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Spring, 1969
Features: 3 4
Come Back in May
In Loco A vunculi What's It All About?
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On the Road to Record Goals Number Four Hundred Dr. Gregory: Social Scientist Dick Howard: 141st Assemblyman Lengthening Shadows of a Man A Report on Westhampton: Admissions
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ALUMNAE-ALUMNI COLLEGE Chairman: Mary Owen Miller, '61 10:00 A.M. REGISTRATION-Keller Hall LECTURE SERIES-Reception Room, Keller Hall 10:30 A.M. "WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY?"-Dr. Irby B. Brown, Associate Professor of English. Cessation of censorship resulting in degraded movies and television programs is causing concern to community leaders. Dr. Brown studies the trend of morals in literature and what we can expect in the future.
11:30 A.M. "I CAN SEE A HUNDRED MILESTONES"-Dr. Speculations on research into marine and space biology and the effects it can have on American living.
Keller Hall 12:45 P.M, Luncheon-Gymnasium, 2:00 P.M. "CONTEMPORARY CO-ED"-Mrs. Jean Neasmith Dickinson, Assistant Professor of Psychology. 12 14 14 20 22 40 41
Alumni in the News Sports: Basketball Report Keeping Up with Classmates Accent on Alumnae Westhampton Class Notes Necrology Book Review
Calendar: Weekend, June 9
Friday, May 16, 1969
Warwick R. West, Professor of Biology.
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Alumni-Alumnae Commencement,
Alumni-Alumnae Weekend Calendar of Events
May
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Cover: Nostalgia is the note for Alumni-Alumnae Weekend when old and not-so-old grads return to alma mater. To welcome you back, Jean Brumsey Biscoe, '48, and William B. Graham , '43, are shown in vintage surroundings on this remember-when cover of your Spring 1969 issue of the Bulletin.
The awareness of college students today, the challenges they present to faculty and administration, and some of the student problems.
Saturday, May 17, 1969 Alumni Chairman: William B. Graham, '43 Alumnae Chairman: Jean Brumsey Biscoe, '48 7:30 P.M. BREAKFAST-School of Business Alumni Association, Holiday lnn-3200 W. Broad Street 9:30 A.M. MEETING OF GOVERNING BOARD, Westhampton Gardner college Alumnae Association-Emily Room, Keller Hall 9:30 A.M. MEETING, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Alumni CounRoom, Student Center cil-Conference Lounge, 10:00 A.M. MEETING, ALUMNI COUNCIL-Faculty Student Center 10:00 A.M. ALUMNAE REGISTRATION AND COFFEE, Reception Room, Keller Hall 10:00 A.M. ALUMNI REGISTRATION AND COFFEE-Ryland Hall Lawn 10:45 A.M. WATER BALLET-Swimming Pool, Keller Hall 11:00 A.M. DEDICATION, T. Justin Moore Memorial Hall Speaker: Dr. Theodore F. Adams, Pastor Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia; Member Executive Committee, University of Richmond Board of Trustees.
12:00 Noon ANNUAL
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, Spring 1969, Volume 32, Number 2. 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.
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Volume 32, Number 3
Alumni-Alumnae Weekend Calendar of Events
Spring, 1969
Friday, May 16, 1969
Features: Come Back in May In Loco A vunculi What's It All About? On the Road to Record Goals Number Four Hundred Dr. Gregory: Social Scientist Dick Howard: 141st Assemblyman Lengthening Shadows of a Man Westhampton: A Report on Admissions
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l:EIMEBAl:KIN MAY 'A Man for All Seasons' tops Alumni-Aumnae \Veekend, May 16 and 17 It's spring on the University of Richmond campus and the dogwood is at its peak. Also in full bloom are preparations for Alumni-Alumnae Weekend, May 16 and 17. Co-chairmen William B. Graham, '43; and Jean Brumsey Biscoe, '48; are planning the events (see calendar) to provide two full days of welcome. Topping the weekend's activities will be two performances of "A Man for All Seasons," produced by the University Players under the direction of the beloved Alton Williams. For the matinee performance University Players who worked under his command will come back in an "I LUV PROF" demonstration. Returning Players will march into their reserved seats, on cue, just before the opening curtain. Earlier, it will be classes as usual on Friday at Alumni-Alumnae College. Saturday is set aside for business first, on both sides of the lake, and then pleasure, co-ed style . Saturday morning will be highlighted by the dedication of the T. Justin Moore Memorial Hall, named for a former rector of the University Board of Trustees. A late afternoon reception will be a pleasant interlude between the two performances of "A Man for All Seasons" in the James L. Camp Memorial Theatre in the Fine Arts ·Building. Class reunions will be held both Friday and Saturday nights. Clarence J. Doane, '49, co-chairman of the "I LUV PROF" event, noted that "Saturday's play is particularly appropriate for this tribute to Alton Williams who has taken a key role in drama on the University campus and in the greater Richmond community for more than 30 years. For those of us who tread the boards or worked backstage," Doane said "Prof is truly our man for all time." Old grads, as well as those of recent vintage who claim less than 30 birthdays, also will be particularly interested in returning to the classroom on Friday. The lectures, scheduled by Mary Owen Miller, '61, can be attended without such former "benefits" as notes, examinations and semester credits. Beginning at the very respectable hour of 10:30, Dr. Irby B. Brown, '54, of the English Department, will discuss "What Is Pornography?" Dr. Brown will look at current movies and television programs and relate them to the present and future trends of morals in literature. At 11:30, Dr. Warwick R. West, Jr., professor of biology, will launch off from the topic, "I Can See a Hundred Milestones." He will speculate on research in marine and space biology
and anticipate the effect on American living. After lunch, classes will resume at 2 o'clock when Jean Nesmith Dickinson, '41, of the psychology department, will sketch a profile of the "Contemporary Co-Ed." From her firsthand knowledge of today's campus, Mrs. Dickinson will discuss student awarenes and their problems as well as the challenges that students present to the faculty and administration. The "I LUV PROF" demonstration is being staged under the direction of a crew of former players which, besides Doane, includes: Carlson Thomas, '40; Henrietta Sadler Kinman, '41; Carolyn Gary Hugo, 41; Jack Noftsinger '40; William Etheridge; '46; Hansford Rowe, '50; and Mary G. Sherer Taylor, '42; with the able assistance of William Lockey, '44, in checking out the list of performers from ancient playbills. The playbills tell the story of Prof's years on the University campus, beginning in 1935. For some of that time he ran the show alone, alternating between the classroom, backstage, and out front, where he was both director and producer. His productions have ranged from classic Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to dramas penned by the students themselves. A display of the playbills, along with the pictures, will be on hand as footlight reminders and proof of campus stardom. The scene shifts also have varied. Originally, there was the playhouse on the hill where deathless speeches competed with whistling radiators. Next there was the cozy intimacy of a quonset hut. And always, weather permitting, the amphitheater beckons with its grassy slopes, heavenly eves, and dressing room distributed descreetly among the pines. Today, the Players operate from their spacious new home in the Fine Arts Building which has been hailed as one of the finest student theaters in the nation. "Such a theater," Doane pointed out, "has long been Prof's dream. Those of us who have had the good fortune to be associated with him realize he had much to do with planning the facilities and seeing them materialize." Theater people traditionally are known for trying to steal the spotlight and bygone University Players are no exception. But that's only part of the show. There's a full bill; two whole days of continuous performances beginning May 16. Curtain. Lights. Action. It's that time of year. You can come home again. 3
Today we might better understanda college campus in terms of the avuncular rather than the paternal
IN LOCO AVUNCULI By Joseph C. Robert
In these days of change in higher education, it is imperative that we keep our wits about us; there just may be some values in the old ways which at first glance might not be seen in their full glory . Or to put the matter more rudely, we must to careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. As university students you belong to a fellowship with magnificent dimensions in terms of both geography and time . I have heard noisy students at the University of Ath_ens duplicating the yells at a pre-football rally at our own Greek Theatre ( though really they were putting the pressure on their business manager to reduce tuition). The houses of the so-called nations at the University at Uppsala, Sweden , are similar to our own fraternity lodges, and serve the same purposes . Student caps in Rome put one in mind of freshman headgear all over the United States . In ordinary seasons you have much in common with students in the western world. Not only in mannerisms but in spirit. Always acknowledging our intellectual debt to ancient times, we must realize that the college and university idea as we know it came to the English-speaking colonies from Europe by way of England , later in more direct 4
fashion . Some of those seminal medieval universities were established by professors , some by students. Among the latter is Bologna, today a fascinating place with its miles of arcades and its busy industries. How did the university originate? In plain terms some young people wanted training not then available, and they employed teachers. In the face-to-face encounter between these professors and students we have the genesis of the university, as the term is usually understood in our times. The students militantly organized to protect themselves against the keepers of shops and taverns, who, according to the young people, habitually exploited them. And they, the students, made strict requirements of their professors, who were specifically forbidden to cut classes, and to postpone indefinitely troublesome points in their lectures through the device of protesting that these themes would be considered on the morrow! In those days before collect telephone calls were invented, students used to write home . Let us peek over the shoulders of a lad who is earnestly scratching away. This is 500 years ago. According to Haskins he writes about as follows . To "his venerable master" he sends "greetings. " This is to inform / Continued on page 42
WHAT'SIT ALL ABOUT? Edited by Dr. James A. Sartain
In an effort to deal with some of the major issues in America today the first two programs of the 1969 Faculty-Alumni Forum were devoted to "The Generation Gap" and to "Law and Disorder." Held in the Fine Arts Building, both of these panel discussions attracted a large audience and both provoked spirited debate. "The Generation Gap," moderated by Jerry L. Tarver, chairman of the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts, had as its panel members H. I. Willett, superintendent of Richmond Public Schools; Guy Friddell, '46, editorial page editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot; Robert F. Smart, provost of the University of Richmond; Fred Smith, president of Richmond College Student Government; Mary Sue Terry, president of Westhampton College Government; and James A. Winders, Collegian columnist. Miss Terry suggested that a lack of communication was one of the major factors in the generation gap and pointed out that "there are two types of communication with the older generation-pleasant and unpleasant." Part of the problem, as Miss Terry sees it, is that there is "a mutual misunderstanding of words," and the "danger and the folly of glibly classifying all members of one
generation as unloving cntlcs and all members of the other generation as uncritical lovers ." Dr. Willett felt that the generation gap is more mental than physical and that "young people are missing discipline and want some authority to tell them what to do." In response to Dr. Willett's statement, Mr. Smith asserted that "advice we get from our parents sometimes does not assist with the problem for which an answer is being sought." Mr. Friddell, more optimistic about the problem than the other panelists, suggested that the gap between the generations is diminishing. He cited recent court decisions and legislative acts involving civil rights as having helped close the gap. "Law and Disorder" was discussed by William T. Muse, dean of the T. C. Williams Law School; Henry L. Marsh, III, Richmond attorney and civil rights leader; and James A . Sartain, associate professor of sociology at the University of Richmond . This panel was moderated by Virginius Dabney, recently-retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Crime is increasing in our county ... and it is not just the vice of a handful of / Continued on page 39 5
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WORKING On the road to record goals The altered highway sign tells the story of activity on both sides of the lake as Alumni and Alumnae Funds were launched. The ladies met for luncheon and a Workshop under the leadership of Carolyn 0. Marsh, '47, who is General Chairman of the Westhampton College Alumnae Fund. Gathered around work tables in Keller Hall, the alumnae class groups shared their fund-raising ideas in an afternoon that buzzed with enthusiasm. The gentlemen got a replay of the Tangerine Bowl football victory with Buster O'Brien, the Spiders' star quarterback, as narrator before settling down to work at a class agents meeting attended by hundreds of the more than 1,000 workers. Howard Falls, '33, President of the Alumni Council, welcomed the workers in Dennis Auditorium. President Modlin and Dr. Austin Grigg, '40, dean of Richmond College, shared the stage with President Falls. Before going to the meeting, the men got their packets of supplies at the registration desk. After the meeting, they went down the chow line in the refectory, and later saw the basketball team defeat the Citadel at the Arena. Class agents, men and women, are working hard to meet the record goals in the 1969 Alumni and Alumnae Funds. As the Alumni Bulletin goes to press, the men have $104,000.00 toward their goal of $150,000; the women, with a goal of $50,000, have raised a little over $32,000. Chairmen Marsh and Falls are exhorting those who have not given to send in their contributions immediately. Both point out that although progress has been made, victory is not yet in sight 6
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Win number 400 goes on the record for Mac Pitt after thirty-five years of basking in the sun of success with 'his boys' on the baseball field by Jennings Culley Sports Editor, Richmond New Leader
Spring com es to Virginia in many forms . . . a robin on the wing . . . a blooming dogwood . . . a sprig of wild onion popping from the ground. But on the rolling green of the University of Richmond campus, spring comes when the Gray Fox goes on the prowl. Only when Mac Pitt dons his rubber windbreaker, pulls that baseball cap down on his ears and starts pacing nervously up and down the sidelines of the baseball field, can one really be sure winter has passed. For 35 years, as Spider baseball coach, Pitt has been gathering "my boys" together on the windy, cold days of March for the start of practice . And for 35 years Pitt and his boys have enjoyed basking in the sun of success by the time May rolls around. Pitt and success have made a happy blend , like ice cream and hot fudge, and the alumni have eaten it up! So it was heartwarming, but not surprising when Pitt reached a coaching milestone on a blustery March day . On a day that made you wonder about spr ing, the Spiders whipped Buffalo and th e victory went on the ledger as the 400th win in Pitt's brilliant and inspiring career as coach and counselor. A kindly, soft-spoken leader of men, Pitt never measured his success by victories on the field, despite 16 state championships and three Southern Conference crowns . And he has never measured his success by the stars he's produced and sent into professional baseball, many of whom made it to the big leagues . Pitt is the breed of man who likes to measure success by the helping hand he's held out for others . Th ere, Pitt 's victories are countless. "l don 't know where I'd be today," a form er player and now successful businessman proudly admits , "if it hadn't been for Coach Pitt. 8
"He taught me all I ever knew about baseball. But more important, he pulled me back from a bad road and gave me a purpose in life. "I know it sounds trite, but he was a father to me when I needed one." An incident some years ago show vividly the nature of the man. A father stopped by Millhiser Field with his five-year-old son to watch the Spiders practice . It was one of those raw March days when Pitt wouldn't think of endangering a pitcher 's arm with batting practice, so he had the team drilling on defense. He 'd set the ball on a rubber tee and have the players hit a roller or line screamer and then run the bases. 'Come here, son," Pitt yelled to the youngster and the kid sheepishly walked up to the plate. "Now take this bat and knock the ball as far as you can." The kid swung mightily and tapped the ball about as far as a good bunt would go. While the catcher and pitcher stood looking at each other, the runner beat it out. "You gotta be ready," Pitt screamed. " You gotta be ready for anything." The episode points up Pitt's two greatest attributes as a coach-his love for the boy and his insistence on learning the game's fundamentals. To this day, the boy has never forgotten "the day I played for Richmond" and the man who took time out to be nice. No doubt, the pitcher and catcher have never forgotten the way they pulled an Alphonse-Gaston act on the bunt. And if they're still playing baseball, you can bet-they're ready for anything. On the technical side of baseball, Mac Pitt has few peers-even in the professional managerial ranks. He 's always ben a stickler for perfection of baseball's basic plays, those little things that mean the difference between winning and losing.
To this day, he drills his team hard and long on defensive technique . . . to be sure that, under pressure, they can instinctively make the right relay throw, hit the proper cutoff man and throw to the proper base. Offensively, he works a team just as diligently. Every man must know how to bunt, how to hit behind the runner, how to take the extra base. Spider teams have always been marked by exceJlent pitching and that, too, is the result of Pitt's experienced hand. He's always handled pitchers with cunning and care, even risking defeats on cold days rather than tamper with an overworked arm. Like all managers, Pitt probably feels he 's never blessed with an abundance of good hitters. But even without fence busters, Pitt's teams have always managed runs with their uncanny skill on the bases. The squeeze play is one of baseball 's prettiest plays-and it's won more games for Pitt than rivals like to remember. Over the years, Spider teams have been so sound in all phases of the game, many fans wondered how Pitt would have done as a major league manager. Chances are he would have been a winner. But Mac Pitt's life has been with "my boys." Sure, he takes justifiable pride in the many players he's sent into pro ball, especially those who made it to the bigtime like pitcher Lew Burdette (Milwaukee Braves), pitcher Porter Vaughan (Philade lphia Athletics), pitcher Herb Hash (Boston Red Sox) and pitcher Bucky Jacobs and first baseman Jack Sanford ( Washington Senators) . But Pitt's greatest satisfaction has come in the hundreds of boys he has developed into young men . Every player who has donned a Richmond uniform has been richer when he hung it up. You can't play for Mac Pitt without some of the man rubbing off on you.
The best stories of the quiet manner in which he helped a person over a troublesome spot or directed a misguided youth back to the straight and narrow will remain untold. They 're locked in the hearts of the grateful recipients. But as coach, Sunday School teacher and director of Camp Virginia, Pitt has left his mark on many. Some years ago there was a player who after suffering a head injury was bothered by failing eyesight to the extent that he couldn 't follow
a fly ball. But Pitt knew
it would crush the youngster 's spirit if he couldn't play his senior year, so Pitt tried to hide the problem and played the boy. On the last day of the season, he got his reward, The player delivered the key hit in a win over arch-rival William & Mary that clinched another state title. To many, Pitt seems as much a fixture at Richmond as the stately pines. He first arrived on campus in 1916 and during the next few years made a name as a basketball, football and baseball player. After coaching at Fork Union Military Academy for some years, he returned as Spider coach in 1933 and went on to coach basketball and serve as athletic director in addition to his baseball duties. In 1967, he formally retired and they renamed the field in his honor. But when spring rolled around the next year, a rush call went out to Pitt to come back as baseball coach. He readily answered the call and the winning tradition at Richmond has continued. Looking back on the years now, Pitt says if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't change a thing. ''I'd coach and work with boys," Pitt says. "The boys I've coached and worked with have been dear to me. The many friends I've made through coaching mean a great deal. "I've been amply and sufficiently rewarded." And so have the hundreds of young men who were privileged to call Mac Pitt " my coach." 9
FACULTY PROFILE:
Dr.Gregory
Social
Scientist Thirteen hundred men now residing in the Virginia State Penitentiary will wholeheartedly applaud a suggestion of Dr. E. W. Gregory, Jr., chair man of the department of Sociology at the University of Richmond. He wants to get rid of the penitentiary. But he quickly adds that that doesn't mean that the inmates should be turned loose. "We ought to replace the penitentiary with three smaller institutions," Dr. Gregory says. "There would be an admitting institution, which would include a hospital and where the prisoners would be evaluated, then a medium security inst itution and a maximum security institution." But right now all this is in the "exploratory stage." He knows whereof he
speaks, for in addition to his duties as chairman of the department of sociology at the University of Richmond, he is chairman of the State Board of Welfare ar.d Institutions. There are other positions in which he has served the public, and a list of them would be longer than most of the prison records of the persons in whom he is professionally interested. Among those other civic jobs is service on the Virginia Commission on the Aging, for which last year he received a scroll in appreciation of his services. Those two areas of interest-social pathology and gerontology-have kept Dr. Gregory busy for all of his professiona I Iife . He has lived up to his belief that "a social scientist ought to get out into the realities of life, to combine teaching with first-hand study of particular problems." His study of and service on the state board led him to defend the State Penitentiary against allegations of mistreatment of prisoners . "With the available facilities the program there is not a bad one," he said, adding that "the administrative personnel are excellent." Dr. Gregory is an admirer of the director of the department of Welfare and institutions, Otis L. Brown, '56, who took the top job in September of 1966. He considers Mr. Brown's record ofachievement in the field of public administration, "although comparatively short , is most impressive." But he asserted that the one large institution should be eliminated in favor of the three smaller ones. His reason: "We can do a more effective job with smaller institutions ." A more effective job, he continued, includes improving the present program of "education and vocational training,, occupational training, with emphasis on training men for jobs in today's economy." In further comments on the state prison system, Dr. Gregory said, "While there
are many defects, the women's state prison farm is one of the finest institutions in the country. A lot is needed, but from the very beginning it has been very effectively run." Although Dr. Gregory is perhaps better known for his work with the State Board of Welfare and Institutions, he has been extremely active in his study of the aging. His interest in this area began shortly after he came to the University of Richmond in 1946 to chair the sociology department. He was one of a number of distinguished citizens who attended the White House Conference on Aging in 1961, and his recent service on the Virginia Commission on the Aging was outstanding. "Much was needed, and still is needed, in research into the problems of the aged," Dr. Gregory said. However, great strides have been made toward solving some of the problems of the aged, in the areas of "social activities, physical and mental health care, adequate minimum income and opportunity to work." The study of the old has not lessened his own vigor. His activities are many and varied as can be seen from the list of organizations of which he has served as the top officer: The Family and Children's Service of Richmond Board of Directors, Richmond City Advisory Board of Public Welfare, Richmond Area Community Council, Virginia Council on Social Welfare, University Center in Virginia Research Council , Torch Club of Richmond. In addition, he is a member of a number of professiona I organizations and finds time to be active in the work of Westhampton Methodist Church. Although the calendar indicates that Dr. Gregory is fast approaching the age of "the aging," his schedule is enough to tire a man half his age. "Perhaps studying the old keeps one young," he said.
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f there ever was a man in motion it is Alfred Ellsworth Dick Howard: skier, trombonist, author, baseball fan, law professor, guiding hand behind the proposed revision of the State constitution and the "141st assemblyman" on the floor of the 1969 Virginia legislature. You will have to go a long way, indeed, to find a man who has crammed more accomplishments into the first 35 years of his life. It was because of Dick Howard's energy, thoroughness, and capability, that this distinguished University of Richmond alumnus was selected a year ago to guide the research that led to the report of the Commission on Constitutional Revision and taken up by the special session of the General Assembly in February. From the time he was appointed in March 1968 until last Christmas, Howard, a University of Virginia law professor, worked 16-hour days out of a 9 by 12 office in the law school directing a small but select staff in its research into all aspects of the Constitution. In addition, he spent days traveling throughout · the State to public hearings on the constitution and sampling opinion that led to the commission's proposals. Yet his work didn't stop once the report was presented to the Governor on a January day in Williamsburg. During the Assembly session that followed, the likeable Dick Howard was the man of the hour ducking in and out of numerous legislative committee hearings, articulating points about the constitution; fielding questions in the halls of the Capitol from legislators and members of the press and trying to keep up with the specific points under study by legislative groups. "It's not the number of hours in the day that I worry about," he said in the middle of a particularly crowded day, "it's knowing that I can't be in every committee meeting at the same time." Yet he got around enough so that his face became one of the most familiar ones in the lovely old Jefferson-designed Statehouse. But busy is the man and he likes it that way. "I've lived with it (the commission's report), slept with it for a long time now. I feel we'll be together for some time in the future too," he said. It figures that he'll be needed for a good while because of the requirement that constitutional changes must win the approval of two sessions of the legislature and the Virginia voter in referendum. Howard's energy is easier to measure if you go back to his days at the University of Richmond. His record is going to be a hard one to beat. He entered Richmond College in 1950 after attending Richmond public schools. By the time he was awarded his degree in history and political science he had established a typical, unbelievable record! In four years he posted a 2.96 average out of a possible 3.00; was selected the nation's outstanding ROTC cadet; won
A. E. Dick Howard, '54, sometimes know as the "141st member" of the Virginia General Assembly' chats with Speaker John Warren Cooke before the convening of an afternoon session of the House.
Dick Howard:141stAssemblyman the Alumni Council Medal as the outstanding graduate of Richmond College; received the J. Taylor Ellison Medal in History for the best piece of original investigation in history; was President of the Senate; and was selected Virginia's Outstanding College Student by the National Association of Manufacturers . He was Regimental Commander of ROTC; a columnist for the Collegian; a member of the band and glee club. Along the way he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. Beyond the boundaries of the Richmond campus young Howard became a trombonist in the fledgling Richmond Symphony Orchestra and youth chairman for the Greater Richmond Civic Recreation Inc ., the group that brought International League baseball to Richmond. After graduation Howard spent two years in the army and won first ranking in the Transportation Officers Basic Course. His army tour behind him, Howard entered the school of Law at the University of Virginia in 1956 and two years later was selected a Rhodes Scholar . As a member of Oxford University's Christ Church College, he studied politics, philosophy and economics, all the while mingling with the cream of the British "establishment" who send their sons there. Long vacations at Christmas, Easter and during the summer permitted him to travel extensively to Russia and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe . Yet while he was studying at Christ Church College he was imparting know!-
edge to others with slide lectures on America to groups in London, Oxford , and Cambridge. "There were times of freedom in England when , almost for the first time, I had to interpret my country, my nation for those who shared none of our common experience." He returned to the University of Virginia in 1960 and took his law degree a year later with a 3.62 average and was again at his customary perch at the head of the class. Howard went on to work for a Washington law firm of Covington & Burling and in 1962 became a clerk for Justice Hugo L. Black, of the United States Supreme Court. Joining the University of Virginia law school faculty in 1964 where he became associate dean, his interest in constitutional law led to the publication of a book on England's Magna Carta that same year for the Magna Carta Commission of Virginia. His The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America was published in 1968. He is also the editor of the "Jamestown Essays on Representation" to be published later this year. His writing talent played no small part in the lucid report of the Constitutional Commission . Howard feels the commission's report was a good one and well received. But months of popping in and out of doors had been "a little frantic " particularly with the legislature in session . For this particular session of the Assembly he is probably in the role of the famous " twelfth man" on the football team or in the case of the legislature the " 141st assemblyman. " 11
ShotzbergerInaugurated Presidentof CatawbaCollege
Shotzberger, '48
Alumni in the News
Pruden, '25
Britton, '35
Bateman, '54
Britton ContributesCollection Beverly L. Britton, '35, public relations director for A. H. Robins, Co., has donated a collection of a periodical of the U. S. Naval Institution and other papers dealing with Naval matters to the University of Richmond Library. Britton is a captain in the Naval Reserve. The publication, The Proceedings, is a non-technical magazine containing information on various aspects of the Navy. It will become the nucleus of a University collection on Naval and maritime affairs, University of Richmond Librarian Ardie Kelly, said.
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"Great things are in store for Catawba under his leadership," said Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr., at the inauguration of Dr. Martin E. Shotzberger, Jr., '48, as president of Catawba College, Salisbury, N. C., on March 28. That's the concensus of the many friends , associates and University alumni who made the trip to the small North Carolina city to witness Dr. Shotzberger's formal installation as chief executive of the college. Gov. Godwin added: "In his years with us in Virginia, he has managed to be always both respected and loved." Another speaker on the program, Dr. James A . Moncure, '49, Dr. Shotzberger's successor as dean of University College, gave his own evaluation of the new president: "College administrators must have a basic human kindness, a keen intellect, and in an age that denies even benevolent despotism, he must make final decisions through a process of general concensus. These qualities are outstanding aspects of Martin Shotzberger's talents and character as a man and as an administrator." In the audience were Dean Austin E. Grigg, '40, of Richmond College, who officially represented the University of Richmond; Dr. Charles Turney, '58, Dr. William Leftwich, '52, Dr. Spencer D. Albright, Dr. Thomas S. Berry, Dr. Richard S. Underhill, Dr. W. Allan Powell, Dr. Thomas C. Sanders, and Dean Mary Louise Gehring of Westhampton College, among others from the University of Richmond community.
