54, associate dean of the University of Virginia Law School, has been named executive director of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision, which may recommend the state's sixth constitution.

Howard said the commission probably would work in small sub-committees, framing questions for his staff of researchers to answer ·before making recommendations. The commission has not resolved whether it will suggest a limited revision of the 1902 constitution, or advance a general rewrite to give the present document a complete facelifting.

Howard concentrated in history and political science at the University of

ON VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION Richmond. After two years at the University of Virginia Law School, he was named a Rhodes scholar and studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University.

After completing law school, he joined a Washington law firm that represented private clients in antitmst and administrative law proceedings. His interest in constitutional law was revived in 1962 when he was named clerk for Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

He joined the law school faculty after his clerkship and now teaches constitutional law. He will drop his teaching chores to ·work on the commission but continue his duties as associate dean.

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TYNDALL APPOINTED DIOCESE COORDINATOR The Rev. Canon F. W. Tyndall, '38, of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, has been appointed Co-ordinator of the Council of the Diocese.

Rev. Tyndall is Canon Missioner in charge of 50 Missions of the Diocese, and he supervises the expenditure of approximately $165,000 a year to the missions.

Mission churches are those who cannot pay their own way. The area covers 15,000 square miles of territory, roughlv the northern fourth of the state of Illinois.

Rev. Tyndall is also in charge of purchasing of land for new Missions, as well as responsibilities in the building of Commission, involving three Dioceses in new churches and parish houses.

Illinois.

He also is vice president and chairman He is one of the founding fathers of of the board of the church home for the the Church and City Conference in aged, and a member of the Tri-Diocesan Chicago.

treasurer of Research Triangle Institute He joined the firm in 1959.

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1954Rev. and M1·s. Malcolm G. Shotwell of Galesburg, Ill., served on a team of 17 from the American Baptist Home Mission Society on a preaching mission to Haiti in January and February.

William Bolton, a Fredericksburg, Va., attorney, has been elected president of the Peoples Bank of Spottsylvania. He is also a director of the Peoples Bank of Stalford.

1955Rev. \Valter C. Jackson, III has received the Th.D. degree in commencement ceremonies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Jack W. Hall has been appointed to

the staff of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. as a consultant in diseases of the kidney. He was a graduate student in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at Rochester from 1963 to 1967.

Van Irvine has complete 10 years with the eastern office of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. His office is in Charlottesville, Va., where he is service superintendent.

Dr. Madison Price, a Newport News dentist, has received the James River Jaycees' annual Distinguished Service Award. Price has served the Peninsula Association for Retarded Children, and has organized dental health programs for the poor. He was instrumental in establishing a public health dentist at Riverside Hospital in Newport News on a full -time basis for treatment of the indigent.

Walter C. Jackson is chaplain of Kentucky Baptist Hospital in Louisville, Ky.

1956KOONTZ APPOINTED JUDGE OF ROANOKE CITY COURT Lawr ence L. Koontz , Jr., law school graduate of '65, has been appointed judge for Roanoke City's Juvenille and Domestic Relations Court.

At 27, he will be the youngest judg e in the city and one of the youngest in the state . Koontz said he was excited about the challenge the new role presents for him.

At Richmond, he was elected into the McNeill Honor Society and the Phi Delta legal fraternity. He was also the recipient of a merit scholarship.

After graduation, he spent two years with the Eggleston, Holton, Butler and Glenn law firm in Roanoke. Before his appointment, he served as assistant commonwealth attorney.

Koontz is married to the former Judith Pharr of Roanoke. They have a threeyear old son, John, and a younger daughter, Beth.

John C. Allred has been promoted to assistant superintendent of agencies for Jefferson Standard Life Insurace Company in Greensboro, N. C. Phillip H. Kirkpatrick has joined Seward Luggage Manufacturing Company, Inc. in Petersburg, Va. Until recently, Kirkpatrick was chief of the Program Evaluation Office in the Nonresident Instruction Department at the U. S. Army Logistics Management Center at Ft. Lee. He will serve as assistant sales manager and will assist in the firm's sales and marketing department.

Richard Gascoigne is serving in the U. S. Public Health Service in Miami, Fla.

1957William M. Stover has been named deputy to the director of Government Relations , for the Manufacturing Chemists Association in Washington, D. C. Prior to coming to his new position, he was associate counsel on the subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the U. S. Senate.

William M. Robinson, III has been named commonwealth's attorney of Newport News, Va. He has served as assistant commonwealth's attorney for the city since 1962.

Robert S. Murphy of Decatur, Ill., has been appointed manarrer of Advertising and Sales Promotion for the audio products de-

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partment of General Electric. He joined the firm in 1957.

Dr . William J. Welstead, Jr. ha s been named research associate in chemistry at A. H. Robins Company. Dr. Welstead joined the firm in 1964 as a research chemist and was named senior research chemist in 1965.

1958John E. Traylor, has been named a vice president of First and Merchants National Bank in Richmond. Traylor is financial planning director of the bank. He joined the bank in 1965 and became an assistant vice president in that year.

L. Hunter Beazley, Jr. returned to the university campus in Januar y to recruit personnel for his firm, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. at Petersburg.

Daniel E. Bray, Jr., has joined the Virginia Manufacturer's Association as assistant vice president. He had been serving as a staff attorney for the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council, and before that, on the legal staff of The Travelers Insurance Company.

Edward L. Felton, Jr . is serving with the Harvard Business School Advisory Group in Manila, Phillippines.

Jewell H. Thompson has been promoted to trust officer of First National Exchange Bank of Virginia in Roanoke.

Dr. Shelby M. Broughton of Buie's Creek, N. C., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Norman A.

PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTS WHEELER, SEWARD, WRIGHT Dr. Charles H. Wheeler, III , treasurer of the University of Richmond, Professor William W. Seward, Jr., '34, of Old Dominion College, and Miss Wilhelmina F. Wright, '24, a retired teacher , were elected to Phi Beta Kappa national scholarship fraternity in March.

Dr. Wheeler has served th e university for more than forty years and has been treasurer for twenty-five years. He is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hop kins University and is a former president of the National Federation of College and University Business Officers Association.

Prof. Seward is professor of English at Old Dominion , where he has taught since 1945. He also has taught at Greenbriar Military School , Tift College in Georgia, and at the Universi ty of Richmond. He is the author of a novel, two books of criticism and a number of magazine articles. He was selected by author Ernest Hemingway to edit "The Hemingway Reader ," and curr ently is at work on another piece on Hemingway.

Miss Wright retired last year after a 40-year career that included positions at John Marshall High School in Richmond, Glen Allen, Va., and West Point , Va. At John Marshall, she was coordinator of mathematics for the John Marshall feeder schools. She now resides in Dosw ell, Va.

1982W. TYLERHAYNES NAMED MCV EMERITUSPROFESSOR Dr. W. Tyler Jiaynes, '22, will retire June 30 as clini!.:al professor of orthodontics at the Medical Colle 6 e of Virginia. He has been appointed emeritus professor effective J;__ily1.

Dr. Haynes , a member of the Board of Trust ees of the University of :::Uchmond, has completed 41 years of service at MCV. The Board of Visitors of MCV issued a special resolution announcing his appointment as emeritus professor.

Dr. Haynes was vice president of the student government as an undergraduate at the University of Richmond , and also served as business manager of The ·we bb. He won election to Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity and is a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity, which he still serves as an alumni advisor.

He joined the MCV faculty in 1927, and received promotion to Clinical Pro-

Wiggins as president of Campbell College on April 6.

Ransone Hartz is credit officer of the First and Merchants National Bank's new Americard credit cards.

Robert L. Seward, III of Richmond was married to the former Miss Elizabeth Harris Cahoon of Richmond on February 17.

Major Ray W. Bowles of the U. S. Marines is serving with the 4th Marine Regiment at Camp J. J. Carroll in Vietnam.

Ellis M. West of Atlanta, Ga., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Hugh Morris Gloster as president of Morehouse College on Feb. 17.

1959Rev. Vincent J. William has accepted a call to Biltmore Baptist Church in Glen Allen.

He was pastor of Mill Creek Baptist Church in Roxboro, N. C. Rev. George F. Ricketts has become executive secretary of the Chaplain Service of the Churches of Virginia, Inc. Ricketts has been chaplain and director of religious work at the State Correctional Fann for Men in Goochland County, Va. Clarence W. Hilling is now a housing inspector in the Bureau of Building Inspections in the City of Newport News, Va. William W. Hamner has been promoted to senior dealer salesman for Humble Oil Company. He has been the new business representative for the Norfolk, Va., district for the past four years. He joined the firm in 1961.

Oliver D. Rudy, a member of the Chester, Va. law firm of Rudy, Daffron, Winston and Jewett, has been appointed commissioner of accounts for Chesterfield County.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Cecil Frazier of Salem , Va., have announced the birth of a daughter, Tonya Leigh, on January 29.

Rev. John McKay has assumed the pastorate of Mt. Lebanon and New Salem Baptist churches in Culpeper, Va.

1960Rev. William R. McCollum has become pastor of Webber Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond. He formerly was pastor of Harmony Baptist Church in Rougemont, N. C .

Major James F. Thacker of the U. S. Army

fessor in 1943. He is a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental honorary society. He is a member of the Virginia State Dental Association , the American Dental Association, Southern Society of Orthodontics and the American Association of Orthodontics.

is chief of the unit readiness branch at Headquarters of the U. S. Army Transportat ion Center at Ft. Eustis, Va. N. Leslie Saunders, Jr. has received the Chesterfield County (Va.) Jaycees' 1968 Dis tinguished Service Award. Saunders is associated with the law firm of Minor, Thompson, Savage, Smithers and Simpson.

Charles P. Wilbourne has been promoted to vice president of Colonial-American National Bank in Roanoke. He will begin study at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking of Rutgers University in June. Wilbourne is president of the Roanoke chapter of the Alumni Society.

Robert S. Boss, Jr., has been promoted to division sales manager for Commerce Clearing House, Inc., of Chicago. His office is in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Boss have announced the birth of a son, Steven Christopher, on Nov. 28.

John W. Savage, Jr. is in the Chicago office of DuPont, where he is representing the firm as a ma rketing technical representative. The Savages have announced the birth of a daughter, Susan, on August 29, 1967. They would like to hear from any alumni in the greater Chicago area .

Robert F. Clay is chief internal auditor of Albemarle Paper company in Richmond.

He is a CPA.

Charles F. Bateman has been nominated for Look Magazine's Teacher of the Year Award.

Bateman teaches the 12th grade government and economics class at Thomas Jefferson High School, and is consultant in economics for Richmond schools.

The engagement of Gordon Edward Hamlet of Charlotte, N. C. to Miss Ruth Elaine Brown of Spartanburg, S. C., has been announced. A summer wedding is planned.

Marvin H. Everhart, Jr. of Falls Church has been appointed field claim representative in the Fairfax, Va. office of State Farm Mutual Insurance Company.

David Allan West also has been appointed field claim representative in the Fairfax office of State Farm Mutual Insurance Company.

Lt. Preston W. Forbes is teaching physics at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. Forbes completed requirements for the Ph.D . degree in physics from VPI in August . The Forbes would like to hear from any alumni in or visiting their area.

Rev. Rodney J. Ha le of Tuscaloosa, Ala., represented the University of Richmond at the inauguration of Dr. Harold N. Stinson as president of Stillman College on March 9.

Ha le is pastor of Ca lvary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa.

1963Mr. and Mrs. Wallace E. Garthri<>:ht, Jr. have announced the birth of a son, Wallace, III, on October 23. Garthright has joined General Dynamics' Ft. Worth division in the operations research group.

Rev. Walter C. Isley has received the

1961Robert C. Perkins h as been an assistant professor of history at Southern State College in Magnolia, Arkansas, since 1964. He will receive his Ph.D. degree on June I from the University of South Carolina.

Capt. George W. Riddick, Jr. of the U. S. Air Force, an aerospace medical officer stationed at Luke AFB, Ariz., took part in the recent emergency airlift of thousands of bales of hay for snowbound sheep and cattle on the Hopi Indian Reservation north of Winslow, Ariz.

Rev. Mott A. Cumby, Jr. has been selected senior minister of the church in Radburn of Fair Lawn, N. J. The Radburn Church is an Ecumenical Christian Church.

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IT'S A HUSBAND AND W IFE JOB for Dr. and Mrs. S. Lee Richardson, Jr. of Baton Rouge, La., where Dr. Richardson is president of the Louisiana Consumers' League, Inc., a statewide consumer interest organization that brings the problems of Louisiana consumers to the attention of the legislature.

Doralee Forsythe Richardson, '62, helps edit the Consumers' League newsletter. Dr. Richardson teaches market ing in the College of Business Administrat ion at Louisiana State University.

GUILFORD NAMED PRESIDENT OF FIDELITY BANKERS LIFE Richard H. Guilford, '54, has been elected president of Fidelity Bankers

Life Insurance Co. of Richmond. He succeeds Harold J. Richards, who remains board chairman of the company.

Guilford, who is also executive vice president of Fidelity Corp., joined Fidelity Bankers Life in 1956 as assistant director of agencies. He has been a director since 1958 and had been executive vice president since 1963.

Prior to joining Fidelity Bankers Life, Guilford was associated with the J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Dicta phone Corp., and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

He is a member of All Saint's Episcopal Church in Richmond, and several civic and professional organizations.

Master of Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. Capt. Phil Bagley, III, was married to the former Miss Sally Ann Twedell of St. Louis, Mo., in August, 1967. He is now on active duty with the army.

Dr. Richard D. Gardner is serving in the U. S. Army in Germany. The Gardners have announced the birth of a son, Timothy Lee, in July, 1!}67.

Capt. Robert W. Harmon has graduated from the U. S. Air Force Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Ala . He has been assigned to Orlando AFB in Florida as a communications officer.

Capt. William A. Collins of the U. S. Army received the Bronze Star medal at Ft. Eustis, Va., in December. He earned the award for outstanding meritorious service during his last assignment in Vietnam.

Will iam S. Griggs, Jr. has been named administrative assistant of the Life Insurers Conference. He formerly served as state law librarian for the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals . The Life Insurers Conference is a trade association representing 98 life insurance companies.

Jerry A. Robertson has been named vice president and manager of the Dillard Paper Company of Wilmington, Del. He was connected with the Dillard branches in Greensboro, Richmond and Augusta before moving to Wilmington.

Michae l J. McCague of Midland, Mich., has been placed in charge of foreman training in the supervisory development section of The

Dow Chemical Company 's Midland division education depa1tment.

He joined Dow last yeai· after retiring from the U . S. Army as a Lt. Col.

1964Archer L. Yeatts, III, a Richmond attorney, has received the Richmond Jaycees' "Speak Up Jaycee" award as the winner of an oratorical contest.

Preston L. Parrish, Jr., has been named senior analyst and project coordinator in the marketing research department of A. H. Robins Company. Parrish, who joined the firm in 1964, formerly was a marketing research analyst.

Robert F. Ritchie has accepted the appointment as con troller at the R ichmond Steel Company.

The engagement of George W. Paynter of Richmond to Miss Lucy Couch Payne of

Charleston, W. Va., has been announced.

A May wedding is planned.

The engagement of Vernon E. Stanley, Jr. of Emporia to Miss Linda Faye Lowery of Richmond has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wood have an· nounced the birth of a daughter, Jennifer Bruce, on December 6. Wood is a Richmond attorney.

Lt. Robert C. Meador of the U. S. Air Force, has rnceived the Air Medal at Travis AFB, Calif., for air action in Southeast Asia.

He was cited for his outstanding airmanship and courage on successful and important missions under hazardous conditions. He flew 35 combat support missions. He is now assigned to a unit of the Military Airlift Com mand at Travis.

David W. Johnson has been promoted to district sales supervisor of Texaco, Inc .. super vising the western section of North Carolina

PUBLISHER, HISTORIAN COOKE, A VIRGINIAN IN NEW MEXICO Phil Cooke, is a stubby man with a shaved head , beard and a deeply imbedded sense of history. The historical interest is probably hereditary, but it also comes fr.om having been one of Dr. Mitchell's prize students at the University of Richmond. His great-grandfather , General Philip St. George Cooke, served the Union, and his grandfather, General John Rodgers Cooke, served the Confederacy. The first General Cooke came to I\'ew Mexico in 1846 with Kearny's Anny of the West and later led the Mormon Batallion through the South west to California.

Today's Phil Cooke is a publisher and a historian , an expert on New Mexico history and much of the West. Born in Richmond, Virginia, he spent years in various jobs, including radio announcing and production , as an actor, editor and pub lic relations official, and TV personality on WTVR before he settled in Santa Publisher Cooke Fe, N.M. in 1960. After several years on local radio stations he founded THE be a blockbuster: it is the story of the TERRITORIAN , a monthly newspaper fall of The Alamo and is written by Gen of clippings and news from and about eral Miguel A. Sanches Lamego of the the Territory of New Mexico fr.om 1847 Construction Engineers of the Mexican until it joined the Union in 1912.

Army. Two more are by Englishmen THE PRESS OF THE TERRITOR - who have never been to the United IAN, nicknamed "T -POTT," began in States .

1962 with the printing of its first book , Another recent pub lication released "O1d Town Albuquerque," written by by Cooke's press is "A Virginian In Cooke under the pen name of Peter New Mexico" by John Rowzee Peyton .

Hertzog. The little white -covered book This is the story of a Virginian, in the sold for a dollar. The books of T-POTT year 1773, who was captured by the still sell for a dollar and there are Spanish and was thrown into jail in thirteen on the list. Many of them have old Santa Fe. With much high adven been written bv Cooke while others, like ture he escaped and made his way back the popular "Ghost Towns And How To to Virginia. The introduction to the Get To Them ," were written by other books was written by Louise Ellyson of authors . Jack Schaefer, au thor of "Shane," the staff of the Richmond Times-Diswrote a book for his press on archepatch and was illustrated by Santa Fe ologist Adolphe Bandelier. artist Thurman Dillard. It is number 13 More books will be published by in Cooke 's series of publications on Cooke in the future. One promises to Western Americana.

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with offices in Asheville. He joined the firm in 1964.

The engagement of Edwin Ouray Meyer, Jr. of Richmond to Miss Susan Smith Bork of Alexandria, has been announced.

The engagement of Floyd Thomas Fallen of Richmond to Miss Norma Lee Tott y of Richmond has been announced. A September wedding is planned.

1965Lt. (JG) Robert Edwards is a junior officer of the deck of the 80,000 ton aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, second largest warship in the world. He was formally assigned to the submarine USS Requin.

The engagement of Armond Harless Wright of Richmond to Miss Anne Murphy Byrne of Raeford, has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

The engagement of U. S. Army Capt. Clyde Eugene Moss, Jr. of Newport News , to Miss Nancy Jane Anderson of Annandale, has been announced. A June wedding is planned.

The engagement of Barry Thomas Roberts of Clarksville to Miss Betty Louise Thomasson of Clarksville has been announced.

The engagement of U. S. Army Lt. Stephen Sorrell Carpenter of Washington, to Miss Betty Lee Smithson of Arlington, has been announced.

U. S. Army Capt. John McCloud is serving in Vietnam.

Rev. Earl Crouch, Jr. was ordained into the ministry on May 21, 1967. He is engaged to Miss Edie Paulette of Washington,· D. C. Joseph B. Brown, Jr. has been promoted to assistant division manager of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., in Baltimore , Mel. Elton A. Moskalski has been named claim superintendent of the Richmond office of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

Chester E. Davis has been named administrative manager of the Richmond office of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. He previously was with Reynolds Metals and the Bank of Virginia.

The engagement of Lawrence Sheldon David of Alexandria to Miss Marilyn Barbara Daniels of Detroit has been announced. A July wedding is planned.

The engagement of Anthonoy Dominic Sakowski, Jr. of Norfolk to Miss Catherine Anderson Hardy of Richmond has been announced. A summer wedding is planned.

1966Davicl D. Ryan has joined "Emphasis" magazine, as photo editor. Ryan was formerly with Richmond Newspapers, where he won first and second place awards in feature photography.

The engagement of Ronald Page Fretwell of Richmond to Miss Nancy Elaine Flippin of Colonial Heights has been announced.

Stran L. Trout has been transferred to Goodfellow AFB, Tex. He is a graduate in Chinese language from the Presidio , Monterey, Calif.

George M. Rogers, III, a Newport News attorney, has been appointed assistant commonwealth's attorney for Newport News.

Ralph W. Drayer, Jr. , has been promoted to 1st Lt. in the U. S. Army. Lt. Drayer is motor pool officer at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. U. S. Army PFC Joseph C. Coppola of Fredericksburg, has been assigned to the 1st Infantry Division's 1st Administrat ion Company near Di An, Vietnam.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miskimon of the Virgin Islands have announced the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Madsen. Miskimon is a reporter for the Daily News at St. Thomas.

1967The engagement of William Marion Hall, Jr. of Shreveport, La., to Miss Jane Farrar Harris of Ft. Belvoir has been announced.

A June wedding is planned. Hall is attending Loyola School of Dentistry in New Orleans.

The engagement of Wilbur B. Boyer, Jr. of Amelia to Miss Beverly Cook of Bluefield has been announced.

The engagement of James Taylor Green of Richmond to Miss Elieen Elisabeth Hagland of Richmond has been announced. A May wedding is planned.

Airman Benjamin C. Brugh has been graduated with honors from a U. S. Air Force technical school at Lowry AFB, Colo. He was trained as a supply inventory specialist and has been assigned to the Air Training Command at Keesler AFB, Miss.

The engagement of William Thomas McCann, Jr. of Midlothian to Miss Pamela Sue Van Zant of Sterling has been announced.

An April wedding was planned.

The engagement of Allen Burch Hundley of Richmond to Miss Jane Morgan Potter of Richmond has been announced. A July wedding is planned.

Mac Edwards is stationed in Boston with the U. S. Navy and will begin a four-month tour of Europe in July.

The engagement of Robert Allen Andrews of Richmond to Miss Linda Diann Lackey of Harrisonburg has been announced. A June wedding is planned. Andrews is a graduate student at Richmond Professional Institute.

The engagement of Frederic Arthur Clark, Jr. to Miss Alice Christian Rennie, Jr. of Richmond has been announced.

Second Lt. Donald R. Alley has completed an officer basic course at the Army Armor School at Ft. Knox, Ky. The engagement of James Davis Tolbert, Jr. of Richmond to Miss Vicki Diane Blanton of Richmond has been announced. A summer wedding is planned.

Second Lt. Peter G. Kucera has completed an officer basic course at the Army Armor School at Ft. Knox, Ky. Douglas W . Davis has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

He has been assigned to Goodfellow AFB, Tex. for training as a signal intelligence officer.

Odis Benjamin Hinnant (Continued from page 2) for the Sunday afternoon worship services at which she played the piano and directed the choir.

In "retirement" Odis Hinnant offered his services to the University of Richmond.

"I've had some experience as a fund raiser ," he told President Modlin. "Can I be of help to the University?"

Indeed he could. Working without pay, he served as bequest chairman for the University. He also worked diligently and effectively in the successfully completed Progress Fund campaign. Some of the fruits of his labors already have been harvested, but most will ripen in the years ah ead as the wills are probated of persons who were convinced by Odis Hinnant that they could make no better investment than in the lives of young people.

He practiced what he preached. Several clays before his death, when just to speak required a great effort, he said to his wife Adele, "I want you to write a check for ( the amount was in four figures) and send it to the University of Richmond for the Alumni Fund."

Persons from all walks of life attended his funeral, the president of a University, the parents of a boy he had befriended, his colleagues in the Richmond Rotary Club,

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men and women who loved Odis Hinnant and whose lives had been touched by him.

