lis People who eally Matter isitors Come ror All Over October 1955 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Fall Sports Schedule 1959 FOOTBALL 8—Centre College 15—Davidson College - 22—Southwestern College (Homecoming) 29—Washington University 5—Hampden-Sydney College 12—University of the South ; 1g9—West Virginia Institute of Technology CROSS-COUNTRY 3—VPI, Lynchburg and W&L 8—Bridgewater, Richmond and W&L 14—Roanoke College 22—West Virginia 29g—Davidson, VMI and WL. 5—William and Mary 5—Big 6 12—AAU 21—Southern Conference SOCCER 3—Lynchburg 12—Roanoke ig—Duke 25—Virginia 3—Roanoke oe “—North Carolina State 8—North Carolina 11—Georgetown 15—Maryland 29—Virginia Lexington Davidson Lexington St. Louis Hampden-Sydney Sewanee, Tenn. Lexington Lynchburg Lexington Salem Lexington Lexington Lexington (VMI), Lexington Davidson Lynchburg Salem Lexington Charlottesville Lexington . Raleigh Chapel Hull Lexington Lexington Lexington Appalachian—A, G. Lively, ’12, Lebanon, Virginia Augusta-Rockingham—Col. Paul J. B. Murphy, "14, Staunton, Virginia Atlanta—Rodney Cook, ’46, 40 Pryor Street, N.W Baltimore—C. William Pacy, ’50, 169 Stanmore Rd. Birmingham—W. Bestor Brown,’30, Liberty Na- tional Life Insurance Company Charleston, W. Va.—Ruge P. DeVan, ’34, United Carbon Building Chattanooga—Rody Davenport, ’50, 216 Stephen- son Avenue Chicago—Charles A. Strahorn, ’28, Winnetka Trust & Savings Bank, Winnetka, Illinois Charlotte—Jack Crist, Jr., ’45, Box 1045 Cincinnati—Jack L. Reiter, ’41, 1020 Union Trust Building, Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland—Charles F. Clarke, Jr., ’38, 1857 Union Commerce Building, Cleveland 14, Ohio Danville, Virginia—R. Paul Sanford, ’21, 422 Ma- sonic Building Florida West Coast—W. E. Tucker, ’48, Stovall Professional Building, Tampa Gulf Stream—L. L. Copley, ’25, Security Building, Miami, Florida Houston—A. Milton Morrison, ’38, 2323 Fannin Street Jacksonville—David W. Foerster, ’51, Atlantic Na- tional Bank Building Kansas City—W. H. Leedy, ’49, 15 W. 10th Street Louisville—Ernest Woodward, II, ’40, Kentucky Home Life Building Lynchburg—C. Lynch Christian, Jr., 44, Box 638 Mid-South—S. L. Kopald, ’°43, The Humko Co., Memphis, Tennessee New York—William M. Farrar, Jr., ’19, 70 Pine Street, New York, New York New Orleans—Herbert Jahncke, Jahncke Service 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 — Richard Eglin, ’44, Shreveport, Louisiana S. Rouse, ’87, Jamestown Penirsular—Parie Road, Williamsburg, Virginia Philadelphia—William L. Leopold, ’39, 183 Pelham 0 . Piedmont—A. M. Pullen, ’36, 203 Southeastern Building, Greensboro, North Carolina Pittsburgh—Anthony E. D’Emilio, Jr., ’41, 702 Frick Building Richmond—Don Fergusson, °51, 802 Insurance Building Roaneke—Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, °48, Municipal Goode, Jr., ’48, 407-09 Building W. "21, 4144 Lindell San Antonio—John South Texas Building St. Louis—John L. Patterson, Boulevard Tri-State—T. J. Mayo, ’31, Box 1672, Huntington, West Virginia Upper Potomac—William L. Wilson, Jr., ’38, 525 Cumberland Street, Cumberland, Maryland Washington, D. C.—Arthur Clarendon Smith, Jr You Street, N.W. magaZine UNIVER OCTOBER, 1955 Vol. XXX No. 4 Application to change the frequency of issue of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine from quarterly to four times per year in the months of March, June, October and December has been filed at the Post Office at 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) Youne, 1917 Class Notes Editor Mary BARCLAY THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC President JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 Vice-President STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Secretary Harry K. (Cy) Youne, 1917 Treasurer H. L. SHUEY, 1924 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES JoHN F. HENDON, 1924 WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 H. L. SHUEY, 1924 Martin P. Burks, III, 1932 STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Howarp W. Dossins, 1942 PARKE S. ROUSE, 1937 ERNEST Woopwarb, II, 1940 ater O STUDENTS STANDING in the long, ‘L stow-moving registration line at Washington and Lee in September, the size of the student body prob- ably mattered little, except that in their own immediate circumstances it undoubtedly seemed much too large. They may have read of the tidal wave of students that is be- ginning to cause the nation’s col- leges to stir uneasily lest some be threatened with inundation, but it is doubtful that they had thought very long on how Washington and Lee would be affected. As far as they could tell, the University had always been its present size, and from the looks of things it would remain that way, for the faculty, classrooms, and laboratories ap- peared to be taking care of just about as many students as they comfortably could. But the impending tidal wave has given others some pause, for in terms of young men and women already born it gives every indica- tion of forcing upon the nation’s 9 = Year Begins colleges by 1970 an _ enrollment double the present size. What does this fact mean for Washington and Lee? Should its student body be retained at about its current level of 1000, or should it be advanced to 1250, or to 1500, or to some other figure? What are the ad- vantages of remaining a small in- stitution? For that matter, what is a small institution? Some which claim to be “small” are less than half the size of Washington and Lee; others with which the Univer- sity believes itself comparable con- sider themselves small despite en- rollments two or more times that of the University. Moreover, what _ responsibility does Washington and Lee have to meet a portion of the burden posed by this vast oncoming army of col- lege-age students that is now be- ginning to leave the nation’s pub- lic and private secondary schools in ever increasing numbers? How long can Washington and Lee re- sist the growing pressures that Registration, 1955 their numbers will represent? And if they cannot be resisted, what are the possibilities for solving the com- plex problems of educational eco- nomics that will face an indepen- dent college of limited endowment, staff, and physical plant? These are questions of no little moment. But it is doubtful that they occurred to those in that long registration line, or that their knowledge of student-body — size extended beyond the information gained at Freshman Camp, or at fraternity pre-rush-week briefings: that this year’s freshman class of 296 was only three students more than last year. They did not know the figures behind the figures, those which tell how many high and pre- paratory school graduates applied for admission, where they came from, and how many were accepted, how many had to be turned away. The fact is that 736 young men submitted formal applications (those accompanied by the required fee) to Washington and Lee for ad- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE mission to the Class of 1959, com- pared with 721 last year and 672 in 1953. These figures do not in- clude the many additional inquiries which prospective students made of the Registrar’s and Dean’s Offices. Out of those applicants a total of 478 were accepted, 296 of whom entered on September 14. As to the 182 who declined, the Dean’s Office points out that this figure is not unusual in the light of the current practice to make applica- tion to two or more institutions in order to be reasonably assured of admission to one. All applicants were required to take the Scholastic Aptitude ‘Test of the College Entrance Examina- tion Board, the so-called “College Boards.” While no score automat- ically disqualifies an applicant, the results of this test give one more valuable indication of what may be expected of a student academically and add one more item to the many which figure in the ‘“weigh- ing’ process by which the Univer- sity selects for admission the young men possessing the greatest promise for full collegiate success. Parenthet- ically, it is interesting to note that while Washington and Lee was the first men’s college in the South to make the Scholastic Aptitude Test a prerequisite to admission, it is no longer unique in this respect. By 1956 Sewanee, Davidson, Fur- man, Centre, Rice, Catholic Uni- versity, and Georgetown will re- quire the test of all applicants. A study of the geographical background of the Class of 1959 indicates that Washington and Lee’s freshmen continue to be drawn primarily from the South, which includes the border states of Mary- land, Missouri, West Virginia, and Oklahoma. Some 59 per cent, or 176 boys, come from this area, while 28 per cent, or 83 boys, represent the East, those states on the Atlan- tic seaboard north of Maryland. Those from all other areas, 37 in all, make up 13 per cent of the class. In 1954, 64 per cent of the entering class were Southerners, a similar 28 per cent were from the East, and only 8 per cent from the the other areas. In granting admission Washing- ton and Lee’s officials seek to main- tain at least an even balance be- tween public and private school graduates. The division in_ the Class of 1959, therefore, is consid- erably more encouraging than for the Class of 1958. Fifty-two per cent of the freshmen, or 156 boys, are from public schools, as compared with only 44 per cent in 1954. Of these 156, 97 freshmen, or 33 per cent of the fall class, come from southern public schools. Seventy students, or exactly half of the pri- vate school graduates, studied at southern schools. Virginia again led all states with 41 freshmen. Other states and foreign countries and their repre- sentations included New York with 26; New Jersey 23; Maryland 21; Pennsylvania 17; Florida 16; Ohio and Texas 14; Tennessee 12; West Virginia 11; District of Co- lumbia and Kentucky 9; Louisiana 8; Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois and Massachusetts 7; Alabama and Arkansas 6; Missouri and South Carolina 4; Michigan, North Caro- lina, and Oklahoma 3; Colorado, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Colom- bia, and Sweden 2; California, Del- aware, Iowa, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany and Hawaii 1. (Continued on next page) Between dips in the pool and keen competition, the Class of 1959 found time to learn much about Washington and Lee—and the ROTC OCTOBER 1955 3 Prior to their registration on Saturday, September 17, a record total of 265 of the new students attended the 24th Annual Fresh- man Camp at Natural Bridge. In between dips in the Gate House pool, trips to the famous Bridge itself, and keen football, softball, and volleyball competition, they found time to learn much about Washington and Lee from Univer- sity officials, faculty members, R.O.T.C. officers, the entire coach- ing staff, the president of the stu- dent body, and other student lead- ers and representatives of the vari- ous extra-curricular activities. Registration for the entire stu- dent body, except for those in law, was completed on ‘Tuesday, Sep- tember 20, and classes began at 8:25 am. the next day. At the opening assembly, Dr. Gaines turned over the lectern to his long- time friend and eminent southern journalist, John Temple Graves. Mr. Graves, in urging the students to take advantage of the current era of peace and prosperity to develop themselves as individuals, predicted that the world may be on the verge of permanent peace, albeit an “atomic peace,’’ and suggested that the year 1955-56 may be remem- bered as the year “the lights came on” in the world. So it was that Washington and Lee began its 207th year. It is ex- pected to be a year of challenge, of opportunity, and of activity. Fac- ulty members will enjoy another modest salary increase thanks in large measure to increased giving to the annual Alumni Fund last year. The Scholarship Committee will award to promising young men as much as $90,000 in scholarship as- sistance, compared with the $40,000 which they could award two years ago. ‘he new academic building, re- cently named Jessie Ball duPont Hall, will see its first full year of productive service. Varsity football will be renewed in October under a new athletic policy. Homecoming will take place on October 22. The first annual 4 Parents’ Day is scheduled for No- vember 19, and is designed as one of numerous steps being taken to bring the parents of students into closer relationship with the Univer- sity. In the Spring of 1956 the Mock Convention will attract na- tionwide interest. And somewhat later members of the Classes of 1906 and 1931 will return to the campus for special celebrations marking the 50th and esth anni- versaries of their graduation from the University. In short, it promises to be not only a full year but a significant year as well. THE UNIVERSITY m DURING THE 1954-55 COLLEGE year Washington and Lee received in gifts a total of $397,363. Of this amount, $75,788 was for current operations; the balance of $321,575 was for various endowment pur- poses and is exclusive of the $250,- ooo recently received from an anon- ymous donor. (see Scholarships) . Alumni giving for current oper- ations totaled $60,771. An addi- tional $44,691 was given for various endowment purposes, bringing the total of alumni giving to Wash- ington and Lee during 1954-1955 to $105,462. Corporations and other business concerns contributed $35,017. Of this amount $11,517 came through the Virginia Foundation for Inde- pendent Colleges, of which Wash- ington and Lee is one of twelve member institutions. The remaining $256,884 was given by other friends of the Uni- versity, the largest portion being a gift of $254,112 from Mrs. Alfred I. duPont to create the Jessie Ball