SPRING 1964

Annual Alumni

Meeting June 12

 

Omicron Delta Kappa
Celebrates Its 50th Year

 

 

 

THE

ASHINGTON
AND Lee

Editor

WILLIAM C, WASHBURN, 1940

Managing Editor

FRANK A. PARSONS, 1954

Editorial Associate

Mrs. ROBERT STEWART

THE WASHINGTON AND
LEE ALUMNI, INC.

President
Joun D. BATTLE, JR., M.D., 1934

Vice-President
‘THOMAS B. BRYANT, JR., 1928

Secretary

WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

Treasurer
WILLIAM B. WISdOM, 1921

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Jouu D. BATTLE, JRr., M.D., 1934, President
‘THOMAS B. BRYANT, JR., 1928
James H. CLARK, 1931

H. TYNDALL DICKINSON, 1939

E. STEWART EPLEY, 1949

Ropert A. FULWILER, JR., 1925
‘THomMAS W. MOSES, 1939

E. MARSHALL NUCKOLS, JR., 1933
C. WILLIAM Pacy, IJ, 1950

E. ALTON SARTOR, JR., 1938
WILLIAM B. WIspdOM, 1921
SHERWOOD W. WISE, 1932

EDITORIAL BOARD

FRANK J]. GILLIAM, 1917
PAXTON DAvIS

JAMES W. WHITEHEAD

JouHN D. BATTLE, JR., 1934
WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

 

Published quarterly by Alumni, Incor-
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Lexington, Virginia

Entered as Second Class Matter at the
Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, Sep-
tember 15, 1924. Printed at the Journalism
Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee
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Harold Laucikx.

May, 1964
Volume XXXIX

Number 2

 

THE Cover: Professor Rupert N. Latture, center, talks about the early days of Omicron

Delia Kappa with four students who are currently members of Washington and Lee’s

Alpha Circle. In April, the national ODK convention was held in Roanoke and Lexing-
ton, highlighted by an all-day pilgrimage by delegates to Washington and Lee.

INstipE Cover: The dog wasn’t mad, and the student wasn’t an Englishman, but both
were taking the noonday sun on a pleasant Spring day on the lawn by the Colonnade.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Visit with William Humphrey oe ae 2
ODK Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary
“Religious Emphasis” in Transition . . .  . ., 8
INCWs OL the University... . oe 10
College Football's Smartest Line? ee a ae 10
Verne Canfield ‘Vapped for Basketball Post .  .  .  . 16
Reunion Plans for June 11-13 Near Completion .  .  . 14
Notice of Annual Alumni Meeting . . . . . . Oo
Regional Agents Begin Work for the Fund .  .  .  . 118
Class NOLS 6660 219
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A Visit with
Wiillham Humphrey

Washington and Lee’s Glasgow Professor
‘Talks About His Work and Plans for the Future;
His New Novel Was Completed During His

‘T’wo-Semester Residence at the University

N AMERICAN writer whose first
A novel received wide critical
praise and was later made into a
successful movie, has completed
his second novel at Washington
and Lee University.

William Humphrey, author of
Home From the Hill, was Glasgow
Visiting Professor the first semester
of the current academic year and
stayed on in Lexington the second
semester ‘““because we liked the
place and I didn’t want to inter-
rupt my work right now.”

Seated in the living room of
“Rose Hill,” a hilltop farmhouse
just outside Lexington, where
Humphrey and his wife have been
living, he said when he arrived in
September he had set for himself
a deadline for completing the nov-
el which had been in progress for
several years.

“Im a very slow, painstaking
writer,” he said, ‘‘and it does get
very hard at times, so when I was
coming near the end of the book,
it was like looking down a tunnel
where you can see a very faint glim-

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2

While staying at Washington
and Lee, the glimmer became a full
light because he finished the book
March 2, six weeks ahead of the
deadline he had established for
himself. “I suppose I wrote about
75 pages here which for me is a
fantastic amount. I never wrote so
fast,” he said. |

‘The book has been accepted for
publication both in New York and
London in January, 1965, and a
long episode has been sold to the
Saturday Evening Post for publi-
cation this fall.

Originally the book was titled
“Look Away, Look Away,” but just
recently Humphrey’s publishers
discovered another book being re-
leased soon that has that title.

“This was a very great blow,” he
said, ‘and I’ve spent lots of time
searching for another satisfactory
one.”

But students and faculty at
Washington and Lee have already
heard portions of the first novel he
has written since Home From the
Hill. He devoted all of the last of
the four lectures he gave the first

By GENE HANSLEY

Assistant Director of Information
Services

semester to reading part of the book
to an enthralled audience.

Humphrey explained that as
Glasgow Visiting Professor, his
main duty “was those four lectures
and even the subject of them was
left entirely up to me.”

In determining the subjects of
the addresses, he said he ‘‘ruled out
a series of interrelated lectures be-
cause you have to spend too much
time repeating what you had said
in previous talks in the series.”

So he decided to do what he
thought most people would do—
“talk about the things that mean
the most to you, the things you are
thinking about.”

His first lecture was “Ah, Wilder-
ness’ in which he discussed how
novelists have “decried the advance
of civilization on the wilderness.”
Humphrey revealed he “read 3,500
pages of James Fenimore Cooper to
spend five minutes talking about
him in that lecture.”

The second lecture defined the
conventions of telling a story by
voice and writing down a story, “I
suggested there’s a small class of

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he

WILLIAM HUMPHREY, in his
hiking clothes and his “Hen-
ry Higgins” hat, walks in the
garden at “Rose Hill’ farm.

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novelists still using the conven-
tions of the spoken story in writ-
ten form,’ Humphrey said.

Flaubert and Tolstoy as_histori-
cal novelists were discussed in the
third lecture and the fourth was
given over to reading the long ex-
cerpt from the new novel complet-
ed while in residence at Washing-
ton and Lee.

Humphrey sat in on “about a
half dozen meetings” of Dr. R. CG.
MacDonald’s creative writing class.
“IT listened to the boys read their
stories and offered my comments,’
he said.

His own comment on what he
heard in that class: “The progress
of almost every student was remark-
able. I saw their stories from the
first of the semester to the last and
they certainly compared favorably
with what I saw in classes I used to
teach.” Humphrey was a member
of the Bard College faculty for
nine years.

Humphrey said the students he
observed in the creative writing
class, like many college students,
“don’t have enough experience to
know what is usable in fiction.”

“T did find them remarkably ma-
ture in accepting criticism of their
stories from Dr. MacDonald and
from each other,” he said.

Humphrey also gave lectures in
several advanced English classes
and said he was pleased to find the
students did not stand in awe of
him because he was a well-known
writer. Humphrey said he was very
pleased “none of them asked me
such questions as: “Do you write
with a pencil or a typewriter?’ or
‘What should a person who wants
to be a writer do—teach English or
sling hash?’ ”’

Humphrey has a very simple an-
swer for the question of what led
him into full-time writing. “I had
enough of a success with Home
Irom the Hill to give up teaching
and give full time to writing.”’

‘The year at Washington and Lee

was the first time Humphrey had
lived in the South in twenty years,
although he was born in Texas and
attended Southern Methodist Uni-
versity and the University of Texas.

“After being away from. the
South so long, my accent had start-
ed to clear up,” he said, “but it’s
beginning to thicken again. My
wife even has trouble understand-
ing me now.”

The Humphreys enjoyed their
stay at Lexington. “My wife and
I have just fallen in love with the
landscape here. It’s one of the most
beautiful places I’ve seen.” The
couple often went for long walks
across the fields around “Rose
Hill” to enjoy the scenery.

‘The South, particularly ‘Texas, is
the setting for both Home Irom
the Hill and the novel just com-
pleted. Asked why he wrote about
the region if he hadn’t lived there
for so long, Humphrey answered:
“It’s like being a Jew, you never get
over it.

“The writer who is a Southerner
is blessed because things happened
here with a finality and a violence
that is a gold mine for a writer.
But the South as literature is get-
ting like these fields out here—used
up,” he said, pointing out the win-
dow to the fields he has walked over
so often this year.

But he believes there is still
something left in the South for the
fiction writer.

Right now nothing particular
that he observed during his stay at
Washington and Lee seems to be
usable in his writing, but he point-
ed out he can easily lapse into an

accent with people and he did this

with some who came to make deliv-
erles at his house. “I’ve heard a
lot of good anecdotes that you real-
ly can’t miss hearing and_ they
might be useful some time. You
never can. tell.”

This quiet, soft-spoken man who
wears a blue work shirt and cor-
duroy pants around his house—and

what he calls his “Professor Hig-
gins” hat when he goes for a walk—
said about the only way to describe
how he felt when he finished a
book was “‘scared.

“You're not scared that the pub-
lishers will turn it down or of what
the reviewers will say, but it’s so
much a part of you, you’ve lived
with it so long, you can’t judge it.

“When you have it in the house
so long and then send it away, it’s
like a growth was cut off. You feel
relieved—and naked.”

Humphrey pointed to the manu-
script of the new novel on _ the
table beside him and _ said _ he
was making the final changes and
corrections before it went to the
publisher. “I know some parts just
aren't right, but finally you reach
a point where you just have to stop,
to cut it off, just quit and hope.”

Neither could he define exactly
what makes a book a success. ‘‘Sure
you have a structure. You know
what you want to get down on pa-
per when you begin but ten pages
later, it’s all shot to hell. You just
know a certain passage is right or
it isn’t. There aren’t any real rules
for success,” he said.

And what comes next? “One
reason I’ve been so long writing
this book,” he said, “is because
I have two other novels and a book
of short stories going.

“IT don’t know, I suppose TU
turn to one of the novels, but may-
be the short stories. ‘That was what
I did first and is my first love.”

Humphrey and his wife will be
going to England for the summer,
taking with them many fond mem-
ories of their year at Washington
and Lee.

And certainly Lexington and
Washington and Lee will remem-
ber them fondly and be watching
for the new book eagerly. Someday,
perhaps, there may be a setting or
character from the University in
some future work of one of the
country’s most promising writers.

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University of Virginia PRESIDENT EDGAR SHANNON, 39, with ODK founders Tom Giascow, '16L, RUPERT LATTURE, 15, JAMES BEAR, ’15,

 

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and BILL RAFTERY, 716, at Lee Chapel.

ODK
Celebrates
Its Golden

Anniversary

National Leadership Society Returns ‘To
the Place of Its Founding to Pay Hom-
age to Six Surviving Members Who Gave
Birth to the Lofty “ODK Idea”

SPRING 1964

N THE CAMPUSES of one hundred and eleven Amer-
() ican colleges and universities, membership in
Omicron Delta Kappa is an honor often second only to
Phi Beta Kappa as a mark of collegiate achievement.
On some of these campuses, because ODK emphasizes
qualities of leadership and campus citizenship as well
as good scholarship, the ODK key is worn more proud-
ly than that of the oldest of college fraternal organi-
zations.

In the half century since ODK’s founding, some
40,000 men have been tapped for membership in “the
laurel-crowned circle” of the society. But none covet
their selection more than the 933 Washington and Lee
men who belong or have belonged to the Alpha Circle
of the university where Omicron Delta Kappa was
founded fifty years ago.

This year, in recognition of the Golden Anniver-
sary of the national honorary leadership society, Omi-
cron Delta Kappa held its national convention in Roa-
noke on April 23-25. Highlight of the event was an all-
day pilgrimage by the 250 delegates to Washington
and Lee for ceremonies commemorating the founding
and honoring the founders.

Of the fifteen original members of the Alpha Cir-
cle, six survive, and of these, four were able to at-

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tend the anniversary convocation at
Washington and Lee. Dr. William
Brown, °14, of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
and Carl S. Davidson, ’15, of York,
Pa., were absent because of poor
health, but Thomas M. Glasgow,
"16L, came from Charlotte, N. C.,
Dr. James E. Bear, ’15, came from
Richmond, and Willam C. Raftery,
"16, came from Ashland, Va. And,
of course, there was Prof. Rupert
N. Latture, ’15, professor emeritus
of his University, who has spent
most of his 72 years in Lexington
and at Washington and Lee.

When ODK men speak of the
purpose of their society, they refer
often to the “ODK idea.” It is, ac-
tually, a threefold statement of pur-
pose:

“First, to recognize men who
have attained a high standard of
efficiency in collegiate activities
and to inspire in others to strive
for conspicuous attainments along
similar lines;

“Second, to bring together the
most representative men in all
phases of collegiate life and thus
to create an organization which
will help to mould the sentiment
of the institution on questions
of local and intercollegiate inter-
est;

“Third, to bring together mem-
bers of the faculty and the student
body of the institution on a basis
of mutual interest and under-
standing.”

In their first thoughts of a society
which would recognize campus
leadership, the founders perhaps
did not state their purposes so pre-
cisely, but the ODK idea began as
just that, an idea that took shape
from the conversations of two col-

lege roommates, Rupert Latture
and the late J. Carl Fisher, both of
them student instructors at Wash-
ington and Lee in 1914. Later, one
evening following a meeting of the

Graham-Lee Literary Society, the

 

two brought another student 1n-
structor, Bill Brown, into the dis-
cussion. ‘here, on the steps in
Washington Hall where they sat
talking, the idea became a work-
ing plan. Other student leaders
were involved, as were a _ select
eroup of faculty, and on Decem-
ber 3, 1914, the Alpha Circle was
founded with fifteen members.

In addition to those already men-
tioned, the founders included Pres-
ident Henry Louis Smith, Prof. De
la Warr Benjamin Easter, Prof. Da-
vid Carlisle Humphreys, Edward
Parks Davis, Edward A. Donahue,
Philip P. Gibson, John E. Martin,
and John P. Richardson, Jr.

Nothing at the start suggested
a nationwide growth of the society,
but the idea was a good one, boost-
ed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Robert
W. Dickey, ’11, and other Wash-
ington and Lee students in gradu-
ate school there, and at Pittsburgh
through the debate team which
visited Lexington and carried the

 

E'xcerpts from Speeches by Presidents Cole and Shannon

“IT want you to know that the conditions
which gave rise to the ODK idea still exist in
dynamic ways at the place of tts founding. They
exist because our students respond to the inspira-
tion of ODK and Washington and Lee. And they
exist, too, because our students have the privi-
lege and honor of knowing personally one of the
founders, Professor Rupert Latture.

“My friendship with Professor Latture is a
privilege that I shall treasure always, for I can
see in his life of service to Washington and Lee
the fibre and character of the fraternity he
helped establish.

“The qualities of leadership can be found in
men of greatly diverse temperament and atti-
tudes. Where some may lead by exhortations of
strong words or spectacular deeds, others inspire
their fellowmen by the example of their every-
day confrontation of life. Professor Latture, to
me, isa signal example of how a man can extend
his influence to others through a life of quiet
leadership and service.”

—President Cole

“For a national society uniting leadership
and honor, Robert E. Lee stands as the noblest
embodiment of these two concepts. By defini-
tion, leadership means guiding or conducting—
showing the way. A leader ts ‘a person who goes
before the guide. To be a leader, therefore, one
has to be ahead of the crowd; one has to be in
the forefront, whether in ideas, ideals, or actions;
and in going before to guide, a leader has to be-
lieve in his own knowledge of the way and in the
validity of the goal to be achieved. In other
words, leadership requires vision; and genuine
leadership involves unselfishness and responsi-
bility. Honor is respect given to worth. It is an-
other word for nobility of character, for abso-
lute integrity in word and deed. Honor also car-
ries a strong connotation of obligation; so that
leadership and honor join, through the wmpli-
cations of responsibility and obligation, in the
idea of service, which is labor for the benefit of
others. By leadership, honor, and service, we jus-
tify the Laurel Crowned Circle of our motto.”

—President Shannon

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idea back to the North. Davidson
College was an early applicant for
a charter.

‘This year, shortly before the op-
ening of the Golden Anniversary
Convention, Erskine College in
Due West, S.C., (the late President
Gaines’ birthplace) became the
111th college circle chartered. ‘The
University of Hawaii circle was
chartered in 1955.

‘The 50th Anniversary conven-
tion program was impressive. Secre-
tary of State Dean Rusk, who was
once president of the Davidson Col-
lege circle as an undergraduate, was
scheduled to address the opening
convocation at Hotel Roanoke, Ap-
ril 23, but a White House confer-
ence interfered. Instead, delegates
heard a major policy statement on
Cuba from the State Department's
No. 2 man, Undersecretary of State
George W. Ball.

When the convention moved to
Lexington the next day, the sched-
ule was tight. Delegates saw the
campuses of Virginia Military In-
stitute and Washington and Lee,
attended a reception at the home of
President and Mrs. Cole, posed for
the official anniversary photograph
before Washington Hall, and then
gathered in Evans Hall for lunch-
eon, a concert by the Glee Club,
and an address by President Cole.

Delegates went to province meet-
ings after lunch, then reassembled
in Lee Chapel for a special pro-
eram of recognition for the found-
ers and a model initiation cere-
mony. With student officers of the
Alpha Circle in charge, three new
members were taken into the “lau-
rel-crowned circle’ of ODK. Ed-
ward J. Dinkel, ’64L, was initiated
into the Washington and Lee cir-
cle, while Virginia ‘Tech’s circle
honored ‘Tech’s own Sydner Hum-
mer Byrne and a Washington and
Lee alumnus, Edward H. Ould, ’29,
president of Roanoke’s First Na-
tional Exchange Bank.

Speaker at the Lee Chapel meet-
ing was President Edgar F. Shan-

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RoBert W. Dickey, 10, THomAs M. GLascow, ’16L, and DEAN C. J. Gray of Richmond.

non, Jr., of the University of Vir-
ginia, who was tapped for ODK
membership when an undergradu-
ate at Washington and Lee in 19309.

Back in Roanoke that evening,
delegates at the banquet heard an
illustrated talk by Barry C. Bishop,
secretary of the National Geograph-
ics committee for research and ex-
ploration. The son of the ODK
General Council’s secretary, Dean
Robert W. Bishop of the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati, Bishop talked
about and showed color slides of
the American 1963 expedition to
Mt. Everest. Bishop himself was
one of six who reached the sum-
mit of the world’s loftiest moun-
tain.

On the convention’s final day,
Dean Bishop, who had served twen-
ty-seven years as ODK secretary and
editor of its journal, was elected na-
tional president, succeeding Presi-
dent G. Herbert Smith of Willam-
ette University, Salem, Ore.

No one enjoyed the convention

 

UNDERSECRETARY GEORGE BALL

more than did Professor Latture.
For him, it was three days of fulfill-
ment, of deserved tribute from the
General Council, the convention at
large, from President Cole and
President Shannon. President
Smith urged undergraduate dele-
gates to seek him out and meet the
man who shared first the ODK
idea.

But perhaps the most meaningful
gesture for Professor Latture came
in an unplanned way. From some-
where in the 111 circles had come
a request for a society coat of arms
to be designed. ‘The request had
sufficient backing to cause the na-
tional headquarters to commission
an artist to prepare a design. It
was on display, in its heraldic fin-
ery, at the final session. ‘The com-
mittee in charge recommended that
it not be accepted, but opposition
to the motion was expected.

It never came. Also on display
was a beautifully polished six-foot
mahogany replica of the simple
ODK Key, recently fashioned and
brought to the convention by the
Georgia Tech circle. One by one
delegates rose to denounce the need
for a coat of arms when “the key we
all love,’’ as one put it, serves every
purpose that a crest might.

‘The vote to forget about coats of
arms was unanimous, and Profes-
sor Latture smiled quietly. “This
was the most gratifying tribute of
all, for he had designed the ODK
key himself fifty years ago in phil-
osophy class at Washington and
Lee.

 

A Changing Pattern Characterizes

“Religious Emphasis’ at the University

NE OF THE MOST significant de-
C) velopments in this century in
the field of religion has been the
renewed attempt to relate religious
faith meaningfully to the daily life
of men. On college campuses these
efforts have produced such _ pro-
erams as “Religious Emphasis
Weeks” and other types of religious
conferences. Since the spring of
1961 an important experiment has
been underway at Washington and
Lee, an experiment which now
seems to merit some attention and
evaluation.

Washington and Lee since its
earliest days has acknowledged of-
ficially the importance of the Chris-
tian faith to our civilization. ‘The
University continues to recognize
“the Christian ideal” as one of the
two “enduring adherences” of this
institution, the other being our de-
dication to the democratic form of
social organization. The first by-
law of the University makes it quite
clear that Washington and Lee re-
jects any form of sectarian domina-
tion while accepting Christianity
and its ideals.

Part of the tangible expression of
this “enduring adherence” of the
University is the support of the
University Christian Association
and its various programs for ac-
quainting students with Christian
principles and ideals. While the
U.C.A. operates in a number of

8

By Dr. Louis W. HopceEs

Assistant Professor of Religion

areas of student life, the lion’s share
of its financial resources and effort
is used to invite leaders from out-
side the University to deal with
timely topics from a religious point
of view.

Until the mid-fifties the specific
structure for accomplishing that
end was the annual “Religious
Emphasis Week.” During “REW”
a number of speakers were brought
to campus to provide inspiration
and education along religious lines.
The program of the week, usually
about three days in fact, was begun
with a compulsory assembly of the
entire student body in the gymna-
sium for the first of three addresses
by the major speaker. ‘This was or-
dinarily followed by meetings of
small groups with the several lead-
ers for informal conversation on
topics related to the central theme
of the week. Classes were opened
to the guests who spoke and led
discussions on religious subjects.
The same basic program was main-
tained through the fall of 1961,
though under a new name for the
last several years, as the ‘“Univer-
sity Religious Conference.”

Several weaknesses in the very
structure of Religious Emphasis
Week, or University Religious
Conference, became apparent as the
program began to lose its effective-
ness. For one thing, the gymnasium
packed with a “captive” audience

proved to be an unsuitable environ-
ment for either education or inspi-
ration. Another key problem was
that the entire religious program
was compressed into one brief per-
iod and consequently largely for-
gotten for the remainder of the
year. Still another difficulty was that
the full year’s program collapsed
if one conference proved not to
measure up to expectations. Better
ways of meeting the University’s
self-designated responsibility — for
student religious life had to be
sought.

In the spring of 1961 the cabi-
net of the University Christian As-
sociation and the Faculty Commit-
tee on Christian Work approved
in principle several experimental
modifications of the program. The
new program was labeled ‘Semi-
nars in Religion,’ a name inspired
by the already established ‘Semi-
nars in Literature.” Under the new
system three smaller conferences,
each of two days’ duration, replaced
the one three-day Religious Empha-
sis Week. In a typical Seminar one
guest lecturer is invited to give two
public lectures and to meet select-
ed classes in the Department of Re-
ligion and in the co-sponsoring de-
partment. The guest is urged to
make himself available for private
or small group consultation after
each public lecture and at other
appropriate times during his visit.

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This change in policy has allowed
a number of advantages, not the
least of which is that it provides for
a more comprehensive program of
religious activity to keep the Chris-
tian ideal more constantly in mind.
It likewise made it possible to deal
with several topics during the year
and thus to widen the base of ap-
peal and interest to students. ‘The
eratifying result has been that more
student interests have been touched.

Another shift in policy is _per-
haps more far-reaching than the
breaking down of the one annual
session into three smaller confer-
ences. ‘The Seminars in Religion
are specifically aimed at relating
religious faith meaningfully to life
by stimulating significant dialogue
between the Christian faith and the
various academic disciplines in the
University. Each Seminar is thus
sponsored by the University Chris-
tian Association, the Department of
Religion, and one other depart-
ment within the University. ‘This
specific purpose, incidentally, grows
out of the conviction that the mod-
ern university all too often becomes
a multiversity in which several le-
gitimate but circumscribed  ap-
proaches are made to the same
problems of humanity. Thus the
Seminars program is also related to
distant rumblings in the academic
world which promise for the future
a larger quest for the unity of
human knowledge.

In order to stimulate this kind
of dialogue between Christianity
and other fields of learning the
Seminars in Religion bring to cam-
pus speakers who are not only rec-
ognized authorities in their special
discipline but who also understand
basic Christianity and its relation
to that discipline. Since the spring
of 1961 Seminars have been con-
ducted in six fields—English, eco-
nomics, psychology, sociology, bi-
ology, and law. Chairmen in these
and other departments have enter-
ed the program with enthusiasm.

SPRING 1964

Most recently the Student Bar
Association in the Law _ School
joined with the Christian Associa-
tion and the Department of Re-
ligion in sponsoring a “Seminar in
Religion and Law” with Professor
Samuel E. Stumpf of Vanderbilt
University speaking on “The Moral
Order and the Legal Order.”

The final value of any such en-
terprise at a University is to be de-
termined, of course, by the quality
of the ideas expressed and the in-
terest developed by the partici-
pants. On both these criteria the
Seminars have shown real promise.
In one of the earliest Seminars, for
example, Dr. William R. Mueller
of Goucher College traced interests
and themes in several contemporary
writers which parallel the tradition-
al interests of Christian theology.
He developed the thesis that while
modern writers are seldom as con-
sciously and deliberately Biblical as
a man like John Bunyan _ they
nevertheless are occupied with the
same human concerns found in
Biblical literature. In this connec-
tion he dealt with selected works
of Dostoevski, Graham Greene, and
Camus, among others.

J. Kenneth Morland, Chairman
of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College, dealt with one
of the most pressing problems in
contemporary religion, “Moral Rel-
ativism and Religious Faith.” Dr.
Morland showed how differences
between cultures on rules of human
conduct—e.g., we would feel guilty
about having more than one wite
whereas in some _ societies men
would feel guilty if they did not—
raise important questions for the
Christian. ‘These lectures served to
highlight the perennial problem
relating sociological and_ theolog1-
cal approaches to moral principles.

Samuel E. Stumpf, Chairman of
the Department of Philosophy at
Vanderbilt, developed the thesis
that the system of laws in a society

is properly to be regarded as the
“arm of morality.” Laws of a so-
ciety are tangible expressions of the
goals or “moral” ends which that
society seeks. Dr. Stumpf then
traced backward from laws to mor-
als to theology in an order of logi-
cal priority. ‘The ethical goals of
a society reflect and grow out of
that society’s view of ultimate re-
ality of “god.” ‘These goals, in turn,
mold the laws by which conduct 1s
regulated. So it is that religion and
law are directly linked by systems
of morality.

One of the more exciting semi-
nars was led by Dr. Ralph T. Over-
man, a nuclear physicist and active
Christian layman at Oak Ridge.
In a “Seminar in Religion and Bi-
ology” on the subject of “Religion
and Science’ Dr. Overman deliv-
ered two lectures under the titles
‘““A Christian Looks at Science” and
“A Scientist Looks at Christianity.”
The thesis in these lectures was
that we come to know what we
know in science in basically the
same way that we come to know
what we know in religion. Scien-
tists take the data of experience and
fit them together into useful mental
constructs which show why things
behave as they do. The theologian
does the same thing except that his
data concern the personal or spirit-
ual side of man rather than the
physical world. ‘Thus, Overman
concluded, since the scientist and
the theologian share the same ap-
proach or method there is no rea-
son for them to be quarrelsome or
at odds with each other. Neither
is inherently more respectable or
authentic than the other.

Such ideas as these have proved
immensely stimulating to those who
participate in the Seminars. ‘he
present plan is to continue this
basic approach in religion on cam-
pus. It has thus far proved to be
one very valuable way in which
Washington and Lee can express
its “enduring adherence’ to the
Christian ideal.

 

News of the University

 

Renovation of Reid Hall as a Home

For Journalism and Communications

Will Be Completed for September Use

HE REMODELING Of Reid Hall as
1 a new home for Washington
and Lee University’s Department
of Journalism and Communica-
tions is nearly complete.

D. E. Brady, Jr., the university’s
Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, said the construction
work is on schedule. Plans call for
the department to move into its
new quarters during the summer.
The facilities will go into use at
the beginning of the 1964-65 aca-
demic year.

Located behind the group of
buildings forming the university’s
well-known colonnade, Reid Hall
was constructed in 1904. The phys-
ics department formerly occupied
the structure until moving into
Washington and Lee’s new science
building last year.

Renovation of Reid Hall for the
journalism department began in
October, 1963. When completed it
will provide modern and complete
facilities for the academic program
of the department as well as for
laboratories for newspaper proce-
dures, advertising, radio and tele-
vision, photography, public rela-
tions, and motion picture produc-
tion.

O. W. Riegel, department chair-
man, said instruction puts major
emphasis on academic study of the
subject, reflecting the university’s

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liberal arts tradition. He said the
heart of the department’s new fa-
cilities will be the second floor of
Reid Hall which will contain class-
rooms, library, seminar room, and
offices.

A classroom seating approximate-
ly 100 students will take up one
whole side of the second floor. Seats
will be arranged on elevated tiers
facing a lecture platform. A_pro-
jection booth is being installed in
the rear. A special sound system
will permit radio programs pro-
duced in third floor studios to be
piped into the classroom or lectures
given in the room can be recorded
in a control booth on the third
floor.

The library on the second floor
will house the department’s collec-
tion of books, periodicals, and
newspapers, as well as historical and
other archive material. Other sec-
ond floor facilities will include fac-
ulty offices, a seminar room, a stu-
dent lounge, and a film storage and
editing room.

Riegel said the department also
recognizes that students need prac-
tical experience in journalism and
communications and pointed out
the first and third floors are being
equipped to meet this requirement.

Three sound-proofed, air-condi-
tioned broadcasting studios of vary-

ing sizes will take up half of the
third floor. One control room will
serve all three studios and have
windows opening into each of
them.

Broadcasting facilities will be
used by students taking the depart-
ment’s radio and television courses.
Also programs on Radio Washing-
ton and Lee and Home Edition—
its daily 15-minute news broad-
cast—will originate here. ‘These pro-
grams are broadcast over the Lex-
ington radio station, WREL.

A room patterned after a news-
paper newsroom will occupy the
other side of the third floor. It will
be equipped with typewriter desks
and a semi-circular copy desk. Stu-
dents interested in newspaper writ-
ing and editing will use these fa-
cilities. ‘(Two Associated Press tele-
types will be installed in a separate
room nearby to serve both the news-
room and the broadcasting studios.

Other third floor facilities will
include a tape storage and editing
room, a phonograph record storage
room, a newsroom for Home Fdi-
tion, an advertising laboratory and
drafting room, and faculty offices.

Up under the eaves of the fourth
floor will be a photographic labora-
tory with separate rooms for devel-
oping and printing.

The first floor of Reid Hall will
house the Journalism Laboratory

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Press now in a small separate build-
ing on campus. In its new location
there will be separate composing,
linotype and press rooms. Windows
in each of these rooms will be
bricked up, isolating noise from
other parts of the building and
campus. Other first floor rooms wiil
include storage space, offices, maui
room and workroom with a sepa-
rate entrance for staffers of the
Ring-tum Phi, student newspaper.

A group of newspaper and broad-
casting executives has served as an
advisory committee to the journal-
ism department in planning the
new facilities.

They are: M. W. Armistead, III,
president of the ‘Times-World Cor-
poration, Roanoke, Va.; ‘Thomas
R. Glass, vice president of the
Lynchburg News and the Lynch-
burg Daily Advance; Henry P.
Johnston, broadcasting consultant,
Birmingham, <Ala.; William G.
Leverty, assistant managing editor,
The Times-Dispatch, Richmond,
Va.; Albert W. Moss, executive vice-
president, Standard Rate and Data
Service, New York; Gilmore N.
Nunn, broadcasting station owner
and executive, Lexington, Ky.;
Walter Potter, editor and publish-
er, The Star-Exponent, Culpeper,
Va.; James B. L. Rush, executive
news editor, The Journal and The
Twin City Sentinel, Winston-Salem,
N. C.; Harold Sugg, vice-president
and assistant publisher, The Vir-
ginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star,
Norfolk, Va.; Sol ‘Taishoff, editor
and publisher, Broadcasting maga-
zine, Washington, D.C.; Dudley A.
White, executive vice-president,
publisher and editor, The Register,
Sandusky, Ohio; and Cranston Wil-
liams of Lynchburg Va., consultant
to and former secretary-manager of
the American Newspaper Publish-
ers Association.

W. W. Coffey of Lexington is
contractor for the renovation and
Clark, Nexsen and Owen, archi-
tects of Lynchburg, Va., did the
preliminary planning.

SPRING 1964

 

Mr. Harrison and Mr. LAnpis with DR. ‘TURNER and PRESIDENT COLE in Washington
and Lee’s new nuclear studies laboratory.

Babcock S Wilcox Company Helps

University Nuclear Science Program

XECUTIVES Of the Babcock & Wil-
H cox Company’s Atomic Energy
Division and instructors of Wash-
ington and Lee University’s new
nuclear physics course met early
this semester to discuss current de-
velopments in their field.

R. H. Harrison, vice-president of
The Atomic Energy Division of
B&W and John W. Landis, manag-
er of the division located in Lynch-
burg, climaxed a February visit to
Washington and Lee with a look
at the university’s new nuclear
physics laboratory.

A nuclear physics course was of-
fered for the first time this semes-
ter at Washington and Lee _ for
eight senior majors. Equipment for
the course’s laboratory was _ pur-
chased with a recent $15,000 grant
from the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion.

Showing the B&W officials the
new equipment and explaining the
new course was Dr. Edward F.
Turner, Jr., chairman of Washing-
ton and Lee’s physics department
and William B. Newbolt, who
teaches the nuclear physics course.

Earlier in the visit, Harrison and
Landis gave Washington and Lee
President Fred C. Cole ideas and
suggestions for the new physics
course and other nuclear physics
instruction which might be offered.

Harrison and Landis met other
members of Washington and Lee’s
science faculty at a luncheon in
their honor at the University’s
Evans Dining Hall. The visitors
also toured the campus and made
a thorough inspection of Wash-
ington and Lee’s science facilities
including the new science build-
ing now in its second year of use.

The meeting was another step
in a working relationship between
Babcock & Wilson and Washing-
ton and Lee. Earlier this year phys-
ics students and faculty visited
B&W’s facilities in Lynchburg and
met the company’s scientists and
engineers. BkW’s Nuclear Develop-
ment Center determined the hydro-
gen content of ‘Ti-Ni specimens for
Washington and Lee’s physics de-
partment. ‘The equipment to per-
form the analysis is currently be-
yond Washington and Lee’s budget.

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More News of

 

m JERE D. CRAVENS, holding the
highest scholastic record in the
senior Class, has been selected by the
faculty as valedictorian of the Class
of 1964.

He will deliver the valedictory
address at commencement exercises
June 5.

A chemistry major, Cravens has
a cumulative grade-point ratio of
2.999, with 3.0 representing an A
average. He was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa his junior year and was
named Outstanding Sophomore by
that group the preceding year. He
is president of Sigma Phi Epsilon,
social fraternity, president of Alpha
Epsilon Delta, pre-medical fraterni-
ty, and is an officer of Phi Eta Sig-
ma, national freshman honor so-
ciety.

Cravens is manager of the Glee
Club, of which he has been a mem-
ber for four years, and is president
of the Concert Guild. He is vice
president of the senior class and a
member of Omicron Delta Kappa,
leadership fraternity.

After graduation, he plans to at-
tend Washington University Medi-
cal School and to enter a career of
medical research in the field of bio-
chemistry.

® JAMES E. KULP, a second-year law
student from Roanoke, was elected
president of the student body for
1964-65 in elections held April 16.

The University Party swept the
top three positions, losing only the
Fancy Dress presidency to the Pro-
gressive Party.

Other elected officers, all of
whom are juniors, were James W.

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the Uniersity

DeYoung, Kenilworth, Ill, vice
president; and Malcolm Morris,
Richmond, secretary. Richard R.
Kreitler, Short Hills, N. J., was
elected president of Fancy Dress.

m EDITORS AND STAFFS of next year’s
publications have been elected by
the Publications Board.

Named to head the ‘Tuesday edi-
tion of the Ring-tum Phi was Steph-
cen P. Smith, a junior from Jack-
sonville, Fla. Richard N. Carrell, a
yunior from Pensacola, Fla., was
elected business manager.

The Board elected Arthur B.
Sher, of Miami, Fla., and Richard
K. Kreitler, Short Hills, N. J., co-

 

Jere D. CrAvENs

editors of the 1956 Calyx. Mark M.
Applefeld, Baltimore, Md., will be
the new business manager.

Andrew N. Baur, a sophomore
from St. Louis, Mo., will edit the
Southern Collegian and James W.
DeYoung, Kenilworth, Ill, will
serve as business manager of the
humor magazine.

EDWARD R. CAHOON, JR., of Chesa-
peake, has been awarded the Phi
Beta Kappa Sophomore Award for

1964.

Cahoon is a graduate of Oscar
Frommel Smith High School in
South Norfolk where he was vale-
dictorian of his class. He is on a
Baker Scholarship. He is a member
of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and
of the Student Service Society.

The annual Award goes to the
sophomore with the highest scholas-
tic average for the first three semest-
ers of his college career.

BONE OF THE COUNTRY’S leading
scholar critics addressed Washing-
ton and Lee’s annual Phi Beta Kap-
pa-Cincinnati Society Convocation
on April 13.

Cleanth Brooks, Gray Professor
of Rhetoric at Yale University,
spoke in Lee Chapel on “American
Innocence as Viewed by Henry
James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wil-
ham Faulkner.”

The name of Cleanth Brooks is
well known to Washington and Lee
students of several generations.
With Robert Penn Warren, he is
the editor of Understanding Poetry,
the textbook that was used in fresh-
man English for many years.

Brooks has been professor of Eng-
lish literature at Yale since 1947.
For 15 years before that, he was pro-
fessor at Louisiana State University.
He also has taught at the Univer-
sities of ‘Texas, Michigan, and Chi-
cago.

The convocation on April 13
also commemorated the generosity
of the Society of the Cincinnati in
Virginia to Washington and Lee
University. In 1802 this group of
former officers of the Continental
Army voted to give the university
an accumulated fund which, when
received, amounted to about $25,-
000.

Seventeen men were initiated
into the honorary scholastic society
following the Convocation: ‘They
were:

Seniors: Roger E. Allen, Jr.,
Lynchburg, William D. Angel,
Huntington, W. Va., Alfred E.

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Xe

NOELL WRIGHT

Eckes, Jr.. Ardmore, Pa., Kenneth
G. Everett, Bastrop, La., Robert
A. Kell, Hannonfield, N. J., Rich-
ard W. McEnally, New Bern, N. C.,
William H. Marmion, Jr., Roa-
noke, William B. Ogilvie,  Jr.,
Shreveport, La., James W. Ramsey,
Jv., Greenville, Thomas D. Supak,
Virginia Beach, Jimmy TT. Sylves-
ter, Las Vegas, Nev., Tain P.
Tompkins, Hillsborough, Calif.,
and Frank W. Wright, Blaksbureg.

Elected from the Class of 1963
were Edwin L. Kerr, Ridgefield,
Conn., now at Columbia University
on the combined engineering pro-
eram, and Daniel H. Markstein,
III, Birmingham, Ala., a magna
cum laude graduate.

Senior law student Donald H.
Partington, Springfield.

James Paxton Davis, Jr., profes-
sor of Journalism. Professor Davis,
a graduate of Johns Hopkins Un1-
versity, is author of Two Soldiers
and The Battle of New Market. He
is book editor of the Roanoke
Times.

@ FIVE SENIORS have been appointed
Woodrow Wilson Fellows for grad-
uate study next fall and two seniors
have won Fulbright scholarships.

Winners of the Woodrow Wilson
Fellowships are Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.,
of Ardmore, Pa., who is also a Ful-
bright winner, Robert A. Kell,
Haddonfield, N. J., Edward M.
Norton, Butler, Pa., “Thomas D.
Supak, Virginia Beach, and Frank
W. Wright, Blacksburg.

Also receiving a Fulbright was
William A. Noell, Bluefield, W.
Va.

SPRING 1964

SUPAK

Four of the seniors, Eckes, Kell,
Supak, and Wright, are members
of Phi Beta Kappa. |

Noell, retiring president of the
student body, will do his study at
the University of Frankfort, Ger-
many. Eckes will be doing graduate
study in economics at Christ’s Col-
lege, Cambridge.