Alumni RepresentUniversity At the invitation of President Modlin, the following alumni represented the University of Richmond in the inaugural parade and other activities incident to the inauguration of college and university presidents in recent months: Lee 0. Gaskins, '30, at the inauguration of Dr. Paul Harding III, as president of Wofford College April 15. Gaskins is executive director of the Spartanburg (S. C.) Economic Opportunities Commission. Rev. J. Robert Stiff, '31, of Martinsburg, W. Va., at the inauguration of Dr. James A. Butcher as president of Shepherd College April 19. Stuart Schwarzchild, '38, of Atlanta, Ga., at the inauguration of Dr. Henderson as president of Clark College on April 19. Dr. Austin E. Grigg, '40, dean of Richmond College, at the inauguration of Dr. Martin L. Shotzberger, '48, as president of Catawba College, Salisbury, N. C., March 28. Dr. Edgar M. Arendall, '41, pastor of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., at the inauguration of Dr. Kermit A. Johnson as president of Alabama College March 25. Ralph J. Hagood, '48, of Dallas, Tex., at the inauguration of Dr. Hardwick as
president of LeTourneau College April 19. Dr. Louis Luechauer, '49, of Salt Lake City, Utah, at the inauguration of Dr. Glen L. Tagger as president of Utah State University March 7. Dr. Luechauer is with the Steiner-American Corporation. Wesley W. Brown, '51, of Springfield, 111., at the inauguration of Dr. Robert S. Eckley as president of Illinois Wesleyan University March 22. Brown is an insurance executive in Springfield. Rev. Malcolm G. Shotwell, '54, of Galesburg, Ill., at the inauguration of Dr. Bernhard as president of Western Illinois University May 3. Rev. Shotwell is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Galesburg. Dr. David A. McCants, '58, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., at the inauguration of Dr. John J. Pruis as president of Ball State University April 11. Dr. McCants is an assistant professor of speech at Purdue University. George R. Hulcher, '58, of Knoxville, Tenn ., at the inauguration of Dr. Fincher as president of Carson-Newman College April 29. Hulcher is with the Secret Service.
Dr. EdwardPrudenRetires Dr. Edward H. Pruden, '25 who has retired after 32 years as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Washington, has left for an extended trip to Europe after a farewell service in which his congregation and fellow ministers honored him. Mrs. Pruden is accompanying him on the trip to Vienna, where he will attend meetings of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, and to England, where he will meet with the central committee of the World Council of Churches. After returning from Europe, the Prudens will make their retirement home in Raleigh, N. C. The special service was held in the Washington National Cathedral and was sponsored by the cathedral authorities and the Washington Council of Churches. More than 50 ministers of various denominations throughout the city participated in the service. In his farewell sermon, Dr. Pruden told the congregation that "you who are gathered here in this house of God have done far more for me than I have ever been able to do for you, and when I leave Washington, soon, I shall take with me the accumulated joys and insights which I have received from you as we have worked together in the service of Christ."
CrittendenTop SportsWriter John Crittenden, '53, sports editor of the Miami News, has won top awards in the 1968 Florida sports writers contest. Crittenden won first place in general writing excellence, and second place in columns. His first place award included columns and features, as well as spot
news stories. The Miami News took the most first place prizes, most total prizes and had most writers winning awards. Crittenden came to Miami eight years ago and has been a prize-winner in every Florida Sports Writers Association contest since, taking firsts in each of the major writing categories. In the past five years, Crittenden has won more state contest awards than any sports writer in Florida.
SenatorWillis RobertsonRetires Former U. S. Senator A. Willis Robertson has retired to private life after more than 50 years in public office. For the past two years he has been a consultant to the World Bank. Prior to that, he served for two decades in the Senate, for much of that time as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking. He served six years in the Virginia Senate beginning with his election to the state senate in 1915. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932 and to the U. S. Senate in 1946. Senator Robertson was educated in the public schools of Lynchburg and Rocky Mount, and received B.A. LLB. and honorary LLD. degrees from the University of Richmond. He was a varsity football player at the University of Richmond, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity, ODK, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. He will retire to private life in Lexington, Va.
Life of VirginiaNamesBurnette, Hulce, Phillips and Weaver Four alumni have been promoted by the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. They are Donald G. Burnette, '52, to vice president; A. Dale Hulce, '50, to assistant secretary and manager of the policyowners service division; William K. Phillips, '58, to manager of the life underwriting division; and John B. Weaver, '51, to treasurer. Burnette will serve as assistant to the executive vice president. He began his career with Life of Virginia in 1953 as a methods analyst and served in various capacities before being elevated to assistant secretary and director of personnel in 1962. He has served as an assistant vice president and was promoted to second vice president in 1966. Hulce joined the company in 1950 in the underwriting department and was promoted to manager of the policyowners service division in 1966. Phillips was promoted to senior underwriter in 1961 and has held various managerial positions as a life underwriter. He is an officer of the company. Weaver was assistant treasurer. He was advanced to assistant to the treasurer in 1960 and promoted to assistant treasurer four years later.
John B. Odell AppointedJudge John B. Odell, '57, has been appointed judge of the Traffic and Civil Court of Newport News, Va . Judge Odell, a former president of the Peninsula chapter of the University of Richmond Alumni Association, was a member of the law firm of Saunders, Carleton and Odell in Newport News. Judge Odell also has been appointed to a seat on the Newport News highway safety commission and the chairmanship of the Public Law Library Board.
Rush LovingJoins Fortune W . Rush Loving, Jr., '56, has joined Fortune Magazine as an associate editor. He was business editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch before moving to New York to take his new position. Loving is a native of Norfolk and joined the Times-Dispatch in 1956 after graduating in history at the University. His first assignments included the Petersburg and Gloucester News Bureaus and the state and copy desks on the Richmond newspapers . Loving later moved to Norfolk where he was a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and in 1963 returned to Richmond as a member of the public relations department of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He rejoined the Times-Dispatch in 1965.
Odell, '57
Anderson, '21
Burnette, '52
FFA HonorsWalter B. Anderson Walter B. Anderson, '21, of Sebring, Fla., has received an award from the Future Farmers of America for "inspiration, leadership, wise counsel and dedicated service to the national organization at FFA members." Anderson began attending the FF A conventions in 1929 and went to each through 1963. He aided in the design of the FF A emblem and designed the official FFA jewelry. "Hosseye" also received another award, the "Distinguished Fiji" award given by the Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity. The award was given at the Norris Pig Dinner of the Upsilon Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Florida. He has attended 51 consecutive dinners .
Rev. GainesToursHoly Land ;'We walked where He walked," says the Rev. V. Allen Gaines, '54, who toured the Holy Land and Europe this past summer with his wife. For three weeks the Gaines visited Athens, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Corinth, and other historic cities, "intrigued" by their experiences. Yet for Gaines the trip was not only a chance to relive Bible times, it was an opportunity to display American ideals. Impressions he and his wife received, he said, though marvelous, were not nearly as great as the imprints left by them and other Americans. "An American travelling in foreign countries is a goodwill ambassador," he concluded.
Daniel, '54
Rev. Gaines is the pastor of the Chamberlayne Baptist Church of Richmond.
HarrisonDanielAwardedPlaque Dr. W. Harrison Daniel has been honored by the Historical Foundation of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches for his article, "Southern Presbyterians in the Confederacy," selected as one of the two best articles in the nation about Southern Presbyterians.
Philip MorrisPromotesBateman Robert E. Bateman, '54, has been promoted to community relations manager for Philip Morris Incorporated in Richmond. He joined the firm in May of 1968 as community relations coordinator. Bateman is a member of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, the Press Club of Virginia and the Richmond Public Relations Association. He was an insurance executive before joining Philip Morris. 13
KEEPING UP
WITH CLASSMATES 1914 Rev. 0. G. Poarch is "retired" in Buchanan, Va., but still active as the pastor of a church there. 1941 Lucien W. Bingham, Jr., a Richmond business executive, has retired after 17 years of work with Boy Scout Troop 654 at the Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond. Since he became scout leader at the hospital in 1951, some 275 boys have registered in the troop. In 1958, Bingham was presented the Silver Beaver award, the highest national scout award givin to volunteers. SEVEN WHO MADE THE RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS AMONG THE VERY BEST have received promotions. They are (left to right) Thomas W. Howard, '51, senior assistant editor, TIMES-DISPATCH; w. F. Robertson, '38 treasurer, Richmond Newspapers, Inc.; Omar V. Marden, '44, assistant managing editor, TIMES-DISPATCH; J. Curtis Barden, '56, assistant treasurer, Richmond Newspapers, Inc.; K. Larry Gould, '49, managing editor, NEWS LEADER; Spencer Owens, '58, business office manager, Richmond Newspapers, Inc.; and J. Earle Dunford, '48, city editor, TIMES-DISPATCH.
Sports: Season-end Basketball Report The University of Richmond's basketball team, which finished fourth in the Southern Conference with a 6-7 record, defeated Furman, 66-64, in the opening round of the conference tourney at Charlotte on Frank Owen's last second goal. Coach Lewis Mills' quintet, however, was eliminated in the semi-finals, 97-83, by nationally ranked Davidson, which went on to capture the tournament. The season was somewhat of a disappointment although there were several moments of glory. The club finished with a 13-14 record. It was expected to do much better. However, Wilton Ford, AllSouthern center of the year before, didn't regain his form until late in the season and finished with an 11.2 average compared to the 20. l mark of his junior year. Jim Hewitt, the big 6-8 sophomore, suffered a foot injury which hampered his play most of the year. As a result the Spiders weren't a consistent quintet. Hewitt was a big man on the boards early in the season and made the winning basket in an 80-79 upset of West VirHewitt, however, ginia at Morgantown. sufiered his foot injury in the sixth game of the season in which Coach Mills' team dropped a close 62-60 game to Davidson. There was one big win the Spiders will remember. It was a 78-77 triumph over Virginia Tech on Bobby Ukrop's twopointer with 50 seconds to play. Tech already had won the State Big Five crown . Richmond finished second with a 5-2 Big Five mark. Kenny Foster, 6-2 junior guard, was a standout all season. He averaged 20.1 points and was named to both the AllSouthern and All-Big Five teams. Kenny's
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high for the season was 37 points against William and Mary, UR's arch enemy which the Spiders defeated three times. Ford, Ukrop and Larry Patterson have their eligibility but Foster; completed Picot Frazier (13.8), his running mate at guard; Stan Ryfinski (11.4), a rising junior; Owen ( 10.1) and Hewitt ( 6.3) return. Clarke Wiseman and John Welch from the 1967-68 freshman team plus and perhaps (14.2) Dave Williamson Charley Earle and John Green from Coach Johnny Moates' 1968-69 freshman quintet (7-11) may provide additional varsity help next season.
1924 Davis T. Ratcliffe, professor of insurance at the University of Rhode Island, has been apointed secretary of the joint committee of the Association Risk and Insurance Association and the Insurance Company Education Director's Society. Waddy D. Street is a patient at Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital. 1925 Francis J. Pease retired in February from his job as a draftsman with the Virginia Department of Highways. It was retired in 1962 his second retirement-he after 30 years with the U. S. Post Office. 1927 Fred W. Wenzel has established the Helen Orpin Wenzel Memorial Fund at the University for the annual purchase of books in Spanish or French. 1928 George H. Moody has retired as superintendent of Henrico County public schools. Moody was an educator in the county for 37 years. His retirement will be effective June 30. Before coming to Henrico County, he was principal for one year of elementary school in Giichland County, princiipal for another year of a high school in Hanover County, and then for five years was principal of a high school in Botetourt County. 1929 Wilbur K. Gaines, an executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, retired February 7. At the time of his retirement, he was manager of the company's Mitchell Gardens district in Flushing, N. Y. 1930 Edward S. Harlow is the managing director for research and development of American Tobacco Company. Aubrey V. Kidd is a senior vice president of The Bank of Virginia and its parent holding company, Virginia Commonwealth Bankshares, inc. Clark W. Powell is a vice president of Elam and Funsten, Inc., a Richmond real estate company. 1931 U. S. Representative Watkins M. Abbitt of the Virginia's Fourth District has received the "Watchdog of the Treasury" Award from the National Associated Businessmen, Inc., for his 100 per cent voting record in the 90th Congress. It is the fourth time he has received the award.
Kenny Foster, Standout Guard.
1932 Judge Max 0. Laster of Richmond has received the Distinguished Community Service Award from the Richmond Jewish Community Council. He is judge of the
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Richmond.
1935 R. Beverly Britton, public relations director for A. H. Robins Company, has be.en elected chairman for the Mid-Atlantic District of the Public Relations Society of the Old Dominion Chapter of the Organization. Cleveland C. Kern of the American Tobacco Company has moved to Richmond to the firm's Richmond Leaf Department, from the Durham, N. C. Leaf Department.
president for marketing of the long lines department of American Telephone and Telegraphy Co. Benjamin H. Weston of Lantana) Fla., has been named to the 1969 edition of "Community Leaders in America." Weston is active in hospital administration. He is recovering from a rec,ent heart attack.
1946 Guy R. Friddell, editor of the editorial page of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot, has a new book on the market, "We Began At Jamestown."
1936 Dr. Arthur W. Rich, formerly pastor of the Lakeland (Fla.) First Baptist Church, has resigned his pastorate there to head the Arthur W. Rich Evangelism Association, Inc., a non-profit religious organization. He was with the Florida church for 11 years. He is the r,ecipient of a Freedoms Foundation award for a sermon, "You Can't Cut Yourself Off From the Past," which dealt with efforts of young protesters to sever themselves from the nation's past.
1947 Rev. Roy B. Wyatt, Jr. is a visiting missionary teacher at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., for the 1968-69 session. He is also professor of Old Testament at the International Baptist Theological _Seminary in Cali, Colombia, South Amenca. Dr. Lewis 8. Hasty has been named a clinical associate in gynecology-obstetrics at Emory University's Woodruff Medical Center.
1937 Howard E. Wright, Jr. of Richmond has been appointed assistant manager in the Basic Materials Research Department of the American Tobacco Company. He will be concerned with both basic and applied research relating to tobacco and other natural products used by the company. He joined the firm in 1939.
1948 Welford S. Farmer of Richmond has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. He joined the bank's staff in 1950. He was appointed general counsel in 1964.
1939 Dr. Richard
1949 Lou Burdette, baseball star of the then Milwauke,e Braves in the late 1950's is a partner in a state auto inspection station in Sarasota, Fla. Thomas A. Johnson has been named editor-in-chief of the "Army Logistician" magazine at Ft. Lee, Ya. He is also an adjunct professor of political science in the Evening College of Virginia Commonw ,ealth University.
H. Saunders, Jr. has became associate dean of the school of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts. Farmerly, he was associate director of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Leonard Kamsky has been elected a corporate vice president of W. R. Grace and Company of New York. He was vice president of the General Development Division. He joined the firm in 1955 after service with IBM, the Department of the Army and the Department of State.
1939 John L. Ridehour, III, has been elected to the North Carolina sembly.
General As-
1940 Rawley F. Daniel has been named head of the marketing department of United Virginia Bankshar,es. He was senior vice president in charge of the marketing division at State Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts in Richmond. He will coordinate the marketing activities of the member banks of UYB in the holding company including advertising, research and public relations. Dr. W. H. ReMine of the Mayo Clinic in Richester, Minn., has been named to the world Who's Who in Science. 1941 James R. Harris is director of the engineering center of Bell Telephone Laboratories which includes the communications furnished to the federal government by the Bell System. Dr. Martin Markowitz, a Richmond surgeon, has been elected an alumnus member of Phi Beta Kappa at the Universitly of Richmond. Dr. Markowitz received his M.D. degr.ee from the Medical College of Virginia in 1944 and began private practice of surgery in Richmond in 1953.
1943 Stanley S. Watts, C.L.U., president of the insurance indstry's Million Dollar Round Table, was lauded by Florida Representative Dante B. Fascell in a speech on the floor of the House, in October. Watts is an insurance executive in Miami. 1943 Richard B. Nichols, Jr. of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been appointed assistant vice
1950 John Baronian, operator of Nick's House of Steaks, a Richmond restaurant, has received the Sidney J. Weilman Award from the Virginia Restaurant Association. The award is given to a r,estauranteur for service to the community and for advancement of the food industry. Baronian is a past president of the Virginia Resetaurant Association. Colonel Lucien M. Ferguson of Alexandria has retired from the U. S. Air Force . Edwin L. Dunford has been named manager of the Richmond branch of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He joined the agency in 1949 and was named staff assistant in 1965. Carl N. Barefoot, Jr . is with the public relations department of the Automotive Safety Foundation in Washington, D. C. 1951 Dr. Harry L. Holloway has joined Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., as dean of the faculty and professor of biology. He was chairman of the biology department at Roanoke College. He came to Roanoke College in 1953 and become department chairman there in 1959. He received the doctorate degree from the University of Virginia in 1956. John B. Weaver has been promoted to treasurer of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Paul R. Garber is teaching at Virginia Interment College in Bristol in the department of Philosophy and Religion. He was a counselor for the department of Vocational Rehabilitation for the state of Virginia. Charles E. Minter has been appointed vice president and regional manager of Tate Engineering, Inc. in Roanoke.
D. R. Hensley has been named head football coach at Martinsville High School. He was head football coach at Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke. Dr. Thomas F. McDaniel has been appointed professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Eastern Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Dr. McDaniel is an associate professor at Kanta Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan. He will assume his new position in September. W. Coley Costin has been named chief probation officer of the First Regional Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Fredericksburg . He was a counselor at the Hanover School for Boys. He has been with the State Department of Welfare and Institutions for 12 years.
1952 Donald G. Burnett of Richmond has been promoted to vice president of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Robert Chadwick is teaching in the department of sociology and anthropology at East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas. He has a new book being prepared for publication. Edward H. Clarkson has been promoted to Health Care Administrator of Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, La. He was the assistant administrator there. 8. Franklin Skinner of the C. & P. Telephone Company of Virginia has been named chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board in Richmond. Donald J. Jacobs, administrator of Woodlawn Hospital in Chicago, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Hospital Council. He has been administrator of the Chicago hospital since 1961. He was assistant executive director of the council from 1959 to 1961 and served as assistant director of Watts Hospital in Durham, N. C. from 1957 to 1959. Simon Monghamian, Jr. has joined the audit staff of the Chicago office of Arthur Andersen and Company, a public accounting firm. He joined the firm in 1952 and was promoted to manager in 1959. He has been elected a principal of the firm. Edward H. Clarkson is assistant administrator and health care administrator of Southern Baptist Hospital at New Orleans, He was assistant administrator and later administrator of Alachua General Hospital in Gainesville, Fla. from 1961 to 1966. The Rev. Charles W. Gibson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Yorkshire, Prince William County, traveled to South America last October to do missionary wark there with the Chocos, a primitive and sometimes hostile tribe of Indians. 1953 C. A. Blanton II of Richmond has been named a director of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Blanton is a partner in the Law firm of Blanton, Lumpkin and Shaia. William W. Sadler has been appointed assistant manager in the process development department of the American Tobacco Company. He joined the firm in 1958. Richard N. Mosley, Jr. has been appointed bond superintendent of the Insurance Company of North America. 1954 The Rev. Charles G. Fuller, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Roanoke, led a team of 50 ministers , missionaries, musicians and laymen who conducted a month-long evangelistic crusade in the Philippine Islands in November. Dr. Robert L. Carlton has been called to Temple Baptist Church in Newport News where he is minister of ,education.
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He was pastor of Grafton Baptist Church in Grafton for five years. Dr. Averett Tombes is on the faculty of Clemson University in Clemson, S. C. The Rev. and Mrs. J. Robert Galier of New Kent have announced the birrth of a daughter , Cheryl Lynn , on September 26, 1968. Mr. Gali er is pastor of Emmaus Baptist Church in New Kent and chairman of the social studies department at Henrico High School. C. Ballard Pierce of Williamstown , Mass. has received a grant from the Research Corporation of New York City .
1955 Lester L. Lamb has moved to Ames, Iowa, where he is the administrator of Mary Greeley Memorial Hospital. He was administrator of Shenandoah County Hospital at Woodstock , Va. Charles W. Howard , Jr . has been promoted to the rank of major in the Virginia National Guard. He is personnel staff officer in the Headquarters Detachment of the Guard and an aide to Virginia 's Adjutant General. 1956 Dr. Arnold Frederick will resume his practice of medicine in Richmond after his discharge from the U . S. Army in July. Mr. and Mrs . Norman Towler of Vernon, Conn. , have announced the birth of a daughter , Carol Lynn , on Dec. 31. 1957 Emory P. Weisiger is now a claims supervisor with Integon Corporation in Winston Sal.em, N. C. James H. Beck has been appointed a local agent for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in Hillsville. Peter A . Edmunds is teaching in the Language Arts department at Lansing, (Mich.) Community College . Frederick J . Sodomka has been promoted to the rank of major in the U. S. Air Force . He is a staff weapons director at Custer Air Force Station in Michigan. He is a member of the Aerospace Defense Command. The Rev. William A. Jessup is executive director of the Mayor 's Community Relations Committee of Raleigh , N. C. He had served as Minister to Youth at the First Baptist Church in Richmond since 1961. Thomas L. Berry has been promoted to assistant manager for Sears , Roebuck & Company in Madison, T.ennessee. Prior to his promotion , he had served in a similar capacity in Petersburg. Carter Coates has completed IO years of service with the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. He is a claim superintendent in the firm's Richmond office. 1958 William K. Phillips has been promoted to manager of the life underwriting divisio!l, of The Life Insurance Company of V1rgmia. Raymond Bowles is now a major in the U . S. Marine Corps. and stationed in Woodbridge, Va. Paul D . Stotts has opened the practice of law in Richmomnd , after serving as an assistant attorney general of Virginia. Fred K. McCoy has been promoted to project supervisor for Technical Operations, Inc., of Alexandria. He is now sup.ervising an operations research project concerning U. S. Army night operations in Southeast Asia. L. J . Marroni has been promoted to district sales manager in Roanoke for Texaco, Inc. He joined Texaco in Richmond in 1962
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and was promoted to sales supervisor in Norfolk in 1965 . Ben F . Lewis, Jr. has been promoted to manager of the Travelers Insurance Companies office at Shreveport, La.
1959 Sam W. McEwen has entered the T. C. Williams Law School. He formerly was a chemist with Sauer Company . 1960 Richard J. November has received an award from the Richmond Jewish Com munity Council. November is a board member of the Jewish Center and a real estate agent in Richmond. He received the William B. Thalhimer Young Leadership Award. Arthur G. Lambiotte has become a partner in the law firm of Ferguson, Harvell and Lambiotte in Newport News. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Millar of Washington, D. C. have announced the birth of a daughter, Mary Gwyn, on Feb. 21, 1969. 1961 Donald H. Seely has r.eceived the de gree of Master of Divinity from the Divinity School of Duke University. He was or dained in the United Methodist Church and has been assigned to Tabernacle United Methodist Church at Virginia Beach . Martin B. Williams, Jr. has been named controller of Dominion Bankshares Corporation. He formerly was an employee of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company, a Richmond CPA firm. He will assume his new duties in Roanoke. Paul DeKozan, of the National Park Service has been promoted to Personnel Management Specialist in the service . Captain Robert H . White of the U. S. Air Force is a member of a unit which has won an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. He is an instructor in the Officer Training School at Lackland AFB , Texas. 1962 R. Preston Nuttall has been named an assistant vice president of Fi rst and Merchants National Bank in Richmond. He was an assistant cashier. Dr. Barry V . Ki rkpatrick has volunteered for service with the U . S. Air Force and is serving in the hospital at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. James M. Paxton, manager of the C. & P. Telephone Company in Staunton, has received the "Boss of the '/ear" award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce chapter there . Paxton was 1968 campaign chairman for the United Fund and is also Central District finance chairman for the Boy Scouts , past vice chairman of the Edu cation Committee of the Staunton Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Staunton Economic Development Commission. 1963 Dr. Louis H. Zincone, has been named head of the department of economics at East Carolina University. Thomas Foster has been named assistant superintendent at Beaumont School for Boys at Beaumont, Va . He was a cottage life supervisor at the school. Stephen B. Miller, an agent with Con necticut General Life Insurance Company, received the firm's "Outstanding Agent" award for 1968 for placing more than $1,000 000 of insurance in force during the year. He is with the company's office in Silver Spring, Md. William G. Thomas, an Alexandria, Va., lawyer, has been appointed secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee in Virginia . Thomas is a member and treasurer of the Alexandria City Democratic Committe .e and served in 1966 as state headquarters office manager for the senatorial
campaigns of Sens. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. and William B. Spong, Jr. First Lt. James Watts of the U. S. Army has graduated with honors from the Army Artillery and Missile School at Ft. Sill, Okla . Col. Volney H. Rattan of the U. S. Army has been selected Deputy Director of Medical Material at the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia, Pa. He was with the Defense Medical Material Board in Washington, D. C. Jerry J. Pezzella, Jr., is now vice president and director of First American Investment Corporation in Atlanta, Ga.
1963 The engagement of E. Michael Jarrett of Richmond to Miss Judy Ritter of Winchester, Va. has been announced. 1964 Rev. and Mrs . Richard Horton of Richmond have announced the birth of a daughter, Gina Maria, on D.ec. 15. Roland M . Pugh, Jr. has joined the E. I. DuPont Spruance Plant as a production supervisor in Richmond, Va. He recently completed his service as a captain in the U. S. Air Force. Charles W . Cloe, III of Richmond has joined the Royal Globe Insurance Company as a general insurance trainee. Stephen F. Stutzman of Hancock, Minn. has joined the Evangelical Alliance Mission for missionary service in Austria. He has received the Bachelor of Divinity regree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Capt. James A. Hill of the U. S. Army is serving as adjutant of the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Richmond. He is completing his work on a master's degree at University College. Captain John T . Burch Jr. of the U. S. Army has been awarded the Vietnamese Staff Service Medal First Class. He also holds the Joint Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star. Allen Wall, an English instructor at Centenary College for Women, Hacketts town , N. J., is the author of a collection of romantic poetry which has been published by the Hackettstown Gazett Press . Other works are in preparation. 1965 Barry D. Crawford has been elected treasurer of Security Federal Savings and Loan Association in Richmond. He joined the firm in 1965 and became accounting supervisor the following year and assistant treasurer in 1968. R. David Barner has joined Corning Glass Works, Greencastle, Pa., after com pl.eting three years of military service. Richard Caravati is enrolled at Harvard University where he is working toward a master's degree in economics. He completed his military service in July, 1968. George S. Goldstein is a member of the psychology department at Colorado State University. Second Lt. Rowland H. Meade III has been awarded the U. S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation from flight school at Moody AFB, Ga. He has been assigned to Naha AB, Okinawa. Mr. and Mrs. Richard E . Wrenn of Richmond have announced the birth of a daughter, Leanne Graze, on May 22, 1968. Wrenn is a member of the sales staff of the Ames Company, a medical supply firm. James L. Rierson is teaching English, spe.ech and drama at Paxon Senior High School in Jacksonville, Fla. Donald A. Nicholas is an administrative assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
~engtheningShadows of a ~an Dr. Mitchell would have a settling influence today on students who think the 'establishment' is wrong. -Edwin
S. Cohen
Edwin S. Cohen, '33 , assistant secretary of the treasury for tax policy, believes that Dr. Mitchell would have a settling influence today on students who think the "establishment" is wrong . "He would have such an influence," said Mr. Cohen, "because he insisted on the pursuit of knowledge in an effort to find out what the real facts are." Mr. Cohen sat in his Washington, D. C. office and remembered back to 1929 when he entered the University of Richmond as a youngster "with three or four weeks to go before I turned 15." "My first class that freshman year was Modern and Contemporary European History, I believe it was called, and it was taught by Dr. Mitchell. On the first full day of class, Dr. Mitchell set the tone for the entire year, and thus began his influence on me and on all of his students . "We had taken our seats that day, and I had chosen a front seat. Dr. Mitchell stood near me and suddenly pointed a finger at one of the students and said, 'Mr. Jones, stand up and tell us the cause of the Civil War.' "Mr. Jones rose to his feet and said, 'States Rights, sir.' "Wrong , Jones!" thundered Dr. Mitchell. "At that very moment," Mr . Cohen recalled, "Dr. Mitchell clapped his hands together right in my ear and roared, 'The cause of the Civil War was slavery, and don't any of you forget it.' " Mr . Cohen smiled and said, "Now that statement by Dr. Mitchell caused us all to freeze, and suddenly made all of us realize that this was going to be a different sort of class ." It was different, too, Mr. Cohen remembered. "Among other things, Dr. Mitchell insisted that we read the newspapers daily, for he told us that everything related to current events could be compared to the history in our textbook . He led me to begin a habit I've never broken. I'm still a constant reader of many newspapers and news magazines." Mr. Cohen paused to reflect, then said, "In all of our reading, Dr. Mitchell reminded us that we were to take nothing for granted. 'Turn it over and see the other side' he would tell us. He insisted that we be skeptical of broad
statements and generalities, for he said that both were not necessarily always right or always wrong . We were constantly reminded to examine things on their own merit, not on prejudices, and then to make up our own minds. He told us that often hisory is written from personalized viewpoints, and we were to challenge all statements, finding both sides. ;'This idea in education was quite different for us in those days, "Mr. Cohen said . "All our lives we had been taught that students were to be seen and not heard unless called upon. When a teacher gave a student a fact, the student was to memorize it and be able to recite the fact back when called upon. Dr. Mitchell made us think facts , not recite them." Mr. Cohen thought for a moment and said, "When I think now of Dr. Mitchell , I can truthfully say that I am glad that I had the opportunity to sit at the feet of this man with his intense mind and his great courage, for it took courage back then to goad students to think for themselves. I always been grateful that I had such an opportunity while I was still so young and able to profit from this man's great wisdom ." As if all the memories were coming back now, Mr. Cohen said, "I must also tell you that I had inspiring discussions with other professors during my years at Richmond . I remember particularly Dr. Ryland , Dr. Loving, and others.