duPont-Francis P. Gaines Fund. One-half of the income from this Fund is to be used for augmenting faculty salaries, the other half as scholarship aid for needy and prom- ising boys. Gifts such as these are sincerely and deeply appreciated. Not only do they help to satisfy some of the University’s urgent and basic needs, but also they give strong testimony to the faith that alumni and others have in Washington and Lee, its educational program, and its abili- ty to meet with wisdom and strength the challenging educa- tional opportunities of the future. Without in any way minimizing the great significance of these and other gifts already received, it can be pointed out that the University’s need for additional funds remains great, that it is many times that which was received during the past college year. For operating expenses alone it is estimated that an addi- tional $85,000 per year is required, a large portion of it in order to in- crease the salaries of faculty mem- bers to a more satisfactory level. An additional $1,000,000, or the equl- valent in assured annual income, is necessary if Washington and Lee’s scholarship offerings are to be more adequate to the need (see Scholar- ships). And while the needs have not yet been clarified fully, it is certain that several million dollars will be required for essential addi- tions and renovations to the Uni- versity’s physical plant. Hence, with gratitude for past beneficience and for the faith thus demonstrated, Washington and Lee will intensify its efforts to secure the new funds with which to meet the many de- mands placed upon it and as yet unsatisfied. m TWO BUILDINGS AT Washington and Lee, one of them over 30 years old and the other almost brand new, are going by new names this year. he Board of Trustees at its June meeting approved naming the chemistry building James Lewis Howe Hall in honor of Dr. Howe, professor of chemistry, emeritus, who still serves Washington and Lee as the University Historian. Dr. Howe retired from active teaching in 1938 after 44 years of service. The Board also designated the new academic building as Jessie Ball duPont Hall, honoring Mrs. Alfred THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE I. duPont, one of the University’s greatest friends and _ benefactors. duPont Hall, which was put into use last spring, houses office facili- ties for eleven professors and class- rooms for nine departments. OVER 50 COLLEGE athletic trainers gathered at Washington and Lee during the last week of May to at- tend the two-day session of the Sis- ley-Lutz Memorial Trainers’ Clinic. ‘The clinic, which was devoted to a review of new methods and equip- ment for keeping athletes physically fit, honored the late John M. “Red” Sisley of Washington and Lee and Fitz Lutz of the University of North Carolina, prominent southern train- ers, both of whom died in October 1954. It was under the direction of Washington and Lee’s new trainer, Delbert A. “Deb” Davis. Several outstanding orthopedic surgeons and other experts spoke on new, speedy ways to put injured players back into service without risk of permanent harm to damaged mus- cles and joints. mH SOME TWENTY-ONE MEMBERS of Washington and Lee’s faculty busied themselves this summer with travel abroad, writing, or study and research on favorite projects. Eight- een conducted their work with the assistance of the John M. Glenn grants-in-aid program, which has PusEy—to Germany OCTOBER 1955 as its ultimate purpose to enhance undergraduate instruction at the University and which made avail- able to these faculty members for various summer-time activities a total of $7,100. Among faculty members return- ing from abroad was Dr. David W. Sprunt, director of religious activi- ties, who spent six weeks in the Holy Land with eleven other Amer- ican religious studies professors. Funds for the sojourn were admin- istered by the Department of He- brew of New York University. While in Israel, Dr. Sprunt repre- sented Washington and Lee at the dedication of Bar-Ilan University, JUNKIN—to Italy and France an institution founded by Ameri- cans near Tel Aviv. Dr. William W. Pusey, III, spent the summer in Germany, where he studied advanced courses in the German language and national lit- erature. Dr. Marion M. Junkin, ’27, professor of fine arts, toured Italy and France studying art works im- portant in the art history courses which he teaches. Dr. Marshall W. Fishwick, associate professor of American studies, also visited Eu- rope during the summer to gather material and slides on the ancient and medieval worlds for use in history and fine arts courses. En route he lectured to student and immigrant groups for the Council SPRUNT—to the Holy Land on Student Travel. And, after a full year of study in Austria and Italy, Dr. William A. Jenks, ’39, returned to Lexington to resume his duties as associate professor of history. His work abroad was made possible by a Fulbright Scholarship and a Ford Foundation grant. Numerous faculty members put in long hours at their desks pre- paring manuscripts for textbooks and articles. Dr. Esmarch S. Gil- reath, new head of the Department of Chemistry, began work on a textbook in the field of inorganic chemistry. It will be his second work in this field in recent years. Dr. Jack N. Behrman, associate pro- fessor of economics, joined with Dr. W. E. Schmidt of George Wash- ington University in writing a text on international economics. Re- vision of Industrial and Commer- cial Geography by Dr. M. Ogden Phillips, Wilson Professor of Eco- nomics, and Dr. J. Russell Smith of Columbia was completed this summer and the new manuscript sent to the publisher. The text is a widely-used study of the world’s sources of raw materials and man- ufactured goods. And work on an introductory textbook in political science occupied the vacation months of Dr. J. Harvey Wheeler. In the Department of Romance Languages, Dr. L. L. Barrett en- gaged in the translation of a Brazil- 5 ian novel and prepared a combina- tion anthology and literary history for his third-year Spanish course, while Professor George J. Irwin worked on the translation of Ray- mond Aron’s Introduction a la philosophie de VU historve. Paxton Davis, assistant profes- sor of journalism, completed work on his second short novel soon after Bluebook Magazine accepted his first story, written during the summer of 1954. Publication date in the magazine has not been an- nounced. The July issue of Virginia Min- erals contained an article by Dr. Marcellus H. Stow, professor of geology, dealing with uranium de- posits in the Old Dominion. Meanwhile, other professors who were not putting their own thoughts on paper were getting new ideas from a multiplicity of sources. Dr. A. Ross Borden, associate pro- fessor of English, did research in English literature of the Eliza- bethan age at the Huntington Li- brary in California, while in Lex- ington contemporary literature was under special study by Dr. Marvin B. Perry, Jr., also an associate pro- fessor of English. Accounting pro- fessor Jay D. Cook continued re- search and writing on his doctoral dissertation at Ohio State Univer- sity; Dr. Robert F. Gemmill, assist- ant professor of commerce, worked on the theory of taxation; and Ed- ward C. Atwood, Jr., assistant pro- fessor of economics, spent the sum- mer in New York City studying the internal operations of the Bankers ‘Trust. Dr. R. Winter Royston, associate professor of mathematics, attended seminars and audited classes in mathematics and statistics at the University of Michigan, while at the University of Minnesota Dr. Charles W. Turner, associate pro- fessor of history, studied the history of the American West and South- eastern Asia. Journalism professor O. W. Riegel carried on research relating to technological and mana- gerial advances in the mass media fields. And Dr. Allen W. Moger 6 continued his research into the papers and correspondence of Gen- eral Robert E. Lee, a project which he began several years ago. Dr. J. Keith Shillington, assistant professor of chemistry, joined by George S. Denning, ’54, and Ogden B. Ramsay, ’55, remained on the campus where he directed a Na- tional Science Foundation research project on the resolution of op- tically active compounds through the carbonyl group. ‘The Founda- tion has provided $6,000 toward the two-year project. mH THE APPOINTMENT during the summer of instructors in account- ing, mathematics, and physical edu- cation brought Washington and Lee’s faculty to full strength for the opening of the college year in Sep- tember. ‘Thomas E. Ennis, of Salis- bury, North Carolina, who received his Master of Business Administra- tion degree at the University of North Carolina this summer, has joined the staff as an instructor in accounting. Eldridge H. Moore of Richmond has taken over duties as an instructor in the mathematics department, easing a teacher short- age which has existed there for several semesters. He holds a B.A. degree from Hampden-Sydney Col- lege where he was a member of ODK and vice-president of the stu- dent body. Fugene Corrigan, a Baltimore native, has joined the physical edu- cation staff, with additional duties as lacrosse and soccer coach. He re- places Charles J. Herbert, who re- signed in August to accept a posi- tion with a Maryland real estate firm. Corrigan is a 1952 B.A. grad- uate of Duke University where for four years he won All-American honorable mention in lacrosse. Af- ter graduation he went directly to lacrosse-conscious St. Paul’s School in Baltimore where he served for three years as head coach. During this time he played for the Mt. Washington Lacrosse Club, which is considered to have the best stick- men in the nation. In Herbert’s departure Washing- ton and Lee loses one of the most energetic and successful men the coaching staff has boasted in many years. On the remnants of a 1953 soccer team, which scored only five goals while losing seven contests, he built a 1954 squad which won five, lost three, and tied two. The 1955 NCAA soccer guide described Washington and Lee as the most improved team among the southern independents. And in lacrosse, Her- bert, an All-American player him- self, molded a team that chalked up the best season’s record in Blue and White history. The Generals won five, lost two, and tied one, and were tagged as a budding power in lacrosse circles. While at Washington and Lee, Herbert’s enthusiasm and his touch for successful promotion helped to make the Indian game a spectator sport. Extremely popular with the students, his loss will be keenly felt. Illness in his family, however, and a desire to be closer to his Bal- timore home prompted his decision to leave the University. m ALL FULL-TIME faculty members and other employees of Washington and Lee received a five-per cent salary increase effective September 1. It was the ninth such increase since World War II and the second within a year. In announcing it Dr. Gaines noted that it was made pos- sible through “increased donations from alumni and gifts from leading corporations and industry, princi- pally in Virginia.” LAW SCHOOL ELEVEN WASHINGTON AND LEE men were among 121 candidates who successfully passed the Virginia bar examinations given during the sum- mer. Included were William R. Cogar, Richmond; Charles L. Har- rington, Marion; Milton Thomas Herndon, Lexington; William J. McGhee, Salem; Walter J. McGraw, Richmond; William B. Poff, Vick- ers; Kent Rigg, Wise; Robert J. Sheffler, Roanoke; Beverly G. Steph- (Continued on page 8) THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE An Open Letter to All Alumni Bx. FOR THE DECISION made twenty-three years ago to create the Alumni Fund, there undoubtedly has been no action concerning the Fund more significant than that taken by the Alumni Fund Council on October 1: The Council set the goal for the 1955-56 Alumni Fund at $100,000. Why the large increase over previous years? The reason is clear. The University’s needs for additional unrestricted funds for operating purposes are well defined and urgent. They total $85,000 annually. The largest single part is required for faculty salaries: (1) to restore to faculty members the purchasing power they have lost during the post-war years and (2) to better enable Washington and Lee to meet the increasingly intense competition for well- qualified replacements as from time to time such replacements become necessary. Other of the Uni- versity’s important operating needs include funds to supplement the salaries of other University per- sonnel, to purchase books for the library, for special equipment, lectures, seminars, concerts, exhibits, and professional travel, and last, but by no means least, for general maintenance. Is it possible to reach the goal? In the opinion of the Fund Council, yes; and for the following reasons: m Ihe needs of the University have been defined clearly in Development Program studies conducted during the past two years. a During the same period new procedures and new equipment have been introduced into the Alumni Office, making it possible to organize and service the Alumni Fund program far better than ever before. a The Fund Council is convinced that there is a large potential for giving to be de- veloped in Washington and Lee’s alumni body, and as evidence of that points to the alumni funds of many similar institutions with which our fund should be com- parable, but is not. m The Council is convinced, also, that a portion of the alumni body much larger than last year’s 25.3 per cent will give annually to the University when the need for their doing so is placed alongside their affection for Washington and Lee and their appreciation for what the University has done for