Class Agents for 1955 1887-1904—Alumni Office 1905 —John A. Moore, 2278 S.W. 16th Avenue, Miami 45, Florida 1906 —Frank R. Crawford, M. D., Box 208, Farmville, Vir- ginia. 1907 —C. C. Crockett, Stubbs Building, Dublin, Georgia 1908-A—Philip Page, Amherst, Virginia 1908-L—To be announced 1909-A—J. Preston Irwin, care of Arthur G. McKee & Co., 2300 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 1909-L—The Reverend R. Allen Brown, 9613 9th St., E.O.V,,. Norfolk 3, Virginia 1910-A—Elton Watkins, Failing Building, Portland, Oregon 1910-L—Hugh Hawthorne, Room 4800, Chanin Building, New York 17, New York 1911-A—Edward E. Brown, 1115 Hamilton National Bank Building, Chattanooga 2, Tennessee 1911-L—F. B. Richardson, 302 East Grace Street, Richmond 19, Virginia 1912-A—The Right Reverend Lloyd R. Craighill, St. James’ Church, Lothian, Maryland 1912-L—To be announced 1913-A—Paul D. Converse, 414 David Kinley Hall, Univer- sity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 1913-L—Judge Thomas R. Bandy, 245 Broad Street Kings- port, Tennessee 1914-A—Colonel Paul J. B. Murphy, “Kolosandra,”’ College Park, Staunton, Virginia 1914-L—James N. Daniel, P.O. Box 67, Chipley, Florida 1915-A—Evan S. McCord, Versailles, Kentucky 1915-L—W. A. Keleher, First National Bank Building, Al- buquerque, New Mexico ~1916-A—R. Preston Hawkins, Jr., M.D., Box 405, Clifton Forge, Virginia 1916-L—Lycurgus Hyre, Box 392, Buckhannon, West Vir- ginia 1917-A—Colonel Charles R. Stribling, Jr., Missouri Military Academy, Mexico, Missouri 1917-L—Herbert G. Smith, Courthouse Building, Newport News, Virginia —To be announced —Samuel A. Anderson, Jr., 1832 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 1920-A—To be announced 1920-L—Joseph M. Glickstein, P.O. Box 1086, Jacksonville 1, 1918 1919 Florida 1921-A—Frank M. Pollock, 370 Withers Building, Norfolk 10, Virginia 1°21-L—D. Boone Dawson, Box 1405, Charleston, West Vir- ginia 1922-A—Matthew C. G. Henderson, 704 Fairfax Avenue, Nor- folk, Virginia 1922-L—R. Bleakley James, 930 N. Irving Street, Arlington 1, Virginia 1923-A—A. J. Lester, Jr., 1018 Mulberry Road, Martinsville, Virginia 1923-L—John G. Ragsdale, 519 Lion Oil Building, El Dorado, Arkansas 1924-A—Barrett C. Shelton, 451 Sherman Street, Decatur, Alabama 1924-L—Ira M. Quillen, Lebanon, Virginia 1925-A—Charles S. Heilig, Box 1528, Salisbury, N. C. 1925-L—W. E. Moore, Box 566, Waynesboro, Virginia 1926-A—Emmett W. MacCorkle, Jr., 2423 East 58th Street, Los Angeles 58, California 1926-L—Judge William Hill Brown, Jr., National Bank Build- ing, Manassas, Virginia 1927-A—Luther H. Redcay, Isle of Que, Selinsgrove, Penna. 1927-L—G. Charlton Walters, 426 Langley Avenue, West Hempstead, New York 1928-A—Howard Tayloe, Tayloe Paper Co., 420 South Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee 1928-L—Bernard J. Wagner, 3334 Chase Avenue, Miami, Beach, Florida oe C. Proctor, Jr., 402 West Colorado, Victoria, exas 1929-L—S. J. Thompson, Rustburg, Virginia 1930-A—V. J. Barnett, 120 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 1930-L—William W. Palmer, 307 Beal Street, San Antonio 1, Texas 1931-A—-Houston M. Minniece, care of F. W. Williams State Agency, Box 711, Meridan, Mississippi 1931-L—William Anderson Glasgow, 916 Union Trust Build- ing, Washington 5, D. C. 1932-A—Thomas W. Hancock, Morocco, Indiana 1932-L—James S. Shields, 1104 Exchange Building, Memphis, Tennessee 1933-A—Edwin W. Chittum, 51-57 Nusbaum Building, Nor- folk 10, Virginia 1933-L—James Hoge Tyler, III, 200-A Citizens Bank Build- ing, Norfolk, Virginia 1934-A—Harvey Pride, Pride Motor Co., 311 Second Avenue, Decatur, Alabama 1934-L—Sidney H. Kelsey, Citizens Bank Building, Norfolk, Virginia 1935-A—Allen Harrelson, Jr., R. D. No. 1, Middle Road, Glen- shaw, Pennsylvania 1935-L—Edwin T. Coulbourn, Drawer 627, Suffolk, Virginia 1936-A—Richard T. Scully, 101 Lafayette Street, Hartford, Connecticut 1936-L—Charles B. Cross, Jr., 711 Professional Building, Portsmouth, Virginia 1937-A—Parke Rouse, Jr., Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia 1937-L—-Edwin M. Marks, care of Goldsmith’s, Memphis, ‘Tennessee 1938-A—A. C. Broders, Jr., M.D., Scott and White Clinic, Temple, Texas 1938-L—Daniel W. Wilkinson, Jr., 915 15th Street, Newport News, Virginia 1939-A—-Thomas W. Bradley, Jr., 62 Lee Gardens, Bristol, Va. 1939-L—-Edgar L. Smith, Box 911, Lewisburg, West Virginia 1940-A—Lee M. Kenna, P. O. Box 1469, Charleston, West Virginia 1940-L—Leslie D. Price, 819 Kanawha Valley Building, South Charleston, West Virginia 1941-A—Charles H. Chapman, Jr., 718 S. Foster Street, Doth- an, Alabama 1941-L—Louie A. Paterno, 404 Security Building, Charles- ton, West Virginia 1942-A—Sidney Isenberg, M.D., 119-11th Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 1942-L—Edmund Schaefer, Krise Building, Lynchburg, Va. 1943. —Calhoun Bond, 510 Tower Building, Baltimore, Md. 1944 —George T. Wood, 1475 Wessyngton Road, N.E., At- lanta, Georgia 1945 —H. Wise Kelly, Jr., Box 446, Fairfax, Virginia 1946 —James A. Ottignon, 185 Davis Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey 1947. —William T. Romaine, 1122 Eleventh Avenue, Hunt- ington, West Virginia 1948-A—Johnson McRee, Jr., Box 229, Manassas, Virginia 1948-L—David B. Cofer, Jr., Sosolik Building, College Sta- tion, Texas 1949-A—Walter H. Williams, Jr., 22 Malvern Avenue, Rich- mond 21, Virginia 1949-L—James L. Dow, Box 128, Carlsbad, New Mexico - 1950-A—George Whitehurst, 5429 Argall Crescent, Norfolk 8, Virginia 1950-L—Philip M. Lanier, 318 East Lexington, Avenue, Dan-_ ville, Virginia | ae 1951-A—Upton Beall, 3301 Lovers Lane, Dallas, Texas 1951-L—John S. Bailey, 312 Juliana Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia | 1952-A—Howard Aston Davis, 29-C Hillside Terrace, Lex- ton, Virginia 1952-L—Barkley J. Sturgill, First National Bank Building, _ Prestonsburg, Kentucky 1953-A—William L. Osborne, 503 Jackson Avenue, Lexing- ton, Virginia 1953-L—R. M. James Ruscick, 925 Marion Place, Ridgefield, New Jersey 1954-A—Wiley R. Wright, Jr., 22-B Hillside Terrace, Lex- ington, Virginia 1954-L—Lawrence C. Musgrove, Martin & Martin, Boxley Building, Roanoke, Virginia t eo@ @ eee ® ooocee® e @oee® ® @e0e? e @oe® e eee eee ® @oo® ‘ q@@2e e e 6 Appalachian—A. G. Lively, ’12, Lebanon, Virginia - Augusta-Rockingham—Col. Paul J. B. Murphy, we "14, Staunton, Virginia = Atlanta—Rodney Cook, ’46, 40 Pryor Street, N.W. e Baltimore—C. William Pacy, ’50, 169 Stanmore Rd. : Birmingham—Jack B. Porterfield, Jr., ’49, Frank e Nelson Building e Charleston, W. Va.—W. T. Brotherton, ’47, Box = 2525 @ Chattanooga—Charles L. Claunch, ’27, 1223 Volun- e teer Building e Chicago—Charles A. Strahorn, ’25, Winnetka Trust e & Savings Bank, Winnetka, Illinois = Charlotte—Jack Crist, Jr., ’45, Box 1045 e Cincinnati—Jack L. Reiter, ’41, 1020 Union Trust . Building, Cincinnati, Ohio e Cleveland—Kenneth A. Goode, ’25, Harper Road, e R. D. No. 1, Solon, Ohio ba Danville, Virginia—R. Paul Sanford, ’21, 422 Ma- e sonic Building e Florida West Coast—W. E. Tucker, ’'48, Stovall ® Professional Building, Tampa : Gulf Stream—L. L. Copley, ’25, Security Building, e Miami, Florida e Houston—Ben Ditto, ’48, Norton-Ditto Co. e Jacksonville—David W. Foerster, '51, Atlantic Na- - tional Bank Building e Louisville—Ernest Woodward, ’°40, Kentucky e Home Life Building e Lynchburg—Elliott Schewel, ’45, 1201 Main Street . Mid-South—S. L. Kopald, ’48, The Humko Co., ® Memphis, Tennessee = New York—William M. Farrar, Jr., ’ 19, 70 Pine e Street, New York, New York e New Orleans—William B. Wisdom, ’21, American : e gS Bank Building New River and Greenbrier—Harry E. Moran, '13, Beckley, West Virginia Norfolk—Gilbert R. Swink, ’35, National Bank of Commerce Building North Texas—John M. Stemmons, ’31, 401 Repub- lic Bank Building, Dallas Northwest Louisiana—T. Haller Jackson, Jr., ’48, Commercial Building, Shreveport Peninsular—Thomas P. Duncan, ’24, 601 Riverside Drive, Warwick, Virginia Pe ee L. Leopold, ’39, 133 Pelham oa Piedmont—A. M. Pullen, ’36, 203 Southeastern Building, Greensboro, North Carolina Pittsburgh—Anthony E. D’Emilio, Jr., ’41, 401 Plaza Building Richmond—Paul M. Shuford, ’48, Suite 501-2 Mu- tual Building Roanoke—J. D. Hobbie, III, ’37, 9 West Church Avenue W. Goode, Jr., ’48, 407-09 San Antonio—John South Texas Building "21, 4144 Lindell St. Louis—John L. Patterson, Boulevard Tri-State—H. Preston Henshaw, ’39, Huntington, West Virginia Upper Potomac—William L. Wilson, Jr., ’38, 525 Cumberland Street, Cumberland, Maryland Washington, D. C.—Arthur C. Smith, Jr., ’41, 1313 You Street, North West DECEMBER, 1954 Vol. XXX Nos 1 Published quarterly by The Washington and Lee University Alumni, Incorporated Drawer 897, Lexington, Virginia Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, September 15, 1924 Printed at the Journalism Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee University Editor Harry K. (Cy) YOUNG, 1917 Class Notes Editor Mary BARCLAY THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC President WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 Vice-President JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 Secretary Harry K. (Cy) YOuNG, 1917 Treasurer H. L. SHUEY, 1924 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 Wyatt C. HEpRICK, 1910 Joun F. HENDON, 1924 H. L. SHUEY, 1924 MartTINn P. Burks, III, 1932 STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Howarp W. DosBINS, 1942 Be OG RY TD mA ce FaCu LEY MOTORISTS MAKING their way along Poplar Street in Memphis are now greeted by a fifty-five foot fres- coe which covers a prominent wall in the newly erected Poplar Street Branch of the Leader Federal Sav- ings and Loan Association. Lighted by night and visible night and day through the glass front of the build- ing, this frescoe is the largest mural ever painted by Dr. Marion Junkin, A.B. ’27, professor of art at the Uni- versity. Based on a local theme, the mural is described as depicting “The New South, with brawny muscles, strong, growing and ex- panding every day.’ It is one of a very few in the South and was plan- ned as a part of the building by the architect. Dr. Junkin completed his work in the late summer. Other of his frescoes are in the McCormick Library on the campus, the Vir- ginia State Police Headquarters, and the Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington. m@ THREE WASHINGTON AND LEE for- eign language professors, Dr. L. L. 9 ~ The Gaines Guard, precision drill team Barrett, Dr. R. ¥:; Bradley, and Dr W. W. Pusey, attended the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Mod- ern Language Association at Col- umbia, South Carolina, in Novem- ber. Dr. Pusey read a paper to the German section on the translations and criticism of William Faulkner’s works in Germany to 1940, showing that Faulkner was recognized in Germany in the late nineteen thirties with, but after, —Thomas Wolfe as the most significant con- temporary American novelist. Dr. Barrett, who served as a pub- lic affairs officer at the U.S. Em- bassy in Quito from 1951 to 1953, presented a paper before the Span- ish section on “Ecuador as Seen by a Cultural Attache.” He also was a member of a four-man panel which, at the opening general session, dis- cussed “Creative Work of Profes- sors.” Of interest, too, is the fact that Dr. Barrett recently signed a con- tract with the Macmillan Company, publishers, to translate the latest novel of the prominent Brazilian writer, Eric Verissimo. Unlike Time and the Wind, a previous histori- cal novel by Verissimo which Dr. Barrett translated and published in 1951, the new book is a psycho- logical novel of suspense. ‘The title in Portuguese means “Night,” but the title of the English translation has not yet been decided. ‘Transla- tion has been started, however, and publication is tentatively scheduled for late 1955. m ONE OF FOUR SPEAKERS who. ad- dressed the sixteenth annual meet- ing of the Guild of Scholars in New York in December was Dr. Edward D. Myers, professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee. Myers con- ducted the Guild’s fourth general session, summarizing the remarks of the three earlier speakers. ‘Those speakers, all authorities on Orien- tal religion and philosophy, were Dr. F. T. Cheng, former judge of the International Court of Justice, who spoke on Confucianism; Swami Pavitrananda, guest teacher for the Vedanta Society in New York, who dealt with Hinduism; and Dr. Ry- usaku ‘Tsunoda of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, who spoke on Buddhism. While in THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE New York, Myers also addressed faculty groups of Columbia Un1- vesity and City College of New York. THE HEAD OF THE Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation, Prot. O. W. Riegel, is included among twen- ty-eight prominent editors, educa- tors, and public opinion experts who have formed “The National Committee for an Adequate U. S. Overseas Information Program.” The Committee is headed by Ed- ward L. Bernays, New York public relations counsellor, and includes in its membership Hodding Carter, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Greenville (Mississippi) Delta Dem- ocrat-Times; Elmer Davis, famed ra- dio commentator; Robert L. John- son, president of ‘Temple Universi- ty; George Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion; and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution. According to Bernays, the pur- pose of the committee is to further in the American mind the import- ance of an extended and empha- sized U.S. Overseas Program. ‘The Committee will bring to the Ameri- can public the reasons why an in- formation program is important to international understanding of America and to counteracting Com- munist propaganda. m ONE OF THE SPEAKERS before the meeting of the Southern Economic Association held in Biloxi, Missis- sippi, in November was Dr. Jack N. Behrman, associate professor of economics and political science. Subject of his address was ‘Towards a Foreign Lending Policy in the National Interest.’’ Some of the ba- sic arguments which Behrman pre- sented were developed from written testimony on the same general sub- ject that he prepared for the Senate Banking and Currency Committee last fall. m JOHN M. (RED) SISLEY, ’39, died Oc- tober 19, 1954, in Jackson Memort- al Hospital in Lexington after an illness of several months. He was DECEMBER 1954 born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1914, graduated from high school in Toledo, Ohio, and received a physical education de- gree from the University of Illinois in 1947. Active in civic affairs in Lexington, he was assistant to the athletic director, trainer, and direc- tor of University services at Wash- ton and Lee. Joining the Army Air Force as a private in 1942, he spent three years at the Armed Forces School for Special Services at Washington and Lee, and later was chief of physical reconditioning at McGuire Hospi- tal in Richmond, Virginia, and at Walter Reed Hospital in Washing- ton, D.C. He was discharged from the Air Force in September 1946 with the rank of major. He became trainer and assistant to the athletic director at Washing- ton and Lee in September 1950, and in 1953 director of University services and manager of the Uni- versity Supply Store. He had been on medical leave of absence since June 1954. He was married in 1945 to Miss Marjorie Fitzpatrick of Route 1, Lexington, Virginia. He was active in civic affairs both in Lexington and the Kerrs Creek community, where he built a handsome home several years ago. SISLEY LAW SCHOOL m THE WASHINGTON AND LEE Law School Moot Court team, consisting of William M. Bailey of Wilming- ton, Ohio, Willard I. Walker of Free Union, Virginia, and P. James Kurapka of Baltimore, Maryland, recently won the right to represent the four-state area of North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. in national Moot Court competition to be held in New York City the early part of December. In addition, the brief submitted by the team in sup- port of its position on the hypo- thetical case being argued was se- lected unanimously as the best en- tered in the area competition. Washington and Lee’s triumph was in competition with Duke, Wake Forest, William and Mary, and the Universities of Virginia, North Car- olina, and South Carolina. All the arguments required to determine the regional winner for this year were held at Duke University in November. In the opening round of the “sudden death” tournament, Wash- ington and Lee was victorious over the representatives of Wake Forest. The team then advanced to the finals by defeating William and Mary. Until the final round, Messrs. Bailey, Walker, and Ku- rapka had argued only the Petition- er’s side of the “case” being con- tested. However, because the other finalist, the University of South Carolina, was also originally as- siened to uphold the Petitioner’s viewpoint, Washington and Lee was forced (by flip of a coin) to switch sides for the final argument. This mandatory change of position appeared momentarily to be a great handicap, but by virtue of a new ar- gument (it had not hitherto been used by any other contestant) urged upon the “Court” by Washington and Lee, the changed sides prob- ably redounded much to its ad- vantage. The National Competition is conducted each year by the Young Lawyers Committee of the Asso- ciation of the Bar of the City of 3 Before the courts of Alabaster, U.S. A., a flip of a coin brought a winning argument. Moot courters: KURAPKA, POFF, BAILEY, and WALKER New York as a means of enabling law students throughout the coun- try to match their court room and brief-writing abilities against one another. ‘This is the fifth year of the competition, which has been won previously by Georgetown Univer- sity and the University of Nebras- ka. ‘The law school of the former was the winner of the arguments for the first three years, and the latter school was the national champion for last year. Eighty-five law schools from coast to coast have entered the competition for 1955. ‘The case currently argued by the various law schools was selected by reason of the fact that recent de- cisions of the Supreme Court of the United States have focused at- tention of Labor lawyers on the right of a state court to deal with peaceful picketing. ‘The decision shed new light on the limitations imposed on a state Court’s power to enjoin labor union picketing by right of free speech and the juris- diction given to the National Labor Relations Board in the Taft-Hart- ley Act. The .current -refiusal of the NLRB to act in cases involving a small business has further comph- cated the problem. ‘The Young Lawyers Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York has posed issues based on this problem for the Fifth National Moot Court Competition. 4 The case being argued this year is entitled Local 123, International Brotherhood of Video and Audio Workers Union and George X. Rock v. Maestro Video Store, Inc. This hypothetical case involves a labor union that has been peace- fully picketing a discount television store for the purpose of persuading the employees of the store to join the union. ‘The employees have re- fused to join the labor organization, and the employer, whose business has suffered appreciably, has ob- tained an injunction against the picketing in the courts of the imag- inary state of Alabaster, United States. ‘The Appellate Court of Alabaster has upheld the injunc- tion, and the Supreme Court of the United States has for the pur- pose of competition, granted the petition of the union for a Writ of Certiorari. ‘Iwo basic issues have been posed by the “litigation”: (1) whether the state courts have juris- diction to enjoin union conduct of the type here involved; (2) whether the state courts, assuming they have The John Randolph Tuck- er Lectures will be delivered in Lee Chapel by Dean R. G. Story of the Southern Metho- dist University School of Law on April 15-16. jurisdiction over the controversy, may constitutionally enjoin the peaceful stranger picketing of a labor organization. Perhaps encouraged to some de- gree by the existence of the Na- tional Competition, the faculty of the Washington and Lee Law School has instituted a compulsory first-year course in “Briefmaking and Oral Argument.” All freshmen are thereby given an opportunity to display their courtroom apti- tudes under the simulated condi- tions of a case on appeal. This Moot Court program not only pro- vides the student with practical ex- perience, but also it tends to rouse his interest in the inter-school com- petition, for which he is eligible during his intermediate and senior years in law. school. 1£-is to be hoped that, by virtue of the reser- vior of talent provided by the Moot Court program, Washington and Lee will be able to duplicate in the future the success of its Moot Court team for this year. m TEN WASHINGTON AND LEE law stu- dents of the U. S. Army Reserve, who attended the Judge Advocate Basic Course at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, in August, have been commended by the Comman- dant of the Army Judge Advocate General’s School as a credit to the Law School and to the Lexington Judge Advocate Branch Depart- ment. Among them was end Lt. William M. Bailey of Wilmington, Ohio, a third-year law student, who took first stand in the course. In his letter to Dean Clayton E. Williams of the Law School, the Commandant further stated that “Colonel Charles P. Light, Jr., and Major Charles V. Laughlin, the of- ficers in charge of the Judge Advo- cate Branch unit in the Law School, deserve a great deal of credit for the work they have done in pro- ducing such a well-trained group of young men.” The Judge Advocate unit was es- tablished on the campus in October 1953, as a branch of the Richmond U. S. Army Reserve School. It was the first law school unit to be es- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE tablished in the United States un- der the Army Reserve School pro- gram. The unit is open to physical- ly qualified law students who hold commissions or who enlist in the Army Reserve. The program of in- struction prepares the law gradu- ate for military-legal duties dur- ing his period of active military service and enhances his chances for appointment as a Reserve Of- ficer in the Judge Advocate Gen- eral’s Corps. ‘The unit this year has twenty-five members from among all three classes in the Law School. BOOKS m A TEXTBOOK BEARING the imposing title, “Qualitative Analysis Using Semimicro Methods,’ written by Dr. E. S. Gilreath, associate protes- sor of chemistry at Washington and Lee, was published in September by the McGraw-Hill Book Com- pany. Described as “extremely teachable and well-balanced,”’’ this 288-page book covers both the theo- ry and laboratory practice of the subject. The text presents an integrated discussion of the concepts, theories, and laws relating to solutions. ‘The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between general chemistry and physical chemistry by including a number of important topics that cannot be either omitted or ade- quately covered in these two over- crowded fields. Special emphasis 1s placed upon the properties of solu- tions of electrolytes. Wherever pos- sible, there is an attempt to corre- late the theoretical discussions with the laboratory procedures of quali- tative analysis. Each chapter is fol- lowed by problems, questions, or exercises, with special emphasis up- on carefully constructed and chal- lenging problems. Many solved problems are provided. The experi- mental section offers systematic schemes of analyses for the cations and anions. m NOT ONE, BUT TWO BOOKS author- ed by Dr. Marshall Fishwick, as- sociate professor of American stud- DECEMBER 1954 ies, have been published recently. They are General Lee’s Photogra- pher: The Life and Work of Mich- ael Miley, and American Heroes: Myth and Reality. The first is concerned with a young ex-confederate soldier, Mich- ael Miley, who arrived in Lexing- ton to open a photographic studio less than a year after Gen. Robert E. Lee took up his duties as presi- dent of war-torn Washington Col- lege. His consuming ambition was to become General Lee’s photog- rapher. He not only realized that ambition, but also became one of the foremost pioneers in color pho- tography. The book is illustrated with many photographs made by Miley. Some are of Lexington per- sons; four are in color. The latter, produced by his own process, are some of the first successful color photographs in history. ‘The book was published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Vir- ginia Historical Society. The second book, American Heroes: Myth and Reality, was published by the Public Affairs Press. American heroes and the men who make and break them are dealt with in lively fashion. In a compli- mentary introduction, Carl Carmer, author and folklore lecturer, says “Mr. Fishwick is no de-bunker. He believes, however, as does every hon- est historian, that where ‘bunk’ ex- ists it should be exposed for what it is.” Local readers will be inter- ested in his chapter on Robert E. Lee, whom he describes as the hero of the Lost Cause. In addition to Lee, he evaluates the reputation of such standard heroes as John Smith, Daniel Boone, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, and Henry Ford. And in his final section he examines such American types as the self- made man, the matinee idol, and the American villain. LIBRARY m THE ENTIRE PERSONAL LIBRARY of Herbert Fitzpatrick, A.B., ’92, LL.B. 93, prominent Huntington, West Virginia, attorney and a member and former Rector of the Univer- sity Board of ‘Trustees, has been presented to Washington and Lee. Valued at $50,000 and including some 2,800 bound volumes and an undetermined number of pam- phlets, Mr. Fitzpatrick’s library was received at the McCormick Library in late August. It took a full month for librarian Henry E. Coleman to complete the task of unpacking and making preliminary classification. Still facing the Library staff is the task of cataloging the volumes and placing them in the Library’s extensive stacks. Many volumes on law and related subjects will be turned over to the Law Library. In evaluating the collection Mr. Coleman said, “It’s a gentlemen’s library, the kind that just is not ac- cumulated any longer. Persons to- day do not take the time, and, of course, many of these fine volumes are no longer available.” He noted in particular the diversity of sub- jects covered by the books. Un- usually rich in literature, history, and biography, the collection in- cludes complete sets of the stand- ard authors—Thackery, Dickens, Shakespeare, and others—and many sets of reference works, including the twelve-volume Oxford Diction- ary. “An interesting feature,’’ Cole- man continued, ‘‘is the collection of books in fine arts, dealing chiefly with the things in which Mr. Fitz- patrick was interested—old silver, antique furniture, oil paintings, etchings, oriental rugs and pottery, and prayer rugs.” Mr. Fitzpatrick has served on the University’s Board of ‘Trustees since 1931. From 1941 until 1953 he was Rector of the Board. As senior member of the Huntington law firm of Fitzpatrick, Marshall, Hud- dleston, and Bolen, he has served as chief counsel for many large cor- porations, including the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railway. SPEAKERS m VARIOUS UNIVERSITY departments and student organizations joined during the first three months of the 5 A.N.P.A.’s HANSON 1954-55 school year to bring to Washington and Lee’s campus a variety and number of outstanding speakers unequalled in recent years. ‘These lecturers and discussion lead- ers have afforded students an un- paralleled opportunity to receive at first-hand the opinions of per- sons extremely close to. world and national problems, or to meet per- sonally artists and authors current- ly active in the cultural fields. Biggest event this fall was the first “Tnternational Relations Week,” an affair that may well become an an- nual event at Washington and Lee. ‘The Department “of Political Science, under Professor R. N. Lat- ture, joined with the student Chris- tian Council and International Re- lations Club to bring three experts on foreign affairs to Lexington during the period of November 8-12. Speaking before a large audience, Dr. Charles A. Micaud, associate professor of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a native of France, reviewed his country’s recent political developments and predicted a new era of French pros- perity under the dynamic leader- ship of Premier Pierre Mendes- France. Professor Micaud, who just returned from a research project in France, discounted anti-American sentiment in France, charging it up to a “wounded self-respect” which 6 France is suffering, rather than to a deep-seated resentment toward the United States. Two nights later, Dr. Frank Price, a Rockbridge County resi- dent who spent most of his life in China as a missionary, discussed ‘The Crisis and the Outlook for China.” Dr. Price, a former advis- sor to Chiang Kai-Shek and a mem- ber of the China delegation to the United Nations organizational meeting in 1945, recommended that Red: China be admitted into the UN as soon as possible. ‘Taking the most controversial stand of all au- tumn speakers he said UN member- ship for Red China would open up India’s MEHTA an avenue of communication be- tween that country and America that could lead to a better under- standing and better relations. Dr. Price, interned in Red China for nearly three years, returned to the United States slightly over a year ago to become moderator for the General Assembly of the Pres- byterian Church. Final speaker for International Relations Week was His Excellency, Gaganvihari L. Mehta, ambassador to the United States from India. He assured Washington and Lee students and faculty members that India’s leaders have no desire to form an Asian bloc of nations with which to shift the balance of world power. But, he emphasized _ his country does desire consideration of its views when other nations begin dealing with problems vital to its future. Ambassador Mehta warmly sup- ported the United Nations as the hope of a peaceful world. And he warned that the threat of commu- nism to India lies not in its innu- merable laboring class, but in the young intellectuals whose tradi- tional frustration often provides “fruitful soil for the seeds of totali- tarian doctrines.”’ m THE LEE MEMORIAL Journalism Foundation, directed by Professor O. W. Riegel, brought to the cam- pus two experts on widely diversi- fied fields of mass communications. Assisted by the University’s Sigma Delta Chi Chapter, Riegel this year inaugurated a new “guest expert”’ type of program, in which the speaker would not only deliver a formal lecture, but also would be available for consultation with stu- dents and faculty members. Harry J. Krould, chief of the European and African Section of the Library of Congress, and first of the journalism speakers, dealt primarily with a survey of current European mass media and with the changing world situation in which American allies present a bigger Finland’s NyYKkorp THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE propaganda task than do America’s adversaries. Elisha Hanson, general counsel for the American Newspaper Pub- lishers Association, spoke several weeks later on “Canon 35—Radio, Television, and Press Coverage of the Courts.’’ An active participant in some of the quarter-century’s leading “‘free press” cases before the Supreme Court, Mr. Hanson called for a revision of the “outmoded”’ judicial canon which __ prohibits cameras and tape recorders in many of the nation’s courts. He also par- ticipated in a roundtable discus- sion with Riegel and John D. Carr, counsel for the Roanoke ‘Times- World Corporation, on recent changes in law affecting mass com- munications. m THE DEPARTMENT of English opened its eleventh seminar in Literature this fall with Evelyn Eaton, Swiss-born and British-edu- cated American author, who spoke on “Writing in the Atomic Age.” Miss Eaton is currently visiting lecturer in creative writing at Sweet Briar College. She is the author of several novels, many short stories, and several volumes of verse. December visitors to the campus included His Excellency Don Jose Maria de Areilza, newly accredited ambassador to the United States from Spain. A prominent Spanish attorney and man of letters, Senor Areilza spoke on “Foreign Rela- tions between Spain and the Amer- ican Colonies during the Revolu- tion.” Johan Albert Nykopp, minister to the United States from Finland, spoke at Washington and Lee in mid-December, under the auspices of the Department of Political Sci- ence and the International Rela- tions Club. The Fine Arts Department under Dr. Marion Junkin joined with VMI to bring Walter Lewisohn, producer of art films, to Lexington for a two-day film festival. Mr. Lewisohn’s films were well received both at Washington and _ Lee’s ‘Troubadour ‘Theater and at VMI’s new physics building. DECEMBER 1954 Prior to the November elections, John P. Ruddick, GOP candidate for Congress from Virginia’s Seventh District, spoke to political science students, and Charles W. Lewis, Jr., who ran for Virginia Senator as an independent Demo- crat, visited the campus for a short talk. Almost without exception speak- ers have been received warmly by large audiences, and the increased tempo of visits to the campus by these outstanding persons has add- ed considerably to the academic and cultural atmosphere. ROTC x HOW IS THE ROTC DOING? ‘This question is frequently addressed to your Alumni Secretary. To bring you—and himself—up to date, he recently took a comprehensive read- ing course on the subject. This 1s what he found: ... Military training (1951 version) at Washington and Lee, adminis- tered by the Department of Muili- tary Science and ‘Tactics, is a fully integrated activity in the academic sphere of the college, accepted and respected by the administration, the faculty, and the student body. ... Military Training has the high- est registration of any completely elective subject in the curriculum— nearly one-half of the total stu- dent body. ... Freshman ROTC enrollment has exceeded seventy percent of the freshman registration each year since the establishment of the unit. The military people report this to be the highest freshman enrollment percentage of any civilian college where military training is not com- pulsory. ... Freshman M'T students in June rated 1.39 in grade point ratio, against 1.02 for all freshman courses. Upper Class MT men rated 1.69, with 1.31 for all college courses. ‘The Military Science stu- dent roster carries more than its share of Dean’s List, Honor Roll, and ODK names. ...At the summer training camps (six weeks between junior and sen- ior years), which are the payoff, where students stand on their own feet in competition with cadets from all other colleges maintain- ing the same program, Washing- ton and Lee men have “led the pa- rade” year after year. In 1952 the University placed the highest pro- portion of men in the top ten- percent of a 1238-man camp, with fifty colleges participating. ‘The 1953 camp saw a University student Number One Cadet among 1600 students from sixty-nine colleges; the Number ‘Iwo Man in this ca- det’s company was also a Wash- ington and Lee student. In 1954, University men rolled up their sleeves and collected seven of the top eight ratings in a company of ninety-seven students from three colleges, placed one man (of four) on the camp commander’s cadet advisory council, won four of the thirty-six top places in camp-wide competition with thirty-seven other schools, and turned out the camp yearbook with the editorial help of a Washington and Lee journal- ism student, one of two selected cadets. (He received a commenda- tion from the camp’s public rela- tions officer.) . The department nominated two students for the Military Intelli- gence summer camp in 1954, and two others for MI-Reserve commis- sions in June 1954, all of whom were accepted and placed well in these small highly selected groups of specialists. ... [he Army staff of three officers (the detachment is currently short two commissioned instructors) and six non-commissioned officer as- sistants for administration, supply, and instruction, are fully qualified and easily hold their own in the academic and staff circles of the col- lege. ... Lhe annual formal Department of the Army inspection boards con- sistently rate the unit satisfactory, with no single unsatisfactory entry on their reports, all added remarks favorable and complimentary. ...Army technical inspections—sup- ply, ordnance, signal, etc—found all requirements fully met, with Super- ior ratings in every instance but one (an Excellent). ... The extra-curricular activities sponsored by the department are vigorous, productive, and well man- aged: the Scabbard and Blade com- pany, the Sharpshooters Rifle ‘Team and Club, the Marching Band (which forms the nucleus for the university band), and _ the Gaines Guard precision drill pla- toon, which has performed at the gubernatorial inauguration cere- monies in Richmond and recently took first place in drill team com- petition at the American Legion celebration at Harrisonburg. In all of these, the cadets exercise full managerial functions, with guid- ance from the department’s ad- V1SOrs. ...9even second lieutenants were commissioned in the United States Army Reserve in June 1953, eigh- teen more in 1954. Most of these are currently on active duty, turn- ing in the creditable performances expected of all Washington and Lee men. Close to eighty appoint- ments are expected at the 1955 commencement. ‘Three students have applied for Regular Army commissions upon graduation. ... Phe ‘Transportation Corps cur- riculum, under which the unit op- erated for the first three years, has been replaced by the General Mili- tary Science program which aims to prepare a student for any of the Army branches for which his scho- lastic training, civilian experience, and personal preference may best qualify him, and in which the Army may have appropriate vacancies. Military history, weapons and marksmanship, small unit tactics, personnel administration, and sim- ilar subjects make up the present curriculum. : ... Advanced Course student en- rollment is limited annually by a quota. To date, this has accom- modated better than half of the 0000000000 HHHHOHTHHHHHHHHHOHHHHOO8HOOHHO8HOO8HH8HO88H880898889 Standard Oil Company Gift m BY LETTER from Eugene Holman, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jer- sey, Dr. Gaines was advised in mid- December that Washington and Lee is one of 138 privately sup- ported colleges throughout the country to receive contributions from Standard Oil for undergradu- ate education. “For some time,’ Mr. Holman wrote, “Standard Oil...has given consideration to ways in which it might broaden the scope of its sup- port to higher education. ‘The Com- pany believes that as a corporate citizen it should, with all citizens, help the nation’s colleges and uni- versities to maintain and improve the high standards which will en- able them to meet the growing needs of our society. “In order to give tangible ex- pression to its conviction, Jersey 8 ; Standard is now initiating a plan under which it will offer contribu- tions to selected privately support- ed colleges and universities for purposes of undergraduate educa- tion. “It is a pleasure to advise you that Washington and Lee Univer- sity is one of the institutions select- ed and to transmit to you herewith a check in the amount of $3,500. “This gift is offered to Washing- ton and Lee University without re- strictions except that it shall go to operating funds for purposes of undergraduate education.” In a pamphlet that accompanied the letter, Standard Oil made clear its intention “to continue its ef- forts in behalf of education, modi- fying and improving its practices aS experience may indicate, but firmly convinced of the soundness and importance of the principles which are at stake.” applicants, and provided oppor- tunity for the selection of the most promising cadets for commissioned officer training. ...In summary, as usual, we can do no better than to quote Presi- dent Gaines in his latest Report to the Alumni: “The record of the University’s Department of Mili- tary Science and ‘Tactics continues to be noteworthy.” UNDERGRADUATES m A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY in a Presby- terian orphanage somewhere in Ko- rea is looking to Washington and Lee University’s Interfraternity Council as his foster parent for the year 1954-55. His name is Choi Myung Kwang. Choi’s mother died in 1948, and when the war broke out in 1950, he and his father, a Seoul baker, fled south with thou- sands of other refugees. While in flight from the invading Commu- nists, Choi’s father died in a refugee camp. Choi is the sixth war orphan to be aided by the Council. He will receive a total of $180 throughout the year from Washington and Lee students for clothes, food, medical care, and education. In addition to this group contribution, individual students will send gifts and finan- cial aid to him from time to time. These contributions to the child relief program are made through the Foster Parents Plan for War Children, Inc., in New York City. ATHLETICS HERE WAS A “NEW LOOK” about Washington and Lee Univer- sity’s fall sports this year in more ways than the obvious absence of intercollegiate varsity football. For one thing, a new emphasis on stu- dent participation in intercollegi- ate athletics resulted in large turn- outs for varsity soccer and cross country, as well as for the inter- im junior varsity football team. What’s more, for the first time in years all fall sports came up with “winning” teams. ‘The soccer eleven won five, lost THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE In a winning season... three, and tied two; cross country runners, paced by a pair of stellar freshmen, defeated seven teams, lost to five, and tied one; and the jayvee footballers, playing a very limited schedule, won twice, lost one, and tied one. Besides winning more than they lost, the Generals displayed in all sports flashes of brilliance which gave soccer Coach Charley Herbert, cross country Coach Dick Miller, and temporary football Coach Boyd Williams reason to expect better things to come. Some of the bright- est lights in each sport were fresh- men and sophomore performers who either beat out veteran upper- classmen or filled gaps which have gone unplugged since departures of outstanding Generals of yester- year. For instance, there was Herbert’s soccer squad, made up mostly of freshmen and sophomores, that in- herited the easiest record to im- prove upon. Last year’s team scored only five goals all season, and failed to win a match. In their first game this year, the 1954 booters outpoint- ed their predecessors with a 7-0 rout of Lynchburg College. And, they reached their peak in the final match of the season as they battled DECEMBER 1954 Maryland, which had already won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, to a 0-0 tie. Even two overtime periods, played in gather- ing darkness, failed to produce a score. Perhaps the highlight of the sea- son was a pair of victories over the Virginia Wahoos by impressive 3-1 and 4-1 scores. Other victories were scored against Georgetown, 5-1, and North Carolina, 4-0, while North Carolina State and Washington and Lee battled to a 2-2 standoff in rain and mud. Only Roanoke College, always a soccer stronghold, had the Generals’ number, besting them 3-2 in their first meeting and by an identical count in the second en- counter. Duke was the only other team to defeat Herbert’s charges, by a 2-0 score. An interesting sidelight: Virginia won over Roanoke, 2-0, and Duke, 4-0, before being downed by the Generals. ‘The Generals scored 29 goals against 13 for their opponents. Bill Boyle of St. George’s, Bermuda, and Belden Butterfield of Montevideo, Uruguay, led Washington and Lee scoring with ten and six goals, re- spectively. The defensive play of Captain Jim Lewis of Irvington-on- Hudson, New York, Morgan Schat- er of New Canaan, Connecticut, and goalie Bill Russell of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was outstanding all season. Coach Herbert, who handled a soccer team for the first time this year, 18 expecting a better season iN 1955. IN CROSS COUNTBY, Coach Miller’s biggest joy was a lean freshman speedster named Mike Barry of La Grange, Illinois. Barry consistent- ly covered the long and rugged Washington and Lee course in times which compared with the best the University’s recent ace, Walt Diggs, 54, had recorded in his sen- ior year. Against Roanoke Barry es- tablished a new course record for a General runner, touring the 4.25 miles in 21:02.5. He finished first in five meets and was second in the state Big Six run-off. Another freshman standout was Burke Armstrong of Rochester, New York, regularly the second General to finish, and often the one following Barry to the tape. Schedule-wise, the Generals lost to Bridgewater, beat Hampden-Syd- ney, won over VPI and Lynchburg in a triangular meet, lost to David- son and VMI in another triangular race, and dropped a one-point meet to Roanoke. ‘They tied William and Mary and beat Richmond in a tri- angular meet, and took second in the state Big Six cross country race. Virginia was beaten in a dual meet, and the season was climaxed with the Generals finishing second be- hind VMI in the Southern Confer- ence meet, beating the favorite, West Virginia, and Davidson, Rich- mond, William and Mary, and VPI. Barry and Armstrong, both of whom Coach Miller expects to im- prove, together with several other good freshmen and sophomores, give promise of a bright cross coun- try future for Washington and Lee. m ON WILSON FIELD, some 45 boys helped keep football a part of the Washington and Lee scene by par- ticipating in an abbreviated, four- game season against small college jayvee and prep school competition. All football activity took place dur- ing a two-month period, with the team practicing only an hour and twenty minutes a day. STEWART, 755 ...two from the Wahoos Essentially, the jayvee schedule and practices were designed to al- low boys who wanted to play foot- ball to keep up with the game and not permit themselves to grow stale through a year of inactivity. All students were invited to take part, including those boys on football scholarships. No one was asked to play, but Coach Boyd Williams, who took over on a temporary ba- sis during the absence of Head Coach Carl Wise (on leave to Coach in Canada’s professional ranks), made it plain that everyone was welcome to take part in a “play for fun” program. Emphasizing that as a prerequi- site for a successful return to varsity competition next year it was nec- essary to participate this year, Coach Williams had a gratifying response to his invitation. Most participants were freshmen and sophomores, but there was a strong nucleus of juniors, nearly all on football scholarships, who provided Coach Williams with experience. The team took a good bit of rib- bing from classmates and friends in other schools when it dropped the first game to Hargrave Military Academy, 7-0. Few realized that the squad had practiced only ten days before taking on the Cadets, who went on to one of the best seasons in Hargrave’s history. But with more practice, Wil- liams’ Generals began to shape up, and when Emory and Henry’s jay- vees came to Lexington two weeks later, it was a different team that battled the Baby Wasps to a 6-6 tie, and nearly won. ‘The next week, Washington and Lee rolled to a 13-0 win over Hampden-Sydney’s reserves, and the last game of the season saw the vastly improved