Odis would have rejoiced that there was "no moaning of the bar" as he embarked on the most joyous, the most rewarding of his adventures. ( Ed. This quiet editorial was written by the Rev. Ernest L. Harris, II, '50, who is completing his seventh year as academic teacher at Beaumont School for Boys and was associated with Dr Hinnant in many areas of his chaplaincy there . )

LIFE OF VA. SUBSIDIARY NAMES NORRIS TREASURER

George W. Norris, '54, has been elected treasurer of the First Fund of

Virginia, Inc. and First Virginia Management and Research Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

His appointment was announced by D. H. Christian, president of First Virginia Management and Research Corp.

Norris joined Life of Virginia in 1954 as an accounting department trainee and has since served as assistant manageroperations, electronics division and as a cost accountant in 1966. He completed the Certified Public Accountant examination requirements in 1967.

Past treasurer of the West End Toastmasters Club, Norris is also a member of the Amelia Presbyterian Church.

GRIFFIN TO DIRECT CAMP ACTIVITIES John K. Griffin, '51, has accepted a position as associate director of Camp Hemlock, a boys camp located 30 miles southwest of Asheville, N. C. in the Great Smokey Mountains.

Griffin is a former member of Hungerford, Inc. in Richmond where he was in charge of the oil department.

esthampton News 1918We of ' 18 are ,looking forward to our 50th Reunion this year. The first class four years at Westhampton, we are starting the custom of a 50th Class Reun ion Gift to our Alma Mater.

Elizabeth Waddill Emerson and her daughter continue to live in California after the death of her husband, Major Emerson. She is planning to be with us for the celebration.

Also, Dorothy Gary Markey of New York will be here, leaving work on her new book on the South, her professor husband , nearby son and daughter and ·grandchildren.

Our most loyal Mary Clay Camp and Betsy Camp Smith are indespensible. Betsy, on the Alumnae Governing Board, will celebrate with us. Also, Susie Blair, now retired from Hollins Faculty, would not miss it.

As we think of those of our class whom we shaJJ miss this year we must relist their names. Those who have passed on are: Katie May Davis, Elizabeth DuVal, Emily Gardner, Mary Lett, Elizabeth Love, Elizabeth Moncure and Kathleen Watkins.

In Richmond there are seven retired teachers of '18. We all will celebrate the 50th Reunion. Most of us are tra velin!?; or watching over sick loved ones. Mary Ruffin has become an expert photographer who enlightens and entertains "the stay at homes" with beautiful slide s of her extensive tra vels. Elizabeth Brockenbrough, with her sister, Rebecca, visited Scandinavia and the Briti sh Isles last summer. This summer Elizabeth will go west to visit friends in Oregon.

Elizabeth Ellyson Wiley retired from teaching when they were unable to return to the University of Shanghai after Pearl Harbour.

Her husband, Hun Wiley , has retired afte1· twenty-four years of teaching at the University of Richmond . ·They still live on the campus

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Associated Press and Richmond and Norfolk newspapers, and publicity for various organizations. Additional activities included coachwhich, she says, she ing in French-during learned some herself! As a volunteer, she classfiecl the high school librar y and served in the Community League.

With the opening of the Eastern Shore Library, the years 1957-1964 saw Katharine return to the profession from which she had retired 25 years earlier. . . Mostly half-time Cataloger and Librarian. . . Currently, she catalogs on her own flexible schedule. retired after more than Since 1964-John 50 years with his paper. From then, the Edmonds' traveling bags haven't been completely unpacked. . . The Canadian Rockies, Seattle, California, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone and other National Parks, Expo '67, back to Niagara, Ticonderoga , Gettysburg ... South to old nlaces and friends not seen for 35-50 yea rs. The Edmonds emphasize their enjoyme nt of old houses and gardens during Garden Week pilgrammages, and, of course, their visits with grandchildren.

Susie Hyman Horner (Mrs. Carroll W.) lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her employ ment with the Pennsylvania Central Railroad she enjoys 24 -where 1921contri of seniority-has butecl significantly, she Katharine Holland Spicer Edmonds (Mrs. says, to her adjustment John W. Jr.) over in Accomac , Vir2:inia, has to widowhood continued to fill her life are Both -daughters with books , boys, new smarried, living in Virpapers , and travel. ginia, and rearing Susie's and husKatharine The six grandchildren. band John have been E lsie older daughter, a close professional as Horner Dodd, of Cape well as family team.

Charles, has two sons.

They have increased it by five men: two son s R. Vaughan, who will enter coJlege this fall, and Ralph Wesley who is in grade school. grandsons. and three Other daughter Sallie Ann Black, of SeaFranklin sons, Both \ of the view, is a West hampton daughter Spicer and John Willis Class of 1954. The Blacks stay busy with Edmonds, III , are alum• their Susie, Sara, Sallie Leigh, and Joe just ni of the University of 18 months old.

Richmond; the latter also of the T. C. WilSusie Along with work and grandchildren.

Iiams Law School, and th e former of New Horner recommends a vacation in Florida , York University. Grandsons, John "Villis Edtimed to escape as she did, the 6-foot snowmoncls, IV, David Carlton and Meade Spicer, drifts and winds that felled 200 telephone range in age from 11 to 4. poles. couple The saga of this Spicer-Edmonds Mary Blackwell Hudnall (Mrs. James Snowhas been joyous for the University of Richden Hudnall) , graduate nurse, and her busmond, as weJI as for thems elves. John has band, former Commisbeen a Trustee of the University for over 25 sioner of Reven11e for yea rs .

County, Northumberland Long ago, Katharine recalls, she was Vice Jive in Heathsville, VirPresident . or Secretary or both, or somethin g, ginia. Since their marof the Alumnae Association . . . V-P of the riage in 1937, they have AAUW in Richmond, and Secretary of severa l Jived at the County Seat, organizations. Now she is a Trustee of the where they both were Association •for the Preservation of Virginia reare d , where ancestral given up the Directorship Antiquities-having lines reach back to the of the local branch because of the pressure 1600s. lfow retired, they of librar y and newspaper work. are never We say, Katharine's activities over the years seem lonely, bored, or restless. to fall into periods of time. From 1921There are so many use1930, she engaged ·in part time work for the ful and worthwhile things to do."

University of Richmond Library. This she Mary, a casualty of the influenza epidemic combined with the travel she had dreamed of 1918 ( remembered painfully by many of the about durin g undergradu ate years-to us) had to withdraw from Westhampton in Also, West Coast, to Canada, to Cuba ... her sophomore yea r. Ater teaching four years she attended the Library School at Emory in the public schools of Northumberland University.

County, she entered nursing. For eight years During 1930-1957 life exoancled. Marrying a she was E ducational Director in the School working newspape r µublisher and editor, of of Nursing at Johnston-Willis Hospital in RichAccomac, she turned her orofessional talents mond. Her work was interesting and chalto unrelenting proofing , editorials, a column, ! _had ..... l~-1~gi_1~~'- bu~, . she says: . "I _ cml_y 1_1ewsand feature stories, correspon1ent for th 1:1

in their own home. It is lar ge enough for so this year their fourteen grandchildren, Elizabeth hopes all who want to stay on the campus for the 1918 Reunion will be her guests.

Our Clas s Baby, Louise Wiley Willis, h as 25th Reunion this year her Westhampton and has a Sophomore Dean 's List daughter, Betty, at Westhampton.

Martha ChappeJI, Gertrude Johnson, Eleanor McCarthy and Deborah McCarthy complete the list of town girls, each of whom would be ·more than plea sed to have a guest for the Reunion . So do make your plans and write us that you will come.

Recently, we had the pleasure of meeting Frances Glassell Beale who assures us that she will join us for the banquet. Also we ran into Edith Neblett Wilson who has pa1·tially committed hers elf .

There are others of '18 from whom we have not heard. Do come and bring us up to elate on your activities. Remember, '18 Spirits never bones gonna ri se again! die-Dem See you May 10th.

DEBORAH A. McCARTHY 1618 Park Ave ., Richmond, Va.

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gone back and taken my B.A. degree , even years later. I loved nursing and appreciate my training an d experience, but I would have That is why I guided liked to have both ... my daughter, Carolina, through Westhampton, for a liberal arts foundation for nursing."

Carolina received her B.A. ( with biology major) -in 1964; and her B.S. (in nursing) from Columbia University in 1966. She is currently a member of the faculty of the Department of Nursing, University of Virginia.

Mary reports that Carolina was very proud of her preparation for Presbyterian Hospital in New York; that she had found reassurance in her own academic background while training with others who also held B.A. degrees.

In community life, the Hudnalls are active throu gh such civic organizations as -Mary the Woman's Club; and through the Homemakers' Bible Class of her Baptist Church, which she has taught for over 20 vears.

MRs. W. NEY EvAN'S (May Alcott Thompson) 4651 Kenmore Drive, N.vV., Washington , D. C .

ever, she finds time for her grandchildren.

They are, in order of ascending ages, Camilla Blanton Lacy, age two; Terry Lacy, who will be in high school; and Evan R. Lacy, who goes to college this fall.

Just now, Ruth Powell Tyree is in Richmond, where we hope she will spend the spring.

The news that Ethney's son-in-law has been promoted is fine. He is now Major Earle A. Patterson, a career military man, who will probably be assigned to foreign service soon.

We were sorry to hear that Olivia Hanly Blackwell had a bad fall recently which resulted in back injuries. All good wishes for her recovery.

Finally and importantly, the plans for our May 10-11 reunion are in the making, as you already know. Come on, let's have a fine percentage of attendance.

MRS. BARTEE E. ConPREw ( Dorothy Sadler) 7100 Horsepen Road, Richmond, Va. 23226

ALUMNA IS ELECTED TO PHI BETA KAPPA An outstanding teache r, Wilhelmina Wright '24, has recently been elected

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1923As agent for our class in the Alumnae Fund drive this year, I have so enjoyed hearing from you; and I am so very grateful for your wonderful response and efficient work. Rosa Sanders Thomas, Virginia Kent Loving, Gladys Nuckols Wood, Ethney Selden Headlee, and I attended the workers' dinner on February 23 where Dean Gehring was the principal speaker.

Myrtie Bidgood Brooks is a recent member of the "happy retireds," and so is Ellen Douglas Oliver. The latter being "footloose, etc." had a trip to South America in December and January. She visited Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, and while it was a pleasure trip her interest in missions took her to several of ours clown there. On her return she went to work in the library of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, housed in the Boatwright Library. She lives on the camous in a wing reserved for them at the library, and is looking forworcl with delight to the dogwoods this spring. We never really leave Westhampton , do we?

Virginia Loving is enjoying her retirement at her farm home, but she is a busy and efficient worker in community orojects. Her son, Kent, lives near her with his wife and son; but the other, Edward, is back in New Guinea with his wife and two daughters.

Sallie Davis had a visit in Florida this winter, but returned to Virginia to be with her sister and brother, both of whom are ill. We are indeed sorry to hear this.

Camilla Wimbish Lacy was in Richmond recently, and I had had news of her in a letter. She is currently serving on "The Committee of Twenty-four" to study the overall work of Baptist organizations in Virginia. How-

News comes of Louise Wilkinson Morton's change of address: Mrs. 0. S. Morton, 3514 Hanover Ave., Apt. 104, Richmond 23221.

Louise has a new granddaughter who is also her namesake. Katherine Louise Morton has an older sister Virginia Suzanne. Oliver, Jr. and his wife Virginia have recently moved to Wayne, N. J. within commuting distance of the AP office in New York City.

Our loving sympathy goes to Hilda Booth Beale on the death of her clear husband, Guy 0. Beale. They have two chi'dren, Mrs. John M. Eaton, San Mateo, California and Guy 0. Beale, Jr., Richmond.

Stewart and I enjoyed his fortieth class re-union at Vfrginia Tech last October. His permanent class president, Nun1ey Bond, and his wife Grace, were there from Wake Forest N. C. with news College, Winston-Salem, of Elizabeth Lake Patterson '24, and her husband Dean Grady Tiler Patterson - "I t's a small world"!

You all like to read news of our classmates in the Alumni Bulletin so please send it along, ·even if you have time for only a postcard.

MRs. STEWARTF. CARVER (E lizabeth Cosby) Little Gardens, RFD 3 Lawrenceville, Georgia 30245

1925We were deeply grieved to hear of the death of Elizabeth (Bessie) Anderson Knecht on December 12, 1967, and we extend to her family our sincere sympathy. ( See Westhampton Necrology in this issue). ·we are grateful to Martha Lipscomb Walsh for supplying this information. Our deepest sympathy also goes to Gladys Wright Cocke and her

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to Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Richmond.

Miss ,i\Tright was one of fifty teachers of mathematics from the East who was chosen for the first General E lectr ic math summer school at Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute.

She taught math at John Marshall High School for many years, and was head of the math depa rtm ent there in recent yea rs. As the math co-ord inator , it was part of her work to see that the math taught in the Elementary and Junior High feeder schools was what it should be. ,i\Then the "new math" was put into the curriculum she taught many classes for the Elementary and Juni or High teachers to help them in teaching this material themselves. She visited the feeder schools giving suggestions and help especially trying to keep the sequence of math from the first grade through Senior High.

three sisters, all graduates of Westhampton College, who lost their mother, Mrs. Ina Smith Wright, widow of Dr. J. A. Wright, in early January.

Emeline Stearns sent me the present address of Kwan Fong Ling. It is 8953 Gervais St., New Orleans, La. 70127. In the spring she will probably return to New Jersey to be with the older of her two daughters, Mrs. Robert Hsu, whose address is 650 Springdale Ave., E. Orange, New Jersey.

According to Anne Gordon Steward's Christmas Card, Anne and Camp were to fly early i•1 January to Zurich, where Camp was to deliver a series -of lectures They hoped to go from there to Israel and return to the United States via Holland and England.

My sincere thanks go to those membe1·s of 1925 who accepted the resoonsibility of being class a?ents for the 1967-68 Alumnae Fund drive. They are Elma Ashton, Ruth Watkins Cloud, Eunice Gill, Marjorie Rhodes Hall, Cathryn Henna, Idaline McVeigh Ratcliffe, Emeline Stevrns, and Mary H. Drinkard Walton. I hope all of you will respond generously to their requests.

Mrss GLADYSSANDERS 2237 W . Grace St., Richmond , Va. 23220

1926w e were distressed to hear of the recent death of Marguerite Roper Tuggles' husband.

She has the sympathy of all of us.

Margaret Lazenby Brown reports that she is enjoying her retirement so much that she rec ommends early retirement for everyone.

Elizabeth Salle is not only serving as Class Chairman for the Alumnae Fund, but is also among the volunteers helping to get out Fund mailings.

Miss MAHY VrnGINIA DAUGHTREY Handsom, Virginia

1928May 10th and 11th are the big dates ahead for us! Our 40th reunion date! News of plans for returning have come from many directions.

Betty Sherman Cale of the class of 1928 will be the speaker at the luncheon on Friday. Her subject will be her life in the United States embassies abroad. That evening we will have a Dutch Treat supper at the home of Frances Anderson Stallard, 302 Virginia Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. On Saturday a seminar with the men in the Cannon Chapel, a luncheon at which Leslie Sessoms Booker will be honored foi- twenty-five years as Alumnae Secretary a reception in the afternoon, and a box s~pper in the home of Nora Turpin Turner. Aren't those lovely plans for a fortieth reunion? You'll agree with Ethel Pond Brinkley, "I don't even feel that old."

Virginia Pleasant Robe1·tson is moving from Wal nut Creek, California to Chesaning, Michigan. She says, "We leave here February first for a week in Death Valley and a week on the Gulf Coast before we get to Michigan on March first. I shall drive down for the reunion probably."

Margaret Willis, from Fairfax Hall, Waynesboro, writes, "I have been rejoicing that this Fortieth reunion I would surely make, for our school closes before commencement at U of R. Now the news that Alumnae Day is M.ay tenth! " We hope you'll manage to get here, Margaret!

Margaret Chapin Perry writes that she is planning to come to the reunion with her daughter Sue and her son's wife Sandra, all alumnae. She says, "We're all three planning to come together! Won't that be fun? So grea t that we're all 'forever young in memory'."

Mildred Anderson Williams, Food Editor of the Richmond News Leader, was guest of the Pillsbury Flour Company at their Bake-Off Contest in Dallas, Texas recently. She'll have news of interest to us all.

Gray Robinson French's youngest daughter was married the last of January. With Alum nae Day in May, we'll expect Gray to be present both at that and at the graduation of her grandchild in June.

Kathleen Hagood Hough is planning at this time to join us for the reunion from her home in Manchester, Vermont. There is a story elsewhere in this issue about Kathl een 's work with the children in her home town.

Louise Massey Crisp lost her husband on October 29th, 1967. Her address: Mrs. Louis Crisp, 210 College Circle, Staunton 24401.

Louise Eubank Gray also lost her husband in October. Her address is Saluda, Virginia.

Another coincidence: both of their sons were in Vietnam serving Uncle Sam at that time.

Ethel Pond Brinkley's youngest daughter works for Eastern Airlines and has taken her Morn and Dad on a grand trip to San Francisco and Hawaii. Ethel has two married daughters and is very much a grandmother and loves every minute of it.

Cecelia Hunt Wright writes, "I do love getting news of W estharnpton and reminders of my happy years there. " Her oldest son, Robert, Jr. is a medical Internist. He has

KA TH LEEN HAGOOD HOUGH '28 STARTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER In the beautiful town of Manchester, Vermont, which nevertheless has its poverty pockets , a dedicated \i\Testhampton alumna is attemp ting to meet a need.

After the Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association abandoned its Child Development Center for lack of funds last summer, Kathleen Hough, who had served it as a psychiatric social worker, worked with a small group of interested persons to establish a non-profit agency to take its place. The new organization, spark plugged by Mrs. Hough, is called the Child Development Center, Inc., and is setting up a mothers-organized day care center. Emphasis will be on giving extra help through social case work services , through parent educat ion programs and an early childhood edu cation program.

Kathleen Hagood Hough, after graduation from Westhampton, started her career in social work with the Virginia State Department of Public Welfare.

She lat er did graduate study at Chi-

been serving the Air Force in Germany. Her daughter, Louise, is married to a former Air Force meteorologist, now an executive placement specialist in Chicago. They have two sons, so she a 1so is a proud grandmother. Her daughter 's artistic talents justify her college designation in Who's Who in American Colle ges. Her youngest, Richard, graduated from Georgia Tech with the Medal of Excellence for Senior ROTC cadets.

Ruth Bishop Dailey has been teaching in the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in the Blue Ridge mountains of Georgia.

Hazel Anderson Carpenter has had a very bad break in several bones in her leg and heel. She says she is coming to the reunion, even if it is on crutches!

Elnora Hubbard Robinson was in Altavista, Virginia, nursing her ill brother during March.

She is coming back from her home in Goshen, N. Y., for the reunion.

The following are serving as c 1ass agents for the Fund Drive: Ethel Pond Brink!ey, Gray Robinson French, Kathleen Hagood Hough, Elnora Hubbard Robinson, Buckner Fitz hug h Pannill, Margaret Willis, Margaret Chapin Perry. Most of these arn planning to come to the reunion.

Elinor Physioe Fletcher is now living at 502 Plaza Building, Norfo lk.

Ann Myers Crai gie is one of the tour guides at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as a Museum Council volunteer.

Looking forward to seeing all of you soonMay tenth at Westhampton.

Mns G. V. NELSON ( Gay Minor) 1511 Brookland Parkway, Richmond , Va.

1929Our sympathy goes to Charlotte Marshall Farmer, who has recently lost her husband, and to Virginia Perkins Yeaman who lost he1· father.

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cago's School of Social Work and completed her graduate work with a Master's degree from Columbia University in 1950. She served as a psychiatric social worker at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at New York hospital, as a field psychiatric consultant for th e New York State Society for Mental Health, and on the staff of the Bennington County United Counseling Service before working with the Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association.

A long letter from Madalyn Freund Bente told of her son Rich's marriage in February 1967 to Karen Grace Emons. Rich has been st gtioned at Ft. Walters in Texas as a Warrant Officer Candidate in helicopters. He was to be at Ft. Walters until February '68 when he was to go to a training area in Georgia or Alabama.

Madalyn keeps busy looking after her mother and Gus, teachin g an Americanization class and serving on the DAR board.

Ruth Haverty came up from Smithfield for the workers dinner. Jimmy Mattox and Mary Butterworth were also there.

MRS. HAMPTON WAYT (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road, Richmond, Va.

1930Happily the Christmas season produces a few items of news. I only wish other seasons were equally fruitful!

Virginia Saunders Thomas was in Stuart Circle Hospital in Richmond for surgery late last fall. She was able to return to Pulaski in time for Thanksgiving feeling much im• proved. Virginia and Bill spent part of the Christmas holidays with their daughter and family in Fairfax.

Margaret Flick Clark is still keeping the New York library system on an even keel, and claims her life is a very hectic one. Charlotte is following in her mother's footsteps, has a job as acting chi! dr en' s librarian (trainee) in a branch close to home, and is almost through library school. Bobbie is combining colle~e with a job and planned to go to France for the holidays.

Margaret Lowe Logan's family had a reunion in Massapequa last summer-twelve of them. John traveled the longest distance; he CPrne from two weeks of camping on the Riviera, "the fina 1e of his year as a Fulbrivht scholar in France." This year he is at the Yale Graduate School continuing his French

studies on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Elsa is at Goucher and Pris at Boston University part time. About a year ago, Tracy was asked by the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals to attend their annual meeting in Palm Springs and chair a workshop. Chrissie went along and on the way home they took a detour to Mexico City.

How nice it was to hear from Helen Harwood Parr. Her son, Jerry, as well as her son-in-law, Dick, returned from Vietnam last summer. Jerr y is now in Louisiana and Dick in Germany. Helen and Arthur are planning a trip to Europe next summer to visit their daughter and h er husband.

A recent note from Virginia Prince Shinnick contained the news that she and Bill have two new grandchildren: William Woodhouse Hyde, who arrived on the scene last Nov. 9, and Grace Sterling Vaughan whose birthday was Jan. 9.

Thanks to Margaret Oliver Saunders for assuming the responsibilities of the Alumnae Fund Drive again this year.

MRS. JOHN E. MILLEA ( Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Id a St., New ton , Mass. 02158

1931Virginia Beck Hargrave is recuperating at home af ter a stay at Johnston-Willis hospital in Richmond .

Helen Haverty ha s changed to elementary librar y work and finding it the real enjoyment that it is.

Hope all of us will have a part in our Alumnae Fund this year. We need you to raise our percentage.

Mrss MARGARETLEAKE 408 N. Meadow St., Richmond , Va.

1933You are expected at 1805 Norris Lane here in Richmond for our reunion supper on Friday, May 10th. Plan, now, to attend. You'll hear more later.

Kathryn Ann Welsh arrived February 20th.

The proud grandparents are Ann & Goody and Kat and Ed Hardy-incidentally the parents are Kay and Bill Welsh.

Our heartfelt sympathy goes to Marjorie Canada O'Riordan in the loss of her husband, Mike. in March. They had recently moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Mike also leaves three children and two grandsons.

Mrss GERTRUDEDYSON 1500 Wilmington Ave., Richmond , Va . 23227

1934We all extend our sincere sympathy to Sandy and her family in the untimely death of her brother, Fillmore, and echo the many tributes paid him. We wish there were adequate words to express our concern.

The response to the appeal for fund letter writers was very gratifying: only one of the seven people contacted, was unable to help.

Many thanks, and good luck!