them. m The Council believes that many alumni, when fully apprised of the need, will want to make annual gifts well in excess of last year’s $23.29 average if financially able. m And finally, the Council feels that with the prosperity of the country at an all-time high, it is logical to hope for a maximum gain in annual giving at this time. Nothing less than the thoughtful assistance of every alumnus is necessary to attain the goal that has been set and the funds that Washington and Lee needs. When you hear from your Class Agent, your Regional Agent, or from the Alumni Office itself, respond thoughtfully and proportionately—in pro- portion to your concern for education of the kind Washington and Lee offers and in proportion to your individual ability. THE ALUMNI FUND COUNCIL PAUL C. BUFORD, ‘13, Chairman J. B. StomsBock, ’41 H. GRAHAM MorIsON, ’80, Vice-chairman FRANK C. BROOKs, ’46 KENNETH P. LANE, ’36 Joun F. HENpon, ’24 IsADORE M. ScoTT, ’37 H. K. (Cy) Youne, ’17 A total of 2,684 alumni contributed $62,508.27 to the 1954-55 Alumni Fund. A full report will be sent to each alumnus in early November. OCTOBER 1955 enson, Wakefield; Wiley R. Wright, Jr. Alexandria; and Frank I. Rich- ardson, Jr., Martinsville. All are law graduates except Wright, Hern- don, Richardson, and Stephenson, who are now in their senior year. = ELEVEN LAW STUDENTS AND two law professors attended the two- week summer training period of the Judge Advocate General Branch Department of the Army Reserve School at Fort Meade, Maryland, in July. The professors, Col. Charles P. Light, Jr., director of the Washington and Lee unit of the JAG reserve program, and Major Charles V. Laughlin, both served as instructors at the school. ‘Town- send Oast of Portsmouth, Virginia, a student, also was on the staff. In addition to his summer camp activities, Col. Light represented Washington and Lee in visits to summer camp units at Fort Meade and Fort Eustis. AMONG OTHER GIFTS received by the University during the final days of the 1954-55 session was a substan- tial library belonging to the late John W. Davis, ’95, of New York. Mrs. Charles P. Healy of New York, Mr. Davis’s daughter, pre- sented the University with her fath- er’s complete law library and an extensive collection of historical and biographical works dealing mostly with the United States. Mrs. Healy also gave to Washington and Lee a magnificent portrait of the former Ambassador to Great Britain and 1924 presidential can- didate. These gifts were in ad- dition to a $25,000 bequest to the University provided by the famed lawyer in his will. THE MARRIAGE OF Miss Nancy McIntyre Inscoe of Lexington to law professor ‘Theodore Allyn Smedley took place Friday, July 8, in the West Haven Presbyterian Church at Rocky Mount, N. C. ‘The bride has been director of Chris- tian education at the Lexington 8 Corps Commander GOOCH Presbyterian Church for the past two years. ROTC m THE DEPARTMENT OF Military Science and ‘Tactics has announced the appointment of R. Gordon Gooch of Fort Worth, ‘Texas, as Corps Commander for 1955-56. A senior, Gooch will hold the rank of cadet colonel. He succeeds Lowell D. Hamric of Lexington. Gilbert R. McSpadden, Jr., of Memphis, ‘Tennessee, will serve as Gooch’s executive officer with the rank of cadet lieutenant colonel. Both men served as company com- manders last year. mH WASHINGTON AND LEE’S ROTC has a new commanding officer this year. Lt. Col. Richard W. Jones, Jr., who headed the program since its be- ginning in 1951, was relieved of his duties early in August by Lt. Col. Charles E. Coates, Jr., a veter- an infantry commander and a mem- ber of an “old Army family.” ‘The transfer of a command from a Transportation Corps specialist to a combat training expert com- pleted the switch by Washington and Lee’s unit from a ‘Transporta- tion Corps program to a Branch General program. ‘The latter is de- signed to give young men officer training of a more general nature. ‘The reserve officers who graduated last June were the first Washington and Lee cadets to get their gold bars under the Branch General pro- gram and to be assigned to the branch of service most in need of replacements rather than to the Transportation Corps. Emphasis during the four-year Branch Gen- eral course will be upon training for the infantry, armor, and artil- lery, the Army’s principal combat arms. ‘This changeover is a part of a general Army ROTC revision which has removed virtually all campus units from the field of specialist training. The new PMS&T (professor of military science and tactics) is a West Point man who graduated in 1939 as a distinguished cadet. His extensive World War II combat record includes participation in the invasions of Saipan and Okinawa. Son of a retired colonel, he and three brothers elected to follow mil- itary careers. ‘Iwo of them were killed in action, one in North Afri- ca and one in Korea. Col. Coates recently returned from Thailand where he served as a member of a team of American advisors to the Royal ‘Thai Army. He and Mrs. Coates have three children, Charles, III, age 7; Robert, age 4; and Sal- ly Ann, age 1. Col. Jones, who left Lexington in late August enroute to his new as- signment with the United Forces at Rochefort, France, left behind him a distinguished record. ‘Typical of that record is the showing made by Washington and Lee cadets in summer camp competiton with stu- dents from other colleges at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, and at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Sixty-one ca- dets trained at the former; the final five graduates for the ‘Transporta- tion Corps completed their re- quirements at the latter. In all, 1,065 cadets from thirty colleges were in training at Fort Meade. The school contingents did not train as units, but were dis- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE tributed throughout training com- panies that number approximately 160 men each. ‘Three Washington and Lee cadets— R. Gordon Gooch of Fort Worth, Texas, Charles A. MacIntosh of Haverford, Pennsyl- vania, and Gilbert R. McSpadden, Jv. of Memphis, “‘Tennessee—won honors as top cadets in their re- spective companies. Fourteen of Washington and Lee’s sixty-one man group were cited as Distin- guished Military Students. While no official information is as yet available to indicate how these men compared with other colleges in the final over-all standings, Washing- ton and Lee men did finish third in rifle marksmanship. At Fort Eustis the University’s five cadets achieved an eighth place ranking for Washington and Lee among twenty-seven colleges. And, as if the foregoing were not enough, the three officers and two enlisted men of Washington and Lee's Military Department who helped train cadets at summer camp all received “superior” ratings. SCHOLARSHIPS m ONE OF THE MOST HEARTENING de- velopments at Washington and Lee during the past year has had to do with the increased funds which have become available for granting scholarship aid to students of out- standing promise. ‘The lack of such funds has long been one of the prime concerns of both faculty and administration. It is not sur- prising, therefore, that the special committee appointed in conjunc- tion with the Development Pro- gram to study student needs gave top priority to the necessity for procuring additional scholarship funds. More specifically, the com- mittee recommended that $2,000,- ooo in additional endowment, or the equivalent in assured annual income, be sought for undergradu- ate awards, and another $250,000 for Law School awards. During the past year large strides have been taken toward the reali- zation of these goals. At the 1955 Commencement exercises Dr. Gaines announced the establish- ment of the Letitia Pate Evans Scholarships. ‘These include ten of the largest Washington and Lee has ever offered, carrying stipends of $1,250 a year, or $5,000 for a four- year period. ‘Twenty other Evans Scholarships were established at $550 a year, or $2,600 for the four- year period. ‘These awards will be based upon character, relative need, and promise of collegiate success. Less than three months later Dr. Gaines announced the receipt of a gift of $250,000 from an anony- mous donor to be used primarily for scholarships. ‘These new awards will be known as the Robert E. Lee Scholarships, and will carry annual stipends ranging as high at $1,800. Criteria for awarding them will be similar to those governing the award of Evans Scholarships, with the additional stipulation that spe- cial consideration be given to South- ern students. ‘This latest gift, which is to be ex- pended over a period of years, to- gether with the Evans Scholarships and the duPont-Gaines Scholar- Forty-three aspirants once again sent football’s familiar sounds echoing across the campus in September (see story on next page) OCTOBER 1955 9 ships which were established a year ago with an endowment of $126,000, will increase Washington and Lee’s total scholarship awards from ap- proximately $40,000 per year, the level at which they stood two years ago, to $g0,000 annually* begin- ning with the 1956-57 college year. ‘To put it another way, this gain represents the realization of about $1,250,000 Of a $2,250,000 goal. In recent years Washington and Lee has provided scholarship assist- ance to approximately 12 or 13 per cent of its student body. ‘The com- mittee reporting on student needs stated its conviction that within a ten-year period Washington and Lee should be in a position to ex- tend scholarship assistance to be- tween 15 and 20 per cent of the University’s total enrollment. Even this goal will fall considerably short of the percentage currently achieved by many of the nation’s colleges and universities with which Washington and Lee is similar. For this reason, 1t seems proper to ex- pect that beyond the goals set for the decade immediately ahead, Washington and Lee's long-range aim will be for a still greater measure of scholarship assistance, both percentage-wise and dollar- wise, for its students. FOOTBALL m@ THE FAMILIAR SOUNDS OF football practice are echoing across the campus from Wilson Field again this month, and for faculty and stu- dents alike it is a welcome return of varsity competition to Washington and Lee. In all quarters interest is running high as to how the Gen- erals will fare after a one-year ab- sence from intercollegiate contests. A squad of 43 players answered Coach Bill Chipley’s call for early practice, a response which Chipley described as “gratifying.” Included *This is entirely apart from athletic grants-in-aid which the University is under obligation to continue for those who were recipients of such aid under the previous athletic policy. 10 were nine freshmen candidates who wrote to the Generals’ head coach during the summer requesting per- mission to attend early drills. ‘he team strength was augmented some- what by freshman players when orientation and registration activi- ties were completed. ‘T'wo-a-day practice sessions were begun on September 8 and _ con- tinued through September 19 when a normal afternoon schedule for workouts was adopted. ‘The general pattern of training during the early sessions was for conditioning and signal drills at the morning period, with pads and scrimmage on tap for the afternoon practice. ‘Team morale is high, and the coaching staff is impressed by the fine spirit being shown by _ the “play for fun” squad. Chipley cred- its strict adherence to practice schedules with being a contributing factor to the team’s attitude. ‘““They know we're going to work for an hour and a half at each practice and they know we're going to work hard every minute of the way,” Chipley explains. “We let the boys know where they stand on every- thing and they like it that way.” Assisting Chipley with the coaching duties are his two full-time assistants, Boyd Williams, who di- rected last fall’s interim football activities, and ex-General star half- back Charlie Harrington. ‘Two part-time coaches, Stuart Barbour, a law student who played a lot of football for Virginia, and Roger Bond, who played at Washington and Lee under Coach Carl Wise, are helping out, also. Included on the team roster are several players who came to Wash- ington and Lee through the recruit- ing efforts of Coach Wise under the old program. There is no compul- sion upon these boys to play, and the fact that they are taking part under the new program is a heart- ening sign to Chipley. Several of these boys are slated for key roles in the Generals’ plans for the sea- son, but Coach Chipley emphasizes strongly that no position on the team is “sewed up,” and he adds that he would not be surprised if some starting berths are occupied by freshmen and upperclass ‘“new- comers” to varsity football. With the opening game sched- uled for October 8, the coaches are having more time than usual to whip their team into shape. Great stress is being placed both on individual and on group coaching. Chipley feels that in Williams and Harrington he has two of the finest men possible for this job. An over- all characteristic of the squad is a lack of experience in college- caliber football, but Chipley says many of his least experienced boys are showing remarkable response to coaching efforts. While none of the coaches will admit that they are optimistic about the team’s prospects, no one is dis- couraged. In fact, concerning sev- eral players they show almost un- bridled enthusiasm. One of the Generals getting rave notices from his coaches is Lee Brantley, a senior guard from Bris- tol, Virginia. He started at Wash- ington and Lee under Coach Wise, then left school for a year before returning at mid-term last winter. Coach Williams says he is one of the finest linemen he has seen. Coach Chipley is especially proud of his corps of fullbacks. Four of them are over the 200-pound mark. Heading the list is junior Alex Platt of Greenwich, Connecticut, a boy Chipley says could make any football team in the Southern Con- ference. But the promising play of senior Dewey Oxner of Greenville, South Carolina, could force a shake- up in backfield plans to allow full and simultaneous use of the talents of both. Backing them up are soph- omore Rufe Safford of Wyoming, Ohio, and Dick Benes, a fine fresh- man from Cleveland. Halfbacks are in good supply with seniors Don Stine of Cumber- land, Maryland, and Carl Bailey of New York City the most likely bets for starting roles. But fresh- (Continued on page 16) THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE N AUTO-WEARY, sun-tanned tour- ist stood in the alcove at the Lee Chapel last summer, gazing with great interest at the recumbent statue of General Lee, seen through the iron bars of the gate which sepa- rates the statue chamber from the Chapel proper. “Why is he in prison?’ she wanted to know. With a quiet patience that has come with answering multitudes of such questions, Mrs. William Cabell Flournoy, Chapel curator and hos- tess for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, explained to the lady that the bars do not repre- sent confinement, but merely form an ornamental gateway. When the enlightened tourist and her husband had descended the stairs to the Lee Museum below the Chapel, Mrs. Flournory took a small composition book from her desk drawer and entered another notation, one of dozens relating to the odd and unusual comments of visitors, the strange questions, the fantastic misconceptions many per- sons have about Lee, his life, and his final resting place. Mrs. Flournoy has ample oppor- tunity to add to her notes. From October 1953 to October 1954, a total of 22,410 persons signed the visitor’s register at Lee Chapel. Countless others failed to add their names to the book, making an ac- curate count impossible. Figures for the current fiscal year are running well ahead of last year, and Mrs. Flournoy estimates that over 23,000 will have regis- tered by October 1. In July and August, the busiest months of the Shenandoah Valley tourist season, some 10,000 persons saw the Valentine statue, looked at Lee’s office, examined ‘Traveller’s bones, and browsed through the hundreds of curios in the Lee Mu- seum. [hey come from all over the world. ‘The register records address- es from every state and from almost every foreign nation. As many come from the North and West as from the South, and among the northern (Continued on next page) OCTOBER 1955 They Come from All Over FRANK A. PARSONS, '54 Director of Publicity 11 visitors are many who voice a gen- uine admiration of General Lee. A gentleman from Ohio told Mrs. Flournoy: “Lee is my ideal. ‘There has never been anyone big enough, or small enough, to criticize his character.” Among the thousands of recent visitors was the custodian of Lin- coln’s ‘Tomb. He, too, said he was a ereat admirer of Lee, and when he visited the museum he purchased a large portrait of the General. More than 23,000 visitors signed the Chapel register last year; countless others did not 12 ‘The current revival of interest in the War Between the States has been cited as a reason for increased attendance this past year. Mrs. Flournoy says there are more and more cogent, scholarly questions asked by visitors today than there were previously. “There are a great many young boys showing profound, intelligent interest in the War,” she points out. “I am amazed sometimes by the questions they ask.” Making up a large percentage of the spring visitors are school chil- dren on conducted tours. From late March until schools close in June they came by the busload, and in May alone over 3,000 youngsters passed through Lee Chapel. For these touring groups, both children and adult, Mrs. Flournoy has a special little speech which she delivers to the group seated in the Chapel pews. She touches only on highlights—the history of the University, the valuable portraits which hang on the Chapel walls, the Valentine statue, and the mu- seum. She has been over it so many times that it comes almost auto- matically, but her delivery is always fresh and spurs invariably the inter- est of her listeners. For the individual and for family groups, she explains only the re- cumbent statue, that it is not a likeness of Lee on his deathbed or in his tomb, but rather represents him resting in his tent on the battle- field. ‘To this information she has re- ceived some interesting responses, including “I don’t see no tent,” and “Huh, he went to bed with his clothes on.” Many tourists think Lee’s tomb is in the statue chamber, not in the mausoleum on the basement level. Others think he is buried at Arling- ton, or Richmond; and a few be- lieve he is buried on the battlefield. “AI of these have some logic, but I spend my days correcting people about General Lee and the statue,” Mrs. Flournoy says. Canadians, she adds, show a re- markable degree of intelligence concerning America’s Civil War history. And she says a very large number of visitors are colored peo- ple, and they, too, are usually well- informed about Lee and the history of his time. Of course, everyone who sees Lee Chapel also sees Washington and Lee University. But not everyone xnows just what the _ white- columned buildings are. Mrs. Flournoy has been asked if the THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Mrs. FLOURNOoY—from answering multitudes of questions has come a quiet patience University was a hotel, a country club, or if General Lee owned “all those red houses.” But, by and large, Lee Chapel and its proximity to the University campus provide Washington and Lee with one of its greatest public relations vehicles. Visitors often comment on the beauty of the cam- pus and the friendliness and good appearance of the students, and impressions gained in a few mom- ents at Lee Chapel often transforms Chapel visitors into University friends. Lee Chapel is a focal point of many phases of University life. Students are introduced to _ its straight-backed pews early in their college careers, for much of the freshman orientation program takes place there. Other meetings follow throughout the entire college year. Before long, students tend to take the Chapel and its historic signifi- cance for granted, but almost no one passes four years at Washing- ton and Lee without at least once spending an hour in the museum. The Chapel is an especially popu- lar attraction for students whose parents or girl friends visit the cam- pus for the first time. Because the tourist flow does not halt to accommodate University use of Lee Chapel, many unusual CCTOBER 1955 scenes have taken place. Once dur- ing a speech of a visiting dignitary, listeners were surprised to see a rather rotund, camera-draped tour- ist and his equally rotund wife, both attired in brilliant sports shirts and slacks, amble unconcernedly down the aisle, up onto the speakers platform and into the — statue alcove, completely oblivious to the three or four hundred persons in the Chapel. ‘The speaker, to say the least, was a bit shaken by the ex- perience. “The poise of the average tour- ist is remarkable,’ adds Mrs. Flour- noy. During the past summer the Uni- versity took steps to help preserve the dignity of the Chapel. For some years more and more tourists had taken to wearing shorts, and noth- ing was said to those who would visit Lee Chapel in this garb. But as shorts got shorter, University officials’ faces got longer, and the result was a decision to post small signs requesting adults in shorts not to enter the Chapel. The request has been well-received, and many visitors, realizing for the first time that the Chapel is also the religious center of the University, have re- turned to their cars for long trous- ers or skirts. For all the many thousands of tourists, Washington and Lee re- ceives no tangible profit from the proceeds of the small souvenir shop at the museum or from the recep- tacles for voluntary contributions. Donations average from $1,200 to $1,400 annually, while the gross income of the shop is close to $4,000 a year. Iwo small endowment funds provide around $350 annually for Lee Chapel. On the other side of the ledger is the cost of maintain- ing the building, lights, heat, insur- ance, janitor service, and the sal- aries of two part-time attendants in the souvenir shop. But the intan- gible value of Lee Chapel to Wash- ington and Lee is immeasurable, and the funds invested in its yearly operation are considered well-spent. Mrs. Flournoy is paid by the Virginia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Her father and five uncles were soldiers in the Confederate army, and she has been in her present job for “a long time.” She will not be quoted on the number of years. UDC groups are frequent visitors. Last year, the national organization conventioned in Roanoke and hun- dreds made the “‘pilgrimage’’ to the Shrine of the South. Next month, the state division also meets in Roanoke, and a large visitation to Lexington is expected. ‘These ladies will need no talk from Mrs. Flournoy to acquaint them with General Lee and the Chapel. While the UDC may pay her salary, she feels her real mission is with the misinformed touristry. Like the man who thought Lighthorse Harry Lee, whose tomb is beside General Lee’s, was the Confederate leader’s horse who was so dear to his master that he was buried close by. Or like the lady who thought General Lee married George Wash- ington’s daughter. But the entry in Mrs. Flournoy’s notebook which tops them all con- cerns the man who asker her: “Is Lee or Grant buried here?”’ 13 An alumnus, viewing his alma mater, concludes Irs PEOPLE wuo REALLY MATTER RAYMOND D. SMITH, JR., 755 XACTLY FOUR YEARS AGO, I came E to Lexington as a member of the freshman class. I was hot, tired, scared, and uncertain. I remained uncertain of Washington and Lee for the better part of my _ first two years there. But as I got bet- ter acquainted with the school and learned what it stands for, I came to love it. And a large part of my love for the University is based on the realization that—like all man- made institutions—it has a great many faults. But because of these faults, we have the privilege—and I do think of it as a privilege—of working to correct our faults. We can all recite the material lacks of our University: the need for more money, an auditorium, a din- ing hall, expansion and moderniza- tion of facilities for our laboratory sciences, and so forth. It seems to me, however, that people are really what matter, so I will deal prima- rily with the Washington and Lee family: our student body, our facul- ty, and our alumni. Among our alumni I include friends of the University and parents of students. Our student body is a very fine group. I enjoyed meeting men from many different parts of the country and especially several from abroad whom I number among the. best friends I made at college. I hope we may be able to bring more for- eign students to Washington and Lee each year, and also increase the variety of backgrounds—in other respects—evident there. I think one of the greatest of our assets always has been the relatively small size of our student body. By 14 your senior year, you know or know of nearly every member of the fac- ulty and student body, and our tra- dition of speaking to everyone we meet on campus, for example, thereby loses much of the super- ficiality which is sometimes felt to be attached to it. I have always been quite im- pressed by the achievements of in- dividuals in our student body—by our Moot Court Team which reached the national semi-finals, by our Rhodes Scholar, by the achieve- ments of our top graduates in the best graduate schools, by our Quiz Bowl ‘Team. But it is primarily Just a very small nucleus of leaders in scholarship and outside activities which upholds the reputation of this University outside of Lexing- ton. There are a great many others in the student body who neither contribute anything to Washington and Lee nor take very much of value from their four years there. They manage a “gentleman’s C” average, possibly afhliate themselves with the Mongolian Minks, and make it to graduation some way. _ I do not propose that we aim to- ward a student body made up en- tirely of Phi Beta Kappas, All- American lacrosse players, and Pub- lication Board presidents. I do feel, however, that the average stand- ards of the whole student body can and should be raised. ‘This job can be initiated by redoubling efforts to raise our entrance requirements. One of the best ways to do this is to increase the size of the group which applies each year to Wash- ington and Lee from which each freshman class is made up. Our alumni can be a great help here as I will point out later, particularly in view of the tremendous national increase in college applications. Toward this end, it seems to me we should concentrate more and more of our efforts on promising high school students, because they are harder to contact than are pre- paratory school students. Also the preparatory school boy is more likely to be equipped financially to attend Washington and Lee than is the high school student, though Washington and Lee’s increased scholarship aid is narrowing the margin. (See Scholarships, page 9.) An official of the Washington and Lee chapter of Phi Beta Kappa told me this past spring that of the fifty-odd men who had been initiated into the society since he became an officer, only about half a dozen of