"Oh yes, one thing more, "he said , remembering suddenly. "Our class of '33 turned out two presidents of Federal Reserve Banks-Aubrey Heflin, at the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, and Brad Hickman , President of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland." The class of '33 , a depres sion class, turned out well, and Mr. Cohen, it is to be noted, received an "A " in Dr. Mitchell's history class.
I hold in reverence the honored memory of the man who did most to emancipate, enlarge, and enlighten my mind. -Martin
Staples Shockley
My high school principal, Mr. H . R . Holland, was a Richmond alumnus and a nephew of Dr. R. E. Loving. He sent me to Richmond and into Dr. Loviing's physics class in the fall of 1924 . I remember the old frame building, the big classroom with the long table for labo ratory demonstrations, and big, whitehaired Dr. Loving with his big voice, his twinkling eyes, his bubbling humor, his booming laugh , and his Fluvanna County farmyard illustrations for the principles of physics . "Rat" Hash, Emerson Hicks, Lee Smith, and I used to solve Dr. Loving's problems together up in Jeter Hall. Dr. Loving's tests always consisted of six questions: answer the first four, any five, or all six. Once I got all six, and had the swellhead for two weeks-until the next test. I had the distinction of taking physics with the president of Student Government, Nick Snead, a senior. Nick, as I remember, had flunked physics three times ; this was his fourth try. Dr. Loving "rode" him for his inability to comprehend what to Dr. Loving was as plain as a Fluvanna barnd oor, but always reminded him that anyone who failed three times got a passing grade on his fourth attempt. Nick passed, too . and graduated ; and we somehow sensed that even the inexorable laws which govern matter and energy might be moderated by humane consideration for human frailty . Professor Garnett Ryland taught chemistry. He was a small, peppery man, Edwin S. Cohen, assistant secretary of the1 Treasury for tax policy, in the Nixon admin- eager, intense, no nonsense, all atoms, istration, is sworn in by William M. Dren- electrons, facts, and formulae. I rememnen, chief judge, U. S. Tax Court. With ber best his lecture on constant boiling solutions . After an authorative discourse them is Mrs. Cohen. 17
on this phenomenon of chemical conduct, Professor Ryland told how he had chanced upon it as a graduate student at "the Hopkins," how he had earned his Ph.D. for his research on it, and how he was credited with the discovery of more constant boiling solutions than any other chemist. Then he gave us a little stiff and formal bow, the bell rang, and we all applauded. Not until years later (and after his death) did I learn that he was one of the South's leaders in race relations. Dr. Rolvix Harlan came during my time, the new professor of sociology. He was a heavy-set man, solid in both person and pedagogy. He was the first man I ever heard lecture frankly and seriously about sex, about the unromantic aspects of marriage such as rent, groceries, and life insurance, about education for responsible parenthood. I don't remember his statistics on poverty, malnutrition, and crime; but his class was a sobering and maturing experience. Haynie Seay taught economics. He was our model of sartorial elegance and impeccable deportment, the first man I knew who wore starched shirts, wing collars, and polkadot bowties. From him I learned the economic theories of Henry George, Adam Smith, Karl Marx; and strange new concepts like laissez-faire, exploitation, proletariat, entrepeneur, and unearned increment. We suspected him of radical ideas, gossiped that he was a single-taxer, and quoted him in our literary society debates on Socialism vs Capitalism. Every day after lunch we went to the long lecture hall in the basement of the administration Building. Exactly at one o'clock our chatter hushed when we heard brisk footsteps coming down the hall. We watched him pass the backdoor ( we left it open for that purpose), enter the front door, mount the lecture platform, deposit his armful of books
on the table; then he turned and greeted us, always calling us "gentlemen": Dr. Samuel Chiles Mitchell, professor of history. Thousands of us remember his pink, bald head, his ruddy cheeks, his neat, white goatee, his piped waistcoat and cutaway coat; he was actually a small man, but he wore distinction like a garment, and to us he was awesome. We and each were seated alphabetically, week the rows moved; Dr. Mitchell assured us that a front row seat was worth more than a back row, and we knew he was right. He lectured eloquently, vividly, dramatically. When the regicides chopped off the head of King Charles, "it fell with a thud that was heard in every royal palace on the continent of Europe." We heard it too. When Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of the cathedral, Dr. Mitchell took a sheet of paper and with his knuckles nailed it to the classroom door, "and, gentlemen, the blows of that hammer are echoing today throughout Christendom." One of the kings of Europe (I don't remember which one) was a dissolute and depraved monarch who "went a-whoring down the Danube." I have known brilliant professors at other universities, but nowhere have I encountered a match for Dr. Mitchell's flashing wit. When Skinny Lacy told him that the emancipation proclamation was issued in 1850, he said, "Exactly right, Mr. Lacy; that's why we didn't have a Civil War," and went right on. When distinguished visitors came to Richmond, they often came to our class, the guests of Dr. Mitchell. Sometimes he told us of his talks with senators and statesmen with whom he had breakfasted that morning at the Jefferson Hotel. Historic Richmond was our laboratory; we visited and wrote reports on shrines, edifices, monuments. In Capitol Square
stands George Washington, surrounded by twelve great Virginians. When Dr. Mitchell sent us to inspect the statue, he admonished us to estimate accurately the relative sizes of the twelve. "Once each month," he told us, "I go to see that statue; and every time those figures change in size." I knew I was a brilliant student because I got the point. We sat enthralled through the lectures, and after the bell we crowded around to pick up further crumbs of knowledge, gems of wit. I heard Dr. Mitchell tell one of my colleagues, "A man comes to college to learn to take a bath every day." A backwoods fundamentalist who asked, "Dr. Mitchell, do you believe in hell?" was reassured: "Of course; I was there yesterday." He sent me there once. The classroom windows were at ground level and my seat was by a window; the gravel path was just outside; it was spring; Westhampton girls were walking to the carstop; my fancy turned; possibly my attention strayed from history. Suddenly I sensed the grim and awful silence. Dr. Mitchell had stopped his lecture. When my guilty eyes gave up those pretty girls, I saw Dr. Mitchell standing at the edge of his little platform holding a sheet of paper. He lifted an admonitory finger and he cleared his throat. "Gentlemen," said softly into that electric silence, "I have here a message from Dean Keller. She writes: 'Dear Dr. Mitchell, whenever I send girls from Westhampton College to the carstop, I expect Mr. Shockley to see that they get there safely.'" Some day I will place a bronze plaque on that windowsill in memory of Dr. Mitchell. Meanwhile, I hold in reverence the honored memory of the man who did most to emancipate, enlarge, and enlighten my mind. I had great professors; and the greatest of these was Dr. Mitchell.
Applications-FreshmanClass,WesthamptonCollege1968-69 (Class Ranks in Fifths) SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST: MATHEMATICS
applied 700-800 accepted enrolled 600-700 applied accepted enrolled applied 500-600 accepted enrolled applied 400-500 accepted enrolled Below applied 400 accepted enrolled applied not availaccepted able applied Total accepted enrolled 18
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14 12 7 80 73 45 160 109 56 60 27 19 6 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 14 6 5 71 26 15 52 17 13 4
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ACHIEVEMENT TEST: ENGLISH COMPOSITION no rank avail- Total 5 4 3 2 able 20 0 0 0 1 700-800 applied 2 17 18 0 0 0 accepted 1 1 16 11 0 10 0 enrolled 0 I 0 1 132 1 3 6 28 93 600-700 applied 1 103 0 14 1 accepted 1 86 58 0 47 0 1 1 9 enrolled 1 21 1 239 7 58 151 500-600 applied 1 123 0 0 accepted 3 23 96 75 1 0 0 2 16 56 enrolled 116 5 1 7 40 16 47 400-500 applied 37 1 0 0 2 12 22 accepted 24 2 0 0 0 8 14 enrolled 3 21 0 0 2 8 8 Below appli.ed 1 0 0 0 0 0 I 400 accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0 enrolled 0 23 2 2 6 8 4 1 applied Not 0 0 0 0 0 0 accepted 0 available 4 21 9 551 53 144 320 applied Total 3 282 0 1 accepted 221 7 50 168 1 1 5 34 0 enrolled 127
Mary Ellen Anderson, Director of Admissions, reports to alumnae on getting into Westhampton In the spring of the year college admissions officers and high school seniors "reckon with" a similar problem. Except for successful Early Decision candidates, most seniors have taken the advice of both school counselors and college consultants and applied for admission to several colleges, perhaps to a first choice, a second choice, and a "back-up." When predetermined dates begin to draw near it is not difficult to see why both of us, the high school senior and the college officer, are eager to learn of the decisions of the other. The problem which was, "to whom shall we offer admission" becomes, "to which college will they confirm acceptances ." Obviously, the future of a college, the future of the individuals who attend a college, have a direct bearing on the crucial decisions relative to college admissions and to college choices . It is an awesome task to evaluate the credentials of hundreds of qualified candidates for admission to a college. The Westhampton College Admissions Committee takes seriously our responsibility to the College and to the individual applicant. Many, many hours are spent in trying to give full considerations to every application . The committee reflects on the often-asked questions, as posed by college alumnae, counselors, parents, and prospective students. "What are we looking for in our students?" "Do we want only 'A' records?" "Are we placing too much emphasis on College Board test scores?" "Are we considering the leadership and service potential of our candidates?" In a measure these questions can be answered by looking at the pool of applications to Westhampton College for the 1968-1969 freshman class. Table 1 ( on page 18) shows the high school class rank, in a quintile distribution, in relation to the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Mathematics; Table 2 in relation to the Achievement Test, English Composition. The mean scores of the enrolled Freshman Class , September 1968 , were : SAT-Verbal 558, Math 568. Achievement Tests: English Composition 580; Math (Level I ) 540, Math (Level 2) 578 . The most recent edition , Manual of Freshman Class Profiles, 19671969, published by the College Entrance Examination Board, New York shows that colleges over-admit applicants to obtain the desired freshman class. With multiple applications by students the need for over-admission is apparent. For the past two years almost 50% of the freshman class were admitted under the Early Decision Plan, Single Choice. This plan as agreed upon by the participating members of the College Entrance Examination Board specifies that students apply to one college, declaring their intention to enroll in that college if offered admission; deferred candidates being notified in time to apply to other colleges of their choosing.
Significant guidlines of the Westhampton College Early Decision Plan, as compared to the regular process are noteworthy: Early Regular Test dates: not later than not later than January of July after Junior Year. Senior year. Required tests: S.A.T. and S.A.T . and Three Achievetwo Achievement Tests : ment Tests : English English Composition and Composition, Math , ForMath (Language may be eign Language . taken in Senior year) . Completed application: by by January 15, Senior Year November 1, Senior Year. Notification date : by Noby March 15. vember 15. Candidate reply date : by within three weeks of acDecember 1. ceptance . Not easy to quantify, and qualify, are the non-academic activities of high school seniors. Information regarding student participation in school functions , community services, and church activities complement and enhance the overall profile; seldom do these qualifications serve as substitute for academic achievement. Nevertheless, Westhampton College students generally have an impressive background of interests and activities. The Westhampton Admissions Committee does not set forth a desired geographical distribution, howeve r we encourage out-of-state applications . Approximately 25 % of the enrolled resident students come from states other than Virginia . Except for standarized test requirements , entrance specifications to Westhampton College have changed very little through the years. Although no remedial English or sub-Math courses have been offered for ten years, a foreign language deficiency continues to be removable by taking language in college for non-degree credit. A well-known fact, availabl e dormitory space has not changed for more than two decades. Therefore, places for only 110 freshmen can be reserved each year. Sadly, we must deprive admission to many qualified high school seniors who say they really want to come to Westhampton College . Likewise transfer candidates cannot be strongly encouraged to apply for admission unless they have relat ives or family friends in the Richmond area with whom they can and will live. The reason we do not, and cannot , offer admission to many candidates, both freshmen and transfers, is apparent ; there is just no place to "put" them. Would somebody like to build us another dormitory?
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Jean BrumseyBiscoeServesAs Chairmanof AlumnaeWeekend
ChairmanMary OwenMiller Plans Alumnae-AlumniCollege
Jean Brumsey Biscoe, '48, will welcome returning alumnae on May 17 as chairman of Alumnae Day activities. Following a brief teaching career after leaving Westhampton. Jean attended the Richmond Professional Institute Graduate School of Social Work and was active in this field for 15 years. She is a past president of the graduate school alumnae association. Last year she was the successful chairman of the Westhampton Alumnae Fund and has also served alma mater as a member of the Alumnae Association Board and as secretary of her class. Jean is married to John W. Biscoe, '52, and lives near the campus in University Heights where her two young children , ages six and three, and her avid gardening keep her busy when she isn't on the go for her church or her woman's club .
Mary Owen Miller, '61, chairman of the annual Alumnae-Alumni College, has planned an exciting curriculum and assembled a distinguished faculty for Westhampton grads and Richmond alumni who will return to class on Friday, May 16. Mary, wife of Richmond attorney G. Kenneth Miller, is no newcomer to the chairman's podium. She · has long been recognized for her leadership in church and civic affairs. She is a past president of the Westwood Junior Woman 's Club and was one of the founders of the Tri-Club Woman's Club in Richmond's west end. She later served as president of the Virginia Council on State Legislation and was legislative chairman of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs . Mary was also a member of the Associated Clubs for Roadside Development in Virginia. A communicant of Trinity Methodist Church, Mary has been active in the Women's Society of Christian Service, her church circle and the Sunday School. And where will you find her between committee meetings? Probably in the baseball park, when it's that time of year. Both of her sons have been athletes at St. Christopher's School where Dennis will graduate in June. Ken, Jr . is now a junior at V.P.I.
MortarBoardTaps LeslieBooker Leslie Sessoms Booker, '22, was tapped as an honorary member of Mortar Board at the annual tapping ceremony held on March 11, 1969 in Canon Memorial Chapel.
AAUW HonorsFlorenceDecker Florence Boston Decker, '17, has been honored by the Richmond Branch of the American Association of University Women. The AAUW is naming a $500,00 scholarship grant in her honor.
DorothyChewningReceives Award Dorothy Chewning, '35, who has never hit a serve or volley, is the February recipient of the Marlboro award for outstanding contributions to tennis. While she doesn 't play tennis, Miss Chewning, a Richmonder, has helped countless others play with her work in promoting and conducting tournaments. The monthly awards are presented by Gl adys Heldman, the editor of Karld Tenni s, the sport 's bestknown publication.
MeadeFergusonChosenby IFYE Meade Ferguson, '68, has been chosen to represent Henrico County , Virginia, and the United States in the 1969 International Farm Youth Exchange Program . The project is sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service and the 4-H Clubs of America . The participants live on several farms in a host country and take active roles in daily farm life. Meade is one of three girls from the U.S. selected to spend the eight months from April to December in Norway .
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LOCALCLUBS RichmondClub President: Mrs. John B. Bullock (Marcella Hammock '54), 301-E N. Hamilton St., Richmond, Virginia 23221. Over 100 Westhampton alumnae and their children visited Santa Claus, listened to a storyteller, sang, and played with clowns at the annual Westhampton Alumnae Children's Christmas Party at Keller Hall on Dec. 15. Serving on the Children's Party Committee were : Mrs. Jerry Lindquist (Mary Trew), chairman; Mrs. Robert Hill (Ruth Adkins); Mrs. Ellis Dunkum (Elizabeth Ramos); Mrs. Jerry Haynie (Bonnie Lewis); Mrs. Dan Shreve (Caroline Massey); and Mrs. Eston Cosby (Mabel Shupe); all of '59. The Richmond Club dinner-theater party was held on March 13 at Swift Creek Mill Playhouse. One hundred and four persons attended the comedy, "StarSpangled Girl". Our thanks go to Ann Peery Frederick, '56, chairman of the theater party. The class of 1966 is sponsoring a spring luncheon and alumnae concert on April 19th. Quita Tansey Collins and Judy Eastman Britton are serving as cochairmen.
PeninsulaClub President: Mrs. Robert Miller (Virginia Jones '56), 184 Yeardley Drive, Newport News , Va. 23601. The Peninsula Alumnae Club held a coffee in February at the home of Mrs. John Paulson (Mary Campbell '45). We invited the Tidewater and Suffolk Clubs and both were well represented. Our special guest was Betty Ann Doub, the Alumnae President from Richmond, who told us of the recent Alumnae activities. We are now making plans for our annual spring luncheon and installation of officers to be held in April.
Three Million Readersof TIME Are Introducedto Westhampton The free thinking young intellectual with gleaming long blonde hair pictured on the opposite page introduced Westhampton College to three million readers of Time magazine over a six-state area when she appeared in the January 31 issue. Space for the Westhampton College advertisement was donated by Time under a policy the magazine initiated several years ago as a contribution to higher education. The ad, reprinted here in its entirety for the benefit of alumnae, was produced by Cargill, Wilson & Acree, a Richmond advertising firm, under the direction of Mrs. Betty Ann Doub, president of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association, and an enthusiastic student committee. Their goal was to present the academic ability and personal responsibility of Westhampton students in a creative message that would capture the attention of the Time committee which selects the college advertisements to appear under the program. Three million introductions to Westhampton are testimony to their success.
It is possible for a girl to come from the top tenth of her high school class to a college made up of girls with the same academic standing, and still act like a girl. It is possible for a Student Government to really govern and for students to bring about meaningful changes on campus by using reason instead of riot. It's understandable that this is a little hard to believe. But you could
watch it happen any day, at Westhampton College. We like to think that being a coordinate school within the University of Richmond has something to do with it. It offers a flexibility of faculty and facilities not possible at a lot of women's colleges. We"re sure it has a positive influence on our academic standing. But as for the rest. we can't take the credit. Because we don't make or
enforce the rules here. The girls are responsible for that sort of thing. So the next time you start wondering what this world is coming to, write our President 's office for some information on Just reading it could Westhampton. make you feel a lot better about the coming generation.
COLLEGE WESTHAMPTON University of Richmond,Virginia
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Mrs. Belle Gayle Ellyson '09 Vice President 6311 Ridgeway Road Richmond, Virginia 23226
The daughters of Mrs. Aldine Vaiden Krug W.C.R. '06, Barbara Young Krug and her husband, Don and Mrs. Evan F. Evans spent Easter in New York City. Laurie Sutherland, W.C.R. '05, is selling her home and has moved to the Hermitage, 1600 Westwood Avenue. Bessie Hogg, W.C.R. '07 (Mrs. John Wesley Ironmonger) recently published a volume of 512 pages compiled and edited by her of the "Hogg Famiiy of York and Gloucester Counties". Mrs. Ironmonger's home is in Seaford, Virginia. She is the author of several books on genealogy. Belle Gayle Ellyson's, W.C.R. '09, daughter, Mary Morris Ellyson, '38, (Mrs. James E. Graves) of Honolulu attended the dedication of the Fine Arts Building November 2, 1968. She planned her visit to her mother to include the dedication. Virginia Ellyson (Mrs. Lester H. Leonard) of Rochester, N. Y. visited her mother, Mrs. Stiles Ellyson for the Easter holiday. Belva K. Dardignae '38 (Mrs. Frank B. Epps) and her husband and a daughter, Alice Lindsey Epps, were the guests of Mrs. Clara B. Epps, W.C.R. '02, Mr. Epps' mother, for the ring figure March 22-the dance for the Juniors at Westhampton College. Emily Talbot Epps, '70, daughter, is a member of the Junior class and is president of Nostrae Filiae.
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A recent communication from Florence Thalhimer '01 (Mrs. Harold A. Rosenbaum) gave her address as Tucson, Arizona where she has a studio, painting being her main interest.
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Mrs. Dayton McKillop (Margaret Semmes) Rt. 2, Box 127F Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
Plans for celebrating our Golden Reunion have developed under the capable hands of Frances Shipman Sutton, Elizabeth Tompkins, and Virginia Jones Snead. We, of 1919, extend our thanks to them for the hours they have spent in providing for our entertainment. We were thrilled to receive from Shippie the schedule of activities for our coming celebration. And Shippie, we hope everyone can make it May 16th to West Point. We have looked forward each reunion to our first meeting and dinner with you, when we enjoy the beauty and peace of your lovely home. We thank you for inviting us again. We were very proud of our "Tommy" when we read an item in the Richmond Times Dispatch by someone who had checked the women lawyers of Virginia. Elizabeth was the first one, and the longest in continued practice. She was given the title of Dean of Women Lawyers. Realizing the demands of her busy life, we can appreciate all the more the time and thought she has given Westhampton College and our own class through all these years; especially
now, helping to make our 50th reunion a happy and outstanding one. We are anticipating the pleasure of breakfast with you, Tommy, on May 18th. And then the breakfast at Westhampton Saturday morning will be an added surprise and pleasure, made possible by our hostesses Virginia Jones Snead, Elvira Miller Abernathy and Virginia Bundick Mayes. We thank each one of you. Virginia Mayes has written, "Archer and I have moved into our new home in Jarratt next to Vi and Thornton Abernathy. We sold the Florida place and plan to be in Jarratt in the winter months and out on the farm in warm weather." I have heard that she has recently given a lovely and valuable collection of old glass to the Courtland Museum, a branch of the Virginia Museum. Elvira writes, "I keep busy with church, civic and social activities, like the rest of you. However, 1969 will be a 'red letter' year for my family. My 50th reunion in May; a new baby expected in July, the first in my nephew's family; my niece's wedding in August and my sister's Golden Wedding Anniversary in August." Margaret Hutchison Rennie says, "For my husband and me life goes on in 'the even tenor of its way'. He is semi-retired from business, but leads quite an active life. My attention centers largely on our ten grandchildren, in age from one to twelve years. Our son, James, Jr. is now on the faculty of the University of Richmond's University College. He received his M.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of Richmond in 1964, and is Assistant Director of the Management Center, and Assistant Professor of Business Administration." She expects to join the activities of our reunion celebration. Billy Sydnor had a happy evening when some of the earlier John Marshal! Cadets got together and gave a beautiful dinner party for a group of their retired teachers, of which she was one. She is enjoying her retirement and is "thankful to survive." She hopes she can make it to the class reunion! Virginia Gay is also enjoying her retirement in her home where she has lived in Richmond for about sixty years. She had a delightful bus trip through parts of New England in the early fall splendor of changing foliage. Her interests are her Persian and Siamese cats and her garden club. Esther Sanford Jett plans to come. She is President of the Virginia Beach City Union of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, and will be attending the State Convention meeting at Front Royal, May 7th and 8th. She is glad that our reunion date is the third week-end. Adelaide Walton Cowherd enjoys life with her husband on Monteith Farm near Gordonsville. She has four daughters, one son and twelve grandchildren. A granddaughter, Louise Janney, graduated at the University of Virginia last June and is now nursing at that hospital, while her brother is a student at Wake Forest College in N. C., but will transfer to the U. of Va. for his last two years. One of her daughters has five little girls, including triplets nearly six years old. Adelaide writes, "They are not identical, one has darker hair. Won't they have a time when they all start school next year!" Another daughter has one son and lives in Richmond where her husband works for the Government. Her son, Walton Rush, works for the Internal Revenue Service in Richmond. He married Sara Ward Sherman, who was a Westhampton graduate, and they have three little girls. Last sum-
mer Adelaide and her husband, on their way to Luray, were run into, and she was badly bruised internally. She was some weeks recovering from the painful injuries. She hopes to be with us in May. Audrey Colonna Twyford writes from Lewisburg, West Virginia, "I am still here at Greenbriar College, and my twenty -five years of service will be observed in June. I plan to return next year and I suppose as long as I am well and can be of service I shall stay on. My years have been very happy and satisfying. I've kept my home in Accomac and return there each summer for the vacation period, unless I take off for Europe, which I did summer before last. I have only one brother left and I spend each Christmas with him and his family in Virginia Beach." Congratulations, Audrey, twenty-five years of service! We are glad that you will continue at Greenbriar for your influence will be needed in the lives of our students. Juliette and Webster Carpenter went to Banesville, Ga. for their granddaughter's wedding December 21st, then for Christmas and a longer visit with Pam and family. Noel was a lovely bride, using on her wedding gown the same beautiful old lace first worn by her great-grandmother, Frances Todd FauntleRoy, then by Juliette, then by her mother, Pamela, and now Noel, the fourth generation. They were with Pam for six weeks, enjoying their seven months old grandson's development. She plans to be with us, and wrote: 'Time was when we joked about hobbling back on our canes and crutches. More truth than poetry in that prediction, for I shall be using that cane and thankful that I get around as well as I do with it. As time goes on I get more strength and ability to manouver." She hopes all our class will come. Catherine Nottingham Richardson thoughtfully sent a card from Princeton, Fla. saying she hopes it will be possible for her to see us in May. Lillian Robertson Carter has a family that's different! She regrets that her children did not return to Westhampton but "went in other directions." Her oldest daughter who lost her husband in 1961, decided after being out of college for 27 years, that it would be worth the effort, so has returned to Madison College to complete her degree in home economics. Her other daughter, who lives in Hampton, is now at William and Mary Extension preparing for teaching kindergarten after her two are through college. "All but two of my family, five grandchildren and two daughters, are finding college life thrilling. Isn't it great that one never becomes too old to take advantage of going to college?" Lillian herself returned to college to get her AB and MS degrees, and worked for the State for seventeen years. She will be helping us celebrate our Fiftieth. We want to thank all of you who have shared in keeping our class together through these years and given us so many happy memories. Here's to our GOLDEN CELEBRATION.