= CADET AWARDS” were presented

during the annual President’s Day
Parade of the Reserve Officers
‘Training Corps April 28.

Recipients of the Department of
the Army Superior Cadet Awards
were Cadet Colonel Robert E. Lee,
a senior from Washington, D. C.;
Cadet Sergeant John 'T. Yeary, a
junior from Portsmouth, Ohio;
Cadet Corporal Earl ‘T. Berry,
Chase City, a sophomore; and
Cadet Private Paul R. Greenwade,
a freshman from Atwater, Calif.

‘These four awards are presented
to cadets of each class who are des-
ignated for outstanding ability,
military bearing, and. excellence in
participation in the ROTC pro-
eram.

The ROTC Gold Medal award
went to Cadet Sergeant Richard N.
Carrell, Pensacola, Fla., a junior.
Winners of the Virginia Society,
Sons of the American Revolution
ROTC Medals were Cadet Lt. Col.
Peter McC. Candler, Atlanta, Ga.,
Cadet Maj. Richard I. H. Belser,
Columbia, S. C., James H. Wallen-
stein, Dallas, ‘Tex., and Cadet Maj.
Leslie C. Rucker, Jr., Arlington.
All are seniors.

The awards were presented by
President Fred C. Cole and Lt. Col.

 

NORTON | ECKES

Jack P. Burch, professor of military
science. |

 

@ DEAN FRANK J. GILLIAM continues
his steady recovery at his home,
Belfield, in Lexington, following a
serious heart attack suffered while
visiting alumni in Cincinnati on
March 198.

@ DR. FELIX WELCH, head of the
mathematics department, is one of
20 mathematics instructors in the
United States invited to attend a
writing session this summer to pre-
pare a filmed year course in calcu-
lus for classroom use.

He will attend the eight-week ses-
sion at Stanford University, spon-
sored by the Committee on Edu-
cational Media of the Mathemati-
cal Association of America. ‘The
session will extend from June 22
to August 15.

@ DR. C. WESTBROOK BARRITT, profes-
sor of romance languages, present-
ed a paper, “A Problem in ‘Trans-
formational Grammar,” during the
University of Kentucky’s 17th Lan-
guage Conference which was held
April 23 to 25.

® RECENT STORIES and articles pub-
lished by members of the faculty
include the following:

In The lIvon Worker, “David
Hunter: Villian of the Valley. ‘The
Sack of the Virginia Military In-
stitute,’ by Dr. Cecil D. Eby, Jr.,
associate professor of English.

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Former FCC chairman NEWTON MINow, left, was the principal speaker, and Louis Lyons,

right, of Boston, was the winning commentator at the annual Alfred I. duPont Awards

Foundation dinner in Washington. PRESIDENT COLE, center, also presented duPont Awards
to stations WJZ-TV of Baltimore and WFBM of Indianapolis.

Dr. Leonard E. Jarrard, associate
professor of Psychology, “Effects of
D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide on
Operant Behavior in the Rat,” in
Psychopharmacologia; and “Effects
of X-Irradiation on Operant Be-
havior in the Rat” in Journal of
Comparative and Psychological Psy-
chology.

In Nieman Reports, “The Ken-
nedy Story” by O. W. Riegel, head
of the Journalism Department.

Dr. Charles W. Williams, associ-
ate professor of mathematics,
“Scheduling Students by Comput-
er,” in Computer Application Serv-
ice.

In Journal of Chemical Educa-
tion, “A Eutectic Experiment” by
Dr. John H. Wise, professor of
chemistry, and Dr. J. K. Shilling-
ton and Dr. W. J. Watt, associate
professors of chemistry.

Dr. C. F. Phillips, Jr., associate
professor of economics, with George
R. Hall, ‘“Antimerger Criteria:
Power, Concentration, Foreclosure
and Size” in Villanova Law Review,
Winter 1963; Dr. Phillips, “What
is Wrong with Profit Maximiza-
tion?” in Business Horizons, Win-
ter 1963; Dr. Harmon H. Haymes,
assistant professor of economics,
and Dr. Phillips, “Banking in Vir-
ginia: The 1962 Legislation” in

14

Washington and Lee Law Review,
Spring 1964.

m IN OCTOBER, Dr. Leonard E. Jar-
rard, associate professor of psy-
chology, participated in a National
Science Foundation Conference on
Undergraduate Research Programs
in Psychology in Minneapolis,
Minn. Dr. Jarrard, in November,
served on an NSF panel for the
evaluation of proposals in the NSF
Undergraduate Science Education
Program at Washington, D. C.

Dr. William M. Hinton, head of
the department of psychology, par-
ticipated in a December Confer-
ence on Programed Instruction
sponsored by the Virginia Educa-
tion Association in Roanoke. In
February, he served on an NSF
panel to review proposals submit-
ted to the NSF Undergraduate In-
structional Scientific Equipment
Program at Boston, Mass.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS of Virginia
is publishing in May a volume en-
titled Liberty Hall Volunteers:
Stonewall’s College Boys, written
by Dr. William Gleason Bean, pro-
fessor of history emeritus and form-
er head of Washington and Lee's
history department.

The book tells the story of the
students at Washington College

who helped form a volunteer com-
pany of infantry which subsequent-
ly was to fight in every major bat-
tle of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia from June, 1861, until the
company's capture at Spottsylvania
Court House in May, 1964.

Dr. Bean’s book is not a military
history. Instead, he has drawn upon
letters, diaries, and reminiscences
of members of the college company
to tell a story of young men, essen-
tially boys, at war as members of
the famous Stonewall Brigade.

 

mw JOHN RITCHIE, Dean of the North-
western University School of Law,
delivered the 16 annual John Ran-
dolph Tucker Lectures at Washing-
ton and Lee University on April 10-

11.

The theme of his two addresses
was “Legal Education in the United
States.” Dean Ritchie dealt with the
history of legal education in his
first lecture, using as his topic “Yes-
terday.”’ He considered the present
and future of legal training in the
second, speaking on the subject,
“Today and ‘Tomorrow.’

The Tucker Lectures were estab-
lished by the board of trustees of
Washington and Lee University in
1949 in honor of John Randolph
Tucker’s long service as dean of
the University’s School of Law.

Dean Ritchie, who is also presi-
dent of the Association of American
Law Schools, holds degrees from
the University of Virginia and Yale
University law schools.

Before assuming his present posi-
tion, he was assistant dean of the
University of Virginia law school
and dean of the Washington Uni-
versity and University of Wisconsin
law schools.

The Washington and Lee Law
School Association also held its an-
nual meeting the weekend of the
Tucker Lectures. An open house in

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‘Tucker Hall, which houses the Law
School, after the Friday evening lec-
ture honored returning Law School
alumni.

After the Saturday lecture, the
association met for lunch followed
by their annual meeting. Officers
elected were Waldo G. Miles, ’38L,
of Bristol, president; Willis M. An-
derson, ’}2L, Roanoke, vice presi-
dent; and R. E. R. Huntley, asso-
ciate professor of law, secretary-
treasurer.

Elected members of the Council
were Judge Morris C. Montgomery,
’30L, Lawrenceburg, Ky., Alfred D.
Noyes, °32L, Rockville, Md., E.
Marshall Nuckols, Jr., °35L, Bucks
County, Pa., and Fred M. Vinson,
’51L, Washington, D.C.

At the annual Law School recep-
tion after the Friday lecture, Presi-
dent Cole accepted from the Stu-
dent Bar Association a portrait of
Professor Charles R. McDowell to
hang in ‘Tucker Hall.

 

uw THE CONCERT Guild sponsored
concerts by the Carnegie String
Quartet, a return engagement, on
March 11, and the Group for Con-
temporary Music on March 23.

# THREE PROGRAMS were sponsored
by the newly-formed-this-year Stu-
dent Concert Society. Presented
March 12 was a vocal recital by
three student singers, John Baker,
Suffolk, and Philip Booth, Chevy
Chase, Md., both seniors, and Wil-
liam Supon, Jacksonville, Ala. ‘The
Minx Jazz Quintet gave a program
on March 24 and on May 10 the
Society presented Martha Anne
Dorminy, a senior piano major
from Hollins College.

a THE GLEE CLUB sang a program of
religious music with the Randolph-
Macon Glee Club at the Lexington
Presbyterian Church on March 24.

SPRING 1964

‘The spring concert was sung with
the Longwood Choir on April go.

& DELORES JONES, soprano, was pre-
sented in a recital May 19 by Re-
Vue.

 

mw SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR., son of one
of the most celebrated producers
in film history, spoke on “The Mo-
tion Picture “Today” in a Journal-
ism Department sponsored lecture
March 5.

& TWO OF THE Richmond newspap-
ers’ best known writers spoke in
mid-March. Charles McDowell, Jr.,
"48, syndicated columnist, spoke on
“Politics in Virginia.” He was spon-
sored by the Washington and Lee
and VMI afhliates of the National
Committee for Education in Poli-
tics. Sponsored by the Southern

Conservative, James J. Kilpatrick,

 

The Troubadours’ spring production was

Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion. Lock

HANDLEY plays Androcles above, and ‘TIM
Morton is the lion.

editor of the Richmond News
Leader, spoke on “Some Observa-
tions of 1984.”

m SPONSORED jointly by the Greek
and Latin Department and_ the
VMI English Department, Antony
A. Raubitschek, associate professor
of classics at Princeton University,
lectured in March on ‘Periclean
Athens.”

B® LESLIE A. FIEDLER, professor of
English Literature and Director of
Humanities at Montana State Uni-
versity, was sponsored by the Eng-
lish Department March 25 when
he spoke on “The Image of the
Negro and Indian in American Lit-
erature.”

& IN THE final Seminar in Litera-
ture for this school year, Shelby
Foote, novelist and historian, de-
livered a lecture entitled “Writ-
ing” on April 27.

m DR. DIETER BAUMANN, lecturer at
the Jung Institute in Zurich, spoke
April 29 on “The Impact of C. G.
Jung.” He was sponsored by the
University Christian Association.

mw AS A GUEST of the Geology De-
partment, Dr. Ralph Miller, sen-
ior geologist with the U.S. Geolo-
gical Survey, gave a series of lec-
tures in mid-May. He spoke on
“Oil and Gas Possibilities in Vir-
ginia’”’ and “Appalachian Structu-
ral Geology.” Dr. Miller’s visit was
under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Geological Institute.

 

& WASHINGTON AND LEE University
has received a $1,213 grant for un-
restricted use from Gulf Oil Cor-

poration. It is one of 692 awards,
totaling $500,000 that Gulf will
distribute this year under its Aid-
to-Education program.

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Sports News

PBK Honors
Three Star
Football Men

OACH LEE McLaughlin believes
C his 1963 first unit line may
have been the “smartest” college
football forewall in the nation.

‘Three of his first stringers—end
Buck Ogilvie, Shreveport,  La.;
tackle Jim Sylvester, Las Vegas,
Nev.; and guard Bill Angel, Hunt-
ington, W. Va.—have been initiat-
ed into Washington and Lee’s chap-
ter of Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholastic honor society.

All three earned three varsity
football letters apiece, the last two
seasons as members of the Gen-
erals’ first unit. Ogilvie and Sylves-
ter were named to the Associated
Press All-Virginia small college first
team, as well as to the all-star team
of the College Athletic Conference.

“T think it’s remarkable to have
had three outstanding scholar-ath-
letes playing alongside each other
in the same line,” says McLaughlin.
“T doubt if any other college in the
country could boast three Phi Beta
Kappa boys on their entire squad,
let alone their starting team.”

Ogilvie is a mathematics major
who will attend graduate school at
Massachusetts Institute of ‘lech-
nology. Sylvester did  pre-med-
ical work at Washington and Lee
and will study medicine at Stan-
ford University. Angel majored in
contemporary civilization and will
study next year at the Graduate
School for English-speaking Stu-
dents at the University of Stock-
holm in Sweden.

The football record they helped
compile is almost as impressive as
their academic credentials. In their
three years of varsity play, the Gen-
erals won 22, lost only 4.

 

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Buck OGILVIE, JIM SYLVESTER, and BILL ANGEL with coveted keys.

 

Verne Canfield Is Selected
As Head Basketball Coach

ASHINGTON AND LEE University
/ has named Verne Canfield, 31,
as head basketball coach to succeed
Bob McHenry whose resignation
was announced earlier this year.
For the past six years, Canfield
has been a highly successful head
basketball coach at Groveton High
School in Alexandria, the same
community in northern Virginia
where Washington and Lee turned
in 1957 to find its head football
coach, Lee McLaughlin. Because
Canfield joins the Washington and
Lee faculty as an assistant professor
of physical education, his appoint-
ment was announced by Dean of
the College William W. Pusey, III.
Athletic Director E. P. “Cy”
Twombly said Canfield also will
become tennis coach at Washing-
ton and Lee, succeeding William C.
Washburn, the university’s alumni
secretary who has handled the ten-
nis team with success for six years.
Twombly also announced that

Dana Swan, the Generals’ freshman
football coach and assistant lacrosse
coach, will become head _ lacrosse
coach in 1965. McHenry, who will
go to Lebanon Valley College as
head basketball coach next year,
has coached both basketball and
lacrosse at Washington and Lee
since 1958-59.

Canfield is a native of Rosemead,
Calif., and a B.A. graduate of the
University of California at Santa
Barbara College. He holds an M.A.
degree from George Washington
University and is currently working
toward another advanced degree.

In his six years at Groveton Can-
field’s teams won 78, lost 40, and he
never experienced a losing season.
His best years were in 1961-62 and
1962-63 when the Tigers compiled
records of 17-3 and 16-3. Last season
the mark was 12-7.

Canfield also coached freshman
basketball and track at Santa Bar-

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bara in 1954-55, before beginning a
two-year period of Army service.
In addition to his basketball work
at Groveton, Canfield coached ten-
nis, taught physical education, as-
sisted in track and football, directed
intramurals and acted as a guidance
counselor. He is married and has
an 18-month-old child.

‘Twombly said Canfield “has real
enthusiasm” about the basketball

 

VERNE CANFIELD

job at Washington and Lee. “We
got one crackerjack coach out of
northern Virginia when we brought
Lee McLaughlin here from Episco-
pal High School, and I hope we're
going to do it again,” ‘Twombly
said,

Canfield is heir to a basketball
program at Washington and Lee
that has produced only 27 victories
against 65 losses in six seasons. His
record at Groveton suggests he pos-
sesses remarkable curative powers.
A relatively new school, Groveton
had records of 3-13 and 1-15 before
Canfield took over in 1958. His first
team was 10-8 for the year, the few-
est number of victories any of his
Tiger teams were to produce.

Canfield says he is “looking for-
ward to helping build up the bas-
ketball program at Washington
and Lee University.”

SPRING 1964

The General Reunion of 64

Is Expected ‘To Bring Many

Alumni Back to Lexington

LARGE NUMBER of alumni, their

wives and families, some with
pleasant memories of the 1959 Gen-
eral Reunion, have indicated their
plans to be “back for more in ’64.”
The 1964 General Reunion on
June 11-13 will mark the fourth
time since 1949 that an “all classes”
reunion has been held.

A full program has been plan-
ned. Included will be special ban-
quets for the fiftieth, fortieth, twen-
ty-fifth, and tenth anniversary clas-
ses. These classes normally hold
their class reunions in May, but are
joining with the general reunion to
make it one of the outstanding
events in the Alumni Association’s
history. Many alumni will have
their first occasion to meet and

erect President and Mrs. Cole who
came to the University just follow-
ing the reunion of 1959. On view
will be many changes which have
taken place in the physical growth
of the University, highlighted by
Evans Dining Hall, the new dormi-
tories, new science and journalism
facilities, and the beautifully re-
stored Lee Chapel.

The reunion program is designed
to give time for relaxation; activi-
ties are varied and_ incorporate
events for the young and the “not
so young.” The anniversary class
banquets will be held Thursday.
The principal speaker for the con-
vocation on Friday will be Dr. Har-
ry Philpott, ’38, vice-president of
the University of Florida.

 

 

Annual Alumni Meeting on June 13

mu ANOTHER FEATURE of the General Reunion will be the annual
meeting of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association in Lee
Chapel on Saturday morning, June 13. All alumni are urged to
attend and take part in this meeting. The newly renovated Lee
Chapel is air conditioned and the results of the restoration will
be of added interest to alumni.

The annual meeting is provided for under the Association’s
charter and by-laws and is generally devoted to reports by officers
of the past year’s activities, and some of the special projects on
tap for the near future. Election of three new members to the
Alumni Board of ‘Trustees will be held, as well as the election
of the alumni representative to the University Committee on
Intercollegiate Athletics. ‘The report of the nominating committee
as prescribed by the by-laws is shown on page 19.

 

 

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Regional Agents Begin
Home Stretch Drive
For the 1963-64 Fund

By WILLIAM C. WASHBURN
Alumni Secretary

HE COMPANION program to the
T class agent plan is getting un-
der way in over eighty regions and
communities. Where the class agent
has contacted the alumni on his
academic or law class roll by mail,
the regional agent, to supplement
this program, will call personally,
almost neighborly, on each alum-
nus within his community who has
not yet responded to the 1963-64
Alumni Fund campaign. The two
plans are designed to aid and sup-
port one another in the success of
the overall Annual Fund.

The names of the regions and
their respective agents are listed on
the inside cover. Each agent will re-
cruit an average of eight to ten
helpers, thus forming a host of
nearly a thousand workers to urge
those former students within their
region who have not yet participat-
ed in the current annual fund to
join this important effort. ‘The re-
cord goal, established by Robert
Kime and his Alumni Fund Coun-
cil, is a challenge to every alumnus.
If you are among those who have
not yet made a gift to Washington
and Lee this fund year, the chances
are that one of these agents or his
helper will be calling on you soon.
He may be a friend or a neighbor—
not necessarily a classmate or even
contemporary in age, but in every
case a dedicated alumnus who has
not only made his gift to the fund

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but is also giving of his time and
effort in this undertaking which is
so important to you as an alumnus
and to your University.

The goals established by the
Fund Council are the highest in
history. In 1956 the fund reached,
for the first time, the $100,000 level.
Since then, with time out for the
University Development Program,
the annual fund has steadily in-
creased each year, reaching a to-
tal of $142,000 last year.

As the Regional Agents begin
their work, they can be encouraged
by the fact that the dollar volume
is ahead of this same date last year.
However, the number of contribu-
tors is lagging behind, and this is
the most challenging element in
the campaign. Only 26% of the
alumni on the active mailing list
and who receive this magazine have
participated in this year’s fund.
This means that one out of every
four is supporting Washington and
Lee and higher education for the
other three.

The Fund Council, in setting a
contributor goal of 100%, is admit-
tedly ambitious. Yet the members
are convinced that to set an arbi-
trary percentage figure would miss
the point. ‘To receive support from
each alumnus is indeed our goal,
for all Washington and Lee men
share the pride in progress at Wash-
ington and Lee.

As this magazine goes to print
there are 2869 contributors to this
year’s fund. Last year a total of
3,905 participated to establish a
record, and the Fund Council is
hopeful that a significant increase
can be made this year. Many col-
leges and universities—those of the
same size and character as Wash-
ington and Lee and those with
which alumni generally like to
make comparisons—are able to
achieve 50% to 75% participation
in their annual campaigns. And
they define an alumnus in the same
way as does Washington and Lee.
When the regional worker calls on
you he is serving as your agent, for
this is not a job for just a few—it
is a responsibility, even a_privi-
lege, of all Washington and Lee
men.

The central alumni office reports
that much progress has been made
on the publication of a new Alum-
ni Directory. This will be in the
hands of the publishers in May,
and it is hoped that distribution
of the finished copies will be pos-
sible before the close of the fund’s
fiscal year on June goth. To ex-
press appreciation for thoughtful
interest and support, the Council
has authorized that a copy of the
new directory be mailed free of
charge to every man who partici-
pates in the 1963-64 Alumni Fund.
The directory will be a treasured
possession as well as a useful one.
Every Washington and Lee man
should be proud to have one. It
can be a symbol of his membership
in a distinguished body of men
who are the Alumni of Washington
and Lee.

Whether you are in one of the
regional areas or not, if you have
not yet registered your interest in
Washington and Lee, don’t wait.
Make your contribution to the
Alumni Fund now. You will be
proud to participate in something
which is great and which, with
your help, will be forever enduring.

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

CLass NOTES

1899

JAMES ALEXANDER MCCLUuRE keeps up with
world events and local affairs though re-
tired in St. Petersburg, Florida. After
Washington and Lee, he graduated with
a divinity degree from Union Theologi-
cal Seminary in Richmond in 1902 and
from Princeton Seminary in 1903. Dr. Mc-
Clure was awarded an honorary Doctor
of Divinity degree by Washington and Lee
in 1920 after being named Moderator of
the Synod of Virginia. Later he was Mod-
erator of the Synod of Florida. ‘The Mc
Clures had nine children, and Dr. Mc-
Clure boasts today of his 30 grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.

1904

Though retired, Dr. S$. W. SCHAEFER re-
mains a consultant in the pulmonary
division of Queens General Hospital in
New York. He enjoys his small garden and
greenhouse where he raises orchids, camel-
lias, and gardenias.

1912

RussELL B. WINE has been in the private
practice of law in San Antonio, Texas,
since 1913, except for 814 years as assiS-
sistant U.S. attorney, 4 years as assistant
district attorney in the State Court, and
7 years as U.S. attorney.

1914

Except for time out for World War I, J.
J. Harzert has been with the engineering
department of the city of Jackson, Missis-
sippi. As City Engineer and Director of
Public Works, he has seen Jackson grow
from 23,000 to a population of 155,000.
Last November the city recognized him by
declaring a “Josh Halbert Week.”

1915

Last June JAmMes E. Bear, Jr., retired af-
ter teaching for thirty-one years at Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond, Vir-

 

in Lee Chapel the following:

FRANCIS W. PLOWMAN, ’24
425 Swarthmore Avenue
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

ics the following:

 

NOTICE TO ALUMNI

The Nominating Committee, appointed by the President of
the Washington and Lee University Alumni, Incorporated, nom-
inates for election to the Alumni Board of ‘Trustees, at the meet-
ing of the corporation to be held at 10:30 a.m. on June 13, 1964,

Dr. JAMES W. PRIEST, "43
605 Oakwood Avenue
Dayton 19, Ohio

The committee also nominates for election as Alumni Repre-
sentative on the University Committee on Intercollegiate Athlet-

NorMAN L. DosByns, ’54

8022 Harwood Place

Springfield, Virginia
BARTON W. Morris, JR., 43, Chairman
MarvIN K. COLt.ie, '39 |
ROBERT W. HILTON, JR., ‘38

‘THOMAS C. FRostT, JR., ‘50
Frost National Bank

P.O. Drawer 1600

San Antonio, ‘Texas

 

 

SPRING 1964

ginia. For eighteen years Professor Bear
held the chair of New Testament, and for
the last thirteen years he has had the
chair of Christian Missions.

1917

After twenty-three years of law practice
in Hobbs, New Mexico, JOHN R. BRAND
was appointed to the district bench in
1953 by Governor Mechem. He served for
ten years and retired in March, 1963,
when he and his family went to Europe
for the summer. By November, however,
Judge Brand had decided to reopen his
law offices. He and Mrs. Brand boast vf
eleven grandchildren.

1918

A. CARTER CRYMBLE has been chosen as
the “Engineer of the Year” for 1963 by
the Upper East ‘Tennessee Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers. It is an annual award.
Mr. Crymble is a consultant engineer in
Kingsport, Tennessee, following his re-
tirement from Tennessee Eastman Com-
pany in 1962 and is now serving as an
engineer member of the State Board of
Architects and Engineers. He joined ‘Ten-
nessee Eastman in 1933 after previous em-
ployment as electrical engineer with Gen-
eral Electric Company and the operation
of an electrical contracting business in
Bristol. Mr. Crymble is a Fellow and Life
member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers. He is active in many
civic projects and has been a member of
the Tri-City Airport Commission — since
1953, being chairman from 1955 to 1962.

1920

GrorceE S. MUELLER retired from Bell
Telephone Company in 1959, and after
an illness he has been recuperating in
Montvale, Virginia. Mr. Mueller is a part-
time farmer and part-time teacher, and
he recently received his collegiate cer-
tificate. :

Harry P. Burns is still hard at work in
the textile business in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nevertheless, he finds time to do consid-
erable traveling, especially in the Orient.

WILLIAM E. JOHNSTON, who was for forty-
one years in the sugar business, was hon-
ored recently at a retirement dinner at
the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel in New
Orleans. He retired as director of sales
for the American Sugar Company’s south-
ern district. Bill has been active in civic
organizations including the Boston Club
and International House.

Frep D. Townsenp has practiced law in
Columbia, South Carolina, continuously
since 1921. He is senior partner with his
son, WILLIAM HOWARD ‘TOWNSEND, ’50, in
the firm of Townsend & ‘Townsend.

E. B. BEATTy, a judge of the ggrd Judicial
District of Kentucky, has been awarded
the outstanding citizen award for the
year 1963 by the Kiwanis Club of Beatty-

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ville, Kentucky. Judge Beatty has served
two six-year terms as circuit judge and
has made an enviable record as a jurist.
He is active in a number of civic affairs
and has served as Grand Master of the
Lodge of Kentucky of the Free and Ac-
cepted Masons.

192]

JAMeEs C, LIGHTNER retired in 1960 from
the bureau of Public Roads after about
twenty-seven years of service in the Civil
Engineering Field with the Federal Gov-
ernment. He is living in Mountain Grove,
Virginia.

1922

The first elected mayor of the town of
Nags Head, North Carolina, is WILLIAM
ALBERT WILLIAMS, JR. At present the town
is busy completing a Municipal Water
System, the first for the Outer Banks of
North Carolina.

1924

During a sabbatical year abroad, J. P.
BRAWNER and his wife visited twenty uni-
versities in England, Scotland, and Wales
examining the program of English studies.
Professor Brawner is chairman of the
English department at the University of
West Virginia.

Dr. Stuart A. MACCorRKLE, professor of
government at the University of ‘Texas, is
spending the second semester as visiting
professor of political science at the Col-
lege of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He
and Mrs. MacCorkle will travel in Europe
in conjunction with Dr. MacCorkle’s lec-
tures.

1925

James E. Humpnreeys is representative for
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Howarp C. TRAyYWICK is president of an
investment and securities business by the
same name in Atlanta, Georgia. He and
Mrs. Traywick have three grandchildren.

For thirty-seven years MICHAEL R. BRUIN,
Jr., has been at various times a teacher,
coach, assistant headmaster, supervisor,
and principal in public and_ private
schools in Virginia and Maryland. He is
retired now and lives on a 312-acre cattle
farm along Claytor Lake in Pulaski Coun-
ty, Virginia. He is an officer in the Farm
Bureau and the Ruritan Club and has
had twenty years of perfect attendance at
Lions Clubs, two of which he has served
as president. Mr. Bruin hopes that his
class mates will write or stop to visit him.

1927

Grorce F. MAYNARD of Clarksdale, Mis-
sissippi, is senior member of the law firm
of Maynard, Fitzgerald & Maynard, with
his brother William H., ’28 as partner. His
son, George, III, 54, is a member of the

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firm of Cabaniss and Johnson in Birming-
ham, Alabama.

During eight years of retirement GARLAND
‘T’. Davis has enjoyed travel, hunting, fish-
ing and golf. In March he left for a three-
month tour of Honolulu and spots in
the Orient.

The news editor for The Courier-Jour-
nal of Louisville, Kentucky, is OLIVER C.
Dawkins. A _ native Louisianian, Ollie
finished his education at Tulane. His first
newspaper work was with the Monroe,
Louisiana, News-Star. Later he became
personal secretary to Louisiana Senator,
Edwin R. Broussard. Before coming to
Louisville he did stints in Asheville, North
Carolina, and for the office of War In-
formation in Atlanta. The Dawkins have
six grandchildren.

1928

W. L. Harris, Sr., has retired from most
civic and business activities but retains an
interest in his Lincoln-Mercury-Mercedes
Auto Agency, which is the Wheeling Mo-
tors Corporation, Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia.

1929

Since June, 1962, IRwin ‘T. SANDERS has
been an associate director, International
Training and Research Program, with
the Ford Foundation of New York City.
His book, Rainbow on the Rock: The
People of Rural Greece, was published by
the Harvard Press in 1962.

Between golf in summer and _ skiing in
winter, ARTHUR D. StmmMons keeps busy
in the furniture business and as director
of the First Agricultural Bank of Berk-
shire County, Adams, Massachusetts.

1930

The head coach of swimming at Florida
State University, N. BAUMANN “BIM”
STULTS, was one of thirty men who re-
ceived a fifteen-year service award from
the College Swimming Coaches Associa-
tion of America. Stults, a former Navy
commander, got his coaching start in Ohio
high school circles where his teams won
the state championships five times. He was
assistant swimming coach at Ohio State
University before going to Florida State
in 1948. He has developed six All Ameri-
cans, and one of his divers, Curt Genders
won the NCAA one-meter championship
in 1961.

Epwarp F. PILtey is in the Canal Zone
with the Bureau of Public Roads work-
ing on the building of the Inter-Ameri-
can Highway which should be complete-
ly paved by 1967.

1931

ELBERT E. HAL is the senior partner in
the general insurance firm of Perry-Hunt-
er-Hall in Abilene, Texas. The firm also
deals in real estate development and

mortgage banking and is classified as a
small Business Investment Company. Mr.
and Mrs. Hall, who make their home in
Abilene, have four children.

J. W. Wricut, Jr., is president of the
Mitchell-Powers Hardware Company in
Bristol, Virginia. The Wrights have two
children, Dorothy Ruth who is nineteen,
and Jay who is fifteen years old.

This spring ARTHUR W. PHELPs had a new
book entitled Handbook of Virginia Rules
of Appellate Procedure published by the
Michie Company of Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia.

RALPH K. PuLis was elected a vice-presi-
dent of the Chase Manhattan Bank in
February. Mr. Pulis, who is the second
Washington and Lee alumnus serving as
vice-president of the Chase and the tenth
Washington and Lee man currently vice-
president of one of the six major New
York banks, is in the ‘Trust Department
of the Chase.

SIDNEY W. CLAy has recently been named
Vice-President and Chief Administrative
officer in charge of the trust department
for the Liberty National Bank and Trust
Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Clay
was executive vice-president of the Unit-
ed States ‘Trust Company at the time of
its merger with the Liberty National
Bank. His first banking position was with
The Farmers Bank and Capital ‘Trust
Company of Frankfort.

1932

J. BERNARD SpEcToR has been practicing
law in Miami, Florida, for twenty-five
years. He has also been serving as a direct-
or of the Mercantile National Bank of
Miami Beach for four years.

CHARLES B. FULTON was recently appointed
Federal District Court Judge of the
Southern District of Florida in Miami.

PauL A. HOLsTEIN, mayor of Lexington,
Virgina, since 1951, has just been elected
a circuit court judge. The judgeship was
among five new ones recently created by
the General Assembly. As judge of the
18th Circuit, Mr. Holstein wil join Judge
William S. Moffett, Jr., of Staunton in
conducting the legal business in the cir-
cuit.

FRANK H. CUNNINGHAM has been named to
the Commander’s Staff of the Order of the
Stars and Bars.

1933

HomER G. Ray, JR., is mayor pro-tem on
the city council of Moultrie, Georgia. He
is chairman of the board of trustees of
Norman College in Georgia and is on
the board of directors of numerous Civic
business concerns in addition to serving
as chairman of the board of his own
companies, the Florida Peanut and Feed
Company and the McCleskey Mills in
Americus, Georgia.

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

I. Epbwarb Lunp, President of Kenyon Col-
lege in Ohio, has been elected president
of the Foundation for Episcopal Colleges,
an organization of eight Episcopal-oriented
colleges promoting Christian higher edu-
cation. He also has been elected chairman
of the Ohio Foundation of Independent
Colleges, a group of thirty-three insti-
tutions. In addition to these two new titles,
Dr. Lund also serves as director of the
Church Society for College Work and is a
member-at-large of the General Division
of Laymen’s Work of the National Coun-
ail, Protestant Episaopal Church. Dr.
Lund has been president of Kenyon Col-
lege since 1957.

Paut M. McILVAINE has published a new
book, Aunt Phoebe’s Capitol Coo-Coos,
which is composed of riotous cartoons
with tongue-in-cheek comments, pointed
at the “Washington Wheels.” Mr. Mc-
livaine has some thirty years of experi-
ence with the Federal Government. He
is now a colonel in the Air Force Reserve
and is Assistant Chief, Creative Arts Sec-
tion of the Veterans Administration.

JAMES Hoce ‘Trier, III, was the recipient
in January of the Norfolk First Citizen’s
award for 1963. ‘The award was presented
by the Norfolk Cosmopolitan Club. It was
the 36th annual award, and there were
fifteen earlier recipients among the 400
persons who honored ‘Tyler. Jim, who
practiced law in Norfolk for several years,
is now president of the Seaboard Citizens
National Bank. He has been prominent
in all community and church affairs in
the Norfolk area and is a member of the
Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Eliza-
beth River ‘Tunnel Commission. He is a
former member of the General Assembly
and a past president of the Norfolk Cham-
ber of Commerce.

1935

Lr. Cot. HARVARD P. SMITH is at present
in Vietnam for a tour of duty.

I'REDERICK DER. STRONG was elected treas-
urer of the McCall Corporation in Decem-
ber, 1963.

1937

RopBert E. GRAHAM will become mayor of
Sumter, South Carolina, following the
formality of a general election in August.
Except for four years in the service Bob
has been in business in Sumter since his
graduation. He is especially active in all
civic and patriotic affairs.

LANDON VicTOR BUTLER has a second son,
Sidney, graduating this year from Wash-
ington and Lee. His oldest son is a second
lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Jimmy is
in the brokerage and real estate business
in Memphis, Tennessee, and ‘Texas.

Subsequent to World War II JoHN J. VAN-
DALE remained in the U.S. Navy. He is
now Commander, with the rank of Cap-
tain, of the Naval Reserve Training Com-
mand in Omaha, Nebraska.

SPRING 1964

1938

MARRIED: J. Hiram SmiruH and Rosella
Shaw were married on October 12, 1963.
After a honeymoon in Mexico City, the

couple is now living in Williamsburg,

Kentucky.

‘Two Washington and Lee alumni were
among the six graduates of the Missouri
Military Academy who were cited at their
Diamond Jubilee in February. Cor. C. R.
STRIBLING, "17, made the presentation for

Standing, left to right: Co. C. R. STRIBLING,

“service within their professions which
has brought honor to their alma mater,”
to Roperr M. Wuire, II, ’38, newspaper
publisher in Mexico, Missouri, and Dr.
Lioyp E. Worner, '40, President of Colo
rado College.

In April CHARLES R. SKINNER and his fam-
ily moved to Huntington, Long Island. He
has joined the purchasing staff of Grum-
man Aircraft Enginereing Corporation,
where Charlie uses his electronic and air-

 

17, RoBert M. Wuirte, II, *38, Dr. Liuoyp
E, WORNER, ’30.

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craft background in this space-product
company.

For the past seventeen years ALPHONSE J.
SHERMAN has been teaching at the Univer-
sity of Bridgeport in Connecticut. ‘The
Shermans have two daughters and one
son.

A. H. ALEXANDER is manager of the ‘To-
ledo Scale Corporation’s operations in
southern Louisiana and Mississippi with
headquarters in New Orleans.

Vicror Lre TUCKER is employed as attor-
ney-adviser, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Huntington (West Va.) District. He is
located at Summersville, West Virginia,
acquiring real estate for the Summersville
Reservoir Project, which is nearly com-
pleted.

A Dallas real estate promoter, ANGus G.
WYNNE is putting up an_ extravagant
‘Texas Pavilion and Music Hall at the
New York World’s Fair. Wynne is presi-
dent of the Great Southwest Corporation
and the man behind the famous amuse-
ment park called Six Flags Over ‘Texas.
The Texas Pavilion, said Wynne, is to
be an “oasis of friendship at the fair.” At-
tached to the Music Hall will be an all-
day restaurant and a night club called
Frontier Palace.

Emory CANTEY is a partner in the Ft.
Worth, ‘Texas, law firm of Cantey, Hanger,
Gooch, Cravens & Scarborough. His out-
side interests run to horses, both hunters
and jumpers, and to racing sports cars.
The Canteys have one married daughter, a
daughter in graduate school at the Uni-
versity of ‘Texas, and a son who is now in
prep school.

PauL M. MILLER made a short trip in Oc-
tober for the State Department to the
Philippines and ‘Taiwan. He expects to
put in another two years in Washington
before going overseas again.

1939

WILLIAM S. AMMERMAN has moved to Ok-
lahoma where he is employed by Kerr-
McGee Oil Industries.

Lykes Brothers, Inc., of ‘Tampa, with ex-
tensive cattle, citrus and meat packing
holdings, has bought controlling interest
in the 57-year-old bank of Clearwater.
CHARLES P. LyKkes, president of the Lykes
Brothers, Inc., made this announcement
in January. Lykes Brothers, Inc., has been
a substantial stockholder in the bank for
some time. Their proposed control of the
bank of Clearwater will give them diver-
sification into another economic field. The
chairman of the board of Lykes Brothers,
Inc., is JOSEPH ‘IT. LYKEs, ‘og, a member
of the University Board of ‘Trustees and
a long-time resident of Clearwater Beach.

With no opposing candidate, Judge War-
REN H. Epwarps is assured of the Novem-
ber general election to a new four-year
term as judge of the Criminal Court of

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JupDGE WARREN H. EDWARDs, ‘39

Record in Orange County, Florida. War-
ren and his family live in Orlando and he
has made an outstanding record over the
past several years as Judge of the Crim-
inal Court.

ALFRED R. Krermer and his wife have just
completed their fifth visit to Australia to
visit her family and to increase their land
interests in the State of Queensland in
the bush country in the St. George dis-
trict.

Ropert L. EARty,. JR., vice-president and
director of Early and Daniel Company in
Louisville, Kentucky, has recently been
elected president of the Louisville Board
of ‘Trade.

1941

In 1963 CHARLES L. Hopson was elected a
director in the Capital Building and Loan
Association of Frankfort, Kentucky, and
was elected a member of the executive
committee of the Kentucky Historical So.
ciety.

HENRY T. CROCKER, JR., iS assistant execu-
tive director of The Engineers Club of
Baltimore, Inc.

Promotion of CHARLES E. BOWLEs, JR., to
divisional claim superintendent of the
Southeastern Regional Office for the State
Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
has just been announced. Charles has been
a claim superintendent in the Baltimore
office for a number of years.

1942

GrEorGE F, PARTON, JR., is a general prac-
titioner in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He
and his wife have six children, two boys
and four girls.

Dr. EDMUND FOUNTAIN of Houston, Texas,
is serving for two months on the third
rotation team of the teacher-training hos-

pital ship, the SS Hope. Dr. Fountain
sailed in March for Guayaquil, Ecuador,
where he is one of thirty physicians and
dentists who comprise the third team. He
is currently associated with several hos-
pitals in Houston as a neurosurgeon.

C. Tom GARTEN has served as president of
the Huntington (West Virginia) Chamber
cf Commerce for the past year.

CHRISTOPHER C. BARNEKOV has completed
twenty-two years with U.S. government in
such agencies as the Department of In-
terior, Library of Congress, State Depart-
ment, and C.I.A. He is also a naval re-
servist with nineteen years of service and
is training officer in Naval Air Intelligence
for his Reserve Unit.

GIBSON M. WOLFE was one of 31 General
Electric engineering executives to com-
plete the company’s nationally famous
Modern Engineering Course held at the
Gideon Putnam Hotel in Schenectady in
December, 1963. ‘The course is designed
to help keep experienced engineering
managers abreast of the latest develop-
ments in science and engineering.

1943

ConrAD L. INMAN, JR., is practicing oral
surgery in Baltimore, Maryland. He and
his wife have three daughters.

