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Smith, °41, 1313 You Street, North West SEPTEMBER, 1954 Vol. XXIX No. 4 Published quarterly by The Washington and Lee University Alumni, Incorporated Drawer 897, Lexington, Virginia Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, September 15, 1924 Printed at the Journalism Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee University Editor Harry K. (Cy) YOUNG, 1917 Class Notes Editor Mary BARCLAY THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC President WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 Vice-President JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 Secretary Harry K. (Cy) YOUNG, 1917 Treasurer H. L. SHUEY, 1924 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 J. STEWART, BUXTON, 1936 Wyatt C. HEbRICK, 1910 JouN F. HENDON, 1924 H. L. SHUEY, 1924 MartTIn P. Burks, III, 1932 STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Hlowarp W. DosBIns, 1942 The 2gob6th Year FRESHMEN m THE MORNING of September 44, 1954, saw gathered in Doremus gymnasium 293 boys who would form the link in the chain of Wash- ington and Lee history that would be designated as the Class of 1958. They were there to take the usual battery of placement tests, neces- sary for properly sectioning them in their classes which would begin on September 15. Iwo hundred fifty-nine of the class had taken ad- vantage of the voluntary experience of Freshman Camp. The camp was actually the largest ever to be held and marked the first use of the mag- nificent new gate-house facilities at Natural Bridge, where attractive and even luxurious dining facilities and a splendid new swimming pool were available for use by the camp. The figure of 293 was an increase of ten over last year’s freshman class. (Thirteen transfer students were accepted also, as against six in 1953.) This increase in freshman class size was made possible by Opening a small auxiliary dormi- tory in a house just across the street from the regular dormi- tory. Designated as Preston House, after the family that formerly held the property, this house can accom- modate about a dozen boys. Pres- ton House will operate under the regular dormitory system with its own student counselor for its oc- cupants. The size of the entering class was again determined by the available dormitory accommoda- tions. Except for a few boys living at home and one married veteran, every freshman is in comfortable dormitory quarters. In 1953, at the cost of around a dozen freshmen places, the assigning of three boys to two-man rooms (adopted as a post-war measure with the veteran influx) was dropped; and again this year no room has more than two occupants. The broad geographical distri- bution of the class has been main- tained, but with a rather interesting increase in enrollment from the southern area. The ‘“‘southern” area THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE is interpreted as including such bor- der states as Maryland, Missouri and Oklahoma. This year 187 boys came from the South. ‘This is 64 per cent of the class, as against 56 per cent in 1953. From the Atlantic sea- board north of Maryland came 81 boys, or 28 per cent of the class, as opposed to 31 per cent last year. Freshmen from the rest of the coun- try and from foreign countries to- talled 25, or 8 per cent of the class against 13 per cent in 1953. The breakdown of attendance by states may be of interest: Virginia 44; Maryland 33; New York 29; ‘Texas 17; New Jersey 16; West Virginia and Ohio 14; Florida 13; Kentucky 12; Pennsylvania 11; Con- necticut and Massachusetts 10; Louisiana and ‘Tennessee g; District of Columbia 8; Missouri 6; Dela- ware 5; Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and South Caro- lina 4; California, Mississippi, and France 2; Minnesota, Montana, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada and Puerto Rico 1. There is a decided increase in this fall’s class in those entering trom private schools. In this cate- gory are 164 boys or 56 per cent as against 47 per cent last year. One hundred twenty-nine come from public schools, 44 per cent this year as compared with 53 per cent a year ago. As for those coming from private schools, 29 per cent of the 293-man class comes from such schools in the South, 24 per cent from the northern Atlantic sea- board and 3 per cent from else- where. Among the public school contingent, 30 per cent of the total class are from southern high schools, 10 per cent from high schools in the northern Atlantic seaboard section, and 4 per cent from other areas. Some comment on the enrollment from private and public schools may be in order. Washington and Lee shares the feeling held by most colleges that it is desirable to have at least half of its student body selected from the public high schools. Several fac- tors make this objective difficult of achievement, however. SEPTEMBER 1954 In the first place, in the South, as compared with the East, it is a much more general thing for stu- dents leaving the public schools to attend state colleges, where the large proportion of their fellow graduates enter, rather than to en- roll at private colleges. In the East the latter can expect a much greater proportion of high school graduates to select them than in the South. The economic factor is perhaps more influential than the geograph- ical in affecting the choice between a state and a private college. Rising costs have generally increased the expense of operating a college. ‘The state institutions can pass a large share of this increase to its tax- payers. A private college such as Washington and Lee, with a very limited endowment, must pass it on to its students and their parents in the form of increased tuition. (Tuition and fees for the average freshman at Washington and Lee is now approximately $600 a year.) Generally speaking, the parents of students at the private schools are better off economically than those in the public high schools, and it is therefore easier for them to pay the cost of attending a private college with its higher charges. Other particular situations also may contribute to the increase in private school attendance. For ex- ample, geographical location and other factors have for many years made the University especially at- tractive to boys from the Baltimore area. (In this year’s freshman class there are 27 boys from Baltimore alone.) This fact, together with the fact that possibly no city anywhere near its size in the country has a larger proportion of secondary school students in private day schools than does Baltimore, is re- flected in the attendance here at Washington and Lee. The 293 boys entering were se- lected from a total of 721 completed applications, all with registration fees paid. To secure the entering group, acceptances were offered 445 boys. These figures indicate that 152 boys decided to enter else- where, and that we were obliged to decline admission to 276. ‘The pro- portion of accepted applicants who confirmed their acceptance consti- tuted a very creditable showing as compared with colleges generally. Where so many factors must be considered in the evaluation of can- didates’ credentials (see article on admissions that follows), it is not easy to compare before entrance the qualifications of different classes. However, a subjective study of the entrance records certainly justifies the expectation that the Class of 1958 is equipped to give a good ac- count of itself at Washington and Lee. m™ THERE IS NOTHING CASUAL about the fact that another freshman class is starting its college career at Washington and Lee. From the time each member of that class made application until the Admis- sions Office mailed his formal ac- ceptance several months: later, a great deal had been going on. ‘The reason: with 721* applicants from which to select, competition for membership in the 293-man Class ot 1958 was especially keen. Out of every seven men who applied, only four could be granted admission, for experience has shown that three of the four would accept Wash- ington and Lee over other colleges to which they had applied. What is the procedure that leads to the selection of an applicant for admission to Washington and Lee? First attention, of course, must be given to the applicant’s academic promise. This does not mean that he must have been a straight-A student in his secondary school. Not at all. But it does mean that in the case of each boy to whom admis- sion is granted, the Admissions Of- fice has to assure itself as completely as possible of his ability to do satis- factory work on the college level and to receive his degree in the *The figure 721 refers to actual appli- cations, those for which the application fee was paid. It does not take into ac- count the many additional inquiries re- ceived by the Admissions Office. scheduled four years. This is in fairness to the student, to his fam- ily, and to the University. ‘To this end the academic record he has made, and the school in which he has made it, are studied carefully. The written evaluation of the ap- plicant by the principal or head- master of his school and the state- ments made by the two teachers he names as references are noted care- fully. In addition, each applicant is re- quired to take the Scholastic Apti- tude ‘Test of the College Entrance Examination Board. He does not have to “pass” this test, for there is no such thing as a passing or fail- ing grade for it. The score he makes, however, is of particular significance to the Admissions Of- fice. Since College Board examina- tions are given nationwide (134 colleges and universities require them in connection with their ad- missions programs), they cut across the wide differences that exist in secondary school educational pro- grams and grading systems, and provide a valid comparison between applicants for admission, regardless of the sections of the country or the schools from which they come. In the case of each applicant to this year’s freshman class, the com- parison was between his academic promise as a college student and that of each of the other 720 appli- cants. The additional information afforded by this College Board test, therefore, was very helpful in mak- ing final selection of the new class. This Scholastic Aptitude Test serves both students and the Uni- versity in other ways as well. It furnishes information that is valu- able in placing each student in the proper class section so that he can derive the most good from his Uni- versity education during the critical first year. Its results are helpful to members of the administration and faculty, particularly to those as- signed as advisers to freshmen, in counseling students. In furnishing educational guidance, for example, advisers rely, in part, on aptitude test results to reveal areas of aca- 4 demic strength and weakness. They also look for indications of failure to live up to the academic promise predicted by test results, since such failure may reveal the existence of personal problems that need to be solved. Finally, test results enable the aptitude of a student in any class to be compared with that of students in other classes, since at some time all students have taken comparable examinations. This is important where members of more than one class enroll in the same University course. So much for the analysis of an applicant’s academic promise, and the importance of College Board tests. The selection process does not end here, however. Washington and Lee wants to fill its ranks with young men who give the strongest indication of being able to profit in substantial measure from the University’s total educational pro- gram, and who are most likely to make worthy contributions, not only to campus life, but also to the American way of life in their years after graduation. Full attention is given, therefore, to each applicant’s participation in extra-curricular ac- tivities during his secondary school years. Factors of personality are evaluated, too, from information gained by representatives of the Admissions Office (who meet with about half of those who are granted admission), or furnished by alumni, current students, or the applicant’s teachers and principal or head- master. Geographical background comes in for its share of attention, also. Al- though Washington and Lee is a college of Southern tradition and background, it nonetheless is inter- ested in maintaining a cosmopoli- tan student body, with members of each class drawn from widely vary- ing geographical locations. Nor are family ties to the Univer- sity overlooked. ‘The son (or other relative) of an alumnus finds the path to admission easier than others, for natural preference is shown for these young men if they give reasonable assurance of being able to make a satisfactory record at the University. In the final analysis, admission to the University is the result of a weighing process* wherein all of the foregoing factors are considered together to give admissions officials a total picture of the individual being considered. It is the net effect of all the factors on the scales that governs the admission of an appli- cant. All of those who come to the cam- pus for the first time in September went through this selection process. It had to be that way. Large num- bers of students have applied for admission to the nation’s colleges in recent years. The education of the majority of them has fallen to the state-supported institutions where funds are available for the necessary expansion of faculties and facilities. To Washington and Lee, lacking in funds for, and op- posed in policy to, any large scale expansion, it has become increas- ingly clear that the University’s strongest role in higher education today is one of providing a well- rounded education of the highest quality to carefully selected stu- dents. To this end its admissions program is directed. ‘The Class of 1958 is a product of this program. Its progress at the University and its success in grad- uate life will be watched with keen interest. FOOTBALL m WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT Washing- ton and Lee that football should be suspended for the 1954 season? That is the question puzzling many alumni who have been in- terested in following Washington and Lee’s football fortunes. Perhaps the answer is best given by tracing chronologically the developments that have taken place and have had *In contrast to a screening process wherein a candidate must measure up to each of a series of standards, and failure to meet any one of them will disqualify him. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE The Board’s Resolution 1. That with regret Washington and Lee University suspends intercollegiate football for the time being and cancels all scheduled games; that the president of Washington and Lee inform the presidents of the institutions with which football games have been scheduled of the reasons which have impelled this decision. 2. That all obligations other than the playing of football games scheduled heretofore incurred in connection with the prior program of Washington and Lee be faithfully and fully carried out. — g. ‘That intramural football be further encouraged. | 4. That consideration be given to the possibility of re-estab- lishing intercollegiate football upon an amateur basis by, among other things, endeavoring to find other educational institutions to which modern day subsidization is unacceptable, which will join in an effort to re-establish intercollegiate football as an unsubsi- dized college sport. 