I have received letters from Katherine Sergeant Newby, Louise Messick Porter, Elizabeth Claybrook Bristow, Helen Wilkinson Buchanan, and Frances Lumsden Gwynn. Everything seems to be much the same with them, but all hope to be in Richmond soon and have promised to call. Frances has four little granddaughters now. Her youngest daughter, Ruth, is going to East Carolina College.

Ammye Herrin Hill and I attended the fund raising dinner in February , and I have some news from her. Her son, Tucker, has been the architectural historian of the Virginia Historic Landmarks Committee since June, '67,

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when he received his M.A. degree in that field, from the University of Virginia.

Ammye's son, Thornton, Jr., has been with the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Richmond since his graduation from U. of R. Thornton's engagement to Margaret Elizabeth Murdock has just been announced.

MRS. A. TAYLORSEAY, JR. (Hazel Hemming) 1410 Palmyra Ave. , Richmond, Va. 23227

1935I believe that we will have our highest percentage of contributors to the Alumnae Fund this year because we have ·an outstanding group of class agents: Our president, Helen Caulfield Ballard, Lottie Britt Callis, Mary Pat Early Love, Sue Cook McClure ,Tones, Nan Owen Manniniz. Lola Williams Pierce, and Sue •Whittet Wilson. They h:ave been writing or calling you. We hope all of you will give.

The families of at least two of our classmates are makin,z significant contributions to the University. Eleanor Caoerton Farley and her family contribute through the Farley Foundation. Vida Elsea Norvell, her sister, and others in her family have given a scholarship to honor their parents .

Helen Caulfield Ballard is one of the busiest people I know . In the first week of June she will be involved with her daughter 's grad uation from Randolph-Macon and her mar riage. At the same time, Helen's husband, Bill, will be seeking reelection to the Norfolk City Council. Helen is a Trustee of the new Virginia Wesleyan College and has been in charge of all fund rai~ing for the college among the women of Norfolk. Helen writes, "I know the need of funds for our private colleges first-hand, and I am convinced we need our small church-related schools. I also have a strong feeling of gratitude to Westhampton and obligation to serve her in whatever manner I can."

Peggy Dixon Brown has our sincere sympathy in the loss of her husband.

Vida Elsea Norvell's husband, Tom, who passed away two years ago, was a boyhood friend of Billy Dixon. Vida is happily associated with Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church's day nursery. Both she and her daughter are taking classes at RPI. Vida has a son in California and a daughter in the State of Washington.

Lola Williams Pierce's daughter, Cheryl, is costuming a children's play ( designing and making the costumes), one of the requirements for the Master's she will receive from the University of Texas this year.

Estelle Veazey Jones and Don wrote on their Christmas card that they were planning a trip to Europe in ·the spring .

Alice Harrington Hunt's Dan is in the middle of his PhD work at Clemson in chem ical engineering; Julie is winding up her Master's in Biology at the University of South Carolina; and Pete is a Senior at the University of South Carolina. Alice and her husband enjoy camping and hiking and had a delightful vacation in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.

In February, Rhea Talley Stewart sent a card from London, where she is working in the British Archives. On the card was a picture of Crosby Hall, Chelsea, and Rhea wrote as follows, "This is where I have most of my dinners-at the residence of the Federation of University Women. It used to belong to Sir Thomas More-and I wish it were less draughty. In fact, I came to London at the wrong season, for the weather is worse than I expected, even after one reads about it .

And they •have less central heating than I thought."

Sue Cook McClure Jones and Art were in Europe most of December. They left Southern

California in winter only because Sue's niece was married in Paris December 16. Sue and Art from California, •Julia and her husband from Poughkeepsie, and Bill McClure from Washington had a real family reunion at Ben's home in Paris. Sue Cook and Art spent a week in Paris, three or four days each in London and Madrid, and the balance of the time in Lisbon, where it was warm and sunny.

Sue Cook's youngest, Allen, is a junior at the University of California. Kay enjoys working with disturbed teenagers at Devereux School in Santa Barbara. lier oldest, Gifford, is a confirmed bachelor, his mother says. He has been in Europe since September and has seen most of Europe outside of the Iron Curtain and wants to go on to Africa.

Miss Jean Wright, our class sponsor, is teaching during the second semester at Thomas Jefferson High School ( where Lottie Britt Callis and Margaret Taylor Gallaway are also faculty members). What a treat for those high school students!

MRS. C. MAURYTATUM ( Gladys Tilson Smith) 336 Lexington Road, Richmond , Va. 23226

1937Wherever there 's a member of the class of '37, exciting events are taking place.

Take Grace Elliott Olsen for instance: Humphrey resigned his position at Vincennes University last July and he and Grace moved to Cambridge, Mass. There they are convenient to manuscripts of Alexander Wilson, poet and ontologist. Grace and Humphrey are researching a biography on this gentleman.

They hope to publish it soon.

In the meantime, they had to return to Vincennes, Indiana for their daughter Alice's wedding. Pfc. James Frederic Kimmell was the groom. After a brief honeymoon, Fred returned to his duties and Alice to her work at Good Samaritan hospital.

In our latest communique from Florence Moore Flake, she was packing to make her 35th move, this time to Fort Belvoir. She hopes this will be Joe's last move before his retirement from military service. After her move, she was expecting to take a trip to the west coast to see her children. Joe Jr. at this time was awaiting orders to go to Vietnam.

Jean is teaching in Monterey, California.

Congratulations are in order for Tom and Nancy Chappell Pettigrew. Grandson, Andrew Scott Pettigrew was born June 11 in San Antonio, Texas. Young Andrew's father is at Officers Training School at Lackland Air Force Base. Nancy, Tom and Bill ( the youngest spent some time with the new Pettigrew) baby in July.

Dorsey and Alice Torbeck Bryant did a bit of traveling ·last July too. Their trip took them to Paris, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Geneva, Lucerne, and Zurich. Of course, it was wonderful.

Jane Carroll Slusser is teaching first grade in Pensacola, Florida. It would be interesting to hear her views on Florida's recent educational problems, wouldn't it? Both of Jane's sons are in the service. Bill is in the Navy and Jim is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force.

At Christmas, she and her family had a nice visit with her parents in Missouri. Her parents are 89 years old and still remarkably active.

Isn't that wonderful?

I am sure the rest of you classmates are having lots of exciting times. Let me include some of them in our next bulletin.

MRS. J. -F. PEYRONNET(Marion Miller) 1807 Aisquith Road, Richmond , Va. 23229

1938The class of '38 will celebrate its 30th reunion with a dinner at the Country Club on Friday evening, May 10, and will join

W.C. Hockey, Basketball Teams Have Winning Year

by DIXIE LEE '69 This year with the physical education and Athletic Association programs diversified student interests were met through successful varsity seasons, visiting coaches, odd-even competition, wellorganized intramurals, and a manyfaceted list of swimming activities.

Seven hockey players returned from camp in Pennsylvania 's Poconos to spur the others into a 1967 season ending 3-2-2 for regular games. Late in September, Mrs. Ursula Fairbairn of th e South African Touring Team joined Miss Mary Jane Miller, head of the Westhampton physical education department and coach, for two afternoons of exceptional varsity instruction. WC worked on and held th e best tournament record, 2-0-1, placing four girls on the Tidewater All-College first team and three on the second. Five of these played in the Southeast Tournament at Sidw ell Friends in Washington. The Odd-Even teams tied 1-1, mascots cheering and banners waving.

Westhampton's basketball teams have had winning seasons for a number of years, but 1968's record was 8-1 for both teams. Depth and balance were the materials Miss Patricia Higginbotham , newcomer from West Virginia, worked with successfully. Outscoring opponents , 450 to 271, the first team 's single loss was on a "cold" night at Bridgewater. Having lost to Lynchburg College for two years, one of the girls' best efforts was a 59-30 victory over th em this season. The Odd Team won 30-24 in a game ironically matching varsity offense (Odd) against varsity def ense (Even).

The Fanny G. Crenshaw Pool gets more use each year with competition, swimming, free swim synchronized hours , and class instruction. Although the varsity team's record was 2-4, they took second in a five-way meet against the same teams they 'd met during the regular season. Several school records were set by individual members as displayed on the new wooden chart of the nine meet events as it overlooks the end of the pool from high on the wall.

"Aquanettes on Broadway" spotlighted the synchronized swim club whose months of planning presented interpretations of movie and show ·hits through water ballet. Sponsored in February by the Athletic Association, four perfor mances, using simple coloring, gave a new depth of meaning to the 14 tunes against a background of marquees, record album and ticket stub reproductions , and connective narration for mood [ 25]

transitions. Acts ranged from the turbulence and dang er aspects of "You Only Live Twic e" and a dreamy "Moon River" to the stealth of "Pink Panther" and th e :B.irting of WC's "Mame." Advised by Miss Nancy Elkins, swimming coach and in her first year since arriving from ·wes t Virginia, the show was a tr emen dous success.

Class es are now taught on beginning , intermediate, and advanced levels of swimming as well as lifesaving and Water Safety Instruction. Faculty and staff children also have the opportunity for lessons on Saturday mornings. There are fre e swim hours each day with special night hours on Tuesday for faculty, Wednesday for boys, and Friday for coed swimmers .

Orchesis under Mrs. Frances Wessells will perform the afternoon of May Day '68 with the Univers ity Players in Oedipus Rex, an exciting part of their year.

The Virginia Women's Lacrosse Association brought U. S. player, Sue Player, Honeysett , and · All-England Anne Morton, to Westhampton for a "Regional Play Day" to "kick-off" the season. WC, William and Mary, Longwood, St. Catherine's, and some club players took advantage of excellent coaching March 9 on both stickwork and actual game situations. The tournament at Mary Washington May 10-11 will follow a four or five game season for Westhampton.

Archery and tennis players anticipate a good year with returning archers and netters , including a state tennis champion. has inparticipation Intramurals creased both in number and variety.

The program now includes volleyball , tennis , hockey, a swimming meet, badminton, ping pong, basketball, archery, softball, and a field day-all for fun!

The adoption of a new curriculum by the University has also brought changes to the physical education departm ent. Individual requirements , excluding gymnastics, remain ,,that of an individual or dual sport, team sport, swimming, and modern dance, but beginning in th e fall of 1968, only two years will be required. Present students will choose whether they will stay under the current catalog requiring four years, or if they will change. Student polls indicate an interest in taking physical education past the compulsory two years, especia lly during the outdoor months.

This full program provides many channels for healthful living-as Westhampton spirit continues!

other alumnae at Westhampton on Saturday, May 11, for a full day of activities. Do plan to be here.

Julia McClure Dunwell sends these statistics concerning herself and her family: "Son, Roger graduated Harvard, 1966, currently at New York University School of Law. Son, Steven, Jr., sophomore at Yale Universi ty.

Daughter, Frances, ente1·ing 10th grade, Oak wood Friends School, Poughkeepsie. Husband, Steve, designated "Fellow of the IBM Corp." in 1966. lJnder this Fellowship which lasts for 5 years, one can do work of his own choosing. Steve is doing research in the field of Computer Assisted Instruction on the elementary school level. Myself, I have been back in college for the past two years . This year I am enrolled at Vassar College and I am greatly enjoying the student life."

A letter from Barbara DeJ arnette Bagwell describes the life of a typical Westhampton alumna. She says, "Things go along as usual here-and you needn't think it is slow World Day of Prayer, Home Mission Offering, Sunday School enlargement campaign, Sunday School class, Woman's Club project, Garden Club Hower shows, ta lks for D.A.R., sixteen year old at home, and three college students and two wives in and out, with the care of my eighty -five year old mother, and a lawyerhusband who likes to stay on the move. It keeps me stepping! But I love it."

In answer to a request that she help with the Alumnae Fund Barbara says "How can I turn Westhampton down? Westhampton gave me so much - it is a debt I can never repay. It is a way of looking at life and the world seen through Woodfin-Lough glasses with a lot of polishing from a lot of other people. Bless them all!"

MRS. C. C. CosBY (Josephine Mallory) 9814 Laurel St. , Fairfax, Va . 22030

1939I had a nice visit with Elizabeth Mitchell Driscoll recently. She is busy teaching Spanish at Waynesboro High School while their four sons are busy studying. The oldest is at the University of Virginia, the next son at V.P.I. the third at Waynesboro High and the youngest ?0es to Kindergarten.

She told me that Elizabeth Burch Fowlkes is working in the office of George Mason College in Fairfax County.

Our congratulations to Garland Wilson Brookes. Daughter Betty was recently chosen to be a member of Mortar Board at West hampton. Also Garland and Greg have a new granddaughter in the family.

Ken and Evelyn Angus have had a recent trip to Hous ton, Dallas and Fort Worth while Elizabeth and Hunter Jackson vacationed in Fort Lauderdale .

Margaret Harris Quick's son, Johnny, is with the Medical Corps in Vietnam.

Our thoughts have been with Cally Ross Lewis whose husband, Frank, died recently and with Garland Wilson Brookes whose mother died.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Alumnae Fund. Let's do even better in 1968 - and don't forget that 1969 will be a i-eunion year for us.

Billy Angus will join his brother Frank at the dental school of MCV in September.

Dick Wood, after graduation from VMI, will attend dental school also.

MRs. ALBERT L. JACOBS (Scotty Campbell) 203 Santa Clara Drive , Richmond, Va. 23229

1940I am sure the class will join me in offering sympathy to Frances Bailey Gill on the death of her father, Dr. John Wendell Bailey whom most of us remember from our biology classes.

A nice phone call from Emma Lou in formed me of Connie Holloway's grandson, Stephen McRae Holloway, born as a Valentine gift to his mother and Dad. Connie is now hoping she might see him if they are transferred back to the states soon.

Connie had heard from Annie Harrison in Wilmington, Del. whose son Bob attended Richmond College before transferring to a college in Buffalo. His engagement was announced and he will be married next summer.

When I called Lucy Baird , I found that she had taken a very lovely trip by bus around the Gaspe Peninsula early last October.

At Christmas, when a card arrived from Dell and Tony Smith on Crest Drive, Dover, Mass. 02030, I felt really surprised since they seemed settled in the west last summer. How ever, Tony was transferred from Nevada last August and is a construction manager working out of Boston . It must be nice for them to be closer to Mabs who must be a senior at Mary Baldwin and Carter who is enjoying freshman year at M .I.T. ·Frances Gill and her husband had a nice cruise to the Caribbean this winter, the Virginia trip, which stopped at five different ports including Nassau, Curacao and St. Thomus. Their oldest daughter is at Westhampton and son at Wake Forest.

I hear that Margaret Ligon Bernhardt has a grandchild.

Our daughter Corliss is no longer so far away. Her office was moved to Columbus, Indiana so she paid us a visit in January when she was returning from California.

Carol and Grace, her 7-month old daughter, visited us again last week and we were en chanted with her as grandparents should be.

Ethel Harrington writes that Tor was in

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MRS. FREDERICKJURGENS , JR. ( Maud e Smith) 2435 Buford Road, Bon Air, Va.

1941Kitty Spencer Philpott spent the months of January and February in Richmond while her husband, A. L., a member of the House of Delegates, was attending the 60-day session of the General Assembly. Kitty was in Black stone this winter for a wedding in which her daughter was a bridesmaid. Kitty's son, Lee, is a sophomore at U of R while her son-in -law is in the Law School.

Charlotte Dudley Patteson was one of the hostesses at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond for the illustrated lecture

by Donald Oenslager, Professor of scenic de sign at the Yale School of Drama.

Nine of our classmates are w1·iting letters for the alumnae fond -drive: Toni Wirth Whittet, Betty Woodson Weaver, Ann Wood ward Courtney, Margaret Purcell Spindler, Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow, Margaret Brit tingham Curtice , Vfrginia Omohundro Purcell, Sue Trussell Wright, and Betty Acker Gillespie .

"Its" Holden Stipek, Betty Woodson Weaver, Rue Stringfellow, Mayme O'Fiaherty Stone, and I enjoyed the Alumnae Fund workers' dinner in the college dining room in February.

Ear lier, we visited Rue's daughter, Charlene, a junior, in the dormitory. Charlene is president of Nostrae Filiae at WC, has made the Dean's List first semester, and had made Intermediate Honors. She plans to spend spring vacation in Nassau. Rue's younger daughter, Patty, has made straight A's at Culpeper High School and is secretary of the student government there. Anne Addison Bowling played with Rue in a member-guest golf tourament in Culpeper last fall.

Virginia Wood Hawkins ("Woodsie") lives in New Hope, Virginia, and writes that her husband, Howard, is teaching at Fort Defiance High School. They have taken some extended trips throughout the United States and Canada in 1·ecent years. She was at Westhampton this summer to attend a W .M.U. workshop.

Their son, James, is a sophomore at Virginia Tech.

Mi ldred Howerton Jones has written that her daughter, Susan, has graduated from Vanderbilt. Her son, Steve, is a Junior in high school in Wilmington, Delaware. Casey, her husband , has been in the hospital with back trouble and finally had to have an operation.

Lois Campbell Herlong's daughter, Lynn, is away at college this year.

Toni Wirth Whittet foi-warded a letter from Cecil and Cecile Gaddis Smith saying that the Smiths have returned to Gainesville, Florida after two years in Costa Rica. Those years provided many trips to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Savador, Antigua, and Colombia. Cecil journeyed to the Canal Zone twice for Reserve training with the intelligence staff of the U. S. Southern Command. Cecile says, "Patsy is a freshman at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia.

During their last four months in Costa Rica, Nancy and Kathy enrolled in a public school with all classes in Spanish; David continued his work at Colegio Lincoln. Since returning to Gainesville, the family has been to Canada where Cecil had a conference at the Uni ve1·sity of Guelph, Ontario."

Toni Whittet writes that Bob Courtney dropped in on his way to get his daughter, Edee, a sophomore at Westhampton. He reported that his oldest son, married this winter, expects to continue his graduate work at University of Alaska.

Mayme O'Flaherty Stone is directing five choirs at the Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond, is teaching piano, and is heading

up the Youth Education work of the Richmond Symphony. A letter from her states that her husband , Pat , continues to travel and enjoys on wee k-ends getting his boat ready for the Rappahannock River for the summer.

Their son, Andy, spent a week in June at Johns Hopkins Hospital for a catherization of the heart, but he will not have to have surgery until later.

Margaret Brittingham Curtice and her family enjoy living in Santa Barbara, California, where her husband, Jack, is a coach.

She writes, "T he highlight of the football season was our victory over unbeaten Santa Clara. Jack and Jim , our son, have enjoyed being on the same team, and Jim is looking forward to being the first string quarterback next year. I stay busy with my work at Devereux where I have been working on a part time basis for almost five years. My lovely little Baptist Church is a pleasure, and I do a few things with our faculty club."

Margaret and Jack attended the Coaches' Convention in New York in January and stopped by to spend a few days with her parents in Suffolk, Virginia.

After sixteen years in the Washington area, Fran and Martha Lillian Beam deVos left Silver Spring last summer to move to Willmette, Illinois , 16 miles north of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan just above the campus of Northwestern University. As the first Director of the Chicago Botanic Garden, Fran has the challenge of converting 300 acres of swamp-land into a place of beauty and developing a horticultural and botanical center for the mid-west. Martha is substitute teaching in the local Junior Highs and taking a French course. For news of their children, :\<Iartha says, "When Ann graduated from high school in June , she left to spend a year in London with friends, helping in the house with three small ones and taking courses in English History and French. Peter has entered the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Ricki is now a sophomore and Randi a freshman at the well-publicized New Trier High School; Judy is a 6th grader taking Aute lessons and participating in Girl Scouts and Little Theatre . . . Ann planned a skiing vacation in Austria this winter. Pete leads his company academically." She issues an invitation to all Westhamptonites in the Chicago area.

Martha Lillian also has this news about E leanor Kindell Miller: "Cart is transferring to New Jersey, so we are scheduled to leave Aruba in January. He has been Lago 's Research Coordinator, and will begin a new assignment as a Technical Communications Coordinator operating from the ER&R Engineering Center in Florham Park, New Jersey. " They are delighted to be coming stateside again.

MRS. S. GRAY HARDY ( Bitsy Epes) llO High Street, Blackston e, Va. 23824

.I942Ada Moss Harlow would like to express thanks and appreciation to the following who agreed to act as class agents: Pat Abernethy Riley, Frances Calisch Rothenburg, Jean Grant Andrews, Mary Duane Hoffman, Lillian Jung, Mary Virginia Mangum Arrington, Virginia Parker Dozier, Betty Ann Petzinger Shackelford and May Thayer Holt.

Ada also mentioned that she has a student teacher now from Westhampton working with her. She and Bill celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on January 29.

Ethne Flanagan Higginbotham and Leland are moving from Baltimore to Rochester , N. Y. where he will serve as pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church. He was there before as assistant pastor while attendine; the Seminary.

Their new address will be: 815 Park Avenue, Rochester , N. Y.

HELEN HERRINK FIX '43 MAKES POLITICAL NEWS After 13 years of reporting the political scene, Helen Fix , a Cincinnati Suburban Newspapers , Inc. edi tor , is now in the position to make political news.

Helen Herrink Fix, ed itor of CSNI's Northeast Suburban Life, in November b ecame the first woman elected to Amberley Village Council in th e community's 27-year history. She won over incumbent Hiram Bolsinger 808 to 658.

Helen Fix's association with politics dat es from her reporting for the Richmond, Virginia, Times-Dispatch when she covered th e state capitol, th e county government and city hall. H er competiband, John and three children, John, tor from th e News Leader, the afternoon Jr., a junior at Miami University, Oxpaper , was Jam es Jackson Kilpatrick ford; Carol, a freshman at Averett Col( Kil po), now a syndicated oolumnist lege, Danville, Va., and Marian , a junior whose column appears in th e Cincinnati at Woodward High School.

Enquirer.

Even though she is a "working Amberley's first counc ilwoman began mother," Helen makes room in her repo rting th e local political scene in schedule for civic and school affairs .

1955 as editor of The Reporter. During She solicits for fund raising drives and four years with The Reporter and six is a member of the Woodward High as editor of Suburban Life she has kept School Parents Faculty Council. A few th e public informed of council action years back, she was a Girl Scout leader. in Silverton, D eer Park, Blue Ash, MontShe has also been active in the Woman's gomery, Madeira, and Indian Hill.

Society of Christian Service at Pleasant Mrs. Fix oombines h er role as editor Ridge Methodist Church where the famwith that of homemaker for her hus- ily are members.

A nice letter from Jean Grant Andrews tells of singing in a "ladies barbershop" group called the "Swee t Adelines." In Dec . four of the group with Jean as tenor named themselves the Skytones, and entered Regional competition as a novice quartet, and were found good enough to place second. They are now preparing themselves for competition again in May in Miami. Her son, Richard, graduates from Brown in June, so she'll be heading north for that.

Pat writes that she and Gayle are taking off with the boat to the Gulf for some fishing -alon g with all the teenagers. They plan to go to Dauphin Island in April. Jack, their eldest , has one foot in graduate school, one foot in the navy. Charlie finishes junior college this year and will go off to school in the fall. Pat halfway promises to drive up to Richmond next fall.

We were delighted to hear from long-quiet Mary Pegram Worthington this time, though sorry to learn that she has had surgery since Christmas, and her husband is also recovering from surgery. They have 5 children, the oldest in the Air Force at San Antonio Texas, the next in college and the others at home in high school and elementary schools. She is busy as President of Church Women, and on various school committees.

We'd like to express our sympathy to Nancy Davis Parkerson in the recent loss of her father, a long time attorney in Richmond.

Annie Loie Walker Seacat writes from Winnetka that she is still Hying back and forth to Pittsburgh making decisions and changes on their new home there. The house was finally started in December, but progress has been slow with living in Chicago and building in Pittsburgh.

