Alumni Bulletin, University of Richmond, Volume 32, Fall 1968

University of Richniond ALUMNI

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FALL '68

New Home for Fine Arts Prof RemembersWhen Dean Gehring Looks at Change Two Fishermen at Ohrid

ALUMNI

BULLETIN

Volume 32, Number 1

Fall, 1968

Features: New Home for the Arts Prof Remembers When Two Fishermen at Ohrid A Look at the Campus Religious Scene Alumni Abroad Dean Gehring Looks at Change

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Departments: Sports: Spider Grid Report Alumni in the News Keeping Up with Classmates Accent on Alumnae Westhampton Class Notes

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Calendar: HOMECOMING

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JOSEPH E. NETTLES, '30, editor; RANDOLPH H . WALKER , '60, assistant editor; LOUISE C . LONG, '43, Westhampton College editor; JOHN W . EDMONDS, III, '56, Law School editor; THOMAS S. BERRY , Business School editor; CECIL F. JONES , '43, business manager.

University of Richmond Alumni Bulletin, Fall 1968, Volume 32, Number 1. Published quarterly by the General Society of Alumni. Entered as second-class matter at University of Richmond , Virginia 23173 . Subscription price : $1.00 per year.

FINEARTSFESTIVAL November 2-8, 1968 Saturday, November 2 Dedication, Fine Arts Building 10:30 a.m.

Speaker: Eric Bentley, Brander Matthews Professor of Drama, Columbia University.

OLIVER! 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 3 Recital, Department of Music

4:00 p.m.

Monday, November 4

OLIVER!

8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 6 Lecture-recital, William Doppman, pianist 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 7 HENRY V, Academy Award-winning motion 8:30 p.m. picture, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Newton .

Friday, November 8 Lecture , Lowe I I Nesbitt, artist, Boatwright 8:30 p.m.

Scholar-in-residence. (An exhibition of paintings by Mr. Nesbitt will be on display November 1 through 22.)

New Home for Fine Arts DRAMA, MUSIC, SPEECH, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE MOVE INTO LONG-AWAITED FINE ARTS BUILDING By

IRBY

Would you believe ... a 686-seat theater; complete central air-conditioning; over twenty specially constructed practice rooms and teaching studios; lighting and sound equipment unsurpassed in the Richmond area; variable acoustics in the theater and practice rooms designed by an internationally famous firm; eleven specially lighted make-up spaces for actors?

And . . . room for expansion!

All these dreams, and many more, are to be believed, now that the University has completed its Fine Arts Building.

As alumni well know, one of the most pressing needs at the University of Richmond has been a center for

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music, drama, art, and speech. The building housing these departments, now brought together for the first time, is the joint result of 1965's progress campaign and of private donors.

Visitors to the Westhampton campus will find the external view of the twomillion-dollar building impressive.

Massive it stands at the top of Westhampton hill, looking down past the chapel to the lake. Its architects, the Richmond firm of Carneal and Johnston, have continued the Collegiate Gothic design to harmonize in all respects with existing buildings.

But it is the interior that will impress those who come to tour the campus . Three floors contain features 3

William Lockey and Alton Williams plan lighting effects.

Exhibit of modern sculpture in new gallery.

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Collegiate Gothic facade frames Westhampton students.

far too numerous to mention here, but all sorely needed by students and faculty.

The art department , for example, in addition to office and conference rooms , will have two large studios for painters; a huge sculpture studio; classrooms ; and art history room. Equally important (to the whole University, not just a single department) will be recessed glass cases on the first and second floors, plus a large art gallery off the main lounge , where rotating exhibits will be protected by the latest ADT alarm equipment. Walls in the entrance foyer are covered with fabric for special exhibits , which can be hung without damage to the wall material.

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This large amount of display area will be utilized fully by students, faculty, visiting artists (as in the case of Lowell Nesbitt for the opening of the building November 2) and loans (such as a modern sculpture exhibit from the Virginia Museum) . Such works of art will greet the alumni and alumnae when they enter the main lobby and as they wander through the first-floor galleries and display areas.

Worthy of mention here is the puppet collection of the late Caroline Lutz; this extraordinary assemblage of puppets from all over the world will be permanently displayed in a specially designed gallery off the main lobby.

Close by, visitors will find the music

department's new quarters--or at least a part of them. On the first floor is the music library, housing that department's collection of books, sheet music, and records, which thus become more accessible to students and faculty alike.

Conveniently located in the same area are listening cubicles, with headphones, and listening rooms. Farther down the side hall is the choral rehearsal room, a large amphitheater for choir and glee club. As in all other music rooms, the acoustics are carefully controlled .

But like the art department, music is not relegated to one floor. On the ground floor is found the large band room , with its retractable curtains which can provide both "live" and

Old easels in new studio.

deadened sound. Remarkably, the band will be able to rehearse while directly overhead the glee club practices-and neither will be remotely aware of the other. Alumni remembering the confusion of sopranos, trumpets, pianos, and gymnastics, all practicing at cross purposes in Keller Hall, will applaud this acoustical accomplishment. On the first and second floors are located more than twenty teaching studios and practice studios, some equipped with pianos, and at least one with a small practice Beckerath organ.

All studios are fully air-conditioned, with individual controls; and each is acoustically designed for maximum resonance and minimum distortion.

Of course, these are all private or conferring, semi-private rooms-for practicing, and listening. The great public hall, the theater, is really the piece de resistance of the new building; the especial domain of the departments of speech and dramatic arts.

The auditorium itself is impressive: the orchestra contains 540 and the balcony 146 seats, making a total of 686 permanent seats. Just in front of the stage is the orchestra pit, covered when not in use ( allowing three additional rows of temporary chairs). But the "theater complex," as it might be called, consists of far more than the auditorium.

The real marvel of the theater is found above, below and around auditorium and stage, in a magnificently

Jeanne Begien Campbell with student at canvas.

planned complex of rooms which is vastly superior to anything our University has ever known. Space forbids complete listing of all features, but the most prominent must be mentioned.

On the ground level are large dressing rooms for men and women, with connecting makeup room , where young actors and actresses can be penciled, wigged, powdered, and caked, each brilliantly lighted by a ring of light bulbs. On this same level, a storage room is directly under the stage, with trap door for raising and lowering special scenery ( or perhaps even for burying Ophelia, if Prof. Williams and his colleagues decide to produce Hamlet). Finally, on this ground level,

is a costume workshop, where materials can be created and stored.

"The proscenium stage and accompanying work areas have been designed," says Mr. Arthur Stevens, staff architect at Carneal and Johnston , "for teaching drama." Mr. Stevens emphasizes the practical role of the theater as part of a teaching university . for Technically, the possibilities teaching and learning, as well as for spectator enjoyment, are almost unlimited. The most sophisticated and most modern equipment has been assembled here, under the direction of a host of experts who have worked for months checking and rechecking the ( continued on page 40) 5

Alton Williams raises the curtain on yesteryear, the old Playhouse, and plays and players we've known.

It would have taken a considerable stretch of imagination on that day in September 1935, when I first stepped into the old Playhouse, to envision the theater which would eventually evolve on our campus. Today it is a reality, a dream beyond expectation, and a tribute to all the Players through the years who helped to prove that "playmaking" has a vital place at our University.

Moving into the new Fine Arts Building stirs within me some of the goosebumps of anticipation that I had that first day in the old Playhouse. Thirty-four years later, with more than a hundred plays recorded in the Players' scrapbook, my old spirit has new fire under it.

But back to that old Playhouse. Remember with me that old barn ... and remember the camaraderie that c\,eveloped as we slowly built the trappings against which we staged our plays . We didn't consider the building a handicap. Wethe production teams-had fun and satisfaction in making something out of almost nothing. We were pione,~rs in a new venture. Check those old programs, Players of yesteryear, and take your bows.

The first play we staged was "Devil in the Cheese," a frivolous pot boiler . · It was selected partially because it offered an outdoor set that could be constructed of trash lumber scattered about the campus. The Players' treasury was empty; we had to scrounge. The stage was transformed into a monastery high on a Grecian cliff.

When I first arrived at the Playhouse, the Players, as a student organization, had been busy for / continued page 41.

Mary Sue Carter Patterson, '40, and Betty Woodson Weaver, '41, in "The Drunkard."

Carlson R. Thomas, '4D, and Carolyn Gary Hugo, '41, in "High Tor ."

James D. Bero, '61, and Winifred Volpe Powers, '61, in "Rashomon. "

The old Playhouse.

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Fishermen

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Ohrid

BROOKE ANDERSON FISHED FOR BROWN TROUT; THE YOUNG YUGOSLAV FISHED FOR IDEOLOGY. THE CATCH AT LAKE OHRID WAS REWARDING. After driving my Land Rover over the sand dunes of the Gaza Strip for a year while working with the Arab refugees in 19 5 8, I remembered that I had a fly rod in my pension . Then I recalled a rainbow trout jumping the falls on a northern Vermont stream and the deep red of a brookie from Lake Chesuncook in Maine, and I realized when my vacation arrived that I wanted a change of scenery. But where to go to see a trout leaping over a waterfall in the Middle East was the big question.

History helped me and I turned back in my mind to Aelian's (200AD) description of a Macedonian way of catching a fish with a speckled skin on the river Astraeus.

On a six-foot line tied to a six-foot pole, the fisher8

man attached a fly which imitated a midge with the colour of a wasp and the hum of a bee. The fly was made of a piece of red wool wrapped around the hook, to which was attached two feathers from the wattles of a cock.

"The fish," he wrote, "thinking to get a dainty mouthful, opened its jaws, was caught by the hook, and enjoyed a bitter repast, a captive."

Then I recalled that ancient Macedonia edged into modern Yugoslavia, and here in the Gaza Strip there were several hundred Yugoslav troops attached to U.N.E.F. Surely there would be one informed fisherman in that outfit. It was a quick trip to the UNEF

Headquarters, and a captain in the office provided me put the question to me. "But there are five million workwith the needed "know how" and suggested that I go ers unemployed in the U. S.?" I repeated my former to Lake Ohrid for what I thought were brown trout. answer, and surmising that he was probing for other Several weeks later, with my rod and flies enclosed information, I took the lead and said, "When I left home, in a bag with a shoulder strap (made by my old Arab there were five automobiles in front of a wealthy neighshoemaker), I arrived at Ohrid-a 30-mile blue gem bor's home, but they did not belong to him. They were of a lake. owned by the workers who were renovating his house.

At Putnik, the official travel bureau, the young clerk "These men," I continued, "lived outside the city as said that he would arrange for a fisherman to meet me it was cheaper and they had to have their own cars for at the dock the following morning . As I was leaving, the transportation to and from work." Then, realizing I was on the right track, I continued. "I young man asked if he could join don 't own an automobile and I rent the party. I wondered why, as our ABOUT THE AUTHOR my home, but my two daughters are conversation had been in French (mine was First-World-War) and "A fly fishing exhibit at Brown Uni- graduates of the University."

I could not talk to the fisherman in versity's Rockefeller Library? May flies This was what he had been "fishhis native language. I told him that among the book worms? Split-cane bam- ing" for. By this time, the old man I would be pleased to have his boo rods amid the books and scholars , had dredged up an eleven-inch company. The following morning row on row? Well, why not? The gentle brown trout. But the young man was when we met, I noticed that he did art of angling has as honorable a his- not at all interested . He was still tory and tradition as any academic disnot have a rod. studying me, and pondering over cipline . And, it's a lot more fun ."

After we had trolled for a while my description of an ordinary workThus starts an article in the maga- ing man's position in the capitalistic and no strikes, my guest suddenly shook me up with a question, zine section of the Providence Sunday world of America.

Journal. It continues: "Monsieur, there are five million Yet he was not sure, and for the "K . Brooke Anderson, former execupeople out of work in America, third time he put the same question tive secretary of the Brown Christian aren't there?"

Association and still an active trout fish- to me and I gave him the same Though not well informed on the answer. The old man turned the erman (in his mid-70's), first suggested question, I replied, "Yes. And the boat toward the shore and as he the exhibit, then enlisted the aid of Mr. majority, I believe, are insured Brown (H. Glenn Brown, the Universibeached it, the young man jumped against unemployment." ty's chief reference librarian), and the out and came toward me with his He was quite unprepared by his exhibitors (including United Fly Tyers, propaganda agency for the informa- Inc., and the Federation of Fly Fisher- outstretched hand .

As he gripped mine, he exclaimtion on the insurance protection and men; various individuals and firms)." ed, "You know, I like America." was obviously confused by this inNaturally enough, Brooke Anderson, And I forgot that I had packed formation . who teaches fly tying and fly fishing that rod eight hundred miles with Following another long silence, at Camp Keewaydin in Vermont, was chairman of the planning committee. only an empty creel to show for it. and no strikes, the young man again

The brothers Anderson are pictured at a family reunion on Alumni Day at the University of Richmond. Left to right: Walter, '22; Harvey, '21; Brooke, '16; and Emory, '29. Brooke went to Brown in 1928 and remained there until his retirement in 1957. His career included work in the Middle East with the Y.M.C.A. and, after retirement, work with Arab refugees in the Gaza Strip.

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A Look at the Campus Religious Scene Today's student rolls up his sleeves with moral energy, yet walks past church activities.

"Hey, if I had known I extensive study of the would meet you, I'd have campus religious scene, worn my button." So retheir goal being improvemarked the personable ment both in quality and in quantity. The sober senior who had demonstrated clear ethical intruth of the matter is, that

By DR. WILLIAM C. SMITH in a time when there are sight in the matter of race Director of Religious Activities for Men more students, and when during the coffee house discussion a few moments previously. I had campus ministers are better prepared than introduced myself to him, and had told him ever before, there is a massive indifference to that it was people like him who made work- religious activities on most college campuses.

As one has put it, "Thousands and hundreds ing on a campus the pleasure that it is for me.

"What button?" I asked. "The one that says of thousands of students walk past some of the best, most modernly equipped, finest staffed No Easter this year, they found the body."

This brief incident encapsulates the state of religious centers ever provided the students of religion on the college campus today. In my this nation. That is the problem: they walk report to the President of the University, I right past, they seldom walk in." (Stoltenberg, noted that, "Like students at most places they Louise, "Difficulties in the Campus Ministry," are not too interested in regular church ac- Religious Education, Vol. LX, No. 4, p. 261.) tivities, nor in 'church-type' activities on camReasons are almost as numerous as the perpus such as vesper or denominational groups." sons giving them. Here is my list, based on alHowever, "Students are concerned, and deep- most ten years of personal experience in three ly so, with the ethical issues of the day, such different campus ministry locations, and much as Race Relations and War and Peace, and time spent in reading and reflecting on the will respond to programs dealing with such." problem.

1. On the most superficial level, religious Campus ministers in particular, along with the whole church generally, have attempted to activities do not serve the social function which define the religious situation on campus so they have for numbers of people in the home that an effective approach can be made. South- town. One attractive college girl said, "Church ern Baptists determined this year to launch an was always one place you / turn to page 43.

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thing from sharks to sugar cane, t_hey told amusing stories and Jed group smgm?· qne driver, in particular, a burly combmat10n of Portuguese, Hawaiian, a~d Chinese, p~sed for a friendly snapshot with Elmer Bntt)e , whose delicate complexion was a defimte ALOHA ALUMNI contrast to the toasted-muffin darkness of her cosmopolitan companion.

On every island the international atmosphere was emphasized by the variety _of

By Lucile Campbell Taylor tongues encountered. Simple elevator mstructions might be posted m as many as five different languages, and a fundamental Walk into almost any Hawaiian restaurant knowledge of them all could sometimes be or nightclub and order a meal; chance~ are essential. This was pointed out when o~e a purple vanda orchid will be tuck~d m at of our wahines (ladies) accidentally misthe side of your plate or dropl:'ed mto the took the Japanese character for men to be glass with your bevera?e· V1v1d as . the a woodwork decoration and caused some orchids that decorate their foods, the eight disturbance before finally locating the Hawaiian islands float like blossoms from powder room. a flower lei tossed into a Mai Tai cocktail.

Entertainment in the islands offered som~: There were no flower leis-only ca~era thing for every taste . Sw7at-greased FIJI straps-when our 44 University of Richwarriors appeared to bathe m flame as they mond travelers boarded a b~s at the St_udent tossed, twirled, and juggled blazing wooden Center on July 13 for Fnend _sh1p Airport batons at the Polynesian Culture Center in Baltimore. Leis were plentiful, though, on Oahu, accompanied by the throb of when we touched down in Richm_ond July drumbeats in the background. Always an 28 and our assortment of housewives, proattraction for the men, the night spots fe;sors, lawyers, businessmen and students abounded in the ubiquitous-though never had melded into a happy-go-lucky, carefree boring-hula girls. A Hawaiian tradition group. more famous than the lei, these girls could As diverse as the flowers they wear, o_ur loosen eyeballs without ever turning around .

University of Richmond tour __group disOur own Dr. Ralph McDanel, '16, was the covered the people of Hawau to be a startled recipient of an impromptu huh~ hodge-podge of nationalities and cujtu_res, lesson during a dinner show at the Kauai happily unaware o~ _race and class d1st11:i,_~-Sheraton. While Mildred McDanel, '19 gave tion. During our v1s1ts to four of Ha\\'all s in to understandable laughter, Dr. McDanel . surf-splattered islands, we were ~ometlmes was coached in the intricacies of skillful lost in a virtual stewpot of humamty, 'Yhere arm-waving, wrist-flexing, and h_ip-jiggling social status often overlapped ::ind mterall under the watchful instruction of a mingled, creating a casual equali!Y ~mong lovely, lynx-eyed hula maid. The universit,Y people of every background. It d1dn t take group will long remember Dr. McDanel s Jong to learn that, in a _land where the truly memorable performance . people came in ::is many mixtures as a herd We visited the undisputed king of of piebald pomes, appearances could .be Hawaiian entertainers, Don Ho, at_his casual deceptive . That tousled vagrant slouchu~g court in downtown Honolulu . With all the at the hotel bar might be a college kid formality of a tired surf bum getting smashblowing his father's ~aycheck~or a famous ed at the local bar, Don managed effortmovie star seeking solitude behmd a rumpled lessly to captivate a packed ho1;1se,cigarette sport shirt and aqua-tinted glasses. For _Dora in one hand, Scotch and soda m the other. and Dennis Hartz there was the thnll of The droopy Polynesian mouth, Danny eating breakfast near the table of Madon Thomas-style nose, and those drowsy, seducBrando, whose appearance s~ggested Just tive eyes-all added up to Don Ho-who~e an ordinary male roused a tnfle too early magnetism was su!ficient to draw Ro~me and anxious for his coffee. .

Richardson and Elizabeth Ann Coale, 63, Clothing was often stare-wo:thy m _the back for a second performance when we islands. Shirts and shifts came m a vanety returned to Honolulu-no small thing conof eye-jolting colors and prints; desig1_1sw~re seldom subtle. Lavishly splashed with sizzling reds and fuchsias the boldly-patterned muumuus captured all the ~hao~ of an LSD excursion. Headwear had its bizarre forms also. Who could forget the unique purc_hase of Mary Holt Carlton on one of our sightseeing ventures, a handwove~ straw _hat rising in multi-colored layers like the tiers of an Aztec pyramid?

Honolulu on the island of Oahu, bubbled with a vitality approaching frenzy. Sprawling Ala Moana Shopping Center defin_ed phantasmagoria. Delightful Kitty Jones, wife of our tour guide, Cecil Jones '43, was overwhelmed by the multitude an~ vari 7ty of the stores; exotic shops d1splaymg Polynesian curios, quain~ Onen!al bazaars bright with the green glmt of Jade, str~w huts crammed with bric-a-brac, exclusive dress boutiques and honky-t~nk cafes_ all assaulting the newcomer with a giddy panorama of color, sight, and sound. In dazzling Honolulu the money melted away like chocolates in the sun-as most hu~bands could probably attest after their wive's frequent trips to enticing Ala Moan~.

Island-hopping by jet to Oahu, Hawau, Maui, and Kauai, our group was _then treated to the high spots of each island. An added bonus was the opportunity to converse with a variety of drivers on our bus and limousine tours. Our Hawaiian drivers were not only a Britannica of information , but. a 1968 Alumni Tour Group little bit of Red Skelton and Dean Martm Visits HawaiianIslands as well. When not reciting facts on every -

sidering the prices one pays to enjoy Don's flesh melting voice.

After a close-up view of this almondeyed Elvis the ladies among us might never have left 'Honolulu , but the other i_~lands were too near to be ignored . Hawa11, the Big Island was our first destination among them .

"If the flood waters don 't get us, the volcano will " was the sardonic comment of Dr. Royster Chamblee, while viewing a volcanic crater on Hawaii , an island recently troubled by floods. Still alar~ingly active the volcano Mauna Loa vomited fountain~ of lava in 1959, spreading a path of volcanic rubble to the sea. The lava fields of Mauna Loa and other volcanoes often a lunar desert. As Louis Carlton, '23, whose sense of humor became a morale-boost~r to us all, commented, "Only a moon-maid seems missing."

For the more daring in our group, the island of Hawaii offered its impressive lava tunnel. Formed by the flow of the lava, the black tube stretched several blocks , ominously suited to thoughts of Floyd Collins and his fate. Guided through the tunnel by our dauntless leader Cecil Jones, the adventure could be likened to a journey through the belly of an earthworm.

What the dimly-lit interior of the lava tunnel lacked in scenic grandeur, the spec tacular Iao Valley abundantly supplied. The Iao Valley (pronounced as th~ugh the speaker just sat on a sea urchm), was reason enough to call the island of Maui a photographer's Shangri-La. Gouged and furrowed by erosion, the valley walls bore the scars of the wind's sharp scalpel; beneath the vegetation incision-like slashes lay exposed and open to the sun. Reluctantly we returned to the bus after an all-too-brief ten minutes of frantic picture snapping. The prospect of an early lunch proved too tempting to resist.

Maui had more to offer, however , than sheer physical splendor . . Her capital, Lahaina will retain the quamt flavor of a nineteenth century whaling village, the perfect haunt for a modern-day Captain Ahab.

Not that change had by-passed La_hai?a completely. Herds of jewelry-lade _n h1pp1es loitering along the wharf remmde~ us distinctly that this w'.'1s 1968 _even m a remote little town like Lahama. Oddly dressed individuals , whose sex remained obscure provided an interesting sport for camera' fan Margery Moore Taylor, '55.

Her technique? Sneak up on a dozing hippie, snap a quick picture , then run for the bu_s.

She acquired quite :an al~1;1mof pho~ogemc flower children on our VISlt to Lahama.

When hippie-viewing o~ Mau~ grew tiresome, the island of Kauai provided an attraction of its own. Known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific," Waimea Cany~n could compete with Arizona's _chasm m beauty if not in size. Lookout _pomts. allowed Marvin Cole, '43, a sp~c10us view of craggy turrets and pagoda-like format10ns ; he searched unsuccessfully for a stone to hurl into Waimea's bottom . Others, such as Robert H. Powell, Jr., '31, were content to photograph the canyon's vistas, discovering a subtle softness in the sprinkling of flowers along the canyon cliffs.

This softness, the soft~ess of flowe~s la~ing rock, was not restncted to ~-a1mea s jagged shoulders. Among the Hawauans we found it flourishing in the form of a warr~ly contagious good humor , a love of rela::cat10n that permeated each breath . Hawau can become as addictive as a drug, and ~II the side effects are good ones. The embro1der 7d look of ferns in a Japanese garden, a ~mile . coaxed from the face of a pudgy Chmese toddler , creamy-plumaged waves and waxy red anthuriums-most of all the velvet sound in a deeply felt "aloha"-in all thes_e things the state of Hawaii represents the umversal dream of a softer, gentler way of life. We think she has succeeded.

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HOMECOMING 1968

Jack Null will welcomemen.

It will be no novelty for Jack Null to have a featured spot on a Homecoming program. As a member of the football team he had a starring role in four Homecoming football games. As almost everyone • knows, he was all-state center despite his lack of heft and was captain of the 1945 football team.

With his athletic background, it was not surprising when he embarked on a coaching career that carried him successively back to his Alma Mater as freshman coach, then to Staunton Military Academy, Lake Worth (Fla.) High School and Virginia Military Institute .

Not the first to decide that coaching is no job for a man who likes to spend his evenings at home , Jack entered the real estate profession in 1958 as an associate of Slater and Vaughan. In 1961, he decided to form his own company and "Sold by Jack Null & Co." signs are springing up all over Richmond. And he spends most of his nights at home with wife, Barbara, and daughters, Betsy and Laurie.

Spiders:'A quick team that will win somewith experience.'

By Walter Drewry Coach Frank Jones' young University of Richmond eleven dropped its first two games of the season to the University of Toledo, 31-14, and West Virginia University, 17-0, but Jon es believes he has "a quick team that will win some games with experience."

Toledo is the defending Mid-American Conference champion with the longe st winning streak among major teams. The Mountaineers are rated a strong independent.

Actually the Spiders were very much "in" the game with the Toledo Rockets, trailing only I 7-14, with six minutes remaining. Backed deep in their own territory , the Spiders had to gamble. Toledo picked off a Buster O'Brien pass and ran it back for a score. Gambling again the Spiders failed on a fourth and five situation and had to surrender the football on their 30.

Toledo scored again with 17 seconds left.

The Spiders got a break early in the game when Cornerback Winston Whitehead intercepted a pass and raced 14 yards to the Toledo 27. The Spiders, however , Jost the ball when the Rocket s intercepted O'Brien's pass on the goal line. Instead it was the Rockets who broke into the scor-

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CALENDAR 'Liz' Coneto greet alumnae.

HOMECOMING Friday, November1

7:45 a.m., Breakfast, School of Business Administration, Tom Ross House of Beef, 3200 W. Broad St. 9:30 a.m., Alumni-Alumnae Registration, Westhampton Lawn 10:30 a.m., DEDICATION, FINE ARTS BUILDING, James L. Camp Memorial Theater 12:00 noon, Lunch, Millhiser Gymnasium, alumnae and alumni guests of University 1:30 p.m., Homecoming Parade 2:00 p.m., FOOTBALL, VM I vs U of R

Elizabeth Parker Cone will greet alumnae returning to the campus as Homecoming Chairman for Westhampton College.

"Liz," a member of the class of '45, continues to serve Alma Mater with the enthusiasm and vitality that mark all of her endeavors. Retreat for the Sick Hospital and St. Stephen 's Church head the list of activities of this alumna-on-thego in Richmond.

She is currently a member of the Corporation Board of the hospital and is circle leader and chairman of the Tuesday Craft Workshops for her church .

Still, this mother-of-three finds time for her investment club, gardening, crewel embroidery, sewing, and a good game on the golf greens .

She is married to Howard B. Cone, a native of her own hometown of Williamston, North Carolina, who is a vice president of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company. Son Berkley is a freshman at Ferrum Junior College, and Frances and David are students at Huguenot High.

ing column first on a 28-yard field goal.

Richmond took the lead, 7-3, early in the second quarter. Mike Bixiones recovered a fumble on the Toledo 31. The touchdown came on a 12-yard pass from O'Brien to All-Southern Split End Walker Gillette and Mike Dussault booted the extra point. However , the lead was short lived for Toledo's Dan Crockett raced 91 yards for a touchdown on the kickoff and Toledo moved out front, 10-7.

With 5:35 left in the first half, Toledo's All-American candidate Roland Moss tallied on a 46-yard scamper. Moss lived up to his billing. He gained 209 yards rushing on 37 carries and kept the Spiders in poor field position a great deal of the time by averaging 44.6 yards on eight punts.

In the fourth quarter Richmond cut the deficit to 17-14. O'Brien , who was to throw 40 times and complete 18 for school records, completed seven passes on a long march , five of them to Gillette. The payoff pitch , however, came on an eight-yarder to Tight End Tommy England, who made a leaping catch in the end zone.

The Spiders halted a Toledo march deep in their own territory but O'Brien 's pass was intercepted by Curtis Johnson who raced into the end zone 13 yards for the score. Late in the contest Richmond was forced to give up the football on its 30

when O'Brien 's fourth down pass failed.

Moss tallied the final six-pointer for Toledo.

West Virginia scored all of its points in the first half on a hot day in Morgantown.

The first Mountaineer touchdown came midway the first period, WVU marching 56 yards on nine plays, Bob Gresham finally scoring from the one.

A 78-yard pass play in the second period put the Mountaineers out front, 14-0. Sophomore Quarterback Mike Sherwood hit Oscar Patrick who made a fine catch on the run .

Ken Juskowich, West Virginia's soccertype kicker , booted a 46-yard field goal to complete the scoring. leading Joe Kellum was Richmond's ground gainer, pickin'g up 89 yards on 25 attempts. Richmond held WVU to just 81 yards on the ground but the Mountaineers completed I 5 of 25 passes for 127 yards.

O'Brien, who broke Mel Rideout's career passing mark of 2,463 yards in the Toledo game when he hit Gillette with the TD pass , completed only eight of 23 against the Mountaineers. After the first two contests, however , O'Brien had chalked up 2,669 yards via the air lanes.

Gillette leads Spider pass receivers with eight for 71 yards after two games, but Split End Tommy England is not far behind with seven for 70.

6:45 p.m., Registration, alumnae, Westhampton Dining Hall 7:00 p.m., Annual Alumnae Dinner, Betty Ann Doub, '49, Presiding, Westhampton Dining Room

Saturday,November2

ColgateUniversityhonors NevittSanford,'29.

Nevitt Sanford, '29, received an honorary degree at Colgate University on September 11.

Dr. Sanford, director of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems at Stanford University, received the degree from Colgate President Vincent M. Barnett, Jr. in ceremonies as part of Colgate's freshman orientation program. His most recent book, "Where Colleges Fail," is required reading for the incoming freshmen, who participated in a fourday program focusing on the meaning of a liberal arts education. He addressed the class, outlining areas of major concern in the field of higher education.

Sanford is a professor in the departments of psychology and education at Stanford and was among 12 psychologists interviewed this year on the National Science Foundation Program for Video-Taped Interviews with distinguished psychologists.