5. That no other athletic scholarships be awarded beyond those already committed. 6. ‘That the University endeavor to expand its athletic pro- gram, both intercollegiate and intramural, in such a way as to in- terest and enlist participation of the largest number of students. a bearing on football at the Univer- sity since the resumption of the in- tercollegiate athletic program at the close of World War II. Alumni will recall that shortly after the war they were polled to see what they desired with regard to intercollegiate athletics at Wash- ington and Lee. That poll indicated that most of those responding were desirous of maintaining competi- tion with traditional rivals, and ex- tending aid to those students who demonstrate good athletic ability and stand in need of such aid. With this in mind, the Board of ‘Trustees in 1946 set the following five point policy: 1. Subsidized football is required if we are to play our neighbors, and accordingly grants-in-aid to football squad members are to be made openly and under University control. 2. Holders of grants-in-aid are to be fully assimilated into our stu- dent body. 3. Admissions standards and aca- demic eligibility are to be con- trolled by the faculty. SEPTEMBER 1954 4. The caliber of the team is to be such as to permit reasonable competition with our natural rivals. 5. Financing is to be contributed by the University to a limited ex- tent only, exclusive of tuition grants. Such was the policy established by the Board of Trustees to meet changing conditions in post-war in- tercollegiate athletic competition. There was another significant change taking place in the educa- tional world at the same time. It was occasioned by the _ post-war flow to the college campuses of large numbers of students who wanted a college education follow- ing their military service. It was a condition under which no college could stand still. One possibility was to expand enrollment. This would require the expenditure of large amounts of money for en- larging both faculty and physical plant. It also would involve serious doubts as to whether it would be possible to retain academic stand- ards, much less improve them. The other feasible alternative was to maintain enrollment at about the same level and to improve the qual- ity of education. Washington and Lee, lacking both in funds and in the desire to become a large institu- tion, chose the latter. Like most other small, independently sup- ported educational institutions in the country, it elected to be some- what more selective of its students and to tailor its educational pro- gram so as to most effectively serve those chosen. It decided in favor of academic rather than numerical strength. It was at this point, incidentally, that the University found it de- sirable to use the general aptitude test of the College Entrance Exami- nation Board. Its use made avail- able one more bit of evidence de- signed to indicate more conclu- sively whether or not a prospective student would be able to do satis- factory work at Washington and Lee. (See page 4 for further discus- sion of College Board examina- tions.) Its adoption was in keeping with the policy established by the Board of ‘Trustees, namely, that ad- mission standards and academic eligibility are to be controlled by the faculty. During this same period many of our natural rivals, their ranks swelled to new proportions, became, in effect, unnatural rivals for Wash- ington and Lee. They began to place more and more emphasis on their football teams, and that meant the added expenditure of money and increased competition for young men of unusual football prowess. ‘To meet this competition, which the University Board in its policy had said we should do, re- quired additional exepnditures and added emphasis on subsidized play- ers at Washington and Lee. The re- sult was that a majority of the young men brought in on athletic scholarships were admitted as “‘cal- culated academic risks.’ ‘The prob- ability that they would successfully complete four years of college work was less than for other members of the student body. And on top of this not too bright prospect of success, 5 Dr. Gaines on the Football Decision To the Alumni and the Students: You may have seen a press announcement that our Trustees have decided to suspend intercollegiate football for a period, to cancel all scheduled games, and to discontinue subsidizing athletes. I offer a brief summary of the situation as the Trustees see it. The immediate cause for the action taken was a realization that the returning football squad, for a va- riety of reasons which included academic deficiencies and involvements of the Honor System, had dimin- ished to such a point that we could offer no more than token competition. It was felt that this would be un- fair both to competing colleges and to the general public. The alternative was one of additional subsidiza- tion. ‘This step the Board was unwilling to take. Although the decision is a recent one, consideration of the problem is not new. It has been apparent for some time that subsidized football is inconsistent with our academic purposes. Since we have never intended to establish for athletes an entire program (admissions, curriculum, and academic standards) of a different nature from that offered other students, the strain on the subsidized athlete has been great. The time and energy that are required, not only to play the game, but to study it, have represented an additional course that he must carry. Where there is this strain, something is apt to give. This subsidized program of intercollegiate athletics has also placed a severe strain upon the University’s financial resources. When receipts from every source, and expenditures for every need, had been received at the end of the 1952-53 year, the deficit paid by the University was about $8,000. At the close of the 1953-54 year, that deficit was about $25,000. There is reason to believe that at the end of the current ses- sion, if we had continued the football program, the deficit would have been much larger. Moreover, each of these annual deficits was in addition to $26,000 granted in free tuition to athletes and about $18,000 col- lected from tuition and designated to support the athletic program. There is no standing still in a subsidized program. I am convinced that to continue we would have had to make radical changes—larger athletic scholarships, lower standards. ‘This plan we are unwilling to adopt. Nor is the Board of Trustees willing to continue under a condition where it is impossible for Washington and Lee to operate on a budget because of the unpredictable drain on our income caused by an intercollegiate athletic program of this type. It should be remembered, too, that to make even as poor a financial showing as we have made, it has been necessary to schedule several games a year out of Lexington, and normally with teams entirely out of our class, simply as money games. One recent season scheduled only two out of ten games on this campus. For next fall two out of nine would have been played at home. ‘Thus, not only has the playing of the game been taken away from the students without athletic subsidy, but also the rest of the student body is being denied in large part the privilege of being spectators of the sport. ‘he Board, the Administration, and the Faculty as a whole are not opposed to football. We consider subsidized athletics unwise for the reasons I have cited. We shall try to resume intercollegiate football on a nonsubsidized basis as soon as possible, for we feel that a full program of intercollegiate athletics, one in which the opportunity of participating is once again equally available to all students, is an integral part of Washington and Lee’s educational program. In the meantime, we shall extend and enrich every form of sport on this campus. Our aim is to give our boys, who honor us by selecting this institution, an opportunity to participate in a sports program as attractive and as helpful as that provided by any college in America. : _ ri [> August 5, 1954 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE this same group of young men was expected to devote large amounts of time to their efforts on the gridiron. It was inevitable, therefore, that in many cases some- thing had to give way, either hon- est academic achievement or the Honor System. With two notable exceptions, those of the 1950 and 1951 seasons, Washington and Lee just did not have manpower with which to meet the competition posed by its rivals. This was the case despite deficit financing. There was talk, there- fore, in 1953, of the possibility of giving up football because of the need for excessive expenditures and subsidization of players. A change in the rules came along, however, to abolish the two-platoon system and give football at Washington and Lee a lift. There followed in June a decision to try subsidization for one more year. The situation became critical again in the spring of 1954. This time University athletic officials took their problem to the floor of the annual meeting of the Southern Conference, and there played a leading role in changing the rules so as to make freshmen eligible for play beginning with the 1954 sea- son. It appeared that this had given Washington and Lee another ex- tension of life on the gridiron. Then came June 1954, and the realization that, for a variety of reasons, which included academic deficiencies and infractions of the Honor System, the football man- power situation was again critical. A few days later the Executive Committee of the University Com- mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics (the full committee is made up of representatives from the faculty, alumni, and student bodies) recom- mended that Washington and Lee give up football entirely for the 1954 season. ‘To consider this rec- ommendation, a special meeting was called, on July 7, of the Execu- tive Committee of the Board of ‘Trustees, the University Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, and University administrative officials. SEPTEMBER 1954 Last Minute News on Athletics IN RAPID SUCCESSION, beginning with the opening assembly on Sep- tember 15, Dr. Gaines made a series of announcements designed to im- plement the policy of the Board of Trustees with regard to intercol- legiate athletics at the University. 1. Washington and Lee not only will return to the collegiate football scene in 1955 on a strictly amateur basis, but also will field a freshman- jayvee team during the current sea- son. While it is not yet possible to announce any definitely scheduled games for this fall, it is believed that some contests can be arranged. 2. Boyd Willams, a former line coach at VMI and the University of Richmond, has been appointed football coach for this year. ‘The ap- pointment is a temporary one, since coach Carl Wise is on leave of ab- sence from the University only until December 1. 3. Henceforth all intercollegiate athletics will be under the direction of the physical education depart- ment. Coaches for all sports will be. members of that department and will enjoy faculty status. : 4. It is the intention of the Uni- versity to schedule at least half of its intercollegiate contests for play on this campus. This includes basket- ball, which will be moved from the VMI fieldhouse back to Doremus Gymnasium. 5. Sports other than football will receive a financial boost, thanks to the generosity of an unnamed alum- nus who has offered to foot the bill if the University will double its allocation .to those sports. “This. will be done,” ‘Dr. Gaines declared. 000000 OOHCOOOO0HOOOOHOOO8OH90OO0H8OH088HTHHHHO98HHH8HO88888888 Following a free and open discus- sion in the morning, the Executive Committee of the Board met in closed session. Out of that meeting came a decision calling for gradual de-emphasis of athletics and a grad- ual return to a program wherein there would be no subsidization of athletes whatever. The decision was also made to play out the 1954 season in full. The following two weeks were full of developments. ‘here were resignations from the coaching staff. There crystalized in the minds of those charged with the respon- sibility of meeting this fall’s foot- ball schedule the feeling that it would be impossible to play unless the University was willing to sub- sidize to a greater extent to make up for the losses which had been suffered in the football ranks. And it was during this period that Uni- versity officials had their first look at the audited report of the Univer- sity’s finances for the year 1953-54. They had only to look at the $25,000 deficit, $20,000 of which it had not anticipated, and take cog- nizance of an additional $44,000 in student fees and tuition grants that had gone into the cost of one sea- son of football. It was unmistak- ably clear that University financing was far in excess of the “limited extent only” specified in earlier Board policy. Moreover, it was evi- dent that the cost of operating a subsidized athletic program could not be gauged in advance, and therefore that it would be impos- sible for the University to operate on a budget during any year in which a program of subsidized ath- letics was in effect. It was against this background that the decision was made to call. the entire University Board of | Trustees into special session on July 23. And it was from this meet- ing that there came the decision to suspend football for 1954. GIFTS m UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have an- nounced a magnificent gift from Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont. This do- nation of $254,112 is the creation of a fund to be known as “The Jessie 7 JOHN RANDOLPH ‘TUCKER Ball du Pont—Francis P. Gaines Fund.” One half of the income is to be used permanently for augment- ing faculty salaries, and one half of the income is to be used as scholar- ships for needy and promising boys. It is significiant that the purposes Mrs. du Pont thus serves are ex- actly the two chief needs of the University as reported by faculty committees after long study as basis of our development program. Support from Mrs. du Pont con- stitutes a notable chapter in the history of Washington and Lee. She had already established the Al- fred I. du Pont scholarships and the Thomas Ball professorships. In 1951 she made a large contribution as an emergency fund. Greatest of her generosities, however, is the fact that this University is the re- sidual legatee of 35 per cent of two trust funds; certain individuals are to receive the income during their life and then the income, and ul- timately the capital, will be divided between institutions. Washington and Lee’s share, as reported by the auditor on June 30, 1954, 1s slightly more than $1,400,000. ‘The new gift was made as of August 4, 1954. TRUSTEES JOHN RANDOLPH ‘TUCKER, A.B. ‘oo, LL.B. ’02, prominent Rich- 8 mond attorney and member of the University Board of ‘Trustees, died in Richmond, Virginia, on June 12. Mr. ‘Tucker was a native of Staunton, Virginia, where he began his law practice in 1903. He went to Richmond, Virginia, in 1906 and became a member of the firm of Munford, Hunton, Williams and Anderson. At the time of his death he was a senior partner in the law firm of ‘Tucker, Mays, Cabell and Moore. In 1919 Mr. ‘Tucker was ap- pointed general counsel of the Vir- ginia State Corporation Commis- sion, a position he held for four years. He served two years as a mem- ber of the Richmond City Council, and for fifteen years he taught law at Richmond College. Mr. Tucker served as general counsel and as a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Trust Company. From 1945 to 1947 he was a member of the Richmond Library Board. He was the son of Harry St. George Tucker, ’75, a member of Congress from the Tenth Congres- sional District. Both his father and grandfather, John Randolph Tuck- er, served terms as dean of the Washington and Lee school of law. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Byrd ‘Tucker; a son, J. Randolph ‘Tucker, Jr., ’48; a daughter, Mrs. Francis ‘I. Green, and two grand- daughters. FACULTY THOMAS EARLY LOTHERY, JR., As- sistant Professor of Physics, died in Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lex- ington on Saturday, July 24, 1954, from injuries received in a farm ac- cident near Brownsburg, Virginia. He was a native of North Carolina, the son of Mr. Thomas E. Lothery and the late Mrs. Lothery of David- son, North Carolina. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that community and was a graduate of Davidson College in the class of 1928. He took graduate work at the University of Chicago, 1929-31, where he pursued special studies in photography. Prior to coming to Washington and Lee, Professor Lothery held teaching assignments at Presbyte- rian College and at Davidson Col- lege, serving at both schools as as- sistant professor of physics. Join- ing the faculty of Washington and Lee in 1938, he taught courses in physics, meteorology, and electron- ics. During the early years of World War II, in addition to his duties at Washington and Lee, he served on the faculty at Virginia Military In- stitute; and later during the war served as a field engineer in the installation of radar equipment for the Western Electric Company. Mr. Lothery’s varied abilities and interests were evidenced by his many campus activities such as membership on the Executive, Sec- tioning, Alumni, and Athletic Com- mittees. For the past several years he made movies of most of the Washington and Lee football games which not only were used by the coaching staff but distributed widely to alumni groups. He also made movies of special events on the campus and at VMI, and at the time of his death was completing a movie of the recent 5-year Alumni Reunion held in June. In the community he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross and was a Deacon in the Lexington Presby- terian Church. He was a member of the Virginia Academy of Science, the Sigma Pi Sigma national phys- THoMAS E. LOTHERY, Jr. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE ics fraternity, and Beta Pi social fraternity. Mr. Lothery will be remembered by many alumni as a most excellent and thorough instructor and as a valuable counselor. His death has created a great loss to the Univer- sity which he served so faithfully and loyally for the past sixteen years. Mr. Lothery is survived by his wife, the former Ann McNutt of Brownsburg, Virginia, and _ his father, Mr. Thomas Early Lothery of Davidson, North Carolina. @ SCATTERED THROUGHOUT the Uni- versity are items of faculty schol- arship and public service that will be of interest to alumni. Some of those items are recorded here. Dr. L. L. Barrett, professor of romance languages, continues to serve as associate editor of Hispania and of Symposium. He is also on the Spanish committee of the Col- lege Entrance Examination Board and is chairman for 1954 of the literature program of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese....Dr. C. West- brook Barritt, assistant professor of Spanish, presented a paper before the Linguistic Society of America which was subsequently published in Language magazine.... Dr. Ar- thur W. Borden, Jr., Professor of English, serves as a reader on the National College Entrance Exam- ination Board. During the past year Dr. William G. Bean, chairman of the history department, had published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography a review and the article, “The Ruffner Pamphlet of 1847: an anti-slavery aspect of Virginia’s sectionalism.” He also wrote “John Letcher and the Slavery Issue in the Virginia Gubernatorial Contest of 1858-59” for the Journal of South- ern History.... Dr. Jack N. Behr- man, in addition to having a re- view published in the Western Po- litical Quarterly, submitted written testimony for the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in con- SEPTEMBER 1954 nection with an investigation of U. S. foreign lending policy. The latter will be printed in the com- mittee’s Hearings.... Almand R. Coleman, professor of accounting, serves as a consultant on contract pricing to the Army Ordnance Corps and also as a member of the Committees on Accounting Proce- dure and on Awards of the Amer- ican Institute of Accounting. Mr. Henry E. Coleman, Jr., Uni- versity Librarian, has been appoint- ed consultant on Archives and His- tory to the Federal and State Com- mission in charge of the Jamestown Anniversary Celebration in 1957. Dr. H. M. Colvin, lecturer in law, serves on the Committee on International Law of the Virginia State Bar Association and on the American Bar Association’s Com- mittee on Private Claims of the United States Government... . Dr. L. J. Desha, chairman of the chem- istry department and just back from an extended European tour, chair- manned the Planning Committee for the Conference on Undergradu- ate Research in Chemistry, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and held on the Washington and Lee campus in May... Dr. Marshall W. Fish- wick, associate professor of Ameri- can studies, has had numerous ar- ticles published during the past year. ‘They include “The Virginia Tradition” in American Heritage; “The Road West” in American Quarterly; ‘““The Need for Modern Design” in the New York Herald Tribune; “Virginia’s Land 0’ Goshen” in the Ford Times; “Buena Vista’s Boom,” ‘The Place of Won- der,” and “John Esten Cooke’s Novels” in Comonwealth; and “Ap- proaching Europe,” ‘“Faulkner’s Cosmology,” and “A Virginia Tra- dition in Architecture,’ in the American Institute of Architects Bulletin. Dr. Walter A. Flick, chairman of the department of education, is a member of three important educa- tional groups: the Commission on ~ Research of the Southern Associa- tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Advisory Committee of the Virginia State Board of Educa- tion’s Committee for Schools and Colleges, and the National Prepara- tory School Committee....Dr. E. Claybrook Griffith, professor of economics, has had a review pub- lished in the Southern Economic Journal. In the past year he has also served as a public member of panels in arbitration of several labor disputes and has served as president of the Virginia Social Science Association. Professor Ru- pert N. Latture of the political science department serves as vice- president of the latter group. Dr. Charles V. Laughlin, profes- sor of law, has played a leading role in establishing the Judge Ad- vocate General’s training school at Washington and Lee. He also has had published in the Michigan Law Review an article, “In Support of the ‘Thayer Theory of Presump- tions,” and was responsible for the preparation of two bar examina- tion questions for the California Board of Bar Examiners.... Dr. James G. Leyburn, Dean of the University, has had numerous re- views published in the American Sociological Review during the past year.... Professor of Law Charles P. Light serves as a member of the Committee on Legal Conferences of the Virginia State Bar Associa- tion. The motion picture Robert E. Lee: a Background Study was se- lected as the film-of-the-month in February by the magazine Social Education. Dr. Allen W. Moger, professor of history, served as edu- cational collaborator with Coronet Instructional Films of Chicago in the production of this picture, a part of which was filmed on the Washington and Lee campus. He has since been asked to collaborate in the making of three historical films based on the period of the American Revolution. In process for a year, these films were released during the summer. In the English department Dr. Marvin B. Perry, Jr. (with co-au- thors H. M. Jones and R. M. Lud- 9 PERRY wig) has published the second edi- tion of Modern Minds: An Anthol- ogy of Ideas. He has also contribut- ed recent book reviews to the Vzr- ginia Quarterly Review and the Keats-Shelly Journal. . . . Professor O. W. Riegel received the Gold Key of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for his outstand- ing contribution to the school press field during the past year. He has also served as a member of the Na- tional Committee for an Adequate Overseas U. S. Information Pro- gram, and was one of five judges for the annual alumni magazine awards contest of the American Alumni Council. In addition, he had pub- lished in Public Opinion Quarterly an article entitled “Residual Effects of Exchange-of-Persons.” . . . Dr. Kenneth P. Stevens, chairman of the biology department, is serving as secretary of the biology section of the Virginia Academy of Sciences. Dr. Charles W. Turner, of the history department, has recently published two articles: ‘““The Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad in Re- construction, 1866-1873’ in the North Carolina Historical Review and “Andrew Moore: First Na- tional Senator From West of the Blue Ridge” in the Filson Historical Quarterly.... Dr. Charles W. Wil- liams, associate professor of math- ematics, conducted a discussion on trends in college mathematics at 10 the University of Virginia this spring. @ THE FOLLOWING MEN have _ re- ceived appointments to the faculty beginning with the coming term: JouNn Harvey WHEELER, assOCli- ate professor of Political Science. B.A. and M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Has taught at Indiana and Harvard; comes to us from Johns Hopkins University. Married; two sons. ROBERT CARLETON GOODELL, as- sistant professor of German and English. B.A., Darthmouth College; MOGER M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Has taught at Bowdoin College, Washington and Lee (1941-44), and Williams Col- lege. Unmarried. ROBERT STEWART, assistant pro- fessor of Music. M.Mus., American Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Has taught at American Conserva- tory, Rizzo School of Music, Arkan- sas College. Married; no children. LAWRENCE HERBERT PETERSON, aS- sistant professor of History. B.A., University of Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Has taught at University of Wisconsin, and University of ‘Tulsa. Unmar- ried. Joun Epwarp Davis, JR., instruc- tor in Biology. B.A., Ph.D., Univer- sity of Virginia. ‘Taught at Wash- ington and Lee (1949-51). Married; one child. Epwarp Buck HAMER, JR., in- structor in Romance Languages. B.A., Wofford College; M.A., Uni- versity of Maryland; Ph.D., Univer- sity of North Carolina. Has taught at the University of North Carolina. Unmarried. HALLAM WALKER, instructor in Romance Languages. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Has taught at Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. Married; two children. SAMUEL LouIS DAVIDSON, instruc- tor in Physics. B.A., Washington and Lee, 1954. Married; no chil- dren. gw THESE MEMBERS of the University family have received promotions: Dr. R. WINTER RoysTON, to be as- sociate professor in Mathematics. JAmeEs D. FARRAR, to be Assistant Dean of Students. @ ABSENT ON LEAVE from the Uni- versity during the coming year will be: ALMAND R. COLEMAN, to be Visit- ing Professor of Accounting at Har- vard Graduate School of Business Administration; WILLIAM A. JENKs, to do research in Italy and Austria; G. FRANCIS DRAKE, to do research at University of North Carolina. RIEGEL THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE For returning alumni, provocative words about Faith and Freedom By H. GRAHAM Morison, ’30 HIS GATHERING of alumni has been, for me, a spiritual excur- sion more deeply satisfying than I would have ever believed. It has made me realize, all the more, the difficulty of doing justice to this oc- casion. I recognize full well that I can- not speak the thoughts and feelings of each of you about our University. I can only speak my own heart and mind. But I take refuge in the be- lief that there is a broad bond be- tween all of us and this place; and it is within that bond of mutual af- fection, devotion and _ reverence that I speak. I have been wondering these past few days what were the innermost thoughts of the graduating class of 1954. Looking back over twenty years, it occurred to me that youth is essentially an age of hope and happy optimism; but, I reasoned, in this day and age, that happy op- timism must now have been blunted by the realities of a sick world. It seems to me that the true test of the continuing greatness of this institution will be the kind of lives that these men of the Class of 1954 make for themselves. Will the faith and ancient truths here imparted to them shield and protect them as they walk into the violence of the days that are ahead? What does the future offer the Class of 1954? The faith in freedom—the Amer- ican faith in itself and its cause— has sustained the spirit of our peo- ple since Valley Forge. It carried us victorious through the agony of civil conflict and two world wars. But, in a little more than two short years, the strength of this American faith has somehow been lost, and SEPTEMBER 1954 this great Nation and its people are confused, uninspired, lacking in di- rection and preoccupied with the search for someone to blame for their fears. The great alliance with our friends in Western Europe, launch- ed after World War II and built upon the foundations of mutual confidence, mutual help and the common purpose of preserving free institutions, has begun to crumble with the evidences of our vacillation and self-doubt. The mastery of the atom and hydrogen bombs, so singularly a token of the high achievements of free minds, is now matched by the Russians, and they may have now outstripped us in scientific advance- ment. ‘hus, even the uneasy secur- ity of scientific supremacy for de- fense, has vanished, and we are ina race to get ahead of the enemy. In the grim race to regain this scientific supremacy in the means of destruction, however, our men of science tell us that the flow of young scientific minds into the labora- tories of advanced research and de- velopment have begun to dry up, because of the prevailing air of sus- picion and distrust. The recent de- cision concerning Dr. Robert Op- penheimer brutally highlights their problem. As our enemies multiply their arms and arsenals for the war they believe inevitable, we reduce our own; and, at the same time, curtail our commitments for economic and military assistance to our allies. Surrendering to fear, we have turned our backs on the genius and meaning of our Constitution and its Bill of Rights and permitted an