Please be thinking already of a Bulletin deadline of May 15 to send more news for class of '42. If for any reason you're not contacted, just drop me a line or send me

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MRs. D. M. HOLT ( May Thayer ) 16 Dunde e, Richmond Va . 23225

1943A fact you all may not know is that the mail does get through to Maine. Not once in the twelve years we have lived in Cape Elizabeth has our postman needed his clog team for the dail y delivery. So do send news.

Bea Lewis Talbott sent a picture of Molly, 9½, whose broken elbow and wrist had just mended. Bea was the neighborhood paper boy while Owen had the Hu. Older son Dave enlisted in the army and was to report for duty January 3.

Pepper Hathaway sent all the following class notes for which I am very grateful: After a summer vacation at Expo 67 and touring Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Georgie Simpson has been involved in church work and has been enjoying football games at the University of Maryland and four Theater Guild productions.

George and Marguerite Shell Ritchie have settled permanently in Charlottesville. George is busy with his practice; Shell is part-time teacher in Week-day Religious Education.

Louise Wiley Willis and John celebrated their twentieth anniversary last fall with a trip to Florida.

Evelyn Allen Krause commutes with her husband to Charles City where she is English teacher and guidance counselor and he is principal of the high school. Their son Charles is a music major at RPI. Chime Dalton Tate 's daughter Chime is a sophomore at Westhampton, and, like Puff Humbert's Priscilla Anne , is a phys. ed. major.

Nancy Ogg, Virginia Delp Ogg's daughter, is also at Westhampton majoring in math. Virginia has returned to teaching second grade

at Skipwith School after being out four months with a spinal fusion.

After a few months in Washington, D. C., Mary Elder Pauli and Ed have returned to Athens, Greece.

Dave and Dolly Dorsey Harwood have been living in California, but now Dave has been sent to Korea where Dolly hopes to join him soon with their daughter Ruth.

Son David is in college in Ohio. Ginny will finish high school and go to Korea next summer.

In answer to a request for information on the Virginia Museum , Cozy Long was most helpful in sending me all sorts of clippings and brochures and news of herself and family. She is on the Board of the Council of the Museum and is thoroughly enjoying being a tour guide. She writes: "Clif and I stay busy going to all the games that go on with three sons playing three major sports. Bobby will be going to college next year. . . Doug is a sophomore ( high school) and Chris, 9 years, is in the fourth form at St. Christophers.

Please, won't you all come at our 25th reunion May 10 and 11?

MRs. RoBERT A. BELL ( Frances Beazley) 6 Woodcrest Road , Cape Elizabeth, Me . 04107

1944Christmas is always wonderful for the class secretary ... so many notes, cards and letters!

But before we start how about some help?

Do any of you know the addresses of the following: Mrs. R. H. Culpepper ( Kathleen Sanderson) Mrs. Edwin C. Granley ( Norma Sanders) Mrs. B. A. Pence (Mary Cary Addison) Mrs. C. Alvis Edwards (Martha Burnette) If you do, please let me know as we have found that the last addresses we have for them are incorrect.

Christmas found Marylee (Smith) Chapin and family taking a breather from big city life by visiting her home in Culpeper. Dot ( Ihnken) writes that she and her mother drove up to Expo '67 Quebec and down through the New England states last fall.

Her mother has recovered, I'm happy to report, from the fall she had when they were in California a year ago.

Dee Dee (Howe) Kirk's son Bruce, age 13, is making quite a name for himself in sports. He won the Ford Motor Company 's Punt, Pass and Kick area championship in Washington and went on to place ·second in the Eastern Divisional finals in Philadelphia.

Dee Dee says that both Bruce and Bill had a wonderful time as guests of the National Football League and the Ford Motor Company . They were proud to have Bruce as a semi-finalist and thought it was a great experience for him.

Fran (Kennard) Wolf has been in Coronado, California since last February. They are

thrilled to be back there where living is easy and there are golf and women's activities to keep her busy. Babs is applying to San Diego State for the spring semester and Tricia is trying for some college in California next fall.

Dot (Monroe) Hill has had the same rich experiences as mine, for the son of the family with whom Fleet spent the summer in Equador was their Christmas guest. He is a Richardson scholar at Davidson College. Also another student from Equador has visited them twice "adding a new dimension to their outlook and understanding of the universe." The world grows smaller and smaller it seems for Billy Jane (Crosby) and Ballard Baker are President and Vice-President of the Douglas Freeman Chapter of the American Field Service in Richmond. Their student Ann Dimaano came to the United States in the same group and on the same plane as my Denise . Billy Jane's Janet was sixteen in September and is enjoying her new freedom as an automobile driver while ten year old Bill is immersed in the study of the Civil War . . . his latest hobby.

It's been a year of crutches for Lois ( Kirkwood) North who sprained her ankle last summer, then broke her foot in October and was in a cast for six weeks. Penny could sympathize with Kirkie, for she suffered a severe sprain at basketball practice in January and missed over a month in the middle of the season. Lois did get the cast off in time for a gala trip to New Orleans with Walter, I'm happy to say .

I have a nice long letter from Kay (Hanley) Wery in Hawaii, but I'm going to save it for next time. Kay did attend a luncheon with Leslie Booker last summer and among the W esthamptonites present was Frances Badenoch who says has been teaching in Hawaii for several years. More on this later.

Are you thinking and planning for our reunion in 1969? It's not a moment too soon.

And who wants this job next? Any Volunteers?

MRs. H. C. DANIEL ( Evermond Hardee) 104 Forest Hills Drive , Monroe , N. C. 28110

1945I am just jinxed at this class reporting!

Due to an unbelievable set of circumstances which I won 't go into you had no news last issue. This time I lost the prepared letter before it got to the Post Office so must try to remember what I'd put down (having destroyed your letters) .

Thank you for your Christmas Cards especially Lottie Blanton Applewhite who remembered to send hers early enough for the deadline ( Dec. 15th). Speaking of deadlines, by the time you read this it will be less than one month to the next deadline so do sit down now and drop me a card with your news. Make it a habit!

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and started at their home. Kathy Mumma Atkinson and family are still in an unsettled state due to a proposed highway which will lake their house. They are awaiting the appraisers so they can know what they can do. Ann Seay and J. B. Jackson fell for the airline's ad "take me along" and she accompanied him to California in December and reports a wonderful time.

I was pleased and surprised to have a phone call from Betty Dupuy Adams at Thanksgiving time. She was in Richmond on a visit to her parents who live there now and also to see daughter Davey at Westhampton.

That's all, folks, you all do write, NOW! MARY CAMPBELLPAULSON(Mrs. John W. ) 239 Shoe Lane , Newport News, Va. 23606

1946Mary Lu Willis Bareford's family spent Thanksgiving in New York, where they saw several plays, the highlight being "Mame."

Mary Lu has been teaching this year, but hopes to have "retired" by mid-term.

Lelia Phillips Toone lost her father in February.

Our most heartfelt sympathy to you, Lelia.

Marian Lawton Kinzey's son, John, was valedictorian of his class at John Marshall High School in Richmond last June.

Virginia Gibson Stewart suffered complications from her foot sprained in Spain last summer, and has only been able to walk without crutches or cane since November.

Ellen Hodges Proxmire's oldest daughter , Mary Ellen, was married in June.

Jake and I have increased the U. S. population. Thomas Alton Wicker arrived at Duke University Medical Center in Durham , N. C., on February 8.

Beginning with the next Bulletin, Joyce Eubank Todd will be the class of '46 secretary.

Please send any news you have to: Mrs. A. Howe Todd, 1600 Wilmington Ave., Richmond, Va. MRs. WARREN JAKE WICKER (Marie Peachee ) 1024 Highland Woods Chapel Hill , N. C . 27514

1947Nancy Richardson Elliott wrote, telling of several interesting events in her family's life.

Nancy rnceived a Masters Degree from the University of Virginia in August, 1967, in Education, with a major in guidance and counseling. Their home in Scottsville was near enough for her to drive to Charlottesville for all of the work toward the degree. After sixteen years as pastor of the Scottsville Baptist Church, John accepted a call to the Dover Baptist Church at Manakin, right outside of Richmond. They moved to Richmond in Jan· uary; sons Johnny, 16, and David, 14, have transferred to Douglas Freeman High School and Tuckahoe Jr. High School, respectively.

Nancy is teaching one half day at Albert H. Hill Jr. High School in Richmond.

Gin Ellett has a new job with the Mathematics -Science Center which is sponsored by the Richmond City schools in conjunction with the schools of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield, Goochland, and Powhatan Counties and all private and parochial schools in the area. The Center brings enrichment-type programs to students, teachers, and people in the community in general. Gin's latest project is the administering of twelve Saturday morning classes for seventh and eighth grade students.

Ann Wiley Kelly has finished her extension course at William and Mary in Library work, and is working as a school librarian in an elementary school.

I'm most impressed by all our scholars. Another is Margaret Goode Vicars who is en-

rolled in an adolescent literature course this semester at Patrick Henry College. This course will complete requirements for the renewal of her teaching certificate for the next 10 years.

Helen Cole Richardson's husband, Straughan, was named the 11th winner of the Sherwood Reeder Award. The Award, named for Richmond's first city manager, is given annually to an outstanding city employee of Richmond. Straughan, an assistant real estate appraiser, was lauded by the awards committee for excellence in performing his job, personal efforts to improve ·knowledge in his field and contributions to his community and church.

Our deepest sympathy goes to three of our classmates. Marion Huske Moomaw's father died just before Christmas. We were also sorry to learn of the deaths in January of Helen Cole Richardson's mother and of Ann Wiley Kelly's father.

Frances Coles McClennan and Bill were planning a trip to Washington, D. C. for a long weekend in March, chaperoning a group of students from Schnectady, N. Y. The entire family planned an Easter visit to Halifax.

Marie Walthall Le Sieur and Claude moved on September 1 into a big, old home and have spent lots of time scrubbing, painting, and making curtains for forty windows! Sounds a lot of do-it-yourself projects like fun-and for Marie and Claude.

Mary Cox Anderson is serving as superintendent of the elementary division of her Church School and also vice-president of the Women's Society . She is also Brownie organizer area. Somehow, she for the Williamsburg also finds time for bridge with her bridge club.

The Alumnae Fund Drive is on-please reach for your checkbooks and get a check into the mail right away. Let's bring '47 way up in the percentage of contributors.

Carolyn Marsh is Co-Chairman of the Fund Drive this year. Let's give her our support.

We do not have a current address for Ann Young Lewis (Mrs. H. A.) Can anyone help?

New Addressess: Nancy Richardson Elliott (Mrs. John P., Jr.) 1131 Wimberly Drive Richmond 23229 Marie Walthall LeSieur (Mrs. Claude M.) 15 S. Hillcrest Rd. Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064 MRS. HAROLDH. STIRLING,JR. ( Ollie Menefee) 4214 North Valiant Court Annanda le, Virginia 22003

1948Although I will miss knowing what is going on, it is without regret that I submit my last letter as secretary. Our new secretary is Pam Burnside Gray (Mrs. E.T.), Waverly, Virginia. We hope to work out some Group Captains, as in the past, but in the meantime, send your letters to Pam. Thanks to Betty Hickerson Butterworth, Lois McClanahan Garrett, and Peggy Stone Cunningham for acting as members of my telephone committee. Thanks to them, also, and to Mary Cross Marshall and Monty Elliott Ownby for serving on the Reunion Committee.

We are really looking forward to seeing you May 10th-11th, starting with the "Stag " Dinner at Betty Butterworth's on Friday and ending with an Open House at my place on Saturday night. Now's the time to "wash away the gray" or whatever, and prepare for a gala time. Don't forget to consider our "reunion year" in making your AA contribution. It would be wonderful ( and novel) for '48 to have a plaque somewhere around the compass, and we can designate our contribution, if in sufficient amount.

Boo Koltukian Cowles called while in town following her father's death in February.

Our sympathy to her. Although a sad reason for the trip, I was glad to have a chance to talk, and while here, she had time to drive around our new and changed campus which she described as "love ly and dear." Boo has been teaching 7th and 8th grade Math .

New Math at that! Her 10th grade son at least had previous experience with it and has b~en a good consultant. Other offspring are gll'ls, 12 and 11, and boy 9. Boo and Jeanne Carlton Bowman live within 40 miles of each other and hope to get together. Thanks to Boo and the other 11 non-Richmond Class Agents who wrote letters this year in Alumnas Fund Drive. ( The AA office says '48ers are really coming through!). Jeanne Decker Swank was one too, and I discovered I had ·never changed my address for her. In case I didn't report it, please note at end of letter.

Johnnie Johnson Sandidge said Betty Wood Roor~ack had written of the family's skiing vacat10ns, apparently becoming quite accomplished. Woody accompanied her husband on a N. C. trip and planned a meeting with Flo Lide Snider, but complications prevented it.

Faye Hines Kilpatrick, who is enjoying her first year as guidance counselor, vacationed in N.Y.C. with Bob and 2 oldest girls.

Judy Barnett Seelhorst, also one of the Cla~s Agents, wrote of her last year's vacation which ·included N. J. beach, D. C. and Va. She, too, is a Math teacher this year, agreeing at the minute, due to the teacher shortage.

Her 15, 12, 10, and 7 year olds keep her busy. · So many of them play the piano, they now are a "2 piano family." Hope to see you at Reunion, as planned, Judy.

Emily Deitrick Burklow plans to come from Tennessee, also. They have moved to a ·new house and in midst of working 4 days a week, coaching a church league basketball team and bei°:g family's transportation agent, Deity is gett!ng settled slowly. Husband, Troy, is an engmeer and among other things, is taking a graduate course in zoology as an assist in his work.

Doris Moore Ennis wrote of seeing Millicent Hutchinson Taylor and Sim, and Emily · Smith Powers. Doris is taking courses at W&M in addition to counselor work.

Betty Butterworth read an article in a Baptist magazine concerning Anne Bruner Woo's and Tommy's work in an inter-racial mission in Texas. Their endeavors sounded very interesting. They have 5 children ranging in age from high school down to ~ursery school.

Since this is my last letter and ·I have a captive audience, I should take time to rave I about my little 2 and 5 year olds-but won't. Biscoe news is skimpy . Currently, Jeb, Johnny recover Julie, and I are "helping(?)" from surgery. To retain sanity, his recovery and return to work will probably be quicker than anticipated. My main activity this year beside 1001 other things, has been West-

hampton. Altho' hectic it's been fun and I've enjoyed working with Leslie her last year as secretary.

We will miss those of you who are pre• vented by distance or circumstance from com• ing to reunion, but Pam will give ·a blow by blow description in next letter. My best to you all and until my next turn.

New Addresses: Emily Deitrick (Mrs. Troy N. Burklow, Jr.) 101 Newhaven Rd. Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830 Jeanne Decker (Mrs. Kenneth D . Swank) 48-A Beaver Dam Dr. Seaford, Del. 19973 MRS. JoHN W. BISCOE,JR. (Jean Brumsey) 808 Keats Road , Richmond, Va. 23229

1950Greetings again from Virginia! Roy and I and our four children moved back the first of February and are once again settled in a home in western Henrico County. We arrived back just in time to be included in the Theater Party, sponsored by the Richmond Club of the Westhampton Alumnae Association, at ·Swift Creek Mills Playhouse . The class of '50 was in charge of the party and Doris Balderson Burbank was chairman. Our class was represented by Doris, Libby Givens Pierce, Barbara White Balderson, Margaret Alexander Ander• son, Marianne Beck Duty and myself and our respective husbands.

During a recent snowstorm, Kitty Rosenberger was marooned at her husband's office in Patterson, New Jersey. So she took the time ·to look up Carol Sidlovsky Glicksman' s telephone number and phoned her. Carol lives at 3 Pope Road, Patterson, New Jersey.

Dick, husband of Hilda Moore Hankins, has resigned as principal of a high school in Halifax and has accepted a position in the Personnel Department of Westinghouse which is locating a new plant in Halifax.

There ·are a couple of baby announcements a little late. Aggie Feild Burke this time-one reports the birth of her daughter, Virginia Lee Epes Burke, born December 25, 1966. She joins Ann, 10 years of age and Davy, 4 years old. A son, Joseph Parson Owen, was born to Marjorie Parson Owen, December 30, 1967 and this totals 4 children for Marjorie; Marshall 15 years of age, Charles, 11 years old and Nancy 8 years old.

Win Schanen Mitchell and Bill ·had a glorious trip late last summer to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. At home in Severna Park, Maryland, Win stays busy substitute teaching, serving as a Brownie Leader and Ways and Means chairman of the local AAUW chapter.

Vie Saunders Washburn, with us in our freshman year, is married to a major in the

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She has been working for the last two years on college credit courses and will receive her degree soon.

Frannie Sutton Oliver has been a busy person for she planned the World Day of Prayer Services in Newport News for the month of March.

Virginia Sims represented our class at the alumnae worker's dinner in February. She has 17 girls from our class writing letters to the rest of us this year. I do hope you will want to contribute to the Alumnae Fund as soon as you receive your letter.

Clarice Ryland Price is chairman this year of Alumnae College to be held on May 10th.

I hope many of the Richmond girls will be able to attend.

Our sympathy is extended to Sue Huff Schulenberg on the death of her husband in May of last year. Sue has returned to the United States and she and the 4 children are living in Washington, D. C. MRs. RoY M. MARTIN (Jean Tinsley) 9510 ,Newhall Road, Richmond , Va. 23229

1951The Keltons just returned from a fabulous week-end at the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach. We attended a Danforth Conference as we do each year in March. This year the theme was "The Urban Crisis" certainly a timely one.

Please help Mary Lee Moore Vinson and our class with the Alumnae Fund. The class of 51 should be ashamed to have the distinction of winning the "booby-prize" in percentage giving. Let's correct that this year.

Jane Ellis Babb's news from West Lafayette, Indiana, sounds like a family travelogue. In the past year they have been to New Orleans, California, Virginia, and Florida. "Emerson has taken up scuba-diving, which leaves the 'puny gym graduate' on the beach," says 1ane.

Joy Hodges Plunket is working hard on her M.A. in Librarianship at the University of Denver, as well as being wife of a busy doctor and mother of two children.

Betty Munsey Spatz writes that she and

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Bob went to New York the day after Christ mas and saw the Nutcracker by the City Center Ballet group.

Ibby Gill White has played two major piano recitals this year as well as a number of smaller programs, thus returning to per• formances and practicing. She and Don and their two children live in Bowie, Maryland.

Doris Goodwyn Bridgforth's (Mrs. G. B. Bridgforth) new address is 2812 Murray Hill Road, Kinston, N. C. MRS. JOHN D . KELTON (Paula Abernethy) 119 Lorimer Road, Davidson , N . C . 28036

1952Commanding a battalion in Vietnam is Nola Texley Breckinridge's husband Bob, a lieu tenant colonel in the U. S. Army. Nola and their two children ( ages 14 and 12) are living in Sacramento, California where she teaches first grade. In December the family Hew to Hawaii to meet Bob for six days on his "rest and rehabilitation" period.

In Hawaii also in December were Marian Lucy Mahon, Walt and their two children.

They had a wonderful two week vacation in Kailua, celebrating Christmas five thousand miles from home in 80 degree weather! Stopping over and touring San Francisco enhanced their trip .

Back in Virginia are Bev Gilbert Lovell and family. Her husband Bud, working with the IBM Army Program, was transferred from New England in August. They live at 7408 Walton Lane, Annandale, Virginia 22003.

Janie Tune Sease's family moved last fall into a lovely new home in Forest Hills in Roanoke. Besides the home, her husband Jimmy and his brothers have just finished building a very modern, attractive medical building .

Ann Williamson Beazley and her husband Bob have moved into their new home in Bay Colony, Virginia Beach.

Anne Gibson Hutchinson and husband Dick spent the night with Barbara Cawthorne Clarke and family in Philadelphia in December. The Hutchinsons were enroute to New York and Boston for a week of shopping, seeing shows, general relaxation and business.

Both Anne and Dick were hospitalized for short periods last spring and summer.

Addie Eicks Comegys sent news of some '52ers via Christmas cards she had received from them - an excellent practice!

Among the physicians and their wives pictured in the Virginian Pilot January 29 were Dr. and Mrs. Fred Given (Jane Ozlin Given). The occasion was the annual dinner dance given at the Admiralty Motel by the Women's Auxiliary of the Norfolk Medical Society.

Jeanne Hootman Hopkins is in her third year of teaching first grade at Gretna. Her husband Peter, chemistry teacher and track coach at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, was in Charlottesville in early March for a chess tournament.

Among those helping with the Alumnae Fund Drive are Kathy Cole Doss, Nancy Gouger Winglewish, Jeanne Hootman Hopkins and I under the direction of Betty Jarrett Nye, our chairman. I sincerely hope that you have responded or will respond favorably before June 30.

MRS. CHARLESH . WRIGHT ( Sarah Barlow) Route 2, Box 88, Smithfield, Va .

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Westhampton girls. We had an open house on Dec. 31 and visited with Margaret Reilly, June Pair Carter and Mann, Pauline Decker Brooks and Joe, Betty Lear Miller, and Bobbie Warren Reardon and Jack. You can imagine the reminiscing that took place.

Alice Gardner Wilson called when she was in Richmond. We are hoping she will be here for our reunion but her dates are lined up for returning to Thailand. We may catch her on her way to New York and embarkation.

Jo Fdeda Mitchell sent us a map to find their new house. She, Jack, Jody, Steve, and Todd moved to Studley, Va. Gladys Tatarksky and her father suffered some fire destruction to their property last January. Fortunately, they were away from the house when a fuel truck exploded in their yard.

I am happy to report that Mary Creath Payne and Jim will be returning to Richmond.

Jim has accepted the position of Executive Secretary for Hanover Presbytery.

Our thanks to Harriet Wheat Fralin, Methyl Young Bruce, -Lou George Wolfe, Jane Willcoxon Council, Pauline Decker Brooks, Kay Beale Coates and Nancy Carpenter Jordan for helping to plan the reunion week-end.

MRS. HERVEY S. JONES ( Geraldine Kantner ) 1208 Dinwiddie Ave,, Richmond , Va . 23229

1955Alice H. McCarty is now living at 1601 18th Street, N.W.-Apt. 503, Washington, D. C. 20009. She is employed as Supervisor of Service Research for the Washington Region of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Management Consultants. Since leaving Westhampton Alice has furthered her education by attending the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, which she describes as a one year graduate course taught by the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Our class traveler has recently spent a week in Jamaica where she found the left side driving and the condition of the roads a little strange.

She did however very much enjoy touring a banana plantation, taking a raft down a river, climbing a waterfall, shopping and lying in the sun. I believe a week in Jamaica might solve some of my problems-how about you?

Elizabeth Ann Allen, an Intelligence Officer in the U. S. Army with the rank of Major, lives at 7 Ancell Street, Alexandria, Va. 22305.

Her additional education includes an Advanced Intelligence Course in the U. S. Army and she is presently studying law for her L.L.B. Degree. Since her return from Europe Ann finished Intelligence School and is now in Department of Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D. C. Mary Ida Nelson is married to Howard W. Bolton, Jr. (Stony) and they have two children, Letha Ellen born Jan. 10, 1957 and Howard, III born Oct. 8, 1960. They live at 122 Hampton Drive, Danville, Va. 24541.

Mary Ida has done nine hours of graduate work from University of Virginia and is teaching 3rd grade at Woodberry Hills Elementary School which she has done for 11 years. She is Leader of Jr. G. A.'s, a nursery worker and Choir Mother of the Primarys at Moffett Memorial Baptist Church. Stony operates a Rent-all Store, a Telephone Answering Service and a Western Union Agency in Danville.