In 1967, he was the recipient of the

Centennial Award at the New York State University College at Fredonia, and he holds honorary degrees from the University of Richmond, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Nevada. He came to Stanford in 1961 after 21 years on the psychology faculty at the University of California. From 1961 to 1967 he was the scientific director of on the the Cooperative Commission Study of Alcoholism and during the 1967-68 academic year, was visiting professor at the Graduate Theological Union and the Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California. inDr. Sanford's accomplishments spired this remark by Colgate Associate Dean of Students John D. Scovil, during the ceremony in which the degree was conferred: "In an era when a liberal arts background is taking on added significance for the creative and highly motivated student, it is entirely appropriate that a man of Nevitt Sanford's broad interests should meet with the freshmen and discuss the new opportunities provided by academic disciplines."

StanleyWatts,'43, standson his headand on top of business!

Stanley S. Watts, '43, C.L.U., agency manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society of Florida, stands on his head because it is stimulating.

Perhaps the whole insurance industry in the United States should stand on its head because Stanley S. Watts is surely one of its outstanding men.

So outstanding is he that he has been elected president of the industry's most prestigious organization, the Million Dollar Round Table.

Just membership in the MORT is considered a real milestone in an insurance agent's career. To belong, a member must have written $1 million of new life insurance in a single year, in accordance with the strict rules of the organization.

Watts has been a member for 16 years.

There are less than 7,000 members in the international organization.

Watts took over the Miami Agency in 1963 and moved it from 57th on the firm's honor roll to first place. Now, at 45 years of age, Watts is at the top.

He has been at the top or near the top with Equitable since he joined the com-

pany in 1949. In seven years in Norfolk as a district manager, his district was number one in volume and commissions for the Equitable.

His friends will tell you that Watts is a man with an uncommon amount of drive, energy, and determination. He is the first to arrive at his office in the morning and the last to leave at night.

He can wear out your ear about insurance, then wear out your other ear about physical fitness. He gets up every morning at 6: 30 and runs at least a mile.

At lunchtime, he often goes over to the YMCA and runs another mile. It's at 3: 00 p.m. when he closes the door to his private office and stands on his head.

He's the prototype of the man all industries want. In answer to why he works so hard, he says, "I suppose it's just that I've always had a burning desire to excel.

Also, I don't want to disappoint people.

I don't want to disappoint the people who are looking to me for leadership. Leadership and responsibility go hand in hand.

I think that's what makes me go."

And where he's going is to the top.

Wilbur Gaines,'29, named Kingof Queensin New York.

Wilbur G. Gaines, '29 is the King of Queens.

The title was conferred by his staff of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Flushing, N. Y. office, Mitchell Gardens division, which he has headed since 1957.

His is the top office of the firm's 13 in Queens County, and he won the honor for the excellence of performance of his office in 1967.

But success is no stranger to Bill Gaines, starting with courtship of the former Ann Trent, Westhampton, '28, whom he met during his years at the University of Richmond. She saw character and charm as well as success in Bill Gaines, who served as president of his junior class and senator in the student government before receiving his B. S. in business administration.

Gaines joined the Metropolitan Life family in 1929 as a window clerk, and served in many managerial positions.

In 1938, he won a trophy for outstanding accomplishment. He was promoted to manager of Flushing, N. Y. in 1939. He served there until 1957, when after qualifying 18 of his 24 agents for the firm's honor award, he was advanced to the Mitchell Gardens District. It was a new district and his job was to build it to success.

In 1967, he received the company's national recognition for a job well done.

Now, he is the "dean of managers" of the company, with 31 years of service as district manager.

Cold facts do not tell of the warmth of Bill Gaines, according to his associates. His ability to attract new men to the business and then inspire them to high achievement has become a hallmark of the Gaines office. He has been called a builder of men by many of his associates.

In recognition of his 1967 efforts, Gaines, his associates and agents attended a conference in New Orleans where he was called to the podium to receive his honor. At the close of 1967, he addressed his fellow managers at another leadership conference, and it was there that he received an "Oscar" continued next page 13

with the "King of Queens" inscription.

Metropolitan has had 37 conventions during Gaines' nearly 40 years with the firm, each a reward for outstanding production. Gaines has attended 36 of them, a fact which testifies to his achievement, ability, and loyalty.

The company must share this loyalty, for the University of Richmond rates high in his affections. He has served two years as president of the New York Chap ter and two years as national vice-president of the alumni society.

He reads Civil War history, and collects old books of that era, an interest partly stimulated by his family background-a grandfather fought for the North and four uncles for the South.

As head of the Gaines house in Bronxville, N. Y., Bill and Ann have raised three children; son Dick, and twin daughters, Daphne and Deborah, who have made them grandparents three times over.

Another member of the family is his father, now a spry 96 years old.

Much of his spare time and all the summer months Gaines spends at his residence, "Quailbrook," at Westhampton Beac!l, N. Y. He tends his gardens there and feeds his neighbor's quail.

He's as successful with rod and reel as he is in the insurance business, particularly with bluefish and deep sea bass.

Other sports he enjoys are golf, softball, bowling and swimming.

Generous with this time, he has served in civic and community organizations too numerous to mention, including the presidency of the Lion's International Flushing division, the Trinity Pawling Fathers Association and the Douglaston Mens Club.

To Metropolitan Life, Bill Gaines is "dean of managers," and to the University of Richmond, he is a valued friend and yields to no one in his loyalty and contribution.

Daniel H. Stern honoredas LSU's outstandingteacher.

Dr. Daniel H. Stern, assistant professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, has received a $1,000 award from Standard Oil Foundation, Inc. of Indiana as the outstanding undergraduate teacher on his campus.

The LSU campus at New Orleans has an enrollment of more than 7,500 and a faculty of 250.

The award was presented to Dr. Stern

by LSU president John A. Hunter. Chancellor Homer L. Hitt said Dr. Stern "is one of our dedicated and energetic young faculty members whose remarkable teaching skill has attracted widespread comment and general recognition. He is an extremely appropriate recipient of this outstanding recognition."

Dr. Stern holds a doctorate in zooology from the University of Illinois. His research interests lie in invertebrate aquatic ecology and limnology . He has held several research and study grants from the University of Illinois and the National Science Foundation.

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HansfordRowe hits Broadway In 'We Bombedin New Haven'

Secret Servicepromotes Hulcher to Knoxvillepost.

George R. Hulcher, '58, has been promoted to Resident Agent for Knoxville, Tenn. by the United States Secret Service.

Hulcher was appointed to the agency's Washington, D. C. office in 1961, after serving as an officer in the U. S. Army in the Military Police Corps.

He has served in the agency's offices in Norfolk, Charlotte, N. C., and Columbia, S. C. He is a member of the International Police Chiefs Association and various police organizations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

He is married to the former LeRoss McMichael of Columbus, Ga. and the couple has two daughters, four and seven.

Hansford Rowe, '50, has reached Broadway, and his future in drama seems as bright as the lights on the famed New York avenue.

He has a major role in the production of "We Bombed in New Haven," which stars Jason Robards and Diana Sands and opened October 16. He plays one of two antagonists in the drama by James Heller, a play Rowe describes as " a sort of protest play, mostly serious but with a certain wry, ironic humor. It poses the question of how we're going to go on killing each other."

Rowe and his family are living in New York where he has a full schedule of acting jobs, including commercials, soap operas and industrial films in addition to the Broadway show.

He gained experience in the Richmond area after his graduation from the University of Richmond, in such theaters as Barksdale, Virginia Museum, and Swift Creek Mill. He served as house manager at Virginia Museum Theater, where he directed "Rashomon" and "The Limbo Kid." During vacations, he did guest stints with summer theaters in Greensboro, N. C., Greenville, N. C., and Maldon Bridge Playhouse in New York .

He went to New York two years ago and began picking up jobs including offBroadway roles and character roles in soap operas. His talent was recognized and he got the role in "We Bombed in New Haven," which is playing at the Ambassador Theater.

Graynew dean of services; JosephStraughanheadsnew Baker dean of students.

LonesomePine alumni chapter. Dr. C. J. Gray, '30 dean of students The Lonesome Pine chapter of the University of Richmond Alumni Society held an organizational meeting August 29 at the home of Dr. Joseph M. Straughan, '38, at Wise, Va. The chapter will cover the counties of Wise, Scott, Lee, Dickenson, and Russell.

Dr. Straughan was elected president of the new chapter, and Carl E . McAfee, '54, was elected vice president. More than 25 members attended the meeting and heard an address by Dr. 0. William Rhodenhiser, '44, chairman of the department of Bible and religion at the University.

It was decided that the chapter would meet twice a year.

Malloneenew Humble ad chief.

Guy V. Mallonee, '34, has been named advertising manager of Humble Oil and Refining Company .

He was former manager of Resale and Consumer Business in the firm's marketing department. He joined Humble in 1935 in Rochester, N. Y. After serving in several marketing assignments throughout New York State he was named marketing manager of the New Jersey division at Elizabeth in 1960. He moved to Houston, Tex ., in J 96 I as manager of retail marketing d eve! op men t for Humble. He was appointed Resale and Consumer Manager in 1965.

at Richmond College and the School of Business Administration, has been promoted to Dean of Administrative Services of the University of Richmond.

He was succeeded by William E. Baker, '60, who served for two years as assistant dean of students.

In his new post, Dr. Gray will conduct institutional studies, prepare reports and assist both President Modlin and Provost Robert F. Smart in carrying out the administrative functions of their offices.

Dean Gray has been prominently associated with Phi Beta Kappa scholarship fraternity and Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity of which he is national secretary. He was honored several months ago by being elected as one of four members in America to receive the ODK distinguished service key. He is secretary of the University of Richmond chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dean Baker will have the responsibility for student affairs, including student organizations, social and recreational activities, fraternities, dormitory living and discipline. He was president of his senior class, and the Religious Activities Council, chairman of Religious Activities Week, and chaplain of the senate and house of representatives of the student government.

He received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a master's degree from the seminary this summer.

Noll, Point, McGraw,Stockdon Promotedby Life of Virginia.

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Dr. John Millar promoted

By U. S. Public Health Service.

Dr. John D. Millar, '56, has been promoted to Medical Director in the U. S. Public Health Service, a rank equivalent to captain in the U. S. Navy.

He is chief of the West African Smallpox Eradication and Measles Control program of the service's Communicable Disease Control Center in Atlanta, Ga. He conducted a smallpox eradication course in Atlanta in July and August, with students from the U. S. and 15 other countries who are spearheading a global smallpox eradication drive.

In April, he represented the U.S. at a meeting of smallpox advisors convened by the World Health Organization in Rio de Janeiro.

In January, he accompanied the U. S. Surgeon General, Dr. William H. Stewart, on a six country tour in West Africa to celebrate the 25 millionth vaccination, in Ghana.

Under Dr. Millar's direction, the smallpox and measles control program has enjoyed great success. In the past 18 months, more than 50 million of the 110 million West Africans have been vaccinated against smallpox, and more than eight million children have received vaccinations against measles.

Four University of Richmond alumni have been promoted to high offices at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

John F. Noll, '57 has been elevated to second vice-president; T. Maxwell Point, '48, promoted to controller; Walter J. McGraw, '50, to associate general counsel; and W. Bryan Stockdon to director of collection services.

Noll received his C.P.A. certificate in 1962. He joined the firm in 1960, became an officer in 1965, and was promoted to assistant vice president in 1966.

Point joined the firm's audit division in 1950 and was elevated to associate manager of the accounting division in 1952. He served as assistant controller in that department until 1959. Following service as treasurer of United Family Life Insurance Company in Atlanta, he returned to Life of Virginia in 1966 and was recently named associate controller.

McGraw has been assistant general counsel of the firm since 1966. He is chairman of the joint committee of Legislation and Law Reform of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association. He has been associated with two Richmond law firms.

Stockdon joined the firm in 1953 and most recently was associate manager of the collection services department.

TelephoneCompanypromotes Phillips, Ragland,Evans.

Three alumni have been promoted by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia.

They are J. Sydnor Phillips, Jr., '53, who moved up to General Rate Planning Administrator; Graham K. Ragland, '61, who succeeded Phillips as Staff Supervisor-Financial Studies; and Thomas R. Evans, '63, who is Staff Supervisor-Security.

Ragland was a methods supervisor on the Northern Virginia staff of the telephone company, and Evans was a data processing manager.

Birthdaycelebrationat 96 Finds Dr. Emmet Reid hardy.

Still in near-perfect health, Dr. E. Emmet Reid, '92, has passed his 96th birthday "by eating well, sleeping well and writing books."

That's his explanation for his longevity, and it's been successful for the professor emeritus of John Hopkins University.

Among his achievements, Dr. Reid lists the invention of tear gas, many years of teaching, and the publication of a sixvolume reference on organic sulfur compounds.

He's still at work, now on a new book which will help chemists find their way through the mounds of scientific articles published in other languages. "Some things are the same in almost any language, things like numbers and compounds, but the alphabets are different," he said in an interview by the Baltimore Evening Sun. The Sun interviewed him shortly after his birthday , when his insurance agent came by to present him with a check for his life insurance policy. He had outlived the policy-for according to the American Insurance Mortality Table, everybody dies before reaching 96.

He types his own correspondence, having learned typing at age 85.

His interests go beyond chem istry, however. He is interested in politics, civil rights, and conditions on college campuses . He has traveled extensively to various campuses to lecture, but does not travel much now. "I don't go much of anywhere now, because I have a hard time getting around. I work full time on my books here in my study and really don't have time to go anywhere else, even if I could."

Jones,'31, and Devore,'55, Named to safety committee.

A. Thornton Jones, '07, receives certificate as honorary zanjero (ditchdigger) of a water p_r~jectin Arizona. Stat~ Supreme Court Justice Charles Bernstein presented the cert1f1cateon Jones' 85th birthday. Jones has been water commissionerfor 20 years.

F . Overton Jones, '37, associate editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has been elected chairman of the Virginia Highway Safety Committee. He was elected at the body's organizational meeting in July. The commission was created by the 1968 General Assembly.

Judge Kenneth I. Devore, '55, of Christiansburg, a former state legislator and former state trooper, was elected vice chairman.

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KEEPING UP

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Ampersands and asterisks 1910 Dr. George W . Sadler served as pastoral assistant during the summer at Hatcher Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond .

The late Circuit Judge Leon M. Bazile was honored at a ceremony at Hanover (Va.) County Courthouse in June . Judge John D . Butzner of the U . S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals presented a portrait of the late judge to the chairman of the county board of supervisors . Bazile was circuit court judge from 1941 until retirement in 1965. He died in 1967 at the age of 76.

1911 Andrew L. Shumate has moved to Friendship Manor in Roanoke .

1916 Joseph A. Leslie has retired from the School Board of Norfolk . The city's Virginian Pilot commented on his retirement, citing Leslie as a "genial example of how to conduct public business in a civilized way during stressful times ."

1917 Dr. and Mrs. Clifton C . Thomas of Richmond have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Dr. Thomas is a retired Baptist minister , and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Richmond.

1925 Dr. Edward H . Pruden was one of the American Baptist Convention's representatives at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in Uppsala, Sweden in July . The Prudens vacationed in Scandinavia and England following the meeting. Dr. Pruden is pastor of First Baptist Church in Washington, D. C .

1926 M . Ray Doubles , former judge of Hustings Court in Richmond and now a professor at the T . C. Williams School of Law, has been elected president of the newly chartered Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Richmond. The society was formed to provide free legal aid to the poor in noncriminal matters .

1927 The Rev. David F . White, Sr., of Richmond has retired from his pastorate at Monument Heights Baptist Church. He was founder of the church. He has assumed duties of interim pastor at Bryant Memorial Baptist Church at Laurel, Va. Dr. Eugene West will spend the coming year at Singapore where he will perform a supply ministry at the Chinese Thomson Road Baptist Church. He also will direct the Singapore Choral Art Society there.

1929 Frank W . Heindl, is president of Elam and Funsten , Inc. , a Richmond real estate firm which he has served 42 years.

He is also president of Sulgrave Corporation, a holding company.

1930 Dr. Meno Levenstein , professor of economics at Ohio University , has been

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• distinctions and bright spots elected chairman of the Ohio Council on Economic Education. He has been on the faculties of Rockford College , Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and Ohio State.

1931 Watkins M. Abbitt of Southside Virgmia has been re-elected state democratic chairman. Abbitt is Congressman from Virginia 's 4th District.

1932 Max 0. Laster of Richmond has been elected associate judge of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. He was a partner in the firm of Taylor, Hazen and Laster.

1934 The Rev. Raymond E. Abbitt has accepted the position of rector of St. Luke 'sIn-the-Meadow Episcopal Church at Fort Worth, Texas . He has been rector of All Saints Episcopal Church at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands for the past nine years.

James M. Johnson is a traveling auditor for Ca!Tex Oil Corp. Now in his 28th year of traveling outside the U . S., Johnson will cover Turkey, Lebanon, South India, Ceylon, Africa and countries of the Far East.

1936 Randolph P. Tabb, has been named vice president of operations for MillerMorton Company, a newly-organized proprietary of A. H . Robins Company . The firm produces Chap Stick and Sargeant's pet-care products.

Gaius W. Diggs, Jr. has been named vice president and general manager of Southern Biscuit Company in Richmond.

1937 Mr. and Mrs. Donald D . Williams of Richmond have suffered the loss of their son, Donald, Jr., in combat in Viet Nam. Williams, Sr. is a vice president of Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association and a partner of the Richmond law firm of Williams, McGehee and Willey.

David B. Orcutt, Jr., has been promoted to general manager of the Gastonia, N . C ., plant of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. He will be responsible for all aspects of the plant's operation. He was formerly Richmond regional sales manager. He joined the firm in 1941.

1939 Jack Sanford is now chairman of the department of health and physical education at Atlantic Christian College at Wilson, N. C. He was at Elon College .

1940 Dr. David D. Dexter of Hempstead , N. Y., lectured to the dermatology staff of the Medical School at the University of Barcelona, Spain in September.

Gus D. Mandaleris of Richmond has been named chairman of the professional division of the United Giver's Fund campaign in Richmond. Mandaleris is a partner in Andrees, Burket and Company, a CPA firm in Richmond.

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1941 L. Starke Jones has been named assistant administrator of the Virginia Baptist Home in Culpeper.

Frank M . Conner , a Richmond lawyer , has been appointed a full-time assistant commonwealth's attorney in Henrico County.

Jesse W. Markham, professor of economics at Princeton University, has been elected a professor of business administration at Harvard University . He is an authority on price policy and theory and a former chief economist of the Federal Trade Commission.

1942 A. W . Goode, Jr. has been named vice president of Everett Waddey Company .

He was former manager of the firm's Hampton branch.

1943 Edwin B. Brooks, Jr., president of the Security Federal Savings and Loan Association in Richmond, is serving as campaign chairman for Third District Repre sentative David E. Satterfield, III .

Elmer S. West, Jr., of Mars Hill, N. C ., has been named director of program development of the Southern Baptist Convention's Christian Life Commission . He was pastor of the Mars Hill Baptist Church.

He will be responsible for channeling emphasis on Christian social ethics through programs , organizations , and publications.

1944 William R . Snead has been appointed administrator for the Virginia Baptist Home in Culpeper . He came to the Home in 1961 as assistant superintendent. He 1s a former pastor of Oak Grove Church.

1945 Frank W. Mann , Jr. has been named director of advertising for A. H. Robins Co., Inc . in Richmond. Mann has been with Robins since 1953 and has been advertising manager for the past five years .

Dr. Philip Hart, professor of Bible and religion at the University of Richmond, is serving as interim pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Richmond .

1946 Dr. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. , professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is co-editor of a new literary magazine, The Southern Literary Journal. The journal will contain essays, articles and book reviews, dealing with the South from colonial times to the present.

1947 D. H . Walton Connelly, Jr., has resigned as Secretary of the Virginia Baptist Training Union Department to complete his degree program.

1948 Carlyle Tiller is serving as president of the Richmond Society of Financial Analysts, an organization of investment bankers and analysts in Virginia. He is executive vice president of Whi;,at and Company, Inc.

William F. Rowe, Jr. has been appointed a second vice president in the field ·division of the group department at The Travelers Insurance Companies, in Hartford, Conn.

He joined the firm in 1948.

1949 Charles Peachee , Jr. of Richmond has begun private practice of clinical psychology. He was staff psychologist at Memorial Guidance Clinic in Richmond for more than four years. He teaches a course in juvenile delinquency at Virginia Commonwealth University.

1950 Albert L. Hobbs, Jr. has been named director of auditing of Fidelity Corporation. He was with Andrews, Burket and Company and is a former staff member of the State Insurance Bureau.

1951 George D. Taylor, Jr. has been named assistant public relations director of Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, a nationwide investment firm. He was a business writer with the Associated Press.

1952 George Trotter and his family are serving in Bogor, Indonesia as Baptist missionaries.

1953 Jeff D. Grizzard has been named manager of Travel and Resort Advertising for the Washington Post. He has been in the department for 11 years, and was formerly on the staff of Richmond Newspapers.

R. L. Cheatham, Jr., has been named Tampa District manager for Shell Oil Company. He joined the firm in 1955.

Walter D. Tucker of Richmond has received a graduate degree in banking from The Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University. Tucker is assistant vice president of State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts.

John W. Edmonds, III, of the Richmond law firm of Mays, Valentine, Davenport and Moore, has been elected general counsel for the Virginia Bankers Association . He served previously as assistant counsel. Edmonds is the author of three books on the Uniform Commercial Code. · 1954 U. S. Air Force Major James C. Hughes has received the Air Medal for his action in combat in Southeast Asia. He was cited for his outstanding airmanship and courage as a KC-135 Stratotanker pilot on successful missions under hazardous conditions. He is now assigned to the Strategic Air Command at Seymour Johnson AFB, N . C. 1955 John B. Dorsey has been appointed product group manager for aerospace products at Johns-Manville. He joined the firm in 1956 and has served in Georgia. North Carolina, and Virginia . The Dorseys now live in Noroton, Conn.

Chaplain and Mrs. Harland R. Getts of Shaw AFB, S. C., have announced the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann. She is their fifth child.

1956 W. P. Moore of Chester, Va., has been promoted to director of research of Allied Chemical Company's Agricultural Division in Hopewell. He joined the division in 1946, became manager of pilot plants in 1963 and assistant director of research in 1965.

Mr . and Mrs. David I. Harfeld of Chicago, Ill., have announced the birth of a daughter, Jennifer Brooke, on May 20.

Harfeld is an attorney with the Chicago firm of Axelrod, Goodman and Steiner.

Major William M. Wandall of the U. S. Army is stationed at Ft. Eustis, Va.

W. Kenmore Cardoza of Richmond has been appointed district sales manager for C.I.T. Corporation in central Virginia and central North Carolina. Cardoza, who joined the firm in 1960, will be responsible for building up the firm's financing and leasing volume in the area.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Gascoigne of Gallup, New Mexico have announced the birth of a son, James Lowell. He is their third child. Dr. Gascoigne is chief of surgery at a Public Health Service hospital in Gallup. He joined the PHS in 1967.

The Rev. Beverly B. McDowell has been selected full-time secretary of the Virginia Conservative Party, with offices in Richmond. He • is pastor of The Good Hope Baptist Church in Spotsylvania County, and president of the Curry Academy of Hanover, Inc. , and headmaster of the Bermuda Academy of Chesterfield County.

David M. Armbrister has joined the faculty of Bluefield College, where he will teach American history and sociology. He was pastor of Mountain Plain Baptist Church in Charlottesville, Va., and served two churches in Kentucky.

1957 Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Y. Robertson, Jr. of Richmond have announced the birth of a son, Harry Todd, on March 4. They have one other son. Robertson is assistant director of personnel at the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University.

William A . McCarty has been appointed general agent by North American Company for life and health insurance in Lively, Va. 1958 David A. McCants has joined the faculty of Purdue University at Ft. Wayne, Ind. The McCants have announced the birth of a daughter, Ellen Ashley, on March 11.

R. K. M. Thomas is a real estate broker in Richmond. The Thomas' have three children.

The Rev. Lewis H. Sutton is associate pastor of religious education at Webber Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond.

Major Charles T. Polis, Jr., an Air Force physician, has completed a four-year residency in urology at Wilford Hall USAF Hospital at Lackland AFB, Texas. He has been re-assigned to the medical staff at Homestead AFB, Fla. Robert C. Jackson has joined Geigy Chemical Corporation at Ardsley, N. Y., in the department of Clinical Pharmacology and Research Product Planning.

Don Deane is a shift superintendent of the Stockton St. plant of Philip Morris, Inc., in Richmond.

Ranson Hartz has been elected assistant vice president of First and Merchants National Bank in Richmond. He joined the bank in 1959.

The Rev. Harry T. Dixon, Jr. is pastor of Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia.

Hartwell T. Rainey, III has been named district data processing manager for long distance billing for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia.

The engagement of the Rev. Kenneth E. Ayers of Roxboro, N. C. to Miss Susan Porter of Greensboro, N. C., has been announced.

Tony R. Auby of Newport News has received a full graduate study fellowship from the Old Dominion Foundation to pursue his study of music. He is choral music director at Ferguson High School.

U. S. Army Major Raymond S. Hawthorne is serving with the 25th Infantry Division, Artillery , in Viet Nam. He formerly was assigned to the ROTC unit at the University of Richmond.

Donald E. Boyer has been promoted to associate actuary at the Life Insurance

Company of Virginia. He joined in 1958 and has served as actuarial research assistant , and manager of life insurance section and research velopm~nt section in the actuarial

the firm student, both the and dedivision .

1959 Dr. Philip H. Brandt has received a M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University , and will intern at Charleston, S. C. Naval Hospital.

The Rev. W. Hewlett Stith , Jr. has been named assistant director of Methodist Information Service of the United Methodist Church in Virginia. He was pastor of Park View Methodist Church .

Major Michael C. Magee of the U. S. Army is commanding officer of the 4th Military Intelligence Detachment of the 4th Infantry Division in Viet Nam. Alexander Matzanias has been made a partner in the Richmond law firm of Pantele and Liatos .

1960 William J. Bugg, Jr., has been named group actuary of the group insurance actuarial division of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

James E. Hardcastle has received a doctorate from the University of Arizona. His field is agricultural chemistry and soils.

John E. Donaldson has been promoted to assistant vice-president of the College of William and Mary. He received his law degree from William and Mary in 1963, and later served as an Internal Revenue Service attorney in Washington.

1961 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey T. Harris, Jr. of Lansing, Mich. , have announced the birth of a son, Mark Thomas, on March 24.

Harris is completing his second year as an instructor in the Department of Social Science at Michigan State University.

Edward F. Heite is an archeological historian for the Historic Landmarks Commission of Virginia.

Samuel L. Belk, Jr. is a products manager in the New York office of the International Business Machines Corp.

James E. Williams has been promoted to captain in the U. S. Army while serving at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. C. He is a clinical laboratory officer at the center's Institute of Research.

Donald Laine is minister of music and education at New Hope Baptist Church in Raleigh, N. C. Thomas R. Evans has been named staff supervisor-security in the comptrollers department for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia. Prior to his promotion, Evans was a data processing manager with the firm .

Watson E. Mills of Richmond has received the Doctor of Theology degree from Southern Baptist Seminary.

1962 William E. Davis of Richmond has joined Mason and Company, a Richmond investment firm. He was formerly with Pan American Life Insurance Company.

Captain Frank J. Fisher of the U. S. Air Force has graduated from flight school at Webb AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Viet Nam as a pilot in the Pacific Air Forces.

Charles E . Fagan, II, has been elected assistant treasurer of Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company of Richmond . He joined the firm in 1966 and was previously associated with A . M. Pullen and Co. Robert H . Lemmon of Aberdeen, Md ., is a branch manager for Sinclair Oil Corp.

Previously, he was assistant plant manager for Curtis Morgan Company. He has been elected to the board of the Enterprise Building and Loan Association there.

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Robert R. Goard of Madison, Wis., has been named an instructor in the Romance languages department at Ohio Wesleyan University. Goard has taught in Danville, Va., public schools and served four years in the U. S. Navy.

The Rev. Charles Allen Wells, Jr. has become pastor of Howertons (Va.) Baptist Church. He was in a supervisory position with the Virginia State Health Department.

William E. Russell is on the counseling staff of the Child and Family Service at Norfolk, Va. He has received a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work from the Univ. of North Carolina.

William E . Russell of Portsmouth has received the Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Seminary .

Leonard E. Walcott, Jr. of Kents Hill, Me., was married in March to Judith Ann Marden, also a teacher at Kents Hill.

During the summer, the Walcotts conducted an art tour of Europe.

Mr. and Mrs. Malvin M. Utleye, Jr., of Narrows, Va. , have announced the adoption of a baby girl, Mary Virginia.

1963 Graham K. Ragland has been promoted to staff supervisor for the C & P Telephone Company of Virginia. He joined the firm in 1964 after serving with Peat, Marwick ; Mitchell & Co. in New Orleans.

Randy Shotwell is a captain in the U. S. Army and is serving in Viet Nam. Mr. and Mrs. S. Strother Smith, III of Abingdon, Va., have announced the birth of a daughter, Jacqueline Ambler, on August 9. Smith is an attorney in Abingdon.

The engagement of Frank Reibsamen of Richmond to Miss May Belle Witcher of French Camp, Miss., has been announced.

The engagement of Raleigh B. Vann of Windsor, Va., to Miss Kitty Dianne Minter of Martinsville has been announced.

Michael M. Foreman of Winchester has been listed in the 1968 edition of the Out standing Young Men of America, and elected president of the Winchester Education Association . He is chairman of the social studies department at Handley High School in Winchester.

Wallace E. Garthwright received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics and is working for General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Tex. Albert E. Millar, Jr., of Newport News has received a Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Delaware. He is an as·sistant professor of English at Christopher Newport College.

Captain William A . Collins of Bowling Green, Va., has completed an Army transportation officer career course at the Army Transportation School at Ft. Eustis, Va. Mr. -and· Mrs. Harry Maclnstosh of Attleboro, Mass., have announced the birth of a daughter, Bonnie Kathleen, on May 4.