ego-maniac despot in the Senate of the United States to destroy the meaning and most sacred principles of this great Nation. In the hysteria of a nuclear and thermo-nuclear age, we have al- lowed a false god called “Anti- Communism” or “Security” to be raised amongst us, and we have per- mitted the ugly priests of that cult of conformity wantonly to destroy character, to assail Constitutional government, and to run roughshod over science, the arts and letters, education, religion and even the proud United States Army. Now even graduates of the Naval Acad- emy are denied diplomas for “‘se- curity” reasons. Worst of all, and as a natural consequence of the events in Wash- ington during these past few years, a general air of suspicion among neighbors has spread and infected the cities and towns of all Amer- ica. Every variety of “Ku-Kluxer” known to man has thus been em- boldened to bully its way into all aspects of community life in Amer- ica spreading fear and disunity. This, then, is the prospect for the future—the dark horizon that faces the graduate of 1954. Despite the dark and _ hopeless outlook, I cling with determination to the belief that these young men will not fail, but will, by their con- quest of that future, gloriously re- publish the basic meanings of the faith given them by Washington and Lee. Just beyond the athletic field and on the horizon, stand a magnificent ruin—Liberty Hall Academy. It is a monument to the birth of a great ideal on the frontier of this Na- tion. Those hardy Presbyterian minis- ters and stout settlers of this val- ley, who were the moving spirits in founding the Academy, deter- mined to make real the hopes kin- dled in their breasts by the oppres- sion they had fled. They had a thirst for freedom and with it, a vision of the future they were de- termined to build in this new land, in which their young men would be armed to defend their new free- 11 dom with the sinews of knowledge and truth. Equipped with little more than their invincible resolve to create the society of their dreams with the best of their wisdom and_ hard work, their labors were rewarded and a new civilization came into being. ‘This struggle of men of strong wills created a new race of spiritual and mental giants. ‘The unbeliev- able accomplishments of these men were the product of their dedication to a simple belief—the supremacy of a just and loving God and the ne- cessity that man be free as God had created him. That simple but elo- quent belief was then, and is today, the cornerstone of this institution. What has happened to our Na- tion in 200 years since the founding of Liberty Hall Academy? We have conquered space and distance. We have transformed our countless areas of quiet and self- sufficiency into a complex oneness, in which every section of the Na- tion, however remote, is dependent upon the whole to feed, clothe, house and amuse it. Not even a burial is now a local product! With this transition from the wagon to the jet engine, our mag- nificent isolation and insulation from external events disappeared. Now Indo-China is an urgent topic on every street corner. What, I ask again, ‘has happened to us in 200 years? I confess I don’t know. I can, at best, only rationalize. But whatever has happened has enfeebled us at a moment when destiny calls for our strength. It seems to me that the driving necessity for strong and disciplined individuals has been removed. The necessity of my father’s day to build one’s own life and future, has given way to the enticement of pension plans, security and the well-adjusted life. | The flaming urge for individual liberty has been replaced by the urge to be like the most respectable majority. The pursuit of happiness epito- 12 mized by the lusty optimism, the daring and the unregimented wills of the Founders of Liberty Hall Academy, has now become the end- less scheming of our people for the avoidance of discomfort. The moving and inspiring ideals of freedom, individualism and strength of character have become the sickly search for security, con- formity and supine adjustment. In education, there is an almost universal acceptance in our educa- tional institutions of the need for utilitarian knowledge. ‘Thus, you find respectable colleges offering courses in Labor Psychology, Con- sumer Education and the like! The prospective consumer of higher education today seems bent on shopping the halls of learning to find that place where he may be assured that he can learn the exact way to make a stated income in a particular trade or calling. Liberal Arts courses are consider- ed time-wasters by the modern American, hell-bent for a _ secure future with the Big Company that promises a pension, paid hospitali- zation and membership in_ the Country Club! You know, there is to me a ter- rible indictment of our Civilization and Society in the deflection to the Communists of American soldiers in Korea. I am tortured by the testi- mony of some of these men. We somehow expect these youngs- ters to possess the kind of courage and inner stamina that can endure unto death—qualities possessed only by men with ideals which they hold more priceless than life itself. Yet, the moral and spiritual climate of our Nation has failed to give them those ideals in this cynical era of “the quick buck,” for we have somehow lost those ideals ourselves. My eternal reverence for this in- stitution comes from the realization that here is preserved the living fire of America’s beginnings. Here the simple but matchless ideals that are the taproots of America’s grandeur still flourish. Here there has been no real change in the beginning philosophy, of educational goals. The education received by the Class of 1954 1s not a mirror of the weakness of our Society; for the unaltered objective of Washing- ton and Lee is to develop strong men with independent judgments. Men who have the capacity and de- sire to swim against the current. Men who do not find it comfortable to conform by adjustment to the defects of their environment, but who have the will and the courage to remedy those defects. Dr. Shannon in his lectures on Shakespeare and Chaucer had no purpose to prepare script men for Hollywood, but to excite the minds of his students with the sweet of pageantry, the beauty of great hu- man expression and to salt the mind for a thirst to read the great and beautiful literature of the world. “Liv” Smith’s peppery lectures in higher mathematics were not in- tended by him to equip future sta- tisticians with job requirements, but to expose young minds to the disciplines of mathematical logic. Washington and Lee’s only train- ing for specific accomplishment in life is for the old-fashioned business of being free and independent! A preparatory school classmate of mine, now a Headmaster, passed on to me a copy of a letter from the father of two of his boys. ‘This father said: “In turning over my boys to you educators, I do not ask that you make them well-adjusted in- dividuals. I see too many young people who are so well adjusted that in comparison a cow stand- ing in its meadow seems a com- plicated and elaborate creature. The kind of studies that we must work toward have for their es- sential aim that of destroying easy adjustments, of throwing young men off their balance, of putting them out of tune with the hum of their immediate surroundings. And thereby a new balance 1s achieved, an equilibrium of mov- ing forces, like a boat sailing close-hauled to the wind. But first there must be the stretching, this mental and spiritual enlarge- ment, this tension of a wire that sings. This is the same unroyal road to learning that every student here THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE must travel. It was this quality that impelled General Lee to become President of the College, for in it he found the surest vehicle for the restoration of a stricken Southland. History reminds us that 14 out of 19 great civilizations committed suicide. Each of them lost its pur- pose and its way. The basic and fundamental ideal that brought America into being was the instrument of its incred- ible growth to pre-eminence, its Freedom—or individual liberty. If the warnings of history are to be heeded, is it not clear that the ideal of Liberty Hall Academy—the faith of free men proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights must be recaptured? If so, then there must be a new dis- cipline of mind and a fresh dedi- cation to original purpose by our people, so that we will never again suffer a McCarthy. The perpetuation of this spirit is the dedicated purpose of Washing- ton and Lee; and this spirit offers to America the way to regain its faith in itself and to become again the master of its destiny. This spirit of Liberty Hall Aca- demy proclaims freedom! Not the freedom of the ruthless, the unbridled will. Not the freedom to do as one likes. Not the freedom from material needs. It is the freedom of the spirit of educated minds. Minds bent upon the search for truth, unhampered by fears or altered by coercion. It is the freedom of those who, loving liberty, willingly bear its responsibilities. It is the freedom and indepen- dence of those who are thinking and rational men. Men who can examine the world about them— and all human events—and make decisions with quiet courage and deliberation. It is the freedom that accepts the disagreements of their fellow men as a part of the necessary process of understanding. SEPTEMBER 1954 H. GRAHAM Morison, A.B. ’30, LL.B. °32, practicing attorney, former assistant at- torney general, and author of this ad- dress given at the 1954 Alumni Reunion. It is the spirit that equates free- dom with rights of others to be wrong. It is the spirit that conforms to nothing which heart and mind do not accept and so will never ex- change liberty for security. It is the freedom of the Christian faith which prayerfully respects the temple of individuality in every other human breast. To be a merchant of gloom is not for me a happy role, but, in keeping with the tradition of this institu- tion, I have painfully spelled out truth as I see it—that proud Amer- ica has lost the talisman of its spir- itual strength. However, in this place my fears disappear and hopes rise anew; for Washington and Lee gives to the Nation good men who bear the an- cient faith. Men who have learned here to be calm and unafraid; who can look the future hard in the face, sure of their capacity to live in that future in a liberal and lofty fashion. These spiritual sons of Lee have hearts to feel and minds to compre- hend, and the courage and strength of soul to meet the demands of each new day, challenging its evils and exciting, by act and deed, the hope and faith of the weary, the fright- ened and the oppressed. The dedication and __ historic American purpose has _ always abided here. It is this faith-keeping of majestic principle that, above all else, binds us to this institution; and we proclaim to America that its Excalibur rests here. I found support for these hopes I have imperfectly expressed in a passage from a speech delivered by » Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes over 40 years ago, and I would leave you with his ageless wisdom: “As I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man’s apprehensions, that compe- tition from new races will cut deeper than working men’s dis- putes and will test whether we can hang together and can fight; if I fear that we are running through the world’s resources at a pace that we cannot keep; I do not lose my hopes. I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even to my race. I think it probable that civiliza- tion somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead—perhaps with smaller numbers, but per- haps also bred to greatness and splendor by science. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be—that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an improverished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace. “The other day my dream was pictured to my mind. It was eve- ning. I was walking homeward on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury, and as I looked be- yond Sherman’s statue to the west the sky was aflame with scar- let and crimson from the setting sun. But like the note of down- fall in Wagner’s opera, below the sky line there came from little globes the pallid discord of the electric lights. And I thought to myself the Gotterdamerung will end, from those globes clustered like evil eggs will come the new masters of the sky. It is like the time in which we live. But then I remembered the faith that I have partly expressed, faith in a universe not measured by our fears, a universe that has thought and more than thought inside of it, and as I gazed, after the sun- set and above the electric lights, there shone the stars.” i You will be interested in the Association’s Business ™ THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Alumni Association was called to order at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, June 11, 1954, by Mr. W. L. Webster, President. On motion, duly made, reading of the minutes of the June 1953 general alumni meeting was dispensed with. Mr. H. K. Young, Alumni Secretary, gave his annual report. That report appears on these pages. Mr. Donald E. Smith, Director of University Development, was in- troduced to the assembled alumni. Briefly he explained the purposes and plans of the University De- velopment Program, the newest ad- ministrative venture at Washington and Lee. He stated his office had been charged with the responsibil- ity of determining what the Univer- sity needs are now and what they will be in the foreseeable future; of studying the total University rela- tionships with the varied publics; and of analyzing and establishing the fund-raising operation which in due time will function on the cam- pus. Mr. Webster paid tribute to “Cap’n Dick” Smith, retiring as Athletic Director after 33 years of loyal, diligent, and successful ser- vice to the University. Mr. Young and Mr. Webster presented “Cap’n Dick” a gift of silver candelabra as a token of appreciation from the alumni. Mr. Otto M. Stumpf,,’18, made a report for the Nominating Com- mittee (the other members were H. N. Barker, ’14, and Thomas D. Anderson, 34), as follows: For the Athletic Committee: W. EF. ‘Tilson, ’26, Lexington, Virginia, and James J. Izard, 18, Roanoke, Virginia. 14 For the Alumni Board: Martin P. Burks, ’32, Roanoke, Virginia, to serve the unexpired term of Stewart Buxton, ’36; Howard W. Dobbins, ’42, Richmond, Virginia; and Stuard A. Wurzburger, ’28, New York City, for a period of three years each. ‘There were no nominations from the floor. By motion duly made, sec- onded and carried, it was voted that this slate of nominations be adopted unanimously. Mr. Webster announced the time and place of other events on the 1954 Alumni Reunion calendar and urged that all alumni attend these festivities. Mr. Jared A. Close, ’45, asked for consideration of a plan whereby future reunions be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, making it possible for many more alumni to attend—the weekend being a time more generally free from pressures of business. Mr. Webster said this point would be discussed at the next meeting of the Alumni Board. The high spot of the meeting was a report from President Gaines on the state of the University. He said the year had been a remarkable one. ‘The University entered the year with a tremendous number of applications and received an ex- ceptionally good freshman class. Early in the fall it was learned that Washington and Lee was to. receive one of the largest bequests that have come to the institution. The aca- demic year was better; more boys were qualified for Phi Beta Kappa than ever before; nine boys entered the ministry from the graduating class; more boys have won scholar- ships. Also, continued Dr. Gaines, “we have witnessed the severest test but greatest direction of student government this institution ever had.’’