They sound like a pretty busy family to me .

I had a nice letter from Peggy Hall Flippen who has moved again. After Ed's return from Vietnam in August ( at which time he was promoted to Major) they drove West, spent a lovely week in Hawaii and are now settled at 318 Aachen Road, Fort Ord, California 93941.

Bobbie ·Reynolds Orrell is teaching at Maybeury School in Henrico County again. She

informed me that Ann Black Taliferro is her new supervisor after receiving her masters at University of Virginia last summer.

Marjorie Moeschler Hahn writes, "Henry is well pleased with his pediatric practice at Scott and White Clinic. We are all adjusting to Texas , Texans and Texas ways!" Their new address is 3810 Bois D 'Arc, Temple, Texas 76501.

New Addresses: Marjorie Moeschler Hahn ( Mrs. Henry) 3810 Bois D'Arc Temple, Texas 76501 Peggy Hall Flippen (Mrs. Ed) 318 Aachen Road Fort Ord, California 93941 MRS. C. E uGENE WHITE (Nancy Johnson) 6413 S. Mayfield Mechani csville , Va. 23111

1956I haven't heard from a single classmate so news is very scarce. When you receive this Bulletin take pity on me and drop me a card so I •won't be in this predicament again in May. I was sorry to hear of the death of Ann App's father. She was home from Italy for three weeks, and I hope some of you got a chance to see her.

Please send your contribution to the Westhampton College Alumnae Association now. last Our class only had 25% contributing year. Let's ti·y for 50% this year.

MRS. STEVE J. SMITH (Patricia McElroy) Box 95, Dahlgr en, Va . 22448

1957We were all saddened to hear of the death of our classmate, Beverly Wingfield Ayers of Griffith, Indiana. While at Westhampton Bev was on the Dean's List, served as an Orientation Counselor , and actively worked in the BSU and YWCA. In every way she exemplified by her life among us the highest ideals and values a person could have. So often it is difficult for us to understand God's will for our lives and for His taking of a life so young and fruitful. But indeed our lives were blessed by her very presence among us. Our sincerest sympathy and prayers are extended to her husband, Kenneth, her son, Gregory 7, and her daughter, Cherise, 5.

Nancy Bertsch Ratchford and Bill have moved into a brand new home on the Magothy River with "waterfront privileges" as they say in this area. The new house is split level, nestled in the woods, with large trees for Linda ( 4½) to climb. Wendy ( 1) will also enjoy the playroom. Bill is only fifteen minutes away from his work in Annapolis where he is Executive Secretary of Maryland County Commissioners Association. The new address is: 664 Placid Court, Ulmstead Estates on the Magothy, Arnold, Maryland 21012. Since graduation Nancy has done much work with the blind children and acted as a consultant for Prince George County, Maryland from 19631967.

Barbara Goodman Burton has her hands full with children, school activities and all the extras. Our baby cup girl, Nancy, has reached the ripe old age of ten. With brothers Chuck, 11, David, 7, Andrew, 6, and Jonathan, 4, Nancy and Barbara are outnumbered at home.

The children were all actively engaged in swimming groups, teams and water ballet shows last summer. Barbara tried her skill at golf and tennis, and commented, 'Tm certainly not a natural at this." Both Barbara and Al like Charlottesville and are glad to be closer to Ricl1mond and Petersburg.

Patricia Anne Harper Winston, Jr. attended our reunion and brought us up to elate on her family and activities. Her husband, Bob,

is the pastor of Columbia and South Side Baptist Churches. They have three children: James Robert, 8, William Edward, 6, and Ann Hurst, 4, and her address is Box 82, Columbia, N. C. The next time you go to Williamsburg, be sure you go by the glassblowing shop.

There you will find Helen Louise Melton Vandermark's husband, Gerald, who is the foreman glassblower for the National Park Service. Helen's ready-made family now includes Donna, 18, Susan, 14, Jerry, 12, and Patricia, 8. Since 1961 to the present time Helen has been a secretary for Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., and she and her family are active members of the Williamsburg Methodist Church.

Anne Byrd James moved to a new home two blocks from her old apartment and her address is now 251 Beverly Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Her husband is a regional geometric design engineer with the Bureau of Public Roads. They are camping enthusiasts and have taken trips in Georgia, Florida, South and North Carolina. Larry, 2½, tried tennis as a "lefty" and is traveling along with his parents who are active in the Atlanta and Southern Lawn Tennis Associations. Anne is currently serving as the President of the Atlanta Club, Westhampton College Alumnae.

Also in Atlanta is another W esthamptonite.

Harriet Miller Berlin and husband, Bob, have a girl, Toby, 7½, Richard, 5, and Nancy, 2.

After two years in Valhalla, Georgia in the Air Force, the Millers are content in Atlanta where Bob is a dentist.

Joan Poole Holbrook and her mother spent three weeks in Europe in the spring, and she hopes that she and Suzette, 7, will be able to visit Germany this year. From September 1957 to March 1959 Joan worked as a Research Assistant in the Dept. of Surgery, University of North Carolina Medical School, being involved in clinical cardiovascular research. From April 1959 to February 1960 she was junior scientist on a government project at Beaufort, North Carolina, Fish and Wildlife Service. At the present time she is a research assistant for a professor in the Biochemistry Department of the Medical School at UNC and working on cell metabolism. Her employer and Joan have been fortunate in having several •scientific papers published in various Biochemical journals in the past three years. At present they have three in press, due for publication within four months. Her husband, David, retains an appointment in the Biochemisti·y Department of the Medical School and in addition conducts research in the Center for Pharmacology and Toxicology Research.

Last April the Holbrooks attended the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Convention in Chicago for a week.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, Suzie Stutts Hicks and family reside. With her children at last out of diapers, she has begun to take some classes and play a little tennis. Pam, 8, attends Holy Souls Exceptional School which is for retarded children, and has taken swimming lessons. Suzie writes, "She has matured a great deal in speech and discipline but still manages to keep us hopping when she decides to go chasing after a friendly dog or cat that happens by." David, 6, is full of talk about his secret hideouts, how he 's going to build a tree house or practice rope tricks or keep the three girl fiiends he had in kindergarten last year. •Susan, 5, is very easy going and doesn't let the world disturb her in any way, and she is attending nursery school. Catherine, 3, is quite certain that she is as big as the rest of them and has learned all of the kindergarten songs. Hubby Dave is working for a new insurance company.

Another of our classmates to travel has been Jackie Rancllette Tucker who spent three weeks in Mexico in 1959 and took a two months tour to Europe in 1961. Her husband is assistant vice-president, State-Planters Bank

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in Richmond and they have two sons Andrew Dunn, 4, and Bruce Edwin, 2, and her new hobby •to go along with a new tri-level home is gardening.

Mary Garland Cox Johnston and Miles botli enjoy horseback riding and have two Tennessee Walking horses. Her husband also likes to hunt and participate in Field Trials with his dogs. They both teach the eighth grade Sunday School class, and Mary Garland belongs to the Woman's Club of Richmond and is recording secretary for the Westham-Ridge Women 's Club. Miles works for Carneal and Johnston as an architect. We had such a nice time at their home during our reunion; their hospitality was just grand.

That does it for the spring letter. We are beginning to run out of news , so won't you please write us. Some of you have not returned your forms to us, and we do want to get some statistics about our class in the last ten years.

If you have misplayed the form, please drop me a note, so we can catch up on all the news about you.

MRs. CLAUDEW. ANDERSON( Nancy Day) Box 142, Buckingh am , Va .

1958Jeanne Jones Patterson and her new hus• band, Jim, are living at 1106 Harmony Lane, Apt. 17, Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130. Jim works as a civil engineer in Louisville.

Libby Jarrett Burger writes that they are settled at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington , D. C. Wilbur will be the hematologist at the hospital there for two years. The Burgers new address is 7801 Wynnwood Dl'ive, Clinton, Maryland 20735 . In December Libby attended her first Medical Convention in Toronto, Canada, and she reports that she is all for them. Libby said that Jean Hudgins Frederick and Arnold are only 40 miles away in Severna Park, Maryland. Their address is 16 Severnadale Road. Arnold is at Ft. Meade.

Carolyn Quinn Higinbothom is substitute teaching in the Friends School Nursery this year. She teaches with Kitty Alford Connor '57. She also works with the pre-school department at church, so she is with "little people" most of the time, including her two sons Jack, 6, and Bruce, 4.

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Becky Branch Faulconer writes that they enjoy Lexington more and more. They will attend a Medical Convention in Washington, D . C., in early spring. Becky wrote that Carol Brie Griffiths' husband, Harold, will serve as a surgeon in Vietnam for a year. Carol will spend the year in York, Pennsylvania, at 560 S. Harlan, York, Pa. 17402.

Betty Sutton Anthony and Barry have moved to 100 Culpeper Road, Richmond.

Marti Haislip Padgett and Puggy are busily involved in building a new home. Puggy now supervises •audits for Napier, Hamrick and Company in Atlanta. Robbie, age 6, and Randy, age 3, are sturdy, active, and love to sing. The Padgetts still enjoy their friendships with international students and recently received a hand spun, handwoven cashmere shawl from the mother of one of their students . Puggy and Marti have enjoyed taking a course on "Morality in Conflict" at the Atlanta Lay School of Theology, and are working on a bi-racial study committee in their community, set up to serve as a liason and dialogue group. Marti continues to be active in AAUW and is also serving on the DeKalb County School Study Committee and PT A Council.

In October Dottie Goodman Lewis and David went on to the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Dottie also endorses these Medical Conventions. Dottie is still teaching the first grade. Nancy is in the third grade and Chippy is in kindergarten.

Annette Hasty Walton writes that Dick was promoted last June to Lieutenant Commander (USCG) and hopes for an East Coast assignment this summer. Dick is an avid hunter and fisherman so Alaska is a paradis e to him.

They have eaten salmon, halibut, and king crab which he has caught. The most unusual food they have had is moose. Last August they took a trip without Susan Annette, age 4, and Ellen Lee , age I, into the heart of Alaska. They did such fascinating things as panning for gold, riding in an ·umiak, and watching an Eskimo "blanket toss." Annette say the Eskimo culture is an interesting one and the y have gathered a small collection of Eskimo-Indian artifacts.

Annette sews, paints, helps in ·the church nursery and is activ e in the Officers Wives Club. She and Susan will model in the spring fashion show.

Plans for our tenth reunion have reached you by now, I hope. We will have dinner Frid ay, May 10, at Carolyn Moss Hartz's, for just cla ss members. On Saturday there will be a cocktail-buffet at Kay Crawford Trimbles. This will include husbands and dates.

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1959There are 6 address changes this time and 3 new arrivals. · The details arrived from Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum: "We're now the proud parents of a second son. And what a cutie! Timothy Ellis was born Sept. 30, 1967, and we brought him home to his new and permanent home on Nov. 9. Timmy is our first real tiny baby, fair-skinned, blue-eyed, and dark haired. He is a grand baby, and David and he have a "mutual admiration society." Timmy was christened Dec. 10, and B. B. Harvey Strum and Sherwood are his godparents. B. B. claims that the biggest news in her life is being a godmother!

B. B. and Sherwood are teaching second grade at St. Matthew's Sunday School this year and find it rewarding and enjoyable.

B. B. accompanied the students from Marymount who attended the Columbia Scholastic Press Conference in New York in March, and saw the annual St. Patrick's Day parade.

Congratulations are in order for Bob and LaVerne Watson Edwards on the arrival of Robert Timothy, born Jan. 13, 1968.

Shirley Satterfield Flynn and Leslie welcomed their third son, Darren Morris, in August, 1967, two months after Grumman Aircraft transferred Les to Maryland. He is working with NASA on the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory. (Les studied engineering at Lafayette U. after graduating with a B.A. at Richmond College.} Their new address is 9116 Springhill Lane, Greenbelt, Md. 20770.

"We are thrilled to be nearer Richmond ( for alumni activities) , and excited about the Washington environment. We see pre-Broadway shows here with no ticket delays, and are season-ticket holders for Ford Theatre's historic opening. We may be reluctant to return to Long Island after this 2-year project is ended for NASA." Pat MacDonald Allen's new home is at 4031 N.E. Glisan, Portland, Oregon 97232.

She has enjoyed buying furniture "and doing other projects." In September she retired from Berg's "to become full-time Mommie." Her parents also visited them in September. Mark is precious, "and we think he's the cutest thing going."

Barbara Worrell Jessup's new address is 206 Central Avenue, Waynesville, N. C. 28786.

Wa lt got his Master's in '66 and is Minister of Music and Youth at First Baptist. They are living in the large old 4-bcdroom parsonage , quite a change after apartment living. They love the mountains. Barbara is teaching piano at home and helping Walt.

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Dee Austin Alevizatos wrote, "It has been a busy year re-locating ourselves here in Baltimore. We bought a home-our first! (302 Broadmoor Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21212). What fun it has been decorating it! Christen, who is now four, misses his friends from Fort Detrick but is quickly making new friends in nursery school. My husband, Ted, is finding private practice in Internal Medicine exciting and most rewarding."

Jan Higginbotham Mitri and Talaat have bought a new home at 515 Taft Ave., Charleston, Illinois 61920. Jan has been a social worker for the Dept. of Children and Family Services for the past 2½ years and enjoys her job. "I work with unwed mothers, children in foster homes, place children in adoptive homes and do anything that comes up. Talaat teaches biology and zoology in a new junior college in nearby Mattoon, Ill. Christopher, 7, is in the second grade at the Laboratory School at Eastern Illinois U. ( Talaat taught at EIU for 3 years.) Chris is an avid reader and plans to be a 'Great Inventor' when he grows up. Paul, 3½, is going to be 'whatever Chrith be'." - "I would certainly like to learn the whereabouts of Jchanc Flint Taylor -also Sally Finch, who left W.C. after her junior year. " Pat Fitchett Nordenhaug and Ted, after 7 years of apartment living, have moved into one of the Mercer Faculty houses, right on campus, "and there are about 20 children in the circle of Mercer faculty for Erik to play with. Needless to say he loves it. It is so exciting having a house, and I have been so busy decorating, buying curtains and carpet and furniture. Also I have developed quite an interest in gardening, and planted over 12 dozen spring bulbs: tulips, daffodils, crocus, hyaciths, etc. Also, another new hobby of mine is crewel embroidery, and I have done a beautiful pillow with 24 different squares of Hower designs, and am currently working on a crewel perpetual calendar .-For the past two years I have be en extremely busy, mainly with two projects. Last year I was chairman of the Mercer Faculty Wives Book Club, our most popular and enjoyable group. We discuss mostly modern novels, including, German, French, and Russian novelists as well as British and Amcrican.-The other even more time-consuming project was typing a perfect draft of my husband's Ph.D. dissertation. In case one wonders why it took me so long ( 6 months), it was a 700-pagc thesis! Believe me, I would not do it again. It was hard on the back, eyes, and general routine of family life. But the most wonderful thing about it is that after this being in the foreground of our life for seven years, ever since we've been married, it is now all over, and Ted was awarded his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins. Erik is 4½, goes to kindergarten this fall, and is very blond and Norwegian.Another wonderful thing about being here in Macon is that we have had so many of our friends to visit us. John Davis and Dorothy Deering have each been here several times.

We have been to Atlanta several times to visit Ellis West and his family while they are at Emory University, and they have visited us. We also had a nice visit from Richard Brown before he left for Liberia.This summer we 're going on a vacation to celebrate Ted's degree, probably to New York."

Besides the activities J. P. has which Bev Brown Floyd told us about in the last Bulletin, "he has also enjoyed several weeks at our Methodist camp in Leesburg both as speaker and workshop participant." Beverly has taken on the job of MYF cook and counselor and is frantically looking for help on how to handle and interest teenagers. Her primary interest is still being with Alison and Paul-

"answering a thousand questions a day, patching up skinned knees, listening to Alison recite 'The Owl and the Pussycat,' deciding when to arbitrate sibling disputes, rescuing Paul from a too high tree limb."

Sue Sybert ·Ritter says the new mission is "prngressing with ups and downs." She's teaching Sunday School and helping with nursery. She's also doing some substitute teaching and is taking a class in Transformational Grammar. Sue and Fred have joined a square dance group in Virginia Beach, and Sue came up to the winter alumnae dinner at W.C. Fritz is doing well in school.

Although Christmas in Japan is not a holiday, Dorothy Sparks "made it one by giving parties for her Bible classes and a dinner for some teachers and friends and by taking part in the church activities." -In her most recent newsletter, Dorothy wrote that most Japanese young people strongly oppose the presence of U. S. forces in Vietnam, and are quite concerned with social problems.

"By the time this newsletter is read, my crew will have made the annual pilgrimage to New York to the Columbia Scholastic Press Assoc. Convention,'' writes Eileen Cordle.

"My kids say the honor of being asked is the making of the trip. My problem is choosing twelve delegates from twenty-five deserving students. Right or wrong, the choices have been made, and we're in the process of picking shows to see, writing for tickets, buying clothes, etc."

From Nancy Phillips comes word that, to fill in the free hours created by having three of her four children in school, she has become Den Mother to eight Cub Scouts. In addition, she and Bill are singing in the Chorus of Alumni and Friends of the U. of R. (CAFUR).

This musical activity inspired them to buy a piano, and both Keith, 9, and David, 7, are taking lessons.-Already the Phillipses are planning the summer's camping trip and are alerting friends and relatives between Richmond and Boulder, Colorado, where Bill's brother lives, to expect them.

Margaret Rutherford Compton says she stays very busy with her four-year-old William and 20-month old Louise, working with Delano in his office, teaching Sunday School, playing golf in the summer, and finally learning to play bridge. In March she and William Hew to Ft. Lauderdale and joined a friend from Kentucky and her five-year old daughter for a 10-day vacation.

Peggy Dulin Crews and Merrill enjoyed having her folks for a visit in February. "Another highlight of my winter was my first visit to Chicago. Merrill had both hospital assoc. and administrators conventions thereso he took his wife along. Some friends met us there and gave us a grand tour. Before returning to Orlando we Hew to Bay City, Michigan, to visit friends. When we stepped off the plane it was 8 below zero-quite a contrast to Florida!"

Nancy Taylor became Mrs. Charles Rowe on Feb. 17. They were to honeymoon for two weeks in New York, and will live in Courtland, Va. A correction: B. J. Stamps Bryant's husband is named Dan, not Don, as printed last time.

Sorry about that.

Bonnie Lewis Haynie is president of the Brawnerwood Garden Club, and was on the club's team in the Quiz Bowl on WRNL. The questions are based on cunent events as recorded in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

I understand that "Bonnie paced her club to its win over a local jr. woman's club-she was really superb-knew everything!"

Bev Eubank Evans did such a good job as publicity chairman of the Westhampton Jr. Woman's Club that she's been choosen to serve as publicity chairman for the 1968 Tobacco Festival Grand Ball, sponsored each year by the jr. woman's clubs of Lee District,

Virginia Federation of Woman's Clubs. She's also treasurer of her club for the coming year.

Bev's family spent Christmas week with heronly one misfortune: all got the Hu. Bev had a nice phone visit with Sylvia Olney, who'd come to Richmond with an evaluating team from Newport News to evaluate a jr. high here.

Anita Knipling Scott visited B. B. Strum for a weekend and some '59ers gathered for a visit. Anita's fine, and her four children keep her very busy. She enjoys teaching adult education two nights a week, is satisfied with Arlington, but misses the small town life of St. Albans.

Ruth Adkins Hill will finish out the school year for a teacher at Skipwith School-5th grade.

Martha Jordan Chukinas' little two-year-old Mary had to undergo kidney surgery in January and was hospitalized for 15 days but "is doing well now." George is playing little league basketball and loves it. Warren is playing on the church team and on a city team.

Barbara Dulin Polis and Charlie have been assigned to Homestead AFB, Florida, and will leave Texas after Charlie completes his residency in June. "We won't get our orders until April, but unofficially that's where we'll be. Florida was our first stateside choice so we're very happy. As you know, Peg is also in Florida. Chuck is now 5½, Laurie, l½.

Margaret Spencer Hernandez and company "are still enjoying our trip. Last week (February) we were in Athens. It was such a thrill to walk around the Acropolis, and the market place where Socrates and Plato held forth, and to go to the area where St. Paul made his speech to the Athenians about their temple to the Unknown God ( in Acts). In January we went to Malta-that's where St. Paul was shipwrecked en route to Rome. I'm really following him around, am I not? I went to Rome too, and saw all the tourist spots from the Vatican to the Colosseum to the Forums to the Trevi Fountain. Plan to visit Madrid and Valencia soon."

Gaile Sykes sent "greetings from Hawaii Neil I'm really enjoying living here. Hawaii is a most fascinating place to live and work.

Nearly every day I say to myself, 'And I am getting paid for this!' Almost every day is filled with sunshine, rainbows stretching from one end of the island to the other, occasionally 'liquid' sunshine ( won 't tell a lie-this is the winter season and there is much of the 'liquid' sunshine now), fragrant blossoms bursting with color, and Happy, Happy people. I think the one quality I most admire in the Hawaiian is his ability to laugh at himself and to enjoy life. There is no rushed Washington atmosphere here.-! find myself teaching a group of nine students in downtown Honolulu. All are Japanese, Chinese,

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Filipino, or Hawaiian-no 'haoles' ( Caucasians) like me . e are progressing nicely in learning to understand one another. They all speak English, but more a 'pidgin English' than anything else. I am amazed by the similarity in deaf students all over the country.

They are perennially lazy, but lovable, stubborn ( and these are not easily coaxed), and interested in the opposite sex, but here in Hawaii Nei the surf and a surfboard can even replace 'love.' The students do not have to wear shoes to school, and as a matter of fact, Dennis' shoes are in the back of the classroom and have been since the first day of school.-! am learning much of Hawaiian language and customs . Had Thanksgiving Japanese style and a more bountiful table you have never seen. Christmas in Hawaii is simply beautiful. Imagine stately palm trees aglow with Christmas lights swaying gently in the tradewinds. On my 21-story circular apartment house there is an 8-ft. tree of lights which can be seen from all of Waikiki. Imagine carols being sung by melodious voices in a slightly Hawaiian style and you have Christmas in Hawaii.-In January I visited the Kaanapali Coast of Maui. Now, that is really paradise. I'm delighted that the U. of R. tour is to Hawaii. Tell any '59ers ( or anyone coming on the trip) to let me know they're coming so I can properly greet them, lei, et al. (Gaile's address is 750 Amana Street204; Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, her phone: 941-4378.) If I can get an extension from the Maryland schools I'll stay another year." Incidentally, contrary to tourist bulletins I've heard, Gaile reports "a male to female ratio of more than 3 to 1 in our favor for a change," so maybe you'll want to try for a last minute reservation on the tour.

There is an appeal for an address on Ann Bell. There are quite a few of you on my Limbo List. You know who you are! Why not try communicating before the 1st of May? Hope you'll try to be at W.C. the 2nd weekend in May-Alumnae College day, at least. Do write to me, since I'm out in the boondocks and don't see any '59ers.

MRS . RALPH L. HAGA, JR. (Carolyn Nash) Prospect, Va. 23960

1960With spring just a few days away, it is still snowing in New England.

Our first winter in Connecticut has been a cold one for this southerner, but we enjoyed the white rolling countryside dotted with stone fences and ice skating ponds. We took a plane trip to Va. during the Christmas holidays for a short visit at home. Jane Morris Dobyns and I had a fine morning of talk, catching up with each other's activities.