Lr. Cot. ALEXANDER M. MaisH is chief of
data processing division, Hq. U.S. Army,
Pacific, running a large computer shop.
He has bought a home on the windward
side of Oahu in the town of Kailua, Ha-
wail.

Ravreu S. ‘PAGGART from Crosby, Missis-
sippi, is doing his best for Virginia. He
has a daughter attending St. Catherine’s
School in Richmond and two sons at Epis-
copal High School in Alexandria.

James G. LAPLANTE has recently been
named assistant treasurer of the Industrial
Indemnity Company. He has been with
this western business company since 1949,
serving in several major financial posi-
tions. Most recently he served as man-
ager of the Financial Analysis Depart-
ment. After graduation from Washington
and Lee, Jim received his MBA from
Stanford University Graduate School of
Business. Before joining Industrial In-
demnity Company he was an analyst with
the Marketing Economics Department of
the Shell Oil Company in San Francisco.
Jim and his wife and their two children
live in Menlo Park, California.

I. V. RuNYAN has been appointed manag-
er, Technical Services Department, of the
Photo and Reproduction Division of Gen-
eral Airline and Film Corporation, with
headquarters in Binghamton, New York.

James Daves is employed as a supervisor
for the certified public accountant firm
of Peat, Marwich, Mitchell & Company
in Nashville, ‘Tennessee.

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1944

The Young Presidents’ Organization, an
international group of young, successful
chief executives, has named RicHARD L.
Ducnossois as chairman of their Individ-
ual Action Committee. Duchossois is presi-
dent of Thrall Car Manufacturing Co.,
producers of railroad freight cars.

On leave of absence from the Public Re
lations Department of J. Walter ‘Thomp-
son Company of Detroit, WALLACE E.
CLAYTON has assumed temporary full-time
duties as Promotion Director of Historic
Tombstone Adventures, a corporation
which is purchasing and preserving his-
torical landmarks in Arizona’s famous
town of Tombstone. The corporation is
launching a national advertising and pub-
licity program to make ‘Tombstone a lead-
ing tourist attraction. Wally’s office will
be ‘Tombstone’s Schieffelin Hall, princi-
pal theater in ‘Tombstone’s silver mining
heyday.

ALEX M. HARMAN, Jr., was elected to an
additional judgship in the aist Ju-
dicial Circuit by the General Assembly
of Virginia. Alex has been practicing law
in Pulaski since 1944 and is a partner in
the law firm of Gilmer, Harman, and
Sadler. He is past-president of the Pu-
laski County Bar Association and _ vice-
president of the Virginia State Bar As-
sociation. Alex now serves as chairman of
the County Development Authority,
president of the New River Valley In-
dustrial Foundation, and a member of the
Democratic State Central Committee.

GEORGE T. Woop has been named man-
ager, consumer goods sales division, of
the Royal Incorporated of Chattanooga.
The firm produces heating appliances, fire
place furnishings, charcoal grills, and
residential lighting fixtures.

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C. RICHARD CRONIN, ’44

C. RICHARD CRONIN, manager of the Ala
Moana office of Dean Witter & Company
in Honolulu, Hawaii, became a general
partner in the firm last February ist. Dick
has been manager of the Honolulu office
since its opening in 1960. Dean Witter &
Company is one of the nation’s largest
brokerage and investment banking firms.
Dick is active in the Chamber of Com-
merce and is a member of the Outrigger

Canoe Club.
1946

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. KENNETH H. WACK-
ER, a son, Brent John, on September 21,
1963. ‘he Wackers now have two sons
and a daughter.

SHERMAN J. SMITH has been elevated to
the new position of Senior Professional
Service Representative for Smith Kline &
French Laboratories. His territory is
Rochester, New York.

FREDERICK SAGE is the administrator of the
Brighton Community Hospital in Brigh-
ton, Colorado, which is a suburb of Den-
ver.

Dr. JOHN J. KELLY, III, is serving as Chief
of Medicine at the McGuire V.A. Hospi-
tal in Richmond, Virginia, with an ap-
pointment as Assistant Professor of Medi-
cine at the Medical College of Virginia
with which the V.A. Hospital is affiliated.
‘The Kellys have three children.

DONALD S. HILLMAN is presently the Vice-
President and Creative Director of K&W
Film Service, Inc., in New York City. The
firm is established for the production of
film, commercial and educational visual
films for industry, government and com-
munication. Don is also involved in fea-
ture picture production and network film.
He is very active in community affairs
and is president of the Scarsdale Republi-
can Club.

1948

Jack G. Murray has been promoted to
lieutenant colonel and is transferring to
Wiesbaden, Germany, Headquarters U.S.
Air Forces Europe, as director of Air ‘Tar-
gets. He expects to be back in the States
in late 1965.

1949

BORN: MAjor and Mrs. O. D. Hamrick,
Jr., a third son and fifth child, Blair, on
February 17, 1864. Major Hamrick is stil!
with the Air Force flying C-97’s out of
Dover, Delaware.

After leaving law school, BEN HapDEn has
had a varied career. He has worked in
the gasoline distributorship business; sev-
eral years in Central Intelligence Agency;
and in the newspaper field for eight years,
rising to position of vice-president and
general manager of The Kingsport Times-
News in Tennessee. In 1960 he entered the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is
today pastor of Key Biscayne (Florida)
Presbyterian Church.

PETER D. DEBoeR has been with E. I. du-
Pont Company in Waynesboro, Virginia,
since 1952 and is now assistant plant buy-
er. The plant produces acele, orlon, and
lycra. Pete and his wife, June, have two
sons and a daughter.

President Lyndon Johnson has appointed
MARK W. Saurs to the Assay Commission.
The Commission’s work is performed by
three separate committees involving the
counting, weighing, and checking the
specific fineness of the silver content in
coins. Mark met with the weighing com-
mittee of the Commission at the Phila-
delphia Mine in February. R. Bruce Mor-
RISON, ‘17, Of Lexington, Virginia, is also
on the Commission. Mark is in the savings
and loan business in Richmond, Virginia.

1950

MARRIED: CurisTOPHER S. Moore and
Patricia Hanchart of Washington, D.C.
were married in August, 1963. The Moores
took a honeymoon trip to Europe. Chris
is now associated with the investment
banking firm of Dick & Merle-Smith of
Wall Street.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. ROGER HARRISON
Mupp, a son, Matthew, on December 6,
1963. Matthew is their fourth child. The
Mudds make their home in Chevy Chase,
Maryland, near Washington, where Roger
is a CBS correspondent.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM RANDOLPH
Cosspy, JRr., a daughter, Beth Ann, on
August 13, 1963, in Richmond, Virginia.

MiTcHELL I. Lewis is directing the politi-
cal campaign for his employer, Gordon
McLendon, a radio station and motion
picture producing executive. Mr. McLen-
don is running for a seat in the U.S. Sen-
ate. Regardless of politics, Mitch will re-

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main in Dallas as vice-president in charge
of advertising, public relations and public-
ity for McLendon Corporation. He is also
sales representative for X-TRA-NEWS,
the first all-news radio station. In charge
of motion picture broadcast campaigns
for United Artists, he is handling such
campaigns as “Dr. No,” “Alamo,” and
“From Russia with Love.”

Formerly employed as associate corporate
counsel for General Electric Company,
WILLIAM J. LEDBETTER became corporate
counsel for Honeywell, Inc., (formerly
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.)
in March, 1964. Ledbetter is married to
the former Shirley Good of Santa Paula,
California, and the couple have a_ six-
year old son and a two-year old daughter.

Last January RONALD E. Levick became a
partner in Rittmaster & Voisin, a member
of the New York and American stock ex-
changes, located in New York City. Ron
and his wife, Judith, have two children
and live in Woodmere, New York.

1951

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JAMEs D. Warp, a
daughter, Harriet Ann, on September 2,
1963. The family resides in Providence
Forge, Virginia, where they have just
moved into a new home.

In Memphis, ‘Tennessee, SAm B. HOL.is is
vice-president and treasurer of Percy Gal-
braith & Sons and is in charge of all real
estate activities.

The Pilot Life Insurance Company has
named JoHNn R. BALpwin their Regional
Group Manager for the Middle Atlantic
States.

J. Epwarp MOYLER, JR., is practicing law
in Franklin, Virginia, with J. Epwarp
MOYLER, SR., ’21. ‘The Moylers have three
children.

WESLEY G. BROWN, associated with. the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Chattanooga, ‘Tennessee, has just been
elected to membership in the Million Dol-
lar Round ‘Table. Membership is limited
to those members of the National Asso-
ciation of Life Underwriters who sell at
least one million dollars of new life in-
surance each year. Wes is a nine year
veteran of the life insurance profession.

Burton L. Litwin is specializing in the
practice of theatrical law in New York
City. Burt is the national vice-president
of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He is mar-
ried to the former Dorothy Lefkowitz, and
the couple has three sons.

S. Ray WEstT, JR., has returned to Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, to live after residing in
New York City for the past seven years
where he was associated with the Ameri-
can Broadcasting Company as manager of
guest relations. In Pine Bluff he is asso-

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ciated with his family’s business, the
Smart Chevrolet Company, as secretary-
treasurer.

RicHArD B. ‘TAyLor, managing director of
the Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas, has re-
signed to accept a position with Horn-
blower and Weeks, a member firm of the
New York Stock Exchange. His new posi-
tion will take him to Palm Springs, Cali-
fornia. Dick went to Las Vegas as assist-
ant manager of the Hacienda in 1956 and
become general manager a year later. He
has been on the Board of the Clark Coun-
ty YMCA, the United Fund, the New
Frontier Hotel, the Mt. Charleston Lodge
and the Talent Corporation of America.
Taylor was co-author with Patricia How-
ell of Las Vegas of a book called “Las
Vegas: City of Sin?”

1952

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN F. MCDOWELL,
a daughter, Claiborne Larimore, on Jan
uary 4, 1964. John is claim superintendent
in the Fairfax office of State Farm Mutual.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. PERRY L. BORoM, a
daughter, Antoinette Marie, on Decem
ber 8, 1963.

Lester E. ZirrraiINn is practicing law in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He and his wife,
Ruth Ann, have two children, a daughter
and a son.

KENT RuicG is associated with Kennedy’s
Pigely-Wigely Stores, Inc., in Wise, Vir-
ginia. He and his wife, Posey, have three
sons and a daughter ranging in age from
nine years to two years old.

The treasurer and manager of commercial
leasing for Morton G, Thalhimer, Inc.,
of Richmond, Virginia, is DAvip IE. Con-
STINE, JR. He and his wife, Adrienne, have
two sons and one daughter. The family
was present at Washington and Lee fo1
the dedication of the Adrian Bendheim
Physics Library.

Jor, B. Cooper, a Norfolk attorney, re-
ceived the Junior Chamber of Commerce
Distinguished Service Award for his in-
terest in civic activity. The award was
made at a dinner at the Lafayette Yacht
Club. He is a member of Ocean View
Citizens Interstate Highway 64 Associa-
tion, the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce,
the Lions Club, United Community Club,
and the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar As-
sociation.

Bitty G. FuQUA was recently appointed
city attorney of Russellville, Kentucky, for
a term of two years. Bill is also secretary
and a director of the Bowling Green-Hop-
kinsville Bus Company.

Jack Evupanxs and family live in High
Point, North Carolina, where he is super-
visor of the Silver Knit Hosiery Mill. His
wife is the former Lucille Shaw of Lexing-
ton and the couple have one daughter.

F. Newtson LicHtT has been promoted to

the rank of Commander in the Naval Re-
serve. During the water crisis in February,
he was serving two weeks of active duty
at McCalla Field, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

F. Srewart ELLiotr, an attorney in Lima,
Ohio, has announced that he is seeking
the Republican nomination for Allen
County Common Pleas Court Judge in
the May 5th primary. Stewart is a former
assistant law director for civil affairs and
acting city prosecutor. He was once a
trial lawyer with the Internal Revenue
Service and an assistant Ohio attorney-
general.

1953

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM E. RAWL-
INGS, a second son, Christopher Hunt, on
September 29, 1963, in Wilton, Connecti-
cut. Bill has changed from product man-
ager of the Maxwell House Coffee Com-
pany to Western Region Sales Manager,
Maxwell House Division, of the General
Foods Corporation.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM H. Foster,
Jr., a son, William Henry, III, on August
16, 1963. Bill is an independent oil and
gas producer in Shreveport, Louisiana.

FRANK A. McCormick has again earned
membership in the Million Dollar Round
Table. Membership in the select Associa-
tion is limited to members of the Na-
tional Association of Life Underwriters
who sell at least one million dollars of
new life insurance each year. McCormick,
with Guardian Life Insurance Company
of Santa Ana, California, has been in the
profession for 51% years.

1954

BORN: Dr. and Mrs. RALPH S. PARK, a
second daughter, Laura Evans, on Decem-
ber 31, 1963. Ralph is in the practice of
internal medicine in Elmira, New York.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JAMEs B. ANDREWS,
II, a son, Douglas Brown, on January 29,
1964. Jim is executive vice-president for
the Red Line, Inc., ‘Trucking Firm. ‘The
Andrews have three other children.

A group headed by Ceci. J. EpMonps has
purchased the weekly newspaper, The
Roanoke Star. Edmonds has served as edi-
tor of this paper for the last three years.
‘The new owners will continue to operate
it as a weekly newspaper. Edmonds is vice-
president of Brand, Edmonds, and Wre-
den Advertising Company of Salem, Vir-
ginia.

WILLIAM BARLOW INABNET, JR., completed
his post-graduate medical training in ear,
nose and throat at the University of Mary-
land Hospital in Baltimore last February.
He is now practicing the specialty of ear,
nose and throat in Greensboro, North
Carolina.

Working at Smith, Kline & French Lab-
oratories in Philadelphia WILLIAM TT.
CiLem is Hospital Unit Head in the mar.

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keting research department. Bill was re-
cently elected president of the Lands-
dale (Pennsylvania) Jaycees. He and his
wife have three daughters and one son.

HaAsweLL McCuLLoOuGH FRANKLIN was
elected Man of the Year, John W. Boyn-
ton Agency of the Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company in Baltimore. He
is also a 1964 qualifying member of the
Million Dollar Round ‘Table.

J. BENNETT JOHNSTON pulled an upset in
Louisiana politics by winning the seat
in the State Legislature from his Caddo
Parish. ‘The Shreveport attorney captured
the fifth seat in the House delegation by a
65 vote margin over the incumbent, Well.
born Jack. Bennett has been assistant city
attorney for Shreveport since 1962 and
has represented the city in major litiga-
tion. He is past president of the Junior
Bar Section for the State of Louisiana Bar
Association and is a member of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and Elks Club.

JAMeEs D. BONEBRAKE was among five
Cleveland area life insurance underwrit-
ers who earned membership in the 1964
Million Dollar Round Table, the life in-
surance industry’s elite, 3,500-member in-
ternational organization of million-dollar-
a-year sales producers.

1955

MARRIED: JouN EpwaArp HucHeEs and
Darla Jane Green were married in Buena
Vista, Virginia, on April 4, 1964. The
couple will live in Charlotte, North Caro-
lina, where the groom is associated with
the Charlotte Observer,

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. LAURENCE LEVITAN,
a third daughter, Lisa, born on February
14, 1964. Larry is associated with the law
firm of Levitan and Weinstein in Wash-
ington, D.C.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Douctas E. RITCHIE,
Jr., a son, Douglas E., III, on October 6,
1963. Doug has been employed since 1960
with the staff of the Natural Resources
Institute of the University of Maryland as
a faculty research assistant working on
the striped bass investigations.

Harry M. HOo.iins was elected to the
Louisiana House of Representatives from
Calcasien Parish in the general election
in March. Harry is the manager of the
Hollins Insurance Agency, Inc., in Lake
Charles, Louisiana, where he is on the
board of directors of the Better Business
Bureau of Southwest Louisiana, a mem-
ber of the vestry of the Episcopal church,
on the board of the Calcasien Area Guid-
ance Center, and on the executive board
of the Louisiana Association of Insurance
Agents. The Hollins have two children,
Kelly who is five and Virginia, age four.

J. SLADE Carter, cashier for the Philadel-
phia National Bank, has recently been
named an officer of the new Southeastern
Pennsylvania Development Fund. The

SPRING 1964

new organization will work with the
Economic Development Corporation to
help boost the economy of Greater Phila-
delphia. ‘The fund, which has potential
resources of about $11 million, will pro-
vide money and credit to firms unable to
borrow from conventional sources.

A former reading clerk for the Ohio
House of Representatives, GERARD W. FEE
has been appointed an assistant to the
president of Lake Erie College in Paines-
ville, Ohio. This past year he has served
as Dean of Men at Capital University in
Columbus, Ohio. Fee is very interested in
the English-Speaking Union and is a
member of their Board of Governors. He
is active in the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, a member of the Columbus Sym-
phony, and a member of St. James Episco-
pal Church.

Davip W. McCaIN has moved to Danville,
Kentucky, where he is the general fore-
man of the flourescent ware production of
Corning Glass Works.

Paut R. MULLER has been appointed as-
sistant Program Analyst for the Bureau
of Hearings and Appeals of the Social]
Security Administration.

ForNEY R. DAUGETTE, JR., is treasurer of
the Life Insurance Company of Alabama
with home office in Gadsden, Alabama.
The Daugette’s fourth child and second
daughter was born March 31, 1963.

1956

BORN: Mr. and Mrs, G. CARTER WERTH,
a son, John Bogardus, on January 25, 1964.
Carter is with the UNIVAC Division of
the Sperry-Rand Corporation in Wash-
ington, D. C.

In the Waynesboroy, Virginia, school sys-
tem JAMES B. LUNGER is science coordi-
nator for the six public elementary schools,
one junior high school, and one senior
high school. Recently he had articles
published in the Virginia Journal of Edu-
cation. He received his master’s degree in
1960 and is now working on his doctor’s
degree.

A vice-president of the News Tribune of
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and the Wash-
ington (Pa.) Observer and_ Reporter,
WILLIAM B. NorrHrop has won an award
in the 1964 National Headliner contest.
The award was given for Northrop’s six-
article series on “Problems of a Nursing
Education.” Bill will receive his award
at the gist Headliners Awards program
in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The hon-
oree has also written features on indus-
trial development, the tax collection sys-
tem, and the highway situation. These
writings and his various civic activities
contribute to his being named “Young
Man of the Year” by the Upper Beaver
Valley Jaycees.

THOMAS W. TURNER is trust officer for the

Piedmont ‘Trust Bank of Martinsville,
Virginia.

1957

MARRIED: LAWRENCE A. ATLER and Mar-
ilyn Vanderbur, Miss America of 1958,
were married in Denver, Colorado, on
February 14, 1964. Larry and his wife
were fellow students at East High School
in Denver. He is now an attorney in the
firm of Atler, Haligman and Atler.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Ropert E. J. Cur-
RAN, a son, John Henry, on November 6,
1964. The family lives in Media, Pennsyl-
vania.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. KENDALL CLARK
Jones, their third child, a daughter, Kris-
tin Blair, on March 23, 1964.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN B. Howarp, a
son, John B., Jr., on September 28, 1963.
John is a partner in the law firm of Cook,
Mudd and Howard, engaged in the gen-
eral practice of law in ‘Towson, Maryland.

A. JACKsOoN MASON runs his own real estate
brokerage firm in Accomac, Virginia,
where he lives with his wife, Anne, and
their two sons, Chap, age three, and
Andy, age one.

Tuomas R. SmirH has been in Alaska,
primarily Anchorage, for the past three
years where he has worked for the Na-
tional Bank of Alaska. He is an assistant
vice-president and manager of one of the
branches of the bank. Tom and his wife
have a son, Ward.

RicHarp B. RAINES is serving a residency
in general surgery at Kennedy Veterans
Hospital in Memphis, ‘Tennessee, before
taking a residency in urology.

ARNOLD “Bo” Gwin graduated in June,
1963, from the Law School at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi where he ranked first
in his class. He and his family now re-
side in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he
is practicing law.

C. F. Davis, Jr., is completing his third
year overseas with the First National City
Bank. Charlie was married in 1960, and
the couple have two children. He is now
in Manila and will remain there until
September, 1964, when he returns to Sing-
apore to make his home until early 1966.

H. Greig CUMMINGS, JR., has been appoint-
ed assistant vice-president of Folger, No-
lan, Fleming and Company, an investment
brokerage firm in Washington, D.C. The
appointment is effective January, 1964.

Harry T. Tuty, Jr., has finished his
service with the Air Force and is now
completing his residency in anesthesiology
at the University of California Medical
Center. He lives in San Francisco.

PAUL R. SPECKMAN, JR., was released from
active Navy service in December 1963, and
is now an attorney for the United Cali-
fornia Bank in San Francisco.

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CHARLES B. RICHARDSON is in his second
year as Navy flight instructor in formation
flying at NAAS Whiting Field near Pen-
sacola, Florida.

WILLIAM L. KAUFFMAN has transferred
from the sales territory in Hartford, Con-
necticut, to the New York sales territory
for James Lees and Sons. This spring he
will make his residence in Rahwah, New
Jersey.

1958

MARRIED: Howarp E. JAcoss and Mar-
garet Ellen Reitman were married on
August 1, 1963. The couple lives in Maple-
wood, New Jersey.

MARRIED: WARREN NUESSLE and Barbara
Slatcher of Shaker Heights, Ohio, were
married on December 12, 1963. Warren
was formerly with the Pennsalt Chemicals
Company in Cleveland, Ohio, but he has
now started a metal embossing tape busi-
ness. He and his wife live in St. Davids,
Pennsylvania.

MARRIED: WittiAM P. CHILDS and
Shelia Scranton of Fairfield, Connecticut,
were married in September, 1963. Bill
graduated from Yale University in June,
1963, and is now working for Reader’s Di-
gest, scheduling direct mail advertising.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Joun S. CoLeMan,
a second daughter, Elizabeth Dixon, on
August 9, 1963. The Colemans live in
Edgewater, Maryland.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. E. MICHAEL MASIN-
TER, a son, Mark Louis, on March 10,
1964. Mike is practicing law in Atlanta,
Georgia.

BORN: Dr. and Mrs. RoBERT LAWRENCE
SMITH, a son, Stephens Alexander, on
February 3, 1964.

WILLIAM B. Wispom, JR., has completed
all his legal training, graduating from
both Harvard and Tulane Law Schools,
and is now associated with the firm of
Stone, Pigman & Benjamin.

Davin M. Dawson, his wife, and four-year-
old son have moved to Haddam, Connec-
ticut. David is nuclear safety engineer in
the Health and Safety Engineering Depart-
ment of Pratt and Whitney’s Connecticut
Advanced Nuclear Enginering Labora-
tory in Middletown, Connecticut.

After a tour as senior aide-de-camp to the
Commanding General, 4th Infantry Divis-
ion, at Fort Lewis, Washington, Capt. E.
B. HEMPSTEAD, JR., is now assigned to
George Air Force Base as Army Liaison
Officer.

KrITH R. BARNEY, JR., is teaching French
in a high school in Fairfax County, Vir-
ginia, and is currently enrolled as a night
student at George Washington Univer-
sity, working on an M.A. degree in school
guidance. Keith holds the rank of Cap-

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tain (Reserve) in the gooth civil affairs
group in Riverdale, Maryland.

MANLEY P. CALDWELL, JR., has been taken
into the law firm of Caldwell, Pacetti,
Foster & Barrow in Palm Beach, Florida.

1959

WILLIAM S. HARRISON has been assigned
duty at Newport, Rhode Island, aboard
the U.S.S. Arcadia as one of the dentists.
Friends of Bill and his wife, Marcia, will
be saddened to learn of the death of the
couple’s fifteen month old son, James
Phillip.

Having received his master’s degree in
English Roy ALLEN BALL is teaching and
working towards his doctorate degree at
Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

RicHARD F. Cummins has recently been
promoted to assistant cashier and manager
of the Belle Meade office of the Com-
merce Union Bank in Nashville, ‘Ten-
nessee.

ROBERT E. SHEPHERD, JR., has become an
associate of the law firm of Wicker, Baker
& Goddin in Richmond, Virginia.

Roperrt L. KAUFMAN is employed as an
attorney in the Legal Division, State of
West Virginia Workmen’s Compensation
Fund. He also is in the private practice
of law in Charleston, West Virginia.

RICHARD A. POWELL is teaching seventh
and eighth grade language arts in But-
ler Elementary School, Butler, New Jersey.

1960

MARRIED: ROBERT PRESTON HAWKINS,
III, and Susan Renfro Martin were mar-
ried in Pulaski, Virginia, on March 28,
1964. Bob is connected with IBM offices in
Richmond, Virginia.

MARRIED: SAM KNOWLTON and Miriam

Wilson of Jackson, Mississippi, were mar-

ried on June 29, 1963. They now reside
in Oxford, Mississippi, where Sam is in
his second year of Law School, is asso-
ciate editor of the Law Journal, and is

ranking second in his class at the Uni-

versity of Mississippi.

MARRIED: LetcH B. ALLEN, III, was
married August 10, 1963, to the former
Miss Lynn Yarbrough of Shreveport,
Louisiana. Leigh expects to graduate in
May, 1964, from the University of Mis-
sissippi Law School and will practice in
Vicksburg, Mississippi.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JONATHAN RICHARD
LEMON, a second son, Joseph Richard,
born on December 29, 1963.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. MERVYN F. SILVER-
MAN, a daughter, Lauren Michele, on Jan-
uary 21, 1964. Merv will graduate in June,
1964, from Tulane Medical School. He is
treasurer of his senior medical class.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. McGowiIn I. Part-
RICK, a son, McGowin Iverson, Jr., in Jan-
uary, 1964. The family lives in Mobile,
Alabama.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. HuGcH LYLE CAmMp-
BELL, a son, Hugh Lyle, Jr., on November
4, 1963, in Charleston, West Virginia.

BORN: Dr. and Mrs. CHARLES S. Burts,
a daughter, Kimberly Ann, on July 2,
1963. Charles received his D.D.S. degree
from Georgetown Dental School, Wash-
ington, D.C., last June. He holds a com-
mission in the Air Force and in June
of this year will complete a rotating in-
ternship at Lackland AFB, Texas. Be-
ginning in July he expects to be stationed
at Homestead AFB near Miami for two
years.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN J. HAuN, twin
sons, Michael J. and James A., on Janu-
ary 9g, 1963. ‘The senior Haun is a lieu-
tenant in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk,
Virginia.

RopertT H. SPRATT expects to graduate
from Medical School at ‘Temple Universi-
ty in June, 1964. After a year’s internship
he will serve with the Navy Medical Corps
for three years. Bob was married in June,
1963, to Kathryn L. Stover of Ft. Lauder-
dale, Florida.

Since June, 1963, JosEPH J. SMITH has
been a lieutenant and Fiscal and Budget
Officer for the 4th ‘Transportation Com-
mand at Fort Eustis. He expects to be
discharged in August, 1964, and embark
on a career in investment banking.

Horace C. ROosIson, JR., expects to re-
ceive his M.D. degree from the University
of Virginia Medical School in June. He
will then begin a rotating internship in
Portland, Oregon.

JAmes N. Harbin, JR., is working toward
his doctorate at the University of North
Carolina and is serving as an instructor
in German.

GrorGE E. ANTHOU has joined the law firm
of Peacock, Keller & Yohe in Washington,
Pennsylvania, as an associate.

ARTHUR BLANK, II, is now working with
the Inch’on Field Office, 502nd Military
Intelligence Battalion, in Korea. His next
duty assignment will be the Philadelphia
Field Office.

Ceci W. PowELL, JR., is with an indepen-
dent insurance agency by the same name
in Jacksonville, Florida. He expects to re-
cieve his chartered property and _ casual-
ty underwriters designation upon com-
pletion of the full course in 1968.

Joining the other graduates in New York
City, RICHARD ABERSON is with the first Na-
tional City Bank as a “trust trainee.”

A staff writer for the Norfolk Ledger-
Star, PAUL R. PLAWIN won honorable
mention in the Virginia Press Association

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for his weekly column, “For Men Only.”
Paul has also assumed the responsibility
of managing editor of the national quart-
erly magazine of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity,
The Star and Lamp.

After completing a 13-month tour over-
seas, JAY W. STULL is presently company
commander of a rifle company with the
“th Marines at Camp Pendleton. Jay is
also coaching and playing for the lacrosse
team of the 1st Marine Division.

Working as an adjuster with ‘Travelers
Insurance Company, PAUL BarcAmin, III,
hopes to pass his bar examination soon.
He is married to the former Joan Nelson,
daughter of English professor Dr. Rowland
Nelson. The couple lve in Winchester,
Virginia, and have two sons.

James W. WEINGART received his LL.B.
degree from Columbia University last
June and passed the New Jersey bar ex-
amination. He is presently working on a
master’s degree at Rutgers and is also
working part time at a law firm.

MicHAEL L, BLANE has passed the Ohio
Bar and is now practicing law in Cleve-
land, Ohio.

WILLIAM B. BLUNDIN is working for Paine
Webber Jackson & Curtis in New York
City Bill is in the investment research
department handling bank and insurance
stocks.

After training duty in Ft. Benning, Geor-
gia, and in Charlottesville, Virginia, W.
KENDALL LipscoMB, JR., is now a lieuten-
ant and is assistant Post Judge Advocate
at Ft. McClellan, Alabama. He and his
wife, Catherine, live on the post and ex-
pect to be stationed there for two years.

WILLouGHBY NEWTON was released from
Coast Guard duty in January and is now
employed by the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company in the traffic de-
partment. He is living in Newport News,
Virginia.

1961

MARRIED: Encar M. DuncAN and Linda
Wyatt, formerly of Mary Baldwin and the
University of Texas, were married in San
Antonio on June 15, 1963. The couple
now resides in Wiesbaden, Germany,
where Edgar is a first lieutenant with the
Air Force.

MARRIED: Joun FARMER and Penny Lee
Rudd were married on December 1, 1963.

MARRIED: Lewis P. Netson, III, and
Beverly P. Lawson were married on No-
vember 30, 1963. Lewis is presently with
Chemical Bank New York ‘Trust Com-
pany in their Senior Training Program.
He expects to go into the International
Division.

BORN: Lr. and Mrs. CHARLES W. Day,
III, a daughter, Christine Maria, in Oc-

SPRING 1964

tober, 1963, in Germany. Charles is with
the 35th Armored Division stationed in
Bamburg, Germany.

After an assignment at Laughlin AFB,
Texas, Lr. JoHN C. FOSTER, a pilot, is
now on duty with a Tactical Air Com-
mand unit at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.

Joun F. SAuNpERS graduated from Ohio
Wesleyan University and is now employed
at Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company in
Appleton, Wisconsin. He and his wife have
a year-old daughter, Kristin.

After practicing law for three years in
Leesburg, Virginia, RoBerrt L. GILLIAM,
III, is now associated with the law firm
of Cohen, Cox & Kelly in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. He and his wife, Anne, have one
daughter, Kimball.

David SHENSA is entering his third year in
dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Dentistry. He was recently elect-
ed a delegate to the national convention o.
Alpha Omega (national dental fraternity)
which he serves as local chapter secretary.
This summer he will do research in bac-
teriology.

After two years of duty with the end
Armored Division at Ft. Hood, Texas, J.
Harvey ALLEN was released from the serv-
ice as a first lieutenant. Since October,
1963, he has been associated with the
J. H. Allen Company of Fort Worth, a
firm of manufacturers’ representatives.

Tuomas H. ALEXANDER is living in Santa
Barbara, California, where he is a sales
representative for Standard Oil Company
of California.

NicHOLAS H. Ropricurz is in the practice
of law with Harold Schmittenger in Dov-
er, Delaware. He and his wife, the for-
mer Patricia Ann Walker of Norfolk, have
a daughter two years old and a son one
year old.

Joun C. Foster, III, graduated in Feb-
ruary from pilot training at Laughlin Air
Force Base as a second lieutenant. He has
since been attending gunnery school at
Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.

While attending George Washington Uni-
versity, WALTER J. CRATER, JR., has been
initiated into two honorary engineering
fraternities, Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Phi.
Walter is also working for the research
engineering firm of Robert Taggart, Inc.

Commissioned a Second Lieutenant, PER-
ry L. Gorbon served two years with the
Army Artillery. For the major part of his
tour he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash-
ington. Married in 1962, Perry and his
wife, Carol, announce the arrival of a
daughter, Sarah. The family lives in Pitts-
ford, New York, where Perry works for
the Rochester ‘Telephone Corporation.

1962

MARRIED: ¥F. TuHorns CRAVEN and Per-

ry Carter were married on March 21, 1964,
in Frankfurt, Germany.

MARRIED: CHARLES COMMANDER and
Vicki Coxe of Darlington, South Carolina,
were married in August, 1963. Charlie is
presently in Law School at the University
of Florida.

MARRIED: Donatp H. McCrure and
Elizabeth Gaultney were married on
August 16, 1963, at the First Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Don is cur-
rently a second-year medical student at
Northwestern University Medical School.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. RicHARD L. BAr-
BouR, a son, Richard, Jr., on February 3,
1964. Dick and his wife live in Richmond
where he is employed by the Internal
Revenue Service.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE CRUGER, a
daughter, Laura Jane, on February 17,
1964. The mother is the former Chris
Christie, Sweet Briar, 62.

Airman Third Class RicHARD J. STAMM
has been reassigned to a Mississippi Air
National Guard unit following his gradua-
tion from technical training courses for
U.S. Air Force medical specialists at
Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.

G. T. DuNLop ECKER expects to graduate
this June from the State University of
Iowa with an M.A. in hospital and health
administration. On the first of July he
will start work as an administrative res-
ident at Montefiore Hospital in New York
City.

Second Lt. Davin K. FRAsER has been par-
ticipating in Exercise Delawar, a joint
Iranian-U.S. military training operation
staged in Iran in April.

Second Lieutenant Russ A. PRITCHARD and
family are living in Seoul, Korea, where
he is stationed with the Headquarters
Company of the First Carrier Division.
The Pritchards have a son born June 24,
1963.

1963

MARRIED; 'THOMAS PATTON McDAVID
and Sarah Katherine Bossert of Baltimore,
Maryland were married June 15, 1963.
Tom is stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia,
as a second lieutenant.

MARRIED: DonaALD S. CAMPBELL and
Shirley Murray (Randolph-Macon, ’63) of
Birmingham, Alabama, were married on
August 10, 1963. Don is presently a grad-
uate student in sociology at the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN MEREDITH
GRAHAM, III, a son, John Meredith, IV,
on January 10, 1964. ‘The young man is
expected to be the fifth man in the family
to attend Washington and Lee. The fath-
er is attending Law School at the Univer-
sity of Virginia.

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CLARENCE RENSHAW Is employed by WAVY
radio and ‘TV in Portsmouth and Norfolk,
Virginia, as a news reporter, photographer,
and broadcaster. ‘The news director of the
station is LLoyp Dosyns, ’57.

Now in his sixth week of Army Fixed
Wing Flight Training, Roperr H. Man-
SON is stationed at the Aviation Center, Ft.
Rucker, Alabama.

W. L. Harris, JR., is taking freshman law
work at the University of Pennsylvania.

Having started in the banking field,
CHARLES S. LANE has now changed and is
associated with the Max Winter Attrac-
tions, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This organization represents many sports
attractions, expositions, state fairs, and
other publicity organizations. At the mo-
ment Chuck is doing publicity and promo-
tion work for the Harlem Globetrotters
and is busy in a six-state area plus Man-
itoba, Canada. He handles some sixty odd
games, all the way from scheduling, to
publicity, to settlement of the box office
financial matters.

Bruce H. ROBERSON is living in Charlottes-
ville with his wife, Mary, and year-old
daughter, Cheryl Anne, where he attends
the University of Virginia Law School.

RoBerRT L. WHEELOCK, III, attended the
graduate school of business at the Univer-
sity of Texas in the fall of 1963. Then
after a few months of ranching he is now
in the US Army Artillery School at Ft.
Sill, Oklahoma.

JOHN H. Muttin, III, has been commis-
sioned an ensign in the Navy and is on
duty aboard the USS Skylark (ASR. 20)
with home port in New London, Connec-
ticut.

JOHN FOWLER is a lieutenant in the U.S.
Army, serving as personnel psychologist
at the U.S. Army Recruiting Main Station
at Roanoke, Virginia.

GEORGE W. Harvey, JR., worked at TV
station WFGA in Jacksonville, Florida, for
five months, but in March he entered the
service for six months of duty at the
Army National Guard at Fort Jackson,
South Carolina.

In January MatrHew T. DOouGcLass
changed from Dickinson Law School in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the Union
Theological Seminary in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, where he is studying for the minis-
try.

Joun RicHArD Untic, II, completed Naval
OCS in February and is now serving as a
Naval officer.

ROBERT WILLIAM MATHEWSON and. Eliza-
beth Howard Ryan were married in
Lynchburgh, Virginia, on February 8,
1964. Bob is taking training at Ft. Sill,
Oklahoma, and will later go to Seattle
where he will be on duty with the Army.

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1894

Dr. JAMES BELL BuLuitr, distinguished
alumnus and beloved professor emeritus of
pathology of the University of North
Carolina medical faculty, died on March 7,
1964, at the age of ninety. As a student
at Washington and Lee he was on the
Albert Sidney boat crew and for two
years was captain of the football team.
After receiving his medical degree at the
University of Virginia, he taught at both
the Universities of Virginia and Missis-
sippi before going to Chapel Hill. For
thirty-four years he enjoyed enormous
respect from students and doctors for his
inquiring mind, his extraordinary pro-
fesisonal skill, and his ‘“‘warm and hum-
izing influence” on the medical school.
When Dr. Bullitt retired he was known as
“the elder statesman” of the UNC Schcol
of Medicine, and five years ago the
Medical School History Club changed its
name to the James B. Bullitt Club in his
honor.

1901

CLARENCE CLIFTON Burns died in a nursing
home in Beckley, West Virginia, on March
25, 1964. Mr. Burns had practiced law for
a period of sixty years throughout the
state of Virginia and was a senior mem-
ber of the firm of Burns and Lively in
Lebanon, Virginia.

1902

JULIAN SEARCY NicHoL of Nashville, ‘Ten-
nessee, died on September 14, 1963.

1907

MELVIN MEEks, a lawyer of Ocilla, Georgia,
died on March 16, 1964.

1909

Rev. RoBert ALLEN Brown, former minis-
ter for the East Ocean View Presbyterian
Church in Norfolk, Virginia, died Feb-
ruary 28, 1964. Mr. Brown was a vice-
president of the Virginia Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. For
many years he had served as Alumni
Class Agent.

ALGERNON H, CHANDLER of Ruxton, Mary-
land, died on March 23, 1964. Mr. Chand-
ler taught mathematics for several years
after his graduation from Washington
and Lee and then in 1918 joined the
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company as
power sales engineer. He remained with
this company until his retirement. Mr.

Chandler was a most active alumnus,
maintaining throughout the years a keen
interest in all activities at Washington and
Lee, and he and Mrs. Chandler were
familiar figures at Reunions and Home-
comings.

FREDERICK D. STEVENSON of Corbin, Ken-
tucky, a Presbyterian minister for over
fifty years, died on January 3, 1964. He
had celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday.
Mr. Stevenson was ordained to the min-
istry in 1912 and retired in 1956 at the
age of seventy-two. The pastorates of the
St. Albans Church in West Virginia, the
Moore Memorial Presbyterian Church
and the Westminster Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta were among his assignments.
At one time he was associate professor of
sociology at Agnes Scott Colege.

1910

Dr. J. N. MONTGOMERY, a retired Presby-

_terian missionary, died at Decatur, Geor-

gia, on April 10, 1964. At one time Dr.
Montgomery was with the International
Committee of the Y.M.C.A. and he had
traveled extensively in Egypt and the
Holy Land. He served as a missionary to
China and Taiwan from 1918 until his
retirement several years ago.