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Mrs. W. Ney Evans (May Alcott Thompson) 4651 Kenmore Drive, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007
Mary Hart Willis Winfrey lost her husband in January. "After 40 years," she said, "it's hard to change one's way of living." She is the tenth of the twenty -two married members of our Class list of twenty-seven to know widowhood. The Winfreys are widely appreciated for personal and school
leadership. Mary Hart, because of arthntis, retired from teaching in 1957. Friends who come to her, the changing moods of Old Rag Mountain, and her undaunted spirit keep her life full. Leonora Dorsey Kilby has been back in the schoolroom, substituting for an ill teacher at Fauquier High School in Warrenton. Her newest adventure, however, was qualifying as instructor in the defensive driving program of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). She uses the printed materials of the National Safety Council. . . . . Leonora represented '21 at Alumnae Workshop Day, and found Class Fund Agents enthusiastic. She, Catherine Little Dupuy, and Liza Everett Darden have accepted appointment as our Class Agents. To Gladys Lumsden McCutcheon, our former Class Agent, we give most grateful thanks, and join her in dreaming of the day when '21 will contribute 100 percent. ... Gladys, Frances Vaughan Faglie, Katherine Spicer Edmunds, Theresa Pollak, and May Thompson Evans attended Homecoming last November. .... Gladys says, "The Lord willing, I hope to go into 1970, as that's the year for me to retire." Catherine Little Dupuy's retirement days are crowded with C. F. C. Church includes adult Sunday School Class, chairmanship in WMS, delegate to state WMU meeting. Family revolves around six grandchildren. Community focuses on the Mental Health Board, the B&PW, and the Retired Teacher's Association. Liza Everett Darden, as a Colonial Williamsburg hostess ( often in the Palace), has been honored with a complimentary VIP trip to Old Georgetown. She enjoyed tea at the British Embassy and in the elegant Diplomatic Rooms of the State Department, tour of Dumbarton Oaks, the Rare Garden Books Library . . . Liza's yen to travel carried her last fall to New England. ln her brother's home in Vermont, she met the delightful Dr. Seuss. Early spring has carried her south to Natchez, New Orleans, Belengrath. Each summer she takes grandchildren several times to Cape Hatteras. Stuart Everett Moseley, the other half of the Everett sister pair, is in among the in masters. She has had diverticulitis. Last August she had major surgery-four weeks in the hospital, three in the medi-center. She hopes recent follow-up surgery will remove her from the crowded list of this fashionable malady, and expects to be as good as new. Ruth Henderson, in Knoxville, continues to enjoy the responsibility of her program: to arrange local home hospitality for visitors from other countries who come to observe the Tennessee Valley Authority. Since beginning this activity in 1961, Ruth has enabled more than 6,300 such visitors to know the warm-hearted homes of the community, and Knoxville to know the world .... Recently, on return from New York, Ruth stopped overnight in the Bethesda home of the daughter of her 1919 roommate, Willie Mae Culbert Ogilvie. Mary Blackwell Hudnall devoted last summer to the marriage of her only child. Caroline (BA-WC '64: BS-Columbia '66) had taught during the winter in the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia. There she met a graduate student. On August 10, they were married; on August 17, he received his PhD; on September 1, they moved to Davidson College, where he is an Assistant Professor of Physics. That's the pace of today. Virginia Lane, MD, who adopted Blue
Mountain, Mississippi (the location of her last teaching post) as her permanent abode, has worked out an interesting arrangement with Blue Mountain College. She has deeded to the college her home, which is just across the road and which she had turned into three apartments. The College receives the rent and is responsible for maintenance and repairs, while Virginia has her apartment for life, along with life's extra-her lawn and garden, near neighbors, and the intellectual and cultural activities offered by the College. Last summer, she attended the 40th reunion of her Class of '28 of Woman's Medical College. Classmates, with former faculty, were guests at the estate of a class member, in the foothills of Frenchtown, N. J. In her travels she also revisited the Northfield School for Girls, and saw many Westhampton friends, including Leonora Dorsey. Elizabeth Elsea is guarding her health in her Arlington apartment. Sharp weather has prevented much of her outdoor exercise. When the frost has gone, she will go to her home place in Berryville for the summer, as is her custom. Ruth Hoover, is also in. She has had a serious bout with the Hong Kong flu. . . . During the fall, she was in Bassett, chatelaine for her brother Carl (UR '18), whose wife was hospitalized following a heart attack. While in the Bassett area, Ruth was luncheon guest in Catherine Little's home, and saw the Shipman sisters .... Christmas she spent with her son and family in Manassas. He is Field Representative at the new Mental Health Institute in Northern Virginia. Theresa Pollak is having the busiest of her 40 years at VCU. She will retire July 1. Functions in her honor have carried her to Cloud 9, but with humility. Her reminiscences of the 40 years will be printed, in time (hopefully) for a dinner honoring her on April 25. The major project among these activities, however, can be enjoyed by everyone fortunate enough to be in Richmond between April 11 through May 15. A retrospective exhibition of Theresa's work will be held in the new girl's dormitory, Rhoads Hall, at Laurel and Franklin Streets. Fifty or more of her paintings will be exhibited, dating from 1924 through the present, daily hours 1:00 o'clock to 4: 30 .... For next year, a one man show at Washington and Lee is in the offing. The famed hospitality of Alice Williams Whitley again drew Alice Garnett Thomas ('22) and May Thompson Evans to Round Hill for a gourmet luncheon in Alice's beautiful home-place, a day of news swapping, and poking among landmarks of Loudoun County. Isabel Dickerson Norman ('27, whose daughter Rachael Norman Graves was '64) and Mrs. Contie Adams (whose sister was the late Margaret Taylor, '24) were also guests. Tour landmarks included historic Ketoctin Baptist Church with its quiet dignity and generations buried in its shadow. The interior of the church stirred visions of Williams-Leslie weddings from Alice's grandfather to her own. Isabel's home also dates back to the early days of Loudoun. . . . Alice is still performing miracles, such as teaching high school math while enjoying the deep affection of her students. In addition to civic, hospital, and church activities, she is enthusiastic about the Sesame Study Club. This is a group (self-generating through individual research) whose members produce their own programs, on such topics as the history of Loudoun County, of Virginia, of Italy.
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May Thompson Evans, during Homecoming, was again the delighted guest in the home of Leslie and R. E. Booker. That was shortly before Leslie had her successful cataract operation. Her single-purpose devotion as Alumnae Secretary over 25 years was touchingly revealed by her remark: "I have continually prayed that my eyes would hold off the operation until my secretarial service was completed." . . . May sampled over-night the special brand of Florence and Dr. Henry Decker's hospitality at Warsaw Plantation near Aylett. May returned with stars in her eyes, reflecting the ante-bellum home with its 6abreast stairs to the upper floor, dining room and kitchen below the cool earth, other architectural features that distinguish the homes of yesterday. The Plantation, too, is a memory to cherish, especially when enjoyed under Henry's guidance, in his car through virgin woods, and over unmapped fields. But most exciting is the role of the Deckers in the lives of all families within travelling distance of the Doctor's office. A building separate from the home is a diagnostic-treatment -prescription-purchase center, conducted through daylight hours by Dr. Henry and Nurse Florence. They are a new hope, a new strength to all who can reach Warsaw Plantation. . . . May is discouraged over her continuing postponement of clearing her career records out of the rumpus room. Files reach to the ceiling. Years ago, papers were promised to Radcliffe's Woman's Archives (The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlessinger Library on the History of Women in America). But each day gets filled with something else. From tidbits to· a luncheon in her honor, by the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security because of her service as International Vice President, D. C. Chapter President, N. C. Director of the National Reemployment Service, and first Director of the North Carolina State Employment Service. Frances Vaughan Faglie spent nine months of the last twelve on volunteer assignments, in accordance with her adopted plan of living. She went back into Mexico for five months, where she again translated from Spanish into English the letters written by Mexican children to their American sponsors. These children are Salvation Army proteges and are supported by the ChrisNext, she went tian Childrens' Fund .... to the Layman's Overseas Service, Inc. (LAOS), Jackson, Mississippi. This organization recruits volunteer laymen for assistance to mission agencies around the world. After two months' work with LAOS, she took a personal travelling vacation through New England, the New York Finger Lakes region, and Brown Colony State Park of Indiana; then returned to LAOS to complete the year. . . . The month of January she always devotes to X-rays and physical fitness tests ... She will soon be on another volunteer assignment, at Buckham, Kentucky, in a children's Welfare Center. 'Tm real excited," says Frances. "The appeal of the Appalachian area has been tugging at me for some time. The work (secretarial), the remote location, the mountains, and the contacts I know will be challenging." Katharine Spicer Edmonds has sent the name of another classmate who unfortunately has not been on our list: Irene Summers Stoneman (Mrs. Wilmer N., Varinaon-the-James, Richmond 23231). We'll hope for news from her. ... The Edmonds, who have travelled extensively, are packing for trip to the deep a several-times-deferred New Orleans, Mobile, Natchez, South-to Atlanta. The postponements date back to
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Katharine's pre-marriage days, by U. of R Library demands; more recently by hospital emergency, and the marriage of a son .... Katharine has a very special message for each of us: "The death of two members of my family just six months apart has made me more and more interested in and memories what to hand down-records the next generation, as well as things-to and the next. . . . When you are the only one who knows some things and wish you had asked some questions that will never be answered, now is the time to record."
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Mrs. Richard P. Adams (Julia Roop) Upper Kentland Farm Whitethorne, Virginia 24183
I was recently in Richmond visiting Leslie Booker and had a wonderful time seeing old college friends and visiting the campus. As Hannah Coker's guest, I attended Dorothy Stickney's program on Edna St. Vincent Millay, followed by a party at the Dean's house. It was great to be back. We extend sympathy to Narcissa Daniel Hargroves, Philadelphia, on the loss of her distinguished brother, Dr. Donald Snead Daniel, Sr. Dr. Daniel was a surgeon at Johnston-Willis Hospital, Richmond, from 1929 until 1965, and President until 1967. He had held many positions of honor in medical circles. To Irene Stoneman we extend our sympathy on the loss of her little seven-year-old grandson in a tragic accident on Christmas Eve. This child was the son of Irene's daughter, Mrs. Richard Ellis IV, Mt. Rush Farm, Buckingham. Mary Rilee Wright's daughter, Doris, was married to Mr. Ronald Steve Lee, Saturday, March 1, in Washington, D. C. They will live in Falls Church. Leslie Booker, although retired, is still going a mile-a-minute and enjoying every moment. She has increased her church and club duties, travels a lot with Book as he goes about his State Bar duties, enter tains a lot (including me), and is enjoying life to the fullest. She is expecting her English friends in May. Leslie shows them Virginia from end to end, so we shall see them and Leslie when in our area. Irene Stoneman is still the gracious hostess at her home, Varina-on-the-James. Leslie, Ruth Tyree, and I spent the day with her rec en ti y. I had a very pleasant two weeks on the Virginia Cruise this January 15-31. We sailed out of Norfolk on the Nieu Amsterdam for the Caribbean with stops at Jamaica, Panama, St. Thomas, St. Cro ·ix, San Blas, and Aruba. Please answer those letters that have gone out, reminding you that it's time for your contribution to our alumnae fund. We're waiting; we're hoping.
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Mrs. Stewart F. Carver (Elizabeth Cosby) RD 5, Box 296 Lawrenceville, Georgia 30245
Two nice letters from Margaret Fugate Carlton brought news of several classmates and plans for our 45th reunion. We're to have our dinner Friday, May 16th in the tea room of Keller Hall with punch in the garden before dinner. Hazel Paris Cederborg and her husband, Emil, have been invited and we hope they can come as they added so much to our
40th reunion. Hazel has retired from teaching and Emil from Marshall Field's, so they both have a wonderful time traveling. They called us the first of February for a telephone chat. Hazel had sold her fourth article to Yankee magazine and felt like splurging. They're taking a fabulous trip to the Southwest in March. Hazel had just had a long letter from Mabel Anderson who retired in June and has been traveling ever since. In the fall she went to Colorado, the Grand Canyon, and California. At Thanksgiving she visited friends in upper New York near the Canadian border. They had meals at the Lodge where a roaring fire and hunters in their red coats singing around the piano presented a Swiss Alpine atmosphere. During the Christmas holidays Mabel went to New York and saw MAME, CABARET, and Metropolitan Opera. Margaret sent a letter from Eva Sanders who retired from the Foreign Mission Board last November after many years in Africa. Eva traveled 16,000 miles last year telling of her experiences. She still has her apartment at 2415 Broadway Ave., Roanoke, Va. 24014. Margaret Carlton says she and her husband, Graham, celebrated Christmas with Hong Kong flu. They are delighted to have their son, his wife and year old daughter living in Richmond now. Their three other grandchildren live in St. Louis. Inez Dejarnette Hite is fortunate to have both her married daughters living in Richmond where Inez and Oscar can enjoy their grandsons, Allen Lee Waters, age 2, and Jay Watson Howe, age 1. Mary Peple and Wilhelmina Wright are enjoying their retirement. Hilda Booth Beale has moved to Keswick Garden Apartments, 5222 Wythe Avenue. Joanna Savage Ellett and Vernon moved back to Richmond after his retirement. Joanna is archivist for the Westhampton Alumnae Association which gives her a seat on the Board. Their daughter was married last June and is living in Buffalo. Anna Hardaway White writes of her two daughters, May and Anne. Anne and her husband are living in Hawaii. She is working with the Hawaiian Health De partment as a case worker with retarded children and Ron is in graduate school at the University of Hawaii. May and her husband, Gib, and two little girls visited Anna at Christmas. Carlene Broach Watterson has moved St. 39301. to Meridian, Miss.-3100-26th She writes that all three of her children are married and that she has seven grandchildren. Their son, Bob, and his wife live in Meridian with their young son. Carlene's daughter, Patsy, and her husband were chosen by NBC as the "typical, suburban couple going to the inauguration ball". You may have seen Hugh Downs escort them from the Smithsonian Ball to the Washington Hilton and introducing them to President and Mrs. Nixon. Their four children were quite excited at being on color TV in their own home. Mildred and her husband live in Connecticut with their two sons. A New Year's letter from Agnes Jones tells of visiting her sister, Helen, in Asheville, N. C. at Christmas, and stopping in Richmond briefly on her way back to Providence, Rhode Island, where she works in the city library. Agnes had a wonderful four-weeks trip to the West Coast in September. She saw Louise Wilkinson Morton and her mother in Richmond. Louise's son, Oliver Jr., and his wife, Virginia, sent us a darling picture on their Christmas card of their two little girls, Suzanne and Louise.
This winter has been a rough one for husband with a new illness and I us-my battling flu four times. With spring on the horizon, we're both feeling lots better and are making plans for the 45th reunion, girls. If you wish any further information, write Margaret Carlton who is in charge Graham of the plans in Richmond-Mrs. A. Carlton, 1503 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond, Va. 23227 .
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Miss Gladys Sanders 2237 w. Grace Street Richmond, Virginia 23220
As the result of my writing a Christmas note to Mary Glenn Waller Lacy, I learned through her daughter, Evelyn Lacy Noland, that her mother passed away March 4, 1968. Evelyn said that her mother was ill about two months, and she regretted that she had not sent the news about her mother's death. She said that she and her husband and two children are living with her father on the farm. We extend our sympathy to Mary Glenn's family. I called Sallie Childrey Reed for news and learned that she was still teaching Bible in several areas. She said that she had been doing this for sometime now and had found it rewarding. Mary Fugate, Dean of Averett College, Danville and a member of the class of 1922, sent me news about Connie and Helen Christopoulos. Helen Christopoulos Thomas and her husband, King Thomas, live at 1932 Horseshoe Bend, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23455. They also have an apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and go back and forth quite often. Connie, who is Mrs. Nicholas J. Georges and now a widow, lives in the Towers, Apt. 1705-E, 330 W. Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk, Va. 23510. Connie often joins Helen and King when they go to Florida.
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Miss Mary Virginia Handsom, Virginia
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Gene Edmondson Barney and Don still plan each year to retire soon. We are happy that she is recovering from a serious injury caused by a fall in September. Margaret Dorsey continues to teach parttime in Washington, D. C. Annie Renee enjoyed the Christmas holidays with Ione in Miami . Last July, Ione visited her in Tucson. Alice Taylor is busier than ever enjoying many activities that teaching did not permit. Margaret Lazenby Brown and Clarke visited her on their way to Florida in October. Lila Crenshaw and Margaret Miller Smith spent Thanksgiving with Harriet and Ed Willingham and report that they are fine. Mary Elinor Darden had a delightful Christmas visit with her niece in Orlando, Florida. Our sympathy goes to Kathleen Stinson Williams on the loss of her father last September. I am sure that many of you enjoy with me the delightful articles written by Marian Marsh Sale that appear in the Richmond newspapers and "The Commonwealth" magazine. Remember her poems while we were in college! To celebrate my first year of freedom from teaching, I spent October in Georgia visiting friends and relatives, and sightseeing. Do wish the vast majority of you about whom we never get news would write me what you and your families are up to since last we heard from you. If you find it too difficult to write, meet me at college,
May 16-17, for a chat and a visit to the Fine Arts Building. As Dorothy Campbell says, "Don't forget your contribution to the Alumnae Fund ."
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Miss Edith M. DeWitt 1527 N. Decatur Rd., N.E., Apt. 3 Atlanta, Georgia 30307
In February Maude Everhart Tremper and Tremp stopped off briefly in Atlanta on their way to Florida. What a happy surprise to have a visit from them and you can imagine how our tongues flew! They had also dropped in on Dee Kelly in Richmond. Last October they saw Margaret Powell Armstrong and her husband at Cranston, Rhode Island, when they attended the Pennsylvania-Brown football game. I understand that Dorothy Knibb spent a month in Richmond recently visiting old friends . Our deepest sympathy goes to Jean Wright Woodfin who recently lost her husband. Word from Eleanor Waters Ramsay indicates she's reveling in her retirement from teaching, though sometimes she feels guilty not being in the classroom . Enjoy it, Eleanor. You've earned it! Margaret Daughtrey Minnick is teaching math at Newport News · High School. She came back to Newport News, her girlhood home, from Lynchburg, where she'd been teaching prior to her husband 's death in 1955. It's wonderful to be able to pass on even tiny morsels of interesting information. Remember your classmates would like to hear about YOU. Do help me to keep the lines of communication open among us.
Scholars, a publication of The American Council of Learned Societies. Members of the class of '25 will be interested to know that her sister , May Rudd H arris, and her husband have returned from Carac as, Venezuela, where he was connected with the Reynolds Metal Co. They had a pleasant visit with "Tom" at her home in McLean, Va. May 's husband will continue to serve as a consultant to the Reynolds Co. and they will be doing quite a bit of traveling in the next few years . Do please send me any gleanings of news from any of our class. It would make writing this report a great deal easier.
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News is very scarce. Please plan to come to our fortieth -reunion in May and bring your news . Violet and Bill Simpson are back from a wonderful trip to Hawaii with the Telephone Pioneers. Violet fell the last day they were there and broke her ankle , but it didn 't interfere with the trip . They are excited now over the approaching marriage of "Bill Jr." Billye Williams Thomas and George are the proud grandparents of a lovely little girl, Rebecca Louise, born November 25. Charlotte Farmer has had a grand trip to New York where she visited friends, attended the Opera, night clubs and shows. Don't forget the news when you come to Richmond in May.
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Mrs. Verrick D. French (Gray Robinson) 3545 S. Leisure World Blvd. Silver Spring, Md. 20906
Onr Class Secretary, Betty Sherman Cale, wrote in the winter issue of the Alumni Bulletin that she and her husband would be leaving the country shortly. Their plans worked out and early in January she and Ed left for Accra , Ghana. For the next eighteen months, Ed will be working with a consulting firm as an economist. Betty has asked me to take over her Secretary's job during her absence . She writes colorfully about the people and shops of Accra. Perhaps by the time she returns, she will have gathered material for a talk on The New Woman of Africa . It should be as enlightening and entertaining as her talk at our May '68 Reunion. A note from Frances Anderson Stallard mentioned that she and her husband expected to leave about mid-January for two months in Mexico. She also wrote that she and her sister, Mildred Williams, had driven over to the Goochland home of Ted and Leslie Jones. Their place is a few miles across the river in Powhatan county. I learned recently that Ted is teaching in a high school near their place. I talked with "Tom" Rudd recently and picked up a few items of interest to all her friends . We of the class of '28 feel that she partly belongs to us even though she dropped out of college for a year and graduated with the class of '29. Her book on Gabriela Mistral, published by the University of Alabama Press , will come out some time this year. As Dr. Margaret Thomas Rudd, her name will appear in the 1969 edition of Dictionary of American
Mrs. Hampton Wayt, Jr. (Clare Johnson) 4804 Rodney Road Richmond, Virginia 23230
Mrs. John Edward Millea (Priscilla Kirkpatrick) 8 Mt. Ida Street Newton, Massachusetts 02158
The first order of business is to thank Margaret Oliver Saunders for acting once again as our class chairman of the Alumnae Fund . Thank goodness for Christmas as it always provides me with a few items! Alice Richardson Connell had Dick and his family with her for the holidays. Debbie is now seven and Richard , III , a little more than eighteen months old . Virginia and Bill Thomas spent part of the holidays in Fairfax with Betty and her family of three youngsters . Margaret Lowe Logan always has much to tell about her busy family. "Chris" herself serves as a volunteer in a mental clinic and is active in the University Women's Association while Tracy is occupied at the hospital. Harry is still teaching at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind . After Pris got her M.A. in English at Boston University, she started a job at McLean, a psychiatric hospital near Boston. However, her avocation continues to be writing, and she hopes to have a novel published. This year John expects to complete his studies toward his Ph.D. in French at Yale while Elsa will finish at Goucher. Virginia Prince Shinnick now has one daughter, "Ki", living near her. She and her family returned to Richmond last June. "Tris" came back from Viet Nam last May . He, Peggy, and thei-r two boys live in Fredericksburg where he is connected with a law firm. "Fluff", who was married last July , lives in Columbus , Ga. , where her husband is associated with a textile mill. "Fluff" found a job in public relations at Royal Crown Cola and had an opportunity
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to work with Art Linkletter during one of his university tours. Billie also wrote that Cornelia Ferguson Underwood and her husband spent a month in Europe last summer. Do any of you remember Ethel Nock Fable who started in our class? Her home was in Wachapreague on the Eastern Shore. I had a letter early in January from her husband saying that Eddie died last October while they were on a cruise to Copenhagen. She had one daughter.
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Miss Margaret Leake 408 N. Mead ow Street Richmond, Virginia 23220
Another wedding coming up. Johnnie Adams Irby's son will be married in June. Phil Johnson Pope's son, Billy, is working for Lehman Corporation in New York City. Her son, Jack, graduated from Navy OCS in November and is stationed in Athens, Georgia. Some of you may be hearing from Phil who is working on the Alumnae Fund this year. Our sympathy goes to Elizabeth Curd Sheppard who lost her mother in March. Margery Crawford Westgard's son, Bill, was in Richmond at the time of Mrs. Crawford's death in January. Bill is now a major and recently returned from his second tour of duty in Viet Nam. He and his family are living at Fort Monroe. Last year our class came from 28% contributing to the Alumnae Fund to 49%. Send in your check and let's push it to the 100%.
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Mrs. Eleanor P. Ewell 8525 Chippenham Road Richmond, Virginia 23235
Mary Billings has retired from teaching and is living in Alexandria where she has been teaching ever since graduation. Mary Anne Hall Anderson moved in January from Annandale, Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our number of future coeds is increasing! Geneva Bennett Snelling has a granddaughter. Other news about Geneva is not so pleasant, however. One early evening recently, getting into her car just off Cary Street (shopping district), she was attacked, thrown against the car steering wheel and her pocketbook was snatched. We are thankful she was not injured to an extent greater than bruises, being "shaken up", and loss of money, keys, identification, etc., which is bad enough! We rejoice with Helen Pollard Deck on her son's safe return from Vietnam. He completed three years in the Army. He was stationed in Germany and then volunteered for service in Vietnam. His was the first unit to make the trip from the airport to his base, which had been under heavy fire from the enemy for about two weeks during a TET offensive. Mary Hodnett Mathews' son, Emmett, Jr. is interning at MCV. Her daughter, Sara, is teaching at Bon Air Elementary School. Valerie Le Masurier Jones' daughter, Rosemary, is in graduate school at the University of Virginia. Incidentally, Valerie, our class chairman in Alumnae Fund Drive this year, and five agents attended the workshop and luncheon at Westhampton on February 15. Those agents attending were: Helen Deck, Mary Mathews, Zephia Campbell Scarborough, Geneva Snelling and yours truly. We not only learned a lot, but we had a lovely "talk-fest"!
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A wonderful newsy letter from Cappy (Elizabeth Capitaine Beaty) was received just too late to be included in the last Alumni Bulletin (due to your secretary's illness with the flu). The twins graduated from the University of Arkansas with honors. Carolyn is taking her internship in nutrition at the Colorado State Hospital at Pueblo, Colorado. She also wrote: "Virginia had the offer of fellowships for graduate study, as well as a Fulbright to Spain (which at one time she would have loved, but there was a young man who changed her feelings about that). She and a friend she's had since we've been here, both chose the University of Ky., at Lexington, and were going, with Joane's father driving, to find quarters for this winter. This was in August. Some poor old man pulled out in front of them in Missouri and there was a dreadful accident. Virginia was most seriously hurt in their car, with internal injuries. We got word, and had to wait it out until the operation was over and then talked with the surgeon. He said she had been badly hurt, but the operation had gone well and it would just take time to recover. Frank and I drove through the night to Sikeston, Mo., and several days later Joane and her father were able to return home and came with Frank. I stayed there until the tubes (except drainage tube) could be removed and we returned by flying ambulance to put her in the hospital here. During that time her fiance, who is in Navy Flight Training at Pensacola, came to see her, and they decided, since Virginia couldn't attend school this year, to get married December 27, which is a between-training period for year Mondella, our almost-17 him .... old, isn't much of a student, but she does enjoy living."
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Miss Gertrude Bruce Dyson 14 Malvern Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23221
Katherine Muire Carlton's son received his B. S. at Richmond College and is now assistant athletic trainer there. He is also teaching some classes and working on his Masters. Virginia Atkinson Napier enjoyed a Florida vacation in March. Matilda and Madison Massey had a trip to Europe last summer with hopes of a trip to Virginia this year. Marjorie O'Riordan is going to college, again, getting a major in English with the idea of teaching. Her studies mixed with three grandchildren keep her busy. We send our heartfelt sympathy to Ann Dickinson Welsh and to Catherine Geoghegan Trulock. Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Geoghegan died in February. Have a good summer and share your fun with a card to "14."
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Mrs. C. Maury Tatum {Gladys Tilson Smith) 336 Lexington Road Richmond, Virginia 23226
We have an outstanding group of class agents working in behalf of the Alumnae Fund, and I believe that the results of their efforts will be even better than the excellent record of our class last year. Won't you help to increase our percentage of contributors? Sue Cook McClure Jones has been most cooperative in helping to locate members of our class, even enlisting the help of her children in out-of -the-way places. Sue
Cook's son, Gifford, is home from his wanderings (he spent seven months in Africa flying for a small Belgian-owned airline) and is completing a training period at World Airways. He was to start flying as co-pilot on their big 707 jets soon after the first of the year. His employer is the world's largest charter airline. Allen was married in September to a Santa Barbara girl who is also a senior at the University. He expects to do graduate work in biology after graduation next summer. Sue Whittet Wilson's son's work in the State Department is related to airlines also. Sue and I enjoyed attending the Alumnae Fund Workshop at Westhampton.
Dot Chewning received a Marlboro award for her contribution to sports, particularly tennis. Dot has been active in arranging for international tennis players to partici pate in exhibition matches in Richmond. Estelle Veazey Jones is home in California after several months' travel in Europe while Don was working on a Julie Andrews' film. Both Lottie Britt Callis and her daughter, Pat, are members of the Thomas Jefferson High School faculty. Lottie and Jimmy are building a house near Glen Allen. Mary Pat Early Love spent several weeks in Kentucky while Arthur was on the tobacco market. Bev Bates was at the Fine Arts Building to see Dorothy Stickney and to hear her readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay's letters and poems. Rhea Talley Stewart wrote from her home in Connecticut that she has an enormous microfilm reader on her desk (the kind used in libraries). She is using it in reading all the microfilm she has from England for the book on which she is working. Cheryl Pierce is teaching this year at the University of Miami at Coral Gables while one of the professors is on leave. Cheryl teaches a class in the history of dramatic art and costume design and making and has received raves in the Miami papers for her magnificent costumes. Lola and Glenn share their daughter's interest in the theatre and attend all of the plays at the Virginia Museum Theatre. My letter to Jackie Lowe Rosendahl was returned "Not at this address." Does anyone know her correct address?
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Mr. J. F. Peyronnet (Marion Miller) 1807 Aisquith Road Richmond, Virginia 23229
News has been scarce recently, but the recent alumnae fund drive has brought two letters. Jane Carroll Slusser has been busy visiting her sons. Bill was in San Diego prior to being stationed in Viet Nam. He is stationed on the attack carrier, the U. S. S. Okinawa. Son, Jim, is in the air force. He is pilot for the air transport jets. Jane is busy too, as a teacher. She is taking courses to further her knowledge and techniques. It was good to hear from Ruth Stephenson Edwards. Ruth has two graduations to look forward to this June. Steve is a candidate for graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy, and David from the Dental
School of the Medical College of Virginia. My June will be busy too. Carolyn, my eldest, graduates from William and Mary on the ninth of June and will be married on the 22nd. Her fiance, Mervin Timberlake, will graduate from the University of Richmond this June, too. What's happening in your family? Let me include it in our next Bulletin .