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Wagner. If you live in this area, please note and be sure to give Mary Lou a call before our next class letter is due. Ma1·y Lou and Scott are the parents of 2 sons, David, 5 and Jeffrey 2. As an entire family of campers they are eagerly looking forward to the start of the new camping season. Sandra Motley Swain and her husband also have 2 preschool youngsters who keep them very busy, Robbie, one year, and Susan, a kindergartener .

Some very happy news arrived at Christmas from Sue Luddington Jones and Sam; they adopted a boy, Jeffrey Alan, on Dec . 9, when he was only 2 weeks old. Sue says that the baby was the best Christmas present they've ever received, and they are delighted to be parents. The Joneses have been working with a mission which has grown into the Riverdale Baptist Chmch. They are building the first part of the new church this spring. Best wishes from our class to the new baby and the new church!

Martha Jane and Bill Woods moved to their new home in November, and according to Martha Jane, they really love it. She has been busy this winter getting settled in the new house and working in the guidance department at Kecoughtan High School in Hampton. The Woodses' new address is 503 Roaring Springs Circle , Hampton, Va. Rozzie Weinstein Rottenburg has agreed to be an area secretary for the Baltimore-Washington girls. Roz wrote amidst a happy flurry of bottles, diapers and burps, about their new son Jonathon, whom they adopted last November. Joyce Birdsall had dinner with Roz recently, and they spent a fine evening talking over school days and the subsequent busy years. Birdie reports that Jonathon is just as wonderful as Roz says he is. Birdie 1s spending a year in Baltimore working on her M.S. in maternal and child health. According to Birdie, she is really snowed under with class work and thesis writing.

Bonnie Clarke Rice and Ray have bought a 1h acre of land with a 2-room cottage on the Shennandoah River, which is only a short drive from their home in Arlington. They are planning to spend their leisure time there fishing and just relaxing.

Another Baltimorian, Lynn Lewis Cummins writes that her husband John is now pastoring the Joppa Road Baptist Church. Her new address is 8642 Hoerver Ave. Baltimore, Md. 21234. Lynn recently returned from an exciting b·ip to Colombia, South America, in connection with the establishment of a ministry to the street orphans in Bogota . This trip called for all the Spanish Miss Rudd taught her at Westhampton; Lynn was thrilled to find such a useful purpose for it.

Doris McBride Chesher recently moved to the Richmond area. She and Ollie have a new house , a new church, a new address, 511 Meadowspring Rd. Richmond 23223, and a new son, Stephen, born May 16, 1967.

Ollie accepted the pastorate of Hardy Central Baptist Church in December. Doris has resigned from teaching for a while and is happily

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Also from Richmond comes news that another classmate, Em St. Clair Key, will be leaving the area this summer. The Keys have received orders to report in July to the Air Force in Wichita Falls, Texas for a 2 year tour of duty. They will be leaving Richmond when Wayne finishes his residency, and Em and Wayne are quite excited about their move to Texas.

Evalane Green Slaughter and Bill have a temporary address at 7708 Hollins Rd. Richmond 23229. They are taking care of Bill's parents' home while the Slaughters are in England for a year.

"Our girl in L. A.," Dodie Tyrell, sent me the latest news in mad California colors that melted the icicles on my mail box. She spent her Chrisbnas vacation skiing at Mammoth Mountain, and just returned from a week at Snowmass-at-Aspen in Colorado, a new ski area that opened in December. Dodie was very enthusiastic about Snowmass, where she stayed busy trying to cover some of the 50 miles of ski trails. Dodie had a pleasant surprise the other day when she sat down to lunch in the UCLA hospital cafeteria. Her Westhampton ring attracted the notice of a girl, also wearing a Westhampton ring, who sat down at the same table. The girl was Caywood Garrett, a '66 graduate from Roanoke who will be at UCLA for 6 months in a Biomedical Library training program. In the sprawling medical complex Dodie was quite startled by the coincidence of accidently meeting Caywood . Those Westhampton rings do wondrous things!

Barbara Ramsey Bridgers has returned to social work at the Welfare Department, with a different job this time, one with less pressure and more social work.

Through Meurial Webb I heard some news from Betsy Gathings Snook. She and David have adopted a son who was born October 23 . Congratulations to the Snooks and all the other new parents in the class of 1960.

Please send your news to me or your area secretary; the next press deadline will be May 10. Don't forget your contribution to this year's Alumnae Fund. Our percentage of participation improved this time, but let's make it even better. Send a check soon.

CLARE EARLE AHLERS (Mrs. David ·M. Ahlers) 17 Old Stone Rd., Darien , Conn.

1961As all of you know the Alumnae Fund year runs from July ( 1967) to July ( 1968).

When this Alumni Bulletin is received there will only be a short time left for each of us to mail our contributions. Perhaps if as many of us ·as wish to do so would write a check today, then we would not have to regret our forgetting to do so. Last year our percentage of contributors was only 24%. If you want to make a contribution, do it NOW. There will be times when your group

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leader will be unable to notify each of you as to the quarterly news deadline. It will help your group leader and me if you will remember the deadlines and send the news to one of us. The deadlines are always the first of each of these months: May, Sept. Dec. and March. The group leaders are: Suzanne DuPuy Black, Connie Engle, Doralee Forsythe Richardson, Ann Jones Stribling, Betty Marlow Atkinson, Anne Mills Sizemore, Barbara Randlett Barkocy, Ruth Reynolds Robinson, Daphne Shepard Mason, Nancy Tingle Griffin, Judy VanderBoegh Carroll, Minna Wilson Hall, Betty Wade Blanton Jones, Dixie Hargrave Whitehead and Jessica Scarborough Burmester. Again, my thanks to each of you!

I know you all join me in sending love and sympathy to Ruth Reynolds Robinson whose father died very suddenly of an apparent heart attack on Feb. 6.

Becky Leber Crookshanks writes: "Dave and I are still in Fredericksburg where he is manager of a Giant Food Store. I'm a retired school teacher. After six years of bliss with Dave we have an angel living with us, a baby boy born June 27, 1967, named David Oakley Crookshanks, II, better known as Chip. When he was eight weeks old we were in an automobile accident in which Chip's leg was broken, David's sister, who was driving, and I only received a few cuts and bruises. As for the rest of my activities-I'm very active in the Gamma Upsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, an international sorority.

Here in Fredericksburg it's very active. We arranged a 75 unit Christmas parade for the downtown merchants and held a George Washington Ball for the Chamber of Commerce. All in all I'd say we have had a very active life here with Dave's being past president of the Business Association in the largest shopping center here and with my having modeled for Haber and Company."

Adrienne Price Cox writes: "I worked in the summer library program of Henrico County Elementary Schools. I ended up in the middle of August and went straight into the position of Assistant in Joe's dental office while his girl took a two week vacation. In September we went to Europe for 3 weeks. We visited England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzedand, Spain and Portugal. In Germany we visited Jack and Jane (Pitts) McAllister and their 2 adorable children, John and Sarah.

They are in their third year at Sembach Air Force Base. They live in a small village nearby with all German neighbors. It was great to see them after so long. They are returning next June and will be in Oklahoma City where Jack will do further study. Since our return I have had to spend a great deal of time in Joe's office. We hired a new girl Dec. 2 and I hopefully retired from the work-a-day world."

Suzanne DuPuy Black and Don announce with the very greatest pleasure the birth of their son, Edward Purnell, on February 27. ( This was one of those times when a group leader was unable to contact her group.)

Evelyn Spivey Drum writes: "John has been promoted to head the Kentucky Data Sales Group for Southern Bell, so it looks as if we'll be in Louisville for another couple of years. I continue to enjoy my work as location supervisor with Louisville's Inner City Tutoring Program . We are currently wmking with about 350 children from culturally deprived areas, who are recommended by the schools as needing help. Each child is provided with his own individual tutor, and some of these youngsters are now making A's for the first time in their lives. It is tremendously challenging and rewarding!"

Ann Jones Stribling sends this: "We took a few days off and drove to Raleigh, N. C. last month, visiting friends and relatives on the way and there. Becky Powell Harrison and John and their children live just outside of Raleigh and we had a delightful visit

there. Becky's Edward is just 4 months younger than our Jimmy, who is almost four, and the two had a fine time taking the house apart.

Sara Ann is a year old now and she and our Henry ( 2 years) played more calmly. It was fun catching up on their activities and busy life."

Gwynn Barefoot Rapier writes: "Enjoyed a nice visit from Ginny and Jim Whitfield and their 2 children in the fall. We went out with them plus Barbara and Al Cobb to a Greek restaurant. It was the first time these 3 freshmen roommates had been together since 1961. I took a night course in English and American antiques and have tried a bit of furniture refinishing. Jarrell and I had a fun weekend in New York recently, including a Broadway Play "I do, I do" and the U. N. I've joined a class that meets monthly through our church called "Creative Arts Seminar" ( mostly museum tours and lectures ) and am beginning a short adult course on the 20th Century Novel. We're still trying to take before our full advantage of Philadelphia planned return to Richmond."

Betty Wade Blanton Jones writes: "Jerry and I had a short visit with Cathy Marshall Overstreet and Keith and their two children in January and it was grand seeing our former neighbors again. Daphne Shepard Mason, Bob and Monty spent the weekend with us the last of January. Sara Elizabeth and Monty cooed at enjoyed seeing each other-they each other from their infant seats. " Doralee Forsythe Richardson writes: "Lee has just been elected president of the newly formed Louisiana Consumers' League, a statewide non-profit organization to protect the consumer in Louisiana, investigate consumer complaints, do research and analysis of consumer issues, represent the consumers' interests before the state legislature , etc. A number of · states have these organizations. I'm very busy typing thousands of names for the mailing list, as well as writing articles for the league 's newsletter. It's a challenging opportunity to help reduce deceit and fraud, especially where the poor are being victimized."

GAYLE

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1224 Lanier Road, Martin sville, Va. 24112

1962I am sorry to report an item of sad news.

The class extends sincere sympathy to Margaret Taylor Kleinberg whose husband, Peter, Our was killed in Vietnam in January. thoughts and prayers are with Margaret and her two children. They are staying with Margaret's mother in West Virginia.

Barbara Grigg's job is to visit colleges talking about World University Service. She can be reached c/ o World University Service, 19 South LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. Anne Corpening is teaching English composition and philosophy at Hiram Scott College, a four year liberal arts college in Scottsbluff , Nebraska. She has a class load of nearly two hundred students which keeps her pretty busy.

Her address is 1214 4th Ave. Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69361.

Barbara · Oglesby Nicholl and Robert announce the birth of Eleanor Margaret on November 20, 1967.

Dale Boatwright Griggs says this is her last year of teaching. Tommy finishes medical school in June, and they will be moving on for his internship. Dale is looking forward to days at home with two year old Chris. The class also extends an expression of sympathy to Dale whose father died of a coronary in January.

Judy Acree Hansen and Dick recently had with Cathy Carr dinner in Charlottesville who told of her life in New York, London, and Charlottesville. Judy reports that Cathy seems quite happy with her new job as a secre tarial research assistant and finds use

for her German major in some translation s she has been asked to do. Judy and Dick have seen Jane Thompson Kemper and C. B. twice since Christmas. Judy writes: "Except that she now has a husband, a dog, and a huge house, Jane hasn't changed a bit, and like old times." we talked for hours-just C. B. keeps busy with his nursery planting both in Hampton and in the Northern Neck.

Jane and C. B. vacationed in Florida in February.

Joyce Garner is teaching at Central State College in New Britain, Conn. She has been there two years and is very happy with her work. Joyce received her M.S. in physical education and is now working toward another advanced degree. Her address is 190 Pierre Mount Ave., New Britain, Conn. 06053.

Lindy Powell has been teaching eighth grade English for several years at Brookland Junior High in Henrico County. She received her M.S. at U. Va . last summer and plans to teach at a junior college in the fall. Lindy made a very exciting -four day trip to New Orleans for Madri Gras.

Mary Godsey is teaching first and second grade in Matthews County. Last year she worked at the telephone company.

Susan Metzger Paul 's husband Wayne is taking business economics courses at University College. Susan and son Todd are fine.

Carolyn Parsley Davis writes that baby Paul is such a delight. She and Dick are in the process of looking for a house which is fun and challenging, according to Carolyn.

Carolyn is one of our capable group leaders and says that she has not been able to contact Rose Marie Paradis, Caroline Holleman Thomas, and Carolyn Paulette. Does anyone have an address for these girls?

Sandra Nunn Wallace and Dee visited J. C. Shapard Confroy and Bill in February. Sandra and Dee are busy getting settled in their home. Dee enjoys his new position, and Sandra is hoping to substitute teach.

Tuckie Smart Paxton writes that Sarah was two on February 15. Tuckie states, "She's quite the 'Mama's Helper' but such good company!"

J. C. received a Christmas ca1·d from Anne Nunnally Nielsen, who was with the class our freshman year. Niel has been spending a year's tour of duty in Naples. He is a career man in the Navy. The Nielsens have two sons; Mark, age 6, and David, age 3. Anne's address is 13 Longmeadow Ave., Middletown, R. I. 12840.

Jane Crouch was married to Norbert Ludwig Rieder on December 22, 1967, in Richmond.

Joan Bishop Davidson and Scott are the proud parents of Elizabeth Scott who was born September 11, 1967.

Pam Koch Fay's husband John has a new job as installment loan officer at the Metropolitan National Bank in Richmond. Prior to this he was with another bank. Besides taking care of daughter Beth who was born last May 24 Pam is active in her church choir, took part in the United Givers Fund drive

this fall, and works for the Women in Community Service, interviewing and acting as a "big sister" for the Job Corps.

Robin Cramme Perks and Jerry are happy to announce the birth of their first child , James Robinson, on January 1, 1968.

Ellen Kayne November and her husband spent a wonderful week in February relaxing in San Juan and Saint Thomas.

Charlotte Adams Higgs wrote that they have been in Alaska nearly two and a half years and have enjoyed every minute of it.

They will be leaving Alaska in September and to Geisinger Medical Center in returning Danville, Pennsylvania where Wilson will begin his residency in Ear, Nose, and Throat.

She said they are lookin g forward to returning to the east coast.

Charlotte also sent news of several new babies: Lee Strawhand Young had twin boys last April; Molly Riggins Sandridge had a girl in September; and Lucy Hardy Johnson's daughter was born in October. Alice Hall had received a picture of Lee 's twins, Michael and Steven. Alice reports that the Youngs are now living in Kendall, Florida.

Alice also says she has moved to a new Her address is Potomac Plaza apartment.

Apartments , 2475 Virginia Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C., and she would welcome visits from class members who come to the area.

Mary Kay Williams Weir did post graduate work last year in pastoral counselling with special reference to helping the mentally ill.

On November 16, 1967, the Weirs welcomed their son, Robert George Alexander. They will lea ve Scotland the first of June to take up an appointment as educational-evangelistic missionaries to the Congo. This will involve spe nding this summer in training in North Carolina and then next year language study in Belgium or Switzerland. Since they will be on the move she suggests that the best way to contact her would be in care of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. D. A. Williams, 5135 North 15th St., Arlington, Va. Sharon Alderson O'Connor and Tom spent Christmas very pleasantly with parents in Newport News.

Judy Trunzo wrote from the American Embassy in Vientiane, Laos: "Give all my trying to bring the spirit of '62 love-am to diplomacy."

Gail Glover Chamlee and Bill have moved to Greensboro, N. C. because of Bill's transfer with Phillips 66.

Ruth Blair has been learning to ski this winter at Struddel Run, an hour away from her apartment in East Riverdale, Md. She has also been taking another course at the Sunday teaching of Maryland, University School, and planning more activities for her directing another students . She anticipates school play before the year is over.

Melinda Holderby Haid said Bob leaves for his second tour in Vietnam around April 5.

Barbara Davies Brewer keeps busy looking after her two children, Patricia and Chris.

Barbara had seen Joanna Ellett at Christmas-

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time and reports that Jo is working as a librarian in Buffalo, N. Y. Judy Gayhart Keene and Don are living in Daytona, Florida. Don is now out of the service and has set up his practice as a periodontist.

Class president Betty Lou Morris Blankenship is organizing a luncheon for all interested girls at 12:30 on May Day at the Clover Room on Broad Street in Richmond. Anyone who is interested should contact her at 8533 Elm Road, Bon Air, Va. 23235, so that you can be counted in. Hope to see everyone there.

Again a special thank you to group captains Young, Sharon Alderson Patsy Chewning O'Connor, Judy Acree Hansen, Anne Clodfelter Tucker, J. C. Shaphard Confroy, Carolyn Parsley Davis, and Julie Perkinson Crews who did a good job with gathering news this time.

The next deadline is May 10, so please let us hear from you.

MRs. JoHN RIFFER (Diane Light) 6317 Abil ene Street, Springfield, Va . 22150

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THE PEACECORPSAT WORK IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

by GAIL LUSH '63 I have just come back from two days in the Campo supervising the rural school teachers with whom I work. I am quite tired, having traveled over 100 miles in those 2 days by motor scooter, mostly on small dirt roads through the sugar cane fields .

This is a sample of the educational problems I encounter as a Peace Corps volunteer working in the Dominican Republic in a Pilot Teacher-Training program for rural school teachers who had only an eighth grade education.

I am dead serious when I say that when we started working with these teachers twenty months ago, many could not even writ e the alphabet. Today these same teachers use flannel boards and pocket charts , teach new math and make lesson plans. But the conditions they fight for their $73.00-amonth salary are incredible and we volunteers often question if it's worth it for them to suffer so much.

One school I was visiting had not existed as a building when ·I arrived in September. The teacher was holding class under a thatched-palm roof held up by four poles without so much as a blackboard. She had 8 students that day. Now in the first grade she has an average attendance between 25 and 30. Class is held in a tiny house that is literally falling down. Five students sit jammed into desks made for three.

But it's an improvement.

Many more children would come if they could buy notebooks and pencils or if they had clothes to wear. This very morning a man on a limping , bony horse covered with saddlesores came up to ask if I could please get him a pair of pants and a shirt so he could send his oldest son to school. "l have five children and the rice and beans just don't fill them up . My wife's pregnant again. We don't want any more but they just keep coming."

The teacher reported that attendance in the afternoon had fallen off to 2 or 3 children. Three students had moved

It will soon be five years since we graduated from Westhampton. Our reunion will be held the weekend of May 10 and 11. A coffee is planned for Friday night and a social hour and dinner for Saturday night. Start planning now to attend and let's have a great reunion!

Lynore Katz Aaron and Stu are the proud parents of twin girls, Elizabeth Anne and 4.

Suzanne Melissa, born on December Gwynne is two years old now and is quite thrilled with her little sisters. Stu is an Optholmology Resident at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and they will be living in New York City until he finishes in June, 1969.

Their new address is 444 East 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028.

Alice Moyers Merritt's husband, Gordon, arrived home in January from one year 's duty in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. Fortunately, he has only one scar from a broken windshield as a reminder. They are again stationed in Alabama.

Carolyn Hodnett Wyatt and Charlie are living at 1977 Greenfield Drive in Chesterfield County. Charlie is working for Southern Bank and Trust Co. Pat Kirby Percy's husband, Stu, has accepted a job with Dupont. Their son, Chad, celebrated his fourth birthday in ·January with a rollicking birthday party.

Judy Barlow Bolling and Jon have purchased a lot on Wesley Road in Richmond and hope to start building in the spring. Recently Judy joined the Thomas Jefferson Junior Woman 's Club . Jon is a stock broker for F . W. Craigie and in February Judy spent two weeks in New York with him while he was attending a nine weeks investment school.

Congratulations to Mimi Lou Brent Booker and Judson on the birth of a daughter, Margaret Lewis, born on January 14. Judson is in his last year of medical school at the University of Virginia.

Jean Copley Forbes writes that Preston finished his Ph.D. in physics at VPI last August. He is now in the Army, stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York, where he is an instructor in physics. He loves his work and thoroughly enJoymg their roomy new house the y are finding it a very excitin~ place to at 810 Ewell Road in Chesterfield County. live. Their two-year-old daughter keeps Jean Marcia McMullen Cantrell and Bill spent quite busy. This summer they will be staa wonderful week in Bermuda the first part tioned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for three months. of February. Even though they had several Their address is Regency Arms Apt. B-2, days of rain, the Cantrells got in a round of Highland Fall, New York 10928 . . golf and did lots of sightseeing . · Claire Hudson Matthews is doing graduate Jean Robertson was married to Roy Thompstudy in social work at R.P.I. She attends son this past August and they are living classes two days a week and does field work in Boston. in the cerebral palsy clinic three days a week.

Judy Metcalf Turner, Burleigh, and threeyear-old Jennie Paige are now living in Peggy St. Clair Stevens and Dan are

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away, three had gotten married and the rest were cutting sugar cane. These are and second grade children-thirteen fourteen year olds who have progressed no further because the school only offers first and second grades, because of very irregular attendance, no background preparation for schooling , no books or other school materials, and most of all very poor teaching. If anyone in that community has bought a newspaper in the last year, I'd be very surprised.

Today I went to a meeting in a small botey surrounded by sugar cane . At present the school has no windows , no doors , no floor and when it rains the children have to be dismissed at once because the palm roof and walls are in an atrocious condition.

I don't live out in the campo but in town. At present I'm writing this under my mosquito net because the everpresent army of mosquitoes is waiting to attack me if I should venture out.

I'm writing by lamplight becaus e the electricity is off as it is two or three nights a week. As far as ·I know we have had water three hours in the last four days. A nagging internal infection has cropped up again to pla~ue me for my last three months here due to the foul water.

Of my $125 month salary at least $25 a month goes for work-related transportation and other expenses. The remaining $100 is stretched until there is no more to cover all living expenses in a country where a bottle of shampoo or bottle of mayonnaise or stick of margarin e costs two to three tim es the stateside price. Past essentials such as facial tissues are absurd luxuri es now.

I hope that the great United States colleges as fine as Westhampton will not turn out graduates oblivious and personally uninvolved in that vast part of the world's people that look to us as the ideal they would give anything to obtain.

Ridgeway, Virginia, nine miles south of Martinsville. Burleigh is employed as production supervisor at the DuPont plant in Martinsville. Their new address is P. 0. Box 66, Ridgeway, Va. 24148.

Josie Rogers _ Lovelady writes that she and Buddy enjoyed a two-week trip to Miami and Nassau early in the fall. She is teaching biology and Buddy is a member of the Ches• terfield County Police Force, Beth Holland Maxwell and Jim are busily househunting in Durham where Jim is prac -

ticing law. Beth has had a busy winter keeping up with two-year-old Jon, teaching a Basic Adult Education class, and a psychology class to Durham policemen.

In December, Kakki Elmer Rogers, Charlie, and son, John, moved into a new home at 2618 Lancroft Road in Chesterfield County.

On March 13, Kakki and seven-months-old John flew to Georgia to spend twelve days with Kakki's grandparents.

Pat Long ·Dementi and Bryan have bought a house and their new address is 7322 Hermitage Road, Richmond. Pat stays quite busy teaching nursing students at MCV. Congratulations to Joan Lee Wright Myrick on being the only woman tax assessor in Richmond. Joan Lee has been very busy helping people with their tax problems this time of the year!

Connie Overstreet Gilmore and Richard are househunting in Roanoke. Connie writes that Lynn Shepherd was married this past winter to Russ Rowitz and they are living at 1562 West Royalton Road, Apt. 6, Broad View Heights, Ohio.

Betsy Beale Bell is working for the advertising firm of Cargill Wilson and Acree. Charlie is a guidance counselor at Falling Creek Jr. High and they have bought an old stone house and are having a wonderful time remodeling it. Their new address is 3811 Lake Hill Road, Richmond, Virginia.