Dr. GILBERT WILSON ROLSTON, a Harris-
sonburg, Virginia, eye, ear, nose, and
throat specialist for thirty years, died on
November 23, 1963. Dr. Rolston had been
in numerous Harrisonburg civic organ.
izations and was a life-long member of
the Presbyterian church. For the past
several years he had made his home in
Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1915

Following a long illness, a prominent
Wytheville attorney, ‘THOMAS FRANK
WALKER, died March 13, 1964. Mr. Walk-
er was admitted to the bar in 1913. He
worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch
newspaper and taught and coached in
Lynchburg schools before becoming as-
sociated with the late Governor E. Lee
Trinkle in the practice of law in Wythe-
ville. Mr. Walker was extremely active in
political and community affairs and was
closely identified with Senator Harry F.
Byrd. He was past chairman of the Wythe
County Democratic Party.

PHILIP PENDLETON GIBSON died in a nurs-
ing home in Sanford, North Carolina, on
November 7, 1963. “Pete” was president
of the student body in 1914-15. After
graduation from the W&L Law School he
practiced law in Huntington, West Vir-
ginia, until his health failed in 1960. At
one time he was City Attorney, a member
of the State Board of Education, and a
counsel for the State Banking Commis-
sion. He was one of the founders of the
Omicron Delta Kappa society.

1914

ALBERT M. Cartron died on August 7,

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1963. Mr. Carlton had been a lawyer in
Brownsville, ‘Tennessee, since his gradu-
ation from Washington and Lee and was
city attorney for the town for about
ten years.

WALTER HILLMAN EAGER died in Encinitas,
California, after a heart attack on Feb-
ruary 15, 1964. Mr. Eager had a fifty-
year connection with Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Hartford as
agent, district agent, special agent, and
general agent. He was semi-retired for
many years and operated a small ranch
near San Diego.

1917

Dr. JOHN Moore SCHMOELE died on June
6, 1963. Dr. Schmoele, a retired physician
and surgeon, lived on his ranch near
Santa Barbara, California.

1918

LEONCE VAUGHAN of Hartsville, South
Carolina, died on November go, 1963.

EDWARD PATILLO ANDERSON of Yankeetown,
Florida, died on January 27, 1964.

WILLIAM GLADSTONE SMITH SAVILLE, a re-
tired architectural engineer, died on
March 3, 1964, at his home in Plainfield,
New Jersey.

1919

Dr. Harry E. HANDLEY died in Lewisburg,
West Virginia, on March 8, 1964. For
twenty-five years Dr. Handley was direct-
or of the public health division of The
Commonwealth Fund of New York, and
before that he had been district health
officer with the Panama Canal Zone. He
retired a few years ago and devoted a
major portion of his time to research and
the writing of local history. He was a
diplomate of the American Board of Pre-
ventive Medicine and a fellow of the
American Public Health Association.

JAMES EpwaArp Key died September 4,
1963, while on a business trip in Wash-
ington, D.C. Mr. Key was president and
treasurer of Piedmont Mills, Inc., of
Lynchburg, Virginia. He was a veteran
of World War I, past president of the
Lynchburg Rotary Club, a member of
James River Club, and the Newcomers
Society of North America.

STEPHEN Morris Evans, who for the past
thirty years has been an independent oil
operator and investor in Shreveport,
Louisiana, died January 17, 1964.

Dr. HARMON LOWMAN, President of Sam
Houston State ‘Teachers College at Hunts-
ville, Texas, and dean of ‘Texas’ state
college presidents, died on January 26,
1964. Dr. Lowman became president of the
college in 1941 after serving as vice-presi-
dent of Southern Methodist University in
Dallas. He had the longest tenure of any
president of a state-supported college in
‘Texas.

SPRING 1964

1920

WILLIAM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COLE. of
Vredericksburg, Virginia, died February 3,
1964. He had been commonwealth’s attor-
ney since 1925. Dr. Cole attended the Uni-
versity of Richmond where he played on
the Varsity teams in both football and bas-
ketball. He later taught in Fredericksburg
high schools and served as athletic coach.
After a post-graduate course at Columbia
University Dr. Cole went to Peking,
China, as a_ professor of mathematics.
During World War I he served with the
Navy. While at Washington and Lee he
joined the debating teams, served on the
school athletic council and was student
representative on the Executive Commit-
tee. Dr. Cole was a member of numerous
community organizations and a_ former
commander of the American Legion. He
was a director of the National Bank of
Fredericksburg.

1921

WILLIAM FRANCIS MCCANN died on Decem-
ber 1, 1963. Mr. McCann for forty years
was chief supervisor with the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie Railroad Company and made
his home in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He
was also an independent investment coun-
sellor.

1922

WILLIAM SAMFORD PERSONS of Columbus,
Georgia, died on February 14, 1964. Mr.
Persons was the operator of ten furniture
stores with the main store in Columbus,
Georgia.

1923

JOHN FLoyp ELLIsoN, a prominent retired
Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer, died on
March 4, 1964. Mr. Ellison served in both
World Wars, while spending much of his
life as a career legal officer in the Army,
and retired from the service with the rank
of lieutenant colonel. He then returned to
Charleston and helped open the law firm
of Ellison and Ellison.

PAUL E. Grosk, retired advertising execu-
tive for the Marathon Oil Company of
Findlay, Ohio, died October 8, 1963. Mr.
Grose had been with the Ohio oil com-
pany since leaving Washington and Lee.

STEPHEN DiLt LEE died on March 12, 1964.
Mr. Lee was an instructor in English at
Riverside Military Academy in Gaines-
ville, Georgia, for the past eighteen years.

Harry D. Maupin of Johnson City, Ten-
nessee, died on May 2g, 1963. At one time
Mr. Maupin was an inspector in the Pub-
lic Contracts Division of the US Depart-
ment of Labor.

ALBERT FELIX PIEROTTI, one of Washington
and Lee’s outstanding athletes and _ pos-
sibly its greatest football center, died at
his home in Revere, Massachusetts, on
February 12, 1964, at the age of 68.
While at Washington and Lee “Al” was
a star performer in four major sports,

football, baskekball, baseball, and track.
In football he established a _ reputation
as one of the greatest linesmen ever to
play for the Generals. He was accorded
All-American nomination on at least one
team. In basketball he played guard and
captained the 1917 team, the only unde-
feated basketball team in Washington and
Lee history. He was an outstanding pitch-
er in baseball and a heavy contributor in
the weights in track.

After graduation “Al” had a national
professional athletic career that included
participation in more professional football
games than Jim Thorpe; pitching for the
Boston Braves, where his debut was a
2-0 victory over the New York Giants; and
a wrestling match with the famous Jim
Londos.

Until his retirement in 1962, Pierotti
taught school and was coach at Chelsea
High School in Massachusetts. He was
president of the Chelsea ‘Teachers Asso-
ciation and secretary of the Everett (Mas-
sachusetts) Elks Lodge.

1926

EDWARD PERKINS JONES of Greenwood,
Mississippi, died on November 10, 1963.

1928

Lre ObELL died in a plane crash on July
2, 1963. Mr. Odell was connected with the
firm of Cresap, McCormick & Paget, man-
agement engineers, in New York City.

‘THEOPHILUS ISAAC Harris, JR., died Jan-
uary 19, 1964, in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Mr. Harris had been prominent as a real
estate broker for a number of years.

1931

HuGH GorpDoON ‘TArDy of Helena, Arkan-
sas, died on February 14, 1964. Mr. Gor-
don had been a partner in an ice and fuel
company in Helena.

1934

WALTER JAMES DIxon, retired businessman
and world traveler, died March 1 at his
home in Greenville, South Carolina. He
had been an avid student of world history
and had made several trips to Europe. He
founded the Dixon Box Company and op-
erated it for several years before retiring
from business.

1935

JOHN MEREDITH GRAHAM, JR., former pres-
ident of the National City Bank and a
prominent real estate executive in Rome,
Georgia, died January 17, 1964. Mr. Gra-
ham was the third of his family to attend
Washington and Lee. He has a grandson,
John Meredith Graham, IV, born on Jan-
uary 10, 1964. Mr. Graham was very ac-
tive in business and civic affairs. He was
past president of the Rome-Floyd Cham-
ber of Commerce, tie Rotary Club, the
Coosa Country Club, and a member of
the First Presbyterian Church.

News

of the
Chapters

NEW YORK

® PRESIDENT FRED C. COLE was guest
of honor at a meeting of the New
York alumni on February 7 at the
Columbia University Club. A large
number of alumni, their wives, and
guests attended the meeting to hear
an excellent speech by Dr. Cole. He
was introduced by John Drye, ‘go.
‘The occasion took place at the an-
nual alumni dinner-dance.
Presiding over the short business
session which preceded the festivi-
ties was President Paul Sanders,
who received reports from Stewart
Epley on the Scholarship Commit-
tee and the Nominating Commit-
tee. R. H. Turrell, ’49, was named
the new president. Emmett Poin-
dexter gave the financial reports.
Mention was made of the annual
picnic-outing in the spring and an
expression of thanks was given
Dick Warren, who was chairman of
the dinner-dance and had made the
arrangements for the evening.

MEMPHIS

DR. DAVID W. SPRUNT, University
Chaplain and Professor of Religion
at Washington and Lee, was honor-
ed at a reception at Southwestern
University on February 1oth. Dr.
Sprunt visited Southwestern to give
a lecture as a part of a series in
Adult Education. His address, open
to the public, was on “The Contin-
uing Drama of Dead Sea Discov-
eries.” ‘The members of the alumni
chapter were guests of Southwest-
ern for a dinner preceding the lec-
ture.

30

PITTSBURGH

™ AFTER SPLENDID arrangements
were made by Jack Perry, ’41-Law,
the alumni and wives of the Pitts-
burgh area gathered at the Pitts-
burgh Club of the Penn-Sheraton
Hotel on Monday, February 24.
The banquet, following the social
hour, was attended by a large num-
ber who expressed new interest and
enthusiasm in the continuation of
the Pittsburgh chapter.

In the short business session John
EK. Perry was elected president and
motions were approved to produce,
if possible, a chapter directory. Bill
Washburn, Executive Secretary of
the Alumni Association, was pres-
ent and made a brief report of Uni-
versity news while showing color
slides.

CLEVELAND
z= AN ALUMNI luncheon was held at
the Cleveland Athletic Club on
Tuesday, February 25. Bill France
presided and Bob Moore made the
splendid arrangements.

Bill Washburn, from Lexington,
was on hand with color slides of
the new developments on the cam-
pus and gave a brief report. Plans
were discussed for the balance of
the year.

CHICAGO

@ A STAG DINNER was held at the
University Club on Wednesday,
February 26th, for all Chicago area
Alumni. An enthusiastic group
turned out for this meeting to hear
Bill Washburn, the Executive Sec-
retary of the Association, make an

 

On hand at the Pittsburgh Chapter meeting were, upper photo, l-r, Davin D. JOHNSON,
21, Mrs. CHARLES GiLMorE, Mrs. Ropert S. KEEBLER, JR., and Ropert S. KEEBLER, °46;
and lower photo, l-r, JAROSLAV A. DRABEK, ’53, MAURICE J. ARND, 30, and MRS. DRABEK.

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The large turnout at the Chicago Chapter meeting included these alumni: seated, l-r, LuoypD RICHMOND, "32, W. H. Hruter, 38, A. N.

MANGINO, ’38, W. C. OLENEORF, 46, G. E. GRASHORN, ’g0, A. D. SYMONDS, ’33, and W. F. SyMONps, 33, standing, G. M. Murray, ‘41, A. F.
BLASIER, '35, R. H. BLOND, ’6o, J. L. SILVERSTEIN, JR., '47, F. G. ULHMAN, 51, J. D. SCHOFIELD, III, "44, G. L. SIBLEY, Jr., 50, W. E. JENNINGS,

up-to-date report and present color
slides of the University.

The meeting was arranged by
Wilham H. Hillier who was named
president for the coming year.

A motion was made by the of-
ficers to begin negotiations in the
realm of admissions and to make
an effort to get a University repre-
sentative from the Admissions Of-
fice to visit Chicago in the spring
or early fall of 1964.

ST. LOUIS

& MEMBERS OF THE St. Louis Chap-
ter, their wives, and guests joined
for a delicious buffet dinner at the
new Sheraton Motor Inn in St.
Louis on ‘Thursday, February 27th.
‘The arrangements were handled by
Burr Miller, ’49, and he presided
over the meeting.

In the business session Miller
gave a report on the chapter activi-
ties and advised that a committee
had been appointed to decide upon
the spring program which would
include either an informal dance or
a picnic. Plans were also discussed
for the publication of a chapter
directory.

SPRING 1964

‘42, BAIRD BRowN, °44, and M. J. SWAN, JR., ’39.

Executive Secretary Bill Wash-
burn was present at the meeting
and made a brief report on the
University. His remarks were ac-
companied by color slides of the
campus.

‘TULSA

# AN ENTHUSIASTIC gathering of al-
umni, their wives, and guests took
place at the ‘Tulsa Club on Monday
evening, March end. After a social
hour an elaborate banquet was

RICHARD C. JOHNSON, ’43, left, and JOHN

served. Presiding over the dinner
was chapter president, Eric Hubert,
a,

The. guest speaker was Bill
Washburn, executive secretary of
the Alumni Association. Bill gave
a short report on the University
and presented color slides with his
remarks. Expression was made on
behalf of the chapter for another
meeting in the fall, at which time
it is hoped that someone from the
Admissions Office will be present.

 

D. MALEY, ’52, enjoy a laugh at the meeting
of the Tulsa Chapter.

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KANSAS CrFy

THE UNIVERSITY Club in Kansas
City was the setting for a chapter
meeting on Friday, February 28. A
large group of alumni, their wives,
and guests were present to hear a
brief report of the University by
executive secretary Bill Washburn
who presented a series of color
slides. ‘The meeting, one of the
first in several years, was enthu-
slastically received.

James Sunderland, ‘50, presided

 

over the banquet and introduced
Bill Washburn. Plans were discus-
sed for a future meeting in the fall
with perhaps the Dean of Admis-
sions as guest from the University.

OKLAHOMA CITY

2 A SPLENDID turnout of the alumni
in Oklahoma City took place at a
luncheon on Tuesday, March 3g, at
The Beacon Club. It was the first
time that Bill Washburn, the alum-
ni executive secretary, had visited

Alumni attending the re-
cent Kansas Cily meeting
included, seated, l-r,
‘THOMAS R. WALL, III, ’54,
JAMES P. SUNDERLAND, ’50,
and Ropert H. MANN, JrR.,
55, and standing, WIL-
EAM ~ H. < Leepy, - 40,
GERALD I. MOYER, ’57, and
WALTER R. RANDALL, °52.

in Oklahoma City and a warm wel-
come was given him.

In addition to his brief remarks
on the recent developments at the
University, he presented a series of
beautiful color slides of the new
buildings on campus. Millar B.
White, Jr., ’51, made the arrange-
ments and presided over the meet-
ing. Plans were discussed for an-
other meeting, perhaps with the
Tulsa alumni, in the early part of
the fall.

At the Oklahoma City
meeting were, seated, I-r,
Cot. HAROLD J, SULLIVAN,
92, Dr. SOUTHER F. ‘Tompe-
KINS, ‘°37, MILLAR B.
WHITE, SR., °25, and JUDGE
WILLIAM H. Brown, ’o2,
and standing, Howarp E.
MELTON, ’36, MILLAR B.
WHITE, JR., 51, WILLIAM
R. DENMAN, °58, WILLIAM
G. Burns, °58, and Dr.
HAVEN W. MANKIN, ‘43.

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Regional Agents for 1964

Alexandria, Louisiana—Joe Wise Pitts, ’27, P. O. Drawer
391

Alexandria, Virginia—Paul M. Miller, ’38, 514 Queen Street
Anderson, South Carolina—Alvin Fleishman, ’41, P. O.
Drawer 1049
Arlington, Virginia—Sedgwick L. Moss, ’54, 3470B, South
Utah Street, Arlington 6, Virginia
Atlanta, Georgia—Alex M. Hitz, Jr., ’42, 77 Avery Drive,
N.E., Atlanta 9, Georgia, 30309
Augusta, Georgia—Charles J. Williamson, III, 46, 750 Mc-
Clure Drive
Baltimore, Maryland—Richard C. Whiteford, ’57, 905 Arran
Road, Baltimore 12, Maryland
Baton Rouge, Louisiana—J. Prewitt Nelson, ’52, 810 Fidelity
National Bank Building
Bedford, Virginia—Hugh H. Bond, ’53, 116 East Main Street
Bethesda, Maryland—Leonard C. Greenebaum, 756, 6504 Wil-
mett
Birmingham, Alabama—F,vans Dunn, Jr., ’54, 2749 Abingdon
Road
Bluefield, Virginia-West Virginia—Gilbert S. Meem, 738, 1400
Lebanon Street, Bluefield, West Virginia
Virginia-Tennessee—Frank Goodpasture, Jr., 743,
21 Longcrescent, Bristol, Virginia.
Charleston, South Carolina—Joseph H. McGee, Jr., ’50, 2-A
Ladson Street
Charleston, West Virginia—W. T. W. (Bill) Brotherton, Jr.,
°47, 612 Charleston National Bank Building
Charlotte, North Carolina—Herbert M. Woodward, Jr., ’41,
1934 Overhill Road
Charlottesville, Virginia—A. Massie Yuille, ’42, 932 Rosser
Lane
Chevy-Chase, Maryland—John R. Baldwin, 751, 5316 Balti-
more Avenue, Chevy Chase 15, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois—George M. Murray, Jr., °41, 29 Timber
Lane, Northbrook, Illinois
Cincinnati, Ohio—Tom G. Morris, 741, 3414 Mirror Lane,
: ~ Cincinnati 11, Ohio
Clarksdale, Mississippi—Joseph F. Ellis, Jr., 43, Friars Point
Road, Rt. 1, Box 666
Cleveland, Ohio—Samuel P. McChesney, Jr., ’38, 22588 West-
chester, Cleveland 22, Ohio
Clifton Forge, Virginia—John $. Hawkins, ’24, 88 Palace
Boulevard
Columbia, South Carolina—William H. Townsend, 50, 713
Barringer Building
Columbus, Ohio—H. Thorp Minister, Jr., 49, 317 North
: Columbia Avenue, Columbus 9, Ohio
Cumberland, Maryland—William L. Wilson, ’38, 527 Wash-
ington Street
Dallas, Texas—-Van Alen Hollomon, ’28, Majestic Theatre
Building, Dallas 1, Texas
Detroit, Michigan—William John Scott, Jr., 42, 81 Handy
Road, Grosse Point 36, Michigan
Emporia, Virginia—Lyman C. Harrell, Jr., ’32, 104 Hicksford
| Avenue
Falls Church, Virginia—Stuart S. Bailey, 750, 1404 Sleepy
Hollow Road
Ft. Smith, Arkansas—John M. Smith, ’57, 105 N. 7th Street,
Smith Chevrolet-Cadillac
Ft. Worth, Texas—Sam H. Berry, °56, 6459 Fortune Road
Frederick, Maryland—Albert A. Radcliffe, ’37, 146 Fairview
Avenue
Greensboro, North Carolina—Charles FE. Roth, ’37, 319 South-
eastern Building
Hagerstown, Maryland—William C. Hamilton, 43, 237 Fred-
erick Street
Hampton, Virginia—Beverley W. Lee, Jr., ’42, 108 Apple
Avenue
Harrisonburg, Virginia—William B. Gunn, °42, Box 668
Hartford, Connecticut—Richard T. Scully, ’36, 35 Lafayette
Street, Hartford 6, Connecticut
Houston, Texas—Walter C. Cremin, Jr., °57, 3008 Lafayette
(West University)
Huntington, West Virginia—Milton T. Herndon, °56, 310
Holswade Drive, Huntington 1, West Virginia
Indianapolis, Indiana—Victor A. Snow, Jr., ’39, 8414 Spring
Mill Court, Indianapolis 60, Indiana

Bristol,

Jacksonville, Florida—Henry ‘Taylor Jones, ’34, 1902 San
Marco Place
Johnson City, Tennessee—Allen Harris, Jr., ’27, P. O. Box
300
Knoxville, Tennessee—Edward S. Metcalfe, 38, c/o Fidelity-
Bankers Trust Co., 502 S. Gay Street
Lewisburg, West Virginia—Edgar L. Smith, ’39, 208 Mat-
thews Street
Lexington, Kentucky—Morrison R. Nelson, °43, Route 6,
Georgetown Road
Little Rock, Arkansas—Peyton E. Rice, ’40, 2923 North Grant
Street
Louisville, Kentucky—John J. Davis, Jr., ’39, 513 Club Lane
Lower Connecticut—Maurice J. Reis, 30, 40 Broodside Road,
Darien, Connecticut
Marion, Virginia—George W. Summerson, ’27, Martha Wash-
ington Inn, Abingdon, Virginia
Martinsburg, West Virginia—Charles R. Beall, Jr., ’56, 513
South Queen Street
Memphis, Tennessee—S. L. Kopald, Jr., ’43, The Humko
Company
Miami, Florida—J. Alan Cross, Jr., ’51, 9700 Dominican
Drive, Cutler Ridge, Miami 57, Florida
Mobile, Alabama—Georege Sage Lyons, ’58, Lyons, Pipes and
Cook, 517 First National Bank Bldg., Mobile 8,
Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama—John Walter Stowers, ’42, 2407 Fern-
way Drive
Nashville, Tennessee—Wilson B. Armistead, 48, 212 Heady
: Drive
Newport News, Virginia—Frank S. Beazlie, Jr., ’40, 118 Long-
wood Drive
New York (Manhattan and Bronx)—Robert H. Ingham, ’55,
317 East 78th St., New York 21, New York
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—William G. Burns, ’58, 613 N.W.
48th, Oklahoma City 18, Oklahoma
Orlando, Florida—Warren H. Edwards, ’39, 5180 Lake Mar-
garet Drive
Owensboro, Kentucky—Georee H. Greer, 754, 1827 Fieldcrest
Drive
Parkersburg, West Virginia—Robert T. Goldenburg, ’49, P. O.
Box 1754, 205 4th Street
Pensacola, Florida—Rodger P. Doyle, ’58, c/o 701 N. Palafox
Street
Petersburg, Virginia—John C. Anderson, ’25, 1836 Westover
Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—William J. Russell, Jr., ’57, 192
Mansion Rd., Newton Square, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—Jaroslav A. Drabek, 753, 743 East
End Avenue, Pittsburgh 21, Pennsylvania
Pulaski, Virginia—Alexander M. Harman, ’44, Box 878
Richmond, Virginia—-Donald M. Fergusson, ’51, 1108 Hollins
Road
Roanoke, Virginia—Stanford L. Fellers, Jr., 50, 612 State and
City Building
Roswell, New Mexico—George E. Ward, 759, P. O. Box 29
Salem, Virginia—Derwood Rusher, ’51, 5 South College
Avenue
San Antonio, Texas—Thomas C. Frost, Jr., 50, Frost Nation-
al Bank, P. O. Drawer 1600
San Francisco, California—Jerry J. Donovan, Jr., ’50, 164
Huntington Drive, San Francisco, California, 94132
South Boston, Virginia—Robert T. Vaughn, ’42, Box 585
Spartanburg, oe Carolina—Clarence Ballenger, ’44, P. O.
Box 51
St. Louis, Missouri—Donald M. Bertram, 49, 330 Woodside
Drive, Kirkwood 22, Missouri
St. Petersburg, Florida—Joe H. Chumbley, 755, 205 Fifth
Street, North
Tulsa, Oklahoma—Neal FE. McNeill, Jr., ’50, 3724 South
Florence
iNiamsburg, Virginia—Frederick H. Newton, 759, P. O. Box
2348
Wilmington, Delaware—W. Latimer Snowdon, ’61, 3 Craw-
ford Circle
Winchester, Virginia—Richard K. Eddy, ’33, P. O. Box 15,
Winchester, Virginia, 22601
Wytheville, Virginia—James T. Graybeal, 49, P. O. Box 343

 

 

 

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SUMMER,

INGTON

The Mock Convention
Is Right Again

 

Washington and Lee’s Famous

Mock Convention Was Never

More Colorful or Exciting

Than It Was in 1964. The

Story of Its Correct Choice for

the Republican Nominee Be-
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THE

ASHINGTON
AND Lee

Editor

WILLIAM C, WASHBURN, 1940

Managing Editor

FRANK A. PARSONS, 1954

Editorial Associate
Mrs. ROBERT STEWART

THE WASHINGTON AND
LEE ALUMNI, INC.

President
E. ALTON SARTOR, JR., 1938

Vice-President
EK. STEWART EPLEY, 1949

Secretary
WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

Treasurer
EK. MARSHALL NUCKOLS, JR., 1933

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JAmes H. CLARK, 1931

H. ‘T'YNDALL DICKINSON, 1939

E. STEWART EPLEY, 1949
‘THOMAS C. Frost, JR., 1950
ROBERT A. FULWILER, JR., 1925
‘THOMAS W. MOSES, 1939

E. MARSHALL NUCKOLS, JR., 1933
C. WILLIAM Pacy, II, 1950
JAMES W. Priest, M.D. 1943
FRANCIS W. PLOWMAN, 1924

E. ALTON SARTOR, JR., 1938, President
SHERWOOD W. WISE, 1932

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Entered as Second Class Matter at the
Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, Sep-
tember 15, 1924. Printed at the Journalism
Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee
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September, 1964
Volume XXXIX

Number 3

The Cover: Cy YOuNG, 717, as fit and full of

life as ever, was a popular center of attrac-

tion at the General Reunion this June. Here

he ts in action with friends JERRY BURKE, ’15,
and Bos GRAHAM, °37, (with hat).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Mock Convention Is Right Again

‘The Best Parade Ever See
Elephants from Ohio with Alumni Help

‘The University’s Largest Commencement
Charlie McDowell, Jr., on Lexington’s Big Day
Washington and Lee Receives $100,000 from Alumnus
Dr. Harry Philpott’s Memorable Reunion Address
‘The General Reunion of 1964

News of the University

Football Prospects for the New Season

Annual Meeting Hears Report on Alumni House
The Annual Financial Statement

The Alumni Fund Goes Over the ‘Top

New Leaders in the Association

‘The Report of the Executive Secretary

Class Notes

In Memoriam

Chapter News

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Our Students
Are Right

Once Again!

For the Ninth Time in Thirteen
Attempts, the Mock Convention at
Washington and Lee Has Proven
An Authentic Political Barometer.
It Was Goldwater on the Second
Ballot, as W&L’s Students Staged the

Best Mock Convention of All!

Senior law student Puitie D. SHARP, JR., of Richmond,
chairman of the 1964 Republican Mock Convention, calls
the assemblage to order in the photograph on the opposite

page.
SUMMER 1964

HE MAN FROM Time Magazine slipped his folded
A notes into his coat pocket as he looked out across
the nearly deserted convention hall sometimes known
as Doremus Gymnasium.

There, two hours earlier, Washington and Lee’s
1,256 students—in convention assembled for the uni-
versity’s thirteenth quadrennial Mock Convention—
had nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the Re-
publican standard-bearer, come July and November.

The man from Time turned to the Washington
and Lee publicity man and smiled. “Of course you
know you're wrong this time,” he said.

The Washington and Lee man—who had just sur-
vived his fourth Mock Convention—smiled back and
replied: “We'll see. I have a lot of confidence in the
way our boys went about this thing. I think they made
a conscientious effort to pick the right man.”

“Well,” the Time man said as he extended his
hand to bid goodbye, “if you are right this time, it
will really be a feather in your cap.”

The day was May 5, nearly a month before the
crucial California primary, and two and a half months
before the actual head-count of delegates to the Re-
publican Convention in San Francisco’s Cow Palace.
Goldwater was the front-runner in early May, it was
true, but few impartial political observers were will-
ing to predict publicly with any real confidence that
the Arizona senator’s lead in delegate strength would
hold up until mid-July.

But, Washington and Lee’s Mock Convention tra-

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dition extends back to 1908, over a
half-century of often bold predic-
tions. When it came time for the
1964 student generation to go out
on its political limb, the nomina-
tion went to Goldwater as the man
most likely to succeed in San Fran-
cisco. Behind the student politick-
ing that gave Goldwater a second
ballot victory was a full year of
intensive research and study by
hundreds of convention officials—
the chairman, law senior Philip
D. Sharp of Richmond, his impres-
sively competent steering commit-
tee, the fifty-three state delegation
chairmen, and many others. Nev-
er in the twelve previous Mock
Conventions had so much time,
effort, and money been poured in-
to the attempt to pick accurately
the presidential nominee for the
party out of power.

At stake was the finest record of
accuracy and authenticity of any
of the country’s fifty-odd collegiate
mock conventions. ‘The record
stood at eight correct choices in

twelve tries, and there was an im-
pressive current string of correct
nominations to preserve—Eisenhow-
er in 1952, Stevenson in 1956, Ken-
nedy in ig6o.

Because of this outstanding re-
cord, the 1964 Mock Republican
Convention had attracted more at-
tention from the press and more
attention from the Republican na-
tional organization than in any
other election year. ‘The Washing-
ton and Lee process of picking the
right man was virtually on trial,
and throughout the months leading
up to the convention the Republi-
can prospectus was almost hopeless-
ly confused.

When the students gave Gold-
water a whopping 601 ballots on
the first roll-call, and then went on
to push him over on the second bal-
lot, the consensus among the news-
men and non-Goldwater GOP ob-
servers on hand was that the W&L
boys had missed by a mile.

If the man from Time doubted
the accuracy of the W&L choice, he

was impressed by the way the stu-
dents went about their 1964 Mock
Convention. In his magazine’s next
issue there was an article dealing
with the nationwide mock con-
vention phenomenon, and_ the
Washington and Lee event was fea-
tured in words and photographs.
He called the W&L affair “the
biggest and boomingest” of them
all. He described the organization
and planning of the convention in
detail, underscoring the authentic-
ity sought by the Washington and
Lee students. The article concluded
with a series of paragraph summar-
ies of what happened at some other
mock conventions. At only one—
Brooklyn College—was the choice
the same as Washington and Lee’s
and the next issue of Time carried
an indignant letter from a Brook-
lyn College student, declaring that
they did not nominate Goldwater
as reported.

There was a pattern to the
choices of the other schools. At
Oberlin, whose convention dates

SENATOR Barry A. GoLpwaTerR, who still faced strong opposition from many GOP aspirants when this photograph was taken in mid-May
receives congratulations from a delegation of Washington and Lee students who presented him with a souvenir scrapbook of the Mock
Convention which had nominated him as the Republican standard-bearer for November.

 

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from 1861, students chose Scran-
ton on the fourth ballott, and the
majority of colleges mentioned by
Time concurred, although one
(Vanderbilt) picked Nixon, and
another (Ohio) chose Lodge. At
Staunton’s Mary Baldwin, the
girls went for Rockefeller in their
convention held in late February.

In addition to the Time article—
a prized companion piece to a simi-
lar story on the 1960 Mock Conven-
tion that appeared in Newsweek—
the 1964 event also drew coverage
from the New York Times, the
Washington Evening Star, both
major wire services, almost every
major daily in Virginia, and a half-
dozen of the smaller dailies. ‘The
Doremus facilities for handling the
press were taxed to the limit.

The 1964 convention was well-
promoted. Beginning in June of
1963, Chairman Sharp and_ his
steering committee worked closely
with the university’s publicity of-
fice to publish a pair of promotion-
al brochures that went to every
member of Congress and to Repub-
lican leaders in every state.

Sharp’s staff called personally on
GOP leaders and on editors to ex-
plain the workings of their con-
vention and to enlist their support.
Their leg work paid handsome re-
sults in terms of funds, materials,
and advice from the Republican
organization, at both national and
state levels, and in the advance
stories on the convention and the
actual coverage by the press.

None of Washington and Lee’s
previous Mock Conventions was as
elaborate in its planning or its
execution. Phil Sharp joined an
outstanding roster of student lead-
ers who have chaired previous
Mock Conventions, but in addi-
tion to Sharp’s personal high quali-
fications for the convention’s top
job, he had available perhaps the
finest array of steering committee-
men and state delegation chairmen
to ever organize a W&L Mock Con-
vention.

SUMMER 1964

 

The 1964 Mock Convention was easier to see and hear. A ballot tally board above the

rostrum recorded the progress of the roll call of states, while delegation chairmen on

the floor announced their votes by hand microphones over the convention hall’s public
address system.

Charles B. Rowe, a senior law
student from Courtland, Va., was
assistant

convention chairman,
while Donald H. Partington, a
enior law student from Spring-
field, Va., was chairman of state
delegations. Edward M. Norton,
Jr., a Butler, Pa., senior, served as
convention secretary, and Wyatt
B. Durrette, Jr., a senior law stu-
dent from Franklin, Va., acted as
the convention’s Republican Na-
tional Chairman. Stephen P. Smith,
Ill, a junior from Jacksonville,
Fla., was publicity chairman, and
law senior Peter ‘T. Straub of St.
Louis was head of pre-convention
activities. A. John Huss, of Evans-
ton, Ill., and Donald W. Huffman

 

of Lexington, both intermediate
lawyers, headed up a finance com-
mittee that somehow marshalled
enough resources to meet the $12,-
000 in expenses incurred by the
convention.

Although not a member of the
steering committee, William  B.
“Buck” Ogilvie, a Shreveport, La.,
senior, was placed in charge of con-
vention hall arrangements, and the
decorations there were unprece-
dented in their profusion and col-
or. From Fort Lee, Va., Ogilvie
borrowed a set of fifty state flags
which ringed the convention floor
from the balcony. Giant banners
and huge photographic likenesses
proclaimed the availability of ev-

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Chairman SHARP hangs bunting on the
Convention Hall entrance while—————

ery major candidate and some of
the minor ones. ‘Thousands of smal-
ler signs and thousands of balloons
added to the color, as did huge
quantities of red, white and blue
bunting.

Ogilvie also designed and con-
structed a giant tally board over
the platform by which everyone in
the hall could follow the mount-
ing totals of the various candidates
during the roll call of states. He
arranged for a special public ad-
dress system that permitted every
state chairman to cast his vote by
microphone from his delegation’s
section on the convention floor.
This same PA system also permit-
ted delegates to hear Senator Gold-
water personally accept the Wash-
ington and Lee nomination by tele-
phone, minutes after the conclusion
of the second ballot. Both the tal-

6

 

ly board and the expanded sound
facilities were Mock Convention
“firsts.”

But of all the workers who
helped make the 1964 Mock Con-
vention a success, none labored
more effectively than did senior
John M. Madison, Jr., also of
Shreveport. Madison served as
chairman of the traditional ‘‘kick-
off” parade that preceded the open-
ing keynote session of the conven-
tion. Like the convention itself, the
1964 parade was called the “best
ever” by old Lexington hands like
Art Silver, and many others. But
no other parade chairman ever
faced the problems and challenges
that John Madison did.

If the 1964 convention was on
trial to pick the right candidate,
its leadership also was on trial to
conduct an orderly convention, in-
cluding the parade and the con-
vention hall activities. The 1960
convention had drawn severe criti-
cism from Lexington townspeople
and others for student misbehavior
and rowdiness in the parade and
during the keynote and nominating
sessions. As soon as Chairman
Sharp had organized his steering
committee, the university—through
a special three-man advisory com-
mittee—requested the student plan-
ners to take steps to assure that
the 1964 event would in no way
embarrass the university or offend
spectators.

The steering committee request-
ed time for a special student as-
sembly in April where Sharp and
Madison emphasized the impor-
tance of student responsibility in
all matters relating to the conven-
tion. Madison’s address in particu-
lar struck just the right note of
informality and good humor that
let the meat of his message fall on
receptive ears.

Then Madison turned to the ac-

tual parade planning. Bands were

at a premium because of the co-
incidence of the Mock Convention
with the Apple Blossom Festival in

Winchester and the Azalea Festival
in Norfolk. He came up with five,
including the Staunton Military
Academy band which was accorded
the honor of leading the parade.
‘The VMI band, formerly the tradi-
tional parade leader, declined the
university's official invitation to
participate.

Madison negotiated with the
Lexington Chamber of Commerce
and the Town Council and had the
month of May proclaimed “History
and Education Month” in consider-
ation of the Mock Convention and
the Marshall Research Library
dedication at VMI. He also nego-
tiated with a firm that provided
huge quantities of bunting for dec-
orating streets, store fronts, fra-
ternity houses, and the convention
hall itself.

And there was the GOP symbol,
a live elephant, to be found. ‘The
last Republican convention, in
1952, had boasted a live baby ele-
phant for its parade, and Madison
was determined to have one for his.
He finally located an elephant own-
er who would rent his animal, but
on one condition—Madison would

 

Parade Chairman JOuUN
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have to take two elephants (big
ones, not babies) for as the man ex-
plained, “One elephant gets lone-
some.” No one was really sure the
elephants would arrive from their
home in Ohio until they pulled in-
to town aboard their own van on
the Sunday afternoon before Mon-
day’s parade. (See the related ar-
ticle on Page 15 about how an
alumnus figured prominently in
getting Madison his elephants.)

SHARP is all smiles upon the
arrival of two “GOP” ele-
phants on the day before the
convention opened on May 4.
The steering committee, with
alumni help, rented the ele-
phants from a circus in Ohio
to lead the big kickoff parade.

While the Apple Blossom festi-
val caused band problems, it
helped solve many state delega-
tions’ float problems. Some of the
more affluent state delegations con-
tracted with Winchester owners to
rent elaborate floats that had ap-
peared in the preceding Saturday’s
festival parade. ‘The floats were to
come down the Valley on Sunday,
but there was a legal technicality
about moving such vehicles on
Sunday without a permit. There
were a few anxious hours for Madi-
son and his associates before the
people of Winchester agreed to
leave at the crack of dawn on Mon-
day in order to arrive at the parade
assembly area by noon. All made
it, although the New York float
arrived only minutes before the
parade’s start.

The parade staging area was at
the Lexington Recreation Field at
the south end of town. Along the
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a corps of assistant parade marshals,
some armed with walkie-talkie ra-
dios at strategic intervals to help
facilitate the parade’s smooth move-
ment.

Everything went along with pre-
cision. At 2 p.m. the parade was
ready to roll, except for one prob-
lem. President Cole and keynote
speaker Dr. Walter Judd weren't
there to take their places near the
head of the procession. Dr. Judd

and other dignitaries had been
President Cole’s guests at lunch-
eon, and although virtually every
other detail was attended to, no
one had devised a way to get them
from the President’s house to the
assembly area.

Finally, the frantic calls over the
parade radio network were over-
heard by a Lexington auto dealer
on his Citizens’ Band transceiver,
and he rushed to the Cole home,
picked up the president and Dr.
Judd and sped them, via. Volks-
wagon, to the Recreation Field.

Photographers there promptly
maneuvered Dr. Judd and Virginia
Sixth District Representative Rich-
ard Poff onto the elephants for
news photos. Judd and Poff waved
and smiled, but it was obvious they
wished their party symbol wasn't
so alive or so dirty. An attempt to
get the elephants washed that
morning apparently had failed.

A half hour late, the parade final-

ly started its mile-long march to
the convention hall. ‘There were
sixty-three separate units, includ-
ing floats from virtually every state
delegation and a handful of special
entries. Pretty girls from Hollins,
Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon,
Mary Baldwin and other cultural
centers were on hand in lovely pro-
fusion, in many respects outshin-
ing the imported beauty queens
which have of late become a Mock

 

tradition in them-

Convention
selves.

Back in 1956 the New Jersey
delegation brought the reigning
Miss America, Sharon Kay Ritch-
ie, to the convention, and duplicat-
ed this feat in 1960 with Lynda
Lee Mead. The 1964 Miss America,
Donna Axum, was unavailable, but
the Ohio delegation invited the
1963 winner, Jackie Mayer, to be
its guest and she accepted. ‘The cur-
rent Miss Virginia, Dorcas Camp-
bell, had only to come from near-
by Fairfield, her home, and there
were four other state beauty
queens imported for the festivi-
ties. ‘These included Miss New
York (Paula Heins), Miss Texas
(Jeanie Amacker), Miss Maine
(Elaine Ouilette), and Miss South
Carolina (Carolyn Lee Gaines).