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Mrs. A. L. Jacobs (Anne Scott Campbell) 203 Santa Clara Drive Richmond, Virginia 23229
Dot Shell Wood writes for this issue: Our reunion year is here again! Make plans now to join your classmates for a big weekend. Please be on the look-out for the letter from your committee headed by Scotty Campbell Jacobs, Charlotte Saxe Schrieberg and Dot Shell Wood-and let us hear from you . We are making big plans and including your husbands. Again our class is very proud of her children. Scotty Campbell Jacobs son, Lucky (Albert L. Jr.), has just made Phi Beta Kappa with a straight A record this year. (The older son, Mac, has achieved the same). Mary Garland Wilson Brookes' daughter, Betty, has also made Phi Beta Kappa . Martha Elliott Deichler's son is an expert golfer and is planning to attend Jacksonville University next year. She has a boy from the Philippines living· with her as a son this school year. Evaline Flow Wells' son has just gotten married and also Elizabeth Burch Folkes' daughter. Bring your favorite pictures to reunion so we can all "brag", and meet us on May 16 & 17.
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Mrs. Frederick Jurgens, Jr. (Maude Smith) 2435 Buford Road Bon Air, Virginia 23235
It was nice hearing from so many of you on your Christmas cards. I was reminded by Ginny McLarin Tate that their son, Jimmy, will be ready for college next fall. It seems no time since we first saw him as a sturdy little fellow of two. Kathy will be entering high school. Ethel Harrington enclosed with her Xmas note a copy of a letter Tor had sent them from Vietnam where he is flight leader of a helicopter squadron . It was a grim reminder of how close the war is to all our children . Since then he hasn't been flying so much, as he is operations officer of his company. Tara will be graduating from Vassar in June and plans to be married a week later. I foresee a busy summer for the Harringtons. Marge Reed said things were going along well for the family with lots of church activity keeping them busy and Jack joining the shrine . The boys are 13 and 15 and getting along well in school. Marge would like to have visits from anyone going to the Washington area as they are not far outside , almost in the shadow of Mt. Vernon. Last fall when I visited my mother in Florida, I neglected to mention having a nice luncheon with Mildred Talton who looks wonderful and is busy as ever. Three children are away at college . Cathy is doing graduate work at Seminary , while Jamie and the older son, Ty, are both at Furman. That leaves David still in high school and Betty
in 9th grade. As most of you know , even though the family is away at school, the preparation of clothes and transportation keeps one quite busy and the weekends when they are at home with guests more than makes up for the times that seem a bit quiet. Several months ago the Sunday paper carried an article about a very glamorous looking kitchen belonging to Doris Kibler. The photos were so interesting that I've been wanting to ask to see it. Not long after that Janet Manson and I met and she told me about her daughter who was to have her tonsils out. Having escaped this procedure as a youngster, it had caught up with her. Fred and l attended the Evening of Music at the new Fine Arts Building and were very pleased with both the playing of Dr. John McKay and the building itself . It was our first opportunity to get over there and it was wonderful to see what AlumniAlumnae efforts have accomplished. I have neglected my phoning this time. Things have been fairly busy with work , church activities and caring for our injured beagle who was hit by a car. He survived thanks to the veterinary's good work but has required as much care as a child as his broken bones mended.
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Mrs. s. G. Hardy (Gladys Epes) 110 High Street Blackstone, Virginia 23824
We congratulate sons of two of our classmates for their outstanding performances in college football this past season. The Richmond News-Leader published a picture and article about Margaret Brittingham Curtice 's husband and son in the fall. Her husband, "Cactus Jack" Curtice, having coached at Texas Western , Utah , & Stanford is now football coach and athletic director at University of California at Santa Barbara. Their son, Jim, a 5-foot-10, 180pound junior, rejected offers to play at Oregon and Utah, and is now playing quarterback for UCSB. He led him team out of a two-game slump to win four straight while piloting an offensive machine which rolled to 26 touchdowns and 185 points.
Betty Riley Johnson and her husband watched their son, Tom, one of the tricaptains of the University of Richmond football team , play quarterback in the Tangerine Bowl game in Florida this winter. Tom graduates in June . He is married, and his wife works in the Chemistry department. Betty 's younger son, Rob, is a sophomore at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory , North Carolina . Her youngest child , Judy, is in the tenth grade in high school. Betty teaches first grade in one of the public schools in Raleigh, North Carolina. Henrietta Sadler Kinman's daughter, Ann, will enter Converse College in South Carolina next fall as a freshman. Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow 's younger daughter, Patty , has been accepted at Westhampton under early decision. Charlene, her older daughter, is going to be in the May Court at Westhampton this spring and will graduate in June . Rue had an interesting letter from Edie
Burfoot Lovig . Larry is out of the Navy and is a management consult ant. Edie 's youngest son is at University of Virgini a, and her oldest is attending Harvard Business School as a submariner. He graduated from the Naval Academy several years ago and was number two in his class. He is married and has a daughter, so Edie is a grandmother . Betsy Woodson Weaver has a story entitled "Huguenot Springs " publi shed in the winter Virg inia Cavalcade . Her story on the school children entering her garden club show will be in the April Instructor , a teachers' magazine . Mildred Howerton Jones is occupied with hospital Junior Board work and duplicate bridge in Wilmington , Delaware . Her husband, Casey, is now on the board of Directors of Hercules, Inc. Their daughter , Susan, is working with computers in a bank in Nash ville, Tennessee. Their son , Steve, is applying to colleges. Margaret Purcell Spindler's son , Yes , is a speech and drama major at Michigan State . Her husband has given her an organ which they are all having fun playing . She hopes to visit Virginia Beach this summ er. Our thanks go to the following class agents who have written letters in the current fund-drive: Kay Leviston Krug , Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow , Betty Riley Johnson , Henrietta Sadler Kinman, Margaret Purcell Spindler, Betsy Woodson Weaver, Betty Acker Gillespie, Margaret Brittingham Curtice, Ann Woodward Courtney , & Elizabeth Holden Slipek . Henrietta , "Its", Betty , Rue, and I attended the Alumn ae Fund Workshop and luncheon in February . Don 't forget-if you haven 't already contributed, please send in your check soon .
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Mrs. D. H. Holt (May Thayer) 16 Dundee Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23225
Ada Moss Harlow , our class fund rais ing chairman, has asked that the following be thanked for agreeing to serve as cla ss agents this year: Jean Grant Andrews , Mary Virginia Arrington, Virgin ia Parker Dozier , Ethne Flanagan Higginbotham, May T hayer Holt , Lillian Jung, Pat Abernathy Riley, Frances Calish Rothenberg and Betty Ann Petzinger Shackelford. All are serving for the second year except Ethne who is a "newcomer." This campaign ju st wouldn't work without their help. We are still trying to locate: Christine Lawson Plenckner and Mildred Parker Beecher. If any of you can help out on the above, please let us hea r from you . Jean Hood Redford's mothe r told me that Jean's husband , Chan, was due home from Viet Nam in January, and this arrival was being anxiously awaited . Dot Quinn Keeling flits to and from Rich mond from South Hill now and then to the State Medica l Womens Auxiliary me etings. She is the state president. Ann Garrett had lunch with Ros alie Want Jacobs one day recently . Rosalie and Bay's son, Jimmy, will graduate from University of Richmond this year and has been accepted at MCV Dental School. We saw in the paper th at Mary Virginia Arrington 's daughter is to be married in June. Our children are all growing up! Ann Robey Gaulding was in Richmond at her sister, Jean's, for the Christmas holidays. Her son is at VMI. Ann had been in a severe automobile accident in Iraq , where she and Ra y now live , and was still on crutches . Do drop us a line , Ann, and give us first hand accounting of life over there.
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Ninita Gonzales Seavers is now Mrs. James Breathed, Petersburg, West Virginia 26847. Congratulations and best wishes from all of us! Ada and I attended the fund campaign now all of luncheon at Westhampton-by you should have heard from some of us. Now let us hear from you!
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Mrs. R. A. Bell (Frances Beazley) 6 Woodcrest Road
Cape Elizabeth,
Maine 04107
Blake and Shirley Huxter Corson went to Georgia in February for Sophomore Parents' Week-end at Agnes Scott College where their daughter, Miriam, is majoring in speech and drama. "Wish she could have had Miss Keller's drama", writes Shirley. Maxine Williams Rogers' daughter , Carol, appeared in an educational movie, produced for the public schools. My daughter, Carolyn, has been elected to the Westhampton May Court; so Bob and I plan to go to Richmond for that event.
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Mrs. H. Clayton Daniel (Evermond Hardee) 104 Forest Hills Drive Monroe, North Carolina 28110
I may beat the whole bunch of you at reunion. I have a wealth of material for this last letter after a long drought. Why did you wait so long? A grand ten page letter from Barbara (Gray) Clayton brings our first news in many years of her family. Her daughter, Holly, was accepted on the early decision plan at Westhampton for 1969-70. She and her sister, Ann, age 15, are both theatre buffs and Barbara says our old textbook Modern Theatre Practice is getting positively dog-eared. Holly is president of Liberty High 's troop of the National Thespian Society and Ann is a member. Holly spends her time in all phases of backstage work and has worked out a puppet theatre which she and her cousin use to give Hansel and Gretel free of charge to community groups. Husband , Dave , is a systems analyst with Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The Claytons have bought property on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at Nags Head and plan to retire there, as Barbara says, "when the children have a bit more school under their belts". She says she talked the family into a vacation there some years ago and has never been able to pry them away since. They have been on the Banks in all kinds of weather, "a northand countless small hurricane it is not just the glow of easterners"-so vacation time that lures them there. They have not yet built their home, but Dave has it designed and they hope to start before too long. Barbara does not feel she will be able to get to the reunion, but has not given up hope. I'll bring her letter as I don't want you to miss any of it. By now you all have your letters from Billy Jane and know the reunion plans. Those of you who cannot come would be helpful to your next secretary and to this Richmond group if you would send $1.00 for postage and the scrapbook . There is some money left from the last reunion which will help some. I'm glad to say the Richmond girls are having the dinner catered so we won't be such a burden on them this time. Thanks for your work in planning, ladies! Anne (Green) Sheaffer wrote me from Florida th at she and Walt had arrived there
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on February 24th and she was writing Alumnae Fund letters between golf games. Her oldest, Garland, has graduated from Northwestern and is working in Chicago. Leslie is also there taking a secretarial course, Craig is at Culver and Libby is a ninth grader and at home. It was good to have news of Anne again. Gloria (Tyler) Robertson is in an advanced graduate program at William and Mary and says she enjoys it in spite of the traveling. She has given up her job as school Public psychologist for the Portsmouth Schools. Robin is now 14 and a freshman at Norfolk Academy. Her husband, Clayton, she says "continues with his three big inreal estate, and flying his terests-medicine, own Cherokee" . I know you will join me in expressing sympathy to Dot (Monroe) Hill on the death of her father. Also, Stonie has been ill, but I have no details. We are thinking of you, Dot, during these trying times. Bob Wolf retired from the Navy in October and is now with the Corvair Division of General Dynamics. Fran (Kennard) says they have bought a 25-foot sailboat that sleeps five and all are enjoying it. Tricia is in Chapman College in Orange, California. Babs is working and Kathy is a sailor, Girl Scout and pianist like her mother. It did my heart good to read Fran 's closing line-"Living is great". "Cozy" will cut me off if I don't stop. Will save the other news for the next secretary. Don't forget to send your contributions to the Alumnae Fund!
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Miss Ruth M. Latimer 5 Westerly Way Severna Park, Maryland
21146
By way of Christmas cards and notes I've picked up a bit of news on us "forty-fivers". Lottie Blanton Applewhite and husband , Warren, commute from their mountain home to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where Lottie is medical editor of the hospital's newspaper and teaches a course in medical terminology. Trips since the last Bulletin include the Liz and Howard Cone's visit with Lillian and Mac Youell in San Juan, Betty and Ed Adair's winter vacation in Florida, and mine last week to Atlanta for a meeting with representatives of the Southern Regional Educational Board. Ellen Brooks Blackwell is in Petersburg while Roy "visits" Vietnam. Reports of that "next generation" in college are David Yancy at V. P. I., Billy Blackwell at The Citadel and Lyn Paulson at Averett College. having reJane Bristow McDorman, cently attended an Alumnae Fund workshop, reports that the Class of '45 had the lowest percentage of class contributionsonly 28%. I support her plea that we should and can do better for we all realize the extent that private institutions depend on financial support from the alumni.
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Mrs. A. Howe Todd (Joyce Eubank) 1600 Wilmington Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227
Once again I have had a fine response to requests for news. Thanks! We have even relocated two "lost" classmates: Mrs. Frank Walters (Zue) 1240 Daleview Drive, McLean, Virginia 22101 and Mrs. B. P. Overton (Marguerite Berryman) 202 S. Church St., Blacksburg, Virginia. This narrows down our "unknown address" list to Eleanor Pyper (Mrs. George Bryson) and Betty Simpson (Mrs. Wm. E. Breedon).
Betty Edwardsen Neutze sent Zue's address along with some news of her from a visit in 1965. Zue's husband has a dental practice and they have four children: Cathy, Caroline, Johnny and Julia. Betty wrote that Gale Abbott's daughter has been accepted at Westhampton next fall. Betty 's two younger daughters, Judy 12 and Lisa 9, belong to a gymnastic group which meets in Wilmington. Their Janet is 14 and a serious high school student. Betty teaches nursery school a half day and Frank sandwiches his law practice in between the trips to gymnastic meets. Shirley Kruger Lerner has a new address in Newport News: 138 Moline Drive. Her daughter, Ruth, has also been accepted at Westhampton next fall. All these "children" going off to college and even back to Westhampton! Gives you a funny feeling, doesn't it?
Ruth Smith Tschan loves her work as a real estate agent. Her Christmas letter reported she had sold 10 houses in 9 months, which sounds wonderful for a beginner. Her Don has been teaching biology and chemistry in high school while awaiting acceptance at Med school. Her daughter, Martha, has transferred from Miami to Temple and is back home. Charles is in junior high, so all three of Ruth's children are now back home with her. Lois Bradley Baker added a note to her Christmas card also. They had a fine trip out west last summer. Alan goes to college in the fall and Jean is in the 9th grade-in two school choruses. Jeanne Pebworth Gannon has a daughter looking toward college next fall. Her youngest is in 3rd grade and the two in between are 6th and 10th graders. Jeanne has gone to work at the State Health Department Laboratory. The Gannons returned to Chincoteague for their summer vacation. With tent and boat they spent a leisurely time fishing, sunning and swimming. Peggy Macy Chevins' oldest , Cheryl, is at Wellesley, and Chris will leave for college in the fall (hopefully to Harvard). Her youngest, Cindy, wants to go away to boarding school so with an empty house and a busy husband (President of his advertising is and Welsh)-Peggy agency-Cunningham thinking of going back to school to earn her Masters. Frances Anne Beale Goode talked with Bev Ryland recently. Bev had attended a language institute at Old Point Comfort and is planning a spring trip to Charleston, S. C. Our sympathy to Jinks Booth Armstrong and Tucker on the death of his father in late December. Peachee has been working hard but enjoying her duties as Chairman of Education and Scholarship for a five county district in the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. Their scholarship competition came up the week of March 6th. Her young Thomas was 13 months old in March and had been walking for two months and into everything. Peachee and a friend leave for a two week trip to Europe March 21st-London, Paris, Amsterdam, etc. How about that! A letter from Alta brought news from Pat Husbands Burton whose son, Mark, is a freshman at the University of Virginia
this year. Alta's son, D . J., is planning to attend the University of Michigan next fall. He has had a couple of nice honors in the science field. Nooky Richardson Phipps wrote of an interesting experience for her son, Bill, 13, who served as a page in the House of Representatives at the special session of the General Assembly here in Richmond recently. Nooky's father is one of the senior representatives in the House. N ooky took the day off from school herself to attend the opening . She said she had a fine timeheard the Governor speak, saw Bill in action , and had a nice chat with Mary Lucy Willis Bareford . Next news should come to me by May 10th . My news deadline is May 15th.
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Mrs. Harold H. Stirling, Jr. (Ollie Menefee) 1 Flag Circle, Nimitz Hill Agana, Guam 96910
Margaret Goode Vicars reports that they had a visit with Jane Harp Davis and Ralph in Luray last summer. Jane 's two older daughters are in college-Nancy , at Longwood; Debbie at William and Mary. Izzy Ammerman Allin and Jay have all four children in elementary school now , and Izzy stays busy with their activities . Betty O'Brien Yeats and Joe are back in the U.S ., and are living in Alexandria. Joe is stationed at the Pentagon, and all three children are in school-Jamie in junior high; Katey, in elementary ; and Willey, in nursery school. Quite a few of our classmates are now teaching. Dottie Hughes Freitag is teaching part-time. She teaches 7th grade English while David, her youngest , is in kindergarten. Toni Reid Zuercher is teaching fifth grade, and Mimi Daffron is doing some substitute teaching . Lena Thornton Small has also been substituting and has tutored a home-bound 8th grade student. Betsy Slate Riley and Frank moved to Weems, Virginia, the end of October. Verda Sletten Hobbs and Milton have decided to stay in Urbana, Illinois (the University of Illinois) after shuttling back and forth between Urbana and Bloomington, Indiana (the University of Indiana) for three years. They have purchased a 55 year old house , and are finding many things to be done as they get settled. Verda is library chairman for her P .T .A. , and puts in a lot of volunteer time at the school library. Marie Walthall LeSieur and Claude moved back to Pittsburgh after 12 years in Philadelphia. Claude is manager of the Globe plant in Blawnox . Marie says they bought an old house again-70 years old , but this one is in good condition on the first and second floors, and they are redoing the third. Their children are Carey, 12, and Jennifer , 5.
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Mrs. E. T. Gray (Pamela Burnside) Waverly, Virginia 23890
We all extend our deepest sympathy to Betty Stansbury Lomax whose mother died in January. Betty has been in Richmond and during her stay lunched with Peggy Stone Cunningham and Johnnie Johnson Sandidge. Her husband, Bob, has recovered after a very serious automobile accident, and they have enlarged their house, so things in Salisbury are going well for them. Peggy also reported that Johnnie worked
all last summer with the Poverty Program 's Summer Job Program and that Doris Vickers Lektorich wrote that last summer they visited , camped and went sightseeing in Utah . Doris has "only " six children at home now but I imagine that to the re st of us that sounds like a goodly number! Now that my three are about to fly the coop I wish I'd had a few more. Peggy and her children went to Williamsport, Pa. to cheer the Tuckahoe Little League baseball team on to a victory in the World Series . Her boys knew all the Tuckahoe players and were so disappointed when they lost in the finals . She and son , Steve, have been visiting colleges, and then Peggy and Jerry had a long weekend of golf and good food at Pinehurst , N.C . just before Christmas. Faye Hines Kilpatrick visited Richmond for a day or so on her way back to Connecticut after a week 's tour of several colleges in Virginia and the Carolinas . She is a guidance counselor at a high school in Hartford . Her daughter , Cathy, a junior , accompanied her mother , and they both mixed business with pleasure in South Carolina , by riding in a hunt while there . They are a horse-back riding family except for the youngest , who wants to learn to ski . Betty Hickerson Butterworth entertained Faye , Jean Brumsey Biscoe , Mary Cross Marshall and Peggy Stone Cunningham at a spur of the moment but lovely luncheon during her stay . A nice card from Betty Hengeveld Bradshaw just missed the last news letter. She reported that they had been living in South Miami for almost two years and hoped that the Air Force would let them stay one more . The past year saw Brad receiving an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Legion of Merit medal which was a proud moment for all the family . Their son , Tom , is a junior in high school and their daughter is in the 9th grade. I wish more of you had sent Christmas cards with notes and/ or pictures for our album. Maria Carter Satterfield sent a nice snapshot of her fam ily taken at daughter Alice 's graduation last June. And from Marian Thomson Goolsby came a nice note, too . She wrote that her four are in four different schools this year. David is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania , the other three are in Memphis-Peter, at Tech High School; Carolyn in junior high and John in his last year of grade school. Marian says it's like living in several worlds at once . . . She and Bill are joining an A.R.E . study group and she wonders if any of us have also become interested in Edgar Cayce 's work? Jean Brumsey Biscoe wrote that she had seen the nice large plaque (showing our contribution) which is prominently placed in the Turnbull Room of the new Fine Arts Building . She sent news, too, of Betty Hickerson Butterworth 's and Butter's trip to Acapulco and New Orleans , where they had a wonderful time. From Sarah Bishop Wilbourne came such an interesting and glowing account of their year with their three teen-age girls. As their youngest, Jane, became thirteen Bish said "Jack and I clung to the precipice and tried to keep everything in perspective ." Their oldest daughter, Sally, pledged Pi Beta Phi at William and Mary, and Bish , at Miller and Rhoads, moved back to Personnel , just in time for Christmas hiring . Pat Fuller Gatlin also wrote a grand Christmas letter about her family. She and Tom had been in an automobile accident last year and in the hospital for several
weeks , but are both fully recovered. Pat is doing library work , and hopes to accompany Tom this year on his annual trip to Copenhagen . Their bigge st thing this year has been the football career of Jim , thei r elder son . He has had a fabulous record in high school and thi s pa st season was selected All-State Offensive T ackle by the Rockford-Register Star. He is 6' l " and weighs 235 lbs so we will be expecting to hear all sorts of great thing s during his college career. Right now he is leaning toward the Universit y of Illinoi s. Pat's younger son , Billy, is also a football pl ayer, but right now the biggest event in his life is Duchess Wilhelmin a, a new Weimaraner puppy . Billy was selected to attend Lincoln-Douglas Institute , an accelerated summer program. Hannah Barlow Bain called to say that Wilma Lum attended th e Gift Sho w in New York C ity during February , and that Janice Conant McCoy 's son is back at Richard Bland in Petersburg after serving a period of training in the N ational Guard . On a recent trip to Washington Monty Ownby Elliott went with the Pediatric Society to the White House where they had breakfast with Mrs . Nixon. Monty reports that Mrs . Nixon is charming! Elman and I took a weekend trip to Nassau recently flying from Dulles in under two hours which wa s unbelievabl e. Th ank goodness we were spared a visit to Cub a which had been my main concern !
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Mrs. Raymond Hooker, Jr. (Beth Wilburn) 3000 Stratford Road Richmond, Virg inia 23225
The class of '49 mu st be the busiest bunch of gals ever. I hav e received only three letters since I took over as secr etary. Fortunately two of them just came in recently. I'm just hoping everyone is saving their news so they can deliver it in person at reunion . Audrey Bradford Saupe is now living in Mexico . She was in this country just over a year before Bill was transferred. Audrey is planning to attend the reunion . Her new address is: Mrs . William A. Saupe , Cigarrera Nacional S. A. Apart ado Postal 31-474 , Mexico , D . F . Had a lovely lett er from Anne Bing Abbitt. Anne and John are completing their first year in Ohio . John was transferred by Hercules , Inc. to Cincinnati last spring. Anne said they left Lynchburg with regret but were enjoying all the things a big city had to offer. Anne's next door neighbors turned out to be natives of Lynchburg . What a small world! Anne 's address: Mrs . John A . Abbitt, 1706 Pheasant Hills Drive , Loveland , Ohio 45140. Raymond , the children and I have been on a real skiing jag. We went to Canada for a week over New Years and then have taken two weekends at the Home stead . The children have become quite good skiers , but I'm afraid their parents sta rted a little late in life . Still it's fun. Mary Anne Peddicord Williams was named volunteer of the month last fall and had her picture in Th alh imer s window. Congratulations Mary Ann! You've worked hard for your community and cert ainly deserve this high honor. Hazel Jenning Benninghove is still teaching school and love s it. I ran into her on e day in Junior Miss with her daughter. Both looked great. Jane Dens McManigal was our one lone group leader reporting. She had heard from
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no one in her group but did have some news gathered from Christmas cards. Joyce Robinson Goforth's son, Chris, is in the 9th grade and did all the kicking off for the football team this year. Her youngest, John Douglas , started to school this fall. Lou Winn McCutcheon had a great skiing trip to Colorado last February and was planning one to Stowe this year. Flo Gray Tulledge's daughter is busy applying to colleges for next year as is Mary Ann Williams ' daughter, Pam. Peg Harris Barnett and Martha Hall were in New York, in January , on a buying trip for their stores. Jane was supposed to go in and have lunch with them but New York had an ice storm and she couldn't make it. Jane has three boys now, two in high school and one in 6th grade. Her little Elizabeth is in the second grade. She keeps busy with her volunteer work in the Westfield Service League. She also runs the Jr. Theatre for all the grammar schools, a job she has held for four years. Mick has just been made division Marketing Manager for Westinghouse Lamp division. He has taken Jane to California with him for the last two years. You 'll be hearing from me shortly about our reunion plans. Let's have a big turnout for our 20th.
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Mrs. R. M. Martin (Jean Tinsley) 9510 Newhall Road Richmond, Virginia 23229
By the time you reveive this Bulletin, you will have already heard from your Class Agent for the Westhampton College Alumnae Fund. Virginia Sims is our Class Chairman and she has worked hard in getting the members of our class to write letters. Last year we increased our giving to 35 % of our class and Virginia and I hope that we will increase our participation to 50 %. This will really show how much our Alma Mater means to us! Class agents this year are; Ida Smith Hall, Barbara Coleman Augustine, Lorraine Chapman, Bettie Barnhill Bragg, Frannie Sutton Oliver, Gatewood Holland Stoneman, Libby Rowse Wilson, Audrey Lynn Moncure , Louise Covington Randall , Tucky Bellows Morrisett, Janice Brandenburg Halloran, Helen Lampathakis Kostyal , Marianne Beck Duty, Margaret Alexander Anderson and myself. Barbara Coleman Augustine and her husband took an early spring vacation in March and toured Jamaica. In July , Louise Covington Randall's husband , Henry , is retiring after twenty four years in the United States Marine Corp. Upon retirement, he will enter Iliff Seminary in Denver, Colorado, to study for the ministry. Until June , Lou will be teaching in a nursing school in Chula Vista, California and is a Girl Scout Leader for her girls. Pat Kelly Jordan and Alex as well as Audrey Lynn Moncure and Richard went to Orlando, Florida in December to see the University of Richmond play in the Tangerine Bowl. If only they had played in the Tangerine Bowl one year ago for our home in Florida was only one mile from The Bowl! Margaret Anderson got a newsy letter from Kay Mallory Loudermilk at Christmastime. Kay's husband, Don, is the Area Minister and Director of Christian Education for the West Virginia Baptist Convention. They have two boys; Tim, 15 years old and Jeff, twelve. Their mailing address is Box 741, Lewisburg, West Virginia, 24901.
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Gene Hart Joyner's husband, Floyd, was recently elected one of eight new directors for the Central Richmond Association. Floyd is senior vice president and treasurer of Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company. Winter vacation in the New York schools brought Mary Sullivan Tinder and Cecil to Richmond in February . We were so pleased to have them spend part of their vacation with us. In November, I took over a Junior Girl Scout Troop and have really enjoyed working with the girls. The Martins are truly a Scout family for Roy and Roy, Jr. are in the Boy Scout program, and Cathy and I are in Girls Scouts. Our other two children are not old enough yet to belong. Don't forget the Alumnae Fund! Send me some more news for the Bulletin.
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Mrs. M. M. Yagel (Bobbie Brown) 7709 Brookside Road Richmond, Virginia 23229
Bobbie asks that you please forgive the absence of a class letter this time. She will spend five months in a cast having fallen while skiing and sustained a 3-way break. She has just returned home after a two weeks stay in the hospital.