1964 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Whittington of Richmond have announced the birth of a son, Robert Michael, on Aug. 18. Whittington is with A. M. Pullen and Company.

Albany D. Grubb has ·been promoted to Technical Control and Production Manager of the Libbey-Owens-Ford plant in Toledo, Ohio.

Wesley R. Monfalcone received the Master of Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in May. Jacob Van Bowen, Jr., received a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in June.

The engagement of Robert A. Holsten of Richmond to Miss Mary Ellen Rowland of Portsmouth has been announced.

Allen J. Wall has been appointed an English instructor at Centenary College for

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Women. Since January, Wall has been teach ing at Garfield High School, where he con cluded his service in July. He also taught at high schools in Somerville, Rockaway, Passaic and Ridgewood, N. J. L. Roy Boone received the Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Virginia in June, and is interning at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. The Boones will reside in Decatur, Ga. The engagement of Robert L. Leary of Warsaw, Va., to Miss Grace Moncure Collins of Baltimore, has been announced .

Andrew W. Wood has joined the Richmond law firm of Bremner, Byrne, Baber and Somma.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell K. Odland of Richmond have announced the birth of a son, Patrick Kent, on June 18.

John S. Weaver has been promoted to captain in the U . S. Air Force. He is a weather officer, Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo. Navy Lt. Charles W. Cloe has finished active service on the U. S. S. Canberra.

1965 The engagement of Earl R. Crouch, Jr. of Richmond to Miss Edith Louise Paulette of Washington, D. C. has been announced. A December wedding is planned. Crouch attends the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Tucker of Charlottesville, Va., have announced the birth of a son, Stanley Cole, on October 16, 1967. Mrs. Tucker is the former "Miss Richmond," Sandra Townsend. Tucker is a 4th year student at the University of Virginia medical school.

Larry K. Coleman is enrolled at Stetson University Jaw school.

Robert L. Evans is employed by the Owens Illinois Glass Co ., Oakland, Calif.

He is in the Industrial engineering depart ment there.

Winston N. Williams of Gladys, Va ., has joined Virginia Electric and Power Company as a commercial representative. He completed his Navy service in May. Reginald N. Jones will enter military service this fall.

Roy N. Ford, Jr. of Blairs has received a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Seminary.

Stephen S. Carpenter has been promoted to Army first lieutenant. He is serving in the 12th Personnel Administration Detachment, III Corps at Ft. Hood, Tex .

William R. Carpenter, III, has joined the firm of Carpenter Brothers Insurance Agency, Inc., in Newport News. He is married to Carol Lynn Dunville, WC, '66.

U. S. Army Capt. R. David Barger is serving in Viet Nam with the 1st Engineering Battalion, of the 1st Infantry Division.

The engagement of Edward P. Motley of Clarksville, Va., to Miss Beverly Anne Delano of Champlain has been announced.

An October wedding is planned.

1966 Bobby L. Oliver has been transferred from Roanoke to Newport News by the C & P Telephone Company of Virginia.

He has been promoted to sales manager.

He was previously assistant sales manager.

Reid A. Simmons, a Richmond attorney, has been named to the staff of Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney. He was a lawyer for the American Title Insurance Company.

F. Neal Thompson of Richmond has been elected assistant vice president of Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company. He joined the firm in 1965 as director of Pension Sales and Advanced Underwriting.

Carroll J. Saine has been elected vice president of The Central National Bank in Richmond. He joined the bank in 1957 and was elected investment officer in May.

Mr. and Mrs. William Solari have announced the birth of a son, Christopher Mark, in April. Solari is in the financial management program of General Electric in Louisville, Ky. John R. Davis of Newport News has been promoted to Army captain in Viet Nam. He entered the Army in February 1967 and was stationed at Ft. Holabird, Md., before arriving in Viet Nam in February 1968.

Air Force Lt. Ralph E. Faulhaber was married to Wendy E. Whitney of Richmond, Mich., on Dec. 23, 1967. They are living at Clark Air Base in the Philippines where Lt. Faulhaber is assigned to the Southeast Asia Communications Region.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Levenberg have become co-directors of the Dorsky Gallery in New York City.

The engagement of Robert E. Bayliss of Richmond to Miss Patricia Joan Brown of St. Louis, Mo ., has been announced.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Bang of Richmond have announced the birth of a son, Jeffrey Edward.

Richard W. Elliott of Winfall, Va., has won a $1,300 scholarship to continue his Jaw studies at the University of Virginia, where he is in his third year.

1967 John W. I. Ball of Richmond has been promoted to first lieutenant in the U. S. Army. He is a platoon leader in the 197th Infantry Brigade at Ft. Benning, Ga. Second Lt. James W. Marilla, Jr. of Charlottesville has completed a supply and service officer course at the Army Quarter master School at Ft. Lee, Va. Mac Edwards is stationed aboard · the USS Wasp, and working in the ship's public affairs office. He is preparing for the ship's cruise to Norway, Denmark, Holland, England, Spain, Italy and Greece.

Peter A. Lesnik of Short Hills, N. J., was married to the former Miss Barbara Sullivan of Manassas, Va., on Aug. 9.

The engagement of Richard B. Fohl of Richmond to Miss Margaret Anne Robertson of Richmond has been announced. A December wedding is planned.

James H. Boykin of Washington, D. C., has received a fellowship from the Society of Real Estate Appraisers and awarded a two-year research grant by the J. C. Nichols Foundation of the Urban Land Institute.

He is a doctoral candidate at American University in Washington.

The engagement of Leonard Jay Green spoon of Richmond to Miss Eliska Rebecca Morsel of Bridgeport, Conn., has been announced. Greenspoon, who served as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Rome, will teach in Virginia this year.

Wilford Reed has been promoted to manager of advertising and sales promotion for American Machine and Foundry Company's Stitching Machinery Division.

James M. Baylor, assistant to the president of A. T. Massey Coal Company, Inc. of Richmond, has been promoted to colonel in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve.

H. Lawrence Shotwell has been commissioned an officer in the U. S. Navy. He was married in May to the former Miss Joan Starr Warren at the chapel at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. The engagement of Craig B. Satterlee of Richmond to Miss Janet Holmes Noyes of Midlothian, has been announced. Satterlee attends the School of Hospital Administra tion of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Army Private Wayne F. Wrenn of Rich mond has completed advanced training as a combat engineer, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Walter T. Owen has moved to Galax, Va., where he will coach J.V. baseball, basketball and football, and teach physical education.

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WesthaIDpton College

DEAN GEHRINGLOOKSAT CHANGEAND OUR CAMPUS That change is sweeping the campuses of America should come as no surprise to any of us. The nature of the changes on some campuses may be disturbing, but change itself is one constant of life. Indeed, "the possibility of effecting significant change in personality is the faith upon which liberal education is based ," writes Mervin B. Freedman in The College Experience.

Westhampton, too , is changing .

Many of our innovations are studentinspired and student-oriented . It is a few of these that I would like to discuss.

Our students are interested not only in their individual studies but also in the intellectual environment of the campus . Last spring with the cooperation of our alumnae they instituted a coffee house in the Tea Room. To indicate the calibre of the program I cite two of the guest speakers: the Reverend David B. Nickerson, Director of the Southern Field Service, ESCRU , and Dr. Ebbe Hoff, Director of the Board of Alcohol Studies and Rehabilitation and Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia. These men engaged in spirited dialogue with capacity student groups .

This fall our College Government Association has established two new committees-one on academic affairs and another for a lecture series. The former will seek to keep students aware of all kinds of academic changes and opportunities, and to serve as a way of channeling student ideas to the appropriate members of the faculty or administration. The latter is being financed, by vote of the entire student body, through an appropriation of $2.50 per student from the College Government Association budget. While all of the details of their program have

not yet been worked out , the speakers this year will probably include Pauline Fredericks, HEW Secretary Cohen, and a representative from the State Department.

Another change is the appointment

by President Modlin of students to more official committees of the college and university. For many years Westhampton women have served on the Board of Publications, the Calendar Committee, the Chapel Committee, the Vespers and Religious Life Committee, and the Student Life Committee. Two

years ago the President invited Westhampton representatives to the President's Advisory Council , a group composed of student and administrative representatives from all of the colleges of the University of Richmond . Last year the President appointed student representatives to the Convocation Committee. A standing Curriculum Committee was established, and the President named student as well as faculty members to it. For Westhampton , the Chairman of our Academic Affairs Committee serves as the student representative to the Curriculum Committee .

Our students are interested in telling the Westhampton story off-campus , too. Perhaps you've seen some of the advertisements in the college series in Time. These advertisements are published as a service to higher education at no expense ( other than the preparation of the copy) to the featured institution. Our students initiated the idea of Westhampton appearing in the series. With the cooperation of our alumnae and the approval of the President , an advertisement for Westhampton has been submitted and accepted .

We do not know the exact publication date, however. Another publicity idea originating with the students is a viewbook telling the story of Westhampton through pictures . For three long years they have worked to make the book a reality. Financed through University funds, it is now at the printers .

If, as Thomas Jefferson once remarked, the purpose of education is to make self-government work, then these changes on our campus-studentinitiated and student-oriented - are more than incidental matter s. They are signs that we are achieving our purpose.

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'We have done it!' Professor Higgins

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The 1968 Alumnae Fund exceeded our goal . .. thanks to AL~ -✓--522 workers, the Chairman and Class Agents . These were the hardworking volunteers whose phone calls, visits . .· and letters brought in an unprecedented alumnae response., Thanks to Jean Brumsey Biscoe '48, General Chairman of )~ the Fund, whose constant devotion to the future of Westhampton \ and whose leadership and patient attention to all the organizaf.. tional details were indispensable to the success of the campaign.~/~ Thanks and congratulations to all of you who have made ,, possible this exciting report. The $43,007.96 contributed ~ by 1,839 Westhampton alumnae is, indeed, tangible proof ( of your belief in the importance of higher education ~, for women today and your confidence in the program ,_/#, offered at Westhampton College.

Since the response to THE TOWER CLUB, gifts of $100 and up, has been so enthusiastic, we have decided to inaugurate two additional leadership clubs this year. They will be THE PINES CLUB, open to those who contribute $250 or more to the Fund, and THE GOTHIC CIRCLE, open to those who contribute $500 or more to the Fund. We hope many of you will become Charter Members of these two alumnae groups. May we break all records in 1969!

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New Addressograph Equipment Added

we convert all of our alumnae lists to our new plates.

This new equipment represents one of the major investments of your Alumnae Association during the past year. We've checked and doublechecked. But there were thousands of new plates to be made. Please check your address on this Bulletin and let us know if any correction is needed. We do want to be perfect-zip code and all!

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54 Classes And How They Gave R. C. Co-Eds-51%

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Edmonia Lancaster Metcalf R. C. Co-Eds Dorothy Abbott Wood '30 Helen Monsell '16 Helen Haverty '31 Gladys Holleman Barlow '17 Margaret Leake '31 Estelle Kemper Butler '18 Louise Schmidt Newcomb '31 Mary Clay Camp '18 Josephine Nunnally '31 Jennie Phillips Lesueur '18 Amelia Ullman '31 Mary Porter Rankin '18 Helen Pollard Deck '32 Mary Denmead Ruffin '18 Evelyn Easley Doyle '32 Elizabeth Camp Smith '18 Katherine Roberts Hesby '32 Elizabeth Gaines Gaines '19 Virginia Tabb Moore '32 Hester Tichenor Warfield '19 Geneva Bennett Snelling '32 Jeannette Freeman Bettle '20 Florence Siebert '33 Frances Shipman Sutton '20 Helen Caulfield Ballard '35 Eliza Everett Darden '21 Mary Mills Freeman '35 Jacquelin Johnston Gilmore '35 Elizabeth Elsea '21 Mildred Crowder Pickels '36 May Thompson Evans '21 Elizabeth Chapman Wilson '36 Camille Robinson Hess '21 Pollyanna Shepherd '37 Elizabeth Williams Bell '22 Barbara DeJarnette Bagwell '38 Leslie Sessoms Booker '22 Mildred Harrell Clinkscales '38 Jeanette Henna '22 Ethel O'Brien Harrington '40 Thelma Hill Marsh '22 Muriel Sanders '22 Jean Neasmith Dickinson '41 Gladys Epes Hardy '41 Hannah Coker '23 Ethney Selden Headlee '23 Anne Shafer Carey '42 Glenna Loving Norvell '23 Lillian Jung '42 Rosa Sanders Thomas '23 Gene Woodfin Steussy '42 Ruth Powell Tyree '23 Lelia Gardner Hathaway '43 Elizabeth Cosby Carver '24 Barbara Lewis Talbott '43 Louise Wilkinson Morton '24 Georgie Simpson '43 Elizabeth Butler Arrasmith '25 Rose Koltukian Wallace '43 Jacquelin Barnes Wolf '46 Cathryn Henna '25 Carolyn Marsh '47 Gladys Sanders '25 Virginia Smith Kynett '48 Anne Gordon Steward '25 Caroline Lynn Doyle '49 Martha Lipscomb Walsh '25 Florence Gray Tullidge '49 Louise Fry Galvin '26 Mary Ann Peddicord Williams '49 Margaret PoweII '26 Audrey Lynn Moncure '50 Elizabeth Sherman Cale '28 Virginia Sims '50 Mabel Bradner Davis '28 Martha A. Carpenter '51 Gray Robinson French '28 Virginia Pleasants Robertson '28 Helen Elizabeth Luke '51 Susan Bentley Joseph '53 Elnora Hubbard Robinson '28 Elizabeth Fleet Schmutz '54 Frances Anderson Stallard '28 Jacquelyn Kilby Brooks '55 Margaret Willis '28 Betty Jean Parrish Knott '55 Catherine A. Branch '29 Mary Richardson Butterworth '29 Betty Stembridge Leggett '55 Maritza Garrido McManus '55 Ruth Haverty '29 Rosalind Allen Barker '57 Adeline Richardson Muller '29 Mary Garland Cox Johnston '57 Miriam Figgs Rankin '29 Nancy McCulloch Pickands '60 Margaret Rudd '29 Emily Brown McCoy '61 Frances Cake '30 Beverly Neale Johnson '64 Dorothy Epperly Goodman '30 Ann Carol Robins Haskell '67 Elsie McClintic '30

Westhampton is beautiful in the fall . . . and so exciting.

Here I am after 25 years, caught up in the excitement of college life again.

I must admit that I had a goodly share of butterflies when I entered Keller Hall as your new Alumnae Secretary. But thanks to the encouragement of my "four men," the patient cooperation of Mary Lee Worrell and Jane Dobyns in the office, and all the "good wishes" that so many of you sent me, I'm beginning to feel more at home every day .

We have grown from one room to three! A door was cut so that all the rooms of the office join. Did you also notice how clear your address looksthanks to our new addressograph machine! We are all busy mastering the art of working our new equipment.

The Tea Room and Book Shop are no longer in one room . Remember the Day Students' Study -it is now the home of the Book Shop! Billy Jane Baker '44 and her committee have been working all summer to have it ready for the opening of college.

We hope all of this will add to the efficiency and service of our alumnae association.

Please drop me a line with any suggestions, ideas or questions you might have. In this issue you will see an article by Dean Mary Louise Gehring, giving her view of Westhampton 1968, in others I hope to have a student's view, that of a faculty member as well as the observations of alumnae.

All to keep you better informed on Alma Mater today.

Do keep in touch with your class secretaries on news and new addresses. If you miss seeing something that was sent in, the deadline and "then some" must have passed! That final day for handing over all copy to the printer does come!

I look forward to working with each of youMost sincerely,

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LOCALCLUBS BALTIMOREALUMNAECLUB Pre sident: Miss Katherine Eli zabeth White '64, 235 Ridge Ave. , Towson , Md., 21204.

With the clo se of the summer our newly elected president , Mr s. William Hasker ( Mariah Chisholm '55) was transferred with her family to Hou ston , Texas , her husband being employed by Humble Oil and Refining Co. So our former vice-president moved up to carry on. Our president: Miss Katherine Elizabeth White '64, vice-president: Mr s. Richard Rebbert (Martha Schmidt '64).

We gathered at the home of Miss Ruth Latimer '45 in Severna Park for a delightful picnic early in September. We enjoyed swimming, boating , water skiing , outdoor games , picnic supper and the wonderful hospitality of our hostess. We were pleased to have Mrs . Leland Higginbotham (Ethne Flanagan '42) and her family with us . In September they returned to Baltimore where her husband , the Rev . Leland Higginbotham is minister of Calvary Baptist Church.

At the Alumnae Association meeting in May , one of our members , Mrs. John Higginbotham (Carolyn Quinn '58) was elected to serve on the National Executive Board as member-at-large.

HAWAIIALUMNAECLUB When our alumnae received word that the University of Richmond Tour would come to Hawaii from July 13-July 27 , we began planning! On July 13, when the tour, headed by Mr. Cecil Jones , arrived at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, May Yook Chung and Margaret K. Monteiro presented leis to Mr. & Mrs. Jones and the McDanels and invitations for them to be our guests at a luncheon at the Willows and any members of the tour who cared to join our "No Host" luncheon party.

Our luncheon wa s held on July 27th with seventeen attending .

Dr . McDanel told about the founding of the University and the beginnings of Westhampton and of the plans and hopes for the University for future growth .

We hope those who read this will want to come to the islands . Have you heard that Rotary International is to meet here next summer ? Have your husbands appointed to that and come along!

Westhampton student Judy Baughan makes purchase from Mrs. Billy Jane Crosby Baker, '44, in new Book Shop, while Mrs. Adrienne Mayfield checks book inventory.

Mrs. Baker heads alumnae committee for shop.

HOMECOMING

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November 1 and 2

Mrs. Mary Lee Worrell, left, and Mrs. Jane Dobyns, '60, work with new Addressographequipment in Alumnae Office.

PENINSULAALUMNAECLUB President: Mrs . Robert Miller (Virginia Jone s '56), 184 Yeardley Drive, Newport News , Virginia 23601. _ The Peninsula Alumnae Club held a coffee in September at the home of Mrs. Kenton B. Patrick (Sue Parrish '65) for Westhampton students in the area. Mrs .

Talmage Foster (Jean Morris '63) and Mrs .

Vincent Parrish (Kay Ramsay '65) were in charge of arrangements. We are also making plans for a tea to be held in the spring with the Norfolk , Portsmouth, and Suffolk Alumnae as our guests .

Our money making project - bridge party and fashion show-will be held in October.

Mr s. John Lake (Edwina Knipling '58) with the help of Mrs. John Brooks (Gail Morrison '61) will be in charge.

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RICHMONDALUMNAECLUB President: Mrs. John B. Bullock (Marcella Hammock '54), 301-E Hamilton St., Richmond, Virginia.

On Thursday , September 12, the Richmond Club gave a tea in the home of Mrs. E . Ballard Baker, '44 , for freshmen and tran sfer s entering Westhampton College.

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School year calendars and pecans are being sold as money raising projects again this year. Anyone interested in buying or selling should contact the chairmen.

We hope that every alumna in the Richmond area will send in her dues to the treasurer and become an active participant in all the programs planned for the year.

ble homes with air-conditioning, central heating, color TV, and cars-like American youth. In an English class the other night, the discussion came around to the meaning or possibility of true happiness in one's life. A college boy said one simple sentence: 'Happiness is a lie.' As we talked a bit more about man's search for security and what is ultimately important in life, some really exciting thinking took place. We talked about the answer Christ gives to man's search for security and happiness.

"In another class, some members had seen a two-hour documentary film on 'Poverty 1968,' pinpointing five areas in our world-Hong Kong, South Africa, all South America, Viet Nam, and the United States. Poverty is in other places, too, but it is alarming that this last nation is listed, isn't it?

Many, many Japanese people ask me, 'Why do American churches send money and missionaries to us, when there is so much neglect of needs at home?' 'What do American churches do to break up the ghettoes in their cities?' 'If Christian faith has any meaning for human beings at all, it's got to start first by making good living conditions for all men everywhere.'"

DOROTHY SPARKS. 1 59 "At the same time these questions ACCEPTS CHALLENGE are provoking our prayerful thought, desperate need for Christian work OF TEACHING IN JAPAN the in Japan continues. A leading newsand in group and individual associa- paper recently took a survey as to tions. Never before in Japan have I popular religious preference: 30 %had so many chances for deep discus- no religious preference; 50 %-Budsions with so many people on such dhist (including Soka Gakkai); 10 % The in10%--others. big issues, as I've had the past six -Christian; months. As you know, my 'groups' ference is that, 'if I had to choose,' one are mainly four-two Bible classes and out of ten said, 'I would choose Christianity.' So the small, under-1 % of two English classes.

Christians carry a heavy load and "What do Japan's youth and young desperately need missionaries to come adults talk about most? I have found and help, and funds to extend the four main topics: Gospel message into all corners of 1. The deaths of Martin Luther society. The Christian message is of King and Robert Kennedy. Both names utmost importance here, now!" have been pure magic in Japan, for both championed human justice and ideals. peace-Japanese 2. Democracy. Is it a relevant, realistic way of dealing with the problems of modern society, they wonder.

Or is there another way?

S~cu~ity 3. The Japan-American for renewal or re1ect10n Treaty-up in 1970. There are many varied opinions as to how Japan should be defended these days, or if she should be defended. For instance, my language teacher's husband and one child were killed before her eyes in 1944. She saw Tokyo flattened, with bodies of small children, women and common citizens lining the streets. She says she would accept any government at all rather Ann Marie Caraker, '68, has joined WAVYGinny Lesueur Carter, '53, continues to win than face another war.

TV in Norfolk, Virginia as an air personality. awards as editor of Hollins College publiWhile at Westhampton she was a dean's ambitions. and dreams Individual 4. cations. Last year it was first place for list student who majored in speech and improvement; this year it was first place Over 50 per cent of Japan's high drama. WAVY says, "Here's a gal who's going places." If you're in Tidewater, tune for total publications program. Both awards school graduates apply for college.

They dream of good salaries, comforta- her in on 10. from American College PR Association.

"Happiness is a lie." "I would accept any government rather than face another war." "Why do American churches send money and missionaries to us, when there is so much neglect of needs at home?"

These are expressions of a people whose problems, questions, frustrations and challenges are faced by a Westhampton alumna in a land where one out of ten choose Christianity and where almost every third person has no religious preference.

Dorothy Sparks, '59, teaches English and works with students at Fukuoka Girls' School, a Christian school in southern Japan. In a letter to her Westhampton classmates, she tells of her work and of her close association with the people of that nation.

"Fukuoka is a quiet, lovely, modern city of 720,000 people. It is by the Japan Sea, on the northern tip of Kyushu Island. Kyushu is very, very beautiful, abounding in clear rivers and high green mountains. It is called the 'cradle of Japanese civilization,' not only as the site from which the first emperor began his trip north to found the capital in 660 B.C., but also as the place where foreign trade began and where Christianity got its first foothold and suffered martyrdom in the 17th century. Fukuoka is the ninth largest city in Japan. One can fly there from Tokyo in only one and one-half hours, or go the 18-hour train ride.

"I'm really looking forward to living there, partly because I will get to know Japan in a new way. It is said we cannot know Japan by living in Tokyo anymore than we can know America if we live only in New York City.

"My happiness in Tokyo the past one and one-half years has been in learning the language, getting acquainted with Japan and the church ( through the Kyodan's orientation programs and through my life in Shinagawa Church),

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CLASS NOTES '18

Miss Deborah McCarthy 1618 Park Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23220

It is with sorrow and a genuine sense of loss that I report the passing of Frances Glassel Beale on Monday, September 9th.

Frances attended the Reunion Dinner in May, contributing much to the success of the occ asion with her usual charm and wit.

We will long cherish in our hearts and memorie s the association with her during th e Reunion weekend.

Her unconquerabl e spirit , happy outlook on life and loyalty to friends was an inspiration to all who knew her.

Our sincere sympathy to children , grandchildren , and host of friends in their loss.

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Miss Gladys Sanders 2237 W. Grace Street Richmond, Virginia 23220

At noon on July 30 the marriage of Eunice Gill and the Rev. Charles S. Norville took place at Barton Heights Methodist Church. The Rev. Charles K. Norville of Kenwood Pre sbyterian Church in Baltimore , Md ., son of the bridegroom, officiated. A wedding breakfast at the Country Club of Virginia followed the ceremony.

The Rev. Charles S. Norville is assistant pastor of Northside Baptist Church in Richmond. He is a graduate of Wake Forest College and Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville. He' is a former pastor of Pine Street Baptist Church , Richmond , Virginia.

The Rev. and Mrs. Norville are residing at 3201 Edgewood Avenue in Richmond .

I regret that the rest of the news will sadden the hearts of all of you. Gladys Wright Cocke wrote me that she had learned from her sisters at Doswell that Margaret Taylor Chamblin was one of the victims of the Piedmont Airlines plane crash near Charleston , W . Va. on August 10. She said that Margaret's two sisters had gone to Roanoke to meet her and the three of them had planned a trip together.

Th en on August 31 Joseph J. Williams, Jr ., husband of Nellie Hoover Williams , was a victim of accidental drowning in a creek near his summer cottage in Gloucester County .

On behalf of our class I have sent a sympathy card to each of the families.

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Mrs. Edith G. Cale (Elizabeth Sherman) 6539 Hitt Avenue McLean, Virginia 22101

Since our delightful class reunion m May I have received no news about any of our '28ers outside of the Washington area . I know all of you join me in sympathy for Gra y Robin son French who lost her mother thi s summer. Gray had a very difficult period during which she was moving from

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her home, helping baby-sit with her grandson while her daughter-in-law was in the hospital giving birth to a little girl, and staying at her mother 's bedside as much as possible. Gray is now nicely settled in a lovely townhouse situated in a retirement community in nearby Maryland, but far from retired herself.

Tom Rudd plans to tear herself away from the biography she has been writing for several years and take a vacation in South America in October, returning to the U. S. via Puerto Rico.

Skipper Logan Hunt says that aside from two brief vacation trips to Michigan and Virginia Beach, she has had a quiet summer.

Ed and I have moved again since May, and are now enjoying a house in the McLean woods not too far from where Tom Rudd lives . Come by to see us sometime!

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Mrs. Hampton H. Wayt (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road Richmond, Virginia 23230

Jimmie Steussy Mattox and her daughter , Ione, toured Europe this summer with the Baptist World Youth Group.

Elizabeth Barton, who is teaching in Columbus, Georgia , visited in Mexico City this summer and then had a Virginia trip visiting with Jimmie Mattox , Mary Butterworth and Helen Moon.

Mary Stevens Jones , Mary Butterworth and Helen Mo·on had a wonderful visit with "Genie" Riddick Steck in Ba It i mo re.

"Genie" and her husband , Fred , have renovated a town house which is a candidate for House Beautiful; it was on a Baltimore house tour in the spring. Mary and Helen went on to Culpeper to visit the Joneses.

Later in the summer Mary Stevens and friends flew to San Francisco for a tour of Northern California and to Lake Louise .

Louise Hardaway Boswell visited her daughter , Meade , in Providence , R. I. where Meade works for Blue Cross.

Miriam and Weston Rankin enjoyed a trip around the world in early spring .

Ruth Cox's dau ghter graduated from Wingate Junior College in June and will enter Elon in September.

I do hope each of you had Elizabeth Hale 's May letter. She was telling of the progress being made in the mission at Alor Star and especially of the conversions of young people .

Hampton and 1 spent our vacation in Mexico City with our son and his wife. We had many unusual experiences including an earthquake.

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Mrs. John Edward Millea (Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida Street Newton, Massachusetts 02158

Margaret Oliver Saunders, our class chairman for the Alumnae Fund Drive, wrote that she had help this year with the letters from Cornelia Ferguson Underwood, Frances Willis Overton , Margaret Lowe Logan and Dorothy Epperly Goodman.

Belated thanks to you girls from all of us!

My letter from Cornelia brought the news that her oldest son , John, is in the National Guard and working in a New York insurance company . Charles was a junior in college when the letter was written so I feel it is safe to assume that he is now a senior.

Virginia Saunders Thomas spent a few days in June in Nassau. She accompanied Bill to an insurance convention.

Grace Watkins Lampson has been a grandmother for over a year , ever since Margaret's daughter , Deborah, was born .

Grace goes back to school this fall doing counseling work. Curt is now Senior Scientist at A.P.G. and son, Miles, has passed

all his courses for his Ph.D., but is still gathering data for his dissertation .

You'll be as interested as I was in the following excerpt from the spring, 1968 Barnard Alumnae Bulletin: "Lois McIntosh caught us up with her professional career as Associate Professor of English at UCLA .

Currently on sabbatical , she spent the fall semester at Kyoto Univ., Japan , and is currently at the Univ. of N.M . She is an authority on English as a foreign language, training teachers, writing texts , and lecturing . 'Proudest achievement' is 'Starting English Early'-a film depicting 5 and 6-year old Spanish-speaking children learning English linguistically and without tears."

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Miss Margaret Leake 408 N. Meadow Street Richmond, Virginia 23220

One of the nicest surprises since the last Bulletin was a phone conversation with Mary Faulkner Jordan . She and Bob were in the Richmond neighborhood for the reunion of his Medical College class. Her grown children, grandchildren and activities of a doctor 's wife keep her busy. She has not forgotten us and promises to join us for some of our meetings when she returns to Virginia for visits with her mother in Urbanna.

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Miss Gertrude Dyson 14 Malvern Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23221

Marian West and Arthur F. Stocker were married in July . After a wedding trip to Alaska , they are making their home at Pent House D , 1800 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville where Arthur is a professor at the university.

Betsy Welsh and Grover Robinson were married in June. Betsy is teaching this year at Ginter Park here in Richmond while Grover has entered medical school at V .C.U. Carolyn and R. H . Powell enjoyed the tour to Hawaii this summer sponsored by the University of Richmond .

Ed Hardy and Ellen Shorter were married in Augu st. Ellen is a June graduate of William and Mary. Ed enters his senior year at University of Virginia this fall.

Rebecca Purefoy Harris was married to Robert Koon in August.