them were preparatory school graduates. Though these boys may be easier to contact, this seems to me to indicate that the top prep schoolers are being drawn off by the Ivy League schools. As in the case of high school candidates, per- sonal contacts through our alumni would do much towards steering more of the best preparatory school students in Washington and Lee’s direction. Once the student has been ac- cepted at Washigton and Lee and has become a member of the stu- dent body, the job of keeping his standards high depends on his at- titude and the attitude of the rest of the student body—what we might call “atmosphere.” This ‘‘atmos- phere” is created largely by the students themselves. The time must come when the student who spends his evenings in the library or at some other worthwhile task is re- spected by the majority of the stu- dent body and not made the favor- ite target of campus cynics. One thing that has troubled me about this University is that many students admit—in private— respect for the individual who works hard in the face of the many influences to the contrary, and they THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE may even attempt emulation. But very few of these students will ad- mit such feelings to a group of their fellows which they think may be the least bit hostile to such thinking. We need more men in the student body who will stand up for what they believe. During my four years at Wash- ington and Lee, I was constantly struck by the deep love of the older members of the faculty for Wash- ington and Lee and that for which it stands, and by the exuberant en- thusiasm of the younger members of the faculty for what the University can become. Our faculty is, by and large, a fine one. The University’s system— which is similar to that in most universities—of granting tenure to all faculty members holding associ- ate professorships or above, leaves some who receive tenure with no stimulus for further achievement or development. The newly instituted system of faculty grants-in-aid for research is providing stimulus in many cases where internal stimulus was not enough, though its most tmn- portant service is in providing the most intellectually active of our faculty members with the means to carry out their projects. Extensive work has been done by the faculty members individually and in time-consuming committee meetings to improve our curricu- lum. Comparison of a current cata- logue with one of four years ago will show just how much has been done. ‘There is, of course, more which can be done. For example, in this day and age courses in Russian history and in the culture of India are “musts” in any college. Wash- ington and Lee offers no such indi- vidual courses. I feel the freshman year can still stand a great deal of revamp- ing. The English Department has done something in this direction, but other departments should fol- low suit. It is a bit discouraging— especially during their first year at Washington and Lee—for the good students who graduate from top OCTOBER 1955 preparatory or high schools to come here and be required to take cer- tain freshman courses which are similar to ones they took in prepar- atory or high school, but are taught on an even lower level. In this same line, I certainly feel the freshman should have the right to elect at least one of his courses. Finally, we come to our alum- ni—the great reservoir from which a university should draw its sustain- ing strength. It always amazes me to note the lack of interest — both financial and otherwise — which many of our alumni seem to have in the affairs of their alma mater, in comparison with alumni of other schools of similar size and nature. Cy Young has worked constantly to draw our alumni back into the University “family” and with the establishment of Don Smith’s Of- fice of University Development, ef- forts in this direction have been re- doubled. I think, though, there is a great deal that our alumni—as individ- uals—can continue to contribute to Washington and Lee and this does not necessarily have to take the form of financial support. Simply being alert to the problems of the University and offering one’s serv- ices and suggestions where they ap- ply is an important way our alumni can help Washington and Lee grow. Even an occasional note expressing approval of some praiseworthy act of the University would be greatly appreciated by the hardworking administration and staff. Alumni can be a_ tremendous help in interesting the best high school and preparatory school stu- dents in Washington and Lee. The very fact that Washington and Lee’s graduates are so widespread may work to our advantage here. If each man would keep in touch with the schools in his community, get in touch with the top boys in the senior class, interest them in Wash- ington and Lee, and suggest their names to Dean Gilliam, we could easily raise our entrance standards because this would greatly increase the number of students who apply every year for admission to our freshman class. So I look upon Washington and Lee, taking account of its traditions and its achievements, but emphasiz- ing its human potential because the University’s ultimate greatness lies in the direction of constant growth and development of its human re- sources, and not in the direction ot placid acceptance of past accom- plishments. Here lies the challenge. And it is a challenge which each of us must accept or reject individual- ly, depending on how strong is our love for Washington and Lee. The author, graduate magna cum laude ...son of the late Raymond D. Smith, ‘22, and grandson of Henry Louis Smith... Fulbright Scholar currently studying at the University of Rennes, France... recipient of 1955 Washington Award for most distinctive service to the University... editor of Shen- andoah, managing editor of Ring- tum Phi and Southern Collegian ... dormitory counselor, member of Christian Council, chairman Friends of the Library... named to “Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities”... Phi Eta Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, and Beta Theta Pi. 15 seco oo man Corky Briscoe of Louisville, and junior Pres Pate of Joplin, Missouri, are keeping plenty of pressure on them. ‘The Generals’ quarterback stock took a sharp dip when it was learned that junior Dan Giger of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, would be ineligible this fall. But Chipley The gridiron staff: DAvis, WILLIAMS, BARBOUR, CHIPLEY, BOND, and HARRINGTON has come up with a handful of other signal-callers who may fill the bill. Top candidate is sophomore Roger Doyle, a Marine veteran from Pen- sacola, Florida, who has _ been switched from halfback. Giving him a strong race for the No. 1 spot are sophomore Al Gitter of Winston- Salem, North Carolina, junior @ SAMUEL COLVILLE LIND, ’99, was one of three chemists accorded. ad- ditional recognition on September 12, when Phi Lambda Upsilon, hon- orary chemical society, elevated him to honorary membership status. He received the certificate and key of honorary membership at the soci- ety’s fall luncheon. In all 127 per- sons have been thus honored in the society's 56-year history. The lunch- eon was staged in connection with the 128th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held at the University of Minnesota Sep- tember 11-16. Dr. Lind, a pioneer and noted authority on radiation chemistry, was for many years as- sociated with the University of Min- nesota as director of the School of Chemistry and Dean of the Institute of Technology. A past president of the American Chemical Society and former editor of the Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Dr. Lind is now—eight years after his formal retirement from the Univer- sity—actively engaged in research at Oak Ridge as a staff member of the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation. For Linb, honorary membership 16 Dickie Moore of ‘Towson, Mary- land, freshman Paul Knox of At- lanta, Georgia, and sophomore John Atwell, of Hampton, Virginia. The key to the Generals’ suc- cess this fall appears to be at the tackle post, according to the coaches. Chipley was almost pessi- mistic about this position before practice started, but the appearance of junior Ike Smith of Charleston, West Virginia, and freshman Joe Cambria of Westfield, New Jersey, has somewhat eased the situation. Center is in the capable hands of senior Dickey Johnson of Gibson Island, Maryland. Junior Jim May- oza, a graduate of Louisville’s Male High, could bolster this position or take over Johnson’s job, but as this is written he has not re- ported for pactice. Besides Brantley, Coach Williams is working with a bevy of other up- and-coming guards. Sophomore Fred Heina of Louisville and senior Barb Neblett of Washington are strong contenders for the position. End play will be in the hands of the teams’ sole 1953 letterman, senior Earl Gillespie of Coeburn, Virginia. He seems certain to rate a starting position, but the other end will be a toss-up among several less experienced candidates. One end who will see lots of action is sophomore Phil Brown, a former Navy “‘frogman” from Euclid, Ohio. As for a prediction of the sea- son’s record, Chipley is reluctant to put himself out on a limb. Al- though the schedule is far removed from the “killer” slates the Gen- erals played several years ago, Chip- ley feels it is still plenty rugged for his inexperienced squad. “Any schedule would be rough for us this year,” he says. “It all depends on how our boys come along under the coaching we’re giving them.” ‘Three home games are scheduled: for Wilson Field, opening with Centre College of Danville, Ken- tucky, on October 8, the Home- coming game aganist Southwestern of Memphis on October 22, and the Parents Day game November 19 against West Virginia Tech. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE sass yamine eer Miia, 03 Davin V. GUTHRIE was recently re- tired by Louisiana State University after teaching there for 44 years. He has been appointed as Head of the Department of Physics at Emory and Henry College. 06 HENRY C. ‘TILLMAN has just entered another term as Judge of the court of the Thirteenth Circuit of Florida. / 0 FRANK E. CASH retires this year after 33 years in the mining and safety di- visions of the United States Bureau of Mines. While serving the mining, petro- leum and allied industries as mining and supervising engineer, he was located at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1923-25; Bir- mingham, Alabama, 1925-41; Duluth, Min- nesota, 1941-49; College Park, Maryland, 1949-50; and Washington, D.C., 1950-55. Address: Route 2, Box 106-G, Panama City, Florida. / 3 CARL C. (RED) Moore, Central re- gional sales manager of Rockwell Manu- facturing Company’s Meter and Valve Di- vision, has announced his retirement after 25 years with the company. Mr. Moore, a native of Staunton, Virginia, will continue to act as a consultant for Rockwell until October 31, when he will move to a farm he owns near Staunton. He joined Rock- well in 1930 as general manager of the old Meter Parts Company of Columbus, Ohio, a former Rockwell subsidiary. In 1943 he was named Atlanta district sales manager and later served in the same ca- pacity at Columbus and Pittsburgh. He became Central regional manager in Pitts- burgh in 1952. His earlier experience in- cluded eight years as general superin- tendent of Lynchburg Foundry Company, Lynchburg, Virginia, and two years as a sales engineer for Mesta Machine Com- pany. / & LEE R. GRABILL retired as assistant manager of the Patent Division of the DuPont Company’s Legal Department, and secretary of the DuPont Patent Board, after a career of more than 30 years with DuPont in Patent work. OCTOBER 1955 D. B. WINFREY retired in January 1954 {from the Department of Justice after hav- ing been there 24 years. WALTER J. WILKINS, with his son, Howarp, continue in the cotton business. His son, Walter, Jr., ’41, is doing general surgery in Pine Bluff, and is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Morris MASINTER has recovered from an eight month’s illnes and hopes to “get back in the swim” in the very near future. Mr. Masinter’s son, Michael, will enter his sophomore year this September. 16 SAMUEL A. WobFsy, assistant pro- fessor of Spanish at the University of California, Santa Barbara College, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor. / & LrEsTER D. ARNOLD is sales manager for the H. F. Byrd Orchards at Berryville, Virginia, in addition to managing an orchard of his own. His son, JouN F., will will be a member of the Junior class this year. He was president of his class last last year. 2 / JAMeEs L. SHAVER has just retired as president of the Arkansas Bar Association. In addition to the practice of law he has spent a great deal of time in politics, having served his district in the lower and upper house of the State legislature. He has also served as Lt. Governor and legal advisor to two Governors when the legislature was in session. Mr. Shaver is practicing law at the present time with his son, J. L. Shaver, Jr., in Wynne, Ar- kansas. Eppi—E Lone, treasurer of the Huntington Seceeeeecnesecesceooceeeeooeeee Class of 1906 50-Year Reunion and Convocation May 11 and 12, 1956 Moore, ’13—aflter 25 years, retirement Publishing Company, Huntington, West Virginia, has many interests other than his business, one of which is following the golf career of his daughter, Berridge. Miss Long, a sophomore at Sophie New- comb College in New Orleans, Louisiana, played her way to the Finals in the Na- tional Woman’s Intercollegiate Golf Cham- pionship this past June. She lost to Miss Jackie Yates, a Hawaiian girl playing for the University of Redlands, California. 