* Directing his remarks along alumni lines, Dr. Gaines pointed out that 180 boys were sent into the world on June 4 as members of the alumni fraternity with every confi- dence that they would be worthy of that very real distinction. President Gaines declared he was especially thankful for two forms of aid rendered by alumni, first of all, the help they have given in trying to interest the right kind of boy in Washington and Lee. He emphasized that Washington and Lee is not looking for numbers but is rather looking for dedicated, cul. tured, honorable, useful men who in themselves are entitled to join the “alumni fraternity.” Also he stressed the importance of the Alumni Fund and stated that it is now an indispensable part of the University. In closing, Dr. Gaines com- mented that he wished there were more things the University could do for the alumni. He indicated that one project under considera- tion is that of establishing an alum- ni headquarters so that when the alumni come back they will know that a place has been set aside ex- plicitly for them. ‘The meeting adjourned to the front of Lee Chapel where Mr. Webster, in one of the surprise fea- tures of the Alumni Reunion, pre- sented Dr. Gaines a 1954 Lincoln Capri automobile, a token of alum- ni esteem to mark the beginning of his 25th year as president. SECRETARY’S REPORT m FOR A QUARTER of a century I have been making a June report to our Alumni Association. When I made my first report in 1930 our beloved former dean, Robert H. Tucker, was acting president. We were wait- ing for Dr. Gaines, our new presi- dent, to move to the campus and *He was referring here to the Honor System violations exposed during the final examination period. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE take up his duties in July. For further background on that occa- sion I might go on to reminisce that Mr. George W. St. Clair was the Rector of the University’s Board of Trustees; and some of the other University officials then in office were Harry Campbell, Academic Dean; Paul M. Penick, secretary- treasurer; “Boss” Moreland, Dean of the Law School; Reid White, Sr., the college doctor; and Earl Mat- tingly, registrar. Although the stock market crash and the depression were the main topics of the times, still our student body in that year 1930 numbered gig. And then, as now, the students appeared to me to be the finest pos- sible group of young gentlemen. I recall that when I gave an ac- count of my first year’s duties as Alumni Secretary, I spoke to the alumni at a luncheon held in the old Dining Hall, a building that serves now as the University Supply Store. The late Judge Edwin C. Caffrey, ‘09, was president of the Alumni Association. ‘There was no financial statement to present be- cause there was no Alumni Fund then and some seven or eight thous- and alumni had neglected to pay their membership dues! At this time your Association had only a part-time secretary; half of my time was spent in coaching athletics. Our office force consisted BuRKS SEPTEMBER 1954 of one full-time assistant, most able and efficient but overworked. Our equipment consisted of a com- pletely out-of-date, even then, “or- gan grinder-type’” addressing ma- chine, one roll-top desk, and one 4-drawer file case. Of the 6,500 alumni then in our files, half were unlocated. ‘The University fur- nished the postage and also paid all other expenses of the office. We believe we have made prog- gress. We have been paying our own way for many years and for several years the proceeds of the Alumni Fund have been turned over to the Trustees of the Univer- sity as unrestricted funds to be DOBBINS used wherever they will do the most good for the University. Dr. Gaines has said that Annual Giving has assumed in recent years the vital role of making it possible for Wash- ington and Lee to maintain and im- prove its standards of education. We now have a staff of four office assistants and I stopped coaching years ago. We have a room lined with filing cabinets containing rec- ords on thousands of alumni. We have the newest in office equipment and supplies. We invite your in- spection. Last September Donald E. Smith joined the University’s administra- tive staff as Director of University Development. He fills a need long felt on this campus. His office is WURZBURGER charged with determining Wash- ington and Lee’s long-range needs; with interpreting the University’s functions, and its needs, to its var- ious publics; and with organizing and servicing the fund-raising pro- grams looking to the fulfillment of those needs. In my association with other alumni secretaries and with devel- opment officers of other institu- tions, I am well acquainted with what other schools are doing. I am positive that no school has made more progress in one year’s time in a development program than has Washington and Lee since Septem- ber under the direction of Don Smith. In addition to his own work, he and his staff have aided greatly in the workings of the Alumni Of- fice. I wish to thank him in this re- port for his fine cooperation. And a little later in this morning’s pro- eram he himself will tell you some- thing of plans for our future. Let me take you back for a mo- ment now to 1933, that “red letter” date on the Washington and Lee alumni calendar. In that year Wal- ter McDonald, as president of the Alumni Association, was instru- mental in establishing and organ- izing our Alumni Fund. Five hundred and sixteen alumni con- tributed $3,750 in our first effort at alumni Annual Giving. Through the years our Fund totals have shown steady increase. And every 15 year we have sought new ways to stimulate interest in and promote growth of this fund—a tangible ex- pression of alumni loyalty to Alma Mater. As of this date, our alumni have contributed to this Fund ap- proximately $400,000 in the past twenty-two years. We should be mindful of the fact that despite the encouraging gains which the Fund has made over the years, there are many Uni- versity needs as yet unsatisfied. In line with this thought, your Alumni Board at its 1953 June meeting es- tablished an Alumni Fund Coun- cil composed of six members of the Association, appointed by the president, whose purpose and func- tion is “to propose, to approve and to authorize plans and methods for promoting and conducting the an- nual campaign for the Alumni Fund.” To that end, the Council would possess the full powers of the Board. The following were im- mediately appointed. Messrs. Paul C.. Buford, ’13, Kenneth P. Lane, ‘36, H. Graham Morison, ’30, Mil- ton B. Rogers, ’17, I. M. Scott, ‘BY; and George B. Wilkinson, ‘26 (with the Alumni President and the Alumni Secretary as ex-officio members). Mr. Rogers was elected chairman of the group and Mr. Bu- ford, vice-chairman. The Alumni Fund Council has had three meet- ings, and because of its guidance and devotion I am glad to be able to report your Alumni Fund has had the best year since its incep- tion in 1933: We have received a total of $50,025.34 from 1,824 contributors. To get in line with the Univer- sity’s fiscal year, the Council sug- gested that the Alumni Fund be or- ganized on a July 1 to June go an- nual basis. We had previously op- erated on a calendar year. As of this day the number of contributors for 1954 1s a few hundred short of our all-time record but is still far more than we have ever had before on a comparable date. With our base broadened, I feel certain another year will bring the participation in 16 our Fund to a level we have long hoped to achieve. In looking back over previous reports I notice I have from time to time commented at length on the activities of our local alumni chap- ters, our student-alumni relations program, the Alumni Magazine, preparations for Homecoming, and all the items that make up the daily office routine. These phases grow increasingly important and we are not neglecting them or minimizing them this year. However, they will not be dealt with in this report. In closing, allow me to pay a debt of thanks to all those who have helped make possible this new epoch in University development. First of all, may I congratulate you upon the officers and directors of your Association. Mr. W. L. Web- ster, your president, has given un- selfishly of his time and talents in promoting the welfare of our or- ganization and the University. He and your directors have come from great distances to attend meetings. They have done a magnificent job. Also I want to pay special tribute to the newly organized Alumni Fund Council and particularly to its chairman, Colonel Milton B. Rogers. He has spent many hours with us and his direction and ad- vice and assistance, together with the guidance and devotion of all the Council members, have proved invaluable. Of course I must take a moment, too, for a salute to the Class Agents and to the Regional Agents. After all, they have been and will con- tinue to be the core of an effective Alumni Fund Program. 04 Dr. JOHN Henry Day, after 28 years as pastor of Seventh Baptist Church Baltimore, Maryland, the largest church of that denomination in Maryland, retired at the end of March, 1954. He will continue to live in Baltimore, address being 702 The Blackstone, Charles and 33rd, Balti- more 18, Maryland. / 7 WILLIAM A. REID, vice-president and cashier of the First National Bank of Troutville, Virginia, and his wife re- cently enjoyed a two and a half-month cruise visiting most of the countries bor- dering on the Mediterranean. They had a wonderful trip, but came home more con- vinced than ever that the United States is after all, the best place on earth to live. MAJOR GENERAL CLEMENT MCMULLEN re- tired February 28, 1954, from the United States Air Force with the grade of Major General after almost 31 years of active military service. At the time of his re- tirement he was the oldest pilot officer on active duty in the military services and fourth in seniority of all regular Air Force Major Generals. He has three sons who are active pilot officers in the Air Force and another who is a petroleum en- gineer. He is making his home at 515 La- mont Avenue, San Antonio 9, Texas. / 3 HERBERT T. TAYLOR, 1619 West Laburnum Avenue, Richmond 27, Vir- ginia, has three sons, all married and all of whom served in World War II, and four grandchildren. JupGE Epwarp S. DELAPLAINE has been un- der heavy pressure of work since he be- came a member of the Court of Appeals of Maryland in 1938. Address: Frederick, Maryland. Dr. FRANCIS PHILIPS GARDNER, after re- ceiving his medical degree from Virginia, served in the Navy until 1947, when he retired. Address: ‘‘“Nowatchee,”’ Eau Gallie, Florida. / 6 EcHOL S. MARSHALL spent over four years with the du Pont Company, followed THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE by 26 years of tin can manufacturing, and then graduated to complete retirement. The Marshalls have two fine children, a daughter, happily married to a successful metallurgist in Birmingham, Alabama, with a daughter 13; and a son who gradu- ated in Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1953, now a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, presently at Cherry Point, but destined for Korea early in September. Address: 1228 grd Street, S.W., Roanoke, Virginia. / 7 WILLIAM H. BRANDON, M.D., Bran- don Clinic, P. O. Box 688, Clarksdale, Mis- sissippi, writes that his son, Bill, was mar- ried June 15, having graduated from the University of Mississippi in June, where he was a Lt. Colonel in the University of Mississippi Air Corps of the R.O.T.C. His daughter, Betty, is married to Lt. James W. Kissick, Jr., of the Naval Air Service. They are stationed at Pensacola, Florida. The youngest boy is a junior at Tennes- see Military Institute, Sweetwater, Ten- nessee. He graduates next year and wishes to enter Washington and Lee. 2 0 ‘THomMAS M. (Mac) Stusss has been teaching law for the past seven years at the University of South Carolina in Co- lumbia and spends most of each week there. His home and law office are in Sumter, South Carolina. 2i Dr. R. D. GarcIn, JR., purchased a new home last fall, just outside the city limits of Richmond in Henrico Coun- ty. His address is 3605 Dill Road, Rich- mond 22, Virginia. 23 MELVILLE IRVINE DUNN, assistant vice-president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company at Huntington, West Virginia, has been appointed vice-presi- dent—construction and maintenance. Mr. Dunn entered railroad service as a rod- man for C. & O. in 1916 in Huntington, resigning to enter Washington and Lee and received his B. S. degree in 1923. He rejoined the C. & O. as instrumentman at Huntington, subsequently serving as as- sistant engineer, assistant division en- gineer, trainmaster, division and general superintendent, superintendent freight transportation, and assistant general man- ager. He was appointed assistant vice- president in January 1953. 24 Howarp D. LEAKE and JOHN HEN- DON, ‘24, are so busy with their car park- ing business in 8 different cities that their wives have to do most of their corres- pondence with the Alumni Office. In May they attended the National Parking Asso- ciation in Chicago, of which John is the retiring president and Howard is “his man Friday.” Address: 1631 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama. SEPTEMBER 1954 The City of Garfield, New Jersey, is in the capable hands of an all-Washington and Lee administration. Pictured above, left to right: JoHN J. HupDAK, ’23, city treas- urer; EMIL J. SADLOCK, '28, mayor; and ‘THEODORE R. CIESLA, °43, city attorney. Joun E. WELLs is still operating the Wells Furniture Manufacturing Company which he organized in 1934. His son, John, is a Naval jet pilot recently on the Midway in the Mediterraean, .and his daughter, Edith, is now married and lives in Pasca- goula, Mississippi. Address: Laurel, Mis- sissippi. GEORGE MERCKE, JR., has been with the Jefferson Wood Working Company, Louis- ville, Kentucky, since leaving college in 1924. The older of his two sons entered Washington and Lee as a freshman thi» year. 25 Cary A. MoomMaw has been in con- struction work most of the time since leaving school. He had been on a job in Iceland for nineteen months when his letter was written on July 18, and while his work there had been most interesting he says a top coat still felt good but hoped for a few warm days before the snows begin in early October. His home is in Roanoke, Virginia, and he gets back there between jobs. Present address: Care of M.H.S.B. Companies, APO 81, care of P. M., New York. 2 Dr. BURCHARD S. PRUETT was a VisSi- tor to the campus in August. Address: 6006 Virginia Avenue, St. Louis 11, Mis- souri. ZACK RoGeERs is president of Zack Rogers Associates, Inc., Manufacturers Agent, hospital orthopedic and fracture equip- ment, 788 Ponce de Leon Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. LE WILLIAM C. (BILL) NorMAN, The Crosset Company, manufacturers of forest products, Crosset, Arkansas, has a_ son, WILLIAM C. JR., now in school here. 29 JosepH L. Lockett, Jr., writes, “There’s mighty little change from year to year in a lawyer’s life, except maybe in weight and gray hair. My weight re- mains the same; the gray hair increases.” He has a large law practice, as counsel for various industries and railroads, in the firm of Lockett, Lockettt, and Tallichet of Houston, Texas. HENRY P. JOHNSTON is president and managing director of ‘The ‘Television Cor- poration, P. O. Box 2553, Birmingham 2, Alabama, operating stations WAPI- WAFM-WABT. JAMEs WILLIAM BAILEY moved from Blue- field, West Virginia, several months ago and is now with Highway Machinery and Supply Company in the material han- dling division, in Salem, Virginia. He has one son, now at V.E.S., who tops him at six feet one inch, age 16. Address: 301 Idaho Street, Salem, Virginia. J. M. SHACKELFORD is president, New York Chapter, National Society for Business Budgeting. He is also a member of the Board of ‘Trustees, First Presbyterian Church, Metuchen, New Jersey. Address: 25 Clinton Place, Metuchen, New Jersey. RoBeErT B. LEE is still with Bankers Trust Co., 16 Wall Street, New York, where he is a vice-president in the commercial banking division, traveling very often in the southeastern states. This gives him an opportunity to keep up with classmates. 