Our reunion year was saddened by the death in April of our dear friend and classmate, Kathryn Harris Hardy. It is the desire of the Richmond group to establish a memorial in her honor, so please send your contribution to the class secretary so our plans can be made. Regarding this , Frances Rawlings Ware has written "my mental picture of her at Westhampton is clear-I remember a very pretty, bright, and charming young woman , with her own special combination of sweetness and humor in personal relationships; and she was genuine ."

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Mrs. C. M. Tatum (Gladys Smith) 336 Lexington Road Richmond, Virginia 23226

Thank you all for your contributions to the Alumnae Fund . We had a fine team working for our class, and we are delighted with the results. Sue Cook McClure Jones did a wonderful job of contacting the people assigned to her and locating some of our classmates .

Estelle Veazey Jones has a new home at 2524 Ocean Boulevard , Corona del Mar , California. She and Don have been in Europe since May 1. Estelle wrote from Paris as follows: "Don is with Paramount on Julie Andrews' picture , 'Darling Lilli.'

Been shooting in Dublin , Brussels, and

Paris. I've also been to England, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, boat trip down Rhine. Wonderful summer. Each place has its own beauty and charm."

Jessie Neale Jensen's address is 2027 Burlison Avenue, Urbana, Illinois. It would be so nice to have some news from her.

Mary Pat Early Love had two reasons loss of for sorrow during the summer-the her Aunt Ellen and of her mother-in-law.

The Richmond papers have carried accounts of the marriage of one of Mary Mills Freeman's sons and also of Billy Rowlett Perkins' eldest son.

I had a newsy letter from Elizabeth Clary Broaddus, who lives at Forest Hills, Route 1, Harrisonburg, Virginia. She wrote, "Each year I've thought I'd find a minute to say 'Hi' to you and the other 'girls' of '35, but time has a way of slipping by.

"Along with the passage of time my family has been growing up. Our older son, Newbill, who was a dean 's list student at Old Dominion College last year, is combining his education with a career in banking. He was married last winter to a Madison College graduate. Jack, No. 2 son, will be a freshman at OD this fall. As a letterman in varsity football and track he accounted for some of our time. Betsy will be a senior in high school this year and is engrossed with the usual teen-age activities.

"Having gone through the 'era' of volunteer work when the children were younger I graduated into substitute teaching and ultimately into a regular job. Last year 1 was librarian at Anthony-Seegar Campus School, Madison College's training school for teachers. I'll be continuing my library work in Rockingham County this fall. My sessions for the past two summers have made me most sympathetic with the younger generation. 'Taint easy these days!

"It hasn't been all work, though-Charlie's membership on the board of the Nat. Assoc. of Refrigerated Warehouses has afforded us several delightful trips. We've been to Puerto Rico, Acapulco, Mexico City, three of the Hawaiian Islands, and are looking forward to Jamaica this fall.

I know that all of you join me in expressing love and sympathy to Helen Caulfield Ballard, whose husband passed away in September following a brief illness.

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Mrs. Dalton Dutton ( Esther Walsh) 3914 W. Weyburn Road Richmond, Virginia 23235

Usually, summertime is a poor season for news for this column, but this year I have garnered quite a few tidbits.

First off, you all remember Alice Gibson.

After graduation she married Jim Strong.

I had a very nice communication from her this summer. She and Jim are living in Richmond, at 1623 Claremont A venue, and her son , Jim, Jr., will finish in February at University (forVirginia Commonwealth merly R. P. I.). Alice has recently become connected with an insurance firm as a sales representative. It was good to hear from her.

Martha Riis Moore's son, Jimmy, graduated in June from Randolph Macon College and was married on June 15th to Elizabeth Walton Quarles of Ashland. Both will teach in the Hanover County schools this year.

I had a long letter from Florence Marston Harvey and just reading it caused me fatigue! In addition to her teaching duties last year, Florence took a Bishop Tailoring course, and an advanced psychology course at William and Mary entitled "Emotional Disorders of Childhood." On the week-end of June 21 she was in Charlottesville at the University to do three hours of teaching on "The Juvenile Court as a Resource to Visiting Teachers." On July 9 she flew to England for three weeks to visit her father's

family there and in Ireland. Doesn't all this leave you breathless?

Her daughter, Frances, graduated from Averett College in June and enters Towson State College in Baltimore this fall for two years' training in kindergarten teaching.

A note from Lou White Winfrey enclosed the invitation to the wedding of Katherine Bowe Schulte in Mishawaka, Indiana, on August 10th. Katherine is the daughter of our own Judith Hodges Schulte.

Lou, also, enclosed a letter from Alice Pugh Bartz. Alice has a new position with of Public Department the Pennsylvania Instruction, Division of School Libraries, with the challenging title of "Library Development Adviser." Her work will cover seventeen counties in the eastern part of the state.

My son, John, graduated in June from the University of Virginia and was married, August 3rd, to Betsy Pregnall of Richmond.

John is in the National Guard and is taking this year off to do his six months' active service, and then will enter Law School next September. My younger son, Cary, was in a very bad automobile accident in Fairfax County three days after John's wedding.

He suffered severe internal injuries, but recuperated disgustingly rapidly and is now ready to go back to the University of Georgia for his second year.

We all extend our deepest sympathy to Marjorie Pugh Tabb on the death of her father on September 15th.

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Mrs. A. L. Jacobs (Anne Scott Campbell) 203 Santa Clara Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229

Congratulations to Evelyn Hazard Angus who received a Master of Education degree at William and Mary during the summer.

Dot Shell Wood's daughter , Betty, a sophomore at Meredith College, was chosen "Miss Raleigh" in the Miss America preliminaries. She received the "outstanding song and dance" award in the Miss North Carolina pageant. Our congratulations to you, Betty!

Our son, Lucky, married a lovely Westhampton junior in August. Her name was Robyn Ransone and they are both continuing their education at the University of Richmond. Next May our class will celebrate our 30th reunion. We are planning a party that will include our husbands too, so tell him to save the 3rd weekend in May and make no appointments as he has a date with his bride ( of a few years). If you all about your will send any information family, pictures, clippings, etc., Dot Shell Wood and I will put them together in scrapbook form. Please let us hear from each of you. Dot's address is 7905 Neuson Court, Richmond, Virginia.

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Mrs. Frederick Jurgens, (Maude Smith) 2435 Buford Road Bon Air, Virginia 23235

Jr.

It seemed like a whirlwind summer. I started off with a short trip to see my mother in Florida and ended with a visit with daughter, Corliss, in Columbus, Indiana. In between, relatives came to see us.

We are so happy that our son-in-law, Van Bowen, Jr., has completed the work for his doctorate at VPI and will be teaching at Richmond College this fall. He, Carol, and little Grace have moved back and are living in Bon Air. This year Fred is assistant audiovisual supervisor for the county schools which means he will see a lot of Chesterfield county.

Emma Lou tells me that their daughter , Pat, a senior at Westhampton, is managing editor of the Collegian. She's a journalism

major so this is good evidence of her ability.

This will be a busy year for the family with two seniors and two graduations. ·Betty Lou is in her last year of high school.

We hear that Harriet Mercer was in the hospital last spring , and are happy to know that she is all right now, back to teaching.

Emma Lou mentioned having seen the announcement of Dimple Latham Gravatt's son's wedding this summer. How about writing me before December 2nd , the next deadline, if you have anything I can include in our class news.

It was a nice coincidence to be in Richmond and meet Evelyn Smoak Lewter this summer with her daughter who is a senior in college. The next daughter is going to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The youngest, who is 12, was written up in the paper in July when she and two friends braved the heat to collect money for the SPCA's new shelter.

There was an article in the paper telling of the 50th anniversary of Alice McElroy Smith's parents, Dr. and Mrs. I. Stuart McElroy, who were married in the White House August 7, 1918. Our congratulations to them . I know it was a happy occasion for them and their daughters who were all going to be present.

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Mrs. s. G. Hardy ( Gladys Epes) 110 High Street Blackstone, Virginia

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Evelyn V . Cosby was the recipient of the "Woman of the Year" award given by the Colonial Chapter, American Business Women's Association, in Alexandria this summer. She is active in the accounting field and is supervisory accounting technician in the Finance Office, U.S. Army, Washington.

She is in competition for the national title , "American Business Woman of the Year ," the winner to be named in October at the National Convention in Jacksonville , Florida. Evelyn writes that she will be flying to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for a week after the convention. "fts" Holden Slipek and Ed attended their daughter, Betty Tabb's graduation from Mary Baldwin College in June. They saw Dell Williams Smith's daughter, Mabs , receive the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award for unselfish service to the college and also saw Dell's son, Carter, a student at M.I.T. Ed and "Its" took their son Eddie up ... to Boston University in September and toured a good part of New England; then they took Betty to the University. "Its" is getting started as a new representative of Field Enterprises, Inc., publishers of Childcraft, Worldbook Encyclopedia, which ha s meant many training sessions and meetings.

Margaret Brittingham Curtice spent several weeks with her parents in July in Suffolk. Margaret is a counselor at the Devereux School in Santa Barbara. Her son, Jim, is playing on his father's team this year in the position of quarterback.

Frazier Drumwright Catron, while watering her flowers this summer , had an unfortunate fall over an outdoor pipe and broke her ankle badly resulting in her immobilization. Candy will return to Virginia Commonwealth University as a junior.

Margaret Forrer Wrenn and Woody are going to Japan this fall for a medical meeting.

Mayme Stone had a nice visit with Annabel Lumpkin Hessel and Red in Norfolk in August. Annabel has been taking a course in remedial reading and expects to do tutoring in the fa! I. We extend sympathy to Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow. Her father died in the summer.

Dudley Patteson 's daughter, Charlotte Ann Roy , was June Queen at St. Catherine 's School. She now attends Hollins College.

One of her sons has entered the freshman

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class of Williams College in Williamstown , Mass. , and her other son has returned to Hampden-Sydney.

Tinsy Garrett Buckler has moved from California to Richmond.

The Performing Arts in Virginia Education (PAVE) project , which will present 60 performances in Richmond public schools during the coming year , held a workshop for area teacher s for 2 weeks. One of the visiting lecturers was Henrietta Sadler Kinman, coordinator of humanities for the Richmond city schools.

Sue Trussell Wright plans to begin graduate work at Queens College in September.

Having served as substitute for six years , she wants to become a full-time teacher.

Serving on the Hanover Presbyterial Council with me is Jessie Hibbs Hawke 's cousin who tells me that Jessie , now living in Willoughby , Ohio , where her husband is with Westinghouse , visited her mother in Lexington this summer. Jessie has three son s and a daughter; her third son, David , is entering Columbia.

We have just heard of the death of Martha Belding Aycock's father , on September 15th . Her son , recently married to a University of Virginia graduate student , ha s entered the Univer sity of Toronto to do work in the field of anthropology .

Ann Bonifant has moved to the Georgetown Apts. Her youngest daughter finished St . Margaret 's in June and has entered Mary Washington College.

My summer experiences have been fanta stic! Jn June I flew to London to join a niece who had spent a year in art school in Jtaly . Together we toured England , Scotland , and Europe for three weeks. In July I went from the beach to the mountains of Virginia. Gray and I went to Virginia Beach for a week with eight other couples from Blackstone. Then I attended a Leadership Training Conference at Massanetta.

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Mrs. D. M. Holt (May Thayer) 16 Dundee Avenue Richmond, Virginia

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I managed to catch Harriet H. Byrider at home sewing. Her family had a fabulous vacation this summer at Callaway Gardens near Warm Springs, Georgia. She recommend s it as the finest spot imaginable for a family vacation-planned activities for all age groups, large man-made lake , air con ditioned cottage s in the woods, and even a Holiday Inn as part of it. It seems that Florida State University has a circus for extra-curricular activity, and the summer home for it is at Callaway Gardens. Each night a performance is put on for the guests .

There is golf, archery, horseback riding , and everything you might desire for entertainment. Reservations , anyone?

Ann Smith Palazzo is no longer Richmond Club president , but is on both the local and national board of Westhampton College Alumnae Association . She had a call recently from Mary Lou DuVal Sawyer, who was in town, but missed her. Mary Lou 's daughter , Susan, was married Sept. I. She also was delighted to have a totally unexpected visit on Sept. 16 from Betty Norwood East (please note change for class record s and address: Mrs. Malcolm East , 1633 Normandy Lane, Winston-Salem , N. C.). Betty was in Richmond entering her daughter, Allison , in Westhampton 's freshman cla ss. She also has a 16 year old son in high school who loves basketball.

We haven 't had any word from Betty in years , and share in Ann's pleasure at her visit. Ann says she even looks just the same!

Ann and Karl Garrett spent their vacation at Virginia Beach with their children.

They were delighted to see Rosalie Want Jacob s there . C larine Cunningham Bergren was in town thi s summer visiting her mother .

Annie Loie Walker Seac at and Lot have

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finally moved into their new home in Pittsburgh. Their address is: 103 Hickory Hill Road , Pittsburgh , Pa. 15238 .

Betty Ann P. Shackelford writes that she and her family were in Virginia in early spring . She talked to Chicken (Jimmy Franklin Radd) who was moving into a new home (address please?) so didn't get to see her. Chicken's and Al 's son , Anthony, is at Yale as of this September.

Betty Ann hears from her good friend and ex-roommate Peggy Vicars Early often.

Peggy is a farmer 's wife , but according to Betty Ann not in the usual connotation of the role . Betty says we could write a whole column on Peggy 's civic , social, and political activities. Peggy 's and Joe's son is at the University of Virginia. Betty Ann 's & Shack 's daughter , Lisa , started college this fall. She is at Temple Buell College in Denver , Colorado (formerly Colorado Women's College). Young George is in 9th grade in Houston.

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Mrs. R. A. Bell (Frances Beazl ey) 4 Woodcrest Road Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107

Our Maine summer has been so delightfully warm and sunny that I hate to face the fact that September is half over. But with Carolyn on her way back to her senior year at Westhampton and Jonathan off to prep school , it seems as if fall is inevitable.

Georgie Simpson resigned from IBM in July and became micr9biology supervisor at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda in August. '"By navy standards it is a small hospital: by civilian standards it is a little above average-350 beds. " It sounds like an extremely interesting job .

Joni Black saw Reba and Earl Fox this summer. They love Florida . . . have at least three boats , says Joni . Son , Charlie , is entering his second year at the Medical .College of Virginia and they are considering sending their next son to Woodberry Forest.

Bea Talbott's son , David , is in the Army in Germany , 35 miles north of Frankfort.

She and the younger children went to Florida with her parents in August to see their citrus grove and did lots of sightseeing. They also visited Rehoboth Beach .

J wish I could join you all at Homecoming in November. The new Fine Arts Building will be dedicated, I understand . Won 't that be a great addition to Westhampton!

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Mrs. H. Clayton Daniel (Evermond Hardee) 164 Forest Hills Drive Monroe, North Carolina 28110

I received two cards for this letter. Come on , girls, you can do better than that. It was great to have news after so long from Mimi (Hill) Boynton. Her son, Bruce , is in the Navy-a medical corpsman stationed at Cherry Point. Mimi says he turned down a fabulous scholarship at the University of Chicago to go in for four years . Her other four are Allen and Dougie , enthusiastic bird watchers; Melissa, something of an artist; and Hannah who is extremely domestic. Mimi spends her time on the car pool circuit and teaches an adult church school class. This spring she and Doug made a quick trip to Canada to see the spring bird migration .

A card today from Mildred (Cox) Goode tells of her putting her Hollins graduate daughter , Courtney, on a plane for London to spend ten weeks working for the Miss Liberty , Inc. We were in Richmond in August so that Penny , our high school senior, could look over Westhampton. I walked down to the tea room with her and who should be stand ing there but Billy Jane (Crosby) Baker who was doing some work in moving the book

store. It seemed perfectly natural to me that "B. J." should be there! DeeDee (Howe) Kirk took us to lunch at the club for a talking good time! DeeDee's boys had been in camp all summer and were due home the next day, and Kathy was in summer school at Radford.

While there I talked with Mary (Alder son) Graham . She has a new home at 9805 Drouin Drive in Richmond.

Mary and Billy were leaving for a convention on Grand Bahama the next day.

She says that "Brokie" will be a senior at W. and L. this year and Randy joins him there as a freshman .

Our Lindsay had a fantastic trip to Europe this summer with Dr. Kneller of U .C .L.A. Her group included 68 college students from the United States and Canada.

They really covered the continent including Hungary , Russia, and Finland. I was green with envy.

Molly (Warner) Stephenson was to leave Alaska on July 1st. At the time she wrote , she did not know where they would go. They planned to leave by ferry to see all the South East Coastal Area of Alaska . She says she loved Alaska but would be glad to leave after 2Y2 years. Molly's son, Bruce, is a fine student in an accelerated class and an enthusiastic swimmer.

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Mrs. J. W. Paulson (Mary C. Campbell) 239 Shoe Lane Newport News, Virginia

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This will be my last letter-next Ruth Latimer, 5 Westerly Way, Fairwinds on the Severn , Severna Park , Maryland 21146 takes over. Do write her this instant and give her your summer news.

I have only a few items to relate. In March, Mac and Lillian Belk Youell and Howard Cone (Liz Parker's hubby) met in Hong Kong for an evening of chit chat and catching up on the news , etc. The Youells were to leave the Phillippine s in July for San Juan. They are closer to us now. Their son, John , will return to VMI for his second year joined by Bill for his "rat" year . Their new address: Capt. R . M .

Youell, JAGC , USN , Com Carib Sea Frontier, U.S. Naval Station, FPO New York 09550 Another new address is from Doris Mills Harrell , 6027 Nagy Place , Alexandria, Va. 22312 . She reports her sons- Louis, age nine and John , five-are enjoying U.S . life after four years in Germany. Doris is taking some graduate work at George Washington University while her husband is stationed at the Pentagon.

I have just left my daughter , Lyn, at Averett College for her first year. Son , John , will return to Ga . Tech for his third year this week and it will be a quiet house for the "old folks at home ". I still keep busy with community dabbling - inc I u ding the School Board - and sewing.

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Mrs. A. Howe Todd (Joyce Eubank) 1600 Wilmington Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227

In seeking to contact various class members , I was surprised to notice the number of girls listed with "address unknown ."

Perhaps someone knows the whereabouts of one or more of the following. If so, please drop me a card: Jackie Hodges Walker , Zu Anderson Walters , Marguerite Berryman Overton , Eleanor Pyper Bryson and Betty Simpson Breeden.

I have asked some ten different class members to help me with reminder cards for bulletin news. When you receive your reminder , won't you stop that day and mail me a card with news of yourself?

I had a nice letter from Ding Lambeth

Shotwell with an enclosed brochure about the trip the Shotwells are directing to Europe and the Bible Lands for two weeks, departing December 26, 1968. Ding writes that Ralph has been around the world but that this will be her first trip abroad and is a "dream come true." She said they would love to have some '46ers along, so if you 're interested write: Rev . and Mrs. Ralph Shotwell-101 Westerly Terrace-Rocky Hill, Connecticut, 06067. Ding takes one course a semester in graduate school and substitute teaches.

Elaine Weil Weinberg substitute teaches in Jr . High where she lives in Palo Alto, California . After 15 years out of the classroom, she finds methods and most particulariy STUDENTS , have changed a great deal.

Her, Amy, is in 11th grade, Julie 8th and Jonathan 4th.

Cornelia Reid Rowlett wrote of enjoyable vacations in the mountains and at the North and South Carolina beaches with her family .

Speaking of vacations, Giles Wood (husband of Mary Frances Bethel) has won a trip to Bermuda for the two of them. They leave New York, October 12th.

Irene Taylor Martin is a supervisor in the Henry County High Schools. Her husband , James, went as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention , representing the Martinsville-Henry County Area .

Jackie Barnes Wolf has been nominated for membership in "Who's Who in American Women ." She still serves as Editor of "National Ad'optalk ", the official publication of the National Council of Adoptive Parents Organizations . Jackie 's children are twin boys 9 and a daughter 8.

Frances Anne Beale Goode and family camped in New York State this summer and writes they especially enjoyed the beautiful Lake Country .

Bev Ryland is back teaching Spanish in Alexandria , Virginia , after an interesting vacation to a remote island, St. Andrea, located off the coast of South America .

Dottie Davis Whittenburger's two boys (13 and 17) are both interested in Boy Scouts-serving as campers and instructors .

Faye Clarke Randle came to see me in August in the middle of some messy house painting (mine, not hers). Her visit was such a pleasant surprise--even if she did have a hard time finding a place to sit. Her husband , Jack , was, that very day, entering Russia as a part of his European trip to attend some medical meetings . Faye's daughter, Diane, enters college this fall. Wouldn't it be interesting to have a count of college enrolled sons and daughters from our class?

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Mrs. John C. Horigan (Mimi Daffron) 4636 Stuart Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23226

I'm back with this job again - temporarily! If you saw the last Bulletin you know that Ollie and Hank are living in Guam now. She is still in the process of getting settled and asked if I would do this for her.

Before she left the states , Ollie had a letter from Margaret Goode Vicars. She enclosed a clipping that had news of Kathleen Abbit King . Kathleen was with us for a short time at W . C. Her husband, Dr .

Kendall W. King, has been the Chairman of the biochemistry and nutrition department at Virginia Tech. He has left this position to join Research Corp., a New York foundation. He will be assistant vice-president for grants for the foundation. The King's daughter, Virginia Lee , was graduated from Blacksburg High in June. Their son, Russell, has completed his freshman year in high school.

Margaret also wrote of a "get-together" in March at Susie Guard Woody's.

Mrs .

Booker was the honored guest. Martha Edwards Allen had written that her daughter completed her freshman year at Averett

College and her fifteen year old son, Robert , had spent the last Christmas holidays traveling in Europe with family.

Most of the rest of the news is of travels and vacations. Bev Patton Browne and her mother took the U of R Alumni tour to Hawaii. They were gone two weeks, spending eight days in Honolulu and the rest of the time visiting the various other Hawaiian Islands . She said it was as beautiful as she had expected it to be.

Bev told me that Mary Lou Cumby 's son, Guyon, had a European vacation with Mary Lou's sister, Catherine.

Florida beckoned , as it always does at vacationtime. Izzy Ammerman Allin and her family made their annual trip . Betty Tinsley Andrews also enjoyed a Florida trip, plus one to Canada.

Sara Frances Derieux and Sam were there in April. They were in Boca Raton for one of the Council meetings for the American Institute of C.P.A.'s . Sara Frances had a card from Opie and J . B. Hudson from Copenhagen. She also received a graduation announcement from Bobby Rock Hardy 's oldest daughter.

Jean Waldrop and her cousin had a nice trip to New England , Cape Cod, Boston, etc. Jack, Johnny and I made almost the same trip in August. Cape Cod is just as pretty as the postcards that you send home.

Homecoming will be on Nov . 1 and 2.

Hope to see you there!

There will be another letter due around Dec . 10 and if your conscience is bothering you because you haven't written, an early Christmas card to Ollie or to me will do just fine. Ollie 's new address is : Mrs. H. H .

Stirling, Jr., 1 Flag Circle, Nimitz Hill, Agana, Guam 96910 . I'll be found at the same old place.

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Mrs. E. T. Gray (Pamela Burnside) Waverly, Virginia 23890

First of all , Kudos to Jean Brumsey Biscoe for her jobs well done! Not only has she kept us up to date on each other, but she had superb success with the 1967-68 Alumnae Fund . Congratulations, too , to the class of 1948 for the wonderful increase in contributions!

Please note the following address changes: Boo Koltukian Cowles (Mrs. S. W. , Jr.) 2373 Crestcliff Drive, Tucker , Georgia 30084.

Pat Adams Woodhead (Mrs. Robert G., III) , "Foxhead," R.D. 2, E . Stroudsburg , Pa. 18301.

I write this in the aftermath of getting a daughter off to college. Kay is a freshman at Hollins this year. So I feel a wee bit old right now.

Doris Moore Enni s sent a wonderful clipping for our scrapbook - in it she discusses her teaching and counseling roles on the Peninsula for the past twenty years.

Doris , as director of personnel for the City of Hampton School System, has been in a whirl this summer attempting to secure enough teachers to fill vacancies, and also to hire 100 new kindergarten teachers .

Doris sent news of Millicent Hutcherson Taylor and Jim, who had visited them. The Taylors had an extensive trip to the southwest this summer where Jim attended the NEA convention in Dallas. The family went along and toured afterwards.

A call from Hannah Barlow Bain brought news of her little boy who has just entered kindergarten. She had talked to Janice Conant McCoy whose older son has left for four months' basic training in the National Guard at Fort Wood , Missouri . Janice and her younger two had spent part of their summer in Chincoteague.

Hannah Barlow Bain and Jack are the proud parents of a daughter , Robin Barlow, born September 18th.

Mary Cross Marshall wrote news of Jo Hoover Pittman, who incidentally has a new neighbor! Boo Koltukian Cowles has moved nearby and the two have gotten together. Jo and her family travelled over the east coast thi s summer , stopping in Richmond, and Fredericksburg where they saw Frances Orrell Dunn . Mary and her family made some trips to Virginia Beach during the summer , and especially enjoyed the art show there. Mary says she is an "amateur artist " these days and plans to continue lessons this fall after her girls get back in the routine of school. She and Bob were looking forward to the Centennial Convention of Pi Kappa Alpha in Richmond, and were hoping to see many Richmond College alumni .

From Jean Brumsey Biscoe come s word that Betty Hickerson Butterworth had undergone major surgery . We all hope that you are fine now, Betty. Faye Hines Kilpatrick and Bob had planned a visit to Virginia Beach with the Biscoes, but the trip had to be cancelled because of a last minute meeting of Bob's . However, they expected to get to Richmond to take Pat to the University of Richmond in September.

Pat Adams Woodhead wrote a wonderful letter describing "Foxhead," the home that she and Bob have recently purchased. They (with the help of a part-time carpenter ) have "finished the interior from studs to crown molding with <lentils!" Pat expla ins that the house is built of all old materials in the Georgian colonial style with columns , but left unfinished by the previous owner .

Her contribution, besides planning the interior , was taking three coats of paint off all the doors and trim , sanding and then painting the interior. Pat says it took all of her time for five months, but was a very gratifying experience. She has one piece of advice for any 48er considering adding-on, etc . "Don't hesitate to do part of it yourself." Please send a picture for the scrapbook , Pat! Shawn (Pat's 14 year old daughter) is an avid tennis player and her son Robby ( 8) is a would-be carpenter.

I had lunch the other day with Monty Elliott Ownby who said that Russell was busy with her four children and the new house she and Wiley are building in Lynchburg . Monty had seen Sarah Bishop Wilbourne whose oldest daughter Sally is a sophomore at William and Mary. Sally was a member of the Teen Club at Miller and Rho ads this summer , and had some grand pictures in the Richmond paper.

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Mrs. Raymond Hooker, Jr. (Beth Wilburn) 3000 Stratford Road Richmond, Virginia 23225

As I take over as your class secretary for the coming year I am hampered by having absolutely no information on group leaders or lists of class members . Whoever was to be the class secretary for the third and fourth years simply never materialized.

Randy Mann Ellis was a great sport and continued on past her original two years for some time . Thanks so much , Randy , for doing such a grand job .

Randy wrote Mary Ann Petticord Williams that her four girls would be gone all summer. One girl was going to Europe and another to a tennis camp in California .

She and Dick were going to stay home and enjoy their lovely new tennis court.

Mary Ann , Bow, and their children took a fabulous trip to California this summer.

They, then , spent the month of August at Virginia Beach . Mary Ann's daughter. P am , is a senior at Collegi ate this year where she is president of the student body . Mary Ann as usual is busy with many civic jobs . She is also acting as a liaison between the college girls and the administration seeing that the girls get the extra coke machines , curtains , etc. that they need in the dormitorie s.

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I understand Audrey Bradford Saupe has a lovely home in Connecticut. It's great to have Audrey back in this country after so many years. Her address is 89 Dabney Road , New Canaan, Conn . 06840.

Mimi Anderson Gill and Bill took their three boys to Grand Bahama Island this summer and then took a week touring Florida from Key West to Jacksonville.

They got off to an ominous start when an engine on their plane caught fire and they had to land in Charlotte with the runways covered with foam and crash equipment standing by. Fortunately all went well and they went on to have a glorious vacation.

Terry Kelly Ashworth and Dave sold their antique shop in Greenville, S. C. and have moved to Florida where Dave is with Montgomery Ward. How about an address?

Mary Burton Haskell McKenzie has moved to Georgia where her address is Mrs . Kermit E. McKenzie, 206 West Benson St., Decatur , Ga . 30030.

When I chatted with Bobby Rhodewald Forrest the other day, she was frantically trying to get Chuck ready to leave for school in New Jersey. She and her mother took a fabulous cruise to South America last February , covering all the beautiful islands between here and Buenos Aires. She had a lovely visit with Jane Dens McManigal the day before she sailed.

Peggy Harris Barnett has now opened a bridal . shop in Richmond . Called Bride House, it is located on Franklin St. This make s three shops for Peggy, the other two located in Harrisonburg and Roanoke. We're proud of you , Peggy .

The Hookers had a very quiet summer with two boys away at camp and another in summer school. Elizabeth spent all her time at horse shows . We were able to slip away for two weeks with the children in Canada at the Seigniory Club, which we thoroughly enjoyed . Right now I'm busy sewing name tapes for our oldest child who is going to Christchurch this year.

Remember next year is our 20th reunion so let 's start making plans.

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Mrs. R. M. Martin (Jean Tinsley} 9510 Newhall Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

We welcome back to Richmond Doris Lee Reeves Childress and her family. They have moved here from New Jersey and their new address is 9205 Venetian Way, Rich 0 mond . Doris Lee 's husband is executive director of the Children 's Home Society of Virginia. They hope this will be their last move for a long time for their son, Tripp , started the seventh grade this year and doesn 't want to change schools again .

One of the members of our class , Alice Clarke Lynch, made the headlines in the local newspapers this summer as a delegate from the 3rd District of Virginia to the Republican Convention in Miami, Florida .

She has recently been appointed chairman of the board of Housing and Hygiene of the City of Richmond .

Joyce Betts Pierce was in Florida this summer. She went as a -group leader of the Richmond chapter of TOPS to its convention in Miami.