Generals trounce Bridgewater’s jay- vees by 24-6. Carrying the load for Washing- ton and Lee were boys lke halfback Don Stine of Cumberland, Mary- land, tackle John Pipkin of Ports- mouth, Virginia, center Jim May- oyza of Cockrum, Mississippi, ends Phil Brown of Euclid Ohio, and Bill Kauffman of Lima, Pennsyl- vania, all of whom would have played football for the Generals this year under any circumstances. And there were the non-scholarship players like fullback Alex Platt of Riverside, Connecticut, quarter- backs Bob Callaway of Westfield, New Jersey, and Al Gitter of Wins- ton-Salem, North Carolina, halt- backs Pres Pate of Joplin, Missouri, and Ed Laird of Waverly, Iowa, and fullbacks Dewey Oxner of Green- ville, South Carolina, and Rufe Safford of Wyoming, Ohio. All of them will be back next year for the Generals’ seven-game slate, and all can be depended upon for plen- ty of good, hard football. Coach Williams’ line was his weak spot this year because of in- juries to several key players and be- cause of lack of depth. Even so, Wil- liams points with pride to the play of guards ‘Tom Salisbury of Mystic, Connecticut, Fred Henia of Louis- ville, Kentucky, and Jim Pullen of Lexington, Virginia, tackle Bill Kediel of ‘Towson, Maryland, and end Jim Perryman of Dallas, ‘Texas. As for 1955's football prospects, the players and athletic staff are optimistic. The boys learned much under the capable coaching of Boyd Williams, and they believe they can give a good account of them- selves against next season’s foes. Ev- eryone who played this year will be back, and some dozen or so boys, all potentially good gridiron per- formers who for some season or an- other waited this season out, have promised to bolster their ranks. The jayvee team this year drew little publicity for its four contests, nor was any effort made to place it in the public eye. But the student body, faculty, and administration have cause to be proud of the spirit shown by the participants, and of the fine work of Coach Boyd Wil- ms assistants—Connie Flanders, Jay Heckmann, Fred Ben- ham, Walt Degree, and Harold Sturgill—all of them veteran foot- ball Generals who devoted their time and energy to keeping football alive at Washington and Lee dur- ing a year important to the Uni- versity’s football future. and his Harriers: Woop, Capt., ARNOLD, BARRY, DUFFY, BOWES, CURTIS, CRUTCHFIELD, ARMSTRONG 10 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Many allegations have been made. Are they Fiction or Fact? A statement from Dr. Gaines, President of the University AKING COGNIZANCE OF certain rumors concerning ae the University which have been widely circulated in recent weeks, the Board of Trustees requested me to comment on those allegations. I shall not try to search out the origins of these statements, but my correspondence reveals that they may have their source in either of two situations. First, it is a fact that in selecting each freshman class we now decline nearly as many boys as we accept. ‘This situation has brought to me expressions of disappoint- ment and sometimes bitter criticism. Second, there 1s a feeling on the part of some sincere admirers of this institution that subsidized football was not successful on this campus because the University “is too tough for any normal, red-blooded American boy.” As briefly as possible I shall state the allegation and offer my comment. 1. Allegation: There is no alumnus on the Board of trustees. Fact: Of 17 Trustees (14 active, 3 emeritus), all but one are alumni and that one is an honorary alumnus and the father of an alumnus. A majority of the University trustees were suggested for membership by the Alumni Board of ‘Trustees. 2. Allegation: ‘The majority of the 1,000 boys ex- pected to enroll at the University this fall would not report because of the football situation. (This state- ment appeared in print in late summer). Fact: Except for a few boys who had been prom- ised certain grants-in-aid, and then apparently de- sired to go elsewhere in order to play football, the football situation had no effect whatever on enroll- ment, so far as we know. Our enrollment this year 18 1,016; the comparable figure a year ago was 1,007. 3. Allegation: Because of the severity of academic work, not more than half of the current seniors would return this fall even to try for graduation. Fact: ‘The Class of 1955 is quite normal in size. At this writing 151 men have made application for their bachelor’s degree in June. Another 17 have ap- plied for their degrees in February. Comparable figures DECEMBER 1954 for the Law School are 27 and 6, making a total of 201 degree applicants. 4. Allegation: We admit new students, or seek to admit them, on the basis of intellectual ability alone. Fact: Every college in the world, I should think, wants students of intellectual promise. Our selection, however, is made on a number of considerations (these were detailed in the September 1954 issue of the Alumni Magazine), always with full allowance given to character and personality. Incidentally, the two ap- plicants most qualified intellectually, as far as records can indicate, were not admitted to the current fresh- man class. 5. Allegation: We have professors who boast of “flunking’”’ 50 to 60 per cent of their students. Fact: In a faculty as large as ours, the system of grading will vary from teacher to teacher and from course to course (more failures are expected in re- quired courses than in elective); and with the same teacher and the same course, the distribution of grades will vary from year to year. I myself, for example, taught an advanced course to a small number of stu- dents one year when the highest mark made was C; I taught the same course to about the same number of boys the next year and every boy made an A. In one isolated instance a year ago the figures quoted were true; beyond that the statement is fantastic. I know of no professor who “boasts” of flunking anyone. Normally about 5 per cent of our students are aca- demic failures. ‘That percentage is high and we are trying to reduce it. It would be much lower if Allega- tion No. 4 were a fact. 6. Allegation: A conspiracy is on foot to eliminate all programs that have professional implication (law, business, journalism, pre-medical work) and_ substi- tute what might be called a curriculum of pictures, poems, and sonatas. Fact: Except for two alumni who, about 20 years ago, urged that this University should be changed into what was known as a “great books college,’ I have never heard such a suggestion. 7. Allegation: We have entirely changed the curri- culum of the University. 11 Fact: In my 25 years of service, some new courses have been introduced but only three changes from traditional offerings have been made. For one thing, we divided the Departments of Religion and Phil- osophy so that we might have a top-ranking man in each of these fields; we created a Department of Fine Arts, which certainly seems to have a place in an institution which calls itself a College of Liberal Arts; and we introduced three elective senior courses de- signed to show the inter-relationship of the different fields of knowledge. 8. Allegation: We have abolished all intercollegiate sports. Fact: Eleven intercollegiate sports, including football (which this year has been played on a fresh- man-jayvee level), are being played on this campus and will be continued. We are doubling the allocation to those sports that have been handicapped for lack of adequate finances. g. Allegation: We have abolished football or intend to do so. Fact: We have not abolished football. We have abolished subsidization. And we suspended the inter- collegiate varsity football schedule for this year. We had a freshman-jayvee team this fall, and will play seven varsity games next fall. Ours will be an amateur team, however. 10. Allegation: We plan to abolish fraternities. Fact: Fraternities perform a vital function on this campus. We are constantly trying to make them more useful to our boys and to the University. I have heard no suggestion to abolish them. 11. Allegation: We plan as soon as possible to abol- ish all scholarships, and have only students who can pay full tuition, so that we might have larger salaries. Fact: No such suggestion has ever been made to me, and I think I can say it has never been conceived in any mind. In fact, a faculty committee, studying future needs of the University, listed as one of our primary needs an additional $2,225,000 of endow- ment for scholarships. What is more, we have broad- ened the criteria on which we base the award of scholarships to include, in addition to scholastic ability and financial need, the quality in a boy perhaps best described as “all-roundness.” Proficiency in athletics is one characteristic of ‘“all-roundness.” 12. Allegation: We are spending a large amount of money for a building on our campus to be devoted solely to Fine Arts. Fact: Nearing completion on our campus is the first academic building to be constructed since 1924. It will house the departments of Education, Fine Arts, German, Greek, Latin, Philosophy, Psychology, Re- ligion, and some History. In all, the building will con- 12 tain eight classrooms, eleven offices, a small audito- rium, a large projection room, and facilities for Fine Arts. Specifically, those facilities for Fine Arts include two offices, a classroom, a studio, and an exhibit hall, and were made possible largely through the gift of the parents of a student. Their gift was designated for that purpose. 13. Allegation: The character of the student body is changing. Fact: ‘Thoughtful observers have noted that there are certain changes in the total American youth of 1954 as compared, let us say, with the American youth of 1934. The current generation, they reason, has grown up against a different background; its prob- lems are different. (Indeed, some of us who are fathers and grandfathers give solemn pause to the fact that the problems of today’s youth are undoubtedly heavier than those experienced by their predecessors.) ‘To boys of the present generation, early childhood is associated with economic depression. War—its threat, conduct, and aftermath—followed, and inevitably altered the courses of their lives. Their years have been ones of great social and technological changes, changes that undeniably had their effect on the home, the school, social customs, thought processes. Yes, the character of the student body in 1954 1s different from that of earlier years. But my colleagues and I are convinced that the current student body is as truly representative of the American youth we know today as any student body has been true to its own generation. 14. Allegation: ‘There is far less participation in extra-curricular activities such as the ‘Troubadours, debating, etc. Fact: These campus organizations are as healthy as they have ever been, and perhaps more healthy than I have ever known them to be. 15. Allegation: Since College Boards have been made one of the entrance requirements, failures under the Automatic Rule have increased. Fact: In 1950, the last year before requiring Col- lege Boards, 69 men were dropped under the Auto- matic Rule. ‘The average for the last four years, when College Boards have been required, has been 45. 16. Allegation: There are fewer sons of alumni at the University now than there used to be. Fact: The average for three years (1938, 1939, 1940) immediately preceding the war was 24 sons of alumni per entering class. The average for the last five years has been 25 sons of alumni per class. 17. Allegation: ‘The Administration of the Univer- sity has been taken out of my hands. (This statement appeared in a Virginia newspaper.) Fact: I think not. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE From a single change in policy, new potential for gaining in stature The Athletic Decisions: Background and Meaning A statement from the Rector of the Board, James R. Caskie, A.B.,’06, LL.B.,’o9 N JULY 7, 1954 THE Executive Committee of the Board of ‘Trustees, meeting in special session, voted that there would be no fur- ther subsidization of athletes at Washington and Lee beyond those to whom we were already commit- ted. ‘This action was confirmed at a meeting of the entire Board on July 23. ‘The Board is convinced that by this single change in policy, the University has acquired a new po- tential for gaining in educational stature. Moreover, the Board of ‘Trustees has every confidence that the President, the Deans, and those who teach on the campus in Lexing- ton will develop this potential and, in the best traditions of Washing- ton and Lee, will guide the Uni- versity from its present position of strength to one of still greater strength. ‘The immediate causes for these two special meetings and details of what transpired I shall discuss in a moment. But first let me tell you of conditions that made the Board’s action inevitable. 1. In order to field teams that could compete with so-called nat- ural rivals, it had become neces- sary in recent years to recruit for football many young men _ who could be admitted to the Universi- ty only as “calculated academic risks.” Many of them subsequently were unable to meet the minimum academic requirements for remain- ing at the University and so left via the Automatic Rule. We _ be- lieve our action will minimize the number of inadequately prepared students admitted in the future. Further, we believe that the Uni- versity can better discharge the DECEMBER 1954 most important responsibility it has to prospective students and their parents, namely, to render as honest an appraisal as possible of each boy’s potential for success at Wash- ington and Lee, and to grant or deny admission accordingly. 2. Infractions of the Honor Sys- tem during the 1953-54 college year involved an inordinately high per- centage of the men holding ath- letic scholarships. ‘The relation- ship between men admitted as “cal- culated academic risks,’”’ the time- consuming requirements of modern football, and the academic require- ments of the University on one hand, and infractions of the Honor System on the other became pain- fully evident. We believe that our action will make the future oc- curence of widespread infractions of Washington and Lee’s cherished Honor System much less likely. 3. Football on the Washington and Lee campus had come to be a sport played only by those who were subsidized to do so. It ap- peared that the situation in basket- ball was tending in the same direc- tion. With the abolition of subsidi- zation has come a new _ athletic program which is far more sound. ‘That program returns all intercolle- giate sports to the student body as a whole, where they rightfully be- long. 4. With only two or three games out of a nine or ten-game schedule being played on the campus at Lexington, football had in a large measure been taken away from the students as spectators. The new athletic program has as its aim to schedule at least half of our con- tests on the courts and playing fields in Lexington. 5. Inequities existed in our stu- dent aid program, with a far greater measure of assistance being given to a boy whose principal claim to aid was his athletic ability than to one who deserved such aid for reason of academic ability, gen- eral promise, and need. Under the new athletic program all scholar- ships will be administered accord- ing to the same criteria. More will be said on this point a little later. 