30 Dr. STANLEY F. HAMPTON is in pri- vate practice of Internal Medicine and Al- lergy and an assistant professor of Clinical 17 Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. At the annual meeting of The American Academy of Allergy, February 1-3, he was made president-elect of that medical society. Dr. JoHN P. LyNncu has been elected a trustee of the Richmond Academy of Medicine for the year 1954. Address: 1000 W. Grace Street, Richmond 20, Virginia. 3 / Dr. Epwarp M. Ritey, chief park historian at Independence National His- torical Park in Philadelphia, has been named director of research for Colonial Williamsburg. Dr. Riley has served as historian for the Colonial National His- torical Park covering both Yorktown and Williamsburg. Dr. Riley is the son of Dr. Franklin L. Riley, professor of history at Washington and Lee, 1914-1929. Dr. GEORGE ALLEN FLEECE is president of Columbia Bible College, Columbia, South Carolina. 3 2 Rosser L. MALONE of the law firm 6090080060008 09OO0SCO9O088H8HHH8OO8HHHOH80888O808H888HOO88 we WALTER E. HorrMan, LL.B. ’31, was appointed by President Eisen- hower as United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 29, 1954, con- firmed by the Senate, and received his Commission from the President on July 15, 1954; and took the oath of office on September 3, 1954, at the Federal Court in Norfolk. Judge Hoffman was born in Jer- sey City, New Jersey, on July 18, 1907, and after attending prepara- tory schools in New Jersey, matric- ulated at University of Pennsylva- nia School of Finance and Com- merce, from which he graduated with the B.S. degree in Economics in 1928. His family had moved to Norfolk, Virginia, and after one year in the Law School of William and Mary he entered the Law School at Washington and Lee in 1929 and was graduated with the LL.B. degree in 1931. Since that time he has practiced law in Nor- folk as a member of the firm of Breedin & Hoffman, with offices in the National Bank of Commerce Building. He was Instructor and Assistant Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary on a part-time basis, and was Referee in Bank- ruptcy for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division, from 1942 to 1944, when he resigned that office. He has served as president, Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Asso- 18 ciation, vice-president, Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association and vice-president, Virginia State Bar Association. While at Pennsylvania he became a member of Delta Upsilon, social fraternity and of Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, at Washington and Lee; and was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa as an honorary alum- nus here in 1950. Judge Hoffman was married to Evelyn Virginia Watkins in 1939 and they have two children, Carole Lee, born January 5, 1941, and Walter Edward, born August 16, 1943. Ihe family home is at 1489 Emory Place, Norfolk, Virginia. of Atwood & Malone, Roswell, New Mex- ico, has been commuting to Washington as a member of the Task Force of the Hoover Commission on Legal Service and Procedure in the Executive Branch of the Government. He is chairman of ‘Task Group No. 1 which has the responsibility of making recommendations to increase the efficiency and economy of the perform- ance of all legal functions in the Executive Branch of the Government and also will make recommendations as to the recruit- ment, tenure and compensation of Govern- ment lawyers. SHERWOOD WISE is still doing business at the old stand as a member of the law firm of Byrd, Wise and Smith, 1007 Deposit Guaranty Bank Building, Jackson 5, Mis- sissippi. ‘There are five children in the Wise family ranging in ages from 14 years to twins 21%. | 33 _ SHELBY BLATTERMAN sold his farm in May’s Lick, Kentucky, in 1952, and moved to Oak Park, Illinois, where he is working in a retail store. After farming for 21 years, he admits to having gained a lot of experience along many lines. WALLACE WERBLE is editor of F-D-C- Reports, a weekly Washington trade pub- lication for top executives in the drug and cosmetic industries, and F-D-C- Drug Letter, a weekly news letter for retail pharmacists. He has been editing the former for over 15 years—with two years out for the Army—and he established the latter three years ago. The Werbles have two sons, Wallace, Jr., 11 years old, and Cole Palmer, 3 years. Address: 3311 Ritten- house Street, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM J. Brooks, JR., has been named Atlanta zone manager for Pontiac Motor Division. He will manage Pontiac sales operations among dealers in Florida, Geor- gia, Alabama and parts of other Southern states. Address: 1284 Cumberland Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia. T. DEALE BLANCHARD is_ president-treas- urer of Blanchard’s, Inc., coal-fuel oil-hard- ware at 3410 High Street, Portsmouth, Virginia. He has recently taken on two new jobs for the coming year—president of the Portsmouth Retail Merchants Association, and vice-president and finance chairman of the Elizabeth Manor Golf and Country Club. HoMER G. RAY, Jr., is still in the peanut and vegetable oil business—Georgia Peanut Company, at Moultrie, Georgia. He has four children, “three queens and a very wild king, doing the usual round of civic and charitable offices and, in general, going through most of the things that those who graduated in 1933 are going through—a touch of gray at the temples, etc.” Dr. Topp DrEvAN has changed his title from “Colonel” back to “Doctor,” having been separated from the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army on October 9, 1953, after THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE gs GEORGE OLDHAM CLARKE, LL.B. "28, is president of the Kentucky State Bar Association for 1954. Hav- ing attended the meetings of the Board of Bar Commissioners as president-elect, for the whole of last year, he is not a stranger to the duties he is facing as president. Mr. Clarke was born 50 years ago at Falmouth, Kentucky. He at- tended school in Frankfort, Ken- tucky, and was graduated from the Washington and Lee Law School in 1928 with the LL.B. degree. Since that time he has been prac- ticing law in Jefferson County. In 1951 he was President of the Louis- ville Bar Association. He is the son of the Hon. Ernest S. Clarke, Judge of the Kentucky Court cf Appeals from 1915 to 1926. In addition to an active and varied practice he has served as CLARKE—a presidency a U.S. District Attorney, as a Coun- ty Commissioner, and as a County Judge Pro-tem. At present he is a member of the law firm of Mc- Elwain, Dinning, Clarke and Win- stead with offices in the Kentucky Home Life Building, Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Clarke married Louisa Hoge in 1929 and they have two children, a daughter, Louisa French, living at home, and a son on duty with the U. S. Navy. The honor that goes with the leadership of some four thousand Kentucky lawyers, is accompanied by the responsibilities of maintain- ing high ethical standards in the Bar’s ranks; fostering proper re- spect and support for the Courts; and maintaining a constant watch on the legal rights of all the Com- monwealth’s citizens in their con- tacts with lawyers, with the courts and with each other. Mr. Clarke is worthy of the honor and capable of assuming the responsibilities. $0606 O0060SHHHO0ESHOGHOOGSEO8HOHOHHOHHOH0GOOHOHHOHOOHHHHHHHHHHOO8OO088H8HH0OGH88808888008 13 years active duty, for a total of 20 years service. He is now in private practice, restricted to General Surgery in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Reports the birth of a third son on August 4, 1953. Address: 213 Eichel- berger Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania. 3 4 Tuomas D. ANDERSON is vice-presi- dent and trust officer of Texas National Bank, Houston, Texas. 3 6 A. LEE REESER has been named to represent the Commercial Division of ‘The Wooster Rubber Company in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. He was with the sales di- vision of the Minnesota Mining and Man- ufacturing Company prior to World War II during which he served with an Anti- Aircraft unit. 3/ CLARK B. WINTER was elected a vice-president of the American Express Company on June 28, 1954. He joined the company in 1946 as special assistant in the executive offices and was later promoted to assistant vice-president. He will remain in the executive offives at the company’s headquarters, 65 Broadway, New York, New York. Mr. Winter had just com- pleted in June an assignment as special as- sistant to H. Chapman Rose, assistant sec- retary of the treasury. During that time he was located in Washington. Now that he is back in New York, he has bought a SEPTEMBER 1954 new home at 47 Locust Street, Garden City, New York. C. SPENCER ‘TERHUNE is now with the sales staff of Sprunt & Dunn, Packard dealers, of Hackensack, New Jersey. Address: 337 Byron Place, Maywood, New Jersey. PARKE Rouse, JR., a Colonial Williams- burg administrative official, has been named executive director of the Virginia Commission for the 1957 Jamestown cele- bration. He has been granted a leave of absence from Colonial Williamsburg, where he has been special assistant to WINTER—@ vice-presidency Carlisle Humelsine, executive vice-presi- dent. STEPHENSON WELLS, formerly president of Wells, Elliott & Co., Inc., of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been appointed resident manager of the new office of Baxter, Wil- liams & Co., at 231 S. LaSalle Street, Chi- cago 4, Illinois, Baxter, Williams & Co., having recently purchased the business of Wells, Elliott & Co. COLONEL ARCHIBALD A. SPROUL is now senior officer of Virginia units of the Twenty-ninth Division of the National Guard. Sproul, a Staunton, Virginia, in- surance man, is commanding officer of the 116th Regiment. C. ARNOLD MATTHEWS is now out of the Navy and back teaching at the University of Florida. He has been promoted to Commander in the Naval Reserves Supply Corps. Address: 1626 N. W. 7th Avenue, Gainesville, Florida. 3 & JOHN OLIVER GLUYAS was awarded the degree of LL.B. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, on June 9, 1954. Home address: 57 Avon Road, Haddonfield, New Jersey. J. Hrram SniTH, after spending four years in aerial mapping in New England for the U.S.G.S., has been transferred to a pro- ject with the Engineering Branch, U.S.G:S. in Arizona. GILBERT S. MEEM has recently completed a course in Combustion Engineering at Penn State to round out his knowledge in coal 19 mining and sales to industrial consumers. Address: 705 Spring Garden Drive, Blue- field, West Virginia. 39 V. A. Snow, Jr. has been ap- pointed director of sales promotion of Belknap Hardware Co., in Louisville, Ken- tucky. He joined Belknap in 1939 and was territorial salesman in Virginia before entering the Armed Forces during World War II. In 1948 Snow returned to the firm as special sales manager and later served as western divisional sales manager. Resi- dence: 1419 Willow Avenue, Louisville 4, Kentucky. 40 Homer D. Jones has been with Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates since graduation. For the past four years he has been District Manager of one of their companies, the New England Coal. and Coke Company at Providence, Rhode Is- land. In March he was transferred to the main office in Boston. In Phillipian fash- ion he writes: “My Sweet Briar bride has her stresses with my faults, but thanks to her, there is something in the till.” 4] WILLIAM L. EvANs, Jr., is a pilot Captain for American Arlines based in Fort Worth, Texas. He has four children, three boys and a girl. Address: 3832 Wey- burn Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. RicHARD W. SMITH, Staunton, Virginia, attorney, was elected to a four-year term on the Staunton city council on June 8, 1954- HENRY J. (JEFF) Kiser is living at Coe- burn, Virginia, where he is manager of Giles Motor Co. He has a drive-in theatre at Blackwood, Virginia, about 4 miles from Norton on the Norton-Appalachia road, “Central Drive-In Theater.” He married a Coeburn girl and they have a four year old son, Jeffrey Giles. STEPHEN E. CAMPBELL, JR., is representa- tive for Progressive Grocer Magazine, trade magazine for super markets—said to be one of the finest merchandising publica- tions in the country. He was married to Lois Simpson, June 4, 1944, and they have three children, Sandy Campbell, age six, Clayton Campbell, age three, and Cynthia Campbell, age two. Address: 231 Blacksmith Road, Levettown, New York. 20 Louis A. PATERNO is practicing law, with offices in the Security Building, Charleston, West Virginia. He writes that he is the proud father of four sons, Louie, Jr., 11; Andrew James, 6; Michael Charles, 3; and Joseph Paul, 1. 