Later at the convention hall Miss
Virginia sang the National An-
them, Miss Mayer spoke briefly

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A Mile-Long Parade Kicked Off the Convention—
— the “Best Ever” Says Lexington’s Art Silver

Floats in the 1964 parade were more elaborate than ever before. Many state delegations
built their own, while others rented commercially-constructed floats from Winchester’s
Apple Blossom Festival. There were plenty of pretty girls to ride on both kinds.

 

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The most colorful float of all
was entered by the Puerto Rican
delegation. When it passed the
reviewing stand, members of the
delegation dismounted and pre-
sented Keynote Speaker Dr.
WALTER JubD with a gift bottle
of Puerto Rican rum.

The “Mink Jazz Quintet” entertains the SMA band.

 

 

 

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Photographers coaxed Dr. JUDD and CONGRESSMAN RICHARD PorF to ride the living GOP symbols.

(Continued from Page 7)

from the podium, and the others
were introduced on the floor, all to
great acclaim.

Dr. and Mrs. Judd joined Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cole and other dis-
tinguished guests in the reviewing
stand on the president’s lawn to
watch the hour-long show. Awards
went to the best band (Staunton
Military), the best home-made float
(Texas’ LBJ barbeque), and the
best rented float (Puerto Rico).

The Puerto Rican delegation was
one of the most colorful of the con-
vention. For several days prior to
the convention its members had
attended class in white Panama
suits and Panama hats, smoking
big cigars, and looking as Latin as
possible. When their float passed
the reviewing stand, they dismount-
ed and presented Dr. Judd (a tee-
totaler) with a gift of Puerto Rican
rum.

- Judd was the keynote speaker
to the real Republican Convention
in 1960, so his choice for the Mock
Convention role was a logical one.

10

When the former Minnesota Con-
gressman finally took the podium
for the keynote address he de-
livered a real rouser of a partisan
call to arms. He accused the John-
son administration of negotiating
with the Communists from ‘a po-
sition of weakness” and he called
for a Republican victory in Novem-
ber to avert a “national disaster.”

‘The keynoter went on for an
hour and ten minutes, and if the
delegates’ response over the long
haul was perhaps a shade less than
might have been expected, it was
because they had been deadened
even before Judd began. Several
other Republican dignitaries had
been introduced to the convention,
and each had seized the opportun-
ity to pitch political hay. The
lengthy and at times inappropriate
remarks at the opening session pro-
vided the only slowdown in the
two-day convention agenda.

That night, Congressman Abner
W. Sibal of New Jersey made mer-
cifully brief remarks before the
delegates got down to the fun-
filled task of nominating the can-

didates and staging the elaborate
demonstrations. In all, fourteen
names were placed in nomination,
including that of Fred Walker, the
Doremus Gym janitor who was en-
dorsed by the Puerto Rican dele-
gation.

Among the others were Gold-
water, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller,
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge,
Gov. George Romney, Sen. Margar-
et Chase Smith, Sen. Gordon Allot
of Colorado, Sen. Hiram Fong of
Hawaii, Winthrop Rockefeller,
Dr. Judd, Gov. William Scranton,
Richard Nixon, Gov. James
Rhodes of Ohio, and Rep. John W.
Byrnes of Wisconsin. All were ac-
corded demonstrations of varying
length and intensity, with Gold-
water and Rockefeller supporters
staging the most prolonged and
raucous.

Two huge nets filled with bal-
loons were supposed to spill their
contents from high above the con-
vention floor when Goldwater was
nominated, but the release ropes
fouled and one of the nets fell in-

tact with balloons still inside. ‘The

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Rockefeller demonstration featured
a giant paper-mache “rock” that
delegates paraded through the
convention hall.

The nominating ran over into
Tuesday morning before the roll
call of states began for the actual
balloting. With the clerk’s tradi-
tionally sonorous ‘Al-a-bamm-aah”
the voting began, and except for
the cheers from the various nom-
inees’ camps when support came
their way, a degree of seriousness
now settled over the convention.

A first ballot victory for Gold-
water was not expected, although
his campaign chairman, senior Wil-
liam Burke of Washington, D. C.,
boasted of a certain second ballot
triumph.

paigning by Goldwater, Rockefel-
ler would be the victor there by a
narrow margin.

Sylvester's announcement drew
much attention among the anti-
Goldwater forces and some criti-
cism from the pro-Goldwater dele-
gates. Throughout Monday visiting
newsmen played heavily on the
hopeful premise that California’s
refusal to back Goldwater would
stave off a first or second ballot vic-
tory, long enough to sap the sena-
tor’s delegate strength.

But Goldwater quickly built a
substantial lead, and when the first
roll call was completed, he had
amassed 601 votes, far in front of
Rockefeller’s 232, Lodge's 113, or
Scranton’s 102. The favorite sons

tion’s reputation for accuracy and
authenticity was at stake, sought an
adjournment until afternoon in or-
der to call a special meeting of
state chairmen to reemphasize their
responsibility not to vote personal
preferences.

Goldwater backers pushed for an
immediate second ballot, but in a
roll call vote on adjournment
Sharp got convention approval for
the breathing spell. As soon as dele-
gates had vacated the gym, Sharp
spoke to his chairmen, urging them
to check with their contacts in the
various states, inform them of the
first ballot results, and seek their
advice on how to vote on the next
roll call.

A special telephone room had

 

KEYNOTER JuDD attacked Democrats and Communists in a rousing address that lasted for an hour and ten minutes.

The biggest stumbling block to
a first ballot win for the Arizona
senator was the decision of the
California delegation to give its
eighty-six votes to Governor Rocke-
feller. Chairman Jim Sylvester an-
nounced prior to the convention
that his analysis of the situation in
California and neighboring Ore-
gon indicated that Rockefeller
would run strongly in both states.
The Las Vegas senior reasoned that
Rockefeller strength in Oregon
would be reflected in the California
campaign, and that in the expected
absence of spirited personal cam-

SUMMER 1964

made up the balance of the 1,308
delegates, and many of these were
expected to switch to Goldwater
on the second go-round.

Rumors circulated among the
delegates, observers, and the press
that some of Goldwater’s first-bal-
lot strength and some of his antici-
pated second-ballot support were
being derived not from educated,
well-advised political strategy dic-
tated by GOP leaders in the re-
spective states but by the delegates’
personal preferences for Goldwat-
er conservatism. Chairman Sharp,
acutely aware that the conven-

been installed in the gym, and six
so-called “hot lines” were available
for state chairmen use. The Lexing-
ton ‘Telephone Company estimated
that long distance traffic during
the course of the convention av-
eraged some 50 to 60 calls per hour
above normal. When the second
ballot began shortly after 2 p.m.,
the roll call was interrupted re-
peatedly for announcement of long
distance calls awaiting one state
chairman or another. The delega-
tion leaders apparently had made
the big effort that Sharp had re-
quested,

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Again Goldwater vaulted into an
early and rapidly growing lead. He
picked up a handful of votes from
Arkansas, a few more from Colo-
rado, three more in Illinois. Cali-
fornia stuck with Rockefeller, but
by two’s and three’s support gath-
ered for Governor Scranton until
it became apparent that any “stop
Goldwater” movement would rally
behind the Pennsylvanian.

Maryland provided the first sig-
nificant change when Goldwater
lost six delegates and Scranton
picked up seven. Then Montana,
which had given the Arizonan four-
teen first ballot votes, switched all
fourteen to Scranton. For a mo-
ment Goldwater supporters looked
anxiously at the tally board as the
chant of “Stop Barry” echoed
through the hall.

But Ohio, after backing Gov-
ernor Brown on the first ballot,
this time gave Goldwater twenty-
five of its fifty-eight votes, and
Scranton salvaged only eight. Lit-
tle by little Goldwater edged clos-
er to the necessary 655 total, and
his count stood at 636 when Wis-
consin was called. The Bagder
State had given all of its 30 votes
to favorite son Congressman Byrnes
on the first roll call, but now it had
the power to put Goldwater over.
Chairman Fred Schaeffer of Swarth-
more, Pa., declared the state’s en-
tire block solidly behind Goldwat-
er and the convention hall erupted
into bedlam. Newsmen shook their
heads, some sadly.

Oregon and Rhode Island, which
had passed, now came in with
Goldwater support, and other states
sought recognition to change their
votes. Not all changed in favor of
the senator. New York, after split-
ting into many fragments on the
second ballot, returned ninety-two
strong for Rockefeller in defiance
of the Goldwater victory. Califor-
nia finally swung to Goldwater,
making the final total, before the
routine formality of a unanimous
motion, 718 for Goldwater, 218 for

12

Rockefeller, 162 for Scranton, 106
for Nixon, and 104 for Lodge.

During the final minutes of the
roll call, Chairman Sharp was on
the telephone at the podium, plac-
ing a call to Senator Goldwater’s
office in Washington. At the other
end, Dean Burch—destined to be-
come the national Republican
chairman—arranged to have the
senator stand by. When the nom-
ination was finally acclaimed,
Sharp announced that Goldwater
would speak to the convention over
the public address system.

Said Senator Goldwater: “I have
great regard for Washington and
Lee and its convention, and I ac-
cept with great humility the hon-
or you've bestowed upon me.” He

 

Aaall-a-bammm-ahhhh!”’

told the convention he was fight-
ing to preserve “constitutional de-
mocracy and the free enterprise
system,’ and he concluded with his
hope that the Washington and Lee
victory would be “‘a good omen for
July and November.”

The nomination of a running
mate, where absolutely no record
of accuracy is preserved at Wash-
ington and Lee, was confused but
quick. here was a rumor that
Goldwater had somehow expressed
favor of Nixon as a vice-presiden-
tial candidate, and many states be-
grudgingly gave the former vice-
president their support. But the
rumor was rapidly discredited, and

popularity contest, contrary to
Mock Convention tradition? Did
the Goldwater professionals exert
a distorting influence upon the bal-
loting? Or was Goldwater, at this
stage early in May, a much strong-
er political force that many were
willing to admit?

The Time magazine man lunch-
ed that Tuesday with Sharp, Wyatt
Durette, and Don Partington, and
came away convinced that, so far
as the convention leadership was
concerned, a conscientious and
faithful effort had been made to
reflect genuine Republican senti-
ment. An unscientific sampling of
student opinion did reflect substan-
tial personal Goldwater backing,
but this seemed coincidence rather
than a determining factor.

The Goldwater _ professionals
were active indeed, but whether
alleged disillusionment apparently
influence their coverage of the
Goldwater triumph. The New York
Times, which had devoted a full
column well up in the first section
to the first day’s activities, rele-
gated the news of the final out-
come, as one pro-Goldwater  col-
umnist put it, “back among the
truss ads.” The Associated Press
representative reported the Gold-
water win with the AP’s character-
istic Objectivity, but he made no
bones about his personal disgust
with the convention’s choice.

What was the truth of the mat-
ter? Had the students voted in a
a contest developed between Nix-
on and Scranton. Scranton was the
final victor by a twenty vote mar-
gin, 664 to 644. |

Even after Goldwater had won,
the debate continued as to whether
the students had reflected their per-
sonal choice or the advice of real
GOP insiders. Newsmen, almost to
a man, felt that the very active
presence of a corps of well-organiz-
ed Goldwater professionals had
helped swing a substantial num-
ber of ballots.

Some of the news media let the

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Pennsylvania’s GOVERNOR
SCRANTON was a brief chal-
lenge to GOLDWATER dur-
ing the second _ ballot’s
progress. This Goldwater
Girl cast a worried eye at
the tally board when her
favorite lost ground in a
crucial state.

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13

they were successful in swinging
any states away from their intended
courses could not be proven. It zs
possible that their organization and
accumulation of political intelli-
gence may have helped underscore
the accuracy of the information
that had been gleaned from other
sources.

One of the biggest sources of
advice came from the rank and file
GOP county and city chairmen
across the nation. In mid-April, a
questionnaire had gone out from
Mock Convention headquarters to
every GOP local chairman in the
nation, some 3,400 of them. Only
two questions were asked: Which
candidates will your state delega-
tion support on the first ballot? If
after the first ballot, the totals are
Goldwater—425; Nixon—200; Scran-
ton—200; Rockefeller—150; and
Lodge—125, to whom, if to anyone,
would your delegates switch? Lo-
cal chairmen were asked to indicate
splits where appropriate.

The return from the question-
naire was nearly fifty per cent,
much greater than had been expect-
ed. The results reflected clearly, in
the opinion of Sharp and his asso-
clates, that Goldwater did indeed

have sufhcient strength to win in
July.

Now, with the events of mid-
July in San Francisco lending some
clarity of interpretation to the
Washington and Lee scene of early
May, it does seem that the Wash-
ington and Lee students did, in
fact, a truly remarkable job of
political forecasting. Much has
been written since July about the
strength and the vitality of the
Goldwater organization that built
up after the bleak days which fol-
lowed the New Hampshire prim-
ary. A comparison of first ballot
votes at Lexington and San Fran-
cisco suggests that, as far as was hu-
manly possible in April and May,
the Washington and Lee students
had indeed detected this burgeon-
ing Goldwater strength, had noted
the efficiency of its organization,
had interpreted the strategy of
state convention control, and had,
finally, translated this intelligence
into a Goldwater victory at the
Mock Convention.

So now the record stands at nine
correct choices in thirteen conven-

tions, with four bull’s-eyes in a row.
None was an easy selection. ‘Taft
was the front-runner in 1952 when

Washington and Lee and Chair-
man Townsend Oast chose Eisen-
hower and were right. Stevenson,
Symington, and Kefauver were all
possibilities when Carl Swanson’s
tragedy-marked 1956 convention
chose Stevenson and was right.
Kennedy had yet to win the West
Virginia primary or to make his
famous Houston address to Protest-
ant ministers when Charles McCor-
mick’s 1960 convention made him
the nominee and was right. A more
contused situation could not be im-
agined in 1964 when Phil Sharp’s
convention spotted the Goldwater
movement for its true strength.

‘The 1964 convention left an un-
precedented collection of records
and other data to guide the organ1-
zation of future Mock Conventions
at Washington and Lee. Sitting
among the rank and file delegates
in May, 1964, was a young man to
whom responsibility will fall in
1968 of carrying on one of Wash-
ington and Lee’s proudest student
traditions. Whoever he may be, he
already has his work cut out for
him, but his task will be aided by
the exemplary work of the 1964
Mock Convention.

It was the best.

 

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Know Any New
Elephant Fokes, George?

(Alumnus Grorce TZANGAS, ’56L, helped lo-

cate the elephants which led the Mock Con-

vention parade. Here is an account of the

elephants’ departure for Lexington by re-

porter Ep Downe of the Canton, Ohio,
Repository.)

= PEOPLE WONDERED when Canton Atty. George Tzan-
gas began to talk about elephants.

“I'll get your elephants for you,” he assured some-
one over the phone. His secretary and law partner
began to wonder if Mr. T'zangas weren’t ready for the
booby hatch.

Mr. ‘T'zangas had found himself charged with the
responsibility of transporting two elephants, or five
and one-half tons of pachyderms, to Lexington, Va.,
home of Washington and Lee University.

He explained that every four years since 1908 the
university has held a mock political convention, and
every time they have had a Republican convention
they have also had elephants.

Mock Convention chairman Philip Sharp handed
Mr. Tzangas the task of getting two elephants to
Lexington in time for the convention parade.

Mr. ‘Tzangas, a Washington and Lee alumnus, ar-
ranged to have the elephants transported from Diano’s
Ranch southeast of Canton to the university—about
425 miles.

Shortly before departure time Saturday the attor-
ney, this reporter and photographer Jim Brown. ar-
rived at Diano’s Ranch.

We were introduced to handler Henry (Blackie)
McGrothers who seemed a little nervous about trans-
porting the animals in a huge van. In fact he in-
formed us they had trouble starting the truck that
morning.

“Do you think you'll make it all right?” Mr. Tzan-
gas asked.

“IT think I'll be okay,” Blackie said. And then he
added, “As long as the truck doesn’t break down.”

We were led to the barn where two elephants stood
side by side.

“Will they hurt us?” we asked.

“Not as long as I’m with you,” Blackie told us. We
felt better.

Blackie led the elephants out the door. He loaded
one elephant named Betsy into the van, while the
other elephant carefully climbed over a barbed wire
fence and began hot-footing it across the pasture.

Blackie realized he was losing an elephant. He be-

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GEORGE TZANGAs bids Betsy goodby.

gan running across the pasture shouting things people
shout at elephants when they are trying to catch them.

“Well, there goes your elephant,” we told Mr.
Tzangas.

“Hed be: back? Mr: ‘T’zangas said as the elephant
and Blackie disappeared over a hill.

We waited for five...then ten minutes. Mr.
Tzangas seemed less confident.

“What,” we asked, “if he runs to Canton and be-
gins terrorizing the city?” We had heard of elephants
getting loose in a native village and trampling the in-
habitants.

In the meantime the other elephant began bang-
ing against the side of the van and trumpeting. We
theorized she missed the other elephant, or wanted a
little exercise herself.

“I believe she is going to get out,” Mr. Tzangas
said.

We agreed, and decided to move some distance
away.

Upon the scene came John Bein, who assured us
the elephants often get away. They run until they
get tired of exercising, he said, and then they can
be led back.

Apparently this elephant named Katie had enough
exercise because shortly thereafter she and Blackie
came over the hill together looking like old friends.

Katie was loaded into the truck.

Feeling somewhat like African adventurers, we
walked up to the house to call Mr. Sharp in Lexington
and tell him his elephants were on the way.

Ih

 

The Largest Graduating
Class in the University’s
History Receives Degrees

From President Fred Cole

HE LARGEST JUNE GRADUATING CLASS in the his-
Le of the University received bachelor de-
grees in commencement exercises conducted in
perfect weather on the front campus lawn on
June 5.

President Cole conferred degrees upon 253
seniors, including thirty-six in the School of Law,
eighty-two in the School of Commerce and Ad-
ministration, and 135 in the College.

President Cole delivered the graduating ad-
dress, calling on seniors to expand their concept
of the American free enterprise system to include
the academic world, recognizing, in Jefferson’s
words, “‘the illimitable freedom of the human
mind.”

“Consider these words,” President Cole said.
“The iulimitable freedom of the human mind—
the freedom and courage to follow truth down
new and adventurous paths—protection against
error by reason rather than by repression; here
we have a firm faith, I believe, for all liberty and
hope for the world.”

Washington and Lee conferred honorary de-
grees upon four distinguished persons, three
of them graduates of the University.

Dr. Stuart A. MacCorkle, ’24, director of the
Institute of Public Affairs of the University of
‘Texas, received the Doctor of Laws degree, as
did Dr. Andrew Tod Roy, ’25, vice-president of
Chung Chi College in Hong Kong, and Dr.
Louis B. Wright, director of the Folger Shakes-
peare Library in Washington, D.C. Dr. Samuel
L. Raines, ’21, Memphis physician and president >
of the American Urological Association, received
the Doctor of Science degree.

 

Commencement, 1964

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Yoo-Hoo!!!

 

PRoFEssors MCDOWELL, STEVENS and CRENSHAW view the procession.

 

The faculty marches on.

 

Smiles for some, straight faces for others.

PRESIDENT COLE poses with the honorary degree recipients followin

g the commencement ceremony. From left, PRESIDENT COLE, Dr.
ANDREW Top Roy, Dr. Stuart A. MAcCorkLe, Dr. Louis

B. WriGHT, and Dr. SaMuEL L. RAINES. All Dut Dr. WricHtr are alumni of
Washington and Lee.

 

SUMMER 1964

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A well-secured PRESIDENT
JOHNSON, far right, speaks
before the new research li-
brary. A Secret Service
agent stands guard in the
foreground, while State
Police and National
Guardsmen survey _ the
scene from atop the new
building.

Lexington’s Biggest Day of All
Brings Thousands to VMI

Presidents Johnson and Eisenhower Spoke
At the Dedication of the Marshall Library;

Alumnus Charlie McDowell, Jr., Wrote a Hometown

Account for His Richmond ‘Times-Dispatch Column

By CHARLES MCDowELL, JR.

LEXINGTON, May 23—For years we had been
meaning to take the children to a parade at Virginia
Military Institute. It was just one of those things that
an old Lexingtonian had not got around to on the
visits to the grandparents.

Saturday it did occur to us to take the children over
to the parade ground to show them what a good show
the Institute can put on to liven things up in a small
town. It was a very nice parade.

The corps of cadets looked as splendid and precise
as it always had in our youthful days as a fairly steady
parade-goer, and the band playing the “Spirit of VMI”
at the end of the review still managed to stir the frosty
heart of a Washington and Lee type.

‘The children enjoyed the marching and also the
subsequent arrival of some famous people for speech-
making on the steps of the new George C. Marshall
Research Library.

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President Johnson came in one of four helicopters
that landed on the parade ground where we used to
try to learn to hit a two-iron. Former President Eisen-
hower came, too, and Governor Harrison, and Secre-
tary of State Rusk and various members of the cabinet,
and Senators Byrd and Robertson, and General Omar
Bradley, and a variety of congressmen and generals
and Secret Service men in dark glasses.

The children decided that VMI was a very lively
and interesting place, indeed, and wondered why we
had been keeping it from them.

* * * * *

WE TOWNSPEOPLE have held prolonged discus-
sions on the subject of what this was the greatest Lex-
ington event since.

Some contended that there never was anything re-
motely in the same league with this gathering, and

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others hark back to the dedication of a statue of
Stonewall Jackson in the cemetery.

A few people tried to compare the occasion to foot-
ball games of the dim past in which one or the other of
the local colleges defeated the University of Virginia,
but that sort of historical perspective probably should
not be taken seriously.

One historian said flatly that the dedication of the
Marshall Library, with the attendant assemblage of
dignitaries, was the most awesome event in Lexington
since Hunter’s Raid.

General David Hunter’s Union troops shelled VMI
and set fire to it in 1864 or thereabouts. In fact, there is
still a cannon ball from that occasion embedded in the
outer wall of the barracks.

(At the risk of straying too far from current events,
we might say that there is a school of thought which
holds that the late Col. William Couper put the can-
non ball in the wall as a conversation piece.)

* * * * *

RARELY HAVE SO MANY people in Lexington
had so many house guests. “I am sleeping on the
floor,” one man said, “in my own house.”

For Lexington this was a reunion of three or four
generations of children, in-laws, cousins, alumni of
VMI and W&L, friends and strangers.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

At right, the impressive memorial
library which honors GEN. GEORGE
C. MARSHALL. Below left, former
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER and Mrs.
JOHNSON acknowledge the crowd’s
applause as they arrive. Below right,
after PRESIDENT JOHNSON’s address,
Virginia SEN. A. WILLIS ROBERTSON
greets him on the rostrum. Mr.
JOHNSON, speaking in the senator’s
hometown, failed to mention his
presence among the dignitaries.

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Everyone seemed to have a really good time. The
President apparently enjoyed the interlude, his heli-
copter sparing him the traffic jam, and the people en-
joyed having the President. He took several chances to
plunge into the crowd and shake hands. His manner
was friendly and flattering with no overtones of a
visit to poverty-stricken hill people.

* * * * *

SPECULATION on the size of the crowd varied
widely. A state police captain said 10,000, but that
was based on the number of cars in special parking
lots, allowing two and a half people, or some such
figure, to the car.

Reluctant as we are to argue with the state police,
the crowd was much larger than 10,000. The state
police counters missed all the houseguests’ cars crowd-
ed into driveways and parked in ingenious places all
over town. We came five or six to the car, too.

We would say that there were 10,000 townspeople
and houseguests plus the visitors who parked in the
special lots. About 20,000 would seem fair to us, allow-
ing for our hometown pride, and a VMI officer’s esti-
mate of 15,000 strikes us as eminently conservative.

Anyway, there were twice as many people trying to
get Cokes in McCrum’s Drug Store as we ever saw, and
that is an index that means something.

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JAMEs C. AMBLER, 718

N ENDOWMENT FUND to strength-
A en the salaries of teachers of
liberal arts subjects has been estab-
lished at Washington and Lee Uni-
versity by alumnus James C. Amb-
ler, °18, of New York and Mont-
clair, N. J.

A gift of $100,000 from’ Mr. Am-
bler will sustain the James C. Am-
bler and James C. Ambler, Jr., En-
dowment Fund for Faculty Salaries
in the Liberal Arts.

Mr. Ambler’s gift is an outgrowth
of the concern he and his son, a
recent graduate of Washington
and Lee, share in regard to proper
compensation for liberal arts pro-
fessors. ‘They have requested that
income from the Ambler Fund be
used exclusively for this purpose.

A Gift of

$100,000 from

. CG. Ambler

Mr. Ambler is chairman of the
board of Ginn and Company, edu-
cational publishing firm in New
York City. He attended Washing-
ton and Lee from 1914 to 1916 as
a member of the class of 1918, and
he has remained a faithful and ac-
tive alumnus.

James C. Ambler, Jr., received
his B.A. degree from Washington
and Lee in 1962 and is now serving
in the United States Navy as a lieu-
tenant (j.g.) at the Oceana Naval
Air Station.

At the same time Mr. Ambler in-
formed Washington and Lee of his
gift, he also announced a gift of
$100,000 for the Woodberry Forest
School, to be used to establish the
James C. Ambler, Jr., Chair of
English. Lieutenant Ambler is a
graduate of the Virginia prepara-
tory school.

Mr. Ambler is a native of Fau-
quier County in Virginia and once
served as superintendent of schools
there. He has given generously to

 

JAMEs C. AMBLER, JR., ’62

the Fauquier High School for furn-
ishings for its auditorium and stage.

President Cole expressed the
University’s gratitude for Mr. Am-
bler’s gift in these words:

‘This highly important and time-
ly gift from Mr. Ambler does more
than add welcome new funds in an
area of great importance to Wash-
ington and Lee. The income from
this endowment will be put to im-
mediate good use, but there will
be another continuing benefit de-
rived by the University. That is the
encouragement and _ inspiration
that my faculty associates and I
share when we see such loyalty on
the part of alumni for Washington
and Lee and their vital concern for
its future role in higher education.”

Wilbur C. Hall Establishes Law Loan Fund

GIFT Of $10,000 from alumnus
Wilbur. C. Hail, (i5L of
Leesburg, Va., will help provide
much-needed loan funds for stu-
dents in the School of Law.
Income from the Wilbur C. Hall
Fund will pay tuition and other
educational expenses of deserving
law students, with special prefer-
ence for Virginia residents.
Mr. Hall is a prominent Lees-
burg attorney and a former mem-
ber of the Virginia legislature. He

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WILBuR C. HALL, 7151

has been an active Class Agent and
a participant in many other alum-
ni activities.

Last December he was honored
as an alumni initiate of Washing-
ton and Lee’s Alpha Circle of Omi-
cron Delta Kappa.

“Mr. Hall’s generous gift,” said
President Cole, “helps the Univer-
sity make significant progress in its
efforts to increase the availability
of loan funds as a means of finan-
cial aid for students.

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“I Am Grateful .. .”

Dr. Harry M. Philpott, ’38, Told
The General Reunion Convocation
Of the Many Reasons Why He Is
Grateful to His Alma Mater; Many
Who Heard Him Urged That His
Address Appear in the Magazine

 

Dr. HArry M. PHILporTt, ’38, is Vice-President
of the University of Florida at Gainesville,
Florida.

SUMMER 1964

We bR. COLE called me to ask if it might be pos-

sible for me to be present on this occasion I was
tremendously honored and pleased, because it gave me
an opportunity, first of all, to come home again—some-
thing that I’ve found you can do even though changes
take place. ‘There still is so much that is just about the
same as it was when you knew it. It gave me an oppor-
tunity, also, to have the fellowship and renew the
friendship that I enjoyed with so very many of you.

In thinking about something to say, I felt that I
might take the opportunity to do a little correcting
of some errors that I made about 25 years ago here at
the University. I hold in my hand a copy of the
Southern Collegian for December, 1937. Now Cy
Young’s about to burst because he remembers that
this issue resulted in the Southern Collegian being
banned on the campus in 1937. In going back through
this particular copy, I had some trouble finding out
exactly why it was banned. Maybe I come from a much
more liberal part of the country at the present time,
but if I were fortunate enough to get a copy of the
“humor magazine” in my institution which was as
clean as this one I never would complain! At any rate,
it was banned.

I have an article in here. I had some pipelines into
the faculty meetings in those days and I’m informed
when the faculty was discussing the banning of this
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was opposed to the ban got up and said, “Now the
great campus liberal Harry Philpott has an article in
here. You're not going to throw him out, are you?”
The article has a question. “Are we getting an educa-
tion?” It was written when I was a senior here at
Washington and Lee. Unfortunately, in answering the
question, I left some doubt. Or maybe fortunately. I’m
not sure.

Wise Counsel from Dr. Gaines

In those days I had a great crusading desire. I re-
member a year or so later, after I had served here at
Washington and Lee and was about to take a leave of
absence for graduate work, I read the Carnegie report
on graduate education which came out in the spring
of 1940. The report took to task the American gradu-
ate school because of its specialization in graduate
work. It said that we are producing researchers and
not teachers in our graduate programs. I was so impres-
ed by that that I began to think about my own gradu-
ate program. I went in one day to see Dr. Gaines and
said, “I’ve come up with a new program. I want to go
to Yale one year, to Columbia one year and to Chicago
one year. I want to forget all about taking a Ph.D. be-
cause I don’t think that I can get the same kind of
educational experience that I could get if I simply
went to these institutions and took the courses that I
wanted to take.” In his kind fashion he said, ‘“That
sounds wonderful. It’s a marvelous program. But
Harry, if you’re going to stay in college work I’d better
tell you this. A Ph.D. is like a pair of pants. If you’ve
got it you fit in. But if you haven’t got it, you’re just
as noticeable as you can be around the institution.”
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this later stage, I am delighted that I took it. For-
tunately, I was able to combine some of my crusading
and innovating desires along with the graduate pro-
gram I had.

This particular article made three complaints
about our educational experience at Washington and
Lee. ‘Uhe first of these was that so many of our extra
curricular activities were totally useless. In part, this
was true. A great many of our extra curricular activi-
ties, (here are some of my fraternity brothers sitting
here. If we got together in private, we could document
this.) from the perspective of 25 years later, were quite
useless. And yet, looking back, so many things that ap-
peared to be useless at that time were activities which
contributed tremendously to growth and_ develop-
ment, to the ability later on to handle a variety of ex-
periences. After all, it’s very difficult from within a par-
ticular situation or within a particular activity to give
an objective and true evaluation of the worth of that
situation or activity. In retrospect, as we gather to-
gether as alumni and think back over our experiences
at Washington and Lee, I’m sure that for many of us
the extra curricular activities in which we participated
made almost as much contribution as the course work
that we experienced.

I complained in this article that there was a sepa-
ration between the classroom and the world, that what
we were learning was not related to the reality of life
itself, and that we were too remote from the main-
stream of life. In retrospect, I forgot about Words-
worth’s lines:

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours.”

Dr. Puitporr, left, dis-
plays the controversial
Southern Collegian isswe
tio which he referred in
his address to alumni. En-
joying the laugh are
VAUGHAN BEALE, ’39, and
Jerry A. Burke, Jr., ’38.
ALTON SARTOR, ’38, has his
back to the camera.

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From another perspective I would yearn for a time
when the world was not quite so much with us, when
it was possible to be more remote from the mainstream
of life in order that one might see and one might ana-
lyze a little bit better that which was taking place. We
can rejoice that at least for a small period of time in
lite we had an opportunity to pull back but not com-
pletely withdraw, to see things through a little bit
more detached perspective.

A “Thought Map” of the Universe

I complained also about the inadequacy of the
curriculum in this article. The main thing that I
hollered about was the lack of survey courses. Even
in those days I think I wanted someone to produce
my metaphysic for me, someone who would analyze
all of the material and bring it together so that I
might have a thought map of the universe laid out
for me without any kind of cogitation and effort on
my part. When I look back and see the kind of cur-
riculum that we had at Washington and Lee, when I
see the unity that ran through that curriculum in
comparison with other educational institutions, I
didn’t have a great deal to complain about.

I served on an evaluation team recently at a large
southern university and looked through the cata-
logue. (i was looking through it very carefully. I don’t
dare do this in my own institution because of what I
might see, but I am willing to do it for other people.
You can’t make changes in your own situation, but
you feel perfectly free as an expert in another town
to make recommendations.) In this particular institu-
tion I noticed two courses at the graduate level. One
was entitled “The Teaching of Political Science in
Colleges” and the other was entitled “College Teach-
ing of Political Science.’ Each one carried three hours
credit. I had to inquire about this and was told by
the chairman of the department that one was directed
toward the teaching of political science in junior col-
leges and one was directed toward the teaching of
political science in four-year institutions. This was
sufficient rationale for splitting up the course and to
making it two separate courses. Well, that’s an ex-
treme case of fragmentation.

We did, I think, have available to us a great deal
more unity and we had available more survey courses
than existed in those days in most institutions.

The American higher education picture today is
most confusing. The late Chancellor Kirkland of Van-
derbilt used to tell about a Negro janitor in the early
days of Vanderbilt who also doubled as the campus
guide. He would take groups of visitors around the
Vanderbilt campus for viewing purposes and when
he brought them back to the main building at the end

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of his tour he always dismissed them with the saying
that “Education am de palladium of our liberties and
de pandemonium of our civilization.”

If it were true of Vanderbilt and other institutions
fifty to sixty years ago, how much more true it is of
higher education in general today! I don’t know how a
contemporary student would answer the question “Are
we getting an education?”

We are faced, for example, with the tremendous
pressure of numbers today. When I entered Washing-
ton and Lee thirty years ago, one of the things said to
us in the orientation program was that already we
were one of an elite group. Only ten per cent of all
the high school graduates were going to be able to go
to college in 1934. In 1964, fifty-five per cent of the
college-age population in the United States is enrolled
in an institution of higher learning. The numbers
have not only increased in recent years but more are
yet to come. In my state, for example, we had twenty
per cent more seniors graduating from high school this
year than we had one year ago. I remind you that
the high school seniors of this year were born in 1946—
most of them. The sheer weight of numbers is pre-
senting tremendously complex problems for American
higher education. We cannot produce the teachers
fast enough to take care of the numbers.

Washington and Lee, in one sense of the word, es-
capes this pressure because of the wisdom of those
who have guided its destiny and chosen to limit its en-
rollment. I hope, personally, that they have limited
its enrollment, not because of the philosophical be-
lief that you can do the best educational job with
only a certain number of students, but because they
have been convinced that the total resources of this
institution are sufficient only to take care of a certain
number. Even so, and I know this from contacts with
alumni, I am certain that those in charge of the in-
stitution at this time are frequently upbraided by
alumni and by friends of the institution who unfortu-
nately may not have succeeded in getting their sons

Into this institution, or by the friend of a friend of

a friend who’s “most important to me in my business,
or in my political life.”

The Importance of Selectivity

Every institution today must be selective. There is
available for any student who wishes a higher educa-
tion a place in American higher education today. It is
not always available in the first institution of his
choice, or at the particular place where he would like
to be, but no American young person is going to be
excluded from an educational experience today if he
truly has the desire and if he has the requisite prepa-
ration which will enable him to take advantage of this.
The pressure of numbers is such that every institution

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of higher education for the next few foreseeable years
certainly is going to have a tremendous struggle simp-
ly to take care of the demand that is placed upon it.

Because of the numbers, it becomes increasingly
difficult to provide a quality educational experience.
It is very difficult to maintain a curricular program
which provides the highest quality of educational ex-
perience at the same time you're trying to care for the
increase in numbers.

We are also confronted with the explosion of
knowledge that is taking place, not only in our nation
but throughout the world. It is very easy to document
this in many respects. Alfred North Whitehead in
one of his essays made the observation that from the
time of the Roman senator to the time of George
Washington basically life did not change much. True,
there were new insights, there were new developments.
But Washington rode in a four-wheeled horse-drawn
vehicle, as did the Roman senator. He lived in the
same kind of world so far as material things were con-
cerned. ‘The tremendous revolution that has taken
place in our material world in the last century and a
half would be beyond comprehension by anyone who
had not experienced a portion of it. The increase in
scientific knowledge can be documented in our own
experiences. Coming up here, I was thinking about a
course in freshman physics that I took, in which un-
fortunately I didn’t learn too much. One thing that I
learned as an axiom was that the atom was the small-
est particle of matter and was indivisible. Thirty years
ago. Think of all of the tremendous strides that have
come in that period of time. We have developing in
our educational institutions a great pressure for un-
covering new knowledge and the development of new
facts and new materials.

The Need for Teaching Balance

‘The research programs of most of our institutions
provide a kind of threat to the teaching program of
our institutions. One of the hardest jobs of a college
administrator is to maintain some kind of balance
between the research enterprise and the teaching en-
terprise. And it’s a source of great comfort and, at
least, of great encouragement to me as an educator to
know that this institution has continued to emphasize,
primarily, the teaching function. Research, as it con-
tributes to better teaching, as it increases the capacity
of the instructor, is of great importance but it is not
to be a substitute for teaching responsibility.

We find great problems in the financing of higher
education today. As was noted last night by Dean At-
wood, there seems to be a rather general unwilling-
ness on the part of a large segment of the American
population to adequately finance our educational sys-

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tem. We are confronted by rising costs, tremendously
rising costs. ‘The University of Chicago in the year
1940 was able to devote $100 of expense money to
each biology professor. By 1960 it was necessary to
budget $50,000 per biology professor at that Univer-
sity. The same kind of cost increase can be seen in ev-
ery aspect of American higher education today. When
Michelson in 1887 performed his experiment leading
to the measuring of the speed of light he contributed
significantly to scientific advance. Firty years later it
was decided in observing the anniversary of this event
that the experiment should be repeated. And it was
repeated at a cost of twenty times more than it cost
originally to do the work.

We are confronted by great numbers, we are con-
fronted by a real problem in maintaining quality be-
cause of the shortage in teachers and instructors. We
are confronted by the demands for the extension of
knowledge, and the great explosion of knowledge. We
are confronted by the worries and the concerns of
financing higher education. But these are things that
are of concern to everyone. Largely, in a situation like
this, we come back to personal memories and the desire
for some kind of personal analysis.

“Did We Get an Education?”

‘The main thesis of what I would like to share with
you today is a second question. It is not “Are we get-
ting an education?” but “Did we get an education?”
Did we, who shared together these experiences at
Washington and Lee, come out with what we can truly
call an education? I think we would probably have
difficulty in defining what we meant by “an educa-
tion.” Our answer to this question is impressionistic
at best, with only one or two little points we can draw
together. May I, from the perspective of one who
wrote an article twenty-five years ago and who wishes
to bring it up to date at this moment, share with you
what I feel personally was so helpful to me at Wash-
ington and Lee; and share with you that for which I
shall be eternally thankful.

In terms of my own experience here, I am grateful
particularly for the fact that at Washington and Lee
the individual was important. I recognized that in the
article, because I said we can all be thankful that
Washington and Lee ascribes to the philosophy of
Ralph Waldo Emerson who said: ‘““The secret of edu-
cation lies in respecting the pupil.” It is true of Wash-
ington and Lee throughout its history that it has al-
ways respected the pupil. This is not true of every
educational institution. This is not true of every Am-
erican college today. It is true in some measure, I am
sure, of faculty members in every institution but there
are many in American higher education who are the

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proponents of knowledge for knowledge’s sake with-
out any reference to the individual.

‘This institution stands in a tradition which exalts
the worth of the human personality, which says that as
a child of God this personality is of infinite worth
and which maintains that the job that we have to do
is a job with individuals. Because of that, all of us, I
am sure, can say together that during our student
days here we didn’t feel that we were just a number.
Oh, it may be true that during the first 10 days we
might have felt lost. It may have been that in the first
few days away from home we were not sure there was
any kind of stability that we could find for oureslves
in this situation. But at least “gg and 44/100’s per
cent” of us very soon found that we were accepted
here by the faculty and by fellow students as individu-
als. We were accepted as persons of worth.