6. From a business point of view, it had become impossible to budget accurately for the total needs of the University because of the impossi- bility of determining in advance how much money should be ap- propriated for the intercollegiate athletic program. ‘This amount was not known until the end of the year, at which time the University was obligated to cover whatever deficit existed. Under the new athletic program we shall be able to de- termine quite accurately in advance the funds that will be required. And we are prepared to appropriate funds to implement that program so that it may have the fullest mean- ing to the student body. OW LET ME TURN more speéci- fically to the meetings on July 7 and July 29 of this year. ‘The first was a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of ‘Trustees which became necessary when, two days after the full Board met on the campus in June, the Executive Committee of the University Com- mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics (the full committee is made up of representatives from the alumni, the faculty, and the student body) recommended to President Gaines 13 Football Schedule, 1955 October 8 Centre College Lexington October 15 Davidson Davidson October 22 Southwestern of Memphis Lexington October 29 Washington University St. Louis November 5 Hampden-Sydney Hampden-Sydney November 12 University of the South Sewanee November 19 West Virginia Tech Lexington that Washington and Lee give up football entirely for the 1954 sea- son. Our deliberations on that day were divided into two parts. At the morning session alumni and faculty members of the Committee on In- tercollegiate Athletics (there were no students on campus in July), the head football coach, the president of the Alumni Association, the president of the Generals Club, and members of the University’s administration met with us to con- sider in free and open discussion what should be done. The most important result of that morning meeting was the assurance given to the Executive Committee of the Board, by those responsible for fielding a team, that it would be possible to play the 1954 football schedule. The team would be made up of those players scheduled to return to college in the fall plus those who would enter with the new freshman class under athletic scholarship commitments already made to them. During the afternoon the Execu- tive Committee of the Board met in private session. The results of its deliberations were two: (1) there would be no further subsidization of athletes beyond those to whom we were already committed, and (2) Washington and Lee would play its entire 1954 football sched- ule. This was not the first time the Board had considered abolishing subsidization. It has been a topic of discussion at almost every meet- ing in recent years. Following a discussion in 1953, it was decided to try subsidization for one more year. 14 The action taken by the Executive Committee on July 7, 1954, and subsequently approved by the en- tire Board on July 23, took into account past discussions and those conditions I have already men- tioned. You will note that at this meet- ing the Executive Committee did not vote to cancel the 1954 sched- ule. It voted to play it. What hap- pened, then, between July 7 and July 23 to bring about its cancel- lation? ‘The facts of the matter are these: In contrast to the position taken on the morning of July 7 by those responsible for fielding a team to meet the 1954 schedule, Univer- sity officials were advised a few days after the meeting that this could be done only if the University made available enough athletic scholar- ships (in addition to those to which we were already committed) to bring the total of such awards to fifty. In effect the Executive Com- mittee was asked to rescind its de- cision of July 7 and to grant per- haps an additional seventeen schol- arship awards to which the Univer- sity would be committed for the next four years, or for so long as the recipients remained in school. Also, with the exception of one as- sistant, each of the football coaches tendered his resignation. It was to consider these developments that a special meeting of the full Board was called for July 23. At that time the Board confirmed the earlier action of the Executive Committee abolishing subsidization, and took the only action with regard to the 1954 football schedule that it could under the circumstances. It voted to cancel it. It is understandable that many alumni should be disappointed that Washington and Lee was not to be represented on the gridiron in 1954, and that future football schedules were not to include some of the institutions with which we have enjoyed football rivalries in the past. It is equally understand- able, I think, that these alumni, not being thoroughly acquainted with the facts of the situation, should think the action somewhat precipi- tate. We on the Board experienced some of the same disappointment, and we regret having been forced to our decision to cancel the schedule. Yet, in our considered judgment the decisions made were the only ones possible if the best interests of Washington and Lee were to be served. Y AND LARGE we have been en- B couraged by alumni response to the Board’s actions. Perhaps a thousand letters have been received by me and other University officials. Many of them echo the same regrets I have mentioned. But by a count of about four to one alumni have expressed themselves as in accord with our actions. As is to be expected in connec- tion with decisions of this sort, there have been some severe alumni critics of the Board’s decisions. In most cases I question neither the sincerity of their interest in Wash- ington and Lee nor the genuineness of their dissent. Criticism 1s healthy and a part of normal growth. I hope we shall always have it. Un- fortunately, however, there have been some instances where those criticizing have apparently accepted as true various reports and rumors that are not true. Their allegations have been widely distributed, and if allowed to go unanswered could bring real harm to the institution for which we all have such high re- gard. Therefore, Dr. Gaines has been asked to take cognizance of those allegations and to state the facts with regard to each. He does so on other pages of this magazine. I hope that each alumnus will note the allegations and study the facts, THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE and then will do all within his power to correct any misunder- standings that may exist. To those who have been recipi- ents of information making or elab- orating on these allegations, it will be obvious that certain of them have been linked with personalities, or are based on differences of per- sonalities or differences of opinion. I do not wish to deal herein. with personalities; nor does Dr. Gaines. We on the Board of ‘Trustees are fully aware of the circumstances that a few have seized upon as bases for allegations. ‘Chose circumstances certainly do not have the signifi- cance that a few outspoken critics have attached to them. It should be evident to every alumnus that no organization either exists or pro- gresses free from differences 1n per- sonality or opinion. Differences not- withstanding, Washington and Lee, dedicated to the important mission of educating youth, will outlast all of us who now criticize or support its policies or personnel. And Wash- ington and Lee will continue to progress, as it has progressed in the past, toward an ever more signifi- cant place in American education. S I HAVE SUGGESTED, criticism does have value. As proof let me cite some of the things we have learned as a result of our actions. First, it has been clearly demon- strated to us that there is a real need for more adequate channels of communication between the Uni- versity and its alumni. It is our re- sponsibility to see that news of Washington and Lee flows freely and promptly to the alumni, and that it has meaning to them. Defi- nite steps already are being taken to improve upon past performance. Second, having made this 1m- portant policy change with regard to intercollegiate athletics, we have been impressed with the need to make clear what the future athletic program will be. Moreover, we real- ize that we must give positive as- surance to alumni that intercolle- giate football will be resumed on this campus. ‘To these ends, I trust DECEMBER 1954 that Dr. Gaines’ statements of fact, this article, and the accompanying announcement of the 1955 football schedule will furnish the necessary answers insofar as they are avail- able at this time. Third, probably the most valid point made by critics of the Board’s decision with regard to subsidiza- tion is this: under the existing cri- teria by which students are selected to receive academic scholarships, it is not possible to give financial as- sistance to highly desirable young men who give promise of being able to complete our academic work satisfactorily, but cannot meet the strict academic requirements for scholarship assistance. ‘I’o meet this criticism the Board has authorized the introduction of a third criterion to govern scholarship awards, the quality of “all-roundness.”” By giv- ing consideration to this factor, as well as to those of need and aca- demic ability, we believe that we can assure to future student bodies certain young men of the same high quality exemplified by some of those granted athletic scholarships in the past. ‘These steps the Board has al- ready taken. Others will follow. It is our most sincere wish that each alumnus will be generous with both his understanding and his as- sistance aS we strive, in every way consistent with the fine traditions of Washington and Lee, to make our University an institution of which we shall have every reason to be still more proud. It can be done; and it will be done if each of us will declare anew his faith in Washington and Lee and his con- fidence in those who, having dedi- cated their lives to the education of youth, are daily fulfilling their commitments on the campus in Lexington. m DR. IRWIN T. SANDERS, B.A., ‘209, professor and head of the depart- ment of sociology at the University of Kentucky, was awarded a special citation by King Paul of Greece in a ceremony at the Royal Greek Embassy in Washington, D.C., in November. The commendation came as the result of Dr. Sander’s work with SANDERS—cited by a king Greek peasants while in that coun- try during 1952-53. Conferring the honor upon Dr. Sanders in behalf of King Paul was the ambassador of Greece, Athanase G. Politis: ‘The Award, the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of the Phoenix, was given “in rec- ognition of the most valuable ser- vices rendered to Greece.” The cita- tion further commended Dr. San- ders for his interpretations of Greek rural life while there. He became one of the first social scientists ever to examine peasant life in Greece when he began his investigations in 1952. An interpretative state- ment which he prepared while in Greece, entitled ““Peasants are Peo- ple,” was widely circulated there and claimed the attention of many of the nation’s officials. Dr. Sanders undertook the study of peasant life, without sponsorship of any governmental agency, while on his sabbatical leave from the University of Kentucky. At the pres- ent time he is completing a detailed analysis of Greek rural life, which he plans to publish as a book. Wives were welcome in Baltimore APPALACHIAN The Appalachian Chapter of the Washington and Lee Alumni Asso- ciation held its annual meeting at Hotel General Shelby in Bristol, Virginia, on Saturday, October 9g. A reception beginning at 6 o’clock was followed by a dinner, with sixty alumni and their wives present. Professor Charles R. McDowell represented the University and re- ported on the activities of the school including the suspension of inter- collegiate football for the coming session. Alumni feeling varies be- tween the extremes of no subsid1- zation and full subsidization with considerable support for the center position of moderate intercollegiate subsidization to enable Washington and Lee to play her natural rivals in Virginia and neighboring states. Judge A. G. Lively, ’12, Lebanon, Virginia attorney, was elected presi- dent of the chapter for the coming year. Other officers elected were: I. M. Quillen, ’24, secretary and treas- urer, Lebanon; Henry M. Bandy, Jr., 33, Norton; Robert P. London, Jr., ’29, Johnson City, ‘Tenn.; James 16 CHAPTER NEWS R. Lyle, ’48, Kingsport, ‘Tenn.; and Edwin G. Shaffer, 48, Wytheville, vice-presidents. BALTIMORE On October 16 eighty alumni and friends gathered for a formal din- ner at the Elkridge Country Club in Baltimore for the fall meeting of the local chapter. Representa- tives of the University were Presi- dent Gaines, Don Smith, Director of University Development, James Farrar, Assistant Dean of Students and Cy Young, Alumni Secretary. A social hour preceded a delight- ful dinner at which Bill Pacy, Presi- dent of the chapter, presided. On behalf of the Baltimore Chap- ter, Mr; -Pacy : presented: to. Dr. Gaines a beautiful silver Paul Re- vere bowl, to be known as the Wheelwright Lacrosse trophy in memory of Watson Wheelwright, 53, who was killed in the Korean War. The trophy is to be awarded each year to the Washington and Lee Lacrosse player who best exem- plifies leadership, sportsmanship and ability. Dr. Gaines made an inspiring speech at the close of which he was given a standing ovation. Cy Young spoke briefly, thanking the Balti- more alumni for the outstanding cooperation they had given the University in its recruitment pro- eram, there being 247 students in the freshman class from Baltimore. BIRMINGHAM The fall meeting of the Birming- ham Alumni Chapter was held at the Mountain Brook Country Club on Tuesday, October 26, with 40 members present. A social hour pre- ceded a delightful dinner, after which Cy Young, Alumni Secretary, brought the group up to date on University activities. Jack Porter- field, president of the chapter, pre- sided at the meeting. LYNCHBURG A film on the life of General Robert E. Lee was presented to the Lynchburg public school system by James R. Caskie, ’06, rector of the Washington and Lee Board of Trustees, as the gift of the local THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE chapter of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association. ‘The presenta- tion was made on September 30, 1954, and received on behalf of the schools by Mrs. Elizabeth J. Clark, elementary supervisor and supervis- or of teaching material for Lynch- burg schools. ‘The film was shown that day to approximately 250 mem- bers of the seventh grade at Robert E. Lee Elementary School. The Lynchburg chapter of the Alumni Association held an in- formal meeting at the Oakwood Country Club on October 5, at- tended by about 50 alumni, discus- sing the recent action of the Uni- versity Board of ‘Trustees suspend- ing football for the 1954 fall sea- son. President Francis P. Gaines, dean of students Frank J. Gilliam and James R. Caskie, Lynchburg alumnus and rector of the Wash- ington and Lee Board of ‘Trustees, were present by invitation. Dr. Gaines was the first speaker and reviewed the facts leading to the action of the University Board. He said: “The honor system and student leadership faced a severe test last year and they met it well.” and added that today the honor system and student leadership are stronger than ever and student backing is at its peak. ‘The financial demands of the sport, together with many other contributing faciors, made the decision of the Board im- perative. He further said: “Our job is to provide the best possible train- ing for the 1000 boys at W&L. A well-rounded sports program is not just for recreational purposes but it is a necessary part of their edu- cation. Next year we will have 11 or 12 intercollegiate sports—all invit- ing wide student participation.” Mr. Caskie, the rector of the board, said: “The decision to can- cel the 1954 schedule was reached after every possibility for playing it was removed.” He absolved all faculty and administration officials of responsibility for the decision. “The Board of ‘Trustees alone is responsible.” Dean Gilliam told the group “we want and need intercollegiate foot- DECEMBER 1954 ball at W&L, and that is, to my knowledge, a unanimous opinion of the faculty.” NEW YORK The New York chapter of the Alumni Association, comprised of alumni in New York City, New Jer- sey, Connecticut, Long Island and Upstate New York, met at ‘Toots Shor’s restaurant on November 19, 1954. In an atmosphere in which leading figures of the Sports World gather daily, it was fitting that the main topic of discussion should be the University’s present athletic program involving football. Repre- senting the University were Cy Young, 717, James D. Farrar, '40, and Donald E. Smith, Director of University Development. Among these honored guests were Norvin C. Evans, °16, president of the Louisville, Kentucky, alumni chap- ter, and W. L. Webster, president of the General Alumni Association. Retiring president of the chapter, Stuard A. Wurzburger, presided at the meeting. ‘The following officers were elect- ed: President, William M. Farrar, "19; vice-president (New York City) H. Richard Sandstrom, ’41; vice- president (New Jersey) James Franklin, ’35; vice-president (Long Island) Clark B. Winter, ’37; vice- president Upstate (New York) W. L. Webster, ‘12; vice-president (Connecticut) Leonard ‘T. Brown, "19; Secretary, Richard A. Brunn, "42; ‘Treasurer, Emmett W. Poin- dexter, ’20; Members of Council; Holmes M. Dyer, ’34, Stephen E. Campbell, ’41, Frank ‘T. Bready, °26, Donald S. Hillman, ’49. Mr. Wurzburger presented the following reports: "The New York Endowment Fund, now over $5,000; explanation of a Job Guidance Di- rectory, being used at Lexington and now being used by some other chapters; a Virginia College ques- tionnaire, sent out to determine the feasibility of a general Alumni Club with headquarters in New York; the results of the Regional Alumni Fund Drive with over 285 contributors in the area. All agreed that the affair was a highly successful one judging by the attendance and enthusiasm. 