47 LANE S. SARTOR, who was District Geologist for Pan-Am Southern for some years, has recently been made manager of the Land Department of that company. Dr. Puitip A. WILHITE, JR., has been prac- ticing dermatology in Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, since 1951. Address: 404 Washing- ton Street, Portsmouth, Virginia. NELSON C. STEENLAND now owns an ap- preciable part of Gravity Meter Explora- tion Company (GMX), in Houston. His associates report brilliant work by Nelson. Dr. Ropert E. LEAKE is practicing Ur- ology in Covington, Kentucky. His home address is 6 Broadview Place, Fort ‘Thomas, Kentucky. ROBERT W. Root writes that he “came out of the war alive, got married and is now raising two children.” He was a_ photo- interpreter in the Navy during the war and is now doing similar work for the Air Force. He plans to go into commercial oil work in the near future. DANIEL CurTis LEwIs, JR., was granted the degree of Doctor of Commercial Science at the commencement exercises from Harvard University on June 17, 1954. He received the degree of M.B.A. from Har-. vard in 1948. ROBERT C. WALKER has resigned as ex- ecutive vice-president and cashier of the First National Bank of Lexington to ac- cept the position of executive vice-presi- dent of the Peninsula Bank & Trust Co., of Williamsburg, Virginia, effective Sep- tember 1, 1954. GEORGE E. KERNS, JR., is practicing law at 106 County Building, Media, Pennsylvania,. and lives just outside the city. He is mar- ried and has one son three years old. | RICHARD B. SPINDLE, JR., is with the law firm of Willcox, Cook & Willcox, with of- fices in the National Bank of Commerce Building, Norfolk 10, Virginia. Dick and his wife Kitty, have two daughters, ages six and three. CLYDE E. Situ, Jr., has been associated with his father in the general insurance agency since 1947. He has recently been elected as incoming State President of the West Virginia Junior Chamber of Com- merce. The Smiths have two children, Candy, age 8, and Tripp, age 5. Address: 145 South Queen Street, Martinsburg, West Virginia. 43 RALPH COHEN has been a Chemist with the Bureau of Standards since Sep- tember, 1943. Address: The Chancery Apartments, 802, 3130 Wisconsin Avenue, N. W., Washington, D.C. Dr. GEORGE W. Priest completed his medi- cal course at Ohio State and returned to his home at 15 Wiltshire Boulevard, Day- ton 9, Ohio, where he was to take the ex- aminations for a state licence in June. WiLLtiAM McCoy, Jr., is practicing law with his father, William McCoy, Sr., in Franklin, West Virginia. He is also a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Dr. HAveEN W. MANKIN left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in Sep- tember of 1951 for two years of active duty with the Army (rank Captain). Served ten months at the g8th General Hospital in Munich, Germany, and then thirteen months with the Division Artil- lery of the 28th Infantry Division—split time between Dillingen and Goppingen, Germany. His family (wife, Mary Lou; two sons: Haven D. and Reed W.) joined him in Germany about four months after his arrival. He has now returned to the Mayo Clinic to complete his fellowship. Address: 1612 Second Avenue, N.E., Ro- chester, Minnesota. PAUL M. SHUFORD is a member of the law firm of Wicker, Baker and Shuford, with offices at 501 Mutual Building, Richmond, Virginia. He married Mary Campbell Grant of Owensboro, Kentucky, and they have two sons, Paul M., II, age three and one-half, and David Gant, age six months. Home address: 5308 Willow Lawn Road, Richmond, Virginia. 44 James D. McLEAN, Jr., continues to compile and publish the now-famous McLean Card Catalogue of American For- anifera from his office and laboratories in Alexandria, Virginia. He has his own printing and publishing plant. T. W. (BILL) SOMMER (LL.B. ’47) is an at- torney with the Regional Counsel’s Of- fice, Internal Revenue Service, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Address: 717 N. W. 2gth, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ALBERT H. DupDLey, Jr., M.D., began the practice of obstetrics and gynecology last July at 1201 North Calvert Street, Balti- more 2, Maryland. Since leaving Washing- ton and Lee he has completed medical school, internship, Navy, hospital train- ing, another tour in the Navy and finally a last spell of residency training before beginning practice. 46 Dr. Joun J. Kerry, TI, has re- cently been appointed a member of the medical staff at McGuire Veterans Hos- pital, Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Harortp T. MANKIN is taking a year’s leave of absence from the Mayo Founda- tion of the Mayo Clinic to be a Fellow of the Minnesota Heart Association working THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE with Dr. Lewis Dexter in clinical cardi- ology at the Peter Bent Bingham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 4/ Joun H. CAsEy completed a law degree at Washington and Lee after his geology major and went to work for an oil operator in Midland, Texas. He has been in the Williston Basin for two years as an independent consultant in landwork. He writes that the combination of geology with law is excellent and he can highly recommend it for those interested. He is at Glendive, Montana. 48 JOHN W. FUNKHOUSER completed a Ph.D. in Biology at Stanford, then did an additional year’s work in micropaleon- tology. He is now with an oil company working on fossil, pollen and spores. H. Perriz MITcHeLL and his wife are serv- ing as misisonaries under the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. (Southern), in Korea. They have two sons, John and Thomas, the latter born in Chunju, Korea, on Septem- ber 28, 1953. Address: Presbyterian Mis- sion, APO care of Postmaster, San Fran- cisco, California. R. Trepss BossERMAN is a member of the recently formed partnership of Willet & Bosserman, Certified Public Accountants, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Dave B. CoOFER, JR., is still a staff member of ‘Texas A. & M. He has recently hung out his shingle as attorney-at-law, and assumed the duties of parenthood. His law office is in the Sosolik Building, College Station, Texas. 49 CHARLES RICHARD (DICK) WoRKING has been named head football coach at McDonogh School, McDonogh, Maryland. Before coming to Washington and Lee in 1941 Working was an _ outstanding three-sports athlete at Baltimore City College where he won nine letters—three each in football, basketball and baseball. He continued his outstanding career in the same three sports at Washington and Lee. Dick is 32 years old, married to former Genevieve Johnson and the father of two girls, Cheryl and Cindy, and one boy, Michael Richard. CLARENCE V. Moore has been transferred from San Antonio, where he has been with the Southwestern Division of Stand- ard Oil of Texas, to the Houston office where he is assistant to the Gulf Coast Regional Geologist. At the recent A.A.P.G. meeting several very nice compliments were made about his abilities as a field geologist. EDWARD R. FEINMAN has opened offices for the general practice of law at 718 Peoples National Bank Building, Lynchburg, Vir- ginia. SEPTEMBER 1954 In Newport News, an unveiling = A PORTRAIT of the Reverend Wil- liam Graham, first president of Washington Academy which was the predecessor of Washington and Lee University, was unveiled June 22, 1954, by the Peninsular Chap- ter of the Alumni Association with some 25 to 30 local alumni and friends present. ‘The portrait will be presented to Dr. Francis P. Gaines, President of the University, next fall, as a gift of the chapter. Philip W. Murray, ’10, (second from right) lifts the covering during ceremonies at the Newport News Courthouse. Others participating in the program were Mrs. Samuel Cletus Johnson, the artist; Thomas P. Duncan, °24, retiring chapter president; and Lewis A. McMurran, Jv., °36, who spoke on the Rev. Mr. Graham’s presidency at the school and his friendship with “Light Horse Harry”’ Lee which is credited with bringing George Washington’s grant to the school. SCOSHSHOHSHOSOOCHHHHOCHHGHOCHHHODHOSOHOHOSCHHHOHSOHOSHOCOOOHOHOCOOCOOCEO®S EDWIN M. GAINES, son of Dr. and Mrs. Francis P. Gaines, received his M.A. de- gree at the commencement exercises at the University of Virginia on June 14, 1954. JoHN W. NOLEN, JrR., is still associated with Thomas W. Clohosey, U. S. Commissioner, in Newark, but has established his own office at 180 Main Street, in Chatham, New Jersey. He has a son, Jeffrey Merrill Nolen, born April 19, 1954. Address: 180 Main Street, Chatham, New Jersey. Jack B. PoORTERFIELD is with the law firm of Lange, Simpson & Somerville, 1023-38 Frank Nelson Building, Birmingham 3, Alabama. Jack writes of the recently or- ganized Alumni Chapter in Birmingham. > 0 Davip S. CROYDER was granted the degree of Master in Business Administra- tion from Harvard University on June 17, 1954. Address: 44 Kent Place Boulevard, Summit, New Jersey. ArTHUR M. (Art) Roperts has been a Special Agent with the Aetna Insurance Group, covering most of Connecticut, since graduation. The Roberts are living in Brookfield Center, Connecticut, a small New England village, where they have bought an old Box Colonial house, built in 1789, and are enjoying fixing it up. They also have another recent acquisition, a fine little daughter, named Kathy. Hatcotr Heyward, III, is with Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co., in Rich- mond, Virginia. Address: 4412 Grove Avenue, Apartment 11, Richmond, Vir- ginia. WILLIAM R. HOLLAND was recently elect- ed auditor of the Mountain Trust Bank of Roanoke, Virginia. OLIVER MENDELL is working at the Bankers ‘Trust Co., as new business solicitor for mid-town New York. He works out of the Empire State Office at 34th Street. He has been with the bank for almost six years, and was recently elected Fund-Rais- 2] Delay in the shipment of steel brought work on the new academic building to a tempo- rary halt in July. Work has now been resumed, and plans call for occupancy by January. ing Chairman for Junior Division, New York Federation Hospital Drive. Address: 10 Glenwood Drive, Great Neck, New York. Birt Pacy is in the: movie business with McHenry Theater Co., Inc., The C. W. Pacy Co., Inc., 1032 Light Street, Balti- more 30, Maryland. Jack NickELs is working with his family in the sales department of. Nickels Manu- facturing Co., dress manufacturers. Bris- tol, ‘Tennessee. Curtis C. Humpureis, JRr., is making a most enviable record with the California Company. He is now located at Jackson, Mississippi. RICHARD W. HyYNson, now in Riverside, Connecticut, is raising a son and is now assistant manager of the Eastern Branch of David White Sales Co., with particular interest in the Stereo Realist Camera. He finished his tour of duty in Korea about a year ago. Gerry U. STEPHENS, manager of the North- side Branch of the American National Bank and Trust Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as Organizational Con- trol Officer of the Third Army Comp- troller Section at Ft. McPherson, Georgia, during the summer. Address: go4 Avon Place, Chattanooga, ‘Tennessee. 35 / EUGENE E. FREEMAN, JR., received the degree of Master of Science in Fores- try from the University of Syracuse on June 7, 1954. Address: Box 233, Win- chester, Kentucky. HowarbD BRATCHES, with the Land Depart- ment of Shell Oil, has recently been trans- ferred to the Colorado area with Denver as the main operating point. The Bratches have a new addition to their family, their 22 second daughter, Janice Colin. Address: 3296 South Grape, Denver, Colorado. Joun A. F. HALL, JR., was granted the de- gree of LL.B. from Harvard University on June 17, 1954. Address: 2530 North 2nd Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Ricuarp R. McDonaAtp has returned from his assignment with the U.S.G.S. in Alaska, and is now on the Colorado Plateau work ing on Uranium problems for U.S.G:S. WALLACE R. OREF was with Equitable Gas before being assigned to Division En- gineer Supply of the Army in San Fran- Cisco. ROBERT E. GLENN entered the Air Force as a First Lieutenant in J.A.G. on August 17, 1953. He is now with the USAF Security Service, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Address: 507 Fifth Street, Radford, Virginia. (Please forward). Ep Bassett is in Journalism School at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address: 608 W. Davis Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tuomas A. Courtenay, ITI, shortly after graduation was drafted and sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he did research on nucleic acids. Now as a civilian he is continuing the work at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Home Address: 2423 Glenmary, Louisville 4, Kentucky. Bos SALIsBuRY has completed the pre- liminary examinations for his work on his Ph.D. degree and is now working on his thesis at the University of Illinois. Home address: 125 West Seminary, Whea- ton, Illinois. Joun I. THompson, JRr., is now employed as Assistant Treasurer of the John I. Thompson and Co., Consulting Engineers of Washington, D.C., and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as manager of the Bellefonte offices. Address: 234 W. Curtin Street, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Rick Marcus is stationed at the Naval Communications Station, 90 Church Street, New York. His wife, Leslie, and daughter Susan, are with him. Rick is a Lieutenant (j.g.) and hopes to be dis- charged in June 1955. Art HOLLIis is in the insurance business with Hollis Insurance Agency, Inc., 910 Ryan Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana, after his discharge from the army. ALAN Cross, Lieutenant (j.g.), is stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, and has just returned from a European cruise. NORFLEET TURNER writes from Memphis, Tennessee, that he and his wife, Meg, have recently bought a home at 2083 Washing- ton Avenue. 52 James HucH Gorpon, Jr., has a bad case of Uraniumitis and has joined the large group of fellow sufferers seek- ing a cure in Colorado and Utah. His last letter was from Grand Junction. He will start prospecting in the near future. Joun L. Bow es was graduated from the Engineering O.C.S. at Fort Belvoir in De- cember, 1953, receiving a commisison as Second Lieutenant; he is now at Fort Lewis, Washington. ALAN S. Horow!tz was awarded the degree of master of science from Ohio State Uni- versity on June 11, 1954. Home Address: 2440 Winchester Avenue, Ashland, Ken- tucky. FLETCHER ‘I’. MCCLINTOCK is in the geo- logical department of Arkansas Fuel Oil Corporation, Shreveport, Louisiana, work- ing in East Texas Basin most of the time. A. PARKER NEFF is selling real estate and insurance and is in charge of rentals for Stephen E. Cooke in Norfolk, Virginia. James A. PARKER obtained a masters de- eree from Penn State last Fall and went with U. S. Steel as an industrial engineer. Shortly thereafter he received his “greet- ings,” got married and went to Fort Meade for processing. He then was assigned to Special Services, Quartermaster Training Command at Fort Lee, Virginia, and later went to the Petroleum Analysis School at Caren Point, New Jersey. He plans to re- turn to U. S. Steel. Paut D. WEILL is a “Leatherneck”’ officer. He has served in various parts of the U. S. and Japan, where he is now stationed. He plans to go to graduate school after finishing his present duties. 53 12 RANDOLPH KEAN, II, is serving time in our Uncle’s Navy as an Ensign, an Engineer Officer on the U.S.S. Bot- tineau. He will go to graduate school upon completion of his Navy assignment. DANIEL E, PopovicH was in Navy O.C:S. at Newport, Rhode Island, for some THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE months, was graduated in November and was assigned to U.S.S. Mullany. RoBERT Howe THOMAS was commissioned in the Navy in August, 1953, and reported to U.S.S. Princeton (aircraft carrier) for duty in San Diego, California. His duty has consisted of about five months on beard ship conducting flight operations off the California coast and in the ship- yard at Bremerton, Washington. The re- maining months have been spent in the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, with a broken leg, first from playing touch foot- ball on the beach, and then a rebreak from skiing in Stevens Pass, North Wash- ington. Home address: 3815 Monticello Drive, Ft. Worth, Texas. JOSEPH SCHER has recently been assigned to the Public Information Office of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Before assignment to the PIO Section, Private Scher attended High Speed Radio Operator’s School, The South Eastern Signal School, at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Home address: 1604 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1941 ‘THOMAS W. BROCKENBROUGH was married to Mary Louise Kocher on August 6, 1954, in West Orange, New Jersey. 