25 KENNETH A. GOODE, on June 24, completed 30 years of service with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. At present he is Tax Assistant in the office of Director, Tax Administration. HERBERT M. GoOuLp was elected a trustee of Dickinson College in June. He is general manager of the Motors Holding Division of the General Motors Corporation and for a number of years has been closely identified with the United Foundation of Detroit. ‘THE REVEREND BRUCE F. GANNAwAy, D.D.., was appointed as pastor of the First Meth- odist Church of St. Petersburg, Florida. at a recent session of the Florida Annual Conference. For the past five years he has served as District Superintendent, serving the Sarasota and Miami Districts. 2 6 CHARLES D. Burorp, 3107 Lake Forest Drive, Augusta, Georgia, has trans- ferred from Camp Gordon, where he has served as Red Cross field director for nine years, to a similar assignment in Alaska. A veteran of extensive Red Cross service, Mr. Buford served for more than three years in England and the Southwest Pacific during World War II. RALPH MASINTER, after many years prac- ticing law in New York, has moved to his old home in Roanoke, Virginia. He will become associated with his brother, Mor- bony lj RIS, 714, aS soon as he meets the six months residence requirements. 2/ GossETT W. MCRAE and an associ- ate purchased the International Ship Brok- ers Incorporated from the Waterman Steamship Corporation on July 31, 1955. The Company will continue its present operations in all its phases and handle all the business formerly conducted by the Contract and Chartering Division of Waterman Steamship Corporation includ- ing the newsprint operations, ship broker- age and chartering for the Waterman Steamship Corporation, The Pan Atlantic Steamship Corporation and others. 29 Lewis F. POWELL, B.S. ’29, LL.B. 0200000800680 008000000000080060000098000800800089808680800080000000 HEN WILLIAM H. KEISTER went W to Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1894, after four years at Washing- ton and Lee, he intended staying there for “just one year only” as principal of the high school. In 1947, some 53 years later, he he- tired as superintendent of the Har- risonburg School System, having gained state and regional recogni- tion as a leading figure in public school education. On August 25, 1955, a grateful community took the occasion of Mr. Keister’s goth birthday to dedicate the imposing W. H. Keister Ele- mentary School, Harrisonburg’s first major addition to its school facilities in 45 years, as a monu- ment to the man who made the city’s educational standards among the highest in the state. Over 500 persons attended, most of them former students of Mr. Keister who came to watch him cut a cake repli- ca of the new school and to hear testimonials at the biggest birthday party in Harrisonburg’s history. Among messages of congratula- tions was one from Dr. Francis P. Gaines in which he noted that Mr. Keister’s “competence and _his conscience in his work have enabled him to write a really significant chapter in the history of Virginia education.” That chapter includes fifteen years as supervisory princi- pal and thirty-one years as school superintendent. Because of the pop- ularity of private schools in the 1890's, his first job was “selling” the community on public educa- tion. He did the job and did it so well that other Virginia educators have long considered the high standards of the Harrisonburg public schools as a model. 18 The new school which honors him is itself a model elementary school. It includes eighteen class- rooms, one special activities room, and a combination auditorium, gymnasium and cafeteria. All furn- ishings are scaled to the size of the pupils who will use them. Although his primary work has been in education, Mr. Keister has also developed many other inter- ests, including leadership in com- munity and church affairs and an ardent devotion to sports and the benefits to be derived by young people from participation in them. Washington and Lee alumni may remember his humorous description of what may have been the first football contest between the Minks and Wahoos. Mr. Keister was a student on the sidelines that day, and his account of the dusty con- test, played in a virtual cornfield near the present site of Wilson Field, was carried in the Alumni Magazine several years ago. He KEISTER—institution and inspiration °81, was one of two members named to the Board of ‘Trustees of Hollins College Cor- poration in June. He has been associated with the Richmond law firm of Hunton, Williams, Gay, Moore & Powell since 1937. 3] LUTHER W. KING is now in his sixth year as minister of Fordham Meth- odist Church in New York City. He has ©60000008060600090090000000008000 wrote of how a Virginia player feigned serious injury on one play and scampered the length of the field for a touchdown on the next. Mr. Keister didn’t recall who won, but he felt sure “they” did. ‘The next year he was on the team himself, competing on a well-sodded but not quite level field near the site of the old Hotel De Hart. In one of the games against VMI, he broke a knuckle on his right hand which pains him to this day. He wrote Cy Young shortly after his retirement in 1947 that he was thoroughly enjoying his retirement “among my friends and former pupils who are kind enough to call and have an oldtime chat together.” Of Washington and Lee he had this to say: “After all the years, I am eternally grateful for what Washington and Lee did for me and has meant to me; it not only does for you, but does in you that which is helpful every day of your life—true, in my case, I know.” Of the great tribute accorded him by his townspeople, ‘Dr. Keister,” as he is called in Harrisonburg, told his friends he considered the nam- ing of the school for him as the greatest honor in his long life. In the dedication speech, Dr. Wil- liam R. Smithey, a long-time friend of Mr. Keister and a professor emer- itus at the University of Virginia, voiced Harrisonburg’s feelings: “Although this school will be known as the W. H. Keister School, the people of Harrisonburg do not need a school building to perpe- tuate your name. You have been an institution, an inspiration, and have been indispensible to the school system of this community.” THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE ANDERSON, ’38 served as director of the Church of All Nations in Manhattan, president of the Methodist Ministers Forum, and organi- zer of the Northwest Bronx Clergy Club. The King family consists of four children, Mary E., 14; William L., 12; John N., 10; and Edward W. C., 21 months. 32 CHARLES H. DAVIDSON, JR., B.S. ’32, LL.B. ’35, was nominated in the Demo- cratic primary on July 12 for the office of Commonwealth’s Attorney of Rock- bridge County. His opponents were DANIFL W. McNEIL, *12 and WILSON F. MILLER, 35. Mr. McNeil has been Commonwealth’s Attorney since 1942. 33 CHARLES J. LONGACRE is Principal of John Marshall School, Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is also a member of the Dele- gate Assembly of the New Jersey Educa- tion Association representing Union Coun- ty. 3 G Frep L. Fox, assistant general man- ager of sales for the Superior Steel Cor- poration of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, writes of a business and pleasure trip to Japan, Formosa, and Hong Kong. The trip cov- ered 30 days and was made via Alaska and the Aleutians. 35 BILL SCHUHLE, B.A. ’35, M.A. ’36, a member of the faculty of Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the social sciences from the University of Minnesota on August 18. Bill will be remembered as one of W&L’s many great hurdlers. His time of 23.8 seconds still stands as the Wash- ington and Lee record. 3 6 CHARLES A. SWEET is the president- OCTOBER 1955 elect of the Bristol, Connecticut, Rotary Club. He writes this should give a lifted eyebrow to some of his classmates who struggled through “Babbitt’ with him. In April, Charlie had a weekend visit from his friend, Prick Davis, ’36, who fiew in from Milwaukee. Harry L. BOwMAN is now living at 386 Cedar Avenue, Hawthorne, California, and is associated with the Carpenter Paper Company in Los Angeles. 38 BEN L. ANDERSON spent two years with Pan-American Airways in New York. After which he entered the armed forces. In May 1941 he was a Second Lieutenant in the 368th Infantry. He is now a Lt. Colonel and recently was graduated from The Infantry School’s Field Grade Of- ficer Refresher Course at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Ben holds the Bronze Star Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. SETH N. BAKER, formerly public relations manager of Sharpe & Dohme division of Merck & Co., Inc. has been named head of the Employee Communications and Community Relations Section of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, 1530 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia 1, Pennsylva- nia. In his new position Mr. Baker will supervise all intra-company public rela- tions projects, community relations pro- jects and the company’s general publicity program. After graduation here, Mr. Baker was engaged in newspaper work where he remained until entering the U. S. Army on March 1, 1941. After his discharge from the Army’s Medical Administrative Corps in 1946 with the rank of Major, he joined Sharpe & Dohme, Pharmaceutical firm. 39 SHERWIN BONINE FRENCH, in Sep- tember 1954, joined the Detroit staff of the Hearst Advertising Service. He and _ his wife, Christine, have two children and live at g06 Washington Road, Grosse Pointe 30, Michigan. Dr. F. PENDLETON GAINES, president of Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Car- olina, was one of 34 college presidents who were invited by the Carnegie Cor- poration to attend a two week seminar on College Administration at Harvard Uni- versity, June 19. ‘THOMAS W. CHRISTOPHER, former associ- ate professor of law at Emory University, has been promoted to professor of law and associate dean of the Emory Law School. | Class of 1931 25-Year Reunion and Convocation May 11 and 12, 1956 ©60000060000080808000800008008008080 BAKER, ’38 RoBerT S. Hoyt has been in the field of hospital administration since he was dis- charged from military service in 1945, and has been in his present position as hos- pital administrator at Lutheran Hospital of Maryland, Baltimore, since 1949. Be- fore assuming this position he was di- rector of the Harford Memorial Hospital in Harve de Grace, Maryland. Last year he served as president of the Maryland- District of Columbia-Delaware Hospital Association. The Hoyt’s family consists of three children, Rob, 12, Ridgeley, 7, and Isabel 2. Address: 518 Chestnut Avenue, Towson 4, Maryland. 40 HENRY BRAUN is operating a sailing and sight-seeing service in Acapulco, Mex- ico. His boat, Barca De Oro, II, is the largest yacht in Acapulco. The Barca De Oro, I, with Captain Braun as navigator and skipper sailed around the world from July 1947 to May 1950, covering 28,000 miles, totally under canvas. DONALD ‘THOMAS BurRTON for the past seven years has been associated with Piel Bros. and is now Connecticut state wholesale manager. Residence address: 148 Pointe- Beach Road, Milford, Connecticut. JOHN S. HUNTER, Jr., and family, wife, Louise, and daughter, Carol Ann, who is six, live at 1804 North Grand Oakes Avenue, Altadena, California. John is a manufacturer’s agent in Los Angeles. 4] H. ‘THoMaAS MarrTIN has recently ac- cepted the position of resident manager of the newly opened Roanoke branch of Mason-Hagan, Incorporated, investment bankers of Richmond. Mr. Martin was formerly associated with the American Brokerage Company of Roanoke and at one time southern division manager for Rockwood and Company of New York. More recently he was with the investment 19 ©00600000090860000000800969639608090080600000608060860800600080800008008 F ANYONE MENTIONS “Lawyer Vickers” around Fayette Coun- ty, West Virginia, the likely inter- jection from a listener is “Which one?” It could be any one of four brothers who are currently practic- ing law there, and the West Vir- ginia State Bar News believes this family affair is unique among American attorneys. American Bar Association records reveal no other instance in which four brothers are practicing law simultaneously, let alone at the same time and in the same locality. ‘The new record was established this spring when George L. Vickers graduated from West Virginia Uni- versity’s law school and joined his three brothers, Arnold M., Carl B., and Earl M. Vickers, in Fayette County where their hometown of Montgomery is located. Arnold, Carl, and Earl are all Washington and Lee law graduates. ; Arnold, a member of the law Class of 1931, plunged into public service soon after he left Lexington. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1934 for one term, and since then has served two The brothers Vickers: Standing, EARL, 49, and GEORGE; seated, ARNOLD, ’31 and CARL, ’34 terms as state senator and three as mayor of Montgomery. According to the Bar News, he is being men- tioned prominently as a_ possible candidate for the Democratic nom1- nation for governor in 1956. While at Washington and Lee he was initi- ated into Phi Alpha Delta legal fra- ternity. Carl, who also received his B.A. degree at Washington and Lee, finished law school in 1934. Dur- ing undergraduate days he was president of the sophomore class, vice-president of the student body, a member of ODK, an Executive Committeeman, and a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He has served four terms as Fayette County prosecuting attorney and in 1952 was elected to a six-year term on the county court. Class- mates will remember him by the nickname “Happy.” Earl was also an Executive Com- mitteeman and a member of ODK and Phi Delta Phi. He received his law degree in 1949 and, as Arnold and Carl, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity. @20960006€000890090606000080096906090000000000608006900008000080008 20 banking firm of R. S. Dickson and Com- pany of Charlotte, North Carolina, as man- ager of its Greensboro office. 