37 Dr. Epwarp R. LEYBURN, retired minister of the Presbyterian Church, was the guest of his son, Dean Leyburn, in Lexington for the month of August. He is now living at 245 Beverly Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. 9 9 James MULLEN is still actively en- gaged in the practice of law as a member of the firm of Williams, Mullen, Pollard and Rogers, 1001 East Main Street, Rich- mond 19, Virginia. He. has been a visitor to the University several times during the past year as a member of the Executive Committee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. 02 OsMAN E. Swartz is rounding out twenty-six years service as General Coun- sel for United Carbon Company and fifty- two years at the bar. He reports that his health is excellent but his desire for hard work grows less and less. Address: United Carbon Building, Charleston, West Vir- ginia. E. RANDOLPH PRESTON and Mrs. Preston were among the distinguished guests at 17 the opening of the “Jackson Home” in Lexington on August 29. Mrs. Preston is the granddaughter of General T. J. (Stone- wall) Jackson. Address: 2844 Wisconsin Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dr. RosperT F. Cooper retired several years ago as vice-president and Professor of Social Service of Belhaven College, Jackscn, Mississippi, but has been called back in full service each year since that time. Ad- dress: 1509 Ivy Street, Jackson 41, Missis- sippi. 03 Farris A. SAMPSON went on a special mission to Formosa last year where he spent the winter, returning through Europe just in time to attend the Alumni Reunion in June. He enjoyed seeing some of the “old boys’ of ’o2 and ’03, whom he had not seen for fifty years, who were “hale and hearty.” Address: 2121 Speed Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. 05 HANEY B. (Honey Boy) CONNER has been teaching school in Louisiana since 1904 and has constantly resided there since that time. He has contributed a significant poem: “I’m not a graduate of Washington and Lee . But the ‘ole war skule’ did a lot for me I received my degree from another school, But if I didn’t contribute I’d feel like a fool. An alumnus is certainly a confirmed in- erate If he does not contribute, either early or late.” 08 RosBErRT T. GRAY is Pastor of Union and Salem Presbyterian Church, Union, West Virginia, as well as Stated Clerk of his Presbytery, and is teaching a Bible class in the local high school. Reports the big event for the past summer was the homecoming of his Belgian-Congo mis- sionary children, Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Pruitt, and grandchildren, Billy 12, and Bobby Gray, 10, after a five year absence. Joun M. Brerer is General Manager of Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Com- pany, Boston 3, Massachusetts, and_ lives at 98 Collins Road, Waban, Massachusetts. His sons, JOHN COULTER, and JAMES HwuN- TON are graduates of Washington and Lee of the classes of 1937 and 1940 respectively. 18 PEYTON HosBson is a member of the law firm of Hobson & Scott, First National Bank Building, Pikeville, Kentucky. R. C. MILLING is a member of the law firm of Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, Whitney Building, New Or- leans 12, Louisiana. JupcE W. G. Lone, Class Agent for 1908-L, is engaged in the practice of law with his sons, W. G., Jr., ’36, at 10014 E. Paul, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. 09 Dr. J. W. Craupy has had an ac- tive and useful life, first as a minister of Presbyterian churches in Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, and later as superintendent of Western State Penitentiary, Rockview Farm Prison, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and warden of Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is now re- tired and living at 1627 Walnut Avenue, Winter Park, Florida. | On page 9 of The Report of the 1954 Alumni Fund, which was mailed recently to all Alumni, the amount con- tributed by the Academic Class of 1911 is given as $290. This is in error and should read $920. Our apologies to ULEN MeEpForD, ’11-A’s Class Agent. / 2 PauL A. ROCKWELL, living at 142 Hillside Street, Asheville, North Carolina, keeps busy with his writing. His mother’s recollections of the “Red Shirt Election,” South Carolina 1876, were published in the November Atlantic Monthly. His son, KENNETH, B.A. ’52, now a Lieutenant (j. g.) expected to get out of the Navy on No- vember 18, after much interesting and valuable experience. Dr. WILLIAM N. HopcKIN was made presi- dent elect of the Alumni Association at the annual meeting of the Board of ‘Trus- tees of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, on May 30, 1954, and will take office on May 30, 1955, becoming the second dentist ever to hold this po- sition. Address: Box 556, Warrenton, Vir- ginia. / 3 Frep W. McWankg, of Lynchburg, chairman of the board of commissioners of the Virginia State Ports Authority, at Norfolk, was elected a director of the American Association of Port Authorities at the group’s annual meeting in San Francisco, California, on November 3. / 4 Dr. DANIEL CRUMP BUCHANAN is now Assistant Minister, Takoma Presby- terian Church, Takoma Park, Maryland. Born of missionary parents in Kobe, Japan, Dr. Buchanan grew up speaking Japanese and English with equal fluency, and completed his high school and college edu- cation in this country receiving the A.B. . degree from Fredericksburg College and the M.A. degree from Washington and Lee. Returning to Japan under contract with the Japanese Ministry of Education, he taught the English language and American cultural subjects in various high schools and universities there. Shortly after the entrance of the United States in World War I, Dr. Buchanan volunteered for the Army, and was in an officers training camp when the armistice was signed. He entered the theological seminary in April 1921, re- ceived the B.D. degree, and was ordained to the Christian ministry. He was married to Miss Katherine Baetjer in 1921 and he and his wife were commissioned mission- aries to Japan, serving there for many years. During furloughs Dr. Buchanan did graduate studies at Hartford Seminary and received his Ph.D. degree there in 1934. Returning to the United States a few months before the outbreak of World War II, he entered the service of the Government and for twelve years held po- sitions as Foreign Service Officer and specialist on the Far East. ‘The Buchanans have four children, all college graduates. Dr. WILLIAM MOSELEY BROWN spent some time in Europe during the summer, visit- ing the British Isles, Luxembourg, France, Germany, and Switzerland. In Luxem- bourg he made a special study of the educational system and was accorded a fine reception by the Minister of National Education, who decorated him with the decoration of Officer of the Grand Ducal Order of the Oak Wreath, which is awarded to persons of outstanding achieve- ments in their respective professions. ‘The award was made in the name of the Grand Dutchess Charlotte, through the office of Prime Minister Joseph Bech. Address: Elon College Sustaining Fund, Elon College, North Carolina. / 6 HORNER C. FISHER was presented with the American Bar Award of Merit, citing the Florida State body as the out- standing State Bar in the United States during 1953, when he was president of the organization. Presentation of the cov- eted award was made by Darrey A. Davis of Miami, current Florida Bar president, at a banquet on October 22, at Hotel George Washington in Palm Beach, midway in the three-day quarterly conference of the Florida Bar Board of Governors. The award was made by the American Bar for: 1. A set of rules of civil procedure for 1954 for a speedier and less expensive form of justice to the public, which was accepted by the Florida Supreme Court; 2. A State Legal Ethics program; and 3. A State-wide public relations program. / 9 WILLIAM M. FARRAR, JR., iS NOW as- sociated with Coffin & Burr, Incorporated, 70 Pine Street, New York 5, New York. 2 0 WILLIAM E. JouNsTON, Sales Mana- ager, Southern District, The American Sugar Refining Company, has been ap- pointed Director of Sales—Southern Terri- tory, with headquarters in New Orleans, THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Louisiana. Mr. Johnston has been actively identified with the company’s sales staff for 32 years. Dr. Houmes Rousron, editor-in-chief of the Presbyterian Board of Education, Rich- mond, Virginia, is the author of Person- alities Around Paul, published October 1 by the John Knox Press of Richmond. Reviewing the book in a recent issue of The Rockbridge County News, DR. FITz- GERALD Flournoy, B.A., ’21, M.A. ’22, pro- fessor of English at Washington and Lee, says, “Dr. Rolston has long been one of the most fruitful scholars of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and in his latest book he proves himself to be also an essayist of charm, grace, ripeness and hu- mor.” KENNETH C. Patty will return as an as- sistant attorney general to Attorney Gen- eral J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., of Virginia, having resigned about three years ago to enter private practice after 14 years as an assistant attorney general. A former resident of Tazewell County, he has lived in Richmond since he came there in 1936 as assistant state counsel for the Home Owner Loan Corporation. He was appoint- ed by the late Attorney General A. P. STAPLES, ’08, in 1937, aS assistant in charge of legal affairs for the Unemployment Compensation Commission, and left this position in 1951. Patty is a World War I veteran, former chairman of the Tazewell County Democratic Committee, former mayor of Bluefield, Virginia, and imme- diate past president of the Virginia So- ciety, Sons of the American Revolution. Address: Central National Bank Building, Richmond, Virginia. 2/1 Dr. SAMUEL L. RAINES, assistant professor in the Department of Urological Surgery at the University of ‘Tennessee College of Medicine, was recently advanc- ed to professor and made head of the De- partment. He has been a member of the staff since 1929. His son, RIcHARD BROADNAX, is in his second year at Wash- ington and Lee. 2 f GLENN R. SrouTT is secretary and director of United Hosiery Mills Corpor- ation, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Address: 1281 Duane Road, Chattanooga 5, Tennes- see. SYDNEY ANDERSON LAWLER, co-producer with Cheryl Crawford of the current hit, “Oh, Men! Oh, Women!” declares that he is a “jack of all trades in the theatre.” He has had a career in the theatre which embraces acting and directing, as well as work as an agent, a manager, a talent scout, a motion picture producer, and a television personality. Address: 14 East 52nd Street, New York, New York. 25 Dr. ANDREW T. Roy left this country in March to do some exploratory work in Hong Kong under the Board of DECEMBER 1954 Foreign Missions and Overseas Inter- church Service of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He has now decided that he will remain there indefinitely. Mrs. Roy will join him there within a few months. Address: Room 426, European YMCA, Kowloon, Hong Kong. JoHn W. Hocker, M.D., after leaving Washington and Lee graduated from Van- derbilt Medical School in 1931; followed by three more years of specialty training at various hospitals over the country. He started practice in Chattanooga, ‘Tennes- see in 1934. He has four daughters, the oldest 16, and the youngest 6, and ad- mits there is never a dull moment at his house. Address: 605 Lindsay Street, Chattanooga 3, ‘Vennessee. 26 ALMAND R. COLEMAN, CPA, was a participant in a discussion on “Do Gen- erally Accepted Accounting Principles Re- late Only to Commercial and Industrial Organizations” at the 67th annual meet- ing of the American Institute of Account- ants in New York City, October 17-21. Some 2,500 CPA’s and guests from all parts of the United States attended the meet- ing. Professor Coleman is a member of the committee on accounting procedure and awards of the American Institute of Ac- countants and a past member of its advis- ory committee on the CPA examination. Professor Coleman is on one year’s leave of absence as head of the department of accounting at Washington and Lee and is currently visiting professor of account- ing at the Graduate School of Business at Harvard University. 2/ Dr. J. PRESTON Moore, accom- panied by his family, spent last year in Spain on Sabbatical leave from the History Department of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. COLEMAN, ’26 GEORGE E. Burks is kept young by his in- terest in several hobbies, among them, the one that brings him the most pleasure is working with high school students. He always tries to sell them on Washington and Lee. ‘Vhis year there are eight fresh- men who hail from Louisville. Address: 405-6 Washington Building, Louisville, Kentucky. 2 & CHARLES A. STRAHORN iS vice- presi- dent and cashier of Winnetka Trust and Savings Bank, Winnetka, Hlinois. He and his wife were on hand for the Alumni Reunion in June and had a good time. Address: 825 Oak Street, Winnetka, II- linois. JoHN D. McHUuGH is assistant counsel for the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Connecticut; doing some private practice on the side; and is prosecutor of the Orange Town Court. He has four children, Larry, 14, Judy, 12, Jack, Jr., 8, and Peter, 5. Address: R.F.D. No. 2, Orange, Connecticut. 29 ALLEN B. MORGAN, executive vice- president and director of The First Na- tional Bank of Memphis, has been elected to the directorate of The Continental Banking Company. He is regional vice- president of the American Bankers Asso- ciation and chairman of the public rela- tions committee of the Reserve City Bank- ers Association. CAMPBELL HUTCHINSON, JR., Hutchinson Insurance Agency, 1001 Commercial Build- ing, Shreveport, Louisiana, has a son in the freshman class this year. 3 0 SAM RAYDER, executive vice-presi- dent of the Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, marked 30 years ser- vice with the bank on October 16, 1954. He entered Washington and Lee in 1924 and joined the staff of the Rockbridge Bank at the same time as a file clerk. He received his LL.B. at Washington and Lee in 1930, and married the former Miss Marie Hotinger of Lexington. They have three children, two daughters and a son. In recognition of his loyal and efficient service the directors of the bank pre- sented him with a handsome watch. HERBERT G. JAHNCKE was elected vice- president and treasurer of Jahncke Ser- vices, Incorporated, on September 28, 1954. Address: Jahncke Services, New Or- leans, Louisiana. Rosy K. SUTHERLAND, 45-year-old Pulaski, Virginia, attorney, cn October 12, was appointed treasurer of Pulaski County to fill out the unexpired term of J. FRANK Wysor, ’03, who died October 8, 1954. 