Our class is very proud of Grayson Foy who was a physics instructor at the University of Richmond last year and is now teaching physics at Longwood College.

Doris Joyner Robertson and Andy have bought a new home in Newport News, where Andy has set up his dental practice . Their address is 104 Peirsey Place, Newport News , Virginia .

Frances Pitchford Griggs and Walter have bought a home and their new address 1s 505 Craig Avenue, Richmond. Frances is enjoying her retirement.

Gail Lush is involved in a teacher training project for the Peace Corps on the small island of the Dominican Republic. This project is an intensive effort to raise the education of 300 rural primary school teachers . During the summer, Gail teaches six days a week and during the winter she teaches on Saturday and visits schools. The climate and language differences often make her work harder . Gail will be returning to the States this summer.

Thanks to everyone who sent in news.

Another letter will be going to press the middle of May, so please let me hear from you. Don 't forget our reunion. I hope to see you all then .

ANN D . .HURD 701-E N. Hamilton St., Richmond , Va. 23221

1964Before I report the news , permit me to indulge in an editorial plug. Amidst the recent social upheaval, it occurred to me that there is one thing that the inner city ghetto and the affiuent suburb have in common, and that is the need for quality education for each individual who resides therein. In addition to our part in paying taxes or perhaps teaching school, we can contribute to this through the alumnae fund . Future W esthampton students will have to bear less of their educational cost the more a Westhampton graduate contributes out of a financial position made possible, after all, by our attendance at the university. Each one of us should give as we are able, even if it is a small amount.

And now for the news. At least we certainly seem to be contributing to the preschool population, for there are several births to be reported. Sondra Miller Ivey ·had her second son on January 16th. He is Brian

Gresham. Also, Ann Sartorious Payne gave birth to David Carvel Payne on March 1.

Mary Eleanor Hodges Strickland ·had a boy on January 30, William Jesse Strickland, Jr. (Jay). Mary Frances Wright Webb also had a little boy, Hunter Wright, on November 26.

To match the four boys, we also have news of four new little girls. Laura Elizabeth Daniel was born to Bucky Hanbury Daniel on February 19. Aubrey is still stationed at Ft. Benning. Mary Bruce Ford Wood and Andy are also the proud parents of a little girl, Jennifer Bruce, born on December 6, 1967.

Judith Stone Gobble's daughter, Julie Dearen was born January 14. Nancy Holland Miller had a girl named Amy Elizabeth in November.

Congratulations to you all!

The movers have been as busy as the stork in our class. Don and Jo Ann Barco Daugherty have finally settled in California where he is stationed at N.A.S. Point Mugu. Sally Abel has landed a job with a California publishing company and lives in Palo Alto. I'm hoping for a chance to see Judy Barnhart Parr soon, for they moved in March to the Baltimore area. Jerry has been transferred to Ft. Holabird nearby.

Sara Jane Buck Garner and her husband , Fielding, are living in Newport News where he is a Lt . in the Army Transportation Corps at Ft. Eustis. Jane is working as the Incentive Awards Assistant at the Headquarters. Prior to this Jane worked for one year for an insurance company and taught two years in Chesterfield County.

Martha Hartman Johnson has moved to the mountains, as her husband was promoted to Asheville, N. C. district Supervisor with Texaco. Lisa Coleman Rose still is working at A. H. Robins and her husband Fred has gone to work for IBM. Jo Anne Cropper Reynolds and hubby have bought a home in "Meadowbrook West, " Chesterfield. Jo Anne has been very busy refinishing furniture as well as teaching, including a night class for drop-outs . Linda Armstrong Farrar and Bob also are buying their own home in Baltimore. In addition, Jane Norton Medlin is having fun decorating their own home on Grove Avenue, Richmond.

Bets y Uhl has moved to a half-farmhouse apartment in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, to be nearer to her work . Isn 't that a quaint name?

Wedding bells have created some new addresses, too. Buddy and Pat Denton are settling in their new home in Hampton . Pat Stinson became Mrs . Henry Beardsley on Sept. 23, 1967 and lives in Hillcrest Hts., Md. He is Managing Editor for the monthly magazine of the Construction Specification Institute.

As previously reported, Ingrid Looch had planned to enter med school last fall, but as it happens , the right guy came along and she became Mrs. A. T. Kiss in the spring of 1967. She is now teaching in a private girls' school outside of New York City where her husband is doing social work. Madeline Crenshaw Bulls wrote that she and Bob hoped to see them while vacationing in New York.

Some others of us have done some traveling, too. Carolyn Powell Kelly and Vince returned to Richmond over the Christmas holidays for the first time in well over two years. Some of the friends they visited included Judy Whitloch Sheranek, Marion Binder Sacks, Joan Hoch Yowell , and Nancy Smith Scarborough. Carolyn is teaching the Californians about the South, among other things.

Linda Fridley had a wonderful week skiing and people-meeting in Canada. She is also taking a modern dance course in Philadelphia where she works.

In February, John, Tammy, and I visited his parents vacationing in Florida; we enjoyed fishing and sightseeing around Orlando . Reu• ben and Connie Zeno also had a nice winter

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vacation in Miami Beach before she returned to teaching in Richmond.

Lucille Phillips went to Europe last summer and returned in the fall to resume teaching in Newport News.

And now for a few "at-home" items of interest. Mary Teene Rainey is "Big Chief " (President) of the state chapter of 4-H All Stars, a service organization. In addition to teaching biology in Virginia Beach, she works with the National Honor Society at the high school there. Last summer she at tended several 4-H camps and spent two weeks at an American Youth Foundation Camp in Michigan as a leader.

Nancy Loughridge Lowe is keeping busy in Oklahoma by taking a few courses , such as international cooking and knitting , as well as doing some substitute teaching. Connie Nunn and Billy Crowder are still living and teaching in Clarkesville. Gay Shelton Hoots retired from teaching last June and is now enjo ying things she never had time to do before , such as taking art lessons.

It certainly is fun to receive so much mail .

Keep it up!

Mns. JoHN W . MALLERY (L etty Lee Sloan ) 606 So. 24th St ., Arlin gton , Va .

1965I really appreciate Barbara Vaughan 's writing the news for me in December . Getting to know Winston-Salem has been fun even though I get lost whene ver I go to a new place in town.

In December we were a little late in reporting that Pam Myers was in France. She was there last summer working on her Masters in French at an NDEA In stitute for Advanced Study in Arcachon , France. Pam continues to teach French and English at Brookland Jun ior High School. She is engaged to David Ron ick and planning to be married in August.

David is a student at the College of William and Mar y.

Willard and Nancy Saunders Pierce are now living in German y where Will is sta tioned with the Army. Nancy wrote last fall that she and their daughter, Charlyn, flew over to join Will. Their apartment is in a German residential area and Nancy wrote that they would have to learn German to communicate with their neighbors.

At Christma s time, I was delighted to have a note on a Christmas card from Lee Whitley Brandis who was with our class for two years before tran sferring. Her husband, Roland, is a Commercial Manager at C&P in Washington, D. C . Lee work s for the government.

Bonnie Rae recently visited Helen Flynn Walton (class of 1964) in Winston-Salem .

Bonnie is living in Richmond now.

Kristin Sponsler recently wrote that she was planning to be marr ied. She had seen Joanne Marshall Witt and they made plans to get together soon.

Pam Adams spon sored a five-day trip in March to New York Cit y. Pam is newspaper sponsor at Freeman High School.

Brenda Netherwood Gibrall reports that the y have recently added a recreation room to their home.

Vicky Batts graduated from the University of Denver with a M.A . in Library Science in June, 1967. In August, 1966 , she had received her M.A. in history from there. She now works at the New York Public Library , but reports that she, although she loves her job and enjoys News York, does not plan to stay there forever.

Linda Beran was married to Dr. Stephen Frank Murray on February 3rd. The y are living at Oxford Circle, Lexington, Kentucky.

Bill and Margaret Brittle Brown have a daughter, Susan Warren, born December 19, 1967 .

Vince and Kay Ramsey Parrish plan to settle in Newport News, now that Vince is home from Korea.

Gene and Judy Murden Brown spent Christmas with her parents. They are now living in Puerto Rico. Judy will return to Virginia for a visit in the spring.

Ken and Nancy Curtis Wood have moved into their new home and are busy working on it. Nancy continues to find her work challenging .

Rachel Norman Graves is planning to visit Mary Ellen Kyle the weekend of March 15-17.

Mary Ellen is working for N. C. State in Raleigh with the National Register Records.

Marionette Parker is engaged to Tuck Jones. Their wedding plans are uncertain pending his orders.

Pat Cox Hardesty and her husband have bought a three-story town house at 1723 Harvard St., N.W., Washington , D. C. and plan to move into it in June. Pat works part-time in a church bookstore.

Fran Guynn is at Chapel Hill working on her Master 's thesis. I was delighted to see her one night in the fall at Byrd Airport waiting to catch a plane to Charlotte, N. C. where she was in her field placement at that time.

I recently visited visited Sue Parrish Patrick briefly and had the chance to see red-haired daughter, Susan her adorable Branch.

Jackie Branch and Wren Dawson took a summer vacation trip to California. Jackie also toured Connecticut , Cape Cod and Expo '67 . She is attending graduate school at William and Mary working towards a Master 's in Education with concentration in guidance.

MRS. C. R. BURRELL (Ja cquelin e Harper ) 1105 W est End Blvd Win ston-Sal em, N . C. 27104

1966Harriet (Mann) Tomlinson writes that she and Ed are now the parents of a baby girl, Susan Elizabeth, born Dec. 7, 1967. Harriet and Ed are at this writing living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. By the time this issue of the Bulletin comes out, they should be in California.

Carolyn (Tietze) Zetes and her husband John, who is in the Navy , are now living in Seattle, Washington. John is attending the University of Washington, and Carolyn is working in the Biochemistry Dept. Research Center at the University.

Lou (VanHeuvln) Wrenn tells me that Wayne has been drafted and is currently stationed in Georgia.

Mabel Bailey is engaged to Mr. James Carr of Richmond. A June wedding is planned .

Fran (Stewart) Stan and her husband Ed, who is a commercial interior designer, have been spending much of their spare time decorating their new home in Gastonia, N. C. Fran is teaching French and English at Huss High School.

Martha Colston has been doing some substitute teaching and apparently is enjoying it: she says she is considering teaching full-time in the fall.

Thecia (Gunn) Hancewicz writes that she and Ralph "are living with a couple of hundred boys " in a dorm at Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass. Ralph, who received his MAT degree from Brown University last June is teaching English at Mount Hermon and Thecia is teaching math at the sister school, Northfield. Thecia says they are happy to be back in New England, but that as she looked at the mountains of snow this winter she often missed the beautiful, blooming springs of Virginia.

That's it for now. Let's see if we can 't better our participation in the Alumnae Fund

Drive this year; after all, as college graduates we are supposed to be among the affiuent.

BARBARA A. ·Ruscus 1200 S. Arlington Ridge Rd. #207 Arlington , Va . 22202

1967During February our roving Times-Dispatch reporter, Judy Bailey, penned a most informative full page spread on Virginia's ski resorts, accompanying her remarks with numerous photographs.

When comparing the lovely picture of the now graceful Bailey on skiis with my memory of her shattered condition upon returning from skiing weekends last winter, one cannot fail to be imbued with added confidence and inspired to greater heights on the ski slopes.

The winter months also proved profitable for other class members. We extend best wishes to Pat Brown who became engaged to Bobby Bayliss ( U.R. '66) during Christmas vacation. Just prior to Christmas on a whirlwind trip to the Reading Room, who did I run into but Judy McCann who was in the midst of her Christmas vacation from Penn State, a vacation which included a trip to Durham to see Nancy Sharp Dickinson and husband Dick. Try as you might, you just can't escape the class of '67 anywhere!

Memorable also to Kathleen Anderson were the winter months in which she became engaged to Nicholas S. Wagner, a graduate of VPI who will receive his Masters Degree in Operations Research from New York University in June. Kathleen continues to work toward a Masters in Library Science. After a June wedding, the couple will make their home in Hopewell, Virginia.

Gale Hodkinson writes that '67 engagements continue to Hood her desk in the office ·of The Richmond News Leader. Remember last spring when on any given day the wedding sections

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At the site of its new nuclear power station, the Virginia Electric and Power Company has built an information center capable of handling thousands of visitors

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of the local papers looked like a small edition of the Web? Well, if one can believe what one sees in the paper, wedding marches will be ringing far and wide once more during the spring and summer of '68.

From Atlanta comes news of Jackie Lassiter's engagement to Lt. Daniel B. Wilkins ( U.R. '67) who is currently (March) stai'ioned in Budingen, Germany. An April wedding is planned.

From New York to Atlanta to Richmond they continue to fall. The engagement of Janine Kulak to Justin Phillips has been announced. While Janine completes a year teaching math in Henrico County, Justin, who graduated from VPI in December, is doing graduate work in chemistry at N. C. State. A July wedding is planned.

Also planning a wedding is Alice Smith who is engaged to John M Reid who is currently in service. Alice is now with the Internal Revenue Service in Baltimore, but after an April wedding, plans to make her home in Washington, D. C. Foremost on the list in our "Would Ya Believe" files is the following item: the engagement of Helen Marie Cross to Gary Barnes was announced in February, with the wedding to follow in August. Is this not the girl who slaved night after night al Ye Olde Sewing Machine so that umpteen brides and bridesmaids could trip down the aisle fully attired in all finery? To Ree and Gary we send along congrats and best wishes.

A mid-June wedding in the Westhampton Chapel is planned by Ann Carol Robins and her fiance, John Cheves Haskell, Jr., a stock broker for Wheat and Company. Ann Carol, who shares an apartment with Margaret Phelps on Grove Avenue is presently taking courses at U. R. Vickie Miller who is teaching ninth grade math at Huguenot High School has become engaged to Richard Edwards and plans a June wedding.

Bridal showers also abounded during February for Judy Ellett whose marriage to Eddie Freeman is to take place on Easter Sunday. Judy and Eddy both attend Southern Baptist University.

Charlotte Goode joined the ranks of Old Married Folks on February 10 when she became Mrs. Richard Grove Saunders. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders now make their home in Richmond.

Returning last fall from a year at Exeter in England was Margaret Phelps. Since graduation from W.C. in February, she has been teaching eighth and tenth grade English at Patrick Henry High School in Ashland.

Pat Rainwater Whitfield writes that while she is enjoying her job as music teacher at Curtis and Harrowgate Elementary Schools in Chester , she plans to retire after this year and become a fulltime housewife. Husband Bill is a Medical Center Representative at MCV for Hoffman, La Roche, Inc., Pharmaceutical Laboratory. Their summer plans include a three week trip to southern Europe and the Holy Land. Bon voyage!

Also anticipating vacation travel is Nancy Kalousdian who plans to take an April break from her work with the Virginia Employment Commission and soak up the sun in Florida.

The grapevine has it that my unidentified Philadelphia resident is Nancy Pendleton Wheeler whose husband is attendng Wharton School there.

If you aren't sufficiently prepared to cope with financial disaster, might I suggest that you seek immediate help in the face of the news that Pat Ferguson has left State-Planter's Bank and is now employed as a Research Assistant in the Federal Reserve. This means that she works (?) in the same firm with Charlotte Waldrop and-hang on-Marionette Parker ('65). Still not worried? Then you're a better man than I! Joan Schools since returning from Michigan State has been teaching United States History

and Civics to Thomas Dale High School juniors. Maureen Goode, who took first semester courses in Art and Interior Design at RPI, is not now attending classes, but hopes to resume her studies at a later date. Sandy Fairfield Skrivseth whose home is now in Nashville, Tennessee where husband Larry is a graduate student at Vanderbilt, has given up her own studies for awhile and is working as a hospital laboratory technician in Nashville.

And last, but not least is Rachel Nash, who, after making the Grand Tour of Colleges and Universities, is now employed as a Research Assistant for North Carolina State and has an office in the State Mental Hospital ( yes, that's correct-"office").

Her current address is 209 Ramblewood Dr., Apt. 99, Raleigh, N. C. 27609.

Lisa Hummel has become, as she puts it, "a full Hedged graduate student at RPI. " She is working toward a Masters Degree in Art Education which she hopes to get by June '69. Lisa wrote that she ran into Judy Jones Wurtzel and husband Elliott in December. They were visiting in Richmond before returning to New York.

Address changes and additions on your list of addresses must also be made for the following: Diana Summers McDonald (Mrs. Eugene) 4713 Amber Lane Apt. 4 Sacramento, California 95841 Carol Copley Axford ( Mrs. Geo. L ., Jr .)

131-A St. Johns Ave. Charleston Hts., S. C. 29405 Carol is slowly moving northward after a stay in Key West, Florida, where Les was stationed.

Barbara Towsey Silver (Lt. John S. Silver) A Btry 4 Bn 62 Arty Ft. Bliss, Texas 79916 Your list of addresses indicated that Barbara and Sam were somewhere in Ft. Bliss, but I have just received the exact address, which, though it is subject to change in spring '68, I pass along to you.

Barbara Snead Pastore ( Mrs. Louis Pastore ) 9222-B Calvary Dr. Richmond, Virginia

Congrats go out to Barbara and Louis on the birth of a son, Peter Snead Pastore , who was born in late September. Louis is now attending medical school at MCV. Jud y Dollen burg Sterling ( Lt. Geo. C.) 356 N. Dougherty Ft. Bragg , N. C. From •what I hear , Jud y is on a furniture and antiques kick at the moment which keeps her busy while George works on the base.

Lacy Gordon Cundiff (Mrs. J. S.) 929 St. Mary's St. Raleigh, N. C. Our sincere sympathy is extended to Lacy and J. S. on the death of Lacy's mother in early March.

Since marriage to Wardney Arnold Whitmer, Jr., in October, Sharon Cardwell's address has changed to 214 Cedar Lane, Apt. 48, Vienna, Virginia. Sharon works as a Research Assistant at the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington while her husband works for Zane and Earl Mason Contractors in Arlington.

Also relocated is Kathleen Wills who is now in Charlotte, North Carolina with Hartford Insurance Company. She was previously in Connecticut in Hartford's training program.

A Richmond Hartford employee is Susan Cosby who is living at the Lexington Tower Apartments.

Jean Clodfelter Gulick and Jim are now in Huntsville, Alabama where Jim is in Missile School. New address: Lt. and Mrs. J. S. Gulick, 3934 Ashland St., Apt. 5, Huntsville, Ala. Our two Louisville girls apparently stay in contact with one another, for Nancy Sharp Dickinson writes that Gerry Rutter McCormick, husband Sam, and son Sean are all fine in Louisville where Gerry attends Kentucky Southern. She is majoring in education and hope to teach Special Education.

Nancy, though working hard, seems to be thriving on her work in the welfare field.

She writes that she is now in a brand new building with an office all to her self where she works with families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children grants.

Suzanne Walls Carey and Nancy Cox Peters make up the rest of the Durham threesome

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who run into each other now and then.

Since her marriage in October, Alyce McGinnis Lawrence has been teaching math to junior high school students in Norfolk.

Steve works as a field representative for VEPCO. It certainly is refreshing to be able to congratulate someone on something other than an engagement. To Noel Davidson Butler we extend heartiest congrats on being tapped into Mortar Board in March. Noel, as you recall, returned to W .C . this year to major in history and has continued her old pattern of breezing through each and every subject with top notch grades!

A Christmas card from Betsy Dillard gave the unmistakeable impression that both Florida Southern and sunny Florida are agreeing with her .

One of our class members has evidently found more hours in the day than the rest of us have. Dolly Kirkpatrick Carroll who lives with husband Jack and son John F. Carroll, IV in Hackensack, New Jersey, not only manages to keep the home fires burning, but · also finds time to be a Girl Scout leader and a math tutor to a high school girl. Jack continues to work for the F.B.I. and attend classes at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Do you realize that in spite of the fact that Martha Ann Wholey, Barbara Veno Caldwell, Ann Payne, and Mary Stuart Land Tomlison have been with Life Insurance of Virginia since last summer, the company is still going strong? Perhaps I was too hasty and underestimated the endurance of the company. At any rate, Barbara has successfully completed the Second Actuarial Exain and Mary Stuart has finished the first. Who knows-the fearsome Foursome may be doing a little constructive work, after all!

Betty Newman Lea returned home to Boydton in December when Harry Lea left for service in Korea. Betty is presently teaching sixth grade near her home.

Beverly Noble writes from New York that she has completed her training in the System Development Division of IBM in New York and enjoys her work a little more than she did the training. I really don't know which makes me more envious-Florida girls enjoying 80 temps all winter or New Yorkers who can take in all the best shows. According to Bev, standing room only tickets are her usual fare, but at least she has a foot in the door.

Ann Pomeroy will be among the members of the chorus in the Virginia Museum's production of "Camelot" which begins in May. Well, they've certainly got the right person if they need a Johnny One Note-remember that Song Contest performance of Ann's?

After four summers working in Richmond, I have great expectations for what I hope will be a summer of rest and relaxation in exciting downtown Jarratt. The next issue will undoubtedly be devoted wholly to my numerous summer activities in that booming metropolis.

However, should I decide to include news on any other class members, it's imperative that I hear from you, especially you folks who haven 't found your names in the past issues and therefore don't know what you've been doing since graduation. Be warned that I have no scruples and will unhesitatingly create a scandalous scoop on you unless you forestall this possibility by writing to me!

Mrss SUZANNElvEY 243'3 Wedgewood Ave., Richmond, Va.

WESTHAMPTON ALUMNAE LOCAL CLUBS Atlanta Alumnae Club President: MRs. H. H. BLACKWELL (Jane Horton, '60) Mrs. Betty Ann Doub, national president of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association, met with our club March 30 at a

dinner meeting at the Sheraton-Emory Inn. We were most interested in her enthusiastic description of Westhampton today and her projection of plans and hopes for tomorrow.

The local alumnae expressed a desire to give serious consideration to the sponsorship of a program here such as an organ concert featuring an alumna, not only as a money-making project but primarily in an effort to extend the acquaintance with the name of Westhampton College to more people in this area.

We elected the following new officers: Mrs. Jane Horton Blackwell, president; Mrs. Sue Kaufman Wilson, vice-president; and Miss Edith Dewitt, secretary-treasurer.

Baltimore Alumnae Club Secretary: MRs. JOHN P. HrcrNBOTHOM ( Carolyn Quinn '58) 411 Alabama Rd. Towson, Md. 21204 The Baltimore Club in coordination with the Richmond College Alumni is plannin_g a Hawaiian luau to be held March 28th. Possibly we shall spark some interest in the University sponsored tour to Hawaii this summer. Mariah Chisolm Hasker '55 and Christine Duling Sponsler '39 are in charge of arrangements.

Martinsville Alumnae Club MRS. E. H . WILLIAMS, III ( Gayle Gowdey '61) 1224 Lanier Rd. Martinsville, Va. and MRS. C. L. WOODY,JR. (Mary Sue Guard '47) Bassett, Va. We were very excited about our plans for March. On March 1, we had a combined social covered dish and planning meeting.

The planning meeting involved our annual dinner which is held in March to honor the Westhampton students from this area who are home for the Spring Vacation. We also have as our guests area girls who are interested in attending Westhampton. This year we had as our special honored guest Mrs. R. E. Booker, whose recent resignation as alumnae secretary is deeply regreted by us all.

Peninsula Alumnae Club Co-Presidents: Mns. DoucLAs PowELL ( Harriet Smith '49) 19 Club Terrace Newport News, Va. 23606 and MRS. ARTHURG. LAMBIOTTE ( Susan Riley '59) 214 Piez Ave. Newport News, Va. 23601 The Peninsula Club held a very successful Card Party and Wig Fashion Show on January 18th. Virginia Jones Miller '56 and Helen Kinnett Peach '56 made the plans for the event which included a demonstration

by Don of the House of Wigs of the proper use of wigs, wiglets, falls, and switches. A wiglet was given away as a door prize, and also several homemade cakes.