42 WALTER C. ABzERG and his family visited the campus during the summer. Walter is now associated with the T. J. Bettes Company of California at 3779 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. JOHN JOE WILKINSON, Portales, New Mexi- co attorney, has been appointed assistant and acting state Democratic chairman. Mr. Wilkinson assumed his new duties in April. John and his wife, Eloise, have two children, Marian Eloise, 5; and Joseph Williams, II, 2. Address: 206 Lugar de Monte Vista, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. ANDREW STEPHENS LANIER and his wife, also a doctor, have opened offices for the practice of medicine and surgery in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. ‘THE REVEREND KENNETH SKAU CLENDANIEL was graduated May 26, from The Southern Baptist ‘Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, with the Bachelor of Divinity degree. 43 Dr. JOHN C. W. CAMPBELL an- nounced the opening of his office at Main St., Southold, Long Island for the prac- tice of general medicine and_ surgery, also the diseases of infants and children. ROBERT FRANCIS JOHNSON, associate profes- sor of Old Testament at the College of The Bible in Lexington, Kentucky, for the past two years, has been appointed an assistant in religion at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Residence address: 13 Massasoit Street, Northampton, Massachusetts. 44 LEON W. Harris, JR., iS practicing law with his fahter LEON W. Harris, ’15, under the firm name of Harris and Harris in Anderson, South Carolina. He writes his Class Agent that he and his family are enjoying a new home at 2403 Edgewood Avenue. He further writes that one-year- old Leon, III, (Little Stick) is coming along fine and hopes to have him tossing the basketball for Washington and Lee about 1972. Rosert H. Seat has been named assistant vice-president in the installment loans de- partment of the Groos National Bank, San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Seal has done exten- sive work in the field of installment fi- nance with the General Motors Accept- ance Corporation. Prior to accepting this new position, he was in charge of credit for General Oldsmobile Company of San Antonio. Address: 416 Rittiman Road, San Antonio, Texas. 45 Davip W. (DINK) FOERSTER, B.S. ’47, LL.B. ’51, has recently formed a partner- ship with William D. Jones for the Gen- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE eral practice of law under the firm name of Jones and Foerster with offices located in the Independent Life Building in Jacksonville, Florida. 46 DONALD HILLMAN has recently changed positions and is now associated with Benton & Bowles as executive com- merical Producer and creative supervisor, working with Procter & Gamble and Gen- eral Foods for live and film telecasts. 4 & FREDERICK B. HOLLYDAY was award- ed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Duke University on June 6. He was ap- pointed a Ford Scholar under the General Fund for Advancement of Education at Case Institute of ‘Technology in Cleveland, Ohio where he will teach European his- tory this year. JAMeEs R. Lyte has formed a partnership with T. R. Bandy, Jrv., for the practice of law under the firm name of Bandy & Lyle, Kingsport, Tennessee. Jim was with Kingsport Times-News for a year and practiced alone since 1950. James R. Lyle, Jr., (Robin) was born in September, 1Op4- HENRY J. FORESMAN, city attorney for Buena Vista for the past 3 years resigned, effective September 1. He expects to de- vote all of his time to his law practice and the duties of Commonwealth’s at- torney for the city. Dr. JAmMes A. CRANFORD, JRr., is in Char- lottesville, Virginia, taking special work in X-ray at the University Hospital. WILLIAM M. HARRELSON is a partner in the firm of Faust & Harrelson and has engaged in general practice since finish- ing school. He has served as City Attorney for Troy, Ohio, since October 1948. Joun M. STEPHENS has been with Kentland Coal & Coke Company of Pikesville, Ken- tucky since April, 1951, and is now su- perintendent with local supervison of g0,000 acres. He practiced law in West Virginia for three years and was admitted on motion to the Kentucky Bar. John is a member of Pikeville Planning Commis- sion, Kentucky Forest Industry Committee, and is president of Pikeville Rotary Club. H. Maurice MITCHELL is a partner in the firm of Lasley, Spitzberg, Mitchell & Hays, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Maurice was with the U. S. Treasury Department, and then served as Assistant Attorney, Arkansas State Revenue Department for two years. He practiced alone until Janu- ary 1954, when the present partnership was formed. Maurice has served as sec- retary-treasurer of the Arkansas Bar As- sociation since 1952 and as an instructor at the Arkansas Law School since 1951. The Mitchells have three children. 4 9 ALAN W. SPEARMAN, JR., is state sales representative for Jenkins Lumber and Manufacturing Company, owned and OCTOBER 1955 operated by RALEIGH JENKINS, ’24. Alan issued an invitation to his classmates and friends to visit him in his new loca- tion. Address: 2813—11th Avenue, S., Apartment B., Birmingham, Alabama. CHARLES H. LAUCK, JR., is presently teach- ing 8th grade math at the new consoli- dated Albemarle High School. He is also doing work toward a Masters Degree from the “Wahoo” institution. His wife (Jacque- line Epes of Blackstone, Virginia) is assistant in charge of exchanges at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Charlie was recently initiated into Phi Delta Kappa, honorary education frater- nity. EDWARD WADDINGTON became di'trict manager for the C. W. Stuart Company, Nursery stock and Landscaping, on August 1, 1955. Residence address: 169 Morristown Road, Elizabeth, New Jersey. R. CLAYTON CAMDEN has been appointed as principal of Parry McCluer High School, Buena Vista, Virginia. Mr. Cam- den assumed his new duties September 1. Trp ‘THOMAS, sales manager, Speaker- Hines Printing Company, Detroit, Michi- gan, has been actively associated with the experiments which his company has been conducting on printing a large publica- tion by dry and wet offset. He attended the annual convention cf International Association of Printing House Craftsmen which met in Cincinnati this year, Aug: ust 7-10. Harold Lauck, director of the Journalism Press at Washington and Lee, attended the same meeting and met Ted there. Address: 1405, Cadieux Road, Grosse Pointe 30, Michigan. J. CALvIN HANks was promoted to the po- sition of chief industrial engineer at the Covington Plant of Industrial Rayon Cor- poration. Mr. Hanks joined the company in 1949 aS a member of the Industrial Engineering Department. He was named assistant to the department head of the Dyehouse in 1952, elevated to assistant to the cloth area supervisor in 1954, and later appointed to the Production Super- intendent’s staff. He resides at Clearwater Park, Covington, with his wife Jeanne, and their six-year-old son, James C., Jr. 5 0 GEORGE W. WHITEHURST has started work on his Ph.D. and with other work planned for this winter has found it im- possible to continue as Class Agent for his class. He has done excellent work for the past five years and it is hoped he will serve his class again soon. RUSSELL VICTOR MARLER has been named head football coach at Maury High School in Norfolk. Address: 832 Gates Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia. STANLEY C. Brown, his wife, Ruth, and children, Cathy and Tommy, moved in June to their new home in Billings, Mon- tana, where Stanley will take up his new position of Chaplain of Rocky Mountain College. JosEpH H. McGerE is completing his “hitch” in the navy this fall at which time he will return to Charleston, South Carolina, to study for the bar examina- tion. He is presently stationed at Moffett Field, California, working as intelligence officer with one of the squadrons. His tours of duty consisted cf two years on the carrier Wasp, a tour in the West Pacific area and five weeks on Formosa in con- nection with the Tachen evacuation. Epwin' M. GaAINeEs has recently been awarded a Fulbright fellowship. Mr. Gaines, who has been doing graduate work in American history at the Univer- sity of Virginia for three years, left New York for England in September with his family for a year of study on Anglo- American relations leading up to the War of 1812. He has also received a Bennett Wood Green fellowship, established’ by a Virginia alumnus. While doing research work at the University of London, and elsewhere in England, Mr. Gaines will be working toward his doctorate of philoso- phy in history which he expects to re- ceive from the University of Virginia in August, 1956. 5. / EpWARD P. BASSETT received his masters degree in Journalism from the University of Michigan in June and will serve a one-year internship on the Louis- ville Courier-Journal. Address: 1321 Ever- ett, Apt. 2-A, Louisville, Kentucky. JAMES Z. SHANKS graduated from the Medi- cal College of Georgia on June 4, 1955. As of July 1, Dr. Shanks will begin his year of internship at the Parkland Hos- pital in Dallas, Texas. On August 14, 1954, Dr. Shanks and Sheila Grace Graf were married in Atlanta, Georgia. SOL WACHTLER has been with a New York law firm since his discharge from the Army. With his wife, Joan, and daughter, Lauren Jane, he is living at 133 Sound- view Drive, Lake Success, New York. BEAUFORD (BUDDY) CLARKE, JR., has com- pleted his time with the Navy and _ has opened a branch office of his father’s busi- ness, Clarke Sales Company, in Richmond, Virginia. Address: 74 Kenyon Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. JAMeEs E. CHAFFINS, after moving a good deal, incident to the nature of his em- ployment, is now settled in Richmond. Address: 3921 Alma Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. THomMAsS A. WASH graduated in medicine from the University of Virginia in June. He began his internship at the Univer- sity Hospital in July. JOHN WALLACE Kay was married to Shir- ley Ann Kulp, April 23, 1955, in Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. John is with the Armstrong Cork Company and_ covers the Cincinnati territory and resides in Cincinnati. Address: 2560 Ingleside Aven- ue, Cincinnati, Ohio. J. ALAN Cross, JR., completed his tour 21 of duty with the Navy in August, 1954, and after taking some graduate work in the field of insurance, is agent for State Farm Insurance Company in the Perrine to Homestead area in Florida, which is a large and promising territory. He was married to Mary Miller of Waban, Mas- sachusetts on June 6, 1954. Address: 9700 Dominican Drive, Cutler Ridge, Perrine, Florida. Davip C. LEACH served two years with the Army and upon his discharge joined his father in business, Leach Company, Osh- kosh, Wisconsin. Robert H. SALIsBury completed his gradu- ate work at the University of Illinois and in June he received a Ph.D. degree. He moved the latter part of July to St. Louis where he will teach in the Political Science Department of Washington University. ‘THE REVEREND JAMES C. FENHAGEN, II, became the Rector of St. Mark’s Parish, Frederick and Washington Counties, Maryland, on July 1, 1955. Since being ordained he has been assistant Rector of the Church of the Holy Nativity in Balti- more where he also taught at St. Paul’s School. Address: 112 “A” Street, Bruns- wick, Maryland. 52 WILLIAM S. HAGLER graduated in Medicine from the Medical College of Georgia, on June 4, 1955. Dr. Hagler has chosen to serve his internship at the Medical College of Virginia, Hospital Division, Richmond, Virginia. SAM CONKLIN is now living in Richmond working as an underwriter in the Branch Office of Maryland Casualty Company. He is associated with RALPH HANGER, ’23, and Harry MoreLaAnpb, ’37. Address: Mary- land Casualty Company, P. O. Box 1153, Richmond g, Virginia. JuLtAn B. FickLen has joined the faculty of Davidson College as an instructor in English. Mr. Ficklen received his B.A. de- gree from Washington and Lee, and was awarded his M.A. degree in English by the University of Virginia in 1954. He has completed additional work toward his doctorate. After two years of Army service he became principal of the New Hope Ele- mentary School, Stafford County, Virginia, and in 1952-53 was freshman English instructor at Stafford High School, Fal- mouth, Virginia. JoHN Davip MALEy graduated from Okla- homa University in June, 1952, with the B.A. degree. He entered the Air Force and received his wings in October, 1953. He was married to Miss Mary Kline on Or- tober 3, 1953, and is now stationed at Donaldson A.F.B., Greenville, South Caro- lina. Address: 10 Brookhaven Drive, Greenville, South Carolina. Don K. WILLIAMS was discharged from Army service in September, 1954, and is now working for Commercial Credit Cor- poration out of the New Haven office. Ad- dress: 5000 Whitney Avenue, Cheshire. Connecticut. OrEST NEIMANS is traveling for the Col- lege Department of Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing Company, promoting the sale of college texts as well as looking for new manuscripts. He covers 14 states, from Delaware to Florida, then West to Texas and Oklahoma. He started work- ing for the company after he was dis- charged from the service in October, 1954. Address: 37-18 Bowne Street, Flush- ing, Long Island, New York. Henry I. WILLETT, JR., returned from over- seas duty with the Army in Austria in September, and is now working on his masters degree in Education at the Uni- versity of Virginia. Address: 6430 Rose- lawn Road, Richmond, Virginia. 