We were given the kind of deep belief and convic-
tion which was held by those with whom we were
associated. I am grateful that this institution was in-
terested in me as a whole person and that it was not
simply concerned with my intellectual goal. I’ve al-
ready commented about the retrospective view of some
of the extra curricular activities. This institution has
never said that man is simply a creature with a brain.
It has recognized that he is a social being, that he is
a moral being, and that he is a spiritual being. And
it has tried to produce, in an educational environ-
ment, a series of experiences which would be beneficial
to the growth and to the development and the highest
attainment in all of these realms.

An “Amalgamated Son of Rest’

I am grateful at this moment that Washington and
Lee demanded of me hard, substantial work. I prob-
ably was not as grateful thirty years ago. I think that
I was probably one of those who sought always to
align himself with the Amalgamated Sons of Rest
while he was enrolled in this institution. Like many of
you, I went through the catalogue and tried to pick
out the “crip” courses in order that I might have a
rather easy educational experience. I am glad now that
I found that there were very few of those. Even those
which were pointed out to me by others as being easy
courses in the final analysis did not turn out to be.

If you look back over your experience here, as I
have been looking back over mine the last couple of
weeks, you do honor to those men who required hard
work of you, who made you sweat, who made you run
scared, and who, therefore, enriched your lives to a
degree that could never have been possible if you had
simply been allowed to coast. In a day and in an age
when such an overwhelming number of people are try-
ing to find ways and means to get by with as little ex-
penditure of energy as possible, I celebrate the fact

SUMMER 1964

that this institution has stood for the requirement of
hard and diligent work. And I am grateful to it for
having demanded that of me.

I am grateful for the fact that this institution has
always had a high concern for the values of life. One il-
lustration will suffice—to call to your mind the em-
phasis which was placed here on honor and the honor
system. I know other institutions where honor in class-
room work is almost non-existent. Indeed, I fear the
tendency which seems to be increasing in higher edu-
cation today for young people to find the ways and the
means by which they can somehow get around doing
something; the willingness to lie and cheat, simply
to get a grade. There is abroad a kind of moral rela-
tivism which I think personally stems in large measure
from Marxist philosophy and the influence it’s had on
American thought, subtly; a belief that there is no
such thing as right or wrong, the belief that this is
simply a matter for the individual and whatever the
individual may decide is right for himself.

The Discipline of Honor

Although there may have been situations in which
the honor system seemed to be tough or even unjust,
I celebrate the fact that I participated in a tradition
and in a heritage that demanded rigorous standards
of honor and which would brook no compromise when
it came to honesty. I feel that the stand which was
taken in behalf of the value of honesty by this institu-
tion is one of the greatest needs of contemporary so-
ciety today, opposing the belief that nothing is right or
wrong but thinking makes it so. I subscribe to the
philosophy stated in one of the essays of Heywood
Broun when he said: “It is better I believe to be wrong
on occasion than to be forever an inquiring neutral.
There can be such a thing as constructive fanaticism.”
We live in an age which is crying desperately for peo-
ple who are not inquiring neutrals but who are will-
ing to be constructively fanatical in their adherence
to certain standards and certain values. I am grateful
that Washington and Lee permitted me to have an ex-
perience of this type here and to formulate a convic-
tion which I trust will live with me forever.

More particularly, I am grateful for the fact that
here at Washington and Lee I encountered a dedicated
faculty of teachers. ‘There are so many present this
morning that I’m going to avoid naming anyone be-
cause I am sure to overlook someone. I wrote in the
little article something that I’d like to take back at
this time. I put in here that “at Washington and Lee
among the faculty members we have many strenuous
minds but few rich ones.” I retract that statement to-
day. I retract it because I had no basis really for mak-
ing the observation at that time. I had not been to a
number of institutions and I had not really formu-

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lated a definition of what constituted a rich mind. It
was a good sounding phrase to a college senior and per-
haps I was overwhelmed by the sound of the phrase
itself rather than the content.

In retrospect, I knew many rich minds here at
Washington and Lee, many dedicated teachers. Car-
lyle said that “the true university is a collection of
books” but in my own experience I qualify that by
adding that the true university is also a collection of
great people. For the books have to be interpreted and
the books have to be given to the student with a cer-
tain amount of guidance. I have often said that edu-
cation is something that you catch from other people,
even more than it is something that you are able to
dig out of a book. I celebrate the professor here who
opened the Old Testament for me and made some ob-
scure phrases and some obscure figures of speech live.
I celebrate the professor who opened Shakespeare’s
work for me and who made the plays of Shakespeare
live because the characters paraded across the front of
the classroom. I owned a copy of the Old Testament
and I owned a copy of Shakespeare but I would never
have received what I have from these books if it had
not been for the magnificent interpretation and the
spirit which was conveyed by faculty members and
those who guided me in this institution.

As I survey the teaching profession today I am
concerned by the fact that there seem to be more and
more individuals who are viewing it as a profession
rather than a vocation, who look upon it as a means
of earning a living, much more than they do a com-
mitment to the future. When you analyze educational
achievement in terms of the student semester hours
produced by the individual faculty member, when
you equate quantity of work with guality, when you
recruit men whose interest is purely in research and
whose concern is not the human being, you begin to
do a great disservice to higher education. Arthur
Guiterman wrote a little verse about Mark Hopkins.
He said:

‘Mark Hopkins sat on one end of the log,

And a school boy sat on the other;

Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue

But he taught as an older brother.

I don’t care what Mark Hopkins taught,

If his Latin was small or his Greek was naught,

I only know that the schoolboy, thought,
thought he,

All through the lecture time and quiz,

The kind of a man I'd like to be

Is the kind of a man Mark Hopkins is.”

I celebrate the fact that I encountered here great
spirits. Great spirits who not only broadened my in-
tellectual and social horizon but individuals, the qual-
ity of whose life I could emulate. The kind of a man
I'd like to be is the kind of a man so many of those
were. And so I retract my statement and I express my
gratitude for the fact that I did have an encounter
with so very many rich minds.

Finally, I am grateful for the fact that Washing-
ton and Lee has always placed an emphasis on the
place of great faith and the necessity of belief in God
Almighty. Outside this Chapel, just over here, is the
white tomb of William Graham. “He was distinguished
for his strength and the originality of his genius, and
the successful tenor of his exertions in behalf of solid
literature and evangelical piety.” I had to memorize
that when I was being initiated in my fraternity. So
William Graham, the first president of Liberty Hall
Academy, distinguished for solid literary achievement
and evangelical piety, for his great belief in the worth
of human beings, belief in the divinity of this universe,
and belief in the guiding hand of God Almighty in the
direction of the affairs of men, has been characteris-
tic of this institution.

The great spirit who rests in this Chapel under-
took the building of this edifice for the worship of
Almighty God as the first and most important contri-
bution that he could make to Washington College.
You and I inherited a tradition but we inherited
more—an example—and it is because of this that our
lives have been stamped indelibly with the imprint
of this faith.

Our Obligation to the Future

‘There is a final word. It has been said that that
which we have received from our fathers we must pass
on to others before we can truly call it our own. You
and I who have received so much cannot be satisfied
with having been the recipients of the gift. Ours is
an obligation to see that future generations also have
this. It is descriptive of alumni of the past and it is
descriptive of those who have served Washington and
Lee that in the words of Cicero “They care more for
the long age which is to come than for their own small
share of time.” If there is one resolve that might
come out of our fellowship and our association, in ad-
dition to the expression of our word of gratitude for
what we have received, it is the resolve that those who
come after will also enjoy the kind of blessing which
has been ours.

oH

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‘Total Attendance

Was Disappointing,

But For Those Who
Were There, the Big
Reunion Proved To Be

A Memorable Event

1964 General Reunion—the
fourth such big affair held since the
practice was started in 1949—was
not much of a success. Aside from
the several dozen local alumni who
took part, there were just some 175
other former students on hand for
the three-day program June 11-13.

But in terms of the good time
that was enjoyed by those who did
come, the reunion was every bit a
success that its planning committee
had intended.

The bulk of the alumni attend-
ing represented the four anniver-
sary classes—1914, 1924, 1939, and
1954—but there were enough of

SUMMER 1964

 

The long arm of Bow Sprssarp, ’39, embraces HARRY PHILPOTT, 38, while Haroip E.,
Harvey, °39, looks on.

The 1964 General Reunion: A Good
Weekend for a Modest Attendance

I TERMS of total attendance, the

representatives of other eras to pro-
vide a broad sweep of alumni rep-
resentation over more than half a
century.

The 1914 reunion was unusually
well-attended, with 30 of 61 living
members present under the organi-
zational leadership of Roger J.
Bear.

The “senior” alumnus present
was Dr. Samuel B. McPheeters, of
Goldsboro, N. C., a member of the
Class of 1900. He and his wife set
a lively pace that many of the
younger men couldn’t hold.

In addition to the Class banquets
for the anniversary classes, there
were general receptions in Evans

Hall and at the President’s House,
and there was a luncheon in Evans
Hall where the reunion heard from
President Cole.

Said President Cole:

“We have been privileged to be a
part of the spirit, the enduring
glory of Washington and Lee. The
long line of great men who have
served this University are respon-
sible for is glorious past and _ its
clear vision of its future role.”

The highlight of the reunion for
many was the convocation address
by Dr. Harry Philpott, °38, vice-
president of the University of
Florida, carried in full elsewhere in
this issue,

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L-r, W. H. Hatsirp, IV, ’46, WALTER B. MEACHAM, 14,
Co. PAuL J. B. Murpuy, ‘14, and Mrs. MurpHy.

 

DEAN C. E. WILLIAMS, ’12, with JAMES SOMERVILLE, ‘12,
and BERKLEY Cox, 714.

 

The Class of 1914 at its 50th Anniversary Reu
EcBert B. Doccretr, H. M. Hayne, BEN D.
FLowers, J. W. SELIG, CARLISLE H. Morrissetr
and J. CARLTON Hupson; standing, l-r, ALEX
MINTER, J. E. WAYLAND, WALTER B. MEACHAM
SAMUEL H. WILLIAMS, BERKELEY Cox, STEPHED

Fred M. Davis, ARTHUR W. McCat

 

Classmates from 1934 are, l-r, Everett TucKER, Jr., Gov. W. W. Barron, RucE P.
DEVAN, and JOHN H. THOMAS.

 

FRANK SHIPMAN, ’54, and ‘TOM KENNEY, ’54

 

 

 

The Class of 1924 poses for a reunion photo: seated, l-r, WILLIAM W. HEISKELL, Dorr M.
‘TUCKER, JOHN G. GUERRANT, W. CLIFFORD SMITH, and W. CLYDE DENNIs; standing, l-r, REED

GRAVES, CHARLES A. TUTWILER, MATTHEW P. MATHENEY, D. NEwtToNn FARNELL, LINN M. Dr. EDGAR SHANNON, ‘39,
BRANNON, and FRANK C. SWITZER. and JAMES SALTSMAN, ’39
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J. GOODLOE JACKSON, 14, left, with classmate W. L.
HARRELL, ‘14.

 

Mr. and Mrs. FRED EASTER, ’55, with Dr. and Mrs.
E. C. GRIFFITH.

 

nion. Seated, l-r, PAUL J. B. Murpuy,
SMITH, CHARLES P. REYNOLDs, J. D.
, JUNIUS L. POWELL, Joun L. HucuHes,
M. Hrrz, JAMEs M. Farrar, W. M.
, J. GOODLOE JACKSON, ROGER J. BEAR,
| F. CHADWICK, DANIEL C. BUCHANAN,
N, and 'T. A. MCCORKLE.

 

 

The class of 1954's roth Reunion group: front, l-r, SeoGE Moss, Pere DoyLe, Tom KENNEY, GEORGE
YOUNG, FRANK PARSONS, FLETCHER LOWE, KIMBER WHITE, and Jim Brice; seated, l-r, BILL CLEM,
Britt MCHEnry, STEVE SNOw, CHARLIE THOMAS, NorM Dopsyns, Jim ANDREWS, BILL BRANSCOM,
oo GORDON LEGGETT, BoB Cross, and EnRicK HAIGHT; standing, l-r, RALPH PARK, BoB ANDREWS, GIL
PRESIDENT COLE accepts the 1939 Class Gift BoceTt1, DEAN Guy, Bos Coo.Lipcr, HANK MurFEY, BILL WILLIAMS, RENO Harp, EARNEST EANES,

  

from JOHN D. GoopIn. EvANS DUNN, KEN VANCoTT, LARRY MuscRoveE, and DirK VOELKER.
Visiting the new science facilities were, l-r, Joun J. Davis, JR., °39; R. BLEAKLEY JAMES, ’22; WILLIAM J. Cox, ’17,
MELVILLE B. PAYNE, ’20; B. L. ‘THOMPSON, ’18; and ARTHUR W. McCain, "14. and WILLIAM B. WIsDOM, ’21

 

SUMMER 1964 29

 

 

Dr. KENNETH P. STEVENS

Dr. HENRY S. ROBERTS

Dr. Stevens Retires

As Biology Professor

R. KENNETH P. STEVENS retired
D this June as head of the De-
partment of Biology after eighteen
years on the Washington and Lee
faculty.

He will continue to teach a sec-
ond semester advanced course in
biology, but the direction of the
department has been turnd over
to his successor, Dr. Henry S.
Roberts.

Dr. Stevens is best known to the
many Washington and Lee men
who undertook pre-medical studies
under his guidance and counsel. He
joined the faculty in 1946, at a
time when many veterans were
among Washington and Lee’s stu-
dent body. Reflecting on the eight-
een years he has been at the Uni-
versity, Dr. Stevens noted that the
students of 1946 were not as well
prepared academically as_ today’s
students, but he said that they had
a greater seriousness of purpose.

Dr. Stevens has worked actively
with many phases of University life.

30

Committee work has involved him
with fraternities, musical and dra-
matic organizations, lectures, erad-
uate fellowships, and the courses
and degrees program of the Univer-
sity.

When senior Art Broadus was
selected as the Gilliam Award win-
ner this year, he designated that
the cash stipend be used to pur-
chase books for the Biology Library
in honor of Dr. Stevens.

A native of Danbury, Conn., Dr.
Stevens received both A.B. and
M.A. degrees from Wesleyan Uni-
versity, and earned his Ph.D. degree
at Princeton.

Before coming to Washington
and Lee, he taught at New York
Military Academy, Princeton, and
Central College. He is a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi,
and Alpha Epsilon Delta, honor-
ary pre-medical fraternity which he
has served as a national vice-presi-
dent.

 

 

g@ A NEW HEAD of the Department of
Biology was announced in May by
Dean of the College William W.
Pusey, III, along with the names of
ten other men who will join the
University faculty in September.

Dr. Henry S. Roberts, 51, now
associate professor of zoology and
acting director of graduate study in
zoology at Duke University, will be-
come professor of biology, succeed-
ing Dr. Kenneth P. Stevens as head
of Washington and Lee’s biology
program. Dr. Stevens retired in
June after eighteen years on the
University faculty.

Also named by Dean Pusey were
two new assistant professors and
eight new instructors, including
one who will hold the title of
“artist in residence.”

Appointments as assistant profes-
sors include Sterling M. Boyd, 30,
in fine arts, and George W. Ray, 32,
in English.

Appointed instructor in fine
arts was Ray Prohaska, 63, noted
New York painter and illustrator
who will become “artist in resi-
dence” at Washington and Lee
next year.

Other new instructors for 1964-
65 include:

John M. Evans, 28, English; John
P. Freeman, 27, chemistry; William
E. Hannum, 24, English; Irving M.
Lynn, Jr., 24, German; Larry A.
Schmucker, 30, philosophy; Sydney
J. Willams, Jr., 26, Romance
languages; and Anthony Wood, 25,
history.

Dean Pusey said the new faculty
members include replacements for
professors on leave as well as new
additions to the University’s teach-
ing staff.

Wood, who is working toward a
Ph.D. degree at Duke, and Wil-
liams, engaged in similar graduate
study at the University of North
Carolina, are replacements for Dr.
Leon F. Sensabaugh, professor of

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

history, and Dr. C. Westbrook Bar-
ritt, professor of Romance lan-
guages. Dr. Sensabaugh and Dr.
Barritt will engage in post-doctor-
al research and study at Duke and
North Carolina next year under a
special cooperative fellowship pro-
gram sponsored by the Ford Foun-
dation. Freeman will replace Dr.
George S. Whitney, assistant profes-
sor of chemistry, who will spend
next year in Switzerland engaged in
research.

a TWO WASHINGTON AND LEE profes-
sors have been named fellows in a
Cooperative Program in the Hu-
manities sponsored jointly by Duke
University and the University of
North Carolina.

Dr. C. Westbrook Barritt, profes-
sor of romance languages, and Dr.
Leon F. Sensabaugh, professor of
history, will participate in the pro-
eram during the 1964-65 academic
year.

Made possible by a five year
grant from the Humanities and
Arts Program of the Ford Founda-
tion to Duke University and the
University of North Carolina, the
program will allow Dr. Barritt and
Dr. Sensabaugh to do research in
their fields of interest at either in-
stitution.

‘The program, operating for the
first time this fall, is planned to
give distinguished faculty members
in the humanities a year to study
and do research in their particular
fields of interest.

‘Two advanced graduate students
from Duke or North Carolina will
be appointed to the Washington
and Lee faculty for the academic
year as replacements for Dr. Barritt
and Dr. Sensabaugh.

® ROBERT STEWART, professor of
Fine Arts, has been selected for
membership in the American Com-
posers Alliance.

Professor Stewart, whose compo-
sitions have been played for New
York audiences four times during

SUMMER 1964

the past academic year, becomes
one of only 130 professional com-
posers of concert music who hold
membership in the ACA. Purposes
of the organization include the pro-
tection of the rights of member
composers and the promotion of
the use and understanding of their
music.

Professor Stewart’s current com-
positions are “serial music,’’ con-
sisting of variations and departures
from the twelve-tone technique
which was first introduced and de-
veloped by Arnold Schoenberg.

Professor Stewart joined the
Washington and Lee faculty in
1954. In addition to his teaching
duties, he also directs the Univer-
sity’s 60-voice Glee Club and its
John Graham Brass Choir. He is
an accomplished violinist and a
graduate of the American Conser-
vatory of Music in Chicago.

PROMOTIONS for twelve members
of the Washington and Lee faculty
were announced in June by the
University’s academic deans.

Dean William W. Pusey, III, an-
nounced eight promotions within
the College, Dean Lewis W. Ad-
ams of the School of Commerce and
Administration reported three pro-
motions, and Dean Charles P.
Light Jr., of the School of Law an-
nounced one. ‘The new ranks, ap-
proved by the Board of ‘Trustees
at its regular June meeting, become
effective September 1.

Raised from associate professor
to professor were Robert E. R.
Huntley, law; Robert Stewart, mu-
sic and fine arts; and Dr. Charles
W. Williams, mathematics.

Dr. Thomas E. Ennis, Jr., ac-
counting, and Dr. Louis W.
Hodges, religion, were promoted
from assistant professor to associate
professor.

Instructors promoted to assist-
ant professorships include: James
Boatwright, III, English; Charles
B. Brockmann, romance languages;
David B. Dickens, German; Brett

 

W. Hawkins, political science; Dr.
Delos D. Hughes, political science;
Dr. W. Barlow Newbolt, physics;
and Dana W. Swan, II, physical ed-
ucation.

Three of those promoted are re-
cent recipients of the Ph.D. de-
gree—Dr. Ennis from the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Dr. Hughes from
the University of North Carolina,
and Dr. Newbolt from Vanderbilt
University. Mr. Hawkins is sched-
uled to receive his Ph.D. degree
from Vanderbilt University August
29:

@ DR. JOHN H. WISE, professor of
chemistry, discussed chemical bond-
ing for thirty-two advanced sec-
ondary school students participat-
ing in the National Science Foun-
dation Summer Science Training
Program in June at Bridgewater
College.

Dr. Wise used models construct-
ed by Washington and Lee students
in the University’s Robert E. Lee
Undergraduate Research Program
to illustrate his talk.

C. HAROLD LAUCK, superintendent
of the Journalism Laboratory Press
at Washington and Lee, was the
recipient of outstanding praise and
honor on two occasions this sum-
mer—once for professional achieve-
ment and again for civic contribu-
tions.

‘The International Graphics Arts
Education Association presented
Mr. Lauck with a certificate of ap-
preciation for his contributions to
the professional association. ‘The
inscription said, in part:

“Recognizing the multitude of
details, the pressing problems of
production, the long hours of de-
voted effort that are embodied in
the book, The Story of Graphic
Arts Education — 1826-1960, the
Board of Directors of the Inter-
national Graphic Arts Education
Association ... unanimously extend
to their long-time member and
friend, C. Harold Lauck, their

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heartfelt thanks and sincere con-
gratulations on the typographic ex-
cellence of this major project
which he designed and printed for
the edification and enjoyment of
the Association’s entire member-
ship, a production which ably
crowns his twenty-eight years of
continuous membership in this or-
ganization during which time he
has filled every position of leader-
ship and has graciously performed
innumerable acts of service for the
development, growth, and continu-
ing progress of graphic arts educa-
tion.”

The Lexington Lions Club hon-
ored Mr. Lauck by naming him
“Lion of the Year” for 1963-1964.
A charter member of the club, Mr.
Lauck is a past president of the
group and for the past 4 years he
has served as its secretary, a post
he has filled with such distinction

that he has won statewide and na-
tional recognition in the Lions In-
ternational organization.

 

mB SENIOR ARTHUR E. BROADUS, from
Knoxville, ‘Tenn., was the recipient
of the second annual student ser-
vice award named for the univer-
sity former Dean of Admissions
and Dean of Students, Frank J.
Gilliam.

Broadus received the award at
Washington and Lee’s annual sen-
ior banquet held by the Alumni
Association for the 264 degree can-
diates.

Broadus was recognized for out-
standing service to the school and
specifically for. his work as_presi-
dent of the Interfraternity Coun-
cil during the past year. During his
term of office, Rush Week proce-
dures were revised and a Judicial
Board created to make the IFC self-
governing in matters of fraternity
conduct.

He also served as president of
his own social fraternity, Kappa

32

 

ArT Broapus accepts the Gilliam Award
at the Alumni Senior Banquet.

Alpha; was a member of the Dance
Board and the Liberty Hall (liter-
ary) Society; and was a Dean’s List
and Honor Roll student as a pre-
med major.

Established in February, 1963,
the Gilliam Award includes a per-
manent plaque in the University’s
Student Union building for win-
ners’ names. ‘The award is financed
by the Student Body Fund which
is supported by the University’s stu-
dent activities fees.

The award carries a $100 stipend
plus the privilege of designating
another $150 for use by an organi-
zation or academic department of
the University. Broadus designated
that the $150 be used to purchase
books for the biology department
library in honor of Dr. Kenneth
P. Stevens, who retired in June.

mw THE QUALITY of undergraduate
scientific research at Washington
and Lee was underscored when
thirteen students read papers be-
fore the annual meeting of the Vir-
ginia Academy of Science in May.

More undergraduates from Wash-
ington and Lee than from any
other Virginia institution reported
the findings of their research to the
academy. Generally only graduate
students, professors and profession-
al researchers report to sessions of
the academy.

Research for the papers read by
Washington and Lee undergradu-
ates was done under grants from
the National Science Foundation
and the university's own Robert
FE. Lee Research Program which
was established in 1960 to encour-
age well qualified students to be-
come familiar with research tools,
techniques and methods.

Students who helped prepare
papers read to the astronomy,
mathematics, and physics section
of the Academy were James S. Lege,
Jr.. junior from Webster Groves,
Mo.; Alonzo Atkins, Jr... senior
irom Gadsden, Ala.; and Robert
A. Paddock, senior from Redding,
Conn. Directing their research was
Dr. ‘Thomas Ratchford, assistant
professor of physics.

The chemistry section heard pa-
pers by G. Ashley Allen, junior
from Chester, S.C.; Thomas W.
Fauntleroy, Jr., sophomore from
Coraopolis, Pa.; Cary J. Hansel,
freshman from Falls Church, Va.;
Kenneth G. Everett, senior from
Bastrop, La.; Robert L. Cafferata,
senior from Forest Hills, N. Y.; F.
Scott Kennedy, sophomore from
Shreveport, La.; and David L. My-
ers, Junior from Roanoke. Profes-
sors directing their research were
Dr. John H. Wise, Dr. W. J. Watt,
Dr. James K. Shillington, Dr. E. S.
Gilreath and Dr. George S. Whit-
ney.

Students reading papers to the
psychology section of the academy
were Robert E. Lee, ITI, junior
from Glendale, Calif.; Rodney L.
Stump, senior from Pulaski, Va.;
and Kenneth A. Marion, junior
from Blountville, Tenn. Profes-
sors directing their research were
Dr. William M. Hinton and Dr. L.
FE. Jarrard.

& WASHINGTON AND LEE’S fraternity
rush system this fall will reflect
what many students consider a ma-
jor revamping.

By action of the Interfraternity

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Council, 1964 freshmen will be
asked to designate fraternities they
wish to see at “open house” during
the first two days of rush. This will
replace the traditional ‘rush’ into
the dormitories to persuade fresh-
men to visit fraternity houses.

After the first two days, a sub-
dued form of the old rushing for-
mat will be followed. The fraterni-
ties will rush in dormitories but
only four members of each frater-
nity will be allowed in the fresh-
man quardrangle. Freshmen will
then sign up to visit fraternities at
formal rush dates.

During the first two days of rush-
ing, there will be six open houses
each night, from 7 to 11, lasting
for forty minutes each. During
these first two days, no rushee will
be allowed to see any house more
than once, and he must see a mini-
mum of ten houses. ‘There may be
no more than thirty rushees present
at a chapter during any open house.
Each fraternity will be given a list
of the freshmen who will be present
in advance of its open house.

Rush Week will begin on Thurs-
day, September 10, and end on
Wednesday, September 16, the day
classes begin.

Fraternities are expected to de-
vote considerable summer work to
contacting prospective rushees_ to
insure that they sign up for a cer-
tain house during the “open rush”
dates.

General rush rules concerning
fraternity etiquette, contact with
freshmen, etc., remain the same.
‘The freshman rushing fee has been
raised from $3.00 to $5.00 and there
is a $7.50 fee for late payment.

A new Interfraternity Council
constitution was approved by the
Faculty Committee on Fraternities
and ratified by the IFC itself last
February. he new constitution
gave increased disciplinary power to
the IFC, but made no changes in
Rush Week. Changes in the rushing
system were passed by the IFC in
April.

SUMMER 1964

 

New Rush Week regulations could put an end to this familiar scene of annual mayhem
and bloodshed.

 

& WASHINGTON AND LEE’S School of
Law conducted an eight-week sum-
mer session with go students en-
rolled.

A summer curriculum of four

courses was available to students in
two four-week terms, beginning
June 22. Participating professors
included Dr. Wilfred J. Ritz, Pro-
fessor Charles R. McDowell, Pro-
fessor J. William Stewart, and
Professor Robert E. R. Huntley,
all of the school’s regular faculty.

‘The Law School session is the
only summer work offered at Wash-
ington and Lee.

 

w A GRANT Of $5,000 to Washington
and Lee by the Merck Company
Foundation of Rahway, N. J., was
announced in June by President
Fret: C., Gole.

President Cole said the Founda-
tion made its grant in support of
the University’s Robert E. Lee Re-
search Program for Undergradu-
ates, now in its fourth year.

The grant will help support

faculty and student research pro-
jects which bring professors and
students together in research rela-
tionships seldom encountered at
the undergraduate level.

Referring to the program’s broad
application in the humanities and
social sciences, as well as the sci-
ences, a foundation official wrote
President Cole: “This is indeed an
interesting departure in an era
when the primary emphasis in re-
search seems to be in fields of sci-
ences’

In acknowledging the grant,
President -Cole. wrote’ ‘to-: Merck
Company Foundation officials: “I
am particularly gratified also to
know that you and your associates
are concerned, as we are, with the
attempt to bring appropriate bal-
ance into research programs in the
colleges and universities. Your sup-
port will allow us to bring an even
better emphasis in all disciplines
here than we have been able to ac-
complish. before.”

President Cole said the grant
“comes at a very timely moment
when we are making plans for some
of our students to carry on re-
search and study projects with their
professors in the course of the sum-

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mer.

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Athletes attack barbecued chicken at the annual awards outing at Coach McLaughlin’s
summer camp.

Football Generals Face Slim
Prospects For 1964 Season

HEN Washington and _ Lee’s

ve unusually optimistic Coach

Lee McLaughlin takes a rather dim

view of the prospects for the com-

ing season, chances are that the

Generals are in for a struggle in
1964.

Despite the return of some
twenty-nine lettermen, McLaughlin
says the Generals will be plagued
with a lack of experience in many
key positions. He points to the loss
of the entire starting offensive unit
from last year’s team which won
five, lost three.

“We can’t expect to do as well
this year in the won-lost column,”
the Washington and Lee coach
sums up, “but I hope we're going
to be able to play some interesting
ball just the same.”

McLaughlin says he expects
the Generals to pass more in 1964,
relying on the aerial attack as an
integral part of the overall offense.
In recent years, Washington and
Lee has tended to run to the pass
only for the long gainer or scoring
thrust.

“We hope to keep the opponents’
defenses a little more honest than

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we have been doing,” he points out.

Among the top returning players
are Co-captains Bill David and
‘Tom Crenshaw, both senior right
half-backs. David is a pass-catching
and defensive specialist who may
see most action as a split-end, while
Crenshaw is a powerful runner.
Both figure heavily in McLaugh-
lin’s hopes for a rebuilt General at-
tack.

In other sports news, top athletic
awards were handed out to Wash-
ington and Lee students at the an-
nual Sports Barbecue held at the
summer camp of Coach McLaugh-
lin.

Brice Gamber, a senior from
Baltimore, received the ‘Wink’
Glasgow ‘Trophy as the student
displaying the qualities of Wash-
ington and Lee spirit best. Gam-
ber played both football and base-
ball.

John McDaniel, outstanding
quarterback in football and lacrosse
midfielder, was selected as the Uni-
versity’s outstanding varsity athlete.
McDaniel was chosen to play in the
annual national lacrosse All-Star
game this year.

Fall Sports

VARSITY FOOTBALL

Sept. 26—Randolph-Macon ....Away

Oct. 3—Oberlin oo... Away
Oct. 10—Centre oe. Away
Oct. 17—Susquehanna ........ Home
Oct. 24—Hampden-Sydney Home
Oct. 31—Bridgewater ............ Home
Nov. 7—Sewanee ........ Home
Nov. 14—Southwestern .......... Away

Nov. 21—Washington U.

FRESHMAN FOOTBALL

Oct. 3—Woodberry Forest..Home
Oct. g—Bridgewater ].V.....Home
Oct. 16—Greenbrier Mil....... Away
Oct. 23—Staunton Mil........... Away
Oct. 30—Fork Union Mil. Home
Nov. 14—Randolph-Macon Aca...

pepeseesuatsccseeusessissiseesesdenerseseisarss Home
SOCCER

Sept. 25—Pfeiffer wo, Home
Sept. 29—Lynchburg ............. Home
Oct. 2—Randolph-Macon ..Away
Oct. 8—Guilford ....0. Home
Oct. 16—V. P. Lo. Home
Oct. 23—King oo... eee Away
Oct. 31—American Univ. ....Home
Nov. 6—Roanoke ............0.. Away
Nov. 10—Virginia 0... Home
Nov. 13-14—State ‘Tournament...

eitueadsseseuectessesevueeccssvucrsats Lynchburg

CROSS-COUNTRY

Sept. 26—Roanoke ............... Away
Oct. 3—Lynchburg. ............ Home
Oct g—Bridgewater .............. Away
Oct. 17—Old Dominion. ...... Home
Oct. 23—Catholic Univ. ........ Away
Oct 31—American Univ....... Home
Nov. 6—State Meet.......00.0.. Salem
Nov. 14—Fairmont ........0005 Home
Nov. 21—High Point............. Home

Nov. 28—NCAA.......... Wheaton, Ill.
Dec. 5—Buena Vista-Lexington
Weesesssteyess Road Race—Buena Vista

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Report of the Annual Meeting

 

Alumni Hear First Report of Plan
To Establish an Alumni House

NNOUNCEMENT OF PLANS for a

Washington and Lee alumni
house and a plea for loyalty to the
University from its former Rector
were highlights of the annual gen-
cral meeting of the Alumni Asso-
clation.

Held Saturday, June 13, in Lee
Chapel as one of the closing events
of the fourth General Alumni Re-
union, the association meeting was
attended by some one hundred
former students, as well as current
officers and members of the Alum-
ni Board of ‘Trustees.

In addition to the annual report
by Executive Secretary William C.
Washburn (see page 41), alumni
heard remarks by outgoing Asso-
ciation President Dr. John D. Bat-
tle, °34; the report of treasurer Wil-
lam B. Wisdom, ’21, of another
banner Alumni Fund year (see
page 38); and a report from the
nominating committee on new
members for the Alumni Board and
the University athletic committee.

Alton B. Sartor, ’38, of Shreve-
port, La., was introduced as the
new association president, along
with Vice-President E. Stewart Ep-
ley, ’49, of New York City and
‘Treasurer E. Marshall Nuckols, Jr.,
33, of Camden, N. J.

Ki Williams, ’15, of Waynesboro,
Va., spoke from the floor, remind-
ing fellow alumni of “social and
political changes” taking place in
the nation that may affect the fu-
ture of Washington and Lee.

It was in response to Mr. Wil-

SUMMER 1964

 

T. B. BRYANT, ’28, left, new President E. ALTON SARTOR, ]R., ’98, and E. Stewart EPLEY
3 a 3
"49, discuss plans for the new alumni center.

liams’ remarks that James R. Cas-
kie, ’o6, of Lynchburg, former
Rector and current member of the
University Board of Trustees, called
on alumni for renewed devotion to
their University.

Both Mr. Williams and Mr. Cas-
kie, who spoke near the close of the
hour-long meeting, drew long ap-
plause from the alumni present.

Biggest news of the meeting in-
volved the first steps to provide
Washington and Lee alumni with
a headquarters house to serve as
the association’s offices and_ its
alumni activities center. President
Battle announced the plans in his
informal summary of his year in
office.

President Battle said the Univer-
sity had offered to the Association
the former home of the late Dr.
Fitzgerald Flournoy, ’21, who died

in January. The home, a_ large
brick structure, is located on the
extreme north side of the Wash-
ington and Lee campus, adjoining
property of Virginia Military In-
stitute on Letcher Avenue.

Battle said a special committee
of the Alumni Board had met in
Lexington in April to consider the
proposal, visited the property and
evaluated the various uses the as-
sociation might make of the build-
ing. He said a new committee, ap-
pointed by President Sartor, would
continue to work on the alumni
house project in close harmony
with members of the University
administration. ‘Che committee will
help determine what functions the
house will serve, the needs it will
meet, and what alterations and re-
modeling will be necessary to adapt
the home for these purposes. It al-

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so will determine costs and explore
ways the project can be financed, he
said.

President Battle assured the
meeting that members of the Alum-
ni Board were convinced that finan-
cial arrangements should be made
without compromising in any ma-
jor way the annual support of the
University by alumni through the
annual Fund. He promised a full
report to alumni on subsequent
developments in alumni house
planning through future issues of
the Alumni Magazine.

Also in his remarks, President
Battle paid special tribute to the
service to the association by Vice-
President IT. B. Bryant, ’28L, of
Orangeburg, S.C., and ‘Treasurer
Wisdom, ‘21, of New Orleans, both
of whom join Battle in completing
four-year terms on the Alumni
Board.

President Battle read to the
meeting a special resolution pre-
pared by Mr. Wisdom concerning
the death in December of the late

Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines. ‘The
resolution was adopted unanimous-
ly.

In the absence of Nominating
Committee Chairman Barton W.
Morris, ’43, of Roanoke, Dr. Wil-
liam M. Hinton, ’29, of the Uni-
versity faculty, offered the report
of the group. Nominated and sub-
sequently unanimously elected to
four-year terms on the Board were
Francis W. Plowman, 721, of
Swarthmore, Pa.; ‘Thomas C. Frost,
Jr., 50, of San Antonio, ‘Texas; and
James W. Priest, °43, of Dayton,
Ohio. Nominated and elected with-
out opposition to a two-year term
on the University committee on in-
tercollegiate athletics was Norman
L. Dobyns, °54, of Springfield, Va.
(See Page 4o for additional infor-
mation about the new alumni ofh-

cials.)

Mr. Williams urged all alumni
and officers of the association to
keep informed of “social change”
in the nation and to make their
feelings known in a proper manner

 

to the University’s authorities. He
said he felt these problems were a
“family” affair that should be of
concern to all members of the
Washington and Lee family.

In remarks given with great feel-
ing, Mr. Caskie told the audience
that, as a member of the Univer-
sity’s Board, he felt he knew the
sentiments of many alumni. He re-
ferred to General Lee after Ap-
pomattox and how Lee had called
on his soldiers and fellow country-
men to give their loyalty to the re-
stored Union. Mr. Caskie appealed
to alumni to bestow on Washing-
ton and Lee the kind of loyalty Lee
demonstrated himself.

He assured his listeners that the
‘Trustees, in his opinion, were de-
voted to Washington and Lee and
would make no decisions except
those dictated by the best interests
of the University.

“With God’s help to direct and
lead us, Washington and Lee will
continue to be an outstanding in-
fluence on our nation,” he said.

“Kr WILLLIAMS, ‘715, left,
stresses his point with former
Rector JAMES CASKIE, ’06, fol-
lowing the annual meeting
in Lee Chapel where both
addressed assembled
alumni.

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WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INCORPORATED
OPERATING STATEMENT
For the Year ended June 30, 1964
INCOME:
1963-64 Alumni Fund—total gifts and pledges.......0... cc ceeceeeeeeeeteeneeneens $165,272.42
Add:
Uncollected pledges at June 30, 1963, on 1962-63 Alumni Fund.... 9,764.59
175,037.01
Less:
Uncollected pledges at June 30, 1964...........::cceeeeeee $ 19,555-11
Pledges written off, 1962-63 Fund.............ccccceeeeeeee 1,082.50 20,637.61
+Otal Income Collected. 76 7 ei el ds $154,399.40
OPERATING EXPENSES:
epee aes i Pe i vncsvien cl $ 24,119.45
DN oi ete iri av se ee 334.53
PUG OR CISC ii a ag. he apa bigpe Peee a, bia ieee a eee 6,332.07
iced aene le 11,730.90
Oe isi cd ee 4,213.26
ieee 793.00
ONO i ele i 1,804.07
RRR eR eves aie aa ee. 2572.42
RT oe ia een ate ees ee ea ce 1,098.46
Boies secs oyeee le ss eee eset 1,880.77
POON A CC eae ted Hegel rei a 631.98
ene is 853.69
MOAR CO a SL ea 1,256.64
PEO ACE AU a re oceohea eens tens cdecees Cheaerescevsicooekr ee, 57,621.24
Excess of Collected Income over Operating Expenses..........0....c0 $ 96,778.16
DESIGNATED INCOME TRANSFERRED TO
UNIVERSITY TREASURER:
Encdownment— 1990 Glass. Fund.-)) 2. el ele leis > 4,158.57
PQCOWMCIISHOTDEE yl arias ihe (ee 30,151.81
Aaron Duane Funds. ose i an 2,141.18
Journalism Buiding Fund sion hi ase yin ki ue 2,355.00
Umiversity departmental uses 3.000) goss cess cade LR atin eca de naa 5299.90
Non-endowed scholarships and special funds............c cece 1,289.78
TPotat Desionated Income Franslerred..0 cede a OE ae 45,396.24
Excess of Collected Undesignated Income over Expenditures.... $ 51,381.92
REVOLVING FUND BALANCE, June 30, 1964 (Cash advanced by
Ripvetsity. FP reasuren).i...,..ut a iis ook iae S Se $ 800.00
NOTE: .
All items of income and expenditure in this statement, except uncollected pledges, were
taken into the accounts of the Treasurer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMER 1964

 

 

The Alumni Fund
Goes Over the Top!