This spring , Gene Hart Joyner , and Elizabeth Givens Pierce from Richmond met Rosa Lou Soles, Frances Sutton Oliver, and Ruth Pitman Gurley in Kilmarnock , Virginia and went on a Garden Tour of the Northern Neck.

This summer , Libby Pierce and family, and Barbara White Balderson and family rented cottages at Lost River State Park in West Virginia. Barbara had Christy Kostyal, Helen Lampathakis Kostyal's middle daughter , with her. Doris Balderson Burbank and her husband went up on the weekend to vacation also.

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spent a month camping-traveling all the way to the west coast. Along the way they also visited Atlanta, San Antonio, Texas and Tucson .

My family also went camping this summer and went to the Hemisfair in San Antonio.

It was a wonderful experience .

Several girls in the class have received such inspirational letters from Joanna Maiden that I wish we · had the space to enclose one . Joanna resigned from the Baptist Foreign Mission Board in May and is doing public health work in Prestonsburg, Kentucky . Joanna is doing such worthwhile work that I hope your thoughts and prayers will still be with her in the United States as they were when she was in Nigeria for as Joanna stated, "missions is Christian living wherever God places one."

The sympathy of our class is extended to Dot Warner Gardner in the passing of her father this spring.

It is always so good to talk to Gatewood Holland Stoneman. Her two oldest girls, Marion and Gatie are on the DEB Council of Thalhimers Department Store and are also busy entering foods and crafts in the annual State Fair.

Mary Sullivan Tinder and family were in and out of Richmond several times this summer. They spent the summer at their new "retreat" farm house in Faber, Virginia ( outside of Charlottesville) .

Josephine Martens spent a lot of her summer at the Diamond Spring Lodge in Denbille , New Jersey doing volunteer work with the blind ladies. Her aunt gave her a brailler for her birthday this year and she says "I am like a kid with a new toy."

We have news of Barbara Beattie Fanney and it's wonderful to find her again. Skip , her husband , became an Industrial Hygienist for IBM this year. They are living at 606 Tateswood Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40402 with their three children; Rick age 10, Julie age 8 and Keith age 6.

Libby Givens and I gave a coffee for the · Richmond girls this spring and talked about reunion-to-come and the ways to pep up our Newsletter. Many present felt they would like to see short write-ups on the class members so with this letter I will include three such short write-ups and will end each issue this way. Tf you like this let me know.

Frances Sutton Oliver, 711 Mayland Drive, Newport News, Virginia 23601. Husband: Raymond, minister of First Christian Church of Hampton, Virginia. Children : Ray 14, Bill 11, Cynthia 8.

Rosa Lou Soles Johnston, Box 715, Kilmarnock , Virginia 22482 . Husband : Mandley , lawyer. Children : Karen 12, Janie 9, Cindy 8, M. Ray 6.

Ruth Pitman Gurley, 155 Milstead Road , Newport News , Virginia . Husband: Rudy , manager of Warwick Drug Company . Children: Bill, high school student and Mike, elementary student.

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Mrs. M. M. Yagel (Bobbie Brown} 7709 Brookside Road Richmond, Virginia 23229

Returning to the classroom this fall with their children will be Norma Streever Doss, teaching kindergarten in Chesterfield County; Betty Munsey Spatz, first grade teacher in Annandale, Va.; Suzanne Holt Bagley, fourth grade teacher at a private school in Kenbridge, Va.; and Lea Thompson Osborne, another fourth grade teacher. Lea moved in June to Parkview Drive, Rt. 8, Eastview, Frederick, Md . 21701.

Planning to substitute teach this year in the Richmond area is Anne Marie Hardin Bailey. She and her two daughters have moved to Richmond to await the return of her husband, Ben , from Viet Nam. Her new address is 8814 Three Chopt Road.

Trekkers and vacationers include Jo As-

bury Hopkins, who camped with husband, Hal, and sons in the Mid-West ; Anne Plunkett Rosser , who camped with husband, Buddy, and sons at Hungry Mother State Park ; Betty Munsey Spatz who spent three weeks camping with the family in New England and Canada, with a visit to Expo '68; and Joan Dalve Heizer who spent most of the summer packing and unpacking between trips to their cottage in Nags Head and home . Joan's family also traveled to Chincoteague for the famed Pony Round-up .

A summary of our talented ones includes Mary Booth Wyatt, who is busy as president of the Episcopal Church Women; Jane Slaughter Hardenbergh, who gave an organ recital August 18, presented by the University of Colorado College of Music and Creative Arts Program; Ibby Gill White , newly elected president of the Bowie, Md . music teachers organization , who also played in the Annual Fine Arts Festival of Bowie; and Frances Allen Schools who has become one of the hottest public relations gals in Richmond. Frances' latest coup is PR manager for the National Tobacco Festival and PR for the State's Lions' Convention. Frances also edits the Youth Section of the Richmond News Leader. For the class, I'd like to express our sympathy to Frances, whose father died January 9.

My dubious talent of tennis-playing payed off with my first trophy this summer as women's champion at our neighborhood recreation association. With my husband 's driving team trophies and my two sons swimming trophies, I was forced to add something to the family trophy case .

Patty Smith Kelley treated three Westhampton alumnae and their mates to a delightful dinner patry this summer. Sue Pitts Hodder, Patty and I enjoyed this opportunity to catch up on news from Anne Jackson Morledge . Anne now lives in Williamsburg where her husband is assistant to the president of Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., in charge of planning and expansion.

Also this summer Myron and I were the guests of Elizabeth McRae Dudley and husband on their lovely yacht in Norfolk.

Elizabeth's florist business has grown by leaps and bounds . She is now doing flowers for weddings and other social events.

Helen Clark Hensley writes about her summer visit from Cornelia Gates Dobyns, her freshman roommate. (Remember the Gates' twins?) Cornelia, the mother of two daughters , now lives in Pulaski , where she and her husband have both logged many hours as airplane pilots. Helen adds that the Hensleys love Roanoke where Dick will have an educational TV sports program every Wednesday night.

Last issue we reported a new baby for Gina Herrink Coppock . Gina writes that her son Robert Ellis, who was born April 2, was adopted when three weeks old .

I'll be pinch-hitting for Paula while she and her family are in California. The cry of all group leaders is that YOU will not reply to their pleas for news. If you 've forgotten your leader's address, make a note of mine and write soon.

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Mrs. Charles Wright (Sarah Barlow} Rt. 2, Box 88 Smithfield, Virginia 23430

The big news with us is that all of our group leaders have been chosen. Here are the nine : Barbara Cawthorne Clarke , Charlotte Babb Edmonds , Isabel Sanford Rankin, Marian Lacy Mahon, Henri Dow Vinson, Jeanne Hootman Hopkins, Nola Texley Breckenridge, Kathleene Cooke O'Bier, Nancy Clement Edmonds. We sincerely want these leaders to serve along with me until our twentieth reunion in '72.

One exception is Barbara Cawthorne Clarke who after ten years as an excellent group

leader rightly deserves a rest. One of you will be asked to take her place.

If, by the time you receive this Bulletin, you do not know which of the nine is your group leader; write me directly . There is not space to give a complete listing of groups here . Once you know your leader, don't feel that you must wait until you hear from her . Send her your news when it happens!

Nola Texley Breckenridge is leading the group formerly served by Joyce Bell Cody .

Nola's husband, Bob, returned safely from Vietnam in April. They remained in California until June so that she (teaching) and the children (fourteen year old son, twelve year old daughter) could complete the school year. They came to the East Coast via Lake Louise and Banff which she describes as truly marvelous. In Arlington they lived in an apartment until they could move into their house August 1st. The new address is 1506 South Twenty-second St., Arlington, Virginia 22202 . The slow process of settling has been complicated by slow furniture deliveries. Nola will not be teaching this year.

Kathleene Cooke O'Bier, another new group leader, was instrumental in getting these '52ers together for a delightful .luncheon at Miller & Rhoads tearoom in August: Eleanor Persons Hays, Marianne Shumate Jensen, Kathleene and me. Marianne's fivemonth-old daughter was the center of attraction.

News has arrived on Hermina Hochman Kolchin. She is married to Leonard Kolchin (June 19, 1967), who is an industrial engineer, a Georgia Tech graduate, working toward his masters degree at Ball State University. He is now with Westinghouse Electric Power Transformer Plant in Muncie, Indiana . They have a baby daughter, Kay Elizabeth, born July 1, 1968. Their address is 1602 Winthrop Road, Muncie, Indiana 47304 . Hermina 's last position was as a reading specialist for the U. S. Government. in Pennsylvania , where she was a T. C. Ambassador.

Holiday hints: Send one of your cards with a sentence or two to your group leader this year. Don 't throw away cards from classmates, send them our way . Let me worry about duplicates!

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Mrs. Robert J. Synovitz (Jane Lanier) 131 Doe Run Macomb, Illinois 61455

Betty and Joe Allen have moved to Dover, Delaware where Joe has opened the Allen Travel Agency, Inc . Their daughter, Susan, is almost two years old now . Boog's new address is: 537 Roberta Ave., Dover, Delaware 19901.

My husband Bob has accepted a new position as Chairman of the Department of Health Education at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois.

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Mrs. Clifford White (Nancy Johnson) 6413 s. Mayfield Lane Mechanicsville, Virginia

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I apologize for missing the last Bulletin.

My 97 year old grandmother, who was spending the winter with me, died very suddenly in April. This had the household in a state of confusion when the news was due.

I had a nice card from Margery Moore Taylor, who was thrilled with her two weeks tour of the Hawaiian Islands, sponsored by the U of R Alumni. Her mother and daughter, Lucile, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School, accompanied her.

Mariah Chisholm Hasker has moved to Texas, where husband , Bill, is an auditor for Humble Oil Co. Their new address is 14914 Carolerest Drive, Houston, Texas

77024 . Mariah is a member of the League of Women Voters; a former member of the Local Fair Housing Council, Lutherville, Md.; and served briefly as president of the Baltimore chapter of Westhampton College Alumnae , from which she had to resign due to their move. Bill and Mariah have three children, Terry (William Terrell) , Peter Rolfe, and Martha Emes. Mariah requests that if any W. C. girls get down her way to please call.

Maritza Garrido McManus is living in Hidden Hills , California, with husband , Basil, and their two children, Mary Monica and Basil Andrew. Maritza received her M.D. from M.C .V . in 1959, and did postgraduate studies, specializing in pediatrics at the California Pediatric Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is now practicing pediatrics, and is a member of Footlighters, a woman's charitable organization, which supports a child guidance clinic. Basil is specializing in anesthesia.

Jean Ruddle Migneault and Earle have been on the move again. Earle has finished his course work at Johns Hopkins University for his Ph.D. and they are now back in Hampton where he is with NASA and has his thesis to write . Their new address is 19 Wendell Drive, Hampton, Va. 23366.

Jean worked as a computer programmer for N.A .S. until September of 1966. She, now , is a busy housewife, and the mother of a daughter, Monique Jean. Jean sent news that George and Gracie Mason Evins have a son, David George.

Jean Williams Lumsden and Ernie live at 306 Isabel Street , Greensboro, N . C. 27401. They have three children. Jean is taking courses to qualify for a North Carolina teacher's certificate, and works part time administering developmental tests to children connected with a demonstration nursery project associated with the University of North Carolina, and they are members of the Unitarian Fellowship.

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Mrs. Steve Smith (Pat McElroy) 103 Hamoton Drive Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401

Ann Peery Frederick wrote that she was moving on July 1st six blocks away to 4108 Cambridge Road, Richmond , Va . 23221.

She was planning to spend most of her summer working on her new house and yard with a trip in the latter part of the summer to Tazewell and to Hungry Mother Park .

She sent me a newspaper clipping of herself wearing long blue and white print culottes which she modeled in a show sponsored by the Richmond Club . Ann served on the "Purpose, Planning and Staffing Committee" for Westhampton alumnae this year which found our new alumnae secretary .

Julia Hubbard Nixon wrote that she had just finished commuting 7000 miles back and forth to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in order to earn the M.Ed. degree with a concentration in school librarianship. This project was accomplished through the help of Sam Jr. (9), Arden (6) and Juliana (5) and husband Sam. Julia and Sam are both now serving as elementary school librarians in area schools . The children enjoy their work because they bring films, filmstrips, and books home to examine and use the children as guinea pigs.

Helen Melton Lukhard and Dee flew to Tampa, Florida in February to visit his parents. In April they took a trip to Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, V. I. which was most enjoyable. She was able to recall and use her Spanish while down there which I'm sure I couldn't do. This summer they had their usual restful vacation down on the Potomac. In June they were visited by Bev and Owen Shull who were in Richmond for Owen 's MCV reunion. Helen helped Dee with his open house for his new market on Libbie Avenue . I must stop and see it my

next trip to Richmond with its carpets , draperies, chandeliers, and gold shopping carts.

This has been a record year for me because I got letters from both my college roommates . Betty Brinkley Hayward wrote that her daughter , Jane , keeps her busy , and she and John have spent a lot of time working on their yard and fruit trees. Virginia Jones Miller and Bob went on Cruise Week sailing in the Bay with Helen Kinnett Peach and Bill. Virginia visited Ann Pope Kitchen and Roger and son, Keith, 4, while they were vacationing at Buckroe Beach . Virginia plans to be busy this fall as president of the local chapter of the Westhampton Alumnae Association. Dottie Stiff Price as vice-president.

This has been a busy summer for my family. Our new house was completed in August and we moved to 102 Hampton Drive , Fredericksburg , Virginia 22401 in the heat of the summer. Trying to get the house settled , the children started in new schools and activities , and working as a mathematician at Dahlgren doesn't leave me with many spare moments. Our vacation this year was decreased to a long restful weekend in Pinehurst , N. C. which was very pleasant. If you're traveling by Fredericksburg , please call or visit.

Don't forget the Martha Boatwright Rice Memorial when you send in your contributions to the Alumnae Association. With the new Fine Arts Building opening we should be thinking about what we want to give in Mott's memory.

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Mrs. Claude W. Anderson (Nancy Day) Buckingham, Virginia 23921

A letter was written to Mrs. Leslie Booker on behalf of our class upon her retirement as the Alumnae Secretary. In her answer to us , Mrs. Booker thanked us for our cooperation and knew that we would assist the new Alumnae Secretary in every way .

She also stated that she was looking forward to her retirement , and if ever any of us were in Richmond, she would look forward to having us visit her. Mrs. Booker will be missed by us all. In every way she has done an outstanding job with the alumnae of Westhampton College .

Beverly Ambler Richardson moved the first of July to Bowling Green , Kentucky .

Her husband , Charles , has completed a residency in Internal Medicine with a sub specialty in Cardiology . He will join a large multispecialty clinic in Bowling Green .

From the time that Bev was married until John, age 3 ½, was born, she was a case worker for the state of Tennessee Department of Public Welfare , placing children for adoption . Bev's parents are living in Columbia, which is close to Fork Union , where her father has two small churches .

Marcia Slaven Moss's husband , Burton, has resumed his practice of pediatric allergy after two years in the Navy , stationed in Norfolk . The last of their four children will begin nursery school in the fall , leaving Marcia free for community activities. Her address in Norfolk is 6851 Fordwick Drive .

Mt. Vernon , Indiana is the new hometown of Carolyn Naumann Robertson and family . Jim was promoted to Specialist in Quality Control , and they were transferred to Mt. Vernon in April , which is near the Kentucky border. Their colonial home is located at 723 Mulberry and both Carolyn and Jim are remodeling the house . The fireplace is being taken out of the living room and a larger one built with new mantle; radiators are being moved, floors sanded, old wallpaper removed , chair rail and crown molding installed, and lot s of black varnish stripped off the old woodwork. The house has five bedrooms , two porches , beamed kitchen , beamed family room , living room, dining room, and two

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big halls. Carolyn is also busy making drapes , refinishing furniture and antiques.

As this is being written my thesis is being typed for my Master 's Degree in Education with emphasis in English from Longwood.

It consisted of a survey on all the public schools in Virginia, concerning the speech classes and the forensic activities. It is really more of a status quo study of the state. If it is accepted , I will be through on July 19th . There are several more of you who were to receive your Masters Degree this _summer. Please let me hear from you so that we may put it in the Bulletin.

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Miss Betty Blair Rhodes 1623 Nottoway Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227

Susie Prillaman Wiltshire is now teaching full-time at St. Catherines. She has completed the classroom work for her master's degree from the University of Richmond, but still has her thesis to complete. Her husband , Charles, is now head of the language department at Collegiate School.

Eugenia Borum spent two weeks this summer visiting Morocco, Spain and Portugal. Due to being sick a large part of the time she was gone, she especially appreciated the chance to sit down for a while in the cathedrals.

Suzanne Kidd kept up her busy pace even this summer. Most of her time was spent working on her Ph.D . in Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This endeavor , which is just in its beginning stages , will take quite a while to complete. Just before the University of Richmond opened this fall she took a short pleasure trip to Europe .

Emily Dameral King and Bob are finding out something about the responsibilities attached to being homeowners. Much of the remodeling needed in their home on Towana Road in Richmond has been pushed off for the necessities of making the place liveable .

Bob has now completed his residency at MCV. He is on the faculty in the Ophthalmology Department and has a small parttime practice.

Kay Ownby received her Masters of Teaching Science from William and Mary this summer.

Peggy Ware and her family took a month 's vacation and drove across the United States this summer. They took the Alaskan Highway, visited relatives in Anchorage and drove back across Canada and down the east coast of the U . S. Patricia Steckman Shifflett received her M .A. in Humanities from University College this summer. She now has a new job as supervisor of English for the Chesterfield County Schools.

Nancy Goodwyn Hill is planning to take a course in Early Childhood Programs and Procedures at Virginia Commonwealth University this year. She is looking toward the possibility of being certified to teach kindergarten one of these days .

Karen Diedrich Gardner wrote that Jim has now resumed orthopedic practice in Virginia Beach with his original partners after serving two years with the Air Force .

Her youngest girl, Sandra, started kindergarten this year . Some who remember the birth of Karen and Jim 's oldest daughter will be shocked to realize that Kari is now in the 5th grade. She received two prizes for her art work in the Illinois fair and is now learning to play the guitar. The boy in the family, Doug , is in the 2nd grade. · Nancy Jane Cyrus wrote that she and her sister vacationed in Myrtle Beach , S. C. and Charleston , S. C . this summer. She especially enjoyed Myrtle Beach. While in Charle ston she had a chance to visit Carolyn Smith Yarbrough . She reported that Smitty has a lovely home, two nice children and is enjoying the Charleston area .

Pat Doggett Colonna reported that her

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biggest news was the latest addition to their family . Catherine Lynn was born on March 15. Beth is 5 now and started kindergarten this fall . David is as active as any typical two year old . Husband, Bill, is involved in a new city wide youth ministry which runs a downtown coffee house in High Point. He continues his job as Planning Director for the city.

A note from Annette Hasty Walton reported that she and her family have been in transit since May 22nd when they left Alaska for Portland, Maine. She is now settled. Her address is 255 Mitchell Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Jo Anne Garrett West had an excellent excuse for missing our Tenth Reunion . On May 9 she and Bill became the proud parents of their first child, Edward Garrett.

Bill is now an assistant professor of classics at the University of North Carolina. They hope to be settled in Chapel Hill for a few years. Now that Jo Anne has stopped being a librarian she finds that the working world and a mother's world are poles apart.

Libby Jarrett Burger wrote that she and her family have recently moved. Their address is 4267-1 Wilmington Drive, Andrews AFB, Washington, D. C. 20331. She said they are now living on base and just love it. They will be in this location for another year. Then they expect to move to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Wilbur will be setting up practice.

Peggy Williams Lowe reported that her husband Frank was made acting Dean of Chowan College in May. He had been in the Department of Religion and received his Ph .D. this past winter from Emory University. 4 year old Gregg and Lori Lynn who is almost 2 keep Peggy busy.

Shortly after our Tenth Reunion Katheryn Smith Ford and her family moved to 5214 Devonshire Road , Richmond, 23225.

Information has also come in that Virginia Harris Famming is living in Vermont.

She can be reached by addressing mail c/ o Department of Music, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.

I am sure each class member would join me in expressing sincere sympathy to Mary Alice Revere Eastwood whose father drowned near his home in Gloucester in July.

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Mrs. Ralph Haga, Jr. (Carolyn Nash) Prospect, Virginia 23960

"Getting back into the swing of fall activities is pretty much of an adjustment for mamas as well as children-no more sleeping late or casual morning coffeeing.

It's back to hot breakfast, carpools, and club work ." This from Gary Moore Barnes.

Some of us had extra special summers .

Janice Dowdy Briggs and Ed have a new adopted son , Edward Burton Briggs III, who was born March 29 and moved to their home on June 12.

On June 18 Kevin Wayne Crews was born to Peggy Dulin Crews and Merrill . ( "We think he is the greatest! !") In September the family came to Culpeper to see both sets of grandparents , and stopped overnight in Richmond with Bev Eubank Evans. Merrill has accepted a new jobExecutive Director of the South Florida Hospital Council (a council of 45 hospitals in the Miami area) and they will move in October to Apt. G-107, 7220 S.W . 83rd St. Plaza, Miami , Fla. 33143 .

Jo Edwards Mierke and Eddie announce the arrival of Kenneth Edward Mierke on June 29. Karen is especially proud of her brother and is usually too eager to help.

Pat MacDonald Allen and Dick have adopted a baby girl, Rebecca Lynne . She was born while they were on vacation so they arrived back home to find her waiting.

Her birthday was July 17 and she moved in with them on August 7. They are very happy and pleased and she is doing well.

Mark had his second birthday on July 19.

Another nice "We've adopted a baby'' announcement came from Jean Martin Wyndham and Herb, telling of Christopher Martin Wyndham. Chris was born August 15. "This was unexpected and the opportunity was too great to pass up . We were told about Chris by my doctor on Monday, August 20 and we got him the very next day , August 21, when he was 6 days old .

We were quite unprepared but are beginning to settle."

B. J. Stamps Bryant and Dan have a new little son born in June . The baby literally has two mothers, as Beth, age 8, loves to take care of him. B. J. and the children have visited with her parents in Alexandria several times since Don and B. J . moved. They have bought a home on a ½-acre lot and love the spaciousness .

Congratulations to all the new arrivals and their happy parents!

There are a host of new addresses . Here they are in alphabetical order : Eileen Cordle is living at 4803 Burtfield Drive, Richmond, Va . 23231.

Peggy Dulin Crews-listed above.

Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist and Jerry have moved to a larger home one block from their old address, to: 8815 Turnbull Ave., Richmond .

Frankie Macgowan is now at 114 Memorial Drive , New Castle , Delaware 19720.

Bruce returned from Viet Nam just in time for Thanksgiving last fall ( 1967) so Christmas in their household was much merrier than the previous year. In January they moved to Delaware where Bruce is an advisor to the Delaware National Guard .

He has been promoted to Major. Their daughter Lauri was first in her first grade class, with all A's. Frankie says, "She's a long way from Phi Beta Kappa, but at least it's a step in the right direction ."

Robby, their 2-year-old, continues to be their demolitions expert. Frankie says they are only a 4-hour drive from Richmond , and invites us all to come up.

Barbara Dulin Polis has a nice 3-bedroom, 2 bath home at 2309 Indiana Ave ., Homestead A.F.B., Florida , 33030 . "We sure like it here at Homestead. Charlie is one of two urologists at the hospital. I am thankful his residency is over-decent hours at last! Chuck begins first grade Sept. 3 and Laurie is now in her terrible two 's. House is very spacious-the yard is large , too , and much to Chuck's delight has 3 coconut trees . I have given up bowling for tennis.

Joined the OWC tennis club--glad to be doing some exercise again! We had a great trip to Virginia before arriving here. Also stayed a few days in Orlando with Peg and Merrill. After she moves to Miami she'll be only a 30-minute drive away-how about that? Kevin is a doll. I am going to spoil him to death ."

Margaret Griffin Thompson and Art moved the second week of August, with baby , dog , and 4 of Missy (Bassethound) 's puppies. ("There were 8 but we sold 4 before we moved.") New address is 8508 Benjamin Ave ., Norfolk, Va. 23518. "I put Art on a plane Sept. 4 for a week 's school in California, then Viet Nam for 13 months . Emily and I are staying in Norfolk for the year. I hope to take some college courses to renew my Va. teaching certificate which will expire in June. How I'm going to squeeze it in between everything else is another question."

LaVerne Watson Edwards says Bob was appointed Judge of Isle of Wight County and the town of Smithfield. She is active in Jr. Woman's Club and enjoys a bridge club . Tim is fine- 8 months old-and Becky is 2½ and quite a big girl.

Marguerite Dorsey Fussell has returned to work for the State Lab. Tommy will be two on Sept. 3, and talks quite a bit. Ray is working for Westinghouse now .

Sue Lambiotte and her family have

covered a lot of mileage on their bicycles this summer. There is even a baby seat on one of them for Walker (age 1). Kenny, 4, pedals his own small bike. Sue planned trips to Virginia Beach and to Maine this summer, and she also taught swimming and water ballet. A beautiful romance has bloomed between Walker and Pat Nettles Harrington's one-year-old Courtney.

Pat's seven-year-old Susan broke her arm the last of May which was unfortunate for she is a good swimmer and had been participating in swimming events in that area.

The whole family travelled to California in June on a 2V2-week trip. They spent a week in that state and also went to Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Mt. Rushmore, and other interesting places.

They reserve weekends for their boat, and planned to cruise to Mt. Vernon.

Marion Gates Breeden says that keeping up with 4 is a full-time job, especially when the younger two are only 19 months apart.

Lucius is 3 and James is 1V2. Carlie, their daughter, was 6 in August and has begun first grade and Eddie, 7 ½, is in second.

Both attend Norfolk Academy. In June Marion and Ed, and her sister Jackie and her husband rented an Islander 34 in Dania, Florida, sailed down the Florida coast to Key Largo and then across to Cat Cay ( one of the Bimini Islands of the Bahamas) .

They visited Chua Cay and Bimini before heading home. I regret to note that Marion's father died on May 10 of a heart attack.

Margaret Rutherford Compton says the family spent the summer quietly in Bluefield-swimming, cooking out, and golfing .

The children are well and happy, "especially since they both had a T&A in May." Nancy Kipps Hughey's summer "got off to a bad start when Mike came down with chicken pox just one week before his graduation from kindergarten. He recovered enough to go to graduation (it was quite an affair with real caps and diplomas), but of course that meant Jo Anne broke out two weeks later which greatly complicated Bible School for me. I was supt. of tht> Junior Dept. this year so I had to be there each day-this meant finding baby sitters each day the 1st week, which was quite a job out here in the country! We managed to squeeze in a week 's trip to South Carolina at the end of June when we were all 'half-well.' Ray took a week of his vacation in August, and we visited my home, then went on to the outer banks of N. C., spending a few days at Nags Head. Ray's family visited us during the middle of August. Way back in April we became part owners of a boat. This has provided some enjoyment although it's been hard to find much time to use it. There are lots of places we could go from here via the Potomac but so far we haven't gotten to many of them. Ray has been officially named as Director of the FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) Geo ballistics Division at the Computation and Analysis Lab at Dahlgren, although he moved into the job back in December . His division is concerned with Polaris and Poseidon missile-naturally he was extremely pleased with the recent successful firing of the first Poseidon. It was quite a milestone for all those concerned.

Mike and Jo Anne are growing up so fast it astounds me at times! Mike is eagerly looking forward to starting first grade this fall. Jo Anne will really be lost around here without him-she followed him around most of the time-much to his delight (at times) and dismay (at others)!"

Margaret Tabor Small and her family did a little traveling this summer-to Maine, New York state, Niagara Falls , then on to Ohio and Kentucky to visit relatives. Tracey and Mikie are both good travelers. Mikie is in the second grade and likes school.

Cary Hancock Gilmer writes, "Cary Lee started public school kindergarten this fall , so this has been an exciting time at our

house. She rides a schoolbus and goes from 12 to 3 P.M. Melanie and I seem to spend most of our time walking her to and from the bus stop ."

Nancy Taylor Rowe and Jimmie have brought a four-bedroom home . They have been busy fixing it up this summer, and are enjoying their "new" old home. Nancy is teaching fourth grade.

Bev Wine Bowers and Al visited Jo Edwards Mierke's household in May. They were still in the process of getting settled in their new home, remodelling a little at a time . "For a variety of reasons, one of which is that I'm chicken, we took Cindy and left Tammy with Mom and Dad. Eileen McCutcheon Hollans and Harold came over one evening and we had a grand time catching up on news. Eileen is a nurse at a nearby hospital. Ours has been a stay-at-home summer. We've had lots of company, which we've enjoyed. We're now looking forward to fall, which is so beautiful here in the mountains."

Miss Chapman has enjoyed her sabbatical leave-stayed in and around Richmond, working and fixing up the house and yard.

She took some short trips to Pennsylvania, went to National Tennis School in Illinois in June-also had a wonderful trip to England and France. She was looking forward to getting back to school and hopes to see all of the '59ers at our 10th Year Reunion next spring .

Margaret Spencer Hernandez came home to Florida in mid-May. Jess' parents spent the spring with her and the children in Italy and babysat while Margaret went to Spain, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, and Palma, Majorca. "Saw Jackie Wright Morris, '58, in Germany in May, and we had lunch together."

Anita Knipling Scott's summer "passed much too quickly for us this year. We did lots of fun things-headed for both the mountains and the beach at different times since June. We undertook our first endeavor in vegetable gardening this year so the freezer is well-stocked for winter. Fred and I helped start a gourmet supper group which meets once a month. We've thoroughly enjoyed it and have certainly learned a lot about cooking. I'll be teaching in the Adult Education Program two nights a week again this winter. Bev Eubank Evans was in Falls Church the last of the summer and she and I took our collective children on a picnic at Cabin John State Park . It was great, as always, to see Bev and we had a very pleasant afternoon." Bev added that Anita has four very nice children!

Bev enjoyed having Peg and Merrill visit her and says Kevin is a precious baby.