1946 Epwin S. PICKETT was married to Dorothy Misner on July 12, 1954, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 1949 WILLIAM ALLEN CHIPLEY was married to to Harriet Sandeford Quillen on July 10, 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida. 1950 WILLIAM ROBERT HOLLAND was married to Irma Douglas Graff on June 5, 1954, in Roanoke, Virginia. JAmeEs PAUL SUNDERLAND and Esther Phyl- lis White were married August 15, 1954, in Richmond, Indiana. SAMUEL D. EGGLESTON, JR., was married to Marjorie Watson, of Lowlands, North Car- olina, on April 3, 1954. Residence address: 1217 Burlington Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. 1951 FRANK STERRETT DAVIDSON was married to Arden Locher on August 21, 1954, in Lex- ington, Virginia. SEPTEMBER 1 954 mw AFTER MANY YEARS the full story of the first important Virginia nov- elist—the man who first put the tradition of the F.F.V’s_ and Knights of the Golden Horseshoe in print—has been told. It is the story of a University alumnus, and was written by Curtis Carroll Da- vis. Chronicler of the Cavaliers: A Life of the Virginia Novelist, Dr. William A. Caruthers (Richmond, Dietz Press, 1953), will make a strong appeal to Washington and Lee alumni, not only because of the general interest which Caruther’s life has for the modern reader, but for the special material on Lexing- ton and Washington College. Born in Lexington the very year Liberty Hall burned down, Car- uthers was a student at Washington College from 1817 to 1820. During the summer of 1818 he witnessed the climbing of the Natural Bridge by a college mate, James Hays Pip- er, and wrote a brilliant account of it, published later in the Knicker- bocker Magazine. After graduating from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1828, he returned to practice in Lexing- ton. Like all members of the com- munity, he mourned the passing of old John Robinson, benefactor of Washington College who rests to- day under his monument in front of Tucker Hall. Caruthers even bought at auction thirteen gallons of Robinson’s “finest, fruitless, most ropey’ whiskey—for 40 cents a gal- lon! How times change. Davis tells Caruther’s story with care and skill; and one reviewer has suggested that for his work he Should be awarded “a modern Golden Horse-Shoe made for those who ride their researches into new territories of Southern history.” ‘THOMAS OWEN BAGLEY was married to Peggy Lee Moyers on June 4, 1954. 1952 Otis WILSON Howe was married to Ruth Christine White on June 19, 1954, in Helena, Arkansas. 1953 HERBERT S. FALK, JR., was married to Joan Jacobi on June 11, 1954, in Wilmington, North Carolina. 1954 DANIEL DAvip DICKENSON, JR., was mar- ried to Margaret Lois Boyer on June 11, 1954, in Richmond, Virginia. — JosEPH LAMAR LANIER, JR., was married to Ann Morgan on August 1, 1954, in West Point, Georgia. 1938 Mr. and Mrs. McMrEEN HEPBURN MANY are the parents of a daughter, Cecile Le- guir, born April 15, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. GILBERT S. MEEM are the parents of a son, Langhorne H. Meem, Ii, born July 9, 1954. Dr. and Mrs. A. COMPTON BRODERS are the parents of a fourth son, William Mar- shall Broders, born July 15. 1954. 1939 Mr. and Mrs. RoBertT A. BROWER are the parents of a daughter, Barbara Alice, born April 16, 1954. 1940 Mr. and Mrs. A. Lea Booru are the par- ents of a daughter, Mary Lyon, born June 23» 1954- 1941 Mr. and Mrs. FREDERICK BARTENSTEIN, Jr., are the parents of a son, John Curtis, born July 19, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. BENTON M. WAKEFIELD, JR., are the parents of a son, Benton McMillin Wakefield, III, born June 2, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Rospert C. PEERY are the parents of a daughter, Jennice, born De- cember 27, 1953. 1942 Mr. and Mrs. BERNARD LEVIN are the par- ents of a daughter, Amy Wareck, born July 7, 1954. The Levins have a new ad- dress at 7407 Cortland Place, Norfolk, Vir- ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Grapy H. Forcy are the parents of a third son, Jeffery Steele, born June 25, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES A. LEMKUHL, JR., are the parents of a son, Charles A., III, born June 2, 1954. 23 1944 Mr. and Mrs. NEIL ‘T’ASHER are the parents of a daughter, Sheila Marian, born Jan- uary 13, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. THomas L. STILWELL are the parents of a son, Thomas Clifford, born May 24, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. LEON Harris, JR., are the parents of a son, Leon, III, born August 12, 1954. 1945 Mr. and Mrs. JOHN H. SORRELLS are the parents ot a daughter, Nancy Gordon, born June 3, 1954. 1948 Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES R. MCDOWELL, JR., are the parents of a daughter, Jennie, born August 5, 1954. The McDowells have a new address at 510 Sinton Road, Rich- mond, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT F. SILVERSTEIN are the parents of a daughter, Laurie Ellen, born June 18, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM M. HARRELSON are the parents of a son, Thomas McRae, born February 17, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. FRANK J. Di Loreto are the parents of a daughter, Michele Marie, born July 8, 1954. 1949 Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Bower, JRr., are the parents of a daughter, Marguerite, born May 17, 1954. 1950 Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN WEAVER Faris are the parents of a son, John Randolph, born June 28, 1954, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT W. KNUDSEN are the parents of a daughter, Diane Barrett, born January 20, 1954. 1888 CAPTAIN GREENLEE D. LETCHER, prominent lawyer and civic leader of Lexington, Virginia, died August 12. Captain Letcher was born in Lexington on July 19, 1867, thee years after the Federal Army under General Hunter had burned the house of his father, Governor John S. Letcher. He entered V.M.I. in 1883 and was graduated in 1886 as first Jackson Hope Medalist. Fol- lowing his graduation from V.M.I., he 24 entered the Washington and Lee Law School where he graduated in 1888. In 1917 Captain Letcher organized the Rockbridge Artillery, named for the fa- mous Civil War unit, and was commission- ed as Captain in the National Guard to command the battery. At this time he was 50 years old and when he took the bat- tery to France, it was said, he was the oldest line officer in the expeditionary forces. The great energy that Capt. Letcher possessed was felt in many fields of ac- tivity. Among many of his interests were good roads. He helped organize the Lee Highway organization and spent years of activity on the Blue Grass trail. He was a member of many fraternal and civic or- ganizations. 1890 Aucustus K. Bowes died January 26, 1954, at his home in East Orange, New Jersey. He was 88 years old. 1891 MINETREE JONES FULTON died July 3, 1954. His home was in Richmond, Virginia. 1898 THomaAs HENRY HARMAN died July 25, 1954. His home was in Pikesville, Ken- tucky. 1908 FREDERICK FLOURNOY MILLsAps died May 26, 1954. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Ouichita National Bank of Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana. 1910 JupcE RiIcHARD B. SPINDLE, JR., of the Nor- folk Corporation Court and senior judge of the city’s courts of records, died June 19, 1954. Judge Spindle was recently ap- pointed by the Virginia Judicial Confer- ence as chairman of a committee of five judges to work with the Virginia Advis- ory Legislative Council on possible re- vision of judicial circuits. His son, RICHARD B., JR., received his A.B. degree here in 1942 and after service in the Navy, his LL.B. degree in 1947. 1913 Dr. WILLIAM T. HANZSCHE died June 21, 1954, following a cerebral hemorrhage. Minister of the Prospect Street Presby- terian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, for 32 years, Dr. Hanzsche was the author of several books and for many years con- ducted radio broadcasts for the National Council of Churches. 1915 Mark Rosert Mites died June 21, 1954, at his home, R.F.D. No. 2, Dover, New Jersey. Affectionately known as “Buck” at Washington and Lee, he was an out- standing athlete in football, basketball and track. 1917 S. STEINER SmiTH died in December, 19353, following a heart attack. His home was in Shelbyville, Kentucky. 1920 Joseru S. LeFirs died March 10, 1954. His home was in Jacksonville, Florida. 1923 Major RANDOLPH DiILLon died July 16, 1954, in Washington, D.C., after a linger- ing illness. At the time of his death he was vice-president of the American Scales Manufacturing Co., in Old Georgetown. Major Dillon served during World War II in the Aircraft Material Division. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery. 1924 ALBERT STACEY GIFFORD died August 10, 1954, following a heart attack. His home was in Greensboro, North Carolina, and he was president of the local Piedmont Chapter of the Alumni Association. 1931 ADDISON TAULBEE WuiTtt died July 10, 1954. His home was in Winchester, Ken- tucky. DANIEL SHERBY died at Mount Sinai Hos- pital in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 15. Mr. Sherby was well-known in the city of Cleveland and gave generously of his time and talents to a wide variety of city welfare activities. In recent years his record of service extended to national levels. He had been made a member of the National Advisory Heart Council by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of the De- partment of Health, Education and Wel- fare. In addition to his charitable activities he was linked prominently with trans- portation and sporting enterprises in Cleveland, being Secretary-Treasurer of the Yellow and Zone Cab Companies. Mr. Sherby was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns football team of which he was a director and treasurer. He was largely responsible for the merger of the All-American Conference with the Na- tional Football League. During the first year of the football merger he served as president of the League’s American Con- ference. 1936 RIcHARD S. Marcus, president of a large Baltimore clothing manufacturing firm, died suddenly on August 9, 1954, while his yacht was coming into port at An- napolis. His firm, the Louis Marcus Cor- poration, Mount and Eagle Streets, Balti- more, Maryland, was one of the country’s largest munufacturers of women’s clothing. 1937 ALBERT LUSTBADER died May 31, 1954. His home was in New York. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INCORPORATED OPERATING STATEMENT For the Fiscial Year ended June 30, 1954 OPERATING INCOME (Undesignated): CUASS AGERE VU ie ices ieee seeds eons ste doe yy endo vnescter conteouiurapyenevnss $56,043.33 DESIGNATED INCOME: BTA ict 6 Sete Rs vasen en ng oh nas PS on seth tsb eg lena deate pete ches oa tipne cs Seaecneel $9,195.00 Bon yey kwisccel Aa Neu aa coer sets cng avugtegs ees esa sa eed vaaneDionpetestensaey ie fiaen tes 690.56 University departmental operating INCOME........... cc cette 205.00 Brancis’ 1. Giascow, Ll, Fund.......0 2.2. fee elaine tinsrecunentens 93.00 dripevrolicciate. atl letiesi.s....60.. vcs ecseeccageses sions dpeysie bevipelpetenspnpeecdibas espera 100.00 Bicctenmial Building Pussies. lok cred ep hoteles serine one tees 1,000.00 Journalism Building Fund........0..... ee ee re ere ete 10.00 11,293.56 Motel TineCOme. oi.) i a a A $67,336.89 OPERATING EXPENSES: RU EAES. ccecect bus pe rescues ntoseeodv ios gpttt ie Ota epg ge tar eR ie lay Gis yc $11,123.14 Cillass ACME CX PCTSE.. 8s cei 5 Mee alae le tty ates pac ise gets s Laveee deste be ccviesecsceteaal 5,206.74 made Maa Zines, oo. oases se Ses een este eak aE caged 5 EL wens easy ob cn ug Las eeg oa ccgussdundie cs Soas 5,065.63 BVTVCEVTIS ices cs Saeco belies oe Hs RL yee ye el Ge deal touts tseetsscas co AveoP ote 245.67 BEAVIS rave ag ts ee a ee ee EL elaine eigen: 1,399.06 MP CV IAI ovine Serco Ls es SE de A sis ckh loots care censudelescasovecs! 1,093.60 ADMICE SUB PINGS... cece etek eye Ma tye Be ise elg Ge ess cane gt tghilecig stave essepuses 1,001.41 BOON) eee ig cs cee stlen soso ce Gea ee ee ees eR 2a! 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Ae es ee i os oid a ce 385.26 Total Operating Ex pensts 3 108 cig alii ees es eect nated eye borne cee tetup estes andes $26,498.80 OTHER EXPENDITURE: Kquipment purchased (addressograph)..........0. cc. cece cececedscesseedscsasbonsenseeboegnas soesensenes 5,560.71 ‘Total Operating Expenses and Equipment Purchased............ cece eceeeteeeteeees $32,059.51 Excess of ‘Total Income over ‘Total Operating Expenses and Equipment Pur- CASE ek etic ey ae tee vet ee ee eae pp eee a eres ah eee 35,277.38 A ee alse ee caccr est es ee an ces ev ss odes Sele sb ages taiavtl gwen cient $67,336.89 STATEMENT OF TRANSFERS TO WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ‘TREASURER: AMA S ETL POI ATICOTING 2.0, ..5 cov: evesecapiseege ie cdbcroo Fi bwche deesagesdessuvescvasbsdessnaneibecgureiviseasteeder dae $56,043.33 DSF Be ee PCO ooo a cso ies cee scscss cseec des nseasecbencoe tes saspuacsunnesvtedytonwy teas ovsnesenes stetoseqonedbergind uabedous 11,293.56 ee Pa lets) io heal ld ani a i ise en $67.336.89 CasH BALANCE, JUNE 30, 1954—REVOLVING FuND (Advanced by University ‘Treasurer LOT CUYTERE INGE CM CTIS CS) ss is oof oe eos Fads Gace cclavnon cede yop -vencevieccoevongubeesueidcdbeseetscdeeandeutecsayteenseeane $800.00 CASH BALANCE, JUNE 30, 3Q54—PLATE BUND.....00.00.0.cc.ccccccscsesnipeeteeobinecesaeersesaneoesanenseuneatoneedonesae $580.17 The and Lee Chair (with Crest in five colors) This Chair made from Northern Birch and Rock Mapile—Finished in Black with Gold trim (arms finished in Cherry.) A perfect Gift for an Alumnus for Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary or Wedding. A beautiful addition to any room in your home. All profit from the sale of this chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. Mail your order to: WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Box 897, Lexington, Virginia Price: $25.00, f.o.b. Gardner, Mass.—Delivery within three weeks The Washington and Lee Chair (with Crest in five colors) This Chair made from Northern Birch and Rock Mapile—Finished in Black with Gold trim (arms finished in Cherry.) A perfect Gift for an Alumnus for Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary or Wedding. A beautiful addition to any room in your home. All profit from the sale of this chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. Mail your order to: WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Box 897, Lexington, Virginia Price: $25.00, f.o.b. Gardner, Mass.—Delivery within three weeks