Alumni Fund Council Chairman Kime
Reports That the Goal of $165,000
Was Reached, Despite a Sight Drop
In the Number of Contributors in 1964

T Is A pleasure for me, on behalf
I of the Alumni Fund Council,
to announce the completion of a
successful and record-breaking AI-
umni Fund Campaign for 1963-
1964.

Nearly a year ago, the Alumni
Fund Council established the rath-
er ambitious goal of $165,000 for
the 1963-1964 drive. Frankly, some
of us had reservations about in-
creasing the goal by $25,000 over
the previous year’s successful ach-
levement. But we felt that the re-
sponsibilities of our membership
on the council dictated that we set
our sights high and that we work
toward this goal with enthusiasm
and diligent effort.

When the books were closed on
June 30, contributions to the Al-
umni Fund for the year totaled
$165,272.42. Never before in the
history of our University had _ al-
umni so generously supported the

38

By Ropert E. Kime, ’51

Chairman,
The Alumni Fund Council

annual fund. Every alumnus, even
those who, for one reason or an-
other, were not among the contrib-
utors this year, can take great
pride in this measure of financial
encouragement which we, the Uni-
versity’s former students, have been
able to offer to our Alma Mater.
When we consider the remark-
able growth of the Alumni Fund
over the past decade, the results of
the past year take on even greater
significance. In 1954-1955, contri-
butions totaled $62,508.27, and
even this reflected a dramatic in-
crease over previous years. In 1957-
1958, the last full year before the
University—with alumni _leader-
ship—undertook the University
Development Program, the Fund
had grown to $113,681.79. Upon
completion of the development
campaign, the Fund was resumed
on a modest but annually growing
scale. ‘Today we can look back on

a growth of over $100,000 above the
1955 level of support.

Who or what is responsible for
this progress? In a word—you.
Whatever may be the contribution
of the Alumni Fund Council mem-
bership, it is littke compared to the
outstanding support which you
have seen fit to give. Special ac-
claim and recognition must go,
certainly, to the hundreds of class
and regional agents who have la-
bored so well and so faithfully to
enlist the help and inspire the in-
terest of thousands of others. I
know my associates on the council
appreciate their efforts more than
words can express, and I know that
everyone who shares our interest
in Washington and Lee joins us in
our heartfelt gratitude.

While there is reason for satis-
faction in the results of the 1963-
64 Fund drive, there is a sober-
ing statistic that causes us concern

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and will be a matter of important
concern to the next Alumni Fund
Council. I refer, of course, to the
number of contributors who _par-
ticipated in the recent campaign.

Fewer alumni gave to the 1963-
1964 Fund than the previous year’s
fund drive: only 3,735 this year
as compared with 3,905 last year.
It is most apparent that those who
did give gave generously indeed
for the Fund to achieve such a lofty
new level.

The sobering aspect of these fig-
ures concerns the number who did
not respond to our appeal for sup-
port. Of the 10,924 alumni who
were contacted, 7,189 persons chose
not to participate, or neglected, or

 

forgot the opportunity to assist the
University in an important way.

When the drive began last au-
tumn, you will recall that we re-
flected on some of the reasons why
alumni do support the Alumni
Fund. ‘Today, I’m inclined to think
about some of the reasons why such
a large number have not given.

(It should be pointed out that
the participation totals for Wash-
ington and Lee, when compared
with most colleges and universities,
are very good. Not the best, but
very good. But because so many of
us think of what happened to us
at Washington and Lee as some-
thing special in our lives, we also

SUMMER 1964

like to think that Washington and
Lee alumni are capable of reacting
to the needs of their growing Uni-
versity in a special way.)

Perhaps some who do not give
feel that their gift must, of neces-
sity, be small, and hence, not real-
ly important. Nothing could be
less true. What is important is that
the alumnus has cared enough to
give something.

Perhaps some feel that Wash-
ington and Lee is doing all right
without their help, that whatever
their gift might be, it won’t be real-
ly useful. Again, this is not true.
No college or university—not even
giants like Harvard or the Univer-
sity of California—has — sufficient

funds to achieve as much signifi-
cant progress in higher education
as its trustees, administration, fac-
ulty, and alumni hope for. Wash-
ington and Lee can put to vital
use every penny for additional fi-
nancial aid for’ students, for
strengthening the faculty, for im-
proving the instructional facilities.
Your gift 7s needed.

Perhaps some believe that high-
er education as a whole can take
care of itself, drawing substantial
support from the giant foundations
and from the government. I hope
any who feel this way might consid-
er the role of the privately-sup-
ported institutions, the traditional

 

balance they have given to our
system of diversified higher educa-
tion, and to the traditional sources
of their strength. Their strength
has come and _ still comes from
those who know these schools most
intimately, men who have known
first hand the value of the educa-
tional opportunity which these
schools can give. If these men lose
faith in their Alma Maters, or show
apparent loss of faith through in-
difference or neglect, then the fu-
ture of the privately-supported col-
lege will be in grave danger.
Soon, we shall face the renewed
challenge of a new Alumni Fund.
Those of us who accept the respon-
sibility of membership on the AI-

“If these men lose faith

in their Alma Maters, or show
an apparent loss of faith
through indifference or neglect,
then the future of the privately-
supported college will be in

grave danger.”

—Chairman Rosert E. Kime, ’51

umni Fund Council can look ahead
with confidence. We can draw in-
spiration from the past year, from
the past decade, and from 216 years
of our University’s history. The
challenge and opportunity for con-
tinued growth are undiminished.
We need only to find the words and
action that will bring others to rec-
ognize the opportunity and neces-
sity for building an ever-stronger
Washington and Lee University.

Again, I want to thank every-
one—I wish I could do it personal-
ly—who helped make this past year
one of the most personally satisfy-
ing efforts I have ever made on
behalf of our University.

39

Four New Faces Added to the Leadership
Of Your Alumni Association’s Progress

 

outs
OR Oe Shean

FRANCIS W. PLOWMAN, ’24

Dr. J. W. PRIEST, '43

 

‘THOMAS C. FROST, JR., ’50

NORMAN L. DoBYNs, ’54

40

 

 

Francis W. Plowman, ’24, is a resident of
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and is vice-president
of Scott Paper Company with offices in Philadel-
phia. Joining Scott Paper in 1928, Mr. Plowman
has been a director and its general sales manager
since 1943. He is well known throughout the
paper industry. Mr. Plowman is a very active
member of the Philadelphia alumni chapter and
served as area chirman for the University Devel-
opment Program. He and Mrs. Plowman have
two daughters and one son.

Dr. James W. Priest, 43, of Dayton, Ohio.
Following WW II Priest was an accounting ma-
chine representative for IBM. He returned to the
Medical College of Ohio State University and
received his M.D. degree in 1954. Dr. Priest is
a practicing physician in the Dayton area and,
though quite some distance away, is an active
member of the Cincinnati alumni chapter. Jim
and his wife ‘Timmie have three sons and two
daughters.

‘Thomas Clayborne Frost, Jr., ’50, of San An-
tonio, Texas, is the young president of the Frost
National Bank. He is treasurer of the Texas
Foundation of Voluntary Supported Colleges
and Universities and a trustee of the Southwest
Texas Methodist Hospital. Tom is making an
impressive career as a bank executive. He is mar-
ried to the former Patricia Holden and _ the
couple have four sons.

Norman Lester Dobyns, °54, of Springfield,
Virginia, is administrative assistant to Virginia’s
Congressman from the first district, the Honor-
able ‘Thomas N. Downing. Before joining Rep-
resentative Downing in 1960 Norm was with the
Product Advertising and Sales Promotion De-
partment for General Electric Company. For one
year he was vice-president of an advertising and
public relations agency in the nation’s capitol.
He has served as class agent for several years and
is an active member of the Washington, D.C.,
alumni chapter. He is married and has two
daughters,

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CHAPTER CORRESPONDENTS

Applachian—James W. Harman, Jr., ’44,
Tazewell, Virginia

Arkansas—H. Tyndall Dickinson, ’41, 6
Palisade Drive, Little Rock

Atlanta—Farris P. Hotchkiss, ’58, 120 Bis-
cayne Drive, Apt. B-5

Augusta-Rockingham—J. B. Stombock, ’41,
Box 594, Waynesboro, Virginia

Baltimore—William N. Clements, II, 750,
701 Kingston Road

Birmingham—John V. Coe, ‘25, 3421
Spring Hill Road, Birmingham 13

Charleston, West Virginia—William T. W.
Brotherton, Jr., ’47, 612 Charleston Na-
tional Bank Building

Charlotte—Harry A. Berry, Jr., ’51, 3832
Abingdon Road, Charlotte. N. C.

Chattanooga—Gerry U. Stephens, ’50, 2720
Haywood Avenue

Chicago—William H. Hillier, ’38, 321 West
Lincoln Avenue, Wheaton, Illinois

Cleveland—William M. France, ’58, 21075
Sydenham Road, Shaker Heights 22, O.

Cumberland Walley—I. Glenn Shively, ’36,

102 Woodland Way, Chambersburg, Pa.

Danville—Douglas K. Frith, ’57, 5 Monroe
Arms Apartments, Martinsville, Virginia

Florida West Coast—Joseph H. Chumbley,
’55, 205 Fifth Street North, St. Peters-
burg 1, Florida

Houston—Robert I. Peeples, '57, 2344 South
Boulevard

Jacksonville—William B. Barnett, ’58, 4619
Apache Avenue, Jacksonville 10, Florida

Kansas City—W. H. Leedy, °49, 15 West
10th Street

Louisville—A., R. Boden, °52, 3913 Druid
Hills Road

Lynchburg—S. Thomas Martin, ’38, 89
North Princeton Circle

Mid-South—Milburn K Noell, Jr., ’51, 199
Fenwick, Memphis 11, Tennessee

New Orleans—John H. McMillan, ’42, 5620
Hurst St., New Orleans 18, La.

New River-Greenbrier—Judge Robert J.
Thrift, Jr., ’31, Box 599, Fayetteville,
West Virginia

New York—Richard H. Turrell, ’49, 26 Ho-
bart Gap Road, Short Hills, New Jersey

Norfolk—Earle A. Cadmus, ’'26, 303 New
Kirn Building, Portsmouth, Virginia

North Texas—C. M. Patrick, Jr., ’55, 5358
Montrose, Dallas, Texas

Northern Louisiana—Robert U. Goodman,
’50, 471 Leo Street, Shreveport, Louisiana

Palm Beach-Ft. Lauderdale—Hugh _ S&S.
Glickstein, ’53, Suite 304-06 Atlantic Fed-
eral Building, 1750 East Sunrise Boule-
vard, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Peninsula—I. Leake Wornom, Jr., ’50,
2219 Chesapeake Avenue, Hampton, Va.

Philadelphia—Stuart J. Bracken, ‘54, 727
Mt. Moro Road, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Piedmont—Robert F, Campbell, Jr., ’42,
621 Nokomis Court, Winston Salem,
North Carolina

Pittsburgh—John E. Perry, ’38, 1330 Ter-
race Drive

Richmond—John F. Kay, Jr., 751, 5502
Toddsbury Road

Roanoke—William R. Holland, ’50, Moun-
tain Trust Bank, P. O. Box 1411

San Antonio—Robert H. Seal, °44, 417
Canterbury Hills, San Antonio, Texas

St. Louis—Burr W. Miller, °49, 6632 Pep-
peridge Drive, St. Louis 34, Mo.

Southern Ohio—Robert W. Hilton, Jr., '38,
3277 Hardisty Avenue, Cincinnati 8, Ohio

Tri-State—Joe W. Dingess, ’21, 151 Kings
Highway, Huntington, West Virginia

Tulsa—Eldridge C. Hubert, ’51, P. O. Box
93

Upper Potomac—Thomas N. Berry, ’38, 15
N. Alleghany St., Cumberland, Maryland

Washington, D. C. — Arthur Clarendon
Smith, Jr., ’41, 1318 You Street, N.W.

Wilmington—S. Maynard Turk, ’52, 100
Cambridge Drive

 

If you move, contact the nearest
chapter correspondent for

news of meetings.

SUMMER 1964

Secretary Wm. Washburn’s

Report Reflects Important

Growth of the Association

By WiLLIAM C. WASHBURN

Executive Secretary

T IS ALWAYS a pleasure for me to
I report on the activities of the
Alumni Association which, in my
opinion, shows steady progress, and
it is particularly gratifying when
I can report another successful year.

Last year, you will remember, I

reported a record for the Alumni

Fund, both in terms of money re-
ceived and contributors participat-
ing. This year I am happy to say
that we have already set another
record for the total, and it is indeed
possible that we will reach a new
level of participation. As of this
morning the fund has _ reached
$147,488. (Last year on July 1 it was
$140,000.) Now the goal for this
year was $165,000, so we have some
climbing to do yet before the end
of the fiscal year on June goth. But
we can all take pride, I think, in
the fact that the total fund has set
a new record.

Let me pause to pay special
thanks to all who have worked, and
who are still working, so hard to
make this success. What levels we
reach are due to the splendid co-
operation of so many—from Presi-
dent Cole and the entire adminis-
tration, the Alumni Board of Trus-
tees, the Alumni Fund Council
(and a special thanks to Bob Kime
who headed this Council), from the
faculty, and especially from the
ninety-three class agents and the
literary hundreds of regional ag-
ents and workers who even this
very day are working for Washing-

ton and Lee. I cannot overempha-
size the importance of each and
every one of these groups, nor can
I possibly express all the thanks
that are in my heart and, I know,
in yours also.

A word of caution might be en-
tered here. We have noted it in
past years. While we seem to have
success in the total amount of funds
raised, we need very badly to in-
crease the number of alumni who
participate. As of right now, we
have about thirty-two per cent of
those who are solicited actually
participating. Just think what
could be done if we could raise
this percentage—not only in terms
of financial support, but more es-
pecially in terms of overall interest
and dedication to Washington and
Lee.

Let me say to those who wonder
about our statistics that to the best
of my knowledge we define an al-
umnus in the very same way that
every other college does. Some col-
leges and universities, the ones with
which we alumni normally like to
compare ourselves, are getting par-
ticipation percentages much higher
than ours. Now I realize this is
more my problem and the Fund
Council’s—but it is also yours! You
should be aware of this and go back
to your home community with re-
newed effort and determination to
pass the word—to do what you can
individually to help encourage
more participation.

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I wonder if I might inject a sad
but maybe pertinent note right
here: Last ‘Tuesday Washington
and Lee’s oldest alumnus passed
away. Dr. Leslie Lyle Compbell,
class of 1887 and born in Septem-
ber, 1863, died here in Lexington.
He would have been 101 years old
this coming September. He was a
perfectly wonderful old gentleman
and a distinguished alumnus. I
have called on him several times
recently in his home, and it was al-
ways an inspiration to me. Ihe
spirit, love, and devotion he held
for Washington and Lee were truly
wonderful. It is his type of devo-
tion—his type of active interest—
that we must awaken in all who
share in Washington and Lee.

There are many other parts of
alumni association work. Those of
you who are here today can look
around your campus and see the

tremendous growth of the physical
plant. Let me assure you that simi-
lar progress can be found in the
academic program, in student ac-
tivities, and in all other phases of
college life. Through the Alumni
Magazine we have tried to keep the
alumni advised of this growth. The
magazine is now being mailed quar-
terly to 11,200 alumni. This year
we had even larger issues than last
year—two 48-page issues, one large
56-page issue (the largest since I’ve
been here), and a 32-page issue. We
find that there is more and more
to tell about your University; we
are using more pictures to help tell
the University’s story. ‘The maga-
zine continues to be our main chan-
nel of communication. We hope
you enjoy it.

The association has, I am happy
to report, added two new chapters
this year and there are two more in
the planning stage. I personally

have traveled to a great many of
these chapters this year, and on
quite a few trips I have accompan-
ied Dean Gilliam. Members of the
faculty and other representatives of
the University have visited many
chapters. I honestly feel that we are
doing well on this score. I assure
you that all on the faculty and staff
at the University are willing and
eager to visit the field chapters-—
of course, within the limits of their
academic load. What I am trying
to say here is that, in my opinion,
we can be quite happy about our
chapter organization. I feel as
though there is new vigor and
interest manifested throughout the
chapters.

Your association continues in its
traditional activities. All are very,
very important, but I shall just
mention them. The Association
takes an active part in Freshman
Camp; with the help of IBM we

 

Sons of alumni graduating in 1964 included these seniors: standing, l-r, W. H. Kipp, III; R. M. Roperts, Jr. T. C. Lewis; F. W.
Wricut; P. D. SHARP, JR.; G. B. SPAULDING; W. J. SmitH; J. H. Harpwick, JRr.; and A. E. BroApus. Proud fathers, l-r, are R. M. Ros-
ERTS, 43; C. I. Lewis, ’g0; ‘IT. P. Wricut, ’29; P. D. SHARP, ’31; G. M. SPAULDING, "34; J. C. Smirn, ’91; J. H. HArpwick, ’31; and T. H.
BROADUS, ’25.

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continue to service fraternities
faster with better records. Home-
coming was a big success this year,
as was the Mock Convention in
which your Association helped to
some degree. The Randolph ‘Tuck-
er Law Lectures was another oc-
casion for the gathering of alumni
for intellectual inspiration as well
as good fellowship. ‘The Senior
Banquet was held again this year
and, of course, this very Reunion
is now in progress.

Perhaps our biggest project this
year is the Directory. This turned
out to be a much larger undertak-
ing than we figured. We have been
working very hard and devoting
every spare minute to it. Here let
me pause to mention the Alumni
Office staff. We’ve attempted to do
this Directory without too much
outside clerical help. It has meant
a large extra load for everyone in
my office, and I know you will join
me in publicly expressing every

Other alumni sons graduating included, l-r, E. A. Ames, III; J

 

thanks. ‘The Directory is ninety-
nine per cent finished. Had it not
been for the Mock Convention and
this Reunion, we could have finish-
ed it. Our target date now is July
15th, when we will crate it all up
and ship it to the publishers. ‘They
have estimated early September as
a time when they can start sending
us the completed Directory. I'll not
stop to describe the contents. I'll
just say that it will be a paper-
bound book of approximately 392
pages, containing an alphabetical
section, a class section, and a geo-
graphic section.

These are just a few of the phases
in which your Association has op-
erated this year. For the future, the
horizons hold great promise and
excitement. One of these exciting
plans is the prospect of our long-
awaited Alumni House. In the
president’s report I am sure he will
want to tell you of those plans. It
is enough for me to report here that

 

we are finally on the road to doing
something definite toward the es-
tablishment of a very nice Alum-
ni House. I am sure that you will
be interested in what President Bat-
tle reports and in the future reports
which will be coming forth from
the Alumni Board of Trustees.

In closing, let me say how much
I have enjoyed this year. As I look
back, I see definite progress. There
is much yet to be done, and I look
forward to this with excitement.
Washington and Lee is steadily
going forward. Our Alumni Asso-
ciation must keep up the pace.

I want to express my _ thanks
again to President Cole and all
Universtiy officials and faculty; to
the Alumni Board of ‘Trustees; to
Bob Kime and the Alumni Fund
Council; the absolute army of

chapter officials, class and regional
agents; and to all who have given
so unselfishly of their time and
talents to make this a great year.

 

. F. Lackey; J. ‘TuRNER; D. R. WALLIs, Jr.; C. F. Urnqunarrt, III; G. B.

CRADDOCK, JR.; J. P. Res; K. P. LANE, JR.; and R. A. KELL. The fathers seated are, l-r, E. A. AMES, yh. 245 J.-S. LAckry; ’24; Coorer
TURNER, JR., 27; D. R. WALLIS, ’35; C. F. URQUHART, JR.; ’30; G. B.Crappock, ’30; M. J. REIS, ’30; K. P. LANE, ’36; and R. C. KELL, ’31.

SUMMER 1964 43

CLass Notes

1909

A veteran Louisiana physician was hon-
ored by Tulane University upon comple-
tion of fifty years in the practice of medi-
cine. He is Dr. WILLIAM EDMOND Morer-
LAND. Dr. Moreland, after getting his
medical degree from Tulane School of
Medicine, completed his internship at
Charity Hospital in Shreveport. He en-
tered the general practice of medicine at
Powhatan in 1917 and today remains ac-
tive as a “country doctor.” Dr. and Mrs.
Moreland have four children and _ ten
grandchildren.

1910

Harry J. LEMLEy, a retired former judge
of Hope, Arkansas, has been awarded a
Certificate of Commendation by the Okla-
homa Civil War Centennial Commission
for his active role during their centennial
and particularly for his writings about
Indians of the Confederacy. On “Law Day”
held on May 1, 1964, in Little Rock, the
Hon. Richard C. Butler paid tribute to
Judge Lemley. He described him, in the
words of Sir ‘Thomas More, as ‘“‘a man for
all seasons.” Judge Lemley was en-
gaged in the active practice of law at
Hope from 1912 to 1939 when he was
appointed U.S. District Judge. He has
been active in many areas. He is consid-
ered one of the country’s outstanding au-
thorities on the history of the Civil War
(War Between the States) and he is the
author of numerous papers on Confeder-
ate Military History. Several years ago
the Arkansas Bar Association presented
Judge Lemley a plaque in recognition of
his services on the bench. Judge and Mrs.
Lemley have two grandsons and three
eranddaughters.

1913

WILLIAM A. HYMAN, an _ internationally
known lawyer, has charged that some New
York hospitals, particularly in the Brook-
lyn Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in
collaboration with the Sloan-Kettering
Institute, have been conducting cancer
experiments without the patients’ “‘in-
formed consent in writing.” Hyman, a di-
rector of the Chronic Disease Hospital
since 1925, insists he favors hospital re-
search, but only if the patients have full
understanding and are capable of giving
meaningful consent. ‘The experiments
came to Hyman’s attention when three
doctors resigned. Mr. Hvyman’s_§accusa-
tions triggered a state investigation re-
sulting in an order by the State Supreme
Court that the Chronic Disease Hospital

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Dr. WILLIAM E, MORELAND, ’09

open its records of the controversial can-
cer experiments. In late February New
York City, in a crackdown stemming from
the controversy, warned private hos-
pitals it would cut off payments for city
patients if the patients are used in ex-
periments without their written consent.

1914

W. Houston BARCLAY spends his winters
in Lexington, Virginia, and the summers
in Estes Park, Colorado. He and Mrs.
Barclay have four children and_ seven-
teen grandchildren.

1917

MARRIED: Witu1AM J. Cox and Miss
Jane Rust were married on July 25, 1963,
in Leesburg, Virginia.

Epwarp L. Hrx started work in April as
manager of the Oregon Humane Society.
Mr. Hix, who makes his home in Port-
land, Oregon, retired in 1961 as super-
intendent of the Union Carbide Metals
Company after forty-four years of service.

1919

Until three years ago HuGH COLUMBUS
‘TricG continued to play tennis regularly.
He is now retired from the Railway Mail
Service and lives in Arlington, Virginia.

1921

CHARLES L. GILKESON retired May 1, 1964,
as Senior Staff Engineer with the Virginia
Electric and Power Company in Rich-
mond.

Since leaving Washington and Lee, J. B.
Hoke has been in the engineering and
construction field. He has seen service
with the West Virginia State Road Com-

mission, with a firm of consulting engi-
neers in Philadelphia and with a subsi-
diary of DuPont Company in paving ma-
terial manufacturing. Since 1938 he has
organized four companies in the construc-
tion and manufacturing fields.

1922

Retired Rear Admiral ALBerr C. Mur-
DAUGH is teaching advanced physics at
George Washington University.

WILLIAM H. BARRETT is the assistant
principal of the Falls Church (Va.) High
School.

1923

YreD L. Wuite has been in the Small Loan
Business in Virginia for thirty-two years.
He makes his home in Petersburg.

1925

PuiLiep F. HOWERTON is among five per-
sons who received an honorary doctor’s
degree from Southwestern University at
Commencement exercises in June. Mr.
Howerton’s honor comes because of his
extensive work in_ the _ Presbyterian
church. He has been an elder since 1940
and served as a deacon eight years before
that. He is president of the board of trus-
tees of the Presbyterian Foundation, Inc.,
and was moderator of the General Assem-
bly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., in
1958-59. In addition to his Presbyterian
activities, Mr. Howerton is a life mem-
ber and charter trustee of the Million
Dollar Round ‘Table of the National As-
sociation of Life Underwriters.

1926

Epwin G. HUNDLEY, vice-president of the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Com-
pany of Baltimore, was elected chairman
of the executive committee of the Surety
Association of America in May. Mr. Hund-
ley is director of his company’s fidelity
and surety departments. He is a lawyer
and was in private practice before join-
ing the USF&G in 1929.

1927

WALTON HowaArp BACHRACH has_ been
the Mayor of Cincinnati since 1961. Pre-
viously he had been in the restaurant
business in that city.

1928

WILLIAM C. Drewry lives in Beverly
Hills, California, where he is vice-presi-
dent of Southern California Edison Com-
pany. He and his wife have one son,
Tony, now attending the University of
Southern California.

1931

Joun C. SmirH, Senior Vice-president of
the Northern ‘Trust Company of Chicago,
retired May 1, 1964. Mr. Smith began
his career with Northern Trust in 1931,

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and after serving in several capacities he
was named officer in charge of the newly-
created Administrative Department in
1949 and was elected to the position of
Senior Vice-president in 1962. He is a
member of the Citizens Board of the
University of Chicago and is president and
trustee of the Chicago Home for Incur-
ables.

1932

JoHN C. Harris of Scottsboro, Alabama,
is president of Scottsboro Wholesale Com-
pany, Incorporated. He is a past-president
of the Alabama Wholesale Grocers’ Asso-
ciation and vice-president of the United
States Wholesale Grocers’ Association.

1934

After graduation, RuceE P. DEVAN, Jr.,
entered the general insurance business in
Charleston, West Virginia, with DeVan
and Company. He became president of
the firm in 1938. Recently DeVan and
Company merged with Gallaher and
Sutherland, both companies of over fifty
years of business in Charleston. Ruge is
now president of DeVan-Gallaher. He is
prominent in civic affairs and has served
as president and director of many organ-
izations.

1936

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Fitz-
GERALD, a son, Kevin Clay, on April 2,
1964, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In January
Mr. Fitzgerald was promoted to vice-
president of the Home-State Production
Company of Tulsa. The Fitzgeralds also
have a daughter, Mary Catherine, three
years old.

Dr. JAMES L. Price, JR., Professor and
Chairman of Religion at Duke University,
has been named the new Dean of Trinity
College in Durham, North Carolina. Dr.
Price, who will continue his responsibili-
ties in the Department of Religion, will
also become Associate Dean of Arts and
Sciences. A scholar of the New Testament,
Dr. Price has been a faculty member at
Duke for fourteen years. He is 1964 vice-
president of the American Academy of
Religion and a member of the Southern
Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
Before going to Duke, Dr. Price taught
at Washington and Lee and at South-
western at Memphis. During World War
II he was a Navy chaplain in the Pa-
cific area.

1937

WILLIAM A. CONNOR is a rancher and a
banker in Daingerfield, ‘Texas. The past-
president of ‘Texas Materials, Incorporat-
ed, he is a director of the local National
Bank and the Daingerfield Industrial
Foundation. He is a breeder of cattle and
has ranches in Morris and Cass counties.
Bill is married to the former Lucille
Weise, and the couple has three daugh-
ters.

SUMMER 1964

1938

GERALD M, Livery of Prairie Village, Kan-
sas, and a representative of the Kansas
City general agency of National Life In-
surance Company of Vermont, has earned
membership in the firm’s 1964 President’s
Club. Membership in the club recognizes
outstanding achievement in client service
and sales as a career life underwriter for
the company.

The president of Sweetwater Hosiery
Mills, OvtIver KING JONEs, JR., has been
elected chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors of National Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers. The election took place in
April during the 16th annual convention
held in Boca Raton, Florida. Mr. Jones
and his family live in Sweetwater, Ten-
nessee, where he is active in business, re-
ligious, civic and banking affairs.

J. McLain Stewart is director of McKin-
sey and Company, Incorporated, in New
York City. He makes his home in New
Canaan, Connecticut.

THE Rev. Morton T. Ketsty will have
a book published this summer by Double-
day entitled Tongue Speaking, an Ex-
periment in Religious Experience. The
Reverend Kelsey was asked to do this
work because of his knowledge of the
tongue-speaking movement and_ because
of his having a psychological clinic at his
church, St. Luke’s Episcopal in Monrovia,
California, which gives a viewpoint from
which to discuss the subject. The book
will be the first non-Pentecostal attempt
to assess the experience of tongue-speaking
objectively in nearly thirty years.

GrEorcE F. BAvurR has been promoted to
senior staff engineer, Armco Division,
Armco Steel Corporation.

1940

MERVIN H. LuriA has been appointed
regional vice-president of the Luria Di-
vision of the Ogden Corporation in Bev-
erly Hills, California. Merv has been with
the company since 1939 and now has the
responsibility for company operations in
a broad area encompassing California and
most of the Western and Mid-western
states. He will continue his office in Los
Angeles which is the headquarters for the
Western region. Luria is the largest scrap
metal firm in the world and is celebrating
its 71st anniversary this year. In the Los
Angeles plant Luria has built a machine
called Lurment. Old auto bodies are fed
into one end of the machine, and in an
amazingly short time, the autos are frag-
mented and come out the other end of
the machine in fist-size pellets, g8 per
cent ferrous content.

Joining Corning Glass Works in 1946,
JAMES H. BIERER has been market research
analyst, marketing manager of Consumer
Products Division and manager of the
tableware department. It was recently an-
nounced that he has been appointed
general manager of the Consumer Pro-

ducts Division of Corning Glass. Before
joining Corning, he was associated with
Sperry Gyroscope Company.

1941

In the fall of 1963 James R. MCCONNELL
was made executive vice-president of the
Pangborn Corporation, a subsidiary of the
Carborundum Company. Pangborn, with
the main plant in Hagerstown, Maryland,
produces machinery for the metals work-
ing industry and is known the world over
for the design and manufacture of blast-
cleaning and dust collecting equipment.

An executive of the Indiana Tractor
and Sales, Inc., a firm that formerly dis-
tributed Ford ‘Tractors and Implements
in Indianapolis, Indiana, A. THOMAS
BisHop, JR., has returned to Louisville,
Kentucky, to form, with Don H. Giles,
four new companies which will distribute
Chrysler MOPAR replacement automible
parts. ‘The new firms under the name of
Jasco, Inc., will be in Louisville, Ken-
tucky, Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee,
and Cincinnati, Ohio. Another Washing-
ton and Lee man, A. R. BopEn, Jr. ’52,
former senior staff accountant for _Hum-
phrey, Robinson and Company, will serve
as controller for the four companies.

1942

THomas H. Cox is a partner in the law
firm of Cox, Pendleton & Swan with of-
fices in Hemet, Riverside, and Sun City,
California. Tom and his wife, Joy, have
six children, ranging in age from thirteen
to two.

1943

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT FRANCIS
MAcCCACHRAN, a son, Bradford Jenkins, on
May 19, 1964. The family now includes
two children and resides in Chatham, New
Jersey.

The Health Physics Society has announc-
ed the nomination of FRANK L. PASCHAL,
JR., to the Board of Directors. After he
received a B.A. in biology and chemistry
from the University of Texas and did
post-graduate work at Trinity University,
Frank went with Westinghouse Atomic
Power Division in 1950. In 1952 he went
to General Dynamics Corporation and
is presently living in Ft. Worth where he
is in charge of all Health Physics work,
including the Air Force Nuclear Aerospace
Research Facility. He is a past-president of
the American Industrial Hygiene Associa-
tion and is a member of the association's
Technical Committee for Radiation.

1944

WILLIAM F. PARKERSON, JR., is a practicing
attorney in Richmond, Virginia. He is also
in the State Senate, representing Henrico
County. Bill is married to the former
Nancy Ellen Davis, and the couple has
two sons and two daughters.

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1945

ROBERT EDWARD JACKSON is Rome bureau
chief of Time and Life magazines. A for-
mer United Press bureau chief in Rome,
Jackson joined Time in 1957, serving as
a foreign news writer and News Editor
until moving to Rome in 1963. He has
supervised coverage of the death of ‘Pope
John and election of Pope Paul, both of
which were cover stories; the Italian elec-
tions and yearlong political crises; two
Greek elections and the death of King
Paul. Also directed Time’s color photo
and word coverage of the Pope’s trip to
the Holy Land.

1947

WILLIAM YOUNG SMITH was recently prc-
moted to Lieutenant Colonel at the Penta-
gon where he has been on the staff of
Gen. Maxwell D. ‘Taylor, Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Col. Smith, married
and father of three sons, holds a doctor’s
degree in economics and government
from Harvard University. He has served

as an assistant professor of economics at
West Point.

1948

In May Davin B. Corer, JR., was running
unopposed for re-election on the Demo-
cratic ticket for Criminal District Attor-
ney in Bryan, ‘Texas. He is in the general
practice of law with the firm of Cofer
and Dillon.

1949

BORN: Mr. and Mrs, JAMEs 'T. MAGRUDER,
a son, Wayne Lewis, on November 8, 1963,
in Osaka, Japan. Jim is with the Presby-
terian Mission Board there and is mission
treasurer and chairman of the Board at
Yodogawa Christian Hospital in Kobe,

Japan.

Fred ALLEN STANLEY was recently elected
president and chief executive officer of the
Pulaski Furniture Corporation, a publicly
held manufacturer of bedroom and dining
room furniture in Pulaski, Virginia. Fred
succeeds his late father.

Twice a nominee for the State Legis-
lature, JoHN H. Reep, Jr., is currently
completing an elected four-year term as
Municipal Judge of South Charleston,
West Virginia. He has practiced law in
South Charleston since graduation and
between 1949 and 1954 Was an instructor
and lecturer at Morris Harvey College.
Judge Reed has been active in civic life
and is a_past-president of the South
Charleston Chamber of Commerce.

1950

EDMUND D. CAMPBELL, JR., is in his inter-
mediate year at the Episcopal Theological
Seminary. He was recently elected presi-
dent of the student body.

THomaAs D. CrIrrENDEN has been named
regional manager, Midwest territory, in
the Loss and Claim Department of Home
Insurance Company. He began with the
firm in 1959 as territorial supervisor.

IsAAc M. ScHer has been working as a
newspaperman for fourteen years since

Roger Mudd, °50, Newsman in the News

# ROGER MUDD, 50, for several years
one of CBS News’ hardest working
correspondents, apparently has
come into his own as something of
a ‘I'V personality.

Folks who watched the CBS cov-
erage of the long civil rights debate
in the senate saw enough of Mudd
to establish life-long attachments
to the pleasant, knowledgeable
former Washington and Lee _ his-
tory student.

Newsweek took note of Mudd’s
long exposure—both to the viewing
public and the elements—in_ this
way in its June 22 issue with an ar-
ticle tagged ‘“‘Mudd Into Gold:”

“When historians record the saga
of the civil-rights bill of 1964, a
CBS newsman named Roger Mudd
will certainly merit at least a rich
footnote. Since March 30, Mudd,
whose basic salary is only $75 a
week, has been actually earning
$2,100 weekly bringing spot coy-
erage of the debate to CBS radio
and ‘TV audiences.

40

EDITOR’S NOTE: After this article was
prepared, even greater national recogni-
tion came to Roger Mudd when he was
chosen by CBS news to serve with Robert
Trout as “anchor men” for the network’s
TV coverage of the Democratic National
Convention in Atlantic City.

 

RoGER Muppb, ’50

“The idea that spawned this flow
of wealth to Mudd belonged to
Fred W. Friendly, head of CBS
News. Friendly decided that he
would assign one reporter to cover
the filibuster until it ended. “As
the idea was first explained to me,
it sounded like a flagpole-sitting
stunt, said Mudd last week.

“What makes Mudd’s patrol so
lucrative is television’s ‘fee system.’
Under it, T'V and radio newsmen
are paid for each appearance,
usually $17.50 for radio spots and
$38.50 for ‘I'V spots, and by his
own count Mudd has been averag-
ing at least six television and sev-
en radio appearances a day, five
days a week, for almost eleven
weeks.

“On a typical day last week the
36-year-old Mudd arrived at the
Capitol at about 9:30 a.m. to pre-
pare for the one-minute spot at 10.
After that and an 11 a.m. spot, he
joined the Cloture Club, a group
of reporters who interview the
senate leaders. At noon, he did an

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Mupp’s vigil exposed him to
many hazards. At left he is
shown with SEN. Huperr H.
HUMPHREY, in the rain, and
under a hot spring sun.

updater for CBS’s local station,
WTOP-TV, for which he worked
from 1956 until 1961. After lunch,
he wandered around the Senate cor-
ridors gathering information and
then did four or five more spots.
When cloture came last Wednes-
day, Mudd stood outside the Sen-
ate wing and announced the vote
with what a friend described as
‘the happiest face I’ve ever seen.’
Whether his joy was due to the
outcome of the debate or the end
of a long assignment remains in
Mudd’s mind. A scrupulously im-
partial reporter, he has never re-
vealed his personal views on the
issue.

“Mudd, a native Washingtonian,
has been in broadcast news for
more than ten years. After gradu-
ation from Washington and Lee
University in 1950, he studied at
the University of North Carolina
and taught English in Rome, Ga.
He then joined WRNL radio in
Richmond, Va., moved to WTOP-
TV in 1956, and to the network in
1961.

“His soft Southern accent, along

SUMMER 1964

with an affable personality, has
attracted millions of viewers. Sev-
eral ladies, in fact, have written
CBS to express concern about his
health, since he has broadcast out-
doors in every weather imaginable.

“For Mudd, the end of the fili-
buster may mean a return to his
former $400-a-week average pay-
checks. But until the bill has been
voted upon later this month, he has
another few days of being a willing
part of one of the worst puns of
all time. ‘‘Friendly,” said a CBS
official recently, “is an alchemist.
After all, he turned Mudd into
gold.”

Mudd went on to report from
the floor of the 1964 Republican
National Convention in San Fran-
cisco, where even more. viewers
came to know and appreciate his
news-gathering skill.

Mudd joined CBS News, Wash-
ington, in July 1961 after serving
since 1956 as a member of the news
and Public Affairs Department of
WTOP, CBS afhliate in the na-
tion’s capital.

On Election Night in 196g,

 

 

Mudd analyzed the gubernatorial
and congressional results from the
South at CBS News Election Head-

quarters in New York City.

While a member of the WTOP
staff, Mudd accompanied Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev during
his 1959 tour of the United States
and also attended the 1960 Repub-
lican and Democratic National
Conventions. He provided the com-
mentary on the televised Senate
Select Committee hearings on rack-
eteering in labor and management.

Before joining WTOP, Mudd
was News Director for station
WRNL, Richmond, Va.

In the fall and winter of 1952-53,
Mudd worked as a reseach assist-
ant for the Committee on Tax-
Exempt Foundations of the House
of Representatives. In June 1953,
he joined the staff of the Richmond
News Leader as a reporter and
four months later was appointed
the first full-time News Director
for WRNL, the radio station Op-
erated by that newspaper. Mudd is
married and the father of four
children.

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leaving Washington and Lee. For the past
two years Zeke has been putting his free
time into law practice, since he finished
the University of Denver Law School.

1951

BORN: Capt. and Mrs. JAMES A. SNYDER,
a son, Lawrence Alan, on March 18, 1963.
Capt. Snyder is presently Commander of
an Armament and Electronics Mainten-
ance Squadron in Germany.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Guy B. HAMMOND,
a son, Bruce Guyton, on November go,
1963, in Blacksburg, Virginia.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN K. BOARDMAN,
Jr., a third daughter, Elizabeth Ewing,
on October 1, 1963. John is president of
the Sam Moore Furniture Industries with
general offices in Bedford, Virginia.

1952

CrEORGE SHANNO has been named manager
of Commercial Car Journal, a Chilton
Publications magazine. George has been
associated with the Chilton Company
since 1959, working in sales promotion
and marketing research.