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Mrs. Charles H. Wright (Sarah Barlow) Route 2, Box 165 Smithfield, Virginia 23430
Our two Harriet Johnsons of Minnesota were making plans for trips at Christmas; Harriet Stubbs Johnson 's family, of St. Paul, for a two week stay in Hawaii, and Harriet Willingham Johnson 's family, of Minneapolis, for a flight to New York City. family of Anne Gibson Hutchinson's Chapel Hill, North Carolina was in New York last fall for a friend's wedding. in to leave the country Planning February was Nancy Judges Jansman. Her husband, Andries, whose homeland is Holland, has been transferred there to open up a new branch of the Continental Bank in Amsterdam. Probably they were in time for the tulips! They had been living most recently in the Chicago area. Our class president's leading event was the arrival of Sarah Courtney last June 27th. Isabel Sanford Rankin's family, new arrival et al, has moved to 2711 Sterncroft Road in Richmond ; not far from their former residence. Kathy Cole Doss's busy household includes three teenagers, aged seventeen, fifteen and thirteen; ten year old Stuart and two year old Robert. husband, Peggy Whiteman Hohmann's Corky (Richmond College '51) is currently principal of John Tyler Elementary School in Portsmouth. Their daughter, Marti, is now in first grade and son, Ed, is four. In Gretna, Jeanne Hootman Hopkins finds her teaching routine varied as she takes her turn with the "least ready" beginners as well as the "fast" group. Jeanne took an education course last fall and another this spring in Danville. This summer she plans to be in Charlottesville as she starts on her M.Ed. from U. Va. Somehow she finds time for Cub Scout Pack meetings since she is Assistant Den Mother for her son's den! Her husband, Peter, has initiated an Investment Club this year and is working on it. Jim, their third enthusiastically grader, is in a demonstration classroom at their local Educational and Cultural Center (ECC). Betsy, their sixth grader, has four
Emily is teachers in departmentalization. a high school freshman, enjoying home ec and making some of her own clothes. Eleanor Persons Hayes and husband, Bob, crossed the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel so we could meet and have dinner together in Newport News last February. They were back in the Norfolk area for a week while Bob was instructing a group of governmental personnel. He was quite ambulatory in spite of a broken leg in cast, but Eleanor did the driving! My special thanks go to Addie Eicks Comegys and Jeanne Hootman Hopkins for sharing news with us this time.
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Mrs. Newton 0. Fowler, Jr. (Nancy Fling) 33 Goodward Road Richmond, Virginia 23235
We certainly have a class on the move, for changes of address continue to come in. Alice Warner Matthews' new address is Box 6, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111. Alice is keeping busy with church activities, Ministers ' Conference Virginia P.T.A., Wives Association and as President of her Garden Club. Ruby Vaughan Carson writes that they have found a new home, and after March 1st, their new address will be 1040 Tomahawk Lane, Niles, Michigan 49120. Ellen Honts Price, Dick and their two boys, David (13) and Bill (11) moved to Mars Hill, North Carolina at the end of the summer. Dick is pastor of the Mars Hill Baptist Church which is adjacent to the campus of Mars Hill College. The boys are busy in scouting and sports. Ellen writes she misses Laurinburg but she is becoming involved in an enrichment group for deprived children , which is sponsored by Dick's church. They are located right in the heart of Appalachia. They have 70% poverty in Madison County. Ellen made a very brief visit to Richmond in November and attended the dedication of the Fine Arts Building. Their new address is Box 146, Mars Hill, North Carolina 28754. Mary Kathryn Manuel Clark and Ed moved into their new home on Shockey Drive, Winchester, Virginia, in June. Mary Kathryn graduated from the University of Virginia with her Masters Degree in Education . She is working three and a half days a week as a reading consultant with the Winchester public schools. The remainder of her time is given to their church kindergarten where they have 68 children enrolled with five full-time teachers. She and Ed have joined a travel club and, in August, they sailed from New York to Bermuda. This summer they will fly to Mexico for ten days. We also had other travelers in our class last summer. Mary Creath Payne, Jim and the children went to Europe for three weeks. They met friends in Glasgow, Scotland, and then drove to London and on up the Rhine to Stuttgart , Germany. They also enjoyed a trip to Switzerland and through the Alps . Rose Ann Thomas Moore is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chattanooga, where husband, Ron, is Associate Professor of History. Rose Ann is working on her Ph. D. at Vanderbilt and plans to take a leave-of-absence next year (1969-70) to complete her residence at Vanderbilt. Charlotte, age 6, is taking dancing and son, Ronald, age 9, takes piano and is an apprentice member of the Chattanooga Boys Choir. Janet Francis Midgett writes that she and her family came East last summer but stayed in the Washington, D. C. area most
of the time. They also spent some time at the beach where Bob joined them for two weeks. Daughter, Lisa, entered high school this fall, Paige entered junior high school, and Gina's in the 5th grade. Young master Rob attends nursey school three days a week. Janet says she keeps busy with the publishing of the elementary school paper and teaching a 7-8 grade Sunday School class. She had a nice letter from Sandy Baka! Kline. Sandy's new address is Mrs. Arnold Kline, 2524 Washington Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Methyl Young Bruce and Bill spent a few days in New York in February. Our congratulations to Jackie Gustin Boeh and Virgil on the birth of their son, William Scott. The new member of their family arrived on February 21st and weighed 8 lbs. and 13 ozs. We are settled in our new home and like it very much. Please note my change of address for future correspondence.
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Mrs. Robert J. Synovitz (Jane Lanier) 131 Doe Run Macomb, Illinois 61455
Our best wishes are hereby extended to Beverly Priddy who became Mrs. Charles F. Derr, November 18, 1967. She and Charles are living in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy and Walter Harrell moved into their new home in October-410 September Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23229. Macon Day Banks has a new address: 30 Dexter Place, Millbrae, California 94030. In November, while Tom attended a conference in Washington, Macon and the children flew home, stopping to visit friends in Haslett, Michigan. They spent two weeks in Shepherdstown and enjoyed the special pleasure of Thanksgiving at home. Ann Hanbury Callis writes about the fun of being active in an alumnae group. She sees such friends as Ann Powell Oast, Jane Ozlin Given and _Page McCray Miller. Peggy and Van Hantzmon took time out from a three day sightseeing trip in the Williamsburg-Norfolk area to spend a nice evening with Shirley and Benjamin (Buddy) Wingfield. Speaking of the Wingfields, they enjoyed a summer excursion through New England visiting such points of interest as Old Sturbridge Village, Boston, Plymouth, Lexington, Concord, and Old Mystic Seaport. These were valuable experiences in helping to bring U.S. history alive for Shirley Anna and Sarah. Nancy Lay has been in Florida all of this year working toward her doctor's degree at Florida State University. She plans to finish her course work in August and then return to the University of Tennessee to teach and work on her dissertation. During the Christmas break Nancy drove to Tennessee and Virginia. She and her mother spent Christmas in Roanoke with Nancy's sister. Carol Jones is also attending Florida State University. She is working toward her master's degree in library science. Carol and Nancy see each other fairly often and enjoy discussing Westhampton days. Nancy Stanley Cockrell is teaching again now that all three children are in school (Chuck, 6th grade; Beth, 4th grade; Ann, 1st grade). Last year she taught two arithmetic classes at Stony Point School, a private school in Bon Air. This year she is teaching three classes-6th, 7th, and 8th grade math and she really enjoys doing it. Yours truly continues a renewed interest in singing. In addition to choir singing, I
am presently doing a solo every other Sunday at 11:30 Mass and recently sang a special solo for the World Day of Prayer Service in Macomb. Our education system, both public and private, needs as much support as all of us can give. Opinions and actions help. So do dollars. Please support Alma Mater with whatever contribution you can spare. See you on campus the third weekend in May!
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Mrs. c. Eugene White (Nancy Johnson) 6413 s. Mayfield Lane Mechanicsville, Va. 23111
Sue Smith VanWickler and Allan have moved to 32421 Maryland Avenue, Livonia, Michigan, 48150. Their children are Kenneth Scott (Kenny) born June 21, 1957; Douglas Kent (Doug) born March 9, 1960 and Susan Elizabeth born June 8, 1962. Sue was a kindergarten teacher in Auburn Heights during the 1967-68 year. She has also been P.T.A. Membership Chairman and a Sunday School teacher for the past two years. Allan is the Regional Advertising Manager for American Aviation Publications. Renee Gartner Diamonstein and Arthur are living at 1086 Algonquin Road, Norfolk, Va. 23505. Arthur is Vice President of the Paramount Bedding Corporation. In her spare time Renee serves as Vice President of the Women's Auxiliary Board of the Norfolk General Hospital, docent at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Women's Auxiliary Norfolk Symphony Orchestra. Their children are Richard Gartner (June 1, 1957). James Andrew (March 3, 1959) and Anne Susan (July 18, 1963). Renee says that she loves her museum work-she conducts tours for 4th, 5th and 6th graders and is catching up on a lot of art and history reading. Al and Beulah Boston Thorson have moved to 410 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pa. 19341. This is in the Philadelphia area where Al is District Manager of the Philadelphia branch of Symons Manufacturing Company, however their home is located quite a distance from the city and they love the country atmosphere. Their children are Terry , 10; Carol Sue, 8 and Tom, 3. Since Beulah left the Child Care Bureau of Virginia, she has done some substitute teaching and part time social work. She is a member of the PTA and the Newcomers Club. Marty Glenn Tinsley and "Blue" live at 7839 Rockfalls Drive in Richmond. Marty got her Masters in English from the University of Richmond in June 1968. Since then she has been teaching English to nurses and pharmacy students at the Medical College of Virginia. She is a member of the Junior League of Richmond, the Historic Richmond Foundation and the Woman's Club. "Blue" is a Vice President for First Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. at the Westhampton Branch . Their children are Gordon Glenn born April 20, 1957 and Lelia Spotswood born Aug. 22, 1958. Arnette Kizzia and Bob Neuville are back in the Richmond area as the telephone company has transferred Bob again. Their new address is 227 Sheffey Lane, Bon Air, 23235. Arnette and her youngest, "Fritz'', spent a few hours with Jay and me in February. While Arnette and I were having a reunion the boys enjoyed taking the fish out of the aquarium and taking them for rides in the dump truck. So goes the life of a mother!
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Mrs. William M. Moore (Doris Huffman) 1309 Forest Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23229
Jane Bowles Hurt and her husband spent their vacation at St. Simon's Islands last summer. They have bought a new home and their new address is 1910 Airview Rd. S. W. Roanoke, Virginia, 24018. Sue Hunter Bennett also has a new address-RT. #7, Box 533, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505. Joyce Still Gibson is Assistant Junior Director for the Lee District, Virginia Federation of Women 's Clubs. As she travels to the 36 clubs in the district she is enjoying renewing Westhampton acquaintances. She and Harold are the proud parents of a third son, Kenneth William, who was a year old on March 7. As our Fund Raising Chairman, Anne Vaughan urges us to please give and give generously this year. She reports that we had a very good percentage of class participation last year so let's strive for 100% participation this year. Many thanks to Pat from all of us for her excellent job as class secretary for the past 2½ years. Her's is a hard act to follow but I shall do my best. Please keep those cards and letters coming in!
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Mrs. Claude W. Anderson (Nancy Day) Box 142 Buckingham, Virginia 23921
Hear ye! Hear ye ! ! Our Baby Cup Winner now has a new sister. The Al Burtons (Barbara Goodman) announce the arrival of Kathryn Marie on January 18th, weighing in at 4 lbs. This makes six Burton children. Congratulations! Milt, Jo (Fyock) and son, John, and daughter, Kathy, spent the Christmas holidays in Richmond and Roanoke. They are still located at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. We're sorry that we didn't have any snow for them. Margaret Foster returned from Liverpool, England, in December and reported the first of January to State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island where she will teach undergraduate physics and do some research work. She is on a new campus, approximately 6 years old, with around 6000 students. Her mother spent six weeks this summer with Margaret and they traveled extensively through Scotland, Ireland and England. Her new address is: Dr. Margaret Foster, Dept. of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11790. Grace (Bloxsom) and Philip Raveling are still in Texas. Their son, Philip, is in the first grade and Nancy Lynn is in kindergarten. Grace is busy with church work. (Methodist now) and Philip is continuing to search for oil for Mobil Oil Company. She usually gets home in the summer. From Annapolis, Maryland Nancy (Bertsch) and Bill love their home by the water. Bill has a new job as Director of Fiscal Research for the state of Maryland and it keeps him on the go. Linda is in kindergarten, and Wendy will soon be two years old. Jim and Mary Loving (Bell) Kirby are happy to announce a new man has arrived in their family. A son, James Bell Kirby, born May 28 has livened up their household. Congratulations to you! After the summer issue, Mary Loving will become our class reporter for the next two years.
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The Alumnae Fund has begun. Peggy Graves Butterworth is again our chairman. She and her committee are working hard to get in touch with each of you. Please send your contributions. Wouldn 't it be grand if we had 100 % ? Our thanks and appreciation to Peggy and her cohorts as they undertake this drive. We've hit Please send me news ..... the bottom of the bag again.
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Miss Betty Blair Rhodes 1623 Nottoway Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23227
Carolyn Moss Hartz and Ransome were mighty proud of their son, Jimmy, who won a grand prize of complete sets of World Book Encyclopedia and Childcraft for entering a Cappy Dick contest at Thanksgiving-time in Richmond. A note from Carol Brie Griffith arrived just after the last bulletin. She told of her trip to Hawaii for Harold's R and R leave. Of special interest was the following: "We had a wonderful time and especially enjoyed an evening dinner cruise on a two masted sailing ship. It was the Tiki' in the T .V. show 'Adventures in Paradise'. The beaches on Oahu and the water are beautiful and the weather was perfect during our stay. 1 was very impressed by it all. We hope to go back and visit the other islands some day." Carol's note also indicated that she was not working while Harold was in Vietnam, but hoped to return to being a doctor when he returns to his residency in . July. A long letter from Cecily DeLoache Berg told of their transfer from Djakarta. Indonesia , to San Jose, Costa Rica, in 1967. She and her husband, Dick , are the parents of a year old girl, Alix, who waJ born just after they arrived in Costa Rica. In May of 1968 they enjoyed a long delayed "home leave ." This involved driving from San Jose to Norfolk up the Pan American Highway through Central America and Mexico into Texas and on to the east coast. The trip took two weeks each way and was extremely interesting. According to Cecily "the weeks at home were spent enjoying the good old USA for the first time in several years. It was nice seeing our families and friends. The supermarkets and stores looked beautiful after so long away." After this grand trip the Bergs are settled in for at least two more years in San Jose. The final bit of news also came from outside the USA. Anne-Martin Baker wrote that she had moved and was now enjoying the opportunity of knowing the HeidelburgMannheim-Frankfort area of Germany. Her address is c / o International Standard Engineering, Inc., APO New York 09056. We look forward to hearing the details of her new job, new apartment, etc.
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Mrs. Ral9h L. Haga, Jr. (Carolyn Nash) Prospect, Virginia 23960
All of us send heartfelt sympathy to Sylvia Olney, who lost her father in January, and to Eileen Cordle, who lost her father on February 6 and her mother less than twenty-four hours later. Margaret Rutherford Compton's moving to 2307 Jefferson St.', Bluefield, West Virginia, 24701. "Delano and I and another couple were in Carmel, California, in February, and witnessed the devastating floods, which prevented us from sightseeing at Hearst Castle."
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Ann Bell's address is 2065 Snowhill Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45237, although John anticipates a transfer to Raleigh, N.C. Ann, Elizabeth, and John became addicted to camping last summer, are planning for '69. Peggy Yarbrough Boulden's Ed has been promoted at Reynolds Metals and trans ferred to Massena , N.Y., close to the Canadian border. Peggy will follow when they find a place to live. They spent their Christmas holiday in Florida, "where, unwittingly, we went swimming with sharks! We found the Orange Bowl not nearly as thrilling as the Tangerine Bowl." Susan Payne has moved: 1530 N. 12th St., Arlington, Va. 22209. Since July she has been working at a new job with the FAA Library and Information Retrieval Branch - computers and all, "by far the most stimulating job I have ever known." A happy item from Eileen Cordle: She became engaged at Christmas to Edwin H. Harris, Jr. and the wedding is scheduled for April 5. Ed is in the Operations Research Dept. at Burlington Industries, and they'll live at 2314-C Golden Gate Drive, Greensboro, N .C., 27405. Judy Grove Kinter and family are now on a lovely farm about 75 miles north of New York. Address: Valleyfield Road, Dover Plains, N .Y. John manages 300 Angus cattle and 1300 acres. "Betsy's in first grade , Robbie's in public kindergarten, Katherine's still home with me. I substitute occasionally, everything from kindergarten to 12th grade."
Margaret Spencer Hernandez has quarters at 1238 Mindoro St., Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, through June. "All told there are 615 children on the base so we have little quiet during the day. l'm taking a flower arranging course and car-pooling children to swimming lessons. " Margaret Griffin Thompson is taking education courses at Old Dominion College, while Art is in the D.M.Z. in Vietnam. Jean Rice Hodder has been enjoying all those northern snows skiing, tobagganing, and ice-skating. "We even have Becky (2 yrs. old) ice-skating by herself, but haven't started her on skiis yet. We had a busy year in 1968 with trips to Chicago, San Francisco, and Gatlinburg. We spent several weekends 'getting to know ' New England and find this a wonderful place to live." In the 1½ yrs. Arlene Olson Jones and 0. C. have been in Germany she has visited Holland, Italy, France, Sweden, Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Holy Land! When she's home, she's done some church work, and was activity chairman for the Wives Club. 0. C.'s now a Captain. Mary Lee Fountain Ward's first Christmas without a change of address was made even happier by Eric Fountain Ward, born December 5. Patsy Kelly Clark and Doug announce the arrival of a son, David Douglas Clark, Jr., born December 8. Bonnie Lewis Haynie presented Jerry with a daughter, Anne Wallis Haynie, born January 12, joining Scott, who is 7½. Peggy Dulin Crews, Merrill, and Kevin
were in Culpeper for Christmas, and the Dulins visited Florida in February. "Kevin is growing fast and is such a joy to us." Barbara Dulin Polis and Charles will be off in July to Weisbaden, Germany. "Needless to say we are excited since this is our first trip abroad. We and Peg's family plan a trip to Jamaica in April, then I'll have to trade my tennis racquet for skiis. The children have only seen snow via TV and are eager to see some firsthand." Here's Sarah Coleman Marroni's new address: 3502 Kenwick Trail, S.W., Roanoke, Va. Lou has been promoted to District Manager with Texaco. Eleanor Caldwell Godsey's family moved closer to Charlottesville in February, to 1905 Rolling Hill Rd. Greg started kindergarten, loves it, and wants to go on weekends. Melanie, 3, is a real talker. Vicki is a senior at Albemarle High so they're college hunting . Eleanor sings in the choir and teaches Sunday School. Janice Dowdy Brigg's son, Ted is trying to walk alone, "has curls, and is precious." Marguerite Dorsey Fussell's 2-yr. old, Tommy, is talkative, "but quite good", says Jean Martin Wyndham, "and my Chris is quite lively. Herb spent three weeks in Chicago over Christmas, so I went up for four days. Still working on my M.H., and substituted four days when Trevett was in a pinch." Carrol Andrews Roberson's, Leslie, is taking dancing, and eagerly waiting to go to school. They are enjoying their new rancher at I 80 I Bracken Rd., Richmond. Jackie Connell Atkinson is teaching four classes of algebra and one of U.S. history at Thomas A. Edison High in Fairfax County. Charlie's in law school four nights a week, Mark is in junior kindergarten, and Missy's in first grade. "We see each other on weekends!" Harriet Stone Anderson's family now includes two boys, two girls . Laura was born last spring. Martha Jordan Chukinas' little Mary had her second major surgery in a year-another kidney operation. Hospitalized for 2½ weeks she's now recuperating nicely. Mary Ann Williams Haske had surgery on her leg in July, '68, is still in a cast, hobbling on crutches. Her address is 32 Ocean Ave. , Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Patsy MacDonald Allen's parents had a grand time in Portland at Christmas. Dick is finishing his last year of residency and trying to decide next year's plans. B. B. Harvey Strum and Sherwood are skiing enthusiasts, and are busy building a new home. Nancy Kipps Hughey's Mike was a firstgrader for 6 weeks, then moved to the second grade ; where he seems to be doing fine. He'd already taught himself to read! Jo Edwards Mierke has returned to her former job. Bad news from son Kenneth; he's allergic to milk and some foods. Sue Sybert Ritter acts as Fred's secretary, works 16 hrs. a week. "We have 49 con firmed members in our chapter, need 60 to organize as a Lutheran church, hope to organize by early March. We still meet in a bowling alley but hardly notice our surroundings anymore." Katherine Schools Covington's Carol is in first grade. "She has brought home many things, including chicken pox." Ruth Adkins Hill's 6 yr. old, Mary Lawrence, "loves every minute of first grade. Bobby, 3 ½, is an individual with a mind of his own, and Sarah, l, jabbers about all sorts of things. Sibby Haddock Young and Paige spent a weekend in November. They'll
never be the same after having to cope with my children 24-hours straight." Nancy Phillips, president of her Junior woman's club, is also den mother for David's Cub Scouts. The older Phillips all "Scout", swim, and sail. Remember Lonnie Shor? (UR, '59) Peg Crews saw him at the Miami Playboy Club as a comic entertainer. "He was very, very good." Don't forget May 16!
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Mrs. D. M. Ahlers (Clare Earle) 17 Old Stone Road Darien, Connecticut 06820
The Class of 1960 has been having its own population explosion recently. The new babies I have to report this time are all boys except for one young lady, Miss Pamela Godwin Lemmon, born to Bob and Linda Lemmon on Jan. 16, 1969. Pam's generation will have plenty of masculine company; Franklin Richards arrived on Nov. 24, to parents Frank and Audrey Nuckolls Richards in Glen Allen, Ya. Wayne and Em St. Clair Key announced the arrival of Steven Vaughan Key on New Year's Day. Em and Wayne are now living at 7-B Faulk Drive, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, 76311. On Feb. 13, 1969 Mary Frances Gibbs and George Irwin welcomed their first child, George Lee Irwin, IV, and on Feb. 17 Charles Stanley Boone, Jr. was born to Alice and Chuck Boone. The heir will be known as "Chip". Welcome to the newcomers and best wishes to their families. The Boones have had a busy winter; in Nov. their daughter Kimberley, who had just turned 2, broke her leg. Alice says she could use some sleep. Anne Paige Jones Hurt writes that her family is very busy with school activities since Bennett is in second grade and Anne Carson is in kindergarten this year. Wally is teaching chemistry, physics and biology in high school. They are building a new home on their farm and hope to be moved in by Easter; their new address will be Nottaway River Farm, Blackstone, Va. I received a nice note from Lynn Mapp Wiggins, keeping us posted on classmates in the Portsmouth area. She reports that Olivia Ames is busy this winter with the chairmanship of the Po-rtsmouth Junior Women 's Club Follies. This is their major money-making event of the year, so it's a big undertaking for Olivia. Sarah Hudgins Rice and Fred are enjoying Okinawa so much that they are planning to stay for a second year. They have recently returned from a vacation in Taiwan for the Chinese New Year. Their next venture is a nine-day tour of Japan in late March, the time of the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festivals. Sarah says that the girls have many Japanese, Filipino, and Negro playmates, which is proving to be a very rich experience. Lynn says that she herself is staying busy with her children and a new puppy , as well as serving as Provisional Chairman for the Service League this year, helping with an indoctrination program for new members. Ruthi Greenfield Zinn is trying valiantly to keep up with the girls in her area, but is having difficulties getting responses. All girls in Ruthi's area, please note and take action. Anyone know the whereabouts of Jan Blackwell Cannon, Laurel Burkett, Shirley Satterfield Flynn, or Sally Finch Miller? If so, please let me know. The Zinns had a lovely ski week in Killington, Vermont this winter, with the whole family trying skis, (except Michael, who is working on walking
first). Steve finishes with the Public Health Service in June and is busy looking for a civilian job as a radiologist near but not in N .Y. City. Ruth is very proud these days to have a new and successful author in her family; her father just published a book called "The Low-High Theory of Investment, or How to Make Money in the Stock Market and Keep It!", by Samuel C. Greenfield. Jane Horton Blackwell is serving as President of the Atlanta Chapter of Westhampton Alumnae this year. Jane's address is now 4358 Bishop Court, Chamblee, Ga. 30005. Rozzie Weinstein Rottenberg has also been having difficulties locating some classarea. mates in the Baltimore-Washington Have Nancy Rosenberger Weems and Mary Cooley Malone moved? We like to keep up with you, so please notify us when your address changes. Linda Morgan Lemmon says that taking care of the new baby and Paige fills her days and nights, with most other activities curtailed for the time being. Paige is a very feminine young lady of three who loves being all-girl. The Lemmons visited Phyllis and Bob Polhemus on Long Island last fall, where they enjoyed sailing together and eating home-cooked lobsters . They travelled to Va. at Thanksgiving to visit family, and Linda had a nice long chat with Becky Grissom YanAusdall. On the West Coast, Dodie Tyrrell talked with Barbara Ramsey Bridgers in December, and found Barbara and Ivey busy remodelling their home . Liz is in first grade, Barbara is still working for the Alameda County Welfare Dept. and Ivey has a new job as Regional Brokerage Supervisor for a San Francisco insurance company. The Bridgers recently took a trip to Seattle for some visiting and skiing . Before Christmas Dodie took a whirlwind tour of the East Coast from her parents' winter home in Fort Myers, Fla. to N .Y . City, with quite a few stops in between . More recently Dodie has been skiing on weekends and warming up for a week 's ski trip to Aspen, Col. in March; Dodie was accompanied by six bachelors, including a chief of orthopedic surgery, and a chief of cardiac surgery who was an assistant at Los Angeles's first heart transplant operation. Dodie believes in being prepared for any medical or romantic emergency! She writes that Dru Young is planning to go to Hawaii in March, to Greece in May, and just bought a new Lincoln Continental. Dodie visits by phone with Jean Chou Lee, who is currently taking a course in interior decorating which has proven to be a new found interest. Another classmate has moved West: Cynthia Rabon Barry and husband are now living at 101 Landoe Lane, Colorado Springs, Col. 80911. Between fighting bouts of chicken pox this winter I have been working with a 5th grade Sunday School class and taking guitar classes at the YWCA . I'm not ready for the stage yet, but it is fun. Thanks to all who wrote; if you haven 't communicated with the class lately, do it today!
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Mrs. E. H. Williams, Ill (Gayle Gowdey) 1224 Lanier Road Martinsville, Virginia 24112
For the next few issues of the Alumni Bulletin most of you will not be notified by individual card or letter of the news deadline. The deadline will be mentioned in each issue for the coming issue. The deadline for news to me for the summer
issue of the Bulletin is the first day of May . Gwynn Barefoot Raper has written the following , suggesting a "Mini-Reunion " for Alumnae Weekend : The W.C. Richmonders of '61 mentioned again at the Fund Dinner how nice it wou ld be to gather as many of our class as possible at Alumnae Weekend. This is May 16-17. That Saturday is a coffee at 10:30 and lunch at 12:00. At 3:00 is "A Man for All Seasons. " We thought it would be nice to make a special effort to get together since it is in the middle of our 5 years. It would be fun and it's good to see each other as often as possible. Gwynn went on to write that further information on this "Mini-Reunion" could be sent out and that she and Mary Catherine and Sandy Smith attended the Fund Luncheon . If you all will contact Gwynn with ideas and offers of help I'm sure both will be appreciated. Gwynn "s address is: Mrs. A. Jarrell Raper, 8512 Rolando Drive, Richmond, Va. 23229 Ann Robinson Warner and Jim write of their wonderful news : Since last May 17th, 1968, we have been the very proud parents of a son, Jimmy , born April 9th . He is now 1O months old and a real delight-to say the least! This has been the most wonderful year of all. I am a full-time mother and housewife now after being a research assistant. Jim is still practicing law and really enjoys his work . Many happy congratulations to Nancy Tingle Traylor: Last October 17, 1968, I married Lawrence M . Traylor, a widower with two boys, Lawrence Jr. age 11 and Ricky age 9. So now, with my own David, 5, we have three fine sons . Larry , my husband, is an attorney, a Methodist , and an active Republican. We live near Lottsburg, Va. My address is Texas Farm , Lottsburg , Va. Life is busy and wonderful. We had a wonderful honeymoon all the way to California and back. Ebb and I were in Richmond for the Richmond College Class Agents' meeting and the basketball game that night and saw Dixie and Claude. Dixie had much news: Barbara Spiers Causey had twin boys at the time of her daughter's first birthday . Robert and Andrew were born Jan. 3 I and weighed 4 lbs . 8 oz. and 4 lb. 9 oz. Love and congratulations to Barbara and Anne and Sam Kerr. Anne Leigh Kerr was born January 17 in Richmond where her parents are now settled and where Sam is practicing law . Jessica Scarborough Burmester relayed the following news from the maternity ward of Fairfax Hospital: Randall Raymond Burmester was born on February 25. Sister Jennifer at 3½ is busy making plans about taking care of and teaching her precious new brother. While Jessica was in the hospital she talked to Sandra Walker. Sandy has a BA from American University and quite a few hours toward a degree in Public Administration . She is active in American University organizations and enjoys life in Washington. Currently, she is working for Potomac Electric and Power Co. as an administrative aid in Personnel where she is involved in interviewing prospective employees and related personnel projects. Jessica also sends news of Luigi Decosta. Luigi is currently staying with an aunt in Madeira. "We (Mother and I) enjoyed a wonderful reunion together at in Lisbon and then Christmas-meeting on to Madeira. Also ventured to Spain but unfortunately was too tired to take advantage of the country. Leaving India was difficult. I suppose when you depart from work that has been important and people you love , a sense of loss is natural. .