Janice Dowdy Briggs came over with her little Ted and they had a nice visit. Everyone says that Ted is really a cute little boy. In June Bev and Tommy joined Bonnie Lewis Haynie and Jerry and two other couples for a golfing weekend at Pinehurst, N. C. Bev is busy this fall with the Tobacco Festival Ball publicity, and is doing a good job. Katherine began first grade this year and lives within sight of Maybeury Elementary School.

Bonnie's son , Scott, also began first grade at Maybeury but is not in Katherine 's room . Bonnie and Jerry enjoyed a trip to Sandbridge Beach this summer with friends, and spent a week in New York, enjoying New York City as well as visiting Jerry 's parents on Long Island. Jerry 's All State office also won a trip to Gaithersburg, Md. for a weekend that was fun.

B. B. Harvey Strum is a real vacationer during the summer. She and Betsy enjoyed visiting the camp where B. B. used to be a counselor, as well as trips to the river and to Waynesboro to visit Sherwood's sister. B. B. is a teacher at Marymount.

Martha Jordan Chukinas has spent the summer getting organized in their new home, but they did spend a week at Nags

Head in August and had a glorious time.

Julia Jett Shepherd is a new member of the Westhampton Jr. Woman's Club, and is secretary of the Richmond Democratic Women's Club. She and Bob also had a week at Nags Head with Bob's family .

I thoroughly enjoyed a long long-distance call from Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum. She is very busy with her two little boys. David, 3½, goes to nursery school this fall. Elizabeth is on the National Board of Westhampton College Alumnae and keeps in close touch with W. C. She also works in the Westhampton Jr. Woman's Club . Elizabeth and Ellis spent a nice, but chilly Labor Day weekend at Ingleside. Incidentally, she and Bev Evans, our current class president , are beginning to plan for our 10th Reunion, which will occur the 3rd weekend in May. Bev Brown Floyd's summer was too rapid and too busy. The agenda included a July trip to Virginia to visit Bev's parents (with an overnight jaunt to Richmond to see Ruth Adkins Hill, Susie Prillaman Wiltshire, '58, and other friends) . Following the Va. visit they drove to Lake Junaluska in N. C. where J. P. met them to enjoy a lovely week of fresh mountain air, canoeing , visiting the Craft Fair in Asheville and the Indian Village in Cherokee. J . P . and Bev are still highly concerned with social tensions in their community. J. P. has become involved with an Office of Economic Opportunity program in a nearby ghetto and Bev hopes to receive training this fall to teach literacy classes. This summer Bev was in charge of the Vacation Church School at their church for two weeks . Bev and her family were looking forward to four days in the Florida Keys , "just loafing and sightseeing ," as the summer ended .

Sylvia Haddock Young and Paige are very excited about construction of their new home, which got underway in the spring. Paige is the contractor! It is a trilevel with Colonial touches. Paige was quite involved in preparing for the Area Crusade for Christ , serving as Music Chairman. He also served as a counselor-teacher at Ridgecrest, N. C. for a national missions conference , and was camp pastor in early August for a state boys' camp in Virginia.

Their summer was also "filled with welcome guests." Eleanor Dickson Campbell, Ruth Adkins Hill , and their children (minus the youngest in each household) spent some time with the Youngs at their beach cottage; also Gene and Ann Ryder with their two boys .

Eleanor's visit to Colonial Beach (at Sibby 's) in June was only the beginning.

In July she and Leslie had their own special weekend (without the children) at the Rappahannock River Yacht Club at Irvington, then Eleanor and the children, her sister Gari , and their mother spent 5 days with an aunt and uncle in the mountains of Giles County. Sailing spiced up the August agenda when the whole family spent a long weekend at a cottage in Deltaville (Chesapeake Bay area) where Leslie sailed in 3 groups of races, winning 2nd, 3rd , and 5th places . Two new members of the Campbell family are Lochinvar , an 8month-old wire-haired fox terrier , and White Cloud, a large white pony with large brown spots. The children are quite delighted with the growing menagerie! Eleanor continues to work two days a week at MCV, and says her household is ever so lively , especially with little Jenny who is so curious about what is in the bottom of a trash can.

Gary Moore Barnes says it's hard to believe that the Barnes family will actually have to "stay put" for awhile! "David is in kindergarten 5 days a week and Page will attend nursery school for 3-year olds on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I will be teaching Sunday Schol (for 2nd graders) so there seems to be a feeling of permanence all of a sudden. Of course we thoroughly enjoyed our summer excursions and will

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continue to look forward to an occasional weekend away. Huntsville now boasts of a pro football team-the Hawks-which helps to meet the needs of a football-mad town such as ours. One last jaunt for me was a trip to Atlanta with 5 other Huntsville housewives for a wonderful two days of shopping and sightseeing. All the husbands stayed home and baby-sat! What a lovely note on which to bid farewell to summer-we did have a ball!"

I want to send out a real big thank you to each of our wonderful group leaders.

They are so faithful, and their work is what binds our class together.

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Mrs. D. M. Ahlers (Clare Earle) 17 Old Stone Road Darien, Connecticut 06820

I received wo,d recently that Joyce Birdsall is engaged to be married in October, to Thomas Joseph O'Toole, Jr., a senior field engineer for Republic Steel Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. Birdie received an M.S. from the University of Maryland in August.

In June I received a nice newsy letter from Peggy Sue Roberts Ferebee, who recently moved to Pennsylvania when Frank was promoted to a position in Quality Control in Owens-Illinois's new plant in Pittston, Pa. Their new address is 6 Sycamore Rd., Grandview Manor , Mountaintop, Pa .

I 8707, just outside of Wilkes-Barre. The Ferebees are enjoying the change from flat Columbus, Ohio to the lovely foothills of the Pocono Mts ., as the view from Mountaintop is spectacular. She enclosed a picture of the Ferebee children, Susan Lynn, who starts 1st grade this fall and David , 2 years. Peggy Sue has been active in PTA work and is already involved in this at Susan's new school. She wants to know if any classmates live nearby; if so, or if anyone visits the vicinity, Peggy Sue would love to see you. In July the family travelled to Va. for a visit and vacation, soaking up some sun at Va. Beach. Peggy Sue enjoyed a luncheon with classmates Sarah Hudgins Rice , Loretta Hudgins and Lynn Mapp Wiggins, where the four had a fine time catching up on the news. Sarah and Fred had just received news that they would be leaving the states for a year in Okinawa .

Fred will hold an administrative position in one of the schools for U. S. military children. They are looking forward to the opportunity to live in the Far East and visit interesting places in the Orient at the same time. Loretta Hudgins is teaching social studies in South Boston. The Wiggineses' busy summer included 2 weeks at Nags Head, lots of boating, golfing, gardening , and was crowned by the arrival of their second daughter, Elizabeth Anne, on Aug. 31. Congratulations to the happy parents, and delighted sister Susan!

At long last I heard from the Light House in Tallahassee, Fla. Jean says that they all experienced a small let-down this year after their wonderful trip to the Orient a year ago. Robley had a chance to travel abroad, however, when he gave a paper at an International Symposium on Natural Products in Great Britain. Jean and son, George Evans enjoyed the trip when he returned with lots of slides. Three-year-old George Evans now swims and dives and is attending nursery school at the Fla. State University 's Institute of Human Development. The three Lights took a "see America first" vacation this summer and visited nearby places of interest in Florida . Their tour took in Marineland , St. Augustine , and the Kennedy Space Center. Jean says the 2Y2-hour bus tour of the Space Center is well worth the time seeing otherwise security areas where rockets are assembled and lunar landing vehicles are presently being tested; it was especially fascinating to a

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this year. Jay is a precinct committeeman small "space man." After that, they visited for the Democratic Party and Gigi was their families in Va. in August. Dr. Robley elected as a full delegate to the Washington Light is the author of a recently published book, "An Introduction to Biochemistry," State Democratic Convention. They both enjoyed their stay in Stanford, which was

by Benjamin Press, which Jean says would highlighted by a weekend at Esalen. Dodie make good reading for anyone interested attended the Far West Ski Assoc. Convenin the field. It is a basic text in biochemistry tion in Newport Beach in May, then foland is now being sold on college campuses lowed that with a trip to Mexico to attend across the country. I know the class joins me in wishing the book much success . the wedding of friends. While there she had the unnerving experience of pulling a I'm sure all of you remember Jean's girlfriend from a car of five would-be sister-in-law, Julie Hollyfield Kosko, who was with our class at Westhampton for 2 kidnappers! In July Dodie sailed out of Santa Barbara on the 90-ft. brigantine "Swift years. Jean reports that Julie has become of Ipswich" and through the Channel an avid horse fan and attended a trainer's Islands. Currently she is busy with the camp this summer at Wilson, N. C. The Chairmanship of the Sno-Queen Contest of Kosko household menagerie now consists Southern California , which is being held at of 2 horses, a colt, 2 dogs and a cat.

From Wake Forest, N. C. comes a Mt. Baldy Oct. 6, and she is also chairman of fund raising for the U. S. Ski Team.

"Hello" to the class and news from Ethel For this cause she engineered two benefit Burton Lee and her family. David is startperformances of the Ice Follies. Believe ing his third and final year of work towards it or not, Dodie also has a full-time job. a Master of Divinity degree at Southeastern Alice Clement Boone sends a very inSeminary.

After that is accomplished he teresting piece of news from Richmond; hopes to continue toward a doctorate or Nancy Rae Taylor Baker's husband, Bill, more specialized clinical training in counhas been named Dean of Students at Richseling. Ethel also studied last year, commond College. The Bakers are naturally pleting 20 hours toward a Master's degree in Religious Education. This year however , very happy about this appointment. I extend the Congratulations of the Class of '60 she is working in the Seminary Library to a very deserving alumnus of Richmond. as head of Circulation and finds it chalJoanie Silverstein Zimmerman and Marlenging and rewarding. The Lee children, vin took the girls (Debbie, 5½, and Sharon, Doug, 5Y2, and Mary Margaret, 3½, are attending the campus Child Care Center , 2 years) to Ocean City, Maryland for a few days this summer. They all enjoyed it which Ethel feels has given them many except for a few panicky moments with experiences they would otherwise miss.

Sharon at dinner time in the restaurants; We heard from many southerners this all parents of 2-year-olds will know what time, among them Melissa Granger Mayo, Joanie means by "instant indigestion." Debwho lives in Brunswick, Ga. Her husband bie starts kindergarten this year.

Edwin is a physician in general practice Those busy Lemmons even stayed busy there with 2 other doctors. Melissa's 2 this summer; Linda and Bob enjoyed several daughters are both in school, Elizabeth in long weekends in Rehoboth Beach, Del. and 2nd grade, and Laura in kindergarten; Linda taught Vacation Church School. She Melissa is serving as secretary for the PTA was chosen by the local Jaycee Wives group at their school and also as secretary for to appear in the '69 edition of Outstanding the Glynn County Medical Auxiliary this Young Women of America. Bob was reyear, so she should be kept pretty busy. cently named to the Board of Directors of Another classmate now in the deep South Enterprise Building and Loan Assoc. of is Mary Frances Gibbs Irwin, who lives Harford Co., which made both happy. in Coral Gables, Fla. Mary Frances and George find that living in the Miami area Good news from the Zinns! Steve recenthas its pains and its pleasures. The sumly passed his Radiology Boards and they mers are miserably hot, but they do enjoy were so happy they spent a week in Miami sailing, fishing, living close to the islands, celebrating their new freedom . Daughter and having a yard full of fruit trees. Those Laura Jeanne leads the 3-year-old lineup fruit trees the lrwins are growing include at the apartment swimming pool diving oranges, grapefruit, lemon, lime , kumquat board, swimming the length of the pool and even bananas. Mary Frances, I think with ease . Our class has certainly produced we'll all be down next January when the some young athletes.

New England winter sets in! George and The Ahlers family spent part of the sumMary had a most pleasant skiing vacation mer on the road, travelling several thousand in Aspen, Col. in March, with perfect miles to visit our families in Ohio and Va. weather and no broken bones. This summer The children and I stayed in Va. for 2 they spent 2 weeks at Roaring Gap, N. C. very hot weeks, where we enjoyed seeing visiting families and friends. This fall Mary many friends and relatives. I spent one fun is busy being secretary to two groups, the day in Richmond and had lunch with Medical Faculty Wives' Club and the NewEvalane Green Slaughter and Jean Morris comers' Club of the University of Miami Dobyns . Jane is working at the Alumnae Women's Club. Her address, for those who office again this year, and Evalane has don't have it, is 625 Gondoliere Ave., Coral retired from library work to be domestic.

Gables, Fla . 33143.

Little David Slaughter progressed enough Dodie Tyrrell was so pleased that she to come home from the hospital on Father 's managed to get in touch with each one of Day, and is now growing like a weed, a the West Coast girls this summer, some very handsome baby. I also saw Meurial via Gigi Greenfield Harris who called . Webb for short visit; she worked at the everyone in the San Francisco area while Baptist Foreign Mission Board this sumshe and Jay were at Stanford. Dru Young mer and will teach 1st grade again. I drove visited her mother in Va. this month , before by the University campus; the new Fine going on to N. Y. and Chicago . Dru is Arts Building is really magnificent and I Sales Manager with Marshall Field Enterfelt very proud to be an Alumna. Any of prises in the San Francisco area . She travels you who haven't seen the campus lately, a great deal on her job and has made I urge you to pay it a visit when you have recent trips to Mexico and Hawaii. She will the opportunity. The rest of our summer be in Greece and Turkey this fall. While was spent mostly enjoying the beach and not travelling Dru is busy remodeling a our new sailboat , a Cal 20. I'm trying to 14-room Victorian house she purchased. learn to crew, but somehow I seem to be all elbows and thumbs on deck. It's a family Jean Chou Lee and family were visited boat, however, Laura and Michael aren't first by Tun's parents and then by Jean's yet convinced that each wave won't capsize father who was on his way from England us. Long Island Sound is really a beautiful to Hong Kong. Jean is still recovering from place to sail and it's good therapy for a all the sight-seeing she conducted. Gigi and N. Y. commuter. Laura loves kindergarten, Jay Harris have been very active in politics

especially the ride on the school bus. It makes me feel sort of antique to have one snaggle-toothed and going off to school.

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Mrs. E. H. Williams, Ill (Gayle Gowdey) 1224 Lanier Road Martinsville, Virginia 24112

I know that all of you join with me in welcoming Mrs. Long as our new Executive Secretary. Let's all strive to make her difficult job a little easier by sending all change of addresses to both her and me.

Betty Pritchett White writes: We have been living in Lexington, Ky. for the past year. Ray is teaching, practicing and doing research at the Dental School of the University of Kentucky . We have been living in an apartment, but have just bought a home and will be moving the first week of October. Our new address will be 3408 Bellefonte Drive , Lexington, Ky. 40502. We are enjoying living in a college town. Sports are great, especially basketball. I've started working on a Master's Degree-very slowly -three hours at a time. Michael Wood, our second child is two years old. Karen is four and goes to kindergarten this year.

Daphne Shepard has interesting news to share with us: We have spent a great deal of time with Betty Wade (Blanton) and Jerry Jones . Bob and Jerry played in the Petersburg Country Club's member guest tournament-wound up playing in the championship flight the second day! ! The four of us vacationed at The Carolinian in Nags Head, N. C. in July and Betty Wade and Jerry spent the Labor Day weekend with us. Sara Elizabeth and Monty continue to fascinate each other, but I don't suppose it will be long before they reach the fighting stage. Joyce Smith Allison has been elected Vice-President of the Fredericksburg Junior Woman's Club. She attended the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs convention at Longwood College this summer. Linda Taylor was married to James Baxter Carter on June 22, in the First Baptist Church in Richmond. They are now living at 500 C. Avenue , Coronado, California. Baxter is a lieutenant in the Navy and goes overseas in January, so Linda is planning to teach .

Love and congratulations to Barbara (Ross) and Alan Cobb whose little girl, Leslie Alan Cobb, was born May 25, 1968.

Gloria Holland Merrifield's peppy postcard says: I am still writing as much as possible and collecting rejection slips . I have lost my opera notes since the girls were born (I'd rather have the girls), but recently sang a medley for the Alabama State Librarians Convention, and later for the Huntsville Christian Women's Club. I am Second Vice President for the Huntsville Branch of AAUW this year as well as a busy, happy housewife and mother.

Honestly, I am exhausted just reading about the activities of each of you . Anne Mills Sizemore writes of her unbelievable schedule : This has been an exceptionally busy summer for us. For the first time since the birth of our boys I have gone back to work . I am the math tutor in a new program at South Georgia College, just for the summer. This program is a pilot one in the country to prepare the high-risk students, the under achievers, for the regular college program in the fall. I work individually with these students in a classroom-lab situation. It is very personally rewarding . This spring I was installed as president of the South Georgia College Faculty Women. This organization includes faculty, faculty wives and staff-about 80 of us. Our function is mostly social. There was only a brief vacation in Atlanta for us at the start of the summer. In August we will visit Virginia and the grandparents.

Here are the contents of Doralee Forsythe Richardson's "exhausting" postcard: For

two weeks, we had as our house guest an elementary teacher from Sweden; we applied for her through the American Host Program in New York, which brings European teachers to the U.S.A. for a month .

Also, my parents visited us for a week, followed by Lee's brother for a week. All that time, I was in summer school-I'm taking courses and may try for a Ph.D . In addition, I've been teaching conversational English classes this summer for foreigners.

Lynne Stephenson Cox sounds busy and happy : This summer has been hot and expensive. We made several home improvements-patio cover, cooling system, tiled the bath, etc . My mother visited with us for three weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed taking her around L. A. Parting was sad. Virginia is just too far away. Cameron learned to swim at four years of age-very slow compared to the Crosby children, but we are pleased. Douglas talks and runs from me at this stage of his development. I spend much of my time keeping things out of his mouth-snails , roly bugs and glass. Skip and I stay on the go with church couples club activities, neighborhood parties and the Civic Light Opera. We try to mark off the entertainment spots and restaurants on our list of "musts," but I may take forever in L. A. We are spending a few days in Vegas in September.

Evelyn Spivey Drum writes: Our big news is that John has received his second promotion of this year, and is being transferred to the Birmingham headquarters of the newly formed South Central Bell. We have bought a "Rustic Modern" tri-level home , into which we'll be moving on August 29.

Our new address is 3237 Monte d'Oro Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35216 . As for our new phone number would you believe 823-0000? ? I'd love to hear from any alumnae down this way .

Jennie Stokes Howe writes from Corpus Christi, Texas: We'll be here until January , when Bob leaves for Viet Nam for a year and Glenn and I head back to Virginia.

At present we are all three enjoying fishing and swimming. In the month since we arrived, Glenn has cut his first four teeth, so we've all been busy. We enjoyed seeing Lisa Clark and their two boys in Meridian , Mississippi on our way down here. Lisa was as full of life as ever and looking forward to Ludlow's return this month from Viet Nam . He'll be starting on his Ph.D . in zoology at the University of Mississippi this fall. Jane Gochenour Archer wrote recently of their new addition born in Wisconsin, Laird Fitzpatrick Archer.

Minna Wilson Hall writes from her new address at 312 Auburn Drive, Little Rock , Arkansas 72205: We moved to Little Rock in July. Bill finished his residency in June and is now on the staff of the University of Arkansas Medical School in gastroenterology. I'm thoroughly enjoying our new house here , as well as our newest addition to the family. Our second son , Scott, was born on July 22.

Judy VandrBoegh Carroll writes: Bob and I moved to Roanoke on April I, 1968. We have a lovely new split level home in Penn Forest, Southwest Roanoke. We have enjoyed our new neighbors so much . The children (Rebecca, 5 and Andrew , 2) have so many new friends and have adjusted nicely to the move . Rebecca starts kindergarten next week and is really looking forward to "going to school." Bob opened the Roanoke branch of Everett Waddey. He has a lovely showroom of office furniture and also specializes in office supply. I've been busy decorating our new home and organizing a Garden Club .

Mary Catherine Sellers Dunn writes : Please thank everyone who contributed to the 1967-68 Alumnae Fund . We really do appreciate it. (I don't have the final results yet but we did quite well I feel sure .)

Those who helped did a tremendous job.

Please remind people to send things for the scrapbook. I still do not have very much .

Suzanne DuPuy Black 's new address is 1931 Denton Drive, Richmond , Va. 23235: We moved to Richmond, August 4thfound our new house not finished, so we moved in with Gwynn Barefoot Raper for four days-and are we ever thankful for her! We have joined the club of happy homeowners-a new experience for us. Don is starting an Episcopal mission here near Bon Air , and will begin holding services September 15th in the basement of nearby St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church. His work is moving along well, and shows great possibilities of growth . I love being back here , and seeing old friends and knowing I'm near W. C .

Jean Stonestreet Mann writes of a busy summer: We started with Bible School which the children enjoyed very much . We, then, spent a week at Southern Shores, N . C., which is near Nags Head. This was probably the high spot of our summer. We had a lovely cottage right on the ocean .

Pete caught lots of blue fish which made us all happy. Right now we are involved in the Centennial Convention of Pi Kappa Alpha here . Pete is active in the Richmond Alumni Association which is acting as host for the convention. Russell, who will be five in the late fall , is going to nursery school. Elizabeth, who just turned two this summer, is talking my ears off. I'm getting ready to start Jr. Woman's Club work again. We are going to do a great deal of work with the Virginia Treatment Center this year.

Mary Ellen Deckelman writes : This summer the State provided the opportunity for me to attend The Chapel Hill Workshops for persons working in or with child caring institutions. That was quite an experience and was of particular interest to me since my graduate thesis had contained many references to this fine training programone of the few of its kind sponsored by a school of social work in the country. I also met people from all over the U . S. and some from foreign countries .

Anne Coleman Jarrell writes happy news: In September Jim finishes at T. C. Williams and we are returning to Fredericksburg .

Jim and my father are forming a partnership . Jay will be in the second grad e, and I will not be working . We 're all excited about going home . I saw Kitty Thorburn Neale and her little red-haired, blue-eyed daughter. She'll be teaching Spanish at Douglas Freeman next year. Also saw Jane Morton Arnold last week . She , Dick, and their two sons (Scott , 4 and Alex 6 months) are soon moving to their new house on Long Island . I've been playing bridge on Wednesdays with Kitty , Betty Miller Morri s and Jean Stonestreet Mann.

Sylvia Thompson Carlton 's newsy postcard says: After five years of writing medical intelligence reports for the government I retired in March to bec ome a full-time wife and mother. Our first child, Lisa Ashton , was born on January I 9, 1968. Ash thinks his daughter is wonderful.

He continues to work at Dunn and Bradstreet in Washington and plays golf whenever he gets a chance .

Ebb and I enjoyed the Virgini a State Bar Association meeting at the Greenbrier and seeing Suzanne Foster Thom as and Bill and Joyce Slavin Scher and Norman.

Joyce and I were never in the right place at the right time to talk , but Suzanne had some interesting news . She and Bill bought a cottage at Rehoboth Beach , Delaware.

Will, 4, Sandy , 2, and Suzanne spent most of the summer there. Bill and Suzanne attended the Philadelphia meeting of the Uniform Law Commissioners Conference as well as the Virginia Bar Meeting . Suzanne says that she and Gwynn Barefoot Raper and Suzanne DuPuy Black are planning a reunion in Richmond soon .

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We had a nice summer. Ebb and I attended a CFO Retreat at the Carolinian in Nags Head this spring. Then the three of us spent a week in Myrtle Beach this summer. Kevin is in the first grade this year , and Ebb has added the position of District Chairman of the Boy Scouts to his many activities for this year.

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Mrs. John I. Riffer (Diane Light) 6317 Abilene Street Springfield, Virginia

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Summer brought moves to new homes for Anyce several of our class members.

Dameron McCracken and her husband have moved to their new house at 416 Seeman Rd. in Virginia Beach . Anyce is teaching elementary school again this year. They vacationed this summer in New York City and visited Barbara: Lamm Gregory and her husband and son (class of '61).

Sandra Swain Warden has moved back to Norfolk while Bill is serving in the Army Medical Corps in Vietnam . Sandra wrote: "He has been there since July 30. It is rather lonely but the boys keep me jumping. Our only consolation is that Bill's service obligation will be fulfilled upon his return and he can set up his practice, probably in the Tidewater area. " Their older boy, Bill, was four in September and attends kindergarten. Mark was two in October. Sandra has also taken up goif.

Ruth Blair was planning a September 14 wedding to Larry Taylor whom she met in Washington while he was in the Army in White House Communication . Larry is from Montana. They will live in the D. C. area until he is discharged in February .

Judy Trunzo is to be the maid of honor.

Kitty Borum Fitzhugh and Parke were in Norfolk for a few days in August and visited Julie Perkinson Crews. Parke will begin his year of internship at the V.A. Hospital in Miami this fall. Kitty says her teaching job stays interesting. She took two education courses this summer.

Julie Perkinson Crews wrote that she is teaching English at Churchland High School in Portsmouth and foresees many activities as a member of the Portsmouth Junior Woman's Club. She and Bill have moved into their new home and are really enjoying it.

She said: "There are many things to finish doing and new avenues to learn about, such as cultivating a yard. As good suburbanites we have a pooch to keep out of the flower beds . Bullet is a Labrador retriever. " Sylvia Brown Pond and Dick announce the birth of Richard Lewter Pond , III on May 10. Sylvia says he keeps her busy.

Barbara Oglesby Nicholl is now living in Narrows, Va. where her husband has been appointed Town Manager. They are looking forward to the new job.

Darlene Morgan, after her year in Okinawa, has recided to return to the States.

She is teaching seventh grade in Fairfax.

County .

Judy Acree Hansen wrote: "During a long , hot summer in Durham , N. C. I finally completed the requirements for my M.A.T. in English at Duke and am now ready to embark on another school yearthis time teaching all seniors instead of the sophomores I've had for the last two years ."

Judy saw Nancy Richardson several times during the summer. Nancy continues to enjoy her job at Duke.

Sandra Nunn Wallace and Dee like their new home. Sandra says she enjoys staying at home , but does quite a bit of substitute teaching at the local high school. She and Dee bought a boat to use during the summer on Buggs Island Lake .

J . C. Shapard Confroy and Bill were planning their vacation for late September and were going to visit Bill's home in Orange, N . J. J . C. said that Billy (age 4) and Sally (age 3) are delighted with their 34

new baby brother, Wirt, and constantly vie for his. attention. The Confroys enjoyed an August visit from Sandra Atkinsson Jones, Jim, Chuck, and Lynn . Sandra is teaching math in a junior high school , while Jim is coaching, teaching, and taking some graduate courses. Chuck is six years old and in school, and Lynn is two.

Shirley Kell DeRoco has been teaching since leaving Westhampton . She taught in Norfolk for four years and then in Middletown, R. I. Her husband, Al, is a lieutenant and plans to make the Navy his career.

Shirley says she is looking forward to the travelling, but hasn't adjusted to the idea of Al's being at sea so often . He recently returned from a four-month Mediterranean cruise. Shirley and Al celebrated their first anniversary on June 18. Her address is 26 Phelps Rd., Middletown, R. I. 02849.

Anne Nunnally Nielsen and Niel announce the birth of their third son, Timothy Rives, in May. Anne was looking forward to moving back to Norfolk.

Tuckie Smart Paxton says her family is enjoying their new baby, Eleanor. Tuckie is serving as treasurer of the Staunton Junior Woman's Club and as chairman of the Health and Mental Health Division for the Shenandoah District of the Virginia Federation of Women 's Clubs . The Paxtons enjoyed seeing Barbara Davies Brewer and Dick and their two children when they were visiting Barbara's parents in Staunton this summer. Barbara wrote : "I am busy getting ready for my brother Bob's wedding on September 7, and the new session of Sunday School which I'll teach. I'm sewing winter clothes for my little ones who grow faster have outgrown everything-they than I can sew. I've just about recuperated takes from my gall bladder surgery-it longer to recover when your children are small and still need to be carried or lifted."

Tuckie, Barbara, and Patsy Chewning Young were in Richmond on June 29 for the wedding of Joanna Ellett to C. Chapin Pickering, Ill. Jo and Chip spent their honeymoon on St. Croix and St. Thomas.

Pam Koch Fay and John announce the birth of their second daughter, Martha Goodrich, on August 12. Daughter Beth is 15 months old.

Ellen Kayne November and her husband Richard enjoyed a pleasant vacation at Virginia Beach this summer where they attended the Home Builders Convention .

Betty Morris Blankenship , her husband, and two children report that they had a wonderful time in August fishing, crabbing , and swimming on the Rappahannock River.

Karen is now 6, and Scott is 2.

The class extends sincere sympathy to Robin Cramme Perks and her husband on the death of their infant son , James Robinson Perks, in August.

Anne Clodfelter Tucker wrote that she was in Virginia during the summer for her high school reunion . She saw Jane Thompson Kemper and Nancy James Buhl. Anne and Roy were planning a September trip to London, Italy, and Germany. They were going to visit Roy's sister in Naples, and Anne 's sister who is in Germany.

Carolyn Parsley Davis, Dick, and son , Paul , have moved to their new home at 1405 Forest Avenue in Richmond. Carolyn writes that she was in the hospital for surgery during Easter.

Cathy Carr is an editorial researcher for a retired professor of biochemistry. She is now translating a book on Blood Substitutes from German into English. This fall she is taking graduate studies in Germanic and Slavic languages part time. She also tutors German and takes care of her grandmother.

Mary Douglass Summers reported an interesting summer. including a 13 day visit with her parents. One weekend she and Bill had a 12 year old girl from Chicago's inner city stay with them . Mary says that it was an unforgettable experience as was the trip

into the inner city to take the girl home.

Mary is now preparing for her Junior Woman's Club bazaar. Bill is planning to take a law course at DePaul University as the first requirement toward becoming a Certified Property and Casualty Underwriter.

Karen Blake Wible has a second daughter, Sarah, who was ,born in June.

Charlotte Adams Higgs and Wilson will be returning to Pennsylvania in the fall when Wilson gets out of the Air Force.

Marsha Sullivan Wallner and Tony announce the birth of daughter, Tracy Lynn, on February 27. The Wallners have moved to 7526 Republic Court in Alexandria.

Tony is a systems design coordinator for the Department of Labor in Washington.