3 / Dr. RENO RUSSELL PORTER, Rich- mond, Virginia, heart specialist, was the Lg principal speaker at the Medical Forum on “Heart Disease,” sponsored by the Richmond Academy of Medicine on Oc- tober 5. EUGENE JOHNSON has been with the duPont Company since leaving Washington and Lee in 1933, with the exception of two years during the war. He is located in Waynesboro, Virginia, engaged in the manufacture of acetate yarn. The Johnsons have three children, Eugene, III, Lucite, 12, and Van 7. Address: 816 Fourteenth Street, Waynesboro, Virginia. Harris JOHNSON Cox, B.S. ’31, has re- signed as vice-president of Western Geo- physical Company of America, and also as Canadian Manager of Western, and has formed his own exploration company, under the name of ‘Talon Exploration Limited, with present headquarters in the F. W. Clark Building in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Cox has already undertaken to drill a sizeable number of wildcats in Manitoba, Canada. The Manitoba project is the first drilling operation for Harris Cox, widely known geophysicist. He has had a wide experience in the petroleum industry, having served in various parts of the United States, South America, the Nether- lands, Indies and in Canada. During World War II he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the South Pacific in Naval Intelligence on the staff of Admiral Wil- liam F. Halsey, U.S.N. (Retired). He is married to a former New Zealand girl and they have one son, David, aged 54% years. Harris Cox is a nephew of Dr. Grover Hancock, former Dean of the Commerce School of Washington and Lee, and Mrs. Hancock. Residence address: 1106 Talon Avenue, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 3 2 MALCOLM D. CAMPBELL, who has been southeastern regional sales manager for Investors Diversified Services, Inc., since 1943, has been appointed general sales manager, it was announced from the Company's home office in Minneapolis recently. The appointment will become effective January 1, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell and their two children will move to Minneapolis after the first of the year. In addition to the administration of the home office sales department and the large IDS field sales organization, Mr. Campbell’s responsibilities will include planning the selection and training of per- sonnel. Mr. Campbell brings to his new posi- tion an IDS general sales background de- 20 rived from 22 years experience with the Company. He graduated from Washington and Lee with the B.S. degree in 1932, and started his career with Investors. He has held every job in the sales or- ganization, advancing steadily from rep- resentative to divisional manager, a pro- motion he won in 1942, and then to regional manager, the position he has oc- cupied since 1943, with the exception of two years spent in the service of the United States Navy. 33 LUTHER F. VIOLETT went to Pitts- burgh as District Manager for Dun & Bradstreet on February 15, after having been with the company in New York about seven years. He was moved to Bos- ton as Regional Manager for New Eng- land as of August 15. Having served as Class Agent for the Alumni Fund longer than any agent the Fund has ever had, the Alumni Office regrets that he finds it impossible to take it on for another year. Address: P. O. Box 382, Back Bay Annex, Boston 17, Massachusetts. RicHArb I. (Dick) BUTLER, former presi- dent of the South Atlantic League, be- came president of the Texas League on November 1, 1954. Following graduation here, he returned to his home town, Paris, Kentucky, as assistant high school football coach. During the early days of World War II, Butler enlisted in the Air Corps as a private and before he was discharged four years later, he had attained the rank of major, serving as athletic director for the Eighth Air Force in England. Re- turning to this country he became con- nected with “Happy” Chandler, when the Kentuckian was Commissioner of Organ- ized Baseball, where he learned the ropes, later becoming Chandler’s aide. W. J. (Bill) Brooks is now Zone Manager for Pontiac Motor Division, General Motors Corporation, in Atlanta Zone and is responsible for sales and service for the CAMPBELL, °32 Southeast. Also, he has now moved into his new home which gives him a congenial occupation, as working around his house and yard is his greatest hobby. Address: Care of Pontiac Motor Division, Rhodes- Haverty Building, 134 Peachtree Street, N. W., Atlanta 3, Georgia. WALLACE WERBLE is editor of F-D-C Re- ports, a weekly Washington trade publi- cation for top executives in the drug and cosmetic industries, and F-D-C Drug Let- ter, a weekly news letter for retail phar- macists. He has been editor of the former for over 15 years—with two years out for the Army—and established the latter three years ago. The Werbles have two sons, Wallace, Jr., 11 years old, and Cole Cal- mer, 3. Address: 3311 Rittenhouse Street, Washington, D. C. 3 4 WaLpo G. MILES was elected vice- president of the Virginia State Bar Asso- ciation for the southwest, at its annual meeting in August at the Greenbrier. Ad- dress: Jones, Woodward & Miles, Bristol, Virginia. RicHARD F. FAULKNER, former Station WMAQ radio salesman, has joined the NBC Central Division radio network sales staff as an account executive. Faulkner has been in the broadcasting industry since 1934, with the exception of a three- and-half-year period as manager of a sales division for a Chicago wholesale distribut- ing company. He started at Station KDKA, Pittsburgh; later worked at other eastern stations, and joined Station WBMA in Chicago in 1939. He has served as an- nouncer, program director, production manager and night supervisor during his broadcasting service. He joined the WMAQ sales staff in May, 1951, and trans- ferred to the NBC network office as of November 1, 1954. WittiAM A. GLover is engaged in the practice of law as associate of W. D. Mar- shall, Exchange Building, Memphis, ‘Ten- nessee, specializing in Federal and state tax matters since December, 1945. 35 James M. FRANKLIN was awarded the professional designation of Chartered Life Underwriter by the American Col- lege of Life Underwriters on September 22, 1954. He is with the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, Suite 1534, 111 St. John Street, New York 7, New York. JAMES STERRETT Woops is treasurer of Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation, Lewistown, Pennsylvania and has other local interests including the Lewistown ra- dio station. He has three boys, 14, 9, and 6. GILBERT C. McKown, after graduation here, finished his law work at the Uni- versity of Richmond and is practicing law in Berryville, Virginia, and operating his farm. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE IRVIN CALHOUN devotes his whole time to “selling lumber” at the Coulbourn Lum- ber Company in Suffolk, Virginia. A large part of the lumber production is from the family saw mills at Windsor, North Carolina, which are operated by three of his brothers and himself in partnership. Epwin T. CouLsourn, formerly with the Coulbourn family lumber and_ dairy business in Suffolk, has taken over the dairy interests and moved his law office to the Greenfield Dairy Building, Suffolk, Virginia, in order to centralize his ac- tivities. 36 Jor PrTTE has spent most of his leisure time for the past four years work- ing with Little League baseball, Rock- ville Centre, Long Island, New York, which keeps him busy, but he loves work- ing with the boys. He has had four championship teams, and says all he does is instill the W&L spirit in them and the rest is easy. When his letter was written in July, he was starting to work with the All-Stars getting them ready for the National Tournament. Two of Joe’s own three boys are playing now; youngest, six years old, will be ready in two years; the oldest, 11 years old, won the Pitcher’s Award last year. It looks like the young Pettes will continue the family athletic tradition at Washington and Lee. Joe, Sr. is working with United States Printing and Litho Co., Brooklyn, New York. Home address: 14 Strathmore Lane, Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York. J. WARREN Waricut of Marion, Virginia, has been named to the three-man State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and will take office as soon after December 15 as he can wind up his business as ad- ministrator of Lee Memorial Hospital at Marion. GLENN SHIVELY is still in the automobile sales business, Packard - Hudson - Mack Trucks, 204 Lincoln Way West, Chambers- burg, Pennsylvania. The Shivelys have two potential wrestling champions on _ the way, Gerald Bruce, 10 years old and Michael Glenn, 21%. W. Macruper Drake completed his work in the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina in July and was award- ed the Ph.D. degree in History at the end of the summer session. He is teaching at Davidson this year as Assistant Professor of History. 3 7 GEORGE RATHER JONES is a pilot for Braniff Airways. He married Eleanor Fordham of Dallas, Texas, and they have three children, girl 10, boy 3, and a boy 18 months old. Address: 3617 Potomac Avenue, Dallas 5, Texas. 3 & C. PricE BEeRryMAN has recently sold his lumber interests in Oklahoma where he has been living and will be DECEMBER 1954 moving back to Kansas as soon as new locations can be developed there. The Prices have three children, a girl, 4 boy, 3, and a baby girl born January 12, 1954. Address: Box 963, Miami, Oklahoma. 3 9 CHARLES G. GILMORE has received the professional designation of Chartered Casualty Underwriter, known as C.P.C.U. This designation is awarded by the Amer- ican Institute of Property and Liability Underwriters, Inc., of Philadelphia. ‘There are now slightly more than 1,000 C.P.C.U.’s in the United States. Address: Marsh & McLennan, Inc., Koppers Building, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. GrorcE Evans Goopwin has been appoint- ed one of three vice-presidents of the First National Bank of Atlanta. Mr. Goodwin, a former member of The Atlanta Journal news staff, has been since 1952 executive director of the Central Atlanta Improve- ment Association. A native of Atlanta, he graduated with the A.B. degree in 1939, and during World War II served as a Navy intelligence officer in the Pacific and from 1945 until 1952 was with the Journal. He received the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting of his expose of vote frauds in Telfair County, Georgia, in the general election of November 5, 1946, and also the Pall Mall Big Story award and a travel fellowship to Israel in the Middle East award by the American Christian Pales- tine Committee. Residence address: 930 Dean Drive, N. W., Atlanta, Georgia. JAY Sorce is with the law firm of Hill, Lewis, Andrews, Ganse & Adams in the Penobscot Building in Detroit. Home ad- dress: 619 Rivard Boulevard, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Nei Houston has returned from 24% years in Honolulu with the Island Trad- ing Company of Micronesia and is now an Associate Economist with the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto. Home ad- dress: 2130 Barbara Drive, Palo Alto, Cali- fornia. WILLIAM J. (BILL) YouNG is with John Wanamaker in Philadelphia and has re- cently built himself a new house at 2504 Huntington Lane, Merion Golf Manor, Pennsylvania. Dr. BEN R. LAWTON is Visiting Professor of Missions for the 1954-55 session of New Orleans Baptist ‘Theological Seminary. Home on furlough from his assignment as President of the Baptist Theological Sem- inary, Rivoli-Turin, Italy, Dr. Lawton will teach the basic missions courses in the theological curriculum. He received his A.B. degree here in 1939, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; and the Th.M. and Th.D. from Southern Theological Sem- inary in 1943 and 1947. He was married to the former Patsy Patterson in 1940 and they have three children, Benjamin Ray, 10; Patrick Scott, 8; and Elena Lucille, 1. The Lawtons sailed to Italy in 1947, ap- pointed by the Foreign Mission Board to re-open the Baptist Seminary then lo- cated in Rome, but closed during the Fascist regime. ‘The seminary was moved to Rivoli-Turin and reopened in 1948. Address: ‘‘Missionary’s Home.” 3939 Gen- tilly Blvd.. New Orleans, Louisiana. 4] ROBERT M. SWEENEY is General Freight Agent for Grace & Co., (Pacific Coast), 2 Pine Street, San Francisco, Cal- ifornia. PETER BARROW is now associated with Wil- liam H. Sanders in the general practice of law under the firm name of Sanders and Barrow with office located at Prince- ton Bank & ‘Trust Company Building, Princeton, West Virginia. 4 2 THomas M. Cox is now associated with Courtney Lacey in the general prac- tice of law at 414 East Florida Avenue, Hemet, California. ROBERT F. CAMPBELL, JR., is now city edi- tor of the Asheville Citizen, Asheville, North Carolina. He married Anne Eliza- beth Damtoft in 1949 and they have two children: Betsy, age 4; and Walter Robert, 14%. Address: 18 Woodvale, Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. GEorGE F. PARTON is happily finishing his first year of practice in East Hartford, Connecticut. Family consists of George III, age 3; and Patricia, age 2. Address: 58 High Street, South Glastonbury, Connecti- cut. Dr. MicHaEL W. Lau has recently moved to California and is practicing urology in Los Angeles. He was married July 3, 1952. Residence address: 318-A South Reeves Drive, Beverly Hills, California. Business: 1893 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. RAYMOND R. RUSSELL, JR., member of the City Council, served for a few months as Mayor pro tem of the “thriving village”’ of San Antonio, Texas, during the illness of the Mayor; meeting trains, planes, buses, etc. He has laid cornerstones, cut ribbons and met Miss so-forth and so on. He has had fun doing it, but is glad to be back on the job of running the Phoenix Refining Company. Address: Box 1358, San Antonio, Texas. 43 SAMUEL J. GRAHAM is a life under- writer for the Prudential Insurance Com- pany of America, with offices at Suite 1090, Huntington National Bank Building, 17 South High Street, Columbus 15, Ohio. He is married and has three lovely children. R. Gorpdon LonG is presently employed as Industrial Engineer with Bethlehem Steel Company at their Sparrow Point Plant, Sparrow Point, Maryland. 44 Dr. E. Lovett BECKER in June, 1954, was on active duty with the U.S. Air 21 Force as Captain assigned to School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph AFB, ‘Tex- as, department of internal medicine. 45 THe REVEREND STANROD T. CAR- MICHAEL is Vicar of the Church of the Epi- phany, 41 Prospect Street, Newport, New Hampshire. 