53 ROBERT C. COLES accepted the posi- tion of Highway Engineer, Bureau of Pub- lic Roads, Waynesville, North Carolina, on completion of his work in Engineering School, University of Connecticut. Bob and his wife, Nancy, are the parents of a daughetr, Loralyn Charlton, born May 5, 1955. Address: 114 South Welch Street, Waynesville, North Carolina. 54 Pvt. FRIEDRICH G. LACKMANN, JR., a member of the Washington and Lee “Quiz Bowl” team, 1953, finished his basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and left from Fort George G. Meade in August with his unit, the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, for Germany. HoraAcce Douty is now a second year student at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. This summer he as- sisted in the work of the Shemariah Church in Augusta County. SuRSE TAYLOR PIERPONT is now stationed with his army unit in Panama. Address: Box 331, It. Davis, Canal Zone, Panama. 55 WILLIAM C. GUTHRIE, JR., a June Law graduate, is now associated in the practice of Law with his father at Flori- da Title Building, Jacksonville 2, Florida. He is at present serving with the Air Force stationed at Wolters Air Force Base, Texas. ©0080 08000 0088000808 OHGOOHO6O898OHOHOHHOOHO0OO8HOOOHHO0OFOG88HOH88HHOT8O8HO8OO0COCOGHOBEEECO 1950 Joun Lee Hopkins and Lillian Daniel Dewar were married July 9, 1955, in Raleigh, North Carolina. WILLIAM BEN- JAMIN, HopkKINs, ’42, served his brother as best man and another brother, HENRY LEE, 52, was an usher. JULIAN (Jock) KNox Morrison and Jeanne 22 Frances Philibert were married July 20, 1955, in Miami, Florida. Gerry U. STEPHENS and Barbara Jean Coleman were married July 16, 1955, in Chattanooga, ‘Tennessee. 1951 HERBERT BOLLING MILLER and Dorothy Lyons were married June 4, 1955, in Petersburg, Virginia. 1952 JAMES RUTHERFORD Moore and Erika Nau- mann Tierney were married July 23, 1955, in Bluefield, West Virginia. Lr. Witt1AM Harvey WALLACE and June Delorse Kays were married July 9, 1955, in Louisville, Kentucky. 1953 WILLIAM LESLIE JOHNSON, JR., and Laura Marie Johnson were married March 20, 1955, in Richmond, Virginia. ROsSER W. DUDLEY, 753, was best man, and WILLIAM W. SHIERS, ’51, served as usher. JAMES FRANKLIN COLEMAN, JR., and Jean- ette Viar were married June 8, 1955, in Buena Vista, Virginia. RosBerT Howe THomaAs and Suzanne Hen- drian Douglas were married in La Jolla, California, September 3, 1955. They will be at home after September 15, at 3815 Monticello Drive, Forth Worth, Texas. 1954 PETER REESE DoyLer and Sally Ann Jack- son were married August 13, 1955 in Roa- noke, Virginia. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE ENSIGN CHRISTOPHER COLLINS and Lois Augusta Morrison were married August 13, 1955, in Staunton, Virginia. FRANK ‘TEMPLE HUNDLEY, III, and Margot Hull Mayes were married in Dallas, Texas, July 2, 1955- 1955 FORNEY RUTLEDGE DAUGETTE, jr., and Mary Reed Simpson were married August 6, 1955, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Lewis DeEscHLerR, II, and Sarah Frances Lomax were married in Buena Vista, Vir- ginia, August 14, 1955. FREDERICK M. P. PEaARsE, III, and Lucretia Grover Crater were married in Dover, New Jersey, August 27, 1955. MALCOLM STORER SAWTELLE and Rebecca Nelson Faxon were married July 30, 1955, in Quincy, Massachusetts. 1635 Dr. and Mrs. SipNey Lyons are the par- ents of a daughter, Regina, born July 5, 1955- 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Epwarp LERoy SEITZ are the parents of a son, Edward Leroy, Jr., born June 9, 1955. 1937 Mr. and Mrs. C. ARNOLD MATTHEWS are the parents of a second son, Charles Arnold, Jr., born October 2, 1955. Their son Kathy is four years old. Address: 1626 N.W. 7th Avenue, Gainesville, Florida. 1941 Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN THOMAS SNYDER are the parents of a son, Allen Thomas, Jr., born September 10, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. JouN E. Perry are the par- ents of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born September 7, 1955. 1942 Mr. and Mrs. GENE JOHNSTON of Shore Acres, Rock Falls, Illinois, are the parents of a son, Edward Robert, born March 2, 1955- 1944 Mr. and Mrs. ELtior Scuick are the par- ents of a daughter, Debra Lynn, born duly 8, 1955. OCTOBER 1955 Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS E. PETRIKIN are the parents of a son, David Evan, born Sep- tember 21, 1955. 1945 Mr. and Mrs. EpGAr DEAN FINNEY are the parents of a daughter, Cynthia Deanne, born May 27, 1955. Dr. and Mrs. Jos—EpH H. MAGEE are the parents of a daughter, Ruth Margaret, born July 14. 1955. Dr. Magee recently opened his office for the practice of medi- cine in Lexington, Virginia. 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd EUGENE FOosTER are the parents of a daughter, Jane Brugh, born July 1, 1955. The Fosters have an- other daughter, Joan Agnor, 3, and a son, Floyd Eugene, III, 5. Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES R. LEMON are the parents of a son, Christopher Richard, born March 24, 1955. 1952 Lr. (j.g.) JoseepH J. ErsterR and Mrs. EIsLER are the parents of a son, David Hamilton, born June 27, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. JosEPpH BLAIR YANITY, JR., are the parents of a son, Joseph Blair, II, born June 11, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Vicror E. BEHRENS, JR., are the parents of a daughter, Blaire Michele, born April 6, 1955, in La Jolla, California. 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Howarp A. Davis are the parents of a daughter, Virginia Lynne, born June 15, 1955. R. GALLATIN PAXTON and Mrs. PAXTON are the parents of a daughter, Susan Lee, born June 7, 1955. JULIEN M. BosstEux died March g, 1955. Mr. Bossieux had resided in Richmond, Virginia for many years. 1894 HENRY MAckEy MiLey died in Roanoke, Virginia, July 15, 1955. Mr. Miley had been a life-long resident of Lexington, Virginia, where until 1935 he conducted the Miley Photograph Gallery established by his father, Michael Miley. He collab- orated with his father in early work on color photography. 1903 JOsEPH WINFRED HARNER died at his home in Waynesboro, Georgia, December 28, 1954- 1907 Dr. EMory WEsT BiTzer died at his home in Hernando, Florida, June 7, 1955. Dr. Bitzer had practiced medicine in ‘Tampa for 42 years, retiring in 1949. His son, Emory WEsT, JR., was graduated from Washington and Lee in 1951. 1913 KYLE MENEFEE WEEKS, Floyd attorney and former member of the House of Delegates, died in a Roanoke, Virginia, hospital July 20, 1955. 1914 CLARENCE LANE SAGER died in a Green- wich Hospital, July 15, 1955, after an ex- tended illness. Mr. Sager was senior coun- sel on labor law for Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation with which com- pany he has had a long connection. He served as president of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association for two years, 1936-38. THOMAS FLEISHER OGILVIE died suddenly at his home in Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 3, 1955. 1916 CHARLES ROBERT Brown, Jr., died sud- denly at his home in Tazewell, Virginia, May 30, 1955. PARKER WILSON BUHRMAN died in Wash- ington, D. C., June 1, 1955. FRANK McCONNELL LEECH, prominent Lexington surgeon, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home August 9, 1955. He began the practice of medicine in Lex- ington in 1923 as the locality’s first sur- geon and was its only resident surgeon for a number of years. Prior to his coming here surgery patients were taken care of by Dr. R. P. Bell of Staunton. Dr. Leech had been a fellow in the American Col- lege of Surgeons since 1934. 1917 HENRY JACKSON BLACKForD died at his home of a heart attack July 28, 1955. Mr. Blackford was senior partner of A. M. Law & Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1920 Dr. RALPH Dotrs HUMMEL was killed in an automobile accident on July 27, 1955. He had been head of the chemical process- ing department at Parke, Davis & Com- pany, pharmaceutical firm, for 35 years. ERNEST NELSON TOWNES died August 19, 23 1955 at his home in Petersburg, Virginia. He had been associate police justice in Petersburg for 21 years. IRVINE BEAUFORT WATKINS died as the re- sult of a heart attack at his home in Hen- derson, North Carolina, September 12, 1955. 1922 RAYMOND Dupuy SmirH died suddenly of a heart attack suffered at his offce August 17, 1955. He was a son of the late Presi- dent Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee. He had been associated for many years with the Vick Chemical Company in New York. His son, RAYMOND, was a distinguished member of last June’s graduating class. 1923 T. JEAN Exuis died at his home in Miami Beach, Florida, August 1, 1955. He was in the private practice of law until 1939 when he was appointed assistant state attorney general. He won a name for himself in this office when he led Florida’s 1940 campaign against illegal gambling in Dade and Broward counties. He returned to the private practice of law several years ago. One of his three sons, EpwArp E., received his B.A. in 1952 and is now in his senior year of law at Washington and Lee. 1925 WILLIAM Epwarb Moore, Commonwealth’s Attorney of Waynesboro, Virginia, died unexpectedly while swimming in a swim- ming pool July 6, 1955. Mr. Moore served the Law Class of ’25 as Class Agent this past year. JosEPH FosTER ATKINS died March go, 1955, at his home in Shreveport, Louisiana. 1927 James Tuomas Davis died at his home in Richmond, Virginia, July 1, 1955. Mr. Davis was Secretary and ‘Treasurer for Jones & Davis, Incorporated. 1929 WALTER POWELL RITCHIE, JR., Colonel, U. S. Army, retired, died on May 26, 1955 in Camden, Arkansas. 1932 MELVIN HorTON KEMpTON died at _ his home in Southampton, Long Island on July 30, 1955. Mr. Kempton was director of adult education in the Yonkers Public Schools. 1933 HENRY DapbeE Foote died at his home in Alexandria, Louisiana, after a long illness. Mr. Foote had been president of the Foote Lumber Company since 1947. H. DADE Foote, JR., oldest son, entered Wash- ington and Lee with the freshman class this September. 24 WASHINGTON AND LEE Calendar of Events of Interest to Alumni 1955-50 October 21 Alumni Board of Trustees meets October 22 Homecoming Washington and Lee vs. Southwestern November 4-5 “Washington and Lee ‘Today’”’ A special program for Class Agents November 19 Parents’ Day January 19 Founders’ Day Convocation January 20 75th Anniversary Celebration New York Alumni Chapter New York City March 24 “Washington and Lee Today” A special program for Regional Agents April (to be announced) John Randolph Tucker Lectures William T. Gossett, vice-president and general counsel, Ford Motor Company May 11-12 50- and 25-Year Convocation and Reunion honoring Academic and Law Classes of 1906 and 1931 June 6 Finals begin June 7 Alumni Day Alumni Board of ‘Trustees meets Alumni Association meets June 8 Final Day June 30 1955-56 Alumni Fund closes *All events are in Lexington unless otherwise noted. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INCORPORATED OPERATING STATEMENT For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1955 OPERATING INCOME (Undesignated): ae BN ee $59,285.88 DESIGNATED INCOME: Fg CONTIG eis c ese nhsner antec ages cpeenctea den cs eee toebe ca coeaseenee nats $1,340.00 Mee Ov ell SemOlarsi FU... cases cesses cadens ecsdatswavscarereneturreeesaessoeges 100.00 Lniversity Development Endowment Fund.............000.. 0c. ieee 3,935.00 piety Development Building Fund... cece 5.00 a ic re ie eee: 345.28 a TE Pic ei ise deve eyed rere Shseaaee 20.00 University departmental operating 1NCOME................. ee ccs rcceceeseneeenesanee 1,300.00 Pe i EMCEE Se) cisececesesteseveseedercovscocecesous cnesummen tor enssstoigunsbraseieeeas 145.00 7,190.28 Ue MOAN ies caecee eh clone sensei mee eee ee ean $66,476.16 OPERATING EXPENSES: aie ae since pane eds tosesenn los saves cecme apes sete bo faeuge segue be oes $13,352.04 Oe a eels as lit lessees eer ee 5527-74 UG Naish io pion eee eset pe ptt oo bene Elvi Mele 8,032.99 ec en ls ss eye 1,371.28 EP UEN SU ee ee ee ee ee ee 1,351.72 OUNCE: Sse. Cee ee 664.03 eee a il es lens etter eegnds 749.50 “VC a cae ees este ee ygtsteciig ses ev cde versed cssincesesee vis cao unesiens 173.58 SC ieee ace ieee ence ere esc gn estes ced eeatbcree tuner leans 476.38 VOtal Opie TSS ica te lisa pins aneiyeveeeenornts Hee eee eee $31,699.23 OTHER EXPENDITURE: ECC URN TU I ie alee ips chee cens coe cats buenos vets gueepeveeeeeetees 124.41 Total Operating Expenses and Equipment Purchased ou... ceececeeseeeeeteeeeeeees $31,823.64 Excess of Total Income over Total Operating Expenses and Equipment Pur- CHASE a aa ere 34,652.52 ORAL ees a ee $66,476.16 STATEMENT OF TRANSFERS TO WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ‘TREASURER: a erie trend 1c ee ees eee enter eee $59,285.88 el Cl ace Nt sea seers cosas cheetah eset 7,190.28 Ae ei Ee ee ee $66,476.16 CAsH BALANCE, JUNE 30, 1955—REVOLVING FUND (Advanced by University Treasurer for current offce €XpeMseS)...........:cce eee $ 800.00 CASH Epa ce Fee GO, 15 PEATE FUND ice. elie ipsstee cane cobeepstecn endo meen meranenee $ 1,152.40 WASHINGTON AND LEE Commemorative Plates — cagwood Sold only in sets of eight different scenes Price, $18.00 per set (in Blue only F.0.B,. 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