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Miss Ann Hurd 701-E Hamilton Street Richmond, Virginia 23219

On August 24th, Margaret Brower became the bride of Dr. Hilton R. Almond.

They will be in California during the coming year while he is doing his residency.

Bobbie Wilke writes that she spent most of the summer teaching tennis to members of the Ridgetop Recreation Association. She did manage to find time to travel and her travels included a visit with her twin sister and her family at Beaufort, South Carolina; National Tennis School at Northern Illinois University, De Kalb , Illinois, and a tour of the University of Wisconsin at Madison; sailing and boating at Urbanna; and surfing at Virginia Beach . This fall Bobbie will be moving to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania where she has accepted a position as Instructor of Physical Education at East Stroudsburg State College. Her new address is R.D. 5, Box 123A, Stroudsburg, Pa. 18360.

Marcia McMullin Cantrell and Bill moved near Ocean City, Md. in August. Bill's work will keep them there for two years after which they will return to Richmond. Their new address is Box 15AA, Ocean City Blvd., Berlin, Md. 21811.

Jo Ann Hardy Thomasson flew to Hawaii in July to meet Jack for 5½ days on his rest and relaxation leave from Vietnam.

Jack will leave Vietnam the end of November and they will go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma .

Susie McAfee Garrett and Jerry have been in Taiwan, but will soon be returning to the U.S. and will be living in New York .

Barbara Cook Darling writes that she and Bill and their two children have moved to Cincinnati , Ohio. They have bought a new four-bedroom, ranch-style house and have met many interesting new people.

Carolyn Anthony Powers retired from teaching in June . She and Bill had a busy summer playing tennis and golf, spending a week at the river, and another week in New York City.

Emily Short Eady and her mother flew to Hawaii for two weeks this summer.

Emily will teach this fall in Savannah .

Betsy Broaddus Zimmerman is continuing her graduate work in French at the Univ. of Va. where she also has a teaching assistantship. Four-year-ol<l Amy is busy riding ponies.

Kay Koontz Gillette wrote that she had the opportunity this summer to see several Westhampton classmates . Kay, Bob , and little Jennifer spent July 4th weekend with Jean Morris Foster, Talmage, and their daughter , Betsy, at the Rappahannock River.

Later in July, Kay and Bob attended the Elks National Convention in New York City and while there had dinner one evening with Sally Clark Crooker and Joe . On their way back to Suffolk, they went through Leesburg and visited Cecelia Stiff Mahan , Leland, and their son, Eric.

This summer , Donna Houff enjoyed a trip to Europe which included visits to England , the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland , and France.

Pat Kirby Percy and family moved to Pearisburg, Virginia in the spring to be convenient - to Stu'f work with DuPont. All four are enjoying small town life and thanks to a morning recreation program for entertaining the children this summer, Pat has even had time to learn to play golf. Their new address is 104 N. French St., Pearisburg, Va. 24134.

Kakki Elmer Rogers will be teaching the sixth grade at Watkins Elementary School in Chesterfield County .

In August, Judy Barlow Bolling and Jon bought a new home . To recuperate from getting settled they spent Labor Day weekend at Va . Beach. Their new address is 12 Portland Place, Richmond, Va. 23221.

On September 4, Phyllis Pollack Yaffa and Jack became the proud parents of another little boy . is teaching Grace Phelps Rhinesmith history at Lee-Davis High School this fall.

During the summer Grace and Don spent five days at Nags Head . Grace and little Cary also spent a week at the Rappahannock River with friends and later in the summer flew to New York to visit friends there .

Charlotte Hines Forrester and Dick became the proud parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Halford , born on August 5.

Phyllis Peterson Gary is quite busy these days keeping up with Kristin , who will be a year old on November 27 . Phyllis and her husband , Don , live at 105 West 55th Street, New York, New York 10019.

Congratulations to Jean Copley Forbes and Preston on the birth of a son , Douglas Thurston , born on July 17.

Betty Harrell Lindsay writes that she and Jeff vacationed this summer at Cape Cod and in the backwoods of Maine . They stopped by Boston to see Jean Robertson Thompson and Ray. Jean is busy doing social work and likes it very much .

In June , Beth Holland Maxwell , Jim , and little Jon moved into a new house at 604 Starmont Drive, Durham, N. C. Julie Haynie visited Mexico in August and had an exciting trip. One of the highlights was the Folkloric Ballet in Mexico City .

She also went to the bullfights and ended up feeling sorry for the bull. She toured the pyramids and the University and had an opportunity to fight a bull herself, which turned out to be a frisky young heifer. After five days in Mexico City, she went to Taxco, a quaint silver-mining town in the Sierra Nevada Mn;., then on to Acapulco , and finally back to Denver.

Connie Overstreet Gilmore and Richard have bought a home and their new address is 1868 Blenheim Road, Roanoke, Va .

In August Josie Rodgers Lovelady and Buddy welcomed a new arrival, David , into their: home. Josie will not teach this year.

Archer Randlette Parkerson and Terry bought a house in Bon Air and moved in June. They've been quite busy getting settled. Their new address is 7601 Yarmouth Drive, Richmond, Va. 23225 .

Marilyn Miller Dancey writes that the twins keep her on the go, but she loves every minute of it. They're at the exploring age and are into everything . Her husband , Julian, is a Professional Engineer.

In March of 1967 they bought a home in Stratford Hills. Their address is 3720 Kenmore Road, Richmond, Va. 23225.

Judy Nunnally Nicholson was a member of our class until our junior year. She and Nicky and their two children, ages 6 and 4, are living in Elkton, Md. Their address is 312 King Street, Elkton, Md. Anna Lee Dooley Bachtell writes that she and Don and little Eden are still living in Madison, N. J . Don has been an associate minister there for seven years and this summer the congregation elected him the senior minister when the former senior minister retired. They are thrilled with the opportun ity and responsibility as the church has 2,500 members. This summer they had

a restful vacation at a lake shire. In September, they new manse and their new Woodland Road , Madison,

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in New Hampmoved into a address is 293 N. J. 07940.

Mrs. John W. Mallery (Letty Sloan) 606 S. 24th Street Arlington, Virginia 22202

We are now entering our fifth year after hardly seems possible. We graduation-it will have a major class reunion the 3rd weekend in May , so it would be a good idea to start dropping hints now to husbands and bosses that you would like to make a trip to Richmond next spring.

Donnalee Rowe Steele gave birth to a daughter, Terri Rebecca, in May. Ann Blitch Siler had a little girl, Elizabeth Ann, on August 7. Bill and Nancy Hall Lyon had a little girl , Courtney Gay, August 30.

Noting the number of baby girls, Nancy wrote, "We must be trying to insure a future Westhampton student body!" Hecky Henderson White also had a girl, Jeanette Rose , on August 21. Hecky called from St. Louis to talk to Judy Barnhart Parr who was in the hospital at the time with her new daughter, Lisa Noelle, born August 26.

The Parrs are now stationed in Glen Burnie, near Ft. Holabird, Maryland.

Judy wrote that Gay Sheldon Hoots had her girl on July 20 and named her Tamara They soon will be Anna ("Tammie"). moving to Columbia, Md. where her husband has been transferred . Bev Davis wrote about her precious baby girl, Brandon Traherne, born August 5, weighing 8 lbs., 6Y2 ozs., beating Judy out for the biggest baby girl prize by 3 ounces! Bev has also been busy as they have bought a home in Stratford Hills, Richmond.

Martha Hartman Johnson had a most in the form of a clever announcement theater ticket to the Johnson Production, "It's a Girl!" starring Ellen Lee, appearing April 30, with other data filled in the form of an actual ticket. And last December , Gayle Jones Mapps also had a little girl.

We do have boys to report. Mark Parker Falls was born August 10 to Elsa Queen Falls . He weighed 11 lbs. 2 ozs. , which should help to balance the nine girls reported. Also, Daniel Patrick was born last December 8 to Lee Hill Andrews. Julia Martin Frazier and Scott are the proud parents of a boy, Charles Scott, Jr . He was born August 16, 1968 . They have also moved to a new home in Tuckahoe Village . and Jack Margaret Siegfried Thompson have a little boy, Jack Finley III and called "Jay ." He was born June 27 , 1968. They are now living at Lackland Air Force Base, where Jack is a dentist . Their address is 301 Person Loop, San Antonio, Texas 78236.

Madeline Crenshaw Bulls wrote that they are renovating a townhouse in Richmond.

Nancy and Bill Lyon have also bought their first home in Henrico. Nancy Loughridge Lowe has been taking courses in cooking and knitting.

I've been helping as a volunteer at a Head Start Center , a very rewarding experience. Also, leading the children's choirs in our church makes me want to go back to take some more courses in music. I would be interested in hearing from any of you about volunteer work you've done and courses you've taken. For example, Carolyn Wiltshire Webb will be President of her Women's Club this year.

Several wives have had marvelous opportunities for travel following their husHedy bands in their various transfers.

Bernard Rosenstock wrote of life in the wide open desert region, surrounded by rugged mountains , at Ft. Huachuca , Arizona. Their trips have included Mexico, California , and Las Vegas. Now they are looking forward to a three-year tour of duty in a suburb

of Stuttgart , Germany.

Joyce Stevens was married July 20 , is now Mrs. Alan Richard Boldt , and lives in the D. C. area. Dodie Benson was married to Michael Howard Glantz of Providence, R. I., on May 10. Also , to correct the misprint in the last issue, Ellen Clute was married on April 20 to Theodore Starkey and will live in San Francisco. On July 13, 1968 Polly McDowell became Mrs. Gerald Mack Waters. Francie Mitchell and Mary Ann Wheary were among her attendants.

The couple will live in Richmond . On June 8, 1968 , Betsy Burton became Mrs. Paul Wayne Hannah . On August 10, 1968 , Carolina Hudnall became Mrs. Robert John Manning . Kathy White is engaged to marry Lee Paul Bredbenner of Baltimore, Md. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lee Putney was married last Christmas to Berkeley Miller Pemberton , II. He is in his second year of dental school at MCV and Lee is doing research for the Department of Infectious Diseases there . As would be expected, Lee and Berk have their own horses and enjoy riding.

Joan Hoch Yowell is quitting her job at the telephone company to become a fulltime housewife . She had an interesting time last spring working a long distance switchboard in Norfolk during the strike. Also, Mary Jane Bacon Huffman is retiring from teaching this year and will be kept busy sending Rebecca to kindergarten and watching Ricky, who is almost two. She wrote that she chaperoned a high school group to Virginia Beach with Jo Anne Cropper Reynolds who also taught at George Wythe School. She took her two children and Jo Anne took her two puppies and they had quite a time. Jo Anne will be returning to Westhampton this fall to get her MA. in history.

Margaret Whitlock is working on her MA , in Seattle, Washington . Barbara Irene Powell is teaching in Chesterfield this year , as is Frances Mayer , who teaches physical education . Carole Bradley is teaching in Fairfax and plans to be married around Christmas . Kendal East Mitchell has moved and now lives in Farmville, Va. Our condolences to Nancy Blake Svendson on the death of her father Judge Blake of Richmond .

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Mrs. C. R. Burrell Harper) (Jacqueline 1105 West End Blvd.

N. C. 27104 Winston-Salem,

Fran Guynn became Mrs. George Newman on August 17. Let us know your address , Fran.

Marionette Parker on July 13, became Mrs. Edward Valentine Jones III. Jackie Branch and Wren Dawson were bridesmaids . Marionette is still programming at Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond , while "Tuck" is in Officers' Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island . They spent Labor Day weekend together in Boston .

On August 4, Dianne Minter was married to Raleigh Brent Vann . Brent was a 1963 U. of R . graduate and Co-captain of the football team that year . They are living in Windsor , Virginia, where Brent coaches. Dianne is teaching math at Franklin High School. Barbara Vaughan wrote that Dianne 's wedding was like old home week, for Millie Bradshaw Brown, Ann Carter, and she were all bridesmaids.

Anne Stowe became Mrs. Gary James Trenda on August 24 , in the Hickam Air Force Base Chapel One , Hickam, Hawaii.

Gary is a Staff Sergeant with the United States Air Force and stationed in Hawaii , for another year and a half. His work is with computers at Camp Smith. Anne wrote that she had been in Hawaii TDY for the 'Government from January 29, to July 31, 1968 .

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a teacher to a student. She entered the University of Virginia to work on a M.A.T. degree in English. I am sorry to lose Rosemary as a group leader , but wish her much success . During the past summer, she worked as a telephone operator.

Pam Adams visited Cape Cod for two weeks during the summer.

Wanda Fearnow took a three week tour of Europe as a chaperone for a group of students from Henrico High School. She , too , will become a student again as she will be enrolling in graduate school at the University of Virginia, this fall.

Barbara Horton German and her husband visited New England on their vacation .

Brenda Netherwood Gibrall was elected secretary of the Richmond Club of the Westhampton College Alumnae.

It was good to hear from Rachel Norman Graves . She spoke of going to Fran Guynn 's wedding · and seeing Marionette Parker Jones and Mary Ellen Kyle . Rachel said that she was very surprised to see Miss Anderson from We sthampton College at the Lodge for lunch one day this summer.

Nancy Saunders Pierce writes from Germany that they are still excited about living in Germany , and enjoying the constant coming and going of Army life . She had planned to meet Kathy Spare and Peggy Saunders in Paris , in June , but the political situation prevented it. Nancy's parents and her Aunt Esther were to visit them in July , and they were going to Italy, at that time .

Her daughter , Charlyn is a little doll and the biggest imitator in the world.

I had the nicest letter from Mary T. Smith Watson . She and Lawrence moved into their new home in December. Mary T. wrote that it is a colonial two story frame house , with four bedrooms , living room , dining room , eat-in-kitchen, den , two and a half baths and an utility room . On July 16, 1968, they welcomed Christopher William Watson into their world. Mary T . reports that Chris looks just like Lawrence and is like him in so many ways .

Mary T . also wrote that she had heard from Bonnie Ray in July , and she was back in New York City , working on a summer job as an Administrative Assistant to the president of a small Madison A venue advertising company.

Jessica Vaughan Pearman wrote that they had spent the summer working hard in their garden. She said they had planted everything , even okra , which she had never seen or tasted. They have purchased a freezer and look forward to fresh vegetables during the winter. Their daughter Kimberly Anne will be one year old in October. They were planning a trip to Chesapeake in the fall.

Are you knitting much these days, Jessica?

Carolyn Jackson Mears wrote that she was glad that her lonely summer was over and Jerry was home . Jerry spent the summer in Charlottesville , working on his Masters . He has one more course to take before completion.

He is teaching at Providence Junior High School , where he heads the physical education department.

Barbara and Billy Royster had visited Carolyn and Jerry in June . Barbara and Billy have two boys , Steve and Ben. Billy ha s been promoted in the Public Health service.

Carolyn had recently talked with Patti Wood Tillar. She and Millie Bradshaw Brown have begun working on a Junior Women's Club project .

Ron and Nancy Puryear Spence went to New York , to visit Jim and Faye Martin di Zerega in August.

We were sorry to hear that Faye's mother died in July , of a heart attack. Faye 's address is 262 Stewart Gardens , Newsburn, New York .

Phylli s Jane Bradshaw Meiggs is back at work after six weeks attending school for her company.

Rosalind Rogers Vellines returned to

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teaching at Tuckahoe. Carolyn Mears reports that Rosalind enjoys working in her rose garden. Her husband , Jack, works for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

Wedding bells rang for Fran Dix and she is now Mrs. Jimmy Mann. Best wishes.

Fran has returned to teaching at Elkhardt.

One evening this summer , I was surprised to receive a phone call from Linda Armstrong Farrar. She and Bob were returning from a vacation in Florida. They were on their way to spend the night with Ken and Evelyn Garrett Bowyer, in Danville. The next night, Ray and I drove to Danville to see them . Linda and Bob had pictures of their daughter, Suzanne , with them. Evelyn and Ken 's son was walking.

Later, I had a letter from Evelyn saying that she had been surprised by a visit from Harryet Hubbard and her husband Roy, who were on their way to a family reunion .

Roy will be returning to Viet Nam in January.

I saw Bettie Lee Currell Gaskins several times in the late summer. She and Fred are enjoying their home .

Ann Carter has been transferred to Alexandria, Virginia, with the C & P Telephone Company .

Phyllis Grasty Bristow and Decker are in Schenectady, New York, where General Electric has transferred Decker.

Millie Bradshaw Brown, Larry and Angie vacationed in New England , at Larry's home in Boston , and had a marvelous time .

Carolyn Owen has been in summer school at the University of Virginia, working on her Master 's degree. In September, she returned to teaching at Midlothian High School.

Janet Renshaw Carnighan and Bob are now in Durham , North Carolina, where Bob is working at Duke University Hospital. Janet is trying to complete her thesis.

Virginia Davis vacationed in Florida and New Orleans, with her sister and had a very nice time.

Margaret Brittle Brown, Bill, and Susan will be moving to Boston , in September.

Bill is completing his Master's in Electrical Engineering and works with Lincoln Labs.

Jo Ellen Ripley was in France, from June 17, to August 20 . She had a Federal Government fellowship for touring and studying in France, at the College at St. Catherine 's in Rennes.

Allan and Ginny McCormick Hammock are living in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Sue Parrish Patrick wrote that Kent had gone into business for himself as an engineer , offering general civil engineering and surveying services. She is thoroughly enjoying serving as his secretary and bookkeeper. She said that after having her hair to the point where she could almost sit on it, she had it cut and is enjoying having short hair and feels like a new person. On September 4, she gave the coke party honoring the new and present peninsula Westhampton College students . Twenty-two students and Alumnae attended and it was most enjoyable . Sue is tutoring high school algebra and geometry students.

Pat Cox Hardesty and Walt have moved into their new home, in the Washington , D . C. area.

Mary Ellen Kyle spent her vacation in California , visiting a friend .

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Mrs. William F. Collins (Quita Tansey) 9014 Patterson Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23229

I'm back at my job , teaching "all year 'round Headstart, " after a month's vacation . I have a full time teacher 's aide, and a pupil enrollment limit of 17. It's a challenging job but very satisfying . My husband , Bill , is still with Reynolds Metals in their real estate dept. , and our daughter, Michelle , is now two years old . Now let's hear about

the rest of our class.

Joann Dew Flanagan told me that she and Lou have bought a house in Ashland.

They are both teaching school. Harriet and Ed Tomlinson have rented a nice house in California, where Ed is stationed with the Air Force . Their address is 223 Branch Drive , Mather AFB, California 95655 . Harriet said that they have bought a fourteen foot skii-boat and all the accessories . Anybody for a quick trip to California?

Congratulations are in store for Bonnie Lush , who became Mrs . Jerry Yospin, on June 2. Jerry is from New Jersey, and is now the Virginia sales representative for John Meyer of Norwich . Bonnie said she will be teaching in the fall. They live at 4131 D Townhouse Road , Richmond, Va. Another new address comes from Joann Jamison Webster, who writes that she and Ed are moving to : 501 North Husband St. , Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074. Ed has accepted a teaching position at Oklahoma State University in their sociology department, and Joann is going back to work on he r master's degree in physiology. Joann said she had been in touch with Carolyn Sublette , who has just finished her two year appointment to Dalton , Georgia , with the U. S.-2 Hom e Mission Program . She is at home now after spending part of the summer in Europe. Carolyn plans to attend Southwestern Seminary in January .

Other news sources report that Phoebe Flinn studied in Spain this summer, and is teaching Spanish in Richmond this year.

Julia Trent Elliott and Chuck have moved into a new townhouse apartment. Their new address is: Azalea Apts ., 763 Windamere Rd ., Richmond, Va . Beth Booker Wilson and Dave are living at the Carriage Hill Apartments in Richmond . Beth is teaching in the elementary grades . Neighbors of the Wilsons are the Bookers : Ann Dixon Booker and Bill. Ann is working for the Social Security Administration in Richmond.

Betty Byrd Gunn Mays and Denny are in Roanoke , where Byrd is teaching third grade in the Roanoke County school system . Ann Roberts left the teaching world to become a computer programmer for the state department , located in Richmond . Jane Thurman Anderson and Doug are living in Louisville , Ky ., where Doug is attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary .

Carole Royall received her masters degree from Florida State, and has been counseling students at John Tyler Community College this past year. Karen Schoessow has an apartment in South Richmond and is still working for the C & P. Congratulations to Genie Henderson , who is engaged to Bill Schutt, of Richmond . Bill is stationed with the army in Okinawa .

Genie is living at home and teaching in the Roanoke County School system. Lois Pollard is leaving , in September, to drive across the U . S. to live and work in San Francisco .

She has an apartment but no job . Lois , don't forget to look up Harriet and Janice .

Best wishes to Barbara Ruscus who was promoted from staff associate to field engineer for the telephone company . Barbara is becoming a member of the jet set after spending a few days in Puerto Rico in May .

One of our northern friends , Martha Colston, reports that Nancy Rowan Milam and Alvin ('66) are in Great Falls , Montana .

Alvin is a lieutenant in the Air Force , and Nancy is working in the psychology lab at the city hospital. Their address is 2418 9th Avenue, South , Great Falls, Montana 59401. Martha will soon complete her term as Washington Alumnae recording secretary. Martha has had a busy summer working for the Rockefeller campaign, and this fall she plans to work for someone who is running for the senate and substitute__in -the elementary grades.

Our deepest sympathy is extended to Harriet Mann Tomlinson on the loss of her mother, Mrs. Annabel Mann, and to Julia

Trent Elliott on the death of her brother, Randy. I'm sure we will all think of them and remember them in our prayers.

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Anne Vaughan will be married on December 21, 1968 to Jimmy Moore who works for Philip Morris. Anne plans to continue teaching until December when she and Jimmy will move to Canada for two months before returning to make their home in Richmond. Congrats and Best Wishes from '67 !

Betty Newman Lea journeyed to Tokyo this summer to meet Harry Lea while he was on two weeks leave. She wrote that the weeks, though enjoyable , ended all too soon-and just when she was beginning to get the hang of chopsticks , too! Betty is back in Boydton now and has resumed teaching sixth grade.

July 13th was the wedding date for Pat Shands and Karl Neidhardt. The Neidhardts will be living in Auburn , Alabama where Carl attends grad school in biology at the University of Auburn . Address: 101 Locust Circle, Apt. 1, Auburn , Ala. 36830.

Another July marriage was that of Janine Kulak and Justin Phillips which took place in Raynham, Massachusetts on July 6. After honeymooning at Cape Cod and Nantucket Island, J. and J . lived for six weeks in Parkersburg, West Virginia. They now live near the Ohio River while Justin works for Dupont. Another move is scheduled in November, however , as Justin will go to Newport, Rhode Island to attend Navy Officer Candidate School.

August 3rd saw two Pats at the altar . Pat Edgerton was married in Fleet Chapel in Norfolk to Charles George Ryan. Pat will be leaving her Lawrenceville teaching job and moving to Norfolk where "Chuck" is· in Naval Intelligence. Best wishes to you both from all of '67!

Moving westward to St. Louis, we found Pat Brown being married to Bobby Bayliss (UR '66). Pat and Bobby are now living in Richmond where Pat teaches English (received Master's from Ohio in June) at St . Gertrude's and Bobby begins a second year coaching at Thomas Jefferson. Address: 3228 Stuart Avenue.

News flash! Just after writing the news for the last issue, I received a note which read , "Mr . and Mrs. William R. Graff (Sydney Williams) announce the birth of a daughter Elizabeth Michelle on May 28, 1968." Sydney wrote "I don't know if she's the first (in the class), but I'll bet she's the biggest for a little girl-8 lbs . 13 ozs."

Congrats to you on the new arrival. Sydney and Billy have recently moved to Goochland , but as yet I have no address . To my knowledge this is the first girl born after February 1 to a class member. Please notify me if you know of another as our baby cup will be presented at our reunion.

Our world traveler, Christa Merz, was thoughtful enough to keep us posted on her summer travels which included visits to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. During her two months in Europe, she had the opportunity to tool around on a little VW and visit all her relatives .

Two post cards in this very minute-one from Betsy Dillard letting us know that she has returned to the campus of Florida State where she is taking graduate courses in English and teaching freshman composition .

If all goes well, she'll receive her Master's in English in June. During the summer she was in Marion, Virginia, where she was Program Director in a girls' camp. Address change: 2125 Jackson Bluff Rd ., Tallahassee, Florida .

The second card-from Dee Dicksonbrings news of her engagement to Monte Fried, a lawyer from Baltimore. November

11 has been set as the wedding date .

Remember those good ole days when our hearts were young and gay as we sat around building harpsichords in the parlor?

Well , you'll be heartened to learn that this ancient art has been preserved through the efforts of our own Mary Bo Willis Gassman and husband, Kenny. They had as their project last winter the construction of a harpsichord. Now I ask you-does that not strike a fond note and restore your faith?

Mary Bo and Kenny have been transferred to Richmond where Kenny works for C . and P. Address: 5310 W. Franklin St. Margaret Cridlin wrote that she has completed one year 's work toward a Master's Degree in Music at Boston University and returned to school in July. Her plan after graduation is to teach in Virginia . Address change: 79 A Pleasant St., Brookline, Massachusetts.

From Margaret we learned that Anne Pomeroy has moved to Rochester, New York, where she will attend ColgateRochester Seminary. Anne worked last year in Richmond for Children, Inc .

Ann Pearson will also make a change this year although Richmond will remain her address . From teaching music last year , she moves to kindergarten this year.

Westhampton Chapel was the setting for the wedding of Ann Carol Robins and John Cheves Haskell , Jr. on June 15th . John is a stock broker for Wheat and Company.

Joan Odland Cocker, Robbie Robinson, and Lois Helmbold were among those gathered at WC for the occasion .

Nancy Ussery has returned to the University of Delaware where she is working toward her Master's in math. Nancy was one of the very few ( too few-where were you?) who made it to May Day last spring.

Sound the trumpet - the word is out-our own Judy Bailey is now engaged to Michael Davis of Richmond. Mike graduated from some little university in Morgantown, West Virginia-can't seem to remember ever hearing of it before. Would you believe the wedding is set for December 7th? Congrats to you both!

Lynne Kytle , who was with us during our first two years , was married on July 5 to Roy E. Seward, Jr. of Richmond . Lynne attended Richmond Professional Institute after leaving W.C. Bonnie Robertson became Mrs. John H. Wheatley on August 10, in Roanoke. Among those in attendance were Betty Newman Lea, Georgia Clarke, Judy Dollenburg Sterling , and Martha Ann Wholey. The Wheatleys will live in Danville where "Jack " is a professor at Stratford. r wrote last time that several girls had heard from Jerry Rutter McCormick. Since then, Mary Bo has written that she , too , has had contact with Jerry and Sam . Sam attends Southern Baptist Seminary and Jerry is majoring in Elementary Education at Kentucky Southern . Address: G-7 Seminary Village , Louisville, Kentucky .

Kathleen Anderson became Mrs. Nicholas S. Wagner on June 15. Nick has a BA from VPI and his MS from New York University. The Wagners presently live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Nick is with Western Electric. Kathleen was in an automobile accident several weeks prior to her wedding , but has about recuperated.

She attended the University of North Carolina for six weeks after moving to North Carolina in order to gain final credits toward her Master's in Library Science.

Kathleen and Nick have seen Nancy Cox Peters and Bill in Durham. Kathleen's address: 4980 Hunt Club Rd. , Apt. N , Winston-Salem, N. C. 27104 .

Admittedly conscience stricken for not writing sooner , Terry Kincheloe unloaded all sorts of good gossip in her latest epistle .

Since leaving WC she has worked in the library at N. C . State , received her Master 's in Library Science from the University of

North Carolina , and become engaged.

August 16, 1969 has been set as the date for her marriage to Dick Bryan , a third year student at UNC .

You remember Michele Kipps Oliver who left us for North Carolina-since she worked all year as research assistant to the Dean of the Library School , she and Terry kept in touch. Terry 's address: Apt. C 1 D University Apartments, Durham, N. C. New address for Robbie Robinson-319 E . 90th St., 5 D, New York, N. Y. 10028 .

Pat Arvin is still at the old address which she and Robbie had . Both continue to make money hand over fist. Robbie ran into Ellen Sanderson in New York . Ellen, you remember , began with us , but accelerated and finished with '66.

Joan Odland Cocker wrote in June that she had completed the semester at Georgetown and wanted to get a job for the summer. She also wrote that Lois Helmbold was to get her Master 's in history from the University of Michigan this summer, so I am assuming she has done so by this date .

Joan wrote that Sara Hays Fitzgerald would be moving to Richmond during the summer.

I ran into Pat Ferguson at a wedding this summer. She seems to be enjoying her work at the Federal Reserve here in Richmond.

Julie Allen is still in Richmond and has begun her second year at Douglas Freeman teaching biology.

Pat Callis has begun a year of teaching Spanish here in Richmond at Thomas Jefferson High School. She attended Richmond Professional Institute last year.

Martha Ann Wholey has changed her address since Janine's departure in July.

Wholey, who continues to slave away at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia , now lives at 4904 Sulky Dr. , Apt. 201 in Richmond .

Jean Clodfelter Gulick , husband Jim, and son David are in Germany. They were to have moved during the summer after spending some time visiting relatives in Virginia and West Virginia . The address in Germany is 59th Ordnance Detachment , Pirmasens , Germany, APO 09189. Since they are never sure when that address might change again, Jean wrote that a more permanent address would be that of her parents-c / o Mrs. C. L. Clodfelter, 4 Wentworth Place , Hampton , Va. 23366.

I trust Jim and Jean will say hello for us to Jackie Lassiter Wilkins and Danny who are also in Germany. Jackie wrote in midJuly that they were then living in a town "much smaller than Jarratt" where the cows wandered lazily down the main street of the town. Jackie and Danny have seen Ann Parkinson Rice and husband Eddie Paul several times. Jackie's address : 2nd BN, 83rd Artillery , APO New York 09091.

Jackie sent an address correction for Carol Copley Axford. Unless changed again since July, that address is: Quarters R-2 , U. S. Naval Sta ., Key West, Florida 33040.

Jackie also sent word of Jane Rector Soukup. Jane lives in Massachusetts where husband Mike worked as research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory before entering graduate school at the University of Massachusetts this fall .