ROBERT C, LOUTHIAN, JR., is with the Leg-
islative Counsel’s Office in the U.S. Senate
where he participates in the drafting of
bills for Senators and for committees of
the Senate.

As president of the Atlanta Civic Ballet,
JuLIAN B. Mour was responsible for its
outstanding success this year. ‘The Atlantic
Civic Ballet, a non-profit organization
composed of local dancers, conducted its
second season in Atlanta’s 5,000-seat audi-
torium on December 28-29. ‘The magnifi-
cent performance was billed as “The At-
lanta Civic Ballet’s Free Christmas Gift
to the City of Atlanta.” Julian was largely
responsible for the raising of some $10,000
from local businesses required to pay a
70-piece Civic Ballet Orchestra. ‘The
thought behind the organization’s efforts
is to further the cultural climate of At-
lanta. A 1963-64 itinerary has been es-
tablished that includes performances with
the Chatttanooga, ‘Tennessee, Symphony,
the Atlanta Symphony, and ten additional
dates.

A. R. BopEN, Jr., former senior staff ac-
countant for Humphrey, Robinson and
Company, a Louisville, Kentucky, account-
ing firm, will serve as controller for four
newly formed companies to distribute
Chrysler MOPAR automobile parts in
Kentucky, ‘Tennessee and Ohio. Gus,
along with A. ‘T. BisHop JR., 42, and Don
Giles of Louisville will operate the four
firms from the headquarters of the for-
mer Monarch Equipment Company.

Boyp H. LeyBurn, Jr., has moved to
Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is assist-

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JULIAN B. Morr, ’52

ant manager of the Sears, Roebuck & Com-
pany store.

1953

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. ‘Tyson L, JANNEY,
a son, Tyson Douglass, on April 5, 1964.
Tyson is with the Richmond advertising
agency, Robert Kline and Company, Inc.,
and the Janneys make their home in
Richmond.

JOHN JosepH SCHUMACHER has been made
sales manager for Whitacre-Greer Fire-
proofing Company in Waynesburg, Ohio.
John, his wife, and three children live
in Canton, Ohio.

Roy M. Craic, JR., has been practicing
with the law firm of Woolfolk, Myers,
Curtis, Newman & Craig in Lake Wales,
Florida, since March and is now living
in Lake Wales.

1954

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. RENO S. Harp, III,
a daughter, Anne Harcourt, on May 19,
1964, in Richmond, Virginia. Reno is as-
sistant attorney-general for the Common-
wealth of Virginia.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. GEorGE S. WILSON,
III, a daughter, Jennifer Taylor, on April
22, 1964. George is an attorney in Owens-
boro, Kentucky.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. OVERTON PRICE
POLLARD, a son, William Price, on April
9g, 1964, in Farmville, Virginia.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. STUART BRACKEN,
a third son, Thomas Johnston, on Janu-
ary 28, 1964, in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

OVERTON P. POLLARD has moved to Rich-
mond, Virginia, where he will be in the
claims office of the ‘Travelers Insurance
Company.

After receiving his LL.B. degree from
George Washington University, ROBERT S.
CULLEN is now with the claims depart-
ment of Travelers Insurance Company in
Washington, D.C. The Cullens have two
sons and a daughter.

The Goodyear ‘Tire and Rubber Company
transfered JAcos A. Sites from Cleveland
to the home office in Akron, Ohio, and
promoted him to senior staffman in the
Comptrollers Division. He lives in Cuya-
hoga Falls, Ohio.

For the past ten years since graduation,
Rogpert O. GLAsIER has had the inter-
esting experience of three years in Ger-
many with the Army, two years with In-
ternational General Electric in New York
City, and five years with the office of
Graham Parker, international industrial
and technical consultants, on assignments
to Dusseldorf, Germany, and_ Paris,
France. He is now on a one-year assign-
ment in New York City before moving to
Tokyo with his family—three boys, ages
six, five, and two.

L. DaAvip Lynn, an Allstate Insurance
Company representative, was chosen as
one of 100 top agents of a total sales
force of more than 5,000 to attend a
company conference in Mexico City last
April. David is an Allstate agent in Hon-
olulu, Hawaii.

1955

MARRIED: JOHN SLADE CARTER, JR., Was
married on April 25, 1964, to Miss ‘Tahti
Marje Mand of Amherst, Massachusetts.
The bride is an alumna of Smith College
and is an editor with the American Bap-
tist Publishing Society at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania. Slade is with the Southeast-
ern Pennsylvania Development Fund with
offices in Philadelphia.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. PETER ELSAESSER,
identical twin girls, Katherine Alexis and
Pamela Harriet, on April 26, 1964. The
Elsaessers have two other daughters and
make their home in Chesterfield, Missouri.

SIDNEY ScoTrT WHIPPLE has joined Pren-
tice Hall in New York City as an associate
editor.

Following his graduation from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City,
FRANK G. GIBSON, JR., served in an inter-
city ministry in Rochester, New York.
Since spring, 1963, he has been pastor-
director of the Winton Hill Ministry, a
new field in the public housing work of
the Presbytery of Cincinnati. ‘The Gibsons
have a son, Mark, age two years.

1956

After several years as assistant vice-presi-
dent of the First National Bank in Dallas,
WILLIAM C. NORMAN, JR., is moving to
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to accept a position
there with the National Bank of Com-
merce.

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

# EARLY IN 1964, considerable na-
tional attention came to be focused
on a relatively small (346 seats) rela-
tively obscure (a former Milwau-
kee movie house) repertory theater
known by the rather prosaic name
of the Fred Miller Theater.

The New York Times devoted a
lengthy article to the ups, downs,
and re-ups of the Fred Miller Thea-
ter, and in an article dealing with
repertory theater in America, Time
magazine cited the Fred Miller
Theater as one of the best of the
“reps.” A long piece in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor told of the
difficulties of bringing quality thea-
ter to a city that apparently didn’t
really want quality theater.

In every account of the heroics
of the Milwaukee players, the name
of John Alexander McQuiggan
jumped out, identifying him as the
prime mover behind the theater’s
current efforts, the young man re-
sponsible for much of its success
and the praise it has drawn.

Jack McQuiggan, °56, is at age
29 the producer of the Fred Mil-
ler ‘Theater, a job he has held
since the spring of 1963. He came
to the Fred Miller Theater in
1961 as a producer with the Asso-
ciation of Producing Artists of
which he was a founder. He became
general manager of the Miller
‘Theater in 1962.

Now, as producer, he selects the
eight plays which make up the Oc-
tober-April season, chooses the di-
rector of each play and the mem-
bers of the ten-member resident
company, and supervises the ad-
ministrative staff.

The current season was the Fred
Miller ‘Theater’s tenth, but only
its second under a policy that Mc-
Quiggan helped establish, a policy
that for a time seemed destined to
fail.

Through eight seasons, the thea-
ter had drawn good support for a
bill of fare based on the star sys-
tem, the kind of casting and play
selection that makes the ‘“Tonight”’

SUMMER 1964

 

 

JoHN A. McQuicGaAn, ’56

Alumnus Gives
Repertory Group
New Impetus

show’s announcer, Ed McMahon,
a smash in Paramus, N .J., or “Pass-
word's” Allen Ludden a wow in
Skowhegan, Me. The Fred Miller
management decided to inject qual-
ity into its drama by establishing
a repertory company of talent and
versatility.

The results were discouraging
during the first season of the new
plan. Only forty-nine per cent of
the seats were filled on the average,
and the resident director resigned
after disagreement with McQuig-
gan and others. ‘The Ford Founda-
tion, which had supported the ven-
ture to the tune of $50,000 for the
1962-63 season, pulled back a simi-
lar grant promised for 1963-64, part-
ly because, the Christian Science
Monitor suggested, foundation of-
ficials wanted to know if Milwau-
kee residents had enough “spunk
and interest to deserve the theater.”

McQuiggan, a veteran Trouba-
dour actor at Washington and Lee
and a big factor in two successful

student minstrels, became producer
in the spring of 1963, and fortune
seemed to change. Under his lea-
dership, a fund drive was launched,
ticket prices were cut for students,
a system of a new director for each
play was introduced, and_ things
generally began to hum. Attend-
ance filled up 71.5 per cent of the
seats on a given night, and the
plays McQuiggan produced were
hits. Said Time:

“Milwaukee’s Fred Miller Thea-
ter is battling odds and winning.
The odds are Milwaukee itself,
where the highest praise the drama
critics know how to give is to com-
pare the Miller’s actors with the
Green Bay Packers. But the Mil-
ler ‘Theater is winning because of
the extraordinary energy of its 20-
year-old producer, John Alexander
McQuigegan.” 7

Said the New York Times:

“After years of behind-the-scenes
problems that sometimes rivaled
what was happening on the arena
stage, the Fred Miller Theater has
found in the middle of its 10th sea-
son new stability, confidence, and,
astonishing even to theater officials,
genuine public response.

“More Milwaukeeans are attend-
ing the Miller, named for the late
brewery executive, than at any time
since its change two years ago to a
policy of presenting quality thea-
ber.

McQuiggan, who came to Wash-
ington and Lee from Xenia, Ohio,
and then went on to theatrical
study at the famed Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York, is hopeful
that the recent successes of the Fred
Miller Theater are only the begin-
ning. A $75,000 fund drive is vir-
tually complete, and a season ticket
sale of 4,000 for 1964-65 is antici-
pated, as compared with only 1,488
last year.

Says the young producer, “Mil-
waukee is not an easy town to put
something across. It is just begin-
ning to become aware of what we
have to offer.”

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Dr. FRANK S. PirrMan, III, is moving to
Denver, Colorado, where he will be an
instructor in the Department of Psy-
chiatry at the Medical Center of the Uni-
versity of Colorado. He will specialize in
research in family therapy.

JAMes WuittreR Lewis is in his eighth
year of teaching at Landon School in
Washington, D.C., and for the past three
years he has served as assistant to the
headmaster. He and his wife have three
children and live in Bethesda.

1957

MARRIED: Morton P. ILER and Martha
Madison Campbell, a graduate of Welles-
ley College, were married on May 30, 1964,
in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Mort has just
completed the two-year MBA program at
the Harvard University Graduate School
of Business Administration and has ac-
cepted a position in the Controllers De-
partment of the Continental Oil Com-
pany. The Ilers will live in Ponca City,
Oklahoma.

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. WALTER C. CREMIN,
Jr., a daughter, Marianne, on May 4, 1964.
Marianne joins a three-year-old brother,
and the family lives in Houston, ‘Texas.

H. Merritt Pwaisrep, III, representing
Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., of Richmond,

Virginia, attended a five-day seminar in
April at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chi-
cago. This meet, called ‘The University of
Shopping centers, involves some 1500
men and women in the Shopping Center
Industry.

A sales representative for Potomac Elec-
tric Power Company, KARL M._ FUNK-
HOUSER has many interests. He is an avid
rock and mineral collector and attends
many shows and does work for his local
society. He is also active in the Alexandria,
Virginia, Little ‘Theater and is enjoying
free-lance work on the local TV stations.

CHARLES M. Drum is in England for a year
working at Harwell, the Atomic Energy
Research Establishment of the United
Kingdom, on an NSF fellowship. He re-
ceived his Ph.D. in physics at the Univer-
sity of Virginia in June, 1963.

1958

BORN: Tue Rev. and Mrs. WILLIAM R.
GoopMAN, JRr., a daughter, Mary Jessica,
on March 11, 1964. In September the Rev.
Goodman will begin a doctoral program
in Biblical Studies at Duke University
Graduate School.

Last January WittiAM A. Tow ter, III,
was promoted to manager-operation with
the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of
Wachovia Bank & ‘Trust Company. The

‘Towlers have two sons, four-and-a-half
and two years old.

FRANK A. Hoss, JR., moved into his new
law office in Manassas, Virginia, last Jan-
uary. Frank is involved in the general
practice of law and also serves as assistant
Commonwealth’s Attorney.

C. DaAvip HILDRETH is presently engaged
in specialized vocational IBM work. He
and his wife, Charlotte, live in Buffalo,
New York.

MARION MAX Caskie, III, expects to finish
his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University
of Michigan this summer. He then plans
to go to Florida State University as as-
sistant professor of English.

WILLIAM CHARLES MILLER returned in the
fall of 1963 from a year of graduate study
in law at the University of Munich on a
German Government Grant. He is now
with the Legal Department of E. I. duPont
de Nemours in Wilmington, Delaware. His
work involves, among other things, legal
counsel to the International Department
of the duPont Company.

CAMPBELL C. Hurcutnson, III, is practic-
ing law in New Orleans with the firm of
Stone, Pigman & Benjamin.

WALTER EDMUND HENEs is living in Hous-
ton, Texas, where he is with the Metals
Division of Union Carbide Corporation.

Gary McPherson, °58 Is New VMI Coach

a VMI’S HEAD basketball coach Gary
D. McPherson, ’58, has the tough
task of taking over the reins of a
championship Southern Conference
cage team, and stepping into the
shoes worn for six years by one of
the most colorful college coaches
in the game, Louis F. (Weenie) Mil-
ler who resigned as VMI’s head bas-
ketball coach in April.

McPherson, 27, becomes the
youngest head coach in the South-
ern Conference and one of the
youngest major college head coach-
es in the country. He served since
November as VMI’s first full time
basketball assistant, and coached
VMIs freshman team to an 8-5
record, in addition to being Mil-
ler’s right arm as scout and bench
assistant.

Coming to VMI’s staff in No-
vember was a step up for Mc-

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Pherson, who was for the two prev-
ious years head basketball coach at

 

GARY D. MCPHERSON, 58

Ferrum Junior College. In his two
years at Ferrum, McPherson's teams
had records of 13-8 and 14-9 re-
spectively. Prior to going to Fer-
rum, McPherson coached three
years at Bluestone (Va.) High
School, building the first winning
program at the Southside Virginia
school in its basketball history.

McPherson played college basket-
ball for Miller at Washington and
Lee on the University’s last South-
ern Conference entry. After grad-
uating with a B.A. degree from
Washington and Lee in 1958, Mc-
Pherson has gone on to do work on
his Master’s Degree at the Univer-
sity of Virginia.

A graduate of Cass, West Vir-
ginia, High School, McPherson is
married to the former Peggy Sheets
of Green Bank, West Virginia.
‘They have one son, Chris, 3.

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

The Henes have a daughter, Roberta, and
a son, Walter E., III.

C. PARKHILL Mays, JR., was released in
December from active duty as a captain
in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
and upon his release he received the
Army Commendation Award. He is now
engaged in the practice of law with the
firm of Shakelford, Farrior, Stallings, Glos
& Evans in Tampa, Florida.

An announcement from Vanadium-Alloys
Steel Company names MArguis M. SMITH,
JR., as sales representative in the Pitts-
burgh district. He will cover a territory
including areas in Western Pennsylvania
and parts of West Virginia.

1959

MARRIED: Epwarp F. HALseELL, Jr., and
Randi Christine Nyman were married in
Ft. Worth, ‘Texas, on April 4, 1964. They
are living in Dallas, Texas, where Ed is
a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith, Inc.

MARRIED: DANIEL MArtTIN Dop and
Arpine Kehagan of New York City were
married on February 24, 1964.

Lewis H. LARvE presently holds the rank
of captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Re-
serve. He is stationed at Camp Lejeune as
trial counsel in the base Legal Office. He
is married to the former Susan M. Alla-
way.

WILLIAM H. PIXTON was promoted by
the U.S. Naval Reserve in May to full
lieutenant. He has been stationed at the
Naval Air Facility in Washington, D.C.,
but he will be released from active duty
this August. He then expects to go to
the University of North Carolina for
studies toward a Ph.D. in English Liter-
ature.

‘THOMAS M. SCHMIDT graduated last year
from the University of Houston and plans
to enter the Peace Corps this summer.
After training he expects to be assigned
to Peru, South America, for two years.

CHARLES D. Hurt, Jr., graduated from
Harvard Law School in June, 1963, and is
now associated with the law firm of Hurt,
Hill and Sosebee in Atlanta, Georgia. He
is married to Beverly Jayne Grear of In-
dianapolis, Indiana.

Epwarp D. Levy, Jr., plans to enter the
Louisiana State University School of
Medicine in September.

1960

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN PARKER HILLs,
a daughter, Mary Alice, on April 24, 1964.
John is a partner in the law firm of Dann
and Hills in Memphis, ‘Tennessee.

JuLian C. Josey received his degree of
Doctor of Medicine in June from the
Bowman-Gray School of Medicine in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He began

SUMMER 1964

 

MArQguis M. SMITH, ’58

his internship in July at Grady Hospital
in Atlanta, Georgia.

The first of June, ist Lt. FRANK S. GLASER
finished his tour of duty with the U.S.
Army. He planned to take thirty days
leave to travel around the Far East. He ex-
pects to return to New York City to work
in investments. Frank has been stationed
in Seoul, Korea, where he has had a
number of assignments ranging from Of-
ficer in Charge of the General’s Mess to
office of the Assistant Chief of Staff Per-
sonnel, Eighth Army Support Command.
He writes that on occasions he has seen
David Corp, 61, Russ PRITCHABD, 62, and
RAY MILLER, ’62.

1961

BORN: Mr. and Mrs. JON C. PETERSON, a
daughter, Tamra Lynn, on May 28, 1964.
Jon is associated with the Colonial Neon
Sign Company in Virginia Beach, a com-
pany he recently acquired.

Working as an assistant branch manager
for Lincoln-Rochester Trust Company,
Dwicur R. CHAMBERLAIN finds time to do
some writing about wildlife. He has had
several articles published in the Virginia
Wildlife and he is co-author of an article
entitled “Wayne County Heron Rookery”
in the current issue of the New York State
Conservationist. Dwight will attend the
graduate school of forestry and wildlife
at V.P.1, an the fall of 1964.

While working in the consumer depart-
ment of The Continental Bank in Cleve-
land, Ohio, RicHARD S. SCHULIST is taking
evening courses at Western Reserve Uni-
versity for credit toward a master’s degree
in business administration.

Louis H. Burrorp graduated from Law
School at Washington University, St.
Louis, in June. During this past spring he
worked part-time with the Housing Sec-

tion of the St. Louis Building Commission
Office as part of his legal seminar project.

Taking a j\temporary leave from law
School, DAvip CAROTHERS is now in the
parking lot business in Dallas, Texas. The
firm operates parking lots in a number of
the larger communities in ‘Texas and the
South. Dave does some traveling and
writes that he has seen several of his
classmates, including JAcK Morris and
ALEX GATES.

After receiving his M.A. degree in_his-
tory from the University of North Caro-
lina, CLINTON L. ANDERSON joined the
U.S. Army. He is now serving as ‘Training
Officer in charge of training enlisted per-
sonnel to be missile or rocket crewmen
in Pershing, Sergeant, Honest John, and
Little John missile systems, and is sta-
tioned at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

1962

MARRIED: ROSEWELL PAGE, III, and Miss
Anne Moody were married in Lexington,
Kentucky, on May 23, 1964. Among the
ushers were PHIL SHARP, ’64 Law, and
LANNY BUTLER, 63.

Robert Roy Goopwin, II, is working for
his master’s degree in newspaper man-
agement at the School of Journalism at
the University of Minnesota in Minne-
apolis. For the 1964-65 term Roy has
been awarded an assistantship with the
University’s School of Business Adminis-
tration. The assignment consists of edit-
ing several publications for the Business
School.

RicHARD L. LANG was named Assistant
‘Trust Officer for the American National
Bank and ‘Trust Company of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, last December.

1963

BORN: Lt. and Mrs. JOHN P. COvER, a
daughter, on October 2, 1963. John is a
lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps in Ft.
Lewis, Washington.

CrAiG ‘I. DIsTELHORST was a delegate to
the National Young Republican Conven-
tion in San Francisco and then vacationed
in Europe. Upon returning to the States
he worked as the legislative assistant to
Congressman Gurney of Florida, but Craig
is now a student at George Washington
Law School. This summer he is working
in the law firm of Milligan, Reilly, Like &
Schneider in Long Island, New York.

EDWARD BRENT WELLS, II, is now employed
by the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company as sales engineer in
Washington, D.C. The Wells live in Arl-
ington and have a son, Brent, a year old.

After receiving a master’s degree in busi-
ness administration in June, 1964, Davin
C. SWANN is with the Wachovia Bank and
‘Trust Company.

ALLAN H. JOHNSTON has been commis-

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sioned a second lieutenant in the US Air
Force upon graduation from Officer
Training School at Tinker AFB, Okla-
homa.

Joun T. Mitts has been named honor
graduate of the technical training course
for US Air Force inventory specialists at
Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. John was trained
to order and account for supplies and
equipment through the use of data pro-
cessing equipment.

BARTLETT B. CHAMBERLAIN, III, graduated
with honors from the technical training
course for U.S. Air Force fuel specialists
at Amarillo AFB, Texas. He is trained to
fuel aircraft and to operate flight line
storage tanks and pumping systems and
is now assigned to Bates Field, Alabama.

MickEY WALKER is assistant navigator
and personnel officer aboard the USS
Aldebarran, home-based in Norfolk, Vir-
ginia. He holds the ranks of ensign and
has spent four months in the Mediterran-
ean.

WILLIAM M. BOWEN is in Law School at
the University of South Carolina, and he
finished the first semester in the top one-
fifth of his class. Recently Bill was select-
ed one of three students to represent the
Law School in national moot court com-
petition. It is quite an honor for a fresh-
man law student to be selected for this
competition.

THomMAS E. BOWER, a second lieutenant
in the US Army, is assigned to the Third
Missile Battalion, 84th Division, which
is a new Pershing Missile unit that will
be deployed overseas next winter. ‘Tom's
job will be that of Firing Platoon Leader
in a Firing Battery.

Joun P. Marcu, who has just finished a
six-month tour of duty in the Army Re-
serve, is now employed by the State
National Bank in El Paso, ‘Texas.

JouHNn G. S. Wiccins has entered US Air
Force navigator training at James Connal-
ly AFB, ‘Texas. John is a second lieu-
tenant and will receive radar and celes-
tial navigation training leading to the
award of silver navigation wings.

WILLIAM B. MACKENNEY, III, an ensign in
the Navy, in May was in the last phase
of navigation training at the Naval Air
Station in Corpus Christi, ‘Texas.

JAmes L. Howe, III, has moved from
Lynchburg, Virginia, to Richmond where
he has joined the legal department of the
Seaboard Airline Railway.

1964

MARRIED: KENNETH EDWARD GREER and
Carol Stuart Manning were married June
6 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After
a wedding trip to Jamaica the couple will
make their home in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia.

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1903

ROBERT TRIGG FLANARY, for many years a
merchant and farmer in Norton, Virginia,
died April 6, 1964. Mr. Flanary had been
president of the First National Bank in
Wise, Virginia, and a director and vice-
president of the Norton Realty Corpora-
tion. He had been in the wholesale hard-
ware and wholesale grocery business most
of his business career.

WILLIAM JOEL ‘TURNER died on March 21,
1964, in Portland, Oregon, where he had
retired after many years with the Kenne-
cott Copper Corporation. He served as
general manager and director of the Bra-
den Copper Company in Chile, South
America, a subsidiary of the Kennecott
Corporation. After this foreign service he
was returned to the States as a consulting
engineer, and during this time he made
his home in New York. In 1934 in Chile,
Mr. ‘Turner was made a commander,
Order of Merit, and in 1944 a “Gran
Oficial,” Order of Merit. He was a most
active alumnus and for a number of years
was an effective class agent for his class
of 1903.

1909

WILLIAM ‘THEODORE DELAPLAINE, publish-
er of the Frederick News-Post, died at his
home in Frederick, Maryland, on April
17, 1964. Mr. Delaplaine’s death brought
an end to a newspaper career that had
spanned more than a half a century. It
began in 1909, after he had _ finished
Washington and Lee with honors, when
he started with the Frederick News, a
paper his father founded. In 1955 Mr.
Delaplaine became president and general
manager of the News-Post. While a stu-
dent at Washington and Lee he was presi-
dent of the student body, and he received
academic honors each year he was a stu-
dent.

1910

NorL Breppow died in Montgomery, Ala-
bama, on April 27, 1964. Mr. Beddow had
retired from his position of general su-
perintendent of the Blast Furnace Divis-
ion of the Woodward Iron Company.

JAMES HAMILTON BUNCH, a lawyer in Jack-
sonville, Florida, died in December, 1963.

Wyatr C. Heprick, Texas architect, died

in Houston, ‘Texas, on May 5, 1964, after
a brief illness. Following his schooling in
Virginia, Mr. Hedrick went to Texas
where he organized one of the largest
architectural firms in that state. One of
his most famous projects since World
War II was the design for the Shamrock
Hotel in Houston. His company has de-
signed buildings throughout the South
and in several foreign countries. Mr. Hed-
rick was a member of the Roanoke Col-
lege Board of ‘Trustees.

1915

CHARLES ‘IT. Lite died on July 11, 1964,
in Clearwater, Florida. Mr. Lile retired
in 1957 as personnel manager for Koppers
Company, Inc., of Pittsburgh. While at
Washington and Lee he was end on the
football team, forward in basketball, and
pitcher on the baseball team. Mr. Lile
is survived by his wife, the former Nell
Carrington of Lexington, Virginia, and
a brother, RicHARD L. LILE, ’20.

At the time of his death Mr. Lile’s fam-
ily requested that in lieu of flowers in
his memory, gifts be made to a Charles
Taylor Lile Scholarship Fund at Wash-

ington and Lee.
1917

CLAUDE RENICK HiLtt of Oak Hill, West
Virginia, died on May 27, 1964. Mr. Hill
was president of the Merchants and Min-
ers National Bank of Oak Hill and presi-
dent of the Hill Realty Company. For
twenty-four years he served as mayor of
the city of Oak Hill, and his interest in
many civic and business activities made
him one of the most beloved and prom-
inent citizens of his community.

Jupcr JorL West F Loop, soldier, lawyer
and congressman, died on April 28, 1964.
Judge Flood made his home in Appomat-
tox, Virginia, where he began his law
practice in 1917 and where he _ later
served as Judge of the Fifth Judicial Cir-
cuit for twenty-four years. His legal train-
ing included study at Oxford University
and the Inns of Court, London. Follow-
ing service in World War I, he was Ap-
pomattox County commonwealth’s attor-
ney until 1932 when he filled an unex-
pired term in the House of Representa-
tives for Virginia’s tenth district. He was
selected Circuit Judge in 1940. Judge
Flood was prominently mentioned in 1956
for a seat on the Virginia Supreme Court

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Dr. Leslie Lyle Campbell, ’87

@ DR. LESLIE LYLE CAMPBELL, '87, died on June 9
at his home on Washington Street in Lexington.
He was the oldest of Washington and Lee Uni-
versity alumni, for on September 17 he would
have celebrated his 101st birthday.

A distinguished scholar and teacher, Dr.
Campbell remained throughout his lifetime a
devoted friend to his Alma Mater, vitally inter-
ested in its growth and progress.

He was himself a contributor to that progress,
for he established a memorial scholarship in
honor of his late wife, Catherine Houston Camp-
bell, to be awarded to a student of English lit-
erature whose home was in Rockbridge County
or in the Valley of Virginia. His will provides
for the establishment of another memorial
scholarship through a bequest of $25,000.

Dr. Campbell also gave to the University the
Westminster Chimes and clock in the Lee Chap-
el, honoring the memory of a classmate and
friend, Livingston Waddell Houston, who
drowned in the North River in 1886. Installed in
the Chapel in 1948, the chimes can toll the pas-
sage of every quarter hour.

A native of Campo Bello in Powhatan Coun-
ty, Dr. Campbell received the M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees at Washington and Lee, ranking him
among the very few persons ever to receive a
Ph.D. degree from the University. He was a
charter member of the University’s Phi Beta

Kappa Chapter, and he served as an assistant
professor of mathematics in 1889-91.

He later headed the department of physics at
Westminster College in Missouri, and for twenty-
six years he held a similar post at Simmons Col-
lege in Massachusetts.

In 1903 he was awarded the Austin Fellow-
ship at Harvard University, and as a physics in-
structor there he conducted extensive research,
publishing his findings in the proceedings of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He
also conducted research under Sir J. J. ‘Thomas
at Cambridge University in England and for the
United States Navy in World War I.

He held the rank of professor emeritus at
Simmons College, and until his death he still
considered himself an active research scientist,
studying the “Hall Effect” in metal crystals.

In failing health for many years, Dr. Camp-
bell was confined to his home, and despite a
great interest in the recent restoration of Lee
Chapel, he was never able to see the completed
project there.

President Cole and others of the University
staff were frequent callers at Dr. Campbell’s
home. He had no family and left no descendants.

For Washington and Lee, Dr. Campbell’s
death at 100 was the loss of another link from
the shortening chain that still connects today’s
University with its students of another century.

 

of Appeals, but he told his supporters he president of the Association of ‘Trial

was not interested because of his age.

1920

WILLIAM STANLEY SNYDER, JR., died sud-
denly on May 2, 1964, in Cumberland,
Maryland. Mr. Snyder was connected with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

1921

RoBERT MOORE HUTCHESON died on Janu-
ary 10, 1964. Mr. Hutcheson was a special
agent with the Virginia Insurance Rat-
ing Bureau.

1923

RALPH H. Ricarpo, died at his home at
Great Bridge, Virginia, on April 23, 1964.
For twenty-two years he had been judge
of the Norfolk County Court, and he was
the first vice-president of the Virginia
Council of Juvenile Judges and a_ past

SUMMER 1964

Justices of Virginia. Judge Ricardo was
known throughout Virginia for his work
in the rehabilitation of juvenile delin-
quents and was instrumental in the es-
tablishment of the Tidewater detention
home in Chesapeake.

1924

ALEXANNDER M. Crayton died on April
10, 1964. Mr. Crayton had been with the
South Carolina Employment Security
Commission in the employment and in-
surance division for twenty-five years. He
made his home in Greenville, South Caro-
lina.

1925

PRESTON COCKE MANNING, South Caro-
lina real estate commissioner, died at his
home in Columbia, South Carolina, on
April 21, 1964. He had served as com-
mandant of the Sewanee Military Acad-
emy before going to Columbia.

1927

SAMUEL A. McCaIn, former general coun-
sel and vice-president of the Corn Pro-
ducts Company, died on April 17, 1964.
Mr. McCain, a specialist in international
food law, joined Corn Products in 1942
and retired about a year ago, but con-
tinued as a consultant. As a Rhodes
scholar he attended Exeter College of Ox-
ford University and upon his return to
the States joined the law firm of Frank-
lin, Wright & Gordon and served as its
Washington representative from 1935 to
1937. Mr. McCain made his home in Riv-
erdale, New York, where he was a direct-
or of the Community Planning Associa-
tion. He was chairman of the food law
committees of the American Bar and
New York Bar Association. Mr. McCain
was an enthusiastic tennis player and a
former commodore of the Riverdale Yacht
Club. He belonged to the University and

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Whitehall Clubs of New York and the
Metropolitan Club of Washington.

1929

RICHARD MUNROE IrBy died in Richmond,
Virginia, on April 25, 1964. Mr. Irby was
superintendent of Rockbridge County
(Va.) Schools until 1949 when he resigned
to become director of instruction in the
county schools. Previous to his coming
to Rockbridge County he had been com.
mandant of Randolph-Macon Academy.

1939

CLIFFORD J. YUDKOFF died on February 24,
1964, at his home in Englewood, New
Jersey.

1944

Joun M. McMurran died after a long ill-

ness on May g, 1964, in Newport News,
Virginia.
1948

FRANK J. DiLoreto died in New Britain,
Connecticut, on May 20, 1964, after a long
illness. He was the senior partner in his
law firm and Judge of the City and Police
Court of New Britain. As former chair-
man of the New Britain Board of Educa-
tion and one of the authors of the act
which created the State Commission on
Higher Education, he was prominent in
city and state activities. In 1955 Judge
DiLoreto was the Jaycees’ Man of the
Year, and he was scheduled to be named
Man of the Year in Education in New
Britain on the Sunday following his death.
He had served as State Senator since 1960.
‘The Governor of Connecticut termed the
death of the young legislator a “distinct
loss to the State,” and Judge DiLoreto’s

brilliance as a_ senator and _ attorney
brought tributes from his colleagues, for
he had devoted himself to public  ser-
vice and distinguished himself as an able
legislator, showing particular leadership
in the field of education.

1952

FREDERICK RAYMON SNYDER, JR., of North
Bergen, New Jersey, died on April 29,
1964. Raymond was a practicing attorney
in North Bergen. He received his law de-
gree from the University of Miami and
had studied for his law doctorate at Ox-
ford University, England.

1955

MILSON KEENAN CLARK of Port Chester,
New York, died on August 24, 1963. Mil-
son was an engineering assistant with
Dorr-Oliver, Incorporated.

 

Thomas H. Carter, ’54

m THOMAS H. CARTER, 754 died on November 21, In sum, their words recounted his distin-

54

1963, in Martinsville, Virginia, where he was
born and grew up and where he returned after
college to teach and inspire.

Because of events many hundreds of miles
away the next day in Dallas, ‘Tom Carter’s pass-
ing was overshadowed by the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. His friends remarked on the
coincidence of the two deaths—the untimely end
of two relatively youthful men, each with
achievement behind them and promise before
them, and each in their special way a “‘profile in
courage.”

In June of 1964 Martinsville High School
published a magazine called Tribute, and the
focus of this tribute was Thomas H. Carter. The
purpose of the new magazine was twofold, its
preface stated: to honor the memory of ‘Tom
Carter as a writer, critic, and teacher, and to
serve as model for a future literary publication
that would be a continuing acknowledgment
of his special contributions to the literary influ-
ence upon Martinsville High School students.

Literary friends of ‘T'om Carter’s wrote mov-
ing tributes to the young man who had dis-
tinguished himself as an editor, an author, and
a scholar. ‘The roster of those who paid tribute
to him is impressive: James G. Leyburn, Mar-
shall Fishwick, Carol Johnson, Hugh Kenner,
Ashley Brown, Brainard Cheney, Robie Mc-
Cauley, James Boatwright, Caroline Gordon,
Andrew Foley, Andrew Lytle, and Louis Rubin.

guished career as an undergraduate at Washing-
ton and Lee, how he helped by great persona]
eficiency and _ persuasiveness to establish the
University’s literary magazine, Shenandoah, as
one of the best of all “little magazines’ orig-
inating on American campuses. Hugh Kenner
wrote, ““Tom Carter was, quite simply, a man
with a gift, amounting to genius, for editing lit-
erary magazines...’ The tributes told of his per-
sonal charm, his talent for persuasive letter writ-
ing, that brought original contributions to Shen-
andoah from writers of unquestioned stature
such as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Wallace
Stevens, William Faulkner, e. e. cummings, and
others. ‘They told of his own quick mind, his
gift of poetic expression and critical insight.
They told of a young man beset with disabling
physical afflictions who, despite failing health,
still managed to bring knowledge and under-
standing to his students in Martinsville, chal-
lenge and inspiration to his many literary asso-
clates.

A recent Kenyon Review Fellow in Criticism,
‘Tom Carter was at the time of his death compil-
ing a collection of material pertaining to the
poet Ezra Pound, and in addition to his duties at
Martinsville High School, he taught also at the
Patrick Henry Branch of the University of Vir-
ginia in Martinsville.

His death at 32 left a vacuum in literary ed-
ucation and in American letters.

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Appalachian Chapter alumni who greeted PresiwENt CoLe included, |-r, STEPHEN M. QUILLEN, ’57; JAMES W. HARMAN, JR., 44; JACK W.

NICKELS, 50; PRESIDENT COLE; ROBERT P. LONDON, JR., 27; and H. EMory WIDENER, ’53.

Chapter News

 

 

Above, ALBERT G. PEERY, ’32L, and FRED
C. PARKS, ‘21L; below left, JoHN W. NICK-
ELS, 50, and DONALD T. STANT, ’11; below
right, FRANK GOODPASTURE, JR., °43, and
W. HaAyeEs LANCASTER, ’46, talk with
JAMES W. WHITEHEAD (back to camera).

 

SUMMER 1964

 

APPALACHIAN

m= THE JOHNSON cCiTy Country Club
was the setting for a well-attended
meeting of the Appalachian Chap-
ter on May 1. A large number of
alumni and their wives welcomed
President and Mrs. Fred C. Cole.

At the banquet, William T. Mar-
fm 1t., $1, president of Sullins
College, introduced President Cole,
who made a report on the Univer-

 

sity. Presiding over the meeting
was chapter president, Robert P.
London, Jr., ’27, who presented
Mrs. Cole with a lovely coffee table,
a product of Johnson City, as a gift
from the chapter. The table was
given through the good offices of
Lewis Shumate, ’32.

Bill Washburn, alumni Secretary,
and James Whitehead, Assistant to
the President for Administration,
also attended the meeting.

 

CHARLOTTE

m PRESIDENT and Mrs. Fred C. Cole
were honored guests at the Char-
lotte chapter meeting on April
goth. ‘The annual spring occasion
was held at the Charlotte City Club
and was attended by a large num-
ber of alumni, not only from Char-
lotte but from neighboring cities in
South Carolina.

After a social hour the alumni
and their ladies were seated at an
elaborate banquet and heard a
splendid report from President
Cole. Harry Berry, ’49, president
of the chapter, presided over the
banquet, and Phillip Howerton,
'25, introduced President Cole.

James Whitehead, Assistant to
the President and Director of Uni-
versity Relations, also attended the
meeting along with Bill Washburn.

RICHMOND

@# ALUMNI OF THE Richmond chap-
ter met at the Rotunda Club on
June 17. In the business session
the following men were elected as
1964-65 chapter officers:

John F. Kay, Jr., ’51, president;
Walter J. McGraw, °55, vice-presi-
dent; J. William Doswell, °47, sec-
retary; and Mark W. Saurs, ’49,
treasurer.

Upon taking office, President
Kay, on behalf of the entire chap-
ter, expressed deep appreciation
to C. W. “Buck” Pinnell, ’46, for
his excellent leadership as_presi-
dent this past year. In the discus-
sion of future plans the chapter of-
ficers were directed to consider the
possibiuity of a chartered bus trip
for members of the chapter and
their wives to one of the home foot-
ball games in Lexington.

Plans were also made for the an-
nual luncheon given in honor of
the local freshmen entering Wash-
ington and Lee in September. ‘The
date for this luncheon is to be an-
nounced.

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At Charlotte, above, is PHtLip F. HOWERTON, ’25, PRESIDENT COLE, HARRY A. BERRY, JR.,

51; and JOHN L. CrisT, JR., 45. Below left is the Rev. THomaAs B. RurF, ’11, Mrs, Rock-

WELL, and CoL. PAUL A. ROCKWELL, ’12. Below right is CLARENCE E. BALLENGER, JR., ’44,
and HARRY A. BERRY, JR., 51.

 

Top, Cleveland; seated, l-r, G. F. SCHUMACHER, ’56; C. P. LEININGER, ’57; S. P. MCCHESNFY,
"38; and J. R. LEMON, ’69; standing, H. T. MORELAND, ’37; D. A. FLORA, ’58; P. M.
WEINER, 63; H. R. GATES, JR., ’48; and C. F. CLARKE, ’38. Bottom, St. Louis: seated
W. A. IsAacs, ‘57; B. W. MILLER, ’49; D. M. BERTRAM, ’49; and H. D. McNew, ’36;
standing, R. ‘Tl. KELLEY, °35; R. L. NEUNREITER, 58; and J. L. PATTERSON, ’21.

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Mark your calendar—Now ! !!

HOMECOMING
November 7, 1964.

Washington and Lee’s Generals

VS.

Sewanee’s Tigers

(Unbeaten in 1963 and Defending Champions of the
College Athletic Conference.)

Better still—Come to all the 1964 Home Games!

Oct. 17—Susquehanna University

Oct. 24—Hampden-Sydney College

Oct. 31—Bridgewater College

Nov. 7—Sewanee (University of the South)

Nov. 21—Washington University (Missour1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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