Several of our alumnae enjoyed the hospitality of the Norfolk Alumnae Club at a covered dish luncheon on February 3rd.

On Tuesday night, February 20th, Mary Campbell Paulson '45 gave a most interesting talk to the club •about her work as a member of the Newport News School Board. Betty Marlow Atkinson '61 and Jacki Thomas Thomas '61 were in charge of the arrangements for the meeting which was held at Nachman's Community Room. During the business session, the club voted to send

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$100.00 to the Alumnae Association to be used for the Student Abroad Fund. New officers were elected as follows: President-Virginia Jones Miller '56 Vice-President-Dottie Stiff Price '56 Secretary-Jane Thompson Kemper '62 Treasurer-Anne Higgins Borger '47 These officers were installed at the spring luncheon held April 20th at Cynthia Patrick Lawson's '49 home on Chesapeake Avenue, Hampton.

Richmond Alumnae Club President: MRS. EDWARDPALAZZO ( Anne Smith) 8808 Bellefonte Road Richmond, Va. A showing of hand-made spring fashions was the feature of the annual luncheon of the Richmond Club, held at Willow Oaks Country Club on Saturday, April 6, 1968.

With the emphasis on Easter outfits and resort wear, the following Alumnae modeled clothes they had made: Miss Cathryn Henna, '25; Mrs. Karl Garrett, '42; Mrs. Jerry Lindquist, '59; Mrs. Thomas Evans, '59, with her two daughters; Mrs. Gerald Haynie, '59; Miss Diane Minter, '65; Mrs. Ransone Hartz, '58; Mrs. William Phillips, '59, and her two daughters; Mrs. Robert King, Jr., '58; Mrs. Philip Frederick, Jr., '56; Mrs. Marshall P. Gordon, III, '64; and Mrs. E. R. Courrow, Jr., '65.

Mrs. Edward L. Lilly, '65, served as the commentator. Mrs. George Gibrall, '65 was luncheon chairman. Miss Rosemary Jones and Miss Pamela Adams were in charge of the fashion show.

Officers for the following year were installed at the luncheon, and alumnae paid tribute to Mrs. Leslie Booker for her twentyfive years service as Alumnae Secretary.

News sent in by Ann Frederick, Publicity, '56.

Roanoke Alumni Club President: MRS. ROBERTNEUVILLE ( Arnette Kizzia , '55 ) 4726 Glenbrook Dr. , Roanoke, Va. The Roanoke alumnae club launched the 1967-68 year with a party for current and incoming Westhampton students, held at the home of Mary Anne Logan Mongan ( Mrs. Brenton) in Salem. A program was presented by current students.

Miss Mary Jane Miller, chairman of the physical education department, and Mrs. R. E. Booker, alumnae secretary, were guests of the club at its March 16 luncheon at the Red Lion Restaurant Pre.~iding at both meetings was Arnett Kizzia Neuville ( Mrs. Robert), club president.

The club was especially pleased to be visited by Mrs. Booker during her last year in offi~e. It was she who organized the club and who has helped keep it active through regular visits to Roanoke.

Tidewater A]uumae Club Prelsident: Mrs . Fred T. Givl'n (Jane Ozlin '5::;\ 1130 Hanover Averce Norfolk, Virginia 2350b The Tidewater Chapter met on February 3 in the Coleman Room of Coleman's Nursery in Portsmouth with members of the Peninsula Club as guests. A delicious covered dish luncheon was enjoyed by about 40. The vicepresident, Mrs. William Crews (Julie Perkinson '62) made the arrangements for the meeting and most interesting program. Mrs. Floyd Twiford of Coleman's gave the group some valuable ideas and hints for spring gardening and pruning. Mrs. Roy Dudley (Elizabeth McRae '51) of Meadowbrook Flor-

ist inspired all with her own enthusiasm and love of flowers.

The spring luncheon will be held at the Lafayette Yacht Club, Norfolk, on April 20 at 12:30. The honored guests will be Mrs. Leslie Booker and Dr. Mary Beaty from the college. They will report on developments and news of Westhampton. All alumnae in the Tidewater area are invited to this meeting.

also a former commissioner in chancery of Henrico Circuit Court.

At the time of his death, Mr. Davis was counsel to Keith, William and Daniel in Richmond.

He was a member of the Richmond Bar Association, Kappa Sigma social fraternity and a 50 year member of Dove Lodge No. 51, AF&AM and the Kiwanis Club.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Robert A. Nester, Jr. of Richmond and Mrs. William F. Parkerson, Jr. of Henrico.

Washington, D.C. Alumnae Club President: Miss MARGARETRuno 5806 Franklin Ave., McLean, Va. The Spring meeting of the Washington Area Alumnae Club will be a Silver Tea at the home of May Thompson Evans, '21, on May 19. Mrs. Leslie Booker, retiring Alumnae secretary, will be the guest of honor at the tea. Miss Pauline Turnbull, Miss Fanny ·G. Crenshaw, and Mrs. Betty Ann Doub have also been invited. Chairman of the tea is Nancy Prickett Yarborough, '58.

The Executive Board met at the home of the president, Miss Margaret Rudd, '29. She announced that two of our members now belong to the $100 Club. The treasurer, LaVerne Priddy Muse, '42, reported that $132.95, the proceeds from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica mailing program and the Fall piano concert, are being sent to the Alumnae Fund.

At the Spring meeting, a new slate of officers will be presented. The chairman ·of the Nominating Committee is Doris Mills Harrell, '45.

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1925Bessie Anderson Knecht died on December 12, 1967 in the Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Bessie was born in Richmond and lived there until a few years after her graduation from Westhampton, when she went to Detroit to teach in a private school. In 1931 she married John W. Knecht, and they made their home in Birmingham, Michigan. She took part in many activities and was a valuable member of the Birmingham community.

She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. J. G. Tisue of California and Mrs. John Pierce of Michigan; two sisters, Mrs. Robert Cummings of Hinsdale, Illinois, and Mrs. Noyes Wilson of Montreat, N. C.; one brother, Dr. Samuel Anderson of Richmond; and six grandchildren.

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1908Herbert Bragg Gilliam, former judge of the Municipal Court of Petersburg, died ·December 17. Mr. Gilliam was 80.

Mr. Gilliam is a 1908 graduate of the University of Richmond. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1911.

He was active in the practice of law at the time of his death and had served as judge of the Municipal Court for ten years. He had also served as associate judge for several years prior to his appointment ·to a full judgeship.

Mr. Gilliam is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Carter Riddle Gilliam, and two daughters, Mrs. Clerimond Gilliam Prizer and Mrs. Robert S. Henderson.

1914Odis B. Hinnant of Richmond, a leader in the Boy Scouts and Young Men's Christian Association, died March 16. He was 76.

Dr. Hinnant, who received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree at the University of Richmond in 1964, devoted much of his time after his retirement from the YMCA in 1956, to the university's bequest program, where he worked effectively.

He organized the first Boy Scout troop in Richmond and the first YMCA in South Richmond. He served as YMCA secretary in the U. S. and South America for 40 years. He established YMCA's in Montevideo, Uruguay and Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

In addition to his work for the University, Dr. Hinnant was a volunteer chaplain at the Beaumont School for Boys in Goochland County. He was a Rotarian, a member of the Richmond Torch Club, and of the Southampton Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife and a sister, both of Richmond.

Dr. John Wendell Bailey, former chairman of the Department of Biology at the University of Richmond, died December 21. He was 72.

Dr. Bailey, who received two degrees each from Mississippi State College, Cornell University, and Harvard University, was chairman of the U. of R. Biology Department from 1929 to 1943.

He was also a cross -country coach and author of a book, "Football at the University of Richmond."

Dr. Bailey traveled extensively. He was sent to the lower Rio Grande by the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, was a member of the Cornell Biological Expedition to the Adirondacks and St. Lawrence basin, toured European museums for Harvard, and visited Central and South America for the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America. He served in both World Wars and retired from the Army in 1955 as a lieutenant colonel.

Dr. Bailey is survived by his wife , two daughters, a son, a sister, and a brother.

in his community for his work with the local hospital board, the Red Cross, and with his church building committee. He was the last surviving member of the Byrd trio.

1917William F. Martin, 68, of Los Angeles died Feb. 22, 1965 at his home.

Martin was a native of Buckingham County, Va., who lived in Los Angeles his last 27 years.

He attended the University of Richmond from 1913-15. Martin was a special officer for the Merchants Fire Dispatch in Los Angeles, appointed by the city's police department.

He is survived by a wife, two sons, and a daughter.

1914Thomas Bolling Byrd, of Virginia's "Tom, Dick, and Harry" Byrd family and a 1914 graduate of the University of Richmond Law School died Feb. 23, 1968 at age 78. He died at his Clarke County home.

Byrd was the head of the business enterprises of the famous Byrd Brothers. Harry F. Byrd Sr. was famous politically, especially for his work in the U. S. Senate, and Adm. Richard E. Byrd gained recognition as an Arctic explorer.

Byrd practiced law with his father, Richard Byrd, in Richmond after graduation from the University. He married Margaret Lewis of Clarke County in 1917 before serving as captain in the Infantry in World War I. Soon after his return, his wife died in 1920.

Joining brother Harry in Winchester, the two entered the apple business with great success due largely to Thomas' year-long study on the fruit at the University of Wisconsin. Thomas Byrd was cited by Virginia Polytechnic Institute for outstanding service to the apple growers of Virginia.

Byrd remarried to Elizabeth Hiller in 1938.

She died in 1962. They had two daughters, Mrs. Harry Stimpson and Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin as well as a stepson, William Mitchell, Jr .. all of Clarke County.

Thomas Byrd was well known to those

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Beverly H. Davis of Richmond, a lawyer and a former member of the Richmond Board of Aldermen, died December 29, at the age of 89.

Mr. Davis was born in Bland County and was in the class of 1905 at T. C. Williams School of Law. He attended the University of Virginia and began his law practice in Southwest Virginia where he was connected with the law departments of Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad Co. and the Appalachian Power Co. Mr. Davis came to Richmond in 1915 and was in general practice until 1926, when he became chief counsel for a title insurance company. He served in that position until 1932, when he again entered general practice.

From 1942 to 1948 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen under the old bicameral form of local government. He was

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1920Julius H. Canney of Greensburg, July 28, 1967.

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1923Leslie Van Liew of Miami, Fla., died March I. He was vice president in charge of administration of The Keyes Company, one of the largest real estate organizations in the United States. He was in the general practice of law until 1941, when he moved to Florida from Richmond.

1928Word has been received of the death of Julien D. Martin, a graduate of the University of Richmond Law School. His career included law, newspaper writing, and management of a Baltimore Coin Shop.

1930William Francis Drinkard, senior vice president of King's College, died July 17, of a stroke in Williamsburg. He was 64.

A native of Richmond, he graduated from the University of Richmond in 1930 and went on to Gordon College in Boston to receive

his bachelor of theology degree. He was a past president of N. C. Association of Business Colleges and a member of the N. C. Personnel and Guidance Counselors Association and the National Business Education Association. A life deacon at St. John's Baptist Church, he was superin tendent of the adult department in •the Sunday School and was active in other church activities.

Mr. Drinkard is survived by his wife, two sons, two brothers, and four grandchildren.

1931Perley Augustus Rice , retired manager of real estate and industrial development for the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co., died in January at 76.

A graduate of Tufts University with a degree in civil engineering, Mr. Rice came to Richmond in 1924 when he joined the RF&P. He graduated from T. C. Williams School ·of Law in 1931. Mr. Rice was a past president and charter member of the central Virginia Engineers Club, and a member of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, the Richmond Chamber of Comerce, the Virginia Bar Association, the American Legion, the Old Dominion Club, and the Sommerville, Mass., Masonic lodge.

Mr. Rice is survived by his wife, his sister, and his brother.

1956George W. Bailey, an agent with the Internal Revenue Service in Richmond, died January 29.

Mr. Bailey was a graduate of the School of Business Administration. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, a son, his mother, stepfather, and two brothers.

1958Miss Rebecca Sharp, who received her Master of Science in Education · at the University of Richmond in 1958, died November 9th.

1961Robert Frank Fitzpatrick died in Richmond November 15. He was a 1961 graduate of the School of Business Administration. He is survived by his wife, Vernelle G. Fitzpatrick of Dale City, California.

1965Word has been received of the death of James R. Kelly of 4407 Patterson Ave. in Richmond. Kelly, who attended the University from 1961 to 1963, died Oct. 5, 1967 . At Richmond, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity.

1932William Biggs Cocke, Jr., former clerk of the Sussex County Court for 22 years, died December 19, at 57.

Mr. Cocke was a student at the University of Richmond in 1928-29 and also attended Stetson University. He was a retired postmaster. He is survived by his wife, daughter, two sisters, and a brother.

1934Harold Valentine Joyce, foreman of American Suppliers, Inc. of Richmond, died December 13. A 1934 graduate of the University of Richmond, Mr. Joyce is survived by his wife, daughter, mother, and three grandchildren. He is a former employee of American Supplies in Richmond.

1939James Minor Holladay, Jr., a building contractor and member of the Gordonsville, Va. Town Council, died December 15. He was 49.

A native of Richmond, he -received a B.A. from the University of Richmond. During World War II he served as a pilot for the U. S. Navy and was commended for courageous actions. He was a former mayor and member of the Orange County School Board, and was active in Boy Scout activities.

Mr. Holladay is survived by his wife, daughter , two sons, his parents, a sister, and a brother.

1941Henry Lester Steiner, a retired army major and co-owner of Foodway Stores, died February 4, in Richmond. He was 46.

Mr. Steiner, a 1941 gradua te of the University of Richmond, served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He oarticipated in the Berlin air lift, the Alaskan Ferry Command, the Korean War, and in French Indochina. He was awarded the Air Medal, with eight oak leaf clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was also a member of the B'Nai B'rith Lodge, the Jewish War Veterans, and the Press Club and the Jewish Community Center.

Mr. Steiner is survived by his parents, a brother, and two sisters.

other athletic training at Beaumont.

They put on a drive that produced hundr eds of magazines for the boys to read, while collecting more than 100 softballs ,and gloves from military bases in th e Tidewater area. Another military installation promised the school enough football, basketball, and baseball equipment to fill the back of an automobile.

O'Brien arranged for the Beaumont boys to attend Richmond's Homecoming football game against the Citadel and saw to it they were tr eate d royally.

Beaumont's Athletic Dir ecto r, Garnett Jamerson , expressed his gratitude for the help that the Richmond ath letes were giving to his program and for inspiring the boys to high er aspirations.

The proof of the program is seen in the statement of one of the Beaumont Boys when he asked one of our athletes "what do I have to do to prepare myself so I can come to the University of Richmond and be an athlete like you?"

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fine year, averaging 14.5 points. Ford , Foster and Frazier earned the reputation of "F -Troop."

There were other exciting performers , too. Reserve Guard Bobby Ukrop, who averaged 8.4 points , tim e after time came off the bench to steal the ball from the opposition and spark a rally. Terry Burgess, the only senior on the squad, had his best season and finished with a 7.1 average. His running mate at forward was Frank Owen, a 6-7 sophomore who averaged 7.6 points. From tim e to time Mills also called on Larry Patterson, Larry Weddington and Kent Greenway with great success.

With Mills acting as cheerleader and shouting encouragement from the sidelines, the Spiders became noted for their uncanny ability to come from behind . They came from 17 points behind to defeat East Carolina, 90-83, early in the season. They erased a 20-point deficit in the final 15 minut es to defeat Virginia , 102-95, at Charlottesville. Thev scored ei~ht points in th e final minute to beat George Washington , 81-79. The young Spiders almost ups et West Virginia, a team that was runn erup to Davidson for the conference title. Richmond overcame a 19-point deficit but the Mountaineers won, 84-83, on a thre e-po int play in the final seconds.

Coach Martin Morris guided the Richmond freshmen to a successful 13-8 record. Stan Ryfinski pac ed the Baby Spiders with 22.5 points. He was followed by Jim Hewitt ( 15.0) , Ed Surgan ( 13.2) , Phil Bushkar ( 12.9) , Bart Eisner ( 10.6), Clarke Wiseman ( 7.8) and John Welch (7.3).

hausted but the exuberation of the winner was matched by the spirit of the entire school as the handsome trophies were presented and the "Champs" honored.

This was the highlight of the year for the Beaumont boys, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes had once again lived up to their purpose of "promo ting inspiration and motivation to the youth of the community through athletics."

This nationwide movement was founded in 1954 by Branch Rickey, Dr. Louis H. Evans, Dr. Roe H. Johnston and Don McClanen. Doak Walker, Otto Graham and Donn Moomaw hav e inspired thousands during the early days by relating their own experie nces and some 4,000 students have attended F.C.A. conferences at Estes Park, Colorado, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Over two million have listene d as outstanding athletes sponsored by the F.C.A. have shared their stories in cities and towns all over the country. J. Edgar Hoover has said: "I feel sure that Christian Athletes, appearing before te enage groups, can weild tremendous influence in curbing delinquent tendencies. America's future depends on such an influence." Otto Graham , one of the alltime football greats, sums it up this way, "It's not a question of being an ath lete, or a Christian , but it's the cha llenge of being both."

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are listed in what has been described as the Who's Who of Virginia Citizenship. A good idea was born at the high standards ·and by the enterprise right time, and good people responded. of the academic administrators, these The concept of a dual system of key businessmen joined in an active higher education is well-embedded in co-partnership. They were particularly the thinking of our wisest citizens. Some anxious to retain a high-quality faculty of the most forceful statements in supin the state. And their primary convic- port of the private institutions have tion was that our ·dual system of higher come from presidents of the tax-supeducation, publicly-supported ~nd pri- ported universities; they would be losers vately-supported, was the best formula if the private institutions declined and for a healthy, free atmosphere. disappeared. And the common concern A third ingredient of success is the of public and private institutions is quality of the man who bears the title, represented not only by the statements Executive Vice President and Treasurer, from the presidents of the state-supported Lea Booth. Lea Booth is the profes- institutions, but by the joint approval sional, simply the best in the ibusin_ess. of the private colleges of adequate state He is his own severest critic, and dnves appropriations for institutions which are himself ( and at times the college pres- the responsibility of the tax-payers and idents and the lay trustees!) in most their representatives.

Simon-Legree fashion. In balanced fashThe businessman who supports the ion he combines the dual assignment of planning and of execution. What are VFIC is usually an admirer of the inthe mainsprings of that particular en- dividual initiative of the leaders of the ergy which both chastens and inspires private institutions, of the amazingly efthe laggard executive? There is no single ficient use of limited funds. Furthermore answer but the most important of sev- he is often awed, and perhaps a bit eral is that Lea Booth believes in this frightened, at the prospect of increased job he is doing. He shares and contri- taxes if the private institutions disappeared and the state were forced to butes to the foundation-wide conviction assume the responsibility for those thouthat the successful operatfon of these sands of students who today are not four-year non-state-supported institutions of higher learning is essential to a burden on the taxpayers of Virginia.

As for the trustees, both academic the intellectual and spiritual health ot the Commonwealth. And who would and lay, there are fringe benefits which ought not be ignored in any analysis. argue with him there?

According to those who watch him Though the road of the mendicant is hard , there are pleasant night-time day-by-day, Lea Booth has an incurable shelters and the company is good. In notion that he played varsity baseball at Washington and Lee. There is an planning the tours of the morrow, presold saying to the effect that a man idents and businessmen gather in hotel should never be questioned in his narra- sample rooms or perhaps around the tive of conquests in ·love, in battle, and table of a local supporter. One college baseball. Let us be tolerant. Booth is president learns that his own prob lems at home are not unique, and such com still trying to get loyal ( and forgetful) fort as common misery can give is his! alumni of the University of Richmond Businessmen and college administrators to recall that he struck out the famed Jack Sanford with the bases loaded, and discover that they have much in combroke up Porter Vaughan's no-hitter by mon. Personal friendships are inade slugging a two-bagger. No doubt, in the which enrich the sometimes lonely life of any captain on sea or on land. backyard of his home on Peakland Place in Lynchburg, Booth is training Often the trustees make their calls his twin boys, aged ten, to constitute a two -by-two, a strengthening and imwinning battery at Washington and Lee . pressive exercise. A telling point in their It should be noted that his family also salesmanship is the announcement that includes a thirteen-year-old daughter, not one cent of the contr ibutions which and a wife, the talented Mary Morris, they seek from the business men goes who is a conspicuously successful domes- for overhead; the Old Dominion Fountic ally in all of Lea's efforts. His pro- dation underwrites the expenses of the fessional ally in •the Courtland Buildini!. operation , and the trustees and their headquarters of the VFIC, is the com - allies do the door-to -door calling. To petent Robert H. Gammon, executive insure that plans will be well made, secretary.

The Homestead , Virginia Hot Sprinrr.< The three major ingredients, college Inc., decided that its contribution would administrators, business executives, and be to sponsor and to pay for the summer a headquarters staff, have been seasoned conference of the trustees of the VFIC , by devotion and simple hard work; an- gallantly picking up the tab for this nually the distribution has provided gathering at which critical estimates are more money for the colleges than in annually made of actions during the the preceding year. Now almost 900 preceding year , prais e and blame hon concerned corporations and individuals estly apportioned , and firm calendars VFIC Sells

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fixed for the fall and winter campaigns ahead.

After repeated tellings it is hard to separate folklore from fact , but the VFIC has a history already colorful.

It is said ·that our lady-president one stormy day simply took off her stylish shoes and walked barefoot to her next appointment, where , as usual, she was conspicously successful. Mischievious presidents almost gave Booth a heart failure by recounting with bland face th eir gaucheries in upsetting a regular contributor by violating every rule laid down by Booth, that cautious planner , and recanted just before the doctor arrived. Two presidents in the Smithfield area ·refused to be intimidated when they saw, through glass doors , a prospective corporate executive take down from the wall his shotgun which reflectively he repeatedly snapped; then thankfully they learned that this firearms connoisseur was simply thinking of ducks, and not of a couple of administrators who almost turned chicken.

This union of high spirit and high purpose means something quite important, perhaps decisive, in the life of t!1e University of Richmond. It may be tnte -it ·is certainly true - to say that in America the old -line, private institutions of higher learning are in a state of transition. Some will bravely acknowledge their grievious wounds and , with as much grace as they can muster, simply arrange for an orderly surrender , perhaps in the current jargon , a "phasing out." Others with elastic dispositions will find safety in entering the state system of colleges, a move readily understood by any one who has ·wrestled with a budget hinging on uncertain philanthropy rather than on certain taxes. A few will survive under their old charters , but it will not be a survival in a fit of absentmindedness; it will be survival because of clean decisions, passionate convictions, wise and winning combinations. The exact form of those winning combinations is not yet revealed to us , but as far as the University of Richmond is concerned , one may be sure that a significant unit in that arrangement will be the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. Indeed, as Dr . Modlin recently said, "This financial support by business and industrial corporations has been a vitally important factor in strengthening the entire structure of private higher education in Virginia."

ANSWER TO QUIZ True: Note that in 1967 the University of Richmond received some $125,000 of the total of $990,100 contributed to the VFIC in fiscal year 1966-67. The distribution formula is to divide sixty percent into equal shares among the twelve colleges, and forty percent according to undergraduate enrollment. This arrangement brings to the University of Rich mond the largest single slice of the Virginia melon.

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