Ann Payne has left the Life Insurance Company of Virginia to teach math at Elkhart School in Chesterfield County.

Have no particulars from Ree Cross except that she did become Mrs. Gary Barnes in August.

Pat Kursch and I have returned to Brookland Jr. High School for the second year , having both been promoted from the eighth grade to the ninth - Pat in Physical Education , and me in the History Department. Pat worked for the Department of Civil Defense in Washington this summer.

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Congratulations are in order for the newest graduates of the class of '68. Kate Barham, Nancy Blake, Noel Butler, Pam Foan, Barbara Harper Green, Susan Gaskill, Jane Holland, Linda Mays, Vickie Owens , Susan Stevick Palmer, Margie Romm, Nancy Keith Rosenberger, Daylon Seslar, Elizabeth Snead, Elizabeth Turner, Karen Berndtson Usry and Judy White tossed their tassels in August.

Wedding bells pealed all summer long!

Those of us who did not walk down the aisle were busy dashing about to attend and participate in the happy events.

Five days after graduation Carolyn Tucker married Daniel M. McCormack (RC '67) . They live in Augusta , Georgia .

Collete Fields became Mrs. Charles Davidson early in June. Collete is teaching French at C. T . Williams High School in Alexandria. Husband, Charlie, is working in Washington on the staff of John Dow, the senior senator from New York. Their new address is 2402 Menkin Drive, Apt. 103, Alexandria, Virginia 22303 .

Judy Greenberg is now Mrs. William B. Lissner. She is teaching in Madison County and is living at 10-6 Copeley Hill Apartments, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Betty K. Cross-now Mrs. Charles Robert White-is living in Ashland and she puts to use all that chemistry in the Metallurgy Research Division of Reynolds Metal Company in Richmond.

Mrs. Grover Cousins Robinson IIIthat's Betsy Welsh-teaches sixth grade at Ginter Park Elementary School. Her new address is 3912 Delmont Street, Apartment # 1, Laburnum Manor, Richmond, Virginia .

Jackie Christian was also married in June. She and husband, Lt . James L. Pendland, are living at Quantico, Virginia where Jackie is in the Women's Marine Corps.

Shelby Murray is now Mrs. Dennis M .

Shand; she is teaching fifth grade at St. Benedict's Parochial School in Richmond.

Ginny Griffin has married William Bryce .

She teaches math at Varina High School in Henrico County while her husband attends the Medical College of Virginia.

Bev Cook and her new husband, Wilbur B. Boyner, Jr. are living in Indianapolis, Indiana. Bill is an instructor in the Army Finance School there and Bev is with a small C.P.A. firm. Their address is 4208 Rue Le Mans, Apt. 5-A Indianapolis , Indiana.

Jay Hart became Mrs. Richard E. Carter in July. Rick attends T. C. Williams School of Law and Jay is working at Thalhimer's as an executive trainee. They live at 4114 Townhouse Road, Apt. R Richmond Virginia.

Janet Overstreet is now Mrs. Gilbert W. Godfrey . She is presently teaching third grade at Yates Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia .

Jeanette Elgert is now Mrs . Robert McCormick, Jr. She is living in Quinton, Virginia and is teaching · seventh grade social studies at Fairfield Junior High School in Henrico County .

The new Mrs. Robert Faulkner-Barbara Lee Johnson-is teaching English at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville. Her new address is 612 Rugby Road Charlottesville, Virginia 22903.

In August , Susan Blake married William Evan Thomas . Now Susan is a Latin teacher

at Madison County High School in Madison, Virginia.

Patsy Martin is the new Mrs. John Y. Todd III. She is teaching algebra at Roland Grise Junior High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her address is Box 191, Wilmington, North Carolina.

Mrs . Randolph K. Harper-Phyllis Bullard-and husband live in Richmond while Randy completes his last year at U of R. Karla Brownmiller-now Mrs. Lance A .

Morrell-works for the Army Electronics Command while Lance attends Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. They are living at Cuthbert Manor Apartments, Apt. D-4 Westmont, New Jersey.

Bonnie Bowman has married Robert M. Nelson, Jr. and they have moved to California . Husband Bob is in his second year at Stanford working towards a Ph.D .

Lynn Werth and her husband, Bob Montgomery, are also living in California.

Judy Holmes is now the wife of Stephen D. Southall. She is working for Life Insurance Company of Virginia and they are living in Richmond.

School days are far from over for a large percent of the class of '68. In addition to the married ones already mentioned, many now make lesson plans, grade papers, and discipline children.

Ann Bouckart is teaching third grade at Dumbarton Elementary School in Richmond. At Virginia Beach, Myra Wilkinson has a fifth grade class. A new Latin teacher, Amy Mcivor is at H . L. Ferguson High School in Newport News, Virginia. Jo Keller Sieverdes heads a sixth grade class at St. Benedict's School in Richmond . Pat Diggs is teaching eighth grade English at George Wythe High School in Richmond.

At Mechanicsville Elementary School, Nancy Hicks has charge of a seco nd grade class . Mary Ellen Kerns is living in Hyattsville, Maryland where she teaches first grade. Heppert Hock has a fifth grade class at Oak Grove School in Richmond . In Chesterfield county , Sue Chapman teaches a second grade at Curtis Elementary School.

Edie Freudendorf is in Columbus, Georgia where she is a 'rover physical education teacher for not one but three schools!

And out in the working world amo ng the sixty-eighters now classed as nine-tofivers are: Linda Davis, who is the new Director of Religious Education at First Baptist Church in Lynchburg , Virginia . Karen Berndtson Usry is presently in training for a fashion and retailing job with Sears and Roebuck Company. Gay Mason is employed by the city of Petersburg as a social worker for the Department of Welfare. Cheryl Bily and Mary Barbara Johnson are in training as claim representatives for the Social Security Administration. In Danville , Virginia , Pam Gordon acts as a caseworker for the Social Service Bureau. Rebecca Darden is employed by Systems Engineering Corporation as a computer programmer. She is living in Richmond with Pat Temple, who is teaching tenth grade English at Highland Springs High School. Their address is 4108 Townhouse Road , Apt. F, Richmond, Virginia.

Carty Richards is working for National Security Agency at Fort Meade , Maryland .

She shares an apartment with Linda Powers, who is employed by the Naval Ship Research and Development Center. They can be contacted at 9203 New Hampshire Avenue, Apt. A6 Silver Spring, Maryland. Lynn Martin and Judy Woodall are working at Virginia Beach. (302 28th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia). Judy Parrish is a mathematician in the programming division of the Army Map Service . In Richmond , Loretta Birckhead is working at the Medical School of Nursing. Shelley Clarke is employed by the Aetna Insurance Company in Richmond . Natialy Walker and Kerry Ward work for the Washington National

Insurance Company . Nat 's address (she lives with Jo Ann Gill) is 649G Hampshire Place Apts ., 603 Westover Hills Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia. Kerry is stationed in Philadelphia.

(Omega Courts , Apt. C2, 426 S. Springfield Road , Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania).

Phyllis Andrews is Jiving at home and is working for the Prince George County Welfare Department.

Ann Caraker is associated with WA VY -TV channel 10 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She reports the 12:00 news ; her picture is to appear on billboards in Tidewater! Ann Ball is now a reporter for the Richmond News Leader. She covers our class weddings and engagement announcements-it was a busy summer!

A number of classmates are now burning the midnight oil in graduate schools .

Carolyn Edmonds is studying molecular biology on a fellowship at Purdue University. She rooms with Beryl Whitten who aims for a masters in Spanish. Also at Purdue are Robbie Ann Shreve and roommate, Shari Saunders, who are seeking masters in English and Spanish respectively. Ann Woodson attends the School of Physical Therapy of the Medical College of Virginiaas a dorm student! Frances Mann is studying clinical psychology at the University of Tennessee . Mary Gearing and roommate, Linda Miller, are at the University of Virginia doing graduate work towards masters of arts in teaching. Their new address is 1800 Jefferson Park Avenue, Apt. 84, Charlottesville, Virginia. Cookie Hoffer is also there in the Graduate School of Education.

Christina Dunn is doing graduate work in library science at the University of North Carolina . And Jean Scott is now at Harvard on that fabulous scholarship. Her address is Graduate Center 338 6 Ash Street Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 . Leona Chase started in June at the U of R on a full graduate fellowship in political science .

At the University of Illinois, Lindsey Peters has begun graduate study in organ . Becky Allgood is living at home and plans to take a few graduate courses in English at the College of William and Mary . Ann Spivey is at the University of Delaware seeking a masters in mathematics. Charlotte Colburn is at the University of Tubingen , in Germany working on a year masters program under the auspices of Tufts University in Massachusetts . Mary 'Mac ' Beck is working in the East Asian Library at the University of Rochester. She takes a few courses in Chinese and reports she can count to ten and recognize Mao's picture!

Tidbits : Ellen Shuler spent the summer in Europe and found it all fantastic. Martha Ruebush and Ginny Compton also enjoyed the summer in Europe . Ann Thompson is now living in Ireland. Her address is 6 Daly's Park, Altnageluin, Londonderry, Ireland. Sharon Staggs McKinley and her husband , Drew , are now living in Philadelphia where both are social workers.

Katherine Henley Bennett and husband are living in Richmond. She is teaching ninth grade math at Tucker High School. Mrs .

Lena Whitt traveled in Europe in August and she was in Hungary at the time of the Russian occupation . She is now teaching English at Mosby Junior High School. Jane Holland has joined her 2nd lieutenant husband at Fort Knox. She is teaching political science and history there . Pam Rahn Singhass (Mrs. Parston Grant) now Jives in Maryland . The address is 3507 Beagle Lane T-3 Randallstown, Maryland .

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the multitudes of details necessary for the proper working of such complex machinery. The Century lighting equipment is controlled from an impressive console in a booth in the balcony.

Telephones and headsets link all areas of the theater complex-flies, backstage, catwalks, dressing rooms, makeup rooms, and even mid-auditorium for instantaneous communication!

In fact , probably the most impressive part of the building for the amateur is this main light and sound control booth, located high in the back of the auditorium, above and behind the balcony . Here is the giant console which controls the complex system of lighting throughout the house. It represents the latest development in remotecontrol dimming. So speaks Mr. William Lockey, of the University 's drama staff.

Mr. Lockey, the same technician who has accomplished such remarkable feats of lighting and sound in the old Quonset Hut Theater, is ecstatic on the subject of lighting and sound in the new building. "Just lock me in that booth and bring me a few meals every day," he says, "and I'll live there happily ever after." Lockey, along with his co-directors and teaching colleagues Alton Williams and Jack Welsh, assert that th is is the most advanced and beautiful system they have ever seen. As evidence, they demonstrate a pre-set card system, which can change the reading of thirty different dimmers at the flick of a wrist; thus , subtle changes of lighting can be worked out and set in advance, then operated like a computer during the show. Again, the elaborate intercom system between all parts of the theater permits even further refinements.

Also within this booth (fully airconditioned along with the rest of the building) will be the movie projector, presently being tested by Prof. Wilford Skinner , chairman of the University's foreign film series. With the installation of the projection equipment, other film series will proliferate.

Finally, in the sound both is found an Ampex stereo tape recorder, and turntable. Sound can be amplified from many different sources in the theater.

Alton Williams, with obvious pride, tells how sound can be projected from one part of the stage, in sequence, to another part: "It is possible," he says, "to create the sound of a train moving across the stage." The possibilities for experimentation and for special effects are unlimited with this equipment.

Sound! That has probably been the keyword in the planning, designing, and building of this great theater.

Acoustics throughout the building have been the work of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman of Cambridge, Massachusetts,

one of the top acoustical firms in the world. Their engineers have thoroughly exploited the possibilities of sound, from the smallest detail in the piano practice rooms (for example, no wall is perfectly flat from corner to corner) to the grandest effects in the theater.

Acoustics in the theater are controlled partly by four huge curtains, two visible on the sides of the auditorium, and two hidden above the open or false ceiling. These curtains are electrically controlled for a minimum or maximum of reverberating time ( what is suitable for Prof. Erb's choir would be disastrous for Prof.

Williams's actors). Above the open grid work which forms the ceiling is an amazing system of sound baffles, curtains, catwalks, and lights.

All this adds up to a most adaptable theater, one which will be equally suitable for a single speaker, a piano recital, a panel discussion, a string ensemble, a full orchestra , a dramatic presentation, or a musical comedy.

With each new production, the ingenuity of artist, musician, director, and technician can be used to the fullest in exploiting the remarkable resources of this building.

Such a non-technical bird's-eye view of the University's new center for the fine arts must fail to do it justice . The technical virtuosity must be seen to be appreciated. And a display case empty is impressive but hardly so exciting as a full one. Alumni will get their chance to e_xplore the new building-and, more important, to watch the Fine Arts it being used-during Festival, November 1-8. Here for the first time in their history, drama, music and art departments will combine efforts, and the result should be one of the most significant advances in the University's history.

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PROF REMEMBERS WHEN continued from page 7 for several seasons. Someone , the summer before , had constructed a new set. That set, plus a Rube Goldbergish light control system and a few battered Kleig lights , were the inheritance. It was start from scratch .

That first season gave the young director a rare opportunity . On campus were three sets of twins . Such a coincidence couldn 't be overlooked, so "Comedy Of Errors" was put into production in the Greek Theater and the Kings (Philip & the late James , '38) and Millers (Elmer & Edward '38) and the Robertsons (Brooks & Williams '3 8) , gave the Shakespearean romp just the confusing touch needed.

Thinking back, it is amazing the shows we were able to stage in that old Playhouse.

One of the heaviest was "High Tor, " in which we created the illusion of a trap rock quarry , complete with scoop shovel, and strong enough for the phantom crew of Henry Hudson to heist up Salvatore Casale , '41 and Alex Sternberg, '42. By the time of this production, we had the stage quite well equipped, with a grid pieced together from timbers salvaged from the old Red Cross building (Westhampton gym), and enough lighting to make effective stage illusion. We were a happy bunch of workers even though the building was freezing in winter, the tin roof made a terrible din during rainstorms, and the bats darted in and out of the spot beams . The Playhouse at that time was campus center, adjacent to the student shop, and housing all publications offices. Many a Collegian staff member has corrected proof while wielding a paint brush.

The Playhouse came to an end with the Great Fire , November 20, 1950. On that night, while the fire department searched for the fire plug hidden inside a decorative kiosk not ten feet from the building, the students staged a rally that equalled the bonfire celebration that precedes the William and Mary game .

With the passing of the Playhouse , some tears were shed . The building , surely an eye-sore, located where the library now stands , had outlived its usefulness. It was built as a recreation center when the campus was a picnic area at the end of the carline, beside Green's Pond . It had been used as an auditorium for convocation, science building and, during World War I, as part of the hospital complex when our campus became a general army hospital. But to those who worked there, it will remain a shrine.

Era two was the nomadic "arena theater. " Without a building we had to improvise so we turned to staging shows "in the round ."

We eventually settled in the big Keller Hall room. It took a bit of doing but those who remember working with the audience sitting ringside also remember the infectious response . Our first big show in this media was "John Loves Mary," and because "arena" production was new to the area, the five-performance run drew not only campus but city interest. The room was used in various forms. For "Night Must Fall" (directed by William Maner, '40) the big fireplace on the side wall became the focal point in an English drawing room .

The audience sat horseshoe about the action. For the multiple set "I Remember Mama" one entire end of the room was partitioned as background for the action.

The next move was to the Quonset Hut Theater, that lovable tin can located in 'possum hollow behind the Chapel. Here again it was intimate staging but actually the studio theater offered more challenge than simply trying to mount a play on the small stage . We stuck our teeth into some mighty heady scripts, adding our prestige to the local theatrical scene.

The Quonset was purchased with some of the fire insurance money from the old Playhouse as soon after the war as material became available. The original 30 feet by 60 feet unit was designed to continue arena staging. Our first show was the wild farce, "See How They Run, " a complicated scramble that needed five doors.

They weren't available so they were improvised. Author Phillip King couldn 't have imagined how we staged his show! But it was fun-and a new era had begun .

We built platforms for the center-staged "Madwoman of Chaillot, " and then in the evolution we moved these platforms to one end of the room for a stage, complete with temporary everything. But it worked, and for "Lady 's Not For Burning" the show was mounted on a full set, built right against the rear door, left open to allow players to make cross-overs.

That little 19-foot stage knew no limits .

If we needed more room, we came out into the_ audience or went toward the rear wall , which had been extended 20 feet for work and storage space. We could always adjust to form; the big problem was to get the actors on and off stage. Designer Bill Lockey often had to measure an actor 's girth to determine the inches available for an entrance. Our multiple set "Dark Of The Moon" holds the set-change record-nine sets, with 25 actors working in the postage stamp area . The show went off without a bobble, a hectic marvel-and a great theater experience .

No one who worked the small stage ever questioned the effectiveness of the intimate situation. Problems, surely , but they were overcome and the maximum audience of 150 became a part of the play . A show had to be good down to the subtlest bit of business. Strained vocal projection wasn't needed-this will be one of our big problems in the new theater.

The Quonset became known city-wide and for our musicals, especially, we turned away people most every night. The intimate musical cycle began with "Once Upon A Mattress ," then came a brilliant production of "Stop The World , I Want To Get Off" (William Lockey, Jr., '44, directing), and last season "Three Penny Opera." (John Welsh, '60, directing) . On the final night of "Stop The World . .. ," 168 crowded inside, standees arched against the curving side walls (try that for comfort)-and outside clumps of folks peered in through the windows.

We had worked musicals before , "Good News " in the Greek Theater, and "Plain and Fancy," arena style in the Westhampton gym (not to forget the old Rigamaroles and Players Revues staged in the Playhouse) , but the small off-Broadway type of musicals adapted well to the wee Quonset stage.

Another theater form has proven quite successful , the staging of poetic works that have been adapted to the stage . The first of these was Benet's "John Brown 's Body ," then , "The World of Carl Sandburg" and Dylan Thomas' "Under Milkwood ," staged in Dennis Auditorium , as was the provocative religious commentary, "Between Two Thieves."

So we take our giant step now into our new theater , opening with a production of "Oliver ," a play selected because it will give all who work the new complex an opportunity to participate: music , dance, drama, and art. We'll be working even more closely now as a team in the selection and production of shows. We have two other shows scheduled for this first season, Pirandello 's "Six Characters in Search of an Author ," and "A Man For All Seasons ," surely a modern classic that will become a play for all times . After that , the sky is the limit.

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KEEPINGUP continued from page 18 of Tarboro, N. C., to Miss Barbara Allen Beane of Chester , Va., has been announced.

Hurst is serving in the U . S. Navy .

William McCann, Jr ., of Richmond has been appointed headmaster of Tomahawk Academy, a private school in Chesterfield County. McCann was a teacher at Stonewall Jackson School in Richmond .

David H. Herndon has passed the Virgini a CPA examination given in May . He is a member of the staff of Lybrand, Ross Bros ., and Montgomery in Richmond.

Robert R. Merhige III is a student in the Richmond police academy . He will enroll at VCU in February for courses in law enforcement.

1968 Mike Bragg , the University of Richmond's footballer dubbed "Supertoe" by Coach Frank Jone s, is now kicking for the Washington Redskins .

Henry Fizer is enrolled at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, Mass. He was ordained into the Baptist ministry at Stockton Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond August 25 .

John Virkler has been appointed a Southern Baptist missionary journeyman .

He will be a religious education and youth worker at the First Baptist Church of Hamilton, Bermud a.

Peter D. Pruden III has accepted a position with the R . J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Norfolk.

The engagement of Julius R. Tingle, Jr. of War saw to Miss Roberta Marie Schwab of Waynesboro has been announced. A fall wedding is planned.

Mark Weinstein was marr ied to the former Miss Joy Paula Scherbekow in Vineland , N . J., on June 23 .

David M. Howe is a reporter for the Petersburg Progress-Index .

William J . Viglione of Staunton was married to the former Miss Rebecca Jo Gibson of Staunton on June 29. Vigilone is a student in the Virginia Commonwealth Uni versity dental school.

The engagement of Martin Bandas of Richmond to Miss Arlene Patricia Ament of Richmond has been announced .

William B. Kerkham, III and Cabell Venable are serving as law clerks for U. S. Di stri ct Judge Robert R . Merhige , Jr .

David W . Millen ha s joined the law firm of Craft and McGhee in Christiansburg , Va .

John Swiger is a management tra inee with the F irst and Merchant s National Bank in Richmond .

The engagement of David J . Brob st of Winston-Salem, N. C. to Miss Betty Jo Clark of Roanoke has been announced. A winter wedding is planned .

Robert T. Stinchcum is enrolled at Emory University for graduate study .

John E. Dodson has been appointed an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Chesterfield County .

John L. Fugate's thesis on the autobiography of author Emma Speed Sampson received publicity in Richmond newspapers.

Westhampton Necrology 1918 France s Glassell Beale (Mr s. Richard Lee Beale, Sr .) of Bowling Green, Virginia died September 9, 1968 . (Please see class note s. ) 1925 Word has just been received of the de ath of Margaret Sexton Taylor Chamblin (Mrs. Minor Edwin Chamblin) of Cincinnati, Ohio , on August 10, 1968 . (Please see clas s notes . )

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Necrology 1908 The Rev. Julian A. Willoughby, a minister in retirement at Portsmouth , Va. , died April 30. He was an organizer of six Baptist missions in Richmond while he was a student at University of Richmond .

Among the survivors is a daughter .

1910 The Rev . Henry B. Jennings, a re tired minister, died June 14 at his home in Lancaster County, Va. He was 84.

Mr . Jennings spent his entire ministry in Virginia, after gradu a ting from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1914 and the University of Pennsylvania , also in 1914 . He served pastorates in Hillsville, Leesburg, and Pearisburg .

1911 The Rev . Andrew L. Shumate , a retired Baptist minister, died August 31 in a Roanoke, Va ., hospital.

Mr. Shumate served for 50 years in pastorates in Virginia, West Virginia , and South Carolina. He had lived in Roanoke since his retirement in 1953 . He was a native of Pearisburg , Va ., and received his theological training at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at Fork Union Military Academy for a year.

He is survived by his wife and a daughter.

1913 Thomas Winston Bolling, a Richmond musician and teacher, died June 28 at his home in Richmond .

Mr. Bolling operated the Bolling School of Music in Richmond with his parents. He studied music under Constantine Von Sternberg. He was an organizer of the U . S. Naval Reserve unit in Richmond . He attained the rank of lieutenant commander and served as executive officer of the organ ization until his retirement. During World War I, he was captain of a sub-chaser while on active duty in the Navy.

He is survived by his wife and two sons .

1915 Charles W. Buford, a retired bank officer, died September 6 in Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Buford had an extensive career in banking, beginning in 1916 with the National City Bank of New York, a firm he served for nearly 40 years. He was transferred to the Petrograd, Russia, branch of the bank in 1917, and returned to the U . S. in 1918 to join the U . S. Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. After the war, he returned to the bank , and was sent to the Brussel s, Belgium, branch in 1921 , and in 1926 to the Antwerp branch as manager. He returned to Brussels in 1931 as manager, and came back to New York in 1933 as assistant cashier. He became assistant vice presi dent in 1942, and later vice-president.

He retired in 1955 and had lived in Sarasota for the past 10 years . He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

1926 William Mann Kellogg of Richmond, an executive of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for 43 years, died in Richmond August 15. He was 64.

Mr. Kellogg was a past president of the Richmond Safety Council and past chairman of the board of Trinity Methodist Church . He is survived by his wife and two daughters .

1927 Joseph J . Williams, Jr., Henrico County's delegate to the Virginia General Assembly for 22 years and a former member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board , drowned Aug. 31 near his summer cottage in Gloucester County . He was 63 .

Mr. Williams was a partner in the Richmond law firm of Williams, McGehee and Willey . He served in the federal post for three years. He also was on the board of directors of the Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association .

An outstanding athlete, he was a baseball star for the University of Richmond and played in semi-professional leagues.

At the time of his funeral service , Mr. Williams' family requested that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the University of Richmond Athletic Association for the establishment of a Jo seph J . Williams Jr . Memorial Scholarship Fund .

He is survived by his wife , th ree sisters , a daughter and one brother.

1927 Associate Judge B. Gary Blake of Richmond's Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court died June 20 at age 62 .

He had served as associate judge since 1958 . He began his practice of law in 1927 as a member of the Richmond law firm of Blake, Taylor, Hazen and Laster. He was a past president of the Blue Ridge Institut e of Juvenile Court Judges , past chairman of the board of Woodland Heights Baptist Church and taught the Flournoy Bible Class of the church . He was a director of the Richmond National Bank and a member of the advisory extension committee of the University of Richmond School of Christian Education.

Survivor s include hi s wife and two daughters.

1927 Dr. Charles Grandison Pearson, superintendent and medical director of Blue Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesville, Va ., died July 2. He was 62 .

Dr . Pearson was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virgmia Medical School. Survivors include his wife , two sons and a daughter.

1929 Word has been received of the death of Hoen McGurie Edwards of Zuni, Va .

Mr . Edward s was a farmer.

1931 Word has been received of the death on April 27 of John Ernest Squire of Richmond.

1932 John Edward Hamilton of Richmond , a tax attorney and accountant, died July 17.

He was 58.

Mr. Hamilton was secretary of the Dominion Leaf Tobacco Company and formerly with A . M . Pullen & Co., public accountants . He was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves and a member of the Westhampton Methodist Church, American Bar Association, and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Survivors include his wife , a son and a. daughter.

1950 Robert James Parr, a Suffolk , Va. attorney died April 8.

Mr. Parr began the practice of law in Suffolk in the 1950's and was associated in the firm with R . D . Hunter, III . At the time of his death he was president of the Suffolk-Nansemond Bar Association.

Survivors include a wife and six children .

1952 Stanley S. Snead, a retired Red Cross official in Richmond , died June 12.

Mr. Snead , was director of service to military families and disaster service for the Chesterfield County chapter of the American Red Cross . He had taught high school in Windsor and later held pastorates at Sunbury, N . C., and Kitty Hawk, N. C .

Survivors include his wife and two sons, and a brother, Harry L. Snead, Jr ., a professor at the T. C. Williams School of Law .

1960 Hunter Floyd Spencer, Jr . of Hampton , died in a boating accident July 18, near Hampton Roads .

Mr. Spencer worked for six years in the personnel division of the City of Richmond.

He was a veteran of the Korean War , serving with the 50th Army band, Ft. Monroe, and the 289th Army Band, Olsen, Japan.

He is survived by a brother, two sisters and a grandmother.

A Lookat the Campus ReligiousScene continued from page JO could be with other young people. At college you are with them all of the time."

2. Furthermore, students seek their own means of social identification at college, and Protestant, Catholic, Jew-or Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian are not nearly as important as Kappa Gamma Chi, the debate team, student publications, or varsity sports.

3. Students, being healthy, young animals from a purely biological point of view, do not feel the need to celebrate what we may call "the mystery of life." They are basically secular youngsters more intent on exploring and enjoying this life and the good things in it, thank you, than on taking time out for awe and wonder or worship.

4. Some, particularly those from the most conservative backgrounds, are certain that faith and learning are two totally different and exclusive things. The one, they think, is blind acceptance of superstition.

The other is a question-asking process whereby dependable information is gained.

To discover that faith is commitment seeking understanding in chemistry no less than in Christian ity is an experience they cannot imagine.

5. The church, as they perceive it, does not impress them with its effectiveness in making life more human. Rather, it seems too bent on self-aggrandizement, with service being a minor activity. (And is it not true that " ... the best endowed and most heavily staffed offices remain those answering the strictly institutional needs of the

churches-fund raising, m1ss1onary activities, and public relations?" ( Callahan, Daniel , "The Quest for Social Relevance ," Daedalus, Winter, 1967, p. 169.)

6. Lastly, this young generation cares as little as have others to '·be good." Witness the display of empty whiskey and beer bottles in dormitory rooms , or the ubiquitous Playboy. And how many times have we impressed them with the idea that this. in fact, is the thing we most want "religion" to do for them: keep them out of trouble?

Of course, there are exceptions to the general rule spelled out above, and I hasten to put them down. Young people from homes where they have been profoundly loved , and have been made to know it, respond with alacrity to religious programs if they see that you mean to deal with them with integrity and. hopefully, creativity. It appears to me that we have more than the customary proportion of these young people at the University of Richmond.

Then there are the problem kids , who are having trouble with parents, or roommates, or professors. Sometimes they think of themselves as agnostics or atheists, but really they are out of kilter with themselves.

They respond , often in spite of themselves, l believe , to a caring ministry. Jn fact, one can easily spend most of his time with just a few of these ... and always be busy.

But the big majority are those described earlier. If religion is going to make headway on the campus , it must find ways to reach out effectively to these students.

Happily there are some things we know to be meaningful to this larger group. For example, they respond to the teaching of the Bible when it is presented to them in the same way that other books or disciplines are studied.

College and university departments of religion are being established and enrollment is booming all across the land. On our campus , though some of our alumni may not yet be aware of it, every student is now required to take six hours in the Department of Bible and Religion. The first course is an introduction to the whole Bible. That this "gets through" cannot be doubted. The effort is made here to acquaint the student in a scientific way with the most important book in Western civilization. The profe ssor has value judgments, to be sure, but the student makes his own.

The co-curricular programs that are best attended are those which stress hone sty, or "telling it like it is;· and relevance to a recognized need. The visit to our campus this year by a Negro clergyman who spent two days here describing the crisis in black and white from the standpoint of a black man was an obvious success, in term s of attendance, "spin-off ," or any other criterion .

Most clearly, the "cool generation," as Marshall McLuhan dubs it , is acting out its religious concern as it rolls up its sleeves and makes a positive, phy sical contribution to a specific need. Example: the juniors in our School of Business Administration spent a week preparing for, and a day carrying through on a project to construct shelter s for a "Y" camp for underprivileged boys.

On e student said, " ... community and moral responsibility are also taught by participation in such projects as Weyanoke."

It was about such young people as this that President Johnson was speaking when he said " ... there is a moral energy in this generation that exceeds any I have seen before."

Those of us privileged to work with them day by day agree.

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