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so here I sit in sunny Madeira, oblivious of the real world. It is a magnificent island. Am going to school every day and in every sense of the word it is the little red school house. 22 pupils 5 to 14. I'm the biggest, eldest and stupidest. Ashamed of my Portugese, but improving day by day through necessity . No one speaks English. Our teacher is my auntie and she 's great . . . strictly from the stern old school. It's a good lazy life and I'm content with it until May. Am toying with the idea of graduate studies in Lisbon. Have applied to Smith College in Mass. and Columbia in N.Y.C . and may apply to Catholic University. " Polly Thompson Marshall writes: This has been an eventful year for us, one of both joy and deep sorrow. On March 22, 1968, we welcomed a new baby girl into our midst , Ann Carter. Robin, who will be seven in June, is a busy first grader who delights in all her school activities, and Charles, who will be five in May attends kindergarten three mornings a week. In August the C and P Telephone Co. moved us from Suffolk, where Robert was Commercial Manager for two and a half years, to Newport News. He is now Business Records Office Manager of the Hampton Office. We ended the year in great sadness over the death of my father just two weeks before Christmas after a four month ordeal with cancer. Polly, please accept the love and sympathy from your classmates. Congratulations to Chris and Anne Sizemore : Chris and I proudly announce the arrival of our third son , Edward Scott on February fifth. Bob, 5¼, and Richard , 3½, arc quite cager for their youngest brother to grow big enough to play with them. Betty Pritchett White writes as a Class Agent: Last year 38% of our class contributed to the Alumnae Fund , an increase of 14 percentage points over the previous year and also the amount given increased significantly . However, we still are low in comparison to other classes . Betty 's husband, Ray, has been appointed chairman of the Dept. of Oral Surgery at the U. of Kentucky. Mildred Gilman Gilmore has interesting news: Bill completed his Masters Degree in Educational Administration at U. Va. in June of this year. I was especially proud of him because he attended summer school in '66- '67 and then took night classes in the winter on top of teaching four classes of senior English at Hopewell High School and one speech class. Last year he was also the president of the Teachers' Association. He is currently an Educ. Spec. or Writer for the Federal Government at Fort Lee . We moved to Richmond in late July and now have a lovely Apt. at the Hamlet. I am still employed with the State Health Dept. under the Bureau of Crippled Children . Nancy Adams Booker writes: Red and I had an extra special Christmas. Our little daughter , Anne Pollard, was born on November 4th. Adrienne had a little boy on September 25 . They named him Hunter McAnally Cox . This summer I wrote my paper and finished my work at William and Mary for the MTS degree (Master of Teaching Science). Jackie Johnson Mutascio writes that she and Pete live some 20 miles south of Washington. Pete works in D. C. as accounting manager of the Eastern Division of Sealtest Foods. They have two lovely sonsPeter , III, (age 4), and Christopher (1 ½). Jackie has worked off and on over the past six years for the Federal Government. She is not working presently .
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Laura Beth Blackburn Bird and Carl proudly announce the birth of their 2nd daughter and third child on Feb. 27, Beth's birthday. We are now limited as to the space for each of these colums. Please keep your news VERY CONCISE. Also, please understand if there is not space to print your news in every issue.
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Mrs. John I. Riffer (Diane Light) 6317 Abilene Street Springfield, Virginia
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Charlotte Adams Higgs, Wilson, Kathryn, and David visited Barbara Davies Brewer and her family in January. They had been down to see Charlotte's parents in Hampton and have been keeping busy painting, decorating, and furnishing their home in Pennsylvania. Barbara had also talked long distance with Joanna Ellett Pickering, who reported that she was keeping busy in spite of all the snow in Buffalo. Mary Douglass Sommers reports that her husband, Bill, has been promoted to manager of the Bond Department of Royal Globe's Atlanta office and they will be moving to Atlanta soon. Mary says they are sad to leave Wheaton, Illinois, where they have so many friends and activities. Their daughter, Tracy, had her second birthday in February. Mary's brother returned in December from Vietnam where he was awarded a Bronze Star . Kitty Borum Fitzhugh and Parke are still in Florida. Parke has passed his exams and is interning at the V.A. Hospital. Ann Nunnally Nielsen's new address is 5009 Regina Lane in Virginia Beach. She and Niel are remodeling the house they bought, and Ann is active with the Navy Wives and P-TA. Jane Thompson Kemper and baby, Beth, visited Julie Perkinson Crews "for lunch and conversation ." Barbara Harrell Holdren and Jim announce the birth of Catherine Elizabeth (Cathy) on December 2. Jim is still teach ing chemistry and coaching track at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, and plans to direct a boys camp again this summer. Barbara has also been tutoring four hours a week, which she enjoys. Nancy Richardson finished her last course at Duke in January and plans to go to Bolivia for the summer on a work-study project. Anne Corpening Gallagher 's new address is 403 8th A venue South, Fargo, North Dakota 58102. Her husband is teaching math at North Dakota State University. Judy Acree Hansen and Dick are househunting since they plan to be in Fredericksburg for at least a few more years. Dick will spend five weeks at Duke in summer school this year, but Judy says she is going to be very unscholarly and relax in the sun. She says this will be quite a change from past summers. Robin Cramme Perks and Jerry have bought a home in Richmond and plan to move in this summer. Betty Lou Morris Blankenship reports that last year 's luncheon at the Clover Room was such a success that we will make similar plans for this year. The luncheon will be Saturday, May 3, at 12 noon at the Clover Room in Richmond. Anyone interested in coming should try to let Betty Lou know ahead of time. Her address is 8533 Elm Road, Richmond, Va. 23235. See you then!
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Miss Ann Hurd 701-E N. Hamilton Street Richmond, Virginia 23221
On March 2 Betsy Broaddus Zimmerman 's husband, Craig, passed away after a long illness . To Betsy we extend our deepest sympathy. Cecilia Stiff Mahan and Leland announce the birth of their second son, Stanley Patrick, born on December 11. Sharon Robertson's new address is Apt. 5-J, 4132 Avenham Ave., Roanoke, Virginia, 24014. She's working for the C and P Telephone Company there. Congratulations to Judy and Jon Bolling on the birth of a daughter, Ann Randolph, born on January 8. Carolyn Hodnett Wyatt and Charles are now living at 1977 Greenfield Drive in Richmond. Charles is the branch manager at the Bon Air Branch of Southern Bank. They became the proud parents of a son, David Fontaine, born on October 28, 1968. Mary Jane Newton went to Key West, Florida, during Christmas . She was down there sunning while we were freezing . On February 10 Pat Shotton Windley and Bill became the parents of a girl, Elizabeth Anne. Their address is 195 Dogwood Road, Aiken, S. C . 29801. Nancy Delano Moore, Hullie, and little Sara moved to Richmond in January. Their new address is 1309 Severn Road. Hullie is associated with the law firm of Christian, Barton, Parker, Epps, and Brent. Dee Harwood Perkins, Bob, and their little boy, Colley, were in Richmond to visit with their families during the Christmas holidays. Marcia McMullen Cantrell and Bill welcomed their second addition, Elizabeth Mason, during the latter part of December. Phyllis Pollack Yaffa and Jack went to New Jersey the last part of February and visited their parents. On December 25 a little bundle, Herman Morris, was delivered to Gail Marcus Genderson and Sam. Carol Miller Tolbert and Bill were in Richmond during the Christmas holidays to attend her brother's wedding. During her two-week stay, Carol visited with Frances Griggs. Congratulations to Doris Joyner Robert son and Andy on the birth of a son, N icholas Andrew, born on December 9. Doris attended a Westhampton coffee in Newport News recently and saw many classmates including Key Koontz Gillette, Peggy Dail Wright, Jean Morris Foster, and Beth Stafford Nolan. Nancy Berkowitz Sokol and Ez became the proud parents of a son, Bart Dov, born on January 5. Ez is a surgical resident at MCV. Julia Williams is quite busy these days . She's teaching the sixth grade at Seaford School in York County . She is also the organist for her church and has thirteen private piano students. Her address is 44 Pear Avenue, Hampton, Virginia, 23361. Judy Cooke Moseley and Gerry were in Richmond the first part of January and it was great to see them again. They're enjoying Texas, but are hoping to settle in this area when Gerry finishes his Ph.D. Beth Holland Maxwell is very busy as usual. Her schedule includes teaching a course in Adult Basic Education, serving as an advisor to a young people's group on Sunday night at church, and helping
establish a Court Counselor Auxiliary program. Pat Long Dementi and Brian announce the birth of a daughter, Briana Carol, born on March 12. Carolyn Shields Attkisson writes that she completed her history thesis for her M.A. last August at Duke University. Within three weeks she and Cliff and little Erik headed for California via Death Valley and Las Vegas. Cliff is in his internship year at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco. He passed his last prelims in January and only has his dissertation to finish for his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Tennessee . Next September they 'll be returning to Knoxville. Carolyn may teach again at Knoxville College in the fall. She taught for three years in their history department before moving to California. At the present time she is teaching world history and literature in high school. Their present address is 211 18th Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94121. Please don't forget to contribute to the alumnae fund. Last year we raised our class' percentage of contributions by 17% . Let 's do that well again this year so we can be over the 50% mark.
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Mrs. John W. Mallery (Letty Sloan) 606 s. 24th Street Arlington, Virginia 22202
You probably will be receiving this about the time of our reunion, May 17. It looks as if there will be a pretty good crowd converging on Westhampton and we hope you will be among them! We are especially thankful to Elsa Queen Falls for inviting us to her home on Friday evening and to Bev Davis Walters for making the arrangements. Also, in case you have forgotten to send in your contribution , you have until June 30 to add to the Alumnae Fund. Last year we had 36% participation, up from 25 % in the previous year, but not very good compared to other classes. Remember, this Bulletin as well as many needed improve ments around campus are made possible through the Fund. Among the interesting travels reported was the trip Jackie Gates Richardson made down the Florida Coast and to the Bimini Islands of the Bahamas in a rented sailing boat last June . They went with Jackie's sister and her husband and needless to say had a wonderful time. Jackie presently is being kept busy in Jacksonville , Fla., with Bill, 5, and Andrew, 2, while Fields, a Navy pilot, is on a cruise off the coast of Vietnam. Hedy Bernard Rosenstock and Louis are having a wonderful time while stationed in Germany and are making several side trips. Also, Nita Phillips Reynolds writes of her trip recently to Seattle for a convention with her husband , Ronnie. They also toured northern California, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Mt. Rushmore. They and their twoyear-old, Kathie, live in Baltimore. Marian Binder Sacks of Camp Springs, Md., writes that she and Shelly went to California in November. While there they visited Carolyn Powell Kelly and Vince. "They were wonderful hosts . We saw Las Vegas and Disneyland and had a truly delightful visit with the Kellys." Jane Fitchett Harvey moved to Roanoke from Richmond in November because of her husband 's job. Lee Hill Andrews also is on the move as Dave has resigned his
position as Minister of Youth in Birmingham and is now on active duty with the Air Force. Lee is kept busy with her two boys, Davey 3 and Danny, 18 months. The Mapps are about to move within the Norfolk Area as Gayle (Jones) 's husband, Wyatt , has completed his Master's Degree and will continue to work with his dad . Glenda Nicholas Burke's husband graduated from med school and is interning in Richmond until this summer. Anne Garlock Cole and Pete bought a home in Churchill Boro outside of Pittsburgh, and Ann has retired from her work to take up house work. Pete is now working for Westinghouse in their Industrial Relations Department. Donnalee and Hoy Steele are in Kansas where he has started work on a PhD in American Studies, race relations. He received his Bachelor of Divinity from Union Seminary last June. Donnalee works part time and enjoys the rest at home with Tiri, almost one year. Mary Jane Huffman and Dick also have been on the move. He accepted a position with First Union National Bank in Charlotte and, after a period of training, now works in the bank at Fayetteville. Walker Glenn Weigel's husband, John, has been on a carrier in the Pacific in conjunction with the Apollo shots. She is still programming for North American Rockwell in Long Beach, Cal. They will move to San Diego when he gets shore duty, and plan to settle in North Carolina when he gets out of the service. Zanne Borum Baker 's husband will finish at UV A this year and then they plan to settle for good. Zanne has been teaching the sixth grade in Charlottesville. Judy Barnhart Parr is back in Covington, Va . in a new home while Jerry is on his second tour in Vietnam . She wrote of seeing Helen Flynn Walton at Kathy White Bredbenner's wedding. Helen is now a methods specialist with Western Electric . Judy also saw Hecky Henderson White and Mary Alice Margulies at the wedding. Jane Norton Medlin and Stuart are living in Urbanna, Va., where Stuart is working for Jane's father and Jane is teaching eleventh grade English Lit at Christ Church, a private boys school. Carolina Hudnall Manning and Robert moved to Davidson, N. C. after they were married and he received his PhD in Physics last August. Bob is teaching physics at Davidson College, and Carolina is director of inservice education at Huntersville Hospital. Marv Louise Mo schler was married to Mark Anthony Forte on Dec . 21 in Richmond. Juanita Philips Reynolds was an attendant. Mark is a research chemist with DuPont in Richmond . Also on December 21, Frances Mitchell was married to Larry Thomas Brooks in Lynchburg. Julia Whitlock Sheranek and John have bought a home in the west end of Richmond. Also, Nancy Blake Svendsen and husband , Don, have bought a townhouse in Springfield, Va. Don is at the Pentagon since returning from duty in Vietnam . Betsy Uhl writes that she is trying desperately to learn how to be a scientific research librarian at the lab where she works in the countryside near Perkasie, Pa. She is setting up the library and writes, "I'm up to my eyeballs in chemical journals." Pat Ryan is finishing off her third year of grad school at Wayne State U . in Detroit with the Hilb ~rry Classic Theatre. She has almost finished her PhD and has accepted an Assistant Professorship in Theatre at Denison University in Ohio for
next year. In April she performed with the Wayne troope in Washington , D. C. for the Nation al Collegiate Drama Fe stival. She wrot e that she is still single and having a marvelous time , including a trip to Europe last summer. Frances Mayer reports she is going to UV A this summer to work on her Masters in Education. Beth Askew is now working in the research library at the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond and really enjoying it. Ann Hardwick is working on her Masters in Education at GWU and plans to teach French in the fall . Sally Abel has found a job and an apartment in Columbus, Georgia . She visits often with Bucky Hanbury Daniel s whose husband is stationed at Ft. Benning . Among the babies reported is Mary Gillette Ranson (Molly ) born to Jane Bibb and Bill Ranson on Nov. 8. They also have a son, Billy. Jean Garrison Knill, in addition to her twins, has a baby, David, and they all live in Omaha , Nebraska. Connie Nunn Lee, born December 1. Connie Zeno Rigel Crowder and Billy had a baby girl, Kipley Lee, born December I . Connie Zeno Rigel and Reuben had a boy, Mark Jos eph , born January 14. Caperton Beirne McCarthy has "retired temporarily " from her teaching position at University College becau se of her baby girl, Paige, born last fall. Glen Chastain Post's baby was born Aug . 3, and is named Evan Andrew. They now live in Hy attsville , Md . Brenda Wade Gordon and Pete have a son, Daniel Scott , born March 3. And now I must hurry and finish this , as Charles William , born January 4 to John and myself, is calling me for his dinner , and his big sister , Tammy, 3, is tugging my arm to hurry . Hope to see you all in Ma y!
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Mrs. C. R. Burrell (Jacqueline Harper) 4430 Bridle Path, Rt. 2 Winston-Salem, N. C. 27103
Harriet Clay Naismith wrote that she was thoroughly enjoying retirement from programming. She and her husband have bought a house and share it with their little dachshund puppy. One of her interests is that of being a volunteer in a District of Columbia inner city elementary school, helping with Sullivan 's reading pro gram. This fall she had as weekend guests Susie Greenwood Crute , Janet Wooden Murlle ss, and their respective hu sband s. Another weekend Wren Dawson and her then fiance visited . Susie Greenwood Crute wrote that she and Jimmy have a baby boy , James Andrew, born No vember 13, 1968. Susie has not taught since last June , and she has enjoyed being a housewife and taking care of their son . Jim will finish Medical School at MCV, in June, and they will move to San Antonio, Tex as, where he will intern at Lackland Air Force Base. She said they were looking forward to moving and to travelin g. On March 15, 1969, Wanda Fearnow married James Dougla s Birch and they will be living in Hampton . Barbara Vaughan was a bride smaid and Bettie Lee Ga skins was organist. Margaret Brittle Brown and Bill have a son , William Milton Brown Ill, born January 24, 1969. Wren Dawson was married to Thomas J. Olivier in November , 1968, and they live in Durham, North Carnlina, where he is in Duke Graduate School , workin g on his Ph.D in physic al anthropology . Wren received her Masters in Social Work in
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June. She is working in the Child Welfare Department at Durham. This summer they are going to Africa, for six or eight months, while Tom does research for his dissertation. Wren says that she is just tagging along. Jerry and Carolyn Jackson Mears now have a son, Stephen Wayne, born in October. Carolyn writes that Jer ,ry has completed his work for his Masters of Education, which he will receive in June, from the University of Virginia. Steve is so fat that Carolyn says that she has a time giving him a bath. His feet and arms fly everywhere and so does water! To quote Carolyn, "It takes forever since I can't find his neck under all those chins." Alan and Ginny McCormick Hammock visited them in January. Carolyn had recently talked with Barbara Royster in Vermont, where there was over three feet of snow. They miss the warmth of Richmond. Our class extends sympathy to Brenda Netherwood Gibrall and Joanne Marshall Witt in the loss of their father and husband respectively. Mr. Netherwood was killed in an automobile accident. Sherrill and Joanne have been living in Washington, D. C., where Sherrill was a third year Divinity student at American University. The Sherrill Witt Memorial Fund has been established at the St. John's Methodist Church, Springfield, Va., where Sherrill was the assistant pastor. Brenda Williams wrote that Sherrill had had surgery and had died of the complications which developed. Joanne plans to continue to work in Washington. Her address is 7004 Rhoden Court, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Toby and Barbara Bryant Merchant have a son, William Fewell Merchant, Jr. They live in Manassas where Toby is part owner in a drugstore. Nancy Curtis Wood is singing in the church choir. Nancy is now Staff Associate with the C&P Telephone Co. She and Ken visited Mary Evans Layton and her husband, Dave, last summer. They now live in Belmont, N. C., where Mary teaches high school English and Dave teaches law courses in a college there. Gigi Lindon, a member of our class who transferred to UNC, was married in November. Terry and Sue Jackson Lerch have been transferred to Charlottesville, Virginia. Pat Cox Hardesty is now working at the Library of Congress, receiving and analyzing requests from Congressional offices and then assigning them to the proper divisions for research. Reggie and Ann Askew Jones are now with the Army. According to the schedule that Sue Patrick sent, they should be at Fort Lewis, Washington, now. Reggie has passed the Virginia Bar Examination and plans to practice law after the Army is through with him. Last summer they went on a six weeks' camping trip, traveling 12,000 miles in the United States. Mary Ellen Kyle is still living in Raleigh. She spent Christmas in Galax. The flu bug has bitten her twice. She has completed a history course. Tuck and Marionette Parker Jones are living in Charleston, South Carolina, where Tuck is stationed at the Na val Base there. Marionette is teaching. Sue Parrish Patrick writes that she is busy, but enjoying tutoring, keeping house, playing secretary-bookkeeper, and taking care of Susan. Jessica Vaughan Pearman wrote Sue that she has made a baby ski sweater pattern which she will give to anyone who wants a copy.
Tay Wynne Bost wrote that she and Lloyd have finally unpacked everything and the floor of the guest room can actually be seen. In the fall, they attended the N. C. State football games. They and other couples rented a chalet at Gatlinburg, Tenn., and spent a weekend skiing, skating and partying. Tay highly recommends such a weekend, even if you cannot ski. Carolyn Parks was married to Gary Koch on Feb. 15, 1969, in Michigan. Ray and I have really enjoyed our house. I finally finished making draperies for our bedroom. We have much work to do outside in the yard this spring and plan to put in a garden.
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The class of '66 news slot was omitted from the past Bulletin due to a serious case of the mumps. Michelle is fine now and I have many things to tell you in order to catch up. Eleven members of our class are working very hard to pull our class to the top of the Alumnae Fund drive. No contribution is too small and "any" contribution is big enough to help put our class into the 100% participation category. Congratulations to our many new parents: Joanne Hauft Clark and Tom have a daughter, Amie Darlene, born November 6, 1968. Ginger Blanton Bailey writes that Joanne and Tom are still at Ft. Oak, California, and will be leaving there the first part of this new year. Tom has been accepted to flight school so they plan on being with Uncle Sam for three more years. Toni Minge Warren and Bill now have a baby boy, Christopher Andrew. Toni writes that she is in her last year of law school at George Washington University and Bill is finishing up graduate work in physics at Johns Hopkins. Their address is: 240 9th Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. Julia and Chuck Elliott are also the proud parents of a baby boy, Brian Randolph. Julia has resigned from her job as a social worker and is keeping busy in her roles as homemaker and mother. Chuck is now in his third year at MCV Medical School and during the spring is working in connection with a hospital on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Many of us hope to have some new birth announcements in the next Bulletin. Sara Gilliam Hopkins writes that she and John are in Chicago now. She is doing graduate work in Art History at the University of Chicago while John covers the City Hall beat for the evening paper in Hammond, Indiana. Sara's new address is: 2516 E. 76th St., Chicago, lllinois 60649. Ellen Sanderson's home address is Birdsnest, Virginia 23307 and Lois Helmbold's address is 303 Prescott House, East Quad, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Helena Rodriquez has been living and ,tudying dance in Boston, Massachusetts and this past September started work for her Masters at UCLA. Mary Dutrow and Frank Emerson heard wedding bells this past August. Frank is finishing a degree in Indian History at University of Virginia and Mary is working there in the math department. Present at the wedding were Luckie Lee, Kedron Davis, Judy Mitchell and Susan DeAlba. Kay Ramsey Parrish and Vince were also there "beaming". Vince has just finished
his tour of duty for Uncle Sam. Kedron Davis is still enjoying her library job in Norfolk, while Mary Catherine Ware is still working at her job with the healtheducation division of N.E.A. in Washington. Mary Catherine has written several articles in trade journals during the last year and stays very busy traveling to conventions and other speaking engagements. Pat Schultz writes that she and Terry H. Hoy became Mr. and Mrs. on August 31st and are now living in Richmond. Pat is teaching at Manchester High School in the Spanish department. After our graduation Pat did graduate work at Rollins College in Madrid, Spain and Jived with a nonEnglish speaking family while she was abroad. Pat and Terry's address is: 906 Legion Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23225. Ginger Blanton Bailey writes to say that she is working as a social worker for the Nottoway County Department of Public Welfare. Ginger's husband, Bill, is currently serving for Uncle Sam in Viet Nam and is due to arrive home around the first part of May. Ginger says that Joan Ensor is working in a "long -titled" job with H.E.W. in Washington and seems to be enjoying her work. Martha Butterworth Minton's husband, Mark, is out of law school, having passed his bar exams. He is also serving Uncle Sam in the Army. Martha plans to remain in Richmond until Marc gets settled somewhere. Betty Smithson Carpenter and Steve left Ft. Hood, Texas, in December and headed for Virginia. Steve left for Viet Nam in January. Smithson will probably be Jiving with Steve's parents and her address will be 5109 Manning Place, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016. Does anybody remember Betty Crawley from our freshman year? Well, Ginger says she graduated from the University of Virginia with a B. S. in Nursing in 1966. "Crawley" now lives at Route 5, Garth Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 with her husband, John Stokes and their son, Greg. Harriet Mann Tomlinson writes that she spent Christmas in Reno, Nevada with the family and that she and Ed have just returned from a weekend in San Francisco . Ed became chief forecaster and S.A.C. weather officer March first, putting him on a regular five day week. Their little one, Susan, is a year old now and is walking everywhere. I received a short note from Betsy Spencer Townsend. She and Don are still in Richmond and they Jive at: 4104 Forest Circle, Richmond, Virginia 23225. Brenda Bishop Wilkerson has also returned to Richmond. Jack has finished his service duty in the army and is now working for DuPont. Their new address is 9100 Gayton Road, Richmond, Virginia 23229. Jane Nofsinger is Manager of the West over Hills Movie Theatre in South Richmond and Jane Norman is still working for I.B.M. Carolyn Poore Fleet and Bobby are living in the country now. Bobby has gone back to finish school and get his degree at University of Richmond. Beth Booker Wilson and Dave are still teaching school. Dave is also a coach. Judy Eastman Britton and Rex are very involved with the Richmond Symphony. Both play for the symphony, Judy is also doing some teaching at VCU in the music department. Judy and I are co-chairmen for the annual Richmond Club Alumnae Spring luncheon. We are both working hard to make this a successful event for the class of '66 and hope to see many famiiiar faces on April 19th at the campus.
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To Dolly Kirkpatrick Carroll, husband, Jack, and son, Johnny, we extend a warm welcome back to Richmond after a stay in Hackensack, New Jersey and other locations. Jack has accepted a po-sition with Wheat and Company, a brokerage firm. Their present address is 2904 Westgate Drive, Richmond. Bev Noble writes from Wappinger Falls, New York that she has become engaged to James Hersey Wich. They plan to be married in late June. Perhaps we can get more info about Jim at our reunion in May. Betsy Wilson Atkinson continues teaching biology in Norfolk and is working on her Master's Degree in Biology at Old Dominion College. Word comes from Terry Kincheloe that she and her fiance have bought a house and they are enjoying fixing it up and purchasing furniture. Terry plans to become Mrs. Dick Bryan in mid August. Dick is a third year Jaw student at the University of North Carolina. Another marriage upcoming-Nancy Ussery is getting married in June to Albert Joseph Karam from the University of Delaware, who is working on his PhD in Math. Nancy is currently working for DuPont. Congrats go out to Kathleen Anderson Wagner who received her Master of Science Degree from Columbia in October. After working five months as the assistant librarian at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she is now working in the Technical Processing Department at the Forsythe County Public Library. Western Electric sent husband, Nick, to school in New York City for six weeks during November and December. Kathleen flew up to spend an enjoyable Thanksgiving in New York. Address for Janine Kulak Phillips-2 E. Narragansett Ave., Newport, Rhode Island, 02840. Justin is in Naval OCS. Janine occupies herself doing a little substitute teaching. Mary Taylor wrote that instead of spending this year in France as she had originally planned, she is now in Atlanta doing some substitute teaching while getting secretarial training. She hopes to get to France this year if the riots and disturbances which delayed her trip last year don't recur this year. Address: 2767 Grove St., Atlanta, Georgia, 30319. It seems that each Bulletin carries a new address for Jean Clodfelter Gulick. The latest I have is: Lt. and Mrs. J. S. Gulick, 05236434, 4th Ord. Co., Miesau, Germany, APO N.Y., 09050. Not sure how up to date this is, but it's the last I have. Betsy Dillard is engaged to a graduate student at Florida State. They plan an August wedding. Need more info on this fellow, Betsy. Let us hear from you. At long last we have word of Lois Helmbold. It seems that she is a student and Resident Fellow at the Residential College in Ann Arbor. Address-303 Prescott House, East Quad, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. December 21, 1968 was the wedding date for Nola Rice and Randall Powell. They are now making their home at 4910 Warwick Road in Richmond. Pat Shands Neidhardt was here from Auburn, Alabama for the wedding. Ginny Southworth Yohn wrote that she and husband, Ed, are now living at 308 B.