46 Dr. RocerR M. WINBORNE, JrR., is now a resident at the University Hospital at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He fin- ished his third year in Internal Medicine, July 1 and has a fellowship there next year. 48 WILLIAM EARL TUCKER 1S now as- sistant to the County Solicitor of Hill- borough County, Florida. He is practicing law at 201 Stovall Professional Building, 30%, Morgan Street, Tampa 2, Florida. His family consists of his wife, Gloria W. Tucker, to whom he was married while in Law School here, and two daughters, Pamela Suzanne and Karen Lee, ages 5 and 4 respectively. The Tuckers are build- ing a new home at 933 Beacon Avenue, Tampa, Florida. COLEMAN BEAN, graduate of West Point Military Academy and Lieutenant in the Air Force since 1950, resigned from ac- tive service as of June 1, 1954, and has en- tered the University of Virginia Law School. He saw service in England and French Morocco and his last post was Ros- well, New Mexico. Jounson McREE, JR., has opened a branch office as a C.P.A. in Manassas, Virginia, for his employers, Baker, Brydon, Rey- nolds and Whitt, C.P.A.’s, to serve the Northern Virginia area. B. C. Torey, JR., is now associated in the private practice of law with John E. Larsen with offices at Suite 910, 730 15th Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. He was formerly with the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, Office of the Gen- eral Counsel of the Federal Communica- tions Commission and the Federal ‘Trade Commission. Mr. Larson’s son, John, is now a freshman at Washington and Lee. 49 EveRETTE L. TAytor, Jr., will re- ceive his M.D. degree from Duke in De- cember, 1954, and then will begin his in- ternship. He was married in September, 1953, to Carol Anderson of Princeton, West Virginia, who is a graduate of the Duke University School of Nursing and is currently on the staff at Duke Hospital. Address: Box 2857, Duke Hospital, Dur- ham, North Carolina. Tuomas S. Hook, Jr., is handling public- ity for The Black & Decker Manutfactur- ing Company, of ‘Towson, Maryland, mak- ers of portable electric tools widely used in the now very popular Do-it-Yourself trend for home industry. Many of the top magazines for the general public are carrying a good many articles for “do-it- yourselfers.”. Tom is also Public Rela- tions Chairman for the Maryland Indus- trial Marketers, a chapter of the National Industrial Advertisers Association. Resi- dence address: g East Preston Street, Bal- timore, Maryland. Ropert E. Ler, IV, has been appointed national advertising manager of the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a great-grand- son of General Robert E. Lee, graduated here with the B.S. degree in 1949, and has been with the Chronicle since 1951. He served as an infantry sergeant in Europe during World War II. Mason GORDON ROBERTSON received the M.D. degree from the Medical School, University of Virginia, in June, 1954. He will interne at Emory University Hospi- tal, Atlanta, Georgia. 51 Joun W. Kay has accepted a po- sition with the Armstrong Cork Company and has entered the firm’s Industrial Di- vision sales training program. He was re- cently inducted into the company by means of an Introductory Week Program designed to give new men the history and policies of Armstrong. At Washington and Lee, Kay was a member of Sigma Chi. He lettered for four years as a guard on the football squad. © OOO OOOO OOOO OOGOOOHDOH OHO GOOTGOHHHSHHOOHHOHHOSGHFHHOHHHFHHHHHHHHHDOOHHSHHHHOTOOHHHHOHDOS m BEVERLY T. FITZPATRICK, 34-year- old assistant Commonwealth's At- torney of Roanoke, Virginia, has been named chief Municipal Court Judge to succeed the late Judge S. R. Price. The appointment was made by the Roanoke City Council on September 1, to fill the remain- ing go days of Judge Price's term, expiring September go, and to a four-year term starting October 1. Under wording of the City Charter, he is the chief municipal judge. A native of Roanoke, Fitzpatrick came to Washington and Lee in 1939 receiving the B.A. degree in 1943. He immediately entered the Navy and was discharged in 1946 as lieutenant (j.g.). He came back to Washington and Lee Law School and graduated with the LL.B. de- eree in June 1948. He received one of the highest awards here—the 22 Literary Society's annual award for distinguished service to the school, being chosen for the honor FITZPATRICK, *43 by student and faculty committees for “outstanding contributions in almost every line of campus activ- ity.’ He was a member of Kappa Sigma, social fraternity, and ODK, honorary society. Returning to Roanoke after graduating from the Law School and passing the State Bar examina- tion, he became assistant Com- monwealth’s Attorney, which office he held until his elevation to the judgeship. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and of its board of deacons, a member of the Roanoke Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar Association. He was married to the former Helen Chewning in 1943, and they have three sons. Their home is at 2425 Nottingham Road, Sherwood For- est, Roanoke. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE RicHARD E. WuiTson, Jr., has resigned from the Atomic Energy Commission and is now associated with Hercules Powder Company undergoing a training program. ‘Temporary address: 138 Eichelberger Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania. Doucias M. SmirH is with Hall & Martin, Attorneys, Law Building, Newport News, Virginia. jJAMes C. FENHAGEN trans:erred to Sewa- nee—University of the South, at the end of his junior year, where he received his B.A., and remained there at the Theo- logical School. In 1954 he received the B.D. degree from Virginia Theological Seminary, and was ordained in June, 1954. He is now assistant at the Church of the Holy Nativity, Garrison Boulevard and Egerton Road, Baltimore 15, Maryland. Home address: 108 Elmwood Road, Balti- nore 10, Maryland. RicHarp R. McDonatLp has been with the U. S. Geological Survey since June, 1951. He spent over a year in Alaska, mostly in the Aleutian Islands, studying volcanoes and earthquakes on a project for the Navy, and was then in the office in Washington, writing up a lengthy report on the Alaska tour of duty. Next came four months on the Colorado Plateau doing a regional survey studying gravitational fields of the rocks for the Atomic Energy Commission. He has now been in Cuba since July 1, 1954, engaged in a project supported jointly by the United States and Cuban government, trying to locate deposits of chromium, and expects this job to last from one to two years. He plans ultimate: ly to return to graduate school at Har- vard, but may spend some time in the Navy first. Address: United States Geo- logical Survey, Apartado 654, Camaguey, Cuba. Eric G. Curry, JR., is now out of the Air Force and is with Crown, Cork & Seal, Bal- timore, Maryland, in industrial account- ing. Address: 2842 Guilford Avenue, Bal- timore 18, Maryland. 52 ‘THOMAS P. WINBORNE is Stationed in Salzburg, Austria, and is in the Judge Advocate Department, Tactical Command. Home address: 209 Highland Avenue, Le- noir, North Carolina. HARRY R. LITCHFIELD, M.D., F.A.C.P., has been in the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet aboard a Destroyer, as an engineer. Address: 60 Plaza Street, Brooklyn 17, New York. Pvt. BENNO M. ForMan is serving as radio program supervisor at Camp_ Stewart, Georgia. The Roanoke Times of Novem- ber 16 carried a picture of Benno inter- viewing Col. James F. Eason, also a native Roanoker and commander of the 1th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group at Camp Stewart, for the post radio program at Stewart. DECEMBER 1954 Tom Hook, Class of ’49, doffs his white collar to demonstrate a new 3/8 inch drill for advanced home handymen and the service trades. Here he uses a screw driving attachment that drives screws 30 times faster than possible by hand. JOsEPH J. MULLINs, JR., now a third year student at Harvard Law School, has been awarded an Alumni Scholarship for 1954- 55. He received a National Scholarship for the academic year 1952-53. His home is in Clinton, Alabama. PAUL Davis WEI its still with the Marines, attached to the West Coast Island Defense Unit as an Assistant Island Defense Com- mander on one of the islands in the U.S. command. Home address: 190 Evans Ave., Freeport, New York. 53 ROBERT C. SMITH, Buena Vista, Vir- ginia, Attorney, has been appointed judge of the Municipal Court by City Council for a two year term beginning Sept. 1. RoBERT H. ‘THOMAS was commissioned in the Navy in August, 1953, and reported to the USS Princeton (Aircraft carrier) for duty in San Diego, California. His duty has consisted of about five months on board ship conducting flight operations off the California coast and in the shipyard at Bremerton, Washington. The remain- ing months have been spent in the U.S.N. Hospital with a broken leg, first from playing touch ball on the beach and then a rebreak from skiing in Stevens Park, Washington. Address: 3815 Monticello Drive, Ft. Worth, Texas. 5 G BEN WALDEN was inducted into the Army in February and stationed at Fort Knox. Completing his training there in July, he was assigned to the Classification and Assignment branch of the Adjutant General’s branch. PEYTON KULMAN, ’51, was already in the office and other ex- Minks in the same contingent are Dick VEDDER, 55, RALPH BURCHNAL, 54, and JAY GROSSMAN, 753, the only officer in the bunch. Ben was married in April to Mar- garet Elliott of Lancaster, Kentucky, and they are living at 511 Diecks Drive, Eliza- bethtown, Kentucky, which is about 15 miles from Fort Knox. WitttiAM D. McHenry, recently assistant coach Pennsylvania Military College, Ches- ter, Pennsylvania, has been inducted into Army service. He hopes for a Special Ser- vice assignment supervising military sports. Graduating here this past June, he played both football and lacrosse for four years, in both of which he achieved outstand- ing note and was co-captain in his senior year. He was chosen to play in a North- South Blue-Grey college stars’ contest, which is the annual pride of Montgom- ery, Alabama, playing with the Confed- erate Greys as a temporary Virginian. As a climax he played last August 14 with the nation’s collegiate all-stars in Soldiers’ Field, Chicago, against the current pro champions, the Detroit Lions. Home: 618 Parrish Road, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. J. W. (Ben) BENJAMIN is now with the edi- torial department of Proctor and Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, on the staff of their magazine. Address: J. W. Benjamin, Jr., The L. B. Harrison Club, 2368 Victory Parkway at McMillan, Cincinnati 6, Ohio. E. Ross WAGNER, JR., entered Marine basic school at Quantico in March and complet- ed same on August 21 with the rank of end. Lt. The following day he was mar- ried to Ava Ann Spears of Baltimore. He has been assigned to Camp Pendleton and will be transferred to Japan in February. His wife accompanied him to Pendleton. He has requested appointment to the Reg- ulars and will make the Corps his career. 1939 THomas W. BRADLEY, JR., was married to Evelyn Byrd Stant on December 21, 1953, at Bristol, Virginia. 1940 JAMES WUNDER [ABB was married to Myra Ann Bubert on August 14, 1954, in Cleve- land, Ohio. 1946 WILLIAM ALBIN MAGEE was married to Virginia Gill Watson, September 25, 1954. 1949 WILLIAM DU Bots BIEN was married to Alice Long Pendleton on October 15, 1954. 23 Joun Watkur McCoy was married to Iris Josephine Tolley on November 6, 1954, in Lexington, Virginia. 1950 THE Rev. HENRY CAUSEY BARTON, JR., Was married to Ann Leighton Simmons on October 22, 1954. 1951 M.. THeoporE VAN LEER was married to Susan Duff on April 24, 1954, and has a new address at 88 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. James Z. SHANKS was married to Sheila Grace Graf in August, 1954. 1952 JAMES REECE DUNDEE MOFFATT was mar- ried to June Elizabeth Deakins on Sep- tember 11, 1954. Graduating here with the A.B. degree in 1954, he is now in the Law School. 1953 ALAN WEBER was married to Mary Angela Russell on October 23, 1954, in Ashland, Ohio. | 1954 SEDGWICK L. Moss was married to Virginia R. Gilliam on August 14, 1954, in Raleigh, North Carolina. JAMES BUCHANAN ANDREWS, II, was married to Lucy Brown Bassett on October 16, 1954- HERWIG RUDOLPH BRANDSTETTER Was Mar- ried to Herta Moser on October 12, 1954, in the Graz Cathedral. Address: 77 Eliza- bethstrasse, Gras, Austria. 1935 Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN M. HARRELSON are the parents of a son, David Lee Harrelson, born August 15, 1954- 1936 Dr. and Mrs. SOUTHER FULTON ‘TOMPKINS are the parents of a daughter, Sarah Ellen, born October 18, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. FLETCHER F. MAYNARD are the parents of a son, Bond Dashiell May- nard, born October 2, 1954. Dr. and Mrs. KENNETH G. MCDONALD are the parents of a son, Kenneth G., Jr., born September 6, 1954. 24 1937 Mr. and Mrs. Ropert M. PEEK, JR., are the parents of a son, Richard David Peek, born November 13, 1954. 1938 Mr. and Mr. JoHn W. Ray are the par- ents of a daughter, Barbara Helen, born October 7, 1954. 1939 Dr. and Mrs. FRANCIS PENDLETON GAINES, Jr., are the parents of a daughter, Sally duVergne Gaines, born September 14, 1954- Dr. Gaines is President of Wofford Col- lege, Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1943 Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG are the parents of a son, William H., Jr., born October 20, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Epwin FLEMING Robs, JR., are the parents of a son, Peyton Thomp- son Robb, born November 8, 1954. Mr. and Mr.s JAMES STAFFORD JEFFERSON are the parents of a son, William Alfred, born December 7, 1953- 1947 Mr. and Mrs. JAck A. CrRowber are the parents of a son, Jack Andrew, jr., born. September 18, 1954. 1948 Mr. and Mrs. R. GALT WELLES are the parents of a son, David Aspinwall, born October 16, 1954. 1949 Capt. and Mrs. PAuL J. B. MURPHY, JR., are the parents of a son, Paul J. B. Murphy, III, born November 20, 1954, at Fort Benning, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. (JAKE) BERRY, JR., are the parents of a son, Harry A., II, born November 20, 1954, in Millington, ‘Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. JAcK B. PORTERFIELD, JR., are the parents of a second son, Jeffery Alexander, born September 2, 1954. 1950 Rev. and Mrs. SAMUEL S. Opom are the parents of a daughter, Marguerite Taylor, born October 26, 1954. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. JosEPpH B. MCCUTCHEON are the parents of a son, Joseph Baker, Jr., born October 1, 1954. 1952 Mr. and Mrs. CLirron TREADWAY (Ted) Hunt, Jr., are the parents of a daughter, Harriet Ann, born October 10, 1954. 1903 J. Frank Wysor, veteran member o: the Virginia State Highway Commission, and treasurer of Pulaski County, Virginia, died at his home in Pulaski, October 8, 1954- 1909 REUBEN RAGLAND died August 5, 1954: His home was in Jacksonville, Florida. 1911 J. Tom Watson died at a Tampa, Florida, hospital on October 24, 1954, following a heart attack suffered at his home. A former State attorney-general, he was a candidate for Governor of Florida in the November 2 general election. A native of Danville, Virginia, Mr. Watson had practiced law for many years there before moving to Florida. Interment was in the family plot in Danville. RICHARD CHANDLER OVERBEY died July 14, 1954. Mr. Overbey was president of a South Boston, Virginia, Insurance Agency. 1915 James LAWRENCE Howerton died Septem- ber 21, 1954. He was an official of Monsan- to Chemical Company. Mr. Howerton was the son of Dr. James R. Howerton, Pro- fessor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee from 1907 to 1924. 1919 James R. Fain died September 2, 1954. At the time of his death he was president of City National Bank, Winston-Salem, North North Carolina. 1922 Joun Paut AckErty died November 1, 1954, in Richmond, Virginia, after a long illness. At the time of his death he was Virginia manager for the Sun Life As- surance Company of Canada. 1924 WaLtEeR H. Scott, prominent Roanoke, Virginia, attorney and former member of the General Assembly of Virginia, died about 9:40 p.m. October 11, 1954, as the result of a fall from the third floor of the building in which his office is located at 192-A West Campbell Avenue. Ap- parently Mr. Scott had gone to the un- lighted storage room above his office to get material from his files, using a flash- light, when he fell through the window to a concrete pavement in an alley-way some 25 or 30 feet below. 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