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Ten months beyond graduation the members of the greatly dispersed class of '68 are actively engaged in a variety of undertakings . The following are now among the fortyodd percent of the class who are the 'I do ' declarers. Judy Blassingh am , as the new Mrs . Walter Jon Wilkens , lives in Williamsburg where Jon attends Marshall-Wythe School of Law . Judy teaches Spanish at Yorktown High School and reports she often sees Georgia Clark ('67) and Jane Hoge ('67) who also teach there. Jurgen Beck married (M ac) Mary Schaefer and is living in Rochester, New York.
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Sue Chapman is now married to Bob Frick (RC '67). Jane Chewning is m arried to Merrill (Butch) F . Prugh . They are living in Richmond while Butch completes his studies at V.C.U. Jane is working as the secretary to a public relations director at the J .C . Wheat Investment Firm . Mrs . Robert E . Waring-that 's Byrd moved to Dunn sville, Virginia Knete-has where she teaches at Rappahannock Elementary School. Pat Forbes has married Barry Dean Taylor (RC '67). Beth Turner is married to Thomas W. Lukens (RC '67) and is working for the Aetna Life Insurance Company in Richmond . Current tidbits on the 'Old Married Folks: Bev Cook Boyer has returned to Richmond to work for A.M . Pullen and Company while Bill serves in Viet Nam . a matter of Bonnie Bowman Nelson-in graduated from cheerleader to months-has faculty wife! Bob is teaching English and taking graduate courses at the U. of R . Bonnie is involved in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at V .C.U. Lynn Werth Montgomery writes that she and Bob adore California. Lynn is enjoying her work as a mathematician for Aerospace Corporation . Their address is 12042 Lamanda Street, Los Angeles, California 90066.
Carolyn Tucker McCormick has moved to Arlington, Virginia to live while Dan completes service overseas. Jane Harris Hall is enjoying life in New Orleans where her husband attends the dental school at Tulane. She bumped into there at Mardi Gras. Edie Freudendorf (Edie 's parents have recently moved to New Orleans.) Jay Hart Carter writes that she is enjoying teaching third grade at a Goochland County school. Sharon Staggs McKinley and husband, Drew, have completed Peace Corp training in the Virgin Islands and now they are loving it! They 'll living in Liberia-and school serve two years as elementary teachers. Pam Rahn Singhass is employed as a research assistant in a Springfield , Maryland mental hospital. She is working on a drug study on depressed patients. Her husband, Darstan, is a claim adjuster for State Farm Insurance Company. Among those still slaving over the books in grad school are: Robbie Ann Shreve and Diane Behrens who attend U. VA. aand share an apartRobbie Ann is ment in Charlottesville. working on a Masters in English and Diane seeks a Masters degree in French. Martha Ruebush is now doing graduate work at V.C .U. Jenny Compton serves as a House Fellow in a Radford College freshman dorm while doing graduate studies in psychology . Lynn Hoffman is working away in Pittsburgh at Carnegie-Mellon University. Claudia Bell has joined the 68ers at the University of Virginia for work on a Ma ster s degree in history . And the nine-to-fivers still come and go . ... . . . Susan Shackelford is employed by the Educational Therapy Center in Richmond . She reports that Phyllis Bullard H arper also works there . Judy Woodall is involved in market research for a mortgage concern in Virginia Beach. Her roommate , Lynn Martin, is employed as a social worker for the city of Norfolk . Debbie Dixon is teaching fourth grade at Maude Trevett Elementary School in Henrico County. Pat Temple is writing and acting in commercials for Tim Finnegan Advertising Agency in Richmond. Colleen McGarry is in Richmond working for Che sapeake and Ohio Railroad Company . Ellen Shuler is busy in the promotion department writing commercial s for WWBT TV , Channel 12 in Richmond. Pat Smith coaches hockey and basketball teams as well as teaches tenth grade physical education at John Marshall High School in Richmond. Sarah Jean Hudson is living in Frederick sburg and serves as the librarian at Moncure Elementary School in Stafford County. Joanne Gill is employed by the city of Richmond as an Arts and Crafts Specialist of Recreation and for the Department Parks. Kathy Elliot works in D.C . as a history teacher at Roper Junior High School. Pam Foan has a state job in Richmond involving statistics on business conditions. Roommate Paula Smith works at the State of Vocational Rehabilitation Department as a disability determiner. Sue Deaver is in Minneapolis working for Johnson Wax as an Order Editor and Data Input Operator.
Carol Henry is teaching at Tuckahoe Junior High School in Richmond. She shares an apartment with Dixie Bailey. Linda Powers has been given her own project at the Na val Ship Research and Development Center-working on a submarine model under hydrostatic pressure! Janet DuVal has an apprenticeship in costume design under Andre Ward at the Virginia Museum. Ann Heflin is employed by the welfare department in Norfolk as a social worker. Susan Lee is living in Greenbelt, Maryland where she is enjoying her new job with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. And I am now in Atlantic City, New Jersey, working for IBM on a government project for the Federal Aviation Agency. We're trying to solve some of the problems of air traffic control.
What's It All About? Continued from page 5 I people, but of a sizable number of our population," asserted Dean Muse. We should not expect the police, he said, to have the sole responsibility for creating a peaceful environment. The schools, churches, families, and private citizens are other agencies which influence individuals to refrain from disrupting the lives of others. The "most productive" means of reducing crime, he continued, are "improving methods of detection and apprehension of criminals . . . reducing opportunity to commit crime . . . and improving research into the causes and cures of crime." "I disagree with almost everything that Dean Muse has said," began Mr. Marsh. He continued by saying that he did not believe the answer to the crime problem lay in stronger law enforcement, but rather in the elimination of poverty and frustration of the people . "The law is maintaining the position of the wealthy and the powerful," he asserted, adding that the position of the Negro in our society is declining rather than improving, especially in the areas of income and housing. He suggested that a more ,enlightened citizenry is essential to solving many of our current problems. In touching upon the student unrest today, he said the situation in Vietnam is chiefly responsible because "it represents the hypocrisy of the American government." Dr. Sartain posed the following question: "Is there both good and bad disorder?" Citing such examples as the American Revolution and the Civil War, he noted that disorder must be viewed from the standpoints of personal perspective and the consequences of the disorder, From an historical viewpoint, he explained, many actions that were considered "disorder" at the time have been ultimately considered good. Often, however, Dr. Sartain said, disruptions that originate as protests over specific injustices may eventually result in "violence as an end in itself ." He suggested that some of the current student demonstrations may be the fault of college professors. "We encouraged them to think for themselves, to search for truth, and to question everything. We didn't expect them to take us seriously and to apply it outside of the classroom and we certainly didn't intend for them to apply this to the university itself."
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1907 A. Thornton Jones of Mayer, Arizona, died on January 20. He was 85. Mr. Jones was water commissioner in administration of Kent Decree, Arizona, for the past 20 years. He was a member of the varsity football team at Richmond College in 1907, and remained an enthusiastic supporter of Spider athletics. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity. He was foreman of a cattle ranch and had a small ranch of his own before op.ening an office as a public accountant. In 1935 he was made secretary-treasurer of the Buckeye Irrigation Company and became manager of the firm . He served in the Arizona State Legislature and was appointed water commissioner of Maricopa County in 1949. 1916 Louis C. Yancey of Big Stone Gap, Va., died Nov. 25. Mr. Yancy was a retired employee of Westmoreland Coal Company and had been a resident of Big Stone Gap since 1932. He was a member of the Board of Deacons of First Baptist Church and taught Sunday School there. He served overseas during World War I. He is survived by his wife, two brothers and a sister. 1918 The Reverend Jean Vache, Sr., of Richmond, and former rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Farmville, died February 17 in Richmond. Mr. Vache had been rector at the Farmville church from 1949 to 1961. He also served as chaplain for Episcopal students at Longwood and Hampden-Sydney colleges. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1918 and was ordained in 1928. From 1928 to 1932 he was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Beaufort, N. C. He also served churches in Greensboro, N. C., and Pittsburgh. Among the survivors are his wife, a daughter and two sons.
"THE STATE AND NATION CAN MAKE NO GREATER CONTRIBUTION than to provide education to the full capacity of the individual," General Dwight David Eisenhower said in accepting the LLD. degree from the University of Richmond. Seated behind him are Dr. Douglas S. Freeman and Colgate W. Darden, former Governor of Virginia.
The first man aboard the "I like Ike" bandwagon was the late great Douglas Southall Freeman , '04, editor of the Richmond N ews Leader, rector of the University of Richmond and as a profound student of the Civil War a lecturer at the War College in Washington. When President Dwight David Eisenhower died on March 29, the close friendship between the two men was recalled. Political writers remembered than on a visit to Richmond in 1952, Eisenhower, then campaigning for the presidency, said: "The first man in the United States who ever got me to think seriously about a possible political career was in 1947 when Dr. Douglas Freeman came to my office and earnestly urged that I go into politics." The world mourned the death on March 29 of former President Dwight David Eisenhower , for millions knew him as a great military leader and statesman. But few knew that Eisenhower credited the late Douglas Southall Freeman, '04, with influencing his entry into politics. On a visit to Richmond in 1952 as a presidential candidate, Eisenhower said, "the first man in the United States who ever got me to think seriously about a possible political career was in 1947 when Dr. Douglas Freeman came to my office and earnestly urged that I go into politics." Dr. Fr.eeman was editor of the Richmond New Leader and rector of the University 40
of Richmond Board of Trustees as well as a famous journalist and historian. It was in his role as rector of the University 's board that Dr. Freeman was in Cannon Memorial Chapel on March 28, 1946, and delivered the address at a convocation at which General Eisenhower and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees. Dr. Freeman described Gen. Eisenhower's military career, particularly the then recent victory in Europe. In his discussion of the tactics, strategy, and other mechanics of war, Dr. Fr.eeman gave the credit for the victory to Eisenhower the man. "What may escape the historian is the spiritual discipline of the man, his steady and inflexible mastery of himself before he undertook to master either his own troops or the enemy." Although this "aside" will not be found in the text of Dr. Freeman's remarks, hundreds who were present on that day will recall that he said "the University could not have selected two more handsome men. General Eisenhower blushed, a sunset red that spread from his neck to his balding head. The audience roared and then broke into prolonged applause. Dr. Freeman liv.ed to see the Eisenhower bandwagon cross the finish line a winner. He died just four months after Ike's inauguration as the 34th president of the United States.
1919 The Reverend H. Pierce Simpson of Carmel, N. Y., died December 8 at Castle Point (N. Y.) Veterans Hospital. He was 73. Mr. Simpson was graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and was pastor of the Baptist church in Townsend, Vt., for two years and pastor of the New Monmouth Baptist Church at Monmouth, N. J. before being appointed pastor of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Carmel, N. Y., in 1930. He served the Carmel church until 1959, when he became pastor of Croton Falls Baptist Church. He was chairman of the advisory board of the Putnam County (N. Y.) Selective Service Board for 23 years and had been appointed last year as director of the Putnam Offic.e of the Aging. Survivors include his wife, two sons nd a daughter. Harris B. Winfrey, a retired school teacher and principal, died January 21 at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. He was 71. Mr. Winfrey taught two years in Culpeper County schools, taught and served as high school principal of Rappahannock County High School for 45 years until his retirement in 1966. He was a member of Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church, Sperryville, and Fairfax Masonic Lodge in Culpeper. Survivors include his wife and three brothers.
1922 Dr. Edward W. Gray, a retired physician of Front Royal, died January 16 in Winchester, Va. Dr. Gray, 70, was a pathologist at Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood, N. Y., before his retir.ement in 1961. He was a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia. Survivors include his wife, a sister and a brother.
1923 S. Henry Bennett of Atlanta, Ga., a retired Red Cross official, died December 1. Mr. Bennett taught English in the E. C. Glass High School in Lynchburg from 1928 until 1943. He had served the American Red Cross for 25 years at the time of his retirement in February, 1968. 1924 John R. Chappell, Jr., a former president of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Agents and the owner of an insurance agency in Richmond, died December 27. He was 70. Chappell, a pione.er in the insurance industry , also was the first president of the Mutual Insurance Agents Association of Virginia and the District of Columbia. He organized his own agency in 1925. He served as a director of Southern Bank and Trust Company and Peoples Finance Corporation. He was a member of Concord Methodist Church and was active in civic organizations. Survivors include his wife and a son. 1928 Paul G. Rouse, a retired attorney of Bristol, Va., died December 31. He was 65. Mr. Rouse had practiced law in Bristol for 30 years prior to his retirement in 1959. He was a native of Smyth County, a member of the First Baptist Church and a past member of the Lions, Moose and Elks Lodge in Bristol. Survivors include his wife, two daughters and two brothers. The Reverend Herbert 0. Mayhew of Oneco, Fla., died February 23. He was 68. Mr. Mayhew was a native of Phoebus, Va ., and served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Easton, Md., Loch Haven Blvd. Baptist Church in Baltimore, and Fisherville (Ca.) Bautist Church. He retired from his pastoratein Fisherville in 1966. 1929 Ernest W. Williams, a Richmond attorney, died in December. He was 70. Mr. Williams was a mechanical engineer after graduation from the T. C. Williams School of Law until 1944 when he began the practice of law with a Richmond firm. He was a member of a number of professional organizations, and at the time of his death, was located in Ocala, Fla. 1931 Bishop A. Cochran of Richmond, a retired employee of theChesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, died February 20. 1946 Julius E. West, an attorney in Spring field, Va., died February 11. 1962 Captain Blanton S. Barnett III of the U. S. Marine Corps died of pneumonia at the U. S. Naval Hospital, P.ensacola, Fla. in February. Capt. Barnett was a graduate of Manchester High School in Richmond and took his B.S. degree in marketing at the School of Business Administration. He entered the Marine Corps as a Second Lieutentnt and was assigned to the flight training program at Pensacola where he became a pilot. He served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967 as a helicopter pilot and returned to Pensacola as an instructor. In September of 1967, he was cited for his record of more than 1,000 accident-free hours of flight training. 1970 Bruce W. Graham, a sophomore at University College, died Jan. 5 as the result of head injuries suffered while skating on the university lake. Bruce 21, was the son
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1967 First Lt. Donald R. Alley of the U. S. Army died December 13 in Vietnam. Lt. Alley was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and a member of Scabbard and Blade military honor society. Survivors include his wife and parents.
Trimmer, '48; Kelley, '54 Lost in Missing Aircraft Two alumni, Dr. Phil E. Trimmer, '48, and R. Beverly Kelley, '54 are presumed dead after their aircraft was reported missing since March 2 along the east coast of Florida. Dr. Trimmer, Jr., 43, was a Chesterfield County physician, and Kelley, 39, was an assistant commonwealth's attorney for Richmond . The two apparently were returning to Richmond from a five-day holiday at Pompano Beach , Fla. Last word from the aircraft came Sunday afternoon when the pilot, Dr. Trimmer, reported the plane's position at about 10 miles southeast of Vero Beach, Fla.
Westhampton Necrology RFI-WCR Miss Tod Motley, of Lottsburg, Virginia, died February 13, 1969. R.C.-COED Rachel Lovenstein Karp (Mrs. Lazarus Karp) of Richmond Virginia, died March 11, 1969. ' 1934 Cornelia Gould Scott (Mrs. George V. Scott) of Richmond, Virginia, died January 20, 1969.
YOUR CLASS,PLEASE For purposes of reunions, an alumnus often prefers to be considered a member of a class other than the one with which he was graduated. This is particularly true of alumni whose education at the University of Richmond was interrupted by war. Take for instance, alumni who entered Richmond College in 1938. Some received their degrees in 1942-par for the course. Some were in a hurry and birdied the academic course, finishing in 1941. Others went one over par and finished in 1943. Still others-and there were many in this category-went off to war, and their graduation was postponed by a number of years. Alumni who received degrees are considered members of the class with which they were graduated. Those who prefer to be counted as members of some other class, usually the class with which they entered, should notify the alumni office of their preference. For class reunions, Alumni Fund solicitations and other occasions when the alumni roll is called by classes, these alumni will be considered members of the class of their preference. Alumni who did not receive degrees will be considered members of the class with which they entered as freshmen.
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Estimated Annual Variations in Gross National Product , 1789-1909 , by Thomas Senior Berry, Ph .D., The Bostick Press , University of Richmond , 1968. 47 pp. Once in awhile a person becomes involved in some project clearly beyond his remotest expectations. This penetrating analysis of the gross national product pattern from 1789 to 1909 is a case in point. The writer of this monograph, who is well-known to many of our alumni as a distinguished member of our Business School faculty, confesses that until a short while ago he "never expected to become involved in making estimates running into billions of dollars , and held all such estimators in considerable awe." But he was intrigued by the idea that the figures showing a national economic pattern between 1784 and 1861 might indicate a "defin ite sequence of intermediate cycles and economic tides." He uses the gross national product-the nation's total production of goods and services valued in terms of the market prices of the goods and services produced-as the criterion for his investigation. He writes "The derivation of approximate annual gross national production ... from a consensus pattern of American time series . . . is the chief objective of this analysis." Since 1909 much research has been done in this field and an increasing amount of statis tical data is available, but those for the annual output of goods and services in the country prior to 1909 are very sparse because figures on many industries were not kept. So the behavior and magnitude of GNP during the first century and a quarter is one of the "empty boxes" this author sets out to fill at least partially, and since there are pretty good statistics available following 1968, his problem was to find and analyze data prior to that date. His method was to examine the data since 1909 and obtain a consensus pattern and to project this over the prior period to obtain a cons.ensus pattern for that period, and thereby measure as accurately as possible the percentage change in the general activity of the economy from one year to the next. There seems to be a correlation close enough to challenge further research into the period. He concludes that the historical behavior of GNP in that period appears to follow the same general course as the consensus patterns upon which the estimates are largely based. To the economist his goal and "pos tulates" are pretty clear but it is his methodology and statistical appendix which causes one to "jump the track. " While this writing can be fully understood only by those "scholars in the know," further data must be presented for those "neop hytes" not versed in the mysteries of advanced mathematics. Second , it throws some light for the average student of economic history upon a period almost heretofore completely dark. Third, it reflects the many long hours of tedious research and writing to which scholars burning with a desire to make a contribution must sub ject themselves. And fourth, it publicizes The Bostwick Press, an independent organization which , the author hopes , may publish in the future other pieces of research by faculty members.
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IN LOCO AVUNCULI Continued from page 4 I you that I am studying at Oxford with the greatest diligence, but the matter of money stands greatly in the way of my promotion, as it is now two months since I spent the last of what you sent me. The city is expensive (remember this is Oxford, not Richmond) and makes many demands; I hav.e to rent lodgings, buy necessaries, and provide for many other things which I cannot now specify. Wherefore I respectfully beg your paternity that by the promptings of divine pity you may assist me that I may be able to complete what I have well begun. For you must know that without Ceres and Bacchus Appolo grows cold." The medieval fathers, like some parents today, occasionally did a bit of investigating and decided to send advice and complaints instead of cash. One reproved his son who was "preferring license to restraint and play to work and strumming a guitar while the others are at their studies." These students had a special status in society. They claimed a certain immunity and protection. Of course they asked for and received the benefit of clergy to avoid the heaviest legal penalties. In time the wearing of academic regalia testified their station. It was not uncommon for a student to flee to his university for sanctuary. This cannot be occasion for even the briefest sketch of the early colleges and universities on this continent, of their trials
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and of their diversity, but I can assure you that you have a goodly heritage. At this moment I want to try to describe for you something that is nev,er written down. At least I hav,e never seen it written down. And with all the resources of the dictionary I know that I shall fail to do this particular theme justice. But I must make the attempt. And my task will be just a bit easier, for each of you has, at times if not characteristically, caught a glimpse of the thing, or ,experienced the mood, which I am attempting to summarize. There is a certain joy, a peculiar satisfaction in being set apart as a student, not yet charged with the full economic and legal responsibilities of this world, and an elevation in seeking and in finding the companionship of cheerful fellows in a similar spring-time of life. The world, for a season at least, wears a glory. Muscles are flexed and minds expanded as the young man rejoices as though to run a race. There is a mountainous mood in this good company, which even the dean and the prof (both four-letter words you know) can't qui~e beat down even if they wanted to, which of course they don't. There is a charm to this anteroom of adulthood sometimes seen more clearly in retrospect than at the moment. Surely you must participate in the world around you. You must become involv,ed in the right way. But do not surrender too soon some of the advantages earned for you over the past several centuries by your academic ancestors. If for no other reason than enlightened self-interest you should try to preserve for yourself a special position and tolerance which society has granted to its students with their sophomoric foibles. Now everybody knows that the concept of in loco parentis pretty well disapp ,eared from the typical college campus with the coming of the internal combustion engine. (Parenthetically I might observe that in a for the literal sense in loco parentis-acting mean little anyway, if parparents-would ents are as permissive as popular belief has here I return to it.) May I suggest-and there might be a place for my title-that a substitute phrase in the American colleges today. Remember that in some primitive societies the uncle was given a distinctive role in supervising the movement from childhood, through adolescence, and into manhood. Presumably he was more relaxed than the father, could be more good humored, and the boy accepted advice from him better than from his parents. Thus, as a trial idea, I say that if the flag of in loco parentis has been hauled down maybe a banner flying the words in loco avunculi might be raised to the advantage of all parties. Perhaps an uncle can do what a father can't nowadays. I said that I would offer a few words of congratulations, and I do. Now time and circumstances do not admit of particular words and descriptions on my part, but I want to tell you that both you and I are fortunate to be involved in a special category of educational institutions, and there are still several over the land: I mean the small university, with a liberal arts core based on the teaching concept, privately supported, and unashamedly acknowledging that there is a human spirit which needs nurture. Frankly I like the classes of such a size that a student isn't simply a fuzzy face on the 28th row. Please do not take my ideas out of context. We simply couldn't exist as a nation without those great state institutions, but a dual pattern-private
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IN LOCO AVUNCULI Continued from page 4 I you that I am studying at Oxford with the greatest diligence, but the matter of money stands greatly in the way of my promotion, as it is now two months since I spent the last of what you sent me. The city is expensive (remember this is Oxford, not Richmond) and makes many demands; I have to rent lodgings, buy necessaries, and provide for many other things which I cannot now specify. Wherefore I respectfully beg your paternity that by the promptings of divine pity you may assist me that I may be able to complete what I have well begun. For you must know that without Ceres and Bacchus Appolo grows cold." The medieval fathers, like some parents today, occasionally did a bit of investigating and decided to send advice and complaints instead of cash. One reproved his son who was "preferring license to restraint and play to work and strumming a guitar while the others are at their studies." These students had a special status in society. They claimed a certain immunity and protection. Of course they asked for and received the benefit of clergy to avoid the heaviest legal penalties. In time the wearing of academic regalia testified their station. It was not uncommon for a student to flee to his university for sanctuary. This cannot be occasion for even the briefest sketch of the early colleges and universities on this continent, of their trials
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and of their diversity, but I can assure you that you have a goodly heritage. At this moment I want to try to describe for you something that is nev,er written down. At least I hav,e never seen it written down. And with all the resources of the dictionary I know that I shall fail to do this particular theme justice. But I must make the attempt. And my task will be just a bit easier, for ei times if not character glimpse of the thing, , mood, which I am attem There is a certain joy faction in being set apa 1 yet charged with the legal responsibilities of elevation in seeking a companionship of chee similar spring-time of li a season at least, wear are flexed and minds young man rejoices as th There is a mountainous company, which even th< (both four-letter words quite beat down even which of course they charm to this anteroom times seen more clearly at the moment. Surely you must parti around you. You must I the right way. But do soon some of the adv, you over the past se, your academic ancestor reason than enlightene, should try to preserve fo position and tolerance granted to its students moric foibles. Now everybody know of in loco parentis pret1 from the typical collegi coming of the internal (Parenthetically I might literal sense in loco pare parents-would mean lit ents are as permissive a, it.) May I suggest-anc my title-that there mii a substitute phrase in leges today. Remember 1 tive societies the uncle tinctive role in supervi, from childhood, througl into manhood. Presumi relaxed than the fathe good humored, and the I from him better than Thus, as a trial idea, flag of in loco parentii down maybe a banner in loco avunculi might t vantage of all parties. can do what a father ca I said that I would of congratulations, and I c circumstances do not a words and descriptions want to tell you that b· fortunate to be involved gory of educational inst are still several over the small university, with , based on the teaching supported, and unasham, mo-.ua that there is a human nurture. Frankly I like the classes of such a size that a student isn't simply a fuzzy face on the 28th row. Please do not take my ideas out of context. We simply couldn't exist as a nation without those great state institutions, but a dual pattern-private
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men and women in college are basically good citizens. Some years ago there was a mine accident in Canada. There were twenty trapped miners plus a doctor who earlier had gone down into the shafts to aid an injured man . The air was thickening but the telephone was still working, and a brief conversation was permitted each man with someone waiting outside the mine. I remember the news story of the conversation the doctor had with his wife, thanking her for a happy life and giving a few instructions to his sons. His words were simple but eloquent. (I might add that the men were eventually rescued) . Without trying to seem dramatic I say this is the last time I'll ever talk to most of you. It is just possible that in more than half a century on colleges' campuses (you must remember that I was born on a college campus) I might have come across a few ideas which may be of benefit to those who are to be around here for several years longer, this not because of any triumphs but because I probably have made more mistakes than most, and learned from them . Anyway, I'll try. Of course they're rank platitudes, and are of varying certainty. ( 1) Don't let your sense of humor leave you. I report an actual happening in Ryland Hall. In trying to picture the background of the Monroe Doctrine, I underscored the rascality of Ferdinand VII of Spain. Confident that I had received the attention of the class, I asked on the next test, "Who was Ferdinand VH?" A bright sophomore wrote, "Frankly, professor, I never heard of him. But then," he added tolerantly, "let's be fair about this thing .
Maybe he never heard of me!" Surely comedy is no substitute for scholarship, and bluebooks are not joke books, but even in the heart of academe you must not take life (or yourself) too seriously. (2) Under the head of mechanics : Plan ahead. Take the long view. It is enlightened self-interest to sacrifice a bit today for the larger benefit tomorrow. Short cuts don't work very well in the academic world . Study is hard work. Despite advertisements , you can't have instant education . (3) Never succumb to the doctrine that it isn't what you know, but whom you know . I mean that this is still the land of opp_ortunity. The new technology and big busmess haven 't diminished the opportunity for decision-making jobs, but have enlarged this area. Man can break away from a restraining environment; especially is this true for those of you before me. ( 4) If by some forcing process you must assume responsibility beyond your years, seek compensation from vicarious experience. Books are there. ( 5) Older people are sometimes more timid than you ar.e about building bridges between the generations. Take a chance and make friends with older people . ( 6) When impatient with present routines within which I operate, I have discovered on reflection that there is much more leaway than appears at first glance. For example, I don't have to wait for restructuring of a curriculum to develop an interdisciplinary approach. If ther ,e is anything certain it is that the professor has flexibility in his classroom. I may b.e lazy, I may be unimaginative , but I am hardly restrained. This may be true elsewhere in the academic
community. In other words, much improvement depends neither exclusively nor even principally on institutional reform , but on the spirit of the individual. Therefore use your imagination. (7) When you go in for reform-and we needs lots of reform-start with the nearest thing at hand, yourself. Your example of justice and righteousness might do more than arguments. ( 8) There is nothing wrong with the middle way-properly interpreted . It is not very dramatic , maybe not very interesting. There is a Bible verse , Phillipians IV, 5, which might be pertinent. "Let your moderation be known to all men ." Matthew Arnold translates it "sweet reasonableness" . Reason rather than passion should guide you. (9) Institutions ar.e rather fragile things, the lengthened shadows of men . I have been amazed at the recorded instances of posterity-you and me-under consideration by the founders of our institutions. And I am grateful. In one academic generation we may by neglect or otherwise undo what twenty established . And to return to my labored Latin, today we might better understand a college campus in terms of the avuncular rather than the paternal. The doctor in the mine not only gave advice, but he gave thanks . At the proper time I must thank a lot of people, but at the moment I want to thank those of you out there who have given me a happy and a satisfying experience . There is nothing like the academic life. An ab1,tract of remarks by Dr . Robert, William Binford Vest Professor of History at a University of Richmond convocation, March 13, 1969 .
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